Chapter Summaries

Wang Anye and the others began the Insight Sword Stele trial to compete for the Sword-and-Array Dual Excellence Canon. Wei Qingyun and Yun Taian each left impressive marks, and Wang Anye recognized the strongest sword intent as strangely similar to Liu Ruolan’s.

• Ji Qianqian tried first but left a sword mark shorter than one inch and failed the trial.
• Wei Qingyun left a four-inch mark, passed, and summoned the Sword Lady and Array Lady, who favored him for his talent and family resources.
• Yun Taian was allowed to try and left a mark slightly longer than Wei Qingyun’s, making the two Artifact Spirits hesitate over whom to choose.
• Wang Anye began comprehending the stele’s strongest sword intent and recognized its familiar flavor as resembling Liu Ruolan’s sword intent.

Wang Anye comprehended the responsibility behind a True Immortal’s sword intent and awakened a formidable sword intent of his own, drawing the attention of the Sword-and-Array Dual Ladies. Wei Qingyun activated the Luck Tree’s power and used a Heaven-Deceiving Lightning-Attracting Talisman to summon a Divine Ability tribulation, but the lightning’s unpredictable turns left Wang Anye unharmed and struck Yun Taian instead.

• Wang Anye recognized a familiar imprint in the sword intent, envisioned a lone woman forging a path for all living beings, and resolved to use his sword to secure a future for his family.
• Wang Anye’s sword intent erupted and stirred the ancient swords in the Sword Tomb, prompting the Sword-and-Array Dual Ladies to see him as a potential inheritor; Yun Taian conceded defeat, while Wei Qingyun grew determined to protect his chance at the canon.
• Wei Qingyun extracted origin power from the imprisoned Luck Tree and used a Heaven-Deceiving Lightning-Attracting Talisman to summon Divine Ability tribulation clouds over the Sword Tomb.
• Ji Yanxiu fled and was struck down by the first lightning bolt, while Ji Qianqian stayed behind and tried to wake Wang Anye; Wei Qingyun urged everyone to spread out as the next bolt gathered.
• Ji Qianqian tried to pull Wang Anye away from the sword stele, but he caught her and drew her into his arms; the second lightning bolt curved around them and struck Yun Taian instead.

Wang Anye remained calm as the Divine Ability tribulation repeatedly struck Yun Taian, then Wei Qingyun, exposing Wei Qingyun’s scheme and freeing the Luck Tree. Yun Taian realized Wei Qingyun had manipulated the lightning against him and confronted him in fury.

• The third through seventh bolts of heavenly lightning repeatedly changed course and struck Yun Taian, leaving him gravely injured despite his defensive treasures.
• Wei Qingyun offered to protect Yun Taian from the eighth bolt while secretly using the Luck Tree’s Luck Dispersal ability against Wang Anye and Ji Qianqian.
• The Luck Dispersal energy rebounded onto Wei Qingyun, scattering his Luck, and the eighth bolt struck him instead of Yun Taian.
• The lightning shattered Wei Qingyun’s Xi Rang Pendant, releasing the Luck Tree and the spirit soil from the Wei Clan’s collapsed confinement array.
• The enraged Luck Tree bound Wei Qingyun with its roots and whipped him, while Sword Lady and Array Lady recognized it.
• Yun Taian realized Wei Qingyun had created the tribulation clouds and cursed him for secretly targeting him.

Wang Anye formed the All-Life Sword Intent, split the ninth heavenly lightning with Passing Years, and protected Yun Taian as the tribulation ended. After gaining most of the heavenly sweet dew and befriending the Luck Tree, he watched the Sword Formation Twin Maidens confront Ji Wuchen, whom they accused of imprisoning them for more than seven thousand years.

