Recaps

Xu Xiong used Lu Li’s Dharma boat to introduce the Silver Hall and its services to the outer academy, whose disciples mistook the vessel for the headmaster’s arrival. The chapter left the disciples considering deposits, loans, and investment as ways to support their cultivation and families.

• Xu Xiong led inner academy disciples aboard Lu Li’s Dharma boat and flew to the outer academy to promote the Silver Hall.
• Dong Qing reflected on how Lu Li had guided her after her parents were killed and reaffirmed her resolve to slay demons and protect the Dao Academy.
• Outer academy disciples saw the Dharma boat and greeted it as though Lu Li had come in person.
• Xu Xiong released puppets that displayed Silver Hall banners and scattered flyers explaining its deposit, loan, and investment services.
• Outer academy disciples discussed the promised interest, and one imagined that his family might eventually produce a True Person.

Lu Li authorized Xu Xiong to put the Silver Hall’s growing deposits to work, and Xu Xiong began a plan to corner the golden thread grass market in the Golden Ape Blessed Land. As buyers secretly purchased the herb across the region, Jin Mi agreed to sell, unaware of the scheme.

• Lu Li reviewed the Silver Hall’s nearly 480,000 Spirit Stones in deposits and urged Xu Xiong to use the funds carefully and pursue his proposed plans.
• Xu Xiong chose to stockpile golden thread grass, hoping to control its circulation and raise the price of Yellow Sprout Pills.
• Xu Xiong began buying golden thread grass through the Dao Academy’s channels and contacts in the Golden Ape Blessed Land.
• Jin Mi agreed to contact friendly factions and sell their golden thread grass to the human cultivators, who had left a deposit.
• The buyers’ leader told his younger relative that they could profit by selling at the high prices offered by the Litian Blessed Land, while buyers spread across the region to acquire golden thread grass.

Ye Chenfeng guarded Hanging Blade Pass as a vast beast tide arrived, and Elder Jian worried that Ye Chenfeng’s terrible luck had drawn it there. The attack was led by the Spirit Transformation demon Cang Yue, while Divine Lord Ling Shuangyu confronted him above the walls.

• Ye Chenfeng reflected on his ten years at Hanging Blade Pass and his worry for Lu Li, who was trapped in the Demon Manor.
• A huge beast tide appeared beyond the pass, and the cultivators mobilized to defend the walls.
• Elder Jian sighed as he suspected Ye Chenfeng’s misfortune had caused the unusually fierce attack.
• A sword light revealed several immense demons in the clouds, including the Spirit Transformation demon Cang Yue.
• Ling Shuangyu appeared in her Dharma Aspect and challenged Cang Yue, who revealed his enormous bat form and ordered the attack.

Demon Lord Cang Yue led a massive beast tide against Hanging Blade Pass while Ling Shuangyu and the defenders fought to hold the walls. A Spirit Transformation Demon Lord self-detonated above the fortress, shattering its defenses, and Ye Chenfeng awoke outside the walls to find that Hanging Blade Pass had fallen.

• Cang Yue ordered the Demon Beasts to attack as Ling Shuangyu rallied Hanging Blade Pass's defenders and they unleashed their weapons and abilities against the beast tide.
• Ye Chenfeng fought Golden Core greater demons with his Great Gold Sword Array, dedicating each strike to Junior Brother Lu.
• Cang Yue attacked Ling Shuangyu with his demonic artifact, and she answered with her lifebound Law Treasure as they clashed.
• A second Spirit Transformation Demon Lord appeared above Hanging Blade Pass and self-detonated, devastating the battlefield and shattering Ling Shuangyu's Dharma Manifestation.
• Cang Yue ordered the Demon Race to surge through the breach and flatten Pacify the West.
• Ye Chenfeng regained consciousness beyond the walls and saw that Hanging Blade Pass had been broken in two.

