Recaps

Zhang Yuan agreed to join the four-kingdom war after learning that military merit could earn him a strand of heavenly gang and a Calamity-Transforming Pill. At Mysterious Scenery City, he and Xiao Yuanjun found a way to register under false names and cultivation levels.

• Lu Zhiyu offered Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun a chance to join the war, explaining the rewards available to Qi Refining cultivators.
• After Xiao Yuanjun explained the Calamity-Transforming Pill, Zhang Yuan decided to enlist and followed Lu Zhiyu to Mysterious Scenery City.
• Lu Zhiyu explained that the Battle Merit Register recorded the true karmic names of those who registered, then left them at the city.
• Xiao Yuanjun used Zhang Yuan’s Divine Ability image to register himself as a Nine Turns cultivator under the name Xiao Yuanjun.
• At Zhang Yuan’s suggestion, Xiao Yuanjun registered Zhang Yuan as Li Huixi, an Eight Turns cultivator, concealing his identity and actual cultivation.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun joined the Earth Profound Army in Mysterious Scenery City and learned more about outer dao cultivation. After discovering that the lords had killed every cultivator who advanced beyond outer dao Golden Core, Zhang Yuan abandoned plans to recover his outer dao talent and examined the army’s battle merit exchange list.

• He Yang welcomed Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun to the Earth Profound Army, gave them tokens, and invited them to meet the unit’s other three sha ingestion gang devoration path cultivators.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun chose an empty residence in the northern part of Mysterious Scenery City and discussed the strength of outer dao Golden Core cultivators.
• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan that the beyond-the-world qi refining path once had a realm above Golden Core, but the lords killed all its cultivators.
• Zhang Yuan gave up on recovering his outer dao talent and used his token to inspect the battle merit exchange list, where he found Calamity-Transforming Pills and five varieties of heavenly gang.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun chose which heavenly gang would best support his cultivation before the war drums summoned them to Mysterious Scenery City’s walls. There, Zhang Yuan answered an archer’s show of force with one of his own, then faced a pointed question from a red-robed Perfected Person.

• Xiao Yuanjun advised Zhang Yuan that [Five Blessings Heavenly Gang] would best counter the earthly sha in his foundation, while [Longevity Star Heavenly Gang] would be least useful because he already had [Life-Stealing Sha].
• When the war drums sounded, Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun flew to the western wall of Mysterious Scenery City to join the armies gathering for battle.
• Lu Zhiming fired a golden arrow at the approaching pair, and Zhang Yuan intercepted it with an iron chain as He Yang watched anxiously.
• Zhang Yuan seized Zhao Yan and restrained him with iron chains, then hurled him into the wall after Lu Zhiming admitted firing the arrow and apologized for the supposed misunderstanding.
• Lu Zhiming introduced himself as Lu Zhiyu’s cousin and tried to befriend Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, who gave only brief names and answers.
• The red-robed eight-turn Perfected Person asked Zhang Yuan why he had not killed Zhao Yan.

Zhang Yuan met Liu Yihong, a feared killer who had slaughtered her clan, then learned that the battle would send Qi Refining cultivators into Wen Kingdom territory to destroy a master array. As the million-strong army attacked, a blood-red strike from the enemy wiped out a third of its soldiers.

• Zhang Yuan spoke with Liu Yihong, while Zhao Yan climbed from the crater and Lu Zhiming warned him about her history of killing the Xiang Family descendant and the Liu Family.
• Zhao Yan apologized to Zhang Yuan, and Commandant He Yang explained that the Immortal Masters would infiltrate Wen Kingdom to destroy the master array controlling its armies' blood-and-qi abilities.
• He Yang offered thirty thousand battle merit for entering enemy territory and one hundred thousand for destroying the array; Zhang Yuan asked about the timing and whether Foundation Establishment Celestials would be present.
• Lu Zhiming explained that the clans of the four kingdoms had agreed beforehand on how the war would be conducted and that Celestials would not intervene.
• A million-strong Heng Kingdom army marched through Mysterious Scenery City, but a blood-red attack from a Wen Kingdom army killed a third of the soldiers.

Zhang Yuan crossed the Wen Kingdom’s border pass in his Golden Carriage, killing Old Daoist Wu and defeating the Perfected Persons who tried to stop him. He checked his mission assignment and continued toward the Three Suns Altar to destroy the [Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation].

