Recaps

Chen Mu explained his plan to open basic cultivation texts through the Spirit Network and launch a contribution-based points system, then announced it would take effect a week later. When the policy began, cultivators in a teahouse debated buying Spirit Network Jade Talismans, and Daoist Beiyao offered to take them into the Spirit Network Realm for a fee.

• Chen Mu described how cultivators could earn points by contributing to the Chen Kingdom and exchange them for advanced knowledge and goods.
• Most of Chen Mu's companions accepted his plan, and he said the policy would be announced that afternoon and implemented in a week.
• A week later, people at a teahouse discussed the Spirit Network Realm's offer of free access to cultivation texts below Yellow grade.
• A burly man offered to treat anyone who entered the Spirit Network Realm and confirmed the news, but the cautious patrons stayed silent.
• Daoist Beiyao offered to take several people into the Spirit Network Realm on his Realm Disk for five first-grade Spirit Stones each.

Daoist Beiyao brought five cultivators into the Spirit Network Realm and showed them how to browse its cultivation texts. After examining a flawless Black Tiger Fist manual and finding a wealth of other texts, the group became convinced the collection was genuine and could help them improve.

• Daoist Beiyao accepted Spirit Stones from the burly man and led him and four other cultivators into the Spirit Network Realm.
• Daoist Beiyao explained how to summon pillars of light and browse texts as the five saw the crowded realm expanding.
• The burly man summoned a shared pillar of light, and the group browsed cultivation arts and martial techniques.
• The short, stout man examined the Black Tiger Fist manual and found it more complete than the version he practiced.
• The group continued browsing cultivation texts, including basic soul cultivation arts and numerous cultivation notes.

Chen Mu and Taichu expanded the Spirit Network Realm to handle a billion cultivators as Chen Kingdom launched starry sky trade, allied with the Nether Clan, and deepened ties with the Sword-Questioning Sect. Long Bo grew alarmed at Chen Kingdom’s ambitions while awaiting the Heavenly Court’s campaign.

• A female martial artist and four others left the Spirit Network Realm after becoming mentally exhausted, and Daoist Beiyao brought in five more customers.
• Taichu and Chen Mu worked to expand the Spirit Network Realm, which grew dozens of times larger and reached capacity for more than a billion cultivators online at once.
• Chen Kingdom opened the Ancient Starry Sky Road for interstellar trade and established Night Nether City as a protected home for Nether Clan members, with Mingye as city lord and Li Wei handling its affairs.
• The Sword-Questioning Sect established branches in Chen Kingdom’s major cities and agreed to help maintain order and fight at the borders.
• Long Bo condemned Chen Kingdom’s starry sky trade, but Gao Hanfei urged restraint; Long Bo concluded that Chen Kingdom’s plans had begun years earlier.

Long Bo rejected Wen Dao’s request to attack the Chen Kingdom, choosing to wait for reinforcements and focus on breaking through to godhood. Meanwhile, Devil Master Kane ordered the Winged Devil Clan to plunder Chen Kingdom cargo in the Starry Sky Passage, as the kingdom’s trade with other planes continued to grow.

• Wen Dao asked Long Bo to let him lead another all-out attack on the Chen Kingdom, but Long Bo refused and said he would wait for Heavenly King Linlang’s forces while pursuing his breakthrough.
• Wen Dao pledged to guard the border for three years while Long Bo focused on cultivation.
• Devil Master Kane entered the Spirit Network Realm and discussed the Chen Kingdom’s inventions and growing strength with Gudanni.
• Kane ordered the Winged Devil Clan to plunder Chen Kingdom cargo in the Starry Sky Passage without killing the traders, so the Chen Kingdom could continue troubling the Heavenly Court.
• The Chen Kingdom established trade partnerships with several planes, including the Thousand Illusions Demon Realm, where Heavenly God Di Lin usually resided.

White Turtle led Chen Kingdom forces to respond after the Winged Devil Race raided a caravan in the starry sky. He confronted the raiders and launched an attack, leaving the battle underway.

