Recaps

After defeating two demonic True Lords, Chen Beiwu refused to return to the sect, took Mo Li and Wang Hao under his wing, and examined the spoils. He returned to the Immortal Alliance intent on preparing to kill Xiao Yu, while news of his victory spread across the realms.

• Xin Yu and Zhu Jinglong praised Chen Beiwu for killing two Nascent Soul middle-stage enemies, then suspected a traitor had exposed their location; Chen Beiwu declined to return to the sect after sensing danger in doing so.
• At Blackstone Gorge, Chen Beiwu offered to make Mo Li his disciple, but she chose to remain by his side; her fortune transformed into a Fortune Crimson Dragon, while Wang Hao accepted entry-level discipleship.
• Chen Beiwu gave Mo Li and Wang Hao cultivation methods and entered seclusion in his cave abode.
• Chen Beiwu and the four little ones examined Yun Xi and Yu Qianpo's storage rings, and Chen Beiwu set aside the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner rather than risk using its illicit resources.
• Chen Beiwu considered killing Xiao Yu to seize his fortune and decided to act after refining Nascent Soul-Nurturing Liquid and completing the Nascent Soul Formation ceremony; he then used the Ten Directions Gate to return to the Immortal Alliance.
• News of Chen Beiwu's victory on the Blood-Weeping River spread through Earth Evolution, Western Expansion, and Yellow Expansion, drawing attention and skepticism from powerful sects.

Ning Xuanji hired the Blood Demon Venerable to kill Chen Zi'ang, while Zhao Caixuan backed the Mirror Moon Sect and fought Zhu Buwei. After Lin Zimo escaped Zhu Wuya's execution, Chen Beiwu emerged from seclusion before his Nascent Soul Formation ceremony and offered Chi Quan discipleship.

• Ning Wujiu learned that Chen Zi'ang had formed a Nascent Soul and sealed himself away to attempt his own breakthrough.
• Ning Xuanji persuaded the Blood Demon Venerable to kill Chen Zi'ang by offering him half a Spirit Transformation opportunity.
• Zhao Caixuan declared her intention to bet on the Mirror Moon Sect, prompting Zhu Buwei to attack her as their Dharma forms clashed.
• Zhu Shaoyuan and Zhu Wuya learned of Chen Zi'ang's victories, and Zhu Wuya ordered the traitor's kin punished before confronting Lin Zimo.
• Lin Zimo used the Taiyi Three Truths Corpse-Severing Self-Realization Dao Register to escape Zhu Wuya's killing blow.
• After refining the Nascent Soul-Nurturing Liquid for fourteen days, Chen Beiwu met Yu Zhaohua and Chi Quan, then offered Chi Quan a place as his disciple.

Chi Quan became Chen Beiwu’s disciple and received guidance to repair his damaged foundation and improve his Crimson Mastiff’s cultivation. At Chen Beiwu’s Nascent Soul Formation ceremony, he established the title True Martial, triggering a resonance that made companion beasts across the gathering pay homage, while Xiao Yu reconsidered his scheme to obtain Chen Beiwu’s Primordial Origin true essence.

• Chi Quan became Chen Beiwu’s disciple, and Chen Beiwu diagnosed his damaged foundation and gave him an upgraded cultivation method to nourish it.
• Chen Beiwu examined Chi Quan’s Crimson Mastiff and advised him to replace its fire-focused cultivation method with one suited to both fire and earth.
• Xiao Yu learned that the Ancient God Cult had rejected his Primordial Origin true essence, negotiated to exchange a strand of Primordial Origin heavenly gang true essence for the God-Delivering Stele, and put his scheme against Chen Beiwu on hold.
• Representatives of the Five Great Grotto-Heavens attended Chen Beiwu’s Nascent Soul Formation ceremony and presented precious gifts.
• Chen Beiwu established his title as True Martial, causing Dao resonance and sending companion beasts throughout the Dao-Proving Square into a display of homage.
• Zhu Wu, Che Zhengyuan, and Gu Yong recognized the phenomenon as myriad spirits paying homage, while Chen Beiwu sensed a change within Nine-Breath Chaos.

Chen Beiwu considered the purple qi he had gained and used his Divine Ability to turn it into a fortuitous encounter, then went to initiate a Life-and-Death Platform Contention against Xiao Yu. The chapter ended with the Cease-War Department’s old Spirit Transformation-level elder asking whether Chen Beiwu was certain he wanted to challenge Law-Breaking True Lord Xiao Yu.

