Recaps

Lu Li rebuilt Azure Pool as the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy while Great Xia developed cultivation and spirit machinery during the hundred-year window. After testing Great Xia’s new weapons, Lu Li traveled to the inner academy, where he and Xu Xiong began organizing its finances and staff.

• Lu Li renamed Azure Pool the Beyond Heaven Dao Academy, established its inner and outer academies, and set new rules for disciples.
• Lu Li assigned Yuanhao, Xu Xiong, Changming, and Changye academy duties, then arranged to send the former Azure Pool treasury’s resources to Great Xia.
• Li Yuanchao allocated resources to combat-focused research, and Bureau 749 developed Spirit Machinery weapons and puppets alongside a nationwide cultivation program.
• Great Xia publicly confirmed that cultivation existed, and an old giant tortoise at a zoo revealed its supernatural abilities before joining Bureau 749.
• After ten years of rapid development, Lu Li tested Space-Based God Slaying 3.0 and Spirit Puppet 3.0, finding the weapon nearly as powerful as an Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Lu Li left Nether Toad to watch over the outer academy and traveled to the inner academy, where he praised Changming and Changye and heard Xu Xiong negotiate trade deals.
• Lu Li approved Xu Xiong’s plan for the Silver Hall to pool disciples’ savings, pay interest, and fund academy projects, then reviewed Yuanhao’s ideological lesson and the academy’s finances.
• Xu Xiong asked Chen Ke to recruit steady, mature, upright, and trustworthy disciples for the Silver Hall, and Chen Ke posted an academy mission.

As the Demon Race prepared for the Prefecture-Breaking War, Lu Li captured Golden Ape and worked with Great Xia to overwrite his Divine Soul into a loyal ally. Golden Ape's territory and resources supported plans for expansion and strategic weapons research, while Lu Dahai helped test the new technology.

• Xu Xiong promoted the Silver Hall and used its deposits to stockpile golden thread grass.
• Cang Yue breached Hanging Blade Pass after a second Spirit Transformation Demon Lord self-detonated, and Ao Qing ordered preparations for the Prefecture-Breaking War.
• Lu Li sent Nether Toad to distract Demon Ancestor Heavenly Wolf and used two Spirit Gang Giant Puppets to defeat Golden Ape.
• Lu Li sent Golden Ape's Divine Soul to Great Xia, where Lu Yao's team used a simulated life under Lu Dahai to establish his loyalty.
• Golden Ape returned to his body, pledged obedience to Lu Li, and surrendered his wealth and blessed land's resources.
• Lu Li benefited from the monkey wine and reviewed Great Xia's plans to organize the blessed land's population, production, and military.
• Li Yuanchao prioritized combat research, and the workshops submitted strategic weapon proposals supported by the newly acquired resources.
• Lu Dahai assisted the weapons workshops, tested the antigravity domain, and instructed over a thousand cultivator group members.

Lu Li expanded the Dao Academy’s teaching, commerce, and military training while Great Xia prepared to guide its growing population of Qi sensitives. Lu Changming survived a Soul Dao trap, and Ye Chenfeng reunited with Lu Li, chose to stay at the academy, and brought valuable Soul Dao knowledge.

• Lu Dahai taught the Cultivation Administration and demonstrated Foundation Establishment on live television, prompting people around the world to seek Great Xia citizenship and cultivation methods.
• Li Qingshan arrived at Dragon Abyss Academy, while Zhang Xuanqing explained its curriculum and plans to train cultivators for national research.
• Zhao Dezhu’s attempt to teach children cultivation caused one boy’s Qi to become unstable, but Qi Hao stabilized him and arrested Zhao Dezhu.
• Lu Li entered seclusion and advanced to late Golden Core as Yuanhao prepared ideological lessons for the Golden Ape Blessed Land and Xu Xiong established the Commerce Hall.
• Lu Changming and Ye Chenfeng separately explored a ruined cave and were trapped by Huijinzi’s Mirage Soul Pearl, but Elder Jian and Lu Changming’s Spirit Machinery Law Armor helped defeat him.
• Lu Li inspected the Battle Hall’s war-game assessment and the Artifact Hall’s work, then reviewed Jiang Wuxie’s failed assessments and reserved him another chance after further evaluation.
• Lu Li reunited with Ye Chenfeng at Litian Grand Market, heard about the fall of Hanging Blade Pass, and agreed that Ye Chenfeng could stay at the Dao Academy under its rules.
• Ye Chenfeng gave Lu Li a fourth-tier soul treasure bead and shared Soul Dao lore, while Elder Jian concluded that Lu Li was a reincarnated great cultivator.

Lu Li brought the Dao Academy into the Prefecture-Breaking War as Ao Qing led a demon invasion against Jingxi Prefecture. With the defenders occupied and Ao Qing gravely wounded, Lu Li ordered the Dao Academy to slip away and plunder the Demon Manor.

• Lu Li established a virtual Blue Star where Liu Xiulan and Lu Yao could live, then reported the successful cross-world consciousness upload to Great Xia.
• Lu Li launched a full-scale Dao Academy exercise, placing Dong Qing and Jiang Wuxie in command as the academy’s forces gathered and trained together.
• Ao Qing emerged from seclusion, clashed with Zongzheng Lie and the other Void Return cultivators, then ordered the demon armies to assemble and breach the passes.
• Lu Li mobilized the Dao Academy and Great Xia as millions of demons and enslaved human cultivators marched toward Jingxi Prefecture.
• The Dao Academy’s disciples scouted and concealed themselves among the advancing forces, while mysterious powers gathered around Lu Li and drew the attention of colossal figures beyond the Western Continent.
• Ao Qing led the demon army against Jingxi Prefecture’s three defensive walls as the prefecture mobilized its defenders and evacuated civilians.
• Lu Li ordered the Dao Academy disciples to scatter and hide, then changed his plan after learning that Ao Qing was gravely wounded and the Void Return demons could not intervene.
• Lu Li summoned the law warship and sent the Dao Academy toward the Three Tiger Blessed Lands to plunder the Demon Manor, while Dong Qing and Ye Chenfeng led a reconnaissance force ahead.