Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng and Qian Ya crossed the Chaos Sea while the world believed the Undertaker had died, leaving those who remained to reckon with his departure. After Chen Changsheng hooked a Chaos Beast cub, a Heavenly Emperor-level Chaos Beast attacked, separating him from Qian Ya near the sea’s exit.

• Chen Changsheng rode Bai Ze across the Chaos Sea with Qian Ya, refusing to restore his cultivation because he expected them to run from danger.
• The world accepted rumors that the Undertaker had died, and the era flourished while Xu Hu worried that Chen Changsheng’s allies had failed to understand him.
• Xu Hu told Xu Yao that few had gone to see Chen Changsheng off, and that Su Wan'er’s heart had grown cold toward them.
• Ye Feng and Baili Changkong discussed being Hidden Pieces left outside the conflict and agreed they preferred their quiet lives.
• Chen Changsheng fished from Bai Ze’s back and caught a Chaos Beast cub, drawing the attack of a Heavenly Emperor-level Chaos Beast.
• The Chaos Beast sent Qian Ya flying and separated her from Chen Changsheng as he continued toward the Chaos Sea’s exit with his Fishing Rod.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze escaped the Chaos Sea and discovered that the new era had many inhabited worlds and purer spiritual energy. They set off to explore, and after taking a strange tree from two rival groups, they watched the groups begin refining pills instead of fighting and decided to adapt to local customs.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze escaped the Chaos Sea, and Bai Ze described the new era’s many worlds and abundant, pure spiritual energy.
• Chen Changsheng stopped Bai Ze from taking the Fishing Rod, then rode on Bai Ze as they headed toward something Bai Ze had smelled.
• At the Hundred Herbs Mountain Range, Chen Changsheng used the Fishing Rod to uproot an Evergreen of Ten Thousand Years before Hong Feng and Shi Chun could claim it.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze tasted the tree’s leaves and provoked the Beast Taming Lineage and Pill Tower groups by openly admitting they had taken it.
• Hong Feng and Shi Chun began refining pills instead of attacking, so Chen Changsheng took out a pot after Bai Ze urged him to adapt to the local custom.

Chen Changsheng lost a pill-refining contest to Hong Feng and Shi Chun after producing a crude, pitch-black ball of medicine. He and Bai Ze left to seek Qian Ya and pursue alchemy, unaware Chen’s failed pill would soon cause a major disturbance in the Pill Tower.

• Chen Changsheng casually prepared a large black pot while Hong Feng and Shi Chun refined pills, and he assured Bai Ze his medicine would surpass theirs.
• Shi Chun produced a four-pattern Spring Return Pill, and Hong Feng followed with a four-and-a-half-pattern Purple Vein Pill that could extend an Original Self Realm cultivator’s lifespan.
• Chen Changsheng shaped his medicinal mixture into a huge irregular ball and called it the “Pitch-Black” Pill, claiming it could treat internal injuries.
• Hong Feng pointed out the pill’s poison, lack of pill patterns, and short-lived effects, then claimed it and the Evergreen of Ten Thousand Years as his spoils; Chen Changsheng handed them over.
• After Hong Feng and Shi Chun left, Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze decided to seek Qian Ya, get pill furnaces, and become alchemists, unaware the Pitch-Black Pill would soon cause a tempest in the Pill Tower.

In White Dragon City, Chen Changsheng learned why pill refinement shaped the epoch’s cultivation and contests, and judged that its pill refiners gave it immense potential for war. He offered Qian Ya a Longevity Pill and reassured her that he would stay with her through the end of her life, then promised to make her Beautifying Pills.

• Chen Changsheng asked Qian Ya about the epoch, and she explained that it had adopted the Bitter Sea System early because it suited pill refinement.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that the epoch’s numerous skilled pill refiners could make it formidable in war despite its people’s preference for settling disputes with pill duels.
• Qian Ya explained that cultivators avoided combat to protect their lifespans and considered other life-extending methods heretical.
• Chen Changsheng asked whether Qian Ya wanted a Longevity Pill, then promised to accompany her through the final stretch of her life if the pills eventually stopped working.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he felt content because others understood and supported his path, and he promised to make Qian Ya the finest Beautifying Pills.

