Recaps

Su Zhan traveled with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to seek a mysterious being from the Ancient Realm who might save True Man Lin Lie. The Moon Beast admitted it did not know the being’s exact location, but Su Zhan decided to pursue this last hope and considered how to help Jiang Shiyue grow stronger.

• The Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon shrank to a more manageable size, and Su Zhan rode on its back with the Moon Beast as it set off toward the Moon Beast’s destination.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan that a powerful life-form from the Ancient Realm might be able to save True Man Lin Lie, though it did not know whether he remained in this world or where to find him.
• Su Zhan was astonished by the idea of higher-dimensional worlds and beings whose power could exceed anything in his world, then questioned the Moon Beast about its uncertain claims.
• The Moon Beast argued that finding the being was still worth trying because leaving True Man Lin Lie in the Eye of the Heavenly God for millions of years would make his eventual return unbearable.
• Su Zhan resolved to try every possible way to save True Man Lin Lie and asked the system whether objects with Spiritual Sense could join the group; the system confirmed they could.

Su Zhan traveled through interstellar space in search of the person beyond the heavens, then realized he had entered a powerful illusion and began breaking its star formation. After restoring the constellations, he dodged a deadly beam that left behind a void capable of swallowing light and Spiritual Qi.

• Su Zhan journeyed for a month with the Moon Beast, stopping along the way to investigate unusual sights while the destination remained distant.
• Su Zhan discovered that the Moon Beast, the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, the system, and the Chat Group could not respond, and concluded that he was trapped in an illusion.
• Su Zhan studied the stars, deduced that their positions had been altered to confuse intruders, and began moving the constellations back to their proper trajectories.
• Su Zhan restored the final constellation, but a beam of starlight attacked from behind and he narrowly dodged it.
• Su Zhan saw that the beam had left a stretch of emptiness that devoured everything, including light and Spiritual Qi.

Su Zhan faced a deadly formation whose beams erased anything they touched, then discovered the deeper trap had separated him from the world by five seconds of time. He realized he needed to adjust time to reunite with the system and the Moon Beast, but did not yet know how.

• Su Zhan saw the beams erase everything in their path, failed to summon weapons, and layered Space Barriers around himself for protection.
• Su Zhan recognized the deadly maze as the outsider's trap and tried unsuccessfully to contact the system, the Chat Group, and the Moon Beast.
• Su Zhan noticed that he had traveled far less than expected and used his Mental and Space Attributes to probe the apparently normal surroundings.
• Su Zhan added time to his Spiritual Sense and discovered that the system and the Moon Beast were five seconds ahead of him in a different timeline.
• Su Zhan realized he needed to move five seconds forward to synchronize with them, but remained unsure how to escape the formation.

Su Zhan was trapped in a formation that cut him off from all outside help until the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon rescued him. They then met a powerful stranger whose formation they had broken, and Su Zhan asked him to save his gravely injured masters; the stranger agreed to examine their condition.

• Su Zhan spent a day trapped in the formation, unable to contact the system, the Moon Beast, the Chat Group, or his Artifacts.
• The Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon broke through space-time to reach Su Zhan, but exhausted himself and shrank back into a hatchling.
• Su Zhan and the Moon Beast realized the formation likely belonged to a powerful person from beyond their world, and a clone appeared after the formation was broken.
• The stranger questioned Su Zhan and scorned his request for help, while the Moon Beast argued that Su Zhan could be trusted and offered to establish a Contract.
• The stranger asked to see the people Su Zhan wanted to save, and Su Zhan presented the Eye of the Heavenly God so he could examine True Man Lin Lie.

Lian Yu revealed that the Wuji Sword Saint had stolen his Spirit Energy and agreed to heal True Man Lin Lie while passing some of his Mental Power to Su Zhan. After three days unconscious, Su Zhan woke in Lian Yu’s dwelling and discovered he could no longer control his strength.

• Lian Yu examined the Eye of the Heavenly God and identified the Wuji Sword Saint as the one who had injured him and stolen his Spirit Energy.
• Su Zhan explained how the Wuji Sword Saint had attacked his group, and Lian Yu demanded that Su Zhan kill him to avenge them both.
• Lian Yu examined True Man Lin Lie’s injuries, agreed to heal him, and brought Su Zhan and the Moon Beast to his dwelling.
• Lian Yu transferred a portion of his Mental Power into Su Zhan, leaving him dazed and unconscious.
• Su Zhan slept for three days, woke to the Moon Beast’s worried face, and accidentally launched himself into the air when he tried to stand.

