Recaps

Lu Ping was promoted to inner disciple and Alchemy Hall steward, then discovered that his new cave abode came with expenses that could consume most of his salary. The chapter left him facing Zhao Li and deciding how to respond to the costly “benefits.”

• Han Changqing promoted Lu Ping to inner disciple and appointed him a steward of the Alchemy Hall.
• Lu Ping recognized Zhao Li’s hostility over their equal rank and politely built rapport with the other hall stewards.
• Lu Ping declined Liu Cheng’s offer to direct new disciples to the Alchemy Hall, deferring assignments to Qi Cangshu.
• Zhao Li showed Lu Ping his assigned cave abode and explained its rent, formation fees, and earthfire charges.
• Lu Ping realized the costs could exceed his monthly salary and faced options for dealing with Zhao Li.

Lu Ping moved into a better cave abode, but the cost of cultivation left him with little money. After learning how the Greenwood Sect profited from controlling alchemy, he bought two cultivation methods and discovered that the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula could turn practitioners into Medicine Puppets; he faced a choice about how to investigate or attempt it.

• Lu Ping moved into Cave Abode No. 7, Earth, and realized that rent and formation fees left him with only fifteen Spirit Stones from his monthly salary.
• Lu Ping found that pills strained his body, calculated the cost of advancing his cultivation, and saw that spirit-stone-only training would take ten to fifteen years.
• Zhao Li showed Lu Ping the Alchemy Hall's accounts, and Lu Ping learned that the Greenwood Sect made money by controlling alchemy qualifications and supplies.
• Lu Ping bought the Greenwood Art Foundation Establishment Chapter and the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula at the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lu Ping read that the Hundred-Forged method used pills to temper the body but could consume the practitioner's mind and leave a controllable Medicine Corpse, then considered what to do next.

Lu Ping used pills and poison with the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula to strengthen his body, then began teaching new disciples at the Greenwood Sect. He recognized Xu Qingshi, who had died in an earlier simulation, and realized his actions had formed karmic ties in this world.

• Lu Ping tested Qi-Gathering, Qi-Replenishing, and Qi-Congealing Pills to temper his body, then chose to buy the Qi-Gathering Pill Formula.
• Lu Ping spent eight hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones on the formula and used his alchemy traits to produce Qi-Gathering Pills cheaply.
• Lu Ping tested Spirit-Eroding Powder with the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula and found that poison improved his body nearly half as much as a mid-grade Qi-Gathering Pill.
• Lu Ping began refining an enhanced Spirit-Eroding Powder and taught new Outer Sect Disciples how to refine Qi-Replenishing Pills.
• Lu Ping recognized Xu Qingshi as Number 98, who had died beside him in an earlier simulation, and answered his question about refining pills.
• Lu Ping watched the disciples and realized that karmic entanglements had formed between him and the world.

Lu Ping uncovered how the Greenwood Sect exploited its disciples to fund the Azure Cloud Sect, but chose to keep quiet and continue serving the sect while cautiously improving his skills and helping Xu Qingshi. By age twenty-five, he had strengthened his cultivation and raised his Black-Feather Fire Crow into a useful lookout.

• Lu Ping discovered that the Greenwood Sect paid the Azure Cloud Sect for its mountain range, Spirit Vein, and protection, while disciples’ Spirit Stone labor and purchases sent most of their earnings upward; he chose to pretend he knew nothing.
• Lu Ping gained the Word King trait but kept his existing traits, then continued refining pills and gave Xu Qingshi occasional guidance while Qian Dafu began diligently assisting him.
• Lu Ping handled Zhao Li’s sudden Hemostatic Powder quota by dividing the work and sending the Mining Hall’s ledger to Zhao Li, prompting the Mining Hall deacon to confront him.
• Lu Ping improved his Breath-Concealing Technique, concealed his true cultivation from peers, and declined Elder Qi Cangshu’s offer to recommend him for an early second-grade alchemist examination.
• Lu Ping mastered the second layer of the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula and continued raising his Black-Feather Fire Crow, which reached the Third Layer of Qi Refining and could patrol for him.

Lu Ping faced Zhao Li’s public accusation that he had embezzled medicinal ingredients, but the witnesses admitted Zhao Li had coached them and Lu produced records supporting his accounts. The audit ended with Lu offering to accept punishment if the records contained any errors.

