Recaps

Wang Yu arrived at Guangyuan Market, passed the entry inspection, and explored its districts while searching for cultivation-related goods. He ended the chapter in the market square, turning toward stalls that had attracted other customers.

• A market official on a giant crane checked Wang Yu, Elder Hua, and Princess Tianhe, confirming that all three met the cultivation requirement to enter.
• Elder Hua left with Princess Tianhe to meet an acquaintance, and Princess Tianhe gave Wang Yu a communication talisman.
• Wang Yu registered at the valley entrance, paid one spirit stone for a token and guide, and entered Guangyuan Market.
• Wang Yu rented a room at the Cloud Come Inn and explored the market, finding mostly everyday goods in the front district.
• Wang Yu reached the square, inspected its unusual stalls, and headed toward the ones where people had stopped to browse.

Wang Yu explored Guangyuan Market, learning about talismans, medicines, and magical artifacts as he gauged the value of his own Silver Hammer. He continued browsing the market without revealing his suspicions about the hammer.

• Wang Yu spoke with Old Guo about his talismans and learned the prices of entry-level and middle-grade talismans.
• Wang Yu asked a medicine master about Baleful-Harmonizing Powder and learned that killing intent was usually sold by major shops or at auctions.
• Wang Yu watched Lay Buddhist Qing Ge demonstrate a damaged entry-level Redfire Whip and demand three hundred spirit stones for it.
• Wang Yu wondered whether his Silver Hammer was also an entry-level magical artifact and continued through the market.
• Wang Yu examined books and bamboo slips at another stall, then shook his head.

Wang Yu entered Guangyuan Market’s inner market to look for cultivation books and test his spirit roots. He learned that he had four spirit roots, including a high-grade fire root and a low-grade variant wind root, and sought advice on which sect to join.

• Wang Yu learned from a stallholder that spell books and cultivation methods were sold in the inner market, where reputable shops offered safer goods at higher prices.
• Wang Yu found that entry-level spell books were beyond his means, then visited Marvelous Artifact Hall to have his spirit roots tested.
• Wang Yu paid ten spirit stones and used the Spirit Root Testing Disk, which revealed metal, fire, water, and wind spirit roots, with fire high grade and the other three low grade.
• The short-haired man advised Wang Yu to seek a sect specializing in fire cultivation, since his high-grade fire root could help him gain strength and resources.
• Wang Yu asked which sects were best versed in fire-attribute cultivation methods.

Wang Yu learned about the sects of Great Ming Prefecture and decided the Four Symbols Sect was his best prospect, but Blacksmith Wu's death cut off his contact with the Yin Household. The Black Soul Sect then attacked Guangyuan Market, and Wang Yu fled as the market's defenses collapsed.

• Wang Yu decided to investigate the Four Symbols Sect and seek contact with the Yin Household through Blacksmith Wu.
• Wang Yu learned that Blacksmith Wu had died in a furnace explosion and considered finding the Yin Household's address himself.
• Black Soul Sect cultivators attacked Guangyuan Market with Black Soul Seals, shattering the market's defensive formation.
• Wang Yu used Overclocking and a Wind-Riding Talisman to flee toward the valley's edge as the attackers pursued the market's residents.
• A Four Symbols Sect cultivator named Brother Yue confronted six Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Black Soul Sect while bone boats and attackers descended on the market.
• Wang Yu leaped down the far side of the slope and escaped without looking back.

Wang Yu escaped the Black Soul Sect’s attack on a flying boat near Guangyuan Market, but he was ambushed in the forest by two black-robed men and their White Bone Fiends. He fled through the trees as the men pursued him on a White Bone Colossal Serpent.

