Recaps

After the Eastern Desolation swept the Central Continent in their matches, the Central Continent's young cultivators wondered what made the region so unusual. Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo discussed how the Fairness System had transformed cultivation and everyday life, and Qian Duoduo asked Liu Yi what he had been busy with.

• Zheng Siqi thanked viewers for their tips and ended the livestream after the Eastern Desolation won all three matches.
• Wei Jiaming, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao discussed the Eastern Desolation's secret realms and decided to travel there after the Flying Immortal Assembly.
• Qian Duoduo took Liu Yi and Little Yellow to the Supreme Bliss Pavilion, where Liu Yi found its massages inferior to those offered by the Azure Alliance.
• Liu Yi explained that the Azure Alliance's Fairness System gave people access to many Cultivation Methods, techniques, and the Dao Comprehension Space, helping them improve their skills.
• Qian Duoduo credited the Fairness System with changing countless lives and helping him reach the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Liu Yi reminded him that his own effort mattered too.
• Qian Duoduo said he would remain a loyal supporter of the Fairness System and asked Liu Yi what he had been busy with lately.

Liu Yi told Qian Duoduo about Li Zhiyuan and the Peasants' Association’s rebellion and their effort to build a harmonious society, leaving both men eager to see how far it could go. Meanwhile, Zhu Yizhou fled after losing to Su Yuxuan and hid in a mortal city to recover from his injuries.

• Liu Yi explained that Li Zhiyuan’s Peasants' Association was close to overthrowing Qing State and had united its people around building a harmonious society.
• Qian Duoduo agreed to visit Li Zhiyuan and the Peasants' Association with Liu Yi after the Flying Immortal Assembly, while Liu Yi described their secret supporters and rapid progress.
• Liu Yi revealed that Li Zhiyuan had reached the Late Dao Seed Realm and said the Peasants' Association’s people had unusually high realms of heart and spirit.
• Zhu Yizhou raged over his crushing defeat by Su Yuxuan and his fear of returning to the Azure Cloud Sect, especially after seeing Wang Ruoxi’s disdain.
• Zhu Yizhou spat blood, entered a nearby mortal city, bought a house, set up a simple formation, and began healing in seclusion.

Liu Yi infiltrated the Wei Household to examine Wei Mo’s bloodline and advanced his deductions toward a Dao Body Realm cultivation method. Meanwhile, Emperor Jin Ming and Qing State’s officials faced the approaching Peasants’ Association rebels without their state-protecting immortal master or a viable defense.

• Liu Yi entered the Wei Household undetected, overheard Wei Mo’s men discuss Qian Duoduo, and made Wei Mo fall asleep with the Power of the Mind.
• Liu Yi examined Wei Mo’s bloodline and found Great Dao runes inherited from an ancestor, then concluded his Dao Body Realm cultivation method was close to taking shape.
• Liu Yi erased his tracking mark and escaped the Wei Household without being discovered.
• Emperor Jin Ming learned from Qin Meng that the search for the state-protecting immortal master had failed and that the Qing army could not stop the rebels.
• Qin Meng explained that the Fairness System had enabled the Peasants’ Association to grow, but the court’s officials and most of their clans’ younger members could not bind it.
• The officials blamed the Fairness System and debated surrender as the rebels approached the capital.

Jin Ming and his officials chose to resist the Peasants' Association rather than surrender, while Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo discussed the new society and its challenges. As the Peasants' Association prepared to take the Qing State's capital, its leaders debated the fate of the court and nobles, with many demanding their execution.

• Jin Ming rejected surrender and ordered Qin Meng and Li Shou to organize a final resistance against the Peasants' Association.
• Qian Duoduo told Liu Yi that the Peasants' Association's territory had thriving infrastructure and hopeful people, but warned that building a harmonious society would bring serious challenges.
• Qian Duoduo praised Li Zhiyuan's extraordinary state of mind, and Liu Yi agreed that establishing the new society mattered despite the difficulties ahead.
• Li Zhiyuan warned the Peasants' Association's senior members that defeating the Qing State would leave them facing the greater threat of the Evil Soul Hall.
• Yang Ning asked how to handle officials offering to surrender and what to do with the Qing State's rulers and nobles.
• Zhou Kang and other senior members argued that the Qing State's emperor, officials, princes, nobles, and their Lineages should be tried and executed for oppressing the people.

