Recaps

Luo Li returned to the Luo God Clan with Zhao Chen and Little Nine Netherbird, intending to stabilize the clan and eventually undergo the Luo God Ritual. When Luo Tianshen appeared to greet her, he discovered that she had already reached the Earthly Sovereign Realm.

• Zhao Chen, Luo Li, and Little Nine Netherbird arrived at Luo God City after more than twenty days of travel.
• Luo Li explained that the Luo God Clan was threatened by conflict between its declining main branch and rising collateral branches, and planned to secure the clan's authority.
• Luo Li described the Luo River's connection to the fallen Luo God and said she would need to take control of the clan before undergoing the Luo God Ritual.
• Luo Tianshen appeared and questioned why Luo Li had returned, since he had expected her to cultivate at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Luo Tianshen examined Luo Li and realized that her spiritual energy had reached the Earthly Sovereign Realm.

Luo Li returned to the Luo God Clan with Zhao Chen, Jiuyou, and Mandala, reassuring Luo Tianshen that she was ready to stand on her own. Jiuyou used Undying Fire to weaken Luo Tianshen’s Blood Demon Poison, and Zhao Chen gave him a pill to eliminate it completely.

• Luo Li confidently told Luo Tianshen that she could travel freely through the Great Thousand World, then introduced Zhao Chen, Jiuyou, and Mandala as her friends.
• Luo Tianshen recognized the group’s strength and powerful backgrounds, welcomed them, and saw their presence as a great support for the Luo God Clan.
• Zhao Chen noticed that Luo Tianshen’s apparent recovery was only a final burst of vitality and asked about the Blood Demon Poison afflicting him.
• Jiuyou offered to use her Undying Fire to expel part of the poison, and Luo Tianshen agreed to let her try.
• Jiuyou sent strands of purple flame into Luo Tianshen, drawing black smoke and blood from his body and easing his condition.
• Zhao Chen handed Luo Tianshen a pill that could eradicate the remaining poison and said Luo Li would be at ease if he recovered.

Luo Tianshen recovered from the Blood Demon Poison and agreed to place Luo Li on the throne as empress. After Mandala and Jiuyou warned that a public ceremony could draw the dangerous attention of the West Heaven War Hall and its lecherous ruler, Luo Li chose a private enthronement to keep the Luo God Clan’s enemies uncertain.

• Zhao Chen gave Luo Tianshen a pill that purged the Blood Demon Poison and healed his hidden injuries.
• Luo Tianshen regained his strength and agreed that Luo Li should ascend the throne, easing the pressure on the clan and allowing her greater freedom.
• Mandala warned Luo Li that revealing her Lower Earthly Sovereign Realm cultivation could provoke the West Heaven War Hall and endanger the Luo God Clan.
• Jiuyou cautioned Luo Li about the Western Heaven War Emperor, whose reputation for taking women made a public ceremony especially risky.
• Luo Li agreed with Mandala and Jiuyou and asked Luo Tianshen to enthrone her privately, using his authority to keep their enemies guessing.

Luo Tianshen hosted a banquet for Luo Li and her companions, where the elders of the three collateral branches challenged the royal direct line and threatened to withdraw from the fight against the Blood God Clan. Luo Li vowed to reform the entire clan and forced the elders to acknowledge her authority with her Earthly Sovereign pressure.

• Luo Tianshen agreed to keep the allies’ involvement secret and invited them to a lavish banquet at Luo God Palace.
• The elders of the three major collateral branches criticized the royal direct line and pressed Luo Tianshen over the clan’s leadership and future.
• Jiuyou mocked the elders, who then accused the royal direct line of mistreating their descendants and threatened to refuse orders against the Blood God Clan.
• Luo Tianshen demanded to know whether the elders intended to betray the Luo God Clan, and they denied it.
• Luo Li promised to address misconduct in both the royal direct line and the collateral branches, warning that the clan needed a thorough change.
• Luo Li released her Earthly Sovereign pressure, forced the three elders to bend, and asked whether she now had the right to speak.

Luo Li subdued three elders who had considered splitting the Luo God Clan, while Luo Tianshen revealed that he planned to advance her enthronement and arrange the Luo God Ritual on a small scale. The elders submitted and agreed to support Luo Li as Empress, and the chapter ended with Zhao Chen claiming he was merely an ordinary Upper Earthly Sovereign.

