Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng visited Number One Spring Under Heaven and revealed his connection to its founder before meeting Yang Feng among the graves of the Tiger Braves. He ordered Yang Feng to lead the surviving Tiger Braves against the Beast Race, leaving the underground burial ground after the command was accepted.

• Chen Changsheng defeated Xu Mao, the sect master of Number One Spring Under Heaven, and explained the sect's true name and its founder's history.
• Xu Mao recognized Chen Changsheng as the founder and led him to the sect's underground burial ground, while Hu Tudou stayed behind with Yue Ying.
• Chen Changsheng met Yang Feng, who was sealed inside a Longevity Bloodstone, and learned that the Tiger Braves had kept their whereabouts secret by choice.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Yang Feng temporary Tiger Brave Commander and ordered him to lead the Tiger Braves against the Beast Race.
• Yang Feng accepted the command, and Chen Changsheng poured out the Hundred Flower Wine before leaving the graves.

Chen Changsheng found the descendants guarding the Eight Hundred Tiger Braves and urged them to gather, while Xu Mao learned that his sect had failed to inherit their ancestors’ legacy. In the Lower Realm, the former Tiger Brave Commander’s son Zi Ping set out for the Upper Realm to seek Chen Changsheng and face his own path.

• Chen Changsheng told Xu Mao to gather the sect’s disciples and explained that the Eight Hundred Tiger Braves’ armor had not recognized them.
• Xu Mao revealed that his ancestor was one of the Tiger Braves’ eight Centurions and that Number One Spring Under Heaven preserved both their inheritance and bloodline.
• At Mountain and River Academy, the former Tiger Brave Commander recognized that Chen Changsheng had found the Tiger Braves and insisted she needed to go to him.
• Zi Ping volunteered to travel to the Upper Realm in his mother’s place, and Nalan Xingde agreed to let him go without protective treasures.
• Nalan Xingde reassured his wife that Chen Changsheng would guide Zi Ping and that their son would win his favor.

Bai Ze was captured by the Beast Race and Heavenly God Race, but he refused to surrender the Qiongqi Tomb clues unless they let him join the expedition. The factions debated whether to compromise, and the peacock urged them to secure the tomb before the Undertaker could respond.

• The Beast Race and Heavenly God Race trapped Bai Ze beneath the Heaven Piercing Seal, but safeguards in his sea of consciousness blocked their attempt to search it.
• Bai Ze offered to hand over the Qiongqi Tomb clues and stolen treasures only if he could enter the tomb with them.
• The dragon threatened Bai Ze, but the peacock stopped him and argued that torture would not work.
• Bai Ze insisted that he would risk the tomb’s dangers for a chance to explore it, even if the factions planned to kill him afterward.
• The five great Beast Races and the Heavenly God Race debated the Undertaker’s possible response, and the peacock urged them to seize the Qiongqi Tomb quickly.

The Beast Race leaders decided to use Bai Ze to find Qiongqi Tomb and kill him once he revealed its location, while a Heavenly Silk Clan expert secretly resolved to aid the Undertaker. In Danggui Zhou, Chen Changsheng explained how he planned to combine Heavenly Net with mobile puppets to create a replenishable killing array.

• The flood dragon ordered Peacock to accompany Bai Ze while the other creatures cleared the field, and the group agreed to kill Bai Ze after learning about Qiongqi Tomb.
• A Heavenly Silk Clan expert recalled his ancestor's order to protect Bai Ze and aid the Undertaker, then hurried after the others while questioning the Beast Race's direction.
• In Danggui Zhou, Chen Changsheng continued making puppets as Hu Tudou, Yue Ying, and Xu Mao questioned why he needed so many.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Heavenly Net could connect puppets and move them along fixed paths, forming a mobile killing array whose gaps and core could be repositioned.
• Yue Ying and Xu Mao swallowed nervously as Chen Changsheng described how the array could exhaust enemies by sacrificing puppets instead of lives.

