Recaps

True Person Yunyang celebrated his breakthrough into the Divine Ability Realm and prepared to return to Great Qian with Wang Lici and Lan Wan'er. Aboard the Cloud Ray Flying Ship, Wang Lici and Lan Wan'er met Gongyang Ce and Jiang Xingyuan, who were also traveling to East Qian Kingdom.

• Yunyang broke through to the Divine Ability Realm, received congratulations from Dusk Moon's cultivators, and learned Prefecture Lord Ying Yuanye would not recruit him because he belonged to Lingyun Sacred Land.
• True Person Yunyang reunited with Wang Lici and Lan Wan'er, then planned to return home after making new friends and celebrated by ordering a Dragon Whale stew.
• Gongyang Ce traveled toward Dusk Moon Prefecture City with Han Langtai and Jiang Xingyuan, agreed to visit the Wang Clan with Jiang Xingyuan, and prepared to return to Great Qian to compete for the Holy Son position.
• Wang Lici, Lan Wan'er, and True Person Yunyang bought Cloud Ray Flying Ship tickets from the fat shopkeeper, who charged them extra for meals after recognizing them.
• Wang Lici and Lan Wan'er boarded the ship with Yunyang and called the fat shopkeeper kind-hearted, while the Green Dragon Patriarch feared their appetite.
• Jiang Xingyuan and Gongyang Ce approached Wang Lici and Lan Wan'er, introduced themselves, and asked whether the two fairy maidens were headed to East Qian Kingdom.

Jiang Xingyuan invited Wang Lici, Lan Wan'er, and their companions to dine aboard the Cloud Ray Flying Ship as Wang Shouzhe’s party arrived at Lingyun Sacred Land. Wang Shouzhe reunited with his relatives and considered the plans surrounding Wang Yingxuan’s peerless aptitude and the Wang Clan’s future.

• Jiang Xingyuan invited Gongyang Ce, Wang Lici, Lan Wan'er, and True Person Yunyang to share a meal during their journey, and True Person Yunyang encouraged the younger people to make friends.
• Wang Shouzhe and his party admired Lingyun Sacred Land’s strange landscapes as they approached, while Wang Ningxi and Shangguan Lingbo exchanged sincere promises and Shangguan Yunhong silently suffered through their affection.
• Wang Lingzhu welcomed Wang Shouzhe’s party at the Sacred Land and gave gifts to Wang Ningxi and Shangguan Lingbo.
• Wang Shouzhe greeted Wang Yingxuan and Wang Yingqi, then reflected on Jiang Zhencang’s effort to develop Wang Yingxuan into a successor by secretly raising her aptitude to the Peerless Prodigy level.
• Wang Shouzhe considered the Wang Clan’s plans to support future Void Ascension Realm cultivators and pursue inheritance opportunities through exploration of the Heavenly Pivot Continent.

Wang Shouzhe arrived at Lingyun Sacred Land and settled into Eternal Spring Garden while Wang Yingxuan revealed her special preparation for the War of the Holy Sons. Elsewhere, Wang Luoqiu completed the first stage of the Glazed Bright King Hall inheritance, and Wang Lici’s extravagant feast aboard a flying ship ended with Yao Chengchao and Gongyang Ce learning that she was Wang Shouzhe’s niece.

• Wang Lingzhu introduced Wang Shouzhe to collateral Wang Clan cultivators before guiding him and his companions to their lodgings in Eternal Spring Garden.
• Wang Yingxuan told Wang Shouzhe and Wang Ningxi that Sacred Lord Jiang was giving her special training for the War of the Holy Sons and planned to take her to the Immortal Palace.
• Wang Luoqiu emerged from the Glazed Bright King Hall after completing the first stage of its inheritance, and True Person Mingcheng urged her to aim for the Divine Ability Realm.
• Wang Luoqiu rejected the suggestion that she enter the War of the Holy Sons without first becoming a Peerless Prodigy, then left to seek Wang Shouzhe’s advice.
• Wang Lici and her companions consumed an enormous amount of food aboard the Cloud Ray Flying Ship, leaving Jiang Xingyuan and Gongyang Ce unable to cover the bill.
• Wang Lici told Yao Chengchao and Gongyang Ce that her Fourth Brother was Wang Shouzhe and that she intended to become Holy Maiden of Lingyun Sacred Land.

