Recaps

Chen Changsheng helped Jiang Shan use new warfare and years of preparation to unite the Greenwood Epoch, while uncovering the Limitless Celestial’s role in its past. Jiang Shan defeated the Song Dynasties and prepared to face the Limitless Celestial in a contest between the golden core and bitter sea systems.

• Chen Changsheng showed Tie Yunpeng how Jiang Shan’s trained fighters defeated Seven Killings’ larger army with disciplined formations, traps, and magical artifacts.
• Chen Qiang revealed that the founder of Outer Heavens had masterminded Jiang Shan’s family massacre and tried to seize his body, but Jian Fei had sacrificed himself to stop him.
• Chen Changsheng explained his plans for the Greenwood Epoch, while Tie Yunpeng’s rebellion spread war and Chen Changsheng’s allies spent centuries preparing to replace Great Song’s officials.
• Jiang Shan gathered his allies and chose to attack the Southern Song Dynasty first, but Lin Yuan and Yan Qing’s campaign was encircled and forced to retreat.
• Lin Tianlang rallied deserters and routed soldiers, helping twenty Northern Song cities surrender, while Grand Preceptor Pang secretly aided Shui Po Liang Shan.
• The Limitless Celestial killed officials at the Northern Song court, Emperor Song surrendered the Jade Slip, and Shui Po Liang Shan captured the capital as Jiang Shan confronted the emperor.
• Jiang Shan defeated Emperor Song after a month-long battle, ending Great Song’s rule, while Lin Tianlang chose not to take revenge on the royal family.
• Ten years later, Jiang Shan faced the Limitless Celestial at the Epoch Boundary and argued that the bitter sea system offered hope to cultivators whom the golden core system left behind.

After defeating the Limitless Celestial, Chen Changsheng returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch and began assembling people and resources for the Virtual World. He established ties with the Bai Ze Clan, reunited with his students, and opened a shop at the Ten Thousand Races Academy to test the Qilin Communicator.

• Jiang Shan defeated the Limitless Celestial, who died after asking Chen Changsheng to remember him, and Chen Changsheng left Jiang Shan to handle the Greenwood Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch with Bai Ze, disguised himself with Gold Devouring Insects, and visited the Bai Ze Continent to help Xiao Hei reclaim his place among the Bai Ze Clan.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei attended the Imperial Tutor Training Class, graduated near the bottom, and planned to seek authorization to sell Qilin Communicators.
• Chen Changsheng reunited with Lu Mingyu, Shui Yue, and Wei Guang, approved Shui Yue and Wei Guang’s marriage after Lu Mingyu tested Wei Guang, and asked Lu Mingyu to keep major figures away while he made arrangements.
• Chen Changsheng recruited Liu Yidao to handle Qilin Communicator distribution and negotiations with the Bai Ze Clan, then explained to Bai Ze how the Virtual World could sell cultivation knowledge and instruction.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze visited the Ten Thousand Races Academy, where they chose Meng De as a test subject and set up a shop to sell Qilin Communicators.
• Chen Changsheng sold Li Changsheng a communicator on credit, and Li and Sword Come explored its paid knowledge features while suspecting that Lu Mingyu was connected to Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng launched the Virtual World to draw the academy’s young geniuses into a plan to revive the Imperial Tutor, while Xu Qianzhui began investigating the apparent imposture of Lu Mingyu. Chen Changsheng then confronted Ye Yongxian at the Array Core, where Ye Yu sacrificed himself to stop their conflict.

• Chen Changsheng recruited Long Aotian, Zhang Ling, Meng De, Feng Zhi, Li Changsheng, and Sword Come to promote and profit from the Virtual World, while the group pooled cultivation techniques and found the Talisman Emperor’s Insights genuine.
• Long Aotian and Feng Zhi held arenas, Li Changsheng and Sword Come pursued other ways to earn Virtual Points, and Zhang Ling taught talisman-making before the academy curtailed their activities.
• Xu Qianzhui confronted Chen Changsheng, exposed his disguise, and attacked him and Bai Ze, but then agreed to let the students test the Virtual World without academy interference.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze launched a mission claiming that the Imperial Tutor’s spiritual essence had become five artifacts, and Long Aotian, Meng De, Li Changsheng, and the others set out to seek them.
• Xu Qianzhui concluded that the person posing as Lu Mingyu was an impostor and asked Senior Lu and Jun Lin for help investigating the academy’s infiltration and its possible connection to Liu Yidao.
• Chen Changsheng went with Bai Ze to the Array Core, where he found Ye Yu trying to persuade Ye Yongxian to abandon Bloodline Immortality and learned Ye Yongxian had stayed there to conceal Chen Changsheng’s survival and protect the seal.
• Chen Changsheng refused Ye Yu’s offer to give his body to Ye Yongxian and attacked the ancestor, but Ye Yu stepped between them and died after begging Chen Changsheng to spare his father.

Chen Changsheng drew the Five Spirits search and the Virtual World into a plan to steer powerful factions toward the Cosmic Black Hole while his allies spread the new system. As prodigies and old powers moved to uncover his fate, Meng De discovered a way to bring others into the Virtual World and profit from its growth.

• Chen Changsheng confronted Old Man Yao over the Forbidden Grounds, defended his refusal to abandon justice, and left after predicting Chen Feng would one day kill him.
• Li Changsheng and his companions sought the Medical Immortal, but their schemes led to a series of staged injuries and confrontations with Chen Xiao, Yuan Chang, and others.
• Long Aotian told Chen Xiao that the young cultivators sought the Sage Emperor and the title of Physical Body Saint, and revealed the Virtual World’s plan to gather the Five Spirits and resurrect Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng recruited Nine-Headed Xiang Liu to guard the Cosmic Black Hole and prepare a scripted lure based on the supposed secrets and treasures within it.
• Li Changsheng’s group and the surrounding factions learned of the Virtual World, while Ruan Su Xian ended his relationship with Zhang Ling before giving him the complete Heaven-Piercing Talismans and his insights.
• Chen Mengjie discovered Wei Guang’s announcement inviting people to find five hidden spiritual treasures, while figures across the Chang Sheng and Pill Epochs debated whether Chen Changsheng might still be alive.
• Chen Changsheng explained to Bai Ze that the Five Spirits trial would draw powerful factions toward Long Aotian’s group and give Liu Yidao’s allies time to distribute Virtual World shares.
• Meng De completed side quests and unlocked the Self-Reliance quest, which awarded him a Virtual World Large Connector that let multiple people enter and gave him a share of their leaked Divine Power and opened space.