Chapter Summaries

Chen Shisan and the survivors forced the figures at the end of the Ascension Road to allow it to open, but the victory cost Meng Yu and nearly everyone else their lives. Chen Shisan used his final sword to sever his old body and be reborn, leaving him with an unstable foundation as the survivors rested amid the dead.

• Meng Yu charged the figures at the end of the Ascension Road, and the two remaining Immortal Venerable Realm experts burned themselves away to empower her final Snow Flurries in the Mortal Realm; Meng Yu died after the strike was received.
• The figures at the end of the Ascension Road agreed to let it open rather than risk receiving Chen Shisan's sword.
• Chen Changsheng collapsed after expending most of his cultivation, and Chen Shisan fed Meng Yu the last drop of Essence of All Things before slashing himself and reappearing as his youthful self.
• Zhang Bairen returned with the corpse of the Limitless Celestial, and he, Chen Shisan, Chen Changsheng, and Nalan Xingde sat together and ate red-dyed birthday eggs.
• Zhang Bairen departed toward the end of the Ascension Road, and Chen Changsheng warned Chen Shisan that severing his old body had left his foundation unstable and might shorten his lifespan.

After learning that nearly everyone he knew from the First Era had died, Chen Changsheng chose to leave the Lower Realm for the Upper Realm, while his surviving friends stayed behind. Three thousand years later, the Undertaker had become a legend associated with Bai Ze, but no one had found either of them.

• Chen Shisan refused Chen Changsheng's invitation to the Upper Realm, explaining that his deal was complete and he would stay with Meng Yu.
• Gongsun Huaiyu reunited with Chen Changsheng and told him that only Zi Ning, her master, and she remained among the people he knew.
• Chen Changsheng urged Gongsun Huaiyu to live her life and explained that he wanted to see the Upper Realm because he had grown tired of the Lower Realm.
• Chen Changsheng left on Bai Ze's back after arguing with him over payment for collecting the corpses.
• The Ascension Road's famous figures gained renown in the Upper Realm, while a rumor spread that Bai Ze could lead people to the mysterious Undertaker.
• Three thousand years passed without anyone finding Bai Ze or seeing the Undertaker, and people came to regard the story as a legend.

Chen Changsheng, now living quietly in the Upper Realm, explained to his system why he had let his cultivation decline and chosen to travel and study immortality. He remained curious about the Upper Realm’s mysteries but accepted that he could not solve every question.

• Chief Wang found Chen Changsheng sleeping in a tree and dragged him back to serve as the young master's study companion.
• Chen Changsheng checked his system panel, which showed that his cultivation had fallen to low realms while his defense remained at the Bone Exchange Realm.
• Chen Changsheng told the system that weakening himself and hiding among low-level cultivators would help him evade powerful enemies.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had spent 440 years traveling the Upper Realm and studying its approach to immortality, partly in hopes of extending his old friends' lives.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that he still wondered about Wu Li, other worlds, the secret of destiny, and the origin of the Uncanny, but did not consider himself capable of answering everything.

Chen Changsheng spent twenty years serving Wang Wenhao in the Wang Family before leaving to open a small coffin shop and live quietly. Thirty years later, a beggar recognized as Wang Hao appeared at his shop, disrupting his peaceful life.

• Chen Changsheng told the system that his cultivation lagged behind Thirteen's and that he would resolve his doubts by steadily growing stronger.
• After twenty years as Wang Wenhao's confidant, Chen Changsheng advised him against currying favor with Wang Hao, then decided to leave the Wang Family.
• Chen Changsheng watched Wang Hao and Ling Jing's engagement ceremony, finding neither prodigy especially impressive.
• Chen Changsheng resigned, wandered the Lingcang Continent, and spent thirty peaceful years running a coffin shop in a small town.
• A beggar arrived at Chen Changsheng's shop, and Chen Changsheng recognized him as Wang Hao by his aura.

