Recaps

Lotdan privately welcomed Lu Cang and spoke with him about the years Lu Cang had been away. Their conversation turned to Fate Entanglement, and Lotdan claimed that Loren would never perish as long as he remained emperor before asking Lu Cang whether he was a good emperor.

• Lotdan left his throne, invited Lu Cang to speak privately, and led him to the rear garden.
• Lu Cang told Lotdan he had spent the missing years in some ruins, and Lotdan accepted that he had his own secrets.
• Lotdan asked Lu Cang about Fate and described how one person's decisions could entangle others' fates.
• Lu Cang identified the phenomenon as Fate Entanglement, and Lotdan suggested that his rule guaranteed Loren's survival.
• Lotdan asked Lu Cang whether he thought he was a good emperor.

Lotdan told Lu Cang about the Fate Tome, a book that records intertwined fates and may determine the world’s natural laws. Unable to open it himself, Lotdan revealed that he had hidden it beneath the Loren Continent and suggested Lu Cang might be able to open it.

• Lotdan asked Lu Cang whether he thought he would be a good emperor, and Lu Cang said his intuition told him Lotdan would be one.
• Lu Cang asked whether Lotdan could make him a level-nine Warrior, and Lotdan admitted he could not grant that wish.
• Lotdan explained that the Fate Tome records people’s fates and binds certain outcomes to conditions.
• Lotdan said he had seen his own fate in the Tome as a child: if he became king of Loren, Loren would endure forever.
• Lotdan described finding the Tome again after it was left in Loren, hiding it after ascending the throne, and being unable to open it.
• Lotdan told Lu Cang the Tome was hidden at the deepest point beneath the Loren Continent and suggested Lu Cang might be able to open it.

Lu Cang retrieved the Fate Tome from the Loren Continent and discovered that it required Prophet Level 3 to open. He then showed Lotdan and the people of the Land of Seeing the Moon the surrounding danger before using ninth-tier elemental magic to wipe out the Devilish Creatures across the sea.

• Lu Cang opened a spatial rift to the Loren Continent, retrieved the Fate Tome, and returned in a step, astonishing Lotdan.
• Lu Cang told Lotdan that the Loren Continent had been overrun by Devilish Creatures and that he had killed them there.
• Lu Cang identified the book’s creator as Erl Ripani, recognized the name Pali, and resolved to raise his Prophet level to three so he could open it.
• Lu Cang linked everyone’s senses to his and showed them the vast Moon Sea, the Devilish Creatures, and the sanctuary around the Land of Seeing the Moon.
• Lu Cang cast Solution—Elemental Myriad Manifestations, turning the Devilish Creatures within four thousand billion kilometers into pure elements.

Lu Cang used his Level 6 magic to annihilate the monsters across the Moon Sea, then began the rituals to advance as a Prophet and Death Priest. He wished for his Level 6 Death Priest talent to let him bring back the departed.

• Lu Cang unleashed an endless barrage of 9th-tier elemental magic, transforming the Moon Sea and burying the abyss beneath newly created land.
• Lu Cang ended the spell and cut off everyone’s perception of his senses; he told Lotdan he had only recently reached Level 6 and believed no one beneath the gods could defeat him.
• Lu Cang returned to his manor, prepared the Promotion Rituals for the Prophet and Death Priest, and stood within them.
• Lu Cang recalled Ansu, Chicheng, and the corruption’s influence, then wished for his Level 6 Death Priest talent to let him bring back the departed.

After reaching Level 6, Lu Cang acquired the God-Tier Rebirth Reincarnation talent, which let him awaken another person’s past-life memories and restore that life’s class level. He used it on a bard in the city, who regained memories and the abilities of his former life as a Level 7 archer.

• Lu Cang reached Level 6 and acquired the God-Tier Rebirth Reincarnation talent.
• Lu Cang examined a bard’s past lives and found one in which the man had been a Level 7 archer.
• Lu Cang awakened the bard’s memories from that life and restored his Level 7 archer class.
• The bard tested his restored abilities by unleashing the seventh-tier archery skill Star Burst.

Lu Cang used his reincarnation talent to awaken the memories of people across the Land of Seeing the Moon, including Mede and his old enemy Sheng Yi. Sheng Yi remembered Lu Cang killing him, but faced him again while powerless against Lu Cang’s overwhelming strength.

