Recaps

Qing Chen used the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel to break the Spirit Crystal’s restrictions and receive the inheritance of Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder. As its power and insights flooded into him, he began condensing the spell inside the Primordial Magnetism Hall.

• Qing Chen guided a Magnetic Origin Rule Thread into the Spirit Crystal, triggering its inheritance and a painful assault on his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Demon Seed Golden Lotus shielded Qing Chen as the inheritance showed him how Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder could sever spiritual workings and damage an enemy’s foundation.
• Qing Chen recognized how the new spell could complement the Lawless Demon Seal and take advantage of his powerful Divine Sense.
• Ancient Magic Formulas entered Qing Chen’s Sea of Consciousness while the Primordial Magnetism Hall’s magnetic clouds formed a vortex and poured power into his Sea of Qi.
• The three runes on the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel lit up, and Qing Chen called for Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder to condense.

Qing Chen completed the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder empowerment, strengthening his Magnetic Origin Rule Thread before the ten-year term ended and he was expelled from the hall. Outside, Tie Zhan learned that three great demons guarded the surface, while Tie Ming emerged after breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and found Qingyao and Qing Chen still absent.

• Qing Chen condensed the Thunder Seal and absorbed law essences that strengthened his Magnetic Origin Rule Thread by nearly half.
• Qing Chen stored the spent Spirit Crystal in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda before Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure announced that the ten-year term had ended.
• Tie Zhan discovered three great demons guarding the surface near the group’s route out, while Tie Shou continued recovering from his injuries.
• Tie Ming emerged from Dust-Departure Hall at the end of the ninth year, having advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Tie Ming asked Tie Zhan whether Qingyao and Qing Chen had come out yet.

Tie Zhan discovered that Long Yuan and at least five other Transformed Great Demons had blockaded Bone Claw Plain, threatening the Iron Household when the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds closed. Tie Qingyao emerged with a breakthrough in magnetic origin rule power, but the family waited for Qing Chen before deciding how to face the demons.

• Tie Ming emerged after reaching Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and Tie Zhan told him the Demon Race had blocked the way out.
• Tie Zhan used the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to detect Long Yuan above them and later confirmed that at least six Transformed Great Demons, including the Silverback Azure Ape, were waiting at Bone Claw Plain.
• Tie Qingyao emerged at Nascent Soul Early Stage Peak with a strand of magnetic origin rule power and hundreds of formation flags.
• Tie Qingyao learned that Long Yuan was above them, while Tie Ming blamed the Silverback Azure Ape for escaping.
• Tie Zhan held the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and told the others to wait for Qing Chen.

After ten years in the Dust-Departure Hall, Qing Chen emerged with a power that made Tie Zhan sense he could not match him in a fight. The group prepared to face Long Yuan, but Qing Chen's arrival left Tie Zhan stunned by how much he had gained.

• Tie Zhan worried that Long Yuan still had abundant demonic power and might possess a restoring treasure or an ally among the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clans.
• Tie Ming, Tie Shou, and Tie Qingyao prepared their abilities and equipment while Tie Zhan considered how to protect the Iron Household's future.
• The Dust-Departure Hall trembled, and a sharp aura of annihilation emerged through its opening doors.
• Tie Qingyao sensed that the power within the hall belonged to the Primordial Magnetism path and far surpassed her own condensed magnetic origin rule.
• Qing Chen stepped out of the hall, and Tie Zhan sensed multiple powerful laws and felt that Qing Chen could be beyond his strength to defeat.

Qing Chen learned that Long Yuan and several great demons were blocking the way out of Dust-Departure Hall, then argued that the Iron Household should lend him its Primordial Magnetism Cauldron. He revealed his Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder, leaving Tie Zhan stunned by his mastery.

• Tie Zhan told Qing Chen that Long Yuan and at least five Transformed Great Demons guarded the way back, while Long Yuan’s demonic power had not declined in the Spirit-Severing Land.
• Qing Chen inferred that someone from the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan had helped the demons cross the Spirit-Severing Qi and said three days would be enough to prepare before Dust-Departure Hall closed.
• Qing Chen revealed that he had condensed Magnetic Origin Rule Threads and proposed borrowing the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to improve their chances against Long Yuan.
• When Tie Zhan questioned how much power Qing Chen could draw from the cauldron, Qing Chen revealed his Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder, shocking Tie Zhan and Tie Qingyao.

