Recaps

Lu Cang fought Izpalut in the domain, where figures from his memories appeared and challenged him with powerful magic. As the crimson figure joined the battle, Lu Cang clashed with it using the Invincible Style.

• Lu Cang struck down the apparent Leng Qingying, then saw Kumiloni watching from a distant street corner.
• Lu Cang summoned the Core of the All-Encompassing Whole, but it began to destabilize as Izpalut appeared and attacked him with wind magic.
• Lu Cang countered Izpalut's spells, while Izpalut rapidly mastered and evolved his magic; Izpalut asked Kumiloni to evacuate the people.
• A Stone Person appeared behind Lu Cang, and Lu Cang spotted a greatsword-wielding man on a rooftop, realizing he was surrounded by familiar enemies.
• Lu Cang vanished and reappeared before Izpalut, but the crimson figure intercepted him, and their techniques collided as Lu Cang cast Chaos Stripping.

Lu Cang fought Chicheng and Iz with overwhelming power, destroying the Ruin Continent with a ten-billion-soul spell before Iz survived by entering an illusory realm. Iz, Chicheng, and Kumiloni then stopped holding back and unleashed attacks against Lu Cang.

• Lu Cang and Chicheng clashed in Knoroya while Obades and Kumiloni protected the city and its civilians.
• Chicheng overwhelmed Lu Cang with thousands of heavy sword strikes and sent him flying through Knoroya's wall and dozens of mountains.
• Iz and Lu Cang unleashed vast arrays of magic, and their battle shattered the Ruin Continent into fragments.
• Lu Cang used Void of the Beyond with ten billion sacrificed souls, but Iz survived by shifting into the illusory realm and began a Promotion Ritual.
• Iz reproached Lu Cang for destroying the continent, while Obades, Kumiloni, and Chicheng remained unharmed behind his protection.
• Chicheng, Kumiloni, and Iz joined forces as Chicheng used Boundless and Iz cast Origin Element Annihilation against Lu Cang.

Lu Cang fought Chicheng while Luluwei’s voice filled his mind with doubts and urged him to enter Deep Earth for perfect happiness. As the battle and his memories blurred together, Lu Cang faced a chance to abandon the fight, and the creature before him suddenly froze.

• Lu Cang endured Chicheng’s relentless attacks while feeling detached from the battle and questioning the point of becoming stronger.
• Luluwei’s voice insisted that Lu Cang was attacking himself and described the calls of countless happier versions of him.
• Lu Cang’s thoughts turned to his lost home, his parents, and the dangers awaiting him, while Ansu reminded him that strength could not change the past or make the impossible possible.
• Chicheng’s form shifted into Leng Qingying, who urged Lu Cang to enter Deep Earth and promised that it would bring perfect happiness and another kind of immortality.
• The half-Chicheng, half-Leng Qingying creature stopped, and the world seemed to freeze.

Lu Cang’s battle with Chicheng stalled as voices from his past exposed his doubts about Earth, power, and his indecision over Luluwei. As Lu Cang approached a rift promising a painless world, Iz reached into his mindscape to stop him.

• Luluwei, Huang Minzhi, and Leng Qingying confronted Lu Cang in his mindscape, accusing him of contradictions and indifference toward Earth and the people he had lost.
• Lu Cang’s doubts disrupted his fight with Chicheng, leaving his injuries unable to heal and his God-Tier Talents seemingly inactive.
• Chicheng prepared to deliver a final blow, but Iz intervened and asked for time to reach Lu Cang because their magic seemed connected.
• Lu Cang recognized the rift as a path to a happy version of Earth and began walking toward it.
• A figure placed a hand on Lu Cang’s shoulder as he approached the rift.

Iz entered Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness and helped him regain clarity as Luluwei’s attack weakened his mind. Lu Cang discovered that the rift was draining his spiritual essence and resisted, but the giant eye continued battering his mental barrier.

• Iz appeared in Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness and questioned Luluwei’s claim that he was only a simulation.
• Iz recognized Lu Cang as his apprentice and explained that Lu Cang’s shaky understanding of mind magic left his mind vulnerable.
• Ansu revealed that the domain was draining Lu Cang’s spiritual essence through the rift, and Lu Cang stopped its flow.
• A giant eye opened above Lu Cang’s sea of consciousness and repeatedly struck his mental barrier, despite his spells repairing its damage.
• Iz criticized Lu Cang’s crude mind-protection spells as the barrier continued to crack.

