Recaps

Chen Changan accepted Guan Ao of the Vast Moon Clan as his servant after defeating him, then took him back to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. Guan Ao recognized the name and wondered where he had heard it before.

• Guan Ao honored his wager and pledged himself to Chen Changan as his servant.
• Da Huang questioned Guan Ao’s quick surrender, but Guan Ao explained that he wanted to follow Chen Changan because of his strength.
• Chen Changan gave resources to the people who had brought him there, and they returned home.
• Chen Changan told Guan Ao they were heading somewhere more interesting than the Holy Spirit Clan, and Guan Ao eagerly agreed to follow.
• Chen Changan, Da Huang, and Guan Ao returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, where Guan Ao said the name sounded familiar.

Chen Changan learned that the Celestial Palace was rumored to conceal Primordial Heaven’s greatest secret, then led his companions into the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm to investigate. After introducing Guan Ao to the group and refusing Da Huang’s request to gather information, Chen Changan brought everyone to Blood Abyss, where Guan Ao felt uncomfortable.

• Guan Ao recalled hearing that the Celestial Palace lay in Primordial Heaven and concealed its greatest secret, so Chen Changan decided to investigate the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.
• Chen Changan returned with Guan Ao to the Sacred Shaman Clan’s cultivation site and introduced him to Wang Ba, Da Huang, and the others.
• Guan Ao reflected on Da Huang’s joking claim that whoring was his Dao, and Chen Changan explained that different experiences could inspire insight.
• Chen Changan refused Da Huang’s request to gather information and said the group would focus on the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm before dealing with the Holy Spirit Clan.
• Chen Changan led Mu Yunyao, Guan Ao, and the others through the Blood Abyss entrances, where Guan Ao said the surroundings felt uncomfortable.

Chen Changan and his companions pressed through the Blood Abyss, facing repeated ambushes while Guan Ao grew restless. After Chen Changan revealed that the Shenshu Clan had a Hongmeng Dominion Realm expert, Guan Ao panicked and urged them to turn back.

• Guan Ao said the Blood Abyss made him feel restless, and Chen Changan suggested it might specifically target peak Hongmeng Emperor Venerables.
• Chen Changan led the group through the blood mist while Guan Ao guarded the rear and Da Huang and Mu Yunyao stayed between them.
• Dozens of blood-red creatures ambushed Da Huang and Mu Yunyao, but Chen Changan and Guan Ao quickly destroyed them.
• The group endured several more ambushes, with each wave growing larger and stronger, and Chen Changan speculated that the Shenshu Clan might have helped create more Hongmeng Emperor Venerables.
• Guan Ao learned that the Celestial Palace had a Hongmeng Dominion Realm expert and anxiously asked Chen Changan to turn back.

Chen Changan, Da Huang, and Guan Ao pushed through the Blood Abyss’s thinning blood mist and encountered the three clans waiting beyond it. The clans threatened to devour them, and Chen Changan called for an attack.

• Guan Ao explained that reaching the Hongmeng Dominion Realm granted overwhelming power, then panicked at the thought its master might have noticed them in the Celestial Palace.
• Chen Changan persuaded Guan Ao to continue deeper into the Blood Abyss, and Guan Ao rushed ahead through the thinning blood mist.
• Guan Ao emerged first and found three camps waiting beyond the mist; their members recognized his Primordial Emperor Venerable Peak Realm cultivation.
• The three clans eyed Chen Changan’s group as food, while Guan Ao warned that their many powerful fighters could keep him occupied.
• Chen Changan challenged the clans and ordered his companions to attack.

Chen Changan entered Blood Abyss’s deepest entrance alone, but found himself trapped in a seemingly endless chaos after the entrance vanished behind him. Outside, Mu Yunyao and the others discovered they could pass through the entrance freely and went in to find him.

• Chen Changan and his companions defeated the three Blood Abyss clans, whose chiefs ordered a retreat rather than risk being wiped out.
• Chen Changan’s group reached the deepest part of Blood Abyss, and Chen Changan entered the entrance alone while his companions waited outside.
• Guan Ao learned from Da Huang that Chen Changan’s father was a top-tier existence in the Ultimate Heaven.
• Chen Changan found no guardian inside and realized the entrance had disappeared, leaving him stranded in an endless, pitch-black chaos.
• Mu Yunyao sent Guan Ao to force open the entrance, but his fist passed through it and his attack was swallowed.
• Guan Ao, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang realized they could enter freely and hurried inside to find Chen Changan.

