Recaps

Mu Fan’s traps sent Shen Tianxun rocketing through the Shen Clan compound and blasted his regrowing skullcap into the air. The cap landed outside the secret realm, where its strange message pointed onlookers toward a prize hidden inside.

• Shen Tianxun crashed through the roof and shot into the sky, while flames formed the characters “Take off!” above the Shen Clan compound.
• Shen Tianxun realized the hat Mu Fan had given him was dangerous, but it exploded and launched his skullcap skyward.
• Mu Fan watched the spectacle, put away Shen Tianyu’s identity token, and left with Xiao Ye.
• Outside the secret realm, a man caught the falling skullcap and recognized it as the top of Shen Tianxun’s head.
• The onlookers found the words “Prize inside the cap” scorched onto the skullcap’s smooth inner side.

Mu Fan repeatedly blasted the unconscious Shen Tianxun while keeping him alive, and Shen Zhili discovered the Shen Clan was facing disaster after learning about the wager battle. The chapter ended with Shen Zhili demanding to know where Tianxun had gone.

• After Shen Tianxun vanished, two Shen Clan men realized Mu Fan and Xiao Ye had likely taken him and set out to find him.
• Mu Fan found Shen Tianxun unconscious in a sealed space, revived him with a flask, and repeatedly launched him with firecrackers while giving him more water to keep him alive.
• Shen Zhili noticed a jade pendant darkening and brightening, worried about Tianxun, and left his secret realm to investigate.
• Shen Zhili learned from a Shen Clan elder about the disastrous wager battle, including the hundred-to-one challenge and the Liu Clan's presence as witnesses.
• Shen Zhili angrily blamed Tianxun for risking the clan and asked the elder where Tianxun had gone.

Shen Zhili learned that Shen Tianxun had been set up and disappeared, then decided the Shen Clan could not hold off the powers gathering outside. Xiao Ye and Shen Wenxi searched for the clan’s remaining inheritances and planned to recover Shen Wenxi’s belongings, while Shen Wentian killed Xiaoyue after accusing her of serving the clan.

• Shen Zhili questioned the Shen Clan elders, learned that Shen Tianxun was missing after being set up, and recognized Liu Duanyuan’s wagered battle as a Liu Clan scheme.
• Shen Zhili concluded that the Shen Clan could not withstand the powers outside and headed for the clan’s lower realm to preserve its old roots.
• Xiao Ye learned from Shen Wenxi that the clan’s most important inheritances might still be with the old patriarch, then decided to handle other tasks first.
• Xiao Ye and Shen Wenxi used Shen Tianyu’s token to reenter the Shen Clan and recover Shen Wenxi’s belongings.
• Shen Wentian heard that Shen Tianxun had been blasted away, then pierced Xiaoyue’s brow with his broken arm bone, accusing her of serving the clan.

Shen Wenxi and Xiao Ye confronted Shen Wentian, and Tongtong subjected him to intense pain while Shen Wenxi followed its instructions. As Shen Wentian suffered, Xiao Ye comforted Shen Wenxi and made sure he could see them embracing.

• Shen Wentian decided he could no longer remain in the Shen Clan, but Shen Wenxi and Xiao Ye arrived before he could leave.
• Shen Wenxi confronted Shen Wentian, and Xiao Ye struck him with purple lightning when he charged at her.
• Tongtong and Shen Wenxi began dealing with Shen Wentian, inflicting intense pain while preventing him from screaming.
• Xiao Ye learned Tongtong had made the process hurt on purpose because Shen Wenxi had suffered the same pain before, and he told Tongtong to make Shen Wentian suffer more.
• Xiao Ye comforted Shen Wenxi, and after she said she wanted to focus on their present happiness, he embraced her where Shen Wentian could see.

Tongtong stripped Shen Wentian’s bloodline and restored it to Shen Wenxi, while Xiao Ye learned that the Shen Clan still owed her more. Shen Zhili arrived, claimed Shen Wenxi as his granddaughter, banished Shen Wentian, and was interrupted as he invited her away.

