Recaps

Wang Chen rejected Zhao Zhengyu’s demand to dissolve White Deer Academy, hand over Cishi Pharmacy, and submit to punishment. Three days later, city merchants began restricting and inflating the academy and pharmacy’s supplies, leaving Wang Chen to prepare a response.

• Zhao Zhengyu demanded that Wang Chen dissolve White Deer Academy, surrender Cishi Pharmacy to Taiwu Pavilion, and reflect at Siguo Cliff for three years, but Wang Chen refused.
• Hu Jiaojiao offered to kill Zhao Zhengyu, but Wang Chen declined, believing the Azure Cloud Alliance was still testing his strength.
• Three days later, White Deer Academy and Cishi Pharmacy found that Taiwu City merchants were limiting large purchases and raising prices on food and medicinal ingredients.
• An academy steward warned Wang Chen that continued price hikes could turn the public against his institutions, and Wang Chen ordered purchases of medicinal ingredients in other cities while promising to handle the grain problem himself.

Wang Chen led White Deer Academy’s three thousand disciples into the Mist Zone for their first wilderness operation, where they gathered medicinal herbs and prepared to face ferocious beasts. When a pack of wolf beasts attacked, the disciples formed ranks and opened fire with their bows.

• Wang Chen led three thousand armed disciples out of White Deer Academy toward the Mist Zone, accompanied by Innate experts and Martial Masters.
• At the mist’s edge, Wang Chen asked whether the youths were afraid, and all three thousand shouted that they would continue.
• The disciples entered the Mist Zone, where the fog parted, and gathered medicinal herbs and useful materials under the Martial Masters’ guidance.
• Wolf beasts emerged from the forest and advanced on the disciples as the patrolling Martial Masters withdrew.
• A quick-witted youth ordered the disciples to form ranks, and they fired a volley of arrows that struck down the leading wolf beasts.

Wang Chen and Hu Jiaojiao used the Myriad Beast Bell to stage a controlled beast attack so the White Deer Academy disciples could practice fighting and hunting. The disciples returned stronger and self-sufficient, while Wang Chen gained Spiritual Light and sensed a path toward the Supreme Realm.

• The White Deer Academy disciples fought off waves of ferocious beasts, unaware that Hu Jiaojiao controlled them with the Myriad Beast Bell.
• Wang Chen told Hu Jiaojiao to end the staged attack, and she rang the bell, sending the beasts fleeing.
• The disciples collected arrows and dismantled the beast carcasses under the Martial Artists' supervision, then smoked and roasted the meat.
• As the disciples gathered around the campfires, their aura of humanity condensed into Spiritual Light within Wang Chen, raising his cultivation.
• Over the following days, the disciples practiced hunting and gathering herbs, then returned to the academy laden with spoils and hardened by battle.

Wang Chen learned that Azure Cloud Palace had arrested Mo Han and surrounded the Mo residence, then refused its demand that he appear for questioning. To find leverage to save Mo Han, Wang Chen confronted Sikong Hongfei at a banquet in Qingchun Tower.

• Mo Han was arrested by Azure Cloud Palace, and Taiwu City's guards surrounded the Mo residence, prompting Steward Mo to seek Wang Chen's help.
• Wang Chen read Azure Cloud Palace's letter demanding that he report to Azure Cloud Peak within three days over Dharma Master Ji Yun's disappearance.
• Wang Chen promised Steward Mo he would find a way to save Mo Han and asked him to gather information.
• Wang Chen entered Sikong Hongfei's banquet at Qingchun Tower, rendered the guests and guards unconscious, and seized Sikong Hongfei by the throat.
• Wang Chen introduced himself to Sikong Hongfei, who realized he was in serious trouble.

Wang Chen captured Sikong Hongfei to pressure his father, Sikong Deping, over the Sikong Family’s attack on Mo Han and the Mo Family. He emptied White Deer Academy ahead of a coming spell duel with Azure Cloud Palace and waited at the gates as its procession arrived.

• Wang Chen told Sikong Hongfei that he had taken him because Sikong Deping was trying to cause trouble, then forced him to write a plea for help and had him locked in the dungeon.
• Wang Chen ordered Gao Zhuang to send Sikong Hongfei’s letter to Azure Cloud Palace and announced that White Deer Academy would close for three days.
• Wang Chen sent the academy’s disciples home and ordered its martial masters to stay in their quarters during his spell duel with Azure Cloud Palace.
• Wang Chen waited at the academy gates, and a banner-filled procession arrived from Taiwu City.

