Chapter Summaries

Qian Ya reported that the Qilin Communicator was turning a profit, and Wang Hao defended her from the coffins as the encirclement of Mountain and River Academy began. At the academy, Ma Guang demanded the Imperial Weapon and challenged its students, while Chen Changsheng told him he was not yet qualified to challenge him.

• Qian Ya reported the Qilin Communicator's profits, and Wang Hao stopped a coffin from attacking her and argued that the group could not afford to distrust one another.
• Wang Hao announced that Ma Guang had gone to Mountain and River Academy and that the encirclement had begun.
• Ma Guang arrived at the academy to retrieve the Imperial Weapon, but student Li barred him from entering without the Dean's permission.
• Ma Guang defeated Li with one punch and declared that he intended to show the academy a better path for cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng arrived, warned Ma Guang against damaging academy property, and told him to wait because he was not qualified to challenge him yet.
• Ma Guang rejected Chen Changsheng's claim and said he wanted to test his strength.

Tu JiaoJiao fought Ma Guang and released her suppressed realm when the thunder tribulation descended, while Chen Changsheng considered sending her to face the Thunder Sea. Chen Changsheng and Dean Mo Wen then discussed Mo Wen’s planned defeat and chose the Xu Family boy as his future opponent.

• Tu JiaoJiao arrived to stop Ma Guang from attacking Chen Changsheng, and Chen Changsheng asked them to add each other as friends before starting their fight.
• Ma Guang gained the upper hand against Tu JiaoJiao, whose realm was higher but who had not yet undergone a thunder tribulation.
• As dark clouds gathered, Chen Changsheng urged Tu JiaoJiao to release her suppression, and she entered the Bone Exchange Realm as the thunder tribulation struck both fighters.
• Chen Changsheng counted the lightning bolts and concluded that the tribulation reflected each fighter’s own strength, while a second tribulation increased its power.
• Chen Changsheng told Mo Wen he wanted Tu JiaoJiao to face the Thunder Sea sooner rather than later, and Mo Wen accepted his judgment.
• Chen Changsheng and Mo Wen discussed who could defeat Mo Wen, settled on the Xu Family boy, and planned for him to become Mo Wen’s opponent.

Tu JiaoJiao endured the lightning tribulation without magical defenses, following Chen Changsheng’s instructions to survive its final wave and be reborn. She reached the peak Bone Exchange Realm and began advancing toward the Mortal Shedding Realm as a Thunder Sea gathered.

• Tu JiaoJiao obeyed Chen Changsheng and faced the lightning tribulation with her body, while Ma Guang used magical treasures to protect himself.
• As the final wave approached, Chen Changsheng told Tu JiaoJiao to abandon every defense and draw the lightning into her body to temper it.
• Tu JiaoJiao let the final lightning strike destroy her body, and Ma Guang assumed she had died and challenged Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng called Tu JiaoJiao back to life; her Life Lamp reignited, and she was reborn with silver scales.
• Chen Changsheng urged Tu JiaoJiao to enter the Mortal Shedding Realm, and a Thunder Sea gathered around her.

Tu JiaoJiao crossed the Thunder Sea, claimed Tiankui Star’s armor and spear, and killed Ma Guang with one thrust, setting off a wave of political realignments. Chen Changsheng later explained that he and his allies were the greatest conservatives because they defended the old Rules to protect those who depended on them.

• Tu JiaoJiao entered the Thunder Sea and defeated a humanoid figure made of lightning, receiving Tiankui Star’s Battle Armor and spear.
• Tu JiaoJiao killed Ma Guang with a single spear thrust, then fainted and was carried away by Chen Changsheng.
• The Great Strength Donkey Clan and several Demon Race and God Race factions severed ties with Mountain and River Academy, while the New Demon Race and Number One Spring Under Heaven supported it.
• Hua Feng and Xu Hu joined the Qilin Communicator Alliance, which grew into a third camp called the New Era; Xu Mao publicly disowned Xu Hu.
• Chen Changsheng refused to let Hu Tudou guard the New Era and explained that his group defended old Rules to protect those who relied on them.

Chen Changsheng explained how he used the Qilin Communicator’s news function to secretly coordinate the New Era and reshape events across the Nine Regions. Five years later, Hua Feng and Xu Hu survived assassination attempts during their tribulations, helping the New Era secure its position as Chen Changsheng led the Protect the Book Faction’s counterattack against the God Race.

