Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng calmed the group after tensions flared over the special space, while Little Immortal Elder faced accusations from Zhang Bairen and Nian Sheng. Later, the young talents reunited at the Kirin Clan, where Long Aotian described his clan's pressure to find a Dao companion before they came upon a crying girl beside Shi Qi.

• Chen Changsheng urged everyone to stop worrying about the future, then had Wu Li and the others release Shi Qi and the others from their restrictions.
• Zhang Bairen challenged Little Immortal Elder over involving Hua Feng, and Nian Sheng accused him of having revealed the special space; Chen Changsheng stopped the confrontation.
• News of the Touring Dao Debate drew young talents to the Kirin Clan, and Long Aotian and the others reunited after visiting home.
• Long Aotian told Feng Ran, Lin Yao, and Zhang Ling that his clan required him to find a Dao companion and produce descendants, or it would stop giving Teacher face.
• The group went looking for Shi Qi and found a young girl crying while Shi Qi stood nearby, unsure what to do.

Chen Changsheng secretly arranged for Long Aotian and the others to meet potential Dao companions while they disguised themselves to avoid matchmaking. He planned to create adversity and criticize their matches so they would believe their relationships were genuine and choose them on their own.

• Chen Changsheng told Lin Yao and the others to leave while he watched Shi Qi comfort a woman, claiming he was studying the Great Dao.
• Long Aotian proposed that the group disguise themselves, split up, and avoid the women pursuing them during the traveling Dao Debate.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had arranged for hundreds of thousands of female cultivators to be spread across the Great World, where the disguised group would encounter them.
• Chen Changsheng explained that disguises would help the young men find women who liked them for themselves rather than their reputations.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen he would manufacture adversity and criticize the young men's chosen partners to test and strengthen their feelings.

Shi Qi tried to compensate a crying woman after taking her spiritual medicine, unaware that the items he offered were priceless. Chen Changsheng revealed that he had arranged the encounter as part of a larger matchmaking scheme and called in help to keep Shi Qi from detecting it.

• Shi Qi argued with a woman who accused him of stealing her spiritual medicine and preventing her breakthrough to the Blood Moving Realm.
• Shi Qi offered her a gourd, a painting, Variant Divine Source, and pills, but she dismissed them as worthless and flew off to report him to the Heavenly Court Enforcement Team.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the gourd could create a Small World, the painting was worth billions of Divine Source, and the Variant Divine Source contained roots of the Immortal Divine Medicine.
• Chen Changsheng called for a dim-witted person to be sent to Mo Bai's Great World and said he had removed capable enforcement officers so Shi Qi would not suspect his scheme.

Chen Changsheng and his companions arranged for Shi Qi to be stranded with Su Ling after he was accused of damaging her spirit herb and ordered to pay compensation. Shi Qi began working for Su Ling to repay the debt, while Chen Changsheng defended the match to Dugu by pointing out that Su Ling had five million Divine Sources.

• Chen Changsheng refused to lend Shi Qi thirty thousand Divine Sources, promised to ask the Heavenly Court to delay his punishment, and left Shi Qi stuck in the Great World.
• Mo Bai, Long Aotian, Lin Yao, and the others laughed at Shi Qi's predicament and admitted they would not lend him money.
• Su Ling told Shi Qi he owed thirty thousand Divine Sources for the Seven Stars Grass and ordered him to work for her for a month.
• Su Ling warned Shi Qi that he could not use the Teleportation Array while registered as a suspect, then led him away with the judgment document.
• Dugu questioned Chen Changsheng's choice of match for Shi Qi, and Chen Changsheng said Su Ling had five million Divine Sources and mocked Dugu's lack of money.

Chen Changsheng persuaded Dugu to prepare betrothal gifts for Shi Qi, and Dugu and Yun Ya Zi gathered contributions from the Heavenly Dao Society, with Dream also sending a gift. In the Great World, Su Ling made Shi Qi harvest spirit herbs as compensation, while dismissing his claims that he knew prominent figures; Shi Qi could not reach any of them.

