Recaps

Chen Changan and the Nine Great Races poured their power into the Red Demon to open the Ancient Forbidden Land, but the energy instead flowed into Chen Changan and drove him toward a breakthrough. A vast black hole appeared over the True Realm, and the chapter ended with the races urging the reluctant Alien Race to help Chen Changan reach the True Ancestor Realm.

• The Square Seal merged with the Red Demon, which began absorbing power from the Nine Great Races.
• Chen Changan linked himself to the Red Demon, drawing its immense energy into his body as the True Realm shook and a gigantic black hole appeared in the sky.
• Chen Changan realized he needed to break through another cultivation shackle to fully open the Ancient Forbidden Land and focused on advancing to the True Ancestor Realm.
• The Nine Great Races noticed the Alien Race had stopped contributing, and the Alien Race Commander argued that the others had enough power without them.
• The other races insisted the Alien Race share responsibility for opening the Ancient Forbidden Land, and the Alien Race agreed to pour in its power alongside everyone else.

Chen Changan gathered energy from across the True Realm to break through the final barrier to the True Ancestor Realm, risking disaster for himself and the realm. As the energy flooded into him, the True Realm fell silent, leaving everyone uncertain whether he had succeeded.

• Chen Changan remained unable to break through despite the experts of the Nine Great Races pouring their energy into the Red Demon, and many had to stop from exhaustion.
• Chen Changan summoned a bead that gathered energy from across the True Realm, alarming those who feared the consequences if his attempt failed.
• The experts and Alien Races argued over the danger, then could only put their hopes in Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan drew the bead back into his body and absorbed the torrent of True Essence Power as Da Huang, Little Earthworm, and Yi Tuo watched anxiously.
• The surroundings suddenly fell silent, and everyone was left wondering whether Chen Changan had succeeded.

Chen Changan broke through to the True Ancestor Realm and opened the Ancient Forbidden Land, restoring the True Realm’s energy but not bringing back the ancient age. Suspecting the opening was incomplete, he confronted someone who had been hiding, and that person answered with laughter.

• Chen Changan unleashed his power across the True Realm, and Hong Tianlong and the others suspected he had reached the True Ancestor Realm.
• The Red Demon reacted to the black hole, opening a passage that poured True Essence Power into the depleted True Realm.
• Chen Changan confirmed his breakthrough but questioned why the ancient age had not descended, and he suspected the Ancient Forbidden Land had only partly opened.
• Chen Changan said something was missing from his father’s arrangements, then concluded that someone was due to reveal himself.
• Mu Yunyao guessed the identity of the hidden person, and Chen Changan challenged him to stop hiding; the person laughed and said he had been waiting.

Evil Qi Chen Changan appeared and claimed that the Chen Changan everyone knew was a substitute created to pave the way for him. The Imperial Pavilion backed Evil Qi Chen Changan, but Da Huang and the other races stood with Chen Changan as the enemy threatened their captured wives.

• Evil Qi Chen Changan confronted Chen Changan, claimed to be the real one, and said Chen Changan had been created as his substitute.
• Evil Qi Chen Changan explained that Chen Changan’s hardships and cultivation had prepared the way for him, while he had waited in the True Realm.
• Evil Qi Chen Changan summoned the Imperial Pavilion, whose members joined him and seemed to confirm his claim.
• Da Huang, the Dragon Race, and the Ember Clan chose to support Chen Changan regardless of whether he was a substitute.
• Evil Qi Chen Changan revealed that he had captured Da Huang and the others’ wives, warned outsiders to stay away, and challenged Chen Changan as his equal in strength.

Chen Changan revealed that Evil Qi Chen Changan was not his double but the embodiment of his negative aspects, and that the Lord of the True Realm had arranged their conflict as a test. The Emperor's Pavilion elders confirmed Chen Changan had passed, leaving Evil Qi Chen Changan furious and his claims discredited.

• Chen Changan calmly explained that his unusual nature and his father's cryptic words had led him to understand the truth about Evil Qi Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan declared that he and Evil Qi Chen Changan had once been one person, and that Evil Qi Chen Changan was the negative aspects stripped from him.
• Evil Qi Chen Changan insisted he was the real Chen Changan because the Emperor's Pavilion members had obeyed his orders.
• Chen Changan argued that the Five Great Elders had guided Evil Qi Chen Changan and used him as a pawn, since the Lord of the True Realm would never let his son live without hardship.
• Da Huang asked why Chen Changan was certain, and Chen Changan explained his understanding of his father's harsh nature.
• Hong Tianlong and the other elders confirmed that the conflict was the Lord's final test before Chen Changan opened the Ancient Forbidden Land, and praised him for passing it.

