Chapter Summaries

Little Wood realized the Undertaker planned to heal the Blade Emperor by consuming the life force of living beings, but Zhang Zhen and Wang Hao had already devoured the inhabitants and vitality of Extreme Wind Heaven. The experts arrived too late, and the two had fled.

• Little Wood concluded that the Undertaker could rapidly heal origin injuries by consuming living beings as blood food.
• Chen Changsheng warned Zhang Zhen that devouring life force to heal would leave him with no way back, but Zhang Zhen chose to proceed.
• Zhang Zhen devoured the qi and blood of Extreme Wind Heaven's inhabitants, and Wang Hao joined him.
• Over three days, Zhang Zhen and Wang Hao killed every living being in Extreme Wind Heaven, then consumed the world's remaining vitality.
• The experts of the Four Brahma Three Realms arrived to find Extreme Wind Heaven lifeless, while Zhang Zhen and Wang Hao had escaped.

Pang Hong learned that Undertaker had turned Devouring Heaven and Earth into a method of devouring his own kind, and he tried to unite the holders of Undertaker’s inheritances to stop him. Back in Heyang Heaven, Kong Yan urged Pang Hong to seize power beyond his home world, but her warning about Chi Ming Emperor Lord provoked his killing intent.

• Pang Hong explained that Undertaker’s enhanced Devouring Heaven and Earth fed on people of the same kind, and said the four inheritance holders might be able to stop him if they worked together.
• Miao Shi refused to cooperate because Little Wood was present, and Jiang Bo Yue left with him.
• Little Wood admitted responsibility for Jade Completion Emperor Lord’s death and returned to Ping Yu Heaven, while Pang Hong departed alone.
• Pang Hong returned to Heyang Heaven and told Kong Yan that Undertaker had destroyed a Main World and the war would likely escalate.
• Kong Yan urged Pang Hong to seek power by expanding into another Main World and becoming its uncrowned king.
• Kong Yan warned that Heyang Heaven’s fortunes depended on Chi Ming Emperor Lord, and Pang Hong turned toward her with killing intent.

Pang Hong considered leaving Heyang Heaven as the war against the Undertaker escalated and the Four Brahma Three Realms faced the truth about the Uncanny. After decades of devastating battles and the creation of a Demon Blade, Chen Changsheng confronted three infiltrated Great Emperors, while Cao Muzi revealed how he had uncovered Fan Du’s betrayal.

• Kong Yan urged Pang Hong to leave Heyang Heaven, build his own faction, and grow strong enough to become a pillar of the Four Brahma Three Realms.
• Chen Changsheng manipulated an Epoch map in the Fortress, directing worlds toward mutual destruction as he listened to their inhabitants’ screams.
• The Uncanny revealed its infiltration of more than half the High-level cultivators, leaving the Four Brahma Three Realms with no choice but to fight the Undertaker.
• From years 328 to 630 of the war, the Undertaker broke through Great Bright Heaven, Pang Hong founded a faction, and the Demon Blade emerged after a costly battle that forced back Yu Long and Great Emperor Chang Rong.
• Chen Changsheng confronted Yu Long, Fan Du, and Hao Tian in the Void, and Cao Muzi explained that Great Emperor Xuan Ming had exposed Fan Du’s betrayal before he died.

Chen Changsheng exposed Mei Yongsi as the hidden ally of Hao Tian and Fan Du, then joined the Four Brahma Three Realms' experts in a battle against the three Great Emperors. After Hao Tian fell and Mei Yongsi and Fan Du fled the epoch, the three Forbidden Grounds blocked their escape.

• Fan Du and Hao Tian accused each other of causing their troubles, while Yu Long asked Chen Changsheng how he had uncovered his role.
• Chen Changsheng identified Yu Long as Mei Yongsi, who revealed that he had stayed close to Hao Tian and Fan Du and had arranged Jade Completion's death.
• Mei Yongsi asked Chen Changsheng how he survived an assassination attempt and offered to cooperate, but Chen Changsheng said he only wanted to kill him.
• Chen Changsheng called on Great Emperor Chang Rong and Zhang Zhen to attack Mei Yongsi and Fan Du alongside the other experts.
• After a battle lasting 180 years, Cao Muzi helped Zhang Zhen kill Hao Tian, while Chang Rong and Chi Ming forced Mei Yongsi and Fan Du to flee.
• The Heaven, Void, and Ancient Desolation Forbidden Grounds blocked Mei Yongsi and Fan Du from escaping the epoch.

