Chapter Summaries

At the Su family residence, Bai Ze wondered where Chen Changsheng had gone, while Hu Tudou remained worried about his absence. Chen Changsheng asked Zhang Bairen about Nalan Fuyao and sought his help protecting the world, then approached Wang Hao for assistance and was refused.

• At the Su family residence, Meng Yu kept Bai Ze away from the newborn Chen Xiang, and Bai Ze said Chen Changsheng had left after handing over two children.
• Hu Tudou worried that Chen Changsheng was missing from the family gathering, despite Bai Ze saying his strength made him safe.
• In the Flower Region, Chen Changsheng questioned Zhang Bairen about Nalan Fuyao, and Zhang Bairen told him to investigate the Wang family grandfather and grandson, including Wang Hao.
• Zhang Bairen agreed they could try to protect the world together if Chen Changsheng survived Nalan Fuyao's attack.
• At Mountain and River Academy, Chen Changsheng asked Wang Hao for help against a stronger enemy, but Wang Hao refused and prepared to leave.

Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao that his life had been manipulated by hidden forces and recruited him to help develop a dangerous scheme against them. Ninety years after communicators were invented, Chen Changsheng dodged his sons’ questions about birthday gifts and one son’s wings with shameless excuses.

• Chen Changsheng showed Wang Hao his first teacher’s lingering blood mist and argued that Wang Hao’s encounter with him had caused the people manipulating Wang Hao to abandon their plans.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Wang Hao’s map had led him to spoils hidden where an optical illusion supposedly lay, suggesting Wang Hao had been positioned as a chess piece.
• Wang Hao agreed to research a vicious scheme for Chen Changsheng before Hua Feng bore the Mandate of Heaven, but refused to carry it out himself.
• Chen Xiang asked Chen Changsheng for a birthday gift, and Chen Changsheng told him to ask his godfather instead.
• Yin Qi asked whether Chen Changsheng was his biological father and why he had wings, and Chen Changsheng blamed his mother’s fondness for grilled chicken wings.

Chen Changsheng’s family kept his sons Yin Qi and Chen Xiang unaware that they were destined to enter the Cultivation World, while Chen Shisan and Meng Yu struggled with hiding the truth from them. At the New Heavenly Court, Chen Changsheng asked Hua Feng and Xu Hu whether they were prepared to bear the Mandate of Heaven, and they fell silent.

• Chen Changsheng teased Yin Qi about questioning whether he was really his son, and Yin Qi ran off.
• Chen Xiang visited Chen Shisan and Meng Yu, complained that Chen Changsheng had forgotten his birthday, and said Yin Qi doubted his parentage.
• Chen Shisan gave the boys a wooden sword and a wooden Buddha pendant, but Hu Tudou scolded them and reminded Chen Shisan that Sir had forbidden the children from encountering the Cultivation World.
• Meng Yu urged Chen Shisan to tell the boys the truth, but Chen Shisan said their parents’ deaths would burden them with hatred and that Hua Feng’s rise to the Mandate of Heaven was near.
• At the New Heavenly Court, Hua Feng explained to Xu Hu that letting go of competition had helped her advance, and Chen Changsheng asked them whether they were prepared to bear the Mandate of Heaven.

Chen Changsheng met Nalan Fuyao at the World's Edge and learned that his enemies planned to use the Dao of fortune to establish a controlled Reincarnation for experiments into immortality. Nalan Fuyao revealed that they had waited until Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li left, leaving Chen Changsheng to face them without his usual allies.

• Chen Changsheng told Xu Hu to prepare to guard the world and left with Hua Feng and Qian Ya.
• Chen Changsheng promised Qian Ya he would return safely, then brought Hua Feng to the World's Edge to bear Heaven's Mandate.
• Hua Feng entered the void to prepare, while Chen Changsheng brewed tea and called Nalan Fuyao out of hiding.
• Nalan Fuyao admitted his group intended to help Hua Feng bear Heaven's Mandate so they could use the Dao of fortune in their plan.
• Chen Changsheng deduced that their Reincarnation would bind living beings to the Heavenly Dao and turn them into subjects for lifespan experiments.
• Nalan Fuyao confirmed Chen Changsheng's suspicions and declared that his trump card was gone because Wu Li had left.

