Recaps

Li Yunjing led the Luozhen Sect’s fleet to Xuandu Mountain, where Ancestor Xuanyuan offered concessions to buy time for aid from the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm. Li Yunjing rejected the offer and ordered the fleet to attack the Daozhen Sect’s protective formation, leaving Ancestor Xuanyuan ready to retaliate.

• Li Yunjing positioned thirty-six warships outside Xuandu Mountain and waited for the Daozhen Sect to respond.
• Ancestor Xuanyuan emerged and offered an apology, resources, and a third of Xuandu Mountain’s fields and mineral veins in exchange for peace.
• Li Yunjing accused Ancestor Xuanyuan of stalling while seeking aid from Immortal Lord Qingxu, and Ancestor Xuanyuan’s reaction confirmed his suspicion.
• Li Yunjing refused to spare the Daozhen Sect and ordered the fleet to fire on the Nine Purities Profound Heaven Grand Formation.
• The thirty-six cannons struck the formation in a single volley, making Xuandu Mountain tremble and forcing Ancestor Xuanyuan to prepare to fight.

Li Yunjing used the Luozhen Sect’s Semi-Immortal Artifact, the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner, to overpower Ancestor Xuanyuan and damage the Nine Purities Profound Heaven Grand Formation. He sealed Xuanyuan’s life-bound treasure and prepared to strike again, leaving Xuanyuan exposed.

• Ancestor Xuanyuan strengthened the Nine Purities Profound Heaven Grand Formation, allowing it to withstand a second volley from Li Yunjing’s fleet.
• Li Yunjing revealed the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner and flew alone to confront Ancestor Xuanyuan.
• Ancestor Xuanyuan was shocked to discover Li Yunjing wielded a Semi-Immortal Artifact, but still claimed it could not defeat him.
• Li Yunjing struck the formation twice with the banner, cracking its defenses, shattering its light wall, and injuring Ancestor Xuanyuan through the backlash.
• Li Yunjing cast a soul-sealing net that trapped Ancestor Xuanyuan’s Xuanyuan Seal, then activated the banner’s Annihilate technique.

Li Yunjing killed Ancestor Xuanyuan and led the Luozhen Sect to conquer Xuandu Mountain, destroying the Daozhen Sect’s leadership and seizing its resources. He ordered a branch sect established there, leaving the Luozhen Sect to consolidate its new territory.

• Li Yunjing used the Pure Subtlety Spiritual Banner to wound Ancestor Xuanyuan and prevent the Daozhen Sect from fleeing.
• Li Yunjing struck Ancestor Xuanyuan with the Nine True Magnetic Light Sword and killed him.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to break the formation and take Xuandu Mountain, where its disciples defeated the remaining Daozhen Sect forces.
• Mo Xuan reported the battle’s casualties, captives, and seized resources to Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing ordered the spoils inventoried, set terms for captives, and appointed Second Elder Junior Sister Shui to lead a Luozhen Sect branch in Flying Immortal Prefecture.

After the Luozhen Sect destroyed the Daozhen Sect, the Immortal Alliance praised Li Yunjing and promoted him to one of the Three Sovereigns. Li Yunjing prepared to expand Luozhen Province and the Dao Realm, knowing Immortal Lord Qingxu would eventually retaliate.

• News of the Daozhen Sect’s destruction spread, and frightened sects sent gifts and envoys to Xuandu Mountain to seek the Luozhen Sect’s favor.
• At the Immortal Alliance council, Zhang Jianchen rejected calls to suppress Li Yunjing and ordered the alliance to commend the Luozhen Sect and promote Li Yunjing to one of the Three Sovereigns.
• Li Yunjing accepted the appointment without much concern and sent the Immortal Alliance a letter of thanks and a return gift of immortal spirit rice and spirit medicines.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit reported that the Immortal Vein was stabilizing and warned that Immortal Lord Qingxu would seek retaliation for Xuanyuan’s death and the Daozhen Sect’s destruction.
• Li Yunjing planned to develop Luozhen Province and establish the seventh, eighth, and ninth provinces to accelerate the Dao Realm’s elevation into an Immortal Realm.

Li Yunjing introduced identity jade plaques and a Personnel Hall to register cultivators entering Luozhen Province and curb crime. The new rules drove away many outsiders with ill intentions, leaving the province safer and more orderly.

