Recaps

Yi Xuan used missiles and five rotor printers to demolish the old grand elder’s palace ruins further before beginning to rebuild the square. The drones leveled the ground and reinforced its foundations, while the old grand elder watched in dismay and growing disbelief.

• Yi Xuan asked the old grand elder for permission to damage the ruins further, and the grand elder agreed as long as Yi Xuan rebuilt the palace.
• Yi Xuan ordered Firmament to fire two missiles at the ruins, prompting the old grand elder to accuse him of wrecking the palace again.
• Xiao Anhe and Shi Zhenghao arrived and recognized the missile attack as Yi Xuan’s handiwork.
• Yi Xuan replayed the grand elder’s earlier agreement, then ordered four more missiles to blast the remaining ruins into dust.
• Five rotor printers cleared the dust, filled the holes, leveled the square, and began reinforcing its foundations with cement and steel.

Yi Xuan asked Xiao Anhe and the old Supreme Elder why Nascent Soul experts could sense the signals connecting his bracelet to the palace-building puppets. The two confirmed they could detect the growing web of signals across the Azure Cloud Sect, leaving Yi Xuan’s concern about his future signal network unresolved.

• The old Supreme Elder urged Yi Xuan to focus on becoming stronger instead of relying on his inventions, while Yi Xuan reassured him that he had powerful allies.
• Yi Xuan concealed how he studied the Puppet Technique and let the others believe it was the source of his growing abilities.
• Yi Xuan showed Xiao Anhe and the old Supreme Elder his bracelet and asked them to sense its connection to the five puppets building the palace.
• Xiao Anhe said he had noticed Yi Xuan’s unusual methods before, and the old Supreme Elder recognized the bracelet’s technology as Yi Xuan’s work.
• The old Supreme Elder sensed that signals now spread throughout the Azure Cloud Sect, where the three Supreme Elders could detect them if they paid attention.

Yi Xuan learned why Nascent Soul cultivators could sense electromagnetic waves: their Primordial Spirits had undergone a qualitative transformation. He tested different wavelengths and frequencies to evade their perception, but the experiments failed, leaving him unable to hide his signals from them.

• Shi Zhenghao confirmed that cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm could not sense electromagnetic waves, while Nascent Soul experts could locate transmitters and receivers.
• Xiao Anhe and the Azure Cloud Sect's old grand elder explained that forming a Nascent Soul raised a cultivator's level of life by refining the Primordial Spirit.
• The old grand elder described how cultivating the Primordial Spirit led to the Golden Core breaking and a Nascent Soul forming.
• Yi Xuan realized that stronger Nascent Soul cultivators would become increasingly sensitive to electromagnetic waves as their Primordial Spirits grew stronger.
• Yi Xuan ordered his wristband to test different wavelengths and frequencies while Xiao Anhe and the old grand elder monitored its connection to the drones.
• Xiao Anhe and the old grand elder continued sensing the signals through every test, and Yi Xuan concluded that he had been caught by the throat.

After learning that Nascent Soul cultivators could trace electromagnetic signals, Yi Xuan stopped the planned communication network in the Xia Kingdom and searched for safer ways to communicate. He settled on investigating quantum communication after No. 01 reminded him, “When in doubt, quantum mechanics,” and began transferring knowledge from the Book of Technology into the computer.

• Yi Xuan's master and the old grand elder warned him that Nascent Soul cultivators could trace electromagnetic signals and ambush him before he could use his weapons.
• Yi Xuan left the square and ordered No. 01 to put construction of communication base stations in the Xia Kingdom on hold.
• At No. 1 Base, Yi Xuan considered wired communication and satellite communication, then asked No. 01 to develop a satellite communication plan.
• No. 01 suggested the saying “When in doubt, quantum mechanics,” prompting Yi Xuan to consider quantum communication as a way to avoid electromagnetic signals.
• Yi Xuan extracted quantum communication knowledge from the Book of Technology, transferred it to a Jade Slip, and told No. 01 to read and store it.

Yi Xuan used the Book of Technology to master quantum communication and built two prototype devices, then tested one aboard the Firmament. The test succeeded, and he headed back to No. 1 Base to compare the devices’ recorded data.

• No. 01 absorbed some of the quantum communication knowledge while Yi Xuan mastered it through the Book of Technology, though the sudden influx left his head aching and frightened him.
• Yi Xuan assembled two quantum communication prototypes, and No. 01 confirmed they had no technical problems while criticizing their bulky, ugly design.
• Yi Xuan took one device aboard the Firmament and left the other at No. 1 Base for No. 01 to operate; Shi Zhenghao arrived too late and left an object on Yi Xuan’s desk.
• While flying southwest of the Azure Cloud Sect, Yi Xuan spotted black water and rising black gas in the sea, but held back from investigating and tested the device instead.
• The device received the data sent from No. 1 Base quickly, confirming that quantum communication worked, and Yi Xuan piloted the Firmament back to the base to compare the results.

