Recaps

Xu Chuan prepared the Xu Household and the Mysterious Spirit Sect for the Su Household and Ascension Gate’s attack, drawing other Central Region powers to witness the battle. The fighting began with Xu Chuan facing Heavenly Feather True Lord and several champions engaging their assigned opponents, and Su Moyan revealed a Spirit Treasure as the battle escalated.

• Xu Chuan calculated that the allied forces needed Blood Baleful and the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner to counter Li Qianyu, then spread rumors that the Su Household and Ascension Gate planned to plunder the Mysterious Spirit Sect.
• The Su Household and Ascension Gate recruited the Ji Household Great Cultivator and two other Nascent Soul Cultivators, while Xu Chuan gathered the Xu Household’s forces and explained his battle plan to the Mysterious Spirit Sect.
• Blood Baleful arrived with the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner, and Xu Chuan’s forces confronted the fifteen Nascent Soul Cultivators led by Heavenly Feather True Lord and Su Moyan.
• Xu Chuan fought Heavenly Feather True Lord, Moyue, Ye Fan, and Xu Deyue engaged Su Moyan, and Blood Baleful and Boundless True Lord joined forces against Li Qianyu.
• Xu Deling and the other Xu Household cultivators fought their assigned opponents, while Blood Baleful used the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner to form a ten-thousand-ghost Dharma Form and put Li Qianyu at a disadvantage.
• When Xu Deling’s opponent called for help, Su Moyan tried to intervene, but Ye Fan and the others blocked him; Su Moyan then drew a crimson-and-cyan Spirit Treasure saber.

Moyue, Ye Fan, and Xu Deyue forced Su Moyan and the Ascension Gate to accept a truce after Xu Deling killed Su Xuanshan. As the Xu Household prepared to become a dominant faction, Xu Chuan planned to use a Fortune-Borrowing Formation to advance the clan’s Qilin Seal, and Zhang Fan agreed to let the Xu Household operate in Mysterious Moon Sect territory in exchange for a promise to protect the sect if he died.

• Moyue empowered his true body and fought Su Moyan with Ye Fan and Xu Deyue, while Xu Deling pursued Su Xuanshan and returned with his corpse.
• Su Moyan and Heavenly Feather True Lord accepted Xu Chuan’s wager and withdrew their forces, ending the battle and halting hostilities between the Nascent Soul cultivators for ten years.
• News of the Xu Household’s strength spread, and Zhang Fan convened representatives from major factions, most of whom approved its rise to dominant status despite Li Qianyu’s objection.
• Xu Chuan learned that Mei Yun could help establish a Nine Heavens Fortune-Borrowing Grand Formation, which could gather fortune to advance the Qilin Seal into a Fortune Spirit Treasure.
• Xu Chuan persuaded Zhang Fan to allow the formation in the Mysterious Moon Sect’s territory by promising the Xu Household would shelter the sect for a hundred years if Zhang Fan died before reaching Spirit Transformation.

Xu Chuan led the Xu Household through the Dominant Faction Trial, earning recognition as Southern Heaven’s sixth dominant faction. The chapter ended with the Xu Household completing its ceremony of sacrifice and prayer to heaven as the Qilin Seal absorbed fortune gathered from across the Northwest.

• Xu Chuan ordered his descendants and Mei Yun to establish Fortune-Borrowing Formations across the Northwest, intending to raise the Qilin Seal into a Spirit Treasure.
• Xu Jinghao persuaded the Golden Core factions of Demon Nether Prefecture and Flowing Moon Prefecture to join the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, while the others helped complete the formations.
• At the Dominant Faction Trial in Cloudbrook City, Xu Chuan blocked Qingjun’s sword strike, matched True Lord Xu Yan’s divine ability, and fought Heavenly Feather True Lord for a quarter of an hour.
• Xu Chuan withstood attacks from Su Moyan, the Great Cultivators of Cinnabar Cloud Palace and Blazing Sun Hall, and won the assembled factions’ approval for the Xu Household’s advancement.
• Zhang Fan announced that the Yunxi Xu Household had become Southern Heaven’s sixth dominant faction, and Cloudbrook City later expanded to sixteen hundred li.
• Xu Chuan activated the Fortune-Borrowing Formation during the Xu Household’s ceremony, and the assembled descendants and guests congratulated the clan on its advancement.

