Recaps

Luo Lingshuang received Starry Emperor Sovereign’s inheritance and began breaking through to Late Golden Core as his remnant soul faded away. Seven days later, Ye Xingyun encountered six Golden Core cultivators in the Great Emperor Heart Palace and tried to avoid a fight.

• Luo Lingshuang promised to find a qualified inheritor for Starry Emperor Sovereign’s Heavenly Cycle Starry Art, and he gave her the Water Cloud Immortal Dew Stone.
• Starry Emperor Sovereign explained how Heavenly One True Water or a Water Spiritual Peach could help Luo Lingshuang form an acquired treasure body.
• Starry Emperor Sovereign gave Luo Lingshuang the Inheritance Crystal, then asked her to preserve sparks for humanity when she could.
• Luo Lingshuang’s Late Golden Core bottleneck loosened, and she began her breakthrough while Starry Emperor Sovereign’s remnant soul dissipated.
• Seven days later, Ye Xingyun met Yan Jin, Nangong Qing, Wei Wushuang, Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu in the Great Emperor Heart Palace and tried to leave without competing for the inheritance.

Ye Xingyun blocked Yan Jin’s attack and fled, while the six Golden Cores fought over five inheritance doors. Wei Wushuang and Nangong Qing entered separate doors, leaving Yan Jin furious and unable to claim the middle door.

• Ye Xingyun used the Yellow Stone Shield Formation to block Yan Jin’s attack, revealed himself as a Third Stage formation master, and ran away.
• Yan Jin attacked the other five Golden Cores and rushed toward the middle door, while Wei Wushuang chose the far-right door and entered it.
• Yan Jin used a Fourth-tier Low-grade Spirit Talisman to blast Nangong Qing, Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu away, then reached the middle door.
• Yan Jin could not open the middle door and realized someone had already entered it; the other four split up to pursue the remaining doors.
• Nangong Qing used a Fourth-tier Low-grade Spirit Talisman to enter the right-side door, while Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu failed to enter.
• Yan Jin raged at the doors, learned that Nangong Qing had obtained an inheritance, and showed signs of cultivation deviation.

After the inheritance doors closed, Yan Jin killed a cultivator who speculated about the powerful inheritances and clashed with Si Wuya before leaving in a strange, hostile state. Ye Xingyun emerged from hiding with the Dark Night Cloak and planned to use it to escape the Wei Family and steal a spiritual herb from a Fourth Stage Demon Ancestor.

• An ancient bell rang, the inheritance site collapsed, and Yan Jin, Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, Xiang Yu, and the surviving cultivators were teleported outside the Starry Holy Palace.
• After Si Wuya described what had happened inside, a cultivator suggested the inheritances came from beings above Spirit Transformation, and Yan Jin crushed the cultivator's head for saying so.
• Yan Jin threatened Si Wuya, but Si Wuya refused to back down and challenged Yan Jin's claim to speak for the Southern Bright Flame Palace.
• Yan Jin laughed, left while surrounded by black qi, and vowed to gain supreme power and trample everyone underfoot.
• Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu flew away to seek more opportunities, while Ye Xingyun revealed himself from beneath a boulder wearing the Dark Night Cloak.
• Ye Xingyun planned to use the cloak to evade the Wei Family and set off toward the mountains to target a spiritual herb guarded by a Fourth Stage Demon Ancestor.

Zhang Xuanchen spent a year and a half in seclusion refining the Star Core, awakening the Starry Body and reaching Late Golden Core. After learning that the Myriad Manifestations Returning Origin Peach Tree was already at his family’s Flower Fruit Mountain, he left with his companions to check on the Starry Holy Palace.

• After seven days, the amethyst casing around Zhang Xuanchen cracked open, and he rose into the air amid a vast display of starlight.
• Shuoxing sensed Zhang Xuanchen’s new physique and said its power surpassed the Starry Emperor Sovereign’s Innate Star Battle Body.
• Three days later, Zhang Xuanchen opened his eyes with the Starry Body fully condensed, having reached Late Golden Core and advanced the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to the late stage of Three Transformations.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Shuoxing and Xuanjing that the Star Core had awakened his Starry Body and that the Myriad Manifestations Returning Origin Peach Tree was at his Zhang Family’s Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Shuoxing learned the tree had contracted with Zhang Xuanchen and said he had been in seclusion for a year and a half.
• Zhang Xuanchen set out with Shuoxing and Xuanjing for the Starry Holy Palace to see what had happened.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that Luo Lingshuang and the others were safe inside the secret realm and waited near Starry Holy Palace to protect them when they emerged. In the Bihan Secret Realm, Zhang Xuanbing confronted Luo Yichen, who intended to humiliate his younger brother.

