Recaps

Wang Baosheng persuaded the Yuhe Wang Clan to sell limited entry slots to the Sacred Diagram ruin, drawing the Yuhe Yu Clan and the Yun Clan into the competition. As the Eldest Princess obtained a qualification certificate, Divine Emperor Cangping sensed that Lici had crushed her Divine Emperor Token and sent a projection to her aid.

• Wang Baosheng convinced the Yuhe Wang Clan patriarchs to invite powerful factions to the ruin in exchange for Chaos Spirit Stones and to seek the three missing Immortal Scriptures.
• The Yuhe Yu Clan decided to buy a ruin slot after the Wang Clan announced its plan to sell twenty slots across several sacred dynasties.
• The Yuhe Eldest Princess visited Wang Baosheng, proposed that the Yun Clan buy the Sacred Diagram, and was beaten by Wang Baosheng before Ying Lingzhu intervened.
• The Yun Clan secured two slots for six Chaos Spirit Stones, and Wang Baosheng gave the Yuhe Eldest Princess a qualification certificate.
• Divine Emperor Cangping learned that Ji Kunlun and the other suspects had arrived in Luo Capital, then sensed that Lici had crushed her Divine Emperor Token and projected himself to her.

Wang Lici, Wang Yingxuan, and their elite force prepared to raid the Devil Race’s Yongning Heavenly Lake supply base and destroy its stores along with three Devil Masters. After Wang Lici summoned Cangping Divine Emperor, the group revealed that they intended to use his projection as bait to keep the enemy occupied while they carried out the attack.

• Wang Lici crushed a Divine Emperor Token and was shocked when Cangping Divine Emperor appeared, revealing that he was the familiar Old Cang.
• Wang Yingxuan explained that she had led a secret deep-penetration mission to the Devil Race’s rear, where the group planned to plunder a major logistics base.
• Wang Yingxuan and Wang Lici told Cangping Divine Emperor that three Devil Masters and their forces were gathered at the base, so they needed his help to complete the raid.
• Wang Lici revealed that she had stolen a Chaos World-Annihilating Pearl and planned to use it to destroy the supplies and wipe out the Devil Masters and their armies.
• Wang Lici explained that Cangping Divine Emperor’s projection would draw the enemy’s fire and buy time for Wang Yingxuan’s forces to attack, leaving Cangping Divine Emperor horrified at being treated as cannon fodder.

Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan launched a surprise assault on the Devil Race’s rear logistics base after Divine Emperor Cangping agreed to sacrifice his projection in their battle plan. The chapter ended with Wang Lici, Scrap Rat, and their allies infiltrating the core warehouse, where she discovered a trove of valuable goods.

• Divine Emperor Cangping agreed to support Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan’s plan, and Sacred Venerable Yunhai reported that a Devil Race supply fleet was entering Tian Lake.
• Nether Luo Devil Master hosted Ghost Scorpion Devil Master and White Bone Devil Master, learning that they had retrieved a mysterious treasure from the Ruin Domain.
• After a report that the supply fleet had been attacked by giants, Nether Luo Devil Master persuaded Ghost Scorpion Devil Master and White Bone Devil Master to leave the base with him and respond.
• Young Devil Master Zheluo used Nether Luo Devil Master’s token to enter the core warehouse and search for the treasure brought back from the Ruin Domain.
• Scrap Rat and two human girls emerged from a spatial rift in the warehouse, and Divine Emperor Cangping’s projection suppressed Zheluo while they restrained him.
• Wang Lici explored the warehouse and excitedly declared that its valuable goods meant they were going to get rich.

Wang Lici and Divine Emperor Cangping raided a Devil Race logistics base, using Demon God Zheluo to unlock its stores and discovering a devastating Crystal Ancient Creation Crystal. They planned to lure the World-Annihilating Commander to the base, while Lici recruited Zheluo to help transport the supplies and join their scheme.

