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Ren Ye discovered that the crimson tide came from the Great Emperor’s final drop of Emperor Blood, received his inheritance, and began transforming his body with the Emperor Body Pill. As Tide Dragon City faced upheaval, Yang Mingtang confronted Yang Ling’er over the supposedly dead former City Lord, while the Demoness departed to attack the Seeking Dao Palace.

• Ren Ye entered the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, found the Great Emperor’s Emperor Blood, heard the Great Emperor’s final message, and began refining the Emperor Body Pill with the blood’s aid.
• The Park District Squad scavenged the Fifteen Sects’ dead leaders and searched other sites in the Emperor’s Tomb for opportunities.
• Yang Ling’er urged Yang Ganglie to bring the hidden former City Lord back, but he refused because Tide Dragon City’s situation remained dangerous.
• Yang Mingtang confronted Yang Ling’er, realized the former City Lord was alive, and warned that his return could threaten the Yang Family and Tide Dragon City.
• The Demoness left the Emperor’s Tomb with Wu Meng and the others to take revenge on the Seeking Dao Palace, while Li Yan agreed to wait for Ren Ye and the promised Infinite Pearl.

Yang Ling'er forced Yang Mingtang to spare her husband, while the Immortal Wave Sect fell to a bloody uprising across the five cities. After Shopkeeper Hong witnessed the Xu Family’s destruction and found his daughter, a hidden young man was exposed to sunlight as his refuge was opened.

• Yang Ling'er threatened to die beside her husband, and Yang Mingtang agreed not to kill him.
• The Demoness led the Vengeful Ghost Sect and cultivators from the five cities in an assault that destroyed the Immortal Wave Sect and looted its treasures.
• Yang Ganglie ordered Tide Dragon City’s soldiers to stand down while people sought revenge against the gentry.
• A mob attacked the Xu Family over its abuses, and Shopkeeper Hong joined them before deciding to leave Xu Deliang alive and search for his daughter.
• Shopkeeper Hong reunited with his daughter, and one day later an iron door opened to reveal a hidden young man in the sunlight.

Long Yuqing returned to Tide Dragon City after the Immortal Wave Sect fell, while Yang Ganglie used his return to buy time for a planned strike against four allied cities threatening his family. The chapter ended with Yang Ganglie ordering his forces to prepare for a night raid and Ren Ye undergoing a cleansing in the Emperor’s Tomb.

• Yang Ling'er told Long Yuqing that the Immortal Wave Sect had fallen and that Yang Ganglie had cleared his name and agreed to restore him as city lord.
• Long Yuqing returned through Tide Dragon City in a formal procession, fearful of the citizens and officials watching him.
• Yang Ganglie revealed to Yang Mingtang that four cities planned to invade Tide Dragon City with four hundred thousand troops and explained that Long Yuqing’s return would make them hesitate.
• Yang Ganglie ordered the commanders to secretly mobilize twenty thousand Tide Dragon Guards for a night raid on the allied cities’ leaders at the Datong River.
• Ren Ye expelled foul impurities from his body while taking the first step toward transcending mortality in the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds.

Yang Ganglie prepared to return Tide Dragon City’s authority to Long Yuqing by leading twenty thousand troops against the four-city alliance, while Long Yuqing and Yang Ling'er remained behind. The assault initially routed the enemy, but hidden reinforcements surrounded the Tide Dragon Guards, and Yang Ganglie and his army died at Fallen Divine Mountain.

• Yang Ganglie told Long Yuqing that he had brought him back to restore the Dragon Family’s rule and planned to disband the Yang Family’s troops if they won.
• Yang Ganglie warned Yang Ling'er that he was marching to battle and arranged for the Yang family and relatives to leave Tide Dragon City.
• Yang Mingtang escorted the family away, received a sealed letter from Yang Ganglie, and helped his father put on armor before the march.
• Yang Ganglie led twenty thousand Tide Dragon Guards in a night attack that routed the four-city alliance and drove its four city lords into the mountains.
• Sixty thousand hidden troops and hundreds of high-grade cultivators surrounded the Tide Dragon Guards, and the ensuing battle killed Yang Ganglie, his household generals, and all twenty thousand soldiers.

