Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng confronted the Cui Family after Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui were struck by a deadly affliction while investigating arrests. He freed himself from the Cui Family Ancestor’s pressure and demanded to know whether the clan would still enforce its Rules, while claiming he could save the two victims.

• Cui Tian Rui proposed interrogating the arrested people, but Shui Yue suddenly spat black blood as a spreading black line appeared on her palm, and Cui Tian Rui collapsed with pus soaking his chest.
• Shui Yue used her remaining strength to carry Cui Tian Rui toward Jubao City.
• At the Cui Family estate, Chen Changsheng argued with Cui Xingye and Cui Zhenguo over the danger facing Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui, then fought Cui Zhenguo.
• The Eighth Sage King and another man judged that Chen Changsheng had the strength of an Eighth Grade Immortal King and had dispersed his cultivation to rebuild toward the Ninth Grade.
• The Cui Family Ancestor restrained Chen Changsheng and Cui Zhenguo, but Chen Changsheng broke free with his Fishing Rod and accused the clan of using underhanded methods.
• The Cui Family Ancestor’s attempt to heal Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui failed, and Chen Changsheng said he could save them before demanding that the Cui Family uphold its Rules.

Chen Changsheng used a staged attack on Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui to break the deadlock in the Qinghe Realm, while the Eighth Sage King deduced that Chen Changsheng was concealing immense power. After explaining his plan, Chen Changsheng gave Cui Tian Rui two hours to work out his own purpose, then asked whether he had figured it out.

• The Heavenly Emperor Ancestor ordered Cui Xingye to investigate Cui Tian Rui’s injuries, and Chen Changsheng took Shui Yue and the others away.
• At the Eighth Sage King’s Estate, the Eighth Sage King and Cui Zhenguo concluded that Chen Changsheng had harmed Cui Tian Rui to create grounds for a wider investigation and was likely a Heavenly Emperor-level powerhouse.
• Chen Changsheng drew the Black Qi he had placed on Shui Yue and Cui Tian Rui into a strange book, waking them and admitting that he had caused their apparent injuries.
• Shui Yue reasoned that the Ancestor’s order let Chen Changsheng investigate the powerful figures he had captured without opposition.
• Chen Changsheng asked Cui Tian Rui to infer his purpose and gave him two hours to think; when the time was up, he asked if Cui Tian Rui had worked it out.

Cui Tian Rui deduced that Chen Changsheng’s actions were meant to divert suspicion from a concealed identity, not merely to reveal his cultivation and resolve Qinghe Realm’s deadlock. Chen Changsheng praised his instincts but left the truth about his past undisclosed.

• Cui Tian Rui told Chen Changsheng he believed the attention drawn by his wealth, connections, and deeds in the Pill Domain was meant to stop people investigating him.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that the Cui Family had been trying to uncover his trump card and said his plan both displayed strength and broke Qinghe Realm’s deadlock.
• Cui Tian Rui argued that Chen Changsheng’s true trump card was neither his cultivation nor a power beyond the Heavenly Emperor Realm, but his hidden identity.
• Cui Tian Rui said concealing that identity meant concealing his past and the methods and possessions tied to it.
• Chen Changsheng praised Cui Tian Rui’s sharp instincts and encouraged him to follow his brother-in-law.

Chen Changsheng explained to Cui Tian Rui and Shui Yue that his cultivation was only Fourth Grade Immortal King, but his many techniques and unusual resources let him defeat far stronger enemies. He warned them about experienced cultivators and ended by teasing Cui Tian Rui about his talent.

• Cui Tian Rui agreed to gather evidence against the people harming a direct descendant of the Cui Family so they could clean up the Qinghe Realm.
• Chen Changsheng said he was only a Fourth Grade Immortal King and explained that formations, treasures, pills, abilities, allies, and other resources had helped him kill Heavenly Emperor cultivators.
• Shui Yue questioned why Chen Changsheng relied on external things after advising them not to, and he replied that cultivation and killing were different.
• Chen Changsheng warned Cui Tian Rui and Shui Yue to flee from long-lived, high-level cultivators or kill them in one strike if escape was impossible.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that his extraordinary evil-path book could help him secretly kill Eighth Grade Immortal Kings, then joked that his success required the world's most unique talent and luck.

