Recaps

Chen Changan decided to take Shu Xin to Feiyun City to rescue members of the Perfect Race despite Ren Xuan's warnings about the danger. After half a month of travel, they reached the city, where Ren Xuan explained how its large population generated profit and resources for Huangfu Long.

• Ren Xuan warned Chen Changan that the Feiyun City auction would attract powerful people and that rescuing the Perfect Race members could bring trouble.
• Shu Xin apologized for asking Chen Changan to help, but he explained that taking the risk would prove he could be trusted by the Perfect Race.
• Chen Changan told Shu Xin to hide her forehead mark and joked with Ren Xuan about his habit of betrayal.
• Chen Changan carried Shu Xin as the three traveled for half a month to Feiyun City.
• Ren Xuan explained that Huangfu Long built up Feiyun City to increase profits and resources, and Chen Changan guessed that cultivation resources came from scheming, swindling, and robbing.

Ren Xuan gathered information in Feiyun City and approached Lord Tian with a false claim that Chen Changan planned to rescue the Perfect Race before their auction. Lord Tian believed him and prepared to act, but questioned how Chen Changan could know where the captives were held.

• Ren Xuan reported that nearly a hundred Transcendence Realm World Kings had gathered in Feiyun City for the Perfect Race auction, making a rescue during the event dangerous.
• Chen Changan proposed rescuing the captives before the auction, but he and Ren Xuan lacked information about where they were being held.
• Ren Xuan went to Junxin Pavilion's Lord Tian and claimed Chen Changan was plotting to seize the Perfect Race members ahead of the auction.
• Lord Tian believed Ren Xuan and celebrated the chance to capture Chen Changan and win the Venerable One's favor.
• Lord Tian questioned how Chen Changan could know the captives' location.

Ren Xuan led Lord Tian to the Perfect Race members’ hiding place by mixing one lie among mostly true information, while Chen Changan used the deception to reach the barrier. After Lord Tian’s men removed it, Chen Changan launched his attack, leaving Lord Tian furious and vowing to kill him.

• Ren Xuan told Lord Tian that Chen Changan could track the Perfect Race members and urged him to ambush Chen Changan at their hiding place.
• Lord Tian verified that Chen Changan and his companions had left their lodging, then led his men to the hiding place with Ren Xuan.
• Ren Xuan left Lord Tian’s residence freely, while Lord Tian found no sign of Chen Changan at the hiding place.
• Chen Changan appeared and revealed that Ren Xuan’s only lie was his claim that Chen Changan could locate the hiding place; Lord Tian realized he had been led there.
• Chen Changan slipped through the barrier, prompting Lord Tian’s men to remove it, and then attacked as the Perfect Race members gained a way out.
• Lord Tian realized Chen Changan had tricked him into removing the barrier and threatened to kill him.

Chen Changan killed Lord Tian and his men, then rescued hundreds of Perfect Race members from Feiyun City and took them to a remote place. As he asked Ren Xuan about reaching the Perfect Land, the rescued captives began questioning who Chen Changan and his companions really were.

• Chen Changan killed Lord Tian's men inside a barrier that concealed their battle, then defeated Lord Tian.
• Chen Changan entered the holding area and told the Perfect Race captives he had come to rescue them, but they suspected he wanted to exploit them.
• Chen Changan took the hundreds of captives out of Feiyun City with Space Law and met Ren Xuan and Shu Xin at their agreed location.
• Ren Xuan's excited remark about making a fortune angered Chen Changan, who told him to keep quiet.
• Chen Changan brought everyone to a remote place and learned from Ren Xuan that reaching the Perfect Land would take at least a year and a half.
• The Perfect Race members questioned Chen Changan and his companions about their identities and plans.

Chen Changan rescued members of the Perfect Race, but they accused Shu Xin of betrayal and doubted his intentions until he silenced them with a scolding. He began crafting a flying vehicle to take the group toward the Perfect Land, but the commotion attracted a crowd that spotted them.