Chen Changsheng tested his Ghost Shadow Tracing Array on Yue Ying and Xu Mao while the pair tried to break through it. Meanwhile, Peacock exposed Bai Ze’s scheme in Danggui Zhou, but an approaching presence distracted them before Bai Ze’s fate was decided.

• Chen Changsheng trapped Yue Ying and Xu Mao in the Ghost Shadow Tracing Array formed by three thousand puppets, and they tried to destroy the puppets to break it.
• Chen Changsheng told the disciples of Number One Spring Under Heaven to leave the pair fighting in the array and go eat.
• Bai Ze led Peacock and the Peacock Clan into Danggui Zhou, where Peacock revealed that the Beast Race had uncovered and removed Bai Ze’s arrangements.
• Peacock broke Bai Ze’s restriction and froze him in midair after Bai Ze attacked, then said the Beast Race no longer needed him.
• Bai Ze’s nose twitched, and Peacock turned in alarm toward a mountain peak.

The masked Undertaker lured the Beast and God Races into a siege, then trapped them in the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array made from puppets. As the attackers tried to destroy the puppets, a hidden repair network kept sending them back into battle.

• The Peacock Clan and allied Beast and God Races surrounded the masked Undertaker, who revealed that their forces had gathered to test whether he was still weakened.
• The masked figure turned out to be a puppet, and the Undertaker activated the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, transporting Bai Ze to its center.
• Bai Ze watched Chen Changsheng relax with Hu Tudou while Xu Mao and Yue Ying served it, and Chen Changsheng said the formation's true killer move had yet to appear.
• Peacock warned that the attackers should withdraw, but the flood dragon insisted they destroy the puppets to break the formation.
• Special puppets collected damaged parts, repaired the fallen puppets, and sent them back to the battlefield through a Teleportation Array.

Chen Changsheng explained that his arrays let puppets identify, assess, and repair damage, and revealed his aim to create a puppet that could think and perhaps reproduce a dead person’s way of thinking. Meanwhile, the Undertaker’s battle drew powerful observers, and Yang Feng confronted a group of reinforcements trying to reach the trapped Flood Dragon Clan Leader.

• Chen Changsheng showed Bai Ze three types of puppets and explained that arrays could give them the ability to identify objects, assess damage, and make repairs.
• Chen Changsheng said he wanted to keep developing puppets that could think and potentially recreate a dead person, while Bai Ze warned him against creating life.
• Beast Race and Heavenly God Race forces continued destroying puppets without noticing that newly manufactured puppets kept joining the battlefield.
• Powerful figures gathered outside Danggui Zhou to watch the Undertaker’s clash with the Upper Realm.
• Yang Feng, acting under the Imperial Tutor’s orders, blocked three aged flood dragons and other reinforcements from entering the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, and a giant bird challenged him to bring out Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.

Yang Feng’s Tiger Guards fought the encircling forces until the son of an old friend arrived with the Tiger Brave Army’s command token and took command. At the Ascension Road, Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu confronted the phantoms trying to interfere with Danggui Zhou and warned them not to provoke a war.

• Yang Feng refused to discuss old grudges, and the Flood Dragon Race led the forces attacking the formation.
• Yang Feng summoned the Tiger Guards, and 799 suits of Bronze Armor charged into the enemy encirclement.
• A young man arrived, donned the Commander’s Bronze Armor, and ordered the Tiger Guards to break east and attack the Flood Dragon Race.
• Yang Feng recognized the young man as the son of an old friend and rallied the now-complete Eight Hundred Tiger Braves.
• At the Ascension Road, Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu blocked the phantoms from interfering in Danggui Zhou or harming the young man.
• Nalan Xingde warned the phantoms that intervening would make Sir take the matter seriously and could start a war.

The Tiger Brave Army fought until Chen Changsheng forced back the enemy and ordered the phantoms to retreat, leaving Nalan Zi Ping alive with their sacrifice. Chen Changsheng scolded Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu for bringing their descendants into the Era of Chaos, then learned that Thirteen's preserved son was named Chen Xiang.

