Chapter Summaries

Xu Mingwei joined Changfeng Xiaoyang as a disciple and left Cloudbrook City with Yang Ronghua after their lifespans were extended. As the Xu Household expanded its influence and refined its systems, the younger generation received trial missions, including Xu Chongjian’s trip to Mysterious Moon for Sword-Questioning.

• Xu Chuan revealed the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven to Xu Dezhao and Xu Chonghui, and the family discussed expanding into other prefectures and settling accounts with the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Mingwei and Yang Ronghua each refined a lifespan-extending pill, then bade farewell to Bai Jing before Changfeng Xiaoyang took them away.
• Xu Chuan sent Xu Deling to return Mo Wentian’s repaired Mysterious Tortoise Shield and deliver gifts, strengthening ties between the Xu Household and the Mo Household.
• Xu Chuan began secluded cultivation of the Five Elements Dao, while the Xu Household developed Cloudbrook City and issued trial missions to its younger disciples.
• Xu Jingyan told Xu Jingwu about her customer-service trial, and Xu Jingwu shared his mission to train fifty Origin Martial Realm martial artists within thirty years.
• Xu Chongfei said his mission was to comprehend more than thirty percent of Extreme Yang and Extreme Cold True Intent, while Xu Chongjian’s mission was Sword-Questioning at Mysterious Moon.

Xu Chongjian traveled with Ye Fan and Xu Deyue to Mysterious Moon City to complete his sword trial, defeating a series of challengers across seven days. He lost to the Mysterious Moon Sect’s Ji Baiyi on the final day, then continued fighting and finished the challenge undefeated against the remaining eligible opponents before leaving the city with his family.

• Xu Chongjian explained that his mission was to challenge sword cultivators in Mysterious Moon City for seven days, while Xu Jingwu’s mission was to train at least fifty martial-realm martial artists within thirty years.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue escorted Xu Chongjian and Xu Chongfei to Mysterious Moon City, where Sect Master Zhang Daoran approved the challenge and ordered that no one interfere.
• Xu Chongjian defeated Zhao Hu and more than thirty other challengers over the first days, including Lin Han of the Cloudmist Sect and Sun Wujiu of the Sun Clan.
• On the final day, Ji Baiyi challenged Xu Chongjian and defeated him with his swordsmanship; Xu Chongjian conceded, saying Ji was not yet an opponent he could beat.
• Xu Chongjian opened the remaining challenge to sword cultivators below Foundation Establishment Perfection and defeated every challenger until the seven-day trial ended.
• Ye Fan thanked Jian Tang, and Ye Fan and Xu Deyue left Mysterious Moon City with Xu Chongjian, Xu Chongfei, and Chen Yulian.

Xu Chuan sent Xu Mingxuan and Mei Yun to infiltrate Ancient Secluded City and the Greedy Wolf Sect, using Xu Mingxian’s Spirit-Hiding Restriction to conceal them from Nascent Soul probes. After Xu Chuan armed Xiao Zhan with a high-grade magic treasure and set his plans in motion, Xu Mingxuan reached Ancient Secluded City and was brought to meet City Lord Gu.

• Ji Baiyi told Zhang Daoran that Xu Chongjian’s swordsmanship and reserves rivaled his own, and Zhang urged Ji to cultivate and learn from other powers.
• Xu Chuan assigned Xu Mingxuan to approach Ancient Secluded City and Mei Yun to earn the Greedy Wolf Sect’s favor, then revealed the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven and required Mei Yun to swear an oath of secrecy.
• Xu Mingxian created the Spirit-Hiding Restriction, which concealed Xu Chuan’s disguised appearance from ordinary Nascent Soul spiritual probes.
• Xu Chuan met Xiao Zhan in Mountain-Sea City, gave him the Bloodslaughter high-grade magic treasure, and explained how the Demon Heaven Trading Company should stir up Greedy Wolf Prefecture.
• Xiao Zhan escorted Xu Mingxuan and Mei Yun out of Mountain-Sea City, and the two separated to begin their assignments.
• Xu Mingxuan entered Ancient Secluded City, presented a Xu Household token at the City Lord’s Manor, and was brought before a middle-aged man who asked which Xu Household member he was.

