Recaps

Lu Changzhi asked the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to keep his teleportation formation secret, while Sun Yi and Chen Kun suspected his display had revealed a connection to the One Brush Saint Emperor's inheritance. After the system delayed his upgraded mission reward, Lu Changzhi prepared to return to Hidden Origin Peak and asked Chen Kun about the news he had mentioned.

• Lu Changzhi asked Sun Yi to keep the day's events confidential, and Sun Yi promised the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would protect the privacy of its Purple-Gold Guests.
• Lu Changzhi decided to leave the teleportation formation intact as an anchor, then wondered why his mission reward had not arrived; the system said his performance had exceeded expectations and upgraded the reward assessment.
• After Lu Changzhi left, Sun Yi and Chen Kun agreed to investigate whether his actions revealed anything about the Dao of Formations and to keep their suspicions from Brother Qi for now.
• Sun Yi and Chen Kun speculated that Lu Changzhi pursued formations because of the One Brush Saint Emperor's inheritance or his mother's influence, and worried that the matter could draw Lu Yuan's attention.
• At dusk, Lu Changzhi said he was leaving for Hidden Origin Peak, declined an escort, and asked Chen Kun what news he had received that might interest him.

After completing the Show Your Skills mission, Lu Changzhi received a teleportation function, a use of Super Simplification, and a Heaven-Peering Eye. He tested the new function by descending to Xiao Ye’s location and let his system go to educate Xiao Ye’s Tongtong.

• Sun Yi realized Lu Changzhi had ties to both a Purple-Gold Guest and the One Brush Saint Emperor, and reflected that Huang Pi had wisely sacrificed his wealth to avoid disaster.
• Lu Changzhi received the mission rewards, including the ability to teleport to any registered disciple and descend there with his true body or an avatar.
• The system showed Lu Changzhi its giant heart and called it its conscience, prompting him to praise how big it was.
• The system asked Lu Changzhi to descend to Xiao Ye so it could educate Xiao Ye’s Tongtong and help her grow stronger.
• Lu Changzhi teleported with Xiao Ming to the Xiao Clan, left the system to educate Tongtong, and continued examining his remaining rewards.

Lu Changzhi considered how to use his free Super Simplification, then examined the Heaven-Peering Eye, a Saint Venerable Artifact that suited his needs. After talking with the system about Xiao Ye's Tongtong and its wish for more disciples, he realized Jin Fugui's trial could begin.

• Lu Changzhi rejected simplifying the Longevity Battlefield or its special mission, deciding to save his Super Simplification for a more important opportunity.
• Lu Changzhi received the Heaven-Peering Eye, learned its functions, and found it useful for concealment, eavesdropping, and cultivation.
• The system returned after helping Xiao Ye's Tongtong, and Lu Changzhi learned that the other disciples' systems could not yet speak.
• The system asked Lu Changzhi to take on more disciples, and Lu Changzhi noticed that he could begin Jin Fugui's trial.

Lu Changzhi saw signs that the Black Tortoise inside its egg was developing, then activated Jin Fugui’s disciple trial and waited for its details. Meanwhile, news of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s teleportation array spread across the Land of the Four Directions, prompting Luo Zhen and Qin Han to plan journeys to the outside world.

• Xiao Ming led Lu Changzhi to the Black Tortoise egg, where Lu Changzhi sensed its growing awareness and added more Source Water Spirit Crystals.
• Lu Changzhi purchased and activated the Disciple Trial for Jin Fugui, and the system began determining the trial.
• The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion publicized the Extreme Arms Holy Land’s teleportation array, offering first-time free travel to new Heavenly Treasure Token holders and a way to borrow Heavenly Treasure Points.
• After hearing about the teleportation array, Luo Zhen decided to leave the Land of the Four Directions and seek a powerful master in the outside world.
• Hua Yunfan told Qin Han to travel to the Extreme Arms Holy Land and use the array, while Qin Han wondered about Jiang Yun.