• The Luck Tree reclaimed its stolen source power from Wei Qingyun, fled to Wang Anye, and left Wei Qingyun suffering the Heavenly Dao's misfortune backlash.
• Wang Anye awakened the All-Life Sword Intent, drew the ninth heavenly lightning toward himself, and used Passing Years to cleave its power and shield Yun Taian with the swords of the Sword Mound.
• The remaining lightning struck Wei Qingyun and Yun Taian, but Wei Qingyun survived by taking a Heaven-Seizing Sacred Pill while Wang Anye's sword formation protected Yun Taian.
• The Heavenly Dao's sweet dew raised Wang Anye's bloodline aptitude and improved Yun Taian's and Ji Qianqian's aptitudes, while a gust diverted Wei Qingyun's share to Wang Anye.
• Wang Anye agreed to let the Luck Tree recover before considering a natal contract, and the Luck Tree eagerly chose to follow him.
• The Sword Formation Twin Maidens recognized Ji Wuchen inside Passing Years and accused him of imprisoning them for more than seven thousand years.

Wang Anye won the Sword Array Canon, gained the Luck Tree’s loyalty, and saw Wei Dongyu withdraw after failing to reclaim it. As he inherited the canon, his aptitude rose to upper-grade Peerless Prodigy, leaving him qualified to compete for an Immortal Scripture.

• Ji Wuchen revealed himself to Ji Qianqian and confirmed that Wang Anye was his disciple, while the Sword Formation Twin Maidens prepared to unite with Anye as their heir.
• Wang Anye carved a sword mark more than a foot deep into the Insight Sword Stele, satisfying the Twin Maidens’ final requirement.
• Wei Dongyu, Yao Yuangang, and Ji Yue'er arrived, and Yun Taian recounted Wei Qingyun’s suspected use of the Luck Tree and a Heaven-Deceiving Lightning-Attracting Talisman.
• Wei Dongyu denied the accusations and demanded the Luck Tree back, but the Luck Tree refused to return to the Wei Clan, and Yao Yuangang and Ji Yue'er backed Wang Anye.
• Wei Dongyu left with Wei Qingyun, and Wang Anye entrusted the Luck Tree to Ji Yue'er before inheriting the Sword Array Canon.
• The canon’s stored essence raised Wang Anye’s bloodline aptitude to upper-grade Peerless Prodigy, qualifying him to compete for an Immortal Scripture.

Wang Qingyun and Wei Dongyu vowed revenge against Wang Anye, but the Chaoyang King confronted them and badly injured Wei Dongyu for nearly getting Yun Taian killed. At the Northern Domain Prince’s Estate, Wang Fugui received news of Wang Anye’s victory and the Wei Clan’s threat, then began gathering intelligence to deal with them.

• Wei Qingyun recovered aboard the Wei Clan’s Flying Carriage while he and Wei Dongyu planned to reclaim the Luck Tree and punish Wang Anye.
• The Chaoyang King blocked the carriage and struck Wei Dongyu down after he tried to dismiss Wei Qingyun’s wrongdoing.
• Wei Dongyu returned to the carriage injured and vowed to retaliate against the Chaoyang King’s Estate and Wang Anye.
• Wang Fugui welcomed Luo Yuqing and Luo Xuanji, accepted Luo Xuanji as an attendant, and heard Luo Yuqing’s request to mediate a dispute with the Cold Moon Jiang Clan.
• Luo Yuqing reported Wang Anye’s victory and warned that the Wei Clan might target Wang Fugui, who asked her to compile intelligence on the Wei Clan.

Wang Fugui spent ten days gathering intelligence and devising a plan against the Wei Clan before traveling with Yun Mengyu and Jiang Yuling to the Immortal Palace for advice on nurturing a Seven-Colored Treasure-Gathering Tree. At the Ascension Gate, he unexpectedly encountered Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan publicly challenging Immortal Palace disciples, leaving Yun Mengyu embarrassed after she mocked them.

• Wang Fugui rejected Yun Mengyu's offer to have her ancestor mediate with the Wei Clan, then accepted her Princess Token to obtain the Wei Clan's tax records and other intelligence.
• Over ten days, Wang Fugui analyzed the Wei Clan's information and produced a plan that left Wu Zhiyu, Luo Xuanji, and the others convinced they could not compete with him for the future position of master of the Princess's Estate.
• Jiang Yuling brought Wang Fugui and Yun Mengyu to the Immortal Palace to seek Senior Enlightenment's advice on caring for Wang Fugui's Seven-Colored Treasure-Gathering Tree.
• At the Ascension Gate, Wang Fugui spotted Wang Lici, Wang Yingxuan, and Lan Wan'er advertising a challenge to Immortal Palace disciples and Sacred Land Heavenly Prodigies.
• Wang Lici recognized Wang Fugui and tried to hand him her challenge banner, while Yun Mengyu realized the women were his family after having mocked them.

