Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingwu survived an ambush by the Immortal-Martial Alliance elders, then returned to the Xu Household and adopted the Secret Division codename Yuan while the world mourned Jiang Wu as dead. As the Xu Household strengthened its formations and Xu Chuan prepared to travel to Greedy Wolf Prefecture, Cang Fengyan asked Cang Fengheng to bring Xu Mingxian an artifact sealed by the Cang Ancestor.

• The Immortal-Martial Alliance elders attacked Xu Jingwu during his fight with the Shadow Leopard, but Xu Bai arrived as a third-rank White Tiger and rescued him.
• Xu Mingshu healed Xu Jingwu, who joined the Secret Division as Yuan and arranged to leave evidence that would support the story of Jiang Wu's death.
• The Alliance investigated Jiang Wu's disappearance, accepted the staged evidence, and held a memorial where Li Quan led millions of martial artists in vowing to carry on Jiang Wu's work.
• Jiang Feng grieved for his brother and vowed to take responsibility for the Jiang Household, while Xu Jingwu watched the memorial from hiding.
• Xu Chuan inspected the upgraded private teleportation formation and planned to travel with Xu Mingxian to Greedy Wolf Prefecture to establish another formation.
• Cang Fengheng told Cang Fengyan that Xu Mingxian's formations seemed to surpass the Cang Household's, and Cang Fengyan sent him to deliver the Cang Ancestor's sealed artifact to Xu Mingxian.

Cang Fengheng offered the Xu Household his ancestor’s sealed treasure and a Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation while seeking an alliance against the Skyreach Sect. Xu Chuan accepted, agreeing to the alliance on the condition that the Cang Household follow Cloudbrook City’s commands for ten years.

• Cang Fengyan told Cang Fengheng to offer Xu Mingxian the Cang Household Ancestor’s treasure and a copy of the Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation, and to offer the Xu Household an alliance.
• Xu Chuan continued cultivating as his Golden Core approached the peak of its third layer, while he made progress in several divine abilities.
• Cang Fengheng visited Cloudbrook City and met Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian at the Xu Residence, where he presented the Jade Box and Green Jade Slip.
• Xu Mingxian examined the Jade Box’s ancient restrictions and assessed that he might unravel them and restore the remnant formation.
• Cang Fengheng explained that the Cang Household wanted Xu Mingxian to study both items and offered its help in replacing the Skyreach Sect, whose power had fallen under the Xi Household.
• Xu Chuan accepted the items and alliance, requiring the Cang Household to obey the Xu Household’s commands for ten years.

Xu Mingxian discovered that the Cang Household’s Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation concealed the method for undoing the Jade Box’s sentient restriction. He and Xu Chuan traveled to Greedy Wolf Prefecture, where they found two groups fighting over a thousand-year-old bloodflame flower.

• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian discussed how Xi Daoyun might seek a final battle with the Xu Household, and Xu Chuan said he was confident he could survive it.
• Xu Mingxian realized that the Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation encoded the restriction techniques needed to open the Jade Box, though deriving them would take at least half a year.
• Xu Chuan told Xu Mingxian he was leaving for Greedy Wolf Prefecture, and Xu Mingxian explained his discovery before they departed together by teleportation.
• After arriving in a remote mountain range, Xu Chuan disguised himself and Xu Mingxian, then revealed that he had learned the Thousand Faces Art through the assassin organization Other Shore.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian reached a mountain hollow where two groups were battling over a thousand-year-old bloodflame flower.

Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian robbed cultivators from the Sima Clan and Ancient Secluded City, then reached Mountain-Sea City and reunited with Xiao Zhan. Xu Chuan arranged for the Demon Heaven Trading Company to build a Teleportation Formation and conceal his identity while the two powers searched for him in vain.

• Xu Chuan used his Golden Core pressure to force the Sima Clan and Ancient Secluded City cultivators to surrender their resources and the thousand-year-old Bloodflame Flower, then let them flee to serve as bait.
• Xu Chuan transplanted the Bloodflame Flower into the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven and traveled with Xu Mingxian to Mountain-Sea City, where the two groups reported the robbery to their powers.
• Xu Chuan met Xiao Zhan, gave him a snow-white skull to control, and ordered him to arrange construction of a Teleportation Formation linking the Demon Heaven Trading Company with Cloudbrook City.
• Xu Chuan disguised Xu Mingxian and tasked him and Xiao Zhan with handling any pursuit, while cultivators from the Sima Clan and Ancient Secluded City arrived in Mountain-Sea City to search for the two robbers.
• The Blood-Hand Scholar pretended to help the visiting powers search, but the Demon Heaven Trading Company concealed Xu Chuan and watched as the searchers eventually left without finding him.

Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian used a trap in the Blood-Withered Forest to kill elders from Ancient Secluded City and the Sima Clan, leaving evidence to fuel conflict with the Greedy Wolf Sect. Back at the Xu Residence, Xu Mingxian opened the Jade Box and encountered the phantom of an ancestor of the Cang Household, who questioned why he lacked its bloodline.

• Xu Mingxian completed a secret Teleportation Formation connecting Mountain-Sea City to Cloudbrook City, and Xu Chuan ordered Xiao Zhan to lure their enemies to the Blood-Withered Forest.
• The Demon Heaven Trading Company tipped off Ancient Secluded City and the Sima Clan, whose forces confronted Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian in the forest.
• Xu Chuan unleashed the Profound Yin Blood Corpse and killed the two Golden Core Middle Stage elders while Xu Mingxian defeated the disciples; they left clues meant to implicate the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian returned to the Xu Residence, where Xu Mingxian spent four months deciphering the Fourth-Tier Remnant Formation and解除 the Jade Box's restrictions.
• Xu Mingxian opened the Jade Box, and a phantom wearing an archaic Daoist robe emerged from its jade slip and asked whether Xu Mingxian was a descendant of the Cang Household.

Xu Mingxian met Daoist Cang Xuan’s lingering consciousness, received the Nine Wonders Spirit Restriction and valuable formation inheritances, and agreed to help the Cang Household if it faced disaster. The chapter then followed Xi Daoyun to the Spirit Taming Sect, where he requested an audience with Grand Supreme Elder Yu Qi.

• Daoist Cang Xuan revealed that he was the founding patriarch of the Skyreach Sect and explained that his remaining consciousness was sustained by a spirit restriction.
• Xu Mingxian agreed to aid the Cang Household in a future crisis, provided it did not become an enemy of the Xu Household and he was capable of helping.
• Daoist Cang Xuan gave Xu Mingxian the location and entrances to the Nine Wonders Spirit Sect’s cave-heaven, the Nine Wonders Spirit Restriction, and his fourth-tier formation inheritance before his consciousness vanished.
• Xu Mingxian told Xu Chuan and Moyue about the inheritance, and Xu Chuan suggested he consider sending the Cang Household a copy of it or Daoist Cang Xuan’s formation teachings.
• Xi Daoyun arrived at the Spirit Taming Sect and told its gate disciples he had come to visit Grand Supreme Elder Yu Qi.

Xi Daoyun visited Yu Qi and described how the Skyreach Sect was nearing collapse after wars and the rapid rise of the Xu Household. After sharing tea and catching up, Xi Daoyun revealed that he had come to ask Yu Qi for a favor and collect an old debt of gratitude.

• Yu Qi learned that Xi Daoyun had arrived at the Spirit Taming Sect and went to greet his old friend.
• Yu Qi discovered that Xi Daoyun was gravely injured and had less than ten years to live.
• Xi Daoyun recounted the Two Prefectures War, his battle with Devil Lord Tian Luo, and the rise of several Nascent Soul-level powers in Skyreach Prefecture.
• Xi Daoyun explained that the Xu Household had risen from a Foundation Establishment clan in just over thirty years and that its head had fought him to a standstill.
• Xi Daoyun and Yu Qi set aside their worries to drink tea and reminisce for a few hours.
• Xi Daoyun told Yu Qi that he had come to ask a favor and have Yu Qi repay an old debt of gratitude.

Xi Daoyun asked Yu Qi to protect and relocate the Xi Household to central Southern Heaven, then summoned the clan’s Golden Core cultivators to announce their departure from Skyreach Prefecture. The elders accepted the plan after True Lord Qingmu explained that the Xu Household’s rise left the Xi Household with no viable path to remain.

• Xi Daoyun warned Yu Qi that the Xu Household had likely enlisted Mysterious Moon Ancestor and had positioned itself to benefit from the conflict in Skyreach Prefecture.
• Xi Daoyun planned to fight the Xu Household while Yu Qi evacuated and protected the Xi Household; Yu Qi agreed to help and arranged three emergency communication jade talismans.
• Yu Qi selected Azure Mist Mountain, an upper-grade second-tier spiritual site, for the Xi Household’s new clan grounds.
• Xi Daoyun summoned the Xi Household’s Golden Core cultivators and announced that the clan would relocate to central Southern Heaven.
• True Lord Qingmu rejected an alliance with the Mo Household and Lei Clan, arguing that the Xu Household’s power made the Xi Household’s position untenable.
• Xi Muhua and the other Golden Core cultivators agreed to follow Xi Daoyun’s relocation plan.

