Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Li Yun learns that the feud between Dongfang Huang and Dongfang Teng began when the Uncanny tainted their bloodlines.
• The Supreme Bone suppressed the Uncanny in the young Teng, drawing it—and the Dongfang bloodline—into itself until Teng’s Creation Green Lotus bloodline awakened and cured him.
• Li Yun concludes that Huang was targeted because taking his Supreme Bone was the only way to save Teng. Dongfang Quan confirms that his wife, now dead, arranged the theft with help from the Qinghua Lineage.
• Though Quan and the family knew the truth, they let Huang be cast aside and protected Teng, whom they considered their only hope. Li Yun recognizes why Huang refuses to return.
• Li Yun then reveals that the Dongfang Family faces a separate, potentially fatal threat. He offers to share what he knows in exchange for copies of the family’s cultivation teachings and resources.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun pieces together the Supreme Bone’s role, confronts Quan about his complicity, and remains detached about the family’s past. He shifts the conversation from Huang’s tragedy to a calculated bargain.
• Dongfang Quan admits the truth without concealment. When Li Yun warns that the family may be doomed, Quan’s concern for the clan overtakes any personal feelings tied to his dead wife.
• Huang and Teng are shown as victims of a brutal choice: Huang was sacrificed after losing the bone, while Teng survived and gained the potential to reach the Twelfth Realm.

Significant themes

• Family loyalty versus ambition: The Dongfang Family chose Teng’s uncertain future over Huang, despite knowing the injustice.
• Fate and sacrifice: Huang’s suffering enabled Teng’s survival and rise.
• Truth and silence: The family concealed what everyone knew to protect its chosen heir.
• Power and self-interest: Li Yun turns dangerous knowledge into leverage, while the family’s decisions reflect ruthless calculations about potential.

Key plot points

• Li Yun confirms the danger to the Dongfang Family and accompanies Dongfang Quan to the family’s hidden Small Thousand World, where the Grand Supreme Elders are gathered.
• Before entering, Li Yun leaves a Space-Time Seed outside as an escape route in case the meeting turns hostile.
• Dongfang Quan warns the elders that an enemy may be concealed within the family and that Li Yun has information crucial to their survival.
• Li Yun demands copies of the family’s Sorcery and Divine Abilities legacies and about two-thirds of its resources in exchange for the truth and the identity of the hidden enemy.
• When the elders hesitate, Li Yun insists they cannot simply prepare to resist: the enemy is far beyond their strength. He reveals that the Dongfang Family has been targeted because of its connection to Dongfang Teng.

Character developments and interactions

• Dongfang Quan acts urgently and takes the risk of bringing an outsider into the family’s most protected refuge. He trusts Li Yun’s warning enough to disregard the elders’ likely objections.
• Li Yun remains cautious, practical, and forceful. He prepares an escape safeguard, then uses the danger—and the family’s concern for Teng—to press for a steep bargain.
• Dongfang Bai and the other elders move from suspicion and anger at Quan’s decision to alarm when they hear the warning. Their shock deepens once they learn the threat is tied to Teng.

