Chapter Summaries

Xu Chuan defeated Han Ming, then watched Daoist Xuanxin confront Devil Lord Hua Jiu while the remaining true demons were hunted down. Demon General Huagu tried to possess Xu Chuan but was captured by the Clan Genealogy, and Daoist Xuanxin later killed Hua Jiu and began searching for the scattered treasures.

• Xu Chuan killed Han Ming after suppressing him with the Azure Dragon Sword Formation and the Profound Heaviness Seal.
• Daoist Xuanxin appeared and used a spirit treasure to drive Devil Lord Hua Jiu away from the Nascent Soul battlefield, allowing the surviving cultivators to withdraw and hunt the other true demons.
• Xu Chuan and Moyue killed a true demon and a demonic cultivator, then Xu Chuan reunited with Xu Mingxian and Xu Mingheng as Duan Wuya hid to avoid suspicion.
• Daoist Xuanxin pursued Devil Lord Hua Jiu, who scattered his treasures and the Divine-Nourishing Bottle before fleeing; Demon General Huagu used the bottle to find and attempt to possess Xu Chuan.
• The Clan Genealogy captured Demon General Huagu, and Xu Chuan discovered that the bottle nurtured the divine soul and stored it in the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven.
• Daoist Xuanxin killed Devil Lord Hua Jiu, who detonated himself and destroyed his possessions, so Xuanxin returned to search for the scattered items.

Xu Chuan traded over Nine-Mystic Fruits, learned that Zhang Fan had nearly destroyed Netherworld, and ordered the Xu Household to expand into Cangshan and Demon Nether Prefectures. Xu Mingyuan united Demon Nether Prefecture under the Demon Heaven Trading Company, while Ye Fan’s group began targeting the Teng Family in Cangshan Prefecture.

• Daoist Xuanxin inspected Xu Chuan’s Divine-Nourishing Bottle for a hidden demonic soul fragment and returned it after finding no signs of possession.
• Xu Chuan offered Nine-Mystic Fruits to Zhang Daoran and Huang Weiqing, seeking Spirit Taming Sect inheritances and negotiating pill-refining commissions with both sects.
• Zhang Daoran learned that Zhang Fan had killed King Wujian, subdued King Wuji, and crippled Netherworld, while Xu Chuan sent Xu Mingyuan’s group to expand the Xu Household’s influence.
• Xu Chuan entrusted the Qilin Seal to Xu Dezhao and ordered Xu Mingyuan to unite Demon Nether Prefecture and establish Xu Household branches in Cangshan Prefecture.
• Xu Mingyuan and White Bone High Person broke Ancient Secluded City’s formation, forced its elders and disciples to submit, and renamed the city Demon Nether City.
• Ye Fan’s group reached Teng Family Fort in Cangshan Prefecture and deployed a third-rank Cloudsky Illusion Formation outside it.

Ye Fan and the Xu Household destroyed Teng Family Fort and established Xu Family Fort, while visitors learned that Ye Fan belonged to the Xu Household of Azure Dragon Prefecture. Meanwhile, Zhang Fan absorbed the Cangshan Sect into the Mysterious Moon Sect as the Mystic Star Sect, and Xu Mingxian traveled to build teleportation formations linking the new branch and nearby strongholds.

• Ye Fan led the Xu Household into Teng Family Fort, broke its formation with a Restriction-Breaking Pearl, and defeated Teng Huayuan, Teng Yuansheng, Teng Shanqing, and the other defenders.
• The Xu Household renamed the captured stronghold Xu Family Fort, took control of a nearby market district, and received neighboring Golden Core factions who learned Ye Fan was Withered Glory True Lord’s disciple.
• Zhang Fan returned to the Mysterious Moon Sect with King Wuji, appointed him to organize the Black Kite Merchant Association, and ordered Zhang Daoran to accompany him against the Cangshan Sect.
• Zhang Fan destroyed the Cangshan Sect’s formation and killed Duan Wuya, Meng Qiu, and the demon corpse; the sect became the Mystic Star Sect under the Mysterious Moon Sect.
• Xu Mingxian and Xu Chuan discussed expanding the Xu Household’s businesses and teleportation network, and Xu Mingxian traveled to the Mystic Star Sect to construct formations.

True Lord Qingxuan overcame his heart demon and formed a Nascent Soul, strengthening the Mysterious Moon Sect, while Xu Chuan declined to attend the Nascent Soul Ceremony and later reopened the Azure Dragon Secret Realm. After entering the realm, Xu Chuan met Dragoness and asked how he could take control of the entire secret realm.

