Chapter Summaries

Mo Bai and Cui Shuo’s four-day battle was interrupted when Li Changsheng, Zhang Ling, Lin Yao, Cui Yunzheng, and Lu Jun arrived in the Great World. After replenishing their strength, Mo Bai and Cui Shuo prepared to resume their fight, while Lu Jun proposed changing how they settled the contest.

• Mo Bai and Cui Shuo fought for four days and nights until both were exhausted, but neither had won.
• Li Changsheng, Zhang Ling, Lin Yao, Cui Yunzheng, and Lu Jun entered the Great World, and Cui Yunzheng persuaded Cui Shuo to pause the battle.
• Li Changsheng gave Mo Bai Divine Source, then Cui Yunzheng and Lu Jun provided fifty-five million Source Pills to help restore his strength.
• Mo Bai transformed into his Qilin form and swallowed the Source Pills, rapidly recovering his Divine Power while Cui Shuo healed with immortal pills.
• Cui Shuo offered Mo Bai three moves for waiting while he healed, but Mo Bai refused and asked him to attack at full strength.
• Lu Jun said the group had little time in the dangerous Void Crack and suggested changing how they would settle the contest.

Lu Jun fought Mo Bai under agreed terms and initially overwhelmed him with his speed, lightning, and a lightning avatar. Mo Bai revealed a powerful qilin phenomenon strengthened by an incomplete cultivation method, leaving the fight raging as the others discussed its immense power and weaknesses.

• Lu Jun accepted the challenge against Mo Bai under terms that allowed five hours for a decisive result and prohibited a fight to the death.
• Lu Jun dodged Mo Bai’s opening sword strike with Unimpeded Step and countered with a blow to Mo Bai’s back.
• Lu Jun used lightning and a lightning avatar to suppress Mo Bai, sever his right hand, and demand that he use his true skill.
• Mo Bai healed his hand and summoned a golden qilin phenomenon from the Bitter Sea, strengthening it with verses from an unfathomable scripture.
• Lu Jun’s lightning avatar and Mo Bai’s qilin clashed as Cui Shuo explained that Mo Bai’s incomplete cultivation method was powerful but consumed enormous divine power.

A mysterious woman attacked the damaged Great World and unleashed a catastrophic wave of Spatial Turbulence. Zhang Ling’s group formed the Five Elements Reversal Formation to survive, and Cui Yunzheng located the woman and offered a choice between retreating safely or pursuing her into the Void Crack; everyone chose to pursue.

• A crystal-covered woman struck the damaged Great World, then ignited the Void Crack and plunged into the Spatial Turbulence despite attacks from Cui Shuo, Cui Yunzheng, Lu Jun, and Mo Bai.
• Zhang Ling organized the survivors into the Five Elements Reversal Formation, with Li Changsheng supporting it through his Yin Yang Great Dao.
• Spatial Rifts tore through the formation’s barrier and fragmented Lin Yao and Lu Jun, but Zhang Ling’s formation reassembled them and shifted the fighters to the front.
• Lin Yao and Cui Shuo endured the next wave of Spatial Turbulence before Zhang Ling rotated Cui Yunzheng into the front position.
• Cui Yunzheng revealed six halos and drew power through Zhang Ling, who began bleeding under the strain.
• Cui Yunzheng said he had found the woman and offered the group a choice between retreating safely or pursuing her into the Void Crack, and everyone chose to pursue.

Cui Yunzheng combined the power of the geniuses and used Mo Bai’s Carved Bow to badly wound the crystal-bodied woman, but she survived and fled. As the group discussed her attack and agreed she was dangerous, the bow released a sudden beam of light that seemed to be Imperial Tutor’s first small gift.

• Cui Yunzheng asked the wounded geniuses to lend him their powers, and they helped stabilize and strengthen him as he prepared to attack the woman.
• Mo Bai gave Cui Yunzheng the Carved Bow, and Cui Yunzheng fired a series of Light Arrows that pierced the woman and shattered much of her crystal body.
• The woman suppressed her injuries and escaped, leaving Cui Yunzheng stunned that she had survived the attack.
• Mo Bai explained that he and Baleful Shadow had only injured the woman in an ambush, and the group agreed they would need to find a way to kill her if they met again.
• A beam of light suddenly shot from the Carved Bow, and the group recognized it as Imperial Tutor’s first small gift.

