Recaps

Feng An ordered Ye Fei and the others to focus on cultivation, so Lingyan created a time-and-illusion formation with trial realms to train them. After preparing supplies and assigning tasks, the group entered the trials, while Lingyan stayed behind to control the formation and received a message from Phoenix Perch.

• Feng An ordered everyone to cultivate until their combat power reached four digits and told Lingyan to trap Lin Mu in an illusion realm.
• Ye Fei and Lingyan planned to combine a Time Cage with a time-and-illusion formation, and Feng An set the training period at three thousand six hundred days.
• The Queen turned Die Wu into Little Butterfly and left with Blue Feather and the others to prepare the formation at Ye Fei's Home.
• Lingyan created ten Teleportation Arrays, and Ye Fei assigned cultivation tasks while preparing weapons, pills, and enhancement food for the group.
• Six players and eight pets entered the trial realm, and Lingyan stayed behind to control the formation as Phoenix Perch sent him a message saying Spirit was with him.

Lingyan reassured Phoenix Perch that Ye Fei’s group did not need hardship to grow, then watched them easily overwhelm the Illusion Realm’s monsters. He decided they would spend a hundred days in Seclusion after clearing the trials, while Phoenix Perch proposed making their next challenge harder.

• Lingyan explained why he had Ye Fei refine Spirit’s food and said Spirit was too fragile for a direct fight with the God-level Players.
• Phoenix Perch worried that Ye Fei might give up after learning about other Players’ advantages, and Lingyan argued that Ye Fei would not abandon his family.
• Lingyan showed Phoenix Perch Ye Fei’s group and their animals defeating the Illusion Realm’s powerful monsters with ease.
• Phoenix Perch suggested separating the group in their next trial because they had left it behind, and Lingyan said they should cultivate in Seclusion for a hundred days after clearing the current trials.

Ye Fei halted the group’s progress through the Trial Spaces and arranged for them to spend three hundred and sixty days cultivating in each one. As everyone settled into their own routines, Lu Heng’s clashing five-element energies threatened to cause another explosion.

• Ye Fei stopped the group after another wave of monsters and decided they would spend three hundred and sixty days in each Trial Space fighting and cultivating.
• Jun Mo set up a Formation Disk for the group, while Ye Fei took Fire Dance aside because his lightning cultivation was too powerful for the formation.
• Jun Mo kept Lu Heng close to help control his unruly Cultivation Technique, while Long Heng, Feimeng, and the other beasts settled down to sleep.
• Lingxu chose to cultivate alone in the Fish Tank, and Lin Xian separated from Lin Mu because their energies could collide.
• Ye Fei began cultivating with Little Phoenix, aiming to reach Foundation Establishment Ninth Stage within three hundred and sixty days.
• Lu Heng cultivated with five-element spiritual energy that chased and battled itself, prompting Phoenix Perch and Lingyan to wonder when it would explode.

After nearly a year of cultivation in the Illusion Realm, Ye Fei and the others prepared to leave after clearing out its wild monsters. Ye Fei reached Foundation Establishment Ninth Stage and led the group home to rest before their next destination.

• The group spent nearly a year cultivating, celebrating, and fighting wild monsters whenever they appeared.
• Ye Fei called everyone to pack up, while Jun Mo suggested sparring with Lin Mu and Lin Mu refused because he feared Ye Fei's lightning.
• Lin Xian checked the surroundings with Lin Mu and confirmed that no wild monsters remained.
• Ye Fei told Qingxue to wake the sleeping creatures, caught them as they rushed to him, and announced that they were going home.

After leaving the Illusion Realm, Ye Fei reunited with Spirit and returned to life at home while Lingyan went out to watch events unfold. With only three days having passed outside, Ye Fei and his companions planned to rest, gather food, and prepare for the remaining Illusion Realms.

• Ye Fei returned to Phoenix Perch, greeted the Phoenix Tree and Artifact Refining Furnace, and happily welcomed Spirit back from an outing with Lingyan.
• Lingyan said that only three days had passed outside and left to observe the gathering God-level Players, while Ye Fei and the others were free to make their own plans.
• Lu Heng asked whether Huang Yu had left because the fighting was worsening, and Ye Fei warned that powerful visitors might treat them as entertainment.
• Lin Mu took Lin Xian to Ye Fei's Orchard to pick the Spirit Fruit, while Ye Fei sorted the Ingredients and sent Qingxue and the others to play.
• Jun Mo wondered whether Long Heng was becoming too much like the young creatures, and Ye Fei said he could not afford to raise a Divine Dragon.

