Chapter Summaries

Ren, Shisui, Itachi, and Sasuke freed the former Exchange Tower members and exposed the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds' use of a Blood Soul Restriction to control a captive Desolate Beast. Ren stopped the steward's formation, leaving him at the mercy of the freed giant ape.

• Shisui broke the prisoners' chains, and Lu Ping revealed hidden account books, pill formula fragments, and Void Network records.
• The steward in blue unleashed a black-armored giant ape, which attacked Lu Ping and the other former Exchange Tower members.
• Shisui deflected the ape's blow, while Itachi and Sasuke attacked it and Ren revealed the restriction mark in its left eye.
• Sasuke shattered the Blood Soul Restriction, freeing the giant ape from its frenzy and turning it against the steward.
• Ren suppressed the steward's jade talisman and stopped the underground formation, and the steward begged Ren for mercy.

Ren rescued the former Exchange Tower members and recovered ledgers documenting the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds’ crimes. As guild master Qing Luo Hai tried to use the city’s deacons to seize the evidence, Ren ordered Lu Ping to read the ledger aloud.

• Ren took the steward’s token and ledgers, freed the chained black-armored giant ape, and sent the steward back to summon Qing Luo Hai and the guild members.
• Qing Luo Hai arrived with guards and experts and accused Ren of stealing records and freeing the former Exchange Tower members.
• Lu Ping found a ledger entry showing that the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds had killed an Exchange Tower shopkeeper’s family, and he confronted Qing Luo Hai.
• Fugaku blocked Qing Luo Hai from seizing the ledger, while Qing Luo Hai invoked the Deacon’s Office and demanded that Ren’s group surrender.
• Ren told Lu Ping to read out every item in the ledger.

Ren exposed the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds' crimes by having Lu Ping read their ledger and witnesses recount their losses. Qing Luo Hai was subdued and taken to the Deacon's Office, where the ledger and evidence were formally recorded.

• Ren ordered Han Zhong to bring in caravan members harmed by the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds.
• Lu Ping read ledger entries detailing the guilds' crimes, while merchants and guards gathered outside the warehouse to listen.
• Han Zhong returned with caravan members, who shared accounts and evidence of goods seized by the guilds.
• Qing Luo Hai attacked the crowd with his Soul Power, but Itachi used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make Qing Luo Hai's black python attack him.
• Ren suppressed Qing Luo Hai with the Overlord's Eyes, then had him, the ledger, and the witnesses taken to the Deacon's Office.

Ren freed the Exchange Tower’s former members and began organizing its records, people, and remaining resources to rebuild the organization. A secret warning revealed that several border merchant guilds planned to cut off its supplies, so Ren moved to expose the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds’ past seizures and prepare to restore the Exchange Tower.

• Ren offered the freed prisoners resources and the choice to leave, but many former members chose to stay and recognize him as Tower Master.
• Lu Ping’s restored Void Link Ring revealed scattered former members and contacts, and Ren assigned Itachi and Shisui to record and verify the messages.
• Kaguya and Ren concealed the spatial connection between the Void Link and the Dimension Altar.
• An unsigned message warned that several established merchant guilds had joined forces to cut off the Exchange Tower’s supplies before it could recover.
• Ren ordered Han Zhong to invite nearby shopkeepers to examine the account books and evidence of the Azure Luo Merchant Guilds’ seizures.
• Ren told Lu Ping they would recruit more people, acquire goods, and reconnect trade routes despite the Exchange Tower’s losses.

Ren and Lu Ping reopened the Exchange Tower’s business in southern Chaotic Star City by offering honest appraisals and fair prices, drawing mercenaries back and winning over former associates. As Merchant Guild shopkeepers confronted them over their posted prices, Ren defended the adventurers’ right to fair payment.

• Ren told Lu Ping that the Exchange Tower could attract suppliers by showing them what it offered, then Lu Ping and former associates set up free appraisal tables at the burned-down site.
• Lu Ping appraised a broken blade and, with Ren’s approval, bought it for three thousand soul coins, surprising the young mercenary and the crowd.
• Ren exposed a crystal’s impurities while Lu Ping and Ren’s team fairly assessed other goods, drawing a growing crowd and upsetting nearby shopkeepers.
• Lu Ping recognized Lao Zhou, invited him back, and gave him a communication ring, which the old man accepted.
• Several Merchant Guild shopkeepers confronted Lu Ping about the Exchange Tower’s prices, and Ren defended paying adventurers fairly for goods they risked their lives to obtain.

