Recaps

Chen Changan and his companions learned that the stone gate had brought them to the Dual Moon Realm, home of the Three Moon Tribes, and that periodic surges of Moonlight Power caused trouble there. With no clear explanation for the gate or any obvious way home, Chen Changan proposed searching for the realm’s secrets or for another connection back to Tianfeng.

• The Moonlight Clan leader explained that moon alignments made the clan stronger but drove them toward violence, and warned Chen Changan about the more bloodthirsty Eclipse Tribe and Dark Moon Tribe.
• Chen Changan learned that the Three Moon Tribes lived in the Dual Moon Realm and that powerful surges of Moonlight Power occurred every ten thousand years, though the Moonlight Clan knew nothing about the stone gate.
• Chen Changan told Lü Fengxiao and the others what he had learned, and they realized they were stranded without knowing whether their mission was complete or how to return.
• Chen Changan said they needed to prioritize finding a way back and suggested either uncovering the realm’s secrets or searching for a connection between the two realms.

Chen Changan and the others returned safely from the Dual Moon Realm after learning the secret behind the stone gate, then waited on Tianyun Mountain for their mission rewards. Half a year later, they were still waiting, and Chen Changan pointed out the obvious reason: the journey was long.

• Chen Changan and the others agreed to return rather than press deeper into the dangerous place.
• Chen Changan used the Lord of Tianyun Mountain's aura to guide the group to the hidden passage and back through the stone gate.
• The group returned to Tianyun Mountain, where the Lord of Tianyun Mountain was surprised they had survived and heard their findings about the stone gate and the Moonlight Clan.
• The Lord of Tianyun Mountain said he would report the information and left the group to rest while their rewards were decided.
• After half a year without news, Chen Changan told the others that the delay was because the road was long.

Lord of Tianyun Mountain returned to Tianyun Mountain with five members of the Zhang Family, who rewarded the mission team but kept Chen Changan behind. They ordered him to lead them into the Dual Moon Realm immediately, leaving his teammates to continue to the Sacred Capital.

• Chen Changan reassured Lü Fengxiao and the others that Lord of Tianyun Mountain would need time to return from the Sacred Capital.
• Lord of Tianyun Mountain returned to Tianyun Mountain with five members of the Zhang Family, whose status rivaled royalty throughout Heavenly Feng.
• The Zhang Family summoned Chen Changan and his teammates, praised their discovery beyond the stone gate, and gave nine of them a token to travel to the Sacred Capital.
• The Zhang Family told Chen Changan he could not leave yet, and Lü Fengxiao and the others departed without him.
• The Zhang Family revealed that they wanted Chen Changan to lead them into the Dual Moon Realm and ordered the group to leave immediately.

Chen Changan learned that the Zhang Family had discovered the passage to the Dual Moon Realm and sealed it behind the stone gate. The Zhang Family prepared to take him there, but their true motives remained unclear.

• Chen Changan questioned the Zhang Family about how they could enter the stone gate outside its loosening period, and they asked him to keep their secret.
• The Lord of Tianyun Mountain left, and the Zhang Family raised a barrier to prevent their conversation from being overheard.
• The Zhang Family revealed that they had discovered the passage between worlds and built the stone gate to seal it.
• The Zhang Family explained that they sent people into the Dual Moon Realm to learn about it and control energy surges that might threaten Tianfeng.
• Chen Changan doubted the Zhang Family's explanation and asked what they planned to do on their next trip.

Chen Changan returned to the Dual Moon Realm with the Zhang Family and learned that they had sent Carefree Realm cultivators to die despite having a direct way to enter. There, a Moonlight Clan member recognized the Zhang Family’s aura and said they had slaughtered his people in the past.

• The Zhang Family opened the stone door and brought Chen Changan into the Dual Moon Realm, where he suspected they had ulterior motives for sacrificing Carefree Realm cultivators.
• A Zhang Family member explained that the moons overlapped once a year, making the Three Moon Tribes enter a frenzy, and said the Zhang Family no longer wanted to pay the price of dealing with it themselves.
• Chen Changan met a Moonlight Clan member he had encountered before, who asked why he had returned with the Zhang Family.
• The Moonlight Clan member told Chen Changan that the Zhang Family’s aura resembled that of people who had once beaten and slaughtered his tribe.
• The Zhang Family claimed they had only defended themselves during the tribes’ frenzy and asked Chen Changan to apologize, while he doubted their account.

Chen Changan persuaded the Moonlight Clan to let the Zhang Family search Dual Moon Realm without a fight, though he distrusted their claims and wondered what they were really seeking. The Zhang Family then brought him to the Eclipse Tribe’s territory, revealing they already knew the route to their destination.

