Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng decided to wake Liu Qingqing and find his own path to the Chang Sheng Epoch, while Lu Mingyu and Guan Ping planned to send him with pills once he was ready. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze traveled through Chaos toward the Chang Sheng Epoch as Chen Changsheng explained he was seeking a new way to extend his companions’ lifespans.

• Chen Feng changed his mind about Liu Qingqing and left to find his own road to the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng had left Trump Cards in the Chang Sheng Epoch and decided to wait before sending Chen Feng there with pills.
• Chen Changsheng admitted to Bai Ze that he was returning to the Chang Sheng Epoch to explore it and search for the Four Great Books.
• Chen Changsheng explained that his companions were approaching a lifespan bottleneck and that he wanted to find a new way to extend their lives without the Pill Epoch’s flaws.

Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he would search for ways to extend their lives beyond cultivation, then revealed that he believed Zhang Bairen had survived the calamities and could help them explore the Chang Sheng Epoch. The chapter ended with Bai Ze startled by the news that Zhang Bairen might still be alive.

• Chen Changsheng promised to find a way for Bai Ze to live longer and said he might uncover the secret of immortality.
• Bai Ze learned that Chen Changsheng was stuck at Immortal King Rank Six, and Chen explained that cultivation alone would not solve their lifespan problems.
• Chen Changsheng said he had released news to frighten others and alert an old acquaintance to his return.
• Chen Changsheng named Zhang Bairen as the person he needed to help explore the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Bai Ze was shocked, and Chen Changsheng explained that he had found a clue suggesting Zhang Bairen survived several great wars.

Chen Changsheng explained why Zhang Bairen had once withdrawn from the struggle and revealed that he was returning to the Chang Sheng Epoch to collect debts with help from those who owed him favors. At the Epoch Boundary, Zhang Zhen led a group of powerful figures to block Chen Changsheng’s boat.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Zhang Bairen had avoided the Golden Age because the Chang Sheng Epoch’s crises made competing for the era’s crest a losing prospect.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Forbidden Grounds had expected him to clash with the Four Brahma Three Realms and Old Man Yao, but had not anticipated his destruction of the epoch and creation of the Four Calamities.
• Chen Changsheng said he would enter the Chang Sheng Epoch by calling in debts of Human Sentiment owed to him.
• At the Ice Fire Mansion, Xu Hu refused Xu Yao’s request to stop Chen Changsheng and said he would welcome him, while noting that Zhang Zhen had gone to block him.
• A young cultivator in the Eight Desolations Nine Regions sensed Chen Changsheng’s return and left his sect to hide.
• Chen Changsheng’s boat arrived at the Chang Sheng Epoch’s world barrier, where Zhang Zhen and many powerful figures blocked his way.

Zhang Zhen told Bai Ze he would not abandon the path he had chosen, even though he still revered Chen Changsheng, and returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch prepared to fight him if necessary. Elsewhere, Wang Hao fought off figures suspecting him of helping Chen Changsheng, while Jiang Boyue and Miao Shi stayed with Ye Yongxian as they waited for Chen Changsheng to appear.

• The Heavens Forbidden Ground forces left to search the Chang Sheng Epoch after Bai Ze revealed that Chen Changsheng was not on Zhang Zhen's boat.
• Bai Ze urged Zhang Zhen to turn back, but Zhang Zhen said he could not defeat time, wanted to live, and could not dismiss the lives he had taken.
• Zhang Zhen said he would fight Chen Changsheng if he stood in his way, then returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Dozens of powerful figures attacked the Nether River Forbidden Ground, and Wang Hao raised a Blood Sea to fight them after they accused him of opposing the plan against Chen Changsheng.
• Jiang Boyue and Miao Shi questioned Ye Yongxian about Chen Changsheng's whereabouts, then chose to stay at the Ye family while they waited for him.

Jiang Bo Yue and Miao Shi discussed how to find Chen Changsheng and feared he might bring war back to the Chang Sheng Epoch. Chen Changsheng tracked down Zhang Bairen in Netherworld Forest and asked him to help prepare Hundred Defeats Immortal’s burial, and Zhang Bairen agreed to join him.

