Recaps

Chen Du spent a hundred years studying the Spirit Flourishing Sect’s cultivation texts and seeking a way to overcome Duke Tianyuan Ning Shanyue’s overwhelming luck. He completed his Martial Canon deductions and reached the threshold of the seventh tier, but had not yet chosen whether to break through.

• A senior brother told Chen Du how Ning Shanyue’s extraordinary luck had carried him from woodcutter to Martial Immortal Peak Stage.
• Chen Du decided to enter the inner sect’s scripture repository and investigate how luck could be countered, while concealing his identity and ability.
• Over a hundred years, Chen Du studied the sect’s texts, entered the inner sect, and searched for a way to unite Martial Dao and immortal cultivation.
• Chen Du found a damaged travelogue passage suggesting that seventh-tier cultivators pursued oneness, giving his deductions a direction.
• Chen Du completed the Martial Immortal and Body Integration chapters of his Martial Canon and gained the ability to break through to the seventh tier.
• Chen Du suppressed the signs of his breakthrough and was left facing the choice to advance.

After spending a hundred years reaching the Martial Immortal Realm and Body Integration Stage, Chen Du returned to find Duke Zhenguo attacking the Spirit Flourishing Sect. Chen Du killed him with ease, but Ning Shanyue arrived and attacked, leaving Chen Du struggling against his vastly superior strength and uncanny fortune.

• Chen Du broke through to the seventh tier, becoming a First-Rank Martial Immortal and reaching the Body Integration Stage.
• Duke Zhenguo stormed the Spirit Flourishing Sect, defeated its two Body Integration Stage grand elders, and demanded that Ning Chuan come out.
• Chen Du confronted Duke Zhenguo, shattered his attack with a finger, and killed him with a single palm strike.
• Ning Shanyue arrived after Duke Zhenguo's death, identified Chen Du as his son, and declared that he would kill him.
• Chen Du abruptly advanced to the Martial Immortal Middle Stage after absorbing Duke Zhenguo's Martial Dao energy, then fought Ning Shanyue as their clash shook the sect's seventy-two peaks.

After Ning Shanyue killed Chen Du in his first life, Chen Du reincarnated and spent a hundred years preparing to surpass him. He killed Ning Shanyue at Duke Tianyuan's Estate, broke through beyond the Martial Immortal Peak Stage, and heard a mysterious voice declare that it was finally done.

• Ning Shanyue struck Chen Du down, and Chen Du died after vowing that Ning Shanyue would die next time.
• Chen Du reincarnated with half his former cultivation and joined the Spirit Flourishing Sect again, where he secretly pursued the Martial Immortal Peak Stage and a higher Immortal Dao realm.
• Over a hundred years, Chen Du studied the sect's texts and deduced the Martial Immortal Peak and Body Integration Peak stages while concealing his progress.
• Chen Du reached Duke Tianyuan's Estate and simultaneously broke through to Martial Immortal Peak Stage and Body Integration Peak Stage, then killed Zheng-shi.
• Ning Shanyue confronted Chen Du, but Chen Du's attacks overcame his fortune and defenses, killing him and destroying much of the estate.
• Chen Du broke through beyond Martial Immortal Peak Stage, and a distant voice said, “Finally... it's done!”

The Black-Robed Man drained Chen Du’s cultivation and fortune, revealing that he had engineered the Martial Dao seeds to produce a perfect fruit and seize the Lingwu Secret Realm’s Divine Status. He destroyed the Spirit Flourishing Sect, claimed the Divine Status, and killed Chen Du, whose reincarnation ability then triggered.