Chen Changsheng took in the disgraced Wang Hao and witnessed Wang Wenhao torment him, then advanced his cultivation and sent a clone to investigate why Wang Hao had appeared outside his Coffin Shop. The chapter left Chen Changsheng uncertain whether Wang Hao's arrival was coincidence or a scheme.

• Chen Changsheng brought Wang Hao into his Coffin Shop and fed him, and Wang Hao revealed he had nothing to offer in return.
• Wang Wenhao arrived, recognized Chen Changsheng, gave him pills, and ordered him to keep Wang Hao confined and fed only leftovers.
• Wang Wenhao kicked Wang Hao down and forced him to crawl through spit-covered leftovers before leaving, while Wang Hao accepted the humiliation without protest.
• Chen Changsheng repaired the broken door, then advanced from the Divine Bridge Realm into the Original Self Realm inside the shop.
• Chen Changsheng and his clone discussed the suspicious circumstances of Wang Hao's arrival, and the clone left to investigate the Wang Family.

Chen Changsheng spent ten years secretly feeding the disgraced Wang Hao, then survived Wang Hao’s attempt to kill him by using his powerful Divine Sense and prepared defenses. He discovered Wang Hao and a woman conspiring to weaken the Wang Family through war with Fanyin Fort, and set out in disguise to interfere.

• Chen Changsheng learned that Wang Hao had been betrayed by his wife, stripped of his bloodline and cultivation, and cast aside by the Wang Family.
• For ten years, Chen Changsheng brought Wang Hao leftover food while Wang Wenhao gradually stopped humiliating him.
• Wang Hao visited the Coffin Shop at night and appeared to destroy Chen Changsheng’s sea of consciousness, but Chen Changsheng revealed that the death was an illusion and that he had prepared the Golden Silkworm Gu and a formation.
• Chen Changsheng used the Heavenly Net of Qingxu Heaven to locate Wang Hao meeting a woman eight hundred li from town.
• Wang Hao and the woman discussed continuing the conflict between Fanyin Fort and the Wang Family to weaken the family and provoke a bloody war.
• Chen Changsheng decided to get involved, changed into a fierce-looking bald man, and left under the name Uncle Bald Eagle.

Wang Hao recruited Bald Eagle to infiltrate the Wang Family and retrieve a box, offering the Wang family's Third Miss as payment after Bald Eagle demanded her. The chapter ended with Bald Eagle insisting on inspecting her before doing the job.

• Bald Eagle tried to assault an unconscious woman, but Wang Hao appeared and defeated him after Bald Eagle attacked.
• Wang Hao spared Bald Eagle and gave him a map of the Wang Family's inner courtyard, tasking him with stealing a box.
• Wang Hao told Bald Eagle that the Wang family ancestor had died and that he would create a diversion during the infiltration.
• Bald Eagle demanded a reward and proposed the Wang family's Third Miss; Wang Hao nearly killed him but relented when Bald Eagle revealed his knowledge of the family's formations.
• Wang Hao agreed to give Bald Eagle the Third Miss after the job, but Bald Eagle demanded to inspect her in advance.

Chen Changsheng uncovered Wang Hao's plan to trade his Third Sister for help stealing an item from the Wang Family, then infiltrated the family treasury and found a decaying box containing powerful artifacts and a piece of human bone. The chapter left him examining the bone, which he suspected was the object Wang Hao wanted.

• Wang Hao agreed to give Bald Eagle his Third Sister in exchange for help stealing an item from the Wang Family.
• Chen Changsheng and his clone staged a bloody cave scene, and Wang Hao later mistook it for evidence that his Third Sister had been killed.
• Three days later, Wang Hao handed his unconscious Third Sister to Bald Eagle, who went to infiltrate the Wang Family.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Wang Family Treasury's abandoned side room and discovered a decaying wooden box protected by powerful defenses.
• Chen Changsheng opened the box, identified several valuable magical treasures, and realized a piece of bluish-white material inside was human bone.

