Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng secured six Forbidden Grounds’ support for the secretive God Slaying Plan, then disappeared for ten years as Bai Ze managed Sky Abyss World. When Nalan Xingde arrived with a broken ruler, Bai Ze found Chen Changsheng, who gave him a dangerous crystal.

• The Reincarnation Forbidden Ground and other factions left, leaving six Forbidden Grounds to join Chen Changsheng’s God Slaying Plan.
• The remaining factions paid resources, and Chen Changsheng unfolded a blueprint and discussed the plan with them in secret for a day and a night.
• The six Top Forbidden Grounds, Hua Feng, and Little Immortal Elder suppressed investigations by the Forbidden Grounds that had declined to join.
• Ten years later, Little Immortal Elder and Nalan Xingde brought corpses and broken weapons to Bai Ze, who said Chen Changsheng had prepared weapons for them.
• Nalan Xingde showed Bai Ze his broken ruler and asked him to find Chen Changsheng, so Bai Ze entered a Spatial Rift and returned two hours later with Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng scolded Nalan Xingde for breaking his weapon and gave him a dangerous crystal.

As the front lines faced a dangerous counterattack, Chen Changsheng gave Nalan Xingde a volatile defective product from the God Slaying Plan and explained how to use it. After Nalan Xingde and Little Immortal Elder left, Six Phantoms questioned Chen Changsheng's decision, and he said he needed to see how powerful the plan's products were.

• Nalan Xingde asked whether Chen Changsheng had completed his research, and Chen Changsheng warned him that the cracked crystal was an unstable defective product.
• Nalan Xingde told Chen Changsheng that the enemy had launched a full-scale counterattack and urged him to stop the God Slaying Plan because working with the Forbidden Ground carried a steep future cost.
• Chen Changsheng insisted that he needed the plan to protect himself if the others were defeated, and told Nalan Xingde not to consider sacrificing himself.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the crystal could destroy everything within 30,000 li, had to be used through a clone, and would rupture in three years; Nalan Xingde and Little Immortal Elder then departed with it.
• Six Phantoms questioned Chen Changsheng about giving the sponsors such a dangerous item, and Chen Changsheng said he needed to test the power of the God Slaying Plan's products.

Chen Changsheng gained the six Forbidden Grounds’ support for the God Slaying Plan and proposed beginning its second phase in the Sky Abyss World. He then revealed his plan to turn Corpse Mountain into spirit-herb fertilizer, bringing in specialists to handle the corpses’ negative energy.

• Chen Changsheng persuaded the six Forbidden Grounds to cooperate through their shared interests in completing the God Slaying Plan.
• The Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground asked about the second phase in the Sky Abyss World, and Chen Changsheng said it was nearly time and promised benefits to those who trusted him.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze examined Corpse Mountain, and Bai Ze explained why its corpses were tainted and useless.
• Chen Changsheng proposed composting the corpses, using tiny gu insects to convert their violent Divine Power into pure spiritual energy.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao to deal with the corpses’ negative energy through their expertise in the Bloodline Dao.

Chen Changsheng weighed Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao’s requests for a share of the Sky Abyss World’s second batch of benefits. After testing Wang Hao’s resilience, he accepted that Wang Hao could become a valuable ally against the forbidden grounds.

• Bai Ze learned that Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian had contacted Chen Changsheng when Sky Abyss City was first being established and had avoided the forbidden grounds’ earlier slaughter.
• Chen Changsheng offered Ye Yongxian a share of the second batch of benefits if he established an assassin organization, and Ye Yongxian agreed not to interfere with Wu Li, Little Immortal Elder, or their companions.
• Wang Hao asked for resources to establish a forbidden ground and promised that it would give way to Chen Changsheng three times, but Chen Changsheng questioned whether Wang Hao could be trusted.
• Chen Changsheng pierced Wang Hao’s head with sword qi, and Wang Hao rapidly regenerated, prompting Chen Changsheng to demand a reason not to kill him.
• Wang Hao argued that Chen Changsheng would eventually need someone to share the forbidden grounds’ hatred and warned that Bai Ze still resented him.
• Bai Ze tried to attack Wang Hao, but Chen Changsheng stopped him and agreed that they would need someone like Wang Hao in the future.

