Recaps

After tens of thousands of years in seclusion, Mu Chen finally broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm. His rise shook the seas and astonished the countless creatures living beneath the Cloud Sea Grand Formation.

• Three hundred years after Houtu became a Sage, Mu Chen let Little Seven, Little Eight, and Little Nine leave to travel after teaching them new abilities and warning them not to join the Demon Race or invoke his name.
• A hundred years later, Mu Chen sent Xiao Shi away with the True God Lightning Control Method and Hong Yun, giving him the same warnings.
• After parting from his companions, Mu Chen returned to seclusion, resolved to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Tens of thousands of years passed as the waters beneath the Cloud Sea Grand Formation became a refuge for living beings and some great witches and demons.
• Mu Chen broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, and the resulting thunder and surging seas stunned the creatures nearby.

After becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal, Mu Chen chose to keep fishing and obtained the Great Way of the Golden Elixir. When Di Jun’s Ten Golden Crows crossed his territory, he faced a choice between letting them pass and killing them for the Incomplete Text of the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

• Mu Chen’s body and primordial spirit were purified as he advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal, and his Cloud Sea Grand Formation spread across the surrounding region.
• The system offered Mu Chen a choice between continuing to fish and venturing into the Primordial World, and he chose to fish for one thousand years.
• After one thousand years, Mu Chen obtained the Great Way of the Golden Elixir, which he intended to pass on to the Human Race.
• The Ten Golden Crows flew from the Sun Star through Mu Chen’s territory, scattering Solar Divine Fire.
• The system offered Mu Chen a choice to let the Ten Golden Crows pass or kill them for the Incomplete Text of the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

Mu Chen decided against killing the ten Golden Crows but chose to punish Yin You, the youngest son of Di Jun, for scorching living beings from the sea of clouds. Yin You was left screaming in pain as Mu Chen beat him under a false accusation.

• Mu Chen weighed the danger of killing the Golden Crows and decided not to fight the Demon Race.
• Seeing Yin You attack inhabited areas with Sun True Fire, Mu Chen pulled him into the Cloud Sea Grand Formation.
• Yin You sensed Mu Chen's Quasi-Sage presence, transformed into human form, and identified himself as Di Jun's ninth son.
• Mu Chen slapped Yin You and accused him of defiling the sea of clouds by taking a shit.
• Yin You protested that he could not excrete and had been mistaken for burning debris, but Mu Chen insisted he was guilty and beat him.

Mu Chen stopped Yin You from joining his brothers, saving him from Hou Yi’s arrows as the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe unfolded. After Hou Yi and Kuafu died, Mu Chen preserved their souls and asked whether they would reincarnate into the Human Race, leaving their decision uncertain.

• Mu Chen beat Yin You into submission and sent him back to the Sun Star, where Yin You hid instead of pursuing his brothers.
• The nine Golden Crows descended on the mortal world, and Kuafu died of exhaustion chasing them after years of scorching the land.
• Hou Yi shot down all nine Golden Crows, and Yin You returned to Di Jun, who killed Hou Yi and declared war on the Witch Race.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi fought the Ancestral Witches beneath Mount Buzhou in a battle watched by the Sages.
• Mu Chen used the system to preserve Hou Yi’s and Kuafu’s spiritual consciousness as souls and asked whether they would reincarnate into the Human Race.

Mu Chen sent Hou Yi and Kuafu to reincarnate as humans, then watched the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe from afar. He talked Nuwa out of interfering in the battle, but ended by pleading with his big sister to stop sending him animals.

• Mu Chen persuaded Hou Yi and Kuafu to reincarnate into the Human Race and sent their remnant souls into a vortex.
• Mu Chen refused the system’s offer to join the battle and sent a clone to observe it instead.
• Mu Chen’s clone watched the Witch and Demon Races clash, and saw the Primordial World split into the Three Realms.
• Nuwa appeared beside Mu Chen and asked what he thought of the battle.
• Mu Chen warned Nuwa that interfering could bring the Heavenly Dao’s wrath and reminded her that her Great Dao rested on the Human Race, so she chose not to intervene.
• Mu Chen shouted toward the horizon for his big sister to stop sending him animals because he could not afford to feed them.

