Recaps

Han Li captured Black Wind Cave by freeing the Thunder Flood Dragon cubs, destroying Myriad Gu True Cultivator’s phantom, and killing Blood Butcher. A ledger revealed that the Six Demonic Sects’ Nascent Soul Late Stage elders would gather in the Ten Thousand Poisons Marsh in three days to attack Star Palace’s Heavenly South Headquarters, leaving Han Li preparing to regroup before the assault.

• Han Li used star-magnetic power to break the Thunder Flood Dragon cubs’ contract seals, defeat Thunder Leopard and Windhawk, and secure the cubs.
• Han Li entered the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave, collected the Millennium Blood Ginseng and shapeshifting Demon Core, and destroyed Myriad Gu True Cultivator’s phantom.
• Lu Yun’s squad engaged Blood Butcher at Black Wind Cave, and Han Li broke the demon’s blood chains, trapped him, and killed him.
• Star Palace disciples found a Branch Ledger revealing the Six Demonic Sects’ planned gathering and attack on the Heavenly South Headquarters.
• Han Li ordered his armies to regroup at Black Wind Cave and prepare for the coming assault as the countdown to the gathering continued.

The Burial God Abyss opened, prompting the righteous and demonic sects to agree to a fragile ceasefire and send Nascent Soul cultivators inside to seek treasures. Han Li, the Grand Elder, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin entered the rift, with the Star Vault Palace appearing ahead as the five demonic cultivators followed.

• Nangong Wan and the Star Palace Grand Elder explained the Abyss’s dangers and arranged a one-month ceasefire while eight Nascent Soul cultivators prepared to enter.
• Han Li and the Magnetic Essence Griffin repelled attacks from Su Ziyan and Heavenburn, while Han Li recognized that the demonic cultivators were trying to weaken them before entry.
• Han Li, Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and Wu Jiuzhi discussed the mission, and Han Li accepted the Seven Mysteries Sect’s Blood Fiend Token and set out to prevent another war.
• Han Li and the demonic cultivators agreed to explore the Abyss in groups under a Blood Soul Oath, dividing the surface, middle layer, and depths between them.
• Han Li, the Grand Elder, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin crossed the Tribulation-Crossing Bridge into the rift as the five demonic cultivators followed.

Han Li and the demonic cultivators tried to break the formation sealing the Star Vault Palace, but their attacks awakened the ancient god remnant will and damaged their treasures. Han Li proposed slowly nurturing a fissure instead, and the group began the risky method while the gate remained closed.

• Han Li, the Grand Elder, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin reached the Star Vault Palace gate and learned that its formation weakened for a brief interval every three days.
• Myriad Beasts True Cultivator proposed joining forces, and Han Li agreed to cooperate in exchange for sharing clues to the Star Palace Patriarch's Notes.
• The group attacked the formation during its next weakening, but chaotic energy absorbed their attacks, repaired most of the damage, and cursed Han Li's Water-Magnetic Sword.
• Han Li and the demonic cultivators combined their Blood Fiend and star-magnetic formations, widening a crack in one crystal before the ancient god remnant will manifested and struck them.
• Han Li proposed nurturing the fissure with their life-bound spiritual power instead of forcing the formation open, and the eight began the process despite the danger of betrayal and another attack.

Han Li and the other cultivators nourished the rift in the formation, awakening the ancient god’s remnant will and revealing a method that opened Star Vault Palace. They entered the palace together under an agreement to cooperate against the remnant will, while their rivalries remained unresolved.

• Han Li proposed monitoring the cultivators as they took turns nourishing the rift, and the Grand Elder warned them to avoid malice that could trigger chaos energy.
• Myriad Beasts True Cultivator, Su Ziyan, Ghost Face Judge, and Dream Illusion Scholar each fed spiritual power into the rift, with their different powers affecting the chaos energy in different ways.
• The ancient god’s remnant will emerged and widened the rift, revealing Ancient Seal Script that named Star-Magnetic Power, blood fiend power, and enchantment threads as the key to opening the gate.
• Han Li explained his theory that the three powers could open Star Vault Palace, and the cultivators agreed to work together against the remnant will while reserving their claims to its treasures.
• Han Li, Myriad Beasts True Cultivator, and Su Ziyan combined their powers with the others’ support, opening the bronze gate and sealing the remnant will behind it.
• Han Li led the eight cultivators through the gate into Star Vault Palace, and the gate slowly closed behind them.

