Recaps

Lu Cang reached the Tree of Wisdom and discovered that most of it had been hollowed out by plundering over tens of millions of years. He took a branch from the tree and placed it in his sea of consciousness.

• Ekhatol appeared with Lu Cang before the Tree of Wisdom, where he explained that it was the origin point of spiritual life.
• Lu Cang used Deepest Truth to see that most of the tree was an illusion and showed Ekhatol what he perceived.
• Lu Cang previewed approaching the few intact parts of the tree and found that touching one increased his spirituality as the tree slowly repaired itself.
• Lu Cang cut off a branch in the preview and saw that nothing retaliated.
• Lu Cang repeated the action in reality and placed a branch of the Tree of Wisdom in his sea of consciousness.

Lu Cang and Ekhatol traveled through the Tree of Wisdom’s remains as Lu Cang gathered its branches into his sea of consciousness. He reached the Highest Leaf and took it too, leaving the Tree completely empty.

• Ekhatol questioned Lu Cang about putting a branch of the Tree of Wisdom in his sea of consciousness, and he said she could try it herself.
• Lu Cang used Phase Shuttle to collect dozens of branches while Ekhatol followed and asked him questions.
• Lu Cang traveled for another half day to reach the distant Highest Leaf, whose abilities seemed similar to some of his own powers and to Izpalut’s talents.
• Lu Cang sent the Highest Leaf into his sea of consciousness, leaving no branches or leaves behind.

Lu Cang left the Tree of Wisdom with Ekhatol and reviewed the past to investigate the ritual that had sent him to the Secret Sea. After deciding he was too weak to confront its mysterious creator, he used Time Leap as the May 18 reset approached, preparing to return to his original timeline.

• Lu Cang asked Ekhatol to send him back, and she fast-forwarded through his life until he reached the Secret Sea.
• Lu Cang remembered he had not investigated who transported him there, so Ekhatol replayed the moment before he was blown away at the airport.
• Lu Cang traced the ritual beneath the ground to an illusory, black-hooded figure, but Secret Origin revealed no information about its identity.
• Ekhatol determined that the ritual had been created before Lu Cang was born and had recently evolved on its own.
• Lu Cang abandoned the search because the ritual's creator might be a god or Moon Star, and he risked being killed if he sought them out.
• As May 18 and the reset arrived, Lu Cang and Ekhatol cast Time Leap, and Lu Cang sensed he could return to his original timeline.

Lu Cang returned to the normal timeline after bidding farewell to Ekhatol and discovered that he had grown into an eighteen-year-old. He emerged into a Moon Sea corrupted by the Abyss of Falling, where a group of arrogant monsters confronted him.

• Lu Cang and Ekhatol said goodbye as the Ring of Time Leap began sending Lu Cang back to his own time-space.
• Lu Cang arrived in an azure passage and found that his body had grown into that of an eighteen-year-old, with both wishes restored.
• Lu Cang adjusted to his changed body, confirmed the passage led outside, and walked through it despite being unable to use Future Simulation.
• Lu Cang emerged onto the surface of the sea and realized the Valley of Emptiness had disappeared and the Moon Sea had been corrupted by the Abyss of Falling.
• Monsters burst from the dark ocean and mocked Lu Cang, with a toad-headed creature demanding that he kneel and beg for mercy.

Lu Cang discovered that intelligent monsters had conquered much of the Moon Sea and used his Origin Magic to defeat a group of toads. After gathering clues about the remaining human resistance, he headed north and reached the Land of Seeing the Moon.

• Lu Cang killed a talking Tier 4 toad and learned that monsters had seized large areas of the Moon Sea, while the Moon Yi Kingdom had surrendered.
• Lu Cang unleashed Tier 6 Origin Magic—Origin Dye, wiping out the attacking toads except for one, which he sealed for study.
• Lu Cang traveled through the Moon Sea, found islands and the continent of Missilshu overrun by monsters, and gathered information from them.
• Lu Cang learned that the Land of Seeing the Moon remained the Moon Sea's last human stronghold, with resistance fighters taking refuge there.
• After two days heading north, Lu Cang spotted the pristine white island known as the Land of Seeing the Moon.

Lu Cang reached the Land of Seeing the Moon, where Loren’s forces were fighting off a monster invasion, and discovered that King Lotdan was present. After saving the defenders from the attacking monsters, Lu Cang appeared in Lotdan’s palace and confronted the royal guards.

