Recaps

Lin Heng gathered valuable rewards by checking in across the Fire Clan's grounds, then sent the Nether Ancestor Puppet to attack the Fire Ghost Clan as part of his revenge. The puppet threatened the clan leader and killed a cultivator who challenged it at the gates.

• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan agreed to take the Nether Ancestor Puppet to a Fire Clan subordinate force and cause trouble under the guise of visiting for tea.
• Lin Heng checked in at locations across the Fire Clan's sect grounds and collected rewards he said would cover the sect's expenses for a hundred years.
• Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and the Nether Ancestor Puppet left for the Fire Ghost Clan, where Lin Heng planned to make the Battle Heaven Pavilion's counterattack public without exposing himself or Sun Yuan.
• The Nether Ancestor Puppet demanded that Mei Chu come out and threatened to destroy the Fire Ghost Clan if she did not appear within ten breaths.
• A male cultivator challenged the puppet over its violation of the Eighth Heaven's unwritten rules, and the puppet revealed its Heavenly Venerable Realm power and crushed him.

Lin Heng sent the Nether Ancestor Puppet to demand the Fire Ghost Clan submit or be destroyed. After the clan leader Mei Chu rejected the ultimatum and Jin Buhuan intervened, Jin Buhuan launched a sword attack, leaving the confrontation poised for the puppet's response.

• The Nether Ancestor Puppet killed a Samsara man, and the blast wounded two Fire Ghost Clan women before more than a hundred powerful men gathered.
• Lin Heng identified Mei Chu as the Fire Ghost Clan's leader and demanded that her clan pledge loyalty or be destroyed.
• Mei Chu invoked the Fire Clan's protection, while Liu Yuan said he did not recognize the attacker as an ascender.
• Lin Heng began counting down, and Jin Buhuan stepped forward to defend Mei Chu and challenge the Nether Ancestor Puppet.
• Jin Buhuan drew his golden sword and thrust it toward the Nether Ancestor Puppet's brow.

The Nether Ancestor Puppet intimidated the Fire Ghost Clan and ordered the Fire Clan’s subordinate factions to submit within three days. Mei Chu met Lin Heng, who demanded she explain her worth to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• The Nether Ancestor Puppet caught Jin Buhuan’s golden longsword barehanded, then dismissed his attempt to call the attack a spar.
• The Nether Ancestor Puppet gave Mei Chu a three-day ultimatum for the Fire Clan’s subordinate factions to submit and arranged a meeting with her through Lin Heng’s voice transmission.
• Mei Chu dismissed the gathered cultivators, gave her disciples instructions, and left to meet Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan discussed Jin Buhuan and the Fire Ghost Clan, and Lin Heng said he would kill Mei Chu if she had no use.
• Mei Chu arrived at Lin Heng and Sun Yuan’s mountain peak, where Lin Heng identified himself as Battle Heaven Pavilion’s master and ordered her to state her worth.

Mei Chu pledged the Fire Ghost Clan’s loyalty to Lin Heng and revealed how the Fire Clan had exploited and oppressed her people for generations. After learning that Lin Heng had killed Yan Lang, the man who had violated her, she broke down in tears, while Lin Heng understood why she had sought his protection.

• Lin Heng reminded Mei Chu of the Fire Clan’s repeated defeats by the Battle Heaven Pavilion, persuading her that his faction could help her people.
• Mei Chu swore loyalty to Lin Heng and asked him to save the Fire Ghost Clan from its suffering.
• Mei Chu explained that the Fire Clan had forced Fire Ghost women to provide cultivation benefits, then slaughtered the clan’s peak experts when they resisted.
• Mei Chu revealed that Yan Lang had violated her when she was a Sixth-Grade Heavenly Venerable, causing her cultivation to fall while his rose.
• Lin Heng told Mei Chu that Yan Lang was dead, and she wept with relief and emotion.