• Zhang Xuanchen interrogated a Wu Sect cultivator and learned what had happened near Starry Holy Palace during the past year and a half.
• Zhang Xuanchen concluded that Luo Lingshuang and the others had entered the three giant doors and decided to wait near the sacred hall to take them into the Myriad Spirit Ring when they emerged.
• The narration described the Bihan Secret Realm, where human forces and demons had joined the exploration and fifty thousand entrants faced no cultivation restrictions.
• Luo Yichen recognized Zhang Xuanbing as Zhang Xuanchen's elder brother and inferred that he had a mutated ice Spiritual Root.
• Zhang Xuanbing declared he would not allow Luo Yichen to humiliate his younger brother, drew his ice-crystal longsword, and summoned an Ice Flood Dragon.

Zhang Xuanbing and Luo Yichen fought over a mysterious treasure, and Luo Yichen won while recognizing Zhang Xuanbing’s talent. Zhang Xuanbing insisted that his younger brother Zhang Xuanchen was even more talented, then returned to the summit where the silver-blue ice crystal remained untouched.

• Luo Yichen and Zhang Xuanbing fought fiercely, with Luo Yichen gaining the upper hand through his cultivation and techniques.
• Luo Yichen defeated Zhang Xuanbing but praised his talent and explained that he opposed Zhang Xuanchen marrying Luo Lingshuang because he believed Zhang Xuanchen lacked ability.
• Zhang Xuanbing told Luo Yichen that Zhang Xuanchen’s talent far surpassed his own, but Luo Yichen laughed and doubted him.
• Zhang Xuanbing said Zhang Xuanchen had reached Golden Core before him three years earlier, then returned to the summit.
• Zhang Xuanbing found the silver-blue ice crystal, a powerful treasure with ice-source and spatial energy, still hovering untouched at the summit.

Luo Yichen and Zhang Xuanbing negotiated over a mysterious crystal, with Zhang agreeing to help Luo obtain a Water Attribute treasure in return. Two months later, Zhang Xuanchen had advanced his movement technique and learned that Great Sage had emerged from the Holy Temple.

• Luo Yichen offered Zhang Xuanbing the mysterious crystal in exchange for Zhang accepting conditions concerning Luo Lingshuang and owing Luo a future favor.
• Zhang Xuanbing agreed, asking Luo Yichen to keep his talent secret, and the two became friends.
• Luo Yichen told Zhang Xuanbing about a guarded Fourth-grade Low-tier Water Attribute treasure, and Zhang agreed to help him claim it.
• Two months later, Zhang Xuanchen reached minor mastery in Soaring Dragon Treading the Heavens Step after using Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid.
• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Great Sage had left the Holy Temple and was in a stone crevice seven li behind it.

Great Sage emerged from seclusion with his Fighting God Monkey Bloodline fully awakened, and reunited with Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, and Wuxin. Zhang Xuanchen revealed his own breakthrough and the Star Core inheritance, leaving Wuxin envious of the treasures he had obtained.

• Great Sage awakened his Divine Monkey Bloodline, reached third-order peak, and scared away cultivators who approached him.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed himself to Great Sage, and they reunited outside the Holy Palace.
• Luo Lingshuang emerged from her inheritance at Late Golden Core and reunited affectionately with Zhang Xuanchen.
• Zhang Xuanchen met Wuxin, who had also reached Late Golden Core, and showed the others his own Late Golden Core cultivation and dense star power.
• Zhang Xuanchen explained how he obtained the Star Core and Starry Tower, and Wuxin lamented that his Eighth Order Inheritance seemed less impressive by comparison.

After the Starry Secret Realm’s inheritance ended, Zhang Xuanchen prepared to lead the Zhang Family toward greater power and concealed his true gains before the survivors were transported outside. There, the major factions sealed off the area, setting the stage for a confrontation over the inheritances.

