Recaps

Chen Sanshi left his family in Kunyang City and set out to find reinforcements, but instead gathered troops at Chibi and prepared to return to Fei Shui. After eight days of cultivation, he broke through to the True Force Mid Stage as the battle for Kunyang continued.

• Chen Sanshi persuaded the soldiers and officials in Kunyang to remain and defend the city, then left alone as the imperial army sealed it with a Thick Earth Barrier and began its assault.
• Emperor Longqing learned that Chen Sanshi had left his family behind and chose to wait for his return rather than pursue him.
• Chen Sanshi flew to Chibi, ordered Sima Yao and Dan Qunyu to lead twenty thousand troops toward Fei Shui, and met with Fang Qingyun, who revealed troubling news about the Guiyuan Sect and asked to accompany him.
• Chen Sanshi cultivated at Chibi for eight days, nearly lost control of his True Energy, then steadied his mind and awakened the final middle scene god.
• Chen Sanshi broke through to the True Force Mid Stage and gained the Burn Out effect, which scorched opponents’ mana and True Force during battle.

After reaching the True Force Mid Stage and awakening the Arrow Way divine ability, Chen Sanshi returned to the battlefield as Kunyang City neared collapse. His reinforcements arrived at Bagong Mountain, and he used Zhong Fan’s own flying sword as an arrow to kill him.

• Chen Sanshi advanced his archery to the Arrow Way divine ability, allowing anything he held to become an arrow, then flew toward the Fei River with Fourth Senior Brother.
• Chen Duhe used a Spirit Sealing Needle to help Qian Qiren kill Yuan Simiao, while his courage lifted the defenders’ morale and Xu Wencai coached him about becoming heir.
• Shan Liangcheng used the last of the enemy’s spirit stones to intensify the assault, and Huang Lao Jiu warned that Kunyang City’s formation could hold for only two more days.
• Chen Sanshi’s army and Cloud Top Palace’s cultivators arrived at Bagong Mountain in overwhelming numbers, forcing Zhong Fan to flee.
• Chen Sanshi caught Zhong Fan’s flying sword, drew it on his bow, and shot it through Zhong Fan’s heart.

Chen Sanshi’s forces captured Yongjia Prefecture and prepared to cross the river, while Emperor Longqing’s army broke Kunyang City’s defenses and began overwhelming its defenders. The chapter ended with Huang Lao Jiu revealing a talisman treasure that could open a way out, as Cao Zhi urged Qian Qiren to take Chen Sanshi’s family with them.

• Chen Sanshi’s troops captured Yongjia Prefecture after killing Zhong Fan, and Chen ordered them to prepare pontoon bridges for a midnight crossing.
• Sima Yao pledged the Sima Clan’s allegiance to Chen Sanshi, while warning his sons to flee with the clan’s young talents if the battle turned against them.
• Emperor Longqing learned Chen Sanshi had brought two hundred thousand troops and ordered the central and rear armies to face the Luojian River while Shan Liangcheng continued attacking Kunyang City.
• The Imperial Seal shattered Kunyang City’s protective array, and Sima Chi delivered Chen Sanshi’s challenge for the imperial army to withdraw and allow his forces to cross.
• Emperor Longqing refused the challenge and continued the siege; Kunyang’s defenders suffered heavy losses as their cultivators exhausted their strength.
• Huang Lao Jiu revealed a talisman treasure that could open a gate of life, and Cao Zhi told Qian Qiren to bring Chen Sanshi’s family along as they escaped.

Cao Huan rejected the Guiyuan Sect’s retreat and stayed to defend Kunyang City, while Chen Sanshi waited across the Luo Stream for the imperial army to make a move. The imperial court agreed to let Chen Sanshi’s forces cross as part of a trap, but Chen Sanshi recognized the danger and ordered his twenty thousand cavalry to cross anyway.