• Wang Lici ordered Scrap Rat to attack Demon God Zheluo, then spared him when he offered to unlock the restricted storage cabinets with Devil Master Mingluo's Token.
• Demon God Zheluo opened the cabinets under Divine Emperor Cangping's watch as Wang Lici and Scrap Rat collected demon crystals, treasures, and other valuable supplies.
• Wang Lici used her Taotie Bloodline's Devouring ability when her Storage Ring and Scrap Rat's spatial pouch filled up.
• Demon God Zheluo opened the central cabinet, revealing a Crystal Ancient Creation Crystal, and Divine Emperor Cangping explained that it could destroy even a Dao Master's forces.
• Wang Lici proposed luring the World-Annihilating Commander to the base and detonating the Crystal Ancient Creation Crystal, but insisted they first save the remaining supplies.
• Wang Lici showed Zheluo a recording of his cooperation, recruited him by promising protection and advancement, and told him to find transport ships to carry away the base's supplies.

Wang Lici and her allies manipulated the Devil Race’s forces to gather the World-Ending Commander and the Nether Devil Master at the Yongning Heavenly Lake base, where Divine Emperor Cangping detonated the Crystal Ancient Clan Creation Crystal. The explosion engulfed the World-Ending Devil Citadel and the surrounding forces, leaving their fate unknown.

• Zheluo Demon God helped Wang Lici empty the logistics base, and Sacred Venerable Yunhai took control of the supply fleet and escorted it downstream.
• Wang Lici sent Wang Yingxuan intelligence, and Wang Yingxuan lured the Nether Devil Master and two other Devil Masters away from the base.
• Zheluo Demon God sent false reports that the base was under attack, prompting the World-Ending Commander to send his citadel and the Nether Devil Master to rush back.
• Divine Emperor Cangping waited at the base while Wang Lici and her allies destroyed the communication device and escaped with Zheluo Demon God.
• The World-Ending Commander and Nether, Guixie, and Baigu arrived at the base, where Divine Emperor Cangping revealed the Creation Crystal and detonated it as the World-Ending Commander tried to flee.

Divine Emperor Cangping’s projection detonated the Genesis Crystal at Yongning Heavenly Lake, destroying the base and gravely wounding the World-Destroying Commander-in-Chief, who escaped as a remnant soul. After the survivors regrouped and changed course for the Giant Tribal Alliance, Cangping ordered a counteroffensive and learned from Old Tan about a magazine called “Truth.”

• The World-Destroying Commander-in-Chief abandoned his shattered body, escaped with the Primordial Demon Seed, and secretly headed toward a distant Tianhe through the Void Sea.
• The Genesis Crystal’s shockwaves struck Wang Yingxuan’s group and Wang Lici’s transport fleet, while Gamba Die and Sacred Venerable Yunhai protected them.
• Wang Yingxuan’s group and Wang Lici’s fleet reunited, then decided to travel upstream to the Giant Tribal Alliance with their plundered supplies.
• Divine Emperor Cangping summoned Ji Taichang and Taishi Wenbo, recounted the attack, and ordered Ji Taichang to prepare a full counteroffensive against the Apocalypse Devil Domain.
• Taishi Wenbo refused Cangping’s request to embellish the historical record, and Old Tan suggested publicizing his achievements through the magazine “Truth.”

Wang Baosheng finalized preparations for a Sacred Diagram ruins expedition while Si Wuyou earned money writing fiction and accepted a high-profile commission. At the Heavenly Sun Sacred Dynasty, Wang Luojing exposed an alleged insect-plague cure as a scam and revealed her connection to the Insect Saint before confronting the fleeing fraudster.

