Recaps

Tang Wen arranged wind turbine projects, hosted a lavish dinner where he sold modern goods to Black Tortoise City's elites, and traded with Tu Qianqiu for warming pills during their flight. The chapter left Tang Wen and Tu Qianqiu landing in a primeval forest at dawn.

• Tang Wen chose sites for six wind turbines and planned to use machinery to mine Heavenly Gold Mountain, while putting the subjugation of Sword Gazing Mountain Manor back on the agenda.
• Tang Wen hosted the elders and apothecaries at a dinner, impressing them with a rotating table and qipao-clad servers.
• Tang Wen sold wineglasses, novelty lighters, and cosmetics to the guests, earning about two hundred thousand taels of gold.
• Tu Qianqiu took Tang Wen away on a Black-Eagle Roc and gave him a Firebird Pill to keep him warm.
• Tang Wen traded wine for Firebird Pills and Cold Ice Pills as the roc carried them for several hours to a primeval forest, where it landed at dawn.

Tu Qianqiu took Tang Wen to Gu Elder, who threw Tang Wen into a pit of insects and sent his Insect King into Tang Wen’s dantian to fight the Gu within him. Two days later, Tang Wen was still trapped in the pit, while Gu Elder planned to let the Insect King devour the mysterious Gu.

• Tu Qianqiu warned Tang Wen about Gu Elder’s insect-filled forest and led him into the clearing after Gu Elder invited them in.
• Gu Elder pulled Tang Wen into a Ten-Thousand-Insect Pit, where insects burrowed into his body as Gu Elder investigated the Gu inside him.
• Gu Elder released his Insect King, which shrank and entered Tang Wen through his nostril before forcing its way into his dantian.
• Tang Wen suffered as the Insect King and the Gu fought inside his dantian, while Gu Elder covered the pit and left him in darkness among the insects.
• After two days without food, Tang Wen ate scorpions and a king cobra, while Gu Elder told Tu Qianqiu that the Insect King would stay inside him for at least ten days and devour the Gu.

Tang Wen survived the Gu king’s evolution and gained poisonous qi, then persuaded Gu Elder to become his master and move to Tang Sect. As Gu Elder prepared to leave, the Gu king returned and bonded with Tang Wen, while the Great Landlord System registered a huge increase in his land and left only the popularity requirement for Crossing Mode.

• After ten days in the cellar, Tang Wen emerged amid insect remains, and the evolved Gu king escaped despite Gu Elder’s attempts to call it back.
• Tang Wen’s poisonous qi withered a tree, so he bowed to Gu Elder and asked to learn the Myriad Poisons Art; Gu Elder agreed to become his master.
• Tang Wen offered Gu Elder land for his insects at Tang Sect, and a month later Gu Elder agreed to move while Tang Wen learned to control his poison cultivation and reached late second grade.
• The Gu king returned, landed on Tang Wen’s shoulder, and burrowed into his body, prompting Tu Qianqiu to joke that it belonged to Tang Wen now.
• The Great Landlord System added 2,380 qing to Tang Wen’s holdings and reported that only the popularity requirement remained before Crossing Mode could be activated.

Tang Wen returned to the Chu Kingdom with supplies and learned that Niu Hanzi had emerged from seclusion at half-step second grade. As the household prepared for rising seas and continued recruiting people, Tang Wen discussed improving the sect’s facilities and giving its servants a better life.

• Xiang Wu delivered Tang Wen a supreme-grade Void Bag, and Tang Wen gave him hand grenades for the Heavenly Tears Elder and for himself.
• Tang Wen returned to the Medical Hall, where Zhang Taiben had performed eighteen operations, and Tang Wen carried out more than a hundred minor surgeries over ten days while training the apothecaries.
• Tang Wen crossed back to the Chu Kingdom with spirit stones, gold, grain, and medicinal herbs, then unloaded the supplies on Su Mei Island.
• Niu Hanzi emerged from seclusion at half-step second grade, and Tang Wen tested his strength before ordering high-grade spirit stones for the cave residence and more cultivation floors.
• Zhan Dongwen reported that the sea was rising, the bridge piers were complete, and recruiting people remained difficult because refugees feared slavery; Tang Wen ordered the War Fox Team to increase recruitment and said he would treat the Tang household’s servants well.

Tang Wen went to Qingniu Town to confront Wen Jinyuan and the government slaves resisting their transfer into private ownership. After disarming himself and his companions to show good faith, he argued with Wen Jinyuan and Hong Feng, then Niu Hanzi challenged Hong Feng to a fight.

