Recaps

Chen Jue practiced the Dragon Slaying Sword Art with life ore and primordial qi, awakening sword qi that could blast through rock and fire hundreds of meters. After observing the alien planet’s twelve moons, he prepared to explore the distant forested mountains at daylight.

• Chen Jue drank the lake water, found it invigorated his cells, and began practicing the Dragon Slaying section of the Qi Observation and Dragon Slaying Scripture.
• Chen Jue formed sword fingers, cultivated the Dragon Slaying Sword Art, and used free attribute points to raise it to Level 1.
• Chen Jue’s sword fingers gathered primordial qi and magnetic force, allowing him to blast a deep hole in a rock wall with a beam of sword qi.
• Chen Jue raised the Dragon Slaying Sword Art to Level 3, then emerged at night and saw twelve moons in the unfamiliar sky.
• Chen Jue tested a sword-qi strike that traveled nearly three hundred meters, recorded the sky in his notebook, and rested until sunrise.
• Chen Jue packed his gear, descended the stump-shaped mountain, and headed toward the forested mountains a hundred kilometers away.

Chen Jue crossed the Golden Light Barrier and explored a forest filled with dangerous, powerful creatures, including a colony of Giant Ants led by a Transcendent-Level Ant Queen. After killing a Strange Fish and encountering a fire-breathing Strange Snake, he left the snake in pieces with Golden Sword Qi.

• Chen Jue crossed the Golden Light Barrier and found that the land beyond it had less Primordial Qi and signs of animal life.
• Chen Jue encountered Giant Ants and sensed their Ant Queen's Mental Magnetic Field, then skirted the nest after conveying goodwill.
• Chen Jue reached a river and watched Strange Fish hunt a White Moth with a high-pressure water jet.
• Chen Jue speared a Strange Fish, crossed the river, and examined his catch before deciding it might be edible.
• A Strange Snake attacked Chen Jue and breathed fire, but he evaded the flames and sliced it apart with Golden Sword Qi.

Chen Jue watched Feiyi defeat a flock of Ying and burn a giant tree, then fought the Feiyi to claim the golden fruit that grew from the tree. He collected the fruit and a Ying egg and headed back toward the outpost.

• Chen Jue killed a fire-breathing snake with sword qi, examined its poisonous, corrosive fluid, and roasted and ate a Luoyu Fish.
• Chen Jue found a flock of Ying fighting Feiyi around a giant tree, and the Feiyi drove the birds away before burning the tree down.
• A golden fruit grew from the charred tree as primordial qi gathered, and Chen Jue attacked the Feiyi leader to seize it.
• Chen Jue killed the Feiyi leader with his Tang Dao, took the golden fruit, and collected the leader’s gallbladder.
• Chen Jue found a Ying egg inside the burned bird’s body and set off toward the outpost with it.

Chen Jue escaped a massive gathering of beasts drawn to the mysterious fruit and returned safely behind the golden barrier. Examining the fruit, he realized it was a seed carrying the life information of the dead giant tree.

• Chen Jue tossed the giant ant queen a snake gallbladder in exchange for help distracting the pursuing beasts, then evaded the ants’ flying troops by leaping through the treetops.
• Chen Jue outran the pursuing birds, beasts, and insects and crossed the golden barrier, which the creatures refused to enter.
• The queen ant’s warning fluctuations drove the creatures away from the barrier after Chen Jue had left.
• Chen Jue returned to the lake, checked that nothing had followed him, and washed himself and his combat suit.
• Chen Jue sensed a vision of a seedling inheriting a dead tree’s life information and concluded that the mysterious fruit was a seed preserving the giant tree’s legacy.

Chen Jue planted the giant tree’s seed, which rapidly grew into a flowering tree and bore a fruit that granted him sixty additional years of life. As he realized the tree might be the Immortal Tree from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the parrot bird egg he had collected began to crack.

• Chen Jue planted the Transcendent Level tree seed beside the lake, and it sprouted and grew into a five-meter tree in less than half an hour.
• The young tree bloomed and produced a pale golden fruit, which Chen Jue picked and ate.
• Chen Jue gained the [Longevity Dao Fruit] status, increasing his lifespan from 297 to 357.
• Chen Jue recognized the tree as a possible Immortal Tree and wondered whether it could bear fruit only once in its lifetime.
• The parrot bird egg beside Chen Jue began to crack and enter accelerated incubation.

Chen Jue watched a Parrot hatch and decided to raise the unusually intelligent chick, whom he named Wu, as both a companion and a potential disciple. He hoped to study its inherited abilities, but their bond began with the chick relieving itself on his shoulder.

