Recaps

Chen Changan advised Yun Qian and Yun Tian that the Yun Family’s candidates should unite and complement one another instead of fighting for power. As Yun Tian accepted the advice, Yun Qian raised the question of whether any of them had been involved in Yun Xiao’s death.

• Chen Changan agreed that Yun Fan was capable but better suited to work as a strategist than as Family Head.
• Chen Changan inferred that Yun Qian and Yun Fan were working together, though Yun Qian questioned his reasoning.
• Chen Changan urged Yun Qian, Yun Tian, and the others to work together, with Yun Qian as Young Family Head and the others in supporting roles.
• Yun Tian thanked Chen Changan and said the Yun Family’s interests should come first.
• Yun Qian stopped them and asked whether any of them had been involved in Yun Xiao’s death.

Yun Qian accused Yun Tian and the other two of being involved in Yun Xiao’s death, but Chen Changan suspected Yun Fan had manipulated her. Yun Tian revealed that the Cangnan Du Family had attacked them during the mission, leaving the reason for their search and the full truth unresolved.

• Yun Qian explained that the mission had been considered safe, Yun Xiao had died, and the Yun Family’s investigation had been silenced, which made her suspect Yun Tian and the other two.
• Chen Changan suggested Yun Fan had planted hints to turn Yun Qian against them, and Yun Qian reconsidered whether she had been misled.
• Chen Changan pressed Yun Tian and the others to reveal what happened, warning that silence could worsen the Yun Family’s internal divisions.
• Yun Tian admitted that the Family Head had forbidden them from discussing the mission because their attackers were too powerful for the Yun Family to provoke.
• Yun Tian named the Cangnan Du Family as the attackers and explained that they had slaughtered the group while searching for something near the mission area.

Yun Tian explained why the Yun Family had hidden its encounter with the Cangnan Du Family, and Chen Changan urged them to grow stronger before seeking revenge. After collecting a reward from the Yun siblings, Chen Changan sent Da Huang to gather information beyond the Yun Family.

• Yun Tian told Chen Changan that the Du Family had attacked them after ordering them to leave, and the Yun Family Head had forbidden anyone from revealing the encounter.
• Chen Changan advised Yun Tian, Yun Qian, and the others to put revenge aside, focus on strengthening the Yun Family, and wait until they could match or surpass the Du Family.
• Yun Qian apologized to Yun Tian and the others for misunderstanding them, and they accepted her apology because they had all cared about Yun Xiao.
• Chen Changan persuaded Yun Tian and the others to show their appreciation, and they gave him and Elder Mu Chaos Stones, Law Source, and Life Source.
• Chen Changan stored the resources in the Chaos Jade Bottle and told Da Huang to gather information beyond the Yun Family, prompting Da Huang to agree to cultivate toward the Lesser Thousand Realm.

Chen Changan, Da Huang, and Mu Yunyao discussed the slow progress of cultivating ten thousand Small Worlds and how to handle destructive Children of Destiny. When Yun Muchen questioned their unusual method, Chen Changan argued that creating many worlds at once would eventually make their breakthroughs faster.

• Mu Yunyao finished creating ten thousand Small Worlds, Chen Changan completed the same step ten years later, and Da Huang took forty years.
• Chen Changan said his most successful worlds produced Children of Destiny who wanted to destroy heaven and earth, and Da Huang advised him to let them develop while keeping watch.
• Da Huang complained that resources were scarce in Chaos Heaven, and Chen Changan suggested that resources might be rarer because higher-level worlds required harsher conditions for them to appear.
• Yun Muchen visited Chen Changan and questioned why he and the others cultivated differently from the Yun Family.
• Chen Changan told Yun Muchen that each of them had created ten thousand worlds, and said their method would eventually let them progress faster.

Chen Changan and Da Huang explained how the Yun Family could cultivate more efficiently, then Yun Muchen asked Chen Changan to lead the younger generation in the Five-Clan Resource Battle. The argument over the Yun Family’s past strategy left Chen Changan urging Yun Muchen to make allies and fight the clans one at a time.

• Da Huang explained that the Yun Family could create many Small Worlds in advance and let them develop while the family cultivated others.
• Yun Muchen thanked Chen Changan for helping Yun Qian and the others unite, but Chen Changan demanded ten Promotion Beads as a reward.
• Yun Muchen asked Chen Changan to lead the Yun Family’s younger generation in the Five-Clan Resource Battle and compete for control of the clans’ resources.
• Yun Muchen explained that the battle took place every five hundred years and that the Yun Family had lost several times.
• Chen Changan criticized the Yun Family for agreeing to the resource battle, and Yun Muchen said refusing would have left the family facing enemies on both sides.
• Chen Changan told Yun Muchen to find allies and defeat the clans one at a time.