• At the Alchemy Hall audit, Zhao Li accused Lu Ping of pocketing medicinal ingredients and presented disciples as witnesses.
• Lu Ping’s presence caused the disciples to confess that Zhao Li had ordered them to lie in exchange for favorable assignments.
• Lu Ping showed Elder Qi Cangshu account books matching the ingredients he obtained with the pills he submitted, explaining that his records excluded unstable test batches.
• Qian Dafu provided purchase receipts, and a Mining Hall deacon confirmed Lu Ping had supplied medicine after a mine collapse when the Internal Affairs Office delayed delivery.
• Lu Ping bowed to Qi Cangshu and offered to accept punishment if his account books contained errors.

Lu Ping exposed Zhao Li’s scheme, continued advancing his cultivation, and bought a Flying Boat. Just after celebrating that he had survived the year Han Changqing killed him in the previous simulation, Lu Ping was summoned to the Main Hall, where he arrived to find a gathering already underway.

• Qi Cangshu reviewed the accounts, ordered the disciples who framed Lu Ping punished, and relieved Zhao Li of his duties.
• Lu Ping reflected on reaching Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, improving his Breath-Concealing Technique, and strengthening his Fire Crow.
• Lu Ping bought an eighteen-hundred-Low-Grade-Spirit-Stone Flying Boat from Shopkeeper Zhou.
• After the Alchemist examination, Lu Ping celebrated surviving the year of his death in the second simulation, then received a summons to the Main Hall.
• Lu Ping concealed his cultivation, prepared Spirit-Eroding Powder, and went to the Main Hall with Qian Dafu and Xu Qingshi.
• Lu Ping entered the crowded Main Hall, where Han Changqing presided and a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator stood before the assembled elders and Deacons.

As Qi Cangshu prepared to enter seclusion, Han Changqing proposed appointing an acting elder for the Alchemy Hall, and Wu Yucheng challenged Lu Ping’s suitability. Lu Ping passed the decision to Qi Cangshu, then bested Wu Yucheng in a pill-refining contest, leaving Wu Yucheng speechless.

• Han Changqing announced that Qi Cangshu would enter secluded cultivation and called the elders together to discuss an acting Alchemy Hall elder.
• Wu Yucheng argued that Lu Ping lacked the cultivation to oversee the Alchemy Hall, and Lu Ping declined to claim the post while directing the decision to Qi Cangshu.
• Qi Cangshu praised Lu Ping’s record, winning the hall’s support, and Han Changqing set a contest to refine Qi-Gathering Pills.
• Wu Yucheng refined two Qi-Gathering Pills with ten percent greater potency, while Lu Ping used his worn standard furnace to produce three passing pills.
• Wu Yucheng looked toward Han Changqing with a grim expression and opened his mouth.

After proving his alchemy skill, Lu Ping became acting elder of the Alchemy Hall and reorganized its records and ingredient controls. He discovered that Si Wangshu’s incomplete formula described a pill that could improve a Low-Grade Spirit Root, but its core ingredient had been extinct for 3,000 years.

• Lu Ping declined an official elder’s title, and Han Changqing appointed him to manage the Alchemy Hall in an acting capacity.
• Qi Cangshu warned Lu Ping that the main hall would keep pressuring the Alchemy Hall before leaving for secluded cultivation.
• Lu Ping introduced cross-checks for ingredients, pills, and accounts, and assigned Qian Dafu and Xu Qingshi new responsibilities.
• Lu Ping opened the Alchemy Hall’s inner chamber and identified Si Wangshu’s incomplete formula as the Heaven-Mending Minor Restoration Pill.
• Lu Ping learned the pill could raise a Low-Grade Spirit Root to Middle-Grade, but its core ingredient, nine-orifice spirit embryo root, had been extinct for 3,000 years.

Lu Ping continued developing a usable Heaven-Mending Minor Restoration Pill while managing the Alchemy Hall and securing access to the Azure Dragon Merchant Association’s supply channels. He found an old formula for Mind-Erasing Powder that might counter a Golden Core-level threat, but kept his focus on the restoration pill as his next simulation began.

