Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao tried to withdraw the Nether River Forbidden Ground, but the other Forbidden Ground experts pressured him to reveal what he knew about Chen Changsheng. He warned them that Chen Changsheng had been building a powerful system in secret, then pointed to Qian Ya as a neglected source of intelligence.

• Wang Hao explained that the Nether River Forbidden Ground had no need to remain, but Void and Ancient Desolation questioned his reasons and challenged his authority.
• Wang Hao agreed to offer the other Forbidden Ground experts information in exchange for their pressure to withdraw.
• Wang Hao argued that Chen Changsheng’s reforms and apparent diversions were laying the groundwork for a plan to defeat powerful cultivators by means other than cultivation.
• Wang Hao showed them a damaged Qilin Communicator from a Phantom Shadow Legion corpse and recalled how the system had helped Chen Changsheng win the Epoch Massacre.
• Ancient Desolation concluded that Chen Changsheng had concealed a formidable system involving the Qilin Communicator, Sky Abyss City, and the God of Wealth Lineage.
• Wang Hao noted that Chen Changsheng had left Qian Ya alive in the Pill Epoch and asked how much intelligence the Forbidden Ground experts had gathered on her.

Wang Hao persuaded the Six Great Forbidden Grounds to withdraw before Chen Changsheng’s plans weakened their influence further. After they agreed to leave, Chen Changsheng revealed that their early departure had disrupted his timing and ordered Qian Ya to begin a new operation against the Heavens Forbidden Ground.

• Wang Hao warned the forbidden-ground leaders that Chen Changsheng’s growing influence and the righteous path’s resistance threatened their foundations and future recruits.
• Sacred Ruins and Ancient Desolation agreed that the risks of staying outweighed the rewards, and the Six Great Forbidden Grounds chose to withdraw.
• The six told Chen Changsheng they were leaving, and he agreed to give them twenty years to clear out their holdings.
• After the six departed, Chen Changsheng told Qian Ya to begin the operation, target the Heavens Forbidden Ground, and prepare to deploy the Tiger Guard.
• Chen Changsheng instructed Qian Ya to recruit no cultivators above the Great Emperor Realm, offer the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System as payment, and promote the Chang Sheng Epoch after the Pill Epoch’s people returned.

After the forbidden grounds retreated, Lu Mingyu explained to Chen Feng the terrible costs of managing the war and revealed that the Two Gui seniors had died buying time for him to evacuate a vital stronghold. Chen Feng left to take revenge on the abandoned enemies trapped by the encirclement.

• The forbidden grounds withdrew, prompting the people of the world to rally and attack their forces in the void.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that a subordinate's mistake had cost thirty-eight Phantom Shadow Legion experts and endangered a major stronghold.
• Lu Mingyu admitted that he had sent Gui Daoran and Gui Qianjie to hold off the enemy, knowing they would likely die, so he could evacuate the stronghold.
• Lu Mingyu described the devastation across the allied factions and said the Two Gui seniors had fought for 393 days before dying.
• Chen Feng declared that he would kill the enemy in revenge, and Lu Mingyu offered to tell him where the forbidden grounds had left a trapped group.

Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu agreed to test their paths against each other after the Dark Turmoil, while the Chang Sheng Epoch began its counterattack against the Forbidden Grounds. In a desolate Small World, Heretical Buddha Cong Xin and Bai Zhi confronted a wounded enemy who had fled the fighting, and he prepared to face them.

• Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu agreed to fight once the Dark Turmoil ended and compare the legacies of the Sword God and Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li.
• In the 187th year of the Three Hundred Years of Despair, the Chang Sheng Epoch began hunting the remaining powerhouses of the Forbidden Grounds after the last Top Forbidden Ground withdrew.
• A wounded man hid in a Small World and complained that the Forbidden Grounds had used him as a pawn before he began healing.
• Heretical Buddha Cong Xin arrived with two severed heads and vowed to kill the man, who tried to dissuade him by pointing out his injuries.
• Bai Zhi joined Cong Xin and told the man he had already lost in his heart by fleeing from two weaker opponents.
• The man rejected Bai Zhi's claim and threatened to cut off both their heads.

Chen Changsheng met Ma Ling'er, his hidden ally and triple agent, after his house arrest ended. Ma Ling'er insisted that she must die to protect his plan to fake his death, and Chen Changsheng agreed to honor her wish to be buried with Jian Fei; the System confirmed that no one had uncovered her role.