Chen Changan confronted his evil counterpart after learning that the Imperial Pavilion had arranged many events in his life as trials. Their battle shook the True Realm, and the others watched as the fight seemed even, though Mu Yunyao and Da Huang believed Chen Changan had not yet fought seriously.

• Hong Tianlong told Chen Changan that the three women had been placed in Da Huang and the others’ lives as part of the evil counterpart’s plan, and that they had been moved somewhere safe.
• Chen Changan deduced that his evil counterpart had arranged many events to test him, while Evil Qi Chen Changan grew furious at being treated as a chess piece.
• Evil Qi Chen Changan rejected Chen Changan’s plea to avoid killing each other and declared that only one of them could live.
• Chen Changan attacked Evil Qi Chen Changan, and the two fought with power that forced everyone else to retreat tens of thousands of miles.
• Hong Tianlong worried that Evil Qi Chen Changan could match Chen Changan, but Mu Yunyao and Da Huang said Chen Changan had not gotten serious or drawn the Red Dust Sword.

Chen Changan defeated Evil Qi Chen Changan and reopened the Ancient Forbidden Land, restoring most of the True Realm to its Ancient Era state. As the realm’s people cultivated amid the returning energy, Chen Changan discovered a barrier-protected region still suspended above the True Realm, where a few powerful figures of the Nine Great Races remained.

• Chen Changan summoned the Red Dust Sword and defeated Evil Qi Chen Changan, who asked him to find out why his parents had treated him that way before fading away.
• Chen Changan absorbed Evil Qi Chen Changan’s energy, then asked Hong Tianlong why his father had created the evil counterpart.
• Chen Changan opened the Ancient Forbidden Land, causing the True Realm’s lost lands, fortune, and energy to return.
• The True Realm’s people and Mu Yunyao’s companions grew stronger as they cultivated, while Chen Changan watched the returning lands merge.
• Chen Changan found a barrier-protected region that had not merged with the True Realm and entered it, discovering a few surviving powerful figures of the Nine Great Races setting up a formation among scattered bones.

Chen Changan entered the Ancient Forbidden Land and learned from the Human Race experts that the other races had brought in reinforcements from beyond the realm, who were sealed at great cost. The seal was weakening, and Chen Changan asked how soon the imprisoned experts might break free.

• Chen Changan entered the Ancient Forbidden Land despite the Nine Great Races’ barrier and assured the Human Race experts that the True Realm was safe and recovering.
• Chen Changan confronted an other-race expert and asked why the Ancient Forbidden Land had a way to be opened if opening it was forbidden.
• An Earth Human Race expert asked about their descendants, and Chen Changan said they still existed while other races in the True Realm had dwindled.
• A Human Race expert explained that the other races came from beyond the True Realm, started the Ancient War, and summoned reinforcements from beyond the realm.
• The Human Race expert said the reinforcements betrayed the other races, so the Nine Great Races sealed them by sacrificing countless experts and much of the True Realm’s fortune, energy, and territory.
• The Human Race experts revealed that the imprisoned forces had kept attacking the formation, shortening their lives, and Chen Changan asked how soon the seal would fail.

Chen Changan learned that five immensely powerful Outland beings were sealed away, and the seal could last only three to five more years. He accused the alien races of secretly working with those beings to weaken the True Realm, but the alien powerhouses refused to confess.

• A Human Race powerhouse told Chen Changan that the seal would last at most three to five years and described the five Outland powerhouses as stronger than Ancient Ancestor Realm experts.
• An alien powerhouse explained that the alien races coveted the True Realm as a home and had originally hoped to let its races slaughter one another before claiming the spoils.
• Chen Changan warned that the opened Forbidden Land put the True Realm in danger and suspected that someone had directed the five Outland powerhouses.
• Chen Changan accused the alien races of scouting the True Realm for the Outland powerhouses, then suppressing the Human Race and other races to prepare for the Forbidden Land's opening.
• Chen Changan urged the alien powerhouses to reveal the truth to help save their clansmen, but they denied his accusations and remained silent.

Chen Changan learned that the alien army came from the Burning Nether Realm and that its Lord planned to seize the True Realm. With powerhouses trapped behind a seal expected to break in three to five years and another invasion likely, Chen Changan left to strengthen himself and prepare for the crisis.

• Chen Changan forced an alien powerhouse to reveal that the Burning Nether Realm Lord had sent their race to scout and seize worlds like the True Realm.
• The alien powerhouse admitted his race had hoped to gain the benefits needed to challenge the Burning Nether Realm Lord, but knew little about the Lord’s plans.
• Chen Changan warned the elders that the seal could fail in three to five years and that the Burning Nether Realm might invade again with a much larger force.
• The elders agreed to hold the sealed area while Chen Changan worked to raise his cultivation, and they learned his name.
• Chen Changan left the sealed area and told Mu Yunyao that the danger was more serious than he had expected.

