Recaps

Liu Zezheng reached the celestial peak and received a truth-seeking rite from the Daoist Attendant, then set off for Mount Junya to pursue True Lordhood. Back at his East Room, Zhang Yuan received a new cultivation method from Xiao Yuanjun and learned the three foundations of Celestial Person cultivation.

• Liu Zezheng replaced his heart with a Pre-Heaven True Treasure and advanced to the celestial peak.
• The Daoist Attendant gave Liu Zezheng a [golden palace sand] truth-seeking rite and told him about the Mountain Formed from a True Lord's Spine.
• Liu Zezheng begged the Daoist Attendant, then laughed wildly and flew toward Mount Junya.
• Zhang Yuan returned to his East Room with Xiao Yuanjun after preserving his status as Founding Senior Disciple.
• Xiao Yuanjun showed Zhang Yuan the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the "Pre-Heaven True Law Self-Salvation Great Method" and explained the mystic wonder, dao domain, and true nature required on the path of Celestial Person cultivation.

Xiao Yuanjun explained how Celestial Persons perfected Dao Domains by refining pure yin-yang and five-element essences to bear a golden position. She revealed that her method pursued a Perfect Golden Core, while Zhang Yuan learned that even newly established True Lords faced the threat of being knocked down before securing their positions.

• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan that a Celestial Person had to make a golden position acknowledge them as its lord within a perfected Dao Domain to become a True Lord.
• Xiao Yuanjun described the six modern yin-yang essences, twelve branches, and ten five-element qi natures, and explained that ancient True Lords had altered some essences.
• Xiao Yuanjun revealed that her Pre-Heaven True Law Self-Salvation Great Method refined all six essences, twelve branches, and ten qi natures to pursue a Perfect Golden Core.
• Xiao Yuanjun said a Perfect Golden Core could rival long-established True Lords and resist attempts to knock its bearer out of True Lordhood.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that True Person Qingxu had nearly secured [Heavenly Well Radiance] before several True Lords intervened, and Zhang Yuan worried that rogue cultivators could not safely pursue True Lordhood without powerful backing.

Zhang Yuan learned from Xiao Yuanjun about mystic wonders and the mystery of true nature, while Cui Qiezhe discovered that someone would Seek Truth on Mount Junya. The next morning, Qin Tianyi sought information about Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun before visiting them.

• Zhang Yuan asked Xiao Yuanjun whether refining Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements would let him pursue any Golden Position, and Xiao Yuanjun confirmed that her method prevented them from competing for the same one.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained how mystic wonders arose and warned Zhang Yuan that he needed at least three to Seek Truth, then said that the knowledge of true nature had been lost from most methods.
• Cui Qiezhe received a report that no other clans had openly come to Mount Junya, then used a Ritual Sword to ask the True Lord why the Aohai Cui Clan had stayed away.
• The True Lord told Cui Qiezhe that someone would Seek Truth on Mount Junya, leaving him alarmed by the danger to the Ya Kingdom.
• Qin Tianyi visited the Eastern Sunken Pavilion and asked about the backgrounds of Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, who lived at Brightheart Residence.

Qin Tianyi bought gifts at the Eastern Sunken Pavilion to visit the Return to True Celestial Person, while Cui Yuanxi emerged from seclusion as a Nine-Turn Perfected Person and faced a trial requiring her to reach Brightheart Residence’s East Room. At the residence, she realized the Celestial Person Qin Tianyi had come to see was Zhang Yuan.

• Qin Tianyi paid a shop assistant for information about the Return to True Celestial Person and learned of Zhang Yuan’s violent exploits.
• Qin Tianyi bought a cheap Pre-Heaven True Treasure hairpin and a mysterious sheet marked with eighteen numbers as gifts for the Return to True Celestial Person.
• Cui Yuanxi emerged from seclusion after reaching nine turns and late-stage golden core, then invited Cui Zhaowei to accompany her to Brightheart Residence.
• Cui Yuanxi sensed that her first trial required her to reach Brightheart Residence’s East Room within a day, though she dreaded going there.
• Qin Tianyi arrived at Brightheart Residence with gifts and introduced himself to Cui Yuanxi and Cui Zhaowei as an old friend of the Return to True Celestial Person.
• Cui Yuanxi realized that Qin Tianyi’s Return to True Celestial Person was Zhang Yuan and was surprised he had already reached the Celestial Person realm.

