Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng explained that he planned to destroy Heavens Forbidden Ground and drive the other forbidden grounds from the Chang Sheng Epoch, though he was still waiting for the right opportunity and more intelligence. At the border of the Eight Desolations Nine Regions, Chen Xiao realized that physical cultivators had been pursuing the wrong path, but he had not yet explained the alternative to Meng Po.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Giant Hand's return could provoke the forbidden grounds, and that destroying Heavens Forbidden Ground would make the others flee.
• Chen Changsheng said his plan still depended on intelligence from Hundred Defeats Immortal and the arrival of a favorable opportunity.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to accompany Bai Ze treasure hunting in Heavens Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Xiao asked Meng Po whether the physical body had limits, and she said physical cultivators could not grow endlessly stronger like Divine Power Cultivators.
• Chen Xiao concluded that physical cultivators had been wrong to keep charging ahead blindly and that they needed to carve out another path.

Chen Xiao pursued his new understanding of the Path of the Physical Body after Meng Po released the seal keeping his soul in his body. He appeared to die while exploring his body with mental power, but Chen Changsheng confirmed remotely that Chen Xiao had survived and taken the first step toward becoming a Physical Body Saint.

• Chen Xiao explained to Meng Po that controlling every part of his body with mental power could make his body an exceptionally precise magical treasure, and he asked her to release his seal.
• Meng Po warned that unsealing Chen Xiao would make his severe injuries worsen, but she released it after he said he would accept death to pursue the Dao.
• Chen Xiao used his mental power to examine his damaged body, then collapsed as his life lamp went out.
• Meng Po contacted Chen Changsheng, who told her to insert the communicator's probe into Chen Xiao's body so he could inspect him remotely.
• Chen Changsheng examined the data and concluded that Chen Xiao had survived and taken the first step on the Path of the Physical Body, while warning that resurrection methods were taboo.

Chen Changsheng demonstrated the Virtual World to Bai Ze and explained his plan to connect worlds across epochs. He wanted to build it on a vast scale, but admitted he could not yet do so.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Qilin Communicator’s technology was worth more than its materials and demonstrated its long-distance item transmission function to Bai Ze.
• Chen Changsheng unlocked a new function, and Bai Ze entered the Virtual World, a mental-energy realm designed to provide cultivators with a trial ground.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had combined breakthroughs from the Pill Epoch with technology from the Heavenly Dao Society’s Heavenly Dao Tokens to develop the Virtual World.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that he wanted to connect the worlds across epochs, gather information, and gain control over the virtual realm.
• Bai Ze urged Chen Changsheng to build the Virtual World so they could confront the Forbidden Ground, but Chen Changsheng said he could not build it yet.

Chen Changsheng explained that he could not build a complete Virtual World yet, but planned to create one spanning two epochs using the Qilin Communicator. Meanwhile, Chen Xiao explored the peculiar spaces within his body and began repairing them, while Meng Po watched his supposedly dead body start to regenerate.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that a complete Virtual World required too many resources and too much coordination, but a smaller one spanning two epochs was possible.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Qian Ya was expanding the Qilin Communicator market in the Pill Epoch and said the Virtual World would give them leverage when the Giant Hand returned.
• Meng Po reflected that she could not comprehend Chen Xiao’s insights and resolved to protect him because Chen Changsheng said he was not dead.
• Chen Xiao passed through layers of peculiar spaces in his Inner World, recognized them as parts of his body, and began repairing damaged spaces with divine power.
• Meng Po saw flesh growing from Chen Xiao’s wound, detaching from his body, and regenerating on its own despite his lost divine sense.

While digging for treasures in the Heavens Forbidden Ground, Chen Changsheng explained the deeper principles behind Chen Xiao’s and Wang Hao’s paths of physical cultivation. He revealed why Wang Hao had become too dangerous to attack and warned that driving him into a corner could unleash an evolving army from his Blood Sea.

