Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng recovered his memories, entrusted the Old Celestial Master with a difficult task, and sent Zi Ping to deliver a box to his eldest uncle in Reincarnation Land. Back in Myriad Manifestations City, he reunited with Su Wan'er and Hu Tudou, revealed that Chen Xiang and Yin Qi had been hidden there, and prepared to see them off as the coming battle approached.

• Nalan Xingde warned Chen Changsheng about being softhearted before leaving, and Chen Changsheng defended his faith in Tian Xuan.
• Chen Changsheng asked the Old Celestial Master to handle a difficult task and agreed to visit Dragon Tiger Mountain afterward.
• Chen Changsheng made Zi Ping his godson, told him about his younger brothers Chen Xiang and Yin Qi, and gave him a box to deliver to his eldest uncle in Reincarnation Land.
• Chen Changsheng left to build a stage for someone and told Yang Feiyun and the others to wait at the Eight Desolations Border.
• Chen Changsheng returned to Su Wan'er and Hu Tudou in Myriad Manifestations City, regained his adult appearance, and learned that Chen Xiang and Yin Qi had been kept safe in Longevity Bloodstones.
• At Mountain and River Academy, the Drunken Scholar said the remnants of the Old Era would end everything in battle, while Sun Yuqing understood that the fight was likely to be fatal.

Nalan Fuyao explained how Chen Changsheng survived Reincarnation and why the two men had cooperated, then revealed his plans to kill Chen Changsheng’s allies. Zi Ping left hating Fuyao, who told him to grow stronger before challenging him again.

• Zi Ping gave Nalan Fuyao the Wooden Box, and the Golden Silkworm Gu flew from Fuyao’s chest into it as Fuyao returned Chen Changsheng’s memories and part of his True Spirit.
• Nalan Fuyao told Zi Ping that Chen Changsheng had used the Reincarnation of the Eight Wastes and a hidden True Self to recover his memories after their earlier fight.
• Zi Ping deduced that Chen Changsheng had agreed to cooperate with Fuyao to manage Reincarnation and eliminate Fuyao’s enemies, including the group Fuyao said threatened the world.
• Nalan Fuyao said Chen Changsheng had been forced into a deadly role against his enemies and that Reincarnation had contributed to his defeat.
• Zi Ping said he hated Fuyao, who declared that he would also kill Tian Xuan, Mountain and River Academy’s people, two of Chen Changsheng’s remaining disciples, and Chen Changsheng’s page boy.
• Zi Ping punched at Nalan Fuyao, but Fuyao stopped him and told him to train before trying again.

Chen Shisan met Chen Changsheng at the border of the Nine Regions to say goodbye before his body and Divine Sense Realm separated. Over a final cup of Hundred Flower Wine, he persuaded Chen Changsheng to release his attachment and move forward, leaving him to step out of the predicament that had trapped him for ten thousand years.

• Fu Yao tossed Nalan Zi Ping aside, and Zi Ping vowed to master his skills and return to defeat him before leaving Reincarnation Land.
• Chen Changsheng waited at the border of the Nine Regions and poured Chen Shisan a cup of Hundred Flower Wine for their final meeting.
• Chen Shisan told Chen Changsheng that he did not want a grave or cenotaph, explaining that he had accepted the end of his road and did not want to become a burden.
• Chen Shisan argued that living for others would make him a tool of their reasons rather than himself, and urged Chen Changsheng to let go and move forward.
• Chen Changsheng clinked cups with Chen Shisan and drank, finally stepping out of the emotional predicament that had trapped him for ten thousand years.

Chen Changsheng reunited Yin Qi with his godfather Tian Xuan while Chen Shisan discussed his final sword with him. As Chen Xiang and Yin Qi learned about their futures and family, Chen Changsheng announced they would soon get down to business.

• Chen Shisan told Chen Changsheng that letting go of the sword in his heart would allow him to unleash the Unceasing Slash, and Chen Changsheng promised to help him wield it.
• Chen Xiang told Chen Shisan and Meng Yu that he wanted to become the number one swordsman under heaven, and Meng Yu advised him to find someone who made his heart stir.
• Chen Changsheng opened the stone coffin, and Yin Qi recognized Tian Xuan as his father and called him Dad.
• Tian Xuan asked Yin Qi to care for his younger brother and offered gifts to both boys, but Chen Changsheng took the items and told him not to teach them recklessly.
• Chen Changsheng told Yin Qi to tidy his hair and said they would get down to business once Chen Xiang returned, leaving Chen Xiang surprised to learn he had an older brother.