Chen Changan explained how the Yun Family could use deception and alliances to seize the resources of the five clans, then visited the clan’s chaos beasts and reunited with the one he had sent undercover. He brought out another chaos beast from the space inside his body, leaving Yun Muchen stunned that Chen Changan had kept a creature made of chaos stones there.

• Chen Changan outlined a plan for Yun Muchen to recruit two clans through bluffs, eliminate their rivals, and eventually take all five clans’ resources.
• Yun Muchen said the Yun Family still had to participate in the upcoming resource battle and promised Chen Changan time to cultivate afterward.
• Chen Changan asked to visit the Yun Family’s chaos beasts, and Yun Muchen led him to their quarters.
• Chen Changan called out and found the chaos beast he had sent undercover, which said it was comfortable living with the Yun Family and chose to stay.
• Chen Changan mentioned another chaos beast and released it from the space inside his body, prompting Yun Muchen to exclaim that it was made of chaos stones.

Chen Changan learned the rules and history of the Five Clans' Resource Battle, then set out with the Yun Family's team for the contest. Along the way, Yun Fan explained that he had accepted supporting the future Family Head as a better way to strengthen the Yun Family.

• Yun Muchen told Chen Changan that eight people from each clan would compete to capture a flag in a Small Heaven and Earth, with the winner gaining priority control of the resources for five hundred years.
• Yun Muchen explained that the first battle among the clans' strongest members lasted more than thirty years without a result, so the younger generation competed instead.
• Yun Muchen chose Chen Changan, Elder Mu, Elder Gou, Yun Qian, Yun Tian, Yun Xin, Yunlong, and Yun Fan to represent the Yun Family.
• Yun Muchen brought Yun Qian and the others to Chen Changan's residence a month later, and the group set out early for the contest's venue.
• Chen Changan asked Yun Muchen about the Qiao Family, and Yun Muchen said he had secretly seized some of their resources rather than openly starting a conflict.
• Yun Fan told Chen Changan that he no longer resented him for blocking his path to becoming Young Family Head and believed he could better serve the Yun Family by supporting its leader.

Chen Changan and the Yun Family’s young members encountered an ambush by more than twenty Lesser Thousand Realm fighters from the Qiao Family. Chen Changan overwhelmed them alone, leaving Yun Tian and the others stunned and curious about his cultivation method.

• Yun Tian and the others told Chen Changan they wanted to strengthen the Yun Family, and Yun Qian asked him to assist her before he turned the conversation to the Five Clans’ Resource Battle.
• Da Huang detected more than twenty people waiting ahead, and Chen Changan urged the Yun Family members to stay calm rather than retreat.
• The ambushers revealed they were from the Qiao Family and planned to cripple the Yun Family by killing its promising young members.
• Chen Changan charged the Qiao Family fighters alone and slaughtered them with his sword, while Yun Tian and the others watched in astonishment.
• Da Huang joked to Mu Yunyao that Chen Changan might be cultivating his own enemies because everyone in Chaos Heaven was his enemy.

Chen Changan searched the dead Qiao Family members for resources and proposed taking their Small Worlds before killing or sparing them, but learned that killing was forbidden in the Five-Clan Resource Battle. He urged the Yun Family to confront the Qiao Family afterward, reminding them they could draw on the strength of all five clans.

• Mu Yunyao regretted that the Small Worlds inside the dead Qiao Family Overlords had perished, because the Yun Family could have used them.
• Chen Changan proposed making enemies surrender their resources and Small Worlds in exchange for their lives, then agreed they should first make sure their opponents could not fight back or escape.
• Yun Tian and the others warned Chen Changan that killing was forbidden in the Five-Clan Resource Battle and that the Yun Family should focus on taking banners.
• Chen Changan said the Yun Family would make its move against the Qiao Family after the battle and argued that the Qiao Family would not let the incident go unanswered.
• Yun Qian and Yun Fan realized that the Yun Family could draw on the strength of all five clans.

Chen Changan and the Yun Family discussed how the Five Families could cooperate against the Qiao Family, then arrived at the Small Heaven and Earth where the Resource War would take place. As they waited for the event to begin, Yun Tian explained that the competition was a free-for-all.