Lu Cang confronted the fears and regrets in his mind, using Iz's Veil of Knowing to resist Ansu's assault and accepting his choices and grief over Earth. He appeared to wake on a ship, but could not tell whether he had escaped the illusion, and considered ending his Future Simulation to find out.

• As Ansu's attack consumed Lu Cang's spirituality and distorted his thoughts, Iz demonstrated a mental-defense spell, which Lu Cang copied as Veil of Knowing.
• The spell weakened the assault, and Ansu explained that Lu Cang's own confusion and fears were being magnified against him.
• Lu Cang faced the figures in his mind and admitted that he did not want to return to the Deep Earth, while affirming his choices and his desire to save those he had lost.
• Lu Cang's mind expanded as he accepted that he had never truly let go of Earth and the events in the Secret Sea.
• Lu Cang appeared to awaken on a ship beside unconscious Luluwei and Leng Qingying, with Ansu's voice still in his mind and an enormous eye in the sky.
• Unsure whether he was awake or still trapped in Ansu's domain, Lu Cang considered ending his Future Simulation to test what was real.

Lu Cang questioned whether he had escaped an illusion and used Ansu’s knowledge to reconsider his experiences in Deep Earth. He finally heard Xin Qianhuan declare that he had seen Deep Earth’s true face and was no longer trapped in his own delusion.

• Lu Cang found Leng Qingying and Luluwei unconscious in a domain created by the gigantic eye, then asked Ansu whether he had truly awakened.
• Lu Cang tried to wake Luluwei with Lingering Guidance and used God-Tier Future Rehearsal, but his wish to be in the real world had no effect.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu about illusions and Deep Earth, then considered Ansu’s suggestion that he might never have been attacked and had imagined his experiences.
• Lu Cang recovered erased memories of entering Deep Earth and being corrupted during earlier simulations.
• A voice identified itself as Xin Qianhuan, the guide to Deep Earth, and told Lu Cang he had seen Deep Earth’s true face and escaped his delusion.

Lu Cang realized his earlier rehearsals in Deep Earth had been hallucinations and used wishes to confirm he was conscious and inside the realm. Xin Qianhuan guided him to the True Stone, which could distinguish reality from illusion, leaving Lu Cang to test whether her explanation was true.

• Lu Cang recognized that his earlier experiences and the people in them had been imagined, then wished to confirm he was inside Deep Earth and fully conscious.
• Xin Qianhuan warned Lu Cang to follow her footsteps because Deep Earth's space could separate them, and explained that he needed to obtain its inheritance to leave.
• Xin Qianhuan told Lu Cang that people who die in Deep Earth usually forget their past and begin imagining new worlds, though they may awaken from those dreams.
• Xin Qianhuan showed Lu Cang the imagined worlds contained in colorful orbs and led him to a forest where a white stone lay.
• Xin Qianhuan identified the stone as the True Stone and said touching it would reveal whether Lu Cang was inside an illusion.

Lu Cang used the True Stone and confirmed that Deep Earth was real before entering its trial. There, he met Lotie, a god who wanted him to act as her agent in a competition for the vacant May Moon Star position.

• Lu Cang touched the True Stone and learned that the world around him was not an illusion.
• Xin Qianhuan told Lu Cang that he could take unimportant people such as Luluwei out of Deep Earth if he obtained its inheritance, but that beings like Eliayoumi could not leave.
• Lu Cang shook hands with Xin Qianhuan, learned she was a Fantasy Creature, and walked through the door into darkness.
• Lotie introduced herself as the god who founded Deep Earth and explained that the Pure Month began the next day.
• Lotie asked Lu Cang to perform rituals in the present world as her agent in the competition for the vacant May Moon Star position, promising rewards if she won.

Lu Cang met Lotie, a goddess trapped in Deep Earth, and agreed to consider helping her establish a presence in the present world in exchange for rewards. He passed her combat trial by instantly killing a tier-seven Starfall Scorpion, and Lotie began the third trial.

• Lu Cang learned that Lotie was cut off from the present world and wanted him to build her a temple and statue, spread word of her, and help fulfill her Divine Descent Ritual.
• Lotie explained that Lu Cang had to pass Deep Earth's trials before she could send him out, and she arranged a combat test suited to his apparent level-five class.
• Lotie summoned a tier-seven Starfall Scorpion for the second trial and warned Lu Cang that it was dangerous.
• Lu Cang killed the Starfall Scorpion instantly with a spear technique, astonishing Lotie and proving that his combat strength met the standard.
• Lotie announced that Lu Cang would proceed to the third trial.

