Chapter Summaries

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.

Xu Chuan traded Void-Ascending Pills with the Li and Wang households for their inheritances, while the Xu Household expanded its reserves and pursued a century-long plan to grow its numbers. The chapter ended with Xu Chonghui asking Xu Chuan whether the Xu Household had a Jade Fungus Pill for Cao Shenglin’s elder brother.

• Xu Chuan told Li Xingyan and Wang Guangzhao about the coming demon calamity, then traded each a High-Grade Void-Ascending Pill in exchange for household resources and inheritance copies.
• Xu Mingxuan and his companions completed the secret trade with the Li Household, and the Xu Household allocated the formation and talisman materials to Xu Mingxian and Xu Mingyuan.
• Xu Dezhao showed Xu Chonghui the Xu Household’s vast treasuries and told him to marry two women as part of Xu Chuan’s hundred-year plan to increase the clan’s descendants.
• Xu Chonghui met the two prospective brides, returned to Dongxi, and began preparing for the marriages with Cao Shenglin’s acceptance.
• Cao Shenglin asked Xu Chonghui to seek a Jade Fungus Pill for her elder brother, and Xu Chonghui brought Xu Wenjing to visit Xu Chuan and made the request.

Xu Chuan arranged a Jade Fungus Pill trade with Cao Jinming and secured the Tongshan Cao Clan’s secret cooperation, while Ye Xuehua sacrificed herself to sabotage the Cao Clan’s plans for her newborn son. After Cao Zhenyi proved to have a heaven spiritual root, the Cao Clan discovered Ye Xuehua’s secret art had rooted withered wood in his dantian, and Cao Yulong’s attempt to reach Zhou Qingfang was blocked by Xu Mingwei.

• Xu Chuan agreed to exchange a Jade Fungus Pill for three thousand spirit stones’ worth of top-tier magical artifact materials, and Xu Chonghui’s wife, Cao Shenglin, informed her family of the deal.
• Cao Jinming traded the materials for the pill, then privately promised Xu Chuan secret trade and information about the Cao Clan’s main branch in exchange for restored relations.
• Ye Xuehua cast Greenwood Withering on her newborn son, Cao Zhenyi, draining her cultivation; after the Cao Clan separated her from the child, she killed herself in isolation.
• Cao Zhenyi’s spiritual-root test revealed a heaven spiritual root with eighty percent purity, but the Cao Clan’s ancestor found the withered-wood secret art in his dantian and learned Ye Xuehua was dead.
• The Cao Clan replaced Cao Shengming as clan head and summoned wood-type cultivators to seek a way to remove the art, then sent Cao Yulong to find Zhou Qingfang.
• Xu Chuan told Xu Mingwei to claim Zhou Qingfang had entered Death Seclusion, and Xu Mingwei refused Cao Yulong’s demand to enter the Xu Household’s grounds.

Xu Chuan provoked the Cao Clan into attacking the Zhou Household, then exposed their scheme and rallied the commanderies against them. The Cao Clan abandoned its plans against the Xu Household until the Demon Calamity, while Xu Chuan invited prominent clans from Moon Lake and Guangling Commanderies to gather in Guangling.

• Cao Yulong returned Ye Xuehua's corpse to the Zhou Household and revealed that her son Cao Zhenyi was afflicted by a withered wood seed, but Xu Chuan and Zhou Qingfang refused to help the Cao Clan without assurances of safety.
• Cao Defeng planned a night attack on the Zhou Household and an ambush against Xu Chuan, while Xu Chuan used divination to anticipate the assault and summoned reinforcements.
• Cao Defeng ambushed Xu Chuan with a talisman treasure, but Moyue defeated his attack and forced him to escape with a Hundred-Li Talisman.
• Cao Shengming and Cao Yulong led elders in attacking the Zhou Household, but Xu Mingwei gathered Qi Refining clans to reinforce it, and the Cao Clan's forces fled when they learned Xu Chuan had a peak second-tier flood dragon.
• Xu Chuan spread news of the attack across Great Wei, prompting commanderies to report demonic assaults and the Cao Clan to suspend its plans against the Xu Household until the Demon Calamity.
• The Xu Household invited martial aristocratic clans and cultivation clans of the sixth rank or above from Moon Lake and Guangling Commanderies to gather in Guangling.

Xu Chuan founded the Moon Mound Alliance to unite the martial and cultivation clans of Moon Lake and Guangling, establishing its leadership, Council of Elders, and academy. After the alliance began organizing its operations, Xu Chuan resolved to pursue divine ability core formation while preparing the Xu Household to face the Demon Calamity and the Cao Clan.

