Chapter Summaries

After waking from a ten-year sleep with new attribute points, Chen Changsheng returned to town hoping to reunite with Nian Ci. He found that she had married and had a daughter, and he left to stay at Crippled Li’s Coffin Shop.

• Chen Changsheng woke after ten years, confirmed that his sleep had earned him ten attribute points, and dressed before heading down the mountain.
• Chen Changsheng returned to town and found that its people and familiar places had changed.
• Chen Changsheng arrived at Nian Ci’s former home, where a little girl told him she did not know anyone named Nian Ci.
• Nian Ci recognized Chen Changsheng and explained that after waiting three years, she had married the man who rescued her and raised their daughter, Li Niansheng.
• Chen Changsheng introduced himself to Li Niansheng and left to stay at Crippled Li’s Coffin Shop.

Chen Changsheng joined Crippled Li’s coffin shop and spent eight years learning the trade before Crippled Li died. During a plague that killed Li Niansheng’s parents, Chen stayed awake to care for her, and she confronted him about his long life.

• Chen Changsheng visited Crippled Li to demand a refund, but Crippled Li offered him food and lodging in exchange for helping at the coffin shop and gave him a Book of Burial.
• Chen Changsheng settled at the shop, studied coffin-making, and placed all ten of his attribute points into defense.
• Crippled Li outlived his expected remaining years but died after five years with Chen Changsheng at the shop.
• Li Niansheng visited Chen Changsheng during a plague that had killed her mother Nian Ci and her husband, and Chen chose to remain awake rather than enter slumber.
• Li Niansheng asked whether Chen Changsheng was an immortal, then said she was fourteen and knew that Nian Ci had been her mother’s childhood name.

Li Niansheng revealed that she wanted to remain by Chen Changsheng's side and chose to seek immortality, while Chen Changsheng reluctantly agreed. After she displayed a Top-Grade Water Spiritual Root and was invited to become a disciple, she returned to tell Chen Changsheng.

• Chen Changsheng stopped Li Niansheng from discussing her mother's secret and gave her a wooden rabbit for her birthday.
• Li Niansheng asked to try becoming an immortal so she could stay beside Chen Changsheng, and he agreed to let her choose.
• A veiled immortal used a Yellow Talisman to dispel the Plague and tested the town's children for Immortal Destiny.
• Li Niansheng's touch made the boulder shine blue, revealing her Top-Grade Water Spiritual Root, and the immortal offered to take her as a disciple.
• The immortal gave Li Niansheng a bundle and one shichen to settle her affairs before leaving, and Li Niansheng returned to the coffin shop to tell Chen Changsheng about the offer.

Chen Changsheng let Li Niansheng leave with a Linglong Sect immortal, then departed his town and spent twenty years exploring cultivation. After taking twenty years to reach Qi Refining First Layer, he learned from the System that a future era might bring a cultivation system better suited to him.

• Chen Changsheng encouraged Li Niansheng to pursue immortality and quietly warned her to be wary of others as she left with the woman from the Linglong Sect.
• After the woman departed, Chen Changsheng stored the Coffin Shop’s coffins and Li Niansheng’s bundle in the System Space, then left town to travel for decades.
• Twenty years later, Chen Changsheng burned the crude cultivation manual he had studied and asked the System why it had taken him twenty years to reach Qi Refining First Layer.
• The System explained that cultivation realms and methods were not the only measures of strength and that a future era might suit Chen Changsheng better.
• The System told Chen Changsheng that no dynasty or cultivation world lasted forever, and that people mistook things for eternal because their lives were brief.

After spending decades traveling and studying funeral services, Chen Changsheng opened a coffin shop in Linglong Town, where he learned that Li Niansheng had become a famed Golden Core genius still devoted to him. A little monk hired Chen Changsheng to bury a slain Demon Cultivator, and Chen Changsheng set out to collect the corpse.

