Recaps

Jiang Yuan refined the lingering damage from Song Xi’s strike, then learned from Ling Feng that Chu He had surrounded the old district to capture him and seize his inheritance and broken sword. After Jiang Yuan drove off Zhao Qingya, Chu He ordered a full-scale hunt, leaving Jiang Yuan prepared to fight back.

• Jiang Yuan used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to destroy the residual vibration force in his meridians and strengthen his body.
• Ling Feng warned Jiang Yuan that Chu He had deployed Celestial Pivot Industries’ operatives to capture him and take his ancient martial inheritance and broken sword.
• Jiang Yuan realized someone outside the window was spying on them, struck Zhao Qingya with Thunderclap Vibration, and identified her as a Celestial Pivot Industries agent.
• Zhao Qingya escaped to an abandoned warehouse and told Chu He that Jiang Yuan had discovered her and was stronger than before.
• Chu He ordered every group to surround the old district and bring back Jiang Yuan’s head and broken sword, dead or alive.

Jiang Yuan fought off an ambush by three women and defeated three of Chu He's men while trying to reach Third Machinery Factory. Before he could leave, Uncle Chen confronted him and asked whether he had fed the broken sword blood.

• Three disguised attackers ambushed Jiang Yuan at his home, but his Stone-Metal Body repelled their weapons and he broke one attacker's ankle.
• Jiang Yuan escaped across the rooftops and defeated three Body Tempering Peak men waiting in an alley behind Treasure Gathering Studio.
• Jiang Yuan forced the men to reveal that Chu He was waiting at the abandoned Third Machinery Factory and recorded a threat for him.
• Uncle Chen blocked Jiang Yuan at the alley entrance, stared at the wooden box, and asked whether he had already fed the sword blood.

Uncle Chen revealed the Thunderfire Sword’s connection to Jiang Yuan’s missing father and warned him about the powerful force tracking him. Jiang Yuan made a deal with the Shen Family to help repair their martial art in exchange for protection and admission to New Star Martial University, then accepted Shen Liuli’s suggestive invitation to discuss its energy circulation in the bath.

• Uncle Chen showed Jiang Yuan an old photograph of Jiang Xiaotian holding the complete Thunderfire Sword and explained that Jiang Yuan’s father had left to protect him from a powerful force, with New Star as his last known lead.
• Uncle Chen warned Jiang Yuan to conceal the sword’s true form and advised him to seek help from the Shen Family rather than confront Celestial Pivot Industries at the Third Machinery Factory.
• At the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, Uncle Zhou asked Jiang Yuan to use the principles behind his Spiral Hidden Force to help repair the Shen Family’s incomplete Azure Sea Force.
• Shen Liuli offered to suppress Celestial Pivot Industries, deal with Chu He, and arrange Jiang Yuan’s special admission to New Star Martial University in exchange for his help, and Jiang Yuan agreed.
• Shen Liuli postponed the work and invited Jiang Yuan to discuss energy circulation while she bathed, and he accepted.

Jiang Yuan rejected the military’s S-rank recruitment offer after learning it required him to marry and have children for a genetic optimization program. Bai Ye then questioned Jiang Yuan about his martial technique and ordered him investigated as a potential contact of the Ruins of Return.

• Shen Liuli tried to draw Jiang Yuan into the bathroom, but he checked her wrist from the doorway and left.
• The chief examiner offered Jiang Yuan an S-rank recruitment package in exchange for marrying women on a list and producing descendants for the Federation.
• Jiang Yuan asked what would happen if he refused, and the chief examiner left after an alarm summoned him to deal with trouble in the western district.
• Bai Ye compared Jiang Yuan’s technique against footage linked to the Ruins of Return and asked where Jiang Yuan had learned it.
• Jiang Yuan claimed he had found the technique in a booklet inside his family heirloom box, and Bai Ye ordered him added to a list of potential Ruins of Return contacts for surveillance during the entrance assessment.

At a school assembly, Jiang Yuan exposed the tampering of the gravity chamber’s permissions and Zhou Hu named Zhao Qingya as the one who ordered it. The school punished Zhao Qingya and expelled Zhou Hu, then Jiang Yuan received a hidden mission to kill a rapist hiding on campus.