Chen Changan realized the Shenshu Clan’s darkness was a circular prison that made people believe they were moving while they remained still. He learned how to escape by merging with the illusion and reached Mu Yunyao, then prepared to get her and the others out.

• Da Huang, Mu Yunyao, and Guan Ao became separated from Chen Changan in a soundless darkness and struggled to find their way.
• Chen Changan concluded that the Shenshu Clan had created the place as a cage and suspected its apparent endlessness was an illusion.
• Chen Changan calmed his mind and merged with his surroundings, which revealed an ordinary landscape and the others standing motionless.
• An invisible force stopped Chen Changan from touching Mu Yunyao, so he merged with the circle imprisoning her instead.
• Chen Changan reached Mu Yunyao and explained how to escape, and she realized her apparent flight had only been an illusion.

Chen Changan and his companions were turned back from the path beyond the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, where a mysterious expert told them they must become the strongest in Primordial Heaven before continuing. After returning, Chen advised Gong Xu and Huo Yao about rebuilding the Sacred Shaman Clan and sent Da Huang and Guan Ao to gather information about the Heavenly Derivation Continent and the Holy Spirit Clan.

• Chen Changan, Da Huang, and Guan Ao were blocked by an unseen force, and a mysterious voice told them they could not continue until they became the strongest in Primordial Heaven.
• Da Huang and Guan Ao hurried toward the exit, and Chen Changan teased them for being afraid before they left the secret realm.
• Chen Changan learned that Gong Xu had reached the Hongmeng Emperor Venerable Realm and Huo Yao the Peak Primordial Supreme Venerable Realm, then introduced Guan Ao as his servant.
• Chen Changan warned Gong Xu and Huo Yao that they needed to strengthen their own foundation before reclaiming their position and suggested investigating the Holy Spirit Clan and the Heavenly Derivation Continent.
• Da Huang volunteered to gather information and persuaded Guan Ao to accompany him by calling it an opportunity to contribute.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao considered the Shenshu Clan’s secret, the purpose of the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, and the forces acting against them as they approached Ultimate Heaven. Da Huang and Guan Ao returned with news that the Ten Sacred Clans and several stronger, long-secluded races had gathered on the Heavenly Derivation Continent to oppose Chen Changan.

• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao discussed whether the Shenshu Clan had designed the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm to select someone worthy of reaching its end and whether its guarded secret was connected to Primordial Heaven’s upheaval.
• Mu Yunyao suggested Chen Changan’s father was protecting his journey to Ultimate Heaven, while Chen Changan reasoned that his enemies might be trying to delay him and find a way to deal with his father.
• Chen Changan predicted that the Holy Spirit Clan would seek help from the other Sacred Clans after he crippled the Second Palace Three Gods Sect.
• Da Huang and Guan Ao returned after gathering information and confirmed that all Ten Sacred Clans had assembled on the Heavenly Derivation Continent.
• Da Huang reported that powerful races beyond the Ten Sacred Clans had also emerged from seclusion to help them, and Chen Changan welcomed the coming battle as Mu Yunyao questioned his optimism.

Chen Changan decided to strike at the groups searching for him and left the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm with Guan Ao. They ambushed five Skyfire Clan experts, and Guan Ao killed them all before Chen Changan chose to hunt down the other groups as well.

• Guan Ao urged Chen Changan to focus on cultivation, but Chen Changan said they had enough resources and wanted to put pressure on the search parties.
• Da Huang confirmed that the Ten Sacred Clans and other races had split into groups to search for Chen Changan, so Chen Changan took Guan Ao with him to attack them.
• Chen Changan and Guan Ao tracked down five early-stage Hongmeng Emperor Venerable Realm members of the Skyfire Clan.
• Chen Changan revealed his identity to the Skyfire Clan members, and Guan Ao slaughtered all five on Chen Changan's command.
• Chen Changan rejected returning to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and decided to hunt down the other search groups.

After Chen Changan killed their people, the Ten Sacred Clans and the clans that had emerged into the world searched the Heavenly Derivation Continent for him for decades. The Holy Spirit Clan's patriarch revealed the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm might hold Primordial Heaven's greatest secret, and the clans wondered whether Chen Changan and the Sacred Shaman Clan were hiding there together.