Mei Chu pledged the Fire Ghost Clan’s loyalty to Lin Heng, who rewarded her with treasures and made clear that he wanted a loyal subordinate rather than the clan’s women. Back at the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng and Situ Jiannan prepared a plan to target the Fire Clan’s allies under cover of the Nether Ancestor Puppet’s disruptions, while Mei Chu arrived with what Lin Heng needed and Situ Jiannan asked him to treat her illness.

• Mei Chu offered half the Fire Ghost Clan’s women to Lin Heng, but he said he wanted the clan’s loyalty, not women to aid cultivation.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan disappeared, leaving Mei Chu Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasures and ancient materials; Mei Chu kowtowed in gratitude.
• Lin Heng returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion with Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan inferred that Lin Heng hoped Mei Chu would offer up the Fire Clan’s connections.
• Situ Jiannan arranged to bring ten thousand disciples from the Ninefold Heaven to oversee construction and free three thousand Samsara disciples for Lin Heng’s orders.
• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan that the Nether Ancestor Puppet’s attacks could serve as a pretext for the Battle Heaven Pavilion to target sects allied with the Fire Clan, while concealing its role.
• Mei Chu arrived at the pavilion with what Lin Heng needed, and Situ Jiannan asked Lin Heng to give her a spirit pill to help restore her strength.

Lin Heng realized Situ Jiannan was interested in Mei Chu and encouraged him to pursue her, while ordering Battle Heaven Pavilion forces to protect the Fire Ghost Clan and attack the Fire Clan’s allies. As Situ Jiannan left with a bottle of pills for Mei Chu, Lin Heng prepared to crush the rumors and slander he expected to threaten their relationship.

• Situ Jiannan asked Lin Heng for fifty-million-year-old medicinal herbs for Mei Chu, but Lin Heng angrily refused, and Mei Chu stopped Situ from pressing the request.
• Lin Heng revealed that he had only pretended to be angry and warned Situ not to be too obvious about his feelings for Mei Chu.
• Lin Heng told Situ about Mei Chu’s past, and Situ said he accepted her despite what she had endured.
• Lin Heng ordered Situ to send ten thousand Ninefold Heaven disciples to the Eighth Heaven, with three thousand Samsara disciples guarding the Fire Ghost Clan and the rest of the operation targeting the Fire Clan’s subordinate forces and allies.
• Lin Heng gave Situ a bottle of sixty-million-year-old pills for Mei Chu and resolved to eliminate the rumors and slander that might hinder their relationship.

Lin Heng prepared the Battle Heaven Pavilion for conflict while Sun Yuan entered seclusion to strengthen himself. As Lin Heng began provoking the Eight Great Imperial Clans, a mysterious killer targeted the Fire Clan’s allied sects, until the Fire Clan set a trap for it.

• Lin Heng defended Situ Jiannan and Mei Chu’s relationship, then gave Sun Yuan ancient pills and herbs as Sun Yuan entered seclusion to pursue the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Lin Heng inferred that the Five Ascender Factions wanted to use him to pressure the Eight Great Imperial Clans, but he vowed not to limit his retaliation against the Fire Clan.
• Situ Jiannan began summoning Ninefold Heaven disciples to build the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s grounds, and led three thousand Samsara Realm disciples away the next day.
• Lin Heng visited the sect grounds of the Fire Clan, the other imperial clans, and the ascender factions, alarming the Eight Great Imperial Clans with his repeated visits.
• A mysterious Heavenly Venerable slaughtered more than a dozen Fire Clan-aligned sects in three days, while the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s disciples failed to save them.
• At the Earth Flame Sect, the Nether Ancestor Puppet faced an activated protective formation and was surrounded by more than a hundred Samsara Realm cultivators, including two Heavenly Venerables.

Ao Lie and the Battle Heaven Pavilion attacked the Earth Flame Sect after Lin Heng told them to find an excuse, then used the Nether Ancestor Puppet to draw the Fire Clan into the battle. The puppet fought Yan Fang and the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerables while the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s formations overwhelmed the scattered forces, leaving the Fire Clan and Earth Flame Sect trapped and being slaughtered.

