Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng persuaded the Forbidden Grounds to limit spirit-herb cultivation and open Space Channels, then laid out a scheme to profit by gradually replacing divine source wages with spirit liquid. Sky Abyss World's expansion weakened Zhang Gu's Mine Small World, and he found himself watched by more than thirty Seventh Grade Immortal Kings when he considered acting.

• Chen Changsheng convinced the Forbidden Grounds to control spirit-herb production and gave them deadlines for opening Space Channels.
• Chen Changsheng proposed paying workers extra spirit liquid at first, then reducing the bonus as they grew accustomed to it, so the group could profit from price fluctuations.
• Sky Abyss World expanded assembly-line production, recruited weapon refiners, and drew surrounding Small Worlds into its sphere as their resources were depleted.
• Zhang Gu realized the Undertaker intended to hollow out his world and erase the heavenly mandate he bore.
• When Zhang Gu considered moving against the miners, more than thirty Seventh Grade Immortal Kings watched him and called for help.

Zhang Gu tried to stop the forces mining the Mine Small World, but their overwhelming numbers and threats drove him to seek the Undertaker in Sky Abyss City. There, he learned the miners wanted contracts to protect their claims and was spared further trouble only after Chen Changsheng’s puppet intervened.

• Three Eighth Grade Immortal Kings confronted Zhang Gu at the Mine Small World, and he left after their forces surrounded him and threatened him over the mines.
• Zhang Gu went to Sky Abyss City and learned from the gate guard that visitors had to queue to see the City Lord.
• While Zhang Gu waited outside the City Lord's Mansion, a Sixth Grade Immortal King offered him two billion divine source for a mining contract and explained that the miners feared losing access if the world passed to the Undertaker.
• The Sixth Grade Immortal King threatened Zhang Gu over his past interference with the sect's mines, and Zhang Gu held back from fighting him.
• A puppet identical to Chen Changsheng asked the Sixth Grade Immortal King to ease up on Zhang Gu, and the man agreed to let him off this time.

Chen Changsheng negotiated the Mine Small World's future mining rights with the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds, then forced Zhang Gu to surrender the Golden Pages. The chapter ended with Hua Feng handing the booklet to Chen Changsheng after stopping others from taking it.

• Chen Changsheng showed Zhang Gu a map and set lease terms for the Mine Small World, allowing the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds to claim thirty percent of its mines.
• Zhang Gu demanded a share, but Little Immortal Elder subdued him and explained that the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds no longer needed him to protect the Small World.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Gu the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds had united to attack beyond the Small World and demanded the item he possessed.
• Zhang Gu reluctantly placed a booklet of Golden Pages on the table, and Hua Feng stopped Wang Zun and others from taking it.
• Hua Feng gave the Golden Pages to Chen Changsheng, who praised her and complained about Qian Ya.

Chen Changsheng recruited Zhang Gu and arranged a fair fight to test him with the God-Slaying Weapon. As the six Lords of the Forbidden Zone gathered to watch, the demonstration was about to begin, with the weapon’s power still unproven.

• Chen Changsheng offered Zhang Gu a choice between leaving with money or working for him, and Zhang Gu chose to join him.
• Chen Changsheng challenged Zhang Gu to a fair fight, promising not to kill him and offering a greater reward if Zhang Gu injured him.
• Chen Changsheng, Zhang Gu, Little Immortal Elder, Hua Feng, and the others traveled through the void for three days to reach a barren, isolated place.
• Six mysterious auras arrived, and a barrier sealed off the ten-thousand-mile area as eight figures took their seats around the battlefield.
• Hua Feng told the six Lords of the Forbidden Zone that the God-Slaying Weapon was real and that they would soon see its power.

Chen Changsheng tested an unstable God-Slaying Weapon on Zhang Gu, but the device exploded and injured the powerful beings gathered nearby. After treating Zhang Gu, Chen Changsheng called the experiment a failure and said the God-Slaying Plan needed a new direction.

• Zhang Gu used the Small World's Heavenly Mandate to reach Immortal King Ninth Grade and struck Chen Changsheng through more than a dozen mountains.
• Chen Changsheng released a flying dagger from a Red Gourd, which froze Zhang Gu before the gourd cracked and exploded.
• The explosion sent unstable daggers through the gathered powerful beings, injuring them and piercing their bodies and Divine Sense Realms.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze emerged from underground after the daggers vanished, and Chen Changsheng used Heaven Mending Paste to restore Zhang Gu.
• Chen Changsheng told Little Immortal Elder and the others that the God-Slaying Weapon experiment had failed and that the plan needed a new direction.

Chen Changsheng treated Hua Feng’s wound and explained that the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife was a failed half-finished product that could only injure powerful beings. He gave the God Slaying Plan’s investors designs for four half-finished weapons, then escaped with Bai Ze while the others debated who should test their weapons first.

