Chapter Summaries

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.

Ren Ye met the Xu Family’s aging patriarch as the Zhou and Xu Families prepared to reclaim territory in the Migration Land, then celebrated Xiao Shuai’s wedding. As Xu Qingzhao prepared to leave and pursue her own opportunity, Ren Ye gave her powerful guardians and treasures and asked her to return so he could marry her.

• Xu Yuan told Ren Ye that the Zhou and Xu Families had secured authority over Ninggu City in Cold Moon Frozen Earth, and planned to return to the Migration Land with the New Year's Watchers.
• Ren Ye visited Xu Weizhi, received Colorful Beans from him, and learned of the old patriarch’s determination to return to his homeland before his Dao Touching light collapsed.
• Xiao Shuai married Zhou Muyun in a lavish celebration, while Ren Ye and his friends joined the wedding feast and bridal-chamber games.
• Xu Qingzhao told Ren Ye she was leaving to pursue an opportunity, and he sent Divine Baby, Night Walkers, Water of Life, the Boundary-Space Stone, and the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo with her.
• Ren Ye asked Xu Qingzhao to return and marry him, and she accepted his proposal with a joke about her allowance before they leaned in to kiss.

After seeing Ai Fei off, Ren Ye received a Heaven's Grace Token and learned that the coming struggle over Heavenly City would pit Order against powerful Chaos factions, possibly leaving him to face a solo assignment. He organized three squads to set out, then arrived at Qinghe Academy and found Mr. Xu gone, with only a farewell letter left behind.

• Xu Qingzhao and Ren Ye shared a passionate kiss, and the next day their friends saw Ai Fei off as she entered the Secret Realm disguised as Little Black Fatty.
• After refining the Authority Key and returning to Vermilion Bird City, Ren Ye received a Heaven's Grace Token from Second Master and learned about the high-stakes contest for Heavenly City and the threat posed by the Wall-Facing People.
• Lin Xiang warned Ren Ye to prepare for a potentially solo assignment, while Zhao Baicheng revealed that he had seized the token in the Fallen God Tower and been injured by jealous rivals.
• In Longtian City, Ren Ye organized three squads for the Heavenly Capital journey, with Dragon Head leading Squad One and Xiao Shuai and Li Yan forming separate teams.
• Ren Ye led Squad One to Gu Tan City and found Qinghe Academy deserted, where he discovered a farewell letter from Old Xu.

Ren Ye entered a secret location in Heavenly City and was thrown into Illusion Village, where he had lost his identity, his eyes, and nearly all of his abilities. He began investigating his new life as a blind jailer, then realized the Heavenly Dao had not revealed whether other outsiders were in the Secret Realm.

• Ren Ye learned from Mr. Xu and White Chicken's letters that both had departed, then visited the Myriad Phenomena Sect and secured its promise to support the New Year's Watchers in the Heavenly Capital.
• Ren Ye parted from the Park District Squad and used his Heaven's Grace Token to travel separately to Heavenly City.
• Ren Ye met an Old Fisherman in a foggy forest, who hooked him with his fishing line and plunged him into a puddle that transported him elsewhere.
• The Heavenly Dao identified Ren Ye as a blind third-rank jailer in Illusion Village, stripped him of his Human Emperor Inheritance, and assigned him tasks to discover his faction, origins, eyes, and identity.
• Ren Ye used divine sense to inspect his cramped room, then answered a woman's call and found her preparing breakfast in the living room.
• Ren Ye wondered why the Heavenly Dao had not disclosed how many outsiders were in the Secret Realm or whether they were allies or rivals.

Ren Ye adjusted to life in Delusion Village, learning that his missing eyes and fatal seven-day illness made him a burden to Aunt Tian Wei. On his way to work, Little Fatty Li offered to help him sabotage the Yin Family Pharmacy, triggering a new assignment and leaving Ren Ye to decide whether to join the scheme.

• Ren Ye met Aunt Tian Wei and learned from her memories that she had raised him alone while working nights at the Yin Family Pharmacy.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Ren Ye would die unless he took medicine every seven days, and that finding his missing eyes would break the rule.
• Ren Ye dressed for his jailer job and reviewed a shopping list filled with medicine and expensive delicacies.
• Ren Ye traveled through Delusion Village and learned about its Four Great Families, Dao Comprehension Academies, and the difficult route out of the village.
• Little Fatty Li stopped Ren Ye and proposed tampering with the Yin Family Pharmacy's furnaces in exchange for covering his medicine costs and giving him money.
• The Heavenly Dao assigned Ren Ye to conspire with Little Fatty Li against the Yin Family, allowing him to accept or refuse.

Ren Ye navigated Li Xiaopang’s plot against the Yin Family while trying to learn his own identity in Delusion Village’s Heavenly Prison. After the Heavenly Dao penalized his attempt to obtain information, he endured Yin Ping’s bullying and prepared to sneak into the prison archive; elsewhere, the Little Marquis woke in a modern Secret Realm and mistook a bald man for Great Might Heavenly Dragon.

• Ren Ye stalled Li Xiaopang’s request to poison the Yin Family’s Alchemical Furnace, accepted the Passion Flower Pollen, and received a Behavioral Compatibility Value of 80.
• Ren Ye tricked Li Xiaopang into writing a recommendation letter, but the Heavenly Dao blurred its identifying details and deducted five points, leaving his value at 75.
• At the Death Prison, Ren Ye discovered that everyone around him radiated black energy, then obeyed Prison Supervisor Yin Ping’s humiliating demands and gained one compatibility point.
• Ren Ye planned to search the archive for his personnel file, activated the Three Thousand Secret Treasures, and acquired the defensive Divine Method Bronze Head and Iron Bones.
• The Little Marquis woke in an unfamiliar modern Secret Realm, saw a bald man in a black suit, and called him Great Might Heavenly Dragon.