Wang Fugui and his companions visited the Immortal Palace’s Enlightenment Tea Garden, where he advanced into the Spirit Platform Realm and awakened a Minor Divine Ability. After showing True Lord Wudao the Seven-Colored Treasure-Gathering Tree and asking how to save a damaged Luck Tree, Wang Fugui provoked Wudao into declaring war on the Jing'an Wei Clan.

• Wang Lici, Wang Yingxuan, Lan Wan'er, and True Lord Yuling gave Yun Mengyu expensive gifts before Wang Fugui and his companions entered the Immortal Palace.
• At the Enlightenment Tea Garden, Wang Fugui broke through to the Spirit Platform Realm beneath True Lord Wudao’s tree, awakened his fifth bloodline layer, and comprehended a Minor Divine Ability.
• Wang Fugui brought out the Seven-Colored Glazed Treasure-Gathering Tree, named Wang Baocai, and received instruction from True Lord Wudao on raising spirit plants.
• Wang Fugui told True Lord Wudao that the Jing'an Wei Clan had used an evil technique to drain a Luck Tree’s origin, leaving her gravely weakened.
• Furious at the Luck Tree’s abuse, True Lord Wudao uprooted a massive tree root and vowed that he was irreconcilable with the Jing'an Wei Clan.

Wang Fugui secured the Immortal Venerable’s approval to demand compensation from the Wei Clan for harming Luck Tree, while pressure mounted on the clan across the Immortal Dynasty. The Wei Clan planned to raise black iron prices to fund the payment, and Wang Fugui arrived at the Profound Armor Division to meet Zhao Xiqing.

• Wang Fugui proposed that the Wei Clan pay one hundred million Immortal Crystals to compensate Luck Tree, and the Immortal Venerable permitted True Lord Wudao to pursue the matter without breaking the law.
• True Lord Wudao’s anger spread through the Immortal City, prompting spirit plants and powerful families to condemn the Wei Clan.
• Wei Dongyu learned of the compensation demand and ordered Wei Wentao to coordinate with the Helan Han Clan to drive up black iron prices.
• Zhao Xiqing told the Prince of Southern Pacification that the Wei Clan and Helan Han Clan had quoted two hundred and forty million Immortal Crystals for black iron needed to make three hundred thousand sets of armor.
• Wang Fugui arrived at the Profound Armor Division with Luo Yuqing and Jiang Qinglian, where Zhao Xiqing recognized him as a child of her Zhao Clan relatives.

Wang Fugui demonstrated the Wang Clan’s modular Profound Armor to the Southern Suppression Prince and Zhao Xiqing, then used the Wei Clan’s black iron price manipulation to secure a massive armor contract and support for a scheme against them. The Southern Suppression Prince agreed to the deal and to let Immortal Dynasty artifact refiners choose whether to remain in Great Qian after the work was done.

• Wang Fugui explained that he had brought the princess’s token to promote the Wang Clan’s new battle armor, and the Southern Suppression Prince and Zhao Xiqing assembled ten Spirit Platform Realm guards to test it.
• Luo Yuqing presented the ninth-generation modular Profound Armor, and the testers confirmed its lighter weight, modular construction, and improved mobility despite its lower overall defense.
• Wang Fugui explained how the Wang Clan’s farming and manufacturing methods reduced armor costs, then defended its 2,000-Immortal-Crystal price against the Southern Suppression Prince’s objections.
• Wang Fugui revealed that the Wei Clan had hoarded black iron and manipulated its price, and he privately proposed a scheme that could punish the clan and reduce armor costs.
• The Southern Suppression Prince agreed to order 300,000 armor sets at 1,500 Immortal Crystals each, with Wang Fugui producing 100,000 and the Immortal Dynasty supplying materials and at least 2,000 artifact refiners.
• The Southern Suppression Prince agreed that artifact refiners could stay in Great Qian after the contract ended, and Wang Fugui insisted that the promise be written into the contract.

