Recaps

After failing to break through during seclusion, Lin Chenxing reconsidered whether his cultivation path could lead his disciples to Immortality and decided to let them choose whether to continue following it. Xi Qing refused to give up, challenging his confidence and reminding him that others had persevered through far greater setbacks.

• Lin Chenxing ended his seclusion, admitted to Xi Qing that he had failed to break through, and learned that she had reached World Lord Third Stage.
• Xi Qing told Lin Chenxing that Luo Feng had returned briefly and that he seemed powerful enough to stand above ordinary King-Rank Immortals.
• Lin Chenxing realized he remained far behind Luo Feng and told Xi Qing he would let disciples who wanted the conventional path return to it.
• Xi Qing declared she would keep following Lin Chenxing’s path and urged him not to abandon it after a single failure.

After Xi Qing sent Lin Chenxing back to Bamboo Mountain to reconsider his path, he reflected on his achievements and worries about leading his family and disciples toward a dead end. An anonymous message warned that his path had gone astray because he had confused what was primary and secondary, leaving him searching for the flaw in his cultivation.

• Xi Qing scolded Lin Chenxing, dragged him back to the summit of Bamboo Mountain, and told him to stay until he had figured things out.
• Lin Chenxing surveyed the bamboo varieties and remembered how his experiments had transformed Mars, built the Blue Star Lineage, and shaped his rise.
• Lin Chenxing realized Xi Qing had mistaken his uncertainty for an intent to abandon his path, and he opened his mailbox to reassure her.
• Lin Chenxing found an anonymous email warning that his path had gone astray because he had treated the primary and secondary incorrectly.
• Lin Chenxing considered whether he should develop all his derived laws into Origin Laws, but doubted that a path dependent on his many clones could be followed by others.

After more than a thousand years of seclusion, Lin Chenxing returned home and decided to spend time with his family. Before joining them for a banquet, he agreed to address tensions at the Dojo by separating its two paths and putting Bian Shuo in charge of one.

• Lin Chenxing received Xi Qing's email inviting him home and reflected on their shared hopes for the Blue Star Lineage and their family.
• Lin Chenxing walked down Bamboo Mountain, admired the bamboo he had grown, and returned to the home he had not visited in over a thousand years.
• Lin Chenxing sat with Father Lin, learned about his father's Virtual Universe game, and considered joining him for a few battles.
• Lin Chenxing visited Mother Lin, Xi Qing, and Fang Hexian as they prepared a family banquet, then agreed to handle problems at the Dojo.
• Lin Chenxing decided that Bian Shuo, who was strong enough to be a World Lord, could take charge of a separate Dojo for one of the two paths.

Lin Chenxing investigated the factions arguing at the Lingzhu Dojo and pieced together how disputes over cultivation paths, challenges, and resources had escalated. After summoning the disciples, he announced that the dojo would be reorganized starting the next day.

• Lin Chenxing secretly listened as Bian Faction and He Faction disciples argued over cultivation paths, former disciples, challenges, and resources.
• Lin Chenxing concluded that former Origin One Path disciples had tried to persuade holdouts to switch paths, while supporters challenged their opponents and distributed resources to keep wavering disciples committed.
• Lin Chenxing summoned the dojo disciples to their usual classroom and announced that the Lingzhu Dojo would be reorganized starting tomorrow.

Lin Chenxing reorganized Lingzhu Dojo, dividing it into Lingzhu Dojo and Origin One Dojo while warning that the Path of Origin One demanded exceptional talent. He left Bian Shuo and He Meng in charge of the two Dojos and urged disciples to choose their cultivation paths carefully.