• The Black-Robed Man appeared before Chen Du and drained his Martial Dao aura and fortune.
• The Black-Robed Man explained that his Martial Dao technique made its practitioners his seeds, and that he had arranged for them to fight and gather fortune until one perfect survivor could be harvested.
• The Black-Robed Man revealed that Chen Du’s mother, not Ning Shanyue, had originally possessed the immense fortune Ning Shanyue later plundered.
• The Black-Robed Man gathered the Spirit Martial Realm’s Martial Dao fortune and used it to destroy the Spirit Flourishing Sect.
• The Black-Robed Man recovered the Lingwu Secret Realm’s Divine Status from the ruins and celebrated breaking through its defense mechanism.
• Chen Du disintegrated and died, triggering Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation and Reincarnation Inheritance with seven rebirth opportunities remaining.

After reincarnating, Chen Du realized that the Spirit Martial Realm’s Martial Dao system was a gu-refinement scheme controlled by the black-robed man, and resolved to forge a path outside it. He completed a new Pseudo-Eighth-Rank cultivation method but had yet to break through, determined to turn against the one who raised the gu.

• Chen Du awakened in Ning Chuan’s body and found that Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation and Reincarnation Inheritance had both advanced, giving him twelve lives and allowing him to inherit sixty percent of his cultivation and carry one item.
• Chen Du concluded that the black-robed man had arranged the conflicts and harvested the Spirit Martial Realm’s cultivators, including the Spirit Flourishing Sect, as part of a gu-refinement scheme.
• At the Spirit Flourishing Sect, Chen Du vowed to avoid the realm’s Martial Dao methods and rely on his own Martial Canon and knowledge from three realms.
• Chen Du spent eighty years deducing and cultivating the Realm-Severing Foundation, removing the Spirit Martial Realm’s Martial Dao imprints from himself.
• Chen Du completed the Martial Canon: Pseudo-Eighth-Rank Realm-Severing Chapter but did not break through, resolving to make the gu raiser suffer in turn.

Chen Du broke through to the Pseudo-Eighth Tier, seized the Spirit Martial Realm’s Divine Status, and escaped the black-robed man by killing himself and returning to Blue Star. He learned the Divine Status could grant him power over the secret realm and began investigating Blue Star’s changing situation.

• Chen Du broke through to the Pseudo-Eighth Tier and used the black-robed man’s distraction to reach the Spirit Martial Realm’s Divine Status beneath the Cangwu Mountain Range.
• Chen Du seized the Divine Status, triggered Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation, and chose to carry it into his next life.
• Chen Du returned to the mine pit on Blue Star with the Divine Status and learned that less than a minute had passed.
• Chen Du studied the Divine Status and realized it could give him command over the Spirit Martial Realm and power to contend with the black-robed man.
• Chen Du went online and learned that the Ancient Saint Group had become a powerful organization recruiting evolvers and mass-producing concentrated Evolution Factor solution.

Chen Du read about Blue Star’s powerful third-tier peak evolvers, then secluded himself in a cavern and broke through to the Pseudo-Eighth Tier in Martial Dao. He concealed the breakthrough and turned his attention to finding the spiritual object needed to advance his factor cultivation beyond the sixth-tier peak stage.

• Chen Du read about the Ancient God, Zero, Wuqu, and Sea Lord, the prominent trump cards of several major forces.
• Chen Du left the city and found a secluded cavern in the mountains, where he placed aura-concealing restrictions.
• Chen Du suppressed the signs of his breakthrough and became the first human on present-day Blue Star to reach the Pseudo-Eighth Tier.
• Chen Du decided to seek a spiritual object that could catalyze the next stage of his factor cultivation.

Chen Du went to a forest to claim the spiritual tree’s fruits and instantly defeated the Ancient God, the strongest known evolver. The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration detected Chen Du’s energy exceeding its Sixth Tier warning and approaching or surpassing the Seventh Tier.

