Recaps

Thomson struggled to determine why Great Xia was gathering resources and veterans, then watched it announce a sweeping nationality screening and temporary departure order for foreign nationals. When other countries considered pressuring Great Xia, it revealed its deployed fleets and nuclear missile silos, and the world fell silent.

• Thomson demanded answers from his analysts about Great Xia’s breathing method, unusual heat activity near Jing City, and veteran transfers, but they could offer no concrete explanation.
• Thomson’s president berated him for providing only speculation and ordered him to use every resource to discover Great Xia’s plans.
• Senior Colonel Zhang Lijian announced that Great Xia would screen foreign nationals, suspend most entry applications, and ask foreigners in the country to leave temporarily.
• Thomson and the president reacted with alarm as the announcement triggered global speculation, condemnation, and plans for summits and joint military exercises.
• Great Xia deployed its armed fleets to its maritime boundary and opened its nuclear missile silos, prompting other countries to abandon their pressure campaign.

Lu Yao revealed her telekinetic ability to her commander and asked to join the Great Wall Selection, prompting Bureau 749 to summon her to its secret base. There, she unexpectedly saw her father, Lu Dahai, in the command hall.

• Lu Yao called Lu Dahai for advice about her new ability and the Great Wall Selection, but he ended the call because he was busy at the factory.
• Lu Yao told her commander she wanted to join the selection, then made papers float with her ability to prove herself.
• After receiving news of Lu Yao’s ability, Li Yuanchao summoned Wang Zhiwen and the human biology experts to Bureau 749’s base.
• Lu Yao traveled by helicopter to Mount Baiwang and descended into Bureau 749’s underground base, where she learned about its levels and secret facilities.
• Lu Yao entered the fourth-level command hall and was astonished to see her father, Lu Dahai.

Lu Yao discovered that her father and brother were involved with Bureau 749, and Lu Dahai showed her the underground base and its research workshops. The chapter ended with Lu Yao horrified as she watched Xu Mu produce translucent mouse spirits in the Soul and Consciousness Information Workshop.

• Lu Yao arrived at Bureau 749 and was shocked to find Lu Dahai there.
• Li Yuanchao told Lu Yao that Lu Dahai was a bureau member and Lu Li was a founding member and honorary leader of the Pioneer Group.
• Lu Dahai explained the bureau and Lu Li's mission in the cultivation world as he took Lu Yao through the base.
• Lu Dahai revealed that he was a cultivator at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer and expected to reach the fifth layer soon.
• Lu Dahai showed Lu Yao the Soul and Consciousness Information Workshop, where Xu Mu used a black banner to summon translucent mouse spirits.
• Lu Yao stared at the mouse spirits in horror and asked whether they were the souls her father had mentioned.

Lu Yao visited Bureau 749 with her father, Lu Dahai, and witnessed experiments that uploaded a mouse’s soul into a virtual sandbox and an industrial operation that mass-produced magical artifacts. The tour ended with her meeting Brocade Fur, the first spirit machinery creature made using a method sent by Lu Li.

• Lu Yao watched Xu Mu guide a white mouse’s soul into a bionic body while researchers synchronized its movements with a virtual model in the Spirit World sandbox.
• Wang Zhiwen explained that the experiment tested whether a soul’s consciousness, memories, and instincts could survive being uploaded to an information network.
• Lu Yao asked whether she and her mother lacked spirit roots, and Lu Dahai reassured her that consciousness uploading or bionic transfers might offer a future path for her mother.
• Lu Dahai showed Lu Yao the artifact-refining workshop, where automated production lines manufactured flying swords and other magical equipment.
• Lu Yao toured several research and production workshops before reaching the crop cultivation workshop, where a mechanical mouse greeted Lu Dahai.
• Lu Dahai introduced the mouse as Brocade Fur, the first spirit machinery creature created using a method Lu Li had sent back.

Lu Dahai showed Lu Yao the bionic mouse Brocade Fur, whose soul had survived for five years in a spiritually active environment, before bringing her to the laboratory to investigate her unusual condition. Tests revealed her innate Divine Sense was exceptionally strong, leading Wang Zhiwen to propose that she could help create a virtual world where ordinary people could preserve their consciousness and cultivate Divine Sense.