• Lu Ping chose to keep refining the Heaven-Mending Minor Restoration Pill, while his strict accounting practices brought order and respect to the Alchemy Hall.
• Shopkeeper Zhou gave Lu Ping a First-Class VIP token for the Azure Dragon Merchant Association and explained that he had delayed handing it over to protect his own business.
• Lu Ping used the association’s channels to request large quantities of substitute medicinal ingredients, then searched the Scripture Pavilion for alchemy texts.
• Lu Ping found a golden-page formula for Mind-Erasing Powder, a mid-grade pill that could injure a Golden Core cultivator’s Divine Sense, and recalled how Han Changqing’s talisman had killed him in a previous simulation.
• Lu Ping paid three hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones for Tracing the Origins of the Dao of Alchemy, but returned to the Alchemy Hall without beginning the Mind-Erasing Powder formula.

Lu Ping pursued Mind-Erasing Powder to counter Han Changqing's Golden Core Talisman Seal while Greenwood Sect elders continued entering seclusion. After his Fire Crow was badly injured spying on Han Changqing at the Back Mountain Forbidden Ground, Lu Ping faced a choice about what to do next.

• Lu Ping noticed that a Foundation Establishment elder's cleanly recorded medicine requisitions suggested the elder had entered seclusion while injured, and he grew more urgent about his pill deductions.
• Lu Ping completed the Heaven-Mending Minor Restoration Pill formula but could not find Void-Aperture Jade Marrow, so he requisitioned discarded Sense-Erasing Grass to develop Mind-Erasing Powder.
• Lu Ping chose to keep refining Mind-Erasing Powder despite the damage to his Divine Sense, and the repeated failures gradually strengthened his resistance to it.
• Lu Ping received the Overtime Trait but did not equip it, wary that its efficiency penalty would combine with Salty Fish's.
• Lu Ping sent the Fire Crow to follow Han Changqing into the Back Mountain Forbidden Ground, where unfamiliar Demon Qi burned half its wings and forced it back to Lu Ping.
• Lu Ping faced options to confront Han Changqing, stop investigating, or seek a workplace injury allowance for the Fire Crow.

Lu Ping completed Mind-Erasing Powder and entered the Back Mountain Forbidden Ground to confront Han Changqing alone. Han Changqing revealed his grievance against the Azure Cloud Sect and offered Lu Ping a place among the Demon Race, leaving Lu Ping to choose how to respond.

• Lu Ping finished three batches of Mind-Erasing Powder after testing the powder on his Fire Crow clone.
• Lu Ping sent Qian Dafu and Xu Qingshi away, then went alone to the Back Mountain Forbidden Ground while Han Changqing was inside.
• Lu Ping slipped through the forbidden ground's restriction and found Han Changqing beside a furnace holding a Blood-Congealing Five-Elements Pill.
• Han Changqing said the Azure Cloud Sect had denied him resources because of his Middle-Grade Spirit Root and offered to spare Lu Ping if he joined the Demon Race.
• Lu Ping recognized that Han Changqing's words connected the Lord of the South and the Bloodline Reversal Great Art to a wider threat, then faced choices about how to answer the offer.

Lu Ping chose to fight Han Changqing, then destroyed the Golden Core Talisman Seal and killed him after Han Changqing fused with the Blood-Congealing Five-Elements Pill. As other Greenwood Sect officials arrived at the Forbidden Ground, Lu Ping had taken Han Changqing’s Storage Ring and watched the lingering presences vanish.

• Lu Ping concealed his strength, poisoned the Forbidden Ground, and attacked Han Changqing, but Han Changqing summoned his Golden Core Talisman Seal and trapped him with blood threads.
• Lu Ping used Mind-Erasing Powder to force the talisman seal back into Han Changqing’s body, then struck it with powder-coated Flying Knives.
• Han Changqing fused with the Blood-Congealing Five-Elements Pill and reached False Core strength, but Lu Ping’s Flying Knives contaminated and shattered the talisman seal.
• Lu Ping stabbed Han Changqing’s Dantian and suppressed his power until Han Changqing collapsed and died.
• The Blood Furnace exploded, the Five Elder Tokens split apart, and the lingering presences vanished as Lu Ping took Han Changqing’s Storage Ring.
• An elder of the Law Enforcement Hall entered with disciples, followed by Steward Wang, Liu Cheng, the Main Hall Storehouse Manager, and the remaining elders.

