Recaps

Chen Changan and the others teased Da Huang and Song Yuheng after Da Huang twisted Song Yuheng’s advice into a suggestion that he was pursuing him. Song Yuheng was left humiliated as the group set off again.

• Da Huang and Song Yuheng argued until Chen Changan ordered them to stop.
• Mu Yunyao joked that the two might fall in love, prompting both to deny being attracted to each other.
• Song Yuheng suggested Da Huang move on from his absent wife, but Da Huang took his words as a flirtatious advance.
• Da Huang interpreted Song Yuheng’s saying as meaning he could seek a man instead of a woman, and the others joined in teasing Song Yuheng.
• Da Huang joked that he feared Song Yuheng would assault him from behind, making the women laugh.
• Chen Changan ended the teasing and urged everyone to continue their journey, while Song Yuheng complained that his heart was full of holes.

Chen Changan and his companions reached the Illusion Dream Domain while searching for the missing children, after learning his Spirit Guiding and Blood Guiding Techniques could not locate them. Li Yanran began recalling the domain, prompting Chen Changan to suspect she was the Li Family’s reincarnating Saintess, and he concluded that destroying the Li Family was the best way to help her.

• Chen Changan explained that his Spirit Guiding and Blood Guiding Techniques had failed to locate Chen Tian and the others because a barrier blocked their bloodlines and auras.
• Chen Changan and the others traveled for about half a month to the Illusion Dream Domain.
• Li Yanran began to recall something about the domain, and Mu Yunyao proposed that the Li Family’s Saintess in every generation was the same person reincarnated.
• Chen Changan suggested that Li Yanran’s past selves had repeatedly erased their memories to escape their suffering, only to endure the same fate again.
• Mu Yunyao worried that Li Yanran’s memories were awakening, but Chen Changan said erasing them again was not the answer and declared that they should destroy the Li Family.

Li Yanran recalled that the Illusion Dream Domain revolved around the mysterious Yun Meng, whom everyone sought despite not knowing whether she existed. Chen Changan’s group questioned the locals and learned that they believed Yun Meng was real, hidden somewhere in the domain and waiting to be found and saved.

• Chen Changan decided to investigate what happened to Chen Tian and the others before tracking the Li Family through Li Yanran’s bloodline.
• Li Yanran recalled that the Illusion Dream Domain was named after Yun Meng, a woman everyone admired and sought despite her uncertain existence.
• Chen Changan told the group to investigate Chen Tian’s trail first and look into Yun Meng if they had the chance.
• Da Huang challenged the locals to describe Yun Meng, and the crowd surrounded the group in anger when he questioned whether she was real.
• Chen Changan asked why the locals wanted to save Yun Meng, and they said she was perfect, called to them, and was waiting to be found.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao investigated the Illusion Dream Domain’s obsession with Yun Meng, then encountered her apparition in a mysterious space after letting its influence take hold. Yun Meng offered to grant Chen Changan’s wishes if he rescued her, and he asked whether he could take her life instead.

• Chen Changan learned that people across the Illusion Dream Domain were fixated on rescuing Yun Meng, and one person said Chen Tian had come searching for her too.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao checked into an inn and discussed how to investigate Yun Meng and find Chen Tian.
• That night, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao felt a strange energy cloud their minds and chose not to resist it.
• Chen Changan entered an indistinct space, saw a blurry figure he believed was Yun Meng, and questioned whether she truly existed.
• Yun Meng asked Chen Changan to find and save her, offering to grant his wishes, and he asked if he could take her life.

Chen Changan and his companions compared their encounters with Yun Meng and suspected that someone was using her image to lure visitors into searching for something in the Illusion Dream Domain. Chen Changan asked Jiang Yunchen about the place and Yun Meng, and Jiang Yunchen revealed that he had visited the domain before.

• Chen Changan spoke with the mysterious figure who called herself Yun Meng, rejected her plea for help, and dispersed her from his consciousness after she said she did not know Chen Tian.
• Mu Yunyao woke up, and she and Chen Changan concluded that Yun Meng might be an illusion created to influence visitors for an unknown purpose.
• Da Huang, Di Feiyan, and Song Yuheng joined Chen Changan and shared that they had all seen the same hazy figure and heard the same words.
• Da Huang suggested that Yun Meng might be a powerful treasure hidden in the Illusion Dream Domain, and the group decided to ask Jiang Yunchen what he knew.
• Chen Changan contacted Jiang Yunchen, who said he had visited the Illusion Dream Domain after reaching the Emperor Above Realm and asked what had brought Chen Changan there.

