Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng drew Star Lord and Lu Mingyu into a game to uncover the mysterious killer, then imposed a ban on powerful cultivators fighting and ordered the Tiger Guard to enforce it. Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow were exposed and fled into the Pill Epoch's Void Crack, leaving the Five Clans worried about the fate of the young men inside.

• Chen Changsheng persuaded Star Lord to join a game to test the Pill Epoch's powerful figures and determine who would leave the Pill Epoch first.
• Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu to enter the game and ordered cultivators above Immortal King Ninth Grade not to fight, assigning the Tiger Guard to enforce the decree.
• A top genius of the Bo Ling Cui Family fought Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow, exposing their whereabouts to the Pill Epoch's experts.
• Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow fled their pursuers and plunged into the Void Crack with the Bo Ling Cui genius.
• The Five Clans gathered at the Taiyuan Wang Family, where Cui Xingxue questioned the Wang Family Patriarch about the Void Crack and Cui Xingxue's son’s chances of survival.

Lu Mingyu enforced the Imperial Tutor’s ban on Quasi-Emperors entering the Void Crack and prepared to face the Bo Ling Cui Family’s ancestors. Meanwhile, Wang Zhigao remained inside the Zheng Family Ancestral Tomb, and Nalan Zi Ping’s dispute with two Buddhist Sages was interrupted by powerful leaders.

• The man surnamed Cui asked the Wang Family Patriarch to lift the Void Crack’s seal so the Cui Family Ancestor could enter, but Lu Mingyu arrived and forbade Quasi-Emperors from entering.
• Lu Mingyu wounded the man surnamed Cui with a glance, threatened to sever one of his Great Daos, and announced that the Tiger Guard would defend the Void Crack.
• Three Bo Ling Cui Family ancestors confronted Lu Mingyu, who accepted their challenge and looked toward Wang Zhigao in the Zheng Family Ancestral Tomb.
• Wang Zhigao agreed to stay in the tomb for a few days and play Go with the powerful being holding him there.
• Nalan Zi Ping refused to end his fight with the Buddhist Sages in a draw because one had threatened his father, and he challenged that Sage to battle in Hundun.
• The Daoist Sage, Confucian Sage, True Dragon, Ancestor Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin arrived and urged the Buddhist Sage to admit fault and let go of his pride.

Primordial Qilin and the other great figures mediated the dispute between Nalan Zi Ping and the second Buddhist Sage, then asked Zi Ping to help address rising tensions between the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Pill Epoch. Zi Ping contacted Chen Changsheng, who accused the gathered elders of using the crisis as a pretext to seize the Great Dream Immortal Art.

• Primordial Qilin stopped Nalan Zi Ping and the second Buddhist Sage from fighting and proposed that the Buddhist Sage stay three paces away from Chen Changsheng for three thousand years.
• Nalan Zi Ping accepted the compromise but warned that anyone who targeted his father again would answer to him.
• The True Dragon and Ancestor Phoenix told Zi Ping that a Zheng Family prodigy had been killed in the Pill Epoch and that the Zheng Family had placed the Heavenly Court's Jade Emperor under house arrest.
• Zi Ping learned that the Pill Epoch was sealed off by the Heavenly Dao Society and that the Chang Sheng Epoch's leaders were considering striking first, so he contacted Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng denied that anything was happening, then accused the elders of using the conflict to reach for the Great Dream Immortal Art and warned that Dream alone could stop them.

Chen Changsheng arranged a contest between the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Pill Epoch, while the Chang Sheng Epoch’s leaders discussed their plans for Immortal Destiny and the Virtual World. In the Pill Epoch, Lu Mingyu swiftly defeated the Bo Ling Cui Family’s Quasi-Emperors, leaving the Cui Family warned against opposing him.

• Chen Changsheng told the Chang Sheng Epoch’s leaders that he would arrange a contest and allow cultivators below the Quasi-Emperor Realm to enter the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng said Sword Come had returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch to seek reinforcements for Li Changsheng and ended the call.
• The True Dragon and the sages discussed Nalan Zi Ping’s strength and Immortal Destiny, then resolved to pursue Immortal Destiny and undermine Ge Hong and the Pill Epoch after establishing the Virtual World.
• Lu Mingyu defeated the Bo Ling Cui Family’s two Seventh Heaven Quasi-Emperors so quickly that they warned the clan leader not to oppose the Immortal Emperor.
• Lu Mingyu defeated the Ninth Heaven Quasi-Emperor in three breaths, and the opponent accepted his defeat and left.