Jiang Xingyuan warned Han Langtai that East Qian Kingdom was a bottomless pit before Fourth Princess Yun Mengyu and True Lord Yuling arrived at the Helan Han Clan. Yun Mengyu persuaded Han Qixuan to lend her black iron ingots for three years in exchange for repayment with a thirty-percent surplus, leaving the clan bound by a secret contract.

• Jiang Xingyuan praised the Han Clan’s Purple Iron Sunflower Tea, and Han Langtai admitted he had diverted tea meant for Jing'an Princess.
• Han Langtai asked about Gongyang Ce’s loss in the War of the Holy Sons, and Jiang Xingyuan called East Qian Kingdom a bottomless pit.
• Yun Mengyu and True Lord Yuling arrived at the Han Clan, where True Lord Yuling teased Jiang Xingyuan and kept him by her side for guidance.
• Yun Mengyu asked Han Qixuan to lend enough black iron ingots for one hundred thousand sets of armor, promising to repay enough for one hundred and thirty thousand sets in three years.
• Han Qixuan agreed after True Lord Yuling guaranteed repayment, requiring secrecy and a written contract, while Yun Mengyu privately celebrated her borrowing-shares-to-short-sell plan.

The Helan Han Clan’s Han Qixuan revealed his plan to use the Profound Iron profits and an ownerless Void Ascension Scripture to raise Han Langtai’s aptitude and the clan’s standing. At the Chaoyang King’s Estate, the aging Chaoyang King chose to prepare for her succession and invited Wang Anye, who offered to treat her when her old injuries flared.

• Yun Mengyu and True Lord Yuling departed with the borrowed Profound Iron, while Yun Mengyu trusted Fugui to help her repay it.
• Han Qixuan told Han Langtai that he possessed a clue to an ownerless Void Ascension Scripture and planned to use a ninth-rank Heaven-Defying Dao Pill to improve Han Langtai’s aptitude.
• The Chaoyang King agreed to consider Jing'an Princess as her successor, while Yao Yuangang resolved to pass his Canon to Yao Chengchao and invite Wang Anye to the estate.
• The Chaoyang King received Wang Anye and offered him her maidservants, but he declined because he already had a wife and children.
• The Chaoyang King’s old injuries and toxins flared after she said she had fought Wei Dongyu, and Wang Anye challenged Physician Jinghong’s treatment and offered to treat her himself.

Wang Anye treated the Chaoyang King's injuries and persuaded her to recuperate with the Changning Wang Clan in East Qian. Meanwhile, Imperial Prince An arranged for Wu Shengjun to pursue Northern Zhou’s Commandery Princess Luojia, before Wang Shouzhe received news that Emperor Longchang had been injured.

• Wang Anye used his wood-element Profound Qi to treat the Chaoyang King, then shattered a life-saving leaf to repel her demonic poison and restore her vitality.
• The Chaoyang King agreed to visit the Changning Wang Clan for further treatment and wrote to warn Wei Dongyu against plotting against Wang Anye.
• In Guilong City, Imperial Prince An and Wang Shizhao learned that Northern Zhou was selecting a husband for Commandery Princess Luojia and decided to send Wu Shengjun with an envoy to compete for her hand.
• Imperial Prince An asked Wang Shizhao to recruit talented young people from Great Qian, including members of the Wang Clan, to accompany Wu Shengjun.
• A family retainer told Wang Shouzhe that Emperor Longchang had been injured in a conflict while drawing a top-grade spirit vein.

Wang Shouzhe learned that Emperor Longchang had been injured in a clash with the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom and ordered Spirit Vein extraction halted to avoid further conflict. At Immortal Palace, Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan’s arena challenge drew Zhang Huaibing into battle, while Wang Fugui’s Profound Iron scheme advanced in the Immortal Dynasty and revealed his growing influence.

