Recaps

Xu Chuan left the Pill Hall, recruited True Person Yunding to oversee alchemy at the Xu Household’s Guangling branch, and later revealed his Foundation Establishment, elevating the household’s standing. At the Foundation Establishment Ceremony, a Wei Household youth killed a grandfather and child; Xu Chuan used the Soul-Confounding Art and exposed the youth’s contemptuous motive before the gathered guests.

• Xu Chuan left the Pill Hall with True Person Yunding, invited him to join the Xu Household, and promised him a Foundation Establishment Pill if the household won more than one at the Black Radiance Grand Assembly.
• Xu Chuan inspected the Guangling branch, arranged for Wu Mingsheng, Zhang Wanqing, and apprentices to support it, and spent three months refining pills there before returning to Dongxi.
• Xu Chuan’s successful Foundation Establishment became public, and the Zhou Household, Wei Household, and other clans prepared gifts for the Xu Household’s Foundation Establishment Ceremony.
• The Xu Household held its ceremony and tournaments, where Xu Dewen won the Grandmaster Tournament and Xu Dezhao defeated top cultivators from the Zhou and Wei Households in the Open Tournament.
• A Wei Household youth caused trouble at the mountain’s foot after killing a grandfather and grandchild, and Xu Chuan used the Soul-Confounding Art to make him confess that he killed them out of contempt for commoners.

Xu Chuan executed Wei Mingyang, negotiated with Cao Yuchen over pill refining, and secured Moyue as the Xu Household’s spirit beast. Meanwhile, the Flame Demon Bandits triggered a beast tide in Copper Mountain Commandery, prompting the Cao Clan to summon Immortal Officials, including a large force from the Xu Clan.

• Xu Chuan ordered Ren Xiaoyao to execute Wei Mingyang for murdering Dongxi residents and insulting the Xu Household, then told his family to watch for retaliation from the Wei Household.
• Cao Yuchen visited Xu Chuan to recruit him and offered pill formulas in exchange for Xu Chuan refining a Foundation Establishment Pill when ingredients became available; Xu Chuan accepted the formulas but declined to join him.
• Xu Chuan persuaded Moyue to swear the True Dragon Oath and become his spirit beast, while Xu Chuan swore to help free and restore him; Xu Mingxian later began widening the sealing formation around the Jade-Cold Pool.
• Xue Ming, Qing Ling, Leng Mu, and Qiu Jiu entered Copper Mountain Commandery, used Demon-Luring Incense to trigger a beast tide, and hoped to search for the sealed corpse of an ancient flood dragon.
• The Cao Clan ordered Immortal Officials across Great Wei to reinforce Copper Mountain Commandery, and a large contingent of Xu Clan cultivators and martial artists arrived.

Xu Chuan negotiated rewards, trading rights, and access to the Cangwu Mountains with Cao Jinming in exchange for refining pills while the Xu Household joined Copper Mountain Commandery’s battle against a massive beast tide. After Xu Mingwei’s famous duel with Liu Wuqing, Foundation Establishment demon beasts emerged, and Ren Xiaoyao and Zhou Qingfang teamed up to kill a Hundred-Footed Ironback Centipede.

• Xu Chuan led the Xu Household to Copper Mountain Commandery, where he arranged for the younger generation to hunt beasts and negotiated pill-refining work and trading privileges with Cao Jinming.
• Xu Mingxian joined the hunt, and Xu Mingqing, Xu Mingwei, and other Xu Household members fought demon beasts while the clan’s formations impressed nearby cultivators.
• Xu Mingwei fought Liu Wuqing in a four-move duel, and Liu Wuqing’s eldest brother stopped them before they could continue.
• On the seventh day, Foundation Establishment demon beasts emerged, and Cao Jinming organized the cultivators to confront them.
• Ren Xiaoyao and Zhou Qingfang combined the Five-Spirit Casket sword formation with Zhou Qingfang’s magical artifacts to kill the Hundred-Footed Ironback Centipede.