• Wuxin gave Zhang Xuanchen his inheritance, and Luo Lingshuang handed him the Starry Ring and described the Heavenly Cycle Starry Art; Zhang Xuanchen accepted the ring but told her to keep it and share copies of its contents with the clan.
• Zhang Xuanchen declared the secret-realm journey complete and resolved to make the Zhang Family compete for dominance, while Xuanjing explained that Zhang’s Void Crystal Stone could not turn the Starry Ring into a world that sustained life.
• Half a month later, Wei Wushuang and Nangong Qing left seclusion as the Starry Holy Palace and its inheritances sank underground, signaling the end of the inheritance trials.
• More than a thousand pillars of starlight transported Zhang Xuanchen and the surviving cultivators outside the Secret Realm, where the major factions immediately surrounded the area.
• Zhang Xuanchen kept his valuable gains hidden in the Myriad Spirit Ring and carried only lesser goods openly, avoiding suspicion from the powerful factions and the Wei Family.

After the Starry Secret Realm survivors emerged, Zhang Xuanchen learned that Yan Jin carried a Demon Seed and secretly marked him to track his movements. Wei Wushuang and Nangong Qing concealed the true rank of their inheritances from True Lord Yanlong, who then demanded that the other inheritance holders step forward.

• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Yan Jin bore the aura of a Demon Seed, and Shuoxing secretly placed a Starry Mark on Yan Jin so Zhang Xuanchen could track him within a hundred thousand li.
• True Lord Yanlong summoned the Southern Bright Flame Palace disciples and asked Yan Jin and Nangong Qing whether they had obtained inheritances; Nangong Qing said she had obtained one of five.
• True Lord Yanlong demanded that the holders of the other inheritances identify themselves, and Wei Wushuang stepped forward and claimed his inheritance came from a Spirit Transformation expert.
• Wei Wushuang privately urged Nangong Qing to confirm his account, and she agreed, saying her inheritance was also from a Spirit Transformation powerhouse and its medicines had withered away.
• True Lord Yanlong accepted their explanation and turned to demand that the remaining inheritance holders, especially the one with the Ascension Realm inheritance, step forward.

True Lord Yanlong began using the Southern Bright Li Fire Mirror to inspect the Storage Rings of those who left the Secret Realm, searching for the holder of an Ascension Realm inheritance. As the inspection continued, Lin Yang left after True Person Ruifeng took his spell, while Ye Xingyun anxiously tried to hide his fear of being suspected.

• True Lord Yanlong proposed inspecting everyone’s Storage Rings with the Southern Bright Li Fire Mirror, exempting Nangong Qing and Wei Wushuang after the other leaders agreed.
• The major forces confiscated spiritual items from the people being inspected, and True Person Ruifeng struck Lin Yang after he demanded to keep a low-grade Fifth Stage spell.
• Lin Yang left without retrieving his Storage Ring, and True Lord Yanlong ordered the inspection to continue.
• Zhang Xuanchen remained calm because Xuanjing concealed what he carried, while Ye Xingyun worried that fleeing would make the major forces suspect him of holding the inheritance.
• When another cultivator asked why he was sweating, Ye Xingyun claimed he had overworked himself in the Secret Realm, and the cultivator offered him folk remedies.

Ye Xingyun used a Shift-Shadow Talisman to escape the powerful experts who were searching for the inheritance, leaving them to suspect he had entered the Great Emperor's Heart Mausoleum. True Lord Yanlong declared him a murderer and ordered a region-wide search, while Zhang Xuanchen hid nearby and watched events unfold.

• Zhang Xuanchen handed over his Storage Ring, received praise from Wei Wudao, and left before hiding under rubble to observe Ye Xingyun.
• As only two people remained ahead of him, Ye Xingyun triggered a Shift-Shadow Talisman and vanished despite True Lord Yanlong and the others trying to stop him.
• Ye Xingyun insisted that he had no inheritance and said he fled to protect the treasures he had earned in the Secret Realm.
• Nangong Qing confirmed that Ye Xingyun had left the Great Emperor's Heart Mausoleum with the others, but Yan Jin suggested he could have been a clone and that Ye Xingyun's true body had entered beyond the giant gate.
• True Lord Yanlong ordered the Southern Bright Flame Palace to seize Ye Xingyun and asked Wei Wudao and the other local forces to help search for him.

After the search for Ye Xingyun began, Zhang Xuanchen left the area and reunited with Luo Lingshuang and the others before traveling to Tiangong Immortal City. He and Luo Lingshuang spent the night together, then prepared to visit the Heavenly Craft Pavilion the next day.