• A huge bone ship engulfed a flying boat near Guangyuan Market in black mist, killing everyone aboard while Wang Yu hid in a tree using his camouflage robe.
• Wang Yu left his hiding place and ran through the forest, then used Overclocking to detect an ambush and dodge a volley of bone crossbow bolts.
• Two black-robed men confronted Wang Yu with a row of White Bone Fiends, and their conversation revealed that some of the skeletons had been freshly refined.
• Wang Yu escaped into the trees, while the thin man recalled the skeletons into his White Bone Token and summoned a White Bone Colossal Serpent.
• The two men mounted the serpent and pursued Wang Yu as he bounded from tree to tree.

Wang Yu escaped two Black Soul Sect pursuers after crippling their bone python, then fled downstream from Guangyuan Market. A fleet of azure flying boats captured him and others with a golden toad’s power.

• Wang Yu used a thrown tree and the Iron Shield to knock the riders from their bone python, then smashed the creature with a kick.
• The bald man and the thin man recognized Wang Yu as a Guardian Warrior and chose not to pursue him, instead seeking easier targets with a Spirit-Seeking Talisman.
• Wang Yu fled into a river beneath a dead log and drifted downstream overnight, then continued running away from Guangyuan Market.
• Wang Yu hid from a fleet of azure flying boats, but a golden toad phantom immobilized him and drew him into its mouth along with more than a dozen others.

Wang Yu woke at the Yin Household’s ancestral residence after his soul had been put into a deep sleep by Heaven Toad Ancestor’s spirit beast. Yin Linglong explained the regional conflict and discussed his likely admission to the Four Symbols Sect, while preparing to arrange his marriage into the Yin Household.

• Wang Yu woke in a guest room on Emerald Cloud Mountain and reunited with Yin Linglong after drinking the broth she brought him.
• Yin Linglong explained that a Four Symbols Sect disciple had brought Wang Yu to the Yin Household using its token after his soul fell into a deep sleep at Guangyuan Market.
• Wang Yu learned that the Black Soul Sect and other Demonic Path sects had launched invasions and that Golden Core ancestors had battled near the Four Symbols Sect.
• Wang Yu told Yin Linglong that he had four spirit roots, including a superior-grade fire spirit root, and she said he was all but certain to pass the Four Symbols Sect’s admission test.
• Wang Yu reminded Yin Linglong that he still needed to pay respects to her ancestors and complete the marriage ceremony, and she said she would prepare and persuade the Yin Household elders.

Wang Yu cultivated and studied at the Yin Household before beating back two relatives who came to test his strength. Yin Linglong arranged a match in three days that would decide whether Wang Yu could marry into the household or be replaced by Yu Xiaoming.

• Yin Linglong explained that the Yin Household had lost its Foundation Establishment Ancestor and elite members, and invited Wang Yu to cultivate at Emerald Cloud Mountain before the Four Symbols Sect entrance test.
• Wang Yu cultivated in the head's courtyard, ate spirit rice and Demon Beast meat, and studied apothecary texts in the Head's Library.
• Yin Meng barged into Wang Yu's room to complain about his cultivation resources, but Wang Yu threw him into the courtyard and warned him not to return.
• A scarred younger cousin attacked Wang Yu with a wooden staff, but Wang Yu caught the blow, shattered the staff, and kicked him into the courtyard.
• Yin Linglong told Wang Yu that he would face Yu Xiaoming in three days, and that Yu Xiaoming would marry her and join the Yin Household if he won.

Wang Yu learned that defeating Yu Xiaoming in a match was his chance to help Yin Linglong take control of the Yin Household, and he agreed to fight despite the risks. Three days later, the match was about to begin when Yu Xiaoming arrived with the Yu Household Head, whom Yin Linglong had not authorized to attend.

• Yin Linglong explained that Yu Household members had persuaded Yin elders to back Yu Xiaoming and that a victory would let her purge the disloyal elders.
• Wang Yu said he had a strong chance against Yu Xiaoming, and Yin Linglong promised to consummate their marriage if he won.
• Yin Linglong told Wang Yu to rest for three days while she investigated Yu Xiaoming's spells and magical artifacts.
• At the practice field, Yin Linglong learned that the elders had invited Yu Xiaoming's father, the Yu Household Head, without her permission.
• A Giant Gray Bird landed at the field and three people climbed down, prompting Wang Yu to narrow his eyes.

