Recaps

Lu Zhen revealed himself as a legendary Ten-Extreme Ancient Martial Artist when he defeated the assassin Ying Jiu and found a spirit-refining manual on him. He returned to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s Starry Sky Base ranked ninth overall, while other trainees wondered whether he could reach the top three.

• Lu Zhen overwhelmed Ying Jiu with his Gravity Field, and the gathered witnesses realized he had fused ten Ancient Crystals.
• Ying Jiu tried to kill Lu Zhen with a transformed throwing knife, but Lu Zhen shattered the attack and crushed him with his Ancient God phantom.
• Lu Zhen searched Ying Jiu’s remains and found a Spirit-Refining Method, then suspected the assassin had come from outside the Ancient Star rather than the imperial court.
• Three days later, Lu Zhen told Qin Xiao to hide if danger came and left Tianshui City with Feng Wuji and his other teammates to return to camp.
• Lu Zhen and his teammates arrived at the Starry Sky Base, where trainees focused on his ninth-place overall ranking and wondered if he could reach the top three.

Zhao Han consolidated his rule over the Heavenly Pool Sect and set out with Ruan Qingqing for the Great Wilderness, planning to use her to gain a powerful patron. Meanwhile, Lu Zhen’s rise to ninth place alarmed the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s overseers, who suspected Leng Qiu was hiding how highly she regarded him.

• Zhao Han recalled how he had climbed from a disfigured servant to sect master after the Nine Provinces Apocalypse and recently reached the Spirit Fusion Realm.
• Ruan Qingqing told Zhao Han their flying vessel was ready, and they left for the Great Wilderness as Outer Sect disciples praised his rise.
• Zhao Han resolved to attach himself to a major power in the Great Wilderness and considered Ruan Qingqing a way to attract influential lords.
• The Starry Sky Base group returned to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s camp with 962 people, while Lu Zhen ranked ninth overall.
• Two overseers questioned Leng Qiu about Lu Zhen’s progress and their sparring session, but she criticized his self-control and dismissed his chances of reaching the top three.
• The overseers privately concluded that Leng Qiu was concealing her regard for Lu Zhen and agreed to keep watch on him.

After a hundred hours of cultivation, Lu Zhen emerged with a vastly increased foundation and Third Layer True Intent, preparing to challenge the Black-Yellow Pagoda. As other trainees reached the third floor and Lu Zhen’s rank slipped, he calculated that his power now exceeded the challenges ahead and resolved to use his two Enlightenment chances.

• Lu Zhen entered the Grade-A Cultivation Room to use his hundred hours of access before challenging the Black-Yellow Pagoda.
• Trainees discussed the difficulty of the Mystic Tower’s later stages and speculated about Lu Zhen’s progress.
• Wu Tian cleared the second floor and reached the first stage of the third floor, saying he had caught up with Lu Zhen.
• Ji Wushuang also reached the first stage of the third floor, while Lu Zhen remained inactive and fell to seventeenth place as forum users argued over his delay.
• After seclusion, Lu Zhen reported 310 acupoints and 200 Star Vortices, calculating a foundation of 5,908 Streams Force and nearly 590,800 with his Third Layer True Intent.
• Lu Zhen decided to use his two saved Enlightenment chances, confident that the tower’s third- and fourth-floor challenges could not stop him.

Lu Zhen used two epiphanies to push his Star River Sword Intent to the peak of the third layer, greatly increasing his power without reaching the realm of Law. He arrived at the Black-Yellow Pagoda as Arthur Rothschild claimed first place by reaching the fourth floor, while Leng Qiu doubted Lu Zhen would surpass his prior performance.

• Lu Zhen tried to touch the laws of heaven and earth during an epiphany, but the force of rejection ended his first attempt and greatly increased his sword-art experience.
• Lu Zhen used a second epiphany to observe the rules more cautiously, reaching the peak of the third layer of True Intent and raising his amplification to 170 times.
• Lu Zhen calculated that his explosive power had exceeded one million streams and decided to reclaim first place at the Black-Yellow Pagoda.
• Arthur Rothschild appeared at the top of the ranking after reaching the fourth floor, drawing the crowd's attention when he emerged from the tower.
• The team leaders discussed Arthur's achievement, while Leng Qiu dismissed Lu Zhen's chances and tried to suppress her unsettled feelings about him.

