Recaps

Chen Changan found a hidden space beneath the towering ancient tree and learned that the Eternal Land had once been enslaved, a past whose memories seemed to have been erased. The enslavement was connected to the throne problem, and the space’s former owner had left behind a possible solution.

• Chen Changan sensed the towering ancient tree and discovered a hidden space beneath it.
• Chen Changan crossed the barrier, crushed a jade token, and received a message from the space’s former owner.
• Chen Changan explained that the former owner had destroyed records and left the upper space as bait for an outsider.
• Chen Changan revealed that the Eternal Land had once been enslaved and that someone seemed to have erased everyone’s memories of that period.
• Mu Yunyao questioned how the record had survived, and Chen Changan said the former owner had left behind a solution.

Chen Changan explained that the Saint Origin Pill might repair individuals’ Thrones and brought Qi Shi, Qiu Muying, and Qi Yu back to the Miracle Treasure Pavilion. While its second auction strengthened the Pavilion’s influence, the Tianyun Sect arrived to invite Chen Changan to its Grand Elder’s birthday celebration.

• Chen Changan told Da Huang and Qi Shi that the Saint Origin Pill could potentially repair a person’s Throne, but four ingredients were still missing.
• Qi Yu asked to join the Miracle Treasure Pavilion, and Qi Shi and Qiu Muying also agreed to return with Chen Changan.
• The Miracle Treasure Pavilion held its second auction, where Extreme Dao Seven Stars Pills and weapons boosted its standing.
• Di Feiyan and Li Yanran discussed Chen Changan’s influence and waited for his return while the Pavilion and city remained stable under the support of the Di Family, Su Family, and Haoyue Sect.
• A Tianyun Sect Elder arrived and invited Chen Changan to the Grand Elder’s birthday celebration, but Chen Changan was away.

Di Feiyan told Chen Changan that Tianyun Sect invited him to its Grand Elder’s birthday celebration, apparently hoping to make amends for its past conflict with him. After returning to Miracle Treasure Pavilion, Chen Changan examined new resources and pill recipes, then learned that Throne Realm cultivators knew their thrones were imperfect but feared rebuilding them.

• Tianyun Sect representatives invited Chen Changan to the Grand Elder’s birthday celebration in six months and said he would not be disappointed.
• Di Feiyan concluded that Tianyun Sect planned to replace its sect master and use the invitation to show Chen Changan goodwill.
• Chen Changan returned to Miracle Treasure Pavilion, where Li Yanran greeted Mu Yunyao and Di Feiyan reported the sect’s visit and the auction’s results.
• Chen Changan reviewed eighteen new varieties of rare materials and pill recipes, identified three new pills for Throne Realm cultivators, and found two materials needed for the Saint Origin Pill.
• Di Feiyan explained that the Seat Breaking Pill could help Throne Realm cultivators rebuild their imperfect thrones, though attempting it without the pill risked a failed breakthrough.

Chen Changan discussed the importance of his new pills and the challenges of expanding Miracle Treasure Pavilion, then prepared to attend Tianyun Sect’s Grand Elder’s birthday banquet. As he traveled with Li Yanran and Di Feiyan, he wondered why the Wu Family and Huantian Sect had skipped his auction and whether Tianyun Sect had another purpose for inviting him.

• Chen Changan and Di Feiyan discussed how the King Promotion Pill and Seat Breaking Pill could benefit Throne Realm experts and strengthen Miracle Treasure Pavilion.
• Chen Changan declined to train alchemists and refiners for now, agreed to replenish the Kaiyuan City branch, and postponed setting the next auction date until after the trip.
• Chen Changan and his companions spent two months preparing goods before setting out for Tianyun Sect with Li Yanran and Di Feiyan.
• Di Feiyan noted that the Wu Family and Huantian Sect had not attended the second auction and suspected something was wrong.
• Chen Changan suggested Tianyun Sect might have invited him for another reason, perhaps to capture him, and said they would learn the truth when they arrived.

Chen Changan arrived at Tianyun Sect for the Grand Elder’s birthday banquet and announced the Miracle Treasure Pavilion’s next auction. When Su Mengtang asked about the missing Overlord Sect, Chen Changan said he already knew what had happened to it.

• Guests at Tianyun Sect speculated about Chen Changan’s power, the Miracle Treasure Pavilion’s resources, and the Overlord Sect’s absence.
• Tianyun Sect’s people revealed that the Overlord Sect had become an Endless Purgatory behind a powerful barrier, with screams of agony coming from within.
• With fewer than seven days until the banquet, Chen Changan arrived at Tianyun Sect with his party, and guests gathered to greet him.
• Chen Changan announced that the next auction would take place in five months and feature three new kinds of pills and twice as many weapons.
• Chen Changan promised Su Mengtang and the Haoyue Sect Master that he had prepared the new pills for them.
• Su Mengtang asked whether they should investigate the Overlord Sect’s trouble, and Chen Changan replied that he already knew what had happened.