Xu Chuan discovered that Xi Daoyun was secretly preparing to move the Xi Household to the Central Region, taking its wealth and much of the Skyreach Sect’s resources. He gathered allies to stop the transfer as Chen Changge exposed the plan to the sect, sending its elders into upheaval.

• Xi Daoyun arranged for the Xi Household to relocate to Spirit Taming Sect territory and ordered its members to consolidate resources and prepare to leave within two months.
• After divining the Xi Household’s intentions, Xu Chuan recruited Mo Wentian and Lei Wuji to gather Golden Core cultivators and confront the clan.
• Three days later, Xu Chuan led dozens of Golden Core cultivators toward the Xi Household’s Clan Grounds, while sending Chen Changge to warn the Skyreach Sect.
• Chen Changge announced that the Xi Household planned to flee with the sect’s resources, prompting True Lord Qingmu and Xi Fengyue to leave the sect for the Xi Household.
• The Skyreach Sect’s elders realized their leaders had fled and set out to demand an explanation; Chen Changge joined them on the way.

Xu Chuan forced the Xi Household to surrender most of its resources and leave Skyreach Prefecture, then announced a meeting to decide the prefecture’s future. The Xi Household departed, but Xu Chuan expected Xi Daoyun to remain a threat.

• Moyue transformed into a massive Flood Dragon and shook the Xi Household’s protective formation with his roar as Xu Chuan’s forces surrounded the clan grounds.
• Xi Fengyue and True Lord Qingmu returned from the Skyreach Sect, and True Lord Qingmu told Xi Daoyun what had happened there.
• Xu Chuan demanded the Xi Household’s resources, and after the Skyreach Sect’s elders sided against True Lord Qingmu, Yu Qi failed to persuade Xu Chuan to let the Xi Household leave with its wealth.
• Xi Daoyun agreed to surrender seventy percent of the Xi Household’s resources and ordered Xi Muran and Xi Fengyue to prepare everyone to depart.
• The Xi Household left Skyreach Prefecture, and Xu Chuan confirmed to Xu Mingxian that Xi Daoyun might still try to kill him.
• Xu Chuan’s allies extracted the spirit veins from the abandoned clan grounds, and he invited Skyreach Prefecture’s Golden Core factions to meet at the Skyreach Sect seven days later.

After arranging the Xi Household’s future, Xi Daoyun returned to Cloudbrook City to fight Xu Chuan and the Xu Household in a final attempt to damage them. He unleashed his life-burning strength against Moyue, but the battle continued as his aura began to falter.

• Xi Daoyun told True Lord Qingmu to lead the Xi Household and warned him never to return to Skyreach Prefecture, then set out for Cloudbrook City with Yu Qi.
• Xi Daoyun confronted Xu Chuan at Cloudbrook City’s East City Gate and burned his remaining lifespan to restore his strength.
• Xi Daoyun’s Gengjin Flying Sword battered the city’s half-step fourth-tier protective formation without breaking it.
• At Xu Chuan’s command, Moyue left the formation and fought Xi Daoyun in a savage battle as cultivators watched from afar.
• Xu Chuan and Xu Mingxian observed that Xi Daoyun’s forced increase in strength would soon fade, while Moyue endured deep wounds and fought more fiercely.

Xu Chuan fought Xi Daoyun after drawing him away from the City-Protecting Grand Formation, and killed him when Xi Daoyun’s failing body and Nascent Soul could no longer withstand the battle. Xi Daoyun yielded Skyreach Prefecture to the Xu Household and warned True Lord Qingmu not to renew the feud before he died.

