Recaps

Chu Mu helped trigger the collapse of the Blood Fiend Grand Array, then escaped the Chen Family’s pursuit with treasures taken from the catastrophe. After months of recovery and years of travel toward the Outer Sea, he reached the seabed site of the relic described by Xie Yu.

• Chu Mu helped the trapped cultivators exploit the Blood Fiend Grand Array’s accumulated blood qi, and the released Nascent Souls battled across Tyrant Province City as its arrays collapsed.
• Chu Mu seized Chen Xuan Yu’s soul and belongings, survived Old Ancestor Qing Cang’s attacks with Xu Lingtian’s help, and fled while the Chen Family pursued him.
• Chu Mu evaded the search through the Ba Zhou Basin, returned to Tyrant Province City, and escaped over the sea aboard the Sky-Piercing Flying Boat.
• During his recovery, Chu Mu examined the seized treasures and concluded that the Chen Family and Ba Dao Alliance had used the auction to lure cultivators into their scheme.
• Zhao Shuang and Xie Yu told Chu Mu about the relic that appeared once each Sixty-Year Cycle, and he agreed to take them toward the Outer Sea.
• Chu Mu assumed Chen Cang’s identity with a Heaven Deceiving Pill, learned of the turmoil and wanted notice in Cloud Mountain Market, then resumed his journey.
• After several years traveling toward the Outer Sea, Chu Mu reached the relic’s seabed location and sent Azure Bird Puppets to search for spatial traces.

Chu Mu refined the Azure Lotus Core Flame, forged a Lifebound Blade Intent Treasure, and entered the Relic Cave Estate, where the trial’s Sand Tail Scorpions trapped him in a deadly desert. He disguised himself as one of them and encountered a woman whose cultivation art might help them destroy the force controlling the trial.

• Chu Mu absorbed the Azure Lotus Core Flame, strengthening his Great Sun True Fire and advancing his Golden Core cultivation.
• Chu Mu forged a golden Blade Pellet from Nine Heavens Profound Gold and merged it with his Divine Soul Blade to create a Lifebound Magic Treasure.
• Chu Mu entered the newly opened relic gateway with Zhao Shuang, Xie Yu, Zhao Yu, and Wangcai, then crossed the passage into a scorching desert trial.
• Chu Mu and Wangcai fought through the Sand Tail Scorpion tide, but spatial scorpions disrupted Chu Mu’s attempt to escape in the Sky-Piercing Flying Boat.
• Chu Mu realized the swarm might be controlled by a rigid program, studied the scorpions, and crafted a Heaven Deceiving Pill and body to imitate their identity marker.
• Chu Mu’s disguise let him evade the unseen will’s first probe, but the will later forced him to join a swarm attacking a woman in an Emerald Green Silk Dress.
• Chu Mu recognized the woman from the East Lake Secret Realm and studied how her spirit plants refined scorpion blood essence to nourish her cultivation.
• The woman warned Chu Mu that they had to destroy the source of slaughter, and Chu Mu sent her a Jade Slip of his observations as her wood-attribute domain filled the night sky.

Chu Mu and Qin Zhaoxue uncovered the Relic Cave Estate’s connection to the Sand Tail Scorpion Queen and entered Soul Cleansing Mountain to face the corruption of their Scorpion Eggs. Chu Mu’s trial became a return to a modern, spiritless world, where he built a global network and prepared to destroy the growing threat of heretical ghouls.

• Chu Mu and Qin Zhaoxue discovered that killing Sand Tail Scorpions nurtured Scorpion Eggs, and that Soul Cleansing Mountain was tied to the Heavenly Palace’s effort to suppress the Sand Tail Scorpion Queen.
• Chu Mu matured his Scorpion Egg, entered Soul Cleansing Mountain, and learned from Yun Qianshan that cleansing it meant resisting corruption inside a thousand-year dream.
• Chu Mu studied the Sky Palace’s records, then used Spirit Radiance Reappeared to connect with Wangcai, sending them both into a strange slumber.
• Chu Mu awoke as an ordinary mortal in the modern world and realized the Heavenly Evolution Turbidity was eroding the recreated world from within.
• Chu Mu forged Truth Talismans, built an intelligence network through ninety-nine Thought Imprints, and brought the metropolis’s leaders and resources under his control.
• After Wang Yue reported the slaughter at Wuji Village, Chu Mu identified the threat as heretical ghouls born from blood qi and resentment and organized society’s response.
• Chu Mu learned that hundreds of settlements remained in Three Ridges Mountain and ordered Roof Ridge Mountain sealed as aviation, artillery, and missile units prepared Plan Number One.

Chu Mu discovered that human spirit and will could resist and purify the Source Taint’s ghouls, then helped the Human Alliance turn that insight into the Dawn Plan. The Alliance began training and integrating transcendents while Chu Mu sealed himself away to preserve his dwindling strength.

• Chu Mu tracked the Source Taint to Xishan County, rejected its offer of submission, and survived its attacks as the Blood Moon catastrophe spread across the world.
• As the Human Alliance established Tian Shu Base and restored order, Chu Mu investigated the suspicious Thirty-Ninth Outpost and found Huang Peng resisting the ghouls’ influence through his human spirit.
• Chu Mu gave Huang Peng a Blade Intent sword, and Huang Peng used it to kill the possessed soldiers at the outpost.
• Chu Mu taught Huang Peng the Three Feet Blade method and presented the Alliance’s leaders with a jade Visualization Object, explaining that controlling ghouls through the body weakened the Source Taint.
• The Human Alliance approved the Dawn Plan, while Chu Mu sealed himself in a pavilion and left the elders talismans to awaken him and suppress dangerous ghoul controllers.
• Huang Peng survived merging with Number 1995, the Source Prisoner Ghoul, and purified its power through his will and the Three Foot Blade’s guidance.
• Huang Peng introduced his half-human, half-ghost form to the trainees, and nearly eight thousand of the nine thousand soldiers became transcendents in the first phase.
• The Human Alliance announced the transcendents and their regulations, assigned some to regional stations and training bases, and began the next phases of the Dawn Plan.