Jiang Yunchen told Chen Changan that Yun Meng was real, had founded the Cloud Dream Pavilion, and vanished mysteriously, leaving the Illusion Dream Domain obsessed with finding her. Chen Changan decided to seek answers from Seeking Dream at the Cloud Dream Pavilion, where Chen Tian might also have gone.

• Jiang Yunchen explained that Yun Meng founded the Cloud Dream Pavilion and disappeared, plunging it into chaos.
• Jiang Yunchen described how people in the Illusion Dream Domain became obsessed with finding Yun Meng and said he had found no answers during his own search.
• Jiang Yunchen advised Chen Changan to question Seeking Dream, Yun Meng’s close friend and the Cloud Dream Pavilion’s Vice Pavilion Master, while warning that she was extremely deranged.
• Chen Changan reconsidered his assumptions and decided to visit the Cloud Dream Pavilion, where he thought they might learn about Yun Meng and Chen Tian.
• Song Yuheng joked about Chen Changan always searching for people, then agreed with the others that they should get moving.

Chen Changan and his companions reached Cloud Dream Pavilion to find Chen Tian, only to learn from Seeking Dream that he had already left the Illusion Dream Domain. Chen Changan asked whether Chen Tian had resolved the matter involving Yun Meng.

• Song Yuheng complained that Chen Changan had beaten him too badly, while Da Huang described the blows as loving caresses.
• Chen Changan and his companions reached Cloud Dream Pavilion after seven days and found it to be a peaceful refuge founded on Yun Meng's ideals.
• Chen Changan told Cloud Dream Pavilion's members that he was Chen Tian's father and had come to find him.
• Seeking Dream met Chen Changan and said Chen Tian had already left the Illusion Dream Domain.
• Chen Changan asked Seeking Dream whether Chen Tian had resolved the matter with Yun Meng.

Chen Changan questioned Seeking Dream about Yun Meng and the strange events in the Illusion Dream Domain, while learning that Chen Tian had left to train. Seeking Dream led Chen Changan and his companions to a hidden room, where they found someone lying on a bed whom Chen Changan suspected was Yun Meng.

• Seeking Dream said Chen Tian had left to train after the Eternal Ranking appeared and had not revealed where he was going.
• Chen Changan questioned Seeking Dream about Yun Meng, Cloud Dream Pavilion, and who was behind the events in the Illusion Dream Domain.
• Seeking Dream observed that Chen Changan and Chen Tian shared similar suspicions, then asked whether Chen Changan was connected to the Outsider Alliance.
• Seeking Dream explained that Cloud Dream Pavilion helped outsiders, though most outsiders treated it as a temporary stop and eventually left.
• Seeking Dream led Chen Changan, Da Huang, Song Yuheng, and Mu Yunyao through layers of restrictions to a secret room.
• Chen Changan saw someone lying on the bed and asked whether she was Yun Meng and had been inside Cloud Dream Pavilion all along.

Seeking Dream revealed that Yun Meng had secretly experimented on suffering people to find ways to kill them, then accidentally trapped her soul inside Seeking Dream while trying to destroy her. Chen Changan crossed the restriction to inspect Yun Meng’s soulless body and began to suspect that Seeking Dream and Yun Meng looked unusually alike.

• Seeking Dream told Chen Changan that Yun Meng had founded Cloud Dream Pavilion to help people while secretly using them in experiments to discover how to kill.
• Seeking Dream said Yun Meng had tried to destroy her soul, but a mishap left Yun Meng’s weakened soul trapped inside her body.
• Seeking Dream admitted she suspected Yun Meng was behind the Illusion Dream Domain’s strange events and was trying to save herself.
• Chen Changan walked through the restriction without opening it and confirmed Yun Meng’s body had no soul.
• Chen Changan remarked that Seeking Dream and Yun Meng looked alike, then questioned why they looked so much alike.

Chen Changan questioned Seeking Dream’s motives and learned that she and Yun Meng shared a strange origin: two fused souls had separated into two bodies, yet remained linked. Seeking Dream revealed that this connection caused Yun Meng to commit the acts behind the rumors, though she claimed Yun Meng could not control herself.