• Xu Chuan left the Grand Formation and attacked Xi Daoyun with the Azure Dragon Treasure Umbrella’s sword formation, which Xi Daoyun shattered with the Golden Severance flying sword.
• Xi Daoyun wounded Moyue and broke through Xu Chuan’s defenses, but Xu Chuan used the Magnetism Shield to withstand Xi Daoyun’s next strike.
• Moyue struck Xi Daoyun while Xu Chuan attacked him from behind with the Origin Life-and-Death Seal, worsening the damage to his body and Nascent Soul.
• Xu Chuan used the God-Slaying Awl and a flying sword to destroy Xi Daoyun’s Nascent Soul and kill him.
• Xi Daoyun told Xu Chuan that Skyreach Prefecture belonged to the Xu Household and warned True Lord Qingmu not to make an enemy of them again.
• Xu Chuan stopped Moyue from devouring Xi Daoyun’s corpse, and the author’s closing note said bonus updates would resume only when vote or promotion targets were met.

Xu Chuan killed Xi Daoyun and established the Xu Household’s dominance over Skyreach Prefecture, while Xi Daoyun’s followers buried him in his remote birthplace and continued their migration. Four days later, Xu Chuan arrived at the Skyreach Sect to meet the gathered factions and discuss the prefecture’s future.

• Xu Chuan accepted Yu Qi’s claim to Xi Daoyun’s possessions and promised True Lord Qingmu that the Xu Household would not pursue the departing Xi Household.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue treated their wounds as news of Xi Daoyun’s death spread, prompting the prefecture’s factions to commit to attending the Xu Household’s council.
• True Lord Qingmu cremated Xi Daoyun in his birthplace, then joined Yu Qi in escorting the Xi Household’s convoy into Greedy Wolf Prefecture.
• Qi Tianxiong and other Greedy Wolf Prefecture leaders dispatched scouts to investigate why the Xi Household had left Skyreach Prefecture.
• Golden Core cultivators from across Skyreach Prefecture gathered at the Skyreach Sect, where Xu Chuan arrived with Xu Mingxian, Xu Deling, Chen Changge, Lei Wuji, and Tang Yuanli atop Moyue.

Xu Chuan proposed rebuilding the Skyreach Sect as the Azure Dragon Alliance, uniting the factions of Skyreach Prefecture under a detailed system of elders, halls, and Seven Peaks. The proposal passed unanimously, and Xu Chuan began preparing to assign positions of authority.

• Xu Chuan gathered the prefecture's Golden Core cultivators and proposed turning the Skyreach Sect into the Azure Dragon Alliance, with every faction joining.
• True Lord Bing Gan, Elder Yang, Mo Wentian, Cang Fengyan, and representatives of the other factions agreed to join the alliance.
• Xu Chuan established rules for alliance elders, faction autonomy, contributions, disciples, and the alliance's governing halls and Seven Peaks.
• After outlining the alliance's hierarchy and disciple ranks, Xu Chuan invited questions and announced that they would assign positions of authority.

Xu Chuan organized the Azure Dragon Alliance, assigning its leaders and establishing rules for its member powers. The alliance renamed Skyreach Prefecture as Azure Dragon Prefecture and prepared to recruit disciples, while Xu Chuan hinted that he had another reason for not inviting the Skyfeather Sect.

• Xu Chuan explained the privileges and obligations of joining the alliance, and Mo Wentian agreed to become a Grand Supreme Elder despite Moyue's objections.
• Xu Chuan and the assembled cultivators selected the Seven Peaks' masters, appointed the Discipline Hall and Four Halls, and chose Cang Fengyan as Alliance Leader, with Yang Qi and Bai Yan as deputies.
• The cultivators named Xu Chuan Grand Elder, then spent three days and nights establishing the alliance's laws, resource systems, and administrative arrangements.
• Xu Chuan renamed Skyreach Prefecture Azure Dragon Prefecture, announced recruitment in four cities, and arranged for the Cang, Liu, and Bai Households to govern Azure Dragon City in rotation.
• Xu Chuan left with members of the Xu Household and other cultivators, while the former Skyreach Sect elders praised his leadership and anticipated the alliance's future strength.

The Azure Dragon Alliance’s founding transformed the former Skyreach Prefecture, drawing interest from local cultivators and concern from the Greedy Wolf Sect. Qi Tianxiong revealed that the Primordial Battlefield would open in a few years, while the alliance’s leaders approved plans for its first disciple recruitment.

• Cultivators across Azure Dragon Prefecture discussed the alliance’s formation, and rogue cultivators considered joining it as disciples or elders.
• Greedy Wolf Sect spies reported the alliance’s rise and Xi Daoyun’s death to Qi Tianxiong, who learned that Xu Chuan had united the prefecture’s Golden Core powers.
• Qi Tianxiong told Sky Wolf True Lord about the Primordial Battlefield, urged him to cultivate for a chance to enter, and lent him a mid-grade xiantian spirit treasure.
• Golden Core Ancestors established cave abodes in the alliance as the Seven Peaks’ leaders discussed disciple assessments, recruitment quotas, and rules for servant disciples.
• Cang Fengyan approved the recruitment plan, including a public assessment and open recruitment every ten years.

