Chapter Summaries

Chen Mobai and the Five Elements Dao Soldiers fought off waves of yao beasts while Yuan Zhen used the Azure Mirage Bottle to draw them out. After powerful Third Tier beasts appeared, Chen Mobai replenished his spiritual power and slew two Mountain Giant Apes with the Purple Lightning Sword, leaving the battle still underway.

• Chen Mobai directed five Foundation Establishment cultivators and the Five Elements Dao Soldiers as they slaughtered the attacking Second Grade yao beasts.
• A Third Tier Unicorn Ox shattered the Water Dao Soldier, but Chen Mobai killed it with Primordial True Qi and the Primordial Yang Sword Sha.
• A giant centipede attacked Yuan Zhen, and Chen Mobai split it in two with the Extreme Sun Slash.
• Two Mountain Giant Apes arrived, and Chen Mobai replenished his spiritual power through an External Incarnation before blocking their attack.
• Chen Mobai drew the Purple Lightning Sword and killed both Mountain Giant Apes with successive strikes.

Chen Mobai led the Five Elements Sect and Yuan Zhen’s group out of the Mirage Mist after defending them from waves of yao beasts. He then witnessed Ye Qing slay the Demonic Cultivator with a sword strike powerful enough to make Chen Mobai question whether he could withstand it.

• Chen Mobai killed two Third Tier Mountain Giant Apes and helped Yuan Zhen’s group survive the yao beasts inside the Mirage Mist.
• Yu Hai destroyed the shattered flying boat with a Sun Glory Divine Thunder bead, while Chen Mobai cut a path for the survivors to regroup.
• Chen Mobai persuaded Yuan Zhen to retreat, and he led the exhausted cultivators out of the mist with few casualties.
• After reaching a Mountain Giant Ape Spirit Vein, Chen Mobai’s group rested and prepared a formation as yao beasts began escaping the vanished mist.
• Yuan Zhen asked Chen Mobai to check on Ye Qing, and Chen Mobai flew toward their battlefield.
• Ye Qing split the Dragon Snake phantom and killed the black-robed Demonic Cultivator with a sword strike, leaving Chen Mobai impressed by his strength.

Chen Mobai and Ye Qing led the cultivators out of the Desolate Ruins while evading the Fourth Grade Golden Eye Jade Toad and fighting off yao beasts along the way. After reaching safer territory, Chen Mobai parted ways with Ye Qing and Yuan Zhen, who gave him a Top-grade Spirit Stone and invited him to visit the Eastern Lands.

• Ye Qing used Human Sword Unity to carry Chen Mobai away from the approaching Fourth Grade Golden Eye Jade Toad, and Yuan Zhen concealed their group with a Sky Covering Talisman.
• Chen Mobai and Ye Qing led the Five Elements Sect cultivators and Rogue Cultivators on a concealed retreat through the Desolate Ruins, avoiding the Golden Eye Jade Toad's searching Yao sense.
• At a river, Chen Mobai built a bridge with his Crimson Cloud Mist Silk while Ye Qing killed a Big Green Fish, and the group hurried across as more powerful yao beasts approached.
• After the group left the Golden Eye Jade Toad's range, Chen Mobai brought out the Flying Boats and continued toward safer territory with the exhausted cultivators.
• Ye Qing and Yuan Zhen parted from Chen Mobai, and Yuan Zhen gave him a Top-grade Spirit Stone and a Message Talisman while inviting him to visit the Eastern Lands.

Chen Mobai learned from Shen Shanqing about the Eastern Lands’ Holy Lands and Primordial Unity Dao Palace’s decline after its Dao Child died and its Saintess vanished. He resolved to strengthen himself before venturing into the dangerous Eastern Lands, hoping Primordial Unity Dao Palace would survive until then.

• Chen Mobai thanked Shen Shanqing for helping the Five Elements Sect enter the Desolate Ruins, and Shen Shanqing explained that he had urged Ye Qing to enlist Chen’s help.
• Shen Shanqing told Chen Mobai that Primordial Unity Dao Palace had stopped sending out Heavenly Walkers after its Dao Child was killed and its Saintess abducted a century earlier.
• Shen Shanqing described the Dao Sons and Saintesses of the other Eastern Lands Holy Lands, including Ye Qing’s standing and Yuan Zhen’s prospects of becoming a Saintess.
• Chen Mobai learned that Yuan Zhen was a descendant of Xuantian True Monarch Yuan Qingque and could wield the Azure Mirage Bottle as the Desolate Ruins expedition’s hidden trump card.
• Shen Shanqing explained that Primordial Unity Dao Palace still had Nascent Soul Venerables but faced pressure from lesser sects, while Chen Mobai worried about its future and his own lack of a path to Spirit Transmutation.
• Chen Mobai asked about the wider Sky River Realm, but Shen Shanqing knew little about regions beyond the Eastern Domain.

