Recaps

Zhang Guangmu confronted Li Shiwu after their companions' deaths, and Li Shiwu gained enough power from unifying Two Realms Star to challenge him. Zhang Guangmu revealed the Demon Dragon Blade and shattered Li Shiwu's defenses with one slash, while Xia Lianshan prepared to fight despite the gap in their strength.

• Zhang Guangmu mourned his companions and sealed the Imperial Palace inside a wall of golden-red flame.
• Li Shiwu learned that the remaining cities had surrendered, and his War System cured his illness and raised him to the Saint Magic Fighter realm.
• Li Shiwu summoned black-and-red armor and declared that he would kill Zhang Guangmu.
• The Sky-Covering Demonic Dragon transformed into the Demon Dragon Blade in Zhang Guangmu's hand.
• Zhang Guangmu closed in and shattered Li Shiwu's armlet and gauntlet with a single slash.
• Xia Lianshan ignited his Magic Fighter Flame and resolved to leave a scar on Zhang Guangmu, despite knowing he could not win.

Zhang Guangmu overwhelmed Li Shiwu, but Xia Lianshan intervened and challenged him to reach a higher level of power. After awakening as a Saint Magic Fighter, Xia Lianshan fought Zhang Guangmu and was killed, leaving Zhang Guangmu atop the Seven Stars.

• Zhang Guangmu slashed Li Shiwu three times, destroying his armor and severing one arm.
• Xia Lianshan stepped in to protect Li Shiwu and challenged Zhang Guangmu, hoping to break through to a higher realm.
• Xia Lianshan burned the Boundless Demonic Power Treasure Ring as fuel, then awakened as a Saint Magic Fighter after Zhang Guangmu nearly killed him.
• Zhang Guangmu dominated Xia Lianshan in their fight and killed him with a slash, burning away his body and soul.
• The Little White Balls cheered as Zhang Guangmu became the man who stood atop the Seven Stars.

After his battle with Xia Lianshan, Zhang Guangmu’s blade technique advanced to level 2, and he turned his attention to Li Shiwu, the fourth name on his Revenge List. Li Shiwu’s two systems crashed in fear of Zhang Guangmu, leaving him unable to use his Star Destroyer weapon or threaten Two Realms Star.

• The Little White Balls debated Zhang Guangmu’s achievements and whether he had enough experience to earn the Radiant Moon title.
• Zhang Guangmu checked his Book of Acting and confirmed that his blade technique had advanced to level 2 after his epiphany and battle with Xia Lianshan.
• Zhang Guangmu crossed Xia Lianshan’s name off his Revenge List and focused on Li Shiwu.
• Li Shiwu threatened to destroy Two Realms Star with a Star Destroyer-class weapon and offered to help Zhang Guangmu become wealthy if he was spared.
• Zhang Guangmu claimed to know about Li Shiwu’s War System and Talent System, causing Li Shiwu to panic when neither system responded to his calls.

Zhang Guangmu killed Li Shiwu, devoured the War System and Talent System, and confronted the world’s rejection at the Monument of Saints. After earning the First Emperor’s recognition and overcoming that rejection, he received Li Xiaoxiao’s final message revealing that she had died and urging him not to seek revenge.

• Zhang Guangmu severed Li Shiwu’s head and shattered his soul, then captured and devoured the War System and Talent System.
• The Little White Balls revealed the last three names on the Revenge List: the God of Destiny, the God of Life, and the God of Death.
• At the Monument of Saints, Zhang Guangmu declared that he would fight the world’s rejection and destroy anyone who stood in his way.
• The First Emperor’s remnant thought approved Zhang Guangmu’s answer and granted him access to the predecessors’ resources and legacies.
• A message from Li Xiaoxiao appeared, congratulating Zhang Guangmu on overcoming the world’s rejection and telling him she was dead and not to avenge her.

Zhang Guangmu learned that his allies had died protecting him while he advanced beyond the Saint Mage realm, then confronted the three gods in outer space. After restoring his fallen companions to crystal coffins, he rejected God of Destiny’s claims about fate and prepared for battle.

• Li Xiaoxiao’s recording revealed that he and the Food Group’s overt and covert teams had died fighting the Masterminds to buy Zhang Guangmu time to advance.
• Zhang Guangmu destroyed the falling fragments of the shattered moon with his fused spell, Original Sin, and gained a deeper understanding of magic, cultivation, and technology.
• Zhang Guangmu traveled into space, where he found the bodies of Li Xiaoxiao, Yue Yiji, Ma Wu, Jiang Ling, and his other fallen allies, then sealed them in crystal coffins.
• Zhang Guangmu faced the God of Destiny, God of Life, and God of Death, and answered God of Destiny’s prediction by dismissing fate as a concept for the weak.

