Chapter Summaries

Nian Ci confronted Chen Changsheng with the belief that his childhood companion had known he did not truly love her and had left him rather than bind him with false feelings. She explained that his distant gaze revealed his heart was elsewhere, leaving Chen Changsheng to face the possibility that he had misunderstood their separation.

• Nian Ci slapped Chen Changsheng, then asked whether anyone in his memories of Earth had ever mattered to him; he explained he had been a student and had never liked anyone.
• Chen Changsheng recalled that Nian Ci had proposed they separate during an impending military revolt and make a ten-year pact, and Nian Ci accused him of leaving out the parts that made him look bad.
• Nian Ci said the real Nian Ci had known about Chen Changsheng's immortality and understood that he sought her as a companion rather than loved her.
• Nian Ci argued that the real Nian Ci had waited until twenty to marry because she recognized his feelings were not returned and refused to bind him to her.
• Nian Ci explained that she had watched Chen Changsheng's reflection in the stream beneath the bridge and saw that his gaze never turned toward her.
• Chen Changsheng closed his eyes and asked how Nian Ci had known he liked someone; she recalled that he often gazed into the distance and unconsciously smiled.

Chen Changsheng resolved his feelings for Nian Ci, completed the reincarnation that had tested his mental knot, and continued confronting his heart demon. In his 9,999th reincarnation, he made the Four Madmen vanish, startling the heart demon.

• Nian Ci explained that she had married someone else because she would not accept charity in love, and Chen Changsheng realized she had helped free him from his past.
• Chen Changsheng invited Nian Ci to cultivate with him, but she refused and told him she was happy he had found someone he loved.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he feared a coming calamity but promised Nian Ci he would not retreat as he had before, then completed the reincarnation and returned to the chaotic space.
• Chen Changsheng asked Nalan Fuyao how many reincarnations remained before he could defeat his heart demon, then entered another cycle as his comprehension of reincarnation accelerated.
• During the 9,999th reincarnation, Chen Changsheng made the four figures before him vanish, leaving the heart demon shocked and asking how he had done it.

Chen Changsheng defeated the Four Madmen in the reincarnation dream, learned that the inner demon was another divine personality, and wrote an Imperial Scripture based on his insights into reincarnation. After reaching Immortal King Ninth Grade, he was told to return to the Chang Sheng Epoch and survive a lightning tribulation before entering the Quasi-Emperor realm.

• Chen Changsheng told the inner demon that fighting himself brought him enlightenment and vowed to defeat the Four Madmen if they challenged him.
• The inner demon gave Chen Changsheng a sphere of light and revealed that it was another personality with divinity, which Chen Changsheng could cultivate as a Second Divine Soul.
• Chen Changsheng refused the inner demon's offer of a ten-thousandth reincarnation and left the reincarnation dream.
• At the Heavenly Lotus Sacred Land, Chen Changsheng borrowed Bodhi wood and wrote an Imperial Scripture, adding the secret art of the Second Divine Soul.
• Dugu noted that Chen Changsheng had reached Immortal King Ninth Grade and invited him to take a sword strike after he returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch and survived his lightning tribulation.

After emerging from three years of seclusion, Chen Changsheng learned that the Pill Epoch’s war had intensified and the Sword Ancestor had been severely wounded and suppressed by Buddhist saints. The chapter ended with the unexplained cause of the Sword Ancestor’s defeat: Immortal Destiny.

• Dugu challenged Chen Changsheng to a duel, and Chen agreed to spar after his Emperor Tribulation, provided it did not become a Great Dao Contention.
• Chen Changsheng gave the Bodhi Tree his Emperor Scripture and warned it not to reveal the final secret art lightly.
• The Bodhi Tree attacked Dugu, who left with torn clothing as a deep sword scar appeared on the tree’s trunk.
• Li Chengyu told Chen Changsheng that the rebels had gained ground, Meng De’s army had become known as the Hundred Victories Army, and Liu Zhenxi had earned the title Military God.
• Li Chengyu reported that the Phoenix Empress had fought the aristocratic clans’ old foundations, while the Sage Emperor and Talisman Emperor had fled badly injured and gone missing.
• Li Chengyu told Chen Changsheng that the Sword Ancestor had been severely wounded and suppressed by two Buddhist saints, and that the Immortal Emperor had attributed the matter to Immortal Destiny.

