Recaps

Li Xuan welcomed Fang Hao as his fourth disciple and introduced him to the Qimen Martial Dao, including its principles of formations, artifact refining, and restrictions. Fang Hao embraced the path and began studying its mysteries, though he had yet to find a way to cultivate it.

• Li Xuan activated the Bewildering Inversion Array around the manor, and Su Lingxiu discovered how it concealed and inverted the surroundings.
• Fang Hao left his courtyard after leaving the Spring Night Mirror for Shen Haizhou, then joined Li Xuan and traveled to the manor.
• Su Lingxiu welcomed Fang Hao as her fourth junior brother and won Xiao Ha over with pills, while Red Cat also begged for treats.
• Li Xuan asked Fang Hao about his ambitions, and Fang Hao said he wanted to pursue martial arts and carry the Qimen Martial Dao to greater glory rather than establish an aristocratic family.
• Li Xuan taught Fang Hao the Qimen Martial Dao and showed him the Nine Great Arrays, but Fang Hao remembered only half of one formation diagram.
• Fang Hao sat on the mountain to comprehend the Qimen Martial Dao, determined to seize his opportunity despite not yet knowing how to enter its path.

As the Jade God Sect and Su Family’s bounty sent Jade Province into turmoil, Xu Yan and Meng Chong struck back by assassinating their allies before returning to Li Xuan’s manor. There, Fang Hao prepared to cultivate the Qimen Martial Dao using forged Treasure Artifacts, and his activated Array Formation left Xu Yan and Meng Chong astonished.

• Li Xuan studied the Heaven and Earth Laws while the Jade God Sect and Su Family announced a sweeping bounty for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, drawing Rogue Cultivators and Spirit Sects into the hunt.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong, disguised and hiding in a city, learned of the bounty, then Xu Yan killed the city lord and Meng Chong assassinated an emperor backed by the Su Family.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong killed a Spirit Sect master and other Spirit Refining experts, warned others not to join the feud, and prompted several third-rate sects and families to withdraw from the hunt.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong returned to their master’s temporary residence, while the Great Dao Golden Book told Li Xuan that their latest fight had enhanced his Divine Annihilation Second Form.
• Fang Hao returned from finding a cultivation site, forged an assortment of Treasure Artifacts with array patterns, and activated an Array Formation around the manor as Xu Yan and Meng Chong arrived.

Fang Hao began cultivating Qimen Martial Dao by borrowing the momentum of Heaven and Earth, inspiring Su Lingxiu and Meng Chong to comprehend new techniques. Xu Yan formed a concealed Mountain River Sword Array, leaving Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu sensing that the grass and trees had become dangerous.

• Li Xuan introduced Fang Hao to Xu Yan and Meng Chong, and Fang Hao eagerly declared that he would help his senior brothers by refining array disks.
• Fang Hao arranged Treasure Artifacts in a mountain valley and began cultivating by drawing the momentum of Heaven and Earth into his body.
• Su Lingxiu comprehended the outline of the Heavenly Divine Furnace Alchemy Technique, and Meng Chong comprehended the Heavenly Hammer Hundred Refinements Technique.
• Xu Yan comprehended the Mountain River Sword Array and silently merged its sword intent with the surrounding grass and trees.
• Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu sensed something unusual in the vegetation, and Meng Chong asked Xu Yan whether he had noticed anything.

Xu Yan perfected the Mountain River Sword Array while Fang Hao completed his entry into Qimen Martial Dao and received Li Xuan’s guidance. The chapter ended with Fang Hao beginning to study arrays and artifact refining, tasked with creating a formation that could bind a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.

• Xu Yan tested his concealed Mountain River Sword Array on Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu, then concluded he could kill Dai Sheng with it and left to cultivate.
• Li Xuan told Su Lingxiu that Fang Hao would enter the sect when the Heaven and Earth Momentum weakened, and predicted Fang Hao would begin in the Profound Understanding Realm.
• As Fang Hao completed his Heaven and Earth Qimen Formation, the Great Dao Golden Book advanced Li Xuan’s Qimen Martial Dao and granted him an Innate Strange Pattern, mastery of Thirty-Six Qimen Formations, and foundational knowledge of array formations, artifact refining, and restrictions.
• Fang Hao emerged from the valley having entered the sect and demonstrated a Qimen Formation, which Su Lingxiu broke; Li Xuan then showed them the power of his own Heaven and Earth Qimen Formation.
• Li Xuan gave Fang Hao the Thirty-Six Arrays and Thirty-Six Heaven and Earth Qimen Formations to study, then ordered him to practice by setting up an estate formation capable of binding a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.