Xu Mingxuan negotiated with Gu Xuanyou for the Xu Household and Ancient Secluded City to cooperate against the Greedy Wolf Sect, while Xu Chuan planned a journey to Mysterious Moon City and Southern Heaven’s Eastern Region with Moyue. In Sky Ape City, Xu Chuan watched a Sun Clan youth abduct Fan Wenwan and beat her brother, and left after declaring he would kill any Xu Household descendant who committed such an offense.

• Xu Mingxuan asked Gu Xuanyou to honor their agreement and help the Xu Household undermine the Greedy Wolf Sect; Gu Xuanyou agreed to consider cooperation and let him stay under the name Daoist Xuan.
• Gu Xuanyou consulted Ancient Secluded City's elders, who approved working with the Xu Household against the Greedy Wolf Sect, though they expected preparations to take time.
• Xu Chuan learned the negotiations would proceed gradually, then agreed to take Moyue to Southern Heaven's Eastern Region after Moyue revealed he came from Nine Dragons Mountain and wanted to return.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue traveled to Sky Ape City, where a red-haired Sun Clan youth tried to take Fan Wenwan as his concubine and had Fan Wenzeng beaten when he resisted.
• Fan Wenwan went with the Sun Clan youth to protect her brother, while Xu Chuan watched without intervening and told Moyue he would kill any Xu Household descendant he found committing such an offense.

Xu Chuan visited Sun Chuanxing and Zhang Fan, learned why the Ancient Heavenly Pride Tokens mattered and what was required to reach Spirit Transformation, then traveled with Zhang Fan to Heavenly Elixir City. There he tracked a Mysterious Yang Flower to a Blazing Sun Ferocious Lion and offered to help temper its bloodline in exchange for becoming the Xu Household’s beast-taming organization’s guardian; the lion had not yet agreed.

• Xu Chuan visited Sun Chuanxing, reported abuses carried out in the Sun Clan’s name, and Sun Chuanxing ordered an investigation and punished those responsible for the Fan Household’s plight.
• At the Mysterious Moon Sect, Xu Chuan gave Zhang Fan two Ancient Heavenly Pride Tokens in exchange for help obtaining a Lifespan-Extending Pill and information about the tokens, Spirit Transformation, and the Dharma Form Phantom.
• Xu Chuan accompanied Zhang Fan to Heavenly Elixir City, where he bought rare spirit herbs and traded a high-grade Spirit-Purifying Pill for information about a Mysterious Yang Flower in the Tianyang Mountain Range.
• Xu Chuan found the Blazing Sun Ferocious Lion guarding the flowers and stopped its attack with his magic power and Profound Heaviness Seal.
• Xu Chuan offered to help suppress the lion’s savage baleful energy and temper its bloodline if it became the Xu Household’s beast-taming organization’s guardian Spirit Beast, but the lion remained hostile.

Xu Chuan subdued the Blazing Sun Ferocious Lion, improved the Blood Soul Pill in an alchemy contest, and secured Longevity Spring Flower and Ageheart Fruit plants from the Heavenly Elixir Sect. He then reached Void Clarity City with Zhang Fan and began learning about the city before visiting the Void Clarity Sect.

• Moyue intimidated the Blazing Sun Ferocious Lion, and Xu Chuan cleansed its savage baleful energy before accepting it as a Spirit Beast and naming it Xu Sky Lion.
• Xu Chuan and Daoist Everpine tied in a contest refining second-tier pills, then spent half a month improving the Blood Soul Pill; Zhang Fan judged Xu Chuan's pill more than twice as effective, with milder aftereffects.
• Daoist Everpine and the Heavenly Elixir Sect's elders agreed to honor the contest and gave Xu Chuan Longevity Spring Flower and Ageheart Fruit plants in exchange for his improved Blood Soul Pill method.
• Xu Chuan discussed alchemy and plant cultivation with Immortal Maiden Qinghe for three days, received a Mysterious Yang Lifespan-Extending Pill, and departed with Zhang Fan for Void Clarity City.
• Xu Chuan explored Void Clarity City and learned of its ancient battlefield relics, hidden secrets, and rival merchant guilds before planning a visit to the Void Clarity Sect.

Xu Chuan visited the Void Clarity Sect with Zhang Fan and exchanged an Ancient Heavenly Pride Token for a copy of the Xiantian Withering-and-Blooming Scripture. After learning the Void Clarity Sect saw the Xu Household’s fortune as a sign of rising power, Xu Chuan declined to return with Zhang Fan and said he still had another destination.

