Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng explained that his Epoch Thunder Tribulation could summon powerful figures from the past, then enlisted seven experts to melt Immortal Feather Green Gold and launch it into the tribulation clouds. Inside the tribulation, Xue Lan overwhelmed Zhang Bairen and revealed her name, but his reaction to her declaration remained unclear.

• Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao that his Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System required a specially constructed Epoch Thunder Tribulation, which could summon famous figures from the past.
• Ancient Desolation warned that Zhang Bairen was unarmed and in danger, so Chen Changsheng asked the experts for help.
• Chen Changsheng used Netherworld Ghost Fire and Samadhi True Fire to melt Immortal Feather Green Gold with help from seven experts, then sent the molten metal into the tribulation clouds.
• Xue Lan cut off Zhang Bairen's left hand but returned it, saying she wanted to defeat him after seeing all he could do.
• Xue Lan shattered the emerging Humanoid Thunder Tribulations and announced that her name was Xue Lan as she stood over the bloodied Zhang Bairen.
• Zhang Bairen stood silently for three breaths, then doubled over laughing.

Zhang Bairen challenged Xue Lan Supreme and began fighting her and the powerful figures appearing in their Emperor Tribulations. Meanwhile, Chen Changsheng recruited the Little Immortal Elder to help attack the Heavens Forbidden Ground, where the Elder confronted Eternal.

• Zhang Bairen revealed that figures including Ge Hong had emerged from the Thunder Sea, then began his own Emperor Tribulation and vowed to suppress Xue Lan Supreme.
• Zhang Bairen and Xue Lan Supreme attacked each other and the figures from one another's Emperor Tribulations.
• The Little Immortal Elder discovered that the Dark Turmoil had begun early and learned Zhang Bairen was fighting Xue Lan Supreme.
• Hua Feng left the Spatial Rift and headed for the Chang Sheng Epoch, determined not to abandon Chen Changsheng again.
• Chen Changsheng called in the Little Immortal Elder's remaining favor and ordered him to kill one of the Heavens Forbidden Ground's Supremes, sparing no one there.
• The Little Immortal Elder entered the Heavens Forbidden Ground and challenged Eternal to a rematch.

Chen Changsheng faced the Heavens Forbidden Ground’s coming battle while Zhang Bairen continued his lightning tribulation, and the Jade Emperor prepared the Heavenly Court for a new invasion. The Heavens Forbidden Ground’s forces departed to fight, leaving Chen Changsheng and five experts to watch Zhang Bairen’s trial.

• Little Immortal Elder and Eternal agreed to move their fight away from the Heavens Forbidden Ground, and Eternal questioned Chen Changsheng about his plan to destroy it.
• Chen Changsheng and Eternal acknowledged the risks of their struggle and agreed that Chen Changsheng would collect the Heavens Forbidden Ground experts’ bodies if they lost.
• Eternal joined the battle, and the Heavens Forbidden Ground sent its powerful experts out in full force.
• Chen Changsheng gave Ye Yongxian a Jade Slip containing the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System method, and he directed Wang Hao to protect Jun Lin in exchange for the Asura Tribe’s cultivation method.
• Wang Hao promised that the Nether River Forbidden Ground would not kill anyone in this era, while Chen Changsheng stayed with five experts to watch Zhang Bairen’s lightning tribulation.
• The Jade Emperor donned Golden Armor and declared that those invading the Heavenly Court’s sacred grounds would die.

Qi Xianglan rejected the forbidden grounds’ demand for half of the Great Shang Dynasty’s territory, while Chen Xiang and Xu Yao confronted ten Heavens Forbidden Ground experts and resolved to change Chen Changsheng’s fate. Elsewhere, Heaven revealed himself as the founder of the Heavens Forbidden Ground and challenged the Four Heavenly Emperors.

• Qi Xianglan refused to surrender any territory and declared that the Great Shang Dynasty would fight under her command.
• Chen Xiang and Xu Yao blocked ten Heavens Forbidden Ground experts, and Xu Yao told Chen Xiang that the vision showed victory came at the cost of Chen Changsheng bearing all the pain and backlash.
• Xu Yao resolved to find Chen Changsheng, admit their mistakes, and accept his punishment, and Chen Xiang agreed to change the ending with her.
• Heaven confronted Jiang Bo Yue, Pang Hong, and the other two Heavenly Emperors, revealing that he had founded the Heavens Forbidden Ground and caused the era’s Dark Turmoil.
• Heaven said the Four Heavenly Emperors had been trained by Chen Changsheng and challenged them to survive a day against him.

