Recaps

Wang Hao misled the Wheel-Turning King about Zhu Yanzu, then evaded the spies following him and found the Zhenyuan Escort Agency sealed and its chief escort, Zhao Huaishi, dying. Zhao revealed that Lü Sen and the Blood River Gang had stolen Wang Hao’s manuals and slaughtered the agency, leaving Wang Hao to ask whether Zhao had any final wishes.

• Wang Hao told the Wheel-Turning King that Zhu Yanzu was likely one of the Great Heavenly Demon’s vessels, convincing the king to reconsider the Great Ming imperial family’s attitude toward him.
• Wang Hao left Dingzhen, escaped his pursuers by sinking his boat in the Yellow River, and reached the sealed Zhenyuan Escort Agency under another appearance.
• A middle-aged beggar recognized Wang Hao as Bu Jingyun and led him to Zhao Huaishi, the agency’s gravely injured chief escort.
• Zhao Huaishi explained that Lü Sen, leader of the Blood River Gang, had stolen the manuals and slaughtered the Zhenyuan Escort Agency to silence witnesses.
• Wang Hao tried to stabilize Zhao Huaishi with his Innate Qi, realized the poison had made his injuries fatal, and asked whether he had any unfulfilled wishes.

Wang Hao promised the dying Zhao Huaishi that he would protect his daughter, then pursued the Blood River Gang and traveled to the Dongfang old residence under the alias Zhu Yanzu. Granny Song mistook him for the Dongfang family's son-in-law, but Dugu Qiubai recognized his true identity and threatened to expose him to Dongfang Bai.

• Wang Hao agreed to look after Zhao Huaishi's daughter, and Zhao Huaishi died after entrusting her to him.
• Wang Hao captured and killed two Blood River Gang followers, then sent Zhao Da and the girl to find Xie Feng after Zhao Huaishi was buried.
• Wang Hao found the Blood River Gang's headquarters burned to the ground and suspected Lü Sen had staged his gang's destruction to escape.
• Wang Hao reached the Dongfang old residence and introduced himself to Granny Song as Zhu Yanzu, a friend of Little Bai's.
• Granny Song mistook Wang Hao for the Dongfang family's son-in-law, welcomed him warmly, and sent an eagle to summon Dongfang Bai.
• Dugu Qiubai recognized Wang Hao beneath his disguise and warned that Dongfang Bai would kill him if she learned the truth.

Wang Hao lured Dugu Qiubai away from the Dongfang ancestral residence and attacked him to keep him from interfering with his plans for Dongfang Bai. After trapping Dugu Qiubai in a flying-sword formation, Wang Hao had exposed his hidden identities and abilities, leaving the old man demanding to know his purpose.

• Wang Hao led Dugu Qiubai into a rocky valley, where he admitted he had considered killing him and retrieved the Shameless Greatsword from Wangcai.
• Wang Hao enlarged his body and struck Dugu Qiubai with a Shock Force-enhanced move from the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle, blasting a crater into the ground.
• Wang Hao continued attacking, forcing Dugu Qiubai to dodge and complain that he had come without his sword.
• Dugu Qiubai tried to flee, but Wang Hao trapped him in a formation of flying swords.
• Dugu Qiubai recognized Wang Hao as Wuming and Dugu Jian and accused him of fabricating the overseas martial world and the Heavenly Demon Sacred Cult.
• Wang Hao told Dugu Qiubai not to meddle in other people's affairs.

Wang Hao and Dugu Qiubai fought through the night, with Wang Hao refusing to let him escape the Wuji Sword Formation. When Dongfang Bai arrived, Wang Hao spared the badly injured Dugu Qiubai and pretended they had merely fought over whether he should become her husband.

• Dugu Qiubai tried to back down, but Wang Hao attacked him by surprise and insisted on killing him.
• Dugu Qiubai fought back with sharp Sword Qi, and the two wounded each other as their battle continued until dawn.
• Dugu Qiubai unleashed Grass and Wood Sword Dao to break through the Wuji Sword Formation, but Wang Hao charged through the attack and smashed him into the ground.
• Wang Hao stopped short of killing Dugu Qiubai, hid his weapons, and changed back into his Zhu Yanzu disguise when he sensed Dongfang Bai approaching.
• Wang Hao told Dongfang Bai that Dugu Qiubai had tested him as a potential husband, and Dugu Qiubai reluctantly supported the story under threat.
• Wang Hao pretended to be badly injured and asked Dongfang Bai to fetch clothes and pills, trying to get her to leave them alone.

