Chapter Summaries

Xu Yao awakened her Sword Immortal Body and drew forth the Sword God's complete sword dao, prompting the Sword Spirit to help her and Chen Xiang escape. Elsewhere, Chen Changsheng left a battlefield with Ye Feng and Baili Changkong, while the Bronze Armor stopped fighting after a Big White Dog ordered her to retreat.

• Xu Yao carried the badly wounded Chen Xiang while facing more than a dozen Immortal King experts, then broke through to the Immortal King Realm as her Sword Immortal Body fully awakened.
• Xu Yao summoned the Sword God's complete sword dao, but the Sword Spirit stopped Black Obsidian from bearing it and drew the golden giant sword into the Old Sword Strip, restoring it to a plain longsword.
• The Sword Spirit warned Xu Yao not to use the power inside her or Thirteen's sword dao again without Chen Changsheng's guidance, then let her leave with Chen Xiang and turned to fight the Immortal King experts.
• Chen Changsheng had Ye Feng and Baili Changkong hand over the Storage Magical Artifacts they had gathered before he decided it was time to leave the leveled battlefield.
• The Bronze Armor killed an Immortal King Seventh Grade expert, but a Big White Dog ordered her to retreat, and the remaining five Immortal Kings fled.

After the Four Directions Continent launched its full offensive, Xu Yao and the others met Chen Changsheng in the temporary Heavenly Court. Chen Changsheng welcomed Sima Lan and Ye Hong, but then revealed that their masters at the front lines had gone there to spend their final days, leaving the group to face their impending deaths.

• The Eight Desolations Nine Regions retreated completely while the Four Directions Continent attacked with all its strength.
• Xu Yao and the others received rewards from the Heavenly Court, then visited Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze in the rear garden.
• Chen Changsheng welcomed Sima Lan and Ye Hong as his students, gave them Jade Slips that could summon his help, and told them Baili Changkong and Ye Feng were alive and recovering.
• Chen Changsheng refused to intervene in Xu Yao's father's matter and listened as Su You, Ma Ling'er, and Gui Daoran asked him to lift their fathers' punishments.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Old Celestial Master and the Big Toad were nearing the end of their lifespans after living for roughly sixty thousand years, and that he had sent them to the front lines to spend their remaining time in battle.

Chen Changsheng told Jian Fei how to pursue the swordsmanship champion title and assigned Ma Ling'er to guard the rear while their elders went beyond the borders. Hu Tudou revealed that she and Wan Er were leaving, and Chen Changsheng faced the reality that his old friends and even Bai Ze could not stay with him forever.

• Su You learned that his master had less than ten thousand years of Lifespan left and departed with Ye Hong.
• Chen Changsheng advised Jian Fei to cultivate swordsmanship and the Sword Dao together, saying he could surpass Chen Xiang and Tantai Chuixue in swordsmanship.
• Chen Changsheng told Ma Ling'er that her master and father would go far away, and Ma Ling'er accepted her role guarding everyone's home.
• Hu Tudou told Chen Changsheng that she and Wan Er were leaving to face their own paths, and he agreed not to stop them.
• Chen Changsheng mourned that his old friends were nearing the end of their Lifespans and asked Bai Ze how long it could live.

As the war between the Four Directions Continent and the Heavenly Court raged, Chen Changsheng hid behind a network of untraceable incarnations and collected the Seven-Colored Flower. He left Ye Feng and Baili Changkong to subdue the Wilds, while they realized the God of Wealth was the hidden force coordinating his control.

• Chen Changsheng evaded the Four Directions Continent's search by using hidden incarnations, and Fu Yao gave him Luo Kai's stolen Seven-Colored Flower.
• Chen Changsheng brought Ye Feng and Baili Changkong to a shop on the Sword Qi Great Wall and instructed them to make the Wilds disappear as a threat to the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Changsheng told the pair they could pursue power without restrictions, but warned that strength without wisdom would not be enough to hold it.
• Chen Changsheng's incarnation burned away, and the Shopkeeper agreed to show Ye Feng and Baili Changkong the Wilds.
• Ye Feng and Baili Changkong recognized that the God of Wealth was Chen Changsheng's far-reaching intelligence network and that the Shopkeeper was at least above Immortal King Fifth Grade.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he wanted Zhang Zhen to bear Heaven’s Mandate to block a former student, then left Zhang Zhen to prove his worth. Over eight centuries of war, Zhang Zhen became a famed undefeated warrior as the Four Directions Continent weakened and the Heavenly Court’s younger generation matured.

