Recaps

Blissful Immortal Lord suspected Tiger Vanguard was an extraordinary pawn sent by another Immortal Lord to undermine Blissful Immortal Palace. He ordered Sky-Beast True Person to announce Tiger Vanguard as a Blissful True Disciple, intending to use the appointment against the looming scheme.

• Blissful Immortal Lord’s displeasure triggered the Three Disasters to erode Sky-Beast True Person’s Dao foundation until the Immortal Lord spoke again.
• Blissful Immortal Lord questioned why Tiger Vanguard could use a Bloodline Supernatural Ability without weakening and fight the thunder eagle with inhuman skill.
• Sky-Beast True Person realized he might have been caught in an enemy Destiny Supernatural Ability, and Blissful Immortal Lord suspected an Immortal Lord was behind the plot.
• Blissful Immortal Lord struck Sky-Beast True Person with a spoon, then explained that rivals were testing Blissful Immortal Palace ahead of his birthday feast.
• Blissful Immortal Lord ordered Sky-Beast True Person to tell Tiger Vanguard that he had the honor of becoming a Blissful True Disciple.

Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou returned from clearing the Ascension Road, and Sky-Beast True Person offered them places in Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord’s sect. Tiger Vanguard asked whether becoming a True Disciple would still let him challenge the Ascension Road.

• Tiger Vanguard invited Mi Mian to join him in the next section, but she refused and rebuked the other children for relying on him after withholding food and help from her.
• Crows transported Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou to the Ascension Road viewing platform, where spectators celebrated their clear.
• Tiger Vanguard and Bai Zhou gave their names to Sky-Beast True Person, who said they would be recorded as the youngest clearers.
• Sky-Beast True Person offered Bai Zhou a place in the outer sect and Tiger Vanguard the position of Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord’s fifth True Disciple.
• Bai Zhou stayed behind Tiger Vanguard without accepting, and Tiger Vanguard asked whether he could still challenge the Ascension Road as a True Disciple.

Tiger Vanguard refused Blissful Immortal Lord’s offer of becoming a True Disciple unless his companions were released and allowed to challenge the Ascension Road. Sky-Beast True Person offered to free them if Tiger Vanguard took a dangerous, staged challenge at the Immortal Lord’s birthday banquet, and Tiger Vanguard asked what would happen if he refused.

• Tiger Vanguard said he would reject the True Disciple position and accompany his companions on the Ascension Road if they were allowed to challenge it.
• Sky-Beast True Person struck Tiger Vanguard, but Tiger Vanguard stood back up and challenged him to kill him rather than let him continue.
• Tiger Vanguard explained that he had challenged the Ascension Road to save the people Sky-Beast True Person had seized, and he gave Bai Zhou his Foundation Establishment Pill to qualify as a mortal challenger.
• Sky-Beast True Person offered to release Tiger Vanguard’s companions and send them back to Golden Eagle Island if Tiger Vanguard took at least fifty steps on the Ascension Road at Mysterious Blissful Immortal Lord’s birthday banquet.
• Tiger Vanguard asked Sky-Beast True Person what would happen if he refused.

Tiger Vanguard accepted the Blissful Dao Beacon and agreed to offer a gift at the birthday banquet in exchange for the children’s freedom. After the children reached their luxurious lodgings, Shen Qiuqiu feared they would die, but Tiger Vanguard promised to save them by completing the Ascension Road.

• Tiger Vanguard challenged Sky-Beast True Person’s attempt to steer him toward the prison route, and Lin Qiuxiao intervened to suggest letting him continue the Ascension Road.
• Sky-Beast True Person offered a Foundation Establishment Pill and the Blissful Dao Beacon as prizes for the Ascension Road and the birthday banquet.
• Tiger Vanguard instantly chose the Mysterious Blissful Bliss Incense Faith after playing rock-paper-scissors with Bai Zhou, then agreed to present a gift at the banquet in two days.
• At their lodgings, the children argued over the Foundation Establishment Pill that Tiger Vanguard had given to Bai Zhou, but he insisted she keep it.
• Shen Qiuqiu pleaded for Tiger Vanguard’s family to rescue them, and Tiger Vanguard promised to complete the Ascension Road and save everyone, saying Partner of Justice would come if necessary.

