Chapter Summaries

Immortal Guang Han rejected the Pill Tower Tower Master's proposed Dao companionship and was told Chen Changsheng would lose his Pill Tower Disciple status in a month. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng and Shui Yue found Nine-Headed Xiang Liu and asked him to help the Beast Race, but negotiations turned hostile over the price of his cooperation.

• The square-faced Supreme told Immortal Guang Han that Chen Changsheng would be stripped of his Pill Tower Disciple status in one month, and she rejected the Tower Master's proposed Dao companionship.
• The square-faced man asked whether Immortal Guang Han considered him ugly, and she bluntly said she would not choose him as a Dao companion because he was ugly.
• Chen Changsheng brought Shui Yue to a Small World where the Beast Race had tracked down Nine-Headed Xiang Liu, then sent Paper figures to search the mountains.
• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu confronted Chen Changsheng and refused to help the Beast Race unless Chen Changsheng gave him the entire True Dragon's Dragon Pearl.
• Chen Changsheng mocked Nine-Headed Xiang Liu for his demand and threatened to chop off some of his heads.

Chen Changsheng tried to recruit Nine-Headed Xiang Liu to help him target the Beast Taming Lineage, but Xiang Liu refused because of his bond with Flying Dust. Chen Changsheng followed him to his lair and pressured him to listen, then challenged whether Xiang Liu had been Flying Dust’s comrade or merely his dog.

• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu refused Chen Changsheng’s request and vanished after warning that he would not fear a fight.
• Shui Yue asked whether negotiations had failed, and Chen Changsheng said he would keep talking to Xiang Liu.
• Chen Changsheng and Shui Yue appeared at Nine-Headed Xiang Liu’s lair, where Chen Changsheng sat outside and threatened to destroy the Medicine Field if Xiang Liu ignored him.
• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu agreed to hear Chen Changsheng out and explained that his loyalty to Flying Dust and their shared history meant he would not help target the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Chen Changsheng asked whether Nine-Headed Xiang Liu was Flying Dust’s comrade or his dog, then said Xiang Liu’s retirement after Flying Dust became Supreme showed he feared being seen as a subordinate.

Chen Changsheng explained his bond with Xiao Hei to Nine-Headed Xiang Liu, who then recounted how a human cultivator he had once saved became his contracted companion before breaking their contract. Nine-Headed Xiang Liu revealed that the cultivator had distrusted him and tried to appease him with immortal pills, leaving their story unresolved.

• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu asked Chen Changsheng about his relationship with Xiao Hei, and Chen said Xiao Hei had been with him for over a hundred thousand years and was part of his life.
• Chen Changsheng said he would stand by Xiao Hei even if it turned against the Beast Race, and Nine-Headed Xiang Liu said he was glad Xiao Hei had such a companion.
• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu recounted saving a child who was the last descendant of a human cultivator, forming a contract with him, and helping him avenge his sect.
• As the child became a renowned alchemist and Supreme Pill Master, Nine-Headed Xiang Liu noticed he had grown distant and eventually asked to dissolve their contract.
• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu said the Supreme Pill Master had feared he would interfere in a conflict between the Beast Race and the Beast Taming Lineage, and had offered freedom in exchange for his neutrality.
• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu concluded that the Supreme Pill Master had used immortal pills to bribe him rather than trust their long friendship.

Chen Changsheng realized Nine-Headed Xiang Liu would not betray his bond with Flying Dust Supreme, so he planned to exploit their mistrust by giving Xiang Liu a valuable pill and spreading rumors. He explained that Xiang Liu’s history and feelings toward Flying Dust Supreme made their conflict deeper than a struggle over rank.

