Recaps

Chen Changan entered the second trial and found himself in the body of an injured, impoverished orphan with no cultivation. After recovering through cultivation, he reunited with Fan Yi, learned about their shared past, and prepared to seek revenge on those who had beaten them.

• Chen Changan realized the second trial had placed him in a miserable life with injured legs and no cultivation, then began cultivating to survive the cold.
• Fan Yi returned to their shack with food and explained that he and Chen Changan were orphaned companions who had been beaten three days earlier.
• Chen Changan refused Fan Yi's offer of food, recovered fully, and treated Fan Yi's injuries.
• Chen Changan discovered that Fan Yi had Severed Meridian and could not cultivate without a new body.
• Chen Changan told Fan Yi they would avenge the beating and led him toward their next task.

Chen Changan took Fan Yi to the Yin Family to collect a debt, killing the young master and forcing the family to surrender its wealth. Afterward, Chen Changan explained why he had spared the rest of the family and said they were leaving to find somewhere Fan Yi could live better.

• Fan Yi urged Chen Changan to avoid confronting the Yin Family, but Chen Changan led him to their gate and smashed it down.
• Chen Changan defeated the guards and killed the Yin Family's young master with one punch.
• The Yin Family Head offered the family's possessions, and Chen Changan accepted them before leaving with Fan Yi.
• Chen Changan told Fan Yi he had spared the non-cultivator family because they posed no future threat and the two of them would soon leave.
• Chen Changan said they would go somewhere Fan Yi could live better and find shelter.

After fifty years of ruling Tianyuan City, Chen Changan discovered that Fan Yi’s innate Severed Meridian was killing him and tried to extend his life. Over a farewell meal, Chen Changan exposed Fan Yi’s betrayal, and Fan Yi admitted he wanted Chen Changan’s body so he could become strong.

• Fifty years after arriving in Tianyuan City, Chen Changan had become its city lord while Fan Yi had built a family and served as deputy city lord.
• Chen Changan discovered Fan Yi’s innate Severed Meridian had worsened and tried to extend his life with the Life Law, but it had little effect.
• Fan Yi asked Chen Changan to share a farewell drink, and the two exchanged toasts to their past and their friendship.
• Chen Changan revealed that he knew Fan Yi had poisoned the wine, and Fan Yi asked why he drank it anyway.
• Fan Yi confessed that he resented living in Chen Changan’s shadow and wanted Chen Changan’s body to become truly strong.
• Chen Changan realized that the trial’s challenge was betrayal.

Chen Changan defeated Du Ruoxuan and Fan Yi in the second trial, then entered the final trial and found himself in the womb, realizing it was meant to let him experience familial love. He was born into the Chen Family, but the chapter ended with the midwife noticing that he was not crying.

• Chen Changan revealed that Du Ruoxuan had conspired with Fan Yi to poison him and seize Tianyuan City.
• Chen Changan proved the poison had not weakened him, killed Du Ruoxuan, and executed Fan Yi and Fan Yi's entire Household.
• Chen Changan recognized the first two trials as experiences meant to make up for what he had never felt, then entered the third trial.
• Chen Changan realized the third trial had placed him in the womb so he could experience the bond between parents and child.
• Chen Changan was born as the Chen Family's young master, but he did not cry.

Chen Changan grew from an unusually gifted infant into a bold eight-year-old who persuaded his older brother Chen Changping to steal the Yang Family Young Master's Azure-Eyed Green Cloud Tiger. The Yang Family Young Master confronted the Chen Family over the missing tiger, and Chen Minglou vowed to punish Chen Changping.

• Chen Minglou named his newborn son Chen Changan, and Gu Yunmeng and the family marveled at the baby's unusually mature gaze.
• Chen Changan secretly displayed exceptional abilities as he grew up, walking at two months, speaking at five months, and reading and writing by age one.
• At eight, Chen Changan convinced his seventeen-year-old brother Chen Changping to ambush the Yang Family Young Master and take his young Azure-Eyed Green Cloud Tiger.
• The Chen Family found the Yang Family Young Master unconscious and realized Chen Changan and Chen Changping had likely taken the tiger.
• The Yang Family Young Master demanded his tiger back at the Chen Family, and Chen Minglou angrily asked where Chen Changping was and threatened to break his legs.

Chen Changan and Chen Changping returned home after selling the Azure-Eyed Green Cloud Tiger cub, and Chen Minglou punished Changping before the Chen Family faced the Yang Family. Chen Changan said the cub had gone home to its mother, leaving the Yang Family without a clear answer about where it was.