• Wang Shouzhe let Emperor Longchang recuperate at Immortal Abiding Residence after learning the emperor had fought the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor, then ordered Spirit Vein extraction to stop for now.
• Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan continued attracting challengers at Immortal Palace, where Zhang Huaibing arrived and challenged Wang Lici after presenting rare octopus meat.
• Wang Lici overwhelmed Zhang Huaibing’s Ice-Blade Thousand Cuts with her Taotie Bloodline’s Devour All Things ability, while several Immortal Palace True Lords watched and argued over who would recruit her.
• The fat shopkeeper arranged the transport of glassware and Profound Iron while deliberately leaking news of a giant East Qian Profound Iron vein, setting a market scheme in motion.
• Wang Fugui refused the Southern Pacification King’s request for a larger share unless each department supplied three hundred artifact refiners, then warned him to cooperate with the plan without drawing attention.

The Wei Clan tried to profit from the collapse and rebound of mystic iron prices, believing it had cornered the Immortal Armaments Department. Wang Fugui’s coordinated scheme kept driving the market higher, and the chapter left the Wei Clan preparing to buy even more stock while Han Langtai confronted Wang Fugui over the Han Clan’s involvement.

• Luo Yuming and other clan members learned that major clans were secretly selling mystic iron, prompting panic selling across Cold Moon Immortal City.
• Wei Mingyu persuaded the Wei Clan to support mystic iron prices, buy stock from smaller holders, and secretly unload the Wei Clan’s inventory.
• Wang Fugui told the Prince of Southern Pacification to keep buying mystic iron even as the price rose, while the Prince warned that the Wei Clan was driving up the market.
• Wei Mingyu believed he had outmaneuvered the Prince and planned to sell four hundred thousand sets of mystic iron ingots for five hundred million Immortal Crystals.
• After learning that the Han Clan had accumulated another one hundred and fifty thousand sets, Wei Mingyu ordered the Wei Clan to buy them as well.
• Han Langtai accused Wang Fugui and the Fourth Little Princess of manipulating the Han Clan, while Wang Fugui defended the scheme and thanked the Han Clan for cooperating.

The Southern Pacification King and Zhao Xiqing used Wang Fugui’s new battle armor to crash the Profound Iron market and ruin the Wei Clan’s attempt to monopolize its supply. The Wei Clan faced a catastrophic loss, and when True Lord Wudao and the Wei Clan’s creditors arrived to demand payment, Wei Dongyu realized the crisis had been engineered against them.

• The Southern Pacification King and Zhao Xiqing visited the Wei Clan and revealed that the Wang Clan Ninth-Generation Modular Battle Armor used far less Profound Iron than the old armor while performing better, leaving Wei Mingyu’s planned sale of four hundred thousand sets unwanted.
• The new armor’s tests and news that the Wei Clan held more than six hundred thousand Profound Iron ingots prompted aristocratic families to sell, sending prices plunging and trapping the Wei Clan with a huge, debt-funded inventory.
• Wei Dongyu, Wei Mingyu, Wei Deming, and Wei Qingyun discussed holding the ingots and delaying repayments, but True Lord Wudao arrived to demand fifty million Immortal Crystals for the Luck Tree.
• The Southern Pacification King urged True Lord Wudao to pressure the Wei Clan, and True Lord Wudao rooted himself in its Spirit Fields and drained the Spirit Vein until Wei Dongyu promised payment within ten days.
• Several creditors arrived together to demand repayment, and Wei Dongyu spat blood as he realized the Wei Clan’s financial crisis had been deliberately exploited.

Wei Deming negotiated with the Wei Clan’s creditors, agreeing to sell Profound Iron and clan treasures to reduce their debts. Wang Fugui’s campaign profits then funded a sweeping auction bid for the Wei Clan’s Divine Ability treasures and inheritance grounds, and the chapter ended with him opening the bidding on the Primordial Yellow Treasure Hall at fifty million Immortal Crystals.

• True Lord Abundant Wealth, True Lord Three Treasures, and Ancestor Yongwen demanded repayment from Wei Deming, who agreed to offset part of the Wei Clan’s debt with Profound Iron and sell Divine Ability Spirit Treasures and inheritance grounds.
• Wang Fugui reviewed the campaign accounts with the Southern Pacification King and calculated a net profit of one hundred and fifty million Immortal Crystals, alongside a large stock of Profound Iron ingots.
• Wang Fugui donated one hundred thousand units of Profound Iron to the Immortal Armaments Department, kept the rest for the Wang Clan, and declared that he wanted all three of the Wei Clan’s inheritance grounds.
• At Duobao Pavilion’s auction, Wang Fugui bought twelve Divine Ability Spirit Treasures for roughly fifty million Immortal Crystals.
• Wang Fugui opened bidding on the Primordial Yellow Treasure Hall by offering fifty million Immortal Crystals.

