Recaps

Lu Ye watched Blood Calamity and three other City Lords besiege the injured Ba Qiu, who defended One Man City alone. A meteorite Lu Ye had disturbed revealed Fu Wei’s ancestor, Baxia, whose arrival restored One Man City’s two overlords and left the attackers facing a much harder fight.

• Lu Ye collected Star Abyss Coins and spoils from the battlefield around Yuan Xi City while the four City Lords continued fighting Ba Qiu.
• Yuan Xi and Lian explained that Ba Qiu was holding his own despite his injuries, and that the attackers were reluctant to risk their lives to break his defense.
• Zong Shenliang struck a strangely durable meteorite toward One Man City, then joined the others in shattering it when he sensed something was inside.
• Fu Wei recognized the sleeping old man who emerged from the meteorite as his ancestor, and Ba Qiu greeted him as an old acquaintance.
• Lian revealed that the old man was Baxia, Ba Qiu’s former partner and the second overlord of One Man City.

Baxia joined Ba Qiu in battle, using his giant tortoise form and refined stars to shield One Man City and free Ba Qiu to attack. Blood Calamity and the other attackers fled, while Ni Chiluan and Chang Ming revealed themselves near Yuan Xi City; Xuan Wuzong escaped Ba Qiu at great cost.

• Baxia emerged beneath One Man City, carried it on his back, and summoned a sun and other refined stars to strengthen its defenses.
• Ba Qiu began attacking once Baxia had secured the city, prompting Blood Calamity, Zong Shenliang, and Hongtu to flee while Xuan Wuzong stayed behind.
• Blood Calamity turned toward Yuan Xi City but sensed Ni Chiluan and fled; Ni Chiluan and Chang Ming then appeared before Yuan Xi and Lu Ye.
• Gu Mingyue fled from the Phoenix Lord, who pursued her, while Ba Qiu battered Xuan Wuzong and forced him to escape using a costly Secret Technique.

After the battle, Lu Ye learned that Fang needed to devour a Supreme Treasure to advance, then the Phoenix Lord unexpectedly seized him and prepared to take him away. The chapter ended as Ba Qiu acknowledged that he owed the Phoenix Lord one favor and others hurried toward them.

• Xiao Qianchen struck the fleeing Xuan Wuzong with a Sun-Breaking Arrow, badly wounding him, then left as Yuan Xi and Ni Chiluan discussed the powerful figures who had joined the battle.
• Lu Ye escorted Fu Wei to One Man City, where Fu Wei greeted his ancestor Baxia and Baxia examined Lu Ye with knowing interest.
• Ba Qiu told Lu Ye that Fang would need to devour a Supreme Treasure to pass its third hurdle, and suggested Lu Ye search the starry skies for one.
• The Phoenix Lord returned after failing to catch Gu Mingyue, greeted Baxia, then sealed Lu Ye with the Power of Space and grabbed him.
• The Phoenix Lord opened a path with a root of the Primordial Parasol Tree and insisted Ba Qiu owed her one favor as several figures flew toward them.

The Phoenix Lord abducted Lu Ye and left him stranded in a vast darkness, where he assessed the gains from the battle and replenished his Dao Power. Back in the Phoenix Nest, a secluded Phoenix sensed an aura identical to her own and realized Lu Ye had somehow come there.

• The Phoenix Lord took Lu Ye through an Insect Path despite Yuan Xi's attempt to stop her, and Lu Ye told Yuan Xi he would return safely.
• Yuan Xi agreed to honor her arrangement with Ni Chiluan, while Fu Wei returned to One Man City and Ba Qiu told Baxia he intended to take the next step.
• The Phoenix Lord left Lu Ye alone in the darkness, and he concluded she was displaying her authority rather than testing him.
• Lu Ye counted his Star Abyss Coins, Blood Race bloodline growth, and Soul Crystals among his gains, then used Dao Fish to replenish his Dao Power.
• A secluded Phoenix sensed Lu Ye's aura through the space and realized he had somehow arrived at the Phoenix Nest.

Lu Ye used Blood Calamity’s Soul Crystal to improve his Blood Dao and Path of Space, then escaped the Phoenix Lord’s spatial prison with Su Yan’s help. The Phoenix Lord caught them leaving, while the Phoenix elders discussed Lu Ye and began planning for the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.