After returning from the Desolate Ruins, Chen Mobai guided the Five Elements Sect cultivators, distributed their gains, and sought an alchemist to refine Demon Beast Inner Cores into Outer Dao Golden Cores. The chapter left Chen Mobai with a possible connection to Zhang Zibo while the Eastern Wasteland’s mortal world became unified.

• Chen Mobai led the Five Elements Five Meridians back from the Desolate Ruins, advised cultivators on cultivation, and gave Ban Zhaodan part of the Purple Splendor Sword Canon.
• In North Abyss City, cultivators sold Desolate Ruins spoils and bought Spirit Rice from Little South Mountain Shop after hearing Chen Mobai explain its importance.
• Chen Mobai allocated the Spirit Stone, Yin Deficiency Bamboo, Yao Beast corpses, and four Demon Beast Inner Cores, but learned Yan Shaoyin would not refine them into Outer Dao Golden Cores.
• Shen Shanqing offered to connect Chen Mobai with Zhang Zibo, a Fourth Tier Alchemist in Eastern Wu, though a Water Meridian cultivator warned that Zhang usually served only the Sun Family.
• Chen Mobai learned that Yu Lian was still missing and that Jiang Zongheng had taken Xia Country and Hua Country, unifying the Eastern Wasteland’s mortal world.

After the Great Zhao Dynasty unified the Eastern Wasteland, Chen Mobai rejected Lou Xuelong’s attempts to draw the Five Elements Sect into the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association. He accepted the new dynasty’s rise and appointed guardians to its nineteen commanderies, leaving Song Huangda and Han Zhiling with assignments that could also keep watch on Zhou Ye and Yan Shaoyin.

• Lou Xuelong warned Chen Mobai that the Holy Lands would destroy any dragon vein that developed spirituality, then proposed buying the future vein’s resources for the Starry Skies Great Merchant Association.
• Chen Mobai rejected Lou Xuelong’s offers to join the merchant association, including access to Three Lights Divine Water, Coiled Dragon Spirit Rice, and help with Outer Dao Golden Cores.
• Lou Xuelong and Chen Mobai agreed that Starry Skies Dao Sect would not block Hua Kingdom’s surrender, and the Great Zhao Dynasty unified the Eastern Wasteland’s nineteen kingdoms.
• King Zhao performed the Fengshan sacrifices, received imperial symbols from Chen Mobai, and learned that mortals without Spiritual Roots could not cultivate immortality.
• Jiang Zongheng stayed in the mortal world to establish the commandery and county system, while Chen Mobai appointed guardians across the nineteen commanderies without replacing the former Guardians.
• Chen Mobai assigned Song Huangda to Ming Commandery and Han Zhiling to Xia Country, where she could monitor Returning Heaven Valley and Yan Shaoyin’s preparations for Nascent Formation.

Chen Mobai entered the mysterious underground cave to find Yu Lian and discovered Kong Lingling beside him, apparently cultivating within a giant locust shell. When Chen Mobai tried to attack her, a strange monster ambushed him, and he countered while directing his sword toward Kong Lingling.

• Chen Mobai went to the cave after Zhou Shengqing could not break through its ice wall, and he used his Void Body to teleport around it through the surrounding stone.
• Chen Mobai found Kong Lingling inside a vast cavern, with the emaciated Yu Lian bound beneath her in a shattered White Jade Egg.
• Chen Mobai accused Kong Lingling of harming his disciple, but she did not respond.
• Chen Mobai launched an attack at Kong Lingling, then dodged a sudden strike from behind and drew the Purple Lightning Sword.
• A greenish-yellow monster blocked Chen Mobai's sword, and Chen Mobai wounded its palm before sending his orange-red gleam toward Kong Lingling.