• Lu Dahai explained that Brocade Fur had a soul and had survived for five years beside the spirit fields, where its resilience and intelligence had grown.
• Lu Dahai introduced Lu Yao to Zhang Xuanqing, then hurried her away to investigate her condition.
• Lu Dahai and Lu Yao entered a laboratory where Wang Zhiwen, Li Yuanchao, and neuroscience experts prepared a Divine Sense strength detector.
• The detector assessed Lu Yao's innate Divine Sense as S+, approaching the level of a Qi Refining Middle Stage cultivator and potentially strengthened by rising Spiritual Qi.
• Wang Zhiwen proposed that Lu Yao help build a virtual world for ordinary people to preserve their consciousness and develop a path of Divine Sense cultivation.

Lu Yao joined Wang Zhiwen’s laboratory to study virtual sandbox worlds, while Lu Li sent five Spirit Vein fragments back to Great Xia. Hearing her brother’s voice through the jade pendant, Lu Yao tearfully made him promise to become an immortal and return; Lu Li agreed and asked why she was there.

• Lu Yao asked to join Wang Zhiwen’s laboratory, and Wang Zhiwen welcomed her expertise in cyberspace security research.
• Li Yuanchao learned that Lu Li’s transmission had connected and that he had sent five Spirit Vein fragments.
• Lu Dahai and Lu Yao entered the command hall, where Xu Mu took the fragments underground to nurture them.
• Lu Li reported that his sect was repairing its Spirit Vein and that dangerous changes were happening beyond the three commanderies.
• Lu Yao spoke to Lu Li through the jade pendant, broke down in tears, and made him promise to become an immortal and return.
• Lu Li promised he would come back and asked Lu Yao why she was in the command hall.

Lu Li learned that his mortal sister Lu Yao had unusually powerful Divine Sense and wondered whether his family had extraordinary ancestors. After hearing that Azure Pool’s upheaval had caused a severe shortage of pills and a surge in demand, he urged Great Xia’s workshops to ramp up production.

• Wang Zhiwen told Lu Li that Lu Yao’s Divine Sense was close to the Qi Refining Middle Stage, despite her having no Spiritual Power or Spirit Root.
• Lu Li reassured Lu Yao, then asked Zhang Xuanqing, Chen Fang, and Zhou Zhenhua about the workshops’ production capacity.
• Zhou Zhenhua said the artifact workshop could produce about three automatic Pill Furnaces per day with Lu Li’s help, while Chen Fang estimated the pill workshop could make about fifty first-tier pills daily.
• Lu Li explained that Azure Pool’s upheaval had left disciples short of pills and created a major opportunity to sell automatic Pill Furnaces and medicines.
• A psychologist described the disciples’ increased spending as revenge spending, and Li Yuanchao ordered cultivation materials redirected to the artifact workshop and production of Pill Furnaces and pills accelerated.

Lu Li took advantage of Azure Pool’s weakened state to repair the Spirit Vein and prepare Great Xia for future threats. After hearing that pill prices were rising, he gave Xu Xiong Spirit Stones to buy medicinal ingredients and launch Yellow Sprout Pill presales.

• Lu Li reflected on the danger posed by a Nascent Soul great demon and resolved to use the power vacuum to strengthen himself, gather resources, and help Great Xia.
• Lu Li left his disciples Changming and Changye to cultivate while he went to repair the Spirit Vein among Azure Pool’s ruined peaks.
• Lu Li found Xu Xiong, who was still grieving Master Wu and struggling to recover from the sect’s upheaval.
• Xu Xiong told Lu Li that disciples were clamoring for pills, especially Yellow Sprout Pills, and that pill prices had risen by as much as thirty percent.
• Lu Li gave Xu Xiong three thousand Spirit Stones to buy medicinal ingredients and told him to postpone automatic Pill Furnace presales while opening presales for Yellow Sprout Pills.

Lu Li searched for spirit vein fragments while refining a Dao Fruit and studying a third-tier artifact refinement manual. Seeking a way to strengthen his divine sense, he asked Yuanhao for help and received far more than the technique he requested.

