Recaps

White Cloud Temple led the Ming Province Northern Protectorate’s western expedition into Devil Province to plunder abandoned resources and capture surviving Devil Cultivators. After a month of sweeping through the province, the force amassed a vast haul, while the Zhao Clan gained resources that hinted at its renewed rise.

• Yun Du summoned White Cloud Temple’s Foundation Establishment cultivators and led a fleet with allied clans and demons west into Devil Province.
• Yun Du ordered the forces to divide their assigned territories, avoid forbidden zones and local powers, and seize anything unclaimed.
• At the Heart-Devouring Sect’s ruins, Yun Du found two third-tier Spirit Veins, and Yun Ci extracted them while others looted the site and captured surviving Devil Cultivators.
• White Cloud Temple and its allies swept through eastern and central Devil Province, plundering Spirit Veins, ore deposits, medicinal gardens, and other valuables while taking nearly three thousand prisoners.
• Zhao Yanshan’s contingent secured two second-tier Spirit Veins, an iron spirit ore vein, and more than thirty Devil Cultivation Methods, boosting the Zhao Clan’s resources.

After the forces stripped Devil Province and Transformation Province of their remaining resources, Yun Du decided White Cloud Temple should establish a branch in Transformation Province as a strategic foothold. He chose Yun Ci to lead it, with Shi Jian arranging demons to accompany the expedition.

• Yun Du and the other forces dismantled or plundered the ruined Blessed Lands across Devil Province, while Lord Rat complained that he had been forced to keep a low profile despite his haul of Devil Cultivator corpses.
• By the end of the second month, cultivators had stripped Devil Province and Transformation Province, and the Supreme Purity Sect announced plans to resettle sects and small clans there.
• Yun Du visited Shi Jian on Purple Firmament Peak and explained that White Cloud Temple needed a foothold in Transformation Province in case Ming Province became a war front.
• Yun Du proposed sending Yun Ci to establish a White Cloud Temple branch, giving him authority and territory away from the sect’s center in Ming Province.
• Shi Jian agreed and offered Bai Ling, her foxes, and two young bear demons from the Primordial Line to accompany the branch expedition.

Yun Ci led White Cloud Temple’s effort to establish a branch hall in the devastated Transformation Province, while Lu Xun stayed behind in Ming Province to support the sect. Yun Ci claimed a ruined stronghold as the branch hall’s base and began negotiating with other settlers, leaving White Cloud Temple’s territory recognized and its reputation respected.

• Yun Du appointed Yun Ci to lead the Transformation Province branch hall and ordered him to focus on building a foundation for the first three years; Lu Xun offered young spirit beasts to help open up the land.
• Lu Xun chose to remain in Ming Province because the weakened Sun Clan line needed someone to hold its position within White Cloud Temple.
• Yun Ci arrived in Transformation Province, assessed the Devil Qi-scarred soil, and chose a ruined Blood Bone Devil Sect stronghold with a weak Spirit Vein as the branch hall site.
• Yun Ci divided the Qi Refining disciples among construction and clearing tasks, while Bai Ling and the spirit beasts guarded the area.
• Lü Mingyuan of the Golden Chrysanthemum Sect met Yun Ci, learned White Cloud Temple had claimed the area, and agreed to settle five hundred li away.
• Yun Ci later received three more factions, recruiting some as vassals and directing the others beyond White Cloud Temple’s territory.

Yun Ci imposed harsh measures to establish the Demon Race’s branch altar in Transformation Province, while Shi Jian reviewed the scattered strongholds he had built and continued strengthening himself to protect the Demon Race. He concluded that the Demon Race needed more Golden Core cultivators and resolved to keep carrying its burdens.

• Yun Ci ordered the branch altar to double the manpower clearing demonic Qi, drawing workers from vassal forces despite the hardship and risks to their people.
• The branch altar gradually improved, and the vassal forces endured their losses without rebelling as they worked toward a stable foothold.
• Shi Jian reviewed the Demon Race’s five scattered strongholds and noted that their territories remained weak and difficult to support.
• Purple Firmament told Shi Jian that the Demon Race needed more Golden Core cultivators, but Shi Jian acknowledged that Shi Pan, Kuang Dou, and Lord Rat could not be rushed.
• Shi Jian submerged himself in the lightning pool to temper his body and raise his Golden Core Middle Stage cultivation, determined to protect and strengthen the Demon Race.