• True Lord Qingxuan formed his Nascent Soul after recognizing and destroying the heart demon illusion of Xu Chuan, and the Mysterious Moon Sect announced a Nascent Soul Ceremony in his honor.
• Xu Chuan sent Xu Mingyuan and Ye Fan to represent the Xu Household at the ceremony, where other factions asked after him while he remained in seclusion.
• After refusing Huang Weiqing's offer for the Nine-Mystic Fruit, Xu Chuan ordered the Azure Dragon Alliance to select 360 Foundation Establishment cultivators for the secret realm's reopening.
• Xu Chuan entered the Azure Dragon Secret Realm with Moyue, but the realm suppressed her and she retreated into the Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Dragoness examined Xu Chuan's transformed physique and powerful spiritual consciousness, then offered him a superior divine ability as a true disciple.
• Xu Chuan asked Dragoness how he could take control of the entire Azure Dragon Secret Realm.

Xu Chuan passed the Azure Dragon Secret Realm’s combat, alchemy, and heavenly-secrets trials, earning the Azure Dragon Stele and a Beast-Taming inheritance. He began refining the secret realm’s core and returned to the Xu Household, where reports from the other secret-realm entrants began to spread.

• Xu Chuan’s three controlled fourth-tier combatants defeated the True Demon Corpse Puppet, passing the combat trial, and he chose the Heavenly Luo Realm-Breaking Pill for the alchemy trial.
• Xu Chuan refined six Heavenly Luo Realm-Breaking Pills, including three high-grade pills, and passed the alchemy trial.
• Using the Star Constellation Disk and the Twenty-Eight Supreme Constellations Scripture, Xu Chuan correctly divined opportunities for at least five people and passed the heavenly-secrets trial.
• Dragoness gave Xu Chuan the Azure Dragon Stele, the secret realm’s core, and the Ten Thousand Spirits Art Beast-Taming inheritance before sending him out of the secret realm.
• Xu Chuan returned to the Withering-and-Blooming Courtyard, discussed his new ownership with Moyue, and began refining the Azure Dragon Stele while news of the trials spread.

Over five years, Xu Chuan advanced to the late Golden Core stage as the Xu Household and its territories continued to grow. Xu Jingwu broke through his physical and spiritual limits and nurtured a martial dao divine ability seed, but he postponed Core Formation to develop it further.

• Xu Chuan gave Xu Mingshu the Ten Thousand Spirits Art, ordered Xu Dezhao to add copies to the Daoist Canon Pavilion, and arranged for the family to manage its own affairs during his ten years of seclusion.
• Xu Chuan reached the late Golden Core stage, cultivated rare spirit medicines and third-rank pills, and watched the Xu Household's younger generation and allied regions expand.
• The Heavenly Fortune Dynasty faced pressure from three neighboring Golden Core clans, while Ye Fan kept Xu Family Fort's operations cautious amid raids.
• Xu Jingwu asked the Xu Household for Spirit Transformation Flood Dragon heart blood and used one drop supplied by Ye Fan to break through his physical limit.
• Over the next three years, Xu Jingwu converted his origin power to nine-nine, formed a martial dao divine ability seed, and broke through his spiritual-consciousness limit, but chose to keep nurturing the seed before attempting Core Formation.

Xu Chuan emerged from ten years of seclusion, reviewed the Xu Household’s progress, and gathered its core members to discuss affairs across their territories. After uncovering outside powers’ schemes against the Northwest and the Xu Household’s branches, he set plans in motion and sent Xu Mingyuan to Demon Nether Prefecture to watch for the suspicious Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Xu Chuan entered the Xu Clan Cave-Heaven, where the family reported on the clan’s growth, regional affairs, and Xu Jingwu’s Martial Way Divine Ability Seed.
• Xu Chuan instructed Ye Fan and the others to investigate the Celestial River Sword Sect, the Xue Household, and the Dark Puppet Sect, and to sound out the Mystic Star Sect about attacks on Xu Family Fort.
• Xu Chuan gave Moyue a Tian Luo Pill to help him break through, gave Xu Han a Demon Spirit Pill, and sent Xu Mingshu to deliver Crimson Blood Pills to the clan’s demon beasts.
• Xu Chuan divined that the Golden Sun Merchant Guild was trying to stir up conflict in the Northwest to weaken the Mysterious Moon Sect, and began devising a plan to turn its schemes to his advantage.
• Xu Chuan sent Xu Mingyuan to Demon Nether Prefecture and ordered Xiao Zhan to let the suspicious visitor return, then use a Life-Bound Jade Talisman to summon Xu Chuan.

