Recaps

Chen Changsheng used a lavish auction and a network of allies to launch a campaign against the Beast Taming Lineage while pushing Chen Feng, Guan Ping, and Cui Ling Shuang toward new paths. The Tower Master’s support remained uncertain, and Chen Changsheng prepared Lu Mingyu for war and the possibility of expulsion from the Pill Domain.

• Chen Changsheng spent two hundred and eighty billion Source Pills to win the Earth Origin Pearl, then organized Bai Feng, Chen Feng, Guan Ping, and Lu Mingyu to challenge the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Lu Mingyu devised a campaign of shop raids, counterfeit-pill accusations, and blocked reinforcements, while Qian Ya helped Ying Shan prepare for war against the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Bai Feng and the Beast Race fighters clashed with the Beast Taming Lineage outside Pill City as Chen Feng fought Zheng Ling, and the City Guard Commander later ordered the captured prodigies punished.
• Chen Changsheng explained his manipulation of Cui Ling Shuang and offered to help her become a Ninth-Grade Alchemist, then taught her through pill-making exercises and gave her thousands of formulas to study.
• Guan Ping demonstrated her pill-making skill and worked on Imitation Pills while Lu Mingyu built trade channels, speculated in medicinal herbs, and sought to weaken their rivals.
• Chen Changsheng took Guan Ping and Chen Feng into the Scripture Pavilion, where the Tower Master wagered on Guan Ping’s ability and gave Chen Feng a Peerless Sword Art.
• Chen Changsheng learned that the Tower Master would not keep Chen Feng and Guan Ping indefinitely, and he ordered Lu Mingyu to prepare for war against the Beast Taming Lineage and leave the Pill Domain when possible.

Chen Changsheng challenged the Pill Domain over its treatment of the Beast Taming Lineage, then left to pursue other conflicts and uncover Soul Supreme’s history. He learned why Immortal Guang Han avoided him and reflected on his own painful ties to the woman he loved.

• Bai Ze warned Chen Changsheng that his threat against the Beast Taming Lineage could bring widespread slaughter, while Chen Feng thanked him but urged him to reconsider.
• Chen Changsheng left the Pill Domain with Guan Ping and confronted the Li Family, persuading Zheng Ling and Li Zi'an to choose his side against the Pill Tower.
• Chen Changsheng led the fighting against the Beast Taming Lineage, killing their attackers after they came for him and his allies.
• At his trial, Chen Changsheng argued that the spirit beasts he killed were not registered cultivators, and the Tower Master sentenced him to ten lightning strikes and a 10 billion Source Pills payment.
• Chen Changsheng confronted Yun Ya Zi, received historical records, and left the Pill Domain with Shui Yue to seek Nine-Headed Xiang Liu’s help.
• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu refused to oppose Flying Dust Supreme, and Chen Changsheng learned that their old bond had been strained by the Supreme’s demand for loyalty and submission.
• Chen Changsheng investigated Immortal Guang Han’s past and found Soul Supreme, who revealed that the Tower Master had crippled him and that Xue Hua lay buried beneath the land.
• Chen Changsheng realized Immortal Guang Han loved Soul Supreme and told Shui Yue that he had once hidden from danger, causing him and the woman he loved to miss each other.

Chen Changsheng secured the post of Head Manager of the Qinghe Realm and began mapping its factions while preparing Cui Ling Shuang’s branch for greater influence. As Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui uncovered hidden resource flows, Chen Changsheng faced the danger of restructuring the realm amid a looming power struggle.

• Chen Changsheng gave Shui Yue a Dragon Pill, which changed her scales to gold and awakened her Dragon’s Roar, then distributed the remaining pills to allies.
• Chen Changsheng took Shui Yue to the Cui Family and demanded a position, winning appointment as Head Manager of the Qinghe Realm after promising to triple its profits and provide an enormous security deposit.
• Chen Changsheng explained his political plans to Cui Ling Shuang and pledged to protect her branch, while she confessed that she wanted to marry him.
• Cui Ling Shuang’s mother asked Chen Changsheng to protect her family and support Cui Yao, Huang Wen Shu, and Cui Tian Rui, and Chen agreed to help them.
• Chen Changsheng made Cui Tian Rui fight Shui Yue, whose Dragon Pill-enhanced strength nearly killed him, then began training him with the Dragon Gallant Silver Spear.
• Li Fengyi and Cui Xingxue recognized Chen Changsheng as the legendary Undertaker and decided to keep his identity secret while giving Tian Rui a chance to learn from him.
• Chen Changsheng took control of Qinghe Realm’s administration, dismissed two absent managers, and ordered Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui to investigate the accounts across sixty-eight districts.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Huang Wen Shu and Cui Yao to vacant posts, while Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui uncovered resources covertly flowing to Enforcement Teams and Chen Changsheng warned that any crackdown could leave him exposed.

Chen Changsheng used Cui Tian Rui and Shui Yue’s investigation to break the Qinghe Realm’s deadlock, then fought the Evil Cultivator who had cursed them. After learning the statue’s history and reflecting on immortality, he revived Cui Tian Rui’s resolve by offering him a place in Tiger Guard.

• Chen Changsheng gave Cui Tian Rui and Shui Yue authority to investigate the Qinghe Realm, and they arrested officials before a curse left them near death.
• Chen Changsheng exposed that he had caused their apparent injuries to force the Cui Family to uphold its Rules, then sent Cui Tian Rui to help him draw out the attacker.
• Chen Changsheng used Cui Tian Rui’s body and the Five Venoms curses to fight the Evil Cultivator, while his true body burned the Black Qi, rescued Shui Yue, and captured the statues behind the attack.
• Chen Changsheng questioned the statues and learned that a Madman had experimented on Life Spores, created a calamity connected to the Uncanny, and scattered fragments of Chang Sheng’s techniques.
• The surviving statue told Chen Changsheng how it had reached the Cui Family and sought the Great Dream Immortal Art, then admitted it knew no location for the Second Volume of Eight Nine Mysterious Technique.
• Chen Changsheng sealed the statue and learned from the System that time would wear down every living being, while true immortality came from an enduring heart.
• Chen Changsheng found Cui Tian Rui’s will fading and promised him command of an undefeated squad, prompting Cui Tian Rui to rise when Chen Changsheng named him a member of Tiger Guard.