Recaps

Wang Yinxuan used his newly awakened Comeback System to pressure Wang Youyue into cultivating by promising him a rare game reward for completing tasks. A month later, the system had produced a superior first-grade spirit rice seed, though Wang Shouzhe noted the Wang Clan already owned many better ones and told Wang Yinxuan to keep using the system to motivate his father.

• Wang Yinxuan questioned the Comeback System’s modest rewards and learned that completing tasks for his father could eventually yield a thirteenth-grade divine medicine.
• Wang Yinxuan watched Wang Songyi support his father, then returned home and found Wang Youyue and Princess Linglong gaming instead of setting a better example for their son.
• At dinner, Wang Yinxuan revealed his system and used a limited-edition White Tiger divine beast cub to persuade Wang Youyue to complete its cultivation tasks.
• Wang Youyue cultivated for three days before trying to sneak away to play, but the Bloodsea Demon Emperor caught him and brought him back.
• After a month, Wang Yinxuan presented Wang Shouzhe with the system’s superior first-grade spirit rice seed, and Wang Shouzhe told him to keep using the system to encourage Wang Youyue to cultivate.

Young Master Yunhe discovered that the item he sought was on the wounded Calamity Beast and escaped with Elder Tianchen and Elder Zhantian after using Nanming Divine Hall’s golden seal to frighten it off. Meanwhile, Wang Liyao and Wang Longyan explored the Ruin Domain as Wang Shouzhe’s forces secretly advanced to hunt the beast.

• Young Master Yunhe learned that Elder Tianchen and Elder Zhantian had found no trace of the target item, accepted their gathered spirit herbs as compensation, and took the bronze compass they offered.
• The wounded Calamity Beast attacked the group, badly injuring Elder Zhantian and Elder Tianchen before Young Master Yunhe used Nanming Divine Hall’s golden seal to make it retreat.
• Young Master Yunhe confirmed that the compass pointed to the item on the Calamity Beast and proposed recruiting Immortal Alliance remnants to help trap and kill it with a treasure from his master.
• Wang Longyan and Wang Liyao explored the Ruin Domain, reflected on the Sword Emperor Palace’s last stand, and discussed Wang Liyao’s sword-dao ambitions.
• Wang Shouzhe sent the Mystic Azure Divine Ark through the Endless Heavenly Abyss toward the Ruin Domain to support Liu Ruolan’s plan to eliminate the Calamity Beast.

Wang Liyao and Wang Longyan entered the Sword Emperor Palace ruins and displayed the bloodline aptitude and sword talent needed to seek its inheritance. The four Sword Emperor Dao Canons competed for them, while Wang Longyan began studying the Demon Sword Emperor’s sword intent.

• Wang Liyao cut open the spatial rift with her Water Jade Sword Intent, and the Sword Emperor Palace Artifact Spirit confirmed her exceptional cultivation, bloodline, and qualifications.
• Wang Liyao entered the ruins and found four Sword Emperor Dao Canons arguing over which inheritance she should choose.
• Wang Longyan entered the ruins, drew the Demon Sword Emperor’s attention, and began comprehending its sword intent.
• Wang Clan members outside revealed their impressive bloodline grades to the Artifact Spirit, leaving Sacred Venerable Xuanming overwhelmed by their abundance of talent.

Wang Longyan used the Demon Sword Emperor’s sword intent and the Spider Queen’s demonic core to create a prototype of her own Demon Emperor Dao Canon and raise her bloodline to Dao Child Grade A. Wang Liyao chose the Taiwei Sword Emperor lineage, while Wang Youdao gained the Tianhai lineage and other Wang Clan descendants pursued the remaining inheritances.

• The Sword Emperor Palace ruins filled with young talents from across the Divine Martial World, who cleared the plaza and gathered its valuable resources.
• Wang Longyan awakened to the Demon Sword Emperor’s sword intent, shattered the Spider Queen’s demonic core, and forged a prototype Demon Sword Dao Canon from its laws.
• Wang Longyan absorbed the demonic core’s purified origin energy, raising her bloodline aptitude to Dao Child Grade A and leaving the Demon Sword Emperor Artifact Spirit heartbroken that she had chosen her own Dao.
• Wang Liyao considered the four Sword Emperor lineages and chose the Taiwei Sword Emperor Dao, while Wang Longyan encouraged her to pursue her own path in the future.
• Wang Youdao persuaded the Tianhai Artifact Spirit to accept him as its inheritor, and Wang Jinyu and Wang Guiling began seeking inheritances from the Kunlun and Demon Sword lineages.

