Recaps

Lin Ye, Little Bad King, and Liu Suihan discussed how to prove Fourth Seat Cloud Dragon framed their master, concluding that the missing True Dragon Essence Blood could expose him. Meanwhile, Yang Youtian joined the Central Heaven Sect’s efforts to cooperate with Ren Daniú’s group, then met Golden Cicada Zi, who asked about the missing Chen Zheng.

• Lin Ye took Little Bad King and Liu Suihan to dinner, while Yang Youtian was snubbed when he tried to join them.
• Ying Bocai and Wang Eryou worried that the Central Heaven Sect had lost its standing to Ren Daniú’s Azure Ox Squad, but Yang Youtian urged them to cooperate with Ren Daniú.
• Little Bad King warned Lin Ye and Liu Suihan that accusing Fourth Seat Cloud Dragon without irrefutable evidence could backfire, and proposed finding the stolen True Dragon Essence Blood in his secret stockpile site.
• Yang Youtian met Golden Cicada Zi at the Library Pavilion, and they went to the Inner Manor’s Kitchen for drinks.
• Golden Cicada Zi proposed exchanging clues about the Dragon Scale Case and asked Yang Youtian about Chen Zheng, who had been missing for more than twenty years.

Yang Youtian drugged Golden Cicada Zi and stole a statement file revealing that First Seat Cloud Clear had sent two chests of incriminating evidence about the imprisoned Second Seat to Fulong Pavilion. He told Lin Ye and Little Bad King, leaving them shocked by Cloud Clear’s apparent betrayal of their Master.

• Yang Youtian refused to trade the Dragon Palace clues with Golden Cicada Zi because the information belonged to the whole group.
• The Female Prophet gave Golden Cicada Zi a statement file and said First Seat Cloud Clear had likely framed a disciple of the Fifth Seat.
• Yang Youtian secretly drugged Golden Cicada Zi, took the file, and read that Cloud Clear had delivered two chests of evidence about the Second Seat to Fulong Pavilion.
• Yang Youtian brought the discovery to Liu Suihan, Lin Ye, and Little Bad King in the Internal Affairs Office garden.
• Little Bad King realized that Cloud Clear had apparently moved against their imprisoned Master, leaving the group stunned.

Little Bad King investigated Yang Youtian’s lead cautiously, then joined the squad in moving to arrest Dong Rencheng after he returned to the Heavenly Capital. As the group surrounded Dong Rencheng’s residence, he told his concubine that he feared he would die because more than a hundred of his fellow disciples had been reported dead in suspicious accidents.

• Little Bad King reasoned that First Seat Cloud Clear had sent evidence against Piggy Chief Seat to keep him imprisoned, then questioned Yang Youtian about how he obtained the testimony lead.
• Little Bad King warned Liu Suihan to verify Yang Youtian’s lead through Lin Ye before investigating the Fifth Seat, while encouraging Yang Youtian to keep contributing.
• Lin Ye reported that Dong Rencheng had returned to the Heavenly Capital, and Little Bad King arranged an arrest operation with Fatty Chu and the Plant Squad.
• Yang Youtian offered Little Bad King one million Star Source for the chance to capture Dong Rencheng and claim all six Merit Points, and Little Bad King accepted.
• Ren Daniu led the group to surround Dong Rencheng’s residence in the Western City, where Dong Rencheng told his concubine that over a hundred disciples under his Master had died in suspicious accidents.

Yang Youtian’s costly plan to capture Dong Rencheng failed when Dong surrendered, but his testimony revealed evidence about the Dragon Scale Case and a hidden trial leading to the Worry-Free Realm. Little Bad King’s group reached the temple on Mount Master, where they prepared to face the one-time Secret Realm trial.

• Yang Youtian hired five disciples to weaken Dong Rencheng, but Dong found them hiding in his courtyard and voluntarily surrendered, leaving Yang without the six Merit Points he had hoped to earn.
• At the Myriad Spirits Internal Affairs Office, Dong said First Seat Cloud Dragon had lost trust in him, described more than a hundred upright disciples who had vanished, and identified newly favored disciples including Miss Long, Yang Kai, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng.
• Dong revealed that Cloud Dragon had entered the Dragon Palace with an unknown companion and later gave him a Jade Box, and he suspected the True Dragon Blood was hidden in the Worry-Free Realm beneath Cloud Dragon’s Dao Palace.
• Dong explained that a temple trial on Mount Master could let someone pass through the Worry-Free Realm undetected, and the Heavenly Dao announced that Little Bad King had triggered a one-time hidden trial.
• Yang Youtian asked Lin Ye for the promised Merit Points, but Lin Ye refused, and the Little Marquis urged him to spend more Star Source to buy the reward.
• Little Bad King led his party to the small Ancient Temple on Mount Master, where they discussed its inscription about a Sage and the trial’s likely meaning.

