Chapter Summaries

Lu Mingyu tried to stop Chen Feng from attacking the five great families’ hidden reserves, explaining that killing them could spark a war with the Heavenly Dao Society and Dream. Chen Feng learned that the five leaders were protected while their supporters served as cannon fodder, but he refused to let them escape responsibility, and Lu Mingyu invoked his authority to forbid the attack.

• Lu Mingyu left the aristocratic clans’ hidden reserves after warning Lu Mingyue that their destruction could not be prevented, and Yun Ya Zi told the reserves the outcome would soon be decided.
• Lu Mingyu stopped Chen Feng in the void and argued that attacking the hidden reserves could devastate the Pill Epoch and cause heavy casualties.
• Lu Mingyu revealed that Dream and the Heavenly Dao Society would protect the five leaders, and that Teacher’s reform plan relied on preserving them while dismantling the clans around them.
• Chen Feng concluded that the five leaders had knowingly let their supporters die as cannon fodder because they expected to survive regardless of the outcome.
• Chen Feng refused to spare the five leaders, insisting they must pay for the deaths caused by their choice, while Lu Mingyu warned him the plan would fail and forbade him to act.

Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu put aside their quarrel after the Sword Spirit intervened, while Chen Changsheng sent cultivators into Green Mountain World to sail the dangerous Endless Sea for a trial reward. Baleful Shadow survived a fall by redirecting himself to an island, then discovered he could knock other falling cultivators into the sea.

• The Sword Spirit stopped Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu from fighting, and they apologized before agreeing to share a drink.
• Chen Feng asked whether the foundations of the five great clans could be killed, and Lu Mingyu said he would wait for an opportunity.
• Chen Changsheng announced the third trial in Green Mountain World, where cultivators had to sail across the Endless Sea to find a hidden reward.
• Cui Yunzheng explained that the sea had submerged the world’s continent and grown so crushingly heavy that even Immortal King Realm cultivators could die in it.
• Li Changsheng urged the group to build ships from the prepared mulberry wood.
• Baleful Shadow redirected his fall onto an island, then attacked other falling cultivators and sent them into the sea.

Baleful Shadow warned Li Changsheng that Green Mountain World's flight-restriction formation could leave arriving cultivators vulnerable, so Li Changsheng and the others built ships and put to sea. In a porcelain bottle, Long Aotian awakened within his Essence Blood, and Chen Changsheng cautioned him about the dangers of tampering with genes and described a powerful figure who could reincarnate through his descendants.

• Baleful Shadow told Li Changsheng that cultivators entering Green Mountain World would be suppressed in flight and could be knocked into the sea.
• Li Changsheng understood the plan and joined the others in building crude vessels and going to sea as Immortal King Realm cultivators descended from the sky.
• Long Aotian awakened inside a tiny blood-red world contained in a porcelain bottle and realized that only a wisp of his Essence Blood remained.
• Chen Changsheng warned Long Aotian not to touch the spiral source of power and explained that altering or combining genes could turn him into a monster.
• Chen Changsheng described a powerhouse who used his bloodline to take over descendants from within, and said that even slaughtering an entire epoch could not eliminate him.
• Long Aotian asked how powerful the bloodline immortal was, and Chen Changsheng answered that his cultivation was very high.

Chen Changsheng explained the limits of Long Aotian’s physical cultivation and sent him to seek a Great Emperor breakthrough method from Sin. At Heavenly Lotus Sacred Land, Sin arrived while Chen Changsheng comprehended Reincarnation, and Dugu prepared to fight him and the other Heavenly Dao Society experts.

• Chen Changsheng told Long Aotian that his physical path could reach Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven but would hit a bottleneck below the Great Emperor Realm.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Sin, one of the Pill Domain’s nine Legendary Pill Masters, might know the method for breaking that bottleneck, and urged Long Aotian to obtain a coveted treasure in the third trial to bargain with him.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that he had instructed Li Chengyu to hold back when he attacked Long Aotian, then vanished after warning Long Aotian to take care of himself.
• Mo Bai, Zhou Jingting, and the others left Heavenly Lotus Sacred Land for Green Mountain World after Mo Bai comprehended the Dao.
• Sin appeared before Chen Changsheng as he comprehended Reincarnation and challenged Dugu, who rose to fight the Heavenly Dao Society experts.

