Recaps

Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop and unlocked the rare Nine-Five Dragon Chariot, while planning to strengthen his Camp before Okra’s man attacked. The chapter left him promising Wang Mazi the Horse-Drawn Carriage and ordering everyone back to work.

• Chen Quan’s mother teased him about Chen Fan being his biological father, then admitted she did not know who his father was; afterward, she told Shao Qiu that Chen Family Head’s plans would not disrupt their operation.
• Chen Fan approved Little Qiu’s faction flag and had Zhou Mo plant it at the Canyon entrance.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop to Level 3, unlocked Wraith Camels and a Horse-Drawn Carriage, and had the carriage built for himself.
• Chen Fan upgraded the Vehicle Workshop to Level 4 and unlocked the rare Nine-Five Dragon Chariot, which required a Wraith King’s remains to craft.
• Chen Fan decided to prepare the Camp for Okra’s man’s attack and promised Wang Mazi the Horse-Drawn Carriage after the Rainy Season.

A hidden enemy plotted to become a Wraith King and attack Nameless Mountain, while Chen Fan completed the Camp’s defenses and Zhou Mo mastered the Water-Cutting Saber Art. As the Rainy Season neared its end, Chen Fan prepared for the coming Wraith King crisis, and Flat City lay ruined and silent.

• A cloaked man submitted to a dark master, received a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo, and secretly planned to seize the contingency at Nameless Mountain after becoming a Wraith King.
• The cloaked man learned that the meatworm wraith tide had destroyed Flat City and ordered Millennium’s forces to prepare a Blood Sacrifice Formation, promising to bring a Mountain-Skeleton Embryo in ten days.
• Chen Fan finished building the Camp’s defenses with 140 Level-5 Cannon Towers around the Canyon and Sinkhole, leaving only a little over ten thousand eerie stones in reserve.
• Zhou Mo mastered the Water-Cutting Saber Art, cut through the Rain, and carved a deep mark into a Level-1 City Wall with his saber energy.
• Chen Fan reflected on the coming end of the Rainy Season and prepared for the Wraith King’s arrival and the Mortal Sect’s public debut.
• Flat City stood devastated and silent beneath the Eternal Night, its walls breached and its streets coated in green liquid and blood.

As the Rainy Season neared its end, the Wraith King’s followers prepared a Blood Sacrifice Formation while factions gathered in Jiangnan to enter the Jiangbei Wasteland. The Gongyang Clan’s Death Banner and several notable travelers headed toward Jiangbei, as Chen Fan waited at Nameless Mountain for the Wraith King’s final attack.

• Millennium and Qianqiu completed the Blood Sacrifice Formation and worried that their mistress had died with the Godslaying Spear, leaving their King without his Main Weapon.
• As the Rainy Season’s final night approached, a Gongyang Clan caravan bearing a Death Banner arrived in Jiangnan Water City with the Green-Robed Man and a young woman, planning to enter Jiangbei.
• A white-robed youth carrying a massive Heavy Ruler walked alone into the darkness outside the city as the Rainy Season ended.
• A Medicine King Valley disciple learned that Gongyang Yiyue, the Pill Sect, and other factions were heading into Jiangbei, where tensions over Gongyang Gao’s daughter threatened to erupt.
• At Nameless Mountain, Chen Fan stood on the wall and prepared for the Wraith King to attack that night.

The Wraith King completed the Blood Sacrifice Formation and led a strange tide toward Chen Fan’s camp, forcing Chen Fan to activate the Meat Grinder’s defenses. The Wraith King battered the city wall, and Chen Fan began the second phase, lighting the canyon with buried Eerie Fires.

