Recaps

Su Wen was recognized as the supposedly dead Martial God by Wealth Shadow, who brought him to a secret base in the Imperial Capital. Su Wen arranged to meet Du Baihua and review his work on the Spirit Tempering System while the Star God took charge of the insect spirits.

• Wealth Shadow appeared before Su Wen, recognized him as Lord Martial God, and knelt in welcome as four martial artists watched in shock.
• Su Wen and Sycee joked about the narrator’s sharp tongue before the Star God asked whether Su Wen would accept the insect spirits into his forces.
• Su Wen agreed the insect spirits could become a powerful force but remained wary of their motives, so the Star God promised to handle the arrangements.
• Wealth Shadow explained that he had come after Du Baihua called for help, then took Su Wen and the martial artists to a secret base.
• Su Wen asked Wealth Shadow to summon Du Baihua and tell him to bring his Spirit Tempering System research, and Du Baihua hurried to the meeting.

Su Wen learned that Du Baihua and Gu Yang had only developed the rudiments of Spirit Martial Arts, then attended to arrangements for the God of Wealth’s state funeral. A military official’s explanation about when the God of Wealth’s identity might be revealed made Su Wen fear that his family and friends had been killed, fueling his hatred of the Arrow Realm’s other races.

• Du Baihua recognized Su Wen as Lord Martial God, knelt, and confessed that he and Gu Yang had only created the rudiments of Spirit Martial Arts.
• Du Baihua presented books and explained the principles and research behind Spirit Martial Arts to Su Wen.
• Su Wen discussed Du Baihua’s subordinates with Sycee before Wind God summoned him to meet a military official about the funeral.
• The military official said the God of Wealth’s identity would be disclosed if the war ended or if his family and social connections were gone.
• Su Wen suspected the Arrow Realm’s other races had killed his loved ones and grew furious, prompting Theater God and Shadow God to notice his anger.

Wealth Spirit learned that having the God of Wealth as his leader guaranteed his advancement, while Zither Master envied Heavenly Mandate Bearers with powerful backers. A blood-red alert then summoned the Black Leaf Squad, and Zither Master revealed that the God of Wealth had fallen in the No. 9 Arrow Realm and would receive a state funeral.

• Zither Master told Wealth Spirit that his leader’s approval could guarantee his advancement to King Rank, unlike leaderless bearers’ risky attempts.
• Zither Master’s bracelet flashed red, and he summoned the Black Leaf Squad to room 204, offering Wealth Spirit his condolences.
• Zither Master announced that the God of Wealth had fallen in the No. 9 Arrow Realm and that Huaxia would hold a state funeral the next morning.
• The Black Leaf Squad members turned to Wealth Spirit with complicated expressions after hearing that his leader had died.

At the God of Wealth’s state funeral, Wealth Spirit feared that his path to advancement had been severed, while Su Wen and the other God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers concealed the truth. Su Wen used the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface to learn the Spirit Guidance Technique and help Wealth Shadow advance, and the River of Space-Time rewarded him.

• Wealth Spirit struggled to accept the God of Wealth’s reported death, and the Black Leaf Squad offered him condolences before observing three minutes of silence.
• The next morning, Heavenly Mandate Bearers attended the state funeral, where Su Wen sat in Martial God’s seat and watched his own corpse as Star God spoke in tribute.
• Su Wen noticed Wealth Spirit’s grief and recalled that the God of Wealth’s aura was concealed by Uncle Theater God’s mask while Star God planned to handle Wealth Spirit later.
• While the funeral proceeded, Su Wen used the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface to learn the Spirit Guidance Technique from Du Baihua’s explanation.
• Wealth Shadow presented Su Wen with a seven-colored treasure pearl, and Su Wen refined it into 500 Wealth Source before permitting Wealth Shadow to advance.
• Su Wen paid 300 Wealth Source Points to appease the River of Space-Time, which decided to give him a gift.

After returning to the Sub-Space-Time, the God of Wealth attended Battle God’s victory banquet and reunited with him. Battle God revealed that several fallen gods had entrusted him with insight energy to pass back to their counterparts in the Main Space-Time, leaving the God of Wealth concerned that he had shared the secret in front of too many people.

