Chapter Summaries

Wang Yinglei recruited Old Pei and more than three thousand Immortal Dynasty artifact refiners with generous contracts, while Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang toured Xinping Town before Wang Shouzhe welcomed them to the Wang Clan. Chaoyang King and her husband settled into the Immortal Abiding Residence, and she threw Emperor Longchang out when he complained about losing his room.

• Wang Yinglei offered Old Pei a lucrative contract and advanced him two hundred thousand Immortal Crystals, then outlined generous salaries for the other artifact refiners.
• Old Pei rallied the Immortal Dynasty artifact refiners to work hard for the Wang Clan and mistook Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang for commercial spies before they vanished through a spatial rift.
• Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang explored Xinping Town and discussed whether the human race could endure until victory before Wang Shouzhe appeared and welcomed them.
• Wang Shouzhe brought Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang to the Wang Clan Main Residence, where Emperor Longchang recognized them and complained about the money he owed Chaoyang King.
• When Emperor Longchang objected to giving up the Immortal Abiding Residence, Chaoyang King threw him out, and he cursed Wang Shouzhe as he flew away.

Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang brought the injured Luck Tree to the Wang Clan, where Wang Shouzhe assessed her condition and began examining Chaoyang King’s lingering poison. After Lixian advanced to Tier Nine, she took human form and joyfully reunited with her father.

• Liu Ruolan welcomed Chaoyang King and Yao Yuangang, and Chaoyang King gave her the Blackwater Phoenix Hairpin.
• Chaoyang King returned Wang Anye’s Luck Tree, whom Wang Shouzhe named Wang Baofu, and Wang Lixian comforted him while Wang Shouzhe assessed his damaged origin.
• Wang Shouzhe examined Chaoyang King and discovered that the Poison Demon King’s baleful poison had spread through her weakened body, but said he could treat her over decades and extend her life by at least three hundred years.
• Yao Yuangang gave Wang Shouzhe Wood Spirit Essence, which Wang Lixian absorbed to reach the peak of Tier Eight.
• Wang Lixian passed her Tier Nine tribulation and gained enough strength to take human form, then appeared as a little girl and threw herself into Wang Shouzhe’s arms.

After Wang Lixian took human form, Wang Shouzhe expanded Immortal Abiding Valley into a retirement haven for powerful elders. Meanwhile, Wang Yingxuan won Junwu’s War Scripture trial, and the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor arrived in human territory with Cui’er to pursue serious business.

• Wang Lixian took human form as a girl, and the Chaoyang King, Emperor Longchang, and Jiang Zhencang gave her gifts.
• Wang Shouzhe arranged to expand Immortal Abiding Valley into a retirement haven, and five months later the new lodges were completed and assigned to the elders.
• Wang Yingxuan repeatedly challenged Junwu’s war simulation, eventually defeated her, and obtained the War Scripture.
• The Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor and Cui’er entered Xinping Town under concealment, where Cui’er excitedly explored the human city and the Emperor voiced concern about humans occupying their ancestral lands.

The Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor and Cui'er infiltrated Great Qian to abduct Wang Shouzhe, but the Wang Clan’s surveillance network tracked them and led them into an ambush. They were surrounded by four Void Ascension Realm powerhouses, and Emperor Longchang identified the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor as the one who had injured him.

• Cui'er stole expensive clothes from a Wang Clan and Zhou Clan shop so she and the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor could disguise themselves and investigate Xinping Town.
• Wang Shoucheng learned that concealed intruders had entered Xinping Town and that a burst of spatial energy suggested one might be a Void Ascension Realm cultivator.
• The Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor and Cui'er entered the Wang Clan Main Residence intending to capture Wang Shouzhe and stop the Southern Wilderness Development Plan.
• The Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor and Cui'er saw two enormously fat spirit sparrows and feared they had been raised as livestock.
• Chaoyang King, her husband, Emperor Longchang, and Jiang Zhencang surrounded the intruders, and Emperor Longchang announced that the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor had injured him.

The Chaoyang King, Emperor Longchang, and their allies pursued and captured the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor after she fled with Cui'er and two Sky Sparrows. Wang Shouzhe entered a cave to speak with the captive, who condemned him as a shameless Great Devil King.

