Chapter Summaries

Jun Lin and Chen Xiao learned that the Forbidden Grounds had long been preparing for war and heard rumors linking the Void Forbidden Ground to an old assassination. Heng Tian joined their planned trip to the Black Triangle, and Jun Lin and Chen Xiao suspected he already knew its location.

• Liu Yidao explained that the righteous path and the Forbidden Grounds had fought before, and that many supposedly vanished powerful figures had died in that war.
• After Jun Lin gave Liu Yidao a Beast Hide Pouch, Liu Yidao shared rumors that the Void Forbidden Ground had arranged the assassination of a Great Shang Dynasty expert in retaliation for a treasure seized by Jun Lin's Father Emperor.
• Liu Yidao said a mysterious expert later ambushed the Forbidden Grounds, with the Void Forbidden Ground suffering the greatest losses.
• Heng Tian asked to travel with Jun Lin and Chen Xiao to the Black Triangle, and Liu Yidao suggested they consult Chen Changsheng for its location.
• Jun Lin said Chen Changsheng had not replied, and Heng Tian prepared a small warship to change their course.
• Chen Xiao privately asked Jun Lin whether he had contacted Chen Changsheng, and Jun Lin admitted he had not and suspected Heng Tian knew where the Black Triangle was.

Chen Changsheng arranged the Golden Age Gathering’s second stage as a bounty-driven melee in the Black Triangle, while ordering Heavenly Court and Apricot Forest Town to act there. Su Wan'er confronted Jun Lin’s secluded maternal grandfather and demanded that he choose between continuing his retreat and protecting Jun Lin.

• Chen Xiao and Jun Lin discussed their plan to learn the Black Triangle’s location and joked about using Chen Changsheng’s reputation as cover.
• Chen Changsheng explained why the prodigies were heading to the Black Triangle and ordered Pang Hong to place bounties on the Golden Age Gathering participants.
• Chen Changsheng instructed Heavenly Court to eliminate high-level cultivators who killed prodigies and told Little Wood to mobilize Apricot Forest Town.
• Little Wood said Meng'er could go to the Black Triangle through her karmic connection, and Chen Changsheng encouraged her to spend time with Jun Lin.
• Su Wan'er visited Jun Lin’s secluded maternal grandfather and demanded that he leave seclusion to protect Jun Lin if his grandson’s life mattered more to him than his own.

Su Wan'er enlisted Jun Lin's maternal grandfather to help protect him, and he confronted Qi Xianglan over neglecting her duties as his mother and Empress. Meanwhile, Jun Lin invited Ye Yu to join the group as they prepared to seek refuge at the Blood Blade Organization's headquarters, the Black Triangle, where an unknown man suddenly appeared.

• Su Wan'er told Jun Lin's maternal grandfather about the danger Jun Lin faced and asked him to help keep his grandson alive.
• Su Wan'er criticized Qi Xianglan's conduct as Empress before leaving, and Jun Lin's maternal grandfather set out to protect Jun Lin.
• Jun Lin's maternal grandfather rebuked Qi Xianglan for prioritizing Jun Lin's trials over his safety and left her kneeling in the palace.
• Jun Lin invited Ye Yu to travel with the group to the Black Triangle, the Blood Blade Organization's headquarters, to lie low amid the turmoil.
• An unfamiliar man appeared beside Jun Lin and Ye Yu, prompting the gathered heaven's prodigies to become vigilant.

Chen Changsheng explained that the Golden Age Gathering’s second phase would take place in the Black Triangle, where prodigies had to complete a bounty mission anonymously to win. As Jun Lin and Chen Xiao traveled there separately, Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu saw the bounties appear, including one against Chen Feng.

• A stranger delivered Chen Changsheng’s message and a Jade Slip, and Chen Changsheng explained that the prodigies had three days to reach the Black Triangle before bounties took effect.
• Chen Changsheng said participants had to complete a bounty mission anonymously, and that exposing their identities would make their missions fail.
• Liu Yidao refused to attack his companions and left, while Jun Lin and Chen Xiao also departed after Chen Changsheng warned Jun Lin that many people wanted him dead.
• Jun Lin and Chen Xiao decided to travel separately and began constructing a Teleportation Array to reach the Black Triangle.
• At the Black Triangle, Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu argued over Chen Feng’s codename before red light revealed high-grade bounties against numerous prodigies, including Chen Feng.

Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu discussed the danger facing the Pill Epoch, while Chen Changsheng entered the formation to guide the prodigies through past choices. Yin Qi relived the moment after Nalan’s death and faced Chen Changsheng’s demand to decide whether the whole world deserved to live.

• Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu agreed that helping the Chang Sheng Epoch could prepare them to protect the Pill Epoch from future catastrophe.
• Chen Changsheng decided to enter the fray himself and left Jiang Bo Yue, Miao Shi, and the others to guard the formation.
• Jiang Bo Yue explained that Chen Changsheng was protecting Jun Lin and his generation because their hope and kindness could shape the Chang Sheng Epoch’s future.
• The formation returned Yin Qi to the aftermath of the Supreme Sage’s fall, where he saw Chen Changsheng in the depths of grief over Nalan’s death.
• Yin Qi told Chen Changsheng that Nalan’s vengeance must be avenged but that the people of the world were not responsible for Nalan’s death.
• Chen Changsheng challenged Yin Qi to explain why the world’s people should live after Scholar died fighting for them.

Chen Changsheng confessed the grief driving his vow to slaughter everyone in the world, and Yin Qi chose to accompany him. Meanwhile, Jun Lin reached the Black Triangle, joined the Blood Blade Organization as “Enthusiastic Little Cultivator,” and began learning how its assassins concealed their identities.

• Chen Changsheng told Yin Qi that he had hidden his compassion and could no longer endure the deaths of those around him, so he planned to avenge Scholar by slaughtering everyone under heaven.
• Yin Qi asked whether killing would ease Chen Changsheng's pain, then agreed to accompany his father on the bloody journey.
• After three days of teleportation, Jun Lin arrived at the Black Triangle and learned how Blood Blade membership, mission ranks, and assassin promotions worked.
• Jun Lin paid extra for guidance, registered under the codename “Enthusiastic Little Cultivator,” and entered a randomly assigned Small World.
• In Blood Blade 107, Jun Lin paid a shop attendant for help and learned that the Black Triangle sold identity-concealment methods said to come from Sky Abyss City.

Jun Lin bought all 139 Human Skin Masks in a shop and learned that assassins were raising their ranks to pursue the lucrative Crimson Gold Bounty Orders. At Assassin Square, he discovered that he himself was a bounty target and asked Chen Changsheng whether turning himself in would earn him half the reward.

• Jun Lin tested a Human Skin Mask with his Double Pupils and caused it to explode, then heard how masks could warn against probing and be customized to imitate another person's appearance and aura.
• Jun Lin bought all 139 Human Skin Masks for 291 million Divine Source and tipped the attendant an extra 100,000.
• The attendant told Jun Lin that the Crimson Gold Bounty Orders had prompted veteran assassins to raise their ranks, and directed him to Assassin Square to see the rewards.
• Jun Lin found a bounty order naming Yin Jun Lin, Crown Prince of the Great Shang Dynasty, as its target and offering 100 million Divine Source, a Longevity Immortal Pill, the Demon Emperor's lifelong insights, and an Origin Emperor Weapon.
• Jun Lin contacted Chen Changsheng and asked whether turning himself in would let him claim half the bounty.

Chen Changsheng explained to Bai Ze that the Black Triangle bounty competition was designed to draw out dangerous opportunists while keeping the Heaven's Chosen safe. He met Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu at a tavern, forbade them from interfering with the Crimson Gold Bounty Order, and tasked them with finding someone who had appeared in the Black Triangle.

• Jun Lin questioned Chen Changsheng about the bounties on him, Chen Feng, and others, but Chen Changsheng denied responsibility and ended their call.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that he would renege on the bounties if powerful figures attacked the Heaven's Chosen and eliminate any reckless Loose Cultivators who entered the competition.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that the Crimson Gold Bounty Order was never meant to be claimed and that the real missions would target wavering people in the Black Triangle.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze decided to find Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu and see their reactions to their bounties.
• At a tavern, Chen Feng worried that his bounty meant he would never obtain the Sword God's Sword, while Lu Mingyu reassured him about Chen Changsheng's intentions.
• Chen Changsheng ordered Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu not to interfere with the Crimson Gold Bounty Order and told them to find a person he sensed had appeared in the Black Triangle.

