Recaps

Yang Yuanhong began condensing his Origin Core while deliberately intensifying the true dragon calamity, and the King Insect started transforming under its influence. The Tiger Chasing Emperor sensed the breakthrough through the Dynasty’s dragon vein but could not identify who was causing it, leaving him suspicious that an outsider had taken the Dynasty’s True Dragon Breath and national fortune.

• Chen Yang allowed the King Insect into the cave dwelling and told it to seize the opportunity to observe Yang Yuanhong’s breakthrough; Chen Huaien stayed to watch.
• Yang Yuanhong used the Essence Condensation Technique to form his Origin Core, and Chen Yang concealed the resulting Dragon Roaming Sea of Clouds phenomenon.
• Yang Yuanhong accelerated his core formation to strengthen the calamity and temper his body, then activated the Spirit Pearl at his heart.
• The King Insect began developing armor and a crest as a three-colored insect-swarm calamity appeared above the cave dwelling.
• The Tiger Chasing Emperor sensed the dragon vein stir, attempted to deduce the source of the true dragon phenomenon, and suspected someone outside the Murong Clan had taken the Dynasty’s fortune.

The Tiger Chasing Emperor visited Osmanthus Garden and learned that He Shenglai was nearing a breakthrough and Xuan Zhou had safely passed his Spiritual Connection tribulation. He ordered Jia Huarai to prepare for seclusion at the Ascension Platform after Xuan Zhou succeeded, freeing him to pursue enlightenment at Heavenly Sword Mountain.

• The Tiger Chasing Emperor arrived at Osmanthus Garden and learned from Jia Huarai that He Shenglai was close to success in his tribulation.
• Jia Huarai reported that Xuan Zhou had safely crossed his Spiritual Connection tribulation with the aid of national fortune and needed only further accumulation.
• The Tiger Chasing Emperor explained that Jia Huarai should reach his peak within five to eight years and pursue enlightenment at Heavenly Sword Mountain rather than delay.
• The Tiger Chasing Emperor acknowledged Jia Huarai's years of service and said Jiuli and Ji Ci would take on more responsibility.
• The Tiger Chasing Emperor ordered Jia Huarai to enter seclusion at the Ascension Platform once Xuan Zhou succeeded, and Jia Huarai bowed in thanks.

Yang Yuanhong used the mutated True Dragon tribulation to temper his body, enduring successive waves that grew powerful enough to threaten him. As he resisted the final dragon claw, his flesh, blood, bones, and meridians were continually destroyed and reforged.

• Chen Huaien watched from a safe distance as the King Insect’s auspicious light merged with Yang Yuanhong’s True Dragon tribulation and greatly increased its power.
• The tribulation’s first wave failed to harm Yang Yuanhong because his Martial Qi blocked its calamities.
• A golden sun descended in the second wave, burned Yang Yuanhong’s flesh, and drew an eager smile from him as he gathered its light to temper his body.
• Yang Yuanhong rose, blasted apart the golden light, and urged the Black Flood Dragon phenomenon and True Dragon phantom to hold off the tribulation.
• The tribulation’s golden dragon claw seized Yang Yuanhong, and he resisted as his body was repeatedly broken down and reforged.

Yang Yuanhong endured a deadly tribulation, overcame its mental attack by unleashing his innate savage instinct, and defeated the tribulation dragon. After reaching Essence Condensation, he learned that his strength could earn him a place on the sixth page of the Heavenly Talent Ranking.

• Chen Yang added malicious force to Yang Yuanhong's tribulation, making him feel weighed down and disrupting his thoughts before the golden dragon claw crushed him again.
• Yang Yuanhong recognized the mental attack, sealed his spiritual sea, and let his instinct take over without losing control of himself.
• Yang Yuanhong forced open the golden dragon claw and tore it apart as his black evil dragon defeated and swallowed the tribulation golden dragon.
• The tribulation ended in gentle rain, and Yang Yuanhong withdrew his black dragon and asked Chen Huaien about his ranking prospects.
• Chen Huaien said Yang Yuanhong could be recorded on the sixth page of the Heavenly Talent Ranking and might reach the Gold Ranking if he completed his acquired special physique.

