Recaps

Qin Lu, Huang Liang, and Zhang Xuan defeated Ancestor Liuyun after a perilous battle, and Qin Lu thanked the others for saving his life. They then headed for the Floating Cloud Sword Sect, where Xuanshan prepared to face them after learning his master had died.

• Ancestor Liuyun broke through the array and attacks, nearly killing Qin Lu before a soul technique and Huang Liang’s intervention saved him.
• Huang Liang and the others wore down the poisoned Ancestor Liuyun until he died, and the three men gained greater trust in one another.
• Qin Lu thanked Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan for saving him, then handed them Ancestor Liuyun’s Qiankun Pouch and magic sword.
• Xuanshan saw his master’s life tablet break, mourned him, and activated the Floating Cloud Sword Sect’s protective array.
• Xuanshan confronted the approaching Huang Liang, Zhang Xuan, and Qin Lu, demanding their names and challenging them to fight.

Huang Liang, Qin Lu, and Zhang Xuan trapped the Floating Cloud Sword Sect and killed its ancestor, Xuanshan, before breaking the sect’s defenses and flooding the mountain with poison. They discovered that some core disciples had escaped through an underground passage, but Zhang Xuan urged the attackers to withdraw after completing their raid.

• Huang Liang activated the Essence-Sealing Spirit-Locking Formation while Qin Lu unleashed his poisonous miasma against the sect’s defenses.
• Xuanshan rallied the disciples who would fight and led them out of the formation to attack the invaders.
• Huang Liang stunned Xuanshan with Soul Suppression, and Qin Lu’s Jinyuan Needle pierced him before Huang Liang killed him with a punch.
• Huang Liang and Qin Lu broke the sect-guarding formation, and Qin Lu’s poison swept through the Floating Cloud Sword Sect, killing many disciples and an elder.
• Huang Liang found that core disciples had escaped through an underground passage, and Zhang Xuan recommended withdrawing after their surprise attack succeeded.

Zhang and Huang decided to lie low while waiting for Da Zhou’s next move, as the war against Daliang escalated. Da Zhou destroyed the Zhengyuan Sect and planned to pressure the border cautiously, while Qin Xiao mobilized his forces to advance along the Ying River.

• Zhang and Huang chose to hide among common people instead of fleeing, intending to exploit the coming border conflict and seize territory if Daliang collapsed.
• At Jade Tiger Pass, a rugged commander ordered five cultivators to intercept three attackers fleeing south after the Floating Cloud Sword Sect fell, then dispatched reinforcements to the Bamboo Slip Sect.
• Elder Xia used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to break the Zhengyuan Sect’s Third-Tier array, and Ji destroyed the sect while the others searched and stood guard.
• Elder Xia sensed that Daliang’s Golden Core True Person remained stable, so he urged his allies to fortify their position and let Chiyuan State test Daliang first.
• Qin Xiao worried about his father but ordered Wang Jian, Wang Li, the Qin Elite Soldiers, and the Black Dragon Legion to march out and prepare to strike upriver along the Ying River.

Qin Xiao led the Qin Clan and its allies in launching a northern campaign against Daliang, while Da Zhou mobilized forces across its borderlands. The chapter left the invasion underway on a massive scale, with armies advancing by land, river, and air.

• Wang Jian assembled two hundred Qin Elite Soldiers and joined the Black Dragon Legion and County Legion forces preparing to march north.
• The Wang Family arranged boats and supplies, and Zhang Ruoxuan brought an army from the Xuan River Zhang Clan to join the campaign.
• Qin Xiao drew his sword at Qianlong Port and ordered the army to head north against Daliang, prompting soldiers, commoners, and Warrior forces to follow.
• Xiao He told Liu Ji that the campaign would succeed because Da Zhou was strong and prospering while Daliang was weak.
• Frontier authorities mobilized millions of troops, and Da Zhou dispatched the Xuan Prefecture, Golden Province, and Yan Province Dao Soldiers to invade Daliang from three directions.

A fleet carrying Zhang Xuan, Huang Liang, and Qin Lu sailed north along the Ying River toward the secondary battlefield. When a Daliang cultivator attacked the fleet, Zhang Xuan drew him into a duel and poison killed him, after which Huang Liang and Qin Lu discussed Huang Liang’s Spirit-Concealing Gauze.