Significant themes

• Trust under pressure: The elders must decide whether to trust an outsider with their survival at stake.
• Family loyalty and vulnerability: The family’s bond with Dongfang Teng may be the very reason it has become a target.
• Power and bargaining: Li Yun treats information as a valuable commodity, while the elders’ fear weakens their negotiating position.
• Hidden threats: The possibility of an enemy within the family makes even its safest refuge feel insecure.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yun warns Dongfang Bai and the other Grand Supreme Elders that a disaster threatens the Dongfang Family and Dongfang Teng, who is central to the family’s hopes.
• Dongfang Quan reveals that Dongfang Teng’s mother was recently killed by his elder brother, who also took their heart’s blood. The elders are horrified and furious, blaming the clan leader for allowing the man to escape.
• Li Yun refuses to explain further until the elders provide payment. They give him copies of the family’s Sorcery and Divine Abilities inheritance, then pass the remaining promised resources to Dongfang Quan to hold.
• Li Yun explains that a rival to Dongfang Teng’s Saint Son Candidate position has arranged for an expert to plant an Evil Cultivator Array within the family grounds. Once activated, it could drain the family’s bloodline and kill its members, potentially harming Dongfang Teng as well.
• Li Yun withholds the information about the Eastern Divine Blood. The elders believe his warning and resolve to stop the plot.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun is calculating and guarded, using his warning as leverage to secure the family’s inheritance and resources. He remains confident that the elders accept his account.
• Dongfang Bai and the other elders shift from suspicion to alarm, then to intense anger and determination once they hear the warning and learn of the recent deaths.
• Dongfang Quan is especially distressed about Dongfang Teng’s safety. He supports Li Yun’s warning and acts as the intermediary holding the remaining payment.
• The elders’ anger turns against both the suspected conspirators and the clan leader, whom they blame for failing to prevent the family’s current crisis.

Significant themes

• Trust and negotiation: Li Yun demands payment before revealing what he knows, while the elders weigh the danger against their distrust of him.
• Family survival and succession: The threat targets the Dongfang bloodline and could undermine Teng’s standing as a Saint Son Candidate.
• Betrayal and consequences: The earlier killing and theft of heart’s blood, combined with the clan leader’s inaction, have left the family vulnerable.
• Power and ambition: A rival’s bid for succession appears to have escalated into an attack that could destroy the entire family.

Plot points and events

• Li Yun accepts the Dongfang Family’s Qian Kun Bags, finding them packed with treasures and valuable crystals.
• Dongfang Quan asks who infiltrated the family and secretly set up the enemy’s formation. Li Yun agrees to share what he knows only after the family opens the exit.
• Dongfang Bai authorizes the deal, citing the danger to Dongfang Teng and the family. Outside the tunnel, Li Yun gives them the infiltrator’s description and warns that there may be other hidden agents.
• Li Yun declares their agreement finished, then secretly transforms into a mosquito and remains nearby. He is still interested in the unawakened Eastern Divine Blood because of its importance to his disciple, Huang.
• Recognizing the danger, Dongfang Bai and the elders decide to interrupt the family leaders’ seclusion. They find the clan chief and family head tempering themselves in a lightning basin and report the plot against the family.
• Dongfang Xiong, the family head, suspects Dongfang Quan is withholding something and confronts him. The chapter ends before Quan answers.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun comes across as pragmatic and calculating: he secures payment, sets clear terms, shares the information, and warns the family without giving up his private interest in the Eastern Divine Blood.
• Dongfang Bai takes responsibility for the clan’s safety, accepts Li Yun’s terms, and moves quickly to alert the leaders.
• Dongfang Quan raises the crucial question about the infiltrator but appears uneasy when his cousin Dongfang Xiong presses him about undisclosed details.
• Dongfang Xiong is introduced as a powerful, perceptive leader whose suspicion suggests the reported events may not be the whole story.
• The Dongfang elders cooperate in response to the threat, shifting their focus from their ongoing seclusion and internal concerns to protecting the clan.

Significant themes

• Trust and incomplete information: Li Yun shares what he knows, but uncertainty remains over whether more infiltrators exist—and whether Dongfang Quan is concealing something.
• Pragmatism and obligation: The family pays Li Yun for help, while Li Yun balances the completed bargain against his continuing concern for his disciple.
• Internal danger and vigilance: The threat is not only an outside attack; an insider has already compromised the family, forcing the elders to act before the enemy strikes.

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Key plot points and events

• Li Yun follows the battered Changsun Huang Long back to the Changsun residence. Street gossip reveals that Huang Long has again been beaten while pursuing the Flower Fairy, who controls access to a coveted Inner Disciple position. Li Yun suspects the Changsun family’s interest goes beyond that spot and decides to investigate the residence at night.
• Before leaving, Li Yun notices a mysterious black-robed figure surrounded by multicolored light—a sign of a powerful Divine Trait and a likely Child of Destiny. Unable to examine the figure through the cloak, he follows.
• The figure takes a winding route into the Slums, then suddenly flees, apparently sensing Li Yun. He tracks the figure to a ruined courtyard, where she stops and confronts him.
• The figure, Wang Bao’er, asks who Li Yun is and insists she has done nothing to offend him. Fearing his strength, she silently calls on the master within her pendant. The master recognizes Li Yun as a Sixth-Realm Daluo cultivator but senses that his true power is far greater.

