Chapter Summaries

Lu Mingyu chose to save his mother with Chen Changsheng’s antidote, then sought guidance about the betrayal and violence surrounding him. After a dreamlike conversation with Chen Changsheng, he woke with a new resolve to face the past without hatred.

• Lu Mingyu found his mother collapsed after she drank poison and chose to give her the antidote rather than leave her to die.
• Lu Mingyu pleaded for Chen Changsheng to appear and explain what he should do, then saw a phantom of his teacher as his consciousness faded.
• Chen Changsheng told Lu Mingyu that strength could not make anyone invincible and urged him to accept that others could not be controlled.
• Lu Mingyu realized he had already suspected why people had tried to kill him, and decided to let go of hatred rather than expect others to follow his ideals.
• Lu Mingyu woke in the courtyard, understood that Chen Changsheng had appeared only in a dream, and entered the room prepared to face the past.

Six hundred years after the Imperial Tutor disappeared, the war over the Beast Taming Lineage intensified as alliances shifted and Immortal Guang Han gave her Immortal Pills to the God of Wealth. In the Pill Domain, Yun Ya Zi concluded that Chen Changsheng was still hidden somewhere conspicuous, while the stern-faced man went to welcome visitors from the Chang Sheng Epoch.

• The Cui Lu Families and the Four Great Sects joined the war, and Lu Mingyu persuaded the Zheng Family to turn against the Wang Family.
• Immortal Guang Han gave all her newly refined Immortal Pills to the God of Wealth, and the Cui Lu Families invited him to become their guest elder.
• Yun Ya Zi told the stern-faced man that Chen Changsheng had likely stayed in the Pill Epoch by hiding his flesh and blood with Divine Beast Bai Ze.
• Yun Ya Zi reasoned that Chen Changsheng was secretly influencing events across the Pill Epoch and must be hiding somewhere conspicuous.
• The stern-faced man left to greet guests from the Chang Sheng Epoch, and Yun Ya Zi teased him about losing interest in challenging the Undertaker.

Chen Xiang and Xu Yao traveled to the Pill Epoch to find Chen Changsheng, but Lu Mingyu told them that their father and teacher had left six hundred years earlier. After meeting with Lu Mingyu, Chen Xiang prepared to explain why they had come.

• A sword cultivator told Yun Ya Zi that he would wait for Chen Feng to obtain the Sword God's Sword, then vanished to seek other people to spar with.
• Chen Xiang and Xu Yao arrived at the border of the Pill Epoch and headed for the Lu Family to find their teacher, Chen Changsheng.
• Lu Mingyu reflected on his fruitless search for Chen Changsheng before a surge of pressure drew him to the Lu Family Ancestral Tomb.
• Chen Xiang introduced himself and Xu Yao to Lu Mingyu and asked where Chen Changsheng was; Lu Mingyu said their teacher had left the Pill Epoch six hundred years earlier.
• Lu Mingyu allowed Chen Xiang to speak with him, and they agreed to address each other as equals before Lu Mingyu asked why Chen Xiang had come.

Chen Xiang and Xu Yao visited Lu Mingyu to discuss protecting Chen Xiang’s father, but Lu Mingyu challenged them for trying to keep him from choosing his own path. Chen Xiang and Xu Yao left without revealing the father’s whereabouts, hinting that he may have been watching them.

• Chen Xiang told Lu Mingyu that he had come to protect his father from people in the Chang Sheng Epoch who feared the father might return and retaliate.
• Lu Mingyu argued that Chen Xiang should support his father rather than hide him away, and challenged Xu Yao for wanting to prevent the father from returning.
• Xu Yao unleashed Sword Intent, but Chen Xiang calmed her and warned that the Lu Family and other powerful figures could stop them from leaving the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Xiang said he and Xu Yao did not know the father’s whereabouts but would support whatever he chose, then cautioned Lu Mingyu about future visitors from the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Chen Xiang guessed that his father had secretly watched their conversation, and a leaf slapped him as he left with Xu Yao.

Lu Mingyu suspected his teacher had planned his words before Chen Xiang departed, while “Mark” recalled a conversation from six hundred years earlier in which Chen Changsheng sought help killing the Wang family ancestor. The dream’s master invited Chen Changsheng to join the Heavenly Dao Society, and Chen Changsheng began asking about his reasons for targeting the ancestor.