Lin Mu complained about Ye Fei’s abundant Spirit Fruit, then learned that Ye Fei kept it to feed his household instead of selling it. As the group discussed how often they beat Lin Mu for body refinement, Lu Heng volunteered to spar with him, leaving everyone wary of the danger.

• Lin Mu stacked the Spirit Fruit he had picked and wondered how Ye Fei could still be poor despite his abundant resources.
• Ye Fei explained that the fruit was reserved for Phantom Spirit, the other little ones, and their household, while Jun Mo brought snacks to Lingxiao and Lingxu.
• Lin Mu teased Ye Fei for relying on his dependents to earn money, and Ye Fei said they often went hunting while he cultivated at home.
• Lu Heng asked whether Ye Fei wanted to beat Lin Mu, and Ye Fei said they had already done it so often that it had become boring.
• Long Heng said Lin Mu’s body-refinement training involved repeated beatings and elemental dangers, and Lu Heng volunteered to spar with him.
• The group fell silent at Lu Heng’s offer, recalling that Long Heng had barely survived the destructive force of Lu Heng’s Five Elements Reversal.

Ye Fei and the others finished preparing a year's worth of food and discussed different approaches to cultivation and the persecution of players who did not fit others' rules. The chapter left Lu Heng and Jun Mo planning to provoke Cultivation Channel factions, while Lin Xian and Long Heng recalled groups hunting Half-Demons.

• Ye Fei explained that he had previously prepared meals one at a time, while the group had spent two days and nights making a year's supply of food.
• Long Heng, Jun Mo, Lu Heng, and Ye Fei discussed why some Human Race Cultivation Practitioners abandoned food and embraced ascetic cultivation.
• Lu Heng proposed that he and Jun Mo publicize their comfortable cultivation in the Cultivation Channel and provoke former recruiters.
• Ye Fei agreed that Lu Heng and Jun Mo could stir up trouble after their improvements were complete, noting that some Sects had condemned players who ignored their rules.
• Lin Xian described Human Race Players who hunted Half-Demons, and Long Heng said their faction claimed to defend the purity of Human Race bloodlines while seizing resources.

After nearly ten years inside the Illusion Realm, Ye Fei and his companions emerged to find Phoenix Perch grown into a vast Divine Wood Phoenix Tree. They thanked Huang Yu, Lingyan, and Feng An for providing for them, while God-level Players continued gathering outside Free and Unrestrained Mountain.

• God-level Players learned that Free and Unrestrained Mountain held the Water God's lost Divine Artifact and was nurturing a God-Slaying Evil Artifact, and those who tried to approach were repeatedly killed.
• Feng An asked Huang Yu when Ye Fei and the others would leave the Illusion Realm before the Disaster Phase began again.
• Huang Yu ended the Time Cage and the formations, stopping the Sphere of Influence Core's Energy Points from falling further.
• Ye Fei and his companions emerged after nearly ten years had passed for them, and Phoenix Perch was revealed as a 2,000-meter-tall tree spanning a radius of 10,000 meters.
• Feng An reunited with Long Heng, who had grown from a one-year-old Baby to a two-year-old.
• Ye Fei and his companions bowed to Huang Yu, Lingyan, and Feng An and thanked them for their care.

After spending 3,600 days training in accelerated time, Ye Fei and his companions returned home and prepared to undergo tribulations the next morning. As everyone went off to rest, Ye Fei stayed behind to inspect the faction core building, with the next disaster only two days away.

• Feng An warned Ye Fei and the others that the next disaster would begin in two days, and the Elf Queen told them to rest while powerful beings prepared for the Disaster Phase.
• Lingyan proposed that Ye Fei and the others undergo their tribulations together, while Lin Xian would practice body refinement instead.
• Ye Fei announced that they would rest that day and undergo their tribulations on the Mountain Peak the next morning, then left to inspect the faction core building.
• Jun Mo, Lu Heng, Lin Mu, and Lin Xian each headed home after their long period of training.
• Ye Fei stayed behind with Little Phoenix, Golden Kitten, and Spirit, expecting the others to have a harder time the next day.

Ye Fei enabled free breeding mode for his workers, then went home to rest before his tribulation while Lingyan watched their tangled relationships. Overnight, an argument in the Cultivation Channel led several major sects to accuse Free and Unrestrained Mountain of provoking cultivation rules, and Blue Feather admitted the group hoped hostile players would come within reach of the Queen’s tree.