• Chen Du learned that a spiritual tree bearing golden fruit had appeared in a forest, surrounded by the corpses of more than a hundred evolvers, and went there to seek its fruit.
• Chen Du watched the Ancient God overpower Zero and Wuqu while the Sea Lord waited outside the fight for a chance to seize the spoils.
• The Ancient God took the golden fruits and declared himself invincible, but Chen Du appeared in his path and brushed aside his attack.
• Chen Du struck the Ancient God once, sending him crashing through trees and leaving his life or death unknown.
• The other peak Third Tier evolvers froze as livestream viewers reacted to Chen Du’s overwhelming power.
• The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration’s monitoring team registered Chen Du’s energy rising beyond the Sixth Tier warning line and approaching or surpassing the Seventh Tier.

A suspected above-Seventh-Tier energy reading at the God Tree contest shocked headquarters and the major factions after Chen Du defeated the Ancient God with one move. As Chen Du faced the towering Tree Demon, it revealed that the Extraterrestrial Race considered Blue Star a breeding ground and planned to rule it.

• A monitoring team reported Chen Du's suspected above-Seventh-Tier energy reading and the Ancient God's defeat to headquarters, which classified the data as top secret.
• The Ancient Saint Group ordered an investigation into Chen Du, Heavenly Palace ordered Zero to retreat, and Wuqu's master reflected on his disciple's defeat.
• The ground collapsed, and the Tree Demon's roots drained hundreds of evolvers of their life force while Chen Du escaped the attack.
• The Tree Demon emerged and offered to spare Chen Du if he became its servant, claiming the Extraterrestrial Race raised humans on Blue Star.
• The Tree Demon revealed that entrances were opening and worlds were overlapping with Blue Star, then demanded Chen Du submit or die; Chen Du called it arrogant.

Chen Du absorbed the Spirit Martial Realm's status and killed the Tree Demon with a single punch, leaving witnesses and powerful factions stunned by his godlike strength. Meng Mingyuan recognized him from earlier encounters, and Chief Qin ordered his records classified top secret while warning against alerting him.

• The Tree Demon unleashed its full power and sent countless roots toward Chen Du.
• Chen Du absorbed the Spirit Martial Realm's status and destroyed the Tree Demon with one punch.
• The livestream viewers and the Ancient Saint Group executives watched in shock as Chen Du walked away.
• Meng Mingyuan recognized Chen Du from his earlier reports and told Chief Qin how dramatically his strength had grown.
• Chief Qin ordered Chen Du's observation records classified top secret and told Meng Mingyuan not to alert him if they met again.

After killing the Tree Demon, Chen Du was confronted by a powerful Red Flame Clan giant who offered him a chance to become the clan’s vassal. Chen Du refused and declared war on the races from beyond the Domain, and the giant attacked him, ending with Chen Du dodging its first punch.

• Chen Du left the forest with the golden fruit and headed north to find a secluded place to advance to the Seventh Tier.
• A crimson giant from the Red Flame Clan intercepted Chen Du and offered him the chance to become its clan’s vassal.
• Chen Du refused and argued that Blue Star’s restrictions forced the races from beyond the Domain to seek its opportunities rather than conquer it outright.
• The giant warned that every race from beyond the Domain would target Chen Du, and Chen Du vowed to kill every enemy that came for him.
• The giant unleashed its flames and hurled a punch at Chen Du, who dodged as the blow destroyed a hill behind him.

Chen Du used his full Immortal Dao cultivation and Divine Status to kill the Red Flame Clan's Fire-Refining General. The Extraterrestrial Races began plotting against him while human evolvers watched in awe, and Chen Du left determined to resist their plans to enslave humanity.

• Chen Du unleashed his full power, shattered the giant's arm, broke off its horn, and battered it until it could no longer fight.
• Chen Du killed the Red Flame Clan giant with a pillar of light that disintegrated its body.
• Extraterrestrial Races who witnessed the battle feared Chen Du but decided to wait for stronger experts and Blue Star's restrictions to ease before attacking him.
• Human evolvers watching from afar recognized Chen Du and marveled that he had defeated a foe stronger than the Tree Demon.
• Chen Du ignored the onlookers and walked away, resolving to fight the Extraterrestrial Races seeking to enslave humanity.