• The black-cloaked man completed the Blood Sacrifice Formation, became a Wraith King, and ordered Millennium and Qianqiu to avenge Okra and reclaim the Godslaying Spear.
• Chen Fan saw the crimson pillar and prepared Nameless Mountain’s defenses while Weiwei fled into the canyon; factions across the region recognized the new Wraith King and changed their plans.
• The Wraith King’s strange entities entered the Sinkhole, where Chen Fan’s cannon towers and city walls initially held them back.
• Chen Fan activated the Meat Grinder’s first phase, sealing the canyon and unleashing thirty-eight cannon towers, but the Wraith King broke through the barrier and destroyed most of the towers.
• The Wraith King attacked the level-3 city wall as strange entities surged against it, and Chen Fan activated the second phase, igniting twenty Eerie Fires throughout the canyon.

Chen Fan’s defenses nearly failed against the Wraith King, who absorbed his army and destroyed the camp’s two Level-6 Cannon Towers. As Chen Fan prepared to flee, Weiwei charged into the canyon and attacked the Wraith King with a Death Roll.

• Chen Fan’s cannon towers slaughtered the Strange Tide, but the Wraith King ordered his forces to unite and absorbed every Strange Entity, gaining enough power to smash a hole in the City Wall.
• The Level-6 Cannon Tower and Wind Tower repeatedly struck and delayed the Wraith King, while the Vertical-Pupil Cannon Tower grievously wounded him before he destroyed both Level-6 towers.
• Chen Fan decided to evacuate with Monkey and Zhou Mo after his defenses failed, but Weiwei rushed into the canyon despite Chen Fan calling it back.
• The Wraith King stabbed Weiwei’s head with his Crimson Spear, and Weiwei clamped its jaws around him and began a Death Roll.

Chen Fan and the Mortal Sect defeated the Wraith King, survived the rainy season, and began rebuilding at Nameless Mountain. As powerful groups arrived to meet the force that slew the Wraith King, Chen Fan welcomed the Green-Robed Man, who discovered that Chen Fan was now the Mortal Sect's sect master.

• Weiwei killed the Wraith King, and Chen Fan led the survivors back to the Cave to heal Weiwei and repair the Camp.
• The Wraith King's death triggered a Heaven and Earth phenomenon, and his wraith blood strengthened the Level-3 City Wall's Wraith Blood Vein Patterns.
• Monkey's Godslaying Spear shed its Dust-Covered State and revealed itself as a Yellow Grade growth-type weapon that had belonged to the Wraith King.
• The Green-Robed Man and other visiting groups decided to travel to Nameless Mountain to meet the force that had killed the Wraith King.
• The Wild Wolf Gang Leader said his gang had won the people's support despite exhausting its reserves during the rainy season.
• The Green-Robed Man reached the Mortal Sect's Canyon with gifts, learned Chen Fan was its sect master, and paid his respects.

Chen Fan welcomed visitors from the Gongyang Clan and Medicine King Valley to the Mortal Sect after slaying a Wraith King, receiving substantial congratulatory gifts. He asked Medicine King Valley disciple Qi Feng to examine the wounded Weiwei, but Qi Feng could not identify the beast or explain why the altar’s holy water had not healed it.

• Chen Fan led Qi Yue and the Gongyang Clan party into the Sinkhole, where Gongyang Yiyue recognized an unassuming woman as a Night Watcher who had already activated her power several times.
• Chen Fan learned that Northbank City had suffered little damage, then went with Qi Yue to greet Qi Feng and the Medicine King Valley party at the Canyon entrance.
• Wang Kui displayed the visitors’ gifts, including 5,000 Eerie Stones from the Gongyang Clan and a much larger offering from the Medicine King Valley.
• Chen Fan asked Qi Feng about treating exotic beasts, and Qi Feng confirmed that altar holy water could heal their external injuries.
• Chen Fan brought Qi Feng to examine Weiwei, whose head wound had not healed despite a day and night of holy water treatment.
• Qi Feng admitted he could not identify Weiwei or its injuries and proposed asking his father to assess the beast remotely, though he worried the method might expose the surrounding structures.

Chen Fan learned that Weiwei could be cured with a Snow Lotus he already had, while Wang Kui confronted his former family head and conscripted him into the Mortal Sect. The chapter ended with Pill Sect Young Master Zhou Yi arriving at the Mortal Sect and addressing the hiding Gongyang Yue.