The Wang Clan and its allies divided Sword Emperor Palace’s inheritances and recovered what resources they could before returning from the relic. On the way, Wang Guiling reunited with the Demonic Sword Emperor Artifact Spirit, who had found the supposedly unconscious Young Master Yunhe and proposed stripping his valuables to fund repairs for the Demon-Slaying Dao Sword.

• Wang Guiling and Wang Jinyu persuaded the Demonic Sword and Kunlun Sword Emperor Artifact Spirits to pass their Dao lineages to them, completing the selection of successors for all four lineages.
• Wang Liyao and Wang Longyan organized a Sacred Diagram contest, and Wang Yincao, Wang Junzhuo, Wang Huanliang, and other candidates obtained inheritances, with twenty-seven of the thirty-nine diagrams going to Wang Clan youths.
• The group held further inheritance competitions, returned from the first stage of the relic expedition, and found that war had depleted many resources and damaged most of Sword Emperor Palace’s ferries.
• Wang Guiling and the Demonic Sword Emperor Artifact Spirit argued over the cost of repairing the Demon-Slaying Dao Sword, separated, then reconciled in the Void Sea.
• The Demonic Sword Emperor Artifact Spirit led Wang Guiling to Young Master Yunhe, who was faking unconsciousness to infiltrate a passing fleet, and proposed stripping his valuable clothes to pay for repairs.

Wang Guiling captured Yan Yunhe, the young lord of the Nanming Divine Hall, and brought him aboard the Taiwei Dao Ark while both sides concealed their intentions. After the Wang Clan learned who he was and why he had entered the Ruin Domain, the leaders on the Xuanqing Divine Ark debated who should impersonate a Primordial Unity Realm ancestor to meet him.

• Wang Guiling bound and interrogated Yan Yunhe, who claimed he had fled a Calamity Beast after two Primordial Unity Realm elders sacrificed themselves to protect him.
• Yan Yunhe revealed that he was the young lord of the Nanming Divine Hall and offered to repay Wang Guiling for saving him, while she took his Divine Silkworm treasure garment.
• Wang Guiling brought Yan Yunhe aboard the Taiwei Dao Ark and introduced him to Sacred Venerable Xuanming, who agreed to escort him to meet the clan's supposed Primordial Unity Realm ancestor.
• The Wang Clan's intelligence about Yan Yunhe reached the Xuanqing Divine Ark through the Endless Heavenly Abyss communications network.
• The Beginning Divine Emperor and Bliss Divine Emperor discussed Yan Yunhe's intentions, and the Primordial Dao Lord recommended that Dao Lord Tianyan impersonate the Wang Clan ancestor.

Wang Shouzhe watched Wang Yinxuan receive a system reward and bantered with the clan’s young generation before learning that the Wang Clan had made major gains in the Ruin Domain. Seeing a chance to reach the Immortal Realm, he turned his attention to Young Master Yunhe, who was secretly trying to recruit the disguised Tianyan Dao Master and Wang Guiling for his own purposes.

• Wang Yinxuan claimed a system reward and received breeding earth spirit pheasants, which Wang Shouzhe sent to the farm for assessment.
• Wang Songyi confronted Wang Yinxuan about neglecting his studies and dragged him away to practice the Crystal Ancient Clan's spiritual secret technique with Princess Feifei.
• A shadow reported that Ancestor Longyan had comprehended the embryonic form of a Dao lineage and that the Wang Clan had acquired the Sword Emperor Palace's four Dao scriptures and twenty-seven Sacred Diagram inheritances.
• Wang Shouzhe concluded that the clan needed a wider world for its many talented young members and saw Young Master Yunhe as a possible route to the Immortal Realm.
• The disguised Tianyan Dao Master met Young Master Yunhe, who asked him to gather Dao Master-level experts to open a path back to the Immortal Realm and offered to take Wang Guiling as a follower.

Young Master Yunhe gathered the Sacred Domain’s Dao Lords and spent his resources and trump cards to lead them in killing the Calamity Beast. When the beast’s divine soul fled, Wang Fugui and Liu Ruolan revealed that they had been following events aboard the Azure-Black Divine Ark, and Liu Ruolan attacked Young Master Yunhe.