Xu Chuan refined Heaven-Mending Pills that raised the Xu Household’s Golden Core cultivators to heaven spiritual root aptitude, while Xu Mingxian delivered pills to Ye Fan and the others. After Moyue reached the Transformation Middle Stage and visited his sons, Xu Chuan tested his creation power on the Blazing Sun Ferocious Lion and asked Moyue to subdue a Black Tiger Demon for the household.

• Xu Mingxian gave Xu Chuan a top-quality third-rank Cloudsky Illusion Formation plate, and Xu Chuan asked him to make simpler formation plates for the Xu Household’s reserves.
• Ye Fan told Zhang Daoran that the Xu Household planned to retaliate against the Xue Household and Dark Puppet Sect, and Zhang Daoran warned him against involving Nascent Soul cultivators or causing large-scale fighting.
• Xu Chuan refined Heaven-Mending Pills and gave high-grade pills to Xu Mingxian, Ye Fan, and other Xu Household members, raising the spiritual root aptitude of its Golden Core cultivators to the heaven spiritual root level.
• Moyue reached the Transformation Middle Stage, and he and Xu Chuan visited Jiao Da at the Heavenly Beauty Sect, where Moyue gave him Crimson Blood Pills and warned him to leave descendants before venturing away.
• Xu Chuan used his creation power on the Blazing Sun Ferocious Lion but could not resolve the lion’s bloodline problem, then gave Xu Mingshu Heaven-Mending Pills to try on the household’s spirit beasts.
• Xu Chuan asked Moyue to try subduing the Black Tiger Demon in the Blackwind Mountains and have him gather herbs and resources for the Xu Household.

Moyue defeated Black Tiger and made him his subordinate, then returned to Xu Chuan with resources and tested the Heaven-Mending Pill on demon beasts. Eighteen years after leaving, Xu Chongfei returned to Cloudbrook with stronger cultivation and an escape ability, only to discover that Xu Wenyan did not recognize him as his father.

• Xu Chuan explained how Demon Spirit Pills could help Moyue win Black Tiger's loyalty, and Moyue went to the Blackwind Mountains to confront him.
• Moyue defeated Black Tiger after a prolonged fight, claimed the Blackwind Mountains, and secured his submission by offering him Demon Spirit Pills.
• Moyue took resources from Black Tiger's cave, gave him a pill, and returned to Xu Chuan with the loot; Little Cold Crow later reported that the Heaven-Mending Pill had purified his bloodline and enhanced his intelligence.
• Xu Chuan explained that the Heaven-Mending Pill's effects came from Creation Power, while Moyue learned that the Firmiana Spirit Tree could produce valuable fruit more often under Xu Chuan's care.
• After eighteen years away, Xu Chongfei returned to Cloudbrook with Golden Core Middle Stage cultivation and an initial grasp of Yin-Yang One-Qi Escape, then received pills and advice from Xu Chuan.
• Xu Chongfei met Xu Wenyan, who failed to recognize him as his father, before Chen Yulian welcomed her returning husband.

Xu Chongfei tried to repair his relationship with Xu Wenyan by giving up his secret-realm treasures to obtain a Heaven-Mending Pill for his son. Meanwhile, Ye Fan’s group defeated an ambush and began drawing the Dark Puppet Sect away from the Celestial River Sword Sect, leaving Gongyang Zhi to make his choice.

• Xu Wenyan rejected Xu Chongfei at first, but later accepted the Heaven-Mending Pill after learning his father had surrendered his treasures for it, though he still refused to forgive him easily.
• Xu Chuan examined Xu Chongfei’s secret-realm finds, awarded him the Heaven-Mending Pill, and kept the rare inheritance, pill formula, spirit iron, and insect eggs for the Xu Household.
• Xue Wangui and Zuo Feng led an ambush against Ye Fan’s group, but Xu Deyue killed Xue Wangui, Ye Fan defeated Zuo Feng, and Zuo Feng accepted a Divine Soul Restriction in exchange for his life.
• Ye Fan sent Zuo Feng to persuade the Dark Puppet Sect to secretly submit to the Xu Household, promising protection and a fourth-tier defensive formation.
• Zuo Feng urged Gongyang Zhi to turn from the Celestial River Sword Sect, and Gongyang Zhi convened the Golden Core elders and killed an elder he accused of being a spy.