Chen Changsheng hired Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao to process Corpse Mountain into a Medicine Field, offering them a one-percent share while requiring strict inventory checks. Back in Sky Abyss City, he posted a low-paying job for cultivators to collect ordinary dirt and stone, with a mountain of Divine Source ready as payment.

• Chen Changsheng and Ye Yongxian agreed to handle the corpses’ violent Divine Power and lingering mental energy, while Wang Hao said he could remove their impurities.
• Chen Changsheng offered Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao one percent of the Medicine Field in exchange for thoroughly processing the corpses and keeping accurate counts.
• Chen Changsheng recorded the corpse inventory and left for Sky Abyss City with Bai Ze; Ye Yongxian split Corpse Mountain in half, and he and Wang Hao each took one portion to process.
• Chen Changsheng announced a job hauling ordinary dirt and stone, prompting cultivators to complain that its pay was too low.
• A Second Grade Immortal King delivered a small mountain of dirt and stone, and Chen Changsheng directed him to collect his payment from Chai Yan beside Bai Ze and a mountain of Divine Source.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze organized the purchase of soil and stones, prompting cultivators to excavate nearby Small Worlds for Sky Abyss City. Two years later, Chen Changsheng summoned representatives from the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds to announce that the city's second phase could begin and discuss dividing its profits.

• Bai Ze reprimanded a Second Grade Immortal King for bringing an entire mountain instead of separating out its soil and stones, and Chai Yan paid him 7,200 Divine Sources.
• Chen Changsheng urged cultivators to hurry before Sky Abyss City stopped buying, and the Second Grade Immortal King left to recruit an excavation team.
• Cultivators flooded nearby Small Worlds to dig and carry off soil and stones while the locals watched, confused but unwilling to start a conflict.
• Two years later, Chen Changsheng sensed a ripple and asked Bai Ze to notify the Forbidden Grounds for a Shareholders Meeting.
• Chen Changsheng told representatives from the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds that Sky Abyss City's second phase could begin and led them toward its artificially created land to show them its main industry.

Chen Changsheng unveiled a Medicine Field that transformed cultivators’ remains and Essence Blood into fertile spiritual energy, then negotiated how its yields would be divided among the Forbidden Grounds. He proposed taking over more than thirty nearby Small Worlds without allowing further slaughter and left the representatives questioning whether he intended to hollow them out gradually.

• Chen Changsheng demonstrated how his specially formulated soil converted a Third Grade Immortal King’s Essence Blood into World Spiritual Energy.
• Chen Changsheng offered the six representatives led by the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground half of the Medicine Field produced from their contributions, while initially offering the other ten Forbidden Grounds one-tenth.
• A representative objected, but the Heavens Forbidden Ground and Wang Zun warned that removing Chen Changsheng would jeopardize their investments, and Mao Weng helped secure an increase to two-tenths.
• Chen Changsheng announced plans to take over thirty-odd nearby Small Worlds and forbid the Forbidden Grounds from starting any more slaughter.
• The representative of the Void Forbidden Ground questioned how Chen Changsheng would take over the Small Worlds, and Chen Changsheng asked why he could not hollow them out gradually.

Chen Changsheng explained his plan to turn Sky Abyss World into a strategic storehouse by hollowing out nearby Small Worlds and plundering cultivators. He laid out how the first stage exploited Loose Cultivators and said the second would target cultivators with families, using both coercion and incentives.

• Chen Changsheng proposed hollowing out more than thirty Small Worlds with a Locust Army rather than conquering them outright, and claimed this could eventually strip away their heavenly destiny.
• Chen Changsheng claimed the strategically important Mine Small World for himself, and the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds raised no objection.
• At the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground representative’s request, Chen Changsheng explained that Sky Abyss World was meant to become a vast strategic storehouse by plundering the Cultivation World.
• Chen Changsheng said the first stage exploited high-level Loose Cultivators as tireless workers, while miners’ growing output made them more useful than puppets.
• The Desperate Valley representative called Chen Changsheng’s system a cage, and Chen Changsheng replied that everyone lived in a cage, though some cages were larger.
• Chen Changsheng said the second stage would target cultivators with families and households, using a big stick and a sweet date to extract their resources.

