Recaps

Chu Kuangren killed a golden-armored Heavenly Immortal with one punch after the man tried to force him to explain the missing stellar energy. He then led Lan Yu, Chu Hong, Yin Honghua, and the others to the Complete Immortal Realm, where his arrival at North Heaven Gate triggered a universe-wide spectacle.

• A golden-armored Heavenly Immortal accused Chu Kuangren of taking the space beast’s stellar energy and demanded compensation.
• Chu Kuangren withstood the Heavenly Immortal’s attacks, tore off his arm, caught his sword strike between two fingers, and killed him with one punch.
• Chu Kuangren learned that the Complete Immortal Realm had appeared, returned to the Empire, and advised its leaders not to act rashly.
• After putting the Empire’s affairs in order, Chu Kuangren set out for the Complete Immortal Realm with Lan Yu, Chu Hong, Yin Honghua, and the others.
• Chu Kuangren and his companions reached North Heaven Gate and stepped onto the Ascension Path, causing dragons, phoenixes, immortal radiance, and Daoist melodies to manifest across all Four Heaven Gates.

After entering the complete Immortal Realm, Chu Kuangren learned that the Hundred Schools Academy had consolidated and that Qinglan Academy had been placed under Moxue Academy’s jurisdiction. When Moxue Academy’s inspectors tried to seize his Fusang tree, Chu Kuangren arrived and challenged them.

• Chu Kuangren entered the Immortal Realm with his companions, gathered information, and set out for the newly consolidated Hundred Schools Academy.
• The Qinglan Academy Dean learned that Qinglan Academy would be absorbed under Moxue Academy, despite Gu Liufang’s objection.
• Lin Xian arrived with Moxue Academy’s inspectors, mocked Qinglan Academy, and announced it would receive only a small share of resources.
• Lin Xian demanded that Qinglan Academy hand over Chu Kuangren’s Fusang tree, and Gu Liufang refused.
• Chu Kuangren’s voice rang out as he asked Lin Xian whether he was worthy of touching what belonged to him.

Chu Kuangren returned to Qinglan Academy, defeated Lin Xian, and revealed that he was a World Child. After hearing of Qinglan Academy’s exceptional students, the Master Teacher Pavilion made it the independent nineteenth branch academy of the Hundred Schools Academy.

• Chu Kuangren returned to Qinglan Academy and told Lin Xian that the Fusang tree was not his to take.
• Chu Kuangren pierced Lin Xian’s palm with a finger, then forced him to kneel with a second strike.
• Chu Kuangren revealed his Immortal Realm Will, and the white-robed scholar recognized him as a World Child.
• The white-robed scholar reported Chu Kuangren and Qinglan Academy’s other talented students to Lü Zi at the Master Teacher Pavilion.
• Lü Zi declared Qinglan Academy the independent nineteenth branch academy, and the notice was sent out.

Chu Kuangren visited White Deer Academy’s Book Sea and spent three years studying instead of cultivating, reinforcing the Academy’s belief that he was the weakest World Child. Chief Academy Head Lü Zi questioned his choices while noting the rapid progress of Lan Yu, Chu Hong, and the others.

• Chu Kuangren entered White Deer Academy’s Book Sea to study the Immortal Dao and other knowledge, learning the realms above heavenly immortal.
• Chu Kuangren spent three years immersed in the Book Sea and barely cultivated, leading others to regard him as a bookworm and the weakest World Child.
• Bai Rui told Lü Zi that Cao Yun had reached ninth-grade earth immortal and that Chu Kuangren continued studying without being seen cultivating.
• Lü Zi doubted Chu Kuangren’s judgment and suggested that Lan Yu, Chu Hong, and the others might be more worth nurturing.

Chu Kuangren gained the Snow Mountain Literary Heart and continued studying at White Deer Academy’s Book Sea while working toward creating a cultivation technique suited to his Self-Strengthening Way of Invincibility. After humiliating Lin Xian without fighting, he left him with a hidden injury that caused Lin Xian’s head to burst as he walked away.

• Chu Kuangren returned to Qinglan Academy, checked on his companions, and reflected on the difficulty of creating his own cultivation technique.
• Chu Kuangren drew and claimed the Snow Mountain Literary Heart, gaining exceptional clarity and comprehension.
• At White Deer Academy’s Book Sea, Lin Xian insulted Chu Kuangren, who confronted him and touched his forehead with two fingers despite the ban on fighting.
• Lin Xian left the Book Sea intending to ask his elder brother to deal with Chu Kuangren, but his head burst apart before he could get far.

