Recaps

Chen Yi defeated the three Demon Kings and then unleashed Seven Steps to the Abyss against the demons attacking Wangshan Town. The chapter ended with the Demon Refining Pot drawing every demon in the surrounding area inside.

• Chen Yi struck down the Silver-Scaled Pangolin King and beat the poisoned Morning Poison Flood Dragon King after binding him with the Immortal Binding Lock.
• Chen Yi captured the three Demon Kings in the Demon Refining Pot instead of refining them, intending to stop the demons that had broken through the defensive line.
• Chen Yi used Seven Steps to the Abyss, killing nearby demons and knocking down others across the battlefield.
• Chen Yi powered the Demon Refining Pot with his Three Energies and sucked in every demon around Wangshan Town.

Chen Yi defeated the demons attacking Wangshan Town with the Demon Refining Pot, while the Sword Master and others explained his apparent power as a special physique. After receiving Merit from the Empress, Chen Yi discussed the next step in resolving the conflict with the Demon Race.

• Chen Yi used the Demon Refining Pot to refine the demons below Demon King rank, exhausting himself and leaving the outskirts of Wangshan Town strewn with blood and corpses.
• The Myriad Souls Banner claimed credit for the victory, while the Sword Master and his companions said they had held back because Chen Yi was fighting too actively to risk injuring him.
• Chen Jing, Li Chengqian, and the Sword Master discussed Chen Yi’s strength and identified him as having a possible unknown Special physique called the Demon Race Nemesis.
• The Empress supported Chen Yi and transferred Merit to him from the people he had saved, granting him a small increase in cultivation through the Incense Dao.
• Li Chengqian asked Chen Yi what he planned to do about the Demon Kings, and Chen Yi said he had a plan despite the difficulty of making peace with the Demon Race.

At eighty-two, Chen Yi gained the Human Body Detector and used his strategy to lure and capture sixty-two Demon Kings, weakening the Demon Race and forcing its remaining forces to gather at Cuiwei Peak. As negotiations began, the Four Great Demon Ancestors confronted the Five Domains, and Chen Yi learned that their unusually pure divine-beast bloodlines set them apart from other demons.

• Chen Yi replaced his identity-checking trait with Human Body Detector and discovered that fortune and physical talent varied widely, while his own fortune index was 100 despite having no special physique or bone structure.
• Chen Yi helped the Five Domains Allied Forces lure Demon Kings away from their defenses, track demons who breached the lines, and seal captured commanders inside the Demon Refining Pot.
• By age eighty-three, Chen Yi had sealed sixty-two Demon Kings, prompting the remaining demons to mass at Cuiwei Peak and fight the Five Domains for half a month.
• The Four Great Demon Ancestors threatened to destroy the allied forces unless Chen Yi released the captured Demon Kings, as negotiations began.
• The Sword Master explained that the Four Great Demon Ancestors could take divine-beast forms because their bloodlines were exceptionally pure, and Chen Yi's detector showed their bloodline purity at 20%.

Chen Yi learned that the Demon Race’s war against the Five Domains had been sparked by humans stealing demon eggs to make lifespan-extending pills and replacing them with Exotic Beast eggs. The Sword Master had said that nearly half of the Five Domains’ factions were connected to the scheme, and the chapter ended with someone accusing the demons of eating humans.

• At Cuiwei Peak, Azure Dragon demanded the return of the Demon King and an end to the Five Domains’ invasion, while blaming humans for the Egg-Swapping Incident.
• Chen Yi learned that humans had used demon eggs to refine Demon Origin Pills, which could repeatedly extend lifespan, and later replaced stolen eggs with Exotic Beast eggs to conceal the thefts.
• The Demon Race discovered the scheme little over ten years earlier, and the Four Great Demon Ancestors declared war on the Five Domains.
• Chen Yi reasoned that the Shen Family and Three Great Sacred Lands had stayed neutral because the Five Domains were guilty, and suspected the Dragon Person Race had introduced the pill formula.
• The Sword Master told Chen Yi that nearly half the Five Domains’ factions had connections to refining Demon Origin Pills, though the Wuji Sword Sect had not participated.
• Someone in the crowd challenged Azure Dragon by pointing out that demons had also eaten many humans.

