Recaps

Shi Jian, True Person Yun Du, and True Person Qingshan looted Yin Wind Valley’s treasury and stripped its Profound Yin Cold Pool of its resources before learning that the Fenghe Sect had fallen to the White Cloud Temple. The White Cloud Temple had seized the sect’s foundation and two Blessed Lands, greatly expanding its resources.

• True Person Qingshan opened Yin Wind Valley’s poisoned treasury, and Shi Jian, Yun Du, and Qingshan divided its Spirit Stones, spiritual materials, Cultivation Methods, and Law Treasures.
• Lord Rat discovered a hollow wall, and Shi Jian broke through it to reveal a Profound Yin Cold Pool and Ice Soul Grass.
• Yun Du proposed draining the pool and harvesting the grass, so Shi Jian, Yun Du, Qingshan, and the rat demons spent a day and night stripping the cavern of its resources.
• Sun Mao sent Shi Jian word that the Fenghe Sect had fallen, its elites were gone, and its treasury and two Blessed Lands were now in White Cloud Temple’s hands.
• Shi Jian and Yun Du welcomed the victory, which had removed a major threat and greatly increased White Cloud Temple’s foundation.

While Shi Jian recovered in Yin Wind Valley, the Supreme Purity Sect’s campaign devastated the Jin Kingdom and left its remaining devil sects surrounded. Shi Jian explained why the sect had paused its advance, and the others agreed that a drawn-out standoff would give everyone time to absorb their gains.

• Shi Jian ordered Lord Rat to sort and pack the valuable Yin Qi ores they had collected in Yin Wind Valley.
• Yun Du delivered a battle report describing how nine Nascent Soul experts destroyed the Yin Corpse Sect and captured its two ancestors.
• True Person Qingshan reported that the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect fled to the Blood Bone Devil Sect, while Devil Lord Hongfen defected from Hehuan Valley after killing Devil Lord Lu Xia.
• Yun Du explained that the Blood Bone Devil Sect and Heavenly Sha Sect were surrounded by ten Supreme Purity Sect Nascent Soul experts, but the attackers had not begun a decisive assault.
• Shi Jian said the Supreme Purity Sect was likely pausing because its forces were occupied claiming territory and because a costly battle could weaken its hold over the Jin Kingdom.

Shi Jian, True Person Yun Du, and True Person Qingshan stripped Black Sha Commandery of its resources for their sects. After extracting Yin Wind Valley’s third-tier Spirit Vein for White Cloud Temple, they swept the nine counties and left the region largely barren.

• True Person Yun Du relayed Elder Chen’s order to plunder Black Sha Commandery, and Shi Jian called for them to begin extracting its Spirit Veins.
• Shi Jian assigned Yin Wind Valley’s third-tier Spirit Vein to White Cloud Temple and promised True Person Qingshan compensation.
• True Person Yun Du and True Person Qingshan led their array masters in extracting seventy percent of the third-tier Spirit Vein and sealing it in a jade casket.
• Shi Jian and his companions swept Black Sha Commandery’s nine counties, extracting twelve second-tier Spirit Veins and seizing or destroying other resources.
• Yun Du and Qingshan’s forces stripped the counties’ spirit fields, mines, herbs, medicines, and spirit beasts, leaving Black Sha Commandery depleted.

Shi Jian returned to White Cloud Temple with the enormous spoils from the campaigns against the Jin Kingdom and began putting plans in place to strengthen both the temple and his Demon Race forces. He withdrew the demons into Beast Pasturing Mountain and settled into cultivation, aiming to break through to the Golden Core Middle Stage.

• Shi Jian tallied White Cloud Temple’s spoils from Black Sha Commandery and ordered the forces to withdraw before they provoked resentment from Wei Kingdom’s other powers.
• As the flying ships crossed the war-ravaged Jin Kingdom, Shi Jian reflected on the shifting balance among Wei Kingdom’s three great sects and vowed to lead the Demon Race to rise in the future.
• Two flying ships returned to White Cloud Temple with their spoils, and Yun Tianfan wept with joy while Sun Mao and Zhao Yanshan arrived with the Lineage cultivators from the nine counties.
• True Person Qingshan set aside resources for Azure Light Gate and departed with the forces from Qingzhou Commandery.
• Shi Jian ordered Lord Rat to move all Demon Race members deep into Beast Pasturing Mountain, distribute resources, and help young demons reach Foundation Establishment.
• Shi Jian began cultivating in his cave abode, sensing that he might reach the Golden Core Middle Stage within twenty or thirty years.

