Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng interrogated Zhang Gu about the destruction of the Undying Forbidden Ground and learned that a hidden group used Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s Origin Qi to recruit him. The timing and other clues cleared the Four Brahma Three Realms, leaving Chen Changsheng searching for the unknown Heavenly Emperor-level attacker.

• Chen Changsheng questioned Zhang Gu about the Undying Forbidden Ground, and Zhang Gu explained that he had fled because its attackers planned to use a God-Slaying Weapon against Chen Changsheng.
• Zhang Gu revealed that his recruiters claimed to represent the Four Brahma Three Realms and proved it with Jade Completion Heavenly Emperor’s Origin Qi.
• Zhang Gu said the Undying Forbidden Ground had been destroyed one year, eight months, and twenty-seven days earlier, at the same time as a meeting of the Four Brahma Three Realms began.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that the Four Brahma Three Realms’ Heavenly Emperors were not responsible and wondered where the attacker with Heavenly Emperor-level strength had come from.
• After learning the recruiter did not seem to come from a Forbidden Ground, Chen Changsheng decided to kill his enemies until they revealed themselves.

Chen Changsheng divided the war against the Four Brahma Three Realms into four zones and sent Zhang Gu to guard the north, while the Locust Plan’s puppet army rapidly seized territory. As the Geng Jin World came under threat, Chen Changsheng had Little Wood take control of his body and prepare to attack the puppet stronghold at the Mithril Small World.

• Chen Changsheng assigned Zhang Gu and Ao Chuang to the Northern War Zone and explained that they had to cripple the Four Brahma Three Realms to prevent the epoch from restarting.
• Chen Changsheng said Jade Completion had to die but made the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor of Ping Yu Heaven the more urgent target; Hu Tudou agreed to kill the emperor.
• The Locust Plan began its all-out war, and puppet armies built strongholds that helped them seize one-tenth of the Four Brahma Three Realms’ territory in half a year.
• A general asked Chen Changsheng for reinforcements after the Vanguard Army lost more than half the Geng Jin World, but Chen Changsheng ordered him to hold it at all costs.
• Little Wood proposed attacking the Mithril Small World to draw Wang Hao away from the Geng Jin World, and Chen Changsheng yielded control of his body to Little Wood for the battle.

Little Wood took command of his body and prepared to test the military strategy Chen Changsheng had taught him as he faced the crisis in Geng Jin World. Meanwhile, Miao Shan arranged for Jiang Bo Yue and Chang Sheng to seek help from Ping Yu Heaven, then left the palace to enter the conflict himself.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Four Brahma Three Realms faced a strategic disadvantage and warned Little Wood that his plan to deal with Geng Jin World was incomplete and would likely get him killed by Wang Hao.
• Miao Shan learned that Great Bright Heaven was bearing the brunt of the puppet armies’ attacks and that neither the Forbidden Ground nor the Celestials were willing to help.
• Miao Shan ordered Jiang Bo Yue and Chang Sheng to seek troops from Ping Yu Heaven, reasoning that the Undying Demon Lord—not the Undertaker—commanded the puppet armies and was not targeting them.
• Miao Shan declared that he would enter the conflict himself and try to defeat the era’s Chang Sheng Tribulation.
• At the foot of Medicine Immortal Peak, Chen Changsheng told Little Wood that Ping Yu Heaven’s support could ease Geng Jin World’s crisis, though Little Wood and Jiang Bo Yue might struggle to secure many troops.

Chen Changsheng explained that Miao Shan’s plan to borrow troops from Ping Yu Heaven was a smokescreen, while Wang Hao’s forces suspected Miao Shan had uncovered the communicator’s secret. In Heyang Heaven, Miao Shan sought help from his long-estranged junior brother Pang Tong, who refused and confronted him over their past.

• Chen Changsheng told Little Wood that only Miao Shi could truly borrow troops from Ping Yu Heaven and urged him to work out the reasons himself.
• Ao Chuang reported that Miao Shan’s troop deployments had changed and deduced that someone had discovered the communicator’s secret; Wang Hao chose to focus on conquering Great Bright Heaven and obtaining the World Cleansing Mantra.
• Pang Hong failed again to use Devouring Heaven and Earth, and the middle-aged man beneath the tree advised him to deepen his understanding of his five viscera.
• Miao Shan arrived to meet his junior brother Pang Tong, and the two recalled that they had not met for thirty-eight thousand five hundred years.
• Miao Shan asked Pang Tong for a favor, but Pang Tong refused to leave seclusion and accused Miao Shan of joining outsiders to kill him.

