Recaps

Bai Shuyan defeated Gu Fei in ten moves, then tried to use the spectacle to promote System Seeds and earn Energy Points. Other newly bound system hosts quickly joined in, spreading the seed-selling scramble throughout Jiangling Prefecture City.

• Bai Shuyan used the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm to defeat Gu Fei in ten moves, and Gu Qingchuan knocked his son unconscious and carried him away.
• Bai Shuyan recalled gaining a system in Changling County, obtaining a peerless cultivation method, and advancing to the Middle Innate Realm.
• Liu Guan told the spectators that Bai Shuyan's strength came from a system and began giving away System Seeds.
• Bai Shuyan urged the crowd to take his System Seeds, but newly bound hosts also began distributing seeds to earn Energy Points.
• System hosts spread throughout Jiangling Prefecture City, and some left to promote seeds in other markets.

Gu Qingchuan tried to enlist the other great Lineages in spreading rumors against systems, but Tang Yichen, Song Jinghe, and He Mingche exposed his plot. Meanwhile, Liu Yi saw systems spreading rapidly and began using their combined computing power to design Fairness System version 4.0.

• Gu Qingchuan urged Song Jinghe, He Mingche, and Tang Yichen to claim that systems would take over their users and to keep them away from commoners.
• Tang Yichen, Song Jinghe, and He Mingche rejected Gu Qingchuan’s scheme, then agreed to undermine the Gu Household and share information through Microchat.
• He Mingche posted a recording of Gu Qingchuan’s remarks, making the plot a trending topic and drawing widespread condemnation of the Gu Household.
• Liu Yi checked the system’s growth and found 35.16 million users and 130 billion Energy Points.
• Liu Yi connected to more than thirty million subsystems and used their spare computing power to begin deducing Fairness System version 4.0.

Liu Yi completed Fairness System 4.0, adding the Dao Comprehension Space and Storage Space, then sent the update to over thirty million hosts. As Jiangling Prefecture mobilized to earn Energy Points, Liu Yi saw how the system had changed Green Mountain Town and considered creating a cultivation method that could restore damaged bodies.

• Liu Yi finished testing System 4.0 and sent the update to all hosts, then issued a mission to map their surroundings.
• Wen Ziqian welcomed the Dao Comprehension Space but returned to tending his grain seedlings because he lacked Energy Points.
• Song Jinghe ordered his household to buy Energy Points and send younger members out to promote the system and complete map missions.
• Xu Cheng'an decided to leave his hometown to earn Energy Points and advance his cultivation.
• People across Jiangling Prefecture rushed to earn Energy Points, while Liu Yi headed to the Drunken Spring Pavilion and saw the system's effects on Green Mountain Town.
• After hearing an old man wish for a way to heal his son's injured arm, Liu Yi considered developing a method to restore the body and regrow limbs.

After recovering, Liu Yi created several Divine Abilities from the Principles he had comprehended and tested the Five-Colored Divine Light on Little Yellow. The chapter left Little Yellow bound to the Fairness System and eager to cultivate so he could reach the Divine Sea Realm and speak.

• Liu Yi pretended he had gone into the Drunken Spring Pavilion only to look for Little Yellow, then returned to the medical clinic.
• Liu Yi used the Time, Space, Five Elements, and Yin-Yang Principles to create Divine Abilities for attack, defense, movement, and healing.
• Liu Yi tested the Five-Colored Divine Light by making Little Yellow’s food bowl disappear and reappear, then briefly drawing Little Yellow into its space.
• Little Yellow asked to bind the Fairness System so he could cultivate faster, reach the Divine Sea Realm, and learn to speak.
• Liu Yi allowed Little Yellow to bind the Fairness System and warned him not to reveal that he was a dog.

Xu Wang mistook Xu Cheng'an's distribution of System Seeds for cult activity, but after losing to him and binding a system, he became a seed distributor himself. Meanwhile, Wen Ziqian, Zhou Yu'an, and Shen Zhixia completed their high-yield rice improvement, and Liu Yi prepared to reward them and publicize their achievement.