After a year of secluded cultivation, Shi Jian emerged with his Nine-Pattern Lightning Core perfected and learned that the Supreme Purity Sect had founded the Clear Blue Kingdom. White Cloud Temple had been appointed the Ming Province Northern Protectorate, and Shi Jian headed to meet Yun Du about its expanded territory and duties.

• Shi Jian completed a year of cultivation, strengthened the lightning pool, and stabilized his Golden Core just short of the Middle Stage.
• Lord Rat told Shi Jian that the Supreme Purity Sect had separated from the Wei Kingdom and established the Clear Blue Kingdom from six provinces.
• Shi Jian learned that the Profound Purity Sect and Grand Purity Sect had recognized the new kingdom while secretly preparing for possible war.
• Lord Rat reported that White Cloud Temple had become the Ming Province Northern Protectorate, governing eighteen counties and sixty-two Foundation Establishment Lineages.
• Shi Jian learned that Yun Du had spent the year managing the territory and had asked to discuss matters with him.
• Shi Jian left Purple Firmament Peak and flew toward White Cloud Temple's main peak.

True Person Yun Du explained the new Northern Protectorate’s obligations and benefits to Shi Jian, then offered him the deputy protector position. Shi Jian accepted the appointment, strengthening White Cloud Temple’s standing in the realm.

• True Person Yun Du greeted Shi Jian at the main peak’s great hall and described the territory and clans under his administration.
• Yun Du explained that the protectorate had to submit spirit taxes, materials, and Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Ming Province government every ten years in exchange for support and greater freedom.
• Yun Du told Shi Jian that True Lord Fang Yi led the provincial government and had a favorable attitude toward White Cloud Temple.
• Yun Du gave Shi Jian the deputy protector token, explaining that True Lord Fang Yi had personally approved his appointment.
• Shi Jian accepted the deputy protector position, and Yun Du felt the Northern Protectorate’s foundations were secure with Shi Jian holding the fort.

Shi Jian watched White Cloud Temple reshape the Cloud Sword Mountain Range as Yun Du established new Spirit Veins and Blessed Lands, while Shi Jian strengthened Purple Firmament Peak and completed its Thunder Pool Blessed Land. The chapter left White Cloud Temple with four growing paths to Golden Core and Shi Jian’s Lightning Bear lineage with a source of Violet Firmament Golden Lightning Qi.

• Yun Du raised the southern mountains’ main Spirit Vein to third-tier, high-grade and expanded the network of spirit mountains.
• Yun Du established the White Peak Cloud Gorge, relocated the Fenghe Sect’s Fire Cloud Grotto, and planted a Water Dao spirit pearl to form three new Blessed Lands.
• Shi Jian observed Yun Du’s plans to give White Cloud Temple inheritance paths in Sword, Cloud, Fire, and Water Dao.
• Shi Jian combined two third-tier Spirit Veins beneath Purple Firmament Peak, enlarging the peak and raising its Spirit Vein to third-tier, middle-grade.
• Shi Jian’s Thunder Pool completed its transformation into a Blessed Land and began producing Violet Firmament Golden Lightning Qi about once every three hundred years.
• Purple Firmament told Shi Jian that improving the Spirit Vein or nurturing the pool with fourth-tier lightning treasures could accelerate its production.

Shi Jian reorganized the Northern Mountain Range, assigning its expanded spirit mountains and cultivation resources to Demon Beast tribes and the Sun and Zhao clans. He installed the Crimson Slurry Pool at Frenzied Battle Peak, giving Kuang Dou’s black dog tribe a fire-path blessed land and new prospects for growth.

• Shi Jian distributed the Northern Mountain Range’s eighteen second-tier spirit mountains among the Demon Beast tribes, the Sun Clan, and the Zhao Clan.
• Shi Jian arranged for the Sun and Zhao clans to manage spirit beasts and develop the range’s spirit herb gardens, fruit groves, and medicine fields.
• Shi Jian modified the White Cloud Temple’s beast-taming methods to protect spirit beasts and let them dissolve contracts, inherit cultivation, or join human cultivators in a combined attack.
• Shi Jian entrusted the Crimson Slurry Pool to Kuang Dou and had Lord Rat’s team install it in a lava cavern beneath Frenzied Battle Peak.
• The Crimson Slurry Pool transformed Frenzied Battle Peak into a fire-attribute habitat, delighting Kuang Dou with the chance to strengthen the black dog tribe and pursue Golden Core.

