Recaps

Changkong Yinghao and Changkong Yinglian suspected Professor Luo Hui had tested the Heavenly God General Secret Medicine on Ren Yisheng, so they rallied the Sequence Committee to investigate Luo Hui's laboratory at Shengteng Academy. Wang Yi'an joined the investigation after realizing Luo Hui might be pursuing the secret medicine to reach the Seventh Sequence, but he still considered warning his close partner.

• Changkong Yinghao and Changkong Yinglian suspected Luo Hui had injected Ren Yisheng with the Heavenly God General Secret Medicine and decided to investigate his laboratory.
• The two contacted the Sequence Committee members, who gathered their people and traveled to Shengteng Academy.
• The professors and committee members cordoned off the research building housing Luo Hui's laboratory before Changkong Yinghao arrived.
• Wang Yi'an questioned the reliability of the investigation, but Changkong Yinglian prompted him to reconsider what he knew about Luo Hui's ambitions.
• Wang Yi'an agreed to support the investigation and thought that he should warn Luo Hui before his laboratory was searched.

Professor Luo Hui tried to protect the secrets in his laboratory after Changkong Yinghao and the committee members arrived to inspect it. He agreed to cooperate on the condition that he could oversee the search, while the Zuo Household brothers argued as everyone waited for him.

• After seeing Wang Yi'an's photos of the inspection, Professor Luo Hui called Luo Tianming, who told him to cooperate but keep the Zuo Household brothers out of the laboratory.
• Luo Tianming advised Professor Luo Hui to let only committee members conduct the inspection and ensure Luo Zhong's secret remained hidden.
• Professor Luo Hui threatened Changkong Yinghao until he agreed to wait for him before searching the laboratory.
• Changkong Yinghao heard Professor Luo Hui plead with Ren Wuyang about Ren Yisheng, then strike out viciously, and became more cautious about provoking him.
• Wang Yi'an supported waiting, while Zuo Jin and Zuo Quan argued over their sons and nearly fought again as the committee members waited.

Ren Yisheng’s Mental Power transformed after Professor Luo Hui’s injection and the Law Power took effect, producing a Mental Seed and improving his control over his body. Zhang Xuezhou suspected the transformation revealed a new path for Mental Power, but the group remained wary of the dangerous method that triggered it.

• Professor Luo Hui subdued Ren Wuyang and escaped, while Ren Anran stayed focused on monitoring her father.
• Ren Yisheng stopped reciting the Vast Righteous Qi Chapter and revealed that his Mental Power had transformed into a seed he could remove from his body.
• Ren Yisheng explained that his Mental Power was purer and that, once he recovered, he could defeat Luo Hui and might restrain a Seventh Sequence Holder.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned that the transformation was likely dangerous and said they needed to find what had caused it before attempting to cultivate Mental Power the same way.
• The author’s note said Zuo Quan’s name had been changed and that applications to unban the latest two chapters were being processed.

After Ren Yisheng’s condition stabilized, his family investigated Professor Luo Hui’s disappearance and learned that Luo Hui’s lab was under scrutiny for a possible Heavenly God General Plan project. Their discussion led Zhang Xuezhou to suspect Luo Zhong was seeking him because he had once explained Mental Strengthening in Luo Hui’s lab, and the group considered sending him to meet Luo Zhong.

• Ren Wuyang explained that Luo Hui had fled Jishi Medical Center after claiming his place had been raided, and Zhang Xuezhou learned from Zhou Yueyan that Luo Hui had beaten Zuo Jin.
• Ren Anran relayed Song Bu’er’s account that the committee was investigating Luo Hui’s lab for a possible Heavenly God General Plan project, while Luo Hui had also injured Zuo Quan.
• Ren Yisheng reasoned that Luo Hui had deliberately kept Zuo Quan and Zuo Jin away from something in his lab, and Zhang Xuezhou suggested they might be barred from seeing Luo Zhong.
• Zhang Xuezhou recalled Luo Burang’s account of Luo Zhong and proposed that Luo Zhong could control people with weak mental power.
• Ren Yisheng identified Zhang Xuezhou as a likely target because he had once explained Mental Strengthening in Luo Hui’s lab, and Ren Wuyang suggested sending him to Luo Zhong to seek more of the Mental Strengthening Chapter.