Chen Changsheng outlined how the second phase would tempt traditional cultivators, then expand into plundering the entire Cultivation World. After negotiating with the Forbidden Grounds, he split the extra spoils among his allies and returned toward Sky Abyss City with an angry Bai Ze.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Yuan Xiang’s success would tempt traditional cultivators, while the Locust Army would pressure those who resisted.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the later stage would target large clans and factions, using the Cultivation World to absorb Sky Abyss World’s excess production.
• Mao Weng and the other representatives agreed to let people like Yuan Xiang benefit first, and the representatives later dispersed.
• Chen Changsheng told Mao Weng and the others that the reduced agreement left an extra twenty percent to divide among ten recipients, including Bai Ze and Xiao Hei.
• Wang Zun questioned Bai Ze’s share, but Chen Changsheng defended Xiao Hei’s qualifications and Wang Zun accepted the arrangement.
• Chen Changsheng called Bai Ze a dog, prompting Bai Ze to bark and threaten to bite him as they flew back to Sky Abyss City.

After a twenty-year absence, Chen Changsheng returned to Sky Abyss City and agreed to let wealthy families take over its ore and soil assignments through a new investment model. His decision drove Bai Ze away, and Chai Yan refused to replace it, but Chen Changsheng spared her and told her to get up.

• A group of families asked Bai Ze to let them monopolize Sky Abyss City's ore and soil assignments in exchange for lower prices, excluding Loose Cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng arrived and approved their proposal, announcing an Investment Conference for investors with at least ten billion in assets and Loose Cultivators with over twenty years of service.
• Bai Ze argued that Chen Changsheng was undermining Sky Abyss City's foundation, then kicked over a table and left in a puff of smoke.
• Chen Changsheng asked Chai Yan to manage Sky Abyss City, but she refused, explaining that she would follow Bai Ze after it had been driven away.
• Chen Changsheng reached toward Chai Yan, then tugged her ear and told her to get up.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze planned reforms to Sky Abyss City and chose Chai Yan as an example to guide cultivators through the changes. After Sky Abyss City announced it would stop buying ore and soil from Loose Cultivators, Zong Xingyan saw an opportunity to form a mining faction with Wang Liangji.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze discussed their plan to begin institutional reforms in one month and selected Chai Yan to serve as an example of the new model.
• Bai Ze explained to Chai Yan that Sky Abyss City’s changes would benefit many people, but the city’s leaders needed an example to earn cultivators’ trust.
• Sky Abyss City announced that it would stop purchasing ore and soil from Loose Cultivators in one month, angering cultivators who depended on its fair prices.
• Zong Xingyan told Wang Liangji he wanted to leave the Miner Team and form a faction that could become a long-term supplier to Sky Abyss City.
• Zong Xingyan revealed that he had developed a Mining Spell usable by Divine Realm cultivators, and Wang Liangji became interested in the venture.

Chen Changsheng opened Sky Abyss City's Investment Conference and introduced contract-based acquisitions, requiring contractors to provide goods on schedule and pay a security deposit. He revealed a 400-billion formation project split into three parts, and Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground made the first bid at 390 billion.

• A month after factions prepared for the Investment Conference, Zong Xingyan told Wang Liangji to wait and see what Bai Ze and Chai Yan would do before bidding.
• Chen Changsheng announced that Sky Abyss City would replace its flexible acquisition model with contracts, with a 50 percent security deposit required for each project.
• Chen Changsheng presented the first major project, offering 400 billion for each of three parts of a formation.
• Mao Weng questioned how the contract distributed risk, and Chen Changsheng explained that funds would be paid in stages and the deposit returned after completion.
• Mao Weng accepted the terms and bid 390 billion on behalf of Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground.

Chen Changsheng auctioned off Sky Abyss World’s formation, ore, and soil projects at steeply reduced prices, while setting rules to protect contractors from robbery. Bai Ze then surprised the bidders by taking several small projects at exceptionally low prices, and another bidder undercut a Sixth Grade Immortal King.