• Seven Black Armor Crocodiles guided the fleet upstream through the Ying River and out of the mountains.
• A white-robed Daliang cultivator spotted the fleet and sent cloud soldiers to attack it.
• Zhang Xuan appeared and used a crimson fire python to destroy the cloud soldiers, then challenged the cultivator.
• The white-robed cultivator’s body grew numb from poison, and he fell to his death before Huang Liang and Qin Lu appeared.
• Qin Lu praised Huang Liang’s Spirit-Concealing Gauze, and Huang Liang explained its limits and gave him a scroll about the Spirit-Avoiding Insect.

Qin Lu planned to seize the northern shore of Yunmeng Marsh for the Qin Clan and ordered Qin Xiao to lead troops against its towns. After learning Qin Xiao’s wife was expecting the clan’s third-generation heir, Qin Lu announced the generation names and rules for entering the clan genealogy; the group then prepared to secure their new territory.

• Qin Lu gave Qin Xiao a map of Yunmeng Marsh and tasked him with conquering the populated northern shore while promising to protect him from Qi Condensation cultivators.
• Qin Xiao told Qin Lu that his wife, Zhang, was pregnant with the eldest grandson of the Qin Clan’s third generation.
• Qin Lu announced twenty generation names, starting with Ming, and said descendants needed aptitude or outstanding service to receive a generation character and enter the genealogy.
• Qin Xiao agreed to enforce clan laws and establish rules after the war, while Qin Lu, Qin Xiao, and Zhang Xuan went into hiding to watch over the troops.
• Qin Lu reflected on the cost of claiming the territory, his decision to leave the Floating Cloud Sword Sect’s legacy and the sword cultivators’ possessions to Huang and Zhang, and the inheritance texts he had copied.
• Qin Lu chose a first-tier winemaking inheritance for the Qin Clan, which could complement its expertise in Spirit Plants and pills.

Qin Lu repurposed the cultivators’ corpses to cultivate new poisons, then joined the campaign to reclaim territory from the Floating Cloud Sword Sect. As Da Zhou’s forces advanced, Zhang Liang revealed his military talent while fighting alongside Liu Ji.

• Qin Lu searched the white-robed cultivator’s corpse, used it and the sword cultivators’ remains as vessels to cultivate poison, and divided the spoils, giving Huang Liang his share of the Spirit Stones to repay his debt.
• Several days later, the fleet split into five groups and landed along the northern shore, where Wang Ben’s County Legion captured a small city and began expanding Da Zhou’s territory.
• Li Xin led one force in reclaiming towns and villages and killing Floating Cloud Sword Sect remnants, while Wang Jian led the Qin Elite Soldiers against the sect’s garrisons.
• Wang Li’s Black Dragon Legion and Liu Ji’s Hanbang force swept through enemy positions, with Fan Kuai fighting at the head of Liu Ji’s men.
• Zhang Liang directed Liu Ji’s troops through a series of attacks and withdrawals that broke the enemy formation, and Liu Ji praised him and learned that he was a disciple of the Xuan River Zhang Clan whose courtesy name was Zifang.

Qin Xiao conquered the northern shore of Yunmeng Marsh, imposed Qin rule, and reorganized the region, while Qin Lu turned Wenjian Mountain into Dao-Seeking Peak to cultivate poison. The chapter ended with Qin Lu establishing the Myriad Poisons Pool as his cultivation site.

• A blind wandering practitioner found the orphaned Wang Xu, comforted him, and took him along to help survivors.
• Qin Xiao reclaimed the prosperous northern shore, established strict laws, and granted territories to meritorious followers, including Liu Ji and the wandering practitioner.
• Qin Xiao renamed Wenjian Mountain Dao-Seeking Peak, and Qin Lu prepared it as a mountain for cultivating poisons.
• Qin Xiao allowed the Xuan River Zhang Clan's army to plunder, using the resulting resentment and later peacekeeping to strengthen Qin rule.
• Qin Lu built the Myriad Poisons Pool at Dao-Seeking Peak to nourish his Toxic Miasma Spirit Body and improve his cultivation.

Qin Lu investigated Yingchuan’s barren earth veins and considered repairing them after reaching the Dao Foundation Realm. He then received Meng Ao’s offering and recognized the treasure as possibly the heart of a fallen Wood Demon.