Hua Yue Dean and Tao Bei Bei discussed the Imperial Stream Court’s resource shortage and the growing race among factions to cultivate Calamity Lords as the Wave-Stopping Flying Boat approached Blissful Island. Hua Yue arrived to offer birthday congratulations and ordered his entourage to guard the ship while he entered the palace alone.

• Tao Bei Bei urged Hua Yue Dean to return to the secret realm before his Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, but he stayed outside fishing and drinking.
• Hua Yue tried to persuade Tao Bei Bei to remain his apostle after she considered joining the Captain of the Second Squad.
• Hua Yue explained that the Treasure Gathering Fairy’s trade had rapidly increased the Imperial Stream Court’s resources, while its alchemy furnaces could not process them quickly enough.
• Hua Yue told Tao Bei Bei that rival factions were racing to cultivate Golden Core Calamity Lords and that the Treasure Gathering Fairy’s actions had accelerated the coming conflict.
• As the Wave-Stopping Flying Boat reached Blissful Island, Hua Yue said he would enter the palace alone to offer birthday congratulations and told the others to guard the ship.

At Blissful Immortal Lord’s birthday banquet, Hua Yue urged the Eastern Sea’s major factions to form an alliance and cooperate with the Imperial Stream Court. As negotiations with Zhou Wuchou grew tense, Blissful Immortal Lord proposed a wager about how far a remarkable child could travel along the Ascension Road.

• Hua Yue arrived at the longevity banquet with gifts from the Imperial Stream Court, and the guests recognized that four Immortal Lords had gathered with hostile intentions.
• Hua Yue and Zhou Wuchou shared wine, then Hua Yue invited the Lin, Li, and Qin Families to unite with the Imperial Stream Court and help attack secret realms.
• The Lin, Li, and Qin Family elders expressed willingness to cooperate, while Zhou Wuchou said he could not leave his blessed land to join their expeditions.
• Hua Yue asked Zhou Wuchou to use his alchemy skills and Luck Boiling Furnace for the Imperial Stream Court, but Zhou Wuchou hesitated as the other Immortal Lords spread their auras through the lotus heart.
• Zhou Wuchou proposed a wager about how far Sky-Beast True Person’s unusually powerful child could travel along the Ascension Road, revealing the child’s image on a real-time Sand Table.

At Blissful Immortal Lord’s birthday feast, the Immortal Lords wagered on Tiger Vanguard’s fate as he began the dangerous Prison Route of the Ascension Road. Tiger Vanguard survived the prison and rapidly grew stronger, leaving the onlookers stunned as he continued his relentless advance.

• Blissful Immortal Lord explained that Tiger Vanguard had refused a True Disciple seat to help his companions, so he had offered him a challenge and a chance to earn a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Huayue bet on [Foundation Establishment], while Zhou Wuchou bet on [Death], and Blissful Immortal Lord locked in the wagers.
• Tiger Vanguard escaped his cell, acquired Mysterious Mechanism Armor, and used fire and the prison corridor’s narrow entrance to defeat the guards.
• Tiger Vanguard crossed the Sealed Mountain Village, Ancient Battlefield, and Beast Cavern, exploiting terrain to defeat groups of enemies alone.
• Tiger Vanguard received guidance from a Wine Sword Immortal, perfected Advanced Swordsmanship, learned Art of Sword Control, and reached the third rank.
• Tiger Vanguard slaughtered more than a hundred third-rank enemies in a series of battles, while the banquet guests watched in silence.