As factions debated whether to leave the Land of the Four Directions, Lu Changzhi focused on strengthening the Five Symbols Sect and received Jin Fugui’s trial mission to live in Mountain and Sea Village for half a year. He began taking Jin Fugui toward the village in South Island Province, and Jin Fugui was stunned by his master’s power.

• Hua Yunfan told Qin Han that the woman was no longer valuable and that Qin Han should leave the Western Region, and Qin Han agreed to depart.
• While most factions considered traveling beyond the Land of the Four Directions, the Five Symbols Sect chose to focus on cultivating in secret and growing stronger.
• Lu Changzhi checked the sect members’ cultivation progress and learned that Jin Fugui’s trial mission was to live in Mountain and Sea Village for half a year without revealing his cultivation unless necessary.
• Lu Changzhi learned that Mountain and Sea Village lay in South Island Province and told Jin Fugui to prepare for the journey.
• Lu Changzhi set the system navigation to Mountain and Sea Village, then took Jin Fugui with him as they vanished from the Five Symbols Sect.
• Jin Fugui saw the world around them change and marveled at Lu Changzhi’s power.

Lu Changzhi took Jin Fugui out of the Land of the Four Directions and traveled to Wind and Cloud Prefecture in Xiping Domain, while Huang Pi and the Xia Clan considered their own plans involving the newly revealed land. Following the system’s guidance, Lu Changzhi reached the place identified as Mountain and Sea Village.

• Lu Changzhi accepted a jade slip from Sun Yi, who arranged a private teleportation trip for him and Jin Fugui to Wind and Cloud Prefecture in South Island Province.
• Huang Pi recalled being robbed three times in the Land of the Four Directions and decided to stay away, though he still planned to search elsewhere for opportunities for his grandson, Huang Hao.
• The Xia Clan ordered a trip to the Land of the Four Directions to recover what had been taken from the Nine-Tower Secret Realm and instructed its members to investigate the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty.
• After arriving in Wind and Cloud Prefecture, Lu Changzhi sensed its Origin Spiritual Power and considered how its cultivation environment compared with Hidden Origin Peak.
• Lu Changzhi used the Void Shuttle to follow the system’s guidance and identified Mountain and Sea Village as his destination.

Lu Changzhi and Jin Fugui arrived at Mountain and Sea Village, where they arranged to stay for half a year while Jin Fugui lived like a mortal. As Lu Changzhi began exploring the village, a young hunter named Daheizi returned with two pheasants and drew his father’s angry attention.

• Lu Changzhi checked the villagers’ information and found that Mountain and Sea Village was populated by mortals, then told Jin Fugui to blend in and limit his cultivation for half a year.
• Lu Changzhi and Jin Fugui entered the village and asked to stay; village chief Shi Qinglin agreed after asking them not to display their powers.
• Lu Changzhi asked the system about the trial’s difficulties and learned they involved adjusting to simpler living, enduring the long stay, and saying goodbye, though the trial was for Jin Fugui.
• Lu Changzhi decided to treat the stay as a farm visit and went out to learn more about the village.
• Daheizi hurried back with two wild pheasants, exciting the children beneath the great tree, while his father scolded him for hunting at that hour.

Lu Changzhi learned why Mountain and Sea Village feared cultivators and reassured Shi Qinglin that he had come only to let his companion experience village life. Shi Meng brought him roast chicken and asked if the village children could visit to hear stories, leaving Lu Changzhi pleased with the village and its food.

• Shi Meng returned to the village with a chicken while his father apologized to Lu Changzhi for the boy’s behavior.
• Shi Qinglin told Lu Changzhi that a cultivator had once killed villagers after they refused to surrender their ancestral stele, explaining why the nearby villages feared cultivators.
• Lu Changzhi assured Shi Qinglin that he meant the village no harm, and Shi Qinglin offered the villagers’ help.
• Shi Meng brought Lu Changzhi a roast chicken and asked if he and the other children could visit to hear stories about the outside.
• Lu Changzhi welcomed the children, enjoyed the roast chicken, and decided Mountain and Sea Village was a good place to stay.