• Young Master Yunhe complained that Ancestor Tianyan had delayed assembling the Sacred Domain’s cultivators while draining his resources through frequent visits.
• Wang Fugui welcomed Young Master Yunhe and introduced twelve powerful leaders, but their feuds and demands forced Yunhe to pay them and sign promissory notes for their aid.
• Young Master Yunhe organized an ambush for the injured Calamity Beast, but the Dao Lords scattered when it broke their formation and repeatedly forced him to use his trump cards to rescue them.
• Young Master Yunhe used the Nanming Divine Temple’s Steward’s Golden Seal to gravely wound the Calamity Beast, and the gathered Dao Lords finished it off as its divine soul escaped.
• Young Master Yunhe pursued the fleeing divine soul in his Taixu Shuttle and discovered Wang Fugui, Liu Ruolan, and the others aboard the Azure-Black Divine Ark.
• Wang Fugui sent Divine Emperor Shitian after the divine soul and its mysterious treasure, while Liu Ruolan teleported out and slashed at Young Master Yunhe.

Liu Ruolan held off Young Master Yunhe while the Sacred Domain’s hidden forces captured him and recovered the Calamity Beast’s remains and Ji Daoyi’s damaged soul. Wang Fugui told Yunhe that Ancestor Shouzhe wanted to meet him, while Ying Yuan arrived in Xinping Town with his daughter, determined to have her defeat Wang Jinna.

• Liu Ruolan fought Young Master Yunhe to a standstill, using the Primordial Dao Water to counter his Southern Bright Dao Flame while the Divine Emperor of Beginning Heaven pursued the Calamity Beast’s fleeing soul.
• The Divine Emperor of Beginning Heaven captured the intertwined, fragmented souls of Ji Daoyi and the Calamity Beast along with a mysterious command tablet fragment, then returned to the battle.
• Young Master Yunhe surrendered when he saw the Sacred Domain’s powerful experts surround him, and they confiscated his weapons and belongings and placed restrictions on him.
• The Sacred Domain’s forces captured Elder Tianchen and Elder Zhantian and collected the Calamity Beast’s scattered remains and blood.
• Wang Fugui met the captive Yan Yunhe and told him that Ancestor Shouzhe wanted to see him.
• Ying Yuan arrived in Xinping Town with his daughter, the reincarnation of Ancestor Luo He, and urged her to claim first place on the Divine Ability Rankings by defeating Wang Jinna.

Wang Yinxuan’s matchmaking scheme and Wang Songyi’s worries about his clan debt led him to arrange a Divine Ability Rankings duel with Wang Jinna. As Wang Songyi and Wang Jinna faced off before a huge crowd, Wang Fugui’s guests sensed their extraordinary power from a nearby carriage.

• Wang Yinxuan tried to set Wang Songyi up with wealthy older women, prompting Wang Songyi to complain that he was struggling to repay the clan for his Dao Origin Pill.
• Wang Shanqing suggested Wang Songyi challenge Wang Jinna for the top spot on the Divine Ability Rankings, and Wang Yinxuan provoked Wang Jinna into accepting a fight three days later.
• The duel drew a massive crowd and heavy wagers, with Wang Songyi waiting in the arena before Wang Jinna arrived on an ice-element true dragon.
• Wang Fugui showed the restrained Yan Yunhe and his guards around Changning Guard while they sensed the immense auras rising from the arena.

Wang Songyi defeated Wang Jinna to claim the top spot on the Divine Ability Rankings, shocking Young Master Yunhe with the Wang Clan’s extraordinary talents. After Wang Shouzhe promised to help Wang Jinna improve her aptitude later, Wang Fugui brought Young Master Yunhe and other Immortal Realm visitors to meet him, and Yunhe sensed a divine majesty that made him suspect Shouzhe was a Divine Son.

• Wang Jinna awakened her ancient Ice Dragon power and initially overwhelmed Wang Songyi, while Young Master Yunhe explained the rarity of Dao Child-level aptitude in the Immortal Realm.
• Wang Songyi revealed his starry aura and defeated Wang Jinna, taking the top place on the Divine Ability Rankings and astonishing Young Master Yunhe.
• Wang Jinna complained to Wang Shouzhe that Songyi had concealed his strength, and Shouzhe explained that Songyi had advanced to innate Dao Child Grade B with a Dao Origin Pill.
• Wang Shouzhe told Wang Jinna to wait until he could safely help her take a Dao Origin Pill, then received word that Wang Fugui had arrived with Young Master Yunhe and other visitors.
• Young Master Yunhe met Wang Shouzhe and sensed the same divine majesty he had felt from the Imperial Sovereign, leaving him to wonder whether Shouzhe was a Divine Son.