• Shu Xin revealed she was a member of the Perfect Race and explained that Chen Changan had saved them and wanted an alliance, but the captives accused her of betraying their people.
• Chen Changan rebuked the Perfect Race members and threatened to send them back, forcing them to quiet down.
• Chen Changan decided to craft a flying vehicle and told Ren Xuan to watch over the group while he worked.
• After three days of crafting, lightning and thunder gathered over Chen Changan, and Ren Xuan worried the disturbance would attract others.
• Several newcomers arrived, saw Ren Xuan and the members of the Perfect Race, and celebrated their apparent good fortune.

Ren Xuan bluffed that he and Chen Changan belonged to Junxin Pavilion, scaring off people who coveted the Perfect Race and collecting apology gifts. Shu Xin pointed out that the story did not add up, and the group returned after realizing they had been fooled.

• Ren Xuan claimed that he was a Junxin Pavilion member and that Chen Changan was an esteemed weapon refiner, persuading the crowd to leave the Perfect Race alone.
• The crowd apologized to Ren Xuan and gave him resources before hurrying away.
• Shu Xin warned Ren Xuan that the group might know about the Perfect Race auction in Feiyun City, making his story suspicious.
• After leaving, the group realized Junxin Pavilion would not hold two such auctions in the same territory so close together and decided Ren Xuan had impersonated a member.
• The group returned, and Ren Xuan groaned inwardly as they confronted him with unfriendly looks.

Ren Xuan stalled the returning World Kings while Chen Changan finished refining a flying craft that drew powerful heavenly lightning. After surviving the lightning unharmed, Chen Changan confronted the World Kings over their plans to seize the Perfect Race members and his creation, then demanded compensation for sparing them.

• Ren Xuan pretended he could recommend the World Kings to Junxin Pavilion while secretly buying Chen Changan time to finish his work.
• The World Kings recognized the dense thunderclouds as a sign that Chen Changan was creating a World King level divine weapon and discussed taking it for themselves.
• Heavenly lightning struck Chen Changan repeatedly, but he remained unharmed and used the bolts to complete the flying craft's final tempering.
• Chen Changan put away the strange flying craft and confronted the World Kings, who claimed they had stayed to protect him.
• Chen Changan accused the World Kings of wanting to seize the Perfect Race members and his creation, and they admitted their intentions and begged for mercy.
• Chen Changan spared the World Kings but demanded that they show sincerity.

Chen Changan took Shu Xin and the Perfect Race toward Perfect Land, where Nian Junxin’s barrier and Slave Seals held the clan captive. After examining Shu Xin’s seal, he said he might be able to break it, but warned that Nian Junxin could sense the attempt and make their situation worse.

• Chen Changan dismissed Ren Xuan’s complaints about the resources he had received and set off with the group for Perfect Land aboard his fast ship.
• Shu Xin warned Chen Changan that a barrier around Perfect Land prevented anyone from entering or leaving except Junxin Pavilion members, and Chen Changan said barriers could not stop him.
• The Perfect Race members suspected Chen Changan had ulterior motives when he stared at Shu Xin, but he explained that he was examining the Slave Seal on her forehead.
• Chen Changan examined Shu Xin’s Slave Seal and determined that it was a powerful seal placed by Nian Junxin.
• Chen Changan said he might be able to break the Slave Seal, but warned that Nian Junxin might sense it and worsen the Perfect Race’s situation.

Chen Chang'an removed Shu Xin's slave seal and waited to see whether Nian Junxin would react before freeing the rest of the Perfect Clan. After Ren Xuan broke through, the group reached the Perfect Land, where Shu Xin worried about facing her clan leader and Chen Chang'an found their barrier in the way.