As True Person Luan Shan neared death, he entrusted the Zhou Clan’s future to his grandson Zhou Tianle and gave him the Ice Dao Heaven and Earth Qi and Ice Soul Sword for his Core Formation attempt. After Luan Shan passed away, Zhou Tianle passed the spiritual power trial and began absorbing the Qi, triggering a vast snow-and-ice phenomenon over Cold Moon Peak.

• True Person Luan Shan gave Zhou Yan the Ice Dao Heaven and Earth Qi and Ice Soul Sword for Zhou Tianle’s Core Formation attempt.
• True Person Luan Shan passed away, and Zhou Yan concealed his death from Zhou Tianle so the news would not disrupt his seclusion.
• Zhou Tianle compressed his spiritual power into a vortex and passed the first Core Formation trial.
• Zhou Tianle absorbed the Ice Dao Heaven and Earth Qi, enduring its extreme cold as it assimilated into his body.
• A sweeping snow-and-ice phenomenon covered Cold Moon Peak, and Zhou Yan prayed that Zhou Tianle would succeed.

As Zhou Tianle neared Core Formation, his life-bound spirit beast Shi Yin betrayed him and destroyed his attempt to form a Golden Core. Zhou Tianle died in the resulting explosion, while Shi Yin freed himself from their contract and absorbed the remaining Heaven and Earth Qi.

• Zhou Tianle reached the final stage of merging ice-path Heaven and Earth Qi into his Dantian and let Shi Yin stay beside him.
• Shi Yin revealed he had spent decades learning Zhou Tianle’s habits and corrupting his will to escape the Master-Servant Contract.
• Shi Yin struck Zhou Tianle with his frost-covered paw and flooded his meridians with cold Qi, disrupting the Core Formation process.
• Zhou Tianle activated the contract mark, but Shi Yin used the resulting backlash to dissolve the contract.
• The uncontrolled Qi exploded, freezing Zhou Tianle into an ice sculpture that crumbled to dust.
• Shi Yin inhaled the scattered Heaven and Earth Qi and absorbed its remaining essence.

Shi Yin survived Zhou Tianle’s failed Core Formation and completed his own breakthrough, becoming a Golden Core demon. He took the title Frost and Snow and vowed to protect the Zhou Clan and serve Supreme Purity.

• Zhou Yan found Zhou Tianle gone and Shi Yin alive in the frozen secret chamber, then concluded Tianle had undergone Dao Dissolution.
• The Zhou Clan held a sparsely attended funeral for True Person Luan Shan and Zhou Tianle, while other clans distanced themselves.
• After learning the master-servant contract had dissolved, Zhou Yan began to suspect Shi Yin and considered ordering his capture.
• A vast Core Formation phenomenon appeared above Cold Moon Peak, and a gigantic pale bear phantom devoured the surrounding Spiritual Qi.
• Shi Yin overcame the trials, reforged his Demon Core, and revealed his Golden Core power to the surrounding cultivators.
• Shi Yin named himself Frost and Snow, vowed to protect Zhou Tianle’s Zhou Clan, and pledged to fight for Supreme Purity.

Shi Yin’s Core Formation secured the Zhou Household’s properties and made him its new protector, while Zhou Yan chose to accept their dependence on him despite his suspicions. The Zhou Household reached out to the White Cloud Temple to build ties through Shi Yin, and Yun Du ordered a careful reply and a congratulatory gift.

• Shi Yin pledged to protect the Zhou Clan and Supreme Purity, and the sect named him a Sect-Guarding Spirit Beast with the treatment of a Golden Core elder.
• Zhou Yan suspected something was wrong with Shi Yin’s Core Formation and Zhou Tianle’s death, but decided to keep silent and instructed the clan to honor Shi Yin as their ancestor.
• Zhou Yan sent a humble letter to the White Cloud Temple proposing that Shi Yin and Ancestor Shi visit and exchange resources.
• Yun Du told Lu Xun that the Zhou Household was seeking support through Shi Yin and the Temple’s connection to him.
• Yun Du ordered Lu Xun to draft a measured reply and prepare a generous gift congratulating Shi Yin on his Core Formation.

Sun Chengzu’s long seclusion in the Return to Origin Sword Tomb reached its decisive moment as White Cloud Temple prepared for his Core Formation attempt. With the Sun Clan’s survival and the temple’s rise to first-rate status at stake, the chapter ended with everyone awaiting his outcome.

