Yue Qingshu continues her training but is having trouble focusing due to her missing Xiu Wu, who remains in the fruit form without any sign of resurrection. She keeps it to herself, but Ziqiu, who has now joined Mingshu School as Qingshu's adopted brother, sees her injecting energy into the fruit every night trying to revive it, and decides to help her by volunteering to psychically enters the fruit like how Xiu Wu once entered his memory. There Ziqiu finds fragments of Xiu Wu's memory and consciousness, and encounters a mysterious female figure, who actually responds to Ziqiu's presence and greets him, revealing herself as Jiutian Xuannü. Jiutian Xuannü asks Ziqiu to return to the Deity Realm, but he refuses outright despite she threatening to seal his innate magical potential. He also finds a remnant presence of Aoxu, causing him to exit the fruit mind in panic.