Fang Hao advanced his Array Dao studies and completed two powerful formations to protect the manor, while Red Cat comprehended its first Great Demon Art. The chapter ended with Xu Yan reaching minor success in the Divine Intent Realm and the manor concealed behind Fang Hao’s new arrays.

• Su Lingxiu asked Fang Hao to forge a new Alchemy Furnace, and Red Cat bullied Xiao Ha into surrendering thirty percent of his pills by staging a frog-soup threat.
• Fang Hao mastered the Thirty-Six Arrays and Nine Great Arrays, received the true meaning of the Array Dao and the Bagua from Li Xuan, and began creating his own formations.
• Red Cat produced nine shifting images of itself, revealing a Great Demon Art, and asked Li Xuan for Array Diagrams to study.
• Xu Yan broke through to minor success in the Divine Intent Realm, while Li Xuan noted that the Jade God Sect and the Su Family were still searching for Xu Yan and Meng Chong.
• Fang Hao’s first attempt at a manor formation caused disorienting fog and phoenix fire, which Li Xuan redirected before Fang Hao corrected the setup.
• Fang Hao completed a Phantom Bewildering Array and a Phoenix Fire Trapping Array that concealed the manor and could trap a Spirit Refining Heavenly Human for nearly half an hour.

Li Xuan guided Fang Hao toward the true meaning of Qimen Martial Dao, while the Jade God Sect and Su Family escalated their hunt for Xu Yan and Meng Chong with a bounty on the Earth Soul Flower. Xu Yan returned to the hidden manor, demonstrated how he could turn Fang Hao’s array into a sword, and inspired Fang Hao to create the Qimen Soldier Crate.

• Li Xuan showed Fang Hao the flaws in his array and taught him to unite formations, restrictions, and artifact refining as Qimen Martial Dao.
• The Jade God Sect and Su Family suspected Xu Yan and Meng Chong might be Myriad Stars prodigies, and the Jade God Sect’s Great Elder vowed to hunt them personally.
• Months later, the Jade God Sect and Su Family offered an Earth Soul Flower as a bounty, drawing martial artists from across Jade Province to search for Xu Yan and Meng Chong.
• Xu Yan returned to find Fang Hao’s array concealing the manor, then turned its mist and phoenix fire into the Mountain River Sword Array and walked through it.
• Xu Yan gave Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu the Dai Family treasury’s spoils, then suggested Fang Hao combine his Qimen artifacts into a weapon.
• Fang Hao conceived the Qimen Soldier Crate, a weapon that could unleash formation artifacts and powerful attacks.

Fang Hao forged Storage Rings and began working on a Qimen Soldier Crate while Meng Chong comprehended the Hidden Blade Realm. After Xu Yan learned that the Jade God Sect and Su Family had placed huge bounties on him and Meng Chong, the disciples planned to seize the sect’s Spirit Mine before Spirit Refining experts investigated their whereabouts.

• Li Xuan received the Qimen Divine Soldier Crate and Qimen Slaughter Dao after Fang Hao comprehended the Qimen path, then forged Fang Hao an Artifact Refining furnace.
• Fang Hao studied storage artifacts and eventually forged Storage Rings for everyone in the courtyard before beginning a Qimen Soldier Crate.
• Meng Chong comprehended the Hidden Blade Realm, and Li Xuan’s Hidden Blade Realm reached great mastery.
• Xu Yan questioned a brown-robed martial artist searching nearby and learned that the Jade God Sect and Su Family had offered enormous bounties for information about him and Meng Chong.
• Xu Yan returned and told the others about the bounties; he proposed taking the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Mine, while Fang Hao offered to conceal it with an Array Formation.
• Xu Yan warned that Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans would soon investigate the area.