• Chen Beiwu completed his Nascent Soul Formation ceremony while the Immortal Alliance’s leaders discussed a newly discovered Great Thousand World and sweeping wartime changes to resource distribution.
• Chen Beiwu declined to join his Evergreen Lineage senior fellow disciples on an expedition to conquer Cloudmist Pool in the Cangyuan Realm.
• After his family and Xu Ziqing departed, Chen Beiwu used his Divine Ability to transform the strand of purple qi into a fortuitous encounter, exhausting his true essence in the process.
• Seven days later, Chen Beiwu visited the Cease-War Department to initiate a Life-and-Death Platform Contention.
• The old man at the department recognized Chen Beiwu and asked him to confirm that his intended opponent was Law-Breaking True Lord Xiao Yu.

Chen Beiwu initiated Life-and-Death Platform Contention against Xiao Yu, and Xiao Wangyu approved it under the sect’s rules. Despite a dire divination, Xiao Yu accepted the challenge, and Chen Beiwu arrived at the crowded Life-and-Death Tower, where Xiao Yu had yet to appear.

• Xiao Wangyu revealed his relation to Xiao Yu, confirmed Chen Beiwu’s challenge followed sect rules, and set the contest for the morning after next.
• Xiao Yu received notice of the challenge, divined a sign of great calamity, and hesitated until Xuanyuan Venerable urged him not to disgrace the Tianyuan Xiao Clan by refusing.
• News of the contest spread through the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, drawing reactions from Shen Yuanbao, Yu Zhaohua, Yu Zhaozhen, and Xiao Li.
• Chen Beiwu prepared for the fight with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling, then received confirmation of the contest date.
• Two days later, Chen Beiwu appeared on the Life-and-Death Platform before a crowd of more than a thousand cultivators, while Xiao Yu had not yet arrived.

Chen Beiwu and Xiao Yu began their life-and-death contention, and Xiao Yu revealed his powerful companion beasts and the Heavenly Gang Dragon-Tiger True Form. The battle escalated as Chen Beiwu prepared his own Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery, leaving the two poised to clash at full strength.

• Xiao Wangyu presided over the contention and declared that it would end only when one fighter died.
• Xiao Yu unleashed the Black Bear Azure Flood Dragon and Mysterious Netherworld Tiger, and the tiger tore apart Chen Beiwu's apparent body before Xiao Yu's heavenly eye exposed the illusion.
• Golden Egg clashed with Xiao Yu's flood dragon while Chen Beiwu struck at Xiao Yu with the Primordial Origin World-Pacifying Seal, but the tiger blocked the attack and Xiao Yu escaped with Teleportation.
• Xiao Yu summoned his dragon and tiger into the Heavenly Gang Dragon-Tiger True Form Dharma Form and spread his Dragon-Tiger True Form Combined Refining True Domain.
• Chen Beiwu manifested his Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery as Yu Zhaozhen warned that Xiao Yu's domain could erode his strength.

Chen Beiwu defeated and killed Xiao Yu on the Life-and-Death Platform after seeing through Xiao Yu’s attempt to trap him with the Dragon-Tiger Dharma Form. After the Sect declared Chen Beiwu the victor, he sensed a brief, immense calamity aura and then gained Fourth-Tier Great Fortune from Xiao Yu’s death.

• Yu Zhaohua told Yu Zhaozhen that Xiao Yu’s Dragon-Tiger True Form Dharma Form was still inferior to Chen Beiwu’s Primordial Origin Dharma Form.
• Xiao Yu’s domain suppressed Chen Beiwu’s power, but Xuele used Five-Qi Protection to resist its effects, and Chen Beiwu continued probing Xiao Yu rather than revealing his prepared killing move.
• Xiao Yu unleashed Dragon-Tiger Chaos-Cavern Great Annihilation True Form, but Chen Beiwu transformed with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele’s power and reached an aura rivaling a Nascent Soul Late Stage True Lord.
• Chen Beiwu’s illusion caused Xiao Yu to believe his trap had worked, but Chen Beiwu stabbed him through the chest and revealed that the Dragon-Tiger Dharma Form and the apparent battle had been illusions.
• Chen Beiwu destroyed Xiao Yu’s body and Nascent Soul, and Xiao Wangyu announced Chen Beiwu as the winner of the Life-and-Death Platform Contention.
• Chen Beiwu sensed a vast calamity aura that quickly vanished, then gained Fourth-Tier Great Fortune after killing Xiao Yu.