After Yang Yuanhong successfully condensed his essence, Chen Yang advanced to Late Essence Condensation, while Yang Lingqing and Wu Tong helped the exhausted boy finally rest. The chapter left Chen Yang receiving Wu Tong’s prayer power as she thanked the unseen figure who had protected the Yang Family.

• Yang Yuanhong’s successful breakthrough gave Chen Yang enough cultivation feedback to reach Late Essence Condensation, and Chen Yang calculated that further breakthroughs might carry him to Essence Condensation Perfection.
• Chen Yang summoned Yang Lingqing to the underground cave, where Chen Huaien welcomed her and Yang Yuanhong stabilized his cultivation at the Essence Condensation Third Layer.
• Yang Lingqing congratulated Yang Yuanhong, held him, and soothed him until he fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Wu Tong arrived, took her sleeping son into her arms, and spoke with Yang Lingqing about the burdens he had borne and the family’s support.
• Wu Tong recognized Chen Yang among the offerings, bowed in gratitude, and gave him pure prayer power.

Chen Yang oversaw preparations for the trade route, Yang Yuanhong’s recovery, and the King Insect’s transformation as events unfolded across the region. As Gao Hui’s Core Formation ceremony approached, an unnamed old friend from Feng Ling arrived at Pine Mountain and asked to enter.

• Yang Lingqing reported that the families had agreed on the main trade route and that Dynasty caravans were expected to gather at the border in less than a year, so Chen Yang left preparations to her and helped Chen Huaien recover.
• Chen Yang found the King Insect’s condition stable and later discovered that Yang Yuanhong’s dormant True Dragon Breath was merging with his body.
• Yang Lingrui and Xue Qingluan emerged from seclusion at Mid Essence Condensation, while Dynasty cultivators gathered at Pine Mountain ahead of Gao Hui’s Core Formation and White Stone Town’s elevation to a city.
• Zhao Qi told Yang Lingrui that a Twelfth Floor of Qi Gathering cultivator claiming to be a family old friend had requested entry to Pine Mountain but had identified himself only as a Bamboo Forest Rogue Cultivator from Feng Ling.

Zhuo Hanqing visited Yang Lingrui at Pine Mountain to request a viewing quota for Gao Hui’s Condensation Origin ceremony in Baishi City. Yang Lingrui accepted his payment and the Huang Family’s offer, granting him a place to travel with the Yang Family.

• Yang Lingrui recognized Zhuo Hanqing, a Feng Ling rogue cultivator he had known for many years, and invited him into his cave dwelling.
• Zhuo Hanqing explained that he hoped to witness Gao Hui’s breakthrough because the Way of Blazing Sun complemented his own Way of Cold Ice.
• Zhuo Hanqing presented a letter from the Feng Ling Huang Family and offered two thousand Spirit Crystals and Deep Well Cold Iron for a viewing quota.
• Yang Lingrui told Zhuo Hanqing that the Huang Family had also promised thirty percent of its annual tribute, making the offer sufficient for a quota.
• Yang Lingrui granted Zhuo Hanqing a place to travel with the Yang Family to Baishi City for the ceremony.

At Gao Hui’s Essence Condensation ceremony, Zhuo Hanqing gained the insight he needed to temper his ice cultivation and left to seek scorching earth veins in the Sea of Desert. Pine Mountain later celebrated Wei Xinqing’s pregnancy, while an eleven-year-old youth awoke and set out west, entering the conflict sweeping across Canglan Continent.

• Gao Hui agreed to let an additional guest attend his ceremony in White Stone, and Xue Qingluan returned to Pine Mountain with city-entry tokens.
• Wen Zishu presided over Gao Hui’s breakthrough as the Dynasty’s Dao Protectors safeguarded the ceremony.
• Zhuo Hanqing realized that the Way of Blazing Sun could temper his ice cultivation and resolved to seek hot earth veins in the Sea of Desert.
• Gao Hui successfully entered the Essence Condensation Realm, and Zhuo Hanqing thanked Yang Lingrui before leaving on his own path.
• Yang Lingshu learned that Wei Xinqing was pregnant, and Xiao Yize extended her family visit so she could remain until after the birth.
• An eleven-year-old youth awoke, cultivated his acquired Dragon-attributed variant body, and left the Yang Family’s fief carrying a smooth, round stone.

