Recaps

Chen Changan learned that his enemies believed he was the son of a notorious sinner and used that accusation to justify killing him. He fought back with his Mid Hongmeng Dominion Realm strength and pursued the attackers as they tried to flee.

• Chen Changan's so-called junior brother revealed that Sin Blood supposedly flowed through Chen Changan's veins and accused him of being the son of a man who had once threatened the world.
• The crowd condemned Chen Changan and demanded his death, while he dismissed their claims and accused them of hiding their real motives behind loyalty and righteousness.
• When an enemy attacked, Chen Changan recognized that his opponents were all in the Hongmeng Dominion Realm and realized his own cultivation had reached the Mid Hongmeng Dominion Realm.
• Chen Changan fought with the Red Dust Sword and overwhelmed the crowd, leaving them panicked and questioning how he had become so powerful.
• As some enemies attempted to flee, Chen Changan declared that none of them would leave and continued pursuing them.

Chen Changan killed the people who attacked him in the Life-and-Death Pass, but could not leave and began investigating the strange world and his new identity. While Mu Yunyao and the others passed their trials and waited for him, Chen Changan was surrounded by hundreds of people who said a stronger enemy would soon arrive.

• Chen Changan slaughtered his attackers, realized the Life-and-Death Pass was incomplete, and set out to investigate his missing junior brother and unfamiliar identity.
• Mu Yunyao, Da Huang, Guan Ao, and the others passed the trial, while Chen Changan failed to emerge.
• Da Huang taunted Proud Lord and the Primordial Heaven group, prompting several of them to enter the first trial.
• Chen Changan flew aimlessly through the unfamiliar world until he sensed hundreds of people approaching.
• The crowd accused Chen Changan of killing many people and said they had come to hold him back until someone stronger arrived.

Chen Changan confronted Feng Xianxing and killed him instantly, then slaughtered the gathered enemies. He exposed his junior brother as the one who destroyed the Sacred Land and bore the Sinblood, killed him with a single sword, and wondered whether the trial would finally let him leave this world.

• Feng Xianxing confronted Chen Changan, but Chen did not recognize him and killed him instantly.
• Chen Changan slaughtered the remaining enemies who had gathered there.
• Chen Changan accused his junior brother of bearing the Sinblood and destroying the Sacred Land, and his junior brother indirectly admitted it.
• Chen Changan's junior brother discovered that the man before him was not the Chen Changan he had known and attacked him.
• Chen Changan beheaded his junior brother with a single sword and wondered whether he could now leave the world.

Chen Changan passed the Life-and-Death Pass trial and learned from Proud Lord that the Dominion trial took place in an empty white space whose purpose remained unclear. The next day, exiles from Ultimate Heaven confronted Chen Changan over Da Huang’s insults, and Da Huang invoked Chen Ao as someone they could not afford to offend.

• Chen Changan reunited with Mu Yunyao and the others after spending nearly five days in the first trial, which had lasted several months for him.
• Chen Changan dismissed the exiles’ angry stares and asked Proud Lord about Ascension City and the Dominion trial.
• Proud Lord explained that the Dominion trial offered no clues beyond an empty white space, and Chen Changan suggested that passing might require understanding dominion.
• A crowd of exiles confronted Chen Changan over Da Huang calling them trash, and Chen Changan challenged their claims of powerful backing.
• Da Huang named Chen Ao, but the exiles said they had never heard of him, prompting Chen Changan to suggest they were unworthy of knowing him.

Chen Changan drove off a group of exiled Hongmeng Dominion Realm cultivators who demanded an apology, then took his companions to attempt the Ascension Road’s second gate. After a month of testing their comprehension in a blank white space, Chen Changan emerged before the waiting crowd.

• A group demanded that Chen Changan apologize, but he dismissed them as immature and knocked one attacker away with a single punch.
• The group fled in fear, and Chen Changan explained that their arrogance masked their insecurity over being exiled.
• Proud Lord recognized the defeated cultivator as someone stuck at the second gate, so Chen Changan led everyone there to begin the trial.
• Chen Changan and his companions spent a month inside the white space while Primordial Heaven’s cultivators waited outside and discussed the comprehension test.
• Chen Changan suddenly appeared in the waiting crowd’s field of vision.