After killing Han Changqing, Lu Ping took control of the Greenwood Sect and secured Azure Cloud Sect recognition by paying its envoy. Searching Han Changqing’s Storage Ring, he found a Demon Race cultivation method that could strengthen his fire crow and faced a choice about whether to learn it.

• Liu Cheng and the other Greenwood Sect members accepted Lu Ping as their new sect master after finding Han Changqing dead and evidence of his crimes.
• Lu Ping appointed Qian Dafu acting elder of the Alchemy Hall and transferred Xu Qingshi to the Main Hall, then filled the sect master’s cave abode and Main Hall with poisons.
• Lu Ping chose to pay the Azure Cloud Sect envoy, who registered him as Greenwood Sect’s sect master and demanded next year’s rent on time.
• Lu Ping searched the sect’s resources and Han Changqing’s Storage Ring, finding the Southern Bright Li Fire Scripture among its contents.
• Lu Ping realized the cultivation method could help him refine pills and nourish his fire crow, then faced a choice about whether to cultivate it.

Lu Ping gained the S-grade I'm the Client trait and tested its money-triggered effect while buying a defensive artifact. He continued cultivating the Southern Bright Li Fire Scripture and strengthening his Fire Crow, then received a severance-compensation trait at age thirty.

• Lu Ping replaced Flattery and Passing the Buck with I'm the Client and Friend of Women.
• Lu Ping bought a Black Tortoise Shield from Shopkeeper Zhou, who added maintenance array patterns after the new trait activated.
• Lu Ping triggered I'm the Client by striking Ma San with a Spirit Stone, causing Ma San to kneel and thank him for the reward.
• Lu Ping refined pills and cultivated, developing the Fire-Separation Finger and strengthening the Fire Crow until it could travel three hundred li from him.
• At age thirty, Lu Ping gained the C-grade Severance Compensation trait and considered what it might mean if the Azure Cloud Sect dismissed him.

After reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage by taking pills, the protagonist prepared to leave the Greenwood Sect and seek the Golden-Pattern Yellow Fang Ganoderma needed for the Yellow Fang Pill. At the secret realm entrance in Broken Sunset Valley, he found a bustling marketplace and faced a choice about buying accident insurance.

• The protagonist credited his rapid cultivation progress to the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula and two daily Qi-Gathering Pills, with his abilities managing the side effects and costs.
• At a sect meeting, the protagonist announced a period of seclusion and put Xu Qingshi in charge of the main hall’s affairs, then used his presence to make the assembled cultivators wary.
• The protagonist left the Greenwood Sect in disguise and flew to Broken Sunset Valley, where he followed Monk Wuming’s Jade Slip to the secret realm entrance.
• At the temporary marketplace, the protagonist encountered sellers of maps, bodyguard services, and secret realm accident insurance.
• The insurance seller explained that coverage could pay out even if the protagonist’s remains were lost, while a companion killing him required extra payment.
• The protagonist considered whether to buy insurance, avoid the offer, or insure his enemies and name himself the beneficiary.

Lu Ping met Wuming before entering the Yellow Fang Secret Realm, where they learned that the Zhao Household was also seeking the Golden-Patterned Yellow Bud Ganoderma. After entering, Lu Ping used his fire crow to scout through the poisonous, flight-restricted realm and encountered dangerous creatures and dead cultivators before it reached a broken stone stele.

• Lu Ping met Wuming, who shared information about the secret realm and warned him that the Zhao Household would compete for the Golden-Patterned Yellow Bud Ganoderma.
• Zhao Mingchuan arrived with guards and an old servant, while Wuming identified him as a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator who might possess a Golden Core-level talisman.
• Lu Ping gave Wuming a bottle of mid-grade Detoxification Pills, and the two entered the secret realm after Zhao Mingchuan and the other cultivators.
• Lu Ping discovered that the yellow fog suppressed Divine Sense and that an invisible restriction prevented flight, then sent his fire crow ahead to scout.
• Lu Ping avoided a swarm of venomous bees and a group of black ants feeding near two corpses before the fire crow landed on a broken stone stele.

Li and Wuming navigated the mind-bewildering yellow mist, gathered valuable herbs, and crossed Soul-Severing Stream after Wuming dispelled its lingering spirits. They were confronted by Zhao Mingchuan and his armed group, who demanded their Storage Bags, leaving Li to choose how to respond.

