Recaps

Shi Jian mobilized the Myriad Demon Domain’s forces while the Grand Purity Sect and Flood Dragon Domain threatened other fronts. In Huang Province, he confronted the One Qi Dao Gate’s leaders and demanded that the Human Race surrender Huang Province and Transformation Province.

• Shi Jian sent White Crane to watch the Grand Purity Sect’s attack on the Heavenly Ape Domain and ordered Ao Hai to stir up trouble for the Supreme Purity Sect.
• Shi Jian summoned six generals and led the Myriad Demon Domain’s forces toward Huang Province, where they joined six generals already stationed near Heavenly Demon City.
• The twelve Demon Generals attacked the Six Harmonies Heaven-Locking Grand Array, forcing the defenders back until True Lord Wenxuan and True Lord Qingxiao arrived.
• True Lord Qingxiao struck at Kuang Dou, but Shi Jian intercepted the attack and damaged the array with his lightning.
• Shi Jian warned True Lord Wenxuan that the One Qi Dao Gate stood alone and threatened to devastate the Profound Truth Kingdom if Wenxuan fought him.
• True Lord Wenxuan asked what Shi Jian wanted, and Shi Jian demanded that the Human Race cede Huang Province and Transformation Province to the Myriad Demon Domain.

Shi Jian rejected True Lord Wenxuan’s demand that he cede Huang Province and Transformation Province, and the two fought. Shi Jian overwhelmed Wenxuan, but True Lord Qingxiao then launched a surprise sword attack at Shi Jian from behind.

• Shi Jian accused the Human Race of hypocrisy and defended taking human territory as revenge for the Demon Race’s centuries of oppression.
• True Lord Wenxuan attacked Shi Jian with his Yin-Yang Dao Immortal Foundation, Forget Heaven’s Light.
• Shi Jian manifested Purple Pivot Lightning and shattered Wenxuan’s taiji diagram, forcing him back.
• Shi Jian used Lightning Evasion to appear before Wenxuan and struck him through his horsetail whisk, sending him crashing through a mountain.
• True Lord Qingxiao attacked Shi Jian from behind with an azure flying sword.

Shi Jian fought True Lords Wenxuan and Qingxiao at once, then drew on Purple Firmament Peak’s lightning reserves to transform into a gigantic lightning bear. He defeated both opponents and declared that Wenxuan had lost.

• Shi Jian endured Qingxiao’s sneak attack, damaged his lifebound flying sword, and healed his chest wound.
• Wenxuan and Qingxiao joined forces to trap Shi Jian with the Taiji Diagram and Sky-Rending Sword Formation.
• Shi Jian summoned the lightning reserves of Purple Firmament Peak and formed a hundred-zhang lightning bear dharma form.
• Shi Jian tore apart Wenxuan’s Taiji Diagram, leaving him gravely injured.
• Shi Jian struck Qingxiao into a deep pit, then told the weakened Wenxuan that he had lost.

Shi Jian forced the One Qi Dao Gate to surrender Huang Province and Transformation Province while preserving it as a buffer against overseas Devil Cultivators and a source of division among human sects. As Ao Hai pinned down the Supreme Purity Sect and fighting erupted in the north, Shi Jian headed toward the northern battlefield while considering how to weaken both human and dragon rivals.

• True Lord Wenxuan ceded Huang Province and Transformation Province, rescued the unconscious True Lord Qingxiao, and ordered the One Qi Dao Gate to retreat.
• Shi Jian explained that sparing the One Qi Dao Gate would block returning Devil Cultivators, discourage unity among human sects, and allow gradual exploitation of Devil Province.
• Shi Jian ordered Shi Pan to convert the conquered provinces into demon soil and directed Kuang Dou and Zhao Xuanqing to obtain human inheritances through Heavenly Demon City.
• Ao Hai massed the Flood Dragon Domain's forces against the Supreme Purity Sect without attacking, preventing True Lord Fang Yi and True Lord Yuanshang from sending aid elsewhere.
• White Crane informed Shi Jian that Yuan Shan and three tribes' Demon Kings had engaged the Grand Purity Sect's army, while Qingxuan had yet to appear.
• Shi Jian sped toward the northern battlefield and planned to exploit an opening from either the Supreme Purity Sect or the Flood Dragon Domain.

