Chapter Summaries

Ren Jie visited Chang Lao Si at Chang Le Casino’s new headquarters while recovering from severe injuries and accepted a large reserve of Spirit Jade. He explained how to transform the casino business into cultivation centers that would attract powerful cultivators, leaving Chang Lao Si ready to begin preparations for a Divine Power Realm venue.

• Chang Lao Si helped the badly injured Ren Jie into the Spirit Beast Carriage and reported that Chang Le Casino had expanded across the Bright Jade Dynasty.
• Chang Lao Si gave Ren Jie two hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Jade and four million Low-Grade Spirit Jade saved without hindering the businesses’ growth.
• Chang Lao Si described his failed attempts to attract cultivators to a Spirit Jade gambling venue, and Ren Jie explained that their needs differed from those of ordinary gamblers.
• Ren Jie proposed a Divine Power Realm cultivation center with rich spiritual energy, training, competitions, arenas, lectures, and valuable prizes.
• Ren Jie described a future Sacred Ground for even stronger cultivators and told Chang Lao Si to begin preparing the Divine Power Realm venue while postponing the Yin Yang Realm one.

Ren Jie visited Chang Le Casino’s new headquarters and reassured Chang Lao Si about the growing strength of his subordinates. He exposed flaws in Feng Bugui’s self-created movement technique, but Feng Bugui remained convinced of his skill.

• Ren Jie discussed Chang Le Casino’s future plans with Chang Lao Si and told him not to fear that his subordinates might grow stronger.
• Ren Jie toured the new headquarters as its assembled cultivators welcomed him.
• Ren Jie asked Feng Bugui to demonstrate his movement technique, and Feng Bugui completed a circuit using 168 movement techniques.
• Ren Jie called Feng Bugui’s technique a patchwork mess and said Feng Bugui had learned only the form of his original incomplete technique.
• Feng Bugui insisted that his movement technique was powerful and claimed he had shown only a small portion of it.

Ren Jie challenged Feng Bugui to a wager that tested whether Feng Bugui’s movement techniques could let him touch Ren Jie, and used his understanding of spatial laws to evade every attack. Feng Bugui finally admitted defeat, leaving him to face the wager’s humiliating penalty.

• Ren Jie bet that Feng Bugui could not touch him while Ren Jie restricted himself to Yin Soul Third Layer power, with the loser required to run naked around Jade Capital City.
• Feng Bugui accepted the wager and launched a sudden attack, but Ren Jie drifted aside like a leaf and avoided his hand.
• Feng Bugui changed movement techniques repeatedly, while Ren Jie evaded him by moving as lightly as a leaf and then as a shadow.
• Feng Bugui tried every movement technique and even used his full power, but Ren Jie continued to avoid him.
• Feng Bugui finally lowered his head and admitted defeat as he remembered the wager’s consequences.

Ren Jie defeated Feng Bugui in a wager and challenged him to accept the loss honestly, while Feng Bugui eventually ran naked through Jade Capital City. In the Skysea Empire, Hai Liang secured the throne through a massacre, Hai Wei died fighting him, and a colossal creature passed over the blood-soaked capital.

• Ren Jie told Feng Bugui that he had not truly tried to win and urged him to honor the wager; he then offered Feng Bugui a chance to stay with Chang Le Casino after running through Jade Capital City.
• After standing alone for three hours, Feng Bugui shattered his clothes and flew toward Jade Capital City, while Chang Lao Si followed, laughing.
• Hai Liang presided over the Skysea Empire's bloody enthronement ceremony as his forces and allies crushed Hai Wei's resistance.
• Hai Wei accused Hai Liang of seizing the throne and slaughtering their clan, but Hai Liang ordered him killed; Hai Wei detonated himself, killing three Yin Yang Realm cultivators and two great demons with him.
• After hundreds of thousands died in the fighting, a colossal creature surrounded by seven-colored musical notes paused above the capital, drawn by the immense bloody aura.

Lan Tian and Fang Qi passed over the Skysea Empire’s Imperial Capital on Qiu Niu and left without intervening in the fighting. In Jade Capital City, Feng Bugui discovered that Ren Jie had perfected his secret movement art, while Ren Jie used the Water Toad Serpent Demon’s remains to prepare medicines for his allies and turned to its demon core.

