Recaps

After arranging the Xi Household’s future, Xi Daoyun returned to Cloudbrook City to fight Xu Chuan and the Xu Household in a final attempt to damage them. He unleashed his life-burning strength against Moyue, but the battle continued as his aura began to falter.

• Xi Daoyun told True Lord Qingmu to lead the Xi Household and warned him never to return to Skyreach Prefecture, then set out for Cloudbrook City with Yu Qi.
• Xi Daoyun confronted Xu Chuan at Cloudbrook City’s East City Gate and burned his remaining lifespan to restore his strength.
• Xi Daoyun’s Gengjin Flying Sword battered the city’s half-step fourth-tier protective formation without breaking it.
• At Xu Chuan’s command, Moyue left the formation and fought Xi Daoyun in a savage battle as cultivators watched from afar.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian observed that Xi Daoyun’s forced increase in strength would soon fade, while Moyue endured deep wounds and fought more fiercely.

Xu Chuan fought Xi Daoyun after drawing him away from the City-Protecting Grand Formation, and killed him when Xi Daoyun’s failing body and Nascent Soul could no longer withstand the battle. Xi Daoyun yielded Skyreach Prefecture to the Xu Household and warned True Lord Qingmu not to renew the feud before he died.

• Xu Chuan left the Grand Formation and attacked Xi Daoyun with the Azure Dragon Treasure Umbrella’s sword formation, which Xi Daoyun shattered with the Golden Severance flying sword.
• Xi Daoyun wounded Moyue and broke through Xu Chuan’s defenses, but Xu Chuan used the Magnetism Shield to withstand Xi Daoyun’s next strike.
• Moyue struck Xi Daoyun while Xu Chuan attacked him from behind with the Origin Life-and-Death Seal, worsening the damage to his body and Nascent Soul.
• Xu Chuan used the God-Slaying Awl and a flying sword to destroy Xi Daoyun’s Nascent Soul and kill him.
• Xi Daoyun told Xu Chuan that Skyreach Prefecture belonged to the Xu Household and warned True Lord Qingmu not to make an enemy of them again.
• Xu Chuan stopped Moyue from devouring Xi Daoyun’s corpse, and the author’s closing note said bonus updates would resume only when vote or promotion targets were met.

Xu Chuan killed Xi Daoyun and established the Xu Household’s dominance over Skyreach Prefecture, while Xi Daoyun’s followers buried him in his remote birthplace and continued their migration. Four days later, Xu Chuan arrived at the Skyreach Sect to meet the gathered factions and discuss the prefecture’s future.

• Xu Chuan accepted Yu Qi’s claim to Xi Daoyun’s possessions and promised True Lord Qingmu that the Xu Household would not pursue the departing Xi Household.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue treated their wounds as news of Xi Daoyun’s death spread, prompting the prefecture’s factions to commit to attending the Xu Household’s council.
• True Lord Qingmu cremated Xi Daoyun in his birthplace, then joined Yu Qi in escorting the Xi Household’s convoy into Greedy Wolf Prefecture.
• Qi Tianxiong and other Greedy Wolf Prefecture leaders dispatched scouts to investigate why the Xi Household had left Skyreach Prefecture.
• Golden Core cultivators from across Skyreach Prefecture gathered at the Skyreach Sect, where Xu Chuan arrived with Xu Mingxian, Xu Deling, Chen Changge, Lei Wuji, and Tang Yuanli atop Moyue.

Xu Chuan proposed rebuilding the Skyreach Sect as the Azure Dragon Alliance, uniting the factions of Skyreach Prefecture under a detailed system of elders, halls, and Seven Peaks. The proposal passed unanimously, and Xu Chuan began preparing to assign positions of authority.

• Xu Chuan gathered the prefecture's Golden Core cultivators and proposed turning the Skyreach Sect into the Azure Dragon Alliance, with every faction joining.
• True Lord Bing Gan, Elder Yang, Mo Wentian, Cang Fengyan, and representatives of the other factions agreed to join the alliance.
• Xu Chuan established rules for alliance elders, faction autonomy, contributions, disciples, and the alliance's governing halls and Seven Peaks.
• After outlining the alliance's hierarchy and disciple ranks, Xu Chuan invited questions and announced that they would assign positions of authority.

