Chapter Summaries

The Wang Clan expanded its frontier defenses and development efforts, sending Sun Xiaole to establish a copper-smelting workshop in Copper Mountain Region. Meanwhile, Wang Shouzhe joined Wang Zongchang’s team to prepare for hunting a seventh-rank great demon that blocked their route to the Divine Martial Army’s training site.

• Shouzhe Pass guarded Xin'an Town with Divine Might Cannons, sentry posts, and alert systems as the Wang Clan prepared to develop the safer lands beyond it.
• Sun Xiaole traveled with an escorted convoy to Copper Mountain Region to oversee a copper-smelting workshop, where Wang Shikai welcomed him and promised support.
• Wang Zongchang told Wang Luojing and Wang Luoqiu that a seventh-rank great demon’s territory blocked their route, so he sent a message requesting reinforcements.
• Wang Shouzhe received the message, then traveled with a group of clan members to rendezvous with Wang Zongchang’s team.
• Wang Shouzhe asked Wang Anye’s master, Ji Wuchen, to set up a trapping formation and gave him a Soul-Returning Pill to compensate for the effort as they prepared to hunt the great demon.

Wang Shouzhe prepared an elaborate ambush for a seventh-rank great demon, equipping the Wang Clan with explosives, protective treasures, spirit plants, and the Purple Mansion Realm puppet Wang Shouzong. After Wang Zongchang went to scout the demon’s lair, Wang Lilong confronted the Golden Tiger King during its wedding to a Moon Rabbit, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Ji Wuchen finished laying the Frenzied Sand Illusion Array, and Wang Anye produced a mountain of explosives from the Infinite Treasure Ring.
• Wang Shouzhe distributed protective talismans, pills, bombs, escape talismans, and spirit seeds, then revealed the Bloodthirsty Vine and the Purple Mansion Realm puppet Wang Shouzong.
• Wang Shouzhe sent Wang Zongchang to reconnoiter the Golden Tiger King’s lair while the rest of the Wang Clan waited nearby.
• At its lair, the Golden Tiger King held a wedding ceremony with a captive Moon Rabbit as five allied Fierce Beasts attended.
• Wang Lilong called out from outside and objected to the Golden Tiger King marrying the Moon Rabbit.

Wang Lilong lured the Golden Tiger King into an ambush, where Wang Shouzhe’s family killed the seventh-rank demon. Afterward, Wang Lilong presented Moon Rabbit to Wang Shouzhe as a prospective little wife, leaving him terrified of Liu Ruolan’s reaction.

• Wang Lilong challenged the Golden Tiger King and provoked him into fighting by claiming she would take Moon Rabbit for her father.
• Wang Lilong fought the Golden Tiger King, seized Moon Rabbit, and led him toward the family’s hidden ambush.
• Wang Shouzhe and Ji Wuchen trapped the Golden Tiger King in the Frenzied Sand Illusion Array, and Wang Shouzong, Yuwen Chiwei, Liu Ruolan, Ancestor Longyan, and Wang Lilong killed him.
• Wang Luojing and Wang Luoqiu went with Wang Shouzong to defeat the Golden Tiger King’s remaining demon generals while the family retainers collected the spoils.
• Wang Lilong returned with Moon Rabbit and offered her to Wang Shouzhe as his little wife, alarming him about Liu Ruolan’s response.

Wang Shouzhe’s party reached Divine Martial Army Recruit Training Camp No. 5 after defeating the Golden Tiger King and gathering its spoils. The camp’s Artifact Spirit admitted the recruits, offered Wang Zongchang a retest, and recognized Ancestor Longyan as eligible for a prospective-commandant assessment.

