Recaps

After stealing from the Treasure Pavilion, Su Zhan avoided suspicion when the elders warned him about the burglary and offered him support. He left with a ring of supplies, but remained intent on obtaining the altar’s items and escaping before his deception was discovered.

• Su Zhan let his injuries heal overnight, then asked a guard what had happened at the Treasure Pavilion.
• The elders told Su Zhan that an outsider had burglarized the pavilion and warned him not to wander at night.
• The Third Elder asked to inspect Su Zhan’s physique, but another elder intervened and urged him to rest.
• The Sixth Elder praised Su Zhan, gave him a ring containing items and elixirs, and told him to consider himself part of the Drum Tribe.
• Su Zhan accepted the gifts happily while planning to get the altar’s items and leave.

Su Zhan prepared to loot the Drum Tribe’s Altar, gathered tools and cultivation methods from an undercover agent, and agreed to meet the chief of the group he had contacted. The woman leading him to the meeting behaved strangely, but Su Zhan failed to notice that something was wrong.

• The seven elders trapped Su Zhan’s demonic monkey and mistook it for evidence that ancient monsters had returned, so the grand elder urged them to make the tribe’s resources available to everyone.
• Su Zhan stayed in his room while the Drum Tribe tightened security, then used a gemstone to send a message to his undercover contact.
• At midnight, Su Zhan met the undercover agent, collected a powerful Haotian Hammer and other requested items, and concealed his plan to use the hammer against the Altar.
• Su Zhan followed a woman he had previously caught, and she told him that her chief agreed to meet and discuss his proposal.
• The woman led Su Zhan toward the meeting at an unusually quick pace, but he did not notice her unnatural behavior.

Su Zhan escaped an ambush by unleashing the White Dragon Flame, prompting the Drum Tribe to fear the Devil Race had returned and accelerate plans to strengthen their people. He then took on the role of priest for the tribe’s ancestral worship ceremony and felt a powerful connection with the Altar.

• Su Zhan followed a woman into the forest, where her people ambushed him with concealed weapons because they mistook him for an outsider who had deceived them before.
• Su Zhan summoned the White Dragon Flame, drove the attackers from hiding, and killed those who fled within his reach.
• Su Zhan used Demonic Energy to extinguish the forest fire, then left before the Drum Tribe could find him.
• The Fourth Elder identified the traces of the White Dragon Flame and warned the elders that the Devil Race might have returned, so they decided to immediately open access to resources and strengthen the tribespeople.
• Su Zhan received ceremonial robes adorned with Spirit Summoning Bells and wore them as he ascended the Altar to officiate the ancestral worship ceremony.
• As the Drum Tribe chanted below him, Su Zhan felt his soul resonate with the Altar and began the prepared ritual gestures.

During the Drum Tribe’s altar ritual, the Great Elder discovered Su Zhan’s true identity and pursued him. Su Zhan fled back to the altar, broke into it, and uncovered a half-book-shaped fragment, but an invisible barrier stopped him from taking it whole.

• Su Zhan completed the Drum Tribe’s solemn altar ritual and sensed an item fragment calling to him from the altar.
• The Drum Tribe found Su Zhan’s blood in the forest, and the Great Elder recognized its aura and realized Su Zhan had deceived them about his identity.
• Warned by the system that a powerful enemy was approaching, Su Zhan concealed his aura and escaped before the Great Elder reached his room.
• Su Zhan returned to the altar, secretly struck its edge with his hammer, and used his blood to soften the ground enough to break through.
• Su Zhan dug up a half-book-shaped fragment but could not pass the invisible barrier around it, so he cut off half of the altar and carried it away.

Su Zhan stole a piece of the Drum Tribe’s Altar and used his cultivation method avatars to pass it among them while the elders pursued. The grand elder arrived and caught Frenzy Blood, but Qianlong caught the Altar as Frenzy Blood threw it away.

• The Drum Tribe members saw Su Zhan carry part of the Altar away and attacked him, but he dodged their strikes.
• Su Zhan sent his Years Avatar fleeing with the Altar while he drew the elders after him.
• Years split the Altar between Frenzy Blood and Sanyu, and Su Zhan’s cultivation method avatars kept passing the pieces onward to evade their pursuers.
• The elders suspected the stolen piece held the Altar’s core and feared its loss would endanger their lives and the Drum Tribe’s future.
• The grand elder caught Frenzy Blood, who threw the Altar to Qianlong before he was captured.
• The grand elder gathered Spiritual Qi and unleashed a devastating strike.