Pang Tong confronted Miao Shan over the past conflict that drove him from Heyang Heaven and refused to help save Jade Completion. After Miao Shan left, Pang Tong reconsidered and contacted Chi Ming about Heyang Heaven’s survival.

• Pang Tong accused Miao Shan of betraying him and failing to protect Jade Completion, while Miao Shan explained his past choices.
• Pang Tong said Undertaker would likely kill Jade Completion and rejected Miao Shan’s request for help against Undertaker’s infiltration.
• Pang Tong warned Miao Shan not to involve anyone in the coming storm and declared that Jade Completion could not be saved.
• After Miao Shan departed, Pang Tong reflected that his senior brother had forced him away rather than truly tried to kill him.
• Pang Tong considered the dangers of Undertaker’s conflict, then used a token to contact Chi Ming about Heyang Heaven’s life and death.

Pang Tong analyzed how Undertaker’s strategy had trapped Four Brahma Three Realms in a war of attrition and warned Chi Ming that its leaders’ reluctance to sacrifice themselves was weakening their resistance. He offered no immediate solution, but ended by demanding that Chi Ming shut down Heyang Heaven’s factories and communication devices.

• Chi Ming visited Pang Tong and asked him to analyze the worsening war against Undertaker.
• Chi Ming described Undertaker’s heavily fortified headquarters and the immense threat posed by Candle Dragon.
• Pang Tong argued that Undertaker had deliberately withdrawn at the height of his power, counting on years of comfort to erode Four Brahma Three Realms’ fighting spirit.
• Pang Tong explained that Undertaker concentrated his strongest forces at the battlefield’s center and used expendable puppets to exhaust Four Brahma Three Realms’ soldiers and resources.
• Chi Ming asked Pang Tong to take action, and Pang Tong told him to shut down every factory in Heyang Heaven and ban communication devices.

Pang Tong warned Chi Ming that the Undertaker could exploit communications networks, trade systems, and resource shortages to cripple the Four Brahma Three Realms. He also revealed that an unidentified force might be preparing to strike, leaving Chi Ming sweating over the threat from within and beyond the Undertaker’s schemes.

• Pang Tong argued that the Undertaker was likely monitoring cultivators through their communicators and urged Chi Ming to ban them, though Chi Ming said he would need the Four Brahma Heavens’ approval.
• Pang Tong showed Chi Ming damaged artifacts and a recording that proved parts made in Heyang Heaven had ended up in the Undertaker’s puppet army, explaining that the era’s trade networks had helped supply it.
• Pang Tong warned that closing factories would devastate wartime resources, while falling Spirit Liquid prices and the extraction of spiritual energy could provoke mutinies and damage entire worlds.
• Pang Tong revealed that a powerful unknown force might be behind the Supreme Sage’s death, the destruction of the Undying Forbidden Ground, and the shattering of the Undertaker’s God-Slaying Weapon.
• Pang Tong warned that the Four Brahma Three Realms could be destroyed if the unknown force turned against them, and Chi Ming broke into a cold sweat.

Pang Tong explained to Chi Ming why the Four Brahma Three Realms risked losing to the Undertaker and why Jade Completion had to be protected. He ordered support for Great Bright Heaven and warned Chi Ming that the Undertaker might target the Heavenly Emperors, while Blade Emperor Zhang Zhen could also emerge.

• Pang Tong told Chi Ming that the Four Brahma Three Realms lacked the decisive leadership and sacrifice needed to break the Undertaker's plans, though he still expected them to win the coming clash.
• Pang Tong ordered Chi Ming to send troops to Great Bright Heaven and said he would delay decisions about the communicators and factories.
• Pang Tong explained that Jade Completion had to survive because his death would trigger the final battle and leave no suitable person to handle the factories and communicators.
• Chi Ming reported that Miao Shan had sent Jiang Bo Yue, Miao Shi, and Chen Changsheng to Ping Yu Heaven for reinforcements, so Pang Tong ordered Pang Hong to help Miao Shi borrow troops and planned to go there secretly.
• Pang Tong warned Chi Ming that the Undertaker might target the other Heavenly Emperors and told him to watch for Blade Emperor Zhang Zhen.

