Recaps

Li Chen expanded his businesses and forces while developing Rune Script Dao, battle formations, and virtual reality. His experiments with spatial transmission led him to discover dying blessed lands in Zone Sixty-Six and evidence of an enormous ancient main vein, while he continued investigating a suspected Minor Grotto-Heaven.

• Li Chen killed a Silver-Grade Assassin who attacked him at Base No. 1, then announced that his perfected Puppet Conversion could help Qi Refining cultivators break through to Foundation Establishment.
• Li Chen negotiated limits on his Enhancement Modification business, opened retainer recruitment, and hired Hua Yongshan after testing his Qimen Dunjia arts and Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Array.
• Li Chen tasked Hua Yongshan with developing puppet-control arrays and Rune Script Dao, then gained the Heavenly Crafts Academy’s cooperation by offering apprentices practical training and resources.
• Li Chen verified Gangstone Bullets and a virtual reality unit, organized his growing projects, and accepted Xu Long and ten Craftsmen from the Creation Sect to help develop Rune Script Dao.
• Li Chen tested a battle formation that trapped Jingang, arranged for Zhou Cheng and Yun Ya to marry, and supported Qi Maigu’s mastery of Blazing Sun Divine Thunder before Qi Maigu returned to the Golden Sun Gate.
• Li Chen used spirit-wave transmissions to identify a possible overlapping Minor Grotto-Heaven in Zone Sixty-Six and dispatched teams to search the area.
• Li Chen worked on creating his own Minor Grotto-Heaven, while Heavenly Pivot completed its search of Sector Sixty-Six without finding an anomaly.
• Li Chen investigated Zone Sixty-Six and found multiple blessed lands, false blessed lands, and spirit-material deposits, then concluded that the dying cluster pointed to an enormous ancient main vein.

Li Chen uncovered the Azure Billow Immortal Abode and fought to keep its location secret as factions converged on Guangyun. After revealing his Core Formation cultivation and settling with some opponents, he faced the Black Shark Bandits, whose powerful flying boat resisted his attacks.

• Li Chen established a covert trading base, expanded production, and secluded himself to develop his Void-Opening Art as a false core formed.
• The Carefree Pavilion sent Si Ming Yiyi to investigate Li Chen, while Mei Tang arrived in Broad Cloud Ward and clashed with Lin Qinghe over Li Chen’s industrial resources.
• Li Chen’s forces opened a rift into a Minor Grotto-Heaven, destroyed the Miasma Mother, and discovered the Azure Billow Immortal Abode inside an enormous Kun’s skull.
• Li Chen claimed control of the abode with Lord Canglan’s token and secretly concentrated forces near Zone Sixty-Six, but Si Ming Yiyi was exposed and killed in the ensuing battle.
• Rumors and a destroyed probe drew factions to Guangyun, where Li Chen ambushed their delegation, revealed his Core Formation cultivation, killed Mei Tang and other resisters, and captured the survivors.
• Li Chen negotiated with Ma Wanbao, released several captives, and prepared for a possible attack by the Mei Family as Mei Yunhe refused to back down.
• Sha Jing’s Black Shark Bandits attacked with a powerful flying boat that withstood Li Chen’s missiles, leaving Li Chen waiting for an opening to strike again.

Li Chen used the Heavenly Sword System, a Golden Sun Gate Battle Puppet, and his own inventions to defeat the Black Shark Bandits and claim their Flying Boat. As he developed a self-evolving artificial intelligence and tested independent Alien Insect bases, Heavenly Pivot took over much of Guangyun’s production while Li Chen prepared to expand his experiments.

• Li Chen deployed the Heavenly Sword System and used a Strategic Missile to damage the Black Shark Bandits’ Flying Boat, then fought Sha Jing and Flame Fang before Thunderhawk Fighters forced a retreat.
• The Golden Sun Gate lent Li Chen the Yu Xiao Tiger, and he installed his Worker Bee System in it before using the puppet to defeat Flame Fang and capture the Black Shark Bandits.
• Li Chen modified the Centipede Heavenly Dragon with Flame Fang’s false core and mechanism, then joined forces with the Mei Family to attack the bandits’ base and kill Sha Jing.
• Li Chen took the bandits’ Flying Boat and began studying it, while his experiments with Touchstone Transmutation led him to develop a Photon Core for Heavenly Pivot.
• Heavenly Pivot awakened as a sentient artificial intelligence, merged with networked cores, and began upgrading Li Chen’s bases and production systems under restrictions he imposed.
• Li Chen authorized Heavenly Pivot to evolve autonomously, and she expanded manufacturing, advanced her Puppet Dao research, and rapidly designed mechanisms and a five-star Undying Puppet.
• Li Chen tested the remodeled Flying Boat and deployed Queen Bee No. 3 as an independent base, then explained to Mei Xuan that he intended to pursue advancement by using cheats.
• Li Chen sent Queen Bee No. 4 to an underground city in Zone Sixty-Six, where it established a level-one base and began replacing production with its own plans.

Li Chen captured Giant Kun origin blood and used it to develop Kun Blood Warriors and a new communication network, then transformed his brain and pioneered memory implantation. The Myriad Realms Marketplace flourished, but competitors began copying it as Li Chen prepared for the Grand Artisan assessment.

• Li Chen activated the Azure Billow Immortal Abode’s Grand Formation, faced attacks from Strange Beasts beneath a blood moon, and retrieved Giant Kun origin blood essence.
• Li Chen experimented with Kun blood to create Kun Blood Warriors and communication organs, then designed Myriad Realms Talismans and proposed a marketplace with Mei Xuan.
• Dong Pengfei brought merchant representatives into the virtual Myriad Realms City, and the associations joined as the marketplace launched and rapidly earned revenue.
• Li Chen decided to pursue a Grand Artisan title, but Dongfang Mao told him he was not ready for the assessment and explained its requirements.
• Li Chen chose the Dao of Wisdom, modified his brain with spirit-particle neurons, and developed a method to implant knowledge as Spirit-Particle Memory Memes.
• Li Chen refined the memory-transfer procedure through trials, eventually transforming Wu Yan successfully, while Mei Xuan worried about the effects on his identity.
• Li Chen planned to use memory memes for puppets and insects and to work with the Creation Sect on financial services, while Grand Artisan Meng demonstrated a competing marketplace and Mei Xuan discovered the Mei Family’s Exquisite Treasures Pavilion.