• Chen Changan said Seeking Dream had brought them to Yun Meng to test them and asked what she was hiding.
• Seeking Dream hesitated, then admitted that she and Yun Meng were one soul in two bodies.
• Seeking Dream explained that their souls had fused before birth, shifted between their bodies, and later separated while remaining connected.
• Seeking Dream said they had been abandoned and mistreated as children, and that Yun Meng established Cloud Dream Pavilion to shelter others in hardship.
• Seeking Dream confirmed the rumors about Yun Meng’s cruel actions were true, but insisted Yun Meng had not wanted to do them and could not control herself.

Seeking Dream explained that Yun Meng had been controlled and turned into an executioner, so she sealed Yun Meng’s soul inside her own, and asked Chen Changan to find the person responsible. Chen Changan agreed to investigate but remained wary of the confusing story, and he decided to observe Illusion Dream Domain more closely.

• Seeking Dream told Chen Changan that Yun Meng had been controlled, and she had forced Yun Meng’s soul into her body and put it to sleep.
• Seeking Dream said the unknown person had attacked her after she sealed Yun Meng, apparently trying to wake Yun Meng, and that Illusion Dream Domain’s current state might be connected to them.
• Chen Changan questioned why the person had not found Yun Meng or acted against Cloud Dream Pavilion, and Seeking Dream admitted she knew little about their motives.
• Seeking Dream asked Chen Changan to help find the person so Yun Meng would not wake, and he agreed to do his best without making a promise.
• Chen Changan and his companions settled at Cloud Dream Pavilion, where Mu Yunyao and Song Yuheng questioned the mystery and Chen Changan chose to observe Illusion Dream Domain before acting.
• After the others left, Mu Yunyao asked whether Seeking Dream was hiding something, and Chen Changan said he was unsure but thought the sisters’ unusual Dual Body One Soul connection could have caused misunderstandings.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao suspected that the Illusion Dream Domain’s strange events might be connected to Yun Meng gathering believers and Faith Power. After investigating, Chen Changan discovered that consciousnesses fell into the domain roughly every seven days and energy gathered at the Cloud Dream Pavilion, so he led the group to seek Seeking Dream and confirm his final guess.

• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao considered whether people in the Illusion Dream Domain were being made into Yun Meng’s believers to gather Faith Power.
• Chen Changan vanished to investigate, while Mu Yunyao and the others waited at the Cloud Dream Pavilion.
• After returning, Chen Changan revealed that consciousnesses fell into the domain about every seven days and energy drained from their bodies and gathered at the Cloud Dream Pavilion.
• Chen Changan suggested that Seeking Dream and Yun Meng might both have been deceived, leaving the others confused.
• Chen Changan proposed visiting Seeking Dream to confirm his final guess.

Chen Changan revealed to Seeking Dream that a hidden third consciousness within her and Yun Meng was secretly gathering Faith Power. As Seeking Dream began to struggle against the entity, Chen Changan explained how he had deduced its existence, leaving the group with the sisters’ souls as the source of the mystery.

• Chen Changan asked Seeking Dream about periods when her consciousness went blank, and she explained that she sometimes slept for several days as her soul fused with her body.
• Chen Changan told Seeking Dream that people in the Illusion Dream Domain periodically lost consciousness and sent energy to the Cloud Dream Pavilion, which she had not known about.
• Chen Changan proposed that a hidden third soul or consciousness within Seeking Dream and Yun Meng was manipulating people to collect Faith Power.
• Seeking Dream began visibly struggling as the hidden consciousness surfaced, revealing a frenzied and evil expression.
• Chen Changan explained to Da Huang that the Cloud Dream Pavilion’s unchanged state and the imperfect division of the souls suggested an extra consciousness had existed from the beginning.

Chen Changan explained that Yun Meng’s evil consciousness was a split consciousness within her soul and proposed a dangerous fusion to suppress it. Seeking Dream began fusing with Yun Meng despite the risk of disappearing, while Yun Meng and the evil consciousness resisted.

• Chen Changan deduced that Yun Meng’s soul had developed a second, evil consciousness, which explained why Seeking Dream had been affected.
• Chen Changan said the evil consciousness could only be eliminated by Yun Meng herself or by destroying her soul, then offered a risky fusion that might cause Seeking Dream to disappear.
• Seeking Dream agreed to sacrifice herself to protect Yun Meng, and Chen Changan instructed her to return Yun Meng’s sleeping soul to their shared body and fuse with her.
• Seeking Dream abandoned her own body and brought Yun Meng’s soul back into their body, then began the fusion as Yun Meng and the evil consciousness fought to stop her.