• The Wen Kingdom’s blood-light divine ability devastated the attacking army, and Zhang Yuan joined the battle after confirming no Foundation Establishment Celestials were present.
• A defensive formation detected Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, and Old Daoist Wu attacked him with a divine ability before fleeing.
• Zhang Yuan pursued Old Daoist Wu in the Golden Carriage and rammed him to death after repeated collisions.
• Xiao Yuanjun suggested coating the carriage with an offensive divine ability, and Zhang Yuan used [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance] to force his way through the pass.
• Zhang Yuan checked his military assignment and learned that he needed to destroy the [Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation] at the Wen Kingdom-Three Suns Altar.

Zhang Yuan watched the Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation kill Cui Jingtong and drive most of the gathered cultivators away. He then attacked Deng Lingjun with a disguised combination of Divine Abilities, and his qi-light instantly dissolved Deng Lingjun’s Blood Rainbow.

• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun reached the Three Suns Altar, where Xiao Yuanjun explained that it had replaced the Wen River Deng Clan’s Three Suns City.
• Cui Jingtong attacked the formation, but Deng Lingjun killed him with a Blood Rainbow and declared his Wen River Deng Clan identity.
• Terrified by the formation and Cui Jingtong’s death, most of the surrounding cultivators withdrew, while Zhang Yuan stayed to assess the defenses.
• Zhang Yuan took Cui Jingtong’s sword and combined [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] with [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance] to disguise his attack as an eighth-turn cultivator’s strike.
• Deng Lingjun unleashed Blood Rainbow at Zhang Yuan, but it dissolved as soon as it touched Zhang Yuan’s qi-light.

Zhang Yuan used a [Weather and Season Mystic Pearl] to kill Deng Lingjun and destabilize the Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation at the Three Suns Altar, turning the battle against its defenders. Above the altar, Foundation Establishment Celestials watched the fighting, and Cui Wenshan taunted Senior Danshan after Deng Lingjun's death.

• Zhang Yuan realized the [Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation] redirected most incoming attacks onto Wen Kingdom mortals, while Liu Yihong entered the formation and chopped an eighth-turn qi refiner into lifeless paste.
• Zhang Yuan crushed Deng Lingjun with a [Weather and Season Mystic Pearl], then struck the formation with the treasure and disrupted its patterns.
• Lu Zhiming and cultivators from other cities joined Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong in attacking the formation's defenders, while Xiao Yuanjun guarded Zhang Yuan.
• Senior Danshan raged over Deng Lingjun's death, and Cui Wenshan rebuked him for acting superior to the other Celestial Persons.

After destroying the Scorching Flame Blood-Burning Formation, Zhang Yuan returned to Mysterious Scenery City and considered how to earn more battle merits. Liu Yihong then offered him a chance to destroy the White Jade Capital in the Wen Kingdom’s capital, and Xiao Yuanjun eagerly accepted.

• Cui Wenshan clashed verbally with the Mountain-Bearing Celestial Person until Sheng Lichuan intervened and asked about Zhang Yuan’s identity.
• Zhang Yuan killed the Wen Kingdom’s Perfected Person guards, destroyed the formation, and left for Mysterious Scenery City as the others discussed his treasure.
• Zhang Yuan checked his token and found that he had earned 120,000 battle merits, while Xiao Yuanjun assured him that the Celestial Persons at the altar had not discovered her.
• Liu Yihong visited Zhang Yuan and explained that destroying the White Jade Capital would earn each participant 300,000 battle merits.
• Xiao Yuanjun accepted Liu Yihong’s offer, while Zhang Yuan was about to respond.

Lu Zhiming tried to trade a treasured sword for Zhang Yuan’s Weather and Season Mystic Pearl, but Zhang Yuan attacked and severed his arm. Lu Zhiming escaped, while Zhang Yuan planned to join Xiao Yuanjun that night and go after him.

