Recaps

Chen Changsheng sent Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow into the Pill Epoch to stir its cultivators and challenge the entrenched powers, while he negotiated a loosening of the Heavenly Dao Society’s control. As the Five Tigers Group began building alliances and the communicator shutdown threw the Pill Epoch into turmoil, Chen Changsheng prepared to break the clans’ prestige.

• Chen Changsheng advised Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow on strengthening the Five Tigers Group, then tested Baleful Shadow’s Soul Secret Method and prepared both men for their trials in the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng reconciled with the Cui Family over Ling Shuang, learned her final words from Immortal Guang Han, and asked the Heavenly Dao Society to offer Pill Epoch cultivators a chance to leave its suppression.
• Dream agreed to release two Pill Epoch experts under strict conditions, and Lu Mingyu chose to help Chen Changsheng despite being free to refuse.
• Chen Changsheng equipped Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow, then sent them into the Pill Epoch, where their fights with local cultivators drew the attention of the Li Family and other factions.
• Li Changsheng persuaded the Li Family ancestors to let him pursue cooperation with the Five Tigers Group, while Liu Yidao proposed recruiting Pill Epoch talents to advance Chen Changsheng’s reforms.
• Chen Changsheng shut down the Pill Epoch’s Qilin Communicators, disrupting its factions and giving Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow an advantage as Qian Ya questioned how the aristocratic clans could be challenged.
• Chen Changsheng told Qian Ya that he would break the clans’ prestige by challenging their reputation for producing the greatest cultivators, while denying that he expected Ming Yu to win the title of Number One Under Heaven.

Chen Changsheng prepared the young fighters to challenge the Pill Epoch’s aristocratic clans while guiding Shi Qi onto a sword path that matched his nature. The Five Tigers Group’s conflict with the Pill Epoch began, and Meng De planned to weaken the Kill Order by targeting Zheng Xuan.

• Chen Changsheng rejected several candidates to challenge Lu Mingyu, then refused to fight him himself despite Qian Ya revealing that Lu Mingyu and others wanted him to take a beating.
• Baleful Shadow fought Zheng Xuan for three days, escaped with help from the glowing Baleful Shadow, and was later rescued by Chen Changsheng, who warned him to master his soul state and Killing Intent.
• Chen Changsheng revealed himself to Mo Bai, urged him to become a wise and strong overlord, and confronted the factions demanding the restoration of the communicators by revoking their secondary permissions.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to help Dugu’s pupil Shi Qi, recognized that Dugu’s killing-focused sword dao had suppressed Shi Qi’s kind nature, and taught him to wield a peach branch while keeping his master’s Killing Sword sheathed.
• Meng De challenged the Pill Epoch’s families to fight, and its factions agreed that younger cultivators from both epochs could settle the dispute under Cultivation World rules.
• Long Aotian stayed behind to fight Lu Jun and escaped his grasp with a transformed punch, while Li Changsheng explained to Meng De’s group that the Kill Order meant an all-out encirclement and suppression.
• Meng De and Li Changsheng took joint command of the group, and Meng De ordered Li Changsheng to find Zheng Xuan and Zhang Ling to prepare a formation capable of holding him for twelve hours.

As Chen Changsheng weighs reforming the Pill Epoch, Li Changsheng and his allies carry out a plan to kill Zheng Xuan while Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow attack the Zheng Family’s teleportation hub. Zheng Xuan dies at the hands of a hidden killer, leaving the factions to question who engineered the conflict and why.

• Chen Changsheng and Lu Mingyu discussed reforming the Heavenly Dao Society and weakening the aristocratic clans without destroying the Wang Family.
• Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow learned that Li Changsheng’s group was targeting Zheng Xuan, then headed to the Zheng Family while Sword Come sought reinforcements for the endangered allies.
• Li Changsheng confronted Li Changming over the Pill Epoch’s stagnation, and Li Changming gave him information about Zheng Xuan and nearby Teleportation Arrays.
• Meng De, Zhang Ling, Feng Ran, Lin Yao, and Li Changsheng prepared to trap Zheng Xuan in the Hundred Flowers World, while a mysterious figure taught Long Aotian a body-tempering method.
• Zhang Ling’s talismans sealed the Hundred Flowers World as Feng Ran and Li Changsheng fought Zheng Xuan, and Lin Yao held off his attendants.
• Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow attacked a Zheng Family Teleportation Array hub, while Feng Ran, Li Changsheng, and Lin Yao wounded Zheng Xuan and escaped as the Hundred Flowers World collapsed.
• A hidden attacker killed Zheng Xuan after he emerged from a gourd, disguising the fatal damage as the Small World’s explosion, while Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow escaped the Zheng Family’s pursuers.
• Li Changming and the Longxi Li Clan’s Ancestral Tomb examined a recording that ruled out Li Changsheng’s group as Zheng Xuan’s killers, while Cui Yunzheng revealed that he had supplied Li Changming with the Hundred Flowers World deployment map.

Chen Changsheng used Zheng Xuan’s unexplained death and the crisis around the Void Crack to test the Pill Epoch’s powerful factions and push reform of the aristocratic clans. As Meng De’s group entered the Void Crack to rescue Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow, Baleful Shadow confronted his True Self and calmed the space around him.

• Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun suspected hidden forces were backing the Chang Sheng Epoch’s prodigies, while Li Changming warned Li Changsheng that the Zheng Family was investigating Zheng Xuan’s death and focused on Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow.
• Chen Changsheng and Star Lord set a test in motion, and Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow fled into the Void Crack as Lu Mingyu barred Quasi-Emperors from entering and defeated the Bo Ling Cui Family’s challengers.
• Chen Changsheng and Dream agreed to cooperate, while Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun decided to form a new family branch and recruited Meng De to help reform the aristocratic clans.
• Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun argued that reform should weaken the Ancestral Tombs and entrenched clan interests rather than destroy the families, and Li Changming rejected their plan while Meng De accepted their temporary alliance.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the great clans to remove their internal parasites and gave Cui Hao Yu a list of targets, revealing that he had arranged the encounters involving Mo Bai, Baleful Shadow, and Cui Shuo to further his plan.
• Meng De’s group pressured Wang Lan into guiding them through the Void Crack, where Wang Lan used powder and Divine Power to locate the missing trio in separate worlds and named Wang Yue as Zheng Xuan’s likely killer.
• Meng De split the rescuers between the Small World and Great World, while Baleful Shadow learned that his glowing self was his True Self, refused to split his True Spirit, and merged with it until the spatial power grew gentle.