Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng exterminated the Thunder Race, earning the fearsome name Undertaker across the Ten Thousand Mountains, then spent ten years repairing the Tri-Color Teleportation Array and trying to revive a Dead Egg. When the array was finally ready, A Man asked to travel with him, and he agreed.

• Chen Changsheng and A Li finished slaughtering the Thunder Beasts, and the fierce beasts fled from the Undertaker’s growing reputation.
• Chen Changsheng studied the Bronze Ancient Hall, found a Dead Egg left by a mysterious being, and agreed to take half the Thunder Race’s resources while leaving the Wu Clan the other half.
• Chen Changsheng gave Gu Li the Golden Page as a token and ordered the Wu Clan to keep his name from being passed down.
• Chen Changsheng spent ten years in Water Moon Grotto Heaven repairing the Tri-Color Teleportation Array and trying to advance the Heaven Mending Paste formula.
• After A Man announced that the array was repaired, she asked to leave with Chen Changsheng, and he agreed.

After leaving the Ten Thousand Mountains with A Li and A Man, Chen Changsheng found a wooden tiger carving that confirmed the woman he had sought was alive and well. He chose their next direction with a falling stick, and the story then shifted to a young coffin-shop owner complaining about Kunlun Holy Land customers.

• A Li joined Chen Changsheng and A Man in the stone coffin, and they emerged in a dilapidated Bronze Ancient Hall surrounded by woodland.
• Chen Changsheng recited a children's rhyme and used its numbers to reveal an array in a withered tree, which dropped a wooden tiger carving into his hand.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the carving showed Nian Sheng was alive and well, so his search had achieved its purpose.
• Chen Changsheng used a stick to pick their next direction, and A Li pretended to trust his Great Deduction Technique.
• A young man at the Nameless Coffin Shop finished serving a customer and complained to A Man that people from Kunlun Holy Land kept buying coffins.

Chen Changsheng refused Jiang Bufan’s request to help Kunlun Holy Land explore the Sacred Ruins, but pretended to agree in exchange for access to its Super Teleportation Array. He planned to flee with A Man and visited Old Man Yao to collect the translated Heaven Mending Paste.

• A Man told Chen Changsheng that A Li had gone with Kunlun Holy Land to search for Spirit Source, and Chen Changsheng decided it was time for them to leave.
• Jiang Bufan came to the Coffin Shop seeking Chen Changsheng’s help, and Chen Changsheng initially refused and told him to pass a message to A Li.
• Jiang Bufan offered to persuade Kunlun Holy Land to lend Chen Changsheng its Super Teleportation Array, so Chen Changsheng agreed to meet him again in three days.
• Chen Changsheng admitted to A Man that he had lied to Jiang Bufan so he could prepare to run away, explaining that he did not want to enter the Sacred Ruins.
• Chen Changsheng went to Butterfly Valley, where Old Man Yao showed him the Heaven Mending Paste he had translated.

Chen Changsheng learned that Heaven Mending Paste was a medicinal prescription and prepared to leave Kunlun Holy Land with A Man for the Eastern Wilderness. As they set out to see the wider world, A Man quietly faced the knowledge that her lifespan would not let her remain by his side forever.

• Old Man Yao explained that Heaven Mending Paste was a medical prescription, gave Chen Changsheng its translated formula, and warned him to keep it secret for a hundred years.
• Old Man Yao entrusted Chen Changsheng with a Jade Slip containing his medical knowledge and asked him to pass it to a worthy inheritor.
• Chen Changsheng left Butterfly Valley with A Man after living there for forty years, while Jiang Bufan angrily vowed revenge and A Li left the Coffin Shop alone.
• Chen Changsheng and A Man traveled three thousand li from Kunlun Holy Land, then stopped using its Teleportation Array and headed toward the Eastern Wilderness.
• A Man reflected that her Foundation Establishment lifespan could not match Chen Changsheng's, then asked him to take her sightseeing; Chen Changsheng promised to show her the world's splendor.

After walking 13.28 million li with A Man, Chen Changsheng watched her die at sunrise and buried her, then set out to visit his old friends before his next slumber. At Heavenly Buddha Temple, the dying Master Yixiu waited for the Undertaker, and Chen Changsheng arrived.

• Chen Changsheng and A Man spent 240 years walking from Kunlun Holy Land to the place where Chen Changsheng had begun.
• A Man asked Chen Changsheng to make her look beautiful in her coffin and to watch the sunrise with her.
• A Man died as dawn broke, and Chen Changsheng placed her in an ordinary coffin, saying he would join her after some time.
• Chen Changsheng learned from the system that he had two years until his next slumber and decided to visit his old friends.
• Master Yixiu told his disciples he was waiting for the Undertaker, and Chen Changsheng arrived at his side.

