Recaps

Tang Wen secured Xianji City, then won recognition as the Water Virtue Star Lord after an Immortal Examination Helm test revealed his extraordinary strength. He built businesses and strengthened his allies in Spirit Lake City before returning to the lower realm, where the chapter left him heading toward the Great East Dynasty.

• Tang Wen traveled with Gongyang Yong to Spirit Lake City, impressed him with a Photon Star flying saucer, and proposed modern transportation for the city.
• Tang Wen demonstrated his strength to the Gongyang Lineage and bargained for Xianji City by promising pills that could rapidly raise cultivation; the Taichen Star Lord granted him the city while secretly plotting to control him.
• Tang Wen secretly learned of the Gongyang family's plan through surveillance, then received the Xianji Command Token and absorbed the city's land and popularity through the Great Landlord System.
• Tang Wen went to the Immortal Examination Helm, proved his power, and received a fifth-rank True Immortal assessment before absorbing Floating Immortal City and earning a second-grade Great Firmament Golden Immortal credential as Water Virtue Star Lord.
• The Gongyang family tried to take Xianji City and force Tang Wen to refine pills, but backed down after he revealed his Star Lord and cultivation credentials; Tang Wen negotiated a business partnership and boosted his allies' cultivation.
• Tang Wen expanded the Tang Clan's businesses in Spirit Lake City, returned to the lower realm, failed to open the Bronze Coffin and Ao Kong's Magic Array, helped his wives cultivate, and traveled to the Great East Dynasty.

Tang Wen traded half an Immortal Stone for territory from the Shen Family, then was arrested for impersonating an envoy and secretly helped Tu Helilin’s faction recover its strength. After claiming the Rooster of You and advancing to the middle stage of the Time-Space Realm, Tang Wen learned that the four-family contest had been moved up to three days away.

• Nalan Youruo told her family that Tang Wen had defeated her, and the Nalan Family prepared to use a Heavenly Demon Beast’s essence to raise her cultivation.
• Tang Wen accepted remote territory from the Shen Family in exchange for half an Immortal Stone and promised to help them overcome Fan Qiuci.
• Li Cong arrested Tang Wen for impersonating an envoy, but Deputy Command Director Tu Dongguo brought him to Tu Helilin, who offered him the Wolf-Clothed Guards’ command position.
• Tang Wen opened the Wolf-Clothed Guards’ hidden chamber, claimed the Rooster of You, and advanced to the middle stage of the Time-Space Realm.
• Tang Wen strengthened Tu Qingzhang and Tu Dongguo, while Song He plotted to use the Nalan Family’s challenge to test Tang Wen.
• Shen Luosan told Tang Wen that the contest between the four great lineages would begin in three days.

Tang Wen defeated Song He in a wagered challenge, gained land, and became an enemy of the Imperial Clan, while the Great Eastern Sect tried to recruit him. After Nalan Youruo used a scheme to bind him to the Nalan Family, Tang Wen helped its leaders advance and accepted Hongxiao City's territory as payment for facing the Song Family’s powerful ally, Cheng Jisigao.

• Tu Helilin persuaded Tu Longtian to let Tang Wen challenge Song He for command of the Wolf-Clothed Guards, after secretly giving Tang Wen the Ice Chicken that helped him advance.
• Tang Wen shattered Song He's domain and defeated him with one punch, winning the land wager; the Supreme Emperor tried to punish him, but Tu Shichen upheld the challenge's rules.
• Song Yan attacked Tang Wen, but Tang Chong's illusion and aphrodisiac made her publicly expose her past love for Gu Qingfeng, further angering the Imperial Clan; Kang Yaozu then invited Tang Wen to join the Great Eastern Sect.
• Cheng Jisigao promised to heal Song He and help him seize the throne, while the Nalan Family worried that the stronger Zhao Lineage would destroy them.
• Nalan Youruo lured Tang Wen to Tiger-Jump Gorge and used Passion Intestine Grass with Red Splendor Flowers to make him sleep with her, demanding that he protect her family.
• Tang Wen helped Nalan Youruo, Fan Qiuci, the Nalan Ancestor, and Nalan Xingde advance their cultivation, then accepted Hongxiao City's Command Tally as payment for confronting Cheng Jisigao.