Chen Changsheng examined the bone in the Wang Family’s box and staged a chaotic exchange to uncover Wang Hao’s secrets. Wang Hao pursued Bald Eagle while Chen Changsheng’s schemes left the Wang Family’s Third Miss’s fate uncertain and Wang Wenhao damaged.

• Chen Changsheng read blood-red text from the bone, restored the box’s restrictions, and fled the Wang Family disguised as Bald Eagle as a black-robed figure attacked.
• Bald Eagle and Wang Hao exchanged information, and Chen Changsheng used a clone and a staged corpse to prepare for Wang Hao’s arrival.
• Wang Hao broke through Chen Changsheng’s formations and fought Wang Wenhao, then escaped with the box after leveling a mountain range.
• Wang Hao followed the mysterious voice’s directions to hunt Bald Eagle, fearing that Bald Eagle could expose him through his contact with the box.
• Wang Hao cornered Bald Eagle, who begged for his life and offered to work for him.

Chen Changsheng discussed with the system why surviving through the Bitter Sea System could not guarantee Changsheng across changing eras. He then went to Wang family's Third Miss, whose despair turned to fear when he threatened to sleep with her, and made her smile.

• Wang Hao cut off Bald Eagle's head and burned his body, but Golden Silkworm Silk restored him after Wang Hao left.
• Chen Changsheng asked the system whether the Bitter Sea System could grant Changsheng, and the system explained that changing eras and future challengers made that uncertain.
• Chen Changsheng recalled how he and Wu Li had overcome ancient powers and wondered whether future successors would surpass him.
• Chen Changsheng went to Wang family's Third Miss in a hidden valley and threatened to sleep with her if she still wanted to die.
• Wang family's Third Miss said she no longer wanted to die, and Chen Changsheng ordered her to smile.

Chen Changsheng told Wang Ying that Wang Hao betrayed the Wang Family to expose its secret: the ancestor could achieve Bloodline Immortality by using family members as vessels for rebirth. He revealed that he had been speaking to the ancestor inside Wang Ying, then asked the ancestor about Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.

• Chen Changsheng told Wang Ying that Wang Hao had traded her to him and explained that Wang Hao betrayed the Wang Family because of its secret.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the Wang family ancestor could survive through any remaining member of the family bloodline by using them as a vessel for Seizing and Rebirth.
• Wang Ying rejected the revelation as impossible, but Chen Changsheng disclosed that he had been addressing the ancestor inside her body.
• The Wang family ancestor recognized Chen Changsheng as the Imperial Tutor and explained how he had inferred the secret.
• Chen Changsheng asked the Wang family ancestor about Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.

Chen Changsheng questioned the Wang family ancestor about the Upper Realm’s hostility toward Lower Realm ascendants and learned that the Wang Family opposed them to preserve the Three Thousand Zhou’s balance and alliances. After the ancestor refused to help him, Chen Changsheng revealed that he knew the secret behind Bloodline Immortality and proposed joining forces with the escaped Demon Cultivator’s remnant soul to find its weakness.

• The Wang family ancestor admitted that he had ambushed Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, who later killed him before allies helped him preserve a remnant soul.
• The ancestor explained that the Upper Realm feared Lower Realm ascendants would claim territory and trigger conflicts among its established factions and alliances.
• Chen Changsheng asked where Wu Li and other Lower Realm figures had gone and which Upper Realm factions were friendly, but the ancestor refused to answer and said he would keep targeting the Lower Realm.
• Chen Changsheng warned that he could destroy the Wang Family, and the ancestor challenged him, citing Bloodline Immortality and the Wang bloodline’s wide reach.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the ancestor had based Bloodline Immortality on a Demon Cultivator’s technique and that the Demon Cultivator’s remnant soul had escaped with the ancestor’s prepared body.
• Chen Changsheng proposed joining forces with the Demon Cultivator to discover the weakness of Bloodline Immortality.