• Di Lin praised White Turtle for Chen Kingdom's growth at Ten Thousand Stars Pass, and they reflected on Rune Ancestor's long absence.
• White Turtle received a distress message showing that Winged Devils had surrounded a Chen Kingdom caravan and stolen its goods.
• White Turtle refused Di Lin's offer of help and took over a hundred warships through the Starry Sky Passage to defend the caravan.
• White Turtle found the caravan's people unharmed and demanded that the Winged Devils return the goods.
• A ten-winged god-level Winged Devil refused, and White Turtle led the Chen Kingdom fleet into battle.

White Turtle and the Chen Kingdom fleet fought a powerful Winged Devil force, combining the warships with White Turtle’s giant tortoise form to overwhelm them. After suffering mounting losses, the Winged Devils retreated.

• The Chen Kingdom fleet opened fire on the Winged Devils, whose attacks were held back by the warships’ defensive barrage.
• White Turtle confronted the ten-winged Winged Devil and fought him using his newly attained Void God Realm strength.
• The ten-winged Winged Devil broke through the fleet’s defenses and damaged three warships, but White Turtle transformed into his thousand-zhang true form.
• The warships attached themselves to White Turtle’s shell, forming Mecha Black Tortoise, while the fleet and White Turtle attacked the Winged Devils.
• After an incense stick’s worth of fighting left the Winged Devils with mounting losses, the ten-winged Winged Devil ordered a retreat.

After Mingye’s sacrifice awakened his emotions, Chen Mu’s nascent plane birthed its first living being, allowing him to become a True God. He reunited with Chen Haoran on Jianmu Hill and asked his father what had happened during their years apart.

• White Turtle pursued the Winged Devil Clan in his Mecha Black Tortoise until the Ten-Winged Winged Devil returned the Chen Kingdom’s cargo.
• Chen Mu’s nascent plane evolved rapidly beneath the World Tree as seven-colored energy helped it produce its first living being.
• Chen Mu broke through to the Void God Realm and became a True God, thanking Mingye for helping him rediscover his feelings.
• Chen Haoran congratulated Chen Mu, and the two discussed Chen Mu’s life and the Chen Kingdom.
• Chen Mu asked Chen Haoran how he had spent the years apart and what had happened to Kunlun Heaven.

Chen Haoran explained how the Kunlun Heaven Realm protected the Pan Emperor Great World and took Chen Mu into Primordial Emperor Pass inside the Jianmu divine tree. They arrived at Old Cai's residence to await the city's generals, whom Chen Haoran intended to introduce to Chen Mu.

• Chen Haoran explained that the Kunlun Heaven Realm blocked invaders from beyond the domain, while Heavenly Emperor Haoyu and the Abyss Devil Emperor had bypassed it using fragments of the Heart of Pan Emperor.
• Chen Haoran led Chen Mu through a spatial opening in the Jianmu divine tree to the ruined Primordial Emperor Pass.
• Old Cai welcomed Chen Haoran and agreed to gather the generals guarding the city for a meal and introductions.
• Chen Haoran explained that the Jianmu divine tree had absorbed Primordial Emperor Pass as the Kunlun Heaven Realm approached its end.
• Chen Haoran confirmed that he had guarded the pass for more than two years, then took Chen Mu to Old Cai's residence and instructed the puppets to prepare a courtyard gathering.

Chen Mu attended a gathering at Cai Gen’s residence, where he met the defending generals of the Primordial Emperor Pass and learned about its fall. He recognized the swordsmanship instructor Ling Feng as Qi Huo’s former master, leaving the two men pleased to hear of Qi Huo’s progress.

• Chen Mu recognized Cai Gen’s puppet designs and learned that Cai Gen was the Rune Ancestor’s nominal disciple, making him Chen Mu’s senior in their lineage.
• Chen Haoran introduced Chen Mu to Cai Gen and the other guests, and Cai Gen explained why their lineage required him to call Chen Mu Senior Brother.
• Cai Gen introduced the Primordial Emperor Pass’s defending generals, who explained that many had left after the Pass fell a little over half a year earlier.
• Cai Gen introduced the quiet swordsmanship instructor Ling Feng, and Chen Mu recognized him as Qi Huo’s former master from the Sword-Questioning Sect.
• Chen Mu told Ling Feng that Qi Huo was alive, had taken the name Qi Huo, and was nearing the Divine Realm, and Ling Feng expressed happiness at his former disciple’s progress.

