Recaps

After dividing the treasures, Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City and considered the limits of cultivating the Saint-Rank technique Undying Phoenix Avatar. As the city neared completion, he welcomed Shen Wantang, agreed to sell land to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and showed her the rebuilt city, where Lan Yu’s presence left Shen Wantang keenly aware of Jiang Ping'an’s stature.

• Jiang Ping'an secured Spirit Treasures in the distribution, and Lin Qiushui and Lin Zihan paid him the promised Spirit Stones and pill-refining fee.
• On the way back to Ping'an City, Jiang Ping'an gave Lan Yu one million Top-Grade Spirit Stones, then read Undying Phoenix Avatar and decided he lacked both the suitable flame and the cultivation needed to practice it.
• More than three months later, Ye Wenxing told Jiang Ping'an that Shen Wantang had come to visit, and Jiang Ping'an met her after finishing his work.
• Shen Wantang asked to buy land for the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and Jiang Ping'an capped the purchase at the equivalent of 200 million Low-Grade Spirit Stones while also agreeing she could buy a plot.
• Jiang Ping'an took Shen Wantang around New Ping'an City and later introduced her to Lan Yu, who called herself his maidservant.
• Shen Wantang left the banquet early after Lan Yu's presence made her feel the great difference in status between herself and Jiang Ping'an.

After Ping'an City was rebuilt and secured by powerful formations, Jiang Ping'an claimed much of its land and oversaw plans to develop the surrounding region. The chapter ended with Li Chengfeng urgently announcing that he had discovered a Spirit Stone Mine in the Great Luo Mountains.

• Lan Yu warned Jiang Ping'an that his unusual hospitality toward Shen Wantang could expose his origins.
• Ping'an City completed its reconstruction and activated the Azure Abyss Return to Ruins Defense Formation and the All Heaven Spirit Gathering Formation.
• At the land auction, Jiang Ping'an acquired the entire palace city and much of the inner and outer city, then let his remaining contribution points expire.
• After construction resumed, Ping'an City began reclaiming the Black Abyss River Plain and surveying the Great Luo Mountains for minerals.
• Li Chengfeng interrupted Jiang Ping'an's cultivation to report that the Heaven's Mandate Sect had discovered a Spirit Stone Mine.

Jiang Ping'an learned that Li Chengfeng and six others had discovered an Essence Stone Mine in the Great Luo Mountains and rushed to secure the secret. After surveying its vast reserves, he ordered the discoverers to keep it hidden until Ping'an City was strong enough to mine it.

• Jiang Ping'an learned that Li Chengfeng had not secured the six other people who knew about the mine, so he used Void Escape and flew with him to the Great Luo Mountains.
• Jiang Ping'an found the five cultivators at the site, waited for Chen Zijian to arrive, and confirmed that no one had left or spread the news.
• Wang Yujie identified himself as the first to discover the mine, and Jiang Ping'an admitted him to the Heaven's Mandate Sect and rewarded him and the others.
• Jiang Ping'an descended underground and surveyed the mine, finding a small-to-medium deposit over a hundred li long that could yield several hundred billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Ping'an made Li Chengfeng and the six cultivators swear to keep the mine secret, said Ping'an City would wait about ten years before mining it, and ordered Li Chengfeng to survey and mine other deposits.

Jiang Ping'an moved his three grown jiaolong to the Black Abyss River and tasked Gui Henian with guiding their cultivation. Six months later, news of the Great Luo Mountains Spirit Stone Mine leaked, and Jiang Ping'an summoned allies to help protect it.

• Ye Shisen reported that Black Gold, Platinum, and Side Hustle had grown too large for their pool and wanted to leave.
• Jiang Ping'an brought the three jiaolong to the Black Abyss River, rewarded Gui Henian with Azure Sea Spirit Pills, and assigned him to train them.
• Zhang Zhe reported that rumors of a Spirit Stone Mine in the Great Luo Mountains had spread through Ping'an City and traced them to Chen Zijian.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Chen Zijian imprisoned for life and those involved in spreading the rumor investigated and punished.
• Jiang Ping'an summoned Lin Zihan and Lin Qiushui to discuss protecting the mine, deciding not to seek cooperation with Qingqiu City unless necessary.

