Recaps

Mu Yunyao struggled to teach Chen Changan to cultivate, then left to seek treasures and advice about his inability to cultivate. While she was gone, Chen Changan entered the Forbidden Forest for food, got lost, and encountered a colossal demon beast.

• After Chen Changan’s pills made him need to poop, Mu Yunyao accidentally kicked him into the distance, then kicked him into a river to wash himself.
• Mu Yunyao tried many ways to help Chen Changan cultivate, but his body remained unable to cultivate despite memorizing techniques and learning her moves.
• Mu Yunyao gave Chen Changan Qi Nourishing Pills and left to look for heavenly treasures and someone who could help him cultivate, warning him to avoid the Forbidden Forest.
• Bored and hungry, Chen Changan entered the Forbidden Forest, ate fruit, and wandered deeper until he lost his way.
• Chen Changan encountered a colossal demon beast, which spotted him and opened its enormous mouth.

Chen Changan was rescued from Da Huang by Mu Yunyao after the Qilin swallowed him, and the two returned to her home. After falling asleep, Chen Changan woke beside Da Huang with memories of over three hundred years, while Da Huang insisted they had been together all along and urged him to visit his hometown.

• Chen Changan talked inside Da Huang's stomach for three days until Mu Yunyao arrived and ordered the Qilin to spit him out.
• Mu Yunyao beat Da Huang after Chen Changan claimed the Qilin had disrespected her, then took Chen Changan back with her.
• Da Huang welcomed Chen Changan to visit again, and Chen Changan said Da Huang seemed familiar to him, puzzling both Da Huang and Mu Yunyao.
• After Chen Changan washed and slept, he woke beside Da Huang in unfamiliar surroundings and remembered that over three hundred years had passed.
• Da Huang explained that Chen Changan wanted to return to his hometown while Mu Yunyao was in seclusion, and Chen Changan agreed to go.

Chen Changan returned to find the Chen Family had vanished centuries earlier, then resumed his life beside Mu Yunyao and Da Huang. When he met Yao Niming in the Forbidden Forest, a strange lapse made him confuse the present with an old memory.

• Chen Changan learned that the Chen Family had disappeared after a disaster more than two hundred years earlier and gave up searching for them.
• Chen Changan continued living with Mu Yunyao, while his days began to feel as though he had experienced them before.
• Chen Changan persuaded Da Huang to leave the Forbidden Forest with him, despite Da Huang's fear of Mu Yunyao's punishment.
• Chen Changan saw Yao Niming surrounded by demonic beasts, recognized his name without knowing why, and suffered a severe headache.
• Chen Changan suddenly found himself facing a kneeling young man and asked where Yao Niming was, while Da Huang reminded him that Yao Niming had plundered treasures from the forest long ago.

Chen Changan wondered why unfamiliar memories and familiar feelings kept appearing, and Da Huang suggested he might be seeing fragments of the future. After joking that Da Huang would marry a stray dog, Chen Changan was knocked into a pool, where he encountered Changsun Xixue and realized his memories might have jumped again.

• Chen Changan told Da Huang that Yao Niming and Lu Qingyun seemed familiar, and that he had inexplicably urged Lu Qingyun to establish the Qingyun Sect.
• Da Huang suggested Chen Changan might have a limited ability to foresee the future, and Chen Changan eagerly accepted the idea.
• Chen Changan joked that Da Huang would marry a stray dog and have mongrel puppies, so Da Huang chased him and sent him flying into a pool.
• Chen Changan surfaced and found Changsun Xixue standing before him, then wondered whether his memories had jumped forward again.

After Changsun Xixue attacked him, Chen Changan fled with Da Huang and began to realize that his memories were failing. A mysterious man's voice called him to wake up, and Da Huang carried him back to his master for help.

• Changsun Xixue struck Chen Changan and threatened to hunt him down, so he escaped on Da Huang.
• Chen Changan wondered why his memories felt wrong and heard an unfamiliar man's voice calling his name inside his mind.
• Chen Changan told Da Huang that he could remember only the past few hundred years and had forgotten how he met Da Huang and became his master's disciple.
• The mysterious voice called for Chen Changan to wake up again, and Da Huang carried him toward his master to investigate his condition.

Chen Changan nearly lost his past in the Purification River, but recovered his memories and escaped the river’s illusion. He discovered that surviving the ordeal had greatly strengthened his soul, then turned his attention back to finding the thing they sought.

