Recaps

Cheng Han approved rewards for Patrol Officers and imposed harsh punishments for those who neglected their duties while monitoring the Azure Cloud God General’s visit to the Blood Tree. After she used Time Reversal to restore its markings, she began tracing the Blood Tree’s creator, putting Cheng Han at risk of discovery.

• Cheng Han approved exceptional rewards, including Xing Peng’s promotion to Patrol Captain, as the Patrol Department’s leaders praised his choices.
• Cheng Han ordered severe penalties for Patrol Officers who had shirked their duties, including dismissals and imprisonment.
• Shen Wenxian accidentally stood with the Patrol Department’s subordinates when Cheng Han dismissed the meeting, then hurried away embarrassed.
• After sensing the Azure Cloud God General leave Beiting City, Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to review her visit to the Blood Tree.
• The Azure Cloud God General reversed time to restore the Blood Tree’s markings, concluded the Serpent God was hiding in the Otherworld, and began tracing who had created the tree.

Cheng Han used the Gluttonous Big Shot to foil Azure Cloud God General’s attempt to trace the Blood Tree’s origin. After watching the Big Shot devour her Divine Soul Shadow, Cheng Han received a Sub-God Power Crystal from it.

• Cheng Han’s countermeasure disrupted Azure Cloud God General’s trace, leaving a massive bite-marked pit in the council hall and frightening the Mystic Adepts.
• The Gluttonous Big Shot appeared, and Cheng Han asked it to show him the battle by transmitting its memory.
• Cheng Han experienced the battle through the Big Shot’s avatar as it sealed off Azure Cloud God General’s escape and swallowed her Divine Soul Shadow.
• The Big Shot spared the remaining Mystic Adepts because it had promised to eat only one, then gave Cheng Han a Sub-God Power Crystal before departing.
• Cheng Han identified the crystal and realized it contained valuable knowledge about a God General’s power.

Newly promoted Patrol Captain Xing Peng prepared to help organize a public memorial for the Heretical God's Utterance Incident victims, then visited a bereaved family to deliver an invitation. He left shaken by the widow’s grief as the ceremony—and pressure on the Hall of Councillors to provide compensation—approached.

• Xing Peng and Fan Xiaoqian discussed his promotion, their delayed wedding, and the Patrol Department’s plan to hold a public memorial for all the city’s victims.
• Xing Peng told Fan Xiaoqian he had been assigned to visit victims’ families and invite them to the ceremony, and they shared an intimate moment before he left for work.
• Xing Peng met Patrol Officer Ma Shouyi at the Third Outpost, and they went to a residential district with a Spirit Mastiff to visit a victim’s family.
• Xing Peng told Ms. Liu that her husband would be commemorated at East Mountain Park and that the Hall of Councillors would provide compensation, then Ma Shouyi gave her an invitation.
• Ms. Liu agreed to attend, and Xing Peng left troubled by her grief as Ma Shouyi said he would rather fight Serpent Monsters.

Xing Peng and Ma Shouyi delivered memorial ceremony invitations to grieving families, while Ding Shulin brought news of the ceremony and civilian compensation to Grand Governor Bai Yichuan. The chapter ended with Bai ordering the compensation gathered within a day and Ding wishing Profound Pavilion would remove him.

• Xing Peng struggled to answer Xiao Yan's questions about her missing parents, then gave her grandmother an invitation and secretly left her Silver Coins.
• Xing Peng and Ma Shouyi hesitated before visiting another bereaved family, and the Spirit Mastiff stepped forward to knock.
• Ding Shulin told Bai Yichuan that the Patrol Department would hold a Public Memorial Ceremony and that the Hall of Councillors planned to distribute Civilian Compensation there.
• Bai Yichuan raged at Director Cheng, then took out his anger on Ding Shulin, who later retched and cursed him in the washroom.
• Bai Yichuan ordered the Finance Department to gather the Civilian Compensation in full within a day, and Ding Shulin wished Profound Pavilion would drive him out.

Cheng Han presided over Anhua City's public memorial for the victims of the Heretical God's Utterance Incident, drawing thousands of mourners and directing tributes throughout the city. The ceremony left the city united in grief and hatred of the Heretical God, while talk continued about the Grand Governor's precarious position and Cheng Han's possible promotion.

