Chapter Summaries

After Wu Li and Nian Sheng depart, Chen Changsheng investigates the unexplained deaths of Scholar and Huai Yu, whom Zi Ning identifies as Nalan and Wild Girl. Zi Ning dies after entrusting him with a Jade Slip and command token, and Chen Changsheng sets out to uncover the truth behind their deaths.

• Zi Ning urges Wu Li and Chen Changsheng to keep living, and both agree before Wu Li leaves after Chen Changsheng tells him to carry his responsibilities for himself.
• Nian Sheng leaves with the unconscious Bai Ze, while Chen Changsheng preserves Huai Yu and Scholar's bodies in ice and explains that their injuries were not fatal and they died by suicide.
• Chen Changsheng questions Zi Ning, who says Nalan had contacts with people from other battle lines and concealed that the lines had been infiltrated, but she found no evidence that his allies or the infiltrators caused his death.
• Zi Ning suggests Nalan had foreseen Chen Changsheng's response and left him a task, then gives him a Jade Slip and command token before dying.
• Chen Changsheng vows to uncover the truth about the deaths, takes the three bodies and the unopened jar of Hundred Flower Wine, and flies toward the old era.

After more than ten thousand years away, Chen Changsheng returned to find the Ancient Primordial People had remade the epoch into the Four Brahma Three Realms Thirty-Two Heavens. Wang Hao explained their strength and new order, and Chen Changsheng asked how they could destroy it.

• Chen Changsheng returned through the Epoch Crack after finding Scholar's corpse and resolved to use his infinite time to take revenge.
• In the Desire Realm, Chen Changsheng reunited with Wang Hao, who explained that the Ancient Primordial People had reshaped the epoch and ranked its original cultivators as heavenly beings.
• Wang Hao reported that the Ancient Primordial People had innate abilities and stronger bloodlines resembling those of the God Race, which he believed was their failed evolutionary offshoot.
• Chen Changsheng agreed that the Ancient Primordial People had powerful origins and asked Wang Hao to explain their new realm structure.
• Wang Hao described the Four Brahma Three Realms Thirty-Two Heavens and said the former Three Mountains One Sea Forty-Two Worlds had largely fled or surrendered.
• Chen Changsheng asked Wang Hao how they planned to destroy the Four Brahma Three Realms.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he had used the Qilin Plan’s communications network to map and monitor the epoch, then joined Wang Hao in targeting Great Bright Heaven. They planned to provoke chaos and capture Miao Shi, the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s son, using a self-operating puppet to draw out the Heavenly Emperor.

• Chen Changsheng showed Wang Hao a detailed map of the epoch and admitted that he had gathered its information by intercepting signals from communication devices and Signal Towers.
• Chen Changsheng and Wang Hao chose Great Bright Heaven as their first target, aiming to test the Ancient Primordial People and obtain the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s Double pupils and World Cleansing Mantra.
• Wang Hao identified Miao Shi, the Heavenly Emperor’s son, as their target and explained that Miao Shi possessed a Supreme Bone, had reached the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and was protected by three Sixth Grade Immortal Kings.
• Chen Changsheng proposed drawing the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor away and using a puppet to throw Great Bright Heaven into chaos.
• Chen Changsheng sent a puppet that could act without being controlled to kill Miao Shi, and Wang Hao praised his ambition to create an autonomous puppet race.

Chen Changsheng and Wang Hao watched Miao Shi confront assassins sent to warn Great Bright Heaven, while discussing their own ruthless methods and plans to kidnap him. Miao Shi fought the Immortal Venerable Realm assassins alone and showed overwhelming strength.

• Wang Hao explained why Chen Changsheng needed his ruthless help against the Ancient Primordial People, and Chen Changsheng agreed to observe Miao Shi.
• Miao Shi’s Dao Protector revealed more than ten assassins, who accused Great Bright Heaven of invading their homeland.
• Miao Shi argued that the Ancient Primordial People had been driven from their homeland and charged the assassins alone.
• Chen Changsheng and Wang Hao identified the attack as a warning from a major power and traded insults about their own cruelty.
• Miao Shi uprooted a mountain and hurled it at the assassins, then struck at them with his fist.

Miao Shi slaughtered the assassins with his Ancient Primordial People techniques until Chen Changsheng’s puppet ambushed him, and the two watched the fight from three thousand li away. Chen Changsheng used the battle to measure Miao Shi’s strength, while Miao Shi vowed to defeat the puppet himself.