Lu Zhen used his breakthrough to Second Layer True Intent to clear the first six trials on the third floor of the Black-Yellow Pagoda. When the Asura Commander stopped him at the seventh trial, he revealed that he had also reached the Third Layer of True Intent and defeated it, leaving the team leaders stunned by his talent.

• Lu Zhen used Second Layer True Intent to destroy the hundred Dark-Gold Dire Wolves and pass the first six trials on the third floor.
• Observers in the plaza watched Lu Zhen's progress race to the seventh trial, while Wu Tian and Ji Wushuang reacted in disbelief.
• The team leaders and Leng Qiu saw Lu Zhen reach the seventh trial and expected him to lose against the Asura Commander.
• The Asura Commander knocked Lu Zhen's flying sword away, so Lu Zhen unleashed the Third Layer of True Intent and killed it.
• The team leaders realized Lu Zhen had reached the Self-Contained Realm and declared him the top trainee of the intake.

Lu Zhen advanced through the Black-Yellow Pagoda, shocking his peers and team leaders as he cleared the fourth floor’s first three trials. He revealed a peak Third Layer of True Intent with a hundred-and-seventyfold amplification, leaving his next challenge ahead.

• Leng Qiu realized Lu Zhen had hidden his strength during their sparring and decided to scold him less for the sake of her sect rewards.
• Lu Zhen reached the fourth floor and tied with Arthur for first place, while Wu Tian, Ji Wushuang, Arthur, Xuanyuan Po, and other prodigies reacted with shock and unease.
• Lu Zhen used a hundredfold amplification to defeat the fourth floor’s first trial, killing one hundred Dark-Gold Dire Wolves.
• Lu Zhen cleared the second trial by finding an opening against a guardian with five hundred thousand streams of power and striking its throat.
• Lu Zhen unleashed his peak Third Layer of True Intent and a hundred-and-seventyfold amplification to shatter the eight-hundred-thousand-stream guardian’s axe and clear the third trial.

Lu Zhen reached first place by clearing the third stage of the fourth floor, stunning the students and team leaders with his peak Third Layer of True Intent. He deliberately held back his Ten-Extreme Ancient Martial Artist trump card, failed the next stage, and returned to his dormitory planning to claim his rewards and attend another private guidance session with Leng Qiu.

• Lu Zhen's third-stage clear made him the top-ranked trainee, while Arthur and the other students struggled to accept his result.
• The team leaders recognized Lu Zhen's peak Third Layer of True Intent and judged that he could rank in the great examination's third tier; Leng Qiu hid her embarrassment while praising his talent and criticizing his unruly temperament.
• Lu Zhen chose not to use his Ten-Extreme Ancient Martial Artist trump card against the fourth-stage guardian, whose 1.5 million Streams of combat power exceeded his own.
• Lu Zhen lost the fourth stage, and the students and team leaders felt relieved to see that he had limits.
• Lu Zhen left the pagoda and returned to Courtyard No. 212, planning to finalize the rankings, exchange for treasures, and use his private guidance slot with Leng Qiu.

Lu Zhen began cultivating the Black Heaven God-Subduing Record to strengthen his soul for fusing more Ancient Crystals, then claimed first place in the Special Training Camp’s monthly rankings. He exchanged his rewards for Innate Taiyi True Water and the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record.

• Lu Zhen found Guga still asleep, then began visualizing the Black Heaven Demon God while cultivating the Black Heaven God-Subduing Record until the Panel recorded it at Lv.1.
• Lu Zhen counted more than twenty Blood-Colored Ancient Crystals in his Space Ring and planned to wait for a settlement critical strike before fusing them.
• Lu Zhen received first place in the monthly overall rankings and was awarded 300,000 Special Training Camp points.
• Lu Zhen spent 200,000 points at the Treasure Pavilion to obtain Innate Taiyi True Water.
• Lu Zhen spent his remaining 100,000 points on the middle Grade Six Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record.

Lu Zhen met Leng Qiu in the Yin-Yang Extremity after taking first place in the rankings, and her unusually warm response confirmed his suspicions that her attitude toward him had changed. When she learned he had spent his points on Innate Taiyi True Water and a difficult sword art, she urgently told him to return both, but Lu Zhen intended to keep them for his own plans.