After the Witch-Demon Catastrophe devastated the Primordial World, Mu Chen returned to seclusion and completed a ten-thousand-year fishing mission, gaining Fiery Golden Eyes. As the Human Race began rising and rumors spread about Hongjun’s sayings, a human in a boat approached Mu Chen and called out to him.

• Nuwa withdrew into seclusion, Houtu became the Yellow Springs, and the Witch-Demon battle continued for more than a hundred years until Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and many Ancestral Witches died.
• The war devastated the Primordial World, and the Witch and Demon Races lost their power to compete for supremacy.
• Mu Chen’s clone surveyed the ruined battlefield, reflected that the races had been pawns of the Heavenly Dao, and returned to seclusion until he became a Sage.
• The Sages supported the Human Race’s rise, and the surviving demons became its enemies as the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe ended.
• Ten thousand years later, Mu Chen completed his fishing mission and received Fiery Golden Eyes, while he learned that Hongjun’s sayings concerned the Human Race’s rise and Six-Eared Macaque’s eavesdropping.
• A human wearing a bamboo hat drifted up to Mu Chen in a small boat and called out to ask where the immortal was.

Xuandu visited Mu Chen to ask for guidance for the Human Race, which lacked a stable cultivation system and was being slaughtered by the Demon Race. After hearing Xuandu's plea, Mu Chen faced a choice between guiding him to Laozi or accepting him as a disciple.

• Xuandu called out to Mu Chen, and Prime Minister Turtle rebuked him before Mu Chen invited him up.
• Mu Chen recognized Xuandu and asked where his master was, but Xuandu did not know of Laozi.
• Xuandu explained that legends of Mu Chen had spread among the Human Race and that people had founded the Mu God Sect to worship him.
• Xuandu pleaded with Mu Chen to show the Human Race a path to the Great Dao.
• A system offered Mu Chen the choice to teach Xuandu the golden elixir path and guide him to Laozi, or accept Xuandu as his disciple and risk becoming Laozi's enemy.

Mu Chen gave Xuandu the incomplete Great Way of the Golden Elixir and treasures to bring to the Human Race, then withdrew into seclusion when the system failed to offer another fishing reward. A century later, Xuandu became Laozi’s disciple and recited the method, causing Heaven Beyond Heaven to rumble as Laozi reacted with shock.

• Mu Chen refused to interfere with the Demon Race’s hold over the Human Race but gave Xuandu the incomplete Great Way of the Golden Elixir for a future master to revise.
• Mu Chen handed Xuandu spiritual pills, medicines, and weapons to distribute among mortals, then told him to keep Mu Chen’s deeds secret.
• After Xuandu left, Mu Chen noticed that the system had not offered him another chance to fish and committed himself to seclusion.
• A hundred years later, Laozi took Xuandu as his eldest disciple, and Xuandu gave him the Golden Elixir method and recounted his meeting with Mu Chen.
• Laozi asked Xuandu to recite the method, and Heaven Beyond Heaven shook as five-colored light appeared and Laozi reacted in shock.

Laozi was shocked when Xuandu recited the Great Way of the Golden Elixir, believing Mu Chen had created a method with no flaws. After the sects spread their teachings and Mu Chen’s cultivation stalled, he sensed someone had appeared in his sea of clouds.

• Xuandu told Laozi that Senior Mu God had said the Great Way of the Golden Elixir needed Laozi to refine and complete it.
• After Xuandu left, Laozi reread the method and found no flaws, growing intensely curious about Mu Chen.
• Following the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe, the Jie Sect flourished by accepting any being capable of cultivating, while the Human Sect, Chan Sect, and Mu God Sect also spread their teachings.
• Mu Chen ended his secluded cultivation after making little progress and decided to rely on time to overcome his bottleneck.
• As Mu Chen prepared to check the outside world with a clone, he sensed someone else in his sea of clouds.

Laozi visited Mu Chen’s sanctuary and invited him to join the Human Sect, offering Primordial Purple Qi and later the deputy sect leader position. Mu Chen refused, choosing to avoid entanglement in the coming tribulation and continue cultivating in seclusion.

• Mu Chen sensed an intruder inside his Cloud Sea Grand Formation and demanded to know who had entered.
• Laozi emerged from the clouds, explained that he had come to inspect Mu Chen’s formation, and apologized for arriving uninvited.
• Laozi asked how Mu Chen had learned alchemy, and Mu Chen claimed he had listened to Laozi’s sermons.
• Laozi praised Mu Chen’s talent and invited him to join the Human Sect, offering him Primordial Purple Qi to help him become a Sage.
• When Mu Chen hesitated, Laozi offered him the deputy sect leader position once he reached Quasi-Sage, but Mu Chen declined and said he wanted to cultivate in seclusion.