Character developments

• Li Yun remains curious and calculating: he postpones investigating the Changsun residence until night, then shifts his attention to the mysterious figure. His confidence is tempered by an awareness that the black-robed person may have unusual abilities.
• Wang Bao’er is revealed as a wary, apparently vulnerable young woman with a hidden connection to a master in her pendant. Her ability to detect Li Yun and her decision to stop fleeing suggest she is more than an ordinary Slum-dweller.
• Changsun Huang Long is shown as stubbornly fixated on the Flower Fairy, despite repeated humiliation and injury.

Significant themes

• Hidden identities and power: The black robe conceals Wang Bao’er’s appearance and aura, while the pendant conceals a powerful mentor.
• Destiny and exceptional talent: Li Yun’s discovery of another Child of Destiny reinforces the prevalence of extraordinary people and the importance of Divine Traits.
• Ambition and persistence: Huang Long’s pursuit of the Inner Disciple opportunity hints at family interests and personal motives beyond romance.
• Caution and perception: Both Li Yun and Wang Bao’er assess one another, with Li Yun tracking her and Wang Bao’er sensing his pursuit.

Character interactions

• Townspeople mock Huang Long and explain his repeated pursuit of the Flower Fairy, giving Li Yun clues about the Changsun family.
• Li Yun confronts Wang Bao’er in the courtyard, probing her motives and abilities.
• Wang Bao’er privately appeals to her pendant’s master, who offers to take control and speak to Li Yun after assessing his strength.

Plot and character developments

• Li Yun confronts Wang Bao’er, sensing that the soul in her body has been replaced. He suspects she is a Child of Destiny with a “Pocket Grandpa” and claims that something she carries is fated for him.
• Wang Bao’er’s master, Qiongyao, rejects his demand. Li Yun responds by releasing the overwhelming pressure of his Sixth Daluo Realm cultivation.
• Qiongyao can resist only briefly. Realizing neither she nor Wang Bao’er can defeat him, the two decide to yield rather than risk their lives or expose the necklace that houses Qiongyao.
• Qiongyao hides herself by merging the necklace into Wang Bao’er’s flesh, then switches souls with her so she can avoid drawing Li Yun’s attention. Wang Bao’er agrees to handle the encounter.
• Li Yun notices the soul’s presence vanish and withdraws his pressure, but not before knocking Wang Bao’er down. Her cloak falls, revealing that she is a young woman, not the man he assumed.
• Li Yun receives a divine trait: “Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent.” He considers it unnecessary for himself, believing his exceptional talent makes hard work to compensate for weakness irrelevant.

Character interactions and themes

• Li Yun is powerful, perceptive, and deliberately provocative, treating the demand for a supposedly “fated” treasure as a convenient pretext. He enjoys the shamelessness of his own behavior.
• Qiongyao is proud and furious, but pragmatism wins out: she protects her hidden identity and the necklace rather than challenge a vastly stronger opponent. She secretly vows revenge once she regains her strength.
• Wang Bao’er shows concern for her master and accepts the plan despite her fear, underscoring their loyalty and cooperation.
• The chapter contrasts overwhelming talent with perseverance: Wang Bao’er’s modest cultivation and poor aptitude are paired with resilience and a trait that promises effort will bring results. It also highlights the power imbalance that forces weaker characters to rely on concealment, strategy, and patience.