• Nine-Headed Xiang Liu told Chen Changsheng that he and Flying Dust Supreme had settled their old debts, and Chen left without trying to recruit him.
• Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue that Xiang Liu still valued his bond with Flying Dust Supreme and had used the Dragon Pearl demand as an excuse to avoid helping.
• Chen Changsheng planned to give Xiang Liu a pill refined from the Dragon Pearl, hoping Flying Dust Supreme would suspect them of making a deal.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Flying Dust Supreme wanted a ruler-subject hierarchy while Xiang Liu wanted an undivided bond of trust, and that their different expectations fueled their conflict.
• Chen Changsheng planned to spread rumors that Xiang Liu had broken with Flying Dust Supreme, then explained to Shui Yue that Xiang Liu’s history as Flying Dust Supreme’s teacher and comrade made submission difficult for him.

Chen Changsheng explained how Flying Dust Supreme’s dependence on Nine-Headed Xiang Liu could have bred resentment, then prepared to leave the Pill Domain with Cui Ling Shuang for the Cui Family. He found Immortal Guang Han at Du Shi Peak, where she called out someone hiding nearby.

• Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue that Flying Dust Supreme may have grown resentful of Nine-Headed Xiang Liu’s support and wanted to escape his shadow.
• Chen Changsheng said Guan Ping and Chen Feng needed to overcome difficulties on their own, then took Shui Yue back to the Pill Domain.
• After returning, Chen Changsheng told Cui Ling Shuang that they would leave in over twenty days and warned her that the Cui Family had a serious internal problem.
• Cui Ling Shuang agreed to stay cautious at home and told Chen Changsheng that Immortal Guang Han regularly visited Du Shi Peak.
• At Du Shi Peak, Immortal Guang Han confronted someone hiding in the shadows, and Chen Changsheng answered her.

Chen Changsheng asked Immortal Guang Han about Immortal Pills and learned that longevity pills were scarce, limited in effect, and tied to secret methods held by powerful clans. After he admitted he came from another era, she explained how one might become an Immortal Pill Refiner and asked him to treat her disciple Cui Ling Shuang well before disappearing.

• Chen Changsheng asked Immortal Guang Han about Immortal Pills and where to find pills that extended lifespan.
• Immortal Guang Han explained the limits on longevity pills and revealed that the Five Surnames Seven Realms and the Pill Domain each had secret methods to let their members take more.
• Chen Changsheng realized that the secret methods helped explain why aristocratic clans endured, and Immortal Guang Han deduced that he was not from this era.
• Immortal Guang Han said she could not provide the secret Chen Changsheng sought, but told him that Divine Fire was needed to become an Immortal Pill Refiner.
• Before leaving, Immortal Guang Han asked Chen Changsheng to treat her disciple Cui Ling Shuang well, and he promised her wealth and honor.

Chen Changsheng investigated Immortal Guang Han’s past and concluded that she was connected to Soul Supreme, the Pill Tower’s vanished former Supreme Pill Master. He revealed that Soul Supreme’s Dao companion was Immortal Guang Han’s master, and the story left Shui Yue eager to learn more about the hidden history.

• Chen Changsheng searched Jade Slips for clues about why Immortal Guang Han regularly visited Du Shi Peak, while Shui Yue questioned his interest in her private affairs.
• Chen Changsheng led Shui Yue across several cities in search of Soul Supreme, reasoning that Soul Supreme’s disappearance coincided with Immortal Guang Han’s arrival in the Pill Domain.
• Chen Changsheng found the place where Soul Supreme’s Dao companion was buried and told Shui Yue that she had ascended into immortality before Soul Supreme disappeared.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Soul Supreme’s Dao companion was Immortal Guang Han’s master, not Yuan Yang Supreme.
• Chen Changsheng used three Jade Slips to argue that Immortal Guang Han joined the Pill Domain during Yuan Yang Supreme’s seclusion and that the records of her recruitment had been unusually brief and later revised.

Chen Changsheng and Shui Yue investigated the mystery surrounding Immortal Guang Han and Soul Supreme, then discovered the legendary Supreme living as a ragged beggar. Soul Supreme revealed that the Pill Tower had crippled him and that his wife, Xue Hua, lay beneath the land, while Chen Changsheng gave him the Source of Beautiful Dreams.