• Chen Changsheng met Ma Ling'er in the void, where she gave him a report on the preparations she had made for his plans.
• Ma Ling'er warned that she was a weakness in Chen Changsheng's plan to fake his death and said she needed to die to erase every clue.
• Ma Ling'er asked Chen Changsheng to bury her with Jian Fei, and he agreed to build a cenotaph for him.
• Chen Changsheng reflected that Ma Ling'er had secretly supported him and helped Wang Zhigao rise and Zi Ping's plan face obstacles.
• Chen Changsheng asked the System whether anyone had discovered Ma Ling'er was his Hidden Piece, and the System said no.

Chen Changsheng let Heavens Forbidden Ground launch a fierce counterattack while the Chang Sheng Epoch endured heavy losses in its high-level battles. Two centuries into the despair, Hundred Defeats Immortal defeated Mo Ying with the fist art Ask the Heavens, then died after explaining the courage behind it.

• Chen Changsheng vanished into the void, and Heavens Forbidden Ground began its fiercest counterattack against the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• The Tiger Guard reclaimed territory, but the Chang Sheng Epoch suffered major defeats as its strongest fighters were wounded, killed, or overwhelmed.
• Chen Changsheng returned to Heavens Forbidden Ground in the two hundredth year and found Hundred Defeats Immortal fighting Mo Ying.
• Hundred Defeats Immortal used the fist art he had spent two hundred thousand years comprehending to destroy half of Mo Ying's body.
• Hundred Defeats Immortal explained that Ask the Heavens meant having the courage to raise one's fist at Heaven, then collapsed and died.

Chen Changsheng explained to Mo Ying that the Martial Dao Peak meant having the courage to challenge every enemy across the River of Time, and Mo Ying accepted that he could never surpass Hundred Defeats Immortal. Mo Ying passed his life's teachings to Chen Changsheng, chose to die, and was burned to ashes before Chen Changsheng headed to the next battlefield.

• Chen Changsheng tended Hundred Defeats Immortal's corpse and told Mo Ying that no ceremony could match the legend's final battle.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Hundred Defeats Immortal's final punch challenged every martial dao expert across the River of Time, and Mo Ying understood the true Martial Dao Peak.
• Mo Ying gave Chen Changsheng a book of his life's teachings and asked him to find a successor who would one day fight Hundred Defeats Immortal's successor.
• Mo Ying chose to die with dignity, but his body kept absorbing World Spiritual Energy, so Chen Changsheng burned him with Netherworld Ghost Fire and Samadhi True Fire.
• Chen Changsheng stored Mo Ying's ashes in an urn and set off for the next battlefield.

Chen Changsheng revealed that he had secretly turned Nameless’s scheme against the Heavens Forbidden Ground by helping Wu Li master One Qi, Three Purities and return to the Chang Sheng Epoch. With Wu Li, Xu Hu, and Su You overwhelming Nameless and the Bai Ze Clan Leader blocking his escape, the battle shifted decisively in Chen Changsheng’s favor.

• Chen Changsheng appeared beside Xu Hu and the injured Su You, then brought the Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li to confront Nameless.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he had used his avatar’s time on the Giant Hand to eliminate Nameless’s spies and give Wu Li time to learn One Qi, Three Purities.
• Nameless requested a duel with Wu Li, but Wu Li rejected one-on-one fighting and attacked him, prompting Xu Hu and Su You to join the battle.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Nameless had provoked a prolonged war to drive away rival Forbidden Grounds and monopolize the Chang Sheng Epoch, but Chen Changsheng had anticipated the plot.
• Nameless tried to flee, but the Bai Ze Clan Leader appeared to block his path and revealed that Chen Changsheng’s new ultra-long-distance teleportation technology had concealed their arrival.

Chen Changsheng’s forces cornered Nameless and defeated him, while Wang Hao and the Forbidden Ground representatives discussed their withdrawal from the Chang Sheng Epoch. The standoff in Hundun escalated when Dream arrived at Chen Changsheng’s invitation and insulted the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Qilin, and the True Phoenix.