• Chen Longjiao told Chen Changan and Chen Changping that the Yang Family had been staying at their home and that Chen Minglou planned to break Changping's legs.
• Chen Changping said he would roam the world, but Chen Minglou arrived and blamed him for leading Chen Changan into trouble.
• Chen Changan tried to take the blame for Changping, but Chen Minglou scolded and beat Changping until he admitted fault.
• The Yang Family saw Changping's injuries and found it difficult to keep demanding an explanation from the Chen Family.
• The Yang Family Head slapped his son for insulting the Chen Family, then asked where the Azure-Eyed Green Cloud Tiger had gone.
• Chen Changan said he and Changping had sent the cub home to its mother.

After the Yang Family left, Chen Minglou scolded Chen Changan for stirring up trouble and told him it was time to cultivate. Chen Changan revealed that his Leaky Body could not store energy, and the chapter ended with Chen Minglou promising to protect him and find a way to help.

• Chen Minglou compensated the Yang Family for the Azure-Eyed Green Cloud Tiger, and the Yang Family Head accepted his apology and led his people away.
• Chen Minglou confronted Chen Changan about putting Chen Changping up to the fight and warned him not to cause trouble again.
• Chen Minglou told Chen Changan to begin cultivating, but Chen Changan revealed that he was unable to cultivate because his body could not store energy.
• Chen Minglou examined Chen Changan and confirmed his Leaky Body, shocking the Chen Family.
• Chen Minglou reassured Chen Changan that he would seek a solution and protect him regardless of whether he could cultivate.

After discovering Chen Changan could not cultivate, his family tried to comfort him and plan his future, while he spent a month alone in his room trying to change his body. Chen Changping then arrived with news that the Old Ancestor had arranged an engagement for him.

• Chen Changping and Chen Longjiao brought Chen Changan gifts and promised to protect him from anyone who mocked him.
• Gu Yunmeng offered Chen Changan businesses or a wife as possible plans for his future, then assumed he wanted to cultivate when he rejected them.
• Chen Changan tried for a month to change his body but failed, while the Chen Family worried that he had shut himself away because he could not cultivate.
• Chen Changping told Chen Changan that the Old Ancestor had arranged a marriage and that he was going to be engaged.

Chen Changan tried to escape an engagement arranged by Old Ancestor Chen, but the Chen Family brought him to meet Meng Xiaoxiao of the Meng Family. He deliberately behaved outrageously when she arrived, leaving Chen Minglou struggling to explain himself.

• Chen Changan learned Old Ancestor Chen had arranged a betrothal and tried to flee, but Chen Changping and the Chen Family stopped him.
• Chen Changan told Old Ancestor Chen and Chen Minglou that he could not cultivate and did not want to marry, but they reassured him that the Meng Family knew his situation.
• Chen Changan learned his intended was eight-year-old Meng Xiaoxiao and promised Chen Minglou he would behave.
• When the Meng Family arrived, Chen Changan leered at Meng Xiaoxiao and tried to kiss her, forcing Chen Minglou to intervene and awkwardly explain his behavior.

Chen Changan learned that his betrothal to Meng Xiaoxiao was settled, then took her out of the front hall and discovered she might be bullied by her siblings. He encouraged her to become stronger and promised to teach her.

• Meng Xiaoxiao kissed Chen Changan after he acted boldly, and the Meng Family Head scolded her for being unreserved.
• Chen Changan learned that he and Meng Xiaoxiao were to be betrothed, then joked that he would take her to the Joyful Pavilion.
• Chen Minglou explained that Chen Changan was making a scene to protest the betrothal, and both families accepted the arrangement.
• Chen Changan led Meng Xiaoxiao away and asked whether she wanted to marry someone she had never met.
• Meng Xiaoxiao said her father believed she would have a better life with the Chen Family, and Chen Changan suspected her siblings had bullied her.
• Chen Changan told Meng Xiaoxiao that strength could help her change her fate and promised to teach her.

Eight years after Meng Xiaoxiao had been left with the Chen Family, Chen Changan took her back to the Meng Family so she could face the relatives who had insulted her. The Meng Family Head was surprised to hear that the pair had returned and ordered them brought in.

• Chen Minglou and Gu Yunmeng discussed Meng Xiaoxiao’s engagement to Chen Changan and whether to make the match official.
• A servant reported that Chen Changan had left with Meng Xiaoxiao, and Gu Yunmeng read his letter explaining their trip to the Meng Family.
• Chen Minglou worried about the pair traveling alone, but Gu Yunmeng supported Chen Changan’s decision to stand up for his fiancée.
• Aboard the airship, Chen Changan encouraged Meng Xiaoxiao to return confidently and settle scores with those who had wronged her.
• Less than a month later, Chen Changan and Meng Xiaoxiao arrived at the Meng Family, whose head ordered them brought to him.

