Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng examined Lu Mingyu, claimed he could not cure him, and left while taking an incense burner. After Lu Mingyu summoned him back, Chen Changsheng pretended to sleep as Bai Ze negotiated over the price of treatment.

• Chen Feng examined Lu Mingyu and concluded that his congenital illness could not be treated.
• Chen Changsheng examined Lu Mingyu for half an hour, said he could not cure him, and left with an incense burner.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Ling Shuang that their agreement with Immortal Guang Han was over, then tossed powder from the incense burner over a courtyard wall and pretended to sleep.
• Lu Mingyu's steward brought Chen Changsheng and his companions back to the residence, where Lu Mingyu offered Bai Ze a seven-thousand-year-old Purple Veined Golden Peach.
• Bai Ze accepted the peach and told Lu Mingyu that Chen Changsheng could cure him, but a much higher price would be needed to wake him.

Chen Changsheng failed to negotiate with Lu Mingyu for an Immortal Pill Formula or a Longevity Immortal Pill in exchange for treating him. After leaving the Lu estate, Chen Changsheng explained that Lu Mingyu was faking a recent illness and said he would not help without a worthwhile reward.

• Chen Changsheng asked Lu Mingyu for an Immortal Pill Formula, then lowered his demand to one Longevity Immortal Pill, but Lu Mingyu refused both requests.
• Lu Mingyu explained that immortal pills were scarce, tightly allocated, and likely already consumed by cultivators seeking to extend their lifespans.
• Chen Changsheng warned Lu Mingyu that his life would be in danger within twenty days, then left the estate with Chen Feng and Guan Ping.
• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that Lu Mingyu had used medicine to imitate symptoms of his congenital deficiencies and reveal that he was ill.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that he would not treat Lu Mingyu without a suitable reward because the illness and the problems behind it would be difficult to resolve.

Chen Changsheng refused to help the Lu Family without a worthwhile price, while Immortal Guang Han warned Cui Ling Shuang that Chen Changsheng could resolve her troubles but would never be tied down. In the Pill Tower Core, Chen Changsheng offered Guan Ping a chance to break through by obtaining the Void Demon Flame with help from a mysterious sealed creature.

• Chen Changsheng said Young Master Lu would die in twenty days and rejected Guang Han's reward because he was not interested in it.
• Immortal Guang Han gave Cui Ling Shuang Guan Ping's pill formula, warned her not to fall in love with Chen Changsheng, and sent the formula as an apology gift.
• Qian Ya fled into the Nameless Small World to avoid fighting Li Huo, but both were trapped in a chaotic space that even her Heavenly Emperor Realm puppet could not break through.
• Chen Changsheng forbade Guan Ping from using pills to cultivate and told her to seek the Void Demon Flame in the Sumeru Illusion Realm.
• Chen Changsheng showed Guan Ping a crimson crystal holding a two-tailed black cat and said it could help her obtain the Void Demon Flame.

Chen Changsheng tricked Guan Ping into forming a Master-Servant Contract with a Two-Tailed Black Cat that needs costly Chaos Qi to survive and may hunt her. He explained that the beast could help her obtain the Void Demon Flame by suppressing its deadly fire.

• Chen Changsheng offered Guan Ping a black-cat Spiritual Beast and warned that raising it would require patience and feeding it.
• Guan Ping formed a Master-Servant Contract with the beast, then learned it needed at least three wisps of expensive Chaos Qi each year.
• Guan Ping tried to refuse the beast, but Chen Changsheng revealed that it would hunt her and insisted she raise it to encourage her cultivation and protect her.
• Guan Ping broke the blood-red crystal and released the Two-Tailed Black Cat, which hissed at her until Chen Changsheng calmed it.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the beast could suppress the Void Demon Flame, which would otherwise burn through Guan Ping's flesh and divine sense.

Chen Changsheng refined Vitality Stone into portable artifacts for Chen Feng and Guan Ping, explaining how they could use them as herb gardens. He also warned them about his deadly flame and said the artifacts would let them take Medicinal Soil from the Sumeru Illusion Realm.

