Recaps

Lu Zhen accepted the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s dangerous mission to explore a newly discovered Primordial Ancient Star, hoping to earn leverage to rescue Hongwu and Lord Yu from the Netherblood Sect. The chapter ended with Lei Wanche offering Lu Zhen the chance to choose his Nu River Realm partner from the sect’s top disciples.

• Lei Wanche and Pavilion Master Chu secretly granted Lu Zhen Direct Disciple status and promised him entry to a high-grade Dao Origin Pool.
• Lei Wanche and Pavilion Master Chu explained that the sect wanted Lu Zhen to explore a Primordial Ancient Star, locate its Core Passage Node, and establish a Guidance Formation.
• Lu Zhen agreed to go, asking the sect to help rescue Hongwu and Lord Yu from the Netherblood Sect.
• Pavilion Master Chu explained that the sect’s blood feud with the Netherblood Sect made a rescue difficult, but Lu Zhen’s success on the Ancient Star could give the sect leverage to negotiate.
• Lei Wanche assured Lu Zhen that he could use laws on this Primordial Ancient Star, then offered him the right to choose his Nu River Realm partner.

Lu Zhen advanced to the late-stage Rushing River Realm in the High-Grade Dao Origin Pool and was selected for the Primordial Ancient Star expedition, stirring resentment across the sect. After learning the Blood Butcher Old Fiend had begun his ritual early and endangered Hongwu and the Nine Provinces, Lu Zhen reasoned that the fiend would keep the secret to himself and went to ask Lei Wanche about the sale of small worlds.

• Leng Qiu learned that she and Lu Zhen had been approved for the Primordial Ancient Star expedition and wondered about his connection to Hall Master Lei.
• Gamblers in Supreme Unity Mystic City complained after Hall Master Lei canceled Lu Zhen and Qi Xuan's match and the bookmakers refunded their wagers.
• Lu Zhen entered the High-Grade Dao Origin Pool, devoured its spiritual energy and Law Fragments, and reached the late-stage Rushing River Realm.
• The Supreme Unity Mystic Sect announced Lu Zhen as an expedition candidate, prompting objections from disciples and elders who believed he had taken a place from stronger contenders.
• Liu Bowen told Lu Zhen that the Blood Butcher Old Fiend had begun the ritual early and was holding Hongwu and Lord Yu to study their Primordial True Blood.
• Lu Zhen told Liu Bowen that the fiend would likely keep the discovery secret, promised to handle Hongwu and the others, and went to the Martial Punishment Hall to question Lei Wanche about buying and selling small worlds.

Lu Zhen learned that buying the Nine Provinces Small World would require years of approval, a dynasty-granted title, and enormous wealth, but Lei Wanche promised to alert him if anyone applied to buy it. Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu entered the Primordial Ancient Star and, after learning about its powerful inhabitants, set out to find a settlement.

• Lu Zhen asked Lei Wanche about buying the Nine Provinces Small World and explained that Blood Butcher Old Fiend had captured two of his elders; Lei Wanche promised to warn him if an application was filed.
• Lei Wanche gave Lu Zhen a Star-Piercing Talisman, and Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu used it to travel through the Void Sea and enter the Primordial Ancient Star.
• Lu Zhen found that his Void Terminal could connect to the expedition forum, where Lei Wanche explained how the sect and other factions would share and trade information.
• Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu read reports from Yan Bei and Tie Lin about the Ancient Star's dense spiritual energy and formidable native cultivation levels.
• Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu headed out of the ancient forest to find an inhabited place and learn where they had arrived.

Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu traveled across Godfiend Ancient Star toward Golden Leaf City, posing as Dao companions while seeking the Core Passage Node and clues to local opportunities. At the city gate, the Golden Leaf Clan’s Jin An mistook Lu Zhen for Leng Qiu’s attendant and treated her as an honored guest.

• Leng Qiu tamed a True Essence Realm Demon Leopard, and Lu Zhen rode behind her with his arms around her waist.
• Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu agreed to pose as Dao companions and learned from a local that Golden Leaf City lay ahead.
• On the road to the city, Lu Zhen saw a gray-robed True Core expert walking with a tiger-headed great beast who was also in the True Core Realm.
• Jin An’s formation disc detected three Third Realm cultivators as the gray-robed man, the tiger-headed beast, Leng Qiu, and Lu Zhen approached the private gate.
• Jin An welcomed Leng Qiu as an honored guest, assumed Lu Zhen was her attendant, and watched them enter Golden Leaf City.

Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu arrived in Golden Leaf City, sold their Blackwind Leopard for Wild Source, and secured a room at the Wild Source Pavilion. They learned that reaching Black Mountain Main City would cost far more than they could currently afford, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Jin An noticed Leng Qiu’s beauty and decided to report her to Jin Yuanbai after his shift.
• Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu sold their Blackwind Leopard to a beast dealership for three hundred low-grade Wild Source.
• The pair rented the Wild Source Pavilion’s last finest room and pretended to be Dao companions.
• Leng Qiu questioned the inn attendant about Golden Leaf City and learned it belonged to the Black Mountain Tribe, ruled by a Primordial Spirit Realm ancestor.
• The attendant told them that flying demon transport to Black Mountain Main City cost five hundred mid-grade Wild Source per person, far beyond their means.

Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu joined a caravan traveling from Golden Leaf City to Black Mountain Main City, with Leng Qiu hired as a guard and Lu Zhen traveling as her cultivation partner. As the caravan set out along the dangerous Black Wind Road, guard captain Hong Gu hinted at a painful past involving unfaithful men.

• Lu Zhen rejected hunting beasts or selling treasures to afford passage and suggested joining a caravan instead.
• Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu found a caravan bound for Black Mountain Main City and met its guard captain, Hong Gu.
• Leng Qiu joined the caravan as a guard and introduced Lu Zhen as her cultivation partner, surprising Mo Laosan, Tiger Fool, and Hong Gu.
• Shopkeeper Qian agreed to take both of them, and the caravan departed with Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu assigned to its front Earth Dragon.
• Hong Gu warned the others about the dangers of Black Wind Road and advised them to be wary of people in big cities.
• Hong Gu praised Leng Qiu for choosing Lu Zhen, then began to speak bitterly about a past betrayal before turning the conversation back to drinking.

Jin Yuanbai saw Leng Qiu’s image and hired Monk Rock and Azure Scale to seize her from Shopkeeper Qian’s caravan, hoping to win a coveted post. Meanwhile, Lu Zhen watched the caravan’s guards kill a demonic beast and learned why pure-blooded demons refused to take human form; the caravan continued along Black Wind Road, where Jin Yuanbai’s hired men could intercept it.

• Jin An showed Jin Yuanbai a recording of Leng Qiu, and Jin Yuanbai decided to present her to Young Master Ebony to secure the deputy commander position.
• Jin Yuanbai learned Leng Qiu was traveling with Shopkeeper Qian’s caravan and hired Monk Rock and Azure Scale to bring her back alive for thirty thousand mid-grade wild source.
• Hong Gu, Mo Laosan, and Tiger Fool killed a third-tier Ironclad Rhinoceros that attacked the caravan on Black Wind Road.
• Lu Zhen judged the guards’ law techniques weak compared with those of Supreme Unity Mystic Sect disciples.
• Mo Laosan explained that pure-blooded demons disdained human forms, while Tiger Fool agreed that they despised half-demons.

The caravan was ambushed by Monk Rock and Azure Scale, who had secretly planned to abduct Leng Qiu for themselves. Leng Qiu revealed her overwhelming strength, killed Azure Scale, and trapped Monk Rock in a Water Prison.

• Hong Gu divided the rewards among the guards, and Shopkeeper Qian's steward brought them wine and extra payment for the Ironclad Rhinoceros materials.
• Monk Rock and Azure Scale set a Heaven-Locking Dragon-Trapping Formation along Black Wind Road, intending to kidnap Leng Qiu and flee rather than hand her over to Jin Yuanbai.
• When Shopkeeper Qian's caravan entered the canyon, Monk Rock activated the formation and demanded that they surrender Leng Qiu.
• Monk Rock and Azure Scale emerged from the mist and refused Shopkeeper Qian's offer of money, insisting they wanted Leng Qiu.
• Leng Qiu unleashed the peak of the true elixir realm's power, killed Azure Scale with a Water Dragon, and trapped the wounded Monk Rock in a Water Prison.

Leng Qiu killed the attackers sent by Jin Yuanbai, while Lu Zhen and the caravan continued toward Black Mountain Main City. News that the Primordial Ancient Star held life-extending immortal medicine stirred powerful cultivators, and Lei Wanche urged Lu Zhen to trade any discovery to the Great Luo Divine Dynasty for a chance to buy his Nine Provinces Small World.

