Recaps

Xu Chuan and Xu Deling entered the Skyreach Secret Realm, reunited, and gathered rare spirit herbs while Moyue searched for a water-type demon beast. They lured a Jade-Eyed Frost Toad toward Xu Chuan’s formation, and the chapter ended as the formation trapped both beasts.

• Xu Chuan recovered from his injuries, accepted the Huang brothers as Xu Household guest elders, and arranged for them to obtain a High-Grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Deling traveled with Firecloud True Person to the Skyreach Sect, where Xu Chuan learned about the Secret Realm and noticed the newly established Dong Zuo among the entrants.
• The Skyreach Sect elders opened the Secret Realm, and Xu Chuan and Xu Deling entered before Xu Chuan flew to her with Moyue’s help.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Deling collected rare spirit herbs while Moyue searched for a suitable water-type demon beast to hunt.
• Moyue provoked a Jade-Eyed Frost Toad at its lake, drew it toward the Northwest shore, and triggered Xu Chuan’s Sixfold Absolute-Sealing Formation.

Xu Chuan, Xu Deling, and Moyue defeated the Jade-Eyed Frost Toad, recovered, and claimed the Heavenly God Fruits before discovering an Azure Dragon Sect assessment hall. Xu Chuan and Xu Deling entered separate inheritance trials, leaving their results unknown.

• Moyue, Xu Chuan, and Xu Deling broke through the Jade-Eyed Frost Toad’s defenses, disrupted its unrefined flying sword, and killed it; Xu Chuan collected its remains while the Fire Barbarian Bull arrived too late to find them.
• Xu Chuan restored Moyue’s strength by refining four Demon Spirit Pills, while a dragon maiden watched them through screens and considered Xu Chuan and Xu Deling for Azure Dragon Sect inheritance trials.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Deling reached the Heavenly God Tree, then Moyue drove away the gathered cultivators so Xu Chuan could collect the ripe fruits and transplant the young tree into his space-compressing planter.
• Chen Changge discovered a low-grade Metal-Type Xiantian Spirit Treasure and began attempting Core Formation, while Xu Chuan and Xu Deling found spatial ripples in an ancient tree and entered a hidden hall.
• The hall’s voice explained that its six gates offered Azure Dragon Sect inheritance assessments, and Xu Deling entered the artifact-refining trial while Xu Chuan entered the pill-refining trial.

Xu Chuan passed the Azure Dragon Sect’s pill dao assessments, earned rare pills and the Pill Scripture legacy, and Xu Deling passed the artifact-refining assessments. On the final day of the secret realm expedition, Chen Changge successfully formed a Golden Core and asked Xu Chuan and Xu Deling to stay after the other cultivators departed.

• Xu Chuan chose the difficult Spirit-Concentrating Pill formula, refined three batches without failure, and earned the highest distinction and three High-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Xu Chuan passed the Heavenly Spirit Pill and Golden Core Formation Pill assessments, receiving rare pills, a Probationary True Disciple token, and access to a fourth assessment.
• Xu Chuan refined the fourth-tier Tribulation-Surmounting Pill and received the Pill Scripture legacy, then passed the Divination Dao trial and obtained the Little Star Astrology Scripture.
• Xu Deling told Xu Chuan she had passed the artifact-refining assessments and received rare materials, an artifact-refining legacy, and tokens from the Azure Dragon Sect and Vermilion Bird Sect.
• Xu Chuan promised Moyue the high-grade Dragon Essence Pill to help her pursue Fourth Tier, then planned with Xu Deling to safeguard their secret-realm rewards before leaving.
• Chen Changge used a low-grade Metal-Type Xiantian Spirit Treasure to form a Golden Core, and after the gathered cultivators congratulated him, he asked Xu Chuan and Xu Deling to remain.

Xu Chuan offered pill formulas to the Skyreach Sect in exchange for permission to sell the pills and a century of protection, while Chen Changge exposed the possessed Dong Zuo as the Primordial True Demon Yeluo Mo. Yeluo Mo escaped after a Nascent Soul elder wounded him, and the Mysterious Moon Sect ordered the Northwest Region to hunt him as Xu Deling shared an artifact-refining inheritance with Firecloud True Person.