Tang Wen defeated Song He and drove Cheng Jisigao away, then declared the Great East Dynasty would become the Great Tang Dynasty under Nalan Xingde. The chapter ended as Tang Wen began assigning the Great Eastern Sect a role in the new dynasty.

• Tang Wen helped Nalan Youruo reach the Small Space Middle Stage, while Song He advanced to the Minor Emptiness Middle Stage and Cheng Jisigao reached the Great Space Realm by absorbing the imperial Dragon Vein’s essence.
• Cheng Jisigao and Song He seized the palace, captured Tu Longtian, and brought down the Tu Family, but Tang Wen rescued Tu Shichen and Shadow and forced them to become Nalan Youruo’s contracted servants.
• Tang Wen defeated the Great Eastern Ancestor and the sect’s attendants to secure his position as Chief Attendant, then absorbed the energy of Taiyue City and increased his strength.
• Tang Wen killed Song He’s body and captured his Primordial Spirit before Cheng Jisigao destroyed it; Tang Wen then struck Cheng Jisigao with a telekinetic spear as he fled toward the Great Kun Dynasty.
• Tang Wen declared the Great East Dynasty would become the Great Tang Dynasty, appointed Nalan Xingde as sovereign, and made the Great Eastern Sect its Protective Sect.

Tang Wen gained influence on Photon Star by supplying genuine Immortal Rice and immortal stones, earning a consultant position and Dr. Cha’s support. After using his new status to drive off the Mu family, he faced a strength test that could determine whether he qualified for promotion.

• Tang Wen defeated Mu Long, who branded him with the code Goudan, then learned that Photon Star’s apparent collisions came from its finely divided spatial passageways.
• Tang Wen discovered that genuine Immortal Rice could become popular on Photon Star, and he gave Zhu Xingwen a Vermilion Fruit to help him approach Dr. Cha.
• Dr. Cha tested Tang Wen’s immortal stones and rice, arranged a televised tasting event, and made him a Royal Scientific Research Committee consultant named Immortal Rice.
• Tang Wen’s new consultant title helped him gain official aura and advance to the Small World Realm, while he traded a high-grade immortal stone to Dr. Cha for a miniature planet called the Light Star.
• Mu Jia tried to seize Tang Wen at his hotel, but Tang Wen subdued him; Mu Fa backed down after seeing Tang Wen’s consultant Kaka, and the hotel upgraded Tang Wen to a free presidential suite.
• Tang Wen asked Dr. Cha for a senior consultant position and activated his 2,500-fold strength stacking to strike the Strength-Testing Robot.

Tang Wen helped the Shi Family cleanse its bloodline poison, reclaimed Mountain Phoenix City, and became a celebrated hero on Photon Star before returning to the Immortal Realm. There, he learned that the Taichen Star Lord had seized his earnings and imprisoned Gu Qiang, so he traveled to Thousand Peaks City to seek a higher official position and improve his strength.

• Tang Wen sold Immortal Rice and Immortal Stones at a marathon, attracting Huo Feng and Shi Gandang, who signed Dr. Cha’s book and protected Tang Wen.
• Tang Wen used Ao Kong’s Dragon Horn Thorn to remove the Shi Family’s bloodline poison and restore its strength, then agreed to help the family retake Mountain Phoenix City.
• Tang Wen absorbed the Wei Sheep Fate Pearl from Mountain Phoenix City’s spatial barrier, opened a safe passage through it, and led the Shi Family in defeating the Black Crane Lineage without losing soldiers.
• Tang Wen took control of Mountain Phoenix City, lowered its passage toll, and gained enough land and popularity to advance his cultivation and meet his traversal requirements.
• Yan Zhui told Tang Wen that the Taichen Star Lord had seized their revenue and imprisoned Gu Qiang after Ao Baishi’s influence emboldened him, so Tang Wen decided to seek advancement before confronting them.
• Tang Wen traveled to Thousand Peaks City to pursue an Immortal Realm official position and joined the long queue at its Immortal Examination Banner.

Tang Wen became the Ten-Thousand Tiger Star King, defeated the Scorpion King in Thousand Peaks City, and asserted his authority at a wedding in the Taichen Star Domain. He then reached Ten-Thousand Tiger City, rescued Yang Xiao’s soldiers from Tiger Demons, and began assessing the city’s crisis as Hu Xiao’s forces threatened it.