Chen Changsheng prepared to remove the curse on Shui Yue and promised Cui Tian Rui a demonstration of evil-path methods. Meanwhile, Cui Xingxue and Li Fengyi planned to question the Li family ancestor about Chen Changsheng’s identity and use the Supreme Sage’s Calligraphy to test whether he was the Undertaker.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Shui Yue had been targeted because she was the easiest person to strike, then agreed to use an Evil Cultivator’s methods to remove her curse.
• Cui Tian Rui said he would not oppose Chen Changsheng going after the Cui Family member who had attacked Shui Yue, and Chen Changsheng sent him to prepare for a demonstration.
• Cui Xingxue and Li Fengyi arrived at the Longxi Li family estate and discussed reports of Chen Changsheng’s clash with Cui Tian Rui’s Thirteenth Brother.
• Cui Xingxue urged Li Fengyi to ask the Li family ancestor about the other epoch and gave him a Bronze Fragment to secure an audience.
• Cui Xingxue proposed trading the Bronze Fragment for the Supreme Sage’s Calligraphy, hoping Chen Changsheng would react if he was the Undertaker.

At the Cui Family courtyard, Chen Changsheng explained how obsession and resentment led cultivators onto the Evil Path and why they cultivated by spreading suffering. He ended by declaring that Evil Cultivators deserved to die—and that he did too.

• Cui Tian Rui gathered the ordinary Five Venoms and other items Chen Changsheng requested, and Chen Changsheng said he would use them to spar with the Evil Cultivator targeting Shui Yue.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Evil Cultivators drew power from uncontrolled obsession and resentment, while a strong Dao heart kept cultivators on the righteous path.
• Chen Changsheng described how Evil Cultivators cultivated by killing and tormenting people to harvest resentment.
• Shui Yue said Evil Cultivators deserved to die, then softened her words after Cui Tian Rui signaled her to stop.
• Chen Changsheng noticed Shui Yue's hesitation and declared that Evil Cultivators deserved to die, and that he, Chen Changsheng, deserved to die too.

Chen Changsheng explained the history and methods of Evil Cultivators, including the horrific Nine Sons Evil Mother technique, and revealed that he had abandoned his bloody past. He then chose Cui Tian Rui to demonstrate an orthodox Evil Cultivator method in the coming battle, despite its cost to Cui Tian Rui's lifespan.

• Cui Tian Rui defended Chen Changsheng, who admitted he had laid down the Butcher Knife after someone pulled him from the mire.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Evil Cultivators had developed ways to gather purer resentment without large-scale slaughter.
• Chen Changsheng described the Nine Sons Evil Mother technique, and Cui Tian Rui revealed he had read an even crueler account of it in his Lineage's Scripture Pavilion.
• Shui Yue asked whether Chen Changsheng had practiced such a technique, and he denied it, saying true Evil Cultivators still had humanity.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Tian Rui he would make the move in the battle and warned that the method could cost him a few decades of his life.
• Chen Changsheng pressed a finger to Cui Tian Rui's brow and sent his Divine Sense Realm into Cui Tian Rui's sea of consciousness.

Chen Changsheng prepared Cui Tian Rui for a dangerous battle by removing his Life Lamp and demonstrating his unusual cultivation techniques. Cui Tian Rui eagerly asked to learn more, and Chen Changsheng promised to reveal his past and true identity if Cui Tian Rui could defeat him in Spear Technique.

• Chen Changsheng took control of Cui Tian Rui's body, removed his Crimson Gold Life Lamp, and left it with a transformed version of himself for safekeeping.
• Chen Changsheng used One Qi, Three Purities and his Life Lamp to create powerful versions of himself, explaining that his original body could still act by transforming Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Chen Changsheng explained a method that could restore him even after his body and Divine Sense were destroyed, and said he would teach it to Cui Tian Rui if he obtained the Dragon Gallant Silver Spear.
• Cui Tian Rui asked to hear about Chen Changsheng's past and true identity, and Chen Changsheng promised to tell him if he first defeated him in Spear Technique.