True Lord White Crane intervened to save the three demon kings of the Heavenly Ape Domain from the Grand Purity Sect, then revealed he had come to watch as Shi Jian arrived. Shi Jian shattered the sect’s formation and attacked True Lord Xuanfeng.

• Yuan Shan and the other two demon kings fought desperately against five Grand Purity Sect Nascent Souls as their forces were overwhelmed.
• True Lord Qinglie formed the Grand Purity Demon-Slaying Formation and sent its giant sword down at Yuan Shan.
• True Lord White Crane appeared, stopped the sword with cloud Qi, and lifted the exhausted demon kings to safety.
• White Crane said he had come at Shi Jian’s request and intended to watch the battle, just as purple-gold lightning struck and broke the Grand Purity formation.
• Shi Jian appeared and charged True Lord Xuanfeng with a giant lightning claw.

Shi Jian killed True Lord Xuanfeng and overwhelmed the Grand Purity Sect’s remaining fighters with his Lightning Domain. The battle paused when a vast face of clear Qi appeared and asked Shi Jian to spare the survivors.

• Shi Jian’s lightning claw destroyed Xuanfeng’s shield and Nine Nether Gang Wind, then crushed Xuanfeng and his Nascent Soul.
• Yuan Shan and White Crane held off Qingxu and Qinglie while Shi Jian challenged the remaining Grand Purity Sect True Lords.
• Lieyang and Hanyue attacked Shi Jian with fire and ice, but his Lightning Domain shattered their attacks and his punch gravely wounded Lieyang.
• Yuan Shan and the other sea ape demon kings kept Hanyue and Qingxu occupied as the Grand Purity Sect’s formation collapsed.
• A vast face of clear Qi descended from the direction of the Wei Kingdom and asked Shi Jian to let the matter end; Shi Jian called the speaker an old fox.

Shi Jian rejected True Lord Qingxuan’s demand to stop fighting, and the five demon lords and five Grand Purity True Lords resumed their battle. After Shi Jian took True Lord Zhaohuo’s fire lotus attack head-on, he seized Zhaohuo through the flames, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Shi Jian refused to let the Grand Purity Sect withdraw, and True Lord Zhaohuo and True Lord Qingxuan joined True Lord Qinglie on the battlefield.
• Yuan Shan, Shi Jian, White Crane, and the other demon lords faced the five Grand Purity True Lords as the Nascent Soul battle erupted again.
• True Lord Zhaohuo attacked Yuan Shan with nine fire dragons while the other True Lords fought the demon kings.
• White Crane bound True Lord Qingxuan with cloud chains, giving Shi Jian time to break Qingxuan’s Qi shield with a lightning punch.
• True Lord Zhaohuo struck Shi Jian with a destructive fire lotus, but Shi Jian survived and seized him through the flames.

Shi Jian destroyed True Lord Zhaohuo’s body while fighting off Qingxuan and Qinglie, and White Crane killed the wounded True Lord Lieyang beneath the lake. Enraged by the Grand Purity Sect’s losses, Qingxuan drained the Heavenly Ape Domain’s Spiritual Qi and began summoning an ancient gateway.

• Shi Jian endured Qingxuan and Qinglie’s attacks and crushed Zhaohuo’s body with Purple Pivot Lightning, though Zhaohuo’s Nascent Soul escaped to Qingxuan.
• Shi Jian broke Qingxuan’s Qi sword and swept aside Qinglie’s divine mountain while the Grand Purity Sect’s cultivators reeled from the losses.
• White Crane appeared beneath the lake and killed the injured Lieyang by slicing apart his body and Nascent Soul with cloud Qi.
• White Crane emerged and announced Lieyang was gone, leaving Qingxuan, Qinglie, Hanyue, and Qingxu as the sect’s remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, all injured.
• Qingxuan spat Essence Blood into the Grand Purity Qi sea, drained the Heavenly Ape Domain’s Spiritual Qi, and summoned an ancient gateway as he vowed to kill everyone there.

Shi Jian and White Crane escaped True Lord Qingxuan’s attack after the Grand Purity Sect suffered devastating losses, while Yuan Shan and the other demon kings retreated into the North Sea. Shi Jian chose to return to the Myriad Demon Domain, intending to preserve a balance of power among the Human Race and Demon Race and keep the rising Flood Dragons in check.

