Recaps

Chen Nian pretended to be controlled by the Mind-Bewitching Demon God and lured it into his body, where his Heavenly Eyes destroyed it. After he proved himself with a world announcement, Ye Hongling learned the truth and started crying because he had hit her.

• Ye Qiuhao refused to leave while Ye Hongling was still fighting, as Ai Lan and her companion began to doubt that Buyu had been controlled.
• The Mind-Bewitching Demon God entered Chen Nian's body and realized Chen Nian had deliberately lured it in, but over a hundred Heavenly Eyes trapped and annihilated it.
• Chen Nian received genetic energy, a Divine Gene, and the legendary Mind-Bewitching Demon Pendant, but could not fuse with another Divine Gene.
• Ye Hongling mistook Chen Nian for a controlled enemy and prepared to unleash her ultimate attack until he announced that Buyu had killed the demon god.
• Ye Hongling learned Chen Nian had only pretended to be controlled, then cried because he had hit her.

Chen Nian, revealed as Buyu, killed the mind-controlling Demon God and turned Dragon Country’s public humiliation into worldwide praise. He left with Ye Hongling, while Ning Ziqing learned that her brother was Buyu and agreed to keep his identity secret.

• Ai Lan realized Buyu had killed the Demon God by using himself as bait, then left with her companion.
• Ye Qiuhao learned Buyu had slain the Demon God and praised his courage as global opinion shifted in Dragon Country’s favor.
• A reporter explained Buyu’s strategy, and the Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace guild chat celebrated his victory and spotted Ye Hongling beside him.
• Ning Ziqing recognized Chen Nian in the blurry footage, and Tang Rou made her promise to keep his identity secret.
• Ning Ziqing wondered where her brother had gone, while Chen Nian left with Ye Hongling, who remained upset with him.

After defeating the Mind-Bewitching Demon God, Chen Nian gave Ye Hongling a Divine Gene, and she awakened the Vermilion Bird Divinity. He fled the Capital before Su Jinyu could catch up, then learned that the World Gate was about to open.

• Chen Nian comforted Ye Hongling after their battle, but she teased him while he spoke with Su Jinyu, who threatened to come to the Capital and confront them.
• Chen Nian explained Divine Genes to Ye Hongling and gave her one he could not use himself.
• Ye Hongling fused with the Divine Gene and awakened the Vermilion Bird Divinity, whose sacred fire burned away her clothes.
• Ye Hongling kissed Chen Nian, and he hurried back to Linhai City with Tang Rou and Ning Ziqing before Su Jinyu arrived.
• A great battle involving sword energy and divine fire later erupted in the Capital, and Chen Nian learned that the World Gate was about to open.

Chen Nian entered the Lost Continent with Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace and established its guild base, learning that actions there affected national fortune. After seeing Dragon Country trail other nations, he decided to target their bases.

• Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace registered its fifty members for the World Gate, while Su Jinyu and Ye Hongling were unable to participate and Zhao Yixue belonged to another guild.
• Chen Nian entered the World Gate after the crowds and arrived on the Lost Continent, where he received a single-use Teleportation Crystal and a quest to establish a guild base.
• Amaterasu established the first base and raised Sakura Country's national fortune, while Chen Nian learned that the lowest-ranked country would be punished and the highest-ranked rewarded every three days.
• Chen Nian killed a Man-eating Ironclaw Bird, gathered the materials he needed, and established Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace's base by the sea, raising Dragon Country's national fortune.
• After checking the national fortune rankings and seeing Dragon Country in fifth place, Chen Nian decided to attack other guilds' bases.

Chen Nian discovered a Sakura Country guild’s stronghold and single-handedly defeated its fifty members, earning Dragon Country National Fortune Points. His first battle left extraordinary individuals across the continent stunned and wary of encountering him.

• Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace members gathered at Chen Nian’s stronghold and began developing it while being warned not to light fires.
• Chen Nian flew over the continent and spotted smoke rising from the Senbonzakura guild’s stronghold.
• When Senbonzakura members tried to capture Chen Nian, he killed the mustached man who had mocked him and earned the achievement for his first kill of another country’s extraordinary individual.
• The Senbonzakura members panicked and fled or surrendered, and Chen Nian captured their guild flag, earning Dragon Country National Fortune Points and another achievement.
• Extraordinary individuals across the continent reacted to Chen Nian’s victory, with Dragon Country celebrating and other countries fearing him.