• Bai Ze asked Chen Changsheng what Path of the Physical Body Chen Xiao followed, and Chen Changsheng explained that it relied on controlling the body with mental power.
• Chen Changsheng described the layers he called “Life Composition” and “Source of Bloodline,” explaining that mastery of the latter could theoretically let a being change races.
• Chen Changsheng said Wang Hao had grown greedy, devoured bloodlines, and become a monster with many abilities and powerful clones.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Wang Hao’s Blood Sea was his enormous physical body, transformed to halt the deterioration of his Source of Bloodline.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Wang Hao had created the Asura Tribe and could turn the Blood Sea into countless adaptable creatures if forced into a dead end.
• Bai Ze argued that even an immense swarm could not prevail against one of the legendary beings.

Chen Changsheng explained the Locust Plan and his new approach to perfecting Chen Xiao’s Life Composition, while Chen Xiao underwent a drastic transformation. In the Underworld, Jun Lin awakened his bloodlines, claimed the Sky-Piercing Iron Pillar, and opened his Double pupils.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that Wang Hao’s Locust Army could evolve counters to its enemies and described the Four Calamities as different methods of slaughter.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had abandoned the Source of Bloodline and Devour Heaven and Earth methods, and proposed reshaping Life Composition by shattering the Life Lamp Realm and Sea of Bitterness.
• Chen Changsheng said Chen Xiao’s new constitution could be inherited by his descendants, who could cultivate it without breaking their Life Lamp Realm or Sea of Bitterness.
• At the Boundary of the Eight Desolations Nine Regions, Meng Po watched Chen Xiao shatter his Life Lamp Realm and Sea of Bitterness, then saw his flesh consume his original body.
• In the Underworld, the giant ape became Jun Lin, who took the Sky-Piercing Iron Pillar as his weapon.
• After awakening the bloodlines of Wuzhi Qi and the Black Bird, Jun Lin opened his Double pupils and saw every law in the world.

Jun Lin discovered the Law Combination that allowed him to break through toward becoming a Title Immortal Venerable, while Ox-Head and Horse Face charged into battle beside him. Mao Shiba protected the Underworld fighters with promotions and a wanted order against Jun Lin, and Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng continued searching for a hidden Natural Treasure in Black Triangle.

• Jun Lin comprehended the Laws of Heaven and Earth and found the Law Combination he had long sought.
• Ox-Head and Horse Face reflected on how their lives had changed under their sir, then transformed and joined Jun Lin's battle.
• Mao Shiba promoted Black and White Impermanence, raised Ox-Head and Horse Face's salaries, and ordered the highest-level wanted order for Yin Jun Lin.
• Lu Mingyu questioned Chen Feng's intuition after they spent nearly all their money searching stones in Black Triangle.
• Chen Feng explained that they could crack every stone or enlist a stone-gambling expert, and Lu Mingyu proposed robbing the nearby shops.

Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng sought a stone-gambling expert to find Jian Fei, while Liu Yidao asked Xu Qianzhui for help escaping the chaos of the Golden Age Gathering. The chapter ended with Liu Yidao threatening Xu after she refused to help him.

• Ye Yongxian warned Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng not to break the Black Triangle's Rules and suggested seeking Nalan Zi Ping or a gifted young stone gambler.
• Lu Mingyu inferred that Chen Changsheng's lifelong skills might have been passed down and chose Liu Yidao as their next lead.
• In the Water Realm, Xu Qianzhui challenged Liu Yidao over his destruction of a sect and said she would report him to Princess Wu Yang.
• Liu Yidao asked Xu Qianzhui to vouch for him so he could cooperate with Jun Lin and the others again, but she refused.
• Liu Yidao threatened to kill Xu Qianzhui, who calmly reminded him that he had already killed Wang Shanhuo.

Xu Qianzhui confronted Liu Yidao over his regrets about Wang Shanhuo and urged him to face his own choices. After Zhang Zhen guided him through a saber duel, Liu Yidao left with Lu Mingyu to join Jun Lin and Chen Xiao.