• Wang Baosheng discussed the ruins expedition preparations with Ying Lingzhu, while Si Wuyou received payment for his serialized blind-date story and accepted a manuscript commission from Divine Emperor Cangping.
• Si Wuyou completed a 500,000-word manuscript praising Divine Emperor Cangping, submitted it, and prepared to depart with Wang Baosheng's expedition fleet.
• The Heavenly Sun Holy Emperor summoned the Second Prince's Immortal Lord Seven Insects and the Fourth Prince's Wang Luojing to demonstrate their solutions to the Void locust plague.
• Wang Luojing accused Immortal Lord Seven Insects of manufacturing the plague and producing locusts designed to commit suicide when given a command.
• Wang Luojing presented an Insect Saint Token, revealed that she was the Insect Saint's junior sister, and sent a powerful butterfly after the fleeing Immortal Lord Seven Insects.

Wang Luojing defeated Immortal Lord Seven Insects, exposed his locust-plague scheme, and forced the Heavenly Sun Holy Emperor to negotiate over compensation. After interrogating her captive, she learned of a Dao Origin Pill auction and deduced that Seven-Insect Immortal Lord sought it to inherit a Sacred Diagram.

• Wang Luojing used the Heavenly Emperor Butterfly to trap Immortal Lord Seven Insects in an illusion, then overwhelmed his seven venomous beasts with twelve Void Insect generals.
• Wang Luojing identified herself as a member of the Divine Martial World's Changning Wang Clan and the Insect Saint's junior sister, while Immortal Lord Seven Insects confessed to engineering locust plagues and extorting Holy Dynasties with the Second Prince's help.
• The Heavenly Sun Holy Emperor arrested the Second Prince, but Wang Luojing demanded compensation for the Insect Saint and twenty Chaos Spirit Stones for resolving the disaster before leaving with her captive.
• Wang Luojing took Seven-Insect Immortal Lord's wealth and learned he had planned another swindle to raise funds for a Dao Origin Pill at a Black Market auction on the Nanye Divine Continent.
• Wang Luojing deduced that Seven-Insect Immortal Lord wanted the Dao Origin Pill to improve his bloodline and inherit a Sacred Diagram, and his despair confirmed her suspicion.

Wang Luojing inherited the Insect Emperor Hall’s Insect-Controlling Sacred Diagram and began planning to rebuild its lineage as a Wang Clan force. Meanwhile, Liu Ruolan broke through to Dao Child bloodline, but she insisted that she and Wang Shouzhe continue cultivating the Golden Toad Canon.

• Wang Luojing tortured Immortal Lord Seven Insects into revealing the Sacred Diagram’s location, took his Moon-Swallowing Golden Toad, and accepted the Heavenly Sun Holy Emperor’s offer to eliminate the locust plague.
• Wang Luojing eradicated the plague, rejected the Holy Emperor’s matchmaking hint, and traveled toward the ruin while requesting family support.
• Wang Shouzhe read Wang Luojing’s letter, then traveled with Liu Ruolan, Cai Youdao, and others to help her reach the Insect Emperor Hall ruin.
• Wang Luojing inherited the Insect-Controlling Sacred Diagram, advanced to Saint Daughter B-grade bloodline, and asked Wang Shouzhe to help her rebuild the Insect Emperor Hall.
• Wang Luojing stayed in the minor grotto-heaven to cultivate, while Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan toured the Sacred Domain and settled at Guiyuan Branch Residence.
• Liu Ruolan broke through to Dao Child Grade D bloodline, then urged Wang Shouzhe to continue cultivating with the Golden Toad Canon.

The Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor faced pressure from Sacred Venerable Jiuxiao and Pill Saint Jiang Li Huo to abandon cooperation with the Divine Martial World and help them seize the Wang Clan’s agency rights. At the Guiyuan Branch Residence, Lan Wanghai warned Wang Shouzhe that the two Sacred Venerables had come to cause trouble, but Shouzhe assumed only Dao Lord-level figures could count as great enemies.