• Shi Jian and Lord Rat learned that Shi Yin had successfully formed a Golden Core and become the Supreme Purity Sect’s guardian spirit beast.
• White Cloud Temple’s standing rose, while the quiet Sun Clan waited for Sun Chengzu to emerge from seclusion.
• After years of refining his cultivation and preparing his body, Sun Chengzu stirred the Spiritual Qi around the Return to Origin Sword Tomb.
• Lu Xun reported the disturbance to Shi Jian, who ordered him to spread the news and arrange assistance for Sun Chengzu.
• Lu Xun, Lei Zhen, Lord Rat, Kuang Dou, Shuang Yu, and others gathered near the Sword Tomb, aware that Sun Chengzu’s success could save the Sun Clan and make White Cloud Temple a first-rate sect.

Sun Chengzu successfully broke through to Golden Core inside the Sword Tomb, becoming the Sword Dao Golden Core True Person Chengye. His breakthrough strengthened White Cloud Temple and ushered in a new era for the sect.

• Sun Chengzu began forming his core after years of refining his spiritual power and strengthening his Dao heart.
• Sun Chengzu merged the Sword Dao Heaven and Earth Qi with his spiritual power and formed a Core Embryo as a celestial phenomenon spread across the Sword Tomb.
• Sun Chengzu condensed the Core Embryo into a Golden Core, and the Sword Tomb's ancient swords answered with a ringing cry.
• Sun Chengzu emerged from the Sword Tomb as Golden Core True Person Chengye, and Yun Du welcomed him as White Cloud Temple's new heir to its legacy.
• Lord Rat and Shuang Yu departed as White Cloud Temple entered an era presided over by three Golden Core cultivators.

White Cloud Temple celebrated Sun Chengzu’s Core Formation with a grand ceremony that drew Golden Core figures from across the Clear Azure Kingdom. True Person Xuancheng of the Supreme Purity Sect attended, and after the banquet he requested a private meeting with the temple’s three Golden Cores.

• News of Sun Chengzu’s Sword Dao Golden Core spread throughout the Clear Azure Kingdom, raising White Cloud Temple’s standing and morale.
• Yun Du and Lu Xun prepared invitations and gifts for a grand Core Formation ceremony, while Zhao Yanshan raised the question of the Supreme Purity Sect’s response.
• Golden Core guests arrived in White Cloud Immortal City and congratulated Sun Chengzu, who received them at the ceremony.
• True Person Xuancheng arrived on behalf of the Supreme Purity Sect and toasted Sun Chengzu and White Cloud Temple.
• Shi Jian appeared at the banquet in his bear-beast form, greeted True Person Xuancheng, and received praise for his power and past guidance of Shi Yin.
• After the banquet, True Person Xuancheng asked to speak privately with White Cloud Temple’s three Golden Cores, and Yun Du led him to a side hall.

True Person Xuancheng ordered White Cloud Temple to conquer the Vile Muddy Marsh, promising it forty percent of the territory while testing its loyalty to the Supreme Purity Sect. Shi Jian accepted and planned to use the campaign to recruit or subdue the marsh’s Demon Beasts, building White Cloud Temple’s power and a domain for the Demon Race.

• True Person Xuancheng told Yun Du, Sun Chengzu, and Shi Jian that the Supreme Purity Sect wanted White Cloud Temple to develop the Vile Muddy Marsh and claim forty percent of its land.
• Yun Du recognized that refusing could harm Shi Yin’s standing, while accepting would cost White Cloud Temple lives and resources; Sun Chengzu said he was ready to fight.
• Shi Jian accepted the assignment, and True Person Xuancheng gave White Cloud Temple five years to prepare before the army departed.
• After Xuancheng left, Shi Jian explained that White Cloud Temple could spare useful Demon Beasts, enslave those who could serve, and kill those who resisted.
• Yun Du understood that the campaign could expand White Cloud Temple’s foundation, while Shi Jian envisioned turning the marsh into a self-governing domain for the Demon Race.

After Sun Chengzu’s Core Formation ceremony, Yun Du and Sun Chengzu reviewed the sect’s new trade deals and prepared for the dangers of Evil Water Marsh. Yun Du warned Sun Chengzu to protect himself and remain wary of Shi Jian, leaving Sun Chengzu caught between his complicated ties to Shi Jian and his hopes for the Sun Clan.