• Chen Jue watched the Parrot hatch and sensed its strong mental presence and dependence on him.
• The chick drank the fluid inside its shell, ate the shell, and accepted Chen Jue’s affection.
• Chen Jue tried several names before settling on Wu and calling it Little Parrot.
• Little Parrot imitated Chen Jue by calling him “Dada,” and Chen Jue considered teaching it as a disciple.
• Chen Jue decided to raise Little Parrot and study whether it inherited its parents’ sonic abilities.
• Little Parrot cheerfully responded to Chen Jue, then pooped on his shoulder and angered him.

Chen Jue studied Little Parrot’s breathing and devised a new approach to flight, then used the Attribute Panel’s state refinement function for the first time. The refinement began, but its result remained unknown.

• Chen Jue brought Little Parrot back from the Immortal Tree and noticed the fledgling feared the mountain’s strange magnetic field.
• At the outpost, Chen Jue recorded the day’s encounters and observed Little Parrot absorbing primordial qi through its breathing.
• Chen Jue studied the bird’s breathing and considered how its respiratory system helped it fly, hoping to improve his own limited ability to stay airborne.
• Chen Jue used the Golden Toad Skill to fill his stomach and intestines with air, but the effort only produced a strong gust and did not lift him.
• Chen Jue selected four movement-art states, including Golden Toad Swallowing Qi, and spent 0.7 free attribute points to begin refining them.

Chen Jue refined [Great Roc Spreading Its Wings] and tested its gliding ability along the mountainside. He fashioned wooden wings to boost his flight and ended the chapter soaring a thousand meters above the forest.

• Chen Jue refined four state blocks into the new state [Great Roc Spreading Its Wings], which let him glide by mimicking a bird's posture and using airflow.
• Chen Jue tested the technique by leaping from the summit and gliding down the mountainside, then stopped his high-speed descent with his breath and powerful legs.
• Chen Jue considered how tools could imitate the factors behind flight and chopped down a massive tree to make two wooden wings.
• Chen Jue strapped the wooden wings to his arms and used them with [Great Roc Spreading Its Wings] to fly around the mountain.
• Chen Jue grew confident enough to climb above the summit and soar a thousand meters over the forest, admiring the lake, river, and clouds below.

Chen Jue surveyed the unfamiliar planet, tested the Wormhole Tunnel, and requested engineered wings from the base. While he rested after his flight, a multinational expedition arrived elsewhere on the planet and discovered gold.

• Chen Jue flew above the forest, spotted blue lights in a distant marsh, and found that passing through the Wormhole Tunnel from above did not transport him.
• The [Unknown Seal] analysis progress rose to 0.2%, and Chen Jue speculated that the tunnel’s one-way effects resembled quantum superposition.
• Chen Jue’s body temperature exceeded 50°C after flying, then fell to about 38°C as he cooled himself; he sketched alloy wings for the base to send.
• Chen Jue returned to his outpost, rested beside the sleeping parrot, and planned to try the final technique in the Qi Observation and Dragon Slaying Scripture after waking.
• A multinational expedition passed through another Wormhole Tunnel and arrived on the planet, where a Hong Mou Group astronaut found dark golden veins in a rock and declared they had landed on a mountain of gold.

Exploration teams from Earth established camps in Second Home, where they found abundant Life Ore and discussed the worldwide spread of Chen Jue’s Body-Tempering Exercise. Chen Jue woke from a restorative sleep and began teaching Little Parrot to make vowel sounds.

• The mixed-race young man and the other explorers set up a base on a mountain rich in Life Ore, sending out drones and Lunar Rovers to survey the desert.
• A Bear Country team arrived on an island, and the Xingyi Sect master agreed to camp near the landing site with them.
• The Xingyi Sect master told Liu Xing to practice the Body-Tempering Exercise and reflected on Chen Jue’s influence and the secrecy of its unpublished forms.
• Chen Jue woke after four hours of sleep and saw that his attributes had increased while he rested.
• Chen Jue noticed Little Parrot’s strong night vision, carved characters into a rock wall, and tried to teach it vowel sounds.

Chen Jue taught Little Parrot a few sounds before practicing Seven-Star Life Extension, which he perfected and used to trigger a massive influx of primordial qi. The chapter ended with his hundred acupoints opening and his attributes and lifespan surging.