• Tongtong removed Shen Wentian’s entire bloodline and transferred it to Shen Wenxi, leaving Shen Wentian alive but nearly powerless.
• Xiao Ye learned that Shen Wentian had repaid four dou of the Shen Clan’s one shi bloodline debt, with six dou still owed.
• Shen Zhili arrived, and Xiao Ye called for his master after seeing the visitor’s cultivation realm.
• Shen Zhili recognized Shen Wenxi as his granddaughter and claimed he had come to protect her, while Shen Wentian realized his grandfather had been involved in taking her bloodline.
• Shen Zhili banished Shen Wentian into a rift in the void and invited Shen Wenxi to go somewhere with him, but a voice outside asked whether it could come too.

Lu Changzhi confronted Shen Zhili over his attempt to take Shen Wenxi away, and Liu Duanyuan revealed that Lu Changzhi was known as the Liu Clan’s prodigy with the Aptitude of a Great Emperor. Shen Zhili quickly changed his attitude and agreed to show them the Shen Clan’s nice places, though Lu Changzhi insisted they go immediately despite it being nighttime.

• Shen Zhili tried to take Shen Wenxi with him, but Lu Changzhi challenged his remarks about paying attention to people’s identities.
• Liu Duanyuan appeared and hinted that Lu Changzhi was the Liu Clan’s famous prodigy with the Aptitude of a Great Emperor.
• Shen Zhili apologized to Lu Changzhi after realizing his identity, while Shen Wenxi learned that Xiao Ye’s master was the famed prodigy.
• Xiao Ye told Shen Wenxi that, according to Senior Brother Mu, Lu Changzhi’s identity was likely just one of his master’s alternate identities.
• Shen Zhili agreed to take Lu Changzhi and the others to the Shen Clan’s nice places, and Lu Changzhi demanded they go that night.

Lu Changzhi brought Shen Zhili to the Shen Clan ancestral hall under the pretense of renovating it, then sent Luo Ling'er to demolish it with a sledgehammer. The hall’s protections stopped her from damaging the soul lamps and soul jades, but Liu Duanyuan warned Shen Zhili that he was in serious trouble.

• Shen Zhili took Lu Changzhi and Liu Duanyuan through a spatial rift to the Shen Clan ancestral hall after Lu Changzhi requested to see it.
• Lu Changzhi said the ancestral hall needed renovation and remodeling, then brought Luo Ling'er over to handle the work.
• Lu Changzhi asked Shen Zhili to deactivate the hall’s formations and restrictions, and Shen Zhili complied.
• Luo Ling'er struck the ancestral hall with her sledgehammer, shattering a wall and alarming Shen Zhili.
• Luo Ling'er hit the wall protecting the Shen Clan’s soul lamps and soul jades, but the formations repelled her hammer and Liu Duanyuan dispersed the counterattack.
• Liu Duanyuan confirmed the ancestral relics were unharmed and warned Shen Zhili that he was in trouble.

Shen Zhili gave up resisting as Luo Ling'er demolished the Shen Clan ancestral hall, while Liu Duanyuan took an interest in her strength and mysterious background. The chapter ended when a tiny hand seized Liu Duanyuan's finger and he shouted in shock.

• Shen Zhili deactivated the ancestral hall's remaining array restrictions, and Luo Ling'er resumed tearing it down as Shen Clan experts watched.
• Liu Duanyuan praised Luo Linger's strength and asked Lu Changzhi if he could guide her cultivation.
• Lu Changzhi said Luo Linger's background was complicated and that he had promised her parents not to reveal it.
• Liu Duanyuan advised Lu Changzhi to work hard and warned that the martial technique he had given him might not produce results.
• A tiny hand gripped Liu Duanyuan's little finger, and he shouted, alarming the Shen Clan experts and prompting Xiao Ye and Shen Wenxi to hide behind Lu Changzhi.

Lu Changzhi demonstrated an unconventional way of cultivating the Liu Clan’s Grasp of the Ruins of Return, impressing Liu Duanyuan. Pleased with the result, Liu Duanyuan ordered the Shen Clan to cooperate with Lu Changzhi and his disciples, leaving Shen Zhili stunned by the demand.