Chen Changsheng confronted Sin and the Heavenly Dao Society as they moved to kill him, while Dream intervened to stop them. The chapter ended with Sin unable to strike Chen Changsheng, who taunted him and told Dream that the Society feared him more.

• Sin ordered two Heavenly Dao Society members to hold off Dugu and the Ten Thousand Years Bodhi Tree while he killed Chen Changsheng.
• Dream appeared and forbade Sin from killing Chen Changsheng, prompting Sin to challenge Dream's authority and strength.
• A clone of Chen Changsheng stepped out of his true body and warned Sin that allies and safeguards in other epochs could protect him.
• Chen Changsheng provoked Sin and challenged him to strike, threatening to turn the Pill Epoch into a wasteland if he died.
• Sin placed his hand on Chen Changsheng's head but could not strike, and Chen Changsheng knocked his hand away and told Dream that Sin feared him.

Chen Changsheng explained how the Virtual World’s rules could restrain most powerful beings, then revealed a God-Slaying Weapon that briefly stalled the Heavenly Dao Society members’ cultivation. Dream confirmed that Chen’s methods let him kill Sin in three years rather than three thousand, and Chen warned that he had other weapons in reserve.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Virtual World would impose new restraints on powerful beings, though those able to flip the table would remain beyond them.
• Dream told Sin that external forces had strengthened his authority and that, with help, he could wipe out the Heavenly Dao Society without injury.
• Dream said Chen Changsheng’s methods reduced the time needed to kill Sin from three thousand years to three years.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had shared the God-Slaying Weapon concept with Dream and described its strategies for killing powerful cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng opened an empty porcelain bottle, activating a weapon planted in the Society members that briefly stalled their cultivation.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Dream had dispersed the weapon among the Society members and warned that he still had other God-Slaying Weapons.

Chen Changsheng exposed the Heavenly Dao Society members who opposed Dream and forced them to give up their authority without fighting. Afterward, he told Dugu he wanted Shi Qi out of the Pill Epoch to keep him from becoming one of his Chess Pieces, and reflected on Ye Yu’s death and the difficulty of saving everyone.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he and Dream had lured the rebellious Heavenly Dao Society members into revealing themselves, and warned Sin that continuing the fight would bring overwhelming forces against them.
• Dream left the confrontation, and Chen Changsheng persuaded Sin to accept the loss of his authority rather than risk a war.
• After Sin vanished, Chen Changsheng asked Dugu to keep guarding him and said he wanted to drive Shi Qi out of the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Shi Qi could be drawn into his schemes and become a Chess Piece, and recalled Ye Yu’s sacrifice and the rebuke he had received over Wang Hao and Ye Yu.
• Dugu cited a Buddhist saying about being unable to have both devotion and a beloved, and Chen Changsheng challenged its relevance to his situation.

Chen Changsheng heard Dugu argue that he could not save everyone while holding on to personal desires, then withdrew without revealing his thoughts. In the Endless Sea, the group finished building five ships and split up to pursue the third trial’s reward, leaving Li Changsheng and Shi Qi behind to fish and attack the great clans’ followers.

• Dugu urged Chen Changsheng to give up his selfish desires if he wanted to save all living beings, and Chen Changsheng returned to his true body without replying.
• Lin Yao and Feng Ran discussed their recent success killing Immortal Kings before Li Changsheng called everyone back to the island, where five ships were ready.
• Shangguan and Ning Bei each took a ship and departed, while Li Changsheng asked the remaining group to discuss the two Virtual World qualifications.
• Lu Jun and Cui Yunzheng declined a qualification, and Cui Shuo agreed to help Feng Ran’s Wood Demon Tribe fight the Demon Race Alliance in exchange for Feng Ran’s qualification.
• Baleful Shadow set sail alone to seek the third trial’s reward, and Li Changsheng told Shi Qi they would fish and kill the great clans’ followers.

Meng De welcomed reinforcements from the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Greenwood Epoch, then introduced the Academy’s War and Strategy expert, Liu Zhenxi, to Wang Lan. Liu Zhenxi began outlining a new military system designed for the Pill Epoch’s struggling forces.