Wang Shouzhe examined the token fragment from the Calamity Beast, and Wang Youyue recognized it as part of the World-Control Token and revealed that he was Immortal Emperor Wuyue’s reincarnation. Elder Tianchen offered Wang Youyue his Dao Scripture and became his master, while months later Elder Zhantian also accepted Wang Anye as a disciple, leaving Young Master Yunhe feeling abandoned by both elders.

• Wang Shouzhe inspected the token fragment and summoned Wang Youyue, who identified it as a fragment of the World-Control Token and revealed his former identity as Immortal Emperor Wuyue.
• Wang Shouzhe told the visitors that Wang Youyue had fought Supreme You, then Wang Fugui asked Youyue about the missing half of the token; Youyue could not remember where he had hidden it.
• Elder Tianchen offered Wang Youyue his Tianchen Dao Scripture, and Wang Youyue accepted him as his master.
• Wang Shouzhe arranged for Young Master Yunhe to stay in Changning Guard under surveillance, while the restrictions on his cultivation remained in place.
• Months later, Elder Zhantian introduced his new disciple, Wang Anye, to Young Master Yunhe, who was shocked that Zhantian had also joined the Wang Clan through a master-disciple bond.

Yan Yunhe lost his chance to become Elder Zhantian’s disciple and was forced by Wang Guiling to take on a debt after she sold his stolen Divine Silkworm Treasure Robe back to him. Meanwhile, Wang Lici learned about the approaching Zhuanxu Divine Palace and hurried to notify her family, though it would not open for another one or two thousand years at the earliest.

• Young Master Yunhe watched Elder Zhantian take Wang Anye as his disciple and promise to bring him back to compete for the quasi-divine son position.
• Wang Guiling and Wang Guihu discussed selling Yan Yunhe’s Divine Silkworm Treasure Robe, prompting Yan Yunhe to confront them and ask for it back.
• Wang Guiling sold Yan Yunhe his robe for three hundred Chaos Spirit Stones, made him sign a promissory note, and ordered him to work off the debt.
• At the Martial Peak Divine Palace, the Qingli Goddess told Wang Lici about the Divine Prodigy Rankings and the Zhuanxu Divine Palace, which would approach in roughly one or two thousand years.
• Wang Lici urged the Qingli Goddess to help her notify her family so they could prepare for the Zhuanxu Divine Palace’s opening.

Wang Lici swallowed a Creation Divine Pill and awakened her bloodline to the middle stage of Divine Child Grade D, prompting Immortal Emperor Ziwei to ask to become her master. Meanwhile, the Wang Clan developed the Ruin Domain, and Wang Shouzhe advanced to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm before Liu Ruolan pulled him away to celebrate.

• The Qingli Goddess told Wang Lici that reaching the Immortal Alliance would require finding and repairing a teleportation array in the Devil Race-controlled ruins of the Wuji Divine Palace.
• The Qingli Goddess gave Wang Lici a Creation Divine Pill, which Wang Lici swallowed at once despite being only in the True Immortal Realm.
• The Immortal Emperor Ziwei tried to stabilize Wang Lici, discovered that her bloodline had rapidly advanced to the middle stage of Divine Child Grade D, and asked whether she would accept another master.
• Wang Shouzhe delayed using the Gate of the Immortal Realm while the Wang Clan explored the Ruin Domain, planned defenses and repairs, and searched for the Crystal Source Heart.
• In the autumn of Yong'an Year 2205, Wang Shouzhe passed the Great Yi Golden Lightning tribulation, advanced to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, and reached the fifteenth level of the Primordial Dao Body.
• Liu Ruolan teleported Wang Shouzhe into the Azure Emperor minor grotto-heaven and insisted on celebrating his advancement with him.

Wang Lixuan won the competition to establish trade in the Great Horn Domain by using recorded dramas to secure an alliance and expand the Wang Clan’s business. Meanwhile, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Longyan arrived at the ruins of Wuji City in the Immortal Realm, where they discovered a hidden woman and moved to capture her.