Little Bad King, Daoist Chu, and Liu Suihan remained in the Saint Heart Realm after the others were expelled, and Little Bad King earned a saint rating in a water-management trial by pursuing a lasting solution instead of merely preventing immediate flood damage. After the trio passed the second trial, they faced a final trial requiring one of them to awaken Saintly Qi, and Little Bad King realized the impossible choice before them.

• Black Dog, Three-Headed Bird, and Lei Hu withdrew from the Saint Heart Realm, while Little Bad King and the others began its trials.
• The Little Marquis, Wang Eryou, and Ying Bocai were expelled after their governor mishandled a flood-control trial and provoked a rebellion.
• Yang Youtian told the group that Ren Daniú earned a saint rating by planning dams and canals for lasting water management, while Daoist Chu, Liu Suihan, and Ren Daniú all earned excellent ratings in the second trial.
• Yang Youtian explained that Ren Daniú had been disqualified from a saint rating in the second trial after the Heavenly Dao judged his Tao Te Ching a plagiarism, though he later composed the Herbal Classic.
• The mist around the small temple dispersed as Little Bad King, Daoist Chu, and Liu Suihan remained unconscious, their bodies infused with holy aura.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that an Ominous Being had descended and that the three Travelers' six Saintly Radiance points could awaken Saintly Qi in only one person, leaving Little Bad King in despair.

Little Bad King, Daoist Chu, and Liu Suihan faced a trial that tempted them to steal Saintly Radiance or sacrifice themselves, and Little Bad King passed by trusting his conclusion that the threat of a thousand-year imprisonment was a bluff. After leaving the realm with a wisp of saintly qi, he prepared to investigate the Worry-Free Labyrinth and the truth about Yunlu, while a faint rosy light appeared in two distant places.

• Little Bad King struggled against his desire to take his companions’ Saintly Radiance, while Daoist Chu resolved to help him and Liu Suihan planned to fight the others openly.
• Little Bad King concluded that the Heavenly Dao had invented the thousand-year punishment to frighten them, chose to give up his Saintly Radiance, and passed the trial.
• Daoist Chu and Liu Suihan were burned by golden flames but survived, and the Heavenly Dao said Little Bad King’s choice had given them a chance to live.
• Little Bad King reunited with Daoist Chu and Liu Suihan, explained his reasoning, and learned that both men had also tried to let him succeed.
• Little Bad King identified the realm as the one Yunlu had explored with Su Yan and Shen Xu, then planned to investigate the Fourth Seat’s Worry-Free Labyrinth for True Dragon blood and the truth about Yunlu.
• A faint rosy light appeared at the ancestral bust in the Myriad Spirits Dao Palace and at a place outside the Thirty-Two Peaks.

Little Bad King and the Little Marquis infiltrated Seat Cloud Dragon’s Worry-Free Realm, where they reached a hidden archive containing a bloodstained plaque, a Divine Supervisory Court seal, and a dossier revealing Cloud Boar’s attempted assault on Cloud Clear. As Little Bad King reeled from the discovery, Deng Tongqi was ordered to leave for Heavenly Capital City.

• Little Bad King learned from Deng Tongqi that Ding Ying, Lou Changfeng, and others handled internal affairs, then discovered that more than twenty people close to them were Travelers from the Chaos Faction.
• After Seat Cloud Dragon left the mountain, Little Bad King’s group planned an infiltration and assigned Liu Suihan to lead the support team while Little Bad King entered the Worry-Free Realm with the Little Marquis.
• At the start of Hai Hour, a sparrow set fire to the Artisan Heart Pavilion, drawing away some guards as Little Bad King led his team into the Dao Palace.
• Little Bad King and the Little Marquis descended into the Worry-Free maze using Saintly Qi and emerged in a hidden archive filled with registers and official records.
• Little Bad King failed to remove the blood covering a plaque, then found a Divine Supervisory Court seal and read a dossier stating that Cloud Boar had tried to molest Cloud Clear while she was drunk.
• Deng Tongqi arrived at the burning pavilion and received an order to go to Heavenly Capital City at once.

