Recaps

Chen Qiu won the Prodigy Secret Realm, forged a powerful umbrella-shaped Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure, and celebrated in the Capital City while rumors of his strength spread across Great Xia. As the Qu Family plotted against him and an old man recognized his Tenth-grade Golden Core, Chen Qiu prepared to refine his new treasure into his natal dharma treasure.

• Chen Qiu's Rainbow Fishing Rod became the frame of an umbrella-shaped Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure, and he used the Prodigy's Son trait to raise its grade.
• The secret realm expelled Chen Qiu, and the imperial elders declared the event over and gave him the champion's reward.
• The Seventh Prince vowed to defeat Chen Qiu, who encouraged him before heading to the Capital City with Fat Dragon and Scholar.
• Chen Qiu relaxed at Ten-Mile Spring Breeze Tower as his victory spread through Great Xia and the Hundred Kingdoms, while an old man revealed that Chen Qiu possessed a Tenth-grade Golden Core.
• The Qu Family head demanded that the Supreme Elder kill Chen Qiu, and the Supreme Elder agreed to take him to a secret Minor World first.
• Chen Qiu returned to the inn and prepared to refine the Rainbow Wooden Umbrella into his natal dharma treasure.

Chen Qiu refined the Rainbow Jade Umbrella into the Heaven-Grade Rainbow Heavenly-Mystery Umbrella, then led his companions to attack the Flower-Offering Sect and avenge Fat Dragon. He annihilated nearly the entire sect with a storm of Thunder Dragons, leaving the sect master and grand elder alive but gravely wounded.

• Chen Qiu instantly refined the Rainbow Jade Umbrella with his Twelfth-Grade Golden Core and learned that it strengthened spells, reduced their spiritual energy cost, blocked powerful attacks, and automatically locked onto enemies within his divine sense.
• In the palace, a hooded man opened a brocade pouch, ordered the Flower-Offering Sect to begin its operation, and called for Ji Taiping to return to the capital in thirty days.
• The Flower-Offering Sect's Sect Master accepted a palace figure's offer of fifty thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, while the First Elder warned that the sect lacked a Golden Core Peak Great Perfection expert.
• After hearing that the Flower-Offering Sect had imprisoned its Walking Celestial Maiden and planned to execute her, Chen Qiu took Fat Dragon and the others to the sect despite Fat Dragon's concern that he might be injured.
• Chen Qiu opened the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella, locked onto the Flower-Offering Sect's people, and unleashed tens of thousands of Thunder Dragons against them.
• The Thunder Dragons destroyed the mountain-protecting formation and killed nearly everyone except the Flower-Offering Sect's sect master and grand elder, whom Chen Qiu confronted as they accused him of hypocrisy.

Chen Qiu destroyed the Flower-Offering Sect, killed its master and Grand Elder, and defeated the Walking Celestial Maiden after she transformed into a powerful demon. A Heavenly Dao Edict announced the Devil Race Saintess’s death and an early Under-Heaven Strife, while Chen Qiu headed toward the coast and began suspecting Old Cao had orchestrated his opportunities.

• Chen Qiu killed the Flower-Offering Sect Master with a divine-sense attack and had Scholar capture the fleeing Golden Core, then killed the Grand Elder and secured his Golden Core as the sect fell into ruins.
• Fat Dragon rejected the Walking Celestial Maiden’s belief that he had loved her, and her grief awakened the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus, transforming her into a Golden Core Sixth Layer demon.
• Chen Qiu fought the transformed Walking Celestial Maiden, then destroyed her with a full-force Lightning-Channeling Art; he found and stored the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus in his Minor World.
• The Heavenly Dao Edict declared that the Devil Race Saintess had died, Under-Heaven Strife would arrive half a year early, and the Sea Clan Invasion would begin in three days.
• Chen Qiu and his companions traveled to a coastal county, where he questioned Scholar about the Imperial Preceptor’s plans and began tracing his past discoveries to Old Cao’s divination.

Chen Qiu learned that Old Cao was likely the Imperial Preceptor and accepted that he might be a piece in the Imperial Preceptor’s plan, while using daily Prodigy Rankings blessings to rapidly advance his cultivation. After reaching the Golden Core Second Layer on the morning of the Sea Clan Invasion, he prepared to choose a new trait as the invasion approached.

