Recaps

Li Chen exposed his identity, escaped Fang Yuan’s time-reversal traps, and seized control of Great Qian’s Sacred Capital before returning to build a society aboard the Bone Kun Warship. He began constructing the Nine Grotto-Heavens and a Sacred Spirit Grand Formation, while Bu Qingyun’s team saw Heavenly Pivot’s intelligent machines learn their craft.

• Li Chen trapped Fang Yuan in the Sacred Spirit Grand Formation, killed him through repeated attempts to reverse time, and then seized the Book of Years and blamed Prince Ning and the Three Sages for the assassination attempt.
• Hu Ze’s Avatar died after meeting Master Han, and Fairy Zhang Hua confronted Master Han before the Three Sages intervened.
• Yue Dongyang and Lu Yuan established the Heavenly Principle Church and enshrined Hu Ze, while Li Chen returned to the Azure Billow Immortal Abode and reunited with Mei Xuan.
• Li Chen showed the workers and artisans his vision of the Nine Major Grotto-Heavens and explained how Puppet Conversion and collective benefit would shape his ideal society.
• Li Chen demonstrated his mastery of the Creation Law, built a city in Materialized Heaven, and began moving slave workers and artisans into it.
• Li Chen appointed Bu Qingyun to lead a Sacred Spirit Grand Formation project using Deer Terrace and the Bone Kun Warship’s Ritual Altar.
• Bu Qingyun’s team used Heavenly Pivot’s intelligent machinery to build tunnels and spiritual arrays, then saw the machines carry out work they had learned from the craftsmen.

Li Chen transformed the Puppet Dao by sharing knowledge, awakening Kunpeng, and discovering materials that resisted spiritual power. When the Puppet Masters lost Cloud-Raising Immortal City, he joined the battle and faced the Immortal Alliance as the Giant Kun rose from the void.

• Luo Jin modified his brain with a Spirit-Particle Memory Meme, and Li Chen recruited him to study the Life Domain before upgrading Bu Qingyun and the other leaders into master artisans.
• Bu Qingyun accepted Li Chen’s undertaking and offered his array Dao knowledge for the development of the Rune Script Dao, while Han Li began questioning traditional cultivation after sparring with sword puppets.
• Li Chen sacrificed half of his Life Origin to awaken Kunpeng, then joined it with Heavenly Pivot and transformed it into a nine-star floating War Fortress.
• Li Chen equipped Kunpeng with nuclear weapons and discussed longevity, the Great Dao, and the Book of Years with Yu Bao as they sought ways to create spiritual essence.
• Yu Bao’s team used the Book of Years to make spiritless iron that repelled spiritual essence, and Li Chen named the new substances grand void materials and began testing their defensive potential.
• After the Puppet Masters lost Cloud-Raising Immortal City, Li Chen agreed to help Shen Longcheng rescue its people and resources or destroy the city before the Spell Dao could exploit it.
• Li Chen arrived as nuclear weapons devastated the enemy forces surrounding Cloud-Raising Immortal City, then fought the surviving cultivators and trapped two Nascent Soul Experts in grand void refined gold.
• Xiao Linyue, Lin Xi, and Dharma King Yuanhao joined the Immortal Alliance Great Powers against Li Chen, who called the Giant Kun as the battle intensified.

Li Chen crushed the Mount-Covering Sect, rebuilt Cloud-Raising Immortal City with grand void spirit iron, and began transforming Materialized Heaven’s population. Cloud-Raising Immortal City captured Chu Yun Peak as the Immortal Alliance turned its attention toward Li Chen and merchants maneuvered around his controlled supply of spirit iron.

• Li Chen used the Giant Kun to destroy the Mount-Covering Sect’s defenses, bombard its territory, and drag out the Fushan Grotto-Heaven before withdrawing with Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s survivors.
• Li Chen repaired Cloud-Raising Immortal City with Worker Bee Puppets and grand void spirit iron, and Lin Yuanji restarted its reactor and sent the revived city back to the front lines.
• Li Chen entered the Creation Secret Realm, met Grand Artisans including Bei Feng, and arranged further engineering work while preparing to enter Equal Heaven.
• Li Chen announced that Materialized Heaven’s residents would receive innate dao bodies, then converted Han Li into a powerful puppet and began large-scale modifications for the population.
• Lin Yuanji used Cloud-Raising Immortal City’s cannons, nuclear bombs, and grand void spirit iron armor to drive back Immortal Alliance forces and capture Chu Yun Peak, destroying the Fang Household.
• Immortal Alliance leaders reviewed their defeat and Hong An urged them to eliminate Li Chen, while Lin Yuanji planned to secure the captured territory by attracting and protecting Rogue Cultivators.
• Li Chen cut off resellers who speculated on grand void spirit iron and rejected Huang Zhonglü’s appeal to protect merchants, while Xia Yutang’s artisans secretly hoarded the material.
• Immortal Alliance investigators learned that Li Chen rarely left his kingdom and relied on trade and the Heavenly Net, leaving them uncertain how to track him.

Li Chen strengthened Materialized Heaven while the Immortal Alliance’s infiltration and plague operations widened into a direct assault. The invaders breached his stronghold, but mechanical defenses and Li Chen’s forces cut down most of them as Fang Weiqi and a remnant reached the Back Mountain Main Nest.

• Fang Weiqi directed the Immortal Alliance elders’ efforts to locate Li Chen, while Li Chen upgraded Han Li and transformed Black Spirit and the Flat Hill demons into stronger fighters.
• Li Chen summoned the Twelve Zodiac Gods under Materialized Heaven and explained to Hua Wucuo that power should serve the protection of his people.
• Immortal Alliance agents planted an Edict Talisman in a shipment, while Li Chen’s Golden Light City captured Zaiyao Peak and the alliance attacked Puppet Dao supply lines.
• The Poison King and his allies spread Boiling Blood Fever, collecting poison and corpses for their experiments as the plague ravaged cities and the Immortal Alliance’s experts went missing.
• Fang Weiqi revealed to Xia Ziyi that Li Bai was Li Chen and asked him to use their karmic connection to help locate Li Chen’s future whereabouts.
• An Immortal Alliance force infiltrated Materialized Heaven and attacked Li Chen, who activated the alert system and unleashed the defenses around Deer Terrace.
• Li Chen’s mechanized weapons annihilated most of the invading force, but Fang Weiqi, Xia Ziyi, and about fifty survivors escaped into the Azure Billow Immortal Abode and pushed toward the main nest.
• Golden Fleas and Imperial Guard Corps puppet dolls attacked the survivors as Fang Weiqi and the others forced their way into the Back Mountain Main Nest.