Jiang Ping'an arranged for Liu Xixu to assess the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation and asked Shen Zhanyun to recruit Formation Masters to help build it around the Spirit Stone Mine. He also decided to use the Karma Cleansing Skyfire to strengthen Zhu Yan and summoned it to the Martial Arts Field.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Liu Xixu how long it would take to establish the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation, and she estimated two years if enough high-level Formation Masters assisted her.
• Jiang Ping'an gave Liu Xixu the formation materials and Array Pillars recovered from the Brun Family's mine, then ordered Ye Wenxing to summon Shen Zhanyun.
• Jiang Ping'an asked Shen Zhanyun to recruit five to ten formation grandmasters and around thirty advanced formation masters, offering compensation for their help; Shen Zhanyun promised an answer within a month.
• After Shen Zhanyun left, Jiang Ping'an resolved to cleanse Zhu Yan's karma with the Karma Cleansing Skyfire, then summoned Zhu Yan to the Martial Arts Field.

Jiang Ping'an refined Zhu Yan with Karma Cleansing Skyfire to burn away its karma, then gave it pills and ordered it to cultivate for an approaching battle. Later, he learned that Venerable Lin Zihan and Venerable Lin Qiushui had arrived at Moon Kiss Pavilion and went to meet them.

• Jiang Ping'an sent Ye Tieshi, Li Yichen, and Jiang Er'niang away before telling Zhu Yan that Karma Cleansing Skyfire could refine the turbid aura from its body.
• Zhu Yan first dodged the fire, then endured it as dark crimson karmic flames engulfed its true form and it cried out in agony.
• Jiang Ping'an drew the karmic fire out of Zhu Yan and endured it himself, refining it while Zhu Yan watched with gratitude.
• Zhu Yan thanked Jiang Ping'an, who gave it one hundred bottles of Primal Chaos Gold Earth Pills and promised fifteen bottles each month so it could prepare for a coming battle.
• After nightfall, Ye Wenxing told Jiang Ping'an that Venerable Lin Zihan and Venerable Lin Qiushui were at Moon Kiss Pavilion, and Jiang Ping'an flew there.

Jiang Ping'an arranged for Lin Zihan and Palace Master Yunshui to help defend his newly discovered Spirit Stone Mine and Ping'an City. Lin Zihan then purged the last of her deadly poison by transferring it to Jiang Ping'an, who burned it away, ending her need to seek him out for treatment.

• Jiang Ping'an told Lin Zihan and Palace Master Yunshui about the Spirit Stone Mine and offered them two ways to cooperate.
• Lin Zihan chose the second proposal: Yunshui Palace would help defend Ping'an City in exchange for two million Top-Grade Spirit Stones per year for eight years, and the three swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Jiang Ping'an said mining would begin after a Saint-rank defensive formation was completed and asked Lin Zihan and Palace Master Yunshui to move to Ping'an City within a month to face possible attacks.
• After Palace Master Yunshui left, Lin Zihan stayed with Jiang Ping'an to purge the remaining poison from her body.
• Lin Zihan transferred all the poison to Jiang Ping'an, who burned it away with Karma Cleansing Skyfire, completely eradicating it.

Jiang Ping'an arranged for Yunshui Palace to settle in Ping'an City and delayed Qingqiu City's search for the Spirit Stone Mine while preparing for a possible negotiation. Four months later, Shen Wantang arrived in person, and Jiang Ping'an welcomed her.

• Lin Zihan recovered from the poison, left Ping'an City, and returned to Sky Lake Mountain; Jiang Ping'an thoroughly cleansed the Cultivation Chamber.
• Shen Zhanyun told Jiang Ping'an that Shen Wantang had agreed to recruit high-level Formation Masters for Ping'an City.
• Lin Zihan, Palace Master Yunshui, and the female Disciples of Yunshui Palace moved to Ping'an City and began helping defend it and the Spirit Stone Mine.
• After Li Chengfeng reported that Six-tailed Spirit Foxes were surveying the Great Luo Mountains, Jiang Ping'an ordered him to delay their search and explained why Ping'an City should resist before negotiating with Qingqiu City.
• Four months passed without the Six-tailed Spirit Foxes finding the mine, and Shen Wantang arrived; Jiang Ping'an went to greet her and welcomed her at Drunken Moon Pavilion.

Jiang Ping'an received Shen Wantang’s recruited Formation Masters and prepared to build the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation around the Spirit Stone Mine. After Qingqiu City learned that Ping'an City had detained its Six-tailed Spirit Foxes and started construction, the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan ordered a delegation to demand the mine from Jiang Ping'an.