• Xu Chuan and Zhang Fan arrived at the Void Clarity Sect and met Yuan Song, who brought them to Evergreen Hall.
• Yuan Zhen and Zhang Fan discussed Xu Chuan’s Ancient Heavenly Pride Token, and Xu Chuan requested the sect’s Xiantian Withering-and-Blooming Scripture in exchange.
• Xu Chuan examined the cultivation method, accepted the trade, and received the unrestricted jade slip after Yuan Zhen took the token.
• After Xu Chuan and Zhang Fan departed, Yuan Zhen told Xu Yan about Xu Chuan, and they discussed the sect’s prospects for reaching Spirit Transformation and gaining greater fortune.
• Zhang Fan asked Xu Chuan to return with him to the Mysterious Moon Sect, but Xu Chuan said he still needed to visit Nine Dragons Mountain.

Xu Chuan and Zhang Fan accompanied Moyue to Nine Dragons Mountain, where Moyue reunited with his brother, was invested as a Dragon Lord, and gathered gifts for the Xu Household. After fulfilling his vow, Moyue left the mountain and returned with Xu Chuan and Zhang Fan to Mysterious Moon City.

• Xu Chuan explained to Zhang Fan that Moyue had ties to Nine Dragons Mountain, and they traveled with him to the edge of its territory.
• Moyue returned to Nine Dragons Mountain, reunited with his brother Mo Duo, and learned about the current state of the flood dragon lineages.
• Grand Elder Azure Firmament invested Moyue as a Dragon Lord of the Black Flood Dragon Lineage and gave him a Dragon Crown.
• Moyue visited the clan Treasure Vault and traded Dragonblood Fruit with other lineages for materials he could give to Xu Household members.
• Moyue told Mo Duo he would leave again, urged him to consider alliances with human powers, and flew back to Xu Chuan and Zhang Fan.
• Xu Chuan, Zhang Fan, and Moyue traveled back through a Teleportation Formation and arrived at Mysterious Moon City.

Xu Chuan returned to the Xu Household after refining Tribulation-Surmounting Pills for Zhang Fan, while the household founded the Heavenly Beauty Sect under Xu Mingshu. The chapter ended with Xu Chuan preparing to travel to Greedy Wolf Prefecture as Ancient Secluded City moved toward a clash with the Greedy Wolf Sect.

• Xu Chuan refined Tribulation-Surmounting Pills for Zhang Fan, delivered fifteen as agreed, and returned to Azure Dragon Prefecture through a long-distance teleportation formation.
• Zhang Fan told Zhang Daoran that Xu Chuan was a formidable alchemist and advised him to build a closer friendship with Xu Chuan.
• Moyue distributed treasures to the Xu Household, and Xu Chuan introduced Xu Sky Lion as the guardian spirit beast for Xu Mingshu's planned beast-taming sect.
• Xu Chuan toured the sect grounds with Xu Mingshu, named the sect the Heavenly Beauty Sect, and attended its founding ceremony and later disciple recruitment.
• Xu Chuan perfected his Jiawood Mystic-Spirit Battle Armor and learned that Ancient Secluded City was preparing to confront the Greedy Wolf Sect with possible support from the Sima Clan, Nie Household, Chao Household, and Xu Household.
• An elder of Ancient Secluded City summoned Xu Mingxuan to meet the City Lord, while Xu Chuan decided he would go to Greedy Wolf Prefecture and intervene if necessary.

Xu Chuan helped Ancient Secluded City and the Three Great Aristocratic Clans prepare an alliance against the Greedy Wolf Sect, then joined them in investigating the newly discovered Nascent Soul cave abode of White Bone High Person. After the gathered cultivators broke through the mountain’s formation and entered the cave, Xu Chuan lingered outside the entrance with his companions.

• Gu Xuanyou asked Xu Mingxuan to bring Xu Chuan and the Xu Household’s transforming great demon to Ancient Secluded City, and Xu Chuan agreed to visit after consulting his father.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue arrived in Ancient Secluded City, where Gu Xuanyou revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation and joined the Three Great Aristocratic Clans in an alliance against the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Chuan proposed a strategy to weaken the Greedy Wolf Sect while keeping the alliance’s plans concealed, and the clan heads agreed after he swore a Daoheart Oath.
• News spread that White Bone High Person’s Nascent Soul cave abode had appeared in the Bone Wasteland Mountains, and Xu Chuan, Gu Xuanyou, and their allies traveled there.
• Qi Tianxiong arrived and confronted Xu Chuan, but agreed to let the gathered factions share in breaking the cave abode’s formation.
• After the cultivators broke through the mountain barrier and entered the cave, Xu Chuan stayed outside briefly with Moyue and his other companions.

