Recaps

Chen Mu fused with the Flame Rule, explored the River of Rules, and used a Reincarnation Simulation to endure the long path from Young Spirit Body to True Spirit. In the Sage Ring, he learned that the Wizard World had been destroyed after entering the center of the World Sea.

• Chen Mu retrieved the Bedrock and Flame Rules he had hidden during the Mind World simulation, then fused with the Flame Rule and gained access to Rule Power.
• Chen Mu warned Lan Er that Blood Sea World was preparing an attack and entered the River Cave, where he greatly advanced his understanding of rules.
• Chen Mu learned that the Wizard World's world consciousness sought to enter the World Sea, then began a Reincarnation Simulation in the True Spirit World.
• Chen Mu grew from a Young Spirit Body through repeated transformations, using Spirit Body Hibernation to reach the fourth stage.
• Chen Mu made several attempts to cross the Leaping Spirit Bridge, conserving his energy until he transformed into a True Spirit Body and reached the True Spirit World.
• Chen Mu underwent the Spirit Cleansing Pool and later learned in the Sage Ring that the Wizard World had been destroyed by the Azure Wave World after entering the center of the World Sea.

Chen Mu explored the Azure Wave World, became a World Master, and joined an effort to destroy the Wizard World before learning more about transcendence. The arc left him facing a short lifespan and the brutal first step of Zero World Master’s method.

• Chen Mu discovered that the Wizard World’s consciousness had formed an independent will, then learned the world was nearing collapse and that his Fate Entanglement with it threatened him.
• Chen Mu reincarnated in the Azure Wave World and learned that faith connected people to a world’s consciousness, then used a Cross-World Stone to explore other worlds.
• Chen Mu became the White Crow Small World’s World Master, developed its Faith Power, and joined Deep Blue World Master on a mission to destroy the Wizard World.
• Deep Blue World Master gathered twenty-three World Masters, but their Fate Power net and Thunder Strike failed when Man Su Er broke their attack.
• Two True Spirits discovered that the Wizard World was undergoing a World Level Transition, and Chen Mu learned that Man Su Er had escaped its destruction.
• Chen Mu learned that transcendence required severing one’s fate from one’s original world and met Zero World Master, who alone had already done so.
• Zero World Master revealed that Chen Mu’s incomplete consciousness and body left him at most two thousand years to live, then showed him a Transcendent Method that crushed his borrowed body with Fate Power.

Chen Mu reincarnated as a demon in the Crimson Great World and slowly advanced through the Demon Mother River and Order Seventeen. After surviving an Order War, he repeatedly entered Completely Empty Mind to approach his Fourth Metamorphosis while its cooldown grew longer.

• Chen Mu’s lifespan ended in Azure Wave World, and after retaining his World Master identity he found that using its power in the Wizard World would alert its World Consciousness.
• Chen Mu advanced his wizard realm through simulations, met Bain, learned the supposed Unowned Rule was a misunderstanding, and began a Reincarnation Simulation in the Abyss Domain.
• Reborn as a Little Demon in the Crimson Demon Mother River, Chen Mu waited through immense stretches of time until his body transformed twice and he gained the Demon Flame Talent.
• After leaving the river for Demon Island, Chen Mu joined Order Seventeen, received an Order Mark, and eventually reached Level 3 through a third metamorphosis.
• Chen Mu fought another Level 3 Demon in an Order War, won his battle, and later concluded that Order Seventeen had suffered heavy losses.
• Lord of Order Seventeen gave Lord of Order Nineteen a Reincarnation Crystal, while Chen Mu used Completely Empty Mind to evolve and learned that the state had a lengthy cooldown.
• Chen Mu repeatedly entered Completely Empty Mind as its cooldown increased, bringing his Demon Body to one entry away from the Critical Point of its Fourth Metamorphosis.

Chen Mu advanced to Level 5, investigated Man Su Er’s connection to the Wizard path, and began pursuing a new route to Level 6. In a stacked Reincarnation Simulation, he became head of the Chen Family and established its control over the Ten Thousand Lake Sea Region.

• Chen Mu completed his Fourth Metamorphosis as a Level 4 Demon, but the Simulator forcibly ended the simulation when the Crimson Great World began reshaping.
• Chen Mu reached Level 5, learned that the Simulator’s upgrade enabled higher-consciousness Reincarnation Simulations, and began constructing a Rule Space.
• Chen Mu investigated why Man Su Er could not see his fate, then learned from Bordeaux that Level 6 advancement required a Longevity Wizardry resembling a Demon Realm Order Mark.
• Chen Mu concluded that Man Su Er had derived the Wizard path from the Demon path and resolved to deduce a different route to Level 6.
• Chen Mu began two stacked Reincarnation Simulations and returned to the cultivation world, where Chen Fusheng named him heir in exchange for protecting the Chen family.
• Chen Mu became head of the Chen Family, rejected Liu Kong’s suspicious Foundation Establishment Pills, and later declared the family’s intention to take control of the Ten Thousand Lake Sea Region.
• Chen Mu moved the Chen Family’s base to Sky Lake Island, where it absorbed the remaining families and secured control of the region.
• Chen Mu’s family heir competition drew a crowd of young cultivators, and the Chen Family Second Elder silenced them with his spiritual pressure.