Recaps

Zhang Yang secretly prepared safeguards for the Nine Halls and focused on developing his Sword Dao Civilization. After spending 1,800 years leveling his Dream Sub-Account to the Dream Nightmare level, he considered the long path to reaching the Dream Dragon level.

• Zhang Yang sent the deified table to serve as the Tenth Hall Master and observe the Nine Halls.
• Zhang Yang envisioned the Heavenly Sword Clan growing to millions of Mahayana cultivators and becoming a Sword Dao Civilization.
• Zhang Yang entered the Dream Dimension to continue leveling his Dream Sub-Account.
• After 1,800 years of grinding, Zhang Yang raised his Dream Sub-Account to the third level, the Dream Nightmare level.
• Zhang Yang concluded that reaching the fourth, Dream Dragon level would require invading reality or killing other Dream Nightmares.

Zhang Yang used the World Tree to carefully balance reality and the Dream Dimension, bringing his Dream Kingdom into the forbidden ground without damaging either side. The process revealed the ninth Ancient Law, the Chaos—Ancient Law of Black and White, and left him holding a single complete unit of it.

• Zhang Yang expanded the World Tree's forbidden ground to fifty thousand square kilometers by invoking the Dao Ancestor's decree.
• Zhang Yang advanced the World Tree to the Seven-Colored Spiritual Plant stage, awakening the Heavenly Dao Maiden and drawing the attention of twelve Law Demigods.
• Zhang Yang sealed the forbidden ground and used the World Tree to bring his Dream Kingdom and Dream Projection Sub-Account into reality without harm.
• Zhang Yang restrained the Dream Sub-Account's transformation as Dream Law accumulated, keeping the dream and reality separate and in balance.
• Zhang Yang connected with his Dream Sub-Account, discovered the Chaos—Ancient Law of Black and White, and gained one complete unit of it.

Zhang Yang entered the Boat of Death’s pocket world to ask Mu Shaoan about Ancient Gods, using the Ancient Law of Black and White to shield their conversation. Mu Shaoan revealed that he had redirected the Third Generation Insecticide’s curse onto Zhang Yang, and the cousins ended the chapter fighting and trading insults.

• Zhang Yang found that the Dream Dimension’s power had vanished, then entered the pocket world to question Mu Shaoan about Ancient Gods.
• Zhang Yang used the Ancient Law of Black and White to isolate them, and Mu Shaoan revealed the Third Generation Insecticide monster and its ability to infect beings and spread through their bloodlines.
• Mu Shaoan admitted that he had redirected the curse onto Zhang Yang to protect his own relatives and friends.
• Zhang Yang exposed Mu Shaoan’s Blood Sacrifice talent, and the cousins punched and kicked each other while hurling insults.

Zhang Yang explained how his alternate-account strategy and repeated sacrifices led him to obtain the Black and White Ancient Law, while Mu Shaoan uncovered the cost hidden behind his success. Zhang Yang admitted that his true spirit was at risk of madness, and Mu Shaoan offered to heal it with Blunted Spiritual Power.

• Zhang Yang told Mu Shaoan that his cautious use of alternate accounts had helped him survive the dangers tied to the Village Building Order and accumulate power.
• Zhang Yang insisted that he had sacrificed only one main body, but Mu Shaoan pointed to clues suggesting he had repeatedly used main bodies to explore and die before passing their experience to alternates.
• Mu Shaoan deduced that Zhang Yang had dragged corpses forward through many trials to obtain a complete Ancient Law.
• Zhang Yang admitted that he had died 7,892 times in the Dream Dimension to discover the balance that produced the Black and White Ancient Law, leaving his true spirit at risk of madness.
• Mu Shaoan offered to heal Zhang Yang's splitting true spirit with a method involving Blunted Spiritual Power.

Zhang Yang used Mu Shaoan’s Blunted Spiritual Power method to cure the damage caused by splitting his true spirit, transforming his power into hundreds of thousands of Blunted True Spirit Particles. He emerged with a radically different combat style and planned to rebuild his old schemes around it.