Yao Santu gave Dongfang Yingcai a crystal bouquet that imitated the fragrance of incense, impressing her with his talent beyond artifact forging. Ma Yongsheng summoned them to prepare for the Divine Weapon Convention in the Moliang Dynasty, ordering them to travel there on foot for experience.

• Dongfang Yingcai visited Yao Santu and complained that the flowers she had given him had died while he studied artifacts.
• Yao Santu presented Dongfang Yingcai with a bouquet of crystal flowers that released fragrances when infused with spiritual energy.
• Dongfang Yingcai recognized Yao Santu's talent and decided to have her family bring him to the Central Region after the Divine Weapon Convention.
• Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai went to meet Ma Yongsheng at the branch's main building.
• Ma Yongsheng told his disciples to prepare for the Divine Weapon Convention in the Moliang Dynasty and travel there without an immortal boat.

Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai set out for Moliang with Geng Zhi secretly protecting them, while Ma Yongsheng and Geng Zhi discussed the growing number of blessed lands turning baleful. On the journey, the disciples discovered a bandits’ den where an evil cultivator might be using abducted children to practice an evil art, and they began investigating after nightfall.

• Dongfang Yingcai eagerly agreed to travel to Moliang, and Yao Santu hoped the journey would let him meet Senior Immortal Stone again.
• Ma Yongsheng introduced Geng Zhi as the hidden Dao Protector who would watch over Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai on the road.
• Geng Zhi warned Ma Yongsheng that four blessed lands had turned baleful in half a year and worried the Divine Weapon Secret Realm might be affected, but Ma Yongsheng dismissed the concern.
• Three days later, Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai left the Hundred Artifacts Tower for Moliang with Geng Zhi concealed nearby; after twenty days of uneventful travel, Dongfang Yingcai complained that they had encountered no adventures.
• On the twenty-second day, Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai found a mountain stronghold where bandits had abducted children and suspected an evil cultivator was using them to practice an evil art.
• Dongfang Yingcai insisted on rescuing the children, so she and Yao Santu cautiously approached the stronghold at night to investigate.

Yao Santu reflected that Dongfang Yingcai had many hidden treasures and could defend herself against powerful opponents despite her low apparent cultivation. He recognized that his role on the journey was mainly to handle daily matters.

• Yao Santu understood that their master had left Dongfang Yingcai without visible guards because she had hidden means of protecting herself.
• Yao Santu estimated that even Core Formation Realm cultivators could not deal with Dongfang Yingcai if she became serious.
• Yao Santu concluded that he was responsible for the daily trifles of the journey rather than protecting Dongfang Yingcai from danger.

Dongfang Yingcai rescued Chen Shitou from a bandit stronghold and discovered his innate divine strength, while Yao Santu interpreted their meeting as a sign connected to Senior Immortal Stone. After the group dealt with the bandits and helped the rescued children, Chen Shitou began cultivating on the journey with Dongfang Yingcai and Yao Santu.

• Dongfang Yingcai found Chen Shitou alive in a hut, where he revealed that he had killed two bandits while awakening his innate divine strength.
• Dongfang Yingcai used her wooden puppets to kill the fleeing rogue cultivator, and Yao Santu arrived to praise her and examine Chen Shitou's exceptional physique.
• Dongfang Yingcai decided to take Chen Shitou along as a forging helper, while Yao Santu privately suspected that Senior Immortal Stone had arranged their meeting.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Yao Santu destroyed the stronghold, returned the rescued children to their villages or brought them to town, and reported the bandits to the Immortal Patrol Division.
• Chen Shitou opened three Qi Meridians, learned a basic stance-walking method, and impressed Dongfang Yingcai with his perseverance and comprehension.

Chen Yang maintained Yang Yuanhong’s disguise as Chen Shitou while the King Insect completed its advancement to Essence Condensation. Chen Huaien then began a breakthrough in seclusion, and Chen Yang gathered the radiance surrounding him but left the breakthrough and tribulation to Chen Huaien.

