Recaps

Chen Du strengthened his cultivation at Qingfeng Temple, defeated threats from the Tianyan Sect and the drought-causing Jiao King, and uncovered Heaven Slayer’s role in the Ling Dynasty’s hidden power struggle. After the King of Nanli recognized him as the true crown prince, Chen Du secretly followed Xuanwei to the imperial palace and stopped an assassination attempt.

• Chen Du killed the Red Flame King, reached the true Twelfth Realm, and declined the court’s offer to become Protector of the State Dharma Master.
• Chen Du cultivated at Qingfeng Temple, advanced his Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords, and stayed as Daoist Xuanwei’s other disciples left and Zhao Yuanshan departed to pursue unfinished business.
• Chen Du refused a trap at Withered Bones Gorge and used his Tribulation Domain to defeat a Twelfth Realm ambusher and later repel four Tianyan Sect cultivators.
• Chen Du killed the Water-Running Jiao King to end a drought, then advanced his Self Star and developed the eighth sword of the Heavenly Tribulation Nine Swords.
• Chen Du defeated Tianyan Sect master Zhao Heng and learned that Heaven Slayer had forced him to lure Qingfeng Temple’s expert into a trap and had access to the Ling Dynasty Imperial Palace.
• Chen Du killed Zhao Heng and used the Calamity Qi he gained to perfect the Tribulation Source Law, complete the ninth sword, and advance his Self Star to its sixth transformation.
• The King of Nanli visited Qingfeng Temple, recognized Chen Du as the true crown prince, and told him that the emperor had said the Ling Dynasty could not tolerate two dragons.
• After an imperial summons warned of danger to Xuanwei and Qingfeng Temple, Chen Du secretly followed Xuanwei to the palace and subdued four masked assassins who attacked him.

Chen Du reached the Thirteenth Realm, defended Qingfeng Temple from the Xuanwu Divine Hall and its allies, and destroyed the Hall’s invading forces. He then used the Calamity Qi he gained to perfect his thunder laws and expand his source black hole further.

• Chen Du reached ninth-level Tribulation Source Domain perfection, created the Primordial Tribulation-Extinguishing Sword, and broke through to the Thirteenth-Tier Cosmic Life Realm.
• Chen Du healed Zhao Qishan, uncovered the Xuanwu Divine Hall’s curse and schemes, and developed new thunder and karmic destruction laws.
• Chen Du entered the Capital, killed Heaven Slayer and the Xuanwu Divine Hall fighters, subdued the Barbarian army, and learned that the Xuanwu Sacred Land controlled the Ling Dynasty.
• Chen Du killed the God Venerable when he led a vast army against Qingfeng Temple, then advanced his thunder laws and sword art with the Calamity Qi he earned.
• The Xuanwu Hall Master mobilized the Divine Hall’s elders and led more than seventy Thirteenth-Tier experts to surround Qingfeng Mountain.
• Chen Du destroyed the Hall Master and the gathered experts with Thunder Source Calamity Annihilation, ending the Xuanwu Divine Hall’s assault.
• Chen Du absorbed more than three hundred billion years of Calamity Qi, perfected his thunder laws, formed the Fundamental Law of Thunder, and began expanding his source black hole for the fourth time.

After reaching the Fourteenth Tier, Chen Du secured the Milky Way for Blue Star and eliminated threats to it. He then entered the Sixteenth-Tier Deification Realm as Zhang Shun, concealed his power within the Ancient Path Holy Land, and destroyed the Zhou Family before advancing his thunder Dao.

• Chen Du completed his Fourteenth Tier breakthrough, returned to Blue Star, and accepted the Heavenly Silver Empire’s transfer of the Milky Way and thirteen affiliated galaxies.
• Chen Du destroyed the Red Flame Empire and the Shadow Council, warned galactic civilizations not to threaten Blue Star, and introduced an accessible Martial Canon for its people.
• Chen Du entered the Sixteenth-Tier Deification Realm in Zhang Shun’s body and used the Ancient Path Holy Land’s sign-in opportunities to cultivate while concealing his true power.
• After Wang Toutou’s bullying and Zhou Jingxuan’s schemes, Chen Du crippled both men and drew the attention of the Zhou Family and the Holy Land’s elders.
• Chen Du foiled the Zhou Family’s poison and ambushes, killed Deacon Wu, and advanced through the inner-sect selection while gathering Enmity Qi and deepening his thunder Dao insight.
• Chen Du annihilated the Zhou Family’s patriarch, head, ancestor, and assembled experts with his lightning Dao and Ji Yuan Godslaying Sword.
• Chen Du used the Enmity Qi from the Zhou Family’s hostility to reach seventh-level recognition of the thunder Dao and forged Thunder Era Collapse as the second form of Ji Yuan Godslaying.