Chen Changan revealed that he had sealed the Overlord Sect in Endless Purgatory after its members targeted his wife, leaving the gathered sect leaders and families terrified of crossing him. Qiu Zhigao sought to make amends over the Qiu Family’s treatment of Qiu Muying, while Chen Changan warned everyone to behave.

• Su Mengtang asked Chen Changan what had happened to the Overlord Sect, and he said it had been turned into Endless Purgatory, where no one could enter or escape.
• Chen Changan greeted Qiu Zhigao, who nervously asked about Qiu Muying and said the Qiu Family was willing to make amends.
• Chen Changan explained that he had punished the Overlord Sect because its members had set their sights on his wife, then asked the crowd whether he had gone too far.
• The crowd praised Chen Changan’s actions and assured him that the Overlord Sect deserved punishment.
• Chen Changan warned everyone to behave, and the frightened crowd agreed that they should do good deeds.

Chen Changan considered how to deal with the Wu Family and Huantian Sect, who opposed outsiders and viewed him as a growing threat. At the Tianyun Sect’s birthday banquet, its Grand Elders revealed that they had removed their sect master and wanted to align the sect with the Miracle Treasure Pavilion, leaving Chen Changan questioning whether they would regret it.

• The Huantian Sect Master and Wu Family Head agreed that Chen Changan was dangerous but admitted they lacked the strength and allies to eliminate him.
• Chen Changan noticed the two watching from afar and told Di Feiyan he would test their attitudes after the banquet and deal with them if they proved hostile.
• Chen Changan wondered why the Tianyun Sect had not greeted him, and its three Grand Elders later escorted him to their finest guest quarters.
• A Grand Elder told Chen Changan that the Tianyun Sect had removed its sect master and was holding the banquet to announce his successor and declare its position.
• The Grand Elder asked Chen Changan to let the Tianyun Sect’s past conflict with the Miracle Treasure Pavilion go, and Chen Changan asked if the sect would regret its decision.

Chen Changan remained wary of Tianyun Sect while explaining that Miracle Treasure Pavilion served his own interests and that he was confident he would keep growing faster than its customers. At Tianyun Sect’s Grand Elder’s longevity banquet, guests noticed Chen Changan seated with the sect and wondered why Tianyun Sect’s Sect Master had disappeared.

• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao he distrusted Tianyun Sect’s intentions, though he accepted that the sect needed Miracle Treasure Pavilion’s resources.
• Chen Changan speculated that outsiders might once have enslaved the Eternal Land, then gave Su Mengtang and the Haoyue Sect Master several newly refined pills.
• Chen Changan explained to Li Yanran that selling resources benefited him and that no one could match his rate of growth.
• Tianyun Sect seated Chen Changan at its main table during the Grand Elder’s longevity banquet, signaling that it considered him one of its own.
• Guests wondered whether Tianyun Sect had submitted to Chen Changan and asked why its Sect Master had not appeared.

Tianyun Sect removed Du Liuxing as Sect Master and publicly submitted to Chen Changan, who accepted their loyalty and gave them valuable pills. The Wu Family Head and the Sect Master of Huantian Sect debated whether they could still oppose Chen Changan, and the Wu Family Head began to consider going with the flow.

• The Grand Elder announced that Du Liuxing had been removed and Zhang Yunen had been chosen as Tianyun Sect's new Sect Master.
• The Grand Elder declared that Tianyun Sect would unconditionally submit to Miracle Treasure Pavilion and follow Chen Changan's lead.
• The three Grand Elders asked Chen Changan to accept Tianyun Sect's loyalty, and Chen Changan agreed, presenting them with several kinds of pills.
• The crowd discussed the pills' power, including the King Promotion Pill's aid in reaching the Throne Realm and the Seat Breaking Pill's ability to reshape a Throne.
• The Wu Family Head and the Sect Master of Huantian Sect worried that Chen Changan's resources could win over their allies, and the Wu Family Head suggested going with the flow.

The Huantian Sect Master, the Wu Family Head, and Tianyun Sect’s guests set aside their opposition to Chen Changan after seeing the benefits of his Miracle Treasure Pavilion. Chen Changan let Du Liuxing leave and asked the assembled guests about two rare pill ingredients, until Li Yanran claimed she had heard of them.