• Liu Duanyuan tested Lu Changzhi’s conjured palm and found that Lu Changzhi could make it vanish after shaving a layer of skin from his finger.
• Liu Duanyuan explained that Lu Changzhi had manifested the technique as a palm from the start, unlike other cultivators, and praised him for blazing a different trail.
• Lu Changzhi decided to keep cultivating the technique through his unconventional method.
• Liu Duanyuan returned with Lu Changzhi to the Shen Clan and told Shen Zhili that his good mood depended on the Shen Clan cooperating with Lu Changzhi and his disciples in every request.
• Shen Zhili’s smile froze as Liu Duanyuan threatened that the Liu Clan would get involved if the Shen Clan refused.

Xiao Ye and Lu Changzhi’s disciples made demands of the Shen Clan while Liu Duanyuan pressured Shen Zhili to cooperate in exchange for protection. The chapter ended with Lu Changzhi asking Qin Li what he intended to do about the Shen Clan’s powerful Beast Race member.

• Xiao Ye asked to borrow the Shen Clan’s collections and gather every Saint Realm expert in the clan at the square, and Liu Duanyuan agreed.
• Liu Duanyuan privately told Shen Zhili to arrange for the experts to gather, promising to protect Shen Zhili while warning that the others might be harmed.
• Shen Zhili chose to prioritize the living clansmen and accepted the requests to reduce the Shen Clan’s losses.
• Zhong Ming asked the Shen Clan to mark and guard the graves of its Saint King Realm experts and above, and Liu Duanyuan warned him about the Wu Clan’s Dao.
• Lu Changzhi designated the Shen Clan’s best cultivation grounds for Jin Fugui to use, then asked Qin Li about the clan’s powerful Beast Race member.

Lu Changzhi arranged for Liu Duanyuan and Shen Zhili to help his disciples carry out their plans at the Shen Clan, including meeting the Dragon Armor Ape and opening ancestral tombs. Zhong Ming discovered that his system was jealous of Master, while Mu Fan completed his mission by defeating Shen Tianxun and prepared to leave.

• Qin Li agreed to follow Lu Changzhi's arrangements concerning the Dragon Armor Ape, and Liu Duanyuan instructed Shen Zhili to keep the formations and restrictions in place and find a scapegoat afterward.
• Shen Zhili set the plans in motion as the group departed, while Xiao Ye reflected on the ease of having Lu Changzhi's support and resolved to rely on himself more.
• Zhong Ming sat among the coffins and joked that Lu Changzhi's cheat was stronger than his system, which replied that it was not jealous but agreed Master was superior.
• Mu Fan saw that his mission had been marked complete after defeating Shen Tianxun, then reminded himself to return to taking it easy once the task was done.
• Mu Fan revived Shen Tianxun, congratulated him on clearing the stage, put the Nonhuman Plaque in his arms, and stored him in his ring before leaving.

Xiao Ye’s Tongtong tried to pull the bloodlines from the Shen Clan experts gathered in the square, but their resistance left it unable to complete the task. As the stalemate continued, Tongtong asked Lu Changzhi for help, and the system sighed that it would have to clean up the mess.

• Shen Zhili gathered the Shen Clan members and asked them to sit while Liu Duanyuan watched over him.
• Xiao Ye asked Liu Duanyuan to keep an eye on Shen Zhili, then had Tongtong spread its light over the bloodline-bearing Shen Clan experts.
• Tongtong began pulling at the experts’ bloodlines, alarming them and prompting several to attack the unseen force.
• The Shen Clan experts resisted Tongtong’s attempt, and the square remained in a stalemate for about the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Tongtong asked Lu Changzhi to lend it a hand, and the system complained that it would have to clean up after it.

The system spread knowledge of Bloodline Resonance through the Shen Clan, leading the clansmen to try summoning their primogenitor. As a Shen Clan expert succeeded in contacting the golden ancestor, the primogenitor asked him to provide bloodline power to restore his strength and the clan’s name.

