Recaps

Chen Mu arranged research into improving Divine Soul potential, informed Mingye that he would visit Yin Zhan’s hometown, and set out with Zheng Fengdao for North Wind City. In Alkaid City, he recognized Guo Xiaohan selling flowers in a square.

• Chen Mu asked Landuo to record his Divine Soul improvement for a new research project, but postponed the research until his return.
• Chen Mu told Mingye he was leaving with Zheng Fengdao for a few days, and passed along his mother’s invitation for her to visit.
• Chen Mu traveled to the outer-city teleportation array and met Zheng Fengdao to begin their journey to North Wind City.
• Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao teleported to Alkaid City using false identities arranged by Hou Sailei.
• Chen Mu sensed an old acquaintance and recognized Guo Xiaohan selling flowers in a nearby square.

Chen Mu discovered traces of a Demon Seed on Guo Xiaohan and learned that her father had spent the family’s savings on the Holy Light God Sect. He went with her to the sect’s crowded church to speak with its priest, where the story left them waiting in line.

• Chen Mu recognized Guo Xiaohan in Alkaid City and sensed traces of a Demon Seed on her.
• Chen Mu bought Guo Xiaohan’s flowers and asked her about her recent troubles, claiming he had learned fortune-telling.
• Guo Xiaohan explained that her father had given the family’s savings to the Holy Light God Sect and now spent his days praying while she and her mother struggled to support the family.
• Chen Mu offered to speak to the sect’s people, and Guo Xiaohan led him and Zheng Fengdao to the church.
• At the church, Guo Xiaohan joined the line with Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao to see the priest and persuade him to tell her father to work.

Chen Mu investigated the Holy Light Sect and confronted the will behind its blessings, discovering that the white-robed priest served the Heart Demon Emperor. The emperor’s will withdrew after recognizing Chen Mu, and the injured priest ordered his protectors to kill him.

• Chen Mu noticed that the church clergy carried strong Demon Seed presences and suspected the Holy Light Sect was backed by Otherworldly Demons.
• Chen Mu donated a spirit stone and approached the white-robed priest, ignoring the clergy’s threats while Guo Xiaohan watched anxiously.
• Chen Mu closed his eyes as the priest blessed him, and Xiaozhi detected an unfamiliar energy within the priest.
• Chen Mu resisted the descending will with a blue flame and recognized it as the same kind he had sensed at Black Wind Cliff.
• The will identified itself as the Heart Demon Emperor and threatened Chen Mu before dispersing.
• The priest vomited blood from the backlash and ordered his protectors to kill Chen Mu.

Chen Mu attacked the Holy Light God Sect’s church and discovered that its priests drew on the Power of Wishes through a statue of the Holy Light God. He destroyed the statue by tearing a bright sphere from its chest, leaving the church’s fate unresolved.

• Chen Mu burned the brainwashed guardians who attacked him, then seized the white-robed elder and identified the halo’s energy as the Power of Wishes.
• Chen Mu shielded himself from the believers and entered the church’s central square, where he saw the priests channeling the believers’ wishes through the Holy Light statue.
• The five priests animated the statue and sent it to attack Chen Mu, who fought it with his Dharma Aspect True Body and wounded it with the Cold of Supreme Yin and a Five Elements Ring.
• Worried about Guo Xiaohan’s father among the watching believers, Chen Mu ended the fight, pierced the statue’s chest, and tore out its bright sphere, causing the statue to collapse into rubble.

Chen Mu destroyed the Holy Light God statue, freeing its believers and recovering the Wish Power Orb. He warned Zheng Fengdao that the Heart Demon Emperor was behind the Holy Light God, then prepared to leave Alkaid City.

