Recaps

Su Qing learned why the Void Race had joined the living beings against the demons and assessed the Void Empress as a potential ally. At the Anti-Demon Conference, the leaders failed to locate the hidden Demonic Buddha and began discussing how to handle Great Sage Who Covers the Seas.

• The Void Empress dismissed Su Qing as weak and explained that her race had joined the living beings because the demons could not be trusted and the Void Race needed a future food supply.
• Su Qing asked whether the living beings would attack the Void Race after defeating the demons, and the Void Empress said she expected them to but believed the living beings would eventually fight among themselves.
• True Lord Guangxian opened the conference’s discussion of the Demonic Buddha, while Su Qing and Tong Chang reported that they could not locate him despite searching through time and the Celestial Origin Realm.
• The conference found no trace of the Demonic Buddha in the demon realms or through the Primordial Beginning Sect’s Jade Void Yin-Yang Mirror, and the first agenda item ended without an answer.
• The delegates began discussing Great Sage Who Covers the Seas, whose demonic past, Great Sage Wukong’s Demonic Thought, and the physical opportunities of the four Chaos Demon Apes gave him the potential to reach Tier 8.

At the Anti-Demon Assembly, the cultivators selected Heavenly Lord Yang Li to negotiate with Great Sage Who Covers the Seas after Su Qing declined the task. Su Qing then won support for opening markets and sharing Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s resources and techniques, before introducing a dispute over how the Myriad Worlds should share Celestial Origin Realm’s revived fortune.

• Human and demon cultivators debated Great Sage Who Covers the Seas’ past actions and whether it should join the Anti-Demon United Front.
• Su Qing refused to negotiate with Great Sage Who Covers the Seas because of their past conflicts, then helped the assembly choose Heavenly Lord Yang Li instead.
• Su Qing and True Lord Guangxian threatened to isolate Chongshan Sect if it continued avoiding responsibility, prompting Heavenly Lord Yang Li to pledge its support to Su Qing and the Myriad Worlds.
• Su Qing proposed opening markets across the Myriad Worlds and establishing anti-dumping and anti-monopoly measures to improve trade and development.
• Su Qing offered to open Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s puppet blueprints, rune techniques, resources, and martial arts facilities, securing broad support for the proposal.
• Su Qing raised the next agenda item: how the Myriad Worlds would share Celestial Origin Realm’s revived fortune and limited blessed lands.

Su Qing attended a gathering where the major powers settled claims to Tianyuan’s returning sacred lands and debated how to divide the remaining Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands. As the dispute continued, he remembered that Qing He had been sent to seek the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s fortune in the Sea Cave Hole, where she had been trapped for four or five hundred years.

• True Lord Guangxian announced that the major sects would retain their ancient sacred mountains, while the Witch Clan, Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, and Winged Tiger Clan would receive designated shares of other returning lands and fortunes.
• Cultivators from Xian Qin Wu Guo, the demonic path, the demon race, Xuanyuan Immortal Kingdom, and Execution Heavenly Kingdom argued over claims to the remaining Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands.
• Su Qing’s associate Li Hai Lang told the Void Empress that Su Qing was wealthy enough to feed the Void Race, and the empress became more receptive to him.
• Bear Two invoked his Buddhist status to demand a share for the Buddhist Sect, and Su Qing sent Jade Lotus to help it argue its case.
• Su Qing recalled that he had tasked Qing He with rescuing Feng Bo'e and seeking the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s fortune in the Sea Cave Hole, and realized she had likely been there for four or five hundred years.

Su Qing and Gao Erqiang went to the Sea Cave Hole to check whether Qing He would inherit the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s legacy. After the deity’s temple drove them back, Su Qing sent in Puppets and the Taiyi Sect’s Ancestor’s Portrait, while cultivators from across the heavens gathered outside to compete for the fortune.