Chen Changsheng explained to Li Chengyu how the Sword Ancestor’s apparent revenge was part of a plan to probe the Chang Sheng Epoch’s Immortal Destiny and escape the Pill Epoch. He left Li Chengyu with the revelation that the Pill Epoch’s leaders were allowing the scheme because they too wanted to discover that Immortal Destiny.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Chengyu that the Sword Ancestor’s attack on the Buddhist Sect likely followed Ning Bei’s death at the third checkpoint.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the conflict between the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Pill Epoch had to stay limited, since an all-out clash could destroy one side and leave him nowhere to survive.
• Chen Changsheng told Li Chengyu that the Sword Ancestor had likely been sent to probe the Chang Sheng Epoch’s Immortal Destiny, which the Buddhist Sect would reveal only under extreme pressure.
• Li Chengyu realized that the Sword Ancestor might have deliberately sought an excuse to leave the Pill Epoch, and Chen Changsheng confirmed this was the second layer of the scheme.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Pill Epoch’s leaders could not easily stop the Sword Ancestor and wanted him to investigate the Immortal Destiny for them.

Chen Changsheng explained how the Virtual World trials had turned prodigies into pieces in a larger calculation, then revealed that Long Aotian was positioned to claim the third trial’s reward. After hearing the death toll and kill rankings in Green Mountain World, Chen Changsheng asked for more information about the remaining contestants.

• Chen Changsheng told Li Chengyu that Ning Bei’s death depended on his strength and whom he encountered, while Feng Ran, Meng De, Li Changsheng, and others had given away their Virtual World qualifications.
• Li Chengyu predicted that Shangguan or Zhou Jingting would win, but Chen Changsheng revealed that the third trial’s reward was designed for Long Aotian to retrieve from beneath the Kunpeng in the Endless Sea.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Kunpeng would attack contestants indiscriminately but would show Long Aotian enough goodwill to give him time to reach the reward.
• Li Chengyu reported that 550 of the 587 Immortal King cultivators had fallen, with 36 still in Green Mountain World and True Meaning having escaped.
• Li Chengyu said that the Kunpeng and other Sea Beasts had killed 300 cultivators, 30 had fallen into the sea, and 220 had died in battles; Shangguan led the kill count, followed by Zhou Jingting and Mo Bai.

Chen Changsheng decided to visit the Epoch Boundary with Li Chengyu to bring back some old companions, while conflict over the third trial’s reward intensified in Green Mountain World. Li Changsheng brokered a temporary truce between Shangguan, Mo Bai, and Zhou Jingting, but the two women soon clashed over the kill ranking.

• Chen Changsheng refused to go to Green Mountain World and set out with Li Chengyu for the Epoch Boundary to gather old companions.
• Shangguan fought Long Aotian over the third trial’s reward, then faced Mo Bai and Zhou Jingting as they arrived.
• Li Changsheng invited the cultivators aboard his ship and persuaded Shangguan, Mo Bai, and Zhou Jingting to set aside their grudges over tea.
• Shangguan insisted that she would claim the reward, and Zhou Jingting mocked her, prompting Shangguan to smash the table.
• Mo Bai told Feng Ran that Shangguan and Zhou Jingting had begun fighting after Zhou Jingting criticized Shangguan’s top position in the Virtual World kill ranking.

Li Changsheng proposed that the group search the Endless Sea seabed for the third trial’s reward, and Shangguan agreed to cooperate. At the Epoch Barrier, Chen Changsheng reunited with Nian Sheng, who had emerged from Hundun, and they discussed her white clothing and her habit of killing without staining it.

• Mo Bai told Feng Ran that Shangguan and Zhou Jingting had traded insults over their places on the kill list, where Zhou Jingting ranked second, just five kills behind Shangguan.
• Li Changsheng showed Shangguan his map and argued that the third trial’s reward was hidden on the seabed of the Endless Sea rather than inside Kunpeng’s Belly.
• Shangguan agreed to Li Changsheng’s plan to eliminate the remaining aristocratic clans and explore the dangerous waters together, with some people distracting Kunpeng while others searched the seabed.
• At the Epoch Barrier, Chen Changsheng waited for Nian Sheng, who emerged from Hundun and stopped before him.
• Chen Changsheng offered to make Nian Sheng beautiful dresses, and she explained that she wore white when killing to test whether her cultivation could keep her clothes free of blood.
• Nian Sheng warned Chen Changsheng that slaughter harmed his merit, and he joked that he would kill fewer worlds and invite religious figures to perform rites.

