Recaps

Di Wanren asked Li Zhōujūn to help the Ancient Tower Clan return to the Dao Realm, and Li Zhōujūn pressured Liu Daochen into providing the means. The clan received three pills to undo its seals, while Liu Daochen secretly planned to destroy it if Li Zhōujūn lacked powerful backing.

• Di Wanren visited Li Zhōujūn by the lake and asked him to help the Ancient Tower Clan return to the Dao Realm.
• Liu Daochen arrived and said he had come to speak with Li Zhōujūn, while the system issued a quest to pressure him and help the clan return.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Liu Daochen to help the Ancient Tower Clan, and Liu Daochen agreed despite his anger and suspicions about Li Zhōujūn's backing.
• Liu Daochen gave Di Wanren three pills to undo the clan's seals and offered to support the clan after it returned to the Dao Realm.
• Di Wanren declared the Ancient Tower Clan's loyalty to Li Zhōujūn and left with the pills, while Liu Daochen wondered whether Di Wanren had asked him to bark like a dog.

Li Zhōujūn broke through to the Supreme Godly Emperor realm and used his new ability to enter the Dao Realm, where he accidentally appeared at Cloud Dao Lord’s gathering. Cloud Dao Lord mistook him for a challenger, while the Ancient Tower Clan and Liu Daochen feared the turmoil, and Li Zhōujūn tried to explain that he had taken a wrong turn.

• Li Zhōujūn completed his mission, reached the Supreme Godly Emperor realm, and learned that Ao Xue Flying Sword had also advanced to that grade.
• Li Zhōujūn received the ability to traverse the Dao Realm and immediately used it, landing by accident on Dao Lord Mountain as Cloud Dao Lord finished expounding the Dao.
• The cultivators at the gathering attacked Li Zhōujūn with their auras, but his Fifty-Fifty ability let him withstand their pressure without effort.
• Cloud Dao Lord mistook Li Zhōujūn for a Dao Lord who had come to challenge him and summoned thunder as the heavens darkened.
• The returning Ancient Tower Clan feared the upheaval, and Liu Daochen worried that his second elder sister had angered Cloud Dao Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn insisted he had taken a wrong turn, but Cloud Dao Lord rejected his explanation and accused him of becoming afraid.

Li Zhōujūn accepted Cloud Dao Lord’s challenge and withstood three palms unharmed, prompting Cloud Dao Lord to acknowledge his superiority. Cloud Dao Lord then sent Li Zhōujūn with Liu Daowan to visit the Liu Clan, while privately relieved to see him go.

• Cloud Dao Lord struck Li Zhōujūn with three golden palms, but Li Zhōujūn emerged unharmed from the crater.
• Cloud Dao Lord admitted he was no match for Li Zhōujūn, who introduced himself as the Azure Emperor; Cloud Dao Lord pretended he had heard of him before.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Cloud Dao Lord about the Liu Clan, and Cloud Dao Lord revealed that Liu Daowan was among the gathered Daoists.
• Cloud Dao Lord asked Liu Daowan to guide Li Zhōujūn to the Liu Clan, and she led him away as the Daoists respectfully bade him farewell.
• After Li Zhōujūn left, Cloud Dao Lord breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Daochen reunited with Liu Daowan and discovered that Li Zhōujūn was powerful enough to be acknowledged as Cloud Dao Lord’s superior. Liu Daowan then urged her brother to keep Li Zhōujūn happy before offering to show him around the Liu Clan and Ancient Tower Clan.

• Liu Daochen arrived with Liu Clan guards, and Liu Daowan reprimanded him for speaking disrespectfully to Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn asked about the Ancient Tower Clan, and Liu Daowan promised to have the Liu Clan treat them well after learning they were connected to one of his followers.
• Liu Daowan told Liu Daochen that Cloud Dao Lord had fought Li Zhōujūn and admitted he was inferior, leaving Liu Daochen stunned to learn Li Zhōujūn was a Dao Lord.
• Liu Daowan instructed Liu Daochen to praise her to Li Zhōujūn and warned him not to provoke the Azure Emperor.
• Liu Daowan and Liu Daochen returned to Li Zhōujūn, and Liu Daowan offered to guide him around the Liu Clan and Ancient Tower Clan.

