Recaps

Chen Changan suspected the foreign races had repeatedly purged the True Realm and that the Ancient Forbidden Land was a prison, possibly connected to his father’s disappearance. The Five Ancestors of Literature asked him to open it and welcome back the people of the Ancient Era, and he agreed.

• Chen Changan told the Five Ancestors that the foreign races may have invaded the True Realm repeatedly to prevent it from rising, rather than to occupy it.
• Chen Changan suggested that the Ancient Forbidden Land was a prison that could only be opened from outside, and the Five Ancestors recognized that this could explain why its inhabitants could not escape.
• Chen Changan wondered whether his father had investigated the Ancient Forbidden Land and disappeared because of it, but he and the Five Ancestors could only speculate.
• The Five Ancestors asked Chen Changan to fulfill their last wishes by opening the Ancient Forbidden Land and welcoming back the people of the Ancient Era.
• Chen Changan agreed, saying he was already involved and might gain something by accepting.

The Five Ancestors used their final wills to strengthen Chen Changan’s will, mental strength, and soul before disappearing and leaving him the Crimson Demon Helmet. The people at Ancestor of Literature Academy mistook the event as Chen Changan becoming the new Ancestor of Literature, and the chapter ended with them kneeling to him.

• The Five Ancestors told Chen Changan they would use their final wills to strengthen him, then leave the Crimson Demon Helmet as their final gift.
• The Five Ancestors vanished into beams of golden light, and their statues on Ancestor of Literature Mountain collapsed as their power surrounded Chen Changan.
• The Ten Elders recognized the light as a sign that Chen Changan might be proving himself as the Ancestor of Literature, and the students celebrated his apparent ascension.
• The Crimson Demon Helmet emerged from beneath the fallen statues and joined the Crimson Demon Chestplate and armguards on Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan awoke with greatly strengthened will, mental power, and soul, while Mu Yunyao and Gu Minglou remained standing and everyone else knelt to greet him as the Ancestor of Literature.

Chen Changan ordered the Ten Elders to keep his identity as the new Ancestor of Literature and the Crimson Demon Helmet secret, saying he would address the threat to the True Realm after handling more urgent matters. After hearing about a gifted student who could enter the Dao in one leap, Chen Changan asked to meet him and considered trying the method himself.

• The Ten Elders celebrated Chen Changan as the new Ancestor of Literature, but he told them not to reveal his appearance to the world.
• Chen Changan instructed the Ten Elders to conceal the Crimson Demon Helmet and said its danger threatened the True Realm’s survival.
• One of the Ten Elders asked Chen Changan to mentor his bookworm student, who was expected to enter the Dao in one leap and might reach the Ancestor Realm.
• The Ten Elders explained that entering the Dao in one leap had a cultivation limit and could not be achieved simply by wishing for it.
• Chen Changan asked the Ten Elders to take him to meet the student, hoping to bring the gifted young man along as an ally.

Chen Changan met Wen Yuan, a student so absorbed in books that he ignored the upheaval at Ancestor of Literature Mountain and everyone around him. After Chen Changan urged him to learn from traveling as well as reading, Wen Yuan agreed to leave the Ancestor of Literature Academy and accompany him.

• Chen Changan found Wen Yuan reading one page from each of dozens of books, turning the pages with a gesture despite having no cultivation.
• The Ten Elders explained that Wen Yuan became deaf to everything around him while reading, and Chen Changan nearly left when he could not get the student’s attention.
• The Ten Elders closed a book, breaking Wen Yuan’s reading trance, and introduced him to Chen Changan as the new Ancestor of Literature.
• Wen Yuan asked Chen Changan whether he had any books, then listened as Chen Changan explained that reading should be paired with seeing and experiencing the world.
• The Ten Elders asked Wen Yuan to leave the Ancestor of Literature Academy and stay with Chen Changan, and Wen Yuan agreed.

After leaving Ancestor of Literature Mountain with Wen Yuan, Chen Changan considered what the Five Ancestors of Literature had revealed about repeated alien invasions and the possibility that aliens had transformed into humans. He decided to focus on improving his cultivation before the Martial God Ranking, while the truth about the aliens remained unknown.

• Wen Yuan packed his unfinished books and left Ancestor of Literature Mountain with Chen Changan.
• A curious crowd surrounded Chen Changan's carriage, but Gu Minglou drove them away with his aura.
• Mu Yunyao asked about Wen Yuan's prospects, and Chen Changan explained that his deep immersion in books showed a promising state of mind for entering the Dao through literature.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao wondered how many people in the True Realm were aliens or descendants of aliens, and whether that explained why the Gu Family of Jufeng City and the Sun Moon Dynasty had aided them.
• Mu Yunyao questioned whether the Feng Family of Dragon Sealing Valley had attacked Chen Changan because of alien ties, but Chen Changan set the speculation aside and resolved to cultivate before the Martial God Ranking.

As Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao finished cultivating, Chen Changan sensed that a vast number of people had died nearby, and the group discovered an entire city massacred. Wen Yuan struggled to understand the killing, and the chapter ended as someone rapidly approached, possibly the killer returning.

• Gu Minglou grew exasperated with Wen Yuan's constant questions and finally pulled him from the carriage, demanding that he either die or stay quiet.
• Days later, Gu Minglou smelled a powerful stench of blood, and Chen Changan finished cultivating and urged the group to investigate.
• The group reached a large city where every resident had been killed, apparently within the past two days and possibly by one person.
• Wen Yuan vomited at the sight and asked why anyone would kill so many people, while Chen Changan told him that books could not teach him the realities of human nature.
• The group sensed someone approaching at great speed, and Gu Minglou wondered whether the killer was returning.

Chen Changan and his companions met Su Yihuan, who had mistaken them for the killer responsible for slaughtering several cities. After learning who Chen Changan was, Su Yihuan recognized him as the son of the Lord of the True Realm, leaving her about to explain what she had realized.

• Su Yihuan attacked Chen Changan, but both accused each other of killing the people in the city before realizing neither had done it.
• Su Yihuan explained that several cities had been slaughtered over the past month and that she had been pursuing the killer.
• Chen Changan told Su Yihuan that the people there had been dead for two or three days, and she apologized for attacking him.
• Su Yihuan introduced herself, and Gu Minglou recognized her as the daughter of Nan Yuanlizhu Su Jianli, prompting her to object to being defined by her father.
• After Chen Changan confirmed he was the son of the Lord of the True Realm, Su Yihuan began to say, "So that person was you..."

Chen Changan learned that Su Yihuan was his fiancée because of an old agreement between their fathers, and she asked him to help end the engagement. Before they could leave to settle it, they focused on tracking down the killer responsible for the deaths, and Chen Changan found the killer’s aura.

• Su Yihuan told Chen Changan that their fathers had arranged for them to marry if Su Jianli ever had a daughter, and explained that she had come to find him so he could dissolve the engagement.
• Chen Changan introduced Mu Yunyao as his wife, and Su Yihuan insisted that she wanted the engagement ended on her own terms.
• Su Yihuan and Chen Changan agreed to deal with the killer before traveling to settle the engagement.
• Chen Changan released his perception and found the killer’s aura, surprising Su Yihuan and the others.

Chen Changan tracked the suspected killer’s scent and pursued it with Mu Yunyao and Su Yihuan. They found four Emperor Dao Realm cultivators boasting about a contest and admitted to killing people in several cities.

• Chen Changan used the Spirit Guiding Technique to follow the killer’s scent, then sent Gu Minglou and Wen Yuan to Martial God City while he continued with Mu Yunyao and Su Yihuan.
• After flying for three days, Chen Changan realized the killer had spared two cities and warned that the attacks might involve multiple people.
• Chen Changan noticed the scent trail moving and led the others toward it without stopping.
• The group overheard four people arguing about a contest and discovered they were all at the Emperor Dao Realm.
• Su Yihuan confronted the four about the massacres, and one of them arrogantly admitted to killing whoever he wanted.

Chen Changan and Su Yihuan confronted four men who had massacred several cities for the thrill of killing. After learning they were descendants of the Four Heroes of Yun Chuan, Chen Changan became interested in the families behind them.

• Su Yihuan subdued the four men with her aura, but Chen Changan urged her to question them before attacking.
• The men revealed they came from Yun Chuan, and Su Yihuan recognized them as descendants of the Four Heroes of Yun Chuan.
• Su Yihuan explained that the Four Heroes had once been Half-step Ancestor Realm experts who raised their families to near first-rate status.
• The four men defended their massacre as ordinary cultivation-world violence and threatened Chen Changan and Su Yihuan with their families’ backing.
• Chen Changan concluded the men showed no guilt and said he had become interested in the Four Great Families of Yun Chuan.

Chen Changan confronted four men from the Four Great Families of Yun Chuan, learned they had repeatedly played a deadly game, and raised the possibility that their families were connected to the foreign race. Mu Yunyao attacked the men, while Su Yihuan praised her and clarified that she liked her personality.