Chen Changsheng sent Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng to find and train an important person, while he coordinated with Zhang Bairen about the Forbidden Grounds and the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System. He then planned to disguise himself and Bai Ze as assassins in the Black Triangle, leaving them ready to target the gathering’s geniuses without killing anyone.

• Chen Changsheng ordered Lu Mingyu to find and train a person, and Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng decided to investigate the Chang Sheng Epoch through the Black Triangle.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen he planned to leak information about the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, while Zhang Bairen warned that it could drive the Forbidden Grounds into hiding.
• Chen Changsheng told Zhang Bairen that the Forbidden Grounds were too dangerous to confront hastily and that he needed to keep some resources for future threats, including Giant Hand’s return.
• Chen Changsheng proposed that he and Bai Ze pose as assassins and frighten the geniuses gathered in the Black Triangle without letting any of them die.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that the geniuses carried valuable goods, citing Jun Lin’s two-hundred-million Divine Source purchase and his own intelligence network in the Black Triangle.

Chen Changsheng disguised Bai Ze as a human, while Zhao Wu Yu’s divination came true when Liu Yidao and Chen Xiao ambushed him in the Space Channel. Zhao Wu Yu escaped with a Jade Talisman after identifying the attackers, and they decided to target Liu Yidao next.

• Chen Changsheng used a Human Skin Mask and illusion technique to disguise Bai Ze as a burly man.
• Wu Yu divined that he would encounter petty men before reaching peace and great fortune, then the Space Channel suddenly shattered around him.
• A bald attacker and a burly man attacked Zhao Wu Yu, who killed the bald man with a treasure containing an Immortal King strike.
• The bald attacker revived, revealing himself as Liu Yidao, while Chen Xiao continued assaulting Zhao Wu Yu.
• Zhao Wu Yu escaped with a Jade Talisman after striking Chen Xiao and identifying him and Liu Yidao, and the two resolved to draw Liu Yidao out next.

Chen Xiao and Liu Yidao were blamed for Zhao Wu Yu’s ambush, stirring up the Black Triangle’s assassins and disrupting the balance around the Crimson Gold Bounty Order. As they planned to muddy the waters further, Ye Yongxian deduced that Chen Changsheng had engineered the turmoil to draw loose cultivators into the Golden Age Gathering’s second stage.

• Zhao Wu Yu issued a Wanted Order blaming Liu Yidao and Chen Xiao for ambushing him, offering a bounty of Thirty Million Divine Source.
• Disguised as an ordinary woman, Liu Yidao learned of the accusation and decided to muddy the waters further with a frame-up plan.
• Chen Xiao contacted Jun Lin, who advised him to disguise himself as the Child of the Forbidden Ground and target Heng Tian while Jun Lin caused trouble elsewhere.
• Ye Yu asked Ye Yongxian whether Liu Yidao and Chen Xiao had attacked Zhao Wu Yu, and Ye Yongxian suspected Chen Changsheng was behind the disturbance.
• Ye Yongxian explained that Chen Changsheng was using Ye Yu as bait to draw loose cultivators into the game and begin the Golden Age Gathering’s second stage.

Ye Yongxian warned Ye Yu that Chen Changsheng would likely target him next, but Ye Yu eagerly set out to confront the schemes himself. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng’s paper duplicate offered Ye Yongxian the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System in exchange for killing North Sea, but withheld the system until after the Dark Turmoil was dealt with.

• Ye Yongxian told Ye Yu that Chen Changsheng excelled at tricks and might frame him as part of a staged identity drama.
• Ye Yu said he enjoyed the surprises of crossing paths with Chen Changsheng, and Ye Yongxian predicted Chen Changsheng would target Liu Yidao to stop him from exposing the lie.
• Ye Yongxian gave Ye Yu a Jade Slip with clues about Liu Yidao’s likely whereabouts, and Ye Yu left wearing a ghost-face mask.
• After Ye Yu left, Ye Yongxian confronted Chen Changsheng’s paper duplicate for staying on his territory and accused him of wanting to monitor him through a Qilin Communicator.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ye Yongxian to kill North Sea in exchange for the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, and Ye Yongxian agreed only if he received the complete system afterward.
• Chen Changsheng refused to hand over the system until after the Dark Turmoil, saying he would not trust Ye Yongxian with it yet.