After Chen Du killed two Pseudo-Eighth Tier extraterrestrials, he resolved to keep fighting and recognized that stronger invaders could arrive as Blue Star’s rules weakened. The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration revealed information about the extraterrestrial races, while their leaders agreed to prepare a coordinated attempt to kill Chen Du.

• Chen Du concluded that the extraterrestrial races’ offer had been a trap and decided to grow stronger for the war he believed had begun.
• The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration released information about the extraterrestrial races, prompting people online to argue over whether humanity was doomed or could fight back.
• Representatives of several extraterrestrial races gathered in a cave and debated whether to kill Chen Du, wait, or claim his Immortal Dao Divine Status.
• The tall, slender black figure warned that attacking Chen Du alone would be suicidal and announced plans for a coordinated strike.
• The assembled races agreed to join the operation, and the tall, slender black figure told them to prepare while Chen Du lived a few more days.

After consuming the golden fruit, Chen Du advanced to the seventh-order Unfettered Realm and tested his ability to survive and move through space. He headed to Mount Tai to seize its opportunities, unaware that a pseudo-eighth-order Shadow Clan assassin was tracking him.

• Chen Du ate the golden fruit in a concealed cavern and broke through to the seventh-order Unfettered Realm.
• Chen Du flew into space, confirmed his new strength, and returned safely to Blue Star.
• Chen Du resolved to seize resources before stronger beings arrived and set out for Mount Tai.
• Chen Du reached Mount Tai, where rumors surrounded its ancient treasures and awakening status, and began climbing past the gathered factions.
• A pseudo-eighth-order Shadow Clan stealth killer followed Chen Du toward the mountain, mistaking him for prey.

Chen Du ventured deeper into Mount Tai, where he freed a four-tailed Cat Demon trapped in divine light in exchange for the Eighth Stage technique Taixu World Fist. The Cat Demon followed him into the mountain and warned that something had been tracking him.

• Chen Du entered a strange valley protected by divine light and found a black, four-tailed cat stuck in its boundary.
• The Cat Demon offered Chen Du Taixu World Fist in exchange for help, and Chen Du accepted the scroll.
• Chen Du struck the divine light with his Divine Status, freeing the Cat Demon and sensing a faint resonance with the world's rules.
• The Cat Demon followed Chen Du, admitting it hoped to share in any fortuitous opportunity he found.
• The Cat Demon warned Chen Du that something had been following him.

Chen Du detected and drove off a Shadow Clan scout, then mastered the Taixu World Fist in one night by using his Divine Status to unleash the Spirit Martial Realm’s power. Shortly afterward, the Cat Demon sensed more than a dozen enemies arriving to surround and kill him.

• The Cat Demon detected a Shadow Clan member hiding among the shadows, and Chen Du struck at it, but it escaped into the forest and threatened him.
• The Cat Demon warned Chen Du that the Shadow Clan was gathering forces against him and promised to watch for approaching enemies.
• Chen Du comprehended the Taixu World Fist beneath a cliff on Mount Tai and discovered how to channel his Divine Status through a punch, reaching the threshold of the Eighth Stage.
• The Cat Demon was astonished that Chen Du had mastered the Eighth-Stage technique in one night and regretted not demanding more for it.
• A little over ten minutes later, the Cat Demon sensed more than a dozen enemies arriving to surround and kill Chen Du.

Chen Du used the strength granted by the cat demon to slaughter the outsider races that had come after him, then defeated and killed their Demon Race noble leader. As the battle ended, the long, thin black shadow appeared beside him.

• Chen Du confronted more than a dozen Pseudo-Eighth Tier outsiders led by a silver-haired Demon Race noble, who threatened him and his family.
• Chen Du struck the Demon Race noble with the Taixu World Fist, then killed the other outsiders in a swift massacre.
• The Demon Race noble transformed into a colossal silver wolf and attacked Chen Du with silver flames and claws.
• Chen Du overpowered the silver wolf with his fists and stomped it until its body disintegrated.
• The Demon Race noble died, and the long, thin black shadow appeared beside Chen Du.