• True Lord Qingxuan opened the Grand Purity Void Gate and struck at the retreating Shi Jian, who escaped with White Crane after losing flesh from his shoulder.
• Yuan Shan and the other demon kings fled into the North Sea as the Grand Purity Sect’s attack annihilated a vast stretch of the Heavenly Ape Domain.
• Qingxuan’s gate shattered, and he ordered Grand Purity Sect cultivators to seize the southern Heavenly Ape Domain and massacre its Demon Beasts.
• Shi Jian cut away the Annihilation Qi-tainted flesh and discussed how Grand Purity’s weakened position could draw the North Sea powers into conflict.
• Shi Jian rejected stirring up trouble in the south and decided to return to the Myriad Demon Domain, explaining that the Human Race needed strength to contain the Flood Dragons.

Ao Hai withdrew the Flood Dragon army after learning that Shi Jian had used his clan to distract the Supreme Purity Sect while expanding the Myriad Demon Domain. Shi Jian and the Dragon Kings accepted a long stalemate, with the Flood Dragon Clan deciding to watch his exposed ambition and wait for an opportunity.

• Ao Hai learned that Shi Jian had used the Flood Dragon Clan to hold back the Supreme Purity Sect while the Myriad Demon Domain seized territory, and he ended the siege.
• True Lord Fang Yi welcomed the Flood Dragon army's withdrawal and concluded that the Demon Race was divided and the Human Race's rivals were too weakened to pose an immediate threat.
• Shu Changfeng reported the withdrawal to Shi Jian, who said the balance between humans and demons would let the Myriad Demon Domain consolidate its gains.
• Ao Hai showed the Dragon Kings how Shi Jian had manipulated the conflict, and Ao Qin warned that attacking him could break the balance and unite the Human Race.
• Ao Qin ordered the Flood Dragon Clan to focus on expanding on land and to watch Shi Jian, whose ambition had now been exposed.

After restoring a balance among the continent’s powers, Shi Jian discussed separating Purple Firmament from his body and rebuilding the Lightning Spirit’s foundation in a Blessed Land at Purple Firmament Peak. He planned to turn the peak into a vast lightning trump card that could channel its accumulated power to him in battle.

• Shi Jian assessed the reshuffled forces on the Profound Spirit Continent and concluded that the new balance could prevent major wars for centuries.
• Shi Jian told Purple Firmament that his spirit could no longer safely remain inside him because Shi Jian’s Immortal Foundation was growing too powerful.
• Shi Jian proposed separating Purple Firmament and making him the master of a high-grade Blessed Land of the Dao of Lightning formed from four peaks and the earth veins of Huang Province and Transformation Province.
• Shi Jian promised that Purple Firmament could use the Blessed Land to strengthen his source, command its Lightning Qi, and help the young of Shi Jian’s race cultivate.
• Shi Jian revealed that he wanted Purple Firmament to channel the Blessed Land’s accumulated lightning power into a secret art capable of turning the surrounding region into a lightning purgatory.

Shi Jian merged the damaged earth veins into Purple Firmament Peak, turning it into a middle-grade Dao of Lightning Blessed Land and freeing Purple Firmament to inhabit a new body. Five years later, the Lightning Bear Line and Myriad Demon Domain had grown stronger, while Shi Jian waited for Lu Xun’s Dao Pill to mature so he could use it to advance his cultivation.

• Shi Jian drew the lightning serpent from his Nascent Soul and merged the damaged earth veins of Huang Province and Transformation Province into the Myriad Demon Mountain Range.
• Shi Jian and the lightning dragon established Purple Firmament Peak as a middle-grade Dao of Lightning Blessed Land, while the three subsidiary peaks began forming their own Blessed Lands.
• Purple Firmament formed a new body from the mountain range, thanked Shi Jian for his freedom, and accepted his promise to forge another body someday.
• Over the next five years, the Blessed Lands strengthened the Lightning Bear Line and the Myriad Demon Domain, and a young Lightning Bear reached Foundation Establishment.
• Shi Jian calculated that Lu Xun’s Dao Pill could provide the origin power he needed to advance, so he planned to wait for it to mature while continuing to make preparations across the continent.