"Chen Changsheng" explained the Curse Book and warned Cui Tian Rui that threats might be lurking within the Cui Family as he used the Green Snake Curse on Shui Yue. Meanwhile, Li Fengyi brought a Bronze Fragment to her ancestor and asked to exchange it for the Supreme Sage's Calligraphy as a dowry for Ling Shuang.

• "Chen Changsheng" identified the book as the Curse Book, one of the Four Great Books of Evil Cultivators, and cautioned Cui Tian Rui not to delve deeply into the Yansheng Art.
• "Chen Changsheng" warned Cui Tian Rui about possible threats from Cui Family elders, the person behind the attack on Shui Yue, and an unknown figure connected to the Pill Domain bait; he cited Lu Mingyu as an example of a powerful heir being secretly harmed.
• "Chen Changsheng" cast the Green Snake Curse on Shui Yue, and screams sounded from a secret chamber in the Qinghe Realm.
• Li Fengyi visited her ancestor in the Li Family Ancestral Tomb and offered him the Bronze Fragment, which he accepted despite warning her of its immense karma.
• Li Fengyi asked her ancestor for the Supreme Sage's Calligraphy to serve as a dowry for Ling Shuang, and he questioned why she had come to him for it.

Li Fengyi persuaded the Li family Ancestor to lend her the Supreme Sage’s calligraphy for a hundred years, and he revealed that the Sage’s ordinary writing reflected his extraordinary heart. As the ancestor began recounting the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Undertaker’s influence, Li Fengyi pressed him for a story she had not heard before.

• Li Fengyi admitted she wanted the Supreme Sage’s calligraphy both for Ling Shuang’s dowry and to satisfy her curiosity, then persuaded the Li family Ancestor to lend it to her for a hundred years.
• The ancestor brought out the Wooden Box, made Li Fengyi wash her hands, and explained that the calligraphy was ordinary writing left by an extraordinary man.
• The ancestor revealed that people from the Chang Sheng Epoch had originally intended to seize medicine by force, though seeking medicine came afterward.
• The ancestor explained that Chang Sheng Epoch cultivators were feared for their love of battle and willingness to fight to the death.
• The ancestor identified the Undertaker as the figure who changed how others dealt with the Chang Sheng Epoch, and described his mysterious origins and reputation as the Imperial Tutor.
• Li Fengyi urged the ancestor to tell her something new about the Undertaker, and he agreed.

Li Ziming told Li Fengyi how Supreme Sage had influenced Undertaker’s plan to destroy the decayed Chang Sheng Epoch, and lent her Supreme Sage’s calligraphy. After Li Fengyi left, Li Ziming remembered Supreme Sage’s request concerning Chen Changsheng and a Big White Dog.

• Li Ziming recounted how Chen Family's Three Heroes each fought him to a draw before Supreme Sage stopped them.
• Li Ziming explained that Supreme Sage had planned to save Undertaker by destroying Chang Sheng Epoch, and that Supreme Sage’s calligraphy had revealed his far-reaching vision.
• Li Ziming lent the calligraphy to Li Fengyi and asked her to return it in a hundred years.
• Li Fengyi asked whether Undertaker was dead and how he had acquired his title, then left the thatched hut.
• Li Ziming recalled Supreme Sage asking him to give something to Chen Changsheng if he ever met him traveling with a Big White Dog.

The Li family Ancestor recalled Nalan Xingde’s prediction that Chen Changsheng would visit the peaceful Li era, while in the Qinghe Realm an Evil Cultivator unleashed nine Evil Infants against Shui Yue. “Chen Changsheng” countered with the Five Venoms curses, and after the final curse struck its distant target, he sensed something puzzling.