• Lin Chenxing announced that Path of Origin One cultivators would form Origin One Dojo, with Bian Shuo overseeing Lingzhu Dojo and He Meng overseeing Origin One Dojo.
• Lin Chenxing set resource shares, membership limits, and evaluations every hundred years for Origin One Dojo disciples.
• A disciple asked how evaluations would treat people delayed by bottlenecks, and Lin Chenxing said the path required far more talent than conventional cultivation.
• Lin Chenxing explained that He Meng's Internal World was several times more stable than average, making the breakthrough to immortality correspondingly harder for Origin One cultivators.
• Lin Chenxing warned that disciples who reached World Lord could no longer change paths, while suggesting other cultivators study Origin One after reaching that stage.

Lin Chenxing gave the Origin One Path disciples until the next morning to choose whether to follow its bright road or its uncertain narrow path, then brought Bian Shuo and He Meng home for dinner and a discussion of their cultivation. There, Lin Chenxing reunited with his family over a traditional feast.

• Lin Chenxing told the disciples studying the Origin One Path to decide by the next morning whether to follow the bright road or the narrow path.
• Lin Chenxing reminded Bian Shuo and He Meng that they had been lax in managing the dojo and told them to examine their role in its conflict.
• Lin Chenxing invited Bian Shuo and He Meng to dinner so they could discuss their cultivation progress.
• Lin Chenxing reunited with Lin Chenming, Lin Jun, and Lin Yi, and learned about their lives and cultivation.
• Lin Chenxing's family and disciples shared a traditional Blue Star feast prepared by Mother Lin, Mother Xi, and Xi Qing.

After his failed attempt to break through to Immortality, Lin Chenxing spent time with Xi Qing and then visited his teacher Hugelder to discuss his progress and the risks of relying on clones. Hugelder praised Lin Chenxing’s powerful Internal World and Peak Secret Technique but warned that he needed more direct experience with life and death.

• Lin Chenxing reassured Xi Qing that his failed breakthrough would not defeat him, and they reflected on their long years of work and their family.
• Lin Chenxing arranged to see Lin Li in two days and decided to visit Hugelder the next morning.
• Lin Chenxing visited Hugelder and brought him tea made from leaves given by his disciple Cassio.
• Lin Chenxing explained that his Origin Core was too powerful for him to break through and that his Internal World had grown stronger while he prepared.
• Hugelder learned that Lin Chenxing had created a Peak Secret Technique and warned him that relying on clones had limited his understanding of life and death.
• Lin Chenxing challenged Hugelder to experience life and death for himself.

Lin Chenxing visited Hugelder and his junior brother Cassio, gave Cassio a metal gift and notes on converting between the Origin Laws of Wood and Gold. Hugelder agreed to let Cassio leave his God Kingdom and adjust to the outside world at Lin Chenxing’s Lingzhu Dojo.

• Hugelder teased Lin Chenxing, then called Cassio over from the Metal Forest.
• Lin Chenxing gave Cassio F2-Grade metal and playfully ruffled his hair.
• Lin Chenxing offered Cassio notes on deriving the Law of Gold from the Origin Law of Wood, and Cassio eagerly accepted them.
• Lin Chenxing invited Hugelder to leave his God Kingdom with him, but Hugelder declined.
• Lin Chenxing asked Cassio to go outside, and Hugelder agreed to send him to Lin Chenxing’s Lingzhu Dojo.

Lin Li showed Lin Chenxing a tiny puppet clone he had developed from studying Lin Chenxing’s clone technique, and Lin Chenxing approved funding the research through the Three Realms Company. The technique remained limited to plant-related beings, and Lin Li learned that the company would review his experiments alongside the family.

• Lin Chenxing brought Cassio’s clone to the Lingzhu Dojo and left him with Bian Shuo.
• Lin Li visited Lin Chenxing at Bamboo Mountain with bags of research materials and revealed his progress on a clone technique.
• Lin Li demonstrated a tiny plantlike puppet that he could control and supply with energy.
• Lin Li explained that the technique only worked for plant-life clones, plant life-forms, and people who had once become plants.
• Lin Chenxing made Lin Li’s research a top priority for the Three Realms Company and promised him access to needed resources.
• Lin Chenxing told Lin Li that the family and the company would review his experiments, leaving Lin Li discouraged.