After killing Xiao Yu, Chen Beiwu sensed the threat of Xuanyuan Venerable and resolved to grow stronger by seeking fortune in the Southern Wasteland. A cataclysm revealed the ancient Grand Void ruins at One-Line Sky, and Chen Beiwu learned of their emergence upon returning to his Southern Wasteland allies.

• Xuanyuan Venerable mourned Xiao Yu but restrained his murderous intent after the Jade Purity Sect Leader warned him not to violate sect rules.
• Chen Beiwu sensed lingering calamity qi, decided to seek strength by targeting demonic cultivators, and returned to the Southern Wasteland through the Ten Directions Gate.
• At One-Line Sky, a Great Sun descended and annihilated a Flameburn Sect search party before revealing an ancient gate marked Grand Void.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Blackstone Gorge, where Shu You reported that the Mirror Moon Sect was advancing against the Azure Spirit Sect and Blood Fortune Sect.
• Clear Abyss True Lord Xin Yu arrived with news that the ruins of an ancient Dao Lineage had emerged at One-Line Sky.

Chen Beiwu declined Xin Yu’s invitation to explore the newly emerged Grand Void Formation Sect ruins at One-Line Sky and instead prepared to retake Dragon-Breaking Cliff. After giving Beast Taming Lineage disciples guidance, he decided to enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and ask the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape about Blazing Sun True Venerable.

• Xin Yu told Chen Beiwu that the flaming mountains at One-Line Sky concealed ruins that might be a dao formation legacy left by Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable, and invited him to investigate.
• Chen Beiwu sensed ill fortune and declined, choosing to focus on defeating the enemy forces at Dragon-Breaking Cliff; Xin Yu left for One-Line Sky.
• Chen Beiwu ordered the forces at Blackstone Gorge to rest for a week before marching to retake Dragon-Breaking Cliff.
• Chen Beiwu reassured Yu Pan about Little Gray and offered the Beast Taming Lineage disciples a Nascent Soul Formation Secret Technique for great service.
• Chen Beiwu tried to teach the disciples advanced beast-taming theory, but they struggled to understand it, so he gave them jade slips to study.
• Chen Beiwu decided to enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and ask the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape whether it knew of Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable.

Chen Beiwu sparred with the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm but could not overcome its immense strength, even after using Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation. Impressed by Chen Beiwu’s potential, the demon ape agreed to give him the inheritance treasures in exchange for sparring once every hundred years.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape challenged Chen Beiwu, and its opening attack pierced a Five-Qi Puppet while Chen Beiwu’s counterattacks failed to injure it.
• Chen Beiwu combined Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele into Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation and attacked, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape remained unharmed.
• Chen Beiwu ended the spar rather than reveal his trump cards and asked the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape for access to the Heavenly Evolution True Realm’s inheritances.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape agreed to give Chen Beiwu the inheritance treasures on the condition that they spar once every hundred years.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape brought Chen Beiwu to the Inheritance Stele and opened its space, telling him he could take whatever he wanted.

Chen Beiwu faced the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk’s artifact spirit, Xinling, and failed her test of the Star-Dipper Life-Breath Seven-Kill Grand Formation. When he revealed three grains of star sand that could help her advance toward a Heaven-Piercing Profound Treasure, Xinling agreed to recognize him as her master, and Chen Beiwu demanded that she teach him the formation.

• The Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk chose Chen Beiwu and subjected him to a resolve test, which he passed with Great Mystery Guarding the One.
• Xinling challenged Chen Beiwu to withstand or break her fourth-tier supreme-grade formation, but the formation shattered his divine sense avatar before he could pass.
• Chen Beiwu asked Xinling to recognize him as her master, but she refused, so Golden Egg trapped the disk in its Three Lights true domain.
• Chen Beiwu offered Xinling three grains of star sand, and she recognized him as her master after realizing they could help her advance.
• Chen Beiwu changed the terms of his offer and told Xinling to teach him the Star-Dipper Life-Breath Seven-Kill Grand Formation.