Key events

• Li Yun scans Wang Bao’er and discovers she is an unusually promising cultivator: despite her poor apparent aptitude, her “diligence makes up for lack of talent” trait gives her real potential.
• He then scans the spirit inhabiting her, Qiongyao, and learns that she was once a powerful, gifted Daluo-level figure. Her damaged condition and “love-brain” trait suggest she may become a liability to Wang Bao’er.
• Li Yun decides not to take Wang Bao’er as his disciple. He explains that she already has a master and that surrendering control of her body has closed the bond he sensed between them.
• Before leaving, he gives Wang Bao’er a spirit herb as a parting gift. She later realizes he may genuinely have intended to recruit her.
• Qiongyao dismisses Li Yun’s explanation as only partly truthful and urges Wang Bao’er to study alchemy, grow stronger, and eventually join an Immortal Sect. Wang Bao’er remains quiet but begins to feel wary of her.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun shifts from curiosity about Wang Bao’er’s unusual circumstances to a firm decision that taking her on would bring little benefit and considerable risk. He is direct but leaves her with compensation.
• Wang Bao’er moves from suspicion and self-doubt to recognizing that Li Yun’s offer may have been genuine. His warning also makes her question her trust in Qiongyao.
• Qiongyao tries to preserve her influence over Wang Bao’er, downplaying Li Yun’s warning and redirecting her toward a plan that depends on Qiongyao’s guidance.
• The central interaction is a tense triangular one: Li Yun identifies Qiongyao as a potential danger, while Qiongyao counters by undermining Li Yun’s credibility.

Significant themes

• Trust and control: Wang Bao’er’s willingness to give Qiongyao control of her body has consequences, both for her autonomy and for Li Yun’s decision.
• Potential versus circumstances: Wang Bao’er has genuine talent, but her current bond with Qiongyao changes how others assess her future.
• Mentorship and hidden motives: Li Yun’s offer appears real, while Qiongyao encourages Wang Bao’er to doubt it, leaving the truth—and Wang Bao’er’s best path—uncertain.

Key plot points

• Li Yun returns to the Changsun Family’s compound after nightfall and slips through a flaw in its protective formation while disguised as a mosquito.
• He follows groups of young clansmen to a vast hall, where men and women bathe in a blood-red hot spring that strengthens their bodies and vitality.
• Using his Heavenly Emperor’s Eye, Li Yun discovers that the spring is fed by blood drained from a powerful Red Dragon imprisoned underground. The dragon is at least fourth-stage Daluo and appears to be a Stowaway, a being from beyond this world.
• Li Yun considers killing the dragon for the potential reward but decides against it: he is already a Child of Life, and an attack would alert the family and disrupt his real aim—stealing their resources.
• He detects unusual formation traces leading to a tower and makes his way deeper into the compound. Security grows tighter, with Daluo cultivators guarding the tower. He reaches it and sees three guards stationed outside.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun remains observant and calculating, balancing curiosity and greed against the risks of acting too soon.
• The Changsun clansmen quietly gather at the blood pool to absorb its benefits; the chapter reveals their cultivation practice depends on exploiting the captive dragon.
• The imprisoned Red Dragon is introduced as a powerful, mysterious outsider, though he has no direct interaction with Li Yun yet.

Significant themes

• Power gained through exploitation: The Changsun Family strengthens its people by draining a captive being.
• Restraint and strategy: Li Yun chooses to preserve his cover and prioritize his objective over an immediate opportunity.
• Hidden truths beneath appearances: The seemingly beneficial blood pool conceals a disturbing source, while the family’s lightly guarded outer grounds hide a heavily protected treasure site.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yun scouts a mysterious tower guarded by three Fifth Daluo Realm cultivators. His Heavenly Emperor’s Eye reveals that the tower is a divine artifact integrated with the surrounding formation, making a direct infiltration too risky.
• Rather than confront the Changsun Family, Li Yun heads to a nearby, heavily guarded residence to question someone who might know the tower’s secrets.
• He identifies Changsun Qingyun, a poorly regarded illegitimate son and notorious wastrel. Though he appears to be a weak Immortal Realm cultivator, Li Yun notices that Qingyun has a gold trait and suspects he may be hiding an unusual identity or system.
• After observing him, Li Yun hears Qingyun complain that his family has blocked his inheritance. He plans to exploit ancestral rules granting children a share of family assets by fathering many of them.
• Li Yun checks Qingyun’s personal panel, which reveals that he is a poison flood dragon with a poison flood dragon battle body, plus “Good luck” (blue), “Romantic luck” (gold), and “Proliferation” (purple) traits.