Tiger Vanguard defeated Taotie and endured the maximum-difficulty Fortune and Misfortune Grid to clear the Ascension Road and claim the rare Foundation Establishment Pill. As Hua Yue declared that she had won her bet with Zhou Wuchou, the Blissful Immortal Lord transformed Unbroken Feast and unleashed the Mysterious Dragon Locking Array against the four Immortal Lords.

• Tiger Vanguard devoured Taotie with Swallow Yin Yang, astonishing the spectators and drawing the attention of the Immortal Lords.
• Tiger Vanguard continued past the fiftieth step, and the Grand Elders tried to claim him for their families while the Blissful Immortal Lord chose to raise the challenge to its maximum difficulty.
• Tiger Vanguard survived three Fortune and Misfortune Grid triggers, two battles against Fourth Rank Demon Kings, the destruction of two Defensive Tokens, and a near-death experience before reaching the hundredth grid.
• Tiger Vanguard took the rare Foundation Establishment Pill and announced that he had won, prompting Unbroken Feast to erupt in cheers.
• Hua Yue told Zhou Wuchou that she had won their bet, and Zhou Wuchou calmly acknowledged his loss.
• Zhou Wuchou snapped his fingers, transformed Unbroken Feast into a vast well-like space, and sent thousands of Golden Locks after the four Immortal Lords with the Mysterious Dragon Locking Array.

Blissful Immortal Lord confronted Huayue and the three family elders after his Mysterious Golden Lock Array failed to restrain them. He accused the Imperial Stream Court of plotting to seize his palace and revealed that the gambling match and Tiger Vanguard had been part of a scheme to destroy him, then hinted that his true killing move was already in motion.

• The Lin, Li, and Qin Family Grand Elders each used powerful abilities to break or repel the Mysterious Golden Lock Array, while Huayue's Imperial Edict Token turned its chains against it.
• Huayue urged Blissful Immortal Lord to admit defeat and join the Imperial Stream Court, while the elders threatened to destroy his blessed land and Golden Nature.
• Blissful Immortal Lord argued that the Imperial Stream Court intended to gather East Sea resources ahead of an Inter-Realm War and would use the family elders as vanguards.
• Blissful Immortal Lord accused the Imperial Stream Court of using Tiger Vanguard and the gambling match to trap him into surrendering the Blissful Immortal Palace.
• Blissful Immortal Lord declared that he would choose mutual destruction rather than let his enemies take everything, and asked whether they could still withdraw their divine abilities.

Blissful Immortal Lord trapped the three Immortal Lords with Weeping Daoist’s ultimate technique, but Huayue revealed the Imperial Stream Court’s overwhelming power and challenged him alone. As the Blissful Immortal Palace collapsed, a countdown announced that everyone would leave the secret realm, while the chapter revealed that Yan Qing had triggered its forced clearing and summoned a team to conquer it.

• Blissful Immortal Lord used [Heaven and Earth Intersecting, Yin and Yang's Great Sorrow Rhapsody] to restrain the three Immortal Lords and explained how he had prepared the trap.
• Huayue used a blank coin to show that the Imperial Stream Court had no need for schemes, then rose and declared that he alone could suppress Blissful Immortal Lord.
• The Unbroken Feast descended into chaos as the Blissful Immortal Palace shook, and Mi Mian, Bai Zhou, Shen Qiuqiu, and the other children struggled to find a way to escape.
• A bell rang, the palace’s blessed land began to be torn away, and a voice announced that everyone would exit the secret realm in ten seconds.
• Ten minutes earlier, Yan Qing used Jiang Shi’s account to begin forcibly clearing Blissful Immortal Palace and summoned Yaoshi Yuan, Shang Xin Lei, and Ying Ru Shi to join the raid.

Tong Moli survived the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and refused Li Xi’s plan to exploit the news of her supposed failure. A mysterious summons from “Jiang Shi” then appeared before her and the combatants at Yunhuang Ancient Road, calling them to the Blissful Immortal Palace.