Yi Xuan tested the Firmament’s improved flight capabilities, received the Shi Household’s formation manual from Shi Zhenghao, and brought quantum communication equipment to No. 1 Base. The tests confirmed quantum communication’s advantages, while Yi Xuan considered how Divine Sense’s limits helped conceal the underground base.

• Yi Xuan flew the Firmament back to his courtyard and learned that Shi Zhenghao had left a package while watching it depart.
• Yi Xuan opened the package, found the Shi Household’s secret formation manual, and put it away for later study.
• Yi Xuan took the quantum communication equipment to No. 1 Base and asked No. 01 for the test results.
• Yi Xuan reasoned that Divine Sense weakened when probing underground, making No. 1 Base at five hundred meters deep difficult for most cultivators to discover.
• Yi Xuan reviewed the test data and found that quantum communication outperformed electromagnetic-wave communication in speed, range, and signal quality.
• Pangu tried to hug Yi Xuan, but he stopped it and rejected being embraced by a lump of iron.

Yi Xuan tested quantum communication with the Grand Elder and confirmed that Divine Sense could not detect its transmissions, so he began planning a quantum satellite network. To determine whether a satellite could work, he asked what lay beyond the sky, and the Grand Elder began recounting an earlier attempt to find out.

• Yi Xuan visited the Grand Elder’s restored palace and tested his quantum communication device under the Grand Elder’s Divine Sense.
• Yi Xuan confirmed that the Grand Elder had sensed no communication and concluded that quantum transmissions could evade cultivators’ perception.
• Yi Xuan chose satellite communication over a network of ground stations and identified a rocket and the existence of a universe as remaining problems.
• Yi Xuan asked the Grand Elder where someone would end up by flying straight upward, and the Grand Elder said someone had once sought Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Yi Xuan learned from the old grand elder that Heaven Beyond Heaven suppressed cultivators and had killed an explorer with a mysterious corrosive gas. He returned to No. 1 Base and shifted his focus from launching satellites to building a rocket that could explore beyond the world.

• The old grand elder told Yi Xuan that cultivators who flew toward Heaven Beyond Heaven usually fell when their True Essence ran out.
• The old grand elder described how a Tribulation Transcendence Realm Perfection cultivator reached a gas-like boundary, lost an arm to its effects, and died after mysterious gas entered his body.
• Yi Xuan left the old grand elder and returned to No. 1 Base, considering the gas a potential weapon against powerful cultivators.
• Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to develop quantum communication satellites while he began planning a rocket to explore Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Yi Xuan examined famous rockets from his previous life but could not decide which one to choose.

Yi Xuan began preparing for a rocket launch in the Cultivation Realm, choosing a Long March-inspired design while his mechanical army gathered the necessary planetary data. He objected when No. 01’s optimized rocket turned out to be only three meters tall, then learned it used a High-Grade Spirit Stone for propulsion and could theoretically carry a satellite into space.

• Yi Xuan ordered No. 1 Base and the portable research center to gather launch data and prepare equipment while producing quantum communication modules.
• Yi Xuan chose a Long March-inspired rocket design over the reusable Falcon option and began designing before the planetary survey was complete.
• No. 01 optimized the rocket plan, shrinking its height to three meters and prompting Yi Xuan to demand an explanation.
• No. 01 revealed that the rocket used a High-Grade Spirit Stone for power, with a chemical fuel chamber as backup in case Spirit Stones failed at high altitude.
• Yi Xuan accepted that the rocket could theoretically carry his quantum communication satellite into space, but worried about whether the Cultivation Realm’s outer space was hostile to technology.

Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense broke through after he completed his fifth needle, allowing him to control five flying needles outside his sea of consciousness. He used them to engrave formations with exceptional precision and speed, and grew confident that the formations would help his rocket reach Heaven Beyond Heaven.

• Yi Xuan waited while No. 1 Base’s mechanical army collected and calibrated basic data about the cultivation world.
• After completing his fifth needle, Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense expanded to a range comparable to a Late Grain Avoidance Stage cultivator’s.
• Yi Xuan discovered that his five steel needles could now leave his sea of consciousness and dart under his control.
• Yi Xuan began using the Divine Sense Flying Needles to engrave formations, even engraving five formations at once.
• Yi Xuan gained confidence that the new formations would help him brute-force his rocket to Heaven Beyond Heaven.