Wang Hao used Blood Sha Power from Patriarch Red Sun’s demonic saber to place a threatening restriction on Dugu Qiubai, then learned how the older man had uncovered his identity. Dugu Qiubai revealed that Wang Hao’s concealed Sword Intent still had a recognizable essence and agreed to teach him how to change it after Wang Hao began massaging his legs.

• Dongfang Bai noticed Wang Hao and Dugu Qiubai were hiding something, but left to fetch medicine after they pretended their injuries were worsening.
• Wang Hao stabilized Dugu Qiubai, gathered the shattered flying swords, and retrieved Patriarch Red Sun’s demonic saber.
• Wang Hao used the saber to infect Dugu Qiubai’s heart with Blood Baleful Intent Qi and warned that it could drive him into a murderous frenzy.
• Wang Hao asked Dugu Qiubai how he had discovered his identity, and Dugu Qiubai explained that he recognized the essence of Wang Hao’s Sword Intent.
• Dugu Qiubai demanded a leg massage before teaching Wang Hao how to change his Sword Intent, and Wang Hao agreed.

After their battle left Dugu Qiubai badly injured, Wang Hao treated him and claimed that an impending catastrophe made it necessary to unite the martial world. Wang Hao then accepted Dugu Qiubai as his master, immediately demanding the Dugu Lineage’s best martial arts manuals.

• Dongfang Bai scolded Dugu Qiubai and Wang Hao over their fierce spar, then gave Wang Hao a handwritten Taiji Fist Manual from the Sun Moon Holy Cult.
• Wang Hao teased Dongfang Bai about her fragrance, and she left; Dugu Qiubai accused Wang Hao of intending to kill him, while Wang Hao secretly considered silencing him.
• Wang Hao transferred Innate Qi into Dugu Qiubai to heal him and explained that he could restore a shattered Dantian with Innate Qi and Bloodline Power.
• Wang Hao told Dugu Qiubai that a catastrophe could destroy the world within twenty years and that outside pressure could force the Central Plains martial world to unite.
• Dugu Qiubai suspected Wang Hao was paving the way for Dongfang Bai to become martial alliance leader, and Wang Hao agreed to become Dugu Qiubai’s disciple.
• Wang Hao demanded divine skills and supreme arts as his gift for accepting Dugu Qiubai as his master.

Dongfang Bai read the martial arts manuals Wang Hao had sent while Granny Song urged her to marry and continue the Dongfang bloodline. Wang Hao accepted Dugu Qiubai’s Profound Iron Sword Token, then left Dugu Qiubai worried about Wang Hao’s identity, the Great Heavenly Demon, and his relationship with Dongfang Bai.

• Granny Song urged Dongfang Bai to marry Wang Hao and bear an heir, but Dongfang Bai sent her away and reaffirmed her vow to avenge her family.
• Dongfang Bai began reading the secret manuals Wang Hao had brought her.
• Wang Hao accepted Dugu Qiubai’s Profound Iron Sword Token and planned to visit the Dugu Household’s library.
• Wang Hao convinced Dugu Qiubai that overseas martial arts, sects, and realms such as Shattering the Void existed.
• Dugu Qiubai revealed he had spoken with the Wheel-Turning King and asked whether Wang Hao was still himself and what he planned to do about Dongfang Bai.
• Wang Hao said he would take his relationship with Dongfang Bai one step at a time.

Wang Hao challenged Dongfang Bai to a spar, but her lethal secret technique overwhelmed her body and left her gravely injured. After Wang Hao helped stabilize her, Dugu Qiubai revealed that she possessed the Supreme Pure Yang Physique, also called the Nine Yang Physique.

• Wang Hao challenged Dongfang Bai and claimed that he and the man she wanted revenge on were both Tribulation Lords of the Ten Directions.
• Dongfang Bai asked how strong her enemy was, and Wang Hao lied that the Great Heavenly Demon had planted a Demon Seed in him and made him stronger than Wuming.
• Dongfang Bai attacked Wang Hao with her swift swordsmanship, while he defended himself with the Ziwei Soft Sword and Impermanence Swordsmanship.
• Dongfang Bai unleashed Falling Sun, but the technique overwhelmed her and melted an ornamental rock formation before she collapsed.
• Wang Hao gave Dongfang Bai a prepared pill, and Dugu Qiubai revealed that she had the Supreme Pure Yang Physique, also known as the Nine Yang Physique.