• Wang Shouzhe refused Wang Lilong’s offer to bring him the Moon Rabbit, and Liu Ruolan dragged Wang Lilong away to punish her after she nearly exposed her parents’ private arguments.
• Ji Wuchen explained the Moon Rabbit’s rarity and talent for cultivating spirit herbs, so Wang Shouzhe recruited it to work in the Wang Clan’s herb garden.
• Wang Shouzhe’s party collected the Golden Tiger King’s remains, its subordinates’ corpses, and valuable spirit veins before continuing toward the training camp.
• The group found the camouflaged entrance to Recruit Training Camp No. 5, and its Artifact Spirit verified the recruits’ tokens and accepted Wang Shouzhe’s explanation for his late arrival.
• Wang Shouzhe persuaded the Artifact Spirit to grant Wang Zongchang a harder retest, while Ancestor Longyan qualified to take an additional prospective-commandant assessment.
• The Artifact Spirit let the recruits enter and warned their family members to keep their beast companions from fouling the grounds, prompting Wang Lilong to protest.

Wang Shouzhe’s group explored the Divine Martial Army Recruit Camp, where the Artifact Spirit gave Wang Anye a bloodline improvement potion and offered him damaged cleaning puppets if he studied. After Wang Shouzhe passed the enlistment test, he learned he had to take the graduation examination within a year and began planning to bring more family members to the camp to pursue its rewards.

• Wang Shouzhe calmed Ancestor Fire Fox Yuwen Chiwei and Wang Lilong before the group entered the camp, where two Divine Ability Realm puppets deterred them from taking anything by force.
• The Artifact Spirit praised Wang Anye’s aptitude, gave him a bottle of Primary Bloodline Aptitude Improvement Fluid, and offered him damaged cleaning puppets as rewards for answering arithmetic questions and studying.
• Wang Anye failed the Artifact Spirit’s arithmetic test, so she offered to teach him and let him take damaged puppets if he studied hard.
• Wang Shouzhe passed the enlistment test by binding a Spirit Platform Realm Demon Puppet and received three doses of basic cultivation-assistance potion.
• The Artifact Spirit told Wang Shouzhe that reaching the Celestial Realm required him to take the graduation examination within a year, with rewards for clearing stages and setting records.
• Wang Shouzhe ordered Wang Zongchang to summon Liyao and Zong'an within three months and told Zong'an to bring the Longevity Tree.

Wang Shouzhe exploited the recruit camp’s graduation trials to win powerful rewards, then passed them through his family in a relay that raised Wang Luojing and Wang Luoqiu to Great Heavenly Prodigy aptitude. The first round of the Wang Clan’s reward-gathering was complete, and Wang Shouzhe planned to strip the camp of even more treasures.

• Wang Zongchang passed his make-up examination, earned an elite reservist token, and left the camp to notify Wang Zongan, Wang Liyao, and the others.
• Wang Shouzhe and his family cleaned and inventoried the recruit camp, earning military merit, while Wang Anye studied the Divine Martial Dynasty’s foundational subjects.
• Wang Shouzhe persuaded the Artifact Spirit to let Wang Luotong, Wang Shouyong, and Wang Shoulian take make-up examinations, then began his graduation trial and cleared its first six stages.
• Wang Shouzhe gave his Advanced Bloodline Aptitude Improvement Fluid to Wang Zongan, who improved his aptitude and cleared the trial through stage six before passing rewards to Wang Luojing.
• Wang Luojing used the improvement fluid to become a Great Heavenly Prodigy, cleared stage six, and gave Wang Luoqiu equipment and another fluid; Wang Luoqiu also reached Great Heavenly Prodigy aptitude and cleared the same stages.
• Wang Luoqiu returned a bloodline improvement fluid to Wang Shouzhe and gave Wang Zongan a defensive treasure, completing the family’s first reward-sharing cycle as Wang Shouzhe prepared to continue exploiting the camp.

Wang Shouzhe coordinated the Wang Clan’s attempts to claim the graduation examination’s rare rewards, using a relay of clan members to break the seventh-stage record. After Wang Shouzhe stalled the Asura devil for three days to give his family time to act, he defeated it himself and claimed the camp’s first-clear opportunity.