Zhang Xuezhou and the others arranged for Zhou Yueyan to take custody of Luo Zhong’s head, hoping to keep it out of Professor Luo Hui’s hands. Ren Yisheng also learned of a possible Soul Jade source and agreed to help Tuer Kalanduo deal with a dangerous worm after Luo Zhong’s matter was settled.

• Zhang Xuezhou suggested asking Zhou Yueyan to take Luo Zhong’s head because the group lacked the strength and connections to confront Professor Luo Hui or the committee.
• Zhang Xuezhou offered Zhou Yueyan ten liters of emetic in exchange for secretly collecting the conductive head specimen, and she agreed without knowing it was alive or belonged to Luo Zhong.
• Ren Yisheng told Zhang Xuezhou that Luo Zhong had said a Soul Jade offering was buried beneath a white jade lion at the Gate of Ten Thousand Nations, prompting Ren Wuyang to consider investigating who took it.
• Zhang Xuezhou revealed that Tuer Kalanduo had recently obtained three pieces of Soul Jade but needed help because her authority as clan leader was limited.
• Ren Yisheng urged the group to help Tuer Kalanduo, and Ren Anran proposed investigating the dangerous worm with Yang Corporeal Soul Leaving the Body after Luo Zhong’s situation was settled.

After Professor Luo Hui lost Luo Zhong’s head to Zhou Yueyan, Luo Tianming ordered him to get it back and arranged to have Zhou Xin brought into the Twilight Years Mansion. Luo Tianming persuaded the Mansion’s residents to support the plan, leaving Zhou Xin’s forced admission increasingly likely.

• Professor Luo Hui recovered from his injuries and complained to Luo Tianming about losing Luo Zhong’s head and having his laboratory dismantled.
• Luo Tianming ordered Professor Luo Hui to retrieve Luo Zhong and said they would bring Zhou Xin into the Twilight Years Mansion first.
• Luo Tianming used his control of the Mental Strengthening Chapter to rally the Mansion’s residents behind bringing Zhou Xin in early.
• Luo Tianming argued that Zhou Xin could become dangerous in his twilight years, and more than sixty percent of the residents voted in favor of bringing him into the Mansion.

The Zhou Household debated why the Sequence Committee was pushing Zhou Xin to enter the Twilight Years Mansion and suspected someone was targeting their Lineage. After their meeting ended without a plan, Luo Zhong, the human-head specimen Zhou Yueyan had left behind, awakened in the hall and realized his survival depended on Luo Hui.

• Zhou Rihui and Zhou Yueyan told Zhou Xin they had not caused trouble, while Zhou Xin warned that the Zhou Household was vulnerable because its younger members could not yet shoulder the Lineage.
• Zhou Xin explained that he still had to enter the Twilight Years Mansion, despite believing the timing was too soon and fearing the Zhou Household would be weakened.
• Zhou Yueyan and Zhou Rihui speculated that Luo Hui might be retaliating over the inspection of his laboratory or trying to protect his research into the Heavenly God General Plan.
• The Zhou Household ended its meeting without finding a way to respond to the pressure surrounding Zhou Xin's entry into the Twilight Years Mansion.
• Luo Zhong awakened as a human-head specimen in the meeting hall, dismissed the Zhou Household's leaders, and realized his life depended on Luo Hui retrieving him and replenishing his nutrients.

As the Sequence Contest began, Ren Anran and Ren Wuyang prepared to head to Qinmeng while Zhang Xuezhou's team finished producing plasma stock solution for Luo Burang's departure abroad. Luo Burang swallowed the stock solution to carry it with him, and Zhou Yueyan reported that Zhang Xuezhou's vomiting medicine had failed against the Seventh Sequence Holder Pasteur.

• Ren Anran learned that the Sequence Contest was closed to the public, and Ren Yisheng warned her and Ren Wuyang to stay cautious in Qinmeng.
• Ren Anran said she and Ren Wuyang were unlikely to meet the top Third Sequence Holders because they usually hunted with Zhang Xuezhou's unconventional team.
• Ren Anran told Ren Yisheng that Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian were helping Luo Burang prepare his laboratory resources before they set out for the Thousand Islands Alliance the following week.
• After a week of work, Luo Burang finished the plasma stock solution, entrusted Zhang Manqian with its preparation proportions, and swallowed the packaged solution so he could take it abroad.
• Zhang Xuezhou gave Luo Burang vomiting medicine as a possible defense and explained that it might work up to the Sixth Sequence.
• Zhou Yueyan called Zhang Xuezhou and said the medicine had failed to make Pasteur, a Seventh Sequence Holder, vomit.

