Recaps

Li Chen escaped the Qi Family Army’s attempt to bring him to Taiqiu Immortal City and pursued flesh-refinement techniques, creating clay people and a powerful living Battle Puppet. In Jasmine City, Old Hou returned as a Corpse Puppet seeking revenge, and Li Chen’s forces finally pinned him down.

• Dongfang Mao studied Li Chen’s Worker Bee Puppets and failed to divine the secrets of his Puppet Chassis or fate.
• As Mo Huang’s demonic qi unleashed demonspawn, Li Chen defended his mine, recruited stranded cultivators and soldiers to make puppet components, and earned contribution points by killing demons.
• After Grand Artisan Qi defeated Mo Huang, Li Chen collected his assignment rewards and books, then disguised himself and escaped the Mirage before Steward Zhuang could take him to Taiqiu Immortal City.
• Li Chen traveled into Great Chu, studied flesh-refinement methods, and transformed a Blue-Faced Mountain Ogre into Jingang, a living Battle Puppet.
• Li Chen developed standardized clay people and made over a hundred Chang Clan Soldiers, then accepted the Lin Clan’s commission to produce Wooden Soldier and Armored Warrior Puppets.
• In Jasmine City, Li Chen recognized Old Hou, who had returned as a four-star Corpse Puppet sent by the Grand Artisan to avenge Zuo Hao’s death.
• Li Chen trapped Old Hou in the Magic Cube Maze and fought alongside Xiao Die and Xiao Ying, while Old Hou revealed his Karmic Fire Lotus ability.
• After a prolonged battle, Xiao Ying drove her saber through Old Hou’s chest and left him unable to move.

Li Chen left Armor Capital after rebuilding his resources, experimenting with You San, and demonstrating his body-modification techniques. At the Golden Sun Gate’s Sea Eye City lodge, he met Gu Mocheng and caught a legendary Dragon Fish, with a second one appearing on its tail.

• Li Chen removed the Fire Spirit Pearl from Old Hou, cremated the remaining body, and set out to recover his strength and supplies before traveling to the Star Sea.
• In Armor Capital, Li Chen took work from the Wu Household, paid respects at You An’s parents’ grave, and found You San, whom he captured and subjected to a long experiment in training and mind modification.
• After six years, Li Chen received an invitation to be assessed by the Golden Sun Gate and gave his disciples a final lesson in the Magic Cube Maze, demonstrating body-modification procedures on several clients.
• Li Chen sent his disciples away, created virtual personalities from his apprentices, and used them alongside the Seven Great Intelligences to maintain the Magic Cube Maze before selling his city businesses.
• Yu Youxian met Li Chen, discussed their differing views on music and artificial intelligence, and gave him an invitation and instructions to wait at the Golden Sun Gate’s Sea Eye City lodge.
• Li Chen traveled to Sea Eye City, met Gu Mocheng, and learned about the Dragon Fish as they fished above the city.
• Li Chen caught a golden, horned Dragon Fish, and Gu Mocheng identified it before a second Dragon Fish appeared clamped onto its tail.

Li Chen secured Broad Cloud Peak, arranged its investment and workforce, and selected a four-star Giant puppet to defend his new territory. The Golden Sun Gate transported him and his companions there, where nearby tribes mistook their arrival for an invasion of the Sacred Mountain.

• Li Chen caught and cooked two Dragon Fish, earning fame across the Vast Sea while keeping their Dragon Pearls for his puppet work.
• Li Chen chose Broad Cloud Peak as his territory, accepted limited support from the Golden Sun Gate, and acquired the Wave-Leaping Sensing Art.
• Li Chen secured investments, supplies, craftsmen, and trade agreements while planning to develop the Common Folk and his Puppet Dao.
• Li Chen exchanged knowledge with Qi Maigu and Golden Sun Gate disciples, then explored the gate’s four-star war puppets.
• Li Chen chose a Giant puppet, tested its Heaven Topples, Earth Crumbles ability against Gu Mocheng, and considered how it could support his Thunder Dragon Cannon.
• The Golden Sun Gate’s Golden Crow Puppet transported Li Chen, Qi Maigu, Yu Feng, and their companions to Broad Cloud Peak.
• A shaman and tribal chieftain mistook the Golden Crow’s arrival for a threat to the Sacred Mountain and rallied nearby tribes as Li Chen’s party emerged from a Void Gate.

Li Chen established a fortified base at Broad Cloud Peak, defeated the Shaman Tribe Remnants, and uncovered the threats posed by the Centipede Daoist and Heavenly Dragon Gate. After a missile strike scattered Yan Bai’s force, Li Chen found a rich spirit spring, but a figure riding a Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipede approached his camp.

• Li Chen surveyed Broad Cloud Peak, founded a Field Camp, and organized its residents as the Shaman Tribe Remnants watched and prepared to resist.
• The Shaman Folk attacked the camp and construction site, but Li Chen’s forces defeated them, captured Wushi Yan, and learned that they had mistaken the newcomers for followers of the Centipede Daoist.
• Li Chen used Wushi Yan to discourage further resistance and expanded the camp while investigating the Centipede Daoist’s Corpse Monsters and the distant Heavenly Dragon Gate.
• Qi Maigu demonstrated a Solar Divine Light Emitter, which Li Chen adapted into a compact weapon after using it to kill a concealed monster.
• The Centipede Daoist ordered a purge after examining a damaged Flying Disc, while Yan Bai’s group raided Shaman Folk villages and slaughtered people seeking a missing Human-Head Centipede.
• Li Chen launched a rocket at Yan Bai’s force, killing many attackers and scattering the survivors, while Yan Bai escaped into a river and contacted Mountain Gate headquarters.
• Li Chen’s Worker Bee Puppets uncovered a powerful spirit spring and promising mining sites, and the Golden Sun Gate promised aid aboard an Immortal Ship.
• The Auxiliary Brain alerted Li Chen that a figure riding a Three-Excellence Heavenly Treasure Centipede was flying toward him.