• The Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor learned Wang Shouzhe was visiting and planned to invite him and Liu Ruolan to an imperial banquet, while Crown Princess Qingyang had already gone to see them.
• Ji Jiuxiao and Jiang Li Huo met the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor, demanded that he sever ties with the Divine Martial World, and offered military supplies as leverage.
• The Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor pretended to cooperate with the two Sacred Venerables while planning to warn Wang Shouzhe.
• At the Guiyuan Branch Residence, Liu Ruolan grew furious over the Cangping Divine Emperor taking credit for Yingxuan and Lici’s battlefield accomplishments, then asked Wang Shouzhe to summon Wang Baoguang.
• Lan Wanghai arrived and urged Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan to flee, warning that their great enemies had come; Wang Shouzhe guessed at Dao Lord-level threats, leaving Lan Wanghai stunned.

Wang Shouzhe faced Sacred Venerable Jiuxiao and Dan Saint Jiang Lihuo when they came to force the Divine Martial Sacred Alliance into a ruinous agency contract. After Liu Ruolan and Cai Youdao fought Jiuxiao, Wang Shouzhe revealed defenses and weapons that left Jiang Lihuo fearing the confrontation had become a deadly trap.

• Lan Wanghai warned Wang Shouzhe that Jiuxiao and Jiang Lihuo were coming to challenge him, but Wang Shouzhe told him the alliance already had a countermeasure.
• The Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor tried to delay the two Sacred Venerables and summoned Ancestor Dingsheng and Sacred Venerable Shuiyue to support Wang Shouzhe.
• Jiuxiao and Jiang Lihuo confronted Wang Shouzhe at the Guiyuan Branch Residence and presented an agency contract that would leave the Divine Martial Sacred Alliance with little profit.
• Wang Shouzhe mocked Jiuxiao, and Liu Ruolan drew the Primordial Water Sacred Sword to challenge him before Cai Youdao joined the battle in the clouds.
• Jiang Lihuo moved to aid Jiuxiao, but Wang Shouzhe displayed sacred artifacts, a Dao Master’s attack, and the Void Dark Annihilation Thunder Array, making Jiang Lihuo realize they had entered a trap.

Wang Shouzhe turned Sacred Venerable Jiuxiao and Pill Saint Jiang Li Huo’s attempt to coerce the Wang Clan into a public confrontation, while Cai Youdao and Liu Ruolan overwhelmed Jiuxiao in battle. He forced Jiang Li Huo to pay enormous compensation and let the pair leave, stripped of their valuables and humiliated.

• Wang Shouzhe secured witnesses to testify that Jiuxiao and Jiang Li Huo had attacked first, while Liu Ruolan and the others protected people from the damage caused by the battle above the Guiyuan Branch Residence.
• Liu Ruolan joined Cai Youdao against Jiuxiao, and Cai Youdao provoked him into refusing to retreat as their attacks steadily overwhelmed him.
• Wang Shouzhe ordered Cai Youdao and Liu Ruolan to stop short of killing Jiuxiao after Jiang Li Huo admitted fault and asked for mercy.
• Wang Shouzhe demanded that the two men be taken to the authorities, then agreed to settle the matter privately in exchange for an inflated compensation payment.
• Jiang Li Huo signed the compensation contract and surrendered valuables from his own and Jiuxiao’s storage rings, but Wang Shouzhe took his holy pill furnace as collateral for the remaining debt.
• Jiang Li Huo fled with the unconscious Jiuxiao in estate tenant-farmer clothes, while the local Sacred Venerables watched the pair depart in disgrace.

After driving off Jiang Li Huo and Nine Heavens Sacred Venerable, Wang Shouzhe rewarded the allies who had stood by the Wang Clan and proposed a way for the Heavenly Auspice Sacred Dynasty to break free of the Ji and Jiang Clans’ control over military supplies. The alliance’s new commercial opportunity was interrupted when Jiang Li Huo returned urgently to ask for Wang Shouzhe’s help.

