Recaps

As the Zhao Clan advanced the merger of the Great Maple and Clear Wind Mountain Ranges, Sun Mao sought another way to win the Ancestor’s favor by acquiring rare treasures. He and Zhao Yanshan exchanged veiled threats at White Cloud Temple, and Zhao Yanshan resolved to accelerate the work at Beast Pasturing Mountain.

• Under Zhao Yanshan's coordination, the Great Maple and Clear Wind Mountain Ranges were set to merge within three years, giving the Zhao Clan a chance to rise again.
• Sun Lin told Sun Mao that the Sun Clan had spent thirty percent of its available Spirit Stones, and Sun Mao ordered a search for rare Demon Beasts, spirit fruits, and precious medicines to please the Ancestor.
• Sun Mao and his clansmen delivered a costly shipment of Purple Cloud Lingzhi to White Cloud Temple's general affairs hall.
• Zhao Yanshan questioned whether the cold-natured herbs would appeal to the Ancestor, and Sun Mao defended the Sun Clan's value as the Ancestor's kin and a weapon kept ready for crucial moments.
• After Sun Mao departed, Zhao Yanshan told a clansman that Sun Mao was calculating rather than foolish and ordered the Zhao Clan to speed up its work at Beast Pasturing Mountain.

Shi Jian reassured Sun Mao of his bond with the Sun Clan and gave him the Blood Sha Sect’s hidden contacts to gather resources and secretly disrupt Fenghe Commandery. He planned to balance the Sun Clan’s covert work against the Zhao Clan’s public influence.

• Shi Jian accepted the rare beasts and other gifts Sun Mao brought, then asked him how he viewed the Zhao Clan’s recent prominence.
• Sun Mao admitted his resentment but said the Sun Clan would hold back rather than interfere with Shi Jian’s plans.
• Shi Jian recalled his old ties to the Sun Clan and gave Sun Mao a Jade Slip containing the Blood Sha Sect’s hidden contacts and codes.
• Shi Jian ordered Sun Mao to use the contacts to gather Demon Beast specimens near the Wei-Jin border and sabotage Fenghe Commandery in secret.
• After Sun Mao left, Shi Jian told Lord Rat he intended to keep the Zhao and Sun Clans in check by letting one work openly and the other in the shadows.

Sun Mao recruited remnants of the Blood Sha Sect and ordered them to raid Fenghe Commandery, keeping the Fenghe Sect under constant pressure. The chapter ended with Yan Qiu unable to catch the raiders as they repeatedly vanished and returned.

• Sun Mao paid Blood Sha Sect operatives to gather their scattered members and infiltrate Fenghe Commandery, targeting markets, herb gardens, and isolated disciples.
• Sun Mao also ordered the operatives to seek out live bears, rats, and dogs with rare bloodlines.
• Devil-path bandits infiltrated Changfeng Market and killed a Fenghe Sect inner disciple, then carried out raids across Fenghe Commandery.
• Yan Qiu ordered the Fenghe Sect to lock down markets, guard resource sites, and capture the raiders alive.
• Sun Mao's operatives evaded the enforcement teams by hiding, then resumed their raids whenever the sect withdrew its forces.

The Fenghe Sect suffered a third caravan massacre as the Azure Light Gate and White Cloud Temple cut off trade, forcing it to abandon outposts and seal its mountain. Sun Mao then ordered the Devil Cultivators to destabilize Fenghe Commandery and continued sending rare Demon Beasts and materials to Shi Jian to secure favor for Sun Chengzu.

• Devil Cultivators ambushed a Fenghe Sect caravan in Hundred-Li Valley, killed its elder and disciples, and stole the red copper ore.
• Yan Qiu withdrew into seclusion, while Fenghe Sect elders learned that attacks and rumors had spread through the commandery and that the Azure Light Gate and White Cloud Temple had severed trade.
• The Fenghe Sect elders ordered everyone outside the sect to return, abandoned its outlying markets and resources, and sealed the mountain.
• Sun Mao told Sun Lin to disperse the Devil Cultivators among Fenghe Commandery's cities and Rogue Cultivator gathering places to undermine the Fenghe Sect's support and future recruits.
• Sun Mao ordered Sun Lin to deliver two mutated Rock Armor Bears and Lightning Martens to Purple Firmament Peak, continuing the Sun Clan's offerings to Shi Jian for Sun Chengzu's benefit.

