Recaps

Wang Mu expanded Tianwen by making the Langya Forum and Xianliao central to Communication Talismans, while the Three Great Merchant Associations struggled to compete. The arc left Tang Qian pursuing a dangerous plan against Qiu Shan Yue and Feishu users being drawn into a scheme that turned violent.

• Qian Xuan and other cultivators used the points mall and Forum to pursue cultivation resources and advice, while Qiu Yu helped Liu Yunying and other novices find instruction through the Langya Forum.
• Zhao Mo gained points by helping beginners, and cultivators across the North Sea flocked to teach novices as Wang Mu boosted popular posts and the Forum’s activity surged.
• Wang Mu expanded Tianwen’s Communication Talisman business into Lixiao and beyond, while the Three Great Merchant Associations launched an inferior Forum and lost users after its brief insights caused Qi Deviation.
• Wang Mu launched Langya Xianliao and directed a team to pose as attractive fairies, drawing cultivators into private chats and making them more attached to Tianwen’s talismans.
• Tang Qian joined Xianliao and began confiding in Liufang Fairy, who was actually part of Wang Mu’s effort to manipulate him, and Tang Qian grew attached to her while neglecting Qiu Shan Yue.
• Tianwen expanded across the Northern Region as the Three Great Merchant Associations debated how to respond, and Xue Wuying learned that powerful groups were preparing to move against the Wang Family.
• After Tang Qian asked whether killing his wife could help him attain the Great Dao, Li Yuanhua encouraged him with a legend, and Tang Qian began viewing Qiu Shan Yue as a stepping stone to power.
• The Three Great Merchant Associations launched Feishu, and Chen Zhong used it to message Lu Lingbo until her husband rushed out with a saber to confront him.

Wang Mu used popular novels and the Langya Forum to draw readers and writers away from the Three Great Merchant Associations, while preparing an Ascension Convention that competed with their Xiaju Ceremony. The associations’ past misconduct and the Forum’s influence left their own event nearly empty, as Wang Mu prepared a new shop campaign near Lixiao Immortal City.

• Chen Zhong defended his Feishu acquaintance against Hua Feng, then was beaten by the burly cultivator who accused him of flirting with his woman.
• Taishutong warned that Tianwen’s communication network had become indispensable, and ordered the Three Great Merchant Associations to copy its services and updates.
• Wang Mu released novels on the Langya Forum, and readers including Ye Fu, Ke Lan, and Yan Baiqing became engrossed in Battle Through the Heavens and demanded more chapters.
• The Three Great Merchant Associations launched a Novel Section and recruited writers, but their stories failed to match Langya’s popularity, so Wang Mu began training writers for the North Sea.
• Wang Mu activated the Langya Server with Qianji, his Master, and proposed using it to manage real-time bank payments through the Money Seal system.
• Li Yuanhua met Meng Xingzhu to plan the Ascension Convention and demonstrated one of the mysterious props Wang Mu had supplied.
• The Three Great Merchant Associations held their Xiaju Ceremony alongside Langya’s Ascension Convention, but warnings about the associations’ past abuses sent candidates to Langya instead.
• Tang Qian found the Xiaju Ceremony empty, discovered that the Langya Forum blocked his criticism of Wang Mu, and received a thirty-six-hour mute before Wang Mu prepared four shops near Lixiao Immortal City.

Wang Mu used Langya’s communication services, banking network, and lottery to draw customers away from the Three Great Merchant Associations and expand Langya’s influence. The rival associations launched their own lottery, while Wang Mu rescued Ouyang Qingxuan and prepared new online services.

• Taishutong ordered the Three Great Merchant Associations to raise Immortal Seed rewards and force participants to swear off Langya, but Langya Chat Rooms and free Tianwen Monthly Cards drew mortals toward the Ascension Convention.
• Su Yingxue chose the Xiaju Ceremony, swore the required oath, and later collapsed after learning she had forfeited the benefits Zhang Dali received through Langya.
• Li Yuanhua recruited Mu Shuang into Langya’s banking alliance, and she reopened Dragonrise Bank as Longxing Cooperative under the name Langhuan Jade Pavilion.
• Mu Shuang offered interest-bearing deposits and gifts, prompting cultivators and organizations to move their Spirit Stones from rival banks into Langhuan Jade Pavilion.
• Wang Mu ordered Langhuan Jade Pavilion to expand and launch the Zhu Dao Lottery, whose drawing gave Lin Yan the 88,880,000-Spirit-Stone grand prize and a Great Void Record to escape pursuers.
• Wang Mu tasked Su Hongyuan with developing online banking and a navigation system for Communication Talismans, while Tingting recruited surveyors for Langya Mall.
• Wang Mu rescued Ouyang Qingxuan from Shadow Sect assassins, then left her with a jade talisman as she hoped a Wanfu Lottery prize could help rebuild her sect.
• The Three Great Merchant Associations moved their Lixiao Immortal City lottery drawing forward, and Su Mo announced five first-prize winners of thirty million Spirit Stones each.

The Three Great Merchant Associations’ rigged Wanfu Lottery was exposed after Ye Mo intervened, triggering refunds, boycotts, and a loss of business. Wang Mu’s Langya Merchant Association and Langhuan Jade Pavilion expanded with online payments, leaving rival merchants scrambling to keep up.

• Su Mo paid five Wanfu Lottery winners thirty million Spirit Stones each, and the crowds rushed to buy tickets for the next drawing.
• Ouyang Qingxuan won the first prize, escaped the Three Great Merchant Associations’ attackers with Ye Mo’s help, and revealed that they had ordered fake winners and the killing of genuine prizewinners.
• Lou Huan and Zhong Yan bought every possible lottery combination, but the Three Great Merchant Associations changed the rules and offered only partial refunds, prompting Ye Mo to confront them and demand compensation.
• News of the lottery fraud sparked public anger and a boycott, while Wang Mu ordered the Langya Merchant Association to expand into the Northern Region and take advantage of the rivals’ decline.
• Langya opened its Lixiao branch, and Langhuan Jade Pavilion launched Langhuan Pay, drawing crowds as cultivators and merchants adopted Communication Talisman payments.
• Su Ziye used Langhuan Pay to outspend and mock Yan Shian, while Su Mo realized the Three Great Merchant Associations could no longer protect him.
• Taishutong ordered the associations to develop online payments and rebuild their banks, as Langhuan Jade Pavilion began issuing Merchant Money Seals to independent shops.
• Guan He refused to get a Money Seal until customers left his shop without buying, then ran next door to borrow Old Xu’s seal when another customer asked to Scan Pay.