• The God of Wealth asked Wealth Shadow and Du Baihua to bring him current Martial Dao research, then used Instant Memorization to absorb hundreds of books.
• Wealth Shadow led the God of Wealth to Battle God’s victory banquet, where guards initially barred them from the inner celebration area.
• The God of Wealth used Mental Rhythm to call Battle God out, and Battle God excitedly welcomed him into the inner area.
• Battle God gave the God of Wealth insight energy entrusted to him by Theater God, Star God, Wind God, and Shadow God, asking him to take it to the Main Space-Time.
• The God of Wealth signaled that Battle God should shield their conversation, realizing he had disclosed the secret in front of nearby guests and Asura Race beings.

During the God of Wealth’s funeral, Su Wen watched the Battle God introduce Huang Tianqi and other powerful subordinates, hoping Su Wen would take note of their potential. After the other gods left, Wealth Spirit mourned the God of Wealth and insisted he and the Martial God had been close, leaving Su Wen baffled.

• The Battle God introduced Huang Tianqi, a Fortune Star who had awakened in 2023 and reached Emperor Rank Middle Stage, and began presenting his other subordinates to Su Wen.
• Su Wen understood that the Battle God wanted him to remember these future heroes and considered how nurturing them could strengthen Huaxia.
• The funeral reached its final rites, and the Theater God, Star God, Wind God, and Shadow God went to pay their respects before leaving the hall.
• Wealth Spirit mourned the God of Wealth, promising to send him paper beauties and pleading for a blessing that would help him reach King Rank.
• Su Wen tried to comfort Wealth Spirit, but Wealth Spirit claimed he had been very close to the God of Wealth and asked to grieve alone, confusing Su Wen.

Su Wen attended a funeral feast with the Star God, Theater God, and Wind God while the Battle God stayed behind to fight the Ferocious Crocodile Tribe. As Su Wen watched the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface, the Battle God revealed how Gaul’s God of Darkness had conspired to capture the Shadow God.

• The Star God invited Su Wen and the others to a lavish funeral feast, and they went together.
• The Battle God declined the invitation while fighting the Ferocious Crocodile Tribe, then activated his domain and began destroying them.
• Su Wen and the other gods enjoyed the feast as nearby Heavenly Mandate Bearers wondered why they seemed cheerful after the God of Wealth’s death.
• The interface described how the Shadow God turned the shadows of those he killed into an undying army that grew stronger through battle.
• The Battle God explained that in year 39, Gaul’s God of Darkness joined three Emperor Rank Limit otherworlders and twenty-seven Emperor Rank otherworlders to surround the Shadow God and attempt to enslave him.

Su Wen told the Theater God and Star God that Gaul’s God of Darkness would join the Arrow Realm in an attempt to enslave the Shadow God, devastating Huaxia’s Shadow Legion and undoing its hard-won gains. The gods left their meal to discuss the future danger, while the Shadow God and Wind God stayed behind.

• In Su Wen’s vision, the God of Darkness and the Arrow Realm attacked the Shadow God, who killed the God of Darkness and twenty-seven Emperor Rank otherkind but suffered irreversible injuries.
• The Battle God avenged the Shadow God by killing the God of Darkness’s family and the three Emperor Rank Limit experts who had ambushed her, along with their blood descendants.
• The Battle God told the God of Wealth to warn everyone about the danger and suggested eliminating the God of Darkness before he could strike.
• Su Wen stopped eating and exchanged meaningful looks with the Theater God and Star God, who left with him for the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• Su Wen explained that the God of Darkness would join forces with the Arrow Realm to enslave the Shadow God, leaving the Shadow Legion nearly unable to fight and shattering Huaxia’s wartime advantage.

The Theater God brought Gaul’s God of Darkness into the Theatrical Phenomena World to investigate his origin after Su Wen reported that the God of Darkness might target the Shadow God. The Theater God and Star God found that the darkness and shadow origins seemed strangely similar, while Ao Xiu took comfort in the captive’s worse predicament.