• Xu Chuan invited the clans of both commanderies to join the Moon Mound Alliance, promising shared defense, mediation, and an academy, and the clans agreed to join.
• Xu Chuan and the Xu Household discussed how to secure key alliance roles while assigning representatives, instructors, and administrators.
• Xu Chuan studied the three methods of Core Formation and decided to pursue divine ability core formation by comprehending the force of withering and flourishing.
• The clans gathered for the first Council of Elders meeting, unanimously appointing Xu Chuan Grand Elder and Xu Dezhao Alliance Leader before approving other officials and council requirements.
• The elders appointed Xu Chuan head of the Academy, selected its deans and instructors, and set tuition, admissions, and training rules.
• Xu Mingyuan proposed a branch alliance in Moon Lake, and the elders approved it; Xu Chuan urged the clans to work together and promised opportunities for Foundation Establishment to those who made outstanding contributions.

Xu Chuan established the Moon Mound Alliance and its academy, drawing support from clans across Great Wei and provoking Cao Defeng. While traveling with Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingshu into the Ten Thousand Mountains to help Moyue recover her strength, Xu Chuan learned that humans in Great Wei were kept as livestock and faced a periodic Blood Feast; the chapter ended as he found a dangerous willow demon whose vitality could help him advance.

• The Moon Mound Alliance began operating, and Xu Household invitations brought clans from across Great Wei to its founding ceremony.
• Xu Chuan introduced the alliance academy, which welcomed students from all backgrounds and offered tuition aid, winning support from many clans and alarming Cao Defeng.
• Cao Defeng ordered Cao Jinsheng to send low-aptitude disciples to the academy, while Cao Dezhang planned a competing Cao Clan academy and maneuvered against him.
• Xu Chuan traveled with Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingshu to the Ten Thousand Mountains, where Moyue revealed that Great Wei was a Land of Imprisonment and that a Blood Feast could annihilate its human inhabitants.
• After cautiously advancing through the dangerous mountains, Xu Chuan's party found a willow demon that killed Xu Mingshu's spirit insects and could provide the vitality Xu Chuan needed to advance his cultivation.

Xu Chuan and his family killed an Ancient Willow Wood Demon, allowing Xu Chuan to advance to the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment, while the Moonlit Academy held its first enrollment and rejected most of the Cao Clan's candidates. Months later, Xu Chuan's group encountered the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household surrounded by demon beasts, and a formation suddenly trapped everyone beneath a curtain of light.

• Xu Chuan, Xu Mingwei, Xu Mingshu, and Moyue defeated the Ancient Willow Wood Demon, and Xu Chuan absorbed its remaining vitality during a prolonged seclusion.
• Xu Chuan used a Void-Ascending Pill to break through to the Foundation Establishment late stage, and he found a Wood Heart to take back for refining Hundred-Grass Needles.
• Xu Mingxuan oversaw the Moonlit Academy's first enrollment, where Lei Shihao passed the three assessments and only one of thirteen Cao Clan children succeeded.
• Xu Chuan and his family continued hunting demon beasts, gathered materials for Moyue's recovery, and strengthened their spirit beasts with Demon Cores.
• Xu Mingshu spotted the Spirit-Taming Zhao Household fighting a peak second-tier Wood-Type demon beast and several other demon beasts, so Xu Chuan's group went to help.
• As the Zhao Clan Ancestor prepared to retreat, a curtain of light rose around the group and enclosed them beneath a giant formation.

Xu Chuan helped the Zhao Clan obtain the wood-type Demon Core it needed, gathered more cores for his own plans, and restored Moyue to third-rank strength. He attended the Zhao Clan’s Golden Core Ceremony, secured third-rank inheritances through a trade, and learned that the Zhao Clan’s new guardian beast was a Black Cloud Spirit Leopard.

• Xu Chuan and the Xu Household helped the Zhao Clan kill a peak second-tier demon beast, then exchanged a fire-type Demon Core for its wood-type core and divided the remaining spoils.
• Xu Chuan returned to Dongxi with his companions, gathered the materials needed for the Five-Spirit Reverse Core Method, and used it to raise three water-type Demon Cores to third rank for Moyue to refine.
• Xu Chuan restored Moyue’s vitality, enabling him to conceal that he was nearing the end of his lifespan, and Moyue agreed to gather information among powerful demon beasts.
• The Zhao Clan announced its Golden Core Ceremony after its guardian spirit beast advanced to third rank, and Xu Chuan accepted an invitation on behalf of the Xu Household.
• Xu Chuan traded pillmaking and formation work for third-rank formation texts and a beast-taming inheritance, then attended the ceremony with Xu Mingxian and Xu Mingshu.
• The Zhao Clan’s guardian demon beast displayed its third-rank aura, and Moyue identified it as a Black Cloud Spirit Leopard.

Moyue infiltrated the Azure Sea Forest by defeating the Rift-Sky Tiger, taking his territory, and using pills to build ties with the forest’s rulers. Five years later, Xu Chuan gave Xu Dewen a High-Grade Foundation Establishment Pill and promised the Xu Household would soon strike back at the Cao Clan, while keeping the looming Demon Calamity’s truth secret.