• Shen Wantang told Jiang Ping'an she had recruited five grandmaster Formation Masters and thirty-two senior Formation Masters, then briefed him on the Great Qian Kingdom’s worsening situation.
• Jiang Ping'an introduced Liu Xixu to Shen Wantang and handed the recruited Formation Masters over to Liu Xixu, who had already prepared the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation blueprint.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Li Chengfeng to treat the detained Six-tailed Spirit Foxes well and coordinated with Lin Zihan and Palace Master Yunshui for Qingqiu City’s likely response.
• Liu Xixu told Jiang Ping'an that construction of the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation could begin, and Jiang Ping'an sent her team and Zhu Yan with Yunshui Palace cultivators to the Spirit Stone Mine.
• The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan learned that Ping'an City had begun building the formation and had detained or killed the Six-tailed Spirit Foxes, then ordered the First Elder and Princess Yunhua to demand the mine as compensation.

Jiang Ping'an faced a large Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox force outside Ping'an City and argued that their accusations over the missing Six-tailed Spirit Foxes were mistaken. After seeing the foxes alive and unharmed, Princess Yunhua agreed to enter the city and discuss the dispute.

• Several demonic emperor auras surrounded Ping'an City, and Jiang Ping'an, Lin Zihan, Lan Yu, and Palace Master Yunshui joined forces to hold them off.
• Jiang Ping'an led his companions to the city gates, where dozens of Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes and thousands of other foxes hovered outside.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder learned that a Great Accomplishment Venerable was supporting Jiang Ping'an and worried that the foxes could not force him to surrender the Spirit Stone Mine.
• Jiang Ping'an told Princess Yunhua that he had welcomed the seventeen missing Six-tailed Spirit Foxes, and Zhang Zhe brought them onto the city wall alive and unharmed.
• Princess Yunhua consulted the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder, who agreed to talk with Jiang Ping'an, and Jiang Ping'an ordered Zhang Zhe to open the city gates.

Jiang Ping'an negotiated with Qingqiu City's fox delegation over the Great Luo Mountains and a Spirit Stone Mine, rejecting their demands and allowing Princess Yunhua to inspect the mine. The foxes left to investigate before deciding what to do, while Jiang Ping'an aimed to delay conflict until Ping'an City's defensive formation was complete.

• Jiang Ping'an left Lin Zihan and Palace Master Yunshui guarding the city gate while he and Lan Yu went to meet the fox delegation.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder questioned Lin Zihan about her identity, but she ignored it as instructed by Jiang Ping'an.
• At the Outer City Yamen, Jiang Ping'an refused to reveal his origins when Hu Yunzhi questioned him.
• Hu Yunzhi demanded the Great Luo Mountains and claimed Qingqiu City deserved most of the Spirit Stone Mine's yield, but Jiang Ping'an defended his claim to the land as spoils of war.
• Hu Yunzhi released a Demon Emperor's aura against Jiang Ping'an, and Lan Yu countered it with her Venerable aura until Hu Yunzhi withdrew.
• Jiang Ping'an invited Princess Yunhua to inspect the mine, warned the foxes against attacking Ping'an City, and the delegation departed to assess the situation.

The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess surveyed the Spirit Stone Mine with Zhu Yan’s permission and confirmed it was too small to justify a costly fight. The Grand Elder nevertheless withdrew the fox army five hundred li to prepare for further action, leaving Jiang Ping'an wary of the unresolved conflict.

• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess proposed surveying the Spirit Stone Mine, and the Grand Elder sent her with five Six-tailed Spirit Foxes.
• Jiang Ping'an used Celestial Speech Transmission to tell Zhu Yan to let the foxes survey the mine but protect the grand formation.
• Zhu Yan intimidated the arriving foxes with its true form and warned them not to damage anything as they surveyed the area.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess received the survey results and concluded that the mine was not worth fighting Ping'an City to seize.
• The Grand Elder rejected the Princess's suggestion to return to Qingqiu City and ordered the fox army to withdraw five hundred li and make camp.
• Jiang Ping'an watched the fox army depart and expected it to return with reinforcements.

Jiang Ping'an prepared Ping'an City for war after Qingqiu City rejected negotiations over the Spirit Stone Mine and assembled a much larger army. When the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess offered a final deal, he refused, and Qingqiu City's forces launched an assault on the city.

• Jiang Ping'an ordered scouts to track the withdrawing Fox Race army and recalled the cultivators and Formation Masters from the Spirit Stone Mine.
• Qingqiu City sent no negotiators and spent more than a month reinforcing its army, adding two hundred thousand non-Fox Race troops and three Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon Emperors.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess offered Ping'an City a ten-percent share of the mine, but Jiang Ping'an rejected the terms and chose to fight.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder concluded that Ye Chenzhou lacked powerful backing and ordered an attack on Ping'an City.
• Ping'an City's cultivators unleashed thousands of flying swords against the charging army, killing many demon birds and beasts.