• Lu Zhiming consulted his uncle Lu Jianqing, who approved his plan to approach Zhang Yuan about the pearl.
• Lu Zhiming and Zhao Yan arrived at Zhang Yuan’s residence and offered a Hengyang Lu Clan sword in exchange for the Weather and Season Mystic Pearl.
• Zhang Yuan attacked Lu Zhiming with the sword, severed his right arm, and drove him and Zhao Yan from the residence.
• Liu Yihong remarked that Zhang Yuan’s second strike had been slow, and Zhang Yuan admitted he had let Lu Zhiming escape because of Lu Jianqing.
• Lu Zhiming treated his wound while Zhao Yan stood guard, and he called Zhang Yuan and the Eastern Bian Li Clan lunatics.

Lu Jianqing learned that Zhang Yuan had powerful backing and ordered the injured Lu Zhiming to heal and compensate him. Meanwhile, the Cui Clan prepared Cui Yuanxi to enter the war, while Cloud Ao Bearing the Mountain True Lord worried that her affection for Zhang Yuan could provoke a conflict with his formidable protector.

• The Golden Register’s artifact spirit warned Lu Jianqing that Zhang Yuan had an exceedingly powerful background and should be treated with courtesy.
• Lu Zhiming returned after Zhang Yuan cut off his right arm, and Lu Jianqing refused to seek justice, instead promising to heal him and sending him to compensate Zhang Yuan.
• Cui Yuanxi wondered when Zhang Yuan would return, while Chen Xinqiao recalled killing Liu Junmao and Liu Yulan after visiting her father.
• Cui Wenshan reported that the Blazing Fire Blood-Burning Formation had been broken and that the Deng Clan and Hengyang Lu Clan were pressuring the Cui Clan after a direct descendant died.
• Cloud Ao Bearing the Mountain True Lord ordered Cui Yuanxi to prepare for war, saying her opportunity to reach the Celestial Person realm lay in the conflict, and worried that her feelings for Zhang Yuan could lead to a clash with his protector.

Zhang Yuan realized that [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] had openly maneuvered him into using the [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls] in the coming war, but resolved to claim the rewards and survive. He and Xiao Yuanjun reached the devastated Wen Kingdom capital with Liu Yihong, where Liu killed a royal prince after he insulted them.

• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun searched the Lu Residence to kill Lu Zhiming, but found only Lu Zhiyu and the Lu clan's Celestial Person.
• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun met Liu Yihong at the city gate and flew with her toward the Wen Kingdom's capital.
• Liu Yihong explained that Zhang Yuan's water-aligned treasure could counter the fire-aligned White Jade Capital, prompting Zhang Yuan to recognize [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts]'s scheme.
• The three reached the ruined capital, where Liu Yihong killed cultivators pursuing a purple-clad royal child.
• The purple-clad child cursed Zhang Yuan and his companions, and Liu Yihong split him in two with her saber.

Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Liu Yihong reached the White Jade Capital and met Wang Chengtian, who asked Zhang Yuan to help destroy the tower and retrieve its formation plate. Xiao Yuanjun summoned the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls, revealing all twenty-four as the White Jade Capital braced against their power.

• Liu Yihong killed the purple-robed child, and Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Liu Yihong headed toward the White Jade Capital.
• The three encountered Wang Chengtian, who revealed his identity and lamented how [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] had led to his downfall.
• Wang Chengtian offered Zhang Yuan his inheritance in exchange for destroying the White Jade Capital and retrieving the formation plate inside.
• Xiao Yuanjun summoned the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls and began pressing their power against the White Jade Capital.
• Xiao Yuanjun declared that all twenty-four pearls were present, and the full cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter appeared overhead.

After Xiao Yuanjun destroyed the White Jade Capital, Wang Chengtian gave her a record of his cultivation before leaving, and Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Liu Yihong recorded their victory. Their battle merit soared overnight, and the chapter ended with Zhao Yan frightened by the recording of the blood-soaked Wen Kingdom capital and hurrying to find Lu Zhiming.

• Xiao Yuanjun destroyed the White Jade Capital, and Wang Chengtian handed her a Jade Slip recording his thousand years of cultivation before departing.
• Liu Yihong, Zhang Yuan, and Xiao Yuanjun used their Command Tokens to record the destruction and claim battle merit.
• The Battle Merit Golden Register listed Li##, Liu Yihong, and Xiao Yuanjun among its top three with hundreds of thousands of battle merit.
• Jiang Shenglichuan showed the gathered Perfected Persons a recording of the Wen Kingdom capital, prompting them to accuse the trio of slaughtering its inhabitants.
• Zhao Yan feared the trio after seeing the recording and went to find Lu Zhiming.

