Recaps

Shi Jian and the Sun Clan reached their assigned camp in Cangshi Valley, where Shi Jian warned them to avoid the front lines. A midnight beast tide broke through the defenses and attacked their position, leaving Sun Bo'an facing a giant wolf's deadly blast.

• Shi Jian intimidated a gatekeeper with his Foundation Establishment-level Yao Qi, and Elder Yun He led him and Sun Bo'an to the Sun Clan's assigned camp.
• Sun Bo'an warned Shi Jian that the camp's elders seemed grim and that few survivors had escaped the disaster in Pingyang County.
• Shi Jian ordered the clansmen and immortal slaves to stay back, use Spirit-Seeking Rats as a warning perimeter, and avoid playing heroes if battle began.
• At midnight, a beast tide struck Cangshi Valley, shattered the first defensive barrier, and overwhelmed the front-line cultivators.
• Sun Bo'an and the Sun Clan fought the beasts from behind barricades, but a giant blue-gray wolf targeted their position and fired a huge cyan blast at him.

Shi Jian protected the Sun Clan during the beast tide while pretending to struggle against a giant wolf, until the White Cloud Temple elders drove the beasts back. He realized their retreat was organized and suspected a powerful Demon General had begun commanding the beast tide.

• Shi Jian blocked the giant wolf’s attack and fought it while secretly holding back his strength.
• Shi Jian protected the Sun Clan’s defensive line for an hour, keeping Sun Bo'an and the other core clan members safe.
• The White Cloud Temple’s three late-stage Foundation Establishment elders formed the Heavenly Gang Demon-Slaying Formation and turned the battle around.
• A roar from the darkness halted the attacking beasts, and the giant wolf accused Shi Jian of betraying its kind before fleeing.
• Shi Jian recognized that the beasts’ retreat was orderly and suspected a Demon General was directing them.

After True Person Luanyuan blamed the White Cloud Temple for the beast tide, he ordered it to suppress the tide and clear the Great Maple Mountain Range. Shi Jian faced leading human cultivators into the mountains where he had become a demon, risking rejection by both humans and Demon Beasts.

• Sun Bo'an learned that seven immortal slaves had been injured but that none of his people had died.
• Yun Du told the assembled Foundation Establishment cultivators that the beast tide remained near Cangshi Valley as they argued over the previous night's losses and delayed formation support.
• True Person Luanyuan of the Supreme Purity Sect arrived and revealed that the Great Maple Mountain Range was a beast-raising ground under the White Cloud Temple's care.
• True Person Luanyuan ordered the White Cloud Temple to quell the beast tide within three months and kill every Demon Beast above level three within six months.
• Yun Du ordered the conscripted clans to enter the mountains in three days and threatened those who avoided battle with execution.
• Shi Jian left the meeting and considered how obeying the order could make him a traitor to Demon Beasts, while refusing could make him a scapegoat for the White Cloud Temple.

Shi Jian joined a mountain-clearing team and hid his strength while guiding it through familiar territory. After killing a level-three Azure-Scaled Python, he secretly soothed orphaned bear cubs and left them alive as the team continued its expedition.

• Lü Fangzhi assigned Shi Jian to a support role because of his supposed injuries, and the team entered the outskirts of the Great Maple Mountain Range.
• The team cleared dozens of low-level Demon Beasts without casualties, while Sun Bo'an's workers gathered their materials.
• The Spirit-Seeking Rats sensed a level-three Azure-Scaled Python, and Shi Jian stepped forward to fight it instead of letting Lü Fangzhi call for reinforcements.
• Shi Jian killed the Azure-Scaled Python by striking a weakness in its scales, leaving Lü Fangzhi impressed by his skills.
• Shi Jian secretly soothed three bear cubs beside their dead mother, then continued using the same method to protect eleven cubs he found over the following days.

Lü Fangzhi’s clearing party defeated the first beast tide, but a level 5 demon general appeared and began battling Zhao Qing, master of White Cloud Temple. As the cultivators fled, Shi Jian judged that Zhao Qing was near death and began considering how to protect the Sun Clan if White Cloud Temple fell.