• Nalan Zi Ping fought with the Tiger Brave Army until the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array erupted and six figures were thrown out.
• Chen Changsheng stood atop a mountain of destroyed puppets, and the Tiger Brave Army sounded its retreat horn after driving back the enemy.
• Yang Feng told Zi Ping to remember all seven hundred ninety-nine names, then vanished with the other phantoms as Chen Changsheng watched.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Zi Ping and learned that his father had released him from preservation.
• Chen Changsheng traveled to the Ascension Road, struck Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu across the palms, and reprimanded them for letting their descendants enter the Era of Chaos.
• Nalan Xingde told Chen Changsheng that Thirteen had a preserved son, and named the infant Chen Xiang, the "Xiang" of incense offerings.

Chen Changsheng accepted the Longevity Bloodstone, warned the phantoms not to provoke him, and demanded three Beast Race clans in exchange for staying out of the war. After burying Tiger Brave and trapping the Flood Dragon Race in Hidden Dragon Zhou, he revealed that he had sent people to attack its unguarded home.

• Chen Changsheng accepted the Longevity Bloodstone from Nalan Xingde and told him he would safeguard hope.
• Chen Changsheng warned the phantoms that he would not interfere in the coming war, but claimed the Heavenly Silk Clan, the Peacock Clan, and the Flood Dragon Race for himself.
• The phantoms discussed how the God Race and Human Race had secretly joined forces to destroy the Beast Race and agreed that conceding three clans could keep the Undertaker out of their way.
• In Danggui Zhou, Chen Changsheng buried eight hundred suits of Bronze Armor and placed a gravestone for Tiger Brave.
• Chen Changsheng told the Beast Race that he would destroy the Flood Dragon Race, revealing that he had sent people to attack Hidden Dragon Zhou while its experts were away.
• Chen Changsheng and Zi Ping vanished into the formation as the Heaven Trapping Array in Hidden Dragon Zhou reversed, allowing people to leave but preventing entry.

On Hidden Dragon Zhou, Chen Changsheng and Zi Ping prepared for the coming conflict with the Flood Dragon Race while discussing the cycles of eras and why Zi Ping must survive. Chen Changsheng revealed that he could not be sealed away and would endure the coming hundred thousand years alone, leaving Zi Ping to follow him onward.

• Chen Changsheng told Zi Ping that the graves of the Eight Hundred Tiger Braves concealed an explosive formation, which detonated when the Flood Dragon Race disturbed them.
• Chen Changsheng explained that they would survey Hidden Dragon Zhou before searching for the Qiongqi Tomb, since the Flood Dragon Race knew the terrain.
• Zi Ping asked Chen Changsheng not to seal him away, but Chen Changsheng said he had to survive as the hope and witness of his era.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Zi Ping would remain sealed until the era after next, possibly for up to one hundred thousand years, while Chen Changsheng could not use Longevity Bloodstone to endure the time.
• Zi Ping asked what bound Chen Changsheng, who spoke of lost things, people, time, and memories before continuing down the road.

Chen Changsheng returned and found a possible way to locate the Qiongqi Tomb in the void by using two weapons Qiongqi had broken. He left the group wondering whether he could restore the weapons’ spirituality so they could resonate with their missing halves.

• Bai Ze searched for the Qiongqi Tomb by sniffing ancient bones, while Xu Mao and Yue Ying questioned his method.
• Chen Changsheng returned with a young man and gave sugar-coated haws to Hu Tudou, Zi Ping, and Bai Ze.
• Chen Changsheng examined the relics Bai Ze had collected and identified a broken Human Race sword and a damaged God Race bronze cauldron.
• Bai Ze explained that the weapons belonged to cultivators Qiongqi had wounded and that both were already broken when recovered.
• Chen Changsheng proposed using the weapons’ missing halves as markers in the void, then said he could bring the damaged halves back to life.