• Chen Qiu concluded that Old Cao was likely the Imperial Preceptor, whose deception-based cultivation trait explained his past fortune-telling, and decided to accept the opportunities Old Cao provided while guarding his independence.
• At midnight, Chen Qiu received ten Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills and raised his cultivation progress to 50.1% after absorbing them through the night.
• The chapter showed Fat City’s lord waiting for the Imperial Preceptor’s recall and Ji Taiping anxiously remaining in the Hundred Kingdoms while worrying about Ji Renjian and White Robe.
• Chen Qiu gave Scholar nearly two thousand Foundation Establishment Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills from the Flower-Offering Sect Master’s storage rings, and promised Fat Dragon injured Sea Clan beasts to cultivate with during the invasion.
• After another day of cultivation, Chen Qiu received ten more pills and reached the Golden Core Second Layer at dawn, then prepared to choose a trait before the Sea Clan Invasion.

After reaching the Golden Core Second Layer, Chen Qiu chose the Raging Wind and Torrential Rain trait and prepared for the Sea Clan Invasion. He coordinated a retreat to draw the Sea Clan’s main force toward Little Fish City, where three Golden Core Sea Demons finally appeared among the swelling horde.

• Chen Qiu chose the Raging Wind and Torrential Rain trait, then advanced his cultivation to 80.2% of the Golden Core Second Layer by consuming Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills.
• As the Sea Clan Invasion began, Chen Qiu used his divine sense to stop two Golden Core cultivators from attacking and proposed luring the Sea Clan’s main force toward their position.
• Chen Qiu and Scholar scouted the coastline, found five Sea Clan landing sites, and Chen Qiu cleared large numbers of Sea Demons with boosted Lightning-Channeling Arts.
• Chen Qiu returned to Little Fish City, told the defenders to hold back, and waited for the Sea Clan’s main force while his dantian capacity expanded to sixty thousand li.
• Tens of thousands of Sea Demons surged ashore, and Chen Qiu ordered the defenders to retreat so he could face the horde.
• Three Golden Core Sea Demons emerged from the sea, revealing that the Sea Clan had chosen Little Fish City as its main assault direction.

Chen Qiu wiped out the Sea Clan invasion with overwhelming lightning attacks, killing hundreds of thousands of Sea Demons and leaving a vast inland sea. After the Heavenly Dao Edict declared victory, the Seventh Prince watched footage of the battle and studied how he might defeat Chen Xiu in their next fight.

• Chen Qiu summoned nearly thirty thousand Thunder Dragons and destroyed the Sea Demons on shore, including three Golden Core Sea Demons, expanding his dantian after killing nearly four hundred thousand foes.
• Nine more Golden Core Sea Demons and a Golden Core Fifth Layer female Sea Demon emerged, while the bald Golden Core dharma cultivator tried to help Chen Qiu before fleeing from the hundreds of thousands of Thunder Dragons overhead.
• Chen Qiu’s lightning strike killed twelve Golden Core Sea Demons and left the female Sea Demon badly wounded; he stored her in his Minor World and waited until the Sea Clan invasion ended.
• The Heavenly Dao Edict announced Great Xia’s total victory, and Chen Qiu left to eat and recover while cultivators recorded and circulated footage of his battle.
• The Seventh Prince watched the footage and devised a plan to evade Chen Qiu’s divine sense lock, charge through the Thunder Dragons, and reach Chen Qiu before they struck.

Chen Qiu’s overwhelming power left the Seventh Prince despairing, while the Heavenward Sect Master wondered if Chen Qiu could break Great Xia’s Nascent Soul shackles. After Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Third Layer, his Heaven’s Chosen Token transported him to a secret realm and registered him for the Prodigy Road’s preliminary screening, which began with a timed climb up the Heaven-Piercing Steps.