• Chen Changsheng spent twenty years learning various trades and grew especially skilled at funeral services, then continued south toward Linglong Town.
• Chen Changsheng heard that Li Niansheng had reached Golden Core Great Completion and rejected suitors, saying they were no match for Chang Sheng.
• Chen Changsheng opened a small Coffin Shop in Linglong Town and waited three years for customers.
• A Little Bald Head visited the shop and explained that he wanted to bury a Demon Cultivator killed by Linglong Sect, offering Chen Changsheng three Medium Spirit Stones.
• Chen Changsheng accepted one Medium Spirit Stone for his full-service package and followed the little monk into the wilderness.
• Chen Changsheng found the Demon Cultivator's battered corpse and began collecting it for burial.

Chen Changsheng buried the Blood Demon Ancestor and discovered a hidden book inside one of his teeth. After studying it for three months, Chen Changsheng learned how the Blood Demon Ancestor improved spiritual roots and wondered whether his ideas about artificial spiritual roots could work.

• Chen Changsheng carefully restored and buried the Blood Demon Ancestor, then marked the grave with his own name, “Undertaker.”
• Back at his Coffin Shop, Chen Changsheng found array patterns on a tooth taken from the Blood Demon Ancestor and began studying them.
• After three months of research, Chen Changsheng broke the array and found a book about a Pseudo Spiritual Root.
• Chen Changsheng read the Blood Demon Ancestor’s autobiography and learned that he had improved spiritual roots by devouring other people’s roots.
• Chen Changsheng asked the System whether the artificial spiritual roots described in the book could be realized.

Chen Changsheng decided to keep investigating the possibility of creating an artificial spirit root over time, then asked Yixiu to deliver a tiger-shaped wooden carving to the Longevity Fairy. After Yixiu left, Chen Changsheng used a ruined random teleportation array to disappear from his Coffin Shop.

• Chen Changsheng and the system discussed finding a safe way to create an artificial spirit root, and Chen Changsheng chose to rely on time and further study.
• Chen Changsheng returned to his quiet life, where Yixiu continued visiting him to discuss Buddhist doctrine.
• Twenty years later, Yixiu visited the Coffin Shop and agreed to deliver Chen Changsheng's tiger-shaped wooden carving to the Longevity Fairy in exchange for help extending his lifespan.
• Chen Changsheng told Yixiu they would meet again in eighty years, activated his random teleportation array, and vanished as the array was destroyed.

At Li Niansheng’s elder ceremony, she insisted that Chen Changsheng had kept his promise to remain behind her, despite Shui Linglong’s doubts. When Yixiu presented Chen Changsheng’s Wooden Sculpture, Li Niansheng recognized his carving and invited Yixiu to meet her alone, leaving the guests stunned.

• Shui Linglong urged Li Niansheng to let go of Chen Changsheng, but Li Niansheng said she would become an elder to gain resources and continue cultivating alongside him.
• At the ceremony, Yixiu nervously presented a Wooden Sculpture as an additional gift after Heavenly Buddha Temple’s offering.
• Li Niansheng rushed to Yixiu and recognized Chen Changsheng’s distinctive carving on the Wooden Sculpture.
• Li Niansheng accepted the gift with delight and told Yixiu to meet her alone after the ceremony.
• The guests were shocked, while the Linglong Sect Leader celebrated Li Niansheng’s apparent change of heart.

Yixiu tried to explain that Chen Changsheng’s wooden carving was not his, but Li Niansheng ordered him to keep Chen Changsheng’s identity secret. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng prepared a hidden cave and entered an eighty-year slumber to try creating an Artificial Spirit Root.

• Zhao Dezhu mistook Li Niansheng’s interest in the wooden carving for a desire to marry Yixiu and urged him to accept her proposal.
• Yixiu brought Li Niansheng to the Coffin Shop, but Chen Changsheng and every trace of him had disappeared.
• Li Niansheng forbade Yixiu from revealing Chen Changsheng’s name and told him to call Chen Changsheng the Undertaker if asked.
• Chen Changsheng found a secluded feng shui site, spent a year digging and disguising a cave, then entered a medicinal jade coffin to begin an eighty-year slumber and attempt to create an Artificial Spirit Root.