• Tong Moli emerged from the destroyed blessed land after surviving the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and Li Xi congratulated her.
• Li Xi urged Tong Moli to conceal her survival and use the opportunity to expose traitors, but Tong Moli insisted she would announce her success and judge people by their actions.
• Tong Moli and the Fire Worship Cult True Persons received a summons from “Jiang Shi” to subjugate the four-revolution Extreme Secret Realm Blissful Immortal Palace, and the summons completed before they could respond.
• At Yunhuang Ancient Road, Cheng Ying confronted Baichuan Liu as Dragon Sparrow Summer Palace and Qingyun Mansion forces prepared to fight over scarce resources.
• The Foundation Establishment cultivators on both sides received the same summons to the Blissful Immortal Palace, with their strength set to the four-revolution level.

Jiang Shi’s recruitment invitation halted the battle on Yunhuang Ancient Road and drew thousands to Blissful Island, where Blissful Immortal Lord discovered that Blissful Immortal Palace had become ownerless. Desperate, he trapped Hua Yue and the others in his blessed land, while Jiang Shi met the three new recruits inside the palace.

• Baichuan Liu stopped Dragon Sparrow Summer Palace’s advance after the recruitment invitation appeared and ordered his forces back to Loulan City, suspecting Golden Crow Immortal Lord was gone.
• Blissful Immortal Lord found the secret realm full and learned that Jiang Shi’s recruitment had appeared, while Hua Yue denied responsibility for the upheaval.
• Tiger Vanguard urged the children to flee, but Blissful Immortal Lord enclosed half of Blissful Island in his blessed land and rolled a [two], trapping Hua Yue, Tao Bei Bei, and thousands of mortals.
• Yan Qing reunited with Yaoshi Yuan, Shang Xin Lei, Ying Ru Shi, and Jiang Shi inside Blissful Immortal Palace, where Jiang Shi met Deng Jin, Wei Bai, and Ning Xiao Xiao.

Yan Qing explained that the eight summoned teammates were protected by the [Unbreakable Alliance], which prevented friendly fire and kept them from dying while any teammate survived. Jiang Shi revealed that her masked followers would lead the secret realm assault and used her status as the Treasure Gathering Fairy to secure the outsiders’ cooperation.

• Deng Jin tested his fourth-rank [Sun Control Chariot], while Wei Bai demonstrated his ability to freeze space and Ning Xiao Xiao admitted she had no special skills.
• Yan Qing had Ying Ru Shi strike Deng Jin to show that the alliance blocked friendly fire without harming anyone.
• Yan Qing explained that the [Unbreakable Alliance] also protected near-death teammates as long as one member remained alive.
• Deng Jin recognized Jiang Shi as the Treasure Gathering Fairy, and Wei Bai said he had never heard of an ability like [Unbreakable].
• Jiang Shi named Hound, Fox, Wolf, and Snake as her followers and told the outsiders to follow their orders or risk offending her.
• Yan Qing relied on Jiang Shi’s influence to prevent the summoned outsiders from sabotaging the secret realm assault.

Yan Qing organized the team and carefully briefed them on how to fight the Weeping Daoist in the Blissful Immortal Palace. As he prepared to bless the group before the battle, Wei Bai realized that Yan Qing and Jiang Shi intended to destroy the palace with Calamity Karma.

• Deng Jin, Wei Bai, and Ning Xiao Xiao joined Yan Qing’s expedition and agreed to Jiang Shi’s rules for distributing the spoils.
• Yan Qing assigned the team’s combat roles, with Wei Bai as the main Shield Front and Ning Xiao Xiao and Yan Qing as healers.
• Yan Qing marked positions in Unbroken Feast and spent half an hour teaching the group how to evade the Weeping Daoist’s attacks.
• Deng Jin, Ning Xiao Xiao, and Wei Bai thanked Yan Qing for his dungeon-clearing knowledge, then agreed to begin the fight.
• Jiang Shi distributed Great Bright Tathagata Talismans and ordered everyone to keep their attacks infused with Light Flame.
• Yan Qing began casting protective blessings, and Wei Bai recognized the Calamity Karma that would destroy the Blissful Immortal Palace.