• Chen Changsheng reasoned that the Pill Domain had altered Immortal Guang Han's records to conceal what happened to Soul Supreme, and Shui Yue wondered why Guang Han avoided him.
• A ragged beggar collapsed before Chen Changsheng and Shui Yue, and Chen Changsheng used silver needles to revive him.
• Chen Changsheng recognized the beggar as Soul Supreme by his clean, delicate hands, but Soul Supreme denied his identity and tried to send them away.
• Chen Changsheng offered Soul Supreme the Source of Beautiful Dreams in exchange for a story, and Soul Supreme admitted that he was the legendary Supreme.
• Soul Supreme said the Tower Master had wounded him and crippled his cultivation, and that his wife, Xue Hua, lay beneath the land.
• Chen Changsheng gave Soul Supreme the droplet, calling his love for Xue Hua a beautiful story, while Soul Supreme lamented that he could not save her and expected to die and join her.

Soul Supreme told Chen Changsheng how he had tried and failed to obtain the Pill Domain’s foundation to save Xue Hua, and confirmed that he had given Leng Ningxue her Divine Fire. After leaving, Chen Changsheng confronted his own unresolved love for Li Niansheng and decided to keep working toward an answer.

• Soul Supreme explained that he had attacked the Tower Master to obtain the Pill Domain’s foundation and extend Xue Hua’s life, but had been defeated and spared.
• Soul Supreme admitted he had given Leng Ningxue the Divine Fire he originally sought for Xue Hua, and Chen Changsheng left with Shui Yue.
• Chen Changsheng sat alone outside Five Elements City and realized Immortal Guang Han had stayed away because she loved her master’s Dao companion.
• The system told Chen Changsheng he already knew the answer to his feelings for Li Niansheng but was unwilling to face it.
• Chen Changsheng accepted that he could not revive the dead but could help the living live longer, and resolved to keep seeking an answer for her.

Chen Changsheng explained why Immortal Guang Han could not reveal her love for Soul Supreme, then told Shui Yue how his own choice to hide for ten years cost him the woman he loved. He left the story smiling through the pain of that regret.

• Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue that Immortal Guang Han loved her grandmaster, Soul Supreme, and could not face him because of her feelings for him and her loyalty to Xue Hua.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Immortal Guang Han’s feelings might have begun before Xue Hua died, making a confession a betrayal of her master and a threat to Soul Supreme’s reputation.
• Chen Changsheng said Soul Supreme had promised Xue Hua to care for Immortal Guang Han and could neither ignore her feelings nor resolve them without hurting someone.
• Shui Yue asked how Chen Changsheng understood such pain, and he revealed that the daughter of the woman he loved had fallen for him.
• Chen Changsheng said he had hidden from war and chaos for ten years when he was weak, causing him and the woman he loved to miss each other.

Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue about the women he had loved and the regrets that burdened him, then resolved to help Nian Sheng live longer. He later collected a batch of pills from the Tower Master, who revealed he had used a True Dragon's Dragon Pearl in the refining.

• Chen Changsheng recounted how he raised his first love's daughter, who pursued longevity for more than a hundred thousand years, and how he rejected her feelings.
• Chen Changsheng described traveling with A Man for 214 years and admitted that he only acknowledged his love for her a hundred thousand years after she died.
• Shui Yue reassured Chen Changsheng, then became jealous when he mentioned other female confidants and flew away after their teasing exchange.
• Chen Changsheng trusted Soul Supreme to protect Chen Feng and the others, then spent the following days studying in his secret chamber.
• Chen Changsheng brought Shui Yue to the Pill Tower, where the haggard Tower Master gave him a porcelain bottle of pills.
• The Tower Master said the pills were his finest batch in tens of thousands of years and that he had added ingredients inspired by a True Dragon's Dragon Pearl.

The Tower Master revealed that the Dragon Essence Phoenix Blood Pills granted Dragon Phoenix Mystical Power and a side-effect-free Dragon Phoenix Bloodline. Chen Changsheng gave one to Shui Yue to test, and after seeing her transformation, he prepared to leave with the pills.

