Recaps

Chen Changan fought the Fourth Island Lord to test his strength and endured its increasingly powerful attacks without moving. The Fourth Island Lord called his body a freak of nature and warned that defense alone was not enough, so Chen Changan prepared to take his turn.

• The Fourth Island Lord forced Chen Changan to choose between fighting twenty Star Sea Giant Beasts and fighting it, and Chen Changan chose the island lord.
• Chen Changan faced the Fourth Island Lord's intimidating aura and challenged it to attack without holding back.
• The Fourth Island Lord punched Chen Changan, but Chen Changan stood unmoved, astonishing the island's Star Sea Giant Beasts.
• The Fourth Island Lord intensified its attacks and focused their full force on Chen Changan, but he continued to endure them without reacting.
• The Fourth Island Lord grew bored and told Chen Changan that his exceptional defense would not let him live freely without matching strength.
• Chen Changan said it was his turn to attack.

Chen Changan demonstrated his newly created Star Burst technique to the Fourth Island Master, whose apparent lack of injury concealed three devastating explosions inside his body. The Fourth Island Master acknowledged Chen Changan had passed the test and sent him away.

• Chen Changan gathered the Power of Stars and explained that he had created a new move while tempering his body.
• The Fourth Island Master warned that the move might rely too heavily on the abundant Power of Stars in the Star Sea Ruins.
• Chen Changan struck the Fourth Island Master with Star Burst, and the onlookers mistook the apparently harmless punch for a weak attack.
• The Fourth Island Master endured three increasingly powerful explosions inside his body and praised the move's deceptive lethality.
• The Fourth Island Master declared that Chen Changan had passed the test and ordered him to leave, while Chen Changan insulted him on the way out.

Chen Changan reached the Final Island and learned that its trial required him to choose the real Gate of Fortune from three identical doors. After five days of hesitation and Hongchen’s unusual insistence that he choose the first door, Chen Changan suspected the island’s silence and Hongchen’s behavior concealed something.

• Chen Changan and Hongchen discussed why the island masters seemed pleased when he passed the trials, then traveled to the Final Island.
• The Fifth Island Master led Chen Changan to a Gate of Fortune and explained that the Final Island’s trial was to choose the real door among three, with only one attempt.
• Chen Changan inspected all three identical doors but found no way to distinguish them.
• After five days, Hongchen urged Chen Changan to choose the first door and suggested the Fifth Island Master had brought them there to test his resolve.
• Chen Changan noticed Hongchen’s unusual impatience and the Final Island’s silence, then questioned why he had to choose at all.

Chen Changan rejected the three Gates of Fortune, discovered they were all fake, and passed the Final Island’s trial by exposing the Fifth Island Master’s deception. He learned that the Fifth Island Master had once guided another entrant to the real Gate of Fortune, and demanded compensation and information about its dangers.

• Chen Changan smashed all three Gates of Fortune and realized they were fake, which cleared Hongchen’s restless impatience.
• The Fifth Island Master appeared and confirmed that Chen Changan had passed the final trial by choosing through elimination.
• Chen Changan asked how a previous entrant had chosen, and the Fifth Island Master revealed that the man had watched the gates for years before crying.
• The Fifth Island Master admitted that he had taken the crying entrant to the real Gate of Fortune, even though the man later died young.
• Chen Changan accused the Fifth Island Master of cheating and demanded compensation in the form of an explanation of the Gate of Fortune’s dangers.

Chen Changan forced the Fifth Island Master to explain that the Gate of Fortune’s dangers depended on the choices made inside, then watched the five Island Masters open it. He prepared to approach the Gate, which still required his recognition before he could enter.

• Chen Changan made Hongchen wail until the Fifth Island Master gave in and agreed to explain the Gate of Fortune.
• The Fifth Island Master told Chen Changan that the Gate’s danger depended on what a person chose to do inside, but refused to reveal what a dead visitor had chosen.
• The five Island Masters formed hand seals and sent beams of light from their islands, opening the Gate of Fortune in the sky.
• The Fifth Island Master told Chen Changan that he had to earn the Gate of Fortune’s recognition to enter, and Chen Changan boasted that he would succeed.

Chen Changan forced his way through the Gate of Fortune by cursing and threatening it, then entered a desolate world where flight was forbidden and his teleportation barely worked. He left Hongchen dragging him across the wasteland on a reclining chair while he insisted the ordeal was for her own good.