Wang Lici and Lan Wan'er left Jiang Xingyuan with an enormous bill and no new friends as they headed toward the War of the Holy Sons. Far away, Yin Sha Sect Master Qi Hongzhao emerged from a century of seclusion, prepared for a coming alliance with the Demon Dynasty and eager to claim Yin Fengtu’s gifted nominal disciple as his own.

• Yao Chengchao recognized Wang Lici as the mastermind behind the wolf cubs that had once caused him trouble, while Gongyang Ce and Jiang Xingyuan learned she was competing for the Saint Daughter position.
• Yao Chengchao demanded IOUs from Jiang Xingyuan and Gongyang Ce for the unpaid portion of their extravagant meal, and Jiang Xingyuan signed despite protesting the price.
• Lan Wan'er rejected Jiang Xingyuan’s attempt to befriend her and Wang Lici because he was friends with Gongyang Ce, whom she considered Sister Lici’s enemy.
• Yin Fengtu checked on Qi Hongzhao’s secluded hall, and Qi Hongzhao emerged after a hundred years in seclusion.
• Yin Fengtu reported the War of the Imperial Sons’ consequences and an imminent visit from an important True Demon Hall figure, prompting Qi Hongzhao to summon sect elders and invite the Great Emperors of Jin and Qin.
• Yin Fengtu asked permission to make his exceptional nominal disciple his personal disciple, but Qi Hongzhao declared that he would claim her as the precious disciple he had awaited for three thousand years.

Wang Shouzhe secured the Azure Emperor True Method inheritance and learned of a possible Blood Venerable lair that might cure Wang Ningxi. Meanwhile, Wang Lici’s return to East Qian Kingdom left Yao Chengchao facing a century of unpaid work.

• Jiang Zhencang approved Wang Shouzhe’s purchase of the Azure Emperor True Method inheritance for six million Immortal Crystals, payable over sixty years.
• Jiang Zhencang told Wang Shouzhe that Wang Ningxi’s condition might be cured with a blank high-grade Wedding Dress Blood Gu from a hidden Blood Venerable lair, and gave him the Sacred Land’s intelligence on a possible main base.
• Wang Shouzhe began investigating the Blood Venerable lair while remaining at Lingyun Sacred Land to receive the Azure Emperor True Method inheritance.
• Wang Lici, Gongyang Ce, and Jiang Xingyuan arrived in East Qian Kingdom aboard Yao Chengchao’s Cloud Ray Flying Ship after using their meal contracts and selling provisions to drive Yao Chengchao into heavy losses.
• Yao Chengchao settled his accounts with Wang Lici’s group and found that he would have to work for Wang Lici for a hundred years.

Wang Shouzhe received the Azure Emperor Sacred Stele’s inheritance and awakened the Great Divine Ability Evolution, which accelerated plant growth and mutations. Meanwhile, Wang Longyan, concealed as Ruobing, gained Qi Hongzhao’s protection within the Yin Sha Sect and revealed her extraordinary bloodline to the emperors of South Qin and West Jin.

• Wang Shouzhe awakened from the inheritance and found that his understanding of the Way of Wood had deepened.
• Wang Shouzhe used his new Great Divine Ability to rapidly grow pasture grass, produce mutated seeds, and named the ability Evolution.
• Wang Shouzhe planned to use the enhanced ability to improve the Wang Clan’s future grain-seed generations and considered Wang Longyan’s infiltration of the Yin Sha Sect.
• Qi Hongzhao brought his new disciple Ruobing, secretly Wang Longyan, to meet Great Emperor Yuanyou and Great Emperor Yanqing.
• Wang Longyan blocked Great Emperor Yuanyou’s probing, and Qi Hongzhao intervened when Yuanyou threatened her.
• Qi Hongzhao revealed that Ruobing had a Peerless Prodigy-grade ice Baleful Intent mutant bloodline and a Pure Yin physique, astonishing the emperors and leaving Yin Fengtu distressed that his former disciple had become his junior sister.

The Blood Child Devil Master traveled with Yin Serpent Demoness and Ancient Elephant Devil Master to force the Yin Sha Sect and nearby states into submission. At Lingyun Sacred Land, True Person Yunyang returned with Wang Lici and confronted True Person Tianhe before Jiang Zhencang arrived.

