Recaps

Zhang Ming founded the New Dynasty as Great Yu collapsed into rival states, then defeated the six northern provinces’ coalition and captured its governors and Confucian cultivators. Wang Wenshan surrendered and broke through to the third realm, while Wu Tian became the first captive after him to step forward and offer allegiance.

• Batumen destroyed the Green Ox Tribe, then led the Azure Wolf Tribe to defeat the Northern Royal Court with Old Daoist Sun’s transformed Imperial Guard Iron Cavalry, while Zhang Ming’s forces seized Yan Yun’s Four Counties.
• As Great Yu fell into chaos, Zhang Ming expanded his rule, investigated corruption, and developed his talisman research while the Three Dukes died and six new Dukes took control of the court.
• Yuan Kui and other rulers proclaimed new states, and Zhang Ming founded the New Dynasty with Gaoyuan City as its temporary capital, then heard his subjects’ prayers through the National Luck Azure Sea.
• Zhang Ming strengthened his rule and prepared to use National Fortune to improve his army after Wang Wenshan persuaded the other five northern governors to send a coalition of six hundred thousand troops against him.
• The New Dynasty met the coalition on the grassland, where Zhang Ming’s Giant War Cavalry broke through its lines and Zhang Ming captured Wang Wenshan, the governors, and their Confucian cultivators.
• Zhang Ming sent troops to occupy Yan Yun’s remaining counties and brought the captured leaders to prison, where Wang Wenshan surrendered and regained his Righteous Qi.
• Wang Wenshan broke through to the third realm and left after Zhang Ming told him he was free, while Wu Tian stepped forward as the first of the remaining prisoners to offer surrender.

Zhang Ming strengthened the New Dynasty by learning Talisman and Confucian cultivation, expanding its industries, and absorbing the Northern Six States. As the Heavenly Mystery Lineage turned the Six Nations against him, Zhang Ming prepared to destroy the Lineage, and Barut led the New Dynasty army into battle.

• Wu Tian and five other cultivators joined Zhang Ming, who cursed the remaining prisoners and ordered his six followers to govern them.
• Zhang Ming visited Talisman City as Li Qing, impressed its three Ancestors with his unique talismans, and was accepted as their True Disciple.
• After leaving the city, Zhang Ming defeated a Heavenly Mystery Lineage squad waiting to kill him and captured their souls.
• Zhang Ming returned to Gao Yuan, advanced the New Dynasty’s talisman industry, recruited Feng Weiqi, and negotiated with Confucian leaders for their teachings and a Saint artifact.
• Great Confucian Scholar Kong initiated Zhang Ming into Confucian cultivation, and Zhang Ming transformed the Gathering Evil Art into the Primordial Chaos Art.
• The Heavenly Mystery Lineage discovered the New Dynasty’s rising power and persuaded the Six Nations to form an allied army, while Zhang Ming merged the Northern Six States into his realm.
• As the Six Nations, Western Rong, and Eastern Di prepared to attack, Zhang Ming deduced new techniques and resolved to destroy the Heavenly Mystery Lineage.
• Barut empowered the New Dynasty army with Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain, and its soldiers clashed with the Six Nations’ allied forces outside Yan Yun.

Zhang Ming destroyed the Heavenly Mystery Lineage, unified the Central Continent, and advanced his understanding of law through the Fortune Realm. He then settled into a farming role in the Immortal Cultivation World, where Ye Tian’s rise and a crisis in the sect led him to plan a visit to the newly promoted Outer Disciple.

• Zhang Ming used military formations to break the Six-Nation Allied Army, captured and enslaved Heavenly Mystery Lineage cultivators, and learned how to enter their hidden Ancestral Land.
• Zhang Ming fused the Qi Absorption Art with the Primordial Chaos Art, invaded the Ancestral Land, killed the Lineage Master, and destroyed the Heavenly Mystery Lineage.
• Zhang Ming defeated the remaining enemies, unified the former territories of Great Yu, founded the New Dynasty in Kyoto, and transformed the Empire with roads, canals, and reforms.
• Zhang Ming conquered the Barbarians, mapped five continents, and returned through the World Gate to meet his other self and the main body, learning about humanity’s interstellar expansion and war with the Abyss.
• Zhang Ming connected the Human Dao Law across human settlements, gathered the fortune of three trillion people, and used the Fortune Realm to reach full comprehension of its laws.
• Zhang Ming entered the Immortal Cultivation World as a menial disciple, received a Spiritual Plant Institute assignment, and began recording and mastering farming techniques while Ye Tian drew attention through his duels.
• Blood Mist Cave cultivators trapped Ye Tian and other disciples in a Secret Realm, but Ye Tian was later released from the Eternal Cold Ice Cave and promoted to Outer Disciple.
• Zhang Ming found that farming could not quickly earn enough to buy puppetry records, so he decided to visit Ye Tian and saw that six of his skills had reached Mastery while his cultivation remained at Qi Cultivation Layer One.

Zhang Ming traded techniques with Ye Tian, then used Steward Niu and other captives to develop artificial Golden Cores while pursuing cultivation knowledge and mapping the world. He completed a self-improving Base Vehicle and prepared to send it to a lower prefecture, where Chen Shao awakened to the Red Alert System.

• Zhang Ming traded the Two Forms Profound Water Technique to Ye Tian for puppet teachings, then improved it to heal severe injuries and store more Profound Water.
• Zhang Ming ambushed Steward Niu, learned Ye Tian had forced him to attack, and experimented on him to automate cultivation and create an artificial Golden Core.
• Zhang Ming used Steward Niu to defeat Liu Dacheng and Zhao Dazhu, then launched a devastating Golden Core attack that Ye Tian escaped.
• Zhang Ming developed a Second-Generation Spirit Particle Fission Reactor, whose explosion alarmed the leaders of the surrounding factions, and continued his experiments with captured Marauder Cultivators.
• Zhang Ming cured Wang Hua with a Golden Core and sent her and Steward Niu to gather materials while he built and launched a satellite to map the continent and its prefectures.
• After Ye Tian returned as a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment cultivator, Zhang Ming bet on him in the sect competition and later raided the Zhu Family for records about the Nascent Soul realm.
• Zhang Ming completed a self-improving Base Vehicle and chose a lower prefecture as its destination, where Chen Shao awoke and summoned the Red Alert System.