Ren Ye and the Little Marquis found the dragon blood while Yang Youtian’s betrayal plot closed around their allies. The Heavenly Dao revealed that the blood was only a manifestation, leaving Yang Youtian’s plan and the secret realm’s true danger unresolved.

• Ren Ye and the Little Marquis examined Cloud Dragon’s secret chamber, concluding that he was preparing a rebellion and might have killed an imperial official.
• Ding Ying and Lou Changfeng returned to the Dao Palace with their forces, while Daoist Chu realized that he was surrounded.
• Yang Youtian told Liu Suihan that he had allied with Ding Ying and Lou Changfeng, drugged Liu Suihan, and planned to kill Ren Ye and the Little Marquis using the dragon blood.
• Yang Youtian explained that he had switched to Cloud Dragon’s sect under the Fence-Sitter rule and intended to eliminate Ren Ye’s team so he could lead Order’s forces.
• Ren Ye and the Little Marquis found the dragon blood and channeled their divine soul power into it, but it did not react.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that the dragon blood did not truly exist and was only one of its manifestations, while Yang Youtian continued expecting it to erupt.

Yang Youtian’s betrayal led the Dao Palace elders to trap the Azure Ox Squad behind a formation, but Daoist Chu summoned the Ancestral Master's Divine Puppet to rescue Ren Ye, Little Bad King, and the others. The Azure Bird broke the formation at great cost, and Buddha's Son raced to save him as he fell wounded.

• Yang Youtian urged the elders to kill the intruders and sent the Chaotic Travelers to ambush the Azure Ox Squad while Daoist Chu realized they had been betrayed.
• Little Bad King and the Little Marquis cleared the Worry-Free Labyrinth's illusion and activated the dragon blood, revealing that its power had not harmed them.
• Daoist Chu summoned the Ancestral Master's Divine Puppet, which struck the hidden formation and collapsed the labyrinth as the elders and Travelers attacked it.
• The Little Marquis, Little Bad King, Ren Ye, Black Dog, Buddha's Son, and Lei Hu climbed onto the Divine Puppet's palm, and Daoist Chu struggled to break through the formation's barrier.
• The Azure Bird used Hundred Li in an Instant to attack Elder Jianchen, disrupting the formation; the backlash tore Jianchen apart and the formation collapsed.
• The Divine Puppet broke through the barrier and rose into the sky as Elder Jianchen's counterattack severed two of the Azure Bird's heads, prompting Buddha's Son to fly toward him.

Little Bad King sent his allies away with the dragon blood and unleashed his strongest reserves to rescue the Buddha's Son and Chu Qing from the Fourth Seat's forces. The Buddha's Son defeated several Travelers at the cost of his own life force, then questioned his existence after Yang Youtian revealed his status as a remnant soul, while the other Seats arrived and the Dragon Scale Case assignments were suspended.

• The Buddha's Son awakened Myriad Forms Suppression through grief over Chu Qing's injuries and fought through the defenders to retrieve him.
• Little Bad King sent Daoist Chu and the Little Marquis to deliver the dragon blood to Senior Brother Lin Ye, and sent Lei Hu and Black Dog to appeal to Heavenly Capital Prefecture.
• Daoist Yueshan rallied the Fourth Seat's disciples by claiming the dragon blood had been planted, while Yang Youtian and the other Travelers attacked the Buddha's Son.
• Little Bad King combined Divine Dao Star Sand with Cloud Sea's Saber-Drawing Talisman and killed six Fifth-Grade Realm elders and hundreds of disciples to clear his path.
• The Buddha's Son exhausted his reserves with the All-Purifying Ten Directions Seal, forced several Travelers to lose a resurrection, and suffered a crisis after Yang Youtian called him a remnant soul and supporting character.
• First Seat Yunlu, Third Seat Cloud Sea, and Fifth Seat Cloud Clear arrived as the Heavenly Dao Proclamation suspended the Dragon Scale Case assignments, while the dying Buddha's Son begged Little Bad King to tell him whether he truly existed.