Hong Feng’s teacher recognized the crude pill Chen Changsheng had made as a masterpiece of medicinal understanding and ordered the Pill Tower to retrieve its iron pot and investigate. In White Dragon City, Chen Changsheng revealed he had eighty billion Divine Source, leaving Qian Ya and Bai Ze stunned after he had asked them for money.

• Hong Feng presented his teacher with the Evergreen of Ten Thousand Years and described his pill-refining contest with Shi Chun.
• Hong Feng’s teacher smelled an unfamiliar pill fragrance, examined the black pill, and identified its ingredients and unconventional preparation.
• Hong Feng’s teacher declared the pill superior to a Seventh-Grade Pill and ordered the Pill Tower to retrieve the iron pot and move the mountain where it was left.
• In White Dragon City, Qian Ya complained that Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze had spent too much money buying furnaces and pills.
• Qian Ya explained that Source Pills and Source Stones were made from Divine Source, and Chen Changsheng learned that she had ten billion five hundred million while Bai Ze had eight billion.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he still had eighty billion Divine Source, shocking Qian Ya and Bai Ze.

Chen Changsheng examined Source Pills and Source Stones, then sent Bai Ze and Qian Ya to buy divine source and pill-refining materials for his improved refining method. In the Pill Domain, Qiu Danhe successfully refined a “Pitch-Black” Pill but could not explain the purpose of its withered peach leaves.

• Chen Changsheng identified Source Stones as refined divine source and Source Pills as further-refined stones mixed with spiritual herbs, then had Bai Ze taste them.
• Qian Ya explained the high refining losses and prices, and revealed that she had thirteen billion Source Stones and twenty-eight billion Source Pills.
• Chen Changsheng told Qian Ya to buy up divine source and pill-making materials, saying his own energy-purification research could improve the yield.
• Bai Ze and Qian Ya hurried off to buy supplies, while Chen Changsheng let them enjoy their profits.
• In the Pill Domain, Qiu Danhe refined a “Pitch-Black” Pill, and the alchemists questioned why withered peach leaves were part of its recipe.

Chen Changsheng left White Dragon City after showing the alchemists how soil helped refine a patterned pill, then traveled to Green Mountain World to seek Divine Fire for life-extending pills for Qian Ya. After explaining why he would not steal Divine Fire or kill for it, he began preparing to refine Origin Pills from the Divine Sources Qian Ya had bought.

• Qiu Danhe discovered that adding soil to the Withered Peach Leaves supplied Earth Qi and allowed the alchemists to refine black pills.
• Chen Changsheng left White Dragon City with Qian Ya and Xiao Hei, explaining that he had used the soil mixed among the leaves to fool the alchemists.
• In Green Mountain World, Bai Ze could not smell any special flames, while Chen Changsheng explained that Divine Fire was needed to refine Immortal Pills for Qian Ya.
• Chen Changsheng rejected stealing Divine Fire and said he did not want to kill anyone, and Bai Ze agreed that they would avoid killing for the next hundred thousand years.
• Qian Ya told Chen Changsheng that the formation for refining Origin Pills was ready, and Chen Changsheng poured Spirit Liquid into a valley piled with Divine Sources.

Chen Changsheng used Spirit Liquid to dilute the impurities in Divine Source Liquid, allowing him to refine a much larger batch of Source Pills. After Qian Ya rejoiced at the increased output, Bai Ze threw a tantrum over receiving fewer pills, and Chen Changsheng revealed that it could contribute its Variant Divine Source palace.