Twelve-year-old Sun Chengzu practiced his swordsmanship at Cold Water Pool before Sun Mao arranged for him to kill a captured Fenghe Sect spy. Afterward, Sun Mao ordered Sun Lin to dispose of the body and intensify attacks on the Fenghe Sect's holdings outside its sealed mountain gate.

• Sun Chengzu practiced sword techniques without spiritual power and helped an Icefield Bear cub learn to strike with its strength.
• Sun Mao praised Sun Chengzu's talent and gave him a captured Fenghe Sect spy so he could experience killing.
• Sun Chengzu killed the spy with a single sword strike and then calmly returned to feeding the Icefield Bear cub.
• Sun Mao ordered Sun Lin to dispose of the corpse and direct their covert contacts to destroy the Fenghe Sect's spiritual fields and lakes.

Shi Jian strengthened the Cloud Sword Mountain Range while Lord Rat reported on the demons’ progress and a devastating battle in the North Sea. With the human-demon war poised to worsen, Shi Jian planned to exploit the coming chaos to gather resources and pursue the Nascent Soul realm.

• Shi Jian learned that the bear demons were training on Purple Firmament Peak, while Shi Pan and Shi Mo led cultivation efforts on Boulder Peak and Ringing Metal Peak.
• Lord Rat reported that his clan had established an intelligence network across White Cloud Temple’s territory and beyond.
• Lord Rat told Shi Jian that seven Nascent Soul True Lords had battled the sea ape Demon King and four other Demon Kings, leaving a Grand Purity True Lord dead and Sea-Suppressing Immortal City’s outer defenses destroyed.
• Shi Jian learned that Yun Du and White Cloud Temple’s party had avoided the direct fighting, though several elders were injured or killed, and he ordered them to stay alert and retreat if the front collapsed.
• Shi Jian surveyed the growing strength of White Cloud Temple’s branches and resolved to use the coming chaos to seize resources and advance toward Nascent Soul.

Five years after White Cloud Temple’s rise, Sun Chengzu led its expanded disciple recruitment ceremony and intervened when elders fought over talented twins. He sent the siblings to await the temple master’s or grand elder’s decision, and the testing continued.

• White Cloud Temple grew prosperous as its mountain ranges and resources expanded, while the Zhao Clan gained two Foundation Establishment cultivators and the Fenghe Sect remained sealed off.
• Sun Chengzu opened the mountain gate for the recruitment ceremony and oversaw tens of thousands of hopefuls climbing the steps and taking Spirit Root tests.
• Seven children from the Sun Clan’s mortal branch were admitted, including two with Three Spirit Roots and five with Four Spirit Roots.
• A pair of twins tested as having Dual Spirit Roots, prompting Foundation Establishment elders from the Yun and Zhao Clans to argue over where they should train.
• Sun Chengzu cited sect rules and ordered the twins housed on the main peak until the grand elder emerged, then resumed the testing.

During White Cloud Temple’s recruitment ceremony, Lu Xun revealed a Lightning Spirit Root and became Sun Lin’s disciple. The ceremony ended with the sect welcoming an unprecedented flourishing of new talent and strength.

• Lu Xun’s Spirit Root test produced purple-gold light and lightning, revealing his Lightning Spirit Root.
• The clan elders refrained from claiming Lu Xun, wary of the authority and expertise of the cultivator on Purple Firmament Peak.
• Sun Lin arrived, offered to take Lu Xun as his disciple, and brought him away after Lu Xun accepted.
• Sun Chengzu resumed the testing, and White Cloud Temple’s recruitment ceremony ended with thirty-five inner disciples, more than two hundred outer disciples, and over five hundred menial disciples recruited.
• White Cloud Temple celebrated as its Golden Core cultivators, lineages, Foundation Establishment forces, and newly recruited disciples marked an era of unprecedented prosperity.

Lord Rat and Lei Huan subdued the Gale Wolves and organized Beast Pasturing Mountain’s demons under Shi Jian’s rules, while Lord Rat’s rat army secretly mined the mountain’s rich ore veins. The chapter left the new demon territories under Lei Huan’s command and the underground mining operation already well underway.

• Lord Rat and Lei Huan killed the Gale Wolf King after it attacked them, and the surviving wolves fled.
• Lord Rat ordered the wolf king’s corpse and Demon Core collected, then explained that the demons would be assigned territories and trade their dead for resources from the Human Race.
• The cyan ape clan and the other Demon Beast leaders swore allegiance to the Ancestor, and Lord Rat left Lei Huan in charge of dividing the territories.
• Lord Rat inspected the underground mine, where tens of thousands of rats had already extracted much of the rich black iron and red gold veins.

