Recaps

Di Feng withdrew after recognizing that Su Hao was too powerful to challenge, while Di Ping criticized his caution before realizing the five Golden Crows had no chance against Su Hao. At Phoenix Perch Mountain, Su Hao heard how the Golden Crow Clan repeatedly lost its bid for control of the Immortal Realm, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle warned that the clan might be rebuilding its strength.

• Di Feng told Di Ping that Su Hao's perfected Soaring Divine Ability and Dao Fruit made him too dangerous to fight, then left to report to the clan elders.
• Di Ping argued that the Golden Crows should have risked fighting, but her companions warned that attacking a Heavenly Court divine general could provoke the Heavenly Court and that the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle's stance was uncertain.
• Di Feng heard Di Ping's complaints as he flew away and reflected that the Golden Crows' arrogance had repeatedly brought disaster upon their clan.
• Di Ping abandoned her plan to return to the Chiqing Realm after realizing that the five of them could not overcome Su Hao's seal.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant and Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle told Su Hao how the Golden Crow Clan had repeatedly failed to seize power and retreated to its ancestral land.
• Su Hao dismissed the present-day Golden Crows as a weakened remnant, while the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle warned that they might be secretly rebuilding their strength.

Di Feng challenged Su Hao to secure a promise that Di Han would not be mistreated, but Su Hao easily sealed his abilities and withstood his attacks. The chapter left Di Feng exhausted and nearly out of power, still staring at Su Hao through the flames.

• Di Feng told Su Hao that the Golden Crow Clan would leave Di Han with him if he promised not to enslave or mistreat her.
• Di Feng challenged Su Hao, asking him to agree to the condition if Di Feng could best him by even a little.
• Su Hao sealed Di Feng’s Great Sun Golden Blade and struck him with it, leaving a severe burn before Di Feng cut away part of his body to escape the restriction.
• Di Feng transformed into his Golden Crow True Form and unleashed a storm of blazing blades and Sun True Fire against Su Hao.
• Su Hao’s Restriction Dao Fruit nullified most of Di Feng’s attacks, and Su Hao erased the rest with a casual wave.
• Di Feng exhausted nearly all his immortal power and Sun True Fire after more than a hundred breaths, but kept his gaze fixed on Su Hao.

Su Hao demanded compensation from Di Feng after defeating him, but Di Cance arrived and offered a Nine Yang Immortal Herb with Solar Gold Dew to heal Di Han. After Di Feng left, Di Cance questioned Su Hao about his Dao Fruit and Heavenly Court post, and Su Hao challenged him about the Golden Crow’s disappearance.

• Di Feng balked at giving Su Hao five drops of essence blood, so Su Hao threatened him with the World Annihilation Sword.
• Di Cance arrived and offered Su Hao a box containing a Nine Yang Immortal Herb and Solar Gold Dew as compensation for Di Feng.
• Di Cance explained that Su Hao had sought the essence blood to treat Di Han, and Di Feng accepted his rebuke before departing.
• Di Cance thanked Su Hao for sparing Di Feng and asked about the sealing power of his Dao Fruit and his plans to take up his post.
• Su Hao asked Di Cance how he knew so much about the Immortal Realm and Heavenly Court despite the Golden Crow’s disappearance.

Di Han recovered with the Nine Yang Immortal Herb and Solar Gold Dew while Su Hao advanced his cultivation. Little Cai emerged from her cocoon with the Dragon Ancestor's inheritance, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle questioned how she had gained her ancestral aura.

• Di Han accepted Su Hao's gift of the Nine Yang Immortal Herb and one drop of Solar Gold Dew, then refined them under his protection to heal her foundation.
• Over two years, Su Hao raised his cultivation with immortal pills and the remaining Solar Gold Dew.
• Little Cai's cocoon trembled, and Su Hao asked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to conceal the Dragon's Roar and its phenomenon within the Chiqing Realm.
• Little Cai emerged as a five-colored true dragon, then returned to human form and told Su Hao she had received part of the Dragon Ancestor's inheritance.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle examined Little Cai and asked whether she had obtained the Dragon Ancestor's essence blood.