• Zhao Qingya tried to defend Zhou Hu and sway the audience into doubting Jiang Yuan.
• Jiang Yuan presented a recovered black card, and technician Zhang confirmed it came from Celestial Pivot Industries’ permissions database.
• Jiang Yuan privately told Zhou Hu that he had arranged companions for Zhou Hu’s grandmother, and Zhou Hu broke down and accused Zhao Qingya of giving him the card and instructing him to sabotage the gravity chamber.
• The principal gave Zhao Qingya a major demerit and suspended her from her school duties pending investigation.
• The principal expelled Zhou Hu for deliberately trying to harm a fellow student.
• After the assembly, Jiang Yuan received a hidden mission to kill a rapist on campus who was a martial arts expert skilled in internal arts.

After the principal rewarded Jiang Yuan with access to an A-Class cultivation chamber, Jiang Yuan used Wind God Wolf blood essence to push his Baxia · Stone-Metal Body to major completion and raise his combat power. Unable to break through to Meridian Opening Realm on Old Star, he looked toward New Star as the next stage of his path.

• The principal thanked Jiang Yuan for exposing the students who threatened the school's reputation and gave him an A-Class cultivation chamber access card, introducing his assistant Lin Xi.
• Jiang Yuan drank canine-antelope milk and three vials of Wind God Wolf blood essence, letting its violent energy tear through his body as Nine Yang Inner Force and Baxia · Stone-Metal Body repaired and strengthened him.
• Jiang Yuan reached major completion in Baxia · Stone-Metal Body and surged toward Meridian Opening Realm, but stopped when the chamber's spiritual energy ran thin and he sensed Old Star could not support his breakthrough.
• Jiang Yuan fed a drop of blood essence to his broken sword, then used Thunderclap Vibration to collapse an alloy pillar into silver powder with a light flick.
• Jiang Yuan corrected Guo Hongtao's punching technique, promised to guide Guo Yuting on New Star, and resolved that his martial path would continue beyond Old Star.

Jiang Yuan rescued Song Xi from Celestial Pivot Industries’ enforcers and used his S-rank authority to settle her debt and stop their harassment. After Song Xi recovered through their union, she warned him that Chu He was preparing an ambush, leaving Jiang Yuan aware that a major fight lay ahead.

• Jiang Yuan found six Celestial Pivot Industries enforcers threatening Song Xi and broke Scarface’s wrist when he tried to inject her.
• Jiang Yuan’s Great Completion Realm Baxia · Stone-Metal Body repelled the other five attackers, crippling all six men.
• Jiang Yuan called the New Star Investigation Group, paid Song Xi’s principal debt, voided the extra clauses, and warned Celestial Pivot Industries to leave her alone.
• Song Xi kissed Jiang Yuan and asked him to use his Nine-Yang qi to treat the cold qi and old injury in her body; they spent the night together.
• Song Xi gave Jiang Yuan copied company data revealing three secret strongholds and Chu He’s plan to capture him at Maintenance Gate Three with three combat squads, including two cybernetically augmented Meridian Opening Realm experts.
• Song Xi said their grudges were settled and pledged herself to Jiang Yuan, while he recognized that the real battle was beginning.

Jiang Yuan entered Ling Feng’s ancient martial arts trial chamber and passed all three trials, using brute strength, his Shattering Bone Hand, and the newly perfected Wave-Treading Step. Ling Feng gave him a lineage token pointing to the Ancient Martial Arts Association on New Star, and Jiang Yuan left prepared to confront Chu He’s ambush together.

• Jiang Yuan met Ling Feng, who offered him another way to defeat Chu He’s ambush in exchange for a favor involving the Ancient Martial Arts Association.
• Ling Feng led Jiang Yuan to an underground trial chamber, where Jiang Yuan crossed the Heavy Water Formation by walking straight through the pool and destroying the plum-blossom stakes.
• Jiang Yuan destroyed the core nodes in all three Darksteel Puppets with the Spiral Hidden Force of his Shattering Bone Hand.
• Jiang Yuan used the system to complete the Wave-Treading Step and crossed the laser-filled passage without being hit.
• Ling Feng gave Jiang Yuan an antique bronze broken-sword token and directed him to the Ancient Martial Arts Association on New Star to learn about the Martial Emperor and the complete inheritance.
• Jiang Yuan left with Song Xi’s storage device containing Chu He’s ambush plan and resolved to take out all his enemies together.

Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao were ambushed on their way to the spaceport, but Jiang Yuan defeated Chu He's forces and killed a psychic attacker. They boarded the Voyager for New Star as Chu He escaped.