• Xu Qianzhui accused Liu Yidao of causing Wang Shanhuo's death through hesitation and of refusing to face his weakness, while Liu Yidao reminded Xu Qianzhui that Zhang Zixuan had died because of his choices.
• Xu Qianzhui left Liu Yidao at a safe haven arranged by Senior Changsheng and said Lu Mingyu and Chen Feng might need his help.
• Liu Yidao asked Zhang Zhen for guidance, then practiced his saber through the storm, venting his pain as Chen Feng and Zhang Zhen watched.
• Zhang Zhen admitted he had let Mister down and summoned a phantom to demonstrate his saber techniques to Liu Yidao, who defeated it.
• Lu Mingyu told Liu Yidao that Jun Lin and Chen Xiao had made considerable progress, and Liu Yidao agreed to leave with him.

Chen Xiao tested the immense physical strength he gained after completing his transformation, then Lu Mingyu appeared and forcibly took him away to seek his help in the Black Triangle. The chapter ended with Chen Xiao trapped in Lu Mingyu’s Divine Power Giant Hand.

• Chen Xiao completed his transformation and told Meng Po that he no longer had a Bitter Sea or Life Lamp Realm.
• Meng Po tested Chen Xiao with increasingly powerful attacks, but his Golden Qi and Blood and newly reassembled body let him endure them and tear open her authority-made cauldron.
• Lu Mingyu arrived and warned Meng Po that Chen Xiao needed time to recover before fighting more intensely.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Xiao he needed help with trouble in the Black Triangle and promised to teach him how to break the mess Teacher left behind.
• When Chen Xiao questioned him, Lu Mingyu seized him with a Divine Power Giant Hand and said that Chen Xiao was too weak to resist.

Lu Mingyu rescued Chen Xiao and the others from the Underworld, then explained that Chen Changsheng had likely arranged their ordeal and warned that he could be more dangerous than their enemies. He revealed that Liu Yidao had summoned him to the Black Triangle to search for a particular ore, relying on Jun Lin and Chen Xiao's luck.

• Lu Mingyu asked Chen Xiao to call him Brother Lu, thanked Meng Po, and prepared to leave after Chen Feng brought Jun Lin out of the Underworld with his weakened Divine Soul restored to his body.
• Lu Mingyu took the group away from the Underworld and warned Jun Lin that Chen Changsheng might be their greatest danger, explaining that the Underworld's response to their intrusion suggested it had been protecting Jun Lin.
• Jun Lin wondered when they would see through Chen Changsheng's schemes, and Lu Mingyu told him that only more experience could help.
• Liu Yidao emerged and said they needed to search the Stone Gambling House in the Black Triangle for something Lu Mingyu wanted.
• Liu Yidao admitted he had brought Chen Xiao and Jun Lin because he needed their luck for stone gambling.

Jun Lin and Liu Yidao searched for the mysterious stone gambling master who had once won a fortune in the Black Triangle, then discovered that Chen Mengjie had used the master's codename, Little Orchid. The group began to suspect that Chen Xiao knew more about Chen Mengjie’s connection to the legendary gambler than he admitted.

• Liu Yidao explained that a mysterious stone gambling master had won nearly a billion Divine Source in the Black Triangle about a hundred years earlier, but no faction had discovered the person's identity.
• Lu Mingyu examined a list of the miscellaneous treasures the master had taken and concluded the choices might have been meant to confuse investigators.
• Chen Xiao asked the master's codename, and Liu Yidao confirmed that it was Little Orchid.
• Chen Xiao called Chen Mengjie, who said she was in the Black Triangle and confirmed that her codename was Little Orchid.
• Chen Xiao explained that Chen Mengjie had once told him she wanted to use that nickname, and Jun Lin teased him by asking who gave him his Snow Spider Silk handkerchief.

Chen Changsheng harvested a high-quality Vajra Stone and began developing new Qilin Communicators and spirit medicines for the Bitter Sea System. He also explained that he considered North Sea too ambitious to trust and intended to kill him.