• Mu Shaoan explained Blunted Spiritual Power to Zhang Yang and warned him that it would prevent him from splitting his true spirit further.
• Zhang Yang exposed his true spirit’s wounds and aberrant fires, then began blunting its basic filaments despite losing his ability to use many divine abilities.
• Zhang Yang repeatedly extracted and blunted the aberrant true-spirit fires, accumulating more than 700,000 True Spirit Particles over half a year.
• Zhang Yang discovered that his particles could be projected across 100,000 kilometers and used as powerful weapons, while the process eliminated the danger of his damaged true spirit.
• Zhang Yang realized his new power could support compressed blade qi and decided to dig new pits suited to his Blunted True Spirit Particles.

Zhang Yang sought Mu Shaoan’s advice after his blunted True Spirit Particles proved too heavy for his reincarnated body. Mu Shaoan revealed his plans to master an ancient Destiny Chessboard and face the Third Generation Insecticide, while Zhang Yang agreed to support him cautiously.

• Zhang Yang discovered that his body could not contain more than a few thousand of his 700,000 Blunted True Spirit Particles and asked Mu Shaoan how he had handled the same problem.
• Mu Shaoan explained that he had divided his particles among mechanical dust, the Sky Spear, and his old lair, where the last portion had fallen into a trap near a tributary of the River of Time.
• Mu Shaoan showed Zhang Yang a black-and-white Destiny Chessboard connected to the Death Chain and explained that its pieces represented positive and negative destiny and required sacrifices.
• Mu Shaoan said he would fight the Third Generation Insecticide to gather experience for Zhang Yang, while Zhang Yang prepared safe resurrection points and support.
• Zhang Yang warned Mu Shaoan that he would destroy him if the chessboard stirred the curse, but Mu Shaoan insisted he could master it.

Zhang Yang and Mu Shaoan used the Ancient Destiny Chessboard to glimpse future dangers, but the divination triggered a devastating backlash. Zhang Yang left Mu Shaoan with a unit of the Ancient Law of Black and White and hurried away, having recognized the crisis threatening his territory.

• Zhang Yang and Mu Shaoan bargained over the cost of chess pieces and agreed that Zhang Yang could place three pieces first.
• Mu Shaoan used the Ancient Destiny Chessboard to reveal a battle seven thousand years in the future, where a mechanical civilization would attack their world.
• Mu Shaoan placed another black piece, revealing demonic shadows and decay before Zhang Yang's white piece canceled the vision.
• When Zhang Yang reached to place another piece, thirty-six black pieces appeared and the chessboard collapsed, leaving Mu Shaoan gravely wounded by the backlash.
• Zhang Yang gave Mu Shaoan one unit of the Ancient Law of Black and White, then hurried away after recognizing the future crisis.

After returning to the Heavenly Sword Clan, Zhang Yang inspected the Nine Halls’ work over the past three hundred years and judged the Heavenly Mechanism Hall and Dao Rhyme Hall’s achievements. He rewarded their progress and set rules for distributing core Dao Rhyme, while the inspection of the other halls remained ahead.

• Zhang Yang arrived at the Heavenly Sword Clan’s new mountain gate and summoned its senior figures to report on their work over three hundred years.
• Peach Yao reported that the Heavenly Mechanism Hall had built 108 grand arrays and resolved thousands of detected changes; Zhang Yang verified the report and gave the hall an 85-percent completion rating.
• Qu Shang reported that the Dao Rhyme Hall had collected and organized hundreds of strands of core Dao Rhyme and many more secondary and ordinary strands.
• Zhang Yang approved the Dao Rhyme Hall’s results and ruled that it could retain half of its core Dao Rhyme, with the remainder distributed as rewards among the other eight halls.

Zhang Yang reviewed the work of the Fortune Merit Hall and Tianshu Hall, taking charge of the former after judging Jiang Rong’s reforms too biased toward humanity. He kept Li Guokui as Tianshu Hall’s master and promised him resources and time to improve the Heaven and Earth Barrier before turning the gathering to wedding celebrations.

