Recaps

Hu Mang recruited Feng Haixiao and Wei Kaishan for a dangerous Heavenly Gate research project, then went to a Zheng Family Garden dock to confront the undersea monsters threatening Java. He crossed the sea under Buddhist protections and reached the uncanny waters, where he prepared to face the creatures one at a time.

• Feng Haixiao and Wei Kaishan asked Hu Mang for work, and he recruited them for a Heavenly Gate project that could help their cultivation.
• Hu Mang sent them to Doctor Sun at the Zheng Family Garden's new building to make arrangements.
• Hu Mang went to a private dock, where dead, faceless fish revealed that the undersea monsters were stirring.
• Hu Mang covered himself in Buddhist Divine Abilities and walked across the sea, finding that Wisdom King Fire burned the faceless fish.
• Hu Mang reached waters distorted by uncanny forces, saw human faces, bone-like particles, and strange flesh conches beneath the surface, then took out the Clear Resonance Chime to confront them.

Hu Mang pacified the Faceless Sea Lord and arranged for the Whale Marquis to join the Mist Tide Secret Pavilion, then confronted the far more powerful Withered Tide Snail Mother. After surviving her curse with Vajrayana, he spoke with her and learned she was curious about cultivating Buddhist arts.

• Hu Mang used the Clear Resonance Chime to calm the Faceless Sea Lord and had water ghosts pull him beneath the sea.
• Hu Mang told the Whale Marquis about the Mist Tide Secret Pavilion, and the two reached an agreement after its representatives arrived.
• The Mist Tide Secret Pavilion made Hu Mang an honored guest, but its representative fled when he asked for help dealing with the Withered Tide Snail Mother.
• Hu Mang called out the Snail Mother Lady, whose presence tore his Binary Kasaya and nearly overwhelmed him with a curse.
• Hu Mang used Vajrayana to evade the Snail Mother's curse, then learned she could understand Heavenly Gate speech and asked whether she could cultivate Buddhist arts.

Hu Mang taught Snail Mother Lady the Yugi Sutra and learned that undersea monsters had been used to create Sinful Dragons. Back at Zheng Family Garden, he found Old Third documenting the monsters as a third kind of Mystery-Type, and Old Third hinted that they showed Grave Transformation characteristics and revealed a secret about the planet’s Heavenly Dao.

• Snail Mother Lady revealed her true form and nearly destroyed the harbor with her voice, so Hu Mang taught her the Yugi Sutra and received a ritual conch to summon her.
• Snail Mother Lady told Hu Mang that cultivators had gathered undersea monsters decades earlier and used them in research that produced the Sinful Dragons.
• Hu Mang returned to Zheng Family Garden to check on research into Zhao Longbo’s corpse and the Little Black God of Wealth, then realized Old Third had been spending his time writing a report.
• Old Third explained that undersea monsters were a third kind of Mystery-Type, distinguished by their contaminating nature, and said Great Judge Zhong considered them to display Grave Transformation characteristics.
• Old Third asked Hu Mang about the human way, then revealed that the planet had a Heavenly Dao.

Chen Xiaosan told Hu Mang that Zhong Kui had identified a Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao whose influence created mysteries, and Hu Mang realized restoring the Nether River might let powerful underworld figures approach it. Hu Mang then joined Sun Jidao to examine Zhao Longbo’s body and learned that the Longbo Bloodline could repeatedly create new versions of him from his remaining memories.

• Chen Xiaosan explained that mysteries were ghosts altered by the Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao, which governed the yin world rather than the yang.
• Chen Xiaosan said he could choose a department in the Underworld Bureau, and Hu Mang learned that King Chujiang might be sent overseas to investigate his report.
• Hu Mang connected the severed Nether River to the Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao and wondered whether restoring it could lead to contact with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hu Mang visited Sun Jidao’s laboratory, where Sun explained that Zhao Longbo’s active Longbo Bloodline was trying to regenerate his body while his soul fragments remained in the tank.
• Sun Jidao told Hu Mang that Zhao Longbo’s Qi and Blood could create new versions of him from bodily memories, and repeated deaths had damaged his soul and hindered his formation of a Nascent Soul.