• The Zhang Family told Chen Changan they had come to find something they had lost in Dual Moon Realm, and the Moonlight Clan refused to let them proceed.
• Chen Changan urged the Moonlight Clan to avoid a costly battle and warned that the Eclipse Tribe and Dark Moon Tribe posed further threats.
• The Moonlight Clan withdrew after warning Chen Changan not to betray their trust and cautioning him about the Zhang Family.
• The Zhang Family praised Chen Changan for preventing a clash and continued onward with him, while he questioned their motives and suspected they were far stronger than he was.
• The Zhang Family stopped at the Eclipse Tribe’s territory and asked Chen Changan to negotiate passage, revealing they knew where they needed to go.

Chen Changan persuaded the Eclipse Tribe leader to consider a plan that would let the tribe monitor the Zhang Family and attack them after they found what they sought. He explained that he wanted the five Zhang Family members dead so he could survive and reach Zhang Junhao.

• Chen Changan suspected the Zhang Family had pursued the Dual Moon Realm in secret because Zhang Junhao had restrained them from massacring its races.
• Chen Changan entered Eclipse Tribe territory and asked its leader to hear him out instead of attacking.
• Chen Changan revealed that five stronger Zhang Family members were following him to search the realm.
• Chen Changan proposed that Eclipse Tribe members accompany the Zhang Family under the pretense of clearing the way while secretly watching them.
• Chen Changan urged the Eclipse Tribe leader to rally the Moonlight Clan and Dark Moon Tribe and strike once the Zhang Family found what they wanted.
• The Eclipse Tribe leader questioned why Chen Changan would help kill people from his own world, and Chen Changan said he wanted to make it back alive.

Chen Changan negotiated safe passage through Eclipse Tribe territory and learned that the Zhang Family was searching for something in the Dual Moon Realm. When the group reached the Dark Moon Tribe, he discovered their destination was Moon God Mountain, the realm’s sacred ground, and urged the Eclipse Tribe members to leave for reinforcements while he handled what came next.

• Chen Changan learned that the Eclipse Tribe leader did not know what the Zhang Family was seeking.
• Chen Changan told the Zhang Family that the Eclipse Tribe would let them pass if some of its people accompanied them, and the Zhang Family accepted the arrangement after criticizing him for deciding without permission.
• The Eclipse Tribe members traveled with Chen Changan and the Zhang Family through their territory without being attacked.
• Chen Changan asked the Zhang Family whether the lost item had been taken far into the Dual Moon Realm, and they warned him not to ask about matters he should not know.
• After the group negotiated with the Dark Moon Tribe, the Eclipse Tribe members realized the Zhang Family was heading to Moon God Mountain and refused to let outsiders enter the sacred ground.
• Chen Changan urged the Eclipse Tribe members to leave for reinforcements and asked them to trust him while he stayed behind.

Chen Changan followed the five Zhang Family members to Moon God Mountain, where they went ahead without him to retrieve something and planned to use him as a disposable distraction. Concealing his aura with the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal, Chen Changan pursued them, and the chapter left him wondering what they were doing near the summit’s sealed sphere.

• Chen Changan persuaded the Eclipse Tribe members to leave, and he continued toward Moon God Mountain with the Zhang Family members.
• The Zhang Family members reached Moon God Mountain first and told Chen Changan to wait behind while they entered, intending to use him to delay the Three Moon Tribes if needed.
• Chen Changan overheard the Zhang Family members discussing their plan to remove Zhang Junhao once their mission succeeded.
• Chen Changan asked the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal to conceal his aura and decided to follow the Zhang Family members, intending to take both their lives and whatever they sought.
• The Zhang Family members reached the sphere near the summit but could not penetrate its energy barrier, so they decided to annoy someone nearby.

Chen Changan entered the Moon God Spring’s barrier while the Zhang Family failed to follow, then learned from the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal why they sought the spring. The Zhang Family had secretly hoped to use its power to create someone who could replace Zhang Junhao, but the plan was going to fail.

• Chen Changan mocked the five Zhang Family members, passed through the Moonlight Power barrier, and refused their threats and promises to reveal how he entered.
• Chen Changan warned the Zhang Family that they had trespassed in the Dual Moon Realm and that the Three Moon Tribes could come after them when the two moons overlapped.
• Chen Changan entered the hollow sphere and found a pool of water at its center, which the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal identified as the Moon God Spring.
• The Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal admitted that he had helped Zhang Junhao reach the Moon God Spring and that its power had helped Zhang Junhao attain the pinnacle of power in Tianfeng.
• The Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal explained that the Zhang Family had secretly tried to use the spring to create a powerhouse who could replace Zhang Junhao, but said their plan would fail.