Lu Changzhi grew close to the children of Mountain and Sea Village and bluffed the system into producing a golden garlic bulb before it disappeared. When Shi Meng’s injured father returned from a hunt, Jin Fugui considered how to improve the villagers’ wound treatment, and Shi Sen suddenly began unfastening his vine belt.

• Lu Changzhi welcomed the village children and watched Shi Meng lead them in gathering food and roasting a huge egg.
• Lu Changzhi teased the system into revealing a golden garlic bulb, which vanished after the system called him a cheat.
• Villagers rushed to help Shi Meng’s wounded father, Shi Sen, whose deep leg injury had spared his bones and tendons.
• Jin Fugui observed Shi Qinglin treating Shi Sen and planned to suggest improvements to the villagers’ medicinal powder and wound care.
• Shi Sen described a beast that had gone berserk during the hunt, then sprang up and began unfastening his vine belt.

Shi Meng took responsibility for stealing the beast’s egg and endured Shi Sen’s beating, then asked Lu Changzhi for help finding medicine for his father. Meanwhile, Mu Qianqian arrived at Heavenly Forging Valley with Qin Jiuxiao and Mo Gen and asked Feng Dachui to forge something for her.

• Shi Sen discovered that Shi Meng had stolen the beast’s egg, scolded him, and beat him with a rattan belt.
• Shi Meng refused to eat the egg and asked Lu Changzhi to help him find medicine for Shi Sen; Lu Changzhi offered to send Fugui with him to identify medicinal herbs.
• Shi Qinglin said the village still needed two more hunts to gather enough spoils for the year.
• Mu Qianqian brought Qin Jiuxiao and Mo Gen to Heavenly Forging Valley, where she introduced Qin Jiuxiao to Mo Gen.
• Feng Dachui complained about Mu Qianqian’s past demands, but she said she wanted him to forge something new for her.

Mu Qianqian brought Qin Jiuxiao to Feng Dachui to have his body forged, but the process ended in an explosive failure that left him unconscious and showed signs of a new presence emerging within him. In Mountain and Sea Village, Lu Changzhi viewed Qin Jiuxiao’s recorded opportunity, then asked Mu Fan about mechanism arts and decided to investigate an inheritance himself.

• Mu Qianqian brought Qin Jiuxiao to Feng Dachui, who agreed to forge him despite warning that the process could make him explode.
• Mu Qianqian and the disciples prepared Qin Jiuxiao, and Feng Dachui repeatedly struck him with a huge hammer until he exploded and she was splattered.
• Feng Dachui suggested that Mo Gen and the other disciples try next, but Qin Jiuxiao stopped convulsing and a different presence began growing within him.
• Lu Changzhi learned that Qin Jiuxiao’s opportunity information had changed to “break before rebuilding” and spent five hundred experience points to view its record.
• Lu Changzhi decided the method was unsuitable for Gu Chen, messaged Mu Fan about mechanism arts, and resolved to visit an inheritance in the outside world.

As contenders gathered for Wei Chen’s inheritance at Mechanism Holy Island, Qi Zhan arrived hoping to obtain mechanism arts that could replace his missing limbs. Lu Changzhi then brought Mu Fan to the gathering by teleportation, where they surveyed the powerful crowd.

• People gathered among the mountains while Qin Jiuxiao, Mu Qianqian, and Feng Dachui waited for Mechanism Holy Island to appear.
• Qi Zhan arrived, worried about competing with higher-ranked cultivators but resolved to claim Wei Chen’s inheritance using what he knew about it.
• The system told Lu Changzhi that Qi Zhan was in position and would obtain Modest Fortune in ten hours.
• The next day, Lu Changzhi descended to Mu Fan and teleported them both to the gathering near Mechanism Holy Island.
• Mu Fan recognized the teleportation as Greater Spatial Translocation and asked to learn it, then pointed out a huge figure nearby.