Ye Fan and Xu Deyue confronted the Xue Household over its attack on their caravan, then used the clash to publicize Xu Family Fort’s strength. As the Xu branches began relocating to expand their presence in Cangshan Prefecture, Xu Mingxian prepared to help the Dark Puppet Sect establish a fourth-tier defensive formation.

• Gongyang Zhi killed a Celestial River Sword Sect informant and persuaded the Dark Puppet Sect elders to seek the Xu Household’s protection.
• Ye Fan and Xu Deyue took Xue Wangui’s corpse to the Xue Household, demanded compensation, and fought Xue Shixing and the household elders before withdrawing after drawing witnesses.
• Ye Fan negotiated the Dark Puppet Sect’s allegiance in exchange for a fourth-tier grand formation, with the Xue Household’s destruction intended to cover the cost.
• Ye Fan and Xu Chuan arranged for Xu branches to relocate: Xu Mingxuan’s descendants would move to the Heavenly Fortune Dynasty, while Xu Mingxian would oversee the Mystic Star Sect alongside True Lord Qingxuan.
• Xu Mingxian reached the Dark Puppet Sect’s vicinity with the formation materials gathered and sent a message to Zuo Feng.

Xu Chuan intervened after the Xue Household targeted Xu Family Fort, forcing it to pay compensation, then secretly sparred with True Lord Qingxuan before returning to Yunxi. Xu Mingxian completed the Dark Puppet Sect’s fourth-tier grand formation and prepared to leave.

• Xu Mingxian surveyed the Dark Puppet Sect’s terrain and began refining formation bases while Gongyang Zhi learned that the Celestial River Sword Sect had summoned him to a council.
• Jian Shisan organized Xue Shixing, Xue Tianyang, Gongyang Zhi, and allied Golden Core cultivators to provoke Xu Family Fort and test its strength, but Ye Fan and Xu Deyue fought them off.
• After the confrontation, Jian Shisan urged the Xue Household to spread rumors against Xu Family Fort, and Ye Fan asked Xu Chuan to frighten the Xue Household into backing down.
• Xu Chuan shattered the Xue Household’s Clan-Protecting Grand Formation and demanded materials and spirit herbs as compensation, then visited True Lord Qingxuan and secretly sparred with him.
• The Xue Household delivered the compensation and spent heavily repairing its formation, while Xu Chuan returned to Yunxi through teleportation formations.
• Xu Mingxian completed the Dark Puppet Sect’s fourth-tier grand formation, gave Gongyang Zhi a jade slip explaining its restrictions, and said he would leave the next day.

After the Dark Puppet Sect and the Xu Household exposed the Celestial River Sword Sect’s plot, the factions clashed outside the Dark Puppet Sect, where Xu Deling drove off the attackers. Mysterious Thunder True Lord then attacked the sect’s defenses, but its fourth-tier formation held, leaving him stunned as Gongyang Zhi appeared inside the barrier.

• Xu Mingxian explained that the Dark Puppet Sect’s new fourth-tier formation would weaken its original defenses, then reported back to Xu Family Fort and returned to seclusion.
• Gongyang Zhi allied with the Xu Household, and Zuo Feng publicly revealed that the Dark Puppet Sect and Xue Household had ambushed Xu cultivators at the Celestial River Sword Sect’s direction.
• Bai Sha attacked Zuo Feng, but Xu Deling blocked his sword and forced the Celestial River Sword Sect and Xue Household to withdraw.
• Xu Mingxian showed True Lord Qingxuan that the Xu Household had not started the conflict, while Ye Fan and Gongyang Zhi agreed to face the coming struggle openly.
• Jian Shisan and Bai Sha urged Mysterious Thunder True Lord to destroy the Dark Puppet Sect, so he attacked its defenses with lightning and his Thunderbolt Sword.
• The fourth-tier barrier withstood Mysterious Thunder True Lord’s attacks, and Gongyang Zhi appeared inside the formation as the True Lord demanded an explanation from Bai Sha.

The Xu Household planned to weaken the Celestial River Sword Sect while avoiding an all-out war, and Xu Chuan sent Moyue and Black Tiger to keep its Nascent Soul cultivators inside their sect. After the demons defeated the sect’s leaders in battle, the leaders were unable to leave and sent Bai Sha to seek help from the Mystic Star Sect.