• The Seventh Prince watched Chen Qiu annihilate a sea demon force with hundreds of thousands of Thunder Dragons and gave up on ever catching up to him.
• The Heavenward Sect Master watched Chen Qiu’s battle and considered him the only person who might break Great Xia’s Nascent Soul shackles.
• In Flying Fish City, Chen Qiu wrote “Strongest City Lord” for the City Lord, who later recognized the handwriting and hid it as a precious treasure.
• Chen Qiu refused Scholar’s suggestion to explore the dangerous depths of the Boundless Sea, then broke through to Golden Core Third Layer after cultivating with Heavenly Dao Golden Core pills.
• Chen Qiu’s Heaven’s Chosen Token transported him to an Azure Stone Plaza, where a panel registered him for the Prodigy Road and explained that he had to clear the preliminary screening to qualify.
• The first trial began when Heaven-and-Earth Power raised the Heaven-Piercing Steps, requiring Chen Qiu to reach the top using only physical strength and willpower before one incense stick burned down.

Chen Qiu exploited hidden routes to clear the first trial in one breath, then destroyed the second trial’s puppets and used Fierce Baleful Wood to taunt the other Sky Prodigies. He reached the third stage first and left the surviving contestants furious and shaken.

• Chen Qiu turned back through the clouds instead of climbing the seemingly endless Heaven-Piercing Steps, reaching the second trial plaza in forty-eight breaths and taking first place.
• Dao Sword Sect True Disciple Li Shiyi called for a rematch, and Chen Qiu used Shrinking Earth to Inches to reach the second plaza in one breath, again placing first.
• Chen Qiu faced the second trial’s one hundred thousand puppets and killed them all with a storm of Thunder Dragons, clearing the stage in one breath.
• Chen Qiu used hundreds of Fierce Baleful Woods to send taunts to the competing Sky Prodigies, particularly Li Shiyi, disrupting their concentration as they fought.
• Only 438 of the 1,298 first-stage survivors cleared the second trial, while Li Shiyi placed seventeenth; Chen Qiu waited at the third stage as the other contestants seethed at him.

Chen Qiu passed the Prodigy Road screening with the highest evaluation, provoking Li Shiyi and other prodigies to target him, then chose a Trait that disrupted divination. He continued cultivating and managing his plans in Fat City before discovering an ancient ruin beneath the melting ice of the Boundless Ice Wastes.

• Chen Qiu ranked first in all three screening trials and received the evaluation Sky Prodigy 100, while Li Shiyi was ranked Sky Prodigy 4 and vowed to kill him.
• Chen Qiu chose the Blue Trait Self-Derivation Forty-Nine, which gave false and chaotic clues to anyone trying to divine him.
• Chen Qiu met Liu Zide in Fat City, accepted supplies of Fierce Baleful Wood, and asked him to keep buying it and find workers to repair a sect.
• Chen Qiu cultivated while Fat Dragon advanced through dual cultivation with the bound demoness, and Chen Qiu's cultivation progress reached Golden Core Third Layer 75.3%.
• Chen Qiu noticed cultivators gathering at the Boundless Ice Wastes and found a human-made passage leading underground that a Golden Core cultivator identified as a possible entrance to ancient ruins.

Chen Qiu explored an underground trial complex and discovered it was the False Heavenly Prodigy Road built by the imprisoned Mocking Heaven Sect. He adopted a Golden Core Fifth Layer wolf pup and returned to the Minor World, while the shopkeeper began investigating a sealed storage ring.

• Chen Qiu descended into the passage with Scholar and Fat Dragon, while many cultivators followed; two men died after lowering their spiritual protection, and Chen Qiu killed a Golden Core cultivator who plotted to collapse the passage behind them.
• Chen Qiu reached a series of Azure Stone Plazas marked as trials and found a skeleton holding a Heaven's Chosen Token resembling his own.
• At the bottom, Chen Qiu read an inscription revealing that the Mocking Heaven Sect had been imprisoned for 8,760 years and had built the False Heavenly Prodigy Road to escape the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment.
• Chen Qiu found a frightened Golden Core Fifth Layer wolf pup, examined its three storage rings, and persuaded it to follow him.
• In the Minor World, the wolf pup bit Fat Dragon when he tried to pet it, then obeyed Chen Qiu and allowed Fat Dragon to pet it; Chen Qiu asked Scholar about a beast-taming contract and suggested naming the pup.
• The shopkeeper began trying to break the restrictions on the wolf pup's storage ring and found them strangely familiar.

