Recaps

Xu Chuan built up his household through land, business, and martial training while raising his children and navigating threats from bandits and the Xu Lineage. The arc ended with Xu Mingwei defeating a Second-Rate Martial Artist and challenging Xu Zhen to spar.

• Xu Chuan established his household, bought fifty mu of rice fields, welcomed Bai Jing’s children, and traded his Jade Pear cultivation notes for the Little Dragon Elephant Art and Qi-Blood Pills.
• Xu Chuan trained Xu Mingwei, expanded the household’s holdings, and arranged a produce partnership with Chen Ergou, while the family sheltered refugees Li Er and Li Zhi.
• Xu Chuan used traps and hidden crossbows to repel Boss Bear and his men, and Xu Mingwei helped kill the attackers.
• Xu Mingyuan proposed a produce business, and the Xu Household prepared to open its own shop in Qingjiang County while Chen Ergou’s household planned a separate shop.
• Xu Mingwei killed a pair of powerful tigers, rescued their cub, and brought their hides to Chang Haowen, while Xu Mingyuan organized the County Seat shop.
• Xu Mao tried to claim the Xu Household’s Jade Pears, but Xu Chuan refused and proceeded with the West Market shop opening alongside Yang Zhao.
• Xu Zhen proposed sparring matches between the Xu Household and the Xu Lineage, and Xu Mingxuan defeated Xu Feng before injuring Xu Wei.
• Xu Mingwei defeated Xu Gan, a Second-Rate Martial Artist, and then challenged Xu Zhen to spar.

The Xu Household expanded its businesses and influence, joined with the Yang Household through Xu Mingwei’s marriage, and established the Dragon Elephant Martial Hall while its leading members advanced in martial arts. As drought struck Qingjiang County, Xu Chuan guided the household’s efforts to aid and absorb struggling families, leaving the Bai Household newly joined as its vassal.

• Xu Mingwei’s strength and the Xu Household’s growing prosperity drew attention, while Xu Mao was arrested after threatening Yang Zhao in the magistrate’s name.
• Xu Mingyuan built a broad business network, and Xu Mingwei and Yang Ronghua agreed to marry after he reached Xiantian, with Yang Zhao securing a different bride for the Wen Household alliance.
• The Xu Household founded its clan and welcomed Chen Daniu and Chen Ergou as vassals, then Xu Mingwei married Yang Ronghua after overcoming challenges from the Yang Household.
• Xu Mingwei broke through to Xiantian and received the secret Xiantian Five Elements Creation Art from Xu Chuan, while Xu Mingyuan arranged a partnership with Gu Yiping to establish the Dragon Elephant Martial Hall.
• Xu Mingwei and Gu Yiping defeated rival martial school masters at the hall’s opening, and Xu Mingwei later welcomed his son Xu Dezhao, whose bloodline Yang Shichang tested as exceptionally pure.
• Xu Mingyuan and Wu Rushan agreed to marry, while drought damaged crops and drove villagers to sell their land to the Xu Household for work.
• Xu Chuan explained his plans to protect crops and profit during the drought, and the Xu Household accepted the Bai Household as vassals after Bai Hua sought its help.

The Xu Household weathered famine, expanded its power, and began pursuing immortal cultivation while navigating the Yang Household’s demands. The arc left Xu Mingxuan awaiting his return from the border and Xu Chuan discovering that infant Xu Deling had exceptional spiritual gifts.

• Xu Chuan’s guards defeated the bandits who attacked the Xu Household’s properties and residence, while his family secured the household’s fields and supplies during the drought.
• Xu Chuan predicted rain, dug a lake, and met Xiao Changyuan, who taught him about cultivation and sold him a Testing Crystal.
• After the Xu Household’s men were conscripted, rain returned, the family rebuilt its farming and businesses, and Xu Mingyuan married Wu Rushan.
• Xu Chuan developed medicinal cuisines and cultivation methods as Xu Mingxian and other family members advanced, while Xu Mingxuan found valuable blackiron essence stone at the border.
• Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingyuan traveled with Yang Ronghua’s family to the Commandery Seat, where the Yang Household tested the children’s bloodlines and demanded that one stay.
• Xu Mingwei defeated Yang Household fighters, and Xu Mingyuan secured a six-year delay before the families would revisit the children’s future and Xu Xueji’s proposed marriage.
• Xu Chuan developed Qi-Inducing Pills as Xu Mingyuan established businesses with the Chang Household, and several Xu Household members reached Xiantian.
• Xu Chuan reached the peak of the fifth layer of Qi Refining, while the Xu Household opened martial halls, recruited Wu Tao and Shen Qingyi, and discovered Xu Deling’s true spiritual root and Red eagle spirit eyes.

Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian entered the cultivation world, where Xu Chuan advanced as an alchemist and Xu Mingxian studied formations and artifact refining. Back home, the Xu Household grew its strength and influence, while Xu Mingxuan and Xu Mingshu hunted beasts and the family sought a foothold in the Immortal Registry Office.

• Xu Mingxuan returned from the war with First-Class Merit and Second-Class Merit, and the Xu Household used one merit to exempt its lands from taxes while Li Zhi became County Magistrate’s Deputy.
• Xu Mingxuan chose Zhang Wanqing as his bride, and she later revealed a true spiritual root and began cultivating under Xu Chuan.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian traveled to Moonlake Commandery City, where Xu Chuan completed the Zhou Household’s Realm-Breaking Pill formula and joined the Zhou Household as a Guest Elder.
• Xu Chuan refined pills for the Zhou Alchemy Shop while Xu Mingxian studied formations and artifact refining, and their work helped the Xu Household recover its business profits and acquire a grand Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Xu Mingxuan and Xu Mingshu brought home a Red-Scaled Python, and Xu Mingwei later killed two Azurefire Eagles and recovered three eggs and storage pouches from their nest.
• Over six months, the Xu Household advanced its cultivation and expanded its businesses, while Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian left Moon Lake Market for Guangling.
• Xu Mingxuan and Xu Mingshu hunted a powerful lizard demon beast with Wu Tao and Shen Qingyi, then welcomed Xu Deling and her brothers to train at the Jade-Cold Pool.
• Xu Mingxuan offered Xiao Changyuan thirty thousand taels to help Wu Tao secure a post in the Immortal Registry Office, and Xiao Changyuan agreed to consider it.