• Qin Lu learned from ancient records that Qin Feizi’s fall may have severed Yingchuan’s spiritual vitality and wondered whether Qin Feizi was his ancestor.
• Qin Lu considered repairing Yingchuan’s earth veins and connecting its spiritual vitality to transform the county into a cultivator’s haven.
• Qin Xiao reported the Qin Clan’s gains from Yunmeng Marsh, and Qin Lu ordered a spirit orchard and a separate spirit-beast peak to be established.
• Meng Ao visited Qin Lu and presented an unidentified treasure he believed was at least a Second-Tier spirit object.
• Qin Lu examined the dark-brown treasure and suspected it was the heart of a fallen Wood Demon.

Meng Ao sacrificed his family and himself to protect the Heart of a Wood Demon and secure a future for his son, and Qin Lu rewarded the Meng Family with land and resources. As the war’s violence spread and Jade Tiger Pass fell, Qin Lu studied the heart and concluded it came from a peak Third-Tier yang wood tree.

• Qin Lu recognized the Heart of a Wood Demon as a rare treasure suited to his Dao Foundation and questioned Meng Ao about its origins and witnesses.
• Meng Ao revealed that he had killed the mortal household where he found the heart and offered his family’s lives in exchange for a chance for a clan member to earn military glory.
• Qin Lu praised Meng Ao’s loyalty, promised protection and status for the Meng Family, and ordered him to settle his affairs before dying.
• Meng Ao transferred his position to Meng Wu, then killed himself; Qin Lu granted the Meng Family Meng Mountain, supplies, and a Qi Condensation cultivation method.
• Qin Lu’s allies raided across Zhengyuan Dao District as cultivators slaughtered civilians and armies, while Xia Yuan captured Jade Tiger Pass and Wu Yong’s Dao Foundation was sealed in its blood lake.
• Qin Lu examined the Heart of a Wood Demon and estimated it was at least three thousand years old, from a yang wood tree that had reached the peak of the Third Tier.

Qin Lu absorbed the Rising Sun Wood Heart, gaining a second heart and changes to his body, cultivation, and Wood Dao. As he went to meet two Da Zhou cultivators approaching the marsh, they attacked him over access to its opportunities.

• Qin Lu merged the Rising Sun Wood Heart into his chest, where it complemented the Azure Wood human heart and formed a connection between opposing aspects of the Wood Dao.
• After three days of cultivation, Qin Lu found his cave overgrown and discovered that his Spiritual Power had nearly doubled, his physical strength had increased, and sunlight and moonlight could double his cultivation speed.
• Qin Lu noticed his Qing Centipede had also grown stronger and its emerald color was turning sky blue.
• Qin Lu saw two Da Zhou Qi Condensation cultivators approaching while Zhang Xuan cultivated in seclusion and Huang Liang was missing.
• The two cultivators decided Qin Lu had no right to claim the marsh's opportunities and charged at him with a treasure umbrella, a war saber, and seven short blades.

Qin Lu defeated two cultivators who attacked him, then gained the Split Divine Sense secret method from their belongings. A week later, the Daliang Plain battlefield collapsed, leaving millions dead and wounded and earning the plain the name Blood-Colored Plain.

• Qin Lu used his sword, defensive techniques, and Jinyuan Needle to kill the spirit-eyed cultivator, then poisoned the Qi Condensation Third Layer cultivator to death.
• Qin Lu realized that his recent change had greatly strengthened his soul and doubled his Spiritual Power.
• Qin Lu collected the cultivators’ corpses and found Spirit Stones, Law Artifacts, and the Split Divine Sense secret method in their Qiankun Pouches.
• Qin Lu cleared away the battle traces and returned to the mountains to cultivate.
• The fighting on the Daliang Plain collapsed a week later, killing or wounding millions of mortals and earning the battlefield the name Blood-Colored Plain.

Da Zhou completed its conquest of Zhengyuan Dao District and divided its territory, while its court and clans gained resources and influence. Qin Lu was promoted to head the Longchuan Commandery Hundred Arts Bureau’s pill division, but he still lacked the Qi Clan inheritance needed to refine Second-Tier pills.