As Azure Dragon accused the Five Domains of aiding the Dragon Person Race, the Four Great Demon Ancestors prepared to attack. You revealed the Nine Provinces Cauldron and urged the Five Domains’ forces to combine their attacks against it, hoping to turn the demons from war; the Empress and Chen Jing began.

• Azure Dragon rejected your peace proposal and declared that the Demon Race was defending its second homeland from Human Race traitors aiding the Dragon Person Race.
• The Four Great Demon Ancestors summoned their bloodline power, and the Empress, Li Chengqian, Chen Jing, and the Sword Master moved to protect you from their attack.
• You stepped forward and revealed the Nine Provinces Cauldron, telling the Five Domains’ forces to attack it with all their strength.
• The Empress led the Southern Border warriors in a Wanxiang Divine Palm strike, which the Nine Provinces Cauldron absorbed without damage.
• Chen Jing entered a temporary Martial Saint state and led the Northern Territory warriors in a Ten Thousand Horses Galloping attack on the cauldron.

Chen Yi and the allied forces struggled to withstand the Four Great Demon Ancestors’ combined assault, while Dachun pushed the Nine Provinces Cauldron past its limits to aid him. As the formation neared collapse, Chen Yi absorbed a hundredfold surge of Blood Qi and asked the Sword Master and Li Lingyue to throw him at Azure Dragon.

• Li Chengqian and the Sword Master led attacks against the Nine Provinces Cauldron, while fighters across the Five Domains added their ranged strikes.
• Dachun endured the assaults and powered up the Nine Provinces Cauldron, determined to help Chen Yi end the Human World’s civil war.
• The Four Great Demon Ancestors combined their powers through Azure Dragon and unleashed Extinction of All Living Beings against the Liangyi Star Dou Formation.
• The formation cracked under Azure Dragon’s attack, causing Martial Artists to fall, until Chen Yi ordered Dachun to turn the Cauldron’s power into Blood Qi.
• The Nine Provinces Cauldron sent the Blood Qi into Chen Yi, whose talent raised it a hundredfold against the Demon Race.
• Chen Yi asked the Sword Master and Li Lingyue to throw him at Azure Dragon, but they objected and offered to face the attack themselves.

Chen Yi charged into the Four Great Demon Ancestors while Extinction of All Living Beings struck, defeating each with his fists and the Demon Pot Flames. After he broke through Black Tortoise’s shell, the battlefield fell silent and Chen Yi’s name resounded throughout the Five Domains.

• The Empress and the Sword Master hurled Chen Yi toward Azure Dragon, and Chen Yi punched through him, interrupting Extinction of All Living Beings.
• Chen Yi pierced Vermilion Bird’s wing with a punch, forcing him to change into humanoid form.
• Chen Yi used the Demon Refining Pot’s flames to slow the Demon Race, then struck White Tiger and sent him crashing through a mountain.
• Black Tortoise refused to transform and defend himself with his shell, but Chen Yi broke through it and stored the shattered shell in his Storage Ring.
• Chen Yi exhausted his strength atop a mountain as both armies stared in shock, and the Five Domains recognized his power.

Chen Yi stopped the fighting by defeating the Four Great Demon Ancestors and urged them to make peace, revealing that the Dragon Person Race had destroyed the Demon World and suppressed the Demon Race’s Dao Protector. The Demon Ancestors learned that Chen Yi had freed their Dao Protector, leaving him hailed as the Demon Race’s great benefactor.

• Chen Yi approached the wounded Azure Dragon with healing pills and offered to return the captured Demon Kings in exchange for a truce.
• Chen Yi showed Azure Dragon the Qiankun Mirror and explained that he had visited the lifeless Demon World, but he rejected Azure Dragon’s attempt to set conditions for withdrawing.
• Chen Yi told the Four Great Demon Ancestors that the Dragon Person Race had used a Soul-Attaching Rope to suppress their Dao Protector after the Demon World was erased.
• Chen Yi explained that he freed the Dao Protector, who sacrificed himself to send Chen Yi back and allow a new protector to emerge among the Demon Race.
• The Sword Master pointed out that Chen Yi had become the Demon Race’s great benefactor, and the Five Domains’ leaders marveled at his connections.

