Recaps

Zhang Xuanchen defeated and captured Wang Yu, then watched the battle at Ninglu Sect while preparing for the arriving reinforcements. As the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan approached, he ordered Shuang'er and Great Sage to attack.

• Wang Yu mistook Zhang Xuanchen for a Heavenly Spirit Root genius, but Zhang Xuanchen overwhelmed him with the Starry Tower and a sword strike.
• Zhang Xuanchen sealed Wang Yu's cultivation, took his Storage Ring, and put him in the Myriad Spirit Ring for Little Peach to keep alive and question.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to the battle and aided Zhang and Su cultivators, giving them combat advice as the fight continued into the night.
• Xuanjing reported that Third-tier Flying Boats from the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan were nearing Ninglu Sect, with Golden Core cultivators following them.
• Li Qingrou urged True Person Cang Ming and True Person Golden Blade to attack, and they charged toward Ninglu Sect after sensing the fighters' exhaustion.
• As the reinforcements came within ten li, Zhang Xuanchen ordered Shuang'er and Great Sage to strike with all their strength.

Li Qingrou and the other Ninglu Sect Golden Cores were killed, and the Zhang Family confronted the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan after defeating the Ninglu Sect. Zhang Xuanchen warned away hidden observers and accepted a Spirit Talisman discount token from True Person Chifu, leaving the rival factions facing the Zhang Family’s strength.

• Luo Lingshuang and the others attacked as Li Qingrou realized the Zhang Family had lured the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan into a trap.
• Li Qingrou burned her origins and tried to self-detonate, but Luo Lingshuang’s Tidal Lotus Lamp suppressed her while Wuxin, Zhang Xuanbing, and Great Sage attacked Zhou Li, Zhang Shikai, and Li Qingrou.
• Great Sage’s Heaven-Breaking Strike killed Li Qingrou, Zhou Li, and Zhang Shikai, while the Zhang and Su Clan disciples finished slaughtering the Ninglu Sect disciples.
• Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and the other Zhang Family Golden Cores blocked the approaching Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan forces as the surviving battle continued.
• Zhang Xuanchen warned the hidden cultivators not to prey on the battle, and most of them left after acknowledging they had no intention of opposing the Zhang Family.
• True Person Chifu offered Zhang Xuanchen a Heavenly Talisman Sect token for a fifteen percent discount on Spirit Talismans, and Zhang Xuanchen accepted it.

Wuxin rejected True Person Fragrant Buddha’s offer to return to Tianluo Temple, and Zhang Xuanchen refused to let him threaten the Zhang family. The Zhang family and its allies then killed True Person Cang Ming and the other Golden Core cultivators with the Starry Tower, leaving them with the spoils and a powerful new weapon.

• Wuxin insulted True Person Fragrant Buddha and rejected his invitation to return to Tianluo Temple, demanding that the temple’s wicked disciples be executed first.
• Zhang Xuanchen denied that Wuxin’s actions represented the Zhang family, while Great Sage drove True Person Fragrant Buddha away rather than risk an immediate fight with Tianluo Temple.
• True Person Cang Ming begged Zhang Xuanchen to spare the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Jiang Family, offering his life and their treasures, but Zhang Xuanchen ordered the Starry Tower to suppress them.
• True Person Cang Ming burned his Golden Core to help Lin Feng escape, but the tower left them helpless against Luo Lingshuang and the others’ attacks, which killed Cang Ming and the other four Golden Cores.
• Little Peach retrieved the four Storage Rings, and Shuoxing explained that the damaged Ninth-Rank Imperial Artifact could suppress Golden Core cultivators and weaken even a Half-step Nascent Soul.

Zhang Xuanchen reassured Wuxin and urged him, Luo Lingshuang, and Great Sage to strengthen themselves while the Zhang Family dealt with the remnants of its defeated enemies. As Zhang Xuanchen’s forces split up to eliminate survivors, two Jiang Clan disciples fleeing through Luyu Mountain were devoured by Jadeite Spirit Insects.

• Zhang Xuanchen explained that the Starry Tower could suppress even a Half-step Nascent Soul and said it might grow stronger after absorbing more artifacts.
• Zhang Xuanchen reassured Wuxin that Tianluo Temple would not deter the Zhang Family’s expansion and urged him to master his inheritance.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Wuxin, Luo Lingshuang, and Great Sage to cultivate while rival forces reassessed the Zhang Family’s strength.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered his forces to eliminate the remaining enemies and sent groups to clear out the remnants at Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and the Yunmeng Jiang Clan.
• Two Jiang Clan disciples fleeing through Luyu Mountain were surrounded and devoured by Jadeite Spirit Insects.

