Chapter Summaries

Lu Tao mocked the early returnees and used Qi Fengsheng to provoke Ya Fuzi and Huo Lianqing, but the returning factions praised Shui Mingqing for his deeds inside the Divine Ruins Realm. The chapter left Ya Fuzi and the assembled onlookers focused on Shui Mingqing as they learned he had saved several groups from disaster.

• Lu Tao, Ya Fuzi, and Huo Lianqing paused their negotiations to watch the Divine Ruins Realm entrance, where Lu Tao sneered that an early returnee was probably a coward.
• Qi Fengsheng tried to flatter Lu Tao, and Lu Tao kept him by his side to spite Ya Fuzi and Huo Lianqing.
• Yue Qianchou and more than seventy others emerged from the Divine Ruins Realm, and their guides and companions rushed over to greet them.
• Huo Yunlong and Du Feng reassured Huo Lianqing and Du Kairen that their groups had gained much and urged them to wait for a spectacle.
• Ya Fuzi questioned Shui Mingqing about returning alone, and Du Feng, Huo Yunlong, and Mu Tianjiao praised him for helping their groups survive.

Yue Qianchou steadied Shui Mingqing as he faced scrutiny from the sect elders, and Du Feng and Huo Yunlong revealed how Shui Mingqing had rallied allies from over three hundred sects to defeat Jueqing Palace and its partners in the Divine Ruins Realm. The revelation won Shui Mingqing widespread admiration and left Lu Tao’s smugness shaken.

• Yue Qianchou urged the frightened Shui Mingqing to stand firm, and Shui Mingqing lifted his head with renewed resolve.
• Du Feng told Du Kairen that Jueqing Palace disciples had ambushed Cháotiān Palace’s group, leaving Shui Mingqing as the sole survivor.
• Shui Mingqing accepted responsibility for failing to protect his fellow disciples, while Ya Fuzi angrily confronted Lu Tao over their deaths.
• Du Feng explained that Jueqing Palace and seven allied sects had later surrounded three other groups, and Shui Mingqing returned with friends from more than three hundred sects.
• Huo Yunlong said the combined forces had wiped out all seven hostile groups, prompting the crowd to admire Shui Mingqing and Lu Tao’s expression to darken.

After the Divine Ruins Realm survivors returned, Shui Mingqing won Ya Fuzi’s favor and became his disciple, while Yue Qianchou ensured the agreed rewards were shared with the SITONG Chamber of Commerce. The groups departed on friendly terms, and the chapter ended with Mu Bing watching Mu Tianjiao uneasily as the immense haul was divided.

• Huo Lianqing mocked Lu Tao after his boasts backfired, and Lu Tao left in disgrace.
• Shui Mingqing presented two Three Yuan Immortal Fruits to Ya Fuzi and accepted his offer to become a disciple.
• Du Feng and Huo Yunlong reminded their fathers that the three groups had agreed to share their gains with the SITONG Chamber of Commerce.
• Shui Mingqing invited Yue Qianchou, Du Feng, Huo Yunlong, and Mu Tianjiao to visit him at the Cháotiān Palace shop.
• Du Feng and Huo Yunlong divided the recovered goods, and Mu Tianjiao reluctantly accepted items worth nearly twenty billion divine-grade Spirit Stones for the SITONG Chamber of Commerce.

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After the Divine Ruins Realm expedition, Mu Tianjiao paid the survivors their commissions and invited Yue Qianchou to join the struggling SITONG Chamber of Commerce, but he refused. He left after advising her to maintain ties with the Lingxiu Sect and Lihuo Palace, while Huo Yunlong set out to search for him.

