Recaps

Yue Wen chose the Dragon Puppet as his reward and bought dragon breath from Da Long so he could try to activate the Azure Dragon Pearl. After waking, he told Zhang Biyue and the Fox Demon Lady he might be able to control the secret realm and asked whether the Fox Demon Lady could transform into True Person Zhen Guangji.

• Da Long explained the Heavenly Circuit Transfer Device's restrictions and showed Yue Wen the Mengtianke Scale Shield, but Yue Wen chose the Dragon Puppet.
• Da Long gave Yue Wen the Dragon Puppet and sold him a wisp of dragon breath to help activate the Azure Dragon Pearl.
• Yue Wen woke to find Zhang Biyue and the Fox Demon Lady recovering, and heard the Fox Demon Lady propose luring the Youjing Body away so the others could escape.
• Zhang Biyue refused to let the Fox Demon Lady take the risk, while Yue Wen said he might activate the Azure Dragon Pearl and open an exit.
• Yue Wen proposed using the Azure Dragon Pearl not only to escape but to confront their enemy, and asked the Fox Demon Lady to transform into True Person Zhen Guangji.

Yue Wen escaped the Azure Dragon burial ground with the Fox Demon Lady and Zhang Biyue, planning to lure the Youjing Body into a trap with Perfected One Nagiko. When they returned to the outer secret realm, they discovered Huo Yanshan’s Yang Fire Great Dao projection above the Azure-Gold Great Hall.

• Yue Wen proposed having the Fox Demon Lady impersonate Perfected One Nagiko to draw the Youjing Body into a confrontation with the real Nagiko, and she agreed to help him kill their enemy.
• The Fox Demon Lady and Zhang Biyue took mountains from the burial ground into their secret realms, while Yue Wen expanded Immortal Dew Valley with the Fox Demon Lady’s help.
• Yue Wen used dragon breath from Da Long to activate the Azure Dragon Pearl and open the burial ground’s realm barrier.
• Yue Wen, the Fox Demon Lady, and Zhang Biyue escaped the burial ground and returned to the outer secret realm to begin their plan.
• The three saw a blazing chariot projection above the Azure-Gold Great Hall, and the Fox Demon Lady identified it as the Xihe Chariot and a projection of the Yang Fire Great Dao.
• Yue Wen recognized the projection as Huo Yanshan’s and wondered why the Dao Realm cultivator had arrived.

Huo Yanshan and Immortal Lord Biyue struck a bargain and entered the Azure Dragon Burial Ground together, each promising not to attack the other. After they left, San Wenyue and his companions arrived, and Wenyue tried to obtain more Dragon Breath for a new plan.

• Huo Yanshan confronted Immortal Lord Biyue outside the Azure-Gold Great Hall and offered his Azure Dragon Seal and Dragon Breath in exchange for entering the Secret Realm.
• Immortal Lord Biyue revealed that she wanted to kill the Taiguang Body and proposed that she and Huo Yanshan join forces against their enemies inside.
• Huo Yanshan and Immortal Lord Biyue exchanged the Seal Art and Dragon Breath, swore not to attack each other, and entered the Azure Dragon Burial Ground together.
• San Wenyue, Zhang Biyue, and the Demon Fox Lady entered the hall after the two powerhouses had left.
• Wenyue said he had a better plan and called out to the dragon in the black-and-gold hall, asking for two more strands of Dragon Breath.

Huo Yanshan and Immortal Lord Biyue entered the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, each secretly planning to betray the other, but mysterious cloud waves made them mistake Wen Yue’s interference for an attack by their companion. As they fought to the death, Wen Yue watched through the dragon pearl with Zhang Biyue beside him.

• Huo Yanshan and Immortal Lord Biyue entered the Azure Dragon Burial Ground under the protection of the Azure Dragon Seal, each planning to kill the other and claim the secret realm’s immortal goods.
• A sudden wave of blue-green mist engulfed them, and Huo Yanshan accidentally slapped Immortal Lord Biyue, who retaliated with a soul sword.
• The mist swept them apart, and Immortal Lord Biyue and Huo Yanshan each believed the other was trying to kill them.
• Huo Yanshan attacked Immortal Lord Biyue with Xi Yu Gui, while she prepared to strike him with the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Painting before another cloud wave separated them.
• As the cloud sea settled, Immortal Lord Biyue and Huo Yanshan unleashed their deadly techniques against each other.
• Wen Yue watched their battle through the dragon pearl while Zhang Biyue remarked on how wicked he seemed.