Chen Changsheng learned about the Upper Realm’s hostility toward the Lower Realm and struck a deal with the Wang family ancestor to leave Lingcang Continent without interfering in the Wang Family’s affairs. He then confronted Wang Hao and the blood mist within him, seeking a way to defeat the Wang family ancestor’s Bloodline Immortality, but learned its flaws were not fatal.

• Chen Changsheng threatened the Wang family ancestor, who admitted he did not know Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li’s whereabouts and revealed that Xiniu Hezhou was closest to Lingcang Zhou while the God Race was especially hostile to the Lower Realm.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to leave Lingcang Continent and not interfere in the Wang Family’s affairs, and the Wang family ancestor departed.
• Wang Hao collapsed from overusing the power of the blood mist, and Chen Changsheng appeared in the cave, revealing his former identities as an aged servant and Bald Head.
• Chen Changsheng asked the blood mist about Bloodline Immortality and how to kill the Wang family ancestor; the blood mist explained that the ancestor had adapted its Blood Transformation Great Art and that Bloodline Immortality’s flaws were not fatal.

Chen Changsheng learned that Bloodline Immortality could be countered only by a costly bloodline curse, then captured a Demon Cultivator and helped Wang Hao recover from hidden bodily hazards. Before leaving, he advised Wang Hao on becoming a more effective Demon Cultivator, and Wang Hao vowed to spare him once in the future.

• The blood mist explained that repeated possessions could erode the Wang family ancestor’s sanity, while killing him permanently would require a powerful curse whose caster might have to sacrifice their life.
• Chen Changsheng’s clone bound the blood mist and Wang Hao, and Chen Changsheng sealed the blood mist in a bottle.
• Chen Changsheng removed poisonous black substances from Wang Hao and gave him a Jade Slip containing a perfected Blood Transformation Great Art.
• Chen Changsheng exposed Wang Hao’s past schemes and taught him that a true Demon Cultivator should make others willingly die for him without realizing they were being manipulated.
• Wang Hao vowed to spare Chen Changsheng once in the future, and Chen Changsheng left.

Chen Changsheng dressed as a Daoist and headed to Xiniu Hezhou for a challenge, where a little Daoist captured a Fox-Ear Girl and took her to a mountain hut. The Fox-Ear Girl remained trapped there, and the little Daoist made her memorize a book before she could eat roast chicken.

• Chen Changsheng decided to dress as a Daoist and travel to Xiniu Hezhou to catch demons.
• A little Daoist chased the Fox-Ear Girl, accused her of stealing through deception, and captured her with a purple talisman and red rope.
• The little Daoist took the Fox-Ear Girl to a mountain hut, sealed its door with a Yellow Talisman, and left her there.
• The Fox-Ear Girl tried unsuccessfully to break the seal and complained about the little Daoist.
• The little Daoist returned with roast chicken and froze the Fox-Ear Girl with a Yellow Talisman, telling her to memorize her book before eating.

Chen Changsheng captured Hu Tudou and tried to make her recite Daoist scriptures, but she escaped the hut and was chased by a giant snake. After Chen Changsheng rescued her, he revealed he had captured her to protect her from the dangers she had blundered into.

• Hu Tudou complained about having to recite scriptures, introduced herself, and learned that her captor was named Chen Changsheng.
• After eating a drumstick, Hu Tudou found the seal gone and tried to escape, but Chen Changsheng let her leave and warned her about the mountain’s dangers.
• A giant python chased Hu Tudou back to Chen Changsheng, and she agreed to recite scriptures in exchange for his help.
• Chen Changsheng bound the python and explained that he had captured Hu Tudou to protect her from demon hunters and Great Demons, including the snake that had been watching her.