• Chen Chang'an warned Shu Xin that Nian Junxin might retaliate if the Perfect Clan's slave seals were removed, then decided to test his method on Shu Xin.
• After three days, Chen Chang'an removed Shu Xin's seal, restoring her World Lord Realm cultivation, but told the other clan members to wait while he watched for Nian Junxin's response.
• Ren Xuan announced he was about to break through, and Chen Chang'an told him to go ahead.
• Ren Xuan completed his breakthrough, and the group arrived at the Perfect Land without encountering any trouble on the way.
• Shu Xin felt ashamed and anxious about returning to her clan, but Chen Chang'an reassured her and said they should meet the clan leader.
• Chen Chang'an noticed that the barrier would be a problem.

Chen Changan opened a brief gap in Nian Junxin’s barrier, allowing Ren Xuan and the Perfect Race members to return to Perfect Land. Shu Xin tried to convince her people that Chen Changan could remove their Slave Seals and wanted an alliance, but Mo Ran and the others remained wary.

• Chen Changan used the Red Dust Sword to carve a temporary opening in the barrier, and Ren Xuan led the Perfect Race members through before it closed.
• Shu Xin and the others were overcome with emotion at returning to Perfect Land, while Chen Changan asked them to take him to their clan leader to discuss an alliance.
• Ren Xuan called Perfect Land a paradise, prompting Shu Xin and the others to remind him that it was a prison for them.
• Perfect Race members blocked the group’s path and questioned why Shu Xin and the others had returned with Chen Changan and Ren Xuan.
• Mo Ran recognized Shu Xin, then grew furious when she saw that Shu Xin’s Slave Seal was gone and suspected she had joined Junxin Pavilion.
• Shu Xin explained that Young Master Chen had removed her Slave Seal and urged Mo Ran to seize the chance to change the Perfect Race’s circumstances.

Shu Xin persuaded the Perfect Race members to let Chen Changan speak with their imprisoned patriarch, hoping he could help them oppose Nian Junxin. Chen Changan reached the patriarch beneath the lake and proposed an alliance, but their conversation was interrupted by the recurring torture she endured.

• Shu Xin convinced the Perfect Race members to let Chen Changan meet the patriarch, and they escorted him to the lake where she was imprisoned.
• Chen Changan ignored the lake's seal and barrier and descended to the formation holding the patriarch.
• The Perfect Race patriarch recognized that Chen Changan was not one of Nian Junxin's people, and he proposed an alliance with the Perfect Race.
• The patriarch suffered an episode of intense bodily and spiritual torture, then told Chen Changan that it happened every time an incense stick burned down.

Chen Changan questioned the Perfect Race's clan leader about Nian Junxin and tried to persuade her to cooperate in exchange for a chance at freedom. The clan leader remained suspicious, believing Chen Changan might be one of Nian Junxin's people, and demanded to know how he had reached her.

• The Perfect Race's clan leader said Nian Junxin had once been her closest friend, but changed for unknown reasons and grew more deranged after killing her husband, Junzi Nian.
• Chen Changan learned that Junzi Nian's soul remained sealed away and that the clan leader could not risk escaping because Nian Junxin might notice.
• Chen Changan offered to help the Perfect Race regain its freedom if they helped him grow stronger, but the clan leader said her people had lost all their resources and could offer him nothing.
• The clan leader began trembling as her torment returned, and Chen Changan pressed her to consider the abuse her people had endured.
• The clan leader accused Chen Changan of being connected to Nian Junxin and demanded to know how he had reached her.
• Chen Changan denied being Nian Junxin's agent and said he had made it there through his own ability.

Chen Changan persuaded the Perfect Race's leader to ally with him and learned about the race's hidden source of power, the Child-Bearing Tree's true energy essence. He freed her from the formation that caused her pain but left her confined, planning to return after investigating the essence's hidden space.

• Chen Changan told the Perfect Race's leader that he could help her race rise again and said he had rescued more than a hundred of its members.
• The leader agreed to gamble on working with Chen Changan and revealed the Child-Bearing Tree's secret: a drop of true energy essence formed in its central space once every hundred thousand years.
• Chen Changan reassured the leader that the tree's ordinary juice would not affect humans, then said he could enter the hidden space if she showed him its location.
• Chen Changan freed the leader's real body from the formation, leaving a puppet in her place, and explained that he could not yet take her away.
• The leader mistook Chen Changan's practical kindness for romantic affection, while he asked her to reveal the entrance to the hidden space.

