Mr. Zhong was originally one of the Nine Friends of Kunlun and one of the four Great Elders of the Kunlun Sect after half of the nuns had left. Another, Zen Master Zhifei who practiced both Buddhism and Daoism, had vowed to be reborn in the Western Paradise, making Mr. Zhong the de facto leader of the Mysterious Sect of Kunlun.

As Mr. Zhong's senior disciple, Yu Xiao stood out among his peers in the Kunlun Sect, apparently somewhat arrogant.

He saw that Shi Feiyang was about the same age as him but ranked above Luo Ziyuan, and despised him because he dared not rescue his own female disciple who had fallen into the Demon Cave.

Shi Feiyang said they needed to counteract with their own strategy, but Yu Xiao directly interrupted him, "The person is trapped inside, why bother with this strategy and that strategy? Just break in and rescue them!"

Shi Feiyang knew this would be the response but still felt obliged to advise, "The Great Sun Tathagata Golden Lamp Formation below is very powerful. If you charge in recklessly, I'm afraid it won't end well."

Yu Xiao grew even angrier upon hearing this, feeling that Shi Feiyang looked down upon them, looked down upon Kunlun Sect, "What formation, all it is are Evil Demon Sorcery. No matter how powerful the Evil Skills are, they'll vanish into smoke and ashes against our Kunlun Sect's Righteous Skill! You can continue to plot here. We'll go and suppress demons to save people!"

Shi Feiyang could tolerate this, but Jiang Shu beside him could not, "You're too arrogant! I..."

Shi Feiyang stopped him, regardless of everything, they came with good intentions to save their disciple, but Yu Xiao wouldn't listen. He only spoke to Huo Renyu, "If you insist on going in, don't enter from the Southeast Xun Position, it's a trap set specifically by Chuandeng Monk, nor from the North Kan Position. While it seems water can extinguish fire, his Sinister Yin Fire isn't afraid of being overcome by water. You should enter from the Southwest Kun Position or Northeast Gen Position, using earth to reduce the fire element is the correct method, also you must..."

Yu Xiao interrupted him again, "Who has the patience to listen to all this rambling! If we delay further, your disciple will end up having children for them!"

He then called his companions and took the lead to rise into the sky by controlling his sword.

Shi Mingzhu, being his girlfriend, naturally followed closely. Shi Yuzhu sensed something amiss but also felt there was some reason in Yu Xiao's words, and followed afterward.

Huo Renyu bowed to Shi Feiyang, "My senior brother is a bit proud, but he has a warm heart and isn't a bad person; please don't blame him, sir."

Shi Feiyang smiled, indicating he wouldn't mind, and passed over a treasure mirror, "Take this mirror, it can save your life in a pinch!"

Huo Renyu took the mirror. As Yu Xiao had already flown above Chuandeng Temple, fearing any mishap, he didn't dare delay any further and followed by controlling his sword.

Watching the four sword lights heading towards Chuandeng Temple, Jiang Shu remained indignant, "If you ask me, it's our own affair, and we don't need their help; better send them home to avoid all this useless talk!"

Shi Feiyang reassured him, "This is all due to karmic connections, fate bringing us together, this is also their trial."

As the two were speaking, dark clouds gathered densely above Chuandeng Temple, with thunder rolling ominously, the booming sound startling for miles.

"The Kunlun Sect's Five Thunder True Method is indeed well-deserved!" praised Shi Feiyang.

Jiang Shu felt unconvinced internally, thinking it was just a bit louder than my Taiyin Divine Thunder but not as swift and convenient as ours.

He was about to speak when suddenly, large amounts of lightning burst from the dark clouds, brightening the sky and earth like radiant snakes.

Yu Xiao, Huo Renyu, Shi Mingzhu, and Shi Yuzhu, all elites of the younger generation of Kunlun, each stationed in one of the four directions, simultaneously began casting, aligning their inner will with the Heavenly Heart, calling the Inner Five Elements to summon the Outer Five Elements.

Yu Xiao and Shi Mingzhu, who had the highest Mana, were actually the ones who had truly mastered this technique, governing the Yin Yang thunder hubs from north and south, while Huo Renyu and Shi Yuzhu assisted from east and west.

