Recaps

The Xiantian Secret Realm at Taihe Lake opened, drawing cultivators from Skyreach Prefecture and Greedy Wolf Prefecture into a dangerous contest for its treasures. After Xu Deyue entered the realm, she fought a Golden Core Late Stage demonic cultivator over a Profound Soul Ice Lotus and gained the upper hand.

• Cultivators gathered at Taihe Lake, where the unstable entrance repelled attempts to enter and prompted smaller factions to form alliances.
• Ye Fan, Xu Deyue, Xu Deling, and their allies arrived, reunited with Xu Chongfei and Chen Yulian, and allowed the gathered cultivators to enter once the passage stabilized.
• Xu Deling’s party confronted demonic cultivators from Greedy Wolf Prefecture, then both sides entered the realm; Nascent Soul leaders Qi Tianxiong, Xi Daoyun, and Mo Wentian later held each other in check above the entrance.
• Cultivators spread through the realm and fought over its treasures, while the Greedy Wolf Sect’s Qi Tianxiong ordered his followers to kill anyone outside their sect.
• Xu Deyue found an immature Profound Soul Ice Lotus and battled a Golden Core Late Stage Black-Robed Elder, whose Ghost-Head Staff was damaged by her Great Yin Swordlight and whose shoulder she wounded.

Xu Deling and her allies seized spirit veins and fought the Greedy Wolf Sect in the Xiantian Secret Realm while Xu Chongfei and Chen Yulian discovered a hidden treasure valley. Back in Cloudbrook City, Moyue began its tribulation, drawing a crowd as thunderclouds gathered over Cloud Lake.

• Xu Chongfei and Chen Yulian found an Icefire Spring with two strands of xiantian qi, and Xu Chongfei absorbed them into his immortal foundation after enduring severe injuries.
• Xu Deyue located Xu Chongfei but could not enter the poisonous miasma around his valley, so she and Xu Deling left him and Chen Yulian to cultivate there.
• Xu Deling killed two Greedy Wolf Sect elders and a wounded Swordfeather Thunder Eagle, then joined Ye Fan and Xu Deyue to slay a Blazing Blood Mastiff Lion and extract a low-grade third-rank spirit vein.
• Xu Deling and her allies defeated the Greedy Wolf Sect’s challenge alongside Lei Wuji and extracted a fourth-tier mid-grade spirit vein before departing to seek other opportunities.
• Moyue flew to Cloud Lake outside Cloudbrook City and began its tribulation, while Xu Chuan and the city’s cultivators watched the thunderclouds gather.

Moyue survived his tribulation and became a fourth-tier transforming great demon, then accompanied Xu Chuan to Taihe Lake, where Xu Chuan negotiated the factions’ terms for the Xiantian Secret Realm. Xu Chuan was barred from entering, but he secretly told Xu Deling how to secure gains for the Xu Household, which had also found several spirit veins.

• Moyue endured the tribulation with Xu Chuan’s Magnetism Shield, transformed into a great demon, and helped Xu Chuan condense the Seal of Life and Death.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue arrived at Taihe Lake, where Moyue fought Qi Tianxiong and demonstrated his strength to the three faction leaders.
• Xu Chuan secured a six-month nonaggression pact and rules for dividing gains, but agreed not to enter the Xiantian Secret Realm.
• Xu Chuan secretly contacted Xu Deling, who learned the agreement and prepared Xu Household Tokens to exchange for thirty percent of other cultivators’ gains.
• Xu Deling told Xu Chuan that the Xu Household had obtained a Fourth-Tier Mid-Grade Wood-Type Spirit Vein and three Third-Rank Spirit Veins.

Xu Deling traded temporary Xu Household Tokens for a share of cultivators’ gains and fought off True Lord Qingmu, True Lord Bing Gan, and Xi Fengyue while rescuing Xu Chongfei and Chen Yulian. After revealing the Fire Phoenix Rebirth Art, she recovered with her companions as Xu Chuan activated a formation over Taihe Lake to prevent anyone from escaping the secret realm.

