Recaps

As treasures burst from a mysterious central area, the protagonist raced to claim them but repeatedly lost them to a bald monk who claimed they were fated with Buddha. The monk explained that powerful artifacts gathered around a powerful member of the artifact race, then asked what the protagonist believed lay above Immortal Artifacts.

• An explosion hurled the protagonist into a Crocodile Demon, which he crushed before skinning it for a belt.
• The protagonist reached a fallen Bronze Ancient Sword, but a bald monk took it and disappeared.
• The protagonist rushed to claim a Jade Slip, but the monk took it, calling its contents a demonic Cultivation Method he had to destroy.
• The protagonist followed the monk as he collected overlooked treasures and learned that Spiritual Artifacts gathered around the strong.
• The monk asked whether the protagonist knew of Immortal Artifacts and what lay above them.

Chen Yi learned that the sealed Nine Provinces Cauldron was a Great Dao Immortal Artifact and that the factions planned to award it through a tournament for young Martial Artists. He stayed near the site, gathered intelligence and resources, and heard rumors that Great Dao Immortal Artifacts held the secret to immortality.

• Chen Yi learned from the monk that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was a sealed Great Dao Immortal Artifact, and he planned to seek it in a future simulation.
• After the seal was opened, the factions agreed to hold the Cauldron Summit Tournament and let disciples under twenty compete for the cauldron.
• At sixty-one, Chen Yi remained near the cauldron to gather information while factions built the tournament grounds and Martial Artists arrived from across the Five Domains.
• Chen Yi sold Demon Race materials, bought a Storage Ring, and learned more about Martial Dao from the gathered Martial Artists.
• Chen Yi heard the rumor that Great Dao Immortal Artifacts contained the secret to immortality, a goal that had become an obsession among Martial Dao giants.

At the Cauldron Summit Tournament, the narrator recovered his sword and cultivation method from Zhenpin and decided to travel with him to Western Liang in search of a way to break through. After the Sword Master revealed that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was inert, the narrator touched it and briefly saw Dachun.

• The narrator learned that the Sword Master had saved him ten years earlier, and Zhenpin returned his Bronze War Sword and Jade Slip after confirming they were safe to use.
• The Cauldron Summit Tournament concluded with Wan Jianyi of the Wuji Sword Sect taking first place, and the narrator asked Zhenpin to guide him to Western Liang.
• The Sword Master shattered the array around the Nine Provinces Cauldron and revealed that it was only a lifeless object because its Artifact Spirit was missing.
• The narrator touched the cauldron, briefly saw Dachun, and then found that the vision did not return when he touched it again.

Chen Yi realized Dachun might be the Nine Provinces Cauldron’s lost Artifact Spirit, but could not bring him to the cauldron during the journey. As Chen Yi and Zhenpin crossed the Central Plains, they saw the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey worshipped as a local protector and witnessed the region’s wars intensify.

• Chen Yi suspected that Dachun was the Nine Provinces Cauldron’s Artifact Spirit and wondered whether the killers who massacred Luoding Village had been hunting him.
• After the Nine Provinces Cauldron proved inert without its Artifact Spirit, Sword Master carried it back to the Wuji Sword Sect while Chen Yi and Zhenpin traveled west.
• Chen Yi detoured to White Cloud County, saw that Dachun and Third Sister were well, and decided not to take the elderly Dachun on the dangerous journey.
• In Shenbing Commandery, Chen Yi saw a temple honoring the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey, who had helped locals resolve troubles and earned their devotion.
• After searching for the Earth Vein throughout three years of travel, Chen Yi found nothing and saw the Southern Border Empress, Northern Territory Great Khan, and Dagan court locked in war over the Central Plains.

Chen and Zhenpin entered Western Liang and tracked a suspected Sacred Fire Cult member to find out whether the cult could help Chen break through his cultivation bottleneck. They followed the man toward the cult, which Zhenpin said had declined from a first-rate force to a weak third-rate one.

• Chen and Zhenpin crossed the Tiansha River into Western Liang and headed for the Sacred Fire Cult after Zhenpin identified it as the region’s most wicked cult.
• At a medicinal field market outside Wulanba, Zhenpin used his monk’s disguise and claims of impending calamity to persuade people to remove their veils, but Chen’s attempt got him called a lecherous old bastard.
• Zhenpin spotted a scarred, veiled man buying Huayan Grass, and Chen disguised himself as a monk to question him about the Sacred Fire Cult.
• The man admitted he had recently joined the cult and said its Ten Thousand Fires Devouring the Heart technique could help followers break through Martial Dao bottlenecks.
• After the man bought ingredients for Qingbuliang, Chen and Zhenpin secretly followed him, and Zhenpin explained that the cult had fallen to third-rate status after its elites and leaders died.