Zhang Bairen fought Xue Lan in the Heavens Forbidden Ground while Chen Changsheng watched, and he refused her offer to surrender. He recalled the final portion of his True Spirit, which fused with hidden blood and confirmed that his and Chen Changsheng’s Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System had succeeded.

• The Heavenly Emperor Chang Sheng challenged Heaven as the Heavens Forbidden Ground and other Forbidden Grounds mobilized for war across the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Zhang Bairen fought Xue Lan and four Humanoid Thunder Tribulations, enduring for sixty-eight days before Xue Lan cut his body into pieces.
• Xue Lan offered to spare Zhang Bairen and Chen Changsheng if they yielded, but Zhang Bairen refused and declared that he would face death without retreat.
• Zhang Bairen asked Chen Mengjie to return the final portion of his True Spirit, and she sent it to the Heavens Forbidden Ground after preserving her own life.
• Xue Lan’s sword could not damage Zhang Bairen’s returning True Spirit, which fused with a hidden drop of blood held by a Paper figure.
• Zhang Bairen declared that the True Spirit method had worked and told Chen Changsheng that their path was complete, while Xue Lan recognized that the final portion carried immortal-pill medicinal potency.

Chen Changsheng explained how Zhang Bairen’s thunder tribulation transformed him and forged an intelligent Emperor Weapon for the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System. Zhang Bairen entered the new realm and fought Xue Lan to a standstill, while Chen Changsheng admitted that defining its later stages would require future cultivators.

• Chen Changsheng explained that Thunder Tribulation Liquid could transform Zhang Bairen without the drawbacks of bearing the Heavenly Mandate.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that Zhang Bairen’s Emperor’s Blood and a sliver of his True Spirit had given intelligence to the Emperor Weapon forged from Immortal Feather Green Gold.
• Zhang Bairen returned to his new body and clashed his pagoda against Xue Lan’s Supreme Weapon, which remained unscathed while the pagoda’s chip healed.
• Zhang Bairen attacked Xue Lan again, and their fierce battle ended in a standstill.
• Chen Changsheng told Ancient Desolation that later cultivators would have to define the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm’s future stages.

Chen Changsheng explained to Bai Ze why he intended to join forces with Giant Hand against Little Immortal Elder, whom he suspected of manipulating the Chang Sheng Epoch’s conflicts and sacrificing their allies. He planned to repay Little Immortal Elder’s schemes by laying out a world-shaking game of chess.

• Bai Ze emerged from the chaos far from the Chang Sheng Epoch and released Chen Changsheng from a sphere of light.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that he planned to ally with Giant Hand and make Little Immortal Elder their common enemy.
• Chen Changsheng argued that Little Immortal Elder had tried to divide the divine beast lineage by placing Bai Ze’s Dead Egg in the Bronze Ancient Hall.
• Chen Changsheng claimed Little Immortal Elder had withheld his full strength, blocked Giant Hand’s reinforcements, and used Chen Changsheng to draw Wu Li and others into the conflict.
• Bai Ze recognized that Little Immortal Elder’s moves had cleared away his rivals and drawn Chen Changsheng’s allies into his influence.
• Chen Changsheng said Thirteen, Scholar, and Tian Xuan had died trying to help him escape the schemes, and vowed to set up a world-shaking game of chess in return.

Chen Changsheng arrived as Heaven defeated his allies, and Little Wood died after asking to be buried beneath the green hills. Jiang Bo Yue, Miao Shi, and Pang Hong sacrificed themselves to activate a teleportation array that sent Chen Changsheng away.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he planned to play a five-hundred-thousand-year game against his enemies and promised to keep Bai Ze alive for centuries.
• Heaven defeated Tianshui Jiang Bo Yue, Miao Shi, and Pang Hong, revealing that he had once killed an adult Taotie.
• Chen Changsheng arrived on a meteorite and asked Heaven to let him speak with his dying companions.
• Little Wood thanked Chen Changsheng, asked to be buried beneath the green hills chosen by Xiao Qing, and died as his final Divine Sense faded.
• Jiang Bo Yue activated Dao Patterns while Pang Hong restrained Heaven and Miao Shi clutched his feet, opening a Teleportation Array beneath Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng was teleported away as his allies bid him farewell.

Chen Changsheng collected the Four Heavenly Emperors’ bloodied garments after their deaths and learned more about Heaven and the mysterious figure who had defeated him. Meanwhile, Chen Mengjie prepared to help the wounded survivors while Lu Mingyu watched the Chang Sheng Epoch’s forces collapse and waited for reinforcements.

