Chapter Summaries

Ouyang Bufan warned Liu Qingqing that removing the 108 silver needles incorrectly could kill her, while Lu Mingyu and Ouyang Bufan sought Bodhi Seeds to help Chen Feng. Lu Mingyu obtained three seeds from Guo Yi, who warned him that enemies—including a woman angered by his relationship with Guan Ping—were closing in.

• Ouyang Bufan warned Liu Qingqing not to remove her silver needles herself and said his teacher might be able to help restore her cultivation.
• Lu Mingyu promised Chen Feng he would find Bodhi Seeds and keep him alive, then left to gather information.
• Ouyang Bufan asked the Heavenly Lotus Sect for all the Bodhi Seeds in its treasury but received only twelve.
• Lu Mingyu asked Guo Yi for Bodhi Seeds, and Guo Yi gave him three in repayment for Lu Mingyu's past help.
• Guo Yi warned Lu Mingyu that people at and outside the Heavenly Lotus Sect planned to trouble him, and that a powerful woman was rushing to confront him over Guan Ping.

Lu Mingyu tried to persuade Guo Yi to stop Shang Lu, then discovered that his Teacher had leaked their information and was encouraging Ouyang Bufan to challenge him. Ouyang Bufan agreed to postpone the fight until they dealt with the urgent matter, and offered to take Lu Mingyu to his teacher's place of seclusion.

• Guo Yi agreed to stop Shang Lu if Lu Mingyu would fight him after recovering, and Lu Mingyu suspected his Teacher had leaked their information.
• At Ping An Hall, Lu Mingyu accused his Teacher of leaking the news, and the Imperial Tutor's Paper figure appeared to confront him.
• The Paper figure examined Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing, told Ouyang Bufan to let them recover naturally, and advised him to fight an evenly matched opponent to break his cultivation bottleneck.
• The Paper figure urged Ouyang Bufan to challenge Lu Mingyu, claiming Lu Mingyu had learned a Peerless Cultivation Method from him.
• Lu Mingyu admitted the Teacher had taught him a Peerless Cultivation Method and persuaded Ouyang Bufan to handle their urgent business first.
• Ouyang Bufan agreed and offered to take Lu Mingyu to the place where his teacher was in seclusion.

Lu Mingyu pressured Suifeng Zhenren to treat Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing, but the Paper figure interrupted and argued with him over their disciples’ abilities. They made a one-month wager that Lu Mingyu would defeat everyone who challenged him while Suifeng Zhenren healed the two injured disciples.

• Ouyang Bufan carried Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing to Repentance Cliff and asked Suifeng Zhenren to save them.
• Lu Mingyu urged Suifeng Zhenren to intervene, warning that the world would learn if the pair died under Ouyang Bufan’s care.
• Suifeng Zhenren opened the stone door, but the Paper figure struck Lu Mingyu down when he invoked his Teacher to provoke the old man.
• The Paper figure and Suifeng Zhenren argued about their disciples’ strength and agreed to a wager: Suifeng Zhenren would heal Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing within one month, while Lu Mingyu would defeat everyone who challenged him.

Suifeng Zhenren pushed Ouyang Bufan to act without waiting for certainty and gave him the knowledge to treat Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing. He revealed that the wager was an exchange of medical and cultivation teachings, while Lu Mingyu prepared to face the prodigies’ challenges.

• After the paper figure returned to Chen Feng, Lu Mingyu sprang up and asked when the treatment would begin.
• Suifeng Zhenren told Ouyang Bufan that he had kept away to make his disciple grow beyond the sect’s protection and criticized him for refusing to treat patients without absolute confidence.
• Suifeng Zhenren gave Ouyang Bufan a Jade Slip containing his medical insights and told him to use it to heal Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing, then deliver it to the Undertaker.
• Suifeng Zhenren explained that the wager was an exchange: the Imperial Tutor wanted his medical skills, and he wanted the Imperial Tutor’s cultivation methods; he urged Ouyang Bufan to defeat Lu Mingyu within a month.
• Ouyang Bufan emerged and told Lu Mingyu he would treat the injured pair, while Lu Mingyu admitted he had pretended to faint to avoid being beaten.
• Lu Mingyu and Ouyang Bufan carried the stretchers down the mountain as Ouyang Bufan asked whether Lu Mingyu could handle the coming challenges.