Deng Jin and Wei Bai accused Yan Qing’s group of being Secret Faction messengers and warned Jiang Shi that destroying secret realms would make her an enemy of the world. Yan Qing admitted their goal was to destroy the Blissful Immortal Palace for Calamity Karma, then asked what they would do if the group proceeded anyway.

• Deng Jin asked whether Treasure Gathering Fairy and her companions were Secret Faction messengers, and Wei Bai condemned the faction for destroying secret realms to harvest Calamity Karma.
• Deng Jin explained that destroying developed secret realms could ruin forces and spark wars, and he argued that doing so was worse than demonic plunder.
• Yan Qing denied that the group belonged to the Secret Faction but admitted they intended to destroy the Blissful Immortal Palace and obtain Calamity Karma.
• Yaoshi Yuan defended Jiang Shi’s pursuit of strength, while Deng Jin warned that destroying secret realms would bring universal condemnation and undermine her future influence.
• Wei Bai warned that accumulating substantial Calamity Karma would require destroying many secret realms and leave the group with nowhere to live.
• Yan Qing acknowledged the warning and asked what would happen if the group insisted on going its own way.

Yan Qing committed to destroying secret realms to pursue the Calamity Karma Dao Path, and Ning Xiao Xiao, Deng Jin, and Wei Bai agreed to join him despite their objections. The group began fighting the Weeping Daoist, with Wei Bai and Yaoshi Yuan taking turns drawing its attacks.

• Yan Qing told Deng Jin and Wei Bai that his group planned to destroy secret realms across the world, making enemies of powerful figures such as the Blissful Immortal Lord.
• Ning Xiao Xiao, Deng Jin, and finally Wei Bai agreed to become teammates, though Wei Bai said he hoped the group would realize its path was foolish.
• Yan Qing started the battle against the Weeping Daoist and assigned Wei Bai to draw its aggro as the group dodged its Joy and Anger attacks.
• The Weeping Daoist unleashed its death-sentence attack, and Yaoshi Yuan and Wei Bai alternated drawing its strikes to protect each other from being brought to the brink of death.

Yan Qing’s team handled Weeping Daoist’s dice attack with a low-risk strategy that relied on their [Unbreakable Alliance], impressing Deng Jin and Wei Bai with the potential of Jiang Shi’s summoning gatherings. The chapter left them envisioning Jiang Shi’s future rise to the Seventh Turn and the transformation it could bring to secret-realm clearing.

• Jiang Shi announced Weeping Daoist’s health and warned the team to prepare for knockback and fixed positioning.
• Yan Qing assigned the close-combat and ranged groups to their positions around Weeping Daoist.
• Weeping Daoist unleashed [Unbroken Feast], and Yan Qing’s team used the knockback to place four members beneath the falling dice and trigger the attack safely.
• Deng Jin and Wei Bai recognized that [Unbreakable Alliance] let Jiang Shi’s team use efficient strategies with room for error, making their secret-realm assault unusually safe and fast.
• Deng Jin and Wei Bai realized that Jiang Shi’s recruitment method could enable repeated clears of desperate and Seventh Turn secret realms, potentially drawing major factions toward her when she ascended.

Yan Qing led the group through Weeping Daoist’s Sorrow and Joy Separation and Reunion, then used Life and Death Together to kill Weeping Daoist and Joyful Daoist. The two merged into Sorrowful Joyful Daoist and immediately targeted Yan Qing with an execution attack.

• Weeping Daoist split into Joyful Daoist and assigned the eight Heralds numbers before sweeping the arena with flames and coordinated attacks.
• Yan Qing guided the group through their numbered attack turns, and they survived Sorrow and Joy Separation and Reunion.
• Yan Qing ordered the others away and used Life and Death Together on Weeping Daoist and Joyful Daoist, killing them both by exploiting their shared health bar.
• Weeping Daoist and Joyful Daoist merged into Sorrowful Joyful Daoist, who aimed Boundless Light at Yan Qing and engulfed him.