• The system sent ripples through the square and beyond, causing Shen Clan members to learn about Bloodline Resonance.
• The Shen clansmen outside the square rallied around the idea of summoning their ancestor, while Liu Duanyuan wondered whether the Shen Clan had a hidden trump card.
• Shen Zhili suspected Bloodline Resonance was another of Liu Duanyuan’s schemes, but then called on the clansmen to help the primogenitor appear.
• Shen Clan members sat cross-legged and tried to make their bloodlines resonate, and one expert saw a golden figure in his sea of consciousness.
• The primogenitor asked the Shen Clan expert for enough bloodline power to recover and restore the Shen Clan’s name, and the expert agreed without hesitation.

Lu Changzhi and Xiao Ye completed the bloodline-draining task, leaving Shen Zhili and the Shen Clan experts weakened. Liu Duanyuan then revealed that he had secretly tried to give Shen Zhili a chance, but a mysterious hammer shattered Shen Zhili's body.

• The Shen Clan experts willingly let their bloodlines be drawn out, and Liu Duanyuan suppressed Shen Zhili as his bloodline was taken too.
• Lu Changzhi withdrew his External Avatar and left with Xiao Ye, who thanked Liu Duanyuan before departing with Shen Wenxi.
• Shen Zhili vanished from the square with a jade talisman, but a barrier rejected him because he no longer had Shen Clan bloodline.
• Liu Duanyuan told Shen Zhili that the bloodline extraction had been a ruse to help him and demanded that he swear not to blame or attack the Liu Clan.
• Liu Duanyuan revealed a strange blood-red object, and a plain-looking great hammer struck Shen Zhili, breaking his body apart and leaving only his head.

Liu Duanyuan destroyed the Shen Clan and Lu Changzhi prepared to return with his disciples, while Qin Li wondered whether a legendary figure from her past life had also been Lu Changzhi’s disciple. In the Misty Clear Realm, two people noticed a reaction from a young man in a coffin when Shen Wentian was brought near and decided to test whether the two were connected.

• Liu Duanyuan captured Shen Zhili in a furnace, summoned people through the Liu Clan stele, and ordered them to cleanse the Shen Clan.
• After the Shen Clan’s formation barrier vanished, crowds rushed inside as Lu Changzhi declined Liu Duanyuan’s invitation and accepted a disc for contacting him.
• Lu Changzhi gathered his group to leave, located Du Niansheng through the system, and departed with the others as the Shen Clan was overwhelmed.
• Qin Li reflected on the Shen Clan’s altered fate and wondered whether the mysterious dark horse from her past life had been Lu Changzhi’s disciple.
• In a hall in the Misty Clear Realm, attendants brought in Shen Wentian, and a person ordered him moved after noticing a young man in a coffin react to his presence.
• The two people wondered whether Shen Wentian and the young man were connected and decided to put them together to find out.

Mu Fan received a System Spirit and the Realm of Mirrors ability as task rewards, then tested the ability by detonating a bomb inside a mountain through a mirror image. He left impressed by its surprise-attack potential but refused to complete more tasks just to help the System Spirit grow.

• Two men placed Shen Wentian's body in a long coffin and found strands of flesh linking it to another body.
• Mu Fan received a System Spirit, the Realm of Mirrors ability, and low-level Artifact Spirits as rewards for completing a task.
• Mu Fan initially treated the baby-faced System Spirit as an unwanted child, then decided it could serve as a worker.
• The System Spirit explained that it could only affect things inside the system for now and urged Mu Fan to complete more tasks.
• Mu Fan tested the Realm of Mirrors by sending a mirror image into a mountain and detonating a bomb, collapsing the peak.
• Mu Fan praised the ability's potential but refused the System Spirit's suggestion to complete more tasks for further growth.

Mu Fan tested how a low-tier artifact spirit could make a bomb track targets and resolved to resume developing the East Wind series. Lu Changzhi returned with Gu Chen and the others after the wager battle, then learned that Liang Si wanted the cyan disc from the Liu Clan.