Dugu Qiubai explained that Dongfang Bai’s extreme Yang cultivation could not be safely removed, then guided Wang Hao in improving his sword path. Wang Hao used sudden enlightenment to incorporate many martial arts into his sword techniques, leaving Dugu Qiubai amazed by his new disciple’s talent.

• Dugu Qiubai explained that Dongfang Bai’s nine Yang physique and Sunflower Manual had made her Extreme Yang True Qi dangerously powerful, and that crippling it would kill her.
• Wang Hao accepted that he could not change Dongfang Bai’s condition for now, then carried her to the pavilion to rest before receiving sword guidance from Dugu Qiubai.
• Dugu Qiubai advised Wang Hao to incorporate other martial arts and their Intent Realms into his sword path through the reverse application of the Myriad Transformations Sword Instruction.
• Wang Hao activated the Dao Comprehension Function and fused saber, spear, hammer, and fist techniques into the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and related sword techniques.
• Dugu Qiubai watched Wang Hao enter sudden enlightenment, and Wang Hao emerged after a while visibly pleased with what he had learned.

Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to strengthen his martial arts and learned that Dongfang Bai’s frequent epiphanies came from the fortune accumulated in the manuals he had brought her. The chapter ended with Dongfang Bai waking to find Wang Hao studying an erotic picture album, shattering the persona he had tried to maintain.

• Wang Hao examined his upgraded sword techniques and lamented that he still needed more martial arts texts and Fortune Points to complete his mission.
• Dugu Qiubai confirmed that Wang Hao had experienced an epiphany and compared it with Dongfang Bai’s far longer, frequent epiphanies.
• Xiao Mengmeng explained that the martial arts manuals carried fortune, some of which Dongfang Bai had absorbed and which caused her surplus fortune to trigger epiphanies.
• Wang Hao realized that gathering more manuals could help Dongfang Bai grow stronger, then questioned Dugu Qiubai about cultivation until nightfall.
• Granny Song locked Wang Hao in Dongfang Bai’s bedchamber, where he avoided approaching the unconscious Dongfang Bai because of her dangerous True Qi.
• Dongfang Bai woke and burned the erotic picture album Wang Hao was reading with Sword Qi, exposing his behavior and ruining his carefully cultivated persona.

Wang Hao helped Dongfang Bai unlock her Root Chakra and begin cultivating the Seven Po Magnetic Field, though his suggestive conduct earned him a kick out of her room. Granny Song then gave him potent medicines, mistakenly believing he needed help to win Dongfang Bai over and father a child.

• Wang Hao offered Dongfang Bai a Secret Method to help her cultivate her Human Body Magnetic Field, and she accepted so she could grow strong enough to face Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao blindfolded himself with gauze and used Shock Force and physical contact to prepare Dongfang Bai’s seven po, then struck her along the spine and lower abdomen to unlock her Root Chakra.
• Dongfang Bai’s Root Chakra opened successfully, but she kicked Wang Hao through the wall and burned away his clothes with scorching True Qi before retreating to a bathtub.
• Granny Song appeared with replacement clothes and several bottles of medicine, believing Wang Hao and Dongfang Bai had been fighting intimately and that he needed help to father a child.
• Wang Hao recognized the bottles as powerful tiger-and-wolf medicines and wondered why Granny Song thought he needed them.

Wang Hao traveled to the Dugu Household and entered its hidden Sword Hall to study the lineage’s martial arts manuals. Deep in the cavern, he sensed a familiar spiritual pressure and continued toward its source.

• Dongfang Bai and Granny Song watched Wang Hao’s carriage leave, while Granny Song wondered whether Dongfang Bai might be pregnant.
• Wang Hao traveled by canal and river to the mountains near the Dugu Household, then rode Wangcai to its hidden village.
• At the village entrance, Wang Hao easily parried Dugu Qingshan’s sword attacks and introduced himself as Zhu Yanzu, Dugu Qiubai’s disciple.
• Dugu Ye recognized Dugu Qiubai’s Profound Iron Sword Token and escorted Wang Hao to Sword Hall, allowing Dugu Qingshan to follow.
• Wang Hao ventured deeper into Sword Hall and sensed a familiar spiritual pressure ahead.

Wang Hao recognized the pressure in the Dugu Lineage’s Sword Hall as Sword Force left behind by Dugu Qiubai, then read and comprehended the cave’s martial arts texts. He tried to temper his True Spirit Sword Intent against the force, awakening the sword’s power and leaving him trapped under its overwhelming pressure as the elders retreated with Dugu Qingshan.