• Xu Wang accused Xu Cheng'an of spreading a cult and attacked him, but Xu Cheng'an defeated him in a fight.
• Xu Wang bound a System Seed, discovered its cultivation methods, sold his own techniques for Energy Points, and bought the Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Instruction.
• Xu Wang apologized to Xu Cheng'an and began handing out free System Seeds to the townspeople, competing with him for recruits.
• Wen Ziqian, Zhou Yu'an, and Shen Zhixia announced that their improved rice yielded a thousand jin per mu and submitted their results to the System Mission Hall.
• Liu Yi verified their rice-improvement results and decided to commend them publicly, award them one hundred million Energy Points, and name the rice Wen Ziqian Rice.

After their high-yield rice earned a system commendation and 100 million Energy Points, Wen Ziqian and his disciples brought the system to the Shennong Sect, whose leaders began selling cultivation manuals and organizing crop research. Meanwhile, Liu Yi watched a video of a rune-covered tomb in Changxing Prefecture and decided to wait before investigating.

• The system named the thousand-jin-per-mu crop Wen Ziqian Rice and publicly awarded Wen Ziqian, Zhou Yu'an, and Shen Zhixia 100 million Energy Points, making them famous among system hosts.
• Shen Zhixia proposed binding the system for the entire Shennong Sect, and Wen Ziqian agreed to promote the rice first and then recruit the sect into crop research.
• Three months later, Wen Ziqian introduced the system to Sect Master Li Xuan and six elders, who bound System Seeds and decided to sell the sect's cultivation manuals and promote the system.
• Little Yellow broke through to the Divine Sea Realm, learned to speak, and promised Liu Yi to hide his ability outside.
• Liu Yi saw a video of a rune-covered tomb in Changxing Prefecture and chose to wait before investigating, considering whether its immortal cultivation legacy might help him comprehend more Great Dao Principles.

Liu Yi and Little Yellow entered a newly discovered cultivator's tomb, where they helped break its protective array and passed through a deadly trapped corridor. Inside, an illusion array threw the other intruders into chaos, and Liu Yi dispelled its effects on himself and Little Yellow.

• Liu Yi brought Little Yellow to the tomb despite his conspicuous floral shorts and explained that he needed to obtain cultivation manuals himself to strengthen the Fairness System.
• At the tomb, Liu Yi spotted Xu Cheng'an, Su Muhan, Bai Shuyan, Xu Wang, Ruan Xingye, Meng Zhixu, and Su Wantang among the gathered martial artists and system hosts.
• Xu Wang and the other gathered intruders attacked the protective array, and Liu Yi struck its flaw, shattering it.
• The crowd rushed into the tomb, while Liu Yi and Little Yellow followed after them and flew past a corridor of lethal arrows and corpses.
• In a burial chamber, an illusion array confused the intruders; Liu Yi remained unaffected, dispelled the illusion around Little Yellow, and identified the array.

Liu Yi broke the illusion array, rescued the surviving explorers, and swiftly destroyed the bronze puppets guarding the tomb chamber. After collecting the puppets in his system Storage Space, he opened the stone door, whereupon mechanical sounds came from beyond it.

• Liu Yi shattered the illusion array, revealing that more than two hundred people had died while trapped in it.
• Su Wantang thanked Liu Yi for saving the crowd, and the survivors followed him onward through the tomb passage.
• Liu Yi arrived as Xu Cheng'an, Xu Wang, Ruan Xingye, and Meng Zhixu fought eight bronze puppets, then destroyed them all with his palm strikes.
• Liu Yi introduced himself to Meng Zhixu and stored the bronze puppets in his system Storage Space, surprising Su Wantang and the others.
• Liu Yi struck open the stone door to the main tomb chamber, and mechanical sounds began from within.

Liu Yi destroyed two Golden Core Realm golden humanoid puppets with his Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light and discovered that the tomb’s master had become a zombie. The zombie attacked him, and Liu Yi met it with his Great Yin-Yang Destruction Divine Light.