Chen Changsheng trained Lu Mingyu at a waterfall and challenged Chen Feng to reconsider whether he should kill Liu Qingqing. Liu Qingqing condemned Chen Feng for claiming moral authority over her, and Chen Changsheng admitted his own bloody past, leaving Chen Feng to decide whether to strike him.

• Chen Changsheng appeared from a Paper figure and took Lu Mingyu and his companions to a waterfall, where he threw Lu Mingyu into the water and sent Ouyang Bufan after him.
• Chen Changsheng asked Chen Feng why he no longer wanted to be a chivalrous hero, and Chen Feng said he feared harming those around him.
• Chen Changsheng offered to help Chen Feng protect his companions and told him to kill Liu Qingqing after recovering from his injuries.
• Liu Qingqing rebuked Chen Feng, explaining how she had been forced into a life of killing and accusing him of judging her despite relying on others himself.
• Chen Changsheng acknowledged that his hands were stained with blood and asked Chen Feng whether he would try to kill him.

Chen Changsheng pressed Chen Feng to face his choices, then explained the Bitter Sea System to Ouyang Bufan and began offering Lu Mingyu a chance to learn a skill. The chapter left Chen Changsheng asking Lu Mingyu what skill he wanted to learn.

• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that refusing to choose was itself a choice, and Guan Ping urged him to give Chen Feng time to think.
• Lu Mingyu was thrown from beneath the waterfall unconscious, and Chen Changsheng explained that the harsh training was meant to strengthen his body despite Guan Ping's objections.
• Chen Changsheng demonstrated Ouyang Bufan's imperfect unity of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, then advised him to temper his body through repeated hardship without damaging his foundation.
• Chen Changsheng sent Ouyang Bufan to retrieve something from Repentance Cliff and had Guan Ping take Lu Mingyu away so they could speak privately.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he had not properly taught Lu Mingyu any skills and asked what he wanted to learn.

Chen Changsheng chose Wu Li’s path for Lu Mingyu and gave her the Bitter Sea System’s original cultivation method. He also promised to teach her the Fighting Saint Technique, leaving her with a route to cultivate despite her illness.

• Lu Mingyu pleaded with Chen Changsheng to believe in her loyalty, and he agreed to teach her after teasing her.
• Chen Changsheng decided Wu Li’s path suited Lu Mingyu’s defiant, resilient nature, while telling her to forge her own road rather than become a second Wu Li.
• Chen Changsheng gave Lu Mingyu a jade slip containing the Bitter Sea System’s original cultivation method and Wu Li’s insights.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Lu Mingyu’s illness was not yet ready to be cured and told her to ask Ouyang Bufan for a secret art that could give her a Second Springhead.
• Chen Changsheng offered to teach Lu Mingyu his new combat technique, the Fighting Saint Technique, which he had developed from the Heavenly Soul System.

Chen Changsheng explained the half-finished Fighting Saint Technique to Lu Mingyu, describing how it could imitate divine abilities and potentially other people’s fighting styles. He gave Lu Mingyu the technique to practice, leaving its completion and future development in his student’s hands.

• Chen Changsheng gave Lu Mingyu a Jade Slip containing the Fighting Saint Technique, which he had created to provide offensive methods for Bitter Sea cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng explained how divine abilities, manifestations, and the Heavenly Soul System had inspired the technique.
• Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu that the Fighting Saint Technique used fighting will to imitate abilities, reproducing only part of their power unless the practitioner supplied the rest.
• Lu Mingyu learned that the technique might eventually imitate people and their fighting styles, though recreating powerful experts would be difficult.
• Chen Changsheng said the technique remained half-finished and that Lu Mingyu would likely have to help perfect it because Chen Changsheng disliked fighting.

Chen Changsheng tasked Lu Mingyu with defeating the genius cultivators within a month, while Guan Ping confronted Liu Qingqing about her hostility and outlook on survival. Guan Ping explained how her Teacher taught her to value family and sincerity, then urged Liu Qingqing to seize the chance to change her fate.

