Recaps

Wang An studied spatial knowledge to prepare for an academy commission, then faced pressure from Cancong Baixiang, who wanted the [Thousand Illusions Myriad Transformations Nebula Water]. Gaoyang Zhenkong intervened, and Wang An refused to trade away the resource he was already refining; Cancong Baixiang left, while Gaoyang watched him warily.

• Wang An finished reading the spatial knowledge on the Wisdom Divine Tree’s thirty-third floor and decided to return to complete his commission.
• Cancong Baixiang confronted Wang An and demanded an exchange for the [Thousand Illusions Myriad Transformations Nebula Water], while his laws of illusion and transformation surrounded them.
• Wang An contacted Vice Dean Gaoyang Zhenkong, raised his sword intent, and prepared to defend himself as Cancong Baixiang grew dangerous.
• Gaoyang Zhenkong arrived and suppressed Cancong Baixiang’s laws, warning him against forcing a trade or bullying an honored guest.
• Wang An refused to trade the resource because it was already advancing his Dao, and Cancong Baixiang left without a word.
• Gaoyang Zhenkong watched Cancong Baixiang depart and looked at his white hair with a serious, warning expression.

Wang An tried to avoid drawing attention from Cancong Baixiang while building his cultivation system and guiding his disciples through forging Dao Foundations. As his true body neared a breakthrough, he learned that his embryonic Heavenly River law would transform into Dharma Nature.

• Wang An thanked Gaoyang Zhenkong for warning him about Cancong Baixiang and resolved to keep a low profile while his true body refined the resource.
• Wang An returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain, developed storage-artifact techniques, and prepared Dao Establishment Peak for his disciples to forge Dao Foundations.
• Taichang forged a Water in the Spring Dao Foundation, gaining a lifespan of six hundred and fifty years, and Wang An urged her to teach Qi Refining disciples to build Qi Destiny.
• The other former Core Formation disciples forged Dao Foundations over the next half month as visitors arrived to observe Wang An's Transcendent System.
• Wang An advised Taizhen not to delay changing cultivation systems, while remaining wary of Cancong Baixiang's hidden surveillance.
• Wang An learned that his embryonic Heavenly River law would become Dharma Nature, which could be nourished into Golden Nature and eventually bear Golden Core fruition.

Wang An advanced to intermediate rank 2, formed the [Jade Earth Heavenly Palace] Purple Mansion Divine Ability, and set out to confront Cancong Baixiang. A black-hooded attacker trapped him in a barrier and demanded the [Thousand Illusions Myriad Transformations Nebula Water].

• Ten of the twelve Core Formation cultivators successfully forged their Dao Foundations, while two failed and became spirit land.
• Wang An advanced to intermediate rank 2 and formed the [Rooftop Earth] and [Jade Earth Heavenly Palace] Purple Mansion Divine Abilities.
• Wang An informed Vice Dean Gaoyang Zhenkong that he was going to deal with Cancong Baixiang, then flew toward the library district.
• A black-hooded man trapped Wang An in a barrier of Yin realm law profound truths and cut off his communications.
• The attacker demanded the [Thousand Illusions Myriad Transformations Nebula Water] and threatened to spare Wang An only if he surrendered it.

Wang An fought Cancong Baixiang, whose [Heavenly Yin Ghost King Banner] and nine-headed snake transformation filled the sealed area with ghosts and poison. Wang An purified the corruption and severed one of the snake demon’s heads, but Cancong Baixiang swallowed the ghost king as the battle continued.

• Cancong Baixiang summoned the [Heavenly Yin Ghost King Banner], spreading a ghostly realm that contaminated the surroundings.
• Wang An used the [Heavenly River of Return to Oneness] to purify the land and suppress the ghostly corruption.
• Cancong Baixiang transformed into a nine-headed snake demon and attacked Wang An alongside the ghost king.
• Wang An revealed a snake head with his moonlight and severed it with a sword strike, leaving Cancong Baixiang wounded.
• The ghost king’s claw failed to reach Wang An through his defenses, while poison and sword intent stalled against each other.
• Cancong Baixiang merged his remaining heads into one body and swallowed the ghost king.