• Qi Feng identified Weiwei as a Sky-Swallowing Crocodile with a fatal wound-healing mutation and said a Snow Lotus could cure him; Chen Fan realized he had one in his Warehouse.
• Chen Fan welcomed visiting factions and their congratulatory gifts, while Wang Kui recognized the head of the Qiuhe Wang Family among the visitors.
• Wang Kui ordered the Qiuhe Wang Family to disband and made its head serve as a Mortal Sect station master for thirteen years; the head accepted and volunteered to guard the Canyon entrance.
• A party of riders charged through the Canyon, knocked the Wang Family Head unconscious, and continued to the Sinkhole.
• Zhou Yi introduced himself as the Pill Sect Young Master, offered 10,000 Eerie Stones, and told Gongyang Yue he had finally found her.

Chen Fan killed the Pill Sect Young Master after the Pill Sect party invaded Mortal Sect territory, then renamed the Mortal Sect the Mortal Domain and ordered an expedition to destroy the Pill Sect. The chapter ended with the sect preparing to leave the next day as news of the killing spread across Jiangbei and Jiangnan.

• The Pill Sect Young Master arrived at the Mortal Sect’s celebration, insulted Chen Fan’s guests, injured the Wang Family Head, and demanded that Gongyang Yue leave with him.
• Chen Fan sealed the Canyon and unleashed its defenses, killing the Pill Sect Young Master and his party despite the Heaven-Earth Formation Disk’s protection.
• Chen Fan told his followers to rename the Mortal Sect the Mortal Domain and prepare to destroy the Pill Sect, leaving the next day for Jiangnan.
• Monkey, Zhou Mo, Wang Kui, and the Wang Family Head discussed the coming expedition and joked about how Chen Fan might attack the Pill Sect.
• News that the Mortal Sect had killed the Pill Sect Young Master spread across Jiangbei and Jiangnan, leaving people wary of provoking young people.

After the rainy season ended, Chen Fan explained that he planned to strike the Pill Sect first to deter future attacks and secure the Mortal Domain’s place in Jiangnan. He prepared his defenses and reviewed the gifts and resources his Camp had received, including the Qiuhe Wang Family’s unusually generous offering.

• Chen Fan told Crippled Monkey that showing force against an early bully could prevent future trouble, then explained that he planned to attack the Pill Sect before it could use its connections or assassins.
• Chen Fan reviewed the Eerie Eyes, Harbor, Heavenly Derivation Sand Table, and Starwatching Platform he had obtained, noting how they could strengthen the Camp’s defenses and surveillance.
• Wang Kui reported that seventeen factions had offered congratulations and that the Camp held 112,300 Eerie Stones, with the Northbank Merchant Association giving the least.
• Wang Kui revealed that the Qiuhe Wang Family had given 9,832 Eerie Stones, numerous exotic treasures, and two Building Blueprints, and Chen Fan asked to inspect the gifts.
• Chen Fan inspected the factions’ unopened exotic treasures, finding that the gifts were mostly ordinary seed-type treasures.

Chen Fan transformed the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot into a heavily armed mobile fortress and prepared to lead his people toward Jiangnan as the Pill Sect began a campaign to destroy the Mortal Sect. The chapter ended with Chen Fan leaving Wang Kui to guard the base and setting out with Crippled Monkey and the others.

• Chen Fan equipped the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot with 187 Level-5 Cannon Towers and seven Level-6 Cannon Towers, spending most of the Mortal Sect's eerie stones.
• The Pill Sect elder ordered assassinations, trade restrictions, and pressure on other factions to isolate the Mortal Sect and force Chen Fan to submit.
• Qi Feng urged Medicine King Valley to support Chen Fan, but the Valley Master said they would act only after the Mortal Sect risked everything against the Pill Sect.
• Elder Xu told Qi Feng that the Pill Sect would slowly undermine Chen Fan and that he lacked the strength to save him; the Green-Robed Man offered Chen Fan a chance to escape by leaving the area.
• Chen Fan gave Wang Kui temporary access rights and ordered him to defend the base, then boarded the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot with Crippled Monkey and the others to set out.