Chen Changsheng criticized Little Wood for failing to master Ground Shrinking Golden Light, then had him share its first three sections with Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue. Their rapid progress exposed Little Wood’s mistakes, and Chen Changsheng explained how to use World Spiritual Energy to improve the technique.

• Pang Tong recalled how Zhang Zhen had rescued Jian Fei from the forbidden grounds and worried that the Undertaker might find him.
• Chen Changsheng chastised Little Wood for struggling with Ground Shrinking Golden Light despite half a year of practice.
• Little Wood recited the first three sections of the mantra to Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue so they could help him identify his mistakes.
• After four hours of practice, Jiang Bo Yue used the technique to travel seven li, and Miao Shi traveled ten li with a steadier landing.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue had avoided using shields and had drawn in World Spiritual Energy to power the technique.

Chen Changsheng taught Little Wood to use Ground Shrinking Golden Light, but Little Wood crashed after traveling thirteen li and suffered severe injuries. As Chen Changsheng repaired him, he explained that even renowned geniuses and powerful cultivators endured pain and injuries but hid them by keeping quiet.

• Chen Changsheng taught Little Wood how Miao Shi had limited his Divine Power while using Ground Shrinking Golden Light, and Little Wood set off to try the technique himself.
• Little Wood traveled thirteen li before crashing, breaking his bones and injuring his meridians; Chen Changsheng appeared and mocked his achievement.
• Chen Changsheng reset Little Wood's bones and explained that omitting a shield increased speed but made the technique more dangerous.
• Little Wood accused Chen Changsheng of withholding information, and Chen Changsheng said chosen geniuses seemed exceptional partly because they hid their pain.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Jiang Bo Yue had broken his left hand, Miao Shi had burst minor meridians, and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li had suffered severe injuries on his first attempt.
• Chen Changsheng explained that cultivators generally avoided high-speed Escape Techniques because stopping abruptly caused painful burning and tearing in their meridians.

Little Wood learned more about pain, healing, and unspoken rules from Chen Changsheng, then traveled with Miao Shi and the others to Ping Yu Heaven. There, Pang Hong revealed that Heyang Heaven had sent reinforcements to Great Bright Heaven, leaving Miao Shi baffled about the reason.

• Chen Changsheng explained that powerful cultivators still felt pain when injured, and Little Wood reset his broken foot and practiced walking through the pain.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that he had manipulated Little Wood's body and caused Wu Li to crash into a mountain as punishment for mocking him.
• Little Wood identified the medicines on Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue, gave them healing medicine, and watched them take it despite knowing its effects.
• After four days and three nights of flight, Miao Shi and the others arrived at Ping Yu Heaven and encountered Pang Hong.
• Pang Hong told Miao Shi that Heyang Heaven had sent reinforcements to Great Bright Heaven, but neither man knew why the emperors had made that decision.

Pang Tong, the Phoenix Young and Chi Ming’s blood brother, negotiated with Chen Changsheng to spare Pang Hong and preserve Heyang Heaven. He revealed that he could disrupt Chen Changsheng’s net to help its targets escape, then admitted he could not trust Chi Ming because he had joined the siege against the Supreme Sage.

• Little Wood contacted Chen Changsheng, who said Heyang Heaven’s new arrangements came from its own masterminds and had disrupted his plans.
• Pang Tong called Chi Ming, then spoke with the Imperial Tutor and offered his and Chi Ming’s lives in exchange for Pang Hong’s survival.
• Pang Tong warned the Imperial Tutor that he could tear a gap in the completed net, potentially allowing its targets to escape.
• Chen Changsheng appeared before Pang Tong, who complained about the communications device fees and discussed Chen Changsheng’s resource needs.
• Pang Tong said he wanted Pang Hong to survive and hoped to save himself and Chi Ming, but he could not guarantee Chi Ming was innocent of the Supreme Sage’s siege.