• Leng Qiu forced Monk Rock to reveal that Jin Yuanbai had hired him to capture her, then killed him with her water prison.
• Jin Yuanbai feared Leng Qiu's power and contacted Young Master Ebony, planning a story to turn him against her.
• Lu Zhen reassured the caravan and learned that the Jin family had three or four peak true elixir realm cultivators; he and Leng Qiu decided to focus on reaching Black Mountain Main City.
• Sikong Ye announced in the Central Hub Channel that the Primordial Ancient Star held immortal medicine capable of extending the lives of fourth- and fifth-realm cultivators, prompting powerful figures to offer immense rewards.
• Lei Wanche and Pavilion Master Chu advised Lu Zhen to trade any Core Passage Node or life-extending immortal medicine to the Great Luo Divine Dynasty in exchange for a noble title and the chance to buy his Nine Provinces Small World.

Wu Mu learned that Leng Qiu was traveling with a caravan and decided to capture her for the Mysterious Spirit Hundred-Flower Veil. He recruited Daoist Nun Colorful Robes and secretly arranged additional support, then set out to ambush the caravan at Fallen Leaf Valley.

• Leng Qiu warned Lu Zhen that the Primordial Ancient Star was dangerous, and Lu Zhen agreed they needed to stay cautious.
• Wu Mu learned from Jin Yuanbai that Leng Qiu had killed two mid-stage True Elixir Realm cultivators and recognized her as a powerful target for his magical treasure.
• Wu Mu offered Daoist Nun Colorful Robes a Transformation Fruit and crimson flame refined gold to help capture Leng Qiu.
• Wu Mu arranged for Daoist Nun Colorful Robes' beasts and two late-stage True Elixir Realm city guard commanders to join the ambush.
• Wu Mu and Daoist Nun Colorful Robes set out for Fallen Leaf Valley to intercept Shopkeeper Qian's caravan.

Lu Zhen chose to make his inner landscape real, strengthened his physique, and broke through from the peak Rushing River Realm into the Nu River Realm. His breakthrough drew the attention of Mo Laosan and Hong Gu, who congratulated him.

• The monthly settlement expanded Lu Zhen’s inner landscape and awarded him experience from cultivation and kills.
• Lu Zhen chose the Inner Landscape World trait, which made the inner landscape real and turned his clone into a void anchor.
• Lu Zhen spent experience to raise his physique to level thirty-five and gained the All Rivers Embrace the Sea trait.
• Lu Zhen connected his thousand true cores with the Great Dao’s tribulation light and formed a surging star river, reaching the Nu River Realm.
• Mo Laosan and Hong Gu sensed Lu Zhen’s breakthrough and congratulated him.

After Lu Zhen celebrated his breakthrough and revealed to Leng Qiu that he had twenty tidal crests, Young Master Ebony and Daoist Nun Colorful Robes lured Shopkeeper Qian’s caravan into the Soundless Abyss with a beast tide. The caravan was trapped between their forces, and Lu Zhen noticed Young Master Ebony’s covetous stare fixed on Leng Qiu.

• Mo Laosan asked Lu Zhen how many tidal crests he had, and Leng Qiu privately told Lu Zhen about her own cultivation before learning that he had twenty crests in the early stage.
• Young Master Ebony used the Mysterious Spirit Hundred-Flower Veil to fuse the cold essence of a hundred women with his extreme flame true qi, while Daoist Nun Colorful Robes proposed driving the caravan into the Soundless Abyss.
• Daoist Nun Colorful Robes’s beasts attacked Shopkeeper Qian’s caravan, and Shopkeeper Qian led the group toward the apparent opening in their encirclement.
• The caravan reached the Soundless Abyss and found its retreat blocked by beasts, with Young Master Ebony and Daoist Nun Colorful Robes waiting above with their forces.
• Lu Zhen noticed Young Master Ebony staring greedily at Leng Qiu and felt intense discomfort.

During a Royal Court inspection, Ji Yue and the Jiuli Clan witnessed a caravan ambush in Black Mountain territory and watched Leng Qiu fight off Daoist Nun Colorful Robes’s demons. When Young Master Ebony’s ice-and-fire attack overwhelmed Leng Qiu, Lu Zhen stepped forward and unleashed Tribulation Light.

