Recaps

Chen Changan discovered that the fast, faceless creatures carried Promotion Beads and collected ten while leading the five races deeper into the area. After finding more than twenty corpses, he suspected the deaths had been caused either by an overwhelming number of creatures or by another person.

• Chen Changan spotted a creature preparing to ambush the group, killed it, and found a Promotion Bead inside its body.
• Chen Changan theorized that the creatures formed Promotion Beads by killing people, and warned the five races to stay alert for both monsters and other people.
• Over the next three days, Chen Changan killed enough creatures to collect ten Promotion Beads, which he stored in the Chaos Jade Bottle.
• Chen Changan and the group found more than twenty corpses, prompting him to question why none of the victims had fought back or killed their attackers.
• Chen Changan proposed that the victims had been killed by either too many or stronger creatures, or by someone else.

Chen Changan and his companions found more than twenty corpses and considered whether humans had used the ghostly creatures to kill them for Promotion Beads. Suspecting the Cangnan Du Family had spread the rumor to lure people into the area, Chen Changan sent his companions back while he stayed to investigate.

• Chen Changan warned that people might have killed the victims while seeking Promotion Beads or used them as bait for the ghostly creatures.
• Chen Changan spotted and killed three nearby ghostly creatures, concluding they were not strong enough to account for all the deaths.
• The group speculated that someone had deliberately fed the victims to the creatures, and Chen Changan suspected the Du Family remained in the area and had spread the rumor.
• The companions explained that the Du Family was far stronger than the Five Clans Alliance and urged Chen Changan to avoid them.
• Chen Changan insisted on uncovering the Du Family's plans and told his companions to retrace their steps and wait for him at the underground palace entrance.

Chen Changan uncovered that the Du Family was raising World Devouring Beasts by luring people to feed them, then confronted two Du Family members while investigating their plans. The men grew suspicious of Chen Changan and prepared to subdue him.

• Chen Changan speculated that the Du Family was raising World Devouring Beasts for higher-grade Promotion Beads and continued killing the creatures alone.
• After half a month, Chen Changan had collected more than eighty Promotion Beads and found hundreds of corpses.
• Chen Changan overheard two men discussing the dwindling number of World Devouring Beasts and learned the creatures' name.
• The two men found a World Devouring Beast corpse and realized someone had discovered the secret and killed one.
• Chen Changan confronted the men, who confirmed they were Du Family members raising the beasts and said they had always known the beasts contained Promotion Beads.
• Chen Changan questioned the men about the Du Family and the beasts, and they decided to beat him into submission.

Chen Changan defeated two Du Family members guarding the World Devouring Beasts and questioned them about their plans and strength. After they recognized him as Chen Changan, he killed them and realized traveling alone made it too easy to expose himself.

• Chen Changan swiftly beat two Lesser Thousand Realm members of the Du Family before they could attack.
• The Du Family members told Chen Changan that their family planned to keep the resource site, had just over thirty people there, and had removed the palace’s oppressive force.
• Chen Changan forced the two men to hand over their Chaos Stones, Law Sources, and Life Sources, then asked about other resources.
• The two Du Family members guessed that Chen Changan was the notorious man they had been waiting for and threatened him.
• Chen Changan killed both men, destroyed their bodies and souls, and concluded he should stop traveling alone.

Chen Changan watched the Du Family struggle to capture a High-grade World Devouring Beast, hoping to seize its Promotion Bead during the battle. The fight left only three Du Family members alive, while Chen Changan waited for a chance to strike.

• Chen Changan stayed hidden after killing two Du Family members and continued hunting World Devouring Beasts.
• The Du Family gathered around a beast nearing its advancement to High-grade, while Chen Changan watched them from afar.
• After two months, the World Devouring Beast advanced, and the Du Family attacked it from outside its barrier.
• The Du Family tried to shrink the barrier, but the beast shattered it and killed seven or eight members in its first exchange.
• The battle reduced the Du Family to two peak Greater Thousand Realm members and one Myriad Thousand Realm expert, while Chen Changan waited for both sides to weaken further.

Chen Changan killed the World Devouring Beast, claimed its High-grade Promotion Bead, and eliminated the Du Family members who witnessed it. After leading the five clans out of Dongming Palace, he confronted the crowd gathered outside and demanded to know why they had not entered.