• Xu Deling made tens of thousands of temporary tokens and offered cultivators protection in exchange for thirty percent of their gains, less than the fifty percent demanded by the Nascent Soul factions outside.
• Xu Deling entered the poisonous miasma, rescued Xu Chongfei and Chen Yulian, and extracted the Icefire Spring from the valley.
• True Lord Qingmu, True Lord Bing Gan, and Xi Fengyue attacked Ye Fan and the others, but Xu Deling emerged and threatened the Xi Household if they harmed her family.
• Xu Deling used the Fire Phoenix Rebirth Art to transform into a powerful Fire Phoenix, defeated the attackers, and forced them to retreat.
• Xu Deling explained the Fire Phoenix Rebirth Art to Xu Chongfei, then stopped trading and waited with the others for the secret realm to close.
• Xu Chuan set six Formation Flags around Taihe Lake and activated a formation spanning two hundred li to stop anyone from escaping.

After the Xiantian Secret Realm closed, Xu Chuan outmaneuvered the other powers, gathered most of the expedition’s gains for the Xu Household, and revealed that the household would offer a Nascent Soul formation opportunity at an upcoming gathering. The chapter ends with Lei Wuji seeking that opportunity for the Lei Clan’s ancestor, only for Xu Chuan to say the Lei Clan’s offer was not what the Xu Household wanted.

• Xu Chuan and the other power leaders trapped the returning cultivators within a two-hundred-mile formation, and Xu Chuan demanded that unaffiliated cultivators hand over half their gains.
• Thousands of cultivators presented Xu Household Tokens and joined the Xu Household’s ranks, enraging Qi Tianxiong and prompting Moyue to challenge him; the other leaders accepted the tokens under their oath.
• Xu Chuan’s forces divided the seized gains, then he announced a Cloudbrook City auction and trade gathering in three months that would offer an opportunity for Nascent Soul formation.
• Moyue carried Xu Chuan and the Xu Household’s allies back to Cloudbrook City, where the city learned he was the household’s transforming great demon; Ye Fan also introduced Ye Feng as his new nominal disciple.
• Xu Chuan’s household catalogued its vast haul, while several allies exchanged their gains for pills and other resources; news of the secret realm and the planned gathering spread throughout Skyreach Prefecture.
• Lei Wuji returned to Cloudbrook City with a rich offer from the Lei Clan for help with its ancestor’s Nascent Soul breakthrough, but Xu Chuan said the treasure existed and the offer was not what the Xu Household wanted.

Xu Chuan refused to help the Lei Clan secure a Nascent Soul opportunity, while rival powers prepared to compete for it at Cloudbrook City. He strengthened Xiao Zhan and the Demon Heaven Trading Company, then sent Xu Deling to negotiate over rare voidspace stone as the auction approached.

• Xu Chuan told Lei Wuji that the Lei Clan Ancestor could pursue Nascent Soul Formation on his own, but the opportunity already belonged to someone else, and Lei Wuji reaffirmed the clan’s ten-year service agreement.
• Xi Daoyun and True Lord Qingmu agreed that Qingmu would receive the Skyreach Sect’s Nascent Soul opportunity if they obtained it, and Xi Daoyun gave him a high-grade Wood-Type spirit treasure to help perfect his divine ability.
• A demonic Golden Core cultivator entered Cloudbrook City, where Xiao Zhan and his companions observed the city’s strict rules and prepared to visit the Ascension Pavilion.
• Xu Chuan met Xiao Zhan at the Ascension Pavilion, reviewed the Demon Heaven Trading Company’s growth, rewarded Xiao Zhan with pills and a metal-type xiantian spirit treasure, and kept the remaining resources for the company’s development.
• Xu Chuan obtained Profound Nether Grass from Xiao Zhan’s gains and ordered the Xu Household to collect ingredients for the Mysterious Nether Pill, which could assist Golden Core cultivators in forming a Nascent Soul.
• After learning that a demonic Golden Core cultivator had consigned voidspace stone for the Yunxi Auction, Xu Chuan sent Xu Deling to seek an advance purchase, and she arrived to meet the seller.

