Chapter Summaries

Feng Ran explained the Chang Sheng Epoch’s rules restraining high-level cultivators, prompting Cui Yunzheng to praise Li Changsheng for giving up his Virtual World qualification for the Pill Epoch’s future. Meanwhile, the Nine Splendors Emperor Lord killed a weaker quasi-emperor and called for the Imperial Tutor or the Undertaker.

• Feng Ran told Cui Yunzheng that high-level cultivators could seek battles in dangerous lands or arrange duels through the Heavenly Court, but large-scale harm to living beings could bring a capital offense.
• Feng Ran explained that Li Changsheng’s rules were recorded so future generations could judge those who made them, and said martial might had to be restrained for civilization to flourish.
• Cui Yunzheng praised Li Changsheng for prioritizing the Pill Epoch’s future over his Virtual World qualification, and he, Lu Jun, Cui Shuo, and Ning Bei bowed to him.
• Li Changsheng said he had given Shangguan the chance to pursue her goal, leaving her ashamed by the contrast between his ambitions and her own.
• The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord defeated and killed a Third Heaven Quasi-Emperor, then called for the Imperial Tutor and the Undertaker.
• A Paper figure appeared before the Nine Splendors Emperor Lord in the pitch-black special space.

Chen Changsheng helped Nine Splendors Emperor Lord recognize that Li Changsheng would carry forward the Emperor Lord’s youthful ideals, and the Emperor Lord chose to remain in the Nine Splendors World. He then gave the group seven days to study the Great Dao ranking and began training Shi Qi.

• Chen Changsheng told Nine Splendors Emperor Lord that Li Changsheng would continue the goal the Emperor Lord had once pursued and asked where he wished to be buried.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord chose the Nine Splendors World as his resting place, and Chen Changsheng’s paper figure vanished as the Emperor Lord left the special space.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord appeared before the group, invited them to study the Great Dao ranking for seven days, and said he would then send them away.
• After Shi Qi awoke from his injuries, Nine Splendors Emperor Lord offered to teach him and gave him a peach branch to replace the one destroyed in battle.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord handed Shi Qi a white-jade book of his cultivation insights, and Shi Qi began absorbing the Nine Splendors World’s Great Dao Law as the Emperor Lord departed, muttering, “Misleading the young!”

As Li Changsheng and the others comprehended Great Dao Laws, Ning Bei and the other prodigies discussed their uneasy sense that their cultivation did not truly belong to them. Nine Splendors Emperor Lord explained that their excessive potential had kept them from breaking their limits, and began showing how breakthroughs could increase their ability to comprehend.

• Li Changsheng comprehended the Great Dao of Wood as Lu Jun and Cui Shuo discussed his Five Elements and yin-yang Law Combination and his failed attempt to comprehend the complete Law of Life and Death.
• Ning Bei told Cui Shuo, Cui Yunzheng, and Lu Jun that he felt lost about his strength and feared he would perish if he faced a Quasi-Emperor lightning tribulation.
• Lu Jun said he and the others shared Ning Bei’s feeling and had tried seclusion and battles against equally gifted opponents to overcome it.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord arrived and said their feeling came from not giving their all, then used a bottle to illustrate how potential and limits affected cultivation.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord explained that breaking through personal limits increased a cultivator’s ability to learn and comprehend, while prodigies with oversized potential had never needed to break those limits.

During a Dao Debate, the Nine Splendors Emperor Lord argued that Lu Jun’s reliance on too many cultivation techniques would eventually hold him back, and Lu Jun contacted Lu Mingyu to verify the claim. Lu Mingyu admitted his own arrogance had trapped him at Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven for a hundred thousand years, while the Emperor Lord warned Lu Jun that he lacked the Immortal Emperor’s capacity to wait so long.

