890 YX throws SL into a boiling pot, telling her it’ll remove the ink – after she dies. YX then tells her the reason for this – a woman named Yan Hua. SL is surprised since this is also her dagger’s name, and tells her RY likes the woman in the portrait in his study, infuriating YX that RY’s still infatuated.
891 YX closes the lid on SL. SL endures for a while due to her flame element, but soon her face starts blistering. SL remembers her Fire Stone which had saved her on the island (Fire Valley against LAT in chapter 475ish) and is greeted by DST. The temperature in the pot then decreases to lukewarm.
892 SL takes out the three LRB and other ingredients used to help advance. She begins refining, adding in more items until all 9 herbs and 3 LRB are in the cauldron. SL manipulates her fire for 3 days within her space (1hr in the real world), until the pill is formed.
893 YX opens the cauldron to find SL alive with ink still on her face. Not knowing SL has the cure, she tries to scare her into taking the medicine, telling her the time is almost up. The stone is back in her space and DST jokes that with her current face, she’d train more.
894-895 SL continues stewing in the pot, suffering since she can’t take out her Fire Stone. During the pain she notices she’s finally about to break through to 6th ranked and begins cultivating. However the dragon in her space senses her pain and starts rolling itself around in the ball of light. When the ball touches the Fire Stone, it explodes, leaving a slightly charred dragon. Under DST’s directions, it retrieves the Seven Nights Red Shawl Grass (红纱七夜草Hóng Shā Qī Yè Cǎo) from within YX’s medical cabinet and throws it outside her space to save her.
896 SL swallows the whole plant which regulates her temperature, while purifying and revitalizing her. YX tells LYY to watch over SL and report any changes, worried that SL would take advantage of LYY’s stupidity. LYY takes out a bottle of corrosives she’s refined.
897-898 The dragon then hands SL a Nine Days Sea-Blue Snow Lotus (九天碧海雪莲Jiǔ Tiān Bì Hǎi Xuě Lián), causing the ink on her face to falling away to reveal a face that shocks the dragon and DST. However SL is busy promoting to 6th ranked and doesn’t notice. LYY senses the changes in SL’s power level but is blown away as SL emerges with her ethereal appearance. LYY uses vines to hold SL, calling to YX. However SL grabs LYY’s corrosives and throws it at her, damaging her face and arm, before sending fireballs to destroy the room, leaving before YX arrives. YX is furious and angrily asks LYY about SL’s face as this is the most important issue.
899-900 YX’s vicious expression causes her to faint. YX slaps her awake and LYY tells her SL’s face is different. YX quickly chases after SL, sending balls of light towards her. SL blocks with her void armour and takes out 2 Spirits Bomb that YX recognizes as from her medicine cabinet. YX falls back when SL throws one at her and uses the other to break the barrier around the compound and the lake’s water begins pouring in. SL makes her way through the water, not decreasing in speed due to her space magic, and YX sends people after but they fail to catch her. SL emerges in a river which borders Western Jin and Dong Ling