• Meng De found reports confirming that reinforcements from the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Greenwood Epoch would arrive at the Pill Epoch.
• Meng De told Wang Lan that the reinforcements included seventy-two Ten Thousand Races Academy students, thirty thousand Greenwood Epoch cultivators, and two sixth-level Quasi-Emperors from the Dragon and Phoenix Clans.
• Wang Lan doubted the reinforcements could turn the tide, but Meng De explained that the Academy students specialized in War and Strategy and could change how they fought.
• Meng De and Wang Lan welcomed Liu Zhenxi, a graduate of the Academy’s War and Strategy Department, who said his group had devised a plan for their situation.
• Liu Zhenxi presented a new operational military system whose combat backbone would be six prodigies, each leading an assault team and able to fight reliably above their cultivation level.

Liu Zhenxi explained campaign-level and tactical army structures designed to restrain enemy geniuses and support large forces. Wang Lan worried there were not enough auxiliary cultivators, but Meng De revealed that Greenwood Epoch had an abundant reserve ready to join the war.

• Liu Zhenxi outlined a campaign army’s six core members and sixty-six auxiliary cultivators, explaining that specialists in formations, healing, talismans, and artifacts would sustain the force and support conventional troops.
• Wang Lan questioned the number of formation cultivators and whether prepared healing pills would suffice, and Liu Zhenxi explained why specialized personnel were essential.
• Meng De asked Wang Lan whether the campaign army could withstand powerful enemies, and Wang Lan said it could hold off even a Seventh Heaven Quasi-Emperor unless destroyed by a single attack.
• Liu Zhenxi proposed forty-person tactical units for guerrilla raids, supply-line harassment, attacks on battlefield breaches, and hunting isolated enemy geniuses.
• Wang Lan said they lacked enough auxiliary cultivators, but Liu Zhenxi revealed that Greenwood Epoch had abundant reserves, and Meng De said its thirty thousand cultivators were mostly auxiliary specialists.

Meng De received Liu Zhenxi's battle plan for the prodigies and was told to stress that they should use it to kill enemies efficiently. In the Green Mountain World, Li Changsheng's group prepared to test the tactics on four injured Immortal Kings, while Shangguan and Ning Bei struggled against stronger opponents in the core region.

• Liu Zhenxi told Meng De that Li Changsheng's small group could use the battle plan without a large support team, and warned him to remind them that its purpose was to kill the enemy reliably.
• Li Changsheng and Lin Yao discussed why their group was staying in the outer region, and Shi Qi spotted a battered ship carrying four seriously injured Immortal Kings.
• Li Changsheng ordered everyone to raise the sails and practice Meng De's new tactics on the four Immortal Kings.
• In the core region, Shangguan fought Zheng Hanliu, Lao Chu, and Mu Yunzhong with support from aristocratic-family cultivators.
• Yu Dao and his allies wounded Ning Bei, who tried to comprehend the Dao of Water during their fight.
• In the outer region, Li Changsheng encouraged Shi Qi to attack the injured Immortal Kings so he could learn to control his strength.

Shi Qi broke through to the Life Lamp Realm and used his new power to injure four aristocratic clan Immortal Kings’ True Spirits. Li Changsheng persuaded the men to surrender, and Lu Jun imprisoned them in the Primordial Bell.

• Cui Yunzheng stopped a wounded Seventh Grade Immortal King from attacking Shi Qi, while Shi Qi struck another opponent with controlled sword qi.
• Shi Qi broke through to the Life Lamp Realm and formed a green Life Lamp engraved with a world.
• Shi Qi’s sword rain pierced the four Immortal Kings’ defenses and injured their True Spirits, prompting him to ask Feng Ran to kill them rather than let them suffer.
• Li Changsheng threatened to kill the four men unless they surrendered, and they claimed they needed time to consider while handing over their Storage Magical Artifacts.
• Li Changsheng and the others placed restrictions on the four Immortal Kings, and Lu Jun took them into the Primordial Bell.
• Lu Jun asked Shi Qi to stew a big fish, and Shi Qi agreed.