Chen Nian discovered that a Desolate Beast core was needed to upgrade the guild base and encountered a Hook Snake while searching for one. He killed the beast, earning Dragon Country a national fortune reward.

• Lu Ge and Tang Rou learned that Buyu had destroyed the Sakura Country guild Senbonzakura, raising Dragon Country's national fortune to 33.
• Chen Nian found that upgrading the guild base required a Desolate Beast core and flew out to search for a Desolate Beast.
• Chen Nian spotted three Dragon Country players fleeing a level 30 Hook Snake after it had killed their knight.
• Chen Nian tested the Hook Snake's attack against his Giant Spirit God Shield, then cut off its tail with the Startled Dragon Saber.
• Chen Nian hurled the saber into the Hook Snake's head, killing it and earning Dragon Country one point of national fortune.

Chen Nian killed a Desolate Beast, returned its core to Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, and helped the guild become the first to upgrade its base to level two. As the Black Calamity arrived, the base’s barrier held back a vast swarm of bats while guilds elsewhere were wiped out.

• Buyu’s achievements announced that he had killed a Transcendent from another country, destroyed a foreign guild, and killed a Desolate Beast, whose corpse survivors later found.
• Chen Nian returned to Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace with a Desolate Beast core, the last material needed to upgrade the guild base.
• Tang Rou and Lu Ge received the core, and Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace became the first guild to upgrade to a level-two base, increasing Dragon Country’s national fortune.
• A triple world warning announced the Black Calamity, and the guild gathered inside its base and activated its defensive barrier.
• Chen Nian used Heavenly Eye to identify the approaching Black Calamity as a vast swarm of bats, which the barrier stopped as its energy rapidly drained.
• Announcements reported that Blue Whale, Wings of Death, and Never Sets had been wiped out.

Dragon Country’s national fortune fell as foreign guilds targeted its strongholds, leaving it far behind the leaders before the third-day tally. Chen Nian emerged at Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace’s flag, apparently preparing to reveal the guild’s position and locate others.

• Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace learned its level-two stronghold could reveal its location to nearby guilds or detect a lower-level stronghold each day, and its members chose to scan.
• The scan found the Dragon Country guild Clear Wind and White Moon, so Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace declined to attack and went out to level up.
• Clear Wind and White Moon, Yangtze River Flows East, and Pinnacle of Huaxia were captured, causing Dragon Country’s national fortune and ranking to drop as guilds from other countries gained ground.
• People in Dragon Country worried that the country would fall out of the top three before the third-day tally, while people from other countries mocked them online.
• On the third day, Chen Nian left the treehouse and approached the stronghold flag, alarming the guild members who thought he might raise it and reveal their position.

Chen Nian pulled up Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace’s flag, exposing its location and revealing nearby guilds on the map. He captured the Myriad Stars base and reached a Sakura Country guild, where its members attacked him after he warned them to leave.

• Chen Nian pulled up the base flag, revealing the locations of nearby guilds and his own base to all members.
• Chen Nian raced to Myriad Stars, identified himself as Buyu, and gave its members ten seconds to leave.
• Chen Nian used Death God Domain and Death God Possession to kill the Myriad Stars members who stayed, then destroyed their base and gained two Dragon Country National Fortune Points.
• Chen Nian reached a Sakura Country guild and blasted a lookout’s hand to draw its members out.
• Chen Nian identified himself as Buyu and gave the Sakura Country guild five seconds to leave, but its members attacked with fire and lightning as he invoked Word Spirit, Judgment.

Chen Nian captured guild strongholds one after another while scouts from many countries gathered near Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace and realized he was eliminating their guilds. He reached Irina’s Bear Country stronghold, where its members begged him for mercy, and he considered what to do.

• Chen Nian annihilated the Sakura Country Transcendents who attacked him, captured their stronghold flag, and moved on after taking another stronghold.
• Scouts from around thirty guilds gathered near Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, where Irina warned the others not to act rashly.
• Transcendents from several countries assembled to attack, but Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace warned them off and the scouts learned that Buyu was capturing guild flags one by one.
• The scouts decided to return for reinforcements and attack Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace to force Buyu out of the area.
• Chen Nian arrived at Irina’s Bear Country guild stronghold, whose members pleaded that they had never targeted Dragon Country, and he came up with an idea.