• Ye Fei increased his workforce to five hundred and enabled Worker Free Breeding Mode, then quickly lost interest in the workers’ complicated romantic information.
• Lingyan told Ye Fei to leave the workers alone and watch their relationships, while Ye Fei went home to bathe, sleep, and prepare for his tribulation.
• Two cultivation geniuses argued in the Cultivation Channel about food, drawing others into a debate over cultivation taboos.
• Several major cultivation sects attacked the Free and Unrestrained Mountain Little Daoist and accused the faction of encouraging people to break cultivation rules.
• Ye Fei saw the accusations in the Alliance Channel and asked whether they would draw players to attack the faction.
• Blue Feather said players would come and revealed that the Wood Demon Pavilion was waiting to catch them as nourishment for the Queen’s tree.

Ye Fei and his companions raised their cultivation to the Golden Core Stage, drawing tribulation clouds over the Life Tree as Feng An planned to make the players outside believe the tree was under attack. Baby insisted on accompanying Ye Fei, and the chapter left the group preparing for a stronger tribulation.

• Feng An told Ye Fei to direct his tribulation lightning toward the Life Tree so they could lure nearby players into attacking.
• Baby asked Ye Fei to take him along, and Ye Fei agreed after making sure he was not afraid of the tribulation.
• Ye Fei brought Baby to the Life Tree, where Jun Mo, Lu Heng, and Lin Mu gathered around him.
• Ye Fei and Lu Heng drew their own tribulation clouds as all four cultivators entered the Golden Core Stage.
• Feng An judged the gathered clouds too weak, so Lingyan added spiritual energy to strengthen them while the Queen complained about their remarks about her tree.

Ye Fei and the others endured a tribulation that Wind God had secretly strengthened while God-level Players outside Free and Unrestrained Mountain tried to exploit a weakness in its Protective Array. A cautious blond man joined the attack, secretly killed his own teammates, and watched the mountain conceal their bodies.

• Ye Fei sensed that the tribulation lightning was unusually strong, while Lin Mu kept Lin Xian from recklessly approaching it and the group tempered themselves with the falling bolts.
• Jun Mo asked why Lin Mu's heart demon tribulation had not appeared, and Lin Mu credited Ye Fei with keeping his heart demons away.
• Outside Free and Unrestrained Mountain, a blond man urged the God-level Players to wait, but the Leopard Demon Player led a team through a fluctuation in the Protective Array.
• The blond man used his Magic Sword to kill several Demon Race Players from his own team, then made it look to the onlookers as if he had slain guardian beasts.
• Roots pulled the bodies underground as soil, weeds, and flowers restored the scene, while the blond man stood still and watched.

The Elf God arrived at Free and Unrestrained Mountain and learned that the Elf Queen was enduring tribulation lightning while Lu Heng faced multiple layers of thunder tribulation. After joining the faction, he watched Lu Heng’s tribulation and discovered that the lightning around him shared the same essence as the thunder tribulation.

• Blue Feather tried to embrace the handsome young man, but he transformed into a child and shouted for help, scaring her away.
• Feng An recognized the child as the Elf God and brought him along after he asked about the Elf Queen and refused to return to his elves.
• The Elf God joined Free and Unrestrained Mountain as its 11th member, and the Elf Queen and Ye Fei told him to stay away while the tribulations continued.
• Feng An explained that the group had a tacit arrangement with Ye Fei and warned the Elf God not to provoke the Water God Whip.
• While watching Ye Fei draw thunder strikes toward himself, the Elf God realized that the lightning around him and tribulation lightning had the same nature, then accidentally stepped on a plate of roasted sunflower seeds.

As Ye Fei endured the fading Tribulation Lightning, Water God Lingbo arrived at Free and Unrestrained Mountain and joined Feng An’s faction. She reunited with Baby and settled in, while Ye Fei remained wary of her seemingly gentle appearance.

• Ye Fei comforted the impatient Water God Whip and expected Water God Lingbo to arrive before the next Disaster Phase.
• Feng An greeted Lingbo outside the Protective Array, and she swept hesitant players into its protective layer as a welcoming gift.
• Lingbo accepted Feng An’s invitation and entered the array, where Baby rushed into her arms.
• Baby told Lingbo that Ye Fei was a good person, making her laugh as she teased him about their closeness.
• Lingbo told Ye Fei she would live at Free and Unrestrained Mountain and offered to help him, provided he did not make her angry.

Fan joined Free and Unrestrained Mountain after the Elf Queen named him, and the others learned that he was likely to cause trouble despite his affectionate attachment to her. As the disaster phase began at midnight, Ye Fei prepared to leave with the others, though the reason they needed to return early remained unclear.

