Chapter Summaries

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.

Wang Shouzhe secured a partnership with the Sacred Kun Clan and put Wang Zong'an in charge of developing Sky Lake, while Wang Zongkun was assigned to learn estate affairs. In Frostsky City, Wang Lici’s growing fame drew the returning Frostsky Queen into a contest, and Lici offered to introduce her to Wang Shouzhe.

• The Sacred Kun Clan agreed to cooperate with the Wang Clan, and Dao Lord Hongzhen promised to return the Sacred Kun Pearl to them.
• Wang Shouzhe arranged for Wang Zongkun to inherit the pearl and assist Ying Lingzhu, then assigned Wang Zong'an to coordinate the Sky Lake development plan and ordered Wang Zongkun to learn how to handle affairs.
• Wang Yingxuan and Wang Lici’s forces sold food and supplies in Frostsky City, where Abagai Bronze secretly struggled to recover his strength while being watched and trained by Wang Lici.
• Agula Bronze praised Wang Lici as his goddess, but Wang Lici called Abagai onto the arena for another courage-building session.
• The Frostsky Queen returned to the city, challenged Wang Lici, and agreed to meet Wang Shouzhe if he could defeat her.
• Wang Lici’s offer made Wang Shouzhe sneeze at home, unaware that the Frostsky Queen had taken an interest in him.

Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan visited the Frostsky Queen, where a feast and a proposal to ally against the Devil Race brought the Giant Tribe Alliance to a decision point. Wang Lici exposed the World-Destroying remnant soul hiding inside Abagai Bronze, and the Frostsky Queen agreed to hold it down while Lici ate it.

• Wang Lici sparred with the Frostsky Queen and lost, then joined her for a feast celebrating a successful hunt and the distribution of meat to the giants.
• Wang Yingxuan urged the Frostsky Queen to ally with the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty and attack the World-Destroying Devil Tribe, but the Queen hesitated over the risk of provoking the Devil Race.
• Wang Lici seized Abagai Bronze and asked the Frostsky Queen to inspect his soul, revealing that the World-Destroying remnant soul had been possessing him.
• Wang Lici explained how she had discovered the remnant soul and asked to devour it, while the Frostsky Queen agreed to restrain it for her.

Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan interrogated the World-Ending Old Devil and learned that the Devil Race’s Supreme Zhi might intervene after the Grand Commander’s defeat. Queen Tian Shuang produced a soul-controlling artifact, and the women prepared to bind the devil rather than release or eat him.

• The World-Ending Old Devil explained that Aba Gai had already been killed by a Void Beast before he possessed his body, and Queen Tian Shuang punished him after he admitted he had planned to conquer her.
• The World-Ending Old Devil warned Wang Lici, Wang Yingxuan, and Queen Tian Shuang that rival Grand Commanders could invade the World-Ending Devil Domain and that Supreme Zhi might send forces against the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty.
• The World-Ending Old Devil revealed that Supreme Zhi was powerful but could not easily leave a forbidden ground, and Wang Yingxuan concluded that the Devil Race’s Grand Commanders often acted independently.
• The World-Ending Old Devil described a terrifying entity in the Ruin Domain that had killed a Grand Commander, prompting Wang Yingxuan to urge a warning to Divine Emperor Cangping and her grandfather.
• Queen Tian Shuang returned with the Grand Nether Spirit-Control Lock, whose artifact spirit explained that it could lock a victim’s true spirit; Wang Yingxuan asked Wang Lici to refine it and control the World-Ending Old Devil.
• Wang Lici proposed recording humiliating videos of the World-Ending Old Devil to use as leverage, leaving him horrified by the threat.

Blood Dove and Purple Charm’s factions awaited reinforcements, but Supreme Zhi’s generals took command and ordered a counteroffensive against the Eastern Dawn Divine Dynasty. Meanwhile, Wang Fugui and Wang Baosheng neared Luo Capital for a meeting with the families of Baosheng’s three wives, both worried about the reception awaiting them.

• Terror Commander-in-Chief and Fallen Commander-in-Chief arrived to claim half of the World-Destroying remnants’ territory and troops, while refusing to prioritize revenge for World-Destroying.
• The Queen of Pain and Tyrant Lord arrived with Supreme Zhi’s authority, forcing Terror and Fallen to join Tyrant Lord’s planned counteroffensive against the human race.
• Wang Baosheng worried that his wives’ families would blame him for his marriages, while Wang Fugui warned that he would bear the elders’ anger as Baosheng’s representative.
• Wang Fugui recalled that Divine Emperor Cangping had adopted Jing Feifei as his daughter and named her Princess Feifei before the families gathered in Luo Capital.
• Wang Fugui and Wang Baosheng traveled toward Luo Capital, where the families of all three wives were due to meet them.

Divine Emperor Cangping learned that Wang Baosheng was coming to Luo Capital to receive Princess Feifei and decided to make the young man prove himself. Finding no suitable challenger, he summoned Xuanyuan Haozhe and ordered him to confront Wang Baosheng, leaving Haozhe facing a daunting task.

• Divine Emperor Cangping praised Princess Feifei and reflected on the Shenwu Wang Clan before learning that Wang Baosheng’s Void Ferry was nearing Luo Capital.
• Cangping complained that Wang Baosheng had come too soon to take Feifei and resolved to teach him a lesson, but Eunuch Old Tan pointed out that no young man in Luo Capital could match him.
• Cangping remembered that Xuanyuan Haozhe had been confined for ten years and ordered Old Tan to release him and bring him to the palace.
• Cangping berated Haozhe for neglecting cultivation and compared him unfavorably with Wang Baosheng.
• Old Tan explained that Cangping wanted Haozhe to challenge Wang Baosheng, and Cangping promised to make him an imperial prince and help him find a Dao Tome if he succeeded.
• Haozhe protested that he had only reached the third level of the Void Ascension Realm, but Cangping ordered him to complete the task or remain confined until he reached the True Immortal Realm.