• Wang Lixuan won Jade Horn Holy King’s cooperation with localized dramas, signed trade and mutual-defense agreements, and promised to include Great Horns’ fair duels in future content.
• Wang Lixuan expanded Wang Clan exports across the Great Horn race, while Wang Lilong and Wang Lixian’s avatar conceded defeat and vowed to win their next competition.
• Wang Shouzhe and Wang Longyan arrived at the ruins of Wuji City with three others, and Wang Shouzhe used Demon-Devouring Spirit-Transforming Vines to absorb the surrounding demonic baleful aura.
• Wang Longyan questioned Wang Shouzhe about avoiding Ruolan, and he insisted he had come to scout the Immortal Realm and search for Lici.
• Wang Longyan sensed a hidden woman and attacked her with a sword, while Wang Shouzhe’s vines surged up to seize her as she fled.

Wang Shouzhe’s group confronted Goddess Xinglan and Elder Purple Frost after discovering them secretly observing their arrival in the Immortal Realm. The Wang Clan’s fighters overpowered them, and Shouzhe demanded their surrender while insisting the clash might be a misunderstanding.

• Elder Purple Frost arrived to protect Goddess Xinglan, but Wang Shouzhe ordered Elder Zhantian to hold her back.
• Ancestor Longyan intercepted Goddess Xinglan, and Wang Anye joined the fight, turning the tide against her.
• Wang Shouzhe sent Wang Yinhu to help Elder Zhantian, forcing Elder Purple Frost into a desperate defense.
• Shouzhe explained that both sides had reasonable grounds to resist, and Goddess Xinglan and Elder Purple Frost withdrew the hidden cards they had prepared.
• Shouzhe demanded that the two women surrender and threatened their concern for each other, prompting Ancestor Longyan to wonder if he was running wild again.

Wang Shouzhe captured Goddess Xinglan and questioned her about her schemes involving Yan Yunhe and the World-Control Token. After revealing his ties to the Limitless Dao Sect and introducing the restored soul of Ji Dao Yi, he joined Goddess Xinglan in planning the Limitless Divine Palace’s revival, beginning with rebuilding Limitless City.

• Goddess Xinglan and Elder Zishuang surrendered, and Wang Shouzhe’s companions restrained them with special shackles.
• Wang Shouzhe questioned Goddess Xinglan in his Portable Cave Abode, and she admitted that she had secretly fed Yan Yunhe information so he would investigate the World-Control Token fragment.
• Wang Shouzhe revealed that his clan descended from the Limitless Dao Sect, and he summoned Ji Dao Yi’s soul from the World-Control Token fragment to confirm their connection.
• Wang Shouzhe explained that the Immortal Alliance had suffered a calamity, and Goddess Xinglan lamented that the Limitless Divine Palace had been unable to help.
• Wang Shouzhe proposed restoring the Limitless Divine Palace by reclaiming its territory, recovering its inheritance, gathering resources, and seeking another Immortal Emperor inheritance.
• Wang Shouzhe declared that rebuilding Limitless City was their most urgent task, and Goddess Xinglan listened with renewed hope.

Wang Shouzhe persuaded the Starveil Goddess to rebuild the Wuji Divine Palace by securing funding and an improved teleportation array, then traveled with her to the Divine Palace. The chapter ended with acting palace master Dao Master Chéngguāng struggling to repay a loan while worrying about the Starveil Goddess's long absence.

• Wang Shouzhe urged the Starveil Goddess to restore the Wuji Divine Palace and explained that they needed money, troops, and a better teleportation array.
• Wang Shouzhe offered to fund an ultra-long-distance transfer array and asked the Wuji Divine Palace to negotiate with the Immortal Formation Alliance.
• The Starveil Goddess brought Elder Zishuang to meet Wang Shouzhe, and they agreed to cooperate and concealed the Immortal Realm Gate.
• Wang Shouzhe, the Starveil Goddess, and their companions traveled aboard the Starveil Dao Boat and the Yunhe Dao Boat toward the Wuji Divine Palace.
• After fifty years, the group reached the Wuji Divine Palace's territory and headed for Xuántian City.
• Dao Master Chéngguāng asked Elder Baohu to extend the Divine Treasure Hall's loan, but Elder Baohu said the hall needed to recover it, leaving Chéngguāng worried about the Palace's finances and the Starveil Goddess's absence.

Dao Master Chenguanging struggled to repay the Limitless Divine Palace’s debts as Ancestor Jiyan offered to clear them in exchange for Xinglan marrying Mingzhe and strengthening his bid to inherit the Nanming Immortal Emperor’s legacy. Xinglan refused the match, and after learning her master might risk his life on the battlefield to raise money, she claimed she had another way to resolve the crisis.