Xu Chuan anchored the Xu Household’s fortune with the newly advanced Qilin Seal, established four towers to strengthen and profit from the Northwest, and discovered that Xu Zhaoyuan was a five-element dao body destined for greatness. The towers drew cultivators from across the region, especially Golden Core perfection cultivators seeking a chance to reach Nascent Soul.

• The Qilin Seal became a mid-grade spirit treasure with an artifact spirit phantom, and Xu Chuan announced that Yunxi would open its cultivation chambers and towers to cultivators.
• Xu Chuan assigned the Xu Household to build and manage the Cultivation Tower, Divine Ability Tower, Combat Power Tower, and Heart Demon Tower, while directing the clan to prevent Golden Core factions in the Northwest from being destroyed.
• Xu Chuan rushed to Cloud Cang City when Xu Changhua’s wife suffered a difficult labor, then bestowed talents and five-element spiritual energy on the unborn Xu Zhaoyuan, a destined five-element dao body.
• Xu Zhaoyuan was born with cultivation at the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and Xu Chuan brought him to Yunxi to raise him personally while the family kept his nature secret.
• The four towers opened, and Lei Wuji, Yan Kuangtu, and Cang Fengyan publicized their progress through the Heart Demon Tower, drawing crowds of Golden Core cultivators seeking a path to Nascent Soul.
• The towers attracted major sects and clans, and Nascent Soul cultivators from several powers traveled to Yunxi to investigate them.

The Xu Household tested interest in its Heart Demon Tower, granted Yan Zhen access as a guest elder, and Xu Chuan trained Xu Zhaoyuan while Xu Zhaoheng advanced rapidly with his Ruins-End True Flame. The Heavenly Fortune Dynasty was founded under Xu Jinghao, and its newly manifested fortune flood dragon revealed the dynasty path’s formidable potential.

• Xu Mingyuan offered the Northwest factions limited access to the Heart Demon Tower, while Xu Deling secured an exception for Yan Zhen to use it as a Skyfeather Sect guest elder.
• After testing the tower, Yan Zhen joined the Skyfeather Sect, but negotiations with four other factions failed when Xu Chuan demanded that tower users never initiate attacks against the Xu Household.
• Xu Chuan taught Xu Zhaoyuan the Five-Element Creation Scripture, and the child quickly formed five-element primordial magic power.
• Xu Zhaoheng developed his Ruins-End True Flame, broke through to Golden Core third layer, and then went to the Blackwater Domain to gain experience.
• Xu Chuan proposed combining Xu Weiyan’s spiritual consciousness with puppet runes to create a unique spiritual consciousness core, and she entered seclusion to attempt it.
• Xu Jinghao founded the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty with Xu Chuan as State Preceptor, and its fortune formed a flood dragon that Daoist Xuanxin warned could grow into a true dragon.

Xu Chuan consolidated the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty’s influence and negotiated over access to the Heart Demon Tower while the Xu Household’s allies and descendants advanced in cultivation. In Yin Spring City, Xu Zhaoheng revealed himself after the Zhong Household executed the people he had once saved, and a Nascent Soul elder trapped him as the chapter ended.

• Zhang Fan met Xu Chuan’s ghost cultivator avatar and secured five annual Heart Demon Tower places for the Mysterious Moon Sect.
• Yan Kuangtu formed a Nascent Soul, followed by Xu Chonghui, Xu Dezhao, Xu Mingxuan, and Yan Zhen; Xu Weiyan also developed the Spirit Puppet Method and entered the Golden Core stage.
• Xu Chuan refused top powers’ requests for Heart Demon Tower access unless they guaranteed they would not oppose the Xu Household, while accepting negotiations with weaker Golden Core factions and outsiders.
• Xu Zhaoheng earned a fearsome reputation in the Blackwater Domain, then decided to go to Yin Spring City after the Zhong Household announced the execution of people he had saved.
• Xu Deling and Chongyuan followed Xu Zhaoheng to Yin Spring City and watched as he remained hidden while the Zhong Household executed the captives, then appeared to taunt the household.
• Xu Zhaoheng killed a Zhong Household Golden Core cultivator and tried to escape, but the Zhong Household’s Nascent Soul elder located and restrained him before ordering the Golden Core cultivators to attack.