Li Zhiyuan prepared the Peasants' Association to establish Xin State and agreed to command its final assault on Qing State's capital. As the army stormed the city, Liu Yi, Qian Duoduo, and Little Yellow observed alongside more than a hundred other system hosts curious about the experiment in harmonious society.

• Li Zhiyuan declared Qing State's emperor, officials, princes, and nobles responsible for helping the Evil Soul Hall and said they would face public trial and execution according to their crimes.
• Li Zhiyuan agreed to attend the final assault while leaving its battle plans to Yang Ning, and the leaders voted to name the new country Xin State and its capital Peace City.
• Li Zhiyuan warned the leaders that ideological education was essential to prevent their new society from collapsing.
• Three days later, the Peasants' Association's five hundred thousand soldiers breached Qing State's capital and swept into the city.
• Liu Yi, Qian Duoduo, and Little Yellow spotted more than a hundred concealed system hosts watching the battle and discussed why the harmonious society had drawn their interest.

The Peasants' Association put Qing State’s emperor, officials, and nobles on public trial, then executed them after the people recounted their grievances. Watching the trial, Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo reflected on how the system had helped break the people’s belief in inherited power before heading to the Portable Daoist Sanctum for a feast.

• Zhou Kang presided over the public trial of Jin Ming, Qin Meng, and Qing State’s other rulers while the Peasants' Association organized relief and system binding for the people.
• The captured emperor, officials, and nobles protested their trial, but Zhou Kang ordered soldiers to silence them as the crowd began recounting years of oppression.
• After hearing the people’s grievances, Zhou Kang declared that the rulers would be executed, and the Peasants' Association soldiers beheaded them before the cheering crowd.
• Qian Duoduo and Liu Yi watched the execution and discussed how it had shattered the emperor’s sacred image and challenged inherited status.
• Liu Yi invited Qian Duoduo into the Portable Daoist Sanctum for a meal, and Little Yellow proudly promised to cook.

After Little Yellow discovered that Bai Qianqian was being pursued by a Void Return Realm cultivator from the Evil Soul Hall, Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo watched her livestream and discussed her chances. Bai Qianqian stayed composed, thanked viewers for their gifts, and fought back against her pursuer as Jiang Yuan continued closing in.

• Little Yellow alerted Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo that an Evil Soul Hall expert was hunting Bai Qianqian, and Liu Yi checked her livestream.
• Liu Yi reassured Little Yellow that Bai Qianqian was likely safe, while Qian Duoduo praised her composure and joked about improving by being hunted.
• Little Yellow urged Liu Yi to intervene, but Liu Yi said Bai Qianqian might be using the danger to temper herself and revealed he had given her her System Seed.
• Bai Qianqian noticed Jiang Yuan gaining on her, thanked her livestream viewers for their gifts, and slashed at him with Slaughter Sword Qi.
• Jiang Yuan blocked Bai Qianqian's attacks with Evil Spirit Great Handprints and pressed through the resulting energy shockwaves in pursuit.

Bai Qianqian fled toward the Mysterious Splendor Pavilion while Jiang Yuan pursued her with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, repeatedly attacking her along the way. She stopped to destroy the banner and its fierce ghosts, leaving Jiang Yuan enraged and ready to attack her at close range.

• Bai Qianqian fled toward the Mysterious Splendor Pavilion as Jiang Yuan crushed her Sword Qi and pursued her with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to increase his speed.
• Bai Qianqian kept flying while blocking Jiang Yuan’s repeated Evil Spirit Great Handprints and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner with her Slaughter Sword Qi.
• Bai Qianqian stopped and summoned more than a hundred identical figures, whose Slaughter Sword Qi struck the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Bai Qianqian’s attack destroyed the banner and annihilated the fierce ghosts inside it, and Jiang Yuan raged that she had ruined his weapon.

Bai Qianqian fought Jiang Yuan with combat power approaching the Void Return Realm, then unleashed a devastating sword technique that nearly destroyed his Ten Thousand Souls Banner. She escaped using the Golden Peng Wings while Jiang Yuan pursued her, unable to catch up.