• Jiang Rong reported that he had reformed the Fortune Merit Hall’s system for managing fortune and merit over three hundred years.
• Zhang Yang explained that fortune and merit had to circulate among all living beings, then demoted Jiang Rong to vice hall master of Dao Rhyme Hall and took charge of the Fortune Merit Hall himself.
• Jiang Rong accepted Zhang Yang’s decision and withdrew without protest.
• Li Guokui reported that he had spent three hundred years trying to improve the thirty-five layers of the Heaven and Earth Barrier and offered to resign as Tianshu Hall’s master.
• Zhang Yang refused Li Guokui’s resignation, prioritized resources for his work, and told the other halls they could skip their reports before inviting everyone to drink wedding wine.

Ten years after Zhang Yang began living in seclusion, Mu Shaoan visited him, badly mutilated from mastering the Ancient Destiny Chessboard. Mu left to study the Heavenly Sword Clan’s Sword Dao, and Zhang Yang realized Mu’s insights could help the Sword Dao Law and the Heaven and Earth Barrier.

• Mu Shaoan arrived at Zhang Yang’s courtyard to congratulate him on his wedding, then fled when he saw Zhang’s children and pregnant wife.
• Zhang Yang questioned Mu about his injuries, and Mu explained that they were the price of mastering the Ancient Destiny Chessboard.
• When Zhang Yang suggested Mu was seeking the Ancient Law of Destiny, Mu suffered a backlash and lost a finger.
• Mu gave Zhang Yang a tiny wooden splinter, then announced that he would study the Sword Dao at the Heavenly Sword Clan’s mountain gate.
• After Mu left, Zhang Yang understood how incompleteness could complement perfection and considered telling Li Guokui to apply the idea to the Heaven and Earth Barrier.

Zhang Yang sent a world containing a smaller version of himself, Liu Ye, and their children into the Fifth Sequence, then reviewed the Sword Cultivator Civilization’s assets and concealed reserves with Brick No. 5. The chapter left him preparing to begin a new epoch with an extensive stockpile of hidden contingencies.

• Zhang Yang created a heaven and earth within a scroll and severed its connection to his own world.
• Zhang Yang sent the scroll world, containing his smaller self, Liu Ye, and their three children, safely into the Fifth Sequence with their memories sealed.
• Zhang Yang summoned Brick No. 5 and asked it to register their assets for a new epoch.
• Brick No. 5 listed the civilization’s public assets, including Cosmic Law, heaven-and-earth worlds, barriers, and Sword Dao followers.
• Brick No. 5 catalogued Zhang Yang’s hidden reserves and contingencies, including Ancient Law, a World Tree, a Supreme Divine Sword, and reality clones infiltrating the Xing Clan and Thousand-Handed Race.

Zhang Yang devised a broad farming plan and began by launching Heaven’s Rain of Red Packets, a system that rewarded virtuous and hardworking beings across the realm. After completing that initiative, he activated a hidden alternate identity in the Xing Clan’s realm to gather intelligence.

• Zhang Yang spent three months planning expansion into the Thousand-Handed Race’s world, the Xing Clan’s realm, the Dream Dimension, and his native realm.
• Zhang Yang created merit-based evaluation standards and prepared basic and core red packets that would reward helpful acts, good conduct, and high scores.
• Zhang Yang released ten billion hidden red packets across the realm, spending ten million units of Cosmic Law.
• Zhang Yang declared Plan D complete and entered seclusion aboard the Boat of Death to activate an alternate identity in the Xing Clan’s realm.
• Zhang Yang established that communication with the alternate identity would be delayed and could expose it, so it would have to be destroyed after sending its intelligence.

Zhang Yang took control of his reincarnated infiltration body, Xing Bu, a fourteen-year-old commoner of the Xing Clan, and reviewed what he had learned about the race and its harsh homeland. When a shadow attacked in the room, he drove it off with Basic Witch Speech but collapsed from exhaustion, leaving the danger unresolved.