• Wang Shouzhe thanked the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor, Si Clan Patriarch Dingsheng, and Sacred Venerable Shuiyue for their support, then gave each a share of the spoils and hosted a feast.
• The Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor explained that the Ji Clan and Jiang Clan were pressuring him to cut trade with the Divine Martial Sacred Alliance by threatening to withhold military equipment and pills.
• Wang Shouzhe demonstrated the Wang Clan’s superior, repairable Profound Armor and argued that its performance could offset its higher purchase price by reducing military costs or strengthening the army.
• Wang Shouzhe proposed that the Heavenly Auspice Imperial House, Si Clan, Shuiyue Grotto-Heaven, and Cloudsea Grotto-Heaven jointly establish a company to sell the alliance’s military supplies across the southwestern Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty.
• Jiang Li Huo returned to the Guiyuan Branch Residence and urgently asked Wang Shouzhe for help.

Wang Shouzhe forced Jiang Li Huo to surrender the Scarlet Sun Sacred Fire as collateral for ten Heaven-Returning Sacred Pills to save Sacred Venerable Jiuxiao, then negotiated military equipment and pill sales with the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor. A year later, the story shifted to Divine Martial No. 3 Forward Base, where Wang Liyao returned from an expedition with her team and Dongfang Aoshi began recounting her youthful exploits.

• Wang Shouzhe sold Jiang Li Huo ten Heaven-Returning Sacred Pills for twenty Chaos Spirit Stones and took the Scarlet Sun Sacred Fire as collateral before Jiang Li Huo departed with Jiuxiao.
• Wang Shouzhe showed the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor the Wang Clan’s military armor and pills, and they discussed wholesale sales and regional distribution.
• Wang Shouzhe and the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor delegated the detailed negotiations to Wang Youping and the Qingyang Imperial Crown Princess.
• By Great Qian Yong'an Year 326, the Wang Clan had established multiple bases in the Void Sea and expanded teleportation and exploration operations.
• Wang Liyao returned to Divine Martial No. 3 Forward Base aboard the damaged Yaoguang Sword Ferry with her expedition team.
• Dongfang Aoshi told logistics workers how Wang Liyao had displayed extraordinary swordsmanship when she was eighteen.

Wang Liyao rescued Dongfang Aoshi from a Void Fierce Beast remnant soul and discovered that his soul resembled her deceased master Jiang Zhencang's. After Lingyun identified Aoshi as Jiang Zhencang's likely reincarnation, Wang Liyao asked him to become her disciple and took him away.

• Zhai Wencheng ordered the artifact refiners to repair Wang Liyao's Yaoguang Sword Vessel, and Dongfang Aoshi found a broken claw tip lodged in its damaged hull.
• The claw tip released a Void Fierce Beast remnant soul that attacked Dongfang Aoshi, and Wang Liyao destroyed it before it could possess him.
• Wang Liyao gave Dongfang Aoshi the claw tip as compensation, but declined his request to join her team until he reached the Divine Ability Realm.
• Lingyun recognized a familiar soul aura in Dongfang Aoshi's divine sense and told Wang Liyao it resembled Jiang Zhencang's.
• Wang Liyao learned that Dongfang Aoshi had been born with Great Heavenly Prodigy aptitude, and Lingyun judged him eighty percent likely to be Jiang Zhencang's reincarnation.
• Wang Liyao asked Dongfang Aoshi to become her disciple and carried him away on a streak of sword light.

Wang Liyao made Dongfang Aoshi her disciple and later gathered powerful allies to plan an exploration of the Zhenze Sword Palace ruins. The chapter ended with Wang Liyao being urged to enter the Primordial Dao Palace’s Outstanding Youth Evaluation Assembly, while Wang Fugui plotted to position her as a contender for the Dao Scion seat.