Over fifteen years, the Myriad Demon Domain expanded as eight peak Demon Beasts attempted to form cores without Heaven and Earth Qi, and Wandering Lightning and Jiuyin emerged as Golden Core Demon Generals. Shu Baoshan then found Gold Marrow Transmuting Metal Qi and formed a core, leaving all three Rat Race lines with Demon General leaders.

• Eight peak Demon Beasts attempted to form cores without Qi; six died, while the Thunder Leopard and Shu Jiuyin survived and reached the Golden Core realm.
• Shi Jian named the Thunder Leopard Wandering Lightning and charged him with founding the Thunder Leopard Clan.
• Shi Jian named Shu Jiuyin Jiuyin and appointed him and Changfeng as the Demon Domain's eyes, ears, and hidden soldiers.
• A golden light rose from Transformation Province, where Shu Baoshan had uncovered Gold Marrow Transmuting Metal Qi in an abandoned mine.
• Shu Baoshan absorbed the Metal Qi and formed a Golden Core with the Divine Ability to turn stone into gold, making the Rat Race the Myriad Demon Domain's third-largest group.

After reaching the Golden Core realm, Shu Baoshan decided to gather Space Dao materials to build a secret realm for the ancestor. He mobilized the Treasure-Seeking Rat lineage and pressured Zhao Xuanqing to supply materials, then headed for the Boundless Sea in search of a suitable foundation stone.

• Shu Baoshan formed a Golden Core and ordered the Treasure-Seeking Rat lineage to search across the continent for Space Dao materials and Void Realm Stones.
• Shu Baoshan visited Zhao Xuanqing in Heavenly Demon City and demanded materials to build a secret realm for the ancestor.
• Zhao Xuanqing agreed to surrender the city's Void Spirit Crystals and ordered his guards to purchase high-grade Space Dao materials from Devil Province merchants.
• Shu Baoshan left for the Boundless Sea to seek Mirage Sea Realm Stone as a foundation for the secret realm.

Shu Baoshan raided a Grand Purity Sect ore shipment and continued searching the Heavenly Ape Domain for fourth-tier Space Dao materials. Yuan Gang told him that the East Sea might hold a lead, leaving Shu Baoshan with a possible destination for his search.

• Shu Baoshan killed five Grand Purity Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators and took their storage bags, flying boat, and ore.
• Shu Baoshan reflected that he needed fourth-tier Space Dao materials for the old ancestor's secret realm and considered asking the sea apes for help.
• Shu Baoshan met Yuan Gang at an undersea ice cave and gave him the heads of Grand Purity Sect disciples as a gift.
• Shu Baoshan asked Yuan Gang where to find high-tier Space Dao materials, and Yuan Gang said the East Sea might contain Space Dao spirit metal and Mirage Sea Realm Stone.

Shu Baoshan reached the East Sea and joined forces with Mo Chu to attack a Righteous Qi Gate mining site protected by a third-tier array. The sea beasts’ assault began, but the Gate’s disciples counterattacked and slaughtered hundreds of demons.

• Shu Baoshan traveled from the Heavenly Ape Domain to the East Sea, leaving destruction in his wake as Grand Purity Sect cultivators pursued him.
• Shu Baoshan discovered an ancient mineral vein behind a third-tier Water-Repelling Illusion Array and sensed Space Dao material within it.
• Mo Chu ambushed Shu Baoshan, but Shu Baoshan turned his tentacle gold and introduced himself as a demon from the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Shu Baoshan showed Mo Chu Array-Breaking Talismans and persuaded him to join forces against the Righteous Qi Gate miners.
• Mo Chu summoned tens of thousands of sea beasts to attack the array, but a Righteous Qi Gate elder strengthened its defenses and sent disciples out to kill the demons.

Shu Baoshan and Mo Chu destroyed the Righteous Qi Gate’s undersea array, killed its Golden Core elder, and looted the mine. Shu Baoshan then discovered the mine’s prized fourth-tier Space Dao treasure, a Mirage Sea Realm Stone.