• Chen Jue taught Little Parrot to imitate human speech, then put the sleepy hatchling back on the mattress.
• Chen Jue began practicing Seven-Star Life Extension by circulating qi through the seven acupoints.
• Chen Jue perfected the skill, and his Suspended Acupoint drew in qi that flowed through the Big Dipper's seven corresponding acupoints.
• When the qi reached the Haidì Acupoint, a torrent of heat opened Chen Jue's hundred acupoints and began crystallizing primordial qi inside them.
• The mountain's qi surged into Chen Jue as his cells transformed and his attributes and lifespan rose rapidly; he exclaimed, "Holy shit!"

After breaking through the limits of life and death, Chen Jue discovered that his cultivation had transformed his body and accelerated Little Parrot’s growth. The two flew to a misty swamp, where they encountered lightning-wielding Kui Oxen that attacked them.

• Chen Jue awakened the [Life-and-Death Profound Gate] status, gained seventy-two years of lifespan, and realized the Heavenly Eye crystal needed to recharge.
• Little Parrot rapidly grew, learned to fly, and released a powerful sonic blast that extinguished Chen Jue’s cooking fire.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot flew to the river, caught Luoyu Fish, and shared a meal while Chen Jue studied the bird’s sonic attack.
• Little Parrot led Chen Jue toward a mist-covered swamp, where they found enormous Kui Oxen fighting and wielding lightning.
• The Kui Oxen spotted Chen Jue and Little Parrot, then fired lightning arcs through the mist toward them.

Chen Jue followed Little Parrot through a mist-shrouded marsh, survived the Kui Oxen’s lightning, and discovered a flock of giant birds gathered around a Phoenix Bird. The Phoenix Bird addressed him through a rainbow light and asked whether he was human.

• Chen Jue used [Tiger Roars in the Mountains] and his wooden wings to escape the Kui Oxen’s lightning, then flew onward after Little Parrot.
• As Chen Jue crossed the marsh, he saw signs of even larger, stronger Kui Oxen and speculated about how their electrical attacks might inspire a [Transcendent Level] technique.
• Chen Jue emerged from the mist into a basin with a gigantic dead tree and watched Little Parrot reunite with the Parrot leader.
• The flock grew agitated when Chen Jue approached, but a cry from the nest silenced the birds and announced their king’s awakening.
• A gigantic Phoenix Bird emerged from the nest and used five-colored rainbow light to communicate with Chen Jue, asking, “Little fellow, are you human?”

Chen Jue communicated with an intelligent Phoenix Bird and learned about the planet’s ancient human past, its Forbidden Zones, and the bird’s five-colored mental light. The chapter ended when Little Parrot brought him a corroded bronze mask resembling a Sanxingdui artifact.

• Chen Jue greeted the Phoenix Bird through their Mental Magnetic Fields, and it told him he was the first human it had ever seen.
• The Phoenix Bird said its parents had described humans as ancient rulers of the world, and Chen Jue calculated that the bird had lived for 1,524 years.
• Chen Jue learned that the Forbidden Zone had formed around a dying giant tree and that two other Forbidden Zones lay elsewhere on the planet.
• The Phoenix Bird explained that its five-colored light came from its powerful Mental Magnetic Field crystal, and Chen Jue connected it to the Five-Colored Divine Light of mythology.
• Little Parrot emerged from the Phoenix Bird’s nest with a corroded bronze mask, which Chen Jue recognized as resembling a Sanxingdui mask with protruding eyes.

Chen Jue traded a powerful spear to the Phoenix Bird for a bronze mask and learned about seven-colored crystals that could awaken intelligence and strengthen mental energy. Back at his outpost, he put on the mask and discovered that it drew qi into his head, beginning to transform his eyes and ears.

• Chen Jue examined the bronze mask in the Phoenix Bird’s nest and traded it a Retractable Spear after demonstrating its power by shattering a distant rock.
• The Phoenix Bird controlled the spear with five-colored mental energy, and Chen Jue connected the feat to the Daoist arts of Staff Release and Object Manipulation.
• The Phoenix Bird told Chen Jue where to find seven-colored crystals and explained that it hoped he would raise Little Parrot, which carried its bloodline.
• Chen Jue left the basin with Little Parrot and the bronze mask, then returned to his outpost and examined the mask beside the lake.
• Chen Jue put on the mask, which clung to his face, resonated with his breath, and drew qi into his head, stimulating the transformation of his eyes and ears.

Chen Jue fused three skills into the Zhoutian Star Sword Formula, greatly increasing his strength and testing its destructive power. After using the Heavenly Eye to glimpse a Bronze Sacred Tree and a red-eyed creature, he flew west with Little Parrot to search for rainbow crystals, while a stranded exploration team struggled in a desert.