Su Zhan fought the Grand Elder while secretly trying to summon the Altar by drawing an array, using his avatar and the High Priest's ceremonial robes to distract his opponent. The Grand Elder pursued the decoy as Su Zhan stayed behind to continue drawing the array.

• Su Zhan used the system's Summoning Method Formula and began placing five array points while fighting the Grand Elder.
• Su Zhan endured the Grand Elder's attacks and completed the array points, then began drawing a six-pointed star with his Mental Power.
• Su Zhan grappled the Grand Elder and drew most of the star before being thrown off and beaten bloody.
• Su Zhan used the ceremonial robes' Illusionary Technique to disguise his avatar and send it fleeing as a decoy.
• The Grand Elder chased the avatar, while Su Zhan emerged from the bushes and returned to the sky to finish drawing the array.

Su Zhan completed a blood-powered formation that summoned an artifact fragment, then collapsed from the ritual’s toll. After recovering enough to travel toward the Moon Worship Tribe, he settled on a dependent planet under a fake identity and worked as a porter while his injuries and Mental Power slowly recovered.

• Su Zhan used his blood to activate the formation, and the shattered altar sent an artifact fragment resembling a jade book to him.
• Su Zhan summoned his avatars through the Chat Group before losing consciousness, then woke three days later on an unknown planet with severe injuries.
• Su Zhan took pills to regain strength and had his avatars carry him toward the Moon Worship Tribe, stopping on a nearby planet to recover.
• Su Zhan concluded that his depleted Mental Power was a major weakness and considered finding techniques to train it.
• Su Zhan adopted a fake identity as an undocumented Interstellar Wanderer and took work as a porter on a backward planet dependent on the Moon Worship Tribe.

Su Zhan disguised himself to investigate the Moon Worship Tribe’s search for someone who could cure its heir, hoping to use the illness as a way inside. He secured an intermediary’s recommendation and headed for the crowded mountain gate.

• Su Zhan worked as a sack hauler while gathering information and befriended Dao Yun, who told him the Moon Worship Tribe was recruiting people to solve a serious problem.
• Su Zhan changed his appearance, wore altered High Priest robes, and found an intermediary who recommended candidates to the tribe.
• After Su Zhan demonstrated his strength by cleaving a mountain, the intermediary explained that the Moon Worship Tribe’s heir had lost his cultivation and was mentally unwell.
• Su Zhan rejected the advice to seek an ordinary Retainer position and insisted that the intermediary recommend him as someone who could cure the heir.
• The intermediary agreed to vouch for Su Zhan, while the Moon Worship Tribe’s mountain gate remained crowded with applicants facing strict entry requirements.

Su Zhan joined the Moon Worship Tribe’s recruitment line and stood up to the Haixing Yu Family’s eldest legitimate son, who attacked him with a powerful bomb. After the man fled and threatened revenge, Su Zhan waited until his number was called and went in for his turn.

• Su Zhan used a recommendation token to join the crowded Moon Worship Tribe recruitment line.
• A fat man claiming to be the Haixing Yu Family’s eldest legitimate son demanded to cut in, but Su Zhan refused and mocked him.
• The fat man threw a bomb at Su Zhan, who deflected it with a Space Barrier; the man survived by using a Compass and threatened revenge before leaving.
• An old man warned Su Zhan that the Yu Family would retaliate, but Su Zhan said he was not afraid.
• After waiting as applicants were tested in groups of ten, Su Zhan heard number 1139 called and hurried forward.

Su Zhan identified the cause of the Moon Worship Tribe’s young master’s madness as a backlash from his contracted Moon Beast, which had taken control while his Mental Power was weakened. After learning the tribe could not abandon the creature, Su Zhan searched for another solution and found that the beast’s contract caused mental reflection.

• Su Zhan recognized that the bound young master’s symptoms suggested a ferocious beast had seized control after his Mental Power weakened.
• Su Zhan questioned the tribe’s members, who confirmed that the young master had recently been severely depleted and kept a vicious creature beside him.
• A tribe member explained that the young master’s family secretly contracted with the ancient Moon Beast, whose contract caused its holder to become vulnerable around midyear.
• Su Zhan learned that the tribe could not simply discard the Moon Beast and asked to see it, but the members could not reveal its location or safely let outsiders approach.
• Su Zhan used the system’s search function and learned that the Moon Beast was a bodiless creature of extreme Yin whose contract granted power but caused mental reflection.