Xu Chuan used a Voidspace Stone to expand the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven, while Xu Deling rejected Rong Tianyang’s request to secure a Nascent Soul Formation opportunity for Blazing Sun True Lord. As the Cloudbrook Assembly drew near, Mo Wentian offered an alliance with the Xu Household and revealed how much he suspected Xu Chuan had orchestrated during the Two Prefectures War.

• Xu Deling traded Gu Xuan two bottles of mid-grade Azure Cloud Pills and a defensive Magic Treasure for his Voidspace Stone, which Xu Chuan used to expand the cave-heaven to roughly three li.
• Rong Tianyang asked Xu Deling to persuade Xu Chuan to give the Nascent Soul Formation opportunity to Blazing Sun True Lord, but she refused and told him the matter was settled.
• Blazing Sun True Lord apologized to Xu Deling for Rong Tianyang and accepted that the Xu Household would decide how to use its opportunity; Xu Chuan later said he might help Blazing Sun in the future if the Xu Household grew powerful enough.
• With one month remaining before the Cloudbrook Assembly, Mo Wentian visited Xu Chuan, offered rare materials as an apology, and proposed an alliance to help the Xu Household replace the Skyreach Sect as the power in Skyreach Prefecture.
• Mo Wentian confronted Xu Chuan about his suspected role in shaping the Two Prefectures War and bringing in the Mysterious Moon Ancestor and Flame Dragon, then admitted he wanted an alliance because he feared what Xu Chuan might do to the Mo Household.

Xu Chuan secured Mo Wentian’s submission and prepared Cloudbrook City for the Cloudbrook Assembly, where the first day of auctions drew powerful factions and revealed the Xu Household’s formidable resources. The day ended with the Greedy Wolf Sect buying the Heavenly King Spear, while Xu Chuan remained confident that Cloudbrook City could withstand its rivals.

• Xu Chuan required Mo Wentian to provide a third-rank high-grade spirit vein, obey the Xu Household for ten years, and never target its juniors, and Mo Wentian agreed.
• Mo Wentian delivered the spirit vein, while several factions visited Xu Chuan seeking the Nascent Soul opportunity and received no advance deal.
• Moyue returned from the Blackwind Mountains with resources after fighting a form-transforming demon beast, then went to rest until the assembly.
• Cultivators flocked into Cloudbrook City for the assembly, and Chen Changge opened the Cloudbrook Auction House’s first day with auctions of artifacts, pills, herbs, and materials.
• The Golden Core powers competed fiercely for the Heavenly King Spear, and the Greedy Wolf Sect won it for seven hundred and twenty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changge reported the auction results to Xu Chuan, and Xu Chuan said Cloudbrook City had gained enough momentum to resist the major factions.

Xu Chuan’s household held the second and third days of the Cloudbrook Assembly auction, drawing fierce bids for rare pills, magical artifacts, and a high-grade Xiantian Spirit Treasure. The Profound Origin Heavy Water went to Gu Xuanyou of Ancient Secluded City after he offered a Spirit Vein, and the gathering ended with a high-end trading event scheduled for the next day.

• Xu Chuan explained that the Mo Household had agreed to obey the Xu Household for ten years in exchange for peace, surrendering spirit materials and a Third-Rank High-Grade Spirit Vein.
• Chen Changge auctioned the second day’s lots, including a high-grade Golden Core Formation Pill, which the Yan Household won for eight hundred and eighty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• The third day’s auction featured an Azure Radiance Pill, which the Cang Household bought for Cang Yun Que, and three sets of Heavenly Spirit and Spirit-Purifying Pills, won by the Skyreach Sect, the Greedy Wolf Sect, and another bidder.
• Chen Changge presented the high-grade Xiantian Spirit Treasure Profound Origin Heavy Water and explained its uses for core formation, divine ability comprehension, and refining spirit treasures.
• Gu Xuanyou offered fifteen high-grade spirit stones and an upper-grade second-tier Spirit Vein for the Profound Origin Heavy Water, outbidding Qi Tianxiong of the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Chen Changge declared the Cloudbrook Assembly auction over and announced a Golden Core-only high-end trading gathering for the next day.