• The Nine Headed Dragon King, Mo Sheng, and Hai Liang sensed Qiu Niu’s immense presence as Lan Tian and Fang Qi looked down on the fighting below.
• Lan Tian dismissed the conflict as a matter for the mortal world and ordered Qiu Niu onward, leaving Mo Sheng uneasy about the divine-beast mount.
• Feng Bugui finished his run around Jade Capital City, and Chang Lao Si teased him before giving him Ren Jie’s written movement art.
• Feng Bugui recognized that Ren Jie had precisely completed his incomplete cultivation art and hurried into seclusion to study it.
• Ren Jie sorted the Water Toad Serpent Demon’s remains, sent meat and prescriptions to Gao Ren Pharmacy, and refined tailored medicines for the Guard Squad and his other allies.
• Ren Jie finished preparing the medicines and took out the Water Toad Serpent Demon’s demon core.

Ren Jie developed staged-burst potions for Xiang Pangzi and refined several high-grade formulas, breaking through to Yin Yang Realm Yin Soul Great Perfection after more than ten days of work. He emerged from seclusion to find Gao Ren Medicine Shop facing pressure from rivals, while Xiang Pangzi brought news of new alchemists and an invitation that suddenly exploded.

• Ren Jie refined a staged-burst Mana Condensation Potion and Body Refining Potion for Xiang Pangzi, then made other potions for her and himself.
• Ren Jie spent more than ten days refining potions, broke through to Yin Yang Realm Yin Soul Great Perfection, and gained a trace of Yang energy in his Yin Soul.
• Ren Jie discovered Tong Qiang, Xie Jian, and the Guard Squad patrolling around his residence, while Xiang Pangzi and Chang Lao Si waited outside.
• Xiang Pangzi told Ren Jie that Gao Ren Medicine Shop’s lower-priced, more effective medicines had drawn attacks and threats from rival sellers, and Ren Jie cautioned her to prepare before challenging the pill market.
• Xiang Pangzi reported that she had recruited thirty Top Tier Miraculous Apothecaries, six beginner Spirit Alchemists, and two intermediate Spirit Alchemists, then handed Ren Jie an invitation and intelligence from Wan Hong.
• The invitation Ren Jie had just taken trembled and exploded.

Ren Jie discovered that Lan Tian’s invitation concealed a Taiji Realm display and recognized the sect-establishment ceremony as an opportunity amid growing turmoil around the Ren Family. He ordered Chang Lao Si to launch high-profile cultivation competitions through Chang Le Casino, leaving Fatty wondering whether the plan was worth its enormous cost.

• Ren Jie triggered the invitation’s hidden display of the Lan Manor Sky Sect’s gate, and Fatty identified it as a Taiji Realm method.
• Chang Lao Si reported that the ceremony was eight days away, while Ren Jie reviewed intelligence about the approaching army, the elders’ meeting, and unrest within the Ren Family.
• Ren Jie told Chang Lao Si to organize Divine Power Realm and Yin Yang Realm Yin Soul competitions with enticing rewards and a lasting schedule.
• Ren Jie urged Chang Lao Si to use the attention surrounding Lan Tian’s ceremony to build Chang Le Casino’s presence, and Chang Lao Si agreed to prepare the launch.
• Fatty questioned whether Ren Jie’s costly competition plan would bankrupt Chang Le Casino or merely disrupt Lan Tian’s ceremony.

Ren Jie explained his profitable competition plan to Fatty, then urged her to strengthen herself before taking on more potion-refining work. After hearing that Yu Wu Shuang was safe but needed seclusion, he forced Fatty to stay and cultivate before he left.

• Ren Jie explained to Fatty how staged competitions, prizes, and sales could attract participants, earn profits, and build influence for Lan Manor Sky Sect.
• Fatty reported that Yu Wu Shuang had grown stronger through fighting on the journey and would enter seclusion at Bright Jade Mountain Manor, where powerful allies could protect her.
• Ren Jie gave Fatty potions tailored to her and ordered her to cultivate so she could improve her strength and pursue advanced potion-making.
• Ren Jie promised to teach Fatty new methods involving staged explosive effects, but refused to explain them until she reached the Yin Yang Realm.
• Ren Jie made Fatty cultivate where she stood, then flew away as she protested.