Su Zhan prepared to drive the Moon Beast out of the Moon Worship Tribe's young master by exploiting its weakness to sunlight and heat, and developed a powerful attack combining Lei Yin, time, and White Dragon attributes. At noon, he used the combined flame on the weakened young master, whose body began convulsing as the Moon Beast reacted.

• Su Zhan learned that sunlight, light, and heat could suppress Moon Beasts, then instructed the others to expose the young master to the sun and seek Mental Power techniques and purifying medicines.
• Su Zhan tried combining Lei Yin and White Dragon cultivation arts, then used the Time Attribute to make the two powers coexist and blasted a tree into powder with the resulting attack.
• Su Zhan arrived at eleven in the morning and found the young master bound beneath the sun, badly burned and weakened.
• Su Zhan waited until noon, then unleashed White Dragon Flame mixed with lightning and time attributes, causing the young master to wail and gradually lose strength.
• The young master's body began convulsing and foaming at the mouth, while Su Zhan told the worried onlookers that he had to weaken the host to weaken the Moon Beast.

Su Zhan tracked the Moon Beast to a bamboo grove and found its lair in a seemingly bottomless underground passage. He continued descending despite his instincts warning him of danger, while Blood Consumption and Sanyu waited above to pull him out if anything went wrong.

• Su Zhan stopped the others from approaching Cheng Xinghe, then fought the Moon Beast when it suddenly revived and attacked him.
• Su Zhan marked the fleeing Moon Beast with Demonic Energy ants and followed their traces south to a dense bamboo grove.
• Su Zhan used his connection to the ants to track the Moon Beast through a darkness that swallowed light and sound, finding an opening underground.
• Su Zhan left Blood Consumption and Sanyu at the entrance with instructions to pull him up if danger arose, then descended into the passage.
• Su Zhan continued downward despite his combat instincts warning him to retreat and suspected the Moon Beast's connection to Cheng Xinghe was more complicated than he had thought.

Su Zhan captured the Moon Beast with the White Dragon Flame and found Cheng Xinghe unconscious, but he could not locate a way out of the Bottomless Pit. He tried to persuade the Moon Beast to help him escape by promising to free him from his shackles.

• Su Zhan used the White Dragon Flame to lure the Moon Beast into attacking, then burned and wounded him.
• Su Zhan trapped the Moon Beast in a Space Barrier and found Cheng Xinghe hidden along the cliff wall.
• Su Zhan enclosed Cheng Xinghe in another Space Barrier and flew upward, but he could not find the exit.
• Su Zhan extinguished the Moon Beast's flames and asked him where the exit was, but the Moon Beast refused to cooperate.
• Su Zhan described how the Moon Beast had been enslaved and offered to free him if he helped, claiming his secrets could persuade the Moon Beast to trust him.

Su Zhan signed a Heavenly Dao contract with the Moon Beast, secured his escape, and returned Cheng Xinghe to the Moon Worship Tribe. After gaining a place to stay and high-level access, he examined the Item Booklet Fragment and felt its power heal his injuries.

• The Moon Beast questioned Su Zhan’s promises, and Su Zhan presented a contract that bound both parties under the Heavenly Dao Rules.
• The Moon Beast signed the contract, then told Su Zhan how to find the exit; Su Zhan followed his directions and escaped with Cheng Xinghe.
• Su Zhan brought Cheng Xinghe back to the Moon Worship Tribe and urged its members to treat him and find a Mental Power cultivation method for Su Zhan to inspect.
• The Moon Worship Tribe gave Su Zhan a luxurious room and a high-level access token, while he kept the Moon Beast hidden.
• Su Zhan summoned the Item Booklet Fragment, whose jade-green power healed his minor injuries, and resolved to discover the truth by collecting the other fragments.

Su Zhan searched for the mysterious item while questioning the Moon Beast, then discovered that signing a contract with it had increased his strength. He learned that his token made him an Elder of the Moon Worship Tribe and wondered why its members seemed unable to see the Moon Beast.

• Su Zhan suspected the Moon Beast recognized the item fragment, but it denied knowing anything about it and refused to discuss it.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan about the Moon Worship Tribe's long history and how the Myriad Races War had weakened many powerful races.
• After falling asleep, Su Zhan woke with greater strength and destroyed half a mountaintop while testing it.
• The Moon Beast explained that Su Zhan's contract with it had naturally increased his strength, and Su Zhan considered using his remaining Contract Book sheets on powerful creatures.
• Moon Worship Tribe members mistook Su Zhan's token for an Elder's insignia and apologized for disturbing him.
• Su Zhan wondered why the Moon Worship Tribe members had looked only at him and seemed unable to see the Moon Beast.