• Tang Wen passed the Immortal Examination Bureau’s tests, was appointed Ten-Thousand Tiger Star King, and arranged protection and a commission for his Tang Clan Thousand Peaks Mall.
• Tang Wen joined Hang Xiaotian and Song Qianxiong in luring out and killing the Scorpion King, then advanced to Third-Rank Immortal Lord after absorbing its poison.
• Tang Wen confronted the Taichen Star Lord and the Gongyang Clan at a wedding, revealed his Star King Token, recovered Gu Qiang, and forced the Taichen Star Lord to take a Popularity Pill that raised his cultivation before he died.
• Tang Wen arrived in the Myriad Tiger Star Domain and rescued Yang Xiao’s City Guard Army from Hu Da and the Tiger Demons, killing Hu Da and helping Ao Qiyun advance to Immortal King First-Rank.
• Tang Wen brought Yang Xiao into his Satellite Space and learned that factions in Ten-Thousand Tiger City had colluded with Hu Xiao, while the Tiger King’s forces and the Wolf King Lang Hongdong threatened the city.

Tang Wen foiled Hu Xiao’s assassination plot, defeated Hu Xiao’s forces, and persuaded the Tiger King to submit by promising to help rescue his family. After gaining territory and power, Tang Wen returned to the lower realm, where Great Kun City’s guards insulted him and demanded spirit stones.

• Zhan Tongcheng and his allies plotted to lure Tang Wen into an ambush and win Hu Xiao’s help by supplying him with powerful cultivators’ dantians.
• Tang Wen rescued Guan Hongchao from Hu Daqiang’s Taiyi True Fire, helped him break through to the Taiyi True Immortal Realm, and escaped with him.
• Tang Wen exposed Zhan Tongcheng’s faction, killed the traitors, advanced to third-rank Immortal King, and rallied Ten-Thousand Tiger City’s powers with advanced weapons.
• Tang Wen’s forces ambushed Hu Xiao’s army and routed it; he later captured the wounded Hu Xiao and persuaded him to submit in exchange for help saving Tian Meier and his family.
• Hu Xiao handed Tang Wen the Tiger Clan’s territory command token, and Tang Wen advanced to sixth-rank Immortal King before learning Lang Hongdong possessed the Rat treasure.
• Tang Wen returned to the lower realm and entered Kundu City, where the gate guards called him a dog and demanded spirit stones; the chapter ended as someone struck him.

Tang Wen became acting Presiding Deputy Command Director of the Great Kun Guards after overpowering its assessments and was assigned the Marquis of Zhenjiang case. His new authority advanced his cultivation, but the chapter ended with the Eldest Princess’s followers confronting him at the Crimson Flame Prince’s Estate and Zhu Yan attacking.

• Tang Wen negotiated six million li of land from the Zhang Family by advancing Zhang Xiaoyan’s cultivation, then went with Zhang Zhengong to seek a position in the Great Kun Guards.
• Tang Wen stopped Banner Chief Zhao Yunfeng from attacking Miao Shiba and offered to solve the case of the stolen Buddhist implements in exchange for a chance at a senior post.
• Tang Wen passed the Great Kun Guards’ physical, spiritual-power, and wisdom assessments, and Yu Chaoran appointed him acting Presiding Deputy Command Director pending a one-year trial.
• Tang Wen performed Blood-Drop Recognition, gained land, population, and authority, and advanced to the middle stage of the Endless Life Realm.
• Madam Heavenly Crystal advanced Luo Huayu and the Thirteenth Princess, who then led a crowd to the Crimson Flame Prince’s Estate to confront Tang Wen over the Thirteenth Princess’s dispute with Red Flame Taibao.
• Tang Wen refused to submit to the Eldest Princess’s demand for slaps, and Zhu Yan attacked him while Red Flame Taibao shut his eyes.

Tang Wen secured Baijiang City by striking a deal with the Marquis of Zhenjiang, gained his official title, and exposed the White Tiger King's faction for causing trouble. After defeating Madam Heavenly Crystal in their challenge and forming a bond with her, Tang Wen faced the Black Heaven Demon, devoured Heavenly Crystal to destroy a Corpse Demon, and helped drive the demon away, leaving Yan Chunxue in his arms.