Lord Rat gathered Shi Jian’s seven Foundation Establishment demon confidants to divide resources and review their growing lineages. He reported that Fenghe Sect’s Yan Qiu planned to bring the Blood Bone Devil Sect into the Wei Kingdom to attack White Cloud Temple, and relayed Shi Jian’s intent to make the conflict even more chaotic.

• Lord Rat returned from Beast Pasturing Mountain and distributed resources among Shi Mo, Shi Pan, Xiong Shan, Kuang Dou, Lei Nu, and Lei Zhen according to their lineages’ needs.
• The demons praised Shi Jian’s strategy of using human factions to gather resources and strengthen the Demon Race without committing their own forces.
• The lineage leaders reported thousands of demons across their ranks, including more than two thousand black dogs, while Lord Rat noted their forces had grown into the foundation of a Golden Core power.
• Lord Rat warned that the North Sea front was worsening and Yun Du might soon lead a breakout if the Human Race’s defenses collapsed.
• Lord Rat revealed that Yan Qiu had secretly contacted the Blood Bone Devil Sect to invade the Wei Kingdom and target White Cloud Temple.
• Lord Rat said Shi Jian wanted the demons to inflame the conflict so they could profit from the ensuing chaos.

Yan Qiu invited the Jin and Liang Kingdoms to invade the Wei Kingdom while its great sects were occupied in the North Sea, and their Nascent Soul leaders agreed to divide its territory. Shi Jian ordered the Demon Race to withdraw, preserve its strength, and follow the armies to scavenge the coming war.

• Yan Qiu sent the Blood Bone Devil Sect a letter offering to guide its forces through the Fenghe Sect’s pass into the Wei Kingdom.
• Qiu Xiao consulted the Blood Bone Ancestor, who ordered him to rally the other Jin Kingdom devil sects for an invasion.
• The Jin and Liang Kingdoms’ Nascent Soul leaders agreed to attack the Wei Kingdom and divide its territory between their sects.
• Shi Jian told Lord Rat that Yan Qiu would likely be killed and that the Wei Kingdom’s three great sects could still resist the invaders.
• Shi Jian ordered the Demon Race to retreat into the mountains and instructed Lord Rat to trail the Jin Kingdom army, gathering corpses and resources from the fighting.

As the Jin and Liang Kingdoms invaded, Wei's three great sects revealed their strength and organized defenses across the North Sea and the southwestern frontier. White Cloud Temple and its subordinate clans received a forced mobilization order to march to Heavenly Void Pass, leaving Sun Chengzu to safeguard the Sun Clan.

• The Profound Purity Sect sent eight Nascent Soul True Lords to drive back the Sea Ape Demon King's beast tide in the North Sea.
• The Supreme Purity Sect deployed seven Nascent Soul patriarchs to establish a defensive formation across the seven great passes and ordered its eighteen Golden Core powers to mobilize.
• Yun Du returned to White Cloud Temple with only five of the ten Foundation Establishment cultivators who had left, and delivered the Supreme Purity Sect's order to defend Heavenly Void Pass.
• Yun Du ordered White Cloud Temple and the nine subordinate counties to assemble cultivators for the march, while Yun Tianfan rang the summons bell.
• Sun Mao ordered the Sun Clan's Foundation Establishment cultivators and most of its elite Qi Refining disciples to fight, and told Sun Chengzu to remain behind and protect the clan's future.
• Zhao Yanshan prepared supplies and urged the Zhao Clan's fighters to prioritize survival as the subordinate lineages gathered their best cultivators for war.

Shi Jian led a small force of demons to join White Cloud Temple and Azure Light Gate at Heavenly Void Pass, where the allied cultivators prepared to defend the frontier. The pass appeared well protected, but the attackers had not yet been identified.

• Shi Jian ordered most of his demon branches to stay hidden and sent Shi Mo, Kuang Dou, and Lord Rat to Heavenly Void Pass to gather battlefield spoils while avoiding unnecessary risks.
• Yun Du assembled White Cloud Temple's forces, and Shi Jian arrived with the three demons before the army set out alongside Azure Light Gate.
• The flying boats reached Heavenly Void Pass, where a Supreme Purity Sect elder assigned White Cloud Temple and Azure Light Gate to the pass's left flank.
• Shi Jian, Yun Du, and True Person Qingshan noted that Heavenly Void Pass had six Golden Core cultivators, True Lord Fang Yi, and a fourth-rank formation, but did not know which Devil Cultivator sect would attack.