Wang An confronted Cancong Baixiang, who used the Ghost-Devouring Beast-Transformation Technique to create a ghost beast wielding the Law of Ghost Poison. After Wang An lost an arm to its attack, he revealed that he was an Avatar and that he had summoned Vice Dean Gaoyang Zhenkong, leaving Cancong Baixiang facing the consequences of his ambush.

• Cancong Baixiang combined a beast and a ghost with a forbidden secret art, creating a monster wielding the Law of Ghost Poison.
• The ghost beast's roar pierced Wang An's defenses and began corrupting his body, forcing him to cut off an arm that transformed into Poison Ghost Primordial Qi.
• Cancong Baixiang demanded the Thousand Illusions Myriad Transformations Nebula Water, then attacked Wang An with another ghost-poison roar.
• Wang An resisted with his Divine Abilities and revealed that he was an Avatar who had already notified Vice Dean Gaoyang Zhenkong.
• As attacks battered the barrier, Cancong Baixiang's killing intent gave way to fear and regret over the consequences of ambushing Wang An.

Cancong Baixiang fled after Gaoyang Zhenkong broke the barrier, while Wang An survived the attack and received treatment and an apology from the vice dean. Gaoyang Zhenkong launched a pursuit and offered compensation, but an urgent alert interrupted their conversation.

• Gaoyang Zhenkong attacked the barrier with the Sky-Subduing Shattering Heaven-Dominating Seal, and Wang An pushed Cancong Baixiang to flee as it began to collapse.
• Cancong Baixiang escaped into the Dark Universe, while Wang An gathered the Qi Destiny he had planted in him into a seed.
• Gaoyang Zhenkong declared Cancong Baixiang wanted, ordered a planetary lockdown, and arranged investigations and pursuit squads.
• Wang An left the barrier, severed the part of his body contaminated by the law, and received treatment from Gaoyang Zhenkong.
• Gaoyang Zhenkong apologized, offered Wang An a choice of compensation and a water-path law secret method, and an urgent alert sounded on his communicator.

After Cancong Baixiang fled, Wang An continued researching storage-space technology while studying spatial laws in his blessed land. He formed a [Space Prototype Prism] that granted him [Space Perception] and [Space Angle], then submitted a paper on elementary storage-space technology to the academy.

• Gaoyang Zhenkong issued a wanted notice for Cancong Baixiang, assembled a pursuit squad, and left to reconvene the academy's senior leaders.
• Wang An told the gathered disciples to return to cultivation and continued researching storage-space technology and spatial laws.
• After half a year of study, Wang An condensed a spatial law prototype in his Purple Mansion and gained a new perspective on the laws sustaining his blessed land.
• Wang An synchronized with his main body and formed a [Space Prototype Prism] in his finger space, gaining [Space Perception] and [Space Angle].
• Wang An wrote [On the Implementation and Application of Elementary Storage-Space Technology] and submitted it through the academy's intranet.

Wang An defended his spatial technology paper by revealing his nascent spatial law, then received approval to enter the Supreme Beginning Yu Heaven Azure Spirit Ding. He and Shennong Yinmu traveled to the Ding’s small world, where he arrived beneath an azure sun amid dense Ruin Copper Spiritual Essence.

• Wang An defended his paper before Gaoyang Zhenkong, Shennong Jianmu, and Xiling Zhousheng, demonstrating his nascent spatial law and securing approval for field testing.
• Gaoyang Zhenkong told Wang An to prepare his disciples because he would be unable to leave the Supreme Beginning Yu Heaven Azure Spirit Ding for five years.
• Ten days later, Shennong Yinmu accompanied Wang An from Azure Sacrifice Star to the supersized Bronze Divine Tree for teleportation.
• Wang An and Shennong Yinmu completed several days of tests and scans before using the spatial array in the Bronze Divine Tree.
• Wang An reached the Ding’s small world and saw an azure sun above land filled with intermediate-stage Ruin Copper Spiritual Essence.

Wang An toured the Bronze Human Race’s small world with Shennong Yinmu, learning how its dynasties cultivated the law of rites and how the civilization organized its research systems. He arrived at a Space Technology Research Center to register his project after Shennong Yinmu departed.