• Li Quan told Tang Wen that the new government slaves in Qingniu Town had refused to submit, and Mo Dachang’s forces were at a standoff with them.
• Tang Wen learned that Wen Jinyuan had organized the townspeople, who would rather face imprisonment, exile, or death than become private slaves.
• Tang Wen ordered his Personal Guards to withdraw and discarded his weapons so he could approach Wen Jinyuan peacefully.
• Wen Jinyuan and Hong Feng rejected Tang Wen’s appeal to stand on their own feet and insulted him for relying on his parents’ status.
• Niu Hanzi challenged Hong Feng to a fight and offered to give him a one-hand handicap.

Tang Wen defeated Wen Jinyuan in a contest of poetry and fists, then ordered the Personal Guards to gather at Su Mei Island. After traveling to Red City, Tang Wen found that Yan Beitian had already arrived with nearly a thousand guards.

• Tang Wen matched Wen Jinyuan’s plum poems and agreed to call their poetry contest a draw.
• Wen Jinyuan attacked Tang Wen with a powerful fist, but Tang Wen casually repelled him and destroyed a distant earthen wall with a punch.
• Tang Wen ordered the Personal Guards to leave Qingniu Town and reach Su Mei Island within three days; Wen Jinyuan, Hong Feng, and Wen Jinrong decided to go as well.
• Tang Wen’s party traveled through Jiudao Liangzi to Red City and lodged at the Red River Inn.
• Yan Beitian emerged from beneath Tang Wen’s bed, having arrived several days earlier with nearly a thousand Personal Guards.

Tang Wen investigated whether Liangzi Stronghold had robbed the government grain convoy and planned to gain access by impersonating a physician and consulting Red River officials. At dinner, a haughty young woman challenged Mei Niansu and Tang Wen, then was struck back by Niu Hanzi, revealing the strength of Tang Wen’s companions.

• Yan Beitian reported that Liangzi Stronghold was heavily guarded, its leaders were Ma Yao, Sun Hongqing, and Ye Xiangyin, and Ma Yao had fallen ill.
• Tang Wen proposed impersonating Li Mingkong to enter the stronghold and ordered an investigation into the Li Family.
• Tang Wen decided to visit Prefect Zhao Duan and had Luo Yiwu deliver a visiting card.
• A fairy-like young woman confronted Tang Wen over his riverside table, and Mei Niansu and the woman exchanged attacks that revealed both were powerful.
• The young woman struck at Tang Wen, but Niu Hanzi blocked her with a punch and sent her staggering backward.

Tang Wen clashed with Feng Jiuxue, who had come to arrest him for the Fang Family, but she decided to follow him instead. At an inn, Tang Wen saved the choking son of Qiao Yi, the Military Commissioner of the Black Cavalry Battalion at Red River, and left with Qiao Yi’s gratitude.

• Feng Jiuxue revealed that she had come to arrest Tang Wen because the Feng Family owed the Fang Family a favor, but she abandoned the attempt and vowed to follow him.
• Tang Wen explained his conflict with the Fang Family and Kang Qingfeng, while Feng Jiuxue accused him of scheming and threatened to report him to the Six Fan Division.
• A woman called for help when her child began choking, and Feng Jiuxue and Tang Wen rushed to the private room.
• Tang Wen cut open the child’s throat, removed the obstruction, and stopped the bleeding despite Qiao Yi’s initial attempts to attack him.
• Tang Wen arranged for a doctor to help care for the child and gave Qiao Yi instructions for his recovery.
• Luo Yiwu identified Tang Wen as the First-Class Earl of Linghai and Deputy Tuanlian Commissioner of Linghai, and Qiao Yi apologized for offending him.

Tang Wen treated Qiao Yi’s injured child and drew Feng Jiuxue into investigating the seizure of military grain, which might involve Ridge-Sea Academy. He demonstrated the power of a Spirit Stone to Feng Jiuxue, who wanted to buy some from him, but Tang Wen gave no answer.

• Tang Wen reassured Qiao Yi that the child would recover, then sent Lin Jiaojiao with them to care for him.
• Tang Wen told Feng Jiuxue that he was investigating the seizure of the Provincial Administration Office’s grain and fodder and suspected a connection to Ridge-Sea Academy.
• Feng Jiuxue agreed to join the investigation, and Chun’er arranged to request protection from Blood Slaughter Hall.
• Tang Wen planned to visit the Prefect and investigate Liangzi Stronghold, beginning at Jiudao Liangzi.
• Tang Wen showed Feng Jiuxue a Spirit Stone, and she felt its energy strengthen her cultivation.
• Feng Jiuxue offered to buy Spirit Stones, but Tang Wen only smiled and asked whether she planned to take them by force.

