Recaps

Wang Lici arrived in Bronze City with the Stonehammer Tribe and began distributing food while trading with the Bronze Tribe. Aba Gai, secretly the reborn World-Ending High Commander, discovered that Wang Lici had defeated him and stolen his supplies, but his weak body and Agula’s decision left him in her hands.

• The Bronze Barbarian King offered spirit bronze for food, but Wang Lici and Stonehammer Barbarian King Gangbadie insisted on trading only for rare high-grade materials.
• Wang Lici toured Bronze City with Agula and handed food to giant children and poor residents.
• Aba Gai returned with a slain twelfth-rank Void Fierce Beast, then learned that Wang Lici had defeated the World-Ending High Commander and brought the captured supplies to sell.
• Agula introduced Aba Gai to Wang Lici, whose light pat knocked him to the ground and revealed how frail his body was.
• Wang Lici offered to take Aba Gai to meet powerful human figures and train him, and Agula accepted on his behalf.
• Wang Lici forced Aba Gai to help distribute Devil Race grain, and he silently fumed as he handed out his stolen supplies.

Wang Lici’s group left the Bronze Plateau for Frostsky City with the Bronze Barbarian King, while Wang Baosheng’s party found the Tianyuan ruins and confronted its artifact spirit. Inside, Old Tianyuan learned that Crystal Thirty-Nine had concealed the fate of his disciple Xuanyuan Tianlan and agreed to cooperate with its plan.

• Wang Lici continued Aba Gai Bronze’s painful training, and the Bronze Barbarian King and Young Clan Leader trusted her with his care.
• After two years on the Bronze Plateau, Wang Lici, Wang Yingxuan, Sacred Venerable Yunhai, and their companions set sail for Frostsky City with the Bronze Barbarian King and his three sons to pursue trade and an alliance.
• Wang Baosheng used the treasure map and half Sacred Diagram to guide the Jade River Sacred Hall and Purple Frost Sword Vessel through the Void Sea to the ruins.
• The Jade River Eldest Princess demanded that the elders be allowed to observe the tests, and the artifact spirit identified the ruins as a Saint-tier inheritance site of the Tianyuan Dao Sect.
• Yun Tiange revealed the Tianyuan Sacred Diagram and Sacred Sword, prompting Old Tianyuan to recognize Xuanyuan Tianlan’s aura in her.
• Crystal Thirty-Nine revealed that Xuanyuan Tianlan’s body had been used in a bloodline experiment and threatened to detonate a Genesis Crystal, so Old Tianyuan agreed to cooperate with its plan.

Wang Baosheng and the other candidates entered the Tianyuan Ruins, where the Artifact Spirit explained that three Yuhe Wang Clan ancestors had died in the risky Chaos Marrow-Cleansing Pool and returned their relics. The candidates agreed to draw lots for the first inheritance trials, and as Yu Beihe and Jiang Haochang prepared to enter, Wang Anye realized they were using a Luck Jade Pendant against Wang Baosheng and Wang Baofu.

• The inheritance Artifact Spirit opened the ruins and explained that the Yuhe Wang Clan ancestors had died during voluntary baptisms in the Chaos Marrow-Cleansing Pool, then returned their relics to Patriarch Yuanjing.
• Princess Yuhe proposed drawing lots to decide who would attempt the Tianyuan inheritance first, and Wang Baosheng accepted the arrangement after the clans supported it.
• Wang Baosheng drew third place, while Yu Beihe drew first and a young man from the Yuhe Jiang Clan drew second.
• Yu Beihe mocked Wang Baosheng before entering the Hall of Inheritance, while Jiang Haochang revealed that the Jiang Clan had used its Luck Jade Pendant to influence the draw.
• Wang Baofu quietly told Wang Anye about the luck-related treasure, and Wang Anye realized that Yu Beihe and Jiang Haochang were relying on it against them.

The inheritance tests exposed the Tianyuan Dao Sect’s secret experiment, as Yu Beihe failed and Jiang Haochang nearly succeeded before a Void Sea energy storm threw the ruin into chaos. Jiang Haochang was rescued but badly injured, while Wang Baosheng realized that drawing the third token had spared him from the danger.