Chen Qiu discovered the truth behind Mocking Heaven Sect and Great Xia in a hidden chamber: the kingdom’s people descended from transmigrators, and the sect had built the cage that isolated them. He learned that breaking the formation required defeating four Nascent Soul puppets, then told Fat Dragon while keeping the revelation from Scholar.

• Chen Qiu contracted the Golden Core Fifth Layer wolf pup, named it Little Wolf, and found that his Nightmoon Wolf Demon Trait could strengthen it.
• Chen Qiu discovered a hidden passage by fitting his Mocking Heaven Sect Master Token into a character on the Ancient Ruins wall, then entered a secret chamber with Little Wolf.
• Chen Qiu read the chamber’s records and learned that Mocking Heaven Sect’s transmigrator founders had created the Deceiving-Heaven Grand Formation to hide their descendants, and that killing four Nascent Soul puppets could break it.
• Chen Qiu learned that the White-Clad Sword Cultivator had fought one of the puppets more than a hundred years earlier and left the words “Sword cultivators are not strong enough.”
• Chen Qiu inferred that the Imperial Preceptor planned for him to weaken the puppets and for Scholar to deliver the final blows, but he kept the discovery from Scholar.
• Chen Qiu told Fat Dragon the history of the cage and said he intended to reach Golden Core Peak Great Perfection, confront the Imperial Preceptor, and eventually see the Mystic Heaven Continent.

Chen Qiu chose a memory-altering trait, cultivated toward Golden Core Fifth Layer, and learned that Fierce Baleful Wood suppressed the Wraiths buried beneath Fat Prefecture. After Liu Zide's experiment opened a breach, Chen Qiu led his companions below the ground and found an immense sea of Wraiths.

• Chen Qiu reached Fourth Level of the Golden Core Realm, selected Fate of the Death Remonstrance, and discovered it required physical contact to alter memories.
• After several days of cultivation, Chen Qiu found the shopkeeper weakened from trying to break the restrictions on a storage ring, which the shopkeeper expected would take years to open.
• Liu Zide called Chen Qiu for help after clearing away Fierce Baleful Wood exposed a hole filled with Wraiths, and Chen Qiu used Thunder Dragons to contain them.
• Liu Zide explained that Fierce Baleful Wood suppressed the Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture, and he and Chen Qiu's companions spread thousands of pieces around the opening to keep the Wraiths underground.
• Chen Qiu led Scholar and the others down the passage and discovered an enormous underground space filled with countless Wraiths.

Chen Qiu spent three days and nights clearing the Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture, then found and took the Eight-Petal Grudge Lotus. As he returned to Fat City to sleep, the chapter shifted to the Mocking Heaven Sect’s residents and the young Brown Bear’s plan to avoid war by trading with humans.

• Chen Qiu and his companions fought through the endless Wraiths underground until Chen Qiu had destroyed them all, while Scholar explored the cavern beneath the Boundless Ice Wastes.
• Chen Qiu found the Eight-Petal Grudge Lotus inside a pillar containing the Mocking Heaven Sect’s Ancient Ruins passage and stored it in his portable Minor World beside the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus.
• Chen Qiu told Liu Zide and the Wang Family patriarch that the Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture were gone, advised them to buy up Fierce Baleful Wood, then returned to Fat City and collapsed into sleep.
• Fat Dragon complained that the Mocking Heaven Sect had become bleak and eerie, while Scholar and Fat Dragon argued about going to a brothel.
• The middle-aged shopkeeper realized he could reverse-engineer the restriction on a storage ring by thinking like the person who created it.
• The young Brown Bear rejected his father’s plan to invade Xuzhou and proposed trading virgin Brown Bear urine for food with the peaceful Star-Dipper Sect instead.

Chen Qiu advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Layer, chose the Myriad Arts Unified trait, and rushed to Pingzhou for the Heavenly Dao’s year-end Nian Beast trials. He killed the first two beasts and gained valuable rewards, then attacked the third as it descended.