Sikong Deping arrived at White Deer Academy with a powerful force to demand Sikong Hongfei’s release and punish the Mo Family. Wang Chen held firm, forcing Sikong Deping to agree to bring Mo Han and the Mo Family members over, and revealed a miraculous ability by reattaching Sikong Hongfei’s severed hand.

• Sikong Deping confronted Wang Chen at White Deer Academy and demanded that he answer for taking Sikong Hongfei.
• Wang Chen revealed Sikong Hongfei as his captive and demanded that Sikong Deping send Mo Han and the Mo Family members to him.
• Sikong Deping threatened the Mo Family, so Wang Chen ordered Gao Zhuang to sever Sikong Hongfei’s little finger.
• Sikong Deping ordered the Mo Family punished, and Wang Chen responded by having Gao Zhuang sever Sikong Hongfei’s left hand.
• Sikong Deping agreed to bring Mo Han and the Mo Family members, and Wang Chen reattached Sikong Hongfei’s severed hand with a flash of white light.

Wang Chen faced Azure Cloud Palace’s forces alone outside White Deer Academy after Mo Han and the Mo Family were exchanged for Sikong Hongfei. When Sikong Deping ordered an attack, Wang Chen’s lightning destroyed the cavalry’s battle formation and his palm shattered the Innate Martial Artists’ spears, leaving the battle underway.

• Mo Han and the Mo Family arrived, and Wang Chen welcomed them before Gao Zhuang helped them settle inside the academy.
• Wang Chen closed the academy gates after the hostage exchange, leaving himself alone to face Sikong Deping’s forces.
• Sikong Deping accused Wang Chen of violating the alliance rules and raised a talisman plaque to order his forces to attack.
• The armored cavalry charged as twelve cultivators empowered them and thirty-six Innate Martial Artists hurled their spears at Wang Chen.
• Wang Chen’s lightning shattered the cavalry’s blood beast and killed many riders, while he broke all thirty-six spears with a strike of his palm.

Wang Chen repelled Azure Cloud Palace’s attack with the Myriad Lightning Great Formation, forcing the survivors to flee. After the battle, the Mo Family chose to move to White Deer Academy and pledge itself to Wang Chen.

• Sikong Deping used a talisman plaque to teleport away as Wang Chen’s lightning struck the Azure Cloud Palace forces.
• Wang Chen’s lightning killed or incapacitated many attackers, and the surviving cultivators and Martial Artists fled while he stayed by the formation node.
• Gao Zhuang and the academy’s martial instructors came out to clear the battlefield and recovered corpses, belongings, and horses.
• Wang Chen offered Old Master Mo the choice to return to Taiwu City or relocate the Mo Family to White Deer Academy.
• Old Master Mo chose to move the entire Mo Family and pledged its loyalty to Wang Chen, whose promise of protection was followed by the family’s bow of allegiance.

Wang Chen visited Taiwu Pavilion after defeating Azure Cloud Palace, and his arrival frightened the pavilion’s officials into giving him the highest honors. The chapter left him welcomed inside as Elder Chen tried to avoid provoking him or Azure Cloud Palace.

• The Mo Family hurriedly relocated from Taiwu City, selling or abandoning property and starting a major construction project beside White Deer Academy.
• Wang Chen arrived at Taiwu Pavilion and asked the guards to announce his visit as the Academy Head of White Deer Academy.
• The guards recognized Wang Chen from his defeat of Azure Cloud Palace and alerted Elder Chen, who initially panicked and called for help.
• After a guard suggested Wang Chen had not come to cause trouble, Elder Chen ordered the officials to ring the Ancient God Bell twelve times and open the pavilion gates.
• Chen Zhongjing and the stewards welcomed Wang Chen with humble smiles and apologies.

Wang Chen secured Taiwu Pavilion’s agreement to protect the Mo Family, White Deer Academy, and Cishi Pharmacy, then led an expansion into the Mist Zone that allowed a new settlement to grow. The chapter left the settlement thriving as Taiwu City’s powers, including Azure Cloud Palace, dared not interfere.

• Elder Chen and Taiwu Pavilion’s stewards bid farewell to Wang Chen after agreeing to his three demands.
• The Mo Family established a new foundation and began reclaiming land in the Mist Zone with workers and support from White Deer Academy.
• Wang Chen led White Deer disciples against ferocious beasts, helping the academy grow while Hu Jiaojiao’s forces supplied resources and food.
• The Mo Family sold reclaimed land to common people at low prices in exchange for their labor on public works.
• Tens of thousands of settlers helped clear the mist, strengthened Wang Chen’s human-path Spiritual Light, and built a growing city around White Deer Academy and Cishi Pharmacy.
• Taiwu City’s families and powers, including Azure Cloud Palace, refrained from interfering with the new city because they feared Wang Chen.