Chen Changsheng and Pang Tong discussed the hidden plot behind the Supreme Sage’s death and identified the Uncanny as the likely force behind it. Pang Tong revealed that he had worked with the Supreme Sage and produced an object the Supreme Sage had left in his care.

• Pang Tong deduced that the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor might be a traitor and that Chen Changsheng had accepted him to trace the people behind the scenes.
• Chen Changsheng told Pang Tong that the Supreme Sage had died by suicide and that an Eighth Grade Immortal King had been recruited with Jade Completion’s Origin Qi.
• Pang Tong reasoned that the Uncanny had driven the Supreme Sage’s scheme and explained why Chen Changsheng had waited for someone capable of understanding his intentions.
• Pang Tong revealed that he had secretly worked with the Supreme Sage on peaceful coexistence and had cut contact after sensing something was wrong.
• Pang Tong said the Supreme Sage had entrusted him with an object to reveal when the right person and time arrived, then took it out.

Chen Changsheng received a message left by Nalan Xingde, who urged him to keep moving forward and find the person who took one of his relics. Pang Tong then explained the Forefather Clan’s ancient history and revealed how its pursuit of strength led it to the Uncanny, whose full horror remained unknown.

• Pang Tong gave Chen Changsheng the orb left by Scholar, and Chen activated it with the ruler to reveal Nalan Xingde’s recorded message.
• Nalan Xingde explained why he had chosen to die without telling Chen the truth, then said Chen must find the person who took one of his relics to discover the final answer.
• Pang Tong clarified that the apparition was an encrypted message rather than a remnant of Divine Sense, then began explaining the Uncanny’s origins.
• Pang Tong described how the Forefather Clan’s ancestors hunted other races, were defeated, and later pursued strength through bloodline unions with divine beasts.
• Pang Tong said the Forefather Clan discovered that the Uncanny could rapidly increase their strength by consuming Life Force, but warned Chen that he had never encountered a complete Uncanny’s true terror.

Chen Changsheng learned from Pang Tong how idea-type Uncanny parasitized those obsessed with Chang Sheng and why the Eighteen Bronze Ancient Halls had been used to test for them. After Pang Tong warned that mature idea-type Uncanny could become the key to opening hell, Chen Changsheng tested Pang Tong with a Round Ball and revealed that he had once kept black energy inside his own body.

• Pang Tong explained that idea-type Uncanny could hide within thoughts, especially in those yearning for Chang Sheng, and could not be detected by Double pupils.
• Chen Changsheng deduced that the Eighteen Bronze Ancient Halls had been used to test for parasitized people after the Uncanny's external forms were suppressed, and Pang Tong confirmed his account.
• Pang Tong said the Bronze Ancient Halls in the Four Brahma Three Realms had been destroyed, leaving no way to test whether anyone had been parasitized by the Uncanny.
• Pang Tong warned that mature idea-type Uncanny could transform into energy-type Uncanny and become the key to opening hell.
• Chen Changsheng restrained Pang Tong with Golden Chains and used a Round Ball containing black energy to check whether he was parasitized, then released him.
• Chen Changsheng crushed a strand of black energy with Spirit Fire and admitted that he had once let Uncanny remain inside his body.

Chen Changsheng explained that the Uncanny survived through a repeating cycle of seeds, energy, and physical forms, and that its apparent immortality depended on finding hosts who wanted to live. He told Pang Tong that severing the seeds from energy and physical forms would eventually eradicate the Uncanny, a method the myriad races of the Ancient Era had already discovered.

• Pang Tong said the Uncanny with physical forms had once possessed intelligence, but it faded over time.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Uncanny had short lifespans and would die without energy, while rapid reproduction and rebirth made them difficult to eradicate.
• Chen Changsheng described experiments suggesting that the Uncanny planted seeds in suitable hosts, particularly those who craved power and immortality.
• Pang Tong praised Chen Changsheng's deductions but asked how he would eliminate the thought-type Uncanny.
• Chen Changsheng identified the gap between the seed and energy stages as the Uncanny's vital weakness and said isolating seeds from external energy and physical forms would make the Uncanny vanish as its hosts died.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the myriad races of the Ancient Era had already discovered this method.