• Liu Yi told the others to step back and destroyed both golden humanoid puppets with his Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light.
• Liu Yi collected the puppets’ wreckage and recognized the runes on the coffin as a corpse-refining formation.
• Liu Yi warned Su Wantang and the others that the tomb’s master had refined himself into a zombie, then knocked the coffin lid away.
• The zombie emerged from the coffin, revealing a metal puppet arm, and lunged at Liu Yi.
• Liu Yi fired his Great Yin-Yang Destruction Divine Light as the zombie gathered Corpse Qi around its puppet arm and thrust it forward.

Liu Yi destroyed the zombie with two devastating attacks, then shared an immortal cultivation method through the System Store and promoted the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System. The others received System Seeds and left eager to cultivate toward the Dao Seed Realm.

• Liu Yi blasted the zombie into dust with the Great Yin-Yang Destruction Divine Light, then reflected on the immense cost of his strongest abilities.
• Liu Yi retrieved a jade slip from the coffin and discovered it contained the True Explanation of a Thousand Mechanisms and Puppets, an immortal cultivation method and puppet-making manual.
• Liu Yi gave System Seeds to Su Wantang and the others, who bound them and discovered the System Store and its offerings.
• Liu Yi uploaded the True Explanation of a Thousand Mechanisms and Puppets to the System Store, where the group discussed selling their cultivation methods for Energy Points.
• Xu Wang asked Liu Yi whether he had reached the Dao Seed Realm, and Liu Yi confirmed it while praising the Dao Seed Martial Dao Cultivation System.

After the system spread across Jin State, Liu Yi became famous for killing the bronze humanoid puppet and focused on cultivating and deducing Great Dao Principles. The Blazing Sun Sect and other factions then banned the system's dissemination, while Liu Yi remained unaware and continued his work.

• System hosts spread System Seeds throughout Jin State and neighboring countries, bringing the number of hosts to three billion within a month.
• Liu Yi watched videos of his fight at the immortal cultivator's tomb and saw that he had become famous as the number one expert among system hosts.
• Liu Yi returned to cultivation, while new inventions such as cement, grain seeds, glass, and energy-powered vehicles earned their creators Energy Points.
• Wang Yang reported the system's spread to Liu Wenzhou, who ordered the Blazing Sun Sect to ban its dissemination and punish anyone who secretly bound it.
• The Blazing Sun Sect and other martial-world factions issued bans, setting off heated discussions on TikTok and the forum.
• Liu Yi remained unaware of the bans and continued deducing Great Dao Principles with the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix.

After emerging from seclusion with more than 1,200 great Dao Principles comprehended, Liu Yi responded to forces suppressing the system by posting an extermination mission against the Blazing Sun Sect and others. He then saw how technology and martial arts had transformed Green Mountain Town while he was away.

• Liu Yi discovered that the Blazing Sun Sect and other forces had forbidden the system's spread, so he unbound their members and issued a mission to exterminate them for 300 billion Energy Points.
• System hosts celebrated the mission and rushed to join it, while Liu Yi told Little Yellow he planned to upgrade the system with an intelligent recognition function.
• Liu Yi left the World-Saving Medical Hall with Little Yellow and was surprised to see concrete roads, modern vehicles, digital payments, and martial arts integrated into daily life in Green Mountain Town.
• Little Yellow told Liu Yi that the world had changed rapidly and bandits had disappeared as martial arts became widespread, and Liu Yi agreed to eat before exploring further.

Liu Yi explored Green Mountain Town’s new formation-powered vehicles and efficient farming, taking satisfaction in the prosperity his changes had helped bring. Meanwhile, system hosts began exterminating forces that had opposed the system, and Xu Cheng'an led the destruction of the Zhao Household.

• Liu Yi tested a formation-powered vehicle at the Lin Vehicle Shop and bought it with Energy Points.
• Liu Yi drove through the countryside and saw farmers using martial arts to harvest and plant crops; Little Yellow told him rice yields had reached 2,000 jin per mu.
• Tens of millions of system hosts joined the extermination campaign against martial sects and great clans that had blocked the system’s spread.
• Xu Cheng'an led more than ten thousand system hosts in an assault on the Zhao residence and defeated Zhao Heng.
• Xu Cheng'an killed Zhao Heng, joined the attack, and helped wipe out the Zhao Household, earning thirty million Energy Points.