Zhong Lei and his family fled through the Sacred Ancestor Road toward Taiwu City, but bandits attacked their procession. The Iron Blood Youth Corps rescued them, and one of its teenage warriors invited them to Chang'an City.

• Zhong Lei carried his children and encouraged his exhausted wife, Xiuyun, as they continued toward Taiwu City after fleeing Whitewood City.
• When whistles warned of an enemy attack, Zhong Lei armed himself while Xiuyun led the children and luggage toward the procession's center.
• Bandit spies triggered panic among the refugees, and Zhong Lei feared the scattered procession would be overwhelmed.
• The Iron Blood Youth Corps swept in, killing the bandits with arrows, spears, and blades.
• A teenage warrior asked Zhong Lei where he was going, then suggested he settle in Chang'an City instead of Taiwu City.

Zhong Lei and his family reached Chang'an City after escaping bandits and chose to settle there rather than continue to Taiwu City. They received citizenship, farmland, and a cottage, while Wang Chen’s reputation and the city’s prosperity left a lasting impression on them.

• The Chang'an Patrol Guard Camp reorganized Zhong Lei’s group, executed several bandit spies, and escorted the travelers out of Sacred Ancestor Road.
• A young warrior introduced Taiwu City and Chang'an City, explaining that Chang'an welcomed newcomers with land, work, and schooling.
• Zhong Lei and most of the travelers chose to follow the warrior to Chang'an City, where Zhong Lei’s family registered as citizens and received eight mu of farmland.
• Zhong Lei’s family spent a sleepless night exploring the bustling city and hearing stories about Wang Chen, whom residents called the Sacred Master.
• Zhong Lei’s family received their farmland and a cottage, while Chang'an City’s growing prosperity brought human fortune to Wang Chen.

Wang Chen sensed heaven and earth’s hostility intensifying as he prepared to break through into the Supreme Realm. With Hu Jiaojiao beside him, he flew through a storm to Tribulation Crossing Peak to face the coming tribulation.

• Wang Chen detected the world’s hostility in the lightning and thunder gathering over Chang'an City.
• Old Yao warned Wang Chen that a great heavenly and human tribulation awaited him and that he had to advance or die.
• Wang Chen reunited with Hu Jiaojiao, who had regained her human form and was ready to face the tribulation with him.
• Wang Chen took the Heaven and Earth Two Principles Disk, carried Hu Jiaojiao away on the Wind Thunder Wings, and reached Tribulation Crossing Peak.

Wang Chen endured the heavenly lightning on Tribulation Crossing Peak while seven Azure Cloud Palace cultivators ambushed him to prevent his breakthrough. Hu Jiaojiao shielded him at great cost, and the chapter ended with Wang Chen opening his eyes and catching the leader’s sword between two fingers as the storm dissipated.

• Wang Chen placed the Heaven and Earth Two Principles Disk at the formation’s central eye and began his breakthrough while Hu Jiaojiao hid nearby.
• Wang Chen used his Magic Treasures one after another to withstand the tribulation lightning as seven Azure Cloud Alliance cultivators gathered to kill him.
• When the final lightning struck, the seven cultivators attacked Wang Chen with their life-bound Magic Tools.
• Hu Jiaojiao manifested a giant fox phantom and swept away the attackers’ weapons, but heavenly lightning scattered her phantom and left her badly injured.
• The cultivators rushed Wang Chen, but he caught their leader’s sword between two fingers as the storm began to vanish.

Wang Chen defeated the Azure Cloud Palace cultivators after advancing to the Supreme Realm, then set his sights on Azure Cloud Peak. The palace’s elders realized their formation could not protect them from him and faced the choice of seeking peace.

• Wang Chen caught an Azure Cloud Palace grand cultivator’s divine sword, swept the attackers away, and shattered the weapon, killing two cultivators with its fragments.
• Wang Chen spared the fleeing cultivators because his new realm was unstable and the world’s rejection of him had intensified; he reunited with the White Fox and planned to return to the Haotian Realm.
• Wang Chen vanished toward Azure Cloud Peak while the Azure Cloud Palace Great Elder questioned three wounded survivors and learned that Wang Chen had reached the Supreme Realm.
• The Great Elder urged the elders to seek peace, but they argued that the Upper Purity Mountain Protection Formation could withstand Wang Chen.
• The Great Elder warned that Wang Chen could destroy Azure Cloud Peak and collapse the formation, then looked toward the blue-robed cultivator as the elders asked what they could offer for peace.

