Recaps

Chen Du became the Celestial Masters’ Mansion’s hidden protector, defeated the Kema invasion, and entered another world in Lin Du’s body. After rising through the martial exams, he began the Universal Genius Battle by studying a Law Stele.

• Xie Changming yielded his claim to Longhu Mountain after Chen Du revealed the Deputy Seal, and Chen Du later awakened the Heavenly Master Divine Seal and claimed its inheritance.
• Chen Du killed the Blood Pagoda Demon Ancestor and, after years of cultivation, reached the Great Celestial Master Realm before defeating Zhang Yanzhen and his allied army.
• The Kema People attacked Blue Star to draw Chen Du out, but Chen Du destroyed their warriors and starship, then purged hostile extraterrestrial beings across the Xia Kingdom.
• Chen Du found a colossal starship beneath Mount Tai, then used Myriad Worlds Traversal to enter the Azure High Martial World in Lin Du’s body.
• Chen Du used the Destiny System’s missions to win his class mock exam and citywide joint exam, then registered for both divisions of the Universal Genius Battle.
• In Arena 23, Chen Du located the Law Steles and studied one instead of claiming a Heart of the Starry Sky, recognizing that laws resembled Divine Status.

Chen Du won the comprehension round, used a combat machine to destroy the Kema civilization, and began cultivating in the Divine Prison as Qin Dong. The arc left him advancing his laws and techniques while preparing to meet a new prisoner.

• Chen Du defeated powerful contestants in the first elimination round, advanced with a Heart of the Starry Sky, and set his sights on ranking higher in the next round.
• At the Seven-Colored Stele, Chen Du connected the seven emotion laws into a flower, climbed to first place, and finished with 340 diagrams to qualify for the main competition.
• After the Star Domain Lord offered him a reward, Chen Du requested a civilization-destroying weapon and used the Return to the Ruins One to destroy the Kema fleet and homeworld.
• Chen Du entered the Divine Prison Realm in Qin Dong’s body and began learning its dangers, cultivating arts found through Dao resonance, and gaining rewards from executions.
• Chen Du discovered that the prison held wrongfully accused people, honored Shen Xing, and acquired several Ninth Tier cultivation arts while strengthening his laws.
• Chen Du visited Gu Changqing, a physician imprisoned for helping an accused official, but Gu refused hope and asked to be killed, which Chen Du declined.
• Chen Du executed Tu Wanshan, a prisoner who had turned to mass murder after his family was ruined, then reflected on the different paths of Tu Wanshan and Gu Changqing.
• Chen Du advanced the Soul Devouring Law and Law of Anger, completed two chapters of the Martial Canon, created Soul Devouring’s Wrath, and went with Old Zhou to meet a new prisoner.

Chen Du rose from jailer to an Eleventh Realm master while secretly freeing wrongfully imprisoned people and protecting the Divine Prison from several threats. After sealing a breach to the Demon Realm and restoring the prison’s formations, he found Zhao Zheng wavering over whether to seize the throne.

• Chen Du forged the Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression Scripture, advanced through the martial realms, and secretly released Gu Changqing before Old Zhou died.
• Chen Du exposed and stopped Li Han’s plot, survived an ambush, and continued cultivating as Wei Changgeng seized power and later fell to Zhao Zheng.
• Chen Du killed Zhao Xuan, reached the Eleventh Realm, and remained hidden while the court searched for the source of his breakthrough aura.
• Chen Du killed the Demon Heaven God’s clone and the Demon Spirit Sect’s leaders, then learned that Gu Changqing had led an uprising and been executed.
• Chen Du admitted to Zhao Zheng that he had released wrongfully imprisoned people, revealed his Eleventh Realm strength, and promised refuge for Zhao Zheng’s direct descendants if they faced execution.
• Chen Du devised a new killing technique and formed two manuals as a prisoner opened a passage to the Demon Realm, unleashing fiends into the Divine Prison.
• Chen Du killed the Eleventh Realm fiend Yuan Ming, sealed the expanding Demon Realm passage, and restored the Divine Prison’s weakened formations.
• Chen Du entered the palace and found Zhao Zheng troubled by rumors of usurpation and by the choice of whether to depose the young emperor.

Chen Du left the Divine Prison behind and entered the Ancestral God Realm as Li Xuan, secretly cultivating at Qingfeng Temple while surviving repeated calamities. After reaching the Twelfth Realm, he revealed his power when the Red Flame King attacked the temple, leaving the temple’s disciples stunned.

• Chen Du took Zhao Heng, now Lin Heng, into the Divine Prison, defeated Cang Xuan, and compelled the young emperor to restore Zhao Zheng’s reputation and family.
• Chen Du cultivated for decades, mastered the Divine Prison Law, and lifted the Divine Prison into the sky before taking it beyond the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty’s reach.
• Five hundred years later, Chen Du returned to Blue Star, destroyed the extraterrestrial forces there, and imprisoned their invading fleets in the Divine Prison.
• Chen Du entered the Ancestral God Realm as Li Xuan, a young Taoist at Qingfeng Temple, and learned that his blood relatives’ growth would strengthen him.
• Chen Du survived assassination attempts and other calamities while advancing his laws, killing a disguised assassin during a martial arts exchange at Qingfeng Temple.
• Chen Du formed a Self Star and reached the Twelfth Realm, then developed Heavenly Tribulation Kill and Soul Devouring’s Wrath Eternal Heaven Burial.
• The Red Flame King attacked Qingfeng Temple, but Chen Du killed him with one strike from his divine sword, destroying his cultivation and life force.