Recaps

Yang Ling fed Little White two Fire Spirit Pearls, triggering a dramatic level increase and another evolution that he moved into his spirit pet space. He then consumed a pearl himself, reached level 100, earned an Emerald Treasure Chest, and learned that Divine Domain was upgrading to version 2.0.

• Yang Ling split ten Fire Spirit Pearls with Little White, which swallowed two and surged from level 100 to 150 as its attributes increased.
• Little White became enveloped in a cocoon, its status changed to question marks, and Yang Ling placed it in his spirit pet space to evolve safely.
• Yang Ling ate a fresh Fire Spirit Pearl, whose radiation was countered by the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit, and gained a huge amount of experience.
• Yang Ling reached level 100, becoming the first of Divine Domain's eighty million players to do so and earning an Emerald Treasure Chest that began forming nearby.
• Divine Domain announced to every player that it had detected bugs and would upgrade to Divine Domain 2.0.

Yang Ling reached level 100, changing his listed class to Judge and triggering speculation across Divine Domain about other regions and class advancement. As the Fire Spirit Pearl’s effects continued, he passed level 110 and discovered it was boosting his core stats, though he no longer received a treasure chest every ten levels.

• Yang Ling’s level 100 Judge entry appeared on the rankings, prompting Zhao State players to speculate that classes advanced at level 100.
• Lin Caiyi, Li Shou, Zhang Shendao, Qin Mo, and the others reacted to Yang Ling’s level and spirit pet, then returned to mining to gain experience.
• Top players in other regions realized that Divine Domain included regions beyond their own and wondered who the level 100 player was.
• Yang Ling watched his experience rise from the Fire Spirit Pearl, suspected its effects increased in stages, and ignored Zhang Wei’s messages asking where he was leveling.
• Yang Ling reached level 110 without receiving a treasure chest, then saw his health points and qi and blood soar when the pearl’s next wave of effects began.

Yang Ling gained ten levels and substantial Health Points and Qi and Blood from a fresh Fire Spirit Pearl in Fire Cloud Cave. As an Emerald Treasure Chest finished forming, Li Fengxian privately invited him to meet on Fire Flood Dragon Island.

• Players noticed Yang Ling had reached Level 110, and their public and private messages filled with questions about his sudden gains.
• Zhang Wei led Lu Xiangdi, Sun Jiayi, Wang Baozhu, Yang Yi, and the others to search Fire Cloud Cave for rare herbs, while Zhao Zheng and He Tongchen followed a map along a separate path.
• Yang Ling's Fire Spirit Pearl effects ended, raising his Health Points from 10,490 to 12,490 and his Qi and Blood from 50,000 to 55,000.
• Yang Ling considered taking his remaining seven fresh Fire Spirit Pearls and planned to ask Supervisor Li and the others about the Martial Way Furnace.
• An Emerald Treasure Chest finished forming, and Li Fengxian privately messaged Yang Ling that he was on Fire Flood Dragon Island and asked to meet.

Yang Ling opened the rare Emerald Treasure Chest and swallowed the transcendent-grade Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling, which began consuming his qi and blood. As his reserves ran dangerously low, he used seven Fire Spirit Pearls at once, and their effects surged through him as his level, health, and qi and blood began rising.

• Yang Ling opened the Emerald Treasure Chest and found a transcendent-grade Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling.
• Yang Ling swallowed the Kindling, which settled inside him and began absorbing his qi and blood.
• Yang Ling realized his qi and blood might not be enough to let the Kindling take root, and a Supreme-Grade Blood-Nourishing Pill failed to restore them.
• Yang Ling's Martial Way Sacred Medicine reserves temporarily fed the Kindling, slowing its consumption of his own qi and blood.
• Yang Ling swallowed all seven Fire Spirit Pearls, causing his level, health points, and qi and blood to rise together.

Yang Ling raced to the Old Ancestor as the Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling consumed nearly all his qi and blood, while Fire Spirit Pearls and rapid level-ups failed to replenish him enough. After Yang Ling begged for help, the Old Ancestor manifested again, leaving him rushing toward the newly revealed steps.