• Ancient Desolation teleported Chen Changsheng out of the explosion, and Heaven handed him the Four Heavenly Emperors’ garments to bury as cenotaphs.
• Chen Changsheng asked about Heaven’s strength and the person who had shattered the Eight Nine Mysterious Technique, and Sacred Ruins warned him not to provoke that person.
• Chen Mengjie grieved the Four Heavenly Emperors’ deaths, then insisted that she and Cui Hao Yu prioritize healing the wounded and helping Jun Lin and Chen Xiao grow stronger.
• Lu Mingyu received reports of mounting losses as the forbidden grounds overran the Chang Sheng Epoch, and he questioned his teacher about the delayed reinforcements.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze entered the Giant Hand’s distant stronghold, where Chen Changsheng revealed he had prepared a secret poison and subdued Tengshe. They then faced the gathered ancient powers and Chen Changsheng demanded a path to survival for all living beings.

• Bai Ze and Chen Changsheng discovered the Giant Hand had taken vast resources from the Chang Sheng Epoch when it departed.
• Tengshe insulted Bai Ze, and Chen Changsheng kowtowed three times before knocking Tengshe unconscious and ordering Bai Ze to harvest his valuable parts.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that the God-Slaying Weapon was a poison he had used against the Wang family ancestor, and warned him to keep their remaining dose secret.
• Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze reached the green mountain and found the Three Teachings’ patriarchs and countless legendary beasts gathered there.
• True Dragon and Taotie challenged Chen Changsheng, who argued that the gathered powers also threatened the world and said he had come to seek a way for all living beings to survive.

Chen Changsheng confronted the Divine Beast powerhouses and demanded equal coexistence for all living things, threatening to unleash devastating weapons and calamities if they refused. Ancestral Dragon restrained Taotie after Taotie rejected the proposed rules and attacked Chen Changsheng’s position.

• Chen Changsheng declared that he had come to negotiate on his own authority and warned that he would fight if other races continued to prey on humans.
• Taotie attacked Chen Changsheng, but Bai Ze blocked the blow and reminded Taotie that Chen Changsheng was there as an envoy.
• Chen Changsheng threatened to unleash the Four Calamities, the God-Slaying Weapon, the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System, and another sealed power if the Divine Beasts chose war.
• The Daoist Sage invited Chen Changsheng to state what he wanted, and Chen Changsheng demanded equal coexistence, with separate rules for cultivators and mortals.
• Taotie rejected the ban on eating people, prompting Chen Changsheng and the Three Religions Sages to turn against him; a massive fist struck Taotie, and Ancestral Dragon pinned him down while demanding obedience.

Chen Changsheng negotiated a pact with the Divine Beast lineage, agreeing to help eliminate the Heavens Forbidden Ground in exchange for the Forbidden Grounds and Little Immortal Elder leaving the Chang Sheng Epoch and the Human Race retaining part of its authority. After the Divine Beasts departed, he explained his plan to Wu Li and revealed that he had been searching for immortals.

• Wu Li arrived to protect Chen Changsheng, and the Ancestral Dragon subdued Taotie before Chen Changsheng negotiated with the Divine Beast lineage.
• Chen Changsheng demanded the destruction of the Heavens Forbidden Ground and offered to drive the Forbidden Grounds and Little Immortal Elder out of the Chang Sheng Epoch; the Divine Beasts agreed to share authority with the Human Race.
• The Divine Beasts departed, while Xiao Hei left with a larger Bai Ze; Chen Changsheng then admitted to Wu Li that the confrontation had frightened him.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Little Immortal Elder had allied with the Forbidden Grounds to resist the Divine Beasts, and said he opposed relying on either side for the Human Race's survival.
• Chen Changsheng told Wu Li that the Human Race needed to gather strength beyond the Chang Sheng Epoch, and revealed that he had been searching for immortals because he wanted to try living forever.

Chen Changsheng gave Wu Li a cultivation method and a plan to pursue Chang Sheng, while warning the Forbidden Grounds to withdraw within three hundred years. The Forbidden Grounds launched a brutal campaign across the Chang Sheng Epoch, and after an old monk died defending the Buddhist Kingdom, Heretical Buddha Follow the Heart began hunting the surviving attackers.