• Chen Changan approached the Gate of Fortune, whose pressure grew with his strength, then made it withdraw by threatening to leave and cursing at it.
• The Gate of Fortune opened, and Chen Changan swaggered inside while the five Island Masters watched and then fell asleep, hoping he could bring them their release.
• Chen Changan found a barren world with three celestial bodies and dense Power of Stars, along with an unfamiliar energy he thought was above Source Power.
• Chen Changan and Hongchen discovered they could not fly, and his teleportation moved him only a tiny distance.
• Chen Changan settled onto a reclining chair and made Hongchen drag him across the wasteland, claiming the task would strengthen her while she angrily called out his laziness.

Chen Changan and Hongchen crossed the desert toward the Gate of Fortune, trading turns pulling each other while wondering why they had to walk. After more than half a year, they spotted a huge pit directly ahead.

• Hongchen refused to keep pulling Chen Changan, so he took over until she relented and took the rope back.
• Chen Changan and Hongchen spent more than half a year walking and resting as they crossed the desert.
• Chen Changan said the desert had sealed away his abilities and left him unable to fly or find a faster way out.
• Hongchen suggested the desert might be a test and wondered if the Gate of Fortune expected Chen Changan to do something in return for repairing the Jade Bottle of Fortune.
• Hongchen pointed out a real pit ahead, and Chen Changan finally looked up and saw it.

Chen Changan and Hongchen entered the City of Creation through a bottomless pit, where guards escorted him through the astonishing city toward the City Lord's Mansion. There, Chen Changan recognized the man who came to meet him as a Star Sea Giant Beast he called Third Brother.

• Chen Changan and Hongchen jumped into the expanding pit and emerged before the City of Creation.
• Chen Changan explored the city, marveled at its buildings, and learned from the guard captain about its self-moving trash cans and Lazy Man's Joy puppets.
• The guard captain explained that flying was forbidden in the City of Creation, then hurried away after Chen Changan suspected they had met before.
• Chen Changan entered the City Lord's Mansion and recognized the approaching man as Third Brother, a Star Sea Giant Beast.

Chen Changan discovered that the Star Sea Giant Beasts were controlled puppets and that the City Lord of the City of Creation was the former village chief of Forget Worry Village. He stayed to hear the City Lord’s explanation, while learning that Bao Dating still did not know the man’s true identity.

• Chen Changan recognized the Third Island Master and deduced that people on the five islands controlled the Star Sea Giant Beasts and used trials to select candidates.
• The Third Island Master took Chen Changan to meet the City Lord, but Chen Changan insisted he only wanted to repair the Jade Bottle of Fortune and then leave.
• Chen Changan recognized the City Lord as the former village chief of Forget Worry Village and tried to walk out.
• The City Lord persuaded Chen Changan to stay by promising to tell him the truth, and the island masters seated and fussed over him.
• Chen Changan questioned the truth of the stories about earlier visitors and the Jade Bottle of Fortune, then revealed that he had overheard the City Lord speaking after leaving the village.
• The City Lord confirmed that Bao Dating did not know his identity, and Chen Changan criticized him for deceiving his adopted son.

The city lord revealed that he had engineered Chen Changan’s path to the Gate of Fortune because he needed an outsider to free the Creation Saint Clan from Dragon Locking Star’s restrictions. Chen Changan learned the Creation Realm had fallen and pressed the city lord about why the clan could not simply leave, but the city lord said doing so came at a price.

• The city lord admitted he had spread rumors about the Gate of Fortune, arranged Bao Dating’s role and the Jade Bottle of Fortune, and chosen Chen Changan as a promising candidate.
• The city lord said he had watched Chen Changan for a long time and that Wuyou Auction House had also been keeping an eye on him, while Chen Changan’s parents remained a mystery.
• The city lord revealed that he and the others belonged to the Creation Saint Clan, which had fled the Creation Realm after it fell with the last remnants of that realm.
• The city lord explained that their city occupied a fragment of the Creation Realm and that Dragon Locking Star imposed the restrictions keeping the clan from freedom.
• Chen Changan asked why the clan could not leave for the True Realm, and the city lord replied that leaving required a price.

Chen Changan learned that the City Lord wanted him to destroy Dragon Locking Star and restore the City of Creation’s broken rules, but the task was dangerous enough to kill their previous recruit. He refused until the City Lord argued that Chen Changan’s ability to survive made him their best chance.