• Lu Cang saw Loren’s flag flying over the Land of Seeing the Moon and used a Phase Shuttle passage to enter its walls.
• Lu Cang found the defenses collapsing under a monster invasion and used Infinite Hunter Chaos Shadow and Gapless Darkness to slaughter the invading monsters.
• Lu Cang sensed a Tier 8 Warrior guarding the city but learned that the defenders’ strategy relied on battle to cultivate powerhouses.
• Lu Cang entered Lotdan’s palace, shattered two guards’ blades, and sent royal guard commander Broer crashing into a wall.

Lu Cang reunited with Lotdan in the Land of Seeing the Moon and agreed to stay in the realm, offering to help against the Devilish Creatures if necessary. After learning how his magical theories had spread during his decade away, Lu Cang settled into a manor and began the ritual to advance his mage rank.

• Lotdan recognized Lu Cang and explained that the Land of Seeing the Moon faced increasingly fierce Devilish Creature attacks.
• Lotdan offered Lu Cang any reward he wanted if he would help defend the realm, while courtiers discussed Lu Cang's reputation as a pioneer of magic.
• Lu Cang learned that his magic had become widespread during his absence, while his combat techniques remained known to fewer people.
• Lu Cang agreed to stay in the realm for an uncertain length of time and help if needed, then rented a manor in the city.
• Lu Cang performed the Mage Promotion Ritual, causing the Source's reflection to appear in the sky.

Lu Cang completed his promotion by demonstrating Original Forbidden Magic, then awakened the God-tier Absolute Sea of Magic Power talent. The sea expanded across millions of kilometers as his magic power rose to billions of times its previous level.

• Lu Cang sensed how widely his spells and magical theories had spread, strengthening his connection to the Source.
• Lu Cang cast Seventh Forbidden Magic—Element, and countless mages in the Land of Seeing the Moon witnessed the display and deepened their understanding of the Source.
• Lu Cang completed his promotion and acquired the Forbidden Spellcaster and Myriad Spellcaster class masteries.
• Lu Cang's Magic Expansion talent evolved into God-tier Absolute Sea of Magic Power, granting limitless magic power and new control over spells within the sea.
• Lu Cang expanded the sea of magic power across millions of kilometers, and his reserves grew to several billion times their previous level.

Lu Cang expanded the Absolute Sea of Magic Power across the Land of Seeing the Moon, becoming a Level 6 Mage with immense power and awareness of 120 Moon Star Realms. After using that awareness to strengthen his combat techniques, he found Ansu still asleep in his sea of consciousness and feared the temporal blessing might keep him unreachable for an immense span of time.

• Lu Cang expanded the Absolute Sea of Magic Power, empowered a Fireball with a hundred million units of magic power, and extended his senses across a range of nearly twenty million kilometers.
• Lu Cang settled in the Land of Seeing the Moon and chose to level up rather than immediately advance further.
• Lu Cang reviewed the changes across the ten years of Moon Star Realms of Awareness, including Aromochi's victory and the decline of the Skin Stealers after Aertemi's defeat.
• Lu Cang applied the awareness of the Moon Stars to his combat techniques, strengthening his body, speed, evasiveness, and attacks.
• Lu Cang found Ansu still asleep in his sea of consciousness and realized his blessing of eternal life through time might keep him unreachable for a very long time.

Lu Cang expanded the Sea of Magic and discovered that the Moon Sea held more than a hundred powerful eighth-tier Abyssal monsters. He overheard a Gray Mask explain that Lord Euynri’s research had awakened the monsters, leaving Lu Cang to suspect Euynri was behind the threat.

• Lu Cang reflected on Ansu’s disappearance, considered raising his classes, and resolved to search for Izpalut, Luluwei, and the others.
• Lu Cang expanded the Sea of Magic to a radius of over a billion kilometers and used it to sense everything within its reach.
• Lu Cang counted at least 122 eighth-tier Abyssal monsters, far outnumbering the Land of Seeing the Moon’s seventeen seventh-level fighters and its lone level-eight Warrior, Luga.
• Three hundred million kilometers from the Land of Seeing the Moon, a fly-faced monster asked the Gray Mask why they had not conquered the city.
• The Gray Mask said Lord Euynri’s research had set the monsters on the path of evolution, prompting Lu Cang to suspect Euynri had awakened their intelligence.