• Fan Ancheng, Fan Xiaoqian, and Fan Ancheng's wife walked through the snow to East Mountain Park, where Xing Peng welcomed mourners at the entrance.
• The family donated fifty Gold Coins for the privilege of laying flowers and waited with other wealthy attendees.
• Fan Ancheng and his family discussed rumors that the Grand Governor would miss the ceremony and speculated that Cheng Han might become Grand Governor.
• Cheng Han unveiled the Memorial Stele and led more than three hundred Patrol Officers in a salute as victims' families wept and the crowd mourned.
• Patrol Officers, passersby, and students across Anhua City stopped to salute the victims when bells sounded, following Cheng Han's orders.

At the Public Memorial Ceremony, Cheng Han turned the crowd’s grief into fervor and explained his tactics to Garrison Commander Zhao Qihuan. Zhao offered Cheng the Grand Governor’s post, and Cheng learned he could take it within ten days, while privately reflecting on the woman killed by the Serpent Monster.

• Families lit Soul Summoning Candles at the memorial, and thousands chanted, “May your souls return to Divine Banyan Peak!”
• Bai Yichuan heard the chanting during a meeting, learned about the ceremony from Ding Shulin, and adjourned in anger.
• Zhao Qihuan used a Mirror Projection Technique to question Cheng Han about the Public Memorial Ceremony.
• Cheng Han explained how crowds could be guided into collective outrage, then led them in shouting against the heretical god.
• Cheng Han told Zhao Qihuan that he hated the heretical god because of the deaths he had witnessed, and Zhao offered him the Grand Governor’s position for about half a year.
• Zhao Qihuan said Cheng could assume the position within ten days, while Cheng privately recalled the woman killed by the Serpent Monster.

After the memorial ceremony, Cheng Han told his officials that the Garrison Profound Warrior had met with him, then recognized Xie You disguised as a Fang Family maid in the Winter Garden. He sensed the World Barrier being disturbed by the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan’s God-level Experts and predicted a rainstorm as their attempt to breach it began.

• Cheng Han told Ying Beibei to spread news of his meeting with the Garrison Profound Warrior, unsettling the officials with the implication that the Grand Governor had been bypassed.
• Cheng Han recognized Xie You, now posing as Ning Qing, and planned to keep her in the Winter Garden before appointing her as his secretary.
• Fang Qinghuai presented Xie You to Cheng Han as an exceptionally capable maid, while Cheng Han concealed that he recognized her.
• Cheng Han’s Eye of Omniscience sensed disturbances in the World Barrier and revealed that the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan’s God-level Experts were preparing to breach it.
• Cheng Han predicted rain and rode away on Gua Gua; half an hour later, Xie You witnessed a torrential downpour and wondered how he had known.

Xie You delivered pastries to Cheng Han and witnessed his unexplained rain manipulation, while Cheng Han privately revealed that he had developed a new technique by studying the laws of two worlds. After Fang Qinghuai raised her pay for protecting the Director’s privacy, Xie You considered how to become Cheng Han’s personal maid.

• Xie You entered Cheng Han’s office and saw him make rain fall above his desk and transfer the droplets to the pond.
• Cheng Han told Xie You to keep her current appearance and dismissed her before she could explain her past.
• Cheng Han attributed the rainstorm to God-level Experts opening a passage to the Abyssal Mist Realm and named his new technique “Moving Clouds and Changing Rain.”
• Fang Qinghuai asked Xie You what Cheng Han had said, and she discouraged him from prying into the Director’s affairs.
• Fang Qinghuai raised Xie You’s salary and meal allowance, and she began plotting how to become Cheng Han’s personal maid.

Cheng Han opened a skylight to reveal a Rain Dragon crossing the sky and used the Eye of Omniscience to study its power and develop a fire-based dragon technique. He left Xie You with a lesson in humility and ordered the Fang Family to prepare a snake soup banquet for the Grand Governor that evening.