Tie Zhan lent Qing Chen the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and taught him its preliminary control formula. He then explained that the first tribulation of Rules transformed Rules Threads into a domain, leaving Qing Chen to consider how the surrounding world could incline toward a cultivator's Dao.

• Tie Zhan decided to lend Qing Chen the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron, trusting his mastery of Primordial Magnetism and citing his betrothal to Tie Qingyao.
• Tie Zhan sent Qing Chen the twenty-four patterns of the preliminary Cauldron-Control Formula and warned him that it could only borrow the cauldron's power.
• Qing Chen used the formula to examine the cauldron's Rules and asked Tie Zhan how First-Tribulation Rules differed from Nascent Soul Rules Threads.
• Tie Zhan explained that Nascent Soul Cultivators merely borrowed Rules, while First-Tribulation Rules spread outward into a domain that made heaven and earth incline toward the cultivator's Dao.

Qing Chen learned how true rule domains differed from his pseudo-domain, then spent seven days mastering the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron enough to prepare for battle. As he and the Iron Household members set out to subdue Long Yuan, Long Yuan questioned Wei Yixiao about Qing Chen’s supposed great fortuitous opportunity.

• Tie Zhan explained that first-tribulation rule domains altered their surroundings and were fundamentally stronger than Qing Chen’s divine-sense-supported pseudo-domain.
• Qing Chen practiced with the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron for seven days, gradually activating its control glyphs and resonating it with thunder intent.
• Qing Chen, Tie Qingyao, Tie Ming, and Tie Shou prepared to face Long Yuan, with Qing Chen assigning everyone their roles and declaring he would subdue Long Yuan first.
• Long Yuan waited at Bone Claw Plain with the Silverback Azure Ape and Wei Yixiao while the Demon Race searched the scarred land for what lay beneath it.
• Long Yuan asked whether Qing Chen possessed a great fortuitous opportunity, and Wei Yixiao swore that he was telling the truth.

Qing Chen emerged from underground with the Iron Household cultivators after ten years trapped beneath Bone Claw Plain. Long Yuan attacked him, but Qing Chen deflected the dragon’s tail strike and earned the demon’s attention.

• Wei Yixiao urged Long Yuan to kill Qing Chen for his treasures and warned that he could become a threat to the Demon Race.
• Long Yuan ordered the purple-eyed black crow to keep Gong Shu maintaining the spatial domain and threatened Gong Shisan if Gong Shu disobeyed.
• Dark gold patterns spread across Bone Claw Plain, and Qing Chen emerged from underground with Tie Zhan, Tie Qingyao, Tie Ming, and Tie Shou.
• Long Yuan swept his tail at the group, and Qing Chen used Heaven and Earth Without a Trace and the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to knock the attack aside.
• Long Yuan recognized Qing Chen’s strength and declared that he would kill him.

Long Yuan sealed off the battlefield and challenged Qing Chen to fight him alone, while the Iron Household group remained trapped. Qing Chen countered Long Yuan's rapid attacks with his spear and spells, but Long Yuan struck him hard and pressed the assault.

• Long Yuan ordered the demons to block every escape route, trapping Tie Zhan and the Iron Household group while Gong Shisan and Gong Shu remained bound nearby.
• Wei Yixiao urged Long Yuan to gang up on Qing Chen, but Long Yuan dismissed him and announced that he would eat Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen evaded Long Yuan's opening claw with Heaven and Earth Without a Trace, then used his spear and magnetic movement to avoid the dragon's tail.
• Long Yuan fired a Black Dragon City-Breaking Arrow, which Qing Chen countered with Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder and the Immortal-Locking Gourd.
• Qing Chen blocked Long Yuan's charge with the Lawless Blood Seal and struck at his neck, but Long Yuan deflected the spear with his water rule and knocked Qing Chen through a boulder.
• Long Yuan immediately pursued the injured Qing Chen with another claw.