Wang Fugui secured three Divine Ability inheritance sites and distributed some of the treasures he bought, while Wang Baocai used Fugui’s accumulated treasure qi to grow and gather ownerless valuables. After Jing'an Princess Yun Shaoguang emerged from seclusion and learned that Chaoyang King had gone to visit Wang Anye, she suspected a hidden plot against her and resolved to investigate.

• Wang Fugui bought the Primordial Yellow True Method, Profound Origin True Method, and Scarlet Fire Celestial Pool inheritance sites, spending a total of two hundred and five million Immortal Crystals at the auction.
• Wang Fugui gave the Butterfly Dance saber to Yun Mengyu and entrusted the Black Baleful Blade to Jiang Qinglian for use on behalf of the Wang Clan.
• Wang Fugui let Wang Baocai absorb his surplus treasure qi, and the Treasure-Gathering Tree produced ownerless valuables, including a thousand-year-old earth-vein ginseng.
• Yun Shaoguang emerged from seclusion, dismissed Wei Qingyun’s request to see her, and prepared to visit Chaoyang King to inherit the canon.
• Yun Shaoguang arrived at Chaoyang King's Estate and learned that Chaoyang King had gone to East Qian to seek treatment from Wang Anye.
• Yun Shaoguang suspected that the setbacks surrounding the Wei Clan, Chaoyang King, and Wei Qingyun were part of a hidden scheme and decided to investigate who was behind it.

Wang Lici cooked an eleventh-tier Giant Octopus King’s tentacles at Phoenixsong Pavilion, attracting two True Lords who competed to become her master before the Immortal Venerable arranged for them to teach her in turn. The Immortal Venerable took Wang Yingxuan to try an unclaimed sacred scripture, while Elder Pei and Xiang Huaijin traveled toward the East Qian Kingdom alongside the incognito Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang.

• Wang Lici used Flame Parasol True Person’s spiritwood to cook Giant Octopus King tentacles, then persuaded Zhang Huaibing to seek more ingredients from his master.
• True Lord Guyi and True Lord Yuanyuan arrived with gifts and competed to win Wang Lici as their disciple, but the Immortal Venerable stopped their plans to hunt in foreign realms.
• The Immortal Venerable gave Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan eleventh-tier dragon leg meat, then arranged for the two True Lords to take turns teaching Lici.
• The Immortal Venerable took Wang Yingxuan away to try a special sacred scripture, leaving the True Lords to care for Wang Lici at Phoenixsong Pavilion.
• Elder Pei and Xiang Huaijin traveled by Cloud Ray Flying Ship toward the East Qian Kingdom, while Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang traveled incognito on the same ship.

Wang Xiaohan welcomed Pei Xin'an and the Immortal Dynasty artifact refiners to the Wang Clan’s industrial park, where its modern transportation and battle armor production lines astonished them. Their assumptions about East Qian were overturned by the Wang Clan’s talented workers and generous pay, and the chapter ended with Pei Xin'an stunned by an offer of up to sixty thousand Immortal Crystals a year.

• Wang Xiaohan welcomed Pei Xin'an, Xiang Huaijin, and the other artifact refiners at Xinping Town Air Harbor and took them toward Qinglian Fire Valley despite Pei Xin'an’s impatience.
• The artifact refiners marveled at the Wang Clan’s Spirit Ox Buses, rail trains, and industrial park before Wang Xiaohan introduced them to the ninth-generation battle armor workshop.
• Wang Liyue continued overseeing an upgraded production line while Wang Shichao explained the workshop’s production methods to the visitors.
• Pei Xin'an praised Dugu Lingyu’s artifact-refining skill, then learned that the young refiner earned sixty Immortal Crystals a year and could receive about eighty thousand with additional compensation.
• Wang Yinglei presented Pei Xin'an with a contract offering forty thousand Immortal Crystals annually, rising to roughly fifty-five to sixty thousand with benefits, leaving him overwhelmed with excitement.