Su Hao secured the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle’s promise to protect him and learned why divine-beast descendants needed their ancestors’ essence to pursue ancestral reversion. After Little Cai refined Dragon Ancestor essence blood and gained a powerful inheritance, five Dragon Lords gathered over signs that a sixth Dragon Lord had appeared.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle asked Su Hao to inquire of Taiqing about the Divine Ao’s whereabouts or essence blood, and Su Hao agreed after explaining his ties to Taiqing and Cheng Zhen.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle promised to remain near the Chiqing Realm and protect Su Hao from powerful enemies.
• Little Cai refined the essence blood, transformed her bloodline into that of a dragon, and gained the first half of the Primordial Dragon Myriad Transformation Art.
• Dragon Lords Zhaoming, Chishuang, Four Seasons, and Palm Fortune gathered at Zhaoming’s estate, and Rain Master Dragon Lord joined them to discuss a stirring in their bloodlines.
• The Dragon Lords suspected that a sixth Dragon Lord had emerged and discussed how Dragon Emperor Ao Lie’s bloodline and fortune had already been divided among them.

During his seclusion, Su Hao created the Dragon Tide Seal, then answered Zhan Xuan’s call for help in the Nine Heavens Thunder Abyss. He confronted Xuan Songzi, whose strange Taiji jade pendant had overwhelmed Zhan Xuan, and sealed the pendant’s power with his Restriction Dao Fruit.

• Su Hao developed the Dragon Tide Seal and spent three more years cultivating while sharing Little Cai’s benefits with the Twelve Heavenly Maidens.
• Su Hao received Zhan Xuan’s cry for help and sent a clone through the God Descent Token to the Nine Heavens Thunder Abyss.
• Su Hao found Zhan Xuan badly injured and learned that Xuan Songzi had defeated him with a jade pendant that transformed the abyss’s lightning into Taiji qi.
• Xuan Songzi attacked Su Hao with the Taiji sphere, but Su Hao’s strongest sword art failed to break through it.
• Su Hao activated his Restriction Dao Fruit and sealed the surrounding immortal power and treasures, causing the Taiji sphere to shatter and the jade pendant to dim.

Su Hao refined the black-and-white fish jade pendant and discovered it contained the unclaimed Taiji Dao Fruit, then continued cultivating until Divine General Chi Chen came to challenge him. Su Hao sent an avatar to fight Chi Chen, and the chapter ended as his Taiji vortex reflected Chi Chen’s first blade strike back at him.

• Su Hao refined the black-and-white fish jade pendant and, after three years of comprehension, recognized its power as the unclaimed Taiji Dao Fruit.
• Su Hao continued secluded cultivation, while Divine General Chi Chen arrived outside the Chiqing Realm with one hundred thousand Devil Race primordial spirits.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle appeared to confront Chi Chen, but Su Hao stopped him and chose to face Chi Chen with an avatar.
• Chi Chen attacked Su Hao’s avatar with the Prison-Suppressing Bloodfire Blade, and Su Hao’s Taiji vortex absorbed the strike and sent it back toward Chi Chen.

Su Hao’s avatar defeated Chi Chen by sealing his cultivation and severing his divine armor’s connection, then returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain with the crystal sphere. Chi Chen fled toward the Darkwater Realm, while the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle waited outside Su Hao’s cave and spoke to the Six-Tusked White Elephant.

• Su Hao’s avatar seized the crystal sphere and used a Restriction Dao Fruit seal to disable Chi Chen and his divine armor.
• Chi Chen broke through the seal after a little over a hundred breaths, then fled toward the Darkwater Realm, shaken by Su Hao’s strength.
• Su Hao’s avatar returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain with the crystal sphere, while Su Hao remained focused on condensing a Dao Fruit.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle waited outside Su Hao’s cave, decided not to disturb him, and approached the Six-Tusked White Elephant.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle praised the elephant’s master, and the Six-Tusked White Elephant jolted and demanded to know whose master it meant.