Xu Chuan discovered that White Bone High Person had survived as a powerful puppet and persuaded him to join the Xu Household. After the others escaped the maze, conflict erupted between Ancient Secluded City and the Greedy Wolf Sect, and Xu Chuan’s sword formation overwhelmed their Golden Core fighters.

• Xu Chuan led Xu Mingxuan and Moyue through the maze by identifying illusionary walls, then confronted Bone One in the cave abode.
• Xu Chuan exposed Bone One as White Bone High Person, captured him, and recruited him as an elder of the Xu Household after he acknowledged Xu Chuan as his master.
• Xu Chuan left a restriction-lifting method behind, allowing the other cultivators to escape, while Qi Tianxiong discovered the skeleton’s supposed inheritance was a decoy.
• After leaving the cave abode, Gu Xuanyou attacked Sky Wolf True Lord, and Xu Chuan and Moyue intervened against Qi Tianxiong and the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Chuan used his Azure Dragon Treasure Umbrella and Flying Swords to support Ancient Secluded City and injure Greedy Wolf Sect cultivators.
• Mei Yun, disguised as Yun Mei, rescued a Greedy Wolf Sect elder from Xu Chuan’s sword attack, but Xu Chuan’s Azure Dragon of the Sword shattered Yun Mei’s and the elder’s defenses and wounded them.

Xu Chuan arranged for White Bone High Person to become the Demon Heaven Trading Company's hidden representative while Mei Yun infiltrated the Greedy Wolf Sect and helped locate weaknesses in its grand formation. As Ancient Secluded City prepared for war, Qi Tianxiong launched a full-power attack that tore open its protective formation.

• Qi Tianxiong rescued Sky Wolf True Lord from Gu Xuanyou and fled, while Gu Xuanyou called for allies to join Ancient Secluded City against the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Chuan appointed White Bone High Person as the Demon Heaven Lord and Xiao Zhan's guest elder, assigning him to help lead and strengthen the Demon Heaven Trading Company.
• Xu Chuan's disguised subordinate Mei Yun joined the Greedy Wolf Sect as a guest elder and reported its layout to Xu Chuan and the Xu siblings.
• Xu Mingxian, Xu Chuan, and Xu Mingxuan divined several likely formation bases, and Xu Chuan sent Mei Yun to inspect and weaken them before Ancient Secluded City attacked.
• After failing to recruit outside Nascent Soul support, Qi Tianxiong attacked Ancient Secluded City's protective formation and carved a huge breach in it.

Qi Tianxiong attacked Ancient Secluded City, prompting Xu Chuan and Gu Xuanyou to prepare an assault on the Greedy Wolf Sect. The allied forces assembled at the Bone Wasteland Mountains, where Xu Chuan’s family arrived as the battle was about to begin.

• Qi Tianxiong breached Ancient Secluded City’s protective formation and devastated its western district before Gu Xuanyou and Moyue drove him off.
• Xu Chuan urged Gu Xuanyou to recruit the Demon Heaven Trading Company and other factions, while he arranged for the Xu Household to join the coming fight.
• Gu Xuanyou secured the Demon Heaven Trading Company’s support, and the Sima Clan joined Ancient Secluded City while the Nie and Chao Households backed the Greedy Wolf Sect.
• Xu Chuan set the all-out assault for five days later and arranged for his family members to travel to Greedy Wolf Prefecture, while Mei Yun reported that he had sabotaged six Greedy Wolf Sect formation bases.
• Qi Tianxiong chose to lure Ancient Secluded City’s forces into a sudden battle, while the Demon Heaven Trading Company and its allies gathered at White Bone Peak.
• Xu Chuan arrived at the Bone Wasteland Mountains with Gu Xuanyou, Moyue, Xu Deling, Xu Deyue, and Ye Fan as the assembled factions prepared for battle.

The Greedy Wolf Sect and the Ancient Secluded City led their allies into a decisive battle, while Xu Chuan’s family carried out a separate plan to breach the sect’s defenses. The main armies clashed as Xu Mingxian and White Bone High Person began attacking the Greedy Wolf Sect’s grand formation from within a Cloudsky Illusion Formation.