Chen Changsheng reunited with Nian Sheng, Wu Li, and Zhang Bairen, then brought them to the Pill Epoch as his Dao Protectors for the coming Great Dao Contention. After Wang Hao recognized the group at the epoch passage, Chen Changsheng revealed that Wang Hao had helped him slaughter an epoch and could become a future threat.

• Nian Sheng agreed to protect Chen Changsheng's Dao as he prepared to personally enter the Great Dao Contention.
• Wu Li and Zhang Bairen emerged from chaos, reunited with Chen Changsheng, and agreed to accompany him as Dao Protectors.
• Chen Changsheng refused Wu Li's offer to join the fighting in the chaotic battlefield and led everyone into the Pill Epoch.
• Wang Hao and Liu Yidao recognized Chen Changsheng, the Desolate Heaven Emperor, the Jade Emperor, and the Longevity Fairy, and Wang Hao warned Liu Yidao about challenging them.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen that Wang Hao had helped him slaughter an epoch and might become a future threat; Wu Li offered to deal with Wang Hao, but Chen Changsheng shook his head.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen visited a modern battlefield to observe its weapons and tactics, and Zhang Bairen found a hidden Third Heaven Quasi-Emperor beneath the world. They prepared to leave before disrupting the battle, but Left Vanguard Lu Guan confronted them.

• Chen Changsheng brought Zhang Bairen and their companions to a battlefield and explained how Meng De, Wang Lan, and Liu Zhenxi directed the New Era army.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen discussed how energy weapons had replaced older cultivation warfare methods.
• An energy shell struck near the group, and Zhang Bairen examined it before detecting a Third Heaven Quasi-Emperor hidden beneath the world.
• Chen Changsheng decided they should leave because the rebel army's Drilling Bombs showed it knew the aristocratic families' plan.
• Left Vanguard Lu Guan encountered the group and demanded to know who they were.

Chen Changsheng and his companions discovered that an aristocratic clan had hidden a Half-Step Heaven's Mandate Emperor in the Golden Bridge World, and Zhang Bairen provoked him into revealing himself. The group headed to confront the emperor, while Chen Changsheng arranged a contest between Nian Sheng, Wu Li, and Zhang Bairen to decide who could kill him fastest.

• Lu Guan tried to detain Chen Changsheng and his companions, but Chen Changsheng revealed that the aristocratic clans had placed a Third Heaven Quasi-Emperor at the world core and warned Lu Guan to kill him quietly.
• A distant mountain exploded and revealed a hidden Half-Step Heaven's Mandate Emperor, whom Zhang Bairen admitted he had drawn out by stirring up trouble.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to let Nian Sheng, Wu Li, and Zhang Bairen challenge the emperor in order, with each given a quarter-hour to kill him.
• Chen Changsheng and the others reached the emperor's extravagant procession, where the emperor's Imperial Might crushed cultivators who resisted him.
• Chen Changsheng criticized Wu Li for dressing like a farmer, and Wu Li replied that imperial robes were awkward and inconvenient for battle.

Nian Sheng fought the aristocratic clan’s ancient foundation while Chen Changsheng explained her time-resistant Longevity Body to Zhang Bairen. Zhang Bairen asked for its cultivation method, claiming he was about to die, and Wu Li announced his return by confronting the weakened enemy.

• Zhang Bairen mocked Chen Changsheng and Wu Li for their humble origins, and Nian Sheng offered to kill the aristocratic clan’s ancient foundation.
• Nian Sheng sent the Half-Step Destiny Great Emperor flying, reduced his ceremonial guard to bones with temporal power, and sealed herself and the ancient foundation in a special space.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen that Nian Sheng had developed a Longevity Body through the Great Dao of Time, though it could theoretically last only six million years and likely endured for about two million in practice.
• Zhang Bairen said he needed the physique because he was about to die, and Chen Changsheng promised to look for its cultivation method while warning him it was difficult to master.
• Nian Sheng knocked the ancient foundation out of the special space, and Wu Li appeared behind him after briefly traveling upstream against the River of Time.