• Chen Changsheng drew the flying knife’s white light from Hua Feng’s wound and healed her, then provided a magical artifact to treat the others’ injuries.
• Chen Changsheng said the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife could immobilize Ninth Grade Immortal Kings but only wound beings of the Lord of Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground’s level.
• Chen Changsheng revealed three more unstable half-finished weapons and distributed eight identical Jade Slips containing their designs and ideas for improvement.
• The Void Master, Little Immortal Elder, and Lord of Heaven took the three Bronze Boxes, while Chen Changsheng warned that the weapons could malfunction if not used soon.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze turned into parts, revealing that their true bodies had already escaped.
• Little Immortal Elder suggested testing a weapon on the front lines, and the Void Master agreed to use his first while criticizing those who had held back their investment.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he had spread news of the God Slaying Plan to provoke conflict among the Forbidden Grounds and spread its weapons throughout the era. He then visited the Mine Small World to investigate Zhang Gu’s Heaven’s Mandate and discovered a Bronze Ancient Hall, though Zhang Gu claimed to know nothing about it.

• Little Immortal Elder and the Phoenix Empress flew away wounded after an ambush, and Little Immortal Elder cursed the Void Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he had spread news of the God Slaying Plan to draw more Forbidden Grounds into conflict and encourage them to share methods for making Half-finished products.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Bai Ze to tell Ma Ling'er to begin the Qilin Plan and to bring him the Qiongqi Tomb.
• Chen Changsheng went to the Mine Small World to investigate why Zhang Gu had received Heaven's Mandate there.
• Zhang Gu led Chen Changsheng to a cave containing a Bronze Ancient Hall and said he did not know where it came from.

Chen Changsheng let Zhang Gu choose a quiet life guarding Sky Abyss City, then entered the Bronze Ancient Hall and asked the system what life he might have lived without it. The system explained that Chen Changsheng’s endless time would eventually lead him to change any life he chose.

• Chen Changsheng questioned Zhang Gu about the Uncanny and urged him to pursue power, but Zhang Gu said he only wanted to live safely as a Loose Cultivator.
• Chen Changsheng assigned Zhang Gu to guard Sky Abyss City and let him leave the Mine Small World.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Bronze Ancient Hall and reflected on how its appearance had shaped his life and brought him to Nian Sheng and Wu Li.
• Chen Changsheng asked the system whether he would have lived differently without the Bronze Ancient Hall, and it said Zhang Gu would have been his closest counterpart.
• The system told Chen Changsheng that, unlike beings with limited time, his endless lifespan and choices would eventually make him grow weary of any life and change it.

Chen Changsheng found no direct answers in the Mine Small World, but uncovered signs that the Bronze Ancient Hall and the world’s origins concealed deeper secrets. As conflict spread across the era, Jian Fei’s pursuit of ore thieves brought him face to face with Chen Changsheng, who demanded to know why he had not visited.

• Chen Changsheng told the system he enjoyed the road he had chosen and asked it to help him remember himself if he eventually changed.
• After exploring the Mine Small World, Chen Changsheng suspected the Bronze Ancient Hall hid secrets connected to Wu Li’s hometown and learned that the world had been moved there by someone.
• Chen Changsheng’s ownership of the Mine Small World ended free mining, driving ore suppliers to seek new mines and sparking wars that spread across the era.
• A thousand years later, Jian Fei chased three Seventh Grade Immortal Kings into Sky Abyss City after they mined ore in his territory.
• Chen Changsheng appeared before Jian Fei, reproached him for failing to visit, and asked whether other worlds had sent him as their representative.

Jian Fei confronted Chen Changsheng over the Qilin Plan and the war, then withdrew from the Heavenly Court and vowed to destroy the Sky Abyss World. Chen Changsheng ordered a continent-spanning hunt for his former student while preparing the worlds for an arms race, and the chapter ended with the Absolute Kill Order shocking the public.

• Jian Fei asked Chen Changsheng to stop the war, warning that the Qilin Plan would arm the era at the cost of countless lives.
• Chen Changsheng challenged Jian Fei to explain how the world could defend itself without arming everyone and asked whether the Eight Desolations Nine Regions and Four Directions Continent supported the plan.
• Jian Fei said the Heavenly Court would support the Qilin Plan but announced his withdrawal and vowed to destroy the Sky Abyss World.
• Chen Changsheng declared Jian Fei an enemy and ordered an Absolute Kill Order, explaining to Bai Ze that he needed the world to believe he had broken with them.
• Chen Changsheng instructed Bai Ze to begin an arms race across the Three Mountains One Sea Forty-Two Worlds and to prepare the Mine Small World for evacuation after another thousand years of digging.
• The Sky Abyss World issued its Absolute Kill Order against Jian Fei, shocking people who had thought his departure was another act staged by Chen Changsheng.