• As Luozhen Province drew more outsiders, theft, brawling, and a Devil Cultivator attack strained the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Li Yunjing ordered the creation of a Personnel Hall and required every cultivator entering the province to register their information and divine soul for an identity jade plaque.
• Fang Tong was assigned to establish the Personnel Hall, while Artifact Peak was tasked with making tamper-proof plaques.
• Three days later, the Personnel Hall opened at Luozhen City's gates, where disciples registered arrivals and issued plaques.
• Many cultivators who refused divine soul registration left, and nearly thirty percent of outsiders departed within ten days.
• Mo Xuan observed that crime had fallen and the remaining cultivators had made Luozhen Province more stable.

Li Yunjing organized Luozhen Province’s development and received news that the Biyuan Tribe had discovered a vast fallen star iron deposit. He sent Gu Lin and a guarded expedition to establish the mine, and the group reached Fallen Star Valley to inspect the ore.

• Li Yunjing advised Mo Xuan to strengthen Luozhen Province’s rules with a contribution point system as the province continued to grow.
• Li Yunjing learned from Zhi Qianshu that a falling star had created Fallen Star Valley, rich in fallen star iron, and agreed to give the Biyuan Tribe twenty percent of the proceeds.
• Li Yunjing ordered Gu Lin, Artifact Hall disciples, formation masters, and Law Enforcement Hall guards to survey and develop the mine, with supplies and gifts for the tribe.
• Gu Lin led the advance party to the Biyuan Tribe, where Zhi Qianshu welcomed them and guided them to Fallen Star Valley.
• Gu Lin tested a piece of fallen star iron with a refined-steel knife, which notched while the ore remained unharmed.

A massive beast tide attacked Gu Lin and Zhi Qianshu’s mining camp after the fallen star attracted wild beasts to the Fallen Star Iron. As the defenders’ formation neared collapse, the Luozhen Sect’s First Fleet arrived and destroyed the tide’s three fifth-tier leaders, routing the beasts.

• Gu Lin and Zhi Qianshu organized the Fallen Star Iron mining operation with help from the Biyuan Tribe and Luozhen Sect disciples.
• Zhi Qianshu warned Gu Lin that a huge beast tide was approaching, drawn by the fallen star’s presence.
• Gu Lin ordered the camp to defend the valley entrance, activate its formation, and request reinforcements as the beasts attacked.
• The defensive barrier weakened under repeated assaults, and wild beasts broke into the camp while the defenders waited for help.
• Chen Feng led the First Fleet’s thirty-six warships in an attack, killing the three fifth-tier beasts with the capital ships’ main guns.
• With their leaders dead, the beast tide scattered, and the defenders and fleet routed the remaining beasts in under two hours.

Li Yunjing welcomed Su Zhen and the Departing Maple Sect, his old ally, to relocate to Luozhen Province. He offered them a home in Clear Wind Valley and help establishing their sect, leaving Su Zhen grateful and the two sects poised to renew their alliance.

• Chen Feng told Gu Lin and Zhi Qianshu that Li Yunjing had sent the fleet to defend the mine and would leave ten frigates there.
• Li Yunjing welcomed Su Zhen and two Golden Core elders from the Departing Maple Sect to Luozhen City.
• Su Zhen explained that the Departing Maple Sect had prospered under Luozhen Sect's protection but wanted to move to Luozhen Province for better opportunities.
• Su Zhen asked Li Yunjing to let the entire Departing Maple Sect relocate, and Li agreed, welcoming them as old allies.
• Li Yunjing offered the Departing Maple Sect Clear Wind Valley as its base and promised to arrange initial materials and Spirit Stones as a loan.

Li Yunjing arranged a medium-grade Spirit Vein and resources for Su Zhen’s Departing Maple Sect, then invited him to inspect a beast tide near the Biyuan Tribe and the Fallen Star Ore mine. After the tide was quelled, Li Yunjing and Su Zhen set out for the western borderlands, where the scenery shifted to black stone mountains.

• Li Yunjing offered Su Zhen’s sect Clear Wind Valley and support for its relocation to Luozhen Province.
• Mo Xuan showed Su Zhen and the two Departing Maple Sect elders the valley, and Su Zhen sent a disciple to Flying Immortal Prefecture to prepare the sect’s move.
• Su Zhen explored Luozhen City and heard people praise Li Yunjing’s strength, governance, and loyalty.
• Li Yunjing received word that the beast tide had been quelled, with more than three thousand desolate beasts killed and no deaths among the defenders.
• Li Yunjing and Su Zhen left for the western borderlands by flying boat to inspect the newly established mine.