• Mu Fan placed a low-tier artifact spirit inside a bomb and tested its ability to follow commands, chase targets, and dodge attacks.
• Lu Changzhi and the system discussed Mu Fan’s system spirit, and the system declared it would make him its second brother.
• Du Niansheng credited Lu Changzhi and his disciples for the Withering and Flourishing Sect’s victory, while Lu Changzhi called the outcome mutual assistance and gave Du Niansheng several storage rings.
• Lu Changzhi took Gu Chen and the others back to the sect, where Liang Si asked whether the Liu Clan had given him a cyan disc.
• Liang Si asked Lu Changzhi to hand over the cyan disc.

Lu Changzhi learned that Liang Si had arranged for him to impersonate a Liu Clan prodigy so he could gain fame under the clan’s protection, then tested new system abilities after returning to Hidden Origin Peak. He ended by asking whether his Hand of Enlightenment could make the system more intelligent, and the system insisted it was already intelligent.

• Liang Si altered the Liu Clan disc so Lu Changzhi could spy on the people spying through it.
• Liang Si admitted he had planned Lu Changzhi’s cooperation with the Liu Clan, explaining that the clan’s stand-in scheme was meant to help avoid a calamity and that Lu Changzhi could let the Liu Clan take credit for his deeds.
• Liang Si gave Lu Changzhi a jade slip describing places to visit and ways to improve his strength, and Lu Changzhi returned to Hidden Origin Peak.
• Lu Changzhi used the upgraded Realm of Boundaries to create a hidden mirror image of a teapot and shattered the original by breaking its copy.
• Lu Changzhi read about the Hand of Enlightenment and asked whether it could enlighten the system, which replied that it was already intelligent and that the ability did not work on living things.

Lu Changzhi awakened spiritual intelligence in his recliner, then joined Xiao Ye and the others as Xiao Ye's Thunder Dragon hatched and rapidly grew. Lu Changzhi used the Dragon Taming Divine Art on it, while Qin Li hinted to Mu Fan that a special dragon would soon come to the Misty Clear Realm.

• Lu Changzhi enlightened his recliner, awakening its intermediate spiritual intelligence and letting it rock him comfortably.
• Lu Changzhi entered the secret realm as Xiao Ye's Thunder Dragon egg cracked open and a purple dragon emerged.
• Mu Fan, Qin Li, and Gu Chen arrived to see the dragon, which showed fear of Gu Chen and stayed close to Xiao Ye.
• After the Thunder Dragon grew to a person's length, Lu Changzhi used the Dragon Taming Divine Art, and it affectionately rubbed against his arm.
• Mu Fan imagined having nine dragons pull a carriage, and Qin Li told him a special dragon would soon come to the Misty Clear Realm.

Lu Changzhi pulled Xiao Ming from the ground, and the newly strengthened bird began speaking human words and showing off his abs. Xiao Ming fought Gu Chen, then returned to teasing Mu Fan, leaving the group to wonder about Gu Chen’s Dragon Transformation Technique.

• Lu Changzhi pulled a sleeping Xiao Ming into the secret realm, where Xiao Ming woke up speaking human words and insulted Mu Fan.
• Xiao Ming challenged Gu Chen to a fight and showed off his newly developed eight-pack.
• Xiao Ming held his own against Gu Chen until Gu Chen transformed his right arm with the Dragon Transformation Technique and knocked him back.
• Xiao Ming demanded to know how Gu Chen had transformed, then ended the fight and perched on Qin Li’s shoulder to mock Mu Fan.
• Mu Fan attacked Xiao Ming with a firecracker, but Xiao Ming swallowed it and asked whether Mu Fan could bear to blow him up.

Lu Changzhi checked the buried Black Tortoise egg, considered seeking a Vermilion Bird, and distributed task rewards to his disciples. Qin Li said she could not use the White Tiger Token, but Lu Changzhi interrupted her to address an apparent attempt to spy on him.

• Mu Fan asked Lu Changzhi to plant him, then reconsidered after hearing the results were uncertain.
• Gu Chen returned with his right arm restored, and Xiao Ming attempted to transform into a human but changed only his feet and could not turn back.
• Lu Changzhi found new patterns on the Black Tortoise egg and thought it might hatch soon, then considered acquiring a Vermilion Bird.
• Lu Changzhi learned the disciples' task rewards and gave Qin Li the White Tiger Token, Luo Ling'er's fist art, and Jin Fugui's Seed of Severed Earth.
• Qin Li told Lu Changzhi she could not use the White Tiger Token, but he brought out Liu Duanyuan's azure disc and noticed someone trying to spy on him.