• Lu Ye exchanged Star Abyss Coins for Sub-Treasures for the Talent Tree and refined Blood Calamity’s Soul Crystal, improving his cultivation insights and detecting that the darkness around him was a spatial technique.
• Lu Ye released Su Yan’s Phoenix Feather, which tore through the darkness and led him to Su Yan.
• Su Yan took Lu Ye’s hand and fled with him as the Phoenix Lord noticed them and angrily scolded her.
• The Phoenix Lord and ten Phoenix Race elders discussed Lu Ye’s role in the Snow Plain conflict and his connection to Su Yan.
• The Phoenix Lord shifted the elders’ discussion to choosing who would attend the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.

Lu Ye visited Su Yan’s Phoenix Nest and learned that each nest contained a Small World where a fallen Phoenix could give rise to another life. As they talked in Su Yan’s private chamber, she asked how he had encountered the Phoenix Lord and thanked him for helping Su Yun obtain the Moon Wheel.

• Su Yan brought Lu Ye to the Primordial Parasol Tree, where two little phoenixes teased them about being husband and wife.
• Su Yan took Lu Ye into her Phoenix Nest and showed him the Small World within, explaining how it nurtured new Phoenix members from the origins of those killed outside.
• Su Yan explained that Blood Drinking City’s lord had once stripped Phoenix members of their bloodlines, preventing their origins from returning to their Small Worlds.
• Lu Ye returned his plume after Su Yan had activated it, then explored her cottage and sat with her in her private chamber.
• Lu Ye recounted how the Phoenix Lord had brought him back after sensing him during the battle with Ba Qiu, and he suggested the two elders had an emotional entanglement.
• Su Yan thanked Lu Ye for helping Su Yun obtain the Moon Wheel.

Lu Ye learned that Su Yan’s Moon Wheel Sub-Treasure could grow into a Supreme Treasure, then faced the Phoenix Lord’s questions about his relationship with Su Yan. The Phoenix Lord accepted him as an External Official and gave him a Space Dao Seed method, while she later contacted the Dragon Sovereign, Yang Fengxian.

• Su Yan showed Lu Ye the Moon Wheel Sub-Treasure and explained that it held a strand of the mother treasure’s origin and might one day become a Supreme Treasure.
• The Phoenix Lord confronted Lu Ye about Su Yan’s missing Origin Blood, and Su Yan explained how the Star Abyss Will had brought them together as Sons of the Star Abyss.
• Lu Ye assured the Phoenix Lord that he cared for Su Yan, and she accepted their relationship so long as he treated Su Yan well.
• The Phoenix Lord warned Lu Ye that Blood Calamity had targeted him, then gave him a Jade Slip containing the Space Dao Seed method for Phoenix Race External Officials.
• Su Yan explained the method’s origins and eligibility requirements, while Lu Ye began examining it and called her Yan’er.
• The Phoenix Lord contacted Yang Fengxian, the Dragon Sovereign, who appeared as a phantom and mocked her as his Junior Sister.

The Phoenix Lord told the Dragon Sovereign that the Star Abyss Will had grown stronger and was trying to be born through the offspring of two Sons of the Star Abyss, prompting him to plan an investigation into the River of Time. Meanwhile, Lu Ye condensed a Space Dao Seed with Su Yan’s help and entered a Phoenix Race training ground to strengthen it.

• The Phoenix Lord warned the Dragon Sovereign that two Sons of the Star Abyss had been affected by the Will, which sought to be born through their offspring.
• The Dragon Sovereign decided to investigate the River of Time during the upcoming Dragon City Grand Ceremony, while the Phoenix Lord wondered whether their ancestors’ long wait would pay off.
• With Su Yan’s guidance, Lu Ye gathered the remaining traces of Phoenix Origin Blood in his body and condensed a fragile Space Dao Seed.
• Su Yan took Lu Ye to a training ground inside the Primordial Parasol Tree after throwing aside Su Yun, who had challenged Lu Ye to a fight.
• Inside an isolated stretch of Void, Lu Ye sensed the Power of Space and began drawing it into his newly formed Dao Seed, carefully limiting how much it absorbed.

