Recaps

Lu Zhen defeated Qian Jue and two subtle-intent fighters with one strike, then declared that cultivators should defy the heavens and reject bloodline barriers. His words drew admiration across the Great Wilderness, while the Azure-Scale Manor Lord recommended him to Gu Changfeng for the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect's pre-exam training.

• Qian Jue revealed his Wind True Intent and clashed with Lu Zhen, who had already displayed his own true intent.
• Qian Jue ordered his two subtle-intent teammates to attack Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi, hoping to distract Lu Zhen.
• Lu Zhen unleashed the Star River Sword Art and killed both attackers and Qian Jue with a single stroke.
• Lu Zhen denounced bloodline barriers and urged cultivators to contend upon the Great Dao and defy the heavens, earning cheers from the Nine Provinces and attention from Wu Tian and Ji Wushuang.
• The Azure-Scale Manor Lord contacted Gu Changfeng and recommended Lu Zhen for the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect's pre-exam training, sending him Lu Zhen's dossier and a recording of the fight.

Lu Zhen learned that the grand examination was only five months away and decided to take it this year, despite Liu Bowen's advice to wait. After studying the academy rules, he realized his team’s progress had made every eligible martial artist from the Nine Provinces able to apply to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.

• The Myriad Stars Minor World managers ordered Qian Jue’s promotional materials removed as they feared backlash, while Qian Tong realized his life was over.
• Lu Zhen drew Wu Tian, the Great Hao Realm prodigy, as his fourth-round opponent and welcomed the chance to test himself against a powerful rival.
• Liu Bowen gave Lu Zhen Lord Hongwu’s message of encouragement and explained the grand examination’s cultivation and age requirements.
• Liu Bowen urged Lu Zhen to wait ten years before taking the examination, but Lu Zhen chose to break through and compete this year.
• Lu Zhen studied the academy information and learned that his team’s advance to the third round let eligible Nine Provinces martial artists apply to any academy, including the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.

Lu Zhen advanced his movement technique while training Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi, who both broke through to subtle intent. Meanwhile, the Yun Clan arrived at the Nine Provinces Market seeking Lu Zhen, with Yun Jiaojiao intent on meeting him and Yun Ting proposing a marriage alliance.

• Lu Zhen reached profound extremity governed by intent in the Wandering Dragon Sky-Treading Step while training with Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi.
• Lu Zhen pushed the sisters through intense sparring, and Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi both broke through to subtle intent.
• Wei Cang told Lu Zhen that the guild planned to market a signature flying sword in his name, offering him five percent of sales, and Lu Zhen agreed.
• A seventh-grade flying ship bearing the Yun Clan crest arrived at the Nine Provinces Market, alarming the locals and prompting Liu Bowen and Chen Zonghan to greet its delegation.
• Yun Jiaojiao asked where Lu Zhen was, while Yun Ting told Manager Yan that the Yun Clan had permitted a marriage alliance because Lu Zhen showed promise.

The Sky Ark Yun Clan offered Lu Zhen a marriage into their family, promising cultivation opportunities in exchange for four children within ten years. Lu Zhen arrived at the council hall and heard their terms, but had not yet given his answer.

• Chen Zonghan and Liu Bowen welcomed the Yun Clan envoys, and Elder Yun Cang announced the clan wanted Lu Zhen as Yun Jiaojiao’s live-in husband and Dao partner.
• A steward summoned Lu Zhen from the Primordial Pressure Chamber, and he agreed to meet the envoys.
• After Lu Zhen left, Liu Jingyi wondered what Yun Jiaojiao looked like while Liu Jingshu grew irritated and struggled to gather her Subtle Intent.
• Yun Jiaojiao greeted Lu Zhen at the council hall, and Elder Yun Cang offered him Yun Clan resources and training opportunities if he married into the family and had four children with Jiaojiao within ten years.

Lu Zhen refused the Yun Clan’s offer to become Yun Jiaojiao’s live-in son-in-law, angering the clan and costing him his Heavenly Ark Commerce Guild endorsement contract. Liu Bowen warned him that the Yun Clan would likely target Nine Provinces indirectly, while Lu Zhen prepared to focus on the fourth-round arena battle.