Cui Yuanxi reached Nine Turns and began her Celestial Trials at Brightheart Residence, where she passed two trials with little effort. She had one trial remaining before Celestial attainment, while Zhang Yuan wondered at the ease of her progress.

• Cui Yuanxi emerged from seclusion after refining Heavenly Gang in less than seven days and told Zhang Yuan that her first Celestial Trial had fallen at Brightheart Residence.
• Cui Yuanxi passed the [Turning Trial] by reaching Zhang Yuan's Bedroom from Cui Zhaowei's home within one day.
• Cui Yuanxi asked for exactly two bites of food to fulfill the [Two-Bite Trial], and Xiao Yuanjun gave her a fresh pair of chopsticks.
• Cui Yuanxi ate two bites and passed her second trial, leaving her one trial away from Celestial attainment.

Zhang Yuan learned that cinnabar yang fire qi would soon emerge at Mount Junya and prepared to scout for it, while Cui Yuanxi offered to accompany him to pass her third trial. Suspecting [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns] had arranged the trial to draw Cui Yuanxi into danger, Zhang Yuan feared that rival clans would kill her as soon as she attained the Celestial Person realm.

• Cui Zhaowei told Zhang Yuan that Cui Qiezhe wanted him to observe Mount Junya from afar and report any changes without intervening.
• Xiao Yuanjun divined that cinnabar yang fire qi would emerge at Mount Junya, and Zhang Yuan confirmed it through his own calculation.
• Cui Yuanxi asked to accompany Zhang Yuan, explaining that looking up at Mount Junya would let her pass the [Reverence Pass] and attain the Celestial Person realm.
• Zhang Yuan suspected [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns] had moved Cui Yuanxi's trial to Mount Junya to expose her to Foundation Establishment Celestials who would kill her after she ascended.

Zhang Yuan realized that the clans were targeting Cui Yuanxi at Mount Junya and prepared to face the danger with limited help. Qin Tianyi delivered a mysterious paper bearing eighteen digits from the Eastern Sunken Pavilion, and Zhang Yuan recruited him to help at the coming contest for Cinnabar Yang Fire Qi.

• Zhang Yuan suspected that other clans wanted Cui Yuanxi dead at Mount Junya, but decided he could not yet tell how to help her.
• Qin Tianyi arrived intending to give Zhang Yuan a hairpin and a cultivation method, but seeing Xiao Yuanjun, Cui Yuanxi, and Cui Zhaowei present, he offered only the method.
• Zhang Yuan recognized the eighteen digits on Qin Tianyi's paper and suspected True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts had sent it through the Eastern Sunken Pavilion.
• Zhang Yuan accepted the paper and the Radiant Thunder Pivot Immortal-Quelling Scripture, then asked Qin Tianyi to help him at Mount Junya.
• Qin Tianyi agreed to hold off several Celestial Persons while privately counting on his Mystic Wonder to escape if necessary.

Liu Zezheng arrived at Mount Junya and began refining the mountain into a Dharma Body, attracting Foundation Establishment Celestials. Lu Jianqing met Zhang Yuan and asked after Bai Fu, while Zhang Yuan concealed that he did not know where she was.

• Liu Zezheng reached Mount Junya two days late, then set the mountain ablaze to reshape it for his Dharma Body.
• Foundation Establishment Celestials gathered at Mount Junya after sensing cinnabar yang fire qi, and the Dragon Clan youth withdrew when he recognized Lu Jianqing's Hengyang Lu Clan origins.
• Zhang Yuan, Xiao Yuanjun, Cui Yuanxi, and Qin Tianyi emerged from the Great Void, while Cui Zhaowei had returned alone to the Cui Residence.
• Lu Jianqing approached Zhang Yuan and asked whether the maid his clan had given him was satisfactory.
• Zhang Yuan recognized Lu Jianqing as a Hengyang Lu Clan Celestial Person and falsely assured him that Bai Fu was safe at Brightheart Residence.

Zhang Yuan learned that Lu Jianqing had come with orders to join an attack on Cui Yuanxi, but Lu withdrew because he feared offending Zhang Yuan and revealed that other forces were also moving against them. The chapter left Zhang Yuan facing a larger threat than expected, with two Dragon Clan Celestial Persons apparently targeting him.