Lu Jun revealed a secret record suggesting that an adult Kun Peng and a Mermen army guarded the Imperial Tutor’s relics in the Endless Sea. As the group considered how formidable the guardian might be, their ship shook from a distant battle, and Shi Qi sensed several powerful fighters and beasts.

• While eating fish, Li Changsheng sensed Buddhist power from Masters Faxian and True Meaning and asked Lu Jun what he had learned from interrogating the injured people.
• Lu Jun said a woman from the Nine-tailed Fox clan, likely Tushan Honghong, had injured them, then shared a Lu Family record about the Imperial Tutor, a Kun Peng, and a woman named Shui Yue.
• Cui Yunzheng confirmed that the Imperial Tutor had emerged from the Endless Sea with a Mermen Clan maid and suggested the Tower Master had left the record; Lu Jun confirmed it had come from her and that he had restored fragments of it.
• Lu Jun argued that the record pointed to a Kun Peng nearing adulthood and possibly a Mermen army guarding the reward, while Lin Yao explained that an adult Kun Peng was said to be overwhelmingly powerful.
• The ship shook as waves surged, and Shi Qi sensed distant fighters, including a figure with yin-yang aura, one manifesting a qilin, and two people fighting three giant beasts.

Li Changsheng’s group learned that Ning Bei had apparently died and that a terrifying force was killing cultivators inside the Endless Sea. There, Faxian fell and True Meaning escaped, while Mo Bai and Li Changming continued their battle over their opposing visions of cultivation.

• Shi Qi told Li Changsheng’s group that Ning Bei had been killed after escaping an earlier ambush and entering the fight for the reward.
• Golden rain fell on Lin Yao, who concluded that one of his martial uncles had died, while Li Changsheng reassured the group that the missing cultivators were still alive.
• At the Endless Sea, Kunpeng rampaged as cultivators fled, and True Meaning carried Faxian’s body away after Faxian fell.
• Zhang Ling urged Mo Bai to retreat, but Mo Bai ignored him and continued fighting Li Changming.
• Li Changming explained that he opposed the spread of cultivation through the Bitter Sea System because he feared cultivators would consume the world.
• Mo Bai declared that he had mastered the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes in Reincarnation and prepared to show Li Changming the complete technique.

Mo Bai, Li Changming, Zhou Jingting, Wind Goose, and Shangguan fought amid the chaos in the Endless Sea, while Long Aotian defeated Cui Hongyuan and revealed that he had returned from the dead. Cui Hongyuan headed toward Li Changsheng and the others, and Cui Yunzheng prepared to confront the enemy who had destroyed his family.

• Mo Bai and Li Changming fought a fierce battle as Zhou Jingting and Wind Goose clashed with their respective domains.
• Shangguan killed the aristocratic-family reinforcements, Mu Yunzhong, and Zheng Hanliu, then challenged Yu Dao and offered him a Virtual World qualification as a prize for killing him.
• Long Aotian defeated Cui Hongyuan, spared him, and explained that Cui Hongyuan’s deep obsession had led him down the wrong path.
• Cui Hongyuan left by boat toward Li Changsheng and the others, and Long Aotian told them of his victory and his return from the dead.
• Cui Yunzheng grew eager to face the enemy who had slaughtered his family, and Shi Qi asked whether he truly intended to kill him.

Shi Qi urged Cui Yunzheng to let go of his hatred without losing his original self, revealing his mastery of the Non-Killing Sword. Elsewhere, the Sword Ancestor spared True Meaning after Dream intervened, but threatened the Buddhist Sect and announced he would visit the Chang Sheng Epoch.

• Shi Qi told Cui Yunzheng that revenge would not restore what he had lost and urged him not to destroy his former self with hatred.
• Shi Qi awakened a resonance with the Great Dao and showed everyone that he had comprehended the Non-Killing Sword.
• The Sword Ancestor confronted True Meaning in the void and demanded the item, which True Meaning handed over.
• Dream persuaded the Sword Ancestor to spare True Meaning for the sake of the larger situation between the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Pill Epoch.
• The Sword Ancestor banished the Buddhist Sect from Sword Sect territory, damaged True Meaning with his Sword Intent, and declared that he would visit the Chang Sheng Epoch.

