Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng explained to Hundred Defeats Immortal that he planned to concentrate their forces on destroying the Heavens Forbidden Ground rather than trying to protect everyone from the coming calamity, hoping the other Forbidden Grounds would then withdraw. Meanwhile, Ye Yu and his companions sought information about the mysterious man they had encountered, and Liu Yidao hurried to join them, warning that Chen Changsheng was about to act.

• Chen Changsheng told Hundred Defeats Immortal he intended to lure out and exterminate the Heavens Forbidden Ground, accepting that the other Forbidden Grounds would massacre people elsewhere.
• Hundred Defeats Immortal agreed that Chen Changsheng respected life and revealed that the Giant Hand was not as hostile toward the Forbidden Grounds as Chen Changsheng feared.
• Ye Yu and his companions escaped the battlefield, and Ruan Su Xian contacted Liu Yidao to ask about the mysterious man who had commanded the Jade Emperor.
• After hearing Ye Yu's account, Liu Yidao ordered Jun Lin to finish the battle quickly and told Ye Yu's group not to split up while he came to meet them.
• Liu Yidao told Jun Lin and Chen Xiao that their next crisis was even more dangerous than the battle at hand, and that Grandfather Changsheng was about to make his move.

Liu Yidao explained that Chen Changsheng was likely preparing an enormous counterattack against the Dark Turmoil, while Chen Changsheng postponed action to give Zhang Bairen and Jun Lin’s group time. He reconciled with Nian Sheng, who saw through his plan to fake losing immortality and asked whether his promise that she could stay was genuine.

• Liu Yidao told Jun Lin and Chen Xiao that the Hundred Defeats Immortal had been Chen Changsheng’s master and that Chen Changsheng was likely preparing to activate a major counterattack plan.
• Chen Changsheng told Nian Sheng he would wait a month or two before acting so Zhang Bairen could reunite with his master and Jun Lin’s group could prepare.
• Chen Changsheng told Nian Sheng she could stay with him and admitted that, after more than two hundred thousand years, he had come to terms with their relationship.
• Nian Sheng revealed that she knew Chen Changsheng was faking his death and loss of immortality to free himself from the curse of time.
• Chen Changsheng confirmed that his invitation for Nian Sheng to stay was sincere, despite his fear that she might leave him one day.

Chen Changsheng and Nian Sheng reunited after two hundred thousand years and agreed that she would pursue immortality so they could stay together. To fool their enemies and free the world from its restraints, Chen Changsheng planned to fake his death and make Nian Sheng believe she had lost him; she also said she would handle Su Wan'er’s matter.

• Chen Changsheng apologized for making Nian Sheng wait, and she said she would wait even longer to remain by his side forever.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he no longer viewed long life only as suffering and accepted Nian Sheng’s desire for eternity.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he planned to fake his death so Wu Li and the others would believe the final restraints had been lifted, while Nian Sheng descended into madness.
• Nian Sheng agreed to the plan on the condition that Chen Changsheng cook for her and make her clothes until he supposedly grew old and died.
• Nian Sheng said she would handle Su Wan'er’s matter and teased Chen Changsheng about his relationships with other women.

Jun Lin and the other prodigies joined forces to discuss Chen Changsheng’s coming plan, while Chen Feng learned from Lu Mingyu that he was not part of it and set out to retrieve a legendary sword. The chapter left Chen Feng equipped with a sword sheath and a token, heading toward his own fight against the Forbidden Grounds.

• Jun Lin, Liu Yidao, Ye Yu, and the other prodigies agreed to stop suspecting one another and tried to deduce Chen Changsheng’s intentions, but they could not uncover his plan.
• Chen Feng confronted Lu Mingyu, who guessed that Chen Changsheng intended to destroy the Heavens Forbidden Ground and warned that a long Dark Turmoil could follow.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that the Golden Age Gathering prodigies were not included in the plan, so Chen Feng could act independently to save people.
• Lu Mingyu gave Chen Feng a sword sheath and token, explaining that the Sword God’s Sword awaited him and admitting he had tried to claim it himself but had been driven away by its Sword Spirit.
• Chen Feng left to retrieve the Sword God’s Sword, while Lu Mingyu asked to see it and Chen Feng promised to consider it if Lu Mingyu obtained the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System.

