Recaps

Chen Yi defeated the Black Stone Gang at the dock and questioned Shi San about a masked corpse tied to the Luoding Village massacre. He uncovered a strand of red hair as a clue, then chased Shi San when he tried to escape.

• Chen Yi killed the Black Stone Gang members who attacked him, and the gang fled as Shi San was left alone.
• Chen Yi turned the dock laborers against the gang, and they rushed to seize its headquarters and wealth.
• Chen Yi showed Shi San a mask, and Shi San revealed it had belonged to a dead masked man who had floated downstream with Chen Yi and Dachun.
• Shi San led Chen Yi to the burial site, where Chen Yi unearthed the corpse and found a lock of red hair among its remains.
• Shi San tried to escape while Chen Yi examined the corpse, but Chen Yi pursued him with a huge burning hand.

Chen Yi killed Shi San, escaped with Dachun, and returned toward White Cloud County after rumors made him seem like a renowned martial arts master. Near home, he encountered Xu Linglong and her bandits again.

• Chen Yi used Burning Cloud Hand to burn Shi San to death and destroy the Black Stone Gang.
• Chen Yi and Dachun traveled along the Qing River, and Chen Yi renamed Dachun Chen Xiaochun.
• At an inn in Qing River County, Chen Yi heard exaggerated stories about the Black Stone Gang’s destruction and realized the rumors concealed his identity.
• After resting, Chen Yi bought a carriage and traveled with Chen Xiaochun toward White Cloud County, where he detected traces of demonic aura.
• Near White Cloud County Town, Xu Linglong and her bandit lackeys stopped Chen Yi’s carriage, and he asked why she had appeared again.

Chen Yi subdued Xu Linglong’s bandits, learned that a former Chixin Sect disciple might offer a lead in the Village Massacre Case, and reached White Cloud County with Dachun. He left Dachun at Yuelai Inn and headed to his Third Sister’s home to complete the guidance mission.

• Chen Yi used his fiery hand to frighten Xu Linglong and her bandits into surrendering, then questioned a red-haired lackey about his former Chixin Sect training.
• The lackey explained that the Heart Fire Technique had destroyed his dantian and that a locust plague and stolen relief grain had left him with no choice but to become a bandit.
• Chen Yi noted the Chixin Sect as a possible lead in the Village Massacre Case and warned Xu Linglong that her stronghold’s Second Leader might be a traitor.
• Chen Yi arrived in White Cloud County, bought candied hawthorns for Dachun, and booked a room for him at Yuelai Inn.
• Chen Yi tested whether Mei Sanniang remembered their simulated romance, found that she did not, and set off for his Third Sister’s home to complete the guidance mission.

Chen Yi reunited with his Third Sister, Chen Yun, and explained his survival with a fabricated story. After claiming his guidance mission reward, he drew the purple Epic Term Treasure-Snatching Extraordinary Nose and began planning how to find the Myriad Souls Banner and nourish it with demon souls.

• Chen Yun prayed for Chen Yi's survival, and Chen Yi surprised her by arriving at her home alive.
• Chen Yi reunited with Chen Yun and met his niece, Nannan, promising to buy her candy.
• Chen Yi told Chen Yun that he and Dachun had survived with help from a kind old Martial Artist and a wealthy merchant's reward.
• Chen Yi completed his guidance mission and received ten Spirit Guiding Pills.
• Chen Yi drew the purple Epic Term Treasure-Snatching Extraordinary Nose, which could detect supreme treasures nearby.
• Chen Yi considered seeking the Myriad Souls Banner and planned to feed it demon souls rather than slaughter innocent people.

Chen Yi reunited with Chen Yun and Shen Qingshan, then persuaded Shen Qingshan to stop investigating suspicious murder cases by promising to expose White Cloud County’s demon lairs to an incoming commandery inspection. Before bed, Chen Yi prepared to begin his third simulation, determined to confront Feng Yucheng.

• Chen Yun carefully prepared a room for Chen Yi and urged him to stay with her rather than buy his own house.
• Shen Qingshan returned, joyfully reunited with Chen Yi, and offered him four Cultivation Methods and a possible path into the Monster Slaying Division.
• Chen Yi warned Shen Qingshan that investigating the suspicious murder cases could endanger his family, and claimed his absent master had advised him to stop.
• Chen Yi promised to reveal the locations of Demon Race lairs to the commandery inspector in half a year, giving Shen Qingshan hope that the wrongly accused could be cleared.
• Back in his room, Chen Yi prepared for his third simulation and vowed to settle things with Feng Yucheng.

