Recaps

Lin Shan spared a mysterious girl who could change between human and fox forms, but a middle-aged man appeared and killed him with spiritual pressure. Lin Shan regenerated an hour later, though he collapsed again from exhaustion, leaving him to wonder whether his specter physique had made him immortal.

• Lin Shan stopped himself from killing the frightened girl and gave her food, then let her follow him as a blue fox.
• At night, the girl transformed back into a human and ate a piece of Lin Shan’s bun, revealing severe burns across her body.
• The Parchment warned Lin Shan to run, but a middle-aged man emerged from rippling space and crushed him with spiritual pressure.
• The man checked on the girl, who said Blue Prosperity City’s foundations were gone and that she had played with Lin Shan before the man killed him.
• Lin Shan’s scattered body and soul reassembled over an hour, and he awoke before passing out again from weakness.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Shan escaped the enormous footprint and fought a powerful white-furred gorilla in the Ash Fog. He found no core in the beast and concluded that beasts and the Fallen were different kinds of creatures, then considered testing his current spirituality.

• Lin Shan noticed his body was recovering and continued toward his destination, with the Red Lantern still damaged and limiting his visibility.
• He crossed the edge of the flattened city and left the footprint, estimating that nearly 150 kilometers of ruined ground lay behind him.
• A white-furred gorilla ambushed Lin Shan, but he killed it with a Heart Light spear without leaving his position.
• Lin Shan searched the gorilla's remains for a core but found none, confirming his suspicion that beasts differed from the Fallen.
• Lin Shan shaped his Heart Light into a broad longsword and said he might be able to try something with his current spirituality.

Lin Shan used the Heart Light sword to travel to the target area and fought the Fallen Sikatini, a creature that concealed an eye inside its mouth. He killed it after losing and restoring his arm, then learned from Parchment that the potion ingredient was inside the hidden eyeball.

• Lin Shan tested flying on the Heart Light sword, managing five kilometers in twenty minutes and recovering his spirituality between flights.
• Lin Shan approached the Fallen Sikatini and destroyed the exposed eyeball on its tail, then found that its body resisted his attacks.
• Lin Shan pierced Sikatini's abdomen with a spinning spear strike, but the apparently defeated creature bit his arm and revealed an eye inside its mouth.
• Lin Shan severed and reattached his bitten arm, then felt weak as his body recovered.
• Lin Shan consulted Parchment, which revealed that the needed item was inside the eyeball in Sikatini's mouth.

Lin Shan traveled through Fallen territory toward the mercury grass, discovering that eating a snake replenished his spirituality and helped him fly farther. At the marked mountain valley, he glimpsed an immense anomalous peak named Ninety Thousand Li and realized he was only halfway up its slope.

• Lin Shan extracted a spiritual stone from a Fallen and continued toward the mercury grass, evading groups of Fallen along the way.
• Lin Shan killed a perceptive cobra, ate its meat, and found that it increased his maximum spirituality and sped up its recovery.
• Lin Shan spent most of two days flying, survived numerous Fallen attacks, and reached a mountain range where the mercury grass was marked at an elevation of 9,408 meters.
• Lin Shan flew up the mountain through oppressive ash fog and saw a distant cylindrical peak whose name, Ninety Thousand Li, appeared in his mind.
• Lin Shan recognized the entire peak as an anomaly and spotted a vast valley halfway up its slope, where the mercury grass was likely located.

Lin Shan searched the valley for spirit herbs to increase his spirituality and consumed them to strengthen himself. He reached the enormous sequence 8 willow, harvested one of its branches, and learned that his specter physique could be exhausted and left in a deathlike crashed state.

• Lin Shan asked the Parchment to locate spirit herbs, paid two years and three months of lifespan, and swallowed the nearest herb whole despite its recommended dosage.
• Over the following month, Lin Shan consumed the other seventeen herbs, bringing his spirituality to 3.9 and nearly advancing to the fourth stage of sequence 9.
• Lin Shan flew to the valley’s center and found a towering willow whose spiritual pressure surrounded it.
• Lin Shan used an axe of heart light to cut down a nearly hundred-meter branch after three hours of hacking.
• Lin Shan asked why he resurrected after dying, and the Parchment explained that his specter physique was undying unless his lifespan ran out, but repeated recovery could exhaust its essence and leave him crashed.