• Chen Mu sealed the Wish Power Orb after the Holy Light God statue’s destruction killed the five white-robed priests and freed the bewitched believers.
• Guo Xiaohan reunited with her father, who remembered nothing of the Holy Light Sect, and thanked Chen Mu for saving him.
• Chen Mu gave Guo Xiaohan his tribe’s identity token and told her the Eight Directions Chamber of Commerce could help if she faced trouble.
• Chen Mu explained to Zheng Fengdao that the orb came from the priests’ Power of Wishes and that he would analyze it at the Rune Research Institute.
• Chen Mu warned Zheng Fengdao that the Heart Demon Emperor had nurtured the Holy Light God and urged him to be cautious around the sect.

Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao traveled across the Central Land toward North Wind City, navigating closed teleportation arrays and a battle line. They reached the city’s border by flying ship and continued past the fighting after Chen Mu evaded Teng Yan.

• Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao left Alkaid City by teleportation array and planned a route toward North Wind City.
• They passed through more than a dozen cities, resting between teleportations, but found that war had closed some arrays and North Wind City was controlled by Ma Hongxian.
• After learning they could not reach North Wind City by teleportation, Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao left Yichang City aboard Chen Mu’s flying ship.
• At the border, Teng Yan intercepted the flying ship, but Chen Mu activated its spatial runes and flew past the battlefield.
• Teng Yan reported the encounter to the female general, who briefly wondered where she had heard of a teleporting flying ship.

Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao arrived in North Wind City to meet Yin Zhan and learned that the Ma Lineage was pressuring the Yin Lineage through a planned marriage. Yin Zhan welcomed them but said he could not leave while his Lineage was in trouble.

• Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao entered North Wind City using merchant identity tags and waited for Yin Zhan at a tea stall.
• Chen Mu overheard locals say that the Ma Lineage's eldest young master would marry the Yin Lineage's second young lady, apparently to bring the Yin Lineage under the Ma Lineage's influence.
• Yin Zhan arrived by carriage and greeted Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao, then envied Chen Mu's breakthrough to the Core Formation Realm.
• Chen Mu offered to help Yin Zhan break through within three years if he came to Chen Village.
• Yin Zhan said he could not leave because recent troubles threatened his Lineage, and Chen Mu asked whether the Ma Lineage was responsible.

Yin Zhan told Chen Mu and Zheng Fengdao how his intervention against the West Liang Ma Lineage’s third young master had brought trouble upon the Yin Lineage and forced his second sister into a marriage bargain. Chen Mu gave Yin Feng fifty thousand fourth-grade spirit stones to support the lineage, but Yin Zhan remained burdened by guilt over the hardship his actions had caused.

• Yin Zhan explained that the Ma Lineage had targeted his family after he stopped its third young master from harassing a woman, and that his second sister was being married to the eldest young master to protect the lineage.
• Chen Mu promised to help Yin Zhan and asked him not to act rashly, while Zheng Fengdao cheered him by describing Chen Village’s success in the Wilderness.
• At the Yin residence, Yin Feng scolded Yin Zhan for holding a lavish banquet and ordered him to accept punishment in the ancestral hall.
• Chen Mu offered Yin Feng a storage ring containing fifty thousand fourth-grade spirit stones, and Yin Feng apologized before leaving to handle other matters.
• Zheng Fengdao complained about Yin Feng’s rudeness, but Yin Zhan defended his brother and said the lineage had already done all it could for him.

Chen Mu learned that Yin Zhan planned to help his second younger sister flee her arranged marriage to Ma Haobo, and agreed to help with the escape and its aftermath. The chapter ended as Chen Mu headed toward the rendezvous while Yin Zhan began carrying out the plan.

• Chen Mu learned that the powerful West Liang Ma Lineage threatened the Yin Lineage after Yin Zhan offended Ma Haocheng.
• Yin Zhan told Chen Mu that he planned to send his second younger sister away that night and take responsibility for the consequences himself.
• Chen Mu agreed to help and gave Yin Zhan Invisibility Talismans and other auxiliary talismans for the escape.
• Chen Mu practiced the True Explanation of Runes while waiting, then received Yin Zhan's message that he was taking his sister away.
• Chen Mu put away his belongings and stealthily headed toward the target location.