• Xu Chuan warned Chen Changge about the suspicious disciple Dong Zuo, then offered three pill formulas to the Skyreach Sect and secured permission to sell the pills and a hundred years of protection for the Xu Household.
• Yeluo Mo, possessing Dong Zuo, revealed his demonic nature when Chen Changge attacked him; Elder Mu and the Golden Core cultivators joined the fight before the Skyreach Sect's Nascent Soul Grand Supreme Elder drove Yeluo Mo into retreat.
• The Grand Supreme Elder ordered a search for Yeluo Mo, and Chen Changge received a third-rank defensive formation for the Chen Household and three Essence-Nourishing Pills.
• Xu Chuan returned to the Xu Household with Xu Deling, discussed their secret-realm gains and plans for divine ability core formation, and later learned that Xu Deling had shared an artifact-refining inheritance with Firecloud True Person.
• After the Ancient Demon remained missing for a month, the Mysterious Moon Sect's master told the Purple-Robed Man to handle the threat, and the sect ordered the Northwest Region to search for Yeluo Mo.

After the Ancient Demon affair, the Xu Household gained Skyreach Sect protection and expanded its businesses, while Xu Deling advanced her artifact refining and broke through to Golden Core divine consciousness. The chapter ended with the Yuan and Fang households weighing whether to leave Cloudbrook Town or fight back against the Xu Household’s growing commercial power.

• The Skyreach Sect installed a third-rank mid-grade defensive formation at the Chen Household, and Elder Cang offered help for Chen Changge’s descendants to join the sect.
• Xu Deling refined a two-pattern Heavenly Wood Shield, won Crimsonfire True Person’s artifact-refining contest, and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Xu Chuan gave Xu Deling three high-grade Spirit-Nourishing Pills, and she endured a dangerous breakthrough to Golden Core divine consciousness before studying the Fire Emperor's True Eyes.
• Xu Chuan ordered Ye Fan to expand the Xu Household’s pill business and recruit specialists, while Xu Mingxian took Feng Ming as a nominal formation disciple and began training new talent.
• The Xu Clan Trading Company launched Spirit-Gathering Pills and displayed rare artifacts, drawing customers and cutting the Yuan and Fang households’ business by nearly thirty percent.
• The Fang patriarch asked the Yuan patriarch how to respond, and the two considered leaving Cloudbrook Town or fighting the Xu Household.

Fang Hongchang tried to keep the Fang Household clear of a war between the Yuan and Xu Households, but the Fang elders split and most sided with Yuan Qishan. As Fang Hongchang planned to leave Cloudbrook Town with his faction, Xu Chuan predicted Yuan Qishan would not let him escape alive.

• Fang Hongchang visited Hua Yunfei, learned the Hua Household intended to stay neutral, and then offered the Xu Household his allegiance and cultivation chamber in exchange for protection.
• Xu Chuan chose to destroy the Yuan Household, while Fang Hongchang agreed to delay Yuan Qishan’s plans; Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian began preparing formations for the attack.
• Yuan Qishan’s spy Mei Yun reported that the Fang Household was not preparing for war, then resigned; the Yuan Household retaliated by attacking Fang properties.
• Fang Hongchang revealed his secret arrangement with the Xu Household at a clan assembly, but most elders chose to join the Yuan Household, splitting the Fang Household.
• Fang Hongchang warned Xu Mingxian of the alliance against the Xu Household and said he would leave Cloudbrook Town with his faction; Yuan Qishan ordered an agent to watch and kill him if he tried to leave.
• Xu Chuan told Xu Mingxian that Fang Hongchang was finished because Yuan Qishan would not let him leave Cloudbrook Town unharmed.

The Yuan and Fang Households’ attacks on the Xu Household failed against its hidden formations, and the Xu Household retaliated after Moyue recovered his peak strength. Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian sealed the Yuan Household inside a formation and prepared to break through its defenses, beginning their campaign to take control of Cloudbrook Town.