Zhu Yin reunited with Su Yan after uniting her Dao, then entered the Primordial Parasol Tree to cultivate the Path of Space. Lu Ye strengthened his Space Dao Seed by refining the surrounding Power of Space, and the tree advanced his training to a more dangerous stage.

• Zhu Yin left the Phoenix Nest’s Central Great Hall after the elder welcomed her back from uniting her Dao.
• Zhu Yin and Su Yan joyfully reunited, talked for more than half a day, and Zhu Yin then went to cultivate in the Void.
• Zhu Yin endured a powerful Space Blade and realized her understanding of the Path of Space had deepened after uniting her Dao.
• Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to refine the Power of Space and rapidly strengthen his Space Dao Seed.
• After Lu Ye absorbed the surrounding Power of Space, the Primordial Parasol Tree sent spatial threads slicing at him, supplying purer energy that the Talent Tree refined for his Dao Seed.

Lu Ye advanced through the Primordial Parasol Tree’s spatial trials until its disturbance trapped him and made him collide with a naked, white-haired Phoenix Race woman. As they fell into a bottomless abyss, they managed to reach toward each other, but their fate remained uncertain.

• Lu Ye endured increasingly powerful spatial attacks, refining their Power of Space to strengthen his Dao Seed.
• The Primordial Parasol Tree remembered its ancient duty to await someone who would set a malformed universe right, while struggling against an eroding force that caused its nightmares.
• The Phoenix Lord and other Phoenix Race members tried to awaken the violently shaking tree, but their calls failed and the Phoenix Lord realized Lu Ye and other outsiders were in danger.
• Lu Ye found that the exit had vanished and that the Space Blades had grown overwhelming as the Void twisted and filled with dense Power of Space.
• Lu Ye encountered a naked, white-haired woman when their spaces overlapped, and both used their spatial abilities to approach each other as they fell into an abyss.

After being swept into the Space Corridor, Lu Ye and Zhu Yin tried to find their way through its distorted space while the Phoenix Race elders searched for them. As they traveled, Lu Ye reflected on his growing mastery of the Path of Space, then joined Zhu Yin in confronting a strange creature that appeared to be immune to his saber.

• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin emerged in the Space Corridor after falling through the shattered cultivation ground, and Zhu Yin introduced herself.
• The Phoenix Lord told the elders that Lu Ye and Zhu Yin had fallen into the Space Corridor; Su Yan wanted to join the rescue but was ordered to remain outside as support.
• Zhu Yin warned Lu Ye about the Corridor’s dangers, and they kept together by having him place a hand on her shoulder as they navigated its spatial distortions.
• Lu Ye reflected on how his Dao Seed and Talent Tree had rapidly advanced his Path of Space attainments.
• A shapeless black creature rushed at Lu Ye and Zhu Yin; Zhu Yin staggered it with a punch, while Lu Ye’s saber passed straight through it.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin fought Void Beasts in the Space Corridor and improved their command of the Path of Space by refining the Dao Seeds they left behind. When a Void Current trapped them with no escape route, Lu Ye stopped running and tried to carry Zhu Yin through space with his Dao Seed.

• Zhu Yin and Lu Ye joined forces to kill a Void Beast, and Zhu Yin took its Dao Seed to refine while Lu Ye guarded her.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin traveled through the shifting passageways, killed more Void Beasts, and divided their Dao Seeds as Lu Ye rapidly improved his control of space.
• Lu Ye sensed a disturbance ahead, and Zhu Yin identified it as a Void Current bearing down on them.
• When they found no passage in which to hide and the current nearly caught them, Lu Ye grabbed Zhu Yin and told her not to activate any power.
• Lu Ye stepped toward the Void Current and unleashed his Dao Seed, making himself and Zhu Yin blur and distort as they began traveling through space.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin escaped a Void Current by teleporting into a cavern filled with Void Beasts, where Zhu Yin revealed that she belonged to the Dragon Race and used the Power of Time and Sequence to help Lu Ye fight. After they fled, they realized the cavern held the remains of a Phoenix Race member, and Zhu Yin decided to retrieve them.