Chen Mu helped Yin Jing and Yin Zhan flee the Yin residence, but a tracking rune exposed their escape and the residence's defensive formation trapped them. The Yin Lineage patriarch confronted them, and Chen Mu revealed his Core Formation Realm strength to stop the guards.

• Chen Mu met Yin Zhan and Yin Jing at the inner courtyard's rear gate and detected a tracking rune on Yin Jing.
• Chen Mu found the rune on Yin Jing's jade pendant and sent it back to her room before helping them escape with acceleration and light body runes.
• Chen Mu, Yin Zhan, and Yin Jing reached Zheng Fengdao at the outer courtyard's rear gate, but the Yin Lineage's defensive formation trapped them.
• Yin Guang arrived with guards and ordered them seized for trying to flee an arranged marriage alliance.
• Chen Mu released a powerful presence that stopped the guards, and Yin Guang asked who he was and why he was interfering in family affairs.

Chen Mu intervened when the Yin Lineage tried to force Yin Jing into marriage and confronted Yin Zhan over his dispute with the Ma Lineage. After Yin Lirong agreed to Chen Mu’s challenge, Yin Fan attacked him with the Black Ape Tongbei Fist.

• Yin Zhan offered to face Ma Haocheng in Xiliang City if the Yin Lineage would release Yin Jing, but Yin Lirong said the marriage was settled.
• Yin Zhan defied the elders and fought Yin Lirong, who overpowered him until Chen Mu raised a stone wall to protect him.
• Chen Mu proposed a bet: if the Yin Lineage defeated him, he would leave and pay them a hundred thousand fourth-grade spirit stones; if he won, they would let him take Yin Zhan and Yin Jing and hear his suggestion.
• Yin Lirong accepted the bet, and Yin Fan stepped forward and attacked Chen Mu with the Black Ape Tongbei Fist.

Chen Mu defeated Yin Guang, Yin Fan, and Yin Lirong in a wagered fight using his Five Elements techniques, forcing the Yin Lineage to accept his victory. He then asked them to hear his suggestion in their sitting room, while Yin Zhan and Yin Jing marveled at his strength.

• Yin Fan, Yin Guang, and Yin Lirong attacked Chen Mu, but his Five Elements Ring restrained them with vines and crushing gravity.
• Yin Guang activated the Geng Metal Tiger Baleful Intent Formation and attacked Chen Mu with the Hegemon Blade, but Chen Mu blocked the slash with a rising mountain.
• Chen Mu set the vines ablaze and formed fire blades that overwhelmed the three Yin Lineage cultivators.
• Yin Fan admitted defeat first, and Yin Guang soon surrendered, so Chen Mu extinguished the flames and won the fight.
• Yin Lirong agreed that Chen Mu could take Yin Zhan and Yin Jing, but Chen Mu asked Yin Lirong and Yin Guang to hear his suggestion in the sitting room.
• Yin Jing and Yin Zhan questioned Zheng Fengdao about Chen Mu's strength, and Zheng Fengdao admitted that he had wanted to surprise them.

Chen Mu urged the Yin Lineage to leave North Wind City rather than let the West Liang Ma Lineage gradually destroy them, and proposed that its main branch relocate to the Wilderness and join Chen Village. Yin Guang agreed to discuss the offer with the lineage before deciding.

• At a gathering in the Yin Lineage's reception hall, Chen Mu warned Yin Guang that marrying Yin Jing to Ma Haobo would not protect the lineage from the Ma Lineage.
• Chen Mu suggested relocating, but Yin Lirong argued that the Yin Lineage could not abandon its thousand-year foundation and had survived by staying out of conflicts.
• Chen Mu warned that the West Liang Ma Lineage was using Yin Zhan's feud with Ma Haocheng as a pretext to weaken and eventually absorb the Yin Lineage.
• Chen Mu proposed that the Yin Lineage join Chen Village in the Wilderness, and Yin Zhan and Yin Jing immediately supported the idea.
• Yin Guang asked Chen Mu to explain the relocation plan, and Chen Mu offered to escort the main branch's twenty or thirty thousand members aboard flying ships to the Wilderness.
• Yin Guang asked Chen Mu to stay overnight while he consulted the lineage, and Chen Mu agreed but urged him not to delay.