• Fang Hongchang’s people were ambushed by Yuan Qishan’s masked forces, and Fang Hongchang killed himself with a self-detonation that also killed several Yuan Household cultivators.
• The Yuan and Fang Households attacked the Xu Household’s spirit properties, residence, and trading company, but the Xu Household’s formations stopped them; Ye Fan and Xu Deyue’s Cold-Yang Ancient Formation killed many Fang Household cultivators and forced the survivors to flee.
• Xu Chuan’s warning about possible spies made Yuan Qishan and the Fang Household Grand Elder delay seeking Golden Core help, while Hua Yunfei and Hua Qingxue decided the Hua Household should stay out of the conflict.
• Moyue awakened with his peak strength restored, and Xu Chuan decided to end the conflict before the Year Sacrifice after the Yuan and Fang Households had attacked the Xu Household.
• Ye Fan, Xu Deyue, Huang Tianba, and allied Demon-Hunting Teams attacked the Yuan and Fang Households’ businesses, while Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian concealed the Yuan Household inside the Sixfold Absolute-Sealing Formation and set up the Cloudsky Illusion Formation.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian entered the sealed Yuan Household grounds, and Xu Chuan prepared to break the household’s Clan-Protecting Grand Formation.

Xu Chuan destroyed the Yuan and Fang households, took control of Cloudbrook Town, and established new rules under the Xu Household’s authority. At Chen Changge’s Golden Core Ceremony, True Person Yanshan and Blackwind True Person confronted Xu Chuan over his gifts, and he used the exchange to ask Yanshan for rare Heavenly Spirit Pill ingredients.

• Moyue shattered the Yuan Household’s formation and killed its members while Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian collected its resources; they then destroyed the Fang Household and returned home.
• Xu Chuan declared the Xu Household’s rule over Cloudbrook Town, set taxes and property arrangements, and promised cultivation facilities and arenas; the town’s lineages accepted his terms.
• The Xu Household recruited workers, began taking over the Yuan and Fang households’ properties, and celebrated the Year Sacrifice as news of its victory spread.
• True Person Yanshan and Blackwind True Person planned to confront Xu Chuan at Chen Changge’s Golden Core Ceremony, while Firecloud True Person accompanied Xu Chuan and warned him about the households’ backers.
• At the ceremony, Xu Chuan presented Chen Changge with Essence-Gathering Pills that Elder Cang identified as mid-grade pills refined from a formula found in the Skyreach Secret Realm.
• Xu Chuan told True Person Yanshan that he wanted to refine Heavenly Spirit Pills and offered to buy their scarce ingredients at thirty percent above market price.

At Chen Changge’s Golden Core Ceremony, Xu Chuan secured Cang Fengheng’s agreement to take Xu Mingxian as his disciple and pass on the Cang Household’s Formation Path inheritance. Back at the Xu Residence, Xu Chuan awakened the ancient True Disciple Murong Yun within a spirit treasure sword and negotiated her help for Xu Deyue in exchange for an oath to protect the Xu Household.

• Xu Chuan gave Chen Changge three Azure Cloud Pills and asked about Golden Core cultivators skilled in formations.
• Cang Fengheng visited the Xu Residence, tested Xu Mingxian’s Cloudsky Illusion Formation, and agreed to take him as a disciple while letting him remain with the Xu Household.
• Cang Fengheng gave Xu Mingxian a Jade Slip containing formation inheritances and his own insights before departing with Cang Yuyang.
• Xu Chuan examined a moon-white flying sword, and its spirit revealed herself as Murong Yun, a former True Disciple of the Azure Dragon Sect who had reached Spirit Transformation.
• Murong Yun agreed to swear that she would never harm the Xu Household and offered to help Xu Deyue as her Lifebound Magic Treasure; Xu Chuan asked her to examine Xu Deyue’s cultivation method.

Xu Chuan’s household rebuilt its estate, welcomed Ye Fan and Xu Deyue’s marriage, and learned that the Heavenly Pride Gathering would take place in seven years. As the gathering approached, Ye Fan and Xu Deyue challenged the Yan Household’s talents, defeated two of its cultivators, and asked whether anyone knew of a method for cultivating water and fire together.