• Tang Wen tortured Miao Shiba until he began confessing that the Marquis of Zhenjiang had arranged the theft, then stopped the interrogation and later accepted Baijiang City from the marquis in exchange for closing the case.
• Luo Zhantian formally appointed Tang Wen Presiding Deputy Command Director and Divine Constable Count, then directed Madam Heavenly Crystal to challenge him as a public warning.
• Tang Wen uncovered Miao He's role in orchestrating crimes, raided the White Tiger King's estate, and arrested Miao He despite the White Tiger King's resistance.
• Madam Heavenly Crystal challenged Tang Wen at Sunset Glow Valley, but Tang Wen defeated her; she confessed her feelings, signed a Master-Servant Contract with him, and gave him her Crystal Heart.
• The Black Heaven Demon attacked Tang Wen and Yan Chunxue while Tang Wen fought a Corpse Demon; Tang Wen swallowed Heavenly Crystal, destroyed the Corpse Demon, and joined Luo Hongfeng and others in driving Black Heaven Demon away.
• Yan Chunxue embraced Tang Wen and declared that she had acknowledged him as her master and would accept becoming his wife or concubine.

Tang Wen entered the underworld, learned how its hierarchy, food, and currency worked, and discovered that his goods from the living world could make him rich. After surviving an underworld sandstorm and reaching the Second Corpse Realm, he traveled toward a city to pursue business, where a dispute over his food brought a powerful family’s representatives to confront him.

• Tang Wen subdued Black and White Impermanence at Ghost Gate, posed as a powerful underworld figure, and learned about Blood River City and the underworld’s rulers from Yang Marshal.
• Ox Head took Tang Wen toward the city, explained the underworld’s food and Yin Fruit currency, and revealed how scarce meat and other goods were.
• Tang Wen realized his stored food and underworld supplies could earn him a fortune, then faced an underworld sandstorm and absorbed its insects’ energy.
• Tang Wen’s advancement raised him to the Second Corpse Realm and Nine Heavens Profound Immortal; Gongsun Zichuan invited him to visit Golden City, and Tang Wen gave Ox Head valuable Yin Fruits.
• At Red Blood City, Tang Wen’s meal was taken by a wealthy young lady’s party, and he demanded it back before overpowering her guards with his underworld energy.
• An old man in scholarly robes arrived at the restaurant and sarcastically challenged the group, while Tang Wen waited to see what strength the family would bring.

Tang Wen passed Wei Shang’s Ghost Lamp trial by rejecting an illusion of his mother, severed his Emotion Corpse, and proved his spiritual power was extraordinary. Wei Shang demanded that he investigate the expanding General Sand, but Tang Wen insisted Wei Shang honor the written agreement for White Evil City first.

• Tang Wen helped Wei Chuyan agree to trade an official post governing thirty million li for a miraculous cultivation pill, and Wei Shang arrived the next day and attacked him with the Ghost Lamp.
• Inside the Ghost Lamp, Tang Wen crossed a perilous rope bridge to reach the apparent Song Qinglian, then exposed her as a phantom and severed his Emotion Corpse.
• Tang Wen emerged from the trial, learned Wei Shang wanted him to investigate General Sand, and demanded the White Evil City post promised in Wei Chuyan’s contract.
• Yuan Daqi attacked Tang Wen, but Tang Wen burned away his sinister wind and damaged his Thousand Ghost Banner with Nine-Heaven Mystic Fire.
• Tang Wen agreed to investigate General Sand only after Wei Shang honored the Wei family’s debt, threatening to publicize the contract if he refused.

Tang Wen uncovered the source of General Sand, survived the Dung Beetle King's attempt to trap and kill him, and reached the late Rebirth Realm. After General Sand vanished, the Great Landlord System upgraded him to King Level and imposed new requirements for his growing realm and harem.