Xu Chuan’s gathering traded rare treasures and ended with Ancient Secluded City winning the ten-thousand-year-old Soul-Awakening Tree Heart under conditions that would secure its cooperation with the Xu Household. After Qi Tianxiong threatened the departing cultivators, Moyue challenged him, and Xi Daoyun escaped with the Skyreach Sect while Qi Tianxiong pursued.

• Moyue took Xu Chuan’s Profound Origin Heavy Water, while Xu Chuan reflected on the difficulty of comprehending Five-Element True Intent.
• Chen Changge opened the exclusive trading gathering, and Cloudbrook City exchanged a high-grade Golden Essence Pill for Gu Xuanyou’s Azure Netherflower and Shadowglow Orchid.
• Xu Chuan traded for a fourth-tier thunderclap bamboo segment and other valuable materials during the gathering.
• Chen Changge presented the ten-thousand-year-old Soul-Awakening Tree Heart, and the Xu Household chose Ancient Secluded City despite receiving stronger offers from other factions.
• Gu Xuanyou agreed to cultivate in seclusion in Cloudbrook City, oppose the Greedy Wolf Sect if he reached Nascent Soul, avoid invading Skyreach Prefecture for a century, and accommodate the Xu Household’s future business.
• Qi Tianxiong threatened the other factions as they departed, Moyue confronted him, and Xi Daoyun fled through the west gate with the Skyreach Sect while Qi Tianxiong gave chase.

Xu Chongfei defeated Chen Yuzhu in one move at the Chen Household tournament, while Xu Chuan arranged Xu Mingxian’s return and prepared to join the Other Shore. The chapter left Xu Chuan disguised as a foundation establishment cultivator and ready to enter the assassin organization.

• Xu Chuan sent Xu Chongfei and Chen Changge to the Chen Household tournament with pills for its champion and a Heavenly Spirit Pill for the household.
• Xu Chongfei accepted Chen Yuzhu’s challenge and defeated him with one crimson and one blue palm print, revealing divine ability true intent in both attacks.
• Xu Chuan told Xu Chongfei that the Xu Household would return to Dongxi in two or three years and advised him to hide most of his strength when competing with outsiders.
• Xu Mingxian told Xu Chuan he needed six more months to gather formation materials, after which Xu Chuan arranged for Xu Deling to bring him back and supply funds.
• After the Greedy Wolf Sect departed, Xu Chuan summoned Black Wind and agreed to join the Other Shore that day.
• Black Wind described the Other Shore’s Thousand Faces Art and its accomplished divine-power assassins, while Xu Chuan disguised himself as a black-haired middle-aged man at the foundation establishment late stage.

Xu Chuan joined the Other Shore under the alias Li Feiyu, gathered its techniques through Black Wind, and returned to Cloudbrook City. After Tang Qianqian’s Pure Maiden Profound Yin Body drew the Tang Household into a proposed marriage alliance, Xu Chuan offered her cultivation resources in exchange for a future transfer of her Xiantian Primordial Essence Qi, leaving her to decide.

• Xu Chuan ordered Black Wind to take him to the Other Shore branch near Azure Sky City and registered there as a Bronze Rank assassin codenamed Mountains and Rivers.
• Xu Chuan collected Other Shore techniques from Black Wind, then returned to Cloudbrook City and began studying Shadowless Assassination, Shadow Escape, and the Thousand Faces Art.
• After Yan Yue began forming a Golden Core, Ancestor Tang asked Tang Qianqian to become Xu Chongfei’s concubine so the Tang Household could gain the Xu Household’s support, and she agreed to follow his arrangement.
• Xu Chuan recognized that Tang Qianqian’s Pure Maiden Profound Yin Body suited the Plain Maiden Supreme Yin Scripture, and Murong Yun agreed to let Xu Deyue pass the method on to her.
• Xu Chuan offered Tang Qianqian instruction and resources up to Golden Core Perfection in exchange for her future willingness to transfer her Xiantian Primordial Essence Qi, which would end her cultivation progress; she had not yet answered.