Ao Qing ordered the Demon Manor to prepare for the approaching Prefecture-Breaking War while worrying that the Zong Household had found a way to destroy his reverse scale. After Nether Toad warned Lu Li, Lu Li seized the chance to expand the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy and stockpile resources before the war began.

• Ao Qing learned that Cang Yue's forces had entered Jingxi Prefecture and ordered Suanni to let Cang Yue die according to plan.
• Ao Qing recalled that his reverse scale had vanished and feared the Zong Household had discovered a way to threaten him.
• Ao Qing's dragon cry commanded the great demons throughout the Demon Manor to prepare for the Prefecture-Breaking War.
• Nether Toad hurried to Lu Li and reported the order, the border clashes, and the threat of human sneak attacks.
• Lu Li told Nether Toad to help the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy exploit the prewar confusion to expand its influence and gather resources.

With the Prefecture-Breaking War approaching, Lu Li decided to steal high-tier materials from a blessed land using two tier-four Spirit Gang Giant Puppets, while Nether Toad distracted the demons. After Changming and Changye divined that Lu Li faced fortune and no calamity, he set out with Nether Toad and left the academy in their care.

• Lu Li ordered Nether Toad to create a commotion in Heavenly Wolf Blessed Land while pretending to search for healing medicine, so the Spirit Gang Giant Puppets could raid a target blessed land.
• Lu Li informed Blue Star of his accelerated plans, and Li Yuanchao mobilized the nation to send more Spirit Machinery weapons.
• Lu Li asked Changming and Changye to divine Nether Toad's fate, but they could not see through his high cultivation.
• Changming and Changye divined that Lu Li had a source of fortune to the east and no calamity, though their effort triggered dangerous side effects that Lu Li treated.
• Lu Li ordered Nether Toad to leave and distract Heavenly Wolf Blessed Land two days later, then entrusted academy affairs to Changming and Changye as he departed with Nether Toad.

Lu Changming disobeyed Lu Li’s orders and left to seek a way to strengthen his talent, while Lu Changye stayed behind to oversee the Dao Academy. Meanwhile, Nether Toad entered Heavenly Wolf Blessed Land and provoked a standoff by demanding twenty fourth-tier spirit medicines, drawing a crowd of greater demons.

• Lu Changming decided to leave the sect to seek fortuitous opportunities, despite Lu Li’s warning, and asked Lu Changye to care for their godmother and master if he failed to return.
• Lu Changye chose to remain behind and fulfill Lu Li’s orders to oversee the inner court, though he worried about his brother’s safety.
• Nether Toad traveled to Heavenly Wolf Blessed Land while lamenting the possibility of dying in the coming Prefecture-Breaking War and missing Blue Star.
• Nether Toad accused Demon Ancestor Heavenly Wolf of causing its old injuries and demanded twenty fourth-tier spirit medicines instead of the third-tier medicine Heavenly Wolf offered.
• Nether Toad forced its way into Heavenly Wolf Blessed Land, and the two demons locked horns without attacking as greater demons gathered to watch.

Lu Li concealed himself outside the Golden Ape Blessed Land and sent Yuanhao in a mech to provoke Golden Ape. Golden Ape came to seize the strange armor, and Yuanhao found himself facing the Patriarch’s overwhelming Nascent Soul pressure.

• Lu Li set up a formation to hide his Nether Toad presence and instructed Yuanhao to lure Golden Ape over.
• Golden Ape, disturbed by news of a Golden Core plundering his blessed land, left his seclusion to capture the intruder.
• Golden Ape detected Yuanhao operating a powerful Lord-Class Spirit Machinery Mech 3.0 and approached in secret, hoping to claim it.
• Yuanhao, who had already defeated two Golden Cores with the mech, looked up to see Golden Ape looming overhead.

Yuanhao’s predicament in Golden Ape Blessed Land prompted Lu Li to reveal Great Xia’s Spirit Gang Giant Puppets and unleash their Spiritual Energy Dharma Manifestations against Golden Ape. The manifestations badly wounded the demon before their power ran out, leaving the puppets to fire a final annihilation wave.