Zhou Yueyan watched the Sequence Contest while reflecting on her failed attempt to poison Pasteur with Spirit-Forging Pill paste. She resolved to ask Zhang Xuezhou for a stronger vomiting drug and continue pursuing a plan to help the Zhou Household obtain Ferocious Beasts.

• Zhou Yueyan noticed Pasteur briefly felt nauseous after eating food she had secretly smeared with Spirit-Forging Pill paste, but she was disappointed that the effect quickly passed.
• Zhou Yueyan considered increasing the dosage and asking Zhang Xuezhou to develop a stronger vomiting drug, hoping to disrupt the events that could send Zhou Xin to Twilight Years Mansion.
• Zhou Yueyan reviewed how Ferocious Beast compatibility could help Zhou Rihui reach the Seventh Sequence and decided the Zhou Household should pursue a plan to hunt beasts using human intelligence.
• Zhou Yueyan planned to bring Zhang Xuezhou the electrically conductive head specimen after the Sequence Contest and ask him for more vomiting drug.
• Zhou Yueyan watched the contest and kept glancing at Pasteur, disappointed when he showed no further signs of nausea.

Zhang Xuezhou rushed to contain the danger after Zhou Yueyan delivered Luo Zhong’s head specimen to the A9 Laboratory. His scan showed no vital signs, leaving him unsure whether Luo Zhong was dead or had escaped.

• News reported that Luo Burang was assigned to a four-year scholar exchange in the British Alliance State and that the Anmin Biscuit Factory would supply it with a thousand tons of compressed biscuits.
• Zhou Yueyan called Zhang Xuezhou to say she had brought Luo Zhong’s head specimen to him, forcing him to find a secure place for it.
• Zhang Xuezhou ruled out the A9 Laboratory as a safe option at first, then directed Zhou Yueyan to drive there while avoiding other people and vehicles.
• Zhou Yueyan revealed that she had carried the specimen in a biscuit gift box to the Sequence Contest and brought it to the laboratory afterward.
• Zhang Xuezhou scanned Luo Zhong’s head and found no vital signs, though the detector worked when he tested it on himself.

Zhang Xuezhou confirmed that Luo Zhong’s head showed no signs of life, leaving everyone unsure whether Luo Zhong was dead or had escaped. He returned the specimen to Zhou Yueyan and agreed to supply her with medicinal liquid, while she urged him to develop stronger vomiting medicine.

• Zhang Xuezhou tested Luo Zhong’s head and reported that it showed no signs of life, and Ren Yisheng and the others accepted that Luo Zhong’s fate remained uncertain.
• Zhang Xuezhou returned the boxed head to Zhou Yueyan, explaining that he had only wanted to take photos.
• Zhou Yueyan agreed to the arrangement and invited Zhang Xuezhou to brew and collect ten liters of medicinal liquid with her.
• Zhou Yueyan urged Zhang Xuezhou to make stronger vomiting medicine and offered to fund his work.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that he needed a natural plant ten times stronger than bitter lotus, and Zhou Yueyan remained determined to concentrate the medicine herself.

Zhang Xuezhou helped Zhou Yueyan improve her vomiting medicine and learned that she hoped to use it to incapacitate Ferocious Beasts for hunting. Zhou Yueyan also explained that Ferocious Beasts were necessary for reaching the Seventh Sequence and that their extracts could cause powerful mutations, leaving Zhang Xuezhou interested in the path to advancement.

• Zhou Yueyan tasted Zhang Xuezhou's freshly made medicine and found it more effective than the batches she had prepared herself.
• Zhou Yueyan revealed that she wanted to use the medicine to make Ferocious Beasts vomit so hunters could capture them, while Zhang Xuezhou pointed out how difficult it would be to administer it.
• Zhou Yueyan explained that strong acid and injected anesthetics failed against berserk Ferocious Beasts, and said her father would enter the Twilight Years Mansion in a week as the Zhou Household faced an unknown threat.
• Zhou Yueyan told Zhang Xuezhou that compatibility with Ferocious Beasts was required to reach the Seventh Sequence and that extracts could induce mutations in Sixth Sequence Holders.
• Zhang Xuezhou became interested in mutation as a way for himself and his companions to advance through the Sequences.

