Recaps

Chen Qing and Ziyue survived the Four Perils and the King of Qin’s ambush, then confronted new threats as the emperor and Chen Qing formed an alliance. The Five Color Families faced a choice over Cloud Capital or Jiangnan while Chen Qing and Ziyue questioned the truth of their identities.

• Chen Qing rescued Ziyue from the captain of the guard, then used Time Scale to escape with her and set a spatial formation in motion.
• The King of Qin revealed himself as Qigu and joined forces with Chen Qing, who helped Ziyue absorb the Four Perils while the King of Qin targeted the Blood Ancestor.
• Chen Qing fought the King of Qin with the Heavenly Demon Wheel, survived its destruction, and used Heavenly Origin to drive the King of Qin and the captain away.
• The chief guard led many elite guards and soldiers away from the King of Qin, while Shen Qi and Kagura negotiated with the remaining forces.
• Zhu Jiuyin appeared over Cloud Capital, but Chen Qing resisted its pressure, stopped Kagura’s attack, and agreed to work with the emperor.
• The emperor offered the Five Color Families a choice between staying in Cloud Capital under his rule or moving to Jiangnan, and Elder Murong urged them to recognize their weakened position.
• Chen Qing explained to Ziyue why he distrusted the Five Color Families, and they wondered whether the King of Qin, the captain, and Ziyue’s nominal father knew the truth about their identities.

Chen Qing and Ziyue uncovered the danger behind the sealed Underworlds and the abduction of newborn Reincarnators, while Ziyue led a rescue force toward the South Sea. Their recovered memories revealed Pu Yunchuan’s creation of Data City and the Origin Project, leaving Ziyue demanding to meet the powerful backers behind the experiments.

• Wang Ye told Heavenly Secrets that his authority had failed to uncover the Federation’s classified files, and Heavenly Secrets warned that their investigation threatened their lives.
• Chen Qing traced suspicious Western Reincarnators to Jade Island, where he found the Underworld sealed, trapped spirits, and newborn Reincarnators missing.
• Chen Qing concluded that the force behind the sealed Underworld had lured him away to steal the divine path style, while Ziyue prepared to rescue Ao Zhen and defend Jiangnan.
• Chen Qing entered the Underworld with Wei Gongcheng and awoke in his former life as a terminally ill man, where he recognized his half-brother, Pu Yunchuan.
• Chen Qing helped Pu Yunchuan realize that he had become the first successful data life-form, and Pu Yunchuan theorized that a realistic game could let data life transcend its limits.
• Pu Yunchuan survived death by reincarnating inside his game and later created Data City at the project’s request.
• Ziyue remembered joining the data-life project and recognized Chen Qing as Pu Yunchuan’s younger brother, then deduced that the developers had been recruited to recreate the game environment.
• The experimenters offered the developers money to test reincarnation, but their copied worlds failed to enable it, so Ziyue demanded a meeting with the people behind the project.

Wang Ye uncovered how the powerful had caused the world war to create data lifeforms, while their faction seized control of Data City and redirected resources to the New World. As Nie Xingjun and Jiang Xiaoling prepared to gamble on Chen Qing’s instructions, Wang Ye learned that Chen Qing was captive and Pu Yunchuan might still be alive.

• Elder Liu revealed to Pu Yunchuan that the backers could start another world war without risking their wealth, and he agreed to help trap them inside the game’s standalone version.
• Chen Qing devised a way to trigger the fourth version, which would destroy Samsara and kill the data lifeforms entering it, while Wang Ye and Hou Jie later traced the origins of the world war to powerful conspirators.
• Long Lidan offered Wang Ye a place in the Longevity Plan and confirmed that her faction had caused the world war to transform humanity into data lifeforms.
• Long Lidan told Wang Ye that Pu Yunchuan had sabotaged the experiment and killed her father and others, while Wang Ye deduced that her faction feared the fourth version.
• Jiang Xiaoling received Chen Qing’s secret letter instructing him to restart the command room, and he relayed the message to Nie Xingjun as mysterious forces seized control of Data City.
• After consulting General Xu Hu, Nie Xingjun abandoned his plan to comply with the intruders and sent his secretary to reach the command room as an insider.
• Long Lidan revealed that Chen Qing was under her group’s control and that Pu Yunchuan had once thwarted their plans, leading Wang Ye to suspect Pu Yunchuan was still alive.
• The chief councilor announced that he would reactivate the command room and give someone the access privileges to decide whether to shut it down again.

Chen Qing and his allies uncovered the forces behind the New World’s power supply while the Shen Family faced the West Sea Dragon King and a Venerable’s Ancient Insects. Chen Ying used a Future Stone to reach King Level and seal Shen San, but collapsed as Shen Er fled toward Liuzhou City.

• A white-clad man appeared beside Nie Xiaojun, denied being Number One, and agreed to meet Nie Xingjun as Wang Ye and Chen Qing confronted Long Lidan over the New World’s power supply.
• Chen Qing explained that Pu Yunchuan had spared the world and that Data City’s hidden rulers intended to restart every version, then joined Elder Liu in opposing them after learning the Western Federation still powered the New World.
• The Shen Family confronted a woman surnamed Shen who had taken Wei Gongcheng hostage, while the West Sea Dragon King told Shen Lao'er that Shen Ling was a fallen Great Lord and asked him to help seize her power.
• The woman surnamed Shen asked Wei Gongcheng to hold off the West Sea Dragon King for ten days, but she later revealed that she had implanted Ancient Insects in Shen Shiyi and Shen San to pursue her own ends.
• The Dragon King warned Shen Lao'er that Ancient Insects could control the Shen Family and urged him to shut down the Blazing Yang Grand Formation, while Shen Er sought help from Shen Yuan to enter it.
• Shen San, controlled by an Ancient Insect, overpowered Shen Er until Chen Ying arrived with King Level strength and used spatial power to seal him.
• Chen Ying collapsed after using the Future Stone Ziyue had given her, warned Shen Er that she could not hold the woman off for long, and sent him toward Liuzhou City to hide.