Yue Wen used the Azure Dragon Pearl and the Fox Demon Lady's disguises to trick Immortal Lord Biyue and Huo Yanshan into fighting. Huo Yanshan drove Biyue into flight, and the Cloud Sea exposed her escape route again, leaving her facing his pursuing attack.

• Yue Wen bought Dragon Breath and directed the Fox Demon Lady to impersonate Immortal Lord Biyue and Huo Yanshan, provoking them into attacking each other.
• The Fox Demon Lady returned to Yue Wen after successfully stoking their suspicions and withdrawing safely.
• Huo Yanshan overwhelmed Immortal Lord Biyue with his Yang Fire and Five Yang Demon-Subduing Fan, forcing her to use an illusion to escape.
• Immortal Lord Biyue fled into the Cloud Sea, but the clouds suddenly parted and revealed her to Huo Yanshan.
• Immortal Lord Biyue realized the Taiguang Body was manipulating the Secret Realm and called for Huo Yanshan to stop, but he continued charging after her.

Immortal Lord Biyue escaped Huo Yanshan after their clash, but she was gravely wounded and lost much of her Ancient Painting. The Taiguang Body and Fox Demon Lady ambushed her as she fled, forcing her to unleash the painting’s soulflame.

• Immortal Lord Biyue used the Six Desires Soul-Burning Fire to weaken Huo Yanshan, then escaped into the Cloud Sea after their Great Dao Projections collided.
• Huo Yanshan gave up pursuing Immortal Lord Biyue and headed toward the floating island in search of treasures.
• Immortal Lord Biyue fled the Cloud Sea, but the Taiguang Body and Fox Demon Lady confronted her from ahead and behind.
• The Fox Demon Lady restrained Immortal Lord Biyue’s Ancient Painting with vines while the Taiguang Body struck her with a punch.
• Immortal Lord Biyue unleashed the soulflame inside the Ancient Painting, causing her cultivation aura to surge as she threatened her attackers.

The Taiguang Body and the Fox Demon Lady fought Immortal Lord Biyue, whose attempts to claim the Ancient Painting and its soulflame failed. Yue Wen used the Azure Dragon Pearl and the Secret Realm’s power to crush her, ending the Youjing Body’s life.

• Immortal Lord Biyue recognized the Taiguang Body and attacked her, but their matching techniques and her weakened cultivation left her unable to overcome the Taiguang Body.
• The Taiguang Body and the Fox Demon Lady wounded Immortal Lord Biyue as she tried to seize the Ancient Painting, but the Divine Realm soulflame refused to help her.
• Immortal Lord Biyue fled from the two women, but the Secret Realm’s azure mist seized her and blocked her movement.
• Yue Wen appeared holding the Azure Dragon Pearl, and Immortal Lord Biyue realized he controlled the Secret Realm.
• Yue Wen condemned Immortal Lord Biyue for harming innocents and crushed her with the azure mist, killing her.

After the Youjing Body was destroyed, Yue Wen and his allies secured the Azure Dragon Pearl and decided to leave the Secret Realm’s fate in his hands. Yue Wen broke through to the Peak Astral Realm, while Huo Yanshan searched the empty islands and found nothing but dirt.

• Zhang Biyue destroyed the Youjing Body’s surviving soulflame, allowing the Taiguang Body to devour its divine soul origin without inheriting her past karma.
• Yue Wen retrieved Immortal Lord Biyue’s Storage Artifact, and Zhang Biyue and the Fox Demon Lady agreed to let him open it and divide the spoils.
• Yue Wen said he would handle the Secret Realm and privately planned to notify the Supernatural Affairs Bureau through Perfected One Nagiko.
• Yue Wen reflected on the Azure Dragon Pearl’s power and his insight into the Yang Wood Great Dao, then realized he had reached the Peak Astral Realm.
• Huo Yanshan searched the floating islands and angrily found that the Secret Realm contained nothing but dirt.

Yue Wen and his companions left the Azure Dragon Burial Ground and donated its remaining treasure soil to River City under the Azure Dragon Society's name. Perfected One Nagiko stopped Huo Yanshan from taking any soil and threatened to expel him, leaving him furious and empty-handed.