Chen Changsheng returned and learned that Calamity was consuming Yixiu’s vitality, so Yixiu asked him to burn his body and prevent the power from finding another host. After Yixiu died, Chen Changsheng went to the Forbidden Ground of the Night Moon Kingdom, where Wanyan Yue attacked him and he restrained her.

• Chen Changsheng reunited with Yixiu, who removed the Silver Needles and explained how Calamity had consumed his vitality in exchange for power.
• Yixiu told Chen Changsheng to burn his body so Calamity could not pass to another host, then entered nirvana and died.
• Chen Changsheng took Yixiu’s body away, leaving the words “Undertaker!” on the wall.
• At the Forbidden Ground of the Night Moon Kingdom, Wanyan Yue attacked Chen Changsheng, and he subdued her with Law, Manifest Heaven and Earth and an array.
• Chen Changsheng threatened Wanyan Yue with a razor until she agreed not to be his enemy.

After visiting old friends, Chen Changsheng buried himself beside A Man’s grave and entered a three hundred and twenty-year slumber. He woke in a changed world with improved attributes, but the system’s explanation for the unfamiliar “Fifth Realm” label left him with more questions.

• Wanyan Yue confronted Chen Changsheng, learned he had visited Supreme Clarity Temple and the Bronze Ancient Hall, and failed to keep him from leaving.
• Wanyan Yue reflected that her bond with Chen Changsheng had ended and that they could only remain friends or old acquaintances.
• Chen Changsheng visited A Man’s grave, placed Hundred Defeats Immortal’s stone coffin in a nearby pit, and sealed himself inside for a third slumber.
• After three hundred and twenty years, Chen Changsheng woke, inspected his system panel, and put all three hundred and twenty attribute points into defense.
• Chen Changsheng asked the system about the “Fifth Realm” label, and the system said he would understand the unusual situation after restoring his cultivation.

Chen Changsheng learned that the Heaven and Earth Rules were changing and that a new cultivation system could be created by living beings suited to the coming era. He chose to watch the Golden Age rather than fight for influence, then spent two hundred years nurturing a dead egg before an arrival disrupted his quiet routine.

• Chen Changsheng tried to restore his cultivation but remained at the initial Spirit Transformation stage, and the system explained that the Heaven and Earth Rules were changing.
• The system told Chen Changsheng that living beings created cultivation systems and that whoever best suited the new environment could rule the era.
• Chen Changsheng rejected the idea of fighting to create a new cultivation system and planned instead to outlive the era's future ruler and become his friend.
• Chen Changsheng built a vast grand formation, placed the dead egg at its center, and nurtured it with Heaven Mending Paste and Spiritual Spring.
• Chen Changsheng continued watering the egg for two hundred years until someone's arrival interrupted his routine.

Chen Changsheng met Ye Hensheng, who had come to invite the Undertaker to the Heaven's Pride Assembly. After learning that Ye Hensheng's master, Wanyan Yue, had entered secluded cultivation, Chen Changsheng realized the invitation was likely a request for him to serve as a Dao Protector.

• Ye Hensheng asked Chen Changsheng to announce him to the Undertaker, not recognizing that Chen Changsheng was the Undertaker himself.
• Chen Changsheng pretended to be the Undertaker's disciple and learned that Ye Hensheng was Wanyan Yue's disciple.
• Ye Hensheng explained that the Heaven's Pride Assembly would identify Divine Source Ore and discuss how to eliminate Wu Li.
• Ye Hensheng revealed that Wanyan Yue and National Teacher Invincible Daoist had entered secluded cultivation, and Chen Changsheng concluded that Wanyan Yue wanted him to act as a Dao Protector.

Chen Changsheng agreed to accompany Ye Hensheng to the Heaven's Pride Assembly, claiming his master had ordered him to go without a Dao Protector, and brought along the weakened creature hatched from the Dead Egg. After they reached Xuanwu Kingdom, Ye Hensheng introduced Chen Changsheng to Su and began recounting his troubles.

• Chen Changsheng decided to attend the Heaven's Pride Assembly after realizing his system kept his bone age at twenty, and he hoped to meet A Li, whose original name was Wu Li.
• Chen Changsheng told Ye Hensheng that his master had instructed him to attend without a Dao Protector, leaving Ye Hensheng worried about the danger.
• Chen Changsheng brought the sickly little dog, the creature hatched from the Dead Egg, and explained that he wanted to seek treatment for it at the Central Court.
• Ye Hensheng explained that they were traveling to Xuanwu Kingdom to use its Super Teleportation Array and then shut himself away from Chen Changsheng's nonstop questions.
• In Xuanwu Kingdom, Ye Hensheng reunited with Su, who questioned Chen Changsheng's strength and the absence of a Dao Protector.
• Ye Hensheng recounted his grievances to Su, who sympathized with him.

