Chapter Summaries

Lan Chang'an helped Emperor Yu besiege Shuiyue Mountain, then uncovered that the imperial clan had used his forces as a diversion while attacking Luo Imperial City. He saved more than a hundred thousand cultivators by persuading the enemy giants to halt their pursuit, while Emperor Yu’s forces broke into the Great Daluo Imperial City and cornered the Luo Imperial Clan.

• Emperor Yu rewarded Lan Chang'an with Golden Scale Blood and an Azure Sparrow Feather, then enlisted him to restrain True Lord Yunlei and promised him the Blood Refining Demon Transformation Canon after the war.
• Lan Chang'an and Puppet Master Wei assessed how the Azure Sparrow Feather could improve the Strange Spirit Peacock, and Lan Chang'an planned to use Lord Mystic Water's essence blood to advance his body refining.
• Emperor Yu led seven True Lords and a vast army in repeated assaults on Shuiyue Mountain, where Lord Jiuliu's defenses and True Lord Yunlei's forces inflicted heavy losses before both sides withdrew to recover.
• Lan Chang'an realized Emperor Yu had secretly shifted forces toward Luo Imperial City, ordered the Floating War Fortress to retreat, and revealed that Great Dayu's army had invaded the enemy capital while the Luo Imperial Clan had abandoned its kingdom.
• Lan Chang'an convinced Lord Jiuliu and True Lord Yunlei to refrain from slaughtering the retreating army, allowing most of the cultivators to reach Qingfeng City safely.
• The Ancient Dragon Crocodile and Luo Rui helped Great Dayu breach Luo Imperial City, while Emperor Yu and six imperial clan Nascent Soul cultivators suppressed Patriarch Luo and the other Luo Imperial Clan leaders with the Jade Dragon Seal.

After Great Dayu defeated the Luo Imperial Clan, Lan Chang'an secured compensation from Emperor Yu while secretly influencing the pursuit of Luo Qianshui. He returned to Daluo City, where Emperor Yu offered him a Tier 4 Spiritual Vein, but Lan Chang'an revealed that he already knew Ziyan had advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Emperor Yu's forces killed the Luo Imperial Clan's three Nascent Soul cultivators, though the imperial clan chief suffered a severe loss of lifespan and handed the Jade Dragon Seal to Emperor Yu.
• Great Dayu captured Daluo City, but Emperor Yu's search for the escaped Ninth Prince and Princess Luoshui stalled; he ordered a bounty and tasked Lan Chang'an with tracking them.
• Lan Chang'an used a puppet to confront Emperor Yu, increasing his promised compensation and obtaining the Blood Refining Demon Transformation Canon, the Myriad Spirit Pharmacopoeia, and other resources.
• Emperor Yu secretly investigated suspected moles, while Lan Chang'an hunted for resources and misdirected the trackers away from Luo Qianshui, allowing her to escape.
• Emperor Yu offered Lan Chang'an one of Great Daluo's vacant Tier 4 Spiritual Veins, but Lan Chang'an demonstrated that he knew Ziyan had reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage, alarming Emperor Yu.

Jiang Ziyan advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, strengthening Cloud Glow Sect and changing the balance of power between her and Lan Chang'an, while he continued cultivating in preparation for his eventual departure. Two years later, Lan Chang'an completed a major body-refinement advance and realized that the imperial clan’s blood and medicinal resources had nearly triggered a lightning tribulation.

• Jiang Ziyan broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Cloud Glow Sect celebrated its new giant while Jiang Haoran’s awe of Lan Chang'an diminished.
• Lan Chang'an returned to Cloud Glow Sect and advised Jiang Ziyan to keep the sect’s growth low-key; she urged him to stay, but he refused to promise he would remain, leaving a fine crack in their relationship.
• Jiang Ziyan’s breakthrough raised Cloud Glow Sect’s standing, while Great Snake Mountain surrendered disputed resources and faced quiet pressure from her sect.
• Lan Chang'an refined Lord Mystic Water’s blood essence and found it strengthened his body, then focused on gathering Demon King blood and advancing his Tier 4 Puppet Array.
• Le Qingni offered Lan Chang'an her grandfather’s alchemy inheritance and asked to stay the night, but he rebuked her and she left, realizing his protection did not make her his concubine.
• Two years later, Lan Chang'an emerged from a body-refinement pool with a Golden Net Tyrant physique and concluded that refining too much essence blood and medicine had nearly drawn a realm-breaking lightning tribulation.