Hu Mang examined the Human Immortal Lightning Puppet and reviewed Doctor Sun's research on innate acupoints, then learned that Sun's golden core reshaping papers had made him and Wu Cai the focus of intense attention in the Heavenly Gate. Sun explained why he had kept his latest findings unpublished, and his remarks about travel restrictions on registered Nascent Soul cultivators left Hu Mang intrigued.

• Hu Mang sensed ancient patterns and a dormant will within the Human Immortal Lightning Puppet's Qi and Blood, but decided not to experiment on himself.
• Doctor Sun showed Hu Mang his research, including models for thirty-two innate acupoints and studies of innate meridians.
• Sun explained that he had not published his findings because they lacked evidence from actual cultivation and he wanted to avoid attracting more attention.
• Hu Mang discovered that Sun and Wu Cai's golden core reshaping research had become a major topic across the Heavenly Gate, drawing reporters, collaborators, and sect members.
• Sun told Hu Mang that officially registered Nascent Soul cultivators needed approval to leave the country, prompting Hu Mang to take note.

Hu Mang and Sun Jidao discussed the Human Immortal project’s innate acupoint research, including how Longbo Qi and Blood and Innate Qi could reveal acupoints in ordinary people. Sun Jidao explained that Shattering the Void might activate innate acupoints, but also warned Hu Mang that the realm’s peak eventually gave way to severe meridian atrophy unless he formed a Nascent Soul in time.

• Hu Mang and Sun Jidao discussed their completed Golden Core project and learned that another Heavenly Gate team had already developed a Golden Core substitute.
• Sun Jidao reported that he had identified thirty-two innate acupoint models but could not detect them in ordinary humans without stimulation from Longbo Qi and Blood.
• Sun Jidao found that a wisp of Innate Qi could stimulate some innate acupoints, and Hu Mang described Dao patterns he had perceived in the Longbo Bloodline through Shattering the Void.
• Little Zhang suggested that Shattering the Void cultivators might activate innate acupoints by circulating Qi and Blood.
• Sun Jidao recounted how overseas Shattering the Void martial artists had suffered extreme meridian atrophy after exploring beyond their peak, and said Hu Mang had at least sixty years before the decline began.
• Sun Jidao said forming a Nascent Soul within those sixty years could reverse the decline and preserve Hu Mang’s peak Qi and Blood.

Hu Mang investigated Wu Hun’s martial breakthrough and learned that this world’s martial artists could naturally temper their bodies beyond mortal limits by consuming Demon Beast flesh. Wu Hun explained Seeing the God, leaving Hu Mang eager to make a deal with him.

• Hu Mang asked Sun Jidao whether a naturally evolved martial-limit body could avoid the sixty-year decline in Qi and Blood, and Sun Jidao warned him against absorbing Zhao Longbo’s Qi and Blood.
• Hu Mang met Wu Hun in his Seclusion Chamber and tested his ability to withstand fist intent with his Shattering the Void body.
• Hu Mang asked whether Wu Hun’s body or martial realm had broken through first, and Wu Hun explained that the body shattered the void before the martial realm reached completion.
• Wu Hun described Seeing the God as sensing and repairing the body through the god of the self, then using it to perceive and cross a barrier in the void.
• Hu Mang concluded that martial artists could produce Innate Qi through their innate acupoints and offered to make a deal with Wu Hun.

Hu Mang, Wu Hun, and Jiang Mingshan traveled into the southwestern mountains to seal the miasma and Gu worms, while Wu Hun taught Hu Mang his Qi Ingestion Method. After three days of refining snake demons, Hu Mang awakened the Sinew Snake and demonstrated its power through his spear techniques.