Chen Changan collected the Perfect Race’s energy essence and returned to the lakeside after twenty years, where he and Ren Xuan planned to draw Junxin Pavilion’s attention away from the Perfect Race. He left the Perfect Land with Ren Xuan to attack nearby Junxin Pavilion branches, despite not knowing how strong they were.

• Chen Changan entered the Child-Bearing Tree’s inner space and took all the stored energy essence to strengthen himself.
• After twenty years, Chen Changan emerged from the lake, and Ren Xuan teased him about having children with the Perfect Race’s leader.
• Chen Changan explained that the Perfect Race had to remain hidden to avoid alerting Junxin Pavilion or Nian Junxin.
• Ren Xuan suggested keeping Junxin Pavilion occupied by attacking it, and Chen Changan agreed despite warnings about powerful Great World Kings.
• Chen Changan left the Perfect Land with Ren Xuan and asked him to lead the way to a nearby Junxin Pavilion branch.

Chen Changan arrived at Clear Wind Branch Pavilion during its tribute ceremony and openly challenged Junxin Pavilion’s rule. After attacking the pavilion members and killing a tribute-paying force’s representative, he declared that he had brought a funeral gift and condemned the gathered forces for submitting to Junxin Pavilion.

• Chen Changan arrived at Clear Wind Valley during the hundred-year tribute ceremony, while Ren Xuan hurried away from him.
• Chen Changan identified himself as being from the Eastern Extreme Domain, and pavilion members recognized his name and rushed to respond.
• Chen Changan swept several pavilion members aside, then killed a newly promoted Transcendence Realm man with one punch.
• Chen Changan told the crowd that he had come to bring Junxin Pavilion a funeral and ordered those unaffiliated with it to leave.
• The Branch Pavilion Master and tribute-paying forces mocked Chen Changan, and Chen Changan rebuked them for accepting Junxin Pavilion’s exploitation.

Chen Changan destroyed the Clear Wind Branch Pavilion in Clear Wind Valley and left its Pavilion Master alive to identify him and Ren Xuan. Ren Xuan protested being named as Chen Changan’s good brother, then received some of the resources they had seized as compensation.

• Chen Changan unleashed his Sword Intent and slaughtered the Clear Wind Branch Pavilion’s fighters while Gou Sheng eagerly devoured their souls.
• Chen Changan fought the Clear Wind Branch Pavilion Master, and their clash erased Clear Wind Valley.
• Ren Xuan returned after the battle and urged Chen Changan to leave a survivor; Chen Changan spared the gravely wounded Pavilion Master.
• Chen Changan told the Pavilion Master that Ren Xuan had pleaded for his life, causing the Pavilion Master to memorize Ren Xuan’s name.
• Ren Xuan complained that Chen Changan had exposed him and ruined his reputation, so Chen Changan gave him some of their acquired resources.

After destroying three Junxin Pavilion branch halls, Chen Changan faced rumors blaming him for another attack and considered seeking the Three Hegemons of the Southern Wilderness as allies. Ren Xuan revealed that the Hegemons shared a master, and Chen Changan questioned how Ren Xuan knew such a secret.

• News of Chen Changan's attacks spread through the Nine Profound Domain, while Chen Tian and Jian Dan decided not to interfere with his plans and focused on training.
• Months later, rumors accused Chen Changan of destroying another Junxin Pavilion branch hall, though Ren Xuan knew he had not done it.
• Chen Changan suspected someone might be acting on their side and asked Ren Xuan whether the Three Hegemons of the Southern Wilderness resented Nian Junxin.
• Ren Xuan explained that the Hegemons had submitted to Junxin Pavilion under pressure, secretly shared a lineage, and could lead Chen Changan to their powerful master.
• Chen Changan challenged Ren Xuan to explain how he knew the secret, since Ren Xuan had previously been only at the Great World Lord Realm.