The rumbling of thunder became increasingly dense, reaching a crescendo with a loud "crack" that echoed through the mountains, even lighting up the faces of Shi Feiyang and Jiang Shu with bright thunder.

A shocking thunderblast entered Haideng Temple. They four, having been nurtured by the grand Mysterious Sect from childhood with direct oral and hands-on instruction from their masters, possessed considerable experience. This lightning aimed directly at the formation's crucial point in the lamp formation below.

Inside Haideng Temple, various lamps could be seen everywhere; some lamp trees made of brass stood over ten meters high, and there were golden lampstands more than half a meter tall. From the courtyard to the rooms, lamps of all sizes interacted with each other, forming a formation. Among them, in the backyard, stood a giant brass lamp tree, its thousands of branches holding up 3,600 long-burning lamps, serving as the eyes of the entire formation.

There were many red strings hanging like weeping willow strands, tied to the brass branches above and dangling various lamps below—donated by faithful followers, large and small, carrying their Incense Fire Wish Power.

Yu Xiao and Shi Mingzhu decided to direct the first Heavenly Thunder towards this location!

The thunder exploded fiercely, striking hard on the brass lamp tree.

When the lamp tree was hit by the lightning, all ten thousand lamps lit up at once, and the fires of the lamps throughout Haideng Temple all flared as if oil had been poured over them, the flames leaping up more than ten meters high!

In the midst of the fiery whirlwind, the figures of the four people were reflected, precisely Yu Xiao and his companions.

Jiang Shu commented, "With their continuous bombardment like this, they might actually break the formation directly."

Shi Feiyang shook his head, "Their True Forms have already been captured from afar; the outcome has already been decided."

Jiang Shu hadn't noticed yet, only seeing Yu Xiao and the others continuously bombarding, each time causing the lamps to spray wildly, with no other effects, and the continuous divine thunder strikes left the temple eerily quiet, no one visible in the courtyard; he thought it was an illusion, but Concentrating to look closely, it was not.

Shi Feiyang explained to him, "Their true forms have been captured; what they see is different from what we see."

At this moment, in the eyes of Yu Xiao and his three companions, Haideng Temple below had been bombed into ruins by heavenly thunder. Every courtyard and building had been shattered, leaving nothing but rubble everywhere. Old monks and young monks were scurrying around in panic, and several big monks had been killed by their thunder strikes.

Once the buildings below were completely bombed into flat ruins and most of the people were dead, Yu Xiao waved his hand proudly, "This Haideng Temple is nothing special after all. Let's go down!"

The four of them flew down on their swords, but as soon as they landed in the temple, the scenery suddenly changed. The ground of the ruins collapsed and disappeared, and the earth seemingly became a giant monster's mouth, voraciously sucking them in.

"Not good!" The four hastily tried to ascend again using their sword control, but the sky above had turned into a stone ceiling. Looking around, they realized they were now inside a large cave.

The four were trapped in the Demon Prison underneath Haideng Temple, and they were not together but separated into four different cells.

Inside the Demon Prison was just a bald cavern with nothing in it, except for a recess in the wall containing a niche with an oil lamp burning.

Unable to find any doors, relying on their Flying Sword Magical Treasures, they furiously assaulted the walls. The rocks crumbled and dirt flew, but after the soil cracked, scorching hot demonic flames burst forth! They controlled the fire while continually changing their attack spots. Whenever they knocked off the surface of the walls, vast amounts of demon fire surged in.

They dared not attack the walls anymore as the demon fire quickly filled the entire cave, with each of them struggling desperately against the flames.

Huo Renyu's fire was the weakest, allowing him to stabilize himself with sword light protection. Finding no way out, and not knowing how to escape, he took out the mirror Shi Feiyang had given him.

That mirror was the initial Myriad Cold Centipede's Heavenly Treasure Mirror. Observing with a puff of True Qi, he first saw Yu Xiao, for whom he was most concerned.

Yu Xiao had the highest mana and attacked most fiercely, knocking off the most wall surface, which caused the demon fire to be the most intense. He stubbornly fought everywhere with his sword, igniting even more demon fire.