• Chen Jue discovered that the Bronze Mask stimulated his senses, attributes, and Qi cultivation, then returned to his base and trained through the long night.
• Chen Jue fused Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Orbits Circulation, Dragon Slaying Sword Art, and Seven-Star Life Extension into the Zhoutian Star Sword Formula.
• Chen Jue tested the new method by blasting the lakebed with sword Qi and cleaving the lake with a giant energy sword.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot hunted Luoyu Fish, then Chen Jue restored his strength and prepared to explore west for rainbow crystals.
• Chen Jue activated the Heavenly Eye and saw a golden artificial space, a Bronze Sacred Tree, and enormous red eyes before departing west with Little Parrot.
• An exploration team in Lunar Rovers crossed a desert, lamenting that four teammates had died while searching for water.

Bruce's expedition found a hypersaline sea and began making fresh water, then encountered the Bear expedition and agreed to cooperate while Zhao Zhen promised to guide Linglong to a Seven-Colored Ore site. Far away, Chen Jue and Little Parrot fled a pack of flying giant rats.

• Bruce spotted water, and Jason and Pier drove the team to a sea with dangerously high salinity.
• Bruce, Jason, and Pier built solar stills and called the other expedition teams to join them.
• Bruce recognized the approaching Bear expedition, rushed to greet Linglong, and she demanded information about the Śarīra and Seven-Colored Ore.
• Zhao Zhen told Linglong that a terrifying beast guarded the mining area, and the expedition groups lowered their weapons after Abula and Ivan renewed their old friendship.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot flew through the mountains to escape a pack of red-eyed giant rats pursuing them.

Chen Jue escaped a flock of poisonous Flying Squirrels and discovered that the red fruits they guarded could rapidly strengthen muscle and increase strength. After eating one fruit, he identified the tree as a Huai Tree and carefully saved its two pits, leaving him with a valuable discovery to cultivate after completing his mission.

• Chen Jue fought off the Flying Squirrels with a torrent of sword qi, then escaped their deadly green venom mist with Little Parrot.
• Chen Jue ate the red fruit and found that its nutrients stimulated muscle growth and raised his Strength attribute.
• Chen Jue fed fruit to Little Parrot, which rapidly grew into a heavily muscled bird resembling a Harpy Eagle.
• Chen Jue recognized the fruit-bearing tree as a Huai Tree from the Classic of Mountains and Seas and considered its potential for strengthening people.
• Chen Jue stored the two pits in his backpack and planned to plant them after finding the Seven-Colored Crystal and improving his spiritual cultivation.

Chen Jue synthesized the Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill, sharpening his awareness as he traveled toward the mining pit. There, he found Linglong mourning a dead man and witnessed her martial true intent as she charged a roaring beast in the cave.

• Chen Jue and Little Parrot crossed the wasteland, and Chen Jue cultivated while Little Parrot grew rapidly in the high concentration of true qi.
• Chen Jue fused six techniques into the Five Senses and Six Perceptions Skill, which enhanced his senses and awareness.
• Chen Jue and Little Parrot flew to a gravel quarry after hearing beast roars and seeing gunfire in the distance.
• Chen Jue recognized the quarry scene as the vision he had experienced when he first opened the Heavenly Eye.
• Linglong laid the dead man down, revealed the dragon-shaped martial true intent of the Xingyi Dragon Form, and charged the cave with a metal spike as her spear.

Chen Jue and Linglong fought Bai Ze in the mining pit, where the beast’s psychic powers overwhelmed their attacks and nearly broke Chen Jue’s will. Chen Jue escaped with Little Parrot, and Linglong threw her Śarīra pendant into the sea as he began examining his injuries.

• Linglong charged into Bai Ze’s cave and wounded its forefoot, but Bai Ze hurled her out and attacked her with a silver spike.
• Chen Jue caught Linglong and defended the group from Bai Ze’s returning bullets, while Little Parrot carried her out of the pit.
• Chen Jue blocked Bai Ze’s silver spikes with Golden Sword Qi, but Bai Ze struck him into the pit wall and tore his Aerospace Combat Suit.
• Chen Jue severed Bai Ze’s injured forefoot with a golden energy sword, endured its psychic assault, and escaped the pit after unleashing Sword Qi.
• Little Parrot carried Chen Jue and Linglong several hundred kilometers to a beach, where Linglong threw her Śarīra pendant into the sea and Chen Jue examined his injuries.

After surviving Bai Ze’s psychic attack, Chen Jue healed his severe injuries and reunited with Linglong on Second Home. Their discussion of the lunar expeditions and Linglong’s Blood Gang led Chen Jue to infer that it fused blood, true qi, and psychic energy.