Chen Changsheng revealed why he had drawn out his conflict with Mei Yongsi, then joined the three Forbidden Grounds and Chi Ming and Chang Rong in a century-long battle that ended the Uncanny threat. Afterward, he helped the dying Chi Ming return to see his son, while Ancient Desolation offered to help him handle the aftermath.

• Mei Yongsi challenged Chen Changsheng over his motives, and Chen Changsheng explained that he had planned to make the Uncanny despair by targeting their infiltration methods.
• Mei Yongsi and Fan Du tried to escape the Epoch, but Ancient Desolation and Heaven forced them back, and Chi Ming and Chang Rong joined the fight.
• After a hundred years of battle, the three Top Forbidden Grounds, Chi Ming, and Chang Rong killed Mei Yongsi and Fan Du, but Chang Rong and Chi Ming died, leaving Four Brahma Three Realms without Emperor Realm Experts.
• Chen Changsheng spoke with the mortally wounded Chi Ming, who explained that he had fought to fulfill his duty as Heavenly Emperor and accepted Chen Changsheng's help to return to his son.
• Ancient Desolation offered to enter the Epoch and help Chen Changsheng, warning that continued fighting would only cause more casualties.

Chen Changsheng barred the three Forbidden Grounds from entering the epoch and revealed Wang Hao's power as Wang Hao established Nether River Forbidden Ground. In Heyang Heaven, Chi Ming gathered Pang Hong, Miao Shi, and the others to reveal the catastrophe and explain the scheme before his remaining life ended.

• Chen Changsheng threatened to destroy anyone from the Forbidden Grounds who entered the epoch and summoned Wang Hao to demonstrate his abilities.
• Wang Hao summoned a vast Blood Sea and its strange inhabitants, then announced that he would be called Nether River or Nether River Ancestor.
• Chi Ming returned to Heyang Heaven and told Pang Hong that his battle was over, then asked him to summon Miao Shi and the others.
• Three days later, Chi Ming revealed that the Four Brahma Heavens' Great Emperors and the other Heavenly Emperors had fallen, and that he had only a little time left.
• Chi Ming explained the scheme and everyone's role in it, leaving Pang Hong, Miao Shi, and the others dazed while Little Wood remained expressionless.

Little Wood comforted Miao Shi, Jiang Bo Yue, and Pang Hong as they mourned their losses and confronted the Undertaker’s schemes. At the Fortress, Chen Changsheng resolved to keep investigating and slaughter the forces behind the Uncanny until no one dared bring it back.

• Chi Ming praised Little Wood’s steadfast heart before dying and scattering into starlight.
• Pang Hong shared wine with Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue, who learned that Miao Shan had betrayed Great Bright Heaven and wept over their divided loyalties.
• Pang Hong explained how the Undertaker had exploited the weaknesses of Miao Shi, Jiang Bo Yue, and himself to destroy their hopes and supports.
• Little Wood urged the others to keep living, and the four raised their cups together, letting go of their past enmity.
• At the Fortress, Chen Changsheng told Miao Shan he would continue seeking the true culprit and would not stop until the Uncanny was eradicated.

Chen Changsheng sent Miao Shan to help Jiang Bo Yue complete his cultivation path and arranged for Ye Yongxian to merge with the Heavenly Mandate as the Heart Demon. After the Undertaker's war against the Four Brahma Heavens ended, a murderous race emerged from the Blood Sea, and Chen Changsheng confronted Dustless Heavenly Emperor Wu Chen over his betrayal.

• Miao Shan agreed to help Jiang Bo Yue, while Chen Changsheng said her prepared body was not yet ready and began setting her path in motion.
• Chen Changsheng persuaded Ye Yongxian to merge his consciousness into the Heavenly Mandate and take the Daoist Name Heart Demon.
• After the Undertaker killed three Great Emperors over two hundred and eighty years, a battle-evolving race emerged from the Blood Sea and surviving forces prepared to unite against him.
• In the Dustless World, Wu Chen urged Dustless Heavenly Emperor to unite the epoch's forces against the Undertaker, but Chen Changsheng appeared before they could decide.
• Chen Changsheng accused Wu Chen of informing for Four Brahma Three Realms and discouraging resistance, and Wu Chen admitted he had clung to his fame and fortune.

Chen Changsheng exposed Wu Chen’s control scheme for the Uncanny and revealed that the force behind him had made him a test subject. After Chen Changsheng’s order, Zhang Zhen killed Wu Chen, and the Dustless World lost all its vitality.