• Baili Changkong and Ye Feng followed the old man, realizing they would become Hidden Pieces whose identities were unknown to the Eight Desolations Nine Regions.
• Chen Changsheng told the wounded Zhang Zhen that he wanted him to bear Heaven’s Mandate and block a person Chen had taught, but refused to condemn that person for a possible future path.
• Chen Changsheng’s external incarnation vanished, and Zhang Zhen resolved to improve himself and fight without restraint over the next ten years.
• The Heavenly Court suffered heavy losses in the war before the Underworld, Reincarnation Forbidden Ground, Desperate Valley, and Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground helped turn back attacks from the Four Directions Continent.
• Over eight hundred years, the Four Directions Nine Regions’ younger generation produced renowned fighters, while Zhang Zhen fought without defeat and killed three of the Four Great Sects’ prodigies.
• Zhang Zhen brought the three prodigies’ heads to the Heavenly Court to claim their bounties, and the world learned his name.

After six thousand years of war, Chen Changsheng’s forces tried to stop Realm Lord Luo Kai from bearing Heaven’s Mandate, but Zhang Zhen ultimately killed Luo Kai in a duel and turned the tide. Chen Changsheng then resumed a defensive strategy, using ambushes and assassinations to wear down the Four Directions Continent.

• During the war’s first three thousand years, the World Extinguishing Golden Toad, Tian Guang, and the Old Celestial Master fell in battle, helping shift the advantage toward the Eight Desolations Nine Regions.
• When the Four Directions Continent prepared to have Luo Kai bear Heaven’s Mandate, Chen Changsheng led eleven Immortal King experts to intercept him while Chen Xiang, Xu Yao, and others fought to contain the enemy’s hidden strength.
• After Chen Changsheng was gravely wounded, Xu Hu, Gongsun Huaiyu, and Fu Yao held off his pursuers, and Bai Ze escaped with him; Chen Changsheng returned ten years later with eight puppets.
• The Phoenix Empress relinquished her Heaven’s Mandate, but Chen Changsheng refused to let anyone inherit it as Luo Kai neared becoming its bearer.
• Zhang Zhen challenged Luo Kai in the void and emerged a month later with Luo Kai’s severed head, killing the Four Directions Continent’s hope of turning the war around.
• Chen Changsheng took Zhang Zhen’s body and resumed the turtle-shell defense, launching surprise attacks and sending Xu Yao’s squad on assassinations when the Four Directions Continent’s forces were vulnerable.

Chen Changsheng finished destroying the Four Directions Continent through attrition and revealed that Luo Kai, believed dead, was imprisoned in the Qiongqi Tomb. He explained how his traps and Luo Kai’s arrogance had led to the Realm Lord’s defeat.

• Baili Heng defected with the Four Directions Continent’s remaining younger generation, leaving it without hope after Luo Kai’s supposed death.
• Chen Changsheng’s forces killed the Four Directions Continent’s last Immortal King, ending the 7,850-year war without casualties among the younger generation.
• In the Qiongqi Tomb, Chen Changsheng taunted the chained Luo Kai, who was restrained by sealed acupoints, restrictions, and the Big Fat Silkworm.
• Chen Changsheng refused Luo Kai’s demand for a duel and said killing him directly would risk unnecessary losses.
• Chen Changsheng recounted how he had trapped and killed the previous Heaven’s Mandate Bearer with a formation, Void Beasts, and allies from the Forbidden Grounds.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had exploited Luo Kai’s arrogance and used Seven-Colored Meteorites to defeat him, while making the Bitter Sea System seem to contain hidden safeguards.

Chen Changsheng revealed how he had manipulated events to seize the Heavenly Soul System and condemned Luo Kai for helping bring down the Four Directions Continent. After the victory, he negotiated a reward and relocation for Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao’s family, while Ye Yongxian secured Chen Changsheng’s promise to lend him something when he later killed Wang Hao.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he had made the world believe the Heavenly Soul System was flawed so he could control access to it, and he blamed Luo Kai’s greed for the Four Directions Continent’s destruction.
• Chen Changsheng refused to kill Luo Kai and instead vowed to turn him into a puppet and preserve his name as a disgrace for a million years.
• Chen Changsheng offered Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao’s family an independent Small World, with the condition that their population there stay below ten million.
• Ye Yongxian asked Chen Changsheng to help kill Wang Hao, but Chen Changsheng refused to take on the troublesome task.
• Ye Yongxian changed his request, securing Chen Changsheng’s promise to lend him something when he later killed Wang Hao.