Chen Fan led the Mortal Domain in a surprise assault that destroyed Pill Sect City, then sent Zhou Mo and the others to search the ruins while he sought advice on salvaging the herb garden. The chapter ended with Qi Feng learning that Chen Fan was in the Pill Sect's herb garden rather than on Nameless Mountain.

• Chen Fan flew the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot across the Great River and reached Pill Sect City without using its toll bridges.
• Chen Fan transformed the chariot into the Heaven and Earth Chessboard and bombarded Pill Sect City until its defenses collapsed, rejecting the Pill Sect elder's offer to surrender.
• Chen Fan ordered Zhou Mo and the others to search the ruined city for valuables while he waited outside, and nearby factions spread news of the Mortal Domain's attack.
• Zhou Mo warned the search party that Pill Sect members might use Feign-Death Pills, and the group began securing corpses and searching the treasure vault and herb garden.
• Chen Fan contacted Qi Feng to ask how to transplant valuable medicinal herbs, and Qi Feng was stunned to learn that Chen Fan was in the Pill Sect's herb garden.

After the Mortal Domain destroyed Pill Sect City, Chen Fan organized the looting of its treasures and accepted Medicine King Valley’s help with its herb garden. The survivors finished stripping the ruins and prepared to leave Jiangnan, while Chen Fan recognized that the attack had exposed a need for defenses against aerial assaults.

• Qi Feng learned that the Mortal Domain had massacred Pill Sect City and offered Chen Fan Medicine King Valley’s help harvesting the herbs.
• Chen Fan assigned his followers to transplant valuable plants and loot the Pill Sect’s buildings before the rainy season began.
• Crippled Monkey and the Wang Family Head discovered a secret chamber beneath the Book Repository and found chests full of eerie stones.
• Zhou Mo searched the ruined Treasure Pavilion and recovered numerous exotic treasures.
• Qi Yishi arrived with Medicine King Valley disciples to transplant herbs, and Chen Fan invited him to the Mortal Domain’s future auction.
• Chen Fan’s workers finished looting the ruins, gathered and burned the dead, and prepared to leave Jiangnan.

After destroying the Pill Sect, Chen Fan returned to Nameless Mountain with its spoils and began planning the Mortal Domain’s growth during the Rainy Season. He arranged to bring Wang Qiuhao’s family and former clansmen into the faction, then prepared to take everyone to Northbank City.

• Chen Fan left the Pill Sect ruins after paying the workers and invited Valley Master Qi to the Jiangbei Auction.
• On the return journey, Chen Fan read reports about the Mortal Domain and considered publishing a daily report of its own.
• Back at Nameless Mountain, Chen Fan learned the Cannon Towers could only fire twice more, then ordered the Pill Sect’s looted goods moved into the Warehouse.
• Chen Fan promised Wang Qiuhao he would bring his family and former clansmen from Northbank City and give them positions in the Mortal Domain.
• Wang Kui reported that the haul included 172,500 Eerie Stones, medicines, Exotic Treasures, manuals, Alchemy Furnaces, and other materials.
• Chen Fan planned to organize and expand the Mortal Domain during the Rainy Season, then told Wang Kui to take everyone to Northbank City the next day.

Chen Fan reviewed the Pill Sect’s treasures and ancient records, then prepared to strengthen the Mortal Domain while seeking more skilled workers. In Northbank City, the Wang Family dissolved, and Chen Fan’s stepmother received orders from a hidden master to steal the Snow Lotus and Mountain Embryo and possibly capture Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan learned that Eternal Night had descended eight thousand years ago and that the Pill Sect had found ruins containing building recipes and pill formulas.
• Chen Fan inspected the Pill Sect’s exotic treasures, including a defensive Dragon-Headed Staff, and planned to upgrade the Life Workshop and find more people for his faction.
• King Wufan announced that the Wang Family would dissolve, with its members agreeing to separate and potentially reunite in three years.
• The Wild Wolf Gang Leader rejected an immediate takeover of the Wang Family’s station business and decided to wait and see whether the Mortal Sect claimed it.
• Chen Quan’s stepmother learned that the Mortal Domain had destroyed the Pill Sect and was ordered to retrieve the Snow Lotus and Mountain Embryo without entering its territory, while concealing her identity and potentially bringing Chen Fan back.
• Chen Quan trembled in fear of Chen Fan and hoped his mother’s hidden allies could protect him, but he had no way to flee Northbank City.