• Lü Fangzhi trapped and slaughtered the charging beast horde with a formation, while Shi Jian protected the Sun Clan and killed a rhinoceros that threatened Sun Bo'an.
• After the party gathered spirit materials from the fallen beasts, a giant ape demon arrived and overwhelmed the cultivators with its Golden Core pressure.
• Zhao Qing confronted the giant ape, but it shattered his sword attack and caught the White Cloud Seal as the battle devastated the mountains.
• Shi Jian shielded the Sun Clan and immortal slaves as they fled, then realized Zhao Qing was weakening while the giant ape remained powerful.
• The giant ape sent the White Cloud Seal flying and struck Zhao Qing, who coughed black blood and declared that he would die with the beast.

Zhao Qing sacrificed his life to grievously wound the giant ape, but a Supreme Purity Sect True Person arrived afterward, killed it, and claimed its Demon Core. With Zhao Qing dead, the Supreme Purity Sect placed the White Cloud Temple under Yun Du’s temporary control, while Shi Jian saw an opening to act more freely.

• Zhao Qing burned his remaining lifespan and merged his cultivation and the White Cloud Seal into a final strike that devastated the giant ape and killed all forty immortal slaves nearby.
• A nameless Supreme Purity Sect True Person arrived, killed the barely living giant ape, took its Demon Core and corpse, and declared that Zhao Qing had given his life for the Dao.
• Three days later, a Foundation Establishment disciple delivered the Supreme Purity Sect’s order appointing Yun Du to lead the White Cloud Temple temporarily, with twenty years to produce a new Golden Core cultivator.
• Shi Jian realized that White Cloud Commandery no longer had a Golden Core cultivator to restrain him and volunteered to lead the Sun Clan’s party deep into the mountains.
• With the giant ape’s forces scattered, the mountain-clearing operation became easier, and Shi Jian used his position to move more freely.

Shi Jian led the Sun Clan through the devastated Great Maple Mountain Range, gathering spirit treasures from abandoned lairs and rescuing orphaned bear cubs. At the Cangshi Valley camp, Sun Bo'an concealed most of their haul while reporting a small portion, and Shi Jian prepared to keep the clan’s gains hidden.

• Shi Jian led Sun Bo'an, Sun Kezheng, and Sun Xing into the mountain depths and found over a dozen second-tier Purple-Vein Ginseng plants in a dead Black-Line Python's lair.
• Over twenty days, Shi Jian used his scent-tracking ability to guide the Sun Clan to the lairs of dead Demon Beasts, where they gathered valuable spirit plants and materials.
• Shi Jian rescued four bear cubs from beneath their dead mother, and the clan took them in to raise as potential beasts to tame.
• Shi Jian collected more than thirty orphaned bear cubs during the mountain-clearing operation, including Iron-Backed Bears.
• At Cangshi Valley, Sun Bo'an submitted a small haul and bribed the deacon, who accepted the Sun Clan's claim that Shi Jian had been injured.
• Shi Jian concealed the most valuable items in his stomach and laughed as the clan kept the bulk of its gains hidden.

Sun Bo'an and the survivors returned to Hongtian City after a costly expedition, and Shi Jian directed the Sun Clan to replace its devastated vassals. The clan recruited three new minor forces, restoring its network of eight vassals as Shi Jian prepared to wait for future opportunities.

• Sun Wanqing and the others welcomed the returning group, and Sun Mao saw that Shi Jian had been badly scorched.
• Sun Bo'an reported that all forty expeditionary immortal slaves and many members of the minor clans had died.
• Shi Jian ordered the Sun Clan to absorb the remnants of the Zheng Clan, give the Feng and Qian clans time to recover, and recruit new vassals on reduced initial terms.
• More than fifty rogue cultivators arrived in Hongtian City, and Sun Bo'an assessed applicants for the vacant vassal positions.
• Sun Bo'an accepted the Fang Clan, the Qin Clan, and Shen Po's household, restoring the Sun Clan's eight minor vassals.

After four months of recovery, Shi Jian assessed the bear cubs he had raised and used his Enlightenment ability to awaken the minds of three promising ones. He named them Shi Pan, Shi Mo, and Shi Yin, and began building a future bear clan within the Sun Clan’s valley.

• Shi Jian visited the valley where the Sun Clan had been raising the 123 bear cubs he brought back from the Great Maple Mountain Range.
• Shi Jian singled out three unusual cubs: a powerful Iron-Backed Bear, a black bear with strong spiritual awareness, and a Grayback Bear with a mutated bloodline.
• Shi Jian used all three of his saved Enlightenment uses on the cubs, bringing greater clarity and self-awareness to their minds.
• Shi Jian taught the three cubs the Tyrant Bear Qi-Devouring Method.
• Shi Jian named the cubs Shi Pan, Shi Mo, and Shi Yin, and resolved to raise them as the founders of a bear clan rather than as spirit beasts for the Sun Clan.