Lu Cang infiltrated a devilish creature stronghold, killed Compound Eye, and trapped Gray Mask to question it about Euynri. He left Gray Mask suspecting a traitor among its own ranks and offered to reveal the culprit if it shared what it knew.

• Lu Cang appeared behind Gray Mask and killed Compound Eye with a single strike.
• Lu Cang sealed the imperial palace against escape and pierced the eyes of Gray Mask and the creatures attacking him.
• Lu Cang told Gray Mask he wanted information about Euynri and claimed someone among the devilish creatures had helped him infiltrate the stronghold.
• Lu Cang used Mind Magic to make Gray Mask doubt its allies, then promised to reveal the supposed traitor if Gray Mask told him everything it knew about Euynri.

Lu Cang fought an Eighth-tier Devilish Creature that refused to reveal information about Euynri, then killed it and examined its unusual loyalty and humanlike appearance. He was left wondering whether the creatures could be bred in greater numbers and what their hidden faces meant.

• The Gray Mask Devilish Creature rejected Lu Cang's Mind Magic and attacked him with spikes erupting from its body, the sea, and the land.
• Lu Cang used Shocking Wind Slash to cut the creature in two, then pinned it down and showed it books and blueprints left by Euynri.
• The creature doubted Lu Cang's claim of friendship with Euynri and refused to answer his questions, so Lu Cang sealed its bloodline and vital energy.
• When the creature swelled to attack, Lu Cang destroyed it with Skyward Flow's sixth form, Ruin · Annihilation · Inferno.
• Lu Cang analyzed the creature's instinctive loyalty and strength, removed its Gray Mask to reveal a humanoid face, and considered whether Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures could be mass-produced.

Lu Cang spread his Sea of Magic Power across the Moon Sea, created an escape route through the devastated Secret Sea, and returned to defend the Land of Seeing the Moon. He began the ritual to advance to Level 6 Warrior, and the Warrior’s Source appeared in the sky.

• Lu Cang used Phase Shuttle to expand his Sea of Magic Power across the Moon Sea and established control over the separated areas.
• Lu Cang traveled to the destroyed Secret Sea and left a Sea of Magic Power there as another escape route.
• Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon, where Devilish Creatures threatened its failing defenses and its people faced imminent death.
• Lu Cang modified the Promotion Ritual beneath his manor and began advancing to Level 6 Warrior.
• The Warrior’s Source appeared as a sword wreathed in blazing vigor, stirring hope among the Land of Seeing the Moon’s residents.

During his Level 5 Warrior Promotion Ritual, Lu Cang encountered Yang Ming, a Level 9 Warrior who challenged every perfectly recognized Warrior to prove he was the strongest in history. Their battle began over the sea, with Lu Cang using magic and combat techniques to strike Yang Ming with a barrage of blows.

• Lu Cang faced a white-haired figure who introduced himself as Yang Ming, a Level 9 Warrior who had advanced five years earlier during the incident at Boundless Mountain.
• Yang Ming said he challenged every Warrior who earned perfect recognition, aiming to prove himself the strongest by defeating them at the same level.
• Lu Cang and Yang Ming exchanged attacks, and Lu Cang stopped Yang Ming's punch with Skyward Flow's Tenth Form, causing the monsters attacking the Land of Seeing the Moon to explode.
• Yang Ming followed Lu Cang through a passage to a distant sea so their battle would not harm ordinary people, and invited him to use all his magic.
• Lu Cang slowed time with his Second Forbidden Magic and countered Yang Ming's countless punches, striking him with ten thousand blows.

Lu Cang overwhelmed Yang Ming in their fight, repeatedly breaking through the level-five Warrior’s defenses and leaving him gravely injured. Yang Ming regenerated and renewed his attack, determined to keep fighting as he demanded Lu Cang’s name.

• Lu Cang struck Yang Ming ten thousand times in an instant, disrupting his breathing and shattering much of his protective qi.
• Yang Ming used Divine Wind Style to counterattack by borrowing Lu Cang’s force, but Lu Cang evaded and attacked from above with Skyward Flow.
• Lu Cang’s attacks shattered Yang Ming’s skull, bones, and organs, but Yang Ming activated Emperor Flow to regenerate.
• Lu Cang followed with another kick that destroyed Yang Ming’s arms, then struck through his chest after shifting his position and exploiting Yang Ming’s defense.
• Yang Ming regenerated, asked Lu Cang to tell him his name, and launched another attack despite his injuries.