Chen Changan explained that the second trial tested mastery of oneself, helping Wang Ba and Guan Ao pass after they tried again. Back at Proud Lord’s home, Chen Changan questioned why Ascension City’s overseers had not appeared, and Mu Yunyao offered possible explanations without resolving his unease.

• Chen Changan told Proud Lord and the others that he had passed the second trial and explained that mastery meant understanding and mastering oneself.
• After another month, Mu Yunyao and Da Huang emerged having passed, while Wang Ba and Guan Ao had not; Chen Changan shared his insight, and both re-entered the trial and passed within days.
• Other people entered the second trial to try their luck, while Chen Changan and his companions returned to Proud Lord’s home.
• Da Huang complained about waiting to reach Ultimate Heaven because Ascension Road had no brothels, and Chen Changan tried to console him.
• Chen Changan asked Mu Yunyao why Ascension City’s overseers had not appeared; she suggested several possibilities, but Chen Changan remained uneasy.

Chen Changan entered the third trial, which showed him a series of different lives that all ended when he reached Ascension Road. He suspected that he had repeated this journey many times alongside his father and others, but the trial left him questioning what he needed to transcend.

• Chen Changan and his companions arrived at the third trial, where a crowd had gathered hoping to learn from his experience.
• Chen Changan entered the trial with Mu Yunyao and the others while Proud Lord and the crowd waited outside.
• The trial showed Chen Changan a record of his life, then revealed another version of him whose different experiences also ended upon entering Ascension Road.
• Chen Changan watched more lives unfold, each different and each ending at Ascension Road, and wondered whether he had lived through countless failed attempts.
• Chen Changan connected the visions to his father, Chen Tian, and their allies, and questioned what Ascension City and the trial were trying to make him transcend.

After the third gate, Chen Changan and his companions were summoned to Ascension City’s sealed central building, where an aide revealed that the trial had been prepared for Chen Changan and that his father could not meet him yet. The aide warned that Chen Changan must grow stronger in Ultimate Heaven before the final battle, while refusing to explain the enemy or the wider plan because the timing still was not right.

• Chen Changan and the others emerged from the third gate unsure whether they had passed, and Mu Yunyao said she had thought she needed to transcend the control over her life.
• Chen Changan said they had likely passed and was told to wait with the others in the center of Ascension City.
• An attendant led Chen Changan and his companions to the sealed central building and addressed him as Young Master.
• The attendant explained that the Lord had prepared the Three-Gate Trial specifically for Chen Changan and that the opposing force controlled most of Ascension Road.
• The attendant said Chen Changan could not meet his father until he grew stronger in Ultimate Heaven, because their meeting would likely begin the final battle.
• The attendant refused to identify the enemy and said Chen Changan’s companions were unexpected, since the original plan did not expect them to reach this point.

Chen Changan learned that his unpredictable presence had already changed the plans of his allies, then led his companions out of Ascension City toward Ultimate Heaven. The group prepared for the final battlefield, and Chen Changan explained that their Three-Gate Trial insights had weakened the road’s suppression, though it would not disappear entirely.

• Chen Changan learned that the enemy could control people and that the visitors’ role was to check for that control, not to provide rewards.
• Da Huang asked whether Ultimate Heaven had brothels, and the man confirmed that it did.
• Chen Changan led Mu Yunyao and the others out of Ascension City after deciding there was no point asking about the road ahead.
• Chen Changan told his companions that they would be exposed in Ultimate Heaven and would have to rely on themselves, then encouraged them not to doubt themselves.
• Da Huang and the others realized the Three-Gate Trial insights had reduced the suppression they felt, and Chen Changan cautioned that it would still affect them.

After the group reached the Late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm, Chen Changan led them to the third trial: a ninety-nine-story tower where challengers faced increasing numbers of fixed-strength opponents. The group learned the rules and prepared to enter the trial together.

• Chen Changan explained how the Three-Gate Trial had changed the group’s minds and souls, helping them reach the Late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm within decades.
• Chen Changan and his companions traveled to the third trial and found an enormous tower filled with nearly a thousand people.
• A challenger explained that the tower had ninety-nine floors, with one more Late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm opponent on each successive floor.
• Chen Changan learned that challengers could enter at the same time and that the opponents’ strength was fixed rather than matched to each challenger.
• Chen Changan said the group would take the trial immediately.