Han Li and his allies fought through ancient cultivator battle souls in the Heavenly Star Ruins and defeated their commander, discovering that the Heavenly Star Token fragments were tied to an ancient god’s prison. Han Li took the first fragment and left the demon cultivators fighting over another clue as he and the Grand Elder headed toward a distant continent to search for the second fragment.

• Han Li and his companions entered the Heavenly Star Ruins, evaded spacetime turbulence, and reached an altar where ancient cultivator battle souls attacked them.
• Han Li and the demon cultivators defeated the battle souls, and Han Li’s Water-Magnetic Sword absorbed the baleful essence of their weapons.
• The battle soul commander absorbed ancient god power from a bronze casket, but Han Li, the Grand Elder, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin joined forces to destroy it.
• Han Li and the Grand Elder opened the casket and learned that all three Heavenly Star Token Core Fragments were needed to open the Spacetime Dao Fruit Hall and suppress the ancient god.
• Myriad Beasts True Cultivator and the other demon cultivators fought over a fragment clue, while Han Li took the jade slip and first fragment and departed with the Grand Elder and the Griffin to search another continent.

Han Li, the Grand Elder, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin defeated the ancient god remnant will’s Divine Sense Avatar, but the battle left them badly weakened and Griffin injured. They set out for the second Heavenly Star Token fragment, determined to reach the Spacetime Dao Fruit Hall despite the danger.

• Master Myriad Beasts and Su Ziyan tried to seize the stele, but its dark golden liquid consumed them and formed an ancient god avatar.
• Han Li, the Grand Elder, and Griffin fought the avatar, using the Heavenly Star Token fragment to restrain it before destroying it with their combined attacks.
• Ghost Face Judge, Heavenburn, and Dream Illusion Scholar fled, while Han Li found a map showing the other two token fragments on distant floating continents.
• Han Li and the Grand Elder discussed the risks of seeking the Spacetime Dao Fruit, and Han Li resolved to pursue it to protect the Heavenly South and heal Griffin.
• After three days, Han Li purged the dark golden liquid from Griffin’s wound, and the trio flew toward the floating continent marked as the location of the second fragment.

Han Li and his companions stole the second Heavenly Star Token Core Fragment and fought the ancient god remnant will’s true body. After destroying it at great cost, Han Li escaped the collapsing continent and was transported toward the Spacetime Dao Fruit Hall.

• Han Li, the Grand Elder, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin found the fragment atop a bone altar and realized taking it would awaken the ancient god beneath the blood pool.
• Han Li severed the fragment’s blood-thread connection while the Griffin extracted it, awakening the ancient god’s true body.
• The Grand Elder shattered his Starfall Staff for a soul-burning attack, and the Griffin burned its bloodline essence to wound the ancient god’s vertical eye.
• Han Li combined his powers into a chaotic sword strike that pierced the ancient god’s eye and destroyed its true body.
• The ancient god’s collapse unleashed a destructive storm that hurled away the Grand Elder and knocked the exhausted Griffin into the falling earth.
• Han Li put the Griffin in his Spirit Beast Bag, sent a guiding light toward the Grand Elder, and used Nangong Wan’s Minor Teleportation Talisman to escape toward the Spacetime Dao Fruit Hall.

After teleporting into the forecourt of the Chronolight Hall, Han Li discovered that the Spacetime Dao Fruit could be his only chance to recover, then began its Three Heart-Questioning Trials. He passed the first trial by confronting his guilt over the Seven Mysteries Sect’s destruction, while the second trial began immediately afterward.

• The Minor Teleportation Talisman sent Han Li, gravely wounded, to the Chronolight Hall’s forecourt, where he found the Magnetic Essence Griffin barely alive and the Grand Elder’s fate unknown.
• Han Li approached the silver stele, and his two Heavenly Star Token fragments revealed an inscription describing the Spacetime Dao Fruit and the deadly Three Heart-Questioning Trials.
• Han Li chose to begin the trials, hoping the Dao Fruit could heal him and save the griffin, and the first trial forced him to relive the destruction of the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• The illusion and the divine resentment fiendish qi tormented Han Li with accusations that he had survived as a coward and could protect no one.
• Han Li reaffirmed his resolve to live, avenge the sect, save the griffin, and find the Grand Elder, breaking the illusion and passing the first trial.
• The spacetime torrent surged again as the second heart-questioning trial began.