• Wu Li told Chen Changsheng that he pursued Chang Sheng to keep the people around him from being lost, and Chen Changsheng gave him a Jade Slip containing the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System cultivation method and an Epoch Thunder Tribulation plan.
• After burying the Four Heavenly Emperors, Chen Changsheng ordered the Forbidden Grounds to withdraw within three hundred years, and they agreed to use increasingly ruthless methods.
• In the first year of the three hundred years, the Forbidden Grounds attacked major factions throughout the Chang Sheng Epoch, driving their cultivators back.
• In the tenth year, the Forbidden Grounds breached three Great Worlds of the Buddhist Kingdom and killed hundreds of millions of living beings for blood food.
• An old monk fought seven Forbidden Grounds experts to defend the Buddhist Kingdom, but he died after three of them survived the battle.
• Heretical Buddha Follow the Heart went mad with grief and began hunting the three surviving Forbidden Grounds experts.

During the Three Hundred Years of Despair, the Righteous Cultivators repelled major attacks from the Forbidden Grounds while Xu Qianzhui cared for Father Zhang in the Water Realm. After revealing his identity and making a Great Aspiration, Xu Qianzhui entered Sainthood as the Chang Sheng Epoch trembled.

• In Year 30, Chen Feng slew three high-ranking Immortal Kings, and the Holy Ruins Forbidden Ground sent a Great Emperor Realm expert to kill him; Hua Feng and others resisted until Chen Changsheng's intervention ended the pursuit.
• In Year 50, thirty Forbidden Ground experts attacked the Heavenly Court, but the Jade Emperor defeated them and stood amid their corpses, blind and gravely wounded.
• In the Water Realm, Father Zhang revealed that he knew Xu Qianzhui had been impersonating his dead son, Zhang Zixuan, and urged him to stop sacrificing his life out of guilt.
• Xu Qianzhui disclosed his real identity and said that, though his former cultivation could not return, he had comprehended something better; he then took leave of Father Zhang.
• Xu Qianzhui made a Great Aspiration to serve Heaven and Earth and the common people, drawing Mountain and River Academy's righteous qi into himself as Chen Changsheng, Su You, and the academy aided him.
• A Confucian scholar's cap descended onto Xu Qianzhui's head as he entered Sainthood, drawing the attention of the Forbidden Ground's experts.

Chen Changsheng met with the Confucian Sage to learn why he had crowned Xu Qianzhui and discovered that Confucianism wanted territory and influence in the Chang Sheng Epoch. The Sage offered support if Chen Changsheng continued to prove himself, leaving Chen Changsheng to weigh the value of a powerful new patron.

• Chen Changsheng learned that the Confucian Sage's intervention had disrupted his arrangement with Giant Hand, then went to check on Little Immortal Elder.
• Chen Changsheng received a message from his main body and went with Wu Li to speak with the Confucian Sage about his interference in the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• The Confucian Sage explained that he had crowned Xu Qianzhui because he was dissatisfied with Confucianism's failure to aid the common people and with Mountain and River Academy's lack of growth.
• The Confucian Sage revealed that Confucianism wanted a share of the Chang Sheng Epoch's territory and said the Three Religions Sages might support Chen Changsheng if he continued to impress them.
• Chen Changsheng asked how much protection the Sages could offer, and the Confucian Sage said no one could kill him except the Master of the Netherworld Forest.

After enduring the war for decades, Chen Changsheng finally intervened in the Chang Sheng Epoch and found Su Wan'er dead, killed by Heaven. He summoned Flying Dust Supreme and Nine-Headed Xiang Liu, then ordered them to kill Heaven while he mourned Su Wan'er.

• Chen Changsheng gave the Confucian Sage a Jade Slip containing a preliminary plan, promising greater surprises later.
• Righteous prodigies Ruan Su Xian, Chen Xiao, and Heng Tian displayed their strength against Forbidden Ground experts as the war spread.
• The Forbidden Grounds destroyed the Black Triangle, and Tu JiaoJiao, Qi Xianglan, Qiyun Mountain, and other defenders fell in battle.
• Little Immortal Elder killed Eternal, then met with Chen Changsheng and left the Chang Sheng Epoch after their discussion.
• Chen Changsheng appeared across the Chang Sheng Epoch and laid the fallen to rest, including Su Wan'er, whose death Ancient Desolation attributed to Heaven.
• Chen Changsheng summoned Flying Dust Supreme and Nine-Headed Xiang Liu, issued an Absolute Kill Order against Heaven, and went to Su Wan'er's corpse.