Qing Chen feigned exhaustion to catch Long Yuan off guard, then injured him with a calculated combination of attacks. Long Yuan’s humiliation turned to murderous fury as black clouds and water gathered around Qing Chen, revealing a dangerous manifestation of rules.

• Qing Chen endured Long Yuan’s relentless attacks while Tie Zhan watched in alarm and Tie Qingyao restrained herself from intervening.
• Qing Chen pretended to be near defeat, then used Heaven and Earth Without a Trace to draw Long Yuan into a rushed attack.
• Qing Chen struck Long Yuan beneath the jaw with the Lawless Blood Seal, pierced the opening with Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Divine Thunder, and smashed the wound with his spear.
• Long Yuan crashed to the ground, and the onlookers reacted with shock as Qing Chen recognized how carefully he had needed to plan the successful strike.
• Long Yuan rose furious and unleashed black clouds and water that locked onto Qing Chen with a cold presence of rules.

Long Yuan unleashed a devastating rain domain against Qing Chen, nearly trapping him beneath its combined attacks. Qing Chen used Tie Zhan’s Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and combined it with Blood Path Rules, forcing back the rain as he prepared a counterattack.

• Long Yuan’s black rain battered Tie Zhan’s group and Qing Chen, while Tie Qingyao recognized it as an innate ability resembling a Black Water Domain.
• Long Yuan locked down Qing Chen with the rain and attacked as the Purple-Eyed Black Crow and Silverback Azure Ape prevented Tie Qingyao and Tie Zhan from intervening.
• Tie Zhan sent the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to Qing Chen and secretly told him to use the magic formula to control it.
• Qing Chen activated the Cauldron-Control Formula and used the cauldron’s magnetic light to push back Long Yuan’s black rain.
• Qing Chen poured Blood Path Rules into the cauldron, balancing them with its Primordial Magnetism Domain, then commanded it to attack.

Qing Chen used the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to unleash a devastating blood thunder that destroyed Long Yuan’s rain technique and badly wounded him. Exhausted but triumphant, Qing Chen demanded that Long Yuan become his spirit pet.

• Qing Chen formed a dark-gold pseudo-domain by combining primordial magnetism and blood path rules, then shaped a silver-white Thunder Seed inside the cauldron.
• Qing Chen unleashed Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Blood Thunder, erasing Long Yuan’s black rain and tracing its spiritual mechanism back through the clouds.
• The blood thunder destroyed Long Yuan’s Cloud-Riding and Rain-Bringing divine ability and ground away two digits of his left foreclaw.
• The gathered cultivators watched in shock as Qing Chen’s strike proved powerful enough to wound Long Yuan, while Qing Chen struggled with the attack’s backlash and exhaustion.
• Qing Chen told Long Yuan to become his spirit pet and promised to spare him.

Qing Chen and the Iron Household faced Long Yuan and the other great demons in a standoff after Qing Chen wounded Long Yuan with the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron. A sudden disturbance at the Heavenly Devil Tower suggested the forbidden grounds were nearing closure, while a terrifying force broke into the tower’s top floor.

• Qing Chen concealed the strain of using the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron and threatened Long Yuan with another strike, keeping the demons at bay.
• Tie Zhan led the Iron Household cultivators to stand behind Qing Chen as Tie Qingyao deployed a formation and the two sides prepared to fight.
• The Heavenly Devil Tower’s black pillar pulsed and split with dark red markings, prompting Tie Zhan to warn that the forbidden grounds might soon close.
• Tie Zhan and Tie Qingyao recognized that the change was linked to the Divine Ability Realm ancient bloodline sought within the tower.
• Dugu Yifang, Qing Yuanjia, Yuwen Huaji, Linghu Xuanji, Tuoba Shanhai, Gong Xinghe, and the other Great Cultivators continued their ten-year struggle around the ancient bloodline.
• A terrifying presence of blood and fire descended through the Heavenly Devil Tower as something at its top floor was forcibly opened.

The ancient bloodline at the Heavenly Devil Tower split into four portions, which Dugu Yifang, Qing Yuanjia, Yuwen Huaji, and Linghu Xuanji each seized as the tower's top began to stir. Elsewhere, Mad Shark True Lord activated Wu Gui's Jade Talisman during the chaos and invoked his Lord to claim the cauldron soul.