• The Jade River Eldest Princess secured agreement to monitor the tests, and Yu Beihe entered the Hall of Inheritance with Son of Heaven Grade B bloodline aptitude.
• Crystal Thirty-Nine secretly raised the Heart-Questioning Illusory Array’s difficulty, causing Yu Beihe to collapse mentally; the Jade River Eldest Princess beat him and sent him away with Golden-Winged Immortal Lord.
• Jiang Haochang passed the Heart-Questioning Trial with Son of Heaven Grade A middle-rank aptitude and entered the Chaos Marrow-Cleansing Pool as the chosen experimental target.
• A Void Sea energy storm struck the Tianyuan Ruin, destabilizing the pool and causing its chaotic energy to surge violently into Jiang Haochang.
• Princess Yuhe and the White Tiger Sacred Venerable pulled Jiang Haocang from the pool, but their energy claws badly crushed him as they rescued him.
• Wang Baosheng realized that Wang Baofu’s luck had overwhelmed the other candidates’ luck treasures and that drawing the third token had saved him from the earlier trials.

Wang Baosheng uncovered the Tianyuan inheritance’s hidden manipulation and secured the Tianyuan Sacred Diagram before the inheritance Artifact Spirit could force him into the Marrow-Cleansing Pool. Crystal Thirty-Nine then overpowered him and threw him into the pool as the four Sacred Venerables and Yun Tiange rushed to intervene.

• The White Tiger Sacred Venerable tried to let Jiang Haocang continue the inheritance, but Elder Hui revealed that Jiang Haocang’s shattered Heaven-Stealing Jade Pendant had caused the backlash that crippled him.
• Wang Baosheng tested as having a high-stage twelfth-level Yi Wood Bloodline, classified as Saint Son second grade, and passed the Heart-Questioning Trial without being affected by its temptations.
• Wang Baosheng refused to enter the Chaos Marrow-Cleansing Pool before receiving the Sacred Diagram, and the inheritance Artifact Spirit granted him the Tianyuan Sacred Diagram.
• Wang Baosheng refined the Sacred Diagram, raising his bloodline aptitude to the peak of Saint Son second grade, then postponed entering the pool and proposed traveling to the Yuhe Sacred Dynasty.
• Crystal Thirty-Nine appeared in commander-grade battle armor, restrained Wang Baosheng, and kicked him into the activated Marrow-Cleansing Pool as Yun Tiange and the four Sacred Venerables rushed to save him.

Crystal Thirty-Nine overwhelmed Yun Tiange and four Sacred Venerable Realm experts, then resisted the Reincarnation River while protecting the Chaos Marrow Cleansing Pool. As Wang Baosheng remained trapped in the pool, Elder Tianyuan began a secret experiment involving a Crystal Ancient girl, Ying Lingzhu, and the Jade River Eldest Princess, while Crystal Thirty-Nine’s instruments struck at the Reincarnation River.

• Crystal Thirty-Nine easily repelled Yun Tiange and defeated the combined attacks of four Sacred Venerable Realm experts, while the Chaos Marrow Cleansing Pool remained untouched.
• The Reincarnation River manifested and tried to seize Crystal Thirty-Nine, but she shattered its energy tendril and continued fighting off her attackers.
• Elder Hui took Ying Lingzhu’s Taiyi Chaos Seal, and Wang Anye, Yun Tiange, and numerous Immortal Lords joined the siege against Crystal Thirty-Nine.
• Elder Tianyuan pinned Wang Baosheng in the pool, revealed a Heaven-Stealing Dao Coffin containing a Crystal Ancient girl, and prepared an experiment as Wang Baofu spent his luck to aid Wang Baosheng.
• Ying Lingzhu entered the pool to rescue Wang Baosheng, but the Tianyuan old man suppressed her; the Jade River Eldest Princess intervened, was injured, and fell into the pool.
• Elder Tianyuan added a Mysterious Female Sacred Pearl to the pool and sealed it, while Crystal Thirty-Nine activated crystals that sent a massive beam into the Reincarnation River.