The Human Race and the Demon Race agreed to a ceasefire after sharing what they knew about the Dragon Person Race’s infiltration of the Human World. With the demons withdrawing, the Five Domains celebrated, while you dealt with captured monkeys and the Immortal-Binding Rope.

• Azure Dragon and the Sword Master exchanged intelligence about the Dragon Person Race, and you suggested it had exposed expendable strongholds to provoke a war between the Human Race and Demon Race.
• Azure Dragon explained the Dragon Person Race’s cautious preparations to cross the World Barrier and revealed that pure-blooded demons inherited memories from their ancestors.
• The Five Domains and the Great Wilderness Demon Race agreed to stop fighting, and Azure Dragon led the demons back to the Great Wilderness as the Human Race celebrated.
• You kicked the bound Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, and Zhuge Zhujin said it had to be suppressed because it had taken the demonic path.
• Wan Sanqian pleaded with the Immortal-Binding Rope to return to the Ten Thousand Dharmas Sect, but the rope refused and claimed it had duties in Western Liang.
• You apologized to Wan Sanqian for what had happened before and bowed to him.

After the war, Chen and Li Lingyue settled in the Northern Territory, where they discovered that Shen Qingshan had a Dual Soul Saint Body suited to the Shen Family Ancestor. Outside the simulation, Chen Yi realized Shen Qingshan’s potential and drew up a list of plans for the next simulation.

• Wan Sanqian stopped Chen from bowing, and the Five Domains leaders pledged to oppose the Shen Family if it came after him.
• After three days of feasting, the allied forces returned home, and Chen’s cultivation later reached the sixth level of Spirit Condensation.
• Chen and Li Lingyue settled in the Northern Territory, where Shen Jia invited them to dinner after Shen Qingshan retired from Dagan.
• Chen discovered that Shen Qingshan had a Dual Soul Saint Body that could hold two independent souls, and realized the Shen Family Ancestor’s plan in the third simulation had succeeded.
• Chen Yi concluded that Shen Qingshan could let the Shen Family Ancestor avoid Body Seizure and gain a Saint Body, then listed his must-grab plans for the next simulation.

At a family banquet, Chen Yi learned that Li Lingyue’s failing Incense Dao had weakened her cultivation as believers turned against her. Li Lingyue feared a great calamity was approaching and worried because her master had stopped responding.

• Chen Yi and Li Lingyue attended a lively family banquet with Chen Jing, Chen Yun, Shen Qingshan, and the Myriad Souls Banner, where Chen Yun lamented that their second sister was still missing.
• Chen Yun mistook Li Lingyue’s sudden illness for morning sickness, but Chen Yi knew something was wrong with her.
• On a walk after the banquet, Chen Yi asked Li Lingyue whether trouble had struck the Southern Border, and she revealed that misfortune among her believers had led many to curse her and destroy her temples.
• Li Lingyue told Chen Yi that the backlash had reduced her cultivation by half, but said she wanted to spend more time with him.
• Li Lingyue warned Chen Yi that the great calamity was approaching and said she could no longer contact her master, leaving her uneasy.

Li Lingyue explained the difficult requirements and uncertain odds of breaking through to the Martial King Realm, revealing that the Three Great Sacred Lands had a reliable method. After Chen Yun died, the protagonist handled her funeral and set off for the Southern Border to help the Empress, hoping to eventually earn the Sacred Lands’ aid.

• Li Lingyue told the protagonist that a Martial King breakthrough required perfected cultivation methods, a Heaven-Grade formation and spirit vein, and help from either ten Martial Kings or a thousand lower-realm Martial Artists.
• The protagonist learned that even with ideal bone structure, the breakthrough’s success rate was at most fifty percent before treasures, and failure could lower cultivation; Li Lingyue said the Three Great Sacred Lands had a reliable method, unlike the Shen Family.
• At eighty-eight, Chen Jing led troops against sea monsters in the North Sea while the Empress returned to handle trouble in the Southern Border, and Chen Yun reached the end of her life.
• The protagonist stayed behind at the Empress’s request, but Chen Yun died despite his efforts, and he arranged her simple funeral at Shen Mansion.
• After the mourning period, the protagonist rode Black Wind south to help the Empress, cultivating on the way and considering how he might win the Sacred Lands’ support for a Martial King breakthrough.