• Bai Qianqian activated her Secret Method and clashed with Jiang Yuan, matching his attacks despite his Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Liu Yi praised Bai Qianqian’s strength and reminded Qian Duoduo that he still needed fighting spirit to grow stronger.
• Bai Qianqian sensed her Secret Method was nearing its limit and unleashed two hundred sword figures, joining their Slaughter Sword Qi into a river that devastated Jiang Yuan’s banner and ghosts.
• Bai Qianqian used the Golden Peng Wings to flee, while Jiang Yuan pursued her furiously but fell farther behind.
• Viewers in Bai Qianqian’s livestream praised her strength, decisive escape, and ability to evade Jiang Yuan.

Bai Qianqian escaped Jiang Yuan by invoking the Mysterious Splendor Pavilion’s name and then teleporting a million li away, where she ended her livestream and prepared to recover. Meanwhile, Li Zhiyuan planned to found a nation in a month, and Liu Yi’s companions praised Qianqian’s carefully planned escape.

• Bai Qianqian reached the Mysterious Splendor Pavilion’s mountain gate, causing Jiang Yuan to stop pursuing her, then used Spatial Teleportation to escape far away.
• Bai Qianqian entered her Portable Daoist Sanctum, announced the end of her yearlong livestream, and discovered she had earned 265.4 billion Energy Points.
• Bai Qianqian chose to keep the 186 captured Evil Soul Hall cultivators imprisoned rather than kill them immediately and alert the sect.
• Xu Cheng'an and Li Zhiyuan discussed the risks of losing Bai Qianqian’s cover, and Li Zhiyuan said the Peasants' Association would found its nation in a month.
• Little Yellow, Qian Duoduo, and Liu Yi praised Bai Qianqian’s escape strategy before Little Yellow lunged at Qian Duoduo for laughing at him.

As Li Zhiyuan and the Peasants' Association prepared to found the Azure Billows Realm's first harmonious society nation, Xu Cheng'an livestreamed the ceremony and gained insight into the Great Dao of Thunder. The chapter ended with Li Zhiyuan ascending the altar, aware that the fledgling nation faced a perilous future but determined to uphold it.

• Li Zhiyuan and the Peasants' Association reorganized their territories, opened the former Qing imperial palace to the public, and prepared Peace City for the founding ceremony.
• Xu Cheng'an watched the jubilant ceremony from above, gained sudden enlightenment about the Great Dao of Thunder, and started a livestream that quickly attracted millions of viewers.
• Liu Yi and Qian Duoduo discussed how difficult it would be to maintain a harmonious society, and Liu Yi said the people would reject anyone trying to become emperor again.
• Li Zhiyuan, Zhou Kang, Yang Ning, and other Peasants' Association leaders climbed the altar's ninety-nine steps to announce the nation's founding.
• Li Zhiyuan remained determined to protect the new society through ideological education and strength, despite recognizing that it could collapse if they made a mistake.

Li Zhiyuan founded Xin State with the Peasants' Association, but Jiang Yuan of the Evil Soul Hall arrived to destroy it before the ceremony had ended. As Li Zhiyuan and his companions prepared to face death, Liu Yi stayed calm and waited for Jiang Yuan to come closer.

• Li Zhiyuan proclaimed Xin State's founding and called for the Heavenly Dao and Fairness System to bless it.
• Jiang Yuan arrived and crushed the citizens beneath his overwhelming pressure, threatening to kill Li Zhiyuan for destroying Qing State without the Evil Soul Hall's permission.
• Li Zhiyuan urged Zhou Kang, Yang Ning, and the other leaders to escape and organize an evacuation, but they chose to stay with him.
• The livestream viewers, Xu Cheng'an, Qian Duoduo, and Little Yellow recognized that Xin State faced destruction, while the Peasants' Association's leaders accepted their likely deaths.
• Little Yellow and Qian Duoduo asked Liu Yi to kill Jiang Yuan, but Liu Yi chose to wait until Jiang Yuan came closer.

Jiang Yuan attacked the founding ceremony in Peace City and threatened to kill the gathered cultivators and leaders of the Peasants' Association. Little Yellow taunted him, then fled behind Liu Yi when Jiang Yuan struck, leaving Liu Yi poised to intervene.