• Lu Zhen politely refused Elder Yun Cang’s offer, and Yun Jiaojiao angrily demanded to know why he rejected the Yun Clan’s benefits.
• Chen Zonghan urged Lu Zhen to apologize, but Lu Zhen reaffirmed that he wanted freedom and to devote himself to martial cultivation.
• Yun Ting threatened Lu Zhen, and Elder Yun Cang warned him that refusing the Yun Clan would make his road ahead difficult.
• The Heavenly Ark Commerce Guild chief manager terminated Lu Zhen’s Seventh-grade lifelong endorsement contract, and the Yun Clan and guild representatives left the hall.
• Liu Bowen told Lu Zhen that the Yun Clan would not attack openly but might suppress Nine Provinces covertly, and warned that Lu Zhen’s promised resources were now uncertain.
• Liu Bowen said he would report the incident to Lord Hongwu and advised Lu Zhen to prepare for the fourth-round arena battle.

A Sacred Blood Realm officer planned to exploit Lu Zhen’s refusal of the Sky Ark Yun Clan’s marriage offer to stir resentment against him and provoke the Yun Clan. Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi heard rumors about the refusal, then learned Lu Zhen had rejected the offer because he feared being crushed by his prospective bride, and the three headed into the academy together.

• A Sacred Blood Realm officer told his lord that Lu Zhen had publicly rejected the Sky Ark Yun Clan’s marriage offer, and proposed spreading the news to turn the Nine Provinces against him and provoke the Yun Clan.
• Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi overheard people in a restaurant blaming Lu Zhen for making an enemy of the Yun Clan.
• Liu Jingshu changed her mind and waited with Liu Jingyi at the academy gates for Lu Zhen.
• Liu Jingyi asked Lu Zhen why he had refused the Yun Clan’s offer, and he joked that his prospective bride’s size might crush him in her sleep.
• Liu Jingshu concealed her amusement, and she, Liu Jingyi, and Lu Zhen entered the academy together to prepare for the fourth round.

After refusing the Yun Clan, Lu Zhen faced growing isolation as the clan pressured the Nine Provinces and the Heavenly Ark Commerce Guild. He secretly received the guild’s remaining resources, sharpened his sword intent, and entered the fourth-round match against Wu Tian.

• Yun Cang ordered the Yun Clan to block Lu Zhen’s access to Star River Sword Art resources and recruit resentful Nine Provinces candidates against him.
• Chen Zonghan proposed delaying Lu Zhen’s resources, but Liu Bowen argued that the Nine Provinces should protect him.
• Manager Yan secretly sent Lu Zhen ten million Mystic Coins through Wei Cang despite the guild’s public contract termination.
• Lu Zhen realized the students’ fear reflected the Yun Clan’s power, advanced his Star River Sword Art, and planned to use the coins for a spirit medicine on settlement day.
• At the fourth-round broadcast, spectators insulted Lu Zhen while a burly supporter defended him; Lu Zhen focused on the match against Wu Tian.
• Lu Zhen’s squad appeared in the arena, where Wu Tian said he would not hold back, and Lu Zhen accepted the challenge.

Lu Zhen’s squad lost to Wu Tian in the Hundred Realms League, though Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi revealed Subtle Intent and earned their academy new training opportunities. As the Nine Provinces prepared for the once-in-a-lifetime grand exam, Lu Zhen and the Liu sisters registered while Chen Yuan secretly anticipated his own alliance with the Yun Clan.

• Wu Tian defeated Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi with his Sunfall technique, then blasted Lu Zhen from the arena after Lu Zhen countered with a powerful Star River Sword Art strike.
• Commentators praised the Liu sisters for reaching Subtle Intent, while viewers argued over Lu Zhen’s defeat; Chen Yuan privately celebrated and thought about the Yun Clan’s endorsement contract.
• Liu Bowen and Vice Principal Li announced that the Nine Provinces had secured more Pre-Exam Training slots, including access to the Top Ten Academies, but students had to reach the Converging Stream Realm.
• Shen Qing warned the students that registering for the grand exam would use their only chance, and Lu Zhen, Liu Jingshu, Liu Jingyi, and several other students volunteered.
• Chen Yuan stayed behind and judged the volunteers foolish, believing he could wait ten years and use the Yun Clan’s support to improve his prospects.