Chen Changsheng used two broken weapons to create imitation Weapon Spirits that could lead the group toward the Qiongqi Tomb, though he admitted he was unsure the ruse would work. As they traveled through the void, he grew worried that Nalan Zi Ping might struggle if someone more capable surpassed him.

• Chen Changsheng reasoned that the broken weapons had been carried out of the Qiongqi battlefield and that their counterparts inside the tomb might reveal its location; Zi Ping explained how they could serve as clues.
• Chen Changsheng created imitation Weapon Spirits from Divine Sense, and Bai Ze eagerly asked him to teach the technique.
• The Peacock Clan's Ancestor and the Seven-Colored Demon Spider Clan's Ancestor attacked the Heaven Trapping Array, so Chen Changsheng led the group into the void to search for the Qiongqi Tomb before the Old Mud Loach noticed.
• When Zi Ping questioned whether the imitation Weapon Spirits would work, Chen Changsheng rebuked him for pressing the matter, and Bai Ze laughed at Zi Ping's embarrassment.
• Chen Changsheng praised Zi Ping's conduct but worried aloud about whether he could bear being outdone by someone more outstanding and intelligent.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze reached the Qiongqi Tomb, where Bai Ze revealed that it had sought the tomb to escape a coming calamity. They discussed Nalan Zi Ping’s unsettling perfection, and Chen Changsheng resolved to personally teach and restrain him, though he feared Zi Ping might eventually target his immortality.

• Chen Changsheng reassured Zi Ping and led the group through the void toward the Qiongqi Tomb.
• At the tomb, Chen Changsheng took Bai Ze onto the island ahead of the others to scout for danger.
• Bai Ze admitted it had searched for the tomb because it sensed danger and expected to hide there for a long time.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze agreed that Zi Ping seemed unnaturally perfect and might pose a future threat.
• Chen Changsheng said he would personally teach Zi Ping and keep him in check, but feared Zi Ping might seek his immortality.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze entered the Qiongqi Tomb, where red paper figures overwhelmed them and forced them to retreat. Afterward, Chen Changsheng began making lifelike puppets to use as cannon fodder for exploring the tomb.

• Bai Ze warned Chen Changsheng that the Qiongqi Tomb could contain dangerous traps or strange methods left behind after Qiongqi's death, then covered himself with protective treasures.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze crossed more than three hundred li of the desolate island without encountering anything, until Chen Changsheng spotted a red paper figure on Bai Ze's head.
• The paper figures attacked Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze, draining their strength despite their lightning, Buddhist chants, Golden Silkworm Gu, and Karma Fire.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze fled the Qiongqi Tomb after Chen Changsheng used Karma Fire to hold off the paper figures.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he needed cannon fodder to scout the tomb and produced lifelike puppets resembling himself and his companions.

Chen Changsheng prepared puppet decoys to lure powerful Beast Race leaders toward the Qiongqi Tomb, while Azure Dragon pursued the tomb in hopes of recovering the Dragon Pearl and restoring the Beast Race’s ancient glory. Peacock worried that the Beast Race’s resistance to change would leave it unable to keep pace with the rising Human Race.

• Chen Changsheng finished flesh-like puppets and told Bai Ze that they would need portions of Divine Sense Realm power attached to imitate powerful auras.
• Azure Dragon entered the void, rebuked Peacock for caution, and revealed that recovering the Dragon Pearl could let it become a True Dragon and revive the Beast Race.
• Azure Dragon, Peacock, and the Five-Colored Spider followed Chen Changsheng’s lingering aura to the Qiongqi Tomb, where a decoy group attacked and fled.
• Azure Dragon ignored the attack and rushed into the tomb, while Peacock and the Five-Colored Spider discussed the danger of the Undertaker’s trap.
• Peacock warned that the Human Race’s rapid growth threatened the Beast Race, but the Five-Colored Spider noted that conservative Beast Race leaders resisted change.