• Jiang Yuan learned Qing State had fallen and hurried to Peace City, where he revealed the hidden system hosts with a blast of Qi.
• Jiang Yuan accused the gathered cultivators and the Peasants' Association leaders of destroying Qing State and demanded that they submit to the Evil Soul Hall.
• Li Zhiyuan, Zhou Kang, and the other leaders refused to become the Evil Soul Hall's lackeys, while the system hosts prepared to fight or escape.
• Little Yellow challenged and mocked Jiang Yuan, drawing his fury as Qian Duoduo and the other hosts realized Liu Yi was concealed nearby.
• Jiang Yuan attacked Little Yellow with an Evil Spirit Great Handprint, and Little Yellow and Qian Duoduo ducked behind Liu Yi for protection.

Liu Yi appeared at Xin State’s founding ceremony and used World in the Palm to suppress Jiang Yuan after blocking his attack. With the threat gone, the ceremony resumed, and the people of Xin State thanked Liu Yi for saving them.

• Liu Yi blocked Jiang Yuan’s Evil Spirit Great Handprint with the Five Elements Palm while holding back enough to protect the city below.
• Jiang Yuan threatened Liu Yi and Little Yellow, while the system hosts and Xin State’s leaders welcomed Liu Yi’s arrival.
• Liu Yi used World in the Palm to draw Jiang Yuan into an illusory domain and suppress him before he could resist.
• Li Zhiyuan and the people of Xin State thanked Liu Yi, who lifted them to their feet and told Li Zhiyuan to continue the ceremony.
• Li Zhiyuan resumed Xin State’s founding ceremony as Xu Cheng'an and viewers on his livestream expressed relief that Liu Yi had stopped Jiang Yuan.

After the Xin State’s founding ceremony, its supporters departed while Li Zhiyuan vowed to build the nation into an ideal society. Zhu Pengcheng reflected on Great Ming’s limits and the example set by the Xin State as three Central Continent geniuses traveled toward the Eastern Desolation.

• Qian Duoduo said goodbye to Liu Yi and Little Yellow, promising to take them to an Azure Alliance brothel, then left using Spatial Teleportation.
• Xu Cheng'an ended his livestream, celebrated earning 9.6 billion Energy Points, and departed after urging Li Zhiyuan to uphold the Xin State’s principles.
• Li Zhiyuan rallied Zhou Kang, Yang Ning, and the other Peasants’ Association leaders to strengthen the Xin State and spread its principles.
• Zhu Pengcheng concluded that Liu Yi and others were likely backing the Xin State, then considered Great Ming’s weak foundations, inability to expand, and his own constrained position.
• Wei Jiaming, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao traveled by flying boat from the Central Continent toward the Eastern Desolation to investigate its gifted geniuses.

Wei Jiaming, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao traveled deeper into the Eastern Desolation and discovered its crowded skies and unusual flying Law Treasures. After watching Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran battle in mecha, they learned that artificial heavenly spirit roots had divided the Cloud Soaring Pavilion and realized these roots explained the region’s many cultivators.

• Chen Xingci, Wang Ruoyao, and Wei Jiaming remarked on the Eastern Desolation’s scarce Spiritual Qi despite its unusually large number of cultivators and strange flying Law Treasures.
• Wei Jiaming stored their flying boat, and the three joined a crowd watching Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran fight in mecha.
• Onlookers explained that Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran’s feud reflected a split in the Cloud Soaring Pavilion between innate and artificial heavenly spirit root factions.
• Chen Xingci wondered whether artificial heavenly spirit roots were refined by humans, and Wei Jiaming concluded that the breakthrough explained the Eastern Desolation’s many cultivators.

Wei Jiaming, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao questioned how the Eastern Desolation supported its cultivators until Yan Cheng gave them System Seeds and they discovered the Fairness System. They were astonished to learn that nearly everyone in the Eastern Desolation and most people in the Central Continent’s mortal world had already bound to it.

• Wang Ruoyao, Wei Jiaming, and Chen Xingci wondered how the Eastern Desolation provided cultivation resources and how its martial cultivators could rival immortal cultivators.
• Wei Jiaming approached Yan Cheng, who explained that the Eastern Desolation’s cultivators bought resources through the System Store and mortal cities rather than nearby immortal cultivation markets.
• Yan Cheng gave Wei Jiaming, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao three System Seeds, and all three agreed to bind to the Fairness System.
• Wei Jiaming and his companions explored the system’s cultivation features, stores, communication tools, and other systems, reacting with shock and excitement.
• Yan Cheng told the three newcomers that nearly everyone in the Eastern Desolation and most people in the Central Continent’s mortal world had already bound to the system, leaving them incredulous.

