Recaps

After preparing for the Human World’s future and recruiting allies, Chen Yi led an army into the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm to seize the Ascension Path. He exposed Blood Moon’s connection to the realm’s rulers, but the battle against the Five Great City Lords continued as he drew them toward the Cauldron World.

• Chen Yi concealed the Human World from invading planes, survived through the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, and later became its last Martial God alongside Li Lingyue.
• Chen Yi mourned Wu Yue, spent his final years raising orphans, and died after warning the Human World’s leaders to prepare for his absence.
• After receiving a new simulation’s memories, Chen Yi learned of an Ascension Path in the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm and gathered Shen Yang, the Sword Master, the Great Demon, Hua Wuyan, and other allies for an expedition.
• Chen Yi assembled 120,000 fighters at the North Sea, opened the secret realm’s hidden boundary, and sent Li Wentian ahead to confront the Desolate Ancient Remnant People.
• Chen Yi and his allies confronted the five City Lords, who admitted that Blood Moon had killed Human Race geniuses and targeted the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts to keep other worlds inaccessible.
• Chen Yi used the Yixiantian Array to disable the defenders’ Divine Patterns, then fought Yi Chengsheng as the Human World’s forces attacked.
• The City Lords’ Divine Patterns weakened the allied fighters, and Yi Chengsheng trapped Chen Yi beneath the Floating City, but Chen Yi emerged unharmed with the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Chen Yi realized the Divine Patterns needed adjustment to work inside the Cauldron World, opened it, and urged his allies to drive the five City Lords inside.

Chen Yi defeated the Desolate Soldier, opened the Ascension Path, and later crossed into the Real Realm. There, he was robbed, rescued by Liu Ying and her father, and sent to work in a Winged God Sect mine, where he secretly fed the starving miners.

• Chen Yi and the Martial Gods captured the five city lords in the Nine Provinces Cauldron, then fought the awakened Desolate Soldier as the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm collapsed.
• Chen Yi found the revealed Ascension Path, killed the city lords after rejecting their offer, and watched the Great Demon cross the path and disappear.
• The Sword Master and Shen Qingshan later ascended, while Chen Yi sent the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey ahead and prepared to make his own attempt.
• Chen Yi crossed the Human World section of the Ascension Path, chose the Dead Path at every fork, and reached the Real Realm, where the stronger rules restricted his abilities and artifacts.
• An Old Demon Hag attacked Chen Yi and stole the Myriad Souls Banner, but his simulation ended before he could defeat her.
• Liu Ying and Liu Tian rescued Chen Yi, who recovered and learned that the Winged God Sect seized the village’s grain and conscripted its people.
• Chen Yi accompanied Liu Ying to the Winged God Sect compound, where a captive with an Immortal Root was declared irredeemable and killed in a furnace.
• Registered as Chen Dong, Chen Yi was sent to No. 1 Mine, where he secretly fed the miners and learned from Old Zhang that the sect had captured and killed his master.

Chen Yi led the Human Race miners in the White Porridge Uprising, then escaped Fortune Star aboard the Star Boat Freedom. On Blaze Star, he cultivated to Core Formation, clashed with powerful cultivators over the Heavenly Emperor Relics, and left with a Jade Slip and the Red Bellyband.

• Chen Yi led the miners in the White Porridge Uprising, built the Righteous Army, and fought to escape Fortune Star aboard the Star Boat Freedom.
• The Righteous Army sacrificed itself to help Chen Yi depart, and he destroyed the forces at Star Harbor with his Golden Body before fleeing along a Star Lane to Blaze Star.
• Chen Yi spent decades cultivating on Blaze Star, reached the peak of Nine Turns of Qi Transformation, and advanced to Core Formation.
• Chen Yi set out for the Heavenly Fire Mystic Maiden’s cenotaph, protected fleeing mortals, and forced Know-It-All to guide him to Mystic Maiden Town.
• The Heavenly Emperor Relics landed at Chen Yi’s feet, leaving him with a Jade Slip and the Red Bellyband as powerful cultivators demanded the treasures.
• Chen Yi used the Red Bellyband to repel attacks, killed Demon Sha True Monarch, and smashed his Soul Body when it emerged.
• The Heavenly Sha Sect retreated, and Chen Yi refused the sect leaders’ invitations before exposing an illusory Mystic Fire Mirror and accepting their apologies.

Chen Yi built up Firewood Sect, destroyed the Iron Blood Sect, and then set out to take the marked child Adou from Blaze Star to Vermilion Purple Star. When Star Harbor’s forces tried to stop them, Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang led human reinforcements to Chen Yi, who struck the nine Desolate Realm experts while Ma Bang bound them with the Earth-Binding Ghost Chain.

• Chen Yi joined Firewood Sect, supplied it with Pills and artifacts, and turned its bandits into miners before destroying the Iron Blood Sect and securing its territory for Firewood Sect.
• After years of cultivating and developing Firewood Sect, Chen Yi discovered that Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang were hiding a sleeping child marked with the Sun and Moon characters, and agreed to take him away from Blaze Star.
• The Heavenly Sha Sect and Dragon Person Race raided Firewood Town searching for the child, but Chen Yi fought off their attackers and escaped through a secret passage with the infant.
• Chen Yi named the child Adou, reunited with Know-It-All, and obtained forged residence permits to enter Star Harbor with him.
• A Three-Eyed Race general spotted Adou’s marks, and Chen Yi rushed toward the transport pillar before fighting through Star Harbor’s forces after the Star Boats were brought down.
• Chen Yi escaped the harbor’s encirclement with Adou on his back, but nine Desolate Realm cultivators and armies of the Three-Eyed and Winged Races surrounded him.
• Shen Yifeng and Ma Bang led human reinforcements to Chen Yi, and Ma Bang sacrificed himself to summon the Earth-Binding Ghost Chain and bind the nine experts.
• Chen Yi used Divine Travel and the Seven Divine Steps of the Starry Sky to strike all nine bound experts in rapid succession.