• Yun Fan explained that the Five Families would help the Yun Family attack the Qiao Family because they would share the captured resources.
• Da Huang mocked Yun Tian and the others for their lack of strategic thinking, while Chen Changan said their focus on cultivation made them straightforward.
• Chen Changan and his group arrived at the Small Heaven and Earth, where Yun Qian explained that the five families had separate entrances and the Resource War would begin in about ten days.
• Da Huang threatened to report Yun Xin for disrespecting him, and Yun Xin apologized to avoid trouble.
• Yun Tian explained that the Resource War was a free-for-all.

Chen Changan led the Yun Family into the resource battle and set out to seize the flag within the time it took to burn a stick of incense. Mu Yunyao and Da Huang held off the other four families, and the chapter ended when a tremor signaled that the flag had been seized.

• Chen Changan explained that the five families' paths converged at the flag and said he would seize it while Mu Yunyao and Da Huang stopped the others.
• When the resource battle began, Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang rushed ahead of Yun Qian and the rest of the Yun Family.
• The four other families realized a Yun Family contestant was missing and attacked Yun Qian's group, while Mu Yunyao and Da Huang suppressed all thirty-two opponents.
• Yun Qian identified Mu Yunyao and Da Huang as Yun Family Guest Elders, prompting the other families to accuse the Yun Family of cheating.
• A sudden tremor shook the Small Heaven and Earth, and the contestants realized the flag had already been seized.

Chen Changan returned with the flag after the Yun Family won the resource battle in less than half an incense stick. He urged the other four families to join the Yun Family in a campaign against the Qiao Family, while they considered his proposal and tried to recruit him.

• Yun Qian and the others realized the Yun Family had captured the flag astonishingly quickly, leaving the other four families stunned.
• Chen Changan flew back carrying the flag and told Yun Qian and the others not to get carried away over their easy victory.
• Chen Changan asked the other four families to pass along the Yun Family's plan to attack the Qiao Family and seek help from their leaders.
• The other families considered Chen Changan's proposal but said they could only report it, and a member of the Fang Family tried to recruit him.
• Yun Qian and the others rebuked the Fang Family for trying to poach Chen Changan, Mu, and Gou, then hurriedly led them away.

After the Yun Family returned from the resource battle, Yun Muchen learned the Qiao Family had known the secret event’s exact timing and ordered an investigation into a possible traitor. Chen Changan stayed with the Yun Family and returned to cultivation, leaving the family to pursue an alliance against the Qiao Family.

• Chen Changan reassured Yun Qian and the others that he had no plans to leave the Yun Family, since he intended to bring all Five Clans under his influence.
• The group returned to the Yun Family, whose members were astonished that the resource battle had lasted less than half an incense stick.
• Yun Muchen and the others realized the Qiao Family must have learned the resource battle’s exact date and ambushed them, raising suspicions of a leak within one of the clans.
• Yun Qian told Yun Muchen that Chen Changan had suggested the culprit might be whoever benefited most if the participants were harmed, and Yun Muchen suspected a rival seeking the position of Young Family Head.
• Yun Muchen ordered a discreet investigation and discussed how to keep Chen Changan and the other talented Guest Elders from being recruited by the other clans.
• Yun Muchen learned Chen Changan and the others had gone to cultivate, while Chen Changan predicted at least two of the four clans would support action against the Qiao Family.

Chen Changan suspected Yun Hao had betrayed the Yun Family and returned to cultivation with Mu Yunyao while the family investigated. Yun Muchen confronted Yun Hao and ordered his entire branch struck from the Yun Family, leaving Yun Hao shocked and furious.

• Chen Changan told Da Huang that Yun Hao was his main suspect in leaking the information and said the Yun Family had to investigate the matter themselves.
• Chen Changan insisted that Da Huang reach the Lesser Thousand Realm before taking a break, then cultivated with Mu Yunyao and used his Chaos Jade Bottle to build up resources.
• The Yun Family identified Yun Hao as the person who leaked the information and brought him before Yun Muchen and the others.
• Yun Hao angrily accused the main family of denying collateral branches a fair chance at leadership, while Yun Muchen said his resentment did not justify betraying his clansmen.
• Yun Hao admitted his actions but claimed his branch knew nothing, so Yun Muchen ordered the entire branch struck from the Yun Family.
• Yun Hao protested that the Yun Family was being ruthless, and Yun Muchen replied that Yun Hao should have expected consequences after turning against his own people.