Chen Mu learned how the Heavenly Court’s betrayal led to the fall of Primordial Emperor Pass and heard Chen Haoran explain that the Kunlun Heaven Realm would collapse within eleven months. The next day, Chen Mu exchanged materials with Cai Gen and prepared to study the Dao of Talismans in hopes of developing a God Level Rune Core.

• Chen Mu learned that Heavenly Emperor Ai had allied with the Abyss Devil Race, caused God-Slaying God’s death, and helped bring about the fall of Primordial Emperor Pass ten thousand years earlier.
• Chen Haoran recounted how the Heavenly Court later exterminated most of God-Slaying God’s followers and how the three great emperors from beyond the realm had breached Primordial Emperor Pass, leaving the Kunlun Heaven Realm near collapse.
• Chen Mu encouraged Chen Haoran and the others to hope for victory and suggested the collapse of the Pan Emperor Heavenly Dao might lead to a better world.
• Chen Mu asked Cai Gen to use his talisman-making room and traded supplies with him for precious materials from Kunlun Heaven.

Chen Mu left Primordial Emperor Pass to visit a market in the Primordial Beginning Mountain Range, where he traded for materials and learned that Illusory Silver Water was plentiful. After contacting Gu Ningbi, Di Yun, and Lingming, he headed to meet the first two while Lingming traveled toward him.

• Chen Mu mastered the mechanisms in Cai Gen's talisman-making room, then left Primordial Emperor Pass through the southern gate.
• Chen Mu sent messages to Lingming, Gu Ningbi, and Di Yun after emerging from the transmission passage, and Gu Ningbi and Di Yun quickly replied that they would come.
• Chen Mu reached the market and traded Essence Mother Silver for two God Level beast skulls suitable for a bone mecha for Ling Feng.
• Chen Mu found that Illusory Silver Water was abundant and bought a large quantity for a small number of World Crystals.
• Lingming replied that he had remained in the Primordial Beginning Mountain Range and was on his way, while Chen Mu set out to meet Gu Ningbi and Di Yun.

After breaking through to godhood, Chen Mu learned about the Kunlun Heaven Realm’s impending collapse and arranged for the Di Clan Tribe to join the Chen Kingdom. His Primordial Spirit clone then summoned A Huo from a century of secluded cultivation, but A Huo had still not broken through.

• Gu Ningbi and Di Yun congratulated Chen Mu on his breakthrough, then told him that Peng Xi, the Myriad Peng Demon Lord, and the King of Motan had been killed, though their Primordial Spirits escaped.
• Gu Ningbi explained that the Kunlun Heaven Realm would collapse within a year and that she was recruiting tribes to join the Soul Realm.
• Di Yun asked Chen Mu to accept the surviving members of the Di Clan Tribe into the Chen Kingdom, and Chen Mu agreed.
• Chen Mu praised Lingming for reaching the Late Dharma Core Realm and invited Di Yun to bring his clan to the Primordial Emperor Pass to learn from Lingming.
• In Source Wood City, Chen Mu’s Primordial Spirit clone learned that his true body had become a god and decided to summon A Huo from the Samsara Dream Realm.
• After spending a hundred years cultivating in the accelerated Samsara Dream Realm without breaking through, A Huo heard Chen Mu’s call and left seclusion.

Chen Mu told A Huo to seek a chance to become a god in the East Sea and developed the first version of Rune Core No. 5. Meanwhile, Heavenly King Linlang arrived in the lower realm and ordered Long Bo to help destroy the Chen Kingdom in one month.

• Chen Mu told A Huo that Ling Feng was in the Kunlun Heaven Realm and passed him a map to a place in the East Sea that might help him become a god.
• A Huo accepted the opportunity and prepared to set out for the East Sea.
• Chen Mu used his new microscopic perception to create the first version of Rune Core No. 5, then continued work on the core and a God Level mech for Ling Feng.
• Heavenly King Linlang arrived in Heavenly Emperor City, where Long Bo welcomed him and reported that he had entered the Void God Realm.
• Heavenly King Linlang ordered Long Bo to assist in destroying the Chen Kingdom in one month, and Long Bo obeyed.