• Guo Hongtao and Jiang Yuan rode the maglev train toward the spaceport, where Chu He trapped them between sealed gates and ordered his squads and two cyborgs to attack.
• Li Qingshan, Uncle Zhou, and Ling Feng arrived and engaged the cyborgs while Jiang Yuan dodged gunfire and crippled all three armed squads.
• A woman in a red cheongsam attacked Jiang Yuan with mental force and blade-like nails, but he killed her with Thunderclap Vibration from his broken sword.
• Chu He fled in a small spacecraft, and Jiang Yuan declined to pursue him.
• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao boarded the Voyager and departed Old Star for New Star.

After the Voyager was caught in violent spatial turbulence, Jiang Yuan protected Guo Hongtao as the captain detached their damaged section of the ship. As they were swept into a spatial rift, the Thunderfire Broken Sword formed a barrier around them and carried them into the unknown.

• The Voyager encountered spatial turbulence that tore open its hull and killed passengers near the breach.
• Jiang Yuan shielded Guo Hongtao from the spatial blades with his Great Completion Metal-Stone Body.
• The captain ordered the damaged section of the ship detached, sending Jiang Yuan, Guo Hongtao, and the survivors into the spatial rift.
• As the turbulence overwhelmed Jiang Yuan's defenses, the Thunderfire Broken Sword activated its stored energy and formed a protective sword-aura barrier.
• The sword carried Jiang Yuan, the unconscious Guo Hongtao, and the shipwreckage deeper into the rift.

Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao survived the crash into a strange realm where opposing spiritual energies filled the air, and Jiang Yuan used them to break through into the Meridian Opening Realm. After exposing a staged attack by Harmonious Union Sect disciples, he accepted their guarded offer to accompany them to an outpost.

• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao crashed into a primeval forest beneath two suns and discovered that the realm’s red and blue-green spiritual energies were dangerous to cultivate.
• Guo Hongtao nearly damaged his meridians by absorbing the opposing energies, but Jiang Yuan used his Nine Yang Inner Force to save him.
• A group of Harmonious Union Sect disciples surrounded Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao, and a two-colored lizard appeared to attack one of the women.
• Jiang Yuan recognized that the white-robed woman and the lizard were staging the fight, then absorbed her yin true qi and the red sun’s yang energy to open his first primary meridian.
• The white-robed woman bowed to Jiang Yuan and invited him and Guo Hongtao to the sect’s outer outpost, and Jiang Yuan agreed to go.

Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao were brought to the Harmonious Union Sect’s outer stronghold, where Steward He declared Jiang Yuan a perfect Yang Furnace and demanded he serve the sect’s female disciples. Jiang Yuan refused and asked to meet the sect’s leaders, but Steward He ordered him seized and Guo Hongtao imprisoned.

• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao crossed the forest with two women in white and arrived at the Harmonious Union Sect’s outer stronghold.
• Steward He examined Jiang Yuan and praised his deep foundation, utmost-yang technique, and mastered body-tempering technique as ideal for a Yang Furnace.
• Steward He declared Jiang Yuan an outer sect disciple and ordered him to become a dual-cultivation partner for all three hundred and sixty female disciples.
• Guo Hongtao cursed Steward He and stood up for Jiang Yuan, while Jiang Yuan asked to meet someone with authority over the sect.
• Steward He demanded Jiang Yuan imprint the Furnace Vessel Token and serve the female disciples, but Jiang Yuan refused.
• Steward He ordered the mountain gate sealed, Guo Hongtao taken to the Reflection Room, and Jiang Yuan stripped and sent to the Dual-Cultivation Hall.

Jiang Yuan uncovered the Harmonious Union Sect’s plan to drug him and use him as a Pure Yang cauldron, but the inner sect elder still took his Yang Essence. After secretly recovering, he told Guo Hongtao they would pretend to comply while preparing their escape.

• Jiang Yuan burned the four female guards with his Nine Yang Inner Force, and Steward He arranged a courtyard and invited him to a welcoming feast.
• Jiang Yuan overheard Steward He and an elder plotting to use a formation and Hundred Flower Tendon-Softening Powder to exploit him.
• Jiang Yuan dumped the dinner but realized the pastries he had eaten earlier were drugged, while the formation’s pink mist overwhelmed Guo Hongtao and intensified the medicine’s effects.
• The gray-veiled elder entered and took Jiang Yuan’s Yang Essence; the next morning, she told Steward He his essence could help her break through.
• Jiang Yuan woke clear-headed, helped Guo Hongtao dispel the remaining medicine, and told him they would play along for now before making their move.