After the Zhang Family took control of the Ninglu Sect's territory, Zhang Xuanchen planned to turn Luyu Mountain into a spirit medicine island and asked Shuoxing how the family should manage its new lands. Shuoxing proposed building an army from elite disciples of other factions, and Zhang Xuanchen began outlining terms that could make the arrangement acceptable to them.

• Zhang Xuanchen designated Luyu Mountain as a spirit medicine island, ordered the transfer of alchemists and Spirit Planters, and planned to send clansmen and Family Generals to manage it.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing and Shuoxing how the Zhang Family should take over the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan territories and develop its power.
• Shuoxing said the Zhang Family should build an army by selecting elite members of other factions and training them under experienced Zhang Family War Hall members.
• Shuoxing warned that future family expansion could lead to disloyalty and internal conflict, making a loyal army necessary to secure the Zhang Family's rule.
• Zhang Xuanchen agreed with the army plan and proposed fixed service terms, with the Zhang Family using resources from the factions to train recruits who could later return with greater strength.

After Little Star used its blood to help several demonic beasts digest Golden Core cultivators’ corpses, Zhang Xuanchen examined Wang Yu’s spoils and found a dangerous dual-cultivation art. He asked Xuanjing and Shuoxing whether they could remove its drawbacks.

• Little Star told Zhang Xuanchen that it had given its blood to several demonic beasts, leaving them unconscious, and Shuoxing explained that they would recover as they digested the bloodline power.
• Zhang Xuanchen praised Little Star for helping the beasts but warned it not to harm itself again; Little Star asked for Cream Cake and went to search for fish.
• Zhang Xuanchen inspected Wang Yu’s Storage Ring and found abundant spirit stones, spiritual materials, and other treasures.
• Zhang Xuanchen discovered the Yin Yang Dao Integration Demon Canon, a seventh-tier dual-cultivation art whose benefits came with poison, backlash, and the risk of one partner forcibly ruining the other’s cultivation.
• After reading the canon, Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing and Shuoxing whether they could erase its drawbacks.

Zhang Xuanchen consolidated the Zhang Family’s gains after it destroyed the Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and Yunmeng Jiang Clan, then organized the newly conquered territories and recruited forces into the Zhang Family Army. The Wang Family grew anxious over Ancestor Yuyan’s silence as it weighed when to move against the Zhang Family.

• Shuoxing said integrating the Demonic Canon with the body’s meridians and a Yin Yang reversal cultivation method was possible but would take time, and Zhang Xuanchen considered the Heavenly Sword Fragment and Wang Yu’s unexplored inheritance.
• Zhang Guangyao reported that the Ninglu Sect’s spoils were worth around thirteen million Low-grade Spirit Stones, and Zhang Xuanchen assigned Zhang Xuanbing and Zhang Guangyao to secure Luyu Island and settle Zhang Family mortals there.
• The Zhang Family and its allies returned after the three great powers were eliminated, spreading news of the Zhang Family’s victory throughout the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain.
• Zhang Zujun, Lin Wanqing, and Wuxin took over the conquered spirit veins and immortal cities, while Zhang Xuanchen’s terms for joining the Zhang Family Army turned resistance among local forces into enthusiasm.
• Wang Qingrou learned that Ancestor Yuyan had sent no message and that his Soul Fire and Life Tablet remained intact, and she fumed over his absence as the Wang Family considered acting against the Zhang Family.

Wang Qingrou confronted the Wang Family elders over their silence about Ancestor Yuyan, then used the meeting to gauge their loyalty and resolve. Meanwhile, Zhang Xuanchen arrived in Fentian Immortal City in disguise to investigate the Wang Family and find two Green Spirit King Rice seeds.

• Wang Qingrou criticized the elders for staying silent about Ancestor Yuyan, then ordered them to investigate several locations discreetly and contact him.
• Wang Haobo admitted the elders had disappointed Wang Qingrou and urged them to carry out her orders and unite against the Zhang Family's growing threat.
• After the elders left, Wang Qingrou revealed that she had feigned exhaustion to avoid direct confrontation and reflect on the Zhang Family's tactics.
• Zhang Xuanchen arrived at Fentian Island in disguise and entered Horizon Restaurant after paying to come ashore.
• Zhang Xuanchen reviewed Immortal Fate Information predicting that two Fourth-grade Low-tier Green Spirit King Rice seeds would be found at Yuzhi Shop in twenty days.