• Qian Qiren found the Chen family dependents missing, and Shangguan Haichang and Cui Zichen urged Cao Huan to flee Kunyang City.
• Wei Lan pleaded with Cao Huan to stay, and Cao Huan stood against King Yan, Cao Zhi, and the departing Guiyuan Sect cultivators to defend the city with its soldiers.
• Huang Lao Jiu used the Demon Sealing Nail to breach the Thick Earth Barrier, allowing the Guiyuan Sect cultivators to escape and see Chen Sanshi’s troops assembled across the Luo Stream.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Dan Qunyu to stage a retreat and Sima Chi to leak the news, prompting Emperor Longqing and Shan Liangcheng to plan a surprise attack on troops crossing the river.
• Emperor Longqing agreed to let Chen Sanshi’s army cross, and Chen Sanshi ordered his twenty thousand cavalry to cross the river.

Shan Liangcheng prepared a million-strong army to ambush Chen Sanshi’s supposed two hundred thousand reinforcements, while the defenders of Kunyang City struggled to hold out. As Chen Sanshi charged across the Pontoon Bridges under a strange storm, a booming voice declared that the Imperial Court had lost.

• Shan Liangcheng ordered the Imperial Court army to withdraw and form an ambush, while Emperor Longqing predicted that Chen Sanshi would cross to save Kunyang’s defenders.
• The cultivators of Guiyuan Sect learned that Cloud Top Palace had sent no reinforcements and that Chen Sanshi had only twenty thousand men, then saw an uncanny storm gather over the Fei River.
• Emperor Longqing had the Director of the Bureau of Astronomy executed after the official warned that the celestial signs were ominous.
• Prince Qin noticed that fewer enemy troops than expected had gathered across the river, but Shan Liangcheng dismissed them as a feint.
• Chen Sanshi’s troops charged onto the Pontoon Bridges as the Imperial Court army began withdrawing, and a voice boomed, “We have lost—”

Chen Sanshi unleashed the Great Wilderness Starfall formation, calling down a comet that devastated the imperial army and turned the Battle of Miaoshui River in his favor. As the million-strong court force collapsed, the besieged defenders of Kunyang City rallied and joined the counterattack.

• Lu Ji and Nie Yuan announced a crushing defeat at the front, triggering panic that shattered the court army’s formations.
• Shan Liangcheng identified Lu Ji as an informant and tried to salvage the battle while Prince Qin led the remaining troops against Chen Sanshi’s cavalry.
• Chen Sanshi activated the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions Heavenly Stars Array and used the Mystic Pearl to call down the Comet Star as Great Wilderness Starfall.
• The comet’s fragments crushed the court’s front ranks, and the ensuing panic brought down the million-strong army.
• The imperial assault on Kunyang City faltered as its troops fled; Xu Wencai and Cao Huan rallied the defenders to pursue them.
• Guiyuan Sect cultivators joined the battlefield as the offensive and defensive positions reversed.

As the imperial army collapsed amid the falling crimson stars, Chen Sanshi fought Emperor Longqing and Ling Kui in a desperate battle above the Luo Jian River and Bagong Mountain. He used the Burning Heaven Breathing Technique to wear them down, then forced Longqing to choose between taking a lethal strike and leaving Ling Kui exposed.

• The imperial army routed, while Lu Ji lost control to the Evil God Path and attacked everyone nearby.
• Chen Sanshi clashed with Ling Kui and Emperor Longqing, using his awakened Scenery Gods and Fire Element True Energy to reach True Force Mid Stage.
• Emperor Longqing’s Kang Jin Long extinguished Chen Sanshi’s vermilion-bird attack, and Longqing and Ling Kui’s combined assaults drove him into the Luo Jian River.
• Chen Sanshi’s Burning Heaven Breathing Technique caused his opponents’ True Force and dharma power to burn away, but Ling Kui’s Nether River True Force gradually suppressed him.
• After the fight shifted to Bagong Mountain and their powers were depleted, Chen Sanshi recovered enough strength for one final Unparalleled thrust.
• When Chen Sanshi challenged Longqing to die with him, Longqing dodged the spear, allowing it to pierce Ling Kui’s heart.

