Chapter Summaries

Ghost Tiger removed the Nine Black Profound Yin Needles restricting Wei Guang and challenged him to fight fairly, while Cui Tian Rui embraced the changes Chen Changsheng had inspired. Cui Tian Rui then challenged Cui Hao Yu and asked whether he dared accept Chen Feng’s challenge.

• Cui Tian Rui explained Wei Guang’s mixed heritage, painful past, and unstable bloodline to Cui Hao Yu as Ghost Tiger approached him.
• Ghost Tiger removed the nine needles from Wei Guang, freeing his cultivation while warning that his bloodline might become harder to control.
• Ghost Tiger acknowledged Wei Guang’s former name and challenged him to a fair fight, then resumed working.
• Cui Tian Rui told Cui Hao Yu that he and Ghost Tiger welcomed the changes Chen Changsheng had brought about.
• Cui Tian Rui challenged Cui Hao Yu, who accepted, and then asked whether he would dare accept Chen Feng’s challenge.

Cui Tian Rui challenged Cui Hao Yu’s fear of testing Chen Feng, while Chen Changsheng questioned Little Immortal Elder about the Pill Epoch, the Uncanny, and Wu Li. After learning he could stir up trouble without provoking the Pill Epoch, Chen Changsheng prepared for a campaign against the Bi Fang World as powerful observers gathered.

• Cui Tian Rui told Cui Hao Yu that he followed Chen Feng for his courage and willingness to face challenges, not merely for his strength.
• Chen Changsheng asked Little Immortal Elder about the ancient battle, the Uncanny, Wu Li, and the relative strength of the Pill Epoch.
• Little Immortal Elder warned Chen Changsheng not to provoke the being behind the Uncanny and said he could wipe out factions and reorganize the Beast Race if he avoided damaging its foundations.
• Chen Changsheng ended the call, reflected on the epochs, and anticipated the hidden enemy’s return.
• Preparations for the attack on the Bi Fang World accelerated as major forces and long-hidden elders sent representatives to observe.

With three hours left before Chen Changsheng’s assault on Bi Fang World, the gathered family leaders discussed the world’s formidable defenses and the Beast Race’s reinforcements. They learned that Chen Changsheng’s side had secretly supplied the Beast Race with Boundary Breaking Cones, but they could not figure out how he planned to win under the ban on using cultivators a major realm above.

• The Wang Family Head mocked the Cui family’s son-in-law, and Cui Xingye, Lu Siyuan, and the Li Family Head rebuked him.
• Cui Xingye described Bi Fang World’s thirty-eight fortified cities, ninety-six strongholds, and one hundred and nineteen strategic choke points, all linked by arrays and teleportation formations.
• Lu Siyuan revealed that Ming Yu’s deductions had uncovered extra experts entering Bi Fang World, and Cui Xingye identified Boundary Breaking Cones as their means of entry.
• The Li Family Head disclosed that the Beast Race had secretly bought the cones through Chou Gu, who had arranged for the Li family to sell its entire stock at ten times the original price.
• The Li Family Head said the great powers were monitoring the battlefield to prevent Chen Changsheng from breaking the rule against deploying cultivators a major realm above, then asked Cui Xingye how Chen Changsheng could win.

Chen Changsheng ordered the Beast Race army to retreat from the Bi Fang World, then revealed that he planned to attack its fortifications with long-range explosive magic artifacts. The first barrage struck the Bi Fang World's Defense Arrays as the gathered observers watched.

• Cui Xingye questioned Lu Siyuan about Ming Yu's worsening illness, then asked him to spare Ming Yu and her mother if they could no longer remain in the Lu Family.
• Chen Changsheng welcomed the gathered faction representatives and waited until the scheduled assault time arrived.
• Chou Gu relayed Chen Changsheng's order for all Beast Race forces to retreat, and the army withdrew beyond the Bi Fang World.
• Chen Changsheng displayed images of the Bi Fang World’s fortresses and ordered Bai Ze to activate more than a thousand concealed magical artifacts.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the explosive cylinders were designed for long-range attacks and contained Blue Treasure Crystal to damage formations.
• The first cylinders struck the Bi Fang World's Defense Arrays, while the observers watched.