• Yang Ling realized the Fire Spirit Pearls were losing effectiveness as the kindling devoured his qi and blood, and he headed toward the Old Ancestor for help.
• Martial artists across Zhao State reacted to Yang Ling's rapid rise from level 110 to 120, while his level continued climbing to 124 and his qi and blood fell below 3,000.
• Li Fengxian messaged Yang Ling about the alliances between the Rong Tribe, the Martial Alliance, the Great Dream Dynasty, and the Star Sea Fishing Alliance, but Yang Ling stopped replying as his condition worsened.
• Yang Ling pleaded with the Super Giant Fire Lizard to take him to the Old Ancestor, but it would not move, so he begged the sea of lava directly for qi-and-blood-restoring herbs.
• With only a little over two hundred qi and blood remaining, Yang Ling watched the lava surge aside and reveal the steps as the Old Ancestor manifested again.

Yang Ling consumed the Dragon Blood Bodhi and gained levels, qi and blood, and a dramatic increase in mental power. After testing his enhanced Object Control skill, he sensed that the Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling had settled down.

• Yang Ling picked up the Dragon Blood Bodhi and ate it, rapidly rising from level 124 to level 130 as his abilities improved.
• The Dragon Blood Bodhi replenished Yang Ling's qi and blood while the Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling consumed it, and his health and qi-and-blood limits rose.
• Yang Ling's mental power climbed to 400, extending his detailed perception across ten li and giving it a qualitative change.
• Yang Ling tested his Object Control skill and found he could control a Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Dagger out to 800 meters and wield eighty of them at once.
• Yang Ling felt the Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling settle down.

Yang Ling’s supreme Martial Way Kindling took root, restored his qi and blood, and earned him a Thousand-Year Scarlet Blood Dragon Ginseng from the Old Flood Dragon. After he asked for more, he was blasted away and knocked unconscious, while Fire Cloud Cave returned to normal and other cultivators noticed his rapid leveling.

• Yang Ling reached 70,000 maximum qi and blood, completed the first step toward becoming a fourth-rank grandmaster, and discovered his Martial Way Kindling could rapidly restore his qi and blood.
• Yang Ling thanked the Old Flood Dragon and asked for Dragon Blood Bodhi or other resources to nourish his supreme Martial Way Kindling, but received no immediate response.
• The Old Flood Dragon eventually produced a Thousand-Year Scarlet Blood Dragon Ginseng, which Yang Ling ate to gain 50 free attribute points.
• Yang Ling asked the Old Flood Dragon for herbs that could increase his qi and blood, but a heavy strike hurled him dozens of miles and left him unconscious.
• The super giant fire lizard withdrew as magma refilled the palace, and cultivators in the Divine Realm Chat Channel noticed Yang Ling had risen from level 124 to 130 and sent him messages.

Yang Ling recovered from the Dragon Blood Bodhi’s effects and discovered that elite Zhao State and Rong Tribe groups were still cooperating in Fire Cloud Cave. He sensed players being bullied and rushed toward them as Xie Zhihu and Qin Kunlun prepared to seize their treasure fish.

• Yang Ling checked the gains from the Dragon Blood Bodhi, answered messages from Lin Caiyi and others, and ignored Li Fengxian’s messages.
• Xu Wenjun and Huang Dongqing negotiated over a five-hundred-year-old Crimson Blood Vermilion Fruit, then their groups parted without fighting.
• Yang Ling overheard that Zhao State and the Rong Tribe might ally with the Great Dream Dynasty after Fire Cloud Cave, then sensed players in trouble and hurried toward them.
• Xie Zhihu demanded that Zhang Wei and the other players hand over their treasure fish, while Qin Kunlun dismissed their Iron Clothes Department ties and Li Ruhai stayed silent.

Yang Ling arrived at the Fire Cloud Cave pool and sided with Zhang Wei after Xie Zhihu tried to claim the Ironback Thorn Fish. He beat Xie Zhihu unconscious, then stopped Qin Kunlun, Zhao Yingying, and the others from leaving and beat two more Star Gazing Academy experts.

• Xie Zhihu demanded that Zhang Wei and the constables surrender their Ironback Thorn Fish, then threatened them when they refused.
• Yang Ling appeared, accepted Zhang Wei's complaint, and accused Xie Zhihu of attempted robbery and verbal humiliation.
• Yang Ling pinned Xie Zhihu down and beat him with more than three hundred controlled punches until he passed out.
• Yang Ling told Zhao Yingying and Qin Kunlun that he had escaped Shi Jinglong's custody, then questioned why they were fighting over the fish.
• When Qin Kunlun tried to leave, Yang Ling stopped the group and beat two Star Gazing Academy experts who threatened to report him.