• Chen Changsheng gave Lu Mingyu a month to surpass and defeat the genius cultivators, threatening painful consequences if he failed.
• Guan Ping sent Chen Feng and the stretcher away so she could speak privately with Liu Qingqing about Liu Qingqing's hostility toward her.
• Liu Qingqing admitted she resented Guan Ping for receiving care and acting willfully, while Guan Ping called Liu Qingqing hypocritical and explained that both of them survived in different ways.
• Guan Ping told Liu Qingqing that she, Chen Feng, and Lu Mingyu stood by Chen Changsheng out of family and sincere friendship rather than a calculation of gains and losses.
• Guan Ping revealed that she had been an orphan before meeting her Teacher, who taught her how to live, and urged Liu Qingqing not to dismiss a late opportunity to change her fate.

Chen Changsheng made Lu Mingyu and Ouyang Bufan practice a secret art that repaired damaged foundations and revealed the original Bitter Sea System’s cultivation route. He explained that the route had no bottlenecks before the Immortal Venerable Realm, but ordinary cultivators would die trying to follow it.

• Ouyang Bufan returned the Jade Slip to Chen Changsheng, and Lu Mingyu explained that he was meant to memorize the secret art inside it.
• Chen Changsheng kicked Lu Mingyu into the pool, and Ouyang Bufan jumped in to practice a Bitter Sea System secret art.
• Chen Changsheng said the art could repair damaged foundations and help cultivators who had failed to merge Essence, Qi, and Spirit, but it could not heal Chen Feng’s wounded heart.
• Chen Changsheng struck Lu Mingyu’s dantian and gave him two hours to open a second Spring Eye, warning that his cultivation path would otherwise end soon.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he and the Desolate Heaven Emperor had devised the original Bitter Sea System, whose route had no bottlenecks before the Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that he had not let them cultivate the original system because they would die if they tried.

Chen Changsheng explained why the Original Bitter Sea System was dangerous and revealed the Black Shadow Assassin’s founders and its links to the Wang Family. He uncovered Guan Ping’s Hundred Fragrance Body, while Lu Mingyu’s attempt to open his Second Springhead ended with Chen Feng slapping him.

• Chen Changsheng warned that even Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li nearly died cultivating the Original Bitter Sea System and said Lu Mingyu might be the only one capable of attempting it because his vitality was unusually strong.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that a captured Shadow Assassin founder had harmed Lu Mingyu through his dreams and used a similar method to control Liu Qingqing.
• Chen Changsheng told Liu Qingqing and Guan Ping that he had captured one Black Shadow Assassin founder, identified the Wang family ancestor as the other, and was seeking the names of the organization’s members.
• Chen Changsheng rejected Guan Ping’s supposed Star of Calamity curse as a lie likely spread by the Wang family ancestor, then gave her information identifying her as someone with a Hundred Fragrance Body.
• Chen Changsheng confirmed that the Flower God Body had belonged to one of the Pill Domain’s Legendary Pill Masters, and Chen Feng slapped Lu Mingyu after he excitedly asked whether Guan Ping could become one.

Chen Changsheng explained that Guan Ping’s hundred fragrance body had been damaged by the Wang family ancestor and promised to let her confront him. He then explained Lu Mingyu’s dangerous, self-forming Bitter Sea cultivation and revealed that Lu Mingyu was about to die.

• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that the Wang family ancestor had likely destroyed her flower god body and agreed to take her along when he fought him.
• Lu Mingyu’s body became transparent as golden streams began searching for a heavenly cycle route through his meridians.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Lu Mingyu’s abundant vitality let him recover from damage during the dangerous cultivation process, while his weak divine power reduced the risk.
• Chen Changsheng shattered a meridian in Chen Feng’s hand to demonstrate how much faster Lu Mingyu’s vitality recovered.
• Cracks appeared across Lu Mingyu’s body, and Chen Changsheng warned that he would die within fifty breaths.

