Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng ordered Jia Cheng to withdraw Sky Abyss City’s forces, preserve its communications, and lease him the city, then cleared it out and began recruiting workers with pay and insurance. He left the crowd considering his employment terms and the jobs he was offering.

• Chen Changsheng ordered Jia Cheng to withdraw all forces from Sky Abyss City within ten days and keep its communications open.
• Jia Cheng explained that a nearby Small World was a mineral-rich realm with its own Heavenly Mandate, while more than thirty other Small Worlds housed outlaws and cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng told Jia Cheng to lease Sky Abyss City for five hundred billion every ten thousand years and remove its buildings, leaving the walls and Defense Arrays.
• Sky Abyss City expelled its residents and withdrew its guards, after which Chen Changsheng put up a sign recruiting workers with food, lodging, five insurances, and a pension.
• Chen Changsheng explained his employment terms to an Immortal King Third Grade wearing a bamboo hat, who copied and shared the details with the crowd.
• Chen Changsheng offered a list of job types, and the crowd asked about compensation and missions.

Chen Changsheng explained why Sky Abyss City mattered and why he planned to develop it through investment rather than force. He intended to make it a strategic base and safe retreat for both the major Forbidden Grounds and Wu Li’s forces, while also pursuing private goals involving Ao Chuang and the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique.

• Chen Changsheng invited factions to invest in Sky Abyss City and left with Bai Ze after announcing new rules.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Sky Abyss City lay in a crack between worlds and that Wu Li and the others were beyond their original world.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Forbidden Grounds had made the region difficult to settle, since they would fight fiercely if their core interests were threatened.
• Chen Changsheng said he planned to present his changes as harmless while turning Sky Abyss City into a logistics warehouse, a City of Sin, and a retreat for both the Forbidden Grounds and Wu Li’s forces.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he also wanted a larger place for the mature Ao Chuang and desired the standalone volume of the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique.

Chen Changsheng brought Bai Ze to the Mine Small World to begin his plan for the supreme Way of the God of Wealth, promising him Human Pets in exchange for helping mine. After convincing the world's ruler to sell him the land beneath their feet and everything within five thousand li, Chen Changsheng began mining on territory that was now his.

• Chen Changsheng promised Bai Ze he could find as many Human Pets as he wanted and explained his plan to use wealth to influence cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze traveled to the Mine Small World, where Chen Changsheng inspected the metal-rich rocks and began mining.
• Chen Changsheng's mining drew out an expert who claimed to rule the Small World and demanded payment for the ore.
• Chen Changsheng offered the ruler Five-Colored Creation Fluid in exchange for the land beneath him and everything within five thousand li.
• The ruler accepted the deal and disappeared, while Chen Changsheng smiled at the land he had acquired.

Chen Changsheng explained his plan to profit by mass-producing high-quality Divine Realm magical artifacts from mined ore, then recruited Immortal King cultivators to mine for him at low wages. After confronting their anger over his prices, he left the crowd considering other jobs.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that producing many high-quality Divine Realm magical artifacts would be more profitable than making a single Earthly Immortal Realm artifact.
• Chen Changsheng set a daily base pay of twenty thousand Divine Sources for Immortal King miners and assigned Bai Ze to supervise their work.
• At Sky Abyss City, the Immortal King cultivators grew angry when Chen Changsheng showed them his price list, and Bai Ze drew its weapon as one cultivator released his aura.
• Chen Changsheng summoned more than a dozen Immortal King Realm puppets, silenced the crowd, and defended the mining wage by explaining his costs and the value of the ore.
• A Second Grade Immortal King cultivator stepped forward and asked to try the Mine Guard Team job.

Chen Changsheng recruited miners for Sky Abyss City and traded with Little Immortal Elder, closing an eighty-billion deal for Divine Realm weapons. The miners approached with treasures of their own, but Little Immortal Elder rejected them.

• Chen Changsheng explained the Mine Guard Team’s risks and pay, and Zong Xingyan chose to sign on as a miner.
• Zong Xingyan flew to the Mine Small World, and a team of fewer than thirty miners formed while Chen Changsheng went into Sky Abyss City.
• Over the next two years, battles broke out across the Small Worlds, killing one Fourth Grade Immortal King and injuring two Immortal King Third Grades.
• Little Immortal Elder delivered the Sword Qi Great Wall, then agreed to buy Chen Changsheng’s 140,000 Divine Realm weapons for eighty billion and ordered another million.
• Chen Changsheng offered two thousand Immortal Venerable Realm weapons as part of the deal, but Little Immortal Elder refused the miners’ five weapons.

Little Immortal Elder rejected an expensive weapon and arranged for Chen Changsheng to supply more military goods, while Chen celebrated Sky Abyss City's first order by handing out mining bonuses. Bai Ze began calculating the miners’ earnings, and Zong Xingyan’s results stunned everyone.

