Recaps

After passing his civilization to Wu Ya, Zhang Yang returned to Earth and joined Tang Kun’s Abyssal mission, where he learned to fight demons and took on Qin Ge’s request to save Qin Mingyue. Three hundred years in the past, he built a fortress, awakened his sword intent, and established a growing faction around a factory and its survivors.

• Zhang Yang chose Wu Ya as his successor, gave up his Village Building Order, and returned to Earth, where Tang Kun recruited him as a mercenary for an Abyssal mission.
• Zhang Yang joined Tang Kun, Old Wang, Li Weisi, and Qiong Kou in invading a Devil-controlled world, and the team built a base around the Demon Cloud Monitoring Seed.
• Zhang Yang killed a Shadow True Demon, learned its language, and created Shadow Followers before Qin Ge warned him about an approaching Nightmare Demon and asked him to save Qin Mingyue.
• Zhang Yang bound an Apocalyptic Village Building Order, traveled three hundred years into the past, and found Qin Mingyue amid an outbreak that turned unconscious people into Demonic Infected Bodies.
• Zhang Yang helped Qin Mingyue and the Fatty escape their school, gathered survivors in an office building, and established an Apocalyptic Fortress with recruited workers and mercenaries.
• Zhang Yang led a convoy to the factory district, where his forces killed a Swiftblade Demonkin and he awakened his sword intent to destroy the surrounding Demonized Zombies.
• Zhang Yang’s group encountered an Iron Demon near an underground shelter, and Li Meng killed it with Demon-Slaying Bullets before Zhang Yang recruited the shelter’s 309 survivors and put the Fatty’s father in charge of factory resources.

Zhang Yang expanded the Apocalyptic Fortress while hunting demon hordes and fighting increasingly powerful enemies. He ended the arc with a Level 15 fortress but few resources, after learning that his exploitation of a Fourth Sequence bug had angered a superior.

• Zhang Yang led a supply convoy toward safety, fought demonized patrolmen, and reached Apocalyptic Fortress, where he upgraded soldiers and built an armored base vehicle.
• Zhang Yang defeated the Mind-Bewitching Demon with Shadow Language, then strengthened Zhao Dagang and learned Bewitchment to command demon zombies.
• Zhang Yang led a convoy south and defeated a horde, but a Swift Blade Demonkin and the surrounding zombies trapped his troops before Li Dong and Lu Long drove them to safety.
• Zhang Yang led another expedition that was devastated by black fog, killed a human Demonic Cultivator, and received the Mountain River Sword Art as a reward.
• Zhang Yang took a large convoy to another city, where his troops killed a Devil Race member and a female sword cultivator, but Lu Long and many soldiers died in the fighting.
• Zhang Yang strengthened his fortress, mechs, and mercenaries, then used Qiong Kou’s enchantments to fight supernatural enemies and defeat a Great Strength Demon.
• Zhang Yang returned to the city instead of rescuing Old Wang, spent a month and a half killing demon zombies, and built a Level 15 Apocalyptic Fortress.
• Old Wang and Qiong Kou told Zhang Yang that his Fourth Sequence exploit had angered their superior, while Zhang Yang took stock of his rewards and depleted resources.

Zhang Yang entered the Immortal Cultivation World, established the Heavenly Sword Gate, and took control of a Profound-tier anomaly while confronting villages, demons, and the rules of the Sleepless Night. The arc left him fleeing a black storm with Liu Xueli and Qian Muyun after a curse struck Liu Xueli.

• Zhang Yang entered the Immortal Cultivation World, survived Black Ox Village’s Sleepless Night, and killed its Ghost Empress Dowager before joining forces with Niu Dou to establish a sect.
• After Niu Dou turned against him and the village site was abandoned, Zhang Yang was captured by Ox-Heads and survived a Profound-grade Strange’s deadly trials by sacrificing his Stars of Hope and choosing Mu Shao'an.
• Zhang Yang gained control of the Strange, founded the Heavenly Sword Gate, and strengthened his sword core by fighting the strange plants and practicing in Sword Human Valley.
• Niu Dou returned with Black Mist Village seeking protection, but its villagers ambushed Zhang Yang’s party, killing Niu Dou before Zhang Yang killed the attackers and went to Black Mist Village.
• Zhang Yang destroyed Black Mist Village’s defenses, claimed its people and property for the Heavenly Sword Gate, and recruited Liu Xueli and the other Heavenly Masters while appointing two Golden Core Daoists as protectors.
• Zhang Yang’s Village Building Orders and War Badge were destroyed after a general appeared and a giant hand reached from the void, but he bound a new order and discovered its agent, Yang Nan, was dead.
• When the Sleepless Night began, Zhang Yang cultivated exceptionally pure spiritual qi, then fled the Black Earth Plains with Liu Xueli and Qian Muyun as the Monster City remained behind them.
• A curse struck Liu Xueli during their escape, but Zhang Yang purged it with the Formless Heart Sword and ordered Qian Muyun to carry him onward.

Zhang Yang founded the Heavenly Sword Gate in Guanshan Town, recruited disciples, and prepared the sect for threats from rival demon gates. The arc ended with him discovering a wounded Spider Evil God underground and weighing a desperate way to defeat it.

• Zhang Yang survived the pursuit across the Black Earth Plains, joined forces with Qian Muyun, and escaped the Ghost Duke and other hunters.
• Zhang Yang defended Guanshan Town from Marshal Huang Gu’s demon army, killed Huang Gu, and accepted the town’s Earth Spirit Nexus to establish the Heavenly Sword Gate.
• Zhang Yang built the sect at Woodcutter's Peak, overcame creditors and attackers, and appointed the crippled Li Hanqiu as Sword-Wielding Elder.
• Zhang Yang recruited combat sword cultivators and trained the old warriors in Sword Human Valley, then opened the Heavenly Sword Gate with fifteen direct disciples.
• Zhang Yang drew out and destroyed Li Hanqiu’s inner demons, learned of his revenge against the Great Dream Sword Sect, and forged sword embryos for the sect.
• Zhang Yang’s patrols uncovered demon forces and rival gates claiming nearby territory, so he ordered disciples to destroy the Tyrant Bear Gate and Golden Eagle Gate while he approached the Heavenly Punishment Gate.
• Zhang Yang found Black Spiders moving toward the sect, entered a poisonous canyon, and discovered a wounded Spider Evil God in an underground pit.
• The world’s Will tasked Zhang Yang with killing the Spider Evil God and offered him permission to use the Backend Modifier, while Zhang Yang considered a desperate alternative to direct combat.