Chen Changsheng explained how Lu Mingyu overcame the black mist long enough to form a Bitter Sea Phenomenon that revealed his deep-seated pride. Lu Mingyu emerged from the pool and asked Chen Changsheng to tell stories, while Ouyang Bufan remained in the water and learned he needed outside help to open a Second Springhead.

• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that Lu Mingyu had only fifty breaths to find the right divine-power route or die, and that he could not save him.
• Lu Mingyu completed a circulation circuit, but gray mist threatened his vitality; Chen Changsheng used a Bitter Sea Secret Method to shield him as he opened a Second Springhead.
• Lu Mingyu's Bitter Sea Phenomenon settled into the image of a fairy descendant grasping a star, which Chen Changsheng interpreted as evidence that Lu Mingyu looked down on others.
• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping and Liu Qingqing stories about the Supreme Sage and his own past, while Lu Mingyu emerged from the pool and asked to hear more.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Ouyang Bufan to stay in the pool until he opened a Second Springhead, then said Ouyang would need outside help because his Essence, Qi, and Spirit were impure.

Chen Changsheng explained to his disciples why Wu Li was invincible despite having only first-rate talent, then went to the Heavenly Lotus Sect to seek Bodhi Seeds and the Bodhi Tree’s source to save a disciple. The sect leader refused to surrender the source but agreed to let Chen Changsheng speak with the Bodhi Tree.

• Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu and the others that Wu Li’s strength came from defeating every seemingly unbeatable enemy, and said they would understand his nature in a month.
• Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu, Liu Qingqing, and Chen Feng to stabilize their Qi and Blood and promised to seek a cure for their ailments.
• Lu Mingyu encouraged Liu Qingqing and Chen Feng to seize the opportunity of the month Chen Changsheng had secured for them.
• Chen Changsheng asked the Heavenly Lotus Sect leader for Bodhi Seeds and the Bodhi Tree’s source to save his disciple, but the sect leader refused to give up the source.
• Chen Changsheng asked to speak with the Bodhi Tree, and the sect leader agreed to take him to it.

While Lu Mingyu practiced a basic horse stance, his Essence, Qi, and Spirit reached Primordial Unity and his Sea of Bitterness filled, allowing him to begin building his Divine Bridge Realm. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng entered the Heavenly Lotus Sect’s hidden Small World and headed toward its Bodhi Giant Tree, while Lu Mingyu’s Divine Bridge began to expand.

• Guan Ping taught Lu Mingyu to hold a horse stance, and he adjusted his posture under her instruction.
• Chen Feng, Guan Ping, and Liu Qingqing compared their estimates of how quickly Lu Mingyu would fill his Sea of Bitterness.
• White vapor rose from Lu Mingyu as his Essence, Qi, and Spirit reached Primordial Unity, and the thunder of waves signaled that his Sea of Bitterness was nearly full.
• Chen Changsheng entered the Heavenly Lotus Sect’s Small World, asked to bring the youngsters to cultivate by the Bodhi Giant Tree, and slipped past the elder to approach it.
• Lu Mingyu’s Sea of Bitterness filled, a stone bridge appeared in his Inner World, and the Fairy Descendant stepped onto it as it rapidly stretched and widened.

Lu Mingyu completed his Divine Bridge at an astonishing speed, while Guan Ping and Chen Feng discussed his talent and his misunderstanding of cultivation. When Wang Tian arrived demanding to know who caused the vision, Lu Mingyu stepped in and slapped him.

• Lu Mingyu finished building his Divine Bridge, stunning Guan Ping, Chen Feng, and Liu Qingqing with how quickly he advanced.
• Guan Ping explained that Lu Mingyu had only learned the horse stance, while Chen Feng admitted he could not even pick up a sword to challenge him.
• Lu Mingyu described his mistaken beliefs about pills and people born with the Bitter Sea Realm perfected, and the others fell silent.
• Wang Tian confronted Guan Ping, threatened to kill her, and asked who had caused the vision.
• Lu Mingyu stopped Guan Ping from fighting, approached Wang Tian, and slapped him across the face.