Shi Jian’s northern mountains gained an embryonic Earth Dao Blessed Land at Boulder Peak, while his demon clans and forces in the Great Maple Mountain Range continued to grow. He counted seven Blessed Lands across the south and north and planned to keep building his power until he could reach Nascent Soul.

• Shi Jian established an embryonic Earth Dao Blessed Land inside Boulder Peak using the pure Earth Dao Heaven and Earth Qi Yun Du had obtained from True Person Qingshan.
• Shi Jian counted seven Blessed Lands across Ming Province and said he would keep accumulating power until he could reach Nascent Soul and spark a human-demon calamity.
• Lord Rat’s lineage gained two Foundation Establishment demons, Kuang Dou advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and the bear lineages saw new breakthroughs, including two new Boulder bears and two Lightning Bears named Lei Bao and Lei Kuang.
• Shi Jian’s northern mountains held fourteen Foundation Establishment great demons, ten of them bears, while Lei Nu, Lei Zhen, Lei Bao, and Lei Kuang became known as the Four Bears of Frenzied Lightning.
• Shi Jian sent Lei Huan to command the thirty-six peaks of Beast Pasturing Mountain, bringing the number of Foundation Establishment great demons he could mobilize to at least fifty.

Shi Jian sought Purple Firmament’s guidance on the Dao and entered secluded cultivation, drawing Spiritual Qi and summoning purple-gold lightning over Purple Firmament Peak. Across the Sun Clan, Lu Xun, Sun Mao, Sun Yao, and Sun Chengzu witnessed the spectacle and reflected on the patriarch’s influence as they continued their own paths.

• Shi Jian asked Purple Firmament to explain the Dao, then returned to his cave abode and began secluded cultivation as lightning and Spiritual Qi gathered over Purple Firmament Peak.
• Lu Xun watched the lightning while studying formations with Sun Lin, who urged him to serve the patriarch and said his Lightning Spirit Root might help him form a Golden Core.
• Sun Mao saw the lightning after arranging spiritual taxes and bowed toward Purple Firmament Peak, wishing the patriarch success.
• Sun Yao sensed the pressure of the lightning and resumed cultivation, determined to pursue a Golden Core even without Heaven and Earth Qi.
• Sun Chengzu saluted Purple Firmament Peak with his sword, then turned back toward the Return to Origin Sword Tomb to continue his cultivation.

Ten years after the war, a storyteller and White Cloud Temple officials described how the powers of the Profound Spirit Continent had changed. The Northern Protectorate prepared for a wider conflict as rival kingdoms and sects strengthened their forces.

• Old Man Bao recounted how the Profound Purity Sect drove the North Sea demons back after suffering devastating losses, while it and the Grand Purity Sect formed an alliance against the Clear Blue Kingdom.
• Old Man Bao explained that the Liang Kingdom's four sects had made peace and rebuilt their strength during the decade of turmoil.
• Sun Mao reported to True Person Yun Du that the Northern Protectorate had secured its territory and White Cloud Temple's annual revenue had reached about one million Spirit Stones.
• Sun Mao revealed that the Heavenly Sha Sect's Nascent Soul ancestors had secretly fled the continent with the sect's treasures and core disciples years earlier.
• True Person Yun Du warned that the Clear Blue Kingdom faced pressure from the Profound Purity and Grand Purity Sects and the Liang Kingdom, and ordered further war preparations.

True Lord Fang Yi assessed the Clear Blue Kingdom’s precarious position among rival powers and chose to wait for a chance to strengthen it. Meanwhile, Old Devil Xueling sought an alliance to help the weakened Jin Kingdom survive, and revealed that he had sent gifts to the Grand Purity Sect.

• True Lord Fang Yi learned that the Heavenly Sha Sect had fled to the Boundless Sea and rejected a proposal to attack the weakened Jin Kingdom.
• True Lord Fang Yi warned that the Profound Purity Sect, Grand Purity Sect, and Liang Kingdom posed threats to the Clear Blue Kingdom, and said he would wait for a shift in the balance of power.
• Old Devil Xueling convened the Jin Kingdom’s remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, who argued over whether to resist the Clear Blue Kingdom or flee to the Boundless Sea.
• Old Devil Xueling proposed joining forces with the remnants of the Wei Kingdom and revealed that he had sent lavish gifts to the Grand Purity Sect.