• The Du Family members wore down the World Devouring Beast, giving Chen Changan the chance to kill it with a sword strike and retrieve the High-grade Promotion Bead.
• Chen Changan killed the wounded Du Family powerhouse when he demanded the bead, then wiped out the remaining Du Family members and searched the area for survivors.
• Chen Changan rejoined the five clans waiting at the palace entrance and led them out of Dongming Palace.
• Several thousand people surrounded Chen Changan outside and questioned him about the palace and its Promotion Beads.
• Chen Changan killed an arrogant man who insulted him, silenced the crowd, and asked why they were waiting outside instead of entering.

Chen Changan returned from Dongming Palace and told the Five Clans Alliance that the Du Family had spread the rumor and been wiped out by a high-level World Devouring Beast. He gave the Alliance one hundred ordinary Promotion Beads, then left to cultivate as the others reflected on Yun Xiao's death.

• Chen Changan told the people gathered outside Dongming Palace that it was extremely dangerous and that those who had entered and failed to return were dead.
• Chen Changan returned to the Yun Family and reported to the Five Clans Alliance leaders that Dongming Palace contained Promotion Beads and that the Du Family had started the rumor.
• Chen Changan revealed one hundred ordinary Promotion Beads, and the Alliance leaders urged him to keep twenty for his contribution.
• Chen Changan explained that a high-level World Devouring Beast had killed the Du Family members, and said the Alliance could continue cultivating and expanding without worrying about their deaths.
• Yun Muchen reflected that Yun Xiao's death had finally been avenged, while Chen Changan left to cultivate.

Chen Changan and the others investigated a strange stone found inside an Earth Eater Beast and discovered it could stabilize the Small Worlds within a Ruler’s body. They named it Black Stone and recognized Dongming Palace as a source of another valuable cultivation resource.

• Chen Changan returned with a black stone from an Earth Eater Beast and asked the others what it was for.
• Yun Muchen suggested that the stone might strengthen their bodies, but Chen Changan explained that its energy could not be absorbed directly.
• Chen Changan proposed placing the stone inside the body or a Small World to test its effects.
• Yun Muchen put one stone among his inner heavens and another in a Small World, where both gradually released energy and stabilized the Small World.
• Yun Muchen celebrated the discovery, and the group decided to call the resource Black Stone.

Chen Changan finished a period of seclusion as the Five Clans Alliance grew and faced pressure from the Du Family and a rival alliance of ten factions. After Da Huang reached the Lesser Thousand Realm, Chen Changan urged the alliance leaders to strengthen themselves, but they said advancing to the Myriad Thousand Realm was far too difficult.

• Chen Changan gave the others two hundred Black Stones for hunting Earth Eater Beasts and warned them to keep the matter quiet.
• The Cangnan Du Family noticed that its people sent to Dongming Palace had died and ordered an investigation.
• Over fifty years, the Five Clans Alliance expanded its territory while Chen Changan and the others cultivated in seclusion.
• Da Huang broke through to the Lesser Thousand Realm and learned from Mu Yunyao that Chen Changan and she had reached it before him.
• Yun Muchen told Chen Changan that the Du Family was investigating and that ten factions had formed an alliance to threaten the Five Clans Alliance’s territory.
• Chen Changan told Yun Muchen and the other leaders to improve their cultivation, but they explained that breaking through to the Myriad Thousand Realm was much harder.

Chen Changan learned that the Five Clans Alliance’s ten rivals were divided by mistrust and ordered an investigation so they could be split apart. After reviewing the intelligence, he set out with Da Huang and Mu Yunyao to visit the Xu Family, hoping to exploit its strained place in the alliance.

• Chen Changan urged the Five Clans Alliance to confront its rivals and use its intelligence department to investigate their strength and relationships.
• Yun Muchen confirmed that the intelligence department was established, and Chen Changan encouraged the Yun Family to try his cultivation method.
• After more than two months, the alliance’s investigation found that the ten forces were held together by necessity and had serious grudges, including the Xu Family’s blood feud with the Liu Family.
• Chen Changan chose to approach the Xu Family first and took Da Huang and Mu Yunyao with him, while Yun Muchen and the others waited nearby in case of danger.
• As the three traveled toward Xu territory, Da Huang worried about danger and joked that he still wanted to visit a brothel.

Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang visited the Xu Family to propose friendship without asking them to join the Five Clans Alliance. Chen Changan offered to help the Xu Family leave its alliance and destroy its blood enemy, the Liu Family, leaving the Xu Family Head to consider the offer.

• Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang reached the Xu Family's territory after more than two months of travel.
• The Xu Family Head questioned why the Five Clans Alliance had sent only three recent Lesser Thousand Realm cultivators to visit.
• Chen Changan revealed that the three visitors were the alliance's Chief Elders and said the Five Clans Alliance existed because of him.
• Chen Changan said they wanted to make a friend, not recruit the Xu Family into their alliance.
• Chen Changan offered to help the Xu Family leave its current alliance and destroy the Liu Family.

Chen Changan tried to persuade the Xu Family Head to leave his alliance and join the Five Clans Alliance in destroying the Liu Family. The Xu Family Head became more receptive but continued to question whether the Five Clans Alliance would protect his family and let it remain independent.

• The Xu Family Head suspected Chen Changan’s offer was meant to weaken his alliance, and he weighed the danger of fighting the Liu Family against the threat of retaliation from the other eight forces.
• Chen Changan warned that if the Xu Family refused, the Five Clans Alliance might approach the Liu Family instead, and urged the Xu Family Head to consider the opportunity carefully.
• Da Huang doubted the Xu Family would agree, but Chen Changan confidently predicted that it would.
• The Xu Family Head asked about Chen Changan’s identity, and Chen Changan explained that he, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang were outsiders hired as Chief Elders.
• Chen Changan promised to help the Xu Family defeat the Liu Family quickly, protect it from retaliation, and not force it to join the Five Clans Alliance afterward.
• The Xu Family Head asked whether his family could remain independent as the Five Clans Alliance expanded, and Chen Changan assured him that friends would support one another.

Chen Changan persuaded the Xu Family to join the Five Clans Alliance and revealed his plan to launch surprise attacks on the Liu and Yuan Families. With both forces preparing to strike, the Xu Family looked forward to settling its blood debt against the Liu Family.

• Xu Family Head agreed to ally with the Five Clans Alliance despite his elders’ concerns.
• Chen Changan urged the Xu Family to gather its elite fighters and summon the alliance’s hidden reinforcements for a surprise attack on the Liu Family.
• Ten elders from the Five Clans Alliance arrived, and Chen Changan reassured Xu Family Head that the Xu Family would no longer face the alliance as an enemy.
• Chen Changan told the alliance members to contact the five alliance leaders and proceed with the plan, though they had not been told its details.
• Chen Changan explained that the alliance and Xu Family would split into two forces to attack the Liu and Yuan Families, then continue attacking other clans.
• Xu Family Head agreed to wait for the fighters to arrive and looked forward to repaying the Liu Family’s blood debt.

Chen Changan led the Xu, Yun, and Fang families in a surprise assault that wiped out the Liu Family in just one hour. He offered the Xu Family a choice: return home or join the alliance as it moved on to attack the Dong Family.

• Yun Muchen and the Fang Family Head arrived at the Xu Family with their elite forces, and Chen Changan ordered everyone to prioritize destroying the Liu Family over claiming its resources.
• The families traveled toward the Liu Family, and Xu Family Head reflected on the long feud and asked why Chen Changan had chosen the Xu Family over the Liu Family.
• Chen Changan and the others entered the Liu Family's Grotto-Heaven and launched an attack without warning, killing the Liu Family members and destroying the family in one hour.
• Chen Changan offered the Xu Family the choice of returning home or joining the alliance to attack the nearby Dong Family.
• Xu Family Head chose to continue with the alliance, and Chen Changan led everyone toward the Dong Family.

Chen Changan helped the Five Clans Alliance destroy most of the Ten Clans Alliance, then advised it to strengthen itself before challenging the Du Family over Dongming Palace. After thirty years of stability, he told Yun Muchen that he, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang were setting off to explore, while assuring him he would remain Chief Elder and return.

• Chen Changan proposed dividing the spoils among the alliance and giving the Xu Family half the resources seized from the Liu Family, but said the Five Clans Alliance should not expand further yet.
• Yun Qian told Chen Changan that the Du Family had warned the Five Clans Alliance to stay away from Dongming Palace, and Chen Changan advised them to wait and grow stronger before confronting the Du Family.
• The Five Clans Alliance focused on cultivation, and the other forces grew subdued after seeing its strength and resolve.
• After staying with the Yun Family for thirty years, Chen Changan told Yun Muchen that he, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang planned to leave and explore.
• Yun Muchen worried that Chen Changan was only in the Lesser Thousand Realm, but Chen Changan reassured him that he would remain Chief Elder and set off anyway.

Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang left the Yun Family to explore Chaos Heaven, but wandered for over a year without finding anyone. After finally meeting members of the Myriad Worlds Sect, they learned that sects were common in the region and accepted an invitation to join the group on its journey.

• Chen Changan left the Yun Family with Mu Yunyao and Da Huang, saying they would explore Chaos Heaven without a fixed destination.
• The group traveled for more than a year through sparsely populated territory and grew frustrated at finding neither people nor clear signs of civilization.
• Da Huang sensed people nearby, and Chen Changan's group approached five men and three women who appeared to belong to the same force.
• Chen Changan explained that they were wanderers seeking experience, and the group invited them to travel together to its destination.
• The eight introduced themselves as members of the Myriad Worlds Sect, and Chen Changan accepted their invitation to join them.

Chen Changan and his companions joined a Myriad Worlds Sect expedition to the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven, where blood fiends carried Blood Soul Beads that could strengthen the body. After learning about the Chaos Physique, Chen Changan realized he could form nine Flowing Light Green Lotuses, while Mu Yunyao and Da Huang also had Chaos Flowing Light; the group then prepared to enter the dangerous, unclaimed territory.

• A leader from the Myriad Worlds Sect invited Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang to join their expedition and warned them that the destination was dangerous.
• The Myriad Worlds Sect members explained that blood fiends in the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven yielded Blood Soul Beads that could help strengthen the physical body.
• The group described the Chaos Physique and said that three Flowing Light Green Lotuses marked its perfection, though only their sect master had condensed Chaos Flowing Light.
• Mu Yunyao and Da Huang told Chen Changan that they had noticed Chaos Flowing Light within their bodies, and Chen Changan revealed that he could form nine Flowing Light Green Lotuses.
• The Myriad Worlds Sect members confirmed that hunting blood fiends offered both combat training and Blood Soul Beads, but warned that other visitors to the Grotto-Heaven might be dangerous.

Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang entered the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven to hunt Baleful Intent and collect Blood Soul Beads that could strengthen their bodies. After Da Huang absorbed a bead and found it useful, the group continued their search, with Da Huang eager to vent his frustration on more monsters.

• Chen Changan and his companions parted ways with the Myriad Worlds Sect disciples and arrived at the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang surveyed the eerie blood-red world and set out to hunt Baleful Intent for Blood Soul Beads.
• The three encountered five Baleful Intent, killed them, and collected five Blood Soul Beads.
• Da Huang absorbed a Blood Soul Bead and noticed that it improved his condition and seemed to change his body.
• Chen Changan stored the remaining beads for later, and Da Huang complained that he had been the only one to test one before declaring he would kill more Baleful Intent.

Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang hunted Blood Fiends in Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven, then killed a Boundary Breaking Sect group that tried to rob them. As they ventured deeper and faced stronger Blood Fiends, Da Huang spotted the Myriad Worlds Sect group in danger, and Chen Changan decided to help them.

• Da Huang killed over a hundred Blood Fiends while Chen Changan gathered the spoils.
• A Boundary Breaking Sect group confronted Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang and demanded their Blood Soul Beads.
• Chen Changan killed the group’s leader and another member, then forced the remaining eight to hand over their resources.
• Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang killed all eight survivors and resumed hunting Blood Fiends deeper in Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Da Huang spotted the Myriad Worlds Sect group in danger, and Chen Changan told the others to help them.

Chen Changan fought and killed a Blood Kui that attacked the Myriad Worlds Sect members, then discovered a strange purple treasure inside it. The group prepared to learn more about the Blood Kui and its hexagonal-prism treasure.

• Chen Changan rushed to fight the Blood Kui despite the Myriad Worlds Sect members warning him that it rivaled the Greater Thousand Realm.
• Chen Changan held his own against the Blood Kui while Da Huang and the Myriad Worlds Sect members discussed the creatures inhabiting the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Changan defeated the Blood Kui with a single sword strike, and the Myriad Worlds Sect members thanked him for saving them.
• Chen Changan found a purple hexagonal-prism treasure inside the Blood Kui, unlike the crimson Blood Soul Beads found in Baleful Intent.