Yang Ling punished Qin Kunlun’s group for robbing the players, then accepted compensation for the victims. As Divine Domain 2.0 launched, its announced bug fixes turned out not to affect Yang Ling’s unusual abilities.

• Yang Ling beat Xie Zhihu and two other Sixth Ranks, then declared that Qin Kunlun’s group had also committed robbery and deserved punishment.
• Qin Kunlun and the others negotiated a settlement, giving each player two thousand taels in silver notes before withdrawing with the three unconscious men.
• Yang Ling worried that Divine Domain 2.0 might remove his unusual abilities, including seeing attribute panels, gaining Free Attribute Points, and earning continuous experience from mining.
• Yang Ling told Zhang Wei and the other players that he had leveled up by mining a rich ore deposit, which he had already exhausted.
• Divine Domain 2.0 launched and announced fixes for bugs involving attribute panels, Free Attribute Points, and continuous experience, leaving Yang Ling to realize those abilities were not bugs.

Divine Domain 2.0 introduced bug fixes that improved players’ ability to inspect attributes, allocate points, and recover stamina, but it also added a cooldown to Spirit Nurturing Pills. The update then introduced equipment slots, letting Yang Ling hide or activate his gear at will.

• Zhang Wei and the other players discovered they could inspect one another’s attribute panels, but Yang Ling’s high mental power made them dizzy when they tried to inspect his.
• The Spirit Nurturing Pill cooldown upset Yang Ling and Zhang Wei, who explained that he had planned to buy a large supply outside the Capital.
• Yang Ling reflected that he had already advanced two martial skills with Spirit Nurturing Pills and could improve through other resources, while Li Fengxian might be stuck with money he could not readily spend.
• Lu Xiangdi pointed out that the update had more changes, and Yang Ling and Zhang Wei watched the announcements.
• Divine Domain 2.0 added equipment slots and let players hide or activate equipped items, allowing Yang Ling to remove and restore his Fire Crocodile Boots and wear his Sky Wolf Battle Armor at will.

After Divine Domain 2.0 replaced White Bone Cave with the intermediate Divine Guard Office, Yang Ling considered how its resources might help him advance the Heavenly Will Divine Saber. He reassured the players about the new instance, then urged them to eat Ironback Thorn Fish to raise their health.

• Players praised the new equipment slots, but grew worried when Divine Domain retired White Bone Cave and launched the intermediate Divine Guard Office instance.
• Yang Ling suspected the Divine Guard Office belonged to the Great Dream Dynasty and might contain resources and a lightning environment that could help him advance the Heavenly Will Divine Saber.
• Yang Ling told Zhang Wei and the others that the new instance’s difficulty depended on their strength, and they would learn its details when it opened next month.
• Yang Ling planned to gather rare flowers and herbs before entering the instance, then told the group to eat Ironback Thorn Fish to gain health.
• Zhang Wei ate a fish raw, gained 10 health points, and cut his mouth on its fins and scales; Yang Ling clarified that he should remove them first.

Yang Ling and the others escaped as Fire Cloud Cave collapsed, drawing hundreds of martial artists from Zhao State, the Rong Tribe, and the Star Sea Fishing Alliance. A Fifth Rank expert from the alliance claimed the newly revealed Ironback Thorn Fish and confronted Yang Ling about the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.

• Yang Ling ate ten Ironback Thorn Fish before the cavern began shaking, and he and the other players fled as the cave collapsed and its pool expanded.
• Martial artists from the three factions gathered at the collapse, and Lu Yunchen told Yang Ling that the masters had gone deeper into Fire Cloud Cave and that Yun Ruo had believed him dead.
• The factions spotted more than a thousand Ironback Thorn Fish, and a Star Sea Fishing Alliance expert demanded that the others leave them all to the alliance.
• A Middle Fifth Rank expert arrived, causing Zhao State and Rong Tribe's fighters to back down as he claimed the fish for the alliance.
• The Fifth Rank expert recognized Yang Ling, accused Zhao State of trying to frame the alliance, and demanded to know where Yang Ling's Golden Dragon Treasure Fish was.

Yang Ling and the Zhao State martial artists were challenged by the Star Sea Fishing Alliance and the Rong Tribe over the Ironback Thorn Fish, until a rare Ironback Thorn Fish King emerged. Yang Ling ordered the Iron Clothes Department to drive everyone else out and claim the area for the Zhao State.