Zhang Xuanchen failed to learn the Wang Family’s hidden locations and secrets from Wang Yu, who was bound by a Blood Oath and begged for death. The next morning, Zhang Xuanchen went to buy Green Spirit King Rice before planning to travel to Wind Green Island to question Long Zhantian about the Beast Tide.

• Zhang Xuanchen learned from Shuoxing that no Wang Family experts were apparent in Fentian Immortal City and planned to search near their main base the next morning.
• Little Peach told Zhang Xuanchen that Wang Yu had refused to confess, and Wang Yu begged Zhang Xuanchen to kill him.
• Wang Yu revealed that nine Wang Family members cultivated the Unity Demonic Canon and admitted they abducted female cultivators to use their primal yin for cultivation.
• Zhang Xuanchen realized Wang Yu’s Blood Oath prevented him from revealing the Wang Family’s locations, numbers, and communication methods, so he ordered Little Peach to keep punishing him.
• Zhang Xuanchen woke the next morning, paid for his room, and set out for Yuzhi Shop to buy Green Spirit King Rice before traveling to Wind Green Island to meet Long Zhantian.

Zhang Xuanchen visited Yuzhi Shop and bought its remaining Green Bud Rice spirit seeds from Yin Qianbao. Yin warned him against settling in Fentian Immortal City, then revealed his suspicions about the Wang Family and disclosed his own Nascent Soul clan background.

• Zhang Xuanchen followed the shop assistant to meet the sleeping shopkeeper, Yin Qianbao, and confirmed the shop still had Green Bud Rice spirit seeds.
• Yin Qianbao offered two hundred catties of the seeds for sale, and Zhang Xuanchen bought them all.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked why Yin was leaving Fentian Immortal City and mentioned his family's plans to move there.
• Yin warned Zhang Xuanchen that female cultivators had been disappearing and dying, accused the Wang Family of conducting a sham investigation, and said he suspected its involvement.
• Yin explained that he was moving to Lingxiao Immortal City, then revealed he was the seventh young master of the Nascent Soul Yin Family.

Zhang Xuanchen befriended Yin Qianbao and obtained Green Bud Rice seeds, including two Green Spirit King Rice seeds that Shuoxing and Little Peach could cultivate. After failing to locate the Wang Family’s hidden expert, Zhang Xuanchen left to investigate Wind Green Island, where the Zhang Family’s trade with Long Zhantian remained obstructed by human attackers.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Yin Qianbao he was a Su Family disciple, and the two agreed to help each other after Yin Qianbao settled in Lingxiao Immortal City.
• Zhang Xuanchen bought two hundred jin of Green Bud Rice seeds from Yin Qianbao for fifty-four thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Little Peach identified two unusually vital seeds as Green Spirit King Rice, and Shuoxing said he could cultivate them with her assistance.
• Zhang Xuanchen investigated the Wang Family’s strength but found no sign that its Golden Core Peak cultivator was nearing Half-step Nascent Soul, so he postponed the investigation.
• Zhang Xuanchen traveled to Wind Green Island, where human attackers targeting Zhang Hongqing had prevented the Zhang Family from trading extensively with Long Zhantian.

Zhang Xuanchen killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators who were lying in wait near Wind Green Island, then met Red Shrimp and Green Crab. He learned that Long Zhantian would marry in half a month and set off for Dragon Court to attend the ceremony and seek high-grade dragon resources.

• Zhang Xuanchen spotted three cultivators planning to attack a Zhang Family trader and killed them as they fled or begged for mercy.
• Red Shrimp and Green Crab recognized Zhang Xuanchen at Wind Green Island after he gave the secret code and revealed his identity.
• Red Shrimp told Zhang Xuanchen that Long Zhantian had ordered the Zhang Family to attend his wedding, scheduled for half a month later.
• Zhang Xuanchen decided to attend the wedding and planned to trade high-grade resources for dragon-attribute materials to advance his cultivation.
• Zhang Xuanchen shrank Red Shrimp and Green Crab, carried them into the sea, and hurried toward Dragon Court.