Lin Chenxing met with Lin Li, gave him a blood sample for his research, and invited former Xingyan Group directors to reconnect and strengthen his will. As the old friends discussed their lives and the Lingzhu Dojo, Lin Chenxing encouraged Ma Tianxing and Guo Qichang to keep cultivating.

• Lin Chenxing examined Lin Li's potions and gave him a drop of blood to analyze, then watched him hurry off to begin his research.
• Lin Chenxing invited Gao Zheng, Chen Yanbing, He Qishun, Ma Tianxing, Guo Qichang, Meng Chang, and others to meet him in the Virtual Universe so he could reconnect with them and reinforce his will.
• Guo Qichang and Ma Tianxing said they were content with their lives and had little interest in further cultivation, while Meng Chang and Gao Zheng challenged their outlook.
• He Qishun and Chen Yanbing urged Ma Tianxing and Guo Qichang to keep cultivating, and Lin Chenxing reminded them that their talented descendants still needed their protection.
• Ma Tianxing asked why Lin Chenxing had split the Lingzhu Dojo, and Lin Chenxing explained that factional disorder and the needs of his cultivation path had prompted the division.

Lin Chenxing discussed his failed breakthrough and the risks of his cultivation path with Gao Zheng and the others, then decided to travel in his true body and experience the world directly. His companions warned him that the Monster Race had learned about his clones and placed him on its assassination list, so he prepared to leave cautiously.

• Gao Zheng and Ma Tianxing asked Lin Chenxing about splitting the Dojo, discouraging disciples from following his path, and failing to break through to immortality.
• Lin Chenxing said he planned to travel but had not decided when or where to go, and Gao Zheng urged him to set out in his true body rather than rely on his clones.
• Lin Chenxing realized that his clones' experiences had felt detached since his sub-plant clone became a true clone and its death stopped mattering to him.
• Chen Yanbing and He Qishun reassured Lin Chenxing that the Blue Star Lineage could handle the alien immigrants and did not need him to stay behind.
• Lin Chenxing decided to set out after making preparations, and Gao Zheng warned him that the Monster Race had put him on its assassination list.

Lin Chenxing decided to travel across planets and experience other civilizations to overcome his bottleneck and advance along his path. After discussing the dangers with Xi Qing and compiling his cultivation insights into a manual for her, He Meng, and Bian Shuo, he prepared to set out into the sea of stars.

• After talking with Gao Zheng and the others, Lin Chenxing settled on traveling and experiencing more of the universe as his next step.
• Lin Chenxing told Xi Qing he planned to leave, and she supported him while warning him to beware of powerful soul techniques.
• Xi Qing offered to pack food and asked to accompany Lin Chenxing if she could.
• Lin Chenxing compiled his cultivation insights and secret techniques into a book named Origin One, ending it with the words “To be continued.”
• Lin Chenxing finished his preparations and was ready to leave for the sea of stars.

Lin Chenxing returned to the Smoke Saint Secret Realm to learn how the people he had once supported were doing. He discovered that nine former trainees had become guards there, and they reunited with him at the palace entrance.

• Lin Chenxing traveled to the Smoke Saint Secret Realm and requested permission to ask about its history.
• The secret realm's officials detected Lin Chenxing as a World Lord Level Nine and prepared to welcome him.
• Inbaier recognized Lin Chenxing from the records and summoned Qi Shanheng and eight others to greet him.
• Inbaier told Lin Chenxing that people he once supported had come to welcome him, and Lin Chenxing recognized nine former trainees among the guards.
• The nine former trainees removed their masks and hurried over to Lin Chenxing, trembling with excitement.