• In the Purification River, Chen Changan relived a memory of Mu Yunyao telling him to leave and struggled to remember who he was.
• Chen Changan recalled his past across several realms and realized that Mu Yunyao and the scene were only memories.
• The memory world shattered, and Chen Changan woke as Old Jin explained that the river had been stripping away his memories.
• Chen Changan drew the drifting memory fragments back into his mind and restored what he had lost.
• Old Jin pointed out that Chen Changan’s soul had grown several times stronger, and Chen Changan agreed they should quickly find the thing they sought.

Chen Changan found the Soul Locking Bell in the Purification River and returned unharmed, jokingly making Da Huang believe he had lost his memory. After traveling for several years to Nine Heavens Mountain, Chen Changan and his companions found the supposedly deadly mountain crowded with people.

• Chen Changan recovered the Soul Locking Bell and several memory fragments from the Purification River.
• Chen Changan pretended not to recognize Da Huang, frightened him with the Red Dust Sword, and revealed the joke before anyone was hurt.
• Mu Yunyao reassured Ren Xuan that Chen Changan was unlikely to be in danger at Nine Heavens Mountain, while Da Huang boasted about his big brother.
• Chen Changan and his companions traveled for several years to Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Chen Changan and Ren Xuan were surprised to find the mountain crowded with people despite its reputation for danger.

Chen Changan and his companions learned that a rumor about Nian Junxin’s treasures had drawn a crowd to Nine Heavens Mountain, whose summit was said to grant any wish. They suspected the rumor was part of a scheme, but they could not tell what Nian Junxin intended.

• Chen Changan asked Old Jin why he had once tried to reach Nine Heavens Mountain’s summit, and Old Jin explained the legend that the summit granted one wish.
• Ren Xuan reported that a recent rumor claimed Nian Junxin had left resources and treasures throughout the mountain, attracting many people to its safer lower levels.
• Chen Changan noted that the rumor began while they were traveling to the Purification River and questioned why it had been spread.
• Mu Yunyao suggested Nian Junxin might be using the mountain to identify people with ulterior motives and reveal how they would respond if Chen Changan reached the summit.
• Da Huang questioned why Nian Junxin would let suspected rivals switch allegiance to Chen Changan instead of killing them.

Chen Changan investigated the possible purpose behind Nian Junxin keeping her enemies nearby, then set out alone for the Nine Heavens Mountain. He reached the fifth mountain and discovered its hundredfold gravity, while Old Jin warned him that the danger had only begun.

• Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao speculated that Nian Junxin might be keeping people around for a sacrifice, but they could not confirm her plan.
• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao and the others to wait while he went to the Nine Heavens Mountain alone.
• Chen Changan flew past the lower mountains and reached the top of the fourth, where World God Realm cultivators questioned his strength and mocked his arrival.
• Chen Changan ignored the cultivators and stepped onto the fifth mountain despite their warnings.
• Chen Changan felt the fifth mountain's hundredfold gravity and dismissed it as harmless, while Old Jin warned him he would soon suffer.

Chen Changan reached the summit of the Five Heavens Mountain without trouble and encountered five peak World God Realm cultivators who tried to seize his supposed treasures. After he identified himself, they recognized the danger of threatening him but then questioned whether he was truly Chen Changan.

• Chen Changan climbed the Five Heavens Mountain through its hundredfold gravity, while Old Jin wondered why he encountered none of the barriers and formations Old Jin remembered.
• Chen Changan reached the summit and found five peak World God Realm cultivators, who assumed he possessed a supreme treasure and demanded that he hand it over.
• Chen Changan calmly told the five that his name was Chen Changan, and Patriarch Tong realized he was the famed figure who had destroyed the Phoenix Cloud Branch Pavilion.
• Patriarch Tong and the others immediately denied wanting Chen Changan's things, but one of the five argued that they should not trust his claim without proof.
• Chen Changan asked whether anyone would dare pretend to be him, and Patriarch Tong agreed before suggesting someone might take a desperate gamble.

Chen Changan intimidated Patriarch Tong and the other World God experts, spared them, and continued up the Nine Heavens Mountain. On the Sixth Heavens Mountain, Old Jin warned him that the mountain was filled with powerful vicious beasts.