Zhang Guangmu confronted the Gods of Destiny, Life, and Death, using their insecurity about their talent to provoke them and gauge their weakened condition. After attacking the God of Destiny, he realized the traps laid by Li Xiaoxiao, Jiang Ling, Yue Yiji, and Ma Wu had left the gods shackled by the World Will, giving him a chance to win.

• The Little White Balls assumed Zhang Guangmu would lose against three gods as he faced the God of Destiny.
• Zhang Guangmu used information from Li Xiaoxiao to taunt the Gods of Life and Death about their talent and their reliance on the advantages of their era.
• The three gods reacted angrily, and Zhang Guangmu sensed that they were reluctant to attack him directly.
• Zhang Guangmu charged the God of Destiny, but his blade caused no damage and confirmed that the gods were weakened.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that Li Xiaoxiao, Jiang Ling, Yue Yiji, and Ma Wu had used the gods' power to destroy the moon and trap them, while the World Will opposed the gods.

Zhang Guangmu defeated and devoured God of Destiny, God of Life, and God of Death, then faced the Ultimate Enemy of "Magic: Crossing Two Realms." He knew a still stronger observer was watching and had to grow stronger quickly, and the chapter ended with the Ultimate Enemy praising him.

• God of Destiny attacked Zhang Guangmu, but Zhang Guangmu held his ground and wounded him with Root Cause-level slashes.
• Zhang Guangmu explained how divine power could be understood through science, then killed God of Destiny and devoured him with his Gluttony ability.
• God of Life and God of Death fled, but Zhang Guangmu brought God of Life back, killed him, and devoured him.
• God of Death offered to help Zhang Guangmu create true peace, but Zhang Guangmu killed him, saying he could achieve it himself.
• The Ultimate Enemy of "Magic: Crossing Two Realms" appeared and praised Zhang Guangmu for devouring gods.

Zhang Guangmu confronted the Dao Integrator, who revealed that it had created the gods and many powerful inheritances as amusements and seasonings for its feasts. After devouring Two Realms Star, it asked Zhang Guangmu what role he would play in its eyes, leaving his fate unresolved.

• The Dao Integrator introduced itself as Permanence, a Dao Integrator and World Devourer, and said Zhang Guangmu was the third being in two eras whose name it had remembered.
• The Dao Integrator inhaled Two Realms Star, swallowing its stars and all its inhabitants, then complained that the meal lacked three important seasonings.
• Zhang Guangmu deduced that the gods of Fate, Death, and Life had been placed in their roles as seasonings and that the Dao Integrator had manipulated events around the three gods and Two Realms Star.
• The Dao Integrator confirmed Zhang Guangmu's deduction and compared the three gods to salt, vinegar, and sugar.
• The Dao Integrator asked Zhang Guangmu to guess what role he would play in its eyes, while the Little White Balls speculated about ingredients and worried whether he would resist or submit.

Zhang Guangmu fought the Dao Integrator, who revealed that he had fused Two Realms Star to feed himself and accused Zhang Guangmu of following the same path. Mooncake, the Demon Dragon Blade’s spirits, and the fallen allies sacrificed their remaining power to aid Zhang Guangmu, who seized the opening and charged at his weakened opponent.

• The Dao Integrator praised Zhang Guangmu before threatening to chew him apart, and Zhang Guangmu accused him of consuming civilizations to survive.
• The Dao Integrator grew enraged and attacked, while Zhang Guangmu used the time he had bought to complete the Reincarnation Law from the power of the three gods.
• The Dao Integrator claimed Zhang Guangmu had no chance of winning, but Zhang Guangmu insisted their paths were diametrically opposed.
• Mooncake tore away from Zhang Guangmu and sacrificed itself, followed by Golden Neck, White Moon, and the fallen allies’ true spirits.
• The sacrifices weakened the Dao Integrator, and Zhang Guangmu charged at him, declaring that spicy food caused pain.

Zhang Guangmu survived his battle with the Dao Integrator and inherited his power, but learned that the Two Realms Star and all civilization had been destroyed. Faced with a choice between death and eternal sleep, he sacrificed himself to recreate the world, and the film officially wrapped.

• Zhang Guangmu used everything he had to fight the Dao Integrator, and a blinding collision followed.
• Zhang Guangmu regenerated, absorbed the Dao Integrator's power, and learned that the universe had no other life or civilization.
• The Dao Integrator warned Zhang Guangmu that his existence would cause the universe's concepts and matter to perish unless he found a civilization to sustain him.
• Zhang Guangmu rejected the choices of starving or sleeping and decided to sacrifice himself to recreate all things.
• Zhang Guangmu tore open chaos and transformed his body into the elements of the world, bringing it into existence.