Chen Changsheng demonstrated a new approach to warfare against the Bi Fang World, using shells and poison to expose weaknesses in its defenses and damage the army’s morale. Lu Siyuan proposed a counterattack and a way to neutralize the poison, leaving the war-on-paper challenge unresolved.

• Chen Changsheng presented attack plans and explained that traditional defenses lacked strategic depth and could be vulnerable to new tactics.
• Cui Xingye and the other representatives accepted Chen Changsheng’s invitation to wage a war on paper, and Cui’s side used Immortal King experts and a shield to intercept the simulated shells.
• Chen Changsheng’s second barrage destroyed the Bi Fang World’s outer Defense Arrays and spread poison that blackened cultivators’ skin and obstructed their divine power.
• Chen Changsheng argued that the poison’s psychological impact would reduce the army’s strength, then shattered the defenders’ figures on the sand table.
• Lu Siyuan said the Bi Fang World’s actual strength had suffered little loss and proposed sending experts to attack while the rear neutralized the poison.

Chen Changsheng demonstrated the Beast Race’s artillery and shattered Bi Fang World’s defenses with waves of specialized shells. With the world’s terrain collapsing, Bai Ze reported that the energy preparations were complete as a massive cannon arrived under heavy guard.

• Lu Siyuan sent a small squad to attack Bi Fang World’s outskirts, but more than fifty Beast Race Immortal Kings ambushed the Bi Fang Clan’s Immortal Kings and killed three of them.
• The Li Family Head sent two Bi Fang Heavenly Emperors to attack Chen Changsheng, but artillery fire forced them to turn back and defend Bi Fang World.
• Chen Changsheng explained how long-range and energy-powered artillery worked, including Drilling Bombs designed to penetrate defensive positions.
• Bi Fang’s six Heavenly Emperors intercepted many of the Drilling Bombs, but the remaining shells burrowed into Bi Fang World and caused its terrain and formations to collapse.
• Chen Changsheng asked Silver Moon Wolf about the energy preparations, and Bai Ze confirmed they were ready as a huge cannon arrived protected by ten Heavenly Emperors and numerous Beast Race Ancestors.

Chen Changsheng destroyed the Bi Fang World with artillery and explained his Sequential Barrage tactic and the value of strategic depth. The Tower Master acknowledged that Chen Changsheng had changed the nature of warfare, while the Bi Fang World’s survivors faced near-certain death in the void.

• Chen Changsheng’s artillery shattered the Bi Fang World, and he ordered Chou Gu to extend the bombardment and send people to clean up.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Xingye that rigid defensive thinking was outdated and demonstrated how the Bi Fang World could be split apart.
• Chen Changsheng explained to Lu Siyuan that Sequential Barrage used dense, advancing artillery fire to break enemy formations before his army charged.
• At the Tower Master’s request, Chen Changsheng used a sand table to explain how artillery positions beyond the Bi Fang World’s defenses created strategic depth and reduced casualties.
• The Tower Master admitted that the Bi Fang Clan had lost to Chen Changsheng’s ideas, and Chen Changsheng explained that war aimed to kill living beings efficiently and on a massive scale.
• Chen Changsheng said the Bi Fang World was gone and that its inhabitants below the Immortal Venerable Realm could not survive in the void.

Chen Changsheng used artillery and coordinated assaults to breach Bi Fang World, then ordered the Bi Fang Clan destroyed while sparing the clans that had aided it under punishment. His victory cemented his authority over the Beast Race, and the other powers paid him to learn his new tactics.

• Chen Changsheng explained that same-level cultivators would surround enemy Immortal Kings and Heavenly Emperors while artillery attacked, then sent Beast Race forces to isolate Bi Fang World's defenders.
• More Beast Race Ancestors joined the assault, and the Bi Fang Clan and its allied clans pleaded for mercy.
• Chen Changsheng spared the three allied clans from execution but ordered them to seal their cultivation, while commanding that the Bi Fang Clan be killed without mercy.
• A Beast Race Ancestor abandoned his plea for mercy, and Chen Changsheng's victory established him as the Beast Race's undisputed leader.
• The Tower Master negotiated for Chen Changsheng to teach the new tactics under the title Tactics Advisor, and other powers placed orders to buy protection and time.