• Mu Tianjiao offered the survivors their shares as immortal herbs or Spirit Stones, and most chose herbs; Yue Qianchou asked to receive one hundred million divine-grade Spirit Stones later.
• Tao Zhong joined the SITONG Chamber of Commerce, and Yue Qianchou announced that he was leaving.
• Mu Tianjiao took Yue Qianchou to a remote peak and asked why he had helped her and what he thought of her.
• Yue Qianchou clarified that he had helped for money and admiration, then declined Mu Tianjiao's invitation to join SITONG.
• Yue Qianchou advised Mu Tianjiao to keep in contact with the Lingxiu Sect and Lihuo Palace before flying away.
• Du Feng and Huo Yunlong arrived at SITONG's shop, and Huo Yunlong left to look for Yue Qianchou.

Yue Qianchou visited Cháotiān Palace’s shop to ask Ya Fuzi for help reaching the Underworld Realm in search of his missing master. Ya Fuzi revealed that Bi Changchun had challenged the Nether Emperor and was severely wounded after only three moves, leaving Yue Qianchou alarmed about his fate.

• Yue Qianchou met Shui Mingqing and Ya Fuzi at Cháotiān Palace’s shop, declining Ya Fuzi’s offer to join the sect because he already had a master.
• Yue Qianchou asked Ya Fuzi to let him accompany Cháotiān Palace’s traders to the Underworld Realm so he could search for his missing master, and Ya Fuzi warned that travel there had stopped amid rising tensions.
• Ya Fuzi explained that Bi Changchun had entered the Underworld Realm after breaking the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array and defeating two Underworld Generals and two Immortal Lords.
• Ya Fuzi said Bi Changchun challenged the Nether Emperor at Nether Emperor Mountain and fought four Underworld Generals to a draw.
• Ya Fuzi revealed that the Nether Emperor defeated Bi Changchun in three moves, grievously injured him, and pursued him across the Underworld Realm.

Yue Qianchou learned that Bi Changchun might have fled into the Netherworld’s Dark Forbidden Land and resolved to grow stronger while carrying out his master’s wish to establish a trading company. With Shui Mingqing’s help, he secured three years to prove himself before joining Cháotiān Palace, then Du Feng arrived to speak with him.

• Ya Fuzi told Yue Qianchou that Bi Changchun had escaped the Ming Emperor’s pursuit into the Dark Forbidden Land, though his survival remained uncertain.
• Yue Qianchou decided to honor Bi Changchun’s wish by founding a trading company instead of immediately joining Cháotiān Palace.
• Ya Fuzi challenged Yue Qianchou’s ability to maintain a company, and Shui Mingqing proposed giving him three years to succeed.
• Yue Qianchou agreed to join Cháotiān Palace if he failed within three years, and Ya Fuzi accepted the arrangement.
• Du Feng entered the shop and asked Yue Qianchou to speak with him.

After leaving Cháotiān Palace, Yue Qianchou considered building a merchant association to bring people from the Cultivation World into the Immortal World. Du Feng explained his bid to secure a Vice-Steward position in the Lingxiu Sect and offered Yue Qianchou a lucrative role as his outer disciple, but Yue Qianchou had not yet answered.

• Yue Qianchou left Cháotiān Palace with Du Feng after exchanging a knowing glance with Shui Mingqing.
• Ya Fuzi supported Shui Mingqing’s plan to deepen his relationship with Yue Qianchou, while Shui Mingqing reaffirmed his faith in Yue Qianchou’s promise.
• Yue Qianchou decided he could establish a merchant association openly and use it to bring people from the Cultivation World into the Immortal World.
• Du Feng told Yue Qianchou that he and Huo Yunlong sought Vice-Steward positions to gain influence and advance within their sects.
• Du Feng explained that a Vice-Steward could recruit outer disciples and asked Yue Qianchou to help him, offering to restore his freedom later and pay one hundred billion divine-grade Spirit Stones.

Yue Qianchou refused Du Feng’s and Huo Yunlong’s invitations to join their sects, then learned that registering a chamber of commerce would cost up to five hundred billion divine-grade Spirit Stones. He remained determined to establish one but had no way to raise the funds, and the chapter ended with him promising to help Huo Yunlong when possible.