Chen Changsheng confronted Nalan Fuyao, who explained why he had to die and revealed that the conspirators were Evil Cultivators. After Chen Changsheng poisoned him with the Golden Silkworm Gu, Nalan Fuyao prepared a final move, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Chen Changsheng questioned Nalan Fuyao about the forces arrayed against him, and Nalan Fuyao said they had accounted for his allies and feared his ability to find useful people and weaknesses in their Reincarnation plan.
• Nalan Fuyao admitted that Chen Changsheng and Zi Ping had to die, and Chen Changsheng proposed that they gamble on which of them would die first.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had put the Golden Silkworm Gu in Nalan Fuyao's tea, and Nalan Fuyao acknowledged the poison but said he could endure it for a while.
• Chen Changsheng asked whether Nalan Fuyao would take lifespans from all living beings if his own ran out, then concluded that he had to kill him.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had deduced Nalan Fuyao's group were Evil Cultivators, and Nalan Fuyao praised his reasoning and invited him to join them.
• Chen Changsheng refused, and Nalan Fuyao took out a crystal-clear skull and said that if Chen Changsheng survived his next move, Nalan Fuyao would lose their duel.

Nalan Fuyao used his immortal bone to unleash the Yansheng Art against Chen Changsheng, but Chen had prepared a Golden Silkworm Gu and curse to strike back. As the heavenly Dao began to reunite, Hua Feng merged with it to suppress the Evil Path, leaving himself trapped within it.

• Nalan Fuyao sacrificed his immortal bone and half his lifespan to turn Chen Changsheng into paper money with the Yansheng Art.
• Chen Changsheng slowed his body's dissolution with the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique and Supreme Sage's ruler, then explained how he had prepared a Golden Silkworm Gu and curse for Nalan Fuyao.
• The Gu and curse injured Nalan Fuyao, while Chen Changsheng revealed that he had anticipated Nalan Fuyao would use his immortal bone as the Yansheng Art's suppressing object.
• Hua Feng dragged a continent from the void as the extracted Evil Path began returning to the heavenly Dao, and Chen Changsheng fled toward another continent.
• Hua Feng merged with the heavenly Dao to suppress the Evil Path and deter the evil cultivators, trapping himself within the Dao forever.

Chen Changsheng reincarnated with his memories erased, while Xu Hu faced the choice of restoring the Tiger Guard and Yang Feiyun searched for him. Years later, the nameless village boy called Fool left home with a book, and a distant Bronze Life Lamp flickered.

• Zhang Bairen warned Nalan Fuyao that Chen Changsheng had escaped and given him one of the Four Great Books, then disappeared; Nalan Fuyao left the Su family after learning Chen Xiang and Yin Qi were gone.
• Xu Hu considered whether to use Chen Changsheng’s Jade Slip to restore the Eight Hundred Tiger Braves, fearing the cost to the young prodigies who might join.
• Chen Changsheng’s remaining True Spirit entered reincarnation, and he learned from the system that he would lose his memories and have to find a way to contact it.
• In the eighty-first year of the New Heavenly Court, the Phoenix Empress merged with the Dao to suppress the Extraterrestrial Demon, Xu Hu took control, and cultivators became subject to reincarnation unless they held a Heavenly Court divine post.
• Yang Feiyun entered the Heretical Cultivator Continent carrying a Bronze Life Lamp and began searching for Chen Changsheng.
• Fool left his village at night with a firewood stick and a book, and the Bronze Life Lamp flickered from far away.

Yang Feiyun followed the Bronze Life Lamp after it reacted, while a nameless little beggar awakened his intelligence by swallowing the birth date and time meant for a sacrificial victim. The beggar named himself Chang Sheng and set out into the world, but the lamp guiding Yang Feiyun suddenly went out.