Lu Mingyu provoked Wang Tian by slapping him, then learned Chen Feng’s Escape Technique and used a brief opening in Wang Tian’s battle with Guan Ping to slap him again. Wang Tian struck Lu Mingyu down in rage, and Guan Ping responded by trapping Wang Tian in a pill furnace of Void Demon Flame.

• Lu Mingyu slapped Wang Tian and hid behind Guan Ping, who fought Wang Tian with the Void Demon Flame.
• Lu Mingyu explained that he had long wanted to strike people who looked down on him, while Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing questioned his recklessness.
• Liu Qingqing spotted a brief opening that would appear after thirty moves, and Chen Feng taught Lu Mingyu a fast Escape Technique.
• Lu Mingyu memorized the technique, seized the opening in Wang Tian’s defense, and slapped him again before fleeing.
• Wang Tian ignored Guan Ping’s attack and struck Lu Mingyu down with his Dharma Avatar.
• Guan Ping unleashed the Void Demon Flame and enclosed Wang Tian in a pill furnace, intending to refine him alive.

Guan Ping kept Wang Tian trapped in her flaming Pill Domain until Chen Changsheng stopped the Heavenly Lotus Sect elder from intervening and ordered her to intensify the flames. After restoring Lu Mingyu and advising him and the others, Chen Changsheng revealed plans to revise the standards for several cultivation realms, then pulled a Silver Needle from Liu Qingqing, making her spit blood.

• A Heavenly Lotus Sect elder tried to rescue Wang Tian, but Guan Ping’s Bin Iron Staff broke, and her phoenix blood surged as she prepared to stop him.
• Chen Changsheng calmed Guan Ping, sent the elder away, and told her to make the fire hotter while Wang Tian remained trapped.
• Chen Changsheng revived Lu Mingyu, who stood despite his injuries, and explained how his Immaculate Body could weaken spells and divine abilities.
• Chen Changsheng advised Lu Mingyu, Chen Feng, and Liu Qingqing about their cultivation paths and said he planned to revise the standards for the Life Lamp, Immortal Venerable, Immortal King, and Heavenly Emperor realms.
• Chen Changsheng pulled a Silver Needle from Liu Qingqing, causing her to spit blood.

Chen Changsheng treated Liu Qingqing by removing four Silver Needles a day and warned Lu Mingyu not to let rapid cultivation make him complacent. As Lu Mingyu went off to cultivate, Chen Changsheng reflected on the Heavenly Lotus Sect Secret Realm and his attempt to speak with the Bodhi Giant Tree.

• Chen Changsheng removed four Silver Needles from Liu Qingqing, explaining that removing them all at once could kill her.
• Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu that his arrogance toward Wang Tian was understandable but warned that talent could fade and rapid breakthroughs could tempt him away from building a strong foundation.
• Chen Changsheng urged Lu Mingyu to study the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique and cultivate seriously, and Lu Mingyu went off to practice.
• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that Lu Mingyu needed only a light touch while Chen Feng needed more shaping, then threatened to sew Chen Feng's mouth shut when he spoke disparagingly of himself.
• Chen Changsheng recalled exchanging a palm strike with the Heavenly Lotus Sect Leader, who said the Bodhi Giant Tree had not spoken because it did not wish to talk to him.

Chen Changsheng negotiated with the Bodhi Giant Tree for a share of its source in exchange for reshaping its Small World, while weighing whether to confront the Wang family ancestor. After returning to the waterfall, Lu Mingyu and Guan Ping discussed joining Chen Changsheng despite his apparent exhaustion and their danger.

• The Bodhi Giant Tree warned Chen Changsheng that killing the Wang family ancestor could get him and his allies killed, and offered him the source if he left the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng said he would consider leaving, then agreed to reshape the Bodhi Giant Tree's Small World in return for a share of its source.
• At the waterfall, Chen Changsheng woke after accidentally falling asleep, told his students to cultivate for the crucial coming month, and left as a paper figure.
• Guan Ping told Lu Mingyu that Chen Changsheng seemed less happy and asked how they could help him, while Lu Mingyu admitted he wanted to keep her out of danger.
• Guan Ping insisted she would not let Chen Changsheng and Lu Mingyu face the danger alone, and Lu Mingyu drew her into his arms.