Chen Mobai, Fu Zongjue, and Zhou Shengqing confronted Kong Lingling in the Underground Cave after discovering her connection to the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo. Zhou Shengqing revealed that he had formed a Nascent Soul, and the three killed Kong Lingling and captured the holy embryo.

• Chen Mobai rescued the unconscious Yu Lian from Kong Lingling and escaped the Underground Cave while a Spirit Leaf Talisman held off the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo.
• Kong Lingling pursued Chen Mobai, but he drew her toward Fu Zongjue and the damaged Restrictions prevented her from controlling the cave as planned.
• Fu Zongjue and Chen Mobai cornered Kong Lingling, while Zhou Shengqing appeared and trapped the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo in a cage of deep green lightning.
• Kong Lingling learned that Zhou Shengqing had formed a Nascent Soul and offered to surrender the holy embryo in exchange for her life.
• Zhou Shengqing crippled Kong Lingling with the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle, and Chen Mobai cut off her head.

Chen Mobai and his allies defeated Kong Lingling, rescued Yu Lian, and uncovered the secrets behind the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo and Fu Xingzhou’s death. They divided Kong Lingling’s treasures, while Yu Lian remained behind the Ice Wall to recover and cultivate.

• Chen Mobai dispelled the Spirit Leaf Talisman, revived Yu Lian, and learned that Fu Xingzhou’s corpse was among the bodies Kong Lingling had used to feed her Demon Beast.
• Yu Lian revealed that Kong Lingling had caused the Silver Firmament Sect’s downfall and that the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo was the child of Fu Xingzhou and Kong Lingling.
• Fu Zongjue chose to take the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo and raise it for a while, while Zhou Shengqing sealed its Yao Qi and spiritual power.
• Zhou Shengqing searched Kong Lingling’s storage bag, and the three cultivators divided her Spirit Stones, inheritances, and rare spiritual treasures, with Chen Mobai taking the Water Origin Profound Stone for Hong Kingdom.
• Chen Mobai gave Yu Lian supplies and the Void Body cultivation method, and the group arranged for him to remain behind the Ice Wall until he could leave safely.

Chen Mobai arranged to report Kong Lingling’s death to Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect and sought help monitoring Ice Heaven Palace, while pursuing Outer Dao Golden Cores and expanding Five Elements Sect’s resources. He distributed Golden Liquid Jade Return Pills to five Foundation Establishment cultivators and prepared to guide Yin Qingmei through Core Formation.

• Yu Lian told Chen Mobai that Kong Lingling had left a soul lamp at Ice Heaven Palace, prompting Chen Mobai, Zhou Shengqing, and Fu Zongjue to agree on reporting her death to Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect and align their testimonies.
• Chen Mobai sent Ye Qing a message about Kong Lingling, arranged with Shen Shanqing to monitor Ice Cloud Venerable, and learned that Kuzhu Shangren had accepted the Seven Swords Piercing Punishment in place of Ancestor Muqin.
• Chen Mobai agreed to have Zhang Zibo refine Outer Dao Golden Cores one at a time and offered Zheng Deming a chance to obtain one by earning Sect Contribution.
• Chen Mobai moved the Spirit Treasure Pavilion’s center to North Abyss City and distributed Golden Liquid Jade Return Pills to Meng Hong, Yin Qingmei, Xie Yuntian, Quan Shanlin, and Yue Zutao.
• Chen Mobai sent Meng Hong and three other recipients back to Giant Wood Ridge, kept Yin Qingmei in North Abyss City, and said he would personally guide her through Core Formation.

Yin Qingmei successfully formed her Core on Six Armor Mountain with Chen Mobai’s guidance and protection, while Yuan Zhen was named the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect’s Saintess. The chapter ended with Yin Qingmei awakening after her breakthrough and thanking Warm Sun Bro for the Golden Alliance.

• Yuan Qingque refined the Mirage Dragon Essence, rewarded Yuan Zhen with three True Blood Pills and the Azure Mirage Bottle, and told her to leave while Ye Qing stayed for Nascent Formation.
• The Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect announced Yuan Zhen as its current Saintess, while a cold, beautiful woman left Ice Heaven Palace for the Eastern Yi.
• Chen Mobai escorted Yin Qingmei to Six Armor Mountain, where she swallowed a Golden Liquid Jade Return Pill and began forming her Core.
• Yin Qingmei broke through her spiritual power, Spiritual Sense, and physical-body bottlenecks, then formed a Golden Core with help from the Jade Wutong and Chen Mobai’s Spirit Gathering Formation.
• The Heavenly Tribulation gathered over Six Armor Mountain but vanished, and Yin Qingmei opened her eyes after successfully forming her Core.