• Luo Li used her bloodline pressure to overpower the three elders and warned that traitors who tried to divide the clan would be killed.
• The elders begged for forgiveness after Luo Li revealed that she had reached the Lower Earthly Sovereign Realm and that Luo Tianshen's Blood Demon Poison had been cured.
• Luo Tianshen announced that Luo Li would become Empress ahead of schedule, and the three elders agreed to support her.
• Luo Tianshen said the enthronement ceremony would be delayed and the Luo God Ritual held discreetly, with the Luo River Formation used if necessary.
• Luo Tianshen invited the elders to join the banquet, and Zhao Chen described himself as an ordinary Upper Earthly Sovereign, leaving them speechless.

Zhao Chen revealed himself as an Upper Earthly Sovereign and won the Luo God Clan elders' allegiance before Luo Li began the Luo God Ritual. As Luo Li’s transformation proceeded, Zhao Chen promised Jiuyou a path to advance and offered her a choice between the Ancient Thunder Palace and Ancient Heavenly Palace.

• Zhao Chen introduced himself as the Thunder Emperor, gave the three elders healing pills, and secured their pledge to support Luo Li.
• Luo Tianshen warned that the Luo God Ritual must proceed without trouble within the Luo God Clan.
• At dawn, Luo Li began the Luo God Ritual by dropping her blood into the Luo River, which formed a massive blood-red Luo God Flower around her.
• The Luo God’s image appeared above the flower, and Mandala said Luo Li would reach the Upper Earthly Sovereign Realm after the ritual.
• Jiuyou worried that she was lagging behind, so Zhao Chen offered her a choice between the Ancient Thunder Palace and Ancient Heavenly Palace; she chose Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Mandala and Jiuyou discussed using the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s emergence to take revenge on Saint Demon Emperor Lu Yuan and expand Thunder Palace’s influence, while weighing the powerful forces drawn to the palace. The Luo God Ritual ended with Luo Li receiving the complete Luo God Inheritance and reaching the Upper Earthly Sovereign Realm.

• Jiuyou persuaded Mandala to pursue the Ancient Heavenly Palace and use the opportunity to deal with Saint Demon Emperor Lu Yuan.
• Mandala warned Jiuyou that the central region’s Heavenly Sovereign-backed forces could threaten them, but said Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns arriving for the palace might restrain those forces.
• Mandala explained the power of the Ancient Heavenly Emperor’s One Qi Transformation into Three Pure Ones, and Zhao Chen reflected on its possible connection to the Immortal Emperor.
• Luo Tianshen announced that the Luo God Ritual was ending and watched the Luo God Flower reveal a divine phantom resembling Luo Li.
• Luo Li withdrew her Luo God Dharma Body after receiving the complete Luo God Inheritance, entering the Upper Earthly Sovereign Realm.

At the Luo God Ritual, the Blood God Clan and Winter Old Man arrived to attack the Luo God Clan, but Zhao Chen revealed that he had orchestrated the encounter. The chapter left Zhao Chen facing Blood Spirit Son’s poisoned attack as he declared he had a sword that could open heaven’s gate.

• Winter Old Man appeared during the Luo God Ritual, and Luo Tianshen recognized the peak Earthly Sovereign as a threat.
• Blood Spirit Son arrived with five Blood God Clan elders and revealed that the Luo God Clan’s three great elders had tipped them off.
• The three great elders said they had acted on Zhao Chen’s instructions, and Zhao Chen admitted he had arranged the confrontation for fun.
• Luo Tianshen tried to activate the Luo River Formation, but Winter Old Man froze the gathering until Zhao Chen dispelled the snow with a snap of his fingers.
• Blood Spirit Son attacked Zhao Chen with the Sky-Piercing Blood Finger, and Luo Tianshen warned him about its Blood Demon Poison.
• Zhao Chen declared, “I have one sword that can open heaven’s gate!”

Zhao Chen killed Blood Spirit Son and the Blood God Clan’s five elders, then used his connection to Thunder God Palace to deter Winter Old Man and protect the Luo God Clan. The chapter ended with Luo Tianshen recognizing Zhao Chen’s extraordinary power and feeling more confident about the clan’s future.