• Zheng Zhi left Chen Shitou behind at the inn and followed Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai to their meeting with an inspector.
• Yang Yuanhong continued practicing the Dongfang Family’s stance-walking method, and Chen Yang reflected on his talent and the illusion disguising his abilities.
• Chen Yang sensed a disturbance at his true body and found the King Insect transformed and guarding Chen Huaien’s secret chamber.
• Chen Yang opened the chamber and found Chen Huaien suspended in a radiance-filled breakthrough state.
• Chen Yang gathered the radiance around Chen Huaien but chose not to help him cross the tribulation with divine power.

Chen Huaien broke through to the Spiritual Connection Realm, and Chen Yang used the Blood Refining Technique with the Blood Sun Venerable God's aid to refine the resulting cultivation recompense. The Heavenly River Enters the Mortal World appeared across Canglan Continent, prompting powerful figures to warn their descendants that opportunities lay beyond their usual domains; the region's major forces then gathered at Lingxiao Dao Academy.

• Chen Huaien overcame his inner demons and reentered the Spiritual Connection Realm as Ban Kuizhen.
• Chen Yang's recompense sphere grew beyond what his body could contain, so he called on the Blood Sun Venerable God for blood energy and refined it with the Blood Refining Technique.
• Chen Huaien recognized the blood-refining fragrance's benefits and urged the King Insect to breathe it in.
• The Heavenly River Enters the Mortal World appeared across Canglan Continent as Chen Yang refined the recompense and advanced toward Spiritual Connection.
• Void Stepping Realm cultivators descended from the Void Realm and told their descendants that the times were changing and opportunities lay beyond.
• Canglan's major forces gathered at Lingxiao Dao Academy under Zhuang Xuanji to discuss the changing situation.

After breaking through to Spiritual Connection, Chen Yang awakened Spiritual Sense, empowered his clones, and discovered a staircase appearing in the Shattered Divine Palace. Ku Yun identified it as the Long Stairway to Godhood, which traditionally appeared when a Divine Path creature became a True God, though its return seemed impossible after the Divine Palace shattered and the Divine Court overturned.

• Chen Yang refined the rebounded cultivation, reached Spiritual Connection, and concealed his transformed appearance beneath black armor.
• His two clones gained independent consciousness connected to his own, and a silvery-white staircase appeared in Star Sea Space.
• Chen Yang thanked the Blood Sun infant for supporting his breakthrough and summoned Fu Yin, Wu Hua, and Ku Yun to investigate the staircase.
• Fu Yin and Wu Hua recalled that True Gods were recognized by an Upper Realm called the Divine Court, leading Chen Yang to suspect the staircase went there.
• Ku Yun remembered that the Divine Court sent the Long Stairway to Godhood whenever a Divine Path creature attained True God status, but said its return made no sense after the Divine Dao and Divine Court fell.

Chen Yang climbed the Long Stairway to Godhood, where a meteor struck him and showed him the Divine Dao’s destruction. The meteor bestowed the Fleeting Years technique on him, leaving him with a new inheritance and a charge to continue the road ahead.

• Chen Yang discovered that only he could make the Long Stairway to Godhood solid enough to climb, and he sent Fu Yin, Wu Hua, and Ku Yun back to the Divine Palace.
• Chen Yang climbed into the starry sea and saw that the Shattered Divine Palace’s world had been pierced and broken apart.
• At the stairway’s end, a black-and-white meteor struck Chen Yang, knocking him back toward the Shattered Divine Palace as the stairway vanished.
• The meteor showed Chen Yang visions of the Divine Dao’s fall and of gods fighting an enormous black shadow.
• The meteor merged into Chen Yang’s spirit body and bestowed the lower tier Light Divine Technique Fleeting Years, which could manifest the Abyss of Time.

After an encounter with an unidentified deity, Chen Yang returned safely to the Shattered Divine Palace and learned that the abyss of time within him came from the divine art Squandered Years. Ku Yun explained the divine arts system and revealed that Squandered Years belonged to the renowned Light inheritance, leaving Chen Yang ready to test his new ability.

• Chen Yang dreamed through many lives and forms before waking as he fell toward the summit of the Shattered Divine Palace.
• Fu Yin and the other two deities caught Chen Yang in a divine-power net and helped him land safely.
• Chen Yang returned to the high platform, reassured the others, and asked Ku Yun about divine arts.
• Ku Yun explained divine art ranks and inheritances, including that the Paths of Life and Death, Reincarnation, and Light were governed by Divine Lords.
• Chen Yang realized his new divine art belonged to the powerful Light inheritance and prepared to test it.