Lin Shan pursued the fast-moving Blood Wing through a vast forest and reached a lake after finding hundreds of bloodless Fallen. He realized the lake water was actually blood, leaving him facing a new danger as he prepared to hunt the anomaly.

• Lin Shan stored the spiritual willow branches and leaves, then set out to capture Blood Wing, the final material he needed.
• Lin Shan followed Blood Wing north for days and found hundreds of Fallen drained of blood, along with a wounded fish-bodied Fallen caring for its young.
• Lin Shan pursued Blood Wing across the forest for a week, fending off two Fallen attacks with the Red Lantern.
• Lin Shan reached a vast freshwater lake where Blood Wing had stopped and decided to wait until morning before approaching it.
• Lin Shan smelled blood at the lakeshore, touched the red water, and realized the lake was filled with blood.

Lin Shan witnessed a blood lake spread through the Fallen Forest before a powerful Fallen drove it back. At dawn, he attacked Blood Wing, but the anomaly overwhelmed him and destroyed his body.

• Lin Shan watched countless blood-red figures emerge from the lake and spread it across the forest until a blinding Fallen stopped them and boiled the lake away.
• Lin Shan decided to hunt Blood Wing and learned from Parchment that a complete anomaly had no weaknesses.
• Lin Shan approached Blood Wing, which moved too quickly for him to react and drew all the blood from his body.
• Lin Shan used the Red Lantern to set Blood Wing ablaze, bound it with a willow branch, and tried to pull it down with the Heart Light Sword.
• Blood Wing turned its wings red and engulfed Lin Shan in supernatural radiance, killing him and leaving his skeleton to crumble in the wind.

After Blood Wing shattered Lin Shan’s body, Lin Shan used his Specter Physique and the Red Lantern to exhaust the creature’s essence and force it into dormancy. He repaired his body over a month and learned the Parchment’s exact Sequence 9-Blood Wing formula, leaving him ready to advance.

• Lin Shan realized that his Specter Physique and soul were one and that he could wield Spiritual Power without his physical body.
• Lin Shan awakened the Red Lantern’s red figure and repeatedly pierced Blood Wing with Heart Light until the creature ran out of essence and entered dormancy.
• The Parchment warned Lin Shan that prolonged activity in his Specter Physique could make him lose consciousness and become a supernatural entity driven by instinct.
• Lin Shan used his remaining essence to rebuild his body from his shattered bones, a process that took one month and left his essence dangerously depleted.
• Lin Shan asked the Parchment whether it could locate the Human Race, and it answered yes.
• The Parchment revealed the exact Sequence 9-Blood Wing potion formula and instructed Lin Shan to touch the dormant Blood Wing.

Lin Shan successfully absorbed Blood Wing and gained blood manipulation and flight, then flew to the Purple Soul Flower Forest and discovered that Zhang Zhonghua and the others were missing. He tracked them to their former camp and found the Clan Artifact’s protective range had expanded, suggesting the Human Race had arrived.

• Lin Shan prepared two supplementary potions, drank them, and absorbed Blood Wing after touching its true body, falling into a black cocoon in the blood lake.
• Lin Shan emerged with the ability to control the lake’s supernatural blood and fly with blood wings that could make short spatial jumps.
• Lin Shan located the Purple Soul Flower Forest and traveled there over two days, switching between Blood Wing and the Heart Light sword as his supernatural power ran low.
• Lin Shan found Zhang Zhonghua and the others gone, used the Parchment to locate them seventy kilometers away near their former camp, and headed back.
• Lin Shan entered the Clan Artifact’s expanded protective range and suspected that the Human Race had arrived.

Lin Shan reached a Human Race mining settlement and learned that newcomers were meant to register and study the Human Calendar at the Clan Hall. After registering, he waited there to learn more about the clan and the war at the front.

• Lin Shan met Li Mu at a mine, where Li Mu explained that newcomers should visit the Clan Hall to learn about the Human Calendar and register.
• Brother Chen told Li Mu to escort Lin Shan to the Clan Hall and return to mining, explaining that iron ore supplied equipment to the front.
• Li Mu led Lin Shan through the settlement to the Clan Hall, which stood opposite Lin Shan’s home, then slipped away along a different path.
• A woman at the Clan Hall registered Lin Shan and told him that a Human Race pioneer with the same name had helped every clan member who reached Transcendence advance.
• Lin Shan entered the hall and agreed to wait with an elderly woman for the day’s newcomers.