Shi Jian entered seclusion while Sun Bo'an sold the clan’s recovered treasures and used the proceeds to strengthen the Sun Clan. Over the next two years, the clan expanded its cultivation, crafts, and influence through resources and marriage alliances, and its members awaited Shi Jian’s awakening.

• Shi Jian consumed spirit medicines, entered seclusion, and gave Sun Bo'an authority over clan affairs while forbidding anyone from visiting the back mountain unless the clan faced extermination.
• Sun Bo'an secretly sold Demon Beast materials and spiritual items across Qingzhou Commandery, earning five thousand low-grade Spirit Stones and supplies for the clan.
• Sun Wanqing reported progress making talismans, while Sun Changping revealed that he had refined two Barrier-Breaking Pills; Sun Bo'an assigned them to Sun Xing and Sun Caiya to help them advance.
• Over the next two years, Sun Caiya reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, Sun Tieshan became an artifact refiner, and the younger Sun Clan members advanced as the clan grew stronger.
• Sun Bo'an used marriage alliances to bind the eight vassal clans to the Sun Clan, explaining to Sun Kezheng that the alliances would help govern the territory and expand the clan’s manpower.
• The Sun Clan remained peaceful and prosperous as its members waited for Shi Jian to awaken on the back mountain.

After Yun Du entered seclusion to attempt Golden Core, cultivation forces across White Cloud Commandery formed alliances, while the Sun Clan kept its distance and quietly recruited guards. Shi Jian’s breakthrough to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage began as Sun Bo'an waited for him to emerge.

• Yun Du announced his retreat, and White Cloud Temple canceled the White Cloud Minor Gathering as the commandery’s factions began maneuvering.
• Chen Yu’s clan formed an alliance with two other northern forces, while southern clans and Han Qing separately approached the Sun Clan.
• Sun Bo'an rejected the invitations cautiously, burned Han Qing’s letter, and ordered the Sun Clan to remain neutral and keep a low profile.
• Following Shi Jian’s advice, Sun Bo'an recruited twenty-one Rogue Cultivator guest elders, including Zhou Sun, whom he hired on generous terms.
• Sun Bo'an watched the sealed rear mountain as Spiritual Qi surged around Shi Jian, whose barrier to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage began to loosen.

As White Cloud Commandery descended into chaos, White Cloud Temple lost cultivators to Rogue Cultivators, internal conflict, and a Devil Cultivator, while the Sun Clan stayed out of the fighting. The chapter ended with Sun Bo'an watching as Shi Jian's barrier to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage began to crack.

• Han Qing challenged White Cloud Temple over a mineral vein, and Song He led elders to hunt him down; Han Qing disappeared into the Cang River after killing an elder.
• Chen Yu's alliance collapsed into betrayal and violence, leaving a Chen Clan cultivator dead and Chen Yu injured after he destroyed the traitor clan.
• A Devil Cultivator using the Ten Thousand Laughs Yin Corpse Art killed cultivators from three small clans before Song He and his elders defeated him at heavy cost.
• Sun Kezheng told Sun Bo'an that Lü Fangzhi had been ambushed and killed by Han Qing's brothers, and that Daoist Master Yunsong had also died.
• Sun Bo'an sent a gift to White Cloud Temple in remembrance of its kindness, while Sun Kezheng reported unknown Rogue Cultivators arriving from the south.
• Sun Bo'an waited outside Shi Jian's cave as the barrier to Shi Jian's Foundation Establishment Middle Stage breakthrough began to crack.

Shi Jian failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage because his ordinary black bear bloodline drained away the medicinal power, though he strengthened his Demon Power and body. After emerging from five years of seclusion, he learned how the Sun Clan and White Cloud Commandery had changed and ordered the clan to prepare for unfamiliar Rogue Cultivators scouting Hongtian City.