True Person Qingshan gave Shi Jian and Yun Du longevity pills and healing treasures as the defenders prepared for war at Heavenly Void Pass. The chapter ended with the arrival of a vast Jin Kingdom Devil Cultivator army led by two Nascent Soul Devil Lords, which camped outside the pass.

• True Person Qingshan identified the likely threats to Heavenly Void Pass and gave Shi Jian and Yun Du Three-Transformation Longevity Pills.
• True Person Qingshan gave Yun Du Nine Heavens Cloud Marrow and Spirit-Nurturing Wood to heal his injured foundation.
• Over three days, the defenders strengthened Heavenly Void Pass while Lord Rat's demons prepared tunnels and Shi Mo and Kuang Dou concealed themselves near the walls.
• A horn sounded at noon, and Shi Jian, Yun Du, and True Person Qingshan rushed to the walls as the enemy approached.
• The defenders identified the two enemy leaders as Heavenly Corpse Old Devil of the Yin Corpse Sect and Nine-Headed Poison Lord of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.
• The two Nascent Soul Devil Lords brought their army within a hundred li of Heavenly Void Pass and set up camp without immediately attacking.

The Devil Cultivators launched a full assault on Heavenly Void Pass while True Lord Fang Yi and the two enemy Nascent Soul cultivators maintained a standoff above the battlefield. The battle became a brutal war of attrition as the defenders fought to hold the pass.

• True Lord Fang Yi raised Heavenly Void Pass's fourth-tier protective formation as Heavenly Corpse Old Devil and Nine-Headed Poison Lord challenged him.
• True Lord Fang Yi, Heavenly Corpse Old Devil, and Nine-Headed Poison Lord met above the battlefield but avoided a fight to the death and traded insults instead.
• The Devil Cultivator army attacked the protective curtain with blood-red beams from its white-bone flying boats, while Golden Core cultivators from both sides clashed in the sky.
• The defenders bombarded the advancing Devil Cultivators and iron corpses with Law Techniques, while the attackers struck the formation with sinister techniques.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators flew out from Heavenly Void Pass to destroy the high-grade bronze corpses tearing at the formation.

The battle at Heavenly Void Pass intensified as Shi Jian and the rat demon army harvested corpses and treasures while the defenders struggled to hold the city-protecting array. The Yin Corpse Sect revealed its Netherworld Sha Lightning, and the chapter ended with the weapon poised to strike the array as the Golden Core elders were held back.

• Sun Mao and Zhao Yanshan fought Devil Cultivators at the wall while Foundation Establishment cultivators clashed across the battlefield.
• Shi Jian killed five Qi Refining Devil Cultivators with purple lightning, while Kuang Dou and Shi Mo waited for more corpses to fall.
• Lord Rat directed tens of thousands of giant rats through underground tunnels to collect corpses, Law Artifacts, and Storage Bags.
• The city-protecting array weakened as three of Heavenly Void Pass's thirty-six array towers ran out of Spirit Stones and exploded.
• The Yin Corpse Sect revealed its white-bone warship and charged its Netherworld Sha Lightning, while three Supreme Purity Sect Golden Core elders were blocked by five Golden Core Devil Cultivators.
• The Sha Lightning sphere grew to dozens of zhang across, leaving the defenders convinced that Heavenly Void Pass's array was about to be broken.

Shi Jian unleashed Purple Firmament’s power and destroyed the Yin Corpse Sect’s bone warship with one strike, shocking both armies and the Nascent Soul cultivators. He shrank back to five zhang as the battlefield stared at him in stunned silence.

• Shi Jian charged the bone warship while ten Golden Core Devil Cultivators fought six defenders above Heavenly Void Pass.
• Two Devil Cultivators attacked Shi Jian, but his body rebounded a bone mountain and his lightning extinguished their corpse flames.
• Shi Jian called on Purple Firmament, then grew to twenty zhang as destructive lightning runes spread across his body.
• Shi Jian formed a lightning spear and struck the bone warship, destroying it and killing the hundreds of Devil Cultivators aboard.
• The battlefield fell silent, and the Nine-Headed Poison Lord and Heavenly Corpse Old Devil questioned how such a powerful Lightning Bear had appeared under the Supreme Purity Sect.

