Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng reunited with Li Changsheng in the Pill Epoch and activated Phantom’s long-dormant intelligence network. He learned that a Netherworld Epoch cultivator had set his sights on Nian Sheng, and planned to visit the Netherworld Epoch after handling matters in the Pill Epoch.

• The Longevity Fairy appeared at the Netherworld Epoch’s barrier, drove back three experts, and entered Hundun.
• Netherworld Epoch experts argued over whether Chen Changsheng was dead and warned Zhu Ge not to provoke the Imperial Tutor Lineage.
• Chen Changsheng arrived in the Pill Epoch and reunited with Li Changsheng, who welcomed him back.
• Chen Changsheng connected to the Pill Epoch’s communications network and began gathering intelligence accumulated over two hundred thousand years.
• A highest-level Phantom report revealed that a Netherworld Epoch cultivator wanted to marry Nian Sheng.
• Chen Changsheng dismissed the cultivator as a clown and said he would personally visit the Netherworld Epoch after finishing his work.

Chen Changsheng and Li Changsheng discussed Zhu Ge, a powerful pure Ghost Emperor from the Netherworld Epoch, and why cultivators from their own epochs could suppress his kind. Chen Changsheng learned where the fallen were buried and how Li Changsheng survived the Ominous Maker, leaving open the question of why the Ominous Maker spared him.

• Chen Changsheng asked Li Changsheng to check his records on Zhu Ge, and Li Changsheng found that Zhu Ge was an ancient peak Ghost Emperor who followed the Netherworld Epoch's own Emperor Realm System.
• Chen Changsheng tested Li Changsheng's knowledge, and Li Changsheng explained how fire, Divine Beast bloodlines, and the Three Teachings could suppress the Netherworld Epoch's yin-based cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng recalled that the Netherworld Epoch's factions had once refused to join the Virtual World over revenue shares and said he wanted to deal with Zhu Ge himself.
• Li Changsheng told Chen Changsheng that Senior Yun Ya Zi had gathered the fallen after the battle and that Mo Bai had brought their graves to the Chang Sheng Epoch's God and Demon Cemetery.
• Li Changsheng said he had begged the Ominous Maker for mercy, and Chen Changsheng reasoned that the Ominous Maker spared him out of pride or deliberate intent.

Chen Changsheng told Yun Ya Zi that Ominous Maker, Yun Yu, had forced Guan Ping, Qian Ya, Mo Bai, and others to die, and Yun Ya Zi demanded a chance to join the revenge. They continued through the God and Demon Cemetery, where Yun Ya Zi showed Chen Changsheng the graves of Yin Jun Lin and Chen Xiao.

• Li Changsheng learned that Dao Ancestor was Xiao Yunshu and Ominous Maker was Yun Yu, and vowed to remember their names.
• Chen Changsheng entered the God and Demon Cemetery with Yun Ya Zi, leaving Li Changsheng and Xiao Hei behind.
• Yun Ya Zi admitted that Ominous Maker’s attack had shattered his confidence after one enemy had devastated the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng identified the attacker as Yun Yu and refused to let Yun Ya Zi claim him, but agreed to bring Yun Ya Zi along when he went after him.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Yun Yu had forced Guan Ping, Qian Ya, Mo Bai, and others to die by exploiting Chen Changsheng’s backup plans.
• Yun Ya Zi condemned Chen Changsheng for failing to protect them, then showed him the shared graves of Yin Jun Lin and Chen Xiao.

Chen Changsheng returned to find his loved ones and old friends dead, and he collected and buried their remains while learning what they had left behind. After hearing the final messages of Guan Ping, Qian Ya, and Liu Qingqing, he laid the three women to rest and stood silently before their graves.

• Chen Changsheng opened Chen Xiao and Jun Lin’s graves, healed their remains, and carved their names onto a joint gravestone.
• Chen Changsheng buried Wu Yang and Chen Mengjie, then learned that Yun Yu had destroyed his core contingencies and that the Demon Emperor and Sword God bloodlines had ended.
• Yun Ya Zi guided Chen Changsheng as he collected the bodies of his old friends and brought him to Liu Qingqing, Guan Ping, and Qian Ya.
• Chen Changsheng listened to Guan Ping’s Jade Slip, which revealed that she had destroyed the Creation Immortal Pill formula and left her learning to him.
• Qian Ya’s Jade Slip entrusted the God of Wealth Hall to Wang Lan and urged Chen Changsheng to live a long life, while Liu Qingqing’s revealed that Greenwood Epoch survivors remained and asked him to deliver another Jade Slip to her husband.
• Chen Changsheng buried Liu Qingqing, Guan Ping, and Qian Ya, then remained silently before their gravestones.

