Recaps

Li Yunjing learned Old Devil Blood Shadow’s plan by searching Wang Beichen’s soul, then killed Wang Beichen and revealed the plot to Zhao Fan. Old Devil Blood Shadow arrived and attacked them, but True Person Qingxuan’s Jade Slip saved them once, leaving Li Yunjing and Zhao Fan facing another strike without its protection.

• Li Yunjing sealed Wang Beichen’s Dantian, searched his soul, and learned that Old Devil Blood Shadow planned to sacrifice captured souls at midnight to awaken a devil patriarch’s remnant soul.
• Li Yunjing killed Wang Beichen and told Zhao Fan about the danger, including the three hidden elder-level moles aiding Old Devil Blood Shadow.
• Old Devil Blood Shadow appeared in the valley, saw Wang Beichen’s corpse, and attacked Li Yunjing and Zhao Fan with Blood Soul Palm.
• True Person Qingxuan’s Jade Slip intercepted the attack and protected Li Yunjing and Zhao Fan, but it shattered after its single use.
• Old Devil Blood Shadow asked whether they could withstand a second attack.

Zhang Jianchen arrived in time to save Li Yunjing and Zhao Fan, then killed Old Devil Blood Shadow and led the Immortal Alliance in eliminating the remaining Devil Cultivators. The assessment concluded with only eighteen righteous-path cultivators surviving, and Li Yunjing took first place in the third round.

• Zhang Jianchen and eight Immortal Alliance experts arrived as Old Devil Blood Shadow attacked Li Yunjing and Zhao Fan.
• Old Devil Blood Shadow unleashed his Blood River Great Law and Blood Shadow Clones, but Zhang Jianchen destroyed them and killed him with the Vast Devil-Slaying Sword.
• True Person Qingxuan arrived, and Zhang Jianchen sent the Immortal Alliance elders to destroy the twenty Devil Cultivators lying in ambush in Soul Severing Valley.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Fan resumed gathering point tokens, and the surviving cultivators left the Hei Feng Secret Realm when the three-day assessment ended.
• Only eighteen righteous-path cultivators survived, and Li Yunjing placed first in the third round.

Li Yunjing won the Taiyi Immortal Ceremony and was appointed an honorary elder of the Immortal Alliance, but the Blood Devil Patriarch broke free from his seal and attacked Mount Taiyi. The chapter ended with everyone trapped inside a soul-devouring barrier, facing a Half-Immortal-level enemy.

• Li Yunjing won all three rounds, accepted Chu Lingxiao's congratulations, and received the title of True Disciple of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
• Zhang Jianchen announced that the Luozhen Sect would receive ten years of top-level support and appointed Li Yunjing an honorary elder of the Immortal Alliance's Law Enforcement Hall.
• The Blood Devil Patriarch emerged from the ruins of the main peak after Old Devil Blood Shadow's scattered Essence Blood disrupted the Taiyi Divine Lamp's seal.
• The Blood Devil Patriarch's Devil Qi drained the souls of weaker cultivators, and he struck down Zhang Jianchen's attack with a single blow.
• The Blood Devil Patriarch raised the Ten Thousand Devils Heaven-Devouring Array, sealing Mount Taiyi and beginning to absorb the souls and spiritual power of everyone inside.

The Blood Devil Patriarch overwhelmed the cultivators at Mount Taiyi, and Zhang Jianchen used the Haotian Demon-Suppressing Seal to hold him back. The Blood Devil Patriarch gathered a devastating attack, leaving Zhang Jianchen convinced he could no longer stop him.

• Zhang Jianchen urged the crowd to wait for the Immortal Alliance's Loose Immortal elder, but the Blood Devil Patriarch attacked him with black devil light.
• True Person Qingxuan sent out the Taiyi Fly Whisk to shield Zhang Jianchen, but the damaged treasure broke apart after weakening the blow.
• The Blood Devil Patriarch formed the Ten Thousand Devils Heaven-Devouring Array, filling Mount Taiyi with corrosive Devil Qi; the Feathered Immortal Bone protected Li Yunjing while other cultivators suffered and some died.
• Zhang Jianchen revealed the Haotian Demon-Suppressing Seal and burned his lifespan and Essence Blood to make it withstand the Blood Devil Patriarch's attacks.
• The Blood Devil Patriarch unleashed Devil Annihilates the Nine Heavens, dimming the seal's golden light, and Zhang Jianchen realized he could not stop the attack.

Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi arrived in time to help Zhang Jianchen and the other cultivators defeat the Blood Devil Patriarch. After surviving the battle, Li Yunjing claimed his Taiyi Immortal Ceremony rewards and secured a year in the Core Inheritance Pavilion, where he could take twenty cultivation methods.

• Zhang Jianchen prepared to detonate the Haotian Demon-Suppressing Seal, but Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi broke through the Ten Thousand Devils Heaven-Sealing Array and joined the battle.
• Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi drew the Blood Devil Patriarch into the void and discovered that his soul core lay between his brows, sustained by the Taiyi Divine Lamp's wick.
• Yunyouzi pinned the Blood Devil Patriarch with help from Xuanjizi and destroyed his soul core with the Qingyun Immortal-Slaying Slash, shattering the devil array.
• Xuanjizi gave Zhang Jianchen a spirit pill that restored his hair and replenished the lifespan he had burned, while the surviving cultivators returned home.
• Li Yunjing stayed to claim his ceremony rewards, and True Person Qingxuan granted him a year in the Core Inheritance Pavilion and permission to take twenty cultivation methods.

Li Yunjing explored the Taiyi Immortal Sect’s inheritance pavilion with permission to enter every floor and chose several valuable Cultivation Methods to copy. On the eighth floor, he found that the Taiyi Sword Instruction resembled his Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book and wondered whether his sword technique had originated from it.

• Li Yunjing entered the inheritance pavilion using the golden token granted by True Person Qingxuan and surveyed the basic works on its first floor.
• He passed through the second to fourth floors, where he found Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation inheritances, including the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation Diagram Manual and Spring-Restoring Pill Scripture.
• On the fifth floor, Li Yunjing chose to copy the Purple Mansion Primordial Spirit Instruction after learning it could strengthen the Primordial Spirit and aid breakthroughs.
• He selected the Qingyun Movement Method, Great Five Elements Escape Technique, and Shatter Illusions Divine Eye from the sixth and seventh floors.
• Li Yunjing entered the eighth floor and found the Taiyi Sword Instruction, whose first half reminded him of the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book he cultivated.

Li Yunjing found the complete Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture, cultivated it to reach Late Spirit Transformation with Dao Integration-level strength, and selected ten inheritances for the Luozhen Sect. As he prepared to leave the Inheritance Pavilion, Ling Taixu appeared and entrusted him with the key to an immortal-grade Spirit Vein beneath Mount Taiyue.

• Li Yunjing copied nine Half-Immortal-grade Cultivation Methods for the Luozhen Sect and found the complete five-volume Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture on the ninth floor.
• Li Yunjing cultivated the Scripture for nearly a year, advancing to Late Spirit Transformation and gaining strength at the Dao Integration Realm.
• Li Yunjing used his remaining inheritance slots to select ten Cultivation Methods that formed a broad inheritance system for the Luozhen Sect.
• Ling Taixu appeared as a remnant thought and told Li Yunjing that an immortal-grade Spirit Vein lay beneath Mount Taiyue.
• Ling Taixu gave Li Yunjing the jade pendant that unlocked the Spirit Vein, entrusting the opportunity to him after the Taiyi Immortal Sect's calamity.

Li Yunjing left the Taiyi Immortal Sect and returned to the Luozhen Sect, where Mo Xuan welcomed him and reported on the sect’s growth during his year away. The earth vein network had expanded, new disciples had joined, and the sect had discovered several valuable resource deposits.

• True Person Qingxuan advised Li Yunjing not to pursue the Immortal Vein until he was strong enough, and Li Yunjing left the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, where Mo Xuan and the disciples welcomed him.
• Li Yunjing learned that Mo Xuan had advanced to the Nascent Soul Early Stage and that many new disciples had joined the sect.
• Li Yunjing inspected the earth vein network and found that it had expanded to five thousand li, with seventy-two guarded nodes.
• Mo Xuan reported that the sect had discovered rich deposits of scarlet gold, Mysterious Water Jade, Spirit Stones, and spirit medicines.

Li Yunjing heard Mo Xuan's report on the Luozhen Sect's growth and learned that the Crimson Sun Jiao King was gathering forces against them. He ordered the sect to strengthen its defenses and prepare for battle.