• Chen Changsheng argued that Shi Qi’s master should prepare betrothal gifts, and Dugu agreed to do so.
• Dugu visited Yun Ya Zi, who proposed collecting gifts from the Heavenly Dao Society as support for a marriage alliance between the Two Great Epochs.
• Yun Ya Zi and Dugu gathered contributions from the Society’s members, and Dream sent Shi Qi a gift as well.
• Su Ling took Shi Qi to a spirit field and ordered him to harvest and process herbs before dawn for the market.
• Shi Qi insisted that Mo Bai had allowed him to take the herbs, but Su Ling accused him of making up connections to powerful people.
• Shi Qi tried to contact the figures he claimed to know, but none accepted his requests, and he offered to take Su Ling to find them instead.

Long Aotian laughed at Shi Qi’s misfortune, then accidentally destroyed a formation and met a black-veiled female body cultivator who admired the Dragon Son. Chen Changsheng revealed that he had predicted Long Aotian would meet a woman who shared his interests, and Long Aotian agreed to visit her cave dwelling.

• Long Aotian laughed at Shi Qi’s predicament, ended his call with Mo Bai and the others, and went out to enjoy the city.
• After drinking wine on a mountaintop, Long Aotian accidentally smashed a mountain and damaged a black-veiled woman’s warning formation.
• Long Aotian apologized and offered compensation, but the woman questioned him about his physical strength and praised the Dragon Son.
• Long Aotian admitted he intended to challenge the Dragon Son, impressing the woman, who invited him to her cave dwelling for a talk.
• Zhang Bairen criticized Long Aotian for quickly warming to a female cultivator, and Chen Changsheng explained that he had predicted the encounter.

Chen Changsheng watched Long Aotian's encounter with the black-veiled woman and Shi Qi's attempt to help Su Ling cultivate, while Wang Hao visited Ye Yu at the Imperial Preceptor's Tomb. Wang Hao said Chen Changsheng's journey had clarified his thoughts, but he still had not decided whether Ye Yu deserved to die.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he could not force Long Aotian's romantic fate and warned that it would be severed if Long Aotian failed to recognize it.
• Long Aotian and the black-veiled woman parted after spending the night discussing body cultivation, and he declined to exchange contact details.
• Su Ling told Shi Qi she relied on food supplements because her sect lacked resources, rejected his offers of cultivation advice, and said she wanted a modest life and a good husband.
• Wang Hao visited Ye Yu at the Imperial Preceptor's Tomb and said they might soon kill each other after fighting for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Wang Hao claimed he might have discovered Ye Yu's weakness but had not decided whether Ye Yu deserved to die.

Chen Changsheng arranged a formal matchmaking for Shi Qi, introducing him to talented women ahead of the touring Dao Debate. He revealed to Zhang Bairen that Shi Qi’s standards were built around Su Ling, leaving him one final chance to choose her.

• Wang Hao told Ye Yu that he did not want to pursue dominance at the cost of an early death, then vanished.
• Chen Changsheng returned Su Ling’s forty thousand Divine Source and gave Shi Qi five thousand as payment for helping gather spirit herbs.
• Chen Changsheng took Shi Qi to Mo Bai’s palace and introduced him to nine fairy maidens, arranging for each to spend a day with him.
• One maiden objected to being treated like merchandise and left, while Shi Qi agreed to spend time with another maiden who asked him for sword guidance.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen that he had staged the objection and arranged ten potential matches so Shi Qi would have a chance to choose Su Ling.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Shi Qi’s standards for a Dao companion matched Su Ling’s traits and even required her name to be Su Ling.

Shi Qi spent time considering nine fairies but remained undecided until he saw Su Ling at the Dao Debate Platform and realized he wanted to marry her. He confessed at her stall, but Su Ling doubted his sincerity and questioned whether he was foolish or pretending.

• Zhang Ling saw through mortal romance, advanced along his Great Dao, and was removed from the trial list by Chen Changsheng.
• Shi Qi met with nine fairies but failed to choose any of them as a Dao companion.
• Mo Bai and the others took Shi Qi to the Dao Debate Platform, where he briefly saw Su Ling selling spirit herbs.
• Shi Qi left the platform and went to Su Ling’s stall, where he declared that he wanted to marry her.
• Su Ling dismissed his confession as mockery, but Shi Qi insisted that he genuinely liked her.