Chen Sanshi defeated Ling Kui and pursued the fleeing Emperor Longqing after the Great Sheng army collapsed. At Yanbian Village, Chen Sanshi confronted Cao Kai and seized control of the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword with a bead powered by the common people, then split the emperor in two.

• Chen Sanshi killed Ling Kui and fought Emperor Longqing, who escaped when his surviving forces arrived.
• The Imperial Court's army routed at Fei Shui, and its soldiers suffered heavy casualties or surrendered during the seven-day pursuit.
• Emperor Longqing and his followers fled across the Eastern Continent, but their search for food brought them to Chen Sanshi's hometown, Yanbian Village.
• Chen Sanshi and the Guiyuan Sect caught up with the fugitives, and Emperor Longqing used half the Great Sheng Dynasty's national fortune to attack him with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Chen Sanshi's bead wrested control of the sword from Cao Kai, and Chen Sanshi killed Emperor Longqing with a single slash.

Chen Sanshi killed Emperor Longqing and Prince Qin, then negotiated with Cao Huan to return the army to Northern Liang while retaining the Dragon Abyss Sword and Imperial Seal. The realm was pacified, but Chen Sanshi and the Guiyuan Sect began maneuvering around the ancestral vein as the Northern Liang generals protested the planned withdrawal.

• Chen Sanshi destroyed Emperor Longqing’s remnant soul, survived Huang Lao Jiu’s appearance, and took the Imperial Seal.
• Chen Sanshi killed Prince Qin, and the Northern Liang Army and the Legitimate Emperor’s forces pacified Great Sheng while Guiyuan Sect struck at the rulers of the Three Kingdoms.
• Cao Huan and his ministers debated how to handle Chen Sanshi, but Cao Huan chose to meet him personally and negotiate.
• Cao Huan offered Chen Sanshi the Five Prefecture Land and left the Dragon Abyss Sword and Imperial Seal in his keeping; Chen Sanshi agreed to withdraw to Northern Liang in ten days after securing concessions on people’s livelihood.
• Chen Sanshi planned to contend with Guiyuan Sect over time, lure Huang Lao Jiu into using his single chance to act, and investigate how to destroy the ancestral vein.
• Northern Liang generals learned of the planned withdrawal and objected to giving up the Central Plains.

As Chen Sanshi prepared to withdraw the Northern Liang Army from the Central Plains, Fang Qingyun and Xu Wencai devised a plan to make him emperor, and the generals agreed to support it. After a three-day victory banquet, Chen Sanshi awoke to find the Northern Liang Army kneeling before him and a bright yellow robe on his shoulders.

• Fang Qingyun told Xu Wencai he planned to sacrifice himself to give Chen Sanshi a just cause to raise troops and secure national fortune, and Xu Wencai agreed to keep the plan secret.
• Xu Wencai opened his locked chest for the gathered generals, who approved its contents and agreed to make Chen Sanshi emperor at a victory banquet seven days later.
• Chen Sanshi recovered from his wounds and reviewed the Dragon Abyss Sword and Imperial Seal before attending the banquet in Baxian.
• Chen Sanshi told his generals that he still intended to withdraw the army, then drank with them until he fell asleep in the Main Military Tent.
• Chen Sanshi woke to find the tent empty and the Northern Liang generals kneeling in formation outside, whereupon a bright yellow robe was placed on his shoulders.

Chen Sanshi’s generals and senior brothers pressed him to take the throne, and Xu Wencai argued that founding a state could turn the people’s hopes into national fortune. As Chen Sanshi learned that Fang Qingyun had gone to Luofeng Slope, Huang Lao Jiu revealed his identity as Guiyuan Sect’s Supreme Elder and struck Fang from behind as he approached the Mountain Ancestor Vein.