• Da Zhou’s war left Daliang’s defenses shattered, and the surviving cultivators either fled, surrendered, or were killed as the state seized their resources.
• Da Zhou absorbed Zhengyuan Dao District into Xuan Province, establishing fifteen prefectures and more than three hundred counties.
• The Beichuan Qin Family received Cloud Dream County, where Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan helped deter rival clans from contesting its territory.
• The Xuan River Zhang Clan and Huanglian Huang Family expanded their holdings in Longchuan Prefecture, and the Zhang Clan gained another Qi Condensation cultivator.
• Wu Yanmian, Gongsun Zhe, and the third Imperial Dynasty Cultivator survived; two left Longchuan Prefecture to establish lineages, opening posts in the Hundred Arts Bureau.
• Qin Lu became head of the bureau’s pill division, but he still could not make Second-Tier spirit pills without the Qi Clan’s formula and inheritance.

After a year of peace in Dream Cloud County, Qin Lu advanced to the Qi Condensation Third Layer and discovered that his mutated Qing Centipede had awakened a new ability. He returned to the Beichuan Qin Family to name his newborn grandson, Han, and assess his aptitude.

• Qin Lu said goodbye to Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan after the three helped secure Dream Cloud County, while rumors about Daliang and wars elsewhere continued.
• Qin Lu reached the Qi Condensation Third Layer and considered using his wood heart to forge a new cultivation method and establish a Dao Foundation.
• The Qing Centipede transformed in the Myriad Poisons Pool, grew more than three feet long, and awakened an ability that concealed its presence by hiding it within Qin Lu's.
• Qin Lu returned to the Beichuan Qin Family, where his six sons welcomed him and told him the newborn's name was Han.
• Qin Lu prepared to formally give Han his generational character and enter him into the genealogy, then moved to assess the child's aptitude.

Qin Minghan was born with excellent cultivation aptitude, and Qin Lu announced he would personally train him as the Qin Clan celebrated its new Immortal Seedling. Meanwhile, Qing Centipede consumed vast resources and broke through to the Second Tier, leaving the Qin Clan with both a promising heir and a powerful spirit beast.

• Qin Lu tested Qin Minghan's aptitude and found his spiritual light measured one and a half inches, making Qi Condensation attainable.
• Qin Lu rejected Qin Xiao's suggestion to conceal Minghan's talent and declared he would personally train the child.
• The Qin Clan announced Minghan's birth and held a grand celebration, receiving gifts and congratulations from subordinate forces and neighboring clans.
• Qin Xiao passed two women sent as gifts to his younger brother Qin Zhao after Madam Zhang grew angry.
• Qing Centipede gathered Blood Qi after consuming demons, corpses, and herbs, then began breaking through on Spirit Beast Peak.
• Qing Centipede formed an Insect Heart, shed his old shell, and emerged as a Second-Tier demon over a zhang long.

Qing Centipede created the Azure Insect Abyss as a home and nurturing ground for demonic insects, while Qin Zhuang managed the expanding Spirit Deer Peak. Qin Hui successfully formed a life contract with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, transforming part of himself into a plant spirit and strengthening his soul.

• Qing Centipede triggered Spirit Rain that nourished Spirit Beast Peak and awakened spirituality in countless insects, then dug a pit for them to inhabit.
• The insects expanded the pit into the Azure Insect Abyss, where Qing Centipede established the Insect-Nurturing Pool.
• Qin Zhuang reviewed Spirit Deer Peak's growing herds and planned to send a deer each month to feed the Insect Abyss.
• Qin Hui used the Beast Taming Method to forge a life contract with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, and the tree's nourishment changed his body and strengthened his soul.

Qin Hui survived a dangerous bond with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree and became the Qin Clan’s second Alchemist, freeing Qin Lu to pursue alchemy research. Nearly three years later, Qin Xiao oversaw the clan’s affairs and issued orders aboard a treasure ship as the chapter left him contemplating the Wuzhi Mountains.

• Qin Hui formed a reversed natal bond with the Awakening Soul Tea Tree, and Qin Lu arrived in time to stop him from becoming entirely wood.
• Qin Lu accepted Qin Hui’s choice, warned him to keep the bond secret, and encouraged him to pursue the Dao of Alchemy.
• A little over a month later, Qin Hui refined his first batch of Muxuan Pills and became the Qin Clan’s second Alchemist, while Qin Lu devoted himself to cultivation and seeking a Second-Tier alchemy inheritance.
• Nearly three years later, Qin Xiao questioned two Shadow Guards about the Yegan Huang Clan, ordered them to investigate the clan’s spies and the fugitive bloodline of Wu Yong, and told them to expose an embezzler at the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.
• Qin Xiao considered the potential of the Wuzhi Mountains as a future spirit-mountain blessed land.
• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui discussed changes in the Qin Clan, including Zhao Gou’s promotion, Zhao Gao’s appointment in Yingchuan, and Qin Wen’s assignment as magistrate of Cloud Dream County.