• Wang Shouzhe learned that top-grade techniques could be earned through recruit-camp missions, then planned how the clan could secure the seventh- and eighth-stage rewards.
• Wang Zongan broke the seventh-stage record by holding off an Asura Devil, then conceded and received an Advanced Bloodline Aptitude Improvement Fluid essence.
• Wang Shoulian used both bloodline medicines, advanced to a Great Heavenly Prodigy bloodline, and broke Zongan’s record by surviving the Asura Devil for one hour and twenty breaths.
• Wang Shouyong, Wang Luotong, and Wang Zongchang took turns holding out against the Asura Devil and successively set longer records using delaying tactics and life-saving trump cards.
• Wang Shouzhe stalled the Asura Devil for three days while his clan members carried out their plans, then defeated the weakened demon and requested the seventh stage’s first-clear, clearance, and record-breaking rewards.

Wang Shouzhe claimed the seventh-stage rewards and helped Wang Luojing, Wang Luoqiu, Ancestor Longyan, Wang Liyao, and Liu Ruolan clear the stage as their bloodlines and combat abilities advanced. Liu Ruolan set a record by defeating the Asura Demon in half an incense stick, then revealed she had become an Innate Spirit Body, leaving Wang Shouzhe alarmed that he had not noticed.

• Wang Shouzhe chose a late-stage Purple Mansion Realm guardian puppet as his first-clear reward, named it Wang Shouzu, and gave Wang Luojing an Essence Edition of Advanced Bloodline Aptitude Improvement Fluid.
• Wang Luojing defeated the Asura Devil after two and a half days of battle, broke the stage record, and passed her additional bloodline fluid to Wang Luoqiu.
• Wang Luoqiu defeated the Asura Devil through close combat, and Wang Shouzhe treated her injuries after she hid herself and coughed up blood.
• Ancestor Longyan cleared the seventh stage, advanced her bloodline to Great Heavenly Prodigy Grade A, and gave her record reward to Wang Liyao, who then cleared the stage and passed her fluids to Liu Ruolan.
• Liu Ruolan defeated the Asura Demon in half an incense stick, set a new record, gave her unused fluid to Wang Zongan and Wang Shouzhe, and revealed that she had become an Innate Spirit Body.

Wang Luojing broke the army-wide record at the recruit camp’s eighth stage, earning a powerful defensive token, while Wang Luoqiu and Liu Ruolan also challenged the juvenile Demon God. Liu Ruolan achieved the first clear and selected a Life Tree Immortal Seed and a Top-Grade Bloodline Aptitude Improvement Fluid, leaving the Wang Clan with major new rewards.

• Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan took ten days to rest before the Wang Clan gathered to challenge the eighth stage, where the Artifact Spirit explained that the juvenile Demon God puppet had once held Wu Panpan’s record.
• Wang Luojing held off the juvenile Demon God for an hour, broke Wu Panpan’s army-wide record, and received a Legion Commander’s Protection token.
• Wang Luoqiu endured the Demon God long enough to win another Legion Commander’s Protection token, then told Wang Shouzhe she planned to challenge the Immortal Court instead of Shangjing.
• Liu Ruolan fought the juvenile Demon God for ten days and defeated it for the first clear, revealing that she had reached the seventh level of the Celestial Realm.
• Liu Ruolan chose the Life Tree Immortal Seed as her first-clear reward and the Top-Grade Bloodline Aptitude Improvement Fluid as her clearance reward.

Liu Ruolan cleared the eighth stage, and Wang Shouzhe persuaded the camp’s Artifact Spirit to award the Fifth Recruit Training Camp a unique Kun egg as its first-clear reward. Ancestor Longyan used the Extreme Modification Elixir to reach an Innate Spirit Body, while Wang Shouzhe awakened the Life Tree Immortal Seed and heard a mysterious Emperor speak to him.

• Liu Ruolan earned the eighth-stage clear, and Wang Shouzhe convinced the Artifact Spirit to set a camp first-clear reward and let her choose the unique Kun egg.
• Wang Shouzhe chose the Kun egg after the clan debated it, then assigned Wang Anye to care for the future hatchling.
• Wang Shouzhe gave Ancestor Longyan the Extreme Modification Elixir, which raised her bloodline to Innate Spirit Body third-class and restored her place as the clan’s strongest fighter.
• Wang Shouzhe examined the Life Tree Immortal Seed and infused it with his life essence until it sprouted and recognized him.
• A majestic voice addressed Wang Shouzhe as a child of humanity and congratulated him on obtaining the Life Tree Immortal Seed.