• Emperor Longchang admitted that he had suggested marrying the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor to Wang Shouzhe, prompting the Chaoyang King to consider the idea as well.
• The Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor escaped through a spatial rift with Cui'er and the two Sky Sparrows, but the Chaoyang King, Emperor Longchang, Yao Yuangang, and Jiang Zhencang pursued her into the Liuping Mountains.
• The Sky Sparrows cried out and revealed the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor's hiding place, so she gave Cui'er a Thousand-Li Instant Travel Token and told her to seek help from Sister Nine-Tails and Senior Di Xiu.
• The four Void Ascension Realm cultivators defeated and captured the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor, then restrained her with a Soul Lock, Immortal-Locking Cuffs, and an Origin-Dispersing Sacred Pill.
• Wang Shouzhe took the captive into a cave to clear up misunderstandings, but the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor spat at him and declared that he would never obtain her soul.

Wang Shouzhe captured the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor and fined her, while her allies in Myriad Saints Valley learned of her capture and considered their response. He then ordered Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu to accompany Prefecture Prince Sheng to Northern Zhou and seek wives among its princesses.

• Wang Shouzhe charged the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor with numerous crimes, made her sign a confession, and demanded compensation through fines and valuables.
• Wang Shouzhe returned to the Wang Clan with the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor in custody, while Di Xiu learned from Cui'er that she had been captured and restrained the beasts eager to attack the humans.
• Wang Shouzhe praised Wang Anrui's work in Qingluo Guard and assigned him to support Prefecture Prince Sheng's trip to Northern Zhou.
• Wang Anrui recommended Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu for the mission, and Wang Shouzhe ordered them to help Prefecture Prince Sheng win Princess Luojia and find Northern Zhou wives themselves.
• Wang Anrui told Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu about their marriage assignment, leaving both young men shocked and unhappy.

Wang Shouye and Master Danding reached a hidden relic in Northern Zhou, where they entered an abandoned herb garden and waited for the artifact spirit of the Profound Elixir Manual. As they prepared for Wang Shouye to seek the inheritance, Commandery Princess Luojia arrived, intent on claiming the manual for herself.

• Wang Shouye's group traveled with Li Dinghai through the Reef Ghost Sea, guided safely by Jiang Qingxue, and waited for the great tide to reveal the relic entrance.
• When the tide came, Master Danding led Wang Shouye and the other disciples through a spatial entrance into a hidden island herb garden.
• Wang Shouye stopped Qian Xuefu from picking a spirit herb, and Master Danding told his disciples that Wang Shouye might inherit the garden and should share its benefits with them.
• Master Danding called out to the relic's artifact spirit, but the alchemy chamber gave no response.
• Commandery Princess Luojia arrived by flying carriage with Nanny Ling and declared that she intended to inherit the Profound Elixir Manual.

Princess Luojia and Wang Shouye entered Profound Elixir True Lord’s inheritance site, where a disguised Devil Cauldron Venerable tried to trick Wang Shouye into accepting his soul. When his deception was exposed, he attacked the two candidates with the Demon Cauldron, leaving them pinned beneath it.

• Nanny Ling fought Jiang Qingxue while Princess Luojia slipped into the sea and broke through the ruins’ protective formation.
• Wang Shouye refused to join his fellow disciples in suppressing Princess Luojia, and the two candidates asked Profound Elixir True Lord to assess them for his inheritance.
• Profound Elixir True Lord chose Wang Shouye over Ji Lingxiao, but Wang refused an immediate infusion of alchemy experience and proposed restoring the remnant soul with Soul-Shaping Sacred Pills.
• Princess Luojia offered Wang Shouye a Soul Tree Fruit and privately warned him that the supposed Profound Elixir True Lord was acting strangely.
• Devil Cauldron Venerable dropped his disguise and attacked; Princess Luojia blocked the first strike but was blasted into Wang Shouye’s arms, and the Demon Cauldron pinned them both to the ground.

Wang Shouye and Commandery Princess Luojia defeated Devil Cauldron Venerable’s attempt to possess them, and Wang Shouye inherited Profound Elixir True Lord’s legacy. After discovering a medicinal garden filled with rare spirit herbs, he considered how to bring its treasures back to the Wang Clan.

• Devil Cauldron Venerable attacked Wang Shouye and Commandery Princess Luojia, but Profound Elixir True Lord revealed that the Demon Cauldron contained Nine Netherworld Netherflame and urged Wang Shouye to use it.
• Wang Shouye used Legion Commander's Protection to blast the Demon Cauldron away, then captured the Netherflame and burned Devil Cauldron Venerable’s remnant soul while sparing Profound Elixir True Lord.
• Wang Shouye refined the Netherflame, inherited the Profound Elixir Manual, and raised his bloodline aptitude to that of a Grade C Peerless Prodigy.
• Commandery Princess Luojia gave Wang Shouye her personal jade pendant and left for the Northern Zhou imperial capital, while he accepted Profound Elixir True Lord’s legacy and agreed to return his remains to the Immortal Dynasty.
• Wang Shouye discovered a purebred Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Lotus and other rare spirit herbs in the medicinal garden, then searched the garden with his fellow disciples and considered bringing the island back to the Wang Clan.