• Moyue returned to the Azure Sea Forest, killed the Rift-Sky Tiger, and persuaded the Three-Tailed White Fox and Tree King to let him take over the tiger’s territory and guard duty.
• Moyue gained permission to cultivate at Mirror Lake by giving the Three-Tailed White Fox a pill, then returned to Dongxi with pill ingredients and the Rift-Sky Tiger’s corpse.
• Xu Chuan and the Xu Household used Moyue’s haul to strengthen their resources, complete magical artifacts, and deepen the clan’s foundations over the next five years.
• Xu Mingwei brought Xu Dewen to Xu Chuan to request a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Xu Chuan warned that Dewen’s hatred and resentment could hinder his breakthrough.
• Xu Chuan gave Xu Dewen a High-Grade Foundation Establishment Pill, promised the Xu Household would soon make the Cao Clan repay its losses, and told Xu Mingwei to summon Xu Mingxuan from Guangling.

Xu Chuan’s preparations for the coming Demon Calamity continued as the Xu Household grew in strength, while Cao Zhenyi learned that Xu Chuan might be able to undo the withered wood seed trapping his cultivation. Wei Dao left the declining Pill Hall and joined the Moon Mound Alliance’s Alchemy Pavilion on a trial basis, bringing the two storylines closer together.

• Xu Chuan ordered Xu Mingwei, Xu Mingyuan, and Xu Mingxuan to secretly build underground survival bases, warning that the millennium Demon Calamity could devastate the Xu Household.
• Over the next five years, the Xu Household’s members advanced their cultivation, and Xu Chuan reached the peak of Foundation Establishment’s eighth layer after consuming Void-Ascending Pills.
• The Xu Household’s second auction prospered, while the Cao Clan Academy faced ridicule for favoring Cao Clan descendants over outside students.
• Cao Zhenyi, secretly using the name Ye Fan, met Wei Dao and learned that his withered wood seed might be undone by Xu Chuan.
• Wei Dao visited Xu Chuan, confirmed that Cao Zhenyi was likely Ye Xuehua’s son, and proposed founding a Pill Pavilion; Xu Chuan instead directed him to serve a six-month trial as Deputy Pavilion Master of the Moon Mound Alliance’s Alchemy Pavilion.

Wei Dao joined the Xu Household’s Alchemy Pavilion while the Xu Household secretly mined a Spirit Stone Vein and negotiated with the Ancient Locust Tree King. Xu Chuan secured a limited passage for Xu Clan members and learned why Golden Core cultivators remained trapped in the Azure Sea Forest.

• Wei Dao reunited with True Person Yunding at the Alchemy Pavilion, received a copy of Yun Zhongzi’s Pill Dao Legacy, and stayed on as Deputy Pavilion Master.
• Captain Wu discovered a Spirit Stone Vein between Great Wei and Great Liang, and a hidden spy alerted both sides, triggering a bloody confrontation and a mobilization of cultivators.
• Xu Mingxuan persuaded the Moon Mound Alliance not to contest the vein, while Xu Mingwu revealed that the Xu Household could mine a small vein in the Azure Sea Forest.
• Xu Mingshu and other Xu Household cultivators mined more than six hundred thousand spirit stones, while Moyue offered the Tree King Spirit Liquid and learned the Tree King knew about Xu Chuan’s lineage.
• Xu Chuan visited the Ancient Locust Tree King, demonstrated his Withering-and-Blooming Force, and agreed to help awaken the Tree King’s offspring in exchange for the Tree King allowing up to seven Xu Clan members to leave at a time.
• The Ancient Locust Tree King told Xu Chuan that a future Blood Feast would draw outside cultivators into the forest, and that survivors might be chosen to leave.

Xu Chuan prepared the Xu Household for a confrontation after the Blood Clan and Sima Clan joined forces against them. When their forces arrived in Dongxi and demanded Xu Chuan and his clan members submit to questioning, the Xu Household answered with a declaration of battle.

• The Ancient Locust Tree King gave Xu Chuan a branch carrying one powerful strike, and Xu Chuan returned to Dongxi after learning that a Golden Core cultivator from the Blood Clan had emerged.
• The Xu Household learned that the Blood Clan and Sima Clan planned to attack, and Xu Mingyuan urged the clan to fight back and use the crisis to strengthen its standing.
• Xue Wuxiu and the Sima Clan's head secured the Cao Clan's tacit approval, then arranged to bring a large force to Dongxi and demand answers about their grievances.
• Xu Chuan summoned the Xu Household's forces and prepared them as the Sima Clan and Blood Clan arrived outside Dongxi's grand formation.
• The Sima Clan's head demanded answers about Sima Xiangyan's death, while Xue Wuxiu demanded Xu Chuan accompany him to the Blood Clan; Xu Chuan's people answered their threats by shouting that they would kill anyone who trespassed.