Xu Chuan organized the Azure Dragon Alliance, assigning its leaders and establishing rules for its member powers. The alliance renamed Skyreach Prefecture as Azure Dragon Prefecture and prepared to recruit disciples, while Xu Chuan hinted that he had another reason for not inviting the Skyfeather Sect.

• Xu Chuan explained the privileges and obligations of joining the alliance, and Mo Wentian agreed to become a Grand Supreme Elder despite Moyue's objections.
• Xu Chuan and the assembled cultivators selected the Seven Peaks' masters, appointed the Discipline Hall and Four Halls, and chose Cang Fengyan as Alliance Leader, with Yang Qi and Bai Yan as deputies.
• The cultivators named Xu Chuan Grand Elder, then spent three days and nights establishing the alliance's laws, resource systems, and administrative arrangements.
• Xu Chuan renamed Skyreach Prefecture Azure Dragon Prefecture, announced recruitment in four cities, and arranged for the Cang, Liu, and Bai Households to govern Azure Dragon City in rotation.
• Xu Chuan left with members of the Xu Household and other cultivators, while the former Skyreach Sect elders praised his leadership and anticipated the alliance's future strength.

The Azure Dragon Alliance’s founding transformed the former Skyreach Prefecture, drawing interest from local cultivators and concern from the Greedy Wolf Sect. Qi Tianxiong revealed that the Primordial Battlefield would open in a few years, while the alliance’s leaders approved plans for its first disciple recruitment.

• Cultivators across Azure Dragon Prefecture discussed the alliance’s formation, and rogue cultivators considered joining it as disciples or elders.
• Greedy Wolf Sect spies reported the alliance’s rise and Xi Daoyun’s death to Qi Tianxiong, who learned that Xu Chuan had united the prefecture’s Golden Core powers.
• Qi Tianxiong told Sky Wolf True Lord about the Primordial Battlefield, urged him to cultivate for a chance to enter, and lent him a mid-grade xiantian spirit treasure.
• Golden Core Ancestors established cave abodes in the alliance as the Seven Peaks’ leaders discussed disciple assessments, recruitment quotas, and rules for servant disciples.
• Cang Fengyan approved the recruitment plan, including a public assessment and open recruitment every ten years.

The Azure Dragon Alliance began recruiting disciples while the Xu Household explained why it intended to remain independent and eventually surpass the alliance. In Flowing Moon Prefecture, Ye Fan and Xu Deyue entered the Cold Mountain Secret Realm, where Murong Yun directed them toward High Person Hanshan’s legacy.

• Xu Mingxian and Xu Deling told Moyue that the Xu Household would recruit promising people independently and use the alliance to stabilize Azure Dragon Prefecture while building its own strength.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue joined the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s gathering at Lesser Cold Mountain, where a late-stage cultivator offered them protection in exchange for thirty percent of their gains.
• Six True Lords combined their powers to open the Cold Mountain Secret Realm, and the factions entered before the other cultivators followed.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue used their Unity Rings to find each other after being teleported to separate locations, then contacted Murong Yun for directions.
• Murong Yun told Xu Deyue that High Person Hanshan’s legacy lay in a black stone mountain to the east and explained his power and the ranks of spirit treasures.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue reached Lesser Cold Mountain and climbed its pressure-laden steps to enter the inheritance trial. The Mountain Soul judged them worthy of Superior Inheritances, though Ye Fan fell at the tenth wave and Xu Deyue at the eighth.

• Murong Yun explained Lesser Cold Mountain’s inheritance trials and the benefits of its Cold Light Liquid to Xu Deyue.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue stepped onto the bluestone road and climbed until the mountain teleported them into the Inheritance Space.
• Ye Fan endured the pressure for several hours longer than Xu Deyue before reaching his limit and being teleported out.
• The Mountain Soul observed their trials and judged them barely qualified for Superior Inheritances suited to their abilities and constitutions.
• Ye Fan defeated nine waves of opponents before falling at the tenth, while Xu Deyue fell at the eighth because the Great Yin flying sword was sealed in her dantian.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue received High Person Hanshan’s Superior Inheritance and began using its treasures and techniques to strengthen themselves. Ye Fan refined a trace of a Spirit Transformation Flood Dragon’s Heart Blood, while Xu Deyue transformed her cultivation foundation with Cold Light Liquid and prepared to study the Vast Cold Sword Art.

• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue were teleported to separate cave residences, where they endured visions from High Person Hanshan’s portrait and were named his nominal disciples.
• Both bowed to the portrait and received spatial rings containing inheritance treasures and cultivation methods; the voice told them they could cultivate for a month and return at Spirit Transformation to challenge the core inheritance.
• Ye Fan chose not to replace his Brahma Sacred Body Art with the inherited body-tempering methods, then carefully refined a sliver of the Flood Dragon’s Heart Blood and strengthened his body.
• Xu Deyue found the Cold Mountain Scripture and the Great Profound Nether Ice-Soul Cold Heaven Divine Light, which Murong Yun urged her to study alongside six divine abilities.
• Murong Yun taught Xu Deyue the Supreme Heaven-Mending Foundation Art, and Xu Deyue used nine drops of Cold Light Liquid to transform her foundation over three days and three nights.
• Xu Deyue’s cultivation and physique improved, and Murong Yun told her to focus on the Vast Cold Sword Art as Ye Fan and Xu Deyue continued cultivating in their cave residences.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue emerged from Lesser Cold Mountain with its inheritance and fled a cordon formed by the Six Great Powers of Flowing Moon Prefecture. After hiding near the mountain, Xu Deyue contacted Xu Chuan, who learned what they had obtained and prepared to come rescue them.

• Xu Deyue’s inheritance transformed her into a Cold Moon Spirit Body, while Ye Fan strengthened his body and cultivation inside the cave abode.
• The Six Great Powers failed to find the couple and later agreed to search for them after they emerged from the secret realm.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue used a Third-Rank Thousand-Mile Talisman to flee east, then doubled back and hid under Xu Deyue’s Cloudsky Illusion Formation.
• The couple waited near Lesser Cold Mountain and contacted Xu Chuan, while the Six Great Powers spread out to search for them.
• Xu Deyue told Xu Chuan about the ancient inheritance and her transformation, and he said he would set out for Flowing Moon Prefecture to help them.

Xu Chuan brought Ye Fan and Xu Deyue back to Cloudbrook City after disguising them as elderly rogue cultivators and slipping them past the Six Great Powers’ search teams. There, Moyue discovered the Spirit Transformation Flood Dragon’s Heart Blood was fire-type, and Xu Chuan recognized a dangerous herb among Ye Fan’s inheritance materials before Murong Yun revealed herself.

• Xu Chuan traveled with Moyue through the Skyvoid Expanse to Flowing Moon Prefecture and found Ye Fan and Xu Deyue at Lesser Cold Mountain.
• Xu Chuan changed their appearances and suppressed their auras, then led them past the search parties and the Six Great Powers’ encirclement.
• After escaping the northern region, Xu Chuan restored their appearances and had Moyue carry them safely back to Cloudbrook City.
• Moyue learned that the Heart Blood was fire-type and useless for his cultivation, then angrily returned to the deep pool.
• Xu Chuan identified Ye Fan’s Thousand-Bone Grass and suspected the accompanying Spirit Liquid was meant to be used with it.
• Murong Yun spoke from hiding, and the Great Yin Flying Sword emerged from Xu Deyue’s dantian.

Xu Chuan and the others divided the treasures brought back from their expedition and prepared to return to Dongxi in six months. Ye Fan and Xu Deyue reunited with their family and disciples, while Ye Fan received cultivation resources for Grandmaster Zhou and resolved to destroy the Cao Clan under Xu Mingxian’s guidance.

