Chapter Summaries

Meng De learned that Virtual World had many undiscovered uses, but Chen Changsheng refused to guide him and told him to decide for himself whether to keep or sell his opportunity. In Black Stone World, Li Changsheng accused Long Aotian and the others of revealing Virtual World's secret, and their search for the Sage Emperor turned into a bitter argument.

• Meng De questioned the Qilin phantom about Virtual World's potential and realized it was still a prototype controlled behind the scenes by Chen Changsheng.
• Chen Changsheng denied that Virtual World revolved around Meng De, refused to answer his questions, and told him he could sell his slot if he could not hold onto it.
• Long Aotian, Li Changsheng, Feng Zhi, and the others searched Black Stone World for the Sage Emperor after following the Medical Immortal's directions.
• Li Changsheng accused someone in the group of revealing Virtual World's secret and reasoned that their information had led the supreme powers to share the Sage Emperor's location.
• Long Aotian demanded that Li Changsheng take back his accusation, but Li Changsheng insulted him and Feng Zhi and suggested Long Aotian might already be the Sage Emperor's disciple.

Chen Xiao explained why Long Aotian should feel remorse for betraying his companions, while revealing that the Imperial Tutor might still be alive and manipulating events around the Virtual World. He left Long Aotian with the warning that Li Changsheng’s retaliation had erased their earlier advantage.

• Li Changsheng accused Zhang Ling and Feng Zhi of betrayal, then left; Zhang Ling vanished, and Feng Zhi was taken away by three elders from her clan.
• Long Aotian asked Chen Xiao whether their actions had been shameless, and Chen Xiao said that betraying youthful companions had cost Long Aotian his youthful spirit.
• Chen Xiao explained that Li Changsheng had berated Long Aotian partly out of anger and partly because the situation had changed and Chen Xiao would not teach him the Path of the Physical Body.
• Chen Xiao told Long Aotian that the message about the Five Spirits mission might have been sent by the Imperial Tutor, who could still be alive and pulling strings behind the scenes.
• Long Aotian asked whether the academy shop owner was the Imperial Tutor, and Chen Xiao said it was likely but that they could not find him until they discovered the first spiritual item.
• Chen Xiao warned that Li Changsheng had exposed Feng Zhi’s betrayal and implicated Mo Bai and the others, wiping out the advantage they had gained.

Chen Xiao warned Long Aotian that the Virtual World’s hidden truth could force them into conflict, then laid out a daunting ladder of opponents Long Aotian would have to defeat. Long Aotian’s confidence faltered as Chen Xiao described the powerful figures waiting ahead, and Chen Xiao offered to tell him about Chen Feng next.

• Chen Xiao told Long Aotian that the Virtual World concealed a mystery and that Long Aotian might have to fight alone.
• Chen Xiao revealed that he himself could become Long Aotian’s opponent, followed by his friends, family, and prodigies from the Forbidden Grounds.
• Chen Xiao said Long Aotian would have to defeat the older generation before facing the Pill Epoch’s prodigies.
• Chen Xiao named Cui Tian Rui, Guan Ping, Chen Feng, and Lu Mingyu, explaining that Long Aotian would have to face Cui Tian Rui’s eight hundred Tiger Braves one by one.
• Chen Xiao explained that Lu Mingyu had learned nearly all of Grandfather Changsheng’s abilities and was comparable to Desolate Heaven Emperor Wu Li from a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Long Aotian’s confidence drained as Chen Xiao offered to tell him about Chen Feng.

Chen Xiao explained the impossible standards facing Long Aotian and taught him the principles behind the Path of the Physical Body. He sent Long Aotian to cultivate at the world's core and left him responsible for the world Chen Xiao had been supporting.

• Chen Xiao told Long Aotian that Chen Feng might have surpassed the Sword God and urged him to keep striving despite the daunting standards.
• Long Aotian regained his resolve, then agreed with Chen Xiao to focus on taking the first step rather than rushing to challenge an Immortal Emperor.
• Chen Xiao led Long Aotian into a passage to the world's core, explaining how mass, gravity, and physical cultivation could hold the world together.
• Chen Xiao demonstrated his strength with a strand of hair that severed Long Aotian's arms, then explained that mastery of Divine Sense was necessary to control a body of immense mass.
• Chen Xiao ordered Long Aotian to cultivate at the world's core and revealed that he had supported the world for tens of thousands of years, leaving it in Long Aotian's care.

Feng Zhi faced Ancestor Phoenix over her defiance and the leak of Dragon Speech Phoenix Language. Ancestor Phoenix revealed the clan had known about the Virtual World from the start, and Feng Zhi learned that Sword Come had reported it first.