Lan Chang'an stabilized his new body-refinement realm, completed a powerful Tier 4 Puppet Array with Puppet Master Wei, and prepared to travel to Great Kun with the Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine. After he departed, Emperor Yu learned that Xiang Dalong was an ancient, exceptionally powerful cultivator and concluded that the imperial clan could not afford to provoke him.

• Lan Chang'an tested his enhanced defense, ordered Di Yan Jun to help Lord Mystic Water manage its vigorous yang fire, and then consolidated his body-refinement realm.
• Jiang Ziyan visited Yunlan Peak, but Di Yan Jun told her that Lan Chang'an was occupied forging puppets; Lan Chang'an and Puppet Master Wei continued developing their Tier 4 Puppet Array and eventually completed its initial form.
• Lan Chang'an mapped a route to Great Kun, dug up the Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine, and left Cloud Glow Sect with Di Yan Jun under the pretext of collecting resources along the Eastern Region coast.
• Emperor Yu learned from the Old Patriarch that True Lord Iron Calculation had suffered a divination backlash while uncovering Xiang Dalong's extraordinary background, and the two decided the imperial clan could not afford to provoke him.
• The imperial clan later learned that Xiang Dalong had gone to the Eastern Region coast, and a year afterward he disappeared without a trace in Great Abyss.

Three years after his previous life, Lan Chang'an returned to the Xu Clan’s Purple Thorn Mountain under the name Xiang and discovered that his descendants honored him as Xuan Ancestor. After protecting Xu Qingge from Cai Lin and entering the ancestral shrine, he destroyed Xu Congfeng’s spirit tablet, prompting the living Nascent Soul True Lord to prepare to return to the clan.

• Xu Qingge stopped Cai Lin from approaching her, then learned that his claimed marriage agreement with her had not been finalized.
• Lan Chang'an appeared in the Purple Bamboo Forest, questioned Xu Qingge about Xu Congfeng, and realized that the Xu Clan’s current Old Ancestor was Xu Xiaofeng, who had once abandoned the clan.
• Lan Chang'an rebuked Cai Lin and overwhelmed him with a single command, then promised Xu Qingge that he would protect her freedom to choose her marriage.
• Lan Chang'an accompanied Xu Qingge to the ancestral shrine, where he entered despite the clan rules and found his own spirit tablet ranked below Xu Congfeng’s.
• Lan Chang'an destroyed Xu Congfeng’s spirit tablet, and Xu Congfeng sensed the attack from his Wind-Riding Sect cave and decided to return to the Xu Clan.

Lan Chang'an uncovered how Xu Congfeng was draining the Xu Family’s ancestral fortune and learned that Shao Chen had vanished overseas. When Xu Congfeng and the Cai Clan challenged him over the Feng Shui Spirit Tablet and Cai Lin’s injuries, Lan Chang'an defeated Xu Congfeng, forced him to serve the Xu Family, and ended Xu Qingge’s marriage agreement with the Cai Clan.

• Lan Chang'an learned that Xu Congfeng’s return was secretly draining the Xu Family’s fortune and that Xu Qingge faced a tragic fate; he also discovered Shao Chen had been missing overseas for at least three hundred years.
• Cai Mingzhao found Cai Lin badly injured in body and spirit, then threatened the Xu Family over the attack on his son.
• Xu Qingge visited Lan Chang'an with breakfast and played the zither; he gave her old music scores and warned that uninvited guests were coming.
• Old Ancestor Congfeng arrived furious over the destroyed Feng Shui Spirit Tablet, and Cai Mingzhao accused the Xu Family’s guest of injuring Cai Lin.
• Lan Chang'an defeated Xu Congfeng, placed a Gu God Restriction on him, and ordered him to apologize to the Xu Family’s ancestors as its servant.
• Cai Chengkun arrived to demand an explanation, but withdrew after learning Lan Chang'an was from Abyss City; he accepted the cancellation of Xu Qingge and Cai Lin’s marriage agreement and took his descendants away.

Lan Chang'an secured the Xu Clan’s future, then traveled to Great Kun to trade resources and search for another volume of the Evergreen Art. After recognizing the disguised Moon Demon Priest at an auction, he avoided confronting her and found the complete cultivation method in Yan Donglai’s cave abode, where Yan Donglai secretly replaced the volume for another seeker.