• Shi Jian pushed his cultivation toward the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, but his bloodline deficiency consumed the remaining medicinal power and stopped the breakthrough.
• Shi Jian emerged from seclusion at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Peak, with increased Demon Power and a tougher body.
• Sun Bo'an and Sun Kezheng welcomed Shi Jian, and Sun Bo'an reported on the Sun Clan's growth and the upheaval across White Cloud Commandery.
• Shi Jian praised Sun Bo'an's leadership and ordered the Sun Clan to keep a low profile while strengthening its defenses.
• Sun Kezheng reported that unfamiliar Rogue Cultivators had been scouting Hongtian City, and Shi Jian threatened anyone who caused trouble on the clan's territory.

Zhou Sun discovered that two Rogue Cultivators had taken the bait in Sun Bo'an's false rumors about the Sun Clan's weakness. When Wei Chen and Jiao Lei led an attack on Hongtian City, Shi Jian and the clan's forces ambushed them, leaving Wei Chen dead and Jiao Lei crippled as Shi Jian demanded to know who had Lü Fangzhi's flying sword.

• Zhou Sun overheard two Rogue Cultivators discuss the Sun Clan's supposed weakness and reported their plans to Sun Bo'an.
• Wei Chen and Jiao Lei led dozens of Rogue Cultivators to attack Hongtian City and broke through its southern gate.
• Shi Jian's demonic might pinned the attackers while Zhou Sun, Sun Kezheng, and the Sun Clan forces surrounded them.
• Shi Jian killed Wei Chen and crippled Jiao Lei in their brief fight.
• Shi Jian questioned Jiao Lei about who had Lü Fangzhi's flying sword and began crushing him when he refused to answer.

Shi Jian learned that the Fenghe Sect was secretly destabilizing White Cloud Commandery to prepare for an invasion. Rather than flee, he sent the White Cloud Temple the evidence and gambled that it would help them survive the threat.

• Jiao Lei confessed that Yan Qiu of the Fenghe Sect had sent him, Han Qing, and other agents to weaken White Cloud Commandery before taking control.
• Shi Jian realized Yan Qiu would likely learn of the battle and come after him, but he refused to abandon the Sun Clan’s holdings and bear cubs.
• Shi Jian ordered Sun Bo'an to record Jiao Lei’s confession, include Lü Fangzhi’s flying sword, and select spirit medicines as offerings for the White Cloud Temple.
• Shi Jian told Sun Bo'an to send Kezheng to deliver the evidence directly to Song He and present it as help for the temple’s predicament.
• After Sun Bo'an left to prepare the mission, Shi Jian reflected that the White Cloud Temple had little choice but to prevail, though he remained uncertain whether Yun Du could form a core.

After three years of tension, Yun Du faced the trials of Golden Core formation while a vast spiritual phenomenon gathered over White Cloud Temple. He succeeded, saving the sect and leaving Shi Jian confident that the Sun Clan would remain secure and prosper.

• Shi Jian received White Cloud Temple’s message thanking him for the favor and telling Hongtian City to guard itself and stay out of other affairs.
• For three years, White Cloud Temple sealed its mountain while the Fenghe Sect and southern Rogue Cultivators made no major moves.
• Shi Jian and Sun Bo'an witnessed a vast Spiritual Qi vortex gather above White Cloud Temple as Yun Du began forming his core.
• After three days, Yun Du drew in the Cloud Dao Qi Dynamic known as Cloud-Sky Morning Clear Qi, and the region waited in silence as he faced the next trial.
• Yun Du formed a flawless Golden Core, and its pressure swept across the commandery while Shi Jian alone remained standing.
• Shi Jian concluded that Yun Du's breakthrough had ended the threat from the Supreme Purity Sect and Yan Qiu, and predicted a safe, prosperous future for the Sun Clan.

After Yun Du formed his Golden Core, he summoned the cultivators of White Cloud Commandery, purged three clans, and restored White Cloud Temple’s control over the vacant counties. He rewarded the Sun Clan with a Foundation Establishment Pill and market privileges, and Shi Jian pledged the clan’s loyalty.

• Yun Du invited Foundation Establishment cultivators from the nine counties to his Golden Core formation ceremony, and Sun Bo'an prepared a gift worth fifteen hundred Spirit Stones.
• True Person Yunxiao demonstrated his Golden Core power at the ceremony, then hosted a banquet attended by twenty-two Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• True Person Yunxiao condemned Chen Yu and ordered the Chen Clan executed and its inheritance confiscated, then seized the Zhao and Liu Clan patriarchs for their crimes.
• True Person Yunxiao assigned four vacant counties to White Cloud Temple disciples, who would establish new clans and govern them.
• True Person Yunxiao rewarded the Sun Clan with a Foundation Establishment Pill and three rent-free storefronts, and Shi Jian pledged the clan’s allegiance.