After Bi Fang World’s defeat, Chen Changsheng explained to Qian Ya how his earlier war differed from the Pill Epoch’s conflicts and why the battle would preserve peace among its powerful factions. He left Qian Ya to oversee the battlefield and went to catch a big fish.

• Qian Ya asked Chen Changsheng whether Bi Fang World’s slaughter resembled the world he had once experienced, and he described the brutal tactics and personal sacrifices of his past war.
• Chen Changsheng told Qian Ya that the Pill Epoch would remain peaceful for a long time because the battle showed high-level cultivators that they could die in war.
• Qian Ya reasoned that the factions had fled because they feared Chen Changsheng would turn his weapons on them before they could prepare defenses.
• Chen Changsheng said he would stop after making his point, since the factions had paid protection fees, and told Qian Ya to keep the children from sinking too deeply into slaughter.
• Chen Changsheng vanished to catch the big fish, while Qian Ya watched Cui Tian Rui and the others fighting.

Yun Ya Zi learned that Chen Changsheng was the Undertaker, while Chen Changsheng used the Bronze Fragment as bait to capture a mysterious black shadow in the Longxi Li Family ancestral tomb. He sealed the shadow in a Meteorite Gourd and used the Longxi Realm’s earth veins to suppress it.

• Yun Ya Zi contacted an ally and reported that Chen Changsheng had destroyed Bi Fang World in around five hours.
• Yun Ya Zi and his ally concluded that Chen Changsheng was the Undertaker, a legendary figure who had unleashed the Four Calamities and slaughtered an era.
• More than a dozen Li Family ancestors emerged from their ancestral tomb and confronted a black shadow, which attempted to escape using its Immeasurable Dream Realm.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had anticipated the shadow’s dream realm and used the Bronze Fragment as bait to lure it into his trap.
• Chen Changsheng bound the shadow with transparent chains, sealed it in a Meteorite Gourd with Paper figures and Seven-Colored Meteorite Nails, then used the earth veins to suppress it.

Chen Changsheng confronted Li Fengyi over how she recognized the Dragon Gallant Silver Spear and took a calligraphy scroll from her, then warned her that a ghost had escaped from the Li Family. Li Fengyi and Cui Xingxue investigated the plot surrounding the Bronze Fragment, but Li Ziming refused to identify those behind it.

• Chen Changsheng told the Li Family cultivators not to touch his seal, then visited Li Fengyi and Cui Xingxue.
• Chen Changsheng challenged Li Fengyi to explain how she knew the Dragon Gallant Silver Spear and opened the Wooden Box she offered as a wedding gift.
• Chen Changsheng recognized the scroll inside, took it, and told Li Fengyi that a ghost he had captured had escaped from the Li Family.
• Li Fengyi and Cui Xingxue agreed to investigate their families, and Cui Xingxue left for the Cui Family while Li Fengyi went to the ancestral tomb.
• Li Ziming told Li Fengyi that the Bronze Fragment was tied to why the Undertaker slaughtered the Slaughter Epoch, but refused to reveal who was plotting against them.

Li Ziming warned Li Fengyi to appease the Undertaker and explained how Cui Xingxue had protected himself while supporting her. Chen Changsheng returned to the Beast Race after Bi Fang World fell and ordered the exhausted troops to clear the battlefield without delay.

• Li Ziming told Li Fengyi that the Li Family would answer for its involvement with the Bronze Fragment and that provoking the Undertaker could bring devastating retaliation.
• Li Ziming explained that Cui Xingxue had stayed out of the Cui Family brothers’ feud and quietly supported Li Fengyi’s leadership, putting him in position to become Clan Leader.
• Li Ziming said Cui Xingxue had noticed Chen Changsheng’s unusual nature in Green Mountain World and had helped protect his family by backing Li Fengyi from behind the scenes.
• News spread that Bi Fang World had fallen, and Chen Changsheng returned to the Beast Race three days later to find Bai Feng and the others exhausted.
• Bai Ze suggested letting the troops rest, but Chen Changsheng ordered the army to withdraw and gave the remaining soldiers fifteen minutes to begin clearing the battlefield.