• Lu Ye used the Void Teleportation Technique to take Zhu Yin past the Void Current, but they landed in a cavern surrounded by Void Beasts.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin fought the Void Beasts, targeting their Dao Seeds, as more than a hundred enemies pursued them.
• Zhu Yin summoned her Dragon Soul and slowed the Void Beasts with the Power of Time and Sequence, allowing Lu Ye to kill many of them.
• When Zhu Yin could no longer sustain the force field, Lu Ye grabbed her and fought their way out until the Void Beasts stopped pursuing them.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin recognized that the cavern contained the remains of a Phoenix Race member, and Zhu Yin said she wanted to collect them.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin continued hunting Void Beasts around the Phoenix Race senior’s remains, but the beasts refused to leave their cave, forcing the pair to attack inside. Lu Ye’s new Void Pounce Technique helped them fight until a powerful, intelligent Void Beast revealed itself and began drawing the others together.

• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin rested, and Zhu Yin refined the two remaining Dao Seeds while Lu Ye cultivated his Space Dao Seed.
• Lu Ye lured Void Beasts into another ambush, and he and Zhu Yin killed dozens before splitting the Dao Seeds, with Zhu Yin keeping only three.
• When Lu Ye tried to lure out the remaining Void Beasts, they stayed inside the cave, so he and Zhu Yin decided to fight their way in and collect the Phoenix Race senior’s remains.
• Lu Ye used his newly developed Void Pounce Technique to kill Void Beasts while Zhu Yin protected herself, until one unusually strong beast ambushed her and Lu Ye blocked its strike.
• The intelligent Void Beast cried out and drew the others toward it; when it retreated, it collided with another Void Beast and the two merged into one.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin fought a Void Beast that had fused with more than twenty others and taken on the form of a phoenix. They discovered that the Ox-Striking Mystic Art could damage it, but as Zhu Yin neared her limit, she brought out her Dragon Pearl to strengthen her Temporal Field and keep the battle going.

• The Void Beasts fused into a powerful phoenix-shaped creature that resisted Lu Ye and Zhu Yin’s attacks and forced them to flee.
• The creature fired black spikes at the pair, but Lu Ye used a slash that stretched space to blunt the attack; both were wounded.
• Zhu Yin charged the creature while Lu Ye protected her, and they realized that the Ox-Striking Mystic Art could disrupt and injure it.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin fought together using the art, but Zhu Yin’s strength waned as she maintained the Temporal Field.
• Zhu Yin brought out her Dragon Pearl, increasing the Temporal Field’s power and slowing the Void Beast’s attacks slightly.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin combined their powers of time and space to wound and destroy the fused Void Beast, then defeated the remaining beasts. Zhu Yin collapsed from exhaustion, while Lu Ye discovered the slain creature had left behind a Phoenix Feather.

• Zhu Yin sacrificed her Dragon Pearl and urged Lu Ye to flee, but he refused to abandon her.
• Lu Ye used Shared Breath, Connected Branches to link their auras and combine his Power of Space with Zhu Yin’s Power of Time and Sequence into the Power of Time and Space.
• Lu Ye struck the Void Beast twice with the combined power, forcing it to flee as Zhu Yin struggled to maintain the Temporal Field.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin used Near Yet Far to overcome the Void Beast’s resistance, shatter its Dao Seed, and kill it.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin defeated the other Void Beasts, after which Zhu Yin collapsed and Lu Ye found a colorless feather left by the special beast.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin escaped the Space Corridor with Huang Jiuyin’s help and reunited with Su Yan. Back at the Phoenix Nest, Lu Ye refined the Space Dao Seeds he had gathered until he felt painfully stuffed, and Su Yan offered to help him with a secret art.

• A Phoenix Race member contacted Lu Ye and Zhu Yin through the firelight, and Huang Jiuyin soon arrived to rescue them.
• Huang Jiuyin led Lu Ye and Zhu Yin out of the Space Corridor, where they reunited with Su Yan and the other Phoenix Race elders.
• Huang Jiuyin sent Lu Ye, Su Yan, and Zhu Yin back to the Phoenix Nest and warned them not to enter the Space Corridor again for a while.
• Zhu Yin left soon after arriving at the Phoenix Nest, and Su Yan asked Lu Ye whether a misunderstanding had arisen between them.
• Lu Ye offered Su Yan Space Dao Seeds, then refined the remaining seeds with the Talent Tree until he felt stuffed.
• Su Yan explained that a Phoenix Race ancestor had created a secret art to help External Officials cultivate the Path of Space, sealed off the Phoenix Nest, and offered to help Lu Ye.