Crystal Thirty-Nine and the Tianyuan old man attempted to reincarnate with their memories intact, but Wang Anye disrupted their passage through the Reincarnation River, which scrubbed their true spirits clean. A third, stronger spirit unexpectedly joined the rebirth, and after ten days Wang Baosheng emerged from the Chaos Marrow-Cleansing Pool having become connected to three women.

• Crystal Thirty-Nine revealed her directed reincarnation experiment, threatened the group with a Small Creation Crystal, and entered the Crystal Ancient instrument with the Tianyuan old man.
• The Reincarnation River stripped away the two old spirits’ divine-soul shells, but the collapsing Tianyuan Ruins Grotto-Heaven disrupted the Crystal Ancient instrument and nearly pulled them back into the river.
• Wang Anye had Grand Elder Yidie destabilize the instrument repeatedly, causing the Reincarnation River to wash away the two spirits’ memories before allowing them to return toward the pool.
• Several other powerful true spirits raced for the available reincarnation vacancy, and the strongest entered the Chaos Marrow-Cleansing Pool ahead of the Tianyuan old man and Crystal Thirty-Nine.
• After ten days, Wang Baosheng emerged from the pool and told Wang Anye that he had caused trouble because three women were involved.

Wang Anye tried to settle the fallout from Wang Baosheng’s disastrous encounter with three women, but Jing Feifei accepted Baosheng as her husband under Crystal Ancient Clan tradition, while Grand Princess Yuhe and Ying Lingzhu discovered they were pregnant. After they returned to the Yuhe Sacred Dynasty, Holy Emperor Yuhe demanded that Baosheng marry into his clan, only for the Primordial Dao Lord to appear and insist Baosheng marry into the Primordial Dao Palace.

• Wang Anye apologized to Grand Princess Yuhe and Ying Lingzhu, scolding and beating Wang Baofu and Wang Baosheng as he accepted responsibility for the incident.
• Jing Feifei declared that she and Wang Baosheng were husband and wife according to Crystal Ancient Clan tradition, and Wang Anye left them alone together.
• Ying Lingzhu and Grand Princess Yuhe discovered their pregnancies and decided to return to the Yuhe Sacred Dynasty with Jing Feifei.
• Wang Anye brought the three women and the two brothers to the Sacred Capital, where the women settled into seclusion to nurture their pregnancies.
• Holy Emperor Yuhe demanded that Wang Baosheng marry into the Yuhe Yun Clan, but the Primordial Dao Lord arrived and claimed Baosheng for the Primordial Dao Palace.

The Primordial Dao Lord and Holy Emperor Yuhe argued over which family Wang Baosheng should marry into after three women became pregnant by him, so Wang Shouzhe invited them to the Divine Martial World to discuss the matter. On arrival, the visitors learned how isolated the world was and chose to travel incognito to inspect it firsthand.

• The Primordial Dao Lord arrived at the Eldest Princess's Estate and demanded that Wang Baosheng marry into the Primordial Dao Palace, while Holy Emperor Yuhe argued for the Yun Clan.
• Wang Baosheng refused to choose among Yun Yuhe, Ying Lingzhu, and Jing Feifei, so Wang Anye proposed bringing the matter to Wang Shouzhe.
• Wang Shouzhe welcomed the group at the Guiyuan Branch Residence, and Liu Ruolan brought the three pregnant women inside to comfort them.
• Wang Shouzhe led the group through a spatial ferry into the Divine Martial World, where Wang Fugui and Immortal Lord Ling Xuan greeted them.
• Wang Fugui revealed that the Divine Martial World lay across the Ruin Domain, leaving the Primordial Dao Lord and Holy Emperor Yuhe wary of being stranded there.
• The Primordial Dao Lord and Holy Emperor Yuhe requested an incognito tour of the Divine Martial World, and Wang Shouzhe agreed to accompany them.