• Chen Xiao defended his Snow Spider Silk handkerchief to Jun Lin, then explained why Little Orchid had bought the Jade Pipe and Red Bloodwood.
• Lu Mingyu led the group away from the meteorite to continue searching for what he needed.
• Chen Changsheng found a large, high-quality Vajra Stone and said he would use it to make Qilin Communicators that let cultivators enter the Virtual World.
• Chen Changsheng planted Spiritual Plants to cultivate spirit medicines for the Bitter Sea System and said North Sea might want to replace Wang Hao.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that North Sea must die because his exposed ambition could lead him to dominate the era.

Chen Changsheng explained why he rejected the Forbidden Grounds’ attempt to seize power and laid out a scheme to profit from stone gambling. Meanwhile, Lu Mingyu and his companions reached the Black Triangle and learned that pursuing their goal at the Stone Gambling House would require vast funds and knowledge of its Inner Courtyard.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that North Sea had to die for trying to let the Forbidden Grounds control the world, while Wang Hao had understood the boundary everyone was expected to respect.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he planned to recover the money he had lost by using bounty orders and stone gambling to profit from the prodigies’ wealth.
• Chen Changsheng said Lu Mingyu’s visit to the Stone Gambling House to find Jian Fei would draw others there, where they would face top-grade ores from shattered worlds.
• Lu Mingyu and his companions returned to the Black Triangle, and Chen Mengjie warned them that the Stone Gambling House was dangerous for inexperienced visitors.
• Chen Mengjie told Lu Mingyu to prepare five billion Divine Source to seek a specific item, then explained that the expensive Inner Courtyard ores required opening many stones.
• Chen Mengjie realized that Lu Mingyu and the others did not even know what the Inner Courtyard was and concluded that five billion would not be enough.

Chen Mengjie explained the Black Triangle’s Stone Gambling Houses and took the group into an outer-tier house to teach them how to judge ore. After praising their first picks, she revealed the house had rigged the stones.

• Chen Mengjie said valuable ores were likely kept in the Inner Courtyard and warned that recent shipments made stone gambling riskier.
• Lu Mingyu left to raise funds while Chen Feng told the group that Changsheng was punishing Lu for speaking ill of him.
• Chen Feng warned the others not to defy the path Changsheng had arranged, and Jun Lin and Chen Xiao abandoned the idea of asking their families for money.
• Chen Mengjie explained the differences between Earth Ore and Void Ore, then asked everyone to choose a stone.
• Chen Mengjie said all four chosen stones contained Divine Source, then revealed that the Stone Gambling House had rigged its stones.

Chen Mengjie explained how Stone Gambling Houses rigged the odds through ore pricing and how survivor bias made gamblers believe they could profit. She described her own costly preparations and losses, leaving Liu Yidao’s confidence in his stone-gambling talent challenged.

• Liu Yidao claimed his ore had a high chance of yielding Variant Divine Source, and Chen Mengjie explained that Stone Gambling Houses categorized ores and set prices to ensure the house profited.
• Chen Mengjie showed that even apparently favorable odds led to losses because potential winnings were smaller than the cost of failed bets.
• Chen Xiao described survivor bias as the reason gamblers remembered wins and overlooked losses.
• Chen Mengjie said she had spent years tracking stone-opening results before risking around three hundred million Divine Source and earning seven hundred million.
• Chen Mengjie explained that qualifying for Inner Courtyard games cost her another four hundred and fifty million, reducing her eventual profit to roughly five hundred million.

Chen Feng and his companions prepared to enter the Stone Gambling House’s Inner Courtyard to find what Chen Changsheng wanted, while Chen Feng revealed that the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System would soon be available to prodigies who met a demanding standard. He left Jun Lin, Chen Xiao, and Liu Yidao with a challenge to grow strong enough to become his opponents before the time ran out.