After sleeping for eighty years to cultivate a Superior Wood Spiritual Root, Chen Changsheng awoke with his attributes reset but spent eighty points on Defense. A Fox-Ear Girl broke into his cave for an ancient Returning Spring Grass and fainted when her sword failed to harm him.

• Chen Changsheng awoke after eighty years and confirmed that soaking in vegetation essence had given him a Superior Wood Spiritual Root.
• The system explained that his Spiritual Power and ordinary attributes had faded during slumber, while Chen Changsheng invested eighty attribute points in Defense.
• A Demon Race Fox-Ear Girl entered the cave and attacked Chen Changsheng with a Flying Sword, but his Defense knocked it away and she fainted.
• Chen Changsheng recognized the eighty-year-old Returning Spring Grass in the girl's hand as the likely reason she had found his cave.

After waking from his eighty-year sleep, Chen Changsheng questioned Hu Meiniang about the world, gave her Foundation Establishment advice, and set out to find a new purpose. Ten years later, he was still at Qi Refining Level 9 at Supreme Clarity Temple, frustrating Senior Brother Qingfeng.

• Hu Meiniang woke, mistook Chen Changsheng for an Imperishable Bone, and begged him not to eat her.
• Chen Changsheng learned that it was the three hundred and eightieth year of Great Qian and that a Spirit Transformation mighty figure had appeared at Supreme Clarity Temple.
• Chen Changsheng gave Hu Meiniang Foundation Establishment insights and sent her away, then left his cave to wander in search of a new goal.
• Ten years after arriving at Supreme Clarity Temple, Chen Changsheng remained at Qi Refining Level 9 despite having a Superior Wood Spiritual Root.
• Qingfeng confronted Chen Changsheng in the Scripture Pavilion and complained that he had still not achieved Foundation Establishment.

Chen Changsheng’s master confronted him over his refusal to reach Foundation Establishment and his use of the temple’s Lightning Strike Wood to make a coffin. After Chen Changsheng wrote a couplet outside the main hall, his master ordered him to reach Foundation Establishment in the Boundless Secret Realm.

• Qingfeng dragged Chen Changsheng from the Scripture Pavilion after insisting that Master had ordered him to reach Foundation Establishment and secured him a place in the Boundless Secret Realm.
• Master questioned Chen Changsheng about turning the Lightning Strike Wood into a coffin, while Qingfeng and the other senior brothers pleaded for him.
• Chen Changsheng argued that the Lightning Strike Wood was no longer useful to Master and said clay sculptures were enough to represent the Three Pure Ones.
• Chen Changsheng wrote a couplet outside the main hall, prompting Qingfeng to praise his insight.
• Master dismissed Chen Changsheng and warned him to reach Foundation Establishment in the Boundless Secret Realm or face consequences.

Chen Changsheng explained how reading old array texts and his master's notes helped him unravel Nascent Soul Immortal's Core Array. He revealed that he had read 286,385 books in the Book Grave, leaving his senior brothers and master speechless.

• Nascent Soul Immortal praised Chen Changsheng's couplet and left the main hall, while a mysterious figure remarked that he failed to understand his disciple's disciple.
• Qingfeng strengthened the Spiritual Power around Chen Changsheng as they flew so he could keep reading, then asked why he read so many books.
• Chen Changsheng explained that reading books let him learn from what others had seen and understood, and said books had helped him unravel Nascent Soul Immortal's Core Array.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he recognized Nascent Soul Immortal's array habits from old Five Elements Array texts and notes in the Book Grave.
• Ming Yue learned that Chen Changsheng had read 286,385 of the Book Grave's 983,521 books, stunning the disciples and Nascent Soul Immortal.