Lin Chenxing reunited with the nine disciples who had reached Universe Level and arranged to take them away from the Smoke Saint Secret Realm. Inbaier then revealed that an Earth-Cloud Race corpse could open a hidden garbage dump containing an awakened World Lord-level Bug Race Mother Emperor, and asked Lin Chenxing to help confront her.

• Lin Chenxing greeted Qi Shanheng, Mo Jia, and the other seven disciples, then asked Inbaier to let him take them along.
• Inbaier agreed, sent the nine disciples to wait in their rooms, and brought Lin Chenxing to his reception room.
• Inbaier asked Lin Chenxing about the Earth-Cloud Race cloud that had vanished from the secret realm, and Lin Chenxing sensed the message it contained about a hidden Treasure Vault.
• Lin Chenxing learned that the Earth-Cloud Race had sealed a vast garbage dump and that an Earth-Cloud Race corpse could serve as its key.
• Inbaier revealed that he had opened the dump but fled after finding an awakened, World Lord-level Bug Race Mother Emperor inside, and he asked Lin Chenxing for help because he believed Lin Chenxing was stronger than her.

Lin Chenxing and Inbaier entered the Bug Race’s hidden territory to kill the Mother Emperor and claim the treasures surrounding her nest. Inbaier held off the approaching Zerg Legion while Lin Chenxing charged uphill, where he discovered that his spear could pierce even the heavily armored bug guards.

• Inbaier used the Earth-Cloud Race to open a passage through the rock wall, and he and Lin Chenxing entered before the entrance vanished behind them.
• Inbaier told Lin Chenxing that the Mother Emperor mainly produced scouts and siege bugs and commanded fewer than a thousand World Lord-level bugs.
• Lin Chenxing followed Inbaier to the treasure-laden mountain and agreed to follow their plan to attack quickly.
• After Inbaier signaled, Lin Chenxing charged toward the Mother Emperor’s nest at the summit while Inbaier prepared to confront the approaching legion.
• Lin Chenxing killed the first Shield-Armor Bug with a spear thrust that pierced its thick armor.

Lin Chenxing captured the Bug Race Mother Emperor with his illusion technique and shared the remaining bugs with Inbaier. Meanwhile, leaked information about Lin Chenxing’s whereabouts prompted the Monster Race and a Jiayu Empire immortal to dispatch forces to intercept and kill him.

• Lin Chenxing trapped the Mother Emperor in layered Red Dust Wind Dust illusions until she fell asleep, causing nearly all her bugs to sleep as well.
• Lin Chenxing collected the Mother Emperor and let Inbaier claim the sleeping bugs, and the two began dividing their spoils.
• A Domain Lord in the Guardian Palace posted and quickly removed a bounty, but information about Lin Chenxing’s movements had already spread.
• The Monster Race intelligence center ordered an undercover squad to intercept and kill Lin Chenxing, prioritizing Soul Control.
• A Human Race immortal in the Jiayu Empire assembled subordinates disguised as Star Pirates and sent them to kill a World Lord at the designated location.

Lin Chenxing and Inbaier divided the Bug Race Mother Emperor’s hoard, and Lin Chenxing discovered several valuable treasures, including a Beast God Inheritance Token and a strange fruit-bearing plant. Inbaier’s share made him vastly richer, but Lin Chenxing’s strength kept him from acting on thoughts of betrayal.

• Inbaier let Lin Chenxing choose first because Lin Chenxing had played the greater role in defeating the Mother Emperor and had shown a technique Inbaier could not resist.
• Lin Chenxing selected a six-sided Beast God Inheritance Token that contained the inheritance for the fusion of water and space.
• Inbaier chose a massive hammer, and the two took turns dividing the rest of the treasures.
• Lin Chenxing obtained two Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystals and a strange plant whose fruit produced beasts that returned to fruit when killed.
• Inbaier grew excited as he checked the value of his share and briefly considered killing Lin Chenxing, but Lin Chenxing’s strength made him reconsider.

