Recaps

Zhang Guangmu shot Base Leader Julien after rejecting his attempt to manipulate her, and the bullet’s hidden Great Fission Technique left him fatally ill. Julien fled toward a forbidden building to seek a way to survive, while Zhang Guangmu chose not to pursue him, judging that saving him would cost Long Hong too much.

• Zhang Guangmu fired at Julien, who caught the bullet in his mouth, chewed it, and criticized her combat abilities.
• Zhang Guangmu revealed that she had attached the Great Fission Technique to the bullet, and Julien realized his body was suffering fatal damage.
• Julien cursed Zhang Guangmu and vowed revenge, then crawled out of the orientation center toward a building forbidden to players.
• Zhang Guangmu let Julien escape because she judged the price of saving him would be enough for Long Hong to cultivate more than ten leaders like him.

Zhang Guangmu seized control of Survivor Camp, renamed its immortal players saviors, and crushed opposition as he reorganized the settlement. After Julien died, Zhang Guangmu captured his soul and demanded information about Long Hong in exchange for sparing it.

• Zhang Guangmu defeated Julien’s supporters, won the players’ approval, and took over Survivor Camp.
• Zhang Guangmu executed residents who resisted his rule and organized the camp’s teams and punishments.
• Zhang Guangmu declared that immortal players would be called saviors and tasked them with rebuilding civilization.
• Julien fled to a restricted zone, but Long Hong refused to rescue him and revealed that he had arranged a replacement novice guide.
• Julien warned Zhang Guangmu that Long Hong would retaliate, then died from his injuries.
• Zhang Guangmu seized Julien’s newly formed soul and offered to spare it if Julien provided useful information.

Zhang Guangmu persuaded Julien to reveal what he knew about Long Hong and Apocalypse Tide, then recovered Julien’s hidden information before his soul vanished. His connection to the game was abruptly severed, and he returned to the Taiqing Sect guest reception hall beside Long Hong.

• Zhang Guangmu threatened Julien and promised not to harm him if he revealed Long Hong’s secrets, so Julien agreed to talk.
• Julien warned that Long Hong was likely using an alias, advised against cursing him by name, and shared his suspicions about Long Hong’s origins.
• Julien gave Zhang Guangmu the location and password for a cache of Apocalypse Tide information, and Zhang Guangmu found the strip of cloth hidden in Julien’s clothes.
• After Zhang Guangmu refused to save him, Julien’s soul dissipated completely, and Zhang Guangmu followed the map to collect his inheritance.
• Zhang Guangmu’s Apocalypse Tide connection was severed, returning him to the Taiqing Sect guest reception hall, where he glanced at Long Hong.

Zhang Guangmu cultivated for half a month, reaching Foundation Establishment and seventh-grade God Dao, then began investigating the wristwatch that had been destroyed after he suspected Long Hong was behind it. He obtained two replacement watches from White Moon Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan to continue his research, but ran into trouble.

• Long Hong claimed the wristwatch failure was a rare malfunction, and Zhang Guangmu returned to his cave abode to cultivate instead of confronting him.
• After half a month, Zhang Guangmu reached the third cultivation realm, completed Foundation Establishment, and advanced his God Dao to the seventh grade.
• Zhang Guangmu began researching his banned wristwatch, but it exploded and burned to ashes.
• Zhang Guangmu accused Long Hong of being his enemy and used a paper crane to request wristwatches from White Moon Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan.
• White Moon Qin Zhe and Golden Neck Ye Tan sent Zhang Guangmu two watches to dismantle, and he began working to remove their backdoors and build a smuggling device.
• Zhang Guangmu soon encountered trouble with his research.

Zhang Guangmu realized that the long lifespans of Xuan Yan Realm’s cultivators made them complacent, while Earth Civilization’s urgency gave him an advantage. Mooncake effortlessly broke the wristwatch’s barrier, and Zhang Guangmu finished his machines in five days, leaving the Little White Balls excited.

• Zhang Guangmu found that breaking the wristwatch’s soul-bound barrier by force would destroy it, and he concluded that Duo Civilization’s trap relied on the Time-Long Steps and Xuan Yan Realm’s vast lifespans.
• Zhang Guangmu decided to seek help from Taiqing Sect’s ancient seniors, but Mooncake melted the barrier with a touch of her paw.
• Zhang Guangmu praised Mooncake, then completed the wristwatch project in five days by working without rest.
• The Little White Balls cheered over Zhang Guangmu’s finished machines and joked about the team’s setbacks and rivalries.