• Xu Deyue accepted Great Yin and chose to rebuild her foundation using the Water Sovereign Scripture, while Ye Fan agreed to marry into the Xu Household.
• Xu Deyue received Murong Yun’s inheritance and began cultivating anew; Xu Chuan also learned how to pursue divine ability core formation.
• The Xu Household completed its new estate and Cultivation Pagoda, hosted Golden Core guests, and later celebrated Xu Deyue and Ye Fan’s wedding.
• Feng Juechen became the Azurewood Sect Leader, and Xu Chuan learned that the Southern Heaven Heaven’s Chosen Assembly would begin in seven years.
• At the Yan Household’s residence, Ye Fan defeated Yan Qing and Xu Deyue defeated Yan Han during their challenge.
• Xu Deyue asked the Yan Household about a water-and-fire cultivation method, and an elder said he knew of no such method in the Seven Cities of Skyreach or the Three Sects.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue searched for a water-fire cultivation method for their son, while Xu Chuan’s Ghost Market failed to find one. Xu Mingxian revealed his self-created battle formations and proved his strength in a spar with Moyue, leaving his plan to enter the Heavenly Pride Gathering supported by his new path.

• Yan Han learned that Ye Fan and Xu Deyue belonged to the Yunxi Xu Household, and the Yan elder reprimanded Yan Qing while arranging a magical artifact for Yan Han.
• Wu Zhusan held the quarterly Ghost Market session, where the Heaven Mountain Seal was traded but no one offered information about a water-fire cultivation method.
• Wu Zhusan reported the unsuccessful search to Xu Chuan, who later let Moyue look after Xu Chongfei.
• Xu Chuan explained that he was creating his own divine ability, while Xu Mingxian announced that he wanted to enter the Heavenly Pride Gathering and described how he formed battle formations with a single thought.
• Xu Mingxian used successive battle formations to restrain and threaten Moyue, who broke them by reverting to his true form and denied that he had lost.

Xu Deyue defeated the hidden Yan Household genius Yan Kuangtu in a private match, while Xu Chuan learned that Xu Mingxian’s battle formations resembled the inheritance of a Taihua Domain sacred land. After Deyue began training with a new sword, Xu Deling entered seclusion to attempt refining her first Magic Treasure for Xu Chuan.

• Xu Chuan approved Xu Mingxian’s plans to pursue the Battle Formation Path, then failed to divine his future because heavenly secrets warned him off.
• Murong Yun told Xu Chuan that Taihua Domain had a Formation Path Sacred Land whose disciples could create formations with their own bodies, and Xu Chuan recognized similarities to Xu Mingxian’s battle formations.
• Yan Kuangtu challenged Xu Deyue at the Xu Residence; after their spells and ordinary artifacts proved insufficient, Deyue used Great Yin’s Moonlight strike to defeat him.
• Xu Deling forged Deyue a Two-Pattern flying sword called Heavenly Water, and Deyue began secluded cultivation to learn the Heavenly Water Sword Art.
• Xu Deling entered seclusion in Firecloud Valley to refine her first Magic Treasure, an Alchemy Furnace, while Firecloud True Person prepared to take her to the Heavenforged Sect if she succeeded.

Xu Deling completed the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace and gave it to Xu Chuan, while the Liu Household held the Cloud Lake Gathering to bring together Skyreach Prefecture’s Foundation Establishment geniuses. Ye Fan defended himself against Yun Yi’s challenge, and Xu Deling headed to the gathering after Xu Chuan revealed that Yan Yue had come hoping to see her.

