Recaps

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and True Venerable Xiwu dealt with Linhe, whose attempt to destroy his abode forced them to flee. After their cooperation ended, Qu Jianlei waited for the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s response and shared with Han Li his discovery that passing the Creation Rule through his body could temper it.

• Qu Jianlei brought out the imprisoned Linhe, but Linhe detonated his abode, forcing Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and True Venerable Xiwu to retreat billions of kilometers.
• True Venerable Xiwu asked Qu Jianlei to help imprison dangerous foes in the future, and the three ended their cooperation and went their separate ways.
• Qu Jianlei spent a month on an asteroid while Han Li concealed his aura and guarded him; Qu Jianlei explained that he had made himself a target to protect his team from the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s retaliation.
• Han Li reported that the Baiyou Merchant Alliance had withdrawn and demanded that Houde punish the culprit.
• Qu Jianlei told Han Li that he had found a preliminary way to use Compass by passing the Creation Rule through his body, which had unexpectedly produced a body-tempering effect.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li discussed the fallout from the Baiyou Merchant Alliance conflict as Lingyun Sect weighed its response and Wanwu Realm demanded an explanation for Linhe’s death. Qu Jianlei decided he would leave Houde if necessary, but first focused on finding a safe spirit vein for Jing Yuexin’s breakthrough.

• Lingyun Sect investigated the attacks and held the Baiyou Merchant Alliance responsible for security in its leased sector, while Wanwu Realm protested Linhe’s death.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed Beiliu’s attempt to distance himself from the conflict, and Qu Jianlei doubted that Beiliu deserved to be spared.
• Han Li told Qu Jianlei that Lingyun might want him to leave Houde, and Qu Jianlei agreed he was tired of dealing with the sect.
• Qu Jianlei rejected the idea of going to Wanwu Realm and considered other destinations as the Baiyou Merchant Alliance withdrew toward the Void Passage entrance.
• Qu Jianlei worried about who might interfere with Duo Gan and Jing Yuexin, while Han Li urged him to find a safe spirit vein for Jing Yuexin’s breakthrough.

Qu Jianlei sought support from Houde’s powerful cultivators over his killings of Baiyou Merchant Alliance True Venerables, while arranging for Han Li to secure Tianli’s spirit vein. He left Xuan Yi to summon Elder Youjian for an answer, and Youjian faced pressure from his followers to oppose Qu Jianlei despite their fear of the consequences.

• Qu Jianlei and Han Li agreed to use Tianli’s spirit vein for a breakthrough and planned to have Han Li help secure it.
• Qu Jianlei appeared above Zhanmeng No. 1 and demanded that Xuan Yi answer whether killing three Baiyou Merchant Alliance True Venerables had been right.
• Xuan Yi publicly supported Qu Jianlei and offered a Guardian Rule, then admitted he had little recent contact with Elder Youjian.
• Qu Jianlei demanded that Xuan Yi summon Youjian to state his views face to face and warned Lingyun Sect members not to send others to command him.
• Elder Youjian learned that his followers were willing to die alongside him, then realized he had to consider the many people under his command.

Qu Jianlei secured Elder Youjian and True Venerable Bucai’s support in his dispute with the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, then left to seek support elsewhere. Youjian explained that Qu was forcing the realm’s True Venerables to choose a side so he could represent Houde, leaving Bucai to warn their allies.

• Qu Jianlei pressed Elder Youjian to declare his support, and Youjian affirmed that he backed Qu as a True Venerable of their realm.
• Qu asked Youjian to question True Venerable Bucai about whom he would support, and Youjian said Bucai would stand with Qu.
• Bucai appeared by Split Soul, said he believed his attack had been meant to lure Qu Jianlei out, and declared his support for Qu and the Houde Cultivator.
• Qu Jianlei thanked Bucai, Youjian, and Great Venerable Xuan Yi before leaving to visit elsewhere.
• Youjian told Bucai to alert his friends that Qu was consolidating support so he could represent all of Houde, and Bucai realized that those who stayed neutral would face consequences.

Qu Jianlei pressured Houde’s True Venerables to take sides against the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, then killed several of its Nascent Soul cultivators in the void. When others protested, Jade Forest Matron defended him and claimed she had evidence that the killings were not his doing.