True Person Xuehe failed to secure an alliance with the Grand Purity Sect, whose ancestors chose to let the Clear Blue Kingdom and Jin Kingdom’s devil path weaken each other. Ten years later, White Cloud Temple had grown substantially, and Sun Mao and Zhao Yanshan headed to its main peak to discuss the provincial spiritual tax.

• True Person Xuehe offered the Grand Purity Sect treasures and an alliance against the Clear Blue Kingdom, but the sect refused and sent him away.
• The Grand Purity Sect’s Nascent Soul ancestors agreed to avoid war and let the Clear Blue Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom’s devil path struggle among themselves.
• Sun Qiyan sparred with Junior Brother Li at White Cloud Temple, defeating him with earth techniques while praising his swordsmanship.
• Sun Mao and Zhao Yanshan discussed White Cloud Temple’s growth and the Sun Clan’s influence among its disciples.
• Sun Mao and Zhao Yanshan discussed the growing Black Dog Line and their clans’ ties with the beast factions.
• Sun Mao and Zhao Yanshan went to the main peak for a meeting about the spiritual tax due to the provincial seat.

During a long peace, the Northern Mountain Range’s demons expanded their numbers and influence as Molten Fire Black Hounds became a profitable spirit beast. After Lord Rat broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Shi Jian sent him to contact Shi Yin, the hidden white bear in the Supreme Purity Sect.

• Zhao Kuo sold a batch of Molten Fire Black Hound pups to a merchant for five hundred Spirit Stones each.
• Kuang Dou ordered his hounds to keep breeding and directed their earnings toward fire element spirit materials for his cultivation.
• The Northern Mountain Range’s demon bloodlines grew in strength and numbers during the peaceful years.
• Lord Rat broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage in his underground cavern.
• Shi Jian ordered Lord Rat to go to the Supreme Purity Sect’s mountain gate in Qing Province and meet Shi Yin, who had been hidden there for decades.

Lord Rat met Shi Yin outside Clear Heaven Immortal City and received stolen intelligence, including the location of the hidden Nine Winds Valley secret realm. Shi Yin revealed that he had taken control of Zhou Tianle, and Lord Rat left to report to the ancestor so the Demon Beast tribes could plan to seize the realm.

• Lord Rat waited in the rock forest until Shi Yin appeared, then accepted a Storage Bag of intelligence for the ancestor.
• Shi Yin explained that the bag contained sect and provincial personnel records, troop deployments, Demon Beast Pill Formulas, and concealing Cultivation Methods taken through Zhou Tianle.
• Lord Rat read a red Jade Slip revealing that Nine Winds Valley held Wind Dao Heaven and Earth Qi and could be entered only by cultivators below Golden Core.
• Shi Yin told Lord Rat that he had gradually corrupted Zhou Tianle's soul and now controlled him through their beast-taming contract.
• Lord Rat departed for the White Cloud Temple to report the secret realm's location to the ancestor, while Shi Yin vanished into the night.

Shi Jian sent Lord Rat and nine Foundation Establishment demons to seize the resources in Nine Winds Valley, a secret realm hidden beneath Di Prefecture. After two Supreme Purity Sect disciples entered first, Lord Rat led the demons through the entrance to follow them.

• Lord Rat reported the discovery of Nine Winds Valley, and Shi Jian ordered him to lead ten Foundation Establishment demons there while Shi Jian remained in seclusion.
• Lord Rat gathered demons from the five bear lineages, taught them Shi Yin’s breath-concealing method, and led them south toward Di Prefecture.
• At Soul-Severing Ravine, the demons found the secret realm’s entrance but hid when two Supreme Purity Sect disciples arrived.
• The Wang cultivator used a formation disk to reveal the entrance, and he and Junior Sister Lin entered Nine Winds Valley seeking its Heaven and Earth Qi of the Dao of Wind.
• Lord Rat decided to use the two cultivators as pathfinders, then led the nine bear demons into the secret realm.

Lord Rat and his demons followed Wang and Junior Sister Lin through the collapsing secret realm toward Gale Gorge, where the pair were ambushed by Hurricane Demons. Lord Rat positioned his forces to attack as Wang and Lin’s formation came under pressure.