After Lian Yu’s Mental Power surge left Su Zhan struggling to control his enhanced strength, Lian Yu revealed that True Man Lin Lie was trapped in worsening nightmares and needed Phantom Mist Jade. Su Zhan set out to find it, only to learn from the Moon Beast that the rare ore was the reward for clearing the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, a challenge no one had conquered in over a hundred years.

• Su Zhan discovered that Lian Yu’s Mental Power had greatly increased his own, and he accidentally knocked the Moon Beast away before lifting a huge boulder with pure Mental Power.
• After struggling to control his new strength, Su Zhan was summoned by Lian Yu, who showed him True Man Lin Lie suffering from mental trauma and warned that his nightmares could keep him from waking.
• Lian Yu told Su Zhan to find Phantom Mist Jade within a month to repair Lin Lie’s mental damage, describing the places where the rare ore might occur and naming Living Mountain Stone as a less effective alternative.
• Su Zhan left to search for Phantom Mist Jade, and the Moon Beast told him that it was the reward for clearing the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, which no one had obtained in over a hundred years.

Su Zhan entered the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces formation, where a virtual world erased his memories and stirred murderous impulses through visions of a brutal school. Outside, the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon realized the formation had cast them out, while Su Zhan’s trial continued to corrupt his mind.

• The Moon Beast explained that the formation tested challengers with a virtual world shaped by their deepest fears, and Su Zhan decided to try it.
• Su Zhan and the Moon Beast rode the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to the formation beside the Bay Moon River.
• Su Zhan entered after confirming the Moon Beast would not be cut off from him, but the formation blurred his consciousness and made him forget his identity.
• Su Zhan believed he was a student at a school where the bottom half were eliminated, and bloody messages urged him to kill his classmates.
• The formation ejected the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, who could not get back inside.
• The Moon Beast realized the formation’s visions provoked challengers to attack manifestations of their own minds, leaving survivors mentally ruined.

Su Zhan escaped a mind-bending formation by stabbing himself in the heart and found himself in a vast blank space. He sensed the Phantom Mist Jade beneath his feet, and the Moon Beast proposed destroying the space’s illusion formations to reach it.

• Su Zhan regained his clarity after his cultivation method helped him resist the formation, which then vanished along with the school around him.
• Su Zhan found himself in an endless blank space, still affected by the formation and unable to determine what to do next.
• The Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon arrived and checked that Su Zhan was unharmed.
• Su Zhan told the Moon Beast that he could faintly sense the Phantom Mist Jade, though he could neither see nor touch it.
• Su Zhan pointed beneath his feet, startling the Phantom Mist Jade, and the Moon Beast suggested destroying the illusion formations.

Su Zhan broke the illusion formation and obtained two pieces of Phantom Mist Jade, but the Moon Beast urged him to continue through the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces. Su Zhan hesitated because True Man Lin Lie needed treatment, while the Moon Beast argued that the different flow of time gave them room to proceed.

• Su Zhan sent a cultivation manual underground, triggering an explosion that broke the illusion formation and restored the surrounding landscape.
• Su Zhan collected two pieces of Phantom Mist Jade and called for the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to leave with him.
• The Moon Beast asked Su Zhan to continue through the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, explaining that they had passed only one of its nine trials and could earn greater rewards.
• Su Zhan decided he needed to return quickly to give the Phantom Mist Jade to Lian Yu so she could treat True Man Lin Lie.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan that a year passed inside the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces for each day outside and estimated they could clear all nine trials in half a month.

Su Zhan, the Moon Beast, and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon fought through the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces and reached the ninth trial. After defeating a powerful beast, Su Zhan discovered that an even more fearsome monster awaited in the depths.

• Su Zhan agreed to enter the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces after the Moon Beast persuaded him to try it.
• Over half a month, Su Zhan, the Moon Beast, and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon cleared eight increasingly dangerous trials.
• The three entered the ninth trial and dismantled its mechanisms while fighting its monsters.
• Su Zhan killed an enormous beast with his Nine Cultivation Methods, but the methods continued circling instead of returning to him.
• Su Zhan realized a stronger opponent waited in the dark cave, and the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon retreated as the monster emerged.

Su Zhan defeated the bizarre monster and brought the Phantom Mist Jade to Lian Yu to treat True Man Lin Lie. The treatment’s outcome remained uncertain, though Lin Lie showed some improvement after a year and ten days.

• Su Zhan ordered the cultivation methods to form a formation and kill the hideous monster.
• Su Zhan left with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, then contacted Lian Yu after flying for a while.
• Lian Yu brought Su Zhan to True Man Lin Lie, and Su Zhan handed him the two pieces of Phantom Mist Jade.
• Lian Yu placed one piece of Phantom Mist Jade on True Man Lin Lie’s forehead and the other in his mouth, then treated him with great law power.
• Lian Yu said he could not tell whether the Phantom Mist Jade would cure True Man Lin Lie completely, but Su Zhan could seek other medicines.
• After a year and ten days, True Man Lin Lie’s pale face regained some color.