• Golden Ape threatened to capture Yuanhao, extract his Divine Soul, and investigate his strange battle armor.
• Lu Li activated two fourth-tier Spirit Gang Giant Puppets from within a concealed formation.
• Golden Ape revealed his ten-thousand-meter true form and attacked, but Lu Li ordered Primordial Beginning to activate the puppets’ Spiritual Energy Dharma Manifestations.
• The manifestations grew taller than Golden Ape and struck him with a giant blade and a compressed spiritual-power fist, breaking his defenses and wounding him.
• As the manifestations’ brief power supply expired, the puppets combined their remaining Spiritual Power and fired a focused annihilation wave at Golden Ape.

Lu Li and the Spirit Gang Giant Puppets defeated Golden Ape, while Yuanhao became convinced that Lu Li was an immortal descended from another world. After consulting Bureau 749 about recruiting the unconscious yao ancestor, Lu Li received the recommendation to take over Golden Ape’s account.

• The Spirit Gang Giant Puppets battered Golden Ape until he collapsed unconscious, and Yuanhao watched in shock.
• Yuanhao concluded that Lu Li had descended from the Immortal Realm, swore to follow him, and flew ahead to keep watch at Lu Li’s request.
• Lu Li realized Golden Ape had survived the puppets’ devastating attack and considered putting him through the same process as Nether Toad.
• Lu Li contacted Bureau 749 and described how the zero-dollar shopping trip had ended.
• Bureau 749’s researchers reviewed the puppets’ combat data, and the strategy team recommended taking over Golden Ape’s account.

Lu Li and Great Xia chose to take over Golden Ape’s Divine Soul rather than kill him, aiming to gain his resources and infiltrate the Demon Manor. As the Soul Dao team prepared to overwrite the Divine Soul in a Spirit World sandbox, Lu Yao hoped the experiment would let her meet her brother soon.

• Li Yuanchao explained that taking over Golden Ape’s account offered greater rewards and lower risks than killing him, and Lu Li agreed to send the Divine Soul to Great Xia.
• Lu Li used the jade pendant to open Golden Ape’s skull, seized his escaping Divine Soul, and transmitted it to Great Xia.
• Bureau 749’s researchers prepared the spiritual nuclear fusion facility and overwrite program for Golden Ape’s arrival.
• Lu Dahai led the cultivator team into position, while Lu Yao teased him for acting like a lofty True Person.
• A researcher told Lu Yao the team would attempt to record Divine Soul memories in the Spirit World sandbox, and she hoped success would let her meet her brother soon.

Lu Yao and the research team prepared a virtual Great Xia inside the Spirit World sandbox to overwrite the Golden Ape's Nascent Soul Divine Soul with a complete memory. The world was completed, and Lu Yao requested the experimental subject's deployment.

• Wang Zhiwen and Lu Yao prepared the researchers and cultivator team for the Nascent Soul Divine Soul overwriting experiment.
• The Golden Ape's Divine Soul appeared, and the research team used Spirit Core Fusion and Spiritual Power to subdue it without destroying it.
• Lu Yao and 100 cultivators entered the Spirit World sandbox and constructed virtual bodies.
• Lu Yao directed the cultivators to build a detailed virtual Great Xia using databases and coordinated Divine Senses.
• After the virtual world was completed, Lu Yao requested deployment of the experimental subject.

Lu Yao and the cultivators tested a virtual Spirit World by placing Golden Ape’s Divine Soul in a Spirit Machinery Quantum Computer and accelerating time inside the simulation. After years of learning and seeking a master, Golden Ape met Lu Dahai, who accepted it and told it to serve the nation alongside him.