Chen Changsheng explained to Pang Tong how the Uncanny could spread and how the Supreme Sage had used a real conflict to drive away high-level cultivators and draw its controllers into a trap. He recruited Pang Tong to watch over Miao Shi and two others while he researched new detection methods, then summoned Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian to Candle Dragon Fortress with something to give them.

• Chen Changsheng and Pang Tong discussed how the Uncanny’s seeds could spread through Small Worlds and how its controllers pursued immortality.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Supreme Sage had sacrificed himself and arranged a genuine upheaval to force out high-level cultivators and expose those controlling the Uncanny.
• Pang Tong agreed to enter the chess game, and Chen Changsheng promised to try to save Pang Hong while ordering Pang Tong to watch over Miao Shi and two others.
• Chen Changsheng said that everyone in the game would die if he could not determine whether they were parasitized, and that he would find another way to save them.
• At Candle Dragon Fortress, Wang Hao complained to Chen Changsheng about being called back, and Chen Changsheng said he had something good to give him and Ye Yongxian.

Chen Changsheng offered Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian a chance to study the Uncanny, warning that he would kill them if they became corrupted. Ye Yongxian tried to touch it, but the Uncanny recoiled from him, leaving Chen Changsheng to suspect his Bloodline Immortality was the cause.

• Chen Changsheng showed Wang Hao and Ye Yongxian a sphere containing the Uncanny and gave them Jade Slips describing it.
• Chen Changsheng said he would let them leave if the Uncanny corrupted them, but warned he would kill them if he could not confirm they had purged it.
• Ye Yongxian agreed to study the Uncanny and asked Chen Changsheng to tell him if he ever found a way to eliminate it completely.
• Ye Yongxian reached into the sphere, but the Uncanny circled around his hand and avoided him, even when he tried to grab it.
• Chen Changsheng used his Double pupils to observe the Uncanny and concluded that it was repulsed by Ye Yongxian, possibly because of his Bloodline Immortality.

Wang Hao discovered that his body killed the Uncanny because it could not survive inside him, and Chen Changsheng explained that Wang Hao’s Karma Fire came from the countless consciousnesses in his body. Chen Changsheng proposed attacking Great Bright Heaven to kill Jade Completion, while Miao Shi and Pang Hong were refused an audience with Emperor Lord Xuan Tai.

• Wang Hao tested whether the Uncanny could invade through Divine Sense, then sent a miniature version of himself into the Round Ball to absorb it.
• The miniature Wang Hao and the Uncanny both vanished after Wang Hao’s body proved too hostile for the Uncanny to survive.
• Ye Yongxian and Chen Changsheng remarked that Wang Hao’s body was more dangerous than the Uncanny, and Wang Hao admitted he had eaten people on a vast scale.
• Chen Changsheng identified Wang Hao’s mutated Spirit Fire as Karma Fire and said the World Cleansing Mantra was his only viable way to reduce it.
• Chen Changsheng proposed launching a full-scale attack on Great Bright Heaven to kill Jade Completion, and Wang Hao agreed to help eliminate the Uncanny.
• In Ping Yu Heaven, Miao Shi and Pang Hong learned that Emperor Lord Xuan Tai would not meet either of them.

Jiang Bo Yue advised Miao Shi and Pang Hong to worsen their injuries so the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor would have to see them, and Little Wood carried out the dangerous plan. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng confronted Xuan Tai in Ping Yu Heaven and threatened to expose their collaboration unless Xuan Tai refrained from sending troops.

• Pang Tong threw Jiang Bo Yue a note reading “Illness,” and Jiang Bo Yue proposed that Miao Shi and Pang Hong feign severe illness to gain an audience with the Profound Embryo Heavenly Emperor.
• Miao Shi and Pang Hong agreed to risk worsening their injuries, and Little Wood severed Miao Shi’s spinal meridians and Pang Hong’s back tendons.
• Jiang Bo Yue called for help as Miao Shi and Pang Hong’s auras weakened, while Little Wood stood silently, burdened by Miao Shi’s trust in him.
• In Ping Yu Heaven’s Imperial Palace, Chen Changsheng reminded Xuan Tai of their collaboration and disputed Xuan Tai’s claim that he had broken their agreement.
• Chen Changsheng said he had come to threaten Xuan Tai into refraining from sending troops and dared Xuan Tai to test his confidence and risk the exposure of his methods.