Chen Changan collected some Moon God Spring water and drank enough to enter cultivation, astonishing Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal and Old Jin with how quickly he absorbed its energy. Outside Moon God Mountain, the Zhang Family attacked the barrier while the Three Moon Tribes arrived and prepared to fight them, unaware of where Chen Changan had gone.

• Chen Changan stored some Moon God Spring water in his Jade Bottle of Fortune, then drank some and began cultivating to break through toward the Longevity Realm.
• Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal and Old Jin watched Chen Changan absorb the spring’s energy rapidly, but his cultivation advanced more slowly than they expected.
• The five Zhang Family members attacked the barrier around Moon God Mountain, hoping to reach the spring before the Three Moon Tribes arrived.
• The Three Moon Tribes reached the mountain, read Chen Changan’s warning, and decided to enter the sacred ground to confront the Zhang Family.
• The Moonlight Clan leader and the Eclipse Tribe leader wondered where Chen Changan was, then joined the other leaders in preparing to kill the Zhang Family members.

Chen Changan broke through into the Longevity Primordial Realm and discussed how his cultivation technique let him advance without bottlenecks. After he manipulated the Three Moon Tribes into killing the Zhang Family members, their leaders accused him of exploiting them and demanded that he stay in the Dual Moon Realm.

• Chen Changan broke through into the Longevity Primordial Realm and told Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal that he practiced the Awesome Cultivation Technique.
• Old Jin suggested that Chen Changan’s cultivation advanced by absorbing energy rather than relying on his technique, and Chen Changan considered finding better techniques for Mu Yunyao and the others.
• Chen Changan emerged to find the five Zhang Family members and the Three Moon Tribes badly wounded from battle.
• The Zhang Family members begged Chen Changan to help them, but he told the Three Moon Tribes that they threatened to return and destroy the Dual Moon Realm.
• The Three Moon Tribes’ leaders killed all five Zhang Family members, then accused Chen Changan of using them and ordered him to stay.

Chen Changan entered the sacred grounds of the Dual Moon Realm, where the Three Moon Tribes tried and failed to kill him after he broke through to the Longevity Realm. After forcing the Eclipse Tribe chief to apologize, Chen Changan agreed to share something useful before leaving.

• The Eclipse Tribe chief attacked Chen Changan, but his strikes failed to harm him.
• The Moonlight Clan and Dark Moon Tribe chiefs stopped the Eclipse Tribe chief and questioned Chen Changan about his strength and purpose.
• Chen Changan said he had been willing to negotiate, but the Eclipse Tribe chief had attacked him and made him lose face.
• The Eclipse Tribe chief apologized after the other chiefs turned against him, and Chen Changan accepted the apology.
• Chen Changan said he would share something useful with the Three Moon Tribes before leaving.

Chen Changan gave the Three Moon Tribes Moon God Spring water and urged them to strengthen themselves and protect the Dual Moon Realm. He returned to Heavenly Feng pretending to be near death, leaving Lord of Tianyun Mountain worried as he prepared to continue his act.

• Chen Changan explained that the Three Moon Tribes were vulnerable because they were weak and gave their chiefs Moon God Spring water to help strengthen their people.
• The chief of the Eclipse Tribe apologized and kowtowed to Chen Changan, who advised the chiefs to stop treating the spring as sacred ground and learn to access it themselves.
• The Three Moon Tribes escorted Chen Changan to the connecting passage, and he warned them that Heavenly Feng might soon cease to exist and advised them to destroy the passage.
• Chen Changan returned to the stone gate and pretended to faint with his aura and life force nearly gone when Lord of Tianyun Mountain questioned him about the Zhang Family.
• While Lord of Tianyun Mountain tried to keep him alive, Chen Changan chatted with the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal and Old Jin about how he faked his condition before deciding to wake up.

Chen Changan told Lord of Tianyun Mountain that the five Zhang Family experts had died fighting the Three Moon Tribes in the Dual Moon Realm, then accompanied him to the Sacred Capital. Left at an inn while Lord of Tianyun Mountain visited the Zhang Family, Chen Changan asked local residents whether any outsiders had arrived recently.

• Chen Changan claimed the five Zhang Family experts had sacrificed themselves to help him escape the Dual Moon Realm after the Three Moon Tribes attacked them.
• Lord of Tianyun Mountain took Chen Changan to the Sacred Capital, where they arrived after two months of travel.
• Lord of Tianyun Mountain left Chen Changan at an inn while he went to the Zhang Family.
• Chen Changan questioned two men at the inn about why locals stayed there and whether outsiders had recently entered the Sacred Capital.
• The two men said no outsiders had come, leaving Chen Changan surprised.