Han Li passed the second and third Heart Trials by rejecting the illusions of power and nothingness, strengthening his Dao heart despite severe injuries. Chronolight Hall opened its bronze doors to reveal the Spacetime Dao Fruit, and Han Li headed inside while vowing to return for the Grand Elder.

• Han Li rejected an illusion in which he ruled Heavenly South, breaking the second Heart Trial by refusing selfish power.
• Han Li resisted the third trial's endless solitude when memories of his companions and responsibilities anchored his fading consciousness.
• Han Li returned to his body, expelled some divine resentment baleful energy, and emerged with a strengthened Dao heart.
• The bronze doors of Chronolight Hall opened, revealing a hall containing the Spacetime Dao Fruit.
• Han Li confirmed that the Griffin remained weak but stable, vowed to find and revive the Grand Elder, and limped toward the open doors.

Han Li chose to refine the Spacetime Dao Fruit into source liquid rather than consume it directly, allowing him and the Magnetic Essence Griffin to recover and be remade. After advancing to the nascent soul late stage, Han Li prepared to leave the Chronolight Hall and return to the Heavenly South.

• The Heavenly Star Token Core Fragments resonated with the Spacetime Dao Fruit and revealed that direct consumption would destroy Han Li and the Griffin, while a slower refinement could heal them at the cost of the fragments.
• Han Li chose the gradual refinement, and the two fragments merged with the Dao Fruit to produce spacetime source liquid for him and the Griffin.
• Han Li absorbed most of the source liquid while the rest entered the Spirit Beast Bag, healing and reshaping both of them over an extended period.
• Han Li advanced from the nascent soul middle stage to the nascent soul late stage, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin also recovered and reached the nascent soul late stage.
• Han Li left the Chrono-Light Fruit and Star Core Fruit untouched, bowed to the starlight tree, and rode the Griffin toward the bronze doors to return to the Heavenly South.

After escaping Chronolight Hall, Han Li discovered and subdued Bone Soul Venerable in a ruined palace, then obtained a drop of ancient god essence blood. He fled as the palace collapsed and continued toward the place where the Grand Elder had vanished.

• Han Li used his new grasp of spacetime to leap outside Chronolight Hall and noticed a dark-gold light in the nearby void.
• Han Li and the Magnetic Essence Griffin found a ruined palace and discovered Bone Soul Venerable trying to break the seal around ancient god essence blood.
• Bone Soul Venerable attacked Han Li with ghostfire and a hidden ambush, but Han Li defeated him with a single strike.
• Han Li dissolved the seal with his reborn origin aura and stored the ancient god essence blood in a jade bottle.
• The palace began collapsing, so Han Li left Bone Soul Venerable alive and escaped with the Griffin, turning his attention back to the Grand Elder.

Han Li returned to the ancient god true body's collapse site and found traces showing that the Grand Elder had survived inside a spacetime interlayer. He entered the rift and located the Grand Elder’s failing Star Cocoon, but ancient god divine strands attacked him before he could free it.

• Han Li and Griffin returned to the site of the ancient god true body's collapse, where Han Li sensed the Grand Elder’s faint aura within a spacetime rift.
• Han Li told Griffin to wait outside and plunged alone into the rift, following the Grand Elder’s lingering fluctuation through the chaotic interlayer.
• Han Li found the Grand Elder trapped inside a cracked Star Cocoon, which was being eroded by dark golden remnants of the ancient god’s power.
• The divine strands sensed Han Li and attacked as he approached the cocoon; his Star-Magnetic Sword Qi only drove them back temporarily.
• Han Li faced the strands as they surrounded him and the Star Cocoon, beginning a desperate struggle to save the Grand Elder.

Han Li severed the Ancient God's lingering divinity from the Grand Elder's star cocoon and rescued the Grand Elder's fading remnant soul. With the cocoon secured and his objectives achieved, Han Li and the Magnetic Essence Griffin set out from the Heavenly Star Ruins for Heavenly South.

