Recaps

Li Chen attained the Dao, overcame the Immortal Alliance’s attempts to stop him, and pressed ahead with plans to reshape cultivation through shared knowledge and technology. As the Alliance opened the Immortal Coffins and a tenth appeared, Li Chen began developing ways to reproduce spiritual traits and demonstrated cultivation enhancement on a transformed pig.

• Li Chen’s union with the Dao made him an existence beyond ordinary comprehension, and the Puppet Dao Grandmasters recovered their memories of him through Nan Fengchai’s True Knowledge Art.
• Hong An and Zong Yiyang entered Materialized Heaven to confront Li Chen, but his defenses defeated them and absorbed their Dao Fruits.
• Li Chen explained his plans for collective development and Dharma’s Decline, while the Immortal Alliance learned that his reforms could overturn the old order.
• Fu Changsheng revealed that the Immortal Coffins contained Guixu, and the Alliance saw a tenth coffin emerge after debating whether to open them.
• Li Chen modified Han Li, Xiao Die, and Xiao Ying, then began studying artificial spiritual roots and methods for copying spiritual traits.
• As Materialized Heaven’s spiritual reserves dwindled, Li Chen shifted research toward replicable advancement methods and recruited cultivators to develop them.
• Li Chen and his collaborators created standardized meme samples for different cultivation stages and used them to alter spirit materials.
• Before gathered observers, Li Chen transformed an ordinary pig into a human and used meme samples to give it a divine soul, magic power, and a complete energy cycle.

Li Chen used the Puppet Dao’s innovations and financial power to undermine the Immortal Alliance, then confronted the ancient calamities unleashed from the Immortal Coffins. As Immortal King Xuanling rose and the factions fought over territory, Li Chen pursued Dharma’s decline while Materialized Heaven expanded into a new star-spanning kingdom.

• Li Chen created Primordial Spirit Realm beings, secured recognition of their rights, and agreed to lead the Puppet Dao’s reform.
• Li Chen and Mei Xuan plotted to crash spirit stone prices, and the Puppet Dao used new technologies and market tactics to drive them below zero.
• Dharma King Yuanhao opened the Immortal Coffins, unleashing heart demons and ancient spiritual energy that spread calamities throughout the worlds.
• Li Chen confronted the Immortal Alliance at the coffins, but Yuanhao became the vessel for Immortal King Xuanling, who emerged and attacked the cultivation world.
• Li Chen suppressed the coffins and drew their calamities into his law domain, while Xuanling’s forces conquered sects and proclaimed him Immortal Emperor Xuanling.
• The Puppet Dao and its allies deployed battle puppets and Insect Race legions across the Earthly Immortal Continent, forcing Xuanling to halt his conquests after encountering Li Chen’s domain.
• Li Chen told Shen Longcheng and the others that he intended to bring about Dharma’s decline, while the divided factions failed to unite against him.
• Materialized Heaven expanded across new lands and celestial bodies, and its citizens gained freedom as Heaven formed a star-spanning kingdom governed by artificial intelligence and programs.