• Shu Baoshan used Array-Breaking Talismans to corrode the Righteous Qi Gate’s array, flooding the mine ruins and killing many cultivators and mine slaves.
• The Golden Core elder attacked Shu Baoshan, but Mo Chu emerged from the abyss and trapped the elder in underwater whirlpools.
• Mo Chu wore down the elder while Shu Baoshan struck from behind and pierced his chest with golden claws.
• Mo Chu bound the wounded elder and crushed him, and Shu Baoshan took his Golden Core.
• Shu Baoshan looted the mine’s jade boxes of third-tier Space Dao materials and found a fourth-tier Mirage Sea Realm Stone.

After taking the Mirage Sea Realm Stone, Shu Baoshan plundered the Righteous Qi Gate’s holdings in Little Yu Kingdom and escaped its pursuit. He then sneaked into the Flood Dragon Domain, where he discovered a Profound Root Water Spring that could help stabilize the patriarch’s secret realm.

• Shu Baoshan and Mo Chu divided the spoils from the East Sea, then parted ways before the Righteous Qi Gate could respond.
• Shu Baoshan invaded Azure Gold City, killed Li Changhong, and devoured the Li Household’s Geng Metal Essence Mother and treasures.
• Over half a month, Shu Baoshan destroyed seven cultivation lineages and three artifact-refining sects in northern Little Yu Kingdom, then evaded the Righteous Qi Gate’s pursuers and crossed the border.
• Shu Baoshan entered the Flood Dragon Domain in disguise and secretly made his way through its guarded waterways to the Auspicious Dragon Great Marsh.
• Shu Baoshan found a Profound Root Water Spring at the bottom of a trench and recognized it as a valuable resource for the patriarch’s secret realm.

Shu Baoshan stole the Profound Root Water Spring and several other treasures from the Flood Dragon Domain, escaping detection as the Dragon Lords searched for him. After gathering water- and metal-attribute materials, he set his sights on the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion to acquire Space Dao treasures.

• Shu Baoshan severed the Profound Root Water Spring’s connection to the earth veins, swallowed it, and escaped into the silt as the marsh’s restrictions erupted.
• Ao Hai arrived at the ruined spring and searched the marsh, but Shu Baoshan concealed himself as an ordinary water beetle and went undetected.
• Over the next three months, Shu Baoshan stole more spiritual treasures across the Flood Dragon Domain, leaving its Dragon Lords unable to find him.
• Shu Baoshan gathered his stolen treasures at a small lake and decided he still needed more Space Dao materials.
• Shu Baoshan headed toward the Supreme Purity Sect, intending to raid its Void Pavilion for Space Dao inheritance and treasures.

Shu Baoshan infiltrated the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion and stole six Space Dao inheritances and three precious spirit items. He escaped without taking the other treasures, leaving the sect unaware of the theft.

• Shu Baoshan used secret intelligence and an abandoned Spirit Vein passage to bypass the Supreme Purity Sect’s formations and reach the Void Pavilion.
• Shu Baoshan waited a month for the Golden Core elder to send the required all-clear signal, then slipped through the restrictions while the elder’s Divine Sense briefly slackened.
• Shu Baoshan found six Space Dao inheritances on the pavilion’s top floor and swallowed all six Jade Slips.
• Shu Baoshan carefully weakened the restrictions around three fourth-tier Space Dao spirit items and swallowed their crystal cases.
• Shu Baoshan resisted taking the treasures on the lower floors and escaped underground when the restrictions next slackened.

Shi Jian rewarded Shu Baoshan for raiding the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion by expanding the Rat Race’s Jiuyin Secret Realm and enriching its foundation. Studying the stolen Space Dao inheritances, Shi Jian recognized that they pointed toward a Dao Venerable Dao Fruit and feared Xuanling might be a sealed world with no way out.

• Shu Baoshan presented Shi Jian with treasures and six Space Dao inheritances stolen from the Supreme Purity Sect’s Void Pavilion, and Shi Jian praised his daring.
• Shi Jian brought Shu Baoshan to Three Line Mountain and used the Mirage Sea Realm Stone and a seized Spirit Vein to expand and strengthen the Jiuyin Secret Realm for the Rat Race.
• Shu Changfeng, Shu Jiuyin, Shu Baoshan, and the Rat Race bowed to Shi Jian and pledged their loyalty.
• Shi Jian studied the six Void Pavilion inheritances and realized their Immortal Foundations fit together as paths toward a single Dao Venerable Dao Fruit.
• Shi Jian wondered whether Xuanling and the Boundless Sea were a secret realm that trapped everyone within it and limited cultivators to Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

Shi Jian used three space treasures and his Purple Pivot Lightning to create and stabilize a secret realm, then named it the Purple Pivot Secret Realm. He left it ready to shelter the Lightning Bear Line and support its cultivation.