Li Yunjing secured the Fallen Star Valley mine and set rules for future settlers in Luozhen Province. After the Departing Maple Sect relocated, applications poured in, and Li ordered the Personnel Department to select a small second group for a trial period.

• Li Yunjing inspected Fallen Star Valley, where Gu Lin reported that the fallen star iron reserves exceeded expectations and Zhi Qianshu said the Biyuan Tribe had suffered few casualties.
• Li Yunjing arranged the mine’s management and defenses, agreed to give the Biyuan Tribe twenty percent of the proceeds, and prioritized ore for Spirit Treasures, fleet upgrades, and weapons.
• Li Yunjing told Su Zhen that future sects would need clean backgrounds, follow provincial rules, and fulfill obligations; Su returned to oversee the Departing Maple Sect’s relocation.
• News that the Departing Maple Sect had moved to Luozhen Province and received a medium-grade Spirit Vein drew applications from thirty-seven sects.
• Li Yunjing instructed Mo Xuan to reject sects with tainted backgrounds or insufficient strength and select three to five reputable sects for a six-month trial near Luozhen City.

Li Yunjing organized Luozhen Province’s governance, approved new sects to settle there, and prepared to enter seclusion after its foundations were established. He began cultivating to break through from the Middle Void Refinement Stage, and his seclusion lasted half a year.

• Li Yunjing and Mo Xuan established annual contributions and wartime obligations for sects in Luozhen Province and created a Provincial Governor’s Office to oversee the province.
• Li Yunjing welcomed Su Zhen and the Departing Maple Sect to Clear Wind Valley, where Su Zhen urged his disciples to honor Li Yunjing’s support and follow the rules.
• After the Departing Maple Sect prospered in Luozhen Province, sixty-two sects applied to move there, and Li Yunjing assigned seven qualified sects suitable territories and duties.
• Mo Xuan reported that the Fallen Star mine was producing iron for the fleet’s upgraded cannons and planned escort ships, and Li Yunjing prioritized defense supplies.
• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan he would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough, then began cultivating in his cave abode three days later.
• Li Yunjing’s seclusion continued for half a year.

Gu Xuan returned to the Luozhen Sect after two years away, having advanced to Spirit Transformation Peak through the inheritance of the High Antiquity Moon God, Wangshu. Her return left the sect astonished, while the Moon God inheritance was kept secret from most disciples.

• Over the past six months, Luozhen Sect expanded its ranks and gained three new Void Refinement elders: Fang Hexuan, Mu You, and Jin Ruoxu.
• Gu Xuan arrived at Luozhen Mountain and presented her True Disciple jade token to the disciple on duty.
• Gu Lin hurried to greet his daughter, and Gu Xuan told him she had been delayed in a High Antiquity secret realm.
• Mo Xuan discovered that Gu Xuan had reached Spirit Transformation Peak and learned she had become Wangshu's personal disciple after receiving the Moon God inheritance.
• Mo Xuan advised Gu Xuan to keep the inheritance secret while Li Yunjing remained in seclusion.
• Gu Xuan demonstrated Moon God Swordsmanship at the training ground and defeated a Late Spirit Transformation elder, stirring excitement throughout the sect.

Li Yunjing emerged from seclusion at Void Refinement Perfection and explained the three tribulations required to enter the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. The Luozhen Sect’s celebrations ended when a bloodstained dispatch reported a massive beast tide threatening the western frontier and its mine.

• A Spiritual Qi vortex gathered over the Sect Master's cave abode, and Li Yunjing emerged from seclusion as the elders welcomed him.
• Mo Xuan told Li Yunjing that Gu Xuan had inherited the Moon Goddess of High Antiquity’s legacy, and Li Yunjing pledged the sect’s support for her cultivation.
• Li Yunjing revealed that he had reached Void Refinement Perfection and described the Wind, Fire, and Lightning Tribulations.
• Li Yunjing postponed undergoing the Wind Tribulation so he could stabilize his foundation and attend to sect affairs.
• Mo Xuan delivered Zhi Qianshu’s urgent dispatch, which reported a beast tide ten times larger than usual, including a suspected seventh-tier wild beast, and called for reinforcements.