Shi Hai of the Four Symbols Sect arrived to observe the contest between Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming over Yin Linglong’s marriage. After the match began, Yu Xiaoming challenged Wang Yu to break through his defenses within the time it took an incense stick to burn, and Wang Yu accepted.

• Shi Hai arrived at the Yin Household with Household Head Yu and Yu Xiaoming, announcing he had come to watch the contest.
• Wang Yu identified himself as Yin Linglong’s fiancé, while Yu Xiaoming claimed he had loved her for five years; Yin Linglong confirmed that the winner would become her husband.
• Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming entered the Martial Arts Practice Field, where the rules prohibited talismans and pills and forbade either fighter from killing the other.
• Yu Xiaoming revealed that he had awakened a physical bloodline and offered to defend without striking back, wagering the match on whether Wang Yu could seriously injure him within an incense stick’s burn.
• Wang Yu agreed to Yu Xiaoming’s challenge, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Wang Yu faced Yu Xiaoming, whose bloodline talent let him summon a hurricane and transform his body into formidable stone armor. After Wang Yu's weapons failed to break through the armor, he prepared another technique while the spectators watched through a projected image.

• Shi Hai and the head of the Yu Household debated whether Wang Yu could overcome Yu Xiaoming, and Yin Linglong revealed that Wang Yu had killed an enemy at late Qi Refining.
• Yu Xiaoming used his Hurricane Bowl to raise a violent wind filled with stone fragments, while Wang Yu weakened it with his Silver Folding Fan and charged through.
• Yu Xiaoming revealed his Stone Armor Art, and Wang Yu struck the armor with his Silver Rapier but failed to penetrate it.
• The head of the Yu Household used a Lesser Universe Mirror to project the fight for the spectators as Wang Yu attacked Yu Xiaoming's exposed face, only for the armor to stop the blow.
• Wang Yu discarded his chipped rapier, drew in a large volume of air, and caused a tiger's head to emerge from his back.

Wang Yu defeated Yu Xiaoming in the contest, securing his place as Yin Linglong’s husband and earning Shi Hai’s interest in testing him for sect admission. He married Yin Linglong and entered the bridal chamber, where she swore herself to him while warning him never to abandon her.

• Wang Yu used the Breathing Technique and Overclocking to smash Yu Xiaoming’s Stone Armor and win the contest.
• The Yu Household head conceded that Yu Xiaoming’s defeat was fair and left with his unconscious son, while Yin Linglong asked Shi Hai to stay for the wedding and Wang Yu’s entrance test.
• Shi Hai agreed to test Wang Yu personally, and Yin Linglong ordered the household to open the Ancestral Pavilion and formally welcome Wang Yu as a live-in son-in-law.
• Yin Linglong and Wang Yu paid respects to the ancestors, then exchanged wedding bows seven days later before the household and Shi Hai.
• In the bridal chamber, Yin Linglong bit Wang Yu’s arm, swore she would remain with him for life, and warned she would not forgive him if he abandoned her.

Shi Hai brought Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming to the Four Symbols Sect and explained how its branches selected disciples with awakened physical bloodlines. At the sect, Elder Liu agreed to arrange their selection, and Wang Yu recognized the little girl accompanying him as a younger version of Qin'er, the Blood Enchantress.

• Shi Hai explained the Four Symbols Sect's branches, disciple ranks, and the resources available to each, then warned Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming not to expect direct admission as inner disciples.
• Shi Hai flew the two men through the sect's concealed entrance, where they sensed the rich spiritual energy around its peaks and spirit veins.
• Shi Hai landed the Giant Gray Bird on a mountain platform, where Elder Liu arrived with a little girl and agreed to summon the four branches to assess Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming's bloodlines.
• Wang Yu recognized the little girl as a younger version of Qin'er, the Blood Enchantress of the Four Fiends of Misty Mountain, and felt a chill run down his back.