Chen Changsheng met Dream in Dream Space and learned the truth about the Immortal Domain survivors and Dream’s master. Dream revealed that the Immortal Domain’s technological advantage remained beyond the Cultivation World’s reach, but Chen Changsheng’s arrival had given him new hope.

• Chen Changsheng told Xiao Hei he was fine, then asked him to find Wang Lan while he went to meet Dream.
• Dream admitted that the Four Madmen had nearly killed him, and Chen Changsheng questioned him about their origins and the truth of Immortal Destiny.
• Dream explained that his master had learned the Immortal Domain’s secrets by torturing its strongest survivor, then died of old age before he could locate the Immortal Domain.
• Dream said his master had failed to find the Immortal Domain because its era-spanning methods were beyond his skill, and Chen Changsheng discussed the difficulty of overcoming a technological gap.
• Dream confirmed that Immortal pills were the Immortal Domain’s technological methods and said Chen Changsheng’s arrival had renewed his hope.

Chen Changsheng deduced that the Great Dream Immortal Art was a flawed Immortal Domain inheritance and examined its original version. He discovered it was made for Weapon Spirits, leaving Dream to consider how the Immortal Domain had used living beings to carry immense power.

• Chen Changsheng explained that flawed Immortal Domain methods had trapped Dream and his master within the Pill Epoch, and Dream confirmed his deductions.
• Dream gave Chen Changsheng the translated Great Dream Immortal Art, but Chen Changsheng asked to see the original and received a transparent crystal.
• Chen Changsheng activated the crystal with basic energy and used a Magical Artifact to project its symbols.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that the Great Dream Immortal Art was a cultivation method created specifically for Weapon Spirits like Ao Chuang.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had considered living beings as vessels for Ao Chuang but rejected the idea because the Virtual World's calculations could destroy their brains.
• Dream asked whether the Immortal Domain had already overcome that problem.

Chen Changsheng persuaded Dream to ally with him against the Four Madmen, promising to find help and attack within one hundred thousand years. After returning to the Pill Epoch, Chen Changsheng went to audit the God of Wealth Hall’s accounts while Xiao Hei and Li Changsheng discussed the aftermath of the Chang Sheng Epoch’s upheaval.

• Chen Changsheng warned Dream that Yun Yu might exploit a backdoor in the Great Dream Immortal Art and erase Dream’s consciousness.
• Chen Changsheng and Dream agreed that the Pill Epoch would support Chen Changsheng as he prepared to kill the Four Madmen and find the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Changsheng declined Dream’s offer of help to avoid drawing Yun Yu’s attention, then left the Dream World more confident in his plans.
• Chen Changsheng asked Xiao Hei about Wang Lan and went to the God of Wealth Hall, where Wang Lan presented its accounts for inspection.
• Chen Changsheng kept Wang Lan with him to audit the books and sent Xiao Hei and Li Changsheng out of the hall.
• Li Changsheng explained that Dream simulated the Chang Sheng Epoch’s lightning tribulation in the Pill Epoch, and that Shangguan and Zhou Jingting had left the Chang Sheng Epoch after learning what happened from Mo Bai.

After spending twenty years checking the God of Wealth Hall’s accounts, Chen Changsheng prepared to leave the Pill Epoch through a secret passage to the Divine Land Epoch. After bidding him farewell, Li Changsheng decided to pursue sole rule over the Pill Epoch, with Wang Lan agreeing to help him.

• Bai Ze said he would cultivate seriously while Chen Changsheng practiced boxing by day and swordsmanship by night.
• Twenty years later, Chen Changsheng and Wang Lan emerged from the God of Wealth Hall, and Wang Lan reported that the passage to the Divine Land Epoch was ready and the Pill Epoch would help rebuild the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng thanked Wang Lan for helping the Chang Sheng Epoch and promised the Chang Sheng Epoch would repay the Pill Epoch’s kindness.
• Chen Changsheng and Xiao Hei left through the secret Epoch Passage after Chen Changsheng urged Li Changsheng to live up to himself and his old friends rather than shoulder all living things.
• Li Changsheng told Wang Lan he wanted to wield Imperial Might and awaken the Pill Epoch’s buried anger; Wang Lan agreed to help him seize power within three thousand years.
• Li Changsheng entered the void and reflected on the responsibility he had come to understand as a Great Emperor.