Chen Du learned that the Kema People were human and, with the Cat Demon’s help, lured a new group of extraterrestrial pursuers to a rocky slope. As the group attacked, Chen Du unleashed the Taixu World Fist.

• The Cat Demon told Chen Du that the Kema People were humans, while Blue Star’s humans remained unrecognized as members of the Human Alliance.
• At the Cat Demon’s urging, Chen Du used a communicator to help it trick a Kema contact into sending reinforcements to false coordinates.
• Chen Du and the Cat Demon went to the rocky slope, where Chen Du waited alone while the Cat Demon hid nearby.
• More than a dozen beings from beyond the Domain arrived, surrounded Chen Du, and demanded to know where their missing companions were.
• The attackers launched their abilities at Chen Du, and he stepped forward and punched with the Taixu World Fist.

Chen Du slaughtered the Kema People’s squad on Mount Tai and taunted their commander through a communicator, declaring he would reach the Eighth Stage before their experts arrived. He then headed deeper into Mount Tai to seek an opportunity, sensing something ancient awakening beneath the mountain.

• Chen Du killed the extraterrestrials on the rocky slope, leaving only one survivor before finishing him off.
• A projection of the Kema commander appeared, and Chen Du answered the communicator while the cat demon watched.
• Chen Du told the commander that he had killed Kelong, Sebas, and the others, then mocked the threat of incoming Eighth Stage experts by saying he would break through first.
• The Kema commander threatened Chen Du with the Demon Race and claimed an Eighth Stage opportunity would not appear for at least a month, so Chen Du destroyed the communicator.
• Chen Du and the cat demon headed deeper into Mount Tai, where Chen Du felt something far underground awakening with each step.

Chen Du entered the Red Sun Immortal Realm, a world above the Twelfth Stage, by descending into the body of Wang Dong, a Motian Sect reserve disciple. He gained two new talents that protected his identity and improved his fortune, then examined his new circumstances and his existing powers.

• Chen Du left the black cat behind and entered a hidden world entrance deep in Mount Tai, hoping to grow strong enough to protect humanity from the Kema People.
• The panel identified the destination as the Red Sun Immortal Realm, a world above the Twelfth Stage, and Chen Du entered despite the danger.
• Chen Du awoke in Wang Dong's body and learned that Wang Dong had died after nine failed reincarnations using the Ten-Life Bottle.
• Chen Du discovered that the Motian Sect's cultivation system required secret arts to reach the Seventh Stage and that Wang Dong had never achieved Foundation Establishment.
• The panel awakened Beyond Cause and Effect and Child of Fortune, granting Chen Du protection from divination for a hundred years and an advantage in conflicts with peers or weaker opponents.
• Chen Du inspected his status and confirmed that he retained his Pseudo-Eighth-Order Evolver realms and his existing talents.

Chen Du joined the Motian Sect as a nominal disciple at Butterfly Dragon Peak and discovered that the sect turned dead disciples into pills, materials, and spiritual resources. He recognized that his new life placed him in danger of suffering the same fate, and resolved to survive and make use of his exceptional talents.

• Chen Du reviewed his talents and decided he could rise through the Red Sun Immortal Realm after joining the Motian Sect.
• Chen Du completed the Spirit-Testing Platform ceremony, joined the Motian Sect, and was assigned to Butterfly Dragon Peak.
• Chen Du collected his identity token, disciple robes, Gathering Qi Pills, cultivation manual, and an Earthscale Lizard.
• Chen Du smelled the Gathering Qi Pill and recalled that the Motian Sect refined its own outer-sect disciples into pills, Soul Fluid, and other materials.
• Chen Du realized his previous bodies may also have been processed by the sect and recognized that he could become its next ingredient.