Lu Changzhi studied the people gathered near Mechanism Holy Island and watched the island emerge from underground. After its traps killed or injured the first entrants, he led Mu Fan toward it.

• Lu Changzhi noticed Mo Gen’s “Aptitude of a Great Junior Brother” and saw Qin Jiuxiao and his master beside him.
• Lu Changzhi spotted Qi Zhan and judged that he lacked the strength to claim the island’s treasures.
• Mechanism Holy Island rose from a vast pit and assembled into a floating island with eight bridges and open gates.
• People rushed onto the bridges, triggering hidden arrows, spells, and enormous spheres that left many dead or injured.
• When others tried to fly around the bridges, the island’s owner struck one person down and warned them to follow his rules.
• Lu Changzhi told Mu Fan to follow him and walked through the air toward the floating island.

Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan entered Wei Chen’s island by using the Nonhuman Token to bypass its formation, while the other arrivals were thrown back. As Lu Changzhi waited in hiding for the location of Qin Jiuxiao’s opportunity to become accessible, he watched the island’s deadly mechanisms injure and deceive explorers, then spotted Qi Zhan.

• Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan passed through the island’s restriction unharmed, prompting others to rush in and get slapped away by the formation’s huge palms.
• Mu Fan used defensive formation plates to search the island while Lu Changzhi surveyed it and considered seeking Wei Chen’s complete inheritance.
• Lu Changzhi asked the system to locate Qin Jiuxiao’s opportunity, learned its site was not yet accessible, and concealed himself in the void with the Heaven-Peering Eye.
• As more people explored the island, Lu Changzhi witnessed mechanisms sever one explorer’s foot and nearly impale another after he opened an empty brocade box.
• Lu Changzhi wondered whether Wei Chen’s complete inheritance was elsewhere, then noticed Qi Zhan hurrying past.

Qi Zhan found a piece of Wei Chen's inheritance, but Mu Qianqian mistook him for a former disciple, stripped him, and accidentally caused his storage ring to fall into Qin Jiuxiao's hands. When Qi Zhan demanded it back, Mu Qianqian formed a spear and challenged him to take it.

• Qi Zhan discovered that the island's mechanisms posed little danger to him and believed he had found part of Wei Chen's inheritance.
• Mu Qianqian and her companions blocked Qi Zhan, and she mistook him for a disciple who had undergone forging under her.
• Mu Qianqian's spiritual power tore Qi Zhan's clothes apart, sending his storage ring to the spot where Lu Changzhi had predicted Qin Jiuxiao would find an opportunity.
• Mu Qianqian removed Qi Zhan's mask, realized she had mistaken him for someone else, and mocked his condition instead of apologizing.
• Qi Zhan noticed that his storage ring had disappeared and shouted for it back, so Mu Qianqian formed a spear and told him to take it.

Mu Qianqian sent Qi Zhan flying, while Lu Changzhi recovered a vanished storage ring and received Mu Fan’s plea for help. He arrived in a mechanism-filled cage where a blue Mechanism Spirit accused Mu Fan of cheating and began preparing a deadly attack.

• Mu Qianqian struck Qi Zhan with a spear and launched him beyond the island, then led Qin Jiuxiao and the others away after they failed to find the storage ring.
• Lu Changzhi realized the ring had vanished mysteriously, retrieved the ring he had picked up, and received a message from Mu Fan asking for help.
• Lu Changzhi descended to Mu Fan’s location and found him trapped inside a dark, mechanism-filled area as the island’s power gathered around them.
• Mu Fan explained that a blue light had accused him of breaking the rules and threatened to kill him.
• The blue Mechanism Spirit declared that cheaters must die, and the surrounding mechanisms activated as a dangerous force formed.

Lu Changzhi used the Seed of Chaos to capture the mechanism spirit and transfer it into the system space, where the system tried to make it obey. The mechanism spirit resisted the system’s demands, and Lu Changzhi watched as the system prepared to try a new method.