Chen Changsheng planned to recruit forces in the Divine Land Epoch to fight Xiao Yunshu, weighing how to secure the powerful nobles’ support without destroying the realm’s rogue cultivators. After Xiao Hei pleaded for the Divine Land Epoch’s people, Chen Changsheng agreed to leave them a seed of hope: Ma Yuxuan.

• Li Changsheng’s Imperial Might spread through the Pill Epoch, and Yun Ya Zi bowed to show his support for Li Changsheng’s plan.
• Chen Changsheng told Xiao Hei that he intended to become emperor of the Divine Land Epoch and use its powerful nobles to prepare for war against Xiao Yunshu.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Divine Land Epoch’s nobles might kill its rogue cultivators if they saw them as a lasting threat, while a completely rotten ruling class might leave them alone.
• Xiao Hei begged Chen Changsheng to preserve a chance for the Divine Land Epoch’s cultivators, and Chen Changsheng agreed to leave them one seed capable of changing the realm.
• Chen Changsheng revealed Ma Yuxuan, sealed inside a crystal, and chose the Divine Land Epoch as the best place for the boy to grow.

Chen Changsheng awakened Ma Yuxuan, accepted the responsibility of raising him, and told him about the dangers surrounding his brother and the debts tied to their homeland. After traveling to the Divine Land Epoch, Ma Yuxuan apologized to Chen Changsheng on behalf of his people.

• Chen Changsheng promised Xiao Hei he would raise Ma Yuxuan into a normal person and never let him become consumed by hatred.
• Chen Changsheng shattered the crystal, awakened Ma Yuxuan, and gave him a Recording Stone message from Ma Xu'an naming Chen Changsheng as his master.
• Ma Yuxuan asked whether his brother was in danger, and Chen Changsheng admitted many people wanted to kill him but refused to help because of the blood debts involving their homeland.
• Xiao Hei shielded Ma Yuxuan from Chen Changsheng's further explanations and gradually helped him understand the unfamiliar world.
• After more than a month of teleportation, Chen Changsheng, Xiao Hei, and Ma Yuxuan arrived in the Divine Land Epoch, where Chen Changsheng sent Xiao Hei to gather information.
• Ma Yuxuan tugged at Chen Changsheng's sleeve and apologized on behalf of the people from his homeland.

Chen Changsheng explained to Ma Yuxuan how the Cultivation World's violent upbringing differed from the Immortal Domain's education, and why Ma Yuxuan's instinct to apologize showed his humanity. After Ma Yuxuan promised to study and understand the world, Chen Changsheng checked his pulse and noted that his millions of years in stasis had caused slight losses.

• Ma Yuxuan insisted that people could still judge some actions as right or wrong, and Chen Changsheng praised the idea while lamenting the world around them.
• Chen Changsheng contrasted Ma Yuxuan's schooling in the Immortal Domain with Cultivation World children beginning cultivation young and facing violence by age thirteen.
• Chen Changsheng said that a childhood shaped by bloodshed and relentless cultivation could distort a person's values, while Ma Yuxuan's apology was a normal response.
• Chen Changsheng told Ma Yuxuan to study and understand the world before deciding what to do about his brother and the others, and Ma Yuxuan agreed.
• Chen Changsheng checked Ma Yuxuan's pulse and said that being sealed for several million years had caused small losses despite the Immortal Domain's technology.

Chen Changsheng learned that Earth had been destroyed tens of millions of years ago, and that the Immortal Domain had borrowed its systems and storybooks. Ma Yuxuan’s stories helped Chen Changsheng piece together why the Immortal Domain changed its approach to cultivation, leaving him to wonder how its schools handled cultivation techniques.