The Chen Family Head prepared the Myriad Spirits Blood-Transformation Array to kill Northbank City’s inhabitants and the strange entities within it, hoping to strengthen the North River Chen Family and force Chen Fan to submit. As Chen Fan arrived in the city, he discovered the blood-marked channels and began dismantling the array, while rival factions gathered to watch his confrontation with the family.

• Black-clad men concealed 100,800 Soul-Calling Lanterns around Northbank City and smeared wraith blood through its drainage channels to prepare the array.
• The Chen Family Head told his Trusted Aide that he would welcome Chen Fan only if Mortal Domain joined or became the North River Chen Family, and otherwise would sacrifice his son to preserve the family’s power.
• Chen Fan, Crippled Monkey, Zhou Mo, and their companions rode the Nine-Five Dragon Chariot to Northbank City, where Crippled Monkey flew over the walls to show off his new status.
• Chen Fan spotted the city’s interconnected drainage channels, found wraith blood in one, and cut and cleaned it to disrupt the formation.
• Chen Fan sent Zhou Mo and the others to find and destroy more blood-marked channels, then took Crippled Monkey to the North River Chen Family estate.
• Factions from Jiangnan gathered in a teahouse opposite the Chen Family estate to watch Chen Fan’s arrival.

Chen Fan met with the North River Chen Family Head, who tried to reclaim the Mortal Domain before revealing a deadly array prepared throughout Northbank City. The Myriad Spirits Blood-Transformation Array activated, trapping the city as the Chen Family Head declared that no one would survive.

• Chen Fan entered the teahouse, greeted the gathered factions, and learned that the Under-Heaven Pavilion had come to Jiangbei seeking eerie stones.
• Chen Fan sent a letter to the North River Chen Family residence, and the Chen Family Head arrived to invite him to return and rename the Mortal Domain.
• Chen Fan refused, and the Chen Family Head revealed that he had activated the Myriad Spirits Blood-Transformation Array and intended to seize the Mortal Domain's resources.
• Elder Xu fled with Qi Feng, while a white-clad youth attacked the Chen Family Head with a Heavy Ruler but failed to break his protective barrier.
• The white-clad youth escaped through a window as the teahouse emptied, leaving Chen Fan and the Jiangbei Old Devil with their companions.

Chen Fan stopped the North River Chen Family’s sacrificial array, had Jiangbei Old Devil kill the Chen Family Head, and gathered recruits for the Mortal Domain. At the ruined Chen estate, he confronted Chen Quan and Yu Ning'er, who revealed that she came from the Slaying Immortal Holy Land.

• Chen Fan explained that he had come to the Teahouse to enlist Jiangbei Old Devil’s help, and Jiangbei Old Devil killed the Chen Family Head before mutilating the corpse to prevent a feigned death.
• The Crimson Beams faded when the Myriad Spirits Blood-Transformation Array failed, while Jiangbei Old Devil captured the fleeing Chen Family members and their allies.
• Chen Fan took Crippled Monkey and his companions to Osmanthus Tower, recruited the returned station masters, and accepted the Wild Wolf Gang’s men into the Mortal Domain while inviting the gang leader as well.
• Chen Fan returned to the North River Chen Family estate, where he confronted Chen Quan and Yu Ning'er; Yu Ning'er begged for her life and admitted that her master had forbidden her to reveal her connection to the Slaying Immortal Holy Land.

Chen Fan wiped out the North River Chen Family’s core members, spared several elders, and recruited Shao Qiu for the Mortal Domain’s intelligence and assassination work. The grateful people of Northbank City sent him off toward Nameless Mountain, while Jiangbei Old Devil and Gongyang Yiyue discussed whether the Gongyang Clan should learn what happened there.