• Cheng Han ordered the Fang Family’s servants to open a greenhouse skylight, letting rainwater pour into the pond.
• Cheng Han corrected Xie You for looking down on the Fang Family and urged her to learn to say please.
• Cheng Han pointed out a gigantic Rain Dragon phantom in the storm, and a smaller serpent-shaped mist plunged from the waterfall into the pond.
• Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to view the Rain Dragon’s true body in the Abyssal Mist Realm and analyze a technique that formed a Blazing Fire Dragon from True Flame Power.
• Cheng Han told Xie You to have the Fang Family prepare a Snake Soup Banquet and invite the Grand Governor for seven that evening.

Cheng Han arranged a rushed Snake Soup Feast to force Grand Governor Bai Yichuan to attend, while Winter Garden gathered ingredients and help from across Anhua City. As Cheng Han watched a standoff between God-level forces in the Two-Realm War, a voice from the Abyssal Mist Realm warned the Myriad Radiance People that they had gone too far.

• Xie You explained to Fang Qinghuai that Cheng Han's banquet would pressure Bai Yichuan by drawing the whole city’s attention, and Fang Qinghuai mobilized Winter Garden to prepare the feast.
• Winter Garden recruited chefs and gathered rare ingredients with help from wealthy families, while Wang Yibo donated his family's extraordinary Ice Vein Snake meat for Cheng Han's banquet.
• Xie You reported that Winter Garden had arranged sixteen dishes, and Cheng Han warned the Fang Family to prepare for heavy hail around six.
• Cheng Han observed a Halo showing Myriad Heavens Race God-level Experts facing forces from the Abyssal Mist Realm, and guessed they were searching for the Vortex of Tranquility.
• Xie You reported that Bai Yichuan had agreed to attend the banquet after smashing a chair, and that his Secretary Ding Shulin had emerged with a bruised eye.
• A Divine Speech reached Cheng Han through the Halo, warning the Myriad Radiance People that they had gone too far in a world that was not theirs.

Cheng Han witnessed a confrontation between Zhang Han God Monarch and a God-level Expert from the Abyssal Mist Realm, then used his earlier observations to anticipate a dangerous hailstorm at Winter Garden. The storm confirmed his prediction to Fang Qinghuai, who began planning improvements to the garden’s protective walkway.

• Cheng Han deduced that the Golden Tripod Shadow was the Sea Suppressing Cauldron wielded by Zhang Han God Monarch as a clash with the Abyssal Mist Realm disrupted his observation.
• Cheng Han explained to Xie You that Winter Garden’s high-strength glass roof could withstand the hail, while concealing that he had learned when it would arrive by studying the Rain Dragon’s actions.
• Xie You told Cheng Han that the Fang Family had built a protective shed from the manor gate to Winter Garden, and Cheng Han asked her to thank them.
• Fang Qinghuai inspected the protective shed during the hailstorm and proposed replacing it with a stone Protective Corridor.
• Fang Qinghuai considered renaming Winter Garden Cheng Garden, but the old Butler advised him to reconsider.

Cheng Han received Grand Governor Bai Yichuan at Winter Garden and challenged him over his leadership of Anhua City. The chapter ended with Bai unable to answer Cheng Han’s demand that he serve the city’s people.

• Fang Qinghuai prepared to welcome Bai Yichuan, while Cheng Han praised the Fang Family for their efforts and secured their support.
• Bai Yichuan arrived late with his guard detail, and he and Cheng Han exchanged veiled insults as they greeted each other.
• Bai Yichuan criticized the protective shed, but Cheng Han defended the three hundred workers who had built it for his comfort.
• At the banquet, Cheng Han invoked the labor of more than a thousand people and urged Bai Yichuan to repay their efforts by serving the people of Anhua City.
• Cheng Han demanded to know what Bai Yichuan thought, leaving the Grand Governor speechless.

At the Winter Garden banquet, Cheng Han revealed that Grand Governor Bai Yichuan was the Dream Master and had lured him into a trap. Their battle began in Bai Yichuan’s dream, where Cheng Han used Fourfold Dream in Dream to counter his control of time, while Bai Yichuan’s attack reached his victims beyond the dream.