• Tang Wen endured Wei Shang's Soul-Striking Whip, received White Evil City's talisman token, and learned that Wei Shang and Yuan Daqi intended to send him into General Sand as a test for Yama Lord Bao Zheng.
• Tang Wen investigated General Sand, discovered that life energy from a Fate Pearl empowered dung beetles whose excrement formed the expanding sand sea, and entered the strange light at its core.
• The Dung Beetle King trapped Tang Wen in a Ghost Lamp dream and its beetles devoured his body, but his Wu Dog awakened him and Tang Wen severed the Dung Beetle King as his Fourth Corpse.
• Tang Wen revived, reached the late Rebirth Realm and Second Grade Immortal Emperor rank, and sent Ao Qiong, Ao Qiyun, and Ao Bailong to consume the Dung Beetle King.
• The Great Landlord System upgraded to King Level, raised Tang Wen's land and Popularity requirements, and added a requirement to gain one woman to his harem per traversal.
• Wei Shang and Yuan Daqi saw General Sand disappear and wondered whether Tang Wen had caused it or died inside.

Tang Wen rescued Great Kun from Qian Wuxiong, then crossed into the Great Qian Imperial Prefecture to confront the River Chart Family and help Zhang Chongshan. After Zhang Chongshan sacrificed himself to save Tang Wen, the Punishment Hall accepted Tang Wen for assessment, where his evaluation began.

• Tang Wen returned to Taiyan Pavilion, stopped Qian Wuxiong's forced wedding to Yan Chunxue, and killed Qian Wuxiong's body while Ao Qiong's companions defeated his followers.
• Tang Wen became King of Great Kun and learned that Qian Wuxiong had escaped with a Hetu Pearl and threatened to bring King Hetu against the dynasty.
• Tang Wen crossed the Floating Cloud Heavenly River, learned about the Great Qian Imperial Prefecture's ten great powers, and found Zhang Chongshan hiding from the River Chart Family.
• Tang Wen helped Zhang Chongshan break free of the River Chart Family's capture, but Zhang Chongshan detonated himself inside the River Map to let Tang Wen escape from Qian Wanlong.
• Tang Wen reached Black City and delivered Zhang Chongshan's River Map and jade talisman to the Punishment Hall, where Punishment Lord Yan Sen ordered that Tang Wen be assessed for a post.
• Tang Wen entered the Administrative Hall, where Gu Yutang began testing his age and abilities for the Punishment Hall.

Tang Wen traded divine pills for land and power, then traveled to Yunyang Helm, where Cai Jinyuan and local allies plotted to have him killed. After destroying the River Chart Qian family's attack at Peaceful Valley and reaching Present-Life Perfection, Tang Wen returned to Yunyang and began confronting its local factions.

• Tang Wen gained a hundred million li of Eastern Lineage land by advancing Dongfang Qiwu and three other clansmen, then set out for Yunyang with Zhang Ze.
• Cai Jinyuan and his subordinates arranged several plans to kill Tang Wen, while King Hetu sent Qian Han and River Chart Qian family experts after him.
• Tang Wen lured the attackers to Peaceful Valley, escaped their formation, and destroyed Qian Han's group and King Hetu's clone with linked diagrams and Photon Bullets.
• Tang Wen absorbed the resulting enemy-slaying baleful intent, advanced to Present-Life Perfection, and returned to Yunyang as Tian Dongyang and the other deputies learned he had survived.
• Tang Wen ordered an investigation into Zhang Changhe's abduction of Ying Meixue, then privately asked Tang Wenzu about Yunyang's powerful clans and the dangers surrounding the Zhang Family.

Tang Wen persuaded the Golden Sword Sect and the Yellow Pavilion Helm to join his campaign, then led them to defeat Zuo Shanwu and seize Fenghu City. After Cai Jinyuan confronted him, Tang Wen captured the River Chart Family assassins who had killed Cai and recruited their attendant Hei Da, while learning that the River Chart Family had powerful backing.

• Tang Wen revealed that he could advance Cui Zhenqin and Yu Qing, won their cooperation, and helped Luo Fuyao reach the late Vajra Realm.
• Tang Wen confronted Qi Da at the Yellow Pavilion Helm; after Qi attacked him, Tang Wen arranged for Qi to be captured and won the support of the helm's deputy masters.
• Tang Wen, Yu Qing, and their forces ambushed and killed Zuo Shanwu, Yin Qiang, and Fenhong, then captured Fenghu City before withdrawing to Fenglin.
• Tang Wen advanced to the Primordial Mid Heaven Realm, and Luo Fuyao broke through to the Afterlife Realm after training with him.
• Cai Jinyuan came to accuse Tang Wen of acting without authorization, but Luo Fuyao drove him off; Tang Wen then captured Qian Donglai and Hei Da after they attacked Cai.
• Tang Wen offered Hei Da Immortal Stones and help recovering the portion of his primordial spirit held by the River Chart Family, and Hei Da agreed to serve him under a ten-year Master-Servant Contract.

