Chapter Summaries

Zhu Sheng and the Huang Clan experts joined forces on their way to confront the Liu Clan, while Liu Duanyuan faced growing pressure as the Yue Clan and Wu Clan were drawn into the conflict. Yue Peng ordered his clan to set out for the Liu Clan, publicly posing as helpers while intending to attack it.

• Zhu Sheng and the Huang Clan experts agreed to travel together to the Liu Clan and seek an opportunity, while warning each other to protect their artifacts.
• Liu Duanyuan grew wary of Lu Changzhi's calm behavior and planned to obtain his memories after taking his soul apart.
• Liu Duanyuan learned that the Yue Clan and Wu Clan might join the conflict after someone urged them to claim a share of the spoils from the Mystic Yang Realm.
• Lu Changzhi refused to hand over another Emperor Conferment Chair, and Liu Duanyuan sealed him inside a great array before leaving.
• Yue Peng confirmed that the Mystic Yang Realm's experts would reach the Liu Clan within half an hour and ordered his forces to appear helpful while striking with force.

Liu Xun secretly incapacitated Liu Tianming and took him away as the Mystic Yang Realm’s Huang, Zhu, and Shen Clans gathered outside the Liu Clan to demand the Emperor Conferment Chair and the Shen Clan’s artifacts. The three clans made competing offers and threats, leaving the Liu Clan facing a tense standoff.

• Wu Xiao told Wu Fa that the Emperor's Son of the Liu Clan had thrown the Misty Clear Realm into turmoil, then left with him.
• Liu Xun struck Liu Tianming with poisoned needles, explained that staying in the Liu Clan was no longer the best choice, and carried him away.
• Zhong Ming spotted Long Yang hidden nearby and waited for the forces from the Mystic Yang Realm to arrive.
• The Huang, Zhu, and Shen Clan experts gathered outside the Liu Clan, and the Shen Clan joined them after the others speculated about its absence.
• Zhu Sheng demanded the Emperor Conferment Chair, while the Huang Clan demanded the chair and the Shen Clan's Emperor Artifacts in exchange for sparing the Liu Clan.
• A Shen Clan expert threatened the Liu Clan over the artifacts, and the three clans made their conflicting demands clear.

The Zhu Clan proposed that the three Mystic Yang Realm powers join forces against the Liu Clan, but the Huang and Shen clans refused to follow its lead and told it to act first. Zhu Sheng then had the Zhu Clan conceal itself behind a barrier, leaving the Liu Clan and the other observers wondering what it planned.

• Liu Clan members debated whether to hand over the chair and artifacts, while the ancestors refused to yield.
• Zhu Sheng warned that the three powers could threaten the Liu Clan together and invited the Huang and Shen clans to attack alongside the Zhu Clan.
• The Huang and Shen clans rejected the proposal and told the Zhu Clan to go first, easing the Liu Clan's immediate fears.
• Yue Peng ordered the Yue Clan to stay back and avoid joining the confrontation unless the Liu Clan's defenses fell.
• Zhu Sheng asked the other clans to make room, then the Zhu Clan formed a barrier that hid its experts from view.
• Zhu Sheng told the Liu Clan to prepare, and a Huang Clan member wondered in shock what the Zhu Clan was doing.

The Zhu Clan opened a Gray Ring Cave to bring reinforcements to the Liu Clan confrontation. Zhu Zhu arrived and declared that his clan would take what it wanted, then a mysterious young man emerged from the cave, visibly straining the experts who sustained it.

• Wu Xiao wondered whether the events surrounding the Liu Clan had changed a thousand-year mystery, while Wu Fa said he could discern nothing unless the Liu Clan's imperial son appeared.
• The Zhu Clan opened a Gray Ring Cave, a method that allowed people to travel between distant locations with almost no delay.
• Zhu Zhu stepped out of the cave, learned that the Huang and Shen Clans would not cooperate, and warned the Liu Clan that his clan would take what it wanted.
• A young man emerged from the cave, causing the Zhu Clan experts sustaining it to tense and struggle, while the gathered factions questioned his status and purpose.

Zhu Dengfeng emerged as the Zhu Clan’s Half-Step Emperor Realm powerhouse, alarming the Liu Clan’s rivals and drawing admiration from Zhong Ming and desire from Long Yang. Lu Changzhi left the Liu Clan’s secret chamber to assess Zhu Dengfeng, while the Zhu Clan welcomed its emperor ancestor in person.