Xu Yan and his fellow disciples set up a great array to ambush the Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans Su Liancheng and Ke Linping, who came hunting them outside Zheng Kingdom. Xu Yan and Meng Chong fought the two elders while Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu supported them, and the battle continued with Su Liancheng badly pressured by the group.

• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao prepared an array to test their abilities against an arriving Spirit Refining Heavenly Human.
• Su Liancheng and Ke Linping pursued Xu Yan into Fang Hao's array, where mist and Phoenix Fire separated and disoriented them.
• Xu Yan took on Ke Linping with his Mountain River Sword Array after Fang Hao relinquished control of the array.
• Meng Chong fought Su Liancheng, whose attacks repeatedly damaged Meng Chong's armor despite its rapid recovery.
• Su Lingxiu joined the fight with her Great Marsh Divine Shovel and golden needles, while Meng Chong's God Severing Slash nearly cleaved Su Liancheng's soul.

Xu Yan's group defeated and killed the Spirit Refining Heavenly Humans Ke Linping and Su Liancheng, while Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu gained new insights from the battle. The Jade God Sect and the Su Family launched a sweeping search for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, but the strengthened Array Formation kept the group hidden.

• Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao worked together to overwhelm Su Liancheng, while Xu Yan trapped Ke Linping in the Mountain River Sword Array.
• Fang Hao used the Heaven and Earth Momentum to restrain Su Liancheng and discovered that pills let him cultivate the Heaven and Earth Strange Patterns through repeated strain.
• Su Lingxiu's golden needles melted Su Liancheng's spirit-soul power, and she comprehended the Spirit Merging Needle.
• Xu Yan killed Ke Linping with the Sword Array, while Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao joined forces to kill Su Liancheng.
• Li Xuan gained the Third Form of God Annihilation, and Fang Hao reinforced the Array Formation around the manor after the group returned.
• The Jade God Sect and the Su Family searched Jade Province for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, but after half a month they still found no trace of them.

The Jade God Sect and Su Family exposed the Myriad Worlds Alliance while searching for Xu Yan and Meng Chong, and Zhu Liang and Su Zheng attacked Alliance Leader Yu and his protectors. Meanwhile, Li Xuan gained a powerful Divine Martial True Body and guided Fang Hao in creating a Communication Talisman, while Alliance Leader Yu escaped after burning his essence blood.

• The Jade God Sect and Su Family exposed the Myriad Worlds Alliance, and the Spirit Sects and aristocratic families began moving to destroy it.
• Li Xuan gained the Divine Martial True Body when his Martial Dao Divine Shadow surpassed one hundred thousand, while Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu reached new cultivation milestones.
• Li Xuan instructed Fang Hao to develop communication treasures, and Fang Hao began refining a way to transmit messages more effectively.
• Alliance Leader Yu and his protectors confronted two Rogue Cultivators who had joined the Jade God Sect, but Zhu Liang and Su Zheng arrived and overwhelmed them.
• The Right Protector injured one Rogue Cultivator and escaped with the Left Protector, while Alliance Leader Yu was forced to flee from Zhu Liang and Su Zheng.
• Alliance Leader Yu burned his essence blood to escape pursuit, while Fang Hao completed a Communication Talisman that Li Xuan approved.

Fang Hao tested his newly refined Communication Talisman when the gravely wounded Alliance Leader Yu fell nearby while fleeing Zhu Liang. Xu Yan’s group rescued and healed him, learned he led the Myriad Worlds Alliance, and left Fang Hao eager to join its struggle for Rogue Cultivators.

• Fang Hao refined a Communication Talisman, and Li Xuan received the Artifact Refining Catalog and advised him on improving its range.
• Fang Hao traveled toward Zheng Kingdom's Capital City while testing the talisman, then found Alliance Leader Yu collapsed after escaping Zhu Liang.
• Fang Hao brought Alliance Leader Yu back to the estate, where Xu Yan and the others recognized Xu Yan and heard that Alliance Leader Yu had been hunted after the Myriad Worlds Alliance was exposed.
• Su Lingxiu treated Alliance Leader Yu with needles and a pill, rapidly restoring much of his strength.
• Alliance Leader Yu explained the Myriad Worlds Alliance's goal of securing a place for Rogue Cultivators, and Fang Hao eagerly questioned him about joining.