Jun Lin deduced that Changsheng planned to use the Dark Turmoil to gather all available forces and destroy the Heavens Forbidden Ground, forcing the other Forbidden Grounds to withdraw from the Chang Sheng Epoch. The alliance considered how the other Forbidden Grounds would react and concluded that fear and a temporary abundance of resources would drive them away.

• After weeks of calculations, Jun Lin and his allies concluded that the Forbidden Grounds seemed destined to win, and Liu Yidao recalled that Changsheng had always prevailed unexpectedly.
• Jun Lin asked Liu Yidao what could make the Forbidden Grounds withdraw, and learned that they fled only when facing an epoch-shaking catastrophe or losing access to resources and longevity.
• Jun Lin proposed that Changsheng intended to annihilate the Heavens Forbidden Ground, forcing every other Forbidden Ground to leave the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Liu Yidao doubted Changsheng could destroy the Heavens Forbidden Ground, but Jun Lin argued that Changsheng could combine his forces with Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li and Hundred Defeats Immortal.
• Jun Lin explained that during the Dark Turmoil, the other Forbidden Grounds would feast while Changsheng attacked the Heavens Forbidden Ground, then retreat out of fear of becoming his next target.

Jun Lin explained that Chen Changsheng’s attack on Heavens Forbidden Ground could leave the Chang Sheng Epoch exposed to the other Forbidden Grounds, forcing the group to choose between fighting or hiding. Meanwhile, North Sea left the Nether River Forbidden Ground to exploit the turmoil, and Wang Hao planned to have him killed.

• Jun Lin warned that Chen Changsheng might trade territory for outside support and that the other Forbidden Grounds would exploit the Dark Turmoil rather than help Heavens Forbidden Ground.
• Jun Lin laid out the choice between resisting the Forbidden Grounds at great risk or hiding and rebuilding afterward, and Ye Yu asked Liu Yidao to choose a side.
• Wang Shanhuo’s appearance moved Liu Yidao to join Jun Lin’s group, though he insisted he would not fight above his level or risk his life.
• North Sea rejected Wang Hao’s warning, left the Nether River Forbidden Ground, and said he would plunder during the turmoil and might establish a new Forbidden Ground.
• Wang Hao told Zhang Zhen that North Sea had taken a third of the Nether River Forbidden Ground’s strength and said they would kill him and take his wealth.

Hundred Defeats Immortal returned to Heavens Forbidden Ground to honor a 300,000-year-old duel, while Zhang Bairen challenged its defenders and Chen Changsheng confronted Zi Ping about immortality and trust. After reconciling, father and son agreed to search for another way to preserve Zi Ping’s life, and Zi Ping entered Heavens Forbidden Ground to fight.

• Hundred Defeats Immortal recounted how Heavens Forbidden Ground spared him after defeating him and said he would return for one final duel.
• Hundred Defeats Immortal walked toward Heavens Forbidden Ground, while Zhang Bairen agreed to fight there and Chen Changsheng promised to build a stage.
• Zhang Bairen shattered a giant hand and part of Heavens Forbidden Ground’s defensive Dao Patterns, then charged inside.
• Zi Ping asked Chen Changsheng whether he had ever intended to kill him and explained that he wanted to leave the Chang Sheng Epoch to seek another method of immortality.
• Chen Changsheng told Zi Ping to take what he wanted if necessary, then embraced him and promised to search for immortality with him.
• Zi Ping entered Heavens Forbidden Ground and called for someone to instruct him.

As the Dark Turmoil began, Su Wan'er struggled with Nian Sheng over whether to save Yin Qi, Chen Xiang, and Zi Ping without risking Chen Changsheng’s intervention. In Eight Desolations Nine Regions, a powerful figure killed Daoist Qing He, whose final message and talisman reached Ruan Su Xian.

• Several Top Forbidden Grounds attacked Heavens Forbidden Ground, beginning the Dark Turmoil, while Heavens Forbidden Ground dispersed its experts.
• Su Wan'er insisted on saving Yin Qi, Chen Xiang, and Zi Ping, but Nian Sheng warned that involving Chen Changsheng could bring the Dark Turmoil’s backlash upon him.
• A blurry figure pulled up a mountain range and refined the living beings within ten thousand miles into a blood-red pill.
• Daoist Qing He confronted the figure, but his talisman attack failed and he was killed, sending a streak of red light away.
• Ruan Su Xian felt his master’s death as he traveled with Jun Lin, then received Qing He’s final message and the talisman he had left for him.