• Chen Changsheng named Guan Ping's black cat Little White and led her to see Chen Feng's finished Vitality Stone carving.
• Chen Changsheng used a pale red flame to shrink Chen Feng's carved Vitality Stone into a ring, frightening Chen Feng, Guan Ping, and Little White.
• Chen Changsheng refined Guan Ping's Vitality Stone and explained that his flame was suited for killing, not pill refining or cultivation.
• Chen Changsheng made Chen Feng and Guan Ping portable herb gardens and explained how they could grow medicinal herbs from seeds using World Spiritual Energy.
• Chen Changsheng said the Vitality Stone artifacts could carry Medicinal Soil out of the Sumeru Illusion Realm without it dying.

Chen Changsheng warned Guan Ping to keep a low profile before investigating the bronze fragment and learning that Qian Ya had been trapped, likely by his suspected adversary. Lu Mingyu remained gravely ill, and ten days later he approached Chen Changsheng at the Sumeru Illusion Realm competition venue.

• Chen Changsheng sent Guan Ping and Chen Feng to prepare for entering the Sumeru Illusion Realm in ten days, then examined the bronze fragment from the Endless Sea.
• Chen Changsheng learned that someone had trapped Qian Ya, whose life was not in immediate danger, and suspected the person he called the big fish.
• Immortal Guang Han told Lu Mingyu that his illness remained critical and she could only prolong his life; she also suggested asking his uncle to investigate Chen Changsheng's swordsmanship.
• Immortal Guang Han left after warning Lu Mingyu that the Pill Tower would not help him again, and Lu Mingyu coughed blood while lamenting that he lacked time to change his family's circumstances.
• One thousand contestants gathered at the competition venue, where Lu Mingyu approached Chen Changsheng, who warned him that the wind might blow him to his grave.

Chen Changsheng examined Lu Mingyu and reaffirmed that he would die on the twentieth day, while accepting a fortune in gifts and funeral payment. Before the group entered the Sumeru Illusion Realm, Chen Changsheng warned Chen Feng to prioritize staying alive.

• Lu Mingyu gave Chen Changsheng a meeting gift and then paid him to reassess his condition, explaining that he trusted both Chen Changsheng and the Immortal Pill Refiners.
• Chen Changsheng examined Lu Mingyu and again said he would die on the twentieth day.
• Lu Mingyu accepted the diagnosis, paid Chen Changsheng to arrange his funeral, and left with his butler.
• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that Lu Mingyu had given him about thirteen billion Source Pills and said he might let Lu Mingyu live longer, but would not save him unless he got what he wanted.
• Chen Changsheng warned Chen Feng to be careful in the Sumeru Illusion Realm and put his life first.

Lu Mingyu explained why he trusted Chen Changsheng and chose to gamble on his offer as a second path to survival, despite refusing to hand over the Lu Family’s Immortal Pill Formula. Inside the Sumeru Illusion Realm, Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Qian Girl had been targeted and planned to deal with the enemy without making a major commotion.

• Lu Mingyu told Butler Wang to give his corpse to Chen Changsheng after his death and explained that Chen Changsheng’s calm response to gifts worth Thirteen Billion Source Pills convinced him of his extraordinary status.
• Lu Mingyu argued that the Pill Tower’s silence about Chen Changsheng’s provocation suggested it feared him, and said he would gamble on Chen Changsheng’s second path to survival because Chen Changsheng had investigated the Lu Family’s auction house.
• Chen Changsheng appeared in the Sumeru Illusion Realm with Bai Ze, where contestants had seven days to gather herbs before refining pills for the semifinal.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Qian Girl had been targeted, and Bai Ze prepared to track the enemy before Chen Changsheng stopped it.
• Chen Changsheng said he would not let the attack go unanswered but saw no need to use their full power, so Bai Ze returned to its Silver Moon Wolf form.