Chen Changsheng warned Dream that the Divine Beast lineage might wield lethal Immortal Destiny and reassured him that he had a hidden trump card against anyone who attacked him. After Dream agreed to cooperate and gave him a way to observe the Void Crack, Chen Changsheng saw the badly wounded Baleful Shadow lying in a forest.

• Chen Changsheng and Dream discussed the Divine Beast lineage targeting them and the danger of its unknown Immortal Destiny.
• Chen Changsheng and Dream acknowledged their competing plans and agreed to cooperate on reforming the aristocratic clans and stabilizing the epochs.
• Dream warned Chen Changsheng that the Divine Beast lineage and the Three Teachings might retaliate, but Chen Changsheng claimed his hidden method would ensure his attackers died.
• Dream agreed to trust Chen Changsheng and gave him a special law that let him observe the Void Crack.
• Chen Changsheng used the law to view the Void Crack and saw the heavily injured Baleful Shadow lying in a forest.

Chen Changsheng watched Baleful Shadow escape the Void Crack and decided he needed more people to send in. Meanwhile, Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun sought out Li Changsheng’s group to propose cooperation and a breakaway family branch, and Li Changming let them into the secret chamber to speak with Changsheng.

• Chen Changsheng splashed divine-power-infused wine at Baleful Shadow, waking him and allowing him to limp away from the Void Crack.
• Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun tried to recruit Wang Lan to enter the Void Crack, but he refused, so they decided to enlist Li Changming’s help in forcing the issue.
• Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun told Li Changming they had changed their minds and wanted to establish their own family branch so they could live for themselves.
• Cui Yunzheng explained that Cui Tian Rui, the God of Wealth Hall, and the Three Teachings of the Chang Sheng Epoch supported their plan.
• Li Changming warned Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun not to let their plan leak, then opened the secret chamber where Meng De, Long Aotian, and the others were cultivating.

Lu Jun and Cui Yunzheng sought cooperation with Meng De, explaining that the aristocratic clans’ struggle for survival required sweeping reform and a new banner. They identified entrenched lineages within the Ancestral Tomb as the obstacle to opening the medicinal herbs market, and Li Changsheng began explaining how the clans’ descendant branches maintained their power.

• Lu Jun and Long Aotian greeted each other and agreed to compete again in the future before turning to business.
• Lu Jun and Cui Yunzheng asked Meng De to cooperate, saying Patriarch Tian Rui had warned them that the aristocratic clans might survive the coming war while they would not unless they raised a new banner.
• Meng De argued that the clans needed sweeping reform, and Lu Jun and Cui Yunzheng said the struggle would target the Ancestral Tomb’s power rather than destroy the clans themselves.
• Cui Yunzheng explained that opening the medicinal herbs market between the Two Great Epochs would create new power holders and displace entrenched clan officials and lineages.
• Li Changsheng described how collateral branches formed much of each family and were kept from power, then said their fatal flaw was being far too good at having children.

Li Changsheng explained how his younger brother’s descendants had grown into a vast family branch spread across two Great Worlds and seven Small Worlds. Lu Jun described the parasites within aristocratic clans and said reform would require raising the blade against them, while Lin Yao learned that Lu Jun’s own family had a seventeenth-generation lineage.

• Li Changsheng told Feng Ran that his younger brother had descendants reaching the ear-grandson generation, which Lu Jun identified as the ninth generation.
• Li Changsheng explained that his brother’s branch had expanded over centuries through early marriages and descendants who prioritized family over cultivation.
• Li Changsheng said the branch occupied two Great Worlds and seven Small Worlds, which supported him while his family supplied resources and territory.
• Lu Jun explained how powerful family backers allowed some branches to exploit weaker collateral branches and called the beneficiaries parasites.
• Lin Yao asked whether Lu Jun and Li Changsheng had similar family structures, and Lu Jun said his elder brother’s descendants had reached the seventeenth generation.

