Episode 3 recap: A Yin and Gu Jin found a strand of Fire Phoenix essence.
After forming a master-servant contract, Gu Jin and A Yin, holding a dagger, attempted to kill Gu Jin to break the contract. However, before she could harm Gu Jin, she was bound by the contract's restrictions, causing her a great deal of suffering. A Yin had no choice but to give up.
A Yin and Gu Jin found a strand of Fire Phoenix essence.
After forming a master-servant contract, Gu Jin and A Yin, holding a dagger, attempted to kill Gu Jin to break the contract. However, before she could harm Gu Jin, she was bound by the contract's restrictions, causing her a great deal of suffering. A Yin had no choice but to give up.
Qing Shan returned to the mountain and informed Gu Jin that they could descend. Hearing Qing Shan's words, Gu Jin was pleasantly surprised to discover that the valley's restrictions had been lifted. Gu Jin, accompanied by A Yin, returned to Da Ze Mountain to visit their master. Upon meeting Dong Hua Xian Jun, A Yin immediately guessed that the old man was responsible for the master-servant contract and demanded him to release her from it. However, Dong Hua Xian Jun clearly told her that in order to break the contract, she must retrieve all of the Fire Phoenix's essences. After hearing her master's words, Gu Jin learned that the Fire Phoenix's destiny had not yet been fulfilled and asked for an explanation. According to the Ask Heaven Stone, after undergoing the tribulation, the Fire Phoenix's essence should have returned to Gu Jin automatically.
Dong Hua Xian Jun told Gu Jin that he had divined recently and discovered that the Fire Phoenix's essence had been divided into eight parts and scattered somewhere in the Three Realms. Only by gathering all eight parts could the Fire Phoenix be revived. As soon as Dong Hua Xian Jun finished speaking, A Yin readily agreed and asked him to keep his promise. Seeing A Yin's agreement, Dong Hua Xian Jun nodded with a smile and gave her an opportunity.
Through A Yin's conversation with their master, Gu Jin learned that A Yin was not a Chaos Egg but the egg of a Water Condensation Beast. The Water Condensation Beast belonged to the Immortal Sect, but it had declined during the ancient war. Due to the weak innate spiritual power of the Water Condensation Beast clan, their cultivation was extremely slow. The opportunity given to A Yin by Dong Hua Xian Jun was to use his own magical power to refine her and reshape her immortal body, and he also recognized her as a nominal disciple.
In addition, Dong Hua Xian Jun taught A Yin and Gu Jin a set of cultivation techniques suitable for master and servant called "Water Flower Mirror Moon." When A Yin heard Xian Zhu say that the better she cultivated the Water Flower Mirror Moon technique, the further she would be from Gu Jin, she urged Gu Jin to seize the time to cultivate diligently.
However, Gu Jin did not follow the expected path during cultivation, causing A Yin to be constantly pulled by the restrictions of the master-servant contract and fall to the ground multiple times.
To teach Gu Jin a lesson, A Yin deliberately stood next to him while he was using the restroom. When Gu Jin asked her to leave, she made one demand after another, such as not allowing Gu Jin to make her meals, do her laundry, pour her tea, and so on. She wrote down those requests and had Gu Jin sign them. Surprisingly, she wrote over 120 agreements, but Gu Jin couldn't be bothered to read them and simply pressed his handprint on them.
Furthermore, regarding the sleeping arrangement, Gu Jin's room had a large bed. As they were not a couple, they couldn't share the same bed. At first, A Yin wanted Gu Jin to sleep under the bed, but after Gu Jin objected, they reached an agreement to both sleep on the bed with separate blankets, and their heads and feet facing opposite directions.
After resolving these issues, they began searching for the Fire Phoenix's essences. Dong Hua Xian Jun calculated that one of the essences was located in Da Ze Mountain, so they searched all around the mountain. They first arrived at the place where Gu Jin was restricted. A Yin quietly entered a cave and retrieved an egg of the Water Condensation Beast, which was her cherished companion.
However, as soon as she held the egg, Gu Jin approached. Gu Jin wanted to see the egg in A Yin's hand, and while they were struggling, the egg fell into a sword formation. A Yin couldn't enter the sword formation, but Gu Jin moved freely within it and discovered the Chaotic Qi and fragments of a divine sword, which then entered his body and insisted on recognizing him as its master. As Gu Jin's power was too weak, the divine sword, after recognizing him as its master, transformed into a small dagger.
Not far from the sword formation, there was a phoenix tree. A Yin noticed something inside the tree, and Gu Jin's Fire Phoenix Jade resonated with it. When Gu Jin took out the Fire Phoenix Jade, a strand of the Fire Phoenix's essence flew over.
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