Ren Ye used Saintly Qi to preserve Buddha's Son without erasing his chance at enlightenment, while Yunlu stabilized the Three-Headed Bird and sealed the Fourth Seat’s Dao Palace. As Order’s factions braced for infighting, Ren Ye arrived in a blaze of white light and challenged Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng to face him.

• Ren Ye chose not to resurrect Buddha's Son or forcibly recruit him, and instead arranged for the First Seat to preserve the gravely injured Three-Headed Bird with Saintly Qi.
• Yunlu ordered the Fourth Seat’s Dao Palace sealed and its disciples detained, then left for the Heavenly Capital after the Divine Court summoned the three Seats.
• Ren Ye took Buddha's Son to the Internal Affairs Office while Deng Tongqi and Meng Anchen revealed that Yang Youtian had betrayed him, prompting Ren Ye to prepare a response.
• Melon, Zhang Biyun, Wei Tianbao, the Female Prophet, and other Travelers debated whether Ren Ye would retaliate and whether Order would fracture.
• Yang Youtian urged Wang Eryou and Ying Bocai to join the Fourth Seat and ally with Ding Ying and Lou Changfeng, while Meng Anchen secretly sent a Signal Arrow.
• Ren Ye appeared above the sealed Dao Palace surrounded by white light and purple qi, then called Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng out to face him.

Ren Daniu revealed himself as the Little Human Emperor, killed Liu Suihan and then defeated Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng with one sword strike. After forcing several Travelers to leave the secret realm, he left the Central Heaven Sect trio facing the New Year's Watchers’ deadly summons outside Heavenly Capital City.

• Ren Daniu refused Liu Suihan’s attempts to settle the dispute and demanded that Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng die permanently in the secret realm.
• Ren Daniu revealed his true identity as the Little Human Emperor, used the Human Emperor Seal to lower Liu Suihan’s realm, and killed him with the Wangwu Sword.
• Lin Ye arrived with over a thousand Second Seat disciples and elders, causing Nong Zhiwei and the Chaos faction to withdraw rather than fight.
• Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng restored their True Self Bodies and challenged Ren Daniu, but his single sword strike killed all three and drove them from the secret realm.
• Deng Tongqi arranged for two New Year's Watchers to leave the secret realm in exchange for rewards, and they destroyed their Star Cores to depart.
• Outside Heavenly Capital City, Wordless Steles summoned the New Year's Watchers to confront Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng, who realized they were in danger.

Fan Ming led the New Year's Watchers to kill Yang Youtian and detain the Central Heaven Sect’s disciples, while Little Bad King and Lin Ye discovered the bodies of missing disciples in the Fourth Seat’s labyrinth. The chapter ended by revealing that Daoist Chu had stabbed the Little Marquis and begun enveloping him in black qi.

• Over ten thousand New Year's Watchers pursued Yang Youtian to Heavenly Capital, where Fan Ming killed him, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng and ordered Tailai Academy’s people detained.
• Yunlu reprimanded Lin Ye and four elders for charging into the Fourth Seat’s Dao Palace, then authorized Lin Ye and Ren Daniú to search it for evidence.
• Little Bad King, Black Dog, Lei Hu, and Lin Ye searched for the missing Daoist Chu and the Little Marquis, who had vanished with the Dragon Blood.
• Little Bad King and Lin Ye entered a hidden chamber in the Worry-Free Labyrinth and found over a hundred corpses, including the missing disciple Xu Jin.
• The chapter revealed that Daoist Chu had stabbed the Little Marquis after telling him to sever his connection to the Dragon Blood, then covered him with black qi as the Marquis thanked him.

After the Dragon Scale Case dissolved First Seat Cloud Dragon’s Artificer Hall, Second Seat Cloud Boar summoned Little Bad King and revealed how he had found and claimed the Passion Slave Corpse Puppets while hunting for a mysterious intruder. Their missing Dragon Blood couriers might signal that the same foul thing had struck again, while Lin Ye received word that Old Chu and the Little Marquis were outside Heavenly Capital City.

• The Divine Court closed the Dragon Scale Case, ordered Cloud Dragon’s arrest, and dissolved Artificer Hall, leaving its disciples under investigation or seeking new lineages.
• Little Bad King met Cloud Boar, who ordered him to end the Fortune-Bearing Tower and Eight Illusory Realms businesses and continue searching for the Dragon Blood and the missing Dao Lord and Chicken Lord.
• Cloud Boar recounted finding Su Yan and Shen Xu hidden beneath Medicine Peak, along with the Nether Canon Corpse-Control Technique and evidence of a powerful, sinister corpse-controller.
• Cloud Boar suspected that the mysterious foul thing had returned and might be responsible for the disappearance of the Dragon Blood couriers; Little Bad King then asked for his view of Cloud Dragon.
• At the Internal Affairs Office, Lin Ye opened a letter addressed to Ren Daniú and learned that Old Chu and the Little Marquis were outside Heavenly Capital City.