After No. 01 completed its data collection, Yi Xuan finalized and built a rocket suited to the cultivation world alongside a quantum communication satellite. He launched the prototype rocket toward a desert in the western Xia Kingdom and watched it reach its target with Liang Shi.

• Yi Xuan learned that No. 01 had finished collecting data, and No. 01 reported that conditions would not prevent a rocket launch.
• No. 01 used the measurements to optimize the rocket design, and Yi Xuan began producing the rocket and quantum communication satellite at No. 1 Base.
• Yi Xuan moved two rockets and the completed satellite to No. 2 Base after testing and inspecting them.
• Yi Xuan ordered a test launch of the original two-stage prototype toward a desert in the western Xia Kingdom and flew with Liang Shi in the Firmament to follow it.
• The Long March prototype launched, climbed to its planned altitude, turned toward the target, and plunged into the desert.

Old Xu mistook Yi Xuan and Liang Shi’s Firmaments for Demon Beasts, sparking rumors that spread across the Xia Kingdom and drew cultivators to the desert. Meanwhile, Yi Xuan prepared the Long March and began its launch, which lifted off with a quantum communications satellite aboard.

• Old Xu saw the prototype explode and mistook Liang Shi’s Firmament for a Demon Beast, then spotted two Firmaments as he returned home.
• Old Xu told the town storyteller what he had seen, and rumors spread until people across the Xia Kingdom were said to have witnessed divine beasts in the desert.
• The rumors drew many immortal cultivators to the desert, while Zhuo Ning worried over their presence and nearby cities grew busy with trade.
• Liang Shi picked up Qian Lei and searched the Southern Frontier for Gazing Immortal Sect disciples as Yi Xuan returned to No. 2 Base to prepare the Long March.
• After the final checks, Yi Xuan ordered the launch, and the rocket carrying a quantum communications satellite ignited and lifted off.

Yi Xuan launched the Wukong quantum communications satellite and confirmed that the world beyond the Kármán line was a vast universe. With the satellite signal working, he began the Starlink Project to build a network that could watch the entire cultivation world.

• Yi Xuan watched the Long March rocket cross the Kármán line and discovered a vast universe beyond the so-called Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• The rocket deployed Wukong into its calculated orbit, and No. 01 confirmed the satellite was functioning and its signal was stable.
• Yi Xuan switched the bases to Wukong’s signal, briefly disrupting technology across the Azure Cloud Sect before normal operations resumed.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s supreme elders noticed the signal change, and Xiao Anhe wondered how difficult his disciple had become to understand.
• Yi Xuan ordered the Starlink Project to begin, and No. 2 Base started work under No. 01’s control.

Yi Xuan planned to fund his Starlink Project by expanding his oil and grenade businesses. After arranging major expansions with Fatty Lin and the Li Household, he was confronted by an unknown speaker on the mountain path.

• Yi Xuan returned from No. 2 Base and decided to expand his two profitable businesses to finance the Starlink Project.
• Yi Xuan ordered Fatty Lin to spread the oil business throughout the Southern Frontier, and Fatty Lin promised to do so within six months.
• Yi Xuan asked Supreme Elder Li to increase the grenade business a hundredfold, and Li Qianren took over the business from Li Jingming.
• Yi Xuan left the mountain feeling relaxed, but a voice behind him accused him of getting full of himself and neglecting human decency.

Yi Xuan’s master, Xiao Anhe, brought him to Supreme Elder Li to identify two spheres left after Yi Xuan melted Qi Yun’s vicious Law Artifact. Supreme Elder Li revealed that they contained two rare, independent Artifact Spirit souls, leaving Yi Xuan with the spheres and a startling discovery.

• Xiao Anhe confronted Yi Xuan about the black and white spheres, and Yi Xuan explained that he had melted the vicious Law Artifact in the Artifact Ruins.
• Xiao Anhe took Yi Xuan to Supreme Elder Li so he could identify the spheres.
• Supreme Elder Li swiftly took the spheres from Yi Xuan and examined them.
• Yi Xuan recounted how he obtained the spheres, and Supreme Elder Li said they held the Artifact Spirit of the vicious weapon and the soul of a Gazing Immortal Sect disciple.
• Supreme Elder Li explained that the two Artifact Spirits existed independently of their Law Artifact, a condition he said was extremely rare.

Supreme Elder Li explained the rarity of the black and white artifact spirits, and Xiao Anhe revealed his plan for Yi Xuan to refine them. After a month of seclusion, Yi Xuan succeeded and gained control of two additional souls, leaving him joking that he was preparing to become a saint.