Lu Zhen and the other elite students used Stream-Gathering Pills to break through to the Converging Stream Realm, while Lu Zhen watched Wu Tian defeat Ji Wushuang in the Hundred Realms League final. After Shen Qing explained the coming pre-exam training applications, Lu Zhen chose the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect as his first choice and submitted his application.

• Shen Qing gave Lu Zhen, Liu Jingshu, Liu Jingyi, and the other elite students Stream-Gathering Pills and instructed them to guide the medicine through their apertures.
• Lu Zhen took a pill, connected his twenty apertures, and reached the Converging Stream Realm with the power of four streams; the other students also mostly broke through successfully.
• Lu Zhen watched Wu Tian defeat Ji Wushuang in the Hundred Realms League final after both fighters reached the second level of true intent.
• Shen Qing told the students to apply for pre-exam training, recommending that Lu Zhen choose a Seven Great Families program and use the Top Ten Academies as backups.
• Lu Zhen submitted an application naming the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect as his first choice, a Seven Great Families academy as his second, and a Top Ten Academy as his third.

After reaching the Converging Stream Realm, Lu Zhen delayed the dangerous Fallen Sky Dojo inheritance and spent mystic coins on a cultivation pill while his performance stirred debate in Nine Provinces. Meanwhile, Gu Changfeng approved Lu Zhen for Supreme Unity Mystic Sect training, and the chapter ended as candidates gathered to hear the selections announced.

• Lu Zhen saw that his merit had helped Nine Provinces rise one rank, ignored arguments over whether he or Chen Yuan deserved credit, and noticed Mew Mew defending him on the forum.
• Lu Zhen decided to postpone the Fallen Sky Dojo's direct disciple inheritance until Guga woke and bought a Converging Stream Realm acupoint-opening pill from the Azure Scale Commerce Guild.
• Gu Changfeng recommended Lu Zhen for one of his team's training spots, and the other stewards let him choose Lu Zhen despite doubting his prospects.
• Gu Changfeng approved Lu Zhen's application to train with the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.
• More than thirty thousand eligible warriors gathered in the Void Realm's Nine Provinces Martial Arena as the Pre-Exam Training selections were about to be announced.

The Nine Provinces’ training selection lists were announced, and Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi made the Azure Scale Academy list. Lu Zhen’s name did not appear among the Top Ten Academies, leaving everyone to wonder whether he had been selected by one of the seven supreme academies or rejected outright.

• The broadcast praised Lu Zhen’s true intent and the Liu sisters’ breakthroughs, predicting that all three could reach prestigious academies.
• A Sacred Blood Realm intelligence officer argued that Lu Zhen’s conflict with the Yun Clan could block his selection, and the burly man waited to see the lists.
• An elite-class student from the Nine Provinces made the list for the academy ranked seventy-sixth.
• Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi both made the Azure Scale Academy’s training selection list.
• The Top Ten Academies’ lists appeared without Lu Zhen’s name, prompting speculation that he might have been selected by a supreme academy.
• The burly man and his intelligence officer concluded that Lu Zhen had been rejected, blaming the limited remaining spots and the influence of powerful families.

Lu Zhen was revealed as a trainee candidate for the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, stunning the Nine Provinces and boosting its merit ranking. As the Nine Provinces celebrated its chance to escape the Civilization Kill Line, the Sacred Blood Realm ordered a conference to plan Lu Zhen’s death.

• Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi searched the academy lists, but Lu Zhen’s name appeared on neither the Top Ten nor the seven Lineage academies’ lists.
• The Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s training list appeared, naming Lu Zhen and shocking the Nine Provinces’ commentators and viewers.
• Chen Yuan saw Lu Zhen’s selection and reacted with disbelief after expecting to bask in acclaim for his Yun Clan endorsement deal.
• Lu Zhen’s selection raised the Nine Provinces’ merit ranking seven places to ninety-third, bringing it closer to escaping the Civilization Kill Line and threatening the Sacred Blood Realm’s position.
• The Sacred Blood Realm’s burly leader ordered the Blood Bell rung and called a highest realm conference to devise a plan to kill Lu Zhen.