• The Li family Ancestor remembered Nalan Xingde predicting that Chen Changsheng would seek refuge in the peaceful Li era, and reflected that his family had received only half the promised opportunity.
• In a Qinghe Realm secret chamber, a bloodied middle-aged Evil Cultivator sent nine Evil Infants to kill his enemies.
• At the Cui Family courtyard, “Chen Changsheng” explained to Cui Tian Rui that Evil Cultivators could be countered by enduring their arts and wearing them down.
• The Evil Infants attacked Shui Yue, but “Chen Changsheng” stopped her from fighting them physically and used a toad curse to swallow them.
• “Chen Changsheng” cast the remaining Five Venoms curses through a centipede, spider, and scorpion, exhausting Cui Tian Rui’s body as the final curse shot into the distance.
• The Yanhuo on Chen Changsheng’s body faded, and “Chen Changsheng” looked into the distance in puzzlement.

Chen Changsheng used Cui Tian Rui’s body to expose his methods and draw out a powerful presence, but the Eighth Sage King and Cui Zhenguo remained unable to determine his true strength. Chen Changsheng concluded that his intended target would not appear yet and decided to pursue the unfamiliar foe he had drawn out instead.

• Cui Tian Rui complained about the lifespan and Essence Blood consumed by the Yansheng Arts, and “Chen Changsheng” told him to stop seeking shortcuts before making him wait to see whether his opponent had more tricks.
• The injured middle-aged man called on the five-faced statue for help, releasing a chilling aura that drew the attention of the Cui Family cultivators.
• The Eighth Sage King and Cui Zhenguo discussed Chen Changsheng’s unusual control of Cui Tian Rui’s body and his concealed strength.
• The Eighth Sage King confronted “Chen Changsheng” and asked to spar, but “Chen Changsheng” refused and left without revealing his level.
• The Eighth Sage King said Second Brother had brought back a remarkable person, while Chen Changsheng’s true body decided to go after the unfamiliar foe he had drawn out.

Chen Changsheng confronted an Incense Evil God threatening Shui Yue and the Cui Family, then used his powers to trap its projection and locate its true body. In the Qinghe Realm’s secret chamber, he captured a strange statue and decided to study it.

• The Toad Curse failed to suppress Shui Yue’s nine Evil Infants, and she vomited blood as Chen Changsheng’s apparent body began to wither.
• Black Qi offered Chen Changsheng longevity in exchange for submission, but Chen Changsheng mocked its claim and revealed that it could not see through him.
• A second Chen Changsheng appeared, and he used a Bronze Life Lamp’s Karma Fire to burn Black Qi while sealing the courtyard with Buddhist chants.
• Black Qi tried to retreat and self-destruct, but Chen Changsheng stopped it by targeting its true body through their connection.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Qinghe Realm’s secret chamber, found the drained corpse of the evil cultivator, and captured the struggling statue with his Fishing Rod.

Chen Changsheng returned with six captured statues and a jar, healed Shui Yue, and persuaded Cui Tian Rui to treat his injuries as a chance to rebuild. He then began questioning the statues about the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities technique, smashing them whenever they spoke or stayed silent.

• Chen Changsheng used his Fishing Rod to pull five hidden statues from the secret chamber, gathered them with a sixth statue, and took a jar to the Cui Family courtyard.
• Chen Changsheng's true body healed Shui Yue by drawing nine Evil Infants from her body and sealing them in the jar, then explained how stronger True Dragon Qi could have protected her organs.
• Cui Tian Rui said his Essence Blood, vital energy, and Lifespan had been drained, but Chen Changsheng urged him to preserve his Life Lamp and rebuild his lost strength through cultivation.
• Shui Yue asked if breaking and rebuilding could make her stronger, and Chen Changsheng warned her against trying while privately admitting he had only made Cui Tian Rui's injury sound like an opportunity to avoid blame.
• Chen Changsheng returned to his room and began questioning the captured statues about the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities technique, smashing several when they rambled, tried to answer, or refused to speak.

Chen Changsheng interrogated the last surviving statue, which revealed its knowledge of the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique and the Life Spore before admitting its connection to the Uncanny. The statue agreed to tell him what it knew after learning that Chen Changsheng was already trying to eradicate the Life Spore, leaving their exchange poised to uncover the statue’s past and the person who killed it five million years ago.