Character developments

• Li Yun acts cautiously, deciding that the risks of forcing his way into the tower outweigh the potential benefits. His curiosity about Qingyun grows when he spots the gold trait.
• Changsun Qingyun is revealed not to be a concealed strategist or transmigrator, as Li Yun suspects, but a resentful and calculating wastrel using family rules to secure a share of the inheritance through his children.

Significant themes

• Caution versus ambition: Li Yun wants to investigate the tower but recognizes that the Changsun Family’s strength makes reckless action dangerous.
• Appearance and hidden potential: Qingyun seems feeble and useless, yet his supernatural traits and bloodline suggest far greater significance.
• Inheritance and family conflict: Qingyun’s plan turns the family’s own rules into a weapon against relatives who have excluded him.

Character interactions

• Li Yun silently observes the Changsun guards and Qingyun, gathering information rather than confronting anyone.
• Qingyun’s outburst reveals his anger at his father and brothers, whom he believes have denied him a fair chance at inheritance.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yun reviews Changsun Qingyun’s profile and learns that his remarkable fertility and “Romantic Luck” trait have helped him father many children. Qingyun hopes his descendants may eventually strengthen his position in the Changsun Family through bloodline resurgence.
• Li Yun appears in Qingyun’s residence and offers to collaborate, revealing that he overheard Qingyun discussing his plans.
• Qingyun briefly considers silencing Li Yun, but recoils after sensing Li Yun’s overwhelming aura and realizing he is far beyond his own power. He agrees to answer Li Yun’s questions in exchange for safety and the promise of guidance.
• Li Yun asks about a tower on the family grounds. Qingyun identifies it as the Inheritance Tower: a family treasure bound by a blood pact, containing the Changsun Family’s inheritances and some treasures.
• Entry is restricted even for family members, requiring special contributions; outsiders without Changsun blood cannot enter.

Character developments

• Li Yun sees Qingyun as more capable than his dissolute appearance suggests and plans to use his knowledge of Qingyun’s circumstances to secure cooperation.
• Changsun Qingyun shows caution and adaptability despite his apparent resignation. Faced with a vastly stronger visitor, he quickly chooses cooperation to preserve his life.

Significant themes

• Bloodline and legacy: Qingyun hopes his many descendants may restore the family’s bloodline strength and establish a lasting branch.
• Power and survival: Li Yun’s display of strength determines the terms of their encounter, while Qingyun’s pragmatism helps him respond.
• Restricted knowledge and inheritance: The tower’s blood pact and contribution-based access make family heritage both valuable and guarded.

Character interactions

• Li Yun confronts Qingyun with what he overheard, then uses reassurance, a bargain, and a show of force to gain his cooperation.
• Qingyun moves from suspicion and fear to respectful compliance, answering Li Yun’s questions about the tower.

Plot points and events

• Li Yun questions Changsun Qingyun about access to the Changsun Family’s Inheritance Tower. Qingyun explains that entrants need the family bloodline, approval through trials by the three Grand Supreme Elders, a special contribution, and a token; even then, access is usually limited to the lower floors and the tower is dangerous.
• Li Yun concludes that acquiring the necessary bloodline power should be manageable for him, then asks about the family’s Resource Vault.
• Qingyun reveals that the vault is inside the Ancestral Shrine and that the family head holds its key. He provides Li Yun with a Jade Talisman containing an internal map of the family grounds, including the shrine, tower, and other important facilities.
• Li Yun accepts the map and warns Qingyun to stay out of what follows and keep quiet, noting that the map could put him in danger if it reaches the wrong people.
• In return for Qingyun’s cooperation, Li Yun offers the promised guidance on Qingyun’s plan to produce an heir with an ancestral bloodline. He says a secret technique could improve the odds of bloodline reversion or mutation, but warns that the results may be harmful as well as beneficial.