Chen Changan and the Myriad Worlds Sect disciples realized the Blood Kui’s appearance had likely been arranged, then waited as a group of strangers arrived. The strangers admitted they belonged to the Heavenly Tribulation Alliance and had used the sect disciples to weaken the Blood Kui so they could claim the Purple Venerable.

• The Myriad Worlds Sect disciples identified Chen Changan’s treasure as the Purple Venerable, a powerful item that strengthened the body and was far more effective than a Blood Soul Bead.
• Chen Changan questioned why only one Blood Kui had appeared and suspected someone had arranged the encounter to target the Myriad Worlds Sect disciples.
• The disciples decided to stay with Chen Changan while he waited to see whether the people behind the Blood Kui would appear.
• Big Yellow Dog sensed twenty or thirty people approaching, and the newcomers gathered near the dead Blood Kui.
• The newcomers admitted they had lured the Blood Kui over to weaken it and claim the Purple Venerable, and a Myriad Worlds Sect disciple identified them as the Heavenly Tribulation Alliance.

Chen Changan and his companions killed all thirty-two members of the Heaven Tribulation Alliance after they demanded the Purple Venerable. He declined the Myriad Worlds Sect’s invitation for now and decided to keep searching for Blood Nether.

• Chen Changan learned that the Heaven Tribulation Alliance opposed every sect, while the sects’ rivalries kept them from uniting against it.
• The Heaven Tribulation Alliance demanded the Purple Venerable, and Chen Changan offered to work with them before Da Huang urged him to attack.
• Chen Changan, Da Huang, and their companion killed all thirty-two Heaven Tribulation Alliance members, leaving the Myriad Worlds Sect disciples stunned.
• The Myriad Worlds Sect disciples promised not to reveal what happened and invited Chen Changan’s group to join their sect when they left.
• Chen Changan said he would keep hunting Blood Baleful Intent, and Da Huang asked whether they would hunt Blood Kui or continue searching for Blood Nether.

Chen Changan entered the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven’s deepest region to find Blood Nether, leaving Mu Yunyao and Da Huang behind to cultivate. When Gou Sheng’s Chaos Annihilation Fire cleared the blood mist, Blood Nether revealed itself and asked Chen Changan to make the flames disappear.

• Chen Changan sent Mu Yunyao and Da Huang to cultivate with their Purple Venerables while he went alone to seek Blood Nether.
• Chen Changan flew through the Blood Kui’s territory and entered the blood-mist-covered depths of the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Changan called on Gou Sheng, who revealed that he had evolved into the Chaos Annihilation Fire and cleared the surrounding blood mist.
• Blood Nether spoke to Chen Changan and asked him to make Gou Sheng disappear, while Gou Sheng challenged it and then mocked its cowardice.
• Chen Changan told Gou Sheng to return for now and warned that he would call him back to roast Blood Nether if it acted up.

Chen Changan confronted Blood Nether, the unique ruler of the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven, and demanded compensation rather than killing him. Blood Nether gave him several Blood Nether Stones, which could permanently double a person’s strength once, and Chen Changan learned what the rare treasure did.

• Blood Nether revealed that he was the sole Blood Nether of his generation and the first life born in the Blood Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Changan demanded treasure from Blood Nether and threatened to search the grotto with Gou Sheng’s help.
• Chen Changan told Gou Sheng that he had decided not to kill Blood Nether because his instincts advised against it.
• Blood Nether returned with several Blood Nether Stones and explained that each person could absorb one to permanently double their strength.

Chen Changan returned with five Blood Nether Stones, which he and Mu Yunyao and Da Huang used to strengthen their combat power and Small Worlds. They set out to see what a Chaos Heaven sect was like, expecting to meet the Myriad Worlds Sect again.

• Chen Changan questioned Blood Nether about why it had revealed itself, then left without getting a clear answer.
• Chen Changan showed Mu Yunyao and Da Huang five Blood Nether Stones that Blood Nether had given him.
• Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang each absorbed a Blood Nether Stone and sensed their Small Worlds had grown stronger.
• Chen Changan explained that he wanted to learn about other factions and might recruit them or destroy them, while the Five Clans Alliance did not know his true identity.
• Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang agreed they would likely encounter the Myriad Worlds Sect again and headed out to visit a sect in Chaos Heaven.