• Chen Fan learned that Yu Ning'er had infiltrated the Chen Family to reach Nameless Mountain and kill her before she could use its secrets to bargain for her life.
• Chen Fan executed Chen Quan and the Chen Family members who had targeted him, while Crippled Monkey killed former servants who had bullied them.
• Shao Qiu revealed that he was a prisoner of the Slaying Immortal Holy Land and offered his expertise in stealth, assassination, and intelligence gathering, so Chen Fan recruited him and ordered the beggar from that faction killed.
• Chen Fan spared several Chen Family elders, ordered Zhou Mo to seize the family’s property, and sent the group to recover hidden eerie stones.
• The people of Northbank City thanked Chen Fan for stopping the Myriad Spirits Blood-Transformation Array and filled his Dragon Chariot with food as he departed for Nameless Mountain.
• Jiangbei Old Devil asked Gongyang Yiyue not to spread what happened at Nameless Mountain, and Gongyang Yiyue said the Family Head would decide what to do.

Chen Fan recruited Shao Qiu to establish the Mortal Domain’s Shadow Pavilion after showing him the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and returning his soul fragment. Shao Qiu regained his strength, while Chen Fan realized his story of founding Godslayer Hall at seventeen did not fit the world’s rules for awakening.

• Chen Fan upgraded the Life Workshop and arranged for Little Qiu to make fitted robes for the new arrivals.
• Shao Qiu recognized the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion and explained how it could accelerate cultivation and Martial Technique comprehension.
• Shao Qiu revealed that he had founded Godslayer Hall at seventeen, been captured by the Slaying Immortal Holy Land, and possessed the rare Living Dead abilities.
• Chen Fan returned Shao Qiu’s Soul Token and tasked him with selecting ten people to establish the Shadow Pavilion and prepare for the coming Auction.
• Shao Qiu crushed the Soul Token, recovered his soul fragment, and rose to the peak of Level 9.
• Chen Fan wondered how Shao Qiu could have advanced from awakening at sixteen to Level 7 by the time he founded Godslayer Hall at seventeen.

Chen Fan organized the Mortal Domain into specialized pavilions and assigned its members leadership roles as the Camp prepared to expand and establish trade. With the new structure in place, he went to sleep while everyone else selected personnel and began their work.

• Chen Fan appointed Little Qiu to lead the Logistics Pavilion and assigned Qi Chong and A Le to lead the Hundred Grains Pavilion.
• Chen Fan named Wang Kui master of the Heavenly Storehouse Pavilion, Wang Mazi master of the Commerce Pavilion, Zhou Mo and Big Fish leaders of the War Pavilion, and Crippled Monkey master of the Punishment Pavilion.
• Chen Fan appointed Shao Qiu to lead the Shadow Pavilion and sent Little Qiu to bring the Wild Wolf Gang to the Camp and recruit workers.
• The pavilion masters selected personnel, and Shao Qiu chose a young man from the Wild Wolf Gang as a promising Shadow Pavilion recruit.
• Crippled Monkey began drafting the Mortal Domain's rules while Chen Fan returned to his room to catch up on sleep.

Chen Fan built a small city near Nameless Mountain and planned to use the Mortal Domain’s goods and trade routes to spread his business under the name “Silk Road.” He assigned the new recruits their posts, began searching the Sinkhole for earth gold, and left Shao Qiu training the first Shadow Pavilion candidates.

• Chen Fan built a walled city with wooden huts, levelled its ground with a Flatland Terrain Card, and placed a level-five Eerie Fire at its center.
• Chen Fan planned to attract factions to the Mortal Domain’s Auction and sell them cheap goods, naming the trade strategy “Silk Road.”
• Chen Fan gave the newly selected Mortal Domain recruits a brief speech and sent them to their pavilion masters for assignments.
• Chen Fan asked Weiwei to dig for earth gold in the Sinkhole, and Weiwei began breaking through the hard ground.
• Crippled Monkey reminded Chen Fan that both his parents were gone, and Chen Fan rebuked him for trying to make conversation.
• Shao Qiu began training seventeen Shadow Pavilion candidates in the Spirit-Nurturing Pavilion, teaching them the Yellow-Grade Shadow-Killing Seven Apertures Formula and its Concealment Chapter.