Shi Qi promised Su Ling he would defeat the Dao Debate Platform’s great figures if she would marry him, while she asked him to help secure a better medicine stall. Their casual exchange preceded the Battle for Supremacy, in which prodigies and veteran powerhouses challenged one another, ending with Liu Yidao narrowly defeating Book Saint Xu Qianzhui.

• Su Ling told Shi Qi she would marry him if he defeated the great figures, and he promised he would do it.
• Su Ling asked Shi Qi to arrange a better stall for her at the next traveling Dao debates, and they agreed to prepare local specialties for his friends.
• Rumors spread that a young man with a Peach Branch had beaten Ling Feng, while the Dragon Race and Phoenix Race saw their first intermarriage.
• Long Aotian declared he would marry a human woman, then began the Battle for Supremacy by entering the Eighth Heaven Quasi-Emperor realm and challenging Dragon Race veterans.
• Mo Bai, Baleful Shadow, and Yi An Jushi faced powerful Great Dao Imprints and opponents during the Battle for Supremacy; Yi An Jushi defeated the Phoenix Empress’s imprint but lost to the Sage Emperor.
• After eight years away, Liu Yidao defeated the Talisman Emperor, entered the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, and narrowly defeated Book Saint Xu Qianzhui.

The Battle for Supremacy saw prodigies rise across the Chang Sheng Epoch, while Longevity Fairy repeatedly blocked their challenges to the Imperial Tutor and eventually suppressed an entire generation. In the fifty-fifth year, the Nether River Ancestor defeated her, reopening the path for others to challenge their chosen opponents.

• Liu Yidao injured Chen Xiao after a three-day battle, then lost to the previous Yin Emperor, Yin Jun Lin, after ten days of fighting.
• Cui Shuo entered the Eighth Heaven Quasi-Emperor realm, lost to Chen Changsheng's unique cultivation art, and received the Jade Slip after earning the chance to receive Ask the Heavens.
• Longevity Fairy beat Lu Jun when he tried to challenge Chen Changsheng, then defeated the prodigies who challenged her over the following years.
• Long Aotian swept through the Dragon Race's Eighth Heaven Quasi-Emperors, while Feng Ran drew with Demon Emperor Black Tiger and other prodigies rose to prominence.
• Jiang Shan fought Longevity Fairy for months before a mysterious person persuaded her to stop, and the Nether River Ancestor later defeated her in the fifty-fifth year.
• After Longevity Fairy's defeat, cultivators across the world could once again challenge their chosen opponents.

The Heaven’s Chosen Battle dragged on as contenders from both eras withdrew, until the fifth trial finally began. Shi Qi joined the trial but left with Zhang Ling, leaving six Heaven’s Chosen to fight.

• Liu Yidao, Feng Ran, Shangguan, Yi An Jushi, and other contenders withdrew after repeated defeats, while Long Aotian narrowly defeated Sage Emperor.
• Lin Yao withdrew from the Heaven’s Chosen Battle, explaining to Mo Bai that he feared losing to Shi Qi.
• Wang Lan revealed that the final reward was shares in the Virtual World and gave Cui Yunzheng a pearl he had traded from Shi Qi.
• Cui Shuo, Long Aotian, Cui Yunzheng, Zhang Ling, Lu Jun, Mo Bai, Baleful Shadow, and Shi Qi entered the fifth trial.
• Zhang Ling agreed to leave the trial with Shi Qi, reducing the field to six, and Cui Shuo challenged Long Aotian.

Chen Changsheng outlined his plan to anchor the Chang Sheng Epoch’s future in academies and said Wang Zhigao and Meng De would have to challenge the old powerhouses to take control. As the six prodigies fought for a year, Cui Shuo and Long Aotian fell from the battlefield, and a Jade Slip revealed that Chen Changsheng had already decided the match’s outcome.