• Jiuli Feng showed Ji Yue the Heaven-Watching Formation Disk and boasted that the Jiuli Clan’s million-li territory was peaceful and secure.
• The formation revealed Wu Mu and Daoist Nun Colorful Robes ambushing a caravan, and Jiuli Feng recognized them as troublemakers from the Black Mountain Tribe.
• Leng Qiu used water dragons to repel Daoist Nun Colorful Robes’s peak third-tier demons, drawing Ji Yue’s interest in recruiting her to the Heaven-Patrolling Bureau.
• Young Master Ebony combined the Hundred-Flower Veil’s cold energy with his heat laws to create an iceflame spear that forced Leng Qiu into difficulty.
• Lu Zhen told Leng Qiu he would handle the danger, then raised his early Nu River Realm aura and used Tribulation Light against a charging great demon.

Lu Zhen revealed a Great Dao branch embryo and killed Young Master Ebony, Daoist Nun Colorful Robes, and the demons with one strike. After Ji Yue witnessed his power, she arrived with the Jiuli Clan and invited Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu to serve in the Royal Court, leaving them to consider her offer.

• Lu Zhen unleashed tribulation light that destroyed Young Master Ebony, Daoist Nun Colorful Robes, the Mysterious Spirit Hundred-Flower Veil, and the peak third-tier demons.
• Ji Yue and the Jiuli Clan elders watched Lu Zhen's attack through the Heaven-Watching Formation Disk, and Ji Yue set out to meet him in person.
• Lu Zhen's caravan left the Soundless Abyss, where Ji Yue arrived on a Sky-Rending Golden-Winged Roc and introduced herself as a Royal Court official.
• Ji Yue praised Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu, and Lu Zhen claimed that they were disciples of a secluded master called Recluse Yue.
• Ji Yue invited Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu to join her in the Heaven-Patrolling Bureau and serve the Royal Court together.

Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu joined Ji Yue’s faction in exchange for promises of rewards and access to her treasury, then traveled with her toward the Royal Court. Ji Yue explained the looming succession crisis and told Lu Zhen that his talent gave him influence equal to her powerful clan uncle.

• Lu Zhen negotiated with Ji Yue and agreed that he and Leng Qiu would serve her after she offered them treasures and advancement.
• Ji Yue ordered the execution of every male in the Jin Family and the enslavement of its women for provoking the incident.
• Ji Yue, Lu Zhen, and Leng Qiu departed on the Sky-Rending Golden-Winged Roc while the caravan continued toward Black Mountain Main City.
• During the flight, Ji Yue described the Heavenly Mang Royal Clan’s vast territory and the instability caused by its ancestor nearing the end of his lifespan.
• Ji Yue outlined the rival claimants to the throne and told Lu Zhen that his Dao branch embryo gave him influence equal to her clan uncle.

Lu Zhen learned that the fifth-realm elder was trapped at early Void Hollow and that the Primordial Ancient Star had not produced a sixth-realm cultivator in over a hundred million years. After Ji Yue returned with Lu Zhen and placed him in charge of the Heavenly Wind Residence, the First Prince resolved to recruit him for the Abyss-Suppressing Army.

• The old man explained that a flawed breakthrough had fixed him at early Void Hollow, and he confirmed that the sixth realm existed but remained beyond reach for generations.
• Lu Zhen assessed the Primordial Ancient Star’s strength and concluded that its greatest powers were likely at the peak of the fifth realm.
• Ji Yue returned to her residence with Lu Zhen, introduced him to her officers, and revealed that her husband was the prince consort.
• The First Prince learned that Lu Zhen had comprehended a great dao branch embryo and ordered his spy to discover what Lu Zhen wanted so he could offer him more than Ji Yue could.

The Seventh Imperial Princess plotted to have Lu Zhen killed, while Ji Yue rewarded him and Leng Qiu with treasures and installed them at the Heavenly Wind Residence. Lu Zhen discovered that its contribution-point system could help him obtain life-extending medicine, bringing him closer to buying the Nine Provinces Small World and rescuing Senior Hongwu and the others.

• The Seventh Imperial Princess ordered an old woman to investigate Lu Zhen and arrange his secret death while framing the First Prince and the Third Prince.
• Ji Yue took Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu to her private treasury, where Lu Zhen chose the Wind-Chasing Thunder Shadow Boots and Leng Qiu chose the Mystic Ice Water-Cloud Cloak.
• After the Royal Court summoned Ji Yue, Old Yan escorted Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu to the Heavenly Wind Residence, where its three deputy heads explained the residence's duties and contribution-point rewards.
• Lu Zhen studied the Royal Court treasury catalog and found life-extending treasures he could pursue to help buy the Nine Provinces Small World.
• Lu Zhen told Liu Bowen that he had leads on obtaining the noble title and spirit crystals needed to buy the Nine Provinces Small World, and urged everyone not to lose hope about rescuing Senior Hongwu and the others.

Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu planned to pool Heavenly Wind Residence's contribution points to acquire the Void Undying Fruit, though Lu Zhen secretly sought a faster way to obtain it. Ji Yue then tasked Lu Zhen with investigating Marquis Anyuan in exchange for Nine-Turn Star Marrow, and Lu Zhen accepted.

• The Grand Supreme Elder promised Lu Zhen compensation and help securing his Nine Provinces Small World if he brought the sect the Void Undying Fruit.
• Lu Zhen proposed pooling Heavenly Wind Residence's points with Leng Qiu, who agreed to follow his lead and suggested using spies to complete missions.
• Lu Zhen agreed outwardly to accumulating points over time, but privately decided to use his hidden treasures to find another solution before Blood Butcher Old Fiend harmed Senior Hongwu and Lord Yu.
• Lu Zhen delegated routine assignments to the Heavenly Wind Residence's deputy heads and spies, then focused on cultivating the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record and advancing his great dao embryos.
• Ji Yue ordered Lu Zhen to investigate Marquis Anyuan's smuggling case and promised him Nine-Turn Star Marrow if he brought the Cloudship Bureau commissioner down.
• Lu Zhen accepted Ji Yue's assignment, judging the reward worth the risk.

Blood Butcher Old Fiend learned that Lu Zhen had entered the Primordial Ancient Star and planned to investigate the secrets of the Nine Provinces Small World through disguised deathsworn. Meanwhile, Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu discussed investigating Marquis Anyuan, and Lu Zhen summoned his avatar and discovered that Guga had awakened in the Fourth Realm.

• Blood Butcher Old Fiend studied Hongwu's primordial true blood and decided to send disguised deathsworn into the Nine Provinces Small World to search for secrets and treasures.
• Lu Zhen found Leng Qiu behind the sealed doors of their cave dwelling, then discussed how to investigate Marquis Anyuan's smuggling operation with her.
• Lu Zhen assigned trusted informants to investigate Marquis Anyuan's smuggling routes.
• Lu Zhen summoned his avatar and the sleeping Guga into his inner realm, where Guga absorbed its astral origin and grew into a ten-thousand-zhang beast.
• Guga returned to her small form and told Lu Zhen that she could swallow weaker souls or freeze the souls of slightly stronger foes.

Lu Zhen sent his clone and Guga treasure hunting in the Greenwood Royal Clan’s territory, then used Star Origin Grass to greatly strengthen his Star River. Back at Heavenly Wind Residence, he learned that Chen San had found a likely smuggling site connected to Marquis Anyuan.

• Lu Zhen sent his clone and Guga out to search the Primordial Ancient Star for treasures.
• The clone and Guga reached the Lin Feng Clan’s territory and began following Guga’s sense for treasure.
• Lu Zhen retrieved four spirit medicines through the spatial passage and consumed Star Origin Grass, increasing his Star River from twenty to thirty-five wave crests.
• Lu Zhen continued cultivating and judged that his strengthened Star River might let him fight a mid-Fourth Realm cultivator head-on.
• Chen San reported that Cloudship Bureau vessels secretly unloaded cargo at Greenstone Manor, which he suspected was a smuggling site tied to Marquis Anyuan.

Lu Zhen led the Heavenly Wind Residence to raid Greenstone Manor, where Marquis Anyuan confronted them and Lu Zhen attacked despite the lack of ironclad evidence. As they clashed, Adept Cangqing and the First Prince watched from afar, each waiting for a chance to intervene.

• Lu Zhen ordered the Heavenly Wind Residence to raid Greenstone Manor that night, while the Seventh Imperial Princess sent an old woman to ask Adept Cangqing to intervene.
• The First Prince learned of the raid from his informant and planned to rescue Lu Zhen so he could recruit him.
• Lu Zhen surrounded Greenstone Manor and demanded that its occupants surrender their cultivation and storage artifacts for inspection.
• Marquis Anyuan appeared and warned that searching his property without a royal warrant would be rebellion, but Lu Zhen decided to defeat him and seize the evidence.
• Lu Zhen’s tribulation-light attack collided with Marquis Anyuan’s Molten Gold great Dao embryo, and Lu Zhen immediately launched another attack.
• Adept Cangqing and the First Prince watched the battle from afar, each waiting for Lu Zhen and Marquis Anyuan to weaken.