Ren Xiaoyao used a spiritual consciousness attack to help the cultivators defeat the Beast Tide in Copper Mountain Commandery, and the Xu Household reunited after the battle. When Xu Mingshu confronted the Taishu Household, she fought Taishu Ze under an agreement to settle their feud and killed him with her spiritual consciousness and Black Baleful Flag.

• Ren Xiaoyao stunned the Purple Lightning Thunderhawk with a spiritual consciousness attack, allowing the cultivators to kill it and then defeat the remaining Foundation Establishment demon beasts.
• Xu Mingxuan led the Xu Household survivors back to the city while Xu Mingwei and others hunted demon beasts, and Xu Mingshu returned with them after finding a Black Cloud Spirit Iron deposit and raising thousands of iron-eater flying ants.
• Xu Mingshu and Xu Mingqing encountered Taishu Yuan and his companions, and Taishu Ze recognized Xu Mingshu as the woman who had killed his son and attacked her.
• Xu Mingyuan negotiated a fight to the death between Xu Mingshu and Taishu Ze, with both households agreeing to end their grievances afterward.
• Xu Mingshu used a spiritual consciousness attack to disrupt Taishu Ze, then sent her Black-Baleful Flood Dragon to swallow and kill him.

After the Xu Household earned rewards for its role in the Beast Tide, Xu Chuan strengthened ties with Cao Jinming and agreed to consider a marriage alliance between their families. Three years before the Black Radiance Grand Assembly, Xu Chonghui and Xu Mingqing met Cao Jinming’s children and encountered an injured cultivator whose divine sense might require Xu Chuan’s help.

• Xu Mingshu killed Taishu Household elder Taishu Feng’s third brother in their agreed battle to the death, took his spoils, and revealed her Qi Refining perfection cultivation.
• Cao Jinming distributed Beast Tide rewards, and Xu Chuan received a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast Essence Soul for Xu Deling to use in upgrading the Black Baleful Flag.
• Over the following years, the Xu Household expanded while the Wei Household worried that it would dominate Guangling Commandery and discussed waiting for the Black Radiance Grand Assembly to turn others against it.
• Xu Chuan asked Cao Jinming about the Black Radiance Grand Assembly and the Azure Sea Forest; Cao Jinming requested High-Grade Divine Sense Pills for his son’s betrothal and proposed marrying Cao Shenglin into the Xu Household.
• Cao Jinming invited Xu Chonghui and Xu Mingqing to Copper Mountain Commandery to meet his children and consider the marriage alliance.
• At the Xu Clan Trading Company, Xu Chonghui offered a struggling talisman-maker a chance to prove her skill, while Xu Mingqing examined her unconscious brother and suspected a divine sense injury.

Li Hongyi joined the Xu Household after Xu Chuan saved her brother, while the Xu and Cao households arranged Xu Chonghui’s marriage to Cao Shenglin. At the Treasure Trading Conference, Xu Chuan secured several valuable items, but a band of demonic cultivators attacked the Ge Household, and Ge Yuchen fled toward the Xu Household for help.

• Li Hongyi demonstrated her exceptional talisman-making talent, and Xu Chuan healed Li Yuanhua after she agreed that both siblings would join the Xu Household.
• Cao Jinming delivered ingredients for Divine Sense Pills, and Xu Chuan gave him the agreed pills before discussing Cao Shenglin’s betrothal gifts with him.
• Xu Chonghui accepted his marriage match with Cao Shenglin, and Xu Chuan attended the Treasure Trading Conference with Xu Mingqing, where he acquired three demon beast Inner Cores, spirit herbs, and pill formulas.
• Xue Ming, Leng Mu, Qing Ling, and Qiu Jiu trapped the Ge Household in a formation and attacked; the Grand Elder and Ge Yanhua sacrificed themselves to help Ge Yuchen escape.
• Ge Yuchen warned nearby clans that demonic cultivators were attacking, and Xu Mingyuan ordered the Xu Household to activate its Clan-Protecting Grand Formation and prepare for battle.