After Chen Changsheng ended his pursuit of Jian Fei, the era entered a long period of uneasy peace as the great powers exploited cultivators and Sky Abyss City gained the name “City of Sin.” When Bai Ze began suffering strange injuries and sensed that someone close to him had died, Chen Changsheng feared disaster had struck the front lines.

• Chen Changsheng used new magic treasures to drive Zhang Zhen and Jian Fei into retreat, then expelled Jian Fei after the powers of the era intervened.
• The factions stopped fighting and spent the next twenty-three thousand years profiting from cultivators, while resistance grew and Sky Abyss City became known as the “City of Sin.”
• Chai Yan told Chen Changsheng that Bai Ze had injured himself after his Divine Power went wrong, and Chen Changsheng tested his luck with a coin toss.
• Chen Changsheng divined that a major calamity was coming, awakened Bai Ze, and learned that Bai Ze’s strange symptoms had begun three thousand years earlier.
• Bai Ze broke a fang in another accident and sensed that someone close to him had died, leaving Chen Changsheng afraid that disaster had struck the front lines.
• Chen Changsheng took Bai Ze outside to wait for Little Immortal Elder, insisting that the new magic treasures would keep the front lines safe.

Chen Changsheng learned that Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu had died, and vowed to kill everyone responsible. He explained that the Bronze Ancient Hall’s records led him to believe the Giant Hand had driven out the Ancient Primordial People, leaving a shameful history its descendants tried to conceal.

• Little Immortal Elder told Chen Changsheng that their forces had collapsed and that Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu were dead.
• Chen Changsheng questioned whether Little Immortal Elder had any role in their deaths and learned that their bodies and the precise cause could not be found.
• Chen Changsheng vowed to hunt down those responsible and kill anyone who tried to stop him.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Bronze Ancient Hall recorded the Ancient Primordial People, the Giant Hand, and the Uncanny as the three factions involved in the past.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that the Giant Hand had driven out the Ancient Primordial People and that its descendants hid the Bronze Ancient Hall to cover up their predecessors’ shame.

Chen Changsheng uncovered the truth behind the war and agreed to persuade Wu Li’s allies to evacuate, while warning Little Immortal Elder that he would still pursue those responsible for Scholar’s death. After Sky Abyss City emptied, Wu Li arrived with his people, and Chen Changsheng handed out the God-Slaying Weapons while inviting anyone who wanted to kill him to attack.

• Chen Changsheng deduced that the Preservationists had hidden the Ancient Primordial People’s history from him and learned that the epoch’s top combatants had disappeared.
• Little Immortal Elder explained that disputes over territory, internal divisions, and the loss of the epoch’s power had made the war difficult.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to persuade Wu Li and the others to leave, but said he would investigate Scholar’s death and settle accounts afterward.
• The forces evacuated Sky Abyss City, which became empty within a month as news spread of Supreme Sage’s death and Wu Li’s defeat.
• The Sixteen Forbidden Grounds gathered in Sky Abyss City, and Wu Li arrived with his people.
• Chen Changsheng presented eight God-Slaying Weapons and challenged anyone who wanted to kill him to make their move.

Chen Changsheng made the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds abandon their plans to kill him, then admitted to Nian Sheng that he intended to destroy the era to avenge Scholar. Nian Sheng urged him not to hurt or suspect everyone, but Chen Changsheng remained determined to find the people behind Scholar’s death by killing them all.

• Chen Changsheng refused the Sixteen Forbidden Grounds’ advice to end the conflict, and they took their God-Slaying Weapons and left rather than attack him.
• Wu Li and the others reunited with Chen Changsheng, who sent them away after asking for a list of those who fought on the front lines.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Scholar’s death and the collapse of the fronts seemed premeditated, and said he would kill everyone if he could not identify the culprit.
• Nian Sheng warned Chen Changsheng not to hurt or suspect those around him, and challenged his plan to kill even people who had no part in Scholar’s death.

Chen Changsheng entrusted Nian Sheng with Bai Ze and several precious gifts before preparing to avenge Scholar. Three years later, the Ancient Primordial People returned and surrounded a Small World, where Chen Changsheng declared himself the era’s Immeasurable Great Calamity and vowed to kill them.

• Chen Changsheng asked Nian Sheng to support him and entrusted her with the sealed Bai Ze so she would stay safe while he pursued his revenge.
• Chen Changsheng gave Nian Sheng a Medicine Field, notes on the Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations, and Golden Pages before she left with Bai Ze.
• After Nian Sheng departed, Chen Changsheng waited in Sky Abyss City beside the ninth God-Slaying Weapon as the era fell into panic.
• Three years later, more than forty Ancient Primordial People arrived in the Sky Abyss World after surrounding a Small World with half their forces.
• Nine Ancient Primordial People said they had only tried to delay Scholar, but Chen Changsheng blamed them for Scholar’s death and vowed to hunt them down.