Ren Jie headed to Jade Spring Mountain to review Zhan Tianlong’s troops as turmoil mounted around the Ren Family. Meanwhile, Fang Qi defended Lan Tian’s new sect to her father, and Great Elder Ren XiongTu tried to free three imprisoned elders before Ren Tianzong stopped them.

• Ren Jie flew toward Jade Spring Mountain to inspect Zhan Tianlong and the thirty thousand veteran soldiers stationed there.
• Fang Tianen anxiously confronted Fang Qi over Lan Tian establishing the Lan Manor Sky Sect in Jade Capital City, but Fang Qi defended Tian Ge’s strength and delivered an invitation for the Fang Family’s Taiji Realm Old Ancestors.
• Fang Qi left the Fang Family in a powerful Spirit Beast Carriage after telling her father that the Lan Manor Sky Sect would soon awe the world.
• Amid rumors of Ren Jie’s disappearance and rising tension over the Ren Family leadership, Ren XiongTu arrived with allies to free Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, and Ren Wenxu.
• Ren XiongTu blasted aside the guards and attacked the building holding the three elders, but Ren Tianzong appeared and trapped them with bolts from his Thunderfire Gun.
• Ren Tianzong pointed his Thunderfire Gun at Ren XiongTu and declared that no one could take the prisoners without the Family Head’s order.

Ren Tianzong drove off Ren XiongTu and his two powerful white apes, but let him leave with Ren Junyang and the others according to Ren Jie’s plan. At the Jade Spring Mountain Spirit Jade Mine, Ren Jie tested Zhan Tianlong’s troops and formations before revealing himself to his uncle.

• Ren Tianzong attacked Ren XiongTu with his Asura Thunderstorm, but two white apes blocked the assault while Ren XiongTu freed and took Ren Junyang and the others away.
• Yun Feng'er calmed Ren Tianzong, who explained that Ren Jie had instructed him to let Ren XiongTu leave and discussed the threat posed by the white apes.
• A powerful figure in flames forced his way through the Ren Family’s formations at the Jade Spring Mountain Spirit Jade Mine, drawing Zhan Tianlong and his troops into action.
• Zhan Tianlong ordered his forces to trap and capture the intruder, but the figure tore through the formations and used their layout to reach the hillside where Zhan Tianlong stood.
• The flames vanished to reveal Ren Jie, who greeted Zhan Tianlong as his uncle.

Ren Jie visited Zhan Tianlong and the thirty thousand soldiers training at Jade Spring Mountain, then vowed to build an army powerful enough to sweep through cultivators. He named it the Heavenly Dragon Army and warned that its first test might be a civil war against troops returning with Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi.

• Ren Jie stopped the formation’s attack and praised Zhan Tianlong’s soldiers after demonstrating his strength.
• Zhan Tianlong pledged the thirty thousand soldiers’ loyalty to Ren Jie and urged him not to yield to the Emperor.
• Ren Jie declared he had no desire to become Emperor but would defend the Ren Family and personally build an army that could defeat even Taiji Realm enemies.
• Ren Jie named the force the Heavenly Dragon Army and promised Zhan Tianlong command of it.
• Ren Jie and Zhan Tianlong agreed the army would need new equipment, coordinated weapons, and further development to reach its full potential.
• Zhan Tianlong warned that the Emperor had recalled Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi with one hundred thousand troops, making civil war a likely first battle for the Heavenly Dragon Army.

Ren Jie told Zhan Tianlong to trap Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi’s hundred thousand troops rather than destroy them, preserving the Heavenly Dragon Army while he settled the Ren Family’s internal crisis. As the Ren Family’s Council of Elders convened in the Myriad Inheritance Hall, Ren XiongTu moved to have Ren Jie removed as Family Head.

• Zhan Tianlong warned Ren Jie that Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi had built powerful forces and were skilled generals who could threaten the Ren Family.
• Ren Jie gave Zhan Tianlong a new formation and ordered him to contain the hundred thousand troops until Ren Jie secured victory elsewhere.
• Ren Jie explained that destroying the troops could weaken the Heavenly Dragon Army and invite the Emperor or other forces to attack, while trapping them would keep the situation controlled.
• Ren Jie returned to Chang Le Casino and waited as Ren XiongTu and his allies made preparations and Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi entered the capital.
• The Council of Elders opened the Myriad Inheritance Hall, where Ren XiongTu declared that Ren Jie was unfit to lead and would lose the Family Head position unless he regained the elders’ support.

