Arc 18The Great Wilderness Detour
Zhang Yang built up his forces and village, faced mechanical armies and threats from the Heavenly Court, then was diverted to the Great Wilderness while trying to reach the Investiture of the Gods List. He arrived in a world devastated by the death of its heavenly god and began cautiously cooperating with Spring Return City while investigating its past.
- Zhang Yang crossed into a monster-filled world, strengthened his troops with dragonblood and crystals, and established defenses and farmland around his Imprisonment Array.
- Zhang Yang fought a mechanical legion, captured its fortress, and recovered Mechanical Soul Gold before following his main body's message and awakening the flood dragon.
- Zhang Yang absorbed the Breath of the True Realm, defeated several enemy forces, and used the Central Earth Meridian to reincarnate four sword cultivators and transform his cavalry into Destruction Knights.
- Zhang Yang cultivated spirit wheat, shared it with his companions, and taught the Azure Dragon, who then called itself his disciple.
- Zhang Yang killed the Nine-Armed Demonic God, absorbed Chentang Pass into his Village Building Order, and learned that its sleeping residents had been prepared as sacrifices bearing Heavenly God Marks.
- Mu Shaoan warned Zhang Yang about the Heavenly God Mark and the threats to his own fate, then gave him an Immortal Holy Shield Shard and intelligence about the Investiture of the Gods List.
- Zhang Yang's attempt to open a passage to the Investiture of the Gods List instead hurled him, his companions, the Azure Dragon, and Chentang Pass into the Great Wilderness Prison.
- Zhang Yang awakened Immortal Heroic Spirits, fought the Blood Feather Patrol Guard, and reached Spring Return City, where he reunited with Yun Chuzi and learned from Qingfengzi about the Great Dao Sect's destruction.