• Lu Li found a spirit vein fragment and secretly sent it back to Blue Star.
• Lu Li practiced the Blade Heart Chapter but stopped when the strain hurt his divine sense, deciding to seek a strengthening technique.
• Lu Li visited Yuanhao and asked for a divine sense technique, and Yuanhao gave him a third-tier method for nurturing and refining divine sense.
• Lu Li pressed Yuanhao for alchemy and cultivation techniques, life-preserving methods, spirit stones, and law artifacts, prompting Yuanhao to yell at him to leave.
• As Lu Li turned to go, a stream of golden-shimmering jade slips flew out toward him.

Lu Li received four third-tier techniques from Yuanhao and began cultivating a Divine Sense method despite its painful demands. Meanwhile, Xu Xiong announced that he and a fellow Daoist would begin selling pills in one month, offering bonus pills to disciples who registered and paid in advance.

• Yuanhao gave Lu Li four third-tier methods and warned him to improve his cultivation and Dao of Artifact Refinement.
• Lu Li sent three methods to Great Xia for coordinated study and began comprehending the Three-Refinement Spirit-Tempering Instruction.
• Lu Li endured intense pain as he practiced separating his Divine Sense into threads, the method’s first tempering stage.
• Xu Xiong visited the Pill Hall and announced that he and a fellow Daoist would sell pills in one month, giving three hundred free pills for every five hundred Spirit Stones deposited in advance.

Xu Xiong used Lu Li’s sales strategy to persuade Azure Pool disciples to deposit Spirit Stones in advance, then invested the funds in medicinal ingredients. He brought Lu Li a stockpile bought for thirty thousand Spirit Stones and estimated it could yield nearly fifty thousand in profit after the pills were sold.

• Xu Xiong explained the advance-deposit discounts, purchase priority, and lifetime membership benefits, reassuring disciples that True Lord Yuanhao’s rules made cheating them unlikely.
• Several disciples registered and deposited their savings after Xu Xiong emphasized the shortage of pills and the benefits of priority access.
• Xu Xiong used the deposits to buy and stockpile medicinal ingredients for half a month, especially ingredients for Yellow Sprout Pills.
• Xu Xiong brought Lu Li a Storage Bag containing thirty thousand Spirit Stones’ worth of ingredients and estimated they could produce pills worth nearly eighty thousand Spirit Stones.

Lu Li sent a large supply of medicinal ingredients to Great Xia, where the new production line began mass-producing first-tier pills. At the new Great Xia Self-Cultivation Affairs Administration headquarters, officials revealed cultivation to two thousand veterans and named them its first batch of guardians.

• Lu Li agreed to give Xu Xiong twenty percent of the proceeds and told him to pause presales until the disciples could collect their pills in half a month.
• Lu Li sent the secured medicinal ingredients to Great Xia, where more than fifty automatic Pill Furnaces began producing pills at scale.
• Two thousand veterans secretly transferred from military regions gathered at the new headquarters of the Great Xia Self-Cultivation Affairs Administration.
• Xu Mu demonstrated Spiritual Power to the veterans and announced that he, Lu Dahai, and Zhang Xuanqing would train them.
• Li Yuanchao distributed documents explaining cultivation and declared the veterans the first batch of guardians of the Great Xia Cultivation Administration.

Great Xia established its Cultivation Administration and expanded Bureau 749 as it prepared for future contact with the Imprisoned Dragon Realm. Li Yuanchao briefed one hundred new Bureau 749 members on Lu Li’s struggle in another world, and Lu Li welcomed them by voice through the jade pendant.

• Great Xia officially established the Cultivation Administration with Lu Dahai, Xu Mu, and Zhang Xuanqing as instructors, while one hundred new members joined Bureau 749.
• The new recruits arrived at Bureau 749’s high-tech base and received documents explaining cultivation, the Imprisoned Dragon Realm, and Lu Li’s situation.
• Li Yuanchao told the recruits that they would support Lu Li and become the first vanguard to cross realms under the Southern Heavenly Gate plan.
• The fish-shaped jade pendant glowed, and Lu Li greeted the new members and urged them to forge the Great Wall together.