• Zhao Chen killed Blood Spirit Son with a golden sword strike and slew the five Blood God Clan elders who tried to flee.
• Winter Old Man surrendered the Blood God Clan’s payment to Zhao Chen and declined his offer of hospitality.
• Zhao Chen mentioned Tianluo Continent and invoked the Netherworld Heart Demon Lightning, leading Winter Old Man to suspect he was a Thunder God Palace prodigy and leave without reporting what happened.
• Zhao Chen reasoned that his apparent ties to Thunder God Palace would discourage the West Heaven War Hall from acting against the Luo God Clan for the time being.
• Luo Tianshen asked whether Zhao Chen was truly an Upper Earthly Sovereign Realm expert and realized that Zhao Chen’s strength far exceeded his own expectations.

After Zhao Chen helped the Luo God Clan eliminate Blood Spirit Son and the Blood God Clan’s Earthly Sovereign leaders, he warned Luo Tianshen that the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan could become an even greater threat. Luo Li prepared to leave for Tianluo Continent while Luo Tianshen took charge of strengthening the clan and confronting its remaining enemies.

• Luo Tianshen celebrated the Blood God Clan’s defeat, and Zhao Chen warned him that the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan might grow stronger by seizing its resources.
• Luo Li clarified that Zhao Chen’s Thunder Palace had borrowed the Thunder God Palace’s name, and Luo Tianshen cautioned that the superpower might eventually intervene.
• Luo Tianshen addressed the Luo God Clan members, who had witnessed the deaths of Blood Spirit Son and the other six Earthly Sovereigns.
• Luo Li said she would return to Tianluo Continent because staying in the clan would not advance her cultivation quickly, and she entrusted the clan’s remaining affairs to Luo Tianshen.
• Luo Li teased Luo Tianshen about seeking Zhao Chen’s help if he fell into another trap, and Luo Tianshen reacted with dismay.

Zhao Chen and his companions arrived in Commerce City to rest and shop, where they encountered a white-clad young girl being accused of eating a spirit fruit without paying. Zhao Chen stepped in to cover the cost, recognizing her as the Martial Ancestor.

• Zhao Chen, Luo Li, Jiuyou, and Mandala reached Commerce City and entered despite Mandala’s warning to avoid provoking its powerful forces.
• Luo Li and Jiuyou put on veils as the group headed toward the city’s central auction house.
• Jiuyou spotted a white-clad young girl arguing with a shop owner, who demanded payment for a Hundred-Year Spirit Fruit she had eaten.
• The young girl disputed the fruit’s age, admitted she had no Sovereign Spirit Liquid, and offered to write an IOU without naming her family.
• Zhao Chen offered to pay for the spirit fruit and recognized the young girl as the Martial Ancestor.

Zhao Chen paid for Lin Jing’s fake Hundred-Year Spirit Fruit and revealed that she was the Martial Ancestor’s daughter from Martial Realm. The others discussed her powerful family and the limits of the Great Thousand World’s protection, while Lin Jing continued exploring the marketplace unaware they had identified her.

• Zhao Chen paid the fat shopkeeper for Lin Jing’s fake Hundred-Year Spirit Fruit, and Lin Jing offered him an IOU before introducing herself.
• Zhao Chen told Jiuyou, Luo Li, and Mandala that Lin Jing’s family had a Heavenly Sovereign, then identified her as the Martial Ancestor’s daughter from Martial Realm.
• Mandala and Luo Li recalled how the Great Thousand World could not protect every Lower Plane from the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, including the homeland of White Dragon Supreme.
• Mandala praised Zhao Chen for building goodwill with Lin Jing, while Jiuyou wondered whether a Martial Realm guardian had been protecting her.
• Lin Jing wandered through the marketplace without realizing the others had uncovered her identity, confident that her father or uncles could help her.

Zhao Chen invited Lin Jing to join his force on Tianluo Continent, offering to advance rewards for her contributions. Lin Jing accepted and explained that she was gathering materials for the Heavenly Jade Dharma Body before traveling with Zhao Chen and his companions after the auction.