• Wang Liyao accepted Dongfang Aoshi as her disciple, guided his cultivation, and gave him a Void Ascension Dao Artifact and other gifts.
• Over several years, Dongfang Aoshi trained under Wang Liyao and improved his bloodline aptitude from Great Heavenly Prodigy Grade B to Unparalleled Grade D.
• Wang Liyao summoned Wang Longyan and explained that her exploration team had found the Zhenze Sword Palace ruins, which might contain a Sacred Diagram.
• Wang Longyan agreed to join forces with the other exploration teams, and leaders from the Immortal Palace, Demon Dynasty, Duobao Pavilion, and Wang Clan gathered at the Lingyun Branch Residence.
• Immortal Lord Ling Xuan announced that the Immortal Palace had joined the Primordial Dao Palace system and that its Outstanding Youth Evaluation Assembly would be held in two hundred years.
• Immortal Lord Ling Xuan encouraged Wang Liyao to compete at the assembly, while Wang Fugui’s plan to advance her toward the Dao Scion contest was complicated by Wang Baosheng’s friendship with Ying Lingzhu.

In Great Qian, the Azure Peace Divine Emperor summoned Ji Jiuxiao and Jiang Li Huo to answer for their actions at the Guiyuan Branch Residence and the scandals exposed in Truth magazine. He exiled them to Chaos Mountain, where they had to mine materials worth hundreds of Chaos Spirit Stones before they could return.

• A third-rate exploration team spotted Wang Liyao’s fleet and dumped its salvage to follow the powerful teams toward the Zhenze Sword Palace ruin.
• The Azure Peace Divine Emperor confronted Ji Jiuxiao and Jiang Li Huo with Truth magazine’s reports accusing their clans of abuses involving military equipment and supply pills.
• Jiang Xuanhuo argued that Wang Shouzhe had provoked Ji Jiuxiao, but the Ying Clan ancestor and other ministers blamed the two men and opposed their defense.
• Ji Guanchao asked that Ji Jiuxiao receive a Life-and-Death Dao Pill before punishment, and Ji Taichang offered two pills for the Azure Peace Divine Emperor’s recovery.
• Ji Jiuxiao offered to redeem himself on the battlefield, but the Azure Peace Divine Emperor ordered him and Jiang Li Huo to mine at Chaos Mountain.
• The Azure Peace Divine Emperor required Jiang Li Huo to mine materials worth three hundred Chaos Spirit Stones and Ji Jiuxiao to mine materials worth six hundred before their exile ended.

Ji Taichang returned to the Ji Clan, punished its leadership through sweeping reforms, and began selecting and training younger descendants. More than twenty years later, Wang Liyao led an expedition to the Zhenze Sword Palace, where she and her companions prepared to challenge its Sword Path.

• Ji Taichang summoned the Ji Clan elders, condemned the clan’s arrogance, and announced reforms to its descendant selection and succession.
• Ji Taichang stripped Ji Guanchao of family authority, tested more than a hundred young descendants, selected twenty-three, and planned to train them on the Void Sea battlefield.
• More than twenty years passed as Wang Liyao led a powerful force into the Zhenze Domain to find the Zhenze Sword Palace and its Radiant Sword Sacred Diagram.
• Wang Liyao’s forces spent five years defeating the Blackwing birds and other void creatures before entering the sword palace’s minor world.
• The Sword Palace Artifact Spirit explained that challengers had to pass the Sword Path before attempting the Heaven-Piercing Sword Tower, and Wang Liyao announced that everyone would take the test.
• Wang Liyao ordered Dongfang Aoshi to join the Sword Path challenge, and he reluctantly agreed.

Wang Liyao led the Wang Clan and other challengers through Zhenze Sword Palace’s Sword Path, where the youngest and most talented climbers quickly distinguished themselves. More than a hundred candidates gathered before the Heaven-Piercing Sword Tower, and Wang Liyao told four exceptional young Wang Clan members that the Sacred Sword Diagram would go to whoever proved strongest.

• Wang Liyao organized the Sword Path trials, and the old Void Ascension Realm cultivators were rejected while young challengers continued climbing.
• Wang Jinyu crossed all one thousand steps in half an hour, broke the Sword Path record, and received an official disciple token and Spirit Stones.
• Wang Jinyu explored Zhenze Sword Palace and learned that its facilities and supplies remained intact, while Wang Huanjian and Wang Peilan arrived after completing the Sword Path.
• Over the following months, Wang Liyao sent more challengers onto the Sword Path, and more than one hundred successful candidates gathered before the Heaven-Piercing Sword Tower a year later.
• Wang Liyao named Wang Guiling, Wang Guihu, Wang Jinyu, and Wang Youdao as contenders for the Sacred Sword Diagram and said the winner would be decided by ability.
• Wang Longyan watched the Wang Clan’s young talents with pride and stayed nearby to protect them.