• The ancient bloodline exploded into four portions, and Dugu Yifang, Qing Yuanjia, Yuwen Huaji, and Linghu Xuanji each captured and sealed one in an Ancient Cauldron.
• Dugu Yifang proposed that the cultivators stop fighting and join forces to investigate the Heavenly Devil Tower's top, where terrifying fluctuations had appeared.
• At Bone Claw Plain, Qing Chen sensed that Blood Fiend and Huo Lifei were opening a spatial node at the tower and resolved to go to the Shiyuan Immortal Star Sea.
• Mad Shark True Lord recognized the tower's black-gold reverse patterns and tower heart reversal, then activated Wu Gui's Jade Talisman at the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds.
• Mad Shark True Lord sacrificed his vital essence blood, pressed the Jade Talisman to his brow, and called on his Lord to claim the cauldron soul.

Mad Shark True Lord activated a blood-colored jade talisman, drawing a hidden power from the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds into Wu Gui’s Ten Thousand Gu Source Cauldron. The forbidden grounds then began forcibly expelling everyone, leaving Qing Chen and the other cultivators caught in the closing upheaval.

• Mad Shark True Lord used his blood and true essence to enlarge the jade talisman while Hu Xing Walker and the Gu Dao cultivator held off Yue Hanshan and Chan Master Hui'an.
• The jade talisman exploded above the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds, sending a pillar of blood-black light through the Heavenly Devil Tower and beyond the grounds.
• The pillar entered Wu Gui’s Ten Thousand Gu Source Cauldron, restoring its ancient gu markings and carrying soul light into it as Wu Gui revealed he had pursued this power rather than treasures or inheritance.
• Wu Gui taunted Xiao Canglan and explained that he had made a deal with the High Priest to obtain what he wanted and weaken the forbidden grounds’ suppression.
• Spatial rules surged through the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds, shutting down restrictions and expelling cultivators while ancient halls and treasures vanished.
• Qing Chen circulated his immortality true blood and formed a dark gold protective aura as the forbidden grounds’ repulsive force pressed in from every direction.

After the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds expelled Qing Chen, he landed alone in a desolate wasteland and reflected on the spatial power that had scattered the cultivators. Injured and wary of encountering powerful opponents, he descended deep underground to hide and recover.

• The forbidden grounds expelled Tie Ming, Tie Qingyao, Tie Shou, Gong Shisan, and Qing Chen, forcing Qing Chen to return the Primordial Magnetism Cauldron to Tie Zhan.
• Qing Chen was hurled through a passage of shattered light and shadows and crashed into a black wasteland, where he recognized the expulsion as an expression of spatial rules.
• Qing Chen assessed his injuries from his battle with Long Yuan and realized his depleted strength left him vulnerable to nearby Nascent Soul experts.
• Qing Chen searched the surrounding area with his divine sense, found no powerful cultivators, and used the Minor Five Elements One-Origin Evasion Art to sink underground.
• Qing Chen descended more than twenty thousand zhang and stopped deep in the rock strata, where the thin spiritual qi and icy Qi of Earth Sha made the hidden location suitable for him.

Qing Chen hid nearly thirty thousand zhang underground and spent a year recovering from his injuries by refining the Azure-Faced Lion King's essence blood and Long Yuan's flesh. Once healed, he inventoried the inheritances and treasures he had acquired, while the danger outside and Huo Lifei's whereabouts remained uncertain.

• Qing Chen carved out an underground cave abode, concealed it with layered formations and treasures, and began treating his injuries.
• Qing Chen purified and refined the Azure-Faced Lion King's essence blood and pieces of Long Yuan, using his blood path and magnetic origin powers to control their conflicting forces.
• After one year, Qing Chen's injuries had almost completely healed, his true essence had recovered, and his four Brahma apertures were replenished.
• Qing Chen reviewed Blood Fiend's Brahma Demon-Refining Art, blood path scripture, cultivation insights, and other inheritances, noting that he had not obtained the Ananda Blood Sea Pagoda Sutra.
• Qing Chen examined Huo Lifei's Profound Womb Demon Lotus Platform Method and jade disc but chose not to activate the disc's sealed contents while the Nanhua Realm remained unsettled.
• Qing Chen kept the fifth Fire Seed Fragment sealed in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda as leverage over Huo Lifei, then began reviewing what he had obtained in Dust-Departure Hall.

