Recaps

Chen Changsheng set reforms in motion while Li Changsheng resolved to dismantle the aristocratic clans from within. As Li Changsheng declared war with broad support, the Pill Epoch stood on the brink of a larger conflict.

• Mo Bai and Cui Shuo fought to a standstill, then Lu Jun challenged Mo Bai while the group prepared to leave the dangerous Void Crack.
• A crystal-covered woman attacked the Great World, and Zhang Ling led the survivors through the Void Crack as Cui Yunzheng wounded her with the Carved Bow.
• Chen Changsheng retrieved the Sage’s Manuscript, explained that two years had passed outside, and challenged the younger generation to improve.
• After leaving the Void Crack, Li Changsheng learned of the aristocratic clans’ casualties and internal turmoil, then asked Chen Changsheng to protect people and ease tensions.
• Li Changsheng decided to dissolve the Longxi Li Clan and expose its wrongdoings, despite his brother Li Chun’s opposition.
• Chen Changsheng asked Chen Feng to protect the young reformers while he pursued Number One Under Heaven, and Lu Mingyu prepared a weapon for his coming fight with Chen Feng.
• Li Changsheng confronted Li Ziming and reaffirmed his intention to dissolve the Li Family and the other powerful houses, while Chen Changsheng secured a promise that the mysterious figure would not interfere before the fifth trial ended.
• Wang Lan announced that Li Changsheng had declared war on the noble clans with support from the Five Tigers Group and over seventy percent of the Chang Sheng Epoch’s major powers, then exchanged threats with Cui Yunzheng.

Chen Changsheng and Li Changsheng moved to dismantle the noble clans as Wang Hao organized the Epoch Passage project, bringing the Pill Epoch factions into conflict. Amid repeated defeats and battles, the fighters reconsidered their resolve, while Baleful Shadow and Lin Yao charged the blockade and Wang Hao prepared to wait out Chen Changsheng.

• Zhou Jingting defeated Mo Bai, spared him, and gave him the first level of the Heavenly Lotus Sacred Method in exchange for three tasks, then told him her story and agreed to join his fight against the great clans.
• Chen Changsheng planned to dismantle the hereditary clans and build an Epoch Passage, while Li Changsheng recruited Cui Yunzheng and prepared to expose the clans’ abuses.
• Wang Hao persuaded the Bai Ze Clan to let him plan the Epoch Passage, arranged its financing and workforce, then opened a breach through Hundun with his avatars and Liu Yidao’s help.
• The God of Wealth Hall and its allies began the passage project, and Wang Hao defeated Quasi-Emperor attackers while Baleful Shadow killed Shen Xiaolong.
• Lu Zijian fought Lao Chu and lost despite shattering his saber, while Lao Chu admitted he had sent Mo Bai to kill rivals and escaped after Faxian let him go.
• Cui Yunzheng told Lu Zijian and Mo Bai that Li Changsheng’s forces were short-handed, and Mo Bai went to the Heavenly Lotus Sect while the others joined the fighting.
• Zhou Jingting told Mo Bai she had used his targets to test his resolve, while Wang Hao’s side repeatedly defeated the Chang Sheng Epoch prodigies and True Meaning helped Lin Yao recover his purpose.
• After Baleful Shadow failed to break the blockade, Lin Yao joined him in charging it, and Wang Hao told Liu Yidao that time would reveal whether Chen Changsheng could be crushed.

Chen Changsheng’s allies broke through the Pill Epoch’s defenses to recruit support for the Epoch Passage as conflicts with the great clans escalated. Chen Changsheng brought Cui Ling Shuang home and began confronting the Cui Family, while Cui Zhe died fighting the Tiger Guard and Cui Yunzheng survived to reveal the secret of the Eighteen Transformations of Wuji.

• Wang Hao and Liu Yidao discussed Chang Sheng as the Pill Epoch prodigies fought the attackers, and Wang Hao killed a Ninth Grade Immortal King while Liu Yidao held off the Transcendent Void Hall elder.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Meng De to break through the blockade and finish the Epoch Passage, so Meng De rallied the group to escape and recruit workers from the great clans.
• Zhou Jingting fought Lu Guan for two thousand moves without a victor, earned Chen Changsheng’s support in leaving the Heavenly Lotus Sect, and Mo Bai recruited him to find allies and prepare for war.
• Jin Tu told Zhang Ling why he sought revenge on the Zheng Family, while Wang Lan and Feng Ran arranged their Wang Family mission and Baleful Shadow and Cui Yunzheng headed to the Cui Family.
• Li Changsheng negotiated the survival of three members of the Longxi Li Clan, while Cui Yunzheng attacked his relatives and was set against thirty-six Immortal King Ninth Grade cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng arrived at the Cui Family with Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng, arranged Cui Ling Shuang’s return-to-roots ceremony, and said the ancestral tomb and family would fall.
• Cui Yunzheng fought on as Baleful Shadow’s war artifacts shattered the ward, and Cui Tian Rui led the Tiger Guard against the Cui Family Ancestors under Chen Changsheng’s order.
• Cui Zhe revealed the location of his branch’s survivors to Cui Tian Rui, returned the Dragon Gallant Silver Spear, and died fighting the Tiger Guard, while Cui Yunzheng recovered with Baleful Shadow and explained the Eighteen Transformations of Wuji.

Chen Changsheng and his allies moved to dismantle the aristocratic clans while the Wang Family’s migration and the rescue of captured allies became battlegrounds. The Qinghe Cui Clan pledged troops to Meng De, as Long Aotian and Lu Jun faced powerful opponents.

• Dream revealed himself to Cui Yunzheng and Baleful Shadow, but Chen Changsheng intervened and warned that Little Immortal Elder had used them to scheme against him and Dream.
• Feng Ran and Lin Yao accepted the Wang Family’s migration while learning that their allies had been captured and that the clans planned to attack their base.
• Chen Changsheng freed Jin Tu and Wang Zhigao from the Zheng Family, then told his allies to pressure the aristocratic clans while avoiding the Four Sects.
• Jin Tu learned of his parents’ deaths and Zheng Qing’er’s sacrifice, then accepted the lifespan cost of using the Heavenly Demon Divine Canon to fight the clans.
• Lu Mingyu fought Xuan Huo in Chaos, and Xuan Huo began forging a Giant Cauldron for him with materials supplied by Chen Changsheng.
• Meng De persuaded the Qinghe Cui Clan to support his campaign, and the clan pledged two hundred thousand troops and prepared to issue a crusade proclamation.
• Feng Ran challenged Wang Lan’s interpretation of the Imperial Tutor’s intentions, while Cui Yunzheng and Baleful Shadow decided to kill Wang Zhen as their Proof of Allegiance.
• Lu Jun helped Long Aotian escape, then fought Li Changming as Li Chengyu confronted Long Aotian and repeatedly wounded him.