Mu Chen refused Laozi’s invitation to join the Human Sect and secluded himself to grow stronger. Ten thousand years later, he reached the middle stage of Daluo Golden Immortal and fished up a Heaven-Deceiving Cloak.

• Mu Chen told Laozi he feared dying in a calamity and declined to join the Human Sect despite Laozi’s offer of protection.
• Laozi accepted that Mu Chen had no affinity with the Human Sect and left the Cloud Sea Grand Formation.
• Mu Chen sealed the formation, resolved to keep a low profile, and entered seclusion.
• After ten thousand years, Mu Chen broke through to the middle stage of Daluo Golden Immortal and obtained the Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Lotus Platform from the system.
• Mu Chen felt his fishing rod catch something, and the system awarded him the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak as support for his cultivation bottleneck.

Mu Chen obtained the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak and chose to use a clone to hear the Three Pure Ones preach, seeking to deepen his understanding of the Great Dao. After five hundred years of preparation, he disguised the clone and sent it to Penglai Immortal Island for Tongtian’s sermon.

• Mu Chen received the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak, which could conceal or alter his cultivation, presence, karma, and origins, even from Sages without careful examination.
• Mu Chen chose to spend fifty thousand years hearing the Three Pure Ones preach rather than fishing to force a breakthrough to late Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Mu Chen spent five hundred years preparing a clone that matched his true body so it could comprehend the Dao authentically.
• Tongtian announced that he would preach the Dao for the Jie Sect on Penglai Immortal Island, inviting all living beings to attend.
• Mu Chen's clone used the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak to disguise itself as a low-level Human Race cultivator and flew toward Penglai Immortal Island.

Mu Chen entered Penglai Immortal Island to attend Cult Leader Tongtian’s Dao lecture and explored its wonders before clashing with Zhao Gongming over a fruit. The chapter ended with Zhao Gongming introducing himself and asking Mu Chen’s name.

• Daoist Duobao announced that Cult Leader Tongtian would preach at the great altar in six hours and warned visitors not to damage the island.
• Mu Chen entered Penglai Immortal Island and marveled at its treasures and unusual sights, drawing disdainful looks from other visitors.
• Mu Chen spotted a red fruit by a lake and reached for it at the same time as a middle-aged man with a goatee.
• The man challenged Mu Chen, and Mu Chen retorted, “You. What are you going to do about it?”
• The man identified himself as Zhao Gongming of Luofu Cave on Mount Emei and asked Mu Chen’s name.

Mu Chen defeated Zhao Gongming in a duel by using the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Scattering Gourd, then took the fruit. Daoist Duobao appeared and revealed that Mu Chen had passed the trial.

• Mu Chen introduced himself as Daoist Wang Zha, leader of the Heaven-Exploding Gang, and challenged Zhao Gongming to a duel over the fruit.
• Zhao Gongming agreed to fight at Heavenly Immortal strength, confident he could defeat Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen opened the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Scattering Gourd and trapped Zhao Gongming in its red sand, forcing him to concede.
• Mu Chen plucked and ate the fruit after Zhao Gongming conceded.
• Daoist Duobao appeared and congratulated Mu Chen for passing the trial.

Mu Chen learned that he and Zhao Gongming had earned the front seats by competing for the island’s fruit, then tried to trade his seat to avoid drawing the Sage’s attention. The crowd bid with treasures, and Mu Chen turned the exchange into an auction while Zhao Gongming watched in disbelief.

• Daoist Duobao moved Mu Chen, Zhao Gongming, and the other attendees to the great altar, where Mu Chen and Zhao Gongming sat at the front.
• Daoist Duobao explained that claiming the island’s fruit was the assessment, and that Mu Chen and Zhao Gongming had passed by contending for it.
• Mu Chen worried that sitting near Sage Tongtian might expose him, so he offered to exchange his seat with someone more worthy.
• The crowd competed to offer treasures for Mu Chen’s seat, and Mu Chen called for increasingly high bids.
• Zhao Gongming watched in astonishment as Mu Chen turned the Sage’s Dao lecture into an auction.