Zhang Yuan decided to pursue ten-turn qi refining immediately, exchanging battle merit for the [ascension heavenly gang] after assessing his chances of celestial attainment. Lu Zhiyu arrived with Zhao Yan and offered Zhang Yuan a sword as an apology for Lu Zhiming’s offense.

• Zhao Yan met Lu Zhiyu outside the Lu Residence and followed him to apologize to Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun.
• Zhang Yuan chose to spend battle merit on a heavenly gang rather than save for a Calamity-Transforming Pill, hoping ten-turn qi refining would help him survive future schemes.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained the differences between three heavenly gang and said their karmic connection could raise Zhang Yuan’s chance of celestial attainment.
• Zhang Yuan exchanged 200,000 battle merit for the [ascension heavenly gang] and noticed the costly 'Record of Ancient Immortal Caves' on the list.
• Lu Zhiyu entered with Zhao Yan and offered Zhang Yuan an Outer Dao Dharma Treasure sword as an apology.

Lu Zhiyu brought Zhang Yuan a Nine-Pattern Immortal Pill made from Lu Zhiming and offered Lu Zhiming’s soul as a future servant, but Zhang Yuan rejected the pill and resolved to pursue the True Lord realm. He left Lu Zhiming’s fate undecided, considering freeing him from his suffering if he was delivered in a new body.

• Lu Zhiyu apologized for Lu Zhiming and gave Zhang Yuan a magic sword and a Nine-Pattern Immortal Pill made from Lu Zhiming’s body.
• Lu Zhiyu offered Lu Zhiming’s imprisoned soul to Zhang Yuan, promising to place it in a female body and have him serve for eight hundred years.
• Zhao Yan condemned the Hengyang Lu Clan, but Lu Zhiyu struck him down and sent him fleeing.
• Zhang Yuan crushed the Nine-Pattern Immortal Pill, refusing its cultivation benefit because he did not want to live with the resulting inner demon.
• Zhang Yuan declared that he wanted to become a True Lord, and Xiao Yuanjun agreed that they would pursue that goal together.
• Zhang Yuan said he would decide what to do about Lu Zhiming later and might send him to his next life to end his suffering.

After refining the [ascension heavenly gang], Zhang Yuan became the second person to reach ten-turn qi refining and discovered he could leave his body with his primordial spirit. His flight beyond the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm ended when a powerful voice drove off a golden hand and dragged him back, leaving him shaken by the beings in the Outer Chaos.

• Zhang Yuan chose the [ascension heavenly gang] from the available heavenly gang and refined it in a quarter of an hour, becoming the second person to achieve ten-turn qi refining.
• Zhang Yuan's primordial spirit left his body, and Xiao Yuanjun explained that he could ascend and explore because his primordial spirit was unusually resilient.
• Zhang Yuan flew beyond the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm and saw the world among countless other lights in the Outer Chaos.
• A huge golden hand reached for Zhang Yuan, but a voice from the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm shouted, "Fuck off!" and destroyed it.
• A mighty power pulled Zhang Yuan's primordial spirit back into his body, and he concluded that he must never provoke the True Lord behind the voice.

After reaching Ten-Turn Qi Refining, Zhang Yuan learned that a powerful cultivator from another realm had tried to capture him during his ascension and discovered his fourth divine ability, [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain]. He decided against risking his life to reach Celestial Person power, while Xiao Yuanjun stayed with him and he found a new talent choice.

• Xiao Yuanjun explained that the realms beyond the heavens included the Mountain-Sea Profound Yellow Realm and the Shared-Sorrow Lotus Realm, and suspected a Buddhist cultivator had tried to capture Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan discovered his fourth divine ability, [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain], which could empower other divine abilities beyond their limits.
• Zhang Yuan used the new ability to empower [Myriad Coexistence], allowing him to wield six divine abilities at once.
• Zhang Yuan asked whether combining his domain with Xiao Yuanjun's could give him Celestial Person power, but Xiao Yuanjun warned that the attempt could destroy him, so he abandoned the idea.
• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan to stabilize his realm and seek her out if the Heaven-and-Earth Trial arrived, then settled down to sleep beside him.
• Zhang Yuan checked his talent panel and found a new chance to choose a talent.

