Recaps

Chen Chuan explored Central City, claimed the Nine Unifications Jade Tablet fragment, and thwarted an attack on the Great Shun Settlement while Gui Zihan defeated Rodovich. Chen Chuan then traveled to Seranocha Continent Central City to investigate Scarlson’s disappearance and began finding a pattern in his evidence.

• Chen Chuan met Alura, challenged Cui Xuanhui’s simulation at Free Stars Academy, and repeatedly defeated it until its Mutated Tissue and mental power vanished.
• Chen Chuan won bets against Kleiver, watched Wei Dong break through to the Third Limit, and received Cui Xuanhui’s statue before smashing it and keeping the head.
• Chen Chuan and Gui Zihan visited Senior Mo, then Chen Chuan defeated Luo Xiao and recovered a fragment of the Nine Unifications Jade Tablet from the Bamboo House.
• Chen Chuan visited Lockdown Hall, resisted the Other Side’s mental contamination, and rejected Ryan Cavity’s invitation to join the Ascension Ladder.
• After receiving a warning about sabotage, Chen Chuan organized an investigation that exposed Diego’s planned attack on the Great Shun Settlement, and his team captured or killed the attackers.
• Chen Chuan left for Seranocha Continent Central City to investigate Scarlson’s disappearance, leaving Gui Zihan in command, and Gui Zihan killed Rodovich with a swift sword strike.
• Chen Chuan retrieved Scarlson’s maps, photographs, and notes from a Wansheng Finance safe-deposit box and began identifying a pattern in the marked locations.

Chen Chuan rescued Scarlson and returned to V Asia as the delegations’ tensions and the Resistance Organization’s plans converged with the Three Stars Convergence. The Lockdown Hall’s rituals failed, prisoners escaped, and Dayer Rosad faced Cawington until a hooded figure intervened.

• Chen Chuan tracked Scarlson to a New Light Sect sacrificial site, defeated Samaruga, and freed Scarlson from an obsidian box beneath the palace.
• Chen Chuan returned to V Asia, accepted Dayer Rosad’s challenge, and agreed to take over Luo Weina’s dojo as the Three Stars Convergence approached.
• Commissioner Qu ordered the Resistance Organization to attack the Tavatiniya delegation, while Alura used the crisis at the Ancient Museum to advance her plan to escape her original body.
• Alura’s transition disrupted Central City’s domain field, weakening the Lockdown Hall’s rituals as Kaliopates escaped his cell and passed himself off as Kapa.
• Alura restored control of the domain field, but the three stars’ convergence helped trigger further breaches and the Emperor, Arthur Covington, and another entity escaped the Lockdown Hall.
• Central City sought help as Chen Chuan inspected the failing rituals and accepted a commission to defend the Lockdown Hall.
• Cawington overwhelmed Rosad in a fight, revealing that he had swallowed a forbidden object and gained power from a being from the other side.
• Rosad escaped Cawington’s suppression and called for the release of Free Stars Academy’s Active Consciousness Entity, but Cawington struck him from the air before a hooded figure blocked his finishing attack with platinum Spiritual Light Flames.

Chen Chuan defeated the Wanderer, Rosad, and Krosal, drawing international attention and concern over his growing power. After arriving in Lunovila Central City, he received warnings about political pressure and began cultivating while weighing a request for sensitive data about his External Implant Body.

• Chen Chuan killed the Wanderer and erased the Rift, while Kapa escaped the Lockdown Hall after recovering his imperial relics and the Dragon Heart.
• Chen Chuan refused the Wanderer’s invitation to defect, and Team Leader Lu led the rescued Fighters toward the East Coast as the Da Shun delegation prepared for Chen Chuan’s duel with Rosad.
• Chen Chuan defeated Rosad, then challenged Drian Krosal after Krosal interfered, and killed Krosal in their witnessed duel.
• Rosad apologized to Chen Chuan at the station and gave him cultivation resources and the ceremonial sword from their duel.
• Puppet killed a Federal Confidential Operations Division agent who tried to recruit him, then left Central City as the mercenaries followed him.
• Chen Chuan and the Visiting Delegation arrived in Lunovila Central City, where Federation personnel confronted them over Derek Valchi before Tu Haisheng intervened and explained the danger he posed.
• Tu Haisheng warned Chen Chuan about efforts to bind him with an agreement, and Chen Chuan began training at Red Rock Manor after Qin Qingque requested data about his External Implant Body.

Chen Chuan defended the Divine Heart dojo, uncovered the Primitive Sect’s sacrifice and hidden rift, and destroyed the rift’s core after confronting its guardian and the presence beyond it. The Federation sealed the site and began investigating, while the Primitive Sect continued plotting against Chen Chuan and he received word that the jade object had been analyzed.

• Chen Chuan took control of the Non-Body Faction dojo, helped Nobu Yūsuke defeat Clayton, and resisted the Strategic Affairs Department’s effort to seize the hall.
• Chen Chuan destroyed a Primitive Sect lake ritual and later stopped an attack on Head Xie as the struggle over the dojo escalated.
• Chen Chuan investigated the Primitive Sect’s lakeside stronghold through a Purple Qi seed, which found a stable rift beneath a sacrificial arena on Great Snail Peninsula.
• Chen Chuan secured International Investigation Group authorization and flew to Da Luo Island, where he blasted open the mountain and confronted the rift’s guardian.
• Chen Chuan defeated the guardian and the emerging Aspect of the Gods, then pinned down the presence beyond the rift and destroyed the rift’s core.
• Chen Chuan left the site to the Federation and presented his authorization to Drian Krosal and Vico Durant while Fan Zhentong witnessed the dispute.
• The Federation sealed the rift and began investigating the Primitive Sect, while the sect’s leaders considered luring Chen Chuan to Kavatua.
• Chen Chuan reflected that the investigation would not reach the Primitive Sect’s most powerful members, then received a message that the jade analysis was complete.