Chen Changsheng traveled with the Night Moon and Xuanwu Kingdom prodigies to the Heaven's Pride Assembly, where Zuo Xinghe recognized him as an old friend thought lost in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground. As the group crossed the void, Chen Changsheng realized the assembly would test the new cultivation systems that might save cultivators from weakening under the changed heaven and earth rules.

• Su Tian greeted Chen Changsheng, then arranged for him to rest without involving him in the other prodigies' activities.
• Zuo Xinghe appeared as the Xuanwu Kingdom and Night Moon Kingdom prodigies gathered, then activated the Super Teleportation Array to send them to the Central Court.
• Zuo Xinghe recognized Chen Changsheng in the crowd, but the array transported the group before they could speak.
• Zuo Xinghe ordered the array reactivated so he could follow Chen Changsheng, then learned it would take two months to repair.
• While traveling through the Space Channel, Chen Changsheng concluded that the prodigies were testing new cultivation systems and that their battles would determine whether those systems worked.

After arriving at Kunlun Holy Land, Chen Changsheng learned about the Heaven’s Pride Assembly and the new cultivation resource called divine source. He visited a Stone Gambling House to make pocket money and insisted on buying its sign, leaving the steward demanding a thousand jin of divine source for it.

• Chen Changsheng praised the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden after she defeated a Golden Light Cave successor, then asked Ye Hensheng about manifestations and learned that the prodigies at the assembly had them.
• Ye Hensheng explained the Heaven’s Pride Assembly to Chen Changsheng before he and the others left him alone.
• Chen Changsheng exchanged resources for three hundred jin of ordinary divine source and complained that the exchange rate cost him pocket money.
• Chen Changsheng went to Kunlun Stone Workshop, where he claimed he wanted to buy the enormous rock serving as its sign.
• The steward demanded that Chen Changsheng pay one thousand jin of divine source for the sign stone.

Chen Changsheng bought the Kunlun Stone Workshop signboard after the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden paid for it, then smashed it apart and uncovered valuable Fire Dragon Source. He used a small piece to settle his debt to her, while the workshop manager watched his accusations of troublemaking collapse.

• Wang Defa demanded that Chen Changsheng pay a thousand jin of divine source for the Kunlun Stone Workshop signboard or be thrown out.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Maiden bought the signboard for eight hundred jin and offered it to Chen Changsheng, inviting him to join the Purple Mansion Holy Land for eight thousand jin of divine source.
• Chen Changsheng gave the Holy Maiden three hundred jin of divine source and promised to repay the remaining five hundred, then smashed the signboard with his hammer.
• Chen Changsheng uncovered two pieces of Variant Divine Source, and the Holy Maiden identified them as Fire Dragon Source worth a hundred jin of ordinary divine source per jin.
• Chen Changsheng gave the Holy Maiden the smaller piece of Fire Dragon Source, which was worth enough to settle his debt.

Chen Changsheng entered Kunlun Stone Workshop’s Inner Courtyard to search for extraordinary items sealed inside Divine Source, while Zi Ning uncovered contradictions in his identity. After a physical fight, he subdued her, but a crowd of heaven’s prides arrived and saw them in a compromising position.

• Chen Changsheng used the Fire Dragon Source as collateral to enter the Inner Courtyard with Zi Ning following him.
• Chen Changsheng rejected Wang Defa’s sales pitch and offered collateral to purchase Inner Courtyard stones, explaining to Zi Ning that he sought spirit herbs sealed inside Divine Source.
• Chen Changsheng gave Zi Ning the false name Zuo Xinghe, then admitted his name was Su Tian when she challenged the lie.
• Zi Ning attacked Chen Changsheng, and he subdued her after they exchanged 136 physical moves without using Spiritual Power.
• Zi Ning questioned why Chen Changsheng was absent from Xuanwu Kingdom’s heaven’s pride roster as the watching heaven’s prides arrived and saw them together.

Chen Changsheng deflected attention from his encounter with Zi Ning by teaching the Heaven's Chosen how to pursue her, while hiding that he had come to gamble on stones. The crowd waited for the unknown gambler until Wang Defa arrived with Jiang Feng, Kunlun Holy Land’s formidable Second Elder.

• Chen Changsheng released Zi Ning and told the onlookers they had only been sparring, while Zi Ning ignored the Heaven's Chosen who offered to defend her.
• Chen Changsheng advised the Heaven's Chosen to show boldness when pursuing Zi Ning, and they gathered around him to listen.
• Chen Changsheng learned from Zuo Jing that Su Tian and the others were preparing for the Heaven's Pride Assembly, and he denied knowing who had come to gamble on stones.
• Zuo Jing waited with the others for the unknown Heaven's Chosen, while Zi Ning kept Chen Changsheng's identity to herself.
• Wang Defa arrived with Jiang Feng, prompting the Heaven's Chosen and Zi Ning to grow solemn at the sight of Kunlun Holy Land's Second Elder.