Yan Qing and his team discovered that the Sorrowful Joyful Daoist was ascending toward a new calamity rank and learned that Infatuation was his weakness. They used Shang Xin Lei’s Infatuation-infused rings to kill him, perfectly cleared the secret realm, and leveled up before Yan Qing concealed his Dao Foundation’s usurpation trait.

• The Sorrowful Joyful Daoist shed his body and began creating a new calamity rank, while his transformation made him difficult to interrupt.
• Yan Qing endured the Daoist’s Boundless Light, asked Wonderful Brush for the Daoist’s weakness, and learned it was Infatuation.
• Yan Qing called on Shang Xin Lei to add Infatuation poison to her flying rings while the team waited for his spiritual essence to recover.
• Yan Qing used [Life and Death Together] to send a yellow paper through Shang Xin Lei’s rings, which struck the Sorrowful Joyful Daoist and killed him.
• The team perfectly cleared the extreme-difficulty secret realm and gained at least three levels, then Yan Qing canceled Calamity Four Phases sharing and kept its usurpation trait hidden.

Yan Qing’s team cleared the Fourth-Turn Extreme Realm, divided the spoils, and parted from their temporary teammates before returning to the Thieves’ Den. Yan Qing then checked Jiang Shi’s messages and discovered that Seventh-Turn Mortal World Immortal Lord Deng Guanjian had answered her summons.

• Deng Jin and Wei Bai praised Yan Qing’s [Life and Death Together] after the team cleared the Extreme Realm, and the group collected its rewards.
• Deng Jin and Wei Bai competed for the Pill Recipe: Sorrow, Joy, Separation, Reunion, but Ning Xiao Xiao chose it for herself.
• Yan Qing invited the other heralds to form a permanent team; Wei Bai and Ning Xiao Xiao declined, while Deng Jin offered to help when available.
• The group returned to the Thieves’ Den, where Shang Xin Lei celebrated with Yan Qing and Ying Ru Shi teased him about his growing relationship with her.
• Yan Qing opened Jiang Shi’s message panel and saw that Seventh-Turn Mortal World Immortal Lord Deng Guanjian had responded to her summons.

At Great Snow Mountain, the Mountain Lord learned that Jiang Shi’s Summoning had let Immortal Lord Wang Bai and Immortal Lord Golden Crow safely clear an Extreme Realm, and he grasped how much power the ability could give her. He was left to decide whether Chang Sheng Tian should kill Jiang Shi or court her, and began a report to the Emperor Lord.

• Immortal Lord Shen Lan stole the Mountain Lord’s wine and tea, then fled Great Snow Mountain.
• Immortal Lord Wang Bai told the Mountain Lord that Jiang Shi’s Summoning had brought him and Immortal Lord Golden Crow into the same secret realm, protected them with the [Unbreakable Alliance], and helped them clear the Extreme Realm Blissful Immortal Palace.
• The Mountain Lord realized that Jiang Shi’s Summoning could let her gather powerful allies, making her valuable enough to attract the support of forces across the world.
• Immortal Lord Wang Bai warned that Chang Sheng Tian must either kill Jiang Shi quickly or treat her with respect, and urged the Mountain Lord to decide within three days.
• The Mountain Lord resolved to report the matter to the Emperor Lord and began his letter by writing, “Treasure Gathering Fairy Jiang Shi is no human.”

Deng Guanjian warned Baichuan Liu that Jiang Shi’s [Recruitment] might be a transferable trick capable of producing Eighth-Turn True Lords, forcing the Heavenly Court to intervene and threatening the balance of the world. He suspected Jiang Shi was heading to Western Xia, where her arrival could soon turn the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes’ future into a struggle over a historic opportunity.