• Lin Jing asked Zhao Chen where he came from and whether she could accompany him, and he said his group was starting a business on Tianluo Continent.
• Zhao Chen told Lin Jing he intended to unify Tianluo Continent, and she asked to join his group after the auction.
• Zhao Chen offered to advance rewards for Lin Jing’s contributions, and she eagerly accepted because she needed materials from the auction.
• Jiuyou asked Lin Jing about her Sovereign Dharma Body, and Lin Jing said she planned to cultivate the Heavenly Jade Dharma Body using Heavenly Flame Jade Marrow from the auction.
• Lin Jing said she had gathered nearly all the required Jade Marrow, and Jiuyou explained that the Heavenly Jade Dharma Body could serve as a foundation for a Super Dharma Body.

Lin Jing joined Zhao Chen, Jiuyou, Luo Li, and Mandala at the Merchant Auction House, where she began buying resources for her Heavenly Jade Dharma Body. The auction then revealed a Void Great Solar Fruit that could help Jiuyou and served as a key material for the Great Solar Undying Body, leaving its bidding ahead.

• Jiuyou and Luo Li encouraged Lin Jing to use her contributions to buy cultivation resources without holding back.
• At the auction house, the group saw the Fox Immortal Sect's alluring saintess, and Lin Jing warned that the sect's members could bewitch powerful cultivators.
• Lin Jing won the Heavenly Flame Jade Marrow for two thousand five hundred Sovereign Spirit Liquid and later bid on several other items.
• The auctioneer unveiled a Void Great Solar Fruit, and Zhao Chen asked Jiuyou whether she wanted it.
• Zhao Chen explained that the fruit could strengthen Jiuyou's Undying Fire and was a primary material for the Great Solar Undying Body, which could lead toward the Primordial Immortal Body.

Mandala explained that the Void Great Solar Fruit was a key material for cultivating the first stage of the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body, a Primordial Immortal Body once owned by the Immortal Emperor. She revealed that the Ancient Heavenly Palace held the cultivation methods needed to pursue that inheritance, leaving Zhao Chen and the others with a destination to seek.

• Jiuyou said the Void Great Solar Fruit would not benefit her much, but she supported bidding for it because Thunder Palace’s other experts might need it.
• Mandala explained that five Primordial Immortal Bodies survived the ancient catastrophe and that the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body had been entrusted to the Maha Ancient Clan by the Immortal Emperor.
• Lin Jing revealed that Primordial Immortal Bodies were inherited from Saint Grade Peak Heavenly Sovereigns and required recognition through cultivation of a basic Sovereign Dharma Body.
• Mandala identified the Void Great Solar Fruit, Nine-Yang Lingzhi, and Immortal Divine Leaf as essential materials for cultivating the Great Solar Undying Body, the first stage of the Myriad Ancient Immortal Body.
• Lin Jing noticed that an Immortal Divine Leaf was listed in the auction, and Mandala said the Ancient Heavenly Palace held the methods for the Immortal Golden Body and the Great Solar Undying Body.

Jiuyou urged the group to seek the Ancient Heavenly Palace after Mandala revealed its connection to the Immortal Golden Body. Mandala explained that she had escaped the palace as an Ancient Mandala Flower and wanted to return for her true body and the Ancient Heavenly Emperor, while Lin Jing discovered that her companions were far stronger than she had expected.

• Jiuyou realized that the Ancient Heavenly Emperor had cultivated the Immortal Golden Body, and she said they should enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace as soon as possible.
• Lin Jing asked how Jiuyou knew the palace could be reached, and Mandala revealed that she had come from it.
• Mandala explained that her true body, at the Grand Perfection Earthly Sovereign Realm, remained inside the palace and that she wanted to find the Ancient Heavenly Emperor's remnant soul.
• Lin Jing learned that Mandala was an Upper Earthly Sovereign, Jiuyou was a Lower Earthly Sovereign, and Luo Li had just advanced to the Upper Earthly Sovereign Realm.
• Lin Jing turned to Zhao Chen and asked about his cultivation, saying she had to check his hand.

Zhao Chen let Lin Jing believe he was only in the Supreme Realm, then explained that he was a divine herb who could easily reach the Heavenly Sovereign Realm as he grew. Lin Jing embraced the group’s plan to rule Tianluo Continent and spent lavishly at the auction, drawing the attention of the Fox Immortal Sect’s Holy Maiden.