• Chen Changsheng told Ye Yongxian that his articles used a fixed format to transmit hidden orders through the Qilin Communicator.
• The Qilin Communicator Alliance offered Heaven’s Chosen a way to repair their foundations, drew sects across the Nine Regions into cooperation, and intensified the Protect the Book Faction’s difficulties.
• Five years after the communicator spread, Hua Feng killed five attackers during her tribulation, entered the Thunder Sea, and vanished after a battle above the clouds.
• Three Mortal Shedding Realm experts forced Xu Hu to trigger his tribulation early; Xu Hu defeated the Demon Emperor’s phantom, obtained the Demon Emperor’s Source Emperor Weapon, and killed his attackers.
• After Hua Feng and Xu Hu’s battles strengthened the New Era’s standing, Chen Changsheng led Number One Spring Under Heaven, Mountain and River Academy’s core forces, and Peacock Little Bright King into war against the God Race.

Chen Changsheng fought the God and Demon Races and the New Era forces, but stopped when continuing would destroy the people on both sides. He accepted the Old Era’s defeat, withdrew to the Su family courtyard, and communicators continued reshaping the Nine Regions.

• Chen Changsheng confronted the Three-Eyed God Race Ancestor and challenged the New Era’s claim that the old powers had been naturally left behind.
• Chen Changsheng’s allies fought relatives, disciples, and former comrades, while Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian fought with lethal ferocity.
• Chen Changsheng and the Three-Eyed God Race Ancestor were both badly wounded, and Chen Changsheng ended the battle, declaring that the Old Era had lost.
• The Protect the Book Faction was defeated, positions changed across the Nine Regions, and Chen Changsheng returned to the Su family courtyard with Su Wan'er.
• Ten years after communicators spread, leaked cultivation methods and Secret Techniques reached the public through the Qilin Communicator, while the Alliance ignored requests from the God and Demon Races.

Thirty years after the Qilin Communicator appeared, Ma Zou Ri tried to kill Qian Ya and the leaders of “New Era,” believing Chen Changsheng had lost. Chen Changsheng revealed that he had spent decades isolating his enemies, and the chapter ended as he began explaining how he had made them friendless.

• Mountain and River Academy’s former teachers taught Dao techniques through the Qilin Communicator to earn cultivation resources as the Human Race struggled under God and Demon oppression.
• The God Race and Demon Race hunted former followers of the Peacock Little Bright King, and the Qilin Communicator Alliance intervened to protect Hua Feng.
• Ma Zou Ri blocked Qian Ya with three coffins and declared that the world had no need for “New Era” or the Qilin Communicator.
• Qian Ya called Hua Feng and the others, while Ma Zou Ri revealed himself as a former Immortal Venerable who now controlled the Demon Court’s fortune.
• Chen Changsheng exposed those hiding nearby and brought Ma Hu, Yang Jian, and Kong Xuan over from Ma Zou Ri’s camp.
• Chen Changsheng told Ma Zou Ri that he had spent thirty years turning him and his allies into people without kin or allies.

Chen Changsheng revealed how he had used Mountain and River Academy, Wang Hao, and the young people of the Nine Regions to end the old factions’ hold and stop hatred from being passed down. After exposing Bai Ze as the hidden ally, he met Baturu in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, where Su Wan’er began a fight to temper her skills and the old friends remembered those who had died or disappeared.

• Chen Changsheng explained to Ma Zou Ri that his scheme had used the academy’s ostracized teachers, the Qilin Communicator, and Wang Hao’s example to help young people reject the old factions.
• Chen Changsheng said he would kill Ma Zou Ri beneath heavenly tribulation and revealed that Ma Zou Ri’s followers had begun to disobey; Ma Zou Ri attacked Bai Ze, whose identity Chen Changsheng had exposed.
• Chen Changsheng and Su Wan'er entered the void and found Baturu on a continent in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• Baturu summoned a coffin and sent out a young man to fight Su Wan'er with her Broken Sword Startled Swan.
• Chen Changsheng and Baturu recalled their old companions, naming those who had died, vanished, or changed their paths.