Wang Huanjian, Wang Jinyu, and the other Wang Clan challengers tested themselves in Zhenze Sword Palace’s Heavenly Sword Tower, with Wang Liyao and Wang Longyan securing top results and claiming valuable sword inheritances. Meanwhile, the Primordial Dao Lord questioned Wang Baoguang about a report on Wang Shouzhe’s wife, and Wang Baoguang demanded twenty Chaos Spirit Stones to show him the evidence images.

• Wang Huanjian cleared the ninth floor of the Heavenly Sword Tower, earned 48,100 contribution points, and lost on the tenth floor.
• Wang Jinyu cleared all twelve floors and set a new Sword Palace record, while Wang Youdao, Wang Guihu, and Wang Guiling also reached the twelfth floor.
• Wang Liyao claimed first place among the Saint Sons and Saint Daughters, and Wang Longyan swept through the tower before exchanging the group’s points for the Radiance Sword Sacred Diagram and seven Immortal Sword Scriptures.
• The Primordial Dao Lord read Truth magazine and summoned Wang Baoguang to ask whether its report about Wang Shouzhe’s wife was true.
• Wang Baoguang confirmed the report and refused to show the evidence images until the Primordial Dao Lord offered twenty Chaos Spirit Stones.

The Primordial Dao Lord recognized Wang Baoguang’s ancestral grandmother, Linglan, as his long-lost Senior Sister reborn, then traveled to Guiyuan Branch Residence to meet Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan. Meanwhile, Wang Liyao’s group claimed Sacred Swords and inherited the Zhenze Sword Palace Grotto-Heaven, leaving the Dao Lord’s unexpected visit to end the chapter on a note of uncertainty.

• The Primordial Dao Lord paid Wang Baoguang twenty Chaos Spirit Stones for a recording, recognized Linglan in it as his Senior Sister reborn, and beat Wang Baoguang after learning she was his ancestral grandmother.
• Wang Jinyu and Wang Youdao won rock-paper-scissors and exchanged points for Sacred Swords, while Wang Liyao inherited the Yaoguang Sacred Diagram and reached Saint Daughter Grade A.
• Wang Liyao persuaded the Zhenze Sword Palace Artifact Spirit to evacuate, and Wang Chenlun led the group in towing the Grotto-Heaven toward their forward base.
• The Primordial Dao Lord projected himself to Cloudsea Grotto-Heaven and asked Saint Son Qingyuan to take him to Wang Shouzhe and his wife.
• At Guiyuan Branch Residence, Liu Ruolan played mahjong with the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor, Ancestor Dingsheng, and Sacred Venerable Shuiyue as Wang Shouzhe wondered why the Primordial Dao Lord had come in person.

The Primordial Dao Lord visited the Guiyuan Branch Residence to learn whether Liu Ruolan was the reincarnation of the Profound Spirit Saintess, and Wang Shouzhe eventually agreed to let them meet. Seeing Ruolan in person and watching Shouzhe hold her hand left the Dao Lord stunned by her resemblance to his long-lost Senior Sister Linglan and crushed his century-spanning youthful hopes.

• Wang Shouzhe welcomed the Primordial Dao Lord's projection to the Guiyuan Branch Residence, where the Dao Lord offered cultivation guidance to Holy Emperor Tianrui, Patriarch Dingsheng, and Sacred Venerable Shuiyue.
• The Primordial Dao Lord asked to meet Wang Shouzhe's wife and revealed that he suspected Liu Ruolan was the reincarnation of the Profound Spirit Saintess.
• Wang Shouzhe considered the Dao Lord's intentions, then agreed to summon Liu Ruolan and have her receive his guidance.
• Liu Ruolan arrived, and the Primordial Dao Lord was amazed by how closely she resembled Senior Sister Linglan.
• Wang Shouzhe took Liu Ruolan's hand as he introduced her, and the Primordial Dao Lord realized she and Shouzhe had already built a large family together.