• Mo Xuan reported that the sect had found a High Antiquity Dao Integration cultivator's ruins, gained cultivation methods and treasures, and seen more than twenty disciples reach Golden Core, including Gu Xuan and Liu Suizhou reaching Nascent Soul.
• Mo Xuan said subordinate sects from two Dao Realms and twelve local tribes had joined the sect's wilderness efforts as reinforcements and vassals.
• Mo Xuan warned that the Crimson Sun Jiao King of Flying Dragon Ridge had been provoking the sect and gathering Yao Qi and nearby Demon Race tribes, possibly preparing an attack.
• Li Yunjing ordered disciples at each earth vein node to strengthen defenses and told alchemists and artifact refiners to increase production of pills and Law Treasures.

Li Yunjing prepared the Luozhen Sect for Flying Dragon Ridge’s expected attack and chose to defend their territory rather than strike first. Before the meeting ended, the demons launched a surprise assault on the third earth vein node, forcing Li Yunjing to send reinforcements and secure the other defenses.

• Li Yunjing inspected the earth vein core, drew on its power, and advanced closer to Spirit Transformation Perfection.
• Li Yunjing told the sect leaders that Flying Dragon Ridge’s Demon King Alliance planned a full-scale attack and proposed holding their ground until reinforcements arrived.
• A disciple reported that thousands of demons led by a Nascent Soul Realm demon king had breached the third earth vein node and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Li Yunjing ordered Fang Tong to reinforce the third node and rescue the defenders without launching a rash counterattack.
• Li Yunjing sent Mo Xuan to guard the second node and assigned Lu Xian and Xie Zheng to watch the eastern and western defensive lines.

Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to prepare for a major demon assault while planning to lure the demon kings of Flying Dragon Ridge out of their stronghold. The sect stabilized its defenses and destroyed the enemy vanguard at node three, but a much larger force, including powerful demon kings and a Return to Origin Realm demon, approached under cover of night.

• Li Yunjing ordered a level-one alert and told Fang Hexuan that he planned to feign weakness to draw the demons out of Flying Dragon Ridge.
• The Alligator Dragon reported that the Crimson Sun Jiao King had allied with eight demon tribes, gathering a huge army and bringing tools to counter the sect’s defenses.
• The Alligator Dragon said Fang Tong had helped repel the demons at node three, and Li Yunjing sent the Fire Dragon to guard node one.
• Li Yunjing monitored the battle as Flying Dragon Ridge’s vanguard was wiped out at node three, though many Luozhen Sect disciples were killed or wounded and Fang Tong was lightly injured.
• Li Yunjing ordered node three’s defenses repaired and reinforced while the sect prepared for battle and a powerful enemy force approached from the north.

The Crimson Sun Jiao King's allied Demon Race army arrived and overwhelmed the Luozhen Sect's defenses, forcing Li Yunjing to prepare to act. The arrival of an ancient Return to Origin Realm Demon King left the battle poised to escalate further.

• Li Yunjing held off from intervening while the disciples tempered themselves in battle, despite Nangong Chengyu's concern about rising casualties.
• The Hei Feng Bear King arrived with the allied army, shattered the shield at node one, and threatened to destroy the Luozhen Sect.
• The Crimson Sun Jiao King, Golden-Winged Great Peng King, and Red-Banded Snake King attacked nodes three, two, and five, breaking defenses and causing heavy casualties.
• Li Yunjing decided he could wait no longer, but an even more powerful surge of Yao Qi erupted from Flying Dragon Ridge.
• A streak of black light landed on the battlefield and revealed a short, ragged old man whose presence suggested he was the Return to Origin Realm Demon King.

Li Yunjing confronted the old Demon King to defend the Luozhen Sect, killing Hei Feng Bear King with Qingwei Divine Lightning before being overwhelmed by the Lion King's attacks. After spotting the Lion King's likely weakness, Li Yunjing countered his Heaven-Burning Blaze with the first form of the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book, and their attacks collided in an earthshaking explosion.

• The old Demon King arrived at Azure Jiao Marsh and vowed to destroy the Luozhen Sect, while Li Yunjing left the Grotto-Heaven to face him.
• Hei Feng Bear King attacked Li Yunjing, who killed him with a precise strike of Qingwei Divine Lightning.
• The old Demon King wounded Li Yunjing with a flaming claw imprint, then revealed his blazing lion true form and pressed the attack.
• Li Yunjing dodged and resisted the Lion King's assaults, noticing that the golden fur on his chest glowed before powerful attacks.
• The Lion King unleashed Heaven-Burning Blaze, and Li Yunjing met it with Shatter Illusions from the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book, causing a massive explosion.