The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle questioned how Su Hao came to possess the Joyful Zen Sacred Art and whether powerful Buddhist and Daoist figures were guiding his fate. Their discussion turned to the Divine Ao ancestor’s sacrifice, leaving the Six-Tusked White Elephant defending its legacy and longing to achieve comparable merit.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle asked whether the Six-Tusked White Elephant had given Su Hao the Joyful Zen Sacred Art, and the Elephant said it had learned the art from a stone stele and given it to Su Hao by its own choice.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle suggested the Elephant’s decision might have been part of a plan by the World Honored One, and the Elephant admitted that such control over events was possible.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle connected Su Hao’s yin-yang power to the Taiji Dao Fruit and suspected Buddhist and Daoist powers were arranging matters around him.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant argued that Dao Fruits had no inherent Buddhist or Daoist ownership and predicted Su Hao would pursue many more, perhaps undiscovered, Dao Fruits.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle contrasted its own fortune with the Elephant’s, then recalled how the Divine Ao’s feet had been taken to support the heavens.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant defended the Divine Ao’s sacrifice as supreme glory and privately longed to make a similarly great contribution to heaven and earth.

Su Hao mastered the Taiji and Restriction Dao Fruits and discovered that, as Taiji’s Dao Master, he could oversee everyone cultivating that path. Meanwhile, the Six-Tusked White Elephant gave Di Han Immortal pills to help her grow stronger.

• The Six-Tusked White Elephant worried that Su Hao had outpaced it and swallowed more than half of the Jade Light Qi Source Pills it had received.
• The Six-Tusked White Elephant gave the remaining pills to Di Han and urged her to cultivate harder.
• Su Hao fully mastered the Taiji and Restriction Dao Fruits and learned how Taiji could transform myriad powers and stabilize yin and yang.
• Su Hao realized his authority as Taiji’s Dao Master let him decide who could cultivate or use Taiji.
• Su Hao surveyed the cultivators following the Taiji path and found thirty-seven, including several ninth-rank Immortal Kings and three whose circumstances he could not discern.

Immortal Emperor Lin Changfeng discovered that the Taiji Dao Fruit had a new master and wondered who Taiqing had favored. At Jade Origin Palace, Qingyi confronted Qing Ling over their lost chance to inherit the fruit, and the argument ended with Qingyi bitterly resenting Taiqing’s decision.

• Immortal Emperor Lin Changfeng sensed the Taiji Dao Fruit had changed hands and recalled Taiqing telling him it already had another owner.
• Qingyi hurried to Qing Ling and complained that Taiqing had given the Taiji Dao Fruit to an outsider instead of a disciple.
• Qing Ling urged Qingyi to accept that they lacked the fate to possess the Dao Fruit and said its change of master would help their cultivation advance.
• Qingyi accused Qing Ling of calling Taiqing’s favors fate and argued that Qing Ling’s status had been granted by their master.
• Qingyi contrasted Qing Ling’s good fortune with his own hard-won opportunities and ended by bitterly condemning Taiqing’s decision to give the fruit to an unknown outsider.

After consolidating his cultivation, Su Hao used the demon soldiers’ Primordial Spirits to advance his progress and shared his surplus Dao artifacts with his companions. Little Jin chose two treasures, and the others began deciding who would pick next.

• Su Hao processed the demon soldiers’ Primordial Spirits, gained about thirty percent cultivation progress, and received rewards including Nine-Turn Heavenly Origin Immortal Pills and Purple Jade Body-Forging Immortal Pills.
• Su Hao surveyed his collection of 155 Dao artifacts and decided to give some to Little Cai, Little Jin, Jin Ji, and the others.
• The next day, Su Hao summoned Little Cai and the Twelve Heavenly Maidens and presented them with thirty-two high-grade or better Dao artifacts.
• Little Jin rushed to the treasures first and chose a golden dragon-patterned sword and moonlit light armor, then asked Su Hao how they looked.
• Su Hao praised Little Jin’s choices, while Jin Ji and the other maidens politely urged Little Cai to choose first.