• Li and Wuming used the Fire Crow and Wuming’s scriptures to navigate the yellow mist and gather rare medicinal herbs.
• Li and Wuming found Soul-Severing Stream, where Wuming calmed the dead spirits as they crossed.
• Zhao Mingchuan and his group emerged from the mist and demanded that Li and Wuming hand over their Storage Bags.
• Zhao Mingchuan ordered his guards to attack, while Wuming said he did not wish to take lives.

Lu Ping and Wuming killed Zhao Mingchuan and his guards, then divided their spoils while continuing upstream along Soul-Severing Stream. They found a Golden-Pattern Yellow Fang Ganoderma growing in a Golden Core Corpse Fiend and faced a choice about how to proceed.

• Lu Ping used Spirit Stones, flying knives, and his techniques to kill Zhao Mingchuan's four guards and break through Zhao Mingchuan's defenses.
• Lu Ping killed Zhao Mingchuan after coating his Golden Core Talisman with Mind-Erasing Powder, and he and Wuming defeated the old servant in gray.
• Lu Ping and Wuming collected and divided the Zhao Household's Spirit Stones and Law Artifacts, with Wuming saying they were helping the household clear its debts.
• Lu Ping and Wuming continued upstream and found a Golden-Pattern Yellow Fang Ganoderma growing in the chest of a Golden Core Corpse Fiend.
• The Corpse Fiend stood up, and options appeared asking whether to flee with the ganoderma, kill it first, or negotiate.

Li and Wuming defeated a Golden Core Corpse Fiend, harvested the Golden-Pattern Yellow Fang Ganoderma, and refined six Yellow Fang Pills. They split the pills evenly before continuing through the dangerous secret realm.

• Li weakened the Golden Core Corpse Fiend with Spirit Stones and poisoned knives, then used the Hundred-Forged Medicine Body Formula to withstand its attacks.
• Wuming used the Karmic Fire Rebirth Incantation to purify the Corpse Fiend's remnant soul while Li protected him and destroyed the fiend.
• Li harvested the Golden-Pattern Yellow Fang Ganoderma after Wuming finished chanting over the remains.
• Li refined six Yellow Fang Pills on the spot, astonishing Wuming with his alchemy.
• Li gave Wuming three pills, and Wuming thanked him before Li joked that the debt would accrue interest.

Lu Ping escaped the secret realm with Wuming and traveled to Qingyang City to find Void-Aperture Jade Marrow and a route to Second-Grade Alchemist qualifications. There, he encountered a bustling market for cultivation services, including a hall that rented spirit roots, and faced a choice about whether to try it.

• Lu Ping and Wuming used Random Teleportation Talismans to escape the secret realm, then confirmed the area around their landing site was clear.
• Wuming told Lu Ping he had escaped and would enter seclusion to attempt Golden Core, while Lu Ping chose to go to Qingyang City to seek Void-Aperture Jade Marrow and alchemist qualifications.
• Lu Ping traveled by passenger spirit boat, where a Qi Refining cultivator told him that Qingyang City’s Heavenly Certification Alliance branch was recruiting alchemy-chamber menial workers.
• Lu Ping arrived in Qingyang City and saw its crowded streets, cultivation businesses, and sharp divide between cultivators of different ranks.
• A hostess at the Spirit Root Rental Hall offered Lu Ping a short-term rental using Child Mother Gu to synchronize cultivation results, and he considered whether to try it.

Lu Ping avoided predatory spirit-root rentals and a lethal pill trial before learning that he needed a Second-Grade Alchemist qualification to enter an auction that might sell Void-Aperture Jade Marrow. He chose to take the examination and was offered a costly preparation package, leaving him to decide whether to buy it.

• Lu Ping refused a spirit-root rental and watched a young man die during a dangerous Body-Tempering Pill trial in Qingyang City.
• Lu Ping visited the Azure Dragon Merchant Association and met head shopkeeper Shen Yuerong, who told him that a joint auction in seven days might offer Void-Aperture Jade Marrow.
• Shen Yuerong explained that the auction required a Second-Grade Alchemist qualification, so Lu Ping chose to take the examination rather than force his way in or seek a fake certificate.
• Shen Yuerong warned Lu Ping about the examination's difficulty and offered him a one-thousand-Spirit-Stone preparation package, leaving him to choose whether to buy it.