After the Dark Turmoil began, Ruan Su Xian and Jun Lin chose to retreat and grow stronger rather than challenge their powerful enemy. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng confronted the Forbidden Grounds over the early start of the turmoil, then left with five of their experts as Ye Yongxian trapped North Sea in a Grand Formation.

• Ruan Su Xian grieved Senior Qing He’s death, then agreed with Jun Lin to focus on resisting the Dark Turmoil and growing stronger.
• The Hundred Defeats Immortal met his old benefactor, Fist Maniac Geng Erniu, and they prepared to settle their debt in a fight.
• Chen Changsheng accused the Forbidden Grounds of starting the Dark Turmoil early, then agreed to let five of their experts accompany him as long as they killed no one.
• Chen Changsheng left with the five Forbidden Grounds experts to watch another battle.
• Ye Yongxian appeared after a Grand Formation sealed off North Sea, who asked whether the Blood Blade Organization had hired him to assassinate him.

Ye Yongxian, Wang Hao, and Chen Changsheng set a deadly trap for North Sea, while Chen Changsheng revealed his reasons for targeting him and the weapon that made the other Forbidden Grounds wary. North Sea faced a powerful coalition as Chen Changsheng watched from outside the battlefield.

• Ye Yongxian taunted North Sea and refused his offer to leave in peace, saying he had to fulfill the paid contract to kill him.
• Ye Yongxian spotted Zhang Zhen attacking North Sea’s subordinates, and North Sea struck Wang Hao out of hiding.
• Chen Changsheng arrived with five figures and promised Wang Hao help perfecting the Asura Tribe if the mission succeeded.
• Wang Hao summoned dozens of fighters, including Sky Abyss City’s top Enforcement Team, to surround North Sea.
• Chen Changsheng told the others he wanted to prevent new Forbidden Grounds from emerging and explained why the Nether River Forbidden Ground had been allowed to form.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had created a complete God-Slaying Weapon and said he could kill North Sea even if he escaped the trap.

Chen Changsheng confronted the five Forbidden Grounds and recounted how they had manipulated his life while using him and other gifted people as pawns. He demanded that they leave the Chang Sheng Epoch during the Dark Turmoil and declared that he had the strength and allies to fight them if they refused.

• Desperate Valley challenged Chen Changsheng’s confidence in his trump cards, and Chen accused the Forbidden Grounds of raising him and other talents as puppets to deal with their enemies.
• Chen Changsheng argued that the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground had deliberately left him the Heaven Mending Paste and pages of the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique after sensing the Hundred Defeats Fist Art on him.
• Ancient Desolation defended the Forbidden Ground’s decision to invest in Chen Changsheng, while Sacred Ruins recalled how Chen, Zhang Bairen, Nalan Fuyao, and others escaped their control.
• Chen Changsheng listed the allies and sacrifices that had helped him rise, then condemned the Forbidden Grounds for keeping his life under their control.
• Void asked Chen Changsheng what he wanted, and Chen demanded that all five leave the Chang Sheng Epoch while he fought the Heavens Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Changsheng named Zhang Bairen, Wu Li, Hua Feng, his sons, Lu Mingyu, the God-Slaying Weapon, and other forces as the resources backing his threat.

Chen Changsheng warned the Forbidden Ground representatives that he would destroy Heavens Forbidden Ground before turning against them, and they agreed to withdraw for now. Meanwhile, Wang Hao revealed that he had recovered from Karma Fire and explained why North Sea’s attempt to establish a Forbidden Ground had made him a disposable obstacle; Zhang Zhen arrived as North Sea faced defeat.