Tang Wen negotiated with Feng Jiuxue for her help investigating the grain and fodder robbery, then learned Ridge-Sea Academy’s Intelligence Hall was watching him. He planned to investigate Liangzi Stronghold with Feng Jiuxue and revealed that Wen Jinyuan would arrive the next day.

• Feng Jiuxue threatened Tang Wen for his Spirit Pills, but agreed to cooperate on the grain and fodder case in exchange for one.
• Tang Wen returned to the Red River Inn while two Ridge-Sea Academy agents discussed watching him and keeping the Tang family under pressure.
• Luo Yiwu brought Tang Wen a War Fox Team recording that exposed the agents, and Tang Wen ordered expanded surveillance of Ridge-Sea Academy’s elders.
• Tang Wen and Luo Yiwu discussed investigating the Li Family and treating the sick at Liangzi Stronghold while Li Kongming was away.
• Tang Wen decided to take only Feng Jiuxue up the mountain, then told Luo Yiwu that Wen Jinyuan would arrive the next day.

Tang Wen visited Prefect Zhao Duan in Red River and learned that Zhao wanted to sell him a government weaving workshop, its land, and its slaves in exchange for help and merit points. The chapter ended with Tang asking for details about the offer.

• Tang Wen explained his plans to bring Feng Jiuxue into the Tang fold and suggested that Wan Hansong might become a future ally.
• Tang Wen, Feng Jiuxue, and Luo Yiwu traveled to Red River Prefecture, where Zhao Duan personally welcomed Tang because of his noble title.
• Zhao Duan described the burdens of wartime quotas and mentioned Tang's large donations and two hundred thousand merit points.
• Zhao Duan praised Tang's Western goods and proposed that he open a shop in Red River City.
• Zhao Duan offered Tang a government weaving workshop, its slaves, and land at a discount, with the purchase also earning him extra merit points; Tang asked for more details.

Tang Wen visited Red River City's Hundred-Leaf Workshop with Zhao Duan and Feng Jiuxue to consider taking it over, but he disputed Zhao Duan's four-million-tael asking price. The chapter ended with Tang Wen arguing that the government slaves were not worth a thousand taels apiece.

• Tang Wen asked Zhao Duan to bring the chief constable along, and Zhao Duan ordered Ding Qi to select constables to escort the party.
• Ding Qi explained that the Six Fan Gate's Red River Branch Hall was led by Tang Yao and monitored the Moving Wood Palace.
• Tang Wen and his companions toured the Hundred-Leaf Workshop, where Zhao Duan described its land, workers, and potential usefulness to Tang Wen.
• Zhao Duan asked four million taels for the workshop's land and workers, offering to convert the sale into merit points, while Feng Jiuxue urged him to ask for more.
• Tang Wen challenged the price, arguing that the women and men were not worth the amounts Zhao Duan claimed.

Tang Wen secured the Hundred-Leaf Workshop and the Red River Prefecture Horse Ranch in exchange for three million taels and forty-five thousand Merit Points, then questioned Constable Ding about the stolen grain shipment. Feng Jiuxue revealed her authority as a Six Fan Hall Hall Master and ordered Ding Qi to report what he knew about Liangzi Stronghold.

• Zhao Duan offered Tang Wen the Hundred-Leaf Workshop, the Horse Ranch, workers, and Merit Points, and Tang Wen settled on a price of three million taels with forty-five thousand Merit Points.
• Tang Wen told Mei Niansu to let a follower listen from outside the workshop but not approach.
• Tang Wen and Ding Qi discussed the robbery of grain provisions at Jiudao Liangzi Bend and concluded that moving the stolen grain likely required thousands of people.
• Feng Jiuxue rebuked Ding Qi for knowing so little about Liangzi Stronghold, then revealed her Command Token and authority as a Hall Master.
• Ding Qi denied collusion with the stronghold and described the delayed investigation, the rain-washed tracks, and the lack of evidence tying Liangzi Stronghold to the robbery.