Su Hao revealed that he possessed the Restriction Dao Fruit, impressing Immortal Lord Qingchen and easing her doubts about his suitability for Yu Xuanji. After discussing his delayed post in the Darkwater Realm and the Mystic Maiden Palace, Qingchen left Yu Xuanji in her hometown for one more month.

• Immortal Lord Qingchen and Yu Xuanji learned that Su Hao was the source of the Restriction Dao Fruit’s power, and Qingchen began treating him as an equal.
• Qingchen urged Su Hao to take up his post in the Darkwater Realm, but Su Hao said he would go when the time was right.
• Yu Xuanji told Su Hao that Ye Suqing had died under a mysterious curse, while Su Hao concealed that he had caused her death.
• Su Hao suggested Yu Xuanji reclaim the Mystic Maiden Palace, but Yu Xuanji said the Heavenly Court had already taken it over and she would build anew when stronger.
• Immortal Lord Qingchen departed and allowed Yu Xuanji to stay in her hometown for one more month.

Immortal Lord Qingchen visited Su Hao to assess him and learned that he possessed the Restriction Dao Fruit, then allowed Yu Xuanji to remain with him for another month. When she returned, Qingchen discovered Yu Xuanji had advanced two realms and reached fourth-rank True Immortal.

• Immortal Lord Qingchen recognized Su Hao's Restriction Dao Fruit, abandoned her plan to probe him, and spoke with him as a peer.
• Su Hao and Yu Xuanji discussed Ye Suqing's death and the Heavenly Court's takeover of the Mystic Maiden Palace, and Yu Xuanji accepted that she would not reclaim it for now.
• Immortal Lord Qingchen permitted Yu Xuanji to stay in the Chiqing Realm for a month before returning to collect her.
• Su Hao took Yu Xuanji to his cultivation chamber under the pretense of showing her an exotic beast and spent the month with her.
• Immortal Lord Qingchen summoned Yu Xuanji after the month ended and was astonished to find she had reached fourth-rank True Immortal.

Yu Xuanji left the Chiqing Realm with Immortal Lord Qingchen after a month of rapid cultivation alongside Su Hao. After twenty years of seclusion, Su Hao reached the ninth-rank Golden Immortal realm, then confronted the Four Seasons Dragon Lord as it tried to probe the Chiqing Realm.

• Immortal Lord Qingchen questioned Yu Xuanji about her progress, and Yu Xuanji declined to remain in the Chiqing Realm before returning to the Immortal Realm with her master.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle told Su Hao that Immortal Lord Qingchen seemed to have the bearing of an Immortal Emperor, and Su Hao revealed that she was an Immortal Emperor reincarnated.
• Su Hao spent nearly half a year traveling and then cultivated in seclusion for twenty years, advancing to the ninth-rank Golden Immortal realm with 33% progress.
• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord entered the Chiqing Realm's vicinity and tried to probe it, but a restriction blocked its divine sense.
• Su Hao met the Four Seasons Dragon Lord in the void, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle appeared after Su Hao called on it.

Su Hao and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle struck a bargain over the Four Seasons Wheel, which the Turtle had taken from the Four Seasons Dragon Lord. After extracting part of its Dao essence for Su Hao, the Turtle demanded the promised immortal sword, and Su Hao produced Chihuang.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle gave Su Hao thirty bottles of Jade Radiance Qi Source Immortal Pills in exchange for the Dragon Lord’s flesh.
• Su Hao explained that the Four Seasons Dragon Lord would likely stay quiet and return to ask for the Four Seasons Wheel because he needed it to perform his duties.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle offered to extract some of the Wheel’s Dao essence for an immortal sword, and Su Hao agreed.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle drew out a portion of the powers of spring, summer, autumn, and winter and sent the resulting sphere of light into Su Hao.
• Su Hao thanked the Turtle and handed over the immortal sword Chihuang.

The Four Seasons Dragon Lord pleaded with the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to return the Four Seasons Wheel, and the turtle demanded an immortal sword in exchange. The Dragon Lord surrendered his treasured Wrath Dragon sword and received the Four Seasons Wheel, leaving him weakened by the loss.

• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord humbly asked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle to return the Four Seasons Wheel, explaining its importance to the Heavenly Court and all living beings.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle demanded an immortal sword as the price of returning the treasure.
• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord reluctantly offered his Wrath Dragon sword after the turtle threatened him with its power.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle brought out the Four Seasons Wheel, then held it back until the Dragon Lord severed his bond with Wrath Dragon.
• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord suffered backlash as he surrendered Wrath Dragon, and the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle claimed the sword and began refining it.

The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle captured Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord outside the Chiqing Realm and crushed them to death. Su Hao had finished refining the Four Seasons Wheel's Dao essence and witnessed the two Dragon Lords' defeat.

• The Four Seasons Dragon Lord warned Crimson Frost Dragon Lord that a mysterious expert near the Chiqing Realm had nearly injured him, then shut himself away.
• Su Hao refined the Four Seasons Wheel's Dao essence over five years, raising his cultivation progress to 65% and improving his command of the Five Elements Dao.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle called Su Hao to the void outside the Chiqing Realm after capturing Crimson Frost Dragon Lord.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle exposed Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord, who had been hiding nearby, and stopped his attempt to escape.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle crushed both Dragon Lords and devoured much of their blood-and-qi essence.

The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle defeated Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord, then traded their captured treasures to Su Hao for two immortal swords. Su Hao gained the treasures’ Dao essence and left to cultivate, while the turtle expected the Heavenly Court to overlook the Dragon Lords’ losses.

• Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord attacked the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle with their treasures, but it subdued the treasures and sent both Dragon Lords fleeing.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle showed Su Hao the Wrath Dragon immortal sword, which it had taken from Four Seasons Dragon Lord in an earlier trade.
• Su Hao agreed to trade two immortal swords for the Extreme Cold Hellfire Diagram and the Heavenly Fate Treasure Disc.
• Su Hao gave the turtle the Yaoguang immortal sword and the Jiangshan Dimu Sword in exchange for the two treasures.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle extracted the treasures’ Dao essence for Su Hao, who left to enter seclusion.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle expected the Dragon Lords to report their losses to the Heavenly Court but believed it would not break relations over them.

Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord confronted Four Seasons Dragon Lord for luring them to Chiqing Realm, but Dragon Lord Zhaoming prioritized recovering their treasures and planned to ask the Father Emperor for help. In seclusion, Su Hao absorbed two strands of Dao essence and gained fire and ice origin talents, while deciding not to rush after their Dao Fruits.

• Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord accused Four Seasons Dragon Lord of concealing the danger in Chiqing Realm and setting them up.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming and Rain Master Dragon Lord arrived, and Zhaoming rebuked the dragons before ordering them to recover their treasures without alerting the Heavenly Court.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming concluded that the group needed the Father Emperor's help to face the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle and retrieve the immortal swords.
• Su Hao secluded himself at Phoenix Perch Mountain and absorbed essence from the Extreme Cold Hellfire Diagram and the Heavenly Fate Treasure Disc.
• In the fifth year of seclusion, Su Hao acquired the Seven-Colored Fire Origin Seed and Seven-Colored Ice Origin Seed talents.
• Su Hao suppressed the fire and ice powers with Taiji and decided to pursue the Heavenly Fate Dao Fruit rather than rush to obtain the Fire Origin or Ice Origin Dao Fruits.

The Glazed Light Guardian Heavenly Dragon King pursued the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle away from the Chiqing Realm, then the Heavenly Court’s five Dragon Lords arrived together. They discovered Little Cai’s transformation and suspected she held a great secret, leaving Su Hao facing their greedy attention.

• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle fled into the void, and the Glazed Light Guardian Heavenly Dragon King pursued it toward the border between the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm.
• Su Hao declined to follow them, wary of the danger and reluctant to leave the Chiqing Realm.
• The five Dragon Lords—Zhaoming, Rain Master, Chishuang, Four Seasons, and Zhangyun—approached the Chiqing Realm, and Su Hao and the Six-Tusked White Elephant went out to meet them.
• Little Cai joined Su Hao and suggested the Dragon Lords might have come for her, hoping they wanted her to return to her ancestral roots.
• The Dragon Lords used an ocular art to see Little Cai’s origins and suspected her transformation concealed a great secret that could help them reach the level of a Dragon Emperor.