Chu Kuangren killed Lin Xian with concealed Sword Qi and kept studying in White Deer Academy’s Book Sea despite Lin Jiao’s challenge. When the Moxue Dean demanded that Chu Kuangren give up his World Child status, a manifestation of snowy mountains emerged from the Book Sea.

• Chu Kuangren admitted that he had killed Lin Xian, arguing that Lin Xian had died outside the Book Sea, then continued reading.
• Three months later, Lin Jiao arrived at White Deer Academy to avenge Lin Xian and waited at the Book Sea entrance for Chu Kuangren to come out.
• The Book Sea administrator notified the deans, and the White Deer Dean, Moxue Dean, and Qinglan Dean arrived to address the dispute.
• The Moxue Dean demanded that Chu Kuangren surrender his World Child status and proposed Lin Jiao as his replacement.
• A powerful Dao fluctuation spread from the Book Sea as a vast snowy mountain range manifested in the sky.

Chu Kuangren comprehended the Snow Mountain Literary Heart Manifestation after finishing White Deer Academy’s books, and the Master Teacher Pavilion reevaluated him after learning he had also mastered the Hundred Schools Diagram. When Lin Jiao challenged him to avenge his younger brother, Lan Yu arrived and offered to handle Lin Jiao herself.

• Chu Kuangren triggered the Snow Mountain Literary Heart Manifestation in the Book Sea, drawing the attention of White Deer Academy’s deans and the Master Teacher Pavilion.
• Master Lü and the other master teachers learned Chu Kuangren had also mastered the Hundred Schools Diagram and agreed to raise their assessment of him.
• Lin Jiao despaired at losing his chance to take revenge as the master teachers praised Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren confronted Lin Jiao, dismissed him as too weak to deserve a fight, and said he would defeat him easily.
• Lan Yu descended in silver-white armor and told Lin Jiao that she alone was enough to kill him.

Lan Yu fought Lin Jiao at White Deer Academy and defeated him with her newly mastered Light of the Heavenly God. Her victory strengthened Qinglan Academy’s reputation, while Dean Mo Xue accepted that Lin Jiao had to die rather than threaten the Academy’s relationship with Chu Kuangren.

• Lan Yu emerged from seclusion, offered to fight Lin Jiao, and Chu Kuangren agreed after assessing their strength.
• Lan Yu and Lin Jiao exchanged over a hundred blows, with Lan Yu’s bright battle immortal physique allowing her to match his greater cultivation.
• Lin Jiao unleashed Heavenly Baleful Demon Dragon Slash, and Lan Yu countered with Light of the Heavenly God, creating a massive energy clash.
• Lan Yu attacked while Lin Jiao was still recovering, shattered his armor, and pierced his chest with Light of the Heavenly God.
• Dean Mo Xue left after Lin Jiao’s death, while the Qinglan Academy Dean celebrated Lan Yu’s victory and the academy’s rising reputation.

After killing Lin Jiao, Lan Yu attended a cultured gathering hosted by Li Wangchen while Chu Kuangren remained in seclusion to raise his cultivation. The gathering filled with World Children, and Lan Yu watched them with growing Battle Intent.

• Lü Zi saw that Chu Kuangren was at Earth Immortal Seventh Grade and advised him to focus on improving his cultivation.
• Chu Kuangren entered seclusion at Qinglan Academy and used his accumulated treasures and elixirs to advance his cultivation.
• Li Yungao delivered invitations from Li Wangchen to Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu, but Chu Kuangren remained in seclusion.
• Lan Yu went to Li Wangchen's cultured gathering, where students discussed her victory over Lin Jiao.
• Yao Caizi, Li Wangchen, Wang Heaven-Sinking, and Fu Shan arrived at the gathering, displaying their power as World Children.

Chu Kuangren emerged from seclusion while Lan Yu attended a gathering of the Academy's World Children, where Zhao Fangfei's repeated praise of him stirred jealousy and resentment. Lan Yu realized Zhao Fangfei was deliberately drawing hostility toward her young master.

• Chu Kuangren left seclusion, learned that Lan Yu had gone to a literary gathering at Floating Cloud Academy, and expressed interest in the gathered World Children.
• At the gathering, Yao Caizi approached Lan Yu and tried to kiss her hand, but she avoided him and refused.
• Zhao Fangfei asked after Chu Kuangren and praised his talent, making Yao Caizi jealous and prompting unease among the other World Children.
• After the Dao discussion, Zhao Fangfei continued praising Chu Kuangren and called herself unworthy of his affection, intensifying the crowd's resentment toward him.
• Lan Yu recognized that Zhao Fangfei's praise was making everyone hostile toward Chu Kuangren and grew wary of her.