Fang Hao refined an improved Communication Talisman, impressing Yu Gao, who persuaded him to become the Jade Province branch’s new Alliance Leader. The chapter ended with Fang Hao, Yu Gao, Xu Yan, and Meng Chong planning to raid the Jade God Sect and Su Family.

• Yu Gao recovered in Li Xuan’s manor, mistook him for an expert above Spirit Refining, and learned that Xu Yan and Meng Chong were his disciples.
• Zhu Liang and Su Zheng failed to find Yu Gao and expanded their search for the Myriad Worlds Alliance, while the Right Protector ordered the Alliance’s members to scatter and hide.
• Fang Hao demonstrated a Communication Talisman that could connect nine people over at least ten thousand miles, astonishing Yu Gao.
• Yu Gao offered Fang Hao resources and then the Jade Province Alliance Leader position to persuade him to join the Myriad Worlds Alliance.
• Fang Hao accepted the command token, and Yu Gao recognized him as Alliance Leader Fang.
• Fang Hao brought Yu Gao together with Xu Yan and Meng Chong to discuss raiding the Jade God Sect and Su Family.

Fang Hao secured leadership of the Myriad Worlds Alliance and learned the history of the Blood Demon Devil Master, whose forbidden words inspired him to fight for Jade Province’s Rogue Cultivators. Yu Gao left to stabilize the alliance, while Fang Hao committed to standing against the Spirit Sects and noble families.

• Yu Gao acknowledged that Fang Hao had maneuvered him into handing over leadership of the Myriad Worlds Alliance, and Fang Hao planned to investigate Jade God Sect’s Spirit Mines with help from Shen Haizhou’s intelligence.
• Yu Gao recognized Shi Er’s Serrated Saber as the legendary Blood Spirit Saber and learned that Meng Chong had killed the Devil Master’s remnant soul.
• Yu Gao recounted how the Devil Master rose three times, blood-refined his enemies, and caused the Blood Demon Calamity before revealing the Devil Master’s suppressed words: “With the blood of the Spirit Sects and noble families, I shall forge my Martial Dao foundation!”
• Fang Hao declared that Jade Province belonged to all its people and vowed to lead the Myriad Worlds Alliance in fighting for Rogue Cultivators; Yu Gao pledged to support him.
• Fang Hao gave Yu Gao pills for injured alliance members and a Communication Talisman, then sent him to stabilize the Myriad Worlds Alliance.

Li Xuan guided Fang Hao in talisman arrays and alliance leadership, while his disciples and Red Cat continued to grow stronger. After Fang Hao successfully refined his first Qimen Soldier Crate, he prepared to break through as Xu Yan and Meng Chong set out to investigate the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Mine.

• Li Xuan advised Fang Hao on cultivating trusted allies and explained how to refine arrays and restrictions into single-use talisman arrays.
• Yu Gao returned to the Myriad Worlds Alliance’s hidden location, gave up his position as Jade Province Branch Alliance Leader, and ordered the Spirit Refining Martial Artists to obey Fang Hao.
• Li Xuan received the Spirit Calming Technique from Xu Yan’s comprehension, then gained breakthroughs in the second layer of the Great Sun Indestructible Golden Body and the Spirit Origin Realm Medicinal Dao.
• Red Cat developed demonic consciousness and celebrated its breakthrough, while Fang Hao completed his first Qimen Soldier Crate and demonstrated its formations and attacks.
• Xu Yan taught Fang Hao Shape-Shifting Evasion, then Xu Yan and Meng Chong left to investigate the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Mine as Fang Hao went to break through under Li Xuan’s secret protection.

Fang Hao broke through to the Divine Intent Realm, advancing Li Xuan’s Qimen Martial Dao and pioneering the path of talisman crafting. Meanwhile, Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Su Lingxiu prepared to raid the Jade God Sect’s major Spirit Mines and target its treasury, while Yu Gao agreed to help.

