Chapter Summaries

Wang Liyao fought Elder Shang after he attacked her with his Yuanshui Treasure Blade, revealing an arsenal of powerful artifacts and a highly awakened Yuanshui Bloodline. She unleashed the Divine Soul Spirit Artifact Mountain River Seal, whose overwhelming power left Elder Shang facing a strike nearing the late Celestial Realm.

• Elder Shang summoned his mid-grade Dharma Treasure, the Yuanshui Treasure Blade, and struck Wang Liyao with a powerful saber attack.
• Wang Liyao used the Heart-Guarding Spirit Shield to survive the blow with only light injuries, alarming Elder Shang with her collection of rare artifacts.
• Masters Binglan, Xuanyao, Yuanshui, and Huandie sensed the disturbance, but they turned back to discussing their lineages' resource allocations.
• Wang Liyao recovered with a Fourth-Grade Healing Pill and summoned the Mountain River Seal, revealing that she possessed a rare Divine Soul Spirit Artifact.
• Wang Liyao launched the Mountain River Seal, and its phantom mountains and rivers pressed down on Elder Shang with power approaching the late Celestial Realm.

Wang Liyao fought Elder Shang after he accused her of secretly learning the Yuanshui Lineage’s cultivation method, but she was weakened after using the Mountain River Seal. As Elder Shang moved to subdue her, Wang Longyan and Wang Shouzhe arrived, and Wang Liyao collapsed into her father’s arms.

• Elder Shang used a defensive jade talisman to withstand Wang Liyao’s Mountain River Seal, then was injured when the shield failed.
• Master Yuanshui sent Fu Haobo to stop the sparring and bring the participants to him after the disturbance reached the meeting hall.
• Wang Liyao rebuked Elder Shang for judging her without hearing her side, but he accused her of stealing the Yuanshui Lineage’s secret canon and attacked with the Universe Ring.
• Wang Liyao resisted the Universe Ring’s pressure with her Heart-Guarding Spirit Shield, while Elder Shang demanded that she admit fault.
• Wang Longyan arrived with the Purple Lightning Sword and shouted at Elder Shang for bullying her clanswoman.
• Wang Shouzhe caught the exhausted Wang Liyao as she fell, and she cried that she no longer wanted to join the Yuanshui Lineage.

Wang Shouzhe and Wang Longyan rescued Wang Liyao from Elder Shang, and Wang Liyao rejected her planned apprenticeship with Master Yuanshui after learning how the Yuanshui Lineage handled its disciples. As the Masters competed to recruit her, the Purple Mansion Academy Dean arrived and declared that Liyao would be his disciple, making her Master Yuanshui’s junior sister.

• Wang Longyan blasted Elder Shang’s Universe Ring aside, and Wang Shouzhe’s Bloodthirsty Vine helped her defeat and restrain him.
• Master Changchun stopped Master Yuanshui and Master Binglan from escalating their clash, and Wang Shouzhe ordered the vine to release Elder Shang.
• Lu Xianghui corrected Elder Shang’s account of the incident, and Wang Shouzhe told Master Yuanshui that Wang Liyao no longer wished to join the Yuanshui Lineage.
• Wang Shouzhe said he would take Wang Liyao to Lingyun Sacred Land, while several Masters tried to recruit her into their lineages.
• The Purple Mansion Academy Dean arrived on the Primordial Water Spirit Turtle, rebuked Master Yuanshui, and declared Wang Liyao his disciple.

Wang Liyao accepted True Person Tianhe as her master after he punished Shang Jiping, sent Shang Lexian away for training, and promised her the future leadership of the Yuanshui Lineage. Elsewhere, Qian Xue'an learned that Qian Xuerui had arrived in Changning Guard, while Wang Shouzhe traveled to Xincheng Guard to pursue Lady Bilian’s request concerning the Six-Tailed Fire Fox.

• The Dean admitted fault for the Academy’s treatment of Wang Liyao, made Shang Jiping her servant for one hundred years, and sent Shang Lexian beyond the domain to train.
• The Dean offered to take Wang Liyao as his disciple and eventually entrust her with the Yuanshui Lineage and Purple Mansion Academy, and she accepted him as Master.
• Qian Xue'an learned that Qian Xuerui was coming to Changning Guard, then discovered the young man’s ship had already docked and suspected someone had concealed the timing from him.
• Wang Shouzhe obtained the Celestial Chapter of the Profound Origin Technique from the Longzuo Wang Clan and traveled to Xincheng Guard to address Lady Bilian’s request involving the Six-Tailed Fire Fox.