• The Blood Child Devil Master explained that he had come to prevent the Yin Sha Sect and the states of Jin and Qin from resisting the True Demon Hall's plans, and vowed to destroy anyone who opposed him.
• True Person Yunyang returned to Lingyun Sacred Land and declared that he would make Langya repay their old grudges.
• Jiang Xingyuan, Gongyang Ce, Yao Chengchao, Lan Wan'er, and Wang Lici speculated about Yunyang's feud with Langya as the group arrived at the Sacred Land.
• True Person Tianhe arrived with Wang Liyao, who greeted Wang Lici, and the two sisters happily reminisced about their childhood.
• True Person Yunyang became furious after hearing that Jiang might be planning to cheat, and Jiang Zhencang appeared by tearing through space to confront him.

Jiang Zhencang reunited with True Person Yunyang and met Wang Lici, while maneuvering to secure Wang Yingxuan’s chances in the coming War of the Holy Sons. As Sacred Land factions pushed to hold the contest early, Wang Shouzhe turned Yao Chengchao’s complaint into a lesson in ethics and assigned both him and Wang Lici to study at the Clan School.

• Jiang Zhencang welcomed his returning disciple True Person Yunyang, gave Wang Lici a million Immortal Crystals, and offered Yunyang pills while revealing his plans to support Wang Yingxuan.
• Jiang Zhencang demoted Gongyang Ce’s prospects and questioned Wang Liyao’s rapid cultivation, but True Person Tianhe hurriedly took her away before she could answer.
• True Person Yunyang allied with True Person Langya, and the Sacred Land’s lineage heads petitioned to start the War of the Holy Sons early; Jiang Zhencang decided the timing could favor Wang Yingxuan.
• Yao Chengchao asked Wang Shouzhe to judge Wang Lici’s price hikes, but Wang Ningxi criticized Yao’s conduct and Wang Shouzhe required him to study law and ethics before cooperation resumed.
• Wang Shouzhe gave Wang Lici a stack of Clan School books and assigned Wang Ningxi to teach her and Yao Chengchao.

Wang Longyan witnessed Blood Child Devil Lord arrive at the Yin Sha Sect and demand that its leaders help the True Demon Hall raid East Qian for Blood Venerable’s stronghold. Meanwhile, Wang Ningxi began tutoring a group of unruly students, and Yao Chengchao broke down after failing a mathematics test.

• Wang Longyan ordered food and local spirit wine prepared for the expected True Demon Hall guests, then watched their dragon ship appear above the Sacred Hall.
• Qi Hongzhao welcomed Yin Serpent Demoness, Ancient Elephant Devil Lord, and Blood Child Devil Lord, whose arrival alarmed the Yin Sha Sect leaders and the two emperors.
• Yin Serpent Demoness revealed that the True Demon Hall had traced Blood Venerable’s stronghold to East Qian and proposed using armies from West Jin, South Qin, and the Yin Sha Sect as a diversion.
• Blood Child Devil Lord crushed Great Emperor Yuanyou with his aura, then promised compensation for losses and rewards if the plan succeeded; the leaders agreed to assist.
• Wang Ningxi began tutoring Shangguan Lingbo, Wang Lici, Lan Wan’er, Wang Lixian’s avatar, a mutated green snake, and Yao Chengchao at Eternal Spring Garden.
• Yao Chengchao attempted Wang Ningxi’s mathematics test, failed, and tearfully declared that he had managed to do business without an education.

Wang Ningxi tested Wang Lici and the others, revealing how weak their foundations were, while two Lingyun Sacred Land prodigies secretly watched them. Wang Shouzhe then met with Azure Emperor Valley’s leaders, where Junior Sister Luwei agreed to compete in the War of the Holy Sons with the lineage’s backing.

• Wang Ningxi gave Yao Chengchao, Wang Lici, Lan Wan'er, Shangguan Lingbo, Wang Lixian, and the little green snake an assessment; Wang Lixian scored highest, while the others earned low marks.
• Yu Nianyun, disguised as a White Tiger, and Zhen Sicong, concealed in a fire-element Spirit Butterfly, secretly observed the group, and Zhen Sicong mistook their test for War of the Holy Sons preparation.
• Wang Shouzhe met True Person Qingsong, Master Changchun, Junior Sister Luwei, and Wang Changsheng in Azure Emperor Tower, where Wang Changsheng asked to stay with the Wang Clan and attend its school.
• Master Changchun also asked to stay with the Wang Clan, and Wang Shouzhe welcomed him.
• True Person Qingsong urged Junior Sister Luwei to compete in the War of the Holy Sons and promised Azure Emperor Valley’s full financial support; Luwei agreed to try.