Mu Chen sold the head seat at Tongtian’s sermon for ten Acquired Spirit Treasures and three Innate Spirit Treasures, then took a seat at the back. As Tongtian arrived to begin preaching, Mu Chen realized three people had marked him as a target, while Daoist Duobao noticed that the head seat’s occupant had changed.

• Mu Chen sold the head seat to a rat spirit and moved to the back of the gathering.
• Mu Chen recognized the three Innate Spirit Treasures he had received as the Immortal-Suppressing Ding, Myriad Things Brush, and Immortal-Ending Spear.
• Mu Chen sensed three hostile gazes and decided to wait for Tongtian’s sermon before dealing with the danger outside the island.
• Tongtian arrived and sat cross-legged above the platform as the gathered disciples bowed in reverence.
• Daoist Duobao noticed that the rat spirit occupied the head seat where he had expected Fellow Daoist Wang Zha.

Cult Leader Tongtian preached the teachings of the Jie Sect for three hundred years, and Mu Chen appeared to remain in Dao enlightenment longer than anyone else. The chapter left Mu Chen waking from a nap and claiming he had been merging with the Dao of heaven and earth, stunning the gathering.

• Mu Chen hid beneath his Heaven-Deceiving Cloak as Tongtian surveyed the listeners, and Tongtian's gaze passed over him.
• Tongtian began preaching the Jie Sect's teachings, and Mu Chen settled down to listen.
• After three hundred years, Tongtian ended the lecture, and most listeners awoke while more than a dozen remained immersed in Dao enlightenment.
• Zhao Gongming awoke with his cultivation greatly advanced, while Daoist Duobao noticed that Mu Chen was still asleep and admired his apparent talent.
• Tongtian called for Mu Chen to awaken, but Mu Chen snored until a bubble on his nose burst.
• Mu Chen woke angrily and claimed he had been merging with the Dao of heaven and earth, leaving everyone speechless.

Mu Chen accidentally slept through Tongtian’s sermon, advanced rapidly, and fled Penglai Immortal Island after realizing he had offended the Sage. Tongtian discovered that Mu Chen faced a great tribulation, while someone blocked Mu Chen’s path just outside the island.

• Mu Chen’s outburst during Tongtian’s sermon stunned the listeners, and Tongtian left after calling him a bastard.
• Daoist Duobao announced that fifteen people, including Zhao Gongming, had passed the assessment, while Mu Chen realized his true body had advanced to the perfected middle stage of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Mu Chen left Penglai Immortal Island, and Daoist Duobao told Tongtian about Mu Chen’s earlier auction of the frontmost seat.
• Tongtian questioned whether his sermon had been dull, then divined that Mu Chen was about to face a great tribulation.
• Someone blocked Mu Chen’s way a hundred thousand li from Penglai Immortal Island.

Mu Chen was confronted by three Mystic Immortal demons who demanded his Innate Spirit Treasures, then found himself pursued by a horde after they revealed what he carried. He fled while threatening to return with a Daluo Golden Immortal.

• The Earth-Show Evil Demon Tiger Venerable, Heaven-Show Earth-Show Demon Shadow, and Water-Show Turtle God demanded that Mu Chen hand over his treasures.
• Mu Chen used the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Scattering Gourd to trap the three demons and prepared to escape.
• The tiger spirit told the arriving sermon attendees that Mu Chen carried three Innate Spirit Treasures, provoking them to attack.
• Mu Chen put away the gourd, fled from the charging demons, and threatened to return with a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Mu Chen fled across the Primordial World while a pack of demon beasts chased him for his Innate Spirit Treasures and divine abilities. Trapped at a waterfall with his magical power spent, he spotted Xiao Shi and shouted for help.

• Mu Chen ran from the demon beasts, who laughed at his threat and pursued him for his three Innate Spirit Treasures.
• Mu Chen used Shrinking the Earth into Inches to pull ahead, but learning that he knew the divine ability only made the demon beasts chase harder.
• After days of fleeing, Mu Chen found himself far from the Cloud Sea Grand Formation and running low on magical power.
• Mu Chen refused the system's suggestion to surrender his treasures and continued running until he was cornered at a waterfall.
• The eagle demon demanded Mu Chen hand over the Innate Spirit Treasures, and Mu Chen called out to Xiao Shi for rescue when he saw him drift by on a red cloud.