After General Yang’s defeat left Tide Dragon City facing invasion, Long Yuqing sought help from Ren Ye but waited outside the Emperor’s Tomb while Ren Ye completed his inheritance. Little One emerged as Xingshan’s master with the Demon-Refining Pot, while Ren Ye secretly returned to Tide Dragon City to begin acting on Senior Jiang Yu’s sword strike.

• The four cities’ forces encircled Tide Dragon City, and Long Yuqing went to the Human World Inn seeking help from Jiang Yu and Ren Ye’s companions.
• Li Yan refused to intervene without Ren Ye’s decision and advised Long Yuqing to wait for him in the Emperor’s Tomb, promising to protect Long Yuqing’s family.
• Long Yuqing left his sick wife Yang Ling’er in the servants’ care and waited for months outside the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, calling for Ren Ye.
• The Great Emperor’s final Dao resonance departed, and Old Liu the Headless Man received an inheritance and a special assignment.
• Little One emerged with the full inheritance and the Demon-Refining Pot, revealed that Xingshan had become his Secret Realm, and told Long Yuqing that Ren Ye had already left.
• Ren Ye, having completed his inheritance, secretly returned to Tide Dragon City and appeared inside a grand residence as he considered how to follow through on Jiang Yu’s sword strike.

After returning from the Emperor's Tomb, Ren Ye investigated the fate of the Tide Dragon Guards and discovered evidence that explained Yang Ling'er's madness. He reunited with his companions and began organizing a coalition to stabilize Nine Li, while a severed head in his Consciousness Space suddenly opened its eyes.

• Ren Ye broke into Tide Dragon City's Archives, stole records about the Tide Dragon Guards, and found that the register of missing officers had been borrowed by the Great General before his death.
• Ren Ye found Yang Ling'er preparing to welcome Long Yuqing home, but learned she was trapped in the delusion that her husband would return and had gone mad after visiting her father's study.
• Ren Ye secretly entered the Great General's residence, pieced together the missing-officer register and a handwritten list, and realized the records confirmed his suspicions.
• Ren Ye reunited with Li Yan, Qingning, Ai Fei, Xiao Shuai, Yin Tiger, and the others at the Human World Inn.
• Ren Ye proposed working with the Fraud Merchants' Association and Dongdeng Prefecture to suppress the growing unrest in Nine Li, and asked Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai to summon their Living Fathers.
• The severed head inside Ren Ye's Phoenix Fire Furnace opened its eyes after soaking in Nether River water for over a year.

Old Liu's awakened head revealed that he had been assigned to purify the Ominous Being Realm before receiving the Great Emperor's Lord of War-Character Deciphering Method, and he departed after warning Ren Ye to question Mr. Xu's motives. Long Yuqing then begged Ren Ye to save his family and Tide Dragon City, forcing Ren Ye to ask whether he wanted only to survive or to become the true Nation Lord of the Immortal Wave Five Cities.

• Old Liu's head emerged alive from Ren Ye's Consciousness Space and explained that he had served as the Gate Eye while secretly carrying out the Emperor's Tomb mission.
• Old Liu revealed that he had to use the Life Stone to cleanse the Eighty-One Clans' heroic spirits in the Ominous Being Realm before receiving the Great Emperor's secret method, then said goodbye to his friends.
• Old Liu warned Ren Ye that Mr. Xu might have known about the Emperor Blood before guiding him to Nine Li, then left for the Ominous Being Realm.
• Long Yuqing reunited with his family and told Ren Ye that four cities had raised four hundred thousand troops to besiege Tide Dragon, leaving his family and the city in danger.
• Long Yuqing knelt and begged Ren Ye to save his family, and Ren Ye demanded to know whether he wanted merely to preserve his clan or become the true Nation Lord of the Immortal Wave Five Cities.

Ren Ye persuaded Long Yuqing to become Nation Lord of the Immortal Wave Five Cities and organize an alliance to bring peace to Nine Li. After Senior Jiang Yu departed, the four other City Lords prepared to meet Ren Ye, while Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai tried to persuade their family elders to join the effort.