• Gu Xuanyou rallied the Ancient Secluded City’s allies with promises of shared spoils, while Qi Tianxiong and Sky Wolf True Lord assembled the Greedy Wolf Sect’s forces and offered their allies half the city’s wealth.
• Gu Xuanyou’s army and Qi Tianxiong’s forces met on a wasteland, where Moyue’s opening attack triggered a large-scale battle.
• Xu Chuan, Gu Xuanyou, and Moyue fought Qi Tianxiong, while Xu Deling fought Sky Wolf True Lord and the other cultivators battled across the wasteland.
• Xu Mingxuan and Mei Yun left the main battlefield and headed toward Mountain-Sea City after Xu Mingxuan told Mei Yun to reveal his true appearance.
• Xu Mingxian and White Bone High Person teleported near the Greedy Wolf Sect, concealed their operation with the Cloudsky Illusion Formation, and summoned the Profound Yin Corpse King and Blood Baleful Ghost King.
• At Xu Mingxian’s direction, the two kings struck a weak point in the Greedy Wolf Sect’s grand formation together.

White Bone High Person and Xu Mingxian seized the Greedy Wolf Sect, winning over its disciples and taking control of its grand formation while Xu Chuan and Ancient Secluded City’s allies fought Qi Tianxiong’s forces. The battle turned against the Greedy Wolf Sect when the Nie and Chao households betrayed it, and Sky Wolf True Lord fell to Xu Deling, while Qi Tianxiong remained alive and ordered his surviving followers to flee back to the sect.

• White Bone High Person forced the Greedy Wolf Sect’s elders and disciples to choose between submission and death, and nearly everyone joined the Demon Heaven Trading Company under restrictions.
• Xu Mingxian took control of the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation, invalidated the old access tokens, and helped White Bone High Person begin seizing the sect’s resources.
• Xu Chuan persuaded Gu Xuanyou to advance the next phase of the battle, and Nie Jiufeng and Chao Yuanqi turned on the Greedy Wolf Sect, killing several elders and disciples.
• Xu Deling and the heads of Ancient Secluded City’s allied households cornered Sky Wolf True Lord, and Xu Deling killed him with Fire Emperor's True Eyes.
• Qi Tianxiong saw the betrayal and Sky Wolf True Lord’s death, threatened revenge, and ordered the surviving Greedy Wolf Sect cultivators to escape while he shifted the battle toward them.

Xu Chuan and his allies defeated Qi Tianxiong and captured his nascent soul, while the Demon Heaven Trading Company revealed its true power and took control of the Greedy Wolf Sect. The chapter ended with the Greedy Wolf Sect’s remaining fighters submitting to the company and Gu Xuanyou facing the Demon Heaven Lord.

• The Greedy Wolf Sect’s fleeing cultivators returned to find the Cloudsky Illusion Formation trapping them, while Xu Mingxian and White Bone High Person watched the battle unfold.
• Qi Tianxiong unleashed a secret art and his top-tier demonic saber, badly wounding Gu Xuanyou, Moyue, and Xu Chuan before his power began to fade.
• Xu Chuan secured Gu Xuanyou’s heart-demon oath, and Moyue used the Dragon Crown to help overwhelm Qi Tianxiong; Xu Chuan and the Blood Baleful Ghost King stopped Qi Tianxiong’s attempted self-detonation, destroyed his dantian, and sealed his nascent soul.
• The Demon Heaven Trading Company attacked Ancient Secluded City’s forces, killing its Grand Elder and other Golden Core cultivators, then revealed White Bone High Person as the Demon Heaven Lord.
• The Demon Heaven Lord offered the Greedy Wolf Sect’s surviving elders and disciples a choice between joining the Demon Heaven Trading Company and dying, and they agreed to join.

After the Greedy Wolf Sect fell, Xu Chuan left the Demon Heaven Trading Company to rule the renamed Demon Nether Prefecture while the Xu Household gathered its spoils and planned new ventures. The chapter ended with Xu Wenjing setting out as a rogue cultivator artifact refiner and a new round of clan trials approaching.