Tang Wen reunited Guan Hongchao with Song Mei and their son, defeated the Soul Domain’s invasion, and transformed after absorbing the Heavenly Saint Stone’s dragon blood. Back in the Punishment Hall, he learned he had to win a trial for a deputy-chief position and arrived at Great Wind Pass to face his rivals.

• Guan Hongchao recognized Guan Panchao as his son, and Song Chaoran agreed to let him marry Song Mei after Tang Wen defeated and spared Song Chaoran.
• Tang Wen helped the Great Profound Star River repel Yin Xiushan and Yin Gu, then followed a dragon marking to the Heavenly Saint Stone’s core, where the Dragon God statue’s blood transformed him into a true dragon.
• Tang Wen left Guan Hongchao to manage his territory, returned to the Punishment Hall, and learned he had been nominated as deputy chief of the Tailing Punishment Division pending a combat assessment against three rivals.
• Qiao Tian told Tang Wen that Kang Qiliang had opposed his appointment and assigned Zhao Dan to accompany him after divining that Zhao Dan’s fortunes lay with Tang Wen.
• Tang Wen arrived at Great Wind Pass with Yan Sen and Zhao Dan to begin the challenge assessment.

Tang Wen defeated Bu Xingfeng at Great Wind Pass, earned his appointment as deputy commissioner of the Tailing Punishment Division, and advanced with the help of the Great Landlord Space System. On the journey to Tailing, he discovered that the Flying Heaven River’s black stones contained dense yin energy, then was attacked by a strange figure after the ferry’s formation broke.

• Tang Wen used his control of wind and a five-thousandfold combat-power amplification to defeat Bu Xingfeng in Great Wind Pass, securing his appointment as deputy commissioner of the Tailing Punishment Division.
• Tang Wen absorbed the promotion’s popularity and land through the Great Landlord Space System, advanced to the middle stage of the Afterlife Realm, and raised Ao Qiong, Ao Qiyun, and Ao Bailong to the Afterlife Realm.
• Kang Qiliang plotted to have Zuo Zhonghe kill Tang Wen in Tailing, while Zhao Dan told Qiao Tian that Tang Wen’s True Dragon Blood and divine pill had helped him reach the fifth baleful stage.
• Tang Wen and Zhao Dan encountered Ren Qianqiu in Flying Heaven City, then Tang Wen discovered that black stones in the Flying Heaven River contained dense yin energy and began collecting and absorbing it.
• At the ferry, Tang Wen confronted the Yu Family and Wei Gongcheng over their treatment of him, then saved Yu Junyi when a strange blade attacked after the ship’s formation broke.
• Tang Wen pursued the strange figure through the riverbed and repeatedly blasted it with missiles, breaking apart its body as the released yin energy slowed its movements.

Tang Wen took control of the Tailin Army, purged its ranks, strengthened loyal officers, and acquired land from Tailing’s great families before marrying Yu Junyi and being formally recognized as the eleventh Punishment King. When Haoxing officials arrived to investigate him, Tang Wen turned the hearing against Jiang Gongde, while Zuo Zhonghe tried to shield Jiang.

• Tang Wen boosted Zhao Dan and Zhan Biao’s cultivation, then took charge of the Tailin Army despite Zhan Biao’s initial refusal to accept him.
• Tang Wen ordered military reforms, punished Yin Changkong for defiance, and used Zhao Dan to investigate Tailing’s great families and negotiate for their land.
• Tang Wen empowered Zhan Biao and thirty trusted soldiers, who replaced the Tailin Army’s senior officers after an assessment and challenge tournament.
• Tang Wen obtained 150 million li of land from five families, reached the Diamond Realm, and married Yu Junyi after Zhao Dan persuaded the Yu Family to accept the match.
• Tang Wen raised Yu Junyi’s cultivation and returned to the division when Tan Yugong and Wei Gongcheng summoned him over Yin Changkong’s death.
• Tan Yugong recognized Tang Wen as the eleventh Punishment King, and Tang Wen accused Jiang Gongde of sharing Yin Changkong’s embezzled military pay; Zuo Zhonghe urged leniency for Jiang.