• Zhao Kang and the generals urged Chen Sanshi to ascend the throne, while Wang Zhi and Rong Yanqiu stopped him from removing the yellow robe.
• Lu Ji argued that ruling was Chen Sanshi’s responsibility, and Xu Wencai showed him records linking national fortune to the people’s hopes and the Heavenly Book Arrays.
• Chen Sanshi accepted the throne but ordered the army to prepare to withdraw, citing the need for a just cause and the threat posed by Guiyuan Sect.
• Xu Wencai revealed that Fang Qingyun had gone east to Luofeng Slope, and Chen Sanshi learned that Fang had acted to resolve his concerns.
• Sima Yao warned Guiyuan Sect that Chen Sanshi’s true body had headed east toward the Mountain Ancestor Vein, prompting Huang Lao Jiu to pursue him.
• Huang Lao Jiu revealed himself as Guiyuan Sect’s Supreme Elder, True Person Fengqi, and pierced Fang Qingyun’s chest with wooden tendrils at Luofeng Slope.

After Huang Lao Jiu killed Fang Qingyun and escaped Chen Sanshi, Chen led Northern Liang south, took Chang'an, and accepted the emperor’s abdication. As the new dynasty prepared to be founded, Chen chose Han as its name, while Fang Qingyun’s letters left him with plans to repay old debts and destroy the Guiyuan Sect.

• Huang Lao Jiu escaped Chen Sanshi after killing Fang Qingyun, and Chen vowed to destroy the Guiyuan Sect before collapsing from exhaustion.
• After learning that Chen was marching on Chang'an, Cao Huan found the Guiyuan Sect’s immortals and King Yan gone and later surrendered the capital to Chen.
• Cao Huan repeatedly offered to abdicate, then left the palace as Northern Liang prepared Chen’s enthronement.
• Chen reviewed his cultivation and spoils, read Fang Qingyun’s letter about the Spirit Sealing Formation and Qingxu Sect, and read Nie Yuan’s explanation of Eldest Senior Brother Lu Ji’s departure.
• Chen vowed to avenge Fang Qingyun and considered visiting Tianshui Continent to repay the Bai family and deliver a jade flute to Fairy Jiang.
• Chen proposed Han as the new dynasty’s name after hearing a child recite a line about the Han, and Xu Wencai praised the choice.

Chen Sanshi founded Great Han as Emperor Lei, established its government, honored his fallen comrades, and guided the realm toward recovery while his cultivation advanced. After the four sects failed to secure a share of the ancestral vein through negotiation, he declared a campaign against the sects of Tianshui Continent.

• Chen Sanshi changed his name to Lei, rejected the Cao dynasty loyalist Zhongli Zhi and the other Confucian scholars as edict writers, and appointed Tang Yingke to draft his enthronement edict.
• Chen Sanshi accepted Cao Huan's abdication, performed the Fengshan ceremony at Ziwei Mountain, and established Great Han; later he rewarded his ministers, erected the Cloud Terrace Pavilion and Monument of Heroes, and reorganized the court and realm.
• Over two years, Chen Sanshi stabilized Great Han, redistributed land, reduced taxes, and saw the people's mysterious qi transform into national fortune; he then opened the Stomach God and advanced to Qi Refining Layer 7.
• Cultivators from Silent Cave, Cloud Top Palace, Falling Leaf Valley, and Shengyun Sect offered resources in exchange for sharing the Hanshan Ancestral Vein, but Chen Sanshi refused and proposed that they join him against the Guiyuan Demonic Sect.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Sima Yao to proclaim that Great Han would subjugate the sects of Tianshui Continent, demanding their surrender or threatening punishment.