• The Wei Family and the other great powers agreed to search for Ye Xingyun, while Zhang Xuanchen learned Xuanjing could no longer track him and decided to leave for Tiangong Immortal City.
• Zhang Xuanchen released Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Wuxin, and Little Star, and told Luo Lingshuang he would support Feng Xiao and Feng Linger's choices.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions concealed their cultivation and traveled to Tiangong Immortal City, where they took rooms at Horizon Restaurant.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang spent the night together after being apart for a year and a half.
• The next day, Luo Lingshuang got dressed and urged Zhang Xuanchen to hurry to the Heavenly Craft Pavilion for their business.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions collected the artifacts commissioned from Heavenly Craft Pavilion, including Great Sage’s Golden Cudgel, while learning that Grand Elder Li had entered death seclusion. After paying for the refinements, Zhang Xuanchen prepared to return to his clan and later pursue a rare Golden Ginseng.

• Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and Wuxin ate at Horizon Restaurant, where Zhang paid 5,200 Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned through Immortal Fate Information that a Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng would mature in the Feiyuan Island mountain range in nineteen days.
• Mei Zhi escorted Zhang Xuanchen and his companions to meet Pavilion Master Xue at Heavenly Craft Pavilion.
• Xue Li told Zhang Xuanchen that Grand Elder Li had entered death seclusion and presented the commissioned Sword Pellet, Great Peng Wings, and two Magic Swords.
• Great Sage received his Golden Cudgel, excitedly tested it in the hall, and declared himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven of this world.
• Zhang Xuanchen thanked Xue Li and agreed to pay 17,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones for the artifact refinements.

Zhang Xuanchen bought the Azure Cloud flying boat and led his companions toward Feiyuan Island to retrieve the Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng. After learning that a powerful Abyssal Snapping Turtle guarded it, he planned to capture the sleeping beast in his Myriad Spirit Ring rather than kill it.

• Zhang Xuanchen bought the Azure Cloud from Xue Li for twenty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions boarded the Azure Cloud and flew toward the Nine Splendor Sword Sect.
• Seventeen days later, Zhang Xuanchen's group reached Feiyuan Island and entered its mountain range without visiting the Yuanhua Sect's immortal city.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that a third order peak Abyssal Snapping Turtle guarded the Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng and would awaken when the ginseng matured.
• Zhang Xuanchen proposed taking the sleeping turtle into his Myriad Spirit Ring, and Xuanjing praised his idea.

Zhang Xuanchen captured the sleeping Abyssal Snapping Turtle and harvested the mature Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng before returning with Luo Lingshuang and their companions to the Nine Splendor Sword Sect. At the sect’s mountain gate, the elders and Qingming True Lord learned of Luo Lingshuang’s breakthrough and welcomed the group.

• Zhang Xuanchen secretly stored the sleeping Abyssal Snapping Turtle, then arranged for Shuoxing to conceal the Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng’s aura when it matured.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions waited overnight, collected the mature Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng and its seeds, and set off toward the Nine Splendor Sword Sect.
• Three months later, Great Elder Yang Wei and two other elders intercepted the Azure Cloud near the sect and discovered Luo Lingshuang had reached Golden Core Mid Stage.
• Luo Lingshuang told the elders that Zhang Xuanchen had obtained a breakthrough treasure in the Starry Secret Realm through the Wei Family’s quota.
• Qingming True Lord arrived, confirmed Luo Lingshuang’s foundation was stable, and lifted the group to their feet with his spiritual energy.

At the Nine Splendor Sword Sect, Hua Shisan told Zhang Xuanchen that the Zhang family ancestor, True Person Yaojian, was believed to have died at Sky Scar Apex, and revealed that the Luo Clan had arrived in the Zhang family's territory. Zhang Xuanchen recovered from his grief and vowed to strengthen the family and seek revenge on Feather Immortal Sect; the chapter left him and Luo Lingshuang asking about the Zhang family's safety.

• Zhang Xuanchen asked Hua Shisan about Yaoyang Sword Leaf Grass, and Hua Shisan offered to gather the materials needed to awaken Zhang Xuance's Star Radiance Sword Body if Xuance became his disciple.
• Hua Shisan showed Zhang Xuanchen a recording of Zhang Chongxian entering Sky Scar Apex and explained that the major powers believed the ancestor had died there.
• Zhang Xuanchen broke down in grief and blamed himself, while Luo Lingshuang urged him to recover and lead the Zhang family toward revenge against Feather Immortal Sect.
• Zhang Xuanchen regained his resolve and vowed that the Zhang family would grow stronger and avenge Zhang Chongxian.
• Hua Shisan revealed that people from the Luo Clan had arrived, then assured Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang that the Zhang family was safe because Bai Zijing and Yan Ruyu had helped protect it.