• Chen Jue used Buddhist chants and true qi to repair his injuries while Linglong recovered beside him.
• After more than ten hours, Chen Jue’s condition improved, and he shared nutritional supplements with Little Parrot before speaking with Linglong.
• Linglong explained that the Xingyi Sect had reached the moon aboard Bear’s spacecraft and described the other expedition groups and their landing sites.
• Chen Jue and Linglong compared the island, desert, and forest sites, each of which had a flat-topped mountain beyond its Wormhole Tunnel.
• Linglong explained how she formed Blood Gang by combining blood and true qi, and Chen Jue concluded that psychic energy and martial intent had also contributed to it.

Chen Jue and Linglong discussed blood gang and cultivation, leading Chen Jue to realize that cultivating the mind and body were two paths toward transcending the ordinary and manifesting the sacred. After parting, Chen Jue flew toward the base with Little Parrot and encountered the enormous red Phoenix Bird in the clouds.

• Chen Jue analyzed how Linglong's blood gang and barbed spear had pierced Bai Ze's psychic barrier, and Linglong asked him how to subdue the mind.
• Chen Jue explained his understanding of the mind and meditation, and Linglong compared his cultivation with her own experience fusing blood gang.
• Watching sand slip through his fingers, Chen Jue realized that the mind, body, and matter were connected, and that cultivating the mind and body could lead to the same transcendent state.
• Chen Jue and Linglong parted at sunset, with Linglong heading back to the island to recover and reunite with her disciple while Chen Jue returned toward the base on Little Parrot.
• As Little Parrot carried Chen Jue above the desert, an enormous red Phoenix Bird emerged from the clouds.

Chen Jue encountered the Vermilion Bird and used his observations to develop a new idea for cultivating martial blood force. Back at the outpost, he deduced a blood-burning technique and named it the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique].

• Chen Jue recognized the scarlet bird soaring beside Little Parrot as the Vermilion Bird and studied its life-infused martial blood force.
• Chen Jue considered creating a human blood-force cultivation method but postponed his deductions because he was injured; the Vermilion Bird soon vanished into the clouds.
• Little Parrot carried Chen Jue back to the outpost in five days, and his injuries fully healed during the journey.
• Chen Jue heard Bai Ze's lingering plea for help and resolved to try to free it if he returned to the mine when stronger.
• Chen Jue recorded his observations and deduced a blood-burning technique whose acupoints matched those of the [Seven-Star Life Extension Skill], then named it the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique].

Chen Jue created the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique] and fused several arts into [Pure Yang Skill], which let him unleash a devastating punch but quickly drained his martial blood gang. After hearing people arrive at the forbidden zone, he found eight base candidates at the wormhole, including a girl who greeted him as Brother Chen Jue.

• Chen Jue tested the [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique], boosting his attributes by about ten percent while burning through blood cells, then stopped the burst and recovered.
• Chen Jue spent 3.2 free attribute points to fuse [Supreme Ultimate Fist], [Zhoutian Star Sword Formula], [Ten Body-Tempering Forms], and [Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique] into [Pure Yang Skill].
• Chen Jue cultivated [Pure Yang Skill], forming scarlet-gold martial blood gang and completing his theory of [Transcendent Level] cultivation.
• Chen Jue fired a scarlet-gold punch into the forest, snapping several towering trees and raising a small mushroom cloud, but the attack consumed a fifth of his blood gang.
• Chen Jue heard human footsteps and breathing, leaped to the mountaintop platform, and found eight base candidates at the wormhole, where a petite girl greeted him excitedly.

Chen Jue reunited with Yun Xiaomei and the other Chinese Candidates as they arrived at the Second Home, where he introduced them to the Safe Zone and Little Parrot. The newcomers began exploring their new surroundings together, and the chapter ended with Little Parrot calling Yun Xiaomei “Mama.”

• Yun Xiaomei told Chen Jue she had mastered the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, reached Embracing the Elixir, and learned he had gone to the moon.
• Sun Wu, Luo Qiong, and the other Candidates greeted Chen Jue, who led them to the mountaintop platform to view the forest and lakes.
• Little Parrot descended onto the platform, alarming the Candidates until Chen Jue reassured them that the giant bird was tame.
• Yun Xiaomei approached Little Parrot, and the bird affectionately nuzzled her as she stroked and hugged it.
• Chen Jue explained Little Parrot’s rapid growth, the dangers beyond the Safe Zone, and how life ore and the local environment could affect people.
• Yun Xiaomei whispered to Little Parrot, which called her “Mama” and left Chen Jue dumbfounded.