Chen Yi searched Hongtong County for the Myriad Souls Banner but concluded it had not arrived yet, then returned to White Cloud County and mapped the Demon Race’s three lairs. After learning the commandery’s Monster Slaying Colonel was inspecting the county, he planned to send him the locations anonymously, and Shen Qingshan offered a suitable courier.

• Chen Yi rode to Hongtong County and searched for the Myriad Souls Banner, but found no trace of it and decided to wait until Old Liu obtained it in the seventeenth year.
• Chen Yi returned to White Cloud County and used demonic aura to locate and memorize three Demon Race lairs on White Cloud Ridge.
• Chen Yi learned that the Monster Slaying Colonel was inspecting the county and had refused visits from local gentry and powerful clans.
• Chen Yun scolded Chen Yi for disappearing, and Chen Yi claimed he had gone into seclusion to train.
• Chen Yi told Shen Qingshan about the three lairs and his plan to send an anonymous letter to the posthouse.
• Shen Qingshan said he had a more suitable candidate to deliver the letter.

Chen Yi’s intervention exposed White Cloud County’s wrongful executions and led Zhang Miao to reopen the cases, though Feng Yucheng escaped and the demons evaded capture. As the simulation entered its second year, Chen Yi received a golden entry that strengthened him against non-human races.

• A peasant woman accused White Cloud County officials of framing her husband for deaths caused by demons, and other townspeople joined her in seeking justice.
• Zhang Miao stopped County Magistrate Cao from silencing the woman, ordered the cases reopened, and sent his subordinates after Feng Yucheng when Chen Yi revealed his escape.
• The wrongful convictions were overturned and Cao was imprisoned, but Feng Yucheng escaped and the demon-slaying force found only traces of the demons before they fled.
• Shen Qingshan discussed the Chixin Sect with Chen Yi and offered to use the Shen family's connections to help him seek entry.
• Chen Yi saw an opportunity to repeat his intervention in reality and prepare to capture Feng Yucheng, then received the golden Toughest Father of Foreign Races entry in the simulation's second year.

Chen Yi joined the Chixin Sect to investigate the massacre at Luoding Village, but found no useful clues and grew wary of its Ancient Pagoda. After using his new Silent Step Entry to sneak inside, he triggered a formation and saw two figures appear.

• Chen Yi replaced Effort Will Be Rewarded with The Toughest Father of Foreign Races and joined the Chixin Sect as a gate patroller.
• Chen Yi spent a year at the sect, improved his cultivation, and noticed that his Spider Senses reacted whenever he passed the Ancient Pagoda.
• Chen Yi drew Silent Step and replaced Has Demonic Aura with it after learning the sect’s ancestor had left for a convention.
• Chen Yi sneaked into the empty seven-story pagoda and studied its unfamiliar formation patterns.
• The formation lit up and triggered Chen Yi’s Spider Senses, so he leaped outside and hid motionless on the eaves as two figures appeared.

During his patrol, Chen Yi overheard two Alien Race agents discussing their outposts and Demon Bridge Formations, then survived their attack and memorized the tower’s formation patterns. He continued cultivating at the Chixin Sect, reached the eighth level of Spirit Gathering over ten years, and looked forward to claiming the Myriad Souls Banner in two years.

• Chen Yi listened as two strangers in the tower revealed that they were from the Alien Race and used seven Demon Bridge Formations to connect their outposts.
• One stranger detected Chen Yi by scent and attacked him with Pain-Piercing Demonic Sound, but Chen Yi endured the injury and waited until they left.
• Chen Yi memorized the formation patterns in the tower before returning to the Chixin Sect to seek further clues.
• At age twenty-two, Chen Yi reached the sixth level of Spirit Gathering and exchanged patrol contribution points for Rocket Step after befriending Yin Rui.
• Over the next ten years, Chen Yi reached the eighth level of Spirit Gathering and planned to use the Myriad Souls Banner in two years to advance by killing demons.

Chen Yi discovered a Demon Tide attacking the Chixin Sect and used his powerful Entry to fight through the demons. As the sect’s defenses collapsed, he saw Yin Rui in danger and faced a choice between rescuing her, escaping, or looting resources.

• Chen Yi spotted demonic aura during patrol, but his team doubted him until boar demons attacked and a vast Demon Tide advanced on the Chixin Sect.
• Chen Yi defeated a boar demon with a single punch, then used his boosted Blood Qi and Rocket Step to force his way toward the sect.
• The Chixin Sect activated its Mountain Protection Array, but a colossal dragon-like creature shattered it and demons flooded the grounds.
• Chen Yi fought through the invading demons and prepared to escape, but saw Yin Rui battling a large group near the Library Pavilion.
• The simulation paused for Chen Yi to choose whether to save Yin Rui, flee, or loot the Chixin Sect.