Chen infiltrated the Sacred Fire Cult hoping its secret technique would help him break through, but the cult tried to sacrifice him and drain his Origin Qi. He annihilated its disciples with the Myriad Souls Banner and left the Sect Leader alive to question about a method for reaching the Golden Body Realm.

• Chen and Zhenpin found the Sacred Fire Cult's cave, and Chen joined the cult as its Holy Son while Zhenpin left without intervening.
• Chen endured the cult's bizarre customs and asked its Sect Leader for help breaking through from Quenching Soul Peak.
• The Sect Leader and disciples trapped Chen in the Ten Thousand Fires Devouring the Heart Formation and began draining his Origin Qi.
• The Myriad Souls Banner exposed the trap, and Chen unleashed Hundred Ghosts Night Parade, killing the cult's disciples.
• Chen spared the Sect Leader and asked whether the cult truly knew how to break through from Soul Tempering Realm to Golden Body Realm.

Chen Yi learned that the Sacred Fire Cult and its Central Plains branch, the Chixin Sect, carried out the Luoding Village massacre on someone’s orders, but the mastermind later silenced the cult’s leaders. The culprit remained unidentified, and Chen Yi left the cave after killing the Sacred Fire Cult master and reuniting with Zhenpin.

• You interrogated the Sacred Fire Cult master about the Luoding Village massacre and used the Myriad Souls Banner to force him to speak.
• The Sacred Fire Cult master revealed that his cult and the Chixin Sect had carried out the massacre as hired agents for an unknown mastermind.
• The Sacred Fire Cult master said the cult’s higher-ups and elites had likely been silenced, while the Chixin Sect participants had also been killed.
• Chen Yi reasoned that the hidden culprit might still be a threat to him, a survivor of the massacre, and that he needed to understand the culprit’s motives.
• You killed the Sacred Fire Cult master and found Zhenpin waiting outside the cave; Zhenpin explained that he had returned because he suspected something was wrong.

At age seventy, Chen Yi gained the Prismatic Myth Entry "Proficiency," which let him master cultivation techniques through repeated practice rather than comprehension. He learned the Earth Grade Shattering Star Wave Finger on the hundredth attempt and showed Zhenpin how to use it.

• Chen Yi pursued breakthroughs through poison, Gu, and Hehuan cultivation, but each attempt failed and left him suffering or weakened.
• Zhenpin questioned why Chen Yi kept cultivating, and Chen Yi listed the worldly and personal goals he hoped to pursue.
• Chen Yi drew the "Proficiency" Entry and replaced "The Older the More Fortunate" with it.
• Chen Yi practiced Shattering Star Wave Finger one hundred times and reached Entry Level, unleashing a blast that pulverized a distant boulder.
• Chen Yi asked Zhenpin to pull the cart while he tried the technique, and Zhenpin eventually learned it years later under Chen Yi's guidance.

At age 80, you traveled with Zhenpin while searching for Earth Veins and learned that the Demon Race had broken its truce with the Human Race, launching a full-scale war. As demons rampaged through the Central Plains, you and Zhenpin fought back, and you welcomed the chance to collect Demon Souls.

• You discovered that Cultivation Methods could advance beyond Perfection to Sublime and kept raising your Proficiency through repeated practice.
• At age 80, you gained the Senior Tomato User trait and replaced Sudden Inspiration with it.
• You and Zhenpin traveled together across the Five Domains and learned that the Demon Race had broken its agreement with the Human Race five years earlier.
• The Demon Monkey Great Vanguard led a massive invasion of the Eastern Wilderness, while Human Race factions and leaders united to fight the demons at Cangqiong Ridge.
• The Demon Monkey Great Vanguard sent elite demons into the Central Plains, where they scattered, gathered other demons, and massacred humans as the Monster Slaying Division struggled to respond.
• You told Zhenpin that the two races had never truly lived in peace, then welcomed the demons’ rampage as a source of Demon Souls.

While seeking an Earth Grade Demon Subduing Banner in Divine Soldier City, the protagonist witnessed the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey drive off his demonized former junior, the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey. The Sword Master arrived, paid for the protagonist’s artifact, and asked him to lead an army against the demon scourge, leaving him alarmed by the request.