Su Zhan studied several Mental Power cultivation methods on Jade Slips and gained the domineering Sun God Art as a sentient Chat Group member. He kept Sun’s original method rather than risk giving it away, then brought Cheng Xinghe a gentler method to help him recover.

• A man brought Su Zhan several Jade Slips containing Mental Power cultivation methods and urged him to examine them for Cheng Xinghe’s treatment.
• Su Zhan read the methods with his Divine Sense, improving his Mental Power and sharpening his senses as he practiced.
• Su Zhan cultivated the forceful Sun God Art, received a prompt to invite it into the Chat Group, and named its gentle, timid female spirit Sun.
• Su Zhan decided to keep Sun God Art’s Jade Slip and use the earlier, gentler method instead, then took it to Cheng Xinghe.
• Su Zhan gave the gentle method to the still-weak Cheng Xinghe and warned him not to attempt anything too domineering yet.

Su Zhan agreed to enter the Moon Worship Tribe's Great Tomb to find the method for dissolving the main lineage's painful contract with the Moon Beast. He also hoped the tomb might contain the item fragments he was seeking, and Elder Shishan began preparing for the expedition.

• Su Zhan arranged for Cheng Xinghe to build up his foundation before attempting the forceful Sun God Art, and planned to have him find Spirit Jade.
• Elder Shishan told Su Zhan that the Moon Worship Tribe wanted to end its contract with the Moon Beast, but the method was inscribed in their progenitor's Great Tomb.
• Elder Shishan explained that dissolving the contract would unleash deadly backlash, and asked Su Zhan to investigate the tomb because of his abilities.
• Elder Shishan offered Su Zhan any ten treasures from the tomb, and Su Zhan agreed to go, hoping he might find the item fragments he sought.
• Cheng Xinghe smiled at Su Zhan's agreement, and Elder Shishan began preparing for the expedition.

Su Zhan learned that the Moon Beast’s freedom was bound by a powerful Karma rope and promised to help undo it in the Great Tomb. The next morning, Elder Shishan gathered the expedition, whose members were surprised and skeptical to find that their mysterious captain was a young man.

• The Moon Beast warned Su Zhan that the Great Tomb was extremely dangerous and urged him to prepare for unexpected trouble.
• Sun sensed the contract and Karma shackles binding the Moon Beast, explaining that the ancient forced connection would be difficult to undo.
• Su Zhan promised the Moon Beast that he would go to the Great Tomb and do his best to free him.
• Elder Shishan arrived the next morning and told Su Zhan that the expedition was ready to set out.
• The expedition members looked down on Su Zhan because of his youth, so Elder Shishan defended him and warned the dissatisfied cultivators they could leave.

Su Zhan joined Elder Shishan and the gathered experts as they entered the Moon Worship Tribe’s hidden Great Tomb. After discovering that its enormous passage was an illusion, Su Zhan used Demonic Energy mice to find a boundary leading to another world.

• Elder Shishan led the group to an ordinary-looking clearing and used seals to reveal a magnificent hidden complex.
• Elder Shishan opened the tomb’s doors and led the group into a vast, dark passage lined with valuable materials.
• After the group walked for a long time without the passage changing, Su Zhan ordered everyone to stop.
• Su Zhan sent out Demonic Energy mice and watched through their eyes as they revealed a boundary beyond which another world appeared.

Su Zhan led the group through an Illusionary Formation into the tomb’s central burial chamber, where he collected the beads sustaining the illusions and studied murals of the Moon Worship Tribe’s rise. As questions about the tribe’s history remained unanswered, Elder Shishan pointed out a newly appeared empty platform in the chamber.

• Su Zhan recognized that the group had entered an Illusionary Formation and guided them through a wall into the tomb’s central burial chamber.
• Su Zhan sent demonic creatures to find hidden formation-eye beads, then collected them and dispelled the chamber’s illusions.
• Su Zhan examined murals depicting the Moon Worship Tribe’s rise from a weak tribe to rulers over many races, but found no dates or explanation for their sudden power.
• Elder Shishan appeared surprised by the murals and avoided Su Zhan’s questions about them.
• Elder Shishan pointed out a small platform that had appeared in the chamber, and Su Zhan found an empty semicircular recess on top.