Tang Wen became marshal of the Lightfish Empire’s Royal Guard Corps, strengthened its experts, and helped defeat an allied invasion before trading rare materials for advanced weapons in enemy territory. He returned to the Great Qian Imperial Prefecture with supplies, while the chapter ended as someone began to address him.

• Tang Wen accepted Tai Qingfeng as his disciple, raised him to Ten-Star Light Sovereign, and learned that the empire’s land grant covered ten billion li because of overlapping five-dimensional space.
• Tang Wen confronted resistance at the Guard Corps, defeated Cui Yingying’s challenge, and agreed to train experts in exchange for resources and advanced weapons.
• Tang Wen trained Lightfish Empire experts and killed Li Dongran during a surprise attack, helping repel the invading forces.
• Tang Wen treated Liu Feishuang’s illness and heard her urge Cui Yingying to consider him as a match.
• Tang Wen led further attacks against the allied forces, killed Light Venerables and Light Sovereigns, and advanced to the Half-Step Martial Emperor Realm, prompting the enemy alliance to withdraw.
• Tang Wen posed as Li Tailong and traded rare materials with the Flying Crane Kingdom and the Light River Empire for military supplies, then returned to the Great Qian Imperial Prefecture.

Tang Wen passed the Punishment Lord Space assessment, was appointed Inspection Envoy over the Haoxing and Bright Moon Punishment Courts, and exposed corrupt officials while facing resistance from rival court leaders. After building a new force from soldiers whose injuries he healed, he learned that the Yanghuan Sect had abducted Luo Fuyao and prepared to strike back.

• Tang Wen confronted and subdued the ancient dragon in the Punishment Lord Space, passed its assessment, and won Zhang San’s approval by compensating the Punishment Hall with Immortal Stones.
• Tang Wen was appointed a Punishment Lord and Inspection Envoy over the Haoxing and Bright Moon Punishment Courts, and he presented evidence that led to Zuo Zhonghe, Fan Gang, Feng Tian, and their associates being arrested.
• Tang Wen arrived in Tailing and announced the arrests, then took up his new post despite Gu Mutong and Ximen Feng having elite soldiers removed from the armies under his command.
• Tang Wen healed Bu Jingxin and restored his cultivation, while Lu Li also revealed his hidden strength, giving Tang Wen a foundation for rebuilding the armies.
• Gu Mutong’s allies plotted to leave Tang Wen without support and force him into a doomed campaign against the Great Wu Kingdom, while Ximen Feng’s brother-in-law Zhan Gang took more Bright Moon Army experts away.
• Zhao Dan reported that the Yanghuan Sect had abducted a thousand women, including Luo Fuyao, and Tang Wen prepared to lead his men against the sect.

Tang Wen forged alliances with Haoxing’s sects, killed the Hetu Patriarch, and led a campaign that defeated Qing Tiansheng’s forces and seized Great Wu territory. After returning to the Punishment Hall, he passed the strength assessment and was promoted to its eighth Punishment Lord, though the chapter ended as Zhan Gang began to respond to his new appointment.

• Tang Wen persuaded Yu Yixue, Bai Zhanxi, and the other Haoxing sect leaders to lend their experts by promising rapid advancement and valuable rewards, then trained and armed their forces.
• Tang Wen lured Qian Hengjiang to Great Gold Mountain and killed the Five-Star Martial Venerable with a coordinated attack, winning the sect leaders’ submission.
• Tang Wen’s army attacked Dajiang City, killed Qing Tiansheng, and routed Great Wu’s forces, reclaiming lost territory and capturing five billion li of land.
• Ma Yi arrived as Tang Wen defeated Qing Tiansheng, but a golden eagle intervened and fought him off while Tang Wen advanced to Six-Star Martial Emperor.
• Tang Wen returned to the Punishment Hall, opened a shopping mall, and passed Miao Yidao’s assessment of his combat strength.
• Miao Yidao announced Tang Wen’s promotion to the eighth Punishment Lord and assigned him to oversee Arresting Seventh Division and Arrest Division Three, along with Dajiang City and its surrounding territory.