After earning an Above Excellent evaluation in "Magic: Crossing Two Realms," Zhang Guangmu returned to the real world as a certified Three-Star Subconscious Actor, pleased with how much he had grown. He emerged to a crowd of fans and actors, where Ma Wu’s oblivious online tirade turned into an embarrassing spectacle.

• Zhang Guangmu completed his evaluation of "Magic: Crossing Two Realms" with an Above Excellent rating and awakened as a Three-Star Subconscious Actor.
• Zhang Guangmu left the Infiltration Pod with Mooncake and reflected on his seven years of experience and his plans to enjoy a good meal.
• Yue Yiji praised Zhang Guangmu’s choices before leaving under security escort, while Xia Lianshan gave him a bitter look and departed.
• Ma Wu emerged from his pod while insulting Zhang Guangmu’s critics online, then froze when he noticed the crowd and cameras watching him.
• Li Xiaoxiao watched in silence as a young man holding a cat laughed at Ma Wu’s predicament.

After filming Magic: Crossing Two Realms, Zhang Guangmu celebrated with the Endless warship crew and discovered that he had brought several skills and achievements back to the Real World. The crew warned him that next year’s Path of the Great Emperor would be harder, and the Seven Stars’ first-release advantage would expire.

• Zhang Guangmu recognized Ma Wu as one of his anti-fans, exchanged contact information with him, and also exchanged contacts with Li Shisan and Li Shiwu.
• Zhang Guangmu gathered the Endless warship crew for a celebratory dinner after the film wrapped.
• Zhang Guangmu inspected his updated stats and found that Saber Technique, Acting Skill, and Imperial Body Forging Technique had carried over, while his Seven Stars title had expired.
• Zhao Zhengrong told Zhang Guangmu that his film payment of 898 Dragon Shields had arrived, bringing his balance to 1,891 Dragon Shields.
• Zhao Zhengrong warned Zhang Guangmu that next year’s Path of the Great Emperor would be more difficult and that new Seven Stars would receive the first-release advantage.

After the Path of the Great Emperor, Zhang Guangmu and his companions discussed their titles and the improvements they had gained, then helped him move into a new home. As Zhang Guangmu browsed audience reactions and news about Transcendent Delusion Syndrome, reports revealed that mutated animals were becoming more numerous and intelligent.

• Zhang Guangmu questioned whether the Bright Moon title was better than the Seven Stars, and Zhao Zhengrong explained that its lifetime benefits surpassed the Seven Stars' year-long privileges.
• Zhang Guangmu and his companions compared how the Path of the Great Emperor had improved their abilities, while Chu Fan seemed to have gained only more charm.
• Zhang Guangmu's friends helped him move into a better home in the Sandalwood neighborhood after learning he had become a Three-Star Subconscious Actor.
• Zhang Guangmu read audience comments praising Magic: Crossing Two Realms, but Book Bro remained silent and offered no new inspiration.
• Zhang Guangmu read reports that mutated animals had increased in number and intelligence around the world.

After receiving a new Usable Ability Point and a creation-themed illustration from the Book of Acting, Zhang Guangmu got a call from an unfamiliar man named Li Zhou. The man appeared in a video call and congratulated him, leaving the reason for his call unknown.

• Zhang Guangmu investigated Transcendent Delusion Syndrome and concluded that his supernatural experiences were side effects of The Path of the Great Emperor.
• Zhang Guangmu had three medical experts and three nanomedical robots examine him, and they found him exceptionally healthy after watching him practice the Imperial Body Forging Technique.
• Zhang Guangmu received a Usable Ability Point and saw the Book of Acting’s Map of Heaven and Earth Creation, which depicted his transformation into all things in the world.
• Zhang Guangmu answered a video call from Li Zhou, who appeared before him and congratulated him.

Zhang Guangmu received a call from Li Zhou, who praised his Bright Moon title and invited him to join a club before the call was cut off by an apparent battlefield emergency. Zhang Guangmu strengthened his Imperial Body Forging Technique and saw that his Bright Moon title guaranteed low-level extraordinary talent and fortune in future worlds, then Li Zhou called again.

• Li Zhou introduced himself as the former Li Si, elder half-brother of Li Xiaoxiao and Li Zhuyu, and praised Zhang Guangmu as the strongest rookie of his cohort.
• An explosion and sword strike wounded Li Zhou, who took cover, invited Zhang Guangmu to join his club, and abruptly disconnected.
• Zhang Guangmu spent his Usable Ability Points on Imperial Body Forging Technique and advanced to the Jiazi Body Fortification stage.
• Zhang Guangmu tested his tougher skin and saw that his Bright Moon title guaranteed low-level extraordinary talent and fortune in future worlds.
• Li Zhou called Zhang Guangmu again four hours after their first conversation.