• Lu Mingyu realized his teacher may have intended him to convey a message and wondered where the teacher was hiding.
• “Mark” woke in Soul Supreme’s coffin and recalled events from six hundred years earlier.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that they were inside someone else’s realistic dream and introduced himself to the dream’s master, the master of the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng admitted that his claim of leaving the Pill Epoch was a ruse and asked the dream’s master to help kill the Wang family ancestor, who had harmed the Bronze Ancient Hall and his little girl.
• The dream’s master revealed that he could not kill the ancestor in his current state, then invited Chen Changsheng to join the Heavenly Dao Society to clean up the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng asked why the dream’s master also wanted the Wang family ancestor dead.

Chen Changsheng learned why the young man wanted to kill the Wang family ancestor and heard how the young man came to possess the Great Dream Immortal Art. The young man explained his disbelief in true longevity and left Chen Changsheng with a warning about the danger of the Wang family ancestor gaining the Bronze Ancient Hall’s secrets.

• The young man told Chen Changsheng that the Wang family ancestor had attacked him to seize the Bronze Ancient Hall and its connection to the Unknown Land.
• The young man explained that the Unknown Land was believed by some to hold the secret of longevity, though it was unrelated to the immortal.
• The young man revealed that he had found the Great Dream Immortal Art in a dying cave dwelling master’s belongings.
• The young man said the cave dwelling master had taken the art from the immortal and had possessed something even more powerful, but died when his Lifespan ran out.
• The young man told Chen Changsheng that he pursued longevity despite not believing it existed and feared the Wang family ancestor would cause great harm with the Bronze Ancient Hall.

Chen Changsheng joined the Heavenly Dao Society and secured the old man's help with hiding, intelligence, and a future battle against the Wang family ancestor. He learned how immortal pills extended life and planned to hide in plain sight after leaving the Pill Epoch.

• Chen Changsheng agreed to join the Heavenly Dao Society and received an ordinary jade tablet, while the old man explained the real token belonged to the Wang family ancestor.
• The old man proposed using a Bai Ze duplicate and the Great Dream Immortal Art to conceal Chen Changsheng's movements from observers.
• The old man gave Chen Changsheng his Source of Dreams, which would let him control the society's living, breathing Chess Pieces across the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng secured the old man's promise to gather allies and choose a battlefield for killing the Wang family ancestor.
• The old man revealed that immortal pills used Divine Fire to connect users to the Pill Epoch's life force, and that pill restrictions could be removed by keeping those channels open.
• Chen Changsheng decided to hide in plain sight after leaving the Pill Epoch.

Chen Changsheng arranged for Bai Ze to remain sealed for fifty thousand years and protect the younger generation without interfering in their trial, then sent a projection to meet Chen Xiang and Xu Yao. After warning them about the dangers of the Pill Epoch, he reassured Chen Xiang that he would return.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze to avoid helping Lu Mingyu and the others, then asked him to enter the old man's dreamscape and help ensure the Wang family ancestor's death.
• Bai Ze agreed to the sealing arrangement and went through a passage into the old man's territory.
• Chen Changsheng asked the man controlling the Pill Epoch to send his projection into the Chaos to meet Chen Xiang and Xu Yao.
• A cold swordsman wounded Chen Xiang, warned him to leave the Pill Epoch, and vanished; Chen Xiang and Xu Yao then set out to leave.
• Chen Changsheng intercepted Chen Xiang and Xu Yao, heard that their unborn son would be named Chen Xiao, and warned them about the Pill Epoch's dangers.
• Chen Changsheng reassured Chen Xiang that he would return and urged him to follow his chosen path without worry.

Five hundred years after Lu Mingyu spoke with him, Chen Feng revealed that his apparent stupor had been an act and confronted Wang Hao, who had infiltrated the Green Mountain World. Chen Changsheng arrived as Wang Hao’s heart-based attack hurt Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing.