• The City Lord offered Chen Changan the Jade Bottle of Fortune, two comparable treasures, and the Power of Creation if he helped the Creation Saint Clan.
• The City Lord explained that Dragon Locking Star trapped the clan in the City of Creation, prevented their growth, and caused the world’s rules to malfunction.
• Chen Changan learned the City Lord lost a year of lifespan for every day spent outside and that the clan had prepared treasures to fly to and destroy Dragon Locking Star.
• Chen Changan realized the mission was likely a suicide trap after the City Lord admitted their previous recruit died from Dragon Locking Star’s pressure, and he refused to help.
• The City Lord insisted Dragon Locking Star was weaker against outsiders and said Chen Changan’s reputation for being hard to kill made him the ideal candidate.

Chen Changan considered the City of Creation's request that he destroy the Dragon Locking Star and inspected the preparations they had made. He remained undecided as the city lord revealed a powerful bomb as their ultimate weapon.

• Chen Changan questioned the city lord's motives, and the city lord explained that he and the island lords wanted to return to the Creation Realm.
• Chen Changan asked to inspect their preparations before deciding whether to help, and the city lord agreed.
• The city lord showed Chen Changan a flying machine that used spring mechanisms to reach the vicinity of the Dragon Locking Star without energy.
• Chen Changan tried on the cumbersome Ultimate Armor, which Hongchen said she could not damage.
• The city lord introduced a bomb as the weapon meant to destroy the Dragon Locking Star.

Chen Changan learned that the City of Creation planned to use him to detonate a weapon against Dragon Locking Star, but he questioned how he would survive and return. While the City Lord’s people worked on a solution, Chen Changan toured the city with the five island lords and began collecting its inventions.

• The City Lord explained that Chen Changan would need to detonate the weapon from inside with the Power of Stars, and Chen Changan pointed out that the blast and the return journey could kill him.
• The City Lord promised to investigate how to ensure Chen Changan’s safety and said the weapon would be ready in at most half a month.
• Chen Changan told Hongchen that he would try the mission but withdraw if it became too dangerous, since his main goal was the Jade Bottle of Fortune.
• The five island lords took Chen Changan around the City of Creation, where he claimed one invention after another and demanded instructions and materials to make them.
• The five island lords tried to redirect Chen Changan toward a meal, but he insisted on seeing the more interesting attraction they had mentioned.

Chen Changan saw the City of Creation’s landing device, a giant lid fitted to the Ultimate Armor, and prepared to risk leaving Dragon Locking Star. The city lord revealed that the Creation Realm had been destroyed by a starfall, leaving Chen Changan eager to learn what that meant.

• Chen Changan questioned the five island lords about the desert, and they explained that it had been meant to test whether hardship could help him overcome Dragon Locking Star’s suppression.
• The city lord emerged from the secret chamber with a giant lid added to the Ultimate Armor, claiming it would slow Chen Changan’s fall and help him land safely.
• Chen Changan criticized the device’s appearance, but agreed to prepare for the attempt to leave Dragon Locking Star.
• Chen Changan asked the city lord how Dragon Locking Star had appeared after the Creation Realm’s destruction.
• The city lord said the Creation Realm had been destroyed because of a starfall.

The City Lord explained how the Creation Realm’s reckless exploration of ten powerful stars destroyed much of their realm and brought them to the present world. Chen Changan agreed to fly toward the Dragon Locking Star, leaving the City Lord and the five island lords anxiously hoping he would survive.

• The City Lord told Chen Changan that the Creation Realm had studied countless stars, but its attempt to explore ten exceptionally powerful stars caused catastrophic destruction and forced the survivors to flee.
• The City Lord explained that their arrival had triggered the star explosion that formed the Star Sea Ruins, which they then shaped to protect the Gate of Fortune and serve as a trial ground.
• Chen Changan asked where the Creation Realm existed, and the City Lord said it had not previously existed beyond the domain but could not explain more.
• Chen Changan agreed to help destroy the Dragon Locking Star, warning that he would retreat if the mission threatened his life.
• Chen Changan reluctantly put on armor, boarded the aircraft, and launched toward the Dragon Locking Star as the City Lord and the five island lords watched anxiously.

Chen Changan destroyed Dragon Locking Star, survived the resulting shockwave, and absorbed its energy. He returned to City of Creation just as its people were preparing a funeral banquet for him.