Jiang Ping'an and Ping'an City's defenders repelled Qingqiu City's first assault, using flying swords to rout its non-Fox Race army and water spells to hold off the Fox Race's fire attacks. When the Fox Race unleashed Spirit Treasures and Spirit Artifacts, Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu's Jade Transformation Divine Light forced them to retreat and destroyed more than ten weapons, leaving the siege unresolved.

• Jiang Ping'an's flying swords slaughtered Qingqiu City's advancing demon beasts and demon birds until the surviving troops fled in chaos.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder ordered the Demon Emperors and Demon Kings to attack Ping'an City's barrier with fire spells, while Lin Zihan, Palace Master Yunshui, Gui Henian, the spirit flood dragons, and other cultivators countered with water dragons.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu waited to use the Jade Transformation Divine Light, but the Fox Race Demon Kings kept beyond its effective range and their spells failed to damage the barrier.
• After the spell battle stalemated for over half an hour, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder ordered an assault with Spirit Treasures and Spirit Artifacts.
• Jiang Ping'an turned the Starfall Fire Pearl into jade with the Jade Transformation Divine Light, but the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder shifted it aside and recalled it before Jiang Ping'an could destroy it.
• Jiang Ping'an and Lan Yu transformed the attacking Spirit Artifacts into jade, and Jiang Ping'an shattered more than ten of them with Burning Essence Sword Qi, forcing the Fox Race Demon Kings to recall the rest.

Qingqiu City's army launched a boulder assault on Ping'an City, but Zhu Yan and Jiang Ping'an countered with Sky Banishment and the Hou Tu Suppressing God Art. The enemy army and its boulders plunged toward the ground under overwhelming gravity, leaving the attack on the brink of disaster.

• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder moved Qingqiu City's army behind Ping'an City to prepare boulders, while Jiang Ping'an warned that their attack would bring devastating casualties.
• Qingqiu City's army spent ten days preparing boulders, and Jiang Ping'an refused the defenders' requests to leave the city and interfere.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Grand Elder ordered the army to carry boulders above Ping'an City and launch them while the rest suppressed the city's defenders.
• Zhu Yan charged into Qingqiu City's army and used Sky Banishment to force everything in the air within thirty li to fall straight down.
• Jiang Ping'an used Void Escape to appear among Qingqiu City's troops and unleashed the Hou Tu Suppressing God Art, multiplying gravity beneath the phantom of Buzhou Mountain and accelerating the army and boulders toward the ground.

Jiang Ping'an and the Human Race forces annihilated Qingqiu City's army without losing a single cultivator, while the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess escaped to report the defeat. The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief sent Yu Shan to verify the news and learned that Qingqiu City had lost much of its strength and core elites.

• Falling boulders crushed many of Qingqiu City's troops and killed or injured several Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon Emperors.
• Jiang Ping'an killed one wounded Demon Emperor, helped his allies defeat the others, and spared the fleeing Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess.
• Jiang Ping'an used Jade Transformation Divine Light and Burning Essence Sword Qi against Qingqiu City's surviving soldiers as Ping'an City's cultivators joined the battle.
• The Human Race annihilated Qingqiu City's army without suffering casualties, and Jiang Ping'an began refining the demon corpses into pills.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess told her father the army had been annihilated, and the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief sent Yu Shan to investigate.
• Yu Shan returned with reports of Fox Race corpses and missing commanders, confirming that Qingqiu City had lost forty to fifty percent of its strength and sixty percent of its core elites.

After Qingqiu City’s army was destroyed at Ping'an City, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox clan debated revenge and tried unsuccessfully to summon its Old Ancestor. They decided to send the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess and Hu Yan'er to negotiate, while Jiang Ping'an secured Ping'an City and counted the immense spoils.

• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief gathered the elders and Supreme Elders, and Yu Shan confirmed that Qingqiu City’s army had been wiped out.
• The clan voted to ask the Old Ancestor to destroy Ping'an City, but received no response from his cave abode and suspected he was away.
• The elders chose the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess and Hu Yan'er to negotiate for the eight Spirit Treasures and a share of the Spirit Stone Mine, while the Third Supreme Elder accused the Princess of colluding with Ye Chenzhou.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief ordered the Princess to prepare for negotiations, and she reluctantly accepted the pressure to prove her loyalty.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Ping'an City’s people to stay inside and sent scouts toward Qingqiu City to watch for another attack.
• Jiang Ping'an refined the captured foxes into Spirit Pills and tallied spoils worth over 2.3 billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones, including eight Spirit Treasures and many other items.