• The Huantian Sect Master and the Wu Family Head decided to buy from the Miracle Treasure Pavilion and postpone settling their score with Chen Changan.
• Du Liuxing left Tianyun Sect in resentment after losing his position and being barred from the banquet.
• Chen Changan told Tianyun Sect’s three Grand Elders to let Du Liuxing go and asked whether they knew of Rootless Saint Origin Liquid and Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass.
• The guests said they had never heard of either ingredient, and Chen Changan wondered whether they were extinct or absent from the Throne Realm.
• Li Yanran told Chen Changan she had heard of both ingredients, prompting Da Huang to accuse her of relying on a book.

Li Yanran began explaining the rare treasures to Chen Changan, but he sensed Du Liuxing approaching with three Grand Elders of Overlord Sect. The elders challenged Chen Changan and mocked the people gathered there, while Da Huang suspected they had failed to rescue Overlord Sect’s people.

• Li Yanran said the two treasures were rare natural treasures that could appear only in particular environments, but Chen Changan interrupted when he sensed four people approaching.
• Du Liuxing arrived with the three Grand Elders of Overlord Sect, and the others feared the elders might have reached the Emperor Realm.
• Du Liuxing gloated at Chen Changan and blamed him for turning Overlord Sect into an Endless Purgatory.
• One Grand Elder accused Chen Changan of harming Overlord Sect and condemned the locals for accepting an outsider’s power.
• Da Huang mocked the elders, suggesting they had been unable to rescue their people from the living hell.

Chen Changan confronted the three Grand Elders of the Overlord Sect after they revealed they had only reached the half-step Emperor Realm. He attacked them alone, and the chapter left the fight underway as he mocked their strength.

• The three Grand Elders threatened Chen Changan and tried to force the gathered factions to choose between joining them or supporting him.
• The Su Family, Haoyue Sect, and Tianyun Sect declared their support for Chen Changan, and more people followed their lead.
• Chen Changan guessed that the three Grand Elders had not reached the Emperor Realm, and they admitted they were half-step Emperor Realm experts.
• Du Liuxing urged the Grand Elders to attack Chen Changan, and they demanded that he come quietly or be forced.
• Chen Changan blurred into the fight and faced the three Grand Elders alone, dismissing their attacks as too slow and weak.

Chen Changan effortlessly withstood the Overlord Sect’s three Half-step Emperor Realm Grand Elders, using the spectacle to prove his strength to the Throne Realm circle. As the onlookers recognized his power and the Di Family’s foresight, Chen Changan said he would let his exhausted opponents rest.

• The three Overlord Sect Grand Elders attacked Chen Changan, but he remained motionless and unharmed while criticizing their speed and strength.
• The Grand Elders grew frantic and exhausted as they repeatedly tried and failed to break through Chen Changan’s defenses.
• Mu Yunyao explained to Da Huang that Chen Changan was demonstrating his strength so his potential allies would stop doubting their choice to stand with him.
• The onlookers began to recognize Chen Changan’s extraordinary power and envied the Di Family for supporting him from the start.
• Du Liuxing realized the confrontation had strengthened Chen Changan’s standing in the Throne Realm circle, and Chen Changan offered the exhausted Grand Elders a chance to rest.

Chen Changan trapped Du Liuxing and the three Grand Elders of the Overlord Sect in a moving barrier and took them away. After Mu Yunyao ended the birthday banquet and announced the auction at Miracle Treasure Pavilion in five months, she led the others to find Chen Changan.

• Du Liuxing and the three Grand Elders taunted Chen Changan, believing they could leave because he could not kill them.
• Chen Changan revealed that he had sealed the area with a barrier and shrank it around the four men, trapping them inside.
• Chen Changan took the moving barrier away and told Mu Yunyao she could return to Miracle Treasure City without him.
• Mu Yunyao ended the birthday banquet, announced the auction in five months, and left the Tianyun Sect with her companions.
• Li Yanran asked why they were not heading back, and Mu Yunyao said they were going to find Chen Changan because she knew he was waiting for them.

Chen Changan and his companions searched for clues to the Rootless Saint Origin Liquid and Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass, while Du Liuxing offered information about a place where three Dragon Veins converged in exchange for leniency. The chapter ended with Chen Changan telling Du Liuxing to reveal what he knew before he decided whether to give him a chance.

• Chen Changan explained that he planned to search for the two rare ingredients before the auction and asked Li Yanran about the clues in her records.
• Li Yanran said the Rootless Saint Origin Liquid grew in a place with no heaven and no earth, while the Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass grew where three dragons converged.
• Chen Changan suggested that the three dragons might refer to Dragon Veins, and Di Feiyan offered to have the Di Family investigate places where three veins met.
• Du Liuxing claimed he knew where the three Dragon Veins converged and tried to bargain for his release.
• Chen Changan rejected Du Liuxing's demand, and Du Liuxing pleaded for a chance to avoid enduring endless burning torment.
• Chen Changan told Du Liuxing to give him the information first, promising only that he might consider showing leniency.

