Recaps

Li Chen’s hidden fortress survived the Immortal Alliance’s assault, and he destroyed much of its invading force while defeating Zong Yiyang. Afterward, he prepared to retaliate and investigated how the Alliance had infiltrated Materialized Heaven, while his theories about the Age of the End of the Dharma drew the attention of True Person Miaobao.

• Fang Weiqi’s group entered Li Chen’s Spare Embryo Chamber, where they found his artificial bodies and weakened under the Dharma-Ending Zone.
• Han Li fought the Immortal Alliance cultivators, while Pei Bairen’s possession of Luo Ji challenged her swordsmanship and forced the others to escape.
• The Immortal Alliance group attacked Li Chen’s Main Nest Hall, but Xiao Die and Xiao Ying killed or wounded the intruders, including Xia Ziyi.
• Hong An, Zong Yiyang, and Pei Bairen led the Alliance’s outside assault, while Li Chen’s forces and factories fought back across Materialized Heaven.
• Li Chen confronted the three Great Powers, used his creation abilities to destroy Zong Yiyang’s Dao Body, and devoured his Primordial Spirit as Hong An and Pei Bairen fled.
• After learning the cost of the battle, Li Chen ordered a funeral for the dead and vowed to destroy the Immortal Alliance and the Spell Dao.
• True Person Miaobao lent Li Chen the Truth-Discerning Immortal Mirror, and their discussion led Li Chen to argue that abandoning cultivation in the Age of the End of the Dharma could bring true longevity.
• Li Chen sent warriors to investigate suspected accomplices, but Grand Artisan Gu defeated the warriors in Cloud Arrival Ward and discovered that they were false bodies.

Li Chen exposed Xia Yutang, committed Materialized Heaven to war, and conquered Nine Ridges Mountain to establish a major industrial city. As the wider conflict returned to a stalemate, Li Chen moved toward Cloud Province with an Insect Swarm base near Cloudthunder Sect.

• Luo Jin pursued Grand Artisan Gu after he fled, while Li Chen investigated the attack on Materialized Heaven and learned Xia Yutang had aided the Immortal Alliance.
• Li Shengyuan escaped Xia Yutang’s agents with help from Mu You and his companions, then met Han Li and was brought to Materialized Heaven.
• Li Chen confronted Xia Yutang, used the Primordial Spirit Virus to overcome him, and killed him with the Corrupting Shadow.
• Materialized Heaven joined the war, and Li Chen accepted his nomination as a Creation Sect Grandmaster candidate while planning to move his people into lesser unity heaven.
• Li Chen expanded his Spirit Human Puppet incarnations and began teaching the newly awakened artificial human Ziyi, while an amnesiac Er Niu entered West River Gate as a menial.
• Hou Tao’s squad gathered battlefield intelligence, and Li Chen used it to target West River Gate and send Queen Bee Number Ten’s insect forces against Nine Ridges Mountain.
• West River Gate’s defenders evacuated as Li Chen’s Puppet Legion took the mountain, and Li Chen built Nine Ridges City in just over a month before opening it to cultivators and merchants.
• Li Chen discussed neutron-star research with Qi Maigu and other grandmasters, then organized his forces as the wider war stalemated and headed for Cloud Province, where his Insect Swarm established a frontline base near Cloudthunder Sect.

Li Chen expanded Materialized Heaven’s industrial and military power while enforcing boundaries against forbidden human experimentation. As the war spread and the Lesser Unity Realm opened new paths for citizens, Shao Li advanced toward Foundation Establishment and uncovered a hidden memory tied to the Outer Dao.

• Li Chen fortified Nine Ridges City, promoted scientific research and cultivation mortalization, and launched a conversion program for eligible candidates.
• Hou Tao joined the First Biochemical Research Institute’s guard corps, where a Windfiend Civet rampaged and killed many guards before being subdued.
• Li Chen punished Grand Artisan Wang Tong for delaying the response to the disaster, while Wang Tong’s research records were preserved and he was recreated with fabricated memories.
• Li Chen’s forces built an underground Insect Hive and strengthened their troops, but he expelled the Three Grandmasters from Cloud Province after discovering their forbidden experiments on living people.
• Li Chen granted Heavenly Pivot independence and resolved to pursue the Self-Slaying Path, while the insect swarm and Puppet Dao attacks steadily weakened the Cloudthunder Sect.
• Li Chen established the Lesser Unity Realm and expanded Divine Descentor bodies, while he introduced restrictions on manufactured companions and began Freedom Heaven for disciplined residents.
• Shao Li defended West River Gate’s recruits from Cloudthunder Sect disciples, revealed his Netherdark Variant Flame, and later achieved Foundation Establishment.
• Shao Li’s breakthrough unlocked a Spirit-Particle Memory Meme, leaving him with fragmentary memories of his early life and new knowledge of the Outer Dao, the Immortal Alliance, and the war.

As the Puppet Dao turned its war against the Immortal Alliance into an industrial campaign, Li Chen developed a new law through mathematics and rose to Grandmaster. He revealed his revolutionary ambitions to Lin Xi and Xiao Linyue, defeated them with an unseen art, and left the Immortal Alliance facing a stronger enemy.

• Shao Li witnessed West River Gate’s defenses collapse under the Puppet Dao’s assault, and he joined the Immortal Alliance as the sect fell.
• Li Chen halted his advance at Divine Mist Mountain and directed the Puppet Dao to expand production, research, and weapons development while seeking ways to industrialize tools against powerful cultivators.
• Li Chen promoted the Armament Modernization Plan and supported new factories, artificial materials, and industrial research to reduce dependence on spiritual essence resources.
• Nan Fengchai presented a formula connecting antispace coordinates with Cosmic Dao space, and Li Chen gathered mathematicians to verify and develop the resulting theory.
• True Person Miaobao verified the mathematicians’ work, donated his mirrors to the Creation Sect, nominated Li Chen for Grandmaster, and uploaded his memories before dying.
• Li Chen entered imaginary number space, developed a nonbeing dharma body, and proposed a concealed network of void base stations.
• Lin Xi and Xiao Linyue fought through the Puppet Dao’s Zhou Tian Celestial Formation, escaped its attacks, and met Li Chen in the Chaos Void.
• Li Chen explained that he intended to take Cloud Province and the Central Sea to reshape cultivation society, then used his hidden art to overpower Lin Xi and Xiao Linyue before they reached the Immortal Alliance outpost.