Chen Sanshi prepared Great Han for its inevitable war with the immortal sects, then traveled to the Tianshui Continent to secure cultivation resources and strengthen himself. In Great Marsh Market, he concealed his identity, delivered pills to Bai Linxun, learned new pill formulas, and rented a pseudo Tier 2 cave mansion.

• Chen Sanshi let the Tianshui cultivators leave after proclaiming Great Han’s campaign against the immortal sects, while the sect masters dismissed the threat.
• Chen Sanshi accepted the Sima Family’s Spirit-Gazing Fruits, demonic blood, and cultivation manual, then established Tianyong City as Great Han’s cultivation ground.
• Chen Sanshi assessed his children and disciples’ aptitudes, advanced his alchemy to Tier 2, and gained the ability to identify pill formulas by sight.
• Chen Sanshi arranged for Xu Wencai and the cabinet to govern during his absence, then flew to the Tianshui Continent to seek resources and a Tier 2 cave mansion.
• Chen Sanshi found Bai Linxun in Great Marsh Market and secretly delivered the pills owed to the Bai family through Mo Zhu.
• Chen Sanshi examined pills in market shops to learn more than twenty formulas, then rented a pseudo Tier 2 cave mansion from Xu Youliang.

Chen Sanshi cultivated on Little Bamboo Peak while building ties with local cultivators, then returned home to care for his family and discipline Chen Duhe. After discovering signs that the Heaven and Earth Seal was under attack, he hurried back to Tianshui Continent and headed toward the Bai family, where he saw a notice recruiting alchemists.

• Chen Sanshi settled into a leased cave residence on Little Bamboo Peak, met the artifact refiner Zinan, and agreed to refine Jiuli Pills while commissioning a Tier 2 bow and arrows.
• Over two months, Chen Sanshi improved his Fire Swallowing Art and refined superior-quality Jiuli Pills and Face-Fixing Pills, then returned to the Great Han Dynasty and gave the Face-Fixing Pills to the Empress and Sun Li.
• Chen Sanshi sent Chen Duhe to live and work with a farming family in Qingping Village to temper his character and prepare him for martial training.
• By the Fifth Year of Tianwu, Chen Sanshi had advanced to Qi Refining Layer 8 and learned more about Great Song and the families and sects of Tianshui Continent.
• Sima Lan reported strange events at Hanshan Ancestral Vein, where Chen Sanshi witnessed the Heaven and Earth Seal being struck by a mysterious force and realized the danger was growing.
• Chen Sanshi went to the Bai family’s territory and saw its notice recruiting Tier 2 alchemists, prompting him to consider working with them in exchange for martial resources.

Chen Sanshi secured a pill-refining partnership with the Bai family, acquired magical weapons, and returned to Great Han to inspect Tianyong City and its growing force of cultivators. As the chapter left off, Xu Wencai proposed naming the Imperial Court the Heavenly Court and its troops Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

• Chen Sanshi used the alias Xiao Feng to pass the Bai family's alchemist trial, learned several pill formulas, and agreed to refine pills for the clan in exchange for materials and spirit stones.
• Chen Sanshi met Zinan at Dusk Valley, accepted her Purple Lightning Bow, and traded pills for her stock of Golden Scale Blades.
• Zinan warned Chen Sanshi that demonic cultivators had infiltrated Beiyang Dao and killed independent cultivators near Great Marsh Market.
• Chen Sanshi refined a Spirit Cleansing Pill, cultivated with it, and then returned to Eastern Continent because Great Han's affairs required his attention.
• Chen Sanshi inspected his spirit beasts in Tianyong City and learned that the Imperial Guards had gathered 620 people with spiritual roots within a 15,000-strong force.
• Sima Yao called for a distinct name for the Imperial Guards, and Xu Wencai proposed calling Great Han the Heavenly Dynasty, its Imperial Court the Heavenly Court, and its troops Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.