The Primordial Dao Lord, the Jade River Holy Emperor, and the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor visited the Divine Martial World and were astonished by its technology, education, prosperity, and competitive talent. After discovering the Wang Clan’s generous employment opportunities, the Holy Emperors began considering sending powerful cultivators to work there, while the Primordial Dao Lord watched in exasperation.

• Chen Suling guided the disguised Primordial Dao Lord, the Jade River Holy Emperor, and the Heavenly Auspice Holy Emperor through Immortal Palace Air Transit and explained its wristwatches, identity codes, and Cloud Ray flights.
• Aboard the Cloud Ray Flying Ship, the three heard travelers discuss the demanding Wang Clan Advanced Clan School and learned that universal education and strict laws gave Divine Martial World cultivators greater opportunities and dignity.
• After arriving in Xinping Town, the group visited the Wang Clan Artifact Refining Directorate and found Immortal Emperor Wenrui working there as an artifact refining Attendant.
• Wang Ningxi explained that the Directorate paid True Immortal Realm refiners well and offered Sacred Venerable Realm Attendants benefits worth about two Immortal Spirit Stones annually.
• Holy Emperor Tianrui and Holy Emperor Yuhe grew eager to send idle powerful cultivators to work for the Wang Clan, while the Primordial Dao Lord grew annoyed at their enthusiasm.

Wang Ningxi showed the Primordial Dao Lord and other guests how the Wang Clan’s systematic materials research strengthened its low-grade equipment, while Yun Mengyu and Princess Zhaoyu welcomed Wang Baosheng’s three pregnant companions in Xinping Town. By the end, Yun Yuhe and Ying Lingzhu agreed to marry Baosheng, and all three women accepted the Wang Clan’s generous assets.

• Wang Ningxi toured the guests through the Wang Clan Artifact Refining Directorate and explained its extensive alloy experiments and battle-armor research.
• The Primordial Dao Lord recognized that the Wang Clan’s advances could threaten the Ji Clan’s low-end equipment business.
• Yun Mengyu and Princess Zhaoyu took Yun Yuhe, Ying Lingzhu, and Jing Feifei shopping and introduced them to the comforts of Changning.
• Wu Wenhao notarized transfers giving each woman valuable property and a fifteen-percent share of the Wang Clan Cinema Chain.
• Yun Mengyu and Princess Zhaoyu persuaded Yun Yuhe and Ying Lingzhu to accept the assets and agree to marry Baosheng, joining Jing Feifei.

The Wang Clan’s industrial wealth stunned the visiting leaders, while Yun Yuhe and Ying Lingzhu chose to marry Wang Baosheng and raise their children with the Wang Clan. After the families settled the marriages and held a grand wedding for Baosheng and three pregnant women, Yun Yuhe gave birth to a boy beneath a sudden heavenly phenomenon.

• Dongfang Lingrou showed the three leaders the Alchemy Directorate’s automated pill production line, revealing its enormous output and the Wang Clan’s industrial wealth.
• Yun Yuhe told the Yuhe Holy Emperor she would marry Baosheng, and Ying Lingzhu told the Primordial Dao Lord she had made the same decision.
• Wang Shouzhe negotiated with the Yuhe Holy Emperor and Primordial Dao Lord, securing their consent to the marriages and arranging for a wedding before the children were born.
• The Wang Clan hastily held a grand wedding for Wang Baosheng and his three pregnant wives, causing a major stir across the Divine Martial World.
• Yun Yuhe gave birth to a boy, and a violent vortex and magnificent heavenly phenomenon appeared in the sky.

Wang Baosheng’s three wives gave birth in succession, and Wang Shouzhe named the newborns Wang Youyue, Wang Jinlu, and Wang Youxuan; all three displayed extraordinary heavenly phenomena marking them as Innate Sacred Bodies. As the Wang Clan began planning for the Divine Martial World’s future dangers, Wang Shouzhe tried to recruit two Dao Palace array experts through the Primordial Dao Lord.

