Recaps

After surviving the Azure Cloud Sect’s attack, Lin Chen negotiated for True Disciple status and resources in exchange for helping the sect. He prepared to enter the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation, where he and the other disciples would compete with the Mysterious Yin Gate for the Enlightenment Stone.

• Lin Chen used mathematical modeling to predict the Blood Zombie’s movements, destroyed it, and hunted down the demonic cultivators while building a sensory network through his clones.
• Lin Chen found and destroyed the Blood Pool, but the blood-robed cultivator escaped using a Blood Burning Secret Technique as Lin Chen’s clones were repeatedly destroyed by hidden traps.
• Yang Cheng sacrificed himself to break the Blood Mist while Lin Chen disrupted the sect’s formation, and the Azure Cloud Sect’s elders rallied to retake Qingxuan Mountain and rescue survivors.
• After the attack, Lin Chen rejected betrayal of the Azure Cloud Sect and sought a Mortal Dynasty mission, but True Ancestor Changqing instead asked him to become a True Disciple and retrieve a vital item.
• Lin Chen negotiated for Nine-ear Millet, True Disciple privileges, and Golden Core Origin, offering an improved Soul Nurturing Incense recipe in return, and the sect accepted his conditions and promised resources.
• Lin Chen continued testing the Inner Core Technique on captured martial artists, developed a method to make his Soul Lamp ineffective, and prepared to take the State of Mind Trial.
• Lin Chen passed the trial and joined Zhang Zhiming and Zhang Mengyao as a True Disciple, then learned that the team would enter the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation as spirit plants to fight the Mysterious Yin Gate’s disciples.
• True Ancestor Changqing gave Lin Chen a complete Golden Core and other resources, and Lin Chen returned to his laboratory to study the Golden Core and improve the Inner Core Technique.

Lin Chen entered the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation and fought the Mysterious Yin Gate’s forces as their battle devastated both armies. After discovering how to reshape the forest’s spirit plants, he led a new aerial assault that set the Corpse Tide ablaze, but the Flying Yaksha sent a rolling corpse sphere toward the forest.

• Lin Chen investigated the Golden Core, created an Artificial Dantian, and prepared to spread the Inner Core Martial Way before joining the Azure Cloud Sect’s expedition.
• Lin Chen entered the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation with the Azure Cloud Sect, where the Mysterious Yin Gate’s cultivators and hidden Blood Shadows also passed through the opened boundary.
• Lin Chen reincarnated as Sacred Wood Mandu and fought beside Wang Cheng, then escaped a coordinated ambush and killed the Ksitigarbha Walking Corpse.
• Zhang Hao learned from a vision that two Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords had created the cultivation world as a battlefield, while Flying Yaksha’s forces killed several of Lin Chen’s companions.
• After Zhang Hao left his post to receive Tree Elder’s consciousness, the Corpse Tide broke through the defenses, and Lin Chen’s massive spirit-bullet attack killed allies and enemies alike.
• Lin Chen secured three favors from Zhang Hao, gathered the survivors, and used Myriad Laws Follow the Heart to transform the Treant Army into specialized plant weapons.
• Lin Chen took control of the ancient tree and sent clouds of flaming fruit trees over the Corpse Tide, while Wang Cheng spread the resulting flames into a wildfire.
• Flying Yaksha killed the burning Ironclad Sha Corpse and ordered untouched zombies to form a rolling corpse sphere that charged toward the forest.

Lin Chen helped the Azure Cloud Sect secure the Enlightenment Stone, broke through to Foundation Establishment, and left the sect with freedom to pursue his own plans. Traveling toward Jiangling, he debated how to change society and began preparing to draw cultivators and powerful families toward an immortal ruin in Yunmeng Marsh.

• Lin Chen destroyed the Corpse Tide with the Treant Army and the Sky Strike Weapon, then witnessed a vision revealing Lin Tianhang’s connection to the Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerable and an unknown force’s interference.
• Lin Chen broke through to Foundation Establishment while escaping with the Enlightenment Stone, then killed the five Blood Cultivators who tried to ambush him.
• True Ancestor Changqing and the Azure Cloud Sect’s Golden Core True Persons fought off the Mysterious Yin Gate and Blood Shadow’s forces, and True Person Qingyang secured the Enlightenment Stone.
• True Person Qingyang granted Lin Chen freedom to act outside the sect, and the Azure Cloud Sect’s leaders approved plans to strengthen its defenses and lease spirit-vein Cave Mansions.
• Lin Chen told Xu Mengyun he would leave for Dagan for decades, entrusted her with sending him cultivation items, and gave her a jade slip of Foundation Establishment knowledge.
• At a ruined temple, Lin Chen discussed human nature, reform, and moral principles with Zhang Zhiping and Xiao Wu, then urged them to investigate and test ideas rather than simply follow him.
• Lin Chen rode the floodwaters to Jiangling and decided to create an immortal ruin or grand tomb to attract influential families and gifted cultivators.
• After learning about Yunmeng Marsh and its dangers, Lin Chen sailed toward its depths to make the world notice a possible ancient tomb or immortal ruin.

Lin Chen turned Yunmeng Marsh into an elaborate trial that drew the realm’s powers into the marsh and gave its survivors the Inner Core Method. As cultivators began awakening its power and clashing with the old order, Lin Chen traveled toward Yun Jing with Xu Yue and met Yun Meng Dao Ren at the Daoist Order’s mountain seat.

• Lin Chen transformed the dangerous island into an Immortal Blessed Land, then staged a celestial vision that drew the Dagan Dynasty’s people and factions toward Yunmeng Marsh.
• The imperial court, great clans, Daoists, martial artists, and other forces gathered in Jiangling and braved the marsh’s poisonous creatures and plants to reach the island.
• Lin Chen’s companions encountered the Great Peach Tree and Bronze Alchemy Cauldron, where the young immortal revealed how he harvested their Essence, Qi, and Spirit to make Human Face Peaches.
• Yunmeng learned the Inner Core Method in a seven-day dream and woke in Jiangling, while Lin Chen watched the authorities hunt those who had gained the inheritance.
• Lin Chen rescued Xiao Wu’s brother and later agreed to travel to Yun Jing with Xu Yue, who used Gang Qi to defeat the Demon Suppression Division soldiers pursuing him.
• Lin Chen defeated Chen Huan’s illusions and altered a Su Family cultivator after Xu Yue defeated him, then decided to head for Yun Jing sooner as the ruler summoned Inner Elixir cultivators.
• Lin Chen and Xu Yue reached the Daoist Order’s mountain seat, where Yun Meng Dao Ren welcomed them into a dreamscape and invited Lin Chen to join the Order.
• Lin Chen refused to join the Daoist Order, and Yun Meng Dao Ren accepted their different paths before leading Lin Chen and Xu Yue into his Dao Gate Immortal Palace.