Wang Shouzhe arrived at the Yuwen Clan residence to help with the Six-Tailed Fire Fox, while the clan’s young guests competed to win the fox’s favor. After Ji Mingyu failed, Wang Shouzhe arrived to try, and Ji Mingyu conceded that Shouzhe was the superior choice.

• Yuwen Hanmo welcomed Wang Shouzhe and escorted him to the Yuwen Clan’s main residence, where Lady Bilian received him.
• Wang Shouzhe and Lady Bilian discussed the matter of the Six-Tailed Fire Fox while Yuwen Jianye, Chi Junjie, Wang Zongsheng, and Ji Mingyu waited outside Heavenly Fox Pavilion.
• The Six-Tailed Fire Fox threw Ji Mingyu out of the pavilion after he angered it, costing him the chance to earn the reward.
• Yuwen Jianye’s retainer mentioned that Lady Bilian had invited another outstanding talent to try to please the fox.
• Wang Shouzhe entered with Lady Bilian, and Ji Mingyu recognized him and admitted defeat.

Wang Shouzhe entered the Heavenly Fox Pavilion to coax the Six-Tailed Fire Fox into eating its advancement food, but its breakthrough triggered a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Tribulation. After healing the badly injured fox, Wang Shouzhe was struck by a branch of the sixth heavenly lightning bolt and had to face the attack himself.

• Wang Shouzhe entered the Heavenly Fox Pavilion, and the Six-Tailed Fire Fox eagerly approached him after sensing his scent.
• Wang Shouzhe persuaded the Six-Tailed Fire Fox to eat the Spirit Food and advancement pills, triggering its breakthrough and a heavenly tribulation.
• The Six-Tailed Fire Fox endured five bolts of heavenly lightning but was badly injured by the fifth and fell back into the pavilion.
• Wang Shouzhe healed the Six-Tailed Fire Fox with his Profound Qi, interfering with the heavenly tribulation as the sixth bolt gathered.
• The Six-Tailed Fire Fox flew up to endure the sixth bolt, while a branch of the lightning struck toward Wang Shouzhe.

Wang Shouzhe survived the heavenly lightning while helping the Six-Tailed Fire Fox pass her tribulation, and the heavenly rain improved both their strength. The newly awakened Seven-Tailed Fire Fox declared herself his younger sister and planned to stay at his home, leaving Lady Bilian furious.

• Wang Shouzhe used Wang Shouwei, a Diamond Shield, healing items, and Ancient Tree Armor to withstand the heavenly lightning without injury.
• After the tribulation, the heavenly rain healed the Six-Tailed Fire Fox and raised Wang Shouzhe's cultivation and bloodline; the fox advanced to tier seven.
• The Seven-Tailed Fire Fox called Wang Shouzhe her husband and proposed dual cultivation, but accepted his suggestion that they become siblings instead.
• Wang Zongsheng and Lady Bilian arrived and congratulated the Seven-Tailed Fire Fox on her advancement.
• The Seven-Tailed Fire Fox announced she would stay at Wang Shouzhe's home, and Lady Bilian angrily challenged their new sworn-sibling relationship.

Wang Shouzhe completed his successful visit to the Yuwen Clan, earning a reward and the Seven-Tailed Fire Fox’s friendship, while a Wang Clan exploration team in Liu Ping Mountain discovered a dangerous third-tier Red-Scaled Horned Python. The chapter ended as the young clansmen prepared to face the beast.

• The Seven-Tailed Fire Fox defended Wang Shouzhe and agreed to remain with the Yuwen Clan until she had consolidated her cultivation, then visit him.
• Lady Bilian gave Wang Shouzhe one hundred thousand Qian Gold and a jade box of rare plant seeds as thanks for helping the Fire Fox advance.
• After several days as a guest, Wang Shouzhe left the Yuwen Clan and headed home.
• Wang Zongyao, Wang Shouming, Wang Luoqing, Wang Lilian, and their companions explored Liu Ping Mountain, searching for a peak second-rank Red-Scaled Horned Python and possible fire resources.
• Wang Shouming sensed fiery energy, and Wang Luoqing sent an earth puppet ahead to scout the hazardous terrain.
• The earth puppet was destroyed by a third-tier Red-Scaled Horned Python, so Wang Hu formed the guards into a battle formation as the beast charged.

Wang Shouming and the Wang Clan youths defeated a wounded Red-Scaled Horned Python and discovered a Fire Spirit Vein and possible ancient ruins in its cave. They secured the site and waited for clan support, and Wang Shouyong arrived to praise their caution and promise rewards.