• Ren Ye asked Long Yuqing to govern the five cities, and Long Yuqing swore to enact benevolent policies and pursue peace.
• Ren Ye laid out plans for Long Yuqing to invite the four City Lords to Tide Dragon City and for Dongdeng Prefecture to lead a wider alliance.
• Ren Ye told Long Yuqing that Senior Jiang Yu would soon leave, then met Jiang Yu and learned he planned to depart for the Ancient Pool.
• Jiang Yu left through the inn window after urging Ren Ye to resolve Nine Li's troubles, and Ren Ye vowed to use force against powers that opposed peace.
• The four City Lords gathered at the Ye Residence, read Ren Ye's reply, and agreed to travel with troops to meet him.
• Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai returned home and tried to persuade their family elders.

Long Yuqing returned to Yang Ling'er, who remained trapped in memories of the day before his homecoming, and found that she had replanted his ruined flower garden for him. As Ren Ye and Long Yuqing prepared to meet the four City Lords, Ren Ye delayed their departure to drink and placed a blank spirit tablet on the table, asking whose name belonged on it.

• Cui'er told Long Yuqing that Yang Ling'er had relived the same day since his supposed death, and he reunited with his wife without revealing the truth to her.
• Yang Ling'er showed Long Yuqing the flower garden she had replanted, and he swore he would remain faithful and care for her.
• Long Yuqing postponed the parade and traveled to the Prefectural Yamen, where he learned the four City Lords had camped outside Tide Dragon City with twenty thousand troops.
• Long Yuqing waited for Ren Ye, who arrived late and agreed to meet the City Lords with only a hundred guards.
• Ren Ye dismissed the officials and began drinking with Long Yuqing before their meeting, then set a blank spirit tablet on the table and asked whose name should be written on it.

Ren Ye reconstructed how Long Yuqing, the young city lord, secretly built the Ghost Sect and manipulated the sunny young man into a conflict with the Immortals. He ended by accusing Long Yuqing of arranging his apparent poisoning and choosing to destroy the great general’s family.

• Ren Ye toasted the absent dead and began telling Long Yuqing the story of an ambitious young city lord and Long Qingyan, the Flying General.
• Ren Ye explained how the Immortals forced the old city lord to retrieve the Infinite Pearl, then killed him and silenced the soldiers who had witnessed the mission.
• Ren Ye described how Long Yuqing concealed his ambitions, secretly joined forces with the returned Long Qingyan, and used the Ghost Sect to recruit loyal officers and pursue the Infinite Goblet and Divine Punishment Bow.
• Ren Ye recounted how Long Yuqing tried to provoke a deadly feud between the sunny young man and the Immortals, while the great general’s intervention disrupted the plan.
• Ren Ye explained that Long Yuqing arranged his apparent death with poisoned wine and concluded that he had chosen to kill the great general’s entire family; Long Yuqing sat hollow-eyed as Ren Ye demanded confirmation.

Ren Ye confronted Long Yuqing over the massacre of the Yang Family and the schemes that endangered Ren Ye’s friends, while Long Yuqing defended his actions as the price of unifying the Five Cities. Ren Ye rejected his plea and prepared to fight, as the Demoness and Ren Ye’s allies arrived; Long Yuqing revealed that he had also reached the Fifth-Grade Realm.

• Ren Ye laid out how Long Yuqing and the Demoness had used the Vengeful Ghost Sect and the Four City Lords to trap the Yang Family, and Long Yuqing admitted he had planned the purge to secure unified rule.
• Long Yuqing confessed that he had believed his father-in-law Yang Ganglie meant him no harm, but claimed Yang Mingtang and the Yang Family Generals still posed a threat to the Long Family.
• Long Yuqing pleaded with Ren Ye to let him bring justice and peace to the Five Cities, but Ren Ye summoned the Human Emperor Sword and refused to trust him.
• Ren Ye accused Long Yuqing of having the Demoness track and expose his friends to the Immortal Wave Sect and Western Liang’s Situ Family, and declared that he would kill Long Yuqing.
• The Demoness confronted Ren Ye in the rear hall, and Li Yan, Qingning, the Wealth Protector Pavilion’s five Fifth-Grade experts, and the Little Marquis arrived in an Eight-Pointed Star Formation.
• Long Yuqing challenged Ren Ye and revealed a Taiji Diagram and an azure ox phantom, prompting Ren Ye to realize that Long Yuqing was also in the Fifth-Grade Realm.