The Xu Household defeated the Sima Clan and Blood Clan forces after Xu Chuan sealed the battlefield with a formation and revealed the household’s hidden strength. The Sima Clan’s Ancestor and the Blood Clan’s Ancestor learned of the losses, and Xue Lingshang grew interested in the Xu Household.

• Xu Mingxian trapped the battlefield inside the Sixfold Absolute-Sealing Formation while Xu Mingshu and other Xu Household members released spirit beasts to support their fighters.
• Xu Chuan killed the Blood Clan’s Grand Elder with the Hundred-Grass Needles, and the Xu Household eliminated the remaining Sima Clan and Blood Clan Foundation Establishment cultivators; the Sima Clan’s Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator self-detonated.
• Xu Chuan ordered the battlefield cleared, warned the Xu Household against arrogance, and had Moyue remove the Sima Clan’s imprints from their disciples.
• The Sima Clan’s Grand Elder reported the deaths to the Sima Clan’s Ancestor, who chose to let Xue Lingshang investigate the Xu Household first.
• Xue Wulei told Xue Lingshang what he knew about the Xu Household, and the Blood Clan’s Ancestor became intrigued by its concealed strength and origins.

Xue Lingshang investigated the Xu Household, then followed Xu Chuan into a trap built around a third-rank Moyue and a top-tier Demon-Sealing Formation. With the Zhao Clan Ancestor and the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard arriving, Xu Chuan declared that he intended to slay a Golden Core cultivator.

• Xue Lingshang visited Great Wei, studied the Xu Household, and arranged with Cao Jiyi to attack it in exchange for forty percent of its resources.
• After divining that Xue Lingshang planned to lure Xu Household members into danger, Xu Chuan used the Zhao Clan’s Spiritual Consciousness Jade Token to request aid.
• Xu Chuan left the clan grounds as bait, and Xue Lingshang followed him into the Broken Fang Mountain Range.
• Xu Chuan revealed Moyue’s breakthrough to the third rank and trapped Xue Lingshang inside a top-tier second-tier Demon-Sealing Formation.
• The Zhao Clan Ancestor arrived with the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard, and Xu Chuan told them he intended to slay a Golden Core cultivator.

Xu Chuan and Moyue killed Xue Lingshang, destroyed the Blood Clan, and turned their spoils into new weapons and a Profound Yin Blood Corpse. With the Xu Household strengthened, Xu Chuan planned to negotiate with the Cao and Sima Clans rather than destroy them, and departed for the Imperial Capital with his family.

• Xu Chuan joined Moyue in the Seven-Star Demon-Sealing Formation and helped kill Xue Lingshang, taking his Golden Core, corpse, divine soul, and seven Blood Corpses.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue traveled to Great Jin and annihilated the Blood Clan, collecting its resources, divine souls, and Myriad-Spirit Blood Pool before burning and concealing its grounds.
• The Zhao Clan Ancestor returned to Great Liang and ordered his clan never to oppose the Xu Household, while the Cao and Sima Clans chose to remain on guard.
• Over three months, Xu Chuan refined a Profound Yin Blood Corpse, strengthened his Soul Banner and seven Blood Corpses, and Moyue recovered to the middle third rank.
• Xu Chuan decided to visit the Cao and Sima Clans to negotiate, explaining that he wanted both clans to remain as a buffer during the coming demon calamity.
• Xu Chuan left for the Imperial Capital with six of his sons, including Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingyuan, and Xu Dewen.

Xu Chuan forced the Cao Clan to surrender half of Great Wei and settle old grievances, then intimidated the Sima Clan into compensating the Xu Household. After consolidating its new territory and holding a clan ceremony, the Xu Household prepared for a new era as Xu Dewen departed for Great Jin to pursue demonic cultivation.

• Xu Chuan confronted Cao Jiyi at the Cao Clan palace, claimed eleven commanderies for the Xu Household, and demanded compensation for past wrongs.
• Xu Chuan revealed Xue Lingshang as a Profound Yin Blood Corpse, prompting Cao Jiyi to kill the four responsible Cao Clan members and more than forty disciples before returning Cao Zhenyi to the Zhou Household.
• Xu Chuan visited the Sima Clan with Moyue, the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard, and the Blood Corpse, and secured materials and cultivation classics as compensation.
• Xu Chuan returned the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard to the Zhao Clan, then established the Immortal-Martial Alliance to govern the Xu Household’s eleven commanderies and held the Xu Clan Grand Ceremony.
• Xu Chuan instructed Xu Chonghui to arrange public and confidential clan histories, then escorted Xu Dewen to Black River Market in Great Jin as he began his demonic cultivation path.