• The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord told Lu Jun that the Imperial Tutor’s teachings had hindered the Immortal Emperor and urged him to verify the claim directly.
• Lu Jun activated a special token and nervously asked Lu Mingyu whether he had encountered a bottleneck.
• Lu Mingyu confirmed that the Imperial Tutor had taught him too many divine abilities, and said his arrogance had delayed his entry into the Bitter Sea Great Emperor Realm by a hundred thousand years.
• Lu Mingyu said he had prepared to overcome the bottleneck and boasted that few people could challenge him even after he had given the world a hundred thousand years.
• After Lu Mingyu ended the call, Lu Jun insisted that his breakthrough would disprove the Emperor Lord, who replied that Lu Jun could not follow the Immortal Emperor’s path and challenged him to wait while others caught up.

Nine Splendors Emperor Lord challenged Lu Jun to stop fearing the Immortal Emperor and ask him for the Fighting Saint Technique. Lu Jun finally asked Lu Mingyu about learning it and declared himself the most suitable candidate, leaving Lu Mingyu silent.

• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord criticized Lu Jun for losing his courage whenever the Immortal Emperor was involved and urged him to pursue a goal he could face.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord told Lu Jun to ask the Immortal Emperor directly to teach him the Fighting Saint Technique, then called him a coward when he refused.
• Lu Jun contacted Lu Mingyu and complained that someone had called him a coward; Lu Mingyu told him to grow strong enough to retaliate.
• Lu Jun told Lu Mingyu that he wanted to learn the Fighting Saint Technique, and when Lu Mingyu questioned his qualification, Lu Jun insisted he was the most suitable candidate.

Lu Jun challenged Lu Mingyu and was promised the Fighting Saint Technique after enduring the Immortal Emperor’s test of courage. Nine Splendors Emperor Lord urged Ning Bei and the others to break through their bottlenecks by shattering their Great Daos, leaving Ning Bei under pressure to follow suit.

• Lu Jun challenged Lu Mingyu to take a move from him, and Lu Mingyu agreed to personally teach him the Fighting Saint Technique after a while.
• Lu Jun recovered from his shock three hours later, and Cui Yunzheng confirmed that the exchange with Lu Mingyu had been real.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord explained that surviving desperate circumstances could drive breakthroughs and advised Ning Bei and the others to disperse their cultivation and start anew.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord recounted how he had shattered his Sea of Bitterness, obtained the Second Springhead cultivation method, and rapidly defeated a powerful enemy.
• Cui Shuo shattered his nine Great Daos, and Cui Yunzheng followed suit.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord provoked Ning Bei to shatter his Great Daos too, but Ning Bei hesitated.

Nine Splendors Emperor Lord humiliated Ning Bei, shattered his nine Great Daos, and challenged him while suppressing his realm. As Ning Bei fought desperately, Cui Shuo stepped in to face the Emperor Lord, who raised his power to match him.

• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord dismissed Ning Bei's concerns about destroying his cultivation and mocked him and the Sword Sect.
• Ning Bei attacked, but Nine Splendors Emperor Lord gravely wounded him and shattered all nine of his Great Daos.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord lowered his aura to the peak of the Immortal Venerable Realm and fought Ning Bei, who resisted more fiercely.
• Cui Yunzheng urged Cui Shuo to help Ning Bei, and Cui Shuo struck Nine Splendors Emperor Lord hard enough to force him back two steps.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord raised his aura to the peak of the First Grade Immortal King and prepared to fight Cui Shuo, who charged with a powerful punch.

The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord defeated Ning Bei and Cui Shuo, then urged them to endure despair and keep growing. He recounted the three defeats that ended his pursuit of greater power and explained that Li Changsheng had given him hope for the Pill Epoch.

• The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord broke Ning Bei's sword and Cui Shuo's fist, then subdued both of them.
• Ning Bei admitted defeat, and the Emperor Lord warned him that overcoming despair was necessary to advance.
• The Emperor Lord praised Cui Shuo's fist and recalled how an unnamed man defeated him in the chaos, even after he raised his cultivation to the Sixth Heaven Quasi-Emperor realm.
• The Emperor Lord described visiting the Phoenix Empress, receiving two punches, and realizing that his relentless challenges could not change anything.
• The Emperor Lord returned to the Pill Epoch as a Third Heaven Quasi-Emperor and said Li Changsheng had given the place a sliver of hope.