Wang Shouzhe refined the Life Tree into his Life-Bound Spirit Plant, named her Wang Lixian, and helped her grow into a powerful battlefield force. After the Wang Clan cleared the training camp’s eighth stage and claimed its rewards, they returned home, where Commandery Governor Taishi Ankang arrived pleading for help.

• Wang Shouzhe heard the Holy Emperor’s recorded message, then refined the Life Tree and named her Wang Lixian after Liu Ruolan objected to his proposed name.
• Wang Shouzhe nourished Wang Lixian until she reached Fourth Rank, gaining a Life Domain that healed injuries, boosted plant growth, and strengthened his body.
• Wang Lixian helped Wang Shouzhe defeat the juvenile Demon God after a seven-day battle, earning him a Dao Spirit Pearl and a Legion Commander's Protection.
• Wang Liyao defeated the juvenile Demon God and received a portable estate, while Ancestor Longyan later won her battle and claimed the Profound Ice Phoenix Egg.
• Wang Shouzhe and the others returned home, and Taishi Ankang arrived asking Wang Shouzhe to save him.

Wang Shouzhe received Taishi Ankang and the declining Longzuo Yan Clan, who sought his help surviving a dangerous gap in their Purple Mansion succession. He left the Yan Clan’s future unresolved while privately telling Taishi Ankang that he understood the clan’s crisis but would not simply rescue it, and learned that the Emperor’s displeasure with him had entangled the prefectural governor as well.

• Wang Shouzhe welcomed Taishi Ankang and Yan Yufei’s party, praised young Yan Shuangshuang’s aptitude, and gave her a red packet containing a Purple Gold Note.
• Taishi Ankang explained that the Yan Clan faced dwindling industries, threats from neighboring clans, and a century-long gap before its next Purple Mansion expert could emerge.
• Yan Feihong offered to marry Mingzhu and Shuang'er into the Wang Clan if Wang Shouzhe helped, prompting Wang Shouzhe to end the banquet and leave the Yan party uneasy.
• Wang Shifeng and the Wang Clan youths entertained the Yan juniors, whose education and accomplishments impressed and intimidated their guests; Shuangshuang discovered the value of her red packet.
• Wang Shouzhe told Taishi Ankang that the Yan Clan’s decline stemmed from its failure to adapt and that it might need to give up wealth and lower its rank to survive.
• Taishi Ankang revealed that the Emperor was angered by Wang Shouzhe and had ordered Longzuo Prefecture to raise tax revenue by fifty percent, while Wang Shouzhe joked that the governor was viewed as his ally.

Wang Shouzhe persuaded Taishi Ankang to join Prince An’s side and devised a plan to address Longzuo Prefecture’s tax demands. As the Yan Clan weighed a marriage alliance with the Wang Clan, Wang Zongkun hatched at Moon-Water Pavilion and immediately revealed an enormous appetite.

• Wang Shouzhe convinced Taishi Ankang that neutrality was impossible and told him to appeal to His Majesty over the tax increase as part of a broader plan.
• Wang Shouzhe detailed Longzuo Prefecture’s tax revenues, and Taishi Ankang agreed to follow his lead.
• Ancestor Yufei and Yan Feihong discussed the Wang Clan’s strength and considered marriage alliances, while the Yan youths grew close to Wang Shifeng, Wang Shijing, and Wang Shilian.
• Wang Zongkun hatched after consuming the spirit qi in Moon-Water Pavilion’s spirit vein and ate his eggshell.
• Wang Zongkun stunned nearby aquatic creatures with his cry, then devoured more than a thousand jin of Spirit Fish that Wang Shouzhe provided.

Wang Shouzhe finished raising the juvenile Kun, arranged for Wang Shifeng and Yan Shuangshuang to pursue a match, and welcomed Yan Clan juniors into the Wang Clan School. Meanwhile, Emperor Longchang awaited a painting from the Cold Moon Immortal Dynasty, unaware that five mischievous wolf cubs had damaged the flying ship carrying it toward Great Qian.

• Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan fed the juvenile Kun, and Wang Anye bonded with it as its companion and caretaker.
• Wang Shouzhe questioned younger relatives about their work, studies, and courtships, then sent Wang Shifeng to invite the Yan Clan's ancestor and family head to a banquet.
• After meeting Wang Shouzhe, Ancestor Yufei and Family Head Feihong returned home, while Yan Clan youths joined the Wang Clan School; Wang Shifeng and Yan Shuangshuang's families later began their betrothal arrangements.
• Emperor Longchang dismissed petitions and complaints about Longzuo Prefecture's tax increase while eagerly anticipating the Divine Dynasty Afterglow Painting arriving from the Cold Moon Immortal Dynasty.
• Yao Chengchao struggled to control a damaged Cloud Ray Flying Ship after five wolf cubs wrecked its cabins and cargo, including the painting intended for Emperor Longchang.

Gongsun Hui audited the Yan Clan’s industries as Shouda Trading Firm prepared to restructure them, while Prince Kang and Zhao Zhikun plotted against the Wang Clan after receiving troubling news. In the imperial palace, Emperor Longchang learned that the five wolf pups that ruined his painting belonged to Wang Shouzhe and ordered him to come retrieve them.

• Gongsun Hui arrived in Red Gold Guard and began auditing the Yan Clan’s accounts, exposing widespread fraud and corruption.
• Ancestor Yufei ordered a thorough investigation and pledged to punish anyone who obstructed the audit.
• After returning from a victorious campaign, Prince Kang read a letter about Wu Yingji’s betrayal and discussed plans with Zhao Zhikun and Gongyang Ce to secure allies and target the Wang Clan.
• Emperor Longchang confronted Yao Chengchao over the ruined Divine Dynasty Afterglow Painting and learned that the five Silver Moon Gray Wolf pups belonged to Wang Shouzhe.
• Emperor Longchang detained the pups and ordered Wang Shouzhe to come to the palace to retrieve them.

Wang Shouzhe and Ji Wuchen planned a century-long Five Elements Spirit Gathering Grand Array for Ping'an Town, while five Silver Moon Gray Wolf cubs charmed Emperor Longchang in the Imperial Garden. The cubs then escaped their overnight confinement and wrecked the garden, leaving Longchang convinced Wang Shouzhe had set him up.

• Wang Zongkun played in Zhuwei Lake while Wang Lilong admitted she had taken money from both sides of a fight, and Wang Anye worried over her neglected homework.
• Wang Shouzhe gave Ji Wuchen a Soul Restoration Treasure Pill, and Ji confirmed the Five Elements Spirit Gathering Grand Array could be built with extensive resources and a Divine Power True Person's help.
• Wang Shouzhe decided the Wang Clan would gradually fund the array and begin relocating Ping'an Town's residents.
• Emperor Longchang welcomed five wolf cubs into the Imperial Garden, mistook their obedience for proof that Yao Chengchao had falsely accused them, and ordered an investigation.
• The wolf cubs escaped their den overnight and damaged the Imperial Garden's rare flowers and Spirit Fish, prompting Emperor Longchang to blame Wang Shouzhe.

Emperor Longchang discovered that the five Silver Moon Gray Wolf cubs had been secretly escaping their den to steal ingredients, but grew more fond of them even as he tried to strengthen their confinement. Meanwhile, Taishi Ankang sought Wang Shouzhe’s help, and Wang Shouzhe arrived at Guilong City with his family, poised to enter the capital.

• Emperor Longchang freed the five cubs after two days in confinement and brought them along while he walked the garden and handled state affairs.
• The cubs ate the Emperor’s leftover meals after someone repeatedly stole the imperial kitchen’s marinated ingredients, and Old Yao traced the thefts to a hidden hole and a tuft of wolf fur.
• Emperor Longchang found a matching hole in the cubs’ den and learned that Number Five’s Moonlight Phantom Technique had helped them evade their guards, so he ordered stronger iron flooring, railings, and locks.
• Taishi Ankang concluded that Emperor Longchang’s absence from state affairs had disrupted his plan and wrote to summon Wang Shouzhe for help.
• Wang Shouzhe arrived at Guilong City with Wang Anye, Wang Yingxuan, Wang Lilong, and the others, and prepared to enter the imperial capital.