Wu Li, the Desolate Heaven Emperor, defeated a Golden Bridge Great Clan ancient powerhouse with one punch, astonishing the battlefield. Chen Changsheng explained that Wu Li was unmatched on the Bitter Sea System path and revealed that Wu Li was still a false emperor, not yet fully entering the Emperor Realm.

• The ancient powerhouse recognized Wu Li as the Desolate Heaven Emperor and tried to escape, but then chose to face him.
• The ancient powerhouse unleashed his full power and the Golden Bridge Great World against Wu Li.
• Wu Li killed the ancient powerhouse with a single punch, breaking the world's Heavenly Mandate and shattering its Great Dao.
• Zhang Bairen asked Chen Changsheng why Wu Li was so powerful, and Chen Changsheng said no one could match Wu Li on the Bitter Sea System path.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Wu Li had restarted the Emperor Realm path after the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System appeared.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Wu Li was only a false emperor and had not fully entered the Emperor Realm.

Chen Changsheng, Wu Li, and Zhang Bairen discussed Wu Li’s plan to retrace the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm and the lasting imprint his lightning tribulation would leave. They went to watch a group attempt the third checkpoint, where Lu Mingyu greeted Wu Li after he arrived at the Green Mountain World.

• Zhang Bairen condemned Chen Changsheng’s lineage for its arrogance, and Chen Changsheng agreed that they looked down on the Cultivation World and its systems.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Nalan Zi Ping would not retrace the Emperor Realm but would still face the final Great Emperor lightning tribulation.
• Wu Li revealed that he had spent six thousand years cultivating the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm anew and planned to return to the Chang Sheng Epoch to enter the Bitter Sea Great Emperor realm.
• Zhang Bairen abandoned his desire to compete with Wu Li, and Chen Changsheng led the group to watch youngsters attempt the third checkpoint.
• Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng guarded the Green Mountain World as Heavenly Dao Society members withdrew when Chen Changsheng’s group arrived.
• Lu Mingyu greeted Nian Sheng and Wu Li, and Wu Li praised him as a distinguished addition to their lineage.

Lu Mingyu, Wu Li, and Hua Feng accepted Chen Changsheng's challenge to compete through paper avatars in Green Mountain World. There, Li Changsheng's group was ambushed by powerful outsiders, and Mo Bai fought a swordsman while Li Changsheng fled with Shi Qi.

• Lu Mingyu and Wu Li agreed to settle their rivalry in a contest of divine abilities and techniques using Chen Changsheng's paper figures.
• Hua Feng arrived, greeted Zhang Bairen, and joined the others as they entered Green Mountain World.
• Yu Dao and the Mystic Heaven Sect escaped their pursuers, while Shi Qi sensed terrifying attackers arriving from beyond the world.
• An unknown man struck Cui Shuo with the same fist technique, declared he had come to kill him, and began fighting him.
• A swordsman attacked Li Changsheng and Mo Bai, severely wounding them before Li Changsheng escaped with Shi Qi and Mo Bai stayed to fight.

Li Changsheng’s group came under coordinated attacks, while Chen Changsheng and his companions confronted several powerful enemies. Chen Changsheng revealed the Buddhist Eight Vajra Manifestations, and Lu Jun was left overwhelmed by a burly opponent’s brute strength.

• A White-Clad Woman blocked Shangguan and suppressed her with a ferocious Palm Technique as Shangguan prepared a secret art.
• Li Changsheng warned the others about the attackers, and Cui Yunzheng reported that three enemies had confronted his group.
• Wu Li chose Lu Jun as his opponent, while Lu Mingyu took Cui Yunzheng; Chen Changsheng transported the ship and its remaining fighters to an island.
• Lin Yao attacked Chen Changsheng, but Chen Changsheng broke his Zhang Liu Golden Body and summoned all eight Vajra manifestations.
• A burly man struck Lu Jun twice, sending him deep underwater and leaving him stunned by the gap in their strength.