Jiang Ping'an distributed battle rewards, refined the spoils, and honored the allies who had defended Ping'an City. A month later, Princess Yunhua and Hu Yan'er arrived to negotiate for Qingqiu City, leaving Jiang Ping'an to receive them at Midday Sun Pavilion.

• Jiang Ping'an awarded Spirit Treasures, Spirit Artifacts, stones, and pills to Lin Zihan, Palace Master Yunshui, Lan Yu, and Zhu Yan.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Zhang Zhe, Jiang Yushun, and Feng Yihuan to distribute rewards to Ping'an City's defenders, raising the city's morale.
• Jiang Ping'an refined the demon beast corpses, placed most of the Spirit Pills and Spirit Artifacts in the Heaven's Mandate Sect treasury, and cremated the humanoid Foreign Races.
• Jiang Ping'an rewarded Gui Henian, Black Gold, Platinum, and Side Hustle for joining Ping'an City's defense, and promised Gui Henian a monthly allowance.
• A month later, Zhang Zhe reported that Princess Yunhua and Hu Yan'er had come to negotiate for Qingqiu City, and Jiang Ping'an invited them to Midday Sun Pavilion.
• Princess Yunhua greeted Jiang Ping'an in human form, and Hu Yan'er assured him that Qingqiu City had not mistreated her.

Jiang Ping'an rejected Qingqiu City's demands, used prolonged negotiations to buy time to build the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation, and later faced the Third Supreme Elder when she came to pressure him. As she attacked, Jiang Ping'an evaded her strike and counterattacked through her ship's barrier.

• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess and Hu Yan'er demanded Qingqiu City's terms, but Jiang Ping'an refused them and later asked Lin Zihan to assess Qingqiu City's intentions.
• Lin Zihan advised Jiang Ping'an to judge Qingqiu City by its actions, and he ordered Liu Xixu, Li Chengfeng, and Zhu Yan to resume building the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation at the Spirit Stone Mine.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess and Hu Yan'er returned for repeated negotiations, which Jiang Ping'an used to stall for more than a year while pretending to consider returning a Spirit Treasure.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Third Supreme Elder arrived with three Top-Grade Treasure Ships to pressure Jiang Ping'an, who decided to kill her and flew out to meet her.
• The Third Supreme Elder launched her inner core at Jiang Ping'an, but he used Void Escape to dodge and struck her ship's defensive barrier with the Dragon Abyss Halberd.

Jiang Ping'an fought the Celestial Fox Third Elder, endured its attacks, and killed it after crushing it with the Hou Tu Suppressing God Art. He spared the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess, Hu Yan'er, and the other foxes, but barred the princess from taking the elder’s corpse.

• The Celestial Fox Third Elder attacked Jiang Ping'an with its nine tails and Spirit Treasure flying sword, but Jiang Ping'an blocked the sword and endured its lightning strikes.
• Jiang Ping'an seized one of the elder’s tails and slammed it into the ground, while Lin Zihan arrived and struck at the fox’s tails.
• The Celestial Fox Third Elder severed the tail Jiang Ping'an held and fled, but Jiang Ping'an used the Hou Tu Suppressing God Art to force it into a deep pit.
• The elder’s golden bell fell under the immense gravity and smashed its head, killing it, and Jiang Ping'an collected the bell.
• Jiang Ping'an spared the injured Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess, Hu Yan'er, and the other foxes, then stopped the princess from collecting the elder’s corpse.

Jiang Ping'an refined the Celestial Fox Third Elder’s treasures while Qingqiu City debated how to respond to the elder’s death. He rejected the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess’s peace terms, leaving negotiations unresolved as Ping'an City prepared for a possible future threat.

• Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City, ordered Zhang Zhe, Jiang Yushun, and Feng Yihuan to prepare for retaliation, and refined the Great Geng Metal Bell and Azure Nether Sword.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief learned that Jiang Ping'an had killed the Third Supreme Elder and summoned the Heavenly Fox Race’s leaders to discuss a response.
• The Heavenly Fox Race’s leaders chose to pursue negotiations and seek compensation while postponing revenge until their Old Ancestor emerged from seclusion.
• After guarding Ping'an City for more than two months, Jiang Ping'an received the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess, who told him Hu Yan'er had been imprisoned.
• The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess demanded the Third Supreme Elder’s remains and treasures, three more Spirit Treasures, and twenty percent of the Spirit Stone Mine’s profits, but Jiang Ping'an refused and the negotiations ended unresolved.