• Mu Qianqian sensed the gathering power reaching the Saint King Realm and warned Mo Gen and the others not to approach.
• The system told Lu Changzhi to put the mechanism spirit into the system space, and he used the Seed of Chaos to seal it off from Mechanism Holy Island’s power.
• Lu Changzhi bound the resisting mechanism spirit and sent it into the system space, then gave Mu Fan Qi Zhan’s storage ring and went to explore elsewhere.
• The system questioned the mechanism spirit about whether its master could break rules or cheat, but the mechanism spirit insisted that rule-breaking deserved punishment.
• Lu Changzhi withdrew his chaos binding after watching the system whip the defiant spirit, and the system ended the whipping and announced it would try a new method.

Lu Changzhi used the system to make the Mechanism Spirit obey him, and it led him and Mu Fan through the Mechanism Holy Island’s traps toward its hidden inheritance. After revealing that the apparent treasure was fake and describing its old master’s cruel motives, the Mechanism Spirit guided them to the bottom of the island, above the vast dark pit.

• The system struck the Mechanism Spirit with a whip-palm and punched a hole through its light until it agreed to let Lu Changzhi do as he pleased.
• The Mechanism Spirit offered to lead Lu Changzhi to the inheritances, and Lu Changzhi summoned Mu Fan before following it toward the island’s center.
• The Mechanism Spirit showed them a fake brocade box, then opened a hidden passage beneath the platform.
• Lu Changzhi channeled spiritual power into a spot near a massive door, activating mechanisms without opening it, and the Mechanism Spirit led them away from the dangerous entrance.
• The Mechanism Spirit explained that its old master had planted traps and false treasures to watch cultivators fight and suffer over imagined gains.
• The Mechanism Spirit led Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan down another passage to the island’s bottom, where they found themselves above the vast dark pit.

Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan reached Wei Chen’s inheritance chamber, where the mechanism spirit stopped the destruction that was supposed to erase the inheritance. Lu Changzhi left Mu Fan to collect it and went outside to rest, but the system warned him that his plans would not go smoothly.

• The mechanism spirit led Lu Changzhi and Mu Fan underground to a chamber containing Wei Chen’s inheritance.
• Wei Chen’s projection revealed that the inheritance was meant to be destroyed, but the mechanism spirit prevented the mechanism from activating.
• The mechanism spirit explained that Wei Chen had expected cultivators who once scorned his mechanism arts to seek his inheritance after his death, and had entrusted it with deciding what to do.
• Lu Changzhi realized the mechanism spirit could let them take the inheritance, then left Mu Fan inside and went outside to rest.
• Lu Changzhi reflected that Qi Zhan’s Modest Fortune had spared him a worse disaster, but the system interrupted his plans by warning him that he could not rest yet.

A group of cultivators descended on Mountain and Sea Village, where one of them seized a sacrificial box and Chen Ye ordered Huni taken away. When Huni's father resisted, the cultivator choked him with spiritual power, and the villagers armed themselves.

• A flying boat carrying Chen Ye, Sister Yao, and other cultivators descended on Mountain and Sea Village to look around.
• A cultivator confronted Shi Qinglin, took the village's sacrificial box, and replaced its contents in an earthen box.
• Chen Ye noticed Huni and ordered a subordinate to take her with them when they left.
• Huni's father refused to let them take her, so the subordinate choked him with spiritual power.
• Shi Sen and the other villagers grabbed weapons and prepared to resist the cultivators.

Jin Fugui intervened when the Chen Clan tried to take Huniu from the village, protecting her and the villagers from Chen Ye’s attacks. After Jin Fugui defeated Chen Ye with a broom, a Chen Clan elder attacked him, but an unseen force stopped the killing blow.

• Jin Fugui challenged the Chen Clan to ask Huniu whether she wanted to leave, and Huniu refused to go with them.
• Shi Meng stood up for Huniu, so Chen Ye attacked him with a spear of spiritual power; Jin Fugui blocked the attack and activated an array.
• Chen Ye tried to seize Huniu, while Jin Fugui activated more array plates and fought Zhou Xun with a broom.
• Jin Fugui knocked Chen Ye’s spear aside and wounded his hand, prompting a Chen Clan elder to attack Jin Fugui with Dao Comprehension Realm power.
• A voice asked whether the strong were bullying the weak, and the elder’s strike stopped in midair.