• Bai Yichuan accused Cheng Han of plotting to take his position, but Cheng Han exposed him as the Dream Master of the Dream Arising Society.
• Bai Yichuan pulled Fang Qinghuai, Xie You, and others into a dream of floating rocks above a Sea of Lava, then formed a Lava Giant and summoned more than five hundred Bat Snakes.
• Cheng Han revealed that he had investigated Bai Yichuan and devised the banquet as a trap, then told him the Garrison Profound Warrior would arrive soon.
• Bai Yichuan declared that time flowed ten times slower in his dream, but Cheng Han used Fourfold Dream in Dream to disrupt that advantage.
• Bai Yichuan sent a dim fluctuation beyond the dream, causing Ding Shulin to suffer agonizing pain as a voice warned that he was trying to pull half the city into the Sky Illusion Dream Realm.

Cheng Han’s plan brought Garrison Profound Warriors to stop Bai Yichuan’s attack and dismantle the Sky Illusion Dream Realm, ending Anhua City’s immediate crisis. After Bai Yichuan reincarnated, Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to trace his new identity and prepared to pursue him.

• Zhao Qihuan arrived at the Fang Family mansion and destroyed Bai Yichuan’s body with an attack that turned him into fragments.
• Xu Daoming shattered the mirror sustaining Ding Shulin’s life, killing her, then located the objects forming the Sky Illusion Dream Realm.
• Cheng Han escaped the dream realm, and Zhao Qihuan praised his strategy and confirmed that Bai Yichuan’s Contingency had been dealt with.
• Cheng Han instructed Fang Qinghuai to clean up and Xie You to notify personnel about the Reward Banquet.
• Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to deduce where Bai Yichuan’s reincarnated body was hiding and resolved to pursue him.

Cheng Han trapped and killed Dream Master Bai Yichuan, who had reincarnated as Brindakken, while making him believe a traitor had betrayed the Dream Arising Society. Cheng Han escaped with Netherlight Leap, expecting the Society's search for a traitor to cause another internal purge.

• Bai Yichuan awoke in his reincarnated body at the Hengyi Merchant Guild and realized the Garrison Profound Warrior had injured his soul.
• An old man revealed that he knew Bai Yichuan's identity as Brindakken and bound him with a Black Flame chain carrying the Power of Sin.
• Bai Yichuan concluded that the old man was a traitor in the Dream Arising Society, despite the old man's denial.
• The old man drained Bai Yichuan's life force until he turned to ash, preventing his Dream Realm Power from awakening.
• The old man revealed that Cheng Han had staged the encounter to make the Dream Arising Society hunt for an imagined traitor, then vanished with Netherlight Leap.

At a reward banquet, Anhua City's Patrol Officers discussed Cheng Han's rise and gossiped about his private life while he dined with Xie You. Cheng Han demonstrated a secret art that turned snake meat to stone, then saw the Abyssal Mist Realm appear and realized the Two-Realm War had begun.

• Xie You told the banquet guests that Cheng Han could not attend, and Bai Xinshan and Duan Zhuohui praised him while speculating about Xie You's closeness to him.
• The Patrol Officers celebrated Cheng Han's likely appointment as Grand Governor and joked about his supposed relationships with beautiful women.
• Cheng Han shared snake soup with Xie You, who told him that the people of Anhua City remembered what he had done for them.
• Cheng Han used a Stone Spirit Bloodline secret art to turn a piece of snake meat into stone, astonishing Xie You.
• A Halo appeared in the sky showing the Abyssal Mist Realm, and Cheng Han realized the Two-Realm War had begun.

Cheng Han watched Zhang Han God Monarch defeat an enormous seawater beast while the Eternal Hunger Lord shielded his deduction from the God-level Experts’ pressure. He then discovered the Wan Hao Clan’s hidden attack on Madam Snake at the Vortex of Tranquility, leaving the true confrontation underway and apparently unnoticed by the Abyssal Mist Realm.

• Cheng Han predicted that the hail would stop and the rain would grow heavier, then began eating dry-fried snake as the weather changed as he foretold.
• A spiritual assault from the Abyssal Mist Realm’s God-level Experts nearly shattered Cheng Han’s halo, but the Eternal Hunger Lord intervened and protected his deduction.
• Cheng Han watched Zhang Han God Monarch use the Sea Suppressing Cauldron to destroy a colossal beast formed from seawater.
• Cheng Han ordered a second deduction after the Time-Space Beacon’s star changed, revealing the Vortex of Tranquility surging around a piercing point of light.
• Cheng Han realized the Wan Hao Clan had secretly launched its true attack against Madam Snake while the God-level Experts’ battle served as a distraction.