• Patriarch Tong and four other experts dismissed Chen Changan's identity and tried to stop him from heading onward.
• Chen Changan drew the Red Dust Sword and overwhelmed the five with his pressure, prompting them to apologize and answer his questions about treasures.
• Chen Changan learned the group had found no resources, let them go with a warning, and continued toward the Sixth Heavens Mountain.
• Chen Changan stepped onto the Sixth Heavens Mountain, where the gravity rose to a thousandfold, and Old Jin warned him that vicious beasts could ambush him.

Chen Changan climbed Six Heavens Mountain and Seven Heavens Mountain with ease, enduring attacks and extreme gravity as he headed toward Eight Heavens Mountain. He entered its hundred-thousandfold gravity and found even himself struggling to bear it.

• A ferocious beast ambushed Chen Changan on Six Heavens Mountain, but its attack left him unharmed and he let it go.
• Chen Changan explained to Old Jin that the beasts stopped attacking because they knew they could not hurt him and he had not harmed them.
• Chen Changan reached the empty summit of Six Heavens Mountain while searching for resources, treasures, and the Ten Great Treasures.
• Chen Changan climbed Seven Heavens Mountain, where ten thousand times normal gravity only slowed him down.
• Chen Changan entered Eight Heavens Mountain and struggled under its hundred-thousandfold gravity.

Chen Changan climbed the Eight Heavens Mountain despite its hundred-thousand-fold gravity and encountered Shenwei, the Floating Cloud Divine Clan's Young Patriarch, transformed into a puppet. Shenwei attacked with peak World King God Realm strength, and Chen Changan fought him while adapting to the mountain's gravity.

• Chen Changan climbed the Eight Heavens Mountain under its hundred-thousand-fold gravity, astonishing Old Jin with his strength.
• Chen Changan spotted a figure ahead, and Old Jin identified him as Shenwei, the Floating Cloud Divine Clan's Young Patriarch.
• Chen Changan discovered that Shenwei had no consciousness or soul and appeared to have been turned into a puppet.
• Shenwei attacked Chen Changan with the power of someone at the peak of the World King God Realm.
• Chen Changan charged into a fight with Shenwei, and Old Jin saw him adapt to the mountain's gravity as they battled.

Chen Changan fought Shenwei on Nine Heavens Mountain’s eighth peak and searched for a way past the mindless World King God Peak guardian. After the Floating Cloud Cauldron failed to stir Shenwei, Chen Changan tried one last provocation by telling him his father was dead.

• Chen Changan adapted to the hundred-thousandfold gravity and fought Shenwei, whose attacks began to take a toll on him.
• Patriarch Tong and the others sensed the battle from the fifth mountain and wondered whether even the Venerable One might be wary of Chen Changan.
• Chen Changan realized Shenwei only attacked within a certain range, but could not find a way to get past his speed and control of space.
• Chen Changan wondered whether Shenwei’s mind had been sealed rather than destroyed, then tried to reach him by speaking about the Floating Cloud Divine Clan and showing him the Floating Cloud Cauldron.
• When Shenwei remained unmoved, Chen Changan told him, “your father... is dead!”

Chen Changan provoked Shenwei with insults about his father until Shenwei’s sealed consciousness returned. Shenwei thanked Chen Changan for saving him, and Chen Changan then asked Old Jin whether he could come out.

• Chen Changan and Old Jin recounted Shenwei’s father’s death, stirring Shenwei’s emotions and bringing a spark back to his eyes.
• Chen Changan hurled increasingly vile insults at Shenwei’s father, and Shenwei’s anger grew as his consciousness began to awaken.
• Chen Changan approached Shenwei and called him a bastard, prompting Shenwei to recover his consciousness and charge at him.
• Chen Changan claimed he had been treating Shenwei, then argued that Shenwei should repay his kindness; Shenwei calmed down, apologized, and bowed to him.
• Chen Changan told Old Jin that he had claimed Shenwu won the patriarch’s seat by selling his ass, then asked Old Jin if he could come out.

Chen Changan questioned Shenwei about his past on Nine Heavens Mountain and suspected that an unseen being there had sealed Shenwei’s mind and raised his cultivation. Shenwei agreed to wait while Chen Changan continued toward the summit to uncover the mountain’s secret.