Lan Yu challenged Zhao Fangfei and then Yao Caizi at the elegant gathering, revealing strength that surprised the World Children. Yao Caizi nearly gravely injured Lan Yu with a killing strike, but Chu Kuangren appeared and stopped his palm with one hand.

• Lan Yu challenged Zhao Fangfei over her attempts to turn the gathering against Chu Kuangren, and Zhao Fangfei conceded after their prolonged duel.
• Yao Caizi challenged Lan Yu, confident he could defeat her and win her favor.
• Lan Yu's opening strike knocked Yao Caizi back, and she suppressed him with a fierce assault.
• Yao Caizi unleashed powerful Immortal Arts, blasting Lan Yu back and leaving her bleeding.
• Yao Caizi charged at the injured Lan Yu with a ferocious palm strike, but Chu Kuangren emerged and caught it with one hand.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the elegant gathering and killed Yao Caizi with one sword strike after Yao Caizi gravely injured Lan Yu. He absorbed Yao Caizi’s Immortal Realm Will, learned more about the World Child Contest, and challenged the remaining World Children to fight him one at a time or together.

• Chu Kuangren stopped Yao Caizi after he injured Lan Yu and offered to let the matter go if Yao Caizi withstood one sword strike.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed Heaven's Will Like a Sword and killed Yao Caizi, destroying both his body and Immortal Soul.
• Chu Kuangren absorbed Yao Caizi’s Immortal Realm Will and realized the World Child Contest required the contestants to seize one another’s Will to become Lord of the Immortal Realm.
• Li Wangchen challenged Chu Kuangren for openly killing a World Child, and Chu Kuangren replied that Yao Caizi had failed to withstand his strike.
• Chu Kuangren landed, shook the mountain, and invited the remaining World Children to face him one at a time or all together.

Chu Kuangren challenged the World Children at the Floating Cloud Academy and revealed that he had reached Earth Immortal Ninth Grade Perfection. As they began attacking him together, he met their combined assault with a sword strike.

• Chu Kuangren invited the World Children to challenge him, and Li Wangchen stepped forward to test his sword skills.
• Chu Kuangren split Li Wangchen’s Great River Sword Qi, tore apart his Sword of the Vast Ocean, and sent him flying.
• The World Children joined forces against Chu Kuangren, drawing attention from nearby academies and the Master Teacher Pavilion.
• Lü Zi and the master teachers were shocked to learn Chu Kuangren had advanced from Earth Immortal Seventh Grade to Ninth Grade Perfection in less than a month.
• The World Children launched a coordinated attack, and Chu Kuangren countered the first Five Elements palm strike with One Sword Breaks the Five Elements.

Chu Kuangren effortlessly repelled the World Children’s attacks, shattered their Thirty-Six Tiangang Formation with earth qi, and defeated them all. Zhao Fangfei remained standing without fighting as Chu Kuangren asked whether she wanted to challenge him too.

• Wang Chentian, Li Wangchen, Fu Shan, and the other World Children attacked Chu Kuangren with their techniques, but he broke their assaults and remained unharmed.
• A black-robed World Child activated the Thirty-Six Tiangang Formation around Chu Kuangren and the attackers.
• Chu Kuangren drew earth qi from mountains and rivers across hundreds of millions of miles, destroyed the formation, and injured its caster with the backlash.
• Chu Kuangren formed an Earth Qi Great Formation and struck the World Children with an enormous earth qi sword, severely injuring several.
• Wang Chentian attacked with Thousand-Army Break, but Chu Kuangren shattered his manifestation and defeated him and the other World Children.
• Chu Kuangren faced the uninjured Zhao Fangfei, who had not attacked, and asked if she wanted to fight too.

Chu Kuangren defeated the gathered World Children, impressed Zhao Fangfei, and prompted Lü Zi to propose naming him the Academy’s Chief Disciple. After healing the students he had injured, Chu Kuangren invited them to discuss the Dao together.

• Chu Kuangren intimidated Zhao Fangfei, whose secret he uncovered and whose cheeks flushed as she saw him smile.
• Lü Zi shared records of Chu Kuangren’s deeds with the master teachers and proposed choosing him as Chief Disciple, winning their agreement.
• Chu Kuangren used the essence of life and death to heal the injured World Children.
• Chu Kuangren invited the World Children to sit and discuss the Dao, and they accepted.

The World Children tried to gauge Chu Kuangren through a discussion of the Dao, but his lecture left the Academy convinced of his extraordinary understanding. Lü Zi invited him to become the Academy's Chief Disciple and tested him at chess, only to discover Chu Kuangren's calculations were beyond human.