Lu Ping paid for second-grade alchemy exam materials and a cave abode at the Azure Dragon Merchant Association, then searched for a cultivation method suited to his fighting style. He found a suspiciously cheap high-grade hidden-weapon method on consignment but hesitated to buy it because the cost could jeopardize his exam, auction plans, and purchase of Void Aperture Jade Marrow.

• Lu Ping paid Shen Yuerong one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, received exam materials and a token, and signed the coaching contract.
• Lu Ping rented a top-class Jia cave abode for seven days and discovered that its Spiritual Qi let him cultivate more quickly than at the Greenwood Sect.
• Lu Ping went shopping for a stronger hidden-weapon technique because his current fighting style seemed inadequate against disciples of major sects.
• Lu Ping found the high-grade Thousand Mechanisms Falling Blossoms Instruction priced at ten thousand Spirit Stones and asked Shen Yuerong why it had a red label.
• Shen Yuerong explained that the technique was being sold on consignment, while Lu Ping weighed its price against his upcoming exam, the auction, and the Void Aperture Jade Marrow.

Lu Ping sold forty Qi-Gathering Pills to Shen Yuerong, signed a contract to obtain the Thousand Mechanisms Falling Blossoms Instruction, and received the method in the form of a captive cultivator. After learning that Ji Chengfeng had been imprisoned for more than ten years, Lu Ping questioned when he had been captured.

• Lu Ping sold forty Qi-Gathering Pills to Shen Yuerong for thirty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and received a second-tier valued guest token.
• Lu Ping noticed that the contract for the Thousand Mechanisms Falling Blossoms Instruction bore the same dark mark as a token linked to the Black Tiger Gang, but he signed it to pursue the lead.
• Lu Ping prepared for his alchemist exam while waiting, then sensed two black-clad Foundation Establishment cultivators arrive with an unconscious young man.
• The black-clad cultivators said the Cultivation Method was in the young man's head, left him outside Lu Ping's cave abode, and vanished through a formation.
• Lu Ping brought the young man inside, woke him, and learned that he was Ji Chengfeng, a disciple of the Thousand Mechanisms Sect who had been imprisoned after his master refused to yield to the black-clad group.
• Lu Ping asked Ji Chengfeng what year he had been captured.

Lu Ping obtained the Thousand Mechanisms Falling Blossoms Instruction from Ji Chengfeng, learned that the mysterious Dark Hall had massacred mortal villages, and let Ji Chengfeng go. After two days of exam preparation, Lu Ping faced a Wang Family demand to vacate his Grade-A cave abode.

• Ji Chengfeng gave Lu Ping the complete Thousand Mechanisms Falling Blossoms Instruction and said the Dark Hall had held him in the Azure Dragon Upper Domain.
• Ji Chengfeng told Lu Ping that his master had died while investigating massacres of mortal villages, and Lu Ping released him with travel expenses.
• Lu Ping secretly followed Ji Chengfeng with a Fire Crow, then chose to prioritize studying for his Second-Grade Alchemist exam over practicing the new technique.
• Lu Ping spent two days studying and refining waste herbs in preparation for the exam.
• A Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator from the Wang Family arrived with guards and an Azure Dragon Merchant Association officer, demanding that Lu Ping leave his Grade-A cave abode within half a quarter hour.

Lu Ping chose to stay in his A-Class Cave Abode and expose the Wang Family’s attempt to pressure Shen Yuerong by poisoning their guards. Shen Yuerong arrived, rejected the Wang Family’s unpaid reservation, and struck down its leader and the merchant association guard responsible for opening the area.

• Lu Ping rejected moving out and messaged Shen Yuerong that the Wang Family had entered the A-Class Cave Abode Area.
• Lu Ping spread Spirit-Eroding Powder and Mind-Erasing Powder outside his cave abode, causing Wang Family cultivators to collapse and panic.
• Shen Yuerong arrived with merchant association stewards and learned that Guard Leader had opened the area under Steward Chen Ye’s Temporary Order.
• A steward confirmed that the Wang Family’s reservation was unpaid and unauthorized, so Shen Yuerong shattered its Contract Token.
• Shen Yuerong struck the Wang Household Leader into the wall and then injured the Merchant Association Guard Leader for dereliction of duty.