• Shi Jian returned to Purple Firmament Peak while Yun Du and Sun Chengzu resumed overseeing the ceremony.
• After the seven-day ceremony ended, Yun Du and Sun Chengzu reviewed lucrative deals with the Blackwater Sect, Hundred Beast Valley, and Origin Return Gate.
• Sun Chengzu planned to forge thirty-six flying swords into his Life-Bound Law Treasure for the coming trip to Evil Water Marsh.
• Yun Du urged Sun Chengzu to prepare supplies and defenses, refine his own treasure, and prioritize survival in Evil Water Marsh.
• Yun Du invoked Zhao Qing’s fate to caution Sun Chengzu about Shi Jian, while Sun Chengzu struggled with his loyalty to Shi Jian and his ambition for the Sun Clan.
• Yun Du and Sun Chengzu spent several hours settling the preparations for the trip.

Over five years, Sun Chengzu rebuilt the Sun Clan by raising new Foundation Establishment cultivators, recruiting retainers, and enforcing strict discipline while strengthening ties with the Demon Beasts. Shi Jian prepared a large coalition to enter the Evil Water Marsh, hoping to claim it as territory and spur his cultivation, and the army set out from White Cloud Immortal City.

• Sun Chengzu used his resources and influence to help Sun Qiming, Sun Qinian, and Sun Qihe achieve Foundation Establishment, restoring the Sun Clan's strength.
• Sun Chengzu recruited promising disciples and allied clans, then punished clansmen who abused the clan's growing power and taught the younger generation to respect the Demon Beasts and Shi Jian.
• The Sun Clan renewed its cooperation with Lord Rat, whose Wind Rat Line prospered while he advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lord Rat reported that fifty-three Foundation Establishment cultivators, more than two thousand Qi Refining disciples, three warships, and Demon Race forces were ready to enter the Evil Water Marsh with Shi Jian.
• Shi Jian planned to bring the marsh under his control as a new Demon Race foundation and hoped the expedition would stimulate a breakthrough in his cultivation.
• Three days later, the coalition departed White Cloud Immortal City aboard three warships.

White Cloud Temple’s expedition reached Evil Water Marsh and began establishing a foothold, but a Demon Beast tide attacked the new camps. After a golden giant crocodile destroyed an outpost, Shi Jian appeared and faced the beast.

• Sun Chengzu led White Cloud Temple’s vanguard and allied lineages south to claim territory in Evil Water Marsh.
• The expedition landed, dispersed the miasma, and set up forward outposts across the swamp.
• At night, local Demon Beasts launched a massive tide against the human camps.
• An Early Golden Core golden giant crocodile destroyed an outpost and killed more than a hundred cultivators.
• Shi Jian unleashed purple-gold lightning and emerged before the crocodile, whose bloodline instinctively recoiled from him.

Shi Jian defeated the giant golden crocodile with a claw strike and a spiritual roar, then forced him to submit and placed a restriction in his sea of consciousness. With the beast tide dispersed, the human cultivators resumed building their city in Evil Water Marsh.

• The giant golden crocodile insulted Shi Jian and attacked him with a beam of light, but Shi Jian shattered it with one claw.
• Shi Jian’s roar shattered the crocodile’s sea of consciousness and left him near death.
• Shi Jian demanded the crocodile submit or die, then stabilized his soul and bound him with an Essence Blood restriction and a Divine Sense Mark.
• Shi Jian ordered Kuang Dou and Lord Rat to make the crocodile disperse the beast tide and find every Demon General above level five in Evil Water Marsh.
• The crocodile drove the beast tide back into the swamp, while Sun Chengzu told the human cultivators to continue building the city.

White Cloud Temple expanded into the northern region of Evil Water Marsh, clearing miasma, locating Spirit Veins, and bringing Demon Beasts under Shi Jian’s command. As the land began to recover, the golden crocodile emerged from his pool and waited for Shi Jian.

• Sun Chengzu directed White Cloud Temple’s cultivators to occupy the northern region and begin the slow work of clearing its miasma.
• Sun Qiming and the Sun Clan’s spirit rats discovered three Spirit Veins, including a high-grade, third-tier vein.
• Shi Jian sent Kuang Dou and Lord Rat to subdue the Demon Beasts, and they incorporated more than half of the scattered groups over six months.
• Shi Jian visited the recovering golden crocodile several times, teasing him as he healed from the damage to his sea of consciousness.
• Cultivators channeled Spirit spring water across the land, where the soil began to regain Spiritual Qi and green moss spread.
• The golden crocodile crawled out of the pool and climbed a hill to wait for Shi Jian.