• The Star God and Theater God discussed whether the God of Darkness could plunder the Shadow God’s divine origin, and Su Wen said the Shadow Legion likely came from the Shadow God’s innate ability.
• The Theater God failed to divine anything about the Arrow Realm, but located Gaul’s God of Darkness and summoned him into the Theatrical Phenomena World.
• The Theater God bound the confused God of Darkness with chains and asked the Star God to examine his origin of darkness.
• The Theater God and Star God debated whether the darkness and shadow origins were actually connected, while Su Wen watched and Ao Xiu felt better by comparison.

The God of Wealth learned why the God of Darkness had enslaved the Shadow God, then stayed with the Battle God as he mourned the losses of the Sub-Space-Time. The Battle God asked the God of Wealth to beat up his Main Space-Time counterpart, and the God of Wealth agreed.

• The Battle God explained that the origins of darkness and shadow were separate but twinlike, and that the God of Darkness may have sought the Shadow Legion or the Shadow God’s power.
• The Battle God’s subordinates made excuses and left, leaving the God of Wealth alone with him.
• The Battle God wept over the friends and companions he had lost in the Sub-Space-Time and recalled how the God of Wealth, Star God, and Theater God had once guided him.
• The Battle God admitted he envied his Main Space-Time counterpart for having a brighter future without enduring the same suffering.
• The Battle God asked the God of Wealth to beat up the Main Space-Time Battle God, and the God of Wealth agreed.

Su Wen told Theater God and Star God about the possible link between the God of Darkness and Shadow God, and Theater God decided to keep the God of Darkness imprisoned until Xiao Ying reached King Rank. Su Wen then revealed that an Insight Air Mass contained thirty years of insights, and proposed beating Battle God to obtain it.

• Su Wen proposed that the God of Darkness might have enslaved Shadow God to steal her powers or claim her Shadow Legion, while the God of Darkness denied knowing Shadow God and Star God gagged him.
• Theater God decided to leave the God of Darkness with Ao Xiu while he and Star God studied the origin of darkness, and said Xiao Ying might become stronger by accepting the God of Darkness's gift.
• Su Wen told Theater God that an Insight Air Mass contained thirty years of insights, and Theater God eagerly offered to pay for it.
• Su Wen said they might need to do something big and proposed beating Battle God, prompting Theater God to ask how badly they should beat him.
• Star God asked Su Wen whether he had received a revelation or knew Battle God would face a problem in the future.

The Star God and Theater God discussed the plan to kill the God of Darkness, then met the God of Magic, who had come after hearing of the God of Wealth’s death. They discovered that the God of Magic carried a Fire Tree Clan mark, and the Star God hinted he could eventually make the Star Grand Array block rule power.

• Su Wen said beating up the Battle God was simply a transaction, and the Theater God agreed they should do it.
• The Star God and Theater God discussed killing the God of Darkness while minimizing the loss to humanity, then sensed the God of Magic approaching.
• The God of Magic arrived and mourned the God of Wealth, while recognizing that the magic book was with Su Wen, who wore the Martial God Mask.
• The Theater God pulled a strand of rule power from the God of Magic and consumed it, identifying it as a Fire Tree Clan Earth Deity’s mark.
• The Star God said he could make the Star Grand Array block rule power after reaching Emperor Rank, and the God of Magic asked him to build one for Britain too.

The Theater God and God of Magic planned to attack the Snow Soul Clan under the pretense of avenging the God of Wealth, while also targeting its treasures and currency. Su Wen learned from the Battle God that the Snow Soul Clan’s formidable Emperor Rank auras were a bluff and that the Battle God had already killed its ancestor and looted its nine treasure vaults.