• Jiang Bo Yue told Miao Shi that Chen Changsheng would return for the children he cared about most, and they hoped he would not bring another war to the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Zhang Bairen hid in Netherworld Forest, but Chen Changsheng found him and brought him to the center of the forest.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen that Hundred Defeats Immortal was nearing the end of his lifespan and that Little Immortal Elder had asked him to prepare a proper ending and burial.
• Chen Changsheng asked Zhang Bairen to take part in Hundred Defeats Immortal’s burial, and Zhang Bairen agreed to join him in dealing with lingering troubles.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen discussed the Chang Sheng Epoch and agreed that Chen Xiang’s generation had brought peace through a different approach from their own. Chen Changsheng then told Zhang Bairen he had promised the Netherworld Forest to help it gain sentience and take human form, and the two resolved to face any consequences together.

• Chen Changsheng asked Zhang Bairen about the Chang Sheng Epoch, and Zhang Bairen said Chen Xiang’s generation had both flaws and remarkable achievements.
• Zhang Bairen explained that Chen Xiang’s generation had grown up in peacetime and understood how to protect all living beings, while Chen Changsheng agreed their methods differed from his and Zhang Bairen’s.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen joked about growing old and declared they would become the most fashionable old men in the epoch.
• Zhang Bairen asked why Chen Changsheng had entered the Netherworld Forest, and Chen Changsheng said he owed it a debt for helping save Bai Ze and Scholar.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the Netherworld Forest wanted him to help it gain sentience and take human form, and Zhang Bairen agreed they would deal with trouble if it came.

Chen Changsheng asked Zhang Bairen about the Chang Sheng Epoch’s religious factions and learned that its hidden strength came from the Dao of Fortune and the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate. Zhang Bairen warned that Chen Changsheng’s return would make him a target, but Chen Changsheng revealed he had brought enough immortal pills and other treasures to win allies.

• Zhang Bairen explained that Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism dominated the Chang Sheng Epoch, with Mountain and River Academy and the Daoist Sect Ten Holy Lands among the major powers.
• Zhang Bairen told Chen Changsheng that the Chang Sheng Epoch had excelled at the Dao of Fortune, which had been severed when the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate was shattered.
• Zhang Bairen explained that a crucial fragment of the Epoch Heaven’s Mandate had fallen into the Three Thousand Zhou and the Lower Realm, and that Four Brahma Three Realms had later gathered the mandate without the fragment.
• Chen Changsheng realized that the powers had endured years of turmoil to restore the epoch, and Zhang Bairen warned that Chen would be besieged as the Epoch Butcher if he went outside.
• Chen Changsheng showed Zhang Bairen more than a hundred immortal pills, along with pill formulas and Divine Fire, and Zhang Bairen became confident they could attract allies.

Chen Changsheng questioned Zhang Bairen about the Chang Sheng Epoch and learned that its ancient powers would return while the Forbidden Grounds prepared a Dark Turmoil to harvest nearly all life. He realized the epoch’s factions feared his interference, and he and Zhang Bairen were the only ones ready to act in advance, though neither was confident.

• Chen Changsheng put away the immortal pills and promised Zhang Bairen access to them if he answered his questions.
• Zhang Bairen revealed that the figures from the Chang Sheng Epoch would return, likely including Little Immortal Elder’s group, and warned that disputes over the Epoch Heaven's Mandate and the Human Race could spark conflict.
• Zhang Bairen told Chen Changsheng that the Forbidden Grounds planned a Dark Turmoil to harvest living beings and use their Qi and Blood to extend their lives and restore their bodies.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that the Chang Sheng Epoch opposed him partly because he would stop the Dark Turmoil, while Chen Xiang and others feared he would weaken the epoch before its fight with the Forbidden Grounds.
• Zhang Bairen said that he and Chen Changsheng were the only ones who wanted to act in advance, and admitted they had no confidence in succeeding.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen left the Netherworld Forest to explore the Chang Sheng Epoch, gather clues about the remaining strange books, and contact their Hidden Pieces. In Eight Desolations Nine Regions, Ye Feng and Baili Changkong prepared to support Chen Changsheng and prove themselves against the Undertaker’s people.

• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen decided to use the Chang Sheng Epoch’s methods, visit dangerous places, and search for the remaining three strange books.
• Chen Changsheng told Little Tree to gather strength before he left the Netherworld Forest with Zhang Bairen, who said his Hidden Pieces had already received messages through the Qilin Communicator.
• Baili Changkong told Ye Feng that Chen Changsheng had returned and asked whether Ye Feng would still support him.
• Ye Feng defended Chen Changsheng’s past mercy toward the Appeasers, saying it had helped them survive, and declared he was ready to fight again.
• Baili Changkong agreed that their old defeat had been at the hands of the Undertaker, not the people trained by him, and vowed to show the world.

Chen Changsheng learned that Zhang Bairen needed to recover the fragments of his Divine Sense Realm and True Spirit, including one held by Chen Mengjie, the daughter of the Wood Heavenly Emperor. They went to Apricot Forest Realm to find her, where Mengmeng devoted herself to treating the town’s elderly and refused to leave them.

• Zhang Bairen revealed that faking his death had split his Divine Sense Realm and True Spirit, and that a fragment of his True Spirit had fallen into Chen Mengjie’s hands.
• Chen Changsheng recognized Chen Mengjie as the daughter of Miao Shi, whom he had taught Medical Skills along with the medical paths of Cao Muzi and Old Man Yao.
• Zhang Bairen proposed starting their plans by approaching Chen Mengjie, and Chen Changsheng agreed but wanted to see what she had become first.
• In Apricot Forest Realm, Mengmeng treated Uncle Wang and urged him to stop smoking, while he encouraged her to leave town and see the wider world.
• Mengmeng refused to leave the elderly townspeople, saying she wanted to heal them and believed medicine could cure illness without relying on Natural Treasures.

Chen Mengjie rescued the badly injured Chen Changsheng, who tested her motives by attacking her after she treated him. Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen then arranged another test, and Zhang Bairen appeared before Chen Mengjie disguised as a hungry beggar.

• A fiery meteor fell near Apricot Forest Town, and Chen Mengjie went to rescue the stranger despite Uncle Wang warning her to stay away.
• Chen Mengjie carried the burned and mangled man back to her cottage and spent three hours stabilizing his injuries with Silver Needles.
• After Chen Mengjie finished treating him, the stranger ambushed her, but she immobilized him and said she would notify the Heavenly Court because of his Killing Intent and Karma Fire.
• Chen Changsheng recovered, revealed that he had been testing Chen Mengjie, and wagered with Zhang Bairen that she would pass another test.
• Zhang Bairen disguised himself as an Old Beggar, and Chen Mengjie examined him, found he was merely hungry, and helped him up before he spat on her face.

Chen Mengjie treated two disguised cultivators despite their cruel tricks, insisting she had helped them out of a physician’s duty and asking them to spare the townspeople. The men revealed they had only been testing her, then released her and praised her conduct.

• Old Beggar frightened Chen Mengjie, spat on her, and struck her with his Begging Stick, but she drove him off and gave him medicine and provisions.
• Chen Mengjie escorted Old Beggar down the mountain, then returned to find him and the recovered patient waiting in the cottage.
• The recovered man restrained Chen Mengjie and said he intended to kill her, while Old Beggar questioned whether she regretted helping them.
• Chen Mengjie explained that the Myriad Ages Medical Scripture taught physicians to treat everyone with compassion and asked the men not to harm Apricot Forest Town’s residents.
• Old Beggar flicked Chen Mengjie’s forehead instead of killing her, transformed into a young man, and joined the other man in revealing that they had been testing her.

Chen Changsheng questioned Chen Mengjie about her approach to healing and killing while Zhang Bairen kept the visitors outside with a plaque bearing the words “Imperial Preceptor Decree.” The chapter ended with Jiang Bo Yue asking Zhang Bairen whether he was the Lord of the Ancient Heavenly Court.