• Bai Sha and Mysterious Thunder True Lord found that the Dark Puppet Sect had a fourth-tier defensive formation, then returned to the Celestial River Sword Sect as tensions rose across Cangshan Prefecture.
• Ye Fan proposed that the Dark Puppet Sect attack the Xue Household while the Xu Household built alliances and gradually weakened the Celestial River Sword Sect; Xu Chuan agreed and said Moyue would deter the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Xu Chuan persuaded Moyue to take Black Tiger to Cangshan Prefecture, offering pills in exchange for Black Tiger’s help.
• Moyue and Black Tiger reached the Celestial River Sword Sect and challenged Heavenly Water True Lord and Mysterious Thunder True Lord, then ordered them not to leave their sect.
• After the battle left both sides injured, the Celestial River Sword Sect’s leaders stayed inside and sent Bai Sha to the Mystic Star Sect for help.

True Lord Qingxuan declined to intervene in the Xu Household’s dispute with the Celestial River Sword Sect, while the Xu Household’s high-end auction displayed its wealth and attracted Cangshan Prefecture’s powers. As the Dark Puppet Sect and Xu Family Fort moved to destroy the Xue Household, Xu Deling arrived near the Celestial River Sword Sect and Black Tiger prepared to confront an intruder.

• Moyue told True Lord Qingxuan that he was avenging a personal grievance, and Qingxuan refused to join Heavenly Water True Lord and Mysterious Thunder True Lord against him.
• Heavenly Water True Lord concluded that the Xu Household sought influence across the prefectures and arranged for envoys to recruit outside allies, while rumors spread about the Celestial River Sword Sect being trapped by two demons.
• Ye Fan and Xu Chongfei discussed a possible marriage alliance with the Song Family, then the Ascension Pavilion auction drew Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators with rare pills and treasures; the Song Family won a Golden Core Formation Pill and a Spiritwind Boat.
• Gongyang Zhi killed Xue Tianyang after the Dark Puppet Sect attacked him, and Xue Shixing learned that his heir’s Life Lamp had gone out.
• Gongyang Zhi asked Ye Fan for help assaulting the Xue Household, and Ye Fan agreed to help break its protective formation and surround its estate.
• Xu Deling reached the area near the Celestial River Sword Sect, and Black Tiger spotted an approaching intruder and said he would deal with it.

Moyue helped Xu Deling break the Xue Household’s formation, allowing the Dark Puppet Sect to wipe out the clan, while the Xu Household quietly prepared to expand its hold over Cangshan Prefecture. After Xu Chuan arranged assassinations against the Heavenly Three Sword Sect, Ye Fan’s group attacked Heavenly River City, and the chapter ended as its city lord fled after the protective formation fell.

• Moyue lent Xu Deling the Demon-Slaying Spear, which she used to break the Xue Household’s formation before sealing the area and letting the Dark Puppet Sect destroy the clan.
• Gongyang Zhi handed the Xue Household’s spoils to Ye Fan, who gave him a high-grade flying sword and counseled him on managing suspicion over the massacre.
• Xu Chuan hired Black Wind to assassinate Heavenly Three Sword Sect cultivators, prompting the sect to recall its people and avoid sending disciples outside.
• Ye Fan and the Xu Household’s allies planned to seize Heavenly River City while the Heavenly Three Sword Sect was weakened, then entered the city disguised as Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Xu Mingxian began dismantling the City Lord’s Manor formation as Ye Fan’s group confronted the city lord, and the city lord fled when the formation collapsed.

Xu Deling and the Xu Household seized Heavenly River City, prompting the Celestial River Sword Sect to launch a major assault. Ye Fan and the others held off the first attack with the Cloudsky Illusion Formation, but the sect regrouped and entered the mist again with a stronger force.

• Xu Deling killed the Heavenly River City Lord, and Xu Mingxian took control of the city’s formations while Xu Chongfei and Xu Wenjing secured the City Lord’s Manor guards.
• After learning that the Xu Household had seized Heavenly River City, Heavenly Water True Lord ordered Jian Shisan to mobilize the Celestial River Sword Sect against Xu Family Fort and the city.
• Xu Mingxian began upgrading the city’s defenses, while Ye Fan and the others prepared for the attack and used the Cloudsky Illusion Formation to obstruct the sect’s forces.
• Xu Deling, Xu Deyue, Ye Fan, and Gongyang Zhi fought the invading teams in the mist, inflicting heavy losses and forcing Bai Sha, Guo Huai, and Jian Shisan to withdraw.
• After both sides regrouped, Bai Sha, Jian Shisan, and the other Celestial River Sword Sect leaders entered the mist again with about a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Xu Family Fort fought off the Celestial River Sword Sect’s assault on Heavenly River City with the Cloudsky Illusion Formation, powerful Golden Core cultivators, and the assassin Black Wind. Xu Chuan sent Xu Chongjian to reinforce the city and arrange a three-day contest, leaving both sides gathered outside Heavenly River City under terms overseen by True Lord Qingxuan.