• Lu Zhen descended into the Yin-Yang Extremity and found Leng Qiu waiting at the formation eye, dressed and groomed with unusual care.
• Lu Zhen complimented Leng Qiu's appearance, and she praised his talent while gently reproaching him for hiding his strength.
• Lu Zhen told Leng Qiu he had exchanged three hundred thousand points for Innate Taiyi True Water and the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record.
• Leng Qiu warned that nurturing an incarnation at his realm would take decades and that the sword art would distract him before the grand examination, then urged him to return both items.
• Lu Zhen decided to keep the treasures, hoping the Taiyi True Water would benefit from a future critical strike and planning to leave an incarnation on Ancient Star to gather Ancient Jade and condense Ancient Crystals.

Lu Zhen convinced Leng Qiu to let him keep the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record and began learning the sixth-grade technique under her guidance. After mastering its first Killing Strike in only three days, he unknowingly triggered Leng Qiu’s bloodline backlash, forcing her to flee and struggle to suppress it in private.

• Lu Zhen argued that his own judgment mattered more than others’ doubts, and Leng Qiu reluctantly agreed to let him keep the sword record if he met her standards.
• Lu Zhen studied the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record and grasped its basics in less than half an hour, prompting Leng Qiu to guide him.
• Over three days, Lu Zhen stabilized the technique’s First Layer of True Intent and approached the Second Layer, Manifestation.
• Lu Zhen used Star Lotus, the technique’s first Killing Strike, and Leng Qiu was stunned by his progress.
• Leng Qiu’s bloodline backlash flared when Lu Zhen approached, so she hurried away from the dojo and shut herself in a quiet chamber.
• Unable to suppress the backlash easily, Leng Qiu opened the Special Training Camp rankings and stared at Lu Zhen’s portrait at the top.

Lu Zhen completed his sword training, ended his instruction with Leng Qiu, and returned to the Ancient Star with Guga and his squad. The monthly settlement rated his cultivation at sixth-rank low-grade and awarded massive experience gains.

• Lu Zhen mastered the third layer of True Intent and demonstrated the Annihilation sword strike to Leng Qiu.
• Leng Qiu warned Lu Zhen to be careful during the final month of special training and cautioned him against acting wantonly toward her after he entered the sect.
• Lu Zhen planned to nurture a second avatar with the Innate Taiyi True Water and leave Guga on the Ancient Star beside it.
• Lu Zhen reunited with Feng Wuji and the others, then returned with them to Tianshui City and prepared the settlement items.
• The monthly settlement evaluated Lu Zhen at sixth-rank low-grade and multiplied his rewards by two thousand, granting enormous experience gains.

After his monthly settlement upgraded his rewards, Lu Zhen strengthened his cultivation, physique, and spirit before fusing with four Purple-Gold Star-Core Ancient Crystals. His Gravity Field and summoned Ancient Gods grew immensely stronger, and the chapter ended with his soul still able to withstand further fusion.

• Lu Zhen received Creation Taiyi True Liquid, twenty-three Purple-Gold Star-Core Ancient Crystals, and an expanded Inner Landscape from his monthly settlement.
• Lu Zhen set aside experience for the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record, raised the Taiyi Star-Inducing Art and Taiyi Star-Congealing Record to level seven, and advanced the Black Heaven God-Subduing Record to level four.
• Lu Zhen used the strengthened Black Heaven Demon God in his sea of consciousness to suppress the pain as he fused with a Purple-Gold Star Core, forming his eleventh Star Vortex.
• Lu Zhen tested his strengthened Gravity Field and found that its three Ancient Gods could each match a Heavenly Extremity Realm expert.
• Lu Zhen fused with three more Purple-Gold Star Cores, bringing the total to four and further increasing the Gravity Field's power.

Lu Zhen nurtured a second incarnation with Creation Taiyi True Liquid while preparing to face a Heavenly Extremity Realm expert sent by the First Prince. He broke through to the late Converging Stream Realm and judged himself to be near the peak of the Heavenly Extremity Realm on the Ancient Star.