Lin Shan watched new arrivals from Earth learn about the Human Race’s history and its war with the Cat Clan, while questioning the strange circumstances surrounding the conflict. The chapter ended with Jin Tianzong recognizing Lin Shan after hearing that a strange Red Lantern had appeared above the Clan Hall.

• Lin Shan watched people from Earth arrive in the hall and heard a middle-aged man explain that they had crossed into another world.
• An elderly woman recounted the Human Race’s three-year history, including its losses and ongoing war with the Cat Clan.
• The elderly woman ordered each family to send one member to the front lines within two days and directed the newcomers to register for work.
• Lin Shan questioned why the Cat Clan had not destroyed the Human Race despite its apparent strength.
• Jin Tianzong recognized Lin Shan and greeted him after learning of the Red Lantern above the Clan Hall.

Lin Shan returned to the Human Race’s territory and learned from Jin Tianzong that the Cat Clan was slaughtering humans to plunder their clan fortune. He followed the retreating Cat Clan army into the Ash Fog, where his heart light advanced to the fifth stage and the enemy army vanished at an unseen boundary.

• Lin Shan met Jin Tianzong, who explained that the Cat Clan killed hundreds of humans daily and that the Human Race suspected clan fortune was tied to its population and territory.
• Lin Shan flew to the front line, where he saw the Cat Clan’s pseudo-transcendent army clash with the Human Race and kill far more humans than it lost.
• Lin Shan followed the Cat Clan as it retreated into the Ash Fog, avoiding a direct fight with its pseudo-transcendents.
• Lin Shan’s heart light broke through to the fifth stage while he pursued the Cat Clan army.
• Lin Shan watched the Cat Clan army disappear after crossing a certain point in the Ash Fog.

Lin Shan infiltrated Cat Clan City and assassinated the Cat Clan General to force the Cat Clan to stop attacking the Human Race. He left a warning on the wall, hoping his strike would buy humanity time to develop.

• Lin Shan entered the Cat Clan Territory, saw how advanced its city was, and decided the Human Race was not ready to fight the Cat Clan directly.
• Lin Shan entered the Cat Clan leadership’s building, killed a Cat Clan woman, and overheard the General discussing how to exploit the Human Race’s clan fortune.
• Lin Shan used the Red Lantern to burn a newly advanced Cat Clan Transcendent and fought the General when he resisted.
• The Cat Clan General tried to escape, but Lin Shan pursued him and killed him with a Heart Light spear.
• Lin Shan used the General’s blood to write a warning on the wall, demanding that the Cat Clan stop attacking the Human Race.

Lin Shan met Shashali in Proud Meow City and heard her proposal for cooperation between the Cat Clan and Human Race. After reuniting with the seven at the Human camp and learning how the war had changed them, he announced that the Cat Clan would pause its attacks and ordered preparations to relocate.

• Lin Shan searched Proud Meow City's great hall, collected books and valuables, and met Shashali, who explained the Cat Clan's political split and asked him to spare her branch if the Human Race returned to power.
• Lin Shan said he would pass Shashali's request to the others and flew back to the Human camp; Shashali told a blue butterfly that she planned to enter the ash fog to search for the Sequence 8 stone tablet.
• Lin Shan reunited with the seven, including Zhao Xiao An, and spoke with them through the night about the war and the hundred thousand human deaths.
• Lin Shan told the group that the Cat Clan would not attack for several days and ordered them to prepare to relocate so the Human Race could develop in peace.

Lin Shan ordered the Human Race to relocate near the Purple Soul Flower Forest and returned to the settlement, where he found Yan Ruxin caring for children in his house. The chapter ended with Xiao Yuan offering Lin Shan his seat, then reconsidering after Yan Ruxin warned him that Lin Shan was no ordinary person.

• Lin Shan chose the Purple Soul Flower Forest as the destination and ordered the Human Race to pack within two days before beginning their march.
• Zhang Zhonghua and the others organized the troops and prepared them for the relocation.
• Lin Shan returned to the settlement, noticed mourning silk hanging outside nearly every tent, and went to find Yan Ruxin.
• Lin Shan discovered that Yan Ruxin had turned his house into a shelter for children, including Xiao Yuan.
• Xiao Yuan offered Lin Shan his seat, but declared he was not sure after Yan Ruxin warned him about Lin Shan.