Feng Jiuxue and Tang Wen planned to investigate the stolen government grain by infiltrating Liangzi Stronghold, with Tang Wen disguised as Li Mingkong. They recruited Li Hongqing to help, leaving him terrified by Feng Jiuxue’s threat and the Six Fan Gate’s command.

• Ding Qi told Feng Jiuxue that the investigation had stopped because the Moving Wood Palace was too powerful to challenge, but Feng Jiuxue ordered him to keep investigating in secret and summon Tang Yao.
• Tang Wen and Feng Jiuxue discussed her spirit stones and negotiated a protection fee for accompanying him to Liangzi Stronghold.
• Tang Wen explained that directly storming Liangzi Stronghold would be too dangerous, so he planned to infiltrate it disguised as the divine physician Li Mingkong.
• Tang Wen and Feng Jiuxue entered the Li Family residence and questioned Li Hongqing, who said Li Mingkong had been away for five years and could not be contacted.
• Feng Jiuxue told Li Hongqing that Tang Wen would impersonate Li Mingkong to investigate the stolen grain, then threatened him with the Six Fan Gate’s decree when he objected.

Tang Wen arranged to impersonate Li Mingkong to infiltrate Liangzi Stronghold, while Feng Jiuxue prepared disguises and recruited help. At a banquet in Red River City, Tang Wen showcased Western goods, sold nearly five hundred thousand taels’ worth, and paid Zhao Duan a commission.

• Tang Wen threatened Li Hongqing into cooperating, then used the Bone-Shrinking Skill to match Li Mingkong’s height as Feng Jiuxue planned masks and a cover involving Xiu'er, Tong Ding, and Zhang Xiaoru.
• Li Hongqing agreed to delay Liangzi Stronghold by saying Li Mingkong would return in a few days, giving Tang Wen time to prepare his impersonation.
• Zhao Duan hosted a banquet for Tang Wen, attended by Red River branch head Tang Yao, and introduced Tang Wen’s Hundred-Leaf Workshop plans to local merchants.
• Tang Wen presented Western drinks, cosmetics, weapons, and Bulletproof Vests, turning the banquet into a sales event that brought in 493,800 taels.
• Tang Wen gave Zhao Duan a five-percent commission of 25,000 taels and offered Tang Yao a commission for future customer referrals.

Tang Wen investigated the stolen grain with Feng Jiuxue, then rushed between worlds to exchange money and deliver bridge girders to Su Mei Island. After completing the bridges, he absorbed popularity with Gu Hanyan, leaving her alive but both of them changed by the dangerous cultivation.

• Tang Yao accepted gifts from Tang Wen, then told Feng Jiuxue that his men had failed to investigate the Moving Wood Palace and that Liangzi Stronghold had powerful experts.
• Feng Jiuxue ordered Tang Yao to covertly trace the stolen grain and cooperate with arriving Blood Slaughter Hall members in investigating the Moving Wood Palace.
• Tang Wen traveled to Water Blue Star, exchanged gold for silver, sold more gold, and returned with goods and prefabricated bridge girders.
• Tang Wen and Zhan Dongwen installed girders on the three bridges, and Tang Wen slept for two days after working without rest.
• When the popularity quota was met, Tang Wen guided popularity into Gu Hanyan as they cultivated, and both entered a dangerous frenzied state.
• Tang Wen woke hours later, found Gu Hanyan alive, and noticed that his popularity eye had become more penetrating.

Tang Wen advanced his cultivation and taught Gu Hanyan a new technique before returning to Red River City to receive a Human-Skin Mask from Feng Jiuxue. Disguised as Li Mingkong, he led Wen Jinyuan and Xiu'er into the Medicine Hall.

• Gu Hanyan revealed her true face, explained that her cultivation had risen to the Second-Grade Realm, and insisted she would take revenge herself.
• Tang Wen taught Gu Hanyan and Tang Hao the Flood Dragon Lure before riding back to Red River City.
• Tang Wen saw through Feng Jiuxue's disguise as Xiu'er, and she gave him a Human-Skin Mask made by Ghost Face.
• Feng Jiuxue attacked Tang Wen with palm strikes, but his lightness skill let him dodge every blow.
• Feng Jiuxue helped Wen Jinyuan put on a Human-Skin Mask, and Tang Wen led him and Xiu'er into the Medicine Hall in disguise.

Tang Wen treated patients, agreed to visit Liangzi Stronghold, and uncovered evidence that a group was secretly trying to ruin his business. He reached the mountain stronghold with Feng Jiuxue, suspecting it could be connected to the stolen grain, and warned her to stay cautious.