Chen Changsheng and Ye Yongxian agreed on a plan for the Dark Turmoil, while Ye Yongxian warned him that his powerful followers could become a threat. Amid escalating clashes and rumors in the Black Triangle, Liu Yidao and Chen Xiao revealed that they had both been ambushed by formidable unknown enemies.

• Chen Changsheng agreed to leave the Black Triangle alone while driving the forbidden grounds out, and Ye Yongxian warned that Chen Changsheng’s followers could commit grave evils.
• Heng Tian received a message about a Child of the Forbidden Ground in the Gold World and decided to investigate despite suspecting a trap.
• Rumors spread across the Black Triangle about attacks on Lan Yu, Yin Jun Lin, Bai Zhi, Liu Yidao, and other cultivators, prompting people to join the fighting.
• Liu Yidao, badly injured and disguised as a female cultivator, suspected Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze had attacked him and set out to obtain treasures and complete bounties.
• Chen Xiao told Jun Lin that an unknown Immortal King at least Third Grade had ambushed him while he was traveling to attack Heng Tian.

Jun Lin and Chen Xiao discovered that reports of prodigies being hunted were contradictory, then were attacked by impostors posing as Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze. After escaping, the real Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze planned to exploit the ensuing chaos to raid the Forbidden Grounds.

• Jun Lin learned that prodigies including Ruan Su Xian, Bai Zhi, Ling Dao, Heng Tian, Ye Yu, and Liu Yidao reported being hunted by people wearing other prodigies' identities.
• Jun Lin and Chen Xiao decided to flee to the Eight Desolations Nine Regions, but impostors disguised as Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze appeared and attacked them.
• The impostors smashed apart Jun Lin and Chen Xiao's bodies, but Jun Lin used a trump card to escape with Chen Xiao.
• The real Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze discussed how wearing a mask of Chen Changsheng's own face had helped them fool their targets.
• Chen Changsheng rejected further pursuit and planned to raid the Forbidden Grounds while its experts were away, after placing a bounty on Lu Mingyu.

Chen Feng read a bounty claiming Lu Mingyu possessed parts of the bitter sea emperor realm system, and Lu Mingyu explained how his teacher’s techniques formed its foundation. He described the Original True Understanding’s power, leaving Chen Feng convinced that the bitter sea system depended on its supporting arts to reach its full strength.

• Chen Feng confronted Lu Mingyu over the bounty notice, and Lu Mingyu said his teacher had likely taught him the foundation of the bitter sea emperor realm system without naming it.
• Lu Mingyu explained that he had learned the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique, the Fighting Saint Technique, and the Original True Understanding from his teacher.
• Lu Mingyu said the Original True Understanding perfected the bitter sea system and allowed cultivators to release their full power without injury or exhaustion.
• Lu Mingyu demonstrated his strengthened body by tearing open space with his fingers, then said he grew stronger as he fought unless an enemy killed him instantly.
• Chen Feng concluded that the bitter sea system required the Original True Understanding, the Fighting Saint Technique, and other supporting techniques to become complete.

Lu Mingyu explained the lifespan costs and limits of the Bitter Sea cultivation system to Chen Feng, then revealed he had found the person they were seeking. At the Eight Desolations Nine Regions border, Meng Po saved Jun Lin and gravely wounded Chen Xiao from Black Triangle assassins, but said Chen Xiao could only be saved by going to Reincarnation.

• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that cultivating the Original True Understanding prevented self-sealing and could leave him with only a limited lifespan, while future Bitter Sea Emperor Realm cultivators would have to advance or give up their power.
• Chen Feng said he understood the burden of creating a cultivation system, and Lu Mingyu explained that he and Chen Feng might have to remain in the Black Triangle while Lu Mingyu's teacher stirred events.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that he had found the person they had been asked to seek.
• At the border of the Eight Desolations Nine Regions, assassins pursuing Jun Lin and Chen Xiao wounded Chen Xiao as he shielded Jun Lin.
• Meng Po appeared among a sea of Other Shore Flowers, moved the Boundary Marker so Jun Lin and Chen Xiao were inside the region, and forced the assassins to retreat.
• Meng Po told Jun Lin that Chen Xiao's injuries were too severe for her to heal and that they would need the power of rebirth from Reincarnation to save him.