Chen Changan learned that Lü Fengxiao and the others had never reached the Sacred Capital and suspected the Zhang Family had silenced them. At the Zhang Residence, he described the events in the Dual Moon Realm and left wondering whether Zhang Junhao’s wife and Zhang Jundan were truly allied only by shared goals.

• Two residents told Chen Changan that newcomers to the Sacred Capital were registered and publicly announced, and that none had arrived for years besides him.
• Chen Changan concluded that Lü Fengxiao and the others had likely been killed to keep the Dual Moon Realm’s secrets hidden.
• Lord of Tianyun Mountain took Chen Changan to the Zhang Residence, where Family Head Zhang Jundan demanded a full account of what happened in the Dual Moon Realm.
• Chen Changan explained that he reached Moon God Mountain, saw a huge sphere at its peak, and was called up when the five seniors could not overcome its energy barrier.
• Chen Changan told the Zhang Family that the five seniors had instructed him to report back and warned them to plan carefully rather than act recklessly.

The Zhang Family kept Chen Changan under their control after his return from the Dual Moon Realm, while he pretended to accept their decision and asked about his missing companions and Zhang Junhao. Left in a courtyard, Chen Changan learned that Zhang Junhao’s whereabouts were heavily guarded and his periods of seclusion could last up to a million years.

• The Zhang Family decided to keep Chen Changan at their estate until they could break through the barrier and retrieve what lay inside.
• Zhang Jundan told Chen Changan that his companions were away gaining experience, and Chen Changan realized the Zhang Family had killed Lü Fengxiao and the others.
• Chen Changan asked to meet Zhang Junhao, but Zhang Jundan refused and told him to focus on cultivating.
• After the Zhang Family left Chen Changan in a courtyard, Chen Changan complained to the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal about staying silent in the Sacred Capital.
• The Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal explained that Zhang Junhao’s seclusion was unpredictable and heavily guarded, then suggested that Chen Changan fight his way through the Zhang Family.

Chen Changan confronted six Zhang Family members who tried to drive him out, then defeated them with the Red Dust Sword. Zhang Jundan and the Grand Elder watched and interpreted Chen Changan’s defiance as a sign of ambition they might use to their advantage.

• Six Zhang Family members insulted Chen Changan and demanded that he leave the family compound.
• Chen Changan rebuked them, asserting that the Zhang Family Head had invited him to stay and daring them to act.
• The six men attacked Chen Changan, who used the Red Dust Sword to send all of them flying.
• Chen Changan mocked the defeated men and ordered them to leave, and they fled from his courtyard.
• Zhang Jundan and the others discussed Chen Changan’s strength and concluded that he had seen through their test.
• The Grand Elder suggested that Chen Changan’s ambition could be turned to the Zhang Family’s advantage.

The Zhang Family's Grand Elder decided to use Chen Changan as a pawn against Zhang Junhao and sent Meng Guyao to approach him. Chen Changan anticipated that someone would come, and Meng Guyao arrived to ask whether he was truly willing to do anything.

• The Grand Elder proposed weakening Zhang Junhao by using Chen Changan, and the Zhang Family agreed to let him arrange it.
• The Grand Elder asked Meng Guyao to approach Chen Changan, and she accepted the mission to prove her loyalty to the Zhang Family.
• Chen Changan explained to Old Jin that the Zhang Family saw him as a pawn and had overlooked the possibility of teaching themselves the Dual Moon Realm's language.
• Chen Changan sensed Meng Guyao approaching and invited her in.
• Meng Guyao sat with Chen Changan and asked whether he was really willing to do anything.

Meng Guyao asked Chen Changan to help weaken Zhang Junhao, and Chen Changan negotiated for advance compensation and permission to leave the Sacred Capital afterward. The Zhang Family considered his conditions and decided to agree, planning to use him and later reclaim everything.

• Meng Guyao asked Chen Changan whether he wanted to surpass Zhang Junhao and then proposed that he make a move against him.
• Chen Changan refused to agree without guarantees, and Meng Guyao offered protection and the Zhang Family's support in cultivating him.
• Chen Changan demanded advance payment and permission to leave the Sacred Capital after the plan, so Meng Guyao went to consult the others.
• Chen Changan told Old Jin he had bargained to avoid arousing the Zhang Family's suspicions and to obtain more before leaving.
• Zhang Jundan criticized Chen Changan's audacity, but the Zhang Family decided to accept whatever conditions he proposed and planned to kill him afterward.