• Yang Ling said Shi Jinglong had taken the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, but the Star Sea Fishing Alliance denied responsibility and ordered the Zhao and Rong State martial artists away from the Ironback Thorn Fish.
• Lord Liu arrived as the Rong Tribe's fifth-rank expert and agreed with the Star Sea Fishing Alliance's expert to divide the fish between them, while Yang Ling suggested he might be a Great Dream Dynasty spy.
• The deep pool erupted again, revealing a five-hundred-year-old Ironback Thorn Fish King that swallowed the remaining Ironback Thorn Fish, and Yang Ling learned its details showed it could increase Health Points by 1,000.
• The Star Sea Fishing Alliance's expert demanded the Ironback Thorn Fish King for his alliance, and Lord Liu welcomed the chance to fight over it.
• Yang Ling ordered the Iron Clothes Department to clear out everyone except the Zhao State martial artists and claim everything in the area for the Zhao State.

Yang Ling revealed that he had advanced to Fifth Rank and challenged the two opposing experts to clear the area. He left the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s Middle Fifth Rank expert beaten unconscious and sleeping peacefully.

• Yang Ling claimed he had reached Fifth Rank and could suppress several experts of the same caliber, prompting Lu Yunchen to order the area cleared.
• Yang Ling confirmed his advancement to Zhang Wei, who became determined to pursue the same goal.
• Zhao Yan and other gathered experts worried about the consequences of Yang Ling’s new strength and reconsidered their hostility toward him.
• The Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s Middle Fifth Rank expert challenged Yang Ling and vanished into a close-range attack.
• Yang Ling struck the expert with over a hundred kicks, leaving him severely injured and snoring peacefully on the ground.

Yang Ling drove the Star Sea Fishing Alliance and the Rong Tribe’s Heavenly Wolf Guard away from the deep pool after defeating their fifth-rank fighters. He let the surviving Heavenly Wolf Guard leave after forcing Lord Liu to admit that Yang Ling was loyal to the Iron Clothes Department.

• Yang Ling ordered the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s martial artists to retreat two li, then told Lord Liu and the Heavenly Wolf Guard to leave the pool.
• When Lord Liu and the Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard challenged him, Yang Ling struck Lord Liu before he could finish speaking and kicked him repeatedly into defeat.
• The Rong Tribe’s martial artists and Zhao State’s fighters were stunned by Yang Ling’s strength, while Lu Yunchen suspected Yang Ling had an extraordinary background.
• Yang Ling approached Lord Liu, who warned that killing him would break the cooperation between Zhao State and the Rong Tribe.
• Yang Ling reminded Lord Liu that he had accused him of being a spy from the Great Dream Dynasty, so Lord Liu admitted he had only said it to cause trouble and affirmed Yang Ling was loyal to the Iron Clothes Department.
• Yang Ling let Lord Liu and the Rong Tribe’s martial artists leave, clearing the deep pool.

Yang Ling claimed the Ironback Thorn Fish King and stored it in his Green Dragon Ring before setting out to find the Fourth Prince. He came across Yun Ruo and a group of Seventh Rank Iron Clothes fleeing a vast swarm of Carnivorous Fire Beetles and prepared to face the insects.

• Yang Ling let the Zhao State martial artists divide the Ironback Thorn Fish in the king's mouth while he kept the fish king for himself.
• Yang Ling rejected the others' hopes of sharing the fish king, stored it in his Green Dragon Ring, and asked Lu Yunchen where the Fourth Prince had gone.
• Lu Yunchen told Yang Ling that the Fourth Prince was with the Fifth and Sixth Princes, He Tongchen, and Jieshu, then pointed out paths taken by several Iron Clothes masters.
• Yang Ling spotted Yun Ruo and a dozen Seventh Rank Iron Clothes fleeing at least ten thousand Carnivorous Fire Beetles and rushed to help.
• Yang Ling told Yun Ruo to move away, but Yun Ruo stayed to warn him that the beetles could self-detonate and seriously injure even an Upper Sixth Rank martial artist.

Yang Ling slaughtered a swarm of more than ten thousand Carnivorous Fire Beetles with repeated Blade Storms, leveling up and astonishing the gathered martial artists. He returned to the group and asked Yun Ruo whether something had happened farther ahead.

