Recaps

Chen Shi took the throne as Yang Bi led a campaign that broke the Twelve Noble Families, while Chen Shi confronted the Celestial Venerable’s growing threat and protected the Western Ox Continent. His search for power to restore Witch Covenant destroyed Purple Sky, and the arc ended with Witch Covenant reborn and a gourd seed growing amid Ganyang Mountain’s immense spiritual qi.

• Chen Tang rejected the Eastern Depot’s old role, but Eunuch Feng rallied its forces to support Chen Shi against the noble families.
• Chen Shi and Yang Bi planned the campaign against the Twelve Noble Families, and Chen Shi ascended the throne as their forces attacked the imperial capital.
• Yang Bi’s allies defeated the Xu, Li, and Yang families, while Chen Shi and his forces broke the remaining lineages’ resistance.
• Empress Houtu helped Chen Shi secure Silkworm’s heavenly silk and establish a coastal barrier against demonic monsters.
• Feng Ruotong and Chen Shi convinced the immortals that the Celestial Venerable had caused the world’s corruption, and Chen Shi demonstrated a Yin Yang Dao Field that could dispel demonic qi.
• Chen Shi took the Purple Sky Immortal Gourd, and its released immortal fire destroyed Purple Sky and its Reincarnation Jade Plate.
• Chen Shi planted Witch Covenant beneath a crape myrtle tree, where he returned to life, then planted the gourd seed in Empress Houtu’s Yellow Earth as spiritual qi surged from Ganyang Mountain.

Chen Shi and his allies prepared to confront the Heavenly Venerate, but their assault on Despair Slope ended in disaster as the Witch Covenant died and the Heavenly Venerate seized the Yin Yang Qi Bottle. Chen Shi sent his companions toward the Huaxia Divine Continent while staying behind, and they arrived to find the Great Ming replaced by the Great Shun Dynasty.

• Chen Shi gathered allies to enter Despair Slope, where Fairy Xiaoduan discovered Chen Yindu’s history with Gong Wanqing and helped sabotage the Qiankun Reconstruction Furnace.
• Created Being Xiao Wu entered the furnace’s world and fought copies of himself, while Chen Shi deduced the Heavenly Venerate’s Great Desolation Ming Dao Collection and identified possible flaws.
• Chu Feng refined Grand Pure Purple Qi and became the demonized True God from Beyond the Heavens as the allies confronted the Heavenly Venerate at Despair Slope.
• The Heavenly Venerate’s evil flesh corrupted Despair Slope, and Chen Yindu escaped with several allies while the Witch Covenant died fighting to protect the Yin Yang Qi Bottle.
• Chen Shi admitted to Black Pot that he had no confidence in defeating the Heavenly Venerate and asked him to flee with him to the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Chen Shi’s companions left aboard Empress Houtu’s golden boat, then boarded the Great Ming Treasure Ship after Wu Qingyu proposed seeking help on the Huaxia Divine Continent.
• Chen Tang and the others arrived on the Huaxia Divine Continent and learned that the Great Ming had fallen and the Great Shun Dynasty ruled there.

Chen Shi and his allies defeated the Heavenly Lord and cleansed the Western Ox Continent, but the True God from Beyond the Heavens dissolved afterward. Chen Shi raided immortal realms with Empress Houtu, ascended with Black Pot, and ended up in the Heavenly Prison after confronting Yin Fenglou.

• Chen Yindu supplied a petrification technique that cultivators used to turn the Western Ox Continent to stone against the spreading flesh and blood.
• Chen Yindu and Created Being Xiao Wu attacked the Heavenly Venerate’s hidden Dao realm while Witch Covenant repeatedly died defending Empress Houtu.
• Chen Shi integrated with the Dao using the True God from Beyond the Heavens, destroyed the primordial insect, and beheaded the venerable master with the True God’s help.
• Chen Shi and the True God from Beyond the Heavens restored sunlight before the True God dissolved upon returning to the Western Ox Continent.
• Chen Shi and Empress Houtu stole the Crimson Origin Alchemy Furnace to revive Witch Covenant, then gathered stolen herbs and treasures with Black Pot.
• Chen Shi accepted Empress Houtu’s request to kill Yin Fenglou, helped Hu Feifei prepare imperial examination rules, and ascended with Black Pot.
• Chen Shi entered the Fire Character Camp as a Heavenly Soldier, learned that Zhong Wuwang was probably dead, and mastered the Primordial Chaos Sword Scripture.
• Chen Shi challenged Yin Fenglou and merged with the Dao, but the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll seized his consciousness before he awoke in the Heavenly Prison awaiting the Execution Stage.

Chen Shi was released from the Heavenly Prison, uncovered the Demon Refining Well conspiracy, and claimed the Ruins of Dao, where he absorbed dangerous Great Dao anomalies. In Feng'an County, he exposed a scheme involving the Muddy Bodhisattva, pursued the remaining culprit, and brought Jiang Guo into the Fire Character Camp, while the fate of Chu Xiangxiu and the Land God remained unresolved.

• Chen Shi was released from the Heavenly Prison and discovered that the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll’s Dao Patterns had entered his consciousness.
• At the Demon Refining Well, Wu Guanyun revealed his rebellion and Chen Shi fought him, then accepted Wu Guanyun’s apology and concealed the incident.
• Heavenly King Li granted Chen Shi the Ruins of Dao, where Chen Shi integrated its Great Dao anomalies and found the Demon Blood Treasure Tree and Fulou Village’s green stele.
• Chen Shi’s Fire Character Camp entered Feng'an County and encountered the Great Dao Pollution, then confronted the Muddy Bodhisattva and learned an unknown stranger had broken his golden body.
• Chen Shi identified Chu Xiangxiu’s incense and helped summon the Feng'an Land God, then subdued Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva and restored the transformed people and animals.
• After the Thunder Ministry closed the case, Chen Shi stayed to investigate and killed Chao Huang, whom he identified as the rain spellcaster behind the disaster.
• Jiang Guo attacked Chen Shi, recognized his techniques as Golden Ao Island teachings, and agreed to travel with him to the Heavenly Court.
• Heavenly King Li arranged Jiang Guo’s recruitment, and Zhang Xian enrolled him in the Fire Character Camp while Chu Xiangxiu and the Land God remained in the Heavenly Prison.