• Chu Kuangren lectured the World Children on the Dao, producing heavenly phenomena and astounding the students and Master Teacher Pavilion.
• Bai Rui brought Chu Kuangren to meet Lü Zi, who asked him to become the Academy's Chief Disciple, and Chu Kuangren accepted.
• Lü Zi challenged Chu Kuangren to a game on the Cloud Sea Chessboard while discussing the offer.
• Chu Kuangren asked Xiao Ai to analyze the game and began defeating Lü Zi with calculated moves.
• Lü Zi ended the games, concluding that Chu Kuangren's intelligence and breadth of vision surpassed human limits.

After defeating the World Children, Chu Kuangren was appointed Hundred Schools Academy’s Chief Disciple, but he decided to strengthen his standing with an open lecture. His profound discourse won over even students who had planned to undermine him, leaving his position firmly supported.

• News spread that Chu Kuangren had defeated the World Children, and Lü Zi issued a decree appointing him Chief Disciple.
• King Heaven-Sinking, Li Wangchen, Zhao Fangfei, and other students supported Chu Kuangren, while Qinglan Academy celebrated his appointment.
• Chu Kuangren arranged an open lecture to build his prestige across Hundred Schools Academy.
• Students from Peach Blossom Academy planned to find fault with Chu Kuangren’s lecture and use it to challenge his position.
• Chu Kuangren delivered a profound lecture that left the would-be critics speechless and earned the students’ respect.
• The white-robed Peach Blossom Academy student abandoned his plan to cause trouble and vowed to oppose anyone who made an enemy of Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren witnessed the first Chaos Demon God emerge in his Portable World and begin splitting the chaos into stars and galaxies. In the Immortal Realm, the Fengdu Netherworld surfaced from ancient ruins, drawing the attention of powerful forces.

• Chu Kuangren observed life stirring in the chaos and saw a Chaos Demon God emerge from the egg he had once touched.
• The Chaos Demon God formed a black-and-white sword and split the chaos, creating rivers of stars and galaxies under her Heaven's Will to open the heavens.
• The Chaos Demon God rested after her labor, while Chu Kuangren returned his consciousness to his body and pondered whether the real universe had also been created by such beings.
• Cultivators in Immortal Ancient ruins watched Earth Qi erupt and an ancient city rise from underground, filled with death qi and wandering souls.
• The cultivators identified the city as the Fengdu Netherworld, and news of its emergence spread, prompting the Immortal Realm's forces to take action.

After gaining the Reincarnation Immortal Physique, Chu Kuangren led the Academy's World Children to investigate the Fengdu Netherworld, where he discovered powerful dead souls and an invisible thread controlling one of them. The group pressed deeper into Fengdu as Chu Kuangren began to suspect someone was manipulating its dead souls.

• Chu Kuangren obtained the Reincarnation Immortal Physique and agreed to Lü Zi's request to lead World Children on a trial in the Fengdu Netherworld.
• Chu Kuangren, Lan Yu, Chu Hong, Little Fox, and the Academy's World Children arrived at Fengdu and learned that its incomplete barrier was nearing capacity with dead soul energy.
• Li Wangchen and Wang Heaven-Sinking helped break through the first storm of dead souls as the group ventured farther into Fengdu.
• Lu Ming struck the mountain-of-flesh dead soul, but Chu Kuangren intervened and split it apart with a sword strike.
• Chu Kuangren noticed an invisible thread retracting from the dead soul and suspected that an unknown technique was controlling it.

Chu Kuangren destroyed a horde of departed souls with his fused Phoenix and Karma Fire, while a hidden black-robed cultivator took note of his strength. A powerful resonance drew Chu Kuangren and the other explorers to Shentu Palace, where Little Zhurong attacked the ancient structure and the gathered cultivators prepared to enter.

• Chu Kuangren burned away the departed souls and their resentful qi with his Golden-Red Fire Lotus, impressing Lu Ming, Li Wangchen, and the others.
• A black-robed young man watched the flames fade, lamented losing his captured departed souls, and noted that someone from the Hundred Charms Lineage was in the Academy.
• Chu Kuangren and the others explored the Fengdu Netherworld until a powerful fluctuation led them to the ancient Shentu Palace, whose death qi carried the Way of Reincarnation.
• Chu Kuangren recognized Shentu Palace as the former residence of Ghost Emperor Shentu and sensed that something inside resonated with his Reincarnation Immortal Physique.
• Little Zhurong struck Shentu Palace with his Zhurong Fire, then decided to investigate it, prompting the other cultivators to move toward the entrance as well.