• The Seventh Rank Iron Clothes and Lu Yunchen warned that Carnivorous Fire Beetles could explode, and the approaching martial artists withdrew from the swarm.
• Yang Ling told Yun Ruo to retreat and chose to face the beetles alone, while Zhang Wei realized he wanted to gain experience.
• Yang Ling unleashed Blade Storm ten times with the Heaven Swallowing Golden Sword and killed the entire swarm before it could use Flame Explosion.
• The experience from the beetles raised Yang Ling to level 131, leaving the onlookers stunned by his power and the Divine Weapon's spirituality.
• Yang Ling returned to the others and asked Yun Ruo whether something had happened ahead.

Yun Ruo reported that Carnivorous Fire Beetles had overwhelmed the expedition near the Old Flood Dragon’s corpse, prompting Lu Yunchen and several others to retreat from Fire Cloud Cave. Outside, the leaders decided to investigate the cave themselves, and Xie Jinjia revealed the Frost Qilin Armor as they prepared to enter.

• Yun Ruo told the martial artists that the Old Flood Dragon’s corpse lay among vast patches of rare herbs, but a huge Carnivorous Fire Beetle swarm had forced the expedition to flee.
• Lu Yunchen ordered a retreat; Zhang Wei and others went with him, while most of the other factions chose to remain, and Yang Ling stayed behind to investigate.
• Yang Ling confiscated the roasted Ironback Thorn Fish from Zhao Yan and Monk Mingfa, gave them to Yun Ruo, then hurried deeper into the cave.
• After Lu Yunchen’s group reported the danger to Li Zhong, Chen Quan, Xie Jinjia, and Li Ting agreed to investigate Fire Cloud Cave themselves.
• Xie Jinjia transformed his azure bracer into the full-body Frost Qilin Armor, astonishing the martial artists and Players present.

Yang Ling learned that Xie Jinjia, Chen Quan, and Li Ting had brought powerful spiritual battle armor and descended into Fire Cloud Cave with their followers. After considering how to upgrade his own armor, Yang Ling encountered the Pacify the Rong King’s group fleeing a swarm of Carnivorous Fire Beetles, just as dozens of figures fell through the cave ceiling and landed around him.

• Yang Ling heard from Zhang Wei that Xie Jinjia had revealed the Frost Qilin Armor and realized the Third-Rank Grandmasters were preparing to enter Fire Cloud Cave.
• Xie Jinjia, Chen Quan, and Li Ting donned their battle armor, distributed protective items to their Fourth-Rank Grandmasters, and agreed to divide Fire Cloud Cave’s gains equally.
• Li Zhong led the Grandmasters into Fire Cloud Cave, while Lu Yunchen and the others stayed behind and Hua Zhuo suggested searching the island.
• Yang Ling considered using Fire Flood Dragon Blood to give his Sky Wolf Battle Armor spirituality and tried to arrange a meeting with Li Fengxian, who had already left Fire Cloud Cave.
• Yang Ling spotted the Pacify the Rong King and others fleeing more than a hundred thousand Carnivorous Fire Beetles, then watched seawater pour through the ceiling and dozens of figures land around him.

Yang Ling encountered a force from the Great Dream Dynasty’s Divine Guard Office in Fire Cloud Cave as Carnivorous Fire Beetles swarmed the area. After a third-rank grandmaster in golden armor destroyed the swarm, she revealed the dynasty’s claim to Fire Flood Dragon Island and offered to protect Zhao Zheng and his companions.

• Yang Ling recognized the arriving fighters as Divine Guard Office experts and sensed that their leader was a third-rank grandmaster.
• Yang Ling warned the group about the Carnivorous Fire Beetles, while Zhao Zheng and his companions hurried toward him and tried to leave.
• A Divine Guard Office expert blocked their way, and the woman crushed the beetle swarm by shattering the ground with her steps.
• Yang Ling identified himself as Ji Kongliu and introduced He Tongchen, Jieshu, and the Zhao princes, but the woman exposed his misleading account.
• The woman told Zhao Zheng that the Great Dream Dynasty claimed Fire Flood Dragon Island and said he could report this to his emperor after matters were settled.
• The woman donned golden divine weapon armor and offered to protect the group while they remained in Fire Cloud Cave.

Yang Ling and the Zhao State princes were forced by the Divine Guard Office into a hidden route through Fire Cloud Cave, where they found a palace complex and a massive, half-skeletonized dragon corpse surrounded by rare herbs and swarms of giant Carnivorous Fire Beetles. As radiation corroded everyone nearby, the woman ordered Yang Ling to approach the corpse and gather the treasures.