• Han Li called on the Griffin to anchor and amplify his power, then used Divine Sense Chains infused with the Spacetime Dao Fruit's origin power to sever the dark-gold strands' connection to the star cocoon.
• Han Li incinerated the weakened strands with Star-Magnetic World-Purification, freeing the star cocoon from the divinity corroding it.
• Han Li lifted the cocoon from the spacetime tributary and sealed it in Nangong Wan's Top-Grade Soul-Nourishing Jade Box to protect the Grand Elder's remnant soul.
• Han Li returned through the spacetime rift and reunited with the Magnetic Essence Griffin outside it.
• Han Li mounted the Griffin and headed toward the Bronze Giant Gate to leave the Burial God Abyss and return to Heavenly South.

Han Li hid in a remote valley to stabilize his Nascent Soul late-stage cultivation while the Magnetic Essence Griffin refined Ancient God blood essence. The system rebooted and granted him the Great Evolutionary Sword Art, which he began learning in seclusion as the Griffin underwent a dangerous transformation.

• Han Li found a secluded valley near the Burial God Abyss, set up concealment and defensive formations, and placed the Grand Elder's remnant soul in a Yin Soul Jade-supported nurturing formation.
• The system rebooted after Han Li reached the Nascent Soul late stage and awarded him the Great Evolutionary Sword Art, a complete ancient sword cultivator inheritance.
• Han Li fed the Ancient God blood essence to the Magnetic Essence Griffin and helped it endure the violent refinement process before setting up a protective formation around it.
• Han Li used pills and the Great Void Qi-Guiding Art to stabilize his cultivation, then began studying the Great Evolutionary Sword Art's first level.
• Han Li practiced forming and splitting sword light into shifting real and illusory sword shadows while the Griffin continued its transformation.

After three months in seclusion, Han Li completed the first level of the Great Evolutionary Sword Art and stabilized his late nascent soul cultivation. An emergency report revealed that the Five Demonic Sects were attacking the Star Palace’s Heavenly South Headquarters Altar, so Han Li and Griffin raced to defend it.

• Han Li completed initial sword essence evolution and assessed how much his cultivation and combat strength had improved.
• Han Li confirmed that Griffin’s transformation and the Grand Elder’s remnant soul were stable, then prepared to leave the Cold Pool.
• Li Qing’s emergency Message Talisman reported that the Five Demonic Sects had attacked the Star Palace Headquarters Altar and that Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou, and other leaders were pinned down.
• Han Li learned that Griffin had awakened early with its strength stabilized at the nascent soul late stage.
• Han Li mounted Griffin and flew toward the Headquarters Altar, vowing to stop the demonic forces.

Han Li returned to the Star Palace Main Altar and turned the battle against Venerable Bone Nether, saving the Star Magnetic Sky Canopy and driving the demonic forces into retreat. The righteous forces secured victory, but Han Li expected the conflict with the demonic path to continue.

• Han Li arrived on the Magnetic Essence Griffin as Elder Shaking Light and the other righteous cultivators faced defeat.
• Han Li and the Griffin countered Venerable Bone Nether's ghost techniques and exchanged powerful attacks.
• Han Li used the Evolutionary Heaven Dragon Trap to hinder Venerable Bone Nether, then severed the spiritual link between his ghost apparition, the Ten Thousand Ghosts World-Breaking Awl, and the White Bone Banner.
• Venerable Bone Nether suffered serious injuries and fled, causing the demonic army to lose morale and fall into disarray.
• Elder Shaking Light, Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, and the other righteous cultivators counterattacked and routed the demonic forces.
• Han Li stayed behind rather than pursue Venerable Bone Nether, recognizing that further conflict awaited him in Heavenly South.

After Han Li drove off Venerable Bone Nether, the demonic army fled and the righteous cultivators reclaimed Star-Magnetic Peak. With the Grand Elder's fate uncertain and another demonic attack expected, Han Li became Alliance Leader of the Righteous Path Alliance and set out its priorities for recovery and defense.

• Venerable Bone Nether's retreat broke the demonic army's morale, and Elder Shaking Light and Nangong Wan led the righteous cultivators in pursuit before ordering them back to Star-Magnetic Peak.
• At the command tent, Elder Shaking Light and the other cultivators praised Han Li for turning the battle around, and Han Li credited their efforts while describing his breakthrough and the griffin's strengthened bloodline.
• Han Li revealed that Grand Elder Mo Chenzi had lost his body and Nascent Soul while protecting him, leaving only a remnant soul that Elder Shaking Light agreed to take to Star Palace Headquarters for treatment.
• Elder Shaking Light proposed Han Li as Alliance Leader, and Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and the other cultivators unanimously supported the appointment.
• Han Li accepted leadership and ordered the alliance to tend the wounded, restore defenses, assess losses, monitor the demonic forces, and seek support from the Chaotic Star Sea.