Chen Mu and Chen Kingdom’s senior officials prepared for an expected attack by Heavenly King Linlang and the Thunder Battle Division, while acknowledging that Chen Mu could not defeat them directly. After the meeting, Chen Duo stayed behind to ask whether A Huo had said when he would return.

• Chen Kingdom’s officials observed Heavenly King Linlang’s forces gathering in Heavenly Emperor City and predicted an attack in about a month.
• Wei Shan warned that he could resist ordinary heavenly soldier legions but had no answer to the Thunder Battle Division.
• Chen Mu admitted he could not defeat Heavenly King Linlang and said Chen Kingdom would need to stall while other powerful forces were occupied with the Heart of Pan Emperor.
• Chen Duo argued that Chen Kingdom could survive by retreating and rebuilding, and Guo Xiaohan encouraged the officials by saying time favored their growing kingdom.
• Chen Mu ended the meeting and ordered full preparations for war, then Chen Duo asked whether A Huo had said when he would return.

Heavenly King Linlang launched a massive assault on the Chen Kingdom, and Divine General Baiyu led the attack on Flying Dragon Pass. The Wei Clan's Mountain Army held the pass until Wei Shan entered a mecha and challenged Baiyu with a dangerously unstable weapon.

• More than a year after A Huo left for the East Sea, Chen Duo learned from Chen Mu that A Huo planned to return to the Chen Kingdom within five months.
• Heavenly King Linlang brought a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, five high-grade legions, and four Void God Realm experts to attack the Chen Kingdom.
• Divine General Baiyu demanded Flying Dragon Pass surrender, then ordered an assault when the defenders did not answer.
• The Xu Army's formation struck the pass but was stopped by the Mountain Army's defensive formation.
• Baiyu attacked the illusory mountain himself, threatening to break the defense, until Wei Shan flew out in a small mecha and fought him with an unstable Mountain-Shaking Blade.

Chen Mu’s explanation of Radiance Transformation framed Wei Shan’s defense of Flying Dragon Pass, where he forced the Heavenly Court to retreat despite being defeated in their duel. Later, Taichu reported the border battles’ casualties, leaving Chen Mu concerned that Chen Kingdom could not sustain the war.

• Chen Mu’s research defined Radiance Transformation as a controlled third stage of energy use enabled by Rune Core No. 5.
• Wei Shan used a Radiance Transformation Mountain-Shaking Blade to keep Divine General Baiyu at bay while the Mountain Army and Chen Kingdom’s weapons battered the celestial forces.
• Sniper rifles killed several weary celestial soldiers, prompting Divine General Baiyu to engage Wei Shan and overpower him.
• Wei Shan fled under cover of Flying Dragon Pass’s laser cannons, and Divine General Baiyu withdrew his exhausted army; the defenders celebrated their victory.
• Taichu reported that five of twenty-two attacked border cities had fallen and gave Chen Mu the casualty figures for both sides.
• Chen Mu recognized that Chen Kingdom’s favorable losses depended on its defensive advantages and feared the larger Heavenly Court army would wear it down.

Chen Mu and Heavenly King Linlang’s forces remained locked in a cautious war, with the Chen Kingdom’s hidden strength preventing the Heavenly Court from gaining a decisive advantage. Linlang learned that mechs and missiles were holding up his generals, and ordered the Talisman Department to clear the astral wind belt so the Heavenly Court could locate and destroy the Chen Kingdom’s runic satellites.

• Chen Mu feared the Thunder Battle Division would strike Source Wood City if the Chen Kingdom revealed an opening, while Linlang continued probing instead of risking his elite legion.
• After more than a month of fighting, the Chen Kingdom’s defenses and reserves kept the Heavenly Court from gaining an overwhelming advantage.
• Baiyu told Linlang that a pilot-operated mech had held up his attack on Flying Dragon Pass, and Yeyue described another mech he had fought.
• Yeyue reported that Chen Kingdom missiles were forcing his forces to spread out, leaving him without enough troops to take a major city.
• Linlang ordered the Talisman Department to accelerate its clearing of the astral wind belt so the Heavenly Court could locate and destroy the Chen Kingdom’s runic satellites.