• The clans argued over how to deal with Chen Changan, and the patriarchs of the emerged clans left to pursue their own plans.
• Chen Changan returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm to cultivate while the clans searched the continent for decades without finding him.
• The Holy Spirit Clan's patriarch recalled that the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm was said to lie on the Heavenly Derivation Continent and that the Sacred Shaman Clan had once entered it.
• The emerged clans explained that the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm supposedly held Primordial Heaven's greatest secret, though the Sacred Shaman Clan's members who entered it had never returned.
• Unable to locate either Chen Changan or the Sacred Shaman Clan, the clans speculated that they might both be inside the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and had joined forces.

As the Heavenly Derivation Continent’s powers searched for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, Chen Changan learned the realm was at risk of discovery and moved deeper into it. He led his group to the Sea King Race’s territory and asked its chief for refuge, promising—and then insisting—that he would involve them.

• The Holy Spirit Clan chief rallied the continent’s forces to search for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, turning the hunt for Chen Changan into a realm-wide search.
• Guan Ao was stunned by Chen Changan’s group’s rapid cultivation, and he told Chen Changan that the Sacred Shaman Clan’s pursuers had begun searching for the secret realm.
• Chen Changan asked Gong Xu who might know about the realm, then decided to move farther inside rather than risk going out and exposing its location.
• Chen Changan led his group to the Sea King Race’s territory to cultivate, and the Sea King Race chief questioned why they had come.
• Chen Changan said they were seeking refuge from the Ten Sacred Clans and other powerful races, and he told the chief he would involve the Sea King Race.

Chen Changan and his allies trained in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm while the races searched the Heavenly Derivation Continent for him and the realm’s entrance. After hundreds of years, the searchers found the entrance, entered together, and discovered lingering auras that suggested Chen Changan and the Sacred Shaman Clan had already gone deeper or left.

• Chen Changan told the Sea King Race's chief to stay or leave as he pleased, then ordered everyone in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm to resume training.
• Guan Ao asked what he could do, and Chen Changan told him to do as he pleased.
• Chen Tianxing lamented that he could not help his master, and his grandfather urged him to grow stronger and trust Chen Changan.
• After decades of searching, the races concluded Chen Changan had not left the Heavenly Derivation Continent and resumed looking for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm’s entrance.
• Hundreds of years later, the races found the entrance and entered the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm together.
• The searchers sensed lingering auras and wondered whether Chen Changan and the Sacred Shaman Clan had gone deeper inside.

Chen Changan and his companions prepared for the arrival of the Ten Sacred Clans and other powerful races, while their pursuers struggled to cross the Cloud Ladder. Chen Changan sent the Sacred Shaman Clan to the Sea King Race’s territory for safety, leaving him and his allies to face the coming battle.

• Chen Changan and his companions reached new cultivation levels, with Da Huang explaining that their fortunes were linked to Chen Changan’s.
• The pursuing experts became trapped on the Cloud Ladder and spent months trying to find their way through.
• Da Huang declared he was confident about facing the approaching enemies, while Huo Yao and the Sacred Shaman Clan worried about the coming battle.
• Chen Changan asked Gong Xu and the Sacred Shaman Clan to withdraw to the Sea King Race’s territory so he would not have to worry about protecting them.
• Gong Xu led the Sacred Shaman Clan beneath the sea, and Chen Changan said the enemies’ arrival would turn the area into an undersea tomb.

Chen Changan and his companions wiped out the allied enemies who had threatened them, then he decided to seek out the Shenshu Clan and challenge the Hongmeng Dominion Realm expert. He found the Sacred Shaman Clan and the Sea King Race, who stared at him in astonishment.

• The enemy races confronted Chen Changan and demanded that he surrender, but he attacked and killed the Holy Spirit Clan patriarch with one sword strike.
• Mu Yunyao and the others joined Chen Changan in slaughtering the enemy forces, whose attacks could not harm him.
• The surviving enemies begged to surrender, but Chen Changan refused and killed them all.
• After the battle, Chen Changan said he would seek out the Shenshu Clan and test himself against the Hongmeng Dominion Realm expert before going to Ultimate Heaven.
• Chen Changan found the Sacred Shaman Clan and the Sea King Race, who called him a freak.

Chen Changan and his companions traveled through the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm to find the Shenshu Clan, whose people welcomed them peacefully into their humble village. They met the clan leader, a Hongmeng Dominion Realm cultivator whose presence left Chen Changan uneasy.