Shi Jian persuaded Golden Crocodile to join his system and help him take the Evil Water Marsh. Golden Crocodile agreed on the condition that humans would not harm his clan’s young.

• Shi Jian questioned Golden Crocodile about his clan’s poor prospects after 470 years in the Evil Water Marsh.
• Shi Jian described how White Cloud Temple’s demon branches had gained territory and resources through cooperation with humans rather than enslavement.
• Shi Jian asked Golden Crocodile to bring the five branches of his clan into his system and help him take the Evil Water Marsh.
• Shi Jian promised that demons who wished to leave could depart through the waterways to the Boundless Sea, and that he would protect Golden Crocodile’s kin.
• Golden Crocodile agreed to join Shi Jian, demanding that no human touch the young in his clan.

After Golden Crocodile submitted to Shi Jian, the Crocodile Beast Clan accepted his control of the northern region and agreed not to obstruct White Cloud Temple cultivators. A year of development cleared the region’s miasma and transformed it with a spirit lake and medicine fields, while the other three territories remained unconquered.

• Golden Crocodile summoned the five Crocodile Beast lineages and told them the northern region was under Shi Jian’s control because he could not defeat him.
• Golden Crocodile explained the conditions he had agreed to with Shi Jian, and the thirty-one Foundation Establishment demons assented to leave human cultivators undisturbed.
• White Cloud Temple cultivators spent a year clearing the northern region’s miasma and restoring its Spirit Veins, pools, and woodland.
• Sun Qiming admired the new spirit lake, while Sun Chengzu reported that the soil had recovered enough to support second-tier spirit medicine after further tending.
• Sun Chengzu considered expanding into the other three regions, but their masters had not submitted, and Shi Jian chose to proceed at a measured pace.

Shi Jian and Sun Chengzu assessed the rival demon factions in Evil Water Marsh while White Cloud Temple consolidated the northern region. Over five years, migrating lineages and mortals developed it into Abundant Water City, leaving the human settlement thriving but surrounded by powerful factions.

• Shi Jian learned that the southern Flood Dragon Python Clan had three Golden Core demons, while the western Azure Wave Turtles and eastern Yin Water Bees each had one.
• Shi Jian weighed the threat posed by the five rival Golden Core demons and their uncertain alliances, while Sun Chengzu decided to consolidate the northern region before confronting them.
• White Cloud Temple divided the northern region into parcels and set rules for allocating land to migrating Foundation Establishment lineages.
• Eight lineages settled first, and Sun Chengzu's allocation plan gave military contributors the best land while others claimed parcels using sect merit or Spirit Stones.
• Over the next four years, the number of migrated lineages rose to twenty-six, and Sun Chengzu named their growing market town Abundant Water City.
• By the fifth year, Abundant Water City had attracted tens of thousands of human cultivators as towns, farmland, and trade expanded.

Shi Jian established Abundant Water Lake as a protected Demon Beast territory, where the crocodile clans and other beasts prospered under White Cloud Temple’s care. Alarmed by the Human Race’s growing foothold in the northern region, the Venomous Flood Dragon King formed an alliance with Wanxiang and Mingshui to launch a beast tide.

• Shi Jian assigned the crocodile lineages and other Demon Beasts protected habitats in Abundant Water Lake, with Sun Chengzu’s decree barring unauthorized hunting.
• Golden Crocodile saw his kin’s health and cultivation improve under White Cloud Temple’s Spirit Cuisine and care, and accepted their stricter life.
• By the sixth year of development, the northern region had cleared most of its miasma, cultivated new fields, and discovered profitable spirit metal veins.
• The Venomous Flood Dragon King summoned Wanxiang and Mingshui to Dragon-Binding Abyss and proposed driving the Human Race out with a beast tide.
• Mingshui agreed on the condition that her clan’s eastern territory would not shrink, and Wanxiang agreed to cooperate while asking what would happen if they lost.
• The three Golden Core Demon Generals agreed to coordinate their forces and plan the beast tide.

Shi Jian secretly met Wanxiang, who revealed the Venomous Flood Dragon King's plans for a three-pronged beast tide and questioned Shi Jian's intentions. Wanxiang agreed to send his turtles west as a feint, and Shi Jian offered the Azure Wave Turtle Clan a place in the future order of Evil Water Marsh.