• Zhong Ming judged Zhu Dengfeng the strongest person he had met besides his master, and Long Yang became so aroused by Zhu Dengfeng that his wound reopened and he called for his Third Uncle.
• Lu Changzhi identified Zhu Dengfeng as a Half-Step Emperor Realm cultivator with a talent linked to the Yin-Yang Dao Physique and decided to confront him directly.
• Liu Duanyuan realized Lu Changzhi had escaped the secret chamber instantly and chose not to investigate, thinking his continued presence would cause trouble.
• Lu Changzhi used his external avatar to travel from the Liu Clan’s secret chamber to a place near Zhong Ming and saw that Zhu Dengfeng was a young man.
• Huang Clan and Shen Clan experts worried that the Zhu Clan would seize the Liu Clan’s treasure and began summoning reinforcements.
• Zhu Dengfeng stopped, and Zhu Zhu and the other Zhu Clan experts bowed to welcome their emperor ancestor.

Zhu Dengfeng demanded the Liu Clan’s Emperor Conferment Chair and gave them three breaths to withstand his sword strike. The Liu Clan raised its hidden defensive formation, and Zhu Dengfeng’s strike made the clan shake before the disturbance quickly ended, leaving the crowd unsure whether the formation had blocked it.

• The gathered forces learned that Zhu Dengfeng was an Emperor Realm expert, and Yue Peng ordered his people to retreat farther away.
• The Liu Clan prepared to defend itself, and Liu Xun confirmed that Tianming had been sent to safety.
• Zhu Dengfeng demanded the Emperor Conferment Chair, gave the Liu Clan three breaths, and summoned a sword shadow.
• The Liu Clan ancestors activated the Formless Sect Formation, enclosing the clan behind six pillars of light.
• The Shen Clan decided to contact its Emperor Ancestor while Zhu Dengfeng readied his strike.
• Zhu Dengfeng sent the sword shadow into the Liu Clan’s defenses, causing the clan to shake briefly and leaving onlookers wondering whether the formation had stopped the attack.

After Zhu Dengfeng’s repeated sword strikes failed to break the Liu Clan’s defenses, he paused and appeared to consider another approach, keeping both sides on edge. A Liu Clan ancestor finally broke the standoff by standing up and remarking that everyone needed a hobby.

• The Yue Clan experts realized the Liu Clan’s defenses had withstood a powerful Emperor Realm sword strike and feared the Liu Clan had hidden formidable trump cards.
• Zhong Ming compared the Liu Clan’s six pillars of light with the layout of the Five Symbols Sect and wondered whether the sect had influenced the Liu Clan’s method.
• Zhu Dengfeng struck the Liu Clan’s defenses a second time, but they withstood the blow, and Zhu Zhu asked whether he could break through quickly.
• Zhu Dengfeng said the defensive method was impressive, then stood silently watching the Liu Clan ancestors while the Huang Clan, Shen Clan, and Lu Changzhi tried to guess his intentions.
• After another three breaths of silence, a Liu Clan ancestor stood up and said that everyone needed a little hobby.

Zhu Dengfeng entered the Liu Clan through a flaw in its defenses and demanded to know where the chair had gone. After learning it had flown away, he killed Liu Qing, leaving the surrounding clans wary of his control technique, while Lu Changzhi showed interest in learning it.

• Liu Qing used a token to leave the Liu Clan, and Zhu Dengfeng appeared beside him and entered through the opening.
• Chen Qiuwen and the Liu Clan ancestors tried to reinforce the defenses, but Zhu Dengfeng froze the clan and asked where the chair was.
• A Liu Clan ancestor showed Zhu Dengfeng an image of the chair flying away, and Zhu Dengfeng believed him.
• Zhu Dengfeng controlled Liu Qing, pulled out his spine, and killed him before the Liu Clan members.
• The Zhu, Huang, and Shen Clan experts feared Zhu Dengfeng's unfamiliar control technique, and Lu Changzhi said he wanted to learn it.

Lu Changzhi rejected the system’s technique after learning it only worked on men who liked men, while Zhu Dengfeng threatened the Liu Clan and demanded its Emperor’s Son. As the Liu Clan prepared to fight, the Dragon Race arrived and challenged Zhu Dengfeng.