Wang Lixian stopped her exam work to capture Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun, who claimed to be joining Wang Lici’s faction and were made to complete test papers. Her display of life-element power drew Azure Emperor Valley’s ancient spirit plants, and Great Toon recognized her as an Immortal Plant before Wang Shouzhe’s stern voice made her and Wang Lici return to their exams.

• Wang Ningxi caught Wang Lixian using many branches to write her test and scolded Wang Lici for consulting her snake, while encouraging Lingbo to keep working.
• Wang Lixian’s branches ambushed Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun as they spied on the exam, and she captured them after a fierce fight.
• Zhen Sicong claimed that he and Yu Nianyun wanted to join Wang Lici, so Wang Lici accepted them and assigned them test papers.
• Wang Lixian’s life aura reached Azure Emperor Valley’s ancient trees, and Great Toon and Peach Red Jade traveled to Eternal Spring Garden to investigate.
• Great Toon recognized Wang Lixian as an Immortal Plant and refused to rescue Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun when they appealed to him.
• Wang Shouzhe ordered Wang Lixian to stop, prompting her to act innocent while Wang Lici hurried back to her test.

Wang Shouzhe arrived at Eternal Spring Garden, disciplined Wang Lixian, and watched Great Toon and Peach Red Jade decide to leave incarnations with her. Months later, the War of the Holy Sons began, and Wang Shouzhe discovered that its trials used Divine Martial virtual-reality equipment.

• Wang Ningxi explained how Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun had been caught up in Wang Lixian’s classroom commotion, but Wang Shouzhe punished Lixian for disrupting her studies.
• Great Toon tried to defend Lixian from Wang Shouzhe, then agreed to leave an incarnation with her; Peach Red Jade also offered to leave an incarnation and serve as her cook.
• Wang Shouzhe and the others returned to studying, while Lixian worked through problems under the care of the two spirit plants.
• After several months, Jiang Zhencang announced the War of the Holy Sons and led the contenders and guests to the Trial Hall on Lingyun Sacred Mountain.
• Jiang Zhencang revealed that the Divine Martial Dynasty’s pods sent participants into a configurable virtual world for assessment and training, and Wang Shouzhe began considering how to borrow the equipment.

Wang Shouzhe attended the opening of Lingyun Sacred Land’s War of the Holy Sons, where the lineages introduced their candidates and traded boasts. The contest had not yet begun when True Person Zixiao revealed Dugu Feihong as a secret candidate, leaving everyone suspicious about the young man’s origins.

• Jiang Zhencang powered up the Trial Hall and said he would calibrate its equipment before starting the trials once everyone arrived.
• Xu Chuchu introduced herself to Wang Shouzhe, whose greeting to True Person Langya frightened her into silence.
• True Person Yunyang bragged about Wang Lici and insulted True Person Langya, while Wang Shouzhe encouraged Wang Luoqiu to show her abilities in the contest.
• Bao Bucheng announced that he would participate for the Mystic Pill Pavilion and joked that he would send combat-focused departments to reclaim wilderness if he became Holy Lord.
• True Person Zixiao arrived with Dugu Feihong, announcing that the Zixiao Lineage had secretly trained him as a candidate and prompting suspicions about his connection to Master Yaoguang.

At the opening of Lingyun Sacred Land’s War of the Holy Sons, the lineages revealed their hidden candidates and bloodline aptitudes, turning the competition into a scramble among Peerless Prodigies. The chapter ended with Wang Liyao announcing that she, too, was a Peerless Prodigy, leaving Lingyun and the gathered True Persons stunned by the four-way contest.