Ren countered the Merchant Guilds’ boycott by exposing their hoarding and supplying healing pills at fair prices, then protected the Exchange Tower’s medicine caravan from an ambush. The attackers were defeated and their employer was revealed through Genjutsu, leaving the Merchant Guilds publicly implicated.

• The Brocade-Robed Shopkeeper threatened to cut off the Exchange Tower’s supplies, but Ren kept it open and posted a fair purchasing list.
• Ren sent evidence of the Merchant Guilds’ hoarding to caravans they had harmed, turning those traders against the boycott.
• Lu Ping brought affordably priced healing pills to an angry crowd outside a northern apothecary, earning the Exchange Tower public support.
• The Brocade-Robed Shopkeeper hired Crimson Fiend Hall to intercept the medicine caravan, but Sasuke, Obito, Shisui, Itachi, and Ren defeated the ambushers.
• Ren used Genjutsu to uncover the killer leader’s employer, and Lu Ping observed that the attackers had exposed themselves to the city.

Ren bypassed the northern merchant guilds’ supply ban by buying from rogue cultivators and exposing the guilds’ price-gouging, then sent the Exchange Tower’s medicine convoy to sell pills at fair prices. After the Brocade-Robed Shopkeeper hired the Crimson Fiend Hall to ambush the convoy, Ren’s allies defeated the assassins and extracted a confession implicating him and four guilds.

• Ren ordered Lu Ping to buy herbs directly from rogue cultivators at more than twice the black-market rate, while Ren’s network gathered evidence of the northern guilds’ stockpiling.
• Ren had Han Zhong deliver evidence of the guilds’ exploitation to low-level mercenary groups, and Lu Ping later brought healing pills to the northern medicine shop at the original price.
• The Brocade-Robed Shopkeeper hired the Crimson Fiend Hall for thirty thousand gold soul coins to ambush the Exchange Tower’s convoy at the western stone bridge.
• Sasuke, Obito, Shisui, and Itachi defeated the masked attackers and prevented their leader from killing himself.
• Ren broke the leader’s mental restriction and forced him to confess that the Brocade-Robed Shopkeeper and four merchant guilds had arranged the ambush.
• Ren ordered Lu Ping to record the confession and distribute copies throughout the city the next morning.

Ren and the Uchiha forces destroyed Crimson Fiend Hall after its role in the convoy ambush was exposed. Fugaku recovered the Exchange Tower’s stolen communication formation disc and an ancient dragon-pattern storage ring, leaving the story with the gang defeated and its treasures in Ren’s hands.

• Identity tags, confessions, and poisoned blades exposed the Crimson Fiend Hall ambush and the northern Merchant Guilds’ collusion, sparking public outrage and an attack on their medicine shops.
• Fugaku Uchiha drove off the Deacon’s Office commanders who tried to make the Exchange Tower remove the evidence.
• Ren ordered Fugaku to seal off Crimson Fiend Hall while Madara, Sasuke, Itachi, and Shisui joined him to attack its headquarters.
• Madara broke through Crimson Fiend Hall’s defenses, crushed its formation, and used Shinra Tensei to shatter the Quasi-Transcendent ancestor’s blood flood dragon and send him crashing through the main hall.
• Itachi and Shisui stopped the gang’s core members from burning its accounts, while Sasuke disabled the remaining resisting thugs and the Temple forces captured the headquarters.
• Fugaku recovered the stolen communication formation disc and a top-grade storage ring from Crimson Fiend Hall’s underground vault.

After the Crimson Fiend Hall fell, Ren reopened the Exchange Tower and expanded its services, while Kaguya detected a faint signal from the southwest. The City Lord's Estate tried to extort the tower, but Ren subdued Wang Mang, and Fugaku exposed his secret ties to the Crimson Fiend Hall.