Xu Zhaoheng escaped the Zhong Household after Elder Deling secretly intervened, while Xu Chuan traveled with Black Wind to an Other Shore gathering in Myriad Treasures City. There, the Other Shore’s leaders planned to attack the Mysterious Spirit Sect for the Su Household and the Ascension Gate, unaware that Xu Chuan was listening as Black Wind revealed his presence.

• Xu Zhaoheng fought the Zhong Household, killed a Golden Core cultivator, and escaped Yin Spring City with the help of a Barrier-Breaking Orb, an escape talisman, and a hidden spiritual-consciousness attack from Elder Deling.
• Elder Deling and Chongyuan found Xu Zhaoheng recovering, revealed that they had protected him, and warned him to put his life and the Xu Household first.
• Xu Weiyan traveled with the puppet-arts cultivator Lu Dong, Xu Mingqing formed his nascent soul, and Mang Yuan reached the transformation late stage as events across Southern Heaven unfolded.
• Black Wind told Xu Chuan that the Other Shore’s regional leaders were gathering in Myriad Treasures City, and Xu Chuan agreed to accompany him and investigate the organization’s plans.
• Xu Chuan and Black Wind attended the Other Shore gathering, where the chief proposed attacking the Mysterious Spirit Sect in exchange for New Nine-Revolution Profound Origin Pills.
• Black Wind told the Other Shore’s leaders that they were plotting aloud in front of the person they meant to target, and the leaders reacted in shock.

Xu Chuan forced the Other Shore under joint Xu Household and Shen Clan control, then used its assassins to sabotage the Su Household and Ascension Gate’s attack on the Mysterious Spirit Sect. After returning to Yunxi, he broke through to the Nascent Soul late stage while Xu Chongxi faced a deadly inheritance trial in the Cold Mountain Secret Realm.

• Xu Chuan exposed Black Wind’s allegiance, discovered that the Other Shore’s first leader was Shen Shufei of the Shen Clan, and secured the leaders’ agreement to submit to sixty years of restrictions while sharing control of the organization with the Xu Household.
• Shen Shufei told the Shen Clan ancestor about Xu Chuan’s restriction, and the Shen Clan agreed not to clash with the Xu Household before helping arrange for the Ascension Pavilion to open in Myriad Treasures City.
• The Other Shore’s assassins betrayed the Su Household and Ascension Gate during their assault on the Mysterious Spirit Sect, killing one Nascent Soul cultivator and badly wounding two before Xu Chuan stopped the battle and let the factions withdraw.
• Xu Chuan returned to Yunxi, where Hu Meiniang became pregnant with Moyue’s child, and later began attempting a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul late stage as Xu Chongxi entered the Cold Mountain Secret Realm’s life-or-death Heavenly Iceheart trial.
• Xu Chuan successfully reached the Nascent Soul late stage, and Xu Huai reported that the cave-heaven had expanded and tested the strength of his Greenwood Avatar.

Xu Chuan rescued Xu Chongxi during the Cold Mountain Secret Realm’s life-and-death trial, helping her claim High Person Hanshan’s inheritance and the secret realm. After returning to the Xu Household, he learned Xu Mingwei was preparing to form his Nascent Soul and watched as Mingwei entered a heart demon trial.

• Xu Chuan entered the Cold Mountain Secret Realm and used his life-and-death divine ability to control the Heavenly Iceheart’s extreme cold as Xu Chongxi fused with it.
• Xu Chongxi gained an Ultimate Iceheart Body, comprehended the Extreme Ice Snow-Soul Palm, and slew a Transformation Late Stage Great Demon to complete the trials.
• Xu Chongxi received High Person Hanshan’s inheritance, the Heart of Cold Mountain, and the Cold Mountain Seal, then stayed in the secret realm to refine them.
• Xu Chuan returned to Yunxi, reported Chongxi’s success, and sent Xu Chonghui to prepare for Myriad Treasures City’s grand auction before resuming secluded cultivation.
• Xu Mingwei told Yang Ronghua and Changfeng Xiaoyang that he would attempt Nascent Soul Formation, then entered seclusion with a high-grade Tribulation-Surmounting Pill.
• Xu Chuan sent Xu Mingwei into the Heart Demon Illusion Formation, and Xu Mingxian revealed an image of Dongxi and the Millennium Calamity.