• Supreme Elder Li explained that artifact spirits were rare and that the black and white orbs should not have survived the destruction of their Law Artifact.
• Xiao Anhe suggested that Yi Xuan refine both artifact spirits, and Supreme Elder Li realized the plan could give Yi Xuan three souls.
• Supreme Elder Li explained that the two refined souls could serve as additional lives and allow Yi Xuan to transfer his consciousness after his body died.
• Yi Xuan and the two supreme elders entered seclusion in Supreme Elder Li's palace for a month.
• Yi Xuan successfully refined both artifact spirits and saw three versions of himself in his sea of consciousness.

After refining the black and white pearls, Yi Xuan explored the two souls bound within them and discovered their connection could transmit signals with remarkable secrecy. Half a month later, Shi Zhenghao recruited him for a dangerous mission investigating mass village killings in Youyun Kingdom, leaving Yi Xuan furious to find that his senior brother had already accepted it on his behalf.

• Yi Xuan absorbed the memories of the black-robed and white-robed souls, learned that they were projections of souls trapped in the pearls, and thanked Supreme Elder Li and Xiao Anhe for helping him refine them.
• Yi Xuan returned to his residence and spent half a month studying the two souls and their covert connection.
• Shi Zhenghao visited Yi Xuan and invited him on a reconnaissance mission intended for two Golden Core elders.
• Shi Zhenghao explained that more than twenty villages in western Youyun Kingdom had been massacred and the sect suspected an Evil Dao sect.
• Yi Xuan checked his sect token and discovered Shi Zhenghao had accepted the mission for him too, then sarcastically thanked his senior brother.

Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao traveled to the Youyun Kingdom to investigate massacres blamed on Evil Dao cultivators. After seeing the slaughtered villagers and learning their souls had been extracted, Yi Xuan swore revenge.

• Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao flew to the Youyun Kingdom, where a general reported that more than a dozen villages had been massacred.
• Shi Zhenghao suspected Evil Dao cultivators were responsible and took Yi Xuan to inspect a nearby village.
• The two found villagers’ bodies scattered through the village, and Shi Zhenghao identified soul extraction as the method used.
• Yi Xuan saw the gruesome remains, retched, and vowed to chop up the killers and their entire families.

Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao flew through villages massacred by Evil Dao cultivators, and Shi Zhenghao explained how they used both mortals’ souls and flesh and blood. In the last village, Yi Xuan found a grieving mother holding her dismembered infant and left asking where hell could be if this was the mortal world.

• Yi Xuan saw villages filled with slaughtered people and livestock, and Shi Zhenghao told him this was the real cultivation world.
• Shi Zhenghao explained that Evil Dao cultivators extracted mortals’ souls and refined their flesh and blood into pills.
• After passing more than a dozen massacred villages, Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao found a woman cradling her infant amid the corpses.
• When Shi Zhenghao tried to take the bundle, the woman attacked him, and it fell open to reveal the infant’s severed head and minced body.
• Yi Xuan gathered the infant’s remains and asked Shi Zhenghao where hell was if this was the mortal world.
• Shi Zhenghao knocked the woman unconscious and led Yi Xuan away from the village.

After finding thirty-two villages emptied, Yi Xuan returned to No. 2 Base and spent a month in seclusion. Shi Zhenghao later brought Junior Sister Ning to him and reported that the Blood Asura Gate was responsible, while the Azure Cloud Sect planned to seek allies before acting; Yi Xuan refused to wait for careful planning.

• Yi Xuan and Shi Zhenghao searched every village along the Youyun Kingdom's border, found no survivors besides the woman, and concluded the general's city was isolated.
• Yi Xuan returned to No. 2 Base while Shi Zhenghao took the unconscious woman to the Azure Cloud Sect, where Supreme Elder Li sealed some of her memories and accepted her as his disciple, Junior Sister Ning.
• A month later, Shi Zhenghao brought Junior Sister Ning to Yi Xuan, who was disheveled after his seclusion; Ning said she remembered him despite the memory seal.
• Shi Zhenghao told Yi Xuan that the Blood Asura Gate had carried out the attack and that the Azure Cloud Sect planned to contact other righteous sects to organize a campaign.
• Yi Xuan said he could not wait for the sect's careful planning.

After learning that the Blood Asura Gate was responsible for the Evil Dao’s atrocities, Yi Xuan took Shi Zhenghao and Junior Sister Ning to the sect’s hidden location. He blocked Shi Zhenghao from leaving and invited Junior Sister Ning to join him in attacking the sect.