• Yan Fang confronted the Nether Ancestor Puppet outside the Earth Flame Sect, and the sect master led his disciples out as the Battle Heaven Pavilion arrived.
• After Lin Heng told him to find an excuse, Ao Lie claimed the Nether Ancestor Puppet had controlled the Earth Flame Sect and ordered his disciples to attack.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion’s five formations overwhelmed the Earth Flame Sect, and the Nether Ancestor Puppet killed the sect master with a surprise attack.
• As Yan Fang’s Fire Clan members charged in, Ao Lie declared that they too had fallen under the fiend’s influence, while the puppet engaged the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerables.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion scattered the Fire Clan and Earth Flame Sect forces, then blocked their escape as its disciples continued the slaughter.

After the Fire Clan’s defeat at the Earth Flame Sect, Yan Luo tried to enlist the other seven imperial clans against the Battle Heaven Pavilion, but they left him to confront Lin Heng with only a small escort. Lin Heng appeared at the pavilion and turned his power toward Yan Luo.

• Yan Luo asked the seven imperial clans to help him seek justice for the Fire Clan, and they urged him to lead the demand while offering support from behind.
• The seven clans discussed avoiding a direct conflict, then sent most of their disciples away and followed Yan Luo with only a few experts.
• Lin Xiao and Miao Jingkong informed Lin Heng that Yan Luo was approaching the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Lin Heng left to prepare a welcome for the Fire Clan.
• Yan Luo arrived with several dozen Fire Clan members, threatened to raze the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and demanded that Lin Heng explain himself.
• Lin Heng emerged from the pavilion and unleashed a vast surge of energy that locked onto Yan Luo.

Lin Heng and Ao Lie confronted Yan Luo and the other imperial clans over the Earth Flame Sect incident and the deaths of Fire Clan members. Ao Lie defended Battle Heaven Pavilion’s actions, leaving the Fire Clan unable to press its accusation and the other clans preparing to depart.

• Lin Heng restrained Yan Luo with overwhelming Source Power, then released him as members of the seven imperial clans arrived.
• Lin Heng asked whether the clans had come with the Fire Clan, and the Water Race said they were investigating the Earth Flame Sect incident.
• Ao Lie claimed the fiend had controlled Earth Flame Sect cultivators and that Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples had killed them to protect the Eighth Heaven.
• Yan Luo accused Battle Heaven Pavilion of killing Fire Clan members, and Ao Lie admitted it while arguing that they had been controlled by the fiend.
• Ao Lie denied killing the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerable experts and claimed Battle Heaven Pavilion’s arrays had protected its own disciples from the fiend’s demonic art.
• Lin Heng asked whether there was anything else to discuss, and the seven imperial clans prepared to leave after Yan Luo failed to make his case.

Lin Heng stopped Yan Luo from leaving the Battle Heaven Pavilion and negotiated a secret deal for information and the lives of the Fire Clan’s Four Lords and Eight Generals. Yan Luo left after staging an injury, while the other imperial clans departed unaware that the ascender factions had watched the confrontation.

• As the seven great imperial clans prepared to leave, Lin Heng stopped Yan Luo and demanded an explanation for the Fire Clan’s actions.
• Yan Luo apologized and secretly offered to reveal the Fire Clan’s plans against Lin Heng in exchange for being spared.
• Yan Luo offered the lives of the Four Lords and Eight Generals for three ancient spiritual herbs and a million Source Stones, and Lin Heng agreed to pay after Yan Luo delivered one of them.
• Lin Heng struck Yan Luo to make their agreement look like a punishment, and Yan Luo left with the Fire Clan while feigning resentment.
• The other imperial clans departed, unaware that the five ascender factions had watched the confrontation through mystic light mirrors.

Yan Luo secretly visited Lin Heng, gave him intelligence about the Fire Clan, and warned that an envoy had descended from the upper realm. After Yan Luo left, Lin Heng found an item in his storage ring and prepared a gift for the Fire Clan.