• Li Yuanchao ordered the deployment, and Golden Ape’s Divine Soul entered the Spirit Machinery Quantum Computer.
• Golden Ape appeared on Mount Emei, where it joined the monkeys in stealing a tourist’s backpack and found a booklet about Qi theory.
• Lu Yao reviewed the virtual world’s stable monitoring data and ordered the Spirit World’s time accelerated.
• Golden Ape studied the booklet and a copy of Journey West, decided to seek a master, and left Mount Emei.
• Golden Ape met Lu Dahai, bowed to him, and was accepted as his disciple with orders to serve the nation.

Great Xia prepared Golden Ape to cross into Lu Li’s world as a covert ally, enhancing its Divine Soul and implanting a Nascent Soul yao ancestor’s memories. Golden Ape awakened in the experimental facility ready to cross realms, while Lu Yao promised Lu Li he would return home safely.

• Lu Yao accelerated the Spirit World simulation, and Golden Ape spent years cultivating and serving Great Xia alongside Lu Dahai.
• Golden Ape accepted a mission to support Lu Li after recognizing him as Lu Dahai’s child.
• Great Xia instructed Golden Ape to follow Lu Li’s orders, keep its identity secret, and prepare to inhabit a Nascent Soul yao ancestor’s body.
• Great Xia enhanced Golden Ape’s Divine Soul and integrated the yao ancestor’s memories, completing the simulation without anomalies.
• Lu Yao spoke with Lu Li, who reassured her that he hoped to return home and eat spicy hot pot with his family.
• Golden Ape’s Divine Soul awakened in the experimental chamber and told Director Li it was ready for the realm crossing.

Golden Ape's Divine Soul was sent to support Lu Li after it received an advanced technological enhancement, while Lu Dahai bid farewell to it as its master. The experiment confirmed that the Spirit World sandbox could sustain a highly intelligent Divine Soul, though Wang Zhiwen insisted further testing was needed before live experiments.

• Golden Ape absorbed the memories of the Nascent Soul demon it would possess and vowed to help Lu Li and fulfill the nation's expectations.
• Lu Dahai and Golden Ape exchanged tearful farewells, and Lu Li guided Golden Ape's Divine Soul through the jade pendant.
• After the transmission ended, Lu Dahai asked a researcher to copy the sandbox recording and watched it repeatedly.
• Wang Zhiwen analyzed the experimental data and confirmed that the Spirit World sandbox could sustain highly intelligent Divine Souls with a 99% match rate.
• Wang Zhiwen ordered further research into memory integrity, sandbox architecture, and ordinary souls, while telling Li Yuanchao that they would see Lu Li within their lifetimes.

Lu Li helped Golden Ape possess the body of a demon ancestor and watched him begin recovering in the Golden Ape Blessed Land. While exploring Golden Ape’s vast stores, Lu Li found ten-thousand-year monkey wine that loosened his cultivation bottleneck, leaving him eager to drink more.

• Golden Ape thanked Lu Li for securing him a body and promised to follow his commands and bring him home.
• Golden Ape possessed the demon body, then handed Lu Li his Storage Bag and began healing from his severe injuries.
• Lu Li discovered that Golden Ape’s Storage Bag held enormous wealth, including Spirit Stones, pills, rare materials, and Law Artifacts.
• Lu Li opened a vat of ten-thousand-year monkey wine and learned from Golden Ape that it could aid cultivation and heal the body.
• Lu Li drank a mouthful of the wine, felt his bottleneck loosen by thirty percent, and wondered whether drinking the whole vat could bring him to late Golden Core.

Lu Li drank ten-thousand-year-old monkey wine, then traveled with Golden Ape and Yuanhao to the Golden Ape Blessed Land to assess its population and resources. After reporting the findings to Great Xia, he examined rare materials and magical boats and began imagining a far grander vessel.

• Lu Li drank more than a tenth of the monkey wine vat, then sealed it and began refining its potent Spiritual Power while Golden Ape recovered.
• Lu Li and Golden Ape departed for the blessed land aboard Lu Li's flying boat, with Yuanhao joining them.
• Golden Ape told Lu Li that the blessed land held over a million demons, more than a hundred thousand humans, two surviving Golden Core True Lords, and extensive resources including an ancestral brewing spring.
• Lu Li sent the blessed land's details to Great Xia so its strategy team could plan how to develop the new territory.
• Lu Li examined Golden Ape's fourth-tier spiritual materials, a body cultivation method, and several magical boats, then said a vessel for cultivators should have the grandeur of a mothership.