• Murong Yun identified the Heavenly Saint Milk, Dragon-Elephant Ingot, and blood-origin crystals, and the group used ancient scrolls to learn their forging, refining, and body-tempering methods.
• Xu Chuan divided the treasures, assigning Xu Deling the Dragon-Elephant Cauldron scroll and giving her three drops of flood dragon heart blood to repay the Heavenforged Sect if it ever opposed the Xu Household.
• Xu Chuan told everyone to prepare to return to Dongxi in six months, and Xu Mingxian explained how the Xu Household had forced the Xi Household to relocate and killed Xi Daoyun.
• Ye Fan requested resources for Grandmaster Zhou, accepted pills from Xu Mingxian, and promised not to disrupt the Xu Household’s plans to destroy the Cao Clan and evacuate their people.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue reunited with Xu Chongfei, then welcomed their disciples Ye Feng and Tang Qianqian, who had both advanced in cultivation.

Rong Tianyang and True Lord Yan Zhen decided to return to the Heavenforged Sect with its remaining disciples, while Blazing Sun True Lord stayed behind to guard Xu Deling. Xu Chuan advised Xu Deling on how to manage the Skyfeather Sect after the departure and revealed that he had reserved Cloudbrook City’s Deputy City Lord position for Yan Kuangtu.

• Rong Tianyang raised the growing conflict between Heavenforged Sect disciples and locally recruited cultivators, and proposed returning south with True Lord Yan Zhen.
• Blazing Sun True Lord agreed that they could leave but insisted on remaining as Xu Deling’s Dao guardian until she reached Nascent Soul.
• Xu Deling accepted Rong Tianyang and True Lord Yan Zhen’s departure, and arranged for Blazing Sun True Lord to escort them back to the Heavenforged Sect.
• Xu Deling visited Xu Chuan to ask how to handle the Skyfeather Sect’s staffing shortage, and he suggested reducing its size, appointing a Deputy Sect Master, and inviting Elder Firecloud or Yan Wujin.
• Xu Chuan told Xu Deling that he had reserved Cloudbrook City’s Deputy City Lord position for Yan Kuangtu.

Xu Deling took charge of the Skyfeather Sect after the Heavenforged Sect disciples departed, recruiting Yan Wujin and Firecloud True Person as elders while the Yan Household waited for Yan Kuangtu to advance. A month later, Xu Chuan perfected the second level of the Mystic Heaven Spirit-Refining Art, bringing his spiritual consciousness to the golden core limit.

• Xu Chuan told Xu Deling that Yan Kuangtu could achieve divine ability core formation within ten years and that the Yan Household might eventually rule Skyreach Prefecture.
• The Heavenforged Sect disciples left Cloudbrook City, and Xu Deling declared that the Skyfeather Sect would remain open under her leadership.
• Xu Deling invited Yan Wujin to join the Skyfeather Sect as an elder, and he accepted and began teaching artifact refining.
• Yan Wujin told Yan Shoucheng that Yan Kuangtu had reached ninety percent comprehension of his divine ability after witnessing Moyue's transformation tribulation.
• Firecloud True Person joined the Skyfeather Sect as a Guest Elder, and his disciple Ning Xueshi became Deputy Sect Master as the sect recruited more disciples.
• Xu Chuan perfected the second level of the Mystic Heaven Spirit-Refining Art, reaching the maximum spiritual consciousness a golden core cultivator could attain.

Xu Chuan refined a Divine Consciousness Crystal and broke through to nascent soul-level spiritual consciousness, then prepared to return to the Primordial Battlefield with members of the Xu Household. He left Moyue to oversee the family’s affairs and summoned Mei Yun back, while the group gathered to depart.

• Xu Chuan spent two months refining the Divine Consciousness Crystal and transformed his divine soul, gaining nascent soul-level spiritual consciousness that Moyue and Xu Mingxian recognized.
• Xu Chuan discovered that the Clan Genealogy had revealed the third and fourth layers of the Mystic Heaven Spirit-Refining Art, then practiced shaping spiritual energy and consolidated his breakthrough.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian decided who would return to the Primordial Battlefield; Xu Chuan asked Moyue to stay behind and help Mo Wentian lead the Azure Dragon Alliance.
• Xu Chuan summoned Mei Yun, told him to cultivate in seclusion, and promised to help him achieve Core Formation within a year or two.
• Xu Deling left the Skyfeather Sect in Elder Yan and Senior Brother Ning’s care and joined Xu Mingxian, Ye Fan, Xu Deyue, and the others at Xu Chuan’s courtyard.
• Xu Chuan told the assembled group that they were ready to leave for the Primordial Battlefield.