Character developments

• Li Yun remains calculating and self-assured. He probes for information, evaluates Qingyun’s usefulness, and sees the family map as evidence that Qingyun is a capable informant. He also honors his offer of guidance.
• Changsun Qingyun proves willing to betray family secrets to protect himself. As an illegitimate son excluded from family resources, he has little loyalty to the family’s interests and sees cooperation—and the leverage it gives Li Yun over him—as a way to survive. He is relieved when Li Yun spares him and eager to hear the promised advice.

Significant themes

• Self-preservation over loyalty: Qingyun readily shares confidential information because he feels alienated from his family and prioritizes his own survival.
• Power and access: The family’s inheritance and resources are protected by bloodline requirements, tokens, and authority, but Li Yun believes his abilities can bypass these obstacles.
• Risk and uncertainty: Qingyun’s proposed bloodline plan and Li Yun’s technique both rely on uncertain outcomes, which could produce either a powerful ancestral return or a damaging mutation.
• Information as leverage: The map helps Li Yun, while its possession could endanger Qingyun and keep him under Li Yun’s control.

Character interactions

• Li Yun interrogates Qingyun about the tower and vault; Qingyun answers and supplies a detailed map in exchange for mercy.
• Li Yun warns Qingyun to remain silent and uninvolved, while Qingyun gratefully promises secrecy.
• Li Yun then shifts from coercion to mentorship, offering Qingyun a risky technique to improve his chances of producing an heir with a stronger bloodline.

Plot points and events

• Changsun Qingyun urgently asks Li Yun to teach him a bloodline-mutation method, pledging his life in return. Li Yun agrees and transmits it to him.
• The method has only about a 30% chance of success and requires the sacrifice of a family member’s essence blood. If successful, it could strengthen their descendants’ bloodline or even restore ancestral traits.
• Li Yun then forcibly extracts a drop of Changsun Qingyun’s heart blood, explaining that it will cost Qingyun future cultivation potential but is the price of receiving the secret art. He intends to use the blood to pass through the Inheritance Tower’s defenses.
• Qingyun accepts the bargain and agrees to keep the encounter secret. After Li Yun leaves, he speculates that Li Yun’s actions could embarrass his father and others, but feels their troubles have little to do with him.
• Still monitoring Qingyun with his divine sense, Li Yun uses the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations and Qingyun’s blood to disguise himself as a mosquito carrying the aura of the Changsun Family. He returns to the Inheritance Tower, reaches its tip, and triggers its restriction.

Character developments and interactions

• Changsun Qingyun shows fierce ambition and pragmatism: he is willing to sacrifice his own prospects for the possibility of a stronger bloodline in his descendants. He also quickly understands Li Yun’s purpose and chooses cooperation over resistance.
• Li Yun rewards Qingyun’s decisiveness but remains calculating, taking the blood he needs without asking. His confidence grows as his disguise successfully gets him past the tower’s outer barriers.
• Their exchange is transactional: Qingyun receives a risky means of changing his family’s future, while Li Yun gains the blood needed for his infiltration.

Significant themes

• Legacy over individual ambition: Qingyun gives up his own cultivation potential in favor of future descendants.
• Bargains and sacrifice: The promised power comes with a low success rate and a serious personal cost.
• Family hierarchy and resentment: Qingyun’s remarks reveal bitterness about his family’s unequal distribution of status and opportunity.
• Deception and access: Li Yun’s transformation exploits the tower’s reliance on bloodline identity, though the tower’s deeper restriction still responds.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yun suspects that the Inheritance Tower’s restriction is about to expose him. When it cracks open and fires a blade at him, he uses the brief gap to plant a hidden space-time mark on the tower’s seventh floor, then escapes.
• The Changsun Family’s three Grand Supreme Elders investigate the disturbance but find no intruder or lasting damage. They assume a small creature triggered the restriction and return to their posts.
• With the elders unable to detect activity inside the barrier, Li Yun uses his mark to teleport into the seventh floor.
• He finds inheritance jade slips and boxes of rare herbs and flowers. Disappointed that the items are of little use to him, he collects them anyway.
• Before heading down to the sixth floor, he detects faint, unusual energy in a corner. His Heavenly Emperor’s Eye reveals something concealed behind the wall, and he opens a space-time passage into it.