Li Yunjing recovered from the old Demon King's attack, killed it with the Tiger-Shooting Bow and his sword, and helped the Luozhen Sect annihilate Flying Dragon Ridge's army. After rewarding the victors, he led Fang Hexuan and others to take over Flying Dragon Ridge.

• Li Yunjing restored his strength, pierced the old Demon King's Demon Core with the Tiger-Shooting Bow, and killed it with the seventh form of the Seven Slaughters Heaven-Slaying Dao Sword Book.
• The Crimson Sun Jiao King, Golden-Winged Great Peng King, and Red-Banded Snake King fled, but Fang Hexuan soon returned with their corpses.
• Fire Dragon, Alligator Dragon, and the Luozhen Sect's cultivators slaughtered the surrounded Demon Race army, wiping out hundreds of thousands and killing every Demon King in under two hours.
• Li Yunjing praised the elders and disciples, announced rewards for those who fought, and proposed taking over Flying Dragon Ridge.
• The next morning, Li Yunjing, Fang Hexuan, and their companions traveled by Mystic Crane Flying Cloud Boat to Flying Dragon Ridge.

Li Yunjing explored Flying Dragon Ridge and discovered it was a rare Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Land that could be connected to the Luozhen Sect’s earth vein network. In Crimson Jiao Cave, he found valuable treasures, the High Antiquity Earth Vein Compass, and a glowing jade talisman that flooded his mind with information.

• Li Yunjing entered Flying Dragon Ridge with the disciples and learned from the Northern Dark True Spirit that it was a Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Land.
• Li Yunjing and his group reached Crimson Jiao Cave and searched its chambers, recording supplies and discovering a vast treasury.
• Li Yunjing found the High Antiquity Earth Vein Compass and learned that it could reveal and draw upon earth veins while strengthening the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal.
• Li Yunjing discovered the Black Wind Suppress Hell Instruction, a Dao Union-level earth-attribute Cultivation Method.
• The compass led Li Yunjing and the others to a sealed underground cavern, where he opened a stone gate and grasped a jade talisman above an ancient altar.
• A vast amount of information flooded into Li Yunjing’s mind from the jade talisman.

Li Yunjing learned that the matured Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Land could let him ascend safely, but he decided to keep the secret and remain with the Luozhen Sect. Back on Luozhen Island, he upgraded the teleportation array and Beast Taming Grounds, discovering new benefits and a rare material required for the next array upgrade.

• Li Yunjing learned from the jade talisman that the Flying Dragon Ascending to Immortality Land could let one person ascend safely, but he kept the secret from Fang Hexuan and decided not to ascend yet.
• Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan led the group out of the Crimson Sun Cave Abode, and Li Yunjing left disciples to guard Flying Dragon Ridge and establish an earth vein node there.
• After returning to Luozhen Island, Li Yunjing upgraded the teleportation array to lv7 and saw that lv8 would add protection against time sickness, though it required a hundred-year-old piece of spacetime spirit wood.
• Li Yunjing went to Beast Taming Island and upgraded the Beast Taming Grounds to lv8, gaining stronger spirit beast growth and new bloodline abilities.

Li Yunjing reviewed the Beast Taming Grounds’ future benefits, then upgraded the Oath Hall twice as the Luozhen Sect met its requirements. The hall awakened a Sect Joint Oath Grand Array, enabling participating disciples to share powerful bonuses and support one another.

• Li Yunjing examined the Beast Taming Grounds’ level-nine effects and was impressed by the potential of twin bloodlines.
• Li Yunjing toured the spirit beasts’ assigned habitats, where meat beasts had abundant resources and guardian beasts faced scarcer conditions.
• Li Yunjing inspected the Oath Hall and confirmed that the Luozhen Sect’s quasi-fifth-grade status met its next upgrade requirement.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Oath Hall to level six, unlocking Dao Heart Oath Marks and finding that the level-seven requirements were already met.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Oath Hall to level seven, awakening the Sect Joint Oath Grand Array and granting participants Joint Oath and Unity of Heart effects.

Li Yunjing completed a ten-thousand-li earth vein network centered on Flying Dragon Ridge, expanding the Luozhen Sect’s reach and influence across the Great Wilderness. After settling the new territory and its tribes, he discussed the rapid expansion and the threat of attention from powerful sects with Fang Hexuan.