Wang Yu’s high-grade fire spirit root drew the attention of the Four Symbols Sect’s Blazing Fire Ancestor, who sent Senior Brother Gu to test him. The test revealed a Half-Extreme Spirit Flame, leaving Elder Liu astonished.

• Elder Liu questioned Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming about their spirit roots and bloodlines, then lamented that Wang Yu’s four spirit roots barred him from immediate inner-sect admission.
• Shi Hai praised Wang Yu’s mastery of the Qi Refining Practitioners' Breathing Technique, prompting the elders to discuss the formidable Iron Madman.
• Senior Brother Gu arrived and explained that the Blazing Fire Ancestor had sent him to verify the incoming disciple with wind and high-grade fire spirit roots.
• Senior Brother Gu used a second-tier Spirit-Testing Talisman on Wang Yu, revealing four spirit roots and a red flame that turned half red and half purple.
• Elder Liu identified Wang Yu’s flame as a Half-Extreme Spirit Flame and cried out in disbelief.

Wang Yu’s superior fire spirit root drew the attention of the Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Gu Fei brought him to meet the Blazing Fire Ancestor. The Ancestor began examining Wang Yu, but the intrusion triggered the auxiliary system’s emergency defense as the chapter ended.

• Senior Brother Gu explained that Wang Yu’s fire spirit root showed exceptional potential but had not reached half-step supreme grade, and the cultivators debated whether to make him an inner disciple.
• Senior Brother Gu took Wang Yu by Fire Escape Technique to a pavilion inside a volcanic crater and gave him a Fire-Avoidance Token.
• Gu Fei presented Wang Yu to the Blazing Fire Ancestor, who transformed from a statue into a living man and dismissed Gu Fei.
• The Blazing Fire Ancestor sent energy into Wang Yu to examine him, causing Wang Yu to lose control of his body.
• The auxiliary system detected a dangerous psychic intrusion and began activating its defenses and forcing the energy out.

Wang Yu woke from the sleep pod on Blue Star after spending over half a year in another world, though only twenty-some days had passed there. After surviving an assassination attempt, he discovered he had brought his Metal-Dowsing Art back with him, and Dr. Chen identified it as a possible super magnetic field.

• Wang Yu woke in the No. 0 Sleep Pod and learned he had been in it for just over twenty days despite experiencing more than half a year in the other world.
• Dr. Chen examined Wang Yu, and two men in black suits arrived to take him to General Xu.
• Wang Yu sensed that the two men smelled of blood and warned Dr. Chen, prompting them to attack.
• Wang Yu used the medical leads to restrain one attacker while a sphere of electrical arcs killed the other; the captured attacker died after taking poison.
• General Xu ordered Wang Yu transferred to Zone A and provisionally assigned S-Rank clearance.
• Wang Yu demonstrated his Metal-Dowsing Art, and Dr. Chen compared it to the super magnetic field being researched in the West.

Wang Yu learned more about superhuman research and the danger keeping him at the base, then began drawing the Four Beast Diagram for Dr. Chen. That night, Taiyuan told him that it was resetting and integrating with a parent system, leaving Wang Yu afraid of what would happen if the base learned about it.

• Dr. Chen told Wang Yu that Western researchers had identified thirteen superpower categories and five ranks, while Huaguo had trained two B-rank superhumans, and warned him to keep the information secret.
• Dr. Chen explained that the glowing shield was an experimental ion force-field device and said Wang Yu could not leave the base until the other-world information had been analyzed.
• Wang Yu learned that he was the only successful returnee and that Taiyuan was Huaguo's sole superintelligent computer, then asked Dr. Chen for drawing supplies and a gaming pod for Star River.
• Dr. Chen advised Wang Yu to treat Star River as real and hinted that what he learned in the game might be useful someday.
• Wang Yu drew the sixteen forms of the Four Beast Diagram, then tried to activate overclocked synchronization mode that night and heard Taiyuan report a reset and integration with a parent system.
• Wang Yu realized his superhuman physique and Dharma Power were gone, while his mental energy remained, and feared the base would imprison and study him if he revealed the system in his mind.