• The Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey accused his senior and the Human Race of rejecting him, then declared that the world belonged to demons.
• Zhenpin suggested that prejudice had helped fuel the war, but locals argued that the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey had been favored and had brought much of his misfortune on himself.
• The Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey feigned defeat and lured the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey away from Divine Soldier City, while the protagonist stayed in the city with Zhenpin.
• The protagonist failed to negotiate lower artifact-refining fees until the Sword Master paid the sect with a Storage Ring full of crystals.
• The Sword Master said he had come to find the protagonist and asked him to use his Special physique to command an army against the demons.
• The protagonist protested that he lacked the power for such a task.

Chen Yi accepted the Sword Master’s offer to lead an expedition against demon troubles in exchange for a Sword Heart Immortal Peach. After absorbing it under the Sword Master’s guidance, he broke through to the Golden Body Realm, leaving him ready to take command.

• The Sword Master asked Chen Yi to lead an army against demon troubles across the Five Domains, and Chen Yi requested help breaking through his realm.
• Chen Yi persuaded the Sword Master to give him a Sword Heart Immortal Peach, which was normally reserved for disciples seeking to break through to the Martial King Realm.
• The Sword Master explained that he had marked Chen Yi after their meeting in the Eastern Wilderness so he could find him again if needed.
• Chen Yi accepted the invitation and consumed the immortal peach under the Sword Master’s protection.
• After half a month of absorption and guidance from the Sword Master, Chen Yi broke through to the Golden Body Realm.

Chen Yi broke through to the Golden Body Realm and was appointed marshal of the Demon-Extermination Army, tasked with suppressing the Demon Race in the Five Domains. As the army assembled in Divine Soldier City, he learned that the Nine Provinces Cauldron had been stolen by humans and prepared to lead his forces into the war.

• Chen Yi broke through to the Golden Body Realm in Divine Soldier City, drawing the attention of its martial artists and congratulations from Zhuge Zhujin.
• The Sword Master entrusted Chen Yi with command of the rear and gave him a Cloud-Top Flying Boat, a marshal's seal, armor, and banner before returning to the front lines with Zhuge Zhujin.
• Chen Yi asked the Sword Master to test whether Dachun could activate the Nine Provinces Cauldron, but the Sword Master revealed that humans had stolen the cauldron from the Wuji Sword Sect.
• Chen Yi recruited an old monk as his deputy marshal, while the Myriad Souls Banner reminded him that he still needed Earth Veins to improve his cultivation.
• In the sixty-fourth year, when Chen Yi was eighty-two, the Demon-Extermination Army assembled in Divine Soldier City with martial artists from across the Five Domains.

At eighty-three, the aged Marshal led the Demon-Extermination Army across the Five Domains, crushing demon forces and reclaiming occupied cities. After Zhenpin died defending civilians in Jizhou, the enraged Marshal charged barehanded into the demons attacking the city.

• The Martial Artists mocked the Marshal’s age until he killed a Spirit Sea Realm Rhinoceros Demon and routed the force attacking Divine Soldier City.
• The Marshal unleashed the Earth Grade Myriad Souls Banner, defeated the demons, and earned the Demon-Extermination Army’s respect.
• The Marshal led the growing army across the Five Domains, reclaiming cities with intelligence and support from the Dragon Protectorate and Monster Slaying Divisions.
• The Demon Race struck at key departments, and Zhenpin died fighting Spirit Condensation Realm demons while rescuing civilians in Jizhou.
• The Marshal flew into a rage and charged barehanded into the demons attacking Jizhou City, tearing through them.

At eighty-five, the Grand Marshal used a trap to lure the demons into an encirclement and discovered their strategist was Feng Yucheng, who had transformed into a monster. When Feng Yucheng overwhelmed the generals, the marshal entered the battle and drove the demon horde into retreat.

• After Zhenpin died, the marshal felt his approaching end while leading the Demon-Extermination Army through the Central Plains.
• The marshal used three crystal veins as bait to draw the demons into an encirclement at Changhen Slope.
• The marshal recognized Feng Yucheng, a former official who had colluded with demons and now served as their adviser.
• Wang Ping and the other generals attacked Feng Yucheng, but he transformed and drove them back with help from the demons.
• The marshal charged into battle with the Myriad Souls Banner, overwhelming the demons as Feng Yucheng ordered a retreat.

Chen Yi pursued and killed the fleeing Feng Yucheng, but Dragon Person Poison left him dying. After the battle, the Demon Refining Pot’s bizarre Artifact Spirit greeted him, while neither it nor the Myriad Souls Banner knew how to cure the poison or explain Feng Yucheng’s transformation.