• Wang Shouming led the Wang Clan youths and household generals in using arrows, shields, and Witch No. 29 seeds to wound the Red-Scaled Horned Python, which fled into the rocks.
• Wang Lilian found the python’s blood, and Wang Luoqing sent an Earth Puppet through a crevice and discovered an Earth Fire Cave beneath it.
• The group carefully explored the cave and found a lava pond beside a natural Fire Spirit Vein, with spiritual herbs and signs of human excavation.
• Wang Shouming’s group cautiously killed the injured python, gathered the herbs and spoils, and discovered a mechanism they chose not to activate.
• The Wang Clan set up camp outside the cave and sent household generals to report their discovery to the Clan.
• Wang Shouyong arrived seven or eight days later, praised the youngsters for waiting for support, and promised to report their merit for extra rewards.

The Wang Clan secured Qinglian Fire Valley and opened an ancient secret chamber containing the inheritance and history of the Artifact Refining master Tian Yezi. Ancestor Longyan offered the four young discoverers a chance to try the inheritance, leaving the Clan with a potential path to gain Artifact Refining expertise and a Celestial Realm puppet.

• Wang Shouyong praised Wang Shouming and the others for discovering Qinglian Fire Valley and advised them to develop the remote site patiently.
• Liu Ruolan organized the Clan to stabilize the magma passage before a puppet activated the mechanism, and Ancestor Longyan safely explored the newly opened secret chamber.
• Ancestor Longyan revealed that Tian Yezi had fled the Heaven Fire Sect on Tianji Continent, settled in Qinglian Fire Valley, and died after failing to reach the Purple Mansion Realm.
• Ancestor Longyan said Tian Yezi had left his Artifact Refining insights, a damaged Celestial Realm puppet, and a final wish concerning the Heaven Fire Sect and his former daoist friend's descendants.
• Wang Shouming asked to inherit Tian Yezi's Artifact Refining knowledge, and Ancestor Longyan gave each of the four young discoverers a chance to try.

The Wang Clan uncovered Tian Yezi’s artifact-refining inheritance, and Wang Ping unexpectedly passed its test, prompting Liu Ruolan to arrange for him and Wang Zongyao to study it. Meanwhile, Qian Xuerui used the Patriarch Token to remove Qian Xue'an as chief shopkeeper, leaving Qian Xue'an convinced that the Qian Clan had invited trouble with the Wang Clan.

• Wang Shouming, Wang Lilian, Wang Luoqing, Wang Zongyao, and other Wang Clan members failed Tian Yezi’s compatibility test, but eleven-year-old Wang Ping opened the artifact-refining box and obtained Yetian Art.
• Liu Ruolan tested Wang Ping with a swift sword strike and recognized his unusually quick instincts and early divine sense; she assigned him and Wang Zongyao to study the artifact-refining inheritance.
• The Wang Clan began planning paths, living quarters, forging areas, and defenses for Qinglian Fire Valley.
• Qian Xuerui accused Qian Xue'an of favoring the Changning Wang Clan over the Qian Clan’s interests.
• Qian Xuerui produced the Patriarch Token and removed Qian Xue'an from his post as chief shopkeeper; Qian Xue'an left, expecting the Qian Clan to suffer for antagonizing the Wang Clan.

Wang Shouzhe reflected on Ping'an Town’s development and the Wang Clan’s growing prosperity as he returned to the main residence. Wang Zongcai also came home from his travels, where he was greeted by younger relatives before Wang Shouzhe invited them to dinner and a schoolwork test.

• Wang Shouzhe traveled through Ping'an Town and observed its expanded farmland, waterways, cement roads, and growing grain-seed business.
• Wang Shouzhe reflected on how his clan’s prosperity had improved its members’ lives and helped neighboring aristocratic clans grow.
• Wang Zongcai returned to the Wang Clan Main Residence after visiting the Yingxiu Lu Clan and training in Donghai Guard.
• Wang Zongcai gave gifts to Wang Zongxu, Wang Shining, Wang Yingxue, and the other younger relatives who crowded around him.
• Wang Shouzhe arrived and invited the children to eat at his courtyard, where he planned to test their schoolwork.

Wang Shouzhe returned home and reunited with his family before sending Wang Zongcai to train in the commandery city. Meanwhile, Wang Zongan adjusted to ordinary disciple life in Evergreen Valley and learned that his sister Wang Liyao had become the Dean’s prized disciple.