Four demonic cultivators attacked the Xu Household after discovering a possible connection between its clan grounds and the sealed flood dragon, but Xu Chuan had foreseen the assault and prepared a defense. The battle began with Xu Chuan and Xu Deling confronting two attackers, while the chapter ended as Xu Chuan countered Qing Ling’s poisonous flower attack with his Withering and Flourishing technique.

• Xu Mingwei rallied Guangling’s cultivators to rescue the Ge Household, whose surviving members submitted to the Xu Household after the demonic cultivators nearly destroyed their clan.
• Xu Chuan discussed a Demon Spirit Pill with Moyue, while Xue Ming and his companions discovered Broken Tooth Peak and suspected the Xu Household was connected to the flood dragon’s sealing grounds.
• Xu Chuan’s divination warned that four Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators would attack during the hour of the Ox, so he ordered the Xu Household and Dongxi’s residents to prepare.
• Xue Ming used a Formation-Breaking Pearl to breach the Xu Household’s formation, but Xu Chuan’s forces were waiting and deployed multiple formations to confront the intruders.
• Xu Deling battled Leng Mu’s Yin Generals with true yang fire, while Xu Chuan fought Qing Ling and burned away her Hehuan poison by using Withering and Flourishing.

Xu Mingxian burned his lifespan to break the sealing formation while the Xu Household fought off the Demon Flame Bandits, and Moyue finally escaped the Jade-Cold Pool to defeat Xue Ming. The survivors buried their dead, concealed the household’s true strength, and welcomed Moyue as the Xu Household’s Grand Supreme Elder.

• Xu Mingshu, Xu Dezhao, and Xu Mingqing led the Qi Refining cultivators against Qiu Jiu, whose attacks killed Azurefire Eagles A-Da and Second before the group killed him.
• Xu Deling killed Leng Mu with spiritual consciousness attacks and a hidden awl, while Xu Chuan and the True Yang Fire Crow killed Qing Ling.
• Xue Ming raised his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment ninth layer and nearly overwhelmed Xu Chuan, Xu Deling, and the Xu Household fighters; Wu Tao, Wu Zhen, Wu Da, and Wu Er died in the battle.
• Moyue broke free and destroyed Xue Ming and his blood pythons, then Xu Mingxian joined Xu Chuan and the survivors after paying a heavy price to unravel the sealing formation.
• Xu Chuan ordered the dead buried in the Heroic Spirit Garden and their families compensated, while Xu Dezhao handled the aftermath and the collateral branch learned of the attack.
• Xu Mingyuan and Xu Mingwei brought the collateral branch to Dongxi, where Xu Dezhao recounted the battle; Xu Chuan ordered them to keep the demonic cultivators’ attack secret, and the Xu Household greeted Moyue as its Grand Supreme Elder.

After strengthening the Xu Household and refining Demon Spirit Pills that transformed Third and Little White, Xu Chuan explored the Azure Sea Forest with Ren Xiaoyao and Moyue, gathering valuable treasures. As they tried to return, Moyue warned that another group had detected them and was approaching.

• Xu Chuan traded pills for three Foundation Establishment demon-beast essence souls, refined Demon Spirit Pills, and gave them to Third and Little White, who awakened lightning and fire talents and a trace of White Tiger bloodline.
• Xu Chuan and Ren Xiaoyao entered the Azure Sea Forest with Moyue, defeated several demon beasts, and claimed a three-leaf Purifying Water Lotus.
• The party explored the forest for a month, killed multiple Foundation Establishment demon beasts, and collected rare spirit medicines, including a five-thousand-year-old earthcore jade marrow fungus.
• Xu Chuan decided to return, but Moyue sensed that others had detected them and were coming their way.

Xu Chuan and Ren Xiaoyao drove off a Blood Demon Path cultivator, and Xu Chuan fulfilled Zhou Sen’s last wish by arranging Pill Dao instruction for Zhou Zongdan. After Ren Xiaoyao advanced to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, the Xu Household prepared for the Black Radiance Grand Assembly and arrived in the Imperial Capital, where Xu Chuan arranged lodging and let the younger cultivators explore.