• Lu Changzhi learned the technique’s conditions and refused to learn it after realizing who it targeted.
• Zhu Dengfeng gave the Liu Clan three breaths to comply, while the Liu Clan ancestors debated whether to yield or resist.
• Zhu Zhu told Zhu Dengfeng that the Liu Clan’s Emperor’s Son might be connected to Xu Tiancheng’s emperor tomb inheritance.
• Zhu Dengfeng demanded that the Liu Clan hand over its Emperor’s Son, and Long Yang urgently called his Third Uncle for help.
• Liu Duanyuan could not produce the missing Emperor’s Son, and Zhu Dengfeng filled the Liu Clan grounds with sword shadows as the clan resolved to fight.
• The Dragon Race arrived amid roars and warned everyone not to act rashly.

Eighteen dragons led by Long Xiao arrived at the Liu Clan while Zhu Dengfeng was demanding that the clan surrender its Emperor’s son. Long Xiao demanded Liu Tianming, and Zhu Dengfeng agreed the Zhu Clan had no interest in Tianming himself, only in things he possessed.

• Long Xiao and seventeen other dragons appeared over the Liu Clan, and Zhu Zhu wondered whether they had come for the clan’s chairs or because of something at the Emperor’s tomb.
• Lu Changzhi recognized that the Dragon Race had come for the Black Tortoise, while Long Yang flew to meet Long Xiao and revealed that the Mystic Yang Realm’s forces were already demanding the Liu Clan’s Emperor’s son.
• Long Xiao told Long Yang that the Dragon Race needed his help to restore its ancestral origins and that they would first pursue the Liu Clan’s Emperor’s son.
• Long Xiao called on the Liu Clan to hand over its Emperor’s son, and Liu Duanyuan suspected Lu Changzhi had brought the Dragon Race there.
• Liu Ruoyu explained that Zhu Dengfeng had killed a Liu Clan powerhouse while demanding the Emperor’s son; Zhu Dengfeng then told Long Xiao that the Zhu Clan wanted only a few things in the son’s possession.
• Long Xiao asked whether those things were alive, and Zhu Dengfeng replied that even a spiritual artifact would not count as living; Long Xiao accepted the distinction.

The Dragon Race questioned the Liu Clan about its real Emperor’s son, and Chen Mingxuan revealed that Lu Changzhi might be hidden at the Five Symbols Sect’s Hidden Origin Peak. As Long Xiao pressed for the sect’s location, Liu Zhong stepped forward, and Lu Changzhi used a secret art to ask his system for directions to Liu Tianming.

• Zhu Dengfeng asked Long Xiao whether the Dragon Race would cooperate, but Long Xiao refused to engage with him and told him not to interfere.
• Liu Ruoyu said the Liu Clan had sent its Emperor’s son away before the Mystic Yang Realm experts arrived, while Liu Duanyuan realized he could not reveal where Liu Tianming had gone.
• Chen Mingxuan claimed the Liu Clan had two Emperor’s sons and identified the real one as Braise Changzhi, hidden at the Five Symbols Sect’s Hidden Origin Peak.
• Long Xiao asked where the Five Symbols Sect was, and Chen Mingxuan could only say it was in the Land of the Four Directions.
• Liu Zhong revealed that he knew where the Land of the Four Directions was, then Lu Changzhi formed hand seals and asked his system to display directions to Liu Tianming.

Lu Changzhi revealed a technique that pointed toward Liu Tianming’s hiding place, prompting Zhu Zhu and six dragons to enter the Gray Ring Cave for the Mystic Yang Realm. As the Liu Clan’s opponents remained gathered outside, Lu Changzhi detected the arrival of Xuan Ze (Wu Kan), apparently an expert from the Black Tortoise Race.

• Lu Changzhi used Immortal Points the Way to reveal a line pointing toward the Mystic Yang Realm, and Liu Ruoyu realized it led toward Liu Tianming’s hiding place.
• Zhu Sheng told Zhu Zhu that Lu Changzhi could likely be trusted, and Zhu Zhu went through the Gray Ring Cave to reach the Mystic Yang Realm.
• Long Yang warned Long Xiao that Zhu Zhu had gone looking for Liu Tianming, and Long Xiao sent six dragons through the cave after him.
• The six dragons crowded into the Gray Ring Cave, forcing the Zhu Clan experts to work together to keep the passage stable.
• Lu Changzhi detected Xuan Ze (Wu Kan) arriving and suspected that the newcomer belonged to the Black Tortoise Race.