Zhang Yuan chose the [First of all time] talent, then saw futures in which he was blamed for massacring the Wen Kingdom's Capital City and faced pursuit by its Celestial Persons. At Mysterious Scenery City, three Wen Kingdom Celestial Persons confronted Sheng Lichuan, who denied knowing about the massacre and questioned whether Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong could have carried it out.

• Zhang Yuan rejected [Fated Bodhisattva] and [Same Breath, Connected Branches], then chose [First of all time] for its power to weaken opponents' divine abilities and spells.
• [Heaven's Sight] revealed three futures in which Zhang Yuan was blamed for the Wen Kingdom's Capital City massacre and either died or barely survived the ensuing pursuit.
• Sun Wulie, Deng Qiuzhi, and Liu Zezheng arrived at Mysterious Scenery City and demanded that Sheng Lichuan answer for the massacre.
• Sheng Lichuan denied knowing what they meant, and Deng Qiuzhi showed him portraits of Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong.
• Sheng Lichuan acknowledged that both were city Perfected Persons but questioned how eight-turn qi refiners could have destroyed the Wen Kingdom's Capital City.

Deng Qiuzhi, Liu Zezheng, and Sun Wulie confronted Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong over the slaughter of the Wen Kingdom's Capital City, but Cui Wenshan defended them and argued the attack had been perfectly reasonable. As the Celestial Persons fought outside the city, Liu Zezheng and Sun Wulie slipped inside to find Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong.

• Deng Qiuzhi accused Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong of slaughtering the Wen Kingdom's Capital City, and Sheng Lichuan summoned them to the battlements.
• Sun Wulie attacked Zhang Yuan, but Cui Wenshan arrived and stopped him with a curtain of rain.
• Cui Wenshan defended the slaughter as permissible because the Capital City was neither a border city nor inhabited by mortal soldiers.
• Cui Wenshan and Sheng Lichuan fought Deng Qiuzhi, Sun Wulie, and Liu Zezheng, but Deng Qiuzhi gained the advantage.
• Deng Qiuzhi ordered Liu Zezheng and Sun Wulie to enter the city and find Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong, while Lu Jianqing chose not to involve the Lu Clan.

Sun Wulie and Liu Zezheng tracked down Zhang Yuan and his companions with the [Origin-Tracing Creation Plate], and Liu Zezheng revealed his ambition to seize Zhang Yuan’s [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls] and overthrow the Wen Kingdom. Xiao Yuanjun subdued Liu Zezheng and countered Sun Wulie’s Dao Domain, while Zhang Yuan’s extraordinary Primordial Spirit made Xiao Yuanjun wonder whether he truly was a reincarnated True Lord.

• Liu Zezheng used the [Origin-Tracing Creation Plate] to locate Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, and Liu Yihong in Mysterious Scenery City.
• Xiao Yuanjun taunted Liu Zezheng and forced him out of the sky, prompting him to order Sun Wulie to hold her off while he pursued the [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls].
• Sun Wulie unleashed his [Blazing Sun Ascendant Dao Domain], but Zhang Yuan’s [Immaculate Primordial Spirit] resisted its influence.
• Xiao Yuanjun used twelve [Weather and Season Mystic Pearls] to summon rain that extinguished Sun Wulie’s heart fire and cleared his mind.
• Sun Wulie realized Liu Zezheng was plotting rebellion and shouted the Crown Prince’s name.

He Yang intervened to strengthen Sun Wulie, forcing Zhang Yuan to flee while Xiao Yuanjun held Sun Wulie back. Zhang Yuan escaped Liu Zezheng by striking him with the Golden Carriage, then discovered Liu Yihong had secretly boarded and learned that she had killed the Xiang Family Son and the Liu Family elders.

• He Yang divined Zhang Yuan's origins, lent Sun Wulie strength, and left to greet an arriving guest.
• Sun Wulie renewed his attack, so Xiao Yuanjun trapped him with the Weather and Season Mystic Pearls while Zhang Yuan escaped in the Golden Carriage.
• Liu Zezheng intercepted Zhang Yuan and demanded the supreme treasure, but Zhang Yuan's Golden Carriage crushed his arm and sent him flying.
• Zhang Yuan considered raiding the Wen Kingdom's weakened defenses, then noticed Liu Yihong sitting beside him in the carriage.
• Liu Yihong revealed that she had killed the Xiang Family Son to reject a marriage alliance, then killed the Liu Family elders who wanted to hand her over.