• Chen Changsheng assessed Ma Yuxuan’s poor health and prescribed exercise alongside continued studies.
• Ma Yuxuan explained that the Immortal Domain’s schools adopted systems from Earth, which had been destroyed by the aftermath of a battle between powerful experts.
• Ma Yuxuan said Earth’s storybooks had inspired Xiao Yunshu to call himself the Dao Ancestor and preach at school, and Chen Changsheng recognized him as the man who killed his family.
• Ma Yuxuan mentioned Yun Yu, a nearby resident who became a technology enthusiast after graduating from a first-rate school, and Chen Changsheng used these details to infer how Earth had shaped the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that the Immortal Domain had turned away from pursuing higher cultivation and instead focused on social development before its barrier failed and its people fell into the Cultivation World.
• Ma Yuxuan said Immortal Domain schools generally did not teach cultivation techniques, which students could study only after entering university.

Chen Changsheng reunited with Qin Gui and questioned him about a child Ma Yuxuan’s origins, while continuing to learn the Immortal Domain’s writing. Qin Gui revealed he had found the people Chen Changsheng had asked him to locate and prepared to take Ma Yuxuan to meet his other adopted children.

• Xiao Hei reported that Qin Gui had been blamed by the Twenty-Eight Marquis Alliance and chased for a thousand years, so Chen Changsheng decided to find him.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ma Yuxuan to teach him the Immortal Domain’s writing, and the two bonded over their academic credentials while Xiao Hei remained confused.
• Chen Changsheng confronted Qin Gui, who knelt and reported that he had found the people Chen Changsheng had tasked him with locating a thousand years earlier.
• Chen Changsheng questioned Qin Gui about Ma Yuxuan’s background, and Qin Gui explained that he had raised the youth separately from his other adopted orphans.
• Chen Changsheng told Qin Gui to bring Ma Yuxuan to meet the other children, and Qin Gui created a paper figurine in Ma Yuxuan’s likeness.

Chen Changsheng established Ma Yuxuan as a low-status Rogue Cultivator in the Divine Land Epoch and explained that his older brothers had become dangerous madmen. Ma Yuxuan accepted that he would see his brother again only to collect his body, but Chen Changsheng asked him to consider the Immortal Domain survivors’ suffering.

• Chen Changsheng instructed Qin Gui to raise Ma Yuxuan as a withdrawn Divine Land Epoch cultivator before taking him away, and Qin Gui left a Jade Slip and departed.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Ma Yuxuan could only have an unremarkable Rogue Cultivator identity, and Ma Yuxuan accepted his new life despite the Immortal Domain’s destruction.
• Chen Changsheng described Xiao Yunshu’s plan to kill those who advanced their eras and Yun Yu’s research into a dangerous Special Space to revive the dead.
• Ma Yuxuan asked whether his brothers could be saved, and Chen Changsheng said those who knowingly refused to understand could not be saved.
• Ma Yuxuan said he did not want to help his brother because he was disappointed in him, and Chen Changsheng asked him to consider how pitiful the Immortal Domain’s survivors were.

Chen Changsheng affirmed Ma Yuxuan’s resolve not to excuse his brother’s crimes out of pity, then traveled with him and Xiao Hei to Mars to find the Wu Clan. The chapter ended with a young woman in red complaining to her brother about their mundane work in Redstone Town and longing for a life of battle and cultivation.

• Ma Yuxuan told Chen Changsheng that suffering did not justify his brother and the other Immortal Domain traitors’ actions, and explained that Chen Changsheng’s restraint had shaped his view.
• Chen Changsheng praised Ma Yuxuan, excused him from homework, and sent him to play with Xiao Hei before discussing goodness and his plans with the system.
• Chen Changsheng decided he might extend the Divine Land Epoch plan to reduce casualties and began setting up an array.
• Chen Changsheng, Xiao Hei, and Ma Yuxuan secretly arrived on Mars, where Chen Changsheng made fake identification documents so they could search for the Wu Clan.
• In Redstone Town, a young man urged craftsmen to finish an order on time while his sister in red complained about their work and wished to become a battle-tested cultivator.

Chen Changsheng debated with Ma Yuxuan over whether an ordinary cultivator could avoid the cruelty and responsibilities of the Divine Land Epoch, explaining how experience had changed his own path. He proposed a wager: Ma Yuxuan would join him in infiltrating the Wu Clan youths’ group and see whether his convictions changed.