Yun Meng’s evil consciousness seized temporary control and tried to escape, but Chen Changan stopped her and fought off the Cloud Dream Pavilion followers she summoned. He offered to separate her from Yun Meng and Seeking Dream, and she agreed to trust him.

• Yun Meng fell silent, then the evil consciousness took control of her body and tried to flee.
• Chen Changan blocked her and refused to let her leave, while Mu Yunyao calmed the Cloud Dream Pavilion members and brought Li Yanran and the others to help.
• The evil consciousness summoned powerful cultivators and ordered them to kill Chen Changan, but he struck them down with the Red Dust Sword.
• Chen Changan threatened to kill Yun Meng and proposed separating the evil consciousness from the other two souls.
• The evil consciousness agreed to trust Chen Changan and let him try to separate her from Yun Meng and Seeking Dream.

Chen Changan told Yun Meng that Seeking Dream was part of her own soul and that she needed to accept her painful past instead of suppressing it. Yun Meng began to understand that she had to face and resolve her inner problems herself.

• Yun Meng regained control of her body and told Chen Changan that Seeking Dream had fused with part of her soul but had not disappeared.
• Chen Changan explained that Seeking Dream was a second consciousness Yun Meng had created and that Yun Meng alone could end the conflict by accepting her past.
• Yun Meng suppressed the evil consciousness and listened as Chen Changan urged her to confront her problems and become strong enough to act decisively.
• Chen Changan and Da Huang discussed how their Small Worlds provided Faith Power, while Da Huang teased Song Yuheng and revealed he had left Seeking Dream's body unattended.
• Yun Meng considered Chen Changan's advice and concluded that she had to solve her own problems herself.

Yun Meng overcame the trauma behind the evil consciousness, allowing Chen Changan to restore Seeking Dream’s soul to her own body. Back at the Cloud Dream Pavilion, Yun Meng told Chen Changan about a legend of a hidden retreat in the Illusion Dream Domain, and said she knew its location.

• Chen Changan explained that Yun Meng had to confront her past herself, and the group waited seven days for her to emerge from meditation.
• Yun Meng said she had let go of the past and that the other consciousness had too, then returned with the group to the Cloud Dream Pavilion.
• Chen Changan guided Seeking Dream’s remaining soul back into her body and promised to refine Spirit Nourishing Pills to help her recover.
• Yun Meng told Chen Changan that the Illusion Dream Domain was once called the Tian Xuan Domain and was rumored to contain a powerful expert’s hidden retreat.
• Chen Changan questioned the legend, and Yun Meng said she knew the retreat’s location.

Yun Meng told Chen Changan she had once seen a mysterious white gate linked to a legendary place and gave him its approximate location. After helping her refine a Spirit Nourishing Pill, Chen Changan and his companions set off to search for the place, suspecting Jiang Yunchen had also sought it.

• Yun Meng explained that she had seen a huge white gate in the sky as a child, later remembered the vision after hearing the legend, and shared the area where it had appeared.
• Chen Changan refined a Spirit Nourishing Pill for Yun Meng, astonishing her with his alchemy skills, then departed with his companions.
• Da Huang wondered whether the legendary place was real and suggested Jiang Yunchen had come to visit Yun Meng partly to search for it.
• Chen Changan decided they would look for the legendary place after losing Chen Tian’s trail, while Da Huang and Song Yuheng bickered about treasure hunting and brothels.

Chen Changan searched for the hidden entrance to Yun Meng’s secluded space and was suddenly pulled inside. He found a mysterious white gate and an apparently endless Cloud Ladder beyond it.

• Chen Changan explained that the hidden space’s entrance followed a pattern, then searched the area while Da Huang and Song Yuheng bickered.
• Mu Yunyao told the others to leave the search to Chen Changan, and Da Huang joked that Chen Changan could not give birth.
• Li Yanran noticed Chen Changan had vanished, and the group wondered whether he had found the entrance.
• Chen Changan realized he had been sucked into another space and found himself before the majestic white gate Yun Meng had described.
• The gate opened to reveal the Cloud Ladder, and Chen Changan flew upward until he stopped, suspecting something was wrong with it.

Chen Changan broke through the Cloud Ladder’s visual trick and found Empty City, a hidden city filled with Emperor Above Realm experts. After its residents swarmed him with questions about the outside world, he punched several of them away and demanded their attention.