Chen Changsheng helped Bai Feng bury the fallen Bi Fang Clan members and asked him to reflect on the war. Bai Feng recounted how his pride as a prodigy collapsed under relentless enemy attacks and suicide assaults, leaving him wounded and rejecting the label of prodigy.

• Chen Changsheng stopped Bai Feng from treating the dead Bi Fang Clan members as alchemy materials and helped lay their bodies out respectfully.
• Bai Feng admitted he resented being sent to collect the corpses and regretted choosing this path a little.
• Bai Feng described how the Vanguard Army entered the Bi Fang World confident in victory and killed more than a thousand cultivators in three hours.
• Bai Feng recalled how an enemy clung to his leg, slowing his attack and allowing seven Life Lamp Realm cultivators to self-detonate and grievously wound him.
• Chen Changsheng praised Bai Feng as a true prodigy, but Bai Feng struck his hand away and vowed to fight anyone who called him one.

After reflecting on the battlefield’s losses, Bai Feng acknowledged that prodigies were no better than other cultivators and accepted Chen Changsheng’s plan to teach him further. Chen Changsheng appointed Cui Tian Rui Acting Tiger Guard Commander and let him choose Cui Hao Yu as Deputy Commander, demanding a Tiger Guard that could conquer every enemy.

• Bai Feng told Chen Changsheng that the war had changed his view of prodigies and Guangxian Pavilion, and Chen Changsheng praised his insight and told him to return for a lesson.
• After burying the corpses, Cui Tian Rui explained that his squad had lost more than half its members because Beast Race prodigies disobeyed orders and some recruits went berserk.
• Cui Tian Rui named himself as his choice for Commander and recommended Bai Feng as another capable leader despite his mistakes.
• Chen Changsheng appointed Cui Tian Rui Acting Tiger Guard Commander for up to three hundred years, after which he would reclaim the post if Cui Tian Rui had not defeated him.
• Cui Tian Rui chose Cui Hao Yu as Deputy Commander, and Chen Changsheng promised to bring him over while demanding a Tiger Guard that could conquer every enemy.

Chen Changsheng warned Cui Tian Rui that the Tiger Guard’s honor demanded its commanders die in battle rather than resign, then confronted six rebel Heavenly Emperors as Beast Lord. After convincing them of his leadership, he agreed to reveal his identity to Tie Gu Duo, whose reaction left the hall stunned.

• Chen Changsheng appointed Cui Tian Rui acting Commander of the Tiger Guard and told him that destroying its honor would require him to die on the battlefield.
• Chen Changsheng sent paper figures to clear the battlefield while news of the Bi Fang World’s defeat spread across the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng summoned six rebel Heavenly Emperors, and Tie Gu Duo broke free of his restrictions before acknowledging Chen Changsheng as Beast Lord.
• Chen Changsheng argued that strategy, not cultivation alone, had unified and strengthened the Beast Race, and the six rebels accepted his leadership.
• Tie Gu Duo asked Chen Changsheng to reveal his name and origins, and Chen Changsheng whispered his answer to him, leaving Tie Gu Duo visibly shocked.

Chen Changsheng ordered Tie Gu Duo to keep his identity secret and gave the Iron Bone Ant clan a chance to earn forgiveness by fighting the Beast Taming Lineage. In the Pill Domain, Guan Ping faced her family’s demands and rejected Chen Feng’s criticism, then confided to Little White that she missed her Teacher and had nowhere to feel at home.

• Chen Changsheng stopped Tie Gu Duo from revealing his identity, sent him to teach at Guangxian Pavilion, and told his clan to take down the Beast Taming Lineage to atone.
• Tie Gu Duo refused to tell the others what Chen Changsheng had said and declared the Iron Bone Ant clan would follow the Beast Lord.
• Guan Ping’s mother asked her to request Golden Bull Horns from the Beast Lord for her younger brother’s master, and Guan Ping agreed to try while asking for her Portable Herb Garden back.
• Chen Feng confronted Guan Ping over her actions and warned that her request would put her Teacher at odds with the Beast Taming Lineage’s backer, Flying Dust Supreme.
• After Chen Feng left, Guan Ping cried and told Little White that she missed her Teacher and did not know where she could find peace.