• Deng Guanjian told Baichuan Liu that Jiang Shi was not human and announced he would undergo the Fifth-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation before the Grand Ceremony of Proving the Dao.
• Deng Guanjian predicted an Inter-Realm War within ten years that could halve the world’s Immortal Lords, and he questioned whether the Heavenly Court would remain uninvolved.
• Deng Guanjian explained that if Jiang Shi’s use of the Treasure Gathering Pavilion and [Recruitment] was a transferable trick, her successors could become Eighth-Turn True Lords and the Heavenly Court would have to respond.
• Baichuan Liu agreed that Jiang Shi’s power likely came from a trick involving the Treasure Hunting Tokens, and he realized the discovery could determine the future of the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes.
• Deng Guanjian suspected Jiang Shi was traveling to Western Xia and could arrive in Loulan City within ten days, then called her their calamity.

Baichuan Liu and Deng Guanjian weighed how the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes should respond to Jiang Shi’s arrival in Loulan City, while Empress Hong Bing received the Heavenly Court Director’s order to recruit Jiang Shi as its future ruler. The Director revealed Jiang Shi did not age and was destined to become an eighth-turn True Lord, leaving Hong Bing to consider whether others like her might exist.

• Baichuan Liu considered whether the Dragon Poem Twelve Tribes should support Jiang Shi, fearing the consequences of opposing or disappointing her.
• Empress Hong Bing visited the Eternal Fame Palace, where the Director ordered her to invite Jiang Shi to lead the Heavenly Court once she became an immortal.
• The Director told Hong Bing that Jiang Shi was only at the fourth turn but did not experience the passage of lifespan, and was destined to become an eighth-turn True Lord unless she was a demon heralding the great calamity.
• Hong Bing agreed to welcome Jiang Shi and was told to invite the four-earring masked man too, without harming him.
• Hong Bing questioned whether the Heavenly Court was committing too early, and the Director warned that if others like Jiang Shi existed, everyone else would be merely a supporting character.

As Hua Yue defeated Zhou Wuchou, he persuaded the Blissful Immortal Lord to join the Imperial Stream Court in exchange for help crossing a tribulation. The destruction of Blissful Immortal Palace ended that bargain, while Yan Qing discovered the new Leakless milestone after liberating an Avici Sinner.

• A colossal wolf broke through the barrier over Blissful Island, ending Hua Yue and Zhou Wuchou's battle and allowing the trapped figures to escape.
• Hua Yue subdued Zhou Wuchou with [Snow on Head] and offered him a place in the Imperial Stream Court, promising help crossing a tribulation within a year.
• Zhou Wuchou accepted Hua Yue's offer, but Blissful Immortal Palace collapsed inside the secret realm and its vortex gate disappeared.
• Zhou Wuchou roared Jiang Shi's name in fury, and Hua Yue hurried away with four children, including Tiger Vanguard.
• Yan Qing checked Jiang Shi's battle record and learned that liberating an Avici Sinner had unlocked the [Leakless] milestone.

Yan Qing celebrated gaining the [Leakless] milestone and reassured the Thieves about the Immortal Lords they had encountered. After waking from a drunken night with his companions, he checked Jiang Shi’s account and found it aboard a sandship with two Immortal Lords.

• Yan Qing assessed how [Leakless] and [Boundless Purple] strengthened his resources and team support.
• Shang Xin Lei, Yaoshi Yuan, and Ying Ru Shi discussed hiding in a secret realm to avoid the Immortal Lords, while Yan Qing reassured them that the Central Plains remained safe.
• Yan Qing and the others celebrated clearing their first extreme secret realm with fine wine and fell asleep together in Shang Xin Lei’s room.
• Yan Qing left the crowded room to check his alts and discovered a special situation on Jiang Shi’s account.
• Yan Qing logged into Jiang Shi’s account and saw him aboard a sandship with Golden Crow Immortal Lord Deng Guanjian and Azure Cloud Immortal Lord Gai Qingyun.