Lu Ye and Su Yan cultivated the Dual Cultivation Pact, benefiting each other and revealing Lu Ye’s remarkable progress in the Path of Space. The Dragon Sovereign learned that Lu Ye had wielded the Power of Time and Space, and hurried to tell the Phoenix Lord.

• Su Yan explained the Dual Cultivation Pact to Lu Ye, and their Soul Bodies merged as they cultivated and shared benefits.
• Zhu Yin tried to fuse the Power of Time and Sequence with the Power of Space but realized her bloodline also prevented it.
• The Dragon Sovereign visited Zhu Yin, learned that Lu Ye had fused the two powers, and asked her to recount what happened in the Space Corridor.
• The Phoenix Lord waited outside Su Yan’s sealed Phoenix Nest, then met the Dragon Sovereign when he arrived with grave news.
• The Phoenix Lord mistakenly thought Lu Ye had wronged Zhu Yin, but the Dragon Sovereign clarified that Lu Ye had wielded the Power of Time and Space.

Dragon Sovereign and the Phoenix Lord secretly planned to verify whether Lu Ye could wield the Power of Time and Space, while Lu Ye continued honing his spatial techniques in the Phoenix Nest. Zhu Yin arrived to invite the Phoenix Race to the Dragon City Grand Ceremony, unaware that Dragon Sovereign had sent her there as part of his plan.

• Dragon Sovereign told the Phoenix Lord that Zhu Yin’s account indicated Lu Ye had wielded the Power of Time and Space, and they agreed to test him secretly at the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.
• Lu Ye cultivated with Su Yan, strengthened his Space Dao Seed, and practiced his movement and blade techniques based on the mysteries of Near Yet Far.
• Lu Ye sparred with Su Yun and defeated him through superior mastery of the Path of Space, prompting Su Yun to storm away in frustration.
• Zhu Yin arrived at the Phoenix Nest and explained that she had come to invite the Phoenix Race to the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.
• Zhu Yin wondered why Dragon Sovereign had personally assigned her to deliver the invitation and had told her to invite her close young sisters as well.

Su Yan explained to Lu Ye that the Dragon City Grand Ceremony would accompany the Tower of Time’s opening, drawing cultivators from across the Inner Realm to compete for entry. Lu Ye agreed to attend with Su Yan and learned how the tower’s time-altering floors and selection trials worked.

• Zhu Yin invited Su Yan to stay in Dragon City for the upcoming Grand Ceremony, and Su Yan and Lu Ye agreed to go.
• Su Yan told Lu Ye that the Tower of Time belonged to Dragon City but had to be opened to cultivators across the universe whenever it became accessible.
• Su Yan explained that the tower had ninety-nine floors, with time passing faster on higher floors, and that its unpredictable openings brought about the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.
• Su Yan told Lu Ye that Dragon City would select up to thirty thousand entrants through cultivation-level trials, while a few candidates could enter through limited direct slots.
• Lu Ye learned that Fusion Dao and Uniting Dao cultivators usually occupied separate floors, and he set aside his hope of gaining entry through Dragon City’s connections.

Lu Ye, Su Yan, Su Yun, and the two young phoenixes arrived in Dragon City for the Grand Ceremony, where cultivators competed for entry to the Tower of Time. Su Yun began fighting for a place in the arena trials, while Lu Ye and Su Yan tried a lottery trial and Lu Ye was eliminated despite drawing what he thought was an auspicious number.

• Huang Jiuyin brought Lu Ye and the others to Dragon City through a long-distance Teleportation Spirit Array and told them to explore the ceremony.
• Su Yan contacted Zhu Yin, and Su Yun led the group toward the trials for Tower of Time entry.
• Su Yun defeated an arena champion and took over his arena, beginning the matches required to qualify for the next round.
• Lu Ye and Su Yan left the arena district to seek a simpler trial and joined a lottery with Feng Erwu and Huang Erliu.
• Lu Ye drew lot number 99999, but the trial official announced that only numbers below 10000 advanced, leaving Lu Ye shocked at his elimination.