Li Zhōujūn visited the Ancient Tower Clan and the Liu Household after his clash with the Cloud Dao Lord, revealing himself as a Dao Lord and winning both clans’ support. He left to explore elsewhere, while Liu Daowan beat Liu Daochen for teasing her about the Green Emperor.

• Di Wanren welcomed Li Zhōujūn after Liu Daowan revealed that he was a Dao Lord, and Li Zhōujūn asked the Ancient Tower Clan to look after the Hong Meng World.
• Liu Daowan promised that the Liu Household would also help protect the Hong Meng World, and Liu Daochen eagerly offered to show Li Zhōujūn around.
• Liu Daowan told Li Zhōujūn that their eldest sister, Liu Daoyan, had left the Hundred Birds Domain to explore a larger place and had not been heard from since.
• Li Zhōujūn saw Liu Daochen interacting kindly with a young Liu Household clansman, then finished his visit and departed.
• Liu Daowan pressed Liu Daochen about how he had met Li Zhōujūn, then punched him when he teased her about wanting to impress the Green Emperor.
• An old man told Li Zhōujūn that Liu Daowan was the only one who could keep the pampered Liu Household Third Young Master in line.

Li Zhōujūn agreed to help the Hundred Birds Domain Spirit and Cloud Dao Lord drive a Qiongqi from the Hundred Birds Domain for a reward. Before they could attack, a powerful White-haired Woman captured the Qiongqi, leaving Li Zhōujūn asking her to release it so he could fulfill his deal.

• The Hundred Birds Domain Spirit revealed that a First-Rank Dao Lord Qiongqi had occupied the domain’s spiritual vein and offered Li Zhōujūn one hundred thousand supreme-grade Dao Crystals to help drive it out.
• Li Zhōujūn accepted the mission and received fifty thousand Dao Crystals up front, then joined the Hundred Birds Domain Spirit and Cloud Dao Lord on their way to the Qiongqi’s mountain lair.
• They found the mountains shaking from a battle, and a White-haired Woman captured the Qiongqi in a treasure bottle.
• The White-haired Woman revealed that she was a Second-Rank Dao Lord and asked why Li Zhōujūn was not afraid of her.
• Li Zhōujūn asked the White-haired Woman to release the Qiongqi so he could drive it away and collect the remaining Dao Crystals, and Cloud Dao Lord agreed with him.

Li Zhōujūn accepted the remaining fifty thousand supreme-grade Dao Crystals, advanced to the First Heaven of the Daoist realm, and left with Cloud Dao Lord for Cloud Top Pavilion. Meanwhile, the Supreme Demon God Palace's Great Supreme and Second Supreme unleashed their auras toward the Hong Meng Continent, but an ancient door opened with an even mightier aura from the Ancient Tower Clan.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted fifty thousand supreme-grade Dao Crystals from the Hundred Birds Domain Spirit instead of having Qiongqi released, and his cultivation and Ao Xue Flying Sword advanced.
• The White-haired Woman vanished, and Li Zhōujūn followed Cloud Dao Lord toward Cloud Top Pavilion while the Hundred Birds Domain Spirit was left behind.
• The Great Supreme and Second Supreme emerged from seclusion in the Supreme Demon God Palace and sent their terrifying auras toward the Hong Meng Continent.
• Dragon Girl realized she had not warned the two Supremes about the Ancient Tower Clan's threat, while figures across the continent prepared for the looming conflict.
• An ancient door opened at the center of the Hong Meng World, releasing an aura far more powerful than the Supremes' and making Di Panqiao identify it as the Ancient Tower Clan's aura.

Di BuHuo appeared on the Ancient Tower Clan’s behalf and ended the disturbance in Hong Meng, while Li Zhōujūn explored the Dao Realm after dining with Cloud Dao Lord. On the way to North Star City, Li Zhōujūn encountered the White-haired Woman battling two men in black.

• Di BuHuo declared that he was guarding Hong Meng under the Azure Emperor’s orders, then shattered the Supreme Demon God Palace’s two auras and warned troublemakers before closing the gate.
• Dragon Girl saw the Great Supreme and Second Supreme coughing and their auras in disarray, while Hong Meng’s inhabitants marveled at the Azure Emperor’s power.
• Li Zhōujūn and Cloud Dao Lord ate at Cloud Top Pavilion, where Cloud Dao Lord knocked down the guards and went after his runaway disciple.
• Li Zhōujūn left Cloud Top Pavilion and set out for North Star City in the North Star Domain.
• Li Zhōujūn sensed a familiar aura in a mountain range and found the White-haired Woman fighting two men in black.