Chen Changsheng taught the young cultivators at Guangxian Pavilion about the difference between heavenly geniuses and top-level cultivators, appointing Tie Gu Duo as deputy director and cultivation teacher. After Cui Hao Yu challenged his judgment, Chen Changsheng called Xiao Hei over, leaving their disagreement poised for a demonstration.

• Chen Changsheng introduced Tie Gu Duo as Guangxian Pavilion's new cultivation teacher and deputy director.
• Chen Changsheng explained that top-level cultivators could dominate others in the same realm or fight across realms, unlike heavenly geniuses below the Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Cui Hao Yu recounted defeating an Immortal King with an Origin Emperor Weapon and overcoming a Seventh Grade Immortal King despite being lower-ranked.
• Chen Changsheng said Cui Hao Yu was not a top-level cultivator, and Cui Hao Yu questioned what standard Chen Changsheng used.
• Chen Changsheng sensed Cui Hao Yu was unconvinced and called Xiao Hei over.

Chen Changsheng persuaded Bai Ze to lend him a Recording Stone that showed a swordsman unleash Sword Seven, overwhelming the gathered prodigies and Cui Hao Yu. He left the young cultivators to choose between joining his personal guard and reforming the Beast Race.

• Chen Changsheng pressured Bai Ze into trading a master Recording Stone for a chance to record the saber-wielding kid using his Signature Skill.
• Bai Ze gave Chen Changsheng a cracked, seven-colored Recording Stone showing an Immortal King Rank Six swordsman facing a besieging host.
• Chen Changsheng played the recording, and the swordsman unleashed Sword Seven before the scene ended when the Silver Moon Wolf complained that he had been hit.
• Cui Hao Yu admitted he could not withstand Sword Seven and retracted his earlier rash words after Chen Changsheng said Sword Eight and Sword Nine had later been completed.
• Chen Changsheng urged Bai Feng and the other prodigies to choose freely between joining his personal guard and reforming the Beast Race, then left while beckoning Cui Hao Yu.

Chen Changsheng offered Cui Hao Yu a place as Deputy Commander of his personal guard, but Cui Hao Yu refused because he disapproved of Chen Changsheng’s disregard for convention. After Chen Changsheng revealed that he was the Undertaker and that his Silver Moon Wolf was Bai Ze, Cui Hao Yu pledged to follow him, hoping to witness the White-Haired Sword God’s legacy.

• Chen Changsheng offered Cui Hao Yu a precious Recording Stone and the position of Deputy Commander, but Cui Hao Yu refused because he believed their paths differed.
• Cui Hao Yu explained that he admired Chen Changsheng’s wisdom but felt he did not revere the great Dao of heaven and earth.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he planned to form the Tiger Guard and was its legendary founder, the Undertaker and Imperial Tutor.
• Cui Hao Yu realized that Chen Changsheng’s Silver Moon Wolf, Xiao Hei, was the Divine Beast Bai Ze and knelt to pledge his loyalty.
• Cui Hao Yu said he had pursued the sword Dao after seeing the White-Haired Sword God’s phantom and asked only to witness that splendor, and Chen Changsheng agreed.

Chen Changsheng explained to Cui Hao Yu that the courage to stake everything on oneself, rather than talent or cultivation, set true powerhouses apart. He named several people in the Pill Epoch who possessed that spirit and left Cui Hao Yu considering the limits of his own future.

• Chen Changsheng asked Cui Hao Yu about his encounters with geniuses and contrasted Cui Hao Yu’s rapid cultivation with Wu Li’s slow rise from a Small World.
• Chen Changsheng said that what geniuses like Wu Li and Chen Shisan possessed was an unyielding spirit born from having nothing to lose.
• Cui Hao Yu remembered how Cui Tian Rui’s spirited words had once made him unable to meet his cousin’s gaze.
• Chen Changsheng named Chen Feng, Guan Ping, Lu Mingyu, and Cui Tian Rui as people whose spirits could carry them to great achievements.
• Chen Changsheng said Bai Feng’s spirit had scattered after the battle in the Bi Fang World, then challenged Cui Hao Yu to consider how far his own cultivation could advance.
• Cui Hao Yu fell silent as Chen Changsheng said that only death, not a cultivation bottleneck, could stop the people he had named.