Xu Chuan intervened in Xu Mingwei’s heart demon tribulation, helping him form his Nascent Soul, and the Xu Household’s fortunes continued to grow. Later, Xu Mingqing brought Qin Huan to meet Xu Chuan, who tested him with an illusion and revealed the encounter’s true nature.

• Xu Mingwei failed to overcome the Heart Demon Illusion Formation, so Xu Chuan ordered him to keep training before attempting his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Xu Chuan used the Qilin Seal and his Reincarnation Illusion Realm to help Xu Mingwei confront his love tribulation, and Xu Mingwei successfully formed his Nascent Soul.
• Xu Mingwei reunited with his family, while Xu Chongsheng and Xu Wenjing later also reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xu Deling advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Xu Mingqing invited Qin Huan to leave the Three Prefectures Region with him to meet the source of Qin Huan’s Illusion Dao inheritance.
• Xu Chuan tested Qin Huan with an illusion in which Qin Huan risked his life to save Xu Mingqing, then revealed the scene had been an illusion.

Qin Huan passed Xu Chuan’s test, became his disciple, and began cultivating in the Xu Household. Two years later, Xu Han survived his transformation tribulation, awakened a Primordial Nether Crow bloodline, and was sent to cultivate in the Nether Yin Mountain Range; the chapter ended with Xu Mingxian breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and advancing his battle-formation abilities.

• Qin Huan passed Xu Chuan’s illusion test, learned about the Three Prefectures Region’s calamity, and knelt to become Xu Chuan’s disciple.
• Xu Chuan gave Qin Huan a Heaven-Mending Pill and an Illusion Dao inheritance, and Qin Huan refined the pill to raise his aptitude to a Heaven Spiritual Root.
• Xu Han survived his transformation tribulation with Xu Chuan’s help and awakened a Primordial Nether Crow bloodline with powerful death-based abilities.
• Xu Han and Xu Sky Lion visited Crow Daoist, who agreed to visit the Demon King Hall before deciding whether to ally with it.
• Hanyuan explained the rarity and potential of Xu Han’s Primordial Nether Crow bloodline, and Xu Chuan later arranged for him to cultivate in the Nether Yin Mountain Range.
• Xu Mingxian broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and developed composite battle formations that let him contend with Great Cultivators.

Xu Chuan traveled to Joyous Union City to protect White Jade Capital and, under the guise of Elder Nether Crow, defeated an attack by the Blood Demon Grotto and Zhong Household. He returned to Yunxi after the major factions began investigating his identity, leaving White Jade Capital under the watch of his ghost cultivator avatar and Xu Han.

• Xu Mingyuan and Xu Chonghui asked Xu Chuan to protect White Jade Capital, and he traveled to Joyous Union City with Xu Han.
• True Lord Jueyin secured Bai Wushang’s permission for the Blood Demon Grotto to attack White Jade Capital, and Blood-Pupil True Lord led the assault with three Golden Core cultivators.
• Xu Han severely wounded Blood-Pupil True Lord with his innate abilities and swallowed his nascent soul, while Xu Chuan injured Blood Demon True Lord and Zhong Xuanye with his spiritual consciousness secret art.
• Blood Demon True Lord and Zhong Xuanye fled, and Bai Wushang ordered an investigation into Elder Nether Crow as news of the fight spread through the Blackwater Domain.
• At a Heavenly Baleful Sect meeting, Xu Dewen advised the others to ignore Elder Nether Crow, and the sect voted not to investigate him.
• Xu Chuan returned to Yunxi, left his ghost cultivator avatar and Xu Han to guard White Jade Capital, and brought back corpses to help Profound Yin and Blood Baleful advance.