• Wang Hao explained that Dugu Qiubai had reached the Celestial Person Realm and left Sword Force in his sword.
• Wang Hao and Dugu Qingshan read the martial arts texts in the cave, while Wang Hao quickly skimmed and comprehended them all.
• Wang Hao approached the boxes at the cave’s deepest point and stopped using his methods for easing the Sword Force so he could temper his True Spirit Sword Intent.
• Dugu Qingshan warned Wang Hao not to resist the Sword Force directly, but the sword’s power surged and made both men spit blood.
• The elders rushed in, carried Dugu Qingshan to safety, and could not reach Wang Hao beneath the intensified Sword Force.

Wang Hao survived a month resisting the Sword Demon's Sword Force, but exhausted its power and nearly starved to death. After the Dugu elders fed him, Dugu Qingshan accidentally broke the now-ordinary peach branch that had been their ancestor’s sword, and Wang Hao admitted the branch had lost its power because of him.

• The Dugu elders feared the Great Heavenly Demon’s wrath if Wang Hao died, but waited rather than enter the Sword Hall while the Sword Force raged.
• After a month, Dugu Qingshan reported that the Sword Force had receded, and the elders found Wang Hao alive beside the opened stone boxes.
• Wang Hao asked for food, and the patriarch ordered the clan to provide treasured medicines and blood wine to help him recover.
• Wang Hao explained that the peach branch was the Sword Demon’s sword and described how cultivation could make any object a weapon.
• Wang Hao tossed the branch to Dugu Qingshan, who reflexively cut it in two and provoked the elders’ fury.
• Wang Hao admitted that he had worn away the sword’s Sword Force, leaving the elders glaring at him.

Wang Hao offered the Dugu Lineage a Secret Method to help them reach the Innate Realm in exchange for emerging into the martial world and supporting his plans. After the old patriarch accepted his conditions, Dugu Qingshan asked whether he could seek the inheritance of Sword Immortal Ye Gucheng or Sword God Ximen Chuixue.

• Wang Hao offered to help the Dugu Lineage break through to the Innate Realm after destroying their ancestral sword, and he explained how he could adapt a Mount Heng Sword Sect method using the Carefree Sect manuals.
• The old patriarch asked about the risks, and Wang Hao claimed the shortcut consumed potential and left cultivators unable to advance further.
• Wang Hao asked the Dugu Lineage to emerge and reveal the existence of Xiantian Grandmasters, then compete for the inheritances of Sword Immortal Ye Gucheng and Sword God Ximen Chuixue and support whoever obtained them.
• Wang Hao asked the Dugu Lineage to protect the young girl chosen by Sword Saint Dugu Jian as an inheritor, and the old patriarch agreed to send people to serve as Dao protectors.
• Dugu Qingshan eagerly asked whether he could become an inheritor of Sword Immortal Ye Gucheng or Sword God Ximen Chuixue.

Wang Hao rejected Dugu Qingshan as a candidate for the Sword Immortal and Sword God's legacies because Qingshan had already cultivated Acquired True Qi, then asked the Dugu Household to bring him younger candidates. While recovering in the cave, Wang Hao made progress in his cultivation and chose to consider a flexible third force from the Nine-Character True Art.

• Wang Hao refused Dugu Qingshan's request to inherit the legacies, explaining that Qingshan's cultivation path made him unsuitable.
• Wang Hao offered to screen the Dugu Household's younger members, and the old patriarch planned to bring them back in three days.
• Wang Hao recovered in the Sword Demon's cave, used the Dao Comprehension Function to deduce a Secret Method for reaching the Innate Realm, and noted his improved cultivation.
• Wang Hao considered using the Essence Blood method as a basis for a future body-tempering Secret Method but postponed the effort until after he recovered.
• Wang Hao decided to choose a flexible, defensive or supportive third force from the Nine-Character True Art and began weighing his options.

Wang Hao watched the Dugu Lineage’s young members fight to choose inheritors and became interested in a stubborn girl with weak cultivation but remarkable endurance. When she counterattacked after suffering severe injuries, Dugu Qingshan rushed in to strike her, leaving Wang Hao’s response unresolved.

• Wang Hao raised his Tenacious Force cultivation by bending and rocking on trees, then asked the Dugu Lineage’s young members to fight so he could select candidates.
• More than three hundred boys and girls gathered and paired off, while Wang Hao noticed one girl with only Third-Rate cultivation fighting a much stronger opponent.
• The girl endured broken ribs and other injuries without giving up, impressing Wang Hao with her combat talent and resolve.
• After the girl evaded a powerful strike and counterattacked, Dugu Qingshan rushed in and swung a forceful palm at her.