• Chen Changan launched Great Bun at Dragon Locking Star, then rushed out of the aircraft as the weapon struck.
• The explosion shattered Chen Changan's armor and sent him falling toward City of Creation, whose city lord had activated its protective barrier.
• Chen Changan used a rare treasure to absorb and convert the explosion's energy, then charged back toward Dragon Locking Star and absorbed more energy until he was saturated.
• The people of City of Creation saw Dragon Locking Star disappear and began preparing a memorial and banquet, assuming Chen Changan had died.
• Chen Changan suddenly appeared alive, mocked the city for its treatment of him, and attacked Old Deng.

Chen Changan confronted the City Lord and the five Island Masters after discovering they had prepared a memorial tablet for him. After absorbing Dragon Locking Star's energy, he used it to restrain the City Lord and beat him while demanding an explanation.

• Chen Changan punched the City Lord, cracking the City Lord's Mansion gates when the City Lord dodged.
• The five Island Masters blamed the Third Island Master for arranging Chen Changan's memorial tablet, and he in turn blamed the City Lord.
• Chen Changan attacked the City Lord again, and his repeated punches grew stronger until one sent the City Lord flying.
• Chen Changan used Dragon Locking Star's energy to restrain the City Lord, then continued beating him over the memorial tablet and the attempt to trick him.

Chen Changan learned about the three Treasures of Creation and discovered that all of them required the Power of Creation to work at their full potential. The City Lord led him to the tiny remnant of the Creation Pool, where Chen Changan began trying to sense the power he needed.

• The Third Island Master destroyed the memorial tablet, and Chen Changan asked the City Lord to honor their agreement.
• The City Lord explained the Jade Plate of Creation’s cultivation boost and the Spirit of Creation’s temporary hundredfold increase to the Power of Creation.
• Chen Changan realized the Jade Bottle of Fortune had no seal and could not reach its full function without the Power of Creation, then demanded to know how to obtain it.
• The City Lord said obtaining the Power of Creation depended on fortune and took Chen Changan to the Creation Pool.
• Chen Changan found that the Creation Pool was a tiny puddle, but the City Lord explained that he had to sense and absorb its Power of Creation to transform his energy.

While Chen Changan continued absorbing the Power of Creation, Mu Yunyao prepared the True Realm to defend itself in his absence and welcomed Gu Minglou and Wen Yuan back. The chapter ended as two men from the Heaven Organization appeared near the True Realm, intending to recruit Chen Changan or destroy him.

• The City Lord and five Island Lords waited for Chen Changan to finish absorbing the Power of Creation, while the Island Lords criticized the City Lord for tricking him.
• Chen Changan vanished from the True Realm, and Mu Yunyao concluded he had passed the Second Island's trial and urged everyone to cultivate and protect the realm.
• Mu Yunyao distributed Star Stones, then welcomed the returning Gu Minglou and Wen Yuan and invited them to join the next Realm Lord Battle.
• Gu Minglou told Mu Yunyao that Yue Zhirou had left the True Realm to overcome her inner demons and had sent her gratitude to Mu Yunyao and Chen Changan.
• Two young men appeared near the True Realm and said they would recruit Chen Changan into the Heaven Organization if he proved worthy, or destroy him if he did not.

Two members of the Heaven Organization arrived in the True Realm seeking Chen Changan, but Mu Yunyao told them he had gone to the Star Sea Ruins to seek the Gate of Fortune. Unable to find him, they tried to recruit Mu Yunyao and threatened to kill her if she refused.

• The Heaven Organization's two members arrived at the Emperor's Pavilion and asked where Chen Changan was.
• Mu Yunyao told them Chen Changan had gone to the Star Sea Ruins to seek the Gate of Fortune.
• The two men were shocked that Chen Changan had gone to such a dangerous place and considered searching for him.
• The Heaven Organization members revealed that Mu Yunyao was on their recruitment list and asked her to join.
• Mu Yunyao asked what would happen if she refused, and one man threatened to destroy her body and soul.

Mu Yunyao learned that the Heaven Organization’s two members intended to kill Lin Gengsheng and his companions despite their promise to protect the True Realm. She refused to let the organization divide them and prepared for a fight to the death.