Chen Du comprehended the Blood Origin Sublimation Scripture and entered the Qi Refining Realm, then discovered Zhao Yuan planned to sacrifice him to improve his own aptitude. Chen Du killed Zhao Yuan, raised his aptitude to grade C, and continued cultivating as the deadly struggle on Butterfly Dragon Peak carried on.

• Chen Du used his talent to master and improve the Blood Origin Sublimation Scripture, then refined true qi and entered the Qi Refining Realm.
• Zhao Yuan visited Chen Du and revealed that he had sacrificed the other 119 grade D disciples, leaving Wang Dong as the last target in their batch.
• Zhao Yuan tried to sacrifice Chen Du, but Chen Du revealed he had already cultivated true qi and altered the method.
• Chen Du overwhelmed Zhao Yuan with Blood Origin True Qi and drained his blood essence, killing him.
• Chen Du absorbed the sacrificial power, raised his aptitude to grade C, and returned to cultivation.

Chen Du killed Zhao Yuan, advanced to Qi Refining, and received the treatment and complete cultivation art of an outer-sect disciple. When Song Qian, Han Zhong, and Wang Jian tried to refine him for medicine, Chen Du revealed that he had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection and killed all three, leaving him with their resources.

• Chen Du recalled how Wang Dong had ambushed and killed Zhao Yuan in his second life, and recognized that Wang Dong's ruthlessness and resilience could help him survive in the Motian Sect.
• A young man watched Chen Du kill Zhao Yuan through a magic mirror and wondered how far Chen Du could progress.
• Chen Du registered as an outer-sect disciple, collected the second through sixth layers of the Blood Origin Sublimation Scripture, and received pills and equipment from the sect's halls.
• After Chen Du returned to his cave abode and began studying the cultivation art, Song Qian broke in and revealed his Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivation and plan to refine Chen Du into medicine.
• Han Zhong and Wang Jian joined Song Qian, but Chen Du revealed his own Qi Refining Great Perfection realm and killed Han Zhong and Wang Jian with his techniques.
• Chen Du killed Song Qian, absorbed the three men's blood-origin true qi, and took their storage bags, resolving to devour others before they could devour him.

Chen Du was drained by three Motian Sect elders who revealed that newly advanced disciples were being used as bait, so he triggered a rebirth and carried their true qi and souls into his next life. Back in Wang Dong’s body, he avoided registering until the elders left the outer sect, then went to register.

• Shen Wujiu, Ye Jiuxiao, and Yin Hui appeared in Chen Du’s cave and revealed that he had become their new bait after killing Song Qian and the others.
• Chen Du blew himself up and used a rebirth chance, choosing to carry the three elders’ true qi and souls into his next life.
• Chen Du woke in Wang Dong’s body before being assigned to Butterfly Dragon Peak and realized that newly registered Qi Refining disciples were being harvested.
• Chen Du copied Wang Dong’s cautious approach, drained Zhao Yuan to raise his aptitude, and hid his cultivation instead of registering.
• After confirming that the three elders had left the outer sect, Chen Du took his black iron token and went to register.

After eighty years of secluded cultivation, Chen Du mastered the Nether River Blood Fiend Return-to-Void Heavenly Book and attracted the attention of the Motian Sect’s true disciples. Five of them visited his cave abode, and one offered him a chance to obtain a Foundation Establishment divine object.

• Chen Du restored his Martial Dao and Immortal Dao cultivation to Pseudo-Eighth Tier peak and decided to master another great secret art.
• Over eighty years, Chen Du used Blood Origin Unity True Qi and Divine Revelation Reading to cultivate the Nether River Blood Fiend Return-to-Void Heavenly Book to major completion.
• Chen Du released his aura, and the resulting blood fiend presence spread across the outer sect, revealing that he had mastered a great secret art.
• Five true disciples, including Qi Shen and Zhao Xuanming, visited Chen Du and congratulated him on his achievement.
• A silent true disciple told Chen Du that a Foundation Establishment divine object was available and asked whether he wanted it.