Lu Changzhi sent Liu Tianming a bottle of liquid to hide the white line tracking him, while the Dragon Race searched the Mystic Yang Realm for him. At the Liu Clan, Lu Changzhi urged the clan to surrender and revealed that Liu Tianming’s Black Tortoise egg could undergo ancestral reversion.

• Lu Changzhi took liquid from Xiao Wu and sent it to Liu Tianming through the system.
• Liu Tianming learned from Liu Xun’s message that the liquid could conceal him from the white line, then hesitated as he examined it.
• Zhu Zhu found the white line in the Mystic Yang Realm and sent powerful experts toward it.
• Xuan Ze and Wu Kan observed the Dragon Race’s gathering and discussed why it was risking conflict with the Human Race.
• Lu Changzhi, disguised as Liu Zhong, urged the Liu Clan to cooperate with the Dragon Race and said Liu Tianming’s Black Tortoise egg could undergo ancestral reversion.

Long Xiao attacked Lu Changzhi’s External Avatar after Liu Zhong’s claim about a Black Tortoise egg and ancestral reversion, but Xuan Ze and Wu Kan appeared and challenged him. Long Xiao learned the Black Tortoise Emperor was involved and decided to stall them while his dragons tried to reach the Liu Clan imperial son first.

• Liu Clan experts realized Liu Zhong’s claim about a Black Tortoise egg was intended to smear their clan.
• Long Xiao attacked Lu Changzhi with dragon breath, but Lu Changzhi withdrew his External Avatar as Xuan Ze appeared and confronted the Dragon Race.
• Zhu Dengfeng recognized that a Black Tortoise egg capable of ancestral reversion could plunge the factions into chaos.
• Xuan Ze and Wu Kan questioned Long Xiao about the egg and ancestral reversion, and Wu Kan revealed that the Dragon Race patriarch had visited the Black Tortoise Race.
• Long Xiao resolved to stall the Black Tortoise Emperor while his dragons tried to seize the Liu Clan imperial son first.

After the Dragon Race and Black Tortoise Race left the Liu Clan, the clan’s allies reconsidered whether to pursue Liu Tianming, whose hiding place had been exposed. Liu Ruoyu concluded that the Liu Clan could no longer protect Tianming’s position and urged Liu Xun not to treat the situation as a calamity.

• Yue Peng and the Yue Clan experts realized the Black Tortoise Race might support the Liu Clan and feared their own clan could become the joke if both Sacred Beast Races joined forces.
• Liu Duanyuan suspected Liu Zhong was allied with Lu Changzhi after seeing him disappear, and regretted that the Liu Clan had sought Lu Changzhi’s help.
• The Black Tortoise left for Gray Ring Cave, and Long Xiao led the remaining dragons after him while Zhu Sheng told the Zhu Clan not to close the cave’s defenses.
• Zhu Dengfeng left the Liu Clan after saying he would give the Black Tortoise Race face, and the Shen Clan experts decided not to call their ancestor for fear of offending both Sacred Beast Races.
• Liu Ruoyu told Liu Xun that the line had followed Liu Tianming from above his head, so Tianming’s hiding place could no longer be defended; he chose the lesser of two evils and reassured Liu Xun that Tianming’s birth was extraordinary.

The Liu Clan waited for the Dragon Race and Black Tortoise Race to reveal their positions while Lu Changzhi watched Liu Tianming’s hiding place. After Liu Xun found Tianming and learned someone had delivered him a suspicious jade bottle in his name, Tianming proposed going out to face the factions surrounding the clan.