• Wang An admired the Heavenly Fire Meteor Heaven-Subduing Mulberry, and Shennong Yinmu explained its origins, age, and growing power.
• Wang An and Shennong Yinmu flew east through a peaceful small world filled with mortal cities and dynasties governed by rites and laws.
• Shennong Yinmu explained how the Supreme Beginning Yu Heaven Azure Spirit Ding’s law of rites shaped the dynasties and helped cultivators comprehend its branches.
• Shennong Yinmu told Wang An that most Bronze Human Race experts worked in twelve principal and over a hundred secondary civilization planetary systems, which were generally closed to outsiders.
• Wang An and Shennong Yinmu reached an island’s Space Technology Research Center, where she explained that he could register his project and obtain research resources.
• Shennong Yinmu left for her own research, and Wang An continued with his business.

Wang An established a spatial technology research project in Supreme Beginning Yu Heaven, then returned from four years of seclusion having reached intermediate stage level 2. He heard Lu Tianxin and Ye Tianli report on Blue Star’s growing population of cultivators and the Federation’s efforts to help people who struggled to cultivate.

• Wang An submitted and received approval for a solo spatial storage technology project, collected its resources, and traveled to an assigned island beneath an energy heavenly eye.
• Wang An emerged from seclusion in year 16 of the New Era after advancing to intermediate stage level 2 and summoned Lu Tianxin, Chen Tianping, and Ye Tianli for a report.
• Lu Tianxin reported that the Federation had terraformed parts of Venus and Mars, gained a fire-aspected spirit turtle, and produced five Initial Transcendent Stage lifeforms in four years.
• Lu Tianxin told Wang An that breakthrough success had reached twenty percent, twenty cultivators had died during failed attempts, and Blue Star had twenty million Qi Refining cultivators at level 2 or above.
• Ye Tianli explained that the Federation was developing cultivation techniques for people with low sensitivity to Life Primordial Qi and had verified that ingesting Mystic Qi could slowly help people cultivate True Qi.

Wang An reviewed the Human Federation’s technological progress and set long-term goals for its development during the 500-year protection period. He guided his disciples in their cultivation and gave them a record of Five Elements Dao Foundations, then cautioned Lu Tianxin about the difficulty of pursuing other kinds of Dao Foundations.

• Ye Tianli reported advances in transcendent artifacts, space technology, life sciences, and human longevity to Wang An.
• Wang An ordered the Human Federation to prepare for planetary migration, adapt human genes across generations, and encourage competing cultivation systems.
• Lu Tianxin said she had cultivated the Pine and Cypress Wood Dao Foundation and completed two lesser Divine Abilities, while Chen Tianping asked for help choosing his next element.
• Wang An advised Chen Tianping to cultivate either earth or a water-and-fire Furnace Fire Dao Foundation, based on his innate image.
• Wang An transmitted the Complete Record of the Five Elements Xuan Zhen Dao Foundations to the three disciples and told them to choose a suitable path; he later explained that the eight trigrams and other proposed Dao Foundations were difficult or unsuitable for them.

Wang An inspected the growing Netherworld Domain and its three levels of hell, where evil demons were refined into resources and the domain’s origins grew stronger. In Thunder Hell, he sensed several faint fluctuations of law coming from the fissure that was pouring demons into the realm.

• Wang An explained to his three disciples why cultivating the Five Elements Dao was safer than pursuing other star laws.
• Wang An visited the Netherworld Domain, where the Netherworld Samsara Reincarnation Lotus had grown to the upper grade of the second tier.
• Wang An inspected Frost Hell and watched the Gluttonous Evil Demon consume condemned souls and spawn lesser demons that froze into nourishment for the domain.
• Wang An observed Bloodthirsty Evil Demons form and kill one another in Blazing Fire Hell, then refined the surviving demon into an impure energy crystal.
• Wang An examined Thunder Hell and sensed faint law fluctuations from the pitch-black fissure as countless evil demons poured through it.

Wang An created an array in Thunder Hell to refine devils and nurture a flying sword, then developed and promoted cultivation methods for the five immortals. Five years later, people across the Human Federation had begun adopting varied paths, and Ghost Immortal cultivators were helping the Netherworld operate more efficiently.