Yan Cheng explained how the Fairness System had spread and how its cultivation methods and Energy Points helped address the Eastern Desolation’s energy shortage, shocking Wei Jiaming and his companions. Meanwhile, Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran fought to a draw, argued over their prospects, and ended the match with Zhao Xin profiting from gifts on his livestream.

• Yan Cheng told Wei Jiaming, Wang Ruoyao, and their companion that the Fairness System had spread through much of the world and explained how Dao Seed Martial Dao methods and Energy Points supplied cultivation energy.
• Wei Jiaming, Wang Ruoyao, and their companion were astonished that Dao Seed Martial Dao methods could absorb sunlight, moonlight, and starlight, and they turned to the system, TikTok, and forums to learn more.
• Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran fought with mechas, Law Treasures, fists, and feet until their battle ended in a draw.
• Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran argued over their cultivation aptitudes and chances of reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Xiao Ran hastily denied questioning the Fairness System.
• Zhao Xin ended the match, then thanked his livestream audience for their gifts and promised to defeat Xiao Ran in a future battle.

Wei Jiaming, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao realized how far behind they were after watching Zhao Xin and Xiao Ran's duel, then traveled to the Great Ming capital to see how the mortal world had changed. They entered the city in awe of its scale, advanced construction, and orderly crowds.

• Chen Xingci and Wei Jiaming lamented how difficult the Combat Power Ranking had become, while Wang Ruoyao noted that the Fairness System would make competition across the Azure Firmament Continent even fiercer.
• Chen Xingci suggested selling their sects' cultivation methods to earn Energy Points and asked whether they should tell their sects about the system; the three silently chose not to discuss the latter question further.
• Wei Jiaming suggested visiting the mortal world, and he, Chen Xingci, and Wang Ruoyao flew toward the Great Ming capital.
• The three were stunned by the capital's immense size and splendor, and Wang Ruoyao led them toward its gate to explore.
• Wei Jiaming and Chen Xingci examined the city's formation-covered walls and dangerous War Weapons, while Wang Ruoyao explained that the wall material was called cement.

Wei Jiaming, Wang Ruoyao, and Chen Xingci explored the Great Ming Fortune Dynasty and marveled at how cultivation techniques and a prosperous system shaped everyday life. After seeing a farmer use a water-element Law Technique to irrigate fields, they decided to travel elsewhere in the Eastern Desolation.

• Wei Jiaming and Chen Xingci noted the abundance of powerful cultivators in the Eastern Desolation, while Wang Ruoyao explained that resources, comprehension, and thin spiritual energy would limit future breakthroughs.
• The three entered the capital and saw cultivators using techniques to make sugar paintings, roast meat, and prepare noodles as part of ordinary commerce.
• Wang Ruoyao recounted how Zhu Pengcheng rose after the Temple of the God of Light fell and transformed Great Ming with the Fairness System, while Chen Xingci remarked on the strength concealed among ordinary people.
• The three spent a day exploring shops and sampling Spirit Cuisine before leaving the capital.
• They saw a farmer use a water-element Law Technique to bring rain to farmland, then agreed to explore more of the Eastern Desolation.

Liu Yi cleansed Jiang Yuan’s mind and sent him back to the Evil Soul Hall as a secretly reformed agent before entering seclusion to break through to the Dao Body Realm. He opened the first of his World Seeds into a small world, but discovered that it could only draw energy indirectly from the endless void, limiting its growth.

• Liu Yi used the Spirit Cleansing Technique on Jiang Yuan, who awoke revering him as Master and vowed to follow the righteous path.
• Liu Yi ordered Jiang Yuan to return to the Evil Soul Hall and secretly protect Xin State without committing evil.
• Liu Yi instructed Little Yellow to guard the Portable Daoist Sanctum while he entered seclusion to break through to the Dao Body Realm.
• Liu Yi circulated the Dao Body Realm cultivation method and used a Divine Sense clone to open a World Seed, creating heaven, earth, the Great Daos, a Star Space, and a Netherworld.
• Liu Yi found that the new Cell World could not draw energy directly from the Chaos Sea or endless void and would have to grow slowly by converting distant chaotic currents.

Liu Yi continued opening World Seeds as the Great Dao light around him formed a cocoon. Meanwhile, Liang Junchi persuaded a gathering of Blood Devil cultivators to swear allegiance to him in exchange for a chance to enter the Blood Devil Secret Realm, and they set out for Blood Devil Ridge.