Shi Jian destroyed the Devil Cultivators’ city-breaking weapon, but the power of his transformation left him exhausted and exposed. Five Golden Core Devil Cultivators attacked him as reinforcements arrived, while the enemy pressed its assault on Heavenly Void Pass’s defensive formation.

• The Nine-Headed Poison Lord and Heavenly Corpse Old Devil recognized that Shi Jian’s power came from an unstable but extraordinarily forceful secret method.
• Shi Jian’s strike destroyed the city-destroying weapon, lifting the defenders’ morale and shaking the Devil Cultivators.
• The Devil Cultivators noticed Shi Jian weakening and sent five Golden Core cultivators to surround and kill him.
• True Person Yun Du and True Person Qingshan tried to protect Shi Jian, but their attacks could not stop the Devil Cultivators.
• Three Supreme Purity Sect elders broke away from their opponents and joined the battle, holding back several Golden Core Devil Cultivators.
• The remaining Devil Cultivators formed a formation and attacked Heavenly Void Pass’s defensive formation while their troops launched a fierce assault.

Shi Jian and the Supreme Purity Sect elders fought off the Golden Core Devil Cultivators, with Shi Jian breaking the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation and creating an opening for True Person Qingshan to injure its caster. The Devil Cultivators retreated, and the elders hurried back to support the Heavenly Void Temple, where five more Devil Cultivators were attacking.

• A Golden Core corpse cultivator raised a corpse king while other Devil Cultivators unleashed poisonous insects, vengeful souls, corrosive blood, and Silver-Armored Corpses against Shi Jian and the Supreme Purity Sect elders.
• The leading elder placed a jade talisman on Shi Jian's forehead to defend his mind against the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Shi Jian fired Purple Firmament Divine Lightning at the bronze and iron corpses, destroying nearly a thousand and breaking the Ten Thousand Corpses Grand Formation.
• True Person Qingshan struck the weakened corpse cultivator with an azure vine whip, knocking him from the sky and leaving his fate unknown.
• The remaining Golden Core Devil Cultivators retreated, and Yun Du and the other elders set out to support the Heavenly Void Temple and ambush the five Devil Cultivators attacking its grand formation.

Shi Jian helped repel the Devil Cultivators from Heavenly Void Pass, then hid how much strength he had left while collecting the battlefield spoils. Elder Chen of the Supreme Purity Sect tried to recruit him with promises of abundant resources, but Shi Jian remained noncommittal and privately rejected the idea.

• The five Devil Cultivators attacking Heavenly Void Pass retreated after the Supreme Purity Sect elders counterattacked, and the Devil Cultivators withdrew from the battlefield.
• Shi Jian returned to the White Cloud Temple camp, accepted a Storage Bag of Spirit Stones and demon remains from Yun Du, and pretended to be more exhausted than he was.
• Lord Rat reported that Shi Jian's forces had recovered over a thousand Storage Bags and other battlefield materials, and Shi Jian ordered the useful supplies sent to Purple Firmament Peak.
• Elder Chen gave Shi Jian a third-tier Jade Bone Pill and offered him ten times White Cloud Temple's resources if he joined the Supreme Purity Sect.
• Shi Jian told Elder Chen he would think it over, then privately dismissed the offer because he did not want to be bound by the sect's rules.

Shi Jian’s forces scavenged the battlefield outside Heavenly Void Pass while the pass remained quiet, but a battle report revealed that the other fronts were collapsing. Opening Yang Pass had fallen after Yan Qiu betrayed its defenders, though the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect killed him after he helped them seize the city.

• Lord Rat reported the corpses and spoils his rat descendants had gathered, and Shi Jian kept the mid-grade Spirit Stones while allocating the rest to White Cloud Temple and Beast Pasturing Mountain.
• Shi Jian told Lord Rat, Kuang Dou, and Shi Mo to hunt minor Devil Cultivators and share the resources they gained with the other branches.
• True Person Yun Du and True Person Qingshan brought Shi Jian a report describing heavy casualties and breaches at several passes.
• Yun Du and Qingshan revealed that Yan Qiu had betrayed Opening Yang Pass, destroyed part of its formation, and helped the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect kill thousands and defeat its defenders.
• Yun Du explained that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect had slaughtered Yan Qiu’s disciples and drained his Essence Blood after the betrayal.