Chen Changan and Ren Xuan traveled to the Yu Family, one of the Southern Wilderness Three Hegemons, as Chen Changan went to confront them directly. The Yu Family Young Master recognized Chen Changan as the man who had supposedly taken down eight Junxin Pavilion branch pavilions, leaving Chen Changan surprised by the inflated number.

• Ren Xuan told Chen Changan that the Yu Family was the closest of the Three Hegemons and that they could reach its stronghold in three to five days.
• Chen Changan arrived at the Yu Family stronghold with Ren Xuan, then went inside alone while Ren Xuan hid.
• The Yu Family Patriarch and Young Master argued over Junxin Pavilion's demands and agreed they had to endure rather than risk giving the pavilion an excuse to destroy them.
• The Yu Family Patriarch agreed to meet an unnamed visitor who claimed he might be afraid to hear the visitor's name.
• Chen Changan introduced himself, and the Yu Family Young Master excitedly praised him for supposedly taking down eight Junxin Pavilion branch pavilions.

Chen Changan visited the Yu Family to seek their support against Junxin Pavilion, but the Yu Family Patriarch initially tried to send him away. The Yu Family Old Ancestor agreed to hear him out and said the family might ally with him if he proved worthy.

• The Yu Family Young Master welcomed Chen Changan enthusiastically, while the Yu Family Patriarch questioned why he had come.
• Chen Changan challenged the Yu Family to stop tolerating Junxin Pavilion's oppression, but the Patriarch ordered him to leave.
• The Young Master argued that Chen Changan offered the Yu Family an opportunity, and the Patriarch scolded him for speaking recklessly.
• The Yu Family Old Ancestor emerged from seclusion, questioned Chen Changan's reasons for seeking an alliance, and warned that choosing his side could destroy the family.
• Chen Changan said the Old Ancestor's intervention showed he was open to negotiation, and the Old Ancestor replied that Chen Changan first had to prove himself worthy.

Chen Changan proved his extraordinary durability to the Yu Family Old Ancestor and won the Yu Family’s support against Junxin Pavilion. The Old Ancestor revealed that he suspected Nian Junxin had killed their missing master after the master humiliated her, prompting Chen Changan to ask whether he had spanked her.

• Chen Changan challenged the Yu Family Old Ancestor, who created an independent space for their fight.
• The Old Ancestor attacked Chen Changan with full force but could not injure his body, and he wondered whether even Nian Junxin could harm him.
• The Yu Family Old Ancestor agreed that the Yu Family would support Chen Changan if he promised not to exploit Nanmang’s families like Junxin Pavilion did.
• Chen Changan asked about the Old Ancestor’s master, and the Old Ancestor said the three disciples had searched for him without success.
• The Old Ancestor suspected Nian Junxin had killed their master after he humiliated her, and Chen Changan asked if the master had spanked her.

Chen Changan revealed to the Yu Family Old Ancestor that his missing master was Chen Changan’s father, leading the Yu Family to ally with Chen Changan. After Chen Changan left with the Yu Family Young Master, the Old Ancestor told the Yu Family Patriarch that only Chen Changan had a chance to bring down Junxin Pavilion and ordered him to root out traitors.

• Chen Changan told the Yu Family Old Ancestor that Mei Yaozu was alive in the Forbidden Zone of the World and that his master was still alive, then revealed that the master was his father.
• The Yu Family Old Ancestor accepted Chen Changan as his junior brother and declared that the Yu Family would stand with him as allies through life and death.
• The Old Ancestor told the Yu Family Patriarch and Young Master to call Chen Changan Ancestor, then offered to accompany him to the Ou Family and the You Family.
• Chen Changan declined the Old Ancestor’s offer because his presence could alert Junxin Pavilion, and left with the Yu Family Young Master.
• The Old Ancestor told the Yu Family Patriarch that he could neither defeat Chen Changan nor be defeated by him, called Chen Changan their best hope against Junxin Pavilion, and ordered an investigation for divided loyalties.

