Recaps

Chen Changsheng rebuilt his strength through slow cultivation, uncovered Lu Feng’s betrayal of the Immortal Deity Sect, and revealed the tomb’s entrance. News of his return spread, stirring old allies and enemies as they prepared for the conflicts ahead.

• Chen Changsheng restored the Blood Dragon Kingdom’s land, entrusted it to Gu Dongchun, and received the Mountain Keepers’ token and ancestral pledge of support.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Ominous Maker had corrupted the Demon Continent’s earth veins, then began rebuilding his strength from the Springhead Realm instead of relying on the Broken Sword.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Cloudwatch Bureau as a menial disciple, defeated Mu Cheng’s challenges, and advanced to the outer sect while training Kai Wu.
• Chen Changsheng exposed Lu Feng’s scheme to drain the Immortal Deity Sect’s Spirit Vein and break the seal, then summoned divine phantoms that destroyed the sect’s disciples.
• Zhang Ling’s remnant consciousness revealed the entrance to the Celestial Master’s Tomb, and Chen Changsheng left the Immortal Deity Sect after telling Kai Wu to gather its ownerless treasures.
• Chen Changsheng spent ten years rising through the Cloudwatch Bureau, rejected its master position, and set out to slay demons with Kai Wu following him.
• Li Changsheng and Wang Lan learned that Chen Changsheng had returned, while Li Changsheng found the Bronze Tiger Guard and Lu Mingyu found Shi Qi and the black egg.
• Shi Qi told Lu Mingyu of Su Ling’s death and warned him about Chen Feng and Nalan Zi Ping, while Wang Hao revived Liu Yidao and Zhang Zhen and sought an alliance with the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground.

Chen Changsheng learned that Yun Yu had destroyed his allies and contingencies, mourned the dead, and gathered support while preparing to confront the Four Madmen. He left for the Divine Land Epoch with Xiao Hei and Ma Yuxuan, intending to build power there and give its cultivators a chance to change their realm.

• Chen Changsheng entered the Celestial Master's Tomb, learned Yun Yu had manipulated the Chang Sheng Epoch and killed many of his allies, then left to undo the gray energy that had corrupted the continents.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei traveled to Time Continent, where they met Nalan Fuguang, entrusted him with rebuilding the Chang Sheng Epoch, and accepted that he was not the reborn Scholar.
• Chen Changsheng visited his friends’ graves in the God and Demon Cemetery, learned the Four Madmen had destroyed his contingencies, and buried the fallen after listening to their final messages.
• Chen Changsheng questioned Dream about the Immortal Domain and received the Great Dream Immortal Art, which he identified as a method for Weapon Spirits like Ao Chuang.
• Chen Changsheng spent twenty years auditing the God of Wealth Hall with Wang Lan, then left the Pill Epoch through a passage prepared to aid the Chang Sheng Epoch’s recovery.
• Li Changsheng resolved to claim power in the Pill Epoch, while Chen Changsheng told Xiao Hei he would become emperor of the Divine Land Epoch and revealed Ma Yuxuan as the seed he would raise there.
• Chen Changsheng awakened Ma Yuxuan, promised to raise him without letting hatred consume him, and traveled with him and Xiao Hei to the Divine Land Epoch.

Chen Changsheng brought Ma Yuxuan into the Divine Land Epoch to witness its cruelty, then intervened when Marquis Yongchang targeted the Wu Clan. After making peace with Suo Fu and securing territory for the clan, the story shifted to Chen Feng’s arrival in the devastated Chang Sheng Epoch.

• Chen Changsheng helped Ma Yuxuan understand how upbringing shaped his values, learned how the Immortal Domain had developed, and arranged for Qin Gui to give him a new identity.
• Chen Changsheng took Ma Yuxuan, Xiao Hei, and a disguised noble identity to Mars, where Ma Yuxuan observed Gu Yi and Hong Ling and studied the Divine Land Epoch’s hierarchy.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the Gu Family had been targeted over its Profound Yellow Mother Metal, while Ma Yuxuan’s plans helped Gu Yi and Hong Ling fight an ambush before Chen Changsheng rescued them.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he was the Imperial Tutor and that Wu Li was his eldest disciple, then agreed to take the Wu Clan under his command after Gu Yi explained its desperate plan to draw him out.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei defeated Butler Zhou’s forces, and Chen Changsheng used Evil Cultivator arts to attack Marquis Yongchang’s residence until Suo Fu stopped him.
• Chen Changsheng and Suo Fu made peace, arranged territories for the Wu Clan, and discussed the Divine Land Epoch’s path to power, while Ma Yuxuan demanded political and legal authority for their cooperation.
• Chen Changsheng told Suo Fu he wanted every Great Emperor Realm cultivator for revenge, then Chen Feng arrived in the ruined Chang Sheng Epoch and learned from Nalan Fuguang that he was to remain there for a hundred years.

Chen Changsheng guided Ma Yuxuan through reforms in the Sophora Blossom Great World while contending with Yun Yu’s plans and the dangers facing cultivators. He brought Ma Yuxuan to the Netherworld Epoch, where its brutal conditions showed why its people were being abandoned and why reform was so difficult.

• Chen Feng agreed to guard the Mountain and River Academy, received Liu Qingqing’s final letter, and was urged by Nalan Fuguang to recover his heart and sword.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Ma Yuxuan to lead in his absence, gave him the Sword Flight Technique, and directed him to seek Yun Yu’s help with materials.
• Chen Changsheng warned Ma Yuxuan that Yun Yu’s death could unleash a threat upon everyone he cherished, then took him to the Sophora Blossom Great World to learn how to govern.
• After nobles arranged the torture of a woman Ma Yuxuan had helped, Ma Yuxuan freed her, stripped the baron’s family of their status and property, and named her Bai Su.
• Chen Changsheng trained Ma Yuxuan, Hong Ling, Bai Su, and Gu Yi for a hundred years, then made Ma Yuxuan’s reforms and survival a trial before the Divine Land Epoch’s rulers.
• Ma Yuxuan endured challenges and attacks, secured a thousand years of peace for the Sophora Blossom Great World, and left its affairs to Gu Yi and the others as he traveled with Chen Changsheng.
• In the Netherworld Epoch, Ma Yuxuan drank a strange liquid and bound a scarlet eyeball that emerged from his palm, while Chen Changsheng explained the realm’s negative energy and Eerie Treasures.
• Ma Yuxuan discovered that villagers ate rice meat during a drought and learned that the region’s Water Law had been extracted, as Chen Changsheng explained the Netherworld Epoch’s harsh economy and the rulers’ indifference to its people.