The Wang Clan Industrial Park prospered as Immortal Dynasty artificers settled in, boosted production, and spread word of the jobs to others. Wang Shouzhe tried to secure the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor’s service while the Old Dragon Ancestor arrived to mediate her dispute and visit Wang Lilong.

• Old Pei and Wang Ningxi helped revive research at the Wang Clan Industrial Park, including work on Celestial Realm Profound Armor, and discussed trying to refine a Divine Ability Spirit Treasure together.
• The Immortal Dynasty artificers enjoyed their high pay and comfortable lives, formed romantic connections, and sent letters that encouraged more artificers to join the Wang Clan.
• Old Pei brought Wang Ningxi rare Enlightenment Tea and complained that Wang Shouzhe had asked him to refine a Dao Artifact from rare materials and phoenix feathers.
• Wang Shouzhe offered the Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor a seven-hundred-year labor contract to settle her debt, while the Chaoyang King threw Emperor Longchang out of Immortal Abiding Valley for making a crude joke.
• The Old Dragon Ancestor arrived to mediate on Azure Phoenix’s behalf and visit Wang Lilong, prompting Wang Shouzhe to recall her river patrol misconduct and consider sending her back to Clan School.

Wang Shouzhe secured Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor’s cooperation and waited for the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom’s envoys while the Wang Clan received a wealth of resources from the Immortal Dynasty. Di Xiu and the Nine-Tails Celestial Fox arrived to negotiate, and the chapter ended with Emperor Longchang jokingly suggesting that Great Qian capture them and conquer the kingdom.

• Wang Shouzhe told Old Dragon Ancestor that reconciliation depended on the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom’s attitude, while Emperor Longchang eagerly advocated for war.
• Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor signed a seven-hundred-year contract with the Wang Clan in exchange for helping ease tensions and protecting Wang Clan descendants on the Outer Realm Battlefield.
• Wang Shouzhe scolded Wang Lixian for watching a mahjong game instead of doing her homework, and Emperor Longchang left the card table to seek an allowance advance.
• Three Cloud Ray Flying Ships delivered three Divine Ability inheritance sites and ten Divine Ability Spirit Treasures, which delighted the Wang Clan.
• Di Xiu and the Nine-Tails Celestial Fox arrived with envoys to negotiate with the Wang Clan, and Emperor Longchang privately suggested capturing them and conquering the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom.

Wang Shouzhe tried to turn negotiations with the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom into a path toward cooperation, using the Wang Clan’s hospitality and his own plans to influence its leaders. The talks remained unfinished, but Di Xiu became willing to seek treatment for his illness, while the visiting demons grew captivated by human comforts.

• Wang Shouzhe and Emperor Longchang discussed pursuing cooperation with the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom after the first negotiations produced only a non-aggression pact.
• The Wang Clan housed the demon delegation in its modern Welcome Pavilion, where the Nine-Tails Demon Emperor eagerly tried its amenities, food, wine, and clothing.
• Wang Shouzhe identified Di Xiu’s Black Blight Disease and proposed treating the damaged roots and soil, but Di Xiu initially dismissed the idea.
• Wang Shouzhe brought Wang Lixian into Di Xiu’s suite, and her tears revealed her abundant life-element immortal spiritual energy, convincing Di Xiu that she was an immortal seedling.
• Wang Lixian pointed out Di Xiu’s mold spots as Wang Shouzhe used her concern to warn him about contagion; Di Xiu then asked if his illness could be cured, and Wang Shouzhe said it could.
• The Wang Clan delayed further negotiations while its hospitality introduced the visiting demons to human comforts and goods.

After establishing diplomatic relations with the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom, the Wang Clan sent a trade caravan that transformed Ten Thousand Demons Valley into a bustling market and drew demons eager to trade and work in Great Qian. The chapter leaves the Wang Clan recruiting a huge crowd of demon laborers as its influence spreads through trade and the promise of comfortable living.