Character developments

• Li Yun remains cautious and resourceful under threat, quickly turning the restriction’s attack into an opportunity. His confidence grows once he realizes his mark lets him bypass the barrier undetected.
• His high cultivation shapes his attitude toward the tower’s treasures: items valuable to others seem ordinary to him. However, he is practical enough to take them rather than leave empty-handed.

Significant themes

• Cunning and preparation: Li Yun succeeds through timing, concealment, and exploiting a brief opening rather than confronting the guards directly.
• Limits of perception: The elders’ confidence in their senses proves misplaced; Li Yun’s hidden mark and Heavenly Emperor’s Eye reveal what they cannot detect.
• Power and value: The tower’s supposed treasures are underwhelming from Li Yun’s perspective, suggesting that a treasure’s worth depends on the seeker’s strength and needs.

Character interactions

• Li Yun has no direct conversation with the elders, but his actions contrast with their assumptions: they believe the disturbance was accidental and that no intruder could evade them.
• The elders consult one another, agree on that explanation, and resume guarding the tower—unwittingly leaving Li Yun free to explore.

Key plot points and events

• Li Yun discovers an emerald-green crystal hidden in the Inheritance Tower’s seventh floor. It resembles a life coin but contains sealed, unusually pure life energy. Unable to identify or unlock it, he saves it for later rather than risk tampering.
• He descends through the tower, collecting its contents: Divine Artifacts on the sixth floor; pills and rare medicinal materials on the fifth; assorted supplies on the fourth; and cultivation manuals—including sorcery, divine abilities, and cultivation arts—on the first three floors.
• Li Yun intends to use these treasures to support his disciples, the people in his territory, and the sect he plans to establish.
• He escapes through a Space-Time Tunnel to a hidden mark in Changsun Qingyun’s courtyard. The courtyard is undisturbed, and Qingyun is asleep, suggesting the theft has gone unnoticed.
• Li Yun heads for the Changsun Family’s Ancestral Shrine, suspecting it holds something important. Though it appears deserted, he senses a powerful, carefully concealed presence nearby.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun remains cautious about the mysterious crystal, balancing curiosity with the need to avoid jeopardizing his mission.
• His actions reveal a long-term, community-minded goal: he gathers resources not just for himself, but for his disciples, territory, and future sect.
• Changsun Qingyun plays no active role in the chapter; he is asleep and unaware of Li Yun’s departure.

Significant themes

• Preparation and stewardship: Li Yun treats the loot as a foundation for others’ future growth.
• Caution amid opportunity: He takes valuable, known resources but postpones experimenting with an unknown treasure.
• Escalating danger and mystery: The powerful hidden aura at the Ancestral Shrine signals that Li Yun’s next investigation may be risky.

Key plot points

• Li Yun reaches the Changsun Family’s Ancestral Shrine, but senses a powerful guardian—an elder at the peak of the sixth Daluo realm—blocking his way.
• The broom-wielding elder detects Li Yun’s presence with an eye technique and offers to negotiate rather than fight, recognizing that a battle could harm the family.
• Li Yun refuses to reveal himself, knowing that his identity would complicate matters. He escapes using the Law of Space and Time.
• The elder attacks the spot Li Yun occupied, then realizes Li Yun’s escape involved spatial power. Suspecting he may have targeted the Inheritance Tower, he orders it inspected.
• The Changsun Family reports that everything in the tower—including its most precious item—has vanished. The elder seals the family grounds and orders a search, but remains at the shrine to protect it.
• Hidden nearby, Li Yun confirms that the elder has not left the shrine. He suspects it contains another treasure, but sees no chance to act again.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Yun weighs the risk of fighting against the value of the treasure, then chooses caution: he escapes rather than expose himself or risk being trapped by the family’s cultivators. He remains opportunistic, watching to see whether the guardian can be lured away.
• The elder proves perceptive and disciplined. Though furious when he learns the Inheritance Tower has been robbed, he prioritizes protecting the shrine over pursuing Li Yun.
• Their interaction is a tense, indirect standoff: the elder invites Li Yun to negotiate, Li Yun refuses, and the elder’s belated counterattack cannot stop his escape.