Chen Sanshi learned that the Teleportation Array near Great Marsh Market could send cultivators to Eastern Continent only in limited intervals, while mortals and low-realm martial artists could pass without triggering the seal. After Changsun Miao was dismissed by the Bai family over his visit to their medicinal valley, Chen Sanshi spotted him sneaking toward the Li family's main peak.

• Chen Sanshi returned to Little Stone Village and learned from Old Man Li that Li Ping'an had left years earlier, promising to repay his master's kindness.
• At a gathering with Zinan, Mountain Mover Rogue, Qu Lingchuan, and Deng Wuchang, Chen Sanshi learned about the Teleportation Array and considered how it might help him travel between continents.
• Qu Lingchuan explained that the array sent cultivators through the Heaven and Earth Seal one at a time, but its backlash could not detect mortals or low-realm martial artists.
• At the Bai family's estate, Chen Sanshi saw the Bai family confront Changsun Miao for entering their medicinal valley, and Bai Liangbi dismissed him from refining pills for the family.
• The next morning, Chen Sanshi spotted Changsun Miao sneaking through the bamboo forest toward the Li family's main peak.

Chen Sanshi joined Mountain Mover Rogue to hunt a Crimson Winged Snake, but discovered the cultivator had been hired to kill him and exposed Chen Sanshi’s hidden identity as Chen Lei. After killing Mountain Mover Rogue and finding a puppet-control inheritance, Chen Sanshi continued capturing young spirit beasts for Great Han’s future cavalry.

• Chen Sanshi reached True Force Mid Stage, then agreed to help Mountain Mover Rogue hunt a Crimson Winged Snake in exchange for its tendons.
• Chen Sanshi and Mountain Mover Rogue brought down the Crimson Winged Snake, but Mountain Mover Rogue attacked Chen Sanshi and admitted that someone had paid for his life.
• Chen Sanshi revealed his martial strength, defeated Mountain Mover Rogue, and learned that the rogue had recognized him as Chen Lei before dying without naming his employer.
• Chen Sanshi took Mountain Mover Rogue’s Storage Bag and discovered the Myriad Soldier Art of Heavenly Evolution, which could let him control puppets remotely and see through their eyes.
• Chen Sanshi killed a female Lu Shu, captured its young, and continued searching Chiling Mountain for more mounts, including flying Shuhu.

Chen Sanshi returned to cultivation after learning about Foundation Establishment opportunities and the conflict surrounding the Bai Family’s medicine valley. When the Demon Suppression Division tried to search the valley, Bai Xifeng drove them off, while Eighth Prince Zhao Xun secretly continued plotting to seize what the Bai Family was protecting.

• Chen Sanshi found and killed a nest of juvenile Dunhu, then returned to Tianshui and waited for whoever had arranged Mountain Mover Rogue’s death to make a move.
• At a Little Bamboo Peak gathering, Qu Lingchuan and Lady Zinan explained four ways rogue cultivators could obtain Foundation Establishment Pills, and Chen Sanshi asked for clues before returning to Dusk Valley to refine pills.
• The Demon Suppression Division sealed Dusk Valley and tried to search the Bai Family’s medicine valley, but Bai Liangbi challenged Wu Wei and was defeated by the commander’s stronger True Force.
• Bai Xifeng struck Wu Wei down with a willow branch and forced Eighth Prince Zhao Xun to withdraw the Demon Suppression Division, claiming the valley held a treasure planted for a Qingxu Sect elder.
• Bai Linxun explained that True Force Perfection led toward the Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm, which corresponded to Golden Core, and Chen Sanshi left to resume cultivation toward the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• After leaving Dusk Valley, Zhao Xun told Wu Wei to investigate the Qingxu Sect and find a way to buy off someone in the Bai Family, while keeping their plan secret.

Chen Sanshi completed his puppet training, learned to harmonize water and fire True Energy, and obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill after Li Shun'an tried to recruit him against the Bai family. He fled Little Bamboo Peak after killing Li Shun'an and two younger Li family members, but Changsun confronted him as he tried to escape.