Lin Yao learned how vast the aristocratic clans had become, and Cui Yunzheng and Meng De discussed why simply wiping them out could not work. They explained Patriarch Tian Rui’s proposal to dismantle the system by cutting off clan disciples’ material support, but acknowledged that reform would threaten powerful interests.

• Lu Jun told Lin Yao that his thousand-year-old brother had reached the seventeenth generation of descendants, while Cui Yunzheng described his own family’s even larger lineage.
• Cui Yunzheng and Meng De concluded that slaughter could not eradicate aristocratic clans because others would claim their legacy and rebuild them.
• Lu Jun explained that Patriarch Tian Rui proposed cutting off the resources aristocratic clan disciples received to reduce their reliance on the system.
• Li Changming challenged the proposal, arguing that family bonds made it difficult for powerful people to stop supporting their relatives.
• Cui Yunzheng asked whether Li Changming knew his cousin’s great-grandson and said that many people defended the clan system for its benefits rather than genuine kinship.
• Cui Yunzheng warned that reform would threaten the Ancestral Tombs, family leaders, and the people discussing it.

Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun explained why they had joined the New Era, while Li Changming chose to remain loyal to the old ways and entrusted the Li Family's future to Li Changsheng. The group then discussed rescuing Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow from the Void Crack and identified Wang Lan as their best guide, despite his refusal to help.

• Cui Yunzheng told Meng De that Patriarch Tian Rui had urged them to expose and eliminate parasites within the great clans rather than destroy the clans outright.
• Lu Jun argued that the great clans' fate depended on the intentions of those above, citing Long Aotian's rapid recovery and the Immortal Emperor's lack of descendants as signs of hidden support for reform.
• Li Changming rejected Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun's path, left the cabin, and urged Li Changsheng to keep pursuing a brighter future for the Pill Epoch.
• Cui Yunzheng explained that he and Lu Jun had chosen to stand with the New Era, and Meng De welcomed them into a temporary alliance.
• Meng De asked how to reach Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow in the Void Crack, and Lu Jun named Wang Lan as the best guide.
• Li Changsheng said Wang Lan had likely already refused to help and warned that the other Wang Family candidates were unsuitable or difficult to control.

Meng De and Lu Jun agreed to lure Wang Lan out of the Wang Family and kidnap him to gain entry to the Void Crack, while Cui Yunzheng secured their agreement to accept the outcome of the Great Dao Contention. Trapped and badly wounded in a Small World within the Void Crack, Baleful Shadow tried to comprehend space law, but the attempt tore his body and sea of consciousness apart, leaving him unconscious.

• Meng De and Lu Jun agreed that Lu Jun would provide intelligence to lure Wang Lan out, while Meng De would kidnap him and find a way into the Void Crack.
• Cui Yunzheng stated that his side still intended to claim its share, and Meng De agreed that they would accept defeat if they lost the wager.
• Baleful Shadow, injured after fighting Cui Shuo and escaping the aristocratic clans, found himself trapped among Spatial Rifts with little divine power or divine source.
• Baleful Shadow attempted to comprehend space law, but the spatial power tore his body into pieces and split his sea of consciousness.
• Baleful Shadow reassembled himself with his divine sense, then lost consciousness from his injuries.

Mo Bai and Cui Shuo fought in the Void Crack while Baleful Shadow’s body struggled to regenerate despite the spatial power tearing at his wounds. Cui Shuo explained his Nameless Fist Technique and his ambition to kill the Immortal Emperor, then learned that Mo Bai had emerged from the Spatial Turbulence unharmed thanks to his luck as a Qilin.

• Baleful Shadow’s flesh continued regrowing as spatial power prevented his wounds from healing, keeping him alive and his Life Lamp Realm lit.
• Mo Bai fired Light Arrows at Cui Shuo, who shattered three and took the fourth in his shoulder.
• Cui Shuo revealed that he had mastered the Nameless Fist Technique from the half the Phoenix Empress had left to the Lu Family, and had comprehended the rest through his own fist momentum.
• Cui Shuo told Mo Bai he had earned the technique by standing outside the Immortal Emperor’s retreat and challenging him, and that he intended to kill the Immortal Emperor with one punch.
• Cui Shuo admitted he was targeting Mo Bai and his companions to prove himself against the great clans’ strongest figures, but Mo Bai objected to being beaten and robbed instead of killed.
• Mo Bai said he had survived the Spatial Turbulence unharmed because he was a lucky Qilin, leaving Cui Shuo unsettled.