• Chen Changsheng questioned Wu Chen about his sudden rise to the Heavenly Emperor Realm, the deaths of entire worlds, and the unnatural deaths that accompanied his cultivation growth.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Wu Chen and his allies used mental power to guide the Uncanny into others and devour their cultivation and talent.
• Wu Chen invited Chen Changsheng to join their pursuit of immortality, but Chen Changsheng argued that the Uncanny controlled them and that the hidden man behind them intended to consume them.
• Chen Changsheng revealed a tiny orb of light, causing the Uncanny inside Wu Chen to erupt uncontrollably, then ordered Zhang Zhen to leave no one alive.
• Zhang Zhen fought Wu Chen for six hours and killed him; a day later, all vitality in the Dustless World had vanished.
• Zhang Zhen returned bloodied, and Chen Changsheng praised his blade techniques and said he was nearing the Great Emperor Realm.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Zhen continued their campaign to eliminate the Uncanny, while the era’s remaining forces dwindled until only the Four Heavenly Emperors resisted. After Jiang Bo Yue killed his master and confronted Chen Changsheng, Wang Hao questioned whether the slaughter should continue, and Chen Changsheng warned him against turning against him.

• Chen Changsheng examined Zhang Zhen with his Double pupils, confirmed he was clean, and explained that seed-state Uncanny could be killed by enduring more than three days of Spirit Fire in the Blood Sea.
• Over the following 190 years, Zhang Zhen killed seventeen Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivators and massacred three small Forbidden Grounds as Wang Hao and Zhang Zhen continued their campaign.
• Ancient Desolation, Heaven, and Void joined forces to destroy the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground, and the Undertaker later surrounded the three Top Forbidden Grounds with the Blood Sea before withdrawing.
• Jiang Bo Yue shattered Miao Shan’s formation and killed his master, then exposed Chen Changsheng’s hiding place and attacked him; Zhang Zhen’s blade intent struck Jiang Bo Yue down, and Chen Changsheng left with Zhang Zhen.
• Wang Hao suggested stopping the killing and accused Chen Changsheng of intending to eliminate him afterward, but Chen Changsheng said he would tolerate Wang Hao as long as he stayed under control and warned he could spend millennia dealing with him.

Chen Changsheng warned Wang Hao that killing him would bring retaliation, then demonstrated that he could destroy Wang Hao’s body before Wang Hao gratefully submitted to him. Centuries later, Wang Hao’s Asuras attacked Miao Shi, and Little Wood was gravely wounded protecting him; Chen Changsheng then appeared and exploded Wang Hao.

• Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao that his death would unite powerful enemies against Wang Hao, then rotted away half of Wang Hao’s body with a touch.
• Wang Hao regenerated, addressed Chen Changsheng as his benefactor and teacher, and followed him as Chen Changsheng left.
• After centuries of war, the Blood Sea’s forces became known as the Asuras, while the Four Heavenly Emperors and their cultivators grew stronger.
• Miao Shi blocked Wang Hao’s army from reaching a Small World, but Wang Hao and another attacker launched a surprise attack, followed by a Demon Blade strike.
• Little Wood stepped in to protect Miao Shi, and the Demon Blade split the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Battle Flag as blood sprayed across Miao Shi.
• Miao Shi unleashed the power of the Supreme Bone and blasted the attackers away; Chen Changsheng then appeared beside Wang Hao and caused his body to explode.

Chen Changsheng urged Miao Shi to make preventing the Dark Turmoil the lasting duty of Emperor Realm cultivators, then went to the dying Pang Tong, who revealed the Person Behind the Scenes’ weakness and warned that all living beings would become his nourishment. After Pang Tong’s death, Ye Yongxian invoked the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate, but Chen Changsheng was unaffected by its illusion and explained that his clear-minded madness came from enduring pain.

• Chen Changsheng stopped Miao Shi from killing more people, saved Little Wood, and told Miao Shi to lead others in preventing the Dark Turmoil.
• Miao Shi vowed that preventing the Dark Turmoil would become the duty of every Emperor Realm cultivator, passed down even if he and the others perished.
• Chen Changsheng and the others appeared before the badly injured Pang Tong, who said he had found the Person Behind the Scenes.
• Pang Tong warned Chen Changsheng that the Person Behind the Scenes had not truly merged with the Uncanny, was exceptionally powerful, and was injured; Pang Tong then died.
• Chen Changsheng buried Pang Tong, and Ye Yongxian invoked the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate, trapping most people in an illusion while Chen Changsheng and Wang Hao’s group quickly awakened.
• Chen Changsheng told Ye Yongxian that true madmen remained clear-headed because they endured their pain rather than forgetting its source.