After returning to Blue Star, Wang Yu underwent days of questioning and testing as researchers studied his cultivation-world experiences and entered his texts into the base’s Taiyuan system. His Metal-Dowsing Art proved powerful enough to qualify him as a D-Rank Ability User, and Dr. Chen assigned him new training and teaching duties.

• Wang Yu told Dr. Chen how the Taiyuan subsystem had taken over to save him from an assassin and later returned his consciousness to Blue Star after the Four Symbols Sect patriarch attacked him.
• Experts questioned Wang Yu about the other world and used a projection helmet to record images of weapons and creatures he described.
• Wang Yu displayed the cultivation texts he had collected, while researchers entered the Yin Water Art into a computer system preparing a Taiyuan deduction function.
• Wang Yu tried to activate overclocked synchronization mode, but the system reported a reset prompt before falling silent.
• Wang Yu lifted a fifty-kilogram metal sphere, and Dr. Chen declared him a D-Rank Ability User and assigned Zhao Jun to train him.
• Dr. Chen told Wang Yu that his Star River gaming pod would arrive that night and that he would begin teaching two groups the following day.

Wang Yu entered a virtual mech-pilot training scenario and boarded black mech No. 18 as the squad prepared to reinforce Mars Base. The mech began synchronizing with him through a neural connection.

• Wang Yu climbed into a gaming pod and appeared in a crowded wasteland filled with players, soldiers, and black mechs.
• He disabled the players’ chatter, noticed that several game settings were missing, and identified mech No. 18 as his assigned machine.
• Wang Yu met Reserve Mech Pilot Ding Yu, who reported that the mech inspection was complete and refueling was underway.
• Wang Yu summoned his silver-white armor and ordered mech No. 18 to open its boarding hatch.
• Mech No. 18 verified Wang Yu’s identity, admitted him, and activated artificial gravity and neural synchronization.

Wang Yu led mech No. 18 into battle against a pack of Yellow Glaze Beasts, discovering that despite the mech’s sluggish controls, he could defeat the monsters with ease. As the squad was nearly wiped out and his mech ran low on energy, he hurled his blade at a beast surrounding him.

• Wang Yu and more than two hundred mech pilots set out across the sand toward the Mars base, but several mechs crashed before they reached the enemy.
• The squad encountered a pack of Yellow Glaze Beasts, whose white energy ribbons destroyed many mechs while the beasts dodged most rifle fire.
• Wang Yu killed multiple Yellow Glaze Beasts with his serrated blade and mech strikes as the rest of the squad was overwhelmed.
• With only a handful of damaged mechs remaining and more than a dozen beasts still alive, Wang Yu received a warning that his mech was nearly out of energy.
• As the surrounding beasts lashed their ribbons at him, Wang Yu threw his golden serrated blade toward the nearest one.

Wang Yu passed the Star River Recruit System’s mental power assessment, learned the Star Thought Technique, and was secretly conscripted into the Blue Star Alliance’s Interstellar Tactical Mecha Squad for service ten years later. After waking from the game, he trained with Zhao Jun, who demonstrated a technique for using mental abilities more effectively.

• Wang Yu’s mecha was destroyed in the game, and he received an Excellent result that sent him into a hidden training scenario.
• A projection taught Wang Yu about star thought power, assessed his mental strength, and implanted the first three levels of the technique along with secrecy shackles.
• A soldier secretly conscripted Wang Yu into the Special Reserve’s Interstellar Tactical Mecha Squad and gave him a countdown to service beginning ten years later.
• Wang Yu woke after an entire night in the gaming pod and found the Star Thought Technique implanted in his memory.
• Wang Yu lost a contest of mental ability to Zhao Jun, who demonstrated how to make a suspended wooden stick spin until its front end shed wood shavings.