• Lord Rat discovered that flight was forbidden and Divine Sense was restricted, then led the ten great demons through the ruined secret realm behind Wang and Junior Sister Lin.
• Wang and Lin fought through bronze puppet guards and killing formations, searched an empty jade coffin, and learned from a remnant map that the Wind Dao Heaven and Earth Qi lay in Gale Gorge.
• Lord Rat ordered the demons to follow Wang and Lin south, where the wind grew violent as they entered the gorge.
• Dozens of Hurricane Demons attacked Wang and Lin, and Wang protected them with a formation as more than a hundred monsters gathered outside it.
• Lord Rat divided his forces: Shi Mo and Shi Pan would hold off the Hurricane Demons, the Lightning Bear demons would kill Wang when the formation broke, and Shuang Yu would deal with Lin.

Lord Rat and the demons rescued no one as they killed Wang Teng, Junior Sister Lin, and the Hurricane Demons in Nine Winds Valley. They reached a sinkhole and discovered the Wind Dao Heaven and Earth Qi, Mad Firmament Clear Mountain Mist Qi.

• Wang Teng detonated his formation flags to open a path through the Hurricane Demons, but Shi Mo and Shi Pan appeared and blocked his escape.
• Lord Rat declared that Nine Winds Valley belonged to their ancestor, and Wang Teng used a forbidden technique before Lei Nu killed him.
• Shuang Yu froze Junior Sister Lin and killed her as she tried to escape.
• At Lord Rat's command, the demons slaughtered the remaining Hurricane Demons, and Lord Rat took Wang Teng's Storage Bag.
• Lord Rat led the demons deeper into the canyon, where they found Mad Firmament Clear Mountain Mist Qi floating in a circular sinkhole.

Lord Rat and the demons secured the Wind Dao Heaven and Earth Qi from Nine Winds Valley and established the secret realm as a hidden outpost for the Demon Race. After returning to Shi Jian, Lord Rat received permission to use the Qi to strengthen the Spirit Rat Line and greater freedom to claim resources beyond their territory.

• Lord Rat sealed the Wind Dao Heaven and Earth Qi in a jade box, hoping it would transform the Spirit Rat Line’s bloodline.
• Lord Rat’s demons surveyed Nine Winds Valley, protected its resources, and left Shu Laosan to guard and manage the secret outpost.
• Lord Rat and eight bear demons concealed the secret realm’s entrance and returned to White Cloud Temple with the Qi and a list of gathered resources.
• Shi Jian dismissed concerns about the deaths of the two Supreme Purity Sect disciples and allowed Lord Rat to merge the Qi into the Spirit Rat Line’s mountain.
• Shi Jian praised Lord Rat’s plan for the outpost and authorized him to make decisions about pursuing resources in other secret realms and Blessed Lands.

Lord Rat built a rudimentary Wind Dao Blessed Land in the valley between the Spirit Rat Line’s two Spirit Mountains, using the Mad Firmament Clear Mountain Mist Qi as its catalyst. Its wind column began growing, but so slowly that Lord Rat left to seek a faster way to develop it.

• Lord Rat chose the wind-channel valley between the two Spirit Mountains and had ten Boulder Bear Demons reshape its floor and cliffs to gather wind Qi.
• Lord Rat linked Spirit Vein branches from both mountains and dug a pit where their Spiritual Qi turbulence could combine with the seasonal winds.
• Lord Rat bought the Zhao Clan’s wind-attributed spiritual treasures for fifteen thousand Spirit Stones and secured first priority on future wind materials.
• Lord Rat planted Wind Spirit Grass, arranged Wind Spirit Crystal Stones and Wind Eye Stones, and buried three wind-attributed Demon Cores around the pit.
• Lord Rat released the Mad Firmament Clear Mountain Mist Qi into the pit, forming a small, steady column of wind and completing the Blessed Land’s rudiment.
• Lord Rat saw the column grow only half a cun or a cun each month and decided to find a way to speed its development.

Lord Rat felt threatened by the Black Dog Line’s rapid growth and recognized that his own Spirit Rat Line had fallen behind. He considered replacing the Blood Dao that was damaging his foundation with the Dao of Hidden Wind, which suited rat demons’ talent for concealment.