Xu Chuan led his family through a hidden teleportation formation back to the Xu Household’s ancestral lands, where the Tree King warned them that a calamity had trapped the region beneath a fourth-tier formation. Xu Chuan quietly arranged to reunite with his Dongxi clansmen, and the chapter ended with his children gathering at the Jade-Cold Pool in excited anticipation.

• Xu Chuan brought Mei Yun and Chen Yulian to the Teleportation Plaza, where they swore secrecy oaths before the group activated the formation.
• The group arrived in a barren region with thin spiritual energy and flew to the Azure Sea Forest, where the Tree King warned that the Heaven-Sealing Formation prevented anyone from leaving until the calamity passed.
• Xu Chuan told the Tree King that the Xu Household had returned to take its clansmen away, then led the group into the forest toward Dongxi.
• Xu Chuan contacted Xu Mingwei through the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven and told him to alert only core members to meet at the Jade-Cold Pool and keep the return quiet.
• Xu Mingwei sent the news to Xu Mingyuan, Xu Mingxuan, Xu Mingshu, Xu Mingqing, and Xu Dezhao, who gathered at the Jade-Cold Pool and discussed Xu Chuan’s return while they waited.

Xu Chuan reunited with his family after returning from Southern Heaven, discussed preparations for the coming calamity, and asked who would enter the Primordial Battlefield. The family chose their own paths, and Xu Chuan surprised Mei Yun by ordering him to enter as well.

• Xu Chuan returned to the Xu Household with Xu Chongfei, Chen Yulian, Mei Yun, and the others, where Xu Mingwei and the family welcomed them home.
• Xu Mingyuan reported that tensions between the Immortal Alliance and Martial Alliance had worsened, and Xu Chuan said the household would leave the alliance to manage itself.
• Xu Chuan directed Xu Mingxian to establish defensive and concealment formations and promised Xu Mingshu resources to strengthen her spirit insects and divine soul.
• Xu Chuan asked who would enter the Primordial Battlefield; Xu Mingxian, Xu Mingshu, Xu Deyue, Xu Deling, and Ye Fan agreed, while Xu Mingwei prioritized defending Dongxi and others chose to stay.
• Xu Mingxuan maneuvered his siblings into recommending him for the battlefield, and Xu Chuan agreed to lend him the Yellow-Mystic Stone to aid his cultivation.
• Xu Chuan ordered Mei Yun to enter the Primordial Battlefield, leaving the Foundation Establishment disciple shocked and reluctant.

Xu Chuan returned to the Xu Household and arranged cultivation resources for Xu Mingxuan and Mei Yun before preparing to emerge from seclusion publicly. His return spread across Dongxi and beyond, prompting family reunions and drawing attention from the Immortal-Martial Alliance and Great Wei.

• Xu Chuan promised to help Mei Yun reach Core Formation within two years and lent Xu Mingxuan a yellow-mystic stone, granting him the [Golden Koi] talent.
• Xu Chuan supplied Mei Yun with pills and ordered him to remain near the Jade-Cold Pool until he formed his Golden Core, then replanted treasured herbs and the withering-and-blooming tree in the Medicine Garden.
• Xu Deling reunited with Yang Ronghua, while Xu Mingxian and Xu Deyue reunited with their families and told Bai Jing about their travels in Southern Heaven.
• Xu Mingwei announced that Xu Chuan would emerge from seclusion in three days, and news of his return spread through Dongxi and the Guangling branch.
• The Immortal-Martial Alliance decided to send elders to welcome Xu Chuan, while Cao Dezhang informed Cao Jiyi that Xu Chuan was coming out of seclusion.

After more than thirty years in seclusion, Xu Chuan returned to the Xu Household and demonstrated his power before thousands of descendants, vassals, guests, and Dongxi residents. His cultivation remained difficult to discern, and he left the gathered clanspeople eager to meet him as the Xu Household received its visitors.