Chen Changan and his companions traveled toward the Overlord Sect while Du Liuxing and the three Grand Elders fought inside a barrier, each begging for mercy and trying to trade information for freedom. The chapter ended with Chen Changan asking the three elders about their rare treasures and making their release depend on the value of what they could offer.

• Du Liuxing tried to convince Chen Changan to spare him, but the three Grand Elders of the Overlord Sect mocked him and then beat him inside the barrier.
• Du Liuxing and the three elders argued and fought while Chen Changan and his companions watched and continued toward the Overlord Sect.
• Chen Changan warned the elders to stop as they neared the Overlord Sect, and they offered information about the Place of No Heaven, No Earth in exchange for their freedom.
• Chen Changan asked the three elders whether they had rare treasures, and they listed the kinds they possessed.
• Chen Changan said whether the treasures could buy their freedom depended on the information they had.

Chen Changan learned that the Place of No Heaven, No Earth was the deadly Xu Du Ming River, an otherworldly space connected to the Eternal Land. After hearing where its hidden entrance might be, he took the prisoners’ heavenly treasures without releasing them.

• Chen Changan asked about the Place of No Heaven, No Earth, and the prisoners identified it as the Xu Du Ming River.
• The prisoners explained that people could die in the river and recounted how earlier explorers had mostly perished there.
• Di Feiyan reacted with shock, while Chen Changan wondered how the river and its Rootless Saint Origin Liquid had become known.
• The prisoners said the entrance was hidden above Giant Palm Peak, about a month and a half’s flight northeast, and asked Chen Changan to release them.
• Chen Changan reached through the barrier and took their heavenly treasures, leaving the prisoners stunned that it did not stop him.

Chen Changan heard Du Liuxing’s information about the Forbidden Valley, which was said to be the Place where Three Dragons Converge and a trap that no one could escape. He imprisoned Du Liuxing and the other informants in the Overlord Sect’s Endless Purgatory, then prepared to investigate the dangerous locations, leaving Mu Yunyao and the others unsure whether he would go alone.

• Chen Changan questioned Du Liuxing, who identified the Forbidden Valley as the Place where Three Dragons Converge, where three Dragon Veins converged.
• Di Feiyan warned that everyone who entered the Forbidden Valley became trapped, and explained that families had sent rescuers inside who never returned either.
• Di Feiyan suspected the informants might be misleading Chen Changan about the dangerous places, but Chen Changan said he would investigate and keep them imprisoned until he verified their claims.
• Chen Changan sent Du Liuxing and the other three into the Overlord Sect’s Endless Purgatory, while Da Huang teased him about only promising that he might free them.
• Mu Yunyao warned Chen Changan to be careful if he went to either dangerous place, and asked whether he planned to go without the others.

Chen Changan chose to investigate Xu Du Ming River first, leaving Mu Yunyao and the others behind while he produced resources for them. After traveling to Giant Palm Peak, he handed over pills and weapons for several factions and the Miracle Treasure Pavilion, then quickly found the entrance to Xu Du Ming River.

• Da Huang asked Di Feiyan to take him to a brothel, and she revealed that she had destroyed brothels and arranged other livelihoods for the women who worked in them.
• Chen Changan decided to visit Xu Du Ming River before Forbidden Valley to investigate how it could break the immortality of people from the Eternal Land.
• Chen Changan told Mu Yunyao and Di Feiyan to return with the resources he produced while he explored Xu Du Ming River.
• After a month and a half of travel, Chen Changan and the others reached Giant Palm Peak and he gave Di Feiyan pills and weapons to distribute among the Di Family, Su Family, Haoyue Sect, and Miracle Treasure Pavilion.
• Chen Changan flashed into the air to search for the entrance to Xu Du Ming River and found it almost immediately.

Chen Changan entered Xu Du Ming River to search for Rootless Saint Origin Liquid and encountered the Nether River Tribe, who identified the treasure as Netherworld Holy Water. They agreed to take him to their chief before discussing an exchange.

• Mu Yunyao trusted Chen Changan and followed him into Xu Du Ming River with Da Huang.
• Chen Changan explored the death-filled river but found no sign of the Rootless Saint Origin Liquid.
• Unidentified beings circled Chen Changan, then revealed themselves as water-bodied members of the Nether River Tribe.
• The Nether River Tribe explained that people from the Eternal Land had attacked them and polluted their river when they died.
• Chen Changan learned that the Rootless Saint Origin Liquid might be Netherworld Holy Water and offered to trade for one drop.
• The Nether River Tribe said their chief must decide what they needed, and Chen Changan agreed to meet the chief.

