Recaps

Chen Changsheng uncovered the cost of the Self-severing Cut and sought Zhang Bairen to learn the purpose of the lightning tribulation. After returning to Mountain and River Academy, he guided Hua Feng and Xu Hu through their trials and prepared to face a widening political conflict.

• Chen Changsheng learned that most cultivators had severed their foundations to avoid the lightning tribulation and explained that the choice barred them from reaching the Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Chen Changsheng asked Bai Ze to work with Wu Li on a new cultivation method and set out with Hua Feng to find Zhang Bairen.
• Chen Changsheng found Zhang Bairen in the Flower Region and learned that the lightning tribulation tested cultivators before they could borrow the power of the dead heroes in the God and Demon Cemetery.
• Zhang Bairen asked Chen Changsheng to build his grave and challenged Hua Feng to surpass him, while Chen Changsheng told Hua Feng that she would become Zhang Bairen’s disciple.
• Chen Changsheng trained Hua Feng in the Nameless Fist and arranged a bargain with Ye Yongxian, while Xu Hu continued fighting to improve his cultivation.
• Kong Xuan’s challenge sparked battles at Mountain and River Academy, where Xu Hu fought Ma Guang and the academy’s students faced several opponents.
• Ma Guang attacked the immobilized Xu Hu with an Imperial Weapon, but Mo Wen stopped him and Chen Changsheng sent the defeated students into confinement to shield them from political fallout.
• Chen Changsheng warned Qian Ya that the Demon Court could crash the Black Market Points exchange, explained speculative trading, and then masked himself to watch the arrival of the Great Strength Donkey Clan Ancestor as Yue Ying confronted him.

Chen Changsheng prepared Mountain and River Academy’s disciples for the thunder tribulations, and Sun Yuqing survived hers through the academy’s fortune. He then led a group of young cultivators toward perilous training, where Xu Hu entered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Spring and Feiyun began training with Chen Shisan’s sword.

• Chen Changsheng exposed Ma Guang’s use of an Imperial Weapon, and Mo Wen expelled him and confiscated the weapon despite the Great Strength Donkey Clan’s threats.
• Chen Changsheng sent his disciples to prepare for the approaching tribulations and arranged for Ye Yongxian and Hu Tudou to seek ingredients, allies, and the White-Haired Sword God.
• Chen Changsheng learned from Nalan Xingde about the sealed Heavenly Dao and coming enemies, then visited Little Bright King to obtain his method for passing the Thunder Tribulation.
• Chen Changsheng refined Vajra Glass Pills, and Mountain and River Academy announced that its Direct Disciples would publicly face lightning tribulations.
• The academy’s Direct Disciples died in the Thunder Sea, but Sun Yuqing survived her tribulation after Chen Changsheng invested her as Academy Vice-Sage using the academy’s fortune.
• Chen Changsheng explained the tribulation’s stages and possible paths through the Thunder Sea, then set out with his young companions to pursue dangerous training.
• Xu Hu jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Spring before Xu Mao could stop him, and Chen Changsheng’s group emerged without Xu Hu or Bo Yuan.
• After the group split up for three years of training, Chen Changsheng took Su Wan'er and Feiyun to the Sword Qi Great Wall, where Feiyun tried to remove rust from Chen Shisan’s Iron Sword and was badly wounded.

Chen Changsheng built the Qilin Communicator Alliance into a New Era that challenged the old powers, then fought the God and Demon Races alongside his allies. The battle left the Demon Court weakened, the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground withdrawn, and Hua Feng and Xu Hu struggling to cross the Thunder Sea.

• Xu Hu reconciled with Xu Mao, then left for the Sword Qi Great Wall as Hua Feng completed her five-colored divine ability.
• Chen Changsheng returned to the Sword Qi Great Wall, then took Hua Feng, Xu Hu, and their companions to the Ancient Battlefield, where he prepared Tian Xuan for one final battle.
• Chen Changsheng tasked Qian Ya with spreading his array through the Qilin Communicator and building ties with the God and New Demon Races.
• Tu JiaoJiao survived her tribulation, entered the Thunder Sea, and killed Ma Guang, while Hua Feng and Xu Hu joined the growing New Era Alliance.
• Five years later, Hua Feng and Xu Hu survived deadly tribulations, and Chen Changsheng led his allies against the God Race, defeating the Three-Eyed Ancestor and declaring the Old Era lost.
• Ten years after the communicators spread, Chen Changsheng confronted Ma Zou Ri, then faced Baturu as the old farmer wielding Startled Swan forced the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground to retreat.
• Chen Changsheng and his allies fought their enemies through the Thunder Sea, while the Peacock Little Bright King sacrificed himself to reduce the Demon Court's luck and Baturu withdrew from the conflict.
• Chen Changsheng used puppets to bring back the Invincible Daoist, Song Yuanshan, and Emperor Zuo temporarily, as Hua Feng and Xu Hu fought to cross the Thunder Sea.

After Hua Feng merged with the Heavenly Dao to suppress the Evil Path, Chen Changsheng reincarnated without his memories and began a new life on the Heretical Cultivator Continent. He took Zhang Yu Sheng to Dragon Tiger Mountain, joined the sect, and left the wider conflict poised to draw its forces into negotiations.

• Chen Changsheng faced the Humanoid Thunder Tribulations, while Hua Feng and his companions completed their trials and prepared for the New Era.
• Chen Changsheng confronted Nalan Fuyao as Hua Feng bore Heaven’s Mandate, then escaped the Yansheng Art while Hua Feng merged with the Heavenly Dao to suppress the Evil Path.
• Chen Changsheng’s True Spirit entered reincarnation, and Yang Feiyun followed the Bronze Life Lamp in search of him as the Phoenix Empress merged with the Dao.
• Reborn as a nameless beggar, Chen Changsheng took the name Chang Sheng, awakened his intelligence, and met Yu Sheng and his grandfather while pursuing answers about his past.
• Chen Changsheng accepted the old man’s request to help Yu Sheng and traveled with him toward Dragon Tiger Mountain, then uncovered a town’s soul-refining formation and killed its mastermind with Yu Sheng’s help.
• Chen Changsheng and Yu Sheng escaped the formation, encountered Yun He, and continued to Dragon Tiger Mountain as the Demon Subjugation Army struggled to advance on the continent.
• The Patriarch welcomed Chen Changsheng and Yu Sheng, agreed to protect them, and accepted Chen Changsheng into Dragon Tiger Mountain after explaining that he had to face his own resistance to recovering his memories.
• Mao Shiba’s squad withdrew after Dragon Tiger Mountain intervened, and Kong Xuan’s officers proposed Drunken Scholar as a negotiator with the sect.