• Xu Chuan and Ren Xiaoyao helped Zhao Qingyan and Zhao Guan'an repel a demonic cultivator, who escaped using Blood Shadow Escape, and received a token from the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household.
• Zhou Sen asked Xu Chuan to guide his great-grandson Zhou Zongdan in the Pill Dao, then died after Xu Chuan agreed to let him attend the Xu Household’s Pill Refining Hall lectures.
• Zhou Zongdan began studying at the Xu Household, where he was impressed by Shen Qingyi and Xu Mingqing and resolved to become an Alchemy Grandmaster.
• Ren Xiaoyao broke through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and the Xu Household planned its participants, artifacts, and preparations for the Black Radiance Grand Assembly.
• Xu Chuan led the Xu Household party to the Imperial Capital with Zhou Qingfang’s party, secured two courtyards through Steward Chen, and allowed the younger cultivators to explore with Xu Mingwei.

As the Black Radiance Grand Assembly approached, Xu Mingqing and Ye Xuehua gained notice through arena fights, and the Xu and Zhou Households arranged their betrothal. Xu Chuan acquired a Dragon Pearl hidden inside earth-type material, then the assembly began, leaving the clans debating how to cooperate in the Wuhua Secret Realm.

• Xu Mingqing won three arena matches before losing to Wang Zhonghua, while Ye Xuehua defeated Wang Zhonghua with three sword strikes and earned the name Greenwood Fairy.
• Xu Chuan and Zhou Qingfang arranged Xu Mingqing and Ye Xuehua's betrothal, and other clans stopped pursuing Ye Xuehua.
• At the Rare Treasures Pavilion auction, Xu Chuan bought earth-type material that concealed an Earth-Attribute Golden Core Flood Dragon's Dragon Pearl, which Moyue began refining.
• Cao Jinde opened the Black Radiance Grand Assembly, explained its rules and prizes, and sent the contestants to draw numbered bamboo slips and begin their matches.
• At a banquet, the Cao Clan Head urged the clans to unite against Great Liang and Great Jin, while the Lei Clan Head and other clan heads argued for smaller teams and the freedom to act independently.

The Xu Household advanced through the Black Radiance Grand Assembly while the Cao Clan discovered Ye Xuehua’s earth spiritual root and began treating the Xu Household as a potential threat. After the three kingdoms’ Golden Core Ancestors opened the Wuhua Secret Realm, the selected cultivators began entering it.

• Xu Mingqing defeated Liu Wufang, and all six Xu Household participants passed the first elimination round.
• Xu Mingxuan defeated Wang Zhonghua with a fine-grade flying sword, while Xu Mingshu forced Feng Qingyang to concede using the Black Baleful Flag; the Xu Household’s other members also survived the second round and the revival challenges.
• After Ye Xuehua conceded to Cao Yulong, the Cao Clan’s Golden Core Ancestor confirmed her earth spiritual root and azurewood sword body, and the Cao Clan Head resolved to have her marry Cao Yulong.
• The Cao Clan’s Golden Core Ancestor detected Xu Chuan’s concealed foundation establishment middle-stage cultivation and a Formation Master’s restriction near the Xu Household, prompting Cao Shengming to consider eliminating Xu Household members in the secret realm.
• Xu Chuan warned his six relatives that the Cao Clan might target them, arranged an alliance with the Lei Clan, and gave the group advice before they departed for the Wuhua Secret Realm.
• The Golden Core Ancestors of Great Wei, Great Jin, and Great Liang opened the secret realm entrance, and the selected cultivators flew inside.

Xu Mingshu and the Xu Household gathered their relatives in the Wuhua Secret Realm, helped several companions reach Foundation Establishment, and hunted for valuable pill ingredients. After defeating a demonic cultivator ambush, the group amassed eight complete sets of Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients and began leaving the Mist Forest.

