Recaps

Chen Daoxuan used an Enlightenment breakthrough to create a Spirit-Melding Furnace and helped Chen Xianhe commit the family’s resources to an artifact-forging business. In Guang'an Prefecture, he fought off a demonic beast and bought a shop, while Chen Xianhe stayed behind to oversee it and entrusted him with the Clan Leader's Seal.

• Chen Daoxuan sealed the family’s last Spirit Eye, then followed Chen Xianhe’s order to mine the dwindling Red Copper Vein at full force.
• After years of failed experiments, Chen Daoxuan gained Enlightenment through the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture and built the Spirit-Melding Furnace, which refined ore far faster than manual forging.
• Chen Xianhe entrusted Chen Daoxuan with the Chen Family’s accumulated Spirit Stones and Spirit Mines, and they agreed to focus the family’s next five years on an Artifact Forging Workshop.
• Chen Daoxuan and Chen Xianhe traveled to Guang'an Prefecture, where Chen Daoxuan investigated the Rogue Cultivator Market and bought a Wind Thunder Formation Disk forging method and a Water Spirit Pearl.
• When demonic beasts attacked the harbor, Chen Daoxuan helped defend the Azure Dragon and beheaded a late-stage Rank 1 Bloodspot Sea Serpent with his Flying Snow Sword.
• Zhou Mubai wounded a high-rank Mermaid and halted the pursuit to avoid worsening the Zhou Family’s feud with the Merfolk Tribe.
• Chen Daoxuan and Chen Xianhe bought a shop in the Rogue Cultivator Market, and Chen Xianhe stayed to oversee it while handing Chen Daoxuan the Chen Family Clan Leader's Seal.
• Chen Xianhe gave Chen Daoxuan ten Qi Gathering Pills and asked him not to abandon the family, and Chen Daoxuan promised he would not.

Chen Daoxuan expanded the Chen Family’s Flying Sword production and trade, built ties with the Merfolk, and sought the resources to nurture the family’s Spirit Vein. At the Zhou Family auction, he learned of the Chen Family’s blood feud with the Ye Family and vowed to seek justice for its dead cultivators.

• Chen Daoxuan resisted the Merfolk’s song aboard the Azure Dragon, then negotiated with Luo Li’s clan and agreed to sell them Flying Swords in exchange for Spirit Stones and valuable materials.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island, took charge of the family, ordered surveys and population records, and established plans for an Industrial Zone and Artifact Factory.
• Chen Daoxuan built the Rainbow Sound Flying Sword Factory, trained its workers, and appointed Chen Liangyu as its first Factory Director.
• Chen Daoxuan discovered Chen Nianchu’s Immortal Physique and invited him to help improve the family, while Chen Nianchu asked him to become his father.
• Chen Daoxuan broke through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining and perfected the Chasing Wind Sword Art, then sold 128 Flying Swords to Luo Li’s Merfolk for 64,000 Spirit Stones.
• Chen Daoxuan ordered a Clan Fertility Plan and brought Flying Swords to Guang'an Prefecture, where he gave Chen Xianhe at least 50,000 Spirit Stones and proposed nurturing the Chen Family’s Spirit Vein.
• Chen Daoxuan and Chen Xianhe attended the Zhou Family auction, where Chen Daoxuan bought a Spirit Nurturing Array and a body-refinement technique before Ye Xiuchen’s demand for the Water Spirit Pearls sparked a confrontation with Lei Zhen.
• Chen Xianhe told Chen Daoxuan that Ye Wudao had abandoned Zhennan Pass, causing the deaths or capture of more than a million Cangzhou cultivators, and Chen Daoxuan secretly vowed to seek justice for the Chen Family dead.

Chen Daoxuan rebuilt the Chen Family’s foundations by bringing home Cloud Country women, cultivating new Immortal Seedlings, establishing a Spirit Vein, and expanding trade with the Merfolk Tribe. After the family trained more Artifact Forgers, Chen Xianhe pushed for a major increase in sword production, and the factory turned out nearly nine hundred swords in a month.

• Chen Daoxuan bought ten Slave Ships, uncovered a fragment of Gold Foil from a supposed treasure map, and returned to Twin Lakes Island with the Cloud Country women.
• Chen Daoxuan tested the Chen Clan children for spiritual roots, found several new Immortal Seedlings, and began training them while cultivating the Dragon Python Swallowing Heaven Technique.
• Chen Daoxuan traded 350 Flying Swords with Luo Li for Water Spirit Pearls, ores, and other supplies, then arranged for future exchanges using Chen Family Contribution Points.
• Chen Daoxuan and Chen Xianhe established a Spirit Vein in the Twin Lakes Island Industrial Zone, and five young Chen cultivators advanced to Qi Refining Stage One.
• Chen Daoxuan trained new Artifact Forgers and refined the Shadow-Bearing Sword, then demonstrated a powerful combined sword art before Luo Li rescued him after his true Qi ran out.
• Chen Xianhe told Chen Daoxuan that the Rainbow Sound Flying Sword Shop’s success was drawing customers away from Rogue Cultivator Market shops, including the Mo Family Treasure Artifact Pavilion.
• Chen Xianhe proposed expanding the factory to pressure rival shops, and Chen Daoxuan refined twenty-five Spirit-Melding Furnaces to raise production to nearly nine hundred Flying Swords in a month.

Chen Daoxuan helped the Chen Family defeat the Mo Family, establish its dominance in the Rogue Cultivator Market, and navigate the Zhou and Yang Families’ competing plans. At the Zhou Family auction, he rescued a Cloud Country alchemist and arranged to trade her escape for her inheritance and secret technique.

• Chen Xianhe and Chen Daoxuan secured Zhou Mucheng’s support, then lured the Mo Family into an ambush where Chen Daoxuan killed Mo Changsheng and Zhou Mucheng led the destruction of the Mo Family.
• Zhou Mucheng granted the Chen Family the Rogue Cultivator Market’s artifact market, and Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island to review the family’s finances and plan its growth.
• Chen Daoxuan traded Spirit Rice with Luo Li’s Merfolk Tribe as word spread that the Zhou Family had destroyed the Mo Family, making others believe the Chen Family had Zhou backing.
• Chen Daoxuan attended Yang Linyuan’s Purple Mansion banquet, refused to join the Guang'an Immortal Alliance, and heard Yang Linyuan ask the Chen Family to open a shop in the future Lingzhou City.
• The Chen Family expanded its Flying Sword shops until it became the Rogue Cultivator Market’s only Artifact Shop, while Chen Xianhe refused to risk the clan’s funds and safety to pursue the Thousand Year Vermillion Fruit.
• At the Zhou Family Auction, Chen Daoxuan bought a Spirit Armor inheritance and an Invisibility Talisman inheritance, while the Thousand Year Vermillion Fruit sold for three million Spirit Stones.
• Chen Daoxuan hid an injured Cloud Country alchemist from the Wu Family and offered her Invisibility Talismans in exchange for her Alchemy Inheritance and Breath Concealment Secret Technique.