Lu Zhen fought Marquis Anyuan at Greenstone Manor until Ji Yue, the First Prince, and the Third Prince arrived with their forces. The Royal Court’s ancestor ordered Marquis Anyuan searched, and when he tried to flee, Ji Yue’s clan uncle captured him with a giant hand of spatial laws.

• Ji Yue rushed to Greenstone Manor with Fourth Realm retainers after hearing Lu Zhen was fighting Marquis Anyuan, while the Third Prince also mobilized his forces.
• Lu Zhen exchanged attacks with Marquis Anyuan and judged that his opponent’s Fourth Realm foundation was weak, but held back the War Canon of Martial Mu to avoid exposing it.
• Ji Yue, the First Prince, and the Third Prince arrived and argued over whether Lu Zhen had broken the law by attacking Marquis Anyuan’s manor.
• Ji Yue’s clan uncle appeared and ordered Marquis Anyuan to hand over his Spatial Storage Treasure, saying the ancestor had decided on the search.
• Marquis Anyuan attempted to flee, but Ji Yue’s clan uncle seized him with a giant hand formed from spatial laws.

Marquis Anyuan was punished for smuggling Heavenly Mang Divine Crystal, and Ji Yue gained control of the Cloudship Bureau with Lu Zhen appointed to oversee it. As Lu Zhen returned to cultivating, Liu Bowen warned him that unfamiliar Rushing River Realm cultivators were searching the Nine Provinces Small World.

• The gray-robed ancestor stripped Marquis Anyuan of his title and property and sentenced him to two thousand years of hard labor in the Nine Nether Cold Prison.
• The ancestor placed the Cloudship Bureau under Ji Yue's authority and ordered Lu Zhen to oversee its operations; Ji Yue rewarded him with Nine-Turn Star Marrow and tribute credit points.
• The Third Prince left angrily, while the First Prince praised Lu Zhen and invited him to visit; news of Lu Zhen's victory then spread through Heavenly Mang Royal City.
• Lu Zhen returned to cultivation at the Heavenly Wind Residence and studied Marquis Anyuan's Molten Gold dao embryo for insight into Blazing Sun.
• Liu Bowen told Lu Zhen that groups of unfamiliar Rushing River Realm cultivators had entered the Nine Provinces Small World and were searching its mountains, tombs, and ruins.
• Lu Zhen told Liu Bowen to keep their people out of sight and avoid fighting the newcomers, saying he would handle the matter.

Lu Zhen alerted the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect to the Netherblood Sect’s search of the Nine Provinces, prompting the Martial Punishment Hall to eliminate the intruders and seal the passage. The Blood Butcher Old Fiend considered buying the Nine Provinces with help from Old Fiend Minggu, while Lu Zhen gathered treasures and received a massive monthly settlement.

• Lu Zhen warned Xuanyang and Hall Master Lei Wanche that the Blood Butcher Old Fiend had sent Rushing River Realm cultivators to search the Nine Provinces.
• The Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s Martial Punishment Hall wiped out the foreign cultivators, guarded the Great Wilderness passage, and Lu Zhen told his family to keep a low profile.
• Lu Zhen’s clone and Guga found rare treasures in the Greenwood Royal Clan’s territory as he prepared for the Panel’s month-end settlement.
• The Blood Butcher Old Fiend considered purchasing the Nine Provinces but decided he needed Old Fiend Minggu’s noble title and resolved to seek his cooperation.
• Lu Zhen practiced combining light and fire laws, then received a lower-third-grade monthly settlement that granted substantial experience rewards.

Lu Zhen used newly enhanced treasures and enlightenment opportunities to form the Blazing Sun Great Dao branch embryo and fuse it with Tribulation Light. He emerged with two fused branch embryos and considered how to spend his general experience next.

• Lu Zhen’s monthly settlement enhanced five rare treasures and granted him 2.85 Xuan general experience from powerful enemies slain.
• Lu Zhen consumed Purplecloud Fire-Thunder Apricots and Heavenfire Divine Bone to cultivate the Blazing Sun branch embryo, but the Fire Roar Beast’s vicious soul interrupted his first attempt.
• Lu Zhen spent a second enlightenment opportunity and successfully formed the Blazing Sun Great Dao branch embryo.
• Lu Zhen used his final enlightenment opportunity to fuse Blazing Sun with Tribulation Light, overcoming their violent repulsion.
• Lu Zhen saw that his panel listed both Tribulation Light and Blazing Sun as nascent Great Dao branch embryos, then considered how to use his 17.609 Xuan general experience.