• Zhang Yang used Brick No. 7 to organize Xing Bu’s memories and learned that his infiltration body was a low-status Xing Clan commoner with several awakened talents.
• Zhang Yang considered revealing his abilities and traveling toward the world’s central regions after reaching adulthood.
• Xing Mi, Xing Bu’s uncle and a Power Witch Warrior, stopped breathing briefly before making a gurgling sound.
• A chilling presence froze Zhang Yang’s body, so he cast Awa’s Fire and shaped the flame into a fiery eye with Awa’s Eye.
• The light drove a retreating shadow from the room and alerted people outside, while Zhang Yang fainted from the effort.

Zhang Yang’s minor avatar witnessed the aftermath of a deadly attack in a Xing Clan village and concluded that the world’s Spiritual Qi Resurgence and soul-stealing shadows signaled a collapse of its Heavenly Dao. After warning his main body to maintain strict defenses against the Ancient God’s game, he returned home and prepared to survive another night.

• Zhang Yang watched villagers burn the bodies of forty-five people killed by unknown causes as the Witch Incantation Elder blamed the Black Devil.
• Zhang Yang judged the Xing Clan world’s demigod-level mortals and soul-stealing shadows to be signs that its Heavenly Dao had fallen out of control.
• Zhang Yang instructed Brick No. 7 to archive his observations and send them to his main body if the minor avatar died.
• Zhang Yang warned his civilization not to cross the wall into the Ancient God’s game and urged it to keep its defenses and control of the Hidden Sword Earth Veins.
• After the village administrators failed to respond and the storm worsened, Zhang Yang cooked his stored food and studied Basic Witch Speech while expecting the black shadow to return.

Zhang Yang used enchanted wooden spears and a carefully prepared trap to lure the Cursed Object hidden near the village into an explosive confrontation. The fire engulfed the target, but Zhang Yang judged that the enemies in this round were no good.

• Zhang Yang and Brick No. 7 concluded that the curse was tied to something hidden in the village and that it would grow stronger as villagers died.
• Zhang Yang prepared four plans, coated a large woodpile with animal fat, and enchanted two wooden spears with Aru's Ice and Awa's Fire.
• Zhang Yang waited for the Cursed Object to approach the freezing spear, while his other spear gathered power in the fireplace.
• The Cursed Object attached its power to the freezing spear, which flew through Zhang Yang's prepared opening and landed on the fat-soaked woodpile.
• Zhang Yang launched the fire spear, and its stored power erupted into flames that swallowed the area.

Zhang Yang examined the Cursed Object’s black stone by exposing his Alt Account to its powers, while Brick No. 7 recorded the effects. After suppressing the resulting mutations and analyzing the curse, he identified its four major abilities and resolved to keep studying curses.

• After the fire died out, Zhang Yang retrieved a black stone formed from the Cursed Object’s destroyed power and absorbed it through his bleeding palm.
• Zhang Yang unsealed his defenses as Brick No. 7 recorded a mental assault that it identified as a suspected Super High-Pressure True Spirit Annihilation Domain.
• Zhang Yang surrendered most of his Alt Account’s Soul Domain control, allowing the Cursed Object to mutate the body and create a Sinking Soul Vortex.
• Zhang Yang’s main consciousness suppressed and purified the vortex, and his Alt Account gradually returned to its original form.
• Zhang Yang reviewed Brick No. 7’s findings, classified the Cursed Object’s four abilities, and resolved to devote himself to studying curses.

After a wave of miraculous awakenings in Wolf Ancient Village, Zhang Yang’s 09 Sub-Account recognized that the Xing Clan’s Spiritual Qi Resurgence signaled the civilization’s approaching collapse and began creating a Civilization Sub-Account. The intelligence confirmed Zhang Yang’s fears, prompting his main body to put Sword Cultivator Civilization on its highest alert while the Nine Halls prepared defenses against the Ancient God’s game.

• Youths in Wolf Ancient Village awakened witch blood and witch power in a sudden series of breakthroughs, and the old village chief celebrated the village’s future prosperity.
• Zhang Yang ordered Brick No. 7 to contact his main body, share recent events, and extract information and True Spirit Particles from his other alt accounts in Xing Clan civilization.
• Zhang Yang’s main body reported that curse shadows had been repelled and that Sword Cultivator Civilization’s defenses had kept its world unharmed.
• Zhang Yang presented the intelligence from 09 Sub-Account to the Nine Halls, and the gathered leaders agreed to enter the highest emergency state.
• Tao Yao deduced that the Xing Clan’s Law Heavenly Gods had likely found an Ancient God’s remains and that the Ancient God was still playing with them as prey.
• Zhang Yang left the Nine Halls to plan other responses, including pursuing chaotic Ancient Law of Black and White through his Dream Projection alt account, while hoping the Xing Clan could endure longer.