• Liu Yi divided his Divine Sense among another million World Seeds and began opening more Cell Worlds, causing a cocoon of Dao light to form around him.
• Liang Junchi told 103 Blood Devil cultivators that he had found a way to enter the Blood Devil Secret Realm, where they might discover the lost stages of their cultivation method.
• Liang Junchi demanded that the cultivators acknowledge him as leader of a rebuilt Blood Devil Sect, and Zhou Chen and the others agreed.
• Zhou Chen and the other cultivators made Heavenly Dao Oaths to recognize Liang Junchi as sect leader if he led them to the lost cultivation stages.
• Liang Junchi revealed that a spatial rift appeared every three months in a valley on Blood Devil Ridge, and that it would open again in half a month.
• Liang Junchi and the other Blood Devil cultivators transformed into streaks of red light and hurried toward Blood Devil Ridge.

Wu Ruohan introduced the Fairness System to the eight elders of the Hehuan Sect, who learned how it could transform cultivation and disrupt the balance between sects. After warning them that violating the system’s rules could destroy their sect, she called for them to adapt their inherited methods and plan for the changing era.

• Wu Ruohan gave the eight elders System Seeds, and they bound the Fairness System and explored its features.
• Zhao Qingling and Zheng Yunshu discussed how the system’s treasures and the Dao Seed Martial Dao System could change cultivation and threaten the Immortal Cultivation System.
• Feng Yuran suggested stopping the Dao Seed Martial Dao System’s spread or claiming the system, but Zhao Qingling rejected the idea.
• Wu Ruohan warned that the Fairness System could unbind their systems or issue an extermination mission, citing the Pure Void Sect’s destruction after it violated the rules.
• Wu Ruohan proposed incorporating the Dao Seed Martial Dao System’s method of absorbing solar, lunar, and stellar power into the Hehuan Sect’s inherited methods, then asked the elders how the sect should establish itself in the new era.

Wu Ruohan warned the Hehuan Sect elders that the Fairness System could weaken the Devil Dao and leave their sect vulnerable, so they resolved to strengthen the sect by earning Energy Points. They agreed to promote livestreaming and expand their pleasure establishments, but learned the Azure Alliance was a formidable competitor, prompting Feng Yuran to suggest recruiting them.

• Wu Ruohan explained that the Fairness System would likely empower the righteous path more than the Devil Dao, threatening the Hehuan Sect despite its generally peaceful relations.
• Zhao Qingling urged the elders to use the time before other sects bound the system to strengthen Hehuan Sect and earn Energy Points, and she noticed that someone had already sold cultivation methods from the Scripture Repository.
• Wu Ruohan proposed that disciples livestream on TikTok and give the sect thirty percent of their Energy Points, and the elders approved the plan.
• Wu Ruohan proposed opening Supreme Bliss Pavilion establishments throughout the Central Continent's mortal cities, but warned that the Azure Alliance was a powerful rival.
• Wu Ruohan described the Azure Alliance's advanced brothel techniques and popularity among system hosts, and Feng Yuran suggested recruiting its members into Hehuan Sect.

Wu Ruohan set plans for the Hehuan Sect to use the Fairness System and expand its businesses without confronting the Azure Alliance. Yang Yunxi reluctantly accepted the sect's order to consolidate her Jade Spring Pavilions, while Zhu Yizhou recovered and decided to seek opportunities rather than return to the Azure Cloud Sect; he was startled by what he saw outside his room.

• Zheng Yunshu warned Wu Ruohan that forcing the Azure Alliance to join the Hehuan Sect would provoke public outrage and risk the sect's neutrality, and Wu Ruohan agreed.
• Wu Ruohan ordered Zheng Yunshu and Feng Yuran to consolidate the Supreme Bliss Pavilion and mortal-world brothels, while the other disciples upgraded their skills and promoted the system.
• The Hehuan Sect's leaders bound the system, assigned disciples work according to their preferences, and added one another on Microchat.
• Yang Yunxi angrily learned that the sect would take over her Jade Spring Pavilions, then decided to seek a position by showcasing their entertainment skills and returned to report to the sect.
• Zhu Yizhou healed his injuries, resolved to seek opportunities instead of returning to the Azure Cloud Sect, and paused in surprise when he opened his door.