The Yin Lineage agreed to relocate to the Wilderness after Yin Zhan explained Chen Mu’s plans and Yin Guang argued that staying in North Wind City meant a bleak future. As Ma Haobo prepared to marry Yin Jing, Yin Guang arranged to sell the lineage’s assets and escape the city during the wedding.

• Yin Zhan reassured the Yin Lineage’s senior members that Chen Mu planned to expand into Yi Province within three years and that life under his protection would be better than remaining in North Wind City.
• Yin Guang persuaded the senior members to relocate, and Yin Lirong withdrew his opposition.
• Yin Guang ordered the main branch to prepare to leave and dismiss its household servants.
• Ma Haobo learned that the Yin Lineage was selling its property and dismissed the concern, planning to explain his intentions after marrying Yin Jing.
• The Yin Lineage sold most of its North Wind City assets to the Fang Lineage, and Yin Guang ordered the clan to seize a transport flying ship and flee when Ma Haobo came to receive the bride.

Chen Mu and his allies converted Yin Lineage transport ships into combat-ready vessels while Yin Zhan and Yin Lirong prepared the lineage to evacuate. The chapter ended with Chen Mu beginning work on four more ships before their departure.

• Yin Guang ambushed Ma Haobo at the Yin residence, killed his trusted aides, and beat him in revenge for his repeated humiliations.
• Chen Duo and Chen Ju arrived with intelligent weapons, and Chen Mu began modifying the Yin Lineage's spaceships with help from Chen Ju and Zheng Fengdao.
• Chen Mu strengthened the defenses of the ships while Chen Duo and Zheng Fengdao installed weapons on two others.
• Yin Zhan told Chen Mu that the spaceship guards had been dealt with and that all the ships were available for use.
• Chen Mu finished modifying the Yin Lineage's five ships and started work on four more, while Yin Zhan and Yin Lirong arranged to load the lineage's people and supplies.

Yin Guang led the Yin Lineage out of North Wind City, with Ma Haobo as a hostage, and boarded nine spaceships prepared by Chen Mu. When Zhong Wenle tried to stop their departure, Chen Mu defeated him and two Core Formation Realm experts, and the fleet set off for the Wilderness.

• Yin Guang led tens of thousands of Yin Lineage members toward the spaceship square as Zhong Wenle and North Wind City guards moved to block them.
• Yin Lirong presented the wounded, bound Ma Haobo, and Zhong Wenle let the Yin Lineage pass to avoid risking Ma Hongxian's eldest son.
• Chen Mu and the Yin Lineage members boarded the nine modified spaceships, and Chen Mu assigned Chen Duo, Old Zheng, and Duoduo to pilot the armed ships.
• As the fleet departed, Zhong Wenle and two Core Formation Realm subordinates tried to stop it and demanded Ma Haobo back.
• Chen Mu summoned his Dharma Aspect True Body and knocked all three men from the sky, then told Yin Lirong to throw Ma Haobo down before the fleet continued toward the Wilderness.

Chen Mu's fleet headed south to collect the Yin Lineage's people, while Bomasha let the Heart Demon Emperor possess her and corrupted Xing Le into turning against Chen Village. The fleet reached the border camp, where Yin Guang reunited with Teng Yan.

• Yin Lirong threw Ma Haobo from the ship, and Zhong Wenle caught him before he hit the ground.
• Xing Le led millions of demonic beasts against Bomasha's Otherworldly Demon legion, but the Heart Demon Emperor took control of Bomasha and used her to cloud Xing Le's mind.
• Bomasha persuaded Xing Le that the Temple would not help him against Chen Village, and he vowed to kill Chen Mu and destroy the village.
• Bomasha ordered the Otherworldly Demons to withdraw and told Bomasha to intensify the offensive next month; Xing Le then sent the demonic beasts fleeing as well.
• Yin Guang brought the fleet to the border camp to collect the Yin Lineage's people, where Teng Yan boarded and greeted Chen Mu.