Hua Shisan told Zhang Xuanchen about the Zhang Family’s crisis and Luo Yuanhui’s past offense, while Luo Lingshuang vowed to make Luo Yuanhui and Luo Yichen apologize to the Nine Splendor Sword Sect. As Zhang Xuanchen returned to the Zhang Family grieving Zhang Chongxian’s fall, Zhang Xuanming was pursued by Ninglu Sect and allied forces inside the Bihan Secret Realm.

• Hua Shisan explained that the Zhang Family was being besieged by Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and the Yunmeng Jiang Family, and Zhang Xuanchen thanked him for his help.
• Luo Lingshuang promised to make Luo Yuanhui kneel and apologize to the Nine Splendor Sword Sect, and said her brother Luo Yichen must apologize as well.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang returned toward the Zhang Family aboard the Azure Cloud, while Zhang Xuanchen sat in silence, devastated by Zhang Chongxian’s reported fall.
• Luo Lingshuang stopped Great Sage from disturbing Zhang Xuanchen and resolved to judge Luo Yichen by how he treated her husband.
• Inside the Bihan Secret Realm, Ninglu Sect members and their allies chased Zhang Xuanming across an ice plain and plotted to use his death as a pretext to destroy the Zhang Family.

Zhang Xuanming was cornered by Yuan Ming and the other pursuers until Zhang Xuanbing arrived and revealed his Golden Core Mid Stage cultivation. Zhang Xuanbing killed the pursuers and guarded Zhang Xuanming as he began breaking through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

• After two days of pursuit, Zhang Xuanming was nearly out of spiritual energy, and Yuan Ming ordered the group to keep their distance and attack from afar.
• Zhang Xuanming sensed Zhang Xuanbing approaching and shouted for help, while he mocked the pursuers.
• Zhang Xuanbing arrived, used his Golden Core Mid Stage pressure to pin down the pursuers, and blocked their attacks.
• Zhang Xuanbing gave Zhang Xuanming Thousand-year Stone Milk, helping him break through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, then shielded him with ice.
• Zhang Xuanbing killed all twenty-three pursuers with Ice Swords and sat beside Zhang Xuanming to guard him.
• Zhang Xuanbing recalled that an Ice Crystal had entered his body months earlier, left him unconscious for three months, and helped him reach Golden Core Mid Stage.

Zhang Xuanbing rescued Zhang Xuanming, then searched the Secret Realm for other Zhang Family Disciples while killing members of the three hostile forces. Elsewhere, Bai Zijing and Yan Ruyu discovered an enormous Corpse Mountain, and an evil demon watched them leave; half a month later, a woman realized Zhang Xuanbing was a Golden Core cultivator.

• Zhang Xuanming broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and urged Zhang Xuanbing not to risk their Secret Realm exploration for the other Zhang Family Disciples, but Zhang Xuanbing took him along to search for them.
• Bai Zijing and Yan Ruyu reached the ancient battlefield's core and found a ten-thousand-meter mountain of frozen human and foreign-race corpses emitting ice Sha qi.
• Bai Zijing and Yan Ruyu left the Corpse Mountain, unaware that an Evil Demon hidden deep within it had watched them depart.
• Zhang Xuanbing and Zhang Xuanming searched the Secret Realm, and Zhang Xuanbing slaughtered cultivators from the Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and Yunmeng Jiang Family.
• Half a month later, after Zhang Xuanbing killed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Ninglu Sect elder, a woman recognized that he was Golden Core rather than Foundation Establishment Peak.

Zhang Xuanbing attacked Ling Han after she discovered his secret, but her affectionate reaction unsettled him. Ling Han revealed that a Half-step Nascent Soul Ancestor’s spiritual power incarnation could protect her, leaving Zhang Xuanbing unable to kill her easily.

• Zhang Xuanbing struck Ling Han with his ice sword, breaking her Ice Wall and injuring her.
• Ling Han called Zhang Xuanbing a heartless man, making him recognize her and halt his attack.
• Ling Han confessed her admiration for Zhang Xuanbing, whose strength had turned her earlier goodwill into obsessive love.
• Zhang Xuanbing suspected Ling Han had developed a yandere personality, but decided she still had to die because she knew his secret.
• Ling Han warned Zhang Xuanbing that a Half-step Nascent Soul Ancestor’s spiritual power incarnation could stop him, while insisting he would soon grow strong enough to overcome it.