Chen Yi rescued Yin Rui during Chixin Sect’s destruction and escaped with a chest of valuable Cultivation Methods. After upgrading his cultivation and learning new martial arts, he drew a trait that let him identify whether one target each day was good or bad.

• Chen Yi charged into the demon horde to help Yin Rui, who entrusted him with Chixin Sect’s Cultivation Methods and urged him to preserve them.
• Chen Yi fought past the demons and sect members trying to seize the books, while Yin Rui stayed behind to defend Chixin Sect.
• A giant-sword swordsman named Li Liushui confronted Azure Dragon, whose strike flattened Chixin Sect’s mountaintop and blasted Chen Yi hundreds of meters away.
• Chen Yi escaped with the chest and later found it contained fourteen mid-level and six high-level Cultivation Methods.
• Chen Yi memorized the methods, replaced his External and Internal Cultivation methods, and learned high-level martial arts while staying in a small town.
• At age thirty-three, Chen Yi drew the purple trait “The Only True Prophet on the Scene,” which let him identify one person each day as good or bad.

Chen Yi upgraded his cultivation techniques and followed the scent of a supreme treasure into the forest, where two experts seized him to help save a poisoned princess. He found the princess in a cave, but her identity remained unknown.

• Chen Yi replaced his traits and spent a year cultivating the Chixin Sect’s Heart Flame Mysterious Technique and Pure Yang Spirit Guiding Mysterious Technique.
• Chen Yi smelled a supreme treasure and tracked its scent from Dongchi Town into the nearby forest.
• Two armored men discussed how the princess had been poisoned with Love Flower Poison and needed yang energy to survive.
• The men grabbed Chen Yi and brought him to a cave, where he saw the beautiful, feverish princess.

Chen Yi saved Princess Baihua, Li Lingyue, from Love Flower Poison and learned she was fleeing a political marriage to Dashiguo. After she protected him from her guards, Chen Yi left and continued his journey to find Old Liu’s Myriad Souls Banner, where he witnessed a grave explode.

• Chen Yi cured Li Lingyue’s Love Flower Poison, and she told him she had fled her political marriage to the Dashiguo King.
• Li Lingyue protected Chen Yi from her guards and claimed they were in love, allowing him to leave alive.
• Chen Yi traveled to Hongtong County in search of the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi found Old Liu mourning at his family’s grave, which suddenly exploded.

You stopped Old Liu from accepting the Myriad Souls Banner’s power, broke its vessel, and learned that the surviving Artifact Spirit needed a master to restore its strength. After bargaining over how to share power gained from souls, you agreed to take it along while hunting demons and evil spirits.

• The Myriad Souls Banner emerged from Old Liu’s father’s grave and tempted Old Liu with power, but you knocked him unconscious before he could accept.
• The Banner tried to seduce you, but your resistance to Alien Race seduction let you seize it and break its vessel with your punches.
• A dark-glowing ball emerged from the broken banner and explained that it was the Artifact Spirit of a weakened Immortal Artifact whose main body had been lost.
• The Artifact Spirit offered to help you grow stronger by refining souls, and you negotiated a fifty-fifty split of the soul power.
• You asked whether demon souls would work, then agreed to take the Artifact Spirit along as you hunted demons and evil spirits.

After acquiring the Myriad Souls Banner, you went to Hongtong County and rescued an infant from a Wolf Demon posing as the Mountain God. You collected your first Demon Soul, while the banner’s Artifact Spirit remained hidden in a shabby Soul-Summoning Banner.

• You placed the Myriad Souls Banner’s Artifact Spirit in a tattered Soul-Summoning Banner and warned it that it could not be exposed.
• You entered the Mountain God Temple in Laogou Village as the villagers offered an infant to their supposed god.
• You destroyed the statue, caught the infant, and confronted the figure that appeared in a cloud of holy mist.
• You revealed the Mountain God as a Wolf Demon and defeated it with your spear while protecting the infant.
• You returned the infant, warned the villagers against human sacrifice, and used the Myriad Souls Banner to collect your first Demon Soul.

You trained by hunting demons and feeding their souls to the Myriad Souls Banner, reaching the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering and earning the nickname Red Hair. When five rogue Martial Artists tried to rob you on the road, you summoned the banner’s Demon Souls to overwhelm them.