Chen Changsheng pursued The Person Behind the Scenes and discovered that the mysterious figure was Old Man Yao, his former medical mentor. He realized his own early theories about the Uncanny had helped cause its evolution, while the Asura troops continued slaughtering those trapped in Ye Yongxian’s illusions.

• Chen Changsheng ordered the Asura troops to begin the final cleanup as most beings in the epoch remained trapped in illusions.
• Ye Yongxian was struck by a powerful attack and pointed out the direction of The Person Behind the Scenes, whom Chen Changsheng immediately pursued.
• Chen Changsheng and the other experts found a mysterious fisherman in a small world, who revealed himself as the Old Man Yao Chen Changsheng had known in the past.
• Chen Changsheng recalled that Old Man Yao had inspired much of his medical knowledge, while Ye Yongxian remembered that the same man had taught him Bloodline Immortality.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that he had shared early theories about the Uncanny with Old Man Yao, and the others realized those ideas had helped bring about the Uncanny’s evolution.

Chen Changsheng confronted Old Man Yao, who revealed that he had created and used the Uncanny to heal his injuries and had wagered with Scholar over Chen Changsheng’s pursuit of him. After learning about beings who had survived beyond their realms, Chen Changsheng transformed and declared himself the Fourth Calamity, but Old Man Yao laughed at his threat.

• Old Man Yao explained that he had turned from the Dao of Bloodline Immortality to the Uncanny after meeting Chen Changsheng, and that Mei Yongsi had been intended to test him.
• Old Man Yao revealed that Scholar had left no relic, only a sentence, and had bet that Chen Changsheng would find him and ruin his plan.
• Old Man Yao offered Chen Changsheng the epoch if he joined him, then said that powerful beings survived by finding ways to exceed their realms.
• Chen Changsheng invoked his powers and asked whether Old Man Yao could be killed, while Old Man Yao praised his completed Artificial Chaos Body.
• Chen Changsheng declared himself the Fourth Calamity who would destroy everything, and Old Man Yao laughed, doubting that Chen Changsheng could kill him.

Chen Changsheng and his allies fought Old Man Yao after Nalan Xingde sacrificed himself to strengthen Chen Changsheng through the Epoch Heaven's Mandate. Old Man Yao devastated the group, but Xu Yao and Nalan Zi Ping intervened, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Chen Changsheng, Wang Hao, Ye Yongxian, and Zhang Zhen refused to surrender to Old Man Yao.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Nalan Xingde's spirit, and Nalan Xingde merged the wooden box and ruler into the Epoch Heaven's Mandate, strengthening Chen Changsheng before vanishing.
• Old Man Yao drained the life force of countless beings across the epoch and restored his youthful form, then crushed Wang Hao's body and shattered Zhang Zhen's heart.
• Old Man Yao hooked Ye Yongxian's hidden bloodline power, but Xu Yao answered Chen Changsheng's call and severed the fishing line with her golden sword, worsening Old Man Yao's injuries.
• Old Man Yao attacked Xu Yao, but Nalan Zi Ping blocked him with a palm strike while Chen Xiang shielded Xu Yao and Yin Qi watched nearby.

Chen Changsheng revealed Scholar’s hidden plan to worsen “Old Man Yao’s” ancient injury by spreading medicine through Epoch Heaven’s Mandate. As the enemy’s wounds worsened and he lost access to the epoch’s abundant Qi and Blood, Chen Changsheng clashed with him in a battle that shattered the Small World.

• Nalan Zi Ping smoothed over the Spatial Rift, and Chen Changsheng took Xu Yao’s longsword into his hand.
• “Old Man Yao” tried to persuade Chen Changsheng to join him, but Chen Changsheng said he was waiting for Scholar to kill their enemy.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Scholar had secretly used the ruler and empty box from the Netherworld Forest to worsen “Old Man Yao’s” million-year-old injury.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Scholar had placed the medicine within Epoch Heaven’s Mandate, allowing “Old Man Yao” to swallow it when he devoured the living beings’ Qi and Blood.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the near-extinction of the epoch’s population left “Old Man Yao” without enough Qi and Blood to recover or a place to hide.
• Chen Changsheng and “Old Man Yao” clashed, shattering the Small World as the Fishing Rod, wreathed in the drained flames of three suns, struck out.

