Chapter Summaries

Huang chose to absorb the eastern divine blood, believing he had to be selfish to seize a chance to grow stronger, while Li Yun left him to cultivate. Outside, the Dongfang Family was on the verge of defeat, and its patriarch fired a distress signal offering half the family’s holdings for aid.

• Huang decided to absorb the eastern divine blood and accepted that the Dongfang Family’s bloodline power would enter him as its members died.
• Li Yun left the grand array core after marking a way to return, and Huang swallowed the eastern divine blood and began cultivating.
• The attackers killed around ninety percent of the Dongfang Family, leaving the survivors and their Daluo fighters struggling to hold their ground.
• The Dongfang Family patriarch helped cleave a breach in the blood-colored grand array and fired a distress flare.
• The people who saw the flare realized the Dongfang Family was offering half its holdings in exchange for help.

Li Yun helped the city's cultivators break into the Dongfang Family compound, where they united to fight off the invading assassins. As the battle turned against the invaders, he vanished to move Huang before the formation collapsed, planning afterward to target the city lord.

• Li Yun spotted the city lord among the cultivators attacking the formation, then knocked out a lone assassin and disguised himself in the man's cloak.
• Li Yun secretly weakened the formation from within until the outside attackers shattered it and entered the compound.
• The city's family heads saw that the Dongfang Family was close to annihilation and joined forces to attack the invaders.
• The united cultivators rapidly killed the assassins, while the surviving Dongfang Family members treated the wounded.
• Li Yun realized Huang was in danger because he had consumed the eastern divine blood, so he used the space-time law to leave and move Huang before making his move against the city lord.

Li Yun took Huang’s transformed egg and left a false drop of eastern divine blood for the lead assassin to find. The Dongfang Family attacked the assassin to reclaim what they believed was their ancestral relic, while Dongfang Xiong called on City Lord Qinghua for help.

• Li Yun found Huang inside a dark-gold egg as his cultivation surged into the Divine Realm, then drew the egg into his Universe in the Sleeve.
• Li Yun created a false drop of eastern divine blood and left it in the independent space before departing.
• The lead assassin shattered the Dongfang Family’s encirclement, opened the grand array, and reached for its core.
• Li Yun shattered the portable space’s core, replacing it with the false blood drop, and the Dongfang Family recognized its aura as their ancestral relic.
• Dongfang Xiong, Dongfang Bai, and the others burned their vital essence blood and charged the assassin as he seized the false relic and tried to escape.
• Dongfang Xiong asked City Lord Qinghua to kill the assassin, offering for the Dongfang Family to leave the city and surrender its remaining properties.

Qinghua Yueming accepted the Dongfang Family’s offer and overpowered the assassin leader, while Li Yun discovered Qinghua’s advanced creation green lotus bloodline and chose not to fight him. The assassin then warned Qinghua that stopping him would bring consequences because of the person he served.

• Dongfang Xiong offered the family’s remaining holdings to anyone who could retrieve the Eastern Divine Blood.
• Qinghua Yueming attacked the assassin leader, destroyed his arm, and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Li Yun scanned Qinghua and found that he had an advanced creation green lotus bloodline and two gold traits, then decided to wait rather than challenge him.
• Qinghua demanded that the injured assassin hand over the Eastern Divine Blood.
• The assassin warned Qinghua that he knew whom the assassin served, leaving the crowd sensing a connection between them.

An assassin implicated the Qinghua Lineage in an attempt on the Dongfang Family, heightening fears for Dongfang Teng and the gathered families. Qinghua Yueming challenged the assassin’s claim and argued that the Qinghua main family had not ordered the attack, but the assassin’s reaction raised new suspicions.

• Li Yun concluded that the assassin was connected to the Qinghua Lineage or someone close to it.
• Qinghua Yueming attacked the assassin, who accused him of trying to silence a Qinghua Lineage agent and threatened him with retaliation from a powerful lord.
• The gathered families and Dongfang Bai’s group feared the attack could endanger them and Dongfang Teng.
• Qinghua Yueming claimed the assassin belonged to the Netherworld Pavilion and lacked the Qinghua Lineage’s special artifacts, so the main family had not given the order.
• The assassin showed shock at Qinghua Yueming’s rebuttal as the city lord’s killing intent intensified.

Qinghua Yueming killed the assassin after their fierce battle left him injured and weakened. Li Yun learned that extracting Qinghua Yueming’s bloodline trait would cost ten gold traits and waited in the shadows for a chance to kill him.

• Qinghua Yueming deduced that the assassin had been sent by someone acting independently rather than by the Qinghua Lineage’s main family.
• The assassin attacked Qinghua Yueming, and the two fought while nearby cultivators resolved to alert their main families.
• Li Yun learned from the System that defeating Qinghua Yueming would not grant his bloodline, while killing him could yield it at the cost of ten gold traits.
• Li Yun remained hidden and waited for Qinghua Yueming to weaken, as Dongfang Family members moved closer to the assassin to protect the secret of Eastern Divine Blood.
• Qinghua Yueming pierced the assassin’s head with his spear and annihilated his Primordial Spirit.

After Qinghua Yueming took the assassin’s Storage Pouch, Li Yun used the Space-Time Law to erase the counterfeit Eastern Divine Blood inside. Qinghua Yueming then discovered the blood was missing, leaving him unable to fulfill the Dongfang Family’s demand.