• Chen Feng had remained quiet for five hundred years while rumors claimed he could no longer advance, and Liu Qingqing worried that he had become an idiot.
• When blood from Liu Qingqing’s White Cloud Deer hit the ground, Chen Feng unleashed his Sword Intent and exposed Wang Hao hiding in the blood.
• Wang Hao threatened Liu Qingqing and demanded that Chen Feng swear never to attack him, but Liu Qingqing escaped his control and persuaded Chen Feng to hear him out.
• Wang Hao introduced himself as a Demon Cultivator seeking friendship, then tore out his heart and used its beating to inflict pain on Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing.
• Chen Changsheng appeared in Cui Ling Shuang’s form and challenged Wang Hao about his unfamiliar technique.

Wang Hao met Chen Changsheng and offered to help oppose the forces threatening the Chang Sheng Epoch, hoping to absorb Qi and Blood from the coming conflict. Chen Feng rejected his offer, and Wang Hao agreed to fight without taking any Qi and Blood, though Chen Feng still promised to deal with him later.

• Wang Hao teased Flower and learned that Chen Feng might challenge him, then explained that he had searched for Flower in the Pill Epoch.
• Wang Hao reported that Forbidden Grounds had adopted Qi-and-Blood-devouring methods and that both the Four Brahma Three Realms and the Heavenly Court were struggling.
• Wang Hao guessed that Chen Changsheng had left the Chang Sheng Epoch to draw out unstable forces, and Chen Changsheng confirmed the strategy.
• Wang Hao asked to join Chen Changsheng and absorb a little Qi and Blood from the coming conflict, but Chen Changsheng left the decision to Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng refused Wang Hao's help, and Wang Hao offered to take no Qi and Blood; Chen Feng said he would cut him down later.

Chen Changsheng learned that the Heavenly Court had fractured and the Chang Sheng Epoch lacked leaders after his departure. Wang Hao offered to help him deal with the epoch’s factions in exchange for a solution to the Asura Tribe’s lifespan problem, and Chen Changsheng accepted.

• Wang Hao told Chen Changsheng that the Heavenly Court was divided over whether Chen Changsheng had fallen into demonic ways, while the Ice-Fire Immortal King and Qin Xian had withdrawn from the world.
• Wang Hao explained that Nalan Zi Ping and Yin Qi had both refused to lead the Heavenly Court, while Chen Changsheng’s other associates had scattered or abandoned its affairs.
• Wang Hao said Ma Ling'er was keeping the Heavenly Court afloat and Xu Yao was pursuing Chen Changsheng’s third son, prompting Liu Qingqing to question how the former geniuses had changed.
• Wang Hao offered to help Chen Changsheng handle the Chang Sheng Epoch’s factions if Chen Changsheng solved the Asura Tribe’s lifespan problem.
• Chen Changsheng accepted the deal and warned Wang Hao that he would destroy him if he betrayed him.

Chen Feng reunited with Chen Changsheng and explained why he wanted to leave the Pill Epoch, then chose not to intervene in the Wang family ancestor’s matter because he trusted Lu Mingyu. Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing prepared to seal themselves away for a long slumber, while Lu Mingyu reunited with Guan Ping in the Void Star Sea.

• Wang Hao left, and Chen Feng greeted Chen Changsheng, who had been present all along.
• Chen Feng told Chen Changsheng he had spent five hundred years self-severing his cultivation so he could witness the epochs beyond the Pill Epoch with him.
• Chen Feng said he wanted to explore other epochs out of curiosity and compassion, and Chen Changsheng gave him two seven-colored Longevity Bloodstones and taught him the Chang Sheng Epoch’s Sealing Method.
• Chen Feng decided not to interfere with the Wang family ancestor because he believed Lu Mingyu could handle the matter, and Chen Changsheng accepted his choice.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qingqing he expected to enter a long slumber, and she chose to sleep as well.
• In the Void Star Sea, Lu Mingyu reunited with Guan Ping, who teased him for acting superior despite being her husband.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he planned to sleep for fifty thousand years, urged Guan Ping to follow her own path, and left with Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing. Later, he explained to Cui Ling Shuang why he would not visit Tian Rui or Shui Yue, while Cui Ling Shuang guessed that his guilt had come from something other than love.