• Cao Jiyi and Cao Dezhang discussed the possibility that Xu Chuan had formed his core, while Lei Yunchao decided to visit the Xu Household with Lei Xiaoyun and other allied households prepared to attend a meeting.
• Xu Mingxian dismantled the Three Absolutes Locking Dragon Formation, releasing spirit-vein energy that began replenishing Dongxi.
• The Xu Household gathered to welcome Xu Chuan, and he appeared amid a jade-green shower that eased the ailments and fatigue of the people below.
• Lei Yunchao and Lei Xiaoyun watched the ceremony, and Lei Yunchao praised the Xu Household's unity as the bearing of a true aristocratic clan.
• Xu Chuan welcomed Lei Yunchao, thanked Bai Jing, and sent Xu Mingyuan and Xu Mingwei to receive the visitors before inviting the household to meet him in his courtyard.
• Elder Liu and Elder Xiao thanked Xu Mingyuan for receiving them on behalf of the Immortal-Martial Alliance.

Xu Chuan reunited with the Xu Household, guided its younger talents, and arranged how four allied households would face the coming great calamity. The four households chose to send their elites to establish branches under Xu protection, while Xu Chuan prepared his family for what came next.

• Xu Mingyuan confirmed to Elder Xiao that the Qin, Li, and Wang households had willingly become vassals of the Xu Household, and Lei Yunchao suspected they had joined to strengthen their lineages.
• Xu Chuan praised Xu Chongjian's sword talent and gave him the Thunderclap Sword, then instructed Xu Wenjing to pursue body tempering and artifact refining.
• Xu Chuan told the younger Xu Household members that the lineage would support those who proved their talent and value across cultivation and other disciplines.
• Xu Chuan offered the Li, Qin, Wang, and Zhou households the choice of relocating to Dongxi or sending their elites to establish protected branches; Zhou Qingfang chose the latter, and the other three followed.
• Xu Chuan promised each household five hundred years of Golden Core fortune and ordered Xu Mingyuan and several relatives to cultivate with him at the Jade-Cold Pool.
• Xu Chuan gave Xu Mingwei a pill to refine as a precaution.

The Xu Household sent cultivators into seclusion and recalled its allies and affiliated lineages to Dongxi as preparations for an approaching great calamity. Zhou Qingfang ordered the Zhou Household to establish a branch there, while the Qin, Li, and Wang households remained divided over whether to relocate.

• Xu Chuan supplied Xu Mingxuan with rare spirit medicines to help him raise his spiritual consciousness, while other Xu Household members and Xu Ying began seclusion with pills suited to their breakthroughs.
• At the Immortal-Martial Central Alliance, elders discussed the Xu Household's absorption of the Qin, Li, and Wang households, and Yun Ding told Wei Dao that the Xu Household was recalling its guest elders to Dongxi.
• Li Hongyi urged her brother Li Yuanhua to use her lineage contribution points for a high-grade Jade Fungus Pill so he could attempt foundation establishment.
• Zhou Qingfang announced that the Zhou Household would form a collateral branch and move it to Dongxi, appointing Zhou Zongdan to lead it and ordering the elders to select members.
• After the Qin, Wang, and Li households failed to agree on relocation, Li Xingyan called for their clansmen to choose for themselves at a future gathering.

Li Xingyan oversaw the selection of clansmen who would leave the Li Household to form a collateral branch in Dongxi, while the Zhou, Qin, and Wang lineages also sent branches to the Xu Household. The newcomers settled into Dongxi’s greatly improved cultivation environment, and Xu Chuan arranged for several Xu elders to pursue breakthroughs as the story turned toward their cultivation progress.