• Yue Wen, Zhang Biyue, and the Fox Demon Lady left the Azure Dragon Burial Ground after discussing how to earn money for new fleshly bodies.
• Yue Wen found the unconscious investigators and used one investigator's phone to announce the secret realm's opening and donate its treasure soil in the Azure Dragon Society's name.
• Huo Yanshan suspected that Immortal Lord Biyue's Taiguang Body had taken the treasures and manipulated his battle, then tried to move an entire floating island into his own secret realm.
• Perfected One Nagiko arrived, suppressed Huo Yanshan, and blamed him for the land already removed by the others.
• Perfected One Nagiko claimed the donated secret realm for the Jiangcheng City Supernatural Affairs Bureau and its partners, then threatened Huo Yanshan if he refused to leave without taking any soil.

Perfected One Nagiko drove Huo Yanshan from the Secret Realm and claimed the remaining precious soil, hoping to inherit Kunyu Ridge’s authority. Back at the office, Yue Wen learned why Old Bai’s Spirit-Shaping Soil had made Zhang Biyue’s body black-haired, unusually durable, and foul-smelling, then asked Great Dragon for a cultivation-method loan.

• Perfected One Nagiko forced the weakened Huo Yanshan to leave the Secret Realm, and he threatened that his master would settle accounts with her.
• After Huo Yanshan left, Perfected One Nagiko realized the Azure Dragon Society had likely taken the Immortal Goods and deliberately left the difficult-to-carry precious soil for Jiangcheng.
• Perfected One Nagiko hoped Venerable Chongwu would pass Kunyu Ridge’s Dao Lord position to her.
• Yue Wen called Old Bai to ask why his Spirit-Shaping Soil had turned Zhang Biyue into a black-haired, foul-smelling figurine.
• Old Bai explained that he had added Black Spirit Ore Powder, Black Cloud Spirit Root Liquid, and water musk spiritual liquid to strengthen the body, grow black hair, and repel Quiet Mist Fei.
• Yue Wen ended the call and entered the black-and-gold hall to ask Great Dragon for a cultivation-method loan.

Yue Wen reached the peak of the Astral Realm, bought the Appearance Realm section of the True Dragon Method, and requested rare materials for condensing his Dharma Form. Perfected One Nagiko agreed to provide the costly upper-grade materials once and revealed that she had found the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.

• Yue Wen paid Da Long for the Appearance Realm section of the True Dragon Method and settled his outstanding debt.
• Da Long gave Yue Wen a massive Visualization Diagram and explained that the Appearance Realm would let him forge his own Dao path.
• Yue Wen sent Perfected One Nagiko a list of five upper-grade Dharma Form materials, and she questioned whether he had gone broke.
• Yue Wen explained that he could accept lower-grade alternatives, but Perfected One Nagiko agreed to obtain all five upper-grade materials for one attempt.
• Perfected One Nagiko told Yue Wen that she had found the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, and Yue Wen thanked her.

Yue Wen comprehended Vitality Dao Rhythm from the Azure Dragon Pearl, combining it with Green Mountain Qi to heal wounds without consuming Qi and Blood. Meanwhile, Huo Yanshan sent Hu Hanyi to investigate the Azure Dragon Society and Immortal Lord Biyue, while Hu Hanyi secretly considered fleeing River City and killing Yue Wen before he left.

• Yue Wen comprehended the Yang Wood Great Dao’s breath of ceaseless life and discovered that it complemented his Green Mountain Qi.
• Yue Wen used Vitality Dao Rhythm to heal a cut instantly and realized it might eventually let him regrow severed limbs.
• Huo Yanshan returned to the Hu Family after recovering from his injuries and told Hu Hanyi that Perfected One Nagiko controlled the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• Huo Yanshan gave Hu Hanyi three days to investigate the Azure Dragon Society and Immortal Lord Biyue, threatening to leave the Hu Family without protection if he found nothing.
• Hu Hanyi agreed to search River City for clues and privately considered evacuating his family and arranging Yue Wen’s murder.

Hu Hanyi hired mercenaries to investigate the Azure Dragon Society and Immortal Lord Biyue, while the Dao Realm mercenary Steward Zhang recognized Biyue’s face. Three days later, Yue Wen collected rare Dharma Form materials and Treasure Soil from Perfected One Nagiko, then wondered whether his Dharma Form would reflect the earth and wood Dao Rhythms he had comprehended.