Chen Changan and his companions rapidly climbed the challenge tower, stunning the spectators with their strength. At the thirtieth floor, Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang waited so Wang Ba and Guan Ao would not feel pressured, then resumed climbing after three days.

• Chen Changan and his companions entered the challenge, and all five quickly cleared the first two floors.
• Chen Changan climbed to the thirtieth floor, while Mu Yunyao and Da Huang reached the same floor and Guan Ao and Wang Ba reached the twenty-eighth.
• Chen Changan sat down to wait, explaining to Hongchen that he wanted Wang Ba and Guan Ao to have the chance to catch up without added pressure.
• Mu Yunyao and Da Huang also waited on the thirtieth floor, while Wang Ba and Guan Ao rested before continuing upward.
• After three days, Chen Changan, Mu Yunyao, and Da Huang resumed climbing, leaving the spectators astonished by their speed.

Chen Changan and his companions climbed Ascension Tower and reached its ninety-ninth floor, where Chen Changan faced the tower’s administrator. After the administrator judged him strong enough and let all five pass, they returned to a crowd of awed spectators.

• Chen Changan’s group continued climbing in stages, while Guan Ao and Wang Ba grew stronger and endured the later floors by narrow margins.
• All five reached the ninety-ninth floor, where Chen Changan found a Peak Hongmeng Dominion Realm opponent instead of the expected ninety-nine opponents.
• The opponent revealed he was Ascension Tower’s administrator and challenged Chen Changan to a fight.
• Chen Changan easily neutralized the administrator’s full-force attack, and the administrator let him and his four companions pass.
• The five returned to the bottom floor, where the crowd applauded and Chen Changan explained that the administrator had sparred with him.

Chen Changan and his companions reached a mysterious trial site after advancing to the Peak Hongmeng Dominion Realm and learned that failure would reduce a cultivator’s realm and force them back to the Ascension Tower. Faced with an empty clearing and no clues, Chen Changan chose to cross it anyway, leaving the trial’s outcome unknown.

• Chen Changan led Mu Yunyao and the others away from the Ascension Tower after passing its guardian’s test.
• The group trained for a hundred years and reached the Peak Hongmeng Dominion Realm.
• Chen Changan met a cultivator returning to the Ascension Tower after failing an unknown trial and losing cultivation from the Peak to the Late-Hongmeng Dominion Realm.
• The cultivator warned Chen Changan that the trial had no hints and that there was no one at the trial site to question.
• Chen Changan and his companions found an empty clearing, and Chen Changan decided to cross it despite Guan Ao and Wang Ba’s warnings.

Chen Changan explained how the group had passed the courage trial, then led them along an unusually long Ascension Road toward the final challenge before Ultimate Heaven. After more than a month at full speed, Wang Ba and Guan Ao finally reached their limits, confirming they had been moving forward.

• Chen Changan explained that the traveler had ignored the suppressive force and had been the simple courage trial, which Wang Ba and Guan Ao had overcomplicated.
• Chen Changan told Wang Ba and Guan Ao that they relied too much on him instead of thinking and observing for themselves.
• Chen Changan and the group continued along the Ascension Road for months, expecting the final trial before reaching Ultimate Heaven.
• When the road still had no end in sight, Chen Changan dismissed the idea that they were trapped in an illusion because the suppressive force kept changing.
• Chen Changan ordered everyone to move at full speed, and after more than a month Wang Ba and Guan Ao reached their limits.
• Chen Changan told the group to cultivate and prepare for the final trial.

After reaching the Great Perfection Realm, Chen Changan and his companions arrived at the entrance to Ultimate Heaven, where two powerful stone guardians blocked the way. Da Huang fought them until they stopped and allowed him to pass, leaving the others to realize that defeating the guardians might not be necessary.

• Chen Changan and his companions completed their breakthrough to the Great Perfection Realm after more than two hundred years and continued toward the end of the Ascension Road.
• At the entrance to Ultimate Heaven, they found several dozen people stalled by two stone statues said to be stronger than anyone in the Hongmeng Dominion Realm.
• Da Huang volunteered to test the guardians and blocked their simultaneous attack with only a single step backward.
• Da Huang unleashed his full power and began gaining the upper hand against both statues as the onlookers marveled at his strength.
• The statues stopped fighting, announced that Da Huang had won, and let him enter Ultimate Heaven; the onlookers guessed that surviving for a set time was enough to pass.