Chen Beiwu bonded with the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk, found a Five Aggregates Fruit, and offered the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape a compatible cultivation art. After learning that the demon ape feared the dangers outside the secret realm, Chen Beiwu returned to Blackstone Gorge, where news of a Grand Void Formation Sect ruin and a weakened Dragon-Breaking Cliff shaped his plans for the expedition.

• Chen Beiwu bonded with the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk and decided to study all four of its formation Dao inheritances.
• Xuele found a Five Aggregates Fruit, and Chen Beiwu entrusted it to Xuele to nurture rather than consume.
• Golden Egg found a Nascent Soul Formation Pill, while Iron Egg and Zhiling searched for resources needed for Chen Beiwu's fourfold Dao-proving.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape said it would not leave the Heavenly Evolution True Realm until its Demon-Imprisoning Dao reached perfection, and Chen Beiwu gave it the first level of the Great Freedom Chaos-Heaven Battle-Devouring Immortal Art.
• At Blackstone Gorge, Shu You told Chen Beiwu that Fuli True Lord, Jiang Buyao, had died trying to approach the flaming mountain at One-Line Sky.
• Chen Beiwu noted that Dragon-Breaking Cliff now had only two Nascent Soul cultivators guarding it.

Chen Beiwu led the Mirror Moon Sect army to Dragon-Breaking Cliff and ordered a direct assault despite its deadly restrictive formation. As the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers became trapped in a frozen hell, Chen Beiwu mounted Golden Egg and charged at True Lord Bloodsource.

• Mo Buyun learned that Chen Zi'ang, the Mirror Moon Dao Child known as True Martial True Lord, was approaching Dragon-Breaking Cliff with four thousand cultivators, and Sun Tianyi volunteered to lead the allied army into battle.
• Chen Beiwu's army established camp outside Dragon-Breaking Cliff, and Shu You explained that Lin Ziqian had betrayed the sect before Blood Marrow True Lord killed him and seized the stronghold.
• Chen Beiwu announced generous military merit rewards and ordered his army to attack Dragon-Breaking Cliff directly the next morning, despite Yu Pan warning that its formation could destroy the attackers' souls.
• The five Rising Moon Generals formed the Upper Moon Dao Formation and led the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers into the Six-Yin Clear Radiance Dragon-Breaking Absolute Formation, where Mo Buyun's six-yin baleful radiance froze them.
• Chen Beiwu mounted Golden Egg and charged past the trapped soldiers toward Mo Buyun above Dragon-Breaking Cliff.

Chen Beiwu and his companions attacked Dragon-Breaking Cliff, overcoming the Blood Fortune Sect’s blood weapon and turning the Scarlet Sun Sect’s arrow formation against the defenders. The pass’s defenses were disrupted, the Mirror Moon army advanced, and the Scarlet Sun Sect suffered devastating losses.

• Mo Buyun redirected the Blood-Transforming Pagoda Life-Slaying Platform at Chen Beiwu, but Golden Egg shattered its attack and Xuele purified its lingering corruption.
• The Scarlet Sun Sect unleashed Flame-Refining Nine Heavens at the Mirror Moon army, and Iron Egg absorbed the fire with the Great Heaven Pure Hell Aspect before reflecting a vastly stronger crimson-gold rain of fire.
• True Lord Scarlet Dragon raised a defensive barrier while Mo Buyun tried to activate Dragon-Breaking Cliff’s defenses, but Chen Beiwu seized control of the Six-Yin Clear Radiance Dragon-Breaking Absolute Formation with Xinling’s help.
• Chen Beiwu used the formation to freeze Dragon-Breaking Cliff and free the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers, who charged toward the pass gates.
• The Azure Spirit Sect raised the Ten-Thousand-Green Everlasting Spirit Ancient Wall, but Iron Egg’s fire overwhelmed the Scarlet Sun defenses, killing many cultivators and leaving barely over a thousand of the three thousand alive.

Chen Beiwu used the Mirror Moon Sect’s assault on Dragon-Breaking Cliff to detonate the Six-Yin Severing Formation, but the three allied sects suppressed the blast and foiled his attempt to destroy their army. He withdrew with his forces after learning more about the defenders’ strength, and as he considered how to capture the stronghold next, Xinling said she had a way.