• Chen Changsheng said academies should anchor the Chang Sheng Epoch and told Wang Zhigao and Meng De that they had to defeat the old powerhouses to take command.
• Wang Zhigao, Li Changsheng, and Meng De asked Wu Li and the other seniors not to hold back as the younger generation prepared to challenge them.
• Cui Shuo, Long Aotian, Lu Jun, Mo Bai, Baleful Shadow, and Cui Yunzheng fought for a year, with Cui Shuo eventually falling from the battlefield.
• Wang Lan asked about the fight, but Cui Shuo said they could not beat his opponent right now and then left.
• Long Aotian fell next and gave the onlookers a Jade Slip, warning them that someone else would fall later.
• The Jade Slip showed Chen Changsheng stopping the battles and declaring that he had decided the match’s outcome long ago.

Chen Changsheng set the New Era’s prodigies against the powerful figures gathered behind him, beginning the War of the Emperors. After thousands of years of repeated defeats, Mo Bai and the others finally reached the Immortal Emperor, where Chen Changsheng prepared to fight them with the four Immortal-Slaying swords.

• Chen Changsheng revealed that Yin Jun Lin and Wang Zhigao would join Mo Bai’s team, then showed them the powerful opponents awaiting them.
• Lu Jun and the other prodigies were defeated in the trial, with Wang Zhigao and Yin Jun Lin lasting three days and three nights.
• The War of the Emperors continued for years as the prodigies repeatedly challenged the powerful figures and gradually withdrew or fell behind.
• After a hundred attempts, Cui Shuo drove back the Phoenix Empress, but withdrew to pursue mastery of fist techniques rather than compete for Number One Under Heaven.
• After ten thousand years of fighting, Mo Bai and his companions reached the Immortal Emperor, who yielded the fight to Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng called for the prodigies’ imperial weapons and summoned four tiny flying swords as he began an incantation.

Forty thousand years after Chen Changsheng used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation in the War of the Emperors, Mo Bai wrote a history of the conflict while discussing his lasting injuries and the battles with Baleful Shadow. Baleful Shadow recalled how he failed to become Number One Under Heaven, while Mo Bai’s Great Emperor status was recorded in history.

• Chen Changsheng challenged Wang Zhigao to test the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and defeated him inside it.
• Forty thousand years later, Baleful Shadow found Mo Bai writing a history book and questioned his account of the formation and his injuries.
• Mo Bai recounted how he and his allies fought the Immortal Emperor’s side during the War of the Emperors, suffering grave injuries in repeated battles.
• Baleful Shadow remembered that the Yin Emperor rescued Mo Bai from the formation and that Long Aotian was later left unconscious for eighteen thousand years.
• Baleful Shadow said his cultivation methods had hindered him from deriving his own Great Dao, and that he awoke after twenty years to find Mo Bai had become the second Bitter Sea Great Emperor.

Mo Bai explained to Baleful Shadow that the War of Emperors tested wisdom and endurance as well as strength, and that he won by defending more and outlasting his rival. He revealed that after Baleful Shadow fell, Sir and the other great powers fought for another ten years, ending with four of them breaking Sir’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.

• Baleful Shadow pressed Mo Bai to explain how he had defeated everyone during the War of Emperors.
• Mo Bai said Sir’s challenge tested judgment as well as strength, and that the younger prodigies were meant to outlast one another while the older emperors faced harsher demands.
• Mo Bai explained that Long Aotian’s arrogance and reckless fighting led to his early defeat, while Mo Bai and Baleful Shadow had been evenly matched.
• Mo Bai revealed that he devoted more strength to defense than Baleful Shadow and survived until his rival fell unconscious.
• Mo Bai told Baleful Shadow that he spent the following ten years recovering while Sir and the others fought, and that Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, the Immortal Emperor, the Phoenix Empress, and the Jade Emperor broke Sir’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation together.

Mo Bai explained to Baleful Shadow how Sir had arranged the contest for the title of Number One Under Heaven and recounted the battles among the great figures. He revealed the winners of the early rounds and revival matches, then began explaining how the elimination system shaped the next matchups.

