Recaps

Yi Chen developed Divine Sense and a method for controlling Ferocious Beasts, then taught the new abilities to Spirit Sense Stage clansmen. As the Human Race prepared to benefit from his teachings, rival races sent more forces to target him.

• Yi Chen experimented on Ferocious Beast Energy Cores and crystals, then began devising a way to control beasts through them.
• As attacks on the Human Race escalated, Yi Chen learned to control Spiritual Power outside his body and made leaves and stones move with it.
• Yi Chen reorganized the Flame Mountain Tribe’s government, assigned department leaders, and asked Bai Ruoxin to investigate distant regions and Ferocious Beasts.
• After nearly three months of research, Yi Chen completed the New Cultivation Method and tested it on Little Golden Ball and several Ferocious Beasts.
• Yi Chen halted the Four Routes Army’s expansion and recalled Spirit Sense Stage geniuses to learn the Spirit Sense Stage Chaos Art and develop Divine Sense.
• The Three-Eyed Race Second Elder ordered more efforts to investigate the Angel Race’s alliance plans and kill Yi Chen, while other races sent forces to the Milky Way.
• Yi Chen taught the clansmen how to merge their Six Consciousnesses and explained Divine Sense’s powers, then wrote the Beast Taming Art’s formula and circulation route on the wall.

Yi Chen developed Weapon Forging, created Spirit Artifacts, and led the Flame Mountain Tribe’s expansion into the Mist Forest as rival races moved toward war with humanity. As Zhan Cheng prepared the Holy Water Tribe for a confrontation, Yi Chen revealed that defeating it was not his ultimate objective.

• Yi Chen taught the Beast Taming Art to the Spirit Sense Stage clansmen, while the military began planning to recruit its users and deploy controlled Ferocious Beasts.
• The Three-Eyed Race, Angel Race, and Frost Race formed an alliance, and the Human Race sent an Ace Fleet to attack the Angel Race.
• Yi Chen discovered that a rare Spirit Mine enhanced comprehension, named it the Enlightenment Stone, and ordered Bai Ruoxin to find and catalogue its pieces.
• Yi Chen developed Weapon Forging and made a Spirit Sword, a defensive magic treasure, and a flying stone house, then led the Four Routes Army toward the Mist Forest.
• Yi Chen used Holy Water to improve his Spirit Artifacts, and his forces subdued more than eight hundred members of a Mist Forest tribe before expanding to fifteen tribes and nearly thirty thousand people.
• The Three-Eyed Race and Frost Race declared war on humanity, while the Berserker Race allied with humanity against the Frost Race and Angel Race.
• Zhan Cheng learned that Yi Chen’s forces were approaching, gathered the Holy Water Tribe’s strength, and sent out more than four thousand Ferocious Beasts with a mobile reinforcement group.
• Yi Chen ordered his scouts to track Zhan Cheng’s forces and continued cultivating, revealing that defeating the Holy Water Tribe was not his ultimate objective.

Yi Chen seized the Holy Water Tribe’s people, broke through several realms, and forged spatial artifacts before approving the Flame Mountain Tribe’s migration and reforms. As he developed Law Runes, failed mental tribulations led the Federation Human Race to launch a tuition plan intended to help cultivators break through.

• Yi Chen’s forces captured the Holy Water Tribe’s population, then Yi Chen defeated Zhan Cheng and the Fake Serious Criminals, who surrendered with their Ferocious Beasts.
• Yi Chen overcame a Heart Tribulation and entered a new Great Realm, then discovered Space Stone and forged Storage Rings and other Spirit Artifacts.
• Yi Chen advanced to Heart Tribulation Stage Fifth Level and approved the Flame Mountain Tribe’s migration, Royal City expansion, and new system of noble ranks.
• Yi Chen broke through to the Spirit Dao Stage, created a new *Chaos Art*, and began researching a defensive array and Law Runes.
• Rao Xiong failed his mental tribulation, and Marshal Tie Xue’s report prompted the military to propose paying Yi Chen tuition for cultivators nearing breakthrough.
• The Council announced its Tuition Plan after identifying Yi Chen as a source of cultivators’ heart tribulations, and the Federation Human Race voted overwhelmingly to approve it.
• After more than a thousand failures, Yi Chen completed his first Law Rune and continued creating more as the Tuition Plan officially launched.

Yi Chen expanded the Flame Mountain Tribe’s strength by refining pills, mastering a Defense Array, and preparing to confront new powers, while the Federation’s leaders learned that its attempts to borrow his cultivation methods had created a dangerous karmic debt. The stretch ended with Yi Chen weighing a year of Spirit Gathering Array construction against his own cultivation.

• The North Route Army discovered Second Grade Spirit Materials, and Yi Chen used them to develop Ascension Pills that boosted cultivation speed before distributing hundreds of thousands to the tribe and army.
• Yi Chen trained his Spirit Sword against Ferocious Beasts, then defeated and bound a Swamp Crocodile while clearing targets for the Four Routes Army.
• Council Speaker Kang De told Marshal Tie Xue and the military leaders that the Federation’s debt to Yi Chen could produce a Calamity Fruit, and the leaders agreed to keep the warning secret while planning countermeasures.
• Yi Chen built and tested a Defense Array that blocked attacks, entry, and outside perception, but had to exhaust its Spirit Stones to leave it.
• Yuan Huo survived his Heart Tribulation with Soul Elder’s help, while Soul Elder revealed plans to use him to build power and eventually capture Yi Chen.
• Yi Chen advanced to Spirit Dao Stage Fourth Level, assessed new threats and resources, and refined Marrow Cleansing, Realm Breaking, Pro-Spirit, and Mind Stabilizing Pills to strengthen his people.
• Yi Chen ordered Universal Conscription, distributed Pro-Spirit Pills through the Four Routes Army, and arranged to monitor Zhan Cheng before deciding whether to place him in the army.
• Yi Chen calculated that Spirit Gathering Arrays for the tribe and army would take nearly a year and decided to divide his time between building them and cultivating.