• Yun Yuhe gave birth to Wang Baosheng’s eldest son, and Liu Ruolan identified the vast earth-element phenomenon as the sign of an Innate Sacred Body.
• Wang Shouzhe named the first child Wang Youyue, whose birth was followed by a wood-element phenomenon as Princess Feifei gave birth to Wang Jinlu.
• Lingzhu gave birth to Wang Youxuan amid a Mystic Dao phenomenon, and the Primordial Dao Lord and Jade River Holy Emperor discussed the children’s possible past lives.
• Wang Shouzhe asked Wang Fugui to outline the threats posed by the Atana Clan and the Grand Commander of Destruction, then led a broad development-strategy meeting for the Divine Martial World.
• Wang Anye reported that Qianzhen was struggling to combine Void Oblivion Thunder Arrays with Void Ferries, and Wang Shouzhe tried to recruit two array experts from the Dao Palace, prompting the Primordial Dao Lord to accuse him of poaching.

Lao Ao explained the difficulty of sustaining quality in the middle and later stages of Clan Leader, stressing the care and planning he continued to devote to the novel. He left readers with an explanation for his steady update pace and the extensive work required to bring the story toward its conclusion.

• Lao Ao said Clan Leader was the novel he had written with the most care and that he still spent three hours a day planning its plot.
• He described how the novel’s subscriptions grew from about 500 at the beginning to more than 8,000 after roughly five million characters.
• Lao Ao explained that the middle and later stages were harder because readers and authors faced fatigue while the story’s plot and relationships became more complicated.
• He argued that maintaining subscriptions in a long-running novel required hard work rather than perfunctory writing.
• Lao Ao said he kept a steady daily update pace to preserve his motivation and spent extensive time outlining the later story and its ending.

Wang Shouzhe secured introductions to two Sacred Venerables and arranged for the Primordial Dao Lord to refine Dao Origin Pills with the Wang Clan’s equipment and technical team. The first real batch produced three pills, leaving the clan to decide who should receive them.

• The Primordial Dao Lord gave Wang Shouzhe letters introducing Sacred Venerables Langya and Tianjue, and Wang Shouzhe assigned Wang Anye to persuade them to support the Divine Martial World.
• Wang Shouzhe asked the Primordial Dao Lord to guide Wang Shouye in refining twelfth-grade pills, and the Dao Lord explained the scarce furnaces, ingredients, and opportunities that made such pills difficult to produce.
• Wang Shouye revealed that the Alchemy Directorate had materials for Dao Origin Pills and Source Ice Dao Pills, and Wang Shouzhe said they had a Sacred Pill Furnace and the Scarlet Sun Sacred Fire.
• The group went to the Alchemy Directorate, where its technical team recorded and analyzed the Primordial Dao Lord’s simulated refinements before helping standardize his process.
• The Primordial Dao Lord refined one genuine batch of Dao Origin Pills and produced three pills, while Wang Shouzhe ordered the process data backed up and considered which family members should receive the pills.

Wang Shouzhe negotiated with the Primordial Dao Lord over resources and opportunities to refine Dao Origin Pills, then proposed leasing a ninth-grade Spirit Vein so the Wang Clan could grow Void Dao Origin Fruits. The Primordial Dao Lord was tempted by the plan, while Wang Shouzhe reflected on how his own growth-acceleration abilities could make it profitable.

• The Primordial Dao Lord successfully refined one Source Ice Dao Pill, and Wang Shouzhe gave him a vial of Immortal-Modified Essence Edition as thanks.
• Wang Shouzhe urged the Primordial Dao Lord to refine more Dao Origin Pills and learned that the Sun Dao Lord had been buying Void Dao Origin Fruits at high prices.
• The Primordial Dao Lord explained that the Primordial Dao Palace's scarce ninth-grade Spirit Veins and slow cultivation methods limited its supply of Void Dao Origin Fruits.
• Wang Shouzhe offered four hundred Chaos Spirit Stones to buy a ninth-grade Spirit Vein, but the Primordial Dao Lord refused to sell the Dao Palace asset.
• Wang Shouzhe proposed leasing a ninth-grade Spirit Vein for ten thousand years in exchange for payment or three Void Dao Origin Fruits, and the Primordial Dao Lord considered the offer.
• Wang Shouzhe reflected that his work with Little Green Yi could greatly accelerate the growth of Void Dao Origin Fruits, which he hoped to cultivate for his family.