• Nameless charged Chen Changsheng, but Wu Li and Bai Ze intercepted him, and a golden character stopped his attempted escape.
• Chen Changsheng explained his encirclement plan to the Confucian Sage, who joined the battle and left Nameless unable to resist.
• Beyond the epoch, Wang Hao, Ancient Desolation, and Sacred Ruins discussed how Chen Changsheng’s eighty-year deadline had concealed his actual timetable and how they had escaped the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• The Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Qilin challenged the Nether River Forbidden Ground’s representatives for remaining in Hundun, but the representatives refused to leave.
• Dream emerged after the True Phoenix confronted him and said Chen Changsheng had invited him as a fellow member of the Heavenly Dao Society.
• Dream insulted the Forbidden Grounds’ beasts, prompting an angry roar and a threat against him.

Chen Changsheng confronted the ancient powers and proposed replacing predatory resource-taking with a more sustainable order, offering deals to the Divine Beast lineage, the Forbidden Grounds, and Dream. The factions weighed his offer, while Chen Changsheng left them with the choice to cooperate or risk opposing him.

• Ancestral Dragon and Dream exchanged threats after Ancestral Dragon's Dragon's Roar destroyed Dream's body, but Dream regenerated and challenged him to come to the Pill Epoch.
• Chen Changsheng intervened and argued that Heaven's arrogance had caused its downfall, then urged the ancient powers to change how they acquired resources.
• Chen Changsheng declared that he could join forces with different factions to destroy their rivals and claimed his ability to acquire resources made him unbeatable.
• Ancestral Dragon offered the Divine Beast lineage's cooperation if Chen Changsheng provided sufficient compensation, and Chen Changsheng promised equality among races, help with fertility, and stronger leadership.
• Ancient Desolation asked what the Forbidden Grounds would receive, and Chen Changsheng promised them at least twice their current benefits if they stayed out of the world's open affairs.
• Dream asked about his share, and Chen Changsheng offered to slow the Pill Epoch's decline so Dream would not need to target other epochs for ten million years.

Chen Changsheng challenged the powerful beings to a wager: if the weak could no longer challenge them, he would surrender everything and his life, but if they could, the strong would stand as equals with them. Primordial Qilin accepted, and the group set out to kill Heaven in the Chang Sheng Epoch, while Wang Hao stayed behind.

• Chen Changsheng rejected calls to cultivate further and said he wanted to prove that wisdom could let the weak challenge the strong.
• Chen Changsheng wagered his life and everything he owned on whether the weak would keep daring to challenge their rulers.
• Primordial Qilin accepted the wager, promising that all living things would stand as equals if Chen Changsheng's claim proved true.
• Chen Changsheng proposed killing Heaven and laid out a plan involving Dream and the Six Great Forbidden Grounds to contain the fight and prevent Heaven's escape.
• The Ancestral Dragon, the True Phoenix, Primordial Qilin, Dream, and the Six Great Forbidden Grounds departed for the Chang Sheng Epoch, but Wang Hao remained behind.

Chen Changsheng returned to the sealing site and prepared to confront Heaven while the wounded experts recovered. Around Chang Sheng Epoch, Zhang Bairen and Nalan Zi Ping secured time to continue their battles, and Heaven drank the tea Chen Changsheng had secretly altered.

• Wang Hao suspected that events had gone too smoothly, while Ancient Desolation trusted Chen Changsheng’s promises, and the Six Great Forbidden Grounds departed into chaos.
• After everyone left, Chen Changsheng revealed that he intended to force the lofty powerhouses into desperate circumstances.
• Xue Lan Supreme’s weapon broke against Zhang Bairen’s Emperor Weapon, and Zhang Bairen asked the Buddhist Sages for three hundred years to defeat her.
• Nalan Zi Ping asked a Sage for five hundred years before facing an old man again, explaining that he wanted to challenge one of the hidden powerhouses himself.
• Chen Changsheng arrived at the sealing site, handed immortal pills to the wounded experts, and brewed tea for Heaven.
• Heaven drank the tea without hesitation, then twisted his expression when Chen Changsheng’s added ingredient took effect.

Chen Changsheng confronted Heaven, who revealed his confidence in fighting the gathered powerhouses and asked Chen Changsheng to use a special God-Slaying Weapon against him. The Ultimate Battle began, and more than a century later, the Chang Sheng Epoch plunged into despair as the fighters’ remains fell from the sky.