Chen Changsheng visited Kunlun Stone Workshop, where Jiang Feng welcomed him and showed him an unusual stone called the Rolling Plate Pearl. When Jiang Feng priced it at two million Divine Sources, Chen Changsheng offered rare metals as payment, leaving the assembled prodigies astonished.

• Jiang Feng bypassed the gathered prodigies to greet Chen Changsheng personally and invited him to choose a stone.
• Chen Changsheng selected the Rolling Plate Pearl, and he and Jiang Feng discussed how it might contain Black Charcoal Stone.
• Jiang Feng priced the Rolling Plate Pearl at two million Divine Sources, and Zi Ning and the other prodigies were shocked by the cost.
• Chen Changsheng said the price was reasonable and offered a washbasin-sized Purple Gold Copper Matrix, which Jiang Feng valued at eight hundred thousand Divine Sources.
• Chen Changsheng produced another rare metal and claimed he had dug it up while farming, while Jiang Feng struggled to believe him.

Chen Changsheng sold Profound Nether Iron Essence to Kunlun Stone Workshop and had Jiang Feng open the Rolling Plate Pearl, revealing a Big Fat Silkworm inside golden divine source. He claimed the creature was worth more than one-third of Kunlun Holy Land and left Jiang Feng unable to accept his price.

• Jiang Feng appraised Chen Changsheng's Profound Nether Iron Essence and offered four million divine source, which Chen Changsheng accepted as collateral.
• Chen Changsheng had Jiang Feng open the Rolling Plate Pearl and watched as his sword light carefully stripped away its stone skin.
• Jiang Feng revealed golden divine source containing a plump Big Fat Silkworm, and Chen Changsheng recognized the creature and claimed its value surpassed that of rare metals.
• Jiang Feng asked to buy the Big Fat Silkworm, but Chen Changsheng demanded one-third of Kunlun Holy Land and explained that Jiang Feng lacked the authority to make such a trade.

Chen Changsheng took the Golden Silkworm Gu from its divine source and raised it inside his body, gaining powerful healing threads throughout his blood. He inspected the new ability and turned to his system panel to assess his strength.

• Chen Changsheng asked Jiang Feng whether anyone would target him and whether the stones in Kunlun Stone Workshop would remain available, then left after Jiang Feng reassured him.
• Back at the East Barrens Courtyard, Chen Changsheng identified the creature in the divine source as the Wu Clan's Golden Silkworm Gu and watched it gnaw a notch into the Zhenwu Sword.
• Chen Changsheng used Wu Clan methods to summon the Golden Silkworm Gu, which bit through his defenses, burrowed into his heart, and spun silk before crawling out of his chest.
• Chen Changsheng fed the hungry Golden Silkworm Gu a Thunder Core and discovered golden threads in his blood that rapidly healed a wound he made with the Zhenwu Sword.
• Chen Changsheng celebrated the Golden Silkworm Gu's healing power and examined his system panel to gauge his strength.

Chen Changsheng learned that the system’s realm labels could not reliably measure his strength and worried about Nian Sheng, the mysterious Giant Hands, and how to cure Little White. Ye Hensheng, Su Tian, and Zuo Jing arrived, and Ye Hensheng began to apologize before Chen Changsheng interrupted him.

• Chen Changsheng asked the system why his attributes suggested higher realms than its labels, and learned that his self-created Cultivation System was incomplete and realm standards had become chaotic.
• Chen Changsheng wondered whether Nian Sheng was still alive after many centuries and asked Little White where he could find clues about her.
• Chen Changsheng told Little White he feared the Giant Hands might return and worried about how to cure her, but she fell asleep before he finished.
• Ye Hensheng arrived with Su Tian and Zuo Jing, who appeared eager to challenge Chen Changsheng and angry with him, respectively.
• Ye Hensheng began apologizing for his earlier disrespect, but Chen Changsheng stopped him.

Chen Changsheng taunted Zuo Jing and told Su Tian to confront her, while warning that Su Tian and Emperor Zuo could become rivals for Xuanwu Kingdom's future. When the East Barrens Heaven's Pride Group tried to intervene, Su Tian sent them flying and told them to return.

• Chen Changsheng told Su Tian he could challenge him only after defeating the Three Beauties of the Central Courtyard.
• Chen Changsheng dismissed Zuo Jing's status as Xuanwu Kingdom's Third Princess and accepted her challenge by ordering Su Tian to face her.
• Chen Changsheng warned Su Tian that he and Emperor Zuo might contend to guide Xuanwu Kingdom, prompting Su Tian to step before Zuo Jing.
• Zuo Jing left the room to fight Su Tian, while Chen Changsheng sat by the doorway with snacks to watch.
• When members of the East Barrens Heaven's Pride Group tried to intervene, Su Tian knocked them away and told them to return.