Recaps

Chen Changsheng set rules for the dangerous Heavenly Prohibition, advanced the trials, and led the alliance’s campaign against the Old Aristocratic Families. After decades of war and tribulation training, Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow entered a violent frenzy, and Chen Changsheng explained the cause to Shi Qi.

• Chen Changsheng defeated Long Aotian’s group with Jian Fei’s sword techniques, but his body and Flying Sword cracked before he conceded the wager and escaped.
• Chen Changsheng presented rankings of the cultivators and explained how emotions and obsession could help them break their limits, while warning that the Heavenly Prohibition could drive practitioners mad.
• Chen Changsheng and Dream restricted study of the Heavenly Prohibition to Green Mountain World’s younger generation and set new trials involving Quasi-Emperor tribulations and the Imperial Preceptor’s Tomb.
• Li Changsheng heard Li Changming’s final plan, and Chen Changsheng explained that he would face the forces opposing the Virtual World rather than retreat from the conflict.
• Chen Changsheng launched the final offensive against the Old Aristocratic Families, while Wu Li and the other experts attacked their elders and blocked the clans’ escape routes.
• Chen Changsheng exposed Wang Lan’s and Wang Hao’s schemes, then offered Wang Lan control of the Wang and Zheng territories and urged him to choose who he would become.
• Over forty years, the alliance weakened the great clans as cultivators sought Thunder Tribulation Liquid, and Chen Changsheng reached the sixth level of the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Mo Bai entered the Heavenly Prohibition State to fight Baleful Shadow, and after they battled for a month Chen Changsheng told Shi Qi that the two had been driven into a frenzy by the method.

After the Aristocratic Families’ war, Chen Changsheng arranged alliances between epochs and challenged the Divine Beasts’ bloodline customs while confronting the secret search for the Immortal Domain. During a traveling Dao Debate, Shi Qi chose Su Ling, Long Aotian pursued a human marriage, and the Battle for Supremacy began.

• The Rebel Army defeated the Old Aristocratic Families, and Li Changsheng proposed shared administration and resource reforms for the conquered lands.
• Chen Changsheng advanced to Seventh Heaven, then agreed to protect the Pill Epoch and help establish ties between the epochs through marriage alliances.
• Chen Changsheng confronted the Divine Beast leaders about their breeding rules and proposed testing intermarriage, including a Dragon Gate for mixed-blood beings seeking to join the Dragon Race.
• Chen Changsheng learned that Wu Li and others had secretly explored the Immortal Domain, rebuked them for risking catastrophe, and then agreed to investigate it himself.
• Chen Changsheng arranged romantic trials during the traveling Dao Debate, and Shi Qi met Su Ling while working off a debt in her herb field.
• After failing to choose among the fairies Chen Changsheng presented, Shi Qi confessed to Su Ling, who agreed to marry him if he defeated the great figures.
• The Dragon Race and Phoenix Race saw their first intermarriage, and Long Aotian declared he would marry a human woman before entering the Eighth Heaven and challenging Dragon Race veterans.
• The Battle for Supremacy brought challenges against powerful Great Dao Imprints, while Liu Yidao returned after eight years, reached Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, and narrowly defeated Book Saint Xu Qianzhui.

Chen Changsheng’s world fell to Xiao Yunshu and his allies, but he survived in a Nine-Aperture Strange Stone and later revived Xiao Hei. In the Divine Land Epoch, he began searching for a way to take revenge and recover Phantom Shadow’s hidden resources.

• Cui Shuo, Long Aotian, and the other prodigies entered the final trial, where Chen Changsheng revealed that the contest was designed to test judgment and endurance as well as strength.
• Mo Bai recounted how the War of the Emperors unfolded, explaining the contestants’ victories, the uncertain final ranking, and Chen Changsheng’s plan to transfer power between eras.
• After the Virtual World’s connected epochs went silent, Xiao Yunshu revealed himself as the Dao Ancestor and led an assault that destroyed the Chang Sheng Epoch and killed many of Chen Changsheng’s allies.
• Xiao Yunshu killed Chen Changsheng and erased his origins, while the survivors’ history and organizations were suppressed and dismantled.
• Two hundred thousand years later, Chen Changsheng awoke from a Nine-Aperture Strange Stone and agreed to teach Ma Yuxuan after Ma Xu’an explained the Immortal Domain’s history and losses.
• Chen Changsheng learned that many of his former companions had died, then used Xiao Hei’s fur and claws to reconstruct him and bring him back to life.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei entered the Divine Land Epoch, where Chen Changsheng planned to investigate its cultivation system and find a way to oppose Xiao Yunshu and the other two.
• Chen Changsheng searched for the shattered Divine Land Epoch treasury beneath a mountain, hoping to regain control of Phantom Shadow’s concealed agents.

Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei manipulated the Divine Land Epoch’s rulers, recovered the Nine-Dragon Precious Fruits, and returned to find the Chang Sheng Epoch ruined. They investigated the Blood Dragon Kingdom, uncovered its sacrifices, and learned that a Dragon and Phoenix had become corrupted while protecting the land.

• Chen Changsheng found preserved knowledge in his treasury, learned that a Nine-Dragon Precious Fruit could treat Xiao Hei, and set out to obtain one.
• Chen Changsheng freed laborers, framed the Sky-Stealing Bandit, and explained how the Divine Land Epoch’s rulers profited from restricting cultivation knowledge.
• Wu Li confronted Lu Mingyu, who revealed that he had kept his judgment and sent Wu Li to find the Three Religions Sages while he sought Shi Qi.
• Chen Changsheng stole the Nine-Dragon Precious Fruits from Kang Metal Marquis’s gathering, fed them to the sickly Little Dog, and used the thefts to pressure the Divine Land Epoch’s ruling families.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch and found its worlds devastated, then vowed to rebuild and confront the Four Madmen.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei investigated the Demon Continent, discovered the Blood Dragon Nails’ role in a Blood Sacrifice scheme, and entered the Blood Dragon Kingdom as miners.
• Chen Changsheng captured Ye Zheng, who admitted to conducting sacrifices involving millions of living beings, then killed him and collected the strange energy within him.
• Chen Changsheng ended Yang Zaiwei’s life, then told Gu Dongchun that the Dragon and Phoenix remains belonged to earth spirits corrupted by the passage of time.