• Three sects won the first formation project for 295 billion, and the next two projects brought Chen Changsheng’s total costs to 985 billion.
• Chen Changsheng announced that ore and soil contractors would not need deposits and that Sky Abyss World would only accept supplies from the contracted party.
• Wang Zun of Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground won three ore projects at low prices, then the forty large projects were divided among the factions.
• Bai Ze bid eight billion on a soil project and went on to take five small projects at prices that drew complaints from the other bidders.
• Chen Changsheng defended the fairness of Bai Ze’s bids and said the results of its short-term projects would be clear within fifty years.
• A Sixth Grade Immortal King bid fifteen billion for a Frost Iron Mine project, but an unidentified bidder in the corner immediately offered thirteen billion.

At Sky Abyss City’s Investment Conference, Chen Changsheng enforced order after a Sixth Grade Immortal King challenged the 13-billion bid for the Frost Iron Mine project. After the meeting, Zong Xingyan and Wang Liangji sought Azure Mountain Sect’s support, and Zong Xingyan claimed the project could earn four billion in profit.

• A Sixth Grade Immortal King objected to the 13-billion bid, but Wang Zun slammed him to the ground after Chen Changsheng warned him to sit.
• With no one offering a lower price, Chen Changsheng awarded the Frost Iron Mine project to Zong Xingyan and continued the conference.
• Wang Zun questioned how investors had secured projects at such low prices, and Chen Changsheng offered paid visits to observe their methods.
• Zong Xingyan and Wang Liangji asked Elder Qian for Azure Mountain Sect’s protection and cooperation, but Elder Qian initially refused to risk provoking the Fire Cauldron Sect.
• Zong Xingyan told Elder Qian that the 13-billion Frost Iron Mine project could earn four billion in profit, prompting Elder Qian to reconsider.

Ten years after the Investment Conference, Chen Changsheng charged the visiting forces ten million divine sources each to inspect the unusual projects. The crowd visited Bai Ze first, where it hired three powerful representatives to help move a piece of land.

• Elder Qian agreed to accompany Zong Xingyan to inspect the Frost Iron Mine and test his claim that it could be developed for nine billion.
• Over the next ten years, Bai Ze, the Three Great Array Sects, and Zong Xingyan pursued strange project methods that puzzled the watching forces.
• Chen Changsheng invited representatives from thousands of forces to tour the projects, charging each person ten million divine sources and explaining that the fees would go to the project owners.
• The representatives chose to visit Bai Ze first, and Chen Changsheng led them to its Small World.
• Bai Ze defended its ability to profit from the soil project and offered five hundred million divine sources each to three temporary workers to drag a piece of land to Sky Abyss City.
• Wang Zun, Mao Weng, and the representative from Heavens Forbidden Ground accepted Bai Ze's job to find out what it was planning.

Bai Ze explained how moving a Small World fragment and using low-realm workers let it profit from a soil project despite a projected 2.5 billion loss. Chen Changsheng revealed that a mineral vein Bai Ze expected to recover for 800 million had already been reserved for 1.8 billion, leaving Bai Ze furious.

• Bai Ze and three Forbidden Ground representatives tore off a tenth of a Small World and dragged it to Sky Abyss City's soil acquisition site.
• Chai Hua brought 13,800 cultivators to harvest herbs and dig soil from the fragment.
• Bai Ze defended the method and calculated that wages and transport would leave it with a 2.5 billion loss on the eight-billion project.
• Bai Ze said harvesting herbs alongside the soil work would yield 300 million and recovering a mineral vein would add another 800 million.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground had reserved the mineral vein for 1.8 billion after Bai Ze offered only 1.4 billion, and Bai Ze angrily accused him of helping outsiders.

Bai Ze explained how burning discarded timber into charcoal made his soil project more profitable overall by freeing workers for other contracts, while Chen Changsheng defended the practice and sold the gathered powers the reason Bai Ze hired low-realm cultivators. The tour continued as Chen Changsheng revealed Bai Ze intended to benefit from the workers’ cultivation breakthroughs during fixed-term contracts.