• You traveled across Dagan hunting demons, and the growing number of Demon Souls in the Myriad Souls Banner helped your cultivation advance.
• You sold demon materials for crystal stones and used them to buy pills, while deciding against working with the Monster Slaying Division because the banner might be exposed.
• You reached the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering and became known in Dagan’s southern region as Red-Haired Demon Slayer.
• You rode toward Shenbing Commandery to find a better body for the Myriad Souls Banner, but five rogue Martial Artists blocked the road and demanded your crystal stones and Storage Spirit Artifact.
• You summoned the Myriad Souls Banner and ordered its Demon Souls to attack the five robbers, who were terrified and helpless against them.

At forty, Red Hair reached Divine Soldier City hoping to have a low-grade version of the Myriad Souls Banner forged, but postponed the plan because he had too few crystal stones. The banner then proposed a Myriad Souls Infusion Formation to help him break through to the Soul Tempering Realm, leaving him determined to earn the resources he needed by killing demons.

• Red Hair stored crystal stones inside the Myriad Souls Banner, which argued that it had not stolen any when the amounts came up short.
• Red Hair arrived in Divine Soldier City and asked Feng Mo of Cangbing Pavilion to forge a Demon Subduing Banner from the banner's blueprint.
• Feng Mo warned that Artifact Refining could fail, so Red Hair left to save more crystal stones before paying for the work.
• Red Hair remained stuck at the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering despite studying the Green Flame Heart Technique.
• The Myriad Souls Banner described the Myriad Souls Infusion Formation, which required many Soul Bodies, a Formation Master, substantial crystal stones, and a mid-grade Spiritual Artifact body.
• Red Hair realized he would need to hire, not kidnap, a Formation Master and resolved to kill demons and sell their materials for crystal stones.

The Red-Haired Demon Slayer encountered two spirit monkeys outside Divine Soldier City, then found a tiger demon slaughtering a village. The tiger demon broke through to the Golden Body Realm during their fight, leaving him facing an opponent two realms above him.

• The Red-Haired Demon Slayer followed the scent of a supreme treasure to a waterfall and found a golden staff that a golden monkey claimed as his weapon.
• He met the golden-furred Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey and the timid red-furred Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, who had wiped out the demons in Shenbing Commandery.
• After leaving the commandery, he discovered a tiger demon massacring villagers and attacked it with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The tiger demon’s roar scattered many Demon Souls, so the Red-Haired Demon Slayer put the banner away and fought with his Flame Iron Heavy Sword and pure-yang techniques.
• The tiger demon broke through to the Golden Body Realm and threatened to swallow the Red-Haired Demon Slayer.

Chen Yi continued hunting demons and preparing a breakthrough, eventually having Mo Ye build a formation to help him enter Soul Tempering. The Myriad Souls Banner released more than three hundred Demon Souls into the formation, and Chen Yi braced for the painful process as it began.

• The Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey killed the Tiger Demon, then guided Chen Yi through the Heart Method until he mastered its circulation.
• Over the next five years, Chen Yi kept hunting demons and improving his Cultivation Methods while remaining at the Twelfth Layer of Spirit Gathering.
• Chen Yi declined the Sudden Inspiration trait and had Cangbing Pavilion forge a high-tier Spiritual Artifact body for the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi asked Mo Ye to set up the Myriad Souls Infusion Formation, and Mo Ye eventually got it running after several failures.
• Chen Yi activated the formation as the Myriad Souls Banner released more than three hundred Demon Souls, and he prepared to endure the breakthrough.

Chen Yi endured a painful breakthrough into the Soul Tempering Realm and continued his cultivation journey. He headed toward the Eastern Wilderness in search of demon souls, then stopped in White Cloud County to visit Third Sister and see Dachun.

• Chen Yi’s simulated self survived the Myriad Souls Infusion Formation’s torment and reached the first tempering of the Soul Tempering Realm.
• Chen Yi learned how Soul Tempering worked and reflected that his new realm made him stronger than most rogue Martial Artists.
• At age 46, Chen Yi drew the Golden entry “Mortal Bone” and wondered what Divine Abilities were.
• Chen Yi equipped “Sudden Inspiration” and “Dragon Plays with Phoenix,” then resumed traveling and slaying demons to gather their souls.
• At age 47, Chen Yi headed for the Eastern Wilderness, dealt with demon calamities along the way, and gained renown as the Red-Haired Demon Slayer.
• Chen Yi passed through White Cloud County, Qingzhou, and decided to visit Third Sister and check on Dachun.

The Red-Haired Hero returned to White Cloud County, learned that Shen Qingshan had been taken into the sky, and found his Third Sister living in poverty in Fire Prosperity Village. The County Magistrate arrested the landlord’s enforcers, and Chen Yun reunited with her younger brother.