As Chen Nian’s attacks split the coalition threatening Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, Dragon Country’s National Fortune Points surged close to first place. Night fell before Chen Nian returned, and his guildmates feared he was risking the Black Calamity to destroy one more guild.

• Irina learned that Buyu had spared her guild because it had not targeted Dragon Country, so she led her companions away from the coalition.
• Other scouts argued over whether to retreat or attack, fracturing the coalition Chen Nian had deliberately divided.
• People in the real world followed Dragon Country’s rise to second place, just two points behind Lighthouse Country, as night approached.
• Tang Rou urged the guild to wait for Chen Nian before activating the defensive barrier, while Lu Ge suspected he was attacking another guild to gain first place.

Chen Nian broke through Asura's barrier and survived the Black Calamity while its bats overwhelmed the guild. He occupied its base, pushing Dragon Country back into first place as the world erupted.

• Asura's members celebrated their lead over Dragon Country while the Black Calamity kept everyone indoors.
• Chen Nian appeared outside Asura's barrier, and Jace and the guild members mocked him.
• Chen Nian used Origin-Destroying World to destroy the barrier, letting the Black Calamity's bats swarm Asura.
• Chen Nian's Judgment Domain slaughtered the bats, and Jace escaped by crushing his teleportation crystal.
• Chen Nian pulled out Asura's guild flag, gaining Dragon Country five National Fortune Points and costing Lighthouse Country one.
• Dragon Country rose to first place with 784 points, four ahead of Lighthouse Country.

Dragon Country regained first place in National Fortune Points and received a technological breakthrough reward, while Chen Nian hid underwater to escape the Black Calamity. After discovering a strange hole in the riverbed and sleeping until noon, he noticed several people on the river’s surface, leaving their identities unresolved.

• Dragon Country overtook Lighthouse Country, and its citizens celebrated while Eagle Sauce mourned its lost lead.
• The Central Academy of Sciences announced a breakthrough that could make nanofilaments widely applicable, and Guang Chengzhi ordered the research sealed.
• Chen Nian escaped the Black Calamity by diving into a river, where the Blue Sea Demon Ring let him breathe and move underwater.
• Chen Nian found a hole where a strange vortex had been drawing in river water, but he chose to investigate it later.
• Chen Nian slept until noon, recovered some strength, and noticed multiple people moving on the river’s surface.

Ai Lan led Tears of the Azure Sea into underwater ruins to kill a Jiaolong, but the fight went badly until Chen Nian rescued her. After escaping, Ai Lan learned the handsome stranger had noticed her exposed purple underwear before he vanished.

• Ai Lan led her guild members into a river cavern to explore ruins guarded by a level 50 Jiaolong.
• Chen Nian secretly followed the group and watched as the Jiaolong wounded a guild member and trapped Ai Lan during their retreat.
• Chen Nian severed the Jiaolong’s tail and carried the injured Ai Lan out of the ruins.
• Ai Lan thanked Chen Nian, who gave her his coat and disappeared after commenting on her purple underwear.

Chen Nian returned to the ruins, killed the flood dragon, and found that it had only guarded the entrance to a mysterious stone wall. Unable to open the ruins, he returned to his guild and sent Lu Ge to recruit Ai Lan’s help with a cryptic message.

• Ai Lan surfaced safely and told Tears of the Azure Sea that an unknown man had saved her before she and her group left the ruins.
• Chen Nian returned and used Word Spirit-Mirror Moon to reflect the flood dragon’s blast, then charged through its domain and beheaded it with the Startled Dragon Saber.
• Chen Nian gained genetic energy, a Flood Dragon Scale, and a Night Pearl, then discovered a rune-covered stone wall that seemed to mark the real entrance to the ruins.
• Chen Nian returned to the Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace base, reassured Lu Ge and the others, and asked Lu Ge to bring Ai Lan to the ruins.
• Chen Nian told Lu Ge to privately tell Ai Lan that “purple has a certain charm,” leaving Lu Ge confused.

Lu Ge persuaded Ai Lan and Tears of the Azure Sea to meet Chen Nian, whose cryptic message made Ai Lan realize he was the man who had saved her from the Jiaolong. Chen Nian revealed that he had killed the Jiaolong and invited them to explore the cavern ruins, and Ai Lan led her team into the river.