• Chen Changsheng questioned Heaven about his plans, and Heaven admitted he had founded the Heavens Forbidden Ground to rebuild his strength and seek revenge.
• Heaven asked Chen Changsheng to enter the battle with a special God-Slaying Weapon and agreed to spare Chen Feng if he won.
• Chen Changsheng accepted, and the Ancestral Dragon, the True Phoenix, the Primordial Qilin, the Four Ferocious Beasts, and Chen Xiang’s group prepared to fight Heaven.
• Heaven charged the gathered powerhouses, beginning the Ultimate Battle.
• Over the following centuries, Wu Li, Su You, Zhang Bairen, Nalan Zi Ping, and other sages entered the battlefield.
• After Nalan Zi Ping and the Daoist Sage joined, the Ice-Fire Immortal King’s body and the remains of many other powerhouses fell from the sky, plunging the Chang Sheng Epoch into despair.

As the Ultimate Battle drew the Chang Sheng Epoch’s strongest experts into the void, Chen Feng set out to hunt the remaining Forbidden Ground enemies. The younger generation mourned the fallen Heretical Buddha Follow the Heart and faced the burden of defending the worlds, while Chen Changsheng urged them to do their utmost regardless of whether victory was possible.

• Chen Feng and Lu Mingyu discussed the Ultimate Battle’s scale, and Chen Feng left to hunt the remaining Forbidden Ground experts.
• The narration recounted the sacrifices of old soldiers and the battles fought by Jun Lin, Chen Xiao, Zhao Wu Yu, and Liu Yidao against Forbidden Ground enemies.
• Follow the Heart died after shattering a Heavens Forbidden Ground expert’s black Buddha, and the enemy fled when Chen Xiao, Ruan Su Xian, and Ye Yu arrived to aid the wounded Bai Zhi.
• Ruan Su Xian, Ye Yu, and Bai Zhi reflected on Follow the Heart’s methods and the desperate need for stronger fighters, then considered undergoing the Quasi-Emperor Thunder Tribulation.
• Chen Changsheng arrived, comforted Chen Xiao about the possibility of defeat, and collected Follow the Heart’s body as the others departed.

Chen Changsheng’s forces waged a prolonged battle against Heaven in the Dreamscape, wearing him down through a strategy that accepted heavy losses. The conflict left both sides badly wounded, and Yin Qi’s death drove Chen Changsheng’s remaining allies into a desperate assault.

• Heaven and the Ancestral Dragon fought to a stalemate while Chen Changsheng explained to Dream that he intended to wear down Heaven and force the others to risk their lives.
• Two thousand five hundred years into the battle, Wu Li left to undergo his lightning tribulation, then returned stronger without changing the balance of the fight.
• Five thousand years into the battle, the Primordial Qilin, Ancestral Dragon, and Three Religions Sages nearly killed Heaven, but his power shattered the Dreamscape and forced them to withdraw; Dream then joined the fight.
• Eight thousand years into the battle, Heaven killed Taowu and Qiongqi, while the Buddhist Sages wounded him and he retaliated against them.
• At ten thousand years, Xu Yao grievously wounded Heaven but lost her ability to fight, and Chen Xiang was severely injured protecting her; eighty-six years later, Chen Xiang wounded Heaven before withdrawing with Xu Yao, and Yin Qi fell.
• After Yin Qi died, Hua Feng, Zhang Zhen, Zi Ping, Wu Li, Nian Sheng, and Zhang Bairen fought Heaven with the resolve to die.

Chen Changsheng waited for an opening to use the God-Slaying Weapon against Heaven, while the others paid a terrible price to weaken and restrain their foe. He mortally poisoned Heaven and revealed that the box had only concealed the attack, leaving Heaven to face death after learning how he had been defeated.

• After Taotie and Hundun fell, Chen Changsheng sent the badly injured Zhang Zhen and Nian Sheng away and asked the remaining fighters to buy him time for one move.
• Primordial Qilin agreed to help Chen Changsheng create an opening, while Ancestral Dragon urged Dream to unleash more of his power.
• Over seven thousand years, Dream and the other fighters grievously wounded Heaven, and Dream eventually exposed a flaw in Heaven's defenses so they could restrain him.
• Chen Changsheng opened the Silver Box and pierced Heaven's chest, spreading destructive energies through his body.
• Heaven asked how Chen Changsheng had killed him, and Chen Changsheng revealed that the box merely blocked sight and Divine Sense while poison had delivered the fatal blow.