Li Yunjing led Luozhen Sect’s fleet to reinforce the Biyuan Tribe against an unusually powerful beast tide, whose frenzy was linked to spreading black mist and a dangerous presence. As the fleet neared Fallen Star Valley, Moon God Wangshu appeared and addressed Li Yunjing, her attention fixed on the cauldron within him.

• Li Yunjing ordered the First Fleet, two Void Refinement elders, and other sect members to reinforce the Biyuan Tribe, and Gu Xuan joined because of her Moon God inheritance.
• The thirty-six warships departed for the western frontier, while Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan discussed the growing frequency and strength of beast tides and suspected the earth veins were involved.
• A branch elder reported that the Biyuan Tribe was besieged at the mine, casualties were heavy, and black mist from the Great Wilderness was driving wild beasts into a frenzy.
• Gu Xuan sensed a chaotic presence marked by decay and violence that seemed to disrupt the laws, and Li Yunjing ordered the fleet to reach Fallen Star Valley within two hours.
• Moon God Wangshu appeared in the command room, and Li Yunjing revealed that he had long known she was hidden in Gu Xuan’s sea of consciousness.
• Wangshu ignored Fang Hexuan and Mu You’s challenge and fixed her gaze on the small cauldron within Li Yunjing.

Wangshu revealed that the final God-Slaying Tribulation was approaching and that Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect offered the gods their only chance to survive it. Li Yunjing allowed Wangshu to stay in the sect under strict conditions, including teaching Gu Xuan and helping when the calamity struck.

• Wangshu told Li Yunjing that the gods had been purged during High Antiquity by a God-Slaying Tribulation, and that an even more destructive final tribulation was nearing.
• Wangshu said her calculations had pointed to Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect as the gods’ sole hope of escaping the coming tribulation and becoming immortal gods.
• Wangshu offered to teach Gu Xuan the complete Moon God lineage, share High Antiquity secrets, and help the sect protect the region from the tribulation’s effects.
• Wangshu warned that the tribulation could begin in three to five years or within a dozen years, and that the previous one had killed seven or eight out of every ten people.
• Li Yunjing permitted Wangshu to remain in the Luozhen Sect, requiring her to obey his rules, teach Gu Xuan fully, and aid the sect during a catastrophic calamity.

Li Yunjing accepted Wangshu as a bound guest elder, then led the sect’s fleet to rescue Fallen Star Valley from a beast tide. Gu Xuan calmed some of the beasts with her Moon God Inheritance while Li Yunjing fought three sixth-tier Black Stone Giant Rhinoceroses barehanded, leaving the battle underway.

• Wangshu agreed to Li Yunjing’s four rules, sealed a contract with him, and returned to Gu Xuan’s sea of consciousness.
• Li Yunjing explained that the Five Aggregates Cauldron and contract could restrain Wangshu, and ordered those present to keep her existence secret.
• After a scout reported that Fallen Star Valley’s defenses were close to collapsing, Li Yunjing ordered the fleet to attack and sent Fang Hexuan and Mu You to reinforce the camp.
• Gu Xuan spread moonlight over the beast tide, calming many low-tier desolate beasts as Zhi Qianshu rallied the camp’s warriors.
• Li Yunjing attacked the three Black Stone Giant Rhinoceroses without weapons, wounding one with a punch and blocking two others’ attacks with his Taiyi Qingwei Shield.
• Li Yunjing appeared on the back of the rightmost rhinoceros and slammed his fist down, breaking bone.

Li Yunjing defeated a beast tide at Fallen Star Valley and discovered that Tribulation Qi from the depths of the Great Wilderness was driving desolate beasts mad. After returning to Luozhen City, he warned the Luozhen Sect that the Final God-Slaying Tribulation was approaching and ordered preparations for war.

• Li Yunjing killed two sixth-tier giant rhinos, discovered Tribulation Qi in the surviving beast, and let it return to the Great Wilderness after warning it not to threaten Luozhen Province.
• Li Yunjing, Gu Xuan, the fleet, and the fighters broke the beast tide, then Li Yunjing arranged defenses and medical aid for Zhi Qianshu and the Biyuan clan.
• Li Yunjing returned to Luozhen City three days later and told the sect leadership that Tribulation Power could erupt within years or decades, bringing earth-vein disruptions, beast tides, and evil beings.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect to reinforce defenses, increase mining and armament production, train its disciples, expand the Hall of Rebirth, and strengthen ties with the Immortal Alliance and other sects.