• Lan Chang'an made Xu Congfeng surrender his wealth, serve the Xu Clan under a Restriction Jade Tablet, and send the Wind-Riding Sect a confession and resignation letter.
• Lan Chang'an taught Xu Qingge how to control Xu Congfeng and gave her directions to a treasure from his Previous Life before leaving the Xu family.
• Lan Chang'an traded in Qiankun Immortal City, obtained Earth Mother Qi and Stone Core Ganoderma for Di Yan Jun, and found little evidence of True Lord Shao’s Evergreen Art volume.
• Lan Chang'an recognized that Blue Moon True Lord was the Moon Demon Priest, changed his disguise, and sent warnings about her to Great Kun’s leading powers.
• Lan Chang'an sent a puppet into Yan Donglai’s cave-abode ruins and found the complete Ancient Wood Evergreen Art, while Yan Donglai watched and placed a replacement copy for another seeker.

Yan Donglai evaluated Lu Changqing’s potential while negotiating with Barefoot Old Man Zhong about the Tianyi Great Tribulation, and Lan Chang'an fled Great Kun after sensing its disturbed heavenly secrets. Years later, Lan Chang'an returned to Cloud Glow Sect, watched Jiang Haoran fail his second Nascent Soul attempt, and successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Yan Donglai decided to let Lu Changqing grow freely rather than accept him as a disciple, then met Barefoot Old Man Zhong, discussed the approaching Tianyi Great Tribulation, and proposed trading help for the Xu Hai Pot.
• After Zhong and Yan Donglai parted, Yan Donglai lost track of Lan Chang'an and sensed that a promising Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator had appeared in Beimu Province.
• Lan Chang'an left Great Kun with the complete Evergreen Art, wary that his success and the region’s chaotic heavenly secrets were suspicious; Priestess Pu later escaped the destruction of her Demon Peak Realm stronghold and blamed him for exposing her.
• Eight years after his departure, Lan Chang'an returned to Cloud Glow Sect, where Jiang Haoran failed his second attempt to form a Nascent Soul.
• Lan Chang'an cultivated the complete Evergreen Art and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage in one attempt, astonishing Jiang Ziyan.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Lan Chang'an weighed the dangers surrounding the Evergreen Art and his growing conflict with True Lord Ming Shui, while the Central Region’s powers reacted to his breakthrough. True Lord Ming Shui then received an ancient Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion artifact that could lead her to the opportunity she believed Lan Chang'an had taken.

• Lan Chang'an concluded that the Evergreen Art he had received was likely a limited version, rejected the temptation to devour fellow disciples, and sensed that the overseas Evergreen Medical Saint had reached at least the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• After divining that True Lord Ming Shui’s obsession with Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion’s opportunities was growing, Lan Chang'an emerged from seclusion and resolved that she had to be killed.
• Jiang Ziyan congratulated Lan Chang'an, proposed eliminating Great Snake Mountain and cultivating Xiao Qingshan, but Lan Chang'an rejected a premature attack and agreed only to let Xiao Qingshan’s prospects develop naturally.
• News of Xiang Dalong’s breakthrough alarmed the Great Dayu Imperial Clan, and True Lord Iron Calculation advised Emperor Yu to appease him and preserve Great Snake Mountain as a buffer.
• True Lord Ming Shui learned of Xiang Dalong’s advancement, suspected he had obtained Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion’s secret treasure, and received an incomplete Horn of the End of the World recovered from the Ruined Coast.

True Lord Ming Shui followed the damaged Horn of the End of the World to a hidden cavern, where Lan Chang'an ambushed and defeated her with a Tier 4 Puppet Array and his allies. After capturing her Nascent Soul, Lan Chang'an considered using it to replace the First Life on the Nine Imprint Tablet, but hesitated over the choice.

• True Lord Ming Shui killed the three disciples who discovered the cavern, then sent the Red-Clad Female Cultivator ahead to explore its waterways.
• A tsunami erupted from a natural pool, killing the Red-Clad Female Cultivator and revealing a Tier 4 giant turtle and the apparently familiar True Lord Chahai.
• True Lord Ming Shui realized that the Blue-Robed Youth was Lan Chang'an in disguise, and Lan Chang'an trapped and overwhelmed her with the Mystic Water Turtle, Di Yan Jun, five Tier 4 Puppets, and his other treasures.
• True Lord Ming Shui self-detonated her body and fled as a Nascent Soul, but Lan Chang'an's Five-Colored Peacock stunned her, allowing him to capture her in a sealed wooden box.
• Lan Chang'an escaped to the Southern Region and considered erasing his First Life on the Nine Imprint Tablet so True Lord Ming Shui's Nascent Soul could replace it.