• Zhao Chen claimed to be a Heavenly Sovereign, but Lin Jing laughed and assumed he was joking about being in the Supreme Realm.
• Jiuyou teased Lin Jing about caring for Nine-leaf Sword Grass and revealed that Zhao Chen was not human.
• Zhao Chen told Lin Jing he was a divine herb who could reach the Heavenly Sovereign Realm as he grew.
• Lin Jing became excited about helping the group rule Tianluo Continent and decided to buy the Undying Divine Leaf.
• Lin Jing bought every treasure offered at the auction, while the Fox Immortal Sect’s Holy Maiden noticed Zhao Chen and his companions and decided to tease him.

Zhao Chen realized that Heart Fox Fairy had taken an interest in him, and the Fox Immortal Sect’s protector invited him to meet her. After Lin Jing teased the protector about foxes and Divine Grass, Jiuyou told Zhao Chen to bring Heart Fox Fairy to meet them.

• Zhao Chen sensed that Heart Fox Fairy was targeting him rather than Lin Jing, Luo Li, Jiuyou, or Mandala.
• An old man in gray approached Zhao Chen and invited him to meet Heart Fox Fairy in her private room.
• Lin Jing asked whether Heart Fox Fairy was human, and the old man explained that Fox Immortal Sect disciples took human form after reaching the Supreme Realm.
• Lin Jing deliberately asked whether a fox and Divine Grass could reproduce, and the old man said divine beasts could reproduce after taking human form.
• Jiuyou told Zhao Chen to meet Heart Fox Fairy and bring her over to meet the group.

Zhao Chen rejected Heart Fox Fairy’s invitation and effortlessly sent her gray-robed elder away, helping him break through to the Sixth-grade Supreme Realm. Heart Fox Fairy became more determined to pursue Zhao Chen and prepared an apology gift that included a Nine-Yang Lingzhi.

• Zhao Chen refused to meet Heart Fox Fairy, and Lin Jing told the gray-robed elder that neither he nor the Fox Immortal Sect’s master was qualified to demand otherwise.
• Zhao Chen sent the gray-robed elder away from the Commerce Continent, then returned him to the VIP room after Heart Fox Fairy asked him to show mercy.
• The gray-robed elder realized Zhao Chen’s tempering had helped him break through from the Fifth-grade to the Sixth-grade Supreme Realm.
• Heart Fox Fairy ordered the elder to bring the sect’s finest treasures as an apology and decided Zhao Chen might become a great opportunity for the Fox Immortal Sect.
• The gray-robed elder gave Heart Fox Fairy a ring and told her it contained a Nine-Yang Lingzhi, which she planned to use as a guarantee while pursuing Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen fled Heart Fox Fairy’s attempted seduction, then gave Lin Jing a place in Thunder Palace as its Guardian Divine Maiden. He and Mandala discussed the Fox Immortal Sect’s valuable trade network, while Lin Jing wondered whether Zhao Chen planned to let Heart Fox Fairy approach him on her own.

• Zhao Chen teleported away from Heart Fox Fairy after realizing she had brought the Nine-Yang Lingzhi to seduce him, leaving her stunned and furious.
• Heart Fox Fairy ordered her followers to chase Zhao Chen and his companions.
• Zhao Chen appeared outside Commerce City with Lin Jing, who realized he was an Earthly Sovereign rather than a Supreme Realm cultivator.
• Lin Jing asked for a position in Zhao Chen’s faction, and he appointed her Guardian Divine Maiden of Thunder Palace.
• Lin Jing asked whether Zhao Chen was tempted by Heart Fox Fairy, and he said the Fox Immortal Sect’s control of Commerce Continent’s trade channels was tempting.
• Mandala explained how the Fox Immortal Sect’s trade network could provide Thunder Palace with resources, and Lin Jing asked whether Zhao Chen was waiting for Heart Fox Fairy to approach him.

Zhao Chen invited Heart Fox Fairy to visit the Thunder Palace and discuss cooperation, while Mandala and Luo Li made clear that the sect must take the proposal seriously. After learning that Zhao Chen was an Upper Earthly Sovereign and the Thunder Palace commanded more than ten Earthly Sovereigns, Heart Fox Fairy agreed to represent the Fox Immortal Sect in establishing cooperation.