• The Brocade-Robed Shopkeeper fled Chaotic Star City with his family and wealth, but Obito froze his convoy and the Uchiha Shrine seized its cargo.
• Ren unveiled the Exchange Tower, and Lu Ping announced its rules, fair healing-pill prices, and new trade-route escort service.
• Travelers bought more than ten thousand improved Void Link Rings, spreading the tower's information network throughout the region.
• Kaguya traced an intermittent signal from the recovered core array disk toward the southwestern border and told Ren it seemed to be asking for help.
• Wang Mang arrived with black-armored cavalry and demanded thirty percent of the Exchange Tower's profits under threat of sealing it.
• Ren crushed Wang Mang beneath immense gravity, and Fugaku presented correspondence bearing Wang Mang's seals as proof he had profited from the Crimson Fiend Hall and betrayed merchants.

Ren sent Itachi, Shisui, and Sasuke to infiltrate the Blood Fiend Mine and rescue Zhao Chen, the Exchange Tower’s former chief steward. On the way, Sasuke saved escaped miners from horse bandits, and Shisui found an order to execute every former Exchange Tower member held at the mine.

• Wang Mang tore up the rectification order and fled after Ren exposed his collusion with Crimson Fiend Hall.
• Sasuke fused his Lightning Release Chakra with Spiritual Energy, creating powerful Purple-Gold Lightning Release.
• Lu Ping confirmed that Zhao Chen was imprisoned at the Blood Fiend Mine and was being interrogated about the Exchange Tower’s secret map and alchemy methods.
• Remnants of the North City Merchant Alliance sought the Golden Cauldron Pavilion’s help to destroy the Exchange Tower.
• Ren ordered Itachi and Shisui to rescue Zhao Chen, and Sasuke joined them before they left for the mine.
• Sasuke killed the horse bandits attacking escaped miners, and Shisui found a letter ordering the execution of all former Exchange Tower members at the Blood Fiend Mine.

Shisui, Itachi, and Sasuke infiltrated the Blood Fiend Mine to rescue Zhao Chen and discovered that its formation drained the blood and vitality of enslaved miners. After breaking through the mine’s defenses and defeating its guards, they escaped with Zhao Chen and returned to Chaotic Star City.

• Shisui and Itachi watched the mine and saw its formation drain the miners’ blood and vitality to power the defenses.
• Itachi subdued the mine commander with Tsukuyomi and learned that Zhao Chen was held in the condemned prisoners’ deep well.
• Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to make the guarding general disable the formation core, opening a gap in the defenses.
• Sasuke broke into the dungeon, freed Zhao Chen, and triggered an alarm that brought five high-level Soul Sages and thousands of deathsworn.
• Itachi and Shisui summoned Susanoo while Sasuke unleashed Amaterasu, and together they broke through the attackers and escaped with Zhao Chen.
• The three returned to Chaotic Star City that night with Zhao Chen, who was gravely wounded.

Ren saved Zhao Chen from the blood fiend poison, and Zhao Chen gave him a secret map to three supreme-grade mystic crystal veins. When the Golden Cauldron Pavilion threatened the Exchange Tower, Madara Uchiha struck its envoy down, and Ren challenged the Pavilion to settle their scores at the citywide trade conference in three days.

• Ren used his Yin-Yang Six Paths Samsara Double Pupils to purge the poison from Zhao Chen and restore his health.
• Zhao Chen gave Ren a hidden parchment containing the coordinates of three supreme-grade mystic crystal veins.
• The Golden Cauldron Pavilion's envoy arrived in Chaotic Star City and demanded the North City Merchant Alliance's businesses and the Exchange Tower's pill formulas.
• Madara Uchiha slapped the envoy off his horse and sent him crashing through the street.
• Ren issued the Golden Cauldron Pavilion a challenge to settle their scores at the trade conference in three days, and the envoy fled.

At the citywide trade fair, Lu Ping unveiled the Exchange Tower’s improved Yin-Yang Origin-Restoring Liquid and defensive armor, drawing the crowd’s attention away from the Golden Cauldron Pavilion. When the Pavilion’s envoy accused them of theft and ordered a Transcendent expert to attack, Ren revealed ten powerful Soul Rings and spread a Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram across the square.