• Wang An used a Yin locust leaf and a Yin Soldier Talismanic Edict to scout the rift, discovering that powerful devils were widening it and could break through within a hundred years.
• Wang An established the Thunderfire Devil-Refining and Heavenly Treasure-Gestating Array, which drew invading devils into a furnace of thunder and fire and refined them into energy and sword essence.
• Wang An deduced four Five Immortals cultivation methods alongside the Heavenly Talisman Dao Foundation system and began promoting them throughout the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.
• Over five years, Human Federation cultivators switched to or innovated different paths, while some elderly people continued cultivating after death through the Ghost Immortal method.
• Ghost Immortal cultivators served as Yin soldiers and ghost generals, improving the Netherworld’s administration.

Wang An completed and named a powerful flying sword, then successfully created a stable spatial storage pouch using Void Serpent skin. He left the sword in his Purple Mansion for nurturing and confirmed that the pouch could hold an object without collapsing.

• Wang An inspected the Netherworld Samsara Reincarnation Lotus's growing Dharma Nature and visited the Lightning Hell to examine the flying sword he had forged over five years.
• Wang An connected with the black flying sword and discovered it had Sword Edge and Lightning Law Dharma Natures, letting it cut through defenses and suppress yin and evil creatures.
• Wang An named the sword Emperor's Edge Wields Lightning, Heaven Sword Slays Demons and summoned it into his Purple Mansion for nurturing.
• On Island No. 17 in Supreme Beginning Yu Heaven, Wang An tested a spatial rune module with Void Serpent skin and successfully activated a stable one-cubic-meter micro-space.
• Wang An placed a fist-sized stone inside the storage pouch and confirmed that the space remained stable, declaring the experiment a success.

Wang An completed lifespan tests on his biological-material spatial storage bags and submitted the technology for review. After the Bronze Academy verified the bags, he proposed licensing the technology to the Bronze Human Race for ten percent of the profits, leaving the deal under discussion.

• Wang An tested the storage bags and the supercomputing center estimated they could be used about ten thousand times and last 500 to 800 years.
• Wang An submitted the project results, received approval for a final review, and traveled to the academy's star system.
• Shennong Jianmu and Gaoyang Zhenkong welcomed Wang An and brought him to the Academic Committee, where they tested three storage bags.
• Shennong Jianmu and Gaoyang Zhenkong praised the technology and discussed its commercial potential with Wang An.
• Wang An offered to license the technology to the Bronze Human Race for ten percent of the profits, and the two vice deans considered the investment and sales prospects.

Wang An finalized a binding cooperation contract with Bronze Academy to license his Void Serpent spatial-storage technology, then returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain and learned about events during his absence. He later visited the treasury and exchanged for the [Purification Water Profound Truth] secret method.

• Wang An and the two vice presidents signed a law-bound contract giving Bronze Academy the production and sales rights to his spatial-storage technology in return for ten percent of the sales profits.
• Wang An returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain, where Yu Tianqing and the other disciples welcomed him and reported that Cancong Baixiang had fled to the Quetzalcoatlus clan after a pursuit squad crippled his strength.
• Yu Tianqing told Wang An that civilizations and dangerous ruins were surfacing across the Milky Way, while the Galactic Transcendent Council offered no explanation beyond advising people to wait and see.
• Wang An guided his disciples, taught them the [Inner Landscape Five Elements Spirit-Nurturing Earth Immortal Method], and went to the treasury to select resources and secret methods.
• Wang An exchanged for the [Purification Water Profound Truth] secret method and received a bronze slip containing its Law Runes.

Wang An studied methods for condensing law profound meanings and chose resources suited to his Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature and Great Forest Wood imagery. After selecting the Broomrape Fortune-Seizing Profound Meaning, he returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain with two secret methods and three kinds of spiritual water resources to begin experimenting.