• Chen Qiu consumed cultivation pills, broke through to the Golden Core Fifth Layer, and chose the Myriad Arts Unified trait.
• After the Heavenly Dao announced that the first Nian Beast would appear in Pingzhou, Chen Qiu hurried there with Scholar and the others.
• Chen Qiu killed the first Nian Beast with a compressed Thunderball and earned two Upper-Grade Heavenly Dao Retrospection Talismans, using one to reclaim Umbrella Over All Under Heaven.
• Chen Qiu bypassed the second Nian Beast’s reflective shell and killed it, earning a Heavenly Dao Escape Talisman and a Heavenly Dao Spirit-Communing Ring.
• A Golden Core Sixth Layer third Nian Beast descended, and Chen Qiu launched a Thunderball at it as the surrounding cultivators also attacked.

Chen Qiu killed the Nian Beasts, gained Merit Tokens and a new spell, then hurried to the Boundless Snow Mountains after the Heavenly Dao announced a Snow Clan Invasion. There he found the falling snow turning into Snow People and began testing his spells against them as dark clouds gathered overhead.

• Chen Qiu killed the Golden Core Sixth Layer Nian Beast and received Merit Defense and Merit Attack Tokens, then struck a hidden Golden Core Seventh Layer Nian Beast as it appeared.
• A Hundred Kingdoms cultivator charged toward the dying hidden Nian Beast, but Scholar killed him after Chen Qiu's warning kept the others back.
• Chen Qiu received the Snowfall Across the Heavens spell, an Enlightenment Stone, and Heavenly Dao Gentlewind Boots, then learned the spell to Great Perfection.
• After the Heavenly Dao announced the Snow Clan Invasion, Chen Qiu ate with Fat Dragon and Scholar before traveling to the Boundless Snow Mountains.
• An enormous avalanche began, but its snow transformed into Snow People, so Chen Qiu stopped retreating and cast Snowfall Across the Heavens across several hundred miles.
• Chen Qiu found that his snowfall barely affected the Snow People, then gathered dark clouds over the battlefield as he prepared his next attack.

Chen Qiu ended the Snow Clan Invasion by slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Snow Clan members, earning the title Humanity's Guardian Deity and advancing to Golden Core Sixth Layer. He then searched the newly exposed Boundless Snow Mountains for treasures, where he confronted Golden Core cultivators who accused him of monopolizing them.

• Chen Qiu unleashed Thunder Dragons across the Boundless Snow Mountains until the Heavenly Dao declared the Snow Clan Invasion over.
• Chen Qiu's cultivation reached Golden Core Sixth Layer, and the Heavenly Dao granted him the title Humanity's Guardian Deity and two strands of Prodigy Fortune.
• Chen Qiu selected the Purple Trait Omniscience and learned that three strands of Prodigy Fortune could fuse into Peerless Fortune of Heaven's Chosen.
• Chen Qiu and Fat Dragon returned to the snow-covered mountains, where Chen Qiu used Snowfall Across the Heavens to slow rival treasure hunters while collecting Frostsky Grass, Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Ice, and Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Frost Tea.
• A Fourth-Layer Golden Core cultivator accused Chen Qiu of taking every treasure, and Chen Qiu challenged him to come fight and questioned whether the cultivators had any destiny with the treasures.

Chen Qiu harvested rare treasures in the Boundless Snow Mountains, brewed Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Frost Tea, and advanced to the Golden Core Seventh Layer. He rolled a Pink Trait called Merit Sage but was deciding whether to choose it or Merit Protection.

• Chen Qiu drove the Golden Core cultivators away from the Boundless Snow Mountains, while the Heavenward Sect Master reflected on Chen Qiu’s rapid rise and past encounters with him.
• Chen Qiu collected Ten-Thousand-Year Heavenly Frost Tea, Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Ice, and herbs, then bought a teapot spirit treasure and brewed tea for Fat Dragon and Scholar.
• Fat Dragon and Scholar found that the tea increased their cultivation, and Chen Qiu gave Fat Dragon five tea trees and Frost Ice to use.
• Chen Qiu identified the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus and Eight-Petal Grudge Lotus as essential materials for forging a Twelfth-Grade Nascent Soul, then cultivated until he reached the Golden Core Seventh Layer.
• Chen Qiu rolled the Pink Trait Merit Sage, which granted one Merit Value per demonic beast killed, alongside Merit Protection and Merit Sanctuary, and weighed the choices.