The system hosts attacked the Blazing Sun Sect, the last force in Jin State opposing the system, and killed Liu Wenzhou and the sect’s disciples. After Liu Yi verified the battle evidence and distributed rewards, the extermination mission ended, and he turned to upgrading the system.

• Nearly a hundred thousand system hosts surrounded the Blazing Sun Sect, while Xu Wang challenged Liu Wenzhou to settle their old grudge.
• Wang Yang led the sect’s elders and disciples to confront the attackers, and Liu Wenzhou appeared and threatened the hosts.
• Xu Wang used the system’s Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Instruction to wound Liu Wenzhou, and the hosts joined the fight.
• Xu Wang killed Liu Wenzhou, and the hosts slaughtered the Blazing Sun Sect’s remaining disciples.
• Liu Yi reviewed the submitted video evidence, awarded Energy Points to the contributors, and began planning a system upgrade.

Liu Yi tested the new Fairness System 5.0 by defeating his own mirror image in the Trial Tower, then chose to remain first on the Dao Seed Realm Combat Power Ranking. After updating the system for its hosts, he decided to leave Green Mountain Town and travel the world, while reactions to the update spread and Jin State’s officials discussed the system.

• Liu Yi tested Fairness System 5.0’s new functions and won a grueling Trial Tower battle against his mirror image by improving a Divine Ability.
• Liu Yi kept his first-place position on the Dao Seed Realm Combat Power Ranking and sent the update notification to system hosts.
• Liu Yi visited Liu Household Village, found his family well and Liu Hai’s family in the Innate Realm, and paid his respects to his parents and eldest brother.
• Liu Yi told Little Yellow they would leave Green Mountain Town the next day to travel the world.
• System hosts discussed Fairness System 5.0, the Trial Tower, and Liu Yi’s ranking, while officials gathered in the Jin State imperial palace to discuss the system.

Emperor Sima Han sought a way to preserve Jin State’s rule as the Fairness System spread, and Chancellor Wu Xubai warned that resisting it would bring disaster. Sima Han invited Zheng Siqi, the Immortal Master Who Guards the State, to confront the system; Zheng bound it and was astonished by its features.

• Officials argued before Sima Han about banning, controlling, or suppressing the system, and Wu Xubai advised that it could not be stopped without risking the Jin State’s destruction.
• Wu Xubai warned that system hosts had already destroyed powerful forces, while the system had also brought inventions and increased grain yields.
• Wu Xubai proposed that Zheng Siqi challenge Liu Yi to deter the system hosts, and Sima Han left to invite Zheng.
• Sima Han explained the Fairness System to Zheng Siqi and gave him a System Seed.
• Zheng Siqi bound the system, explored its features, and marveled at its cultivation methods, communication tools, Storage Space, and Trial Tower.

Zheng Siqi accepted Sima Han’s request to challenge Liu Yi and used the system to improve his cultivation, while Liu Yi accepted the challenge after seeing it posted online. Their fight was set for three months later at Fallen Leaf Plain, where Liu Yi’s response left the confrontation ahead.

• Sima Han asked Zheng Siqi to defeat Liu Yi and curb the system hosts, and Zheng Siqi agreed to fight him in three months at Fallen Leaf Plain.
• Zheng Siqi sold cultivation methods to the System Store, spent his Energy Points on Storage Space and Dao Comprehension Space, and gained confidence that he could reach the Late Stage of the Golden Core within three months.
• Zheng Siqi ran out of Energy Points and decided to seek more by selling the Jin State imperial family’s ancient texts and asking Sima Han to help him buy points.
• Liu Yi let Little Yellow drive while he browsed the system forum and saw the Jin State’s challenge on behalf of Zheng Siqi.
• Liu Yi recorded and posted a video accepting the fight at Fallen Leaf Plain in three months.