Zhang Xuanchen arrived at Dragon Court and faced down the Golden Roc Clan Leader, who attacked him over the wings he had taken from members of his clan. Long Zhantian arrived afterward and discovered Zhang Xuanchen had surpassed him in cultivation and in their shared art.

• Zhang Xuanchen reached Dragon Court after a three-day journey with Red Shrimp and Green Crab riding alongside him.
• The Golden Roc Clan Leader surrounded Zhang Xuanchen and threatened him over the wings he had refined into a magic artifact.
• Red Shrimp and Green Crab stood in front of Zhang Xuanchen, and he blocked the Golden Roc Clan Leader’s water blades with a starlight slash.
• Zhang Xuanchen rewarded Red Shrimp and Green Crab with Mystic Scale Body-Forging Pills, which they swallowed and began to absorb.
• Long Zhantian greeted Zhang Xuanchen and boasted that he had cultivated the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to the early stage of Three Transformations.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed that he had cultivated the art to the late stage of Three Transformations.

Long Zhantian punished Jin Peng and the Golden-winged Azure Water Roc clan for attacking Zhang Xuanchen and his guards. The clan leader admitted his guilt, while other sea demons began considering cooperation with Zhang Xuanchen for access to his pills.

• Long Zhantian reacted to Zhang Xuanchen's Late Golden Core cultivation, then struck Golden Roc and used his True Dragon pressure to subdue the Roc clan.
• Long Zhantian denounced the Rocs for targeting Zhang Xuanchen because they thought he was easy to bully, while the gathered sea demons watched without intervening.
• Long Zhantian fined the Golden-winged Azure Water Roc clan half its treasury and sentenced Jin Peng to a hundred years in Thunder Punishment Cave, with other participants receiving thirty years.
• The sea demons cheered the judgment, and some considered seeking pills from Zhang Xuanchen through the Dragon Court's protection.
• Golden Roc admitted his guilt to Long Zhantian and promised to restrain his clan and serve the Dragon Court.

Golden Roc accepted Long Zhantian’s order to punish his clan members and withdrew, while Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian discussed their cultivation and the Dragon Court’s True Dragon Essence Blood. Zhang Xuanchen decided to seek the blood from Long Xuan rather than pressure Long Zhantian, though he expected the exchange to be costly.

• Golden Roc admitted fault to Long Zhantian, promised to carry out the punishment, apologized to Zhang Xuanchen, and led the Golden-winged Azure Water Roc Clan away.
• After the other yao dispersed, Zhang Xuanchen praised Long Zhantian’s cultivation, and Long Zhantian complained that his father’s daily supply of dragon-attribute treasures caused him pain.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked whether Long Zhantian had used True Dragon Essence Blood to cultivate the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art, and Long Zhantian explained that his father had obtained a drop of Three-clawed Golden Dragon Essence Blood from an Undersea Black Hole.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned that the Dragon Court controlled the secret realm and considered the possibility that it held a True Dragon inheritance, making cooperation with the Dragon Court prudent.
• Long Zhantian said he could not provide True Dragon Essence Blood, so Zhang Xuanchen said he would ask Long Xuan instead and anticipated that the trade would cost him dearly.

Zhang Xuanchen visited Long Zhantian at Dragon Court and eyed several rare treasures and subordinates for exchange. After Shuoxing revealed Gui Ming’s extraordinary fortune-reading ability, Zhang Xuanchen turned his attention to the turtle, and Long Zhantian moved to protect him.

• Zhang Xuanchen considered trading rare techniques for Long Xuan’s True Dragon Essence Blood, while Long Zhantian warned that his father would likely reserve any blood for the Dragon Court’s Ancestor.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked to buy Red Shrimp and Green Crab, prompting Long Zhantian to accuse him of trying to rob Dragon Court and then invite him to Zhantian Palace.
• At Zhantian Palace, Shuoxing identified Gui Ming as a mutated turtle with a trace of Good Fortune Spirit Turtle bloodline and the ability to read fortune at a great personal cost.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Long Zhantian whether they were brothers, and Long Zhantian immediately guarded Gui Ming after realizing Zhang Xuanchen wanted him too.

Zhang Xuanchen visited Long Zhantian at Zhantian Palace, where Gui Ming greeted him and Long Zhantian welcomed him with pills, a feast, and a performance by Fishman Clan dancers. The three ate and drank together amid lavish entertainment, while Long Zhantian hoped to win more pills from Zhang Xuanchen.