Chen Xiang and Yin Qi acknowledged that Chen Changsheng and Meng Yu were not their birth parents, but resolved to spare them grief and cherish having two loving pairs of parents. Later, Zi Ping returned Chen Changsheng’s True Spirit, restoring his cultivation as preparations began for the White-Haired Sword God’s finale, and Chen Changsheng insisted Zi Ping promise never to let Fu Yao die by his hand.

• Chen Xiang told Yin Qi he had already guessed they were not Chen Changsheng and Meng Yu’s biological sons and urged him to keep the truth from them so their remaining days would be happy.
• Chen Changsheng and the others watched the brothers embrace, and Thirteen entrusted Chen Xiang’s future to Chen Changsheng, who promised his sons would grow up safe and happy.
• After peaceful days on the Sword Qi Great Wall, Zi Ping brought Chen Changsheng a box from Eldest Uncle, and the returning True Spirit restored Chen Changsheng’s incomplete spirit and rapidly raised his cultivation.
• Tian Xuan stopped Chen Changsheng from cultivating too quickly, and Chen Changsheng said the White-Haired Sword God would attack Reincarnation in three days while he dealt with those who might obstruct the finale.
• Zi Ping asked Chen Changsheng to teach him so he could defeat Fu Yao, but Chen Changsheng made him promise to save Fu Yao even if Chen Changsheng himself tried to kill him.

Chen Changsheng’s campaign against Reincarnation began with the Heavenly Court escorting Tian Xuan, Chen Shisan, and Meng Yu across the border. After the Ugly Swordsman challenged the Sword God, Meng Yu killed him with three strikes, and the trio set off in search of the Reincarnation Land.

• The masked man and the Eight Million Heavenly Soldiers welcomed Tian Xuan as the Demon Emperor and Chen Shisan as the Sword God, then escorted them eight hundred li toward the Eight Wastes.
• The Ugly Swordsman challenged Chen Shisan, prompting Heavenly Court generals and cultivators across the Eight Wastes to debate his chances.
• Tian Xuan and Chen Shisan admitted they did not know the way to the Reincarnation Land, and Meng Yu scolded them for failing to prepare.
• Meng Yu used a Tree Branch to kill the Ugly Swordsman in three strikes, then chose a direction with her Great Deduction Technique.
• Chen Shisan and Tian Xuan discussed Meng Yu’s swordsmanship and joked that the Reincarnation Land could move toward them as the three departed.

Tian Xuan and his companions crossed the River of Forgetfulness after Bai Ze established the Bridge of Helplessness and Meng Po took her post. With Reincarnation in chaos, Chen Changsheng invested Zhang Yu Sheng as Lord of the Underworld, and Zhang Yu Sheng noticed an unusual Nether Soul that Chen Changsheng ordered him to keep secret.

• The Old Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain fought the black-robed man guarding the River of Forgetfulness while Tian Xuan, Chen Shisan, and their companion sought a way across.
• Bai Ze laid a star-built stone bridge over the river, and Meng Po merged with it to complete the Bridge of Helplessness despite pressure from Reincarnation.
• After the three crossed the river, Qing Xuzi and Yun He released the Drought Demon and battled two divine beasts sent by Reincarnation.
• Meng Yu wielded the Startling Goose Sword to hold back Reincarnation's forces as Fu Yao's Great Dao law reached Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng invested Zhang Yu Sheng as Lord of the Underworld, and Zhang Yu Sheng gained control of half of Reincarnation and removed its suppression of Tian Xuan and his companions.
• Zhang Yu Sheng pointed out a special Nether Soul, and Chen Changsheng told him not to mention it to anyone else.

As the battle against Reincarnation intensified, Chen Changsheng sent old allies to confront the enemy and mourned the sacrifices of the previous generation. He left Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao to join the fighting, with cleanup after the Eight Wastes still ahead.

• Six Immortal Kings emerged from Reincarnation, and Old Pen trapped three of them in a cage of books while Xu Mao and Yue Ying held off the other three.
• Chen Changsheng told Xu Hu that their parents and the older generations had chosen to spend their last strength clearing the way for peace, and Xu Hu accepted the burden and joined the battle.
• Qian Fang Kong told Qian Ya that the Qian Family was now her responsibility, then charged into battle after Chen Changsheng explained how Reincarnation's fighters endured the passage of time.
• Chen Changsheng sent Xu Hu and Qian Ya to fight the opportunists attacking from the sidelines, giving Qian Ya a Treasure Basin.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao to join either the Reincarnation battle or the fight against the opportunists, forbade them from fighting each other, and reminded them they would help clean up the Eight Wastes afterward.

Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao ambushed and devoured an Immortal King, while Chen Changsheng’s forces gained the upper hand in the Reincarnation Battlefield. Drunken Scholar sacrificed his life to trap three Immortal King Eighth Grade experts in his painting, leaving Tian Guang grieving over his sacrifice.

• Ye Yongxian warned an Immortal King Rank Six not to approach the battlefield, then joined Wang Hao in binding and devouring him.
• Ye Yongxian asked Wang Hao to help exploit the chaos, and Wang Hao proposed targeting an acquaintance from Desperate Valley while blaming Chen Changsheng for their actions.
• Chen Changsheng prepared to send eight million Heavenly Soldiers into the battle, prompting the Eight Wastes to submit to Heavenly Court and send more than a hundred experts to the battlefield.
• Three Immortal King Eighth Grade experts entered the fight, and Chen Changsheng called on Drunken Scholar to demonstrate his work.
• Drunken Scholar used his life force to complete the Mountain and River Splendor Painting and trap the three Immortal Kings, then handed the scroll to Chen Changsheng.
• Tian Guang blamed himself for Drunken Scholar’s sacrifice and said he should have been the one to die.

The Drunken Scholar left the battlefield to atone for Mountain and River Academy’s failure, while Zi Ping grieved for him and vowed to grow stronger. At Reincarnation, Tian Xuan began his final battle as Chen Shisan finished eating and prepared to face the being within the heavenly pit with a new sword strike.

• Chen Changsheng told the Drunken Scholar he would not hold Mountain and River Academy accountable, but the Drunken Scholar said he would atone with his death and left to see the person in his heart.
• Zi Ping tried to rush into battle to avenge the Drunken Scholar, but Hu Tudou stopped him and urged him to endure his grief until he knew who his enemy was.
• Su Wan'er comforted Zi Ping as he broke down crying, and Hu Tudou promised to take him to see the surviving senior brothers after the fighting ended.
• Tian Xuan and Chen Shisan reached Reincarnation, exchanged buns and eggs, and ate together before Tian Xuan entered the heavenly pit to fight three former Heaven's Mandate Bearers.
• Chen Shisan finished his bun and egg and told the being inside Reincarnation that he had comprehended a new sword strike, asking it to wait while he ate.

Chen Shisan used his final sword to kill the Candle Dragon, then vanished with Meng Yu, while Chen Changsheng buried the fallen companions and ordered the surviving resisters executed. He left the Reincarnation Battlefield with the Candle Dragon and the coffins, having seen all five of his former companions come to an end.

• Chen Shisan wounded the Candle Dragon with a sword that struck countless times through the River of Time, but the beast healed and mocked him for growing old.
• With Chen Changsheng's permission, Chen Shisan approached the Candle Dragon and touched one of its scales with his Sword Finger, unleashing his heart's Unceasing Slash.
• Startled Swan vanished, an Immortal King Seventh Grade expert shattered, and Chen Shisan and Meng Yu embraced before dissolving into starlight.
• Tian Xuan's corpse fell with three enemy heads, then dissipated when Chen Changsheng reached for him, leaving the Ruyi Cudgel and the heads behind.
• Chen Changsheng placed earth and the scattered starlight in one coffin, reunited Tian Xuan's ashes with Linglong in another, and reflected on the five companions he had brought onto their path.
• Chen Changsheng declared that Chen Shisan's sword had killed the Candle Dragon, collected the beast and coffins, and ordered the resisters killed before anyone could leave the battlefield.

After burying Little Thirteen and the others, Chen Changsheng returned to his family as the Reincarnation War ended and the Eight Wastes and Nine Regions gradually connected. Decades later, he urged the Old Celestial Master to expand Dragon Tiger Mountain into one of many academies, while considering Yu Sheng’s proposal for Reincarnation Academy.