• Chen Changsheng explained how the Flame Sun Array removed most impurities from Divine Source but admitted he could not remove the remainder directly.
• Chen Changsheng added Spirit Liquid to lower the impurity proportion, explaining that the Source Pills would still contain pure energy and be easier to absorb.
• Chen Changsheng calculated that the group could refine twenty-eight billion Source Pills from their mixed liquid, and Qian Ya realized the plan had greatly increased their wealth.
• Bai Ze complained that Chen Changsheng was favoring Qian Ya, and Chen Changsheng pointed out that Bai Ze could contribute the Variant Divine Source palace it had built.
• Bai Ze froze when Chen Changsheng exposed its secret, then buried its head in Qian Ya's bosom and cried.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze settled into Green Mountain World, where Chen Changsheng secretly bought land and later ran the Supreme Clarity Temple. After he helped a woman replace a Worst Luck Sign with a Best Luck Sign, Bai Ze told him that Qian Ya had found clues about the Divine Fire and that he would need to handle some matters himself.

• Bai Ze persuaded Qian Ya to split the 280 billion source pills, then learned Chen Changsheng had an entire sea of Spirit Liquid and was promised a share if he found the Divine Fire of Green Mountain World.
• Chen Changsheng and his companions quietly arrived in Green Mountain World, where a mysterious tycoon began buying up land.
• A small Taoist Temple appeared and remained open for three hundred years before a plainly dressed woman visited the Supreme Clarity Temple.
• The Daoist Priest repeatedly discarded the woman's Worst Luck Signs and gave her a Best Luck Sign, saying he was helping her Defy Heaven and Change Fate.
• After the woman left, Bai Ze asked Chen Changsheng about her, then reported that Qian Ya had found clues about the Divine Fire and that Chen Changsheng would need to resolve some matters personally.

Chen Changsheng learned that Green Mountain World held clues to the DuSheng True Fire and Bright Immortal Rock, then agreed to leave the mountain for Pill Domain’s Pills Convention. Before departing, he arranged discreet help for a man in black who expected to die at Black Wind Mountain.

• Bai Ze told Chen Changsheng that a map fragment pointed to the DuSheng True Fire and that this epoch’s cultivators held clues to the Bright Immortal Rock, one of the Nine Immortal Metals.
• Chen Changsheng noted the strange claims about the Nine Immortal Metals’ origins and decided to seek the DuSheng True Fire first.
• A man in black asked Chen Changsheng to divine whether he would die in three days, and Chen Changsheng predicted he would survive and promised to collect his body if he did not.
• After the man named Black Wind Mountain as his destination, Chen Changsheng had Bai Ze secretly disrupt its formation to help him.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze left Supreme Clarity Temple to attend Pill Domain’s Pills Convention, planning to acquire a suitable pill furnace and Alchemy Fire first.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze wandered through the mountains, where Chen Changsheng prepared scorpion meat and wine while reflecting on how he had learned to embrace joy alongside pain. After sharing one pincer each, they headed toward a cultivator’s aura deeper in the mountains.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he had developed new pill-refining methods for the Pill Domain’s Pills Convention and had improved his cooking and brewing over three hundred years.
• Bai Ze killed a Six-Tailed Scorpion, and Chen Changsheng used its pincers to prepare herb-roasted scorpion meat and began brewing Hundred Poisons Wine.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that he now sought a life of eating, drinking, and wandering freely, and explained how he had come to value joy despite the pain of parting.
• Chen Changsheng reflected that he had spent over a hundred thousand years focused on suffering and had let down people who cared for him before finally understanding, helped by Scholar’s sacrifice.
• After Chen Changsheng refused to share his scorpion pincer with Bai Ze, the pair sensed a cultivator deeper in the mountains and went to investigate.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze followed a fleeing cultivator and Ming Snake to the beast’s hidden underground lair, suspecting it guarded treasure. When Ming Snake spat saliva onto Chen Changsheng, he summoned a squirrel-like creature that kicked the beast flying.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze watched a Blood Moving Realm cultivator fight Ming Snake, and Chen Changsheng decided to capture it for its Beast Fire.
• The cultivator threw a fiery-red object to distract Ming Snake and fled, so Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze secretly followed the beast to its sinkhole lair.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze explored the labyrinthine caves and found Ming Snake waiting in a lava cavern.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze noticed Ming Snake’s unusual scales and discussed studying them, while the beast roared and splashed saliva onto Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng summoned a squirrel-like creature with a Longevity Bloodstone, and it kicked Ming Snake flying.