The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord explained to Cui Shuo that he chose to help the Pill Epoch because its path suited his youthful spirit, and that he was willing to contend now that the Pill Epoch had hope. Meanwhile, Mo Bai sank deeper into a reincarnation dream as Desolate, and the Paper figure asked the Bodhi Tree to let Chen Changsheng in after revealing that the main body’s contingency had activated.

• The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord told Cui Shuo that he still pursued his youthful spirit and would contend for the Pill Epoch now that it had hope.
• In a dream, Desolate recalled that he was the strongest person on the Infinite Continent and prepared to hunt the Demon God Baleful Shadow with his companions.
• Desolate learned that no qilin existed on the Infinite Continent, then saw the ink-black qilin that had accompanied and guided him since childhood.
• At Heavenly Lotus Sacred Land, the Paper figure worried that Mo Bai was sinking too deeply into reincarnation, while the Bodhi Tree warned that the Paper figure’s repeated reincarnations had weakened it.
• The Paper figure told the Bodhi Tree that the main body’s contingency had activated and asked it to let Chen Changsheng in.

Dugu guarded Chen Changsheng as he entered reincarnation, while Chen Xiao killed the last of three Li Family Quasi-Emperors. In Nine Splendors World, Nine Splendors Emperor Lord sent the younger cultivators toward Green Mountain World and confronted seven Quasi-Emperors from the five aristocratic families, demanding that their hidden leader reveal himself.

• Dugu told the Bodhi Tree that he had agreed to guard Chen Changsheng's path and would avenge him if he failed; Chen Changsheng had fallen deep into reincarnation.
• Chen Xiao endured the last Li Family Quasi-Emperor's desperate attack and killed him with one palm.
• After seven days in Nine Splendors World, Nine Splendors Emperor Lord warned Feng Ran and the others about their weakened state and sent them away toward Green Mountain World.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord met seven Quasi-Emperors from the five aristocratic families, who demanded that he either kill the young cultivators or join their cause.
• Nine Splendors Emperor Lord rejected their demands and challenged them to bring out the person whose identity he wanted to know.

The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord refused the noble clans’ offer to stand aside and confronted their million-year-old powerhouse, Lu Fenghua, to protect Li Changsheng and the others. After escaping the Nine Splendors World, Shi Qi challenged Li Changsheng’s decision to leave their friend behind and asked him a question.

• The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord explained that Li Changsheng’s words had inspired him to help the younger cultivators, and he rejected the noble clans’ demand that he avoid supporting them.
• Lu Fenghua revealed that he belonged to the Fanyang Lu Clan and had fought Jiuhua a million years earlier because Jiuhua refused to submit to the noble clans.
• The Nine Splendors Emperor Lord asked Lu Fenghua to spare the Nine Splendors World, but Lu Fenghua refused and gave his name before facing him alone as the seven Quasi-Emperors surrounded the world.
• In the Space Channel, Shi Qi asked whether something had happened to the Nine Splendors Emperor Lord and questioned why they had to leave instead of returning to help him.
• Li Changsheng said that returning would lead to their deaths and prevent them from achieving their greater goals, and Shi Qi said he understood but had a question for him.

After Li Changsheng admitted he could not save Nine Splendors Emperor Lord, Lin Yao used his Virtual World request to secure a thousand years of protection for Nine Splendors World, forfeiting his qualification. His choice prompted Chen Xiao to change course for Nine Splendors World, while Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng investigated what had happened.

• Shi Qi asked Li Changsheng whether they had done everything they could, and Li Changsheng admitted he was powerless to avert Nine Splendors Emperor Lord's calamity.
• Lin Yao asked Ao Chuang to protect Nine Splendors World for a thousand years, and the Virtual World confirmed the request while revoking his qualification.
• Lin Yao explained that he chose to protect the world the Emperor Lord cared about, then stepped aside from the trials as Baleful Shadow reassured him.
• Chen Xiao received notice of Lin Yao's sacrifice and redirected himself toward Nine Splendors World.
• Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng received the notice, and Lu Mingyu used his authority to retrieve information about the events in Nine Splendors World.

Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu decided to protect the Nine Splendors World after accepting that they could not save Jiuhua. Jiuhua fought Lu Fenghua in the void, but Lu Fenghua overwhelmed him and left him badly injured.