• The Theater God asked the God of Magic to stage an attack on the Snow Soul Clan and disguise the theft of its currency and treasures as revenge for the God of Wealth.
• The Theater God hurried the God of Magic toward the Snow Soul Realm, partly to test the clan and partly to obtain money for buying the Martial God’s insights.
• Su Wen suggested they eat hot dry noodles before leaving, and the God of Magic agreed.
• On the Wealth Disrupts Space-Time interface, the Battle God told Su Wen that he had killed the Snow Spirit Clan Ancestor and robbed all nine treasure vaults.
• The Battle God explained that the Snow Spirit Clan’s supposed Emperor Rank Limit and Emperor Rank forces came from a device, and Su Wen was stunned by the clan’s audacity.

Su Wen learned that the Snow Soul Clan’s supposed strength was a deception and that the Azure Eye Clan might help overthrow it. The Theater God and God of Magic set off to exploit the Snow Soul Clan’s weakness, while the Star God contacted Wealth Spirit with a task from the supposedly dead God of Wealth.

• Fortune Star explained that the Snow Soul Clan’s Emperor Rank Limit powerhouses and many Emperor Rank auras were fake, and advised Su Wen to contact the Azure Eye Clan’s Third Royal Duke.
• Su Wen told the Theater God and God of Magic about the Snow Soul Clan’s deception, and the Theater God proposed having the Azure Eye Clan lead a rebellion against it.
• The Theater God and God of Magic left to confront the Snow Soul Clan, while the Star God praised Su Wen for his help.
• Wealth Spirit left the memorial hall after the funeral feast and received a message from the Star God about a task entrusted by the God of Wealth.

The Star God sent the Wealth Spirit to the Insect Spirit Arrow Realm with a black chess piece to protect him, while the God of Freedom arrived to pay her respects to the God of Wealth and tried to comfort the Star God. Su Wen then watched a vision of the Battle God discover a music box containing a message from the Star God, which ended with the Star God sighing wistfully.

• The Star God told the Wealth Spirit to unleash his divine abilities in the Insect Spirit Arrow Realm and gave him a black chess piece to save his life if needed.
• The Wealth Spirit promised to hold another feast for the God of Wealth when he returned, and the Star God and Su Wen watched his words and actions in a projection.
• The Star God warned Su Wen to be on guard around the God of Freedom, then restrained her when she tried to embrace him.
• The God of Freedom broke the Star God's restraint and asked to pay her respects to the God of Wealth, so the Star God accompanied her to the hall.
• Su Wen reviewed a vision in which the Battle God found the Star God's music box, and a projection of the Star God warned him against drinking too much and urged him to shoulder responsibility.
• The Battle God asked the Star God's projection how it could remain and how long it would last, and the Star God shook his head and sighed.

The Star God's projection explained to Su Wen why the Star God in a Sub-Space-Time had slaughtered Arrow Realm: he believed Su Wen was testing his trustworthiness and chose the most direct way to prove himself. Su Wen accepted the explanation but suspected the Narrator was trying to provoke him into revealing his innate ability.

• The Star God's projection comforted the Battle God and told Su Wen it had been left to answer his question.
• The Star God explained that he had learned Su Wen could cross space-time and believed his choices would determine whether Su Wen trusted him.
• The Star God said he had attacked Arrow Realm to prove his loyalty through decisive action rather than risk being misunderstood by a complicated plan.
• Su Wen reconsidered his doubts about the Star God and recalled the Star God's past efforts to help Huaxia and the God-Prefixed Heavenly Mandate Bearers.
• Su Wen suspected the Narrator's final remarks were baiting him to reveal his innate ability in the Main Space-Time.

Su Wen heard the Star God's projection urge him to protect the secrecy of Wealth Disrupts Space-Time and reassure him that Huaxia and humanity stood behind him. Troubled by the Narrator's account of a Su Wen who had cried in a Sub-Space-Time, he asked Sycee how his ability worked, and Sycee said the answer touched on fundamental questions.

• The Star God's projection praised Su Wen for keeping his time-travel ability secret and warned him never to reveal it to anyone in the Main Space-Time.
• The Star God's projection encouraged Su Wen, saying that Huaxia and humanity stood behind him as he faced the tragedies of the future alone.
• Su Wen reflected on the Star God's repeated comfort and compared it with the Battle God's unusual request that he beat up his Main Space-Time counterpart.
• Su Wen returned to the Martial God's office and summoned Sycee to ask how Wealth Disrupts Space-Time worked.
• Su Wen wondered whether the Narrator's account implied that three versions of him existed, and Sycee said the question involved fundamental matters.