Li Zhōujūn helped Wen Mengqing drive off two Black-clothed Divine Hall men and received a cultivation breakthrough from the system. On his way to North Star City, he was stopped by Chu Dongjie and his companions, who suspected he had taken something from the battlefield and asked him to hand it over.

• The Black-clothed Twenty and Black-clothed Nineteen demanded that Wen Mengqing surrender Qiongqi, but Li Zhōujūn intervened after the system issued him a quest.
• Li Zhōujūn raised his aura to the Second-Rank Dao Lord realm, prompting the two black-clothed men to flee and completing his quest; his cultivation and Ao Xue Flying Sword advanced.
• Wen Mengqing thanked Li Zhōujūn, introduced herself as the Lord of North Star City, and left after inviting him to seek her help there.
• Li Zhōujūn continued toward North Star City and wondered whether Wen Mengqing was its City Lord.
• Chu Dongjie and four Daoist Third Layer companions stopped Li Zhōujūn, accused him of taking an opportunity from the battle site, and Chu Dongjie offered ten thousand Mid-grade Dao Crystals for it.

Li Zhōujūn reached North Star City after Xu Yuhua stopped Chu Dongjie from forcing him to hand over supposed spoils from a Dao Lord battle. In the city, he learned that its City Lord, Wen Mengqing, would subdue Qiongqi in the plaza three days later, leaving him wondering whether the public announcement would draw the men in black.

• Chu Dongjie demanded that Li Zhōujūn hand over items from the battlefield, but Xu Yuhua intervened and let Li Zhōujūn leave.
• Li Zhōujūn entered North Star City and marveled at its grand buildings and powerful silver-armored patrols.
• Li Zhōujūn learned from a passerby that Xu Rumò was a First-Rank Dao Lord and that the City Lord was Wen Mengqing.
• Xu Rumò announced that Wen Mengqing would subdue Qiongqi in the plaza three days later, inviting Great Cultivators to watch.
• The great lineages, including the Chu and Xu families, received the announcement and told their disciples to attend.

Li Zhōujūn thanked Xu Yuhua for helping him and learned she planned to watch Wen Mengqing subdue Qiongqi. The Black-clothed Divine Hall ordered Black-clothed Second, Black-clothed Nineteen, and Black-clothed Twenty to seize the beast, while Nineteen planned to secretly pledge allegiance to Wen Mengqing to survive.

• Li Zhōujūn offered to pay Xu Yuhua's breakfast, but learned she ate free at her family's restaurant, and thanked her for intervening the previous day.
• Xu Yuhua told Li Zhōujūn that Wen Mengqing would subdue Qiongqi at North Star Square in two days, and urged him to watch.
• The Hall Master ordered Black-clothed Second to take Black-clothed Nineteen and Black-clothed Twenty to intercept Qiongqi, despite Second's warning that Wen Mengqing's announcement might be a trap.
• Black-clothed Second accepted the mission after the Hall Master threatened him, then informed Nineteen and Twenty they would make another attempt to seize Qiongqi.
• Black-clothed Nineteen told Black-clothed Twenty they were likely walking into a trap and proposed secretly writing Wen Mengqing a letter pledging allegiance and explaining they were acting under duress.

Wen Mengqing exposed the Black-clothed Divine Hall men’s competing warning letters and ordered them not to interfere when she subdued Qiongqi. After they left, she admitted she was bluffing and tried to send Xu Rumò away from the coming danger.

• Black-clothed Nineteen and Black-clothed Twenty planted a letter at the City Lord’s Mansion, then encountered Black-clothed Second, who pretended he had come to investigate too.
• Wen Mengqing appeared and revealed letters from both the two men and Black-clothed Second, exposing their betrayals to one another.
• Wen Mengqing destroyed the letters and warned the three men to stay aside when she subdued Qiongqi if they wanted to live.
• Black-clothed Second suggested they flee, but Black-clothed Twenty persuaded them to wait and see whether Wen Mengqing was using the empty fort stratagem.
• Wen Mengqing privately admitted she had no backing and was bluffing, then told Xu Rumò to visit Southern Dipper City so she would be away from the coming confrontation.
• Xu Rumò refused to leave North Star City, saying she would risk her life to protect Wen Mengqing.