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Ren Ye confronted Long Yuqing over his secret rise to Fifth Grade and his slaughter of the Yang Family, rejecting his claim that the bloodshed was necessary to restore Tide Dragon City. After defeating Long Yuqing’s Divine Method, Ren Ye exposed the truth about Yang Ganglie’s loyalty, and Long Yuqing ended the chapter bloodied and shaken.

• Long Yuqing revealed that he had secretly advanced to Fifth Grade through the Fangxian Dao lineage and explained why he had plotted to take control of Tide Dragon City.
• Long Yuqing argued that reclaiming power from the Yang Family had required destroying its influence, while Ren Ye questioned whether he could trust someone who had killed his father-in-law’s household.
• Ren Ye refused to accept Long Yuqing’s justification and challenged him using his newly awakened Human Emperor Bloodline and Imperial Dao Qi.
• Long Yuqing drew Ren Ye into an Illusion Realm with the Azure Ox Staff, but Ren Ye caught the azure ox manifestation with his bare hands and broke the illusion’s defenses.
• Ren Ye accused Long Yuqing of leaking the Fallen Divine Mountain plan because he feared Yang Ganglie would reconcile with Ren Ye, then shattered the azure ox and Taiji manifestations.
• Long Yuqing fell from the collapsing Illusion Realm, failed to defend himself, and spat blood before recalling the Green Bean Meat Buns his wife had made.

Yang Ling'er revealed that she had never truly lost her reason and killed Long Yuqing for slaughtering her family, while he accepted his death and confessed his schemes. Afterward, she claimed the City Lord's Seat and asked Ren Ye to choose her so she could carry on her father's mission in Tide Dragon City.

• Ren Ye realized Long Yuqing had been poisoned just as Yang Ling'er entered the Inner Hall and stabbed him with the Ancient Sword.
• Yang Ling'er revealed that the Zhenniao Return-to-Quiet Pill had poisoned Long Yuqing and explained how she had uncovered the conspiracy that led to her family's deaths.
• Yang Ling'er accused Long Yuqing of betraying their marriage and killing her clan, then stabbed him repeatedly as Ren Ye chose not to intervene.
• Long Yuqing deliberately shattered his poisoned star core, confessed that he had never loved Yang Ling'er, and told Ren Ye that the Vengeful Ghost Sect had acted on his orders.
• Yang Ling'er told Ren Ye that she had been both mad and sane, having guided him toward the truth, then sat on the City Lord's Seat and asked him to choose her as she vowed to continue her father's work.

After three days of wandering, Ren Ye resolved to follow his own Dao rather than rule through fear and purges. He released Long Qingyan with the Infinite Pearl and challenged her to choose whether to join his cause or oppose him later.

• Ren Ye buried Long Yuqing, avoided answering Yang Ling'er and the Four City Lords, and spent three days wandering as the Five Cities remained on the brink of war.
• Ren Ye met Li Yan, who released the captured Long Qingyan from the Primordial Golden Dipper.
• Long Qingyan defended Long Yuqing, and Ren Ye asked whether she would accept being sacrificed if her power ever threatened the Dragon Family.
• Ren Ye explained that he had considered killing and reviving Long Yuqing as an Attendant, but rejected the plan because coercive control contradicted his Dao.
• At the graveyard, Ren Ye condemned Long Yuqing's massacre of the Yang Family and explained that they could not follow the same Dao.
• Ren Ye gave Long Qingyan the Infinite Pearl and offered her the choice to join him or gather strength and challenge him in ten years.

After the Demoness left Tide Dragon City, Ren Ye sent Yang Ling'er to negotiate the Five Cities’ unification with his backing, while preparing the wider alliance gathering with help from the Little Marquis. Master Huang arrived with an Alliance Conference Outline and warned that Heavenly City’s Calamity was beginning in the Migration Land, where Dean Zhao had entered a secret realm to prepare a trial for Ren Ye.