Li Yunjing organized Luozhen Sect’s response to the approaching God-Slaying Tribulation and planned the creation of Northern Darkness Province. Meanwhile, the sect offered the battered Biyuan Tribe a safer home inland, and Zhi Qianshu asked his elders what they thought of relocating.

• Li Yunjing assigned Mo Xuan to oversee preparations and ordered the sect to prepare for Northern Darkness Province, the seventh province, to strengthen the Dao Realm against the God-Slaying Tribulation.
• Wangshu reassured Li Yunjing that the sect could withstand the tribulation and offered to share the Moon God Inheritance’s experience with Wind Tribulations.
• After the beast tide devastated the Biyuan Tribe, a Luozhen Sect deacon told Zhi Qianshu that Li Yunjing had offered the tribe land, support, and a totem hall on the Verdant Fertile Plain.
• Zhi Qianshu was moved by the offer and asked the tribal elders whether they agreed to relocate.

The Biyuan clan moved from the frozen plains to the Verdant Fertile Plain with help from Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect, which also planned their totem hall. Meanwhile, the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect learned of the Luozhen Sect’s rapid growth and considered sealing itself away again.

• Zhi Qianshu and the Biyuan clan elders agreed to relocate under the Luozhen Sect’s protection.
• The Luozhen Sect’s transport fleet brought the Biyuan people and their belongings to the Verdant Fertile Plain, where homes and communal spaces awaited them.
• Zhi Qianshu thanked Li Yunjing, who promised to build a totem hall according to the clan’s customs.
• Li Yunjing looked forward to upgrading the new totem hall once construction was complete.
• Ling Taixuan and the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect elders heard that the Luozhen Sect was expanding, that Gu Xuan had reached Spirit Transformation Peak, and that Li Yunjing had reached Void Refinement Perfection.
• With few options against the Luozhen Sect, Ling Taixuan proposed sealing Primordial Beginning Valley for eighty or a hundred years.

As the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect prepared to seal its mountain to avoid the Luozhen Sect, Heavenly Lord Haoyang arrived and offered a pact with the Heavenly Hao Alliance. The sect faced a choice between sheltering the gods and obeying their demands or risking destruction.

• Ling Taixuan prepared to order the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect to seal its mountain when a pillar of golden light appeared in the hall.
• Heavenly Lord Haoyang revealed that he knew the sect descended from the Primordial Beginning Clan, a secret Ling Taixuan had kept.
• Heavenly Lord Haoyang said the final God-Slaying Tribulation was approaching and that the sect's destiny offered his chance to survive.
• Heavenly Lord Haoyang proposed that the sect shelter the Heavenly Hao Alliance's gods in exchange for their support in uniting the Dao Realm and reviving the Primordial Beginning Clan.
• Heavenly Lord Haoyang demanded that the sect host the gods, follow the alliance's will, and eliminate its opponents, warning that refusal could bring the sect's destruction.

Ling Taixuan and Patriarch Xuanji joined Heavenly Lord Haoyang’s alliance and agreed to help attack the Luozhen Sect and Moon God Wangshu. Meanwhile, Li Yunjing upgraded the Biyuan Tribe’s Totem Hall to level eight, whereupon the tribe’s first ancestor manifested and blessed its people.

• Ling Taixuan pledged the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect to the Heavenly Hao Alliance after Heavenly Lord Haoyang explained the factions among the surviving gods.
• Heavenly Lord Haoyang named Moon God Wangshu and the Luozhen Sect as his first targets, and Ling Taixuan and Patriarch Xuanji eagerly offered to lead the attack.
• Three days later, Li Yunjing attended the Biyuan Tribe’s Totem Hall groundbreaking and added the building to his upgrade system.
• Li Yunjing upgraded the Totem Hall to level eight, causing it to rise into a magnificent structure before the astonished tribe.
• The Biyuan Tribe’s first ancestor manifested above the hall and scattered golden radiance that healed and strengthened the tribespeople.
• After the ancestor’s phantom vanished, Li Yunjing examined the level-eight Totem Hall’s spiritual effects.