• The Wang Clan and the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom signed a treaty of mutual non-aggression and commercial exchange, then the Demon Emperors and Demon Kings returned home.
• After struggling to adjust to life without the Wang Clan's hospitality, the demons gathered in Ten Thousand Demons Valley when a Wang Clan caravan arrived, led by Wang Dinghai and Wang Lixian.
• The Nine-Tails Demon Emperor reunited with her long-lost daughter, Ancestor Fire Fox, after Shangguan Bilian of the Yuwen Clan brought her to the valley.
• Wang Lixian and the Wang Clan opened trade, exchanging goods for Qian Gold and buying spirit lumber, furs, and other materials from the demons.
• Wang Lixian persuaded Spirit Plants to buy her branded products and sell their pruned branches, while Wang Dinghai encouraged poor demons to earn money by working for the Wang Clan.
• The Wang Clan set up a demon labor registration point, where countless demons lined up for the chance to work in Great Qian.

Wang Shouzhe welcomed the relocated Profound Elixir True Lord’s island to Great Qian and planned to build an alchemy sacred land there. In Great Zhou, Wang Ningyu prepared to face Jiang Yuanwu, while Commandery Princess Luojia learned that the Wang Clan was only fifth-rank and wondered whether its leader was brain-damaged.

• Long Jingjing towed the island into Great Qian, and Emperor Longchang and Jiang Zhencang secured it near the mouth of the An River and connected its spiritual vein.
• Wang Shouzhe thanked the three Void Ascension Realm experts, accepted the list of herbs reserved for Master Danding’s group, and planned to use the island as the core of an alchemy sacred land.
• Chen Yixuan forced Chen Taiqing to find them a private box at Phoenix-Seeking Tower, where they joined Jiang Liyue and Jiang Yuanwu to watch Wang Ningyu’s arranged battle.
• Wang Ningyu made a dramatic entrance at Phoenix-Seeking Tower, drawing cheers from the crowd and admiration from Chen Yixuan and Jiang Liyue.
• Commandery Princess Luojia learned that Wang Ningyu and Wang Anyuan belonged to the fifth-rank Changning Wang Clan and questioned the judgment of its Clan Leader.

Commandery Princess Luojia investigated the Changning Wang Clan while Wang Ningyu fought Jiang Yuanwu to a draw at Phoenix-Seeking Tower. Wang Ningyu and Wang Anyuan became the focus of a crowd of young ladies before Wang Anye arrived and startled them.

• Commandery Princess Luojia ordered Nanny Ling to investigate the Changning Wang Clan and explained why she had concealed her Peerless Prodigy bloodline aptitude.
• Wang Ningyu and Jiang Yuanwu fought for an hour with their Ice Soul Sword and Wave-Cleaving saber, then agreed to a draw and arranged to visit each other's residences.
• Wang Anyuan and Prefecture Prince Sheng treated Wang Ningyu's injuries, while Wang Ningyu and Wang Anyuan celebrated their adventures outside the clan.
• Chen Yixuan and Jiang Liyue sent jade pendants to Wang Ningyu, then joined the crowd of young ladies pursuing him and Wang Anyuan.
• Commandery Princess Luojia mistook Wang Anye for Wang Shouye, and Wang Anye entered Wang Ningyu's room, where Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu greeted him as their Seventh Great-Grandfather.

Wang Shouye watched Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu lose to Wei Yuansheng, who then defeated Jiang Yuanwu and helped Wei Donglai publicly pressure Commandery Princess Luojia into accepting a marriage proposal. After Ji Lingxiao secretly asked Wang Shouye to protect her Peerless bloodline, he accused Prince Wei's Residence of using underhanded tricks to secure victory.

• Wang Shouye reunited with Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu, then told them to meet the young ladies gathered outside their room.
• Wei Yuansheng challenged Wang Anyuan and Wang Ningyu, unleashed the Crimson Flame Battle Body, and defeated both of them before defeating Jiang Yuanwu.
• Wei Donglai publicly proposed marriage to Commandery Princess Luojia, using Wei Yuansheng's victories to pressure her.
• Commandery Princess Luojia revealed to Wang Shouye that she was Ji Lingxiao and asked him to keep her Peerless bloodline secret and help her.
• Wang Shouye interrupted Wei Donglai's proposal and accused Prince Wei's Residence of using shameful tricks to win.

Wang Shouye accused Prince Wei’s Residence of cheating, drawing Commandery Princess Luojia, Prince Wei Wei Boyu, and Emperor Yuanping into a political confrontation. After revealing his ties to Wang Anye and Wang Fugui, Shouye identified Wei Yuansheng’s pill as a forbidden Blood Embryo Devil Pill linked to the notorious Devil Cauldron Venerable, leaving the court alarmed.