• True Lord Crimson Dragon summoned the Crimson Fire Chi Dragon to intercept the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers as they charged Dragon-Breaking Cliff’s gates.
• Chen Beiwu detonated the Six-Yin Severing Formation’s hub, while Zhiling teleported more than three thousand Mirror Moon cultivators a hundred li away from the blast.
• Mo Buyun and the Azure Spirit Sect activated their formations to contain the explosion, and Chen Beiwu’s attempted attack on True Lord Crimson Dragon failed when the latter raised a defensive barrier.
• Chen Beiwu ordered the Mirror Moon army to retreat after achieving his goal of learning the three sects’ defenses, leaving over two thousand allied cultivators dead.
• Shu You reported the Mirror Moon Sect’s casualties, and Chen Beiwu ordered compensation for the fallen and treatment for the wounded.
• Chen Beiwu considered how to capture Dragon-Breaking Cliff without sacrificing his army, then Xinling told him she had a way.

Chen Beiwu withdrew the Mirror Moon army, then secretly bought a formation-breaking treasure and infiltrated Dragon-Breaking Cliff with Xuele. He assassinated Mo Buyun instantly and set his sights on True Lord Scarlet Dragon.

• Chen Beiwu rejected Xinling's proposal to use star sand and ordered the Mirror Moon army to retreat to Blackstone Gorge, promising Xuele they would retake Dragon-Breaking Cliff within a month.
• Mo Buyun learned of the retreat, mocked Chen Beiwu, and gave True Lord Scarlet Dragon a Grand Void Formation Sect true disciple token, winning his approval.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Immortal Alliance, bought an Earth-Aspect Origin-Returning Pearl from the Myriad Treasures Society, and collected it three days later in Tianyuan City.
• Chen Beiwu infiltrated Dragon-Breaking Cliff with Xuele's concealment and began searching for the formation hub nodes.
• Mo Buyun sensed danger but could not detect Chen Beiwu's attack; Chen Beiwu's Silence Illuminates Myriad Forms Profound Light Thorn split Mo Buyun's Nascent Soul and killed him instantly.
• Chen Beiwu killed the female cultivator who witnessed the assassination and vanished with Xuele, naming True Lord Scarlet Dragon as his next target.

Chen Beiwu and his beasts ambushed Sun Tianyi inside Dragon-Breaking Cliff, but the Crimson Fire Chi Dragon and the three-sect army nearly trapped them. Xuele turned the pass’s earth veins against its defenders, allowing Chen Beiwu to kill Sun Tianyi, while the Crimson Fire Chi Dragon offered to end their feud.

• Sun Tianyi refined Flame Gold Liquid for the Crimson Fire Chi Dragon, which warned him of Chen Beiwu’s surprise attack; Chen Beiwu’s first soul strike was stopped by Sun Tianyi’s Soul-Guarding Profound Pendant.
• Iron Egg’s Karmic Fire Heeding Sin ability ignited Sun Tianyi, but the Crimson Fire Glazed True Domain suppressed the flames, and Sun Tianyi activated Dragon-Breaking Cliff’s pass-protecting formations.
• The Crimson Fire Chi Dragon and Sun Tianyi fought Chen Beiwu and his beasts, while the dragon briefly considered switching partners before Sun Tianyi’s warning persuaded it to keep fighting.
• The three-sect allied army surrounded Chen Beiwu, but Xuele activated the Earth-Aspect Origin-Returning Pearl and unleashed the earth veins, causing Dragon-Breaking Cliff’s formations to turn against its defenders.
• Chen Beiwu appeared behind Sun Tianyi and killed him with a strike between the brows, then took his storage bag as the Crimson Fire Chi Dragon withdrew its aura and proposed ending their grievances.

Shu You’s army reached Dragon-Breaking Cliff and learned that Chen Zi'ang had seized it alone, killed two Nascent Soul True Lords, and routed the allied army. Chen Beiwu secured the Scarlet Fire Chi Dragon’s sloughed reverse scale and ordered the surviving enemy cultivators captured; meanwhile, the Five Great Sects’ leaders heard reports of Chen Zi'ang’s feat and dismissed them as exaggerated rumors.