Cheng Han’s Deduction revealed that a God Monarch had stripped Madam Snake’s skin with the Seven Wonders Divine Edict, then the Divine War ended with Zhang Han God Monarch forcing the enemy back. As the Myriad Heavens forces prepared to withdraw, Cheng Han looked forward to gaining knowledge from the battle he had witnessed.

• A divine voice invoked the Seven Wonders Divine Edict, interrupting Cheng Han’s Deduction and revealing the power of the mysterious white light.
• Xie You fed Cheng Han snake meat, and he accepted it before resuming his Deduction of the Vortex of Tranquility.
• Cheng Han saw Madam Snake coiled in agony and learned from the Gluttonous Big Shot that her skin had been taken by a powerful attacker.
• Zhang Han God Monarch suppressed the furious enemy with the Golden Cauldron and threatened retaliation on behalf of the Myriad Heavens Race.
• Cheng Han realized the Divine War had ended as Zhang Han God Monarch and the Divine Generals prepared to withdraw.

After the Deduction ended, Cheng Han considered how the Myriad Heavens Race’s threat could turn the Abyssal Mist Realm against Madam Snake, then began a comprehensive analysis of his Mystic Imprints. His imprints advanced significantly, bringing him close to becoming a Mystic Adept, but he chose to delay the breakthrough and strengthen his foundation.

• Cheng Han speculated that Zhang Han God Monarch’s threat could divide the Abyssal Mist Realm over whether to shelter Madam Snake.
• Cheng Han sent Xie You away, scolded her for her suggestive remark, and appointed her as his secretary when he became Grand Governor.
• Cheng Han called on the Netherworlds guarding Divine Objects and used his accumulated God-level connections to Deduce his Mystic Imprints.
• Cheng Han advanced the True Flame and Spirit Control imprints, greatly improved his other imprints, and gained 33.4 Spirit Value.
• Cheng Han realized he could condense the Soul Tempering Imprint and become a Mystic Adept, but decided to wait and build a stronger foundation.

Cheng Han skipped his inauguration ceremony and sent his secretary to deliver his address, showcasing the authority he held over Anhua City’s officials. Ning Qing began reading his message, but the chapter ended before she revealed the two matters he wanted conveyed.

• The Profound Pavilion appointed Director Cheng of the Patrol Department as Anhua City’s concurrent Grand Governor, and news of the unprecedented appointment spread through the city.
• Xie You rehearsed a seductive performance in the Grand Governor’s office before a female official summoned her to the ceremony.
• More than five hundred officials gathered in the Parliament Building’s Great Hall as Ning Qing took the podium to speak for Cheng Han.
• Ning Qing repeated Cheng Han’s blunt dismissal of the ceremony, and the officials remained silent despite the insult.
• Ning Qing opened the document and prepared to announce the two matters Cheng Han had asked her to convey.

At Cheng Han’s inauguration, Xie You used a Dream Realm Pearl to silence the officials and demonstrate the Grand Governor’s power. She punished the master of ceremonies by repeatedly sending him plunging into an abyss, then prepared to read the reshuffle list as the officials watched in fear.

• Xie You announced Cheng Han’s immediate plan to remove some Hall of Councillors officials and promote others, provoking an uproar.
• When the officials failed to quiet down, Xie You activated a Dream Realm Pearl and transported everyone into a realm of darkness, an abyss, and watching eyes.
• Xie You explained that Cheng Han had given her the pearl and reprimanded the master of ceremonies for failing to maintain order.
• Xie You sent the master of ceremonies falling into the abyss, then repeatedly brought him back and dropped him again until he was frightened unconscious.
• Xie You picked up the document to read the personnel list while the officials waited in terror.

Xie You carried out Cheng Han’s purge of Anhua City’s officials and announced a public Wishing Monument, while Cheng Han honored civilians killed by the Heretical God’s disaster. At Winter Garden, Cheng Han learned that the Myriad Heavens Race was preparing a massive war against the Abyssal Mist Realm.