• Lin Heng gave Yan Luo thirty-million-year-old spirit pills, and Yan Luo traded him a jade slip detailing the Fire Clan's Four Lords and Eight Generals.
• Yan Luo told Lin Heng that powerful Fire Clan experts, including one of the Four Lords and Eight Generals, would soon descend to take over the Eighth Heaven.
• Yan Luo offered to uncover the Fire Clan's plans against Lin Heng and suggested using Yan Jian's illegitimate son as bait to lure Yan Jian down.
• Yan Luo said the Fire Clan had abandoned plans to strike back directly after people from the Firmament Hall visited them.
• Yan Luo received word that an upper-realm envoy had arrived and hurried away, warning Lin Heng to prepare.
• Lin Heng searched his storage ring, found an item, and resolved to present it as a gift to the Fire Clan.

Lin Heng prepared the Battle Heaven Pavilion for a Fire Clan assault by activating the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation and rallying its disciples. The attack began with a blazing strike that the formation repelled, and dozens of figures appeared overhead, with Yan Luo among them.

• Lin Heng used the Origin of Water and the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples' Source Power to prepare the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation after Yan Luo warned him that the Fire Clan was coming.
• Lin Heng ordered Ao Lie to place the disciples in the formation and explained that the Four Lords had sealed the area, preventing outside help and communication.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion's disciples took their positions, and Lin Heng strengthened the formation's core with the Origin of Water.
• A huge fire descended on the sect, but the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation rose and pushed back the flames.
• Lin Heng unleashed Heavenly Flow Undercurrent Surge to reinforce the formation, and dozens of figures appeared overhead, including Yan Luo at the back.

Lin Heng faced a powerful Fire Clan force led by the clones of Primordial generals Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming, who attacked the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation. When the formation proved genuine and held firm, the generals suspected the Water Race had aided Lin Heng and wondered how he had learned of their surprise attack.

• Lin Heng assessed the Fire Clan force and concluded that Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming were good and evil clones rather than the generals’ originals.
• Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming taunted Lin Heng, but he refused to back down and challenged them to attack the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Yan Juetian ordered Yan Ye and four Eighth-Grade Heavenly Venerables to test the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation.
• The five joined their attacks into a flaming tiger, but its strike only made the formation tremble briefly before it stabilized.
• Yan Juetian recognized the formation as a genuine Water Race inheritance, while Yan Xuanming questioned how Lin Heng had prepared for their secret attack; Yan Luo trembled at the possibility of a Fire Clan spy.

Yan Juetian used the Flame Dragon Break to destroy the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation protecting Battle Heaven Pavilion. Lin Heng stopped the resulting firestorm and confronted Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming, revealing that he controlled all eight Powers of Origin.

• Yan Juetian suspected a traitor in the Fire Clan, but Yan Xuanming suggested other clans might have helped Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Yan Juetian ordered the attack to continue.
• Yan Ye and the other attackers joined dozens of Heavenly Venerables in striking the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation, but the formation withstood their combined assault.
• Yan Juetian unleashed Flame Dragon Break, shattering the formation with the dragon's head and tail.
• Lin Heng extinguished the Origin of Fire storm with the Origin of Water, though the effort consumed forty percent of his Source Power.
• Lin Heng rose to face Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming with the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear, and the two Venerables recognized that he wielded all eight Powers of Origin.

As the Fire Clan surrounded the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng touched the threshold of the Primordial Realm through the disciples’ hopes, prompting Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming to attack him together. Their hidden good selves stabbed Lin Heng, but as he fell, his bloodline began healing him and dragon and tiger roars sounded from within him.

• Yan Xuanming ordered the Fire Clan experts to surround the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Ao Lie and the disciples vowed to stand with Lin Heng.
• The disciples’ determination helped Lin Heng gain an initial insight into the Primordial Realm, alarming Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming.
• Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming attacked Lin Heng, and he summoned eight origin-formed venerables to defend himself.
• The two Fire Clan experts unleashed their strongest abilities and burned away Lin Heng’s eight venerables.
• Yan Juetian’s and Yan Xuanming’s hidden good selves emerged and stabbed Lin Heng, revealing that four Primordial Realm experts had come to kill him.
• As Lin Heng fell, his bloodline began healing his injuries, and dragon and tiger roars rang out from his body.