• Elder Treasure Gourd warned Dao Master Chenguanging that Divine Treasure Hall could auction the three ninth-grade Spirit Veins pledged as collateral if the Limitless Divine Palace failed to repay its loan.
• Dao Master Chenguanging scraped together only several hundred Chaos Spirit Stones before Ancestor Jiyan arrived with Mingzhe and proposed that Xinglan marry him in exchange for help settling the Palace’s debts.
• Ancestor Jiyan revealed that the Nanming Immortal Emperor was nearing his fourth tribulation and said Mingzhe’s marriage to Xinglan could strengthen his chances of inheriting the Nanming legacy.
• Dao Master Chenguanging considered Jiyan’s offer but said he needed time to think it over, and Jiyan left with Mingzhe.
• After returning to the Limitless Divine Palace, Xinglan rejected the proposed marriage and argued with Chenguanging over his plan to marry her off to save the Palace.
• When Chenguanging considered seeking dangerous frontline work to earn money, Xinglan stopped him and said she had a way to resolve the crisis.

Wang Shouzhe surveyed Xuantian City's Western Suburbs Market to assess the Immortal Realm's prices, economy, and labor conditions, then concluded that the realm was suffering from soaring prices and severe unemployment. Goddess Xinglan hesitated outside his study, hoping to ask for help with the Wuji Divine Palace's financial crisis, and finally requested an audience.

• Wang Shouzhe asked Divine Palace guard Yao to take him and his companions to the ordinary market, where he questioned a rice manager about Spirit Rice prices and consumers.
• Wang Shouzhe examined pill prices and discovered a labor market crowded with skilled cultivators seeking work at low rates.
• Wang Shouzhe spent several days surveying the market, then recorded his findings and suspected the Wuji Divine Palace's costly inheritance branches and excess personnel had worsened its finances.
• Goddess Xinglan lingered outside Wang Shouzhe's courtyard, uncertain how to ask him for a large loan.
• The Nine-Colored Immortal Deer told Xinglan that Wang Shouzhe had invited her into his study, then bragged about his candy and was flung away by her.
• Goddess Xinglan arrived at Wang Shouzhe's study and requested an audience.

Divine Maiden Xinglan borrowed Wang Shouzhe’s advice and secured a hundred-year trial as Acting Palace Master, wagering that she could reverse the Wuji Divine Palace’s decline. A month into her rule, she shocked Elder Treasure Gourd by offering all twenty-three of the Divine Palace’s remaining ninth-grade Spirit Veins as collateral for 6,900 Chaos Spirit Stones.

• Divine Maiden Xinglan asked Wang Shouzhe for 1,000 Chaos Spirit Stones, and he began forming a plan after questioning her about the Wuji Divine Palace’s finances and assets.
• Divine Maiden Xinglan persuaded Dao Master Chenguang to give her the Wuji Divine Seal and authority to govern the Divine Palace for one hundred years, promising to marry Prospective Divine Son Mingzhe if she failed to turn things around.
• The Wuji Divine Palace’s elders and stewards accepted Xinglan’s appointment, expecting her short term in power to serve as training.
• Goddess Xinglan told Elder Treasure Gourd that she needed money to enact her plans and presented the Divine Palace’s remaining ninth-grade Spirit Vein deeds as collateral.
• Goddess Xinglan announced that she would mortgage all twenty-three remaining ninth-grade Spirit Veins to borrow 6,900 Chaos Spirit Stones, leaving Elder Treasure Gourd stunned.

Divine Maiden Xinglan borrowed heavily against twenty-three Ninth-Grade Spirit Veins and made several grain futures deals with Elder Treasure Gourd, following Wang Shouzhe’s plan to profit if grain prices fell. She then visited Ancestor Jiyan and Divine Son Mingzhe to discuss their alliance and offer them another grain deal, leaving them stunned by its scale.