• Xu Deling used her artifact-refining skills to forge a Magic Treasure Alchemy Furnace, while the Liu Household arranged to borrow Cloud Lake’s southern shore for a gathering of geniuses.
• Liu Yue and Liu Feng organized the Cloud Lake Gathering, and Ye Fan agreed to let them use the Xu Household’s land on the condition that they protect local people and spirit fields.
• At the gathering, Yun Yi challenged Ye Fan over his resentment toward the Xu Household, and Ye Fan withstood all three of Yun Yi’s attacks using his armor, gauntlets, and fire techniques.
• Yan Yue identified Ye Fan’s equipment as Two-Pattern Magical Artifacts refined by Xu Deling, then learned that she was away at Firecloud Valley.
• Xu Deling presented the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace to Xu Chuan, who sent her to Cloud Lake after revealing that Yan Yue had come especially to see her.
• Firecloud True Person objected to the idea of Yan Yue becoming Xu Deling’s Dao companion, but relaxed when Xu Chuan explained that Yan Yue would have to marry into the Xu Household.

Xu Deling displayed her divine ability at the Cloud Lake Gathering, then left with Firecloud True Person to seek an opportunity for her Golden Core breakthrough. Meanwhile, the Ancient Demon Yeluo Mo returned to the Azure Sky Mountains, and Xu Chuan arranged to confront him as the Huang brothers searched for a missing cultivator near Eagle Beak Ridge.

• Xu Deling defeated Wang Chuan with the Fire Emperor's True Eyes and injured Yun Yi with a single move, then declined to attend the Heavenly Pride Gathering.
• Xu Deling departed with Firecloud True Person after spending three days at the Xu Residence, while Xu Chuan encouraged Ye Fan and Xu Deyue to prepare for the Heavenly Pride Gathering.
• Yeluo Mo returned to the Azure Sky Mountains, failed to break the Chen Household's third-rank formation, and began hunting human cultivators.
• After learning that several cultivators had gone missing near Eagle Beak Ridge, Xu Chuan divined that Yeluo Mo had returned and warned Huang Tianba and Huang Tianxiong to delay their search.
• Ye Fan later told the Huang brothers to resume their journey, and they reached Eagle Beak Ridge, where Yeluo Mo watched them unseen.

Xu Chuan and his allies ambushed Yeluo Mo, rescued Huang Tianba and Huang Tianxiong, and destroyed the Ancient Demon's possessed body. Yeluo Mo's remnant consciousness tried to possess Xu Chuan but was absorbed by the Xu Clan Genealogy, leaving Xu Chuan with a Divine Consciousness Crystal; the chapter ended with Xu Mingxian asking what to do about the Huang brothers, who had seen Moyue.

• Yeluo Mo ambushed Huang Tianba and Huang Tianxiong, defeated them, and bound them with demonic qi.
• Xu Chuan, Xu Mingxian, Xu Deyue, and Moyue trapped Yeluo Mo in several formations and attacked him with Moyue's ice flood dragon and Xu Chuan's fire phoenix.
• Xu Deyue used the Great Yin Flying Sword to sever Yeluo Mo's head, but his remnant consciousness escaped into the demonic mist and attempted to possess Xu Chuan.
• The Xu Clan Genealogy protected Xu Chuan's divine soul, absorbed Yeluo Mo's remnant consciousness, and refined it into a Divine Consciousness Crystal.
• Xu Chuan recovered and learned from Murong Yun that the crystal could nourish his divine soul once he reached the Golden Core realm.
• Xu Mingxian asked Xu Chuan how they should handle Huang Tianba and Huang Tianxiong after the brothers had seen Moyue.

Xu Chuan taught Ye Fan the Brahma Sacred Body Art, and Ye Fan endured two medicinal temperings before reaching the late second tier and advancing to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment. At Horn Star City’s Heavenly Pride Gathering selection, Xu Deyue and Xu Mingxian secured passes, and Ye Fan challenged Skyreach Sect disciple Zeng Guang, revealing the strength of his newly tempered body.

• Xu Chuan gave Ye Fan the Brahma Sacred Body Art and arranged medicinal baths with Moyue’s flood dragon essence blood to strengthen his body.
• Ye Fan endured two painful tempering sessions, then cultivated at Firecloud Valley and broke through to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Mingxian brought Xu Deyue, Ye Fan, and Xu Household guards to Horn Star City for the Skyreach Sect arena selection.
• Xu Deyue received a direct pass, and Xu Mingxian defeated Zeng Guang with two Two-Pattern Magical Artifacts.
• Ye Fan challenged Zeng Guang and used his Red-Gold Armor and Fist Gauntlets to withstand attacks and drive Zeng Guang backward with powerful punches.

