Recaps

Chen Changsheng guided Guan Ping through the Pills Convention, where she won recognition despite the backlash over her methods, then drew her into a difficult cure and a new cultivation path. The arc left Guan Ping with a Two-Tailed Black Cat and portable gardens made from Vitality Stones.

• Chen Changsheng contained strange creatures in the Taoist Temple while Chen Feng hauled Earth Dragon Stone to repair its damaged wall and later freed a rusted sword by reciting the World Cleansing Mantra.
• Chen Changsheng brought Chen Feng, Guan Ping, Bai Ze, and others to the Pills Convention, where he taught Guan Ping to experiment with pill formulas and earn money selling fake pills.
• Chen Changsheng and Guan Ping entered the preliminary round, where Guan Ping adapted what she had learned and won tenth place, while Chen Changsheng ranked 999th and challenged the Pill Domain to fight without pills.
• Immortal Guang Han summoned Chen Changsheng to examine a difficult patient, then punished Cui Ling Shuang, Chen Feng, and Guan Ping after Chen Changsheng’s deceptive story caused confusion.
• Chen Changsheng examined Lu Mingyu and said he could not cure him without a suitable reward, warning that the young man would be in danger within twenty days.
• Chen Changsheng gave Guan Ping a Two-Tailed Black Cat to help her face the Void Demon Flame, and she formed a Master-Servant Contract with it.
• Chen Changsheng turned Chen Feng’s finished Vitality Stone carving into a ring, refined Guan Ping’s Vitality Stone, and made both of them portable herb gardens that could carry Medicinal Soil out of the Sumeru Illusion Realm.

Chen Changsheng guided Guan Ping and Chen Feng through the Sumeru Illusion Realm while pursuing medicinal resources and helping Guan Ping face the Void Demon Flame. After Lu Mingyu died and was revived through his hidden Innate Qi, Chen Changsheng left him poised to aid the sale of clues about the DuSheng True Fire.

• Chen Changsheng entered the Sumeru Illusion Realm with Bai Ze and pursued medicinal soil while Guan Ping and Chen Feng gathered herbs and faced challenges.
• Guan Ping defeated Zheng Ling in combat, while Chen Changsheng rescued Chen Feng from seven poisonous Purple Spiders and captured them for his Medicine Field.
• Chen Changsheng brought Guan Ping to the Void Demon Flame, and she took a wisp of its essence before the blaze burned her into a charred corpse.
• Chen Changsheng extinguished the flame long enough for Guan Ping to subdue it, then left Chen Feng and Bai Ze to protect her as they faced a newcomer.
• After Guan Ping and Chen Feng emerged from the realm, Lu Mingyu died, and Chen Changsheng buried him before fighting Cui Hao Yu and an unknown young man to a draw.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Lu Mingyu revived when the Dragon Vein and Earth Qi ignited his remaining Innate Qi.
• The young man sent an associate to investigate Chen Changsheng, while Chen Changsheng gave Shui Yue time to adjust to her new life.
• Lu Mingyu offered to use the Lu Family's auction houses to promote Chen Changsheng's goods and guessed that he planned to sell clues about the DuSheng True Fire.

Chen Changsheng brought Lu Mingyu and his companions to rescue Qian Ya and Li Huo, leading them through the Black Lake’s dreams and their buried memories. After leaving the Small World, he equipped Guan Ping and Chen Feng with herb gardens and began drawing the Beast Race into a plan against the Beast Taming Sect.

• Chen Changsheng accepted Lu Mingyu as his disciple, introduced him to Wu Li and Chen Shisan, and took him to the prodigy banquet without an invitation.
• After Chen Changsheng moved the banquet guests with his zither performance, he told Chen Feng that Li Huo and Qian Ya were trapped and led Chen Feng, Lu Mingyu, and Guan Ping to rescue them.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze reached the Black Lake, where Lu Mingyu relived his family’s betrayal and Guan Ping confronted memories of her parents and master.
• Chen Changsheng entered the lake’s dream and faced the deaths of his old friends before finding Qian Ya and Li Huo and helping them escape.
• Chen Changsheng woke Lu Mingyu, Guan Ping, Chen Feng, and Li Huo from their dreams, and Li Huo gave Chen Feng pill formulas as a graduation gift.
• Chen Changsheng upgraded his companions’ Portable Herb Gardens and made Guan Ping and Chen Feng refine Transformation Pills, revealing the enormous costs of their cultivation and debts.
• Guan Ping and Chen Feng partnered to sell pills, while Chen Changsheng explained that the herb gardens would attract greed and help secure protection for them.
• Chen Changsheng proposed that the Beast Race weaken the Beast Taming Lineage by offering Spiritual Beasts a better life, including openly selling Vajra Bear gallbladders to discourage poaching.

Chen Changsheng used the Pills Convention and an assassination attempt to strengthen his ties with the Beast Race and protect Lu Mingyu. As Lu Mingyu weighed the cost of reshaping his family, Chen Changsheng and his allies entered the auction with Liu Qingqing left behind in the courtyard.

• Chen Changsheng urged the Beast Race to reform its resource system and proposed drawing Nine-Headed Xiang Liu away from the Beast Taming Lineage with pills refined from Bai Ze’s True Dragon Dragon Pearl.
• Chen Changsheng helped Lu Mingyu confront his feelings for Guan Ping, while a shadow assassin infiltrated the Pill Domain to target him.
• Chen Changsheng challenged the Pill Tower’s Supreme Pill Masters as Lu Mingyu and Shui Yue fought off assassins, and Lu Mingyu’s paper puppets helped him survive a later attack.
• Chen Changsheng stopped the Tower Master from treating Lu Mingyu’s danger as leverage, then let the City Guard and Pill Domain factions pursue the attackers while agreeing to spare the captured Shadow Assassin for Lu Mingyu’s investigation.
• The Tower Master made Chen Feng and Guan Ping Registered Disciples, and the Pill Domain and Lu Family chose to contain the assassination scandal rather than investigate it openly.
• Chen Changsheng brought Lu Mingyu to the Beast Race Residence with the Dragon Pearl, and the elders accepted that Bai Feng and the younger members should pursue reforms beyond bloodline and status.
• Chen Changsheng cautioned Lu Mingyu to understand the Lu Family before deciding whether to change or destroy it, while Chen Feng and Chen Changsheng treated Liu Qingqing with restraint after capturing her.
• Chen Changsheng, Lu Mingyu, Guan Ping, Bai Feng, and the Beast Race Heaven’s Chosen entered the auction, where Lu Mingyu explained the Sky Lantern bidding rule.