Meng Xiaoxiao returned to the Meng Family with Chen Changan and retaliated against her siblings for insulting them, revealing her formidable cultivation. After she defeated her eldest brother, the Meng Family Head accepted her explanation that they had sparred, then turned his attention to Chen Changan, who feared he would break off their engagement.

• Meng Xiaoxiao's siblings mocked her and Chen Changan, and she warned them to watch their mouths.
• Meng Xiaoxiao slapped Meng Xiaoyue and several other siblings after they insulted her and Chen Changan.
• Meng Xiaoxiao challenged Meng Xiaotian's hypocrisy and knocked him down with a slap.
• The Meng Family Head arrived and heard Meng Xiaoxiao claim they had merely sparred, then chose to support her.
• The Meng Family Head looked at Chen Changan, making him worry that he would end the engagement.

Chen Changan arrived at the Meng Family with Meng Xiaoxiao, whose newfound cultivation talent made Meng Family Head regret their betrothal. Meng Family Head gained the Old Ancestor’s approval to seek a way to replace Xiaoxiao in the marriage, then faced Chen Changan’s accusations about her mistreatment.

• Chen Changan greeted Meng Family Head as his future father-in-law and defended his worth by pointing out that Meng Xiaoxiao was his future wife; Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement.
• Meng Family Head asked the Meng Family's Old Ancestor to reconsider the marriage after revealing that sixteen-year-old Meng Xiaoxiao had reached the Earth God Realm.
• The Old Ancestor agreed that Meng Family Head could pursue a replacement bride, but warned him to protect the Meng and Chen families’ relationship and not mistreat Chen Changan.
• At a banquet, Chen Changan said he had brought Meng Xiaoxiao back to settle old scores because people in the Meng Family had bullied her.
• Meng Family Head promised to punish anyone who had bullied Xiaoxiao, and Chen Changan identified his other children before cutting off Meng Family Head’s attempt to raise another subject.

Meng Family Head tried to replace Chen Changan’s betrothal to Meng Xiaoxiao with a choice among the Meng Family’s younger women, then used a banquet to arrange a scheme involving Meng Xiaoyue. Chen Changan avoided the trap, spent the night with Meng Xiaoxiao, and waited for Meng Family Head to arrive the next morning, believing the scheme was about to be exposed.

• Meng Family Head offered Chen Changan another Meng woman in place of Meng Xiaoxiao, but Chen Changan rejected the proposal and warned him against taking her away.
• Meng Family Head dropped the subject and had the Meng Family members repeatedly toast Chen Changan until he appeared drunk.
• Meng Family Head ordered Meng Xiaoyue to enter Chen Changan’s room, but Chen Changan remained conscious and vanished before she could lie beside him.
• Chen Changan found Meng Xiaoxiao, told her her father wanted to break off their engagement, and advised her to wait for the next day’s show.
• Chen Changan stayed in Meng Xiaoxiao’s room while she cultivated, and Meng Family Head arrived the next morning to check whether his plan had worked.

Meng Xiaoxiao confronted her father, the Meng Family Head, after he tried to manipulate her marriage and undermine her bond with Chen Changan. She declared that she would remain with the Chen Family and marry Chen Changan, while leaving the Meng Family Head to face her rejection and praise of her fiancé.

• The Meng Family Head searched Chen Changan's room and found Meng Xiaoyue alone in bed, then questioned the guards about Chen Changan's disappearance.
• Chen Changan returned with Meng Xiaoxiao and joked about missing the night’s events, leaving the Meng Family Head worried that they had grown closer.
• Meng Xiaoxiao accused her father of breaking his promise and declared that she would marry only Chen Changan.
• After the Meng Family Head demanded respect and accused her of choosing an outsider over her family, Meng Xiaoxiao said she would stay with the Chen Family and limit contact with the Meng Family.
• Meng Xiaoxiao explained that the Chen Family had treated her well regardless of her talent and told her father he could never understand how outstanding Chen Changan was.

After helping Meng Xiaoxiao resolve her resentment toward her family, Chen Changan escorted her back toward the Chen family. Meng Xiaotian intercepted them with three Earth God Realm guards, and Chen Changan vanished before their eyes.