• Lu Jianqing told Zhang Yuan that Lu Zhiming had been spared from being refined into a pill by being placed in a woman's body and sent to serve him as Bai Fu.
• Lu Jianqing said the Hengyang Lu Clan had sent him to join the Jingyang Li and Wen River Deng clans in killing Cui Yuanxi, but he refused to act because Zhang Yuan was present.
• Zhang Yuan invited Lu Jianqing to help defend Cui Yuanxi, and Lu declined while warning that the Western Bian Chu Clan had pinned down the Aohai Cui Clan.
• Lu Jianqing warned that two Dragon Clan Celestial Persons had likely come to kill Zhang Yuan, leaving him worried that his group might not withstand the combined forces.

Zhang Yuan devised a plan to save Cui Yuanxi by defeating the two dragons before Mount Junya’s fire ended her Reverence Pass. He and Xiao Yuanjun ambushed the Flood Dragon, and Zhang Yuan began attacking it while the gathered Celestial Persons watched.

• Zhang Yuan learned Cui Yuanxi had sixteen hours left in her Reverence Pass, but feared Mount Junya would burn down in less than four.
• Zhang Yuan assigned Qin Tianyi to fight the younger Dragon Clan man while he and Xiao Yuanjun attacked the Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yuanjun struck the Flood Dragon with all twelve autumn and winter Weather and Season Mystic Pearls, sending it crashing to the ground.
• The Celestial Persons saw Zhang Yuan’s array of pre-heaven artifact treasures, and the Flood Dragon questioned why he had attacked it.
• Zhang Yuan insulted the Flood Dragon for flying above his head and immediately slashed at it with the Flying Light Sword.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun used their abilities to overcome Ao Qing’s immense defenses, with Xiao Yuanjun’s [Dusk Veil] weakening the Flood Dragon enough for Zhang Yuan to sever his head. Ao Qing remained alive and began regenerating, so Zhang Yuan prepared to destroy his body and soul outright.

• Zhang Yuan’s Three-Colored Qi Light struck Ao Qing, shattering hundreds of dragon scales but failing to break through his formidable body.
• Ao Qing introduced himself as Ao Qing, Dao Epithet [Cloud-Covering], and asked Zhang Yuan to give his name, but Zhang Yuan turned to Xiao Yuanjun instead.
• Xiao Yuanjun declared that Ao Qing’s hidden ailments had relapsed, and her [Dusk Veil] mystic wonder weakened his body from the level of a Pre-Heaven True Treasure to an ordinary Outer Dao Dharma Treasure.
• At Xiao Yuanjun’s command, Zhang Yuan cut through Ao Qing’s neck with the [Flying Light Sword], separating his head from his body.
• Ao Qing began regenerating despite the decapitation, and Zhang Yuan decided to use [Three Calamities Returning to Origin Divine Radiance] and [Fivefold Body-Rending Qi] to destroy his body and soul.

Zhang Yuan battled Ao Qing while Wenren Qihan recognized Wenren Xuange’s armor and confronted Qin Tianyi, who had cultivated the Dragon Clan’s inherited scripture. As Wenren Qihan revealed his Late Celestial Person strength and summoned freezing rain, Ao Qing tried to flee toward the East Sea with his head and body still separated.

• Wenren Qihan recognized Wenren Xuange’s armor on Zhang Yuan and identified him as Ao Ruo’s killer.
• Qin Tianyi blocked Wenren Qihan from attacking Ao Qing, then launched a surprise lightning strike at him.
• Wenren Qihan dispersed Qin Tianyi’s lightning and recognized it as power from the Radiant Immortal-Shaking Scripture.
• Wenren Qihan revealed that he was a Late Celestial Person True Dragon and conjured freezing rain that made Qin Tianyi suspect a mystic attack.
• Zhang Yuan prepared to destroy Ao Qing, who begged for mercy while fleeing toward the East Sea in clouds with his head and body apart.

Zhang Yuan abandoned his pursuit of Ao Qing and watched Qin Tianyi struggle against Wenren Qihan’s rain-based ability before stepping in to save him. With the rain dispersed, Qin Tianyi and Zhang Yuan faced Wenren Qihan together, who remained wary of Zhang Yuan’s treasure.