• Mu Yunyao sensed that six powerful newcomers had arrived in the True Realm, and the Heaven Organization’s members identified them as Extreme Intent World Lords.
• Lin Gengsheng and his five companions arrived, explained that they were Chen Changan’s friends, and vowed to protect the True Realm.
• The Heaven Organization’s members revealed their identity and mocked Lin Gengsheng and the others for daring to oppose them.
• Lin Gengsheng and his companions reaffirmed their promise, while Mu Yunyao urged them not to get involved and considered joining the Heaven Organization to protect the True Realm.
• The Heaven Organization’s members said Mu Yunyao’s membership would not save her companions and declared that they would die.
• Mu Yunyao realized the Heaven Organization was not a place Chen Changan would join, then said they had no choice but to fight to the death.

Mu Yunyao refused to join the Heaven Organization if it meant abandoning Lin Gengsheng and his five companions, and the Imperial Pavilion joined the fight. As Mu Yunyao battled an extreme intent world lord realm opponent, she rejected his offer and challenged his contempt for those he called ants.

• Mu Yunyao chose to stand with Lin Gengsheng and his five companions rather than join the Heaven Organization, and Lin Gengsheng tried to persuade her to leave them behind.
• Da Huang and the Imperial Pavilion members came forward as the two Heaven Organization members unleashed their auras, while Lin Gengsheng and his companions prepared to hold them off.
• Mu Yunyao charged one of the two opponents, and Da Huang, Yi Tuo, and Little Earthworm surrounded them and planned to launch sneak attacks without interfering with her fight or the six companions' battle.
• Mu Yunyao fought fiercely but was outmatched by the extreme intent world lord realm member, who urged her to join the Heaven Organization and dismissed her allies as ants.
• Mu Yunyao rejected the offer, saying everyone had once been an ant and that the Heaven Organization member was also an ant in someone else's eyes, prompting him to threaten her.

Mu Yunyao and Chen Changan’s companions faced two Heaven Organization powerhouses, and Da Huang’s group tried to buy her time while awaiting Chen Changan’s return. Just as their enemy prepared to kill them, Chen Changan appeared and told Da Huang to open his own brothel.

• Da Huang, Yi Tuo, Little Earthworm, and Chen Yunxuan rushed to protect Mu Yunyao from a Heaven Organization powerhouse.
• Da Huang joked about his final wishes and told Mu Yunyao to find Chen Changan, while she refused to abandon the True Realm.
• Da Huang taunted the powerhouse and claimed Chen Changan would return, but the enemy mocked the idea and prepared to attack.
• Lin Gengsheng and five others struggled against another Heaven Organization powerhouse as the first enemy moved to kill Mu Yunyao and her companions.
• Da Huang called out to Chen Changan as the group braced for death, and Chen Changan suddenly arrived.

Chen Changan returned to the True Realm just in time to save Lin Gengsheng and the others from the Heaven Organization. He killed both Extreme Intent World Lord Realm experts with ease and said he would explain his return from the second trial later.

• Chen Changan arrived as the Heaven Organization's two experts threatened Lin Gengsheng and the others, then drove them back.
• Chen Changan thanked Lin Gengsheng and the others for defending the True Realm and turned to face the remaining enemies.
• Chen Changan killed one expert with a single punch, sent his soul to Gou Sheng, and destroyed the other expert as well.
• Da Huang and the others marveled at Chen Changan's strength, and Chen Changan urged the Emperor Pavilion to grow stronger.
• Mu Yunyao asked why Chen Changan had returned so soon, and he said the second trial was over and he would explain later.

After defeating the Heaven Organization's threat, Chen Changan received Sources of World Veins from Lin Gengsheng and the others and explained the Jade Bottle of Fortune's resource-doubling power. He planned to strengthen the True Realm and prepare for the Second-grade War Domain's Realm Lord Battle, while the Jade Plate of Creation dramatically accelerated cultivation throughout the Emperor's Pavilion.

• Chen Changan told Lin Gengsheng and the others that the Gate of Fortune had vanished and that its powerful inhabitants had returned to their original home.
• Lin Gengsheng and five others gave Chen Changan nearly a hundred Sources of World Veins to help raise his True Realm's grade, then left to manage their worlds.
• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao that the Jade Bottle of Fortune could double any number of Sources of World Veins every three months, but he still needed a better way to replenish his Power of Creation.
• Chen Changan said he planned to enter the Second-grade War Domain's Realm Lord Battle to help the True Realm produce more Great World Lords.
• Chen Changan activated the Jade Plate of Creation, causing cultivation throughout the Emperor's Pavilion to accelerate by as much as a thousandfold.