Lu Li discovered that the Jade Slip contained a fifth-tier body cultivation method and returned with Golden Ape to the Golden Ape Blessed Land. After securing the clan’s remaining reserves, he began organizing its resources for Great Xia.

• Lu Li studied the Through-Arm Vajra Cultivation Method and learned its three realms: copper skin, iron bones, and golden body.
• Lu Li realized the fifth-tier method was an extraordinary prize, though cultivating its first realm required Geng Metal Sha Qi.
• Lu Li arrived at the Golden Ape Blessed Land with Golden Ape and let him handle the clan’s affairs while keeping his own identity concealed.
• Golden Ape rebuked an old ape who asked whether the villain had been executed, then directed him to arrange support for households whose True Lords had died.
• Golden Ape led Lu Li to Monkey Mountain’s spiritual spring and wine pool, then handed over the blessed land’s remaining reserves.
• Lu Li found roughly two to three hundred thousand Spirit Stones among the resources and began preparing a supply manifest for Great Xia.

Lu Li transferred the Golden Ape Blessed Land’s supplies to Great Xia while reading its plan for indirect governance and development. Impressed by the proposal, he considered who could carry it out and called Yuanhao over.

• Lu Li began transferring the Golden Ape Blessed Land’s supplies to Great Xia as Li Yuanchao confirmed they were ready to receive them.
• Lu Li read Great Xia’s plan to organize the blessed land’s populations, replace stipends with merit rewards, and centralize farming and animal raising.
• Lu Li reviewed proposals to expand Monkey Wine production and improve planned mining with the Dao Academy’s Spirit Machinery.
• Lu Li read the military plan to train and equip a regular demon force and drill lower-level demon soldiers for future campaigns.
• Lu Li wondered whether Golden Ape could implement the plan and spotted Yuanhao as a suitable candidate.
• Lu Li called Elder Yuanhao over.

Bureau 749 Director Li Yuanchao ordered Great Xia’s workshops to submit plans for allocating the new cultivation resources, prioritizing combat power. Zhou Zhenhua’s artifact-research team proposed combining nuclear weapons technology with Spirit Machinery to create a strategic Law Artifact, leaving them eager to develop the concept.

• Li Yuanchao told Bureau 749’s workshops to submit experimental plans and set combat power as the priority for resource allocation, with limited exceptions for alchemy and Spiritual Power crops.
• Zhou Zhenhua gathered his Dao of Artifact Refinement team to devise a proposal with the greatest deterrent effect in combat.
• The researchers discussed upgrading their space-based array, Spirit Gang Giant Puppet, and Spirit Machinery mech projects.
• A young researcher proposed developing spirit-nuclear power applications to maximize destructive power, prompting the team to consider guided, long-range bombardment.
• Zhou Zhenhua envisioned a nuclear-powered strategic Law Artifact that could launch devastating attacks from low orbit.

Li Mingyuan and Su Qing searched for more powerful weapons as their workshops found existing research too limited to threaten the strongest cultivators. Li Mingyuan proposed an anti-gravity spiritual domain, while Su Qing began considering a talisman made from nanoscale cultivation materials.

• Li Mingyuan reviewed the Dao of Formations workshop’s projects and judged them too focused on support and defense to secure substantial resources.
• Li Mingyuan proposed developing an Anti-Gravity Spiritual Energy Domain to manipulate gravity and create specialized tactical environments, prompting the researchers to discuss the idea eagerly.
• Su Qing and the Talisman Dao workshop reviewed their advanced talismans and recognized that their research still lacked enough power to threaten the strongest cultivators.
• A young researcher suggested making a Dual-Vector Foil, but Su Qing dismissed the idea as beyond their current technology.
• Su Qing recalled a science-fiction material made from aligned carbon nanotubes and proposed weaving cultivation materials at the nanoscale, rearranging their atomic structure, and storing the result in a talisman.

