Recaps

Li Chen built up his Kun Blood Warrior legion and Heavenly Pivot, then used the insect swarm to defeat the Yan Pond Sea Kingdom and uncover clues about the Sea Emperor’s legacy. After strengthening Ye'e Di Luosha and securing her cooperation, he traveled to Spirit Province, where the Creation Sect’s notoriously difficult Grand Artisan assessment began.

• Li Chen mass-produced Kun Blood Warriors, formed the First Army, and used the legion to clear demons from the Azure Billow Immortal Abode’s lands.
• Li Chen modified the captured Stone Octopus King, demonstrated his Five-Star Modification Art, and joined Qi Maigu and other cultivators in forming the Myriad Heavens Alliance.
• Li Chen expanded Heavenly Pivot’s abilities with divine bean seeds, creating a vast spiritual network that powered the Materialized Kingdom and Myriad Realms Marketplace.
• Li Chen connected Queen Bee No. 3’s insect hive to his network and used the swarm to defeat Sha Tan’s Sea Folk forces, then infiltrated the Yan Pond Sea Kingdom through Sha Tan’s reconstructed identity.
• Li Chen captured Ye'e Di Luosha, learned about the Sea Emperor Token and Secret Palace Treasury, then enhanced her cultivation and sent her back to rule and investigate the Sea Emperor’s Secret Cache.
• Li Chen completed his combat avatar and left Guangyun with a Creation Sect envoy to attend the Grand Artisan assessment in Spirit Province.
• At the Spirit Province Annex, Li Chen met the mechanism automaton and reunited with fellow Alliance members, who discussed the assessment’s demand for exceptional and groundbreaking work.
• The Creation Sect assigned Li Chen to Taiqiu Immortal City for the Heavenly Derivation Dao assessment under Grandmaster Dongfang, whose examination candidates feared was exceptionally harsh.

Li Chen earned perfect marks in the thematic and Art Dao assessments by presenting his computer architecture and performing a moving Puppet Master's Song. He then passed the mechanical weapons assessment and reached the final round, where the remaining candidates learned what Grand Artisan status would grant them.

• Li Chen built an Intel 8086-based computer using the examiners’ materials, and the grandmasters recognized its binary logic as a Dao Artifact and awarded him full marks.
• Jing Tianxing awakened one of Li Chen’s chips and placed it in a Mechanism Automaton, demonstrating that the chip made Spiritual Awakening more efficient.
• Li Chen earned the highest score in the preliminary assessment, chose Skin-Painting Art and biological-weapon refinement as supplementary subjects, and was assigned the Art Dao assessment under Mo Qing.
• Li Chen studied music, refined his voice, and captured the feeling of Li Baiyan’s performance in a Memory Meme before adapting Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai as a Puppet Master’s Song.
• A Heavenly Demon tried to seduce Li Chen during his performance, but he entered Supreme Detachment from Emotion, exposed and defeated her illusion, and passed the Art Dao assessment as the sole successful candidate.
• Li Chen demonstrated that his intelligent Sword Casket could fight and adapt without his control, earning seventy-five points in the mechanical weapons assessment, while Zhu Yishan passed with his Fire God Arquebus.
• Li Chen learned that only sixteen of the thirty-six remaining candidates would pass the final round, and heard that Grand Artisans gained access to secret arts, special trading rights, teleportation arrays, and a spirit peak.

Li Chen’s frontline service shaped his ambition to build intelligent puppets, but the demon calamity and a Martial Dao infiltration forced him into a costly battle. After defeating Elder Wu and exposing the plot, Li Chen secured support to restore puppet production at Broad Cloud Peak.

• Shen Longcheng led the candidates to the Star Sea battlefield, where Li Chen inspected Black Stone Reef and saw how shortages and demon attacks burdened its garrison.
• Li Chen healed Old Wang and enhanced more than a hundred defenders, but Zhou Zhou died in a later battle, leaving Li Chen questioning how to bring lasting change.
• Yang Wuji’s forces attacked the outposts and abducted cultivators, including You Cheng, while Li Chen and Qi Maigu fought to protect Black Stone Reef’s survivors.
• Li Chen told Great Elder Shen he would develop intelligent puppets to unite the Dao Path, and he earned a place among the new Grand Artisans.
• A demon calamity erupted around Blood Moon Island, and Li Chen repaired Red-Feather Thundercloud Cranes while pursuing his plans for intelligent puppet production.
• Yan Qi and Elder Wu’s infiltrators trapped Li Chen and his allies inside a warehouse with the Earth-Covering Cloud-Banishing Banner, but Li Chen’s Divine Ape Incarnation killed the attackers and defeated Elder Wu.
• He Changnian confirmed Yan Qi and Wu Yihe had been captured, promised compensation for Li Chen’s losses, and accepted his request to restore production at Broad Cloud Peak.

Li Chen returned from Golden Light City and built Broad Cloud Peak into a center for mechanized production, education, and his Mortal Dao Artifact philosophy. As his resources and artificial army grew, infiltrators arrived in Guangyun and Li Chen turned toward strengthening his defenses.

• Li Chen completed Golden Light City's Heavenly Eye System and defense renovations, then returned to Sea Eye City and recruited Lu Chen, Yang Yu, and Guo Jin for Broad Cloud Peak.
• Li Chen introduced his Wisdom Dao in Fragrance City, recruited young clan members, and told Lu Chen that he wanted artificial intelligence to govern Spirit Peak and end profit-driven rule.
• Li Chen returned to Broad Cloud Peak, established the Ink Gate School, and welcomed Huang Yuan, who brought a dragon vein that enriched the mountain's spiritual energy.
• Li Chen organized a billion-Talisman-Coin order for Wooden Cranes and crane wings, while his workshop developed and tested the Three-Star Steel-Feathered Crane.
• Li Chen learned that the Shaman Folk lagged behind in education and proposed transplanting Spirit-Particle Memory Memes into them, prompting Guo Jin to question their willingness.
• Fan Cheng accepted a request from disguised cultivators to investigate Guangyun's strength and took a silver fox pelt to support his cover.
• Li Chen expanded his mechanical army, reserved Golden Light City's blood spirit jade for research, and resolved to upgrade Xiao Die and Xiao Ying, master the six-star Heavenly Hero Divine Crane, and find a treasure to guard Broad Cloud Peak.