• Chen Yi chased Feng Yucheng away from Changhen Slope and overwhelmed him with his Golden Body state and the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Feng Yucheng brought out the Demon Refining Pot, and the two fought using their Immortal Artifacts until Chen Yi cut off Feng Yucheng’s tail.
• The severed tail stabbed Chen Yi with Dragon Person Poison, but his Senior Tomato User trait let him resist it long enough to kill Feng Yucheng.
• Chen Yi realized the poison was still killing him, collected the Demon Refining Pot, and asked its Artifact Spirit and the Myriad Souls Banner for a cure.
• The Demon Refining Pot’s Artifact Spirit said it knew neither how to detoxify Chen Yi nor how Feng Yucheng had become a monster.

Chen Yi learned how Feng Yucheng obtained the Demon Refining Pot and died in the simulation, then discovered Shen Jia had found him in reality with news of Li Lingyue. Shen Jia revealed that Li Lingyue became Empress and had searched for Chen Yi for years, but she had sacrificed herself at the Cangqiong Ridge front line.

• The Demon Refining Pot explained how Feng Yucheng received it from the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, then asked Chen Yi to become its master while bickering with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi questioned the Myriad Souls Banner about its past and memorized its account before the Dragon Person Poison overtook him.
• Chen Yi awoke in a military tent, where Shen Jia told him Li Lingyue had sent her with a letter and medicine that restored her youthful appearance.
• Shen Jia explained that Li Lingyue had awakened her Sealed Saint Body, become Empress, and helped Chen Yi's family while searching for him.
• Shen Jia told Chen Yi that Li Lingyue had sacrificed herself at the Cangqiong Ridge front line.

Chen Yi’s simulated life ended after he read Li Lingyue’s last letter and learned how she had risen to become Empress while searching for him. The simulation awarded him its inheritances, while real Chen Yi remained an ordinary young man in the Golden Body Realm, facing an uncertain future.

• Chen Yi reflected on the devastating war at Cangqiong Ridge, which had killed the Empress, the Sword Master, Dagan’s emperor, and many other powerful figures.
• Chen Yi asked Shen Jia about her cultivation, and she said she had reached the Spirit Sea Realm but did not expect to attain Martial King.
• Shen Jia left the tent, and Chen Yi opened Li Lingyue’s letter, which recounted her escape from an arranged marriage, her rise to power, and her campaign to reclaim the Central Plains.
• Chen Yi read Li Lingyue’s farewell and died as the Demon-Extermination Army soldiers mourned him.
• The simulation ended and awarded Chen Yi memories, Golden Body Realm cultivation, terms, and martial arts; the narration clarified that his real future remained uncertain.

After the third simulation, Chen Yi returned to reality with Golden Body Realm cultivation and more entry slots. He decided to retrieve the Myriad Souls Banner before confronting Feng Yucheng, whose betrayal and threat the guidance mission required him to stop.

• Chen Yi absorbed the cultivation and memories from his third simulation, reaching Golden Body Realm Level One and gaining twelve entry slots.
• He reviewed the guidance mission, which tasked him with disrupting Feng Yucheng’s cooperation with the Demon Race or killing him.
• Chen Yi considered the consequences of killing White Cloud County’s Chief Officer and decided to use the Myriad Souls Banner to help handle Feng Yucheng.
• Using what he learned in the simulation, Chen Yi estimated the banner’s location and planned a five-to-six-month round trip.
• Chen Yi decided to leave the next day to find the Myriad Souls Banner before the Patrol Inspector arrived.

Chen Yi prepared to leave on a months-long journey to find the Myriad Souls Banner in Qianzhou, accepting protective artifacts from Shen Qingshan and arranging care for Dachun. He rode out of White Cloud County on a horse with a faint demonic aura, intending to take the evil banner into his own custody.

• Chen Yi persuaded Chen Yun to let him travel, and Shen Qingshan gave him a spear and a heart-protecting mirror.
• Chen Yi suggested Shen Jia as his niece's name, then left to visit Dachun at Yuelai Inn and paid for the inn staff to care for him.
• Chen Yi sensed demonic aura at the horse market and bought the black horse that emitted it.
• Chen Yi gathered travel supplies and rode out of the city toward Wu'an Prefecture in Qianzhou, where the Myriad Souls Banner was corrupting Martial Artists to repair itself.

Two months after leaving, Chen Yi reached Wu'an Prefecture and tracked the Myriad Souls Banner to Goose City, where it was trying to recruit the Zhao brothers. After its attempt to tempt Chen Yi failed, he declared himself the only suitable master for the banner.