• At the demons’ meeting, Lord Rat saw that Kuang Dou had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and that the Black Dog Line was flourishing.
• Lord Rat compared the Spirit Rat Line’s limited strength with the Black Dog Line and the five bear lines, and admitted he could not accept falling behind.
• Back in his cave, Lord Rat recalled that Blood Sha had helped him reach Foundation Establishment but was now damaging his foundation and could eventually destroy his mind.
• Lord Rat reasoned that Hidden Wind could enhance the Spirit Rat Line’s concealment and compensate for its weak attack power, and he grew calm about pursuing the Wind Dao.

Lord Rat studied ancient records and decided to abandon his Blood Dao cultivation to rebuild his foundation through the Dao of Wind. He ordered the Spirit Rat Line to change its cultivation path and prepared to enter seclusion, leaving the clan facing a painful transformation.

• Lord Rat worried that removing the Blood Sha fused with his bloodline could cripple his cultivation, and asked the second rat whether sacrificing his power for the Spirit Rat Line would be worthwhile.
• Months later, Lord Rat searched ancient books for a way to change his bloodline and learned of a blood bat that had survived abandoning the Blood Dao, though the process could take years and cause severe pain.
• Shi Jian urged Lord Rat to stop hesitating and either make up his mind or give up on the plan, and Lord Rat returned to his clan determined to proceed.
• Lord Rat ordered the Spirit Rat Line to cultivate the Dao of Wind, assigned the Qi Refining rats to train near a wind-aligned Blessed Land, and moved the pups to a cave where they could grow up exposed to its Spiritual Qi.
• Lord Rat announced that he would enter seclusion to cripple his Blood Dao foundation and rebuild through the Dao of Wind, dismissing the second rat's fears about losing status among the other demon clans.

Lord Rat destroyed his Blood Dao foundation and spent four years cleansing the blood-Sha power from his body and rebuilding his cultivation through the Dao of Wind. He left seclusion with repaired meridians, cultivation near the Foundation Establishment threshold, and a transformed appearance.

• Lord Rat assigned Second Brother to manage the Spirit Rat Line's affairs while he entered seclusion to pursue a new path.
• Lord Rat shattered his supreme-grade Law Artifact, destroying the foundation of his Blood Dao cultivation and beginning to strip away its power.
• After nine months of severe pain, Lord Rat used Sha-Cleansing Spirit Pills to remove the blood-Sha Qi, leaving him with cultivation around the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.
• Lord Rat found that Dao of Wind spiritual power suited his rat bloodline, gradually healing his meridians as he rebuilt his foundation.
• Over the next four years, Lord Rat recovered to the Qi Refining Peak Stage and came close to Foundation Establishment.
• Lord Rat emerged from seclusion with gray-blue fur, a longer tail, and cyan spiritual light curling around its tip.

Lord Rat emerged from seclusion with improved wind abilities and established a new cultivation path for the Spirit Rat Line. The clan began adapting to the Dao of Wind, while Lord Rat hoped its growth would eventually let it catch up to the Black Dog Line.

• Lord Rat emerged at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage and demonstrated a powerful wind blade and concealment ability to Rat Second and the other rat yao.
• Lord Rat named the clan's new path and shared the Concealing Wind Instruction, which combined wind Spiritual Qi with the rats' innate concealment.
• The first pups born near the Dao of Wind Blessed Land developed bluish fur, glowing tail tips, and nearly silent movement, so Lord Rat named them Wind Rats.
• Rat Second found that the technique had improved his ability to sense Spirit Veins, allowing him to trace them fifty zhang underground.
• Lord Rat planted Wind Spirit Grass on the Spirit Rat Line's two spirit mountains and reshaped their cave passages to draw wind through them, creating small cultivation grounds.

Lord Rat rebuilt the Spirit Rat Line around the Dao of Wind while his cultivation recovered and the Sun Clan supplied spiritual materials. After three peaceful years, the ancestor broke through on Purple Firmament Peak, sending a terrifying surge of lightning and Spiritual Qi across the region.

• Lord Rat emerged from four years of seclusion with his cultivation reduced by a minor realm but a transformed spirit and bearing.
• Lord Rat focused his reform on young Wind Rat pups, while allowing the older generation to continue their existing cultivation paths.
• Over the next three years, the wind pillar grew to nine feet with help from the Sun Clan, and Lord Rat steadily recovered his cultivation.
• Thunderclouds swelled over Purple Firmament Peak as lightning and Spiritual Qi surged, forcing spirit beasts across the Northern Mountain Range to prostrate themselves.
• Lord Rat realized the ancestor had broken through, and disciples of White Cloud Temple saw the purple-gold light from the north.