The Long-Armed Ape, Xiao Shi, saved Mu Chen from a horde of demons and captured three fleeing spirits. He asked Mu Chen how he knew his nickname, leaving Mu Chen frozen before he could answer.

• Xiao Shi heard Mu Chen calling for help and recognized a strange familiarity, so he rushed to save him.
• Xiao Shi revealed his overwhelming power and used the True God Lightning Control Method to kill or wound more than half the demons.
• Mu Chen pointed out a tiger spirit, an eagle spirit, and a turtle demon trying to escape, and Xiao Shi captured all three.
• Xiao Shi asked Mu Chen how he knew his nickname, and Mu Chen froze before answering.

Mu Chen returned to the Cloud Sea Grand Formation with the Long-Armed Ape and his three captured demons, concealing that his clone had posed as Wang Zha. The Long-Armed Ape then asked Mu Chen for guidance against Daoist Lu Ya, who had been slaughtering mortals.

• Mu Chen claimed to be Wang Zha, Mu Chen’s foremost disciple, and convinced the Long-Armed Ape to take him back to his master.
• Mu Chen and Xiao Shi brought three unconscious demons along as they traveled on the red cloud toward the South Sea.
• Mu Chen’s clone merged into his true body, and he told Xiao Shi that Wang Zha had gone into seclusion.
• Mu Chen praised Xiao Shi and urged him to support Wang Zha in the future.
• Xiao Shi explained that he had fought Daoist Lu Ya after seeing him torture and slaughter mortals, but had come to Mu Chen for guidance after years of losing ground.

Mu Chen armed the Long-Armed Ape with powerful divine abilities and treasures so he could defeat Lu Ya, then sent him to seek out Demon Master Kunpeng. As Mu Chen prepared to enter seclusion, Prime Minister Turtle called to him from beyond the sea of clouds.

• Mu Chen recalled Lu Ya’s connection to Kunpeng and grew wary that Kunpeng might be watching him.
• The Long-Armed Ape admitted that Lu Ya’s divine abilities, Sun True Fire, and treasures had made him difficult to defeat.
• Mu Chen passed the Long-Armed Ape Fiery Golden Eyes, Body-Protecting Fire God Art, Optimus Prime, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Arts, and a drop of the Origin of Water.
• Mu Chen made the Long-Armed Ape his second disciple and told him to defeat Lu Ya and find out where Kunpeng was.
• The Long-Armed Ape rode away on a red cloud to master his new abilities before challenging Lu Ya.
• Mu Chen prepared to enter seclusion, and Prime Minister Turtle called to him from beyond the sea of clouds.

Mu Chen agreed to establish the Endless Sea as a named Dao sanctuary and organize the many creatures living there. He left Prime Minister Turtle and three demons to manage the sanctuary, promising the demons their freedom in a thousand years.

• Prime Minister Turtle told Mu Chen that the sea beneath his sanctuary had attracted too many creatures seeking refuge from the Primordial World's violence.
• Mu Chen chose to let the creatures stay, prompted by a reward for showing compassion rather than driving them away.
• Prime Minister Turtle suggested establishing a sanctuary that charged residents who stayed for a thousand years, and Mu Chen named it the Endless Sea.
• Mu Chen ordered Prime Minister Turtle to erect boundary steles and manage the sanctuary, then assigned three demons to help him.
• The three demons accepted Mu Chen's orders, and he privately cringed at their grandiose titles.

Mu Chen named three demons and put them under Prime Minister Turtle to manage the Endless Sea, then crushed a rebellion by powerful creatures. With the waters subdued, he left their affairs to Prime Minister Turtle and turned his attention back to the Three Teachings' preaching of the Dao.

• Mu Chen named the three demons Tiger Venerable, Blood Eagle, and Turtle Two, and ordered them to help Prime Minister Turtle manage the Endless Sea.
• Prime Minister Turtle and the three demons announced the Endless Sea Daoist Sanctuary throughout the surrounding waters, prompting some powerful creatures to protest.
• Several great demons stirred up unrest and incited other races to resist, so Mu Chen killed them with heavenly lightning, fire, and meteors.
• Mu Chen left the waters' affairs in Prime Minister Turtle's hands and sent his avatar out to follow the Three Teachings' preaching of the Dao, expecting Yuanshi Tianzun to preach next.