The Dao of Alchemy Workshop and the Spiritual Power Crops Workshop joined forces to turn their biological research toward weapons against Demon Beasts. Li Yuanchao reviewed four ambitious proposals aimed at Spirit Transformation-level threats, and the workshops’ plans left him imagining Lu Li’s reaction.

• Chen Fang and Yuan Yi reviewed their workshops’ achievements and agreed to redirect their research toward harming enemies.
• Yuan Yi proposed biological toxins and genetic spores that could disrupt Demon Beasts’ nervous systems, Demon Power, and spiritual defenses.
• The two workshops began developing joint projects using cultivation-world poisons, Demon Beast samples, and modern genetic methods.
• The artifact, formation, talisman, and alchemy-and-crops workshops submitted four strategic proposals to Li Yuanchao.
• Li Yuanchao read the proposals for Demon-Quelling, Pagoda, Ruin's End, and Demon Extinction and was deeply shocked by their scale.

After Great Xia distributed Lu Li’s enormous haul of cultivation resources among Bureau 749’s research projects, Lu Dahai found himself booked to assist nearly every workshop throughout the week. On his rare day off, he visited his old friend Xuanwu and invited him to play a game with Maozi.

• Bureau 749 allocated the resources among joint and independent research projects, including artifact refinement, formations, talismans, alchemy, Soul Dao, and cultivation methods.
• Researchers from five major workshops reminded Lu Dahai that they had scheduled him to help with their experiments and exchanges.
• Lu Dahai reviewed a packed week of assignments, from research and cultivator training to a television interview and Dragon Abyss Academy’s opening ceremony.
• With the day off before his busy schedule began, Lu Dahai visited Xuanwu, the Qi Refinement Seventh Layer giant tortoise who had become his close friend.
• After watching anime together, Lu Dahai grew bored and asked Xuanwu to call Maozi so the three of them could play a few rounds.

Lu Dahai joined Old Five and Brocade Fur for a dice game, then spent Monday testing dark ink metal stone for a space-based spirit cannon and antigravity fields. The chapter ended with researchers preparing to test how much gravitational pressure a Foundation Establishment cultivator could withstand.

• Lu Dahai refused to play mahjong with Old Five and invited Brocade Fur to join them for dice instead.
• Lu Dahai and the two demons gambled spirit rice and broken Spirit Stones until midnight, leaving Brocade Fur broke and Old Five offering it another loan for more rounds.
• Zhou Zhenhua and the artifact-refining team welcomed Lu Dahai to help measure dark ink metal stone and refine the design of the Demon-Expelling Space-Based Orbital Spirit Core Cannon.
• Lu Dahai joined the formations workshop's antigravity test, where Li Mingyuan ordered the researchers to increase the power and test the limits of Foundation Establishment resistance to gravitational pressure.

Lu Dahai tested a gravity-based spiritual energy domain and learned that the pressure increased with the strength of a cultivator’s spiritual barrier. Later, he led the cultivator group’s weekly meeting on improving spiritual power circulation and spellcasting efficiency.

• Li Mingyuan’s team tested Lu Dahai in the gravity chamber at 8G, which left his protective barrier unaffected.
• Lu Dahai requested a hundredfold increase, but 100G forced him to one knee and made his barrier tremble until Li Mingyuan ordered the chamber shut down.
• Li Mingyuan concluded that the domain’s pressure reflected a cultivator’s strength, with greater power drawing greater pressure.
• Lu Dahai spent the week attending experiments and meetings at the Talisman Dao, Soul Dao, and Dao of Alchemy workshops, where Old Five and Maozi sat apart after apparently quarreling.
• Lu Dahai addressed over a thousand cultivator group members about spiritual power circulation and energy use in spellcasting.