Peacock lamented that the beast race lacked pioneers like the Undertaker and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li before entering the Qiongqi Tomb with the Five-Colored Spider. Chen Changsheng led his group through the tomb to the site of Qiongqi's death, where he ordered them to kowtow to the dead experts and seek inheritances before the corpses awakened.

• Peacock told the Five-Colored Spider that he hoped the beast race would produce a pioneer like the Undertaker or Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, then entered the Qiongqi Tomb with the spider.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the younger cultivators' foundations differed from those of his era because cultivation methods had changed, then led the group stealthily into the tomb.
• After six hours, Chen Changsheng's group reached the place where Qiongqi had fallen and found the lifelike bodies of ancient experts.
• Bai Ze explained that the Grand Formation had nourished the experts' bodies for three hundred thousand years and that disturbing their balance could cause most of them to go berserk.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the group to kneel before suitable corpses, kowtow loudly, and seek inheritances before leaving the tomb.

Chen Changsheng guided the others through the Qiongqi Tomb to claim treasures, then used Bai Ze to obtain the Dragon Pearl and send it to the old flood dragon. At the border of Hidden Dragon Zhou, he sealed Zi Ping and two infants in Longevity Bloodstones and entrusted them, along with a Wooden Box, to Bai Ze.

• Chen Changsheng showed Nalan, Hu Tudou, Xu Mao, and Yue Ying safe paths into the Grand Formation, while Xu Mao and Yue Ying declared their resolve to the seated seniors.
• Bai Ze disguised himself and pleaded with Qiongqi for the Beast Race, prompting Qiongqi's corpse to release the Dragon Pearl as the group was blasted from the formation with treasures.
• Chen Changsheng took Bai Ze's Dragon Pearl and threw it away, then teleported the group out of the Qiongqi Tomb.
• The Dragon Pearl flew to the old flood dragon, which received a message urging it to leave and help the Beast Race reclaim its ancient glory before escaping with Peacock and the Five-Colored Spider.
• At the border of Hidden Dragon Zhou, Chen Changsheng sealed Zi Ping and two infants in Longevity Bloodstones and told Bai Ze to keep them and a Wooden Box safe.

Chen Changsheng entrusted three children to Bai Ze and went to confront the Flood Dragon as it underwent a Heavenly Tribulation to transform into a true dragon. He declared that he would turn the tribulation into Heavenly Punishment and kill the Flood Dragon, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Chen Changsheng gave Bai Ze the three children and asked him to care for them if Chen Changsheng failed to return.
• Bai Ze told Hu Tudou that Chen Changsheng was lost and had to find his own direction.
• The Flood Dragon began its Heavenly Tribulation over Hidden Dragon Zhou, while the Peacock and the Five-Colored Spider left to avoid strengthening it.
• Chen Changsheng appeared in the storm clouds and confronted the Flood Dragon, explaining that an outsider's interference would double the tribulation's power.
• Chen Changsheng said he would turn the Heavenly Tribulation into Heavenly Punishment and challenged the Flood Dragon to kill him.

Chen Changsheng used Liberation by Violence during a dragon’s tribulation, turning it into endless Heavenly Punishment and leading others to believe he had died. His disciples realized he had chosen to hide and rest, while several of them confronted Zhang Bairen over the Investiture of the Gods War.

• Chen Changsheng scattered his body and cultivation into the dragon’s Heavenly Tribulation, spreading his Karmic Debt across Hidden Dragon Zhou and transforming the tribulation into endless black lightning that killed the dragon.
• Nalan Xingde sensed that Chen Changsheng was dead, then wondered whether Teacher had grown tired of the Path to Longevity.
• In the Unknown Land, a majestic man told Zi Ning that Chen Changsheng had chosen Liberation by Violence to escape and decided to return to help him.
• Chen Shisan told Meng Yu that Chen Changsheng had hidden because he needed rest, and argued that everyone should let him recover.
• A frost-cold woman attacked Zhang Bairen, while Nalan Xingde sealed the space and Wu Li arrived to confront him over breaking his agreement with Chen Changsheng.