• Chen Changan challenged the four men, and they changed their attitude after learning that Mu Yunyao was Nan Yuanlizhu, Su Jianli’s daughter, and that Chen Changan was the Imperial Pavilion Young Master.
• The four men admitted they had played their deadly game three or four times and said their families knew about it.
• Chen Changan questioned why the Four Great Families of Yun Chuan disregarded human life, and Mu Yunyao guessed that they might be connected to the foreign race.
• Chen Changan said he would uncover the truth and that the four men would not live to see it, so Mu Yunyao charged them.
• Mu Yunyao overpowered the four mid-stage Emperor Dao Realm men and said she targeted their eyes because she disliked how they had looked at them.
• Su Yihuan told Chen Changan she liked his wife’s personality, and he realized she had not meant that she liked Mu Yunyao’s body.

Chen Changan told Su Yihuan that foreign races were still hiding inside the True Realm, prompting her to investigate the Four Great Families of Yunchuan with her father. After she left, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao discussed his distrust of others and decided to ask the Black Banner to search for Da Huang and the others.

• Mu Yunyao killed their attackers while Chen Changan and Su Yihuan discussed foreign races hiding in the True Realm.
• Chen Changan explained that some foreign-race survivors had gone into hiding and could have transformed into humans.
• Su Yihuan decided to tell her father about the threat and investigate whether the Four Great Families of Yunchuan were colluding with the foreign races.
• Su Yihuan postponed discussing her engagement with Chen Changan and left to return home.
• Mu Yunyao asked Chen Changan about his wariness of others, and he said the three trials had warned him that betrayal might happen in the True Realm.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao decided to go to Martial God City and ask the Black Banner to find Da Huang and the others.

Gu Minglou and Wen Yuan discussed the Martial God Ranking and the risks of promoting Chen Changan before he arrived in Martial God City. Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao arrived, and after learning about the War God List, Gu Minglou noticed their rapid cultivation progress and asked to try their training method.

• Gu Minglou persuaded Wen Yuan to stop reading and explore Martial God City, where Chen Changan’s arrival had already become a popular topic.
• Wen Yuan questioned the wisdom of promoting Chen Changan before he arrived, warning that the plan could backfire if he failed to come.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao entered the room, and Chen Changan learned that people in the city wanted to challenge him for the glory of defeating the Imperial Pavilion Young Master.
• Gu Minglou explained the Martial God Ranking and its exceptionally difficult War God List to Chen Changan.
• Gu Minglou noticed that Chen Changan had reached the late Emperor Realm and Mu Yunyao had reached the peak of the Emperor Realm, then asked to try their training method, but Chen Changan told him he was not suited for it.

Chen Changan learned about the three people on the War God List and the Imperial Pavilion’s former strength, then took Gu Minglou and Wen Yuan to the Martial God Ranking’s testing grounds. The square was packed with far more people than expected when they arrived.

• Gu Minglou asked Chen Changan to teach him how to work hard, but Chen Changan said his methods were unsuitable for him.
• Gu Minglou explained that only three people had ever made the War God List: Zhang Feiyun, Huo Zhan, and the mysterious Du Qiyan.
• Gu Minglou described the Imperial Pavilion’s Five Great Elders, Four Great Battle Halls, and banners, which had made the Pavilion powerful even without Chen Changan’s father.
• Chen Changan invited Gu Minglou to test his strength at the Martial God Ranking and told Wen Yuan to come along to broaden his horizons.
• Chen Changan, Gu Minglou, and Wen Yuan reached the crowded testing grounds in central Martial God City, where they noticed several times more people than a few days earlier.

Qin Xiaoge arrived in Martial God City to challenge the War God List and declared that he wanted to prove Chen Changan was nothing special despite his Imperial Pavilion background. Chen Changan dismissed Qin Xiaoge’s bravado as insecurity and predicted he would fail, leaving the challenge yet to begin.

• Gu Minglou learned that Qin Xiaoge, a celebrated genius said to have reached the Emperor Dao Realm, was coming to challenge the War God List.
• Qin Xiaoge arrived at the plaza, and Mu Yunyao criticized his obvious arrogance.
• Qin Xiaoge announced that he was challenging the War God List to show that Chen Changan’s status did not make him exceptional.
• The crowd backed Qin Xiaoge as he argued that people without privileged backgrounds could surpass Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan called Qin Xiaoge a clown, explained that his speech was meant to soften criticism if he failed, and predicted he would not make the War God List.

Qin Xiaoge tested his strength on the Testing Stone Tablet and ranked fifth on the Three Emperors Ranking, disappointing Chen Changan’s group despite the crowd’s excuses. Chen Changan told Gu Minglou that his combat strength surpassed Qin Xiaoge’s, and Gu Minglou began his own test.