The Primordial Dao Lord agreed to lease Wang Shouzhe a ninth-grade Spirit Vein for Void Dao Origin Fruits and arranged for Sacred Venerable Langya and Sacred Venerable Tianjue to relocate it to Wang Clan territory. In Year 420, Wang Baosheng and Yun Yuhe sent their seven-year-old children to Clan School, where Wang Youyue, Wang Jinlu, and Wang Youxuan began plotting to escape before Yun Yue'er welcomed them.

• Wang Shouzhe negotiated the Spirit Vein's relocation fee and rent with the Primordial Dao Lord, and they signed a contract.
• The Primordial Dao Lord arranged for Sacred Venerable Langya and Sacred Venerable Tianjue to bring the ninth-grade Spirit Vein to the Wang Clan.
• Yun Yuhe beat Wang Youyue for hiding his schoolbag and refusing to attend his first day of Clan School, while Wang Baosheng offered him a brief encouragement.
• Ying Lingzhu escorted Wang Youyue, Wang Jinlu, and Wang Youxuan to Zhuwei Lake, where the Primordial Water Old Turtle ferried them to Clan School.
• Wang Youyue and Wang Jinlu argued about skipping school and setting ambitious goals, while Wang Youxuan tried to calm them.
• Yun Yue'er arrived at the Clan School dock and introduced herself as the children's guide, prompting them to greet her as Auntie Yue.

Wang Youyue, Wang Jinlu, and Wang Youxuan began at the Clan School and challenged Mr. Bear for the freedom to avoid ordinary lessons, showing off their formidable abilities in a trial and a fight. Their performance caught the attention of Langya Sacred Venerable and Tianjue Sacred Venerable, who both decided they wanted to take one of the children as a disciple.

• Yun Yue'er enrolled the three siblings and brought them to Mr. Bear's troublesome class, where Mr. Bear caught three students trying to sneak out and sentenced them to copy the Thousand Character Classic twenty times.
• Wang Youyue asked Mr. Bear to let the siblings do as they pleased in class, but Mr. Bear said he would only loosen his rules if they passed his trials.
• Wang Jinlu completed Mr. Bear's difficult papers with full marks, while Wang Youyue and Wang Youxuan synchronized their answers with hers, allowing all three to pass the first trial.
• Wang Youyue accepted Mr. Bear's challenge to fight him at Fourth-Rank strength, and the siblings used their innate abilities together to battle the bear before the gathered students.
• Langya Sacred Venerable and Tianjue Sacred Venerable watched the fight and each resolved to take one of the children as a disciple, leaving Wang Anye startled by their eagerness.

Wang Youyue, Wang Jinlu, and Wang Youxuan caused a commotion at the Clan School, defeated Mr. Bear in a fight, and then failed his final strategy test. Wang Shouzhe summoned them to his courtyard, where they complained that Mr. Bear had bullied them and he promised to dock Mr. Bear’s stipend.

• Wang Anye scolded Wang Ningyi and Wang Ningyao over the children’s disruption, prompting them to drag Wang Fugui into a call; Wang Fugui then reprimanded Wang Baosheng.
• Yun Mubing and Wang Zongzhu tested the Taiyi Golden Lightning Cannon, and Wang Zongzhu received a recording of the three children fighting Mr. Bear.
• Wang Youyue, Wang Jinlu, and Wang Youxuan defeated Mr. Bear in combat, then lost his Divine Martial Glory strategy test after overlooking the enemy’s Hyperspace Corridor.
• Wang Youyue accepted Mr. Bear’s lesson about careful reconnaissance, but Wang Baosheng arrived ready to punish the children before Yun Yue'er relayed Wang Shouzhe’s summons.
• The three children met Wang Shouzhe in his courtyard, flew into his embrace, and complained about Mr. Bear; Wang Shouzhe soothed them and threatened to dock Mr. Bear’s stipend.