Chen Changsheng activated the ninth God-Slaying Weapon, using the Hundred Herbs Garden’s Spirit Gathering Array to devastate the Ancient Primordial army and make his escape. He then revived in the wilderness with Luo Kai and set the Nirvana Plan in motion, choosing to let his enemies fight for a while first.

• Chen Changsheng refused Hao Tian’s offer of a world and demanded that the Ancient Primordial People return Scholar’s life.
• Hao Tian grievously wounded Chen Changsheng and sealed his cultivation, but Chen Changsheng revealed that he had prepared the ninth God-Slaying Weapon.
• The Spirit Gathering Array above the Hundred Herbs Garden exploded, killing one-third of the army and severely injuring Hao Tian.
• Hao Tian ordered the army to attack the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground in three days and uncover the God-Slaying Weapons.
• Luo Kai revived Chen Changsheng from a fingertip-sized piece of flesh, and Chen Changsheng said to delay the Nirvana Plan while his enemies fought.

Chen Changsheng discovered that repeated rebirths had caused severe Innate Defects, including blindness, and sought Wang Hao’s help to repair his body. After Wang Hao explained the risks and proposed a deal, Chen Changsheng offered to teach him how to become a truly fearsome Demon Cultivator.

• Chen Changsheng spoke with Ao Chuang, who had become capable of operating independently of the Qiongqi Tomb, and urged him to accelerate the Locust Plan.
• Chen Changsheng went blind while recovering his cultivation, and the system explained that repeated rebirths had caused his bloodline factors to produce Innate Defects.
• Chen Changsheng traveled to Wang Hao’s Small World in the Epoch Crack and asked him to examine his body.
• Wang Hao warned Chen Changsheng that further rebirths could turn him into a monster and offered to help in exchange for assistance with his bloodline research.
• Chen Changsheng called Wang Hao a coward and promised to teach him how to become a Demon Cultivator feared by Gods and ghosts.

Chen Changsheng and Wang Hao watched the Ancient Primordial People battle the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground while Wang Hao helped create a powerful Chaos Body for Chen Changsheng. The eight-hundred-year battle ended with the Forbidden Ground leaving the era, and Chen Changsheng emerged with his new body.

• Chen Changsheng asked Wang Hao to investigate the era and report on the outsiders attacking the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground.
• The Ancient Primordial People fought the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground, but Wang Hao’s monitoring avatar was destroyed by the Forbidden Ground’s pressure.
• Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao he would teach him out of respect for his talent, while warning that he would kill him if he ever blocked his path.
• The Ancient Primordial People used supreme divine artifacts against the Lord of Holy Ruins, and after eight hundred years of battle, the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground left the era with the outcome unknown.
• Wang Hao finished creating a body for Chen Changsheng and identified it as an artificial Chaos Body developed from Chen Changsheng’s earlier research.

Chen Changsheng discussed dangerous experiments with Wang Hao and vowed to unleash the creations he had kept inside after Scholar's death. He left to obtain the double pupils of an Ancient Primordial People Quasi-overlord, declaring that his return would bring the Four Calamities.

• Chen Changsheng advised Wang Hao to base his experiments on insects, whose strength and reproduction could produce terrifying beings.
• Chen Changsheng said his experiments were dangerous and that, with Scholar dead, no one remained to dissuade him from unleashing them.
• Wang Hao praised Scholar for sparing and guiding him, and Chen Changsheng said he wanted eyes that would let him see his enemies die.
• Wang Hao revealed that one of the Ancient Primordial People's eight Quasi-overlords had double pupils, and Chen Changsheng chose him as his first sacrifice.
• Chen Changsheng flew into Chaos with Nalan Xingde's restored source weapon and mourned that Scholar was gone and he had no friend left who could understand and restrain him.

After eight thousand years of searching, Chen Changsheng found the bodies of Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu and read the letter she left behind. He remained with them for a thousand years, then reunited with old friends as Zi Ning prepared to die and they shared the remaining Hundred Flower Wine.

• Chen Changsheng followed the ruler’s resonance to an asteroid where he found Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu’s bodies.
• Chen Changsheng received a response through his communicator, read Gongsun Huaiyu’s letter, and sat beside the bodies for a thousand years.
• Bai Ze arrived, mourned Nalan Xingde and Gongsun Huaiyu, and fainted before Chen Changsheng sealed it away.
• Wu Li, Zi Ning, and Li Niansheng arrived, and Zi Ning told Chen Changsheng that her life had reached its limit.
• Chen Changsheng brought out Hundred Flower Wine to see Zi Ning off, and Zi Ning poured everyone a cup before they drank.