• Chen Changsheng counted down while threatening the statue, and it offered the location of the second volume of the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique and secrets about an immortal object.
• Chen Changsheng showed the statue a Life Spore, and the statue revealed that it recognized the object and let slip a connection to the Uncanny.
• Chen Changsheng destroyed two statues and threatened to imprison the last one indefinitely; the statue taunted him about a person who had killed it five million years earlier.
• The statue offered to reveal everything it knew if Chen Changsheng promised to kill that person, but Chen Changsheng refused to make promises and said he would destroy the Life Spore.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had slaughtered an entire era to eradicate the Life Spore, and the statue praised his ruthlessness and agreed to tell him what it knew.

Chen Changsheng learned that a mysterious Madman had modified the Life Spore and scattered it, triggering the calamity that gave rise to the Uncanny. The statue also revealed that the Madman pursued Chang Sheng and discarded fragments of the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique after losing interest in them.

• The statue described how it had spent over ten thousand years trapped in a chaotic space and emerged five million years later into a world where everything it knew was gone.
• The statue said a Madman who pursued Chang Sheng had summoned the Life Spore from a Strange Space, modified it through experiments, and abandoned the statue among his failed subjects.
• The statue explained that the Madman tested the modified Life Spores by scattering them in the chaotic space, causing a monstrous calamity that Chen Changsheng connected to the Uncanny's origins.
• The statue said the Madman had seized and shattered a cultivation technique created for Chang Sheng, leaving fragments that contained One Qi, Three Purities.
• The statue recalled that the Madman later threw away the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique fragments, suggesting they could not grant Chang Sheng.

Chen Changsheng questioned the statue about its time in the chaotic space and learned how it survived and came to live with the Cui Family. The statue revealed that it sought the Great Dream Immortal Art, a mysterious cultivation method tied to the legendary long-lived beings, because it might give the statue a physical body.

• The statue explained that it had measured time in the chaotic space by counting and had escaped when the space shook violently.
• The statue said its body became earth after leaving the Strange Space, but its Divine Sense survived in a Willow Tree for over eighty years.
• A mysterious man cut down the Willow Tree, turned it into a statue, taught it cultivation methods, and placed it in the Cui Family.
• The statue admitted it stayed with the Cui Family because it wanted the man's Great Dream Immortal Art.
• The statue told Chen Changsheng that the Great Dream Immortal Art was linked to the Immortals and might let it turn its unreal state into a physical body.

Chen Changsheng questioned the statue, then asked the System whether immortals and other long-lived beings existed. The System explained that although Chen Changsheng could theoretically live forever, time would eventually drain his desire to live, and the people in his life gave him reasons to endure.

• Chen Changsheng learned that the statue had lied about knowing the Second Volume of Eight Nine Mysterious Technique and only knew it had once been lost in a vast mineral vein.
• Chen Changsheng sealed the statue in a box and stored it in the System Space.
• Chen Changsheng asked the System whether immortal or long-lived beings existed, and the System said true immortals might exist but no other long-lived beings did.
• The System explained that cultivation and other factors could extend lifespans, but the Weight of Time would eventually consume every living being, including Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng learned that time had already worn down his desire to live and that Nian Sheng and the others gave him reasons to keep living.

Chen Changsheng discussed true immortality with the system and realized that he had only just stepped onto the path to longevity. He then tried to revive the gravely injured Cui Tian Rui by promising him a place in Tiger Guard, and Cui Tian Rui rose at the call.

• Chen Changsheng asked the system about true immortality and learned that it came from an enduring heart rather than an everlasting body or soul.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that most immortals pursued desires rather than true immortality, and the system confirmed that he had only just begun the path to longevity.
• Chen Changsheng found Cui Tian Rui’s vital energy leaking as he healed and tried to stir his will to live.
• Chen Changsheng promised Cui Tian Rui command of an undefeated squad, and Cui Tian Rui asked what it was called.
• Chen Changsheng named him a member of Tiger Guard, and Cui Tian Rui immediately stood up and answered the call.