After Lu Zhen entered the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s special training, the Nine Provinces Council purged his enemies and committed its resources to supporting him. Lu Zhen prepared to leave for training and received a massive monthly settlement that advanced his cultivation and supplied powerful pills.

• Yun Ting wanted to eliminate Lu Zhen, but Yun Cang urged him to let the Sacred Blood Realm act against the Nine Provinces instead.
• Manager Yan and Wei Cang celebrated their investment in Lu Zhen and agreed to keep it hidden from the Yun Clan.
• Liu Bowen persuaded the Nine Provinces Council to purge those smearing Lu Zhen, strip Chen Yuan of his resources, and support Lu Zhen with everything it had.
• The enforcement squad arrested families who had colluded with foreign enemies, while Lu Zhen’s standing rose among the people of the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Zhen received notice that a transport airship would arrive the next morning and prepared two Acupoint-Opening Pills for his monthly settlement.
• Lu Zhen’s settlement raised his assessment to lower eighth grade, granted billions of experience, and transformed the pills into a lower sixth-grade Taiyi Acupoint-Penetrating Golden Elixir and an upper seventh-grade Purple Cloud Acupoint-Breaking Pill.

Lu Zhen refined two sentient sixth-grade pills, discovered his physique had advanced to thirty acupoints and Five Streams Force, and chose to save his general experience for a potentially better cultivation art. He left for Sumu City with Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi to begin pre-exam training, warned about threats from the Yun Clan and Sacred Blood Realm, and shared a teasing exchange with Liu Jingshu aboard the ship.

• Lu Zhen caught and stored two pills that had transformed into sentient sixth-grade treasures, then found his physique had reached thirty acupoints and Five Streams Force.
• Lu Zhen decided to save his 33.1532 billion general experience rather than upgrade the eighth-grade Star River Sword Art before Supreme Unity Mystic Sect training.
• Lu Zhen left his residence for Sumu City with Little Guga and met Vice Principal Li and Shen Qing at the Nine Provinces Market flying ship port.
• Vice Principal Li warned Lu Zhen about possible retaliation from the Yun Clan and the Sacred Blood Realm during training.
• Lu Zhen boarded the flying ship with Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi, and Liu Jingshu thanked him for helping the sisters qualify for Azure Scale Academy.
• Lu Zhen joked that Liu Jingshu was his study companion, making her blush and look away.

Lu Zhen arrived at Sumu City and learned what awaited him during the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s special training. He joined Feng Wuji and others in planning to compete with the Seven Ancient Clans, then discovered that the training would send them to an Ancient Star where cultivation was sealed.

• Lu Zhen parted from Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi and headed to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s reception hall.
• Feng Wuji introduced himself and warned Lu Zhen that the Seven Ancient Clans had reserved most special-training slots and would likely suppress people from the minor worlds.
• Feng Wuji explained that trainees would spend twenty days at a time on an Ancient Star collecting Ancient Jade Coins, which they could trade for resources at camp.
• Lu Zhen learned that the Ancient Star sealed cultivation, True Intent, and spells, leaving trainees to rely on their bodies and acupoints while concealing their origins.
• Feng Wuji explained that trainees traveled in five-person shuttle teams, and proposed that they cooperate to compete with the Ancient Clan scions.

Lu Zhen and the other trainees arrived at the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s training camp, where rankings and dormitory tiers separated them by ability. He joined his team and met its alluring leader, whose unnatural attraction made him wary.

• Lu Zhen boarded the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s vessel with Feng Wuji, Shi Yan, and the other trainees, and Gu Changfeng told the five he had selected them for their potential.
• After three days, the vessel reached the camp surrounding an Ancient Star sealed inside a vast formation.
• The camp announced the trainees’ rankings: Wu Tian placed 2,112th, Ji Wushuang 2,145th, and Lu Zhen 5,100th, putting him in the lowest dormitory tier.
• Gu Changfeng led Lu Zhen and the other small-world trainees to their team’s gathering point, where they stood apart from the children of the seven great families.
• A woman appeared on the platform as the team leader, and Lu Zhen felt an unnatural attraction toward her while the Ancient Clan disciples warned one another not to offend her.

Leng Qiu explained how the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect's arts could turn acupoints into star vortices and outlined the training ahead, including the journey to Ancient Star and a tower climb. Lu Zhen began cultivating the arts and spent billions of experience to raise both to Level 5, preparing for Ancient Star where his cultivation would be sealed.