• Su Qing took Gao Erqiang to the Sea Cave Hole and explained why he believed the Great Deity’s inheritance should go to Qing He or another worthy successor.
• Su Qing and Gao Erqiang discovered several factions trespassing in Execution Heavenly Kingdom’s waters, and Gao Erqiang forced them to leave.
• Fire Dragon Divine Spears blasted Su Qing and Gao Erqiang away when they tried to enter the divine temple.
• Su Qing sent Puppets, the Ancestor’s Portrait of the Taiyi Sect, and the Yin-Yang Carving Knife into the temple, then waited outside with Gao Erqiang.
• News of the fortune spread to the Anti-Demon Alliance assembly, prompting its attendees to abandon their debate and gather over the Sea Cave Hole.
• Su Qing told True Lord Guangxian and the assembled cultivators that the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly was choosing an inheritor.

Su Qing faced competing claims from the Primordial Beginning Sect and Taiyi Sect over the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s inheritance, and named Qing He as Taiyi Sect’s candidate. He then considered how the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s factions were competing for two unopened Grotto-Heavens, rejecting Liang Hai Shun’s request for one as a divine residence.

• True Lord Guangxian claimed that the Primordial Beginning Sect should receive Nezha’s inheritance, while Taiyi Sect elders insisted Nezha belonged to their sect.
• A Taiyi Sect elder asked Su Qing to select a Taiyi Sect disciple, and Su Qing named Qing He as the chief senior disciple he had arranged to enter.
• Taiyi Sect elders challenged Qing He’s qualifications and record, but Su Qing defended her and said he had considered having her oversee a Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Qing reflected on the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s competing districts and industries, which were vying for two Grotto-Heavens he had yet to open.
• Liang Hai Shun asked Su Qing to give the gods a Grotto-Heaven as their residence, and Su Qing rejected his proposal.

Su Qing decided to open one Grotto-Heaven for the Commercial District and reserve the other for the Cultivation District’s allied sects, while judging that the Temple District, Central District, and Jingshen District did not need one. He immediately opened Baosheng Grotto-Heaven for the Hundred Arts Industry, leaving the Cultivation District disappointed that it had received nothing yet.

• Su Qing compared how Gao Erqiang, Old Liang, and Ying Jue Shen had fared as deities and concluded that the Temple District should not receive a Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Qing decided that the Commercial District needed a Grotto-Heaven to help its industries compete with those of the Myriad Worlds, while the Central District could rely on the Azure Dragon Grotto-Heaven and the Jingshen District should first adapt to the world.
• Su Qing chose the Cultivation District’s allied sects as the intended recipients of the remaining Grotto-Heaven, hoping to ease resentment among the Taiyi Sect and Empress Wa Sect.
• The Taiyi Sect elders enthusiastically supported Qing He becoming their Chief Disciple after Su Qing promised a Grotto-Heaven, then urged him to open it immediately.
• Su Qing used his ancestral shaman dharma form and the Blood Execution Axe to open Baosheng Grotto-Heaven in the Commercial District, filling it with resources for the Hundred Arts of Cultivation and placing its administration under industry leaders.
• Merchants celebrated Baosheng Grotto-Heaven, while people in the other districts reacted according to their interests and the Cultivation District complained that Su Qing had overlooked them.

Su Qing opened the Yin-Yang Creation Grotto-Heaven for Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, prompting envy across the Myriad Worlds. At the West Sea temple, the factions accepted that they could not force their way in and waited as four people emerged, signaling that the contest for the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s fortune had ended.

• Su Qing opened the Yin-Yang Creation Grotto-Heaven and appointed True Monarch Xiao Xia and Qing He to govern it with him.
• The factions of the Myriad Worlds envied Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s five Grotto-Heavens but accepted that Su Qing had earned them through his achievements.
• True Lord Guangxian sought permission to enter the temple, but Su Qing said a Primordial Beginning Sect disciple was already inside and might obtain the inheritance.
• Li Sanyang and Heavenly Lord Gu Le declined to challenge Su Qing, leaving the other factions to watch the contest.
• Heavenly Lord Fu Hu worried that Li De could not overcome the powerful rivals backed by Su Qing and Liu Gandang.
• Ten thousand zhang of azure waves rose from the West Sea, and four people emerged as the temple contest’s results were settled.