• Ancestor Phoenix summoned Feng Zhi and accused her of betraying the clan by taking its resources while claiming to seek freedom.
• Feng Zhi defended herself, but Ancestor Phoenix confronted her with leaking Dragon Speech Phoenix Language and exposed her plan to delay the clan's discovery.
• Ancestor Phoenix revealed the clan had learned of the Virtual World the day after Sword Come obtained access and had investigated the leaked cultivation methods through Sword Come.
• Feng Zhi realized Sword Come had reported the Virtual World before her and clenched her fists.
• Ancestor Phoenix said Zhang Ling had contacted the Three Religions Sages and explained that Long Aotian had avoided a direct clash with his clan and joined the Undertaker Lineage through Chen Xiao.

Ancestor Phoenix persuaded Hua Feng to accept Feng Zhi as his disciple, hoping to protect the Phoenix Race’s future relationship with Chen Changsheng. The chapter ended with the three supreme geniuses of the Ten Thousand Races Academy trapped in deadly battles inside the Cosmic Black Hole.

• Ancestor Phoenix rebuked Feng Zhi for failing to see how Li Changsheng had overturned her advantages in the Virtual World.
• Hua Feng declined Ancestor Phoenix’s offer to hand him leadership of the Phoenix Race and resisted taking Feng Zhi as his disciple.
• Ancestor Phoenix offered her Natal True Feather and explained that Feng Zhi’s apprenticeship could keep relations with the Imperial Tutor Lineage from becoming too strained.
• Hua Feng accepted Feng Zhi as his disciple, and Ancestor Phoenix told Feng Zhi that her future path was hers to choose.
• The three supreme geniuses of the Ten Thousand Races Academy fought a giant puppet, green flames, and a binding array in the Cosmic Black Hole, realizing their mission to gather the Five Spirits was a deadly trap.

Mo Bai, Feng Ran, and Lin Yao escaped a deadly puppet and learned that their trial might be a trap prepared for Dark Era prodigies—or a killing game left behind by the fallen Imperial Tutor. Mo Bai chose to challenge the Sage Emperor’s path of physical cultivation, while Chen Changsheng confirmed that the Cosmic Black Hole’s defenses would attack anyone who entered.

• Mo Bai used the Ink Kirin to free Feng Ran and Lin Yao, and the three escaped the giant puppet after fleeing for three days and nights.
• Feng Ran explained that the puppet and its Netherworld Ghost Fire were likely weapons made by the Imperial Tutor to slaughter the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Mo Bai reasoned that the trial might have been designed for Dark Era prodigies, while Feng Ran and Lin Yao feared it could be a killing game left by the fallen Imperial Tutor.
• Mo Bai said they did not need to follow the mission’s guidance and sealed the last trace of divine power he could use before setting out to challenge the Sage Emperor’s path of physical cultivation.
• Bai Ze demanded permission to kill the three, but Chen Changsheng refused and revealed that any method in the Cosmic Black Hole would trigger its guaranteed-kill protocol against living beings.

Chen Changsheng explained that the Five Spirits mission was a deadly way to distribute the Virtual World's benefits among the cultivation world’s factions and cultivators. After he sent word for his allies to act, several factions began positioning themselves, while Yin Jun Lin advised Yin Jie against competing for the Five Spirits.

• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that he had planted Quasi-Emperor-level measures in the Cosmic Black Hole and explained how the Five Spirits mission would divide the Virtual World's benefits.
• Chen Changsheng said that powerful figures could claim a share by defeating him or paying his price, while future cultivators could earn one by gathering the Five Spirits and overcoming his measures.
• Chen Changsheng sent a message authorizing his allies to make their move, and Liu Yidao went to the Bai Ze Garrison to discuss an important matter with the Bai Ze Clan.
• Jiang Shan accelerated his preparations within Hundun, hoping to enlist the Chang Sheng Epoch to help open a passage between the epochs.
• Wang Hao met Yun Ya Zi at the Chang Sheng Epoch's border, and they entered Hundun to exchange moves away from Chen Changsheng's arrangements.
• Yin Jun Lin praised Yin Jie for holding Great Shang's troops back and warned him not to compete for the Five Spirits because powerful opponents, including Chen Xiao, might enter the fray.

Yin Jie received Jun Lin’s permission to challenge his uncles, while Hua Feng revealed why he had chosen Feng Zhi as his successor and sent her to train and seek an inherited fist technique. Hua Feng’s approaching death left Feng Zhi with a mission tied closely to the Imperial Tutor Lineage.