• The Tower Master explained that he had refined dragon essence and phoenix blood with medicinal herbs and supreme treasures to preserve their bloodline power without harmful effects.
• The Tower Master revealed that the pills could grant Dragon Phoenix Mystical Power and a side-effect-free Dragon Phoenix Bloodline, and said they worked best when Dragon Pills and Phoenix Pills were taken together.
• Chen Changsheng found four Dragon Pills and two Phoenix Pills in the bottle, then fed a Dragon Pill to Shui Yue as a test.
• Shui Yue shed her azure scales for golden ones and unleashed a Dragon's Roar, forcing the Tower Master to erect three layers of protection.
• Chen Changsheng defended giving Shui Yue the pill, promised to leave the Tower Master's territory, and learned the pills had no life-extending effects.

Chen Changsheng left the Pill Domain after giving Shui Yue a Dragon Pill and entrusting Bai Ze with the remaining pills. As Guan Ping faced growing dangers and the return of her biological parents, Chen Changsheng insisted that her trial was hers alone.

• Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue to refine the Dragon Pill he had given her, then left the Pill Tower with her.
• Guan Ping offered her Phoenix Pill to Lu Mingyu, but he refused and explained Chen Changsheng's plans for the remaining pills.
• Lu Mingyu warned Guan Ping to trust only Chen Changsheng, Bai Bingyang, and Chen Feng, then revealed his concerns about danger surrounding her.
• Guan Ping rejected Lu Mingyu's warning, while he silently held news that her biological parents had been found and had contacted her in secret.
• Chen Changsheng gave Bai Ze a pair of Dragon-Phoenix Pills for Bai and a Dragon Pill to deliver to Nine-Headed Xiang Liu, then forbade Bai Ze from interfering in Guan Ping's affairs.

Chen Changsheng insisted that Guan Ping face the pain of her family’s betrayal herself, though he agreed with Bai Ze not to make her kill her parents. He planned instead to destroy her parents’ hopes and leave them to suffer, then took Shui Yue into the depths of the void.

• Chen Changsheng explained to Bai Ze that Guan Ping had to confront her family’s betrayal herself, and that helping her would not remove the emotional burden.
• Bai Ze asked Chen Changsheng to spare Guan Ping from killing her parents and let time destroy them instead; Chen Changsheng agreed.
• Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue that he had planned to have Guan Ping kill her parents, but would change his approach to avoid turning her into a Madman.
• Chen Changsheng vowed to destroy Guan Ping’s parents’ hopes and make them endure endless torment.
• Chen Changsheng took Shui Yue and flew into the depths of the void to meet people who had been waiting for them.

Cui Ling Shuang returned to the Cui Family with Chen Changsheng, while her father warned that she would have to face the consequences herself. Chen Changsheng refused to enter through the side gate under the Cui Family’s rules, as the family’s leaders debated giving him the lucrative post of Qinghe Realm butler.

• Cui Ling Shuang reunited with her parents, and her father told her to seek him out if she encountered difficulties.
• Chen Changsheng and Shui Yue arrived in Qinghe Realm, where Chen Changsheng explained the Cui Family’s customs and prepared to visit the family.
• Shui Yue presented their calling card at the Cui Family’s main gate, but Chen Changsheng said he would not enter unless the central gates opened to welcome him.
• Cui Xingye told the Cui Family’s leaders that Cui Ling Shuang had returned with an Ideal Husband and asked them to choose a position for him.
• Cui Xingye proposed making Chen Changsheng the butler of Qinghe Realm, surprising the leaders, who turned to Cui Xingxue for his reaction.

Cui Xingye faced objections from the Cui Family’s family heads over appointing Chen Changsheng as Qinghe Realm’s butler, then brought them outside to meet him. Chen Changsheng challenged the family’s slow deliberations and was invited by Third Uncle to explain his plan.