• Zhang Xuanchen pretended to be hurt by Long Zhantian's suspicions, briefly making Long Zhantian doubt himself.
• Gui Ming greeted Zhang Xuanchen, and the two exchanged compliments about their families' partnership and prospects.
• Long Zhantian asked Zhang Xuanchen for pills, and Zhang Xuanchen gave him two third-tier low-grade pills that Long Zhantian swallowed without harm.
• Long Zhantian arranged a feast and a dance performance by eighteen Fishman Clan girls from Hundred Flowers Palace.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Long Zhantian, and Gui Ming ate spirit fruits and demon-beast meat, drank spirit wine, and enjoyed the dancers.

Long Yao confronted Long Zhantian over his banquet and later beat him, while Zhang Xuanchen and Gui Ming left the feast. Zhang Xuanchen asked Long Zhantian about a possible Beast Tide, shocking him with his knowledge of a secret Demon Race meeting.

• Long Yao interrupted Long Zhantian’s banquet, thanked Zhang Xuanchen for giving Long Zhantian his cultivation art, and joined the gathering.
• Long Zhantian boasted about his relationship with Long Yao and blamed Zhang Xuanchen and Gui Ming for inviting the dancers.
• Long Yao said she would stay at Zhantian Palace, and Zhang Xuanchen left for a secluded side hall with Gui Ming.
• Hours later, Long Zhantian arrived bruised and took refuge in Zhang Xuanchen’s side hall after Long Yao beat him.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked whether forces from the Azure Nether Mountain Range, the Purple Cloud Mountain Range, and the Dark Night Forest had approached the Dragon Court to launch a Beast Tide together.
• Long Zhantian was shocked that Zhang Xuanchen knew about the secret Beast Tide discussions among the Demon Race’s upper ranks.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that the Azure Nether Mountain Range and Purple Cloud Mountain Range planned a Beast Tide, while Long Zhantian confirmed the Dragon Court would stay out of it. Eleven days later, at Long Zhantian’s grand wedding, Long Xuan named him the Dragon Court’s young lord, and powerful Yao Sect members pledged their support.

• Long Zhantian told Zhang Xuanchen that the Dragon Court had refused to join the planned Beast Tide, prioritizing its wedding, succession, and an emerging Secret Realm.
• Long Zhantian explained that a war between humans and land demons would devastate both sides, but the Dragon Court would remain neutral.
• Eleven days later, Long Xuan gathered the Dragon Court’s guests at Long Zhantian’s wedding and declared him the next young lord and Dragon Lord.
• Uncle Octopus, Uncle Shark, and other powerful Yao Sect members congratulated Long Zhantian and promised to protect him.
• Zhang Xuanchen watched the gathering and recognized that the public declaration and the elders’ backing had secured Long Zhantian’s position.

At Long Zhantian’s wedding banquet, Zhang Xuanchen used a generous meal and Mystic Scale Body-Forging Pills to promote his family’s medicines while Long Zhantian kept Long Guang from targeting him. The Yao Generals discovered the pills’ power and turned on Sea Dog for agreeing to a smaller share.

• Zhang Xuanchen ate eagerly at the banquet, and Long Zhantian warned him that Long Guang seemed interested in the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Zhang Xuanchen apologized to the fifteen Yao Generals and gave each one a Mystic Scale Body-Forging Pill.
• Long Zhantian jokingly argued with Zhang Xuanchen, then claimed sixty percent of the pills for Zhantian Palace and left the others forty percent to share.
• Bighead Fish swallowed a pill and felt its strength and cultivation improve, prompting the other Yao Generals to try theirs.
• The Yao Generals realized Sea Dog had negotiated away part of their share and angrily confronted him.

After the banquet, Zhang Xuanchen met privately with Long Xuan and asked to trade for True Dragon Essence Blood. Long Xuan said he had used all of his supply and asked what Zhang Xuanchen would offer for the high-grade treasures he needed.

• The Sea Dog realized the Mystic Scale Body-Forging Pill was far better than expected, and Zhang Xuanchen promised to raise its plea with Long Zhantian.
• Long Zhantian told Zhang Xuanchen he wanted to recruit the neutral Scale-Cold Sea Dog clan, and the Sea Dog decided to support him.
• After the banquet ended, Zhang Xuanchen stayed behind and greeted Long Xuan as Uncle Xuan.
• Long Xuan praised Zhang Xuanchen's talent but said he had no True Dragon Essence Blood left to trade.
• Long Xuan asked what Zhang Xuanchen would offer for the top-tier dragon-attribute treasures required by his Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.