• The Meng family's ancestor told the Meng Family Head that he had hurt Meng Xiaoxiao by putting the family's interests before her feelings and choices.
• Chen Changan asked Meng Xiaoxiao how she felt, and she said that speaking her mind had untied the knot in her heart.
• Meng Xiaotian caught up with Chen Changan and Meng Xiaoxiao, insulted them, and threatened to teach his sister a lesson with three fifth-level Earth God Realm cultivators.
• Chen Changan stopped Meng Xiaoxiao from fighting the three guards and dismissed Meng Xiaotian's challenge.
• Chen Changan suddenly vanished without releasing any energy, leaving Meng Xiaotian and the others stunned as they sensed him behind them.

Chen Changan defeated Meng Xiaotian’s three Earth God Realm fighters and explained to Meng Xiaoxiao how he used the laws of heaven and earth and absorbed energy to strengthen his body despite being unable to cultivate. After they returned to the Chen Family, Chen Changping came back from training, badly injured and prompting alarm.

• Chen Changan knocked out Meng Xiaotian’s three men, frightened Meng Xiaotian into fleeing, and revealed that the Meng Family’s ancestor had been watching nearby.
• Chen Changan told Meng Xiaoxiao that he sensed the ancestor through ripples in space and explained how he comprehended the laws of heaven and earth while using absorbed energy to temper his body.
• Chen Changan explained that energy drained away too quickly if he absorbed it too fast, so he had to maintain a steady pace to use the laws’ power.
• Chen Changan and Meng Xiaoxiao returned to the Chen Family, where Chen Changping came back from several years of training badly injured.

Chen Changping returned to the Chen Family with an arm and a leg severed, carrying a spirit herb he believed would let Chen Changan cultivate. Chen Changan secretly doubted the herb would help, but planned to convince his big brother he could cultivate by restoring his limbs that night.

• Chen Changping returned to the Chen Family after six years, missing an arm and a leg, and told Chen Minglou he had found a way to help Chen Changan cultivate.
• The Old Ancestor Chen explained that the attacker had likely used the Death Law, which prevented Chen Changping's limbs from being regenerated.
• Chen Changan returned, accepted the spirit herb from Chen Changping, and left without revealing his doubts about it.
• Chen Changan told Meng Xiaoxiao that the herb probably would not help him and that he had pretended otherwise to spare Chen Changping's feelings.
• Chen Changan planned to restore Chen Changping's limbs that night as proof that he could cultivate.

Chen Changan revealed that he could cultivate by using his Life Force to restore Chen Changping’s severed arm and leg. The Chen Family celebrated his ability, while Chen Changan learned that Yin Shilang of Xuan Yin Valley had crippled his brother over a spirit herb and promised not to act rashly.

• Chen Changping excitedly believed Chen Changan could cultivate, but questioned him when he noticed no change in his body.
• Chen Changan used his Life Force to regrow Chen Changping’s arm and leg, and Chen Changping trusted him despite the pain.
• Chen Changping explained that Yin Shilang of Xuan Yin Valley had taken his limbs in exchange for the spirit herb, which he had sought to help Chen Changan cultivate.
• Chen Changan promised Chen Changping he would not act rashly against Yin Shilang.
• Chen Minglou, Gu Yunmeng, and the Chen Family were astonished and delighted to see Chen Changping restored, and Chen Minglou declared that no one could call Chen Changan useless.

After Chen Changan revealed that he had mastered Life Law and might leave when his mysterious experience ended, Chen Minglou and Old Ancestor Chen learned to keep his secrets. Chen Changan then heard that Yin Shilang was a powerful Divine King from Xuan Yin Valley, but he vowed to kill him for what had happened to Chen Changping.

• Chen Changan explained that he used Life Law to regenerate Chen Changping's severed limb, astonishing the Chen Family with his mastery of Supreme Law Power.
• Chen Changping said Chen Changan had helped him reach his current cultivation, and Chen Minglou ordered everyone to keep Chen Changan's abilities secret.
• After the others left, Chen Minglou asked whether Chen Changan had been born with memories and was a reincarnation.
• Chen Changan said he had brought memories with him, was undergoing an experience, and might leave when it ended; Chen Minglou promised the family would keep his secret and welcome him back.
• Old Ancestor Chen warned Chen Changan that Yin Shilang of Xuan Yin Valley was a famous Divine King, far stronger than Chen Minglou, who was only a Divine Lord.
• Chen Changan said he would not act as if nothing had happened and declared that Yin Shilang must die.

After three years in seclusion, Chen Changan learned that Chen Longjiao was set to marry into the Hengyang Luo Family. He discovered she had arranged the marriage to help him cultivate and decided to go to the Luo Family with Chen Minglou to bring her back.