The Liu Clan debated what to do about the young man they could no longer locate, weighing suspicions about his origins against their need for a suitable candidate. Liu Ruoyu proposed pushing him into the spotlight and using any failure to mislead rival forces, then urged the clan to examine the restraints it had imposed on itself.

• The Liu Clan discovered that its formation could no longer detect the azure disc and speculated that the young man might have left the Misty Clear Realm.
• Liu Duanyuan defended the young man, while clan members split over whether he was a trustworthy candidate or a threat from outside forces.
• Liu Ruoyu proposed pushing the young man into the spotlight so the clan could judge his ability and exploit either outcome.
• The clan realized that if the young man failed, they could expose him as a fake and confuse rival forces by mixing truth with falsehood.
• Liu Ruoyu reflected that the Liu Clan's own strength and assumptions might be holding it back, and urged everyone to reconsider their approach.

The Liu Clan decided to send Lu Changzhi to the Emperor Dao to test his abilities and draw attention to him. Lu Changzhi agreed, then encouraged Qin Li to try using the White Tiger token, and she resolved to face it with him at her side.

• Liu Ruoyu warned the Liu Clan that its growing strength could make it lose patience, but the clan members disagreed over whether to heed him.
• The Liu Clan powerhouses chose the Emperor Dao as a public test of Lu Changzhi’s abilities and a way to promote him.
• Lu Changzhi learned about the Emperor Dao, decided to go, and welcomed the chance to let the Liu Clan take the credit and attention.
• Qin Li recalled how the White Tiger token had badly injured her in her previous life and reconsidered her fear in light of her master’s support.
• Lu Changzhi asked Qin Li about the token, and Qin Li told him she intended to try using it.

Qin Li activated the White Tiger token, unleashing a powerful sword light that Lu Changzhi and the Dao-Severing Sword Spirit defeated with help from the system. When the token’s owner confronted Lu Changzhi, his dormant bloodline awakened and drove the intruding consciousness away, leaving the owner’s fate unclear.

• Qin Li used her essence blood to activate the White Tiger token, but a figure inside it trapped her consciousness and sent out a powerful sword light.
• Lu Changzhi summoned the Dao-Severing Sword Spirit, and the system boosted Xiao Dao so it could destroy the sword light.
• Qin Li found that the token still held someone else’s power, and Lu Changzhi sensed the same force within it.
• A vast presence descended across the Five Continents Domain, and the token’s owner accused Lu Changzhi of touching something he had left behind.
• Lu Changzhi’s dormant bloodline awakened as the owner’s consciousness entered his body, and a voice from the bloodline counted down before ordering someone to open the door.
• Sounds of a confrontation followed, and the terrifying consciousness vanished.

Lu Changzhi’s bloodline ancestor ended the threat with ease, leaving Lu Changzhi drained while Qin Li learned the White Tiger Token’s history and gained control of it. Liang Si checked on Lu Changzhi, and Sima Qingyun discovered the departing man had been only a clone.

• Lu Changzhi’s bloodline ancestor appeared, dealt with the danger, encouraged Lu Changzhi, and vanished, leaving him severely drained.
• The White Tiger Token entered Qin Li and revealed that the White Tiger Clan had to aid one of the ancestor’s descendants in exchange for the clan’s sealed chance at resurgence.
• Qin Li thanked Master Lu Changzhi, while Luo Ling’er and Jin Fugui prepared to leave; Lu Changzhi told Jin Fugui to plant the seed on the Shen Clan’s land.
• Liang Si asked Lu Changzhi about the powerful presence, gave him a gourd to restore his strength, and left after remarking on the bloodline’s promise.
• The man who had slapped Sima Qingyun walked away and then exploded into a gale, prompting Sima Qingyun to realize he had been a clone.