After True Man Lin Lie recovered, Su Zhan left to roam with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon. Their travels led them into a Secret Realm that first looked peaceful but quickly revealed itself as a demon's den.

• Su Zhan thanked Lian Yu for healing True Man Lin Lie, but Lian Yu credited Su Zhan for finding the Phantom Mist Jade.
• After another half month, True Man Lin Lie had absorbed both pieces of Phantom Mist Jade, and Lian Yu explained that their power would strengthen him until he advanced two major realms.
• Su Zhan said goodbye to Lian Yu, explained his plans to True Man Lin Lie, and left with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon.
• Su Zhan and his companions wandered freely for a time before entering a Secret Realm that seemed peaceful and safe.
• The flowers and grass vanished into dry bones, and the lanterns in the trees became severed heads; the Moon Beast asked to leave, but Su Zhan shook his head.

Su Zhan led the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon into a bone tower, where he destroyed a living skeleton that could not speak. Su Zhan then collapsed unconscious, and the Moon Beast suspected he had fallen into a formation.

• Su Zhan, the Moon Beast, and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon reached the bone tower and entered it together.
• Su Zhan found a living skeleton seated on a lotus pedestal and demanded to know what was happening.
• The skeleton could not answer because it had no mouth, so Su Zhan shattered it with a slap.
• Su Zhan suddenly collapsed, and the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon found that he was still breathing.
• The Moon Beast tried to channel power into Su Zhan and suspected he had fallen into a formation again.

Su Zhan tried a new way to break the illusion formation by destroying its brushes and paper, then defeated a fake version of himself. He concluded that he would still have to hurt himself to escape and extended his fist.

• Moon Demon realized he could not help Su Zhan and waited beside the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon for him to wake up.
• Su Zhan destroyed the brushes and paper in the formation, provoking an unusual fluctuation.
• The formation created a fake Su Zhan, whom Su Zhan disarmed and beat flat with a brick formed from the Cultivation Method.
• Su Zhan said he would have to hurt himself to escape and extended his fist.

Su Zhan escaped the formation by severing his heart meridians, then left with Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon. Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat discussed pursuing him and decided to set off after him.

• Su Zhan told Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon that someone might be plotting against him, though he did not know who.
• Su Zhan left the ruined formation and traveled away with Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox suggested approaching Su Zhan and killing him when his guard was down.
• Dark Rat warned that the plan was dangerous because Su Zhan could turn the tables, and Lingering Fragrance Fox argued that Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon were not serious threats.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox apologized to Dark Rat, and the two set off.

Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat tried to approach Su Zhan and earn his trust, but he remained wary and left after thanking them. They then waited at an inn for another chance to meet him, while Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon grew tired of waiting.

• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat staged a chance encounter with Su Zhan and planned to gain his trust before attacking him.
• Su Zhan questioned why they had blocked his path, and they stepped aside without explaining themselves.
• Su Zhan and his companions walked on, and he turned back to thank Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat before leaving.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat went to an inn, ordered wine, and waited for Su Zhan and his group to pass by.
• Su Zhan and his companions did not come, and Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon grew tired of waiting.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox spoke to Dark Rat.

Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat pretended to befriend Su Zhan and his companions while secretly preparing a formation to kill Su Zhan. Moon Demon grew increasingly suspicious of their excessive attentiveness.

• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat left and encountered Su Zhan and Moon Demon outside a tavern, where Lingering Fragrance Fox denied following them.
• Su Zhan entered the tavern with Moon Demon, then left without pressing Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat further.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat gradually built a friendly relationship with Su Zhan, Moon Demon, and the others.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat placed formation foundation stones near Su Zhan to lure him into a deadly formation.
• Moon Demon became suspicious of Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat because they seemed unusually attentive to Su Zhan.

Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat trapped Su Zhan in a formation, but he rejected its rules, completed its forced tasks, and broke it. He woke smiling, while the formation’s creators were injured and Moon Demon was left wondering what had happened.

• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat hid in the mountains and set up a formation that made Su Zhan’s head grow heavy and foggy.
• Su Zhan warned Moon Demon that someone might be plotting against him, then fell asleep while Moon Demon stood guard over his body.
• Inside the formation, Su Zhan refused to follow its instructions until it assigned him difficult tasks that threatened his life.
• Su Zhan handled the tasks with ease, then waved his hand and broke the formation.
• Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat spat blood from their injuries, and Moon Demon questioned Su Zhan about why he woke smiling.