Qin Xiao explained a new military structure to Qin Hui, dividing the forces among county armies, the clan-controlled Black Dragon Legion, and the Qin Elite Soldiers. A year later, Qin Hui’s three wives and concubines gave birth to his first three children.

• Qin Xiao asked Qin Hui for feedback as he outlined the clan’s new military structure and the roles of its county armies, Black Dragon Legion, and Qin Elite Soldiers.
• Qin Hui praised Qin Xiao’s thorough plan, and the Qin Clan’s military reforms were settled.
• A year passed as Qin Hui managed the clan’s agricultural and cultivation duties while following Qin Xiao’s instruction to have more children.
• Lady Zhao, Lady Han, and Lady Meng became pregnant, and Qin Hui became a father to three children in the same month.

Qin Hui named the mortal child born to Lady Han Qin Hui, and the child was sent to the Han Family to be raised. Years later, Qin Zhao visited Ba Lake with Qin Zhuang to choose a spirit pet and found an extraordinary crocodile egg with a dangerously weak life force; they discussed ways to save it.

• Qin Hui named his two gifted newborns Qin Mingdao and Qin Mingxi, while the mortal son was also named Qin Hui and sent with Lady Han to the Han Family.
• The Qin Clan continued developing Ba Lake, where more than thirty Black Armor Crocodiles supported its water transport.
• Qin Zhao and Qin Zhuang toured the lake so Qin Zhao could choose a crocodile as a fighting companion.
• Qin Zhao asked Qin Zhuang to show him the exceptional crocodile egg, and they found it marked with blue patterns and barely alive.
• Qin Zhuang explained that the egg could be saved by a lifebound contract, a highly cultivated expert's aid, or the Essence Blood of a high-tier Demon Beast.

Qin Zhao used Profound Yin Water Marrow and Qing Centipede’s Second-Tier Insect Demon blood to save a Black Armor Crocodile egg. The egg hatched into a powerful first-tier beast, and Qin Zhao named it Black Dragon and bound it to himself.

• Qin Zhuang rejected methods that would risk Qin Zhao’s life or disturb their father, and explained that the Black Armor Crocodile needed a higher-tier Demon Beast’s blood to survive.
• Qin Zhao showed Qin Zhuang his Profound Yin Water Marrow and asked whether it could help save the egg; Qin Zhuang said it needed to be paired with a great Demon’s blood.
• Qin Zhao offered three drops of Profound Yin Water Marrow to Qing Centipede and received the blood of a Second-Tier Insect Demon in return.
• Qin Zhao used the insect blood and a drop of water marrow to nourish the egg, while allocating other drops to Qin Zhuang, the Lineage’s water vein, and Black Dragon’s future breakthrough.
• Qin Zhao and Qin Zhuang watched the egg hatch into a first-tier inferior-grade Black Armor Crocodile with dark green pupils and a blue stripe.
• Qin Zhao formed a master-servant contract with the hatchling and named it Black Dragon, intending it to guard Black Dragon Peak and the Black Dragon Chamber of Commerce.

Qin Lu broke through to the Qi Condensation Fourth Layer by refining a poison pearl, then reunited with Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan, who revealed their plan to seize Longchuan Prefecture. The chapter ended with them explaining that Biyunzi, the Blue Wave Sect’s old sect master, was dead.

• Qin Lu gathered the poisonous cloud above Dao-Seeking Peak into a poison pearl, swallowed it, and broke through to the Qi Condensation Fourth Layer.
• Qin Lu stored his excess Spiritual Power in the wooden heart, lowering his apparent cultivation to Qi Condensation Third Layer Perfection.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan visited Qin Lu, and the three reunited before descending to Dao-Seeking Peak together.
• Qin Lu explained that the Qin Clan had used the Sword Sect disciples’ corpses as fertilizer for poisonous plants and spirit medicines.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan told Qin Lu that they planned to seize Longchuan Prefecture.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Xuan revealed that Biyunzi, the Blue Wave Sect’s old sect master, was dead.