Chen Changsheng rewarded Wang Hao with the Seven-Colored Meteorite, warned him and Ye Yongxian not to cause trouble, and later visited Xu Hu to approve Xu Yao and Chen Xiang’s marriage. The chapter ended with the couple leaving to ask Su You to choose an auspicious wedding day.

• Chen Changsheng gave Wang Hao the Seven-Colored Meteorite, and Wang Hao asked whether it could be used to develop weapons against bloodlines and Demon Cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng warned Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao not to cause trouble on his territory, then left as the two began fighting over the meteorite.
• Zhang Zhen and the King of the Night accepted the Heavenly Court’s reorganization, while Kong Xuan silenced officials criticizing the rewards given to Sima Lan and the others.
• Chen Changsheng visited Xu Hu, who agreed to Xu Yao and Chen Xiang’s marriage despite worrying that their family generations would become tangled.
• Chen Changsheng scolded Chen Xiang for acting before asking permission, then approved the marriage and sent the couple to ask Su You to pick an auspicious day.

Chen Changsheng reluctantly accepted that Xu Hu and the others would leave to free him from the burdens of protecting them, while Zhang Zhen rose to bear the Mandate of Heaven. Fifteen hundred years after the war, Chen Changsheng and the Blade Emperor killed Fu Yao, and Chen Changsheng complained as he tended his wounds beside him.

• Xu Hu told Chen Changsheng that his friends had chosen their own path and would leave with everyone except Ma Ling'er, Su You, Gui Daoran, his junior sister, and Jian Fei.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to let them go and said he would guard the Heavenly Court until its systems stabilized.
• The Blade Emperor reached Immortal King Ninth Grade, and Zhang Zhen later bore the Mandates of Heaven of two worlds.
• Jian Fei defeated Chen Xiang in a hundred-move duel, and Chen Xiang admitted Jian Fei was the foremost master of the sword.
• The Undertaker joined forces with the Blade Emperor to kill the Lord of Reincarnation, earning condemnation in private as a butcher.
• In the void, Chen Changsheng treated his wounds and complained to the fallen Fu Yao about how hard the fight had been.

Fu Yao died after explaining to Zi Ping why he could not escape death, and the Heavenly Court underwent a major change in leadership. Chen Changsheng sealed Bai Ze away and began another two-thousand-year slumber, after learning the staggering number of Attribute Points needed to match a Heaven's Mandate Bearer.

• Fu Yao told Zi Ping to leave the future open, then transformed into starlight and vanished.
• Su You, Gui Daoran, and Ma Ling'er took leadership positions in the Heavenly Court, while Zhang Zhen supported ending the tradition of Heaven's Mandate Bearers ruling the world.
• More than ninety percent of the Heavenly Court's experts disappeared without explanation.
• Chen Changsheng kicked Bai Ze and the Treasure Swallowing Rat into the Seven-Colored Meteorite liquid, successfully sealing them into slumber.
• Chen Changsheng learned from the system that reaching Heaven's Mandate Bearer strength could require one hundred million Attribute Points, then began a two-thousand-year slumber.

After awakening from a two-thousand-year slumber, Chen Changsheng remembered Fu Yao and their final conversation, in which Fu Yao explained why he wanted to die. Chen Changsheng accepted that Fu Yao had reached the end of his pursuits, and Fu Yao asked about the key to Chen Changsheng’s immortality.

• Chen Changsheng awoke inside the Stone Coffin in Qiongqi Tomb and sat there for three days, thinking of Fu Yao.
• Twenty-one thousand years earlier, Fu Yao pressed Chen Changsheng to promise to kill him after Zhang Zhen bore the Heaven's Mandate, and Chen Changsheng agreed.
• Chen Changsheng shared rare Hundred Flower Wine with Fu Yao, who said he had completed his pursuits and no longer wanted to become Number One Under Heaven or kill Chen Changsheng.
• Fu Yao explained that his remaining half-life was too short to reach his goals, while Chen Changsheng’s longevity made him impossible to outlast.
• Chen Changsheng acknowledged that Fu Yao had nothing left to pursue, and Fu Yao asked him to reveal the key to his immortality.