Heavenly King Linlang struggled to counter Chen Kingdom’s missiles, satellites, and specialized forces as his army advanced slowly. In the Talisman Immortal Hall, Daoist Hanhui approved a plan to block satellites with dark clouds, though its success remained unknown.

• Heavenly King Linlang learned that Divine General Ziyu faced the same missile threat as Divine General Yeyue and ordered the generals to advance slowly while holding captured cities.
• Heavenly King Linlang grew frustrated that the Talisman Department had failed to counter Chen Kingdom’s satellites, Super Spacetime Corps, warships, Talisman Puppet robots, and Mutant Demon Beast Corps.
• Daoist Hanhui met with the other talisman masters in the Talisman Immortal Hall and heard that their karmic-link method could locate satellites only after they had already gathered information.
• A talisman master proposed creating a magical artifact that would spread dark clouds over the battlefield to block satellite images.
• Daoist Hanhui approved the dark-cloud plan as the Talisman Department’s next attempt to counter Chen Kingdom’s satellites.

Daoist Hanhui’s Talisman Department discussed countering the Chen Kingdom’s Spirit Magnetic Waves as A Huo returned from the East Sea with the Wukong Divine Sword. At Wind and Snow Pass, Divine General Yeyue overwhelmed the Five Elements Army, and Chen Rufeng received an urgent order to stand by instead of retreating.

• Daoist Hanhui warned the Talisman Department about the failures of earlier Magnetism Eradication Devices and heard a report on a third-generation device.
• A Huo left the erupting island after obtaining the Wukong Sword Sect’s inheritance and set out for the Chen Kingdom with the Wukong Divine Sword.
• A Huo crossed the East Sea and the Haotian Empire, then arrived at Wind and Snow Pass after walking for half a month.
• Divine General Yeyue and the Wei-Character Heavenly Soldier Corps breached Wind and Snow Pass, forcing Chen Rufeng and his allies to defend the retreating Five Elements Army.
• Chen Rufeng found that a fallen soldier’s Restoration Talisman could not reverse damage caused by Divine Power.
• Chen Rufeng received an urgent command to remain at Wind and Snow Pass and stand by just as he prepared to order a retreat.

A Huo reached great accomplishment in the Sword Dao, mastered the Great Dao of Destruction, and wounded Divine General Yeyue, forcing the Heavenly Court to retreat. After more than three years of war, the Heavenly Court had occupied a fifth of the Chen Kingdom, while a family in Mountain and River Pass prepared to evacuate as the front line drew closer.

• A Huo emerged at Wind and Snow Pass, unleashed a sword strike that pierced Divine General Yeyue, and broke through to become a god who had mastered the Great Dao of Destruction.
• Divine General Yeyue ordered his troops to retreat, and Chen Rufeng led a counterattack as A Huo pursued the fleeing Heavenly Court soldiers with Sword Qi.
• A Huo's arrival helped the Chen Kingdom hold back Heavenly King Linlang's forces, but the war continued for more than three years and the Heavenly Court seized a fifth of the kingdom's territory.
• At Mountain and River Pass, Nannan asked her parents why they had to leave, and her father explained that the Chen Emperor's rule had made their lives better.
• Nannan's parents finished packing and urged her to leave with them, trusting that the Heavenly Court's forces would eventually be driven away.

Chen Kingdom officials discussed the effects of people fleeing across the border and the steady influx of Haotian Empire residents into the kingdom. Chen Hongjie then announced that the kingdom would activate years of groundwork to cause trouble inside the Haotian Empire, and summoned Gu Zi'an and Duan Tianlong to the meeting.

• A Chen Kingdom border officer detained illegal crossers for eight days and explained that the Chen Emperor had ordered lenient treatment for those who wished to leave.
• Nan Yuanshan reported that Haotian Empire residents crossing into the Chen Kingdom were boosting local economic development despite stricter penalties in the empire.
• Chen Hongjie told the officials that he planned to cause trouble inside the Haotian Empire using groundwork laid over many years.
• Chen Hongjie summoned Gu Zi'an and Duan Tianlong to the Spirit Network Space, where Chen Mu warmly greeted Duan Tianlong.