Wang Shouzhe supported the three young Wang Clan children as they proposed a reality-simulation game, then learned from Sacred Venerables Langya and Tianjue that the Divine Martial World may once have been concealed by a Heaven-and-Earth Isolation Array. He accepted their theory that the world had been an Immortal Alliance strategic outpost and ordered Wang Baosheng to turn that account into a film, leaving the theory poised to shape the people’s understanding of their history.

• Wang Youyue proposed a reality-simulation game for living, learning, working, and waging war, and Wang Shouzhe persuaded Wang Baosheng to let the children pursue the idea while still attending school.
• Sacred Venerables Langya and Tianjue praised the Divine Martial World and described its hidden spatial tunnel and traces of a Heaven-and-Earth Isolation Array.
• Langya explained that the rare array could conceal an entire world, and Tianjue suggested the Immortal Alliance may have hidden the Divine Martial World as a strategic base behind enemy lines.
• Wang Shouzhe concluded that the world’s people were likely descendants of Immortal Alliance warriors and Sacred Domain pioneers who had lost contact with their allies.
• Wang Shouzhe ordered Wang Baosheng to commission a historical film about the ancestors’ sacrifices and to present the current Void-expansion campaign as reclaiming their heritage.

Wang Shouzhe secured the Saint Venerables Langya and Tianjue as prospective mantle masters for Wang Jinlu and Wang Youxuan, then commissioned an enormous outer-void defense system for the Divine Martial World. Meanwhile, Chen Xiuwu helped Tantai Yingda and entertained Wang Youyue, Jinlu, and Youxuan, until Jinlu recognized Yingda’s damaged battle-armor core as a fifteenth-rank component.

• Wang Shouzhe agreed that Langya and Tianjue could teach Jinlu and Youxuan and let the children choose their masters after they turned eighteen.
• Wang Shouzhe asked Langya to inspect the Heaven-and-Earth Isolation Array and gave both Saint Venerables plans for a costly defensive array designed to threaten Dao Lord-class foes.
• Wang Shouzhe received the miniature ninth-rank Spirit Vein, while the Saint Venerables began refining the Divine Martial World’s defensive array plans.
• Chen Xiuwu welcomed Tantai Yingda, who thanked him for protecting the Tantai Clan and asked to borrow money to buy a small Void Ferry.
• Youyue, Jinlu, and Youxuan asked Chen Xiuwu for the company’s Void navigation charts and data to help design a holographic game, and he agreed.
• Chen Xiuwu gave Jinlu Yingda’s damaged battle-armor core, and Jinlu identified it as a fifteenth-rank component, prompting Chen Xiuwu to demand where Yingda had found it.

The Wang Clan learned that the damaged Crystal Ancient Battle Armor core held the remnant souls of the Nine Suns Alchemy Saint and Jing Beidi, who revealed that the Crystal Ancient Clan had faced a mysterious Great Cataclysm. After an expedition recovered the Nine Suns Alchemy Saint’s lost treasures, the Azureflame Sacred Fire chose to follow Wang Shouzhe, while agreeing to help Wang Shouye with alchemy.

• Tantai Yingda gave Chen Xiuwu the damaged battle armor core and the coordinates where he found it, and Chen Xiuwu compensated him with one Chaos Spirit Stone.
• Jing Feifei awakened the remnant souls of the Nine Suns Alchemy Saint and Jing Beidi inside the core, and the family learned they had fought each other before hiding there for a million years.
• Jing Beidi said the Crystal Ancient Clan had attacked the Immortal Alliance to prepare for the Great Cataclysm, though he did not know what it was.
• Wang Shouzhe invited the Nine Suns Alchemy Saint to stay and teach Wang Shouye, while Jing Feifei agreed to give Jing Beidi a thirteenth-tier puppet body.
• The Primordial Dao Lord, Wang Anye, Wang Baofu, and Wang Baocai recovered the Azureflame Sacred Fire and the Nine Suns Alchemy Saint’s lost treasures during their expedition.
• The Azureflame Sacred Fire bonded with Wang Shouzhe and agreed to help Wang Shouye refine pills when needed.