Yin Qingmei successfully formed her core, and Chen Mobai affirmed her place in the Five Elements Sect while hearing her insights. He then led Luo Yixuan and Zhuo Ming to establish a Fourth Grade water vein at Cold Crystal Lake, arranging the site as Luo Yixuan’s future cultivation ground.

• Yin Qingmei emerged from her tribulation as a Core Formation cultivator, and Chen Mobai examined her before she shared her core formation insights.
• Chen Mobai told Yin Qingmei that she would remain a Fourth Generation disciple despite forming her core, then said Luo Yixuan would be next to receive support for her cultivation.
• Chen Mobai, Luo Yixuan, and Zhuo Ming searched along Black Water for a suitable site, and they chose Cold Crystal Lake for a Fourth Grade water vein.
• Luo Yixuan offered the sixteen Rogue Cultivators at Cold Crystal Lake cave mansions, Spirit Stones, and priority work in exchange for relocating.
• Chen Mobai ordered the Array Department and Spiritual Vein Department to begin upgrading Cold Crystal Lake, investing a Water Origin Profound Stone and one thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Mobai and Zhuo Ming planned to make Cold Crystal Lake the center of an Eastern Wasteland water network, while Luo Yixuan felt pleased that Chen Mobai had chosen it as her future cultivation ground.

Yuan Zhen became the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect’s Saintess and took on a mission to the Eastern Wasteland, while Chen Mobai successfully refined a second strand of Primordial True Qi’s embryonic form and arranged a trial for cultivating Five Elements Essence. At Six Armor Mountain, Yin Qingmei used the Jade Wutong’s tribulation to conceal its advancement, and the tree survived the Heavenly Tribulation with her help and the Clear Sky Mirror.

• After taking a True Blood Pill, Yuan Zhen found the burden of reviewing denunciation letters overwhelming and delegated the initial screening to her disciples.
• Yuan Huanghe sent Yuan Zhen to deliver supplies to Ye Qing, who passed her a report from Chen Mobai about Kong Lingling and entrusted her with handling it.
• Yuan Zhen chose to travel to the Eastern Wasteland, while Ice Cloud Venerable also set out for the region after learning that Bai Wu was away.
• Chen Mobai used Five Elements Simultaneous Cultivation to form the beginnings of a second strand of Primordial True Qi, then stopped when the others’ spiritual power proved insufficient.
• Chen Mobai appointed Zhou Wangshen to oversee a small trial of Five Elements Essence cultivation and had Zhuo Ming’s peach Spirit Wine restore the group’s depleted spiritual power.
• Yin Qingmei and the Jade Wutong endured the Golden Wind Tribulation and lightning strikes; Yin Qingmei blocked the final bolts with the Clear Sky Mirror, and the Heavenly Tribulation passed.

Chen Mobai oversaw Yin Qingmei’s successful tribulation, strengthened the Clear Sky Mirror, and arranged for her to wield and nourish it while promising flying sword embryos to her and Luo Yixuan. Back in North Abyss City, he prepared the Five Elements Sect for a looming threat from a Nascent Soul Venerable, then entrusted Zhou Wangshen with secretly organizing cultivators to gather Five Elements Essence and appointed Zhou Bingyan to replace him as guardian of Xiao County.

• Yin Qingmei used the Clear Sky Mirror to shatter the Jade Wutong’s Heavenly Tribulation, and Chen Mobai refined the remaining tribulation energy into the mirror.
• Chen Mobai gave Yin Qingmei the Clear Sky Mirror to wield and nourish, promised flying sword embryos to her and Luo Yixuan, and left Six Armor Mountain with Luo Yixuan.
• After learning that a threat was approaching from Eastern Yi, Chen Mobai summoned allies and sent Qi Rui to deliver a warning to True Person Nu Jiang for Zhou Shengqing.
• Chen Mobai advised Zhou Wangshen on cultivation, gave him Longevity Dew and a body-tempering technique, and tasked him with secretly gathering former True Disciples to cultivate the Five Elements Essence Method.
• Chen Mobai authorized Zhou Wangshen to draw five Foundation Establishment Pills and chose Zhou Bingyan to replace him as guardian of Xiao County.