• Lu Ge brought Chen Nian's request for help to Ai Lan, but Ai Lan initially refused because he had not explained what he needed.
• Lu Ge relayed Chen Nian's message that purple had a certain charm, and Ai Lan recognized him as the man who had saved her and agreed to help.
• Ai Lan gathered a team and met Chen Nian by the river, where he thanked them and said he wanted to explore the cavern ruins.
• Chen Nian told the group he had already killed the Jiaolong, leaving Ai Lan and her companions astonished.
• Chen Nian explained he needed their help because he had not opened the ruins' entrance, and Ai Lan jumped into the river to lead the way.

Chen Nian and Ai Lan opened the underwater entrance to the Temple of Bingyi and helped the group pass its formation trial. Bingyi offered everyone his inheritance, but Chen Nian refused it.

• Ai Lan opened the sealed stone entrance by sending water through its carved patterns, and Chen Nian warned the others before they entered the ruins.
• The group discovered the Temple of Bingyi, where the river god's phantom offered his inheritance to whoever passed his trial.
• Bingyi activated the Water Illusory Form Formation, and Chen Nian used his Heavenly Eye to identify the water sphere sustaining it.
• Ai Lan destroyed the sphere, breaking the formation and allowing everyone to receive a divine mark.
• Bingyi invited Chen Nian to receive his inheritance, but Chen Nian refused.

Bingyi’s trap infected the people in the temple with the Black Calamity, but Chen Nian’s awakened Divinity drove the corruption from him and defeated Bingyi. Bingyi saved Ai Lan by giving her his Divinity, then told Chen Nian that intimate contact was the only way to purify the evil remaining inside her.

• Bingyi sealed everyone except Chen Nian in water spheres and poured corrupt power into them, revealing that the Divine Seal had trapped their abilities.
• Chen Nian failed to cut the water jet attacking Ai Lan, so he took the corrupting power into his own body instead.
• Chen Nian’s Divinity, Yang Jian, awakened and purified him, turning the jet golden and destroying Bingyi’s stone statue.
• Bingyi explained that the Black Calamity had corrupted him and said Ai Lan could still be saved, while the others could not.
• Bingyi gave Ai Lan his Divinity, but it could not fully purge the corruption, so he told Chen Nian that intimate contact was needed to purify her.

Chen Nian purified Ai Lan’s corruption, and she woke to kiss him before leaving the ruins. After returning to Tears of the Azure Sea, Ai Lan was blamed for her companions’ deaths and threatened, just as people from Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace arrived.

• Chen Nian held Ai Lan and used his Divinity to purge the sinister power inside her while she secretly listened and felt moved by his willingness to save her.
• Ai Lan woke, kissed Chen Nian passionately, and left the ruins; Chen Nian then discovered that Heavenly Water Prison had evolved to seal supernatural powers.
• Chen Nian returned to Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace and asked Lu Ge to bring Ai Lan there if her guild ostracized her.
• Ai Lan returned to Tears of the Azure Sea and told the guild that her companions had died in the ruins, prompting the members to accuse and insult her.
• A leering man blocked Ai Lan and threatened her, but people from Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace arrived.

Lu Ge rescued Ai Lan from Tears of the Azure Sea and brought her to Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, where the members welcomed her and invited her to join. Meanwhile, Uesawa Naoki attacked and occupied Tears of the Azure Sea, and Chen Nian led Ai Lan to see what had happened.

• Lu Ge invoked Buyu’s authority to take Ai Lan from the hostile members of Tears of the Azure Sea.
• Lu Ge brought Ai Lan to Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, where she considered joining and felt uneasy about facing Buyu.
• Uesawa Naoki attacked Tears of the Azure Sea alone, killed its scout, and severed several members’ arms as they tried to escape.
• Uesawa Naoki wiped out and occupied Tears of the Azure Sea, and Ai Lan received the notification.
• Chen Nian came out and asked Ai Lan to go with him to look at the occupied guild.

Chen Nian investigated the Tears of the Azure Sea’s massacre with Ai Lan, then led her to a hidden passage beneath the river. After Ai Lan returned to alert the guild, Chen Nian let the current carry him through the opening and discovered another world.