• Fang Hao condensed his second and third Heaven and Earth Strange Patterns, reached the Divine Intent Realm, and enabled Li Xuan to advance his Qimen Martial Dao to the Spirit Origin Realm.
• Fang Hao began studying talisman crafting and successfully refined a Mist Formation Talisman, earning Li Xuan the True Understanding of Talisman Dao.
• Shen Haizhou showed Xu Yan and Meng Chong a map of the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Mines, and they chose to target its two core mines rumored to contain Earth Soul Flowers.
• Fang Hao, Su Lingxiu, Xu Yan, and Meng Chong discussed the raid and summoned Yu Gao, who reluctantly agreed to help gather intelligence and support their plan to seize the mines and infiltrate the sect’s treasury.
• Fang Hao gave Yu Gao Mist Talismans, and Yu Gao tested one, creating a broad cloud that blocked probing soul power.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Fang Hao prepared to strike the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Crystal Mine on Jade New Mountain, while Li Xuan fortified the Gate of the Spirit Domain to protect the Inner Domain. The three disciples entered the mine disguised as sentries, ready to confront its Spirit Refining guardian.

• Yu Gao agreed to draw away the Jade God Sect’s Spirit Refining experts, and Fang Hao gave the Myriad Worlds Alliance Teleportation Talismans for emergencies.
• Li Xuan laid a Ninefold Array around the Gate of the Spirit Domain, sealing it against anyone trying to enter.
• Fang Hao reunited with Shen Haizhou, who provided intelligence about the Jade God Sect and its Spirit Mines.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Fang Hao went to Jade New Mountain, where Xu Yan drugged the Spirit Swallows, Meng Chong silenced the sentries, and Fang Hao set up three great arrays around the mountain.
• The three disguised themselves as Jade God Sect sentries and entered the mine through a hidden cave to confront its Spirit Refining guardian.

Xu Yan, Fang Hao, and Meng Chong seized two Jade God Sect Spirit Mines, killed their guards, and collected five Earth Soul Flowers before launching a coordinated attack on the sect. Their allies drew the Jade God Sect’s elders away, leaving its sect master trapped in a grand array as the assault began.

• Xu Yan killed the Spirit Refining elder at the first Spirit Mine while Fang Hao and Meng Chong eliminated the stewards and Fang Hao sealed the cavern with an array.
• Xu Yan, Fang Hao, and Meng Chong found three Earth Soul Flowers at the first mine, then repeated their attack at the second mine and collected two more.
• Xu Yan sent Fang Hao to order Yu Gao to begin the operation, and Yu Gao rallied the Myriad Worlds Alliance’s Spirit Refining Martial Artists before challenging Zhu Liang outside the Jade God Sect.
• Yu Gao drew Zhu Liang and another elder away from the sect, while rogue cultivators attacked and then fled, prompting the Jade God Sect’s elders to pursue them.
• The Jade God Sect’s sect master returned to the main hall and ordered the disciples to remain alert, but a grand array of mist, illusions, phoenix fire, sword light, and thunder trapped him inside.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Fang Hao raided the Jade God Sect, emptied its treasuries, spirit fields, and the Storage Bags of its disciples, then escaped as the Sect Master broke free. The sect’s leaders and allied families vowed to hunt the mysterious Rogue Cultivator force, while Shen Wang and Shen Haizhou celebrated the raid and Yu Gao remained excited despite his injuries.

• Fang Hao trapped the Jade God Sect Master in a formation while Xu Yan and Meng Chong plundered the sect’s treasuries and spirit fields.
• Xu Yan and Meng Chong intimidated the Jade God Sect’s deacons and disciples into surrendering their Storage Bags, then escaped with Fang Hao as the formation began to fail.
• The Jade God Sect Master discovered the devastation and identified Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and a mysterious Rogue Cultivator force as the attackers.
• Zhu Liang and other Spirit Refining experts gathered, agreed to search Jade Province for suspicious Rogue Cultivators, and decided to investigate those at the Greater Heavenly Human level and above.
• Shen Wang and Shen Haizhou celebrated the Jade God Sect’s losses before Shen Tai joined their family quarrel over erotic paintings.
• Yu Gao continued walking while vomiting blood, pleased that he had delayed Zhu Liang long enough for the raid.

Fang Hao took command of the Jade Province Myriad Worlds Alliance and organized the spoils from the Jade God Sect raid while keeping the alliance’s new resources secret. The Jade God Sect vowed to kill Xu Yan and Meng Chong, planning to lure Xu Yan out through a Prodigy Competition.