Huo Renyu sighed and then successively checked on the siblings Shi Mingzhu and Shi Yuzhu. Their situations were also not good.

Holding the mirror, he thought of Xiong Man, the target they had come to rescue. He had never met Xiong Man before and felt quite ashamed thinking that he might fail to rescue her and yet was trapped here himself.

The mirror filled with golden radiance, and soon a woman appeared. Although she was a stranger to him, his instinct told him that this was Xiong Man!

Xiong Man was also inside a cavern, larger than their prisons, with a round bed at the center where Xiong Man sat cross-legged, surrounded by fierce flames. Inside the flames were many invisible demons, causing the demon fire to continually transform into various human forms—sometimes forming a face, sometimes extending a hand.

Seated in a meditative posture, Xiong Man remained unmoved, her body encircled by one blue and one yellow halo. The surrounding demons could only claw and gnash their teeth from outside the light rings, laughing and cursing in an attempt to affect Xiong Man's mind.

Outside the platform, a middle-aged monk knelt there, his face stained with tears, constantly speaking to Xiong Man while repeatedly slapping his own face.

Xiong Man simply sat with her eyes closed, unresponsive.

The Heavenly Treasure Mirror could only show images, not sound, so Huo Renyu couldn't figure out what was actually happening. Pondering on how to escape, the scene in the treasure mirror changed again, no longer confined to a specific cave but displaying the interior of the mountain with many caves and numerous passages connecting them.

Huo Renyu realized that there were paths just outside this cave obscured by an array. This array had the effect of Inverting the Five Elements—despite attacking towards the passage's exit, the impacts struck elsewhere. Without breaking the array, even if he attacked every corner of the cave, he would still not touch the real exit.

Meanwhile, Shi Feiyang saw that it was almost time, and said to Jiang Shu, "Two hours are up, let's go in."

Jiang Shu had been waiting for this moment, "Shall we still enter from the Xun Position?"

Shi Feiyang shook his head, "If those four hadn't gone, Wei Da would have extinguished the three lamps at the Xun Position, and we could have taken advantage of that situation to enter from there. Now that they have gone in, the situation has changed, and Wei Da won't come to extinguish the lamps. We'll have to use another method. You enter from the Southeast Gen Position using the Lianshan Style, and I will go around to the Southwest from the Kun Position using the Gui Cang Formation, and we'll rendezvous inside!"

The two split up and headed toward the Northeast and Southwest, casting spells to enter the formation.

Meanwhile, far away in White Sparrow Cave on Heng Mountain, Xiao Nineteen had already found Gold Grandma Luo Ziyuan and asked her to go with her to save someone in Western Sichuan.

However, Luo Ziyuan hesitated and was initially unwilling to move, only speaking after being urgently pressed by Xiao Nineteen, "This is her tribulation! Letting her resolve it with fire at Haideng Temple fits the plan her former master arranged for her—to go for reincarnation, and eventually return to the Righteous Path. It's just taking a detour of a decade or so. If she continues with that Demon Dragon, she might struggle to ascend even after several lifetimes of reincarnation."

Xiao Nineteen urgently said, "But it's the Chuandeng Monk who trapped her. If she resolves it with fire, that's one thing, but if her Primordial Spirit is also captured and suffers the pains of Soul Refinement, and then is transformed into a demon..."

"If it really comes to that, I will naturally save her from that adversity."

Xiao Nineteen didn't know how to persuade further, "But can you really bear to watch her being killed by demon monks of the Demon Cult? We're sisters in this lifetime. Don't you still hold any of that in your heart?"

Luo Ziyuan sighed, closed her eyes, wanted to say something but ultimately remained silent.

Xiao Nineteen continued, "According to my calculations, her master should now be by the side of Sichuan. He wouldn't just sit idly by. Even without us intervening, she might not meet her fate, and certainly not just to fulfill your desire for her to follow the path arranged by her former master and go for reincarnation. After she escapes from her predicament, how can we face her again?"

Luo Ziyuan said, "This time, it's not just the Chuandeng Monk; his old ghost master Yideng will also take action. Her Demon Dragon master might not necessarily be able to win and might also suffer disaster!"

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