• Miao Shi used Bone Inscriptions and his powerful body to defeat the assassins, while Chen Changsheng explained the Ancient Primordial People’s cultivation methods to Wang Hao.
• After Wang Hao questioned whether they could defeat such opponents, Chen Changsheng vowed to find a weakness and bring them down.
• A puppet burst from underground and struck Miao Shi, who refused Grandpa Miao’s offer to intervene and continued fighting it.
• Grandpa Miao searched for the puppet’s controller with his Divine Sense Realm but found no trace.
• Three thousand li away, Chen Changsheng revealed that he had modified the sturdy experimental puppet to test Miao Shi, and Wang Hao examined its rising strength.

Chen Changsheng tested Miao Shi’s strength against an adaptive puppet and measured a maximum burst of 2.2 million jin. The damaged puppet kept fighting, and Miao Shi brought out a massive bow to finish it off.

• Chen Changsheng explained that reports of Miao Shi tearing apart a Third Grade Immortal King exaggerated the feat, since the opponent had already been badly wounded.
• Chen Changsheng adjusted the test and sent an adaptive puppet to fight Miao Shi, whose altered form gained strength at the cost of agility.
• Miao Shi grappled with the puppet, reached a burst of 2.2 million jin, tore off its arms, and punched it into a crater.
• Chen Changsheng recorded Miao Shi’s strength after the puppet’s weaker parts broke, then watched it rearrange its remaining components and resume fighting.
• Miao Shi dismissed the puppet’s tricks and summoned a massive bow.

Chen Changsheng tested Miao Shi with a puppet and decided to target the leaders of the Ancient Primordial People, then forced Wang Hao into confronting him and revealed his ability to mass-produce powerful puppets. Wang Hao backed down, and Chen Changsheng asked him to explain his plan.

• Chen Changsheng and Wang Hao observed Miao Shi battle a puppet from three thousand miles away, collected data, and left before Miao Shi's elder arrived and wondered whether the puppet's creator had returned.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that defeating the Ancient Primordial People required taking out their leaders, and Wang Hao questioned how they could kill the powerful Heavenly Emperors.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had spread word of Wang Hao's affairs to provoke the Ancient Primordial People and summoned three black-robed puppets when Wang Hao confronted him.
• Wang Hao fought and destroyed Chen Changsheng's three puppets, but Chen Changsheng revealed that he could mass-produce more and had premium models designed for Wang Hao.
• Wang Hao laughed off his threat and called Chen Changsheng his mentor, while Chen Changsheng warned him not to plot against him and asked him to share his plan.

Chen Changsheng explained how Miao Shan’s network of allies formed a Single-Line Serpent Formation and devised a plan to exploit its human weaknesses. After Wang Hao left to capture Miao Shan’s disciple, Chen Changsheng prepared an operation against Great Bright Heaven and advanced the Locust and Nirvana plans with Ao Chuang.

• Chen Changsheng identified Miao Shi as Miao Shan’s soft spot and proposed targeting Miao Shan’s disciple to draw Miao Shi out.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Miao Shan’s relationships formed a Single-Line Serpent Formation whose weakness was that people could not obey like soldiers.
• Wang Hao agreed to capture Miao Shan’s disciple in the Small World Great Bright Heaven was taking over, while Chen Changsheng handled the rest.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ao Chuang about fighting a Heaven’s Mandate Bearer and ordered him to keep the Locust Plan concealed and begin the Nirvana Plan.
• Chen Changsheng sent more than a dozen puppets toward Great Bright Heaven and prepared a room-sized Magical Artifact for the operation.

Miao Shan and Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor set a trap for the Undertaker, while Chen Changsheng used puppet attacks to draw out their forces. Miao Shan realized too late that the attack on Boyue’s Small World was a feint involving Wang Hao.

• Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor agreed with Miao Shan’s plan to lure the Undertaker into attacking Boyue and personally went to protect him.
• Chen Changsheng remotely controlled puppets to attack Great Bright Heaven’s Small Worlds, while Miao Shan coordinated the defenses for ten days.
• Chen Changsheng judged that his diversion had achieved its objective, gave his remaining puppets a final command, and left.
• Miao Shi reported that the puppets had been defeated and that Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor had moved to block the attacker near Boyue.
• Miao Shan learned that Wang Hao had attacked Boyue’s Small World and realized they had fallen for the Undertaker’s trap.
• A special Magical Artifact opened in the void and launched a round pillar toward an unknown direction.

Wang Hao, the Undying Demon Lord, confronted Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor and attacked the assembled Immortal Kings with hidden Flesh Sprouts. In Great Bright Heaven, Miao Shan warned Miao Shi that the Undertaker could exploit Boyue’s presence to threaten the Emperor Lord, and suspected the Undertaker was waiting outside.