The Azure Dragon Alliance began recruiting disciples while the Xu Household explained why it intended to remain independent and eventually surpass the alliance. In Flowing Moon Prefecture, Ye Fan and Xu Deyue entered the Cold Mountain Secret Realm, where Murong Yun directed them toward High Person Hanshan’s legacy.

• Xu Mingxian and Xu Deling told Moyue that the Xu Household would recruit promising people independently and use the alliance to stabilize Azure Dragon Prefecture while building its own strength.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue joined the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s gathering at Lesser Cold Mountain, where a late-stage cultivator offered them protection in exchange for thirty percent of their gains.
• Six True Lords combined their powers to open the Cold Mountain Secret Realm, and the factions entered before the other cultivators followed.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue used their Unity Rings to find each other after being teleported to separate locations, then contacted Murong Yun for directions.
• Murong Yun told Xu Deyue that High Person Hanshan’s legacy lay in a black stone mountain to the east and explained his power and the ranks of spirit treasures.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue reached Lesser Cold Mountain and climbed its pressure-laden steps to enter the inheritance trial. The Mountain Soul judged them worthy of Superior Inheritances, though Ye Fan fell at the tenth wave and Xu Deyue at the eighth.

• Murong Yun explained Lesser Cold Mountain’s inheritance trials and the benefits of its Cold Light Liquid to Xu Deyue.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue stepped onto the bluestone road and climbed until the mountain teleported them into the Inheritance Space.
• Ye Fan endured the pressure for several hours longer than Xu Deyue before reaching his limit and being teleported out.
• The Mountain Soul observed their trials and judged them barely qualified for Superior Inheritances suited to their abilities and constitutions.
• Ye Fan defeated nine waves of opponents before falling at the tenth, while Xu Deyue fell at the eighth because the Great Yin flying sword was sealed in her dantian.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue received High Person Hanshan’s Superior Inheritance and began using its treasures and techniques to strengthen themselves. Ye Fan refined a trace of a Spirit Transformation Flood Dragon’s Heart Blood, while Xu Deyue transformed her cultivation foundation with Cold Light Liquid and prepared to study the Vast Cold Sword Art.

• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue were teleported to separate cave residences, where they endured visions from High Person Hanshan’s portrait and were named his nominal disciples.
• Both bowed to the portrait and received spatial rings containing inheritance treasures and cultivation methods; the voice told them they could cultivate for a month and return at Spirit Transformation to challenge the core inheritance.
• Ye Fan chose not to replace his Brahma Sacred Body Art with the inherited body-tempering methods, then carefully refined a sliver of the Flood Dragon’s Heart Blood and strengthened his body.
• Xu Deyue found the Cold Mountain Scripture and the Great Profound Nether Ice-Soul Cold Heaven Divine Light, which Murong Yun urged her to study alongside six divine abilities.
• Murong Yun taught Xu Deyue the Supreme Heaven-Mending Foundation Art, and Xu Deyue used nine drops of Cold Light Liquid to transform her foundation over three days and three nights.
• Xu Deyue’s cultivation and physique improved, and Murong Yun told her to focus on the Vast Cold Sword Art as Ye Fan and Xu Deyue continued cultivating in their cave residences.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue emerged from Lesser Cold Mountain with its inheritance and fled a cordon formed by the Six Great Powers of Flowing Moon Prefecture. After hiding near the mountain, Xu Deyue contacted Xu Chuan, who learned what they had obtained and prepared to come rescue them.

• Xu Deyue’s inheritance transformed her into a Cold Moon Spirit Body, while Ye Fan strengthened his body and cultivation inside the cave abode.
• The Six Great Powers failed to find the couple and later agreed to search for them after they emerged from the secret realm.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue used a Third-Rank Thousand-Mile Talisman to flee east, then doubled back and hid under Xu Deyue’s Cloudsky Illusion Formation.
• The couple waited near Lesser Cold Mountain and contacted Xu Chuan, while the Six Great Powers spread out to search for them.
• Xu Deyue told Xu Chuan about the ancient inheritance and her transformation, and he said he would set out for Flowing Moon Prefecture to help them.