• Qinghua Yueming took the assassin’s Storage Pouch, saying he would keep its contents other than the Eastern Divine Blood.
• Li Yun erased the counterfeit Eastern Divine Blood from the Storage Pouch with the Space-Time Law.
• Dongfang Xiong asked Qinghua Yueming to return the Dongfang Family’s treasure and promised the family would leave the city within three days.
• Qinghua Yueming searched the Storage Pouch but found no Eastern Divine Blood.
• Qinghua Yueming searched the assassin’s corpse as well, but the blood was nowhere to be found.

Qinghua Yueming denied taking the Dongfang Family's missing property, but the family's suspicions grew after the Storage Pouch proved empty. He ordered them to leave the city within three days, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Qinghua Yueming told Dongfang Xiong that the Dongfang Family's property was not in the Storage Pouch or on the assassin.
• Qinghua Yueming handed the Storage Pouch to Dongfang Xiong, who confirmed the eastern divine blood and the family's property were missing.
• Dongfang Xiong asked to search Qinghua Yueming and offered the Dongfang Family's resources to buy back its treasure.
• Qinghua Yueming denied taking the property and ordered the Dongfang Family to leave within three days.

The Dongfang Family attacked Qinghua Yueming, convinced he had taken their Eastern Divine Blood, while he insisted he was being framed. The family’s elders sacrificed themselves in desperate attacks, and their explosions engulfed Qinghua Yueming.

• Dongfang Xiong demanded that Qinghua Yueming return the Eastern Divine Blood, and the Dongfang Family prepared to fight him to the death.
• Qinghua Yueming denied taking the treasure and offered to swear a Dao Heart Oath, but Dongfang Xiong stabbed him by burning his essence blood.
• Dongfang Bai and the other elders attacked Qinghua Yueming, who retaliated by killing one of their Grand Supreme Elders.
• Dongfang Bai charged Qinghua Yueming and detonated his body and Primordial Spirit, severely weakening him.
• The remaining Dongfang Family elders also detonated themselves, and their explosions engulfed Qinghua Yueming before he could resist.

Qinghua Yueming survived the Dongfang Family’s self-detonations and killed Dongfang Xiong with a devastating blood-colored rune, but the attack left him critically weakened. Li Yun seized the chance to kill Qinghua Yueming, obtain a Creation Green Lotus bloodline trait, and escape with the Storage Pouches, leaving the witnesses to face a deadly crisis.

• The Dongfang Family’s members self-detonated, badly injuring Qinghua Yueming and depleting his vitality.
• Dongfang Xiong attacked Qinghua Yueming, who unleashed a blood-colored rune that killed Dongfang Xiong with the force of a Seventh Daluo Realm strike.
• Qinghua Yueming emerged from the crater gravely weakened as witnesses and arriving guards hesitated around him.
• Li Yun appeared beside Qinghua Yueming and split his head with the Profound Yellow Axe, destroying his Primordial Spirit.
• Li Yun received the Creation Green Lotus bloodline trait, took Qinghua Yueming’s and the assassin’s Storage Pouches, and escaped using the Space-Time Law.
• The witnesses and guards realized Li Yun had killed the City Lord and feared the consequences.

Li Yun escaped the city after killing Qinghua Yueming and headed back to his territory to fuse and upgrade the bloodline. Seven days later, the Thirteenth Prince confronted the family heads, who admitted that the killer had escaped through the western gate and vanished using the Law of Space.

• The guards and family heads ordered the city sealed and searched for Qinghua Yueming's killer, fearing the Royal Family's retaliation.
• Li Yun returned to the inn, took Nannan with him, and hurried toward the city gates to avoid revealing his Space-Time Law within the city.
• Li Yun killed the guards at the closed gates, opened them, and escaped with the Space-Time Law before the city was sealed.
• Li Yun appeared in a grove outside the city and used his Space-Time Marks to travel toward his territory, planning to fuse and upgrade his bloodline.
• Seven days later, the Thirteenth Prince demanded that the family heads explain why they had not found the killer, and they reported that he had escaped through the western gate and evaded their tracking.

The Thirteenth Prince questioned the family patriarchs about the city lord’s assassination and learned that the Shadow Pavilion’s assassins had originally targeted the Dongfang Family for its supreme treasure. He blamed the patriarchs for failing to protect the wounded city lord, then pressed them to explain why the Dongfang Family had been targeted, leaving them trapped between his demands and the danger of exposing the Qinghua Lineage.

• The Thirteenth Prince demanded that the patriarchs explain how the assassin had killed the city lord.
• A patriarch identified the Shadow Pavilion as the likely source of the assassin, and another explained that the assassins had originally pursued the Dongfang Family’s supreme treasure.
• The patriarchs recounted how the Dongfang Family detonated themselves after losing the treasure, gravely wounding the city lord before a lurking assassin killed him.
• The Thirteenth Prince accused the patriarchs of contributing to the city lord’s death, and they admitted some responsibility while pleading that the Dongfang Family’s sudden attack had stunned them.
• The Thirteenth Prince demanded to know why the Shadow Pavilion had pursued the Dongfang Family so relentlessly, while the patriarchs feared that answering might expose a connection to the Qinghua Lineage.