After Azure Cloud Palace’s Great Elder sacrificed Sikong Changming and destroyed the Sikong Family to seek peace with Wang Chen, Wang Chen visited the palace and demanded access to its secret treasury. The White Fox sensed the Mysterious Fox Token somewhere inside, leaving Wang Chen ready to find it.

• Zhong Lijing ordered Sikong Changming’s death and the destruction of his family, promising to spare one bloodline in hopes of appeasing Wang Chen.
• After emerging from seclusion, Wang Chen learned that Azure Cloud Palace had sent Sikong Changming’s head and the Sikong Family’s holdings as an offering.
• Wang Chen summoned Azure Cloud Palace’s Great Elder, Zhong Lijing, and announced that he would visit the next day.
• Zhong Lijing welcomed Wang Chen to Azure Cloud Palace, where Wang Chen demanded access to its secret treasury and permission to take what he wanted.
• The White Fox sensed the Mysterious Fox Token inside the treasury and pointed Wang Chen toward it.

Wang Chen opened the jade box and the Mysterious Fox Token sent Hu Jiaojiao back to the Haotian Realm, leaving him to prepare for his own return. After looting Azure Cloud Palace’s secret vault, he demanded three more elders’ heads and confronted the Great Elder when the man considered resisting.

• Wang Chen opened the jade box and revealed the Mysterious Fox Token, which let Hu Jiaojiao contact the Qingqiu Fox Queen.
• Hu Jiaojiao told Wang Chen she had to return to the Haotian Realm first, and he promised to join her after stabilizing his cultivation and passing the heavenly tribulation.
• Hu Jiaojiao kissed Wang Chen, took the Mysterious Fox Token, and vanished in a streak of rainbow light.
• Wang Chen collected over a hundred treasures from Azure Cloud Palace’s secret vault.
• Wang Chen demanded three more heads from the Azure Cloud Palace Great Elder to settle the attack on him at Tribulation Crossing Peak.
• The Great Elder considered using the Azure Cloud Palace Grand Formation, but Wang Chen detected his intent and challenged him to activate it.

After three years of seclusion, Wang Chen awoke to find Chang'an City under attack by two flying dragons and Taiji Palace on the verge of internal revolt. He killed the traitor Gongyang Ji and faced the remaining rebels as the city’s crisis continued.

• After Wang Chen left Azure Cloud Peak, he returned to Taiji Palace and entered three years of secluded cultivation.
• Gao Zhuang woke Wang Chen and reported that two flying dragons were attacking Chang'an City while the City Protection Array was failing.
• Wang Chen learned that Mo Han was struggling to hold the array because Gongyang Ji had led cultivators in turning against Taiji Palace and demanding that the gates be opened to Azure Cloud Palace.
• Wang Chen entered the main hall, rejected Gongyang Ji’s plan, and crushed him with a single gesture.
• The cultivators allied with Gongyang Ji knelt and begged Wang Chen to spare their lives.

Wang Chen retook control of Chang'an City's City Protection Array and crushed the traitors who had gathered in Taiji Palace. He then confronted two flying dragons rampaging through the city, killing the red dragon and badly wounding the black one before it could breathe fire.

• Wang Chen used the City Protection Array to crush nearly a hundred traitorous cultivators and ordered the survivors back to their posts.
• Wang Chen left Taiji Palace and saw a red and a black flying dragon destroying buildings and killing residents in Chang'an City.
• Wang Chen shot the red dragon through the head with the Sunset Bow, killing it as it tried to take flight.
• Wang Chen wounded the black dragon with two arrows, sending it crashing into a crater in the street.
• Wang Chen landed before the black dragon and punched its nose, detonating the flames inside its mouth.

After the dragons devastated Chang'an, Wang Chen learned how Mo Han had struggled to govern during his seclusion and gave him the Sunset Bow before departing. With the world’s rejection of him growing stronger, Wang Chen attacked Azure Cloud Palace and left its defenders facing the collapse of their protection formation.

• Mo Han explained how rumors of Wang Chen’s death had caused disorder in Chang'an, while a hidden force exploited Taiji Palace’s weakness and the two flying dragons attacked.
• Wang Chen absolved Mo Han, entrusted him with the Sunset Bow, and left him to restore order in the city.
• Wang Chen hurried to Azure Cloud Peak as the world’s rejection forced him to spend half his power resisting it.
• Wang Chen repeatedly struck Azure Cloud Palace’s Mountain Protection Great Formation with the Mountain Dharma Seal until it began to collapse.
• An aged voice from Azure Cloud Palace pleaded for Wang Chen to stop and declared its surrender, but Wang Chen enlarged the seal and brought it down on the palace.