Chen Changan and his companions passed the stone statues’ trial, with Mu Yunyao and Chen Changan defeating them outright. Before entering Ultimate Heaven, Chen Changan learned that its laws made even newborns as strong as Hongmeng Dominion Realm experts and reduced newcomers to ordinary people.

• Da Huang, Wang Ba, and Guan Ao each lasted until an incense stick burned out and passed the statues’ test.
• Mu Yunyao defeated both statues with two punches, while Chen Changan struck them with his sword and cracked their bodies.
• Chen Changan asked the other travelers whether they came from Ultimate Heaven and why they had been sent to Ascension Road.
• A traveler explained that people unable to withstand Ultimate Heaven’s laws were sent to Ascension Road to grow strong enough to survive.
• The traveler said that reaching Grand Completion of the Hongmeng Dominion Realm only allowed someone to endure Ultimate Heaven; its laws would restrict newcomers to ordinary strength.

Chen Changan and his companions learned that Ultimate Heaven’s laws would suppress them to near-ordinary strength, then entered the realm and struggled to adapt. They reached a city exhausted and hungry, but had no money and no plan for finding food.

• Chen Changan learned that Ultimate Heaven’s common cultivation realms were the Ultimate Mortal Transformation Realm and the Ultimate Immortal Ascension Realm, and that the Three Great Families were the strongest factions his informants knew.
• Chen Changan led Mu Yunyao, Guan Ao, Wang Ba, and Da Huang through the entrance into Ultimate Heaven.
• Ultimate Heaven’s laws suppressed the group so severely that they could no longer fly or use most of their cultivation, and Guan Ao and Wang Ba felt reduced to their pre-cultivation selves.
• Chen Changan urged the group to find shelter, gather information, and discover how to cultivate again as they traveled toward a city on foot.
• The group arrived at the city hungry and realized they had no money, so Chen Changan joked that Da Huang could beg for food.

Chen Changan and his companions explored an ordinary city in Ultimate Heaven, where they discovered that silver was used as money and bought a meal after finding some in his belongings. They were eating when Da Huang returned with food and caught them dining without him, so he ordered another round.

• Da Huang ran off after Guan Ao promised to treat him to a brothel, and Chen Changan explained that Da Huang had taken the promise as unlimited visits.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao recognized that the ordinary city reminded them of the Great Profound Realm.
• Chen Changan paid a street vendor with silver and led the others to a restaurant for a meal.
• Wang Ba and Guan Ao ordered every dish on the menu, and Chen Changan explained why ordinary people used gold and silver instead of cultivation resources.
• Da Huang returned with a piece of meat, scolded the others for eating without him, and ordered another serving of every dish.

Chen Changan let Da Huang gather information while the group settled into ordinary life in Ultimate Heaven. After learning that a nearby city had cultivation lineages and a fee-charging Martial Arena, they set out for it, and Chen Changan urged Wang Ba and Guan Ao to adapt to their new circumstances.

• Chen Changan gave Da Huang silver to visit a brothel and gather information while the group enjoyed a meal and found an inn.
• Da Huang returned after three days and reported that their city had no cultivators, but a city five or six days east had two cultivation lineages and a Martial Arena that trained talented ordinary people for a fee.
• Chen Changan decided the group would travel to the eastern city after resting for the day.
• Chen Changan and the others set out on foot the next morning, while Wang Ba and Guan Ao complained about losing their powers and adjusting to ordinary life.
• Chen Changan told Wang Ba and Guan Ao that their hardships could temper them and urged them to adapt without becoming arrogant.

Chen Changan’s group learned that the Guan and Wei Families were fighting over an Extreme Source Stone Vein, but Chen Changan planned to seek cultivation knowledge through the Martial Arena instead. Da Huang explained his reasoning, leaving Guan Ao and Wang Ba determined to become better followers.

• At an inn, Chen Changan’s group overheard that the Guan and Wei Families had repeatedly clashed over the Guan Family’s newly discovered Extreme Source Stone Vein.
• Da Huang suggested taking the vein, but Chen Changan framed the plan as safeguarding it to end the families’ conflict.
• Guan Ao proposed joining one of the families, but Chen Changan explained that strangers claiming to have talent would not be welcomed.
• Da Huang revealed that Chen Changan had planned to use the Martial Arena, where they could pay to learn the path of cultivation.
• Guan Ao and Wang Ba envied Da Huang’s understanding of Chen Changan and resolved to become qualified little followers.