• Yang Feiyun saw the Bronze Life Lamp react after ten years and headed toward Chen Changsheng, hoping to fulfill his request and leave the dangerous continent.
• A dark-skinned old man bought sesame cakes for a nameless beggar and took him to his village, where the old couple dressed him in red to use him as a substitute for their dying grandson.
• At the Mass Burial Ground, a red-clad woman tried to seize the beggar, but golden light from his firewood stick destroyed her and the sacrificial garment.
• The beggar swallowed the scrap bearing the intended victim’s birth date and time, awakening his intelligence, then buried the dried corpse of the couple’s grandson and took food and money from the house.
• The beggar named himself Chang Sheng and left along the country road to seek answers about his mysteries.
• Yang Feiyun saw the Bronze Life Lamp go out and reassured himself that he would find Chen Changsheng alive or recover his body.

Chang Sheng, a boy guided by instinct, killed a Yellow Weasel that sought godhood and spent three years wandering in the beasts’ hides. At a farmhouse, he agreed to try to save Yu Sheng from a Red-Clothed Sister in exchange for help figuring out who he was.

• Chang Sheng told a Yellow Weasel it looked like a god, then his Yansheng Art transformed the weasel’s flesh and blood into paper money.
• Chang Sheng made a vest from the weasel’s hide and wandered for three years.
• Chang Sheng warned Yu Sheng and his grandfather that a Red-Clothed Sister at their farmhouse threatened their lives.
• Yu Sheng’s grandfather recognized Chang Sheng’s strength from his Yellow Weasel vest, fox-fur hat, and beast-fang bracelet.
• Chang Sheng said he could try to deal with the Red-Clothed Sister if Yu Sheng’s grandfather helped him discover who he was.

A beast-hide boy asked Qing Xuzi to explain why he felt driven to recover his past, and learned that he had no fate of his own and had taken the place of an Innate Yin Body. Qing Xuzi's divination gave the boy the surname Chen, while a Bronze Life Lamp briefly reignited elsewhere.

• The beast-hide boy asked Qing Xuzi to read his palm and face, and Qing Xuzi concluded that the boy had no fate and was living in someone else's place.
• Qing Xuzi explained that the boy had been foolish because he lacked a fate, and that his instincts were leading him to recover memories from a past life.
• The beast-hide boy lent Qing Xuzi a firewood stick that could keep the Red-Clothed Sister at bay.
• Qing Xuzi used his lifespan to divine the boy's surname, collapsed after the tortoise shell exploded, and wrote the character Chen.
• The beast-hide boy accepted the name Chen Changsheng, while Yang Feiyun saw the Bronze Life Lamp briefly reignite and go out again.

Chen Changsheng intimidated the Bridal Gown Woman, then listened as Yu Sheng's grandfather explained why he had defied Heaven to bring Yu Sheng into the world. The old man revealed that Yu Sheng's birth cost his parents their lives and entangled Yu Sheng with a mysterious force.

• The Bridal Gown Woman threatened Chen Changsheng, but his warning and aura frightened her into vanishing.
• Yu Sheng woke Chen Changsheng and told him that his grandfather wanted to see him; Chen Changsheng said a firewood stick at the entrance should keep trouble away that night.
• Chen Changsheng spoke with the old man, who explained that a divination had foretold his family line would end with his son.
• The old man said he had learned of a New World where cultivators could grow stronger without suffering the Five Deficiencies and Three Shortcomings, but whose inhabitants rejected his people as Extraterrestrial Demons.
• The old man admitted that his people would contaminate the New World and said he had used forbidden methods to bring Yu Sheng into this world so his grandson could see its promise.
• The old man revealed that Yu Sheng's parents died when he was born and Yu Sheng became entangled with a mysterious force.

Chen Changsheng heard the old man's account of the New World and agreed to help his grandson Yu Sheng, then asked about the Curse Book and learned the dangers of Yansheng Art. The old man sent Chen Changsheng and Yu Sheng to Dragon Tiger Mountain, while he stayed behind to contain the Drought Demon; Chen Changsheng vaguely recalled meeting a similar creature before.