Wang Chen prepared to ascend after reaching the peak of the Supreme Grandmaster level and entrusted Chang'an City, Taiwu City, and Taiji Palace to Mo Han. He left Mo Han the palace treasury key and gave Gao Zhuang a Dharma seal to keep Mo Han in check, then left their future uncertain.

• Hunters admired the ruins of Azure Cloud Palace and praised Wang Chen for destroying it, while the young hunter unknowingly sent human-path aura toward Taiji Palace.
• Human-path aura gathered from Chang'an and Taiwu flowed into Lingyan Pavilion, where Wang Chen emerged from cultivation as thunder boomed in the clear sky.
• Wang Chen summoned Mo Han and told him he would soon ascend, entrusting him with Chang'an City, Taiwu City, Taiji Palace, and the key to the palace's secret treasury.
• Wang Chen thanked Gao Zhuang and gave him a Dharma seal that could suppress and kill Mo Han if he acted against the Way, reminding him never to disregard the people's will.

Wang Chen endured a brutal heavenly tribulation atop Tribulation Crossing Peak as he attempted to ascend from the Mist Mountain Realm. As Chang'an’s people prayed for him, their gathered human aura gave him strength to open the ascension passage, and he vanished into the tribulation lightning.

• Wang Chen used the Magic Treasures from his Sumeru Ring to withstand the increasingly powerful tribulation lightning until they were all destroyed.
• Wang Chen’s Flying Sword angered heaven and earth, provoking a renewed assault of purple-red lightning that he met with repeated punches.
• Wang Chen endured the lightning’s cleansing while the ascension passage slowly expanded, nearing the limits of his strength.
• A voice told the people of Chang'an that Wang Chen was undergoing tribulation, and they gathered to pray for him.
• The people’s human aura strengthened Wang Chen, who punched the ascension passage open and vanished into the tribulation lightning.

Wang Chen returned to the Haotian Realm after defeating the vengeful souls that tried to drag him down. The Fox Queen told him Hu Jiaojiao was in seclusion merging with the Mysterious Fox Token, and Wang Chen decided to form his Golden Core in Qinglan Small Valley while he waited.

• Wang Chen relived memories of his past lives, then used the Great Majestic Heavenly Dragon’s power to destroy the vengeful souls holding him back.
• Wang Chen followed a heavenly beam through the clouds and arrived in the Haotian Realm.
• The Fox Queen told Wang Chen that Hu Jiaojiao had been in seclusion for three months after the Mysterious Fox Token fused into her body, and that her fate depended on whether she could merge it with her natal Magic Treasure.
• The Fox Queen let Wang Chen stay in Qinglan Small Valley, use Green Hill’s Library Pavilion for books below the Golden Core realm, and take the Chaos Bead if Hu Jiaojiao succeeded.
• Wang Chen recognized Qinglan Small Valley as a safe, spirit-rich place and resolved to form his Golden Core there.

Wang Chen prepared to condense a top-grade Golden Core by refining his cultivation and studying Daoist texts, deliberately delaying the process despite the risks. After meeting the little fox Hu Feifei, his state of mind relaxed, and his Mana surged, forcing him to begin core condensation.

• Wang Chen settled in Qinglan Small Valley and refined his Mana each morning while studying Daoist books at Green Hill's Library Pavilion.
• Wang Chen suppressed his restless true qi and delayed core condensation so he could prepare to achieve a top-grade Golden Core.
• Hu Feifei met Wang Chen in the Library Pavilion, fled when she learned he was human, then returned to ask for food.
• Hu Feifei recognized Wang Chen as the man who had seduced Hu Jiaojiao and ran off after teasing him.
• Wang Chen's state of mind relaxed after speaking with Hu Feifei, and his Mana surged as the moment for core condensation arrived.
• Wang Chen returned to the rock beside the pool and resolutely began condensing his core.

Wang Chen refined his Mana and overcame a dangerous disturbance from the Primordial Dao Stele to form a Golden Core. The Fox Queen sensed that he had formed a top-grade core, and Wang Chen emerged from the breakthrough with his senses greatly enhanced and a foothold in the cultivation world.

• Wang Chen cleansed his body, absorbed his False Core into his Qi Sea, and compressed his Mana as he prepared to break through.
• Wang Chen endured memories from both his lives without wavering, but the Primordial Dao Stele disrupted his nearly formed Golden Core.
• Wang Chen spent Human Virtue points to quell the Golden Core’s instability and refine it into a denser, purer core.
• The Fox Queen saw a golden pillar of qi rising from Qinglan Small Valley and recognized that Wang Chen was forming a top-grade core.
• Wang Chen completed his breakthrough, awakened with greatly heightened senses, and found a Golden Core floating in his Qi Sea.