Wen Mengqing gathered North Star City’s crowd to subdue Qiongqi, while Li Zhōujūn’s connection to her surprised the onlookers and the Black-clothed Divine Hall. The chapter ended as Wen Mengqing released Qiongqi from a bottle and the beast emerged amid gathering dark clouds.

• Li Zhōujūn and Xu Yuhua traded barbs with Chu Dongjie, who threatened Li Zhōujūn before leaving.
• Xu Rumò led armored soldiers in surrounding the plaza and clearing a space for Wen Mengqing.
• Wen Mengqing arrived on a raised platform, spotted Li Zhōujūn, and nodded to him, prompting the crowd to speculate about their connection.
• Black-clothed Nineteen identified Li Zhōujūn as the man who had thwarted their attempt to seize Qiongqi, and Black-clothed Second beat him for interrupting.
• Wen Mengqing opened a bottle, releasing Qiongqi, whose roar shook the city as dark clouds gathered overhead.

Mo Xūqiú of Shanghu Academy seized Qiongqi and declared that he wanted Wen Mengqing as well, provoking the people of North Star City to defend their City Lord. Li Zhōujūn received a system mission to repel Mo Xūqiú and decided to intervene for the reward.

• Mo Xūqiú flew onto the platform and pinned Qiongqi down with a palm strike, leaving Xu Rumò and the armored soldiers to surround him.
• Black-clothed Second recognized Mo Xūqiú as a Fourth-Rank Dao Lord and gave up on intervening.
• Mo Xūqiú claimed he wanted Qiongqi to protect North Star City, but Qiongqi called out his lies and said she would rather acknowledge Wen Mengqing as her master.
• Mo Xūqiú admitted that he wanted Qiongqi and Wen Mengqing, and the cultivators of North Star City vowed to stand up for her.
• Wen Mengqing reflected on why she protected North Star City, while Li Zhōujūn received a mission to repel Mo Xūqiú and decided to act.

Mo Xūqiú trapped North Star City and threatened to kill everyone there, but Li Zhōujūn stepped forward to defend Wen Mengqing and the city. Mo Xūqiú unleashed his technique against Li Zhōujūn after he mocked its crooked golden characters.

• Mo Xūqiú enclosed North Star City in a transparent dome and declared that everyone except Wen Mengqing and Qiongqi would die.
• Li Zhōujūn walked to Wen Mengqing’s side, saying she still owed him a favor, and introduced himself as the Azure Emperor.
• Li Zhōujūn warned Mo Xūqiú not to bring disaster upon Shanghu Academy, while Mo Xūqiú dismissed him as a backwater bumpkin.
• Mo Xūqiú summoned the golden characters of the Sutra of World Recitation and Demon Suppression, terrifying the city’s cultivators.
• Li Zhōujūn criticized Mo Xūqiú’s handwriting, and Mo Xūqiú answered that his technique would still be enough to deal with him.

Li Zhōujūn survived Mo Xūqiú’s first attack unharmed and faced the Shanghu Academy expert’s trump-card divine ability, Divine Book Suppressing the World. As Mo Xūqiú sent the enormous golden book crashing toward North Star City, Li Zhōujūn opened the third eye between his brows and gathered golden lightning.

• Li Zhōujūn made his cultivation equal to Mo Xūqiú’s and shoved Wen Mengqing out of the path of the falling golden words.
• Mo Xūqiú’s attack battered the platform, but Li Zhōujūn emerged from the crater unharmed, astounding the cultivators of North Star City.
• Wen Mengqing felt relief at Li Zhōujūn’s protection, while Xu Rumò assumed they were close despite Wen Mengqing’s denial.
• Mo Xūqiú summoned Divine Book Suppressing the World, his trump card that had earned him third place on Shanghu Academy’s Heavenly Ranking.
• Li Zhōujūn’s presence dispelled the divine ability’s crushing pressure from the others, and Mo Xūqiú sent the golden book down toward him.
• Li Zhōujūn solemnly opened the third eye between his brows as golden lightning flickered around him.

Li Zhōujūn drove Mo Xūqiú away and learned that Shanghu Academy would return to North Star City in ten days. He teleported to meet the academy’s president, Wu Benxiong, but arrived as Wu transformed into a woman and threatened to kill him for witnessing the secret.