• Chen Sanshi sold the Crimson Winged Snake for materials, completed the Purple Lightning Bow, and practiced Puppet Technique until he forged a Tier 1 Mid Grade Puppet Tiger.
• Chen Sanshi sought the later portions of the Fire Swallowing Art, then learned from Deng Wuchang that the Zhu Family had auctioned a Foundation Establishment Pill to the Qian Family.
• Chen Sanshi created and bound a Lifebound Puppet named Chen Lei, intending to send it to Daming Palace before beginning closed-door cultivation.
• Li Shun'an offered Chen Sanshi a Foundation Establishment Pill to spy on the Bai family and help the Demon Suppression Division, then demanded that he sign a life-and-loyalty Blood Contract.
• Chen Sanshi killed Li Shun'an and the two younger Li family members, took the Foundation Establishment Pill, and fought his way past arriving patrols and enforcers.
• Changsun confronted Chen Sanshi, accused him of defeating Mountain Mover Rogue, and faced the Puppet Tiger as Chen Sanshi attempted to escape.

Chen Sanshi escaped Great Marsh Market with the Foundation Establishment Pill, returned to the Eastern Continent, and spent years governing Great Han while preparing to break through. After learning that Tianshui’s Golden Core sects were damaging the world’s seal, he resolved to protect the continent and returned to Tianyong City to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Chen Sanshi defeated Changsun Miao’s pursuit with his disposable Golden Scale Flying Blades and escaped Great Marsh Market, while the Li family patriarch issued a wanted order for Xiao Feng.
• Chen Sanshi returned to the Eastern Continent, investigated corruption across Great Han, and saw his son Chen Duhe learn empathy for the hardships of ordinary farmers.
• After two years of cultivation, Chen Sanshi reached the peak of Qi Refining but postponed Foundation Establishment when he could not settle his mind.
• Chen Sanshi reviewed Tianyong City’s people and resources, reflected on time and the meaning of longevity, and heard that Eastern Qing and Southern Xu had agreed to submit to Great Han.
• Sima Yao brought Chen Sanshi a warning from Cloud Top Palace about a crack in the world’s seal near Nanling Town, which Tianshui’s Golden Core sects had forced open.
• Chen Sanshi resolved to defend the continent from Tianshui’s cultivators and returned to Tianyong City to prepare for Foundation Establishment.

Chen Sanshi emerged from six months of closed-door cultivation after reaching Foundation Establishment and mastering new fire and sword techniques. He assessed the Heavenly Strike Army and the court’s dwindling supplies, then considered entering the Nine Nether Forbidden Ground to gather resources.

• Chen Sanshi used a Foundation Establishment Pill to break through, raising his immortal cultivation to Foundation Establishment Early Stage and gaining a Heavenly Grade Fire Spiritual Root.
• Chen Sanshi absorbed Myriad Beasts Blazing Fire, then advanced Thick Earth Art and Ten Thousand Swords Descend with new defensive and offensive effects.
• Chen Sanshi left seclusion on the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month in the Tenth Year of Tianwu and traveled with Dongfang Jingxing to Tianyong City.
• Chen Sanshi inspected the Heavenly Strike Army, heard Xu Wencai report on its progress and the court’s plans for Eastern Qing and Southern Xu, and drilled the troops himself.
• Zhou Weizhen asked Chen Sanshi for pills to advance his cultivation, and Chen Sanshi ordered Dongfang Jingxing to bring him Clear Spirit Pills while acknowledging the court’s scarce resources.
• Chen Sanshi considered the approaching opening of the Nine Nether Forbidden Ground as a chance to gather materials for the resource-strapped court.

Chen Sanshi traveled to Beiyang Dao to investigate the Nine Nether Forbidden Ground, the seal, and a way to advance the Fire Swallowing Art, while rival factions pushed the region toward conflict. After finding Little Stone Village devastated and learning the Bai family was isolated, he headed for Dusk Valley as Wang Jun was ordered to help break the seal.