After surviving the Fire Clan’s attack with the Dragon-Tiger Destruction Spirit Pill, Lin Heng entered a state of enlightenment as his cultivation surged. The Nether Ancestor Puppet was destroyed protecting him, and Sun Yuan flew to face the four Primordial Realm avatars while Lin Heng remained unable to act.

• Lin Heng’s Dragon-Tiger Destruction Spirit Pill activated, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples’ cheers and prayers helped him enter a state of enlightenment as his cultivation rose.
• Yan Juetian’s malevolent avatar hurled a fireball at Lin Heng to stop him from breaking through to the Primordial Realm.
• The Nether Ancestor Puppet blocked the fireball and was burned to nothing by the Origin of Fire.
• Ao Lie prepared to charge to Lin Heng’s defense, but Sun Yuan stopped him and said he and the disciples must remain Lin Heng’s last line of defense.
• Sun Yuan told Lin Heng he would carry his will to the summit, then rose to confront the four avatars.

Sun Yuan confronted Yan Xuanming’s malevolent clone to buy Lin Heng time, revealing the Five-Spirit Fierce Ape’s strongest combat form and striking with enough force to threaten a Primordial Chaos expert. He was overwhelmed and left on the ground as Yan Xuanming sent a flaming sword to kill him.

• Sun Yuan fought Yan Xuanming’s malevolent clone and was knocked back, realizing the gap in their strength.
• Sun Yuan challenged Yan Xuanming to withstand one strike from his staff, and Yan Xuanming agreed after recognizing Sun Yuan was trying to stall for Lin Heng.
• Sun Yuan transformed into the Five-Spirit Fierce Ape’s strongest combat form and unleashed the Heaven-Shocking Staff Strike.
• Yan Xuanming raised a flame barrier and endured the strike, while Sun Yuan was wounded, disarmed, and hurled to the ground.
• Sun Yuan accepted that he had reached his limit as Yan Xuanming formed a flaming sword and sent it toward him.

Lin Heng broke through to the Primordial Realm and saved Sun Yuan from Yan Xuanming's evil clone. He trapped the four Fire Clan clones in the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation, which began cutting them off from outside Source Power and draining their own Power of Origin.

• Lin Heng stopped Yan Xuanming's evil clone from killing Sun Yuan by halting the flaming flying sword.
• Lin Heng revealed that his soul had reached the Primordial Realm and shattered the flying sword.
• Lin Heng summoned eight Origin flying swords and used the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear to form the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation.
• The four clones discovered that the formation blocked them from absorbing outside Source Power and began drawing away the Power of Origin within their bodies.

Lin Heng used the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation to overwhelm the four Fire Clan clones and turn his attention to the Fire Clan cultivators trapped inside. The chapter ended with him sealing Yan Ye and the others in a cage of light.

• Yan Xuanming's evil clone tested Lin Heng's sword formation, but Lin Heng's flaming sword repelled his strike.
• Lin Heng attacked Yan Xuanming's evil clone with the Origin of Water, then the formation's flying swords of all eight Origins attacked all four clones.
• The four clones struggled to evade the thirty-two flying swords while Lin Heng turned toward Yan Ye and the Fire Clan's Heavenly Venerable Realm cultivators.
• The clones objected as Lin Heng prepared to attack the cultivators, but Lin Heng rebuked them for ganging up on him and trapping his disciples.
• Lin Heng summoned eight pillars of Origin light that formed a cage around Yan Ye and the other Fire Clan cultivators.

Lin Heng strengthened the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation by absorbing the Fire Clan experts’ attacks, then sent the four great clones into a desperate clash with a fire phoenix they had summoned. The chapter ended as the phoenix and eight Origin flying swords rushed toward each other.