• Wang Hao used the Ten Thousand Bones Seal against his pursuers, but Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor stopped it and blasted Wang Hao apart.
• Wang Hao reassembled himself and revealed Flesh Sprouts within the Immortal Kings, infecting several despite Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s attempt to remove them.
• Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor ordered the Immortal Kings to withdraw and faced Wang Hao with the young man remaining.
• Miao Shan told Miao Shi that the Undying Demon Lord was difficult to kill and that the Undertaker’s unknown methods posed the greater danger.
• Miao Shan explained that Boyue’s presence would prevent the Emperor Lord from evading an attack, and warned that the Undertaker was likely waiting outside Great Bright Heaven.

Wang Hao trapped the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor in his Blood Sea and captured Jiang Bo Yue, then used clones and the Undertaker’s weapon to escape. He delivered the injured, cultivation-sealed Jiang Bo Yue to Chen Changsheng, who reproached him for treating his guest so roughly.

• Miao Shan told Miao Shi that there was no time to seek help and they had to rely on the Emperor Lord’s abilities.
• Wang Hao prevented the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor from escaping with Bo Yue and pressured the Emperor Lord to leave by threatening Bo Yue’s life.
• After the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor departed, Wang Hao captured Jiang Bo Yue and used his severed finger to create a clone.
• Wang Hao led the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor toward the Undertaker’s approaching cylinder, then escaped while the Emperor Lord protected two decoys that turned out to be clones.
• Wang Hao brought the injured Jiang Bo Yue to Chen Changsheng, who helped him up and scolded Wang Hao for his rough treatment.

Chen Changsheng released Jiang Bo Yue to sow distrust between him and Miao Shi after the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s death. The Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor learned that Jiang Bo Yue had returned unharmed while his own injuries would keep him from fighting for two thousand years.

• Chen Changsheng healed Jiang Bo Yue, offered him tea, and then released him to fly back to Great Bright Heaven.
• Chen Changsheng explained to Wang Hao that Jiang Bo Yue’s safe return would become a wedge between him and Miao Shi once the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor died.
• Wang Hao approved of Chen Changsheng’s plan to break their trust and said he would watch it unfold.
• Three Heavenly Emperors stabilized the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s injuries and warned that he could not fight conveniently for two thousand years.
• The Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor received word that Jiang Bo Yue had returned unharmed, and the three Heavenly Emperors recognized how abnormal that was.

The Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor trusted Jiang Bo Yue, placed Great Bright Heaven’s affairs in his and Miao Shi’s hands, and ordered an investigation for spies. Chen Changsheng then shifted his plans and accompanied Wang Hao to confront his ancestor, where Ye Yongxian appeared and challenged him.

• Miao Shan ordered Jiang Bo Yue to kneel and blamed him for the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s injuries, but the Emperor Lord pardoned him and reaffirmed his trust in Great Bright Heaven.
• The Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor assigned Jiang Bo Yue and Miao Shi responsibility for Great Bright Heaven and ordered them to investigate for Undertaker spies.
• Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao to pause attacks on Great Bright Heaven, conceal the communication devices, and find Wang Hao’s old ancestor to silence him.
• Wang Hao led Chen Changsheng to one of his ancestor’s strongholds and devoured the inhabitants’ life force, even as Chen Changsheng said they had come to negotiate.
• Ye Yongxian cut off Wang Hao’s head, but Wang Hao regenerated; Chen Changsheng ordered him to leave no one alive and challenged Ye Yongxian over his intentions.

Chen Changsheng forced Ye Yongxian to choose whether to join his campaign to avenge Scholar, then planned an ambush against a friend of the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor and a raid on the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground. Ye Yongxian joined him, but questioned whether the three of them could survive their targets.

• Chen Changsheng told Ye Yongxian he would slaughter every being who knew about Scholar's death, and Ye Yongxian hesitated to join him.
• Ye Yongxian tossed a coin to decide his allegiance, but Chen Changsheng cut it in half and gave him one incense stick to come out of the Small World or be killed.
• Wang Hao warned Chen Changsheng that Ye Yongxian's Bloodline Immortality could not be overcome without finding its root.
• Ye Yongxian emerged from the Small World and traded threats with Wang Hao, who joked about turning his corpse into a statue.
• Chen Changsheng proposed ambushing a friend of the Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor en route to the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground, and Ye Yongxian warned that the Forbidden Grounds were too dangerous to underestimate.

Chen Changsheng revealed that the nine God-Slaying Weapons were only samples and that their Jade Slip designs held the real power to create them. He and Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian ambushed the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor, and Chen Changsheng prepared to test whether the embryo inside him could be extracted.

• Chen Changsheng showed Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian a Silver Box and explained that it contained a God-Slaying Weapon.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the nine weapons distributed in the past were samples, while nine Jade Slips contained the technologies needed to forge the true God-Slaying Weapons.
• Chen Changsheng confirmed that he possessed all nine samples but left Wang Hao’s question about whether there were more unanswered.
• The Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor emerged from a destroyed Space Channel and repaired the Spatial Rifts as Chen Changsheng, Wang Hao, and Ye Yongxian blocked his retreat.
• Chen Changsheng asked whether the Heaven and Earth Profound Embryo inside the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor could be dug out, then challenged him to prove his strength.