Jiang Ping'an learned that Pudu Mountain’s rebellion had brought Great Qian Kingdom to the brink of collapse and decided to return to protect his Mother. Before leaving, he ordered Zhang Zhe to reveal Ping'an City’s Saint-rank formation and demand a serious negotiator from Qingqiu City.

• The Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Clan Chief imprisoned the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Princess and forced the Fifteenth Elder to negotiate with Ping'an City.
• Jiang Ping'an ordered Zhang Zhe to stall the talks, and the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation was completed while the Spirit Stone Mine began operating.
• Shen Wantang told Jiang Ping'an that Pudu Mountain had allied with the Rakshasa Race and demonic beasts, and that Great Qian Kingdom was suffering devastating defeats.
• Jiang Ping'an worried that his Mother would be caught in the rebellion and decided to return to Great Qian Kingdom as quickly as possible.
• Zhang Zhe reported Qingqiu City's demands, and Jiang Ping'an ordered him to announce the Saint-rank formation and request a negotiator with real authority.

Jiang Ping'an arranged for Myriad Treasures Pavilion to broker a flying-sword deal with the Great Qian Kingdom in exchange for cultivation resources and talented people. He also asked Liu Xixu to build an emergency teleportation formation and help create an electromagnetic cannon for attacking Pudu Mountain.

• Jiang Ping'an offered to sell at least ten thousand flying swords to the Great Qian Kingdom in exchange for manuals, other resources, and talented people for Ping'an City.
• Shen Wantang agreed that Myriad Treasures Pavilion would broker the deal and arrange long-term purchases of flying swords, provided they were not sold to foreign races.
• Jiang Ping'an visited Liu Xixu and asked her to build a teleportation formation between Ping'an City and the Spirit Stone Mine for emergencies.
• Liu Xixu agreed to construct the formation, which would send people beside the Heavenly Citadel Saint Formation rather than inside it.
• Jiang Ping'an explained his electromagnetic cannon concept to Liu Xixu and asked her to help refine the new magic treasure for an attack on Pudu Mountain.

Jiang Ping'an and Liu Xixu tested the first Array Cannon, which damaged a distant mountain but had limited power and accuracy. They discussed changes to improve it, and Liu Xixu agreed to continue experimenting.

• Jiang Ping'an asked Liu Xixu to refine an Array Cannon, and the two shared an affectionate moment.
• Three Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox demon emperors attacked the Spirit Stone Mine, but its defensive formation held and they soon fled.
• Jiang Ping'an told Li Chengfeng and Zhu Yan that the attack was Qingqiu City's test and ordered them to continue as usual.
• Liu Xixu brought the completed Array Cannon to Jiang Ping'an, and they tested it from a mountaintop outside Ping'an City.
• The Array Cannon fired an iron ball that shattered part of a distant mountain, but Liu Xixu judged its power and accuracy inadequate.
• Jiang Ping'an proposed a longer, wider barrel, Mystic Iron Balls, a sectional barrel, and mana activation, and Liu Xixu agreed to further experimentation.

Jiang Ping'an met the Lord of Qingqiu City at Mount Cangyun, but rejected nearly all of Qingqiu City’s demands and the negotiations broke down. He returned to Ping'an City reassured that the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor could not currently intervene, while recognizing that he needed to grow stronger before it could act again.

• Zhang Zhe delivered Qingqiu City’s negotiation terms, and Jiang Ping'an scheduled a meeting for noon five days later.
• Jiang Ping'an traveled to Mount Cangyun with Lan Yu and Zhu Yan, who reported that five Nine-Tailed Celestial Foxes were present and no ambush was waiting.
• Jiang Ping'an met Princess Yunhua, the Lord of Qingqiu City, and three Demon Emperor Supreme Elders, then offered to return their spatial beast-hide pouches but refused the remaining demands.
• The Lord of Qingqiu City angrily left when Jiang Ping'an rejected the terms and threatened to counterattack, and Jiang Ping'an returned to Ping'an City.
• Jiang Ping'an told Lan Yu that he believed the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Ancestor was absent or unable to act, but that he needed to strengthen himself before it could return.