• Zhang Yuan abandoned his pursuit of Ao Qing and saw Qin Tianyi trapped under Wenren Qihan’s rain curtain.
• Qin Tianyi called Zhang Yuan for help, but Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun pretended to be too injured to intervene and discussed the fighters’ mystic wonders.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that Qin Tianyi’s [Thunder Rumbles] gave him a forty-percent chance to evade any divine ability or mystic wonder.
• Zhang Yuan used [Fixing the Celestial Seasons] to disperse Wenren Qihan’s rain cloud, freeing Qin Tianyi from [Object Immersion Stillness].
• Qin Tianyi and Zhang Yuan threatened Wenren Qihan, who realized Zhang Yuan’s treasure countered his divine ability.

Zhang Yuan and his companions drove off Ao Qing and Wenren Qihan, then returned to Cui Yuanxi as she prepared to break through to the Celestial Person realm. With the two dragons gone, Zhang Yuan planned to help her complete her breakthrough and escape the encirclement.

• Wenren Qihan transformed into a Red Dragon and vanished into the great void before Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi could hit him.
• Xiao Yuanjun explained that True Dragons could conceal themselves in the great void, while Deng Yici recognized Zhang Yuan and identified him to Deng Fufeng as the Return to True Celestial Person who had nearly wiped out Patriarch Shoulder the Mountain's branch.
• Ao Qing and Wenren Qihan fled, and Zhang Yuan returned to the hill where Cui Yuanxi was waiting.
• Cui Yuanxi asked whether Zhang Yuan was ready, and he told her to turn around and begin her breakthrough while he stood guard.
• Zhang Yuan planned to help Cui Yuanxi attain the Celestial Person realm, gather Cinnabar Yang Fire Qi, and lead their group east toward the Aohai Cui Clan.

Cui Yuanxi broke through to become a Celestial Person and announced a Dharma assembly, but the Jingyang Li Clan and Wen River Deng Clan moved to kill her. Zhang Yuan realized Li Jiansong was tied to a True Lord and, facing the attackers, assigned him to Brother Qin.

• Cui Yuanxi shattered the shackles of Reverence Pass and attained Celestial Person status as [Colorful Rhyme].
• Cui Yuanxi invited fellow Daoists to a Dharma assembly on Life Continent Island in ten days, drawing congratulations from the Ya Kingdom Celestial Persons.
• Li Jiansong ordered Li Wangshuo to attack Cui Yuanxi, and Deng Fufeng sealed the Great Void when she tried to escape.
• Zhang Yuan used [Person Viewing] and saw [Cloud Harmony True Descent] above Li Jiansong, realizing a True Lord had planted a contingency in him.
• Li Jiansong sensed Zhang Yuan's scrutiny, and Zhang Yuan told Brother Qin to handle him while the others took on the remaining attackers.

Zhang Yuan and his allies fought Li Wangshuo and the Wen River Deng Clan while Cui Yuanxi escaped toward the East Sea. Xiao Yuanjun blocked Deng Fufeng and struck Deng Yici after she mocked Zhang Yuan, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Tianyi claimed his strength had been weakened by hidden injuries, then charged Li Jiansong while Zhang Yuan confronted Li Wangshuo.
• Zhang Yuan blocked Li Wangshuo's sword qi and asked Xiao Yuanjun to hold off Deng Yici and Deng Fufeng.
• Cui Yuanxi flew toward the East Sea as Zhang Yuan warned her to watch for ambushes.
• Deng Fufeng tried to pursue Cui Yuanxi, but Xiao Yuanjun's pressure stopped him and made him recognize her strength.
• Deng Yici proposed that Zhang Yuan marry into the Wen River Deng Clan, provoking Xiao Yuanjun to close the distance and punch her in the abdomen.

Zhang Yuan helped Cui Yuanxi survive the clans’ ambush as she attained the Celestial Person realm, while the attackers’ formation crumbled. In the Chaos Void, True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns revealed that he had deliberately let Zhang Yuan destroy Cloud Brocade Mountain and welcomed the loss of most of his clan’s useless members.

• Deng Yici was hurt in the fighting, and Xiao Yuanjun stood protectively before her and Deng Fufeng.
• Zhang Yuan used his pre-heaven artifact treasures to hold off Li Wangshuo, who questioned why he was interfering; Zhang Yuan said he was helping a friend.
• Li Wangshuo realized the ambush against Cui Yuanxi was failing as her helpers overwhelmed the attackers and Lu Jianqing was nowhere to be found.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns and other True Lords watched the battle from the Chaos Void, and Yuheng Wanzhuan praised Zhang Yuan’s growing fortune.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns admitted he had deliberately left Cloud Brocade Mountain for Zhang Yuan to destroy and was pleased that most of its residents had been killed.