Chen Mu and Duan Tianlong arranged for the Dragon-Toppling Society to ignite a rebellion in the Haotian Empire, forcing the Heavenly Court to slow its offensive. Chen Mu and Taichu prepared for the possibility that Heavenly King Linlang would launch an all-out attack before the empire's unrest was quelled.

• Chen Mu met with Duan Tianlong and assigned Chen Hongjie and the Shadow Guards to coordinate the Dragon-Toppling Society's uprising in You Province.
• Assassinations of Haotian officials fueled suspicion of Chen Kingdom infiltrators, and the Dragon-Toppling Society seized You Province and began taking Yi Province.
• Dowager Consort Zhuang used soldiers' families to incite the Holy Dragon Legion to rebel, but Long Bo suppressed the uprising and ordered the rebels executed.
• Long Bo realized the Dragon-Toppling Society had manipulated Dowager Consort Zhuang by making her believe he had killed her son.
• The Heavenly Court's offensive slowed, while Chen Mu weighed Heavenly King Linlang's options and Taichu urged confidence in the Chen Kingdom's defenses.

The Thunder Battle Division advanced into the Chen Kingdom and attacked Dragon-Subduing Pass, where Chen Mu revealed a mysterious five-thousand-strong corps. Heavenly King Linlang watched as the two sides began their clash, which ended with the Thunder Battle Division’s thunder dragon bearing down on the corps’s newly formed shield.

• The Thunder Battle Division destroyed Mountain and River Pass’s defenses and reached Dragon-Subduing Pass while attacks on the border tied down the Haotian Empire’s forces.
• Chen Mu summoned five thousand red-and-black armored warriors to face the three-thousand-strong Thunder Battle Division outside Dragon-Subduing Pass.
• Chen Mu detected Heavenly King Linlang, who revealed himself as an avatar and said he would watch to see whether the Chen Kingdom could stop the Thunder Division.
• The Thunder Battle Division launched its first assault with Thunder Dragon Descends, and Chen Mu’s warriors formed the Five Elements Shield of Creation to meet it.

Chen Mu’s World-Creation Five Elements Army held off the Thunder Battle Division’s assault on Dragon-Subduing Pass, revealing that the Yin Five Elements Legion had returned in newly forged war-soldier bodies. The Thunder Battle Division acknowledged the army’s name and unleashed its ultimate move, Lightning World Destruction.

• Heavenly King Linlang recognized the power of creation in Chen Mu’s plane as the World-Creation Five Elements Army blocked the Thunder Division’s lightning dragon.
• The soldiers beneath the gate tower recognized Shi Xing’s voice and learned that the Yin Five Elements Legion had fused with Chen Mu’s inner world and later received Five Elements War Soldier bodies.
• The World-Creation Five Elements Army repeatedly repelled the Thunder Battle Division’s attacks, preventing it from breaking through to the Chen Kingdom’s imperial capital.
• The Thunder Battle Division withdrew and demanded the enemy legion’s name, and Shi Xing identified them as the World-Creation Five Elements Army.
• The Thunder Battle Division’s commander began its final move, Lightning World Destruction, as golden lightning engulfed the battlefield.

Shi Xing’s World-Creation Five Elements Army held off the Thunder Division, while Chen Mu sprang a God Level sealing formation on Heavenly King Linlang. The chapter ended as Chen Mu summoned the Nine Dragons God-Sealing Formation to suppress him.

• Shi Xing used the Five Elements Rotation and Five Elements Cannon to stop Zhan Zhenxuan’s Thunder Division, and Heavenly King Linlang ordered it to withdraw.
• Shi Xing kept the Thunder Division occupied as Linlang ordered the Heavenly Court forces to retreat toward Mountain and River Pass.
• Linlang learned that Nether Clan warriors had appeared inside Mountain and River Pass and were about to seize it.
• Chen Mu stopped Linlang from leaving with divine chains, then activated a God Level sealing formation from nine surrounding peaks.
• Chen Mu summoned the Nine Dragons God-Sealing Formation, and nine divine dragons descended on Linlang.