Su Hao refused to let the Dragon Lords take Little Cai and fought them after Four Seasons Dragon Lord attacked. He defeated Four Seasons Dragon Lord in an instant, leaving the other four Dragon Lords to face him.

• The Six-Tusked White Elephant warned Little Cai that the Dragon Lords had come prepared to fight, and Su Hao blocked Dragon Lord Zhaoming’s probing attack.
• Little Cai offered to go with the Dragon Lords, but Su Hao refused and sent her back to Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Rain Master Dragon Lord and Four Seasons Dragon Lord demanded revenge against Su Hao, while Dragon Lord Zhaoming threatened to act if Su Hao kept obstructing them.
• Four Seasons Dragon Lord attacked Su Hao with the Four Seasons Wheel, but Su Hao shattered his body, suppressed his primordial spirit, and seized the wheel.
• The other four Dragon Lords were shocked by Su Hao’s strength and urged one another to give everything they had.

Su Hao trapped the four Dragon Lords in the Sword Annihilation Great Curse, but their treasures and Dao Fruits let them withstand its assault. The Dragon Lords believed they could outlast him, while Su Hao’s attempts to break their defense had failed.

• The four Dragon Lords joined forces inside a small defensive barrier and concluded that they could survive by outlasting Su Hao.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming ordered Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord to sacrifice the Heavenly Fate Treasure Disc to strengthen the other Dragon Lords’ defenses.
• Fate-Wielding Dragon Lord used his Heavenly Fate Dao Fruit to amplify the remaining treasures, while Crimson Frost Dragon Lord and Rain Master Dragon Lord eventually withdrew their weakened treasures.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming continued defending alone with the Cavern Mystery Divine Light Pearl as Su Hao tried the Restriction Dao Fruit and Taiji Dao Fruit without breaking through.

Su Hao survived Dragon Lord Zhaoming’s Cavern Mystery Divine Light and used the Sword Extinguishes Great Curse and Restriction Dao Fruit to defeat and divide him. After storing Zhaoming’s scattered flesh across hundreds of rings, Su Hao warned that the more dangerous Protector Heavenly Dragon King was still a threat.

• Su Hao used Transform Myriad Laws to weaken Dragon Lord Zhaoming’s Cavern Mystery Divine Light, then healed the wound it inflicted.
• Su Hao and his incarnations unleashed the Sword Extinguishes Great Curse, grinding Zhaoming’s dragon body into thousands of pieces.
• Zhaoming revealed that his Indestructible Dragon Light kept his body and Primordial Spirit from being destroyed, but Su Hao sealed the scattered pieces apart with the Restriction Dao Fruit.
• Su Hao placed Zhaoming’s pieces into separate bottles and storage rings, while the Six-Tusked White Elephant and the others watched.
• Su Hao warned his companions that the Protector Heavenly Dragon King was the greater danger.

Su Hao refused to accept the Heavenly Dragon King’s proposed punishment for the five Dragon Lords, insisting that the dispute required compensation. The Heavenly Dragon King dismissed the demand, while the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle backed Su Hao and invited him to decide what to do next.

• Su Hao released the five Dragon Lords, and the Heavenly Dragon King healed their bodies and injuries with his Nine-Grade Golden Lotus.
• Dragon Lord Zhaoming explained that they had come to retrieve Little Cai and accused the Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle of attacking them and taking their treasures.
• The Heavenly Dragon King acknowledged the Dragon Lords’ reasons but condemned their trespass and deception, promising discipline and referral to the Heavenly Court.
• Su Hao rejected the Heavenly Dragon King’s offer, and the Six-Tusked White Elephant demanded compensation for their losses.
• The Heavenly Dragon King refused to offer compensation and argued that the Dragon Lords had suffered losses themselves.
• The Essence-Devouring Divine Turtle supported Su Hao and told him to choose whether to fight or pursue another course.