• The Demoness removed her Ghost-Face Mask and left Tide Dragon City with a thousand cultivators of the Vengeful Ghost Sect, determined to see whether Ren Ye’s path could restore order without betraying his principles.
• Little One told Yang Ling'er that Ren Ye was lending her his influence to negotiate with the Four City Lords, and she realized she could choose how to handle the families responsible for her father’s death and the slaughter at Fallen Divine Mountain.
• The Little Marquis explained that the alliance gathering needed both a clear new path for Nine Li and authority strong enough to establish it, and Ren Ye said Yang Ling'er must choose whether to act as herself or as the city lord.
• Ren Ye welcomed Master Huang, who brought an Alliance Conference Outline and said he could help for a month before returning to Qingliang Prefecture.
• Master Huang told Ren Ye that Heavenly City’s Calamity was approaching and Dean Zhao had entered the Migration Land’s secret realm to compete against Wall-Facing People and create a trial for Ren Ye, who protested at being given yet another trial.

As the nineteen-province leaders gathered at Seeking Dao Palace, Ren Ye faced their challenge by summoning the Human Emperor Seal and calling on allies to help him inherit the legacy of the Divine Prohibition sword strike. Powerful clans and factions answered his invitation, while more figures began appearing beyond Nine Li.

• Zuo Yuan argued that the provincial leaders would only accept the alliance if the Ancient Emperor Successor’s master and sect demonstrated their strength, then sent Zuo Zhengdeng to invite Ren Ye.
• Zuo Zhengdeng delivered the invitation to Ren Ye, who accepted and said someone from his sect would attend; Ren Ye and his friends agreed to go to Seeking Dao Palace together.
• At the gathering, the Old Marquis told Zuo Yuan that the Divine Prohibition Path Guardian had karmic ties to the Ancient Emperor Successor and that Ren Ye’s master was an ordinary Sixth Grade expert.
• Ren Ye climbed the Immortal Mountain with his friends, summoned the Human Emperor Seal, and called upon the gathered seniors to help him take up the legacy of the Divine Prohibition sword strike.
• Xu Baiye, Zhong Shancai, and Yin Ziliang arrived with powerful allies in response to Ren Ye’s invitation, as the token of Huaxia’s New Year’s Watchers appeared and white-clad figures began tearing open the sky beyond Nine Li.

Ren Ye gathered powerful allies in Nine Li, where the alliance assembly established a sweeping plan to reform the cultivation world and opened the realm to outside trade. As the Nine Li Haoran Sect took shape under the Old Marquis, Ye Xuan received an unexpected visit from Yang Ling'er.

• Fourteen sixth-grade cultivators arrived in Nine Li, followed by Ruan Yin and twenty-two white-robed cultivators from Huaxia, demonstrating the strength behind Ren Ye's alliance.
• Ai Fei presented Lin Xiang's calligraphy, and Red Robe's Dao resonance withstood Heavenly Dao's suppression as his message of peace echoed across Nine Li.
• Ren Ye brought the visitors and Nine Li's representatives together at Seeking Dao Palace, where the alliance assembly began reviewing his charter.
• Xu Qingzhao explained that Dragon Head and Brother Huang would help govern Western Liang, while the assembly debated reforms and plans for trade and shared resources.
• The representatives founded the Nine Li Haoran Sect, with the Old Marquis as its first Sect Master, and agreed to abolish oppressive policies and establish the People's Pavilion and Righteous Qi Pavilion.
• Ye Xuan received word that Yang Ling'er had come to see him, leaving him stunned.

Ren Ye received a Sixth Grade treasure from Master Ruan and learned that Yang Ling'er had settled the fate of the Four Cities. Yang Ling'er spared the four great families in exchange for their fortunes and departure from Nine Li, then left her old identity behind as City Lord Yang and prepared Little One for a wider journey.