• Gong Xu and the Sacred Shaman Clan thanked Chen Changan before returning to the Heavenly Derivation Continent, while Chen Changan said he would continue onward and eventually seek Ultimate Heaven.
• Chen Changan and his companions set out to find the Shenshu Clan, and the road remained unexpectedly peaceful despite the Sea King Race leader's warning.
• After passing through an entrance, Chen Changan and his companions found the Shenshu Clan living in a plain village, where a member explained that the clan leader had ordered them to be welcomed.
• Guan Ao marveled at the Shenshu Clan's many powerful cultivators, most of whom went about ordinary village tasks.
• A Shenshu Clan member led Chen Changan and his companions to the leader's wooden home, where they studied one another and Chen Changan felt uneasy in the leader's presence.

Chen Changan and his companions learned that the Shenshu Clan guarded a passage to Ultimate Heaven, where Primordial Heaven’s limits could be surpassed. The patriarch revealed that the passage contained many Hongmeng Dominion Realm powerhouses, though he did not know how they had arrived there.

• The Shenshu Clan patriarch welcomed Chen Changan and explained that earlier intruders had failed to reach his clan because they tried to seize the secret by force.
• The patriarch confirmed that the Shenshu Clan had suppressed the upheaval in Primordial Heaven, which had been caused by greed for the secret.
• Da Huang guessed that the secret concerned the Hongmeng Dominion Realm and Ultimate Heaven, and the patriarch confirmed his guess.
• The patriarch revealed that Primordial Heaven could not produce a Hongmeng Dominion Realm powerhouse, but he had broken through inside the passage to Ultimate Heaven before returning.
• The patriarch said the passage held many Hongmeng Dominion Realm powerhouses, but he did not know whether they had been there since its creation or entered before the Shenshu Clan.

Chen Changan learned that the route to Ultimate Heaven was a trial called the Ascension Road and entered it with Guan Ao, Wang Ba, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang. The group faced heavy suppression on its broad path, and Chen Changan led them onward to test how far they could go.

• The Shenshu Clan Patriarch told Chen Changan that Guardians had once guarded entrances in the Twelve Star Domains and that an unknown, powerful figure had arranged their duties.
• The Shenshu Clan Patriarch explained that the passage was called the Ascension Road and offered to send the group inside.
• Guan Ao and Wang Ba chose to follow Chen Changan despite the danger of the journey.
• The Shenshu Clan Patriarch opened the entrance, and Chen Changan and the others entered the Ascension Road.
• The group found that the road’s pressure suppressed their strength to varying degrees, with Chen Changan retaining the most.
• Chen Changan decided they should keep moving until they could go no farther, and led the group down the road.

Chen Changan and his companions cultivated on Ascension Road, where their strength grew but the pressure increased with it. After reaching the road’s apparent end, they stopped to cultivate again, with Chen Changan aiming to break through to the Hongmeng Dominion Realm before facing what lay ahead.

• Guan Ao and Wang Ba reached their limits, so Chen Changan told them to cultivate while he, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang stayed with them.
• After decades of cultivation, Guan Ao broke through to the Hongmeng Dominion Realm, Wang Ba reached the Primordial Emperor Venerable Peak Realm, and Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang also advanced.
• Guan Ao and Chen Changan realized that the pressure on Ascension Road grew stronger as their cultivation increased, and Chen Changan said they would have to bear it all the way to the end.
• The group walked for another month and saw what appeared to be the road’s end, but Chen Changan suspected the experts ahead were still farther along Ascension Road.
• Guan Ao and Wang Ba could not continue, so Chen Changan agreed to stop and cultivate, hoping to reach the Hongmeng Dominion Realm and protect his companions.

Chen Changan and his companions reached the Battle Arena at the end of the road, where they learned that challengers had to win a fight to continue along the Ascension Road. Wang Ba took the first challenge and gained confidence as he began dominating his mid Hongmeng Dominion Realm opponent.

• Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang broke through to the Hongmeng Dominion Realm, while Wang Ba and Guan Ao made slower progress.
• The group reached the end of the road and entered a Battle Arena filled with Hongmeng Dominion Realm cultivators.
• An arena cultivator explained that challengers could leave only after winning a fight, and that the arena's opponents were all at the mid Hongmeng Dominion Realm stage.
• Wang Ba volunteered to challenge an opponent, hoping to test his strength and prove he would not hold the group back.
• Wang Ba seized control of the fight, and Chen Changan predicted that he would win as the others watched his confidence grow.

Wang Ba, Guan Ao, and Da Huang passed the Battle Arena, then Chen Changan led the group onto a road with much stronger suppression. As they continued, Chen Changan and Da Huang sensed numerous watchers hiding in the surrounding forest.