Lin Shan visited Yan Ruxin, gave her books taken from the Cat Clan, and prepared to relocate the Human Race. After intercepting Cat Clan messages and killing a spy, he led the fifty-thousand-person migration column toward the Purple Soul Flower Forest.

• Lin Shan shared a meal with Yan Ruxin and the children, then told them the Human Race would leave the next day.
• Lin Shan gave Yan Ruxin books taken from the Cat Clan, and she identified them as texts about spirituality and exploring the Ash Fog.
• Lin Shan guarded the Cat Clan's route, destroyed several message-carrying butterflies, and killed a Human Race spy who sent one.
• Lin Shan returned to find the camp dismantled, accepted the Clan Artifact from Zhang Zhonghua, and ordered the migration column to move out.
• The Human Race began its sixty-kilometer journey toward the Purple Soul Flower Forest, with Lin Shan leading and the other Transcendents guarding the column's flanks.

Lin Shan led the Human Race procession beyond its cleared territory, where swarms of venomous bugs and Fallen killed thousands despite his efforts. At night, as he watched over the survivors, a distortion appeared nearby, and Lin Shan shouted for everyone to scatter.

• Lin Shan guided the procession into unfamiliar territory, where venomous bugs attacked and killed people.
• Lin Shan tracked the bugs to three Fallen, burned them, and returned to find the crowd arguing over the dead.
• Lin Shan told people they could stay to collect the bodies or keep moving, and everyone eventually continued onward.
• The procession survived attacks from anomalies and packs of Fallen, losing several thousand people before nightfall.
• Lin Shan flew above the gathered survivors to watch for danger, then sensed a distortion and teleported toward it, warning everyone to scatter.

Lin Shan used the Red Lantern to hold back a Sequence 8 specter’s darkness long enough for thousands of people to escape, then crawled out severely injured. The procession resumed its journey after dawn, though the specter remained nearby and unseen.

• A Sequence 8 specter emerged from a spatial node and its darkness began dissolving the people gathered around it.
• Lin Shan tore open a path through the darkness and shouted for the crowd to flee, enduring the specter’s pressure as his bones shattered.
• Lin Shan channeled specter physique source into the Red Lantern, setting the darkness ablaze and easing the pressure until most survivors escaped.
• Lin Shan crawled out as the dark curtain closed, then told Zhao Xiao An he was fine and returned to the front of the procession.
• Lin Shan saw Xiao Yuan grieving for the missing children, and Yan Ruxin silently thanked him for his help.
• The procession encountered only a few Fallen before dawn, ate dry rations, and continued on its way.

Lin Shan brought the Human Race to a safe new settlement near the Purple Soul Flower Forest, then used the Parchment to search for spirit medicine. Three months later, after losing his powers when he touched a strange blade of grass and smashing an egg in a bird’s nest, he was pursued by a powerful two-headed bird.

• Lin Shan led the battered procession to a river at the edge of the barrier and declared the site their new home.
• Jin Tianzong presented plans for a town, while Zhang Zhonghua explained how clan fortune affected resources and the Human Race’s development.
• Lin Shan left the pioneers to plan the settlement and used the Parchment to locate forty-nine spirit medicine plants within five hundred kilometers, paying four years and one month of lifespan.
• Three months later, Lin Shan touched a black blade of grass while gathering spirit medicine, briefly lost his supernatural power, and fell into a strange bird’s nest, breaking one of its eggs.
• Lin Shan’s power returned, but the impervious two-headed bird pursued him through the sky, leaving him riddled with wounds.

Lin Shan escaped the two-headed bird by entering a small house that led into Inner Space, but he found himself trapped in its endless darkness. After searching for a way out and then sensing an anomaly, he waited nearby until his specter physique advanced to its second stage.

• Lin Shan descended toward a small house to escape the pursuing two-headed bird, but it snapped his spine and hurled him inside.
• Lin Shan found no exit in the house’s seemingly endless darkness and learned from the Parchment that he needed to reach sequence 8 to tear open Inner Space.
• Lin Shan decided against spending 60 years of lifespan to locate a sequence 8 anomaly and flew through the darkness searching for one.
• Lin Shan sensed an anomaly, stayed about nine hundred meters away, and waited for it to open a passage.
• Lin Shan’s specter physique broke through to its second stage, and larger, patterned phantom blood wings emerged behind him.