• Li Zhōujūn repelled Mo Xūqiú, who warned that he would return with others in ten days.
• The system advanced Li Zhōujūn to the Daoist Third Layer Realm and tasked him with inviting Shanghu Academy’s president to North Star City for tea.
• Li Zhōujūn reassured Wen Mengqing that North Star City would be safe and asked her to prepare tea for his guest ten days later.
• After returning to the inn, Li Zhōujūn teleported to the president’s residence at Shanghu Academy.
• Li Zhōujūn found Wu Benxiong transformed into a woman, and she threatened to kill him for seeing her secret.

Li Zhōujūn revealed Su Qian'ge's secret and arranged to meet her for tea in North Star City ten days later. After Mo Xūqiú's master prepared to go to the city, Li Zhōujūn arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, where Wen Mengqing was waiting with tea.

• Li Zhōujūn withstood Su Qian'ge's attack and invited her to North Star City in ten days.
• Su Qian'ge explained that she had taken Wu Benxiong's appearance to protect Shanghu Academy and its legacy, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to keep her identity secret.
• Mo Xūqiú reported his failure to capture Wen Mengqing and the Qiongqi, and his master, the True Profound Dao Lord, ordered him to set out for North Star City in ten days.
• Ten days later, Li Zhōujūn went to the City Lord's Mansion, where Xu Rumò told him Wen Mengqing had brewed tea and was waiting for him.

Li Zhōujūn hosted “Wu Benxiong,” actually the disguised president of Shanghu Academy, for tea as Mo Xūqiú and True Profound Dao Lord arrived to threaten North Star City. The president drove them away, leaving the city safe and the two intruders in disgrace.

• Li Zhōujūn welcomed “Wu Benxiong” to the City Lord's Mansion garden, astonishing Wen Mengqing and Xu Rumò with their meeting.
• “Wu Benxiong” guessed that Li Zhōujūn had invited him because Mo Xūqiú planned to attack North Star City with his master, True Profound Dao Lord.
• Dark clouds gathered over North Star City as Mo Xūqiú declared that the ten-day deadline had arrived and demanded that Li Zhōujūn face death.
• “Wu Benxiong” ordered Mo Xūqiú and True Profound Dao Lord to leave, then threatened to deal with them when he returned.
• True Profound Dao Lord slapped Mo Xūqiú, apologized to “Wu Benxiong,” and hurriedly took his disciple away as the sky cleared.

Su Qian'ge revealed that she had impersonated Wu Benxiong after he rescued her, and Buddha King Wuhai came to capture her over an old accusation. Li Zhōujūn accepted the system’s mission to protect her and stepped between Su Qian'ge and Wuhai as the monk prepared to attack.

• Wu Benxiong gave Wen Mengqing a jade slip that could summon one of his avatars, saying he saw himself in her.
• Buddha King Wuhai arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, sealed the garden with Buddhist light, and demanded that the supposed Wu Benxiong reveal her true form.
• Su Qian'ge transformed into her true appearance and denied killing the small city, explaining that Wu Benxiong had rescued her and that she had become Shanghu Academy's dean to repay him.
• Li Zhōujūn confirmed through the system that Su Qian'ge was telling the truth and accepted a mission to protect her from Wuhai.
• Wuhai's Buddhist light began burning Su Qian'ge, but Li Zhōujūn blocked it by standing in front of her.
• Wuhai declared that he would have to transcend Li Zhōujūn as well.

Li Zhōujūn stopped Buddha King Wuhai from killing Su Qian'ge, and the two reached an uneasy truce. When Buddha King Wuhai returned to Thousand-Hand Buddha Emperor Temple, he found it devastated by a black-clad man with nine cat tails.

• Buddha King Wuhai attacked Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn suppressed his force and revealed his Seventh-Rank Dao Lord cultivation.
• Li Zhōujūn trapped Buddha King Wuhai’s seven punches on a chessboard, and Buddha King Wuhai abruptly agreed to let Su Qian'ge reform.
• Li Zhōujūn warned Buddha King Wuhai and the forces behind him not to target Su Qian'ge, then Buddha King Wuhai withdrew.
• Su Qian'ge thanked Li Zhōujūn, praised Wen Mengqing for keeping her identity secret, and left in Wu Benxiong’s appearance.
• Buddha King Wuhai returned to Thousand-Hand Buddha Emperor Temple and found its Buddhas dead and the temple filled with demonic aura.
• Buddha King Wuhai saw a black-clad man with nine cat tails standing atop a mound of corpses and holding the golden bell.