Mo Bai and the others found the Imperial Tutor’s first hidden gift, the Sage’s Manuscript, while Chen Changsheng rescued Wang Lan and his companions from a collapsing Small World. Chen Changsheng took the manuscript before the gathered prodigies could decide what to do with it.

• After the previous battle ended without a victor, Mo Bai chose to search for the gift before fighting again, and the group followed the Carved Bow’s directions.
• Trapped in a collapsing Small World, Wang Lan, Long Aotian, Meng De, and the others prepared to risk a dangerous escape, but Chen Changsheng and Lu Mingyu appeared and transported them away.
• Li Changsheng, Zhang Ling, Mo Bai, Lu Jun, Cui Shuo, and Cui Yunzheng reached the Great World where the gift was hidden.
• Cui Yunzheng and the others opened the box and discovered a page of Ancient Texts, which they recognized as the Sage’s Manuscript.
• Chen Changsheng reached into the box first, picked up the manuscript, and teased the four prodigies as they bowed to him.

Chen Changsheng revealed that spatial turbulence in the Void Crack had caused time to pass differently, leaving two years gone in the outside world while only a few days passed for the group. As the Immortal Emperor prepared to send them out, Mo Bai offered the others the Chang Sheng Epoch’s goodwill and asked them to leave a manuscript with Li Changming.

• Chen Changsheng taught the group about time and space laws, then asked what they had overlooked in the Void Crack.
• Meng De recalled that space could affect time and realized the Void Crack’s spatial rampage had changed the flow of time around them.
• Chen Changsheng told the group that two years had passed outside and that the Immortal Emperor would send them out after they had time to adjust.
• Mo Bai offered his Carved Bow and manuscript to Cui Yunzheng and the others as a gesture of goodwill from the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Cui Yunzheng accepted the bundle and agreed to a future fair fight with Mo Bai.
• Mo Bai asked Cui Yunzheng to leave the manuscript with Li Changming because the Li Family wanted the Supreme Sage’s relics and Mo Bai owed Li Changming a favor.

Chen Changsheng assessed the group after they agreed to give Cui Yunzheng the Sage's Manuscript, warning them about the dangers of the Cultivation World and judging their performance in the trials. He praised several people and criticized others, but left Mo Bai without an evaluation after mocking him.

• Cui Yunzheng asked Chen Changsheng whether he had orchestrated events, and Chen Changsheng explained that the Cultivation World had no trials, only struggles where the weak became chess pieces or died.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Shuo that his fist technique needed a worthy opponent and offered to teach him Ask the Heavens if he won first place in the third trial and defeated him.
• Cui Shuo said he wanted to kill an Immortal Emperor with one punch, and Chen Changsheng encouraged his ambition by explaining the origins of Ask the Heavens.
• Chen Changsheng praised Meng De, Li Changsheng, Zhang Ling, Baleful Shadow, and Long Aotian, but criticized Feng Ran and Lin Yao for failing to improve since the Academy.
• Chen Changsheng passed over Mo Bai without evaluating him and mocked him for willingly degenerating, leaving Mo Bai panicked.

Chen Changsheng chastised Mo Bai for lacking ambition, while Lu Mingyu gave Baleful Shadow the Flawless Imperial Scripture and sent him and the others away. Lu Mingyu then admitted he was desperate for a worthy opponent, and Chen Changsheng struggled to find anyone who could challenge him.

• Chen Changsheng told Mo Bai that he had disappointed him by making no progress, leaving Mo Bai stunned.
• Lu Mingyu ignored Lu Jun’s hesitant question and gave Baleful Shadow the Flawless Imperial Scripture, instructing him to melt it down for an emperor weapon if he reached the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven.
• Lu Mingyu sent everyone out of the Void Crack, and Chen Changsheng returned and explained that he had only meant to spur the younger generation on.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Changsheng he could now regularly activate his soul state and wanted a powerful opponent to pursue.
• Chen Changsheng suggested Yun Ya Zi and the founder of the Lu Family, but Lu Mingyu questioned whether either could suppress him for long.