• Liu Xun left the Liu Clan’s ancestors to keep watch over Liu Tianming while the Mystic Yang Realm experts waited for the Beast Races’ response.
• Lu Changzhi used the system to observe Liu Tianming’s hiding place, where six dragon silhouettes attacked the ground as Zhu Zhu watched and more dragons and Black Tortoises approached.
• Liu Xun arrived, and Liu Tianming mistook him for another deceiver and attacked before Liu Xun restrained him and calmed him down.
• Liu Tianming told Liu Xun that someone had delivered a jade bottle in his name, making Liu Xun suspect there was another traitor among the ancestors besides Liu Zhong.
• Liu Xun explained that the Dragon Race and Black Tortoise Race were targeting Liu Tianming over a supposed Black Tortoise egg, and Tianming suggested going out willingly to confront them.
• As the surrounding power fluctuations intensified, Liu Tianming asked Liu Xun whether he wanted him to keep hiding.

Liu Tianming emerged from the hidden space into a standoff between the Dragon Race and the Black Tortoise Race, who both wanted to protect or claim him. After learning that the newly hatched Black Tortoise had vanished, he suspected the same person was behind its disappearance and the earlier disappearance of his chair.

• Liu Xun opened an exit and let Liu Tianming leave the hidden space.
• Wu Kan and Xuan Ze shielded Liu Tianming from Long Xiao, and Wu Kan warned Long Xiao not to touch him.
• Long Xiao realized Liu Tianming was connected to the Black Tortoise egg and withdrew with the dragons rather than challenge Wu Kan.
• Liu Tianming told Wu Kan and Xuan Ze that the newly hatched Black Tortoise had left and that he did not know where it had gone.
• Liu Tianming recalled that his chair had also vanished and speculated that the same person had caused both disappearances.

Liu Tianming convinced the Black Tortoise Race that the Liu Clan had helped them, ending the factions’ pressure on the clan. As Wu Kan questioned him about the missing hatchling and the egg’s origins, the Liu Clan’s ancestors worried that his improvised story would be exposed.

• Wu Kan brought Liu Tianming and Liu Xun back to the Zhu Clan and told the gathered factions that Liu Tianming had made a great contribution to the Black Tortoise Race.
• The factions withdrew from confronting the Liu Clan, while Wu Fa and Wu Xiao wondered whether the thousand-year mystery involved Chen Mingxuan and the Five Symbols Sect instead of Liu Tianming.
• Liu Xun welcomed the Black Tortoises into the Liu Clan and promised to search for their missing hatchling.
• Liu Tianming told Wu Kan that the egg had come from Chen Tiancheng’s tomb, prompting Wu Kan and Xuan Ze to discuss what might have happened there.
• Wu Kan pressed Liu Tianming for detailed information, and the Liu Clan’s ancestors quietly tried to devise details that could support his story.

The Liu Clan discovered that the Black Tortoise hatchling’s scent was urine Liu Tianming had collected, but their attempt to trace its source failed. Liu Duanyuan worried Lu Changzhi might exploit the clan’s predicament, just as a voice from a disc suggested someone had overheard them.

• Liu Xun gave Liu Duanyuan the jade bottle, and Xuan Ze and Wu Kan identified its contents as the Black Tortoise hatchling’s urine.
• Liu Tianming learned that the hatchling had left its scent on him because it trusted him, while Liu Xun realized the bottle might lead them to it.
• Liu Xun and Liu Duanyuan searched the hiding place but found that the trail had gone cold.
• Liu Duanyuan warned that Lu Changzhi might use the clan’s crisis to take advantage of them, and Liu Xun agreed the possibility was troubling.
• Liu Duanyuan activated a disc after hearing a voice ask whether they would rather be attacked while down or looted during a fire.

Lu Changzhi turned the Liu Clan’s listening disc against Liu Duanyuan and Liu Xun, then demanded the land where their ancestors were buried in exchange for his help. The Liu Clan played his recording for Xuan Ze and Wu Kan, whose reaction left Liu Tianming claiming it had been heard just as the Black Tortoise left.

• Lu Changzhi revealed he had overheard Liu Duanyuan and Liu Xun and admitted the urine had been useful.
• Lu Changzhi demanded the Liu Clan cede the land where its deceased ancestors were buried, and Liu Duanyuan asked how he could prove he had a Black Tortoise youngling.
• Lu Changzhi told Liu Duanyuan to record a sound and have Black Tortoise experts listen to it, then promised to return in the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Liu Duanyuan returned to the Liu Clan and gave Liu Tianming the recording to use with Xuan Ze and Wu Kan.
• Xuan Ze and Wu Kan reacted strongly to the recording, and Liu Tianming said it had been heard just as the Black Tortoise left.