• The Red-Haired Hero visited Yuelai Inn, gave the proprietress money, and warned her to flee north if war broke out.
• The Red-Haired Hero learned that Third Sister no longer lived in her old courtyard and asked the County Magistrate to find her.
• The County Magistrate revealed that Shen Qingshan had been carried into the sky by two flying Martial Artists ten years earlier.
• The County Magistrate escorted the Red-Haired Hero to Fire Prosperity Village, where Landlord Zhang’s enforcers were beating Chen Yun and her daughter over unpaid rent.
• The County Magistrate ordered his constables to arrest the enforcers, then brought Chen Yun to the Red-Haired Hero, whom she recognized as her Fourth brother.

Shen Yi rescued Chen Yun and Shen Jia from Landlord Zhang’s abuse and learned that Shen Qingshan had been taken to the Primordial Shen Family in the Star Domain. The revelation that Shen Yi could also cultivate the family’s Zhengyang Art left him planning to investigate the opportunity in a future simulation.

• Shen Yi broke the limbs of Landlord Zhang’s thugs, and County Magistrate Chen agreed to send them to the Beggar Gang.
• Chen Yun explained how Landlord Zhang had driven her and Shen Jia into poverty and forced them into a leaking hut.
• County Magistrate Chen revealed that Landlord Zhang had powerful connections through his sister, a concubine in Prince De’s household.
• Chen Yun told Shen Yi that two Elders had taken Shen Qingshan to the Primordial Shen Family after recognizing his ability to cultivate the Zhengyang Art.
• Shen Yi realized that he could cultivate the Zhengyang Art too and considered intercepting Shen Qingshan in a future simulation.
• Shen Yi gave Chen Yun money to buy a new home in the county town, and she protested that she could not accept it.

Chen Yi journeyed into the Eastern Wilderness, where he hunted demons and advanced his cultivation with the Myriad Souls Banner. After a demon king lured him into an ambush, Chen Yi faced a vast host of demons and prepared to fight.

• A masked killer slaughtered everyone at Zhang Mansion and left a bloody message opposing land annexation and landlords.
• Chen Yun and her daughter bought a new home, and Chen Yi gave Shen Jia a Martial Dao cultivation method before heading east.
• Chen Yi crossed Cangqiong Ridge into the Eastern Wilderness and reached Soul Tempering, Third Tempering.
• Chen Yi hunted demons across the Eastern Wilderness, gathered many Demon Souls, and advanced to Soul Tempering, Fourth Tempering.
• The Golden-Haired Rat King and his forces ambushed Chen Yi in a valley, surrounding him with demons from every direction.
• Chen Yi unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner's Hundred Ghosts Night Parade and faced the enemy host with his fighting spirit raised.

Chen Yi fought a relentless Demon Race assault until a young man from the Wuji Sword Sect rescued him. The young man gave Chen Yi a jade token to summon help, leaving him with a powerful new source of support while hunting demons.

• Chen Yi battled waves of Demon Race members with the Myriad Souls Banner and Crimson Heart Fist, but the Golden-Haired Rat King’s forces wore him down and trapped him in the valley.
• A young man watched from the cliff as the Golden-Haired Rat King ordered a final assault against Chen Yi.
• The young man flew Chen Yi out of the valley on a treasured sword and brought him to a mountain peak.
• Chen Yi thanked the young man, who explained that he had spared the Demon Race to avoid breaking the Pact Between the Two Races.
• The young man gave Chen Yi a jade token that could summon nearby Wuji Sword Sect disciples for help.

At sixty, Chen Yi prepared to leave the Eastern Wilderness and search for an Earth Vein so the Myriad Souls Banner could help him break through to the Golden Body Realm. After sensing a supreme treasure, he saw powerful figures from across the world converging on it and decided to follow them.

• Simulated Chen Yi filled the Myriad Souls Banner with Demon Souls and reached the peak of the tenth Soul Tempering, but needed an Earth Vein to break through to the Golden Body Realm.
• At age sixty, Chen Yi drew the Green term “Three Swordmasters of the Bush” and considered returning to the Central Plains to sell his Demon Race materials and seek information.
• While grooming himself beside the water, Chen Yi caught the scent of a supreme treasure and followed it after making himself presentable.
• Chen Yi watched nine Dragon-horned beasts pull a golden carriage, a colossal bronze vessel fly overhead, and Martial Artists travel through the sky.
• Chen Yi realized experts from the Central Plains, Northern Territory, and Southern Border were rushing toward the treasure, and he decided to join the search.