• Jiang Zhencang summoned the Lingyun Codex and its Artifact Spirit, Lingyun, to announce the War of the Holy Sons.
• Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun revealed that they were both Grade A candidates, while Gongyang Ce, Dugu Feihong, Wang Luoqiu, Bao Bucheng, and Shi Maotian disclosed even higher aptitudes.
• True Person Qingsong announced that Azure Emperor Valley had raised Peerless Luwei, prompting the other lineages to protest when Lingyun appeared ready to favor her.
• Jiang Zhencang revealed that Wang Yingxuan was also a Peerless Prodigy, and Wang Lici then declared that she shared that aptitude.
• Wang Liyao introduced herself as a D-grade mid-tier Peerless Prodigy at the mid-stage Purple Mansion Realm, leaving Lingyun and the True Persons reeling at the four candidates.

The War of the Holy Sons began with Lingyun assigning bloodline scores that gave Wang Liyao a major lead, but the four peerless candidates persuaded her to let every contender enter the costly trial. Wang Yingxuan started the Winter Is Coming scenario by organizing a starving stockade for survival, while the spectators watched her risky strategy unfold.

• Lingyun awarded Wang Liyao one hundred bloodline points, gave the other peerless candidates eighty, and assigned sharply lower scores to the remaining contenders.
• Wang Yingxuan and Wang Liyao argued that the sacred land should let everyone take part in the trial, and Lingyun agreed.
• Jiang Zhencang activated the trial pods, and the participants entered a simulated history of climate collapse, human defeat, and a coming winter.
• Wang Yingxuan arrived in Farming Stockade No. 9326 and learned that five hundred residents had only one hundred units of food.
• Wang Yingxuan ordered the stockade to train one hundred strong adults on triple rations while the others gathered vines and made baskets and stone spears.
• Jiang Zhencang worried that Wang Yingxuan was ignoring his cautious advice, while True Person Heavenly Fire opened bets on the candidates' other trial scores.

Wang Shouzhe declined to bet but lent Immortal Crystals to several True Persons as the Holy Son and Holy Maiden candidates began their trials. Wang Lici’s apparent recklessness turned into a huge advantage when her appetite strengthened her enough to feed and rally her village, and Jiang Zhencang decided to seek her a chance at an Immortal Palace inheritance.

• Wang Shouzhe refused to join the wagers but lent True Persons Tianhe, Yunyang, and Mingcheng Immortal Crystals for their bets, while True Person Qingsong hinted at his connection to Luwei.
• Wang Shouzhe studied the candidates’ trial performances, and the spectators watched Wang Lici consume thirty units of food before demanding a hundred villagers to accompany her hunting.
• Wang Lici led the villagers out of Farming Village No. 8305, leaving its remaining residents anxious as their food dwindled during her absence.
• Wang Lici returned with a huge haul of Fierce Beasts, then repeatedly hunted more prey as eating made her stronger and improved the village’s food supply and morale.
• After the spectators watched Wang Lici hunt Fierce Beasts with ease, Jiang Zhencang resolved to seek her admission to the Immortal Palace if she did not win the Lingyun Codex.

During the Trial Grounds assessment, Wang Yingxuan built an elite army and defeated a mountain bandit force, impressing the spectators with her command. As the other candidates quietly developed their settlements, Wang Shouzhe began winning over Sacred Land lineages, leaving Jiang Zhencang to wonder whether Shouzhe was already paving the way for the Wang Clan to govern the Holy Land.

• True Person Qingsong and Master Heavenly Fire discussed seeking codex inheritances at the Immortal Palace for Lingyun Sacred Land’s talented disciples, embarrassing Jiang Xingyuan with their comparisons.
• Wang Yingxuan trained a hundred soldiers, led them to hunt Fierce Beasts, and used the spoils to strengthen her army and settlement.
• After gathering intelligence and planting infiltrators, Wang Yingxuan launched a surprise attack on a mountain bandit stronghold, killed its chief, and absorbed its people and resources despite being wounded and losing thirty soldiers.
• The spectators praised Wang Yingxuan’s military talent, while True Person Mingcheng pointed out that Wang Liyao and Gongyang Ce were quietly building strength through careful management.
• True Person Langya thanked Wang Shouzhe for tempering Gongyang Ce, and the two men warmly discussed Wang Liyao’s potential and the future of the Sacred Land.
• Jiang Zhencang watched Wang Shouzhe win over True Person Langya and suspected that he might unite the Sacred Land’s nine lineages before the War of the Holy Sons ended.