• Chen Changsheng buried the three coffins in an ordinary place and told Bai Ze he was returning home to provide for his family.
• The Reincarnation War ended, and history recorded the White-Haired Sword God’s victory over Candle Dragon and the Demon Emperor’s defeat of three Great Emperor-level experts while concealing who had taken their bodies.
• Ten years later, the Eight Wastes and Nine Regions connected, and the great powers kept the resulting conflicts contained after Chen Changsheng’s brutal order to eliminate all resisters in Reincarnation.
• A household’s arrival at Dragon Tiger Mountain ended the controversy directed at the sect for having pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Court.
• Twenty years after the war, cultivators began moving between the two worlds in search of better environments and opportunities.
• Chen Changsheng proposed that the Old Celestial Master turn Dragon Tiger Mountain into one of many academies and mentioned Yu Sheng’s plan to establish Reincarnation Academy.

Chen Changsheng explained to the Old Celestial Master how Reincarnation could support ghost cultivation and give meritorious souls a chance to reincarnate into better circumstances. The Old Celestial Master learned that many powerful figures, including Old Pen, might start over, then argued that Dragon Tiger Mountain should receive some of them.

• Chen Changsheng told the Old Celestial Master that he planned to establish an academy in Reincarnation to educate ghosts and support its understaffed operations.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Ghost Cultivators could become more stable through orthodox cultivation, while the Demon Suppression Division and Reincarnation would handle dangerous cultivators and ghosts.
• Chen Changsheng described how merit could secure a favorable reincarnation and how former cultivators might use their instincts, new talents, and resources to advance further.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Old Pen wanted to reincarnate and that he had preserved many meritorious souls, including more than forty Immortal Kings and over three hundred Immortal Venerables.
• The Old Celestial Master offered to teach Old Pen and others at Dragon Tiger Mountain, but Chen Changsheng said he would not send them there without sufficient resources or merit.
• The Old Celestial Master insisted that Dragon Tiger Mountain could earn merit by assisting Reincarnation, pointing to its upcoming academy and skill at catching ghosts.

Chen Changsheng persuaded the Old Celestial Master to reform Dragon Tiger Mountain into a public, competitive institution that could recruit powerful cultivators and fund its growth. He gave the sect a large supply investment and two tokens to the Heavenly Court Advanced Academy, leaving its reforms ready to begin.

• Chen Changsheng explained that cultivating powerful seedlings required enormous resources and described how the Heavenly Court funded experts and offered opportunities to Loose Cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng told the Old Celestial Master that Dragon Tiger Mountain needed reforms and promised it two Immortal King Realm cultivators and ten Immortal Venerable Realm cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng said opening Dragon Tiger Mountain to the public could earn it at least a hundred million divine sources each year and revealed that he would receive dividends from its profits.
• Chen Changsheng instructed the Old Celestial Master to recruit renowned experts and prepare two hundred million divine sources, then gave him supplies worth three hundred million as an investment.
• Chen Changsheng urged the Old Celestial Master to use Dragon Tiger Mountain's Daoist canon to attract talent while preserving its core techniques.
• Chen Changsheng handed the Old Celestial Master two tokens of the Heavenly Court Advanced Academy.

Chen Changsheng explained the academy’s costly courses to the Old Celestial Master and arranged a large debt for Dragon Tiger Mountain. In Reincarnation, Drunken Scholar entered rebirth after asking Chen Changsheng to sever his ties with Sun Yuqing, but Chen Changsheng revealed that their bond would endure for three lifetimes.

• Chen Changsheng explained how Qian Ya’s Path to Wealth tokens and Xu Hu’s cultivation courses attracted powerful factions and generated enormous fees.
• Chen Changsheng told the Old Celestial Master that he could owe Xu Hu six hundred million Divine Sources and repay it over twenty years with interest.
• Chen Changsheng told Drunken Scholar that Reincarnation could restore his Seventh Grade Immortal King True Spirit but could not preserve his memories.
• Drunken Scholar asked Chen Changsheng to sever his karmic ties with Sun Yuqing, then entered Reincarnation.
• Sun Yuqing asked whether their karmic ties were stable, and Chen Changsheng said they would bind them for at least Three Lifetimes Three Worlds.
• Sun Yuqing entrusted the academy to Senior Brother Tian Guang and entered Reincarnation through Liberation by Violence.

After leaving Zhang Yu Sheng to manage Reincarnation, Chen Changsheng returned to Dragon Tiger Mountain for dinner with his family. With his three sons now grown and finished at Mountain and River Academy, he asked what they planned to do next, leaving their futures undecided.