Qing Chen assessed the power and treasures he had gained in the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds and decided to begin secluded cultivation. He planned to break through to Nascent Soul Late Stage and improve his arts while keeping his most dangerous treasures secret.

• Qing Chen reviewed his cultivation, rules, spells, physical strength, divine sense, demon banners, and concealed treasures, including the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda.
• Qing Chen concluded that his strength had advanced enough to challenge powerful Heavenly Gang Ranking cultivators, though he still fell short of the strongest opponents.
• Qing Chen put aside thoughts of his enemies and the Golden Scale Alliance to avoid letting tangled worries become heart demons.
• Qing Chen chose to remain in his sealed underground cave abode and pursue a breakthrough to Nascent Soul Late Stage using his recent insights and accumulated spirit stones.
• Qing Chen sat down to cultivate and planned to transform his divine-sense method into the first revolution of the Profound Womb Demon Lotus Platform Method.

Qing Chen began cultivating the twelfth layer of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art, risking his Nascent Soul and soul to forge a Demonic Body Brahma Furnace. After severing the demon tethers binding him and enduring visions of past and future suffering, he formed the first petal of the Profound Womb Demon Lotus and set the new layer fully in motion.

• Qing Chen spent ten thousand high-grade spirit stones to create a dense spiritual-qi environment and studied the twelfth layer of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art.
• Qing Chen opened his four Brahma apertures and drew spiritual qi, blood qi, Demon King essence, and power from the Demon Banners into his body.
• Qing Chen began the Profound Womb Demon Lotus Platform Method and severed the blood-red tethers connecting his soul to the demon seed, enduring agonizing pain and a threatening voice.
• Qing Chen faced illusions of past defeats and future torment, then declared that he would not become a demon until purgatory was full.
• Qing Chen formed the first Profound Womb Demon Lotus petal, healed the fissures in his soul, and activated the twelfth layer of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art.

Qing Chen completed the Brahma-Blood Demon Wheel and continued transforming his cultivation in seclusion while the Golden Scale Alliance expanded and faced increasingly organized attacks from the Outer Sea Demon Race. At a Golden Scale Assembly more than thirty years later, Qing Chen’s seat remained empty and his fate was still unknown.

• Qing Chen endured years of cultivation as he forged the Brahma-Blood Demon Wheel and exhausted tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones.
• After the demon wheel formed, Qing Chen remained in seclusion, refining the Demon Seed Golden Lotus method into the Profound Womb Demon Lotus Platform Method.
• The Golden Scale Alliance expanded across the Gouwu Sea, but the Outer Sea Demon Race increasingly coordinated attacks against newly opened island chains.
• Abbot Hui'an, Yaoyue, and the other leaders gathered for the Golden Scale Assembly to address the demon threat while Qing Chen’s seat remained empty.
• Rumors about Qing Chen’s disappearance persisted despite the Demon Lotus Sect killing those who spread them.

At the Golden Scale Alliance meeting, Lin Changsheng heard of the Demon Lotus Sect’s devastating losses in the beast tide and faced Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord’s attempt to seize its outer territories. The chapter left Jia Daoyi reeling under Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord’s oppressive might.

• A Golden Core True Person reported the alliance’s beast-tide losses, including the deaths of Daoist Qingyue, Gao Yuliang, Xue Qingxia, and many Demon Lotus Sect disciples.
• Lin Changsheng mourned the fallen sect veterans while suspecting that alliance leaders had helped cause the Demon Lotus Sect’s losses and defections.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord argued that the Demon Lotus Sect should give up its exposed territories and offered to take them for Jiaogu Island.
• True Lord Budong restrained Lin Changsheng, and Jia Daoyi spoke up to defend the sect’s request for alliance resources.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord insulted Jia Daoyi and crushed him with his late-immortality flood dragon might.

Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord tried to force Jia Daoyi to kneel, but True Lord Budong intervened and revealed that he had reached the Immortal Realm Middle Stage. The two powerful cultivators faced off in the Golden Scale Hall, leaving the Demon Lotus Sect's strength newly apparent to its rivals.

• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord pressured Jia Daoyi with his aura, nearly forcing him to his knees.
• True Lord Budong shielded Jia Daoyi and challenged Thunder Flood Dragon for threatening someone from the Demon Lotus Sect.
• True Lord Budong revealed his Immortal Realm Middle Stage cultivation and summoned the Vajra Mound, displaying his Wisdom King Grotto-Heaven and Vajra Rules.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord realized that True Lord Budong and the Vajra Mound posed a serious threat, and their auras collided across the hall.
• Jia Daoyi recalled how Lin Changsheng, True Lord Budong, Xin Bairen's Cangming Army, and Ye Wushang had sustained the Demon Lotus Sect during Qing Chen's absence.

At the Golden Scale Alliance Meeting, Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord, Old Man Tianchi, and Sea-Calming True Lord pressured the Demon Lotus Sect to surrender part of its Outer Sea defensive line, invoking its losses and Xiao Canglan’s displeasure with Qing Chen. Lin Changsheng challenged Abbot Hui'an to uphold the alliance’s purpose, threatening that the Demon Lotus Sect would leave if it would not.

• True Lord Budong stood against Thunder Flood Dragon’s pressure, but Old Man Tianchi and Sea-Calming True Lord joined in and weakened his grotto-heaven.
• Old Man Tianchi and Sea-Calming True Lord argued that the Demon Lotus Sect lacked the strength to defend its distant territory and should give up part of the defensive line.
• The three allied cultivators used their Heavenly Abyss Pass appointments and Xiao Canglan’s dissatisfaction with Qing Chen to strengthen their pressure on the Demon Lotus Sect.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord claimed Jiaogu Island was offering to defend the Demon Lotus Sect’s islands for free, while Old Man Tianchi urged the sect to keep a low profile.
• Lin Changsheng stopped True Lord Budong from responding and asked Abbot Hui'an whether the Golden Scale Alliance still stood for its purpose.
• Lin Changsheng threatened that the Demon Lotus Sect would withdraw from the alliance meeting if Hui'an did not make a ruling.

The Golden Scale Alliance debated forming the Golden Scale Army, and Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord tried to take command and absorb the Demon Lotus Sect’s Cangming Army. Qing Chen suddenly appeared, revealing an overwhelming Nascent Soul Late Stage aura and leaving the assembled cultivators stunned.

• Abbot Hui'an halted the confrontation and reminded Lin Changsheng that the alliance had to focus on the growing demon tide rather than abandon the alliance.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord proposed forming the Golden Scale Army and volunteered to command its expedition against the Three-Headed Black-Tailed Snake.
• Lin Changsheng challenged Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord’s plan, but Hui'an said the commander needed sufficient strength and skill to control the situation.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord proposed recruiting five hundred thousand troops and drilling the Cangming Army, prompting True Lord Budong to rise in anger.
• Qing Chen’s voice came from outside the hall, stopping the wind and smoke as he challenged anyone who wanted to drill his army.
• Qing Chen entered the hall with a powerful Nascent Soul Late Stage aura, shocking Hui'an and the other cultivators.

Qing Chen returned to the Golden Scale Alliance meeting after killing the Three-Headed Black-Tailed Snake and demanded that the alliance's cultivators join the Cangming Army. When Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord challenged him, Qing Chen attacked and overwhelmed his lightning strike and axe blow.

• Qing Chen returned to the Golden Scale Alliance meeting and greeted Lin Changsheng, then revealed the Three-Headed Black-Tailed Snake's broken fang as proof that he had killed it.
• Abbot Hui'an praised Qing Chen but argued that the alliance should continue training its cultivators and declined to establish a Golden Scale Army.
• Qing Chen crushed the fang and proposed placing all cultivators levied from the alliance under the Demon Lotus Sect's Cangming Army.
• Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord challenged Qing Chen's proposal and questioned whether the alliance would have to obey him.
• Qing Chen suddenly attacked Thunder Flood Dragon True Lord, unraveled his thunderbolt with blood-colored Rules Threads, and blocked his battle axe with the Blood River God-Slaying Spear.