Chen Yang tested the Time Erosion Divine Art and learned that evil power greatly increased its potency, while combining it with divine power improved his ability to restore damaged treasures. To meet the art’s future divine power demands, he began spreading worship of Cheng Yang through Yang Family roadside stations.

• Chen Yang used the Time Erosion Divine Art on a stone and condemned prisoners, confirming that it could rapidly wear away their time and kill them.
• Chen Yang discovered that evil power made the art much more effective but could shatter a target’s time abyss, making it a dangerous offensive technique.
• Chen Yang combined divine power with evil power to restore two damaged Qi Gathering spiritual treasures, but failed to reverse the time abyss of a condemned prisoner.
• Chen Yang concluded that the art could accelerate time erosion but could not truly turn time back, then returned his avatar at Pine Mountain to its position.
• Chen Yang asked Yang Lingqing to devise a way to spread worship of Cheng Yang, and the Yang Family placed worship steles at its roadside stations.
• Cultivators began bowing and offering incense at the steles in exchange for lodging discounts, bringing Chen Yang a growing supply of divine power.

The first Tiger Chasing trade caravans reached the eastern frontier, and the Yang Family prepared to join the new route under the Dynasty’s protection. After He Shenglai strengthened his ties with Yang Lingqing, the Yang caravan arrived safely at Befeng City, where trade brought new escort and route-planning businesses alongside persistent bandit attacks.

• The Yang Family packed its goods and sent Xie Chuan, Dai Wei, and Yuan Cheng with the Dynasty trade caravans, while Chen Huaien joined them disguised as an ordinary Qi Gathering cultivator.
• He Shenglai arrived with the He Family caravan after breaking through to Late Essence Condensation, booked the Yang Family’s relay stations, and stayed at its fief.
• Yang Lingqing welcomed He Shenglai, who praised her prospects and invited her to advise the He Family’s young disciples at Myriad Layer Forest; she accepted.
• Yang Lingqing’s four-person caravan joined the Dynasty contingent and traveled safely to Befeng City.
• Trade caravans faced attacks in Befeng City’s surrounding mountains, while escort agencies and Rogue Cultivators began offering protection and route-planning services.

Chen Huaien presented an unusual pill inheritance to the Befeng City Pill Workshop and waited for its leaders to respond. Meanwhile, Yang Yuanhong practiced artifact forging with Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai near the border of the Tiger Chasing Dynasty and the Moliang Dynasty.

• Xie Chuan and the other two sold out the Yang Family's goods in less than three days, then investigated Befeng City's markets for a report to Yang Lingqing.
• Chen Huaien reached the Pill Workshop, where its staff recognized his Spiritual Connection Realm cultivation and escorted him to the manager.
• Chen Huaien gave the manager a copied pill method and said his master would discuss it with the Workshop's leader if they were interested.
• The manager arranged for Chen Huaien to stay on the top floor and hurried to report the inheritance to the main Pill Workshop branch.
• Yang Yuanhong completed an artifact-forging exercise, and Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai praised his progress and talent.

Dongfang Yingcai gave Yang Yuanhong eight Wood Kites for protection before he, she, and Yao Santu crossed into the Moliang Dynasty. As they traveled on foot toward the Divine Weapon Convention, they saw the poverty and disorder affecting Moliang’s lower ranks, a reality hidden from most visiting artifact refiners.

• Dongfang Yingcai gave Yang Yuanhong eight Wood Kites and promised to protect him from threats such as Core Formation Cultivators.
• Yang Yuanhong voiced concern about facing stronger evil cultivators, and Yao Santu reassured him by pointing to Dongfang Yingcai’s abilities.
• The next day, Yang Yuanhong, Dongfang Yingcai, and Yao Santu passed through the checkpoint into the Moliang Dynasty using a Hundred Artifacts Tower travel permit.
• The chapter explained that Moliang’s imperial family concentrated power and wealth among itself and its allies, leaving poorer communities underdeveloped and poorly governed.
• The three traveled on foot toward the Divine Weapon Convention and witnessed the harsh conditions at the bottom of Moliang society.