Lu Jun, Cui Yunzheng, and Mo Bai faced mysterious opponents in separate battles across the sea, while the newcomers revealed that they had come to test the group before Cui Yunzheng entered the Quasi-Emperor realm. The fighting continued as Cui Yunzheng prepared to challenge Lu Mingyu and Mo Bai was pushed to the brink by a swordsman.

• Wu Li identified Lu Jun's Gold Muscle Jade Bone physique, demanded that he use the Fighting Saint Technique, and said his side intended to kill them all.
• Lu Jun manifested White Jade Capital with the Fighting Saint Technique, but Wu Li used Original True Understanding runes to resist it and struck at him.
• Lu Mingyu described Cui Yunzheng's Eighteen Transformations of Wuji and explained that defeating the newcomers was the third trial before Cui Yunzheng could enter the Quasi-Emperor realm.
• Cui Yunzheng recognized that Lu Mingyu's group included the people behind the mysterious attacks, then summoned nine halos and prepared to fight him.
• A long-sworded man overwhelmed Mo Bai with a storm of sword qi, pierced his defense, and left him fighting through severe wounds while Shi Qi watched.

Shi Qi faced Chen Feng in a sword duel while Mo Bai waited at a distance, and Chen Feng effortlessly outmatched him. Shi Qi despaired over ever becoming the Number One Sword Cultivator Under Heaven, while Dugu later told Chen Feng he had been too harsh on the young swordsman.

• Shi Qi persuaded Mo Bai to retreat a thousand li so he could face Chen Feng alone, then revealed that Chen Feng was using a Paper figure and a swordsmanship taken from another foe.
• Shi Qi drew his sword and cut off one strand of Chen Feng's hair, while Chen Feng cut a peach blossom from Peach Branch and declared the contest decided.
• Chen Feng praised Shi Qi's talent, warned that the sword path could be difficult, and left after Shi Qi vowed to become the Number One Sword Cultivator Under Heaven.
• Mo Bai returned to find Shi Qi unharmed, but Shi Qi wept that he could never surpass Chen Feng's true body, even after tens of thousands of years.
• Mo Bai suspected the mysterious swordsman was Sword Master Chen Feng and thought Shi Qi's prospects were already extraordinary; in the void, Dugu told Chen Feng he had been too harsh on Shi Qi.

Dugu entered Green Mountain World after Chen Changsheng warned that he would lose to the younger fighters. In the Southern Sea Region, Zhang Bairen defeated Cui Shuo in a fist fight and argued that fist techniques alone could not help him reach the peak.

• Dugu asked Chen Changsheng to let him enter Green Mountain World, and Chen Changsheng agreed, instructing him to leave no one alive and betting that he would lose.
• Dugu entered Green Mountain World, while Chen Changsheng claimed that he and the others would also lose to the young fighters.
• In the Southern Sea Region, Zhang Bairen fought Cui Shuo with fists for half an hour and told him that his fist technique was outdated.
• Cui Shuo defended his devotion to fist techniques and declared that he would defeat Zhang Bairen with them.
• Zhang Bairen recalled his master’s words in Cui Shuo’s argument, then fought with his full strength and overwhelmed him.
• Zhang Bairen struck Cui Shuo into the sea, shattered islands with his next attack, and insisted that Cui Shuo needed stronger divine abilities to survive.

Cui Shuo overcame Zhang Bairen’s divine ability with his unyielding fists, forcing the Jade Emperor to acknowledge his strength and the Hundred Defeats Immortal lineage. Elsewhere, Hua Feng confronted Baleful Shadow while Lin Yao and Feng Ran endured a desperate battle in the Eastern Sea Region.

• Cui Shuo rose again despite his shattered body, rejected Zhang Bairen’s offer to spare him, and charged with unwavering conviction.
• Cui Shuo broke through Zhang Bairen’s divine ability and struck his Paper figure hard enough to send him flying.
• Zhang Bairen conceded their contest, permitted Cui Shuo to practice the fist technique, and revealed their shared lineage before departing.
• Hua Feng challenged Baleful Shadow and offered to fight him and Zhou Jingting together, but Zhou Jingting left instead.
• Baleful Shadow drew the Phoenix Winged Golden Rake and felt the pressure of Hua Feng’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• In the Eastern Sea Region, Lin Yao and Feng Ran fought back to back on a battered island but were overwhelmed by an opponent with countless arts.