Recaps

Chen Changsheng set the prodigies against staged bounties while preparing to strike the Forbidden Grounds, as Jun Lin and Chen Xiao fought to survive and Chen Xiao began forging a new path for the physical body. The arc left Chen Xiao regenerating as Chen Changsheng revealed the danger posed by Wang Hao’s transformed Blood Sea.

• Liu Yidao told Jun Lin that the Forbidden Grounds had once warred with the righteous path, and Jun Lin and his companions set out for the Black Triangle.
• Chen Changsheng arranged anonymous bounty missions for the prodigies, then used disguises with Bai Ze to stir conflict and test those gathered at the Black Triangle.
• Jun Lin found a bounty targeting him and bought Human Skin Masks, while Chen Changsheng revealed that the Crimson Gold Bounty Orders were not meant to be claimed.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze’s schemes led to attacks and accusations across the Black Triangle, and Jun Lin and Chen Xiao escaped impostors who had smashed their bodies.
• Lu Mingyu explained to Chen Feng how the Original True Understanding completed the bitter sea system, while Chen Feng concluded that Jian Fei might be sealed in a meteorite.
• Assassins wounded Chen Xiao while pursuing Jun Lin, and Meng Po brought them into the Eight Desolations Nine Regions before sending Jun Lin toward the Underworld for Reincarnation power.
• Jun Lin awakened his Wuzhi Qi Bloodline in the Underworld, while Chen Xiao pursued a new physical path and collapsed after Meng Po released his seal.
• Chen Changsheng inspected Chen Xiao remotely and confirmed he had survived and begun the Path of the Physical Body, as he explained his plans for the Virtual World and Wang Hao’s vast, adaptable Blood Sea.

Chen Changsheng endured the Heavenly Silk Transformation while his allies faced threats, investigated his hidden plans, and pursued a dangerous stone-gambling search. After he recovered, Jun Lin and Liu Yidao confronted the challenges of attacking the Qian Family and dealing with powerful Enforcement Teams.

• Chen Xiao shattered his Life Lamp Realm and Sea of Bitterness, while Jun Lin awakened his bloodlines and comprehended the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Mingyu reunited with Liu Yidao and brought Chen Xiao and Jun Lin to the Black Triangle, where they learned that Chen Mengjie was the stone-gambling master Little Orchid.
• Chen Mengjie explained the Stone Gambling House’s rigged odds as the group pooled their funds and searched for the item Lu Mingyu needed.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations, and Bai Ze brought Lu Mingyu to guard his cocoon after claiming Chen Changsheng’s Chang Sheng Dao Fruit was destroyed.
• Jiang Shan restored Jian Fei’s memories and used the Golden Silkworm Gu to help Chen Changsheng complete his transformation, while warning Lu Mingyu about Nalan Zi Ping’s ambitions.
• Chen Changsheng emerged from the cocoon, revealed that he had faked the loss of his Chang Sheng Dao Fruit, and ordered Lu Mingyu to help seal the Heavens Forbidden Ground.
• Ye Feng sent Jun Lin, Liu Yidao, and Chen Xiao toward the Qian Family, but Liu Yidao’s encounter with an Enforcement Team showed how dangerous a direct assault would be.
• Yin Qi explained the ranks of Enforcement Teams and advised Jun Lin to rely on tactics, leaving him to wonder whether the group could overcome Chen Changsheng’s test.

Chen Changsheng prepared to destroy the Heavens Forbidden Ground as the other Forbidden Grounds unleashed the Dark Turmoil, while he confronted their schemes and revealed a new path to the Emperor Realm. The fighting left immense casualties, North Sea was killed, and Chen Changsheng introduced the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System to the survivors.

• Chen Changsheng took Jiang Shan into Death Valley, exposed the Blood Stream Sect's lair, and used the Su family's massacre to warn Jiang Shan about authority, obsession, and choosing his own path.
• Wu Yu fought Su Bao, while Chen Changsheng ordered the Blood Stream Sect Leader to kill the Su family and later sent Jiang Shan away to let the Heavenly Court purge the Demonic Path remnants.
• The prodigies fought Heretical Buddha Cong Xin, and Chen Changsheng and Nian Sheng stopped the Hundred Defeats Immortal before Chen Changsheng persuaded him to help attack the Heavens Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Changsheng and Nian Sheng reconciled, and he revealed his plan to fake his death and make his enemies believe his restraints had been lifted.
• Jun Lin and his allies deduced that Chen Changsheng intended to destroy the Heavens Forbidden Ground, while Chen Feng left to claim the Sword God's Sword.
• The Forbidden Grounds began the Dark Turmoil, and Chen Changsheng confronted their representatives, demanded that they leave the Chang Sheng Epoch, and trapped North Sea with Wang Hao, Zhang Zhen, and their allies.
• The Forbidden Grounds' armies caused tens of billions of casualties over a year, while Reincarnation, Yuantu Abi, the Demon Blade, Ye Yongxian, and Sky Abyss City's Grade-A Enforcement Team killed North Sea.
• Chen Changsheng introduced the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, explaining how cultivators could develop worlds within their bodies and avoid the limits of the Heaven's Mandate path.

Chen Changsheng revealed the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, faced war from the Forbidden Grounds, and negotiated a fragile coexistence between humans and Divine Beasts. As the Forbidden Grounds devastated the Chang Sheng Epoch, he left the younger generation to lead the resistance and the story with Nether River seeking a way to withdraw.

• Chen Changsheng explained how Inner Worlds consumed cultivators’ lifespans and introduced the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System as a path beyond the Heaven’s Mandate system.
• Zhang Bairen endured successive Emperor Tribulations, fought Xue Lan, and completed the new path with an Emperor Weapon forged from Immortal Feather Green Gold.
• As Heaven and the Forbidden Grounds attacked the Chang Sheng Epoch, Chen Changsheng escaped after his allies sacrificed themselves and buried the Four Heavenly Emperors’ garments as cenotaphs.
• Chen Changsheng negotiated with the Divine Beasts for equal human authority and their agreement to destroy the Heavens Forbidden Ground, while insisting the Human Race build strength independently.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the Forbidden Grounds to withdraw within three hundred years, but they launched attacks that killed countless people and ravaged the epoch.
• The Confucian Sage crowned Xu Qianzhui a Saint, and Little Immortal Elder killed Eternal before leaving the Chang Sheng Epoch after speaking with Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng awakened Su Wan’er long enough to hear her confession before she died, then chose to endure grief rather than sever his emotions.
• In the 150th year, Chen Changsheng said the Common People had to resist the Forbidden Grounds themselves, then refused to interfere after the Twin Ghost Dao Companions died as Wang Hao sought a withdrawal route for Nether River.