• The old man described the orderly New World and begged Chen Changsheng to help Yu Sheng, offering to cast another divination in return.
• Chen Changsheng accepted the old man's request but stopped him from risking his life for a second divination.
• Chen Changsheng showed the old man the Yin Yang Yansheng Book, and the old man explained its origins, risks, and need for an original key.
• The old man gave Chen Changsheng a token for Dragon Tiger Mountain and asked Yu Sheng to accompany him there.
• The old man refused to leave because he had stolen the Drought Demon's life force and feared she would cause a calamity if her body and soul reunited.
• Chen Changsheng said he seemed to have encountered a Drought Demon with a three-character name before, but could not remember it.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng traveled toward Dragon Tiger Mountain, and Chen Changsheng encouraged Zhang Yu Sheng to stop worrying about his supposed curse and enjoy life. With no money or food, they found paid work posing as mourners at a wealthy family’s funeral, where Chen Changsheng later gave Zhang Yu Sheng a roast chicken butt.

• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng admitted they did not know the way to Dragon Tiger Mountain and decided to keep walking until they could ask someone for directions.
• Zhang Yu Sheng worried that he was a Star of Calamity who had caused his parents’ deaths, so Chen Changsheng urged him to focus on living and experiencing the world.
• Chen Changsheng pointed out that they had neither money nor rations and said they needed to find work and food.
• Chen Changsheng took Zhang Yu Sheng to a funeral, where the two boys were paid to mourn for seven days with food and lodging included.
• In the firewood shed, Chen Changsheng gave Zhang Yu Sheng a roast chicken butt, and Zhang Yu Sheng asked where he had gotten the food.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng stayed in a strange town for seven days, where Chen discovered a Feng Shui Grand Array was meant to refine the town. After leaving with Zhang Yu Sheng, Chen decided to stay and kill The Person Behind the Scenes rather than try to save the townspeople.

• Chen Changsheng warned Zhang Yu Sheng not to meddle in the town’s affairs while they ate food from a children’s banquet.
• A paper figure disguised as Zhang Yu Sheng’s grandfather lured him outside, but Chen Changsheng cut it down with the Firewood Stick and warned Zhang to keep the stick close.
• Chen Changsheng took Zhang Yu Sheng out of town on the seventh day, explaining that a Feng Shui Grand Array was set to refine the town and that he could not dismantle it with his fragmentary memories.
• Zhang Yu Sheng asked whether the townspeople could be saved, and Chen Changsheng said they could not be rescued by him.
• Chen Changsheng chose to remain and kill The Person Behind the Scenes, planning to strike when the enemy drew in the net and lowered his guard.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng altered the town’s soul-gathering formation to turn the Ten Thousand Souls Banner against its creator. The old man died amid the vengeful souls, while the woman in red remained trapped by a firewood stick that resembled a ruler.

• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Yu Sheng he wanted to seize the mastermind’s completed Ten Thousand Souls Banner to conceal his aura, and encouraged him to decide how to act for himself.
• The old man gathered the town residents’ souls into his Ten Thousand Souls Banner and went to investigate a soul that would not be drawn in.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng entered the formation’s core and reversed it so the souls inside the banner would attack the old man.
• The old man found a woman in red and tried to pull out the firewood stick holding her in place, but its power blasted him away.
• The trapped woman told the old man to look behind him, and the released vengeful souls swarmed and killed him.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng fled after a Demon Extermination Squad member mistook them for Evil Cultivators, while Chen Changsheng subdued the red-clad Yun He. Far away, the Bronze Green Lamp lit with black flame, leaving Yang Feiyun baffled.

• Chen Changsheng gathered the wronged souls into a Ten Thousand Souls Banner and transferred its skeleton pattern onto his back.
• A stranger appeared, so Chen Changsheng detonated the formation and fled with Zhang Yu Sheng; the stranger, Mao Shiba, reported them as suspected Evil Cultivators.
• While Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng ran through the wilderness, Yun He offered to help them in exchange for her freedom, but Chen Changsheng refused.
• Chen Changsheng beat Yun He with the Firewood Stick until Zhang Yu Sheng pleaded on her behalf, and Chen Changsheng agreed to spare her for now.
• Eight thousand miles away, the Bronze Green Lamp ignited with black flame, and Yang Feiyun wondered what his ancestor was doing.