Chen Changan, Ren Xuan, and Yu Xiaotang traveled toward the Ou Family after Chen suspected Junxin Pavilion’s Nanmang Branch Pavilion had infiltrated it. They arrived amid a coordinated challenge to the Ou Family Head, while Chen kept his identity concealed.

• Yu Xiaotang admired Ren Xuan for joining Chen Changan in destroying a Junxin Pavilion branch, and the two exchanged praise until Chen told them to lead the way.
• As they entered Ou Family territory, Chen and Ren sensed an abnormal atmosphere that Yu Xiaotang had failed to notice.
• Chen explained that the Nanmang Branch Pavilion was likely infiltrating the three families to gain control of their resources, and Yu Xiaotang revealed that it had demanded half of what remained after taking half already.
• Chen suspected the Ou Family had been infiltrated more deeply, told Yu Xiaotang not to reveal his name or identity, and urged him to lead the way.
• Inside the Ou Family, several clansmen called for the Family Head to be replaced, and the Family Head recognized their challenge as a coordinated move.

The Ou Family Head and his son faced a faction pushing to replace him with Ou Changzhi, while the Family Head accused the Nanmang Branch Pavilion of manipulating the Ou family. As the dispute threatened to turn into a fight, Chen Changan and two companions arrived outside to investigate.

• The Young Family Head argued with Ou family members who blamed his father and demanded a new Family Head.
• The Ou Family Head accused the dissenters of serving the Nanmang Branch Pavilion, and they proposed Ou Changzhi as his replacement.
• Ou Changzhi claimed he was acting for the family as supporters on both sides gathered.
• The Young Family Head nearly revealed something about the Old Ancestor, then said the Old Ancestor had demanded unity.
• The quarrel grew more heated, and Chen Changan and two companions arrived outside the Ou family to see what was happening.

Yu Xiaotang backed the Ou Family Head against Ou Changzhi’s attempt to take over the family, while Chen Changan questioned how the Ou Family had been infiltrated. The Ou Family Head admitted he had noticed the threat, and Chen Changan argued that disloyal members had to be killed.

• Yu Xiaotang arrived at the Ou Family with Chen Changan, but Ren Xuan had disappeared to keep watch.
• The Ou Family Young Master told Yu Xiaotang that people were challenging his father’s right to remain Family Head.
• Yu Xiaotang insulted Ou Changzhi and declared that the Yu Family supported the Ou Family Head’s continued leadership.
• Yu Xiaotang’s intervention stalled Ou Changzhi’s faction, and the Ou Family Head worried that Yu Xiaotang had led his son astray.
• Chen Changan asked how the Ou Family had been infiltrated so deeply, and the Ou Family Head said he had noticed but could not intervene.
• Chen Changan told the Ou Family Head that disloyal members had to be killed.

Chen Changan urged Ou Changzhi to deal decisively with the Ou Family traitors, then helped him defeat Ou Changye’s faction. Ou Changye revealed that the Ou Family Old Ancestor secretly resented Junxin Pavilion, leaving Ou Changzhi’s victory shadowed by a deeper conflict.

• Chen Changan argued that Ou Changzhi had to protect the loyal members of the Ou Family by eliminating its traitors.
• Ou Changye and the other rebels challenged Chen Changan, but Yu Xiaotang called him his ancestor and explained that he belonged to the Yu Family’s ancestral generation.
• Ou Changzhi decided to kill the rebels, and Ou Changye led them into battle against him.
• Chen Changan joined the fight and quickly defeated the rebels, leaving Ou Changye as the only survivor.
• Ou Changye claimed that the Ou Family Old Ancestor secretly held a grudge against Junxin Pavilion and would kill Ou Changzhi for joining it.