Recaps

Lin Chen stirred conflict around Penglai, reshaped the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, and used the East Sea Grand Event to bind the Alliance to his Spirit Puppet Method. As the campaign against Hell Ten Paths began, he uncovered suspicious new cultivation paths and turned to studying mutation.

• Lin Chen spread rumors about the Ghost Ship, then entered the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein and created a Nine Nether realm from its spiritual energy and resentful souls.
• Hell Ten Paths’ attempt to create a New Heaven drew the Immortal Alliance into battle, while Lin Chen sacrificed the Kunpeng Cub’s bloodline to help it escape and provoke a major response.
• The Immortal Alliance gathered its forces on Penglai Island, where Lin Chen proposed linking war bonds, campaign merit, and access to the Spirit Puppet Method to participation in the campaign.
• The Alliance approved Lin Chen’s plan and launched a fleet from a Cosmic Starship, sending spirit ships across the East Sea to hunt Hell Ten Paths cultivators.
• Lin Chen’s ship encountered Martial Dao and Incense Spirit cultivators, and his spirit puppets defeated them with a formation led by Wu Yong.
• Lin Chen exposed Zhang Ping’s collusion with sea beasts by searching a captured cultivator’s soul, then learned that Martial Dao Island had developed Myriad Martial Spirit Liquid and Evolved Martial Dao.
• Lin Chen investigated Evolved Martial Dao’s stages and ordered Wu Yong to recruit rogue cultivators for experiments, while he studied a Radiant Strange Flower and planned to use its Life Atlas to guide mutation.

Lin Chen investigated the Hell Ten Paths’ scheme on Martial Dao Spirit Island and uncovered the Native Sect’s experiment to merge living souls into a greater being. As the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree consumed the trapped cultivators, the Immortal Alliance’s Dao Children destroyed it, but another abnormal change began.

• Lin Chen sent modified cultivators to Prayer Spirit Island, where their blood-red eye attack wiped out the island’s corrupt forces, then investigated the power of faith and dynastic fate.
• The Immortal Alliance fleet fought the Hell Ten Paths and a sea beast tide, but the Hatching Nest and its allies inflicted heavy losses before reinforcements arrived.
• An Incense Spirit Island ancestor sacrificed the Divine Official Hierarchy Chart to seal Martial Dao Spirit Island, and Lin Chen entered the island alone, planting Hell Strange Flowers to mark it.
• Lin Chen discovered that the island’s illusion trapped cultivators in a past version of the town, where the Native Sect’s experiments had turned the ruins into a Demon Grotto.
• The Lord of the Celestial Being Path revealed the Native Sect’s goal of freeing souls from their bodies, while Lin Chen identified the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree as a defective product of the Drought Demon’s experiment.
• The Drought Demon spread Corpse Poison and planned to bring on the Age of Dharma's End, while the Mother Tree trapped and consumed Lin Chen and the other cultivators beneath its Blood Moon.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master’s lightning freed the Immortal Alliance forces, and the Dao Children joined the battle against the Mother Tree.
• Old Woman Han Yue, Su Liyue, Shen Qingyang, Xu Yuanling, and Gu Wushuang combined their powers to destroy the Blood Sea and Mother Tree, but True Lord Xingmu warned that the threat was not finished.

Lin Chen completed Spirit Transformation aboard the Ghost Ship after battling Celestial Venerable Canghai, then returned to Penglai Island and gathered resources as rival factions prepared for war. He discovered that the elders planned to kill him for the Soul Returning Wood using a formation that could also revive them.

• The Flesh and Blood Mother Tree’s living fetus threatened the cultivators, while Lin Chen emerged from the Dream Realm and began the Path of the Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Chen revealed his Sixth-Order Spirit Embryo, divided the Immortal Alliance’s fighters, and used their methods and knowledge to advance toward Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Chen confronted Celestial Venerable Canghai, and the Ghost Ship carried him through a breach into the Chaos Sea as he completed the Spiritualization Tribulation.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling blocked Canghai’s pursuit, and Taixuan and the other Heavenly Lords arrived as competing secret alliances formed around the Dragon Source and other treasures.
• Lin Chen returned to Penglai Island, learned the Dragon Source could aid his advancement, and rejected the Spider Web Spirit Queen’s initial offer while secretly listening to the coalition’s plans.
• Lin Chen investigated the Spirit Puppet investment scheme, obtained a map of the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, and secured Spirit Stones and materials for the coming Righteous-Demonic Great War.
• The Conservative elders revealed their plan to seize Lin Chen’s Immortal Ship and Soul Returning Wood, and Lin Chen overheard them preparing to use the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation to kill him and revive themselves.

Lin Chen uncovers the Nanhua Dream Sect’s warning about a future catastrophe while the old monsters and Year Wardens plot to seize power. He helps trigger a financial crisis on Penglai Island, leaving the East Sea in turmoil.

• Lin Chen entered Nanhua’s Final Dream, learned that the sect had sacrificed itself to stop the Heavenly Demon, and accepted its warning about a future catastrophe.
• Lin Chen discovered that the Heavenly Demon wanted to bring the Final Dream into reality and resolved to distract it by stirring up Penglai Island.
• Old Woman Han Yue learned that the Twelve Si Sui were contaminating Outer Realm deities, while the old monsters made a pact with Ouroboros to seize their Great Dao powers.
• Lin Chen formed an unstable Illusionary World, then agreed to help the Demonic Path create chaos across the East Sea in exchange for a Candle Dragon Scale and True Phoenix Feather.
• Lin Chen restored and refined the Phoenix Feather, completed his Order Chip, and prepared to set the East Sea calamity in motion.
• Long Aotian invested all his possessions in the Spirit Puppet Method after the Immortal Alliance advertised its promise of advancement and longevity.
• When investors could not withdraw their resources, Long Aotian and the crowd discovered the Alliance vault was empty, and violence erupted across Penglai Island.
• Lin Chen watched from his Cave Mansion and declared that the bubble had burst and the East Sea financial crisis had begun.