The four factions learned what their contestants had gained from the Great Deity of the Three Altars Sea Assembly’s inheritance, while Gao Erqiang lost the Exquisite Pagoda and Su Qing revealed that Mount Buzhou would soon produce the Innate Gourd Vine. Qing He emerged with the greatest fortune, and Su Qing defended her against accusations of cheating.

• Li De told Heavenly Lord Fu Hu that he had received the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s inheritance and divine office, along with the Exquisite Pagoda.
• Gao Erqiang demanded the Exquisite Pagoda back, but the other cultivators disputed his ownership and he retreated without it.
• Su Qing offered to take Gao Erqiang to Mount Buzhou to compete for the seven Innate Treasure Gourds, and Gao Erqiang agreed to protect him and Tong Chang.
• The factions revealed that Xiang Lanze had received the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, Liu Feng had received the Great Deity’s divine office, and Qing He had obtained his Immortal Dao inheritance and magical treasures.
• Several contestants accused Qing He of using a portrait, a carving knife, and Puppets to claim the treasures, but Su Qing dismissed their accusations and threatened to unleash Erqiang if they pressed further.

Su Qing challenged the High-Level Cultivators of All Heavens to claim the Xuanyuan Bow by drawing it, rather than fighting over it. As the bow’s three-day trial began, a cultivator from the God Invocation Sect rushed forward to try first.

• Liu Gandang and Heavenly Lord Fu Hu urged True Lord Guangxian to oppose Su Qing, but True Lord Guangxian refused to start a fight.
• Qing He revealed the Xuanyuan Bow, stirring the human factions to demand that Su Qing give everyone a chance to compete for the Human Dao treasure.
• Su Qing announced that anyone from any race could try to draw the bow within three days, and released it into the air.
• A cultivator from the God Invocation Sect stepped forward to draw the bow, while the others watched without objecting to his use of the sect’s divine-possession technique.

The God Invocation Sect and Beast Taming Sect failed to draw the Xuanyuan Bow, and a Great Confucian of Xian Qin Wu Guo concluded that it required human power and Human Dao Fortune. When the Guardian Divine General’s fortune only made the bow glow, the Great Confucian accused Su Qing of tricking them into replenishing it.

• The God Invocation Sect True Monarch invoked the Giant Spirit God, but neither of them could draw the Xuanyuan Bow.
• A Beast Taming Sect disciple sent one hundred thousand spirit beasts to pull the bow, but they failed and suffered injuries, prompting Heavenly Lord Tianpeng to threaten sanctions.
• A Great Confucian examined the bow and declared that it required human strength, so the Guardian Divine General of Xian Qin Wu Guo tried drawing it while channeling Human Dao Fortune.
• The Guardian Divine General poured his Human Dao Fortune into the bow, which shone brightly but remained undrawn.
• The Great Confucian noticed Su Qing smiling and accused him of having the bow’s artifact spirit’s recognition and luring everyone into supplying it with Human Dao Fortune.

Su Qing faced the cultivators who demanded the Xuanyuan Bow and defended his right to wield it, using the bow’s power to silence his loudest critics. As True Lord Guangxian was pressured to intervene, a Great Confucian from Xian Qin Wu Guo unexpectedly argued that Su Qing deserved the bow.

• The High-Level Cultivators of All Heavens berated Su Qing and prepared to attack, while Gao Erqiang, Demon Lord Tianpeng, and allied demon clans urged him to retreat.
• Su Qing sent his demon supporters behind him and explained that the Xuanyuan Bow could be drawn by anyone with sufficient merit and Human Dao Fortune, but none of the challengers had managed it.
• Su Qing summoned the Xuanyuan Bow and aimed its dragon arrow at the cultivators who had shouted most loudly, leaving them terrified and unable to resist.
• The other cultivators demanded that True Lord Guangxian and the Primordial Beginning Sect uphold justice, and Guangxian reluctantly prepared to step forward.
• The Great Confucian from Xian Qin Wu Guo spoke before Guangxian, praising Su Qing’s talent, status, and achievements and declaring that the Xuanyuan Bow should belong to him.

