Recaps

Chen Changsheng led his companions to the Four Directions Continent, where they awakened Heavenly Souls and entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s deadly selection. After Xu Hu’s invasion disrupted the contest, Chen Changsheng began teaching the survivors to cultivate both systems.

• Kong Xuan killed the generals who pleaded for General Shen and ordered the Tiger Guard to display their heads beneath the battle banner.
• Chen Changsheng led his companions through the void to the Four Directions Continent, where Void Beasts injured several of them and he explained the Heavenly Soul system.
• Chen Changsheng awakened the group’s Heavenly Souls, arranged false identities through Phantom agents, and brought them to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Ma Ling’er wagered Essence of Stars against Ye Xiong, but Ye Xiong killed A Da and threw Gui Daoran into a wall after the fight.
• At the Heaven’s Chosen selection, Xu Yao defeated Ye Shan, Jian Fei defeated Ke Hui with Dragon’s Roar, and Su You overcame his obsession to attack Ye Mingjie.
• Xu Yao persuaded Ye Feng to concede, while Xu Hu attacked the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and Bai Ze fled with the Enlightenment Tree.
• Ye Feng told Xu Yao that the sect had controlled his life, and Xu Yao asked Chen Changsheng whether he was like Nangong Xing and she was like Qiao Er.
• Chen Changsheng taught the group how to cultivate both systems, explained how Heavenly Souls could aid Divine Realm cultivation, and saw Xu Yao’s fox speak and walk unsteadily.

Chen Changsheng backed Zhang Zhen’s bid for the Mandate of Heaven while pressing the Four Directions Continent’s factions into conflict. As the young cultivators recovered and faced political marriages and threats, Su You appeared carrying a corpse.

• Chen Changsheng recruited Zhang Zhen to his cause, won Bai Qiuniang’s cooperation by offering a plan to cure Zhang Zhen, and laid out the resources and risks involved.
• Chen Changsheng urged Zhang Zhen to enter the Mandate of Heaven contest as an outsider, then returned with him to find Xu Yao and the others preparing to meet the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Chen Changsheng sent Zhang Zhen to kill Wang Hai, whose death and the Millennium Ice Toad venom made the Azure Dragon Sect and Ten Thousand Beasts Sect suspect Ye Mingjie.
• Chen Changsheng staged an ambush with Nalan Fuyao’s forces, then took Zhang Zhen and Fu Yao to Desperate Valley and forced its inhabitants to retreat with the Old Sword Strip.
• After the group suffered heavy losses, Chen Changsheng arranged for Fu Yao to help Zhang Zhen manifest a second Heavenly Soul, while Ma Ling’er gave the wounded cultivators the Bitter Sea Rebuilding Method.
• Ye Hong arrived to announce the sects’ marriage arrangements, and Jian Fei helped her mistake Su You for him before urging Su You to reject the alliance with Sima Lan.
• Chen Changsheng explained his Second Heavenly Soul theory to Fu Yao and revealed that he had arranged the group’s defeat to push them to discover their own potential.
• Ye Feng asked Jian Fei to protect his sister, and Su You appeared carrying a corpse and apologized to Ye Feng.

Chen Changsheng prepared Xu Yao and her companions to face the Four Directions Continent, while the Heavenly Court fought a long war and the young cultivators were left to survive on their own. After years of conflict, Chen Changsheng exposed the secret behind the continent’s power and escaped with the Seven-Colored Boulder as Chen Xiang prepared to face Tantai Chuixue.

• Su You chose to stay with Ye Hong, while attacks on the camp led to Ye Hong and Jiang Yongnian being captured and Xu Yao being gravely wounded before Chen Xiang saved her and forged her a Sword Bone.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that he had used Xu Yao and her companions as bait to draw out the Four Directions Continent’s experts, and the group chose to stay and prepare for the coming war under Fu Yao’s instruction.
• Chen Xiang warned the group that the Four Directions Continent’s fast cultivation methods consumed vital essence, while Fu Yao taught them about borrowed Dao and Chen Xiang restarted his cultivation.
• After Ye Feng exposed their identities, Xu Yao and her companions were cut off inside the Four Directions Continent as war began, and they fought for years while the Heavenly Court’s assaults repeatedly failed.
• Chen Changsheng sent Zhang Zhen to seize the God King Cauldron and had Fu Yao impersonate him, while the disguised Chen Changsheng ambushed the Central Region Realm Lord and kept the continent hunting him for fifteen years.
• Xu Yao stayed hidden as her allies faced danger, while Fu Yao surrendered to Luo Kai and Bai Ze escaped to rejoin her as the war began to die down.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the Four Directions Continent’s ancestors had been awakened by a meteorite whose power the four old men had spread through Dragon Veins, then killed them after secretly weakening them.
• Chen Changsheng took the Seven-Colored Boulder and escaped through a teleportation array, while Chen Xiang prepared to settle his ancient duel with Tantai Chuixue using the Old Sword Strip.

Chen Changsheng helped end the Four Directions Continent war, then withdrew into seclusion as his friends chose their own paths and Fu Yao died. Years later, Little Immortal Elder drew him into a new conflict beyond the world, where Chen Changsheng began turning Sky Abyss City into a source of wealth and ordered most of its defenders to the front lines.

• Jian Fei reunited with Sima Lan, accepted Baili Changkong’s challenge, and inherited his swords before Baili vanished.
• Chen Xiang defeated Tantai Chuixue, while Xu Yao awakened as a Sword Immortal and escaped with him as the Sword Spirit held off their pursuers.
• Chen Changsheng welcomed Sima Lan and Ye Hong as students, sent Ye Feng and Baili Changkong to the Wilds, and tasked Zhang Zhen with opposing Luo Kai.
• Zhang Zhen killed Luo Kai, and Chen Changsheng’s forces won the 7,850-year war before he revealed how he had engineered Luo Kai’s defeat and imprisoned him.
• Chen Changsheng approved Chen Xiang and Xu Yao’s marriage, while his friends prepared to leave and Zhang Zhen became the bearer of two worlds’ Heaven’s Mandates.
• Chen Changsheng sealed Bai Ze and the Treasure Swallowing Rat into slumber and slept for two thousand years, then later heard Fu Yao’s warning that his loved ones were the courage sustaining him.
• Little Immortal Elder brought Chen Changsheng out of seclusion to address a breach beyond the world, and Chen Changsheng agreed to go alone in exchange for a future favor.
• Chen Changsheng negotiated control of a region around Sky Abyss City, arranged for the Sword Qi Great Wall to be moved there, and ordered most of the city’s Immortal Venerables to reinforce the front lines.