Chen Mobai gathered the Five Elements Sect’s cultivators in the Desolate Ruins to confront Ice Cloud Venerable, and his resolve to defend the Eastern Wasteland awakened the Heaven and Earth All Beings Crown. When Zhou Shengqing’s negotiations failed, Chen Mobai joined the battle with a powerful incarnation, and the chapter ended as his Purple Lightning Sword cracked Ice Cloud Venerable’s flying sword.

• Chen Mobai and Zhou Shengqing prepared to confront Ice Cloud Venerable in the Desolate Ruins, gathering the Five Elements Sect’s Core Formation cultivators and Dao Soldiers while leaving Luo Yixuan to guard North Abyss City.
• Chen Mobai channeled the Five Elements Dao Soldiers into his External Incarnation, then received the Heaven and Earth All Beings Crown as the Eastern Wasteland’s Sentient Faith answered his resolve to defend his territory.
• Chen Mobai’s Phoenix Facing Sun Diagram advanced to the Second Layer just as Zhou Shengqing and Ice Cloud Venerable began fighting after their negotiations failed.
• Ice Cloud Venerable pressed Zhou Shengqing for the source of his Fifth Grade Soul Nurturing Wood and threatened the Five Elements Sect, but Chen Mobai arrived with his crowned incarnation and challenged her.
• Chen Mobai and Ice Cloud Venerable clashed with their flying swords while Zhou Shengqing restrained her with a golden gale, and Chen Mobai’s Purple Lightning Sword cracked her Snow White Flying Sword.

Chen Mobai and Zhou Shengqing drove Ice Cloud Venerable away after a fierce battle, then waited for Yuan Zhen to arrive and investigate the allegations against her Ice Heaven Palace disciple. Yuan Zhen confronted Ice Cloud Venerable, who bowed before the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect’s authority, and the group reached the hidden chamber where the evidence lay.

• Ice Cloud Venerable used a Frost Flower Talisman and escaped after Chen Mobai and Zhou Shengqing damaged her Natal Flying Sword, leaving the Desolate Ruins frozen.
• Chen Mobai returned to the Five Elements Sect camp, reported the battle, and kept the Five Great Phalanxes on alert while Zhou Shengqing searched for Ice Cloud Venerable.
• Yuan Zhen arrived with Zhu Yun, summoned Ice Cloud Venerable to explain herself, and made her acknowledge the Nine Heavens Demon Purging Sect’s authority.
• Ice Cloud Venerable defended her actions by disputing Chen Mobai’s account, and Yuan Zhen ordered the group to inspect the Underground Cave and its evidence.
• At the cave, Ice Cloud Venerable recognized the fifth-tier Ice Wall, opened it with the Silver Adornment Jade Carving Art, and entered the hidden chamber with the others.

Ice Cloud Venerable and Chen Mobai negotiated the consequences of Kong Lingling’s demonic conduct while concealing their own goals, then investigated Blowing Snow Palace with Yuan Zhen. The case ended with Bai Si and seven fugitive cultivators dead, while Chen Mobai sought protection from Ice Heaven Palace and Ice Cloud Venerable faced a demand that threatened her plan to retrieve the Azure Yao Ice Heart Chain.

• Ice Cloud Venerable recognized the invisible Azure Yao Ice Heart Chain binding the Locust Mother, while Chen Mobai and Yuan Zhen confirmed the crime scene and negotiated a settlement with her.
• Chen Mobai secured Ice Cloud Venerable’s agreement to surrender Blowing Snow Palace’s Eastern Wasteland holdings in exchange for protecting her chosen successor, Bai Si, and concealing the Five Elements Sect’s Dharma Body Nascent Soul.
• Ice Cloud Venerable disabled Blowing Snow Palace’s protective formation, and Yuan Zhen questioned its members about Kong Lingling’s demonic conduct.
• Bai Si admitted that Kong Lingling had shown her the Heavenly Demon Embryo Incarnation Art, then died from a Dao Heart Oath backlash before Ice Cloud Venerable struck her down.
• Ice Cloud Venerable hunted down seven cultivators who failed to appear for questioning, and the remaining Blowing Snow Palace members swore Dao Heart Oaths.
• Chen Mobai asked Yuan Zhen to protect the Five Elements Sect from Ice Heaven Palace, and Yuan Zhen proposed that Ice Cloud Venerable promise not to return to the Eastern Wasteland, threatening her plan to retrieve the Azure Yao Ice Heart Chain.