Ren XiongTu and six elders waited in Myriad Inheritance Hall to remove Ren Jie as Family Head, but Ren Jie never appeared. As Jade Capital’s factions waited for news, Hai Qingyun and Ren Jie’s allies received a message and prepared to act.

• Ren XiongTu announced that the Council of Elders would strip Ren Jie of his position, while Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, and Ren Wenxu anticipated taking power.
• Ren Jie failed to appear throughout the morning, and Ren XiongTu rebuked Ren Junyang for worrying that Ren Jie might be planning something elsewhere.
• Fang Qi monitored the Ren Family meeting, and Blue Sky told her to kill Ren Jie herself regardless of whether he remained Family Head.
• Li Tiancheng, Hai Qingyun, Wen Zihao, and Wei Liang waited for Ren Jie’s instructions, with Hai Qingyun expecting a major operation and possible action from their factions.
• A jade token beside Hai Qingyun’s chessboard lit up and projected a message, prompting the group to prepare to move.

Ren Jie returned to the Ren Family as the Council of Elders prepared to strip him of his position, but he ignored Ren XiongTu’s summons and turned toward Ren Tianzong’s residence. Ren XiongTu declared that the elders’ resolution would take effect if Ren Jie failed to appear and explain himself before the deadline.

• Ren Junyang warned Ren Hanlin and Ren Wenxu that Ren Jie remained dangerous because of his powerful allies and connections.
• Ren Jie’s Spirit Beast Carriage entered the Ren Family grounds with an hour remaining before the deadline.
• Ren XiongTu opened Myriad Inheritance Hall and announced that six elders had agreed to remove Ren Jie as Family Head while keeping him in the Lineage.
• Ren XiongTu demanded an explanation, but Ren Jie’s convoy turned away from the hall toward Ren Tianzong’s residence.
• Ren XiongTu erupted with mana and declared that the elders’ resolution would take effect if Ren Jie did not appear by the appointed time.

Ren Jie refused to go to Myriad Inheritance Hall to answer the elders’ attempt to depose him, insisting they would have to come to him. When Ren Junyang revealed that Ren Jie had captured the younger generation from the Great Elder’s and other elders’ branches, Ren XiongTu and the others rushed toward Ren Tianzong’s residence.

• Ren Jie arrived at Ren Tianzong’s residence and calmed his furious Sixth Uncle, persuading him not to go to Myriad Inheritance Hall.
• Ren Jie explained that he would not let Ren XiongTu dictate his actions and predicted the elders would come to him soon.
• At Myriad Inheritance Hall, Ren XiongTu fumed over Ren Jie’s refusal to attend while Ren Junyang suddenly erupted in anger.
• Ren XiongTu slapped Ren Junyang and ordered him to reflect behind closed doors, but Ren Junyang revealed that Ren Jie had captured members of several elders’ families.
• Ren XiongTu, Ren Tianheng, Ren Tianqi, and other cultivators rushed toward Ren Tianzong’s residence, followed by Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, and Ren Wenxu.

Ren Jie faced Ren XiongTu and the other Ren Family leaders after seizing more than four thousand of their relatives, provoking outrage and threats of punishment. He defended his actions by reading the Family Rules and pointing out that Ren XiongTu’s branch had neglected its duty to send descendants to the battlefield for training.

• Ren XiongTu rushed to Ren Tianzong’s residence and demanded that Ren Jie release the captured family members.
• Ren Jie remained calm as Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, Ren Wenxu, and other leaders arrived and condemned him for taking their relatives hostage.
• Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er questioned Ren Jie’s actions, but Ren Tianzong pledged to protect him and prepared to fight Ren XiongTu.
• Ren XiongTu nearly attacked Ren Jie, but Ren Jie warned him that 4,256 people had been captured, including his grandsons and great-grandsons.
• Ren Jie read the Family Rules requiring direct descendants to undergo battlefield training and reminded Ren XiongTu that their families had once fought and suffered heavy losses in war.