Xu Chuan arranged aid for Meiji’s Yin Sect lineage while guiding Xu Zhaoyuan’s cultivation, and the Xu Household gained a transformed great demon and a new Dragon Fox daughter. Xu Zhaoyuan visited Xu Chongjian to study his Five Elements Sword Dao and remained at the Cloud Cang Sword Sect to cultivate.

• Meiji emerged from seclusion and told the Yin Empress that she had reached the peak of the nascent soul middle stage as the Joyous Union Sect’s Yin-Yang Dao Contention approached.
• After Meiji asked the White Jade Capital for help, Xu Chuan advised the Xu Household to wait and let Xu De Ling and Xu De Wen act independently if the conflict required it.
• Xu Dewen broke through to the nascent soul middle stage, while Xu Zhaoyuan reached Foundation Establishment perfection and began studying the Five-Element Creation Palm with Xu Chuan.
• Xu Ying transformed into a great demon with the Crimson Sky Goshawk bloodline and survived his Transformation Tribulation Lightning.
• Hu Meiniang gave birth to a seven-tailed Dragon Fox, whom Xu Chuan named Linglong, and Moyue agreed she would join the Xu Household after three years.
• Xu Zhaoyuan visited Xu Chongfei and Xu Chongjian to study their arts, then stayed at the Cloud Cang Sword Sect after observing Xu Chongjian’s Northern Darkness Sword Dao.

Xu Zhaoyuan emerged as a peerless Foundation Establishment prodigy, developed powerful five-element techniques, and received a new body-tempering inheritance that strengthened the Xu Household. After three years of further cultivation, he could threaten Golden Core perfection cultivators, while the Xu Household continued managing regional disputes and tracking its members’ growing strength.

• Xu Chongjian warned Xu Wenxiao that Xu Zhaoyuan and Xu Jingwu possessed extraordinary potential, and Xu Wenxiao brought Xu Jinglan to Xu Chuan for help comprehending Profound Nether Sea Suppression.
• Xu Zhaoyuan emerged from seclusion with a divine ability embryo, then defeated Xu Wenxiao’s attacks in a spar through his five-element techniques and forced Xu Chongjian to end the match.
• Xu Chuan showed Xu Zhaoyuan how to improve his Five-Element Primordial Sword with formations, and the Clan Genealogy revealed a Five-Element Creation body-tempering method that Xu Chuan passed to him.
• Xu Zhaoyuan cultivated the Five-Element Creation Body, transformed his magic power, and chose to delay his Golden Core breakthrough until he could comprehend creation intent.
• Over the next three years, Xu Zhaoyuan developed the Five-Spirit God-Slaying Art and combined it with his other abilities to severely injure and kill a late-third-rank demon beast; Xu Deling also forged him a high-grade Five-Element Ring.
• The Xu Household continued mediating disputes among Northwest cultivators as Ye Fan and Xu Deyue advanced to Nascent Soul middle stage, and the chapter ranked the household’s strongest fighters.

Xu Zhaoyuan developed a five-element divine ability and traveled to the Blackwater Domain to kill a Blood Demon Grotto genius, where he began a campaign against the Xin Household to draw out his target. After forcing the household to seek reinforcements, he and Xu Zhaoheng prepared to intercept them on the road.

• Xu Zhaoyuan comprehended creation power, and Xu Chuan helped him develop a Five-Element Treasure Seal that could become a quasi-greater divine ability.
• Xu Chuan sent Xu Zhaoyuan to the Blackwater Domain with Xu Zhaoheng, where they planned to provoke the Xin Household and target Xin Yulang.
• Xu Zhaoyuan killed Xin Youlin and defeated Xin Xuekuang, then hunted Xin Household cultivators until the household sent its Grand Elder to seek help from the Blood Demon Grotto.
• Xu Zhaoyuan and Xu Zhaoheng learned that the Xin Household had sought reinforcements and decided to intercept them before they returned.
• Xu Zhaoyuan urged Xu Zhaoheng to remember his ties to the Xu Household, and Xu Zhaoheng affirmed that he would return if the lineage needed him.

Xu Zhaoyuan killed Xin Yulang after a fierce battle, then formed a Xiantian Five-Element Dao Body golden core in the Azure Sea Forest and advanced to Golden Core Middle Stage. Azure Firmament agreed to serve as his Guardian Daoist and took him through a Spatial Passageway to teach him.