Chen Changsheng explained how he spent eight years studying and breaking Nascent Soul Immortal’s array to make a coffin from the Lightning Strike Wood. At the Boundless Secret Realm, he learned that the Night Moon Kingdom had launched a war thirty years ahead of schedule, leaving him uneasy.

• Chen Changsheng told Qingfeng that he studied the Scripture Pavilion and Book Grave for years before figuring out how Nascent Soul Immortal had combined two formations with Five Elements Array principles.
• Nascent Soul Immortal reacted to Chen Changsheng spending eight years on the coffin, then arrived with his disciples at the crowded entrance to the Boundless Secret Realm.
• Zhao Dezhu greeted Nascent Soul Immortal and bragged about the Longevity Fairy, prompting Nascent Soul Immortal to boast that Chen Changsheng would reach Nascent Soul Late Stage before he turned one hundred.
• Nascent Soul Immortal went back to argue with Zhao Dezhu, while Chen Changsheng asked Qingfeng about the absent Longevity Fairy and learned she had gone to the border with Master Yixiu.
• Qingfeng told Chen Changsheng that the Night Moon Kingdom had started its war with the Great Qian Dynasty thirty years early, and Chen Changsheng grew uneasy about the conflict.

Chen Changsheng and Yuanshan entered the Boundless Secret Realm and chose to brew Hundred Flowers Wine instead of competing for the known opportunity in a ruined hall. While gathering flowers, they uncovered a stone coffin whose inscription described a long-lived warrior who sought a worthy opponent and left his legacy for sincere seekers.

• Qingfeng reassured Chen Changsheng about the national war and sent him into the Boundless Secret Realm with Yuanshan as the factions opened its entrance.
• Chen Changsheng explained that they could brew Hundred Flowers Wine in the Hundred Flowers Sea rather than fight other disciples for the opportunity at the Bronze Ancient Hall, and Yuanshan agreed to help.
• Chen Changsheng and Yuanshan spent their days picking flowers and making wine while other cultivators searched for opportunities and fought over them.
• Yuanshan discovered a carved stone slab, and the two dug up a massive coffin bearing Two-Thousand-Year-Old Script.
• Chen Changsheng read the inscription, which recounted a warrior's battles and loneliness and promised his legacy to those sincere of heart.

Chen Changsheng and Yuanshan opened a stone coffin in the Boundless Secret Realm and received the Hundred Defeats Immortal’s Nameless Fist, improving their cultivation. When they returned from the secret realm, they learned that their master and senior brothers had gone to face a crisis in the Borderlands, leaving them in charge of the Supreme Clarity Temple.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Boundless Secret Realm’s sea of flowers was a trial against being distracted by worldly treasures, and he and Yuanshan opened the stone coffin.
• The Hundred Defeats Immortal demonstrated his fist art, named it Nameless Fist, and taught them that their fists must never falter.
• Chen Changsheng and Yuanshan returned to the sea of flowers after spending over two months learning the fist art, with Yuanshan reaching the golden core realm and Chen Changsheng reaching foundation establishment perfection.
• Chen Changsheng and Yuanshan were expelled from the secret realm and found Sixth Senior Brother waiting at the Sacrificial Altar.
• Sixth Senior Brother told Chen Changsheng that a crisis in the Borderlands had taken their master and senior brothers away, then left the two in charge of the Supreme Clarity Temple.
• Chen Changsheng worried about his master, senior brothers, the little monk, and the girl.

After the Great Qian Dynasty lost the war, Chen Changsheng learned that his master and several senior brothers had fallen, and Supreme Clarity Temple was ordered to retreat. He left to retrieve their bodies, revealing that he would become the Undertaker.