Chen Changsheng fished a Golden Page and the Ten Thousand Year Earth Core Fire out of the magma, then discovered and rescued a woman sealed inside a sphere of light. He staged a misleading scene around her and erased her Virginity Mole before they left her to awaken.

• The Treasure Vomiting Rat beat the Ming Snake into submission, and Chen Changsheng fished a flame and sphere of light from the magma.
• The Ming Snake spat out a fire crystal containing a Golden Page, leaving Chen Changsheng one page short of completing the first volume of the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique.
• Chen Changsheng broke the sphere of light and found a woman inside, realizing she had come with the man who had fought the Ming Snake.
• Chen Changsheng cured the woman's fire poison, smeared fish-blood mush over her to create a misleading scene, and erased her Virginity Mole.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze encountered Ling Shuang after he purged the Ming Snake’s Fire Poison from her, and Ling Shuang accused him of defiling her. After sparing him and giving him cultivation resources, Ling Shuang left, while Bai Ze mocked Chen Changsheng.

• Ling Shuang woke and threatened to kill Chen Changsheng, blaming him for defiling her while treating her Fire Poison.
• Chen Changsheng disarmed Ling Shuang and sealed her Trump Cards, then returned her sword and agreed to guard her while she recovered.
• Ling Shuang regained her strength, but instead of killing Chen Changsheng, she took him and Bai Ze to the edge of the mountain range and declared their debt settled.
• Chen Changsheng jokingly offered to take responsibility for Ling Shuang, and she told him they came from different worlds.
• Ling Shuang gave Chen Changsheng two bottles of pills and her alchemy insights before flying away, and Bai Ze laughed at him for receiving what he called payment.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze gathered low-grade medicinal herbs and prepared for the Pills Convention, while Ling Shuang discovered Chen Changsheng had deceived her and vowed to confront him there. On reaching the Pill Domain, Bai Ze revealed Ling Shuang might be connected to its headquarters, and Chen Changsheng threatened to make Bai Ze regret keeping that from him.

• Chen Changsheng sent Little Gold to find low-grade medicinal herbs and explained that he needed to appear like a poor, low-level alchemist at the Pills Convention.
• Chen Changsheng suggested Bai Ze take human form, but Bai Ze refused and insisted on becoming the Beast Race's top alchemist while hiding his identity.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze gathered herbs and left the mountain range, where Ling Shuang returned, realized medicine had erased her Virginity Mole, and vowed to confront Chen Changsheng at the Pills Convention.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze arrived at the Pill Domain, where Bai Ze said Ling Shuang might have been sent by the Pill Domain headquarters and could be a judge or recruiter.
• Chen Changsheng accused Bai Ze of setting him up and threatened to get even, leaving Bai Ze to complain that longevity species were childish.

Chen Changsheng noticed a woman with an unusually strong Pill Aura and suspected she was an Alchemy Prodigy before heading to the Pills Convention registration area. There, he obstructed Bai Ze’s registration in wolf form, but Ling Shuang allowed Bai Ze to enter and realized the Daoist it cursed was Chen Changsheng.

• Chen Changsheng recognized the woman who had drawn three Worst Luck Signs and speculated that her dense Pill Aura marked her as an Alchemy Prodigy.
• Chen Changsheng decided that the woman might draw attention away from him as he sought to trade with Pill Epoch elders for immortal pill formulas.
• Bai Ze argued with the registration staff over whether a wolf in animal form could enter the Pills Convention.
• Chen Changsheng cited convention custom to delay Bai Ze, then registered himself and taunted it.
• Ling Shuang ruled that Bai Ze could participate in animal form, and Bai Ze complained about Chen Changsheng.
• Ling Shuang questioned Bai Ze about the Daoist it described and realized it was the Chen Changsheng she had been looking for.