• Chen Feng insisted on protecting Jiuhua, but Lu Mingyu told him Jiuhua could not be saved and might not need their protection.
• Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu agreed to protect the Nine Splendors World, then tore through space and left; Xuan Huo departed with the Jade Slip.
• Jiuhua attacked Lu Fenghua, who revealed that his true strength had reached the peak of the Destiny Emperor Realm.
• Lu Fenghua shattered Jiuhua's emerald world and sent him flying, while Jiuhua broke one of his Great Daos and caused the Nine Splendors World to decay.
• After ten thousand exchanges, Lu Fenghua destroyed Jiuhua's Green Bamboo Staff, then shattered his fist with the Heavenly Gang Hammer and struck him in the face.

Jiuhua fought Lu Fenghua to protect the Nine Splendors World while Chen Feng and his companions attacked the aristocratic Quasi-Emperors threatening it. Chen Feng stopped Chen Xiao from intervening in Jiuhua’s duel, and Chen Xiao understood the struggle as the New Era challenging the Old Era.

• Jiuhua burned his Great Dao to draw Lu Fenghua into a separate space and shield the Nine Splendors World from their battle.
• Chen Feng, Chen Xiao, the Phoenix Empress, Guan Ping, Qian Ya, and the Flying Dust Supreme arrived and attacked the aristocratic Quasi-Emperors, while Little White charged at them.
• Guan Ping trapped the six Quasi-Emperors in a furnace of Void Demon Flame, Qian Ya bombarded them with magical artifacts, and Chen Mengjie revealed that she had poisoned them.
• Hua Feng warned that Jiuhua might die within ten breaths, but Chen Feng argued that Jiuhua had chosen to defend the only home where he could remain free.
• Chen Xiao understood that Jiuhua’s duel represented the New Era of the Pill Epoch challenging the Old Era.

Nine Splendors died refusing rescue after losing to Lu Fenghua, declaring that the Pill Epoch needed a new era. Hua Feng killed six aristocratic-clan Quasi-Emperors and secured a thousand years of peace for the Nine Splendors World before leaving, while Chen Feng and Lu Fenghua remained on the Void Battlefield.

• Lu Fenghua defeated Nine Splendors, who refused Hua Feng's intervention and declared that reform in the Pill Epoch required bloodshed.
• Lu Fenghua destroyed Nine Splendors' Bitter Sea and Divine Sense, and Nine Splendors died after remembering his former self, Liang Xianhe, and wondering whether the Pill Epoch could have a new era.
• Hua Feng froze time and killed the six aristocratic-clan Quasi-Emperors with one punch.
• Hua Feng declared that the Nine Splendors World would have a thousand years of peace, then left with Guan Ping and the others.
• Chen Xiao vowed to kill Lu Fenghua someday and left the battlefield, leaving Chen Feng and Lu Fenghua alone.

Chen Feng struck at Lu Fenghua after realizing why his teacher and Lu Mingyu had tried to keep him away from the great houses. Meanwhile, Lu Mingyu fought five great-family foundations and entered the soul state, while Baleful Shadow and the others recognized the breakthrough; Yun Ya Zi learned that Lu Fenghua had died.

• Chen Feng explained that he had realized the great houses restrained the Pill Epoch, then cut Lu Fenghua with a sword strike while standing beside Nine Splendors Emperor Lord's corpse.
• Lu Mingyu confronted five great-family foundations and said he would bear the charge of destroying his ancestors.
• Lu Mingyu used his Giant Cauldron and divine abilities to hold off the five foundations, then broke through into the soul state.
• Baleful Shadow identified the breakthrough as entry into the soul state, and Shi Qi said the fighter was on the verge of a major advance.
• Yun Ya Zi lamented that Lu Fenghua had lost his life, and a paper figure warned him to stop standing by.

Chen Changsheng’s contingency urged Yun Ya Zi to intervene in the Pill Epoch’s escalating conflict, and Yun Ya Zi agreed after Chen promised to lead his horse and bear his whip. Yun Ya Zi reached the battlefield where Lu Fenghua was badly wounded and confronted him.