Wang Longyan uncovered signs that the Yin Sha Sect and the states of West Jin and South Qin might be preparing for a national war, while Wang Anye returned to Xinping Harbor with the two commandery princesses. The chapter left Wang Longyan needing to warn the Wang Clan as the harbor celebrated Anye’s arrival.

• The candidates developed their own strategies in the trials as Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan grew stronger through battle.
• Wang Longyan cultivated the Yin Sha Codex, improved her Ice-Sha Power, and gathered information about the sect’s activities from Wu Xinrui.
• Wu Xinrui revealed that West Jin had requested tens of thousands of corpse puppets and that the Yin Sha Sect was urgently stockpiling materials connected to the True Demon Hall.
• Wang Longyan suspected the sect was preparing to help West Jin and South Qin wage war against Great Qian and resolved to send the information to the Wang Clan.
• Zhuge Liangcai spotted Wang Anye and the two commandery princesses arriving at Xinping Harbor atop Zong Kun and sent word to the clan.

The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy and her disciples tried to infiltrate the Changning Wang Clan by seducing Wang Anye, but the clan’s patrols thwarted their schemes. After recognizing Wang Zongkun’s unusual potential, the Demon Envoy decided to pursue Wang Anye herself.

• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy ordered Qing Ji to approach Wang Anye disguised as a delicate young woman in distress.
• Qing Ji’s attempt was interrupted by seven other women using the same ploy, and Zhuge Liangcai’s patrol registered and escorted them away.
• Wang Zongkun unloaded valuable seabed materials at the docks, and the Crimson Charm Demon Envoy suspected he had awakened Kun bloodline.
• Zi Ji tried to fake a carriage accident to get close to Wang Anye, but a crowd of women rushed the carriage and the patrol carried her off for treatment.
• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy decided to make her own move against Wang Anye.

Crimson Charm Demon Envoy disguised herself as an Immortal Palace cultivator and infiltrated the Wang Clan by accepting Wang Anye’s invitation to stay. As she began to covet the clan’s riches, a terrifying powerhouse arrived at the Mission Hall to claim contribution points, leaving her stunned.

• Crimson Charm Demon Envoy and Yu Ji disguised themselves as white-robed immortals, and Crimson Charm revealed her Divine Ability Realm aura at Xinping Town’s harbor.
• Wang Anye and the Wang Clan’s Celestial Realm cultivators met Crimson Charm, who introduced herself as Jiang Qingxue from the Immortal Palace and claimed she wanted to take Wang Anye as her disciple.
• After Wang Anye declined, he invited Jiang Qingxue and Yu Ji to stay at the Wang Clan Main Residence, where they registered with the Artifact Spirit Xiao Xue.
• Wang Anye deposited valuable items from his Storage Ring and earned a large number of family contribution points, astonishing Crimson Charm with the Wang Clan’s wealth.
• A powerful figure descended upon the Mission Hall and demanded that Xiao Xue credit him for extracting a large high-grade spirit vein, startling Crimson Charm.

Wang Anye returned to the Wang Clan, where Emperor Longchang recruited the infiltrating Crimson Charm Demon Envoy and her disciple into a mahjong game. A secret order then sent Wang Anye to help Wang Zongchang search for Blood Venerable’s lair, while the chapter ended with Jiang Qingxue losing all her Immortal Crystals in Liu Ruolan’s courtyard.

• Emperor Longchang met Wang Anye, learned that Crimson Charm Demon Envoy was posing as Jiang Qingxue, and dragged her and Yu Ji off to play mahjong with Liu Ruolan.
• Wang Anye reunited with Wu Xuening and Wu Yiluo, then received Wang Zongchang, who delivered Wang Shouzhe’s secret order requiring him to have two more children and assist in locating Blood Venerable’s lair.
• Wang Anye and Wang Zongchang weighed possible search areas and chose the Wild Marsh in the southwest as their first direction of investigation.
• Wang Anye visited his elders and met his sons, Wang Ningyi and Wang Ningyao, who protested when their mothers offered to visit their workplaces and tutor them.
• Emperor Longchang asked Wang Anye to bring more Immortal Crystals to the mahjong game, while Jiang Qingxue realized she had lost every Immortal Crystal in her Storage Ring.