• Xu Mingshu killed two demonic cultivators with Xu Ying, then met up with Xu Deheng, Xu Mingxian, Xu Deyue, Xu Mingxuan, and Xu Mingqing in the Mist Forest.
• Xu Mingxuan’s group rescued Zhou Zongyun and Ye Xuehua, then Xu Ying and Xu Bai helped the Xu Household defeat a third-layer Foundation Establishment wolf demon.
• Xu Mingxuan, Xu Mingshu, Xu Mingxian, and Ye Xuehua entered seclusion; all four reached Foundation Establishment, while Xu Mingqing, Xu Deheng, and Xu Deyue reached Qi Refining perfection.
• Xu Mingxian and his companions killed three demonic cultivators and a Feng Household cultivator who had lured them into an ambush, then took the heavenly spirit fruit they had found.
• The Xu Household groups gathered Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients across the Mist Forest, bringing their total to eight complete sets before they started heading out.

Xu Mingxuan's group defeated the Mei Clan, several demonic cultivators, and the pursuing Sima Clan, then gathered a great haul in the Wuhua Secret Realm. As the trial neared its end, they headed for the exit and met the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household, whose leader recognized Elder Qingyan's token.

• Xu Mingxuan's group trapped and killed the Mei Clan's party, then collected their materials, artifacts, and spirit herbs.
• Xu Mingxuan's group drove demonic cultivators away from Lei Xiaoyun, later ambushed and defeated those cultivators, and won further spoils from other groups.
• Xu Mingxuan's group joined Ye Xuehua and Zhou Zongyun, escaped the Sima Clan's pursuit into the Black Marsh, and killed the Sima Clan's members while destroying the Red-Spotted Insects that had consumed them.
• Xu Mingxuan's group divided some of the spoils with Ye Xuehua, secured soul oaths from her and Zhou Zongyun, and searched the Black Marsh and Lava Valley for rare resources.
• As the trial's end approached, Xu Mingxuan's group encountered the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household, and Zhao Sheyan recognized Elder Qingyan's token.

Xu Mingxuan’s group returned from the Wuhua Secret Realm with the Xu Household’s standing greatly enhanced, while the Cao Clan forced the Zhou Household to end Xu Mingqing’s engagement to Ye Xuehua. Xu Chuan prepared five Xu Household members to attempt Foundation Establishment and learned that Ye Xuehua expected the Zhou Household to seek the Xu Household’s protection if danger befell her.

• Xu Mingxuan traded Great Wei Identity Tokens for supplies, and his group returned from the Secret Realm without losses; the Xu Household’s three new Foundation Establishment cultivators stunned the other clans.
• Great Jin ranked last and surrendered two sets of Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients to Great Wei, while the Sima Clan ordered surveillance of the Xu Household.
• Xu Chuan refined pills, studied the Cao Clan’s Pill Dao texts, and returned home to meet his fifth-generation grandson, Xu Wenjing, whose talents and bloodline were recorded in the Clan Genealogy.
• Xu Chuan learned that the Cao Clan had pressured the Zhou Household to cancel Xu Mingqing’s engagement to Ye Xuehua, and he prepared five Xu Household members to attempt Foundation Establishment with pills.
• Xu Chuan discussed ways to restore Moyue’s strength and planned to consult the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household, while Ye Xuehua rejected Xu Mingqing and told Zhou Qingfang to seek the Xu Household’s protection if she came to harm.

After the Xu Household rose to third rank, Xu Chuan learned why the Cao Clan was forcing Ye Xuehua’s marriage and traveled to the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household to obtain beast-taming knowledge and resources. He traded the Demon Spirit Pill formula for the Zhao Clan’s mystic art and silkworm larvae, then asked whether they had a young flood-dragon-bloodline beast.