• Li Xingyan urged the Li Household to join the Xu Household’s collateral branch, then divided the clansmen by their choice; about three hundred, including two earth-spiritual-root talents and the younger child’s parents, chose Dongxi, while most remained behind.
• Li Xingyan appointed Li Yuanxing to lead the new branch to Dongxi in half a month, and the Qin Household and Wang Clan selected smaller groups to accompany them.
• Xu Mingxian installed a third-rank mid-grade spirit vein and stronger protective formations in Dongxi, where the Zhou Household’s branch arrived first and settled into Area A.
• The Li, Qin, and Wang branches arrived over the following days and began cultivating in Dongxi’s unusually dense spiritual energy, while other Xu vassals sent promising young talents.
• Xu Mingyuan, Xu Mingshu, Xu Mingqing, and Xu Mingxuan underwent transformations of their divine souls; Xu Chuan sent three elders into seclusion to comprehend Divine Abilities, while Xu Mingshu prepared for Core Formation.

Xu Chuan supplied Xu Mingshu with high-grade pills and a new Storage Pouch before refining nine high-grade Golden Core Formation Pills and advancing his spiritual consciousness techniques. Meanwhile, Ye Fan brought Xu Deyue, Xu Chongfei, and Chen Yulian to visit his mother Ye Xuehua’s grave, where he vowed that he would soon crush the Cao Clan, shocking Zhou Qingfang with the possibility that Ye Fan and Xu Deyue had surpassed his cultivation.

• Xu Chuan gave Xu Mingshu three high-grade pills and a high-end Storage Pouch to prepare her for Golden Core Formation.
• Xu Chuan refined nine high-grade Golden Core Formation Pills from the Lei Clan’s ingredients and continued practicing his spiritual consciousness techniques.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue took Xu Chongfei and Chen Yulian to visit Ye Xuehua’s grave at the Zhou Household’s clan grounds.
• Ye Fan presented Zhou Qingfang with precious pills in gratitude for his kindness to Ye Xuehua, then asked to visit his mother’s grave.
• Ye Fan introduced his family to Ye Xuehua and vowed that he would soon trample the Cao Clan beneath his feet.
• Zhou Qingfang was stunned by Ye Fan’s vow and wondered whether Ye Fan and Xu Deyue’s cultivation had exceeded what he could sense.

Ye Fan moved his mother’s grave to Dongxi and sought Xu Chuan’s advice about taking revenge on the Cao Clan. Xu Chuan sent him to test the Three Houses’ hidden reserves, and Ye Fan entered the Great Wei Imperial Capital in disguise, challenged Cao Jiyi, and struck him with a powerful punch.

• Ye Fan moved Ye Xuehua’s coffin to Dongxi and buried her in the Xu Clan’s cemetery after Zhou Qingfang gave his permission to relocate her grave.
• Xu Chuan warned Ye Fan that destroying the Cao Clan could endanger the Imperial Capital and offered him a mission to test the Cao, Sima, and Liu Clans’ hidden reserves.
• Ye Fan accepted Xu Chuan’s mission, and Xu Deyue supported his decision to delay deciding whether to kill Cao Jiyi.
• Ye Fan disguised himself as a scarred middle-aged man, entered the Great Wei Imperial Capital, and called Cao Jiyi out at the palace formation.
• Cao Jiyi emerged and fought Ye Fan, but Ye Fan broke through his Sword Ray and struck his Crimson Sun Shield hard enough to send him flying.

Ye Fan defeated Cao Jiyi in Great Wei, then encountered Xu Dewen while traveling through Great Jin and learned where to find the Sima Clan. He reached the Sima Clan’s vast city, ready to investigate its reserves.

• Ye Fan overwhelmed Cao Jiyi with a slap and a kick, then left the Imperial Capital as cultivators speculated about his strength and origins.
• Ye Fan searched for the Sima Clan and noticed Xu Dewen using a formation and a demonic divine ability to kill the cultivators pursuing him.
• Ye Fan revealed the Xu Household Token and identified himself as Xu Deyue’s husband, prompting Xu Dewen to introduce himself as Xu De Ling’s brother.
• Ye Fan told Xu Dewen that he was investigating the Sima Clan’s reserves and declined Xu Dewen’s offer to accompany him to avoid drawing suspicion.
• Xu Dewen gave Ye Fan directions to the Sima Clan, and the two parted before Xu Dewen secretly departed in the opposite direction.
• Ye Fan reached the vast city where the Sima Clan resided.