• Mo Bai told Baleful Shadow that Sir had concealed the contest’s schemes to prevent divisions before the Virtual World opened, and argued that the contestants had still failed to win through strength alone.
• Mo Bai explained that the Immortal Emperors pursued a separate Great Dao Contention, then described the original battle’s pairings and said the Immortal Emperor, Nether River Ancestor, Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, Jade Emperor, Little Immortal Elder, and Shi Qi won the first round.
• Mo Bai named Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, Jade Emperor, and Little Immortal Elder as the second-round winners, and revealed that Jade Emperor had used a secret technique to briefly restore his peak strength.
• Mo Bai said Phoenix Empress, Nalan Zi Ping, and Sword Master won the first revival matches, and Baleful Shadow correctly guessed that the contest eliminated anyone who lost twice.

Mo Bai recounted the revival rounds and later duels in the Great Dao Contention, explaining how the Immortal Emperor, Shi Qi, and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li fared. Little Immortal Elder was declared the final winner, though Mo Bai left Baleful Shadow confused about why Wu Li had not lost.

• Mo Bai said Shi Qi defeated the Phoenix Empress, while the Sword Master lost to Nether River Ancestor because he could not destroy the Blood Sea.
• The Immortal Emperor triggered a thunder tribulation while fighting Nalan Zi Ping, broke every Humanoid Thunder Tribulation, and was declared the winner; Mo Bai said Nalan Zi Ping would otherwise have won.
• Sir ruled Shi Qi out of the next round because of his short cultivation, and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li defeated the Jade Emperor.
• Nether River Ancestor conceded rather than fight the furious Immortal Emperor, leaving the Immortal Emperor to lose to Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.
• Mo Bai said Little Immortal Elder became the final winner after receiving a bye, but Baleful Shadow questioned how Wu Li could be the winner without losing.

Mo Bai explained to Baleful Shadow that the title of Number One Under Heaven was a political tool for transferring power, while the true strongest person remained the uncrowned figure from the Pill Epoch. He then speculated that Sir had secretly manipulated the Immortal Emperor’s battles and used a Gold Devouring Insect to undermine his Immaculate Body.

• Mo Bai told Baleful Shadow that the contest between Little Immortal Elder and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li ended amid accusations and years of bickering, leaving their true ranking unresolved.
• Mo Bai explained that Sir considered victory the only ranking that mattered and that the Number One Under Heaven title helped legitimize a transfer of power between eras.
• Mo Bai said the title did not signify the world’s strongest fighter, since the Pill Epoch figure’s continued existence prevented anyone in the Two Great Epochs from claiming true supremacy.
• Mo Bai theorized that the Immortal Emperor sought the title as a stepping stone to challenge the Pill Epoch figure, while Sir schemed to restrain him.
• Mo Bai suspected the Jade Emperor had exploited a weakness in the Immortal Emperor’s Immaculate Body using a Gold Devouring Insect, which could have clung to his clothes unnoticed.

Mo Bai explained how Gu insects might have secretly harmed the Immortal Emperor, leaving Baleful Shadow so unnerved that he abandoned his ambition to become Number One Under Heaven. As the two went to watch Lu Jun's tribulation, Mo Bai told Baleful Shadow he would have to take part in a livestreamed outreach plan, and Lin Niao arrived to challenge them.

• Mo Bai described how Assimilation Gu and tiny Gold Devouring Insect eggs could have hidden inside the Immortal Emperor and contributed to his defeat, prompting Baleful Shadow to give up competing for Number One Under Heaven.
• Baleful Shadow and Mo Bai left to watch Lu Jun's tribulation, and Mo Bai explained that Lu Jun's grand display was part of the Emperors into Every Home plan.
• Mo Bai told Baleful Shadow that every Bitter Sea Great Emperor, including him, had to meet ordinary cultivators on livestream as part of the plan.
• Lin Niao forced his way through the honor guard, and Baleful Shadow warned him that crashing into an Imperial Venerable's procession carried a five-thousand-year punishment.
• Mo Bai waived Lin Niao's punishment, but Lin Niao asked the two Great Emperors to accept his challenge, and Baleful Shadow used the Virtual World's highest authority to inspect him.