Chen Changsheng planned to recruit Lu Mingyu by competing with the Pill Tower to preserve his life, while he and Bai Ze set off to gather materials for a new Medicine Field. In the Sumeru Illusion Realm, Guan Ping ignored a distant Treasure Medicine and dug beneath a sea of ordinary flowers after sensing something valuable below.

• Chen Changsheng explained that he had chosen Lu Mingyu as an ally because Lu Mingyu was exceptionally clever and could help him navigate the Lu Family’s affairs.
• Chen Changsheng said he would compete with the Pill Tower to treat Lu Mingyu, though he intended only to preserve Lu Mingyu’s life rather than cure him completely.
• Bai Ze urged Chen Changsheng to seek the Sumeru Illusion Realm’s greatest opportunity, and Chen Changsheng revealed that he planned to build a new Medicine Field using medicinal soil and other materials from the realm.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze argued over how much core Medicine Field they had secretly kept from the Hundred Herbs Garden, and Bai Ze demanded six mu from Chen Changsheng.
• Guan Ping entered a sea of flowers, sensed something valuable beneath it, and began digging instead of collecting a distant Treasure Medicine.

Chen Changsheng explained how to find million-year medicinal soil and gathered it with Bai Ze, while Chen Feng harvested herbs and used Chen Changsheng’s spatial magical artifact to store the soil. The chapter left Guan Ping facing a third challenge from a man who wanted to compete with her in pill refinement.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that medicinal soil formed beneath vast patches of low-grade herbs, then collected soil while delaying their trip to the central region.
• Chen Feng killed a Life Lamp Realm white python, harvested its Snake Entrapment Grass, and collected the surrounding soil with a Portable Herb Garden made from Vitality Stone.
• Chen Feng marveled at Chen Changsheng’s skill in formations and Weapon Refinement before flying toward the central region to continue the competition.
• A man confronted Guan Ping while she gathered herbs and challenged her to a pill-refinement contest, prompting her to ask why he kept targeting her.

Guan Ping faced Zheng Ling, a scion of the Zheng Family of Rongyang Realm, who challenged her after she took the ranking he wanted. Remembering Chen Changsheng’s teaching, she chose to fight him in the Sumeru Illusion Realm and attacked with her sword and Alchemy Fire.

• Zheng Ling confronted Guan Ping over her taking tenth place and demanded a duel, claiming his noble family’s reputation and alchemy talent entitled him to challenge her.
• Guan Ping rejected an alchemy duel and drew her sword, but Zheng Ling insisted she could settle the dispute by defeating him in combat.
• Guan Ping remembered Chen Changsheng teaching her that she had to prove her ability when the critical moment came.
• Guan Ping accepted Zheng Ling’s challenge and promised to retreat whenever she heard his name if she lost.
• Guan Ping attacked Zheng Ling with her sword and Alchemy Fire, forcing him back and putting a notch in his Top Grade Magical Artifact.

Guan Ping fought Zheng Ling in the Sumeru Illusion Realm, while Chen Changsheng explained that her training in fire control gave her an advantage against Zheng Ling’s staff. Chen Changsheng then noticed Chen Feng was near defeat against seven Giant Spiders and prepared to go help him.

• Guan Ping told Zheng Ling that her conviction and experience refining fake pills mattered more than their methods, then clashed with him using the Broken Sword.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Guan Ping’s Fire Control Method could counter Zheng Ling’s Bin Iron Staff, and revealed he had secretly made her practice with metal and stone disguised as wood.
• Chen Changsheng pointed out that Chen Feng was fighting seven Giant Spiders in the Bone Exchange Realm and was close to being overwhelmed.
• Bai Ze refused to help Chen Feng, so Chen Changsheng said he would go himself.

Chen Changsheng rescued Chen Feng from seven poisonous Purple Spiders and warned him that strength alone could not overcome carefully laid traps. He admitted to Bai Ze that he had intervened to capture the spiders as pests for his Medicine Field.