Lu Ye learned that the Hundred Boats Competing test offered direct qualification for the Tower of Time to whoever retrieved a pearl hidden in a waterfall filled with the Power of Time and Sequence. He joined the Dragon Descendants in the contest, but struggled at the start before realizing what made the waterfall difficult to climb.

• Su Yan asked Yin'er about a test that could grant direct entry to the Tower of Time, then led Lu Ye to the waterfall where the Hundred Boats Competing was held.
• Su Yan explained that competitors had to retrieve a pearl hidden near the top of the waterfall and that Dragon Descendants usually had an advantage against its Power of Time and Sequence.
• Lu Ye registered, received a small wooden boat, and faced a hostile Dragon Descendant who questioned whether he was Human Race.
• The presiding Harmony Dao expert started the contest, and Lu Ye charged up the waterfall but struggled to stay on his boat as the other competitors surged ahead.
• Feng Erwu and Huang Erliu mocked Lu Ye while Su Yan scolded them, and Lu Ye realized the waterfall was effectively a River of Time and Sequence.

Lu Ye used his Power of Space to climb the waterfall in Hundred Boats Competing, overtaking the Dragon Descendants and defeating those who tried to stop him. He reached seven thousand zhang and neared his limit, while the pearl above the waterfall remained out of reach.

• Lu Ye used his Space Dao Seed to shield himself from the waterfall's Power of Time and Sequence and began climbing behind the Dragon Descendants.
• As the Dragon Descendants tired, Lu Ye overtook them one by one and surpassed the contest's previous record for a Dragon Descendant.
• The dragon-headed Dragon Descendant attacked Lu Ye, but Lu Ye countered and sent him falling from the waterfall.
• The first-echelon Dragon Descendants attacked Lu Ye's canoe together, but he used spatial techniques and his saber to repel them and eliminate several.
• Lu Ye continued upward alone, felt mounting pressure at six thousand zhang, and neared his limit at seven thousand zhang.

Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to combine the waterfall’s Power of Time and Sequence with his Power of Space, allowing him to reach the top and claim the pearl for Su Yan. The Dragon Sovereign’s attempt to identify the awaited person failed, but he saw a burning tree bearing numerous Supreme Treasures; Lu Ye then left for the Dragon Palace with Su Yan, Zhu Yin, and the two little ones.

• Lu Ye drew on the Talent Tree to absorb the waterfall’s Power of Time and Sequence and fused it with his Power of Space into the Power of Time and Space.
• The Dragon Sovereign searched the River of Time and Sequence for the person his people awaited, but saw only a blurry figure and a burning tree bearing Supreme Treasures.
• Lu Ye used the new power to ascend to ten thousand zhang, seized the pearl, and gave it to Su Yan before registering for a slot in the Tower of Time.
• Lu Ye left with Su Yan and the two little ones to avoid the crowd gathering to see him after his achievements at the Dragon City Grand Ceremony.
• Zhu Yin met the group outside the Dragon Palace, gave berries to the two little ones, and led everyone inside.

Lu Ye and Zhu Yin defeated a Void Beast after Phoenix Lord secretly tested their combined powers. Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord then confronted Lu Ye about Zhu Yin’s warning to keep their past encounter from Su Yan, and Lu Ye swore that nothing improper had happened.

• Lu Ye left Su Yan and Zhu Yin chatting and spoke privately with Zhu Yin, who asked him not to tell Su Yan about their previous encounter.
• The study shattered into fragments of space, and a powerful Void Beast emerged through a rift.
• Lu Ye and Zhu Yin combined their powers to kill the Void Beast, and Lu Ye collected its Dao Seed.
• Phoenix Lord and Dragon Sovereign appeared, revealing that Phoenix Lord had arranged the test to observe their teamwork.
• Dragon Sovereign and Phoenix Lord took Lu Ye to a hall and demanded an explanation about Zhu Yin’s warning.
• Lu Ye swore by the Star Abyss Will that he and Zhu Yin had done nothing improper, easing the two rulers’ suspicions.