Recaps

Chen Nan used his fame, duels, and growing power to rally followers against the Demonic Orcs and the Seven Great Families. After killing members of the Chen Lineage who had murdered his servants, he escaped into a battle between the Chen factions and confronted Chen Shiyou over the right of Transcendents to rule.

• Chen Nan impressed the guests at two balls with his music, defended Lin Xi from Susanna, and helped her perform, while his influence stirred resistance among the Seven Great Families.
• After the families sent assassins against him, Chen Nan killed three Transcendents, then challenged Du Shipi and Du Hongyu in duels, winning their followers and exposing the Demonic Orcs’ role in the attacks.
• Chen Nan built up the Nature Master training base, rallied people to defend Qingyang Kingdom, and infiltrated the Demonic Orcs’ network, learning of their plans to control resources and target patriots.
• Yang Yugan refined Liu Yuan Pills with Chen Nan, who improved their quality, reached the mid Path Entry stage, cultivated Primordial Fire, and forged the Liuying and Star Sword flying swords.
• Chen Nan returned to the Chen estate and sent Agui and the other servants away, but Chen Jiadong, Chen Jialiang, and Chen Jiacai showed him the servants’ severed heads and admitted killing them.
• Chen Nan killed Chen Jiacai, Chen Jialiang, Chen Jiadong, and Chen Wan'er, then challenged the Lineage over its treatment of ordinary people as Chen Shiyou ordered him executed.
• Chen Nan escaped to the Protectorate Faction, whose clash with the opposing Chen faction destroyed buildings and caused heavy casualties before Chen Shiyou stopped the fighting.
• Chen Nan condemned Chen Shiyou’s plan for Transcendents to rule the world and invoked the laws of nature and the universe, leaving Chen Shiyou unable to answer.

Chen Nan strengthened the Protectorate Faction with new allies, talismans, artifacts, and technology while Susanna helped the Seven Great Families prepare to destroy him. The arc ended with Zhao Yunlong and six mecha-equipped heirs attacking Chen Nan’s base, where Chen Nan killed Ye Feng in the first duel.

• Chen Nan defeated the Chen Lineage’s five Level Ninety fighters at the Grand Arena, winning support from Transcendents while Chen Shiyou sought Demonic Orc backing.
• Chen Shiyou allied with Susanna’s father, who supplied the Chen Lineage with Transcendent Battle Armor and arranged Susanna’s marriage into the family.
• Chen Nan built up the Protectorate Faction, secured military support, and began making Rune Talismans and Treasure Artifacts.
• Chen Nan completed a Life-Replacing Puppet and Adamantine Shield, while Lin Xi and several others entered the Path Entry stage.
• Susanna copied evidence of her father’s plans, and Chen Nan combined mecha technology with Treasure Artifacts to make leg armor that let Lin Xi walk.
• Chen Shiyou hosted the Seven Great Families as Susanna urged them to destroy Chen Nan’s faction, and their young heirs received advanced Transcendent mechas.
• Zhao Yunlong and six mecha-equipped heirs bombarded Chen Nan’s training base, but Chen Nan and the flying Nature Masters intercepted the missiles.
• Chen Nan faced the attackers alone and killed Ye Feng with a Soul-Capturing Talisman and an accelerated flying sword, shocking Zhao Yunlong and the others.

Chen Nan helped defeat the Demonic Orcs’ nationwide offensive, then led the Nature Masters to victory over the Strength Department and established an independent institution. The arc ended with Chen Nan and his disciples cultivating in an ancient complex, where he began investigating the mysteries of the Void Realm.

• Chen Nan killed the attackers who had murdered Ye Feng, and Lu Fangliang arrived to help him take away their damaged mechs.
• As the Seven Great Families attacked the Nature Masters’ base, Chen Nan’s forces captured hundreds of mechs and endured months of fighting across Qingyang Kingdom.
• Chen Nan went to Wu City to help Yang Wankun’s family punish Zhang Kui’s men, then Madam Chen’s mecha self-destructed and obliterated the city.
• Chen Nan warned the military that the Demonic Orc mechs might self-destruct, and he secretly disabled many of their circuits while helping prepare defenses.
• The Demonic Orcs launched a nationwide offensive using self-destructing mechs, but Chen Nan’s Nature Masters weakened thousands of armors and the military contained many blasts before the rebels withdrew.
• Chen Nan and the Nature Masters defeated the Strength Department in a public wager, and Chen Nan trapped the First beneath his Adamantine Shield when he exploded.
• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan separated the Nature Masters from Luojing Transcendent Academy, established an independent institution, and began recruiting students nationwide.
• Yang Yugan led Chen Nan and the other Path Entry stage Nature Masters into the botanical garden, where they found an ancient complex and began cultivating, and Chen Nan investigated its symbols and considered how to reach the Void Realm.

Chen Nan uncovered the botanical garden’s purpose, prepared new artifacts, and learned that the Demonic Orcs were building power with cosmic gemstones. After Qingyang Kingdom surrendered and fell, Chen Nan and Yang Yugan withdrew the remaining Nature Masters into the botanical garden, where they tried to steady themselves while the occupied people awaited their return.

• Chen Nan discovered that the Great Empowered Ones had engineered his arrival and created the botanical garden as a hidden world to preserve spiritual energy, while he continued to study and improve cultivation methods.
• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan investigated a rune array that drew spiritual energy from the universe, then learned from an encrypted video that the Demonic Orcs were using blood-red ore and advanced weapons to empower their forces.
• Chen Nan designed and forged the Vajra Gourd, Spirit Shattering Mirror, and Timewatch, then traveled to Morgan to steal rare elements from a Black Market auction and fought his way past its robots and enhanced Transcendents.
• Chen Nan learned that the Demonic Orcs used seven cosmic gemstones to strengthen their fighters and weapons, and he warned Yang Yugan so the Nature Masters could prepare countermeasures.
• As the Demonic Orcs occupied most of Qingyang Kingdom and surrounded Luojing City, Chen Nan and Yang Yugan opposed the king’s decision to surrender and declared that the Nature Masters would fight to reunify the kingdom.
• The Demonic Orcs branded the Nature Masters armed rebels, while the collapse of Qingyang Kingdom and pressure on its supporters drove two-thirds of the group away.
• Chen Nan and Yang Yugan moved the remaining five hundred Nature Masters into the botanical garden as the Demonic Orcs occupied Qingyang Kingdom and renamed it the Nine Union Kingdom.
• After the Demonic Orcs enslaved the kingdom’s people to lure them out, Chen Nan and the Nature Masters practiced calming techniques for three months to clear their psychological obstacles.