• Wang An understood that materials such as spiritual water and artifacts could form the foundation for condensing a law's profound meaning, while design and ritual shaped the result.
• Wang An exchanged for life, death, and evolution spiritual water resources to complete his Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature.
• Wang An searched wood-path secret methods and chose the Broomrape Fortune-Seizing Profound Meaning because its parasitic growth suited Great Forest Wood's imagery.
• Wang An learned that the method gathered a population's resources to nurture its strongest member, which could then seize fortune from outside life-forms.
• Wang An returned to Spirit-Nurturing Mountain with two secret methods and three spiritual water resources, planning to cultivate them in the blessed-land ecosystem.

After completing their five-year posting on Pluto, Daoist Priest Simu and Master Yixiu returned to Blue Star and discussed Venerable Heavenly River’s purification works and the Netherworld’s changing Yellow Springs River. They headed toward the Heavenly River Dao Field, hoping to earn enough contributions for personal guidance and improve their cultivation systems.

• Wang An's Avatar returned to the Divine Tree of Wisdom and studied the Bronze Academy's vast cultivation knowledge.
• Daoist Priest Simu and Master Yixiu admired the purified Blue Star and argued over whether Venerable Heavenly River was a Daoist perfected one or a Buddha.
• Yixiu credited the Heavenly River purification project with creating the Human Federation's thriving Pure Land world.
• Simu invited Yixiu to help refine Yellow Springs water, and they discussed using their contributions to seek guidance from the Lord of the Netherworld.
• Simu and Yixiu left the spaceport by flying dharma artifacts across Blue Star toward the Three Rivers Source region of the Tibetan Plateau.

Simu and Yixiu entered the Return to Heaven Formation Domain Tower and learned about its expanded cultivation grounds and transcendent ecologies. Simu reached his assigned cultivation ground and prepared to transform its spiritual primordial qi into Clear Spirit Primordial Qi.

• Simu and Yixiu passed the tower’s authorization check and reported for duty before agreeing on a time to enter the Netherworld.
• Simu sensed the tower’s powerful Dao Resonance and reflected on how much cultivation had changed since his early years.
• The Spirit Radiance agent explained Simu’s assigned cultivation ground and how councilors could expand or customize their spaces using contribution points and resources.
• Simu considered how transcendent ecologies helped cultivators develop their imagery and worried about the eerie yin imagery of his Yueyin Spirit-Slaying Blade.
• Simu entered his cultivation ground and planned to release his transcendent laws to convert spiritual primordial qi into first-order Clear Spirit Primordial Qi.

Simu entered the Netherworld under the protection of the Netherworld Talismanic Edict and joined Yixiu to judge the spirits and evil ghosts brought before them. Their routine trials ended when a spirit enveloped in black mist arrived, and Simu recognized that the case was serious.

• Simu used the Moon Yin Divine Talisman and a Netherworld Talismanic Edict to enter the Netherworld safely.
• Simu met Yixiu at Mount Luofeng, and they went to the Bureau of Judgment and Punishment of Evil to handle their cases.
• Bi Qi welcomed the judges, and Simu praised his Qi Destiny and encouraged him to cultivate as a Ghost Immortal.
• Simu presided over trials while Yixiu verified sins and Bi Qi escorted spirits, using the Heavenly Mirror of Punishing Sins to guide their judgments.
• Bi Qi brought in a spirit surrounded by black mist and resentment, and Simu reviewed its crimes and immediately passed judgment.

After sentencing a group of organ-trafficking criminals, Yixiu and Simu traveled to Fengdu City to earn Yin Merit by refining Yellow Springs Water. They accepted the task and learned that the water could both dissolve and nourish souls.

• Simu sentenced Li Wenyi to repair the Yellow Springs River for 100 years and then endure Frost Hell for eternity.
• The Tribunal judged Li Wenyi’s accomplices and wealthy clients, giving them the maximum sentences.
• Yixiu and Simu finished five days of accumulated cases and went to the Yin Merit Office to take a task.
• Yixiu and Simu traveled through Fengdu City and reviewed the Netherworld’s highest-ranked tasks.
• Yixiu and Simu accepted the task of refining first-tier Yellow Springs Water and received its refining method.

Simu and Yixiu assessed the dangers of gathering imagery from the Yellow Springs River, bought materials to refine Yellow Springs Water, and traveled to a designated gathering site. Simu began absorbing the river’s Death and Life imagery under protective measures, while the river’s remaining imagery was limited by other cultivators’ work.