• Mede accidentally displayed the power of a level 7 archer, and royal guards took him away after he agreed to go peacefully.
• The archer who had returned from battle learned that the Land of Seeing the Moon had already been liberated and was bewildered by the events around Mede.
• Lu Cang surveyed the Land of Seeing the Moon and considered how reincarnation preserved people’s instincts and karmic ties.
• Lu Cang restored Sheng Yi’s memories, causing the child known as Saint Wei to remember his past life and recognize Lu Cang as his killer.
• Sheng Yi confronted Lu Cang but felt helpless against the vast gulf between their strength.

Lu Cang restored Sheng Yi’s memories of his past life, and Sheng Yi accepted his defeat and left after offering his help. Lu Cang then awakened the past-life memories and Level 7 strength of several thousand people in the Land of Seeing the Moon before turning his attention to his own past life.

• Sheng Yi realized Lu Cang had restored his past-life memories, and Lu Cang explained that circumstances had changed since he killed him.
• Sheng Yi accepted that he had lost and no longer sought revenge, then offered Lu Cang his help and sent him a phantom sword as a means of contact.
• Sheng Yi left on a flying sword, unaware that Lu Cang could still perceive him from far away.
• Lu Cang wondered whether multiple people could possess the unique Sword Saint class after awakening Sheng Yi’s class.
• Lu Cang awakened the past-life memories of several thousand people in the Land of Seeing the Moon, granting them at least Level 7 strength.
• After the awakenings, Lu Cang focused on his own past life.

Lu Cang tested whether he could awaken a past life, but found nothing there and wondered if he was an empty shell. In a Future Simulation, he repeatedly reincarnated and discovered that he retained all his levels and abilities, revealing a possible path to becoming a god while still returning to the world.

• Lu Cang tried to look at his past life but found only emptiness, prompting him to recall Ansu and Pali's suggestion that he might be an empty shell.
• Lu Cang used his last Future Simulation, killed himself, and reincarnated with all his classes, abilities, and memories intact.
• Lu Cang explored a remote southern tribe, then killed himself again and confirmed that his talent persisted through reincarnation.
• Lu Cang reincarnated more than a hundred times during the simulation, retaining the strength of every incarnation.
• Lu Cang realized that he could train different classes across successive lives and might become a god, then reincarnate whenever he wanted to leave the Divine Kingdom.

After fleeing from Lu Cang, Sheng Yi wondered how Lu Cang had awakened his memories, while Lu Cang advanced to the Prophet rank and gained the power to see and rewrite hidden fates. Lu Cang tested the ability on people in the Land of Seeing the Moon and discovered he could transfer their fates, though he left Lotdan’s fate untouched.

• Sheng Yi fled across the sea, then considered asking Lu Cang how he had awakened him but found himself too afraid to return.
• Lu Cang completed the Prophet Promotion Ritual and foresaw a pure white world destroyed by an endless pallor.
• Lu Cang advanced to Prophet and gained Divine—Rewrite Fate, which let him see hidden fates and remove or transfer them.
• Lu Cang read the fates above several people in the Land of Seeing the Moon, including Lotdan’s destiny to become Emperor of Loren and preserve his kingdom.
• Lu Cang tested transferring Lotdan’s fate, confirmed that it worked, then left it alone and considered taking more amusing fates for himself.

Lu Cang stole a useful destiny from a Level 2 planter, then opened Pali’s book and discovered records of people’s destinies and events guaranteed to shape the future. He wondered whether Pali had left him the book so he could change those foretold events.

• Lu Cang found a Level 2 planter whose destiny let them spot dangerous enemies early, then transferred that destiny to himself.
• Lu Cang opened Pali’s book, Fate, and read the recorded destinies of people including Roa and Leng Qingying.
• Lu Cang found records of gods’ strange destinies, but saw that he himself had none.
• Lu Cang read the book’s heavenly decrees, which described future events that would inevitably come to pass.
• Lu Cang recalled Pali’s prophecy and wondered whether she had given him the book because he could change the future.

Lu Cang read Pali’s account of Fate and discovered that the divine artifact had recorded his God-Tier Wish talent, giving him one chance to make a wish. He then tested his Origin Magic in the World of Self, where he killed and restored a half-dragon monster before creating hundreds of undead copies.