Lu Cang overwhelmed Yang Ming in their trial fight, neutralizing his attacks and killing him after pinning him with a spear. Yang Ming vowed to defeat Lu Cang in the future, while Lu Cang advanced to level six.

• Yang Ming grew stronger after Lu Cang pierced him, but Lu Cang stopped his kick with the Tenth Form, Halt.
• Lu Cang shattered Yang Ming’s protective qi with a punch and sent him flying.
• Lu Cang summoned and forged a Holy Thunder Spear, then swept aside Yang Ming’s afterimages and struck his real body.
• Yang Ming attacked with spiraling qi and briefly vanished from Lu Cang’s perception, but Lu Cang avoided and countered both attacks.
• Lu Cang pinned Yang Ming with the spear and killed him with destructive force; Yang Ming vowed to defeat him before dissolving into ashes.
• Lu Cang became a level-six warrior after winning the trial.

After reaching level 6 as a Warrior, Lu Cang gained new proficiencies and the God-Tier talent Manifestation of Ten Thousand Ways, which let him glimpse the Way and turn martial skills into paradoxical attacks. He began slaughtering Devilish Creatures to deepen his insight and prepared to seek the final push by fighting Eighth-tier foes.

• Lu Cang reflected on his level 6 Warrior advancement, sensed the Way, and received the Extreme Time and Omni-Skill Mastery proficiencies.
• Lu Cang acquired Manifestation of Ten Thousand Ways, which let him comprehend multiple ways of entering the Way and perceive martial skills’ Way-manifesting forms.
• Lu Cang used Skyward Flow’s Third Form to create Illusory Rain of Annihilation, striking Devilish Creatures before he physically thrust his spear and weaving impossible principles into a Way-Manifesting Skill.
• Lu Cang’s insights brought him close to entering the Way, and he decided that fighting would provide the final push.
• Lu Cang stopped and instantly obliterated all Devilish Creatures within a million kilometers, then turned his attention to the Eighth-tier creatures he had been watching.

Lu Cang tested his new Skyward Way technique on the Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures Modher and Haran. He killed both from a distance and continued hunting the creatures within his expanding perception range.

• Lu Cang's Absolute Sea of Magic Power expanded to a radius of several hundred billion kilometers, bringing more than seven hundred Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures within his perception.
• Haran and Modher discussed the disappearance of Desmanchi and whether they should be cautious around humans.
• Lu Cang appeared between Haran and Modher, sealed their surroundings against escape, and struck them with Illusory Rain of Annihilation.
• Modher died immediately, while Haran fled with his body riddled with wounds that could not heal.
• Lu Cang struck Haran again from afar, killing him as the delayed effect of the attack caught up.

Lu Cang effortlessly killed an Eighth-tier Devilish Creature, then comprehended a new Way-Manifesting Skill while battling a colossal turtle and destroyed it with one strike. After saving the continent the turtle had nearly swallowed, he turned toward two more Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures and appeared behind them.

• Lu Cang reflected that killing Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures was easy, though he still felt uncertain about facing a 9th Tier Class-changer or a true god.
• Lu Cang confronted a giant turtle that attacked his mind, and his defenses absorbed the attack.
• Lu Cang comprehended Skyward Way—Way Two: Untangle All Things and struck the turtle across its many layers of existence.
• Lu Cang held up the continent the turtle had nearly swallowed, killed the turtle, and gently returned the continent to the sea.
• Lu Cang sensed two Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures approaching and appeared behind them, placing his hands on their shoulders.

Lu Cang slaughtered Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures while rapidly comprehending and combining Way-Manifesting Skills. He confronted a one-eyed devilish creature in Loren’s wizard’s robe and recognized it.

• Lu Cang killed two Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures with his Way of Original Severing.
• He destroyed a mountain-shaped devilish creature with the Skyward Way and Path of Invincibility, then continued fighting to approach the Way.
• Lu Cang killed dozens of Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures and developed many Way-Manifesting Skills from their attacks.
• He used Phase Mystery Void to evade attacks, then severed all six arms of a Red Mask Devilish Creature.
• A red-robed devilish creature froze Lu Cang with Eighth-tier ice magic, but he walked free, disabled its magic, and recognized its robe as Loren’s.