• The Golden Cauldron Pavilion displayed royal eighth-tier Soul Artifacts and sixth-grade Dragon Blood Barrier-Breaking Pills, then challenged the Exchange Tower to compete.
• Lu Ping presented the Yin-Yang Origin-Restoring Liquid and special defensive armor, prompting sect leaders to bid fiercely for both.
• The Golden Cauldron Pavilion’s envoy accused the Exchange Tower of stealing a royal secret formula and ordered Lightning Fiend Ancestor to kill them.
• Lightning Fiend Ancestor summoned purple lightning and struck toward the Exchange Tower’s seats.
• Ren revealed ten Soul Rings and his Yin-Yang Six Paths Samsara Double Pupils, dispelled the lightning clouds, and spread a vast Taiji Diagram across the square.

Ren defeated Lightning Fiend Ancestor, securing the Exchange Tower’s victory and a vast expansion of its power in Chaotic Star City. As Kaguya established a hidden cross-world channel, Zhong Zizai’s distress signal revealed that he was alive in the Myriad Tribulations Poison Forest and had found an ancient divine ruin, leaving Ren facing a dangerous rescue mission.

• Ren suppressed Lightning Fiend Ancestor with a single blow, and the Chaotic Star City Lord declared the Exchange Tower the trade conference winner.
• The Golden Cauldron Pavilion surrendered its shops, trade routes, and mining rights, and the Exchange Tower rapidly took control of Chaotic Star City’s commercial network.
• Lu Ping and Zhao Chen celebrated the Exchange Tower’s new assets and connected trade hubs, while Fugaku Uchiha began training the first Profound Wilderness Guard Army.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki completed a concealed cross-world energy channel linking the Profound Desolate World to the Shinobi World.
• Zhong Zizai’s distress signal reached the Exchange Tower’s Void Network, and Zhao Chen identified its source as the Myriad Tribulations Poison Forest.
• Zhao Chen told Ren that Zhong Zizai had found an intact ancient divine ruin, and Ren studied the forest’s map.

Ren led a team of experts toward the Myriad Tribulations Poison Forest to rescue Zhong Zizai, despite warnings about its deadly miasma and spatial rifts. As they reached the forest, its poisonous fog formed thousands of beasts and surged toward them.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki discovered that ancient god ruins and chaotic spatial rifts lay deep within the Myriad Tribulations Poison Forest, while Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha argued over the danger.
• Ren ordered Lu Ping and Zhao Chen to manage the Exchange Tower and assigned Fugaku Uchiha to guard the cross-world anchor, then chose Madara, Obito, Kaguya, Sasuke, Itachi, and Shisui to join his rescue mission.
• Ren gave the team Poison-Warding Pills and Yin-Yang Origin-Restoring Liquid, then used the Void Cloak to carry them southwest through the night.
• At dawn, Ren and the others reached the forest’s outskirts, where mercenaries watched their enormous flying carpet descend toward the poisonous miasma.
• The miasma formed thousands of beasts that swarmed the Void Cloak, and the mercenaries feared the team had triggered a ten-thousand-beast poison tide.

Ren and his companions fought through the Myriad Tribulations Poison Forest while following a token’s signal toward the place Zhong Zizai had died. After defeating an eighth-tier flood dragon, Ren refined its essence into a poison-warding pearl that opened a clear path deeper into the forest.

• Sasuke and Itachi cleared a path through the poisonous miasma with lightning and fire, and Shisui found a damaged Exchange Tower token bearing Zhong Zizai’s insignia.
• Ren used the Void Ring to draw a directional signal from the token, leading the group southwest into the poison forest.
• A Nine Nether Underworld Rot Flood Dragon attacked, but Madara split its poison wave with Susanoo and Obito pierced its eye while avoiding the venom with Kamui Intangibility.
• Ren bound the flood dragon and sealed its inner core, allowing Sasuke and Itachi to kill it with Chidori and Amaterasu.
• Ren refined the dragon’s life essence into a poison-warding mystic pearl, whose light cleared a safe passage through the poisonous swamp.