• Lu Cang read that the next major event was the reshaping of the Source and that Pali had left Volume Three blank for the next Prophet.
• Lu Cang focused on the book of Fate, and it imprinted his God-Tier Wish talent on its final page.
• Lu Cang considered wishing to become the strongest person in the world but decided to save his single wish for later.
• Lu Cang entered his World of Self and crushed the trapped half-dragon monster with the world's elemental power.
• Lu Cang tried to reverse time to restore the monster, but it exploded and died; he then assembled its body and summoned hundreds of identical undead.

Lu Cang used his adapted magic to summon over a million Eighth-tier Devil undead, then traveled to Boundless Mountain. There, he rescued a child from a Devil in a fifth-tier dungeon and realized the Warrior protecting the child was already dead.

• Lu Cang summoned nearly a thousand Devil undead he had killed before creating over a million more in his World of Self.
• Lu Cang left his World of Self, checked his Life Pointer, and wondered what had happened to Iz, the others, and Kumiloni.
• Lu Cang traveled through a phase rift to Boundless Mountain and found the land devastated by Devil invasions.
• Lu Cang sensed a fifth-tier dungeon and saw a child hiding behind a Warrior while a Nation-Destroying Tier Devil attacked.
• Lu Cang killed the Devil and stood before the child, then realized the Warrior was dead and could not be revived by ordinary means.

Lu Cang found a young boy among the dead in a dungeon where monsters had inexplicably appeared, and learned that the boy’s father had brought their family there to escape the dangerous outside world. Lu Cang offered to take the boy to the Moon Sea and awaken his potential, and the boy accepted, determined to become stronger.

• Lu Cang calmed the frightened boy and confirmed that the adventurers and the boy’s father had all died.
• The boy explained that his family had moved into the cleared dungeon for safety, but a winged monster attacked three days earlier.
• Lu Cang concluded that monsters had appeared in the dungeon despite it being cleared and offered to take the boy to the Moon Sea.
• Lu Cang promised to perform an Early Awakening ritual for the boy, who asked to go and become strong enough to save others.

Lu Cang brought Mo Cheng, a child with a radiant past life, through Phase Space to the Land of Seeing the Moon. He left Mo Cheng in Emperor Lotdan’s care and planned to help him choose a class after he rested.

• Lu Cang learned that Mo Cheng had no past life of his own but possessed a past life that shone like the Tree of Wisdom.
• Lu Cang guided Mo Cheng through Phase Space, explaining that he had temporarily altered Mo Cheng’s body so the boy could sense and cross it.
• Mo Cheng followed Lu Cang’s light through the darkness and sensed continents and the sea as they traveled.
• Lu Cang and Mo Cheng arrived in the Land of Seeing the Moon during the month of Aromochi of Forging and Reinforcement.
• Lu Cang asked Emperor Lotdan to protect Mo Cheng, and Lotdan promised him the best treatment in Loren.
• Lu Cang told Mo Cheng to rest before they discussed his class, and an attendant led the boy to his lodgings.

After leaving Mo Cheng, Lu Cang traveled to Boundless Mountain and used the Source Law: Core of All Disintegration to destroy the monsters devastating the region. He left the people beneath a purple sun, hailed as their savior.

• Lotdan asked Luga what he thought of Lu Cang, and Luga said Lu Cang was already no different from a god.
• Lu Cang watched Loren crying alone in a mansion and told him to process his feelings and grow from the pain.
• Lu Cang arrived at Boundless Mountain and created the Core of All Disintegration, whose light dissolved the monsters across the region.
• Lu Cang traveled across Boundless Mountain, destroying monsters and underground cities as people watched and prostrated themselves before him.
• On May 24, the people of Boundless Mountain saw Lu Cang holding a purple light aloft and regarded him as a savior.

Lu Cang expanded his Absolute Sea of Magic Power across Boundless Mountain and the surrounding seas, then traced the power that had cleared Turbid Sea’s Devilish Creatures to Roa. He met Roa, whose abilities made Lu Cang’s attack unpredictable, and foresaw what would happen that day.