Chen Mu welcomed Yin Chunbing and the Hegemon Cavalry aboard his flying ship, then continued improving its Intelligent Weapon System during the journey south. Meanwhile, Ma Hongxian learned that the Yin Lineage had fled and offered their property and a county town to anyone who would destroy them.

• Yin Zhan introduced his eldest sister, Yin Chunbing, to Chen Mu, and she acknowledged that her people had joined his command.
• Chen Mu's nine flying ships formed up and began their long journey south with the Hegemon Cavalry aboard.
• Chen Mu optimized the flying ship's Intelligent Weapon System and taught Chen Ju about its code.
• Chen Mu gave Chen Ju data collection talismans to place throughout the ship so he could build a model of it.
• Ma Hongxian received an urgent report about the Yin Lineage's escape and offered their property and a county town to anyone who wiped them out.

Chen Mu led the Yin Lineage's fleet to Falling Rosy Clouds City to resupply, hoping to avoid the bounty hunters pursuing them. The city lord, Yan Beihai, recognized Yin Guang and refused to let the fleet enter.

• Yin Guang told Chen Mu that the fleet was running low on spirit stones and supplies, and Chen Mu chose Falling Rosy Clouds City as their resupply stop.
• Chen Mu told Chen Duo and Zheng Fengdao to prepare to enter the city and warned them to deal with the lord if he refused them.
• The Yin Lineage's nine ships approached the city and presented a merchant caravan certificate to its air defense force.
• Yan Beihai inspected the ships, recognized them as the Yin Lineage's fleet, and decided not to pursue Ma Hongxian's bounty.
• Yan Beihai flew out to meet the fleet, identified Yin Guang, and ordered them to leave; Chen Mu recognized Yan Beihai as a Late Core Formation Realm cultivator and flew to confront him.

Chen Mu demanded entry to Falling Rosy Clouds City for the migrating Yin Lineage, but Yan Beihai refused despite losing their brief duel. Chen Mu sent three spaceships equipped with modified intelligent weapons systems to test the city's defenses, and Chen Ju began a counterattack after two Cloud-Blasting shells struck Chen Mu's ship.

• Chen Mu confronted Yan Beihai, defeated his Heaven-Overturning Seal, and was refused entry to Falling Rosy Clouds City.
• Chen Mu told Yin Guang not to worry and signaled Chen Ju to deploy the modified weapons system.
• Chen Ju, Chen Duo, and Zheng Fengdao took three armed spaceships toward the city.
• Yan Beihai ordered the air defense force to stop the ships, and its ballistae failed to get past their weapons systems.
• The city's Cloud-Blasting Cannons fired, and two shells struck Chen Mu's spaceship despite the systems intercepting most of the shots.
• Chen Ju ordered the intelligent weapons systems to lock onto the targets and fire back.

Chen Mu’s airships overwhelmed Falling Rosy Clouds City’s defenses until Yan Beihai agreed to let the Yin Lineage enter and resupply. After landing nine airships, Chen Mu sent the Yin Lineage to buy supplies and stayed behind to guard the fleet and prepare for trouble from the Ma Lineage’s bounty.

• Yan Beihai’s formation corps struggled to hold the city’s defenses against the airships’ precise attacks, which were guided by Chen Mu’s Intelligent Weapon System.
• Chen Mu used Dharma Power to intercept some Cloud-Blasting Shells, and the airships destroyed several cannons before Yan Beihai withdrew the rest.
• Chen Ju’s forces attacked the city’s other air defenses until Yan Beihai called for a ceasefire and agreed to let Chen Mu enter the city.
• Chen Mu told Yin Guang to bring the other six airships in, and the nine airships landed at Falling Rosy Clouds City’s docking plaza.
• Chen Mu sent the Yin Lineage to purchase supplies, assigned Duoduo to handle second-grade spirit stone fuel, and stayed with the airships until they could leave before dark.