• Li Yunjing learned the effects of Joint Oath and Unity of Heart, then left the Oath Hall after confirming that no more buildings could be upgraded.
• With the Northern Dark True Spirit’s help, Li Yunjing merged the Northern Dark Earth Vein Seal with Flying Dragon Ridge’s earth veins, forming a network that covered ten thousand li and stabilized the region’s Spiritual Qi.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to establish a branch on Flying Dragon Ridge, demand submission from nearby tribes, and build teleportation arrays between earth vein nodes.
• Over the following month, the Luozhen Sect built up Flying Dragon Ridge, while thirty-two foreign tribes and seventeen Demon Race tribes submitted, with Alligator Dragon helping them coexist with the sect’s disciples.
• Fang Hexuan praised Li Yunjing’s management of the territory but warned that the rapid expansion could draw the attention of great sects from the other four prefectures; Li Yunjing said he had sent scouts to monitor them.

After the Luozhen Sect seized ten thousand li of the Great Wilderness, the Departing Fire Sect plotted to destroy it and claim the territory. True Person Lihuo ordered the plan into motion, while a terrifying ancient being remained sealed beneath the Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone.

• News of the Luozhen Sect's victory spread through the five great prefectures, drawing envoys and rogue cultivators to the Great Wilderness.
• The Departing Fire Sect's elders discussed how to seize the Azure Jiao Marsh without provoking the Immortal Alliance or rival sects.
• True Lord Chiyan proposed spreading rumors, forming an alliance against the Luozhen Sect, infiltrating its ranks, and sabotaging its trade and construction.
• True Person Lihuo approved the scheme and ordered the Luozhen Sect destroyed within half a year.
• True Lord Chiyan assigned the elders their tasks and began the Luozhen Conquest Plan.
• Deep in the Great Wilderness's Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone, an ancient existence remained sealed beneath a black mountain range.

The Luozhen Sect’s activation of its earth vein array loosened the seal on the Lord of Ten Thousand Spirits, prompting Fang Hexuan and Li Yunjing to prepare for the threat. Three months later, the sect faced a new crisis as a widespread rumor accused it of colluding with the Demon Race and damaged its reputation.

• The Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone trembled, and the Lord of Ten Thousand Spirits’ power leaked through cracks in the seal, terrifying Demon Beasts and causing Demon Race members to bow.
• Alligator Dragon warned Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan that the seal had loosened, and Li Yunjing used the High Antiquity Earth Vein Compass to confirm the danger.
• Fang Hexuan advised strengthening the sect and monitoring the Forbidden Zone while the Lord of Ten Thousand Spirits remained sealed.
• Over the next three months, the Luozhen Sect expanded its territory, established its Flying Dragon Ridge branch and teleportation network, and grew to more than three thousand disciples.
• Mo Xuan reported that a rumor accusing the Luozhen Sect of betraying humanity and supplying humans as blood food to the Demon Race had spread across the five great provinces, harming the Luozhen Chamber of Commerce.
• The rumor cited Alligator Dragon’s former rule over Azure Jiao Marsh and his bloody past as evidence that the Luozhen Sect had colluded with the Demon Race.

The Heavenly Saber Sect formed the Luozhen Conquest Alliance after the Departing Fire Sect pushed it to exploit the Luozhen Sect’s resources. As seventy-two sects joined, the Immortal Alliance cleared the Luozhen Sect of wrongdoing and threatened sanctions against the alliance.

• Wang Qianxue revealed that the Heavenly Saber Sect and Departing Fire Sect had spread rumors accusing the Luozhen Sect of colluding with the Demon Race.
• Fang Hexuan warned that the Departing Fire Sect was likely preparing a larger attack, and the next day Wan Tianshu called for a Luozhen Conquest Alliance.
• Wan Tianshu told Heavenly Saber Sect elders that the Departing Fire Sect had offered territory and mineral veins to secure their leadership, while promising reinforcements for the attack.
• Sects from the other four prefectures joined the alliance, and seventy-two sects signed on within ten days, while top-tier powers stayed silent.
• Zhang Jianchen announced the Immortal Alliance’s findings: the Luozhen Sect had not betrayed humanity, and the alliance must disband or face severe sanctions.

The Daozhen Sect joined the Luozhen Conquest Alliance under the decree of Immortal Lord Qingxu, threatening war against the Immortal Alliance and leaving the Luozhen Sect without its protection. Zhang Jianchen revealed that an upper-realm patriarch had ordered the Immortal Alliance to stay out of the conflict in exchange for three immortal mines, and he withheld the patriarch’s identity from Li Yunjing.