Zhang Xuanchen traded two demon cultivation arts to Long Xuan for Dragon Court spiritual treasures and learned that the Dragon Court Secret Realm could hold a dangerous opportunity. Long Xuan offered him entry alongside Zhan Tian after they reached Nascent Soul, but Zhang Xuanchen remained wary of the unknown dangers and surviving True Dragons.

• Zhang Xuanchen refused to teach Long Xuan the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art because doing so would endanger the human race.
• Zhang Xuanchen offered two demon cultivation arts, and Long Xuan agreed to exchange them for a selection of high-grade spiritual objects from the Dragon Court Treasury.
• Long Xuan invited Zhang Xuanchen to enter the Dragon Court Secret Realm with Zhan Tian after they both reached Nascent Soul, promising they could keep any treasures they found.
• Long Xuan explained that the secret realm had outer, inner, and core regions, and that even powerful Flood Dragons had barely survived the outer region.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked whether True Dragons might still live in the secret realm, and Long Xuan warned that meeting one could be fatal for him.

Zhang Xuanchen agreed to enter the Dragon Court Secret Realm with Long Zhantian, despite the danger, and learned that Long Xuan’s support was partly meant to keep him tied to Dragon Court. The next day, Zhang Xuanchen and Long Zhantian headed to the Dragon Court Treasury to gather supplies before Zhang Xuanchen returned home.

• Long Xuan warned Zhang Xuanchen that a great calamity might come and invited him to enter the dangerous Dragon Court Secret Realm, and Zhang Xuanchen accepted.
• Long Xuan promised Zhang Xuanchen could keep everything he found, while Zhang Xuanchen assured him that he alone would enter the secret realm.
• After Zhang Xuanchen left, Turtle Prime Minister told Long Xuan that tying Zhang Xuanchen to Long Zhantian would protect Dragon Court if Long Zhantian survived, and Long Xuan hoped events would go well.
• Xuanjing relayed Long Xuan and Turtle Prime Minister’s conversation to Zhang Xuanchen, who understood their motives and decided to return home the next day.
• At noon, Zhang Xuanchen woke Long Zhantian and persuaded him to go to the Dragon Court Treasury by promising him a Third-grade Top-tier pill.
• Long Zhantian told Zhang Xuanchen that the treasury held rare treasures Long Xuan had brought back from the Secret Realm.

Zhang Xuanchen collected treasures and low-grade medicinal ingredients from the Dragon Court treasury before setting out for home, while Long Zhantian arranged for someone to escort him. Long Guang intercepted him and, consumed by resentment over losing the Dragon Lord’s favor to Long Zhantian, demanded the cultivation art.

• Zhang Xuanchen followed Shuoxing’s guidance and selected several fourth-tier treasures from the treasury.
• Long Zhantian gave Zhang Xuanchen sacks of low-grade medicinal ingredients, and Zhang Xuanchen left for Worry-Free Island after declining to stay longer.
• Long Zhantian asked an unseen uncle to escort Zhang Xuanchen safely to Worry-Free City in case Long Guang tried to harm him.
• Long Guang and an early Fourth Stage Ink Ice Flood Dragon blocked Zhang Xuanchen after he left Dragon Court territory.
• Long Guang asked what price he must pay for the cultivation art, then bitterly explained how Long Zhantian’s talent had displaced him in their father’s favor.

Zhang Xuanchen refused Long Guang's demand for a cultivation technique and urged him to abandon his bid for power. Bai Jingran arrived, captured Long Guang's ally, and escorted Long Guang back to the Dragon Court, leaving Zhang Xuanchen free to continue his return.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Long Guang that Long Zhantian had greater support and value to the Dragon Court, and urged Long Guang to withdraw from the struggle.
• Long Guang admitted Zhang Xuanchen might be right but refused to give up the position, then demanded the cultivation technique; Zhang Xuanchen refused.
• An Ink Ice Flood Dragon tried to escape with Long Guang, but Bai Jingran appeared, devoured its attack, and restrained it.
• Bai Jingran criticized Long Guang for favoring his mother's clan and explained that this was a key reason Long Zhantian was trusted more.
• Long Guang left for the Dragon Court, and Bai Jingran compressed the captured Ink Ice Flood Dragon before apologizing to Zhang Xuanchen for the delay.