Chen Changsheng, Wang Hao, and Ye Yongxian fought the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor, using traps and teamwork to wound him. The Heavenly Emperor survived and returned with an even stronger aura, leaving the group facing a seemingly overwhelming foe.

• Wang Hao attacked the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor, while Chen Changsheng emerged from hiding and Ye Yongxian intercepted the Heavenly Emperor’s strike.
• The Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor condemned Wang Hao as a Demon Cultivator, and Chen Changsheng mocked him for looking down on Wang Hao.
• Chen Changsheng activated the Heaven Earth Life Severing Array, cutting off the Heavenly Emperor’s connection to his surroundings as Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian attacked.
• The Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor used lightning to break through Wang Hao’s blood-sea form, but Chen Changsheng’s puppets weakened his lightning and counterattacked.
• Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian struck the Heavenly Emperor into a star, but he shattered it, destroyed many puppets, and emerged with his aura greatly increased.

Chen Changsheng used a puppet made from immortal bones to hold off the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor while Ye Yongxian and Wang Hao discussed its capabilities. He then revealed that the puppet itself carried the God-Slaying Weapon and struck the unsuspecting Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor.

• The Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor struck Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian, then pursued Chen Changsheng, but Chen Changsheng's puppet stopped him.
• Wang Hao explained that the puppet used immortal bones and autonomous techniques that could let Chen Changsheng mass-produce Heavenly Emperor Level experts.
• Ye Yongxian severed Wang Hao's hand when he tried to take a closer look at Ye Yongxian's weapon.
• Chen Changsheng declared the fight over and activated a terrifying attack while the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor braced for the God-Slaying Weapon in the Silver Box.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the God-Slaying Weapon had been stored in the puppet's Storage Arrays, and the puppet struck the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor.

Miao Shan questioned Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor about the failed ambush and learned that the Undertaker had wounded him with a Heavenly Emperor Level puppet. Miao Shan proposed cooperating with the Forbidden Grounds to kill the Undertaker, leaving Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor to approve the risky plan.

• Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor said the Undertaker had outmatched their expectations, and Miao Shan suspected a deeply embedded spy had revealed the ambush.
• Miao Shan questioned how the Undertaker had wounded Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor, who explained the God-Slaying Weapon’s power and revealed that a Heavenly Emperor Level puppet had struck him.
• Miao Shan asked about Supreme Sage’s death, and Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor said his investigation had uncovered nothing and that they should not pursue it further.
• Miao Shan proposed cooperating with the Forbidden Grounds, reasoning that they wanted to kill the Undertaker because he knew their God-Slaying Weapons and weaknesses.
• Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor approved Miao Shan’s plan, noting that the Undertaker would either neutralize the God-Slaying Weapon threat or be destroyed by it.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he had built puppets from standard magical artifacts and equipped them with the battle experience of a Heavenly Emperor. He left Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian considering the threat posed by an enormous army of these genius-level puppets.

• Chen Changsheng escaped with Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian through a hidden channel and confronted Wang Hao about the resources he had used to make something.
• Chen Changsheng brought Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian to a prosperous Small World and bought a core device and standard magical artifacts.
• In the wilderness, Chen Changsheng assembled a crude puppet and activated it with divine sources.
• The puppet reported that it had diverted the Four Brahma Three Realms and compiled the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor's battle data.
• Chen Changsheng explained that standard magical artifacts could be assembled into puppets and suggested that millions with Heavenly Emperor-level combat experience could overwhelm the era.

Chen Changsheng revealed his plan to destroy the Ancient Primordial People and every Forbidden Ground, and persuaded Ye Yongxian to join him as the Third Calamity. The group set out to stabilize the Forbidden Grounds before the Ancient Primordial People could win them over, while the Ancient Primordial People entered the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground and were confronted by its guardian.

• Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian questioned Chen Changsheng about the Mandate-level Weapon Spirit and learned that he intended to destroy the Forbidden Grounds along with the Ancient Primordial People.
• Chen Changsheng warned Ye Yongxian that anyone who withdrew would become a target, and Wang Hao urged his ancestor to help overthrow those who had controlled the era.
• Chen Changsheng offered to teach Ye Yongxian and revealed that he planned to forge him into the Third Calamity; Ye Yongxian agreed to join him.
• Chen Changsheng, Wang Hao, and Ye Yongxian set out to stabilize the Forbidden Grounds after the God-Slaying Weapon appeared.
• The Ancient Primordial People entered the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground, where a powerful guardian declared that living beings were forbidden from entering.