Chen Changsheng entrusted Lu Mingyu with the dangerous work ahead, while Li Changsheng and the others returned from the Void Crack and learned that the Pill Epoch had been thrown into turmoil. Li Changsheng discovered that the Tiger Guard had fought the aristocratic clans and that the Clan Leaders had begun stripping branch elders of their positions and cutting off descendants’ resources.

• Chen Changsheng accepted Lu Mingyu’s offer to protect him and decided to rest while his disciple acted without restraints.
• Cui Yunzheng parted ways with the group, and Mo Bai left to be alone; Meng De encouraged the remaining prodigies before leading them toward the Li Family’s territory.
• Li Changsheng questioned Li Hao, who explained that the aristocratic clans had fought the Tiger Guard after it blocked their attempt to enter the Void Crack.
• Li Hao reported that eight Tiger Guards and two Centurions had died, while the aristocratic clans lost four Quasi-Emperors and twenty-seven Immortal Kings.
• Li Hao told Li Changsheng that the Clan Leaders had dismissed senior branch and main-line figures and limited how many generations of descendants could receive resources.

Li Hao explained how the Aristocratic Clan’s new rules threatened his branch and reported that the clan’s internal strife had drawn in the four sects and the Pill Domain. He also revealed that powerful Heaven’s Chosen from the Chang Sheng Epoch had arrived to avenge earlier defeats, including two Buddhist Kingdom Buddhas whose strength surprised the group.

• Li Hao pleaded with Li Changsheng to protect his branch from the new Clan Rules, explaining that they had supported themselves and only wanted protection from the dangers of the Cultivation World.
• Meng De asked Li Hao what had happened during the group’s absence, and Li Hao said the Aristocratic Clan’s internal conflict had pulled in the four sects and the Pill Domain.
• Li Hao reported that Chang Sheng Epoch Heaven’s Chosen had crossed over to avenge their people, naming Lu Zijian, Cao Mingxian, True Meaning, and Faxian among them.
• Li Hao described several arriving divine beast cultivators, and Long Aotian identified them as members of the Chongming Bird, Tengshe, and Nine-tailed Fox clans.
• Zhang Ling explained that Lu Zijian and Cao Mingxian were Daoist Sect experts nearing the Quasi-Emperor Realm, while Lin Yao revealed that True Meaning and Faxian were Buddhist Kingdom Buddhas at Immortal King Ninth Grade.

Meng De pressed Li Changsheng to choose how to address the conflict between reform and the aristocratic families, and Li Changsheng admitted he had a way to break the deadlock but refused to reveal it. Chen Changsheng then gave Li Changsheng full authority over the Pill Epoch, leaving him to decide his own course.

• Li Hao told Meng De that Jin Tu had won a decisive battle among three Humble Origins disciples and appeared to possess a Virtual World qualification.
• Meng De dismissed everyone except Li Changsheng and urged him to consider his cultivation and decide how to respond to the turmoil.
• Li Changsheng argued that either supporting or rejecting reform would cost the lives of people he cared about, then refused to disclose his plan for breaking the deadlock.
• Meng De contacted Chen Changsheng through the Virtual World and asked him to hear Li Changsheng's questions.
• Li Changsheng asked to protect some people and ease tensions among the aristocratic families, and Chen Changsheng readily offered to fulfill his requests.
• Chen Changsheng handed decision-making power in the Pill Epoch to Li Changsheng and told him to choose his own course without blaming Chen Changsheng.

Li Changsheng explained how the aristocratic families could outlast Sir’s reforms by exploiting family ties and eventually restoring their power. He said the deadlock could only be broken by destroying the clans’ ability to recover and driving surviving members to the Chang Sheng Epoch, leaving the need for someone within the families to lead the way.

• After ending his call with Chen Changsheng, Li Changsheng grieved and told Meng De that the aristocratic families’ infighting was a counterattack designed to ensure they survived whichever side won.
• Li Changsheng explained that even strict clan rules would eventually fail as people found ways to support relatives outside the rules and build cycles of mutual benefit.
• He told Meng De that the aristocratic families had deliberately exposed their flaws and rebelled so Sir would purge some members, implement the new rules, and then stop targeting them.
• Li Changsheng said blood ties would always make it difficult for Sir to eradicate the families without appearing unjust, allowing them to rise again.
• Li Changsheng proposed killing the families’ prodigies and capable members, supporting rival forces, and driving survivors to the Chang Sheng Epoch; he said someone from within the aristocratic families would have to lead the plan.
• Meng De observed that betraying one’s family and kin would bring immense suffering, and Li Changsheng replied that death would be the greatest release.