Liu Yi completed his comprehension of the Principle of Fate after a disturbance drew him toward a battle, where he saved Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang from a Blood Devil Cultivator. He learned the cultivator had slaughtered a village to advance and set out with his companions to check for survivors.

• Liu Yi used the Principle of Cause and Effect to comprehend the Principle of Fate, then flew toward the fighting ahead with Little Yellow.
• Liu Yi rescued Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang by destroying the Blood Devil Cultivator, who regenerated once before Liu Yi burned him to ash.
• Liu Yi collected the Blood Devil Cultivation Method manual and wondered how a second copy had appeared after he buried the first.
• Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang thanked Liu Yi and explained that the Devil Cultivator had killed more than three hundred villagers for their blood.
• Liu Yi learned the Black and White Twin Swords had been selling System Seeds and headed with Little Yellow to search the village for survivors.

Liu Yi used the Blood Devil Cultivation Method manual to trace its source, glimpsed the Blood Sea and its terrifying eyes, and resolved to grow strong enough to defeat their owner. He and Little Yellow headed for the capital, where a million spectators awaited Liu Yi’s duel with Zheng Siqi and learned that Zheng had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core by buying Energy Points from Jin State’s people.

• Liu Yi and Little Yellow left after Liu Yi investigated the Blood Devil Cultivation Method, and Liu Yi used the manual with the Principles of Fate and Cause and Effect to summon a vision of the Blood Sea.
• A pair of blood-red eyes in the Blood Sea injured Liu Yi across the void and destroyed the manual, confirming that someone was deliberately spreading the cultivation method.
• Liu Yi told Little Yellow that the eyes’ owner was likely still trapped and vowed to surpass and kill him before setting off for the capital to face Zheng Siqi.
• More than a million spectators gathered at Fallen Leaf Plain for the duel, while many doubted Liu Yi would arrive and most bettors favored Zheng Siqi.
• Zheng Siqi spoke with Lin Jing and Li Yan about the contest’s importance to the imperial courts as the system spread through their states.
• Zheng Siqi revealed that he had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core by having Jin State’s emperor buy Energy Points from the people.

Liu Yi arrived at Fallen Leaf Plain just before his match with Zheng Siqi, having been delayed while studying a water ghost and comprehending the Soul Principle. He overwhelmed Zheng Siqi with a single Five Elements Palm strike, leaving himself stunned by how easily he had defeated a Late Stage Golden Core cultivator.

• Li Yan, Lin Jing, and Zheng Siqi mocked Liu Yi for failing to appear, while his allies worried that he might miss the match.
• Liu Yi arrived at Fallen Leaf Plain and explained that studying a water ghost had delayed him and helped him comprehend a trace of the Soul Principle.
• Zheng Siqi challenged Liu Yi and revealed that he had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core Realm.
• Zheng Siqi attacked with a flying sword, but Liu Yi's Five Elements Palm sent it flying and slammed Zheng Siqi into the ground.
• Liu Yi used his Divine Sense to confirm Zheng Siqi was truly suppressed, then wondered whether his opponent was weak or he was stronger than expected.

Liu Yi defeated Zheng Siqi with one Five Elements palm, proving that a martial artist could overcome a powerful immortal cultivator and shifting public confidence toward the Martial Dao. After leaving the battlefield, Liu Yi visited the Jin State capital and entered its most luxurious brothel to celebrate.

• Liu Yi defeated Zheng Siqi in one move, shocking Lin Jing and Li Yan and crushing Sima Han and the Jin State officials’ hopes.
• Su Wantang, Xu Wang, Xu Cheng'an, and the spectators celebrated Liu Yi’s victory, while Little Yellow praised him through Microchat.
• Liu Yi asked Zheng Siqi if he wanted to continue fighting, and Zheng Siqi swallowed a healing pill, admitted defeat, and flew away on his sword.
• Liu Yi concealed his appearance in the Jin State capital and saw common people discussing his victory and the changing balance of power.
• Liu Yi picked up Little Yellow and entered the capital’s most luxurious brothel to celebrate.