• Yan Xuanming's evil clone realized the sword formation absorbed the experts’ attacks and warned Yan Ye and the others to stop.
• Lin Heng revealed that their attacks had already fed the formation and combined the thirty-two flying swords into eight enlarged Origin flying swords.
• The four great clones discussed the formation’s ability to absorb Origin Power and decided they had to attack before their strength ran out.
• Yan Juetian's good clone led the four great clones in gathering the Origin of Fire into a fire phoenix.
• Lin Heng used Dragon Roar and Tiger Howl to overpower the phoenix’s cry, and the four clones launched Flame Phoenix Break as the eight Origin flying swords descended to meet it.

Lin Heng’s sword formation defeated the four Fire Clan Primordial Realm clones, who escaped and abandoned the trapped Heavenly Venerable experts. Lin Heng and Sun Yuan then considered using the captives to hurt the Fire Clan and extract a profit.

• The eight Origin flying swords devoured the fire phoenix and overwhelmed the four clones’ combined attack.
• Yan Juetian’s good clone proposed retreating, and Yan Xuanming’s good clone asked what would happen to Yan Ye and the other trapped experts.
• Yan Juetian’s evil clone chose to abandon the Heavenly Venerable experts, and all four clones escaped through their spiritual seas’ small worlds.
• Sun Yuan arrived beside Lin Heng and questioned why he had stayed to protect his disciples instead of escaping earlier.
• Sun Yuan asked how Lin Heng would deal with the captives, and Lin Heng proposed keeping them alive to pressure the Fire Clan and gain a profit.

Lin Heng forced the Fire Clan's captured Heavenly Venerables to surrender their valuables and warned the clan to pay within three days or receive their corpses. He then sent Situ Jiannan to question Yan Luo about the captives' value, leaving Yan Luo alarmed by the possibility that he alone would be released.

• After the Fire Clan's four Primordial Realm experts fled, Lin Heng offered their captured Heavenly Venerables a chance to live in exchange for their storage rings and natal Origin Treasures.
• Yan Hua and the other captives surrendered their valuables, and Yan Ye gave in after Lin Heng threatened him; Lin Heng demanded that the Fire Clan show sincerity within three days.
• Situ Jiannan returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Lin Heng told him to learn how much the Fire Clan would pay for the captives.
• Situ Jiannan privately told Yan Luo that Lin Heng might release him even if the other Fire Clan Heavenly Venerables died, leaving Yan Luo worried about how the clan would interpret his survival.

Yan Luo warned Situ Jiannan that the Fire Clan would negotiate to save its captured Heavenly Venerables, and Situ Jiannan used Yan Juetian’s visit to demand greater compensation. Yan Juetian finally handed over the rest of the Fire Clan’s offer after Situ Jiannan threatened to return the prisoners as corpses.

• Yan Luo urged Situ Jiannan to demand a high ransom for the Fire Clan’s captured Heavenly Venerables and estimated their value in Origin Treasures.
• A Fire Clan visitor arrived, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion sent a First-Turn Samsara disciple to escort Yan Juetian into the side hall.
• Situ Jiannan insulted Yan Juetian by refusing him a seat and rejected the storage ring he offered as insufficient compensation.
• Yan Juetian asked how much compensation the Battle Heaven Pavilion wanted, but Situ Jiannan told him to decide since the Fire Clan was asking for a favor.
• Yan Juetian produced another storage ring containing the compensation he had secretly held back.

Yan Juetian paid the Battle Heaven Pavilion additional compensation to secure the release of the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerable experts. Situ Jiannan then staged a public farewell ceremony that threatened to expose the Fire Clan’s secret setback, leaving Yan Juetian furious.

• Situ Jiannan accepted the Fire Clan’s apology gifts and pressed Yan Juetian for a personal apology gift before releasing the captives.
• Yan Juetian handed over a valuable gift, and Situ Jiannan promised to return the Fire Clan’s experts intact.
• After an hour’s delay, fireworks erupted over the Battle Heaven Pavilion, drawing attention to the sect.
• A disciple told Situ Jiannan that the Fire Clan seniors were attending a farewell ceremony outside the sect.
• Yan Juetian realized the ceremony would expose his visit and the Fire Clan’s dealings with the Battle Heaven Pavilion, then angrily confronted Situ Jiannan.