Recaps

Zhang Guangmu entered The Path of the Great Emperor, built strength in the Taiqing Sect, and formed an alliance with Ye Tan while uncovering the All Heavens Transfer Station’s schemes. After Long Hong drew the sect into the Apocalypse Tide, Zhang Guangmu entered its world and attacked Julien rather than follow the enemy’s rules.

• The Transcendent Awakening Syndrome swept across Earth, and Emperor Li Xuanji told Zhang Guangmu that the Duo Civilization had caused it as information warfare.
• Yue Yiji explained the stakes and rules of The Path of the Great Emperor, and Zhang Guangmu vowed to claim the Dragon Throne before entering the production building with his friends and rivals.
• Zhang Guangmu entered the All Heavens world as a female cultivator, chose to pursue cultivation alongside the Divine Dao, and learned that the war would be decided by control of four Main Worlds.
• Zhang Guangmu rescued Qin Zhe from Qing Yu’s group, defeated the attackers, and later allied with Ye Tan to exchange intelligence and divine abilities.
• Zhang Guangmu developed the Great Fission Technique and prepared to meet Long Hong, who brought wristwatches that sent Taiqing Sect disciples into the Apocalypse Tide.
• Zhang Guangmu entered the Apocalypse Tide in a weak body, surveyed the Survivor Camp, and fired at Julien after the base leader’s attempts to manipulate him failed.

Zhang Guangmu defeated Long Hong, took control of Apocalypse Tide, and rose to become the Civilization God while expanding Taiqing Sect’s influence. As Duo Civilization tried to undermine him and provoke a realm-wide war, he exposed its interference as the work of Outer-Realm Demons, leaving the sects alert to newly arriving World Crossers.

• Zhang Guangmu defeated Long Hong with help from the Three Elders of Taiqing, then destroyed Long Hong’s soul and used his world-coordinate anchor to establish travel to the wasteland.
• Zhang Guangmu and Taiqing Sect developed Apocalypse Tide as a pseudo-game, and Zhang Guangmu became the Civilization God after condensing a new divine position.
• Zhang Guangmu created staged groups and encounters to build pressure in the Xuan Yan Realm, while Duo Civilization’s Production Team realized its plans were slipping beyond its control.
• Zhang Guangmu took the Sect Leader Token and delegated Taiqing’s affairs, then learned that Qin Zhe and Ye Tan had identified him as the elusive mastermind Tian Guang.
• Duo Civilization targeted Earth’s Subconscious Actors and helped foment conflict among the Xuan Yan Realm’s sects, while its Control Group began openly targeting Zhang Guangmu.
• Zhang Guangmu told Taiqing’s disciples that bodiless Outer-Realm Demons were manipulating cultivators, and the Taiqing elders backed his warning.
• Zhang Guangmu used recordings of cultivators’ hostile thoughts to convince the disciples that Outer-Realm Demons were real, and Taiqing spread the warning across the realm.
• Zhang Guangmu led cultivators to suspect the Control Group were Outer-Realm Demons, then detected its reinforcements arriving as local sects began monitoring the World Crossers.

Zhang Guangmu defeated the Divine Emperor Team, consolidated control of the Taiqing Sect, and led its forces to conquer half the Xuan Yan Realm. When the Ninth Order Tribulation Cultivator Empty Cicada came to kill her, Zhang Guangmu met him with the power of the Immortal Artifacts.

• Zhang Guangmu exposed Jacob Field’s plot, defeated the Divine Emperor Team with help from Mooncake, White Moon, Golden Neck, and Yuanyangzi, and raised his standing in the Taiqing Sect.
• Zhang Guangmu resurrected two Taiqing disciples, established rules for future resurrections, and moved into the sect leader’s residence as Mooncake warned that war was imminent.
• Zhang Guangmu recruited Yang Chi, forced Zhu Nanhua to reveal the Divine Emperor Team’s plans, and confronted Ye Yun and Gu Zhongyan in the Seven Fiends Ice Domain.
• Jacob’s team ambushed Zhang Guangmu, but she used the Sect Leader Token to destroy Ye Yun, Gu Zhongyan, and the Seven Fiends Ice Domain before killing the Divine Emperor Team and claiming Jacob’s lotus artifact.
• Zhang Guangmu converted Jacob’s hidden Good Demon Believing Demons, studied the Azure Nether Diagram and Companion Blood Saber, and began the Tian Guang Lecture Hall for Taiqing disciples.
• Zhang Guangmu taught the Tian Guang Entropy Canon, and with her substitute-death arrangements the Taiqing Sect defeated the Seven Demonic Sects and conquered half the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Empty Cicada attacked the Taiqing Sect and demanded Zhang Guangmu’s execution, but Zhang Guangmu cut him apart and struck him with a tribulation-level attack after burning the Azure Nether Diagram, Companion Blood Saber, and Sect Leader Token.

Zhang Guangmu unified the Xuan Yan Realm and devised a way to reach another Main World, where she joined Wang Shangqing’s culinary crew. After helping Wang Shangqing defeat Wang Yuqing and strengthening the team, Zhang Guangmu agreed to lead them toward the Sea of Humanity.

• Zhang Guangmu broke through to the Ninth Order, killed Mohe, and persuaded Taiqing Daoist to support her plan to unify the Xuan Yan Realm.
• Zhang Guangmu defeated the realm’s other Ninth Order cultivators, gathered six Tribulation Cultivators, and forced the Xuan Yan Realm’s sects to submit while establishing the Tian Guang Shop and Divine Strength Platform.
• Zhang Guangmu began searching for a way to reach other Main Worlds, endured repeated failed experiments, and eventually opened a Golden Mirror to the Endless Sea.
• Zhang Guangmu sent an avatar through the mirror, found Wang Shangqing, and offered to become the partner eater who could help him reach the summit.
• Zhang Guangmu helped Wang Shangqing improve his cooking, and Wang Shangqing defeated Wang Yuqing ten to zero in a Culinary Battle.
• Zhang Guangmu revealed the chefs’ Culinary Hearts, while Tang Lanshan joined Wang Shangqing’s company and the Duo Civilization’s operations team began plotting against Zhang Guangmu’s incarnation.
• Zhang Guangmu helped the chefs grow stronger, agreed to join Wang Shangqing’s expedition into the Sea of Humanity, and proposed renaming the company the Tian Guang Culinary Team.