Zhang Guangmu convinced the Taiqing Sect that Apocalypse Tide connected to a real world and secured the elders’ support to investigate Long Hong’s plans. Long Hong learned that Zhang Guangmu had smuggled powerful upper-realm allies into the Apocalyptic Wasteland World and prepared to kill him.

• Zhang Guangmu made ten smuggling devices and decided to use Mooncake’s restriction-breaking talent to help claim control of the Apocalyptic Wasteland World.
• Zhang Guangmu brought Mooncake, Qin Zhe, and Ye Tan to the Taiqing Sect’s elders and told them that Apocalypse Tide was a real world connected by teleportation devices.
• Sect Master Tongyouzi revealed that Zhang Guangmu had reached the limit of the Long River True God position, prompting the elders to take his warning seriously.
• Zhang Guangmu showed the elders his copied wristwatch device, and they agreed to entrust the matter to him and welcome help from fellow disciples.
• Long Hong received alerts that upper-realm descendents had entered the Apocalyptic Wasteland World as non-players and learned that Zhang Guangmu had seized half its control authority.
• Long Hong resolved to fight Zhang Guangmu to the death.

Long Hong used his subordinates to test Zhang Guangmu and expose his abilities, then descended into the Apocalyptic Wasteland World to kill him himself. He trapped Zhang Guangmu near a fog-shrouded river and declared there was no way for him to escape alive.

• Long Hong killed a rogue cultivator, then ordered his subordinates in the Apocalyptic Tide world to test Zhang Guangmu.
• Zhang Guangmu defeated Long Hong's forces in more than forty clashes, while Long Hong learned his abilities and worked to make his in-world body real.
• Long Hong opened Zhang Guangmu's permissions and increased his power to lure his true body into the Apocalyptic Wasteland World.
• Long Hong launched a concealed sword attack that devastated a Survivor Camp, but Zhang Guangmu evaded it and moved the battle away from other people.
• Long Hong descended in his true body, revealed that he had reached Void Reversion, and used a formation to block Zhang Guangmu's escape.

Zhang Guangmu used his fight with Long Hong to develop Divine Eye while secretly calling for backup. When Sword Daoist, Yuanyangzi, and Temple Granny appeared, Long Hong realized he had little chance of surviving.

• Long Hong attacked Zhang Guangmu with a sword wheel, but Zhang Guangmu dodged and blocked the strikes while developing Divine Eye.
• Long Hong silenced his sword wheel, and Zhang Guangmu opened his mismatched eyes and formed a saber from magical power and Incense Divine Strength.
• Zhang Guangmu continued fighting despite mounting wounds, while Long Hong gained the upper hand and rejected warnings to retreat.
• Zhang Guangmu summoned Sword Daoist, Yuanyangzi, and Temple Granny, three powerful Eighth Realm cultivators.
• Long Hong recognized the three reinforcements and realized he had no clear path to survival.

Zhang Guangmu watched the Three Elders of Taiqing defeat Evil Chief Long Hong, then killed Long Hong’s soul before he could use his obsession to create a successor. With the Xuan Yan Realm as his target, Zhang Guangmu planned to turn Earth Civilization’s concentrated power into an advantage.

• The Three Elders of Taiqing warned Zhang Guangmu to stay back and joined forces against Long Hong.
• Zhang Guangmu considered how Earth Civilization could use its gathered strength in the Xuan Yan Realm to seize it and win a match point.
• The Three Elders of Taiqing overwhelmed Long Hong, destroyed his body, and left his soul unable to escape.
• Long Hong addressed Zhang Guangmu and tried to provoke a response that would help him create a successor before dying.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized Long Hong’s concealed malice and annihilated his soul with divine light from his eyes.

After Long Hong’s death, Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect claimed the Apocalyptic Wasteland World and developed it as a training ground and source of resources. Their efforts culminated in Zhang Guangmu successfully condensing a new divine position as the Civilization God.

• Zhang Guangmu proposed using Long Hong’s world-coordinate anchor to establish stable travel to the wasteland, and the Three Elders found it in his golden skeleton.
• Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect agreed to develop the wasteland as a pseudo-game, with Zhang Guangmu managing it and receiving incense faith.
• The sect leader chose Zhang Guangmu as a candidate for the next Taiqing Sect Leader and committed resources to help him condense a new divine position.
• Zhang Guangmu distributed teleportation devices and discovered that the wasteland’s recognition had enhanced his potential and made his abilities passive.
• Zhang Guangmu spent over a month operating the wasteland pseudo-game, coordinating activities and using incarnations to perform popular NPC roles.
• Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect successfully condensed his new divine position, and he became known as the Civilization God Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu spread Apocalypse Tide across the Xuan Yan Realm and gained new divine power from its growing influence. He absorbed a divine crystallization, advanced to God Dao Eighth Rank as a Civilization God, and sensed that Usable Ability Points had arrived.