• Yun Ya Zi destroyed Chen Changsheng’s paper figure, but another appeared and played Chen Changsheng’s recorded message.
• Chen Changsheng’s recording praised Yun Ya Zi’s rise from Loose Cultivator to Pill Tower Master and argued that he had once been the Pill Epoch’s Number One Under Heaven.
• Chen Changsheng asked Yun Ya Zi to stabilize the Pill Epoch while Lu Mingyu fought the great family experts, but Yun Ya Zi initially refused.
• Chen Changsheng promised to personally lead Yun Ya Zi’s horse and bear his whip, persuading Yun Ya Zi to intervene.
• Yun Ya Zi crossed to Chen Feng and Lu Fenghua’s battlefield, where he found Lu Fenghua covered in wounds and rebuked him for believing the great families stood above all else.

Chen Feng prepared to kill Lu Fenghua while Yun Ya Zi left to intervene in the battle between the Immortal Emperor and the five clans’ hidden powerhouses. As Li Changsheng’s group reached Green Mountain World, Wang Hao’s attack created an opening, but Baleful Shadow was intercepted by the Eighth Sage King, Cui Hongyuan.

• Yun Ya Zi confronted Lu Fenghua over Jiuhua’s deaths, then asked Chen Feng to spare him until Yun Ya Zi returned; Chen Feng refused to promise and drew his sword.
• Lu Mingyu fought the five clans’ hidden powerhouses in the Void Battlefield, and Yun Ya Zi charged in to help.
• Li Changsheng and his companions reached Green Mountain World but were surrounded by the clans’ experts.
• Wang Hao attacked the clans’ forces with his blood sea, giving Li Changsheng’s group a chance to charge toward Green Mountain World.
• The Eighth Sage King, Cui Hongyuan, intercepted Baleful Shadow, who fought back with the Phoenix Winged Golden Rake; Cui Hongyuan forbade the other clans’ experts from interfering.

Baleful Shadow and Shangguan reached the Green Mountain World as the aristocratic families sent more cultivators into it. In Heavenly Lotus Sacred Land’s Dream, Desolate recovered his memories as Mo Bai and emerged from Reincarnation after confronting the gods and devils.

• Baleful Shadow transformed into a Qiongqi, fought Cui Hongyuan, and flew toward the Green Mountain World while Cui Hongyuan pursued him.
• Shangguan broke through the encirclement, and the restriction around the Green Mountain World vanished as cultivators below the Emperor Realm were allowed to enter.
• An aristocratic family higher-up ordered cultivators above Immortal King Third Grade to enter the Green Mountain World, setting more than a hundred Immortal Kings on course for devastating losses.
• In Dream, Desolate’s wounded companion urged him to become one with the Dao and repair the seal, but the Ink Kirin showed him an image of a man fighting the three thousand gods and devils.
• Desolate took the giant axe, killed the gods and devils, and remembered that his true name was Mo Bai.
• Mo Bai faced the remaining Desolate and Immortal, struck with the axe, and emerged from Reincarnation as the world shattered.

Mo Bai carved out the Great Dao of the axe, while Dugu and the Bodhi Tree discussed its impact and the Sword God's claim on the sword path. In the Void Battlefield, Yun Ya Zi separated the fighting sides and warned the Lu Family elders and Lu Mingyu against escalating the conflict.

• Mo Bai awakened and carved out the Great Dao of the axe, which Dream merged into the Epoch Heaven's Mandate and made available to axe-wielding cultivators.
• Dugu explained that living beings could create new Great Daos, then found that the Sword God's sword had already claimed the Great Dao of the sword.
• A mighty Sword Qi swept through the Pill Epoch and snapped a Bodhi Tree branch, which Dugu took to make an axe handle for Mo Bai.
• Yun Ya Zi separated the combatants in the Void Battlefield and urged the Lu Family's hidden elders to wait until the person undergoing reincarnation awoke.
• Yun Ya Zi warned Lu Mingyue that Chen Feng was approaching with his sword and that an Epoch War could destroy the Pill Epoch.
• Yun Ya Zi rebuked Lu Mingyu for mishandling the crisis while Chen Changsheng was absent.