Li Zhou invited Zhang Guangmu to join the Transcendent Club, and Zhang agreed to visit its headquarters. After traveling to the club in a space station, Zhang entered a testing room and found Li Zhou and Li Zhuyu waiting there.

• Li Zhou demonstrated his supernatural lightning and invited Zhang Guangmu to join the Transcendent Club, explaining that veteran members would test him.
• Zhang Guangmu agreed to visit, checked Li Zhou's legitimacy with Zhao Zhengrong after failing to reach Li Xiaoxiao, and received approval to go.
• A flying car took Zhang Guangmu to a launch base, where he boarded a spacecraft bound for the club's space-station headquarters.
• Zhang Guangmu entered the club's testing room and found Li Zhou and Li Zhuyu inside.

Li Zhuyu and Li Zhou introduced Zhang Guangmu to the Supernatural Promised Land, where he awakened supernatural powers and produced astonishing phenomena. The domain ended, but the Transcendent Club members mistook his self-made special effects for signs that he was a young supreme being.

• Li Zhuyu explained that the Supernatural Promised Land let people awaken powers by repelling the Reality Factor, and Li Zhou requested restriction removal.
• Li Zhuyu manifested wings and a radiant sword, while Li Zhou's eyes changed as they demonstrated their awakened abilities.
• Zhang Guangmu awakened immediately, manifesting many powers, celestial phantoms, and figures from his other worlds.
• Zhang Guangmu added more supernatural special effects, stunning the Transcendent Club members as they gathered to watch.
• When the domain ended, Zhang Guangmu's powers vanished, but the members praised him as a future pillar of the nation and dismissed his attempts to explain the effects as modesty.

Zhang Guangmu joined the Transcendent Club and overwhelmed its members in a combat trial, then asked Li Zhou about his apparent youth. Li Zhou revealed that he was a time traveler from ten years ago and explained that travel could only go from the present into the future.

• Zhang Guangmu questioned Li Zhou about the Supernatural Promised Land, the Demon-Slaying World, and Reality Factor, and Li Zhou offered to answer if he won three challenge rounds.
• Zhang Guangmu defeated Li Zhuyu in two moves, and she regenerated her severed leg with Holy Light.
• Zhang Guangmu fought thirty-three veteran Transcendent Club members in half an hour and won without showing fatigue.
• Li Zhou took Zhang Guangmu to a sealed room, where Zhang Guangmu asked whether he had transferred his consciousness into a clone.
• Li Zhou denied using consciousness transfer and said he was a time traveler from ten years ago, adding that time travel could only move from the present into the future.

Li Zhou explained how Spiritual Wisdom Essence and subconscious films enabled the Xuanlong Empire’s supernatural technology, then invited Zhang Guangmu to join his plan to bring the supernatural into reality. Zhang Guangmu refused to abandon his crew, and in September he received a new film.

• Li Zhou told Zhang Guangmu he was a Time Transmigrator from ten years in the past and described the limits of Refining the False into the True.
• Li Zhou explained that Spiritual Wisdom Essence powered the Supernatural Promised Land and proposed creating a supernatural world anchored near the Solar System.
• Li Zhou invited Zhang Guangmu to join his effort to surpass His Imperial Majesty’s Deep Dive Plan and offered to help him become a Time Transmigrator.
• Zhang Guangmu refused because he would not abandon Mooncake, Zhao Zhengrong, Li Xiaoxiao, Chu Fan, Tang Lanshan, Luo Zhuan, and Jiang Ling.
• September arrived, a month after Magic: Crossing Two Realms finished filming, and Zhang Guangmu received a new film.

After struggling to find a suitable role among bizarre film offers, Zhang Guangmu accepted Qian Yiyuan’s invitation to star in his new buddy film, “Star Road Rampage.” The chapter ended with Zhang Guangmu agreeing to work with Qian despite doubts about the director’s past.

• Zhang Guangmu threw Shen Xu out after rejecting his film, which would have used AI-edited images to cast him as the Guangmu Fairy.
• Zhang Guangmu contacted the Empire’s order-maintenance personnel, and Shen Xu was taken to the Police Station.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected on a month of unsuitable collaboration offers, including one director who wanted him to play an eyeball.
• Chu Fan told Qian Yiyuan that he was ready to work with him, and Qian offered him the third male lead in “Star Road Rampage.”
• Qian Yiyuan said he had reserved the dominant role between the two protagonists for Zhang Guangmu, who hesitated before agreeing to join the film.