• Divine Maiden Xinglan mortgaged twenty-three Ninth-Grade Spirit Veins for 6,900 Chaos Spirit Stones and secured another 1,000 by selling a century of Spirit Rice output to Elder Treasure Gourd.
• Xinglan and Elder Treasure Gourd wagered on future grain prices, then signed a second futures contract for massive quantities of Third-Grade and Fourth-Grade Spirit Rice with annual deliveries and payments adjusted to market prices.
• Xinglan visited Ancestor Jiyan and Divine Son Mingzhe at the Nanming Divine Hall branch residence and asked Mingzhe whether he would support the Wuji Divine Palace in reclaiming its lost lands.
• Mingzhe admitted he could not promise support before becoming an Immortal Emperor, and Xinglan agreed that they could first try being friends.
• Xinglan offered Jiyan a discounted sale of futures for one hundred million cang of Third-Grade Spirit Rice and ten million cang of Fourth-Grade Spirit Rice, leaving Jiyan and Mingzhe astonished.

Divine Maiden Xinglan sold Nanming Divine Hall the Wuji Divine Palace’s grain futures for 7,000 Chaos Spirit Stones, then faced elders’ questions about her financial dealings at a high-level meeting. Meanwhile, Wang Shouzhe arranged for Wang Anye to meet the Immortal Formation Alliance, while Anye mistakenly concluded that his great-grandfather was pursuing an “Empress-Raising Plan.”

• Patriarch Jiyan agreed to buy Xinglan’s grain futures with Nanming Divine Hall Spirit Stone notes, completing the deal and giving her more than 10,000 Chaos Spirit Stones in usable funds.
• Elder Baohu spread rumors that Xinglan was squandering the Divine Palace’s assets, prompting its elders to convene a meeting and demand an explanation.
• Xinglan asserted her authority with the Wuji Divine Seal, presented the Divine Palace’s financial figures, and ordered Elder Yigeng to buy metals and ore with 2,000 Chaos Spirit Stones in notes.
• Wang Shouzhe told Wang Anye to visit the Immortal Formation Alliance with Elder Zishuang and Elder Zhantian, explaining that supporting the Boundless Divine Palace would help the Sacred Domain integrate into the Immortal Realm.
• Wang Anye misunderstood Wang Shouzhe’s explanation as confirmation of an “Empress-Raising Plan” and resolved to support his great-grandfather.

Qingli Goddess asserted control over the Wuji Divine Palace’s finances, introduced a Merit System, and arranged grain trials, then traveled with Wang Lici to Haotian City to sell minerals and buy supplies. At the market, Elder Yigeng competed with Elder Qingyu for Qingli’s shipment before Junhao God-Child arrived and invited Qingli and Wang Lici to dinner.

• Qingli Goddess rebuked Star Sword Emperor for criticizing her ore purchase, ordered him to borrow money from former admirers, and cut his stipend when he resisted.
• Qingli Goddess persuaded the elders to support her hundred-year effort, placed the remaining Chaos Spirit Stones in the treasury, and announced a Merit System.
• Qingli Goddess asked Elders Qingmu and Xuange to test third-grade and fourth-grade grain seeds she had learned about from Young Master Shouzhe.
• Qingli Goddess traveled with Wang Lici to Haotian City to sell minerals and buy supplies, while planning to visit the Divine Hero Hall and explore the market.
• At the Haotian Mineral Trading House, Elder Yigeng offered to outbid Elder Qingyu for Qingli’s shipment, but Junhao God-Child arrived and invited Qingli and Wang Lici to dine at Haotian Pavilion.

Qingli Goddess sold Martial Peak Divine Hall’s spirit ore to Elder Yigeng after he offered fifteen percent above the original price, outbidding Junhao God-Child. Junhao still treated Qingli Goddess and Wang Lici to an extravagant three-day feast at Vast Heaven Pavilion, then realized Wang Lici’s appetite had made her an unaffordable little sister.

• Junhao God-Child invited Wang Lici to eat and declared her his little sister, while Qingli Goddess assured her that he was trustworthy despite his habit of recognizing little sisters.
• Junhao God-Child offered ten percent above the original price for Martial Peak Divine Hall’s spirit ore, but Elder Yigeng bid fifteen percent on Goddess Xinglan’s orders.
• Qingli Goddess accepted Elder Yigeng’s higher offer and completed the sale, leaving Junhao God-Child disappointed that she had chosen Xinglan’s deal over his.
• Junhao God-Child took Qingli Goddess and Wang Lici to Vast Heaven Pavilion after Qingli Goddess insisted on keeping their original dining plan and offered to pay.
• Wang Lici and Qingli Goddess ate at Vast Heaven Pavilion for three days and nights, and Junhao God-Child repeatedly ordered more dishes despite the cost.
• Wang Lici praised Junhao God-Child and declared him a brother worth having, while he resolved that he could no longer afford her appetite.