Ye Fan, Xu Deyue, and Xu Mingxian secured places among Skyreach Prefecture’s thirty-six qualifiers, but the Greedy Wolf Sect arrived to demand several slots through deadly duels. After learning of a newly opened Elder Mount Tai Sect secret realm, the Skyreach elders agreed to the challenge and promised rewards for defeating their opponents.

• Ye Fan defeated Zeng Guang in Horn Star City’s arena assessment, and the Xu Household’s candidates later traveled to the Skyreach Sect for the qualification battles.
• Xu Deyue challenged Xi Tianqing and forced him to use his divine ability before conceding, while Xi Tianqing secured the first slot.
• Yan Kuangtu and Ye Fan defeated their challengers, and Xu Mingxian strategically eliminated rogue-cultivator contenders before securing the final slot; the Chen Household’s Chen disciple also earned a place.
• The Greedy Wolf Sect’s elders confronted the Skyreach Sect and demanded slots, offering information about an Elder Mount Tai Sect secret realm in exchange for accepting the dispute.
• Chiyang agreed to death matches between the two prefectures and promised escalating rewards for victories; Xu Mingxian stepped forward as the thirty-sixth-ranked qualifier.

Xu Mingxian defeated eleven Greedy Wolf Sect challengers in succession, earning Skyreach Sect rewards and a new sword art. Meanwhile, Firecloud True Person brought Xu Deling to the Heavenforged Sect, where she began competing in artifact refining to win access to its Flame Phoenix Blood Pool.

• Xu Mingxian killed eleven Greedy Wolf Sect challengers in succession, using pills, talismans, formations, and a self-detonating flying sword to overcome the final opponent.
• The black-robed Greedy Wolf Sect elder killed the last remaining challenger, conceded defeat, and left with the red-robed elder; Chiyang promised Xu Mingxian replacement magical artifacts and a Talisman Treasure.
• Xu Mingxian received the Great White Sword Art from the Inheritance Stele, and Elder Redflame later forged him two replacement magical artifacts.
• Ye Fan reached major mastery in the first level of the Brahma Sacred Body Art, while Xu Mingxian and Xu Chuan continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Firecloud True Person and Xu Deling arrived at the Heavenforged Sect to fulfill a century-old promise and seek entry for Xu Deling to the Flame Phoenix Blood Pool.
• Xu Deling began an artifact-refining contest against Rong Tianyang's disciple Zhu Shan, with Firecloud True Person proposing that she could also fight him if she won.

Xu Deling defeated the Heavenforged Sect’s young artifact refiners with her Twin Flood Dragon Scissors and revealed that she could comprehend second-tier artifact runes. She then accepted Zhu Rong’s challenge to refine a magic treasure, leaving to attempt it on Blazing Sun Peak.

• Xu Deling won her contest against Zhu Shan when his refining attempt failed, then challenged the Heavenforged Sect’s younger generation and drew a wager over the Flame Phoenix Blood Pool place.
• Xu Deling refined the Twin Flood Dragon Scissors, whose power made Qingyang and the other top artifact refiners concede and pay their stakes.
• Zhu Rong wagered materials against Xu Deling’s scissors and their refining method, then produced a Three-Pattern Magical Artifact, the Heavenly King Spear.
• Xu Deling revealed she could trace second-tier artifact runes, prompting Zhu Rong to insist she prove herself by refining a magic treasure.
• Blazing Sun True Lord offered Xu Deling Third-Rank True Flame and materials; she announced she would produce her magic treasure within one to two months and went with him to Blazing Sun Peak.

Xu Deling completed the Heaven-Flipping Seal, impressing the Heavenforged Sect’s Golden Core cultivators and earning True Sun’s offer to become his Personal Disciple. She accepted after True Sun agreed she could remain near her lineage and establish a Heavenforged Sect branch there, then revealed she intended to pursue divine ability core formation.