Wang Shouzhe arrived in Shangjing and met the Realm-Stabilizing Ducal Estate’s Wang Yuchang and his relatives, who were astonished by the Changning Wang Clan’s exceptional descendants and their connections to the Sacred Land. As Wang Yuchang escorted him to the main residence, news of Shouzhe’s arrival reached Emperor Longchang, who insisted Shouzhe would come to visit him without being summoned.

• Wang Yuchang welcomed Wang Shouzhe at the Flying Carriage station and introduced Wang Chenping, Wang Lingzhu, Wang Shida, and Wang Annan.
• Wang Shouzhe gave Wang Annan a generous red envelope, but Wang Yuchang secretly added its contents to Wang Anye’s gift before handing it over.
• Wang Yingxuan teased Wang Annan, and Wang Shouzhe explained that the Holy Lord had already chosen Yingxuan as a disciple after her bloodline aptitude was greatly improved.
• Wang Shouzhe and his companions set off for the Wang Clan Main Residence while news of his arrival spread through Shangjing and drew the attention of Emperor Longchang.
• Emperor Longchang complained that Wang Shouzhe had not visited him first and predicted that Shouzhe would come to pay his respects within three days.

Wang Shouzhe arrived at the Great Qian Wang Clan Main Residence and sought a True Method inheritance for the Changning Wang Clan while the younger generation toured Shangjing. The chapter left Wang Yingxuan confronting Wu Xuening after she challenged Wang Liyao, setting up a clash between the two girls.

• Wang Yuchang welcomed Wang Shouzhe's party, showed them the ancient main residence, and hosted a feast before arranging their stay at Four Seasons Garden.
• Wang Anye handed over his red packet for safekeeping, but Wang Yingxuan and Wang Lilong tried to drag him off for teasing; Ji Wuchen beat them, and Wang Shouzhe collected the children's packets before giving Yingxuan and Lilong spending money.
• Wang Shouzhe asked Wang Yuchang for access to a True Method for the Changning Wang Clan, and Yuchang said he would consult the ancestor emerging from seclusion.
• Wang Anye, Wang Yingxuan, and Wang Lilong toured Shangjing with Wang Annan, whose tips from Anye made him eager to accompany them.
• Wang Annan argued that they should eat at Thousand Delicacies Tower rather than White Cloud Pavilion, but Wu Xuening appeared and defended the imperial restaurant while criticizing his choice.
• Wu Xuening vowed to challenge Wang Liyao, and Wang Yingxuan stepped forward to mock her and defend her aunt.

Wang Yingxuan and Wu Xuening’s quarrel escalated into a fight involving Divine Ability Spirit Treasures, and Wang Lilong joined in after Wu Zhixing accidentally knocked Yingxuan back. Ancestor Azure Dragon Wu Canglong arrived, captured Wang Lilong, and began questioning the young troublemakers.

• Wang Yingxuan insulted Wu Xuening, who attacked her with her Mystic Ice bloodline power, prompting Ji Wuchen to use Passing Years to stop the blow.
• Wang Yingxuan seized Passing Years and fought Wu Xuening, who borrowed Thousand Autumns from Wu Zhixing, while the two Artifact Spirits clashed.
• Wang Lilong encouraged Wang Yingxuan as the fight damaged nearby shops, and the City Defense Battalion patrol arrived but only maintained order and summoned help.
• Wang Yingxuan unleashed a powerful sword strike, and Wu Zhixing protected Wu Xuening with his Winged Dragon bloodline power, accidentally sending Yingxuan flying.
• Wang Lilong transformed into her dragon form and struck Wu Zhixing, but Wu Canglong arrived, captured her, and reprimanded her and the Wu Clan children for causing trouble.