Chen Changsheng encountered Ling Shuang at the Pills Convention, where she tried to disqualify him after their quarrel. He passed the first round with an unconventional Hundred Herbs Pill, but Ling Shuang realized he had tricked her into giving him a Fourth Grade pill furnace.

• Bai Ze told Ling Shuang that Chen Changsheng was in Sector Bing 30, and she went to confront him there.
• Ling Shuang warned Chen Changsheng that she would personally inspect his pills, then kicked his pill furnace over; Chen Changsheng told nearby alchemists she was clinging to him out of romantic feelings.
• During the first round, Ling Shuang accused Chen Changsheng of failing because he had been roasting chicken wings in his furnace instead of refining a pill.
• Chen Changsheng tossed herbs into the hot furnace and used its crack to rapidly cool a Hundred Herbs Pill, then credited Ling Shuang's kick for helping him succeed.
• Feeling guilty about damaging Chen Changsheng's old furnace, Ling Shuang gave him her Fourth Grade pill furnace in exchange for his pill.
• Ling Shuang recognized the discarded bones as belonging to an expensive Blazing Chicken and realized Chen Changsheng had tricked her again.

Chen Changsheng deceived Ling Shuang again at the Pills Convention, leading her to investigate his supposed family and master. After Ling Shuang confidently identified him as a Chen Family disciple of Old Freak Li, Chen Changsheng froze, leaving her convinced she had uncovered his secret.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze wagered that whoever was eliminated from the Pills Convention first would publicly insult the other.
• Chen Changsheng advanced to the second round and told Ling Shuang that he came from a prestigious family and had a renowned master.
• Ling Shuang recognized Chen Changsheng's skill and left to ask her teacher about his possible background.
• Ling Shuang's teacher suggested Old Freak Li, and Ling Shuang asked her father to contact the Chen Family of Green Mountain World.
• Ling Shuang returned and declared that Chen Changsheng was from the Chen Family and was Old Freak Li's disciple, then left believing she had exposed him.

Chen Changsheng fabricated a story about his family to mislead Cui Ling Shuang, who then visited Chen Weng and gained his permission to challenge Chen Changsheng. Meanwhile, an old man and his allies fought a woman over the clue to the DuSheng True Fire, but let her escape.

• Chen Changsheng finished refining a Third-Grade Pill, admitted that his story to Cui Ling Shuang was made up, and left to find Bai Ze something to do.
• Cui Ling Shuang asked Chen Weng whether his son was a direct descendant trained by Master Li, then said Chen Changsheng had deceived her and asked to challenge him.
• Chen Weng mistook Cui Ling Shuang's complaint for a romantic quarrel and gave her permission to contend with his son.
• A young man in Sector Bing 30 sneezed, wondered who was talking about him, and left after receiving his inspected pill.
• An old man offered a woman five Golden Cores to give up the clue to the DuSheng True Fire, but she refused and fought him.
• Several people joined the battle against the woman, who escaped after shattering a magic treasure; the old man stopped his allies from pursuing her.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze discussed the DuSheng True Fire, Qian Girl’s condition, and Chen Changsheng’s growing baleful aura before the Pills Convention finals began. As the other alchemists started refining pills, Chen Changsheng once again did nothing, angering Ling Shuang.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze mocked each other over their wager and argued about their chances of advancing through the Pills Convention.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Qian Girl had found the DuSheng True Fire inside Kunpeng, and Bai Ze explained that its powers could not reveal the weaknesses of Ancient Divine Beasts.
• Bai Ze sensed that Qian Girl had fought but was uninjured, and estimated that she had fewer than five thousand years left to live.
• Chen Changsheng promised to refine a true immortal pill within three thousand years and agreed not to kill anyone, though he threatened to break the legs of anyone who angered him.
• The Pills Convention finals began with more than ten thousand alchemists competing for points by refining pills within twelve shichen.
• Chen Changsheng watched instead of opening his furnace, and Ling Shuang grew furious at his idleness.