Chen Changsheng confronted the aristocratic clans’ leaders in the Nameless Small World and ordered their supporters purged unless they submitted. As his countdown ended, more experts began stepping forward, but the outcome remained unresolved.

• Chen Changsheng arrived in the Nameless Small World, where more than a hundred clan experts demanded that he stop interfering in the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng rejected their offer of support for his medicinal herbs market and Virtual World, then revealed that Cui Tian Rui had recorded their names and ordered the Five Clans, Four Sects, and One Pill Domain to clean house.
• Cui Hao Yu blocked a Fourth Heaven Quasi-Emperor’s attack with his Sword Box while Chen Changsheng explained that he wanted the aristocratic clans to deal with their own leaders.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Phantom D-329, learned that more people backed the leaders from behind the scenes, and sent Phantom away with a token to find the God of Wealth.
• Chen Changsheng gave the gathered experts a choice between surrendering and being killed, and several groups stepped forward as he counted down to one.

Chen Changsheng explained why the great families’ entrenched parasites had to be dealt with forcefully and gave Cui Hao Yu a list tied to a leak within the Tiger Guard. He revealed that he had staged the crisis around the Void Crack with the Bo Ling Cui Family to expose and isolate his targets, leaving Cui Hao Yu to catch the hidden informant.

• Chen Changsheng ordered Tian Rui to remove those who had complied from the list and send the remaining targets to their families and sects.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Hao Yu that the parasites within the great families could not be removed gently and that the Heavenly Dao Society would cause greater bloodshed if it intervened.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Hao Yu to rest rather than have the Tiger Guard conduct the cleanup, noting that some targets were Cui Hao Yu’s relatives.
• Chen Changsheng gave Cui Hao Yu a list from Phantom and ordered him to lead a team against the listed people and catch the hidden informant within the Tiger Guard.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had arranged Mo Bai and the Baleful Shadow’s encounter with Cui Shuo and had instructed the Bo Ling Cui Family to provoke the crisis as part of his plan.

Chen Changsheng explained to Cui Hao Yu why he had drawn the younger generation into the struggle: they needed to learn how to reform the Pill Epoch, while older figures handled the dangerous work. Cui Hao Yu left to persuade his people to join the reforms, and Chen Changsheng asked Dream to watch the Heavenly Dao Society.

• Chen Changsheng told Cui Hao Yu that he had placed Mo Bai, Li Changsheng, and the other young people in the game so they could learn to reform the Pill Epoch through their own failures and struggles.
• Cui Hao Yu recognized that the world's prejudices could not be ended by force and vowed to wield his sword for the Pill Epoch and its people.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Hao Yu that the Pill Epoch could improve, and Cui Hao Yu asked permission to return home and persuade his people to change.
• Chen Changsheng welcomed the possibility of the aristocratic families recognizing their mistakes, and Cui Hao Yu bowed and departed.
• Dream appeared beside Chen Changsheng, who asked Dream to keep a close eye on the Heavenly Dao Society.

Chen Changsheng agreed with Dream’s plan to expose the great clans and uproot the Ancestral Tomb, while the Heavenly Dao Society stood ready to help. Inside the Void Crack, Meng De’s group forced Wang Lan to guide them toward their missing friends, but Wang Lan’s unexpected protection left Meng De suspicious of his motives.

• Dream warned Chen Changsheng that reform would provoke many enemies, and Chen Changsheng said his move was meant to draw them out.
• Dream agreed to Chen Changsheng’s plan and said the Heavenly Dao Society would help if he faced enemies he could not handle.
• Xiong Da refused to stop people below the Quasi-Emperor Realm from entering the Void Crack, telling the great clan experts to handle their own wanted fugitives.
• Li Changsheng’s group asked Wang Lan to find their two friends inside the Void Crack, but Wang Lan refused until Meng De threatened to throw him into the Spatial Turbulence.
• Wang Lan agreed to lead the group and demanded that Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun later confirm he had been forced to help.
• Meng De grew suspicious of Wang Lan’s unusually prepared explanations, ordered Feng Ran to throw him into the Spatial Turbulence, and saw a gentle glow protect Wang Lan from it.