Zhang Xuezhou suggested sending Zhou Xin to Qinmeng so he could avoid confinement in the Twilight Years Mansion and hunt Ferocious Beasts for the Zhou Household. Zhou Xin agreed to the dangerous plan, but the proposed vomiting drug remained untested on Ferocious Beasts.

• Zhang Xuezhou proposed that Zhou Xin leave Western Capital City and live in Qinmeng to avoid harming the Lineages while hunting Ferocious Beasts.
• Zhou Yueyan realized Qinmeng was the only viable destination and admitted her family had not considered the plan.
• Zhou Yueyan called Zhou Xin, who accepted the plan because he preferred using his remaining years in Qinmeng to spending them confined in the Twilight Years Mansion.
• Zhou Xin asked whether the vomiting drug would work on Ferocious Beasts without damaging their quality, but Zhang Xuezhou and Zhou Yueyan could not guarantee it.

Zhang Xuezhou chatted with Luo Gaogao and Zuo Teng about their victories in the Sequencing contests and guessed that Zuo Jin had lost. As the world transition drew near, Ning Que contacted him to reveal that he had won the Sequencing championship through a grueling series of fights.

• Zhang Xuezhou exchanged messages with Luo Gaogao, who said he was unhappy despite winning because he would soon part from his father.
• Zhang Xuezhou invited Zuo Teng over after Zuo Teng offered two high-grade blood serums for Zhang Xuezhou's sister.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Zhang Manqian concluded that Zuo Jin had probably lost the Third Sequence contest after fighting Zuo Quan and Professor Luo Hui.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed Ning Que flooding his messages and learned that Ning Que had won the Sequencing championship after fighting forty-three matches in eleven days.

Ning Que won the Sequencing stage contest but feared that powerful people would target him for its valuable rewards, so he asked Zhang Xuezhou for help. Zhang Xuezhou agreed to bring him along and arranged for the Zhou Household to protect him, leaving Ning Que with a path toward the Third Sequence.

• Ning Que told Zhang Xuezhou how his martial arts background and grueling run of forty-three fights had helped him win the contest and earn valuable prizes.
• Ning Que explained that people were watching him and that he feared danger if he left the venue alone.
• Zhang Manqian admired Ning Que's achievement and asked whether they could protect him.
• Zhang Xuezhou agreed to give Ning Que a chance, provided he did not bring trouble down on them.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Sister Zhou to take Ning Que to Western Capital City and arrange for him to serve as Tianhao's bodyguard for a while.
• Zhou Yueyan accepted the arrangement after Zhang Xuezhou promised a guarantee and offered her emetics.

Zhang Xuezhou reflected on how he used connections and resources to advance, then traveled to the other world. At the Song Household venue, Zhou Yueyan collected Ning Que, but a strange injury caused him to see a gray-white dragon.

• Zhang Xuezhou woke from his dream and went to the other world.
• Zhou Yueyan arrived at the Song Household venue and drove off people hoping to claim Sequence Contest rewards without approval.
• Zhou Yueyan found Ning Que, who confirmed her identity using Zhang Xuezhou's crude drawing.
• Zhou Yueyan warned Ning Que that the committee would track and reclaim rewards obtained illegally, then handed him a gift box containing a human head.
• The container shattered in the car, and a sharp fragment injured Ning Que's hand as he saw a gray-white, five-clawed dragon.
• Ning Que used the Nine Swords of Dugu to heal the injury, but a gray, corroded-looking patch remained on his palm.

Zhang Xuezhou searched Chang’an for Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo after learning they had left together with a shovel. He gathered information from passersby and used a memory technique on an old woodcutter, ending with the old man’s recollection of where they had gone.