Xu Chuan arranged for Tang Qianqian to become Xu Deyue’s disciple, and the Tang Household gained influence as Ancestor Tang became deputy city lord. Later, Xu Chuan warned Xu Deling and Xu Mingxian that their journey from Mysterious Moon City might bring them into mortal danger, prompting them to persuade the Mysterious Moon Ancestor to escort them secretly.

• Xu Chuan offered Tang Qianqian a path to cultivate to Golden Core perfection if she became Xu Deyue’s disciple and swore to protect the Xu Household’s secrets, and she agreed.
• Xu Deyue formally accepted Tang Qianqian as her disciple, while Ye Fan appointed Ancestor Tang deputy city lord.
• Xu Mingxian and Xu Deling met in Mysterious Moon City, repaid the Mysterious Moon Ancestor’s debt, and bought materials for the Xu Household before preparing to return to Skyreach Prefecture.
• Xu Chuan warned Xu Mingxian and Xu Deling that their journey together could expose them to a deadly threat, possibly linked to Devil Lord Tian Luo and his accomplices.
• Xu Deling told the Mysterious Moon Ancestor she sensed danger on their journey, and he agreed to escort them secretly as they departed by Spell Boat.

Xu Mingxian returned to Cloudbrook City after the Mysterious Moon Ancestor drove off two demonic Great Cultivators, then upgraded the city’s defenses with a half-step fourth-tier Five-Element Heavenly Dipper Formation. The formation’s completion strengthened the Xu Household’s position, while Xu Mingxian began planning further protections for the Xu Residence.

• King Wujian and King Rakshasa ambushed Xu Mingxian and Xu Deling, but the Mysterious Moon Ancestor arrived and overwhelmed them with his four-ability Dharma Form Phantom, forcing them to flee using True Demon Disintegration.
• Moyue escorted Xu Mingxian and Xu Deling back to Cloudbrook City, where Xu Chuan welcomed them and explained that Xu Yue’s new disciple, Tang Qianqian, had a primordial cauldron physique.
• Xu Mingxian met his family, gifted second-tier Formation Plates to Ye Feng and Tang Qianqian, and visited Qingya True Person to review Cloudbrook City’s existing formations.
• Xu Mingxian recruited Qingya True Person and Feng Ming to help build half-step fourth-tier city defenses, then completed the Five-Element Heavenly Dipper Formation after more than four months of work.
• The new five-colored formation barriers briefly appeared over Cloudbrook City, alarming and impressing its residents and neighboring factions before vanishing from sight.
• Xu Mingxian began planning stronger formations for the Xu Residence and the Xu Household’s businesses, while the factions of Skyreach learned of Cloudbrook City’s defenses.

Gu Xuanyou formed a nascent soul, and Xu Chuan advised him to conceal his breakthrough and strike the Greedy Wolf Sect from the shadows. Meanwhile, after Xu Jingwu buried his adoptive parents, Xu Mingyuan arranged a covert plan to protect him from scheming alliance elders, and the chapter ended as Xu Jingwu rushed to save one of them from a Shadow Leopard.

• Gu Xuanyou successfully formed his nascent soul, and Xu Chuan and Moyue congratulated him without revealing his identity to the city.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Gu Xuanyou asked Xu Chuan to keep the breakthrough secret, and Xu Chuan advised him to lure Greedy Wolf Sect elders into a trap and attack them.
• Jiang Feng and Xu Jingwu buried Jiang Feng's parents at Floating Mountain Village, where a vast procession of mourners followed them.
• Xu Mingyuan learned that alliance elders had invited Xu Jingwu to the Azure Sea Forest and instructed Xu Mingshu to intervene with Xu Bai's help.
• Xu Jingwu traveled into the Azure Sea Forest with the elders, and when a Shadow Leopard attacked one of them, he charged in to save him.