Lin Shan escaped a dark space, gathered the final spirit medicine, and returned to the Human Race’s clan lands. He learned the population was nearing seventy thousand and agreed to stay in the Clan Hall while he continued training.

• Lin Shan escaped the dark space after its supernatural power injured his arm, then discovered that the surrounding ash-filled desert contained spiritual sand.
• Lin Shan traveled for a month to retrieve the Red Coral Grass from a lake, where leeches drained his supernatural power before dying from his blood.
• Lin Shan used the Parchment to locate the clan lands and returned after three days of flight.
• Lin Shan found Si Zhennan in the unfinished Clan Hall and learned that the Human Race’s population had grown to nearly seventy thousand.
• Si Zhennan offered Lin Shan a room on the Clan Hall’s third floor, where the Clan Artifact and the clan’s books were kept.

Lin Shan moved into the Clan Hall library and examined the Clan Artifact, which recorded the Human Race’s growing history and his own achievements. After settling in and washing, he explored the developing settlement and saw the people’s renewed energy and the completed central district.

• Si Zhennan brought Lin Shan to the Clan Hall’s third floor and showed him the room where the Clan Artifact was kept.
• Lin Shan opened the Jade Tome and saw Chen Liyun’s name added to the pioneers and a historical record of his own deeds.
• Si Zhennan arranged a room and supplies for Lin Shan, including new clothes and a Spirit Energy Lamp developed by Yan Ruxin and Minister Jin.
• Lin Shan washed beside an irrigation channel, changed clothes, and walked through the construction zone toward the central district.
• Lin Shan saw the settlers working with renewed enthusiasm and was impressed by the completed district’s buildings.

Lin Shan visited the Clan Territory and learned how the Human Race’s seven departments governed its growing settlement. After his accidental contact with Jiang Dang exposed the danger of his supernatural nature, Lin Shan fled to the Clan Hall, where he overheard that General Zhao planned to join an Ash Fog expedition.

• A guide named Jiang Dang explained the settlement’s grain barter, work arrangements, land tax, and seven-department system to newly arrived transmigrators as Lin Shan listened.
• Jiang Dang greeted Lin Shan and collapsed after shaking his hand, becoming covered in ice crystals, though Lin Shan confirmed he was still alive.
• The crowd accused Lin Shan of murder, and he escaped by spreading enormous blood-red wings and flying away.
• Lin Shan entered the Clan Hall and overheard Division Chief Chen learn that General Zhao planned to search for medicinal herbs during the next Ash Fog expedition.
• A woman told Division Chief Chen that Minister Zhang had failed to dissuade General Zhao and had been beaten by him.

Lin Shan reunited with Chen Liyun, taught him how to use a Spirit Marker, and gave him ingredients for a Sequence Potion before he returned to meet the Human Race's ministers.

• Chen Liyun recognized Lin Shan as the Pioneer who had stood beside him during the migration and explained how Spirit Markers helped explorers navigate the ash fog.
• Chen Liyun asked Lin Shan to persuade Zhao Xiao An not to go exploring, but Lin Shan said she should be allowed to take risks as a Transcendent and Pioneer.
• Lin Shan gave Chen Liyun two packets of potion ingredients and instructions to use them with a Purple Soul Flower to advance if he returned alive.
• Lin Shan met Zhang Zhonghua, Jin Tianzong, Si Zhennan, and Yan Ruxin, along with the other ministers.

Lin Shan returned to the Clan Territory, began using spirit medicines to accelerate his potion digestion, and discovered that tiny humanlike figures were growing in the soil. He left Si Zhennan to investigate their source while learning that nearly a month had passed during his seclusion.

• Lin Shan met Zhang Zhonghua, Zhao Xiao An, and Wu Wang, learned that the Clan Artifact's golden thread had guided them back to the Clan Territory, and said he planned to enter seclusion.
• Lin Shan ate a spirit medicine, causing his heart to shatter and regenerate as its spirituality tempered him and accelerated the digestion of his potion.
• Lin Shan visited Si Zhennan and found a tiny, lifelike woman planted in a flowerpot, one of three such figures discovered in the soil.
• Lin Shan identified the tiny woman as human, told Si Zhennan to investigate missing people and find the source, and said the woman had died and become a plant.
• Si Zhennan told Lin Shan it was November 27, Year 3 of the Human Calendar, nearly a month after Lin Shan had returned.