After becoming Alliance Leader, Han Li ordered the Righteous Path Alliance to care for its casualties, investigate its security failures, and pool resources for recovery and war. With the alliance’s first reforms underway and reinforcements sought from the Chaotic Star Sea, Han Li prepared to meet with the elders and leaders about the next steps.

• Han Li ordered compensation for the fallen, treatment for the wounded, merit reviews, stronger defenses, spy investigations, and an Alliance Treasury.
• Han Li entrusted Elder Shaking Light with the Grand Elder’s remnant soul and a warning for Palace Master Ling Yuling, while assigning Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, and Zhou Tong their duties.
• Elder Shaking Light departed for the Chaotic Star Sea, and Han Li spent the night recovering from his battle with Venerable Bone Nether.
• The next morning, Han Li saw the alliance’s relief, security, and resource measures underway across Star-Magnetic Peak.
• Han Li ordered all Nascent Soul elders, sect leaders, and core stewards to assemble in the Council Hall to discuss their next course of action.

Han Li laid out a plan to reorganize the Righteous Path Alliance, strengthen its cultivators, and prepare for renewed conflict with the demonic forces. After the council approved his proposals, he flew over Star-Magnetic Peak to inspect the alliance’s rebuilding.

• Han Li proposed four divisions to centralize the alliance’s combat, defense, intelligence, and logistics, and the council approved the reorganization.
• Han Li announced the Dao Inquiry Pavilion and Talented Disciples Hall to improve cultivation among senior and younger members.
• Han Li ordered the alliance to hunt demonic informants, secure territory within three thousand li, and prepare limited counterattacks.
• Han Li set deadlines for implementing the strategy, and the council members pledged to carry out his orders.
• Han Li mounted the Griffin and surveyed Star-Magnetic Peak as cultivators repaired its buildings and formations.

Venerable Bone Nether planned to undermine Han Li’s new Righteous Path Alliance through internal dissent and external pressure, while rumors and resistance spread among its member sects. Han Li dismissed the unrest as he ordered the alliance to accelerate its reorganization and prepare a strike against three Ghost Spirit Sect mines.

• Venerable Bone Nether rejected another frontal assault and proposed sowing discord within Han Li’s alliance while harassing its strongholds and seeking support from other powers.
• Flowing Cloud Sword Sect elders complained that the alliance’s new divisions, resource rules, and Scripture Repository threatened their sect’s independence.
• Resentment grew among local cultivators over Han Li’s appointments, while rumors accused him of favoritism and using consolidation to annex the sects.
• A shadowy figure at an ancient swamp altar sensed Han Li’s unusual aura and ordered him watched, with contact or elimination as possible options.
• Li Qing reported rumors and delays to Han Li, who ordered the Mystic Division to increase surveillance without disrupting the alliance’s work.
• Han Li told Griffin to alert Lu Yun and Nangong Wan to accelerate the divisions’ reorganization and begin a purge mission against three Ghost Spirit Sect yin spirit stone mines in three days.

Lu Yun, Tu Xiaoyi, and Black Bear led a coordinated assault that seized three Ghost Spirit Sect yin spirit stone mines for the Righteous Path Alliance. Han Li ordered the alliance to fortify the main vein, abandon the two smaller mines as bait, and prepare for the Ghost Spirit Sect’s counterattack.

• Bamboo Viper’s Shadow Sentinels disabled warning posts while Nangong Wan’s Earth Division disciples sabotaged the main mine’s formation, allowing Lu Yun’s Heaven Division forces to break in and seize it.
• Lu Yun’s forces killed the Ghost Spirit Sect commanders, captured over two hundred disciples and miners, and secured the main mine with only minor injuries.
• Tu Xiaoyi and Black Bear captured the two smaller mines with support from Bamboo Viper’s Shadow Sentinels, and the three deposits changed hands in one night.
• At the Headquarters Altar, Han Li reviewed the reports and ordered Lu Yun to fortify the main vein while transferring resources and personnel from the smaller mines before abandoning them as bait.
• Han Li directed the alliance’s divisions to strengthen defenses, maintain surveillance, secure supplies, and prepare for the Dao Inquiry Pavilion’s opening lecture in ten days.