• Chen Changsheng praised Zhang Yu Sheng's handling of Reincarnation, then left to return home for dinner.
• Chen Changsheng joined Hu Tudou, Chen Xiang, and Yin Qi for a family meal, where Chen Xiang teased him about his frugality and Su Wan'er scolded him for giving the boys too little money at the academy.
• Zi Ping arrived and defended Chen Xiang when Chen Changsheng reprimanded him for reaching for food before dinner began.
• Chen Changsheng asked his three sons what they planned to do after graduating from Mountain and River Academy, and they stopped eating to consider the question.

Chen Changsheng spoke with Chen Xiang, Yin Qi, and Nalan Zi Ping about their futures, then told them to pursue tasks he had assigned. That night, Su Wan'er and Hu Tudou accepted his departure and reminded him that he had a home with them.

• Chen Xiang said he wanted to rely on himself to live happily, Yin Qi said the current era did not suit him, and Nalan Zi Ping asked to study with Chen Changsheng longer.
• Chen Changsheng gave the three Jade Slips with tasks involving vicious holdouts in Eight Wastes and warned them to be careful.
• Chen Changsheng told Su Wan'er that he planned to leave because the world was entering a long peace and had no need for the Undertaker.
• Su Wan'er kissed Chen Changsheng and told him that if another woman wanted to marry into the Chen Family, she would have to call her Elder Sister.
• Chen Changsheng kissed Hu Tudou, who said she sought peace of mind for him and assured him that he had a home.

Chen Changsheng decided to leave the world in about a thousand years and seek ways to extend the lives of those he cared about, racing against time and their mortality. Eighty years later, Hua Feng visited him after Merging with the Dao and said he would explore the world before joining Chen Changsheng beyond it.

• Chen Changsheng told Hu Tudou that he would leave in about a thousand years, after settling loose ends and helping Zi Ping and the others mature.
• Hu Tudou spoke with Chen Changsheng about the women in his past and then returned to remind Chen Xiang to behave.
• Chen Changsheng asked the system whether he was being heartless, then learned that time would eventually sever his bonds as his companions aged and died.
• Chen Changsheng asked about immortality and resolved to search the broader world for ways to extend his companions’ lives before they ran out of time.
• Over eighty years, the Eight Wastes and Nine Regions developed while Chen Changsheng’s courtyard remained unchanged.
• Hua Feng visited Chen Changsheng after Merging with the Dao, said he would first explore the world, and planned to accompany him beyond it.

Chen Changsheng learned from Hua Feng about the lifespans and strength of powerful beings, then waited centuries as the Eight Wastes and Nine Regions found a way to coexist. He left with Bai Ze and entered a ten-thousand-year slumber in Qiongqi Tomb, warning Bai Ze that Zhang Bairen might return to life.

• Hua Feng told Chen Changsheng that Heaven's Mandate Bearers could live up to one hundred thousand years, while exceptional cultivators could live longer and some might extend their lives through extreme means.
• Hua Feng agreed to help Chen Changsheng leave in a little over ten thousand years, and Chen Changsheng assured him that he was not going out to join the others in battle.
• After several hundred years, the Eight Wastes and Nine Regions found a way to coexist, and Chen Changsheng vanished with Bai Ze.
• At Qiongqi Tomb, Chen Changsheng said he would sleep for ten thousand years and warned Bai Ze not to search for Zhang Bairen's tomb because Zhang might return to life.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Stone Coffin, while Bai Ze sealed himself inside the Longevity Bloodstone, and they agreed to meet again in ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years after Chen Changsheng’s time froze, his children searched for answers about his disappearance while Hua Feng prepared to leave her post. Zi Ping confronted Fu Yao in Reincarnation Land, but Fu Yao denied knowing what had happened to Chen Changsheng.

• Chen Xiang questioned Hua Feng about his father’s whereabouts, but she said she did not know and warned him about Zi Ping’s dealings with Reincarnation Land.
• Xu Hu and Qian Ya joined Hua Feng, who said she would soon leave and discussed successors for Heavenly Court and the dangers facing the realm.
• Hua Feng told Xu Hu not to interfere with the beings beyond the Sword Qi Great Wall and said Reincarnation would remain contained as long as Zi Ping stayed in the Eight Wastes and Nine Regions.
• Zi Ping accused Fu Yao of causing Chen Changsheng’s disappearance, but Fu Yao denied it and said many powerful beings wanted Chen Changsheng dead.