Wang Anye arranged funds for Emperor Longchang and learned that his family had identified Jiang Qingxue as a likely Demon Dynasty spy, then traveled to the Great Wild Marsh to address a dispute with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon lineage. Burdened by gambling debts, Crimson Charm Demon Envoy joined the mission as a paid attendant and realized it could lead her to the Blood Venerable Ruins.

• Wang Anye exchanged contribution points for three million-Immortal-Crystal checks and gave them to Emperor Longchang, Jiang Qingxue, and Wang Luoyi.
• Liu Ruolan concluded that Jiang Qingxue was likely a Demon Dynasty visitor and kept her under observation, while Emperor Longchang agreed to help extract a distant Spirit Vein.
• Wang Anye set out for the Great Wild Marsh with Wang Zongchang, Old Yao, and Crimson Charm Demon Envoy to handle the dispute with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon lineage and search for ruins.
• Crimson Charm Demon Envoy accepted paid work protecting Wang Anye to repay her mahjong debts, then recognized the mentioned Blood Venerable Ruins as the place she had been seeking.

Wang Anye arrived at the Great Wild Marsh to resolve the dispute between the Wang Clan and the Primordial Water Azure Dragons, where Wang Lilong was already fighting Ao Longtian. After Wang Anye’s healing ability helped Lilong overpower him, the ninth-rank dragon elders confronted the human side, and negotiations began with the dispute over Lilong’s place in the Wang Clan still unresolved.

• Wang Anye and his companions were welcomed to Wangxia Town by Wang Chiqun and Lei Zhengyi before heading to the development outpost.
• Wang Anxin told the supervisors that Wang Anye was coming to address the disruption caused by Wang Lilong’s regular fights with Ao Longtian.
• Wang Anye healed Wang Lilong during her fight with Ao Longtian, allowing her to pin the eighth-rank dragon down.
• Ao Juechen descended and challenged the humans, while Old Yao and the Crimson Charm Demon Envoy blocked his pressure.
• Wang Anye proposed negotiations, but Ao Longtian demanded that the dragon clan’s alleged traitor be dealt with first.
• Ao Jiuxiao agreed to hear Wang Anye out after learning that Wang Lilong had formally joined the Wang Clan and been entered into its genealogy.

Wang Anye and Wang Anxin negotiated with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon Clan over the Southern Wilderness Ancient Marsh, arguing that Wang Clan development could expand the food supply and help the dragons grow their population. The chapter left both sides discussing a concrete cooperation plan, while Ao Juechen began to accept the proposal for the clan’s sake.

• Wang Anxin arrived with Wang Clan supervisors, and he and Wang Anye discussed clan affairs while Ao Jiuxiao and the other dragons listened and grew exasperated.
• Seven or eight days later, Wang Anye’s party met the dragons for formal negotiations, where Ao Juechen took charge and Wang Lilong and Ao Longtian traded insults before being silenced.
• Wang Anxin used maps and population figures to explain the marsh’s changing water levels and the dragons’ dwindling numbers, then outlined how marsh development and animal breeding could greatly increase their food supply.
• The dragons ate a lavish meal of spirit cattle and Dragon Whale meat, and Ao Longtian and Ao Jiuxiao were astonished by Wang Lilong’s wealthy human lifestyle.
• Wang Anxin proposed that the Wang Clan manage marsh development and the dragons oversee Fierce Crocodile breeding, and the dragons began discussing the cooperation plan as Ao Juechen considered accepting it.

Wang Anxin’s team negotiated a development and alliance agreement with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon clan, and the old ancestor dragon arrived to approve it. Wang Anye then learned that the Blood Venerable Ruins lay beneath Dragon Marsh and received permission to explore them.

• Wang Anxin’s negotiating team bargained with Ao Juechen over the marsh profits and reached agreements giving the dragons forty percent of net profits and establishing an offensive and defensive alliance.
• Wang Lilong and the Wang Clan celebrated the deal while Ao Juechen believed the dragons had won favorable terms.
• The old ancestor dragon arrived, praised Wang Lilong and Wang Anye, approved the agreement, and signed the contract.
• Wang Anye proposed that the dragons expand into the East Sea and establish an East Sea Dragon Palace.
• The old ancestor dragon revealed that the Blood Venerable Ruins were buried beneath Dragon Marsh and allowed Wang Anye to explore them.