Lu Cang passed Lotie's third trial by rejecting the dream of Deep Earth and choosing to return to reality, then began the fourth trial: sabotaging Aertemi's Ten Thousand Skins Sacrifice. He reached the skin-covered continent and was horrified by its cruelty.

• Lotie explained that trials could turn a god's followers into disciples and strengthen the bond used to channel divine power.
• Lotie offered to erase Lu Cang's memories of awakening and return him to Deep Earth's beautiful dream, but he chose reality and passed the third trial.
• Lotie revealed that four trials were required and sent Lu Cang to disrupt Aertemi's Ten Thousand Skins Sacrifice.
• Lu Cang crossed two million kilometers at astonishing speed and arrived above a continent built from countless human skins, where he felt disgusted and angry.

Lu Cang infiltrated the Rose of Skin Shedding’s island stronghold, took control of its wards, and gathered spells while learning about the four Level 8 Skin Stealers overseeing and guarding the ritual. He prepared a soul-enhancing staff and condensed six cores as Lotie watched, leaving his plan to disrupt the ritual underway.

• Lu Cang bypassed and took control of the island’s wards, then used his perception to locate the Rose of Skin Shedding’s concealed stronghold.
• Lu Cang knocked out a white-robed mage, took his storage pouch, and examined a map and a list identifying the skins worn by powerful Skin Stealers.
• Lu Cang collected three Origin Magics, stole spells from mages in several tents, killed some Level 5 Class-changers, and took control of more wards.
• Lu Cang discovered that four Level 8 Skin Stealers guarded or oversaw the ritual, and decided he could disrupt it without fighting them directly.
• Lu Cang summoned a Soul Burst Iron Staff and condensed six brilliant cores at its tip while Lotie watched.

Lu Cang unleashed Hollow Void on the island, destroying the surrounding sea and the Skin Stealers but leaving the island intact. Aertemi’s Immortal Skin and three other guardians confronted him, and Lu Cang tried to flee as the Warrior pursued him.

• Lu Cang chose not to summon Bai and cast Death Spell: Hollow Void at the island.
• Hollow Void erased the Skin Stealers and cleared the surrounding sea, while Aldeius survived inside his protective runes.
• Lu Cang recognized the island’s living skin as Aertemi’s Immortal Skin and sensed four guardians surrounding him.
• Aldeius and the other guardians said Aertemi had ordered them to guard the place and that Lu Cang would make a fine skin.
• Lu Cang used Skyward Flow’s Eighth Form to escape, but the Warrior with a single-edged blade kept pace and challenged him.

Lu Cang faced a group of level 8 class-changers and was repeatedly torn apart by their attacks, but he regenerated through the Core of the All-Encompassing Whole. Unable to match them without time to build up his strength, he activated the island’s prohibitions to turn the fight in his favor.

• Lu Cang recognized the level 8 Warrior’s speed and identified a mage’s analysis rune as a threat his Unsolvable Mystery talent could counter.
• The Warrior struck with Annihilation Kill, but Lu Cang evaded using Forget and fled through the Void as blades pursued him.
• A level 8 assassin pierced Lu Cang’s shields and repeatedly sliced his body into blood mist, while Lu Cang regenerated from scattered droplets.
• Lotie watched Lu Cang survive the attacks, and an arcane spell disintegrated the area where his blood had scattered.
• Lu Cang reappeared elsewhere on the island because the Core of the All-Encompassing Whole remained intact, then activated the island’s prohibitions.

Lu Cang activated the island’s restrictions, which stripped and weakened the four level-eight Skin Stealers while leaving him unaffected. He then revealed his perfected ninth technique by teleporting behind the Assassin and making its wounds burst open.

• Lu Cang activated every restriction on the island, trapping the four Skin Stealers in effects designed to counter powerful Class-changers.
• The Skin Stealers struggled against the restrictions, and the mage concluded that only Lord Aertemi’s vessel of descent or a legendary level-nine Array Master could have activated them.
• Lu Cang assessed how difficult level-eight opponents were to fight without his divine artifact and considered seeking divine artifacts from Lotie after the trial.
• Lotie noticed Lu Cang conceal his core in a remote nook on the island.
• Lu Cang appeared behind the Assassin and used Skyward Flow—Ninth Form: Scars, causing invisible wounds to cover its body and then burst open.