Jing Wufeng left Tianyi Sect to seek fortune in Great Abyss before the final trial, while Lan Chang'an killed True Lord Ming Shui and concealed his involvement. He later revealed his strength and Mystic Water Turtle to Jiang Ziyan, then cultivated his sword formation as the Sixteen Sea-Suppressing Sects expanded their investigation toward the Central Region.

• Jing Wufeng said farewell to Baolian Maiden and traveled to Great Abyss, hoping to find another opportunity before the final Tianyi Trial.
• Lan Chang'an used the Nine Imprint Tablet to destroy True Lord Ming Shui's Nascent Soul, then fled and used divination to conceal the trail of her death.
• Lan Chang'an reviewed the limits of his Puppet Army Formation and began strengthening the Green Profound Sword Formation.
• Jiang Ziyan told Lan Chang'an that the Sixteen Sea-Suppressing Sects were investigating True Lord Ming Shui's death, and he admitted his involvement and revealed Lord Mystic Water.
• Lan Chang'an cultivated four Green Profound Wood Swords and gathered life-extending treasures while the Sixteen Sea-Suppressing Sects widened their investigation toward the Central Region and Great Dayu Kingdom.

Lan Chang'an faced the fallout from True Lord Ming Shui’s death as the Sea-Suppressing Alliance pursued Jing Wufeng, who escaped into the outer sea and found the Taiyin Illusion Realm. Months later, True Lord Fuhai arrived above Cloud Glow Sect, and Lan Chang'an boldly called him down for a conversation.

• Lan Chang'an learned that the Black Marsh Sect’s Grand Elder had secured a Sea Alliance Assembly by claiming True Lord Ming Shui’s death might involve an opportunity from the Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion.
• Jing Wufeng was mistaken for Ming Shui’s killer after arriving on his Ink Water Qilin, but he escaped an ambush by nearly ten Nascent Soul cultivators and fled to the outer sea.
• Jing Wufeng encountered the Taiyin Illusion Realm and cooperated with a disguised woman from Star-Moon Palace to enter it.
• The Sea Alliance Assembly ended without a resolution, while the Great Dayu Imperial Clan decided to remain neutral and oppose any pressure on Cloud Glow Sect or Xiang Dalong.
• Lan Chang'an sensed True Lord Fuhai passing over Cloud Glow Sect and flew up to invite the great cultivator to stay for a chat.

Lan Chang'an endured more than a hundred attacks from True Lord Fuhai with the help of four Tier 4 Puppets, winning their wager and earning the great cultivator’s respect. After Jing Wufeng revealed his late-stage cultivation and clashed with Fuhai, Lan Chang'an intervened as the two faced off, leaving the confrontation poised to end.

• True Lord Fuhai attacked Lan Chang'an, and Jiang Ziyan joined him to block the first blow before Fuhai trapped her with a giant octopus sea beast.
• Lan Chang'an summoned four Tier 4 Puppets and used their formation to withstand more than a hundred of Fuhai’s attacks, fulfilling their wager.
• True Lord Fuhai freed Jiang Ziyan and treated Lan Chang'an as an equal, while Jing Wufeng revealed himself after watching the duel.
• True Lord Fuhai discovered Jing Wufeng’s Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation and attacked him with the Sea-Suppressing Halberd, but Jing Wufeng countered with the Voidless Blade.
• Lan Chang'an appeared between the two great cultivators and asked them to end the confrontation for his sake.

Lan Chang'an and Jing Wufeng negotiated with True Lord Fuhai after Lan Chang'an withstood the Sea-Suppressing great cultivator’s attacks, easing the threat over True Lord Ming Shui’s death. Jing Wufeng then reunited with Lan Chang'an, gave him an Outer Sea token, and asked him to help with another mission in exchange for a promised Pseudo-Spirit Treasure.

• Lan Chang'an invited True Lord Fuhai into Cloud Glow Sect, where the two Twin Dragons discussed their origins, Listen-to-the-Sea Pavilion’s lost Mystic Heaven Gourd Vine, and the Demon Peak Realm’s possible invasion.
• True Lord Fuhai left Cloud Glow Sect without raising True Lord Ming Shui’s death, while Emperor Yu and Yu Yuanjin arrived too late to intervene and declined Lan Chang'an’s invitation.
• Jing Wufeng showed Lan Chang'an the Ink Water Qilin, which called Lan Chang'an godfather, and gave him deep-sea resources along with a crescent jade token for Star-Moon Palace.
• Lan Chang'an asked why Jing Wufeng had returned to the Great Abyss, and Jing Wufeng requested his help with another task, promising a heavy reward and possibly the [Heaven-Splitting Axe].