Tang Wen investigated the Shui Family murders and suspected that a powerful Yin Ghost possessed Shui Ruoli, whose cultivation and personality changed between episodes. He traveled to the Underworld seeking help, but after meeting Nangong Ling and examining her frozen daughter, he agreed to buy her ten years with a Phoenix Stone while promising to find a lasting cure.

• Tang Wen killed Ma Yi with help from the mysterious golden eagle, took Dajiang City's Command Token, and earned the loyalty of Tu Yaoyao and Zhan Gang by helping them advance.
• Tang Wen's party reached Water Capital City, where Shui Dingshan asked him to investigate the murders of three Shui Family members and Shui Ruoli insulted his group.
• Tang Wen noticed that Shui Ruoli's personality and cultivation changed dramatically, and he suspected that a powerful Yin Ghost possessed her and had killed the victims.
• Tang Wen learned that the Shui Family would not surrender its ancestral treasure, then helped Shui Ruoli enter the Martial Immortal realm before traveling to the Underworld for assistance.
• Tang Wen obtained Nara City from Nangong Ling, greatly increased his cultivation, and used a Phoenix Stone to weaken the ice sealing Nangong Zhaohua.
• Nangong Ling agreed to give Tang Wen ten years to find a permanent cure for her daughter, warning him not to flee to the living world.

Tang Wen reconciled the Shui Family with Yi Shishi, strengthened his allies, and entered the Punishment Hall’s title challenge tournament amid sweeping reforms. After he secretly advanced and qualified for Punishment Emperor, he used overwhelming Spiritual Power to make challengers leave the arena, drawing praise from an Attendant.

• Tang Wen persuaded Yi Shishi to leave Shui Ruoli’s body, married her, and helped her begin transforming into a living person before reconciling her with the Shui Family.
• Tang Wen used Divine Pills to raise the Shui Family’s cultivation, while Yiyang Palace’s Cui Yuan and Luo Qiushan plotted to kill him and frame a Great Wu Kingdom expert.
• At a Punishment Hall meeting, Miao Yidao announced a sweeping title reform and a challenge tournament, prompting Tang Wen to train Zhao Dan, Tu Yaoyao, Zhan Gang, and Qiao Tian.
• Tang Wen gathered land from powerful families in exchange for cultivation boosts, raised his own realm, and registered to challenge for Punishment Emperor.
• Tang Wen passed the Punishment Emperor Space test and entered the tournament, where Red Devil Hand and Miao Yuqing taunted him and contestants rushed to challenge him.
• Tang Wen made Chen Zhiqi, Zhang Kui Fa, and Kang Qiliang leave the arena with commands, and Attendant Wei Dao praised his Spiritual Power.

Tang Wen led the Punishment Hall investigation into the murders in Three Lives Three Worlds City while secretly building a marketplace and waiting to grow stronger. After raising his companions’ cultivation and proving his pills could advance even senior investigators, he won Luo Feifan and Gongsun Feiyan’s allegiance, leaving the investigation and his conflict with Song Tianxian unresolved.

• Tang Wen’s power rose to 4.3 billion, and Miao Yidao revealed that he had passed the Punishment Emperor Space test before sending him to investigate Three Lives Three Worlds City.
• Cui Yuan and Gai Dong plotted to have Gu Nai assassinate Tang Wen, while Qian Wuxiong sought Yin Zhaofeng’s help against him.
• Tang Wen reached Three Lives Three Worlds City, learned how Kang Palace Master and his team had died, and identified Song Tianxian as a possible suspect after detecting signs of his connection to Yin Yishan’s murder.
• Tang Wen used Fumo and the Great Landlord System to reconstruct the massacre, found an image of a charcoal-black man leading the attackers, and ordered a covert search while pretending to investigate the ruined scene.
• Tang Wen expanded his marketplace in Three Lives Three Worlds City, provoking complaints from Luo Feifan and Gongsun Feiyan and drawing criticism from Miao Yidao as Song Tianxian and his aides secretly schemed against the investigation.
• After a month, Tang Wen advanced to seventh-rank Martial Immortal and strengthened his companions; when Luo Feifan and Gongsun Feiyan challenged his leadership, he demonstrated his Popularity Pill’s power, and both accepted him as their master.