• Zhang Guangmu improved Long Hong’s Apocalypse Tide and, with Taiqing Sect’s help, distributed fixed-point traversal devices across the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Sects throughout the realm bought the devices and sent their disciples into Apocalypse Tide to train their cultivation and skills.
• The three Evil Sects denied that Long Hong had died and rejected accusations that Taiqing, Empty Cicada, and Soul Seizing had killed him.
• As Zhang Guangmu’s name spread through both worlds, he gained Incense Faith Power and drew a red-and-blue icosahedron containing his divine personality, office, position, and authority.
• Zhang Guangmu absorbed the crystallization, advanced from Long River True God to Civilization God at God Dao Eighth Rank, and sensed Usable Ability Points arriving.

Zhang Guangmu read a book from another world and gained a usable ability point from its illustrated scene of Long Hong fighting him and the Three Elders of Taiqing. He weighed which ability to improve, then spoke to Mooncake in a dramatic way that excited the watching little white balls.

• Zhang Guangmu read The Twilight of the Olympian Gods and gained a usable ability point from the page depicting Long Hong and the Three Elders of Taiqing.
• Zhang Guangmu reflected that calling for reinforcements had been wiser than fighting Long Hong alone, and considered which of his abilities to improve.
• Zhang Guangmu stroked Mooncake and mused that his wisdom made up for his mediocre cultivation talent.
• Zhang Guangmu declared that he could accomplish anything he wanted and said he could have endured the darkness if he had never seen the light, stirring excitement among the little white balls.

Zhang Guangmu resolved to become the strongest cultivator in the Xuan Yan Realm and use his power to reshape its peaceful environment. As the Duo Civilization Control Group struggled to counter him, he prepared to manufacture a crisis and rule the realm.

• Zhang Guangmu told Mooncake he wanted to dominate the Xuan Yan Realm and eventually stand at the pinnacle of the infinite worlds.
• Duo Civilization's set assistants blamed Zhang Guangmu for their poor performance and decided to watch his plans and interfere where they could.
• Zhang Guangmu molded empty human forms from his water and fire divine powers, intending to use Earth's concentrated high-end forces to seize the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu planned to create pressure and danger so cultivators would desire a powerful leader, then take the throne.
• Zhang Guangmu spent his remaining Usable Ability Points to raise his Acting Skill to 7.

Zhang Guangmu pretended to negotiate with mages from the Transcendent Fortress after they appeared in her cave, confusing both them and the All Heavens observers. The observers eventually realized she had been acting both sides, while Duo Civilization’s Production Team recognized that events in the Xuan Yan Realm were slipping beyond their control.

• Zhang Guangmu animated her created bodies, which began discussing their mission in the world of The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods.
• The mages learned that Zhang Guangmu had created their bodies and that a Fate Pact prevented them from attacking her, so they proposed an alliance.
• Zhang Guangmu showed the mages a camera recording of their arrival and said she might give it to the sect master.
• The Control Group’s assistants discovered that Zhang Guangmu had fabricated the Transcendent Fortress and Supreme Mage Group, acting out both sides of the encounter.
• Duo Civilization’s Production Team realized that the plot in the Xuan Yan Realm was slipping beyond their control.

Zhang Guangmu fabricated evidence to convince the Taiqing Sect’s leaders that outsiders were possessing bodies he had created, while the Control Group struggled to stop his deception. The leaders accepted his explanation and began an investigation, leaving Zhang Guangmu’s first move successful.

• The Xuan Yan Realm Production Team recognized Zhang Guangmu’s acting as a serious threat, requested help from their superiors, and tried to obstruct his plans.
• Zhang Guangmu used One Heart, Ten Thousand Uses to fabricate special combat teams across the other nine great immortal sects, confident that his concealment methods would keep them undetected.
• The Taiqing Sect Leader, Sword Daoist, Yuanyangzi, and Temple Granny arrived, and Zhang Guangmu showed them his prepared video and Sound-Recording Jade.
• The four leaders concluded that outsiders were likely possessing bodies Zhang Guangmu had created, and the sect leader ordered an immediate investigation and more frequent screenings.
• Zhang Guangmu observed that the sect leader showed no suspicion, confirming that his first move had succeeded.

Zhang Guangmu and the Taiqing Sect leaders met with Truman’s Supreme Mage Group to discuss their origins and the Transcendent Fortress. The meeting remained cordial, though the Sword Daoist threatened to capture and search the visitors, and Truman’s knowledge of The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods embarrassed him.