Lu Cang used the island’s restrictions and his knowledge of the Skin Stealers to impersonate Aertemi and take control of the ritual. He removed one Skin Stealer’s skin and ordered the others to surrender their skins so he could perform the ritual himself.

• Lu Cang’s attack revealed that the ritual was hidden in the four Skin Stealers’ skins, and he realized they were hesitant to fight.
• Lu Cang claimed to be Aertemi and blamed the Skin Stealers for failing to protect the island from an intruder.
• The Skin Stealers accepted Lu Cang’s claim when he removed the restrictions and stored the assassin’s skin in his Ten Thousand Skins Bag.
• The assassin abandoned her skin, revealing the monstrous creature beneath it, and Lu Cang took the skin containing a quarter of the ritual.
• Lu Cang disrupted the arcane mage’s spell and ordered the remaining Skin Stealers to remove their skins so he could conduct the ritual himself.

Lu Cang pretended to be Aertemi to control the four Skin Stealers overseeing the ritual, but a Divine Decree exposed him as a fake. He turned three of them against the Warrior, leaving the fight at three against one.

• Lu Cang refused to give the Skin Stealers a Divine Decree and offered to prove his identity by showing them he could reclaim their skins.
• Lu Cang stole the mage Aldeius's high-tier magic, but a Divine Decree reached the Warrior and revealed that Lu Cang was a fake.
• The Warrior attacked, while Lu Cang used Oblivion · Void to make Aldeius forget how to cast his runes.
• Lu Cang killed the worm-like creature and revived it as an undead ally wearing the assassin's skin.
• Lu Cang trapped Merso's soul, revived him as an undead ally, and left the Warrior as the only enemy still fighting.

Lu Cang defeated Aertemi’s final confidant in the trial, but Lotie stopped the scene before Aertemi could descend through him. She declared Lu Cang Deep Earth’s next heir and began discussing their cooperation.

• Lu Cang used Morsø, the restriction, and Aldeius’s undead form to overwhelm the Warrior as his soul and body deteriorated.
• Aldeius trapped the Warrior with Boundary and destroyed him with Destruction.
• Lotie ended the trial, explaining that killing all four confidants could let Aertemi briefly descend through the last one.
• Lotie confirmed Lu Cang had passed all four trials and become Deep Earth’s next heir, granting him the ability to travel to and from Deep Earth.
• Lotie invited Lu Cang to discuss the terms of their cooperation.

Lotie agreed to teach Lu Cang without demanding his complete faith, and explained how Deep Earth's power could remove Luluwei's Spiritual Pollution. She offered to teach him mind magic and passage-making, leaving Lu Cang with a promise of future help and a possible artifact if she reached Moon Star.

• Lu Cang asked whether becoming Lotie's disciple required him to believe in her completely, and she said she would not restrict his freedom of belief.
• Lu Cang asked Lotie to explain how to remove Spiritual Pollution so he could take Luluwei with him, and she said Luluwei might have been targeted by another force.
• Lotie explained that Deep Earth's power could make Luluwei's belief that she was cured become reality, though the effect depended on belief and strength.
• Lotie refused to give Lu Cang an artifact because nothing belonging to Deep Earth could leave it, but offered to teach him mind-reading, mental protection, mind magic, and how to build a passage between Deep Earth and the outside world.
• Lotie promised that if she reached Moon Star, she might be able to extend her power into the real world and lend Lu Cang an artifact.

Lu Cang used the forbidden arts Lotie taught him to destroy the Foul Worms that had taken over Luluwei’s mindscape and bring her back to the real world. He then repeated the journey through Deep Earth, where Lotie questioned his connection to Ekhatol, before he returned with Luluwei and wondered whether his fantasies could now affect reality.

• Lotie taught Lu Cang mental defenses and several forbidden arts, and asked him to help with her Moon Star ritual.
• Lu Cang confronted the worm-infested version of Luluwei in her mindscape, shielded her with Complete Consciousness Defense, and destroyed the false consciousness.
• The Foul Worms faded from Luluwei’s mindscape, and Lu Cang explained that she had been contaminated in Deep Earth and was recovering.
• After ending Future Simulation, Lu Cang found himself connected to Deep Earth and returned there to retrieve Luluwei.
• Lotie recognized that Lu Cang could travel through nonexistent time and asked what his relationship was to Ekhatol.
• Lu Cang took Luluwei back to the real world and wondered whether his fantasies could affect reality.