• Tang Wen treated dozens of patients at the Medicine Hall, then told them that Zhang Xiaoru would see patients while he studied medicine in seclusion.
• Zhu Zi Yun offered Tang Wen a thousand taels of gold and warned that Liangzi Stronghold could either help or trouble the Li Family; Tang Wen agreed to visit the stronghold the next morning.
• Mei Niansu showed Tang Wen footage of Hall Master Cao and Zhang Long discussing orders to cut off Tang Wen's income, and Tang Wen told Mei Niansu to begin moving into the Hundred-Leaf Workshop.
• Tang Wen traveled with Zhu Zi Yun toward Liangzi Stronghold, while Feng Jiuxue, disguised as maid Xiu'er, complained that she had to walk and demanded another Spirit Stone.
• Tang Wen and Feng Jiuxue reached the steep, heavily guarded stronghold and reasoned that the stolen grain was likely hidden elsewhere; Tang Wen warned Feng Jiuxue not to reveal her identity.

Tang Wen entered Liangzi Stronghold disguised as Divine Physician Li Mingkong to examine the gravely ill chief, Ma Yao. His Popularity Eye suggested that Sun Hongqing, Yang Xiao, and Song Shan might be plotting against Ma Yao, and he grew suspicious of the tonic prescribed for him.

• Sun Hongqing and Ye Xiangyin escorted Tang Wen to Ma Yao's residence after Ma Fei questioned whether he was really Divine Physician Li.
• Tang Wen noticed that Sun Hongqing and Yang Xiao seemed hostile toward Ma Yao, while Song Shan's Popularity Little Figure faced Sun Hongqing.
• Tang Wen learned that Ma Yao's second wife was Song Shan and suspected she and Sun Hongqing were having an affair.
• Tang Wen spotted a strange black-purple line running from Ma Yao's Popularity Little Figure through his dantian and out toward the begonias outside.
• Tang Wen questioned the medicine left by Ma Yao's bedside, noticed Sun Hongqing react nervously, and asked to see the prescription from Master Yun.

Tang Wen discovered that the stronghold chief was being poisoned by a reaction between his restorative medicine and begonia flowers, then uncovered evidence that Sun Hongqing and Apothecary Yun were conspiring to seize Liangzi Stronghold. The chapter left Tang Wen’s involvement under suspicion as the conspirators discussed the investigation into Linghai’s missing military provisions.

• Tang Wen suspected that Ma Yao had been poisoned and asked Feng Jiuxue to secretly collect begonia flowers and the restorative medicine while Wen Jinyuan arranged surveillance of Apothecary Yun.
• Tang Wen tested the restorative and begonia separately on puppies, then found that combining them caused increasing toxicity as the dose rose.
• Tang Wen explained that repeated exposure to the combined poison and begonia scent could gradually bring down even a martial expert, and asked Feng Jiuxue to secretly find out who planted the flowers.
• Wen Jinyuan brought Tang Wen drone footage showing Sun Hongqing meeting Apothecary Yun, who described their plan to weaken Ma Yao and let Sun take control of Liangzi Stronghold.
• Apothecary Yun told Sun Hongqing that Tang Wen’s presence might be connected to an eventual investigation into Linghai’s missing military provisions.

Tang Wen secretly questioned Ma Fei about the poisoning and the stolen provisions, learning that Apothecary Yun had arranged for Seven-Star Begonias and that Sun Hongqing was backed by the Moving Wood Palace. Ma Fei revealed Liangzi Stronghold’s hidden Little Vermilion Fruit, but Ma Yao suddenly cried out as the chapter ended.

• Apothecary Yun warned Sun Hongqing that Six Fan Gate might investigate the stolen provisions and that Ma Yao’s death would draw suspicion.
• Tang Wen and Feng Jiuxue drugged the sentries and others in Ma Yao’s room so Tang Wen could question Ma Fei in secret.
• Ma Fei explained that Apothecary Yun had persuaded Ma Yao to plant Seven-Star Begonias and that Ma Fei had once traveled to Yuezhou to obtain medicine from the Red Fortress.
• Tang Wen showed Ma Fei a recording implicating the Red Fortress in the grain theft, and Ma Fei begged him to protect his family and Liangzi Stronghold.
• Ma Fei revealed that Liangzi Stronghold possessed Little Vermilion Fruit, a natural source of spiritual energy, just as Ma Yao suddenly cried out from his bed.