• Fan joined Free and Unrestrained Mountain and greeted its members, warning Blue Feather to stay away from him.
• The Elf Queen explained that Fan had followed her for ages, and she warned everyone that he would eventually get beaten up.
• Ye Fei told Fan not to damage homes or the faction's development area, while Lingbo arranged for Fan to live near the Elf Queen and for her to stay with Baby.
• Jun Mo privately asked Ye Fei why Fan would be beaten up, but Ye Fei said he did not know.
• Lingyan told everyone to go home before the disaster phase started at midnight and urged Ye Fei to bring the others back early.
• Ye Fei spent half the night preparing supplies, then received a notification at midnight that revealed why Lingyan had told him to return early.

Ye Fei entered the first floor of the maze, a snow-covered world where he had to identify and reunite with his companions among spiritual-energy impostors. After finding Qingxue, Feng Bai, Eclipse Moon, Fire Dance, Phantom Spirit, and Feimeng, he brought the whole group together and continued toward the next stage.

• Ye Fei recognized Qingxue among hundreds of identical snow foxes, and Qingxue devoured the defeated spiritual-energy impostors.
• Ye Fei found Feng Bai waiting as little white tigers jumped into his mouth, and Feng Bai swallowed the nearby impostors before helping search.
• Ye Fei raised his Golden Light Shield as hundreds of oversized huskies charged, then had Qingxue make Eclipse Moon deal with the impostor dogs.
• Ye Fei reunited with Fire Dance, Phantom Spirit, and Feimeng, bringing his companions together just over two hours after entering the maze.

Ye Fei and his spirit companions reached the teleportation arrays marking the end of the Maze’s first stage, then selected an entrance to the second stage. After receiving an Inventory Expansion Ticket, Ye Fei prepared to test the Clear Mind route himself while Qingxue watched over the others.

• Ye Fei advised Phantom Spirit and Feimeng to practice recognizing friends and foes after they had fought in an illusion formation, and Qingxue volunteered to arrange training at home.
• Ye Fei found ten teleportation arrays and learned that he had to choose one to enter the Maze’s second stage.
• Ye Fei chose the golden Clear Mind route, which promised treasure chests, and teleported there with his household.
• Ye Fei opened the reward gift box and received an Inventory Expansion Ticket for ten slots.
• Ye Fei asked Qingxue to keep the companions together while he sat down to test whether the route involved heart demon-type attacks.

Ye Fei relived his university years in the Heart-Questioning Illusion, repeatedly beating Lin Mu whenever he provoked him and helping him when street punks came to break his limbs. After their four years together ended, Ye Fei left Lin Mu behind and considered giving him a round of Body Refinement strengthening with the Lightning Domain after returning from the illusion.

• Ye Fei entered the Heart-Questioning Illusion and returned to his first days at university, where he beat Lin Mu for mocking his financial aid application.
• Lin Mu questioned Ye Fei about his family and got beaten again, then later tried to get him drunk and attack him.
• Street punks entered the private room to break Lin Mu's arm or leg, and Ye Fei incapacitated them before lying back down.
• Ye Fei and Lin Mu completed university, and Ye Fei left after telling him to stop doing rotten things.
• Ye Fei ignored Lin Mu's shouted apology and resolved to give him Lightning Domain Body Refinement strengthening after returning.

After passing his third Heart-Questioning Illusion, Ye Fei searched the second-stage maze with his family, collecting Beast Souls and other items before entering the swamp-themed third stage. He gathered ten treasure chests there and found the endpoint before nightfall.

• Ye Fei received a reward for passing his third Heart-Questioning Illusion, then set out with Qingxue and the others to search for treasure chests.
• Eclipse Moon found eight chests and Ye Fei found two, yielding Beast Souls, seeds, equipment, and resources.
• Ye Fei chose the [Swamp · Treasure Chests] Teleportation Array and entered the Maze Third Stage, receiving a silver-quality Beast Soul as his completion reward.
• Feimeng warned Ye Fei of danger near a treasure chest, and Ye Fei used lightning and fire to defeat a Demon Insect before opening the chest and finding an orange-quality Magic Skill.
• Ye Fei and the others overcame further swamp hazards, collected all ten treasure chests, and found the third-stage endpoint before nightfall.

Ye Fei and his pets entered the maze’s fourth stage, rested, and used the third-stage reward to improve their speed. After finding a beast soul in a fox’s corpse, Ye Fei considered what it revealed about souls and spirit cultivators, then decided not to pursue the tangled questions further.