Lu Cang discovered that his thoughts could subtly alter reality and rebuilt his sea of consciousness into an impregnable cloud sea. He left Black Secret in the Dark Church’s Forbidden Hall and returned to Moonfall Island as the peaceful Pure Month began.

• Lotie explained that belief and observation could shape reality, and Lu Cang tested the effect by imagining worms inside an apple, which proved rotten when he opened it.
• Lu Cang restored memories of a previous Future Simulation and realized that his imagination had changed the apple even after the simulation ended.
• Lu Cang considered whether the level-nine illusionist Eliayoumi, the Secret Keeper, had hidden Luluwei’s true identity from his God-Tier Talent.
• Lu Cang opened Black Secret and watched its foul corruption fail to penetrate his newly rebuilt Consciousness Cloud Sea.
• Lu Cang placed Black Secret in the Dark Church’s Forbidden Hall, then returned to Moonfall Island on the calm morning of May 1.

Lu Cang gathered the Demonic Tide on Moonfall Island to create a Tier 7 Dungeon, but a mage attacked him after recognizing the Source of Calamity. Lu Cang killed the mage, then entered the newly formed Dungeon alone.

• Lu Cang drew a ritual in the wilderness and used souls to gather the Demonic Tide.
• Lu Cang released the Source of Calamity, and a mage attacked it with lightning.
• Lu Cang told the mage that the Source of Calamity was his contracted beast, but the mage accused him of evil and attacked again.
• Lu Cang killed the mage with his battle spear, and the onlookers backed away or fled.
• A Tier 7 Dungeon formed, and Lu Cang put away the Source of Calamity before walking inside alone.

A yellow-robed mage recovered Old Lei’s body and decided he would have to tell Mesa the truth about his death. Lu Cang spent the day creating and clearing Tier 7 dungeons on Moonfall Island, collecting powerful undead and materials before returning to the docks, where the unrest caused by Luluwei still lingered.

• A yellow-robed mage found Old Lei dead, mourned him, and carried his body away, resolving to tell Mesa despite the danger of her seeking revenge.
• Lu Cang emerged from the Tier 7 Dungeon, summoned the Source of Calamity, and created several more Tier 7 dungeons while powerful onlookers watched.
• Lu Cang sacrificed one hundred million souls to enter Lomo’s Abnormal Nest and later defeated four Nest Masters and two Tier 7, Sixth-Transformation monsters.
• Lu Cang examined the Flesh Origin beneath Moonfall Island and a mutated spinal-brain creature, then returned both undead creatures to the Underworld with his other spoils.
• Lu Cang cleared the remaining dungeons, left the islanders’ memories of the Demonic Tide’s cause hazy, and returned to the docks, where Luluwei’s disturbance still weighed on the island.

Lu Cang prepared to leave Moonfall Island after killing the church hunters who came after him, while Luluwei remained corrupted and under his watch. Leng Qingying challenged his decision to kill people she considered good, but Lu Cang defended himself and warned that her way of thinking would not keep her alive.

• Lu Cang reassured Luluwei that her sea of consciousness would recover, while threatening to kill her if she remained corrupted, and asked Leng Qingying to watch over her.
• Over the next four days, Lu Cang crafted weapons and sensed more church fighters arriving to hunt him, then decided to leave the island.
• Lu Cang told Leng Qingying and Luluwei that he had bought tickets for the next island and planned to travel toward the Land of Seeing the Moon.
• Leng Qingying confronted Lu Cang about the Moonfall Island Incident Report and accused him of killing good people, including members of the Life Church.
• Lu Cang argued that he had the right to kill people who tried to kill him and warned Leng Qingying that her beliefs would not help her survive.

Lu Cang reassured Leng Qingying that he had not been corrupted and led their group off Moonfall Island in disguise. After nine days at sea, they reached the Valley of Emptiness, where Xiu Mi had also traveled to begin an adventure.

• Leng Qingying questioned whether Lu Cang had been corrupted after he killed the people who attacked him, but he insisted he had acted in self-defense.
• Lu Cang and his companions left Moonfall Island under disguise, avoiding the island's security and leaving an evil legend behind.
• During the voyage, Luluwei's corruption eased somewhat, and she became friends with Xiu Mi while practicing archery.
• Lu Cang taught Leng Qingying to fight, crafted equipment and enchantments, and studied mind magic during the nine-day voyage.
• The ship reached the Valley of Emptiness, and Xiu Mi leaned over the railing and seemed to get seasick as they docked.