• Zhang Xuezhou discovered Rong Tianding was missing and learned from Di Rang that Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo had taken a shovel toward Old Tree Alley.
• Zhang Xuezhou searched the alley and nearby streets, considering whether the pair had gone to Holy Mother Wudang’s territory, Yang Mausoleum, or some other underground site.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed red lanterns across Chang’an and heard that a powerful Buddha was conducting a calamity-dispelling ritual at Yang Mausoleum.
• Zhang Xuezhou displayed portraits of Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo and offered a reward, dismissing several people who tried to deceive him.
• An old woodcutter recalled seeing the pair, and Zhang Xuezhou used an incantation and finger technique to bring the relevant memory to the surface.

Zhang Xuezhou followed Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo’s trail toward the Yang Mausoleum, where crowds had gathered to see a monk’s ritual. From a nearby mountain, he spotted Rong Tianding in a village below and discovered that Yi Shuo and Kong Anguo were with him.

• Zhang Xuezhou learned that Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo had left Chang'an the previous morning and hired a carriage to search along the road to the Yang Mausoleum.
• The carriage driver told Zhang Xuezhou about the lanterns and wondrous sights at the mausoleum, then took him to a nearby mountain for a distant view.
• Zhang Xuezhou climbed the mountain and surveyed the sea of red lanterns covering the Yang Mausoleum.
• From the mountain, Zhang Xuezhou spotted a burly figure carrying food into a village hut and suspected it was Rong Tianding.
• Zhang Xuezhou sent out his Yang Corporeal Soul and confirmed that Rong Tianding was cooking while Yi Shuo and Kong Anguo spoke inside the hut.

Zhang Xuezhou found Rong Tianding among Shen Peigong’s group at the Yang Mausoleum and secretly gave him a bottle to add to the evening meal. As Shen Peigong’s followers continued digging a tunnel toward the mausoleum, Shen defended his cause to Kong Anguo by arguing that justice was defined by those who won.

• Zhang Xuezhou followed Rong Tianding to the kitchen and learned that Shen Peigong’s group had captured him and put him to work cooking.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Rong Tianding he would seek a chance to free him after dark, then secretly passed him a porcelain bottle to add to the group’s meal.
• Ye Siqian and the others complained about digging through frozen ground as they worked to complete a tunnel toward the Yang Mausoleum.
• Shen Peigong explained that the tunnel would let him strike the new emperor, the grand empress dowager, and the King of Huainan during the ritual.
• Kong Anguo challenged Shen Peigong over whether his actions amounted to rebellion, and Shen argued that victory determined who was called a rebel and what counted as justice.

Zhang Xuezhou tried to rescue Rong Tianding from Shen Peigong’s guarded mountain village but failed to carry him far, so Rong Tianding secretly followed his instructions and poisoned the group’s food with Water of Eternity. Shen Peigong prepared his Sword-Drawing Life-Slaying Technique and sensed that the grand empress dowager had left Chang’an City.

• Zhang Xuezhou swooped down to carry Rong Tianding away, but dropped him after less than a hundred meters because he was too heavy.
• Zhou Ba searched for the attacker with his Law Treasure, while Rong Tianding pretended he had not seen what had taken him.
• Rong Tianding added two drops from Zhang Xuezhou’s porcelain bottle to the meat broth before serving the meal.
• Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo bickered as Shen Peigong sent them back to their rooms.
• Shen Peigong explained that he was weakening himself to prepare the Sword-Drawing Life-Slaying Technique and sensed that the grand empress dowager had left Chang’an City.

Zhang Xuezhou restrained Shen Peigong’s Yang Corporeal Soul during an encounter near Yang Mausoleum, then let him go and fled with Yi Shuo and Rong Tianding. As the group rode toward Wei Shao'er’s thatched hut, they spotted the grand empress dowager’s torchlit procession approaching the mausoleum.

• Shen Peigong sent his Yang Corporeal Soul to investigate and Zhang Xuezhou trapped it, forcing Shen to plead for release.
• Zhang Xuezhou let Shen Peigong go, and the two returned to their bodies and fled in opposite directions.
• Zhang Xuezhou caught up with Yi Shuo and Rong Tianding, who had fled less than twenty meters, and admitted he could not deal with Shen.
• Zhang Xuezhou took Yi Shuo and Rong Tianding on the black and white demon horses toward Wei Shao'er's thatched hut.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted the grand empress dowager’s procession heading toward Yang Mausoleum and turned the group toward the mountains.