After claiming the Xuanyuan Bow, Su Qing drew it before the gathered cultivators, channeling the Human Fortune Azure Dragon Arrow and terrifying the high-level cultivators from the Myriad Worlds. The chapter ended with them desperately pleading with him not to fire.

• Liu Gandang rejected the resentful cultivators’ complaints about Su Qing and invited several Western Sea Immortal Kingdoms to coordinate against the coming competition.
• Heavenly Lord Fu Hu, the Fire Phoenix Princess, and Shi Li Jing declined to make Penglai the leader, saying they needed to consult Su Qing and the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.
• Liu Gandang revealed that Su Qing had given Penglai the God-Beating Whip to support its Man-Made Heavenly Court.
• Liu Gandang and the others noticed Su Qing drawing the Xuanyuan Bow, with the Azure Dragon serving as an arrow and Human Fortune gathering into its power.
• The gathered cultivators realized the arrow could kill anyone below Tier 7 and pleaded with Su Qing to lower the bow.

Su Qing gathered the Human Dao Fortune of mortals across Celestial Origin Realm into the Xuanyuan Bow, risking his advantage in the race for the Human Emperor position. He fired at the Ghastly Great Hall and the Three Emperors, declaring that his arrow would sweep away demons and evil and restore peace.

• The great powers of the heavens sensed Su Qing drawing the Xuanyuan Bow and debated the fortune and standing he would risk by firing it.
• Shi Li Jing, Heavenly Lord Fu Hu, and others urged Su Qing not to waste his Human Dao Fortune, while rivals encouraged him to spend it.
• Su Qing summoned the fortune of mortals in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and the Execution Heavenly Kingdom, then drew further support from across Celestial Origin Realm.
• Su Qing released the Human Fortune Azure Dragon Arrow, piercing the sky and revealing the Ghastly Great Hall and the Black Heavenly Emperor, Buddha Heavenly Emperor, and Evil Heavenly Emperor.
• Su Qing declared that the arrow targeted demons and evil to restore peace to Heaven and Earth.

Su Qing used the Xuanyuan Bow to expose the Demonic Buddha’s hidden refuge, disrupting the Great Powers of All Heavens’ tacit truce with the Evil Demons. The Demonic Buddha cursed Su Qing and prepared to retaliate, while its plan to create three powerful Heavenly Emperors was thrown into disarray.

• Su Qing drew on Human Dao Fortune and fired a Human Fortune Azure Dragon Arrow from the Xuanyuan Bow, striking the Demonic Buddha’s concealed location.
• The Great Powers of All Heavens condemned Su Qing for provoking the Demonic Buddha before they had gained Tianyuan’s coming opportunities, though the arrow forced them to abandon their unspoken truce with the Evil Demons.
• The Demonic Buddha reflected on its strategies to steal cultivation techniques, foment conflicts among living beings, and claim authority over the Three Paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• The Demonic Buddha recalled that it had hidden Lingxiao Palace and planned to split the Heavenly Emperor’s Dharma Body into three rulers, but Su Qing’s arrow disrupted its plans.
• The Demonic Buddha angrily threatened Su Qing and vowed to make him pay.

Su Qing exposed the Demonic Buddha, prompting the Dao Masters of the Myriad Worlds to attack and discover its attempt to Sever the Three Corpses. He fled to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as his Human Dao Fortune surged and followers gathered around him, where Liu Qingsong caught True Lord Guangxian trying to avoid paying his fare.