• Qu Jianlei visited the Zhanmeng Four sector, where a Nascent Soul cultivator politely said his secluded ancestor could not choose sides, and Qu Jianlei warned that the ancestor might miss his future help.
• After Qu Jianlei left, the ancestor and his subordinate discussed whether to discreetly tell two other True Venerables about Qu Jianlei’s warning.
• Qu Jianlei paused his visits to the other sectors and went to the Void Passage, where he killed several Baiyou Merchant Alliance Nascent Soul cultivators with the Years Divine Ability while Beiliu stayed hidden.
• Several True Venerables from beyond the domain protested to Lingyun that Qu Jianlei had bullied the weak and killed people who were not responsible for his grievances.
• Yulin questioned whether Qu Jianlei had committed the killings, and Jade Forest Matron defended him, claiming someone was framing him and that she had evidence.

Jade Forest Matron helped rally Cangwu cultivators to defend True Venerable Qu by arguing that a Nascent Soul cultivator could have wielded time abilities, while Han Li visited Houde’s True Venerables to seek their support. At Yuefeng Six, Lang Mai openly threatened to side with the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, but Han Li held back from attacking his avatar as Qu Jianlei secretly watched over him.

• Jade Forest Matron used Lingyun Sect’s records of Qu Jianlei’s time ability to cast doubt on claims that he had killed the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators, and Cangwu cultivators began a campaign to clear his name.
• Qu Jianlei let the controversy ferment, then Han Li took over visiting the True Venerables and asking them to support Qu Jianlei.
• Han Li’s visits made some True Venerables suspect Qu Jianlei was hiding nearby and might use time abilities against those who opposed him, while Han Li continued through several sectors without incident.
• At Yuefeng Six, Lang Mai met Han Li through an avatar and said he might support the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, arguing that Houde owed him nothing despite his having entered the Out-of-Body Realm there.
• Han Li resisted attacking Lang Mai’s avatar, while Qu Jianlei revealed he had been secretly protecting him and remarked that Lang Mai’s self-centeredness justified taking action.

Han Li and Qu Jianlei pressured Houde’s True Venerables to take their side, then turned to rest while the Baiyou Merchant Alliance confronted Lingyun over Houde’s treatment of outsiders. The chapter left a wounded True Venerable urging Lingyun and his peers to beware of the alliance and offering to join Han Li and Qu Jianlei, who were helping Jing Yuexin prepare a place for seclusion.

• Han Li and Qu Jianlei targeted three Jinlan Association families, wiping out more than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators and prompting several families to withdraw from the association.
• True Venerable Lang Mai recognized the massacre as a warning, while rumors spread that Han Li had been rebuffed by him.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei spent more than three years visiting Houde’s sectors and pressing True Venerables to choose a side, leaving only seven who did not support them.
• Two Baiyou Merchant Alliance True Venerables ambushed a returning Houde True Venerable and demanded that Lingyun safeguard the alliance’s commercial interests, threatening penalties over its Tier 5 Spirit Vein.
• After escaping with injuries, the Houde True Venerable reported the alliance’s threat to Lingyun and offered to join Han Li and Qu Jianlei against it.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei helped Jing Yuexin design a place for seclusion while True Venerable Tianli secretly lent them a spirit vein.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li learned that the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s reinforcements had arrived and debated whether to confront them or leave the matter to Lingyun. Qu Jianlei decided to take responsibility himself, but Baiqiao suspected he planned to sever ties with Lingyun and leave Houde after the battle.

• True Venerable Tianli told Qu Jianlei and Han Li that the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s reinforcements had arrived after nearly four years.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li recognized that the alliance was using kidnapping to isolate them and pressure them into responding.
• Han Li proposed contacting Beiliu, but Qu Jianlei argued that Beiliu could not provide the specific intelligence they needed.
• Qu Jianlei decided to take responsibility for the conflict rather than leave it to Lingyun, and he asked Han Li to look after their companions if anything happened to him.
• Baiqiao appeared and argued that Qu Jianlei intended to cut ties with Lingyun and leave Houde after the battle, whether he won or lost.
• Han Li challenged Baiqiao’s reasoning, pointing out that Qu Jianlei could seek revenge in another Cultivation World without abandoning Houde.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li rejected Baiqiao’s offer of cooperation and began planning how to deal with their opponents. Meanwhile, rumors about the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s vacant Shangzhang offering spread through Houde, and True Venerable Lang Mai discovered that Lingyun Sect had fueled them to target him.