Jun Lin entered the Underworld to seek Reincarnation power for the gravely injured Chen Xiao, while Chen Changsheng gave Chen Xiao twelve shichen to discover a way forward for the Path of the Physical Body. Jun Lin faced the Underworld’s defenses as Chen Xiao began searching for a breakthrough, and Chen Changsheng worried he might not find one in time.

• Meng Po warned Jun Lin that the Underworld was under martial law and that Iron-Faced Judge Mao Shiba would not let outsiders pass without approval.
• Jun Lin chose to enter the Underworld with his Divine Soul despite the danger, and Meng Po warned him he would have to cross the Bridge of Helplessness to obtain Reincarnation power.
• Meng Po’s paper figure awakened Chen Xiao and revealed that he had about twelve shichen to find a way forward for the Path of the Physical Body or die.
• Chen Changsheng told Chen Xiao that spiritual power, rather than flesh and blood, held the key to unlocking the body’s limits, then the paper figure burned away.
• Chen Xiao began comprehending the Path of the Physical Body, while Chen Changsheng admitted to Bai Ze that he was unsure Chen Xiao could find the answer in time.

Chen Changsheng explained that perfecting the physical body required remolding an ordinary constitution, then prepared to explore the Heavens Forbidden Ground with Bai Ze. At the Black Triangle, Chen Feng used his intuition to identify a meteorite workshop as the likely place where Jian Fei was sealed, and Lu Mingyu agreed to trust him.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that ordinary bodies had the greatest potential for remolding and could eventually become immune to all techniques.
• Chen Changsheng said they would explore the Heavens Forbidden Ground rather than return to investigate Chen Xiao’s body, and Bai Ze opened a Spatial Rift.
• Ye Yongxian worried that the growing crowd of powerful figures at the Black Triangle could threaten the Blood Blade Organization’s safety.
• Chen Feng told Lu Mingyu that Jian Fei was likely alive because the nine famous swords in Cui Hao Yu’s Sword Box showed no death aura.
• Chen Feng said his intuition led him to the meteorites in Blood Blade Sixteen, where he believed Jian Fei was sealed, and Lu Mingyu chose to trust him.

Jun Lin entered the Underworld to borrow Reincarnation’s power to save his elder brother, but Black and White Impermanence tried to stop him. After his Wuzhi Qi Bloodline erupted and he broke free, he charged toward the Underworld’s depths, while Xu Hu sent him an Embroidery Needle.

• Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu began choosing meteorites.
• Jun Lin reached the Underworld and asked Black and White Impermanence to let him enter, then challenged them when they refused.
• Black and White Impermanence knocked Jun Lin down and bound him with the Soul Locking Chain, but his ancient aura awakened his Wuzhi Qi Bloodline.
• Xu Hu sent an Embroidery Needle toward Jun Lin, and Jun Lin transformed into a hundred-zhang white ape, broke the chain, and struck Black and White Impermanence aside.
• Black and White Impermanence decided not to pursue Jun Lin and joked that the Underworld should compensate them for their injuries and replace their broken treasure.
• Meng Po sensed Jun Lin’s violent aura and questioned Xu Hu, who explained that Jun Lin had awakened the Wuzhi Qi Bloodline.

Chen Changsheng brought Bai Ze into Heavens Forbidden Ground and decided to study its gravity before using the place as a trial ground. He revealed a plan to destroy the arrogant Heavens Forbidden Ground by drawing Little Immortal Elder and Giant Hand into the conflict, leaving Bai Ze to see how he intended to make others fight in his place.

• Xu Hu dropped an iron pillar before the white ape in Yellow Springs Road, but the raging creature failed to pull it free.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze entered Heavens Forbidden Ground, where the crushing gravity forced Bai Ze to shrink himself.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the ground's gravity compressed Longevity Bloodstones and made them more effective, and he said he wanted to turn the place into a trial ground.
• When Bai Ze feared Chen Changsheng planned to attack Heavens Forbidden Ground alone, Chen Changsheng said he would no longer sacrifice himself or those around him to win.
• Chen Changsheng planned to use pressure from Yin Qi, Hundred Defeats Immortal's return, and his own authority to push Little Immortal Elder and Giant Hand into destroying a Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Changsheng chose Heavens Forbidden Ground as his target because of its recent arrogance.