• Hu Mang, Wu Hun, and Jiang Mingshan accepted the high-level mission to seal the miasma in the Ancient Cave and entered the dangerous southwestern mountains.
• Wu Hun explained that mountain spirits and tree sprites were the region’s greatest threats, and warned that using Law Power or True Qi could rouse them.
• Wu Hun taught Hu Mang to refine Demon Beast flesh and Yao Qi, then prepared a soup from a python and a spirit deer for him to consume.
• Hu Mang absorbed the beasts’ traits, practicing movements that combined a python’s coiling strength with a spirit deer’s agility.
• Over the next three days, Wu Hun brought Hu Mang more snake demons, and Hu Mang refined their Qi and Blood into his sinews.
• Hu Mang completed his Sinew Snake refinement, causing an invisible snake demon to coil around his spear as he practiced.

Hu Mang and his fellow disciples used imported pesticides to clear the Fallen Miasma Ancient Cavern, then took on a mission to remove demonic-tainted rocks in Black Wind Rift Gorge. Hu Mang cultivated a tiger spirit’s hide and emerged from seclusion with tiger roars resonating from his pores.

• Hu Mang gathered pesticide supplies from the Zheng Family Garden and returned with Jiang Mingshan and Wu Hun to spray the miasma insects and seal the Fallen Miasma Ancient Cavern.
• The three disciples reported their mission complete and accepted an assignment to clear Demonic Qi-corrupted rocks in Black Wind Rift Gorge.
• Jiang Mingshan used an excavator to break the contaminated rock while Hu Mang began cultivating the Tiger Skin refinement.
• Wu Hun returned with a massive tiger spirit carcass, and Hu Mang used its Qi and Blood to support his cultivation.
• After two days in seclusion, Hu Mang emerged as tiger roars from his pores shook the gorge.

Hu Mang used a Pill Furnace to refine the demonic natures in his Qi and Blood with his Golden Core, strengthening his cultivation and completing the sinew, skin, and flesh refinements. Xu Nuoning’s grandfather entered the chamber and was shocked by what he saw Hu Mang doing.

• Hu Mang chose a chamber at Li Flame Mountain to test whether his Golden Core could refine the demonic natures in his body.
• Hu Mang filled a Pill Furnace with body-tempering medicine and water, then climbed inside to begin refining himself.
• Hu Mang found that his martial arts intent could only weaken the demonic natures, while his Golden Core tamed them and turned them into pure power.
• Hu Mang’s Golden Core grew stronger as a dragon and tiger emerged among his Qi and Blood, with foxes gathering behind the tiger.
• Xu Nuoning’s grandfather wandered through the Alchemy Chambers, entered Hu Mang’s chamber, and called him sick in the head.

Hu Mang refined his body and Crimson Moon Fox bloodline in a Pill Furnace, then fought the strange old man who had been watching him. The old man revealed himself as the True Person of Myriad Phenomena and brought True Person Li Fire to see Hu Mang, whom he judged could be molded into a talented pill refiner.

• Hu Mang emerged from the Pill Furnace with eight tails after digesting Yao Qi and strengthening his Crimson Moon Fox bloodline.
• Hu Mang accused the old man of being a pervert, then attacked him after mistaking him for a demonic cultivator who had refined ginseng spirits.
• The old man explained that he was a divided thought and criticized Hu Mang's cultivation method for mixing Daoist and Buddhist qualities.
• The old man summoned True Person Li Fire, who recognized Hu Mang and assessed his cultivation.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena told True Person Li Fire that Hu Mang had unusual potential for pill refinement and could be molded into a talent.

True Person of Myriad Phenomena brought Hu Mang to his cave abode on Li Flame Mountain to teach him alchemy and revealed his knowledge of the upper realm. There, he introduced himself as an Innate Pill Furnace from the Haotian Heavenly Court and asked Hu Mang to explain his origins.

• True Person Li Fire assigned Hu Mang to follow True Person of Myriad Phenomena and learn alchemy, then warned the disciples that the senior was a nonhuman being with influence among both righteous and demonic sects.
• True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained to Hu Mang that cultivating both Yin and Yang Spirits was not necessary for every path to surviving the lightning tribulation.
• Hu Mang entered the cave abode, where its Immortal Qi stirred his Dao Yang realm, but True Person of Myriad Phenomena said his lack of an Innate Dao Body limited how much his Golden Core could improve.
• True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained that the cave held a water vent formed from an ancient fire vent and said Hu Mang's second-generation patriarch had told him about it while they spoke in the lower realm.
• At the cave's cold pool, True Person of Myriad Phenomena revealed his true body was the Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin Cauldron, one of the Haotian Heavenly Court's twenty-six Innate Pill Furnaces, and asked whether Hu Mang came from another minor chiliocosm.