• The seven Purple Spiders trapped Chen Feng in webs and poisoned him, leaving him unable to fight effectively.
• Chen Changsheng arrived and used his Fishing Rod to capture all seven spiders while Chen Feng began expelling the poison.
• After recovering, Chen Feng promised to learn from the encounter, and Chen Changsheng revealed that friends had died in traps he could not break.
• Bai Ze questioned why Chen Changsheng had intervened, and Chen Changsheng admitted he wanted the spiders to tend pests in his Medicine Field.

Chen Changsheng kept Bai Ze from taking his spiders, while Guan Ping narrowly defeated Zheng Ling in a contest of martial arts and alchemy. Bai Feng confronted Chen Changsheng to defend the Beast Race’s reputation, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Chen Changsheng kept the seven spiders from Bai Ze, who stormed off after refusing to help find medicinal mud.
• Guan Ping’s weapons shattered under Zheng Ling’s attacks, but she used the Fire Refining Method to fight him with alchemy.
• Zheng Ling conceded a narrow defeat to Guan Ping, left her three herbs and his broken Bin Iron Staff, and departed.
• Guan Ping collapsed from exhaustion, then happily collected her spoils.
• Bai Feng blocked Chen Changsheng and explained that he had come to defend the Beast Race’s honor, and Chen Changsheng recognized the confrontation as a racial conflict.

Chen Changsheng used a Confucian brush to defeat Bai Feng and block the Pill Tower’s observation, while Chen Feng grew more thoughtful after defeating a powerful demonic beast. In the central region, Bai Ze tried to take a massive cache of Five-Colored Medicinal Mud but was stopped until Chen Changsheng arrived.

• Chen Changsheng trapped Bai Feng with the brush’s golden character and sent him away with the character for retreat, then sealed the sky to stop hidden observers.
• At the Pill Tower, the elders discussed Chen Changsheng’s many disciplines and whether to let him enter, but a note instructed them to handle matters by the rules.
• Chen Changsheng continued toward the central region, reflecting that Old Pen’s brush was still useful.
• Chen Feng defeated the Hundred-Eyed Centipede, collected twelve Fire Dates, and considered how he had learned to think carefully before intervening.
• Bai Ze dug up a room-sized mass of Five-Colored Medicinal Mud, but an unseen force sealed him and stopped him from taking it.
• Chen Changsheng used a Fishing Rod to return Bai Ze’s stored objects, freed him, and explained that the mud was likely part of the Sumeru Illusion Realm’s foundation.

Chen Changsheng explained to Bai Ze that he had not truly defeated the full strength of his epoch and warned that the Pill Epoch held many hidden powerhouses. After they buried the Five-Colored Medicinal Mud with Medicine Fields, Chen Changsheng said both sides were wary of the other's strength.

• Bai Ze worried that the Pill Epoch was stronger than their own, and Chen Changsheng corrected his view of their epoch's true strength.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had only defeated and sealed Old Man Yao, while many powerful forces and figures had stayed out of the Epoch War or remained unknown.
• Chen Changsheng showed Bai Ze the Yin Yang Yansheng Book and wondered about its mysterious author, then described how the Pill Epoch's customs made its powerhouses harder to avoid.
• Chen Changsheng buried the remaining Five-Colored Medicinal Mud with top-grade Medicine Fields from the Hundred Herbs Garden and gave half the mud to Bai Ze.
• Bai Ze asked why powerful beings yielded to Chen Changsheng, and Chen Changsheng said they feared he might be an unfathomable powerhouse too.

Chen Changsheng watched Guan Ping climb toward the Void Demon Flame, hoping to see whether she could subdue it, while the Pill Domain’s leaders secretly assessed him and considered how to handle him. Guan Ping kept pressing toward the summit despite the danger, and Bai Ze feared she would try to claim the flame.

