Recaps

Lin Chen watched Yun Jing collapse, then reshaped Dagan under the Great Peace Way and departed to explore beyond its borders. After creating a Spiritual Energy Embryo and gaining a Half Spirit Body, he returned to Lingnan to seek resources and prepare for the coming war.

• Lin Chen and Xu Yue encountered the Great Peace Way, whose leaders used mathematics, gu insects, and collective sacrifice to govern Huangtian City.
• Lin Chen and Xu Yue reached Yun Jing as the factions prepared to overthrow the Old Emperor, who used the Human Pill Method to seize power and transform people into Demon Apes.
• Lin Chen unleashed the Demon Ape Transformation and planned to use the spread of the Inner Core Method to develop an artificial Golden Core.
• After the allied armies were defeated, Lin Chen united the Great Peace Way and Confucianism, reclaimed the Nine Provinces, and established a new order led by Yellow Heaven and the Brain Array Computer.
• Lin Chen passed the Great Worthy Teacher position to Xie Xuan, taught the Scientific Great Dao at Hangu Famous Pass, and left to explore beyond the known world.
• More than a decade later, Xu Yue led an expedition beyond Great Peace Way territory and encountered a village awaiting an Immortal Master.
• Lin Chen used the Artificial Dantian to form a Spiritual Energy Embryo, transferred his consciousness into it, and gained a regenerative Half Spirit Body.
• Lin Chen chose to return to Lingnan, hide his strength, avoid the frontline, and seek third-rank spiritual materials and the legacies of fallen sects.

Lin Chen uncovered Mysterious Yin Gate’s plan to unleash a Corpse Tide and destroy Azure Cloud Sect’s defenses, then saved Ruyue Market with a long-range cannon strike. As he helped restore Zhang Mengyao and pursued his cultivation research, hidden agents began preparing a wider wave of bloodshed.

• Lin Chen discovered that Mysterious Yin Gate had moved millions of mortals toward the front and learned of its planned Corpse Tide, but Elder Fei Jiang detected his spying and forced him to kill the controlled disciple.
• Lin Chen traced cursed rogue cultivators to a graveyard altar, while Ye Ming and other Mysterious Yin Gate disciples revealed their infiltration and launched attacks on Ruyue Market and the front lines.
• Xu Mengyun raised Ruyue Market’s formation against a giant head-shaped evil creature, and Lin Chen built and fired a Yuan Magnetic Spirit Thunder Cannon from a thousand li away, destroying it.
• Xu Mengyun brought Lin Chen to the injured Zhang Mengyao, and Lin Chen used the Human Elixir Method, a spiritual placenta, Blood Gu, and soul techniques to form a new body for her.
• Lin Chen asked Zhang Hao to divine the time and place of his Golden Core breakthrough, and the divination revealed “Profound Yin Gate,” “Yin Yang Five Elements Spiritual Body,” and “The key to exploring the essence of spiritual energy.”
• Lin Chen demonstrated his alchemy to Zhang Hao, while the Bai Family Patriarch joined Mysterious Yin Gate and Ye You prepared hidden agents to spread killings and blood refining.
• Zhuang Yuanzhang assigned Lin Chen to refine pills in the rear, and Lin Chen studied the spiritual energies in a Qi-Gathering Pill before beginning the work.

Lin Chen returned to Azure Cloud Sect, accepted a secret role in its defense, and turned the Heaven and Earth Ants into a miniature research and construction force. As demonic cultivators devastated the sect’s rear and killed Wang Cheng, Lin Chen lured them into a trap and faced True Person Taiyin.

• Lin Chen captured the Heaven and Earth Ant Queen at Yuanzhou Mountain, created a new Queen Insect, and returned to Azure Cloud Sect as reports of demonic arts spread.
• Lin Chen revived Zhang Mengyao and brought her and Zhang Hao back to the sect, where True Ancestor Changqing asked him to devise a plan for its defense.
• Lin Chen proposed a concentrated counterattack and agreed to secretly manage the sect’s affairs while True Ancestor Changqing protected True Person Qingyang during his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Lin Chen trained the Queen Insect with mathematics and used the ant swarm to build a Spirit Gathering Array, then began developing a Soul Spirit Insect network.
• Blood Cultivators destroyed Cloud Arrival Market and other settlements, and Wang Cheng sacrificed himself fighting demonic cultivators before his soul lamp went out.
• Lin Chen followed the attackers’ traces to Jia Tai Market, where Ye You and six other demonic cultivators entered a trap and were struck by Lin Chen’s Spirit Bullet Storm.
• Lin Chen used lightning to devastate the Ghost Tide, while True Person Taiyin offered him a place among the demonic side and Lin Chen prepared a formation beneath the marketplace.
• Lin Chen resisted True Person Taiyin’s soul attack, severed the link to his avatar, and unleashed a huge Ball Lightning as True Person Taiyin tried to flee.

Lin Chen helped the Azure Cloud Sect uncover and counter the Mysterious Yin Gate’s plan to unleash an Undead Calamity, then prepared a spirit-vein-powered meteor strike. The calamity began, the sect’s front-line city fell to a trap and counterattack, and Old Demon Taiyin ordered a full advance.

• Lin Chen killed Ye You and uncovered that the Demonic Cultivators were using their attacks as bait to draw away the Azure Cloud Sect’s Golden Cores.
• Lin Chen infiltrated the Demonic Cultivators’ communications, used a curse and the Soul Calming Melody to locate and incapacitate them, then killed many across the sect’s territory before Old Demon Taiyin intervened.
• Old Demon Taiyin and his allies prepared a million-strong Corpse Tide, while Azure Cloud Sect leaders learned that the Undead Calamity would threaten their territory.
• Lin Chen urged the sect to evacuate and proposed using spirit veins to create a meteor strike, while True Ancestor Changqing organized the withdrawal and the construction of the Mountain of Heavenly Fall.
• Lin Chen and the Azure Cloud Sect gathered spirit veins into the Mountain of Heavenly Fall and prepared the sect’s grand formation as Mysterious Yin Gate built its Corpse Tide.
• Mysterious Yin Gate unleashed the Undead Calamity, and its Corpse Tide advanced on the Azure Cloud Sect’s front line.
• Old Demon Taiyin corrupted the front-line formation and captured the city, but a hidden Azure Cloud Sect trap exploded beneath it and damaged the Land of Death.
• Old Demon Taiyin evacuated his forces from the explosion, then ordered an advance on all fronts and demanded that the Blood Demon faction commit its main force.