Chen Qiu learned that the locked storage ring contained a note and fruit pit, then regained memories of his nine previous lives and the elaborate plan he had laid for this final life. He realized that many of his current opportunities came from that plan, though accidents had sent events far off course, and he ended the chapter reflecting on how the outcome had still worked in his favor.

• Chen Qiu chose the Merit Protection trait, then spent ten days cultivating in Xiangyang City and broke through to the Golden Core Eighth Layer.
• The middle-aged shopkeeper opened the difficult storage ring, and Chen Qiu found a note and a small fruit inside.
• Chen Qiu read the note and learned that his earlier selves had repeatedly reincarnated, preparing opportunities and allies to break the Great Xia prison in his tenth life.
• After eating the Ling Fruit, Chen Qiu recovered his past-life memories and understood how his ninth-life self had arranged much of his current path.
• Chen Qiu reviewed the plans that had gone awry, including his intended third Nascent Soul Body, and concluded that unexpected events had still brought him a favorable result.

Chen Qiu entered the Great Xia Imperial Palace and revealed himself as the long-hidden Imperial Preceptor, settling the Seventh Prince’s doubts about his swordsmanship. He then reviewed his plans and prepared to collect his remaining opportunities before leaving Great Xia.

• Chen Qiu unleashed his Golden Core Eighth Layer cultivation at the Imperial Palace and entered despite the gathered guards and elders, who feared his power too much to stop him.
• The Seventh Prince challenged Chen Qiu with his Qi Tian sword strike, but Chen Qiu blocked it with the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella and told him the Imperial Preceptor had lied about Sword One’s lack of protective spiritual energy.
• Xiao Liu recognized Chen Qiu as the Imperial Preceptor, and the Great Xia Emperor, princes, guards, attendants, and Chen Qiu’s companions knelt before him.
• Chen Qiu reassured Xia Jiqiu that he could become Mystic Heaven’s greatest sword cultivator, and Xia Jiqiu accepted him as his master.
• In the palace study, Xiao Liu reported that the Eight-Petaled Fire Lotus had been taken, and Chen Qiu dismissed the setback while gathering his prepared sachets and planning to collect more opportunities before leaving Great Xia.

After revealing that he was the National Preceptor and had spent a thousand years trying to escape Great Xia, Chen Qiu prepared to leave for the Mystic Heaven Continent. As he departed, grateful Imperial Guards bid him farewell, while cultivators across the kingdoms rushed to join the Mocking Heaven Sect for a chance to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Xiao Liu declined to answer Fat Dragon and the others' questions about Chen Qiu, and Scholar worried that Chen Qiu might arrange his marriage to Ji Renjian.
• Chen Qiu told Emperor Xia Xundao he would leave Great Xia soon and instructed the Seventh Prince to defeat a puppet if he wanted to follow; Imperial Guards then shouted blessings as Chen Qiu left the capital.
• Chen Qiu and his companions reached the Mocking Heaven Sect, where he began recounting his life as the National Preceptor.
• News spread that Chen Qiu was Great Xia's National Preceptor and would open a path to the Mystic Heaven Continent, prompting Golden Core cultivators to travel to Fat Prefecture and seek entry into the Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Zhao Dezhu and the Heavenward Sect's Supreme Elder abandoned their sect to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm, while the Qu Family's Supreme Elder and the Star-Dipper Sect Master also hurried toward Fat Prefecture.

Chen Qiu recruited dozens of powerful cultivators into Mocking Heaven Sect and began organizing the sect before its departure for Mystic Heaven Continent. The new disciples celebrated their chance at renewed hope, though they understood the journey ahead could be deadly.

• Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Eighth Layer, then arrived in Fat City, where dozens of Golden Core Peak Great Perfection cultivators rushed to pay respects and seek entry into Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu assessed the applicants, accepted fifty-seven people including Zhao Dezhu and his martial uncle, and arranged for them to stay in Fat City while the sect was repaired.
• Chen Qiu, Fat Dragon, and Scholar planned disciple tokens, uniforms, rules, contribution systems, and sect duties, assigning Fat Dragon to manage resources and Scholar to oversee the Punishment Hall.
• The newly accepted disciples shared food and drinks at an inn, reflected on the dangers of leaving Great Xia, and encouraged one another that Chen Qiu could lead them to Nascent Soul cultivation.