Han Li opened the Dao Inquiry Pavilion with a lecture on the Sword Dao, winning the admiration of the gathered cultivators. As the ceremony ended, coordinated attackers struck the Headquarters Altar, and Han Li and his allies fought back.

• Han Li delivered the Pavilion’s first lecture, explaining the Sword Dao and demonstrating sword essence to thousands of cultivators.
• Han Li announced that the Scripture Repository had opened and that elders would regularly answer disciples’ questions.
• Three Nascent Soul-level attackers launched magical treasures at Han Li, but his sword screen blocked them and his Light-Splitting attack wounded at least two ambushers.
• Dozens of hidden traitors unleashed Soul-Corroding Poison Smoke among the crowd while concealed Core Formation cultivators rushed toward the Scripture Repository.
• Han Li drove the intruders back from the pavilion, and the Magnetic Essence Griffin purified the poison smoke and fired a golden beam at the fleeing attackers.

Han Li defeated the attackers at the Dao Inquiry Pavilion and organized the Righteous Path Alliance’s response to the demonic path’s covert assault. He ordered the pavilion’s activities to continue and authorized harassment raids against Ghost Spirit Sect resource sites.

• Han Li and Griffin drove off three Nascent Soul attackers, while Han Li killed the late-stage Core Formation infiltrators who tried to flee.
• Han Li ordered the wounded treated, the mountain sealed, and an investigation launched as Nangong Wan identified signs linking the attackers to several demonic factions.
• Han Li rejected Lu Yun’s proposal for an immediate full-scale retaliation and ordered the alliance to publicly claim a decisive victory, investigate the attack, strengthen defenses, reward helpers, and continue the pavilion’s activities.
• After the elders carried out his orders, Han Li told Lu Yun to begin harassment raids against lightly defended Ghost Spirit Sect resource sites once Black Fiend Ridge’s defenses were reinforced.

After the attack on the Righteous Path Alliance, Han Li led an investigation into the infiltrators and evidence of a wider conspiracy. A recording implicated a Flowing Cloud Sword Sect elder, while Han Li ordered raids on demonic holdings to draw out the hidden coordinator.

• Han Li publicized the Alliance’s victory and strengthened security as rewards and promotions restored morale among its disciples.
• Bamboo Viper and Black Bear reported that suicide operatives carried Heart-Linked Mother-and-Child Gu, several insiders had fabricated backgrounds, and the seized magical treasures bore traces of multiple factions.
• Han Li ordered the investigation to trace the infiltrators’ contacts and find whoever coordinated the attack across different demonic and independent groups.
• Wu Jiuzhi showed Han Li a recording of a Flowing Cloud Sword Sect elder exchanging a storage bag and jade slip with a black-robed man, who might have been connected to the attack.
• Han Li ordered his agents to watch the elder without alerting him and to intensify raids on vulnerable Demonflame Sect and Joyful Union Sect holdings to provoke the demonic factions and expose their coordinator.

Han Li’s Heaven Division raided the Three Demonic Sects’ outlying assets, while the Mystic Division uncovered evidence linking Shadow Fox and a Flowing Cloud Sword Sect elder to the attack on the Headquarters Altar. Han Li ordered a crackdown on the suspected traitor and a public hunt for Shadow Fox, setting the stage for a confrontation at Flowing Cloud Mountain.

• Tu Xiaoyi, Black Bear, and Lu Yun led coordinated raids that burned or looted resource sites and disrupted businesses belonging to the Ghost Spirit Sect, Demonflame Sect, and Joyful Union Sect.
• Repeated attacks left the Three Demonic Sects’ leaders blaming one another and strained their alliance.
• Bamboo Viper and Wu Jiuzhi reported that Shadow Fox had bought Formation-Pattern Interference Talismans and secretly met with demonic sect elders, while a Flowing Cloud Sword Sect elder had received spirit stones and pills in exchange for sensitive formation and patrol information.
• Han Li ordered Nangong Wan and Zhou Tong to deploy the Earth Division and seal the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s gates, and summoned Lu Yun’s squad to return before his planned visit the next day.
• Han Li ordered an urgent requisition of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s stored materials and issued a hundred-thousand-High-Grade-Spirit-Stone bounty for Shadow Fox, alive.