Chen Changsheng held Su Wan'er as she died after sacrificing herself in his Killing Game, then refused the system's advice to sever his emotions. He joined the battle against Heaven, who was overpowering seven supreme experts and demanded that Chen Changsheng reveal stronger opponents.

• After Ancient Desolation spoke, Flying Dust Supreme and the others left, and Chen Changsheng awakened Su Wan'er with the last wisp of Divine Sense Realm in her body.
• Su Wan'er explained that she had entered the Killing Game to die in place of her sons and admitted she had wanted Chen Changsheng to herself rather than share him with Nian Sheng.
• Chen Changsheng held Su Wan'er as she died, then asked the system why losing someone who loved him hurt so much.
• The system told Chen Changsheng that severing the Seven Emotions and Six Desires could end the suffering of reincarnation, but Chen Changsheng chose to endure that suffering and remain in the mortal world.
• Heaven wounded Yin Qi, Chen Xiang, Xu Yao, Nian Sheng, Flying Dust Supreme, Nine-Headed Xiang Liu, and Hua Feng, then mocked them for being unable to defeat him.
• Chen Changsheng arrived and thanked Heaven for leaving Su Wan'er a wisp of Divine Sense Realm, while Heaven demanded that he bring out stronger opponents.

Chen Changsheng provoked Heaven into pursuing his allies while the expert from the Heavens Forbidden Ground left to face Su You and Xu Hu. At the Nether River Forbidden Ground, Wang Hao delivered Chen Changsheng’s payment to Zhang Zhen, who remained resolved to follow his chosen path.

• Chen Changsheng rejected Heaven’s demands, mocked his injuries and past defeat, and left, prompting Heaven to order his allies killed.
• Heaven’s unnamed companion warned him that attacking Chen Changsheng’s forces was a provocation, but agreed to go after Heaven insisted.
• Su You and Xu Hu intercepted the departing expert from the Heavens Forbidden Ground, who gave his name as Nameless.
• Wang Hao told Zhang Zhen that Jun Lin and the others were being hunted after publicizing their battles against dying Emperor Realm experts.
• Wang Hao gave Zhang Zhen three powerful immortal pills refined at Chen Changsheng’s request as payment for asking him to fight Heaven.

As the Forbidden Grounds overwhelmed the Common People, Ye Yu begged Chen Changsheng to save the world. Chen Changsheng revealed that he had known a way to stop the Dark Turmoil, but it demanded countless lives, then explained that the Forbidden Grounds could be approached according to how hungry each faction was.

• Wang Hao told Zhang Zhen that people had to bear the consequences of their own choices, and Zhang Zhen accepted the pill.
• In the 150th year of the Three Hundred Years of Despair, the Forbidden Grounds kept winning across the world while their experts made breakthroughs.
• Ye Yu, Jun Lin, and Zhao Wu Yu fought a Forbidden Ground expert until Chen Changsheng arrived and collected the dying man in his coffin.
• Ye Yu knelt and begged Chen Changsheng to save all living things, but Chen Changsheng said the Common People themselves had to resist the Forbidden Grounds.
• Chen Changsheng explained that stopping the Dark Turmoil through force would require sacrificing countless lives, and admitted he had known this solution from the beginning.
• Chen Changsheng distinguished the Forbidden Grounds by how much they had fed, saying the hungriest required direct confrontation while the least hungry would retreat if things went badly.

Chen Changsheng explained that confronting the Forbidden Grounds would require volunteers to fight a near-suicidal battle, while Ye Yu returned to his gravely injured father and asked about his mother. After the Twin Ghost Dao Companions died, Chen Changsheng refused to interfere in the conflict, and Wang Hao announced that Nether River Forbidden Ground was preparing to withdraw.

• Jun Lin told Zhao Wu Yu that volunteers would need to charge the Forbidden Grounds and accept that many might die, and Chen Changsheng warned that the survivors' children might have to take their place.
• Chen Changsheng told Ye Yu that Ye Yongxian was dying from his injuries, and Ye Yu returned to ask his father whether he had loved Ye Yu's mother.
• Ye Yongxian said he had avenged Ye Yu's mother because he had promised her a happy life, then left without answering Ye Yu's offer to sacrifice his body.
• After the Twin Ghost Dao Companions died, Chen Changsheng calmly told Void that he would not interfere with the Forbidden Grounds or the resistance of the younger generation.
• Wang Hao ended his agreement with Chen Changsheng to serve as Jun Lin's Dao Protector and asked Chen Changsheng to have his disciple open a path for Nether River Forbidden Ground to withdraw.