• Rong Tianyang kept the sect’s Golden Core cultivators from disturbing Xu Deling as she refined, while the Grand Supreme Elders True Sun and Flame Dragon observed her progress.
• Xu Deling used high-grade pills to sustain her spiritual consciousness and successfully refined the Heaven-Flipping Seal with one main rune and two supporting runes.
• Blazing Sun True Lord displayed the seal at an appraisal gathering, where the Golden Core cultivators praised Xu Deling’s artifact-refining skill and True Lord Yan Zhen offered to take her as his disciple.
• True Sun appeared with Flame Dragon and offered to take Xu Deling as his Personal Disciple, promising she could decide whether to stay at the Heavenforged Sect and authorizing a branch near her lineage.
• Xu Deling accepted True Sun as her master, and he took her to the sect’s secluded cultivation retreat, where she announced she had already chosen to pursue divine ability core formation.

Xu Deling underwent a Nirvana transformation at the Heavenforged Sect, gaining a Flame Phoenix Spirit Body and a spirit-bird companion, while Xu Chuan learned of her transformation through the Clan Genealogy. After the Skyreach Sect’s disastrous expedition to the Ancient Mount Tai Sect Secret Realm, Xu Chuan traveled with the Heavenly Pride Gathering delegation to Mysterious Moon City, where he encountered a mysterious stall and bought all five of its sealed boxes.

• Xu Deling collected her winnings from Zhu Rong, refined Three-Pattern Magical Artifacts, and was publicly accepted as True Sun’s personal disciple at the Heavenforged Sect.
• At the Flame Phoenix Blood Pool, a remnant consciousness bestowed flame phoenix essence blood on Xu Deling and her demonic bird egg, prompting both to undergo Nirvana.
• Xu Deling completed her transformation, formed a bond with the four-winged spirit bird, and accepted Flame Dragon as her Second Master.
• Xu Chuan saw Xu Deling’s new Flame Phoenix Spirit Body and bloodline in the Clan Genealogy, then learned that the Skyreach Sect and the Three Sects had suffered devastating losses in the Ancient Mount Tai Sect Secret Realm.
• Xu Chuan traveled with the Skyreach Prefecture delegation to Mysterious Moon City for the Heavenly Pride Gathering and took Xu Mingxian, Xu Deyue, and Ye Fan around the city.
• Xu Chuan encountered a white-haired old man selling sealed wooden boxes and bought all five for one thousand spirit stones each.

Xu Chuan bought five mysterious wooden boxes whose valuable contents helped Xu Mingxian study formations, then the Heavenly Pride Gathering arena matches began, with the Xu Household’s contestants advancing. As the survivors prepared for the Secret Realm contest, Murong Yun offered Xu Deyue a secret art to rapidly strengthen her spiritual consciousness and seal techniques.

• Xu Chuan bought all five wooden boxes for five thousand spirit stones, and Xu Mingxian discovered Formation Grandmaster notes, a high-grade Water-Type Spirit Stone, a third-rank Treasure Talisman, a High-Grade Heavenly Spirit Pill, and Moonlight Essence Liquid inside.
• Xu Chuan studied the contestants and placed three thousand spirit stones each on Xu Mingxian and Chen Tianlei, then the Heavenly Pride Gathering arena matches began and Ye Fan received a lucky direct place in the Secret Realm competition.
• Xu Deyue killed Mo Sheng after overpowering him with the Heavenly Water Sword Art and Cold Heaven Seal, while Xu Mingxian and Chen Tianlei also won their matches.
• Xu Mingxian, Ye Fan, Chen Tianlei, Yan Kuangtu, and the other successful contestants advanced, and Xu Chuan urged his family to prioritize survival in the upcoming Secret Realm contest.
• Murong Yun told Xu Deyue that a secret art could raise her spiritual consciousness to the Foundation Establishment limit and help her master Nine Seals Become Three, then named it the Great Bliss Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Art.