• Yi Xuan told Shi Zhenghao to wait with Junior Sister Ning, then changed out of his beggar’s disguise and summoned the Firmament.
• Yi Xuan piloted the Firmament to the mountains surrounding the Blood Asura Gate, while Shi Zhenghao questioned his intentions.
• Yi Xuan explained that he had located the Blood Asura Gate using a map in the Scripture Repository and identified the beautiful scenery as an illusion created by the sect formation.
• When Shi Zhenghao tried to take Junior Sister Ning away, Black Tortoise No. 2 appeared and blocked him with its cannon trained on him.
• Yi Xuan held out his hand to Junior Sister Ning and said he would take her to slay every evil ghost.

Yi Xuan led Ning Yun to the Blood Asura Gate and deployed a vast mechanical army against the sect. After its elders came out to confront him, his forces killed them one by one, leaving the sect's disciples to seal their formation and sound the alarm.

• Ning Yun took Yi Xuan's hand and went with him to face the Blood Asura Gate's stele.
• Yi Xuan summoned more than a hundred Pangus, which deployed a much larger mechanical army around the sect entrance.
• The Blood Asura Gate's elders arrived, and a Barrett shot killed the red-haired elder as he threatened Yi Xuan's army.
• A second elder was killed while trying to negotiate, and the remaining elders fled toward the sect.
• Yi Xuan's forces shot down the fleeing elders, while the Blood Asura Gate's disciples closed their grand formation and sounded the alarm bell.

Yi Xuan ordered his mechanical army to attack the Blood Asura Gate after killing Elder Yun and the Golden Core elders who came out to negotiate. Gou Wenshan saw the machines advance and tested their strength, but the chapter ended as their weapons prepared to fire against the sect's protective formation.

• A disciple reported to Gou Wenshan that Elder Yun and several Golden Core elders had been killed outside the Blood Asura Gate's formation.
• Yi Xuan prepared his mechanical army to attack while Shi Zhenghao watched in shock and Ning Yun described feeling pleasure at the deaths of the elders.
• Yi Xuan told Ning Yun the victims were evil spirits and ordered the entire army to attack the Blood Asura Gate.
• Gou Wenshan saw the advancing machines, opened a gap in the formation, and destroyed more than ten Nüwas with a True Essence attack.
• The mechanical army disengaged its weapons' safeties, and blue sparks spread across the Blood Asura Gate's protective formation.

Yi Xuan’s mechanical army battered the Blood Asura Gate’s grand formation until its defenses were nearly depleted, then stopped when he judged that neither side would benefit from an attrition battle. After Gou Wenshan and the sect’s elders came out to face them, Yi Xuan tried to demand their surrender, but Ning Yun pointed out that his promise to leave their corpses intact was unlikely to persuade anyone.

• The disciple controlling the Blood Asura Gate’s formation warned Gou Wenshan that it could hold for less than an incense stick’s time, so Gou Wenshan ordered the disciples to add Spirit Stones.
• Yi Xuan’s Nüwa units fired Gatlings at the grand formation while Shi Zhenghao questioned whether Yi Xuan was a reincarnated old monster.
• Yi Xuan stopped the attack after deciding that the formation could keep holding as long as the Blood Asura Gate supplied enough Spirit Stones.
• Gou Wenshan and the elders left the formation, and Shi Zhenghao warned Yi Xuan that a Nascent Soul expert had swept them with Divine Sense.
• Yi Xuan used a megaphone to tell the Blood Asura Gate to surrender, promising to leave their corpses intact.
• Ning Yun pointed out that Yi Xuan’s promise would not encourage surrender, and Yi Xuan decided to stop trying to persuade them.

Yi Xuan lured Blood Asura Gate’s cultivators into destroying his Nüwa units, then detonated the wreckage and used hidden Barretts to kill many Golden Core cultivators. Gou Wenshan and the Nascent Soul patriarchs launched a strike against Yi Xuan, whose fate was left unknown after a giant spiritual blade struck his position.

• Gou Wenshan ordered Blood Asura Gate’s elders to attack Yi Xuan and his companions after the puppets stopped firing.
• Yi Xuan let the Nüwa units be destroyed, then ordered them detonated and had radar-guided Barretts fire into the explosions.
• The blasts trapped Blood Asura Gate’s cultivators, and Barrett fire killed twenty-five Golden Core cultivators before the others retreated behind the formation.
• Gou Wenshan led the Nascent Soul patriarchs toward Yi Xuan to kill the Puppet Master and end the threat.
• Gou Wenshan brought down a hundred-meter spiritual blade on Yi Xuan and his companions, engulfing them in smoke.