• Xie You dismissed thirty-eight officials and punished one hundred and seventy-four others during the Falling Stars spectacle.
• Xie You announced that Cheng Han had created a Wishing Monument where civilians could submit New Year wishes.
• Cheng Han visited the grave of a family of four killed by a Serpent Monster and vowed that even a Heretical God would pay blood for blood.
• Ying Beibei questioned why Cheng Han had prioritized visiting ordinary civilians over attending his inauguration, and Cheng Han told her they should never be ignored.
• A squad commander informed Cheng Han that the Black Armor Army would send one hundred warriors to the Red Armor Army for a dangerous year-long mission.
• Cheng Han realized the Myriad Heavens Race was mobilizing millions of warriors and hundreds of thousands of Mystic Adepts for a full-scale war against the Abyssal Mist Realm.

Xing Peng’s wife Fan Xiaoqian visited the Wishing Monument and recognized that its paid queues supported Cheng Han’s fundraising strategy. Cheng Han approved a proposal to adjust the monument’s prices, while his secretaries Ying Beibei and Xie You silently competed over their appearances.

• Xing Peng and Fan Xiaoqian discussed Cheng Han’s use of the Wishing Monument and his efforts to counter the Dream Arising Society and survey public opinion.
• Fan Xiaoqian visited the Wishing Monument with Jiang Xiaoxiao and Zhou Fangqiong, learned about its three paid queue options, and chose the Premium Passage to support Cheng Han.
• Xie You reported that the monument had raised 120 Gold Coins in three hours and that the total could reach 1,830 to 1,960 Gold Coins before the New Year.
• Cheng Han approved Xie You’s suggestion to raise the price and extend wishing time after the lines grew shorter.
• Ying Beibei arrived at the Garden Office, and she and Xie You privately judged each other as they crossed paths.

Cheng Han ordered a harsh crackdown on Anhua City's corrupt officials and sent Ying Beibei to relay his instructions to the Arbitration Department. At East Mountain Park, Fan Xiaoqian and her friends used the Wishing Monument to fulfill erotic fantasies, and Cheng Han discovered what visitors were dreaming through the Secret Universe Profound Imprint.

• Ying Beibei told Cheng Han that the Black Armor Army had ordered long-term prisoners sent to Black Mountain Camp, and Cheng Han ordered dismissed officials to be punished severely.
• Ying Beibei informed Deputy Director Jing Xianlin that the dismissed officials would face harsh sentences and that veteran auditors from Qinglin City would handle account-related interrogations.
• Jing Xianlin and the officials feared that Cheng Han's investigation would expose widespread corruption and condemned him as a butcher.
• At East Mountain Park, Fan Xiaoqian and her friends entered dreams through the Wishing Monument, and Fan Xiaoqian wished to be with Cheng Han.
• Cheng Han inspected the Wishing Monument and used the Secret Universe Profound Imprint to see the visitors' dream experiences, leaving him shocked by their fantasies.

Fan Xiaoqian concluded that the Wishing Monument was a secret tool for exposing enemies, while Cheng Han used it to identify Avengers and Dream Masters. The Garrison Profound Warrior then praised the monument and explained the Profound Palace and Profound Pavilion’s suppression of Sartre bloodlines by citing their history of rebellions.

• After an Avenger was arrested at the Wishing Monument, Fan Xiaoqian reasoned that the monument was part of a large-scale purge, and the other women agreed.
• Cheng Han learned that the arrested young man had Sartre blood and ordered the Patrol Department to treat anyone who refused to make a wish as suspicious, offering rewards for reports that exposed Avengers or Dream Masters.
• Cheng Han showed the young man memories of his lonely childhood and how a Dream Master had drawn him into hatred of society and the Myriad Radiance People.
• The Garrison Profound Warrior, Zhao Qihuan, appeared through Mirror Transmission and praised Cheng Han’s Wishing Monument.
• When Zhao Qihuan asked about suppressing Sartre bloodlines, Cheng Han supported the policy, and Zhao Qihuan revealed that Sartre rebellions had caused immense death and even destroyed a Little Spirit Realm.