Lu Li listened as hostile great demons confronted the Nether Toad about Azure Pool’s weakened spiritual vitality, then heard the Nether Toad invoke the Manor Lord’s thousand-year plan to drive them off. Yuanhao announced a new sect mission to kill rogue cultivators, and Lu Li suspected the order was another probe by the demons.

• Lu Li reflected on Great Xia’s progress, sold the reserved pills, and earned nearly forty thousand Spirit Stones after costs and Xu Xiong’s share.
• Yuanhao announced that Azure Pool’s Spirit Vein had been restored and the sect’s usual affairs would resume.
• Several hostile great demons questioned the Nether Toad about its weakened territory and hinted that it might conceal a supreme treasure.
• The Nether Toad ordered the demons to leave and warned them not to ruin the Manor Lord’s thousand-year plan as the battle to breach the manor approached.
• Yuanhao announced that every disciple had to kill three rogue cultivators each month, and Lu Li suspected the mission was part of the demons’ probing.

After Azure Pool ordered its disciples to fight cultivators crossing the borders, Lu Li prepared to leave with Changming, Changye, and Xu Xiong, while refining a powerful third-tier Law Artifact. The group flew into the troubled Three Commanderies, where Lu Li found widespread devastation and wondered what had become of Ye Chenfeng.

• Yuanhao told Lu Li that Azure Pool needed every disciple to fight the incoming cultivators and gave him the third-tier Sun-Piercing True Shuttle.
• Lu Li gathered Xu Xiong and his two disciples, equipped Changming and Changye with battle gear, and reported what he knew to Great Xia.
• Lu Li spent three days refining the Sun-Piercing True Shuttle and considered using the mission to check on his Spirit Vein and spiritual ore.
• Lu Li left Azure Pool with Changming, Changye, and Xu Xiong after warning his disciples to put caution first.
• The group flew through the Three Commanderies, where Lu Li saw devastation and wondered where Ye Chenfeng had gone.

Ye Chenfeng arrived in Jingxi Prefecture and enlisted as a sword cultivator at Hanging Blade Pass, intent on growing strong enough to return to Azure Pool and save Junior Brother Lu. He boarded a vast magical vessel bound for the pass, where he noticed another cultivator sharing his curiosity: a woman.

• Ye Chenfeng ignored Elder Jian's pleas to rest and went to a recruitment platform in Jingxi Prefecture, where he joined Hanging Blade Pass.
• A sword-bearing Golden Core True Lord gave Ye Chenfeng a life token and told him to wait until recruitment was complete.
• Elder Jian explained the Western Continent's conflict between demon-ruled Heaven-Pacifying Prefecture and human-held Jingxi Prefecture, while Ye Chenfeng silently vowed to return for Junior Brother Lu.
• After a month of recruitment, the True Lord summoned an enormous tower ship, and Ye Chenfeng boarded it with several hundred cultivators headed for Hanging Blade Pass.
• The tower ship sped through the clouds, and Ye Chenfeng noticed a female cultivator looking around with the same curiosity as him.

Zong Qing approached Ye Chenfeng aboard a spirit boat bound for Hanging Blade Pass, but their conversation was interrupted when a powerful demon bird attacked. A Spirit Transformation Divine Lord struck it down, leaving the boat’s passengers awed by the display of power.

• Zong Qing surveyed the spirit boat’s passengers and approached Ye Chenfeng, curious about his calm anticipation of reaching Hanging Blade Pass.
• Ye Chenfeng kept his distance and told Zong Qing that he was going to join the Pass Guard Bureau, so she withdrew.
• A piercing eagle cry disrupted the spirit boat, and a giant demon bird shattered the sword-bearing True Lord’s protective barrier, severely wounding many passengers.
• A Divine Lord of Hanging Blade Pass sent a vast sword strike through the demon’s baleful aura, then pursued it as it tried to flee.
• The Divine Lord’s sword split the demon bird apart, leaving Ye Chenfeng and the others stunned by the Spirit Transformation cultivator’s power.