Significant themes

• Caution versus ambition: Li Yun abandons one opportunity to avoid a potentially disastrous fight.
• Security and vulnerability: Even powerful defenses can be bypassed by an intruder with the right ability.
• Duty over revenge: The elder suppresses his desire to pursue Li Yun so he can guard the family’s remaining treasures.
• Uncertainty and hidden motives: Neither man knows the other’s full circumstances, and the shrine’s contents remain a tantalizing mystery.

Li Yun returned to his inn after leaving the Changsun Family estate and learned that Dongfang Teng had emerged from the No. 10 Forbidden Land at the fifth Daluo stage. He promised Huang a chance to gain power during a dangerous undertaking that night, then prepared to target the city lord’s creation green lotus bloodline.

• Li Yun spotted the wounded Changsun Huang Long fleeing the Changsun Family estate, then left and returned to his inn.
• Huang and Nannan asked Li Yun when they would leave, and Nannan explained that Huang was anxious because Dongfang Teng had grown stronger.
• Huang told Li Yun that Dongfang Teng had reached the fifth Daluo stage after entering the No. 10 Forbidden Land and had gained a transcendent divine artifact and inheritances.
• Li Yun told Huang they would handle one more matter that night, which could give Huang a chance to become much stronger.
• Li Yun planned to seize the creation green lotus bloodline from the city lord, while giving Huang an opportunity to claim and assimilate eastern divine blood.

Li Yun explained that the Dongfang Family faced a potentially exterminating attack and that he intended to use the crisis to secure Huang an opportunity to surpass Dongfang Teng. When the battle erupted beneath the family’s blood-red formation, Li Yun took Huang toward the compound while leaving Nannan protected in their lodgings.

• Li Yun told Huang to strive for an opportunity within the Dongfang Family crisis and instructed Nannan to stay behind because her bloodline could be exposed.
• Li Yun explained that the Dongfang Family’s city branch might be wiped out, and that the opportunity could give Huang the foundation to surpass Dongfang Teng.
• Li Yun and Huang waited until the later stage of the battle, while Nannan remained behind.
• A violent explosion lit the Dongfang Family compound with blood-red light, and the city’s grand formation activated as nearby residents fled and the great families sent investigators.
• Li Yun placed Huang inside his sleeve, protected Nannan with a restriction, and hurried to the Dongfang Family compound.
• Li Yun arrived to find Daluo cultivators gathered outside the blood-red formation, unable to enter or sense what was happening within.

Li Yun infiltrated the Dongfang Family’s compound and reached the Grand Array Core, where the Eastern Divine Blood was reviving. He brought Huang into the independent space and offered him the chance to absorb the blood, leaving the decision to Huang.

• Li Yun used his Heavenly Emperor's Eye to see the invaders and the Dongfang Family fighting as the grand array gathered bloodline power to revive the Eastern Divine Blood.
• Li Yun turned into a mosquito and slipped through a gap in the array into the Dongfang Family’s ruined compound.
• Li Yun evaded the battles and found a passage through the grand array into the Core Area.
• Li Yun summoned Huang with Universe in the Sleeve and explained that absorbing the Eastern Divine Blood could help him rival Dongfang Teng, but could also cause severe backlash.
• Li Yun left the choice of absorbing the Eastern Divine Blood to Huang.