Xu Hu and Qian Ya discussed the Demon Subjugation Army’s difficulties preparing for the continents’ collision, while Sun Yuqing and Drunken Scholar faced the sacrifices ahead. The chapter ended with Drunken Scholar saying that only old fellows like them would have to go.

• Xu Hu told Qian Ya that the Demon Subjugation Army faced strong resistance on the Heretical Cultivator Continent and that poor Qilin Communicator coverage threatened its coordination.
• Qian Ya explained that Signal Towers could not be expanded safely without securing territory, and she and Xu Hu argued over the lack of time before the continents joined.
• Qian Ya asked about the missing Yang Feiyun and discussed the provisional ranks of the Immortal Venerable Realm with Xu Hu.
• Xu Hu admitted he was not confident about the coming war and worried he would fail the young master and Hua Feng.
• Sun Yuqing told Drunken Scholar she regretted undergoing the lightning tribulation because it had bound her to her responsibilities.
• Drunken Scholar said he was content to have fulfilled his wish with Sun Yuqing and would choose her again in Reincarnation; he clarified that only old fellows like them had to go.

Bai Ze kept powerful beings from entering Qiongqi Tomb while he and Ao Chuang prepared to face them, and Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng arrived at Dragon Tiger Mountain. Their pursuers tracked them there, but the Demon Subjugation Army’s leader warned Mao Shiba against provoking the local forces.

• Sun Yuqing and Drunken Scholar discussed a dangerous plan with less than a twenty percent chance of success, and Sun Yuqing urged him to return alive.
• Bai Ze taunted the powerful beings outside Qiongqi Tomb, claiming Chen Xiang and Yin Qi were inside, and they withdrew rather than risk storming the headquarters.
• After the beings left, Bai Ze asked Ao Chuang if it could stop them, and Ao Chuang estimated a forty percent chance before Bai Ze wondered where Chen Changsheng had gone.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng reached Dragon Tiger Mountain, and Chen Changsheng praised its pure atmosphere and excellent terrain.
• Seven pursuers arrived at the mountain, and their leader reprimanded Mao Shiba for disregarding orders not to clash with the Heretical Cultivator Continent’s forces.

Chen Changsheng brought Zhang Yu Sheng to Dragon Tiger Mountain, where he asked its Patriarch for help recovering his lost memories. The Patriarch told him that he did not truly wish to remember his past, and Chen Changsheng chose to stay and join Dragon Tiger Mountain.

• A Taoist token stopped Dragon Tiger Mountain’s Dusting Whisk, and Chen Changsheng struck Yun He and sent her outside after she insulted the mountain.
• The Patriarch welcomed Chen Changsheng and Zhang Yu Sheng, and Zhang Yu Sheng learned the old man had known his grandfather.
• Chen Changsheng sent Zhang Yu Sheng outside, then asked whether Dragon Tiger Mountain had expelled Zhang Yu Sheng’s grandfather and whether the mountain had caused the Drought Demon matter.
• Chen Changsheng asked the Patriarch to help recover his memories, but the Patriarch said he resisted remembering them and would have to face that inner trial.
• Chen Changsheng decided to stay at Dragon Tiger Mountain and join it, and the Patriarch agreed that its disciples would protect him.

Mao Shiba attacked Yun He at Dragon Tiger Mountain, but the mountain’s disciples drove him back and the Demon Extermination Squad withdrew while requesting reinforcements. The clash reached the Demon Subjugation Army’s command, where Kong Xuan saw an opportunity to negotiate with Dragon Tiger Mountain and asked who could represent them.

• Mao Shiba tried to attack Yun He and Zhang Yu Sheng, but a Dragon Tiger Mountain expert stopped him and asserted the sect’s authority.
• The Demon Extermination Squad withdrew after requesting reinforcements from the legion.
• Yang Jian’s report reached Kong Xuan, who discussed the army’s slow progress and resistance from local cultivators with Tu JiaoJiao.
• Kong Xuan considered the clash with Dragon Tiger Mountain a chance to open a breach through negotiation.
• Yang Jian and Tu JiaoJiao both suggested Drunken Scholar as the negotiator.