Li Changsheng decided to dissolve the Longxi Li Clan and end the aristocratic clans’ inherited privileges, though he struggled with the burden of choosing an uncertain future for the Pill Epoch. His younger brother Li Chun opposed the plan and stormed off to report it to the Ancestral Tomb.

• Meng De encouraged Li Changsheng to accept responsibility for dismantling the aristocratic clans, admitting that he himself had once been at his wits’ end while leading the team.
• Li Changsheng resolved to gather the others and explain his plans for the Pill Epoch.
• Li Changsheng introduced his younger brother Li Chun, the head of the Li Family’s collateral branch, and asked whether he supported him.
• Li Chun said he supported the new Clan Rules but urged Li Changsheng to enforce them only from the current generation onward.
• Li Changsheng revealed that he intended to dissolve the entire Longxi Li Clan and expose its hidden wrongdoings.
• Li Chun angrily accused Li Changsheng of destroying their family, then left to report him to the Ancestral Tomb.

Li Changsheng set out for the Cui family Ancestral Tomb while Cui Hao Yu confirmed that the ancestors refused to abandon aristocratic families. The chapter left the Pill Epoch's fate in the hands of its younger generation and ended with Sword Master Chen Feng reuniting with Chen Changsheng.

• Li Changsheng told Meng De to carry out their plan if he did not return within five days, then left for the Ancestral Tomb and the family.
• Cui Hao Yu asked the Cui family ancestors to leave the Pill Epoch, but they refused and insisted aristocratic families must endure.
• Cui Hao Yu said Chen Changsheng and the Tiger Guard would not take part in the cleansing, leaving the younger generation to decide whether aristocratic families should exist.
• Sword Master Chen Feng arrived at the standoff between the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Pill Epoch, wounded a hidden Seventh Heaven Quasi-Emperor with his sword qi, and warned the experts not to provoke him.
• Chen Feng located Chen Changsheng, opened a path through Hundun, and went to meet him for wine.

Chen Feng reunited with Chen Changsheng after a difficult journey and discussed whether powerful cultivators should be killed or isolated to protect ordinary beings. Chen Changsheng explained why both approaches could create new injustices, leaving Chen Feng still uncertain about how to restrain the strong.

• Chen Feng arrived to drink with Chen Changsheng, who asked about the hardships he had endured while traveling.
• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that Dream had agreed to release people under certain conditions, but Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu had to remain in the Pill Epoch, and Chen Feng accepted.
• Chen Feng praised Chen Changsheng and said that the worlds he had visited were alike in how powerful figures harmed ordinary beings.
• Chen Feng asked whether all strong ones should be killed or isolated, and Chen Changsheng warned that killing them would only bring temporary peace while new strong ones would eventually emerge.
• Chen Changsheng explained that isolation and rules could also cause conflict and injustice, and Chen Feng could not answer his example about the bloodshed caused by high-level cultivators.

Chen Changsheng explained to Chen Feng why he wanted to reform the Pill Epoch rather than eliminate its powerful factions, then asked him to protect a group of young people and help him enter the contest for Number One Under Heaven. Chen Feng agreed to hold Lu Mingyu back, while Lu Mingyu prepared to find a weapon for their coming clash.

• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that eliminating all powerful people would be impossible and unjust, and that the epochs needed systems allowing the powerful and ordinary beings to coexist.
• Chen Changsheng showed Chen Feng records indicating that the Pill Epoch and Chang Sheng Epoch had reduced wars through their respective rules and operational logic.
• Chen Changsheng said he planned to reform the Pill Epoch and its aristocratic clans, and that he had entrusted the effort to a group of young people.
• Chen Changsheng asked Chen Feng to protect those young people and help him enter the contest for Number One Under Heaven, explaining that Lu Mingyu had other duties.
• Chen Feng agreed to protect Chen Changsheng and keep Lu Mingyu from interfering, while Lu Mingyu decided to prepare a suitable weapon.