• Chen Changsheng refused to let Yuanshan go to the Borderlands, despite Yuanshan's pleas to help their senior brothers.
• Third Senior Brother returned wounded, declared himself Temple Master, named Song Yuanshan Deputy Temple Master, and ordered Supreme Clarity Temple to retreat three thousand li westward.
• Third Senior Brother told Chen Changsheng that the Night Moon Kingdom had defeated Great Qian, Master had fallen at Phoenix Mountain, and First Senior Brother had sacrificed himself to save him.
• Chen Changsheng gave Third Senior Brother medicine, asked him to guide Yuanshan, and said he would retrieve Master and the senior brothers' bodies.
• Chen Changsheng recalled the mysterious body collector called the Undertaker and set out with the Lightning Strike Wood Coffin.

After leaving Supreme Clarity Temple, Chen Changsheng traveled toward the Borderlands to retrieve his deceased master, only to learn that the Fox Clan possessed his master's remains in the form of a Nascent Soul puppet. He decided to seek a way to claim it by becoming the Silver Moon Wolf King's son-in-law, while the king's daughter fled her arranged marriage.

• Chen Changsheng left Supreme Clarity Temple, and Third Senior Brother decided to tell the world that its last disciple had died from cultivation deviation so Changsheng could follow his own path.
• Chen Changsheng headed toward the Borderlands to bring his master's remains home, traveling on foot and concealing his cultivation as Night Moon Kingdom's forces occupied the region.
• After entering a city in Night Moon Kingdom, Chen Changsheng heard that the Demon King's daughter was choosing a husband and that the Fox Clan had obtained a Nascent Soul puppet from Phoenix Mountain.
• Chen Changsheng realized the puppet might be his master and devised a plan to become the Silver Moon Wolf King's son-in-law so he could ask the Fox Clan for it.
• The Demon King's daughter escaped from the imperial palace, prompting the king to order a search for her.

Chen Changsheng fled from two Demon Race cultivators pursuing a mysterious woman, only for her to bind herself to him with a talisman. He used Blood Escape to take her far away, then trapped them both inside an array, leaving the woman wary of what he intended to do.

• Chen Changsheng fled when the mysterious woman called for help, but she used a Jade Talisman to teleport behind him and remain bound to him.
• Chen Changsheng saw through the woman’s lie and deduced that the two Golden Core Late Stage Demon Race cultivators were trying to take her back to her family.
• The woman threatened Chen Changsheng and relied on a protective barrier, but he recognized her As Shadow Follows Form Talisman and completed Supreme Clarity Temple’s Blood Escape.
• Chen Changsheng and the woman vanished three hundred li away, while the two Demon Race cultivators burned their Essence Blood and pursued them.
• Chen Changsheng set up an array around them, and the woman drew an ancient-looking dagger and demanded to know what he intended to do.

Chen Changsheng trapped a demon woman in a bloodline-suppressing formation, turned her into a little white wolf, and took her possessions before disguising her with black ink. Meanwhile, the Silver Moon Wolf King learned that Princess Yue'er had been abducted and suspected the kidnapping was tied to unrest among the demon clans; Chen Changsheng arrived with the renamed Little White in the Night Moon Kingdom’s capital.

• Chen Changsheng used a patched formation to suppress the demon woman’s bloodline, transformed her into a little white wolf, and forced her to reveal how to remove the restriction by threatening to shave her fur.
• Chen Changsheng took the wolf’s spirit stones and magical treasures into the System Space, warned her not to reveal her identity, and gave her a makeover.
• The Silver Moon Wolf King questioned two Golden Core demons who had lost Princess Yue'er, then dismissed them after ordering them to accept punishment.
• Elder Turtle told the Wolf King that someone had concealed Yue'er’s whereabouts and suggested her abduction might be connected to the Night Moon Kingdom’s conquest and factional tensions.
• The Wolf King suspected the Saber-Toothed Tiger Clan and Fox Clan were involved and decided to use the situation to assert his authority.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Night Moon Kingdom’s capital carrying the now-black, bald wolf, named her Little White, and told her the ink would remain until her fur grew back.