Chapter Summaries

Alone in the Supreme Clarity Temple, Chen Changsheng confronted his loneliness and the lack of anyone who understood his dilemma. At the waterfall, Ouyang Bufan reached a breakthrough and agreed to attempt Chen Feng’s treatment in three days, while Chen Changsheng left and Guo Yi returned beaten by a woman.

• Chen Changsheng admitted to the system that he could not confide in Bai Ze or Qian Ya and wondered what Scholar and Fu Yao would have told him.
• Ouyang Bufan opened his Second Springhead and began merging his Essence, Qi, and Spirit after enduring the waterfall.
• Chen Changsheng told Ouyang Bufan that the others were undergoing a normal part of growing up and asked how he planned to treat Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing.
• Ouyang Bufan said he had mastered thirty percent of Stealing the Day and Swapping the Sun and had a ten percent chance of saving Chen Feng; Chen Feng agreed to the attempt.
• Chen Changsheng encouraged Ouyang Bufan to proceed, and Ouyang Bufan said he would prepare to begin the treatment in three days.
• Chen Changsheng departed, and Guo Yi later told Lu Mingyu that a woman had beaten him and that Lu Mingyu would have to handle her.

Lu Mingyu accepted Guo Yi’s warning about the Wang Family and the Heavenly Lotus Sect, while Chen Changsheng wrestled with his doubts about his path and sought support from Cui Ling Shuang. He left knowing she would stand by him even if he chose to go away and end their engagement.

• Lu Mingyu thanked Guo Yi for his help, promised to fight him in a month, and learned that Wang Bo and the Wang Family’s elites were targeting him.
• Guo Yi warned Lu Mingyu that factions within the Heavenly Lotus Sect were preparing to deal with him, but Lu Mingyu said he feared no one.
• Chen Changsheng discussed the consequences of slaughtering an era with the Bodhi Giant Tree, which urged him to give himself a choice as he gave others.
• Chen Changsheng visited Cui Ling Shuang, who told him that her family was doing well and that she supported whatever choice he made.
• Cui Ling Shuang confessed that she liked Chen Changsheng and promised she would keep living even if he left, asking only for a bouquet of flowers at her grave if he remembered her.

Cui Ling Shuang wept after Chen Changsheng returned to paper form, while Shang Lu told Guan Ping that she was engaged to Lu Mingyu and warned her to stop hoping for him. Guan Ping calmly refused to compete over feelings and returned to cultivating, leaving Shang Lu to depart.

• Cui Ling Shuang picked up the paper figure Chen Changsheng had become and shed a tear onto it.
• Shang Lu rejected You Zhu's attempt to accompany her and warned him not to harm Lu Mingyu.
• Shang Lu appeared before Guan Ping and announced that she was engaged to Lu Mingyu, while Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing secretly listened from nearby.
• Shang Lu explained that the engagement had been arranged recently and that she had helped Lu Mingyu escape the Lu Family's attempt to capture him.
• Guan Ping told Shang Lu that feelings could not be forced and that she would bless Lu Mingyu if he chose a better companion, so Shang Lu left.
• Liu Qingqing questioned Guan Ping's calm response, and Chen Feng said that an opportunity could make a person grow in an instant.

Lu Mingyu rejected Shang Lu and returned to Chen Feng, who struggled with whether he could raise his sword against his Teacher, the Butcher. As Lu Mingyu left the waterfall, You Zhu attacked him, and Guan Ping failed to stop the blow.

• Liu Qingqing asked Chen Feng about her opportunity, and he told her only she could decide what it was.
• Lu Mingyu told Shang Lu that he did not love her and would not marry her, leaving her weeping as someone watched from afar.
• At the waterfall, Chen Feng explained that his doubts about his Teacher had left him unable to wield a sword, while Lu Mingyu urged him to seek his answer in the Green Mountain World.
• As Lu Mingyu departed, You Zhu attacked and declared that he would kill him, despite Guan Ping trying to block the strike.