• Chen Feng insisted that he and Lu Mingyu had to find what they were looking for, and Chen Xiao’s group agreed to help by following Chen Mengjie’s lead at the Stone Gambling House.
• Chen Mengjie asked everyone to pool their money, but Jun Lin and the others could provide only twenty million Divine Source alongside her one hundred eighty million.
• Chen Feng explained that Lu Mingyu possessed part of the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System and that the complete system would soon appear for prodigies across the world to learn.
• Chen Feng warned Liu Yidao that Immortal King Seventh Grade would not meet the standard, which required strength sufficient to achieve Cross-Strike Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Feng urged Jun Lin, Chen Xiao, and Liu Yidao to reach that level so they could become his opponents in the coming Chang Sheng Epoch.

Chen Feng and the other prodigies began searching the Inner Courtyard for stones with twenty million Divine Source, while Chen Changsheng escaped the Heavens Forbidden Ground with Bai Ze after stealing something. Chen Changsheng revealed he possessed Chang Sheng and planned to deceive Dream and others into believing he had lost it, leaving Bai Ze to help protect his secret and prepare for his dangerous cultivation.

• Chen Mengjie gave Liu Yidao, Jun Lin, and the others Beast Hide Pouches containing their starting capital and sent them to choose stones on their own.
• Bai Ze escaped through a Spatial Rift after Chen Changsheng fled the Heavens Forbidden Ground, whose inhabitants issued a ten-day Kill Order against the Undertaker lineage.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he had to cultivate the Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations to repair his injury and make everyone believe he had lost Chang Sheng.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he possessed Chang Sheng and explained that revealing the truth trapped those close to him in painful struggles through time.
• Chen Changsheng planned to use Dream's testimony to convince others he had lost Chang Sheng and asked Bai Ze to help him avoid giving himself away.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he might need Jian Fei and the Golden Silkworm Gu during cultivation and asked him to urge Lu Mingyu and the others to act quickly.

Chen Changsheng concealed his survival and began the Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations, while Bai Ze sent a distress signal that convinced his allies he was near death. Hua Feng rushed to help, and Bai Ze reached Lu Mingyu to announce the crisis.

• Bai Ze agreed to follow Chen Changsheng’s arrangements after making him promise not to deceive him.
• Chen Changsheng decided to risk creating further mistakes rather than leave his loved ones to suffer, then wrapped himself in silk as he began the Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations.
• A woman beyond the Epoch, a man in the Land Beyond Heaven, and Hua Feng sensed that something had happened to Chen Changsheng.
• Hua Feng and the Little Immortal Elder received Bai Ze’s message that Chen Changsheng was severely injured and undergoing the transformation; Hua Feng hurried ahead to help.
• Bai Ze broke through the Black Triangle’s Grand Formation and told Lu Mingyu that Chen Changsheng was about to die.

After Chen Changsheng lost his Chang Sheng Dao Fruit and entered the Heavenly Silk Transformation inside a cocoon, Lu Mingyu learned the danger and took control of Chen Changsheng’s authority. Meanwhile, Chen Feng urged Jun Lin and Chen Mengjie to continue the search in the Black Triangle, leaving them determined to find what Chen Changsheng had asked for.

• Bai Ze brought Lu Mingyu to Chen Changsheng, who was sealed inside a cocoon while undergoing the troubled Heavenly Silk Nine Transformations.
• Nalan Zi Ping said he would seek a way to help Chen Changsheng and asked Lu Mingyu to protect him from disturbance.
• Bai Ze told Lu Mingyu that Chen Changsheng’s Chang Sheng Dao Fruit had been destroyed and the Path to Longevity severed, and explained Bookworm’s past suspicion of Nalan Zi Ping.
• Lu Mingyu accepted the authority in Chen Changsheng’s hands and told Chen Feng to stabilize the situation and find what Chen Changsheng had sought.
• Chen Feng told Jun Lin and the others to stay focused, and Chen Mengjie committed to finding what Lu Mingyu wanted as they continued gambling on rough stones.