Shi Jian secured Sun Yao’s entry into White Cloud Temple as True Person Yunxiao’s Registered Disciple and spent heavily at the auction on pills and medicine. Back in Hongtian City, he gave Sun Bo'an the Foundation Establishment Pill and ordered him to attempt Foundation Establishment, leaving the clan’s future in his hands.

• Shi Jian pledged the Sun Clan’s loyalty to True Person Yunxiao and requested that Sun Yao be allowed to join White Cloud Temple.
• True Person Yunxiao accepted Sun Yao as his Registered Disciple and promised to make her his personal disciple if she reached Foundation Establishment within ten years.
• At the White Cloud Minor Gathering auction, Shi Jian directed Sun Bo'an to buy a Marrow-Unblocking Pill and a Blood Bodhi for the Sun Clan.
• After returning to Hongtian City, Shi Jian kept the Blood Bodhi and gave Sun Bo'an the Foundation Establishment Pill and Marrow-Unblocking Pill.
• Shi Jian explained that Sun Yao’s sect placement would protect the clan and ease its resource burden, then told Sun Bo'an to seize his chance to reach Foundation Establishment.

Sun Bo'an prepared for Foundation Establishment with the Sun Clan’s help and began taking the Foundation Establishment Pill. He passed the first two trials, but during foundation stabilization his turbulent memories destabilized his true essence, leaving his breakthrough on the verge of failure.

• Sun Changping spent three months using medicinal baths and the Marrow-Unblocking Pill to clear Sun Bo'an’s meridians.
• Sun Kezheng and the Sun Clan secured Hongtian City while Shi Jian arranged a second line of defense with Lord Rat and his kin.
• Sun Bo'an entered the cave abode and took the Foundation Establishment Pill, gathering his spiritual power into a vortex and passing the first trial.
• Sun Bo'an endured the dangerous liquid-condensation trial, formed liquid true essence, and passed the second trial despite suffering pain and bleeding.
• Sun Bo'an began the foundation-stabilization trial, but memories of his burdens and the clan made his true essence shake as he feared his breakthrough would fail.

Sun Bo'an forced his way through a dangerous breakthrough and reached Foundation Establishment, though the damage left him with a weak foundation and a shortened lifespan. He ordered the Sun Clan to announce its new strength with a grand ceremony, which drew factions from across White Cloud Commandery to Hongtian City.

• Sun Bo'an embraced his concern for the Sun Clan and forcibly stabilized his true essence, reaching Foundation Establishment at the cost of his health and lifespan.
• Shi Jian assessed Sun Bo'an's injuries and warned that his cultivation would remain at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage and his lifespan would end around age one hundred and eighty.
• Sun Bo'an reunited with Sun Kezheng and the waiting clansmen, then ordered a public Foundation Establishment ceremony to display the Sun Clan's strength.
• During the following month, factions reacted to Sun Bo'an's breakthrough, and True Person Yunxiao sent a level-three demon core as a gift while Sun Yao returned to visit her family.
• The Sun Clan held its ceremony in Hongtian City, where cultivators praised its two Foundation Establishment cultivators, Sun Yao's tutelage, and Shi Jian's power.

At Sun Bo'an’s Foundation Establishment ceremony, Shi Jian’s overwhelming presence deterred the gathered lineages while Sun Bo'an proposed a trade alliance to connect the nine counties. The households agreed to join, giving the Sun Clan a regional network for distributing spiritual resources.

• Sun Bo'an attended his Foundation Establishment ceremony as cultivators from across White Cloud Commandery gathered to congratulate him.
• Shi Jian arrived at the banquet and intimidated the Foundation Establishment ancestors with his powerful aura.
• Sun Bo'an announced that the Sun Clan would turn its three rent-free White Cloud Market storefronts into the Autumn Cry Merchant Alliance, taking ten percent of sales.
• Sun Bo'an offered to send a caravan through the nine counties each year to distribute supplies among participating households.
• The Li Household, Lin Household, Zhao Household, and other lineages agreed to join the alliance and signed contracts with the Sun Clan during the three-day ceremony.