• Chen Nian and Ai Lan found the Tears of the Azure Sea’s members dead, and Chen Nian concluded that one top expert had killed them all.
• Chen Nian invited Ai Lan to join Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, and she said she would consider it after returning to reality while helping the guild in the meantime.
• Chen Nian took Ai Lan to a hole in the riverbed and found a worked stone blocking a passage beneath it.
• The stone opened and the river water rushed through; Ai Lan went back to inform the guild while Chen Nian entered the passage.
• Chen Nian was swept through the opening and found that it led to another world.

Chen Nian entered an underground ancient city, learned that its people feared the Black Calamity and worshipped a Mountain God, and discovered a hidden quest to eliminate the calamity. He followed Xiao He to a ceremony where a girl would be chosen as a sacrifice, and the old man drawing the name reacted with shock before revealing it.

• Chen Nian fell through the city's water intake into an underground reservoir and unlocked a main quest to eliminate the Black Calamity or face the destruction of all guilds.
• Chen Nian used Hidden Shadow to enter the city, stole local clothes, and changed in a shop while Xiao He twice entered the fitting room without seeing him.
• Chen Nian asked Xiao He where the crowds were going, and she led him to the monthly drawing ceremony for the Mountain God.
• Xiao He explained that a girl aged fifteen to twenty would be chosen as a sacrifice and that no chosen girl had ever returned alive.
• An old man drew a name before the crowd, then reacted with disbelief and anguish without revealing whose name he had picked.

Chen Nian was exposed as an outsider during the search for intruders, but Xiao He hid him and gave him a Breathing Pill. Meanwhile, Gu Qingyue learned she had been chosen as the sacrifice and asked a Daoist master about her destined partner, who was prophesied to be a revolutionary holding a night pearl that never went dark.

• The crowd learned that Gu Qingyue had been chosen as the sacrifice to the mountain god, and soldiers announced they were searching for outsiders.
• Xiao He recognized Chen Nian as an outsider but secretly gave him a Breathing Pill and hid him from the soldiers.
• After the soldiers inspected them and moved on, Xiao He took Chen Nian to her house to lie low.
• Gu Qingyue learned that she had only ten days before the sacrifice and hurried to consult the Daoist master.
• The Daoist master told Gu Qingyue that her destined partner held a night pearl that never went dark and was a revolutionary destined to change the world's rules.

Gu Qingyue learned that the man carrying an ever-glowing night pearl could change the world’s rules, and that someone might volunteer to take her place as the mountain god’s sacrifice. When soldiers asked Xiao He to become the sacrifice, she agreed, and they took her to the palace while Chen Nian watched in hiding.

• Gu Qingyue ordered a citywide search for the bearer of an ever-glowing night pearl after the diviner foretold that he could change the world’s rules.
• The diviner told Gu Qingyue that someone would willingly become the sacrifice in her place.
• Chen Nian learned from Xiao He that the princess was searching for someone with an ever-glowing night pearl, which he possessed.
• Soldiers arrived at Xiao He’s home with an official, who asked whether she would take Gu Qingyue’s place as the sacrifice.
• Xiao He agreed to become the sacrifice, and the soldiers took her to the palace as news of her choice spread through the city.

Unable to decide whether to save Xiao He or protect the princess, Chen Nian chose to save the girl who trusted him and stormed the imperial palace. After overpowering the palace guards and frightening off the White Tiger General with his Divinity, he headed for the Brocade Palace, where Xiao He was being held.

• Chen Nian asked an old Taoist master a trolley-problem question, and the master recognized him as the bringer of change before dying after a final divination.
• The master foretold that the black tide would recede and life would turn toward the sun, but Chen Nian still could not tell whether to save Xiao He or the princess.
• Chen Nian decided to save Xiao He and entered the palace city, where a silver-armored commander detected him despite his Hidden Shadow, Formless ability.
• Chen Nian trapped the first soldiers with Heavenly Water Prison, blasted through reinforcements with Wind-Gathering Cannon, and learned that Xiao He was in the Brocade Palace.
• The White Tiger General confronted Chen Nian, but Chen Nian's Heavenly Eye made the divine beast phantom vanish, and the general let him pass.
• Chen Nian ignored the defeated general and continued toward the Brocade Palace.