Recaps

The Xu Household consolidated its half of the Central Region and became Lord of the Northwest, where Xu Chuan announced the Northern Darkness Imperial Dynasty. Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered to discuss the Xu Household's growing power and heard that a suspected Spirit Transformation expert from the Death Nether Sect had attacked Tiansha.

• Xu Chuan left Xu Deling and Mingxian to guard the Central Region, while True Lord Xuancheng gave local forces a choice to submit to the Xu Household or leave.
• Most local forces joined the Xu Household, while the Ji Household allied with the Su Household and both sides built up their territories.
• Xu Chuan presided over the Xu Household's coronation as Lord of the Northwest and renamed the region the Northern Darkness Continent.
• Xu Chuan announced the Northern Darkness Imperial Dynasty, its Fortune-based offices, and Demon Lord Moyue's appointment as its Guardian Spirit Beast.
• Spirit Transformation cultivators met in Azure Cloud City to discuss the Xu Household, but Qing Leizi warned that sending Avatars against Xu Chuan would be dangerous.
• Hundred Witherings Venerable reported that a suspected Death Nether Sect Spirit Transformation expert had nearly killed Tiansha, while Daoist Wuchen argued that the attacker could instead have been at the peak of Half-Step Spirit Transformation.

The Xu Household founded the Northern Darkness Imperial Dynasty, whose golden Fortune dragon strengthened its capital and established its authority across Northern Darkness Continent. As the dynasty began operating, the old alliances dissolved and the Skyreach Sect was restored.

• Xu Chuan persuaded Moyue to serve as the Northern Darkness Imperial Dynasty’s Guardian Spirit Beast, explaining that Imperial Fortune would aid her cultivation but bind her fate to the dynasty.
• Xu Mingyuan and Xu Chonghui organized the dynasty’s government, schools, bureaus, and territory, while the Xu Household completed its Fortune Borrowing and Zhang Daoran advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Xu Jinghao declared the founding of the Northern Darkness Imperial Dynasty, and its golden Fortune dragon formed, strengthening the Imperial Capital’s protective formation and transforming the imperial seal and Northern Darkness Code into Spirit Treasures.
• The dynasty began operating, Moyue guarded the Northern Darkness Jade Pillar, and Xu Chuan and others entered the Attendant Hall to cultivate with the blessing of Imperial Fortune.
• Xu Mingyuan approved the dissolution of the Azure Dragon Alliance and the other great alliance, and True Lord Bing Gan reestablished the Skyreach Sect with Cang Fengyan as its sect master.

The Northern Darkness Imperial Dynasty consolidated its rule as three rival alliances divided the rest of Southern Heaven, while Xu Dewen took control of the Heavenly Baleful Sect and secured an alliance with the Joyous Union Sect. As Xu Zhaoheng and Xu Zhaoyuan entered the First Demon Secret Realm to seek an inheritance, Tantai Ming arrived to ask Xu Chuan for help in the Tantai Household’s coming Young Clan Head competition.

• Sun Chuanxing became chief preceptor of the Northern Darkness Academy, and Xu Changming trained under Xu Jingwu while serving as a Martial Way Bureau chief.
• Xu Mingxian broke through to Nascent Soul Late Stage and strengthened the Central Region’s defenses as the three Southern Heaven alliances formed and renamed their continents.
• Meiji and the Joyous Union Sect helped the Heavenly Baleful Sect repel the Corpse Yin Sect and Heavenly Ghost Sect, and Xu Dewen became the Heavenly Baleful Sect’s sect master after refining the Earth Demon Bell.
• Tang Qianqian and Xu Wenxiao broke through to Nascent Soul, while Xu Chuan sent Xu Zhaoheng and Xu Zhaoyuan into the First Demon Secret Realm with Ye Fan and True Lord Yuanmo.
• Tantai Ming visited Xu Chuan in Northern Darkness City and revealed that he sought help ahead of the Tantai Household’s Young Clan Head competition.

Xu Chuan learned the Tantai Household’s Young Clan Head contest rules and agreed to help Tantai Ming, while Xu Zhaoheng chose to cultivate the Returning-to-Oneness Demon Scripture after the First Demon Secret Realm’s remnant soul was destroyed. Azure Firmament tested Xu Chuan’s strength and agreed to leave Xu Zhaoyuan in the Xu Household; later, Xu Mingxian saved Xi Muran from the Blue Household, and Xi Muran brought three youths to Azure Dragon City to seek an old acquaintance and a master.

• Tantai Ming told Xu Chuan that he needed support for the Young Clan Head contest, described the Tantai Household’s strength and the three assessments, and gave him a token for the event two years later.
• In the First Demon Secret Realm, the palace master’s Remnant Soul tried to possess Xu Zhaoyuan but was destroyed by Lingjun’s contingency, leaving behind the Returning-to-Oneness Demon Scripture and other treasures.
• Xu Zhaoheng decided to switch to the Returning-to-Oneness Demon Scripture, and Xu Chuan let him keep its inheritance object while reserving the Ten Thousand Demons Banner for him until he reached Nascent Soul.
• Azure Firmament visited Xu Chuan to take Xu Zhaoyuan back to the Secret Realm, but after Xu Chuan endured his three moves, Azure Firmament accepted that Xu Zhaoyuan could remain and cultivate in the Xu Household.
• Xu Mingxian intervened when the Blue Household attacked Xi Muran’s Spell Boat, forcing Lan Lujian and his cultivators to leave, then warned Xi Muran to prepare for the Blue Household’s next move.
• Three months later, Xi Muran brought three youths to Azure Dragon City to visit an old acquaintance and find a master.