Yao Santu helped Dongfang Yingcai come to terms with the suffering she had witnessed in the Moliang Dynasty, and the three reached Guanglu City for the Divine Weapon Convention. As they approached the Divine Weapon Secret Realm, Chen Yang sensed a familiar malicious force in its teleportation array.

• The trio defeated ten Rogue Cultivators who had followed them for a month to rob them, and Yang Yuanhong tested Dongfang Yingcai's Wood Kites.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Yao Santu destroyed a mountain Lineage that kept mortals captive, then arranged for Hundred Artifacts Tower cultivators to take the survivors into their care.
• Dongfang Yingcai confessed her doubts about the widespread exploitation of mortals, and Yao Santu encouraged her to hold fast to her convictions and keep helping people.
• Yang Yuanhong said he wanted to follow Dongfang Yingcai's example, and she embraced him, easing the group's somber mood.
• Two days later, the trio reached Guanglu City, where Dongfang Yingcai identified the formation above the city as the entrance to the Divine Weapon Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang sensed a familiar malicious force coming from the prepared teleportation array.

Chen Yang recognized that dense evil power in the Divine Weapon Secret Realm likely meant its resident Divine Path creature had become an evil god, and he feared the creature might already have gone mad. When the convention opened, Yang Yuanhong entered the realm and a failed trial triggered a potentially lethal attack, confirming that the danger was real.

• Chen Yang reasoned that the Secret Realm's evil power had likely overwhelmed its resident Divine Path creature, though he hoped it had not become a mindless mad god.
• The Divine Weapon Convention began, and artifact refiners entered the Secret Realm; Chen Yang recognized Lu Changfeng and considered him a possible ally.
• Before Yang Yuanhong entered, Chen Yang used divine power to protect Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai's seas of consciousness.
• Yang Yuanhong arrived in a distorted dark chamber, and Chen Yang suspected the Secret Realm's condition had worsened.
• After Yang Yuanhong failed the weapon-reforging trial, two broken blade segments attacked his neck, revealing that the trial could kill less capable entrants.

Chen Yang and Yang Yuanhong entered the Divine Weapon Secret Realm as its trials became deadly, while the Hundred Artifacts Tower elders discovered they could no longer reach or evacuate the cultivators inside. A captured image of a Spiritual Connection artifact refiner being killed and his Primordial Spirit devoured confirmed that the Secret Realm had turned ferocious.

• Chen Yang took control of Yang Yuanhong and quickly passed five trials, absorbing the evil force sent to make him fail.
• Chen Yang entered the Divine Weapon Secret Realm with Yang Yuanhong and decided to search for Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai as quickly as possible.
• The Hundred Artifacts Tower elders learned that cultivators' Life Tablets were shattering and tried to close the Secret Realm and teleport its survivors out.
• The elders discovered that an unknown force had cut off their connection to the Secret Realm, leaving their evacuation technique useless.
• A True Intent Realm cultivator revealed an image of a Spiritual Connection artifact refiner being killed by his saber and his Primordial Spirit being dragged back and devoured.

As the Divine Weapon Secret Realm turned ominous across the Moliang Dynasty and the Central Region, the Hundred Artifacts Tower could only delay rescue efforts while it addressed the wider crisis. Inside the Secret Realm, Chen Yang and Yang Yuanhong reached Yao Santu, and Chen Yang began breaking the Formation Array trapping him.

• Geng Zhi watched the Life Tablets as cultivators learned that weapons were devouring their wielders and feared for Yao Santu and Dongfang Yingcai, whose tablets remained intact.
• Elder Li told the gathered cultivators that the three Tower Masters had acted, but Secret Realms across the world, including the Central Region, had turned ominous, so the Northwest rescue would have to wait.
• Powers whose artifact refiners had died negotiated compensation with the Hundred Artifacts Tower while the remaining powers prayed for those still inside.
• Chen Yang carried Yang Yuanhong through the stone forest and found Yao Santu trapped in a Formation Array, fighting several ownerless Divine Weapons and Blades.
• Chen Yang told Yang Yuanhong to rescue Yao Santu, then used “Wasted Life Arises! Abyss of Time, Appear!” to manifest the Abyss of Time within the Formation Array.