Tang Wen used the Gu King to neutralize Ma Yao’s poison and secured his agreement to enter the Tang family’s service, while pretending to Song Shan that his treatment had failed. Song Shan and Sun Hongqing continued plotting to take over Liangzi Stronghold, unaware that Ma Yao had recovered.

• Tang Wen showed Ma Yao evidence of Sun Hongqing and Song Shan’s treachery, then offered to save the Ma family if they entered the Tang family’s service.
• Ma Yao agreed, and Tang Wen sent the Gu King into him to absorb the poison until the blackish-purple thread disappeared.
• Ma Yao revealed that a stone key to the hidden vermilion fruits was inside his stomach, so Tang Wen induced him to vomit it up and treated him with medicine.
• Tang Wen pretended that Ma Yao’s poison remained and told Song Shan to prepare concentrated tonic, while Ma Fei helped maintain the deception.
• Song Shan secretly met Sun Hongqing, and they discussed killing Ma Yao, taking control of the stronghold, and Sun Hongqing’s claimed Second Grade strength.

Tang Wen showed Feng Jiuxue video evidence linking Sun Hongqing and Song Shan to the grain-and-fodder investigation, and she agreed to seek support from the Six Fan Gate. The chapter ended with Tang Wen and Wen Jinyuan weighing whether Zhuang Qiyang would dare pursue the case against Moving Wood Palace and beyond.

• Tang Wen showed Feng Jiuxue an Image-Retaining Mirror recording of Sun Hongqing and Song Shan, startling her and revealing evidence relevant to the investigation.
• Tang Wen warned Feng Jiuxue that Sun Hongqing and Apothecary Yun were powerful and that more formidable figures might be behind the case.
• Feng Jiuxue said she would secretly contact Zhuang Qiyang, a Six Fan Division deputy commissioner and Core Elder, for help.
• Tang Wen explained that Zhuang Qiyang's involvement could give them the authority to challenge Moving Wood Palace, which Feng Jiuxue alone could not confront.
• Wen Jinyuan warned that Zhuang Qiyang might arrest only Sun Hongqing and end the case, preventing Tang Wen from tracing the investigation back to Ridge-Sea Academy.

Tang Wen and Wen Jinyuan discussed Moving Wood Palace and Ridge-Sea Academy’s hidden strength, then Tang Wen gave his newly appointed strategist a Void Bag and resources. Suspecting Moving Wood Palace sought the Little Vermilion Fruit, Tang Wen arranged to enter seclusion with Song Shan to treat Ma Fei’s father, leaving the story poised for their investigation.

• Wen Jinyuan warned Tang Wen that the Six Fan Gate would hesitate to confront a major sect, and they agreed to learn more about Ridge-Sea Academy when Zhuang Qiyang arrived.
• Tang Wen appointed Wen Jinyuan to advise him and gave him a High Grade Void Bag filled with Spirit Stones and Spirit Pills, urging him to reach Third-Rank Perfection within a month.
• Tang Wen and Wen Jinyuan suspected Moving Wood Palace was using Liangzi Stronghold both to target Tang Wen and to pursue the Little Vermilion Fruit, so they planned to visit it the next day.
• Tang Wen told Ma Fei that he would enter seclusion for about two days to force the Gu Worm out of his father.
• Song Shan insisted on staying to help, and Tang Wen agreed that she could join the preparations for the treatment.

Tang Wen brought Liangzi Stronghold’s leaders to its hidden Little Vermilion Fruit tree and used its rare Fruit Kings to help them cultivate. As they entered a profound state of cultivation, Tang Wen reached the First-Rank Realm.

• Tang Wen, Ma Yao, and the others descended into the cavern beneath Liangzi Stronghold and found the Little Vermilion Fruit tree.
• Ma Yao discovered a dozen Fruit Kings and pledged Liangzi Stronghold to Tang Wen, who accepted Ma Fei and Ma Yao as his followers.
• Tang Wen set up Spirit Gathering and Fusion Arrays, taught Wen Jinyuan, Ma Fei, and Ma Yao the Heavenly Wood Star-Pegasus Art, and gave each of them and Feng Jiuxue a Fruit King.
• Tang Wen and the others cultivated as the fruits’ spiritual energy surged through them, and Tang Wen entered a state of oneness with heaven.
• Feng Jiuxue felt a powerful pressure pin her down and began cultivating, while Tang Wen’s system reported that he had reached the First-Rank Realm.