Zhang Yuan learned why Liu Yihong destroyed the Liu Family and how the Nether Bureau enforces Heavenly Lifespans. After Liu Yihong proposed robbing the Wen Kingdom’s military treasury, Zhang Yuan agreed and she pointed him toward a border city.

• Liu Yihong explained that a True Lord granted her a power-accumulating Pre-Heaven Divine Ability, which she used to kill the dying patriarch of the Liu Family and escape being traded to the Xiang Family.
• Liu Yihong told Zhang Yuan that the Nether Bureau sends beings to reincarnate when their registered Heavenly Lifespans run out, unless they have protection, evade its Inspectors, or defeat one.
• Liu Yihong revealed that the True Lord of [Blazing Embers] had granted her Enlightenment, and Zhang Yuan recognized the name as [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts].
• Liu Yihong invited Zhang Yuan to plunder the Wen Kingdom’s military treasury while its Foundation Establishment Celestials were absent, promising at least five hundred thousand Battle Merit.
• Zhang Yuan agreed, and Liu Yihong pointed upstream toward a large Wen Kingdom border city.

Wang Chengtian challenged True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts in the Candlelit Brightness Pavilion, but was killed and his treasures were seized. Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong then arrived at Dragon-Subduing Pass and demanded its valuables, where Deng Lingqiong prepared to resist them.

• Wang Chengtian entered the Candlelit Brightness Pavilion and challenged True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts with the White Jade Capital Array Plate and twelve Celestial Person artifact treasures.
• True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts killed Wang Chengtian with a falling candle, while one treasure escaped and the rest were suppressed in the pavilion.
• Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong flew to Dragon-Subduing Pass in the Golden Carriage Luan Chariot and attacked the City Lord's Residence.
• Deng Lingqiong confronted Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong, who demanded that he bring out all the city's good stuff.
• Deng Lingqiong refused to yield, confident that the pass's nine Nine Turns Qi Refining cultivators could defend it.

Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong killed Deng Lingqiong and the nine nine-turn cultivators at Dragon-Subduing Pass, then set out to loot the military storehouse. Their search was interrupted by a Deng Clan disciple who mistook Zhang Yuan for a clan official and announced that a foreign envoy had arrived.

• Deng Lingqiong summoned nine nine-turn cultivators, but Zhang Yuan used his Divine Abilities to bind them and Liu Yihong and Zhang Yuan killed them all.
• Liu Yihong charged Deng Lingqiong, who escaped her first strike with his magic robe and claimed that killing him would let a True Dragon emerge.
• Zhang Yuan dismissed Deng Lingqiong’s warning and killed him with his magic sword.
• Zhang Yuan and Liu Yihong decided to find the military storehouse before the Mountain-Bearing Celestial Person or Liu Zezheng returned.
• A three-turn Deng Clan disciple arrived to report a foreign envoy, mistook Zhang Yuan for a clan official, and asked him to meet the envoy.

Zhang Yuan learned that the Heng Kingdom had fallen and that the Jingyang Li Clan wanted Mount Junya, then looted Dragon-Subduing Pass's military storehouse. Meanwhile, Deng Qiuzhi sensed that something had happened at Dragon-Subduing Pass while he fought above Mysterious Scenery City.

• Zhang Yuan learned that Li Jiansong, a Celestial Person of the Jingyang Li Clan, had come to Dragon-Subduing Pass and pretended to be Deng Lingyuan to meet him.
• Li Jiansong told Zhang Yuan that the Heng Kingdom had fallen, the Jing and Heng kingdoms had become Jingheng under the Li and Lu clans, and the Li Clan wanted Mount Junya.
• Zhang Yuan sent Liu Yihong to find the military storehouse, then joined her and plundered its contents.
• Deng Qiuzhi continued fighting Cui Wenshan and Sheng Lichuan above Mysterious Scenery City, then sensed that something had happened at Dragon-Subduing Pass.