• The Thirteenth Family Head questioned Chen Changsheng’s appointment, while Cui Xingye defended promoting talent and proposed meeting him outside.
• Cui Xingye and the other family heads greeted Chen Changsheng at the Cui Family gates, and Chen insisted they settle his appointment before the welcoming feast.
• The Thirteenth Family Head mocked Chen Changsheng’s confidence, and Chen responded that the Cui Family leaders were too slow to accomplish anything.
• Third Uncle interrupted the Thirteenth Family Head and asked Chen Changsheng to share the brilliant insight he claimed to have.

Chen Changsheng secured the Qinghe Realm’s Head Manager position by promising to triple its profits in five years and putting up an eight-hundred-billion security deposit. He explained to Cui Ling Shuang that taking power for himself would keep him from becoming a disposable pawn in the Cui Family’s factional struggle.

• Chen Changsheng told the Eighth Sage King he would prove himself before dinner and rejected the butler post in favor of becoming Head Manager of the Qinghe Realm.
• Chen Changsheng offered to triple the realm’s profits within five years and pledged an eight-hundred-billion security deposit, and Cui Xingye agreed to give him the position in three days.
• Cui Ling Shuang questioned Chen Changsheng’s promise and his conduct at the meeting.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Cui Family’s factions might either recruit or suppress him now that he held authority, and urged Cui Ling Shuang to become a player rather than a pawn.

Chen Changsheng explained that his appointment as Qinghe Realm's Head Manager was part of the Cui Family's power struggle, and that he would support whichever side offered the greater advantage. Cui Ling Shuang confessed that she liked him, leaving Chen Changsheng speechless.

• Cui Ling Shuang questioned whether Chen Changsheng could triple Qinghe Realm's profits, and he admitted he could not guarantee it.
• Chen Changsheng explained that managing Qinghe Realm could help clear out hostile forces and strengthen his position in the Cui Family's struggle.
• Chen Changsheng said he would seek the Eighth Sage King's support and side with whoever offered the greater investment value.
• Chen Changsheng warned that Cui Xingye and the Eighth Sage King might unite against him, and promised Cui Ling Shuang's branch a lifetime of wealth and honor.
• Cui Ling Shuang told Chen Changsheng that she liked him and had wanted to marry him, leaving him at a loss for words.

Chen Changsheng learned from Shui Yue why Cui Ling Shuang might be drawn to him, while he worried about hurting her. At the Cui ancestral land, the ancestor urged Cui Xingye to offer Chen Changsheng whatever he wanted and use his abilities without expecting him to join the family.

• Cui Ling Shuang shut the door before Chen Changsheng could speak, and Shui Yue explained that his lack of romantic intentions made him seem safe to women.
• Chen Changsheng said he did not want to hurt Cui Ling Shuang, and Shui Yue left him to decide how to handle her feelings.
• Cui Xingye asked the Cui Family Ancestor whether the family could suppress Chen Changsheng, and the ancestor warned that Chen Changsheng might match the Pill Tower Master in strength.
• The Cui Family Ancestor told Cui Xingye to give Chen Changsheng whatever he wanted and make use of his work, even if he would never submit to the family.
• The ancestor urged Cui Xingye to focus on Xiao Ba and suggested that Ling Shuang could become the key to turning the family's position around.

Chen Changsheng told Shui Yue that he had created the Bitter Sea System for himself, then met Cui Ling Shuang’s mother, who asked him to make her daughter happy before leaving the Cui Family. The chapter ended with her warning that he would have to leave their branch of the family if he refused.

• Chen Changsheng explained to Shui Yue that he had created a Cultivation System tailored to himself, and Shui Yue realized he meant the Bitter Sea System.
• Chen Changsheng met Cui Ling Shuang’s mother in the Cui Family garden and discussed the similarities between cultivators and mortals.
• Cui Ling Shuang’s mother explained that she had chosen her husband for his modest ambitions and care for his family.
• Cui Ling Shuang’s mother asked Chen Changsheng whether he would make her daughter happy before he completed his business and left the Cui Family.
• Chen Changsheng asked whether she was proposing a bargain, and she said he would have to leave their branch of the family if he could not make Cui Ling Shuang happy.