Da Huang learned that the Martial Arena charged ten thousand taels of gold per person and gathered information about its owner. Chen Changan’s group decided the owner was likely a genuine cultivator and headed to the arena to obtain cultivation techniques.

• Da Huang asked a group of guests how to join the Martial Arena and learned that it charged ten thousand taels of gold per person.
• The guests said the Martial Arena’s owner was a cultivator who allegedly spent his wealth on numerous women.
• Da Huang returned to Chen Changan’s group, and Wang Ba and Guan Ao acknowledged its skill at gathering information.
• Chen Changan agreed the fee was affordable but worried about wasting time, while Da Huang argued the city’s two cultivation lineages would expose a fraud.
• After finishing their meal, Chen Changan’s group headed for the Martial Arena, and Wang Ba worried that its owner might be interested in Young Madam.

Chen Changan and his companions joined the Heavenly Origin Martial Grounds, paying forty thousand taels of gold for the four of them. After the master accepted them and promised to explain cultivation the next day, Chen Changan told the others that the master was likely struggling financially because his expenses exceeded his income.

• Two guards questioned Chen Changan and his companions at the Martial Arena, and one warned them that the master charged ten thousand taels of gold per person.
• A guard led Chen Changan and his companions to the master, who eagerly welcomed them after learning they wanted to join.
• Chen Changan paid forty thousand taels of gold for all four of them and promised an additional reward if they cultivated successfully.
• The master accepted them, explained the Martial Arena's rules, and arranged their accommodations before scheduling cultivation instruction for the next day.
• Da Huang asked why Chen Changan had not requested a cultivation method immediately, and Chen Changan explained that the master had been in a hurry.
• Chen Changan reasoned that the master was short of money because he kept many women while few newcomers joined the Martial Arena.

Chen Changan and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Origin Martial Grounds and learned that none of its disciples had managed to cultivate. Their doubts about the arena master grew as he welcomed them and promised that hard work would eventually make them cultivators.

• Chen Changan and his companions arrived at the training grounds and met disciples who regretted paying to join the Heavenly Origin Martial Grounds.
• The disciples explained that the arena master made them train for years before privately testing their talent and handing them cultivation methods to study on their own.
• Chen Changan questioned the arena master's methods and asked to see the disciples' cultivation manuals, but they said the arena master forbade them from sharing.
• Da Huang wondered whether the arena master was a swindler, and Chen Changan said they would find out while pursuing a cultivation method.
• The arena master welcomed Chen Changan and his companions as new disciples, then told everyone that hard work could make them cultivators.

Chen Changan challenged the master of the Heavenly Origin Martial Grounds to skip the speech and begin the talent test, persuading him to make an exception. At the testing site, the master explained his efforts to help his disciples, and Wang Ba stepped forward to be tested.

• Da Huang complained about the master's speech, and Chen Changan asked for a cultivation technique and a prompt test.
• The master agreed that the Martial Grounds needed proof someone could cultivate there and let Chen Changan's group take the test first.
• The master explained that the Testing Stone Tablet could reveal whether someone had cultivation talent and admitted he had sought a body-tempering technique for his disciples.
• The disciples learned the master had been trying to help despite his limited resources, while he admitted his efforts were partly for his own future.
• Wang Ba nervously volunteered to go first, and Chen Changan encouraged him to believe in himself.

Wang Ba, Guan Ao, Da Huang, Mu Yunyao, and Chen Changan were tested at the Heavenly Origin Martial Grounds, and the tablet showed astonishing potential values. Chen Changan revealed that its limit was twenty million and said he had held back so it would not break, leaving the arena crowd stunned.

• Wang Ba touched the Testing Stone Tablet, which displayed a potential value above ten million, and the arena master predicted he could become a ruler of his own domain in Ultimate Heaven.
• Chen Changan suspected the ordinary tablet had an upper limit and asked Guan Ao to take the test; Guan Ao also scored above ten million.
• Da Huang placed a paw on the tablet and received a value of twenty million, then complained that the result was too low.
• Mu Yunyao and Chen Changan each tested at twenty million, and Da Huang asked Chen Changan why his result matched theirs.
• Chen Changan said the tablet's limit was twenty million and that he had held back to avoid breaking it, leaving the onlookers speechless.