Primordial Dao Lord stayed at the Guiyuan Branch Residence to guide Liu Ruolan’s cultivation, but she refused to join the Dao Palace or surrender the treasures she had found. After forty years, he departed and gave her a Dao Origin Pill, which she immediately gifted to Wang Shouzhe.

• Primordial Dao Lord recognized Liu Ruolan’s resemblance to Profound Spirit Saintess Ying Linglan and patiently explained the Zenith Heaven Sacred Dao, helping Wang Shouzhe clarify his own path toward True Immortality.
• Primordial Dao Lord offered to remain at the Guiyuan Branch Residence and take Liu Ruolan as his personal disciple, but she refused to join the Dao Palace, and Wang Shouzhe supported her decision.
• Liu Ruolan refused to return the Primordial Water Sacred Diagram and Primordial Water Sacred Sword, arguing that she had found them herself, and Primordial Dao Lord conceded that he lacked proof they belonged to the Dao Palace.
• Primordial Dao Lord settled at the Guiyuan Branch Residence, but Liu Ruolan later had him moved a thousand miles away because his acute senses might overhear her private moments with Wang Shouzhe.
• After forty years, Primordial Dao Lord prepared to leave and gave Liu Ruolan a Dao Origin Pill; she accepted it as compensation, then handed it to Wang Shouzhe as a gift.

Wang Shouzhe persuaded the Primordial Dao Lord to accompany him and Liu Ruolan to the Nanye Black Market, then offered to help the Dao Lord recover at the Branch Residence of Returning Origin. Meanwhile, Wang Lici appeared in the Northern Wasteland Barbarian Domain and stunned Agula Bronze by defeating a Void Mangmarsh Beast.

• Wang Shouzhe revealed his plan to obtain a Dao Origin Pill at the Nanye Black Market, and the Primordial Dao Lord agreed to accompany him and Liu Ruolan after recovering his injuries.
• Wang Shouzhe invited the Primordial Dao Lord to recuperate at the Branch Residence of Returning Origin and hinted that he could help heal him.
• In the Northern Wasteland Barbarian Domain, Agula Bronze fought a Void Mangmarsh Beast as part of his coming-of-age ceremony, but a Devil Race fleet interrupted the hunt.
• Wang Lici emerged from the fleet in her prehistoric giant Battle Body and pursued the wounded beast, overpowering it with her strength.
• Agula Bronze watched Wang Lici fight and announced that he wanted to marry her instead of Gulu Steeltooth.

Wang Lici and Gamba Die Stonehammer visited the Bronze Tribe, where Agula Bronze mistook Wang Lici for a giant and proposed marriage before she beat him. Meanwhile, Abagai Bronze was possessed by the World-Destroying Grand Commander, who planned to take control of the Bronze Tribe and eventually seek revenge on Cangping.

• Wang Lici killed the Void Marsh Beast, and Batagon Bronze invited her and Gamba Die Stonehammer to visit the Bronze Tribe.
• Gamba Die Stonehammer accepted Batagon Bronze's invitation, and the groups traveled together aboard the Bronze warship.
• Agula Bronze proposed marriage to Wang Lici, who revealed she was human and beat him when he refused to believe her.
• Batagon Bronze offered fifty savage ox Beasts as betrothal gifts, while Gamba Die Stonehammer quietly recognized the misunderstanding.
• Abagai Bronze's body was taken over by the World-Destroying Grand Commander's remnant soul after it saved him from the Void Winged Serpent.
• The World-Destroying Grand Commander resolved to take control of the Bronze Tribe, conquer the Frostsky Queen, and avenge himself on Cangping.