Sun Mao established his reputation by swiftly putting down Rogue Cultivators who disrupted Hongtian City's new marketplace. Sun Bo'an praised his leadership and pill-refining progress, while entrusting him with an increasing role in the Sun Clan.

• Shi Jian swallowed the Blood Bodhi and entered seclusion, leaving Sun Bo'an to manage the Sun Clan.
• Over the next six months, Hongtian City’s population grew rapidly, and the Sun Clan began expanding the city and relocating its marketplace.
• Sun Mao, now an eighteen-year-old Qi Refining Seventh Layer cultivator and First-Tier Mid-Grade Alchemist, went to C Street after Rogue Cultivators injured clan patrol members.
• Sun Mao ordered Little Black to cripple the bald ringleader, then had the other troublemakers fined and expelled from Hongtian City.
• Sun Bo'an praised Sun Mao’s handling of the outer city and learned that his success rate refining First-Tier Mid-Grade pills had reached fifty percent.

Sun Mao led the Sun Clan merchant alliance’s first tour of the nine counties, searching especially for rare objects that could strengthen Demon Beast bloodlines. In Feng'an County, he bought a mysterious black bone fragment after Little Black reacted to it, and Sun Bo'an recognized it as something significant.

• Sun Bo'an gave Sun Mao authority to lead the merchant alliance tour and ordered him to seek rare spiritual objects, especially ones that could strengthen Demon Beast bloodlines or bodies.
• Sun Mao led the caravan to Qinghe County, where he negotiated purchases from the Li Household and other local cultivators but found no leads on the rare objects he sought.
• In Feng'an County, Sun Mao paid two thousand Spirit Stones for a black bone fragment after Little Black showed an intense interest in it.
• When the Lin Household young master raised the price after Sun Mao had paid, Little Black broke his wrist, and Sun Mao took the fragment and warned the Lin Household to follow the alliance's rules.
• Sun Mao activated the fragment with his Essence Blood and sensed ancient, aggressive Yao Qi; Sun Bo'an then arrived and recognized the object.

Sun Bo'an identified the black bone fragment as a remnant of the Dark Gold Ape and arranged for it to be given to Shi Mo. He then confronted the Lin Household ancestor, who punished his own young master to avert a conflict with the Sun Clan.

• Sun Bo'an explained to Sun Mao that the fragment came from the Dark Gold Ape and might trigger a bloodline mutation in a growing Level 1 Demon Beast.
• Sun Mao decided to save the fragment for Shi Mo, and Sun Bo'an approved the plan.
• Sun Bo'an went to the Lin Household residence to address the dispute over Sun Mao breaking the young master's hand.
• The Lin Household ancestor broke the young master's other hand, ordered his cultivation crippled, and sent him to Cold Wind Cave for three years.
• Sun Bo'an left after the Lin Household ancestor accepted responsibility, while the ancestor recognized that the Sun Clan's strength left him little choice but to seek peaceful coexistence.

Sun Mao’s caravan reached Ninghe County, where he bought the Zhou Household’s spirit fruit harvest and discovered a Thunder Essence Fruit whose unusual properties might gradually give a Demon Beast’s spiritual power lightning attributes. He acquired the ancestral Thunder Essence Fruit Tree in exchange for supplies, Spirit Stones, and a formation plate, leaving him with a new approach to strengthening a beast.

• Sun Mao’s caravan visited Yongchang and Linjiang, trading goods successfully while Sun Bo'an stayed hidden and concluded that Sun Mao no longer needed his guidance.
• In Ninghe County, Sun Mao negotiated with Zhou Dehou and bought the Zhou Household’s Emerald Spirit Fruits and Jade Leaf Ginseng Fruits at ten percent above market price.
• Zhou Dehou showed Sun Mao a Thunder Essence Fruit, and Sun Mao recognized that its faint lightning-like energy could have a special effect with long-term consumption.
• Sun Mao reasoned that feeding Thunder Essence Fruits to a powerful Demon Beast over many years might gradually transform its spiritual power and flesh with lightning properties.
• Sun Mao offered Zhou Dehou cultivation materials, two hundred low-grade Spirit Stones, and a First-Tier Mid-Grade formation plate for the Thunder Essence Fruit Tree.
• Zhou Dehou accepted the offer, and the two signed a contract and exchanged the agreed payment for the tree.