• Su Qing shot through the Celestial Origin Realm's wall and revealed the Demonic Buddha, drawing attacks from the Myriad Worlds' Dao Masters.
• The Demonic Buddha split into three Heavenly Emperor forms and fought back, while the Dao Masters realized it was attempting to Sever the Three Corpses.
• Several Heavenly Demon Generals arrived to support the Demonic Buddha, and Su Qing fled toward the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom with Qing He.
• True Lord Guangxian and many other cultivators followed Su Qing, recognizing that his arrow had increased his Human Dao Fortune and strengthened his claim to the Human Emperor's position.
• In the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, Liu Qingsong stopped True Lord Guangxian and questioned him for trying to dodge the Spirit Vehicle fare.

Su Qing took high-level cultivators on a tour of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, where Liu Qingsong insisted on charging them according to the rules. At Blissful Heavenly Palace, the visitors condemned its vulgar welcome but immediately found reasons to go inside and criticize it.

• Su Qing tried to stop Liu Qingsong from rebuking him, but Liu Qingsong recognized the Kaiyuan State Lord, apologized, and still demanded the vehicle fare.
• True Lord Guangxian mocked Su Qing and suspected that the fare dispute was staged to promote the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s rules against the Primordial Beginning Sect’s hierarchy and monopolies.
• Heavenly Lord Gu Le paid everyone’s fare with a top-grade Tier-3 pill, and Liu Qingsong agreed to serve as their tour guide.
• Liu Qingsong drove the guests to Blissful Heavenly Palace and praised its lavish entertainment, while True Lord Dianyuan initially chose to meditate and Heavenly Lord Gu Le urged him to join the others.
• The cultivators saw the palace’s ostentatious welcome, called it vulgar, and declared that they had to go inside to criticize it.

Su Qing showed the sect leaders that the Blissful Heavenly Palace cultivated a Joyful Divine Pattern by absorbing the joy of its visitors, then argued that cultivators should follow their interests instead of rigid traditions. The visitors still focused on learning how to cultivate Divine Patterns, and Liu Qingsong took them to the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area, where the chapter left them recalling why only the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom had revived ancient Witch Clan members.

• Shi Li Jing recognized the Blissful Heavenly Palace as a deity’s body and identified its pattern as the Joyful Dao Pattern, prompting True Lord Guangxian to condemn its use.
• Su Qing explained that Huang Shang Huang had sacrificed himself to become the palace and that the Joyful Divine Pattern had risen from Six Divisions to Five Elders level by absorbing visitors’ joy.
• Su Qing urged cultivators to follow their Dao hearts and develop diverse paths, but the sect leaders asked only how to cultivate Dao Patterns and Divine Patterns.
• Su Qing brought the visitors to the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area after telling them that Happy Cultivation was the method behind cultivating patterns.
• The cultivators recalled that reviving ancient Witch Clan members required a Grotto-Heaven, a recognized racial leader, and present-day witchfolk willing and able to sacrifice their blood essence.

Su Qing brought True Lord Guangxian and other sect leaders into the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area, where they mistook his plans for an attempt to strip the revived Witch Clan of its Dao-pattern heritage. The visit continued through the Witchmen’s marketplace, where a Demon Clan cultivator wasted hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones on useless demonic-blood blind boxes.

• True Lord Guangxian criticized Su Qing for reviving the Witch Clan and spending grotto-heaven resources on the tourist area, while Su Qing listened without anger.
• The group arrived at the tourist area and marveled at its recreated ancient landscape, rare spirit beasts, and costly construction.
• The sect leaders guessed that Su Qing intended to claim the Witch Clan’s fortune and Dao-pattern inheritances, but Su Qing let their suspicions stand.
• Su Qing led the group past Jianmu trees and Witchmen homes to stalls selling specialty goods, including Money-Attracting Drums, Heartbreak Gu, and Demonic Blood Blind Boxes.
• A Demon Clan cultivator spent several hundred thousand Spirit Stones on more than a thousand blind boxes and received only a useless drop of Three-tailed Demon Fox blood.