Zhang Xuezhou reflected on the dangers of clashing with imperial Fortune, then sent his Yang Corporeal Soul to the Yang Mausoleum to observe the Grand Empress Dowager. There, he discovered her meeting Daoist Master Randeng, who was searching for Rulai and the Sea-Calming Treasure Pearls.

• Zhang Xuezhou concluded that cultivating Fortune might bring him into conflict with the emperor, but his fear of death drove him to keep pursuing power.
• Zhang Xuezhou took Rong Tianding and Yi Shuo to Wei Shao'er's empty hut outside Chang'an, where they warmed themselves while he projected his Yang Corporeal Soul toward the Yang Mausoleum.
• Zhang Xuezhou mingled with the Grand Empress Dowager's cavalry convoy and followed it to Emperor Jing's mausoleum.
• The Grand Empress Dowager told Daoist Master Randeng that she had not found Rulai and that she was still searching for the Sea-Calming Treasure Pearls.
• Daoist Master Randeng said Zhu Jiuyin would not surrender his Grotto-Heaven Treasure Pearl, so he planned to search for other pearls instead.

Daoist Randeng began a ritual at the imperial mausoleum to guide the dead and disperse the Yin Sha Qi afflicting the grand empress dowager. As he explained that the painful extraction from her body would not begin until the third watch, she realized she had already been enduring the ritual’s other effects.

• Daoist Randeng warned the grand empress dowager that the mausoleum’s formation could turn the dead into mindless creatures and that removing the Yin Sha Qi from her would be difficult.
• The grand empress dowager agreed to help Daoist Randeng search for the Buddha’s son and his lost treasures in exchange for his aid.
• Daoist Randeng used the grand empress dowager’s blood to create a lotus and began guiding the dead with the Netherworld Fire in the Coffin Lamp.
• White lotuses spread across the mausoleum as Daoist Randeng explained that they represented the dead and that their resentment had to dissipate for the Sha Qi to dissolve.
• The grand empress dowager endured sharp pain and asked Daoist Randeng to draw out her Sha Qi more slowly.
• Daoist Randeng said he would begin drawing the Sha Qi from her body at the third watch, and the grand empress dowager realized that he had not started doing so yet.

The Grand Empress Dowager was struck by a powerful killing curse and suspected someone was draining her vitality from nearby. After taking a Life-Creating Fortune Pill, she enlisted Daoist Randeng to search for the hidden caster, refusing to flee the Yang Mausoleum.

• The Grand Empress Dowager recognized that someone was using a strand of her hair to guide a killing curse, while Daoist Randeng realized she was under attack.
• Cheng Bushi ordered the imperial guards to search the Yang Mausoleum, exposing traps but finding no caster.
• The Grand Empress Dowager considered the King of Huainan and Shen Pei as suspects, then ordered a thorough search within five li.
• The Grand Empress Dowager took a Life-Creating Fortune Pill to slow the curse's damage to her vitality.
• Daoist Randeng drew the Sha Qi away with the Coffin Lamp and urged the Grand Empress Dowager to leave, but she insisted on finding and killing the caster, whom she believed was within a few li.

As Shen Peigong’s hidden curse weakened the Grand Empress Dowager, she and Daoist Randeng tried to find a way to survive until his ritual could purge the Sha Qi. Randeng burned the Yin beings and Sha Qi with the Coffin Lamp, but the Grand Empress Dowager realized his promised reincarnation was a deception, leaving her uneasy about what remained.

• Zhang Xuezhou watched the search of the Yang Mausoleum and looked for the hidden passage Shen Peigong might be using to curse the Grand Empress Dowager.
• Cavalry guards reported two newly dug passages leading to Emperor Jing’s burial chamber, and the Grand Empress Dowager suspected tomb robbers had made them.
• The Grand Empress Dowager asked Daoist Randeng to draw the Sha Qi out early because her last Life-Creating Fortune Pill would sustain her for only two hours.
• Daoist Randeng recited the Rebirth Sutra and used the Coffin Lamp to ignite the red lanterns, burning the Yin beings and their Sha Qi to ash.
• The Grand Empress Dowager recognized that the convicts had not been reincarnated and grew uneasy that Randeng still needed the Netherworld Fire to burn away the Sha Qi inside her.