Zhang Xuan and Huang Liang persuaded Qin Lu to join their plan to seize Longchuan, and Qin Lu secured their promise to help destroy the Yegan Huang Clan. Half a month later, Nalan sabotaged the Blue Wave Sect’s formation, leaving its leader expecting Huang Liang’s attack and preparing to purge the sect.

• Zhang Xuan told Qin Lu that Biyunzi had died and proposed that the Qin, Huang, and Zhang Clans divide Longchuan after destroying the Blue Wave Sect and subduing the Gong, Yu, and Pan Clans.
• Qin Lu agreed to help, on the condition that the others join him in destroying the Yegan Huang Clan; Huang Liang revealed his clan’s history of persecution by them and agreed eagerly.
• The three men planned the campaign in detail and prepared to commit their clans’ forces.
• Half a month later, Nalan entered the Blue Wave Sect’s formation core and used Second-Tier talismans to destroy the formation plates and break the grand formation.
• Nalan escaped using another talisman, while the sect’s leader realized a high-ranking mole had sabotaged the formation and anticipated Huang Liang’s arrival.

Huang Liang activated the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation and fought the Blue Wave Sect defenders, revealing that he had reached the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer. Hundreds of li away, Qin Lu faced three opponents, resisted a soul-type Law Technique, and prepared to fight at full strength.

• Huang Liang activated the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation, assigned his Fifth Uncle to control it, and led his allies in an assault on the Blue Wave Sect.
• Huang Liang fought Hou Guan, Yunxiaozi, and Huang Tianming, knocking Hou Guan away and forcing the others to recognize his Qi Condensation Seventh Layer cultivation.
• Zhang Xuan and the others fought the remaining defenders while Huang Liang's Fifth Uncle used the formation to harass their opponents.
• Wu Daoping called for the expected support as Huang Liang's side continued to suppress the fighters at Blue Rosy Cloud Peak.
• Qin Lu confronted the Yu family head, the Pan family head, and a third opponent while secretly releasing poisonous smoke, but a soul-type Law Technique briefly disoriented him and left the Qing Centipede fighting alone.
• Qin Lu recovered, revealed his Qi Condensation Fourth Layer cultivation, and declared that none of the three opponents would leave.

Qin Lu used his swordsmanship, poison, and Qing Centipede to overwhelm the three clan heads who had attacked him. After killing the Pan Clan head and the Gong Clan head, he offered the last survivor, the Yu Clan head, a chance to live if he submitted.

• Qin Lu drove the Yu Clan head, the Gong Clan head, and the Pan Clan head into a poisonous miasma with his sword and Qing Centipede.
• The three clan heads discovered they had been poisoned and fought back, but Qin Lu and Qing Centipede countered their attacks.
• Qin Lu broke through the Pan Clan head's divine-soul Technique, bound him with vines, and killed him with wooden spikes.
• Qing Centipede overcame the Gong Clan head's fire spells and crushed him after his Spiritual Power ran low.
• Qin Lu told the Yu Clan head to submit as his master or die, warning that the Yu Clan would otherwise be finished.

Qin Lu forced Yu Lin to submit, then sent him to help Huang Liang while attacks ravaged the Gong, Yu, and Pan Clans and their allies. At Blue Cloud Rosy Clouds, Yu Lin arrived claiming to have killed Qin Lu, but he suddenly killed Hou Guan instead, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Qin Lu poisoned Yu Lin, took his heart blood, and forced him to serve as his master in exchange for sparing the Yu Clan.
• The Qin army stormed the Yu Clan, the Zhang army attacked the Gong Clan, and Qin Xiao and Qin Wen led troops against the Pan Clan while Liu Ruyan arranged the deaths of their scattered disciples.
• Yunxiaozi, Huang Tianming, and Hou Guan struggled against Huang Liang, who had the upper hand despite Yunxiaozi's pills and Spirit Stones.
• Yu Lin arrived at Blue Cloud Rosy Clouds claiming he had slain Qin Lu and would help Huang Liang's opponents.
• Yu Lin struck Hou Guan with a heavy-sword artifact and beheaded him, shocking both sides and enraging Yunxiaozi.