At Heavenly Void Pass, Shi Jian urged the shaken defenders not to lose hope after Opening Yang Pass was breached and True Lord Liufang was gravely injured. As the Devil Cultivators nearly overwhelmed the inner city, True Lord Xuanyuan returned and drove off their Nascent Soul leaders, allowing the Supreme Purity Sect to retake the outer city.

• True Person Qingshan reported that Opening Yang Pass had fallen, True Lord Liufang was near death, and the inner city was surrounded by the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.
• Shi Jian reassured True Person Yun Du and True Person Qingshan that Wei Kingdom's ancient great sects still had trump cards despite the crisis.
• At Opening Yang Pass, Old Devil Xueling and Poison Lord Bichun attacked the inner city's formation while True Lord Liufang struggled to defend it.
• True Lord Xuanyuan appeared, crushed thousands of Devil Cultivators with an azure palm, and dispelled the poisonous miasma and Blood Qi with an ancient bronze cauldron.
• True Lord Xuanyuan forced Old Devil Xueling and Poison Lord Bichun to flee, and the Wei Kingdom cultivators counterattacked.
• The Supreme Purity Sect retook Opening Yang Pass's outer city within half a day.

True Person Qingshan received reports that the Supreme Purity Sect had retaken key passes, killed Devil Dao leaders, and gained Hehuan Valley as an ally, turning the war in Wei Kingdom’s favor. After Elder Chen ordered a full counterattack into Jin Kingdom, Shi Jian and Yun Du mobilized their forces and planned to seize Fenghe Sect’s resources for White Cloud Temple.

• True Person Qingshan learned that True Lord Xuanyuan had retaken Opening Yang Pass and driven Old Devil Xueling away.
• True Person Qingshan received a report that True Lord Tianxing had killed the Heavenly Sha Sect patriarch’s physical body in a surprise attack at Heavenly Pivot Pass.
• True Person Qingshan learned that Devil Lord Hongfen had defected at Heavenly Authority Pass, helping True Lord Hanling kill Devil Lord Kugu and defeat the remaining Devil Cultivators.
• Elder Chen ordered the forces to pursue the enemy and join a full-scale invasion of Jin Kingdom’s four Devil Dao sects.
• Shi Jian and Yun Du mobilized their forces, and Shi Jian told Sun Mao to alert White Cloud Temple so it could seize Fenghe Sect’s resources and Blessed Lands.

After the Wei Kingdom forces routed the Devil Cultivators at Heavenly Void Pass, they pursued them into Jin territory to plunder its Devil Dao strongholds. The chapter left Shi Jian, Yun Du, and Qingshan leading an expedition into Black Sha Commandery, while White Cloud Temple's forces separately prepared to raid Fenghe Sect.

• Elder Chen ordered the counterattack, and the Wei Kingdom cultivators pursued the fleeing Devil Cultivators across the plain.
• Shi Jian, Yun Du, and Qingshan hunted down enemies as the Wei forces routed the Jin Kingdom army.
• Sun Mao told Zhao Yanshan that White Cloud Temple would leave the main force and raid the leaderless Fenghe Sect.
• At Ghost Gate Pass, Elder Chen ordered the Wei army to split up and plunder the commanderies of Profound Province.
• Shi Jian, Yun Du, and Qingshan led more than a thousand cultivators toward Black Sha Commandery and destroyed a Devil Cultivator lineage along the way.

Shi Jian shattered Yin Wind Valley’s protective formation, killed its Golden Core guardian, and led the allied cultivators into the valley. Lord Rat then found a trail toward a likely treasury and Blessed Land underground, and Shi Jian, Yun Du, and Qingshan followed it.

• Shi Jian destroyed the formation’s two spiritual nodes, and he broke the weakened Ten Thousand Bones Yin-Locking Formation with a lightning strike.
• True Person Bone Sha fled, but Shi Jian caught him and killed him before he could detonate his Golden Core.
• Shi Jian swallowed Bone Sha’s Golden Core and took his storage ring while Yun Du and Qingshan finished dealing with the Silver-Armored Corpses.
• Yun Du ordered the allied forces to attack, and the White Cloud Temple and Azure Light Gate cultivators swept through Yin Wind Valley’s remaining Devil Cultivators.
• Lord Rat sensed a dense source of Spiritual Qi along the underground yin vein and led Shi Jian, Yun Du, and Qingshan toward the likely treasury and Blessed Land.