• Wanxiang told Shi Jian that the Venomous Flood Dragon King planned to attack from three directions in half a month, and admitted he had agreed to join the beast tide to protect his clan.
• Wanxiang asked what Shi Jian hoped to accomplish by working with humans, and Shi Jian said he used their resources and systems to strengthen the Demon Race.
• Shi Jian invited Wanxiang to visit Abundant Water Lake, asking him to decide how much effort his forces would make in the coming battle.
• Wanxiang said his turtles would join the western attack but only put on a show, while the Bee Queen's insects attacked from the east and the flood dragon pythons from the south.
• Shi Jian promised the Azure Wave Turtle Clan territory after the battle and acknowledged that Wanxiang had once saved Golden Crocodile's eggs.
• Wanxiang recognized in Shi Jian a chance to restore the Demon Race's strength.

Shi Jian prepared Abundant Water Lake for a coming million-strong beast tide from three Demon Race factions, arranging Golden Core and Foundation Establishment defenses. He secured Golden Crocodile’s cooperation and planned to bring Shi Yin into the fight, leaving the Northern Region’s defenders with half a month to prepare.

• Shi Jian asked Lord Rat to send a message to Shi Yin at the Supreme Purity Sect, then summoned Sun Chengzu and Golden Crocodile to reveal the coming beast tide.
• Shi Jian assessed the Golden Core matchups and assigned Shi Yin to the Red-Scaled Flood Dragon, Golden Crocodile to the Jade Wave Flood Dragon, and Sun Chengzu to hold off the Bee Queen.
• Shi Jian explained that Abundant Water City's defensive formation would protect against the insect swarm while the Golden Core fighters held their ground.
• Shi Jian asked Golden Crocodile to send his clan’s thirty-one Foundation Establishment Demon Beasts to fight the enemy forces, and Golden Crocodile agreed to protect his clan’s new home.
• Shi Jian promised each surviving Foundation Establishment Demon Beast that fought three portions of Beast-Nurturing Pills and blood-food essence after the battle.

Shi Jian prepared with Shi Yin and the Northern Region forces for an expected beast tide, then watched as the Flood Dragon Python Clan, insects, and giant turtles attacked Abundant Water City from three directions. The defenders mobilized according to plan as the three forces converged, and Shi Jian waited above the battlefield for the challengers.

• Shi Jian received Shi Yin’s message that he would set out to serve the ancestor’s grand plan.
• Sun Chengzu strengthened Abundant Water City’s defenses and organized cultivators and supplies across the city and its outposts.
• Shi Yin arrived and agreed to hold off the fifth-level Red-Scaled Flood Dragon while Shi Jian faced the seventh-level pseudo-king.
• Sun Chengzu ordered the city’s defenses activated when an insect tide appeared south of Abundant Water City earlier than expected.
• Zhao Yanshan saw flood dragons and serpents surge across the river from the south as giant turtles advanced from the west.
• Shi Jian rose above the battlefield as the insect tide, flood dragon tide, and turtle formation approached from three sides.

Shi Jian and his allies faced four Golden Core Demon Generals while Abundant Water City’s defenders fought off the flood dragon and bee armies. Shi Jian held off the Venomous Flood Dragon King, and the chapter left the other battles raging across the city’s defenses.

• Shi Jian assigned Shi Yin to fight the Red-Scaled Flood Dragon, Golden Crocodile to face the Jade Wave Flood Dragon, and Sun Chengzu to battle the Bee Queen, Mingshui, while he confronted the Venomous Flood Dragon King.
• Shi Jian grew to giant size and blocked the Venomous Flood Dragon King’s tail, then used his Lightning Armor Divine Ability to neutralize the king’s poison.
• Sun Qiming led twenty-four Foundation Establishment cultivators against eighty-seven flood dragons and pythons, using groups of three to hold the line.
• Abundant Water City’s southern formation fired beams of spiritual light at the demon attackers as thirty crocodile demons struck their flank.
• Zhao Yanshan activated the eastern defensive formation and ordered Qi Refining cultivators to burn the advancing bee swarm with fire techniques.
• Sun Chengzu’s sword formation cut through the bee soldiers, while Mingshui stayed hidden inside the insect cloud and avoided fighting him directly.