• Chen Changsheng told the five Forbidden Ground representatives that he would focus on Heavens Forbidden Ground first and warned them they would be unable to escape once he turned his attention to them.
• Ancient Desolation asked whether Chen Changsheng would spare them, and Void agreed to withdraw for now.
• Wang Hao and Sky Abyss City's forces attacked North Sea, and Yuantu Abi pierced through his chest.
• Wang Hao revealed that he had mostly overcome Karma Fire after the Epoch Massacre and had hidden his recovery until his two swords were complete.
• Wang Hao explained that the Forbidden Grounds had permitted Nether River Forbidden Ground to replace Dead Sea Forbidden Ground, while Desperate Valley would replace Heavens Forbidden Ground, leaving no place for North Sea.
• North Sea realized he had become a discarded chess piece, and Zhang Zhen arrived carrying the Demon Blade.

Zhang Zhen attacked North Sea as Wang Hao revealed that the battle was part of a deadly setup. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng learned more about the Forbidden Grounds’ origins and their plans, then agreed with Ancient Desolation to end their conflict in a draw.

• Wang Hao told North Sea that the formation had once been activated against enemies far stronger than him, and Zhang Zhen slashed at North Sea.
• Chen Changsheng learned that North Sea had been fifth in the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground and that Desperate Valley had been fourth.
• Reincarnation revealed that he had been the Dead Sea Forbidden Ground’s second-ranked figure and explained the Forbidden Grounds’ history, their fear of Old Man Yao, and their role in his sealing.
• Ancient Desolation said Giant Hand’s return would lead to a struggle for control of the Chang Sheng Epoch, while the Forbidden Grounds intended to yield and withdraw.
• Ancient Desolation proposed ending the conflict in a draw, and Chen Changsheng accepted.

Chen Feng persuaded the Sword Spirit to pass the White-Haired Sword God's legacy to him, while Chen Changsheng’s allies fought the Forbidden Grounds and killed North Sea after a year-long battle. Chen Changsheng then promised Ye Yongxian his reward and prepared to reveal the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System.

• Chen Changsheng asked Reincarnation to help North Sea and learned that the Forbidden Grounds had chosen sides in the struggle over the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Chen Feng stood before the Iron Sword for half a year and convinced the Sword Spirit to pass the White-Haired Sword God's sword path to him, pledging to return and slay the calamity.
• The Forbidden Grounds' forces poured into the Chang Sheng Epoch, and cultivators suffered tens of billions of casualties in a year of fighting.
• Reincarnation, Yuantu Abi, the Demon Blade, Ye Yongxian, and Sky Abyss City's Grade-A Enforcement Team joined forces to kill North Sea.
• Chen Changsheng told Ye Yongxian he would honor his promise and announced that he would reveal the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System after everyone recovered.

Chen Changsheng explained the principles behind the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System and argued that Emperor Aura came from worlds cultivated within a person’s body. He told the gathered cultivators that devouring those worlds could overcome the limits of the Heaven’s Mandate system, identifying them as Great Emperor Realm cultivators.

• Chen Changsheng introduced the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System as a new advancement path created by him and Zhang Bairen for high-level cultivators.
• Ye Yongxian questioned Chen Changsheng’s credibility because he had never truly reached Emperor Realm, but Chen Changsheng claimed that he and Zhang Bairen had succeeded.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Heaven’s Mandate required cultivators to withstand the impact of the world’s laws while perfecting their laws and bodies.
• Chen Changsheng said that bypassing the Heaven’s Mandate by accumulating Divine Power eventually reached a dead end, and that the paths of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism could not lead to immortality.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Emperor Aura came from worlds cultivated within the body and said that devouring those worlds removed the shortcomings of the Heaven’s Mandate system.
• Chen Changsheng explained that this inner control allowed the gathered Great Emperor Realm cultivators to remain sealed for long periods without the Self-severing Cut causing fundamental harm.

Chen Changsheng uncovered the flaw behind the Heaven's Mandate Emperor Realm System and learned why cultivators devoured the worlds gestated within them to reach the supposed Great Emperor Realm. Ye Yongxian explained that this shortcut could trigger a deadly cycle, leaving him unwilling to take it.

• Chen Changsheng explained how the long lives of powerful cultivators led him to doubt Hua Feng's claims about Emperor Realm lifespans.
• Void revealed that cultivators in the Heaven's Mandate Emperor Realm System continuously gestated Inner Worlds, which consumed their lifespan and could be devoured to restore it and gain strength.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Wang Hao had unknowingly reached the Great Emperor Realm because he had digested the embryonic world formed within him.
• Ye Yongxian explained that cultivators bearing Heaven's Mandate copied their predecessors' techniques instead of comprehending a complete set of supreme laws.
• Ye Yongxian warned that devouring a gestated world made it grow faster afterward, risking the cultivator's life, and said that avoiding this path gave him the longest expected lifespan.