Wang Yu learned about star thought power and the hidden recruitment linked to Star River from Zhao Jun, then used his cultivation knowledge to train base recruits and teenagers. He agreed to attend Zhao Jun’s gathering and received the address for contacting Taiyuan, though access required authorization.

• Zhao Jun demonstrated how to modify a small object into a weapon and use a Mind Shield, then offered to teach Wang Yu a Psychic Shockwave.
• Zhao Jun revealed that he and Wang Yu had both entered Star River’s hidden training scenario and received special recruitment offers to cultivate star thought power.
• Zhao Jun explained the difference between thought power and star thought power and invited Wang Yu to a gathering of recruited Mech Pilots; Wang Yu agreed to attend.
• Wang Yu asked how to contact Taiyuan, and Zhao Jun gave him the base-network address while warning that the AI required high-level authorization.
• Wang Yu corrected a squad of young men practicing the first form of the Wolf-Running Diagram.
• Wang Yu taught teenagers to cultivate spiritual perception and sense Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.

General Xu and Dr. Chen discussed Blue Star’s efforts to study Saitan’s cultivation system and decided to recall Xu Ting and Qian Xuan despite risks from the vanished passage phenomenon. After an unauthorized login attempt and another night in Star River, Wang Yu was ambushed by Zhao Jun, who used a memory-reading ability on him.

• Dr. Chen told General Xu that Taiyuan was searching for Blue Star’s spiritual energy and that artificial spirit veins might be another avenue of research.
• General Xu ordered Xu Ting and Qian Xuan recalled, and Dr. Chen warned that the vanished Saitan passage could make the recall dangerous.
• Wang Yu tried to access a restricted silver hall but was forcibly ejected, then entered Star River and fought Nebula Beasts in an Earth Dragon Type II Mecha.
• Wang Yu woke feeling an increasingly strong, unexplained call, and Zhao Jun summoned him to the Zero-Type sleep pod hall because the recall had gone wrong.
• Zhao Jun stunned Wang Yu, destroyed the room’s surveillance devices, disguised himself as a woman, and began reading Wang Yu’s memories through two golden helmets.

Wang Yu’s system expelled the dangerous energy linking his mind with the blonde ability user, and he awoke back in his cultivation-world body. He discovered that his body had practiced the Fire Spirit Art and acquired graded pills while he was away, then saw Saitan’s celestial apparition beside the sun.

• Wang Yu reset his system, which took control of his body and fired a Psychic Shockwave into the blonde woman, knocking them both unconscious.
• Representatives from Huaguo and a Western power blamed each other over the blonde woman and an attack on an important researcher before other countries mediated the dispute.
• Wang Yu awoke in a stone room in his cultivation world and confirmed he could use spells again.
• Wang Yu found that his body had reached the third level of Qi Refining with the Fire Spirit Art and that his Storage Bag contained Fire Cloud Pills.
• Wang Yu suspected the Blazing Fire Ancestor was involved and went outside, where he saw Saitan beside the crimson sun.

Wang Yu discovered that he had become an inner disciple of Vermilion Bird Mountain and learned he could claim a free spirit beast. He followed Senior Brother Zhou Chu to the Spirit Beast Hall, where Uncle-Master Li began guiding him to make his selection.

• Wang Yu found an inner disciple token marked with his number, 118, and entered a cavern of numbered inner disciple passages.
• Wang Yu met Zhou Chu, who told him that new inner disciples could claim a spirit beast for free during their first three months.
• Wang Yu accompanied Zhou Chu to the Spirit Beast Hall, where Zhou Chu bought Fire-Attribute Beast Feed for his Long-Armed Rabbit.
• Uncle-Master Li recognized Wang Yu as the disciple personally admitted by the ancestor and agreed to take him to select a beast despite his low cultivation.
• Uncle-Master Li praised the Four Symbols Sect's Beast Taming Art as he led Wang Yu and Zhou Chu through the hall, while Zhou Chu challenged his account of its advantages.