Zhang Yang seized the resources of eight nearby Sub-Accounts and used their Blunted True Spirit Particles to evolve his body, gaining three innate talents. Now a powerful adult of the Xing Clan, he headed to confront the village elder and claim leadership without a Village Building Order.

• Zhang Yang decided to gather allies, grow stronger, resist curses, and stockpile resources before the doom reached the Xing Clan.
• He flew out as a True Spirit Particle, killed the person carrying the 08 Sub-Account, and collected resources from eight Sub-Accounts within thirty thousand kilometers.
• After returning, Zhang Yang endured a day and night of agony while his body evolved, refusing to absorb contaminated spiritual qi and eating uncontaminated beast meat instead.
• Zhang Yang emerged as a Two-Leaf True Spirit with five stages each of Witch Blood Talent and Witch Power Talent, plus the inherited Witch Prayer ability.
• He donned his uncle’s two-ton Hunting Stone armor and went to the village elder’s courtyard to become village chief without a Village Building Order.

Zhang Yang seized control of Wolf Village by killing its current chief, the former chief, and the young Xing Ba, then exposed the dangerous contamination behind the villagers’ sudden awakenings. He claimed Witch Prayer would let him protect the village, leaving the frightened villagers without leaders and facing his demand that they obey him.

• Zhang Yang announced that he wanted to become village chief, then killed Xing Ba, Xing Lang, and the former chief at the banquet.
• After the villagers surrounded him, Zhang Yang ate his fill and declared himself village chief.
• Zhang Yang pointed out that Xing Ba’s corpse was mutating because of the filthy spiritual energy contaminating him.
• When a youth accused Zhang Yang of causing the mutations and killing another family, Zhang Yang tore off the youth’s arm and showed it transforming into a monster.
• Xing Shan asked about Zhang Yang’s own awakening, and Zhang Yang claimed he had awakened witch blood, witch power, and the Ancient Witch Clan’s Witch Prayer talent.

Zhang Yang forced the Xing Clan villagers to leave their village and then summoned a Spirit of the Earth at an uncontaminated junior earth vein. He began preparing to establish a Witch Fire that could house the spirit and support his Civilization Sub-Account.

• Zhang Yang ordered the villagers to abandon their home and attack Bear Stockade, but Xing Shan and the villagers refused to leave.
• Zhang Yang killed Xing Shan with Blunted True Spirit Particles and threatened the villagers until they agreed to depart.
• The villagers loaded their supplies onto ice sleds, and Zhang Yang burned the village after they left.
• About fifty li from the village, Zhang Yang used Witch Prayer Talent to summon a Spirit of the Earth from an uncontaminated junior earth vein.
• Zhang Yang ordered men over a hundred years old to cut down three hundred ancient white trees so the villagers could light the Witch Fire and stabilize the Spirit of the Earth.

Zhang Yang awakened the Witch Fire and broke the Xing Clan’s bloodline Bind, but the fire killed most villagers who tried its trial. Three surviving elders became Fire Bearers, and Zhang Yang tested the Battle Runes they could pass on, revealing both their immense power and his own destructive strength.

• Zhang Yang placed the Spirit of the Earth in the flames, awakening the Witch Fire and breaking his bloodline Bind as an unknown force locked onto him.
• A villager who entered the Witch Fire burned to ash, and seven elders then faced the trial; four died while Zhang Yang used Witch Prayer to steady the flames.
• The three surviving elders became Fire Bearers and explained their roles in passing down the Battle Witch Clan’s bloodline, witch-power, and witch-word Battle Runes.
• The Fire Bearers empowered Xing Shi with Rage and Super Strength Battle Runes, allowing him to crush a mountain with one punch.
• Zhang Yang tested the Protection and Arrow Battle Runes, then blasted a mountain away with an arrow and left Xing Shi gravely wounded nearby.