Su Qing showed the sect leaders and great powers how the resurrected Witch Clan had turned to selling goods, then argued that their ancient service deserved support and asked everyone to donate. When the others resisted, Su Qing reported the Witch Clan’s resurrection and his proposal to heaven and earth, making their debt to the Witch Clan impossible to ignore.

• Liu Gandang blamed the Witch Clan’s changed character on human bloodlines, their environment, and life under Su Qing’s rule.
• The visitors watched Great Witches sell expensive products, prompting True Lord Dianyuan and Tianpeng True Monarch to lament the Witch Clan’s decline.
• Jiang Long seized Tiger Subduing’s Storage Bag and donated everything in it to a Nine Li Great Witch.
• Su Qing explained that Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom had spent more than 3.2 billion Spirit Stones supporting the Witch Clan and invited the gathered powers to contribute.
• Tiger Subduing, Tianpeng True Monarch, and sect representatives resisted donating, while Gao Erqiang pledged 100 million Spirit Stones.
• Su Qing assumed the identity of an Emissary of Heaven and Earth and reported the Witch Clan’s resurrection and his donation proposal, invoking heaven and earth’s debt to the clan.

Su Qing compelled the powerful sects and races to compensate the Witch Clan for its ancient sacrifices, turning the donations into a reckoning over who had benefited from the Celestial Origin Realm. The Void Empress donated two billion Spirit Stones as well, revealing that the Void Race had borrowed the money using 300,000 laborers as collateral and could now seek work among the other forces.

• Su Qing invoked heaven and earth’s authority to demand that the gathered powers donate resources to the Witch Clan or have their territories seized.
• Demon Lord Tianpeng argued that the Tianyuan Demon Race had suffered too, and Su Qing exempted it while assigning the contribution to the Demon Race of the Myriad Worlds.
• Tianyuan’s local sects and kingdoms pleaded hardship and pressed the Myriad Worlds’ powers to repay the benefits they had enjoyed; the Three Daoist Sects each pledged two billion Spirit Stones, and other forces followed.
• The Void Empress surprised the gathering by donating two billion Spirit Stones and explained that the Void Race also owed a debt for its place in the Celestial Origin Realm.
• The Void Empress revealed that she had borrowed the donation from Bear Two’s Money House using 300,000 Void Race laborers as collateral, prompting several forces and companies to offer the Void Race work.

After the Witch Clan’s revival fundraiser, Su Qing reflected on why he was protecting the Witch Clan and how he planned to manage his many Dao Patterns. He intended to return Witch Clan Dao Patterns eventually and help the revived clan reclaim a place in the world, while preventing competing races from plunging into a war over ancient territories.

• The great cultivators left the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area after contributing funds, and they mocked Su Qing for profiting from the revival effort while Liu Qingsong defended the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s business practices.
• Su Qing understood that the cultivators wanted a share of the Witch Clan’s fortune and Dao Patterns, but he only wanted to protect the young clan until it could stand independently.
• Su Qing considered how his many Dao Patterns burdened him with duties and planned to transfer some to approved gods, using god puppets as a temporary solution.
• Su Qing resolved to take no new Witch Clan Dao Patterns beyond Sun Shooting and eventually return the Nine Li, Xingtian, and other patterns he already held.
• Su Qing anticipated that the Witch Clan would have to share Mount Buzhou and other ancient resources with humanity, the Dragon Clan, and other powers to prevent a devastating conflict among the races.

Su Qing explained how he would revive the Witch Clan while using compensation and protected lands to ease tensions among ancient and present-day forces. After the cultivators verified his sincerity, they coveted the Witch Clan’s Dao Patterns, but Su Qing revealed that heaven and earth had restricted them to Witch Clan bloodlines.