Cui Hongyuan arrived to kill Cui Yunzheng, but Feng Ran fought him instead while Cui Yunzheng remained still. As they battled, Shi Qi showed Lu Jun how his heart’s connection to the Great Dao let him perceive that Feng Ran would win, leaving Lu Jun stunned and unable to understand the demonstration.

• Cui Hongyuan arrived by boat and told Cui Yunzheng he had come to kill him, but Feng Ran stepped forward to fight in his place.
• Cui Hongyuan explained that he had ranked Chen Changsheng’s students and considered Feng Ran a middling opponent before they began battling.
• Lu Jun asked Shi Qi how his senses were so sharp, and Shi Qi said Feng Ran would definitely win despite Cui Hongyuan’s greater cultivation and experience.
• Shi Qi explained that a heart freed from emotions could draw close to the Great Dao and demonstrated by grasping a golden thread that tugged at Lu Jun’s Great Dao.
• Shi Qi carried noodles to the spectators while Lu Jun stood frozen, unable to comprehend what he had shown.

As the battle continued, Li Changsheng and Lin Yao reflected on how they had found their own paths, while Lu Jun and Cui Yunzheng reached new understandings of the Great Dao. Cui Hongyuan was defeated and consumed by hatred, and Cui Yunzheng tried to persuade him to let it go.

• Li Changsheng told Lin Yao that their friends were breaking through after abandoning the Great Dao they had pursued, and they reflected on how much they had changed in less than ten years.
• Feng Ran pierced Cui Hongyuan's chest and declared victory, allowing Lu Jun to recognize the Great Dao in the people around him.
• Lu Jun concluded that the Dao lay in the heart, then soared into the air as his Gold Muscle Jade Bone began to fade.
• Lu Jun defeated Cui Hongyuan in three moves, and Cui Yunzheng realized he no longer hated his broken enemy.
• Cui Hongyuan rejected Cui Yunzheng's attempt at comfort and raged that he hated everything, including the moon that shone on everyone but him.
• Cui Yunzheng told Cui Hongyuan that the bright moon shone on all and that he was simply too greedy.

Cui Yunzheng confronted Cui Hongyuan, while Chen Changsheng remained trapped in reincarnation and was pushed into a memory of his origin. The memory revealed that Chen Changsheng had come from Earth, which the system said had once existed in the Chang Sheng Epoch but had been destroyed.

• Cui Hongyuan accepted that Cui Yunzheng would kill him and regretted not seeing Chen Changsheng again; Cui Yunzheng prepared to end their feud with his newly advanced Eighteen Transformations of Wuji.
• Dugu asked the Bodhi Tree for a Bodhi Leaf so he could protect Shi Qi, but the tree warned that a leaf would not keep Shi Qi safe and suggested Chen Changsheng had sent him to experience the mortal world.
• After more than three thousand reincarnations, Chen Changsheng encountered his inner demon in Nalan Fuyao's form, who opened a cycle based on the twenty years before Chen Changsheng first fell asleep.
• Chen Changsheng hesitated to enter the passage, but Nalan Fuyao pushed him into reincarnation, and the system refused his plea to pull him out.
• Chen Changsheng relived the day he arrived in the world as an abandoned infant and learned from the system that Earth had been a life-bearing planet in the Chang Sheng Epoch before its destruction.
• Chen Changsheng asked why he had never found any trace of Earth in the Chang Sheng Epoch.

Chen Changsheng learned that he was only a memory imprint inhabiting the real Chen Changsheng, then relived his past and faced the choice between Nian Ci and Li Niansheng. After he confessed his long dream to Nian Ci, she struck him for wanting to become her son-in-law.

• The system told Chen Changsheng that the original Chen Changsheng on Earth had died and that his memories had been imprinted into the infant Chen Changsheng in Bitter Sea Town.
• Chen Changsheng regretted avoiding Nian Ci and others out of fear, and the system offered him another cycle of reincarnation to revisit his choices.
• After reliving twenty years without changing events, Chen Changsheng sat with Nian Ci by a bridge, where she sensed he loved someone else.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he could not choose between Nian Ci and Li Niansheng, then recounted his dream and the people and events he had experienced.
• Nian Ci comforted Chen Changsheng over his suffering, then slapped him after realizing he wanted to become her son-in-law.