Lu Changzhi arrived to protect Jin Fugui and Shi Meng from the Chen Clan, killing one attacker and overpowering Chen Yu and Chen Ye. He began punishing Chen Ye for his arrogance while Chen Yu tried to negotiate and secretly plotted revenge.

• Lu Changzhi appeared and enclosed the Mountain and Sea Village group in an illusion formation.
• Lu Changzhi redirected an attacker’s spiritual power, killing the middle-aged Chen Clan expert.
• Lu Changzhi repelled Chen Yu and pulled Chen Ye before him, restraining the fifth young master.
• Chen Yu offered cultivation resources and asked Lu Changzhi to release Chen Ye, while Chen Ye threatened him and the Chen Clan plotted revenge by voice transmission.
• Lu Changzhi rejected the compensation, pulled out Chen Ye’s hair, and slapped him twice while asking what consequences a bad attitude could bring.

Lu Changzhi killed Chen Ye after Chen Ye ordered his men to attack, and Chen Yu left with the Chen Clan group after promising not to seek revenge. Lu Changzhi warned Jin Fugui that the Chen Clan might return and sent Sun Yi a message about the danger; in Gold City, an urgent report interrupted a banquet between Chen Tianyang and Huang Pi.

• Lu Changzhi slapped Chen Ye, who lost control and ordered his men to kill him.
• Lu Changzhi killed Chen Ye with a strike to the forehead, and Chen Yu took the corpse and promised the Chen Clan would not trouble him.
• Lu Changzhi told Jin Fugui that he hoped the Chen Clan would return, then messaged Sun Yi that a force was preparing to raze his place.
• Chen Tianyang toasted Huang Pi at a banquet in the Chen Clan's main hall and asked about his plans.
• A figure hurried into the hall and announced bad news to Chen Tianyang.

After Chen Ye’s soul jade broke, Chen Tianyang set out with Huang Pi to investigate, while the Extreme Arms Holy Land sent reinforcements after hearing Lu Yuan’s son was in trouble. At Mountain and Sea Village, Lu Changzhi promised the attackers would return and learned they had stolen the village’s sacrificial items.

• A messenger told Chen Tianyang that Chen Ye’s soul jade had shattered, and Chen Tianyang left with Saint King Huang Pi to find out what happened.
• Sun Yi told Chen Kun that Lu Yuan’s son faced serious trouble, and they arranged for nearby branch pavilions to send experts.
• Lu Changzhi reassured Shi Qinglin that the attackers would return and recorded the village chief’s request to recover the stolen sacrificial items.
• Lu Changzhi sensed several groups approaching and met Sun Yi, identifying the Gold City Chen Clan as the source of the trouble.
• Sun Yi recognized that the Gold City Chen Clan was only a local force compared with the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s branch pavilion.

Sun Yi promised that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would protect Mountain and Sea Village, retrieve its sacrificial object, and deal with the Chen Clan. As the pavilion’s experts hid in wait to use the coming confrontation to gain compensation, Chen Yu met the Chen Clan’s group and revealed that the young man who killed Chen Ye was surnamed Lu, making Huang Pi uneasy.

• Sun Yi assured Lu Changzhi that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion would handle the Chen Clan and recover Mountain and Sea Village’s sacrificial object.
• The Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s experts hid around the village, planning to ambush the Chen Clan and use the confrontation to negotiate compensation.
• Chen Yu met the Chen Clan members and explained that he had not saved Chen Ye because the young man was too powerful and too close.
• Chen Tianyang demanded an explanation for his son’s death, while the others wondered whether the young man had a powerful background.
• Chen Yu said the village children had called the young man Lu, and Huang Pi reacted with a twitch of his eyelid.