Lu Mingyu reflected on cultivation and realized that realms did not determine victory, then demonstrated that he could advance to the Original Self Realm and return to having no cultivation. Chen Changsheng praised his insight and said he had something to tell him.

• You Zhu attacked Lu Mingyu, while Guan Ping engaged You Zhu in battle.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that he had lost interest in opponents who relied on realms and explained that cultivation and realms were only means, not guarantees of victory.
• Lu Mingyu said that Second Senior Brother had surpassed Chen Changsheng and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li in cultivation of the heart.
• Lu Mingyu briefly advanced through several realms up to the Original Self Realm, then let his cultivation dissipate until he seemed like an ordinary person.
• Lu Mingyu named Chen Feng and Cui Tian Rui as the only younger-generation cultivators he regarded as opponents and predicted Chen Feng would find his path again.
• Chen Changsheng appeared, praised Lu Mingyu's insight, and said he had something to tell him.

Lu Mingyu and his companions learned that the Shadow Assassins had sent four Black Shadow Assassins to kill them, while Chen Changsheng explained why the organization was targeting him and Liu Qingqing. After Guan Ping defeated You Zhu, Chen Changsheng left to handle the Shadow Assassins and gave Liu Qingqing a secret movement technique.

• Chen Changsheng warned Lu Mingyu that the Shadow Assassins had dispatched four Black Shadow Assassins to kill him and his companions, including Chen Feng, Guan Ping, and Cui Tian Rui.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Shadow Assassins had mobilized half their forces against him because he had unified the Beast Race, threatened the Beast Taming Lineage, and still had Liu Qingqing with him.
• Guan Ping defeated You Zhu with the Void Demon Flame, and You Zhu vowed to challenge her again in one month before leaving.
• Chen Changsheng scolded Guan Ping for failing to master the Void Demon Flame, then said he could not watch over the group while he dealt with the Shadow Assassins and discussed high-level cultivation realms.
• Chen Changsheng gave Liu Qingqing a Jade Slip containing the Netherworld Movement Technique, and Lu Mingyu said he had heard of it.

Lu Mingyu explained the Four Brahma Three Realms and the Four Calamities behind Chen Changsheng’s Epoch Massacre. At Supreme Clarity Temple, Chen Changsheng captured Black Shadow Assassins and began redefining the Bitter Sea System’s realm standards by demonstrating how to extract a cultivator’s life lamp.

• Lu Mingyu told Liu Qingqing and the others about the Demon Yi Heavenly Emperor, the Netherworld Movement Technique, and the Four Calamities, including the unknown Fourth Calamity.
• Chen Changsheng faced a dozen Black Shadow Assassins outside Supreme Clarity Temple and lured them inside, where his Instant Teleportation Array brought them into a gathering of powerful cultivators.
• Yun Ya Zi attacked an Immortal King Third Grade while a woman and Xuan Lao helped restrain and suppress the fleeing Black Shadow Assassins.
• Chen Changsheng announced that he would establish new standards for the Bitter Sea System’s realms and seized the Immortal King’s dark-gold life lamp to demonstrate his method.

Chen Changsheng proposed new standards for the Life Lamp Realm and the Immortal Venerable Realm, with the gathered cultivators helping expand his lists of Life Lamps and laws. As a Space Channel opened, a man arrived after Chen Changsheng summoned him.

• Chen Changsheng explained why the Life Lamp Realm preserved the self and presented a classification of Life Lamps based on their potential and properties.
• Yun Ya Zi and the other high-level cultivators added seventy-eight kinds of Life Lamps, helping finalize the realm’s standards.
• Chen Changsheng proposed classifying the Immortal Venerable Realm by mastery of the laws and presented a list of a thousand minor paths and three great paths.
• A woman added two great paths and more than two hundred minor paths to Chen Changsheng’s jade list, leading him to suspect she was the Moon God or a member of the Heavenly Dao Society.
• Chen Changsheng’s communicator opened a Space Channel, and a man stepped out, saying he would always come when his teacher called.