• Liu Ruolan welcomed Wang Shouzhe home, and he examined the children’s lessons before praising Wang Zongcai and agreeing he could go to the commandery city next spring.
• Liu Ruolan asked Liu Feifei and Wang Shicheng to stay in her courtyard while she and Wang Shouzhe went away to handle important matters.
• Wang Zongan tended his Spirit Fields and Red-Bellied Golden Sparrows, then shared Spirit Mushroom soup with Senior Sister Bailing and Senior Brother Yuan Mo.
• Senior Brother Yuan Mo said the Dean had accepted a nineteen-year-old Great Heavenly Prodigy who had reached the second layer of the Spirit Platform Realm and could contend with ordinary Celestial Realm cultivators.
• Wang Zongan realized that his parents had sent him to Evergreen Valley to experience ordinary cultivators’ lives and prepare him for his responsibilities as the Wang Clan’s Young Clan Leader.

Wang Zongan joined Senior Sister Bailing and Senior Brother Yuan Mo to harvest Spirit Mushrooms during Evergreen Valley’s Spirit Tide, quietly using his strength to collect extra Longevity Tree Leaves. As the Longevity Tree shed bark and began growing a Longevity Fruit, the disciples realized the Spirit Tide had produced an extraordinary harvest.

• Wang Zongan concealed his peak Qi Refining Realm cultivation and told Senior Sister Bailing and Senior Brother Yuan Mo that he was a Seventh-Rank Aristocratic Clan’s Young Clan Leader attending the Academy temporarily.
• Senior Sister Bailing suggested they harvest Spirit Mushrooms beneath the Longevity Tree, and Senior Brother Yuan Mo revealed that he had an expensive miniature Ice Crystal Cold Storage.
• The three joined a long line of Evergreen Valley disciples and began picking Spirit Mushrooms when the Spirit Tide caused them to sprout at dawn.
• The Longevity Tree shed leaves, and Wang Zongan used his divine sense to gather six Longevity Tree Leaves for himself and four for Senior Sister Bailing while the other disciples collected some too.
• The Longevity Tree shed ancient bark, then bloomed and rapidly grew a Longevity Fruit, astonishing the disciples.

As Evergreen Valley’s elders and core disciples gathered beneath the Longevity Tree, a newly revealed spirit-seed fruit sparked a contest to choose its caretaker. After Wang Zongan watched the disciples present their plants, the Longevity Tree spoke to him and entrusted him with its youngest daughter.

• Senior Brother Yuze ordered the ordinary disciples to leave the Longevity Tree Bark for the public storehouse, while the disciples filled their baskets with Spirit Mushrooms.
• Senior Brother Jinshan and several elders arrived, then argued with the core disciples over who should receive the extra Longevity Fruit.
• The Longevity Fruit began to glow, and an elder identified it as a spirit seed capable of growing into a new Longevity Tree.
• Senior Brother Jinshan proposed choosing the spirit seed’s caretaker by comparing the disciples’ nurtured spirit plants, and the core disciples returned with their plants.
• Li Yuze presented his Fire Dragon Fruit tree, which drew praise from the elders as Wang Zongan watched without a spirit plant of his own.
• The Longevity Tree spoke to Wang Zongan and entrusted its youngest daughter to him, asking him to make her his Life-Bound Spirit Plant when he reached the Celestial Realm.

Wang Zongan met the Longevity Tree, which chose him to nurture its daughter’s Spirit Seed and gave him Yi Wood Essence to improve his bloodline. He quietly returned to his courtyard with both treasures, hopeful that his aptitude would rise enough to enter the Spirit Platform Realm.

• The Longevity Tree explained that Wang Zongan’s Yi Wood Bloodline carried a trace of life-origin Dao rhyme and decided his modest bloodline made him a suitable guardian for its daughter’s Spirit Seed.
• The Longevity Tree offered Wang Zongan a drop of Yi Wood Essence, and he eagerly accepted it and swore to make its daughter his Life-Bound Spirit Plant when he reached the Celestial Realm.
• The Longevity Tree transferred the Spirit Seed and Yi Wood Essence to Wang Zongan while the other disciples continued competing, unaware that the seed had already been claimed.
• The elders announced that the Spirit Seed had found its destination, leaving the core disciples bewildered and suspicious of one another.
• Wang Zongan quietly returned to his courtyard and considered how improved bloodline aptitude could help him awaken his third bloodline layer and break through to the Spirit Platform Realm.

Wang Shouzhe gathered the Marriage Alliance to discuss the Qian Clan Trading Firm’s planned commission increase and proposed using Purple Mansion Academy’s idle Spirit Bird Flying Carriages to build an aerial cold-chain logistics network. The allied clan leaders considered the plan as Wang Shouzhe revealed that his son Wang Zongan had already demonstrated how Ice Crystal Iron cold storage could keep Spirit Mushrooms fresh during transport.