• Old Jin projected an avatar, and Shenwei recognized him as King Jinyu, the former clan leader of the Golden Winged Feather Clan.
• Shenwei explained that he had come to Nine Heavens Mountain to cultivate, but after the Fierce Creature appeared, his mind was sealed and he later awoke at World King God Peak.
• Chen Changan suspected that someone on Nine Heavens Mountain had sealed Shenwei to protect him and might be connected to the Fierce Creature.
• Shenwei said he had encountered no one else on the mountain, leading Chen Changan and Old Jin to consider whether Nian Junxin might have reached the summit by another means.
• Shenwei planned to search for his father and revive the Floating Cloud Divine Clan, while Chen Changan warned that his strength could draw attention in the Nine Profound Domain.
• Chen Changan asked Shenwei to wait on the mountain while he continued to the summit to uncover its secret.

Chen Changan reached the summit of the Eighth Mountain and encountered three mysterious Human Race figures who blocked his path to the Ninth Mountain. Their overwhelming pressure left Old Jin alarmed, while Chen Changan insisted on pressing onward.

• Chen Changan adapted to the hundred-thousandfold gravity and reached the Eighth Mountain’s summit, where three people were waiting.
• Old Jin said he did not recognize the three and doubted that such powerful figures could have emerged as the Nine Profound Domain declined.
• The three silently blocked Chen Changan when he tried to pass them, and an invisible barrier stopped his full-power punch.
• One figure praised Chen Changan’s talent, while another said he did not measure up.
• Chen Changan declared that he would reach the Ninth Mountain, and the three blocked him as their terrifying pressure engulfed it.

Chen Changan reached the Eighth Mountain’s summit but was repelled by three powerful men who said he was not yet qualified to go farther. Before leaving, he learned they were the Heavenly Feng Three Elders, while his search for the treasure and the truth about Nian Junxin remained unresolved.

• Terrifying pressure spread across Nine Heavens Mountain, and Mu Yunyao, Da Huang, Ren Xuan, and Little Phoenix discussed Chen Changan’s safety below.
• Chen Changan resisted the three men’s pressure with his Extreme Dao Sword Intent and advanced toward them.
• One of the men blasted Chen Changan away and told him to return after he grew stronger.
• Chen Changan learned that Nian Junxin had never come to Nine Heavens Mountain and realized he had assumed she was at its summit.
• Chen Changan accepted that he could not pass the three men, asked their identities, and learned they were the Heavenly Feng Three Elders.

Chen Changan reached the summit of the Eighth Mountain but could not overcome the Heaven-Feng Three Elders, who terrified Old Jin. After Shenwei left to search for his father, Chen Changan continued down the Nine Heavens Mountain to seek the Ten Great Treasures and spotted what looked like a fight over treasure.

• Chen Changan encountered the Heaven-Feng Three Elders on the Eighth Mountain's summit, and Old Jin revealed that they had sensed his remnant soul and frightened him.
• Chen Changan returned to Shenwei and explained that powerful elders guarded the mountain's upper reaches.
• Shenwei gave Chen Changan a jade token and left to search for his father's remnant soul after Chen Changan warned him about Nian Junxin.
• Chen Changan continued down the mountain while searching for the Ten Great Treasures, then told Patriarch Tong and the others that he had reached the Eighth Mountain's summit.
• Chen Changan spotted what appeared to be people fighting over treasure below.

Chen Changan arrived on First Mountain and took the Wheel of Life and Death, one of the Ten Great Treasures. After Patriarch Tong and the others accepted his claim and offered to follow him, the crowd realized he was the famed Chen Changan who had destroyed the Phoenix Cloud Branch Pavilion.

• A man found a treasure on First Mountain, and the Yun Yuan Xiu Family member who took it surrendered it to a member of the Nan Li Kui Clan.
• Chen Changan descended and drew the Wheel of Life and Death from the Kui Clan member’s hand.
• The crowd hesitated to challenge Chen Changan because they had seen him enter Fifth Mountain.
• People urged Patriarch Tong and the other seniors to seize the treasure, but Patriarch Tong scolded them for trying to drive a wedge between them.
• Patriarch Tong and the others declared that the treasure belonged to Chen Changan and asked to serve him.
• The crowd questioned whether Chen Changan was the man who destroyed the Phoenix Cloud Branch Pavilion, and Patriarch Tong confirmed that he was.

Patriarch Tong and the other four experts praised Chen Changan’s strength and portrayed him as the Nine Profound Domain’s champion against Junxin Pavilion. Their speeches stirred the crowd into admiration and fighting spirit, while Chen Changan privately enjoyed their flattery.