Xu Jingwu survived an ambush by the Immortal-Martial Alliance elders, then returned to the Xu Household and adopted the Secret Division codename Yuan while the world mourned Jiang Wu as dead. As the Xu Household strengthened its formations and Xu Chuan prepared to travel to Greedy Wolf Prefecture, Cang Fengyan asked Cang Fengheng to bring Xu Mingxian an artifact sealed by the Cang Ancestor.

• The Immortal-Martial Alliance elders attacked Xu Jingwu during his fight with the Shadow Leopard, but Xu Bai arrived as a third-rank White Tiger and rescued him.
• Xu Mingshu healed Xu Jingwu, who joined the Secret Division as Yuan and arranged to leave evidence that would support the story of Jiang Wu's death.
• The Alliance investigated Jiang Wu's disappearance, accepted the staged evidence, and held a memorial where Li Quan led millions of martial artists in vowing to carry on Jiang Wu's work.
• Jiang Feng grieved for his brother and vowed to take responsibility for the Jiang Household, while Xu Jingwu watched the memorial from hiding.
• Xu Chuan inspected the upgraded private teleportation formation and planned to travel with Xu Mingxian to Greedy Wolf Prefecture to establish another formation.
• Cang Fengheng told Cang Fengyan that Xu Mingxian's formations seemed to surpass the Cang Household's, and Cang Fengyan sent him to deliver the Cang Ancestor's sealed artifact to Xu Mingxian.

Cang Fengheng offered the Xu Household his ancestor’s sealed treasure and a Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation while seeking an alliance against the Skyreach Sect. Xu Chuan accepted, agreeing to the alliance on the condition that the Cang Household follow Cloudbrook City’s commands for ten years.

• Cang Fengyan told Cang Fengheng to offer Xu Mingxian the Cang Household Ancestor’s treasure and a copy of the Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation, and to offer the Xu Household an alliance.
• Xu Chuan continued cultivating as his Golden Core approached the peak of its third layer, while he made progress in several divine abilities.
• Cang Fengheng visited Cloudbrook City and met Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian at the Xu Residence, where he presented the Jade Box and Green Jade Slip.
• Xu Mingxian examined the Jade Box’s ancient restrictions and assessed that he might unravel them and restore the remnant formation.
• Cang Fengheng explained that the Cang Household wanted Xu Mingxian to study both items and offered its help in replacing the Skyreach Sect, whose power had fallen under the Xi Household.
• Xu Chuan accepted the items and alliance, requiring the Cang Household to obey the Xu Household’s commands for ten years.

Xu Mingxian discovered that the Cang Household’s Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation concealed the method for undoing the Jade Box’s sentient restriction. He and Xu Chuan traveled to Greedy Wolf Prefecture, where they found two groups fighting over a thousand-year-old bloodflame flower.

• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian discussed how Xi Daoyun might seek a final battle with the Xu Household, and Xu Chuan said he was confident he could survive it.
• Xu Mingxian realized that the Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation encoded the restriction techniques needed to open the Jade Box, though deriving them would take at least half a year.
• Xu Chuan told Xu Mingxian he was leaving for Greedy Wolf Prefecture, and Xu Mingxian explained his discovery before they departed together by teleportation.
• After arriving in a remote mountain range, Xu Chuan disguised himself and Xu Mingxian, then revealed that he had learned the Thousand Faces Art through the assassin organization Other Shore.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian reached a mountain hollow where two groups were battling over a thousand-year-old bloodflame flower.

Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian robbed cultivators from the Sima Clan and Ancient Secluded City, then reached Mountain-Sea City and reunited with Xiao Zhan. Xu Chuan arranged for the Demon Heaven Trading Company to build a Teleportation Formation and conceal his identity while the two powers searched for him in vain.