• Chen Yi traveled to Wu'an Prefecture, relying on his demonic-blooded horse and continuing to cultivate along the way.
• Chen Yi learned that the Myriad Souls Banner had been looking for a new master near Goose City and headed there.
• Zhao Long and Zhao Hu met at their father's grave, where the Myriad Souls Banner emerged and offered to restore their family's fortunes.
• Zhao Long and Zhao Hu fought over the banner, and the Myriad Souls Banner watched with amusement.
• Chen Yi appeared beside the banner, resisted its black mist, and told it to come with him.

Chen Yi forced the Myriad Souls Banner to submit, bonded with it, and killed Zhao Long before refusing the banner’s plan to slaughter Goose City. The Black Horse then spoke, startling Chen Yi and the banner.

• Chen Yi beat the Myriad Souls Banner until it agreed to recognize him as its master, and he completed the attunement ritual.
• Zhao Long killed Zhao Hu, then demanded that Chen Yi hand over the banner; Chen Yi burned Zhao Long to ash and refined his soul into the banner.
• The Myriad Souls Banner urged Chen Yi to massacre Goose City for souls, but Chen Yi said they would kill only the Demon Race and people who deserved death.
• The Black Horse knelt before the banner and begged Chen Yi not to kill it, revealing that it could speak.

Chen Yi accepted the timid Black Wind as his mount and taught him an External Cultivation technique while traveling toward White Cloud County. When a familiar demon’s aura appeared ahead on the river, Chen Yi sped toward a luxurious pleasure boat to confront it.

• Chen Yi learned that Black Horse was an intelligent demon and renamed him Black Wind, allowing him to remain his mount on the condition that he hide his ability to speak.
• Chen Yi taught Black Wind Reckless Bull Strength during their journey, and they later boarded a small pleasure boat to travel downstream along the Qing River.
• Myriad Souls Banner urged Chen Yi to find an Earth Vein for a breakthrough, but Chen Yi warned it that he could replace it with the Demon Refining Pot.
• Chen Yi sensed a familiar demonic aura on a larger pleasure boat, steadied his own vessel, and accelerated toward it.
• Chen Yi recognized the demon as Fatty Fish and declared that he would be the first honored guest in his banner.

Chen Yi killed a Golden Body Realm Fish Demon that had attacked a pleasure boat, then captured its soul for the Myriad Souls Banner. He met the Qianzhou King’s son, who could not secure the official help Chen Yi wanted but offered to take him to White Horse City.

• The Fish Demon overturned a pleasure boat and began devouring its passengers.
• Chen Yi smashed the Fish Demon out of the water, beat it to death, and took its soul into the Myriad Souls Banner as a Soul Slave.
• Chen Yi roasted some of the Fish Demon's meat and returned to the riverbank, where Black Wind and the Qianzhou King's son had reached shore.
• The Qianzhou King's son offered Chen Yi a banquet, but admitted his father would not use his authority to help capture a Chief Officer of the Monster Slaying Division.
• The Qianzhou King's son invited Chen Yi to White Horse City to repay him for saving his life.

Chen Yi traveled with Li Chengqian, who repaid him with money, cultivation resources, and a Storage Ring before arranging for an Earth-tier spirit artifact to be forged. Chen Yi departed White Horse City with Black Wind, while Li Chengqian played a farewell song from the shore.

• Chen Yi learned that Li Chengqian had once been the heir apparent but had deliberately ruined his prospects to survive the struggle within the Prince's Mansion.
• Li Chengqian bought Chen Yi a boat, gave him silver notes and cultivation resources, and slipped his Storage Ring onto Chen Yi's finger.
• Chen Yi asked for a military-flag spirit artifact, and Li Chengqian introduced him to Zhou Wuliang of the Hundred Refining Sect.
• Chen Yi gave Zhou Wuliang the blueprint, and Zhou promised to forge the artifact within a month using the sect's materials.
• Li Chengqian saw Chen Yi off at the docks, then played a pipa and sang as Chen Yi prepared to sail.

Chen Yi broke into a concealed Demon Race cavern in White Cloud Ridge, killed its inhabitants, and persuaded Tiger Boss to surrender to the Monster Slaying Division. After returning to White Cloud County, Chen Yi offered Shen Qingshan a plan to expose officials colluding with demons.

• Tiger Boss ordered the demons of White Cloud Ridge to hide underground until Patrol Inspector Zhang Miao left the county.
• Chen Yi smashed through the cavern wall and killed the demons rushing out while the Myriad Souls Banner collected their souls.
• Tiger Boss surrendered when Chen Yi offered him a choice between the Monster Suppressing Pagoda and fighting to the death.
• Several days later, Zhang Miao arrived in White Cloud County and refused the gifts sent to his posthouse.
• Chen Yi gave Shen Qingshan a letter listing Demon Race hideouts and proposed a plan to expose the county officials’ collusion with demons.