Chen Changsheng learned that Fu Yao hoped Zi Ping would pursue an alternative path to immortality through steadfastly extending his life, with Chen Changsheng himself serving as an enduring goal. Five thousand years after waking from a two-thousand-year sleep, Chen Changsheng ignored Little Immortal Elder’s repeated emergency messages, but Little Immortal Elder eventually appeared at Qiongqi Tomb demanding to see him.

• Fu Yao told Chen Changsheng that the source of his immortality could not be found or extracted, even after he had destroyed his body and Divine Sense Realm.
• Fu Yao explained that Zi Ping could seek an alternative immortality by continually finding ways to extend his life, sustained by the hope of eventually learning Chen Changsheng’s secret.
• Fu Yao warned Chen Changsheng that he would be left alone if those close to him died, and said they were the courage that kept him alive.
• After sleeping for two thousand years in Qiongqi Tomb, Chen Changsheng found more than two hundred urgent messages from Little Immortal Elder and ignored them.
• Five thousand years later, Little Immortal Elder called out from Qiongqi Tomb, demanding that Chen Changsheng open the door.

Little Immortal Elder visited Chen Changsheng in the Qiongqi Tomb, but Chen Changsheng refused to get involved in anything outside his quiet life. Little Immortal Elder stopped him by claiming to have found a way to extend life, and Chen Changsheng began questioning him about the secret and what awaited him beyond the mountain.

• Chen Changsheng freed Bai Ze and forced him to open the formation for Little Immortal Elder.
• Chen Changsheng learned that Wu Li, the others, and Nian Sheng were safe, then refused Little Immortal Elder's request before hearing what it was.
• Chen Changsheng recounted the burdens he had carried and insisted he only wanted to stay home and tinker with puppets.
• Little Immortal Elder told Chen Changsheng that Blade Emperor Zhang Zhen had been missing for ten thousand years, but Chen Changsheng tried to leave.
• Little Immortal Elder announced that he had found a method of immortality, prompting Chen Changsheng to return and challenge his claim.
• Little Immortal Elder explained that his group possessed a way to extend life, and Chen Changsheng asked why he had come now and whose side Chen Changsheng would join after leaving the mountain.

Little Immortal Elder asked Chen Changsheng to emerge from seclusion and help defend a fallen direction beyond the world, while refusing to reveal the truth behind the wider conflict. Chen Changsheng agreed to go alone after securing a promise that Little Immortal Elder would personally help him once.

• Little Immortal Elder explained that several forces were fighting beyond the world and that a minor direction had fallen, threatening to become a breach for the enemy.
• Little Immortal Elder said Chen Changsheng was needed to fill the gap, but warned him not to seek the hidden truths because his intervention could make matters worse.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to emerge from seclusion after learning the mission was critical and that the life-extending object was in enemy hands.
• Little Immortal Elder said Chen Changsheng would have to go alone because they could not spare a third of their manpower, though he could retreat if the situation became irreparable.
• Chen Changsheng negotiated a reward, and Little Immortal Elder promised to personally help him once; Chen Changsheng accepted the mission.

Chen Changsheng learned that the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique was scattered across seventy-two pages and agreed to travel with Little Immortal Elder to pursue a volume. After three years and more than ten teleports, they finally emerged from the space-time passageway near their destination.

• Chen Changsheng confronted Little Immortal Elder about the Golden Page and pressed him to reveal what he had concealed.
• Little Immortal Elder explained that the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique had seventy-two pages in nine volumes, and that Chen Changsheng’s First Volume had been shattered and scattered.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to seek another volume but insisted he would neither teach anyone nor save all living things; Little Immortal Elder said the destination had no rules and that Chen Changsheng would need to kill people.
• Chen Changsheng and Little Immortal Elder left Qiongqi Tomb with a dog and a mouse and entered a space-time passageway.
• After more than ten teleports over three years, Chen Changsheng and the others shot out of the passageway in their bubble.

Chen Changsheng arrived at Sky Abyss with Little Immortal Elder and mocked his group’s poor finances while boasting about his own wealth and business skills. When they reached Sky Abyss City, Chen Changsheng learned that Qian Ya had leased the region to Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li and predicted that she would recover her losses through business elsewhere.