Wu Li appeared at Chen Changsheng’s gathering to help establish the Bitter Sea System, then went to meet his new junior brother, Lu Mingyu. Lu Mingyu recognized him as the legendary Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, who asked whether Chen Changsheng had recently encountered difficulties.

• Wu Li added his fist mark to the Jade Rank, but Chen Changsheng stopped him from contributing further alone and asked him to meet his junior brother.
• Wu Li challenged those hiding in the void, prompting fifteen experts to leave their names and Great Dao Laws on the Jade Rank beneath his mark.
• Chen Changsheng gave Wu Li a wisp of aura and a Jade Slip to guide him to Lu Mingyu.
• Little Immortal Elder sent four Great Paths and three hundred minor paths to the Jade Rank, then spoke with Yun Ya Zi about Huang and other expected contributors.
• Wu Li met Lu Mingyu and asked whether Chen Changsheng had encountered difficulties, leading Lu Mingyu to recognize him as First Senior Brother.

Wu Li visited Lu Mingyu and the injured disciples while helping his Teacher establish standards for the new realms. When Lu Mingyu asked him to help against the Wang family ancestor, Wu Li refused, and Lu Mingyu condemned him and vowed to save his Teacher himself.

• Liu Qingqing and Guan Ping recognized Wu Li as the Desolate Heaven Emperor, and Wu Li told the disciples to study the new realm standards.
• Wu Li explained that his Teacher had once refused to take disciples until he gradually resolved a knot in his heart.
• Lu Mingyu told Wu Li that his Teacher had clashed with the Wang family ancestor over the Heavenly Dao Society and asked him to intervene.
• Wu Li said he would not interfere, explaining that only a direct confrontation could defeat the Wang family ancestor.
• Lu Mingyu called Wu Li a coward and an ingrate, then vowed to face any danger to keep his Teacher from walking the road alone.

Wu Li revealed that Chen Changsheng possessed true immortality, a secret that would attract every powerful cultivator if exposed. He explained that this danger was why he could not openly help Teacher, leaving Lu Mingyu to understand that someone would have to protect Chen Changsheng from the coming tribulation.

• Wu Li took Lu Mingyu into the void and agreed to explain why he could not help Teacher.
• Wu Li recounted the Chang Sheng Epoch battle, in which Meng Yu sacrificed herself, Thirteen died after defeating eighteen Heavenly Emperors, and Wu Li survived a fight against five Great Emperors with help from Little Immortal Elder.
• Wu Li explained that the Four Brahma Three Realms had attacked Teacher after a terrifying existence pushed them toward him, and that revealing Teacher's secret would bring an even greater threat.
• Wu Li told Lu Mingyu that Chen Changsheng was truly immortal and had lived for more than a hundred thousand years despite being at most an Immortal King Third Grade.
• Lu Mingyu realized that any cultivator would want to seize Chen Changsheng if the secret became known, and Wu Li said someone would have to shield Teacher from the tribulation.

Wu Li told Lu Mingyu why he pursued immortality and promised to shield Chen Changsheng, then forcibly backed Lu Mingyu against the Lu Family. After defeating the family’s ancestors, Wu Li faced more than a hundred cultivators who had gathered to challenge him, while Lu Mingyu watched from a protected meteorite.

• Wu Li explained that he sought immortality both to protect those he knew and to reduce the danger facing Chen Changsheng, and Lu Mingyu vowed to protect their teacher.
• Wu Li took Lu Mingyu to the Lu Family Ancestral Tomb and challenged the ancestors over his junior brother’s treatment.
• Wu Li fought the Lu Family ancestors and emerged uninjured, while Lu Mingyu secretly welcomed his senior brother’s intervention.
• Cultivators across the world released avatars to challenge Wu Li after learning he had gone to the Lu Family.
• Wu Li placed Lu Mingyu on a protected meteorite and confronted more than a hundred figures waiting in the void.