Wang Hao stopped Dugu Qingshan from attacking a girl and learned that she was Qingshan’s daughter, whom the Dugu Lineage blamed for her mother’s death in childbirth. He declared her his daughter, uncovered the severe abuse and injuries she had suffered, and withdrew the opportunity he had planned to give the Dugu Lineage.

• Wang Hao blocked Dugu Qingshan’s True Qi-enhanced attack and demanded to know why he was mistreating the girl.
• The old patriarch explained that the girl was Qingshan’s daughter, born after her mother died giving birth to twins, but Qingshan denied her and called her a bastard.
• Wang Hao kicked Qingshan away, comforted the girl, and declared that she would be his daughter, Zhu Yanzu’s daughter.
• Wang Hao released his killing aura as he condemned the Dugu Lineage for blaming a child, and the old patriarch explained that Qingshan had acted out of desperation to preserve their bloodline.
• Wang Hao disowned the girl from the Dugu Household and examined her, discovering over a hundred badly healed fractures, extensive scars, and failing internal organs.
• Wang Hao said the Dugu Lineage would not receive a Dao protector for the inheritor of Peerless Sword Saint Dugu Jian.

Wang Hao rescued the injured girl from the Dugu Lineage, treated her, and named her Zhu Ruoxue, while helping the Dugu elders reach the threshold of the Innate Realm despite his anger at them. He then changed his plans, deciding to visit the Great Ming capital before traveling to Jiangnan for his promised duel with Black Mountain Old Devil.

• Wang Hao told the Dugu elders that the girl's organs were failing, treated her, and used his techniques to give the elders Innate True Qi in exchange for their earlier agreement.
• Wang Hao carried the girl away, gave her Nine Flower Jade Dew Wine, reset her badly healed bones, and named her Zhu Ruoxue.
• Wang Hao helped Zhu Ruoxue recover and taught her the Foundation Establishment Sword Art, which she used to reach the Second-rate realm.
• Wang Hao decided to skip the Mount Tai Sword Sect for now and visit the Great Ming capital before his scheduled fight with Black Mountain Old Devil in Jiangnan.
• Wang Hao planned to copy the imperial family's martial arts manuals and leave Zhu Ruoxue in its care while he searched for cultivation techniques.

Wang Hao learned that the Confucian School had taken the little girl he valued and received its challenge to meet in Chang'an next spring. He then reached the capital as Zhu Yanzu and began convincing Zhu Yuanzhang that his fabricated identity and the Great Heavenly Demon's mark were real.

• Wang Hao read the Confucian School's challenge, blamed Qin Yan for the girl's abduction, and warned Xie Feng to continue arranging matters around the Mount Tai Sword Sect and Mount Song Sword Sect.
• Wang Hao and Zhu Ruoxue traveled by river to the capital, where Cao Haisheng welcomed him and escorted him to Emperor Mingde.
• Wang Hao entered the imperial study, greeted Emperor Mingde and the Wheel-Turning King, and revealed that he had sensed Zhu Yuanzhang behind the screen.
• Wang Hao told Zhu Yuanzhang that the Great Heavenly Demon's Demon Seed marked him and described three difficult ways to remove it.
• Wang Hao had hypnotized himself during the journey so he truly believed the fabricated story that he was Zhu Yanzu of a hidden imperial branch.

Wang Hao used his claims about the Great Heavenly Demon and overseas martial arts to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang and the others that the danger was real and that he could reach the Celestial Person Realm. After he revealed eighty-seven Half-step Innate experts hiding in the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Wheel-Turning King to deal with them, but Wang Hao stopped him.

• Wang Hao told Emperor Mingde and Zhu Yuanzhang that his best chance of avoiding becoming the Great Heavenly Demon's cultivation vessel was to break through to the Shattering Realm and refine the Demon Seed.
• Wang Hao claimed that a Secret Method could let him use Great Ming's fortune to reach the Celestial Person Realm, and described Master Kong's Literary Qi Nourishing Method.
• Wang Hao displayed Divine Sense, then used the system's Treasure-Seeking Function to find eighty-seven Half-step Innate experts in the capital.
• The Wheel-Turning King realized that only forty-three of those experts belonged to the Great Ming imperial family and suggested eliminating the rest.
• Zhu Yuanzhang approved the Wheel-Turning King's plan, but Wang Hao stopped him before he could leave.