• Baiqiao told Qu Jianlei and Han Li that Lingyun had quietly blocked the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s attempt to infiltrate Houde, but they refused his offer to cooperate.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li agreed to work together and began discussing the purpose of the coming battle.
• Rumors spread that the Baiyou Merchant Alliance was seeking partners and that True Venerable Lang Mai might pursue its vacant Shangzhang offering.
• True Venerable Bucai alerted Baiqiao to the rumors, and Baiqiao realized they could be used to pressure Lang Mai.
• Lang Mai’s subordinates captured four rumor-spreaders, and Lang Mai learned from their memories that Lingyun Sect had released the information.
• Lang Mai suspected that Lingyun’s campaign against him might have been planned from the beginning.

True Venerable Lang Mai, rejected by other True Venerables, attacked Han Li and Qu Jianlei through a weak public campaign and offered to contact the Baiyou Merchant Alliance. The alliance agreed to reduce compensation to three times the original amount, but demanded Lingyun guarantee that Han Li and Qu Jianlei would not retaliate and that Houde cultivators would be restrained.

• True Venerable Lang Mai asked other True Venerables about the rumors, but they hid their earlier knowledge and refused to help him.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei discussed whether Lang Mai would back down, retaliate, or turn against Houde, and Qu Jianlei warned that obsession could make him unreasonable.
• True Venerable Lang Mai publicly blamed Han Li and Qu Jianlei and offered to send subordinates to negotiate with the Baiyou Merchant Alliance.
• Lingyun allowed Lang Mai's private contact with the alliance while maintaining its position that the contact did not represent Houde's official stance.
• The Baiyou Merchant Alliance lowered its compensation demand from five times to three times, but required Lingyun to guarantee that Han Li and Qu Jianlei would not attack it and that Houde cultivators would not act against it.

The Baiyou Merchant Alliance demanded compensation from Houde while attacking its cultivators, and Qu Jianlei and Han Li waited for reinforcements before striking back. After the Alliance divined their positions, three concealed True Venerables attacked a returning group of cultivators while Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge were still far from the Void Passage.

• The Merchant Alliance demanded six Tier 5 Spirit Veins from Houde and refused to compensate True Venerable Houde for his injuries.
• Houde True Venerables grew angry, but most stayed cautious because attacking the Merchant Alliance could trigger a war across realms.
• Han Li and Qu Jianlei waited to see how many True Venerables the Merchant Alliance could gather, intending to hurt the Alliance decisively.
• Jin Ge returned to Houde, learned what had happened, and urged Han Li and Qu Jianlei to attack.
• Two days later, someone from the Merchant Alliance performed divination on Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge; Qu Jianlei failed to uncover the diviner’s identity and the three headed for the void.
• Three concealed True Venerables attacked a returning group of cultivators after divining the trio’s positions and confirming they could not arrive in time.

After the Baiyou Merchant Alliance's True Venerables ambushed and robbed a returning party, Qu Jianlei organized Houde's True Venerables to wear down the alliance through repeated divinations. The chapter ends with more cultivators volunteering to join, though Qu Jianlei warned them to bear the risks themselves.

• Three True Venerables from the Baiyou Merchant Alliance ambushed a returning party, robbed it, and escaped despite the escorting True Venerable's vigilance.
• Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge arrived too late, and Lingyun sent Elder Youjian to warn the Merchant Alliance that it would no longer protect its True Venerables in the dispute.
• Elder Youjian approached Jin Ge after negotiations failed, and the rival sides began exchanging divinations almost daily, forcing Jin Ge to withdraw because he could not withstand the counterattacks.
• Qu Jianlei asked Jin Ge to recruit six skilled True Venerables to join the divinations, and many Houde cultivators volunteered to help.
• After the two injured True Venerables and others demanded to participate, Qu Jianlei agreed, warning that anyone who joined had to accept the consequences of the Merchant Alliance's counterattacks.

Houde’s True Venerables intensified their divinations against the Baiyou Merchant Alliance while Qu Jianlei and Han Li uncovered signs of a hidden Soul-Splitting Realm treasure and possible supply smuggling. As they prepared to move Dusts into the Outer-Domain camps, Jin Ge returned with Qu Jianlei’s long-awaited Creation Rules.