• Yue Qianchou told Du Feng he could not join the Lingxiu Sect because he had a master and had promised Cháotiān Palace would be his first choice if he joined a sect.
• Yue Qianchou asked Du Feng about starting a chamber of commerce, and Du Feng explained that registration cost one hundred billion divine-grade Spirit Stones for one type of trade or five hundred billion for unrestricted trade.
• Yue Qianchou asked Du Feng to lend him five hundred billion divine-grade Spirit Stones, but Du Feng said neither he nor his father could raise that much on short notice.
• Yue Qianchou briefly lamented that he could not return home, then composed himself and told Du Feng he would find a way to establish his chamber of commerce.
• Huo Yunlong arrived and tried to recruit Yue Qianchou into Lihuo Palace, but Yue Qianchou refused and promised to help him with future needs.

Yue Qianchou built ties in the Immortal Realm while resolving to establish the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce, and Wan Ling grew suspicious that he had gained treasures in the Divine Ruins Realm. As the realm began to close, Yue rushed to watch the returning cultivators, surrounded by wary seniors.

• Yue Qianchou joked that he wanted to borrow fifty billion divine-grade Spirit Stones from Huo Yunlong, then reassured him that he was only teasing.
• Yue Qianchou spent his days at Lihuo Palace's shop and visiting the SITONG Chamber of Commerce with Huo Yunlong and Du Feng, while deciding to build the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce in the Immortal Realm.
• Wan Ling discussed Yue Qianchou's purchase of one hundred sets of illustrated jade slips with the Mu family's three brothers and suspected he had gained greatly in the Divine Ruins Realm.
• Wan Ling and the three brothers left the Wàngǔtōng shop when they heard that cultivators were beginning to emerge from the Divine Ruins Realm.
• Yue Qianchou abandoned Du Feng and Huo Yunlong to claim a front-row spot at the cave entrance, where nearby seniors eyed him coldly.

Yue Qianchou drew unwanted attention at the Divine Ruins Realm entrance after his awkward exchange with Wan Ling and a fleeing Wàngǔtōng disciple called his name. More battered disciples escaped the realm, leaving the crowd to wonder what had happened inside.

• Yue Qianchou greeted Wan Ling and displayed her Purple Profound Token, prompting the crowd to mistake their relationship before Wan Ling took the token back and returned it to him.
• A wounded Yunni Sect disciple escaped the Divine Ruins Realm and was carried away by her fellow sect members.
• More than a dozen Wàngǔtōng and Hidden Dragon Villa cultivators emerged fighting, and Wu Xiong ordered the Immortal Palace guards to kill them for crossing the boundary.
• One fleeing Wàngǔtōng disciple recognized Yue Qianchou, cried his name, and veered away before fainting among his fellow sect members.
• The crowd turned suspicious and curious gazes on Yue Qianchou as more terrified, wounded disciples escaped from the Divine Ruins Realm.

The Divine Ruins Realm gathering ended in mass slaughter as disciples turned on one another over treasures and were trapped in a bloody battle at the exit. When the realm closed, nearly half the sects and merchant guilds had lost every entrant, leaving the survivors and elders in grim silence.

• Wu Xiong ordered a Golden Robe Figure and ten men to enter the realm and investigate the catastrophe.
• Returned disciples described how alliances, treasure disputes, and sect rivalries had driven the gathering into increasingly brutal slaughter.
• Du Kairen, Huo Lianqing, and Ya Fuzi realized their sects had escaped without losing anyone, while Du Feng, Huo Yunlong, Shui Mingqing, Mu Tianjiao, and the others recognized Yue Qianchou's foresight.
• An Immortal Palace team reported that corpses covered the realm's exit and that they had found no living disciples in the area they searched.
• Wu Xiong kept everyone waiting until the Divine Ruins Realm closed, after which nearly half the participating sects and merchant guilds had no one return.