Chen Changan learned that five powerful experts sealed in the Ancient Forbidden Land could break free within three to five years and threaten the entire True Realm. He organized a race against time to strengthen himself and gather resources, leaving the True Realm’s people largely unaware of the coming crisis.

• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao that his body might not protect him against World Lord Realm experts and that the five sealed enemies could escape within three to five years.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao decided not to alarm the True Realm and rejected draining its True Essence Power, which would damage its foundations.
• Mu Yunyao suggested collecting cultivation resources, and Chen Changan ordered the Five Great Elders to lead the Imperial Pavilion in gathering them.
• Chen Changan explained the crisis to Hong Tianlong and the other elders, allowing them to reveal the news selectively when people resisted the resource gathering.
• Da Huang asked about brothels despite the danger, and Chen Changan sent him, Yi Tuo, and Little Earthworm back to cultivate.

As the Imperial Pavilion gathered resources to prepare for the danger in the Ancient Forbidden Land, resentment spread and cultivators formed an Anti-Imperial Pavilion Alliance. The alliance grew powerful enough to challenge the Pavilion, and its leader rallied members to reclaim resources.

• Cultivators across the True Realm accused the Imperial Pavilion of inventing the Ancient Forbidden Land crisis to monopolize resources and protect its position.
• The Ten Elders of Literature sent their students to explain that the Ancient Forbidden Land and its danger were real, but the angry cultivators dismissed their warning.
• The Anti-Imperial Pavilion Alliance grew and began competing with the Imperial Pavilion for resources while the major races and first-rate Human Race forces focused on cultivation.
• The Alliance Leader claimed the alliance had numerous Ancestor Realm experts and accused Chen Changan and the Imperial Pavilion of taking nearly half the True Realm's resources in just over a year.
• Alliance members urged their leader to order them to take back the resources they believed belonged to them.

The Anti-Imperial Pavilion Alliance set out to reclaim the True Realm’s resources, while the Imperial Pavilion focused on gathering supplies for the secluded Chen Changan. After nearly a year of travel, the alliance found the Imperial Pavilion’s former site occupied by powerful human families and unfamiliar races, and suspected the Pavilion of conspiring with them.

• The Alliance Leader ordered several million cultivators to march on the Imperial Pavilion and reclaim what they believed belonged to the True Realm.
• Hong Tianlong and the Imperial Pavilion’s elders dismissed the alliance as a minor threat and prioritized gathering resources for Chen Changan, who had remained in seclusion for nearly two years.
• The Anti-Imperial Pavilion Alliance spent nearly a year crossing the restored expanse of the True Realm to reach the Imperial Pavilion.
• The alliance members saw that the mountain where the Imperial Pavilion had stood was gone and discovered first-rate human powers and unfamiliar races gathered nearby.
• The Alliance Leader and his followers suspected the Imperial Pavilion had allied with other races and concluded that they might have to eliminate it.

The Anti-Imperial Pavilion Alliance arrived at the Imperial Pavilion and hesitated when they saw the powerful forces gathered there. After an Imperial Pavilion member explained that an extraterrestrial threat was sealed in the Ancient Forbidden Land, Da Huang appeared and defended his big brother’s side.

• The Alliance Leader urged the Anti-Imperial Pavilion Alliance not to retreat, and his followers debated whether to oppose the Imperial Pavilion.
• An Imperial Pavilion member challenged the Alliance Leader’s claims and explained that the Rootless Land contained extraterrestrial experts whose seal was close to breaking.
• The Imperial Pavilion member warned the alliance to leave, but the crowd continued to argue over whether the Imperial Pavilion was telling the truth.
• Da Huang finished cultivating and asked why the Imperial Pavilion members were arguing with people who had come to cause trouble for his big brother.
• An Imperial Pavilion member said their smaller group could not win a fight, and Da Huang replied that his big brother would protect them if the sky fell.

The seal holding five powerful outsiders in the forbidden grounds began to break, plunging the True Realm into panic. The outsiders emerged and threatened the Nine Great Races, while the chapter ended with them scoffing at the claim that Chen Changan could defeat them.