Chen Changsheng questioned Baturu about his enemies and refused to abandon the current era, so Baturu challenged him to fight. When Su Wan'er summoned her sword, an old farmer appeared and revealed overwhelming sword power.

• Chen Changsheng and Baturu shared bitter tea and discussed Mei Yongsi, Nalan Fuyao, and the cost the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground would face to oppose them.
• Baturu urged Chen Changsheng to give up the era, but Chen Changsheng refused because he wanted to protect the world and prevent past calamities from repeating.
• Baturu gave up persuading Chen Changsheng and challenged him to a fight, asking to see his fist technique and Heaven and Earth Avatar.
• Chen Changsheng asked Su Wan'er to swing the sword in her heart, and she summoned Snow Flurries in the Mortal Realm.
• An old farmer took Broken Sword Startled Swan from Su Wan'er and swung it, severing three layers of Dao Patterns and forcing the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground to retreat thirty li.

Chen Changsheng and Baturu challenged their enemies in the Thunder Sea as Chen Shisan guarded Chen Changsheng’s teacher. While the thunder tribulation battered the battlefield, the others attacked the God Race ancestors, and Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian poisoned each other before seeking prey to survive.

• Chen Shisan took the Iron Sword and blocked the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground’s exit, while Chen Changsheng and Baturu agreed to fight in the Thunder Sea.
• Bai Ze evacuated the weaker fighters, and Chen Changsheng killed Ma Zou Ri before triggering thunder tribulations for the gathered enemies.
• Chen Changsheng and Baturu fought through the lightning as Xu Mao, Yue Ying, Mo Wen, Xu Hu, and Hua Feng attacked God Race experts.
• Wang Hao threatened Ye Yongxian for half the Vajra Glass Pill, and they exchanged poisoned halves before charging toward enemies to delay the poison.

Nalan Xingde helped Su Wan'er find the resolve to play her ancient zither and support the battle, while Chen Changsheng and Baturu fought fiercely inside the lightning tribulation. The chapter left Chen Changsheng and Baturu locked in combat as Bai Ze clung to Baturu's flaming Skeleton Horse.

• Nalan Xingde appeared beside Su Wan'er, urged her to play the ancient zither, and promised to supply the strength she lacked.
• Chen Changsheng struck Baturu with his Heaven and Earth Avatar, but Baturu used the black lightning to purge Chen Changsheng's Fist Intent and heal his injuries.
• Chen Changsheng and Baturu agreed to settle their fight in a mounted clash, and Bai Ze carried Chen Changsheng into battle.
• Chen Changsheng's bronze spear cracked in the collision, while Baturu's Wolf Tooth Club smashed into Chen Changsheng and Chen Changsheng's bloodstained spear pierced Baturu's chest.
• Bai Ze bit down on the Skeleton Horse's front leg despite the flames burning his muzzle.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze fought their way through the battle as the first phase of the lightning tribulation neared its end. The Peacock Little Bright King destroyed the Investiture of the Gods List to deny the God and Demon Races their path to survival, sacrificing himself and leaving Hua Feng to continue the fight.

• The Skeleton Horse kicked Bai Ze, and Baturu struck Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze out of the void with his wolf-tooth club.
• Bai Ze took the Ruyi Wind and Thunder Staff from a God Race expert undergoing tribulation and carried Chen Changsheng back into the battle, leaving Xu Hu to face the expert without an imperial weapon.
• As the first phase of the lightning tribulation neared its end, the Little Bright King called Hua Feng over and told her that certain victory required a sacrifice.
• The Little Bright King linked himself to the Demon Court's luck while Su Wan'er used her zither music to weaken the restrictions on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Nalan Xingde stopped a God Race expert from interrupting Su Wan'er, then withdrew when his intervention drew dark clouds overhead.
• The Peacock Little Bright King detonated the Investiture of the Gods List, reducing the Demon Court's luck by thirty percent and suffering severe backlash as Hua Feng cried out while he underwent Liberation by Violence.

Chen Changsheng defeated Baturu, who admitted his loss and withdrew the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground from the conflict. As Chen Changsheng prepared to enter the Thunder Sea to find a chance to save Chen Shisan, Nalan Xingde gave Chen Shisan research that could help Chen Changsheng reunite him with Meng Yu.

