Recaps

Chen Changsheng used the God-Slaying Weapon and Great Bright Heaven’s conflict with Heyang Heaven to draw out the hidden force while training Little Wood and arranging a wager over the Udumbara Flower. After faking his death and restoring his body, Chen Changsheng prepared to appear before the world again.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he had planted altered Jade Slips to conceal the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Battle Flag, while the Four Brahma Three Realms prepared to restart the epoch.
• Chen Changsheng investigated the destruction of the Undying Forbidden Ground and revealed that he had used the God-Slaying Weapon as bait to expose a hidden force connected to the Supreme Sage’s death.
• Chen Changsheng exploited the rift between Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue and helped Great Bright Heaven turn Pang Hong’s demands over the battle flag into leverage at the Flower Viewing Assembly.
• Chen Changsheng asked Hu Tudou to find Zhang Gu, while she told him she wanted to act for herself and did not need him to choose her ending.
• Chen Changsheng encouraged Little Wood to fight Pang Hong for Xiao Qing, and Little Wood nearly died before Chen Changsheng’s guidance helped him land a surprise strike.
• Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor investigated Undertaker’s remains and agreed to let Miao Shi unseal the Titan Beast for the Udumbara Flower contest.
• Chen Changsheng hid his life lamp in a Small World, where a middle-aged man used special materials and artifacts to restore his body and cultivation.

Chen Changsheng captured Miao Shi and Pang Hong, then helped save Miao Shi while drawing Little Wood into his plans. As the Locust Plan opened a war against the Four Brahma Three Realms, Pang Tong uncovered the Undertaker’s strategy and Little Wood struggled to master Ground Shrinking Golden Light.

• Chen Changsheng sealed Miao Shi, Pang Hong, and Jiang Bo Yue, then captured the Frost Giant Ape while the Heavenly Emperors gathered against him.
• Chen Changsheng offered Pang Hong a path to overcome his cultivation crisis, while Jade Completion sought help to save Miao Shi from his fatal wound.
• Jade Completion agreed to Chen Changsheng’s plan to replace Miao Shi’s damaged Supreme Bone with a Mechanical Root Bone, and Miao Shi survived the procedure with most of his cultivation lost.
• Little Wood surrendered control of his body to Chen Changsheng, while Chen Changsheng removed Miao Shi’s Supreme Bone and challenged him to live without it.
• Chen Changsheng learned the Undying Forbidden Ground had been destroyed by an unknown attacker and launched the Locust Plan, which seized territory from the Four Brahma Three Realms.
• Miao Shan sought aid from Pang Tong, who refused to intervene at first but later warned Chi Ming that the Undertaker was exploiting their trade networks and communications to weaken them.
• Pang Tong ordered Chi Ming to send troops to Great Bright Heaven and sent Pang Hong to help Miao Shi secure reinforcements from Ping Yu Heaven.
• Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue helped Little Wood practice Ground Shrinking Golden Light, and Chen Changsheng explained that the technique’s speed came with severe risks to the body.

The war against the Undertaker escalated as Pang Tong and the four prodigies confronted the Puppet Legion, while Chen Changsheng and Hu Tudou faced the Heavenly Emperors. Hu Tudou died after defeating Xuan Tai, and Chen Changsheng revealed that he had poisoned Heaven’s Mandate as the epoch restarted.

• Pang Hong and Miao Shi carried out staged attacks on the Four Great Families, and Pang Tong arranged their defeat, exile, and military service while Kong Yan chose to join her exiled clan.
• Ping Yu Heaven’s army entered the war, and Miao Shi, Little Wood, Pang Hong, and Jiang Bo Yue fought the Puppet Legion as the conflict spread across the worlds.
• After two years of fighting, Miao Shi proposed a secret strike on the Undying Demon Lord’s Control Center, but Chen Changsheng judged the group too weak and sent Little Wood back to Great Bright Heaven.
• Pang Tong warned Miao Shan that Uncanny had infiltrated the battlefields, and Miao Shan agreed to cooperate with the Undertaker’s plan so Miao Shi and the others could survive while Jade Completion drew out hidden enemies.
• Chen Changsheng intercepted the Heavenly Emperors’ forces as Candle Dragon and Immortal Bone attacked Jade Completion, while Hu Tudou fought Xuan Tai.
• Hu Tudou transformed into a Nine-tailed Fox and defeated Xuan Tai at the cost of her lifespan, then vanished after comforting Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng killed Xuan Tai and confronted the Four Great Emperors, revealing that he had created an imitation of Heaven’s Mandate and poisoned it as the epoch restarted.