Chen was ambushed by ten Blood Moon Martial Kings, who trapped him and tried to take the Nine Provinces Cauldron. He used an Epic Entry to turn Long Jiu against his companions, then faced the remaining attackers with an Empress Golden Body Statue.

• Chen spotted ten Blood Moon Martial Kings surrounding him and realized the organization had drawn away his allies before attacking.
• Chen tried to enter the Nine Provinces Cauldron, but Blood Moon runes cut off his connection to Dachun and restrained the Shen Family Ancestor's Soul Slave.
• Blood Moon revealed that they wanted the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Long Jiu attacked Chen while the others bound and shrank the cauldron.
• Chen fired the Epic Entry "A Flash of Inspiration" at Long Jiu, causing him to turn on his fellow Martial Kings.
• Meng Yi warned the others about Chen's Entry Slingshot, and six Martial Kings surrounded Chen as he took out an Empress Golden Body Statue.

Li Lingyue appeared as a powerful Golden Body Incense Avatar and helped Chen and Long Jiu defeat ten Blood Moon Organization assassins, but two Martial Saints ambushed her. Chen used the Entry Slingshot on one attacker, summoning a colossal Werewolf as the battle continued.

• Li Lingyue caught Meng Yi's throwing knife, revealed her full-strength Golden Body Incense Avatar, and killed the attacking Martial King.
• Li Lingyue and Long Jiu pursued and killed the fleeing assassins, but Long Jiu was also killed by the Empress's Dharma Image.
• Chen and Li Lingyue discovered that hidden attackers had placed strange symbols on her, and two Martial Saints burst from underground to ambush her.
• Chen refused to abandon Li Lingyue and used the Entry Slingshot to make one Martial Saint close his eyes.
• A colossal Werewolf appeared as the two Blood Moon Organization Martial Saints were fighting Li Lingyue.

The protagonist watched Li Lingyue battle two Martial Saints, then fled with the Myriad Souls Banner and Demon Refining Pot from one of the injured enemies. When the Martial Saint cornered them and captured the Demon Refining Pot, the Myriad Souls Banner sacrificed itself with its strongest attack, leaving the protagonist wounded but alive.

• A gigantic Werewolf swallowed the Seer, and Li Lingyue struck the other Martial Saint into the earth before fighting him in the sky with Immortal Sword Fengming.
• The protagonist freed the Myriad Souls Banner from its master-recognition imprint, and the banner fled before returning when the wounded Martial Saint emerged.
• The protagonist, the Myriad Souls Banner, and the Demon Refining Pot ran from the Martial Saint, using the Nine Provinces Cauldron as cover while trying to awaken Dachun.
• The Demon Refining Pot struck the Martial Saint to save the protagonist, but he captured it and erased its connection to the protagonist.
• The Myriad Souls Banner used Soul-Turning Chaos and sacrificed itself in a blast of dark flames that destroyed the enemies and hurled the wounded protagonist away.

Chen Yi watched his simulation self avenge Li Lingyue by killing the badly wounded Martial Saint, who revealed Blood Moon’s plans and connection to the Luoding Village massacre. The simulation ended with Chen Jing ordering a hunt for Blood Moon, while Chen Yi made the organization his top target.

• Li Lingyue died in Chen Yi’s arms after passing on her master’s message about gathering seven Martial Gods to form the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array.
• The wounded Martial Saint rose from the demonic flames, and Chen Yi charged him in a fury, impaling him with the Purple Gold Iron Staff and repeatedly smashing him into the ground.
• The Martial Saint warned that Blood Moon would keep sending stronger killers after Chen Yi, and Chen Yi crushed his face and vowed to destroy the organization.
• Outside the simulation, Chen Yi resolved to prioritize investigating and destroying Blood Moon, then beat Myriad Souls Banner-er after the banner spirit joked that he sold his skills, not his body.
• Chen Jing returned, found Li Lingyue’s body and a Half Mask bearing Blood Moon’s emblem, and ordered the army to search the Great Wilderness for the organization.