Sycee explained the four stages of Su Wen’s Wealth Disrupts Space-Time talent, including the costly and dangerous option of traveling to the future in his true body, and warned him to build enough strength before attempting it. Their discussion was interrupted when a clash near Theater God sent destructive shockwaves toward Huaxia, and the Star God began arranging a projection of the battle.

• Sycee explained that Wealth Disrupts Space-Time progressed from hearing a Narrator’s account to projecting future scenes, firsthand consciousness travel, and finally true-body travel, with each method costing more Wealth Source.
• Su Wen learned that Sycee needed ten points of divinity to reach the advanced stage and twenty to reach the peak stage, and that returning from a true-body journey required equivalent Wealth Source.
• Sycee advised Su Wen not to travel to the future in his true body until he could withstand the world’s strongest person for a while, and Su Wen considered the Emperor Rank Limit necessary for that protection.
• A violent explosion and continuing tremors shook the area, and the Star God, Shadow God, Wind God, and God of Freedom arrived at the office.
• The Star God activated the Star Grand Array to shield Huaxia from the shockwaves and said he would contact Theater God to project the Emperor Rank battle.

The God of Magic attacked the Snow Soul Realm with waves of forbidden spells, blaming the Snow Spirit Clan for killing the God of Wealth, while the Theater God watched and projected the battle for the others. As the battle continued, a robed figure with cyan eyes suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

• The God of Magic shattered the Snow Soul Realm's defensive array and unleashed forbidden magic after accusing the Snow Spirit Clan of killing the God of Wealth.
• The Snow Spirit Clan ancestor emerged from seclusion, then backed down after noticing the Theater God and offered life essence to avert war.
• The God of Magic rejected the offer and continued attacking as the Snow Spirit Clan's Emperor Rank fighters defended their realm.
• The Theater God projected the battle for the Star God and the others, who watched and discussed the combatants' power.
• A robed figure with exposed cyan eyes appeared in the battlefield projection.

The Azure Eye Clan's Third Royal Duke watched the Snow Spirit Clan's crisis before deciding whether to rebel, while the Theater God urged him to wait for greater losses. After the Snow Spirit Clan's protective formation shattered, its Ancestor summoned Heavenly Venerable Lingyu of the Demon Prison Clan, who approached the Theater God and asked for a favor.

• The Azure Eye Clan's Third Royal Duke told the Theater God that the Snow Spirit Clan had kept most of its Emperor Rank experts hidden, and he said he needed to watch longer before committing his clan to an uprising.
• The Snow Soul Clan summoned the clans under its command to fight, but the Third Royal Duke crushed the summons talisman and said King Rank fighters would be of little use.
• The God of Magic's Forbidden Magic broke the Snow Spirit Clan's protective formation, killing countless members and devastating its lands.
• The Snow Spirit Clan Ancestor raised a hand but lowered it after noticing the Theater God's indifference, then used a seven-colored jade slip to summon a blood-marked middle-aged man.
• The man identified himself as Heavenly Venerable Lingyu of the Demon Prison Clan and asked the Theater God for a favor.

Theater God confronted Heavenly Venerable Lingyu, who had come to mediate the war between Huaxia and the Snow Spirit Clan, and provoked him into attacking. Lingyu launched a killing strike, and Theater God prepared to fight him.

• Theater God threatened Heavenly Venerable Lingyu and dismissed the Demon Prison Clan, angering him.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingyu summoned demonic flames and drew a divine sword, warning Theater God to withdraw.
• The Snow Spirit Clan Ancestor warned Lingyu by voice transmission that his opponent was Huaxia's Theater God.
• Lingyu took the warning as an insult, combined his sword and demonic flames, and attacked Theater God with a killing blow.
• Theater God welcomed the chance to fight an Emperor Rank Limit expert.