• Chen Mengjie reported Zhang Bairen and Chen Changsheng to her family, while Zhang Bairen revealed that Chen Changsheng was a powerful Demon Lord.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen to hang his Imperial Preceptor Decree plaque outside and said he would not meet the approaching visitors yet.
• Chen Changsheng praised Chen Mengjie for treating patients compassionately while keeping herself safe from dangerous people.
• Chen Mengjie explained that the Myriad Ages Medical Scripture taught people how to become healers, and Chen Changsheng acknowledged her careful study of it.
• Zhang Bairen kept the gathered elders outside the room because they could not determine who the Imperial Preceptor was.
• Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue arrived, and Jiang Bo Yue asked Zhang Bairen whether he was the Lord of the Ancient Heavenly Court.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he had returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch to kill, setting him against Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue, who warned they would oppose him if he obstructed their plans. The confrontation widened when Zhang Bairen insisted the current era was no longer Chen Changsheng’s to command, while Chen Mengjie learned the identities of the men she had rescued.

• Zhang Bairen brought Miao Shi and Jiang Bo Yue into the cottage after the Imperial Preceptor Decree agreed to receive them.
• Chen Changsheng told Miao Shi he had returned to the Chang Sheng Epoch to kill and would kill him too if he stood in the way.
• Jiang Bo Yue warned Chen Changsheng that he and his allies would act against him if he opposed their decision, then left with Miao Shi.
• Zhang Bairen confronted Chen Changsheng, insisting that the current era was not his to rule and warning him not to interfere.
• Chen Mengjie learned that the man she had saved was the Epoch Butcher and Undertaker, and that Zhang Bairen was the Heavenly Court’s first founder, the Jade Emperor.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen clashed over whether powerful cultivators should sacrifice themselves to face an impending crisis or everyone should fight together. Chen Mengjie urged Chen Changsheng to reconcile with Zhang Bairen and defended the responsibility of strong cultivators, leaving Chen Changsheng to challenge her with the question of whether she would feel the same if her father were involved.

• Chen Mengjie learned from the old woman that the founder of the Heavenly Court may have existed before Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li, and the old woman warned her to avoid the Uncanny people, especially Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen he would not let him use the people around him to fill a gap, and Zhang Bairen accused him of abandoning his duty as the Undertaker of heaven and earth.
• Zhang Bairen left, giving Chen Changsheng three hours to join him before he set off alone.
• Chen Mengjie entered and tried to mediate, but Chen Changsheng explained that he and Zhang Bairen disagreed over who should bear the cost of the coming crisis.
• Chen Mengjie favored powerful cultivators taking responsibility, and Chen Changsheng asked whether she would keep that view if her father were the one expected to sacrifice himself.

Chen Mengjie learned that her father and the other Four Heavenly Emperors had chosen a path that could cost them their lives, and asked Chen Changsheng to show her the traces of the Sages. As Chen Changsheng accepted his role as the Undertaker, the group set out toward the Supreme Sage’s true residence, while Yin Qi and Chen Xiang argued over their plan and learned Zhang Bairen had reappeared.

• Chen Changsheng told Chen Mengjie that her father, Uncle Jiang, and Uncle Miao supported a course that might lead to their deaths, but she said she would carry their responsibility onward if they fell.
• Chen Mengjie asked to see the traces left by the Sages, and Chen Changsheng agreed to take her along on their upcoming journey.
• Chen Changsheng admitted to Zhang Bairen that Epoch Massacre might have been the wrong choice, but Zhang Bairen told him to leave judgment to later generations and accept his role as the Undertaker.
• Chen Mengjie asked to visit Mountain and River Academy to pay her respects at the Supreme Sage’s residence, and Chen Changsheng said the Sage’s true residence was at the entrance to the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Xiang suggested tying up their father to prevent him from opposing their plan, but Yin Qi refused and warned him not to hurt their father again.
• Chen Xiang told Yin Qi that Zhang Bairen seemed to have reappeared in the world.