• At the banquet, Master Ruan gave Ren Ye the Guiyang Jade for his disciple, and Ren Ye decided to take Little One to meet the ministries in Vermilion Bird City.
• Xiao Shuai described the Migration Land's Small Secret Realms, and the Little Marquis asked to travel there with Ren Ye.
• A messenger delivered Yang Ling'er's letter to Ren Ye while she negotiated with the Four City Lords at the Ye Residence.
• Yang Ling'er frightened the Four City Lords with demands for their military authority and descendants, then revealed that they could leave Nine Li within three months after surrendering their fortunes as restitution for Fallen Divine Mountain's twenty thousand Wronged Souls.
• The Four City Lords abandoned their pleas and rebellion plans after reading Yang Ling'er's terms, while Ren Ye told the Little Marquis that Yang Ling'er had become City Lord Yang.
• Yang Ling'er explained to Little One that she had chosen the Five Cities' future over personal revenge, and Little One said Ren Ye had sent him to see the whole world.

After returning from Nine Li, Ren Ye reported to Lin Xiang and learned that the Migration Land’s reopening would trigger a struggle over Authority Keys, with Order seeking to claim Heavenly Capital. Back in Shangyu, Ren Ye searched for a way to meet his fifth-grade advancement requirements and settled on a covert plan in Great Qian, choosing Shopkeeper Qiu as its agent.

• Ren Ye returned Chu Jin’s body to his hometown, said farewell to his companions in Nine Li, and brought Little One back to Qingliang Commandery with him.
• Ren Ye reported on his journey to Lin Xiang, who told him that he must compete for Heavenly Capital’s Authority Key after the Migration Land reopened and wait for his Second Master before entering.
• Lin Xiang summoned Little One to the Academy and ordered him to read the Inner Cabinet’s eastern classics before his assessment.
• Ren Ye toured Shangyu Nine Lands and rewarded its officials and soldiers, while the Little Marquis donated over four million Star Source.
• Ren Ye and Master Huang discussed how to expand territory and population, then devised a plan to exploit Great Qian’s court divisions and enlist Southern Border cooperation.
• Ren Ye chose Shopkeeper Qiu, the Zhou Family’s Top Mole, to lead the undercover mission into Great Qian.

Ren Ye appointed Shopkeeper Qiu to lead a new Imperial Guard Office and pursue a plan to undermine Great Qian, while also funding a Qingliang Academy. As Ren Ye prepared to explore the Migration Land, Xiao Shuai revealed that a true dragon had once lived there.

• Ren Ye recruited Shopkeeper Qiu to lead the Imperial Guard Office, giving him ten million Star Source and tasking him with infiltrating Great Qian through the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and Yuan Dalang.
• Ba Wu and Master Huang agreed to support Shopkeeper Qiu with personnel, while Ren Ye promised to fund the office himself for three years.
• Ren Ye and Master Huang discussed establishing Qingliang Academy, and Ren Ye gave Huang ten million Star Source for its construction and teachers.
• After seven days of planning Qingliang Commandery's development, Ren Ye prepared to explore the Migration Land as Xiao Shuai left to prepare for his wedding.
• Xiao Shuai told Ren Ye that a true dragon had once lived in the Migration Land after learning that the Human Emperor Seal needed a dragon soul for Ren Ye to reach the Fifth-Grade Realm.

Ren Ye learned that the Zhou Family had failed to rescue a True Dragon from Heavenly City and arranged to visit their ancestor’s preserved soul in Longtian City. He gave Xiao Shuai a lavish wedding gift, entrusted Qingliang Commandery to his officials, and departed for Longtian City as signs pointed to Heavenly Capital opening again.

• Xiao Shuai told Ren Ye that the Zhou Family’s ancestor had returned from Heavenly City deranged after her companions died and that the family had preserved a wisp of her soul, which Ren Ye hoped to question about the True Dragon.
• Ren Ye agreed to pay Xiao Shuai two bottles of water of life for access to the ancestor’s remains, then arranged to travel with him to Longtian City the next day.
• At Prince Huai’s Residence, the Little Marquis complained about the costs of staying in Qingliang Prefecture while the others discussed wedding gifts for Xiao Shuai.
• Ren Ye gave Xiao Shuai a sprig of Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo and six million six hundred and sixty thousand star source as a wedding gift.
• Ren Ye told his officials to manage Qingliang Commandery and consult him before acting on any major Chicken Soup Plan breakthrough, then opened a gate and departed with his companions for Longtian City.
• A young man at Black Cage Fortress and a young man in an unknown Secret Realm wondered whether Heavenly Capital was about to open and anticipated meeting there again.