• Xu Chuan arranged duties for the newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivators, helped Xu Mingqing resolve his feelings for Ye Xuehua, and had him begin learning pill concoction.
• Xu Deheng and Xu Deyue established their foundations, the Xu Household gained third-rank status, and Xu Mingqing later succeeded with a low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Xu Chuan learned from the Lei Clan that Ye Xuehua’s earth spiritual root made her valuable to the Cao Clan, which hoped to produce a child with heaven spiritual root aptitude before the approaching demon calamity.
• Xu Chuan obtained third-tier formation records for Xu Mingxian, attended Cao Yulong and Ye Xuehua’s wedding, and then traveled with Xu Mingwei to visit Zhao Qingyan.
• Zhao Qingyan gave Xu Chuan three demon-beast healing pill formulas and the Five-Spirit Reverse Core Method in return for his past help, and Xu Chuan traded the Demon Spirit Pill formula to the Zhao Clan.
• Xu Chuan received pairs of Snow Silkworm, Blood Silkworm, and Dragon Silkworm larvae, then asked Zhao Qingyan whether he could trade a Demon Spirit Pill for a young beast with flood dragon bloodline.

Xu Chuan traded with the Zhao Clan, hunted a peak second-tier demon beast, and returned to Dongxi to find the Cao Clan suppressing his household’s trade. After withdrawing from Copper Mountain Commandery, the Xu Household faced a Feng Clan attack in Guangling Commandery.

• Xu Chuan traded a high-grade Demon Spirit Pill to the Zhao Clan for a Black-Scaled Snake with flood dragon blood, and the two households established a mutual understanding of aid.
• Zhao Guanhong failed to refine a Demon Spirit Pill, while the Zhao Clan tested Xu Chuan’s pill on an Azure Wind Wolf and saw its aura strengthen.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingwei hunted a peak second-tier Red-Scaled Python in Ten Thousand Snakes Valley, killed it with Moyue’s help, and escaped before its third-tier parent found them.
• After returning to Dongxi, Xu Chuan learned the Sima Clan had monitored the Xu Household and that the Cao Clan was organizing pressure against its trading company.
• Xu Chuan led Xu Mingwei, Xu Mingxuan, and Xu Mingshu to withdraw the Xu Clan Trading Company from Copper Mountain Commandery.
• A Feng Household Foundation Establishment cultivator confronted Xu Deqian and Xu Dewen in Guangling Commandery, declared his intent to kill them, and sent his cultivators to attack.

The Feng Household ambushed Xu Clan members, killing Xu Deqian and several younger clansmen while leaving Xu Dewen near death. Xu Chuan saved Xu Dewen and learned that the Feng Household was behind the attack, leaving the Xu Clan preparing to respond.

• Xu Deqian burned his lifespan to fight a Foundation Establishment cultivator but was killed, and Xu Chongyan, Xu Chonglei, and Xu Chongzhi were killed while fleeing.
• Xu Deheng and Ren Xiaoyao found Xu Dewen barely alive and brought him to Green Jade Peak, where True Person Yunding could only prolong his life briefly.
• Xu Chuan learned of the deaths through the Clan Genealogy, traveled to Guangling, and used his Life Essence Liquid to heal Xu Dewen's grave injuries.
• Xu Chuan restored his own vitality by drawing life force from the Medicine Garden, then nourished its spirit herbs with spiritual rain.
• The Cheng Household Head reported that the Feng Household had returned and occupied the former Ge Household grounds, and Xu Deheng recognized them as the attackers.

After the Feng Household and three Foundation Establishment cultivators attacked Xu Mingwei and Ren Xiaoyao, the Xu Household hid its strength while preparing to retaliate. Xu Dewen survived, chose to secretly begin immortal cultivation, and Xu Chuan confronted Wei Dao over his alliance with the Feng Household, leaving the rivalry with the Wei Household and Cao Clan unresolved.