• Xu Zhaoheng and Xu Zhaoyuan ambushed the Xin Household party, with Xu Zhaoheng holding off the Xin Household Ancestor and Ma Qiying while Xu Zhaoyuan fought Xin Yulang and Xin Rufeng.
• After enduring their attacks and recovering with pills, Xu Zhaoyuan broke through Xin Yulang's defenses, struck him down with the Five-Element Primordial Finger, and fled as Xu Zhaoheng covered his escape.
• Xu Chuan healed Xu Zhaoyuan and brought him back to Yunxi, while Xu Zhaoheng remained in the Blackwater Domain and Xu Deling was assigned to watch the Joyous Union Sect.
• Xu Chuan took Xu Zhaoyuan and Xu Huai to the Azure Sea Forest, where Azure Firmament permitted Xu Zhaoyuan to form his core beneath the great pagoda tree.
• Xu Zhaoyuan's core formation stirred a thousand-li spiritual energy tide, revealed his Xiantian Five-Element Dao Body and extraordinary foundation, and carried him from Golden Core First Layer to Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Azure Firmament agreed to guide Xu Zhaoyuan as his Guardian Daoist until Spirit Transformation and took him through a Spatial Passageway.

Xu Zhaoyuan entered the Little Five-Element Secret Realm and learned how it could help him cultivate, while Xu Chuan watched the Xu Household and its allies grow over seven years. The Joyous Union Sect’s Yin-Yang Dao Contention began, with Meiji fighting for the Yin Sect and drawing Bai Wushang’s attention.

• Xu Zhaoyuan told Xu Chuan that Azure Firmament had become his Path Guardian and explained the Little Five-Element Secret Realm’s trials and cultivation resources.
• Xu Zhaoyuan chose to pursue the Creation Dharma Form by cultivating the Five Emperors and Five Sovereigns Dharma Form as its foundation, and Xu Chuan warned him to conceal the cave-heaven’s connection from Lingjun.
• Over the following years, the Xu Household expanded its influence, Blood Baleful and other allies advanced, Xu Chuan improved his divine abilities, and the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty strengthened its foundations.
• The Yin Empress sought aid from the Xu Household and the Heavenly Baleful Sect; Xu Dewen agreed to support her faction in exchange for a future favor.
• The Yin and Yang factions agreed to settle control of the Joyous Union Sect through a Dao Contention, and Meiji volunteered as the Yin Sect’s stake.
• The Dao Contention began with Foundation Establishment and Golden Core battles and Nascent Soul duels; Meiji quickly defeated her opponent, prompting Bai Wushang to praise her.

The Yin Sect lineage and Bai Wushang’s Yang Sect fought over control of the Joyous Union Sect, until Xu Deling and the Xu Household’s support shifted the battle. After Bai Wushang conceded and surrendered the Yang Sect’s spirit treasure, Xu Deling rejected Tantai Ming’s marriage proposal.

• Bai Wushang and the Yin Empress gathered their allies, and Meiji killed a Yang Sect elder while the other fighters engaged in battle.
• Xu Dewen fought True Lord Jueyin, destroyed the Green-Haired Corpse King’s intelligence, and drew Jueyin back toward the main battlefield.
• Xu Deling arrived on the Blazing Vermilion Bird and joined Tantai Ming in defeating Blood Demon True Lord, whose Nascent Soul Chongyuan later swallowed.
• Tyrant Blade True Lord and True Lord Jueyin fled, leaving Bai Wushang surrounded; after an hour of fighting, he was grievously wounded and conceded the Dao Contention.
• Bai Wushang surrendered the Yang Sect’s spirit treasure and withdrew, allowing the Yin Sect lineage to reclaim control of the Joyous Union Sect.
• Tantai Ming asked Xu Deling to consider a marriage alliance with the Tantai Household, and she told him he did not measure up.

Xu Dewen took advantage of Blood Demon True Lord’s death to loot the Blood Demon Grotto, while Xu Chuan helped him subdue its Heavenly Demon Blood Corpse. The Blackwater Domain descended into conflict and named four rising Nascent Soul prodigies the Four Great Devil Lords; two years later, Xu Zhaoyuan returned with an Earth Origin Root as Xu Moyue attempted to reach the transformation peak.