Lan Chang'an accelerated Jing Wufeng’s Nine-Seed Bitter Heart Lotus and shared a Heavenly Demon secret art to aid Jing’s Tianyi Trial, receiving spatial inheritance knowledge in return. After Jing departed, Lan sensed an ominous change in their connection, then cultivated the lotus seeds, studied spatial puppet techniques, and kept a low profile as the Twin Dragons’ fame spread; the chapter ended with alarming news from the Great Abyss’s Western Region.

• Jing Wufeng showed Lan Chang'an the Nine-Seed Bitter Heart Lotus and asked him to spend lifespan accelerating it, offering two Tier 4 Longevity Pills, three lotus seeds, and a future reward if he won the Tianyi Trial.
• Lan Chang'an used his Evergreen Secret Technique to grow the lotus to Tier 4 High-Grade, and Jing gave him spatial inheritance knowledge in gratitude.
• Lan Chang'an passed Jing a Great Freedom Heavenly Demon secret technique, which Jing studied as a possible aid for the Tianyi Trial, then the two parted.
• Lan Chang'an felt an ominous shift in his karmic connection with Jing and failed to divine its cause; afterward, he and Puppet Master Wei studied spatial techniques, and Lan planted a lotus seed and consumed another to aid his comprehension and soul cultivation.
• Lan Chang'an stayed in seclusion while the Twin Dragons’ reputation spread, and the Sixteen Sea-Suppressing Sects revoked their wanted notices after ruling that True Lord Ming Shui had provoked the conflict.
• Intelligence forces recorded Jing Wufeng and Xiang Dalong as figures of growing importance, and news from the Great Abyss’s Western Region later alarmed the region’s top powers.

The Black Phoenix advanced to late Tier 4, unsettling the Great Abyss before making peace with the human cultivators. Lan Chang'an strengthened his cultivation and prepared Di Yan Jun for a breakthrough, then learned the Great Dayu Imperial Clan’s Old Patriarch had died as two foreign visitors arrived at the Cloud Glow Sect seeking the Twin Dragons.

• The Black Phoenix used the Ten Thousand Baleful Demonic Crystal and Heaven-Propping Giant Venerable’s flesh to advance to late Tier 4, while Priestess Pu and Great Monarch Thousand Shadows urged him to conceal his power and follow their plans.
• The Great Abyss’s three great cultivators met the Black Phoenix, who promised not to expand into human territory, easing the Central Region’s fears.
• Yan Donglai sensed Lan Chang'an’s deep karma with the Tianyi Sect but chose not to approach him or interfere before the Tianyi Great Tribulation ended.
• Lan Chang'an reached the eighth layer of the Thousand Mechanisms Soul Derivation Art and gave Di Yan Jun the final Bitter Heart Lotus seed and a Tier 4 High-Grade Stone Core Ganoderma to prepare for a breakthrough.
• Jiang Ziyan told Lan Chang'an that the Great Dayu Imperial Clan’s Old Patriarch had died of old age.
• A refined middle-aged man and a veiled woman arrived at the Cloud Glow Sect and discussed persuading Lan Chang'an to help with their mission.

Lan Chang'an received envoys from the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, rejected their offer of office, and agreed to remain neutral in its conflict with the Great Dayu Imperial Clan in exchange for resources. Meanwhile, Jing Wufeng defeated Senior Brother Ji on the Cloud Ladder and was chosen as Tianyi's true inheritor.

• Lan Chang'an met Luo Qianshui and Qi Xiuyuan, who asked him to help the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty reclaim the Yu imperial clan branch and offered him a high-ranking office; he refused but agreed to stay neutral.
• Luo Qianshui privately offered to pledge herself to Lan Chang'an in return for his help avenging her kin, but he rejected her conditional offer.
• Lan Chang'an ordered Xiao Qingshan to spread rumors of the Immortal Dynasty's offer, prompting the Great Dayu Imperial Clan to send True Lord Iron Calculation with gifts and a request for his endorsement of an appeal for aid.
• Lan Chang'an demanded additional resources and signed the imperial clan's appeal as a recommender in exchange for remaining neutral.
• Jing Wufeng reached the hundredth step of the Cloud Ladder ahead of Senior Brother Ji, who died after his Nascent Soul shattered.
• Tianyi Divine Monarch declared Jing Wufeng Tianyi's true inheritor and took him away to bestow the inheritance.