• Chen Changsheng and Baturu stopped fighting as Little Bright King's Liberation by Violence disrupted the scene, and Baturu warned that Chen Changsheng's actions would make the Demon Court desperate.
• Baturu conceded defeat, promised the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground would not interfere in this life, and returned as a Heaven's Mandate blocked the Thunder Sea above him.
• Chen Changsheng refused Chen Shisan's offer to seize a Heaven's Mandate and explained that he needed to search the Thunder Sea for a way to restore Chen Shisan's remaining life.
• Chen Shisan reassured Nalan Xingde that he had chosen his sacrifice willingly, then listed the people he cared about most.
• Nalan Xingde used golden words to make Chen Shisan younger and gave him a sphere of light containing research that could help Chen Changsheng reunite Chen Shisan and Meng Yu.

With the God and Demon Races closing in, Xu Hu and Hua Feng fought on while Chen Changsheng drew their enemies into the Thunder Sea. As the two faced death, Zhang Bairen appeared through the lightning tribulation, revealed that Chen Changsheng’s three puppets could break their deadlock, and summoned powerful figures from coffins, including someone who looked exactly like Chen Changsheng.

• After the Demon Court’s fate and the vitality of the God and Demon Races vanished, Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao retreated, while Hua Feng charged the enemy and Xu Mao and Yue Ying left the battlefield after Xu Hu vowed to survive.
• Hua Feng and Xu Hu continued fighting the God and Demon experts, relying on the Haotian Mirror and Xu Hu’s protective garment to endure their attacks.
• Chen Changsheng returned the Ruyi Wind and Thunder Staff, taunted a God Race expert, and led more than a dozen Immortal King Realm experts deeper into the Thunder Sea with Bai Ze.
• Hua Feng recognized the origins of Xu Hu’s garment and explained how Xu Mao and Yue Ying had made it for him, prompting Xu Hu to understand their sacrifices.
• As Hua Feng and Xu Hu faced death, the Humanoid Thunder Tribulation transformed into Zhang Bairen, who took the Haotian Mirror and told them Chen Changsheng’s three puppets held the way out.
• Zhang Bairen summoned an ancient Bronze Life Lamp and a graveyard manifestation, from which three men emerged, including one who looked exactly like Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng used memories and imprinted spirituality to temporarily revive the Invincible Daoist and Emperor Zuo in specially made puppets. As the revived figures went to protect Hua Feng and Xu Hu, Song Yuanshan revealed that Chen Changsheng had asked them to persuade Hua Feng not to pursue reviving her brother.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he and Zhang Bairen had researched complete resurrection without side effects, but could not recreate a dead person's unique spirituality.
• Chen Changsheng placed phantom imprints into two puppets, temporarily reviving the Invincible Daoist, Song Yuanshan, and Emperor Zuo.
• Chen Changsheng entered a puppet and charged toward the God and Demon Races' experts to stop them interfering with Hua Feng and Xu Hu crossing the Thunder Sea.
• Emperor Zuo recognized Xu Hu as a descendant of Xu Shan and named him the true inheritor of the Heavenly Body Tempering Art before joining the fight.
• Song Yuanshan explained how memories and imprinted spirituality had formed their temporary souls, then told Hua Feng that Chen Changsheng had asked them to dissuade her from trying to revive her brother.

Hua Feng learned that resurrecting her brother could only produce a puppet, then understood the Nameless Fist Technique and achieved Rebirth Through Fire. In the Thunder Sea, Chen Changsheng endured his tribulation and prepared to face the Humanoid Thunder Tribulations tied to Scholar and Tian Xuan.

• Song Yuanshan told Hua Feng that the dead could not truly return and that resurrected Great Dao phantoms would lack real feelings and memories.
• Hua Feng realized the Nameless Fist Technique drew its power from the obsessions, memories, and emotions in one's heart, then flew into the Thunder Sea after achieving Rebirth Through Fire.
• Chen Changsheng spat blood after defeating more than a dozen Immortal King Realm experts while facing the Humanoid Thunder Tribulations.
• Bai Ze urged Chen Changsheng to leave, but Chen Changsheng explained that his karma had earned him nine Humanoid Thunder Tribulations and that he needed to understand the path before his companions faced it.
• Bai Ze left after completing his own tribulation, and Chen Changsheng swallowed a Vajra Glass Pill before charging at the Humanoid Thunder Tribulations of Scholar and Tian Xuan.