Chen Mobai resolved the Blowing Snow Palace crisis with Yuan Zhen’s help, learned of a future expedition into the Desolate Ruins, and returned to Giant Wood Ridge to break through to Golden Core Seventh Layer. The chapter ended with Chen Mobai celebrating his successful breakthrough in seclusion.

• Yuan Zhen set a deadline for Ice Cloud Venerable to stay away from the Eastern Wasteland, took the Heavenly Demon Holy Embryo, and agreed to punish Blowing Snow Palace by sealing it for sixty years.
• Chen Mobai arranged for Xue Ting to obtain supplies for Blowing Snow Palace, gave her an Azure Flame Sword Talisman, and left Fu Zongjue to oversee the mountain’s sealing and the takeover of its holdings.
• At Heavenly Meal Tower, Chen Mobai treated Yuan Zhen and Zhu Yun to Pure Clean Bamboo Spirit Rice and Immortal Peach Spirit Wine, and Yuan Zhen accepted a jar of wine.
• Yuan Zhen investigated reports of Demonic Dao cultivators, dismissed an anonymous accusation against Chen Mobai, and warned him that the Three Great Holy Lands planned to reopen the Seventh Domain and hunt a Golden Flame Suanni.
• After Yuan Zhen departed, Chen Mobai discussed the threat from Ice Cloud Venerable and the coming expedition with Zhou Shengqing, then returned to Giant Wood Ridge to cultivate.
• Chen Mobai obtained the Withered Wood Meets Spring art, sent it to Yin Qingmei for study, and used Pure Yang Purple Qi to break through to Golden Core Seventh Layer.

After advancing to Core Formation Late Stage, Chen Mobai discussed Blowing Snow Palace’s defectors and the Five Elements Sect’s plans with Fu Zongjue, then discovered the Heaven and Earth All Beings Crown could reveal cultivation progress and connections across the Eastern Wasteland. He returned to the Immortal Sect to visit his parents, where an unexpected call from Shi Xiaohei left the story poised for a new encounter.

• Chen Mobai celebrated his breakthrough with Fu Zongjue, who explained that Lan Lingping and the Blowing Snow Palace defectors had been forced to seek a foothold in North Abyss City.
• Fu Zongjue told Chen Mobai that Quan Shanlin had failed to form his core, and they discussed Yin Qingmei’s and Fu Huakun’s roles in reorganizing the sect’s halls.
• Fu Zongjue asked Chen Mobai to request the damaged Little Azure Dragon puppet from Zhou Ye, and Chen Mobai sent letters to Zhou Ye and E Yun through Gu Yan.
• Chen Mobai examined the Heaven and Earth All Beings Crown, discovered that Inner View of Self could display cultivation progress, and saw that Outer View of Heaven and Earth linked people across the Eastern Wasteland with lines.
• Chen Mobai returned to Danxia Mountain, announced his mastery of the Square Inch Book to his parents, and shared a meal with them.
• Shi Xiaohei called Chen Mobai and asked whether he was home.

After discovering that Shi Xiaohei was the daughter of Shi Wanyu, Chen Mobai rushed to Yumu City to investigate her family records and arrange protection for her new job. He then visited Gu Mingxuan, learned that Shi Wanyu had raised her daughter alone, and welcomed Xiaohei into his home the next morning.

• Shi Xiaohei told Chen Mobai she had passed the Civil Service Examination and would work as a clerk at the Yumu City Forestry Bureau, and Chen Mobai found the transfer notice online.
• Chen Mobai realized Xiaohei's connection to Shi Wanyu, then called City Lord Wen Ping and hurried to Yumu City to search the Yu Family archives.
• Chen Mobai found Shi Wanyu's file and instructed Wen Ping and Zhu Shiyong to look after Xiaohei at work.
• Chen Mobai visited Gu Mingxuan, who gave him Shi Wanyu's current address and revealed that she had raised a daughter born out of wedlock.
• Shi Xiaohei visited Chen Mobai's home the next morning, and he reassured her that her superiors would not make things difficult for her.