Recaps

Ling Wuyuan defeated wave after wave of challengers and became famous across the nations, drawing attention to the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion. As the Pavilion prepared an expedition to Dragon Beast Sea Ridge, Ling Wuyuan studied the realm and joined Yuan Yujun’s group for its opening.

• Ling Wuyuan defeated hundreds of challengers without injury, and the News Report publicized his victories across many countries.
• After Ling Wuyuan’s achievement appeared on the Notice Board of All Nations, he said he had earned his success and expected to surpass everyone who tried to follow him.
• Yuan Yujun told Ling Wuyuan that Dragon Beast Sea Ridge would open soon and invited him to join the expedition with Yan Xiujin, Xi Xianlan, and Bai Jingshu.
• Nie Qingdao learned that Ling Wuyuan belonged to the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion and warned his family that the dynasty should not provoke the mysterious overseas sect.
• Yuan Yujun reassured the News Report that the Pavilion would not expand beyond White Mist Country while its elders discussed Ling Wuyuan’s rapid cultivation and his place in the sect.
• Pei Yi explained that Dragon Beast Sea Ridge was a dangerous ocean-and-island realm with rare creatures and artifacts, and Ling Wuyuan agreed to prepare for the expedition.
• Ling Wuyuan studied the realm’s reports and maps, inferred that it might be an immense sphere in outer space, and later boarded the Jade Night Tower Ship with the group.
• Yuan Yujun told Ling Wuyuan she had been assigned to escort the group, and his praise lifted her spirits as she led them out.

Ling Wuyuan and his companions entered Dragon Beast Sea Ridge, explored its dangerous island, and uncovered creatures’ psychic defenses while establishing a base. After dealing with opportunistic cultivators, Ling Wuyuan found a strange statue that absorbed his lightning and heat, prompting the others to flee as he continued investigating.

• Ling Wuyuan, Wu Yanlian, Xi Xianlan, and Bai Jingshu entered the space-time rift and emerged over an ocean, then found an island where Ling Wuyuan subdued a Black Dragon.
• Ling Wuyuan fought a powerful Dragon Beast, survived its devastating attack, and failed to tame it when it died during the attempt.
• The group processed the Dragon Beast’s enormous corpse, established a fortified camp, and learned that time passed more slowly inside Dragon Beast Sea Ridge than outside.
• Ling Wuyuan studied the creatures’ psychic isolation force fields and considered new explanations for the unusual life and rules of the realm.
• Two independent cultivators tracked Ling Wuyuan to the group’s valley, but he killed them before they could attack.
• Fifteen days later, Ling Wuyuan found a dark green pillar statue inside a Dragon Beast and recognized its markings as the work of a nonhuman intelligent civilization.
• Ling Wuyuan tested the statue with lightning, and when it absorbed the heat and electricity, he warned Wu Yanlian, Xi Xianlan, and Bai Jingshu to retreat.

Ling Wuyuan awakened a giant squid and plundered its memories, uncovering the Thorn Civilization’s artificial planet and its dangerous biological facilities. As Dragon Beast Sea Ridge expelled its explorers, Ling Wuyuan prepared a Soul Beacon to guide his return, while Yuan Yujun kept the discovered intelligence secret for now.

• Ling Wuyuan killed the awakened giant squid, planted a Mind Seed in its mind, and later extracted fragmented memories after purifying the seed.
• Ling Wuyuan learned that the squid belonged to a powerful interstellar civilization whose fleets had fled a devastating monster, then discovered Dragon Beast Sea Ridge was an artificial planet built by the Thorn Civilization.
• Ling Wuyuan used Thorn symbols and authorization codes to gain access to a Flesh Tower, where he and the women encountered a slave beast incubation factory and its Core Controller.
• Ling Wuyuan applied for temporary higher permissions and discovered that Dragon Beast Sea Ridge was a biological weapons manufacturing base with powerful facilities and weapons hidden underground.
• Bai Jingshu, Wu Yanlian, and Xi Xianlan agreed to conceal the realm’s secrets from everyone except Yuan Yujun, while Ling Wuyuan kept the Thorn Civilization’s deeper secrets to himself.
• As spacetime began rejecting the group, Ling Wuyuan placed part of his soul in a blood-red gemstone to create a Soul Beacon that could guide him back to Dragon Beast Sea Ridge.
• The explorers were expelled from Dragon Beast Sea Ridge, the White Mist prince returned badly injured with two captured cubs, and Yuan Yujun chose to wait for Ling Wuyuan before reporting the intelligence.

Ling Wuyuan strengthened his connection to the Dragon Beast Sea Ridge and pursued its secrets while settling into life at Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion. When the underground creature tide emerged ahead of schedule, he joined Yuan Yujun and the others in Northern Wuchen Province to face the threat.

• Ling Wuyuan told Yuan Yujun that the Dragon Beast Sea Ridge had been a Thorn Civilization biological weapons base and that one Thorn person had awakened, then negotiated the Pavilion’s help.
• Ling Wuyuan spent time with Pei Yiman, and the next day they watched a mysterious Heavenly Change sweep across the sky without revealing its cause.
• Ling Wuyuan strengthened his mind and projected his will toward the Dragon Beast Sea Ridge, discovering that he could cross its spacetime barrier unusually easily but could not freely pass through other barriers.
• Yuan Yujun investigated the mystery of Ling Wuyuan’s entry and agreed to support him, while Ling Wuyuan turned to cultivation and reading as his inquiry into his origins stalled.
• As the underground passage neared stabilization, the City Lord prepared for a possible beast tide and gathered outside cultivators for missions.
• The passage opened early, and eight Divine Ability Realm Subterranean Beasts emerged as the surrounding nations raised a golden barrier to contain them.
• Yuan Yujun brought Ling Wuyuan, Yan Xiujin, Pei Yiman, and the other disciples to Northern Wuchen Province, where they saw the golden pillars trapping the subterranean creatures and local beasts.
• At Yan Xiujin’s request, Yuan Yujun fired a secondary cannon from the Jade Night Tower Ship, destroying nearly all the Black Scale Bat Beasts in the flock with blue lightning.