• The woman in red argued with her brother that restoring the Cultivation World’s law of the jungle would let her accomplish great things.
• Xiao Hei asked whether the siblings were descendants of the Wu Clan, and Chen Changsheng explained that the clan had integrated into the outside world.
• Ma Yuxuan suggested leaving the Wu Clan matter alone, but Chen Changsheng challenged his belief that he could remain an ordinary cultivator and avoid oppression.
• Chen Changsheng told Ma Yuxuan that he had once shared his outlook but had changed under the pressure of the cruel world.
• Chen Changsheng proposed that Ma Yuxuan infiltrate the Wu Clan youths’ group with him, wagering that Ma Yuxuan would change before they reached their destination.

Chen Changsheng arranged a social practice class for Ma Yuxuan, who had to observe Gu Yi and Hong Ling during their three-month journey without interfering. Ten days later, Gu Yi and Hong Ling argued over traveling with Chen Changsheng, whom they believed was a minor baron with a powerful marquis uncle.

• Chen Changsheng offered Ma Yuxuan a Sword Flight Technique if he completed the observation assignment, with doubled homework as the penalty for failure.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Ma Yuxuan must observe Wu Clan members Gu Yi and Hong Ling and write a record every ten days during their journey.
• Chen Changsheng asked Qin Gui to arrange a minor noble identity for him so he could join Gu Yi and Hong Ling's group.
• Gu Yi told Hong Ling that the Clan Leader had ordered them to travel with Baron Chen Changsheng, whose marquis uncle might cause trouble for the Gu Family if they refused.
• Hong Ling reluctantly agreed to meet Chen Changsheng, and she and Gu Yi headed outside, where a spacious carriage was waiting.

Ma Yuxuan and Chen Changsheng traveled under a fabricated noble identity, and Ma Yuxuan learned how the Divine Land Epoch’s rules gave nobles power over commoners and lowborn. The explanation left Ma Yuxuan appalled as their journey proceeded along Gu Yi’s chosen route.

• Gu Yi and Hong Ling knelt before Ma Yuxuan, who relayed Chen Changsheng’s instructions and passed their proposed route into the carriage.
• Chen Changsheng explained that nobles could strip people of their status on a whim, and that Gu Yi and Hong Ling had to obey to protect the Gu Family.
• Ma Yuxuan questioned the Divine Land Epoch’s hierarchy, and Chen Changsheng described how former slaves had become the distinct identity of lowborn.
• Chen Changsheng explained that killing a commoner could bring punishment, killing a lowborn required only a fine to local powers, and slaves had no protections.
• Ma Yuxuan was further shocked to learn that a slain lowborn’s family also had to pay a corpse disposal fee.

Chen Changsheng explained to Ma Yuxuan why the Divine Land Epoch’s lower classes had fought for survival rather than dignity, and why even small protections required costly reforms. Ma Yuxuan asked to help them after his social practice course, but Chen Changsheng pressed him to specify how much help he meant.

• Ma Yuxuan challenged Chen Changsheng’s account of the Divine Land Epoch and questioned why its rebels had not sought equality.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the rebels had fought to survive, and that the status of Lowborn had reduced the lower classes’ death rate by thirty percent.
• Chen Changsheng said he could help Gu Yi and others, but could not rescue every epoch or handle all the problems awaiting him in the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Ma Yuxuan insisted he would complete his social practice course and asked whether he could help the people of the Divine Land Epoch afterward.
• Ma Yuxuan said he wanted to help only a little, and Chen Changsheng asked him to define what that meant.

Chen Changsheng explained to Xiao Hei that he had anticipated trouble with the Wu Clan’s deal and arranged for Ma Yuxuan to gain experience, while reflecting on the dangers of following his own old path. He suspected a powerful figure might be behind the scheme and left the carriage to practice his fists, while Ma Yuxuan watched Gu Yi and Hong Ling with a shaken worldview.

• Ma Yuxuan asked whether he should help others only within his means, and Chen Changsheng assured him that approach would not be petty.
• Chen Changsheng told Xiao Hei that Ma Yuxuan’s choices resembled his own past and that he regretted failing to give his disciples peaceful lives.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Phantom had warned him someone on Mars was targeting the Wu Clan for its half of the Golden Page, and that he had already known the clan’s location.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had used Qin Gui’s search to test the Divine Land Epoch’s attitude and followed Gu Yi because he expected the Wu Clan’s profitable deal to go wrong.
• Chen Changsheng suspected a major figure, possibly the Mars King, was behind the plot, then told Xiao Hei to watch the others and left to practice his fists.
• Ma Yuxuan, his worldview shaken, looked at Gu Yi and Hong Ling with a strange expression.