• Chen Changsheng realized that he and the Tower Master were testing each other’s endurance and decided to conceal his identity as their contest continued.
• After Chen Changsheng left, a figure collected soil from his Medicine Field and brought it to a man, who concluded that Chen Changsheng’s origins and methods were difficult to discern.
• The man learned that Guan Ping carried the aura of a Chaos Beast and suspected Chen Changsheng intended for her to take the Void Demon Flame; he told the figure to avoid provoking Chen Changsheng and to conceal the Pill Domain’s secrets.
• Chen Changsheng brought Bai Ze to the Void Demon Flame, explaining that he wanted to watch Guan Ping attempt to subdue it even though he sought a different Divine Fire.
• Guan Ping climbed toward the summit with Little White swallowing the gray flames in their path, while Bai Ze warned Chen Changsheng that Guan Ping would not resist trying to claim the flame.

Chen Changsheng explained to Bai Ze that Guan Ping had to subdue the Void Demon Flame to pursue the Immortal Pill path, because an unaffiliated refiner could not reach the higher realms without rare formulas, herbs, and powerful backing. The chapter left Bai Ze understanding that Guan Ping’s path was far more difficult than Chen Feng’s, and that failing this trial could end her prospects.

• Chen Changsheng argued that Guan Ping had chosen a dangerous but necessary path and had to subdue the Void Demon Flame to become an Immortal Pill Refiner.
• Bai Ze offered to cover Guan Ping’s cultivation resources, but Chen Changsheng explained that even he lacked the formulas and herbs needed to refine a Golden Core.
• Chen Changsheng described how major powers controlled rare Golden Core ingredients and guarded pill formulas, making money or force insufficient to secure a lasting path to Immortal Pills.
• Bai Ze acknowledged that Guan Ping faced the same resource barriers as they did and understood that failure would cut off her future.
• Chen Changsheng contrasted Guan Ping’s limited support with Chen Feng’s family and master’s backing, noting that the two followed different paths.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze argued and fought, drawing the Void Demon Flame away from Guan Ping as she climbed to the summit. Guan Ping seized a wisp of its essence and was burned to a charred corpse, while Chen Changsheng wounded the flame and began preparing to extinguish it.

• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze argued over Chen Changsheng's past before Chen Changsheng struck Bai Ze with the Fishing Rod and the two wrestled.
• Their fight drew the Void Demon Flame's attention and reduced the pressure on Guan Ping as she reached the summit.
• Guan Ping crawled toward the Void Demon Flame, ignored Little White's warnings, and took a wisp of its essence, provoking an immense blaze that burned her into a charred corpse.
• Bai Ze's attacks accidentally struck the Void Demon Flame's essence, drawing its retaliation and setting him ablaze.
• Chen Changsheng regenerated his burned-off hand, wounded the Void Demon Flame with his fishhook, and sat down to prepare to extinguish the fire after Bai Ze urged him to hurry.

Chen Changsheng suppressed the Void Demon Flame so Guan Ping could try to subdue it, then challenged Bai Ze to choose whether they should teach their companions loyalty or cold self-preservation. He argued that they could never escape the world’s conflicts, and the chapter ended with him asking whether all his efforts to secure the future had truly let him escape them.

• Chen Changsheng recited the Great Sun World Cleansing Mantra and used the Bitter Sea Phenomenon to extinguish the Void Demon Flame’s flames, leaving it harmless for three days so Guan Ping could subdue it herself.
• Chen Changsheng warned Bai Ze not to keep rescuing Guan Ping from trials she needed to face, then asked Bai Ze to choose between loyalty and sentiment or cold survival.
• Bai Ze argued that they should avoid strife and live peacefully, but Chen Changsheng recalled how conflicts repeatedly forced him out of hiding in the Lower Realm, the Three Thousand Zhou, and the Qiongqi Tomb.
• Chen Changsheng described leaving the mountains after learning of the devastation caused by the Extinguish Heaven War and explained how he had stabilized the rear and prepared for the future.
• Chen Changsheng asked Bai Ze whether, despite all those efforts, he had ever truly escaped the conflicts.