• Yu Pan captured fleeing Azure Spirit Sect scouts, learned that Chen Zi'ang had supposedly taken Dragon-Breaking Cliff alone, and sent the report to Shu You.
• Shu You and Jiang Yuyan arrived at Dragon-Breaking Cliff, saw its devastation, and led the Mirror Moon army to surround the pass.
• Chen Beiwu refused to let the Scarlet Fire Chi Dragon simply leave and negotiated for its sloughed reverse scale in exchange for settling their grievances.
• Chen Beiwu declined to slaughter the fleeing cultivators and ordered Shu You and Jiang Yuyan to capture them and bring them to Blackstone Gorge, with help from three Demon Kings.
• The Five Great Sects’ leaders debated how to oppose the Eight Desolations Sect’s influence over the Grand Void Formation Sect Ruins.
• The sect masters heard that Chen Zi'ang had defeated the allied army and reclaimed Dragon-Breaking Cliff, but they dismissed the report as fabricated exaggeration.

After Chen Zi'ang captured Dragon-Breaking Cliff, Zhu Wuya and the sect masters debated the threat his rise posed while planning to recruit the Heavenly Craft Talisman Sect for the struggle over the Grand Void Formation Sect's ruins. The defeated alliance's leaders blamed one another for their losses, but Ning Hongye redirected them toward the ruins, while Chen Beiwu watched his fortune grow and imagined unifying the Earth Evolution Realm.

• Zhu Wuya heard sect masters praise Chen Zi'ang's victory and warned that the Five Great Sects might fear his future path to Spirit Transformation.
• Zhu Wuya proposed bringing in the Heavenly Craft Talisman Sect, explaining that the possible life-extending medicines and Formation Dao inheritances in the ruins could persuade it to cooperate.
• Mo Zijin, Sun Wenshi, and the Azure Spirit Sect's sect master accused one another over the defeat at Dragon-Breaking Cliff, until Ning Hongye silenced them and refocused the alliance on the ruins.
• Zhuo Buwei considered secretly supporting Junior Sister Zhao's wager on the Mirror Moon Sect while resolving to seek a Spirit Transformation Pill for himself.
• Chen Beiwu saw his fortune continue to rise after capturing Dragon-Breaking Cliff and wondered how much more he could gain by unifying the Earth Evolution Realm.

Chen Beiwu returned to Blackstone Gorge with four thousand captives and seized resources, then discovered that a token Zhiling chose could enable fixed-point teleportation tied to the Grand Void Formation Sect. He rejected the Sect’s usual exploitative treatment of prisoners and ordered Shu You to bring at least half of the captives into the Beast Taming Lineage.

• Chen Beiwu led the Mirror Moon army and its captives back to Blackstone Gorge, keeping five hundred and seventy thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones for developing the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Blackstone Gorge’s cultivators welcomed Chen Beiwu after confirming his victory, and he ordered the captives housed in the side valley.
• Zhiling selected a token that could provide fixed-point teleportation, and Chen Beiwu kept it rather than letting Zhiling refine it.
• Shu You explained the Sect’s usual ways of exploiting or disposing of enemy captives, and Chen Beiwu questioned her about the Beast Taming Lineage’s strength.
• Chen Beiwu ordered Shu You to bring at least half of the four thousand captives into the Beast Taming Lineage, despite her concerns about accepting enemy cultivators.

Chen Beiwu announced plans to turn Blackstone Gorge into Protectorate City and use a merit-based household system to build support for the Beast Taming Lineage, especially among ordinary Qi Refining cultivators. The chapter ended with him promising that Protectorate City would protect anyone who obeyed its publicly announced laws, even from attacks by Nascent Soul True Lords.

• Chen Beiwu ordered Shu You to rename Blackstone Gorge Protectorate City, establish city departments, and introduce merit points and seven household ranks for its residents.
• The three sects’ captured cultivators feared enslavement, but Mirror Moon disciples brought them azure rice, surprising them with their treatment.
• Chen Beiwu announced that prisoners could earn advancement through merit points, gain freedom, or join the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Chen Beiwu offered higher-ranked servants city residences, protection, discipleship, or guidance on Core Formation, prompting interest among both captives and Mirror Moon cultivators.
• Li Quan asked whether Protectorate City was absolutely safe, and Chen Beiwu promised protection from magical combat for law-abiding residents, declaring that he would suppress anyone who attacked them.

Chen Beiwu oversaw the start of Protectorate City's construction before receiving a mandatory ten-year garrison assignment at Ten Thousand Layer Mountain in the Earth Abyss. While inspecting its sealed well, he discovered a beast's claw within and realized the supposedly dead ancient being was still alive.