• Qin Xiaoge struck the Testing Stone Tablet with his saber while the crowd watched.
• The tablet listed Qin Xiaoge at peak Emperor Dao Realm cultivation, mid Emperor Heaven Realm combat strength, and fifth place on the Three Emperors Ranking.
• The spectators claimed Qin Xiaoge was hiding his strength, while Chen Changan said they refused to admit they were wrong.
• Chen Changan explained to Gu Minglou that Qin Xiaoge was strong but not the peerless genius Gu Minglou had imagined.
• Gu Minglou flew to the tablet, challenged Qin Xiaoge’s assumption that he was stronger, and punched the stone.

Gu Minglou’s test results placed him second on the Three Emperors Ranking, above Qin Xiaoge, and revealed his combat strength had reached the early Emperor Heaven Realm. Mu Yunyao stepped up to test herself and announced she would climb the War God List, leaving Qin Xiaoge and the crowd scoffing as she challenged them to watch closely.

• Gu Minglou’s stone tablet results showed late Emperor Lord Realm cultivation and early Emperor Heaven Realm combat strength, ranking him second on the Three Emperors Ranking and pushing Qin Xiaoge to sixth.
• Qin Xiaoge asked Gu Minglou’s name, and Gu Minglou identified himself as the newly revealed genius.
• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao to demonstrate her strength and test her combat ability, so she stepped before the Testing Stone Tablet.
• Gu Minglou called Mu Yunyao his sister-in-law and made room for her, while Qin Xiaoge accused them of trying to build their reputations by surpassing him.
• Mu Yunyao said she intended to climb the War God List, then told Qin Xiaoge to open his dog eyes and watch closely.

Mu Yunyao’s test showed that her peak Emperor Realm cultivation gave her late Emperor Heaven Realm combat strength, placing her first on the Martial God Ranking and the War God List. After stopping Qin Xiaoge and calling Chen Changan over for his turn, she left the crowd wondering whether he would also test himself.

• Mu Yunyao struck the Testing Stone Tablet, which appeared to tremble briefly, and the tablet ranked her first on both lists.
• The crowd celebrated Mu Yunyao’s strength while Qin Xiaoge felt humiliated by her result.
• Mu Yunyao stopped Qin Xiaoge from leaving and reminded him of what he had said, leaving him to suspect the matter involved the Imperial Pavilion Young Master.
• Mu Yunyao called Chen Changan over to take his turn, and he flew to her side as the crowd wondered whether he would test himself.

Chen Changan tested his strength, claimed first place on the War God List, and cracked the Testing Stone Tablet with Law Power. After revealing his identity as the Imperial Pavilion Young Master, he confronted Qin Xiaoge, who had boasted about surpassing him, and left Qin groveling.

• Chen Changan punched the Testing Stone Tablet without using his sword, and the tablet cracked as it revealed his late Emperor Realm cultivation and peak Emperor Heaven Realm battle strength.
• The ranking identified Chen Changan as Di Yi Ming, placing him first on the War God List, while Mu Yunyao held second place.
• Chen Changan explained that the tablet could withstand True Essence Power but not Law Power, confirming that his punch had used Law Power.
• Chen Changan reminded Qin Xiaoge of his boast about surpassing the Imperial Pavilion Young Master, then introduced himself as Chen Changan.
• Qin Xiaoge apologized and showered Chen Changan with praise, while Mu Yunyao mocked him by comparing him to Da Huang, one of Chen Changan's dogs.

Chen Changan humiliated Qin Xiaoge until he fled, then saw through Pang Haoyuan’s supposed challenge and suspected an ambush. As onlookers defended Chen Changan’s life because of his father’s legacy, Gu Minglou and Wen Yuan wondered whether he had brought protection.

• Qin Xiaoge accepted Chen Changan’s insults with a fawning smile, and the crowd mocked him for abandoning his former arrogance.
• Chen Changan told Qin Xiaoge he preferred him arrogant and unruly, then ordered him to get lost; Qin Xiaoge hurried away.
• Pang Haoyuan arrived and challenged Chen Changan, prompting onlookers to note that his cultivation and combat strength were formidable.
• Chen Changan questioned whether Pang Haoyuan could carry out his plan alone, caught his nervous reaction, and accused him of hiding an ambush.
• The crowd reacted with outrage to the idea that people wanted Chen Changan dead, while Mu Yunyao explained their mixed feelings about his status and his father’s legacy.
• Gu Minglou asked whether Chen Changan had brought people with him, and Mu Yunyao told Wen Yuan to stop asking foolish questions.