Zhang Yang discovered that the Plague God's Saliva was tracking him after 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang ignited the Ancient Witch Clan's Witch Fire. He planned to redirect it toward the Xing Clan and use its arrival to break the Ancient God's game barrier, while preparing for a possible River of Time Guardian mission.

• Zhang Yang detected a gray thread targeting him and summoned Mu Shaoan, who identified it as a positioning device for the Plague God's Saliva.
• Zhang Yang used the Stellar Imprint to obtain information about the threat, then survived a three-day True Spirit sensing that made him vomit terrifying monsters.
• Zhang Yang learned that the Plague God's Saliva was an enormous mass of paste that could not be dodged and realized 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang had drawn it by igniting the Witch Fire.
• Zhang Yang decided to direct the gray thread's coordinates toward the Xing Clan and finish Sword Dao Law 4.0 so ten million Mahayana sword cultivators could help propel their world out of danger.
• Zhang Yang reasoned that the Xing Clan's history and the Ancient God's game barrier might be connected to the Plague God's Saliva, then ordered greater investment in 09 Sub-Account Zhang Yang to divert the threat.

Zhang Yang used two innate treasures to suppress the Great Droplet of the Plague God’s lock-on and changed his plans in the Xing Clan world. He shaped a phantom earth vein into a spherical form, preparing to mold a terrestrial planet.

• Zhang Yang learned from the Main Body that the Witch Fire had drawn the Great Droplet of the Plague God’s attention and that the lock-on had shifted from him to the Main Body.
• Zhang Yang named the black-and-white bricks the Sky-Turning Brick and the Sea-Calming Brick, deciding to use them to protect the Main Body’s plans.
• Zhang Yang ordered the three Fire Bearers to build an extravagant Witch Prayer altar so he could cleanse his clansmen’s polluted spiritual energy.
• Zhang Yang used the bricks to draw out a phantom dragon-shaped earth vein from the mountains.
• Zhang Yang transformed the phantom earth vein into a tree-shaped sphere and said he would mold it into a terrestrial planet.

Zhang Yang restored a shrinking spherical earth vein and reflected on the dangerous powers he had once encountered. Meanwhile, Dream Dragon prepared to deliver a black-and-white chess piece to 05 Sub-Account and retrieve data on the Thousand-Hand Divine Seal, leaving on the mission.

• Zhang Yang placed the spherical phantom of the earth vein back beneath his feet and considered the dangers of spherical heavens and earths in the Fourth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang recalled his past dealings with the Ash Realm Prison, the Village Building Order, and powerful beings, and resolved to stay away from the system.
• Zhang Yang said he was creating a Civilization Sub-Account to draw Great Droplet's aggro and left the rest to his main body.
• Dream Dragon began building the Dream Express system after Zhang Yang's main body issued a war mobilization order.
• Dream Sub-Account Zhang Yang prepared to deliver a special black-and-white chess piece to 05 Sub-Account and collect the complete data on the Thousand-Hand Divine Seal.
• Dream Sub-Account Zhang Yang transformed into a vast Dream Dragon and set off toward the Thousand-Hand Human Clan's heaven and earth.

Zhang Yang crossed planes in the Dream Dimension to deliver a letter for his main body, avoiding dangerous dreams along the way. After entering Li Meng's Kingdom, he was intercepted by Dream Knights, who invited him to meet their master.

• Zhang Yang traveled through the Dream Dimension, avoiding White Cloud Dreams, Dream Maggots, and other hazards as he headed toward his destination.
• He detoured around a blood-red dream that signaled danger in its plane and spent Ancient Law to speed his journey across nine planes.
• Zhang Yang discovered an enormous azure pillar of light and realized it marked a massive Dream Kingdom that he could not avoid.
• Dream Knights intercepted Zhang Yang and demanded that he explain where he came from and where he was going.
• Zhang Yang revealed his delivery route and purpose, and the Dream Knights welcomed him to Li Meng's Kingdom and offered to introduce him to their master.