Jiang Yuan pretended to be weakened until Su Yan arrived and offered to help him escape and find his crashed spaceship in exchange for killing Elder Gu. As the gray-veiled elder and dozens of Evil Union Sect disciples surrounded them, Jiang Yuan stepped forward with a playful challenge.

• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao acted weak and bewitched, convincing Steward He to order another attack with the Bewitching Yin-Yang Formation.
• Su Yan cut apart the pink mist with her sword and confronted Steward He with the Pure Cultivation Academy's Patrol Token.
• Su Yan offered to help Jiang Yuan escape and find his spaceship wreckage if he helped kill Elder Gu, and Jiang Yuan accepted.
• Elder Gu arrived and threatened to take Su Yan and Jiang Yuan as cultivation vessels or turn them into living corpses, while Evil Union Sect disciples surrounded the courtyard.
• Jiang Yuan stepped in front of Su Yan and taunted Elder Gu and the assembled cultivators.

Jiang Yuan fought off the Evil Union Sect by breaking their formation and humiliating their disciples, then escaped with Su Yan and Guo Hongtao. The three fled into the forest as the sect pursued them.

• Jiang Yuan revealed his Baxia · Stone-Metal Body and used Whirlwind Slash to repel the Evil Union Sect disciples attacking him.
• Jiang Yuan used Thunderclap Vibration to shatter the Bewitching Yin-Yang Formation and evade Elder Gray Veil's strike.
• Jiang Yuan cut apart the disciples' clothing while mocking them, and Su Yan blocked Elder Gray Veil from pursuing him.
• Jiang Yuan, Su Yan, and Guo Hongtao fled into the forest as Steward He led the remaining disciples after them.
• Su Yan asked Jiang Yuan what swordsmanship he had used, and he called it Gentleman Swordsmanship.

Jiang Yuan, Su Yan, and Guo Hongtao fled into the spirit mine as Celestial Pivot Industries assassins attacked and suppressed their martial arts with specialized equipment. Cornered in a dead-end tunnel, Jiang Yuan sensed an ancient presence in a fissure and prepared to lure it toward their pursuers.

• Jiang Yuan and Su Yan led Guo Hongtao toward the spirit mine, where Celestial Pivot Industries' assassins arrived and attacked the guards.
• The assassins defeated the mine entrance guards and cast a Meridian-Sealing Light Net over Jiang Yuan and his companions.
• Su Yan recognized the net and pulled Guo Hongtao into the mine, but the assassins followed and used their short staffs to suppress the trio's inner force.
• Jiang Yuan, Su Yan, and Guo Hongtao retreated through the mine's tunnels but were driven into a dead end by the pursuing squad.
• Jiang Yuan sensed a violent, ancient aura coming from a fissure and said they would give the hunters something big to face.

Jiang Yuan led Su Yan and Guo Hongtao through a collapsing mine tunnel, where they discovered a vast Yin-Yang Spirit Crystal ore vein and learned of the Evil Union Lineage’s bargain with Celestial Pivot Industries. After Su Yan cut off Steward He’s connection to the vein and Jiang Yuan wounded her, she escaped, while the system confirmed Jiang Yuan had obtained a high-concentration yin-yang energy core.

• Jiang Yuan attacked the mine wall, then sent Guo Hongtao and Su Yan into a fissure as the Celestial Pivot Squad and Steward He’s disciples fought around him.
• The tunnel collapsed, dropping Jiang Yuan, Su Yan, Guo Hongtao, Steward He, and the others into a cavern filled with Yin-Yang Spirit Crystals.
• Steward He revealed that the Celestial Pivot Army had traded the lives of Harmonious Union Sect disciples for mining rights, then absorbed energy from the ore vein to break through a bottleneck.
• Su Yan severed Steward He’s connection to the vein, allowing Jiang Yuan to break her defenses and strike her; Steward He fled into the crystal pile after warning that Elder Gu and Young Master Chu He would come.
• Guo Hongtao gathered three top-quality Yin-Yang Spirit Crystals, and Jiang Yuan received a system notification that the prerequisite for a high-concentration yin-yang energy core had been met.