• Wang Ba won his match, and Chen Changan encouraged him to believe in himself.
• Guan Ao's opponent conceded, while Da Huang was still required to fight and defeated his opponent with one swipe.
• The other contestants let Chen Changan and Sister-in-law pass without a match because they feared being beaten, and the group asked how the Ascension Road worked.
• Chen Changan led the group out of the Battle Arena and onto a new road where the suppression was much stronger.
• Chen Changan led the group onward, and he and Da Huang sensed eyes watching them from the dense forest.

Chen Changan confronted the unknown beings following his group and discovered they were members of the Blood Nether Clan, sent to kill him. After slaughtering them, he returned to guard his companions and prepared to cultivate, expecting further ambushes ahead.

• Chen Changan learned that he and Mu Yunyao sensed only one watcher, while Da Huang and the others sensed many, and told the group to stay alert.
• Wang Ba and Guan Ao stopped to cultivate, and Chen Changan had Mu Yunyao and Da Huang cultivate while he kept watch.
• Chen Changan challenged the beings hiding in the forests and set up a barrier around his companions.
• The Blood Nether Clan emerged and said they planned to kill Chen Changan with their Ultimate Corrosion ability.
• Chen Changan killed the Blood Nether Clan members with the Red Dust Sword, confirmed there were no others waiting along the road, and returned to prepare for cultivation.

Chen Changan and his companions reached Ascension City, the second trial on the Ascension Road, and met Proud Lord, a Primordial Heaven expert who had been trapped there for millions of years. Proud Lord invited them to his residence to explain the city and its trial.

• Guan Ao and the others broke through to the Mid Hongmeng Dominion Realm, then continued along the road with Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan and his companions entered Ascension City, found its streets empty, and began exploring.
• The group met Proud Lord, who said he had been trapped in Ascension City for millions of years and had not reached the Late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm.
• Guan Ao recognized Proud Lord as a vanished Primordial Heaven expert he had once hoped to challenge.
• Proud Lord invited Chen Changan and the others to his residence to host them and explain Ascension City.

Chen Changan and his companions learned that Ascension City's trial was the Three-Gate Trial, which Proud Lord had been unable to pass. After resting for three days, they went to see its first gate, where they met other people from Primordial Heaven and heard a newcomer insult them.

• Proud Lord explained that Ascension City's Three-Gate Trial consisted of Life and Death, Control, and Transcendence, and that repeated failures at the second gate had created an inner demon that stalled his cultivation.
• Proud Lord told Chen Changan that passing the trial could grant access to buildings containing treasures, and that Ascension City held people from Primordial Heaven as well as others rumored to have been exiled from Ultimate Heaven.
• Chen Changan and his companions rested for three days at Proud Lord's residence before asking him to take them to the first gate, Life-and-Death Pass.
• People from Primordial Heaven gathered around Proud Lord and the newcomers, and one person sneered that they were country bumpkins.

Chen Changan and his companions confronted arrogant exiles from Ultimate Heaven in Ascension City, then decided to attempt the Life-and-Death Pass. Proud Lord explained how the trial worked and warned them that survival came first as they prepared to enter.

• A young man mocked Chen Changan's group, and Chen Changan called the Ascension City residents exiled trash, prompting them to confirm they had been cast out of Ultimate Heaven.
• The exiles claimed their origins made them superior and warned that even powerful newcomers would struggle to survive in Ultimate Heaven.
• Chen Changan dismissed their warnings and invited Mu Yunyao and the others to try the Life-and-Death Pass.
• Proud Lord explained that each participant would enter a separate space, receive a new identity, and face different troubles they had to resolve while staying alive.
• Da Huang joked about the identity he might receive, while Guan Ao and Wang Ba teased him about his reputation.
• Proud Lord reminded everyone that the first priority in the trial was to stay alive.

Chen Changan entered the first trial and found himself accused of destroying his Holy Land and killing his master and fellow disciples. He challenged the accusations and his surviving junior brother’s account, leaving the crowd uncertain about the motive and the truth.

• Chen Changan and his companions ignored their hecklers and entered the first trial.
• Chen Changan awoke in a trial world surrounded by people accusing him of betraying his master and destroying his Holy Land.
• Chen Changan demanded evidence and asked to confront the witness, prompting his surviving junior brother to step forward and accuse him.
• Chen Changan argued that his junior brother could have destroyed the Holy Land and framed him, since both were survivors.
• The junior brother claimed he knew Chen Changan would deny the crime and hinted that he could reveal Chen Changan’s motive, while Chen Changan called him hypocritical.