• Houde’s True Venerables increased their divinations against the Baiyou Merchant Alliance, whose counterattacks failed before it concealed its True Venerable auras with a treasure.
• Jin Ge inspected Lang Mai’s subordinates’ Storage Equipment and confiscated supplies, while an unnoticed speck of dust attached itself to one cultivator’s robe and slipped into the Outer-Domain camp.
• Han Li told Qu Jianlei that the Baiyou Merchant Alliance had a palace capable of shielding against divination, and Qu Jianlei urged Lingyun to inspect supply traffic into the Outer-Domain camps.
• Qu Jianlei and Jin Ge planned to smuggle more Dusts into the guarded camps through the other Outer-Domain groups, so they could approach the camps unexpectedly.
• Jin Ge returned after being summoned by Baiqiao and told Qu Jianlei that his Creation Rules had arrived.

Qu Jianlei and Han Li received a Creation Rule from True Venerable Han Wei and learned Wanwu Realm would fall silent about Linhe. They later launched an assault on the Trade Alliance’s palace, where Qu Jianlei’s seven-colored lightning met a defense whose true struggle unfolded beyond the visible world.

• True Venerable Han Wei delivered one Creation Rule and said he would try to persuade Wanwu Realm’s True Venerables to stay out of Qu Jianlei’s conflict.
• Half a month later, Wanwu Realm stopped discussing True Venerable Linhe, and Qu Jianlei warned that the Trade Alliance might soon strike back.
• Jin Ge used divination to identify the start of a third sneak attack, then went to reinforce the others while Qu Jianlei and Han Li prepared their own assault.
• Qu Jianlei and Han Li appeared outside the four great camps, and Qu Jianlei struck the Trade Alliance’s palace with seven-colored lightning resembling True Venerable Xiaoyou’s Suiyue.
• The lightning failed to break the palace, and the gathered True Venerables sensed that the fierce confrontation was taking place partly in another space or dimension.

Han Li, Qu Jianlei, and Jin Ge broke through the palace’s Spirit Severing-level defenses, triggering a Grand Lord’s warning and preparing to face the force behind it. The chapter left them attacking while they readied their defenses against what they realized was only a contingency thought, not the Grand Lord in person.

• Jin Ge arrived and warned the watching Cultivators of the Three Realms to show restraint while Lingyun handled its business, but none of them intervened.
• Han Li used the Seven-Colored Lightning to crack the palace wall and weaken its misty defenses with a single strike.
• Qu Jianlei worried about the cost of Han Li’s precious treasure and resolved that Dao Companions should share burdens rather than take each other for granted.
• A vast pressure sent a warning to everyone, demanding to know who dared ruin its karma, and Han Li told Jin Ge it was his turn to act.
• Jin Ge attacked the palace with a Golden Wheel Slash and raised a golden-threaded net, while Han Li released his Cold Qi Domain as they prepared to retreat or fight.

Han Li, Jin Ge, and Qu Jianlei were trapped in the Hunyuan Tiandu Array after damaging the palace, and the array’s controllers announced they would capture them. Han Li released True Venerable Xiwu, who helped Qu Jianlei adapt their Yinyun Array as the four prepared a mobile defense and counterattack.

• Han Li and Jin Ge realized the palace’s damage had triggered a contingency, and Qu Jianlei pulled them away from the enemy’s spatial array.
• The Hunyuan Tiandu Array warped and shattered the surrounding spatial rules, trapping the three True Venerables while spectators watched from outside.
• Qu Jianlei used four array plates to shield the group from outside observation, while the array’s controllers identified their formation as the Hunyuan Tiandu Array.
• Han Li released True Venerable Xiwu, who confirmed the array was not an illusion and recognized faults linking it to other spaces.
• Xiwu strengthened their Yinyun Array with Qu Jianlei’s guidance as the four True Venerables planned a mobile defense capable of counterattacking.

Qu Jianlei and the others sheltered inside a temporary array while he investigated the Grand Lord’s spatially nested Maze Array. Finding no array core, Qu Jianlei proposed using array dao to force a way out, while Han Li prepared to try divination with Creation aura as the group faced a growing energy-wave attack and possible infiltration.