• Little Immortal Elder dismissed a Fourth Grade Immortal King’s weapon as overpriced scrap and said he preferred buying cheaper weapons in bulk from Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng told Little Immortal Elder he could provide more military supplies in three thousand years and would prioritize any requested items.
• Little Immortal Elder went to prepare a list, and Chen Changsheng called the Miner Team together to award bonuses based on their workload.
• Bai Ze calculated Wang Liangji’s two-year earnings as twenty million two hundred and eighty thousand divine sources, and Wang Liangji explained that he had mined less in the second year.
• Bai Ze announced that Zong Xingyan’s ore was worth forty-five million in the first year and fifty-five million in the second, leaving the miners and Zong Xingyan stunned.

Chen Changsheng rewarded the Miner Team’s top performers and recruited more Immortal Kings, raising the team’s daily base quota. After Little Immortal Elder discussed ordering special supplies, Chen Changsheng noticed important guests arriving at Sky Abyss City.

• Bai Ze explained the ore pricing rules, and Immortal Kings confirmed that Zong Xingyan had earned a hundred million divine sources in two years.
• Chen Changsheng named Zong Xingyan, Song Wenguang, and Wang Liangji the Miner Team’s top three performers and rewarded them with Heaven Essence Grass.
• An Immortal King who had narrowly missed third place attacked meteors in frustration after learning the reward might have helped him advance.
• Chen Changsheng recruited more miners, raised the daily base quota to twenty-two thousand, and expanded the Miner Team to one hundred and eighteen people.
• Little Immortal Elder asked Chen Changsheng to prepare special supplies, then left after noticing guests arriving at Sky Abyss City.

Chen Changsheng negotiated with representatives of the Forbidden Grounds to invest in Sky Abyss City, offering the city as collateral and explaining how ordinary Immortal Kings could provide labor and military manpower. The representatives considered joining his venture, and Chen Changsheng asked them to bring people to the city until its population doubled.

• Chen Changsheng welcomed representatives of several Forbidden Grounds to Sky Abyss City and proposed a partnership to increase their wealth and power.
• Ancient Desolation praised Chen Changsheng’s wealth-gathering methods and asked what returns the Forbidden Grounds would receive for contributing money and people.
• Chen Changsheng offered Sky Abyss City as collateral and argued that the Immortal King cannon fodder outside could mine resources and fight battles at low cost.
• The representatives of Desperate Valley and Reincarnation Forbidden Ground asked for concrete benefits and terms for joining the venture.
• Chen Changsheng said he needed people, not resources, and told the representatives to capture or recruit enough people to double the city’s population.

Chen Changsheng recruited the Four Great Forbidden Grounds into exploitative mining and slave schemes, then used the violence spreading across the world to draw hunted cultivators into Sky Abyss World. He signed more contracts with over a dozen forbidden grounds and left them preparing to exploit Mine Small World, while Zhang Gu remained unaware of his larger plan.

• Chen Changsheng persuaded the Four Great Forbidden Grounds to adopt mining and slave-taking models, then gave their representatives deeds to large shops in Sky Abyss City.
• Bai Ze asked for a shop and help finding a Human Pet, and Chen Changsheng told him to advertise for people to handle his daily needs.
• Zhang Gu watched the miners in Mine Small World and warned that he would kill anyone who approached the core region.
• The Four Great Forbidden Grounds began slaughtering their enemies, and cultivators fled to Sky Abyss World after hearing that the Undertaker would protect them.
• Chen Changsheng signed contracts with representatives of more than a dozen forbidden grounds while five Immortal King Eighth Grade experts fought in the void.
• Chen Changsheng told the representatives to stage forbidden ground infighting, buy or seize outer mining areas, and leave the core areas for his next plan.

More than ten Forbidden Grounds representatives came to Mine Small World to buy plots of land, and Zhang Gu surrendered them under threat rather than risk the world being destroyed. The chapter ended with the Forbidden Grounds departing and Sky Abyss City opening nearby amid celebration.

• Zhang Gu worried that the Undertaker had trapped him but believed Heaven's Mandate and the danger of shattering Mine Small World kept him safe.
• More than ten powerful figures from the Forbidden Grounds arrived, circled the world, and then surrounded Zhang Gu.
• The Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground representative offered Zhang Gu one million divine sources for a plot, while Mao Weng and the others demanded that he sell their plots too.
• Mao Weng threatened to kill Zhang Gu and shatter Mine Small World, so Zhang Gu took the pouches and left the land to the Forbidden Grounds.
• The representatives departed, and the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground representative compared Zhang Gu unfavorably to Chen Changsheng and the White-Haired Sword God.
• Mine Small World lost more than ten plots, Zhang Gu received only a little over one million divine sources, and Sky Abyss City opened nearby in a grand celebration.