• Lu Zhen fused his fifteenth Purple-Gold Star Core, then used his blood and Creation Taiyi True Liquid to begin nurturing a second incarnation in his Inner Landscape.
• Chu Rong delivered one million Ancient Jade and warned Lu Zhen that a Heavenly Extremity Realm expert was coming, likely from the First Prince's faction.
• Lu Zhen remained in seclusion as all three hundred and twenty of his acupoints transformed into Star Vortices.
• Lu Zhen broke through to the late Converging Stream Realm, increasing his strength and gaining the ability to control the trajectory of his attacks through the Ancient Star's magnetic field.
• Lu Zhen assessed his power and concluded that he was at least near the peak of the Heavenly Extremity Realm on the Ancient Star.

Lu Zhen learned that Chu Xuanting had led thirty thousand Dragon-Steed Iron Cavalry to Horse-Blocking Pass and decided to confront him alone. He reached the pass and advanced through its crossfire, while trainees watching from the walls debated whether he could challenge a Heavenly Extremity Realm expert.

• Feng Wuji gave Lu Zhen confirmed intelligence that Chu Xuanting and thirty thousand Dragon-Steed Iron Cavalry had camped at Horse-Blocking Pass.
• Lu Zhen refused to wait for the army, took Guga and thirty disposable swords, and set out alone for the pass.
• Chu Xuanting told his generals that victory over Lu Zhen would strengthen the First Prince's claim to the throne, and they pledged to follow him into battle.
• Lu Zhen arrived at Horse-Blocking Pass and kept walking toward its closed gates despite the guards' warnings.
• The guards fired heavy crossbow bolts at Lu Zhen, but a magnetic field diverted them before they could strike him.
• Trainees on the walls recognized Lu Zhen and argued over whether he could survive a confrontation with a Heavenly Extremity Realm expert.

Lu Zhen stormed Horse-Blocking Pass and killed Chu Xuanting and the generals defending it with a single sword strike, turning the Mandate Army into a force able to challenge the Great Abyss Dynasty. After creating an avatar named Ye Chen, Lu Zhen put it in charge of the army while he prepared to enter seclusion before the Special Training Camp ended.

• Lu Zhen broke through Horse-Blocking Pass, killed Chu Xuanting and more than ten Upper Extremity Realm generals, and routed the Dragon-Steed Iron Cavalry.
• News of the defeat spread across the Great Abyss Dynasty, and martial artists flocked to join the Mandate Army at Horse-Blocking Pass.
• Lu Zhen used Creation Taiyi True Liquid to create an avatar with a noble bearing and decided to leave it on the Ancient Star after the students returned to the Void Realm.
• Lu Zhen introduced the avatar as his sworn brother, Ye Chen, and announced that he would enter closed-door cultivation.
• Ye Chen accepted command of the Mandate Army and declared that he would lead it to claim the Great Abyss realm, winning the generals' allegiance.

Spacetime Islet added Lu Zhen to its Kill List after two failed attempts, planning to attack him when he came to the Ancient Star’s core region. Lu Zhen returned from training ranked first, while a jealous steward watched Leng Qiu show concern for him.

• A gray-robed Spacetime Islet leader learned that two assassinations of Lu Zhen had failed and ordered him placed on the Kill List for a future attack.
• Lu Zhen returned to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s camp after the three-month training period and ranked first by a wide margin.
• Gu Changfeng praised Lu Zhen and urged him to prepare for the coming examination.
• Leng Qiu warned Lu Zhen to be careful and admitted she would worry about him.
• A grim-faced steward saw Leng Qiu’s concern for Lu Zhen and grew jealous, suspecting the two had been alone together in the underground training ground.

After Lu Zhen's victory raised Nine Provinces to sixty-seventh place, its people celebrated the world’s newfound security and prestige. As Lu Zhen traveled by flying boat toward Supreme Unity Mystic Sect headquarters for the grand examination, Liu Bowen called him with news that seemed urgent.

• The sinister steward, consumed by jealousy, considered using influential Inner Sect prodigies who coveted Leng Qiu to target Lu Zhen.
• Nine Provinces climbed to sixty-seventh place in the World Merit rankings, and its people celebrated escaping the Kill Line.
• A Nine Provinces man posted that Lu Zhen's victory changed his marriage prospects, turning him from a proposed live-in son-in-law into a welcomed bridegroom whose dao companion would move to Nine Provinces.
• The special training ended, and Lu Zhen boarded a fifth-grade flying boat bound for Supreme Unity Mystic Sect headquarters, where he received a spacious private cabin.
• Liu Bowen called Lu Zhen directly, and Lu Zhen accepted, suspecting that the elder had urgent news.