Chen Changsheng established standards for the Immortal Venerable Realm and set out to define the Ninth Grade Immortal King Realm through battle. At the Void Battlefield, he revealed that Wu Li’s clash with Pill Epoch experts was part of his plan to gather evidence.

• Wu Li challenged the Pill Epoch experts, crushed a Confucianism Dao avatar, and fought the others who attacked him.
• Chen Changsheng collected the final law imprint for the Jade Rank and set the Immortal Venerable Realm’s three stages and their law requirements.
• Chen Changsheng argued that powerful Immortal Kings fighting Heavenly Emperors showed that cultivators had grown stronger, not that the realm standards were flawed.
• Chen Changsheng invited the experts to the battlefield to debate the Ninth Grade Immortal King Realm through combat.
• At the Void Battlefield, Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu that he had sent Wu Li to provoke the Pill Epoch experts so he could establish the realm’s standards.

Chen Changsheng used Wu Li’s battle against powerful clones to explain a proposed ranking system for special Ninth Grade Immortal Kings. After the clones withdrew, Wu Li challenged Yun Ya Zi to continue their fight in the void.

• Chen Changsheng brought Guan Ping and the others to observe the battle and urged them to study the combat between high-level cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng proposed the Cross-Strike, Counterbalance, and Equal Pace classifications based on how long a Ninth Grade Immortal King could contend with a Heavenly Emperor.
• Wu Li defeated most of the opposing clones, leaving only twenty figures, who withdrew after acknowledging his strength and explaining they had come to open another path for cultivators.
• Wu Li invited Yun Ya Zi to fight with their true bodies, then flew into the void, and Yun Ya Zi followed.

Chen Changsheng explained that he had created new Immortal King ranks to drive cultivators to seek a realm beyond the Bitter Sea and a path to longer life for all. After Wu Li lost to a member of the Heavenly Dao Society, he urged Lu Mingyu and the others to help Chen Changsheng confront the Wang family ancestor.

• Chen Changsheng said he was willing to bear the bloodshed and blame if it helped him find a Great Dao of Longevity for all living beings, and the assembled powerful figures bowed to him.
• Chen Changsheng left Lu Mingyu and the others with Wu Li, who returned three hours later badly burned and warned that the Heavenly Dao Society was formidable.
• Wu Li admitted that he had lost to a newly joined member of the Heavenly Dao Society and feared that Chen Changsheng's plan to kill the Wang family ancestor could be disrupted.
• Wu Li told Lu Mingyu and his companions that they were the only ones available to help Chen Changsheng, and encouraged them to challenge powerful enemies despite their low realms.
• Wu Li gave Lu Mingyu and the others pendants made from four ribs he had pulled from his opponent.

After Wu Li’s avatar vanished, Hua Feng and Nian Sheng visited Chen Changsheng and offered to help with his dangerous troubles, but he insisted they pursue their own paths. The new cultivation standards then stirred ambitions among Immortal King and Immortal Venerable cultivators.

• Wu Li’s avatar dissipated after he warned Lu Mingyu to help Chen Changsheng when the critical moment came, and Lu Mingyu told the others to focus on their own duties.
• Hua Feng visited Chen Changsheng, left her Peacock mark on the Jade Rank, and offered to stay and help him, but he refused so she could follow her own path.
• Nian Sheng emerged and also offered to help Chen Changsheng, who explained that her involvement would make the stakes more complicated; she agreed to return after asking him not to face danger alone.
• Chen Changsheng warned Nian Sheng that her avatar looked unstable and told her to return to her own affairs.
• The new cultivation standards spread, inspiring Immortal King Realm cultivators to pursue the Parallel Heavenly Emperor realm and Immortal Venerable Realm cultivators to fight over a domineering title.

Cui Tian Rui used the Imperial Preceptor Decree to order the Tiger Guard to intensify conflict with the Wang Family, despite his officers’ objections. After Lu Mingyu warned him that Chen Changsheng might retreat from the Pill Epoch, Cui Tian Rui reaffirmed his resolve to fight.