Hu Mang learned from True Person of Myriad Phenomena about chiliocosm levels, his cultivation system, and the Azure Mysterious Realm’s impending merger with the upper realm. True Person revealed that he had descended to attempt a transformation into an immortal artifact, but the realm’s fierce tribulation shattered his attempt and damaged his cauldron.

• True Person of Myriad Phenomena deduced Hu Mang’s Golden Core cultivation and explained how Small, Middle, and Great Chiliocosms relate to one another.
• Hu Mang described the Heavenly Gate cultivation realms, and True Person speculated that the Nascent Soul realm arose from a dangerous upper-realm fragment and its lingering catastrophe.
• True Person told Hu Mang that the Azure Mysterious Realm would merge with the Numinous Emptiness Immortal Realm, making its inhabitants upper-realm beings and greatly extending their lifespans.
• Hu Mang asked whether True Person had descended because of the merger, and True Person revealed his true form as a cracked divine cauldron.
• True Person explained that he had come to undergo tribulation and become an immortal artifact, but the Azure Mysterious Realm’s lightning struck him down before he could transform.

The True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained his failed tribulation and sought Earth Star’s Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao fragment to repair his damaged cauldron, but Hu Mang questioned whether that plan could work. Hu Mang instead proposed using the Heavenly Tribulation Register to subject the True Person to a minor tribulation, though the True Person warned that involvement with the Heavenly Tribulation Imperial Dynasty could bring certain death.

• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena recounted how he survived three tribulations before his true body was destroyed during the Divine Immortal Pill Tribulation and later came to reside in the Mysterious Peak Sect.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena told Hu Mang that the sect master was preparing to undergo a thunder tribulation and might ascend.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena asked Hu Mang to help find Earth Star’s Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao fragment, but Hu Mang questioned whether they could find it in time or persuade a devil-path immortal to surrender it.
• Hu Mang revealed the Heavenly Tribulation Register and proposed that the True Person of Myriad Phenomena use it to undergo a minor Heavenly Tribulation and repair his damaged body.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena welcomed the plan, then warned Hu Mang that becoming entangled in the Heavenly Tribulation Imperial Dynasty’s karma could mean certain death.

Hu Mang asked True Person of Myriad Phenomena to help refine his body toward Shattering the Void and improve his golden core, then revealed rare High Antiquity materials that could aid the process. Meanwhile, three Mysterious Peak Sect elders arrived at the sect master’s field and Abbess Hengyue suspected he had advanced.

• True Person of Myriad Phenomena examined Hu Mang’s remolded golden core and confirmed that reaching Shattering the Void could help him return from the acquired state to the innate.
• True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained that Hu Mang’s current method could not produce a true Purple Mansion Immortal Pill without higher-grade materials.
• Hu Mang brought out Longbo blood and a Mountain-Bearing Divine Ao shell, and True Person of Myriad Phenomena recognized both as rare High Antiquity materials.
• True Person Li Fire, Abbess Hengyue, and Rogue Person Yanbo met at Spirit-Unifying Mountain and went to find the sect master.
• Abbess Hengyue found the sect master tilling a field and asked whether he had taken that step.

True Person Tian explained his Reversion to the Void and revealed that he had only half a year to live, then arranged for Old Daoist Li Fire to succeed him as sect master. He warned that the Grand Pure One's coming Dao Integration would begin a great tribulation and left the Mysterious Peak Sect with instructions for the upheaval ahead.