Zhang Guangmu received Qian Yiyuan’s script for Star Road Rampage, in which he would play an otherworldly mentor helping Su Xing'an become a subconscious movie star. He arrived for filming, met Su Xing'an, and left the story poised to begin production.

• Zhang Guangmu practiced the Defend Chapter while waiting for Qian Yiyuan to send the script.
• Qian Yiyuan sent Zhang Guangmu the synopsis for Star Road Rampage, revealing that Zhang Guangmu would play the Otherworld Mentor.
• Zhang Guangmu judged the story framework workable and hoped Qian Yiyuan would avoid adding bizarre twists to the setting.
• Zhang Guangmu prepared Mooncake’s supplies and traveled to the filming building, where he met Chu Fan and interacted with fans.
• Qian Yiyuan introduced Zhang Guangmu to Su Xing'an, his co-star, who greeted him as Brother Mu.

Zhang Guangmu entered the Film World as the remnant soul in a ring, with only the power to stimulate pain, and learned that he needed to help a host fulfill a wish to survive. He discovered Su Xing'an was the disgraced protagonist aiming to reclaim his place through The Path of the Immortal King, then watched as Su Xing'an was drawn toward the ring.

• Zhang Guangmu entered the Infiltration Pod and successfully arrived in the Azure Star Film World.
• Zhang Guangmu learned his false memories made him a ruined cultivator whose soul inhabited a ring and retained the ability to stimulate pain.
• Zhang Guangmu heard that he needed to find a host, fulfill their wish, and gain Wish Power to avoid vanishing.
• Zhang Guangmu learned Su Xing'an planned to prove himself at The Path of the Immortal King and return to the peak.
• Su Xing'an, disheveled and holding beer, stared at Zhang Guangmu's ring as a voice urged him to put it on.

After Su Xing'an put on a ring containing Zhang Guangmu, the two began speaking, and Zhang Guangmu chose to reveal his identity rather than follow the Script Hint to deceive Su Xing'an. Su Xing'an grew half-convinced that Zhang Guangmu was a transmigrator and listened to him seriously.

• Su Xing'an put on the ring, allowing Zhang Guangmu to appear to him as a voice from within it.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that Su Xing'an's emotional fluctuations nourished him and realized he did not need to follow the hinted route of exploiting Su Xing'an's wishes.
• Zhang Guangmu introduced himself as a transmigrator from the Nether Star and told Su Xing'an he was speaking from the ring.
• Su Xing'an resisted removing the ring, judged Zhang Guangmu by his actions, and objected to being called a mortal.
• Su Xing'an inferred that Zhang Guangmu might be an extraordinary being and began listening to him in earnest.

Zhang Guangmu drew out Su Xing'an's ambitions and grievances while secretly refining the Emotional Power released through the ring. He promised that special training would make Su Xing'an impossible for anyone but himself to defeat.

• Zhang Guangmu asked Su Xing'an about his short-term goal and lifelong dream, and Su Xing'an vowed to prove himself and become the brightest star in Cangxing's nationwide Subconscious Film event.
• Su Xing'an recounted how he had been drugged, framed, and betrayed, while Zhang Guangmu silently refined his Emotional Power through the ring.
• Zhang Guangmu reinterpreted Su Xing'an's name as a promise to shine like the Bright Moon and make the stars dim, convincing Su Xing'an that he was once an immortal.
• Director Qian Yiyuan confidently insisted that Zhang Guangmu's actions still fit the plot he had planned for 'Star Road Rampage.'
• Su Xing'an admitted his reputation and connections were ruined but vowed to keep pursuing his career, and Zhang Guangmu offered special training that he claimed would leave only Su Xing'an himself capable of defeating him.

Su Xing'an endured Zhang Guangmu's painful special training instead of surrendering, and Zhang Guangmu's strength recovered as he drew power from Su Xing'an's emotions. After passing the test, Su Xing'an believed he had become Zhang Guangmu's disciple.

• Su Xing'an asked Zhang Guangmu for guidance and agreed to undergo special training.
• Zhang Guangmu subjected Su Xing'an to intense pain, and Su Xing'an collapsed but refused to say he was a coward or surrender.
• Zhang Guangmu discovered that Su Xing'an's emotional reactions supplied power, helping him recover enough strength to move the gray-black ring.
• Zhang Guangmu tempted Su Xing'an to surrender, but Su Xing'an roared that he would never give up.
• Zhang Guangmu ended the pain, and Su Xing'an imagined that he had passed the test and become Zhang Guangmu's disciple.