• Xu Deheng identified the Feng Household as responsible for killing Xu disciples, and Xu Chuan ordered Xu Mingwei and Ren Xiaoyao to investigate while concealing the Xu Household’s strength.
• Xu Mingwei and Ren Xiaoyao confronted the Feng Household and its three Foundation Establishment allies, learned the men claimed the Cao surname, and withdrew after Xu Mingwei was injured and Ren Xiaoyao was struck by sword qi.
• Xu Dewen awoke to learn that Xu Deqian and several of his children had died, then agreed to secretly switch from the Martial Way to immortal cultivation and received a concealment mask from Xu Mingwei.
• Xu Dewen converted his true qi into magic power, reached the eighth layer of Qi Refining with a Realm-Breaking Pill, and prepared to cultivate in secret while the Feng Household pressured local clans and competed with the Xu Clan Trading Company.
• Xu Chuan learned that Wei Dao was supporting the Feng Household, visited the Wei Household, and challenged Wei Dao to surpass him in alchemy before warning the Wei Household not to hide its opposition to the Xu Household.

Xu Chuan used the Xu Household’s auction to gather Foundation Establishment clans from across Great Wei while exposing the Cao Clan’s support for the Feng Household. Just as he began the auction, news arrived that the Feng and Wei Households had attacked Xu disciples and Xu elders had retaliated.

• Xu Chuan thwarted the Feng Household’s ambushes and sent Xu Mingwei, Ren Xiaoyao, and Xu Mingxuan out as bait, but they evaded the Cao brothers who pursued them.
• The Xu Household announced an auction featuring prized pills and magical artifacts, drawing interest from Foundation Establishment clans throughout Great Wei.
• Representatives of many clans arrived at the Xu Clan Trading Company, followed by Cao Jinyan, who challenged Xu Chuan over the Cao Clan’s missing invitation.
• Xu Chuan publicly described the Feng Household’s powerful new elders and pressed Cao Jinyan about their apparent connection to the Cao Clan; Cao Jinyan denied involvement and claimed the clan would remain impartial.
• As Xu Chuan declared the auction open, a Qi Refining cultivator reported that the Feng and Wei Households had attacked Xu disciples and that Elder Xiaoyao and the others had gone to assault the Feng Household’s clan grounds.

The Xu Household destroyed the Feng Household and killed the three Cao Clan rogue cultivators during the battle, then Xu Chuan returned to preside over the auction. The auction proceeded as the assembled clans watched, while Xu Chuan ordered his forces to eliminate other hostile clans and require witnesses to swear soul oaths.

• Xu Mingxian broke the Feng Household’s clan-protection formation while Ren Xiaoyao, Xu Deling, Xu Mingwei, Xu Mingshu, and Xu Deyue fought the Cao Clan brothers and Feng Household forces.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxuan arrived, and Xu Mingxian sealed the battlefield in mist before Xu Chuan’s group overwhelmed and killed Cao San, Cao Er, and Cao Da.
• Xu Chuan ordered the Xu Household to kill every Feng Household member and then wipe out the Wei Household and other clans that had attacked them, while requiring all present disciples to swear soul oaths.
• Xu Chuan returned to the Auction Venue and began selling Divine Sense Pills and Jade Sprout Pills to the gathered clans.
• The Taiyuan Li Household, Langya Wang Household, Liu Household, Feng Household, Lei Clan, and Lin Household won various pills as bidding continued.

After the Xu Household defeated the Wei and Feng Households, the Cao Clan devised a plan to turn other clans against them, while Xu Chuan gathered allies and traveled to an ancient cave near the Great Wei–Great Jin border. At Mysterious Moon Peak, a powerful illusion formation trapped the gathered cultivators, and Xu Mingxian helped them escape its first effects as they sought a way to break it.

• Xu Chuan concluded the auction and spared Wei Dao, who left for the Imperial Capital rather than join the Xu Household.
• Cao Shengming and Cao Defeng chose to spread news of an ancient cultivator's cave to provoke rival clans into fighting over it.
• Xu Chuan's group hunted down a Six-Winged Flying Centipede and a Blood Jade Python, then received confirmation that the cave's discovery was genuine.
• Xu Chuan, Xu Mingwei, Xu Mingxian, Ren Xiaoyao, and Zhou Qingfang joined the Great Wei cultivators at Mysterious Moon Peak, where forces from Great Jin and Great Liang had also gathered.
• The cultivators' attacks triggered a vast yellow-mist illusion formation that scattered them, but Xu Mingxian's formation plate protected his companions and his warning helped others flee the mist.
• A Great Liang formation master named Xiang warned that contact with the yellow mist could ensnare a cultivator in heart-demon illusions, leaving the gathered groups to seek another way through the formation.