• Qu Jianlei, Xiwu, and Jin Ge set up and maintained a movable protective array as violent energy battered them inside the grand array.
• Han Li sensed spatial nesting, and Qu Jianlei identified their prison as a dangerous Maze Array unlike the Dead Silent Zone.
• Han Li offered to handle the array core if Qu Jianlei found it, while Jin Ge took charge of maintaining the array.
• After analyzing the grand array, Qu Jianlei discovered that it had no array core, and Xiwu warned that someone may have entered the field.
• Qu Jianlei proposed breaking the array through array dao and offered Han Li his Ugly Tree Root’s Creation aura to aid divination.
• Han Li agreed to try the divination as Jin Ge and Xiwu questioned how relaxed the group seemed despite their predicament.

Qu Jianlei, Han Li, Jin Ge, and True Venerable Xiwu searched for a way through the Great Monarch’s formation while surviving its hazards and growing signs that the array was being controlled. Qu Jianlei began trying to seize control of it as True Venerable Bucai led cultivators toward the Void Passage.

• Han Li used Ugly Tree Root to guide the group, then watched Qu Jianlei perform his own divination and learned the indicated route was relatively dangerous.
• The group encountered a Space Vortex whose intensified suction revealed Nether Chains; Jin Ge recognized them, and True Venerable Xiwu concluded the formation’s controllers had found them.
• Qu Jianlei decided to try to take control of the grand array, while Han Li and the others prepared to protect him and continued their own divinations.
• Jin Ge and True Venerable Xiwu worried about the humiliation of being trapped and rescued as True Venerable Bucai led a team toward the entrance of the Void Passage.

Houde cultivators learned that Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge were trapped in the Trade Alliance’s Tiandu Great Array, but Lingyun Sect chose to avoid escalating the conflict. After more than twenty days, the array and the palace began trembling, suggesting the trapped cultivators might be trying to break free.

• Shangshan Realm cultivators secretly spread word that Qu Jianlei, Han Li, and Jin Ge were trapped, and Lingyun Sect sent True Venerable Bucai to seek an explanation from the Trade Alliance.
• The Trade Alliance refused to negotiate in person and warned that the conflict could not end peacefully unless someone of sufficient standing intervened.
• True Venerable Bucai reported back that negotiations had failed, while Lingyun Sect gathered more than a dozen True Venerables near the camp and prepared to receive the trapped cultivators if they escaped.
• After Qu Jianlei and the others had been trapped for more than twenty days, the Tiandu Great Array and the palace began trembling, drawing a vast crowd of watchers.
• Song Yue'er urged True Venerable Bucai to prepare for a rescue, but Bucai said he sensed no danger around Jin Ge.
• Over the next three days, the trembling intensified as cultivators watched in silence.

Qu Jianlei deciphered the Tiandu Great Array and found a way to hide from the Merchant Alliance’s attacks while preparing to break it. On the seventh day, he began guiding the others through a method that used Creation aura to resist the array’s Great Monarch karma.

• The great array and the palace vanished, and the cultivators’ divinations warned that approaching the area could bring uncontrollable changes.
• Song Yue'er questioned Li Yuren, who said Cangwu trusted True Venerable Qu to handle the uncontrollable situation.
• Qu Jianlei explained that the Merchant Alliance’s attackers had used translocation to escape after the four True Venerables tried to draw them out.
• Han Li divined that something was wrong, and Qu Jianlei said he had found a lead on how to break the hastily arranged array and hide from their attackers.
• Qu Jianlei said the array’s karma prevented them from using it to counterattack, and estimated that breaking it would take five to fifteen days.
• On the seventh day, Qu Jianlei gave Jin Ge and Xiwu Ugly Tree Root and told the three True Venerables to release Creation aura so he could guide it against the Great Monarch karma.

Han Li and the other True Venerables fought the Baiyou Merchant Alliance’s palace and Starry Sky Three Powers Array formations in the void. Qu Jianlei completed a second, weaker Defense Array as the enemy multiplied its attacks.

• Han Li destroyed the palace that appeared in the void, but learned it was an illusion when more palaces manifested through Body Manifestation into Thousands.
• Han Li used Seven-Colored Lightning to destroy more than a hundred palace avatars, forcing the Baiyou Merchant Alliance to reveal five figures in a Starry Sky Three Powers Array.
• The five figures struck Qu Jianlei’s mobile Defense Array with black lightning while Qu Jianlei began building a replacement and Jin Ge repaired and replenished the shield.
• The attackers produced more than ten Starry Sky Three Powers Array avatars and continued their assault.
• Qu Jianlei finished a second Defense Array, weaker and slower than the first but still comparable to a Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.