• The Sect Leader explained that the visitors belonged to the Transcendent Fortress, whose teams traveled between worlds on missions, and said they knew the Xuan Yan Realm through The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods.
• Zhang Guangmu proposed meeting the Supreme Mage Group face-to-face, arguing that strength would determine whether reason prevailed, and the Taiqing leaders agreed.
• The Sect Leader prepared contingencies and began a meeting with the visitors, whose captain, Truman, introduced himself and his team before a teammate stopped him from revealing more information.
• Yuanyangzi and Temple Granny chatted warmly with Truman while probing him, and Truman shared accounts of other worlds and missions without exposing apparent flaws.
• The Sword Daoist condemned the visitors and suggested capturing and searching them, but Truman said The Wonderful Journey of Immortals and Gods had shown him the Sword Daoist was warm-hearted, leaving the Sword Daoist embarrassed as Zhang Guangmu watched.

Zhang Guangmu discussed magic with the Supreme Mage Group, convinced the Taiqing elders of the visitors’ identities, and gained new insights into his cultivation. The Taiqing Sect Leader made him the acting leader and entrusted him with the Sect Leader Token.

• Truman presented otherworldly items and warned the Taiqing elders about four rival teams in the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu asked Truman about magic and used his split-personality mode to debate the Supreme Mage Group’s members.
• Henry ended the discussion, and the Sword Daoist accepted that magic was a genuine extraordinary system and that the visitors were who they claimed to be.
• The Taiqing Sect Leader arranged lodging for the Supreme Mage Group and considered cooperating with them.
• Zhang Guangmu tried to return to seclusion, but the Sect Leader gave him the Sect Leader Token and authority over Taiqing’s affairs.

Zhang Guangmu accepted the Taiqing Sect Leader Token and began coordinating the sect while advancing his cultivation. As tensions across the Xuan Yan Realm grew, White Moon and Golden Neck arrived with stolen intelligence and revealed that something more important than the coming cultivator war concerned Zhang Guangmu.

• Zhang Guangmu accepted the Sect Leader Token and promised to help the Taiqing Sect develop, while the sect leader and elders approved his new authority.
• Zhang Guangmu delegated the sect’s affairs to specialists, and Taiqing continued growing stronger under his hands-off management.
• Zhang Guangmu’s Imperial Body Forging Technique reached level 27 as his qi and blood, magical power, divine power, and bones grew stronger.
• White Moon and Golden Neck reported that the immortal sects were preparing for a cultivator war, then said they had uncovered something more important that concerned Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu watched a recording of the Divine Alliance discussing the altered events in the Xuan Yan Realm and the mysterious Big Villain Tian Guang. Qin Zhe and Ye Tan recognized the codename as Zhang Guangmu’s own, realizing that their junior sister was the villain the team feared.

• Qin Zhe showed Zhang Guangmu, Mooncake, and Ye Tan a recording of the Divine Alliance team discussing how Long Hong had died before becoming the Immortal Alliance leader.
• The Divine Alliance members speculated that Tian Guang, an elusive mastermind, might be secretly plotting against them.
• Zhang Guangmu recognized that his planted storylines had misled the other teams and revealed more about the All Heavens Transfer Station’s limits.
• Qin Zhe and Ye Tan connected Tian Guang’s codename to Zhang Guangmu and realized she was the mysterious Big Villain.

Zhang Guangmu reassured Qin Zhe and Ye Tan that their altered bloodlines would not change their ties to the Xuan Yan Realm or the Taiqing Sect. After seven days of preparation, Duo Civilization began striking powerful figures on Earth through the Infiltration Pods.

• Zhang Guangmu accepted the possibility that he was the villain Tian Guang but said he would remain Zhang Guangmu of the Taiqing Sect.
• Ye Tan explained that the Divine Alliance relied on bloodlines, while he and Qin Zhe also possessed nonhuman traits through the Gaia Alien bloodline and Qin Zhe’s silver moon power.
• Zhang Guangmu told Qin Zhe and Ye Tan that they would remain his fellow disciples even if their bodies changed completely, easing their worries.
• Zhang Guangmu and his fellow disciples discussed the Transcendent Fortress squads and compared the Fortress with the All Heavens Transfer Station.
• After seven days, Zhang Guangmu learned that Duo Civilization had begun targeting powerful figures on Earth, causing many to die and be expelled from the Infiltration Pods.

Zhang Guangmu used the Descenders from the Transcendent Fortress and their valuable inventions to bind Xuan Yan Realm factions together and inflame their rivalries. As conflicts spread among the Ten Great Immortal Sects and other races, Duo Civilization declared the Zhang Guangmu Corruption Plan a failure and shifted to openly targeting him.