• Shi Jian recalled the Kunyuan Secret Realm and the possibility that the Profound Spirit Continent was a cage, but decided to focus on strengthening the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Shi Jian tore open the void above Purple Firmament Peak and used Great Void Divine Sand, Void Nether Stone Marrow, and Realm King Crystal to form a spatial framework.
• Shi Jian channeled Purple Pivot Lightning into the new space, expanding it to a hundred and ten li before stopping it from collapsing.
• Shi Jian filled the realm with Spirit Veins, lightning-attribute spirit trees, Spirit Stones, and a sun formed from Purple Firmament's origin power.
• Shi Jian named the realm the Purple Pivot Secret Realm and designated it as a refuge and cultivation ground for the Lightning Bear Line.
• Shi Jian reflected that only Kuang Dou, Thunder Leopard, and Shu Jiuyin had succeeded at Qi-less Core Formation among at least thirty Lightning Bears who had attempted it.

Shi Jian established Space-Rending Valley as a place where the demons could study the Space Dao, and Hui Liu risked his life entering it in hopes of changing his fate. Trapped in a spatial fault, Hui Liu began resonating with spatial Dao power, but his survival remained uncertain.

• Shi Jian used Space Dao materials and cultivation methods to create Space-Rending Valley and opened it to all races in the Myriad Demon Domain.
• Hui Liu, a lowly Wind Rat with a weak bloodline, set out for Space-Rending Valley in search of a chance to advance.
• Hui Liu endured spatial rifts as he crawled through the valley toward a stele bearing part of the Great Luo Transposition Method.
• A spatial fault swallowed Hui Liu and began grinding his body apart in the endless void.
• Hui Liu instinctively circulated the method he had glimpsed, and a fragment of Void Profound Crystal fused with him as spatial Dao resonance entered his Dantian.

Hui Liu survived Space-Rending Valley and remade himself through the Space Dao, while other survivors founded the Valley Guardians. After ten years, Shi Jian watched the Myriad Demon Domain flourish and defended the cost of the valley’s deadly trials.

• Hui Liu broke through to Foundation Establishment, chose the name Hui in memory of his mother, and settled in the spatial fault rather than return to the Wind Rat clan.
• Over the next ten years, Hui Liu and other demons gained Space Dao powers in Space-Rending Valley, while nearly ten thousand entrants perished and only seventeen emerged as mutated Space Dao Demon Beasts.
• The seventeen survivors gathered in the valley, named themselves the Valley Guardians, and established Space-Rending Valley as the Myriad Demon Domain’s Space Dao sacred land.
• Shu Changfeng reported the valley’s heavy losses to Shi Jian, who said the sacrifice was necessary to produce powerful Space Dao Great Demons.
• Shi Jian surveyed the thriving Myriad Demon Domain, including the restored Huang and Hua provinces and the rapidly growing Lightning Bear Line.

Jin Kuang broke through to Core Formation and restored the Dark Gold Line’s standing, while Lei Dahan won the Lightning Bears’ contest and received Essence Blood from Shi Jian. In Heavenly Demon City, Shu Baoshan gave Xiong Man information about rare physical-body Heaven and Earth Qi and encouraged him to advance his Dao.

• Jin Kuang endured the destructive metal Qi on Dark Gold’s main peak and condensed a Demon Core, becoming a Fifth-Level Demon General and breaking the Dark Gold Line’s bloodline shackle.
• Lei Dahan fought through the Lightning Bears’ deadly contest, killing or disabling his challengers until he was the last one standing.
• Shi Jian gave Lei Dahan purple-gold Essence Blood to strengthen his bloodline and improve his chances of reaching Core Formation.
• Shu Baoshan told Xiong Man that Grand Purity Sect miners had discovered Black-Yellow Tyrant Body Qi in the heart cavity of an ancient sea ape in the Grand Mystery Plain.
• Xiong Man thanked Shu Baoshan, who asked him to help guide the Rat Race’s younger generation in the physical-body Dao if he succeeded.