Wang Shouzhe distributed the treasures from the expedition, helped Wang Shouye inherit the Nine Suns Sacred Diagram, and arranged support for Ying Lingzhu’s cultivation. He then entered the Azure Emperor Minor Grotto-Heaven, where ninth-grade Spirit Fields had matured, and planted a Dao Origin Fruit pit.

• Wang Shouzhe placed the sacred pills and spiritual medicines in the family treasury, gave Wang Anye the Nanhai Storage Ring, assigned Wang Shouye the Nine Suns Sacred Diagram, and handed the damaged Crystal Ancient Battle Armor to Jing Feifei to dismantle.
• Wang Shouzhe gave Hongzhen ten Chaos Spirit Stones as payment, and Hongzhen accepted after discussing how Wang Lingzhu’s future cultivation costs would be shared.
• Wang Shouye inherited the Nine Suns Sacred Diagram, raised his bloodline to a Twelfth-Level Flawless Immortal Body, and began refining eleventh-grade Manifest Saint Pills with Hongzhen and the Nine Suns Alchemy Saint arguing over his technique.
• The Azure Emperor Minor Grotto-Heaven’s Artifact Spirit informed Wang Shouzhe that its ninth-grade Spirit Fields were ready for use.
• Wang Shouzhe entered the Minor Grotto-Heaven and planted a Dao Origin Fruit pit in the ninth-grade Spirit Fields, then had Green Little Yi stimulate its growth.

Wang Zongkun returned to the Wang Clan with the Sacred Kun Clan after discovering he was its missing Young Clan Leader. Sacred Xun Kun explained to Wang Shouzhe that Zongkun’s disappearance had left the clan without a Sixteenth Rank leader and the Primordial Dao Lord without a Kun.

• Wang Anping arranged the arrival of Wang Zongkun and the Sacred Kun Clan, then informed Wang Zongan that the guests had landed.
• Wang Zongan greeted the Sacred Kun Clan and warned Zongkun to behave before meeting Wang Shouzhe.
• Zongkun slipped away with Jade Kun, Jade Ray, Stone Whale, and his brothers to sing karaoke and trade stories.
• After several days, Sacred Xun Kun told Wang Shouzhe that the Sacred Kun Clan had long paired its young clan leader with a Dao Child as the Dao Lord’s accompanying Kun.
• Sacred Xun Kun explained that Zongkun’s egg had disappeared over a hundred thousand years earlier, leaving the clan without a Sixteenth Rank leader and the Primordial Dao Lord without a Kun.

Saint Xian Kun asked Wang Shouzhe to help Wang Zong Kun gain the Dao Lord’s favor, but Wang Shouzhe proposed that the Sacred Kun Clan leave the Primordial Dao Palace’s patronage and join the Wang Clan instead. He left the clan elders eager to reclaim Zong Kun’s Sacred Kun Orb and pursue his potential to become a Divine Kun, while the Primordial Dao Lord protested the plan.

• Saint Xian Kun described the Sacred Kun Clan’s declining numbers and asked Wang Shouzhe to help Zong Kun become the next Dao Lord’s mount.
• Wang Shouzhe summoned the Primordial Dao Lord, Wang Baosheng, and Ying Lingzhu, then revealed that Zhang Yunxiao had stolen from the Dao Palace and that Wang Baosheng was his reincarnation.
• The Primordial Dao Lord confronted Wang Baosheng over the theft and his lost kun, but Ying Lingzhu defended her husband and Wang Shouzhe steered the discussion toward resolving the old dispute.
• Wang Shouzhe argued that the Dao Palace had neglected the Sacred Kun Clan and offered to support the kun in the Wang Clan’s lands by establishing a fish-herding company.
• Wang Shouzhe suggested Zong Kun could inherit his father’s Sixteenth-Rank Sacred Kun Orb and eventually gain the potential to become a Divine Kun, prompting the kun elders to turn expectantly toward the Primordial Dao Lord.