• Xu Deling rejected Tantai Ming’s advances, while Xu Dewen enlisted Xu Huai to enter the Blood Demon Grotto ahead of the other powers.
• Xu Dewen persuaded Blood Tempering True Lord to guide him through the Grotto’s vaults, took its accumulated resources, and found the Heavenly Demon Blood Corpse hidden beneath the sect.
• Xu Chuan used an illusion and Life-and-Death Seals to make the Heavenly Demon Blood Corpse acknowledge Xu Dewen as its master.
• The Yin Empress, Fan Xue, Tyrant Blade, Jueyin True Lord, and Xu Deling breached the Grotto’s formation, but found its vaults empty; the four remaining factions divided its people and disciples.
• News of the Grotto’s destruction spread, and Xu Dewen joined Heavenly Ghost True Lord and Corpse Soul True Lord as one of the Four Great Devil Lords amid growing warfare.
• Two years later, Xu Zhaoyuan returned to the Xu Household with an Earth Origin Root, and Xu Chuan revealed that Xu Moyue had begun attempting to reach the transformation peak.

Moyue reached transformation peak and returned to Nine Dragons Mountain with his children, where he defeated Grand Elder Qing Lei and succeeded him, gaining the inherited Spirit Treasure Azure Horn. After arranging Dragon Pool baptisms for his children, Moyue told Qing Lei that the Xu Household had enabled his rise and that he intended to return to them.

• Xu Chuan explained that Moyue planned to return to Nine Dragons Mountain and claim its Spirit Treasure, while Moyue reached peak fourth tier and agreed to take his children there for Dragon Pool baptisms.
• Moyue arrived at Nine Dragons Mountain with Jiao Xuan, Jiao Lei, Han Xue, and Linglong, then asked the clan chiefs to admit his children to the Dragon Pool.
• Moyue revealed his transformation-peak cultivation and spirit transformation bloodline, challenged Grand Elder Qing Lei, and gained the upper hand in their battle.
• Qing Lei accepted Moyue as his successor, and Moyue received the Grand Elder's token and the inherited Spirit Treasure Azure Horn at the succession ceremony.
• Moyue arranged Dragon Pool places for the clans and his children, then told Qing Lei that he served the Xu Household and that it had helped transform his bloodline.

Moyue persuaded Qing Lei to consider an alliance between Nine Dragons Mountain and the Xu Household, while Xu Chuan negotiated terms and later forged the pact as Nine Dragons Mountain faced a looming succession crisis. Xu Chuan refined Nascent Soul Formation Pills, Xu Mingshu reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and the chapter ended as Tantai Ming met Xu Chuan in Yunxi.

• Moyue told Qing Lei about the Xu Household’s Dragon Transformation Pill, and Qing Lei traveled through Azure Dragon Prefecture and neighboring regions to judge the Xu Household for himself.
• Xu Chuan proposed trade, spirit-beast contracts, and military support in exchange for a Dragon Transformation Pill, and Nine Dragons Mountain’s leaders debated the alliance before both sides signed a pact.
• Xu Mingxian built a Grand Transmission Array and defensive formation at Nine Dragons Mountain, and the Clan Genealogy revealed the twelfth generation’s Mystic Nether Spirit Body and Crimson Sky Spirit Body.
• Xu Chuan refined nine Nascent Soul Formation Pills, and Xu Mingshu used one to break through her bottleneck and form her nascent soul.
• Tantai Ming arrived in Yunxi, explored Cloudbrook City, and met Xu Chuan, whose Withering-and-Flourishing Dao startled him.

Xu Chuan’s household strengthened its alliances and advanced its cultivation while Xu Chuan perfected his withered-glory ability and discovered the greater potential of his [Withering and Flourishing] talent. The chapter left the Xu Household preparing to send Xu Jinglan and other disciples to a Southern Heaven Heavenly Pride Gathering.