Su Zhan led the group through spatially divided tomb passages, where treasures in the real burial chambers drove most of his companions mad and against one another. With his Space Barrier weakening, he and the two still-lucid survivors searched for a solution, and Su Zhan began to suspect the answer lay in the platform they had passed earlier.

• Su Zhan chose the left passage and used his demonic creatures to guide the group through the maze of separate spaces and false chambers.
• Su Zhan led the others into real burial chambers, where the treasures made them obsessively plunder and then attack one another.
• Su Zhan raised a Space Barrier to hold back the maddened companions while Elder Shishan and another Martial Emperor remained lucid.
• Su Zhan ordered Elder Shishan and the Martial Emperor to search for a solution as the barrier weakened.
• Su Zhan recalled the platform's hemispherical hollow and realized it likely called for something other than blood, which might be nearby.

Su Zhan forged a sphere by melting spirit beads and infusing it with a fragment of his soul, then used a summoned leopard to place it on the hall’s platform and free the others from a space-induced trap. The sphere connected him to the grand tomb, and as the group explored cautiously, he began uncovering clues about its mysteries and the Moon Worship Tribe’s abandoned power.

• Su Zhan melted the small white spirit beads together and infused the mixture with a fragment of his spiritual body, forming a crystal-clear sphere.
• Unable to reach the hall directly, Su Zhan used Devil Creatures to find the correct direction and sent a fast leopard carrying the sphere to the platform.
• The sphere landed on the platform, causing the Demonic Energy to disperse and awakening the people who had been attacking the Space Barrier.
• Su Zhan and the others became more cautious, while Su Zhan wondered why the Moon Worship Tribe had abandoned its ancient powers and sealed away their techniques.
• Su Zhan continued exploring with Devil Creatures scouting ahead and discovered that the sphere had connected him to the grand tomb, which began providing him with clues.

Su Zhan and the others searched the tomb for a way to break the Moon Beast’s contract, but an ambush and scattered clues slowed them down. Su Zhan used the Sun God Art to connect with his tool fragment, leaving him with a vague sense that it could guide them.

• Shishan admitted that the Moon Worship Tribe had no specific lead on where to find the method for breaking the contract.
• The Moon Beast warned Su Zhan about a hidden arrow trap and explained that it targeted outsiders and could only be seen by those with Spirit Type cultivation.
• Su Zhan led the group deeper into the tomb, where they found weathered murals that offered no clear clues about the contract.
• The Moon Beast searched the chambers while Su Zhan realized that the tomb’s tools and secret techniques might be kept together.
• Su Zhan circulated the Sun God Art and, on his sixth attempt, established a vague connection with the tool fragment.

Su Zhan and his companions encountered hallucinogenic incense that exposed their deepest desires, while the Moon Beast and the item fragment helped restore their awareness. As the danger remained hidden in the chamber, Su Zhan searched for clues and turned to the system for information.

• The item fragment guided Su Zhan and his companions through the secret chamber, then urgently signaled them to stop.
• Su Zhan sensed an ominous presence and told everyone to stay alert and prepare their Law Treasures.
• Su Zhan smelled gardenia-like incense, but several companions inhaled it and began hallucinating about their desires.
• The Moon Beast bit Su Zhan and the others, clearing their minds, while Elder Shishan suspected Su Zhan was behind the Moon Beast's disappearance and the wounds.
• Su Zhan questioned the Sun, then asked the system for information as he searched the chamber for the hidden danger.

Su Zhan searched the system’s records for a way to overcome the Great Tomb’s illusions and uncover the secrets of Karma, but the material offered few usable answers. Elder Shishan recalled a mysterious Moon Worship Tribe nursery rhyme, though its fragmented lyrics left Su Zhan unsure whether it was a clue.

• Su Zhan studied the system’s books on Illusionary Technique and Karma, but found no practical way to identify or counter the tomb’s illusions.
• Su Zhan tried to read about Karma threads, but the text was obscure, difficult to remember, and restricted beyond its first page.
• Su Zhan asked Elder Shishan to recall any inherited customs that might hide useful information.
• Shishan remembered that every Moon Worship Tribe child learned an unexplained nursery rhyme and sang it for Su Zhan.
• Shishan said the rhyme described a woman’s son returning from the world with a sharp-fanged monster as his wife, a huge python as his mount, and a transparent soul as his helper.
• Su Zhan could not understand the rhyme or tell whether it was relevant, so he urged Shishan to keep searching his memories.