Chen Changsheng explained how his poison weakened Heaven and watched him choose to die after warning him about Dream and the God-Slaying Weapon. After burying Heaven, Chen Changsheng left the dream realm, while the Ancestral Dragon and Dream discussed the weapon’s inexplicable power.

• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had poisoned Heaven with two harmless substances that became lethal when combined, and that Dream unknowingly delivered the second dose.
• Heaven praised Chen Changsheng, warned him that Dream was immensely powerful and that others would target the God-Slaying Weapon, then chose to perish.
• Heaven admitted the poison had flared more than ten times and weakened his judgment, helping explain how the Four Ferocious Beasts and other masters had wounded him.
• Chen Changsheng placed Heaven’s corpse in a coffin, buried him, and warned the Ancestral Dragon that refusing to change could lead to his death.
• Chen Changsheng left the dream realm with Wu Li and the others, while Dream told the Ancestral Dragon he had seen the weapon strike but could not understand how it had killed Heaven.

After waking from a five-century coma, Chen Changsheng faced the deaths of his old friends and helped guide the Chang Sheng Epoch into a peaceful new era. Thirteen thousand years after the great battle, the epoch had stabilized and was beginning cooperation with the Pill Epoch.

• Chen Changsheng, Wu Li, Zi Ping, and Zhang Bairen collapsed after the battle and remained unconscious for five centuries while their minds and spirits recovered.
• Chen Changsheng awoke, remembered that his friends’ deaths were real, and mourned them at the God and Demon Cemetery alongside Wu Li and the others.
• A century later, Chen Changsheng urged his companions to leave the cemetery and see the flourishing era they had created.
• Over the following millennia, the Chang Sheng Epoch rebuilt its academy, Buddhist Kingdom, Heavenly Court, and Underworld, while Chen Changsheng married ten thousand years after the battle.
• Thirteen thousand years after the battle, Chen Changsheng advanced cooperation with the Pill Epoch and persuaded the Divine Beast lineage to accept intermarriage and loosen restrictions on taking human form.

Twenty-five thousand years after the great war, Chen Changsheng vanished and was found dead, leaving a letter declaring that he had won by making everyone’s plans fail. Many came to believe his death was real, but Wang Hao eventually inferred that Chen Changsheng had devised a way to save Bai Ze and destroy his own incarnation to keep the secret safe.

• After refusing to extend his life for years, Chen Changsheng agreed to do so, then vanished four thousand years later as preparations for his plan continued.
• A decade after Chen Changsheng disappeared, the searchers found his corpse and final letter, and the Longevity Fairy, Bai Ze, Wu Li, and Zhang Bairen reacted with grief.
• Dream and the other powerful beings examined Chen Changsheng’s body, concluded that he was truly dead, and protected it with a Peerless Grand Array.
• Nian Sheng accepted Chen Changsheng’s death and left the Chang Sheng Epoch to search for a way to revive him, while Dream secretly watched her and investigated Chen Changsheng’s past.
• Lu Mingyu declared that he would carry on the name Undertaker, and Wang Hao deduced that Chen Changsheng had devised a way to help Bai Ze escape death.
• Wang Hao destroyed his incarnation and its memories so that no one else could discover Chen Changsheng’s plan.

After 105,000 years, Chen Changsheng returned to life in secret and set out to revive Bai Ze. Nian Sheng recovered her true memories, while Bai Ze awoke in a little black dog's body and confronted Chen Changsheng about it.

• Chen Changsheng grew back from a piece of flesh sealed in Divine Source, left his tomb through a tunnel, and planned to revive Bai Ze.
• Nian Sheng's altered memories shattered, revealing that Chen Changsheng had made her endure eighty thousand years of grief; she flew off with the treasure, newly hopeful that he was alive.
• Chen Changsheng found Xiao Hei in a small town, bought the dog, and awakened the Bai Ze Bloodline and memories within it.
• Bai Ze regained the ability to speak and angrily complained about being revived as a dog, then asked Chen Changsheng whether he had removed the dog's instinct to eat shit.
• Chen Changsheng assured Bai Ze that he had erased the instinct, and Bai Ze asked why Ye Yongxian had suffered so badly from the Bloodline Immortality method.