After three thousand years of battle, Chen Changsheng and his allies sealed Old Man Yao in a refining formation powered by the Epoch Heaven's Mandate. Badly wounded, Chen Changsheng stayed behind as Little Wood and the others departed, leaving him alone in the Land of Sorrow.

• Pang Hong, Miao Shi, and Jiang Bo Yue debated whether Chen Changsheng was good or evil, and Jiang Bo Yue said he would spare Chen Changsheng if he ever defeated him.
• Zhang Gu brought the unconscious Little Wood to Miao Shi and warned that he would fight back if they tried to kill him.
• After three thousand years of battle, Chen Changsheng's forces disarmed and sealed Old Man Yao inside the Black Cauldron for refining.
• Chen Changsheng collapsed while arranging the epoch, so Jiang Bo Yue and the others used the Epoch Heaven's Mandate to stabilize the formation designed to suppress Old Man Yao.
• Little Wood healed Chen Changsheng and, with Miao Shi, Jiang Bo Yue, and the others, bowed to him; Chen Changsheng named him the Heavenly Emperor Chang Sheng and sent them away.
• Miao Shi told Chen Changsheng that Xiao Qing had forgiven him and was pregnant with a daughter, then the group and the recovering Wang Hao and others left, leaving Chen Changsheng alone on a meteorite.

After Nalan Xingde explained that the mass deaths had been meant to stop Chen Changsheng from losing control, Chen Changsheng accepted that the old version of himself was gone and drank his final jar of Hundred Flower Wine. He stayed behind through the era’s recovery, then watched returning factions ignore him.

• Nalan Xingde told Chen Changsheng that he had entered the game to prevent Chen Changsheng from becoming an unstoppable threat, and Chen Changsheng admitted he could let go of life and death.
• Chen Changsheng drank his last jar of Hundred Flower Wine, and Nalan Xingde faded away as tears mixed with the wine.
• A hundred years later, Little Wood brought Chen Changsheng an infant; Chen Changsheng gave her three Jade Slips containing the inheritances of Cao Muzi, Old Man Yao, and himself, and said he would eventually leave the world.
• Chen Changsheng asked Little Wood to give Zhang Gu company while he guarded an Array Core, and Little Wood agreed before leaving with the infant.
• After five hundred years of recovery, the era regained signs of life and returning factions brought new life, but every faction, including the Eight Desolations Nine Regions, ignored Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng prepared to leave the era after his sons visited him and he spent five hundred years alone on a meteorite. Before departing, he gave Jian Fei the injured Golden Silkworm Gu and warned him to hide his transformation and claim Chen Changsheng was dead; Chen Changsheng then headed for the era’s border to meet Senior Qian Ya.

• Chen Xiang, Zi Ping, and Yin Qi visited Chen Changsheng, and he gave Chen Xiang a White Bone Bracelet for Xu Yao and Yin Qi his remaining Double pupil before sending them away.
• Five hundred years later, Jian Fei defended Chen Changsheng against those who had shunned him, and Chen Changsheng told Jian Fei not to blame them for their difficult position.
• Chen Changsheng gave Jian Fei the injured Golden Silkworm Gu to help him undergo his second transformation and ordered him to transform outside the era and keep Chen Changsheng’s whereabouts secret.
• Chen Changsheng told Jian Fei that Senior Qian Ya was waiting at the era’s border, then disappeared as he set out to meet her.
• At the era’s border, a fluctuation of divine power came from a box, delighting the two women watching it beside the Big White Dog.

Nian Sheng entered Epoch Heaven's Mandate to retrieve Chen Changsheng's origin, helping him complete his rebirth at the Epoch Border. Chen Changsheng reunited with Qian Ya and Bai Ze, then set off with them to wander the world.

• Nian Sheng clashed with Miao Shi and the others controlling Epoch Heaven's Mandate, but Little Wood let her enter to retrieve Chen Changsheng's belongings.
• Nian Sheng injected Chen Changsheng's origin into the wooden box, and Chen Changsheng completed his rebirth.
• Nian Sheng said she would accompany Chen Changsheng to the end, then left after teasing him about his romantic entanglements with Qian Ya.
• Qian Ya joined Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze to wander the world, explaining that Ma Ling'er had left her with nothing to do as God of Wealth.
• Chen Changsheng asked Bai Ze to choose a direction, and Bai Ze picked the route that smelled delicious rather than the bitter one toward Nian Sheng.