Wang Hao and the Forbidden Grounds’ leaders explained why they devoured newly born worlds and invited Chen Changsheng to establish a seventh Forbidden Ground, but he refused. Chen Changsheng then introduced the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System and described how unwavering will could help cultivators overcome the Emperor Realm bottleneck.

• Wang Hao proposed that the Forbidden Grounds devoured newly born worlds to replenish the energy spent gestating and consuming their own worlds.
• Chen Changsheng recognized the Forbidden Grounds’ methods and rejected their offer to make him the leader of a seventh Forbidden Ground.
• Chen Changsheng promised to show everyone a way beyond the Heaven's Mandate Emperor Realm System and introduced the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had developed the Bitter Sea System with the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique and later advanced it using the Original True Understanding, the Sword God's insights, and Zhang Bairen's cooperation.
• Chen Changsheng said that the Bitter Sea System alone could not reach the Emperor Realm, but an indestructible Dao heart could transform a cultivator's body, Divine Sense Realm, and True Spirit into something comparable to an Emperor's power.

Chen Changsheng revealed the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, a cultivation method he and Zhang Bairen had developed together. Zhang Bairen began the Epoch Thunder Tribulation, setting out to reach the Heavenly Emperor Realm as the Forbidden Grounds’ powerful figures watched.

• Chen Changsheng explained that his research and Zhang Bairen’s had combined to create the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System.
• Zhang Bairen fought one of the Heavens Forbidden Ground’s three Supremes while Chen Changsheng urged him to prepare a devastating move.
• Reincarnation identified Zhang Bairen’s opponent as an Ancient Era Supreme with a Supreme Weapon.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Bitter Sea system required nine stages of Quasi-Emperor cultivation and nine Epoch Thunder Tribulations to reach the Heavenly Emperor Realm.
• Zhang Bairen began his first Epoch Thunder Tribulation, and the strike released a terrifying Imperial Might that shook the experts of the Chang Sheng Epoch.

Chen Changsheng unveiled his redesigned Epoch Thunder Tribulation and explained how it would attract cultivators from across the world to Chang Sheng Epoch. The Forbidden Grounds experts accepted that their withdrawal would leave Giant Hand to deal with the plan’s consequences.

• Zhang Bairen began undergoing the Epoch Thunder Tribulation, prompting the Forbidden Grounds experts to suspect Chen Changsheng was endangering everyone, but Chen Changsheng explained that the tribulation’s rules had changed.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the epoch-wide tribulation had to be summoned by a cultivator, targeted only that person, and offered its rewards only to those who entered the Thunder Sea’s depths.
• Ye Yongxian questioned Chen Changsheng’s plan to attract outside experts, and Chen Changsheng said cultivators must either transform their own epochs or come to Chang Sheng Epoch to undergo tribulations.
• Ancient Desolation acknowledged Chen Changsheng’s ambition and said that, as the Forbidden Grounds were about to withdraw, Giant Hand would have to handle the Epoch Thunder Tribulation.

Chen Changsheng and the six Forbidden Grounds entered the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation together, where Zhang Bairen’s Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System greatly strengthened his True Spirit and let him endure the lightning. A powerful woman joined him and proved stronger, but Zhang Bairen challenged her to follow him deeper into the Thunder Sea.

• Chen Changsheng invited the six Forbidden Grounds into the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, and Desperate Valley agreed, expecting their combined attacks to overwhelm it.
• Purple lightning reduced Zhang Bairen to a skeleton, but he declared himself Heavenly Emperor and regenerated with immense True Spirit force.
• Sacred Ruins described being badly wounded by Sword God’s sword during the Ascension Road War, and Chen Changsheng said the sword had been far beyond their understanding.
• A woman entered the tribulation and triggered the Ninefold Heavenly Thunder Tribulation with only part of her aura.
• The woman defeated Zhang Bairen in their exchange, took one of his ribs, and said he had broken through too soon.
• Zhang Bairen laughed and challenged the woman to follow him into the depths of the Thunder Sea.