Li Yunjing established the Totem Hall, whose blessings strengthened the Biyuan Tribe and benefited Luozhen Sect disciples through prayer and inheritance. As the Heavenly Hao Alliance prepared to target the sect, Li ordered its defenses reinforced, while Heavenly Lord Haoyang’s gods took shelter at the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect.

• Li Yunjing told Zhi Qianshu to organize daily sacrifices and open the Totem Hall to Luozhen Sect disciples while maintaining order.
• Ye Chen prayed in the hall and gained insight into the Mountain-Cleaving Force, inspiring other disciples to seek inheritances there.
• Ding Qifeng obtained a High Antiquity Body-Tempering Pill formula, and the hall became popular among Luozhen Sect disciples.
• More than a dozen Biyuan youths awakened their ancestor's bloodline, while Zhi Qianshu reached Dao Union Middle Stage and the tribe's warriors grew stronger.
• After learning that Heavenly Lord Haoyang and the Heavenly Hao Alliance might attack, Li Yunjing ordered the sect to reinforce its defenses and prepare for battle.
• At the Primordial Beginning Divine Hall, Primordial Lord Bi Shui told Haoyang that the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect's fortune shielded the gods from divine sense and weakened the Tribulation Qi's detection.

Haoyang ordered a covert probe of Luozhen Province, hoping to draw out Wangshu and discover the Luozhen Sect’s strength. After learning Li Yunjing possessed an Innate Immortal Artifact, Haoyang resolved to seize it and the Immortal Vein, while Ma Jingting and two Lower Gods attacked a border defense line.

• Haoyang tasked Golden Light and Black Stone with provoking the Luozhen Sect, and ordered War God Xuanjie to secretly assess Wangshu’s strength.
• Hundred Herbs Old Immortal reported that few Rogue Cultivators had agreed to join Haoyang, who urged the gods to eliminate their opponents to survive the Final God-Slaying Tribulation.
• Ling Taixuan told Haoyang that Li Yunjing possessed the Five Aggregates Cauldron, an Innate Immortal Artifact, and Haoyang decided to take it and the Immortal Vein.
• Ma Jingting led a hundred Primordial Beginning Dao Sect disciples alongside Golden Light and Black Stone to Luozhen Province’s eastern border.
• The attackers shattered the defense line’s formation, killed and wounded its defenders, looted and burned its supplies, and Black Stone contaminated the land and water with Tribulation Qi.
• After capturing the defense line, Ma Jingting’s group headed toward a nearby trade route to cause further trouble.

After Heavenly Hao Alliance raided Luozhen Sect’s eastern border, Gu Xuan pursued the attackers and confronted them in the Great Wilderness. She trapped their forces in her Moonlight Domain and began cutting down their disciples.

• Li Yunjing ordered the eastern border fortified and sent Gu Xuan to investigate the attackers’ divine power.
• Gu Xuan identified the golden token as bearing Heavenly Lord Haoyang’s sun-god power and traced the attackers east with two disciples.
• Gu Xuan caught Ma Jingting, Golden Light, Black Stone, and their Primordial Beginning Dao Sect force as they headed back through the wilderness.
• Ma Jingting ordered his disciples to attack Gu Xuan, while Golden Light and Black Stone struck at her with divine power.
• Gu Xuan unleashed her Moonlight Domain, killed the front ranks with a Moon Blade, and dissolved Golden Light’s needles before they could harm her.

Gu Xuan defeated the Primordial Beginning Dao Sect’s two Lower God envoys, but War God Xuanjie appeared and threatened Luozhen Province with destruction unless the Moon God was handed over within three days. Li Yunjing refused to betray Wangshu and ordered the Luozhen Sect to prepare for war.

• Gu Xuan used her Moonlight Domain and New and Full Moon Slash to gravely wound Golden Light and Black Stone, forcing Ma Jingting and the surviving disciples to flee.
• War God Xuanjie attacked Gu Xuan with a black war spear, then withdrew after sensing the Luozhen Sect’s Immortal Artifact approaching and issued a three-day ultimatum.
• Gu Xuan returned to Luozhen City and reported Xuanjie’s threat to Li Yunjing and the assembled elders.
• Li Yunjing rejected handing over Wangshu and ordered the Immortal Alliance to be contacted while the sect and its allies prepared defenses, weapons, medicine, and troops.