Recaps

Lin Chen survived Forget Demon Venerable’s assault, established Lending Cultivation at Changqing Sect, and pursued influence at the Flying Boat Sea Market while agreeing to join the Immortal Alliance’s campaign. Zhang Hao brought him into the Immortal Abode to save Tree Elder, where Lin Chen discovered a spreading demonic contamination he could not yet cure.

• Forget Demon Venerable’s forgetting power began erasing Lin Chen and his allies, but Lin Chen anchored his memories through prayers from Dream Realm visitors and escaped with the Mirror Female Cultivator.
• Lin Chen put Elder Wang in charge of Changqing Sect and introduced Lending Cultivation, offering disciples resources to practice the Spirit Puppet Method despite the elders’ objections.
• Lin Chen brought Wu Yong and Elder Wang to the Flying Boat Sea Market, taught Wu Yong how to assess dangerous Return to Ruins objects, and demonstrated his expertise in refining them.
• Su Liyue offered Lin Chen a Nascent Soul reserve position in exchange for joining the Immortal Alliance’s campaign against the Hell Ten Paths, and Lin Chen accepted.
• Zhang Hao asked Lin Chen to save Tree Elder, and Lin Chen entered Zhang Hao’s Immortal Abode after using his Order Dao Domain to defeat Zhang Hao’s Eight Gates Sword Array.
• Lin Chen examined the Immortal Abode’s Burial Ground, discovered that it harvested the dead’s souls, memories, and spiritual qi, and used his Order Dao Domain to copy the ghosts.
• Zhang Hao led Lin Chen through the passage of Life and Death Reincarnation to Tree Elder, where Lin Chen identified Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi and Black Snow contaminating the Immortal Abode.
• Lin Chen concluded that contaminated spiritual energy had worsened Tree Elder’s condition and said ordinary cultivation methods could not reverse it, then asked Zhang Hao how he had encountered the two forms of Demonic Qi.

Lin Chen used the Sea Market catastrophe to force Zhang Hao through the Kunpeng Bloodline Trial and clashed with Li Mingzhen, whose illusion Dao nearly erased him. The Sea Market rose into the Nine Heavens, where Su Liyue joined Lin Chen in a stellar duel as powerful cultivators gathered to watch.

• Lin Chen traced Tree Elder’s corruption to Lingnan and studied the Immortal Estate’s method of creating spirit medicines while the Flying Boat Sea Market reached the sealed sea region.
• A cursed outbreak and the Whale Song engulfed the Sea Market, and Lin Chen discovered that Primordial Heavy Water suppressed high-level spiritual energy and caused a cascading collapse.
• Lin Chen recognized the rising sea as a Kunpeng descendant and convinced Zhang Hao to become its mother body, beginning the Bloodline Trial and an Energy Level Leap.
• Lin Chen slaughtered the cultivators who converged on the altar, fought Li Mingzhen’s reality-warping illusion Dao, and used the Kunpeng trial to disrupt his enemy’s power.
• Zhang Hao survived the reincarnation and reached Nascent Soul, while Lin Chen prepared to complete the Kunpeng’s trial and the phantom lifted the shattered Sea Market toward the heavens.
• The Sea Market climbed through astral winds and fire, and Su Liyue stabilized it with Moon Soil before turning its ruins and the heavens into a stellar chessboard.
• Lin Chen drew Su Liyue’s stellar game into his ritual, and True Lord Xingmu and True Lord Lie Kong arrived as the duel revealed a vast moon and Taiyin Ice Soul Frozen Ancient Netherworld Cold.

Lin Chen survived the Sea Market’s destruction, crossed into chaos, and reached the Moon, where he learned of the Ancient Cultivators’ legacy and the forces preparing a world-ending calamity. He returned to the East Sea determined to provoke upheaval and build a stronger civilization before the coming crisis.

• Su Liyue froze the Sea Market to contain the unstable Absolute Cold Array, but Lin Chen’s resistance helped drive her to seal it as a dead formation, collapsing the market and birthing a Kunpeng from the Northern Darkness.
• Lin Chen rode the Kunpeng through the Nine Heavens, crossed the Great Sun Sea of Fire, and entered chaos, where he triggered the Spiritualization Tribulation and transformed into a Spiritual Energy Creature.
• Lin Chen returned to heaven and earth, subdued Zhang Hao, and examined the Immortal Abode before deciding to travel to the Moon with the Moon Soil.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling welcomed Lin Chen to Moon Palace and revealed that the Ancient Cultivators had left the Moon for a transmigrator, prompting Lin Chen to connect its Moon Soil to a Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator.
• Yue Ling showed Lin Chen the Ancient Cultivators’ history and the Moon’s role in the coming Earth-Moon Collision, while the Heavenly Demon persuaded her to send the Moon into This World when the formation activated.
• Lin Chen regained control of the Dream Realm, subdued the Kunpeng Cub, and learned that the weakening formation and factional conflicts left the world exposed to calamity.
• Lin Chen told his allies he would sacrifice the virtual platform and use reform, financial schemes, and a manufactured crisis to distract the East Sea’s powerful factions while he prepared for the Old Gods and Ancient Myriad Races.
• Lin Chen urged the Split Spirits to strengthen themselves and told the Mirror Female Cultivator he sought a prosperous civilization and advanced cultivation industry before returning to the East Sea.

Lin Chen survived Nether Prison’s twisted Dao Domain, joined the demons’ plot against Penglai, and proposed a revolution to ignite the East Sea’s unrest. After reaching Penglai with Xu Yuanyang, he learned the Immortal Alliance planned a Golden Core contest ahead of its war on the Hell Ten Paths, and asked to bypass it.

• Lin Chen escaped the Death River and, imprisoned on Penglai, broke free from Nether Prison Daoist’s secret room only to be pulled into his Dao Domain.
• Lin Chen joined forces with the Coffin Bearer Demon Venerable and other demons against the Seven Emotions Spirit Race, then reached a gathering of Demon Kings beneath the Blood Moon.
• Lin Chen exposed the disguised Faceless Demon Venerable, killed the Human-faced Tree Demon, and confronted the Spider Web Spirit Queen, Forget Demon Venerable, and East Sea Rogue Immortal.
• Lin Chen proposed a revolution of mortals and lower-level cultivators to ignite the East Sea’s unrest, and the demons agreed to cooperate while pursuing their own plan to collapse Penglai’s formation.
• Lin Chen killed a Tianhe Sect cultivator and ten thousand Daoist Soldiers before Xu Yuanyang intervened and explained that the Alliance’s factions were fighting over control of Lin Chen’s Spirit Puppet Method.
• Xu Yuanyang brought Lin Chen to Penglai and showed him the returning Spirit Boat Fleet, while Lin Chen considered how the Alliance’s waste and oppression fueled resentment and Calamity Demonic Qi.
• Xu Yuanyang explained the upcoming Golden Core campaign against the Hell Ten Paths and its ranking contest, and Lin Chen asked for a Special Admission Quota so he could avoid competing.