Su Zhan sent Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to stay behind while he confronted the Lingering Fragrance Fox and the Dark Rat. After the pair repelled his first cultivation method, Su Zhan prepared to try another.

• Su Zhan refused Moon Demon's offer to accompany him and told Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to stay put.
• Su Zhan hurried toward the Lingering Fragrance Fox and the Dark Rat, who looked pale when he found them.
• Su Zhan demanded that the Lingering Fragrance Fox and the Dark Rat surrender, but they charged at him instead.
• Su Zhan launched a cultivation method at the Lingering Fragrance Fox, and the Lingering Fragrance Fox and the Dark Rat worked together to drive it back.
• Su Zhan expressed surprise at their defense and said he would try a second cultivation method.

Su Zhan killed Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat after overpowering them, then returned to Moon Demon and Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon. He told them the danger was handled, but still had a troubling matter on his mind and asked Moon Demon to help him think it over.

• Su Zhan used a second Cultivation Method to destabilize Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat, who began planning to retreat.
• Su Zhan caught Lingering Fragrance Fox and killed him by crushing his neck.
• Dark Rat fled, but Su Zhan attacked and blasted him apart.
• Su Zhan returned to Moon Demon and Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon and told them he had taken care of everything.
• Su Zhan asked Moon Demon to help him think through something he did not understand.

Su Zhan asked Moon Demon whether the beings trapped in the Formation were alive and received his and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon’s support for trying to save them. He entered the Formation through a glowing Token and freed the puppets, leaving the once lifeless beings in the world lying like patients in vegetative states.

• Su Zhan asked Moon Demon whether the beings in the Formation were real living beings, and Moon Demon urged him to try to save them.
• Su Zhan checked that Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon supported his plan, and both agreed to help.
• Su Zhan found a Token in the ruins where the Lingering Fragrance Fox and the Dark Rat had died and activated it.
• Su Zhan asked Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to guard him, then sent his consciousness into the Token.
• Su Zhan used his power inside the Formation to release the puppets, and the beings scattered throughout the world remained in vegetative states.

After freeing the trapped living beings, Su Zhan continued his journey with Moon Demon and Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, unaware that the mastermind behind the earlier formation had decided to attack him personally. The group was pulled into another formation, whose design reminded Su Zhan of the one used by Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat.

• Su Zhan told Moon Demon and Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon that he had freed everyone trapped in the formation, then crushed the token and set off with them.
• The mastermind blamed Su Zhan for foiling his plan, failed to find willing puppets, and decided to lay a formation himself along their route.
• The mastermind finished preparing the formation and hid, waiting for Su Zhan and his companions to arrive.
• As Su Zhan, Moon Demon, and Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon traveled through the sky, a force began pulling them downward.
• Su Zhan told Moon Demon and Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to stay calm, then recognized that the formation resembled the one laid by Lingering Fragrance Fox and Dark Rat.

Su Zhan faced the hidden mastermind behind the formations and protected his companions from the traps. He reached the mastermind and their attacks collided in an explosion.

• Su Zhan told the Moon Demon and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to wait while he approached the formation.
• A swarm of needles, hidden weapons, and venomous insects attacked, but Su Zhan let them strike his protective barrier.
• The mastermind emerged in the form of an extremely short man, and Su Zhan accused him of laying the formations.
• Su Zhan advanced through the mastermind's formations unharmed and struck at him with his palm.
• The mastermind met Su Zhan's palm with a formation, and the formation and Su Zhan's ball of light exploded on impact.

Su Zhan drove off the man behind the scenes, who escaped and began planning to trick him into a trial so he could attempt Body Snatching. Su Zhan stayed on guard with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, while his enemy prepared a touching story to improve his standing.

• Su Zhan and the man behind the scenes clashed until the man laid down layers of formations and escaped.
• Su Zhan broke through the formations, then warned the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to remain vigilant.
• The man behind the scenes decided to lure Su Zhan into a formation under the pretext of conducting trials and attempt Body Snatching.
• The man behind the scenes controlled several commoners, extracted their memories, and used them to create a touching story.

After waiting a month, the mastermind found Su Zhan, who had spent his travels searching for him. Su Zhan attacked immediately, and the mastermind fought back as the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon retreated.

• The mastermind decided to wait a month before looking for Su Zhan, while Su Zhan continued traveling and vowed to make the mastermind pay.
• After a month, the mastermind found Su Zhan and tried to ask him to listen.
• Su Zhan refused to talk before fighting and rushed at the mastermind with a palm strike.
• The mastermind dodged and formed defensive formations, while the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon moved out of the fight.
• Su Zhan charged through the formations and struck at the mastermind again.