• Hu Hanyi assembled mercenaries, including Dao Realm master Steward Zhang, and offered huge rewards for clues about the Azure Dragon Society and Immortal Lord Biyue.
• Steward Zhang stared at Biyue’s image on Hu Hanyi’s screen as if he recognized her.
• Yue Wen visited Perfected One Nagiko and confirmed that the mustard-seed jade contained all the rare materials he needed to condense his Dharma Form.
• Perfected One Nagiko gave Yue Wen a Secret Realm containing Treasure Soil from the Azure Dragon Burial Ground, explaining that it could accelerate Spirit Plant growth and help him heal.
• Perfected One Nagiko manifested her former Dharma Form of two mountain peaks and suggested Yue Wen’s Dharma Form might be connected to the Yang Earth Great Dao.
• Yue Wen considered how his earth and wood Dao Rhythms might shape his Dharma Form and wondered whether it could look like a bucket.

Huo Yanshan rejected Hu Hanyi’s desperate attempt to keep him in River City, leaving the Hu Family without his protection. With the family nearing ruin, Hu Hanyi decided to risk everything by ordering an attack on Yue Wen before Huo Yanshan’s Flying Boat departed.

• Hu Hanyi begged Huo Yanshan for more time, but Huo Yanshan said he had gained nothing in the Azure Dragon Burial Ground and would no longer protect the Hu Family.
• Hu Hanyi accused Yue Wen of being tied to the Azure Dragon Society and urged Huo Yanshan to capture and torture him, but Huo Yanshan challenged his claims and accused him of trying to provoke a conflict with Perfected One Nagiko.
• Huo Yanshan dismissed Hu Hanyi’s information as a clumsy lie and left the Hu Family study despite Hu Hanyi’s anguished protests.
• Hu Hanyi told Hu Zhong that the Hu Family was at the end of the road and ordered him to prepare Flying Boat tickets for himself and Yunting.
• Hu Hanyi ordered the family’s death warriors to capture and kill Yue Wen, escalating the plan to include their Seventh Realm mighty cultivator if needed.
• When Hu Zhong doubted that the Dao Realm mercenary would attack a City Hero, Hu Hanyi said he would beg her to do it.

Yue Wen began condensing his Dharma Form with rare cultivation materials while three Hu Family death warriors headed to capture him. Zhang Biyue warned him of the attack, and Yue Wen decided to face them with her help as the Dharma Form continued to form.

• Yue Wen swallowed the prepared materials and Nine Tribulations Thunder Pattern Pill, then circulated the True Dragon Method to condense his Dharma Form.
• Yue Wen's dark, black-and-gold Dharma Form gradually solidified, and three golden flames began to ignite on it.
• Three masked Hu Family death warriors traveled toward the Agency while Zhang Biyue went ahead to warn Yue Wen.
• Zhang Biyue told Yue Wen that the Hu Family planned to capture and torture him for information about the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• Yue Wen deduced that Hu Hanyi and his son were preparing to flee River City and chose to let the attackers come, asking Zhang Biyue to help and notify the Fox Demon Lady.

Yue Wen unveiled his newly manifested Three-Eyed Divine Dragon Dharma Form and effortlessly killed a Hu Family Death Warrior who broke into the Agency. The two remaining attackers came downstairs to find Yue Wen waiting amid the blood mist.

• Three Hu Family Death Warriors entered the Agency under cover of Phantom Mist Pills, intending to abduct Yue Wen and deal with his companions.
• Yue Wen revealed his Three-Eyed Divine Dragon Dharma Form and crushed the first Death Warrior with a single attack.
• Little Black Snake absorbed blood essence from the dead Death Warrior while Yue Wen explained that his Dharma Form possessed the Heaven-Supporting, Mountain-Lifting, and Wind-Slashing abilities.
• The two Death Warriors upstairs came downstairs, found Yue Wen alone amid the blood mist, and froze in confusion.
• Yue Wen smiled at the two remaining Death Warriors.

Yue Wen defeated the three Hu Family death warriors in his first battle after entering the Appearance Realm, then pretended to be a helpless victim when Supernatural Affairs Bureau investigators arrived. At the airport, Hu Hanyi went to meet a Dao Realm mercenary and was drawn into a strange green space, where a mysterious woman greeted him.