Ye Chenfeng arrived at Hanging Blade Pass and joined the Pass Guard Bureau, determined to grow strong enough to rescue Lu Li. Meanwhile, Lu Li traveled toward Clear River Commandery, discovered villages ravaged by outside cultivators, and was surrounded by Foundation Establishment cultivators who called Azure Pool the Nether Toad Blessed Land.

• Ye Chenfeng watched a sword Dao Divine Ability leave the cultivators aboard his flying boat stunned, while Elder Jian identified its user as another sword Dao Divine Lord.
• The flying boat reached Hanging Blade Pass, where Ye Chenfeng saw the Great Wall separating Jingxi Prefecture from the Yao-corrupted lands of Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture.
• A True Lord told the newcomers they must defend the pass for ten years, and Ye Chenfeng immediately chose to join the Pass Guard Bureau.
• Lu Li and his companions traveled toward Clear River Commandery and found most villages along their route abandoned, with signs that outside cultivators had attacked them.
• Several Foundation Establishment cultivators surrounded Lu Li and called Azure Pool the Nether Toad Blessed Land, making him realize they knew the truth.

Lu Li faced five outside Foundation Establishment cultivators and used the fight to teach Lu Changming and Lu Changye about positioning, kiting, and battlefield control. After suppressing the attackers with careful technique, he prepared to capture them and learn how they knew about the Nether Toad Blessed Land.

• Xu Xiong urged Lu Li to hold off the five cultivators while Lu Changming and Lu Changye escaped, but Lu Li stepped forward and told his disciples to watch his fight.
• Lu Li chose not to use his strongest equipment and spells so he could teach his disciples through actual combat.
• The five cultivators attacked Lu Li with their flying swords, and he dodged, countered, and used fire arts to control their movement while explaining his techniques.
• Lu Li’s precise fighting steadily overwhelmed the five, who struggled to land a blow and began to fear they could not win.
• When the leader tried to retreat, Lu Li decided the lesson was over and prepared to interrogate the outside cultivators about the Nether Toad Blessed Land.

Lu Li killed four Foundation Establishment cultivators with repeated fire spells, but the last survivor killed himself before Lu Li could question him. Searching their belongings, Lu Li and Xu Xiong discovered maps revealing the Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture's many demon territories and the different ways its blessed lands treated cultivators.

• Lu Li unleashed Extreme Flame Fierce Slash three times, killing four of the five Foundation Establishment cultivators and grievously wounding the last.
• The wounded cultivator mistook Lu Li's recovery pill for a means of enslavement and killed himself before Lu Li could question him.
• Lu Li searched the five Storage Bags and found identical scrolls titled "Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture... Record of Ten Thousand Demons."
• Lu Li and Xu Xiong examined the maps and learned that the Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture covered half the Western Continent, with thirty-six grotto courts and seventy-two blessed lands.
• Lu Li saw that the Golden Ape Blessed Land treated cultivators as disciples and noticed the map labeled the uncharted other half of the Western Continent as barbarian lands.

Lu Li learned that the Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture might have human lands beyond it and resolved to grow strong enough to fight his way out. After checking the hidden Spirit Vein and failing to find Changming and Changye’s godmother, he led his companions back toward the sect, using the journey to train them against outside cultivators.

• Lu Li studied the maps, inferred that enemies of the Heaven-Pacifying Yao Prefecture might control the other half of the Western Continent, and planned to reach Golden Core and use his jade pendant to subdue great yao.
• Lu Li, Xu Xiong, Changming, and Changye traveled to Clear River Commandery, where Changming and Changye learned that their godmother had left with the old village head to seek refuge in the countryside.
• Lu Li checked the concealed Spirit Vein, found that it had not matured, and spent three days strengthening the formation that hid it.
• Lu Li reunited with Xu Xiong, Changming, and Changye at the city gate and learned that their search for their godmother had failed.
• Lu Li led the group onward, intending to make up their remaining quota of outside cultivators and train his disciples in combat as they traveled.

Lu Li returned toward Azure Pool as invasions and Demon Beast attacks accelerated his cultivation, and he began considering how to control the Nether Toad Demon Ancestor rather than kill it. In Great Xia, Bureau 749’s recruits made progress in cultivation before an alert summoned them to prepare for cross-world communication.