Elder Gu trapped Jiang Yuan, Su Yan, and Guo Hongtao in the Harmonious Union Blood-Devouring Formation, but Jiang Yuan’s Thunderfire Broken Sword shattered the formation and wounded her. As the formation collapsed, the Yin-Yang Spirit Crystals split and a terrifying roar came from deep within the vein.

• The cave entrance sealed, and the Blood-Devouring Formation filled the cave with pink mist that overwhelmed Guo Hongtao and affected Su Yan.
• Elder Gu revealed herself and used the formation and her own power to pressure Jiang Yuan, whose golden barrier began to crack.
• Jiang Yuan’s Thunderfire Broken Sword unleashed golden sword qi that evaporated the mist, broke the blood threads, and wounded Elder Gu.
• Su Yan struck the exposed formation core and destroyed the formation while Elder Gu fled using the Blood Escape Technique.
• The energy storm split the Yin-Yang Spirit Crystals, and a terrifying roar sounded from deep within the mineral vein.

After escaping the collapsed mine, Jiang Yuan allied with the Pure Cultivation Academy to destroy the Evil Union Sect’s strongholds and ties to Celestial Pivot Industries. The sect master examined his meridians in a spirit spring, but news that Elder Gu and Steward He had besieged the mountain forced Jiang Yuan and Su Yan toward the confrontation.

• Su Yan led Guo Hongtao and Jiang Yuan through a hidden passage as an unknown beast roared behind them, and Guo Hongtao grabbed three Yin-Yang Spirit Crystals.
• The sect master recognized Jiang Yuan’s ancient martial arts token and offered Academy support for thirty days in exchange for his destroying the Evil Union Sect’s strongholds and severing its ties to Celestial Pivot Industries.
• Jiang Yuan sealed an alliance with the sect master’s azure token using his blood, causing it to shine with spiritual energy.
• The sect master examined Jiang Yuan’s meridians in a forbidden spirit spring and found his body highly compatible with the Pure Cultivation technique.
• Su Yan told the sect master and Jiang Yuan that Elder Gu was challenging the Academy while Steward He and over a hundred evil cultivators surrounded the main peak.
• Elder Gu’s taunts reached the stone chamber, and Su Yan followed Jiang Yuan toward the mountain gate.

Jiang Yuan and Su Yan infiltrated an Evil Union Sect stronghold, freed the captives, and discovered that Chu He was selecting furnace vessels for the Yin-Yang Convergence Pool. They learned that Chu He planned to help the Evil Union Sect annex the Pure Cultivation Academy’s main branch, while a larger transaction continued on the stronghold’s main peak.

• Jiang Yuan distracted a guard while Su Yan entered the cages and began freeing the captives from their Meridian-Locking Rings.
• Su Yan recognized Yue Jian, a missing disciple of the Pure Cultivation Academy, and comforted her before handing her to the rescuers.
• The captives told Jiang Yuan that Chu He had visited the stronghold and chosen people to serve as furnace vessels for a place called a pool.
• Jiang Yuan connected the captives’ account to a secret letter about the Yin-Yang Convergence Pool and its need for a pure Yang catalyst.
• Jiang Yuan knocked over pill bottles, drawing the guards’ attention, and Su Yan pulled him into hiding.
• Su Yan told Jiang Yuan that Chu He had agreed to help the Evil Union Sect annex the Pure Cultivation Academy’s main branch.

Jiang Yuan and Su Yan defeated the formation guarding the stronghold and freed its captives, who revealed that Chu He was heading to the Yin-Yang Convergence Pool before dawn. Jiang Yuan set off for the pool with Su Yan and a group of rescued cultivators, following the sword’s pull toward the northeast.

• Four female cultivators used a dual cultivation array to attack Jiang Yuan, but he endured their assault and severed the array’s qi connection with the Thunderfire Broken Sword.
• Su Yan sealed off the fleeing evil cultivators, and she and Jiang Yuan stormed the prison and freed more than thirty captives.
• A rescued young man gave Jiang Yuan half a Transit Order and reported that Chu He planned to inspect a new batch of furnaces at the Yin-Yang Convergence Pool before dawn.
• The Thunderfire Broken Sword pointed toward the pool, and Jiang Yuan decided to go there immediately rather than wait for reinforcements.
• Su Yan and more than a dozen battle-ready captives joined Jiang Yuan as they headed toward the northeast mountains.