• True Person Tian explained how Reversion to the Void differed from Return to the Void and said his lifespan was now that of an ordinary person, with only half a year remaining.
• True Person Tian named Old Daoist Li Fire as the next sect master and advised Abbess Hengyue to reconsider her Buddhist practice.
• True Person Tian reported that demonic forces were targeting four of the Seven Spring Growth Lunar Mansions and said Brother Ming had gone to meet Chunwuzi and the others with the Earth's Heart Disc.
• True Person Tian warned that the Grand Pure One's Dao Integration would signal a realm-wide tribulation as this world returned to the Numinous Emptiness Immortal Realm.
• True Person Tian told Old Daoist Li Fire to prepare the sect for the crisis, choose a successor for Li Flame Mountain, and protect the Divine Sword Sect.

Hu Mang underwent a dangerous medicinal refinement in the Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin Cauldron to forge an immortal bone and achieve Shattering the Void. He subdued the Mountain-Bearing Giant Ao in a vision and emerged with his bones transformed as his body reached the breakthrough.

• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena refined Longbo Essence Blood and the Mountain-Bearing Ao's shell, while rising gravity forced Jiang Mingshan to leave and left Hu Mang and Wu Hun able to move.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena told Hu Mang to enter the cauldron once the medicinal brew was ready, and Hu Mang was overwhelmed by its gravity and lost consciousness.
• Hu Mang awoke in a vision as a great python held by a Longbo giant and realized he needed to take the giant's place and capture the Mountain-Bearing Giant Ao to complete Turtle Dragon Bone.
• Hu Mang transformed into a strange dragon, used the Sea Dragon Vein and a seaquake to expose and weaken the giant ao, then watched it sink beneath a massive palm.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena observed the medicinal broth clearing as Hu Mang's bones thickened and darkened, and Wu Hun heard his heartbeat grow powerful while signs of Shattering the Void appeared.

Hu Mang honed his fighting methods by battling and absorbing the abilities of Demon Beasts in the southwestern mountains, while Wu Cai resumed negotiations with Chengdan Spiritual Enterprise over the Three Flowers technology. The chapter left Hu Mang preparing to sign a contract with the enterprise’s Information Nascent Soul, who planned to attend over the internet.

• Hu Mang transferred Wu Hun’s mission rewards and declined to spar until he had grown accustomed to his new body.
• Hu Mang traveled into the southwestern mountains and killed powerful Demon Beasts to develop his fighting methods and absorb their Divine Abilities.
• Hu Mang decided to save his final transformation for a simultaneous breakthrough in his martial realm and National Standard Golden Core.
• Wu Cai told Hu Mang that negotiations had resumed and that he would exchange the Three Flowers patents, technology, and clinical data for a stake in Chengdan Spiritual Enterprise.
• Wu Cai said the enterprise’s Information Nascent Soul would attend the contract signing over the internet, prompting Hu Mang to wonder whether Information Nascent Souls could use Rainbow Transformation.

Hu Mang learned about Heavenly Gate’s new virtual network features and the popular Lust Abstinence cultivation software, which he had developed. At Old Master Cheng’s Virtual Grotto-Heaven, Hu Mang explored its underlying structure and asked to experience a Nascent Soul’s light-speed connection to the internet.

• Wu Cai told Hu Mang that Heavenly Gate had launched the Virtual Grotto-Heaven, Virtual Dao Discussion Rooms, and the Lust Abstinence Software, whose cultivation features were widely used.
• Hu Mang realized the Lust Abstinence Software was his creation and checked his Spirit Pivot No. 1 messages.
• Hu Mang and Wu Cai were drawn into President Cheng’s Virtual Grotto-Heaven after their network node’s signal proved too weak for him to project his spirit safely.
• Old Master Cheng praised Hu Mang’s software and explained that its underlying architecture had helped shape the Virtual Grotto-Heaven, with patent fees paid at market rates.
• Hu Mang used his Divine Sense to reveal the Virtual Grotto-Heaven’s rune-based structure, then asked Old Master Cheng what connecting to the internet at light speed felt like.
• Old Master Cheng offered to accompany Hu Mang in trying it.

Hu Mang toured Chengdan Spiritual Enterprise’s data sect with Boss Cheng, learned how its virtual cultivation research differed from the Old Celestial People’s methods, and signed an equity contract with the company. The deal brought him Fortune, and he awaited Chengdan’s planned listing, which could help him advance in cultivation.