• Chen Sanshi brought Zhang Shun and Sima Yao to Tianshui Continent, sending them to investigate the forbidden ground, the Bai family, and the seal while he searched the Black Market for a continuation of the Fire Swallowing Art.
• Duan Silu revealed that he belonged to Slay Immortal Sect and offered the Fire Swallowing Art in exchange for Chen Sanshi's help against the Li family; Chen Sanshi agreed to discuss the proposal in ten days.
• Sima Yao reported that Shengyun Sect had assigned a Golden Core Elder to break the seal, while Beiyang Dao's great families opposed the plan.
• Chen Sanshi found Little Stone Village ruined, learned that several factions had fought there, and visited Old Man Li and his wife after a dying woman asked him to deliver them supplies.
• Zhang Shun said the Nine Nether Forbidden Ground would open in about half a year and reported that the Bai family was isolated and near open conflict with the Zhu family, so Chen Sanshi ordered the group to Dusk Valley.
• Chen Sanshi encountered Wang Jun at the Ascension Assembly, while Wang Jun learned that Shengyun Sect had ordered him to remain at Great Marsh Market and assist with breaking the seal.

Chen Sanshi returned to Dusk Valley as Xiao Feng and secured an alliance and a Tier 2 cave mansion with the Bai Family, whose leaders faced pressure from the Li Family and an impending relocation. After cultivating and resuming pill refinement, he noticed that Bai Liangbi was making pills from medicinal materials more than a thousand years old.

• Chen Sanshi revealed himself to Bai Ange as Xiao Feng and entered Dusk Valley to offer cooperation and help the Bai Family oppose the Li Family.
• Bai Xifeng accepted Xiao Feng as an ally, arranged a Tier 2 cave mansion for him, and warned that the Bai Family might not survive the conflict; Bai Liangbi explained that the Shengyun Sect had ordered the seven great families to relocate within five years.
• After Xiao Feng left, the Bai Family discussed the Li Family's demands, their dwindling prospects, and the possibility of handing an item to True Person Yuling for Qingxu Upper Sect protection.
• Chen Sanshi settled into the cave mansion, sent Sima Yao and Zhang Shun to gather information about the Nine Nether Forbidden Ground, and advanced his Dragon Scripture to True Force Mid Stage.
• Bai Liangbi joined Chen Sanshi for pill refinement and gave him a Hunyuan Pill; Chen Sanshi noticed that the other pills used medicinal materials more than a thousand years old.

Chen Sanshi learned that Shengyun Sect planned to exploit a coming loosening of the seal between Tianshui and the Eastern Continent, and met with the Slay Immortal Sect to discuss stopping them. After discovering the sect had only eight members in Beiyang Dao and a reckless approach, he heard a tremendous crash as Great Marsh Market began to shake.

• Chen Sanshi recognized the Bai family patriarch’s Fierce Flood Dragon Yangsha Pill and asked Bai Liangbi for spirit materials that could help martial artists Open Spirit-Gazing.
• Sima Yao and Zhang Shun reported that the Nine Nether Forbidden Ground would open within half a year, and Chen Sanshi ordered a group to enter Tianshui Continent and wait for it to open.
• Chen Sanshi and Sima Yao traveled to Great Marsh Market, where Sima Yao warned him that the Slay Immortal Sect was destructive and rumored to steal spirit roots.
• Chen Sanshi met Slay Immortal Sect Helm Master Shangguan Siheng, received the next portion of the Fire Swallowing Art, and learned that Shengyun Sect planned to use an Ancient Remnant Treasure and Beiyang Dao’s spirit veins to break the seal in five years.
• Shangguan Siheng revealed that only eight Slay Immortal Sect members were in Beiyang Dao and declared he was unafraid to die; Chen Sanshi questioned their odds before a crash shook Great Marsh Market.