• Zhang Guangmu kept his plans steady as Duo Civilization eliminated Earth Civilization’s Subconscious Actors one after another.
• The Descenders won over eight of the Ten Great Immortal Sects with inventions and schemes, binding the factions through shared interests and grudges.
• Zhang Guangmu used the Descenders to provoke escalating conflicts among righteous, demonic, and Demonic Dao sects, while other races joined in.
• The Xuan Yan Realm’s fragile peace broke down, and a war involving the entire realm appeared imminent.
• The Control Group of Duo Civilization confirmed the Zhang Guangmu Corruption Plan had failed and began openly targeting Zhang Guangmu.

Zhang Guangmu used the Duo Civilization Control Group’s attempts to undermine him as an opportunity to rally Taiqing Sect against supposed Outer-Realm Demons. He left the sect’s disciples gathered in the Ancestral Hall as he accused the unseen beings of manipulating their thoughts and threatening Xuan Yan Realm.

• Duo Civilization’s Control Group failed to corrupt Zhang Guangmu and began planting suspicions about him in the minds of Xuan Yan Realm’s leaders and Taiqing Sect members.
• Zhang Guangmu noticed that his fellow disciples and elders were acting strangely and realized the Control Group had exposed itself by trying to interfere.
• Zhang Guangmu summoned Ye Tan, Qin Zhe, and the Taiqing disciples to the Ancestral Hall using the Sect Leader Token.
• Zhang Guangmu told the gathering that he had discovered a bodiless race called the Outer-Realm Demons that manipulated cultivators’ thoughts and sought to destroy Xuan Yan Realm.

Zhang Guangmu revealed that an invisible Outer-Realm Demon was corrupting cultivators’ thoughts, and several Taiqing disciples and elders backed her claim. Most of the disciples accepted the explanation after she produced evidence, though the chapter did not specify what the evidence was.

• Zhang Guangmu explained that she had noticed unnatural hostility and murderous thoughts spreading among cultivators across the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Qin Zhe and Ye Tan supported Zhang Guangmu, describing disturbing thoughts they had experienced and insisting they were contrary to their natures.
• Many Taiqing disciples remained skeptical because they doubted that an invisible, pervasive Outer-Realm Demon could exist.
• The Taiqing Sect Leader and Three Elders appeared and affirmed that Outer-Realm Demons were real, urging the disciples to trust Zhang Guangmu and unite.
• Zhang Guangmu produced evidence, dispelling the remaining doubts of most disciples.

Zhang Guangmu used recordings from the Sound-Recording Jade to convince the Taiqing Sect that Outer-Realm Demons had exploited cultivators’ hidden thoughts. She urged the sect to warn the cultivation world, and within a day most cultivators in the Xuan Yan Realm had heard of the demons.

• Zhang Guangmu summoned the Sound-Recording Jade and presented recordings that the Taiqing Four Elders vouched for as genuine.
• The recordings showed Shi Can and Dongguo Ruiyu voicing envy, resentment, and other ugly thoughts about Zhang Guangmu, which the Taiqing disciples blamed on Outer-Realm Demons.
• Further recordings revealed cultivators across the Xuan Yan Realm expressing arrogance, greed, and other vices, convincing the remaining skeptics that the demons existed.
• Zhang Guangmu reassured the Taiqing disciples that the demons had disguised their influence as inner voices and called on the sect to expose them to all living beings.
• The Taiqing Sect spread the warning, and within one day ninety percent of the Xuan Yan Realm’s cultivators learned of the Outer-Realm Demons.

Zhang Guangmu turned the Xuan Yan Realm’s fear of Outer-Realm Demons against the Duo Civilization’s Control Group, while the Duo Civilization sent reinforcements from other worlds. The chapter left Zhang Guangmu facing a growing threat, with Jacob Field identified as a powerful enemy who could kill opponents above his rank.

• Zhang Guangmu used the Taiqing Sect’s credibility and audiovisual evidence to make cultivators suspect that the Duo Civilization’s Control Group were Outer-Realm Demons.
• Earth Civilization’s audience praised Zhang Guangmu’s strategy, while Duo Civilization’s supporters insisted Jacob Field would kill him.
• After three days, Zhang Guangmu sensed a change as the Control Group sent reinforcements into the Xuan Yan Realm through the All Heavens Transfer Station.
• The arriving World Crossers were detected and monitored by the local sects, who judged them less impressive than the Transcendent Fortress’s arrivals.
• The Control Group welcomed the reinforcements and argued that Jacob Field could defeat Zhang Guangmu, whom they recognized as a formidable Dragon General.