• Shu You held a denunciation assembly, and 821 coalition prisoners were classified as penal laborers while 2,837 agreed to help build Protectorate City.
• Chen Beiwu gave Shu You plans for Protectorate City and its defensive formation, then returned to the Immortal Alliance as construction began.
• Chen Beiwu received a compulsory ten-year assignment as garrison envoy of Ten Thousand Layer Mountain and traveled to the Earth Abyss.
• Liu Yuanming reported that Ten Thousand Layer Mountain was calm, and Chen Beiwu inspected the sealed Ten Thousand Layer Fief.
• Chen Beiwu spotted a beast's claw in the ancient well and realized the ancient being beneath Ten Thousand Layer Mountain was alive.

Chen Beiwu learned that a Heaven-Grade Mist Calamity was expected near the end of his term as Ten Thousand Layer Mountain’s Garrison Envoy and examined the city’s defenses. Liu Yuanming, Bai Yi, and Chang Ming secretly agreed to a dangerous scheme for the Tianyuan Xiao Clan, while Chen Beiwu’s beasts sensed an ancient presence in the Earth Abyss.

• Chen Beiwu questioned Liu Yuanming about the sealed old well and learned that a Heaven-Grade Mist Calamity could strike in nine years, bringing powerful demon beasts and possibly Fifth-Realm Demon Venerables.
• Liu Yuanming showed Chen Beiwu the Two Forms Heavenly Radiance Heaven-Transforming Grand Formation, which could hold off a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable for a quarter of an hour until reinforcements arrived.
• Liu Yuanming met with Bai Yi and Chang Ming, and the three agreed to continue the Tianyuan Xiao Clan’s risky scheme in exchange for a Companion Beast Return-to-Nascent-Soul Pill and two Core-Sealing Mystic Profound Pills.
• Chen Beiwu refined fortune from the cultivators under his influence, while Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling sensed a strange pull from deep within the Earth Abyss.
• After Zhiling warned him of an ominous premonition, Chen Beiwu used his Garrison Envoy’s token and Golden Egg’s concealment ability to explore Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City.

Chen Beiwu uncovered a scheme in Ten Thousand Layer Mountain’s outer city in which Immortal Alliance officials secretly preyed on Spirit Clans to cultivate Blood Amber Orchids. After interrogating those involved and confronting three senior officials, he suspected they had concealed more than they admitted.

• Chen Beiwu took Xuele and the others through the outer city, where Iron Egg sensed abundant sinful karma and they saw Spirit Clans teaching cultivation and a fox-blooded Half-Spirit.
• Chen Beiwu followed a cultivator who abducted three injured demonic beasts to the Pure Fire Bureau, where he killed the gray-robed accomplice and interrogated Li Yuan.
• Li Yuan revealed a network in the Pure Fire Bureau, Healing Bureau, and Garrison Envoy’s residence that harmed Spirit Clans to obtain beast blood and materials for Blood Amber Orchids.
• Chen Beiwu secretly investigated the names Li Yuan provided and, the next day, summoned Liu Yuanming, Bai Yi, and Chang Ming over the Blood Amber Orchid case.
• The three senior officials denied knowing about the scheme and blamed their subordinates, but Chen Beiwu suspected their heavy sinful karma meant they were hiding something.

Chen Beiwu disciplined three officials over the Blood Amber case while suspecting they were hiding something, then turned his attention to building Protectorate City in the Southern Wasteland. He sought a rare piece of Illuminating Heart Marrow and offered the Heavenly Craft Merchant Association insights into forming a pure yang nascent soul to secure a negotiation.

• Chen Beiwu suspended Liu Yuanming, Bai Yi, and Chang Ming from their posts pending investigation, while the three left believing their plan was proceeding as expected.
• Chen Beiwu entered seclusion, and restless cultivators began stirring in Ten Thousand Layer Mountain City.
• Chen Beiwu reviewed Protectorate City's progress with Shu You and learned that True Lord Shangyu had reserved the Heavenly Craft Merchant Association's only piece of Illuminating Heart Marrow.
• Chen Beiwu summoned steward Zhao Yikun and demanded that someone with authority negotiate over the Illuminating Heart Marrow.
• Chen Beiwu offered the association insights into forming a pure yang nascent soul, and Zhao Yikun considered the opportunity's potential.