Episode 11 recap: Gu Jin and A Yin broke the master-servant bond.
The contract between A Yin and Gu Jin was released, and when A Yin saw how happy she looked, Gu Jin felt extremely disappointed. When A Yin called him "Shixiong" (senior brother), he thought A Yin regarded him as casually as Xianshan and Xianzhu. A Yin didn't have the same feelings for him as she did for Hongyi. Although both of them were reluctant to part ways, neither of them said anything to try to keep the other.
The person who arrived was Xiu Yan, the owner of Xuyan Tower. A Yin noticed that Xiu Yan's internal energy was damaged and tried to use her own spiritual power to heal him, but Xiu Yan returned the spiritual power to her. Gu Jin saw that Xiu Yan was injured like that and still remained calm and composed, so he guessed that Xiu Yan was not an ordinary person and spoke much more politely. Xiu Yan didn't give Gu Jin a hard time and only proposed a condition: if Gu Jin could help him retrieve the Three Lives Stone, he would give them the special token. Hongyi wanted Xiu Yan to give them a hint, but Gu Jin pulled him away.
When Gu Jin and the others left, a black energy suddenly attacked A Yin, but Xiu Yan intercepted it and quickly closed the door. After returning upstairs, his good brother, Ao Xiong, asked him in confusion why he didn't keep the Water Condensation Beast. Xiu Yan explained that he had just sought A Yin's opinion, and as long as she was willing to stay, he would give her a lifespan of tens of millions of years. However, A Yin didn't agree, and in his current state, even a low-level Water Condensation Beast like A Yin might not be able to heal him. But Ao Xiong didn't care about all that. He told Xiu Yan that if A Yin came back, he must keep her and not interfere.
After leaving Xiu Yan Tower, Gu Jin took out a dial and smiled as he told A Yin and the others that he had collected information about the Three Lives Stone. With this item, they could roughly locate the Three Lives Stone. Following the traces of the Three Lives Stone, the three of them arrived in the mortal realm. In order to determine the specific location of the Three Lives Stone, A Yin took out the Hawk Eye Stone and called out "Yanshuang." Yanshuang appeared before her, flew up into the air for observation, and quickly discovered the whereabouts of the Three Lives Stone. However, the stone was being controlled by a dragon monster using a formation.
The group arrived at the formation and found that many people were gathered there, offering sacrifices to the dragon monster. Gu Jin and the others saw that the dragon monster wanted a beautiful woman, so they decided to rid the people of this menace. They had A Yin replace the sacrificial woman, while Gu Jin, wearing the invisibility cloak, guarded her. The dragon monster took A Yin into a cave. A Yin had intended to intoxicate the monster, but her plan was discovered.
The dragon monster realized that A Yin was a Water Condensation Beast and took her into the formation to extract her inner core and enhance its own power. Gu Jin wanted to save A Yin but couldn't enter the large formation set up by the monster. Seeing blood trickling from A Yin's mouth and her inner core being forced out by the dragon monster, Gu Jin relentlessly attacked the barrier of the formation with his sword, even though his hands were bleeding. After Gu Jin's blood entered the divine sword, its power once again manifested. With his final strike, Gu Jin not only shattered the formation but also defeated the dragon monster.
Gu Jin seized the inner core and returned it to A Yin. Enraged, the dragon monster transformed into a giant python and used its magic to control Gu Jin and A Yin, intending to drain their spiritual power completely. Fortunately, Hongyi, Yanshuang, and other allies arrived just in time to prevent the dragon monster from succeeding. The defeated dragon monster fled, and Yanshuang handed the Three Lives Stone to Gu Jin. A Yin was pleasantly surprised to discover that their master-servant contract had automatically dissolved after the dangerous encounter. However, while A Yin appeared happy, Gu Jin felt deeply disappointed.
From the dragon monster's body, Hongyi also obtained a bag of rare soil from the Water Condensation Mountain, which he used to enhance A Yin's power. He suspected that the dragon monster had also set its sights on the Water Condensation Mountain. Hongyi urged A Yin to go to the mountain as soon as possible. However, A Yin had already developed feelings for Gu Jin and didn't want to leave just like that. She was worried that Gu Jin would discern her feelings, so she intentionally addressed him as "Shixiong" (senior brother) and proposed to accompany him in continuing the search for the Phoenix Hidden Immortal Essence. When Gu Jin heard A Yin calling him "Shixiong," he mistakenly believed that A Yin regarded him the same way she did Xianshan and Xianzhu, thinking that A Yin had no emotional attachment to him like she did to Hongyi. Therefore, he declined A Yin's kind gesture. Gu Jin's rejection further led A Yin to believe that Gu Jin didn't want to be entangled with her, and they both harbored their own thoughts and parted ways without joy.
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