• Chen Changan realized the Cloud Ladder looped because of a simple visual illusion and climbed straight upward after discovering his perception was restricted.
• Chen Changan reached a golden city in the sky and found two guards at its gates, confirming that people lived there.
• Chen Changan entered Empty City, whose gates shut behind him, and saw that all its residents were at the Emperor Above Realm.
• The residents crowded Chen Changan with questions about the Eternal Land and how he had reached the city.
• Chen Changan punched and sent more than ten residents flying, then demanded that the crowd listen to him.

Chen Changan learned that the people hiding in Empty City came from an era before the Eternal Land was enslaved. They revealed that they had fled the killer Yun Sen through the Spark Plan, but discovered they could enter Empty City and never leave.

• Chen Changan questioned the people in Empty City about why they had hidden there, and they said they had come to stay alive.
• Chen Changan explained that the Human Race had conquered the other races, then an outsider enslaved the Eternal Land and erased memories of that period.
• The people in Empty City said they had never heard of the war or the enslavement and asked Chen Changan what had happened.
• Chen Changan learned that they had fled Yun Sen, an invincible madman who could kill, by gathering resources and talented people under the Spark Plan.
• The people told Chen Changan that the plan had trapped them in Empty City because they could enter but could not get out.

Chen Changan learned that Empty City’s residents had trapped themselves inside a refuge built to keep invaders out, and they had failed for years to reopen the way to the Eternal Land. He headed for the City Lord’s Mansion to seek a way out, leaving the residents cautiously hopeful that he might succeed.

• Chen Changan discovered that Empty City’s residents had designed their refuge to let people in but not out, and they could no longer open the entrance to the Eternal Land.
• The residents offered Chen Changan a place to stay, but he insisted that he wanted to leave rather than join their community.
• Chen Changan said he would visit the City Lord’s Mansion and try to find a way out, despite one resident dismissing his confidence.
• A resident guided Chen Changan through Empty City because perception did not work there.
• After Chen Changan left, several residents admitted that his words made them hope he could lead them out.

Chen Changan questioned the old man about Yun Sen and the Eternal Ranking before entering Empty City's City Lord's Mansion. After learning how the legend of the hidden city reached the outside world, he told its three city lords he wanted to negotiate.

• Chen Changan asked the old man whether Yun Sen had appeared without warning and learned that no one knew his origins or why he vanished.
• The old man explained that the Eternal Ranking had never appeared in his era, and Chen Changan revealed that it had appeared in the present Eternal Land.
• Chen Changan assured the old man that he could get them out, then went to the City Lord's Mansion and endured a guard's elaborate first-time visitor routine.
• Chen Changan met Empty City's three city lords, whose auras seemed stronger than Jiang Yunchen's, and asked how the city's legend had reached the Eternal Land.
• The city lords said the city sometimes appeared to the outside world, and Chen Changan said he wanted to talk terms with them.

Chen Changan offered the three City Lords a deal: he would find a way to free them, and in return they would follow his orders when needed. The City Lords tested his strength, and the chapter left them fighting him together above Empty City as its residents watched in disbelief.

• Chen Changan proposed freeing the three City Lords in exchange for their help when he needed it.
• The City Lords doubted his ability and began to threaten him, but Chen Changan asked whether they still had immortal bodies in the Eternal Land.
• One City Lord struck Chen Changan, who took the punch and counterattacked strongly enough to surprise all three.
• Chen Changan said none of them could defeat him and challenged the three City Lords to attack together.
• The City Lords charged Chen Changan above Empty City, stunning the residents who recognized their auras.

Chen Changan fought the three city lords in Empty City, learned they had been trapped there for ages, and set out to find a way to free them. He unexpectedly returned through the white gate and told Mu Yunyao and the others about the city, leaving them wondering whether he could bring people in and out.

• Chen Changan endured the three city lords' combined attacks, and they conceded that they had lost and accepted his right to negotiate.
• The three city lords explained that Yun Sen had killed the creator of their sealed space and that their efforts to escape had failed.
• Chen Changan left Empty City to investigate the enormous white gate and search for a way out.
• Chen Changan inexplicably emerged from the gate, where Da Huang, Mu Yunyao, and the others questioned what had happened.
• Chen Changan told them about Empty City and its trapped inhabitants, and Mu Yunyao asked whether he could take others inside and bring them out.