• The woman led the group along an unmarked shortcut through Fire Cloud Cave, revealing that the Great Dream Dynasty knew the island better than Zhao State did.
• The group emerged before a palace complex and an enormous dragon corpse, surrounded by rare herbs and giant Carnivorous Fire Beetles.
• Yang Ling identified the potent herbs and recognized that the radiation was rapidly rotting his flesh and that of the others.
• Zhao Zheng warned the woman that the radiation and beetles made staying dangerous, but she asked whether the Fire Flood Dragon was truly dead.
• Qi Chunqiu concluded that the Fire Flood Dragon was thoroughly dead, and the woman accepted his judgment.
• The woman told Ye Zhan not to go near the corpse and ordered Yang Ling to gather the herbs and search for the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect's inheritance.

Zhao Zheng, Zhao Yuan, and Zhao Qi stood up to a Third-Rank Grandmaster to protect Yang Ling, only to learn that he had already reached Upper Fifth Rank and condensed martial way kindling. As Yang Ling prepared to approach the Fire Flood Dragon's corpse, Xie Jinjia arrived and challenged the Great Dream Dynasty's authority over Zhao State's officials.

• Zhao Zheng, Zhao Yuan, and Zhao Qi refused to let the woman send Yang Ling toward the Fire Flood Dragon's corpse, even when she threatened them with death.
• The woman revealed that Yang Ling had reached the peak of Upper Fifth Rank and condensed martial way kindling, surprising Zhao Zheng, Zhao Yuan, Zhao Qi, Master Jie Hai, and He Tongchen.
• Yang Ling confirmed his cultivation and agreed to retrieve the rare flowers and herbs, while the woman destroyed tens of thousands of approaching Carnivorous Fire Beetles.
• Yang Ling prepared to charge toward the corpse, confident he could exploit the danger surrounding it, but Xie Jinjia arrived with Li Zhong, Lu Yunshuang, Ji Kongliu, and Xu Wenjun and challenged the Great Dream Dynasty's right to order Zhao State's officials around.

Xie Jinjia and Nangong Fengge confronted each other over the Zhao princes and the Great Dream Dynasty’s bid to claim the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect’s inheritance. As Yang Ling tried to reach the rare herbs, Chen Quan arrived to block him, and Li Ting proposed a division of the spoils that Nangong Fengge rejected.

• Xie Jinjia identified Nangong Fengge as a descendant of the Heavenly Will Sect and demanded that she release the Zhao princes, but she refused until the Great Dream Dynasty obtained the inheritance.
• Nangong Fengge ordered Yang Ling to collect the rare flowers and herbs, and Yang Ling rushed toward the enormous corpse while declaring his concern for the princes.
• Chen Quan arrived and stopped Yang Ling with a saber strike that carved a trench in front of him.
• Li Ting arrived and proposed that the Star Sea Fishing Alliance take forty percent of the island’s spoils while the other three powers divided the rest.
• Nangong Fengge dismissed Li Ting’s claim to negotiate, prompting him to ask whether she was showing his alliance too little respect.

Li Ting allied the Star Sea Fishing Alliance with Nangong Fengge’s Great Dream Dynasty, forcing the Zhao State and Rong Tribe to accept an unequal division of Fire Cloud Cave’s spoils. Yang Ling volunteered to approach the Fire Flood Dragon’s corpse alone, while those who knew him reflected on his hidden strength and loyalty.

• Li Ting rejected the other factions’ attempt to exclude the Star Sea Fishing Alliance and proposed an alliance with Nangong Fengge, offering the Great Dream Dynasty access to Fire Flood Dragon Island in exchange for half the inheritance or rare plants.
• Li Ting revealed River Elder’s cooperation with the Great Dream Dynasty and told him he would need to openly declare his allegiance.
• Nangong Fengge demanded sixty percent of the spoils for her side, and Xie Jinjia and Chen Quan accepted rather than risk a fight that would leave everyone with nothing.
• Nangong Fengge asked Xie Jinjia to send fifth-rank minor grandmasters with Yang Ling, but Yang Ling argued that only those with martial way kindling could survive near the corpse and volunteered to go alone.
• Chen Quan and Li Ting agreed that Yang Ling could represent their factions as well, and Yang Ling rushed toward the corpse while pretending to be indignant.
• Lu Yunshuang and Yun Buchuan recognized Yang Ling as the man Ruo'er had worked with, while Zhao Xun privately disputed Yun Buchuan’s claim that he had first recognized Yang Ling’s potential.