• Lu Li’s party encountered invading cultivators and growing packs of Foundation Establishment Demon Beasts, while he absorbed the Dao Fruit and advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Lu Li decided that killing the Nether Toad Demon Ancestor could provoke the other great demons, so he considered taking control of it and building strength in Azure Pool Blessed Land.
• Lu Li connected the idea to Great Xia’s experiments with uploading and altering a white mouse’s soul, and imagined using the jade pendant, spiritual weapons, and nuclear power against Nether Toad after reaching Golden Core.
• At Bureau 749, Lu Dahai instructed a hundred recruits in Qi Introduction, and several became Qi Refinement cultivators.
• A red alert light came on in the cultivation room, and Lu Dahai ordered the cultivators to the command hall to prepare for cross-world communication.

Lu Li proposed that Great Xia prepare to seize and control a Nascent Soul demon using his fish-shaped jade pendant, while the Bureau 749 team discussed research advances that could strengthen him. The chapter ended with Li Yuanchao reporting that Great Xia planned a live test of Spiritual Martial Nuclear Energy and promising retaliation if Lu Li died.

• Lu Li proposed using the jade pendant to subdue a Nascent Soul demon once he reached Golden Core, and Li Yuanchao agreed to prepare for the possibility while researchers improved their soul experiments.
• Lu Dahai warned Lu Li not to rush his Golden Core breakthrough, and Wang Zhiwen explained that Lu Yao had stayed up all night assisting the Soul Information and Consciousness Workshop.
• Lin Xian reported that analysis of Lu Li's third-tier cultivation methods had advanced research and could yield a customized third-tier five elements method before Lu Li reached Core Formation.
• Lu Li asked about combining nuclear weapons with Spiritual Power, and Li Yuanchao said a live test was imminent and vowed that someone would be buried with Lu Li if he died.

Lu Li refined the Dao Fruit, led his disciples on missions, and taught them that overwhelming strength was the highest realm of magical combat. A clash among the great demons then shattered Azure Pool’s false sky, leaving Lu Li to suspect the Nether Toad demon ancestor had been gravely injured.

• Li Yuanchao assured Lu Li that Great Xia would make the enemy pay if events took a disastrous turn, and Lu Li began refining the tonic and Dao Fruit.
• After a month of cultivation, Lu Li left Azure Pool with Changming, Changye, and Xu Xiong to continue their missions as the sect’s casualties and kill quota mounted.
• Lu Li taught Changming and Changye that magical combat had three realms, with the final realm being to build overwhelming strength through whaling.
• Xu Xiong praised Lu Li’s combat theory and asked to learn from him, but a disturbance in the sky interrupted their conversation.
• The Nether Toad demon ancestor accused the Golden Ape and Heavenly Wolf of invading its domain, and the great demons began fighting.
• The battle shattered the canopy over the three commanderies and exposed the starry sky, leading Lu Li to suspect the Nether Toad demon ancestor had been seriously injured again.

Lu Li watched Demon Ancestor Nether Toad reveal its injured true body and drive Demon Ancestor Golden Ape and Demon Ancestor Heavenly Wolf from Azure Pool. Seeing that Nether Toad could no longer maintain its concealment formation, Lu Li recognized a chance to take over and develop its territory.

• Xu Xiong, Changming, and Changye saw Azure Pool’s false sky disappear, revealing the starry heavens and Demon Ancestor Nether Toad’s true body alongside Demon Ancestor Golden Ape and Demon Ancestor Heavenly Wolf.
• Demon Ancestor Nether Toad threatened to abandon Azure Pool and report Golden Ape and Heavenly Wolf to the Manor Lord if they kept trespassing.
• Demon Ancestor Golden Ape and Demon Ancestor Heavenly Wolf backed down, recalled their servants, and left after deciding Nether Toad’s damaged territory would hinder it in the coming assault on the manor.
• Demon Ancestor Nether Toad withdrew into its blessed land, while Lu Li realized its injuries had created an opportunity to take over and develop Azure Pool.