• Leng Qiu introduced the Taiyi Star-Inducing Art and Taiyi Star-Congealing Record, explaining how transformed acupoints could grant enough force to reach the Rushing River Realm.
• Leng Qiu announced three days of cultivation in ranked meditation rooms, followed by a trip to Ancient Star and a tower climb, and offered private guidance to whoever ranked first.
• Lu Zhen resisted Leng Qiu's uncanny allure, went to his E-grade dormitory, and studied the two arts before recording them on his Panel.
• Lu Zhen rented an E-grade meditation room for forty-eight hours and decided to strengthen the arts because his cultivation would be sealed on Ancient Star.
• Lu Zhen spent several billion general experience to raise both the Taiyi Star-Inducing Art and the Taiyi Star-Congealing Record to Level 5.

Lu Zhen used fifth-level techniques to cultivate rapidly, reaching ninety-four open acupoints and fifteen star vortices before his trip to Ancient Star. Meanwhile, the Sacred Blood Realm hired the Spacetime Islet to assassinate him there, and Feng Wuji urged his companions to risk everything for Ancient Jade Coins as Lu Zhen arrived.

• Lu Zhen cultivated for forty-eight hours, opening fifty-two acupoints and transforming ten into star vortices, but he did not break through.
• The Sacred Blood Realm decided to hire the Spacetime Islet to kill Lu Zhen on Ancient Star, with Yun Cang arranging the connection for resources equivalent to a supreme-quality sixth-grade pill.
• Lu Zhen cultivated for another twenty hours, reaching ninety-four acupoints and fifteen star vortices.
• Shi Yan, the glamorous woman, and Feng Wuji compared their cultivation gains, while Feng Wuji urged them to take risks on Ancient Star to obtain Ancient Jade Coins.
• Shi Yan spotted Lu Zhen approaching the group.

Lu Zhen and his team traveled to Ancient Star for a dangerous twenty-day training exercise, where their cultivation techniques were sealed and physical strength mattered most. After landing in a remote forest, they sensed torch-bearing figures approaching through the darkness.

• Feng Wuji rebuked the gorgeous woman for insulting Lu Zhen and insisted that the team stay united.
• The instructors briefed the geniuses on Ancient Star's rules, issued ordinary weapons, and warned them that death there was real and rescue was limited.
• Feng Wuji chose a remote border region for his team to avoid competition in the prosperous cities, and their small shuttle carried them to Ancient Star.
• The team landed in a forest, where Feng Wuji demonstrated his Ancient Force and explained that physical strength and acupoints mattered on the planet.
• Lu Zhen calculated that his acupoints and Star Vortices gave him several thousand Ancient Force, then noticed torch-bearing figures closing in through the trees.

Feng Wuji and Lu Zhen’s group encountered starving refugees near Feng City and learned that the city’s powerful hoarded ancient jade while imposing Blood Tax on the poor. With only twenty days to collect Ancient Jade Coins, they decided to join the rebel army and seize the city’s estates.

• Chen Fei killed several refugees who tried to attack the group, then captured Scarface for questioning.
• Scarface explained that Feng City’s rulers imposed Blood Tax and kept ancient jade in the City Lord’s Manor and aristocratic families’ vaults.
• Feng Wuji rejected assassination, serving as Guest Elders, and hunting beasts as too risky or slow.
• Feng Wuji proposed joining the rebel army to seize cities, confiscate estates, and wipe out powerful clans.
• Lu Zhen agreed, saying they would help the refugees break Feng City, open its granaries, and take the powerful families’ ancient jade.

Lu Zhen and his companions joined Wang Meng’s righteous army after proving their strength, but Wang Meng required them to capture Black Wind Fort as a test of allegiance. Assigned five hundred refugee soldiers rather than elite troops, the five set out intending to take the fort without relying on them.

• Lu Zhen effortlessly knocked aside a cavalryman’s spear, impressing the Black Cloud Cavalry vanguard commander, who escorted the five to the refugee army’s camp.
• Feng Wuji told Wang Meng that the group wanted to join his army, and they defeated four guards who tried to take their weapons as a test.
• Wang Meng welcomed the five and challenged them to capture Black Wind Fort in exchange for its treasure and promotions.
• Lu Zhen’s group discovered their five hundred assigned soldiers were poorly trained refugees, and they departed for Black Wind Fort planning not to depend on them.