Yun Muchen united the Yun Family with the other four clans to destroy the Qiao Family and proposed that the five clans keep expanding together for shared gain. After a five-year campaign ended in victory with no casualties, the clans gathered at the Yun Family to celebrate and considered inviting Chen Changan, the alliance’s greatest contributor.

• Yun Muchen welcomed the other four Family Heads and their elite forces, then explained that the three Guest Elders were in seclusion and would not join the campaign.
• Yun Muchen proposed that the five clans use their shared interests to expand together, and the Family Heads agreed to discuss how to divide future resources fairly.
• Yun Muchen led the five clans toward the Qiao Family, and their campaign to wipe out the family and seize its resources lasted five years.
• The five clans defeated the Qiao Family, took control of its resources, and suffered no casualties.
• The five clans held their first joint celebration banquet at the Yun Family and raised the idea of inviting the greatest contributor.

After the five clans’ victory over the Qiao Family, Yun Muchen invited Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang to the celebration banquet and reaffirmed the Yun Family’s support for them. At the banquet, Chen Changan deflected the other clans’ attempts to court him and turned the discussion toward coordinated expansion.

• Yun Muchen visited Chen Changan and credited his advice for the Yun Family’s victory over the Qiao Family.
• Chen Changan teased Yun Muchen into calling him “Dad,” then reassured him that he would not abandon the Yun Family.
• Yun Muchen brought Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang to the five clans’ celebration banquet.
• The other four clans praised Chen Changan and his companions, hoping to win their favor.
• Chen Changan praised the five clans’ cooperation and steered the conversation toward planning their future expansion.
• Yun Muchen invited Chen Changan and his companions to sit at the main table.

Chen Changan proposed replacing the five clans’ resource battles with a cooperative Five Clans Alliance, and the clan heads agreed that it could help them grow stronger. They began discussing a new position for Chen Changan in the Alliance.

• The head of the Xie Family asked Chen Changan how the five clans could prevent their mutually beneficial ties from breaking down over unequal rewards.
• Chen Changan revealed his name was Chen Die, and the clan heads said they cared more about the five clans’ stagnation than whether he was connected to a feared person.
• Chen Changan proposed canceling resource battles and jointly managing and distributing resources through a Five Clans Alliance led by all five clan heads.
• The clan heads and Yun Muchen approved the proposal and suggested creating a new position for Chen Changan in the Alliance.
• Yun Muchen agreed that Chen Changan should receive an important position, and the group wondered what role to give him.

Chen Changan became a Chief Elder of the Five Clans Alliance and advised its leaders to strengthen their clans without overreaching or building a shared headquarters. After he left to cultivate, the Family Heads discussed whether he might be the Chen Changan they had been destined to oppose and agreed there was no benefit in making an enemy of him.

• Chen Changan proposed that he and his two companions serve as Chief Elders, ranking below the five Alliance Leaders, and Yun Muchen and the others accepted.
• Chen Changan advised the Alliance to consolidate its strength, settle old grudges cautiously, and avoid provoking powerful foes such as the Cangnan Du Family.
• Chen Changan rejected the idea of establishing a headquarters, arguing that the five clans should remain on their own territories to prevent friction.
• Chen Changan left the victory banquet with Mu Yunyao and Da Huang to cultivate until he could break through to the Lesser Thousand Realm.
• After Chen Changan departed, the Family Heads wondered whether he was the person they had been expected to oppose, and Yun Muchen said he would not make an enemy of him.

After fifty years of seclusion, Chen Changan was nearing the Lesser Thousand Realm while the Five Clans Alliance doubled its resources. When the alliance heard of Intermediate Promotion Beads, Chen Changan questioned how the news had spread, leaving the group suspecting a trap aimed at them.

• Chen Changan took Da Huang into seclusion and said they would not emerge until they reached the Lesser Thousand Realm.
• Over the next fifty years, the Five Clans Alliance doubled its resources and strengthened its ties through shared interests.
• Yun Muchen and the clan leaders heard rumors of several Intermediate Promotion Beads and decided to seek Chen Changan's advice.
• Chen Changan emerged alone and joined Yun Muchen and the others to discuss the rumored beads.
• Chen Changan asked why anyone would publicize such a valuable discovery, leading the alliance leaders to suspect someone had set a trap for them.