• Lu Cang saved countless people in Boundless Mountain while killing seven Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures, then sensed a godlike gaze from a Forbidden Zone and left it undisturbed.
• Lu Cang returned to Secret Sea, found it devastated and low in magic power, and marked several areas with his Absolute Sea of Magic Power.
• In Turbid Sea, Lu Cang used Chaos Remnants to trace the clearing of the Devilish Creatures to Roa, then hurried to find him.
• Roa sensed Lu Cang approaching and used his Trick Body to evade the first touch, but Lu Cang placed a hand on his head and triggered Roa’s field of unpredictable battle effects.
• Roa recognized Lu Cang from Secret Sea ten years earlier, and Lu Cang stopped the time freeze, reassured him, and asked what he was doing in Turbid Sea.
• As they spoke, Lu Cang briefly lost focus and saw into the future, learning everything that would happen that day.

Lu Cang questioned Roa about the world’s monster crisis and the Expeditionary Force, then returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon to oversee Mo Cheng’s class advancement. Mo Cheng chose to become a mage.

• Lu Cang sealed Roa inside a powerful barrier and asked why he was staying in the Turbid Sea.
• Roa explained that monsters were attacking across the world, the gods had withdrawn, and the Expeditionary Force had stopped a threat in Dream Sea.
• Roa told Lu Cang that he had received an invitation to join the Expeditionary Force but had declined it.
• Lu Cang left Roa, promising to visit him again, and returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon.
• Lu Cang asked Mo Cheng which class he wanted to advance to, and Mo Cheng said he wanted to become a mage.

Lu Cang awakened Mo Cheng as a mage and discovered that the boy possessed God-Tier Absolute Pure Focus. He accepted Mo Cheng as his disciple and began teaching him magic, leaving the boy able to cast Lightning Strike Technique after only two attempts.

• Lu Cang performed a Promotion Ritual for Mo Cheng, who gathered a ball of flame from the elements.
• Lu Cang learned that Mo Cheng had awakened God-Tier Absolute Pure Focus, a talent that let him choose and rapidly evolve a unique spell at each mage level.
• Mo Cheng asked Lu Cang to teach him, and Lu Cang agreed to return when he had time and accepted him as his disciple.
• Lu Cang found that Mo Cheng had an affinity for all elements and taught him the Lightning Strike Technique.
• Mo Cheng successfully cast Lightning Strike Technique after two attempts, and Lu Cang thought of his own teacher, Iz.

Lu Cang trained Mo Cheng in magic, gave him books and tools, and warned him to keep his talent secret. He then traveled to a well-preserved city-state in Boundless Mountain and began forging while extending his Absolute Sea of Magic Power toward the Tree of the World Center.

• Mo Cheng practiced Lightning Strike Technique until his magic power began to run low, and Lu Cang praised his progress.
• Lu Cang gave Mo Cheng books containing his magic insights, a sealed copy of Magic Enhancement Technique, and a Storage Ring.
• Lu Cang told Mo Cheng to conceal his talent, informed Lotdan that Mo Cheng was his apprentice, and gave him a Phase Ball and instructions for contacting him.
• Lu Cang left Mo Cheng and traveled through a rift to a fortified city-state in Boundless Mountain.
• Lu Cang extended his Absolute Sea of Magic Power toward the Tree of the World Center and began forging alloy to improve his Blacksmith level.

Mo Cheng continued training under Lu Cang, whose extraordinary deeds had become the subject of wild rumors across the Land of Seeing the Moon. After Mo Cheng attacked him with several spells, Lu Cang prepared to counter and urged him to fight with the resolve to surpass his master.

• Mo Cheng reflected on his growing mastery of Void Magic as palace residents speculated about his talent and repeated stories of Lu Cang’s power.
• People claimed Lu Cang had cleared a vast region of monsters and sealed the abyss, while remnants of the Reincarnation Church sought him out and encountered Sheng Yi instead.
• At the royal training ground, Lu Cang asked Mo Cheng to demonstrate his training and criticized the scattered control of his Void Infusion Flame.
• Mo Cheng followed with an ice spear and lightning, but Lu Cang sensed and countered his spells, then challenged him to fight with the determination to surpass him.

Lu Cang trained Mo Cheng in combat and prepared to help him rank up before meeting a blindfolded man from the Expeditionary Force above the Moon Sea. The man invited Lu Cang to join a mission to hunt a Lair Lord, but their conversation ended with Lu Cang questioning whether he meant a Nest Master.