• Cui Tian Rui told Bai Feng that the Tiger Guard’s true objective was to go to war with the Wang Family, not merely to help Chen Feng and the others.
• Cui Hao Yu opposed the plan, and the group’s vote showed no support for deliberately provoking the Wang Family.
• Cui Tian Rui produced the Imperial Preceptor Decree and ordered everyone to obey his plan, prompting Cui Hao Yu to leave and vow to report him to Teacher.
• Lu Mingyu told Cui Tian Rui that Chen Changsheng might abandon the Pill Epoch if he backed down from the Wang Family ancestor.
• Lu Mingyu urged Cui Tian Rui to help Teacher fight, and Cui Tian Rui declared that he was born to charge into battle.

Lu Mingyu explained to Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng had slaughtered the Chang Sheng Epoch to stop a dangerous phenomenon and the powerful man exploiting it. He revealed that Chen Changsheng had been devastated when survivors condemned his actions, and that only First Senior Brother had come from the epoch.

• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng needed powerful, unwavering support as he faced the Wang family ancestor.
• Lu Mingyu explained that he had investigated the Chang Sheng Epoch after Chen Feng asked how an entire epoch could be guilty.
• Lu Mingyu revealed that more than half the people of the Chang Sheng Epoch had been innocent and that a dangerous phenomenon had spread there.
• Lu Mingyu said a powerful man had used the phenomenon to harvest living beings, and Chen Changsheng had killed the epoch to find that man and eradicate it.
• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping that survivors condemned Chen Changsheng after the slaughter, leaving him heartbroken, and that only First Senior Brother had come from the Chang Sheng Epoch.

Lu Mingyu explained why Chen Changsheng wanted to leave the Pill Epoch, while Chen Changsheng learned that Cui Tian Rui had ordered the Tiger Guard to attack the Wang Family. At the Heavenly Lotus Sect, Chen Feng survived treatment but lost the ability to use his Great Dao sword art, and Lu Mingyu prepared to face the people who had come for Guan Ping and Liu Qingqing.

• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng planned to leave because he refused to use others as chess pieces or live in disgrace, and said he would keep Chen Changsheng from leaving until they had given him their answer.
• Bai Ze discovered Chen Changsheng packing at Supreme Clarity Temple and told him that Cui Tian Rui had taken his command token and sent the Tiger Guard to war with the Wang Family.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze to notify Qian Ya that they would withdraw from the Pill Epoch, then returned to packing.
• Ouyang Bufan treated Chen Feng's Great Dao Injury, saving his life but telling him that he could no longer use his Great Dao sword art without dying.
• Ouyang Bufan told Lu Mingyu that Wang Family elites had come to capture Guan Ping and that people from the Lu Family had come for Liu Qingqing.
• Lu Mingyu offered to fight the Lu Family's people and his other challengers together, and Guan Ping told him not to lose before walking outside.

Lu Mingyu faced his family’s attempt to take him home, and Chen Changsheng turned the confrontation into a test by summoning challengers from the Heavenly Lotus Sect. Meanwhile, Guan Ping prepared to fight Wang Bo, and Liu Qingqing confronted members of her organization; all three conflicts remained unresolved.

• Liu Qingqing said she would live for herself if she survived, while Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng to stay behind and questioned whether he could fight for her.
• Wang Bo confronted Guan Ping over her Wang Family bloodline, and Guan Ping invoked her new identity as she prepared to battle him.
• A Lu Family elder tried to take Lu Mingyu home, but Chen Changsheng severed the elder’s arm and made Lu Mingyu’s return depend on whether he won a challenge.
• Chen Changsheng invited Heavenly Lotus Sect disciples to challenge Lu Mingyu, who accepted the test and ascended to the Ninth Realm before stepping toward them.
• Liu Qingqing faced more than a dozen members of her organization and drew her scythe, declaring she would sever ties with them if she survived.