• Fang Hao became Alliance Leader, rewarded the wounded alliance members with pills, and assigned the Left Protector and Right Protector to guard the captured Spirit Mines.
• Fang Hao asked the alliance members to vote on concealing his leadership and the pills from the main alliance, and the members wholeheartedly supported his proposal.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Fang Hao met Shen Haizhou, who warned them that the Jade God Sect was investigating Greater Heavenly Human Rogue Cultivators and asked Fang Hao to make him three Spring Night Mirrors.
• Su Lingxiu healed Shen Haizhou’s injuries with a pill, and Xu Yan’s group began tallying the Jade God Sect’s stolen treasures at the estate.
• Zhu Liang and the Jade God Sect’s Sect Master vowed to kill Xu Yan and Meng Chong, and Zhu Liang planned to use the Crimson Nether True Disciple and a Prodigy Competition to lure Xu Yan out.

After Xu Yan reached the perfected Divine Intent Realm and Shen Haizhou returned to the Shen Family with pills, Lu Xinting of the Crimson Nether Sect became famous for killing Rogue Cultivators and announced he would challenge Xu Yan. Wen Yong set out for Jade Province to warn Xu Yan not to accept, while the Myriad Worlds Alliance avoided revealing its strength.

• Shen Haizhou used Su Lingxiu's Divine Intent Pills to break through to the Greater Heavenly Human realm, and Red Cat grew stronger after taking its pills.
• Xu Yan broke through to the perfected Divine Intent Realm, while Li Xuan's other disciples advanced through their cultivation and comprehension of the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Shen Haizhou returned to the Shen Family with pills for Shen Tai, who secretly entered seclusion, and an upgraded Spring Night Mirror.
• Lu Xinting killed a Spirit Refining Martial Artist with his golden halberd, and the Second Elder told him about Xu Yan and the Jade God Sect's planned Prodigy Competition.
• Lu Xinting killed three Spirit Refining Rogue Cultivators, awakened his Divine Radiance Treasure Body's potential, and announced he would travel to Jade Province to challenge Xu Yan.
• Wen Yong learned that Xu Yan had destroyed the Dai Family, then left for Jade Province to warn him against accepting Lu Xinting's challenge.

The Jade God Sect invited Lu Xinting, the Crimson Nether True Disciple, to challenge Xu Yan, who eagerly accepted despite warnings that the Spirit Sects might break the rules. When Wen Yong arrived to caution him, he told Xu Yan about the rise and destruction of the Myriad Stars Martial Academy, a school that had once spread martial arts beyond the Spirit Sects’ control.

• Lu Xinting arrived at the Jade God Sect and demanded that Xu Yan come fight him, prompting the sect to announce their Prodigy Competition across the Spirit Domain.
• Shen Haizhou explained Lu Xinting’s Divine Radiance Treasure Body and warned Xu Yan that the Jade God Sect might interfere if Lu Xinting were threatened, but Xu Yan decided to accept the challenge.
• Li Xuan approved Xu Yan’s decision and promised to establish new rules if the Spirit Sects broke them, while Fang Hao learned that Wen Yong had returned and wanted to meet Xu Yan.
• Wen Yong reunited with Xu Yan and urged him not to fight Lu Xinting, but Xu Yan stood by his decision.
• Wen Yong described how the Myriad Stars Martial Academy had once trained prodigies from humble backgrounds and spread martial arts throughout the Spirit Domain before the Spirit Sects and aristocratic clans destroyed it and erased its history.

Xu Yan accepted Lu Xinting’s Battle of Heavenly Prodigies, while Spirit Sect and aristocratic family forces prepared to use the gathering to capture Xu Yan and his allies. As the contenders and spectators converged on Zheng Kingdom, the Qingzhou Imperial Spirit Mansion’s true disciple Cui Huayu arrived, leaving Emperor Zheng terrified of displeasing him.