At the Empress’s grave, Chen Yi met a woman from the Real Realm who reclaimed the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey and opened a rift into a vast universe. In the next year, he gained the Eternal Half-Emperor trait, which altered his realm according to his theoretical lifespan.

• Chen Yi mourned the Empress at her grave and recounted his adventures to Li Lingyue.
• A long-haired woman appeared, asked Chen Yi about the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, and identified it inside the Demon Refining Pot.
• Chen Yi released the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, who attacked him before the woman trapped him and called him to her side.
• The woman said she came from the Real Realm, took the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, and departed through a vast spatial rift.
• Chen Yi speculated that he could meet the woman again in a future simulation and ask her about the Real Realm.
• At age ninety, Chen Yi drew the Eternal Half-Emperor trait, which raised his realm in the first half of his theoretical lifespan and lowered it in the latter half.

Chen Yi led the Demon Breaking Army against the Dragon Person Race’s biological weapons, then rescued Shen Yufeng and learned that the Dragon Person Race had attacked the Star Domain fifteen years earlier. The chapter left him with news that the Shen Family had endured five years of assault from a small Dragon Person force armed with powerful cannons.

• Chen Yi commanded one hundred thousand elite cavalry, stabilized the Northern Territory, and led the Demon Breaking Army south to support Dagan.
• Chen Yi caught the wounded Shen Yufeng with the Burning Cloud Hand and ordered his soldiers to try to save the falling Shen Family members.
• Shen Yufeng told Chen Yi that the Dragon Person Race’s attack on the Star Domain had begun fifteen years earlier.
• Shen Yufeng explained that the Dragon Person army had emerged from the Star Power Mysterious Realm and sealed the Empty Land Barrier, cutting off the Star Domain from the ground.
• Shen Yufeng said the Shen Family had endured five years of attacks from Dragon Person fighters wielding strange cannons powerful enough to hold back Martial King Realm experts.

After the Star Domain fell and Shen Yufeng died, Chen Yi concluded that the Human World would lose the coming war and memorized the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array. Dragon Person Race fighters then attacked him, but Chen Yi defeated Maham and seized his Soul Body.

• Shen Yufeng revealed that the Dragon Person Race had enslaved the Shen Family and forced them to produce Spirit Beads and build a huge Altar before she escaped during the Demon Race’s attack.
• Chen Yi realized the Five Domains could not withstand the Dragon Person Race and memorized the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array from the Empress’s bloodstained paper.
• More than a dozen Dragon Person Race fighters arrived, and one fired a Magic Bullet Cannon at Chen Yi, whose gravity control diverted the shell into a hill.
• Maham charged Chen Yi, but Chen Yi punched him into the ground, dragged him out, and tore him in half.
• Maham attacked Chen Yi in Soul Body form, but Chen Yi remained unharmed and grabbed Maham’s head to smash it against a rock.

Chen Yi and the Demon Breaking Army fought the Dragon Person Race as the Earthly Venerable targeted him and revealed that her people were waging war against four Void Realms at once. Surrounded and outmatched, Chen Yi learned the Human World held something the Dragon People needed, but the Earthly Venerable prepared to kill him before explaining what it was.

• Chen Yi tore Maham's soul apart, then challenged the Dragon People to attack him together.
• The Earthly Venerable arrived, identified Chen Yi by his former names and background, and ordered the other Dragon People to attack his soldiers.
• Chen Yi told his Deputy General to lead the soldiers back to the Great Khan, but the soldiers refused to abandon him, so he ordered them to fight.
• The Earthly Venerable froze and returned the Demon Breaking Army's arrows, while the Dragon People bombarded the army with Magic Bullet Cannons.
• Chen Yi used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to break the Earthly Venerable's Heavenly Net, then asked what the Dragon People wanted from the Human World.
• The Earthly Venerable revealed that the Dragon People were fighting three other Void Realms as well and said the Human World possessed something they needed, then prepared to kill Chen Yi.

You fought the Dragon Person Earthly Venerable and was badly wounded, but Black Wind rescued you and revealed himself as a Dragon Scale Horse. After Black Wind died, you learned that the Dragon Person Race feared his kind, then died attacking the Earthly Venerable while declaring that the Human World would prevail.