• Lu Mingyu and Guan Ping met Chen Changsheng, Chen Feng, and Liu Qingqing in the sea of stars, where Chen Changsheng announced he would sleep for around fifty thousand years.
• Guan Ping asked to seal herself away to stay with Chen Changsheng, but he refused and told her to live her own life and follow her path.
• Chen Changsheng led Chen Feng and Liu Qingqing into the sea of stars, while Guan Ping and Lu Mingyu wondered how long he might live and whether Shui Yue and Cui Ling Shuang could endure the trial ahead.
• In Guang Han Palace, Cui Ling Shuang asked why Chen Changsheng would not visit Tian Rui or Shui Yue; he explained that Tian Rui needed to temper his Tiger Guard and that Shui Yue deserved another path.
• Cui Ling Shuang said Chen Changsheng had been devoted but carried too many romantic debts, then guessed that his past guilt came from something other than matters of the heart.

Cui Ling Shuang refused Chen Changsheng’s offer to prolong her life and asked him to share more stories before she fell asleep. In the Beast Realm, Cui Tian Rui equipped Ghost Tiger with the Tiger Guard’s ancient Bronze Armor, while Yun Ya Zi searched the Void Star Sea for Chen Changsheng and found only Mark and Xue Hua’s corpses.

• Cui Ling Shuang rejected Chen Changsheng’s offer to keep her alive and asked him to tell her more stories.
• Cui Tian Rui returned from battle, and Ghost Tiger urged him to rest while acknowledging his burdens as Commander.
• Cui Tian Rui showed Ghost Tiger the seven hundred and ninety-nine sets of Bronze Armor and explained that the armor held the Tiger Guard’s military soul.
• Cui Tian Rui gave Ghost Tiger a set of Bronze Armor, and Ghost Tiger swore to honor the mission as he became a true Tiger Guard.
• Yun Ya Zi searched the Void Star Sea for Chen Changsheng, opened two coffins, and found Mark and Xue Hua’s corpses instead.

Chen Changsheng returned to the Pill Epoch after hiding for ten years and continued directing the war, which ended with the Wang Family and Beast Taming Lineage defeated. Yun Ya Zi and a cold-faced man revealed to Flying Dust Supreme that the war had been planned by the Pill Epoch’s leaders, with Chen Changsheng as its mastermind.

• Ten years after the powerful beings found two corpses in the Void Star Sea, Chen Changsheng returned and told an elderly man he would continue coordinating the war.
• The elderly man departed to sleep and prepare to face the Wang family ancestor, while Chen Changsheng returned to the Void Star Sea.
• Three thousand years after the Imperial Tutor vanished, the war continued under the Tiger Guard’s growing fame, and Chen Feng disappeared without drawing much notice.
• Eight thousand years after the Imperial Tutor vanished, the Wang Family and Beast Taming Lineage were defeated, and the Pill Epoch’s leaders ended the war through secret negotiations.
• At the Pill Tower, Yun Ya Zi and a cold-faced man confronted the bound Flying Dust Supreme and explained that the war had been planned as a purge, with Chen Changsheng as its mastermind.
• Yun Ya Zi told Flying Dust Supreme that two adult Nine-Headed Xiang Lius had once fought the Pill Domain because the Beast Race wanted its immortal-pill formulas and Divine Fire.

Yun Ya Zi revealed that he had killed the Beast Race’s former leaders and sentenced Flying Dust Supreme to one hundred thousand years beneath the tower. In the Void Star Sea, Chen Changsheng questioned the System about immortality, then chose to enter a forty-thousand-year slumber.

• Yun Ya Zi told Flying Dust Supreme that he had killed the Beast Race’s pillars and sent Nine-Headed Xiang Liu to the Human Race to divide the Beast Race.
• Yun Ya Zi sentenced Flying Dust Supreme to be suppressed beneath the tower for one hundred thousand years, and Flying Dust Supreme asked whether Chen Changsheng would spare Nine-Headed Xiang Liu.
• Yun Ya Zi told the cold-looking man that he would help Chen Changsheng, who had personally sent word to him.
• Chen Changsheng asked the System whether immortality was real, and the System said only time could prove it.
• Chen Changsheng ordered the System to begin a forty-thousand-year slumber, and his consciousness stopped as the stone coffin closed.

After waking from a fifty-thousand-year seal, Chen Feng learned that Chen Changsheng had left the Pill Epoch and that the Wang family ancestor had been defeated. In the changed Pill Domain, Chen Feng discovered that his master and father had died, then asked Lu Mingyu and Guan Ping to take him to see the old friends who remained.