Ren Ye traveled with Xiao Shuai and the Park District Squad to Longtian City, where Zhou Muyun welcomed them ahead of her wedding to Xiao Shuai. After the Zhou Family granted Ren Ye access to its Ancestral Land to investigate a clue about the true dragon, he entered Ancestor Su He's Spirit Coffin Hall and sensed that the long-dead ancestor had the aura of a chaotic person.

• Ren Ye and the Park District Squad arrived in prosperous Longtian City and went with Xiao Shuai to the Zhou Family residence.
• Zhou Muyun welcomed the group, and Xiao Shuai told her that Ren Ye wanted to see her ancestral great-grandmother's preserved body to investigate the true dragon.
• The next day, the Zhou Family allowed Ren Ye to enter the Ancestral Land with Xiao Shuai, who carried a Qilin Talisman to open the Soul-Locking Formation.
• Ren Ye and Xiao Shuai descended into the underground palace and reached Ancestor Su He's Spirit Coffin Hall.
• Xiao Shuai opened the hall's sealed doors, and Ren Ye sensed a chaotic aura locking onto him before the coffin trembled.

Ren Ye awakened a Sixth-Grade Soul Gu hidden in Ancestor Su He's preserved body while using Purple Fortune to examine her Divine Soul, and fought to survive as the Gu attacked him. After Ren Ye struck it with reincarnation power, Su He's briefly freed Divine Soul delivered a warning about the Heavenly Capital and left behind a Dragon-Seeking Token.

• Ren Ye opened Ancestor Su He's coffin and used Purple Fortune to inspect the wisp of Divine Soul preserved by the Soul-Locking Formation.
• A Sixth-Grade Soul Gu awakened, destroyed the formation, and emerged in Su He's body; Xiao Shuai fled to summon help while Ren Ye stayed to confront it.
• Su He attacked Ren Ye with the Soul-Slaying Tune, and the revealed Human Emperor power did not stop the assault from tearing at his Divine Soul.
• Ren Ye sent out Divine Baby to block the attack and used the Red Lotus Karmic Fire Finger to strike Su He and weaken the Soul Gu.
• Su He's briefly awakened Divine Soul warned Ren Ye that the dragon remained alive when she left the Heavenly Capital, forbade entry into Heavenly City in the Migration Land in September of year 251, and left a Dragon-Seeking Token.

Ren Ye and the Zhou and Xu Family Heads killed the soul gu hidden in Ancestor Su He's divine soul, and Su He's remains and final wisp of soul vanished. At the Heavenly Peak Twelve Towers, the families gave Ren Ye the Dragon-Seeking Token and explained their alliance with the Nine Li Haoran Sect before Song Yi announced that the Migration Land had reopened.

• Ancestor Su He revealed that she had sought a True Dragon in the Heavenly Capital with Zhou Family experts, who all died there, before her divine soul dispersed.
• Zhou Chengye and Xu Yuan killed the sixth-grade soul gu after it spoke of the Fallen God and the Eternal Covered Corridor, and Su He's remains dissolved as the group paid tribute.
• Zhou Chengye and Xu Yuan agreed to conceal the soul gu's existence, while Ren Ye apologized for the upheaval and learned the families did not blame him.
• At the Heavenly Peak Twelve Towers, Zhou Chengye gave Ren Ye the Dragon-Seeking Token and asked him to share any discoveries about the True Dragon with the Zhou Family; Xu Yuan also requested the Xu Family be informed.
• Xu Yuan explained why the Zhou and Xu Families supported the Nine Li Haoran Sect and asked to meet Ren Ye's Master in Vermilion Bird City.
• Song Yi announced that the Migration Land had reopened, and the Heavenly Dao summoned cultivators as the Heavenly Capital shone upon the world.