• The Earthly Venerable overwhelmed you, broke your limbs, and demanded that you beg for mercy, but you refused.
• Black Wind rushed in, carried you away, and evaded the Earthly Venerable's attacks as she recognized him as a Dragon Scale Horse.
• Black Wind collapsed and died from his injuries despite your pleas for him to stop running.
• You inferred that the Dragon Person Race had exterminated Dragon Scale Horses because they feared them, and the Earthly Venerable confirmed their enmity.
• You challenged the Earthly Venerable's confidence in victory, then burned your ruined body and charged at her, dying in battle.

After inheriting seventy-two years of memories and reaching Spirit Condensation Sixth Level, Chen Yi discovered that entries consumed during a simulation could still be inherited if they had been acquired beforehand. He equipped a new set of entries, revealed the Martial King power granted by Eternal Half-Emperor, then jumped into the courtyard to try flying.

• Chen Yi inherited his simulation gains and advanced to Spirit Condensation Sixth Level.
• Chen Yi realized that an entry acquired before a simulation could be inherited even if Entry Slingshot consumed it during the simulation.
• Chen Yi equipped sixteen entries and disguised his displayed realm as Golden Body to keep the Myriad Souls Banner from noticing his true cultivation.
• Chen Yi revealed his Martial King aura across White Cloud County Town, startling Shen Qingshan before he quickly withdrew it.
• Chen Yi jumped through the window into the courtyard, and the Myriad Souls Banner asked what he was doing.

After breaking through to the Martial King Realm, Chen Yi tested his newfound ability by flying through the night sky and learned his True Qi was Fire Element. He resolved to counter the Dragon Person Race invasion and set out to uncover its strongholds, hoping to earn another simulation opportunity.

• Chen Yi praised Black Wind for his loyalty, then flew into the sky at full speed while Black Wind marveled at his power.
• The Myriad Souls Banner panicked when it realized Chen Yi had reached the Martial King Realm, but it remained helpless in his grasp.
• At sunrise, Chen Yi examined his cultivation, learned his True Qi was Fire Element, and reflected on Martial King Realm cultivation.
• Chen Yi recalled the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array and decided he needed to solve the Dragon Person Race invasion to pursue eternal life.
• Chen Yi checked his guidance task to destroy six Dragon Person Race strongholds and decided to interrogate a known enemy to find their locations.

Chen Yi bought Zhang Mansion and moved into the renovated Chen Mansion, where he held a modest housewarming celebration. County Magistrate Chen Cang attended uninvited to build ties with him, while Chen Yi reflected on Shen Qingshan’s future and resolved to help him rise even higher.

• Chen Yi told Chen Yun he had bought Zhang Mansion with his master’s money and invited her family to move in, but she declined to avoid disgracing Shen Qingshan.
• Chen Yi moved into Chen Mansion, made Dachun its first head butler, and assigned the estate’s servants to Dachun’s management.
• Chen Yi hosted a small housewarming banquet for Chen Yun’s family and people from Yuelai Inn.
• County Magistrate Chen Cang arrived with lavish gifts and tried to establish a relationship with Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi considered Shen Qingshan’s potential future as a Dagan general and resolved to raise him to the position of Shen Family Ancestor.

Chen Yi traveled to the Chixin Sect to capture the Dragon Person Race member possessing Yin Rui, but a chance encounter with Li Liushui delayed him briefly. He tore the Dragon Person free and escaped as the sect’s disciples rushed toward the commotion.

• Chen Yi flew to the Chixin Sect and detected a Dragon Person Race member possessing Yin Rui.
• Li Liushui arrived, spoke with Chen Yi, and then continued his inspection of Dagan.
• Chen Yi infiltrated the sect and found Yin Rui reading in the Library Pavilion while the Dragon Person read along in soul form.
• The Dragon Person attacked Chen Yi with a soul attack, but Chen Yi was immune and grabbed it.
• Chen Yi tore the Dragon Person from Yin Rui, causing both Yin Rui and the Dragon Person to scream and leaving Yin Rui unconscious.
• As Chixin Sect disciples rushed toward the Library Pavilion, Chen Yi slipped into the forest without being discovered.