Lu Zhen learned that the Yun Clan had offered gifts and an apology while hinting at the protection of an Inner Sect ancestor, and he chose to accept the gifts while secretly keeping his suspicions alive. Liu Bowen then revealed that Lord Hongwu and Lord Yu Qian had been abducted by a Netherblood Sect elder, and warned that the Nine Provinces’ dormant Primordial True Blood could put all its people at risk; he also explained the Great Luo Divine Dynasty’s brutal system for replacing small worlds.

• Liu Bowen told Lu Zhen that the Yun Clan patriarch, Elder Yun Cang, Yun Ting, and Yun Jiaojiao had come with gifts to apologize, while invoking an ancestor in the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect as a warning.
• Lu Zhen told Liu Bowen that unknown assassins had attacked him twice on the Ancient Star and suspected either the Sacred Blood Realm or the Yun Clan.
• Liu Bowen advised Lu Zhen to accept the Yun Clan’s gifts, and Lu Zhen agreed to accept them and declare their past grudges wiped clean.
• Liu Bowen revealed that Lord Hongwu and Lord Yu Qian had become followers of Xuanyuan Lie to save the Nine Provinces, but the Blood Butcher Old Fiend had abducted them after killing Xuanyuan Lie.
• Liu Bowen warned Lu Zhen that the Blood Butcher Old Fiend was investigating the Nine Provinces’ dormant Primordial True Blood and might target its people for demonic cultivation.
• Liu Bowen explained that the Great Luo Divine Dynasty controlled the cycle of small-world trials, replacing twenty worlds every five hundred years, and that the Netherblood Sect’s worlds endured blood refinement without a Kill Line.

Lu Zhen learned that the Nine Provinces faced enslavement by the Netherblood Sect unless he proved his worth to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, and he resolved to grow stronger before the examination. His latest settlement brought enormous rewards and a new physique trait, Star Abyss.

• Liu Bowen warned Lu Zhen that the Netherblood Sect could buy ownership of the Nine Provinces and enslave its people, leaving the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect as their only hope.
• Lu Zhen learned Lord Hongwu could delay the captives' deaths for at most a year, and he committed to displaying his talent in the examination and rising within the sect.
• Two days later, Lu Zhen received a mid-grade six monthly settlement, gained vast experience, and strengthened his Inner Landscape.
• Lu Zhen's Acupoint Star Transformation reached level twenty-five, expanding his Star Vortices and forming nebulae within them.
• Lu Zhen acquired the exclusive physique trait Star Abyss and reacted with shock.

Lu Zhen used General Experience to break through to the Law Realm and began to perceive the Laws underlying the world. He joined Dantai Ming’s association aboard the flying ship and asked him for information about the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s major examination, which Lu Zhen hoped to use to secure the Nine Provinces’ protection.

• Lu Zhen spent 11.8 billion General Experience to raise the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record to the Law Realm and learned about the stages of Law cultivation.
• Lu Zhen went to the flying ship’s public hall, where Dantai Ming invited him to lead an association of newcomers to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.
• Lu Zhen accepted Dantai Ming’s invitation because he needed connections and insight into the sect, while Taishi Kong resented his growing influence.
• Dantai Ming told Lu Zhen that the sect’s major examination was little more than a month away and asked what he knew about its rules and rivals.
• Lu Zhen asked Dantai Ming to explain the contenders from the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s Direct Territory and other domains.

Dantai Ming explained the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect entrance exam and the hierarchy of its Dao Academies to Lu Zhen and the others. He offered to help his companions enter a third-tier academy, while he believed Lu Zhen might qualify for a second-tier academy; Lu Zhen then returned alone to his cultivation room.

• Dantai Ming said roughly thirty thousand candidates would compete for three thousand sect places, though he believed only the top two hundred members of their Special Training Camp had a real chance.
• Shi Lei insisted that hard work could let him compete, while Hou Jin predicted Shi Lei would be eliminated and Lu Zhen would rank no higher than the top five hundred.
• Hou Jin described the Direct Territory geniuses' immense Star Vortex counts and mastery of powerful laws and cultivation arts, but Dantai Ming criticized him for defeatism.
• Dantai Ming outlined the four tiers of Dao Academies, describing their combat, crafting, resource-gathering, and administrative roles.
• Dantai Ming offered to ask his granduncle to help the group enter a third-tier Dao Academy and told Lu Zhen he might earn a place in a second-tier academy.
• Lu Zhen exchanged farewells with Dantai Ming and walked alone to the flying ship's cultivation room.