• Yue Wen used his Three-Eyed True Dragon Dharma Form and Mountain-Lifting ability to kill one death warrior with a punch.
• Shousui restrained another death warrior, allowing Yue Wen to destroy his shield and kill him with sword qi.
• Supernatural Affairs Bureau investigators arrived after the fight, and Yue Wen claimed the three men had attacked him.
• At the airport, Hu Hanyi learned that the death warriors were dead and went to meet the mercenary, while Hu Yunting questioned his father’s actions.
• Hu Hanyi found an unconscious person bearing Yue Wen’s face in a women’s restroom stall, but the mercenary Zhang Biyue left him there.
• Hu Hanyi entered a strange green space, where the unconscious Yue Wen had disappeared and a mysterious woman greeted him as Family Head Hu.

Hu Hanyi vanished from the airport as the Supernatural Affairs Bureau moved to arrest him, while Yue Wen fought off three attackers and revealed a rare Supreme Dharma Form. Perfected One Nagiko learned Yue Wen had comprehended Yang Wood Dao Resonance, and he explained it away by crediting the patch of soil she had given him.

• Perfected One Nagiko arrived at the airport to arrest Hu Hanyi, but Hu Yunting said his father might target Yue Wen.
• After hearing that attackers had stormed the Agency, Perfected One Nagiko rushed there and learned Yue Wen had killed three Appearance Realm opponents without injury.
• Yue Wen summoned his Three-Eyed Divine Dragon Dharma Form, and Perfected One Nagiko identified it as a Supreme Dharma Form blessed by three Great Daos.
• Perfected One Nagiko asked where Yue Wen had gained Yang Wood Dao Resonance, and Yue Wen claimed he had sensed it while lying in the soil she gave him.

Yue Wen concealed his role in Hu Hanyi’s death while the Supernatural Affairs Bureau dismantled the Hu Family. Hu Jiuyi then met his master, who told him to warn Yue Wen that a fatal tribulation awaited him.

• Perfected One Nagiko told Yue Wen that Hu Hanyi had died by suicide, and Yue Wen asked her to make the Hu Family pay to repair his Agency if it was responsible for the attack.
• Yue Wen reflected that he had arranged for the Fox Demon Lady to kill Hu Hanyi, silencing a potential witness to his connection with the Azure Dragon Society.
• The Supernatural Affairs Bureau arrested Hu Family members and shut down its River City businesses, while the public reported the family’s alleged crimes.
• Hu Jiuyi met his blue-robed master on a hidden island and reported Hu Hanyi’s death and the Bureau’s crackdown.
• Hu Jiuyi’s master said the Hu Family’s evil karma had been settled and asked him to warn Yue Wen that he faced a fatal tribulation that the master could resolve.

Yue Wen learned that a cursed painting in his storage artifact had brought a Death Tribulation, and Ye Changsheng sent word on how to avoid it. Ye Changsheng then fought Qu Lan Fei in the Wasteland Zone, resolving Yue Wen’s danger but leaving himself badly injured.

• Yue Wen found that all five of his fortune checks failed and watched his accumulated Fortune Beasts sacrifice themselves to shield him from a Death Tribulation.
• Hu Jiuyi told Yue Wen that Ye Changsheng had identified the painting in his storage artifact as the source of the tribulation and instructed him to bury the artifact in his Inner Realm beneath lightning-struck wood.
• Ye Changsheng met Zhang Biyue and Su Yun, then led them to the Wasteland Zone to confront a Death Tribulation threatening the Seventh Satellite City.
• Ye Changsheng identified the approaching beast as Qu Lan Fei and warned that it was a vanguard for the Great Nightmare Wraith of the Desolate Village.
• A great earthquake shook the Wasteland Zone, and the injured Ye Changsheng sent Yue Wen a message that his Death Tribulation had been resolved.

After surviving a mysterious death calamity, Yue Wen decided to bury Immortal Lord Biyue’s storage artifact in Immortal Dew Valley and joined the other City Heroes for training. Perfected One Nagiko brought them to the Spell-Derivation Secret Realm, where Yue Wen began using the Myriad Laws Tree to improve his cultivation method.

• Yue Wen learned more about Daoist Ye from Hu Jiuyi and speculated that Daoist Ye had helped him enter the Azure Dragon Burial Ground.
• Yue Wen resolved to follow Daoist Ye’s instructions and bury Immortal Lord Biyue’s storage artifact in Immortal Dew Valley.
• Perfected One Nagiko summoned the four City Heroes and announced that she would take them to the Spell-Derivation Secret Realm for intensive training.
• Perfected One Nagiko used a World-Passing Pearl to bring the four City Heroes into the secret realm and explained how touching a leaf would derive their cultivation methods.
• Yue Wen found himself alone on a branch of the Myriad Laws Tree and touched a leaf to begin deriving the True Dragon Daoist Art.