Chen Changan agreed to help the Nether River Tribe eliminate the vengeful spirits in exchange for Netherworld Holy Water. He lured the spirits out by claiming outsiders had taken over the Eternal Land, then faced their hostility and raised a Spirit Locking Array.

• The Nether River Tribe's chief offered Chen Changan ten drops of Netherworld Holy Water if he dealt with the vengeful spirits haunting the river.
• Chen Changan agreed and asked the tribe to spread a message that outsiders had taken over the Eternal Land and its people had submitted.
• The vengeful spirits emerged after hearing the message, and Chen Changan confirmed he was an outsider who had gained control over people in the Eternal Land.
• The spirits reacted furiously and threatened to kill Chen Changan, who raised a Spirit Locking Array.

Chen Changan questioned the Vengeful Spirits about the Eternal Land and the Netherworld Holy Water, then destroyed them with Spirit Explosion. The tribe chief agreed to bring Chen Changan ten drops of the water but refused to reveal its location to an outsider.

• Chen Changan trapped the Vengeful Spirits in a Spirit Locking Array and learned from the tribe chief that the Eternal Land visitors had destroyed their own souls in desperation.
• Chen Changan questioned the Vengeful Spirits, who revealed that they knew nothing about Rootless Saint Origin Liquid and had arrived in the Nether River by chance.
• The tribe chief said no one from the Eternal Land had appeared before those Vengeful Spirits, leaving Chen Changan unsure whether the Netherworld Holy Water was what he sought.
• Chen Changan used Spirit Explosion to erase the Vengeful Spirits.
• The tribe chief refused to take Chen Changan to the Netherworld Holy Water but promised to bring him ten drops, and Chen Changan agreed to wait.

After leaving Xu Du Ming River with Netherworld Holy Water, Chen Changan headed to Forbidden Valley to search for Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass. There he fought trapped cultivators while testing whether he could sever their connection to the Eternal Land’s Origin Power, but he could not yet find a way.

• Chen Changan returned to the Eternal Land carrying Netherworld Holy Water and planned to ask Li Yanran whether it was Rootless Saint Origin Liquid.
• Chen Changan went to Forbidden Valley, confirmed it was a Place where Three Dragons Converge, and entered to search for Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass.
• Chen Changan and Hongchen encountered Throne Realm cultivators trapped in the valley, who taunted him and claimed he was trapped too.
• Chen Changan repeatedly attacked the cultivators after they regenerated, testing an idea inspired by Xu Du Ming River.
• Chen Changan tried to cut off the cultivators’ connection to Origin Power but failed and admitted he had been too impatient.

Chen Changan searched the Forbidden Valley for Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass, but the trapped residents knew nothing about it and instead led him to a monster near some rare treasures. He discovered that the monster was a dragon and approached it after explaining that it was not responsible for trapping them.

• Chen Changan failed to separate the Eternal Land’s Origin Power from the residents and asked them about Third-grade Flood Dragon Grass, which they had never heard of.
• The residents told Chen Changan that a frightening monster guarded rare treasures, and he ordered them to lead him to it.
• Chen Changan encountered another group of trapped residents, who argued with his guides and then joined the trip to see the monster.
• At the deepest part of the valley, Chen Changan recognized the monster as a dragon, and the residents realized they had never seen one before.
• Chen Changan told the residents that an unknown force trapped them in the valley, not the dragon, and walked toward the Giant Dragon.

Chen Changan befriended the giant dragon by giving it treasures and learned why the people of the Eternal Land despised outsiders. The dragon revealed that a powerful outsider had enslaved the Eternal Land and hidden the last dragon in the Forbidden Valley, but it could not remember his name or face.

• Chen Changan approached the giant dragon, which told him to take the treasures and leave it alone.
• Chen Changan gave the dragon an Eternal Stone and gold ornaments, and it let him take anything he wanted.
• The dragon explained that it disliked the people of the Eternal Land because they were arrogant and hateful, while Chen Changan did not bother it.
• The dragon recounted how the Human Race had tried to purge the other races before an outsider enslaved the people of the Eternal Land in response.
• The dragon said the outsider had brought it to the Forbidden Valley for safety, but it could not recall his name or appearance beyond remembering that he was devastatingly handsome.
• Chen Changan wondered whether the outsider resembled him, while a witness insisted that the people of the Eternal Land could not have been enslaved.