Ling Han begged Zhang Xuanbing to help her escape an arranged marriage, and he agreed in exchange for her helping the Zhang Family breach Ice Cold Palace’s protective array if needed. A month and a half later, the Secret Realm closed and its explorers were returned to the factions waiting outside.

• Ling Han told Zhang Xuanbing that Ice Cold Palace had forced her to marry Second Elder and that she had ten years before she must submit or die.
• Zhang Xuanbing rejected Ling Han’s offer of marriage but promised the Zhang Family would help her escape if she swore to help them breach Ice Cold Palace’s Sect Protecting Grand Array.
• Ling Han swore the Heavenly Dao Oath, then watched Zhang Xuanbing leave with Zhang Xuanming and privately vowed to win him over.
• Zhang Xuanming questioned Zhang Xuanbing about rejecting Ling Han, and Zhang Xuanbing said he had agreed to help her only for the Zhang Family’s grand plan.
• After a month and a half, the Secret Realm shook and transported its cultivators and demonic beasts outside, where the waiting factions prepared to receive them.

After the Demon Race retreated, the major forces turned their attention to the Zhang Family over the Secret Realm casualties. Lin Wanqing and Zhang Zujun forced the three allied powers to back down, and the Zhang Family prepared to return to the clan.

• Zhang Xuanbing and other leaders gathered their disciples as the Demon Race withdrew to the Purple Cloud Mountain Range and Azure Nether Mountain Range.
• Dou Kun ordered Ice Cold Palace to return to its sect, and other forces began departing while guarding against one another.
• Zhang Shikai and forces from Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and the Yunmeng Jiang Family demanded that Zhang Zujun explain why so few of their cultivators had returned from the Secret Realm.
• Lin Wanqing defended the Zhang Family and displayed nine Third-tier Spirit Talismans, while the Zhang Family’s remaining clansmen revealed their own talismans to deter an attack.
• Lin Feng persuaded Zhang Shikai not to fight before Zhang Xuanchen returned and Li Qingrou completed her breakthrough, and Zhang Zujun and the Zhang Family mocked Zhang Shikai as they prepared to leave.

The Zhang Family left the confrontation under Zhang Zujun’s protection, winning the loyalty of their Family Generals, while the leaders of the three allied forces argued over their decision to target the family. Jiang Chen regretted the Jiang Family’s choice but, after Jiang Wenbin defended it, resolved to protect the younger generation and return to the clan.

• Luo Yichen left for Yunhua Immortal City with Luo Qinghe and Luo Yuanhui, while Yan Ruyu and her senior brother departed separately.
• Zhang Zujun ordered the Zhang Family to leave for the Penglai Islands, with Lin Wanqing and Zhang Xuanbing guarding the rear; their Family Generals vowed to repay the family’s protection.
• After the Zhang Family departed, Zhang Shikai raged, while Lin Feng and Jiang Chen criticized his loss of composure before the sects withdrew.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Feng he feared the Jiang Family had made the wrong choice and asked whether it could still withdraw, but Lin Feng warned that it had no path back.
• Jiang Wenbin told Jiang Chen that the Jiang Family’s choice was right regardless of the outcome, and Jiang Chen resolved to protect the younger generation before ordering them back to the clan.

Zhang Hongzhan welcomed Zhang Zujun and the survivors back from the Secret Realm, where fourteen clansmen had died. Four months later, Zhang Xuanchen returned at Late Golden Core, and Luo Yichen stopped Luo Yuanhui from intercepting him and Luo Lingshuang before ordering his subordinate to obey without question.

• Zhang Hongzhan waited anxiously for Zhang Zujun's group to return, while Jun Xiaoyao teased him and was threatened with seven days of secluded cultivation.
• Zhang Zujun returned with Lin Wanqing and the survivors, reporting that fourteen of the eighty-seven clansmen who entered the Secret Realm had died.
• Zhang Hongzhan ordered the fallen clansmen buried with honor and required the survivors to hand over forty percent of their treasures to the family.
• Four months later, Jun Xiaoyao sensed Zhang Xuanchen returning at Late Golden Core and predicted that Luo Yichen would suffer if he challenged him.
• Luo Yichen stopped Luo Yuanhui from intercepting Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang, slapped him for questioning the order, and demanded that he obey without offering opinions.