Ren Ye found a file revealing that the Four Great Families had arranged his position in the Heavenly Prison because of his surname and that he secretly met Zhao Mi each night. After triggering a formation core in the archives, he fought the Three-Headed Netherworld Beast, which bound him and slashed his neck.

• Ren Ye changed into a condemned prisoner's clothes and infiltrated the archives during the midday break.
• Ren Ye found his unnamed file, which said the Four Great Families had secured his prison position and assigned him to meet Zhao Mi alone each evening.
• Ren Ye received a Heavenly Dao Gifted Enlightenment Talisman and decided to investigate Zhao Mi and his lost eyes.
• A ghostly presence trapped Ren Ye in an illusion, and he activated Bronze Head and Iron Bones before confronting the Three-Headed Netherworld Beast.
• Yin Ping took Number 79's file toward the archives, unaware that an oil lamp in his quarters had signaled a formation disturbance.
• The Three-Headed Netherworld Beast bound Ren Ye with its tongue and cut open his neck with a blade.

Ren Ye escaped the Three-Prefecture Underworld Beast by using Passion Flower Pollen, which later caused Yin Ping to kill it after it attacked him. After finishing his prison shift, Ren Ye prepared to visit Zhao Mi, while the Little Marquis learned his Heavenly City mission and discovered another captive had been caught immediately after arriving.

• Ren Ye endured the Underworld Beast's assault, bit its tongue to escape its binding, and blew Passion Flower Pollen into its three faces.
• Ren Ye fled the archive room as the pollen affected the beast, and Yin Ping was attacked by it before killing it in a rage.
• Ren Ye recovered, explained his absence to Yin Ping, and received a medicinal bottle intended as a reward for his aunt.
• Yin Ping gave Ren Ye an excellent performance rating and explained that he judged the blind jailer objectively despite his insults.
• Ren Ye finished his shift and set out to visit Zhao Mi of the Zhao Family.
• The Little Marquis reviewed his Fulong Pavilion mission and learned that an ordinary-looking captive had spent a year and a half preparing for Heavenly City only to be captured at the outset.

The Little Marquis broke out of a makeshift dungeon with Fei Liangliang, Dong Wu, and Han Mang, then joined the fight to defend North Wind Town. When an overwhelming host of Great Might Heavenly Dragons appeared, he was beaten and forced to give a code name, while Ren Ye arrived at the Zhao Residence after work.

• The Little Marquis broke his restraints and killed the bald guards with the Nine Skies God-Slaying Spear, prompting Fei Liangliang, Dong Wu, and Han Mang to escape alongside him.
• The four emerged from the supermarket and found Order forces battling Great Might Heavenly Dragons throughout North Wind Town.
• As the Little Marquis led the group toward the fight, countless Secret Realm gates opened and Great Might Heavenly Dragons filled the sky.
• A black-robed Great Might Heavenly Dragon ordered the Little Marquis captured, and over a hundred bald men beat him until he confessed that his code name was Punching Bag.
• After checking out from work, Ren Ye waited at the back entrance of the Zhao Residence to be summoned.

Ren Ye visited Zhao Mi at the Zhao Residence, where Zhao Mi had him contemplate a painting that exhausted him and left him unconscious. After secretly examining Ren Ye’s dantian, Zhao Mi let him ask one question, and Ren Ye asked what he had asked the previous day.

• Zhao Haochen led Ren Ye into the Zhao Residence and told him that Yin Ping had given him an excellent performance rating.
• Zhao Mi instructed Ren Ye to study a painting, and Ren Ye became immersed in its depiction of two Unknown Grade Realm Cultivators before falling asleep.
• Zhao Mi opened Ren Ye’s abdomen, examined his unusual Star Core, and sent his divine soul into it while Ren Ye slept.
• Ren Ye woke an hour later with pain and weakness, and Zhao Mi offered to answer one question.
• Ren Ye asked Zhao Mi what question he had asked the day before, surprising him.

Ren Ye tried to understand why Zhao Mi was helping him and concluded that Zhao Mi was probing an abnormality in his dantian and the Three Thousand Secret Treasures. He decided to seek answers from death-row prisoner No. 79 the next day, while Brother Wolf and Qingning entered Heavenly City with a group from the Wealth Protector Pavilion.

• Zhao Mi warned Ren Ye not to keep asking about his lost eyes, and Zhao Haochen gave him Spirit-Nourishing Pills and invited him to study together.
• Shopkeeper You delivered the Yin Family’s regular payment to the Zhao Residence and declined a proposed joint pharmacy until the Yin Family could obtain another fragment of the Heaven-Mending Formula.
• Ren Ye inspected his bloodstained uniform and, after reviewing the day’s clues, guessed that Zhao Mi had been cutting into his abdomen to investigate his dantian and Star Core.
• Ren Ye theorized that the Three Thousand Secret Treasures might be hidden in his Star Core and resolved to visit death-row prisoner No. 79 for information the next day.
• Ren Ye discovered that his boiling pot had extinguished the stove flame and was leaking gas, while Brother Wolf and Qingning entered Heavenly City with six Wealth Protector Pavilion figures.