Little Bad King met Qingping outside Heavenly Capital City and followed her trail to an inn, where he discovered Geng Zhengliang eating the corpse of He Hong. The group faced a new anomaly as Geng Zhengliang announced that he had killed everyone there and needed to erase the evidence.

• The Second Seat described Cloud Dragon as inscrutable, and Little Bad King suspected that Cloud Dragon might be involved in the dragon blood affair.
• Qingping sent Little Bad King a letter saying she had found Fatty Chu and the Little Marquis, so he secured divine objects and set out with Lin Ye, Black Dog, and Lei Hu to meet her.
• Qingping told Little Bad King that Cloud Dragon had assigned her to track Chu and the Little Marquis using scented phosphorus powder, and that they had fled Myriad Spirits Garden willingly with the dragon blood.
• Qingping led the group toward Zhuma Township, where Chu and the Little Marquis were staying, while Little Bad King suspected Chu had been affected by an anomaly.
• The group entered Fengxie Inn near the Imperial Mausoleum and found Geng Zhengliang beside a corpse, claiming he had killed everyone and needed to destroy the evidence.
• Little Bad King recognized the corpse Geng Zhengliang was eating as He Hong.

Little Bad King and his companions confronted a Dao Realm being emerging from Geng Zhengliang, while the Second Seat drove the intruder away with his Great Dao true soul. The group tracked Old Chu and Lord Hou to the Imperial Mausoleum Ancestral Land, as Cloud Clear urged the Second Seat to stop investigating and kill his disciples.

• Geng Zhengliang's body split open as a black-shrouded Dao Realm being emerged and struck Dragon Head with a wisp of black qi.
• Little Bad King awakened the Second Seat through his jade thumb ring, and the Second Seat fought the intruder with a soul sword until it escaped through a spatial fissure.
• Little Bad King found that Old Chu and Chicken Lord had left Zhuma Inn, then followed three yellow ants with Lin Ye, Lei Hu, and Black Dog to the Imperial Mausoleum Ancestral Land.
• Dragon Head left the group after revealing that black qi had entered her body, while Little Bad King became absorbed in a sudden train of memories at the place where the ants lost Old Chu and Lord Hou's scent.
• Cloud Clear admitted that she had delivered evidence of the Second Seat's crimes to Fulong Pavilion and told him to stop investigating the Dragon Blood, summon his disciples back, and kill them.

Cloud Clear tried to persuade the Second Seat to join the Tomorrow Emperor by exposing the Divine Court’s schemes, while the Little Bad King pieced together clues linking the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land to the strange Dao Realm being. The Little Bad King secured Long Er’s help to seek permission to open the Ancestral Land and ended by telling the Divine Sect that he suspected the former Myriad Spirits First Seat, Perfected Baoyuan, was buried there but had not died.

• Cloud Clear denied that Eldest Brother was involved in her plan and urged the Second Seat to follow the Tomorrow Emperor, arguing that the Divine Court deliberately fostered corruption and division among the Myriad Spirits Garden siblings.
• The Second Seat hesitated to accept Cloud Clear’s proposal, and Ying He advised him to wait until he knew more about the mysterious emperor.
• The Little Bad King connected Old Chu’s knowledge of the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land, the corpse puppets Su Yan and Shen Xu, and their deaths, then contacted the Second Seat through his jade thumb ring.
• The Little Bad King asked Long Er to help open the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land, and Long Er ordered the area surrounded while seeking his father’s approval.
• Cloud Dragon removed a trace of black qi from Dragon Head and ordered her to remain in his sanctuary until the storm passed.
• The Little Bad King accompanied Long Er to meet the Divine Sect and declared that he suspected the former Myriad Spirits First Seat, Perfected Baoyuan, had not died.

Little Bad King accompanied Long Er into the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land to investigate whether Perfected Baoyuan was alive, while learning the legend of Human Emperor Yin Taili. When they opened Baoyuan’s coffin, his corpse suddenly awakened and seized Little Bad King, triggering a new Secret Realm story chapter.