• Chen Feng emerged from the Seven-Colored Longevity Bloodstone, recovered his strength, and joked with Lu Mingyu about catching up to his cultivation.
• Chen Feng chose not to bring the still-sleeping Liu Qingqing, and Lu Mingyu explained that Chen Changsheng had left the Pill Epoch and the Wang family ancestor had been suppressed.
• Lu Mingyu gave Chen Feng a Jade Slip message from Chen Changsheng, who explained that he had sealed Chen Feng to spare him the battle and prevent him from losing his own path.
• Lu Mingyu took Chen Feng to the Pill Domain, where Chen Feng learned that Yun Ya Zi had stepped down as Tower Master and Guan Ping now led the domain.
• Guan Ping told Chen Feng that Pill Master Li Huo and his father had died, though both had seen him before they passed away.
• Chen Feng asked to visit the old friends still alive, and Guan Ping and Lu Mingyu agreed to take him.

Chen Feng visited Shang Lu and learned that people who evade time through self-sealing ultimately suffer time’s punishment. He then asked Lu Mingyu how Chen Changsheng had left, and Lu Mingyu showed him a memory that ended as a young man in an old Daoist robe rushed toward Chen Changsheng.

• Chen Feng visited Ouyang Bufan’s grave and learned from Lu Mingyu that the Heavenly Lotus Sect’s old companions had died except for Shang Lu.
• Chen Feng met Shang Lu, who explained that the Pill Epoch avoided self-sealing because those who evaded time would ultimately face its punishment.
• Guan Ping told Chen Feng that Shang Lu resented Lu Mingyu because You Zhu had died protecting her after she fell in love with him.
• Chen Feng declined to visit more old acquaintances and asked Lu Mingyu how Chen Changsheng had left.
• Lu Mingyu used a new technique to show Chen Feng a memory from two thousand years earlier, where Chen Changsheng refused to take Chen Feng to the Chang Sheng Epoch and a young man in an old Daoist robe suddenly rushed at him.

Chen Changsheng reunited with Little Immortal Elder, who asked him to return to the Chang Sheng Epoch and help Hundred Defeats Immortal make a dignified exit. Chen Changsheng agreed because he owed Little Immortal Elder and was grateful to Hundred Defeats Immortal, and prepared to set off.

• Little Immortal Elder arrived after Chen Changsheng defeated the Wang family ancestor, then bantered with him over the fruit platter.
• Little Immortal Elder tried to recruit Lu Mingyu, but Lu Mingyu politely refused.
• Chen Changsheng demanded to know why Little Immortal Elder had come, and learned that Hundred Defeats Immortal was dying and wanted to return to the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Little Immortal Elder asked Chen Changsheng to help Hundred Defeats Immortal die with dignity and use the trip as a reason to return to the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng agreed, saying he owed Little Immortal Elder for helping Nian Sheng, Wu Li, Thirteen, and the others, and could not ignore his debt to Hundred Defeats Immortal.

Chen Feng learned from Lu Mingyu about the ancient power of Little Immortal Elder, Yun Ya Zi, and the Wang family ancestor, and how overwhelming the ancestor was compared with Lu Mingyu. Lu Mingyu revealed that he had reached the Equal Pace Realm at Immortal King Ninth Grade and was choosing an unconventional path toward the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

• In Chen Changsheng's memory, Chen Changsheng asked Little Immortal Elder to beat up Yun Ya Zi, and Little Immortal Elder went to the Pill Domain to confront him.
• Chen Feng asked Lu Mingyu about the strength of Little Immortal Elder, Yun Ya Zi, and the Wang family ancestor, and Lu Mingyu explained that their power was best measured by their immense lifespans.
• Lu Mingyu said he had defeated every expert in the Wang Family Ancestral Tomb in three days, but the Wang family ancestor broke his Heaven and Earth Avatar in thirty breaths.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that the Wang family ancestor had once fought Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, forcing Wu Li to flee after three days.
• Lu Mingyu revealed that he had reached Immortal King Ninth Grade in the Equal Pace Realm and chose not to follow the usual path toward the Heavenly Emperor Realm.