• Patriarch Tong told the crowd that Chen Changan had reached the summit of Nine Heavens Mountain’s Eighth Mountain and claimed he could rival a peak World King God expert.
• The crowd grew awed by Chen Changan, who silently approved of Patriarch Tong’s praise.
• One of the five experts argued that Junxin Pavilion had oppressed the Nine Profound Domain and urged everyone to follow Chen Changan.
• The other experts praised Chen Changan’s supposed selfless mission, and their words fired up the crowd.
• Chen Changan told Old Jin that the experts were so skilled at deception because they had fooled themselves first.

Chen Changan rallied the crowd against Junxin Pavilion, then persuaded them to keep their support secret and return home while he prepared for a final battle. After they left, Old Jin challenged the sincerity of his speech, and Chen Changan admitted he was even more shameless than he appeared.

• Patriarch Tong and the others rallied the crowd behind Chen Changan, who declared that he opposed Nian Junxin's oppression and would face Junxin Pavilion alone.
• The crowd begged to join Chen Changan, and he accepted their support while telling them to hide what had happened and avoid a premature battle.
• Chen Changan revealed that the rumor about treasures in the Nine Heavens Mountain had been spread to lure people into opposing him, and the crowd blamed Nian Junxin.
• Chen Changan sent everyone home to cultivate and wait for his signal, then Old Jin mocked his persuasive speech.
• Chen Changan told Old Jin that he was even more shameless deep down.

After failing to reach the summit of Nine Heavens Mountain, Chen Changan reconsidered the hidden links between the Heaven Organization and Nian Junxin. He decided to focus on growing stronger and asked Ren Xuan to find a suitable cultivation ground.

• Chen Changan told Ren Xuan and Mu Yunyao that he had failed to reach Nine Heavens Mountain's summit, though he had confirmed a treasure was there and found the Young Patriarch of the Floating Cloud Divine Clan.
• Mu Yunyao reminded Chen Changan about the Heaven Organization, and he realized its methods and secrecy might connect it to Nian Junxin and Junxin Pavilion.
• Ren Xuan proposed that the Heaven Organization recruited talent from beyond Nine Profound Domain while Junxin Pavilion recruited within it, but Chen Changan remained uncertain about Bao Dating's concealed information.
• Chen Changan said they needed to improve their strength and admitted his cultivation required far more resources than he had.
• Chen Changan asked Ren Xuan to recommend a cultivation ground capable of meeting his needs, and Ren Xuan began considering the options.

Chen Changan learned that the fifth and final Ten Great Treasure was in the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races, where his children might already be headed. After hearing about the many races living there, he uncovered Ren Xuan’s less noble reason for wanting to visit.

• Bao Dating’s subordinate told Chen Changan that the other five Ten Great Treasures had been found, possibly by Chen Tian, Jian Dan, Chen Jie, and Chen Ling, and that the final treasure was in the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races.
• Chen Changan asked Bao Dating’s subordinate to investigate whether any members of the Ten Great Races had survived as remnant souls.
• Ren Xuan explained that Nian Junxin had gathered the races that submitted to his rule in the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races, where they reportedly lived in peace.
• Chen Changan threatened Ren Xuan with his sword until Ren Xuan admitted he wanted to see the scantily dressed races there.
• Da Huang hurried off in the wrong direction as Ren Xuan called after him.

Chen Changan and his companions neared the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races after Mu Yunyao spent three years lecturing Ren Xuan and Da Huang about behaving themselves. They arrived at a seemingly bottomless underground chasm, and Chen Changan wondered if it was the abyss.

• Da Huang and Ren Xuan joked about their excitement for the journey, prompting Mu Yunyao to scold them and remind Chen Changan of his past relationships.
• Mu Yunyao warned Ren Xuan and Da Huang to behave respectfully at the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races, then lectured them throughout the three-year journey.
• Ren Xuan claimed he had learned his lesson, while Da Huang offered to break its own leg to prove its sincerity; Little Phoenix nervously asked to make a statement too.
• Mu Yunyao suggested splitting into two groups, and Chen Changan nearly agreed before realizing she was testing him and had not actually proposed it.
• Ren Xuan confirmed they were close to the destination, and the group reached a seemingly bottomless underground chasm that Chen Changan identified as possibly being the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races.