True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light empowered Li Jiansong, while True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns revealed that the Wen River Deng Clan controlled firefly marsh flame. Li Jiansong then reached celestial person perfection through a True Lord’s true descent, leaving Zhang Yuan wary of the Western Bian Chu Clan’s intervention.

• True Lord Cloud-Shifting Floating Light activated a hidden blessing on Li Jiansong, provoking the Jingyang Li Clan’s True Lord, who warned her against doing so again.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns added firefly marsh flame to Liu Zezheng’s flames, amplifying them and revealing that the Wen River Deng Clan controlled the manifested golden position.
• Qin Tianyi battered the injured Li Jiansong and celebrated his advantage in their duel.
• The blessing raised Li Jiansong to celestial person perfection, but a Western Bian Chu Clan Celestial Person named Cloud Harmony took control of him through true descent and overwhelmed Qin Tianyi.
• Zhang Yuan recognized that a Western Bian Chu Clan True Lord had intervened and quietly moved farther away.

Cloud Harmony’s vast Dao Domain trapped the battlefield as Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun considered trying to save Cui Yuanxi, but a sudden eruption of cinnabar yang fire qi drew the Celestial Persons into a race to seize it. Meanwhile, Cui Qiezhe sent Jiang Peilan to intervene against Li Jiansong, citing the danger his Dao Domain’s poisonous clouds posed to the people of the Ya Kingdom.

• Cloud Harmony unleashed the Azure Firmament Spirit-Cloud Dao Domain across a hundred thousand li, while Li Wangshuo, Deng Fufeng, and Deng Yici regrouped beside her.
• Xiao Yuanjun proposed stalling Cloud Harmony to give Cui Yuanxi time to escape, but Zhang Yuan refused to risk a futile fight.
• Mount Junya melted and released cinnabar yang fire qi, which began rising toward the heavens.
• Zhang Yuan summoned the Golden Carriage Luan Chariot and raced with Xiao Yuanjun and the other Celestial Persons to capture the fire qi.
• Cui Qiezhe decided that Jiang Peilan should help Li Jiansong expel his inner demon and keep Demonic Cultivators out of the Ya Kingdom.

Jiang Peilan defeated the Western Bian Chu Clan’s [Celestial Person Cloud Harmony] with one sword, giving Zhang Yuan an opening to seize the Cinnabar Yang Fire Qi. As Xiao Yuanjun helped contain the burning fire qi, she warned that Mount Junya held another abnormal Celestial Person, whom Zhang Yuan recognized as Liu Zezheng.

• Jiang Peilan flew to Mount Junya and confronted [Celestial Person Cloud Harmony], who had possessed Li Jiansong.
• Jiang Peilan’s sword strike shattered the descended Consciousness Spirit and the [Azure Firmament Spirit-Cloud Dao Domain], leaving Li Jiansong unconscious.
• Zhang Yuan seized the Cinnabar Yang Fire Qi, but it burned his hand faster than [Life-Stealing Sha] could heal it.
• Xiao Yuanjun covered Zhang Yuan’s burning hand with both of hers and warned him not to put the fire qi into his Dao Domain.
• Xiao Yuanjun said Mount Junya hid an abnormal Celestial Person at Perfection, and Zhang Yuan recognized the cultivator as [Great Harmony Celestial Person] Liu Zezheng.

Liu Zezheng began seeking truth on Mount Junya, believing himself to be a Demonic Dao rogue cultivator of the Ya Kingdom, while those watching wondered at his identity and motives. Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun stayed at a distance to observe, but Xiao Yuanjun refused to remove the Golden Carriage’s curtains because others might see them together.

• Liu Zezheng announced that he had reached the celestial peak and would seek [Golden Palace Sand] on Mount Junya.
• Zhang Yuan recognized that Liu Zezheng seemed to have been altered like Wang Chengtian and moved the Golden Carriage ten thousand li away to watch with Xiao Yuanjun.
• [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns] wondered why Liu Zezheng had become a Demonic Dao rogue cultivator and decided that his success mattered only insofar as it served his plans.
• Deng Qiuzhi expected Liu Zezheng to fail because the Myriad Treasures Nod True Scripture would destroy his soul, and resolved to purge the clan branch that had kept him from Mount Junya.
• Zhang Yuan suggested removing the carriage curtains so they could watch without leaving the windows, but Xiao Yuanjun refused because others might see them together.