Chen Changan demanded a larger reward from the Zhang Family before agreeing to disrupt Zhang Junhao's secluded cultivation by attacking his vulnerable Weak Spot. He entered Zhang Junhao's guarded retreat as the Zhang Family waited for the plan to succeed.

• Chen Changan rejected the Zhang Family's initial reward and warned Meng Guyao that they needed to offer more.
• The Grand Elder convinced the Zhang Family to give Chen Changan whatever he requested, while they planned to deal with him after he left Sacred Capital.
• After accepting the improved reward, Chen Changan learned from Meng Guyao that he was to enter Zhang Junhao's barrier and attack the Weak Spot exposed during cultivation.
• Meng Guyao explained that Zhang Junhao risked serious injury while trying to break through beyond the Longevity Realm, and said she wanted to pursue happiness with someone else.
• Chen Changan asked Meng Guyao to take him to Zhang Junhao's place of seclusion and entered it as the Zhang Family watched anxiously.

Chen Changan entered Zhang Junhao’s secluded barrier and revealed that Zhang Junhao had sent him back from three trillion years in the future. Zhang Junhao agreed that returning Chen Changan could help his future self, but the chapter left the journey back unresolved.

• The Zhang Family elders prepared to kill Chen Changan whether he succeeded or failed, while Meng Guyao accused the Grand Elder of planning to silence her.
• Chen Changan bypassed the layered barriers around Zhang Junhao’s seclusion and appeared before him with a Nine Profound Token.
• Chen Changan told Zhang Junhao that he came from three trillion years in the future and needed Zhang Junhao to send him back through the River of Time.
• Zhang Junhao recognized the token and guessed Chen Changan had been sent back because he had failed to find the Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal.
• Chen Changan refused to reveal what had happened to Tianfeng, and Zhang Junhao concluded that returning him could give his future self a chance to change the future.

Chen Changan left ancient Heavenly Feng through the River of Time after Zhang Junhao opened it, unaware that the Zhang Family planned to attack the weakened ruler. The Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal erased Chen Changan’s traces from the past, and the battle for Heavenly Feng began as he returned to his own era.

• Chen Changan told Zhang Junhao that the Dragon Seal had left for its own reasons and declined to give his name.
• Zhang Junhao opened the River of Time, weakening himself, while Zhang Jundan gathered the Zhang Family’s experts to attack.
• Chen Changan urged Zhang Junhao to stay alive, then entered the River of Time to return to the Nine Profound Domain three trillion years later.
• After the River of Time closed, Zhang Jundan led the Zhang Family in an attack on Zhang Junhao, and the fighting spread across Heavenly Feng.
• The Lord of Heavenly Feng Dragon Seal explained that it had erased all traces of Chen Changan from the past so he would not affect events.

Chen Changan returned from the River of Time after retrieving a Dragon Seal for Zhang Junhao, who grew suspicious of the seal and questioned how Chen Changan had been sent into the past. When Zhang Junhao asked why Heavenly Feng had betrayed him, Chen Changan blamed his self-righteousness and his attempt to impose his own ideals on everyone.

• Zhang Junhao told Chen Changan that several hundred years had passed and that his people were safe and cultivating at Nine Heavens Mountain.
• Chen Changan gave Zhang Junhao the replicated Dragon Seal, but Zhang Junhao sensed that it felt different from his original.
• Zhang Junhao questioned whether his past self had truly sent Chen Changan back, since he did not remember doing so, but Chen Changan brushed aside the doubt.
• Zhang Junhao asked why the people of Heavenly Feng had betrayed him, and Chen Changan told him he had imposed his own preferences and rules on others.

Zhang Junhao accepted that his own self-righteousness had caused Heavenly Feng’s downfall and offered Chen Changan ten wishes. Chen Changan used one to have Zhang Junhao revive Old Jin, then set his sights on unraveling the Nine Profound Domain’s mysteries.

• Zhang Junhao realized that imposing his beliefs on others had turned people against him, and he gave up on rebuilding Heavenly Feng or seeking revenge.
• Chen Changan encouraged Zhang Junhao to move forward, and Zhang Junhao reaffirmed his promise to grant Chen Changan ten wishes.
• Chen Changan asked Zhang Junhao to revive Old Jin, and Zhang Junhao agreed despite protesting Chen Changan’s wish-making schemes.
• Zhang Junhao restored Old Jin’s body, and Old Jin decided to focus on cultivating until he could regain his strength.
• Chen Changan said he hoped to unravel every mystery in the Nine Profound Domain rather than immediately starting a war with Nian Junxin.