Su Shenhua revealed that he had killed the Buddha Venerate and Buddha King Wuhai, then Su Qian'ge dealt with True Profound Dao Lord and Mo Xūqiú. Li Zhōujūn left North Star City for the Four Books Domain, where he encountered Su Shenhua, who explained that he was Su Qian'ge's brother.

• Su Shenhua told Buddha King Wuhai that his past actions had led to the deaths of the Buddha Venerate and others, then beheaded him.
• Su Qian'ge returned to Shanghu Academy and beat True Profound Dao Lord and Mo Xūqiú, warning them to stay away from North Star City.
• Li Zhōujūn accepted tea leaves from Wen Mengqing, and Xu Rumò thanked him for saving the city.
• Li Zhōujūn left the City Lord's Mansion, collected tea leaves from the inn, and set off toward the Four Books Domain.
• Su Shenhua appeared before Li Zhōujūn, who mistook him for Su Qian'ge, and introduced himself as her brother.

Li Zhōujūn learned about the Tianquan Holy Land and its Three Thousand Domain Assembly after arriving in the Four Books Domain. Su Qian'ge gave him a token to enter the assembly, leaving him with the chance to compete in its nine Dao Lord battlefields.

• Su Shenhua thanked Li Zhōujūn for protecting Su Qian'ge, gave him a finger-bone whistle, and warned him not to harm his sister.
• After Li Zhōujūn left, Su Shenhua considered finding someone to protect Su Qian'ge, then staggered as his body weakened.
• Li Zhōujūn reached Muxi City and learned from a roast-chicken vendor that Tianquan City and the Tianquan Holy Land ruled the Four Books Domain and organized the Three Thousand Domain Assembly.
• Li Zhōujūn watched the sunset over Muxi City, where Su Qian'ge joined him in her original appearance.
• Su Qian'ge gave Li Zhōujūn a token to participate in the Three Thousand Domain Assembly and explained that it had nine battlefields for the nine ranks of Dao Lords.

Li Zhōujūn accepted Su Qian'ge’s invitation to compete in the Three Thousand Domain Assembly and set out for Tianquan City. On the road, he encountered unlucky but helpful Ma Zhengyun, whose family planned to use his bad luck against the Hu Family.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted Su Qian'ge’s Gold-Edged Jade Token and agreed to attend the Three Thousand Domain Assembly in about a month.
• Su Qian'ge warned Li Zhōujūn to travel to Tianquan City alone so her identity would not be exposed, and he set off after she left.
• Ma Zhengyun invited Li Zhōujūn into his carriage, hoping that helping him would improve his terrible luck.
• Three bandits confronted Ma Zhengyun’s carriage, but Li Zhōujūn used the token’s Seventh-Rank Dao Lord aura to scare them away.
• Li Zhōujūn left the carriage, while Uncle Chen revealed that Ma Zhengyun’s father planned to send him into the Hu Family as a servant to exploit his bad luck.

Li Zhōujūn arrived in Tianquan City and was welcomed by city lord Gong Yi, while she prepared to use Spirit Devouring Iron Ore to draw out the Heaven's Heart Demonic Palace. At the Hu estate, Ma Zhengyun’s apparent bad luck brought more lightning, and Hu Xiangtian discovered that his younger son had been struck down.

• Li Zhōujūn heard that lightning had repeatedly struck the Hu Family, then presented the city lord’s token at the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Gong Yi recognized Li Zhōujūn’s Three Thousand Domain Assembly Token and settled him in a courtyard to prepare for the assembly.
• Gong Yi planned to use the Spirit Devouring Iron Ore as bait to expose the Heaven's Heart Demonic Palace cultivators hiding in Tianquan City.
• Hu Xiangtian ordered Steward Niu to investigate whether the Ma Family was behind the lightning strikes, while Niu privately revealed the city lord had told him to provoke the Hu Family.
• A Heaven's Heart Demonic Palace shadow threatened Hu Xiangtian over the Spirit Devouring Iron Ore, and Hu Xiangtian considered how to seize it without alerting the Tianquan Holy Land.
• Lightning struck the Hu estate again, and Hu Xiangtian saw the newly hired servant A Zheng carrying what appeared to be his charred younger son.