Xu Deyue and Ye Fan used the Great Bliss Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Art to strengthen their cultivation before the Secret Realm Competition, where they joined Xu Mingxian and battled their way through the trial. As the mist closed in and casualties mounted, Skyreach Prefecture also faced the threat of conflict with Greedy Wolf Prefecture, while the Xu family trio suspected two powerful Greedy Wolf Sect disciples were tied to an earlier massacre.

• Murong Yun taught Xu Deyue the Great Bliss Yin-Yang Harmony Secret Art, and Xu Deyue and Ye Fan practiced it, raising their spiritual consciousness and cultivation; Xu Deyue later transformed her divine soul with Spirit-Nourishing Pills.
• Xu Chuan learned the secret art from Ye Fan, then the group entered the Secret Realm Competition after True Lord Qingxuan explained its rules and rewards.
• True Lord Canglang wagered two third-rank spirit veins against Skyreach Prefecture territory, and True Lord Qingmu accepted on condition that a tie in heavenly pride places counted as Skyreach Prefecture's victory.
• Xu Mingxian and Xu Deyue reunited with Ye Fan, and the trio killed Ding Ming after trapping him in Xu Mingxian's Six Directions Absolute-Sealing Formation.
• Xu Mingxian, Xu Deyue, and Ye Fan suspected two Greedy Wolf Sect disciples were connected to the Skyreach Sect's previous secret realm losses, so they stayed together and hunted for tokens.
• As the mist contracted, participants were eliminated or killed; Shangguan Hong died, Chen Tianlei and others escaped by crushing their Jade Tokens, and Lei Chaojian withdrew after being gravely injured.

Xu Mingxian, Xu Deyue, and Ye Fan defeated Zhongli and survived the secret realm, with Xu Mingxian taking first place in the Northwest preliminary selection and winning a rare water-and-fire cultivation method for his family. After three months of preparation, the Heavenly Prides departed for the main gathering in Azure Cloud City, while Xu Deling looked forward to seeing her family again.

• Xu Mingxian’s group killed the Cangshan Sect’s five participants, then Xu Deyue’s Great Yin flying sword delivered the fatal blow to Zhongli and absorbed the ancient demon’s spiritual consciousness.
• Zhang Xuanzhi killed Wen Jiu with the Little Five-Element Demon-Sealing Formation, and Great Yin later destroyed the ancient demon consciousness that escaped from Wen Jiu.
• The secret realm ended with seventy-two survivors; Xu Mingxian placed first with twenty-two points, Zhang Xuanzhi placed second, and Xu Deyue and Ye Fan tied for tenth.
• Xu Mingxian requested the Flame-Frost Nine Heavens method for Xu Chongfei, while Xu Deyue and Ye Fan received cultivation resources; Xu Chuan also secured a spirit vein reward for the Xu Household.
• After months of seclusion, the Heavenly Prides and their elders departed for Azure Cloud City to attend the main gathering.
• At Heavenforged City, Xu Deling said she was happy because she had not seen her family in a long time.

Xu Chuan discovered a rare Withering-and-Blooming Tree root at an auction and revived it before the Heavenly Pride Gathering began in Azure Cloud City. As the five regions gathered to activate the Heavenly Pride Ranking, a demonic force interrupted the ceremony.

• Xu Deling reunited with Xu Chuan in Azure Cloud City and revealed that she had joined the Heavenforged Sect as its chief Foundation Establishment disciple.
• Xu Deling told the Xu Household that the Heavenly Pride Ranking was a damaged Ancient Cave-Heaven Spirit Treasure, then explained the Heavenforged Sect planned to establish a branch in Skyreach Prefecture.
• Xu Deling learned the Xu Household had a conflict with the Greedy Wolf Sect and promised to ask her masters to help buy the household time.
• Xu Chuan followed a divination to the Voidsky Commerce Guild auction, qualified to enter by breaking through a defensive barrier, and bought a Withering-and-Blooming Tree root.
• Xu Chuan revived the root and accelerated its growth before the Heavenly Pride Gathering opened at Cloudmirror Plaza.
• Xuanzhen brought forth the Heavenly Pride Ranking, but a shout from the sky and surging demonic qi interrupted the five powers as they prepared to activate it.