• Ye Fei chose the Thunderstorm Teleportation Array, entered the maze’s fourth stage with his pets, and shared a meal after their third-stage haul.
• Ye Fei learned Pet Control Speed and raised it to level 3, permanently increasing his pets’ speed by 3%.
• Ye Fei and his pets resumed searching beneath the Lightning Domain, and Qingxue spotted a two-tailed fox corpse killed by lightning.
• Ye Fei dismantled the fox and obtained an orange-quality beast soul, which led him to think about player souls, the Wind Wolf Soul Orb, and spirit cultivators’ ability to use souls.
• Ye Fei reassured his worried pets and chose to remember what he had learned without dwelling on questions he could not answer.

Ye Fei trapped and refined a mass of condensed death energy, triggering a special maze event reward. He received the Death Spirit General's Seal, a powerful-looking item that could intimidate undead creatures but had to be held in his palm to work.

• Ye Fei searched the surroundings for materials while riding Feng Bai with the little ones.
• Qingxue spotted a ghostly face on Ye Fei's Lightning Domain, and Ye Fei trapped the death spirit inside a lightning sphere.
• Ye Fei identified the creature as condensed death energy, and Spirit refused to eat it because its death energy would be troublesome to clear.
• Ye Fei refined the death spirit with lightning and received the special maze event reward.
• Ye Fei opened the enormous golden gift box and found the Death Spirit General's Seal, which could intimidate vengeful souls, undead, and death spirit creatures.

Ye Fei refused a quest tied to the Undead Summoner, destroyed the corpse, and sealed its staff before entering the fifth stage of the labyrinth. In the Flower Field, he chose to gather plants peacefully and followed a Flower Fairy to meet its residents.

• Ye Fei found the Undead Summoner's corpse and refused the quest to complete his legacy, then trapped the corpse in his Lightning Domain.
• Spirit warned Ye Fei that the staff resembled it, and Ye Fei destroyed the corpse and sealed the staff with lightning chains.
• Ye Fei entered the fifth labyrinth stage and received a Bitter Bamboo Heart as his fourth-stage reward.
• A Flower Fairy welcomed Ye Fei to the Flower Field and offered him a choice between gathering plants peacefully or taking them by force.
• Ye Fei chose the peaceful approach, and the Flower Fairy led him onward, excited to announce his arrival to the other residents.

Ye Fei visited the flower fields with his little ones and agreed to play a game in which he had to find ten hidden plants. He found an Orchid Fairy’s incarnation, while the flower fairies watched his companions and hoped he would take more of them away.

• Little Flower Fairy guided Ye Fei through the flower fields and introduced him to the flower fairies.
• Orchid Fairy proposed a search game, and Lotus Fairy explained that Ye Fei had to find ten plants alone without damaging the fields.
• Ye Fei left his little ones with the female flower fairies and entered the area marked by Peach Blossom Fairy’s shower of petals.
• Ye Fei identified an orchid as Orchid Fairy’s incarnation and carefully dug it out.
• Peach Blossom Fairy and the others learned that Ye Fei had taken Orchid and grew even more pleased as they watched him.

Ye Fei left Flower Field with the Flower Fairy King and entered the sixth maze stage, Still Mountain, where sound could not be heard. He used a sound-isolation technique to restore hearing in a small area and set off with his companions to find the stage’s spiritual energy.

• Ye Fei collected ten kinds of flower seedlings, accepted a basket from the Flower Fairies, and chose the golden Teleportation Array to leave Flower Field.
• Ye Fei arrived at Still Mountain and discovered that the Flower Fairy King, Huahua, had accompanied him as a seedling.
• Ye Fei found that no one could hear sounds on the mountainside, so he sat down and practiced a sound-control technique.
• Ye Fei created a small area where sound could be heard, and Feimeng revealed that Eclipse Moon had wanted to chew Phoenix Perch's bark.
• Ye Fei gathered his companions and used Spirit as a Flying Sword to search Still Mountain for spiritual energy.

Ye Fei reached the maze's seventh stage after searching the sixth stage for its exit and finding it high above the mountains. The seventh stage was a misty maze with almost no visibility, but Ye Fei and his companions found its Teleportation Array after only a few minutes of wandering.

• Ye Fei searched the mountain peaks and gullies, collecting ten spiritual energy clusters for the little ones, but found no Teleportation Array.
• Ye Fei flew above the mountains, passed through a dangerous demonic qi cluster that no one could absorb, and found ten Teleportation Arrays in the sky.
• Ye Fei selected an array and entered the seventh stage, receiving a reward of five million spiritual energy for clearing the sixth.
• Ye Fei found that the seventh stage was a flat maze shrouded in mist, where his See Through talent let him see only ten meters ahead.
• Ye Fei set off with his companions to search for the exit and encountered a Teleportation Array after only a few minutes.