• Xu Chuan used his Golden Core pressure to force the Sima Clan and Ancient Secluded City cultivators to surrender their resources and the thousand-year-old Bloodflame Flower, then let them flee to serve as bait.
• Xu Chuan transplanted the Bloodflame Flower into the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven and traveled with Xu Mingxian to Mountain-Sea City, where the two groups reported the robbery to their powers.
• Xu Chuan met Xiao Zhan, gave him a snow-white skull to control, and ordered him to arrange construction of a Teleportation Formation linking the Demon Heaven Trading Company with Cloudbrook City.
• Xu Chuan disguised Xu Mingxian and tasked him and Xiao Zhan with handling any pursuit, while cultivators from the Sima Clan and Ancient Secluded City arrived in Mountain-Sea City to search for the two robbers.
• The Blood-Hand Scholar pretended to help the visiting powers search, but the Demon Heaven Trading Company concealed Xu Chuan and watched as the searchers eventually left without finding him.

Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian used a trap in the Blood-Withered Forest to kill elders from Ancient Secluded City and the Sima Clan, leaving evidence to fuel conflict with the Greedy Wolf Sect. Back at the Xu Residence, Xu Mingxian opened the Jade Box and encountered the phantom of an ancestor of the Cang Household, who questioned why he lacked its bloodline.

• Xu Mingxian completed a secret Teleportation Formation connecting Mountain-Sea City to Cloudbrook City, and Xu Chuan ordered Xiao Zhan to lure their enemies to the Blood-Withered Forest.
• The Demon Heaven Trading Company tipped off Ancient Secluded City and the Sima Clan, whose forces confronted Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian in the forest.
• Xu Chuan unleashed the Profound Yin Blood Corpse and killed the two Golden Core Middle Stage elders while Xu Mingxian defeated the disciples; they left clues meant to implicate the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian returned to the Xu Residence, where Xu Mingxian spent four months deciphering the Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation and解除 the Jade Box's restrictions.
• Xu Mingxian opened the Jade Box, and a phantom wearing an archaic Daoist robe emerged from its jade slip and asked whether Xu Mingxian was a descendant of the Cang Household.

Xu Mingxian met Daoist Cang Xuan’s lingering consciousness, received the Nine Wonders Spirit Restriction and valuable formation inheritances, and agreed to help the Cang Household if it faced disaster. The chapter then followed Xi Daoyun to the Spirit Taming Sect, where he requested an audience with Grand Supreme Elder Yu Qi.

• Daoist Cang Xuan revealed that he was the founding patriarch of the Skyreach Sect and explained that his remaining consciousness was sustained by a spirit restriction.
• Xu Mingxian agreed to aid the Cang Household in a future crisis, provided it did not become an enemy of the Xu Household and he was capable of helping.
• Daoist Cang Xuan gave Xu Mingxian the location and entrances to the Nine Wonders Spirit Sect’s cave-heaven, the Nine Wonders Spirit Restriction, and his fourth-tier formation inheritance before his consciousness vanished.
• Xu Mingxian told Xu Chuan and Moyue about the inheritance, and Xu Chuan suggested he consider sending the Cang Household a copy of it or Daoist Cang Xuan’s formation teachings.
• Xi Daoyun arrived at the Spirit Taming Sect and told its gate disciples he had come to visit Grand Supreme Elder Yu Qi.

Xi Daoyun visited Yu Qi and described how the Skyreach Sect was nearing collapse after wars and the rapid rise of the Xu Household. After sharing tea and catching up, Xi Daoyun revealed that he had come to ask Yu Qi for a favor and collect an old debt of gratitude.