• Su Qing outlined his plan to use two grotto-heavens, the Witch Clan Specialty Tourist Area, and parts of Mount Buzhou for the Witch Clan’s revival, while promising not to claim its Dao Patterns.
• Su Qing argued that compensating the Witch Clan and protecting its territory could reconcile ancient grievances and tensions between Tianyuan locals and cultivators who had fled to the myriad worlds.
• True Lord Guangxian and other cultivators used truth-detecting methods and confirmed Su Qing’s statements were sincere, while many other representatives focused on the value of Witch Clan Dao Patterns.
• Cultivators asked Su Qing to sell or transfer the Witch Clan Dao Patterns to the Anti-Demon Alliance, but he said only those with Witch Clan bloodlines could master them.
• Su Qing disclosed that he and Tong Chang had worked with heaven and earth to lock the Dao Patterns within the Witch Clan, and he anticipated a fiercer struggle over the positions of Heavenly Emperor and Human Emperor.

Su Qing protected the Witch Clan from being exploited, then brought the visiting cultivators to Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s booming Commercial District. The visitors saw how its thriving businesses had attracted the heavens’ attention and even begun generating trade-related Dao Patterns.

• Su Qing declared that the Witch Clan was under his protection and urged the cultivators not to seek its Dao Patterns or legacy.
• Liu Qingsong resumed the tour and described how Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s Commercial District had grown into a major trading hub.
• The cultivators saw Kaiyuan’s commercial companies, transport networks, shops, and advertisements as they traveled through the district.
• The cultivators discovered that the district’s trade had begun producing Dao Patterns related to commerce, investment, and wealth.
• True Lord Taoyuan told the visitors that Kaiyuan’s success could not be copied easily and credited its rise to accumulated foundations and the first Anti-Demon Council.

Su Qing and True Lord Taoyuan explained how Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s talent, infrastructure, and commercial policies had driven its rapid rise, then urged other factions to embrace reform. True Lord Guangxian opposed them on behalf of the Primordial Beginning Sect, and Su Qing defended Happy Cultivation before redirecting the gathering to Bear Two’s Money House.

• True Lord Taoyuan praised Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s thousand-year accumulation of trained talent, infrastructure, and commercial growth, leaving the assembled cultivators astonished.
• Su Qing modestly described Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom’s shortcomings and encouraged the sects to modernize their thinking and join the new era of cultivation.
• True Monarch Zhong Ze and True Monarch Dan Ding hesitated to support reform as they watched True Lord Guangxian, whose Primordial Beginning Sect represented the old cultivation order.
• True Lord Guangxian accused Su Qing of promoting enjoyment and neglecting the ongoing demonic calamity, while privately viewing Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom as a threat to the Primordial Beginning Sect’s authority.
• Su Qing argued that suppressing cultivators’ desires helped create Evil Demons and that Happy Cultivation could strengthen the cultivation world, then offered to show the guests Bear Two’s Money House.

Su Qing presented the Kaiyuan Stock Exchange to the High-Level Cultivators of All Heavens, but the Primordial Beginning Sect sabotaged its listed ventures and True Lord Guangxian led a walkout against him. Su Qing retained support from Tianyuan local powers and several other sects, while True Lord Taoyuan pledged his sect’s allegiance to Kaiyuan.

• Su Qing explained how the Kaiyuan Stock Exchange would fund cultivators and industries, provide insurance, and direct resources toward major projects.
• High-Level Cultivators criticized the exchange as exploitative, while True Lord Guangxian revealed that the Primordial Beginning Sect had sabotaged its stocks and targeted its listed cultivators and businesses.
• Su Qing challenged True Lord Guangxian to wait and judge the exchange by its eventual results, and Guangxian led more than half the visiting sects away.
• The Penglai Immortal Kingdom and other Tianyuan local powers stayed to support Su Qing, while True Monarch Sanyang defended him and True Lord Gu Le asked to list a risky Pill venture.
• True Lord Taoyuan pledged the Taoyuan Sect’s support for the Celestial Origin Realm and Kaiyuan, prompting Gao Erqiang to withdraw his halberd.