Lu Mingyu explained to Guan Ping why he wanted to challenge their teacher, detailing the teacher’s vast mastery and the preparations behind his battle against Old Man Yao. He concluded that the teacher had transplanted the Supreme Bone and double pupils for specific purposes and prepared the Heaven and Earth Profound Embryo to bear the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate.

• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping that their teacher had mastered many arts, including fist techniques and the Soul Secret Method, despite his low cultivation level.
• Lu Mingyu argued that their teacher’s ambitions lay beyond cultivation and recalled how quickly he had advanced through world-shaking events, including the battle against Old Man Yao.
• Guan Ping recounted that their teacher had gathered the Heaven and Earth Profound Embryo, double pupils, Supreme Bone, Artificial Chaos Body, Epoch Heaven’s Mandate, and the Uncanny’s power to face the mastermind behind the scenes.
• Lu Mingyu rejected the idea that these advantages alone explained the teacher’s strength and proposed that the Supreme Bone raised his momentum, the double pupils helped him see hidden dangers, and the Heaven and Earth Profound Embryo was meant to bear the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate.

Lu Mingyu explained to Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng’s strength came from his own mastery of laws and cultivation, not the body he had prepared to fight Old Man Yao. He planned to complete his Great Dao, forge a weapon to face Chen Feng, and challenge a Heavenly Dao Society smith for help.

• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng had mastered the Spacetime Law and integrated the strengths of numerous supreme experts into his cultivation.
• Lu Mingyu said Chen Changsheng still needed Chen Feng’s Dao, Lu Mingyu’s Fighting Saint Technique insights, and the final piece of the Soul Secret Method to complete his Great Dao.
• Lu Mingyu explained that he had given Chen Changsheng his cultivation insights and had arranged for Chen Feng to be an obstacle that would make Chen Changsheng fight him seriously.
• Guan Ping offered to help, and Lu Mingyu asked her to prepare immortal gold so he could have a weapon forged to withstand Chen Feng’s sword.
• Lu Mingyu said he planned to enlist a top-tier smith from the Heavenly Dao Society by beating him into cooperation.

Li Changsheng returned to the Longxi Li Clan and argued with its leader, Li Ziming, over his determination to disband the family. He left the discussion still committed to dismantling the Li Family and every aristocratic clan in the Pill Epoch.

• Li Changsheng returned to the Li Family's ancestral lands and entered the Ancestral Tomb to meet Li Ziming.
• Li Ziming explained that the elders preserved their lives to protect the clan during periods when its younger generations lacked capable leaders.
• Li Ziming revealed that the clan had anticipated a rebellion against its new rules and had already taken the rebel descendants into custody.
• Li Ziming told Li Changsheng that the Li Family supported the Imperial Tutor's plan and asked whether he still meant to disband the clan.
• Li Changsheng insisted that he would use the Li Family's strength against other aristocratic clans before disbanding it, but Li Ziming challenged his reasoning.
• Li Changsheng declared that he would eventually disband the Li Family and all aristocratic clans and powerful houses in the Pill Epoch.

Chen Changsheng returned the Supreme Sage’s calligraphy to Li Ziming and urged him to let Li Changsheng lead the Li Family’s renewal. After the mysterious figure agreed to stay out of the family’s affairs until the fifth trial ended, Chen Changsheng accepted a final confrontation then.

• Li Ziming told Li Changsheng to leave and promised an answer if he survived the next hour.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Ziming he would spare the Li Family where possible, then returned the calligraphy left by Scholar.
• Li Ziming recognized the Supreme Sage’s warning about planning for the whole and understood its relevance to the Pill Epoch’s stalemate.
• Chen Changsheng argued that only someone within the great clans could lead them through the painful reforms, and said Li Changsheng’s resolve mattered more than his cultivation.
• Chen Feng warned the mysterious figure not to advance, while Chen Changsheng said Li Changsheng and the younger generation would decide the Pill Epoch’s future.
• The mysterious figure agreed not to interfere in the Li Family’s affairs until the fifth trial ended, and Chen Changsheng agreed to settle their accounts then.