Chen Mu stayed with the Yin Lineage’s airships to guard their wealth while Yan Beihai rejected a plan to attack them. In Chen Village’s territory, A Huo led the Demon-Slaying Sword in killing an Earth Dragon Crocodile and returned with its valuable remains.

• Chen Mu agreed to guard the Yin Lineage’s nine airships and their cargo in Falling Rosy Clouds City.
• Meng Jian urged Yan Beihai to attack the Yin Lineage, but Yan Beihai refused and ordered his experts to watch them instead.
• A Huo led the Demon-Slaying Sword against an Earth Dragon Crocodile that had been ravaging nearby tribes, using a treasured artifact to stop it from burrowing away.
• The Demon-Slaying Sword’s battle formation wounded and killed the Earth Dragon Crocodile.
• A Huo’s troops processed the beast’s corpse and formed up to return to Chen Village.

Xing Le, controlled by the Heart Demon Emperor, slaughtered the demonic beasts in the Green Plains Mountain Range and framed Chen Village for the massacre. After persuading Su Wanyi that Chen Village threatened the Temple, he convinced her to awaken a divine general.

• Xing Le killed every demonic beast in the Green Plains Mountain Range and changed into his Temple envoy robe.
• Xing Le summoned Su Wanyi, recorded evidence of the dead beasts, and presented a dead Gold-Digging Rat pup as proof of Chen Village’s alleged crime.
• Xing Le showed Su Wanyi a projection of the Demon-Slaying Sword members carrying meat and an Earth Dragon Crocodile head toward Chen Village.
• Su Wanyi prepared to confront A Huo, but Xing Le warned her that Chen Village had a Creation Realm expert.
• Xing Le accused Chen Village of plotting to become a human kingdom opposed to the Temple and urged Su Wanyi to awaken a divine general.
• Su Wanyi agreed to follow Xing Le’s plan and awaken a divine general.

While returning to Chen Village with the Yin Lineage, Chen Mu focused on developing flying ships and discussed the intelligent weapon system with Yin Chunbing. Mingye then warned him that the Temple had ordered Chen Village to surrender A Huo and the Demon-Slaying Sword, prompting Chen Mu to suspect Xing Le and hurry home.

• Chen Mu designed three types of flying ships and planned to establish a production line at the Rune Research Institute.
• Yin Chunbing came to the control room to learn the intelligent weapon system, and Chen Mu assigned Chen Ju to teach her.
• Mingye told Chen Mu that the Temple had accused A Huo and the Demon-Slaying Sword of harming the Wilderness's ecology and demanded their surrender within a month.
• Chen Mu suspected Xing Le had arranged the accusation and told Mingye to stall the Temple and raise Chen Village's alert level.
• Chen Mu ordered Chen Ju to tell Yin Guang to fly the ships at maximum speed so they could return to Chen Village sooner.

Chen Mu returned to Wilderness Border City with the Yin Lineage and left its nine ships there before flying back to Chen Village. There, he learned that the Temple was threatening to unleash a beast tide unless Chen Village surrendered the Demon-Slaying Sword, leaving the village facing a potentially overwhelming attack.

• Chen Mu stopped at a commercial city to replenish provisions, then continued toward the Wilderness and arranged with Kong Yu to leave the fleet in Wilderness Border City.
• Chen Mu thanked City Lord Wei Hengfan for accommodating the ships and told Yin Guang that the Yin Lineage could join Chen Village as partners rather than servants; Yin Guang agreed to move the lineage there within half a month.
• Chen Mu flew back to Chen Village and summoned A Huo, Mingye, Chen Hongjie, and others to discuss recent developments.
• Mingye reported that Xiaozhi's analysis had detected unusual southern demonic-beast movements and that the Temple had threatened to unleash a beast tide if Chen Village did not hand over the Demon-Slaying Sword.