Lin Chenxing left the Smoke Saint Secret Realm while Inbaier returned to the Guardian Palace, where he uncovered spies and a likely ambush. Lin Chenxing headed for the Human-Bug Race border to test whether the unusual plant could help him build an army that rivaled the Bug Race’s.

• Lin Chenxing told Inbaier he would skip the Guardian Palace, warned him to be cautious, and entrusted the nine captives to him until an escort arrived.
• Inbaier traveled back with merchant ships and detected distorted patches near the Guardian Palace, which he suspected concealed enemies lying in wait for Lin Chenxing.
• Inbaier called the Universe Mercenary Alliance for help, and its investigation uncovered Bug Race and Machine Race spies in the Guardian Palace.
• Lin Chenxing traveled toward the Human-Bug Race border and studied Lin Li’s experimental data while testing the unusual plant.

Lin Chenxing settled on a mineral planet in a contested region between the Human Race and the Bug Race, joining the battle while hoping to create powerful Plant Beasts and find a breakthrough through combat. He planted an unusual species and began transforming the planet with rain and lightning.

• Lin Chenxing arrived at the Broken Galaxy, a ruined star system on the Human Race and Bug Race border, and chose a mineral planet near the battlefield as his base.
• Lin Chenxing’s application to join the battle was approved, with the condition that he would provide support once he created a Plant Beast with at least Domain Lord-level strength.
• Lin Chenxing chose the battlefield to gain combat experience and seek a breakthrough, while planning to keep the threats he drew within manageable limits.
• Lin Chenxing planted the unusual tree-like plant he had found in the Earth-Cloud Race garbage dump, and its roots spread through the planet as it sensed nutrients.
• Lin Chenxing used his understanding of the Wood of Water Laws to summon rain and lightning, beginning to transform the planet’s environment.

Lin Chenxing studied how a special plant produced Strange Beasts with Secret Patterns, then killed a Bug Race squad that arrived to investigate the planet. He left the spaceship’s wreck beside the plant, calling the dead bugs nutrients for his experiment.

• Lin Chenxing ripened the special plant’s fruit and watched it become a Domain Lord-level Strange Beast that guarded the plant.
• Lin Chenxing copied the Strange Beast’s body patterns and concluded he needed to combine the different patterns produced by the plant to reconstruct a complete Secret Pattern.
• Lin Chenxing detected the approaching Bug Race spaceship and decided to kill its crew to protect his experiment.
• Lin Chenxing threw a spear through the spaceship, killing every bug aboard.
• One of Lin Chenxing’s clones appeared beside the wreck and said the plant would benefit from the bugs’ nutrients.

Lin Chenxing investigated a special plant whose Law Secret Patterns appeared to form a Beast God Diagram, possibly revealing secrets of the Wood, Space Beast God and Starry Sky Behemoths. When the plant produced an Immortal Strange Beast, its creatures attacked him, and he destroyed all but the Immortal one.

• Lin Chenxing learned that the Bug Race would soon notice its patrol squad had gone silent, while a Mother Emperor reported the loss and a King-level Immortal Mother Emperor sent an Immortal Army Lord and an Ordinary Immortal to investigate.
• Lin Chenxing stayed on the mineral planet and completed the outline of a Strange Beast-shaped Law Secret Pattern, which he believed was part of a Beast God Diagram tied to the Wood, Space Beast God.
• Lin Chenxing suspected the plant held secrets about the Starry Sky Behemoths and the Path of the Beast God, and he accelerated its maturation to uncover them.
• The special plant produced an Immortal Strange Beast, and its creatures launched a surprise attack on Lin Chenxing as he examined the Beast God Diagram.
• Lin Chenxing fought one-handed to protect the diagram and quickly killed every attacking Strange Beast except the Immortal one.

Lin Chenxing used the special plant and its Strange Beasts to complete more of his Beast God Diagram while disguising the mineral planet and luring a Bug Race squad into battle. The Bug Race withdrew to request reinforcements, and Lin Chenxing waited eagerly to test their strength.