When Chai Yan accused Chen Changsheng of enabling the Forbidden Grounds’ slave-taking and slaughter, he explained that Sky Abyss City protected only those within its bounds and offered her ways to buy services there. Chen Changsheng then urged the Forbidden Ground representatives not to kill Chai Yan or the other escaped people, calling them future sources of profit.

• Bai Ze had Chai Yan seized after she denounced the Undertaker and Sky Abyss World at Sky Abyss City’s gates.
• Chen Changsheng stopped the guards and listened as Chai Yan accused the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground of enslaving her father and brother.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Sky Abyss City offered protection only within its borders and that it did not answer for events outside them.
• Chen Changsheng told Chai Yan she could hire killers through private deals or use the city’s paid third-party notarization service.
• Wang Zun said Chai Yan would not live past tomorrow, but Chen Changsheng advised him and Mao Weng to spare her and the other escaped people because they could bring future profits.

Chen Changsheng proposed using a cultivation technique to draw surviving enemies into revealing hidden resources, demanding a share of the profits from the Forbidden Grounds. Meanwhile, Chai Yan entered Sky Abyss City seeking a chance for revenge and posted a mission to attack the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he had created a cultivation technique with a hidden counter and planned to use its divided parts to lure surviving factions into spending their resources.
• Chen Changsheng required the Forbidden Grounds to give him thirty percent of the scheme’s earnings in the Sky Abyss World, and Wang Zun and the others agreed.
• Chai Yan entered Sky Abyss City because she believed she would be killed if she left the Sky Abyss World and wanted a chance to take revenge.
• Chai Yan went to the Mission Hall and asked to post a mission to attack the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground.

Chai Yan tried to post a mission against the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground and discovered Sky Abyss City’s special channel for conflicts between Forbidden Grounds. A revenge mission set Shi Kai of the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground against Qiao He of Desperate Valley, leaving the rival groups adjusting their assassination prices after Shi Kai killed Qiao He.

• Chai Yan asked the Mission Hall to arrange an attack on the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground, and an Immortal King Realm receptionist directed her to the special-mission room.
• Chai Yan watched as a young man argued with Desperate Valley’s representative over the price of killing an Ancient Desolation Forbidden Ground cultivator.
• Three young men paid the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground twenty billion divine sources to kill Qiao He, and Shi Kai accepted the mission as Qiao He challenged him to settle their old scores.
• Sky Source City witnessed the mission, and Shi Kai and Qiao He fought a life-and-death battle for three days while observers remained inside the Sky Abyss World.
• When Shi Kai tried to flee, Reincarnation Forbidden Ground experts warned him about the penalty for abandoning the witnessed mission, and he returned to the fight.
• Shi Kai used a secret treasure to kill Qiao He, after which Desperate Valley lowered its prices against the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground and the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground raised its prices against Desperate Valley.

After Desperate Valley’s Immortal King died, Chai Yan resolved to use her family’s remaining wealth to rescue her father and brother. Chen Changsheng revealed Sky Abyss City’s lucrative businesses to the Forbidden Grounds, and Wei Junjie demanded to know why Chen had arranged the Life and Death Battle and whether he could control the growing violence.

• Chai Yan mourned her family’s lost chance at revenge, then vowed to save her father and brother at any cost.
• Chen Changsheng showed Wang Zun and the others the bustling Sky Abyss City and asked them to estimate its profits.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that gambling houses had earned fifty billion Divine Source in three days and estimated that all businesses together brought in each Forbidden Ground about 1.6 billion per day.
• Chen Changsheng explained that wealthy cultivators gambled for tempting rewards using basic resources, while Mao Weng and Wang Zun questioned how the gambling houses attracted them.
• Wei Junjie told Chen Changsheng that Desperate Valley had lost a Second Grade Immortal King and asked why he had arranged the battle and whether he could restrain further killings.

Chen Changsheng explained to Wei Junjie and the Forbidden Grounds leaders that Sky Abyss City's assassination missions were meant to manage existing conflicts, not provoke them, and said he would begin the second stage of the plan after things settled. Desperate to earn money for her family and revenge, Chai Yan accepted a lifelong attendant mission and became Bai Ze's Human Pet.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Sky Abyss City's missions added rewards to conflicts that would happen anyway, while powerful people would challenge the Forbidden Grounds with or without payment.
• Mao Weng and the others applauded Chen Changsheng's arrangements, and Chen Changsheng asked them to consider how to spend their money before launching the plan's second stage.
• Chai Yan learned that ordinary missions paid too little to meet her needs and chose the lifelong attendant mission offering fifty million a year.
• The receptionist took Chai Yan to meet Bai Ze, who accepted her and ordered her to comb his fur.
• Chai Yan wept while combing Bai Ze's fur, and Bai Ze complained that her tears were making it wet.