Heavenly Venerable Lingyu attacked the Theater God, who effortlessly neutralized his strike and began stripping him of his treasures. As the Theater God seized a lightning talisman, Heavenly Venerable Lingyu summoned a dark gourd whose suction made the theatrical phenomena world tremble.

• Heavenly Venerable Lingyu reassured Snow Spirit Ancestor that he could retreat to the Demon Prison Realm, then attacked the Theater God.
• Snow Spirit Ancestor realized the Theater God had been baiting Heavenly Venerable Lingyu and feared the attack would provoke a disastrous response.
• Powerful divine senses debated why the Demon Prison Clan had sent an Emperor Rank Limit expert against the Theater God, then decided to investigate the clan's strategists.
• The Theater God caught Heavenly Venerable Lingyu's divine sword between his fingers and dispersed the attack with a sweep of his hand.
• The Theater God used the theatrical phenomena world's power to draw Heavenly Venerable Lingyu toward him and seized his lightning talisman treasure.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingyu called the Theater God a thief and summoned a dark, rule-engraved gourd whose suction made the theatrical phenomena world tremble.

The Theater God seized Heavenly Venerable Lingyu’s supreme treasures while Lingyu tried to exhaust his power with more attacks and valuables. Observers mistakenly concluded that the Demon Prison Clan had sided with Huaxia to gain the God of Wealth’s succession, prompting other factions to reconsider their alliances.

• The Theater God used the Theatrical Phenomena World to take Heavenly Venerable Lingyu’s darkness gourd and five more supreme treasures.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingyu mistook the Theater God’s apparent strain for weakness and brought out more treasures while attacking him with divine abilities.
• The God of Magic watched enviously as the Theater God dominated the battle and collected Lingyu’s treasures.
• Powerful spiritual wills debated why the Demon Prison Clan was handing its treasures to the Theater God and learned that Huaxia’s God of Wealth had died.
• The spiritual wills concluded that the God of Wealth’s divine position had passed to the Demon Prison Clan, leading them to believe the clan had sided with Huaxia.
• An old ancestor from an Arrow Realm friendly with the Demon Prison Clan angrily lamented that the clan had not invited them to side with Huaxia too.

The Star God and Su Wen linked the Theater God's sudden wealth to the fortune remaining on Ao Xiu, while the Demon Prison Clan sent three Emperor Rank Limit experts to rescue Heavenly Venerable Lingyu. The old woman's calls for help went unanswered, leaving her unable to break the Theater God's domain or free Lingyu.

• The Star God told Su Wen that Ao Xiu's remaining fortune in wealth likely treated the Theater God as an ally and helped him reap treasures from Heavenly Venerable Lingyu.
• The Star God noticed three Emperor Rank Limit experts approaching, and the Theater God spread his theatrical phenomena world's gray mist to keep them from interfering.
• A Demon Prison Clan old woman arrived with two companions and asked her nearby old friends to help free Lingyu, but none responded.
• The old woman called out again with her full power, yet the surrounding void remained peaceful and no allies appeared.

Ancestor Cangwu and his allies mistook the elderly woman's rescue attempt for a trap and withdrew from the Snow Soul Realm, leaving her to act alone. Her incomplete message prompted Heavenly Venerable Lingyu to prepare the Destruction Grand Formation, while the Theater God recognized the formation cores and unleashed the Theatrical Phenomena World.

• Ancestor Cangwu and another expert decided the Demon Prison Clan and the Theater God were plotting to ambush them, so they withdrew their divine senses and went to sleep.
• The elderly woman noticed her old friends had abandoned their watch and wondered whether a strange force was preventing the Demon Prison Clan from realizing Lingyu needed rescue.
• The elderly woman told Lingyu to bring out the four destruction formation cores and activate the Destruction Grand Formation, but an invisible fluctuation erased part of her message.
• The Theater God recognized the formation cores from the Holy Spirit Clan's illustrated compendium of supreme treasures.
• The Theater God made the Theatrical Phenomena World boil over and declared the treasure his.