• Lin Chenxing copied the undying Strange Beast's body patterns, weakened it, and continued growing the special plant as he neared completion of the Beast God Diagram.
• The Bug Race squad arrived in the Broken Galaxy, but Lin Chenxing's clone had made the mineral planet match its old star charts.
• Lin Chenxing sent a Strange Beast carrying Bug Race shipwreckage along the patrol route to draw the squad away and test its combat strength.
• The Bug Race fought the Strange Beast and tried to capture it, but Lin Chenxing released more beasts whenever one was about to fall asleep.
• The Bug Race withdrew to report the enormous group of undying Strange Beasts and request reinforcements, while Lin Chenxing let them go and prepared for the next encounter.
• Lin Chenxing supervised as the last healthy Strange Beast carried the others back, leaving nothing behind.

Lin Chenxing used the exhausted plant’s discoveries to begin developing ways to imprint Secret Patterns onto animals, while the Bug Race studied and fought his Strange Beasts. After more than three hundred years, his Water Clone successfully created a fish with a Secret Pattern that made it swim faster.

• Lin Chenxing completed at least 90% of the Beast God Diagram and found that the plant’s fruits had stopped producing new Secret Patterns before reverting to sparse patterns and Planetary Level Strange Beasts.
• Lin Chenxing summoned his clones to research how Spirit Bamboo could imprint Secret Patterns onto developing animals, but the work stalled over how to make the patterns take hold and strengthen the animals.
• The Bug Race reported the immortal Strange Beasts to its Venerable, who gave the Mother Emperor authority to use the encounters as training and ordered immortals to fight and try to capture them.
• Lin Chenxing sent increasing numbers of Strange Beasts against the Bug Race, eventually deploying several dozen immortal Strange Beasts beyond the planet’s atmosphere.
• More than three hundred years later, Lin Chenxing’s Water Clone created a fish bearing a Secret Pattern that improved its swimming speed, raising it to Apprentice First Order.

Lin Chenxing prepared an ambush against the Bug Race after studying how to produce Strange Beasts and spending a thousand years observing the rotating squads. He and his clones attacked the strongest squad during a shift change, leaving the battle over in less than ten seconds.

• Lin Chenxing discovered a shared Secret Pattern that let his clones create their first living creatures and then entrusted his research to them.
• Lin Chenxing decided to take the unusual plant with him, suppress its fruiting, and kill the conspicuous Strange Beasts while preparing a major attack on the Bug Race.
• Lin Chenxing spent nearly a thousand years observing the Bug Race squads and answering Human Race command center calls, earning the respect of battlefield soldiers.
• Lin Chenxing recalled his clones, hid in an asteroid, and attacked as the strongest Bug Race squad changed shifts with another squad.
• Lin Chenxing and his clones struck the four Bug Race Immortals, then split up to finish the Immortals and seize the spacecraft; the battle ended in less than ten seconds.

Lin Chenxing returned to headquarters as Marquis Fenhai and was assigned to guard a subsidiary battlefield while concealing his true strength. The Bug Race investigated the losses he had caused in the Broken Galaxy but could not trace them to him, and Lin Chenxing set out for his new post.

• Lin Chenxing returned to headquarters as Marquis Fenhai, where King Minyu welcomed him and the Human Race rearranged assignments around his arrival.
• The Bug Race investigated the disappearance of its forces in the Broken Galaxy and concluded that the Human Race had set a trap, but failed to identify Lin Chenxing.
• Lin Chenxing erased his traces, killed the Strange Beasts, and took their transformed fruits, seeds, and unusual plant with him.
• Lin Chenxing met the Human Race Immortals at headquarters and was assigned to rotate between subsidiary battlefields and the main battlefield.
• Lin Chenxing set out for a subsidiary battlefield consisting of three star systems contested by the Human Race and Bug Race.