• Chen Changsheng and Little Immortal Elder arrived on a cracked temporary teleportation platform, and Little Immortal Elder explained the costs of war and hiring him.
• Little Immortal Elder quoted prices of ten billion, fifty billion, or one hundred billion divine sources for different levels of help, and Chen Changsheng said his wealth could cover dozens of casual moves.
• Little Immortal Elder and Bai Ze were shocked by Chen Changsheng’s fortune, while Chen Changsheng criticized their outdated resource gathering and refused to teach Little Immortal Elder how to make money.
• Chen Changsheng and Little Immortal Elder reached Sky Abyss City, where Little Immortal Elder explained that Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li owned it and Qian Ya had spent three hundred billion divine sources to lease the region.
• Chen Changsheng inferred that the lease had caused a dispute and warned that Qian Ya would make up her losses through business elsewhere, which left Little Immortal Elder speechless.

Chen Changsheng negotiated to take control of the area around Sky Abyss City, offering Little Immortal Elder a four-trillion-divine-source buyout and a share of the output. Little Immortal Elder accepted, and Chen Changsheng arrived at the city with him, where several cultivators reacted with hostility.

• Little Immortal Elder asked Chen Changsheng to help resolve his group’s financial troubles, and Chen Changsheng demanded ownership of the area in exchange for supplies.
• Chen Changsheng offered supplies worth four trillion divine source over two thousand years, then added one-tenth of the annual output after Little Immortal Elder objected.
• Chen Changsheng argued that he could raise the area’s output to six trillion resources, and Little Immortal Elder eagerly agreed to the deal.
• Chen Changsheng and Little Immortal Elder headed for Sky Abyss City while Little Immortal Elder celebrated the prospect of receiving abundant basic resources.
• Several cultivators leaving Sky Abyss City greeted Chen Changsheng but glared at Little Immortal Elder before vanishing, and Little Immortal Elder admitted that bringing Chen Changsheng had offended everyone.

Chen Changsheng came out of retirement and sought to buy Sky Abyss City, but Qian Ya demanded compensation for the region’s losses and broken contract. He negotiated a wager agreement to develop the land and settle the debt through its future output.

• Little Immortal Elder explained that the Forbidden Grounds resented Chen Changsheng’s history of disrupting their interests, while also regarding him as the God of Wealth who had inspired lucrative teaching schemes.
• Wu Li arrived and withdrew his pressure after Chen Changsheng said he had ordered Little Immortal Elder to bring him out; Chen Changsheng said he wanted a quiet retirement and asked Wu Li to summon Qian Ya.
• Chen Changsheng asked Qian Ya to sell him Sky Abyss City, and she initially offered it to him, but then laid out a claim for nine trillion two hundred billion divine sources in losses and penalties.
• After Chen Changsheng refused to pay the debt outright, he proposed a wager: he would develop the region into a treasure land, and the debt would be cleared if it reached the promised output.
• Chen Changsheng and Qian Ya negotiated the terms and settled on an eighty-five-percent share for Qian Ya, along with priority purchasing rights and a discount on materials.

Chen Changsheng arranged for Little Immortal Elder to transport the Sword Qi Great Wall to Sky Abyss City, then entered the city to investigate its declining revenue and unrest. After learning the front lines were locked in a bitter battle, he ordered most of Sky Abyss City's defenders to withdraw.

• Chen Changsheng said goodbye to Qian Ya and Wu Li, then asked Little Immortal Elder to move the Sword Qi Great Wall from the Eight Desolations Nine Regions.
• Chen Changsheng offered a Candle Dragon scale and resources worth two hundred billion, prompting Little Immortal Elder to kick away a Seventh Grade Immortal King who tried to take the job.
• Little Immortal Elder accepted five hundred billion in basic resources and agreed to deliver the Sword Qi Great Wall within ten years.
• Chen Changsheng entered Sky Abyss City and announced that he could help anyone there make money.
• Jia Cheng, commander of the Earthly Courage Star, told Chen Changsheng that unrest had cut the city's revenue by seventy percent and that Phoenix Empress had failed to eliminate the enemy.
• After hearing that the front lines were in a bitter battle, Chen Changsheng ordered all but one hundred Immortal Venerable Realm cultivators to withdraw from Sky Abyss City.