Recaps

After the Puppet Dao captured Cloudview Heaven, Li Chen helped secure a peace treaty that divided territory and opened the way for trade and cultivation reform. The story left the treaty in force but fragile, as Great Benefit City became a center of financial and industrial change and Hou Tao pursued a risky trade in cloudthunder crystal.

• Dharma King Yuanhao fought Li Chen with his Immortal King Dharma Form, but Li Chen’s Imaginary-Number Dharma Body evaded its attacks while Yuanhao used Temporal Dao to damage Li Chen’s puppet avatar.
• The Puppet Dao’s forces defeated the Cloudthunder Sect and captured Cloudview Heaven, while the Immortal Alliance’s leaders debated peace and reforms modeled on the Puppet Dao.
• Li Chen and the Puppet Dao Grandmasters agreed to seek lasting peace, trade, and technological exchange, and Li Chen accepted the Golden Roc Great Sage’s marriage proposal involving Bailing after she agreed and became pregnant.
• Pan Ning arranged covert support for Ying Si after Tu Qinghui’s attack, while Li Chen cured Ying Si’s poisoning and helped set him on a path to grow stronger using the Sky Eagle Saint Ring.
• Li Chen and the other great powers signed a treaty dividing the Equal Sea Domain, establishing trade and strategic-resource exchanges, and allowing Li Chen to create the Myriad Heavens Bank and Securities Exchange Market.
• After being elevated to Grandmaster, Li Chen called the treaty a ceasefire and urged the Puppet Masters to prepare for renewed conflict while competing through trade and the spread of their Dao.
• Great Benefit City opened markets and the Heavenly Reach Money House, where a new Talisman Coin exchange rate drew merchants into the reformed financial system.
• Hou Tao sought a large loan and trading leverage to buy cloudthunder crystal, while Hua Lin worried that the venture could ruin them and that the Great Powers might be targeting Hou Tao.

Li Chen expanded the Puppet Dao through energy innovations, temporal research, commercial networks, and changes to Celestial People, while the reforms deepened inequality and helped spark a mass uprising. He secretly strengthened the rebels in Pian Province, then the story shifted to Yan Fan investigating a series of unexplained murders.

• Hou Tao withdrew from his cloudthunder crystal contracts and avoided ruin, while Li Chen and Mei Xuan discussed how the Heavenly Reach Money House could reshape cultivation society.
• Li Chen helped the Puppet Dao adopt cloudthunder crystal energy, and its mines and processing plants spread as Great Powers profited from the market shift.
• Su Qing began studying at Guangyun Cultivation Academy, where students encountered openly taught techniques and a lifelike simulated human puppet.
• Li Chen and his researchers developed the Time Mirror, used it to study microscopic matter, and advanced his ability to create materials and forge powerful weapons.
• The Origin Prosperity Commercial Alliance launched imaginary number storage, prompting rival storage and logistics alliances to form and Li Chen to seek broader coordination.
• Li Chen reshaped the desireless Celestial People and expanded Materialized Heaven, while recognizing that concentrated wealth and exploitation were harming ordinary cultivators.
• Slave Workers revolted across Ling Island and Pian Province, and Li Chen secretly supplied the rebels with weapons, battle puppets, and cultivation resources.
• Yan Fan investigated Ma Yi’s unexplained death and learned it was one of fifty-eight similar murders, with no clear evidence or suspect.

Li Chen confronted the spread of Youxuan’s memetic power, then helped Pan Ning and the Soundless Heavenly Palace build a performance network that reshaped cultivation society. Meanwhile, Li Chen created a neutron-star dharma body and began exploring how to make himself truly immortal.

• Yan Fan and the Spirit Peak cultivators linked the mysterious murders to the Puppet World Heavenly Net, while Junior Brother Chen died after using the Mind-Reading Art on Ma Yi’s remains.
• Li Chen destroyed the Incarnation of Beauty’s palace and avatars, while Youxuan survived as a Paper Beauty and later agreed to pursue heavenly demon rebirth with Han Tong’s help.
• Li Chen admitted to Han Tong that he had killed Youxuan, and the Elders’ Council approved measures to restrict the spread of Youxuan’s alluring image through the public Heavenly Net.
• Li Chen helped Pan Ning transform into Gu Yue Fairy and launch the Celestial Seven Wonders Studio, whose performances gathered prayer power and made the troupe famous.
• Youxuan spread paper figures resembling Gu Yue Yu’er to gather spiritual energy, while Li Chen withdrew support from Pian Province and the Immortal Alliance grew wary of the Studio.
• Meng Fuyun forged the Sun Godbird as a soul-fused lifebound treasure, then sold Gu Yue Yu’er discs and Songstress Dolls that inspired Puppet Masters to produce popular goods for ordinary people.
• Li Chen merged imaginary-number law into his dharma body, created and stabilized a miniature neutron star, and transformed his avatar into a neutron aggregate.
• Li Chen tested his neutron dharma body against the First Heaven Fleet and other attackers, found that ordinary weapons and spells could not harm it, and considered using prayer power and living beings’ perceptions to forge an immortal primordial spirit.

Li Chen reincarnated without his former powers to test whether his true self could survive death and the Mystery of the Womb. His dream-born incarnation united with the Dao and altered memories across the worlds, while Li Chen awakened with a new Heavenly Ghost body and began restoring what had been erased.

• Li Chen awakened Shao Li’s implanted memories, escaped the Immortal Alliance, and returned to seclusion to refine One Breath Becomes the Mystic.
• Li Chen extinguished his life to test reincarnation, and the Falsehood Divine Mirror later revealed that his sliver of true spirit had gone to be reborn.
• Li Chen was born into the Li Household, chose to live as an ordinary child, and developed his mind while recovering fragments of his sealed knowledge.
• Li Chen opened his consciousness sea, rebuilt his powers, erased his existence from others’ memories, and left his family while preserving their memories of their lost child.
• Li Chen entered a dreamscape where his body and Divine Soul dwindled to a skullcap, then reshaped his Mindscape Wasteland and recovered his memories.
• Li Chen’s incarnation united with the Dao and spread a memory-altering law across the worlds, causing people to forget him and changing the timeline.
• Li Chen awakened in his Heavenly Ghost Dharma Body, restored his cultivation through thought, and used his incarnation’s law domain to return part of people’s memories.