• Zhao Chen invited Heart Fox Fairy to visit the Thunder Palace and discuss cooperation with the Fox Immortal Sect.
• Heart Fox Fairy offered to invite Fairy Fox Madam and personally attend to Zhao Chen, while Lin Jing, Luo Li, and Jiuyou reacted to her advances.
• Mandala told Heart Fox Fairy that she could learn to handle cooperation as the sect master's successor, but warned that the Thunder Palace would walk away if she did not take it seriously.
• Heart Fox Fairy asked who led the Thunder Palace, and Luo Li identified Zhao Chen as its Upper Earthly Sovereign master and said it had more than ten Earthly Sovereigns under its command.
• Heart Fox Fairy agreed to represent the Fox Immortal Sect in establishing cooperation with the Thunder Palace.

Zhao Chen secured the Fox Immortal Sect’s cooperation for Thunder Palace’s expansion and gave Heart Fox Fairy a jade talisman to contact him. After he departed, Ling Qingzhu watched from the shadows and assessed Thunder Palace as a powerful force that could shape Tianluo Continent’s coming upheaval.

• Zhao Chen told Heart Fox Fairy that Thunder Palace would need substantial resources to contend for Tianluo Continent and asked her to warn him if the Fox Immortal Sect could not provide them.
• Zhao Chen gave Heart Fox Fairy a jade talisman that could send messages and summon him, then left with his companions through a spatial gate.
• Heart Fox Fairy resolved to earn Zhao Chen’s favor by handling the cooperation well and vowed to work toward taking control of the Fox Immortal Sect.
• Ling Qingzhu emerged after Heart Fox Fairy departed and reflected on Lin Jing’s opportunity to grow stronger through her connection to Zhao Chen.
• Ling Qingzhu judged that Thunder Palace had several Upper Earthly Sovereigns and would likely unify the Northern Border, while hoping Lin Jing would reach the Earthly Sovereign Realm before they next met.

Zhao Chen arranged for Lin Jing to cultivate in Thunder Palace’s three treasured lands and promised her pills that could accelerate her advancement. As he prepared to search for the Ancient Heavenly Palace, he agreed to bring her along if it appeared, and Lin Jing eagerly accepted.

• Zhao Chen brought Lin Jing to the Great Luo Golden Pool and arranged for her to train in Thunder Palace’s three treasured lands.
• Zhao Chen promised Lin Jing exclusive pills to help her reach the Ninth-grade Sovereign Realm or break through to the Earthly Sovereign Realm.
• Zhao Chen explained that he and his companions had already visited the treasured lands and would search for the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Zhao Chen said he would bring Lin Jing along if the Ancient Heavenly Palace appeared, and Lin Jing enthusiastically agreed.

Zhao Chen, Luo Li, Jiuyou, and Mandala entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins ahead of other factions, intending to take control of them. Inside, they found the palace’s protective formation intact, leading Zhao Chen to conclude that an insider had enabled the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan’s invasion.

• Mandala used the Star Suppressing Demon Tower to locate the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins in the Westernmost Land and joined Zhao Chen, Luo Li, and Jiuyou to enter them.
• Zhao Chen tore through the spatial storms with a colossal sword and carried the group into the Ancient Heavenly Palace plane.
• The four arrived safely and discovered that the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s grandmaster-level Palace-Protecting Formation still remained intact.
• Zhao Chen reasoned that the formation had never been activated because the Ancient Heavenly Palace had been caught off guard by a precisely planned invasion.
• Zhao Chen concluded that an insider in the Ancient Heavenly Palace had leaked its defensive deployment map to the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan.

Zhao Chen and the others concluded that Lu Yuan had aided the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor and planned to kill the demon’s remnant soul before confronting Lu Yuan. At the Dragon Ascension Gate, Mandala explained how its tokens granted access and protection within the Ancient Heavenly Palace, while Luo Li suspected the gate had helped the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan infiltrate the palace.

• Mandala and Zhao Chen reasoned that Lu Yuan had betrayed the Ancient Heavenly Palace and might be keeping the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor’s remnant soul alive.
• Jiuyou proposed killing the remnant soul and then joining forces against Lu Yuan to seize control of the Southern Region, and Zhao Chen agreed.
• Zhao Chen brought Lin Jing into the Ancient Heavenly Palace, where she had reached the Seventh-grade Sovereign Realm.
• Mandala led the group to the Dragon Ascension Gate and explained that disciples’ tokens determined their authority and ability to survive the palace’s restrictions.
• Luo Li suggested that the Dragon Ascension Gate had been a security weakness that allowed the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan to invade.