Wan Ling and the Mu family confronted Yue Qianchou in Wàngǔtōng’s shop, suspecting he knew more about the Divine Ruins Realm and the immortal herbs than he admitted. Yue Qianchou used a Golden Thread Robe to make them believe he was protected by the Immortal Palace, leaving them stunned and unable to threaten him as before.

• Wan Ling brought Yue Qianchou to Wàngǔtōng’s shop, where a surviving disciple displayed rare treasures and immortal herbs from the Divine Ruins Realm.
• The disciple recounted how Yue Qianchou had single-handedly killed two groups of thirty Jueqing Palace disciples, surprising Wan Ling and the Mu family brothers.
• Wan Ling dismissed the other disciples and questioned Yue Qianchou about his interest in an immortal herb, then accused him of hiding the truth.
• Wan Ling and Mu Tong threatened Yue Qianchou and shut the shop’s curtain, but he warned them that Lingxiu Sect and Lihuo Palace might retaliate.
• Yue Qianchou put on a Golden Thread Robe, and Wan Ling and the Mu family brothers recognized the Immortal Palace garment and froze in shock.

Yue Qianchou used the Golden Thread Robe to convince Wan Ling and the Mu family that he was an Immortal Palace agent, then threatened Wàngǔtōng with the consequences of angering Immortal Emperor Jin Tai. The chapter left Wan Ling enduring his humiliation while the others waited anxiously to hear his demands.

• Yue Qianchou put on the Golden Thread Robe and warned Wan Ling and the Mu family that attacking him would amount to defying the Immortal Emperor.
• Wan Ling offered compensation, but Yue Qianchou rejected it and accused Wàngǔtōng of conspiring against an Immortal Emperor confidant.
• Mu Wan proposed inviting Great Commander Wu Xiong to mediate, and Yue Qianchou claimed he was a secret agent who reported directly to the Immortal Emperor.
• Mu Wan asked Yue Qianchou to name his conditions, and Yue Qianchou approached Wan Ling and caressed her face and neck as the Mu brothers restrained themselves.
• Wan Ling endured the humiliation for her grandfather’s sake, began to cry, and asked Yue Qianchou what he wanted.

Yue Qianchou extorted fifty billion divine-grade Spirit Stones from Wàngǔtōng by threatening to expose the conflict and invoke the Immortal Emperor. The chapter left Mu Wan preparing to persuade the newly awakened Wan Ling to pay him.

• Yue Qianchou demanded fifty billion divine-grade Spirit Stones from Wan Ling to settle the matter, and Mu Wan tried to negotiate.
• Wan Ling urged the others to refuse and threaten to expose Yue Qianchou, but he insisted that his ties to the Immortal Emperor made retaliation dangerous.
• After Wan Ling insulted him, Yue Qianchou raised his demand back to fifty billion, and Mu Gu's rebuke caused her to faint from rage.
• Mu Wan agreed to pay once Wan Ling woke and warned Yue Qianchou not to keep harassing them afterward.
• Yue Qianchou left for Lihuo Palace, and Mu Gu revived Wan Ling, who murmured that they could not give him the money.

After the Divine Ruins Realm gathering, the factions departed, and Yue Qianchou stayed behind to secure money from Wàngǔtōng and deal with his next move. As people arrived at Wàngǔtōng’s shop, Wan Ling remained shut away, shaken by how Yue Qianchou had shattered her carefully held image of herself.

• Wu Xiong left immediately after the Divine Ruins Realm closed, prompting factions to abandon their shops and hurry home.
• Yue Qianchou worried that Wàngǔtōng would not pay him the promised five hundred billion, while Du Feng said Wan Ling’s support could deter the Seven Great Sects.
• Mu Tianjiao and her companions left for the SITONG Chamber of Commerce after Huo Yunlong said Lihuo Palace planned to destroy the Bada Chamber of Commerce.
• Yue Qianchou asked Du Feng and Huo Yunlong to return without him and leave Lihuo Palace’s shop as his temporary foothold.
• Yue Qianchou saw people arrive at Wàngǔtōng’s shop and hurried over, while Wan Ling stayed inside, distressed by her memories of him.