• Dark clouds covered the sky and the True Realm shook as the Nine Great Races realized the seal was failing ahead of schedule.
• The experts in the forbidden grounds argued over how to reinforce the seal, then admitted they could only hope Chen Changan would turn the tide.
• The seal shattered, releasing five terrifying outsiders whose auras overwhelmed people across the True Realm.
• The five outsiders condemned their fellow outsiders for betraying the Realm Lord, while the Nine Great Races mocked the traitors.
• An outsider taunted the five by saying Chen Changan would kill them, and they laughed at the idea that one Human Race junior could defeat them.

Chen Changan emerged from seclusion at the peak of the Grand Ancestor Realm as five experts from beyond the realms prepared to attack the remaining defenders. He sent the others away and charged the five, but his Time Stop failed, leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• An expert from beyond the realms slaughtered the remaining foreign-race experts and dismissed the defenders’ questions about the invasion.
• The five experts from beyond the realms sensed Chen Changan breaking through and paused their attack.
• Chen Changan emerged from seclusion, and Mu Yunyao urged everyone to evacuate before the fighting began.
• Chen Changan told the experts from the Eight Great Races to leave and faced the five experts alone.
• Chen Changan attacked with his Red Dust Sword and used Time Stop and Space Transfer, but Time Stop failed against his opponents.

Chen Changan refused to join the five outsiders from the Burning Nether Realm and fought them to protect the True Realm. He learned they were all peak Ancient Ancestor Realm experts, but the battle remained unresolved as they criticized the True Realm's combat strength.

• One outsider tested Chen Changan with a palm strike, and Chen Changan blocked it with a sword strike.
• The five outsiders offered to spare Chen Changan and the people he cared about if he submitted to their Realm Lord, but Chen Changan refused because he would not disgrace his father's legacy.
• Chen Changan fought the outsiders at full speed, and sending a second fighter made no difference to his strength.
• All five outsiders joined the battle, and Chen Changan began to struggle against their combined attacks.
• Chen Changan asked about their cultivation, and the outsiders revealed that all five were at the peak of the Ancient Ancestor Realm.
• Chen Changan asked why they called the True Realm's combat strength hollow, but the outsiders told him to focus on the fight.

Chen Changan defeated five outsiders from the Burning Nether Realm and used Gou Sheng's Annihilation Fire to erase their bodies, temporarily saving the True Realm. As everyone celebrated, Chen Changan warned the foreign races that their relief was premature.

• Chen Changan revealed his full strength and used the Red Dust Sword to behead one outsider before overpowering the remaining four.
• Chen Changan summoned Gou Sheng, who burned the outsiders' bodies to ashes while their severed heads continued to scream.
• Chen Changan rejected the outsiders' threat that the Realm Lord would retaliate, reasoning that the Burning Nether Realm would target the True Realm whether they lived or died.
• Chen Changan returned to the others, confirmed their victory, and heard them celebrate.
• Chen Changan told the celebrating foreign races that they were celebrating too soon.

Chen Changan led the eight great races in wiping out the Alien Race and ordered the Imperial Pavilion to eliminate its hidden members. As the True Realm faced the threat of the Burning Nether Realm, he decided to go to the Outer Domain Battlefield.

• Chen Changan rejected the Alien Race Commander’s plea and ordered the eight great races to slaughter the remaining Alien Race members.
• Chen Changan learned the Imperial Pavilion had tracked the Alien Race members hiding in human form and ordered them all killed.
• Chen Changan urged the eight great races to remain united and warned that the Burning Nether Realm could still invade.
• Mu Yunyao suggested that differences in the ranks of worlds might explain why outsiders were stronger, and Chen Changan considered how the Burning Nether Realm might raise its rank.
• The others urged Chen Changan to cultivate, while Da Huang tried to take him to relax; Chen Changan instead said he needed to visit the Outer Domain Battlefield.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao traveled to the Outer Domain Battlefield, where he investigated the Alien Race’s suspicious weakness and sought to verify the power of the barrier his father had created. The True Realm’s crisis remained unresolved, and Chen Changan left his purpose for testing the barrier as his next concern.

• Su Yihuan told Su Jianli she would pursue her own path rather than marry Chen Changan, then chased her father with the blade Chen Changan had forged for her.
• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao found that the Outer Domain Battlefield had changed along with the True Realm.
• Mu Yunyao noticed the Alien Race’s army seemed too weak, and Chen Changan considered whether its strongest fighters were absent or it had hidden in another world.
• Chen Changan met Old Master Mu and Mu Zhanying, briefly recounted the True Realm’s recent crisis, and learned they had remained to defend the battlefield.
• Chen Changan said he had come to determine how powerful the barrier his father had set up was.