Ren Jie defended his order to send sheltered descendants into military training by exposing Ren XiongTu’s branch for evading the Family Rules, then used his remaining time as Family Head to dismiss Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, and Ren Wenxu. As Ren XiongTu pressed to remove him, Ren Jie accused Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi of using puppets, runes, and relic power to rig the proceedings.

• Ren Jie accused Ren XiongTu’s branch of keeping its descendants out of battle for decades and said those arrested would be sent to the army rather than killed.
• Ren Jie argued that military training had preserved the Ren Family’s strength, and the gathered administrators turned against Ren XiongTu and his allies.
• Ren XiongTu set aside the dispute over the arrested descendants and insisted that Ren Jie would lose the Family Head position; Ren Jie refused to explain himself and cited the remaining incense stick before a new head could be selected.
• Ren Jie declared that Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, and Ren Wenxu had harmed the Lineage, stripped them of their elder positions, and ordered Tong Qiang’s Guard Squad to seize them.
• Ren XiongTu blocked the Guard Squad and called for an investigation, while Ren Jie accused Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi of relying on puppets, runes, and relic power to remove him.

Ren Jie exposed Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi as fakes, causing them to withdraw from the Ren Family dispute and leaving Ren XiongTu to act against him. Ren XiongTu attacked, but Ren Jie’s Guard Squad captured Ren Junyang and overwhelmed the Great Elder’s forces, leaving one Supreme Elder calling for help.

• Ren Jie recognized that Ren Tianheng and Ren Tianqi were disguised constructs, and the two praised him before leaving for Jade Spring Mountain and refusing to interfere.
• Ren Jie challenged Ren XiongTu’s authority, and Ren XiongTu attacked with the Heroic Ambition Supremacy Map while ordering his men to seize Ren Jie.
• Tong Qiang formed the Guard Squad into a formation as Ren XiongTu’s five Yin Yang Realm experts charged at Ren Jie.
• Ren Jie’s guards swiftly knocked unconscious Ren Junyang, Ren Hanlin, and Ren Wenxu, then sent their Yin Yang Realm defender flying.
• The Guard Squad trapped and defeated Ren XiongTu’s attackers, until only a badly injured Supreme Elder remained and crushed a Rescue Spirit Jade while calling for Ren XiongTu’s help.

Ren XiongTu's battle against Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er turned desperate as two enchanted white apes attacked Ren Jie's formation, only to be seized by Qi Tian and revealed to be on the verge of detonating. Their impending explosion drew out powerful forces from the Lan Manor Sky Sect, the Imperial Palace, and the Wen Family, leaving Jade Capital City facing an unprecedented threat.

• Ren XiongTu believed Ren Jie had hidden Old Pill King Yu Changkong and Sword King Long Ao among the Guard Squad as Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er intensified their assault on the Heroic Ambition Supremacy Map.
• Ren XiongTu ordered the two white apes to take medicine and break Ren Jie's formation, and Ren Jie instructed the Guard Squad to let them inside.
• Qi Tian transformed into a giant ape, seized the white apes, and suppressed them as their medicine began detonating their demon cores.
• The threat of the white apes' explosion prompted the Lan Manor Sky Sect and the Imperial Palace to activate their defenses.
• A vast righteous aura and an ancient inkstone phantom emerged from the Wen Family and spread across more than one-third of Jade Capital City.

Ren Jie stopped the hidden restriction in the white apes from exploding, though it destroyed their demon cores, and promised to investigate whether they could be restored. After Ren XiongTu charged at him in desperation, Ren Jie ordered the Guard Squad to kill him, and their formation blasted the Great Elder apart.

• Ren XiongTu prepared to escape with a Teleportation Talisman as the white apes' hidden restrictions began to activate.
• Ren Jie and Qi Tian suppressed the restrictions with the white apes' cooperation, but the apes' demon cores were destroyed.
• Ren Jie concealed Qi Tian and the white apes with the grand formation and told the apes to follow Qi Tian while he investigated their condition.
• Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er broke free of the Heroic Ambition Supremacy Map, and Ren XiongTu charged at Ren Jie in a rage.
• Ren Jie ordered the Guard Squad to kill Ren XiongTu, and its formation struck him down before Ren Tianzong could reach him.
• Ren XiongTu died in midair, leaving the Ren Family members below stunned.