• Xu Chuan refused Gu Xuanyou’s request for further help, and Gu Xuanyou swore an oath acknowledging the Demon Heaven Trading Company’s leadership before leaving with Ancient Secluded City’s survivors.
• Xu Chuan and the Xu Household entered the Greedy Wolf Sect’s vault, claimed selected treasures and pill ingredients, and agreed to rename Greedy Wolf Prefecture Demon Nether Prefecture.
• Xu Chuan assigned Xu Jingwu and Xu Mingqing to reorganize the Land of Imprisonment, while Mei Yun, Xu Mingxuan, and their companions began establishing an imperial dynasty in Demon Nether Prefecture.
• White Bone High Person organized the former Greedy Wolf Sect’s people and resources under the Demon Heaven Trading Company, while Xu Mingxuan’s group founded Heavenly Fortune Village.
• Xu Chonghui approved Xu Wenjing’s request to travel as a rogue cultivator artifact refiner, and Xu Wenjing set out while the Xu Clan prepared its next trials.

Xu Mingqing and Xu Jingwu restored settlements across the Land of Imprisonment and founded the Pill-Martial Sect, while Xu Mingxuan and Mei Yun continued building the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty in Demon Nether Prefecture. Zhang Wanqing formed her Golden Core and became pregnant alongside Xu Deyue’s news of promising twins, while Xu Chuan advanced his cultivation and began pursuing the Five-Element Creation Palm.

• Xu Mingqing and Xu Jingwu fed refugees, restored Greenview City, trained disciples, and spent three years establishing settlements before founding the Pill-Martial Sect at Pill-Martial Peak.
• Xu Mingxuan and Mei Yun developed Heavenly Fortune City, planned its currency and army, and discussed expanding the population of the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty.
• Xu Chuan agreed to provide Spirit-Nurturing Pills and core-formation resources, and Zhang Wanqing returned to Yunxi and successfully formed her Golden Core.
• Xu Chuan gave Xu Mingxuan Spirit-Nurturing Pills for Mei Yun and Wenxi, and Xu Wenxi and Xu Deyue became pregnant; Xu Deyue carried twins with potentially extraordinary spiritual roots.
• Xu Chuan gained an initial grasp of water true intent, began cultivating the Five-Element Creation Palm, and continued developing his divination and other powers.

The chapter described the Xu Household’s growing cultivation strength and Xu Chuan’s plans for its talented members, then followed Xu Wenjing’s travels to Green Ox Market District. Xu Wenjing revealed that he had become a second-tier Artifact Refiner, prompting a warning that the Green Ox Han Household might try to recruit him.

• Xu Mingyuan, Xu Mingshu, Xu Mingxian, Ye Fan, Xu Deyue, and younger Xu Household members made cultivation or skill advances, while Xu Chongfei and Xu Chongjian showed exceptional progress.
• Xu Chuan planned for Xu Mingxian and De Ling to advance their crafts and discussed developing a fourth-tier teleportation formation; he also cultivated his divine abilities.
• Xu Chonghui reported on applicants for the Heavenly Pride Trial and updated Xu Dezhao on Xu Wenjing’s travels in Green Ox Market District.
• Xu Dezhao obtained a high-grade Spirit-Nourishing Pill from Xu Chuan for Xu Chonghui, who used it to break through his spiritual-consciousness limit.
• At his artifact shop in Green Ox Market District, Xu Wenjing told Fellow Daoist Hu that he could now forge top-tier magical artifacts.
• Fellow Daoist Hu congratulated Xu Wenjing and warned that the Green Ox Han Household might seek to recruit him.

Xu Wenjing refused to join the Green Ox Han Household and endured its pressure on his artifact shop, while Hu San supported him. A Golden Core cultivator named He Kui attacked Green Ox Market to avenge the destruction of the He Household, and Xu Wenjing fled with the wounded Hu San as He Kui fought Han Tie.

• Xu Wenjing repaired Hu San’s hammer, sold him a Blackglow Shield, and watched him advance to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Han Yong offered Xu Wenjing a place with the Han Household, but Xu Wenjing declined, after which the Han Household drove away his apprentices and customers.
• Hu San visited Xu Wenjing and discussed seeking opportunities in Cloudbrook City and joining the Yunxi Xu Household.
• He Kui attacked Green Ox Market, destroyed the Artifact Pavilion, and killed the Green Bull Guard Unit in revenge against the Han Household.
• Xu Wenjing rescued Hu San after a crimson arrow pierced his chest, then fled with him as He Kui confronted Han Tie.