• Simu and Yixiu judged that their abilities could help them avoid the Yellow Springs River’s dangers and decided to gather its imagery.
• They bought enough Nether Sun and Nether Moon dew to refine ten drops of Yellow Springs Water, spending three hundred yin merit.
• The two traveled to the designated site and saw the Yellow Springs River’s spirits, beasts, and spiritual phenomena.
• Yixiu explained how the river gathered soul fragments and carried them toward the Lake of Reincarnation, while Simu noticed that another cultivator had depleted some of its imagery.
• Simu summoned divine guards, prepared a lifesaving [Moon Yin Divine Talisman], and began absorbing the river’s Death and Life imagery.

Over ten years, Simu and Yixiu helped refine the Yellow Springs River and earned enough yin merit to seek the Lord of the Netherworld’s guidance. After the Lord transformed the river and made it safe to cross, they went to the Zhoujue Yin Heavenly Palace, where Simu entered first to ask about his cultivation path.

• Simu and Yixiu continued refining Yellow Springs water, earning yin merit while strengthening their imagery and life-bound artifacts.
• The netherworld expanded to three times the surface area of Blue Star as tributaries were built, and the two accumulated enough merit to request guidance.
• The Lord of the Netherworld refined the Yellow Springs River, calming it, allowing flight across it, and bringing faint life into its waters.
• Simu and Yixiu exchanged yin merit for an audience and waited at the Zhoujue Yin Heavenly Palace alongside other Transcendent beings.
• Yixiu told Simu that he needed guidance choosing between cultivating his golden body and his Zen heart, while Simu wondered how to advance his netherworld-attuned bright moon imagery.
• Simu entered the main hall first and sensed the dense Resonance of the netherworld Dao as he prepared to meet the Lord of the Netherworld’s divine Dao Avatar.

Simu sought the Great Emperor of Fengdu’s guidance and chose to cultivate the Netherworld’s nether moon imagery, receiving a path toward pardoning sins and advancing to Purple Mansion. Meanwhile, Wang An prepared the Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature for its Golden Nature ritual and sent his disciples to expand its reach and spread spirit-water cultivation methods.

• Simu asked the Great Emperor of Fengdu whether to pursue supreme-yin imagery or deepen his ties to the Netherworld.
• The Great Emperor of Fengdu warned Simu that returning to yang-world imagery would require costly efforts to sever his karmic ties, while adopting nether moon imagery would bind his Dao path to the Netherworld.
• Simu chose the nether moon path, and the Great Emperor of Fengdu advised him to pursue the Netherworld’s path of pardoning sins and build his cultivation around the nether moon.
• Yixiu entered after Simu left, and the Great Emperor of Fengdu began deducing a path suited to him.
• Wang An used Illusory Heaven Purifying Water to complete the missing laws in Heavenly River Water’s Dharma Nature as he prepared for the Golden Nature ritual.
• Wang An ordered his three disciples to extend the purifying Heavenly River to Venus and Mars, spread his spirit-water refining methods across the Human Federation, and return to Blue Star aboard the Bronze Academy exchange team’s second-tier warship.

Wang An added life and death laws to his Heavenly River Water Dharma Nature, then worked to harmonize their conflicts with its other laws. Meanwhile, his disciples promoted Heavenly River Water spirit-object methods across human society, where Li Mingxiao learned about refining Body-Purifying Rain.

• Wang An used the Flower and Tree Spirit-Sealing Liquid and Ten Thousand Souls and Thousand Shadows Dew to draw life and death laws into his Heavenly River Water Divine Ability.
• Wang An found that the laws of stars, transformation, death, and life conflicted, so he used his magic power, Dao attainment, and Yin Spirit thoughts to harmonize them.
• Tianxin, Tianping, and Tianli promoted Heavenly River Water spirit-object refining methods through the Blue Star Human Civilization Supreme Council.
• At Clear Sky High School, a teacher explained how first-level Qi Refining cultivators could collect and refine Body-Purifying Rain.
• Li Mingxiao listened to the lesson and considered the Human Federation's restrictions on access to higher-realm knowledge.