Recaps

Chen Changsheng negotiated the Ferocious Beasts’ place in the Virtual World while preparing the younger generation for its lethal second checkpoint. As the chosen prodigies entered a new trial with their Dao Protectors, a warning revealed that hidden threats had returned.

• Wang Hao arrived to help Li Changsheng and Zhang Ling, while Liu Yidao advised Li Changsheng to build transmission passages and offered to deal with anyone who obstructed the work.
• Wang Hao blocked the Buddhist Kingdom’s gates as Li Changsheng, Zhang Ling, and Mo Bai fought Buddhist experts, and Liu Yidao later killed Zen Master Mingxing to save Li Changsheng from Meditative Blindness.
• Liu Yidao explained the brutal history of the Cultivation World, while Chen Changsheng rescued Li Yibai from the Ferocious Beasts and began negotiating their share of the Virtual World.
• Chen Changsheng rejected the Ferocious Beasts’ demands, united other factions against them, and secured one-third of their share as his private stash after they accepted defeat.
• Chen Changsheng told the young Virtual World holders that the second checkpoint would pit them against powerful enemies, and Feng Ran said they joined the mission to revive the Imperial Tutor.
• Liu Yidao helped Feng Ran find a Dao Protector and warned Zhang Ling that deaths in the checkpoint could open Virtual World slots, while the group prepared for the trial.
• The Virtual World announced a trial to defeat a Demon Lord, and the participating geniuses entered the black mist with their Quasi-Emperor Dao Protectors.
• Li Changsheng and Sword Come received a warning that someone had targeted them, and Bai Ze and the Li family Ancestor suspected that a supposedly dead entity and another mysterious figure had returned.

Chen Changsheng’s killing game trapped the young cultivators in the black fog, where Meng De, Li Changsheng, and Sword Come struggled against Ghost Granny and deadly formations. The survivors began preparing to break through the Immortal King Realm and wait out the mission together.

• Li Changsheng and Sword Come survived a powerful Ghost Cultivator’s curse as Ancestor Bai Ze and the Li family Ancestor followed them into the black fog.
• Meng De and Yin Jie became trapped by the Evil Ghost Legion and Ghost Granny, and Meng De gambled that offering himself would keep the old woman from killing him outright.
• Ghost Granny forced Meng De to retrieve the trapped geniuses and lure their Dao Protectors away, while Meng De, Li Changsheng, and Sword Come used coded signals to coordinate a counterattack.
• Chen Changsheng fought Yuan Yi, explained the importance of cultivation foundations, and arranged shares in the Virtual World for Wu Li, Little Immortal Elder, and Zi Ping.
• Li Changsheng and Sword Come fought the inn’s deadly curses, while Chen Changsheng used a straw-doll technique to immobilize Meng De before Meng De destroyed the attacking ghosts with his life lamp.
• Mo Bai challenged the horror in Death Valley and advanced toward the Immortal King Realm as Chen Changsheng and Yuan Yi watched the prodigies reveal their strength.
• Sword Come entered the Immortal King Realm, revived Meng De, and helped Li Changsheng escape the blood-red mist.
• Meng De persuaded Li Changsheng to become an Immortal King so they could break the deadlock and hide together until the mission ended.

The second trial brought Feng Zhi’s death, the destruction of the Bewitching Inn, and a purge that killed several challengers and their protectors. As powerful cultivators gathered to undergo tribulations and Chen Changsheng revealed secrets of the Bitter Sea system, Yuan Yi reached the remaining prodigies and Zhang Ling charged into the fight.

• Ye Xuan killed Feng Zhi after she reached the Immortal King Realm, and Chen Changsheng carried her body away in a parasol tree coffin.
• Li Changsheng and Meng De destroyed Ghost Granny’s true body beneath the Bewitching Inn, while Yuan Yi redirected the black mist’s forces against the scattered challengers.
• Yuan Yi’s attacks killed Zen Master Xingyun, Zen Master Hui'an, and Liao Xing, and Chen Changsheng emerged with five coffins for Wang Hao to distribute.
• Grand Preceptor Pang, the Li family Ancestor, Ancestor Bai Ze, Yin Jie, and others prepared to undergo Quasi-Emperor tribulations as Long Aotian ran toward the black mist’s outskirts.
• Yuan Yi pursued Mo Bai, and Mo Bai’s Dao Protector stayed behind to fight him while Li Qiong and Shi Yue began tribulations to advance to the eighth heaven.
• Chen Changsheng explained the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, Epoch Heaven’s Mandate, Thunder Tribulation Liquid, and the special origin that could form a soul.
• Chen Changsheng offered his Soul Cultivation Method as a reward for the second trial, and the Confucian Sage and other powerful figures bowed to him.
• Yuan Yi appeared before the remaining prodigies with Lin Yao’s head, knocked Long Aotian down, and stomped on him before Zhang Ling entered the passage with the Heaven-Piercing Talisman and an unknown companion.

Chen Changsheng guided the surviving prodigies through soul cultivation and the trials of the Thunder Sea while preparing a new Emperor Weapon. As the Five Tigers Group made plans to enter the Pill Epoch, Chen Changsheng took Baleful Shadow and Mo Bai under his guidance for the next trial.

• Chen Changsheng settled the dispute between Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow, rewarded them with different soul methods, and explained the dangerous special state that soul cultivation could unlock.
• Xu Qianzhui confronted Yuan Yi, exposed his cowardice, and killed him without karmic blame as Chen Changsheng explained the role of a sound Dao heart.
• Chen Changsheng presented plans for a powerful exclusive Bitter Sea Emperor Weapon, then warned that humanoid thunder tribulations embodied the Great Dao imprints of past experts.
• Pang Tong, Yin Jie, and other cultivators faced the thunder tribulations, while Chen Changsheng explained the risks and the imprints they could leave for future generations.
• After the trials ended, Meng De recruited Baleful Shadow into the Five Tigers Group and proposed pursuing the Imperial Tutor's Relic and entering the Pill Epoch's medicinal herb market.
• Mo Bai sought to establish his own force, and Chen Changsheng began guiding him through the origins and meaning of the Divine Continent Spiritual Chapter.
• Chen Changsheng took Baleful Shadow and Mo Bai toward the Pill Epoch, began teaching them the Soul Secret Method, and assigned them different cultivation paths to pursue.