Wan Lihong delivered fifty billion divine-grade Spirit Stones to Wan Ling, who proposed a scheme to make Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang kill Yue Qianchou and take the blame for provoking the Immortal Palace. After explaining her plan, Wan Ling left the shop, leaving the scheme poised to unfold.

• Wan Bosheng sent Wan Lihong with the Spirit Stones after accepting that Wàngǔtōng had to pay the Immortal Palace.
• Wan Lihong arrived with Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang, intending to use their connection to Jueqing Palace and Xiaoyao Palace if further trouble arose.
• Wan Ling accepted the two storage bracelets and said she would pay Yue Qianchou but let someone else kill him.
• Wan Ling proposed that Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang attack Yue Qianchou, then have the First Elder reclaim the bracelets so the Immortal Palace would blame their sects.
• Wan Ling emerged in a pink gown, ignored the two admirers, and flew out of the shop.

Wan Ling paid Yue Qianchou five hundred billion divine-grade Spirit Stones to end their grievances, then left in tears. After a meddlesome elder identified Yue Qianchou and revealed that he had killed Jueqing Palace disciples in the Divine Ruins Realm, Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang confronted him, and Yue Qianchou invoked the ban on fighting in the square.

• Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang followed Wan Ling to a shop and watched her meet Yue Qianchou.
• Wan Ling gave Yue Qianchou two storage bracelets containing exactly five hundred billion divine-grade Spirit Stones, and he promised to leave her alone.
• Wan Ling left the shop in tears, while Yue Qianchou prepared to depart with the money.
• Cang Lianqing asked Yue Qianchou whether he was a disciple of Lihuo Palace, but a passing elder identified him and recalled his role in killing Jueqing Palace disciples.
• Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang accused Yue Qianchou of swindling Wan Ling, and Yue Qianchou warned them against fighting in the square.

Yue Qianchou lured Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang away from the plaza and revealed powers that stunned them and the hidden observers. After draining both Immortals with his Star Absorbing Great Method, he left them alive but helpless as they fled.

• Yue Qianchou flew away from the plaza, and Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang chased him while Wan Lihong, Wan Ling, and their companions secretly followed.
• Yue Qianchou waited in a rocky valley, where Chai Junlang's attack struck the ground but failed to reveal him; Yue Qianchou then rose from the pit.
• Cang Lianqing's flying sword shattered into silver powder when it entered Yue Qianchou's aura, astonishing the two Immortals and the hidden observers.
• Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang vanished to attack, but Yue Qianchou used the Star Absorbing Great Method to drain them into shriveled, mummy-like corpses.
• Yue Qianchou drew his azure saber and challenged the two, who fled naked through the sky after their clothes slipped off their emaciated bodies.

Yue Qianchou killed Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang, then survived Mu Wan’s surprise attack with the Golden Light Umbrella. His Star Absorbing Great Method failed against Mu Wan’s powerful aura, and the two faced off with Yue Qianchou preparing to use his flying sword.

• Yue Qianchou teleported above Cang Lianqing and Chai Junlang and beheaded them as they fled.
• Mu Wan revealed himself in disguise and attacked Yue Qianchou, but Yue Qianchou’s instinctive warning let him raise the Golden Light Umbrella and deflect the strike.
• Yue Qianchou recognized Mu Wan and launched the Star Absorbing Great Method, but Mu Wan’s aura shield prevented it from taking effect.
• Mu Wan explained that cultivators of the Great Immortal realm could spread their aura over their bodies to defend against the technique.
• Wan Ling warned Mu Wan that harming the Immortal Emperor’s trusted confidant could bring ruin upon Wàngǔtōng, and Mu Wan hesitated to continue attacking.
• Yue Qianchou summoned a purple-glittering flying sword and challenged Mu Wan to withstand it.