Chen Changan helped the Five Clans Alliance investigate a rumored cache of Intermediate Promotion Beads at the place where Yun Xiao had died, connecting it to the Cangnan Du Family. He arranged for the families to travel separately and decided to go alone, leaving Yun Muchen wondering why he was so determined.

• Chen Changan pointed out that the destination was where Yun Xiao had died and where the Cangnan Du Family had once been involved.
• Chen Changan advised the Five Clans Alliance to investigate cautiously, sending ten people from each family separately so they could stay unnoticed.
• Chen Changan volunteered to lead the expedition despite Yun Muchen and the others warning him about the danger.
• Chen Changan told the Qi Family, Fang Family, Xie Family, Hong Family, and Yun Family to depart one day apart, then said he would travel alone.
• Yun Muchen asked why Chen Changan was so determined to go, and Chen Changan replied that he would understand someday.

Chen Changan entered Dongming Palace to investigate the Intermediate Promotion Bead and found a sprawling maze filled with Earth Eater Beasts and treasure seekers. After overpowering a man who tried to make him lead the way, he demanded that the man separate the Small World inside him from his body.

• Chen Changan told Yun Muchen to investigate other factions and resources and establish an intelligence department for the Five Clans Alliance.
• Chen Changan traveled alone to Dongming Palace, where crowds had gathered to search for the Intermediate Promotion Bead.
• Chen Changan entered the underground palace and discovered that its many corridors branched into a maze where Earth Eater Beasts could ambush visitors.
• A man ordered Chen Changan to lead the way, but Chen Changan beat him until he could no longer fight.
• Chen Changan demanded that the man separate his Small World from his body, and dismissed the man's threat that the Hu Family would retaliate.

Chen Changan forced a Hu Family cultivator to surrender a Small World, but found that he could not absorb it and that it vanished when its owner died. He then hunted Earth Eater Beasts in the underground palace, discovered mysterious black stones inside them, and ended the chapter asking the gathered cultivators if they knew what the stones were.

• Chen Changan demanded that a Hu Family cultivator strip away his Small World, then failed to merge it into his own body.
• Chen Changan killed the cultivator with the Red Dust Sword, and the stripped Small World was destroyed with its owner.
• Chen Changan found an Earth Eater Beast, killed it, and used his power to extract a mysterious black stone from its corpse.
• Chen Changan chose to hunt more Earth Eater Beasts instead of searching for the underground palace’s exit, drawing attention from other cultivators.
• A cultivator confronted Chen Changan about the black stone, but he and the others admitted they did not recognize it.

After hunting Earth Eater Beasts for over half a month, Chen Changan met the Fang family and learned that the maze led to the real Dongming Palace. He entered the mysterious palace alone to investigate while the Fang family waited for the others.

• Chen Changan continued hunting Earth Eater Beasts and found a pitch-black stone inside one of them.
• Chen Changan met the Fang family, who told him the palace’s outer area was a maze leading to the real Dongming Palace.
• The Fang family guided Chen Changan through the maze and explained that they avoided exploring the palace because of the pressure inside.
• Chen Changan suspected the palace held a secret and told the Fang family to wait while he went inside alone.

Chen Changan explored the underground palace and found only empty chambers, then led the Five Clans deeper through an extraordinarily long passage. After a month of travel, the group saw its end, and Chen Changan grew suspicious of the rumors that had drawn people there.

• Chen Changan explored the underground palace alone for three days, finding only empty chambers and no other people.
• The Five Clans arrived, and Chen Changan told them what he had found before they entered the palace together.
• Chen Changan led the group down the middle passage, where they discovered that the pressure they had felt before was gone.
• Chen Changan and the Five Clans followed the passage for a month without finding anyone, until they finally saw its distant end.
• Chen Changan questioned who had spread the rumors about the underground palace and why.

Chen Changan led the five clans into a hidden world inside Dongming Palace, where they found three hollowed-out Wei Family corpses and were attacked by a mysterious, fast-moving shadow. He ordered everyone to stay alert, but Hongchen revealed that Chen Changan’s sword had never hit the creature.

• Chen Changan and the five clans emerged from the passage into a sunlit jungle-like world, and he chose to explore despite their fears.
• The five clans refused to leave Chen Changan behind, so they continued forward with him.
• Chen Changan and the others discovered three hollowed-out corpses belonging to members of the Wei Family.
• A small, pitch-black creature rushed at the group, and Chen Changan swung his sword but failed to stop it.
• Chen Changan ordered the group to form ten-person units and remain alert, while Hongchen told him his sword had missed the creature.