Meng De and Li Changsheng questioned Wang Lan, who revealed that Wang Yue had killed Zheng Xuan and that a hidden passage led to the Hundred Flowers World. He also suspected Cui Yunzheng had leaked information about the place, leaving the group with a new lead to investigate.

• Meng De hesitated to rescue Wang Lan until Wang Lan claimed he knew who had killed Zheng Xuan.
• Li Changsheng explained that Wang Lan was a middle-to-lower-ranking descendant of the Taiyuan Wang Family and unlikely to be involved in the larger conflict.
• Wang Lan argued that Zheng Xuan could not have died in the explosion because his Yin Yang Gourd could protect him, then named Wang Yue as the killer.
• Wang Lan said he had seen Wang Yue go to the Hundred Flowers World around the time Zheng Xuan was killed.
• Wang Lan revealed a hidden passage near the Hundred Flowers World that Zheng Xuan had reserved for select visitors.
• Wang Lan said Wang Yue and Zheng Xuan had visited the Hundred Flowers World together and suspected Cui Yunzheng had leaked its location.

Li Changsheng and the others investigated Wang Lan’s knowledge of the Hundred Flowers World and reconsidered who had killed Zheng Xuan. Cui Yunzheng joined them, denied the murder, and revealed that he had suspected their plan through Lu Jun’s actions, leaving Lu Jun under suspicion as well.

• Wang Lan explained that he had built the Hundred Flowers World for Zheng Xuan and admitted he knew about it because Zheng Xuan had hired him.
• Long Aotian punched Wang Lan, and the group debated whether Cui Yunzheng, Wang Yue, or Wang Lan might have killed Zheng Xuan.
• Meng De concluded they could not identify the murderer until they uncovered more secrets and said rescuing Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow came first.
• Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun joined the group, and Cui Yunzheng denied killing Zheng Xuan when questioned.
• Cui Yunzheng said he had guessed the group's intentions by observing Lu Jun, then said Lu Jun was also under suspicion.

Wang Lan explained the Void Crack’s dangers and led the group in tracking Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow. After Meng De allowed some of Wang Lan’s restrictions to be lifted, Wang Lan used a special technique to reveal the three missing cultivators’ trajectories.

• Cui Yunzheng kicked Wang Lan awake and ordered him to guide the group through the Void Crack.
• Wang Lan explained how his family’s Magical Artifacts mapped the shifting Spatial Turbulence and warned that the group might become lost if they stayed too long.
• Wang Lan said he had explored as far as seven Small Worlds and two Great Worlds, and agreed to use his experience to locate Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow.
• Meng De agreed to remove half of Wang Lan’s restrictions, and Feng Ran and Lin Yao lifted them.
• Wang Lan scattered special powder and used his Divine Power to reveal that two of the missing trio had fallen into a Great World and the other into a Small World.

Baleful Shadow struggled to survive in the Small World and discovered that Jade Emperor's Soul Secret Method was really a method of Mind Cultivation, separating and mastering the Original Self, Self, and True Self. After understanding its purpose, he chose to unite with his other self rather than split his True Spirit, calming the spatial power around him.

• Meng De split the group, sending Long Aotian and Feng Ran with him to rescue the person in the Small World while the others headed to the Great World; Long Aotian took Wang Lan along despite his protests.
• Baleful Shadow repeatedly tried to comprehend the Space Law, but it severed his body and left him too weak to recover.
• In the special space, Baleful Shadow's glowing self explained that it was his True Self, manifested after he cultivated Jade Emperor's Soul Secret Method.
• Baleful Shadow realized the method was designed to help living beings master their beast nature, human nature, and divine nature, making it a method of Mind Cultivation.
• Baleful Shadow refused to split his True Spirit and instead merged with his other self, causing the spatial power to grow gentle.