Qi Xiuyuan and Luo Qianshui entered the Great Dayu capital and presented the imperial clan with a visiting card from Marquis Tianwu, leaving the clan anxious as they awaited the Jin Dynasty’s next move. Meanwhile, Di Yan Jun advanced to mid-Tier 4, and Priestess Pu began planning to kill Lan Chang'an after she and her allies grew stronger.

• Qi Xiuyuan and Luo Qianshui entered the imperial capital, where True Lord Iron Calculation received them alongside Old Monster Jinkun and learned that Marquis Tianwu was behind their mission.
• True Lord Iron Calculation and Old Monster Jinkun discussed the Great Dayu Imperial Clan’s defenses, while Jinkun reaffirmed that he would only pin down one Nascent Soul Middle Stage opponent.
• Di Yan Jun broke through to mid-Tier 4 beneath Yunlan Peak, and Lan Chang'an praised his Spirit Pet before receiving congratulations from Jiang Ziyan and the Cloud Glow Sect’s leaders.
• News of Di Yan Jun’s breakthrough spread across the Great Dayu Kingdom, strengthening the Cloud Glow Sect’s reputation while the imperial clan remained preoccupied with the Jin Dynasty’s threat.
• Priestess Pu asked Great Monarch Thousand Shadows about assassinating Xiang Dalong, but accepted his advice to wait until she and Black Phoenix had grown stronger before targeting Lan Chang'an.

After Di Yan Jun emerged from seclusion, Lan Chang'an accepted the Great Dayu royal family's invitation to lend his presence during Marquis Tianwu's visit, while resolving not to fight. Marquis Tianwu confronted the royal clan outside the Imperial City, and Lan Chang'an's arrival eased the standoff, which remained unresolved as the chapter ended.

• Di Yan Jun emerged at the middle stage of Tier 4, and True Lord Hongxiu invited Lan Chang'an to the Imperial City to support the royal family during Marquis Tianwu's visit.
• Lan Chang'an read True Lord Fuhai's letter confirming that the Sea-Suppressing Great Cultivator had agreed to assist because of Lan Chang'an's reputation, and decided to attend only as an onlooker.
• Marquis Tianwu entered the Great Dayu Kingdom with General Yuwen and met Qi Xiuyuan and Luo Qianshui, declaring that he needed no soldiers to achieve his purpose.
• Marquis Tianwu challenged the Great Dayu royal clan outside the Imperial City, but Emperor Yu refused to let him enter or meet him outside the defensive formation.
• Lan Chang'an arrived on his Tier 4 Earth Rock Rat, rebuffed Qi Xiuyuan's accusation, and exchanged greetings with Marquis Tianwu, who accepted his neutral presence.
• Lan Chang'an urged the royal clan to wait, then publicly mocked Old Monster Jinkun's aging appearance while privately considering him a potential future target.

Lan Chang'an watched True Lord Fuhai duel Marquis Tianwu, then learned more about the Sea-Suppressing Halberd and Yan Donglai. While Marquis Tianwu negotiated with the Yu Clan, he revealed the missing half of an ancestral jade token, whose secret letter left Emperor Yu and the other Yu Clan leaders in shock.

• True Lord Fuhai arrived at the Imperial City and challenged Marquis Tianwu to a duel, then invited Lan Chang'an to observe their battle in the sixth layer of the astral heavens.
• Marquis Tianwu and True Lord Fuhai fought for half an hour, with neither gaining a decisive victory, while Lan Chang'an watched and assessed their strengths.
• True Lord Fuhai explained the origins of the Sea-Suppressing Halberd and told Lan Chang'an that Yan Donglai was rumored to be a fifth-rank artifact refiner.
• Marquis Tianwu agreed not to force anything upon the Great Dayu Kingdom and entered the Imperial City alone to negotiate with Emperor Yu and the Yu Clan leaders.
• Marquis Tianwu produced the other half of the Yu Clan's Green Patterned Jade, and Emperor Yu joined the pieces to reveal an ancestral secret letter and a Bronze Ring.
• Emperor Yu, Yu Yuanjin, and True Lord Iron Calculation read the ancestral secret letter and reacted with disbelief, horror, and anger.