Aboard the flying ship, Lu Zhen resolved to compete for first place in the grand examination and used his Panel and enlightenment opportunities to deepen his mastery of the Light Law. The chapter left him newly advanced to Weaving Law, with much greater power to control the laws around him.

• Lu Zhen reflected on the Nine Provinces’ fate and vowed to fight for first place before heading to the ship’s training area.
• Lu Zhen touched the Light Law and used it to perform the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record’s Domain, then judged his strength inadequate against greater geniuses.
• Lu Zhen weighed how to spend his experience and chose to improve his sword art and soul, beginning with two enlightenment opportunities focused on the Light Law.
• Lu Zhen spent over 460 billion General Experience to advance the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record to Weaving Law, drawing in and weaving nearly a tenth of the Light Law within ten miles.

Lu Zhen advanced to Weaving Law and strengthened his soul, while his avatar reached the Eighteen-Pole Ancient Martial Artist stage and prepared to seize the Great Abyss Dynasty. His breakthrough attracted the attention of Tai'e Sword Academy elder Leng Yan, who sought to recruit him and confronted her cousin Leng Qiu about her bloodline backlash.

• Lu Zhen wove the Light Law into a Sword Qi Star Lotus, shattered a heavy stake, and poured his remaining General Experience into the Black Heaven God-Subduing Record.
• Avatar Lu Zhen fused three Purple-Gold Star Cores, reached the eighteenth core, and resolved to unite the Great Abyss Dynasty's factions and seize its resources.
• The purple-robed deputy hall master witnessed Lu Zhen's Weaving Law breakthrough and recommended him to Leng Yan of Tai'e Sword Academy.
• Leng Yan investigated Lu Zhen, discovered that he had served under Leng Qiu, and contacted her aboard another flying vessel.
• Leng Yan spotted Leng Qiu's seventh-grade servant puppet and rebuked her for failing to suppress her bloodline backlash, warning that she could not reach the Fourth Realm otherwise.

Leng Yan contacted Lu Zhen, gave him a Sixth-Grade Movement Technique, and encouraged him to perform well in the Tai'e Sword Academy examination. Lu Zhen mastered Floating Light Shadow’s first stage and planned to advance it further after the next Monthly Settlement.

• Leng Yan asked Leng Qiu about Lu Zhen, learned that he had impressed everyone at the training camp, and advised her to rein in her thoughts.
• Leng Yan contacted Lu Zhen and asked about the weaknesses in his cultivation.
• Lu Zhen told Leng Yan that his incomplete movement manual had reached its limit, so she sent him Floating Light Shadow and urged him to succeed in the examination.
• Lu Zhen studied Floating Light Shadow, quickly mastered its first stage, and discovered that his previous technique’s foundation limited his progress.
• Lu Zhen decided to wait for the next Monthly Settlement for more experience and practiced the technique’s first stage in the training room.

With Lu Zhen in seclusion, Ye Chen took command of the Mandate Army and led it to the Great Abyss Imperial Capital. Emperor Chu Long agreed to trade the Great Abyss Dynasty’s Founding Treasure for help from the Skymang Empire as the army reached his gates.

• Chu Long seized the throne after killing the First Prince and imprisoning other rivals, while the Third Prince fled south and the dynasty fractured.
• Chu Rong arrived at Horse-Blocking Pass seeking Lu Zhen’s help to rescue her brother, but Ye Chen said he would handle the matter while Lu Zhen was in seclusion.
• Ye Chen overruled Qin Xiao’s call to wait for Lu Zhen and ordered the Mandate Army to march the next morning; Qin Xiao rejected his suggestion that they might rule together.
• The Mandate Army marched through surrendering prefectures and reached the imperial capital, where Chu Long’s court discussed how to stop it.
• A Skymang Empire envoy offered a Ten-Extreme Ancient Martial Artist in exchange for the Founding Treasure, and Chu Long accepted.