Chen Changan faced an ambush in Martial God City and summoned the Imperial Pavilion’s Heaven Banner to defeat his attackers. Afterward, he confronted the Heaven Banner members for staying hidden until he called them out.

• Pang Haoyuan questioned whether Chen Changan had Imperial Pavilion guards, and five men appeared to attack him.
• Chen Changan sent Mu Yunyao, Gu Minglou, and Wen Yuan away before Pang Haoyuan and the five newcomers struck together.
• Chen Changan endured the six men’s combined attack unharmed and called for Imperial Pavilion members.
• More than ten Heaven Banner members appeared, knelt before Chen Changan, and attacked the six men.
• Chen Changan left the fight to the Heaven Banner, then criticized its members for remaining hidden until he summoned them.

Chen Changan confronted the Heaven Banner over its rigid rules and learned that Feng Wuyou had been killed while investigating Dragon Sealing Valley, with Yue Zhirou badly injured but alive. He ordered the Black Banner to find and protect Yue Zhirou and secretly investigate the Feng Family, leaving a direct confrontation for later.

• Chen Changan scolded the Heaven Banner for standing by during his attack, and its members explained that their rules prevented them from acting without orders.
• The fifth captain told Chen Changan that the Heaven Banner had 190 members, including ten Half-step Ancestor Realm captains, and that it had followed him to Martial God City.
• The Heaven Banner reported that Feng Wuyou had died and Yue Zhirou had escaped severely injured after the Feng Family's ancestor ambushed them at Dragon Sealing Valley.
• Chen Changan ordered the Black Banner to locate Yue Zhirou and keep her safe.
• Chen Changan told the Heaven Banner to investigate the Feng Family's strength and allies in secret, without confronting them directly.

Chen Changan ordered the Imperial Pavilion and Black Banner to stay alert, search for his missing brothers, and investigate who had sent the attackers. He concluded that powerful, hidden watchers were testing him, while Mu Yunyao suggested they might be unable to kill him yet or needed him alive for the unfolding conflict.

• Chen Changan told the Heaven Banner members to guard the Imperial Pavilion, search for Da Huang and his two companions, and identify who had sent the earlier attackers.
• Chen Changan explained to Gu Minglou that he lacked his brothers' auras and promised to visit Dragon Sealing Valley and the Feng Family to answer for Feng Wuyou and Yue Zhirou's deaths.
• Chen Changan questioned how the Dragon Sealing Valley learned Feng Wuyou and Yue Zhirou's whereabouts and suspected someone had leaked the information.
• Chen Changan reasoned that hidden experts, possibly at the peak of the Emperor King Realm or Half-step Ancestor Realm, had been watching and testing him.
• Mu Yunyao suggested the watchers might be waiting for the right time or keeping Chen Changan alive because he had a role in the True Realm's unfolding game.

Chen Changan investigated the destruction of the Queyan Sect and used the Laws of Time and Space to reconstruct what happened. The vision revealed that someone who looked exactly like him had taken a wooden box and slaughtered the sect, and the false Chen Changan appeared to look directly at them.

• Di Yi Ming invited Chen Changan to visit the Queyan Sect, claiming its sect master had a gift for him, and Chen agreed to go at once.
• Chen Changan and his companions reached the Queyan Sect and found it in ruins, with everyone dead; Di Yi Ming begged him to uncover the truth.
• Chen Changan used the Laws of Time and Space to recreate the scene from the previous day.
• The vision showed a man identical to Chen Changan taking a wooden box from the sect master and killing everyone in the Queyan Sect.
• Mu Yunyao noticed the double's wicked expression, and Chen Changan suspected the box had held the Crimson Demon's arm armor.
• The double in the vision looked toward them, shocking the others.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao tracked the sinister fake who had destroyed Queyan Sect, but the Spirit Guiding Technique suddenly stopped working when they reached Yunchuan. Su Yihuan appeared and confirmed their location, leaving Chen Changan suspecting that someone had deliberately lured them there.

• Chen Changan decided to hunt down the fake after discovering that his aura was almost identical to his own.
• Chen Changan encouraged Di Yi Ming to rebuild Queyan Sect, then set off with Mu Yunyao to track the fake while Gu Minglou followed with Wen Yuan.
• After more than ten days of pursuit, Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao found that the Spirit Guiding Technique had suddenly stopped tracking their target.
• Chen Changan sensed Su Yihuan nearby, and she told him and Mu Yunyao that they were in Yunchuan.
• Chen Changan asked Su Yihuan whether she had sensed anyone with an aura like his, suspecting that someone had lured them to Yunchuan.