Wang Hao secured Zhu Yuanzhang’s support by claiming the Great Heavenly Demon’s Secret Method could raise Half-step Innate experts to the Innate Realm, then offered to test the Zhu Household’s descendants and provide the method. After Wang Hao left with Emperor Mingde, Zhu Yuanzhang confirmed the method was genuine, giving the Wheel-Turning King hope of breaking through.

• Wang Hao explained that a Secret Method from the Great Heavenly Demon’s Demon Seed could force Half-step Innate experts to reach the Innate Realm, and reassured Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Mingde, and the Wheel-Turning King about the threat from overseas forces.
• Zhu Yuanzhang pledged to help Wang Hao, gave him a jade token granting access throughout the palace, and ordered Emperor Mingde and the Wheel-Turning King to gather the household’s underage descendants for aptitude testing.
• Wang Hao requested permission to copy the imperial family’s martial arts manuals and offered to pass on his inheritance to suitable descendants; Zhu Yuanzhang agreed and ordered the gathering within a month.
• Wang Hao wrote out a complete Secret Method for breaking through to Innate and presented it to Zhu Yuanzhang, who sent him away with Emperor Mingde to arrange a residence.
• After Wang Hao left, the Wheel-Turning King questioned his disrespectful manner, but Zhu Yuanzhang attributed it to the Great Heavenly Demon’s influence and confirmed that the Secret Method was genuine.

Wang Hao settled Zhu Ruoxue into the palace and brought her to the Great Ming imperial vault to seek medicine for her depleted body. He took five treasures and discovered an immense martial-arts collection, but planned to copy its rarest manuals first because his stay in the capital was short.

• Wang Hao reassured Zhu Ruoxue that she could keep wearing plain clothes, ordered daily medicine for her, and took her with him to the imperial vault.
• Wang Hao used Zhu Yuanzhang’s jade token to enter the vault and had Xiao Mengmeng identify five treasures.
• Wang Hao took three ancient medicinal ingredients, a half-finished Mystic Heavy Stone, and a fiery spearhead for possible future use in forging a divine weapon.
• Wang Hao found the Great Ming family’s vast collection of martial arts manuals and calculated that sharing them with Dongfang Bai could earn him hundreds of thousands of Fortune Points.
• Wang Hao decided to copy the Grandmaster-level manuals and Innate secret arts during his three-day stay, leaving the first-floor collection for a later visit.

Wang Hao left the imperial capital to face Black Mountain Old Devil and draw out the Confucian School, accompanied by ten newly Innate eunuchs. After discovering they cultivated the Sunflower Manual, he offered to help them advance further, hoping their experience would help him find a way to control Dongfang Bai’s dangerous Extreme Yang cultivation.

• Wang Hao left the secret vault with Zhu Ruoxue, whose swordsmanship and health had improved during their three days there.
• Wang Hao told Emperor Mingde he intended to use his appointment with Black Mountain Old Devil to lure out the Confucian School, and Emperor Mingde arranged ten Innate eunuchs to accompany him south.
• Wang Hao packed medicinal ingredients and prepared to continue cultivating during the journey, then welcomed the ten eunuchs and their promise to protect him.
• The eunuchs revealed that they cultivated the Sunflower Manual and used a joint attack method that could challenge stronger Innate opponents.
• Wang Hao offered to discuss a Secret Method that could help the eunuchs advance, hoping to learn from their cultivation while seeking a solution for Dongfang Bai’s extreme yang energy.

Wang Hao met Zhu Yijun at the palace gates and agreed to advise him on his cultivation during their journey south. After Princess Shaoyang joined them, Wang Hao gave her a chance to inherit his Impermanence Sword Dao and explained the basics of Divine Sense, leaving her with a one-month test.

• Wang Hao warned Zhu Yijun that pill toxins could limit his cultivation and offered to help him improve his Dragon Divine Art.
• Zhu Yijun took Wang Hao and Zhu Ruoxue into a carriage, but Princess Shaoyang stopped their journey.
• Wang Hao recognized Princess Shaoyang's talent for Divine Sense and gave her a cultivation method, setting a one-month deadline for her to qualify as heir to his Impermanence Sword Dao.
• Wang Hao explained the three Dantians and the difference between Acquired and Innate Divine Sense to Zhu Yijun and the eunuchs.
• Wang Hao continued nourishing Zhu Ruoxue with Innate Qi as Princess Shaoyang carefully kept the cultivation method.