Recaps

Qing Chen turned a dispute over reinforcements into a joint campaign against Cold Mountain Temple after overpowering the Eight Serpent Sect's leaders. He then left the battlefield for Wuji Island, where rival Devil Palace cultivators sought his help opening a Dao Palace on Primordial Magnetic Origin Mountain.

• Qing Chen ceded ten second-tier islands to Cold Mountain Temple, studied blood laws, and restored the Pojun Battle Halberd to a mid-grade magic treasure.
• Lin Changsheng entered the Duer Secret Residence, helped repel the ghost possessing Chang Ping'an, and subdued Chang Ping'an and Chang Yao.
• Qing Chen rejected Dharma Master Huishan's demand for more territory, blockaded Cold Mountain Temple's forces, and sent his subordinates to recruit neighboring sects against it.
• Qing Chen confronted the Eight Serpent Sect's leaders and survived the Two-Headed Heavenly Serpent's attacks before demanding territory, treasures, and military support.
• Qing Chen's alliance divided Guangqi Island's waters and organized fleets to attack Cold Mountain Temple while Dharma Master Huishan redeployed its defenders.
• Qing Chen arranged an escort away from the battlefield, slipped away at the Mist Strait, and entered Wuji Island with Han Shi.
• Gong Shisan offered Qing Chen rewards for helping reach the Dao Palace at Primordial Magnetic Origin Mountain's summit.
• Qing Chen declined Qing Guhong's competing offer, and Qing Guhong's killing intent rose.

Qing Chen strengthened his magnetic arts on Magnetic Origin Mountain, formed a temporary alliance with Abbot Hanshan, and entered the mountain’s Spirit Abyss Chess Game. As a red pawn, he fought through the chessboard’s pieces and advanced into the black formation, where the game left him facing a dangerous counterattack.

• Qing Chen entered Magnetic Origin Mountain, refined magnetic crystals, and followed Lin Changsheng’s trail to a hidden cavern where he found powerful cultivation techniques and a supreme-grade spirit stone.
• Qing Chen killed Chang Ping'an and Chang Yao, erased the cavern’s traces, and climbed the mountain alone, where he defeated the Black Bear Demon King’s assessment.
• Qing Chen convinced Abbot Hanshan that their sects were allies and joined him in killing a Primordial Magnetism Earth Dragon, then absorbed its magnetic light and reached peak mid Golden Core.
• Qing Chen mastered the Primal Magnetism Divine Light with a peak third-tier magnetic crystal while conflict intensified between Cold Mountain Temple and its enemies.
• Qing Chen and Hanshan reached Frost Centipede Valley, where a Heaven-Earth Phenomenon transported them into the Spirit Abyss Chess Game and assigned Qing Chen the role of a pawn.
• Qing Chen fought as a red Soldier in Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal’s game against Daoist Spirit Abyss, destroying a black pawn and horse while gaining cultivation and insight.
• Qing Chen advanced into the black formation and helped trap its general, then moved into the path of a black chariot threatening the red marshal.

Qing Chen won the magnetic Rules Thread at the Primordial Extremity Dao Palace, then returned to find the Immortal Dynasty imposing a military draft and truce on the Gouwu Sea sects. His army plans clashed with Xuanji, but Sword Fool announced Qing Chen’s appointment as deputy commander of four thousand Whale Guards.

• Qing Chen defeated Cold Mountain after the chessboard trials and took his treasures before leaving Frost Centipede Valley for the Primordial Extremity Dao Palace.
• Qing Chen joined Gong Shisan and Jian Yi, reached the Dao Palace, and cultivated to the late Golden Core stage before training on the White Jade Steps.
• Qing Chen defeated Venerable Xuan of Dust Departure’s trial, sealed a Rules Thread inside a supreme-grade spirit stone, and received the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Great Art.
• The Dao Palace collapsed and sent Qing Chen and the other cultivators away, after which Qing Chen fled Wuji Island with the Rules Thread and headed for the Cold Mountain Sea Region.
• At Swordheart Terrace, Wang Qi announced the Spirit Treasury New Policy and a draft of 300,000 cultivators for the Gou Wu Whale Army, while Sword Fool pressed the rival sects to sign a Four-Hundred-Year Truce Pact.
• Qing Chen accepted Wuchen’s offer to help him join the Gou Wu Whale Army, and Xuanji assigned him a conscription quota despite opposition from Wan Hun and Chi Xuntian.
• Sword Fool presented Qing Chen’s verified conscription list to Xuanji, who fought Sword Fool and Jian Yi after rejecting it.
• Sword Fool conceded defeat to Xuanji, then revealed Qing Chen’s appointment as deputy commander of four thousand Whale Guards in the Central Army’s Second Division.

Qing Chen expanded his forces, moved millions of mortals into the World Inside the Tower, and led the Gou Wu Whale Army to its new garrison in Great Jin. As the army prepared for its martial competition, Qing Guhong’s search for the missing Rules Thread closed in, and Qing Chen faced the Three Corpses Devil Lord in the opening contest.

• Qing Chen defeated Jingyun Arhat in the Eighth Layer Space, earned Five-Luminaries Controller authority, and received new levels of the Immovable Wisdom King Heart Method.
• Qing Chen gathered his followers, sent soldiers to destroy the Qing Household on Earth Lotus Island, and improved his spiritual root with furnace qi from the corpses.
• Lin Changsheng secured the Condensed Jade Sect’s help in transferring six million mortals to Earth Pass Island, where they vanished and left behind blood qi, resentment demons, and monsters.
• Zhou Yan founded the Gou Wu Whale Army, and Qing Chen reconciled with Xuanji True Lord and Yuji True Person before sailing with the army to Gouyu Prefecture.
• Wei Ting enforced military law through public executions, while Qing Chen trained his four thousand soldiers and learned that the All-Army Martial Competition would include individual contests and battalion exercises.
• Tie Ming warned Qing Chen that three groups were investigating him and passed on Qing Guhong’s demand that he return what he had swallowed, leading Qing Chen to suspect the missing Rules Thread was the cause.
• Qing Chen fought the Three Corpses Devil Lord in the competition, destroyed the fused corpse demon with Annihilation of All Living Beings, and sent the attack toward his opponent’s brow.