Jiang Yuan and his companions were ambushed by Chu He and the Evil Union Sect, but a betrayal that disrupted Jiang Yuan’s inner force triggered the hidden Yin-Yang Cycle Chapter of his Nine Yang Divine Skill. After reaching the Qi Condensation Realm, Jiang Yuan defeated Chu He and Elder Gu and began his reckoning with the remaining enemies.

• Chu He cornered Jiang Yuan’s group with Celestial Pivot Industries soldiers and Evil Union Sect disciples, then absorbed Elder Gu’s power to reach the Early Qi Condensation Stage.
• Jiang Yuan fought Chu He and Elder Gu, noticed a weakness in their linked power, and ordered Su Yan and Guo Hongtao to lead the rescued captives away.
• A seemingly rescued young man attacked Jiang Yuan from behind, revealing that he and the other captives were Evil Union Sect plants who disrupted Jiang Yuan’s inner force.
• Jiang Yuan guided the attackers’ yin energy into his dantian, activated the Yin-Yang Cycle Chapter, and broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm.
• Jiang Yuan used his sword to sever Chu He and Elder Gu’s energy link, sending them flying and leaving them severely wounded.
• Jiang Yuan killed the young traitor and faced the remaining enemies as they retreated in fear.

Jiang Yuan used his newly awakened yin-yang power to defeat Chu He's forces and help Su Yan and Guo Hongtao escape. At West Ridge Estate, Su Yan taught him the Purifying Heart Formula, stabilizing his Qi Condensation Realm cultivation and revealing the power of his palm technique.

• Jiang Yuan broke the Meridian-Sealing Short Staffs with a sword strike and held off Chu He's pursuers while Su Yan led Guo Hongtao and the survivors through the western forest path.
• Jiang Yuan escaped after taunting Chu He, leaving him furious and unable to pursue the group.
• At West Ridge Estate, Jiang Yuan collapsed from the strain of fusing yin and yang qi, and Su Yan taught him the Pure Cultivation Academy's Purifying Heart Formula.
• Jiang Yuan used the formula and two Yin-Yang Spirit Crystals to calm his qi, recover from his injuries, and stabilize his Qi Condensation Realm cultivation.
• Jiang Yuan tested his palm technique on a decorative rock, and Su Yan and Guo Hongtao saw that its force had silently split a pear tree behind it.

Jiang Yuan’s Thunderfire Broken Sword awakened and tore through Celestial Pivot Industries’ Meridian-Sealing Light Net just as Chu He threatened to sacrifice seventeen Pure Cultivation Academy disciples unless Jiang Yuan came to the Yin-Yang Convergence Pool. Jiang Yuan organized a three-pronged assault on the Evil Union Sect and set out with Guo Hongtao to infiltrate its main peak as bait.

• The Thunderfire Broken Sword shed its rust, awakened, and tore apart the Meridian-Sealing Light Net, forming a deep connection with Jiang Yuan.
• A Pure Cultivation Academy disciple reported that Chu He had captured seventeen sisters and threatened to sacrifice them at the Yin-Yang Convergence Pool unless Jiang Yuan arrived within half an hour.
• Jiang Yuan told Su Yan to gather the fighters and proposed a three-front attack: a southern feint, a mission to destroy the mountain formation’s energy nodes, and an eastern-gate infiltration with Guo Hongtao.
• The sect master gave Jiang Yuan a Yin-Yang Heartguard Pill that could protect him from Chu He’s joint cultivation technique for half an hour, and the system updated Jiang Yuan’s quest to eradicate the Evil Union Sect and Celestial Pivot Industries’ forces.
• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao headed for the eastern stone gate disguised as members of Chu He’s transport team while Su Yan and the other groups prepared to move.

Jiang Yuan entered Bliss Hall to face Chu He and Elder Gu as battles erupted across the secret realm. Su Yan and Guo Hongtao helped turn the fighting in favor of the Pure Cultivation Academy, while Chu He activated a formation against Jiang Yuan.

• Su Yan led the Pure Cultivation Academy disciples against the Evil Union Sect and showed them how to break the enemy’s dual-cultivation links.
• The rescued interstellar students encountered Celestial Pivot Industries assassins in the mine tunnels, and Guo Hongtao arrived to help them fight back.
• Guo Hongtao used spirit crystals and pills to disrupt the assassins and led the students in defeating them.
• Jiang Yuan entered Bliss Hall and confronted Chu He and the recovered Elder Gu.
• Chu He called on Elder Gu, who struck his back and activated the Bliss Soul-Devouring Formation.