• Black Wind offered to help Ye Fan and Xu Deling, then killed several Celestial River Sword Sect cultivators in ambushes and helped force Bai Sha’s group to retreat.
• Ye Fan’s side regrouped with Dark Puppet Sect reinforcements while Xu Mingxian upgraded Heavenly River City’s formation; meanwhile, Si Jung and Jin Fuguang failed to break Xu Family Fort’s fourth-tier formation.
• After divining the disturbance in fortune, Xu Chuan sent Xu Chongjian to Cangshan Prefecture with formation equipment and instructions to invite True Lord Qingxuan to mediate.
• Xu Chongjian defeated the Celestial River Sword Sect elders and disciples besieging Xu Family Fort, then persuaded True Lord Qingxuan to propose a three-day contest for control of Heavenly River City.
• True Lord Qingxuan secured the Celestial River Sword Sect’s agreement that Golden Core cultivators alone would contest the city’s formation, with either side barred from attacking it for ten years after losing.
• True Lord Qingxuan, Xu Chongjian, Heavenly Water True Lord, Mysterious Thunder True Lord, Moyue, and Black Tiger arrived outside Heavenly River City and found Bai Sha’s forces still unable to take it.

Xu Family Fort defeated the Celestial River Sword Sect’s challenge for Heavenly River City, renamed the city Cloud Cang City, and consolidated control over Cangshan Prefecture. Two years later, Xu Chuan traveled to Demon Nether Prefecture, where the Golden Sun Merchant Guild proposed a deal by warning him that the Xu Household would eventually threaten his company.

• Xu Mingxian used the Cloudsky Illusion Formation to frustrate the Celestial River Sword Sect’s Golden Core cultivators, and Heavenly Water True Lord conceded the wager.
• Xu Family Fort took over Heavenly River City, built a fourth-tier defensive formation, and renamed the city Cloud Cang City as factions across Cangshan Prefecture submitted to Ye Fan.
• Xu Chongfei took Xu Chongsheng and Xu Chongxi to Mysterious Moon City for the Formation Path Convention, while Ye Fan remained to govern Cloud Cang City.
• Xu Chuan traveled to Demon Heaven City and met Liao Chenghua and Steward Qian, who warned him that the Xu Household’s growing power could threaten the Demon Heaven Trading Company.
• Steward Qian cited Xu Family Fort’s victory over the Celestial River Sword Sect and began explaining the Golden Sun Merchant Guild’s proposed deal.

Xu Chuan negotiated an alliance between the Demon Heaven Trading Company and the Golden Sun Merchant Guild, then advised the Mysterious Moon Sect on protecting its Formation Path Convention. At the convention, Zhang Fan began teaching his Battle Formation Path before Great Cultivators from the Golden Sun Sect and Ascension Gate arrived with Fourth-Rank Formation Masters to challenge him.

• Xu Chuan agreed to consider the Golden Sun Merchant Guild's alliance in exchange for annual resources and help expanding his company, while Steward Qian asked him to disrupt the Formation Path Convention.
• Xu Chuan gave Xiao Zhan pills to strengthen him, visited the Mysterious Moon Sect, and recommended stricter security and tiered tests for the convention.
• Xu Mingxian presided over the preliminary selection, where Xu Chongsheng, Xu Chongxi, and other Formation Masters demonstrated their skills; Xu Chuan bought spirit herbs and the Thousand Illusions divine ability during the event.
• The Mysterious Moon Sect killed several Golden Core assassins, and the Golden Sun Merchant Guild abandoned its attempts to disrupt the convention as its defenses strengthened.
• Liu Ruyan won the convention's championship, and Zhang Fan began explaining the Battle Formation Path to the assembled Formation Masters.
• Wang Shentong and Li Qianyu arrived with two Fourth-Rank Formation Masters to exchange insights with Zhang Fan, who demonstrated formations that shifted between attack, defense, restriction, and illusion.