Chen Changsheng continued battling the increasingly complete Humanoid Thunder Tribulations while Nalan Xingde and Chen Shisan discussed the danger awaiting their master. Chen Shisan chose to stay by Master’s side, then met the newly tribulation-tested Hu Yan, Tu JiaoJiao, and the others.

• Chen Changsheng realized the Thunder Sea tested a cultivator’s Dao and wondered whether its final challenge would be a complete simulation of a dead Heaven’s Mandate Bearer.
• Nalan Xingde explained that Chen Changsheng’s next opponents would have more complete Great Daos, while Chen Shisan noted that the Thunder Tribulations lacked agility and could be overcome.
• Chen Shisan and Nalan Xingde sensed that Master faced a targeted life-and-death calamity, and Nalan Xingde said he had to leave to aid the Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.
• Chen Shisan declared that the world’s Great Trend meant nothing to him and went to stay by Master’s side.
• Chen Shisan reunited with Bai Ze, rejected Yang Feiyun’s wish to learn swordsmanship from him, and judged that Hu Yan, Tu JiaoJiao, and the others were not enough.

Chen Changsheng fought four powerful Humanoid Thunder Tribulations and relied on the system’s defensive boost to survive the Thunder Sea. Meanwhile, Hua Feng and Xu Hu completed their tribulations, and Chen Changsheng let Song Yuanshan and Zuo Xinghe’s memory fragments depart, leaving their bodies as lifeless puppets.

• Chen Shisan asked Bai Ze to help persuade the Teacher after his thunder tribulation, and Bai Ze agreed to try.
• Chen Changsheng questioned the system about his defense, then prepared to fight four more Humanoid Thunder Tribulations after recovering some strength.
• Chen Changsheng’s system-granted defense prevented the small, fatal injuries that the Thunder Sea’s lightning would otherwise have inflicted.
• Hua Feng defeated his Humanoid Thunder Tribulation, and Song Yuanshan praised Hua Feng and Xu Hu before sharing his fist technique’s intent.
• Song Yuanshan explained that he was only a memory fragment and chose to dissipate, then Zuo Xinghe reassured Chen Changsheng before he too became a lifeless puppet.

After training Hua Feng and Xu Hu, Chen Changsheng watched the New Heavenly Court rise following the defeat of the God and Demon Races. Years later, he went fishing with Chen Shisan, reassured him about the people who had left, and discussed Zhang Bairen’s mysterious presence in the Thunder Sea.

• Chen Changsheng warned Hua Feng and Xu Hu that they could become like the old God and Demon Races if they blocked others’ progress, then left them to lead the New Era.
• Thirty years after the communicator’s introduction, the God and Demon Races attacked the New Era and were destroyed amid a half-month Thunder Tribulation; the New Heavenly Court subsequently expanded across the Nine Regions.
• Chen Changsheng criticized Feiyun’s historical manuscripts, then told Hu Tudou he would go fishing and said she and Wan Er could give birth in two days.
• At the river, Chen Shisan urged Chen Changsheng to avoid danger, but Chen Changsheng explained that he wanted his students and companions to live their own lives.
• Chen Shisan drank Thunder Tribulation Liquid, and he and Chen Changsheng discussed Zhang Bairen’s phantom on the Heavenly Court’s throne inside the Thunder Sea.

Chen Changsheng discussed Nalan Fuyao’s plans with Chen Shisan, then helped Meng Yu track Shisan down after he fled her cooking. He considered the danger Nalan Zi Ping posed if he learned the secret of immortality, but chose to trust his luck rather than kill him.

• Chen Changsheng assured Chen Shisan that he had been preparing to face Nalan Fuyao, then told him to flee when Meng Yu called for him.
• Meng Yu asked Chen Changsheng where Chen Shisan was, and Chen Changsheng blamed Shisan for insulting her cooking and gave her a Jade Slip to track him.
• Chen Changsheng told the system he feared Nalan Fuyao but refused to hand Nalan Zi Ping over to him, worried that Zi Ping would become a threat to all living beings.
• The system identified Zi Ping’s desire for immortality as the real danger and suggested killing him to prevent others from trying to extract the secret from Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng decided to trust his good luck, then reeled in a plump fish.