Chen Qiu arranged new recruits and supplies for Mocking Heaven Sect while preparing to leave Great Xia for the Mystic Heaven Continent. After welcoming several allies and the Brown Bear Clan toward the sect, he settled in to cultivate and prepare for a breakthrough to the Ninth Level of the Golden Core Realm.

• Chen Qiu reunited with Old Cao, promised to find an heir for his Formation Cultivator Inheritance, and heard Old Cao warn him never to hand his back to a living person.
• Chen Qiu brought Xiao Qing and the alchemy cultivator Yuan to Mocking Heaven Sect, revealed their mutual love, and arranged their wedding and the alchemy inheritance trial.
• Liu Zide delivered Fierce Baleful Wood, Eight Desolations Fruits, and a treasure guide, then accepted Chen Qiu's invitation to leave Great Xia with him while the Wang Family master chose to stay behind.
• The Brown Bear Clan traveled toward Fat Prefecture under flags declaring them Chen Qiu's pets, and Zhao Yishi joined them on his way to seek refuge with Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu collected disciple and elder tokens from Li Jia, returned to Mocking Heaven Sect, and began preparing for ten days of secluded cultivation and a breakthrough.

Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Peak Great Perfection, recruited disciples and more than two hundred Brown Bears into the Mocking Heaven Sect, and left his Minor World for Capital Province with Scholar. The City Lord of Fat City, furious that Chen Qiu had departed without him, resolved to find the State Preceptor himself.

• Chen Qiu broke through to the Golden Core Ninth Layer, chose the Movement Technique Supreme trait, and used his retrospection opportunity to select Merit Sage.
• After thirteen more days of cultivation, Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Peak Great Perfection and learned that the sect's daily formations consumed one hundred Lower-Grade Spirit Stones per day.
• Chen Qiu appointed sect disciples and established rules, uniforms, and duties, while more than two hundred Brown Bears joined as disciples and tended the back mountain.
• Chen Qiu left the Minor World with Scholar and the others for Capital Province after Scholar reached the Golden Core Realm.
• The City Lord of Fat City learned Chen Qiu had left without him, struck his steward in anger, and decided to seek Chen Qiu out personally.

Scholar fought Ji Taiping on Green Peak and killed him after using the battle to reach Human-Sword Unity. Chen Qiu buried Ji Renjian, recruited Little Fatty into the Mocking Heaven Sect, and prepared to continue the journey once Scholar recovered.

• Ji Taiping raged over the changes in Great Xia and threatened Ji Renjian when Chen Qiu and Scholar arrived at Green Peak.
• Zhao Dezhu and more than thirty Golden Core Peak Great Perfection experts blocked the Ji Family Supreme Elder while Scholar faced Ji Taiping.
• Ji Taiping stripped Ji Renjian and threatened to kill her, but she slashed her own throat and asked Scholar not to hold back.
• Scholar endured Ji Taiping’s attacks, comprehended his sword intent, entered Human-Sword Unity, and beheaded him.
• Chen Qiu ordered the Ji Family Supreme Elder and the Ji Family eliminated, buried Ji Renjian on Azure Edge Mountain, and recruited Little Fatty into the Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu received another hundred Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills and planned to distribute them through the sect and save some for Scholar.

Chen Qiu defeated the Nascent Soul Puppet guarding the Boundless Snow Mountains and escaped through the portal to the Mystic Heaven Continent, where a hunter found him. After waking, he used the hunter to begin learning about his new surroundings.

• Chen Qiu and Scholar reached the Boundless Snow Mountains, where Chen Qiu fought the Nascent Soul Puppet through repeated attacks and retreats into the Minor World.
• Chen Qiu exhausted the puppet, and Scholar used his sword intent to destroy its core hub, briefly lowering the pressure on the mountain.
• Chen Qiu carried Scholar into the Minor World, rushed to the summit, and escaped through the white vortex portal before the pressure returned.
• Chen Qiu awoke in a stone house in Deathknell Town, where a bearded hunter mistook him for a mortal and claimed his name was Little Dragon.
• Chen Qiu took the hunter to the snow mountains and demanded information, prompting the frightened man to identify himself as a hunter from Deathknell Town.