• Bai Ze burned Chai Yan’s collected timber into charcoal and mixed it into the soil to increase its volume, and Chen Changsheng ruled that the method complied with Sky Abyss City’s requirements.
• Bai Ze told Wang Zun that unused workers could be assigned to other projects, allowing him to profit from their wages and secure work while collecting admission fees from the visitors.
• The representative of Void Forbidden Ground applauded Bai Ze’s business strategy, and Chen Changsheng invited everyone to choose the next stop on the tour.
• Wang Zun questioned Chen Changsheng about Bai Ze’s many low-level workers, and Chen Changsheng collected one million divine source from each visitor before explaining Bai Ze’s plan.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the workers had fixed contracts and were near breakthroughs, so they could become more productive as their cultivation improved without receiving higher pay.
• Mao Weng accused Chen Changsheng of exploiting others, and Chen Changsheng replied that he exploited powerful bigwigs rather than ordinary people.

Chen Changsheng toured the Three Great Array Sects’ void formation project and explained how they used meteors as formation platforms. He revealed a new combination magical artifact and announced that Sky Abyss City would fully supply pills and artifacts in a thousand years, leaving the gathered leaders considering how to profit from the opportunity.

• Chen Changsheng led Mao Weng and the other leaders to inspect the formation being built by the Three Great Array Sects.
• Chen Changsheng deduced that the sects carved fixed array patterns onto meteors and combined them into formation platforms.
• Chen Changsheng claimed he had conceived a similar combination formation method around thirty thousand years earlier, then demonstrated a modular combination magical artifact.
• Chen Changsheng announced that Sky Abyss City would fully supply pills and magical artifacts in a thousand years, prompting the leaders to consider expanding their mines.
• Chen Changsheng toured the mines of Bai Ze, the Three Great Array Sects, and Azure Mountain Sect, showing how each used low-realm cultivators and specialized methods to reduce costs and make money.

Chen Changsheng learned that the worlds belonged to an Epoch dominated by the Three Mountains, One Sea, and Forty-Two Worlds, then pressed the Forbidden Ground representatives to fund and expand the God Slaying Plan. The chapter left him urging them to open sales channels across the Epoch while hinting that danger was stirring beyond Chaos.

• After the other guests left, Chen Changsheng asked the six Forbidden Ground representatives about the name and layout of their Great World.
• Mao Weng explained that the worlds belonged to an Epoch, and Wang Zun identified its major powers as the Three Mountains, One Sea, and Forty-Two Worlds.
• The Desperate Valley representative said Four Directions Continent was one of the Forty-Two Worlds, but the representatives refused to explain the status of Eight Desolations Nine Regions.
• Chen Changsheng suspected the Forbidden Grounds had moved Bronze Ancient Halls into Eight Desolations Nine Regions and warned that disturbances in Chaos could signal trouble.
• Si Shan told Chen Changsheng to leave the other side of Chaos to them and focus on perfecting the God Slaying Plan.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the plan had already spent more than three trillion and urged the representatives to open sales channels throughout the Epoch to fund its next stages.

Chen Changsheng committed to using the Forbidden Grounds’ resources to complete the God Slaying Plan and prepare the era for a looming catastrophe. Two hundred years later, Hundred Herbs Garden was completed, and Chen Changsheng demonstrated its ability to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs as representatives from the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds gathered.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he would carry the God Slaying Plan through because he needed the Forbidden Grounds’ strength to prepare for the danger facing their era.
• Chen Changsheng planned to arm the entire era and turn its people into madmen who could fight back against their enemies, and Bai Ze agreed to stand with him.
• Sky Abyss City’s cultivators plundered Small Worlds, and Blood Blade began taking assassination contracts, prompting the Forbidden Grounds to move against it before Chen Changsheng mediated.
• Two hundred years after the project was announced, the nearly trillion-cost formation was completed and drew spiritual energy from the surrounding area, weakening nearby Small Worlds.
• At Hundred Herbs Garden, Chen Changsheng showed the gathered representatives that ordinary spirit herbs grew about ten times faster there and explained how the Medicine Fields would be divided.