Yue Wen used the Myriad Laws Tree to refine supernatural powers and arcane arts that still had room to improve, gaining several stronger techniques. As he prepared to leave, he wondered whether the tree could help him create a combination supernatural power.

• Yue Wen discovered that the True Dragon Method and the techniques he had learned from Da Long were already perfectly efficient, while several arts learned elsewhere could still be refined.
• The Myriad Laws Tree upgraded the Xun Sword True Formula into the Xun Thunder Sword Art, combining wind and thunder to greatly increase the flying sword's speed and damage.
• Yue Wen refined Thunder Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist into Heavenly Thunder Startles the Tiger Fist, and upgraded the Thunderclap Art and Flash Technique into the Thunder-Attracting Art and Divine Light Art.
• The tree slightly improved the Path of the Soul to Veneration and developed Yue Wen's crude Divine Sense attack into the Spirit-Striking Fist.
• Yue Wen decided against recording Lady Demon Fox's transformation art and began wondering whether the Myriad Laws Tree could develop a combination supernatural power.

Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian used the Myriad Laws Tree to turn their awkward Blood-Boiling Combo Technique into the custom Heavenly Thunder Mine-Fire Jet, greatly improving their speed, offense, and defense. The chapter ended with Perfected One Nagiko and Perfected One Tongguang watching the trio rocket across the Arts Derivation Secret Realm and questioning Nagiko’s tutelage.

• Yue Wen reunited with Xing'er and Qi Dian, and they agreed to have the Myriad Laws Tree derive an upgraded version of their Blood-Boiling Combo Technique.
• The tree struggled to process their combination, then spent three days deriving the Heavenly Thunder Mine-Fire Jet and shed a cluster of leaves after completing it.
• Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian activated the new technique, combining Qi Dian’s lightning-powered acceleration and shield, Xing'er’s attacks, and Yue Wen’s piloting into a fast, coordinated formation.
• Liu Yuanjun spotted the fiery, winged formation streaking across the Secret Realm and wondered whether the strange figures were his teammates.
• Perfected One Nagiko showed Perfected One Tongguang the Secret Realm, and both watched the trio fly past before Nagiko denied that their spectacle reflected her tutelage.

The River City Team arrived in Xinghai City for the Four Seas Ascendant Dragon Assembly and settled into their accommodations before meeting the Xiao brothers for dinner. Yue Wen discovered that the Sea-Viewing Tower’s staff were puppets, then joined the Xiao brothers and two young women in a private room.

• Xing'er and Qi Dian admired the team’s villa while Wang Shoucai and Lan Zhi inspected it for eavesdropping artifacts.
• The team discussed the Assembly’s rounds and Xing'er declared that they would fight their way up Boundary-Suppressing Mountain, while Yue Wen privately set his sights on the East Sea Dragon Hall.
• Yue Wen, Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Liu Yuanjun went to the Sea-Viewing Tower to meet Xiao Chuxi, Xiao Chubei, Xiao Chudong, and Xiao Zuo.
• Yue Wen noticed that the restaurant’s staff lacked the vitality of living people, and Xiao Chuxi explained that they were puppets made by the restaurant’s owner, an expert from the Puppet Sect.
• The Xiao brothers introduced Yue Wen and his teammates to two young women in a private room, and one woman complimented the group’s looks.

Yue Wen’s River City team met Jade Tiger City and Sanyang City’s competitors at a banquet, where they discussed their chances at the Ascendant Dragon Assembly. As the others dismissed River City’s goal of climbing Realmguard Mountain, Xiao Zuo hinted at a way to gain an advantage and began explaining the competition format.

• Xiao Chuxi introduced the Jade Tiger City competitors and explained how the Xiao brothers had fared in their separate cities.
• Xiao Chuxi and Xiao Zuo welcomed Sanyang City’s team, whose members described their city’s past success and modest ambitions.
• Yue Wen recognized the banquet as a gathering of underdog teams, while Xing'er and Qi Dian eagerly prepared to eat.
• Xiao Zuo asked River City about its goal, and Xing'er said they planned to climb Realmguard Mountain, prompting the others to laugh.
• Xiao Zuo claimed he knew a way to give the teams an advantage and began asking whether they knew this year’s competition format.