• Wen Yong explained how the Spirit Sects and aristocratic families had suppressed Rogue Cultivators after destroying the Myriad Stars Martial Academy, and Xu Yan declared that he would accept Lu Xinting’s challenge.
• Xu Yan gave Wen Yong two bottles of pills, and Wen Yong and Yu Gao left to investigate the Jade God Sect and Lu Xinting.
• Lu Xinting challenged Xu Yan to a fight to the death outside Zheng Kingdom’s capital; Xu Yan accepted, and martial artists from across the provinces flocked to watch.
• A grandfather and his granddaughter Yue'er traveled toward the capital, while a Spirit Refining Martial Artist recognized a palace carried by a sixth-tier Cloud Piercer Eagle as belonging to the Qingzhou Imperial Spirit Mansion.
• Su Zheng and other Spirit Sect and aristocratic family experts planned to capture Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and their allies when they appeared.
• Cui Huayu, a Qingzhou Imperial Spirit Mansion true disciple, arrived at Emperor Zheng’s palace, where Emperor Zheng anxiously tried to please him.

Cui Huayu sent Xu Yan a high-grade spirit artifact sword and urged him to kill Lu Xinting, but Xu Yan refused the gift before heading to the decisive battle. As Lu Xinting arrived and demanded Xu Yan appear, Yue'er challenged him for starting before noon, prompting Jade God Sect elders to attack her.

• Cui Huayu gave Emperor Zheng a high-grade spirit artifact sword for Xu Yan and told him to urge Xu Yan to kill Lu Xinting.
• Xu Yan and his companions prepared for the battle while Shen Haizhou revealed that Spirit Refining experts planned to surround Meng Chong and the Myriad Worlds Alliance.
• Emperor Zheng delivered Cui Huayu's sword to Xu Yan, but Xu Yan refused it and ordered it returned.
• Xu Yan's group traveled to the battlefield as Cui Huayu set out to watch the battle.
• Lu Xinting arrived at the battlefield and called for Xu Yan, while onlookers praised his power and mocked Rogue Cultivators.
• Yue'er pointed out that noon had not yet arrived, and Lu Xinting ordered Zhu Liang to seize her, prompting two Jade God Sect elders to charge at her.

Xu Yan arrived at the Battle of Heavenly Prodigies and openly belittled Lu Xinting before declaring that he would demonstrate the true sword path. As Lu Xinting prepared to fight, the Second Elder of the Crimson Nether Sect killed a spectator who compared him to a clown, and the onlookers fell silent.

• Xu Yan arrived with Meng Chong and the others, interrupting the Jade God Sect elders as they approached Yue'er.
• Li Xuan assessed the gathered experts and recognized the strength of Yue'er, her grandfather, Cui Huayu, and Lu Xinting.
• Xu Yan entered the dueling grounds and provoked Lu Xinting by calling his strength disappointing.
• Lu Xinting unleashed the power of his Divine Radiance Treasure Body while Zhu Liang and Su Zheng arranged to attack Xu Yan's allies after the duel.
• Xu Yan called himself Sword God and promised to make Lu Xinting the first stepping stone on his rise through the Spirit Domain.
• After a spectator likened Lu Xinting's display to a helpless tantrum, the Second Elder of the Crimson Nether Sect killed him with one punch.

Xu Yan demonstrated his swordsmanship by turning a mountain into a sword and killing Lu Xinting, then Li Xuan annihilated the Jade God Sect and Su Family experts with a formation formed from Heaven and Earth Momentum. The stunned survivors watched Red Cat carry Li Xuan away, while Fang Hao sent the Myriad Worlds Alliance to take over the defeated factions’ assets discreetly.

• Xu Yan trapped Lu Xinting in a torrent of swords made from grass, trees, sand, and stones, then transformed a small mountain into a giant sword and killed him with one strike.
• The Second Elder of the Crimson Nether Sect tried to intervene, but Cui Huayu delayed him, allowing Xu Yan’s strike to land; Zhu Liang and Su Zheng then ordered their forces to kill Xu Yan.
• Li Xuan warned the gathered experts not to break the Battle of Heavenly Prodigies’ rules, then formed a great array from Heaven and Earth Momentum while instructing Fang Hao to watch.
• Li Xuan’s formation trapped and annihilated the Second Elder, Zhu Liang, and the Jade God Sect and Su Family Spirit Refining Martial Artists, leaving their Storage Bags for Xu Yan.
• Li Xuan departed on Red Cat with Xu Yan following, while Fang Hao sent word for the Myriad Worlds Alliance to take over the defeated factions’ assets without attracting attention.