• Meng Xiaoxiao told Chen Changan that Chen Longjiao was getting married after he had spent three years in seclusion.
• Chen Minglou confronted the Hengyang Luo Family messengers because Chen Longjiao had not returned and the marriage seemed suspicious.
• Chen Changan read Chen Longjiao's message and realized she had chosen the marriage for his sake, while Chen Minglou admitted he had forgotten to tell her about him.
• Chen Changan said they should stop the wedding and take Chen Longjiao back from the Luo Family.
• Chen Minglou learned that the Luo Family's strongest cultivator had recently reached the Divine Venerable Realm, and Chen Changan set out to bring back his second sister.

Chen Changan led a small group of Chen Family elders toward the Luo Family to rescue Chen Longjiao, confident he could handle its Divine Venerable. Back at the Chen Family, Chen Minglou’s worries about Chen Changping’s reaction to his brother’s growing strength faded when Changping proudly celebrated him.

• Chen Changan ordered the captured Luo Family members imprisoned rather than killed so Chen Longjiao would not be put in danger.
• Chen Changan told the Old Ancestor Chen he could take on the Luo Family’s early-stage Divine Venerable, and the Old Ancestor agreed to leave that opponent to him.
• The Old Ancestor Chen chose to take the Elders to the Luo Family while Chen Minglou stayed behind to guard the Chen Family.
• Chen Changan told Chen Changping and Xiao Xiao to stay behind, then departed with the Old Ancestor Chen and the Elders.
• Chen Minglou worried that Chen Changping might resent Chen Changan’s growing power, but Changping proudly said his brother’s success gave him something to brag about.

Chen Longjiao was pressured into marrying Luo Yuheng before the Luo Family had solved her younger brother Chen Changan’s cultivation problem. As the rushed ceremony began, Chen Changan arrived with Chen Family experts and rejected the Luo Family’s welcome.

• Luo Yuheng told Chen Longjiao that the Luo Family would help Chen Changan cultivate, but she demanded that he leave and insisted she would not marry if her brother’s problem remained unresolved.
• The wedding day arrived without the Chen Family, and Luo Yuheng pressured Chen Longjiao to wear her wedding dress by threatening to withdraw the Luo Family’s help and shame her family.
• Chen Longjiao appeared before the guests, who marveled at her Heavenly God Realm cultivation and wondered why no Chen Family relatives were present.
• The Luo Family Ancestor sensed that something was wrong and ordered Luo Yuheng to begin the ceremony immediately.
• Chen Changan arrived with Chen Family experts, and the Luo Family Ancestor welcomed them as in-laws, but Chen Changan refused to take a seat and said they had not come to celebrate.

Chen Changan arrived with the Chen Family to bring Chen Longjiao home from the Luo Family, then revealed overwhelming strength by killing the Luo Family's Divine Venerable Old Ancestor and helping wipe out the household. He told Chen Longjiao not to risk herself for him again and stayed behind to handle something while the Chen Family took her home.

• Chen Changan and the Chen Family confronted the Luo Family over Chen Longjiao's marriage, and Chen Longjiao admitted she had gambled on the Luo Family curing his inability to cultivate.
• Chen Changan used an unexplained power to move Chen Longjiao to his side, then appeared before the Luo Family's Old Ancestor and immobilized him.
• Chen Changan struck the Luo Family's Old Ancestor twice, destroying his body and Spiritual Sense.
• The Old Ancestor of the Chen Family and the others joined the attack, and the Chen Family slaughtered the Luo Family as the guests fled.
• Chen Changan told Chen Longjiao not to make sacrifices for him again, sent her home with the Chen Family, and said he would stay behind for something he needed to do.

After the Chen Family looted the Luo Family, Chen Changan concealed the severe damage to his body and set out for Xuan Yin Valley after three days of rest. There, Yin Jiuyou condemned Yin Shilang for crippling Chen Changping, while the two planned to destroy the Chen Family after Bright Moon Immortal Sect’s visit.

• Chen Changan urged the Chen Family to take the Luo Family’s resources, then revealed that killing the Luo Family’s Divine Venerable had left his body badly damaged.
• Chen Changan rested for three days and then departed for Xuan Yin Valley.
• Yin Jiuyou rebuked Yin Shilang for crippling Chen Changping, a young Heaven God Realm prodigy, instead of killing him or winning him over.
• Yin Shilang dismissed Chen Changping’s family as weak and proposed wiping out the Chen Family.
• Yin Jiuyou told Yin Shilang to wait until Bright Moon Immortal Sect’s business was settled, then destroy the Chen Family without leaving them a chance to rise.