• Yu Qi learned that Xi Daoyun had arrived at the Spirit Taming Sect and went to greet his old friend.
• Yu Qi discovered that Xi Daoyun was gravely injured and had less than ten years to live.
• Xi Daoyun recounted the Two Prefectures War, his battle with Devil Lord Tian Luo, and the rise of several Nascent Soul-level powers in Skyreach Prefecture.
• Xi Daoyun explained that the Xu Household had risen from a Foundation Establishment clan in just over thirty years and that its head had fought him to a standstill.
• Xi Daoyun and Yu Qi set aside their worries to drink tea and reminisce for a few hours.
• Xi Daoyun told Yu Qi that he had come to ask a favor and have Yu Qi repay an old debt of gratitude.

Xi Daoyun asked Yu Qi to protect and relocate the Xi Household to central Southern Heaven, then summoned the clan’s Golden Core cultivators to announce their departure from Skyreach Prefecture. The elders accepted the plan after True Lord Qingmu explained that the Xu Household’s rise left the Xi Household with no viable path to remain.

• Xi Daoyun warned Yu Qi that the Xu Household had likely enlisted Mysterious Moon Ancestor and had positioned itself to benefit from the conflict in Skyreach Prefecture.
• Xi Daoyun planned to fight the Xu Household while Yu Qi evacuated and protected the Xi Household; Yu Qi agreed to help and arranged three emergency communication jade talismans.
• Yu Qi selected Azure Mist Mountain, an upper-grade second-tier spiritual site, for the Xi Household’s new clan grounds.
• Xi Daoyun summoned the Xi Household’s Golden Core cultivators and announced that the clan would relocate to central Southern Heaven.
• True Lord Qingmu rejected an alliance with the Mo Household and Lei Clan, arguing that the Xu Household’s power made the Xi Household’s position untenable.
• Xi Muhua and the other Golden Core cultivators agreed to follow Xi Daoyun’s relocation plan.

Xu Chuan discovered that Xi Daoyun was secretly preparing to move the Xi Household to the Central Region, taking its wealth and much of the Skyreach Sect’s resources. He gathered allies to stop the transfer as Chen Changge exposed the plan to the sect, sending its elders into upheaval.

• Xi Daoyun arranged for the Xi Household to relocate to Spirit Taming Sect territory and ordered its members to consolidate resources and prepare to leave within two months.
• After divining the Xi Household’s intentions, Xu Chuan recruited Mo Wentian and Lei Wuji to gather Golden Core cultivators and confront the clan.
• Three days later, Xu Chuan led dozens of Golden Core cultivators toward the Xi Household’s Clan Grounds, while sending Chen Changge to warn the Skyreach Sect.
• Chen Changge announced that the Xi Household planned to flee with the sect’s resources, prompting True Lord Qingmu and Xi Fengyue to leave the sect for the Xi Household.
• The Skyreach Sect’s elders realized their leaders had fled and set out to demand an explanation; Chen Changge joined them on the way.

Xu Chuan forced the Xi Household to surrender most of its resources and leave Skyreach Prefecture, then announced a meeting to decide the prefecture’s future. The Xi Household departed, but Xu Chuan expected Xi Daoyun to remain a threat.

• Moyue transformed into a massive Flood Dragon and shook the Xi Household’s protective formation with his roar as Xu Chuan’s forces surrounded the clan grounds.
• Xi Fengyue and True Lord Qingmu returned from the Skyreach Sect, and True Lord Qingmu told Xi Daoyun what had happened there.
• Xu Chuan demanded the Xi Household’s resources, and after the Skyreach Sect’s elders sided against True Lord Qingmu, Yu Qi failed to persuade Xu Chuan to let the Xi Household leave with its wealth.
• Xi Daoyun agreed to surrender seventy percent of the Xi Household’s resources and ordered Xi Muran and Xi Fengyue to prepare everyone to depart.
• The Xi Household left Skyreach Prefecture, and Xu Chuan confirmed to Xu Mingxian that Xi Daoyun might still try to kill him.
• Xu Chuan’s allies extracted the spirit veins from the abandoned clan grounds, and he invited Skyreach Prefecture’s Golden Core factions to meet at the Skyreach Sect seven days later.