• Old Master Cheng guided Hu Mang through the virtual network to Chengdan Spiritual Enterprise’s data sect and explained its research facilities and virtual experiments.
• Boss Cheng admitted Chengdan cooperated with Old Celestial People, but said their cyber cultivators were too unusual to serve as a mass-production model.
• Boss Cheng showed Hu Mang Chengdan’s research departments and its work on plant and grafted meridians before they returned to the virtual grotto-heaven.
• Hu Mang and Boss Cheng signed an equity contract without further negotiation, and Hu Mang sensed Fortune descending from the pact.
• Wu Cai told Hu Mang that Chengdan planned to begin its listing process in three months and that the resulting Fortune could help them advance.
• Hu Mang considered the risks of the listing tribulation and concluded that his stake might help him reach Golden Core Late Stage or beyond.

Hu Mang went fishing with Chen Xiaosan while investigating the Underworld Bureau’s activities and the Zheng Family Garden’s experiments. He discovered that fishing helped him master the High Antiquity rod, then received an excited call from Sister Yu.

• Hu Mang took Chen Xiaosan fishing to avoid invitations and read documents while Chen Xiaosan complained about King Chujiang’s assignments.
• Chen Xiaosan told Hu Mang that the Underworld Bureau was catching Jiangtou Imps to repair the Ghost Dragon Vein, while the Hundred Mysteries Night Parade handled dangerous seabed work.
• Hu Mang suspected the Bureau’s activity was connected to the Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao and decided to wait before investigating the Old Heavenly Gate’s Sea Dragon Vein.
• Hu Mang reviewed experiments that used Flesh and Blood Golden Cores to help cultivators form Golden Cores, and learned the Zheng Family Garden was seeking more of them.
• Hu Mang caught fish repeatedly with the High Antiquity rod and realized that fishing increased his mastery of it, while Chen Xiaosan caught only a shrimp.
• Sister Yu called Hu Mang, relieved that he was alive and saying she had nearly sent people overseas to rescue him.

Hu Mang learned that the Lust Abstinence Software had become a major success and that Sister Yu needed his help with its next version. Meanwhile, Xu Zhi'an and Hong Shuwei waited in Port Surumai for a chance to meet the Zheng Family Garden's Martial Hall Master, and Xu spotted an opportunity in a limping man across the street.

• Sister Yu told Hu Mang that the Lust Abstinence Software had become a hit and explained her plan to use a performance wager to make her branch independent.
• Hu Mang agreed to consider ideas for an update, then told Chen Xiaosan about the virtual grotto-heaven and Dao discussion room, prompting Chen Xiaosan to leave and play games online.
• Xu Zhi'an explained to Hong Shuwei why they needed the Zheng Family Garden's help and why their calling cards had not secured a meeting with its Martial Hall Master.
• Xu Zhi'an noticed a limping man across the street and told Hong Shuwei that the opportunity they had been waiting for had arrived.

Xu Zhi'an and Hong Shuwei followed a cripple toward the Zheng Family Garden, where they encountered uncanny strangers seeking Lü Pure Yang. Their attempt to stop the strangers turned into a fight, and Lan Caihe unleashed blood lotuses on Hong Shuwei and Liuniang as Xu Zhi'an faced the cripple's attack.

• Xu Zhi'an explained that someone had been scouting the Zheng Family Garden and planned to catch the intruders to gain an audience with its Martial Hall Master.
• The cripple met an elderly Daoist riding a white donkey and Lan Caihe, and the three continued toward the garden while Xu Zhi'an and Hong Shuwei sensed something was wrong.
• Xu Zhi'an sent Hong Shuwei to warn the garden and attacked the cripple with Gang Current Rends the Void, but nerve filaments burst from the cripple's leg and forced Xu Zhi'an to defend himself.
• Hong Shuwei reached the garden and urged Liuniang to take her to the Heavenly Blood Python, but Lan Caihe appeared on the lotus pond and asked for Lü Pure Yang.
• Lan Caihe declared that he would wake Lü Pure Yang, and blood lotuses erupted from the pond to attack Hong Shuwei and Liuniang.