• Tantai Ming visited the Xu Household, sparred with Ye Fan, and declined Xu Chuan’s offer to trade for the Golden Dawn Void-Breaking Art.
• Xu Chuan proposed helping Tantai Ming compete for the Tantai Household’s leadership, and Tantai Ming later agreed to the Xu Household’s support.
• Xu Deheng formed his Nascent Soul, several Xu Household cultivators advanced, and Cloud Roc broke through to the Transformation late stage.
• Ye Fan reached the fourth-tier middle stage in body tempering and left to seek natural cultivation grounds, while Xu Chuan’s xiantian withered-glory intent reached perfection and resonated with [Withering and Flourishing].
• Xu Zhaoyuan advanced to the Golden Core late stage, and Xu Jinglan agreed to represent the Xu Household at the upcoming Foundation Establishment Heavenly Pride Gathering.

Southern Heaven’s factions agreed to help the World Guardian Palace fight a demon tide that began after the True Demon Palace disturbed the Death Sand Sea. The tide swelled to nearly ten million beasts, and Xu Mingwei directed the Xu Household’s forces toward the most dangerous battle zone as they arrived.

• Southern Heaven’s powers settled on rewards for the Heavenly Pride Gathering, while the competition proceeded through its first two rounds.
• Four True Demon cultivators fled through the Death Sand Sea, where their actions helped trigger a beast tide; Minggu demanded that the West Boundary Palace open its barrier so he could pursue them.
• Changfeng Xiaoyang and the West Boundary Palace leaders organized Southern Heaven’s factions to defend the region, offering cultivation opportunities, techniques, and a spirit treasure as rewards.
• Xu Mingwei met Xu Mingyuan in Azure Cloud City and helped secure the factions’ agreement to send forces to the Death Sand Sea.
• The Xu Household and the other factions gathered their cultivators and traveled to the battlefield, where they learned that the Blood Sun Scorpions and Black Baleful Demons had joined the fighting, raising the tide to nearly ten million beasts.
• Xu Mingwei persuaded Wulü to assign the Northwest forces, including the Xu Household, to the hardest-hit battle zone.

Xu Chuan fought Demon Venerable Minggu and then Demon Venerable Black Baleful during the demon tide, while Southern Heaven and West Boundary Palace forces battled the beasts. Black Baleful offered Xu Chuan a deal for the secret behind seeing through his innate ability, and Xu Chuan considered what he would accept.

• Wulü assigned the arriving cultivators to five battlefields and explained the Death Sand Sea’s demon beasts and points system.
• Xu Chuan and Zhang Fan entered the formation and attacked the demon beasts, with Xu Chuan harvesting intact corpses while holding off their stronger foes.
• Demon Venerable Minggu trapped Xu Chuan in his Sand Realm, but Xu Chuan broke it with his perfected Xiantian Withering-and-Blooming Finger and Azure Dragon Sword Formation.
• Changfeng Xiaoyang engaged Minggu as the Southern Heaven cultivators and West Boundary Palace forces charged into battle against the demon tide.
• Xu Chuan fought Demon Venerable Black Baleful, repeatedly foiling his sand-based attacks, and Black Baleful offered treasures in exchange for learning how Xu Chuan detected his ability.
• Xu Chuan rejected incomplete spirit treasures and unsuitable rewards, and Black Baleful proposed paying him with drops of blood sun crystal marrow.

Xu Chuan negotiated with the Black Baleful Demon Venerable for Azure Dragon treasures and devised Sand-Dispelling Pills that removed black sand from afflicted cultivators. The pills spread across Southern Heaven’s forces, and after half a month of preparation, the next battle began with the final Spirit Transformation demon sovereign appearing.

• Xu Chuan bargained with the Black Baleful Demon Venerable and secured a promise of five drops of Azure Dragon essence blood and the Azure Dragon’s remains in exchange for keeping the demon’s weakness secret.
• Venerable Yuanxu arrived and drove the demons to retreat, while Xu Mingxian went to help repair the damaged grand formation.
• Xu Chuan refined nearly a hundred thousand Sand-Dispelling Pills, and Xu Mingyuan distributed them to the Xu Household’s afflicted disciples.
• True Lord Xiyuan confirmed that the pills removed black sand by attracting it with Xu Chuan’s unusual vitality force, and factions across the battlefields began buying them in bulk.
• After half a month, the demon tide attacked again, and the last Spirit Transformation demon sovereign appeared during the battle.