Recaps

Chen Shisan survived a dangerous journey through Kongming Heaven and Huayang Grotto-Heaven, while Nalan Xingde gathered allies and confronted the Calamity. As Tian Xuan’s group continued toward the Buddhist Kingdom, Linglong joined them and Chen Changsheng’s plans drew Heavenly Court’s support.

• Chen Shisan and his companions escaped Cang Hong through a spatial rift, where Chen Shisan met Meng Yu and learned from Chen Changsheng about cultivation.
• After Cang Hong attacked them in the Small World, Meng Yu drove him off, but a venomous snake nearly killed Chen Shisan before Nalan Xingde and Bai Ze saved him.
• Chen Changsheng sent Chen Shisan and his companions onward, while Nalan Xingde urged Chen Shisan to choose his own path and told Tian Xuan he had to fulfill his Heaven’s Mandate.
• Nalan Xingde brought the group to Huayang Grotto-Heaven, where Cang Hong returned the 1,700 catties of divine source before Nalan Xingde confronted the Cave Heaven’s powerful cultivators.
• Nalan Xingde and Bai Ze escaped Huayang Grotto-Heaven with the Calamity, which Bai Ze swallowed before Nalan Xingde sent the youths onward toward the Buddhist Kingdom.
• At Cloud Mountain Temple, Bai Ze sought the Seven-Colored Golden Lotus and Vajra Pestle, and Linglong helped him take the treasures before joining the group.
• Linglong distributed lotus seeds that awakened Tian Xuan and Qian Bao’er’s Innate Divine Abilities, then gave Tian Xuan the Vajra Pestle and agreed to guide them to the Buddhist Kingdom.
• Heavenly Court’s ruler reassured Qian Fang Kong that he had approved of Qian Bao’er following Chen Changsheng, and agreed to give Nalan Xingde the South Plains.

Chen Changsheng maneuvered the Buddha Fate Assembly into surrendering the Merit Pool, where Chen Shisan strengthened his body and advanced dramatically. As Zhang Bairen founded the Heavenly Court to face a threat from another world, Chen Changsheng took charge and prepared the younger generation for what lay ahead.

• Chen Changsheng challenged Tian Xuan to explain how his choices would help him survive and restore the Demon Race, and Tian Xuan broke through after facing his failures.
• Chen Shisan’s Buddhist verse shook the kingdom, earning him the title of Buddha Child, and he asked to borrow the Merit Pool instead of claiming Heaven’s Mandate.
• When Cloud Mountain Temple’s monk attacked Chen Shisan and Tian Xuan, Chen Shisan fought on despite severe injuries, and Linglong renounced Buddhism to protect Tian Xuan.
• Chen Changsheng arrived, restored the injured youths, and forced the Buddhist Kingdom to yield Heaven’s Mandate and the Merit Pool.
• Chen Shisan cultivated in the Merit Pool while Chen Changsheng met Zhang Bairen, who revealed that an Ominous had escaped into another world and requested help against the threat.
• Chen Changsheng helped Zhang Bairen found the Heavenly Court, sealed Huayang Grotto-Heaven, and gave Meng Yu and Qian Bao'er missions to bring factions under its rule.
• Chen Changsheng questioned whether he should send Chen Shisan toward the Ascension Road, while the Heavenly Court expanded and Chen Shisan completed the Zhang Liu Golden Body.
• Chen Shisan emerged with his cultivation at the peak of the Cave Heaven Realm, while Chen Changsheng explained the bitter sea system’s realm gaps to Tian Xuan.

Chen Changsheng led the effort to destroy the Uncanny and prepared the world for a war that cost millions of lives, while Chen Shisan trained for more than a century before returning to the front. After the allied forces defeated the Uncanny, Chen Changsheng became Night Watchman at God and Demon Cemetery and learned that the Lower Realm’s conflict was bound up with an Upper Realm.

• Chen Changsheng destroyed Huayang Grotto-Heaven to expose and trap the Uncanny, then left Tian Xuan in command while Chen Shisan went to Netherworld Forest to train.
• Chen Changsheng arranged for Chen Shisan to part from Proud Snow Red Plum and Meng Yu, then sent him into Netherworld Forest to kill its regenerating demon beasts.
• Mister gathered the continents’ leaders and prepared three million cultivators for war against the Different World, while Chen Changsheng accepted responsibility for sending them to their deaths.
• After the Great Wall opened a passage, the allied army entered the Different World, and Chen Changsheng ordered Meng Yu to defend the crossing even against their own forces.
• Chen Shisan broke through the Netherworld Forest and returned to help Meng Yu, Tian Xuan, and Bai Ze defend the Great Wall, killing two Immortal Venerable Realm attackers with their aid.
• The war continued for decades as Nangong Ruoxue, Huineng, and Qian Bao'er fell, while Linglong briefly returned to Tian Xuan before dying in his arms.
• In the war’s sixtieth year, Chen Changsheng and his allies attacked the Small World and defeated the Uncanny, after which Zhang Bairen took control of the Heavenly Court and named Chen Changsheng Night Watchman.
• Chen Changsheng questioned Zhang Bairen about the realms, and Zhang Bairen explained that the Lower Realm and Upper Realm had once been connected before their passage was sealed.

Chen Changsheng opened the Ascension Road, then entered the Upper Realm and investigated Wang Hao’s schemes and the Wang family ancestor’s Bloodline Immortality. He later traveled with Hu Tudou, whose food quests sparked unrest among the demons and left a human-demon conflict looming.

• Chen Changsheng and Chen Shisan helped open the Ascension Road after defeating the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground, and Meng Yu died in the battle.
• Chen Shisan stayed with Meng Yu while Chen Changsheng entered the Upper Realm, where he spent centuries traveling before hiding his strength among low-level cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng uncovered how Wang Hao had been betrayed and how the Wang family ancestor used Bloodline Immortality to possess descendants, then learned more about the threat posed to Lower Realm ascendants.
• Chen Changsheng sealed the blood mist, gave Wang Hao a perfected Blood Transformation Great Art, and left for Xiniu Hezhou.
• Chen Changsheng captured Hu Tudou to protect her from demon hunters and Great Demons, then invited her to travel with him after she helped him realize he should live for himself.
• Chen Changsheng and Hu Tudou stole Hundred Flavors Fruits from the Great Strength Donkey Clan, then set off toward the Human-Faced Bees’ territory to take Hundred Flowers Honey.
• The thefts stirred unrest in Xiniu Hezhou, and Hu Qiuyue ordered the Demon Race to march on the Black Tortoise Alliance in ten days while forbidding attacks on humans until the man was handed over.