• The Divine Court sovereign ordered Long Er to investigate Baoyuan’s coffin after Little Bad King argued that Baoyuan might still be alive.
• Long Er told Little Bad King how Human Emperor Yin Taili had entered the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land more than three thousand years earlier and never emerged.
• Perfected Ling Xu led Long Er, Little Bad King, and Lin Ye into the Ancestral Land, where they opened Baoyuan’s coffin and found his corpse inside.
• Little Bad King spotted blood on Baoyuan’s sleeve and realized that the corpse was alive, then warned the Dao Realm cultivators.
• Baoyuan opened his eyes, grabbed Little Bad King by the neck, and declared that everyone present would be buried there as the Heavenly Dao Proclamation announced the “Calamity of the True Dragon.”

Perfected Baoyuan escaped the Imperial Mausoleum after trapping seven Dao Realm cultivators with his dark arts, and Little Bad King reported the discovery to Piggy Master. Little Bad King then gathered Order Travelers and urged them to transfer to the Second Seat’s sect, arguing that the Second Seat was trusted by the Divine Court and aligned with Order.

• Perfected Ling Xu and Long Er rescued Little Bad King from Perfected Baoyuan, but Baoyuan swallowed the True Dragon blood and escaped after trapping the seven Dao Realm cultivators inside the tomb’s formation walls.
• Little Bad King traveled back to the Heavenly Capital with Long Er, who promised to reward him and explained that the Divine Court had released the Second Seat because it trusted him.
• Little Bad King reported Baoyuan’s survival to Piggy Master, who revealed Baoyuan’s connection to the Tomorrow Emperor and tasked his disciple with finding him.
• Little Bad King organized an assembly of Order representatives and argued that Travelers should join the Second Seat’s sect to earn the best rewards.
• Little Bad King claimed the Second Seat belonged to Order because the Divine Court knew of his crimes yet had released him, while warning that Cloud Sea’s allegiance could change.

Little Bad King united most of Order behind the Second Seat, then followed a clue about Perfected Baoyuan’s death to Luodao City. After visiting a lively local bread shop, he searched Baoyuan’s former residence and found a century-old bloodstain.

• Little Bad King persuaded roughly eighty percent of Order’s Travelers to join the Second Seat’s Master’s Sect, while Deng Tongqi and Yang Kai kept teams back because they could delay their choices without losing Merit Points.
• Little Bad King discovered that Perfected Baoyuan had died shortly after returning from a three-year garrison rotation in Luodao City and received permission and a Dao Realm token to investigate.
• Little Bad King traveled to Luodao City with Tang Feng, Brother Tiger, and Wang Lili, where they learned the story behind Yin’s Executioner’s Bread and tried the popular flatbread.
• Little Bad King and the others searched the Daoist academy where Baoyuan had lived, and Little Bad King spotted a dark-red mark before the meditation cushion.
• Brother Tiger identified the mark as a bloodstain that had been there for at least a hundred years.

Little Bad King spent eleven years in seclusion after decades of war, seeking the Dao Realm and clarifying the Dao he wanted to pursue. He returned to find Stone Demon dead and Ox Little Mouse transformed into an old man who had created the Ordinary Beast Daoist Scripture, while Baoyuan finally prepared to surface in Luodao City.

• Little Bad King spent decades searching for Baoyuan, then watched the Migration Land fall into war as Heavenly Radiance Temple invaded Divine Court territory.
• Little Bad King witnessed Panshi City's defenders die when the bombardment shook its formations, and later saw Luodao City become a long battlefield where familiar allies and cultivators fell.
• Little Bad King entered eleven years of seclusion on Chou Ox Mountain, abandoned reincarnation as the Dao he would pursue, and emerged with a greatly strengthened state of mind.
• Little Bad King learned that Stone Demon had died eight years earlier and reunited with eighty-three-year-old Ox Little Mouse, who had undergone Transformation at eighty-one.
• Ox Little Mouse showed Little Bad King and their friends his Ordinary Beast Daoist Scripture, whose view of the Dao gave Little Bad King a fresh glimpse of inspiration.
• In the Imperial Palace, a tall, middle-aged cultivator told the Divine Sect ruler that Baoyuan would probably go to Luodao City that night after hiding for thirty-five years.