Chen Changsheng told Hu Tudou about a fox he had once failed to visit before her death, then reflected on his many roles and the loneliness they left him with. Hu Tudou urged him to live as himself, helping him break through in his Divine Sense Realm, and agreed to stay with him in exchange for lots of delicious food.

• Chen Changsheng told Hu Tudou he had saved her out of boredom and because she reminded him of a fox friend he had met twice.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he had not visited the fox before she died, and Hu Tudou called him heartless before forgiving him.
• Chen Changsheng described the people in his life and said that, despite having friends everywhere, he felt alone and no longer knew what role to play.
• Hu Tudou told Chen Changsheng to play himself, prompting him to realize he had never truly lived for himself and raising his Divine Sense Realm.
• Chen Changsheng invited Hu Tudou to stay by his side, and she agreed in exchange for lots and lots of delicious food.

Chen Changsheng took Hu Tudou to hunt for rare ingredients to make an ultimate candied hawthorn skewer, while the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s Granny learned that Tudou’s opportunity had begun. The chapter ended with Nalan Xingde worrying about the Demon Race’s growing power in the lower realm as Chen Changsheng disguised himself as a donkey.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Hu Tudou was a rare Fragrant Fox and said he planned to catch the Great Strength Donkey Clan’s Hundred Flavors Fruit and the Human-Faced Bees’ Hundred Flowers Honey for his candied hawthorn skewers.
• Hu Tudou warned Chen Changsheng that both clans were dangerous, but he promised to handle them and asked her to help.
• Yue Ying questioned Granny about sending Hu Tudou away, and Granny revealed Tudou had been captured half a month after leaving and that Granny’s avatar had been shattered.
• Granny recognized the aura of Mountain and River Academy’s Supreme Sage on a jade pendant and ordered Yue Ying to investigate unrest in Lingcang Continent.
• Nalan Xingde worried that the Demon Race had taken half the lower realm in three thousand years and wondered where Chen Changsheng had gone.
• Chen Changsheng transformed into a donkey in the upper realm.

Chen Changsheng and Hu Tudou infiltrated the Great Strength Donkey Clan to steal the Hundred Flavors Fruit. Chen Changsheng escaped with forty-nine fruits, but a Donkey Clan Great Expert appeared, leaving him to confront the pursuer while Hu Tudou fled.

• Chen Changsheng explained how medicinal powder disguised him and Hu Tudou as donkey demons, and they learned the locations of the clan experts and holy land from a passing demon.
• Chen Changsheng and Hu Tudou agreed that he would steal the Hundred Flavors Fruit while she waited outside to carry it away.
• Chen Changsheng returned with a Beast Hide Pouch containing forty-nine Hundred Flavors Fruits and urged Hu Tudou to leave.
• A Spatial Rift opened and a Donkey Clan Great Expert shouted for the thief not to run, so Hu Tudou transformed and fled while Chen Changsheng leaped up to face the expert.

Chen Changsheng escaped the Great Strength Donkey Clan after stealing its Hundred Flavors Fruit, then set his sights on the Human-Faced Bee Clan’s honey. As demon clans gathered at Qingqiu to respond, Hu Qiuyue ordered them to march on the Black Tortoise Alliance in ten days but forbade attacks on humans until then.

• Chen Changsheng used his Divine Sense avatar to block the black donkey’s attacks and escaped through a Teleportation Array.
• Chen Changsheng reassured Hu Tudou that they would compensate the Great Strength Donkey Clan after making sugar-coated haws, then turned toward the Human-Faced Bee’s territory.
• The thefts of the Hundred Flavors Fruit and Hundred Flowers Honey stirred unrest in Xiniu Hezhou and raised the threat of conflict between humans and demons.
• The Great Strength Donkey Clan leader and the Human-Faced Bee Queen joined other demon leaders at Qingqiu to ask Hu Qiuyue to take a position.
• Hu Qiuyue ordered the Demon Race to march on the Black Tortoise Alliance in ten days and forbade any clan from attacking humans before the man was handed over.