Chen Fan learned that the Sinkhole’s black gold was valuable earth gold, but the Mortal Domain lacked the experts needed to turn it into stealth gear and weapons. With Weiwei’s help, he found a buried level 10 Jade House and recovered a dangerous diary fragment left by the mysterious That One, whose lingering sword qi wounded Chen Fan and damaged his staff.

• Chen Fan inspected Shao Qiu’s Shadow Pavilion training, where Shao Qiu taught the assassins techniques for concealing killing intent, listening carefully, and controlling their breathing.
• A crocodile brought Chen Fan a large pile of earth gold, and Shao Qiu explained that it could be made into stealth garments and weapons that pierced defenses.
• Chen Fan agreed to reserve earth gold for the Shadow Pavilion, but learned that crafting it required a level 7 Artifact Refiner and that Clearheart Pills required a level 4 Alchemist.
• Weiwei led Chen Fan down a deep tunnel to an unowned level 10 Jade House, which Chen Fan recognized as That One’s former residence.
• Chen Fan found diary Bamboo Slips whose residual sword qi cut his finger and cracked his Jadeite Staff, then read an entry dated Year 176 of the Eternal Night Calendar describing That One’s boredom in Jiangbei.

Chen Fan learned that the aura protecting Jiangbei would fade in four years, leaving his Mortal Domain exposed to a massive undersea strange tide, and resolved to raise three hundred million eerie stones to defend the coastline. As Qi Yue began teaching the Mortal Domain’s people swordsmanship, Shao Qiu learned why Qi Yue planned to kill someone, while Qi Yue grew suspicious of Zhou Mo’s rapid cultivation.

• Chen Fan read That One’s Bamboo Slip and learned that his protective aura would dissipate in four years, exposing Jiangbei to an undersea strange tide.
• Chen Fan decided to build defenses along Jiangbei’s coastline, raise three hundred million eerie stones, and keep the danger secret while opening the Silk Road through the coming Auction.
• Qi Yue visited the Mortal Domain to teach its people swordsmanship for two months before he pursued someone he intended to kill, and Chen Fan offered the Mortal Domain’s help.
• Shao Qiu told Chen Fan that Qi Yue’s target was the cowardly version of himself and insisted that Shao Qiu could kill him, but Chen Fan explained that Qi Yue meant to end his own life.
• Qi Yue noticed Zhou Mo’s unusually rapid cultivation and asked whether he had been practicing Demonic Cultivation.

Qi Yue taught Zhou Mo how to infuse emotion into his weapon, while Chen Fan prepared the Mortal Domain Market and Auction. When the market opened, Medicine King Valley’s Valley Master Qi struggled to choose between buying profitable goods and saving his funds for a Yellow Grade Pill Furnace.

• Qi Yue explained to Zhou Mo how a weapon reflected its wielder’s emotions, and Zhou Mo listened as he trained for a month.
• Chen Fan reviewed the Auction lots Wang Kui had prepared, including a contract for the Mortal Domain to build matching Level-3 City Walls.
• Chen Fan welcomed Medicine King Valley to Mortal City, where Valley Master Qi planned to spend all his funds bidding on a Yellow Grade Pill Furnace.
• Valley Master Qi and Qi Feng passed vendors selling Eerie Fires and Ground Spikes at low prices, but decided not to buy them.
• At Elder Chen’s stall, Valley Master Qi saw Skeleton Horses, Wraith Camels, and carriages priced far below Jiangnan rates and learned the Mortal Domain wanted factions to distribute its goods through shared Trade Routes.
• Valley Master Qi weighed spending his funds on the lucrative horses against losing the chance to buy the Pill Furnace, while Elder Chen waited for his decision.