• Lu Cang pushed Mo Cheng through a fight with Earth Spikes, teaching him to use Void Assimilation and to sense threats beyond what he could see.
• Lu Cang said Mo Cheng had mastered the magic of every element and was ready for a perfect promotion, but paused to deal with something else.
• Lu Cang appeared above the Moon Sea and met a blindfolded man carrying a long blade, who asked whether Lu Cang had saved the Land of Seeing the Moon.
• The man revealed that he belonged to the Expeditionary Force and described the danger posed by awakened Devilish Creatures, then invited Lu Cang to join a hunt for a Lair Lord.
• Lu Cang asked whether the man meant a Nest Master, but the man insisted that the target was a Lair Lord.

Lu Cang accepted the blindfolded man's invitation to join the Expeditionary Force after simulating a future in which he fought at the Evil Lair. He used further simulations to find the force's secret base and arrived at the room of the Great Sage.

• Lu Cang simulated a future where he and four level 8 companions attacked the Evil Lair and learned about the mission to destroy its Evil Heart Pillars.
• Lu Cang learned that Iz and the others belonged to the Expeditionary Force on a separate, classified mission.
• Lu Cang agreed to join the Expeditionary Force and asked to meet the Great Sage immediately.
• Lu Cang performed more Future Simulations, opened a Phase Passage, and led the blindfolded swordsman to the Expeditionary Force's secret base.
• Lu Cang passed through the base's barriers and entered a shabby room where the Great Sage, a fish-man in a white lab coat, sat waiting.

Lu Cang learned that the Merman Sage’s team had gone missing in the Abyss of Falling and agreed to retrieve them in exchange for the Eighth Forbidden Magic, Destiny. The magic was located inside the abyss, and the Merman Sage gave Lu Cang directions as he prepared for the mission.

• Xi learned that Lu Cang had broken her Level 8 barriers, and the blindfolded man told her he had killed every devilish creature around the Land of Seeing the Moon.
• The blindfolded man explained that the Great Sage had ordered him to bring Lu Cang in, while Xi warned that Lu Cang might endanger their organization.
• Lu Cang confirmed that Izpalut belonged to the organization, and the Merman Sage explained that a team exploring the Abyss of Falling had lost contact.
• The Merman Sage asked Lu Cang to find the missing team and help close the fissure connecting the abyss to the Moon Sea.
• Lu Cang agreed to enter the Abyss of Falling in exchange for the Eighth Forbidden Magic, Destiny, and the Merman Sage gave him a map to its location.

Lu Cang explored a ruin in the Abyss of Falling, where monsters linked to Sophia’s Divine Authority regenerated after death and evidence tied the Abnormal Nest to Sophia, Zhuya, and Kumiloni. He destroyed the monsters and reached the spiraling pit where the Eighth Forbidden Magic, Destiny, was said to be located.

• Lu Cang arrived in the Abyss of Falling and wiped out the monsters surrounding him with a glance.
• Lu Cang discovered that the monsters regenerated within seconds and traced their mutation and revival ability to Sophia’s Divine Authority, Wild Life.
• Lu Cang reviewed his records, which connected Sophia and Zhuya to the Abnormal Nest and suggested Kumiloni was inside it.
• Lu Cang killed the regenerated monsters with Disintegration Wave and learned that the ruin also contained transformed planets from the Astral Realm.
• Lu Cang used Phase Shuttle to reach the spiraling pit where the Merman Sage’s map placed Destiny.

Lu Cang entered an illusion resembling Earth and confronted Xin Qianhuan, who blamed him for breaking his promise to Lotie. He proposed they work together to obtain the Eighth Forbidden Magic, Fate, and learned that Xin Qianhuan needed his help with something she could not handle.

• Lu Cang passed through the whirlpool and recognized the Earth-like setting as an illusion through Deepest Truth.
• Lu Cang seized control of Xin Qianhuan's illusion and questioned her about whether Lotie had sent her.
• Xin Qianhuan accused Lu Cang of breaking his promise to Lotie, which had cost her master the chance to become Moon Star.
• Lu Cang revealed that he sought the Eighth Forbidden Magic, Fate, and suggested they work together because Original Forbidden Magic was not exclusive.
• Lu Cang used Mind Magic to calm Xin Qianhuan, who admitted that there was something in the area she could not deal with.