Recaps

Zhang Yang rebuilt Bald Head Ridge, gathered allies and refugees, and developed his village while preparing for the threat of the Ghost Queen. After surviving the Orc attack and a brutal winter assault, he entrusted the village to Wu Yuan and set out on the Mountain God Trial, believing the Ghost Queen had to be confronted.

• Zhang Yang rebuilt Bald Head Ridge Fortress, recruited soldiers, and negotiated with Liu Kai and the other Hidden Dragons for supplies while taking in veterans and their families.
• Zhang Yang fused with the Horned Lizard’s Demonic Soul, defeated the Orc Tribe after it attacked his village, and returned to mourn the dead and rebuild.
• Zhang Yang tested Phantom Crystals on Wang Mumu and others, drawing the Ghost Queen’s attention as a Yin Energy Cloud brought severe cold to the village.
• Zhang Yang used the village’s fires to disperse the Yin Energy Clouds, then revived Song Dachui, Duan Kuan, and Zhou Datou while Wang Mumu advanced to a four-star hero.
• Zhang Yang promoted Zhang Wenyuan to Noble Population and named him heir, while preparing heating systems and defenses for the coming battle against the Ghost Mother.
• Reyn’s team destroyed hundreds of Sons of the Ghost Mother and captured Wang Shun, whom Zhang Yang ordered imprisoned but kept alive for a future role near the coal and iron reserves.
• Zhang Yang completed a coal-fired heating system, named Zhang Wenyuan his successor, and helped Wu Yuan advance to Transcendent with an Ice Marrow Pill.
• Zhang Yang left for the Mountain God Trial despite his allies’ pleas, convinced that postponing a confrontation with the Ghost Queen would only prolong the danger.

Zhang Yang endured the Mountain God trial, built Zhao Xianyu’s power, and uncovered the threats facing Storm City before returning to his village. He prepared the village’s defenses and opened battle against the Ghost Queen’s forces.

• Zhang Yang entered the Mountain God trial, survived an infected wound, and recruited Broken-Legged Robin after killing soul ghosts together.
• Zhang Yang destroyed two paper figures, gathered divinity, and helped Broken-Legged Robin become a god and lead believers.
• Zhang Yang protected Storm City through the gray-fog disaster, strengthened Zhao Xianyu, and organized its priests and Divine Wood Holy Knights.
• Zhang Yang killed the Rhinoceros Horned Man with his Siege Crossbow and acquired an Immortal Soul, a Storage Orb, and an incomplete Immortal Cultivation Village Building Order.
• Zhang Yang discovered that Storm City’s divine kingdom was fused with the city, then gave Zhao Xianyu independent divine authority and entrusted Lame Robin with royal rule.
• Zhang Yang returned to the Fantasy World, fused the Mountain God Order with the Deity Village Building Order, and prepared the village for winter and future expansion.
• Zhang Yang used four tornadoes to break the Ghost Queen’s encirclement, then rallied the village defenders against her advancing ghosts.

After completing his first village-building quest, Zhang Yang returned to Earth and entered a new mission alone, where he built a hidden royal city and gathered forces. He defeated a Demon Race Hidden Dragon, but the Red-Skinned Monster rushed toward him as Zhang Liang prepared an ambush.

• Zhang Yang killed the Ghost Queen, then completed the control phase of the Fantasy Village Building Quest and returned to Earth with its rewards.
• Zhang Yang met government officials and other Village Building Order binders, but rejected their plan to enter the mission and killed Wang Xinzhi when he refused to withdraw.
• Zhang Yang chose Return of the King, reached Mount Taiyan, and studied the Mirage Tribe Demons before killing a wounded Gold-Skinned Monster and escaping the Red-Skinned Monster.
• Zhang Yang learned the factions’ advancement paths, developed demonic-language abilities, and built an army of Zhang's Demons before the Mirage Demon army destroyed it.
• Zhang Yang mastered the Heavy Armor secret art, opened a Level 15 Storage Orb, and established a Level 6 Royal City with Zhao Zhou’s help.
• Zhang Yang summoned Wu Lei, Wu Ya, Zhang Liang, and Lei Ming, cultivated for ten months, and began expanding the Royal City’s roads, settlements, and defenses.
• Zhang Yang fought a Demon army at Zhang Liang’s camp, where siege crossbows and Heavy Armored Mo Dao Captains halted its charge and Azure Cloud Swordsmen cut down hundreds of Demons.
• Zhang Yang deceived the Demon Race Hidden Dragon into handing over its Village Building Order, then killed it with Jade-Transformed Wood Spears as the Red-Skinned Monster approached and Zhang Liang prepared the ambush.

Zhang Yang defeated the Red-Skinned Monster, uncovered the invasion threatening his civilization, and entered Zhao Xianyu’s world to face him. After Zhao Xianyu’s kingdom fell, Zhang Yang evacuated refugees and pursued the Wood Demon Tower while discovering that someone had altered his expected fate.

• Zhang Yang lured the Red-Skinned Monster into a valley, where Wu Ya’s Iron Lions and Antler Cavalry killed it and routed the Demonkin forces that followed.
• Zhang Yang discovered that Zhao Xianyu’s cursed World Books threatened his civilization, fused them with his Village Building Order, and entered another world to confront him.
• Zhang Yang survived Zhao Xianyu’s trap, severed the false god’s Divine Power Network, and captured and killed him before escaping his pursuers.
• Zhang Yang rescued Aisha from being burned, traveled with her toward Aquiluo Valley, and learned that Zhao Xianyu had hidden his Wood Demon Tower there.
• Zhang Yang took control of Anya City and established a Sword Core, then defended the city as Spiritual Qi Resurgence weakened Zhao Xianyu’s kingdom and unleashed an otherworldly invasion.
• After Zhao Xianyu died and his civilization collapsed, Zhang Yang sent 45,000 refugees home, exchanged a Star of Hope for Foundation Establishment Pills, and advanced his Soul Meridian Sword Core.
• Zhang Yang found a hidden chain containing memories of an alternate past, concluded that a reborn person had stolen opportunities from him, and later destroyed a Five-Element Stone Demon before fleeing with its core.