Qu Jianlei’s Years ability was blocked, but his right eye unleashed Creation and Destruction, throwing the enemy formations into chaos. Han Li, Jin Ge, and True Venerable Xiwu destroyed nearly all the palaces and arrays, leaving four True Venerables struggling to resist.

• Qu Jianlei’s Years ability failed to overcome the enemy arrays’ defenses, though Xiwu noticed that it made the palaces easier to destroy.
• Qu Jianlei opened his right eye, and its Creation and Destruction power drew in divine senses and disrupted the enemy formations.
• Jin Ge attacked with Golden Ray while Han Li continued striking the palaces with Seven-Colored Lightning, and Xiwu sent white light against another enemy array.
• Han Li and Xiwu destroyed the remaining palaces and arrays until only one battered palace and one array with four True Venerables remained.
• Qu Jianlei’s right eye began to weaken, while the four surviving True Venerables, exhausted and terrified, continued fighting because they could not escape.

Han Li, Qu Jianlei, Jin Ge, and Xiwu defeated the Merchant Alliance True Venerables after their array failed, though two enemies self-destructed and Qu Jianlei was left weakened by using Creation and Destruction. The survivors secured the area and discovered that the Great Monarch’s array had exiled them to a place about ten days from Houde.

• The Merchant Alliance’s True Venerables threatened the group and offered a ransom, but Han Li and his companions continued their attack.
• Han Li spotted another enemy avatar, and the group focused on the True Venerable at the front left, whose Remnant Soul Qu Jianlei’s Creation and Destruction ability erased.
• Han Li killed the True Venerable who begged for mercy, while the leading True Venerable and the remaining avatar self-destructed rather than be captured.
• Xiwu went to collect the enemies’ auras as Jin Ge set up a Defense Array, and Han Li stayed to protect the exhausted Qu Jianlei.
• Jin Ge sensed that they were about ten days’ journey from Houde, and Han Li concluded that the Great Monarch’s array had exiled them far from their original location.

After the battle, Han Li and his companions found two Abodes among their defeated enemies and debated what to do with the dangerous Palace. Han Li claimed the Palace, seized it despite its hidden defenses, and discovered that Lang Mai’s divine sense had been inside; the group then decided to wait for Qu Jianlei to recover while Han Li considered striking back at the Merchant Alliance.

• Qu Jianlei spoke with Jin Ge and Han Li, saying he needed at least a year to recuperate, while Xiwu revealed that she had found two Abodes inside the defeated True Venerables’ shells.
• Xiwu confirmed that no Remnant Souls had escaped, and she and Jin Ge discussed selling the Palace to Lingyun until Han Li declared it an ownerless object and claimed it for himself.
• Jin Ge and Qu Jianlei agreed that Han Li deserved the Palace, while the remaining two Abodes would be divided among Jin Ge, Xiwu, and Qu Jianlei.
• Han Li tested the Palace from a distance, calculated its secrets, and put it away despite a strand of Lang Mai’s divine sense inside; he then destroyed the strand in his Abode.
• Xiwu proposed concealing the heavenly secrets while Qu Jianlei recovered, but Han Li said he wanted to see who could find them and wondered how many True Venerables remained in the Merchant Alliance’s camp.

Qu Jianlei recovered and returned with Han Li, Jin Ge, and Xiwu after the Merchant Alliance’s forces were destroyed. Houde Realm celebrated the victory, while Elder Youjian asked whether any enemies had survived.

• Qu Jianlei recovered enough to use the Years Divine Ability to extract two cave dwellings from the fallen True Venerables, then gave the better one to Xiwu and Jin Ge.
• Xiwu, Jin Ge, Han Li, and Qu Jianlei returned to the Four Great Camps after eight days, where Houde Realm and the Three Realms cultivators had been waiting for news.
• Tianli confirmed that the returning figures were genuine, and Jin Ge said the Merchant Alliance had been wiped out to the last.
• Houde Realm’s cultivators erupted in celebration, while the Three Realms cultivators reacted with disbelief and fear.
• Elder Youjian appeared and asked Jin Ge whether the Merchant Alliance had left any survivors.