Bai Ze learned that Chai Yan had become his human pet to earn money to rescue her father and brother from the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground. He bought their release for three hundred billion, and the mine guard sent most of the payment to Wang Zun.

• Bai Ze recalled Chen Changsheng warning him that he was not suited to keeping human pets, then asked Chai Yan why she had become one.
• Chai Yan told Bai Ze that her father and brother had been taken by the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground and that she wanted to rescue them and live peacefully with them.
• Bai Ze took Chai Yan to the mine and offered to buy two people; Chai Yan chose her father and brother.
• Bai Ze raised his offer to three hundred billion, and the Fifth Grade Immortal King erased the two men from the mine register.
• Bai Ze revealed an ore deposit to the mine guard and said Sky Abyss City would pay the three hundred billion, then left with Chai Yan and her family.
• The Fifth Grade Immortal King contacted Wang Zun, who ordered him to keep thirty million and send the rest.

Bai Ze spared Chai Yan and her family, then accepted Chai Yan’s vow to serve him. Seven years later, Chen Changsheng welcomed Qian Ya and Little Immortal Elder to his workshop, where he demonstrated a new combination magical artifact: self-fitting battle armor with an automatic defensive barrier.

• Bai Ze let Chai Yan, her brother, and her father leave, but Chai Yan and her family swore to serve him, and he agreed to let Chai Yan stay.
• Seven years later, Qian Ya and Little Immortal Elder arrived in Sky Abyss City with Hua Feng, and Qian Ya discussed resources and the prospect of copying Chen Changsheng’s warehouse.
• Chen Changsheng led the visitors to his underground workshop and explained how puppets produced magical artifacts in large quantities.
• Chen Changsheng introduced combination magical artifacts and showed Little Immortal Elder how metal discs summoned and fitted a suit of mithril battle armor.
• Chen Changsheng struck the armor to demonstrate its automatic defense barrier and explained that it could react to attacks up to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Chen Changsheng demonstrated the defensive and modular advantages of Combination Magical Artifacts, along with a costly arrow designed to break arrays. Qian Ya tried to secure a discount by pleading poverty and invoking her unborn child, and Chen Changsheng reluctantly offered thirty percent off.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Combination Magical Artifact’s automatic defenses were intended to help Divine Realm cultivators survive ambushes and encirclement.
• Chen Changsheng showed Little Immortal Elder how to summon a replacement bracer and demonstrated a single-use arrow that could tear gaps in arrays.
• Chen Changsheng described how Combination Magical Artifacts could be repaired and upgraded with replaceable components.
• Qian Ya praised Chen Changsheng’s use of wealth to advance magical-artifact development, then asked for a discount by claiming the war had drained her funds and mentioning Xu Yao’s unborn child.
• Chen Changsheng refused to give Qian Ya the requested discount but eventually offered thirty percent off.

Qian Ya placed a massive discounted order for magical artifacts, while Little Immortal Elder struggled to pay for his share. After settling the purchases, Chen Changsheng offered to trade for artifact fragments and powerful corpses, then led the group toward another costly destination.

• Qian Ya ordered three Combination Magical Artifacts, large quantities of Divine Realm artifacts, and Immortal Venerable Realm artifacts, explaining that her forces used cheap weapons to destroy the enemy’s expensive equipment.
• Chen Changsheng calculated Qian Ya’s order at 178 billion Divine Source, accepted her payment of roughly 200 billion, and said a doubled future order would take about a hundred years to prepare.
• Little Immortal Elder realized Qian Ya had brought enormous funds, then gathered 170 billion for his own purchases and asked Chen Changsheng to let him owe the remaining eight billion.
• Chen Changsheng deducted Little Immortal Elder’s shortfall from his dividends and offered to accept artifact fragments and powerful experts’ corpses as payment for future purchases.
• Chen Changsheng told Qian Ya and Little Immortal Elder that he would take them somewhere else where they would likely spend several hundred billion more.

Chen Changsheng proposed the God Slaying Plan to the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds, seeking their support to develop weapons capable of killing peak powerhouses and threatening enemies beyond their world. He laid out the enormous, ongoing investment required and left the representatives to decide whether to join.

• Chen Changsheng persuaded Little Immortal Elder to fund his plan despite the uncertain returns.
• Chen Changsheng gathered the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds' representatives in Sky Abyss City and announced the God Slaying Plan.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he wanted to develop weapons capable of killing peak powerhouses, including Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.
• Wang Zun questioned whether the representatives could trust Chen Changsheng with such a weapon, and Chen Changsheng offered to let them participate in its development.
• Chen Changsheng demanded an initial two hundred billion from each family, another two hundred billion after five hundred years, and five hundred billion every thousand years afterward, along with top-tier resources.