Xu Chuan returned to Mysterious Moon Peak after a fortunate divination and discovered a failing secret realm containing spirit herbs and a legacy left by Zhang Fan. Two years later, the Xu Household had grown stronger, but Zhou Qingfang arrived in Dongxi with a troubled expression.

• Xu Mingxian helped break the peak’s illusion-killing formation, but the cave mansion and secret realm’s palaces were empty; Xu Chuan later found a secret realm entrance under the full moon.
• Moyue tore open the entrance, and Xu Chuan, Xu Mingwei, Xu Mingxian, and Ren Xiaoyao entered; they found a medicine garden and learned from Zhang Fan’s recording that he had taken the old Mysterious Moon Sect legacy.
• Xu Chuan claimed Zhang Fan’s Storage Ring, which contained a Golden Core cultivation legacy, the Wood Emperor Scripture, pill formulas, and Pill Dao texts; the group gathered several-thousand-year-old herbs and five-colored spirit soil before escaping.
• Xu Chuan replanted the herbs at the Jade-Cold Pool, then spent two years cultivating with the Wood Emperor Scripture and helping the Xu Household advance; he reached the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou Qingfang visited Dongxi with worry weighing on his mind.

Zhou Qingfang made the Zhou Household a vassal of the Xu Household, which took over the Su Household's former grounds and promised protection and training. As the vassalage ceremony began, Xu Chuan divined that the Cao Clan planned to frame the Xu Household for killings, and Cao Jinyan arrived.

• Zhou Qingfang warned Xu Chuan of Ye Xuehua's fears and offered to make the Zhou Household a vassal of the Xu Household.
• Zhou Qingfang gave the Zhou Household's members a choice to join the Xu Household or remain behind, and everyone chose to follow him.
• Xu Chuan arranged the terms of the vassalage, including training for selected Zhou Household members, a tribute of thirty percent of their earnings, and protection for their clan grounds.
• Xu Mingqing accepted Zhou Zongdan into the Pill Refining Hall and gave him two Xu Household pill Dao manuals after he swore a soul oath.
• Cao Shengming learned of the vassalage and ordered Cao Jinyan to cause trouble for the Xu Household without leaving evidence.
• Xu Chuan divined that the Cao Clan intended to kill Qi Refining disciples and blame the Xu Household, then Cao Jinyan arrived at the ceremony.

Xu Chuan turned the deaths of two disciples from the Taiyuan Li Household and Langya Wang Household into a public setback for Cao Jinyan, then offered the two clans a trade involving their inheritances and a warning of a coming calamity. Cao Shengming ordered Cao Jinyan to blame his grandnephew for the killings and sacrifice him to settle the matter.

• Zhou Qingfang affirmed that the Zhou Household had willingly become a vassal of the Xu Household, and Xu Chuan completed the ceremony despite the arrival of angry Li Household and Wang Clan representatives.
• Xu Chuan used a Ghost Path secret art, inspected Xu Mingwei's storage pouch, and watched Cao Jinyan refuse searches and daoheart oaths, turning suspicion toward Cao Jinyan's side.
• Xu Chuan invited the Li Household and Wang Clan to trade their formation and talisman inheritances for resources and information about a great calamity, and they left to consult their Ancestors and councils.
• Xu Chuan explained to Xu Mingwei that the secret art only partly revealed the truth and reflected on gathering demon cores to help Moyue recover.
• Lei Hekong reported the affair to Lei Yunchao, who warned that the Xu Household might not survive the coming calamity or the Cao Clan's hostility.
• Cao Shengming berated Cao Jinyan for the failed scheme and ordered him to blame his grandnephew, take the corpse to the Li Household and Wang Clan, and return their belongings.