Chen Changan tested the barrier protecting the True Realm and found it strong enough to withstand his sword strike, prompting Old Master Mu to regret the Mu Family’s past sacrifices. Chen Changan considered leaving to learn about the Burning Nether Realm, but agreed to think it over before departing, and Old Master Mu suspected he had been tricked.

• Chen Changan struck the barrier with the Red Dust Sword, but his Sword Qi failed to affect it.
• Old Master Mu regretted sending the Mu Family and other experts to fight beyond the barrier, until Chen Changan recalled that his father had told the family to guard the area.
• Chen Changan said he wanted to leave for the Burning Nether Realm to confront the True Realm’s threat, but Old Master Mu urged him to stay and grow stronger.
• Chen Changan agreed to consider the plan and suggested that most guards return to the True Realm, leaving only a rotating watch.
• After Chen Changan left, Old Master Mu suspected he had used the idea of leaving to distract him, then decided to go after him.

Chen Changan prepared the Imperial Pavilion and the True Realm for his long retreat, appointing Chen Yunxuan as the next Young Master. Twenty years later, powerful outsiders appeared beyond the Outer Domain Battlefield barrier, and Mu Zhanying sent word that the danger Chen Changan had anticipated had arrived.

• Chen Changan told Hong Tianlong and the other elders that he would retreat in the Imperial Pavilion and urged them to prevent major conflicts in the True Realm.
• Chen Yunxuan and the others chose Chen Yunxuan to inherit the Imperial Pavilion Young Master position, and Chen Changan warned him to earn the elders' recognition.
• Chen Changan gave Chen Yunxuan a token that could summon a helper and Sharp Stone Beasts, then said he would eventually leave to confront the Burning Nether Realm and other threats.
• Chen Changan began his retreat to break through to the Ancient Ancestor Realm as the Nine Great Races sent him resources and the True Realm grew stronger.
• Twenty years later, Mu Zhanying spotted dozens of powerful experts attacking the Outer Domain Battlefield barrier and sent word to the True Realm.

Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao prepared to leave the True Realm for the Outer Domain, leaving their loved ones and the Imperial Pavilion behind. Da Huang, Yi Tuo, and Little Earthworm caught up with them and insisted on joining their journey.

• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao arrived at the Imperial Pavilion, astonishing its residents with their peak Ancient Ancestor Realm cultivation.
• Chen Changan released the Murong Sisters, Xue Kui, Luo Shui, Meng Xiaoxiao, and the others from his Small World and left them at the Imperial Pavilion.
• Hong Tianlong and the others gave Chen Changan True Essence Stones for his journey, and he departed with Mu Yunyao without telling Da Huang and the others.
• Da Huang, Yi Tuo, and Little Earthworm appeared at the Outer Domain Battlefield entrance, explaining that their clans had helped them reach the Ancient Ancestor Realm so they could follow Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan warned the three about the dangers outside the True Realm, then agreed to take them along and arranged companions for Da Huang and Little Earthworm.

Chen Changan defeated the Burning Nether Realm experts attacking the barrier and learned their realm’s location and why it was conquering other worlds. He explained that worlds had nine levels, then began discussing how world levels affected the power of World Lord-level experts.

• Mu Zhanying told Chen Changan that Burning Nether Realm experts had been attacking the barrier for over a month without breaking it.
• Chen Changan confronted the attackers, killed five with one sword strike, and stopped the rest from fleeing.
• Chen Changan searched one captive’s soul, learned the route to the Burning Nether Realm, and killed the remaining experts.
• Chen Changan let Da Huang loot the bodies and told Mu Zhanying and Mu Yunyao that he had learned why the Burning Nether Realm occupied other worlds.
• Chen Changan explained that the True Realm was a ninth-grade world and the Burning Nether Realm was a seventh-grade world, then began to clarify how world levels related to World Lord strength.

Chen Changan and his companions learned more about the ranks of World Lords and set out for the Burning Nether Realm, while its World Lord prepared to join the Realm Lord Battle. As Chen Changan drew near, the Burning Nether Realm’s World Lord remained unaware of who was coming.

• Chen Changan explained that World Lord strength varied by world grade, and Mu Zhanying wondered where Chen Changan’s long-absent parents had gone.
• Chen Changan left Mu Zhanying to return to the True Realm and rode on Yi Tuo while Da Huang and the others took turns leading the way.
• The Burning Nether Realm’s World Lord learned that dozens of his experts had died, suspected the killer was not from the True Realm, and decided not to send more people there himself.
• The Burning Nether Realm’s World Lord prepared for the Realm Lord Battle, hoping victory would raise his world’s grade and help him break through.
• After traveling for more than ten years, Chen Changan and his companions neared the Burning Nether Realm, and he urged his three mounts to go faster.