Lu Zhen and four companions confronted Feng City's forces at Black Wind Fort, where Lu Zhen revealed overwhelming skill by killing a Second-Rate Expert in one exchange. He ordered the others to charge with him, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Black Wind Fort's defenders prepared to crush the approaching refugees, and Feng Wuji sent five hundred refugees to test the fort's strength.
• The fort's gates opened, and its elite soldiers slaughtered the refugees before ten Third-Rate Masters attacked Lu Zhen's group.
• Lu Zhen killed three of the ten attackers while Feng Wuji, Chen Fei, and the others struggled against the remaining fighters.
• Zhao Xuan charged out of the fort as a Second-Rate Expert, and Feng Wuji ordered the group to retreat while Lu Zhen advanced to meet him.
• Lu Zhen disarmed Zhao Xuan and beheaded him in one exchange, then ordered his companions to charge with him.

Lu Zhen led the capture of Black Wind Fort by killing Zhao Xuan, then divided the fort’s Ancient Jade and earned promotion from Wang Meng. After checking the trainee rankings, Lu Zhen saw that he had risen to rank 3019 while wondering where Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi were undergoing their training.

• Lu Zhen killed Zhao Xuan, routed Feng City’s soldiers, and forced Black Wind Fort to surrender.
• The White Lotus Sect women watched the battle, recognized Lu Zhen as a powerful second-rate expert, and decided to investigate and approach him.
• Lu Zhen and his companions collected the fort’s seven hundred pieces of Ancient Jade, with Lu Zhen receiving three hundred.
• Wang Meng arrived, promoted Lu Zhen and Feng Wuji to commanders, and ordered the army to prepare to attack Feng City at dawn.
• Lu Zhen scanned his Ancient Jade and saw his overall ranking rise to 3019, while Liu Jingshu and Liu Jingyi appeared much lower on the list.

As Feng City’s siege began, the first day’s rankings drew surprise at Lu Zhen’s lead, while Leng Qiu’s team ranked poorly. Lu Zhen strengthened himself through cultivation before the siege stalled, leaving Wang Teng urging his father to send Lu Zhen into the attack.

• Gu Changfeng and the other deacons saw that Lu Zhen had earned three hundred Ancient Jade Coins, but they attributed his lead to luck; Gu Changfeng privately found him increasingly interesting.
• Leng Qiu reviewed her team’s rankings, found it ranked eighth overall, and briefly noticed Lu Zhen’s first place among the small-world recruits.
• Lu Zhen cultivated through the night, opening eight acupoints and transforming four Star Vortices, bringing his total to 102 acupoints, nineteen Star Vortices, and over 5,400 Ancient Force in physical strength.
• The refugees attacked Feng City, where He Lianshan’s heavy ballistae inflicted severe casualties while Wang Meng held back his Second-Rate Experts.
• After three days of costly, stalled assaults, Wang Teng urged Wang Meng to have Lu Zhen lead the charge, and Wang Meng hesitated.

The White Lotus Sect helped Wang Meng’s army seize Feng City, and Lu Zhen led his men to gather Ancient Jade while protecting the streets under his control. After his ranking rose to 1285, three White Lotus Sect women visited him at night and revealed their faces, including Bai Zhi.

• The White Lotus Sect persuaded Patriarch Li to open Feng City’s west gate, while Lu Zhen’s group considered leaving Wang Meng’s army.
• The White Lotus Sect and the Li Family’s deathsworn opened the west gate, and He Lianshan fled as Wang Meng’s army poured into the city.
• Wang Meng ordered his forces to celebrate for three days, and Lu Zhen led his men to seize Ancient Jade from wealthy family estates.
• Lu Zhen killed soldiers who were assaulting civilians and ordered his men to protect the streets under his control.
• Lu Zhen collected more than five thousand pieces of Ancient Jade, raising his total to 5720 and his overall ranking to 1285.
• Three White Lotus Sect women entered Lu Zhen’s room at night, removed their veils, and introduced themselves, including the beautiful Bai Zhi.