• Wan Tianshu rejected the Immortal Alliance’s findings and vowed that the Luozhen Conquest Alliance would continue its campaign against the Luozhen Sect.
• The Daozhen Sect joined the alliance and threatened to raze Immortal Alliance Mountain if the Immortal Alliance helped the Luozhen Sect.
• After the Immortal Alliance remained silent, Mo Xuan, Nangong Chengyu, Li Yunjing, and Fang Hexuan discussed the threat inside Luozhen Grand Hall.
• Zhang Jianchen arrived and told Li Yunjing that Immortal Lord Qingxu had traded three immortal mines for a patriarch’s order barring the Immortal Alliance from the war.
• Zhang Jianchen said Qingxu had acted because he dreamed someone from the Luozhen Sect would kill him, but he refused to name the patriarch until Li Yunjing ascended.

Zhang Jianchen gave Li Yunjing private aid and a secret refuge option, but the Immortal Alliance could not intervene because upper-realm True Immortals were watching. As the Luozhen Conquest Alliance tightened its blockade and crippled the sect’s supply and intelligence routes, Li Yunjing ordered preparations to fight and vowed to defend the Great Wilderness.

• Zhang Jianchen gave Li Yunjing ten million High-Grade Spirit Stones, pills, Law Treasures, and a letter offering secret aid from the Jade Saint Dao Palace.
• After Zhang Jianchen left, Li Yunjing told Fang Hexuan and the others that the Immortal Alliance could not openly help, then ordered the sect to prepare for war and organize allied armies.
• Li Yunjing declared that the Luozhen Sect would defend its territory against the Departing Fire Sect, Heavenly Saber Sect, Daozhen Sect, and the Luozhen Conquest Alliance.
• Mo Xuan reported that the blockade had sealed supply routes, intercepted most transport teams, deterred smugglers, and cut off much of the sect’s intelligence network.
• Li Yunjing ordered the sect to conserve resources and said the Great Wilderness’s resources and two Dao Realms could help them endure the blockade.

Xie Zheng killed Elder Chihuo while defending the Luozhen Sect’s last secret passage, and the Luozhen Conquest Alliance learned that he wielded a Seven Treasures Sect weapon from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm. Wan Tianshu suspected the Luozhen Sect had found a way to travel between Dao Realms, while True Lord Chiyan pushed for an immediate all-out attack.

• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan that reinforcements and supplies from the Mysterious Female and Chenwei Dao Realms could sustain the Luozhen Sect while it established resource extraction in the Great Wilderness.
• The Luozhen Conquest Alliance discovered the passage at Severed Cloud Gorge and attacked the Luozhen Sect disciples guarding it.
• Xie Zheng used his black longsword’s secret method to overwhelm Elder Chihuo’s flames and kill him, then ordered the surviving disciples to return to the sect.
• An unseen point of light recorded Xie Zheng’s victory, and news of the battle reached the Luozhen Conquest Alliance’s headquarters.
• True Lord Liehuo identified Xie Zheng’s sword as resembling a Seven Treasures Sect supreme treasure described in his master’s diary and suggested Xie Zheng came from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm.
• Wan Tianshu realized the Luozhen Sect might have access to another Dao Realm, while True Lord Chiyan urged him to launch an all-out attack.

The Departing Fire Sect spread a rumor that the Luozhen Sect controlled a passage to another Dao Realm, drawing more factions into the Luozhen Conquest Alliance. As the Luozhen Sect prepared for war, Wan Tianshu approved True Lord Chiyan’s plan to release and temporarily control the Blackwater Mystic Serpent’s soul to disrupt its defenses.

• Wan Tianshu ordered the news about the Luozhen Sect and another Dao Realm spread across the five provinces to pressure neutral factions into joining the alliance.
• The Myriad Gu Sect and several Devil Dao Sects joined the Luozhen Conquest Alliance, bringing its membership from seventy-two sects to one hundred and twenty-six in three days.
• Mo Xuan, Fang Tong, and Li Yunjing discussed the growing threat at the Luozhen Sect and resolved to fight rather than retreat.
• True Lord Chiyan told the Departing Fire Sect’s Dao Union True Lords that the Blackwater Mystic Serpent’s soul was sealed in the Azure Jiao Marsh and could disrupt the Luozhen Sect’s earth-vein defenses.
• Wan Tianshu assigned True Lord Chiyan to release the serpent’s soul using a Method Formula to control it temporarily.