Three years after Liu Yi’s victory, the Immortal Ascension Conference drew an unprecedented crowd, and the major sects discovered that nearly everyone there had immortal cultivation aptitude. After confirming the results, the Heavenly Revelation Sect and other sects decided to accept all the qualified candidates.

• Liu Yi reviewed the public’s praise for his duel victory and prepared to travel in search of the Great Dao Principles and a method to break through to the next realm.
• At the Immortal Ascension Conference, Li Jie and Zheng Siqi discovered that nearly all of the roughly 100,000 attendees had immortal cultivation aptitude, including 1,000 with Heavenly Spirit Roots.
• Lin Nan consulted the Heavenly Revelation Sect’s elders, decided to accept all the candidates if the results proved genuine, and sent Lan Sheng to verify them.
• Lan Sheng retested the crowd with a new Law Artifact, confirmed all 100,000 had aptitude, and ordered Li Jie to bring them to the sect.
• Major sects across the Yue State, the Fire State, and other states also recruited everyone with immortal cultivation aptitude.

After traveling and advancing his comprehension of the Great Dao, Liu Yi explained how recruiting system hosts into immortal cultivation sects would let him obtain their manuals and spread the system from within. The plan began to succeed as the sects’ new disciples advanced rapidly, sold texts to the System Store, and revealed sect life to system users.

• Liu Yi told Little Yellow that displaying physiques had helped recruit system hosts into sects so they could sell manuals, influence sect decisions, and expand the system’s reach.
• Little Yellow worried the sects would discover and ban the system, but Liu Yi argued that hosts and immortal masters would keep it secret or embrace its benefits.
• Newly recruited hosts and returning state-protecting immortal masters secretly sold sect manuals to the System Store for Energy Points.
• System-assisted disciples rapidly reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, Foundation Establishment Realm, and Tenth Layer of Qi Refining, delighting sect leaders who overlooked suspicious signs.
• System hosts shared photos, text, and videos of their sects on the social platform, making the once-mysterious immortal cultivation sects known to other users.

Videos of sect disciples’ harsh working conditions challenged the public’s romantic image of immortal cultivation. In Empyrean City, Liu Yi met Xie Tong, traded Energy Points for Spirit Stones, and discussed how the system-driven mortal world might one day surpass the immortal cultivation world before Liu Yi spotted someone familiar below.

• A Heavenly Revelation Sect outer disciple described grueling labor for a tiny Spirit Stone fragment, and viewers reacted by comparing sect life to a sweatshop.
• Little Yellow questioned the sects’ exploitation, and Liu Yi defended his own departure from the Heavenly Revelation Sect as a choice to start a business.
• At a restaurant in Empyrean City, Xie Tong introduced himself to Liu Yi as Know-It-All and explained the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market’s trading conference.
• Liu Yi agreed to travel to the conference with Xie Tong and exchanged Energy Points for Xie Tong’s 100 Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Xie Tong said the mortal world was changing faster than the stagnant immortal cultivation world, and Liu Yi spotted a familiar figure on the street below.

Liu Yi learned about the Fortune Secret Realm from Xie Tong and agreed to explore it with him when it opened in a month. After entering the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market, Liu Yi's spiritual perception drew his attention to a broken iron fragment at a Rogue Cultivator's stall.

• Liu Yi and Xie Tong spotted Ye Qingxue in Empyrean City, and Xie Tong described her reputation and cultivation.
• Xie Tong explained the Fortune Secret Realm and said he planned to enter it to comprehend a Great Dao Principle.
• Liu Yi agreed to explore the secret realm with Xie Tong, and they exchanged Microchat contacts.
• Liu Yi followed Xie Tong into the Empyrean Immortal Cultivation Market, where Little Yellow stayed close after Liu Yi warned it not to cause trouble.
• Liu Yi browsed the Rogue Cultivators' stalls and noticed a palm-sized broken iron fragment marked with black and white Dao patterns.