Chen Mengjie and Zhang Bairen discussed the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground and learned that her ancestors had fought the Sword God and Demon Emperor before the Epoch Calamity. When Jun Lin mistook Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen for enemies, he snatched Chen Mengjie away while the two men did nothing to stop him.

• Chen Xiang and Yin Qi agreed that Chen Changsheng should meet his grandson Chen Mengjie and show him the world.
• Zhang Bairen explained that the Supreme Sage had moved to the Reincarnation Forbidden Ground to suppress it, and recounted the battle there and the deaths of Sword Immortal Meng Yu, the White-Haired Sword God, and the Demon Emperor.
• Zhang Bairen told Chen Mengjie that her ancestors had been enemies of the Chang Sheng Epoch, and that the war had helped the Demon Emperor and Sword God become famous before Chen Changsheng's arrival began the Epoch Calamity.
• Chen Changsheng interrupted Zhang Bairen and Chen Mengjie's conversation when Jun Lin blocked their path and questioned who the two men were.
• Jun Lin suddenly attacked and whisked Chen Mengjie away while Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen did not intervene.

Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen intercepted Jun Lin and Chen Mengjie after Jun Lin sensed their danger and tried to flee. Jun Lin’s summoned reinforcements from Dragon Tiger Mountain and the Underworld both ran away upon seeing Chen Changsheng, and the chapter ended with Xu Yao arriving but hesitating to intervene.

• Jun Lin used his Double pupils to judge Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen dangerous, then fled with Chen Mengjie and sent requests for aid to the Heavenly Court and the Underworld.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen caught up with Jun Lin and knocked him from the sky, prompting Jun Lin to call Chen Changsheng his ancestor and summon the Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain.
• The Old Celestial Master recognized Chen Changsheng and fled, while a paper figure created by Chen Changsheng began beating Jun Lin.
• Ox-Head and Horse Face arrived as the Underworld reinforcements, recognized the danger, and immediately withdrew.
• Jun Lin called out to Xu Yao for help, but Xu Yao hesitated when she faced Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng returned and had his clone beat Jun Lin for two hours before Chen Xiao arrived and Zhang Bairen intervened. He learned that Jun Lin and Chen Xiao had run away after arguing with their parents over how they treated him, and forbade them from discussing his affairs with their parents again.

• Chen Changsheng ordered Xu Yao to leave, summon Chen Xiao within two hours, and keep others away, while his clone continued beating Jun Lin.
• Chen Changsheng and Zhang Bairen watched Jun Lin endure the beating for two hours before Chen Xiao arrived and greeted them.
• Zhang Bairen stopped the fight, and Chen Changsheng warned Jun Lin and Chen Xiao not to repeat their offenses.
• Jun Lin asked when Chen Changsheng had returned and why he came back, but Chen Changsheng said Jun Lin was not qualified to know.
• Chen Xiao and Jun Lin admitted they had run away after arguing with their family because they thought their parents treated Chen Changsheng unfairly.
• Chen Changsheng told them not to discuss his affairs with their parents again, and Jun Lin asked why they could not speak up for him.

Chen Changsheng told Jun Lin, Chen Xiao, and Chen Mengjie to retrace their elders’ path so they could understand the past before judging it, then explained the history and limits of the Forbidden Grounds. When they sensed a familiar presence and fighting at the God and Demon Cemetery, Chen Changsheng brought the children there, where Chen Xiao found Xu Qianzhui and Ruan competing for a Sword Box.

• Chen Changsheng told Jun Lin that he and the others needed to travel their elders’ old road and promised to explain the full story behind their families’ conflicts.
• Chen Xiao said they had come to the Eight Desolations Nine Regions to seek opportunities in the God and Demon Cemetery and meet Mountain and River Academy’s younger generation.
• Chen Changsheng explained the six Forbidden Grounds and revealed that even Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li had failed to destroy them, while Chen Changsheng himself had been knocked back down after following him.
• After Zhang Bairen sensed movement, Chen Changsheng took the children to the God and Demon Cemetery, where Xu Qianzhui and Ruan paused their fight over a Sword Box.
• Chen Xiao greeted Xu Qianzhui and asked what treasure he and Ruan had found.