Cultivators entered Shentu Palace and found the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, whose power stirred greed and clouded their judgment. As Little Zhurong fought World Children from the Xingtian Sacred Gate and the Three Purities Daoist Gate, a shadow reached for the Seal, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Chu Kuangren entered Shentu Palace with the World Children and sensed something strange about the lack of wandering souls.
• The Ghost King of Fengdu surrounded Shentu Palace with wandering souls and waited for the cultivators to bring out the Emperor Seal.
• Cultivators discovered the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, and its influence drove them to fight over it.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the Seal's effect on their Dao hearts and awakened the World Children.
• Little Zhurong fought the World Children of the Xingtian Sacred Gate and the Three Purities Daoist Gate, forcing them back.
• A shadow slipped toward the Reincarnation Emperor Seal and reached out to take it.

Chu Kuangren overcame the Reincarnation Emperor Seal’s death qi and claimed it, then used his Reincarnation Immortal Physique to kill the Netherworld Lineage youth. After discovering an invisible thread connecting the youth to someone else, he sent Sword Qi along it, leaving its target unknown.

• A black-robed youth tried to seize the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, but the Ghost Emperor’s aura blasted him back, and Zhurong identified him as a successor of the Netherworld Lineage.
• The black-robed youth proposed joining forces against Little Zhurong, but Chu Kuangren refused and blocked the World Children’s combined attacks with his Sword Qi.
• Chu Kuangren reached the seal, whose death qi collapsed against the power of his Reincarnation Immortal Physique, allowing him to claim it and sense the consciousness of Shentu within.
• When Little Zhurong and the others demanded the seal, Chu Kuangren challenged them to defeat him and struck the black-robed youth with reincarnation power, turning him into blood mist.
• Chu Kuangren discovered an invisible thread inside the youth’s Immortal Soul and sent Sword Qi along it.

Chu Kuangren identified the Netherworld successor as a puppet of the Soul Controller, then discovered that the group had been lured into a siege by countless souls. A white-robed female ghost revealed True Immortal-level power and demanded the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, while Chu Kuangren prepared to face her.

• The Soul Controller survived Chu Kuangren’s distant sword strike and vowed to continue their game.
• Chu Kuangren revealed that the Netherworld successor had been controlled by a successor of the Soul Controlling Lineage.
• Little Zhurong and the World Children of the Xingtian Sacred Gate and Three Purities Daoist Gate left Shentu Palace, only to be surrounded by countless powerful souls.
• The Three Purities Daoist Gate’s World Child used a Golden Light Divine Sword Talisman, but the white-robed female ghost shattered it with a finger and killed him.
• The white-robed female ghost demanded the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, and Chu Kuangren told his companions to leave her to him.

Chu Kuangren faced the White-Clothed Female Ghost, who demanded that he surrender the Reincarnation Emperor Seal. After the seal repelled her and stirred the Fengdu Netherworld, the cultivators realized it might have chosen Chu Kuangren as its master and marked the birth of a new Ghost Emperor.

• A cultivator revealed that Chu Kuangren had the Reincarnation Emperor Seal, and Chu Kuangren killed the informants with Sword Qi.
• The White-Clothed Female Ghost offered to spare Chu Kuangren if he handed over the seal, but he refused and challenged her to leave.
• Chu Kuangren prepared to use Beiming's Gods and Devils Qi, but a voice urged him to activate the Reincarnation Emperor Seal with his Reincarnation Immortal Physique.
• The Emperor Seal rose into the air, shattered the White-Clothed Female Ghost's death qi, and blasted her dozens of kilometers away.
• The Emperor Seal's power made the departed souls kneel, and the cultivators suspected it had acknowledged Chu Kuangren as its master and made him a new Ghost Emperor.

Chu Kuangren accepted Ghost Emperor Shentu’s request to rebuild reincarnation and summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation Gate in the ruined Fengdu Netherworld. He began repairing its formation and ordered the white-robed female ghost to expel those unrelated to the Academy.

• The Reincarnation Emperor Seal acknowledged Chu Kuangren as its master, giving him authority over the departed souls in Fengdu.
• Ghost Emperor Shentu revealed himself within the seal and asked Chu Kuangren to rebuild reincarnation.
• Chu Kuangren agreed, declaring that he would rebuild reincarnation after becoming ruler of the Immortal Realm, and received Shentu’s knowledge and techniques.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation Gate and found its Dao Patterns damaged, causing departed souls to remain stranded in Fengdu.
• Chu Kuangren began repairing the formation and ordered the white-robed female ghost to lead the departed souls in expelling everyone unrelated to the Academy.