• Wang Shouye refused Wei Donglai’s threats and continued demanding accountability, while Commandery Princess Luojia stepped forward to defend him.
• Prince Wei arrived and rebuked Wei Donglai, but Emperor Yuanping soon appeared and turned the dispute toward Prince Wei’s Residence by insisting the accusation be investigated.
• Wang Shouye introduced himself as a prominent alchemy grandmaster, and Wei Boyu recognized his relations to Wang Anye and Wang Fugui, whose exploits in the Immortal Dynasty impressed Emperor Yuanping.
• Emperor Yuanping praised Wang Anye’s victory over the Jing’an Wei Clan and Wang Fugui’s costly schemes against them, while Wei Boyu reacted with displeasure.
• Wang Shouye accused Wei Yuansheng of taking a Blood Embryo Devil Pill and explained that Devil Cauldron Venerable had created it, shocking Emperor Yuanping.

Wang Shouye exposed Wei Yuansheng’s use of a Blood Embryo Devil Pill, damaging Prince Wei’s Residence’s reputation and prompting Wei Donglai to challenge him. Wang Shouye overpowered Wei Donglai’s attacks and prepared to strike with the Nine Netherworld Netherflame.

• Wang Shouye explained the Blood Embryo Devil Pill’s effects, and a test confirmed Outer Realm fiend blood in Wei Yuansheng’s blood.
• Wei Boyu and Wei Donglai shifted the blame onto Wei Yuansheng, who admitted taking the pill, and Emperor Yuanping stripped him of first place on the Celestial Prodigy Ranking.
• Wei Donglai challenged Wang Shouye, whose Fire Phoenix Dharma Image overwhelmed Wei Donglai’s flaming qilin attack.
• Wei Donglai brought out Prince Wei’s Residence’s Six-Yang Treasure Lamp, but Wang Shouye countered with the Blueflame Gourd, which began devouring its flames.
• Wei Boyu interrupted the duel to protect the lamp, and Wang Shouye then unleashed the Nine Netherworld Netherflame against Wei Donglai.

Wang Shouye defeated Wei Donglai and became the top-ranked prodigy, while the Wang Clan opened its Demon Power Resource Center to Fierce Beasts seeking work. Wang Shouzhe sent Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor to protect the Yin Sha Sect’s holy maiden on her journey through the Red Moon Demon Dynasty, then faced Liu Ruolan’s teasing about his past with Azure Phoenix and Longchang.

• Wang Shouye used the Nine Netherworld Netherflame to make Wei Donglai surrender and took first place on the Purple Palace Prodigy Ranking.
• Bai Ling and several foxes arrived at the Demon Power Resource Center, passed through its procedures, and received work visas and identity documents.
• Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor reported that demon beasts from the Myriad Saints Nation were adapting to work in human territory.
• Wang Shouzhe asked Azure Phoenix Demon Emperor to protect the Yin Sha Sect’s holy maiden as she traveled through the Red Moon Demon Dynasty.
• Liu Ruolan teased Wang Shouzhe about taking Azure Phoenix as a concubine and suggested they retreat to the Portable Cave Abode; Wang Shouzhe blamed Longchang.

Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan separated the Demon Cauldron Venerable from Profound Elixir True Lord, but Wang Shouzhe then discovered that Liu Ruoling had taken Liu Ruolan’s place and demanded half a month with him. After returning to Immortal Abiding Residence, Wang Shouzhe beat Emperor Longchang at chess three times, revealing that he had hidden his skill for more than a century.

• Liu Ruolan split the entangled remnant souls with a sword strike, allowing Profound Elixir True Lord and Devil Cauldron Venerable to move into separate Soul-Sealing Jade Pendants.
• Liu Ruolan kept Devil Cauldron Venerable under her control after learning that his cruel experiments had made him one of the Divine Martial Dynasty's Ten Most Wanted.
• Wang Shouzhe prepared to leave the Portable Cave Abode, but Liu Ruoling revealed herself and demanded that he spend half a month with her as he had with Liu Ruolan.
• Wang Shouzhe confronted Emperor Longchang at Immortal Abiding Residence and wagered the emperor's mahjong chips on a chess match.
• Wang Shouzhe beat Emperor Longchang by half a point in three consecutive games, prompting the emperor to accuse him of hiding his true skill for over a century.