Xiao Yuanjun rode on Zhang Yuan's back as they watched Liu Zezheng seek truth by shaping Mount Junya into a True Lord's body to attract [golden palace sand]. The golden position answered his ritual, while the True Lords in the Great Void debated his breach of the five-hundred-year ban on attaining the Dao.

• Xiao Yuanjun climbed onto Zhang Yuan's back so they could watch Mount Junya through the carriage window while she kept his cinnabar yang fire qi contained.
• Liu Zezheng condensed Mount Junya's jade liquid and began shaping it into a hollow human statue, intending to use a True Lord's body for his ritual.
• Jiang Peilan chose not to stop Liu Zezheng because his ritual did not threaten the people of the Ya Kingdom.
• As Liu Zezheng's statue took shape, [golden palace sand] appeared to notice him, and the cultivators present felt its gaze.
• [True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds] confronted [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns] over his test of the ban, and he admitted Liu Zezheng was probing the Deputy Sovereign's response.

Liu Zezheng completed his Truth-Seeking Rite, but the Myriad Treasures Nod True Scripture transformed him into a soulless humanoid Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure before he could ascend. The True Lords turned their attention to Deng Qiuzhi, planning to stop his ascension, when Liu Zezheng unexpectedly came alive again.

• Liu Zezheng reforged his body with his treasure-like internal organs and reached true Celestial Person Perfection, believing he had overcome the Scripture’s flaw.
• Liu Zezheng drew the gaze of [Golden Palace Sand] and tried to ascend, but its power turned his body back into jade and transformed him into a soulless humanoid Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure.
• [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns] and the other True Lords considered whether the five-hundred-year ban on becoming a lord had ended.
• The True Lords watched Deng Qiuzhi and resolved to join forces to prevent him from securing a Lord position if he succeeded in Seeking Truth.
• Liu Zezheng unexpectedly came alive again despite the destruction of his Primordial Spirit and soul.

Liu Zezheng revived by awakening the part of his Primordial Spirit and souls hidden in his internal organs, revealing the plan he had used to evade True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns. As Liu Zezheng continued his Truth-Seeking Rite, Yuheng attacked him, while the other True Lords waited to see whether he would ascend.

• Liu Zezheng awoke inside the Pre-Heaven Artifact Treasures formed from his internal organs and resumed seeking the Truth after his fabricated Ya Kingdom identity was destroyed.
• Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan that Liu Zezheng had split his Primordial Spirit and souls, and estimated he had at least a fifty-percent chance of becoming a True Lord.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns realized Liu Zezheng had deceived him and demanded to know who had interfered.
• The other True Lords discussed waiting to recruit Liu Zezheng after his ascension or kill him if he refused, while True Lord Rainbow-Haloed Rosy Clouds said she would not act.
• True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns struck Liu Zezheng with a palm that gathered the forces of heaven and earth and grew large enough to cover the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.

Liu Zezheng used [Golden Palace Sand] to enlighten [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns]'s descending palm, then temporarily wielded [Enlightenment] and declared himself [True Lord Grand Harmony Spirit Command]. As his name spread across the realm, the sky suddenly went dark, while Zhang Yuan realized Liu Zezheng had risen beyond his reach.

• The Celestial Persons fled toward the Great Void to escape [True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns]'s descending palm, leaving Liu Zezheng alone.
• Liu Zezheng used [Golden Palace Sand]'s [Enlightenment] to give the palm thought, and it fled rather than strike him.
• Liu Zezheng reached [Golden Palace Sand] and temporarily gained the power and status of a Golden Core True Lord.
• Liu Zezheng announced himself as [True Lord Grand Harmony Spirit Command] and offered rewards to cultivators who aided him.
• Zhang Yuan felt [Enlightenment] surge toward him, suppressed its effects, and worried that Liu Zezheng could now threaten him.
• As Liu Zezheng's new name spread, the sky abruptly darkened and the sun, moon, and stars vanished.