Lu Cang traced Hun Mu’s mage robe to a monster mage and learned that it had taken the robe from a corpse on Duoduoduo Continent. He traveled there, found the body, and touched it in hopes of discovering what had happened to Hun Mu.

• Lu Cang recognized the monster mage’s robe as an old Loren Mage Tower design and questioned the monster holding it.
• The monster said it had taken the robe from a corpse on Duoduoduo Continent half a year earlier.
• Lu Cang opened a Phase Passage and brought the monster mage to Duoduoduo Continent to locate the corpse.
• Lu Cang found the headless body and killed the monsters celebrating in the former human cities.
• Lu Cang touched the corpse, hoping to find clues about Hun Mu.

After completing his Dao entry by killing nearly a thousand Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures, Lu Cang sensed the paths of other Warriors who had entered the Dao and realized none of them suited him. He began to form his own Origin Demonic Path, and a bright-red fruit appeared at the end of the road.

• Lu Cang learned from a corpse that Hun Mu was in the Shattered Void Realm, then killed a one-eyed devilish creature after its spirit withered before it could answer questions about Euynri.
• Lu Cang killed every Eighth-tier Devilish Creature within his perceptive range in less than half a day, expanding his sea of magic to two hundred billion kilometers.
• After killing nearly a thousand creatures, Lu Cang completed his Dao entry and saw the road of Warriors who had entered the Dao, including Chicheng and Yang Ming.
• Lu Cang sensed Yang Ming's Emperor's Path and mastered his Way-Manifesting Skill, The Only Supreme Emperor Body Under Heaven.
• Lu Cang rejected the paths left by others and named his own path the Origin Demonic Path, causing a bright-red fruit to appear at the end of the road.

After ten years missing, Lu Cang reappeared on the Warrior path and entered the Dao, uniting all laws into a new path called Cang Dao. He demonstrated its powers at the Land of Seeing the Moon, where he remained untouchable as monsters attacked.

• Chicheng recognized Lu Cang on the Dao-entry path and signaled that he was still at the Tree of the World Center.
• Lu Cang touched the crimson fruit, declared that he had entered the Dao, and united his many body-tempering methods into Cang Dao.
• Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon and used Fate of Certain Death to make Meng Sur's arrow kill the Taoye Demon at once.
• Lu Cang described Cang Dao as a new school beyond combat techniques, magic, and talents.
• Fifth- and sixth-rank monsters attacked Lu Cang, but their attacks passed through him and struck one another as he used Eternal Void Misplacement.

Lu Cang unleashed his new techniques against the devilish creatures attacking the Land of Seeing the Moon, killing their leader with Origin Demonic Path—World of Self. The leader vanished from the present world, leaving its fate inside Lu Cang’s self-created realm unknown.

• Lu Cang used One Realm Cage to drain the approaching devilish creatures, while a seventh-tier archer watched in confusion.
• The archer warned Lu Cang that the half-dragon devilish creature leading the siege was the army’s overlord.
• Lu Cang fought the sevenfold-metamorphosis creature, breaking its sound wave and destroying its tail with Reversal.
• Lu Cang touched the creature’s head and cast Origin Demonic Path—World of Self: Inner, pulling it into a world formed by his own rules.
• Lu Cang remained in the present world as the half-dragon creature disappeared from it.

Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon after killing the devilish creatures threatening it, then confronted Lotdan about the reward for his actions. While observing the king, Lu Cang sensed a golden glow that seemed connected to fortune.

• Lu Cang drained the devilish creatures emerging from the abyss and returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon, where the surviving Class-changers found the invasion ended.
• Lotdan asked Lu Cang whether he had killed the creatures, and Lu Cang displayed the heads of numerous eighth-tier devilish creatures.
• Lu Cang told Lotdan that he had killed all eighth-tier devilish creatures within three hundred billion kilometers and asked what reward he would receive.
• Lotdan acknowledged Lu Cang's strength and asked whether he needed anything, but Lu Cang said he wanted only a reward calculated according to his achievements.
• Lu Cang used his perception to examine Lotdan and saw a golden glow around him that seemed tied to fortune.