• Wang Shouzhe reassured Qian Xue'an that he would support him after Qian Xuerui replaced him as chief shopkeeper, and Qian Xue'an hinted that he would help make Qian Xuerui’s mistakes more conspicuous.
• Chen Fangjie and Chen Xiuwu visited Wang Shouzhe, and Chen Fangjie asked for his thoughts on the Qian Clan’s plan to raise consignment commissions from twenty percent to fifty percent.
• Representatives of the Marriage Alliance gathered at the Wang Clan residence and voiced concern about the Qian Clan’s control of sales and transport channels.
• Wang Shouzhe served the clan leaders fresh Spirit Mushrooms that Wang Zongan had sent from Purple Mansion Academy in an Ice Crystal Iron cold-storage unit aboard a Spirit Bird Flying Carriage.
• Wang Shouzhe proposed leasing the academy’s mostly idle flying carriages to create an Aerial Cold Chain Logistics System, explaining that the academy lost about three hundred thousand Qian Gold a year from their underuse.

Wang Shouzhe presented the Marriage Alliance with plans for an aerial cold-chain, passenger, and delivery network, alongside new trade routes that would reduce their reliance on the Qian Clan. Wang Liyao then proposed that the Wang Clan lease the Academy’s Spirit Bird Flying Carriages, and the Dean approved the deal while Master Yuanshui was left bearing the cost of his master’s old decision.

• Wang Shouzhe unveiled a detailed map of Longzuo Prefecture and explained how Flying Carriages could connect its thirty-eight Citadel Cities for passenger travel, fresh-food transport, and mail delivery.
• Wang Shouzhe proposed cooperating with the Yuwen Clan’s Baiwei Restaurant and the Liaoyuan Fang Clan, then urged the Marriage Alliance to end its commercial partnerships with the Qian Clan.
• Wang Liyao met with Master Yuanshui, Lady Huandie, and Master Xuanyao and presented the Academy’s annual losses from operating its Spirit Bird Flying Carriages.
• Wang Liyao offered six hundred thousand Qian Gold a year for the Wang Clan to lease all thirty carriages while allowing Academy core disciples to keep using them at reduced prices.
• The Dean approved Wang Liyao’s proposal and teased Master Yuanshui about the Academy’s losses, leaving him to accept responsibility for the Flying Carriages his master had left behind.

Shouda Trading Firm’s Northwest Guard branch grew its business through fast Flying Carriage routes and fresh goods, while Chunyu Andong seized the chance to travel again. Rumors that the Qian Clan had betrayed its former partners damaged its reputation, and the Qian Clan Head angrily awaited Qian Xuerui’s return.

• Chunyu Andong bought a discounted Shouda Trading Firm travel package that would let him revisit the guards he had once roamed.
• Hui Qisi arrived on a Spirit Bird Flying Carriage with fresh seafood, merchandise, and letters, and the branch’s staff distributed the goods and deliveries.
• Shouda Trading Firm partnered with the Zhou Clan to offer clothing orders and tailoring services to customers across the region.
• Rumors spread that the Qian Clan had raised its partners’ profit share and driven them to establish Shouda Trading Firm, damaging the Qian Clan’s reputation.
• The Qian Clan Head smashed a vase and demanded to know whether Qian Xuerui had returned, while a steward explained that riders were still summoning him from the Southern Six Guards.

Cao Lina persuaded Clan Leader Qian Qinhong to punish the Wang Clan rather than Qian Xuerui, while Shouda Trading Firm’s Flying Carriage services continued reshaping travel and trade. At the Yuwen Clan, Qian Jinghuan tried to sever its cooperation with Shouda, but Ancestor Fire Fox appeared and attacked him.

• Cao Lina defended Qian Xuerui and urged Qian Qinhong to retaliate against the Wang Clan, and Qian Zhong supported showing the Wang Clan the Qian Clan’s strength.
• Hui Qisi told Chunyu Andong about the travel package plan, and Chunyu asked to buy a membership so he could visit his former love more often.
• Qian Jinghuan offered the Yuwen Clan one-tenth more profit from their joint projects if it cut ties with Shouda Trading Firm.
• Lady Bilian revealed that the Yuwen Clan’s cooperation with Shouda had been the wish of its Ancestor Fire Fox.
• The Seven-Tailed Fire Fox appeared, challenged Qian Jinghuan, and struck at him with a flaming claw.