• Yin Jie asked Jun Lin for permission to spar with his senior relatives, and Jun Lin agreed, privately predicting that Yin Jie would suffer.
• Hua Feng told Feng Zhi to obtain the Ten Thousand Year Earth Core Fire and explained that he had chosen her to inherit his knowledge because she resembled him and might surpass him.
• Hua Feng revealed that he had reached the peak of the Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven but could not enter the Great Emperor Realm, so he needed an inheritor before his death.
• Hua Feng instructed Feng Zhi to yield to the Imperial Tutor Lineage, explained their shared inheritance and fist techniques, and told her to learn his techniques at the volcano.
• Hua Feng warned Feng Zhi not to sell supreme arts cheaply and tasked her with gathering the Five Spirits and recovering the Ask the Heavens fist technique, which the Imperial Tutor understood.

Feng Zhi approached the volcano to retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Earth Core Fire after Hua Feng sealed his divine power, while Meng De struggled through increasingly dangerous side quests. Outside the Cosmic Black Hole, experts learned it was a deadly trap containing a treasure that could grant another life, and many decided to enter despite the danger.

• Hua Feng sealed Feng Zhi's divine power and sent him toward the volcano to retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Earth Core Fire.
• Meng De risked his life completing harder side quests as experts of the Chang Sheng Epoch debated Chen Changsheng's plans and whether to enter the former Heavens Forbidden Ground.
• After half a year of silence, a mutilated cultivator escaped the Cosmic Black Hole with seven puppets behind him and warned that Chen Changsheng had shown no mercy.
• The experts received Mo Bai's message describing the Cosmic Black Hole's deadly defenses and a spiritual treasure that could let cultivators live another life.
• The experts resolved to enter the Cosmic Black Hole for the treasure, while one figure warned against trying to revive the Forbidden Grounds.

Chen Changsheng and Bai Ze discussed a group seeking to revive the Forbidden Ground, while Jiang Shan reached the Chang Sheng Epoch Boundary and was confronted by Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi. Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi followed Jiang Shan, leaving him worried they would discover Sir’s plan.

• Chen Changsheng dismissed the Forbidden Ground revivalists as weak and activated three special puppets in the Cosmic Black Hole to kill entrants seeking its treasures.
• Bai Ze warned that reviving the Forbidden Ground’s ideas could bring back the Dark Turmoil, but Chen Changsheng said peace depended on order and that those who entered the Cosmic Black Hole accepted the risk of death.
• Jiang Shan arrived at the Chang Sheng Epoch Boundary and saw Wang Hao emerge from a battle in the chaos.
• Yun Ya Zi introduced himself as the former Pill Tower Master, and Jiang Shan recognized both him and Wang Hao as powerful figures.
• Jiang Shan tried to leave for the Chang Sheng Epoch, but Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi followed him and refused to stop, leaving him concerned they would uncover Sir’s plan.

Jiang Shan, Wang Hao, and Yun Ya Zi traveled to the Pill Epoch while Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi debated how they had anticipated Chen Changsheng’s plans and challenged each other over their hidden strength. The three crossed the Epoch Barrier, and Wang Hao declared that he had finally returned.

• Jiang Shan entered the Chang Sheng Epoch with Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi following close behind.
• Wang Hao explained that he had deduced Chen Changsheng would recruit marginalized Children of the Forbidden Ground and a young man who had left the Chang Sheng Epoch.
• Yun Ya Zi said he had traced Chen Changsheng through the Virtual World and the reincarnation of Jian Fei.
• Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi questioned each other’s strength, hidden motives, and ties to the Heavenly Dao Society.
• Jiang Shan, Wang Hao, and Yun Ya Zi crossed the Epoch Barrier into the Pill Epoch, where Wang Hao said he had finally returned.

Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi used Qilin Communicators to contact Chen Changsheng, who spoke to them openly through Jiang Shan’s communicator. Chen Changsheng taunted both men and warned that Yun Ya Zi would receive no Divine Source unless he followed the rules.

• Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi pretended to chat through their Qilin Communicators while trying to reach Chen Changsheng, leaving Jiang Shan baffled.
• Chen Changsheng contacted Jiang Shan, and Wang Hao’s communicator rang with Chen Changsheng’s voice, prompting Jiang Shan to answer his Special Communicator.
• Chen Changsheng told Jiang Shan to turn up the volume and discussed the Epoch Passage, saying the Great Shang Dynasty and Heavenly Court could help complete it.
• Jiang Shan asked why Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi were acting so strangely, and Chen Changsheng explained that they were desperate to find him and secure their shares of the profits.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had avoided using Ao Chuang because the Qilin Communicators could monitor the epoch, then mocked Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi to their faces.
• Chen Changsheng warned Wang Hao against causing trouble and told Yun Ya Zi that he would receive no extra share or Divine Source unless he followed the rules.

Chen Changsheng revealed that the Epoch Trade Plan was a cover for his true scheme: creating an infinite Virtual World capable of accommodating all living beings. He persuaded Yun Ya Zi to join him, while Wang Hao demanded to know the plan's danger and questioned whether anyone would want to live in the world Chen Changsheng created.

• Chen Changsheng forced Yun Ya Zi to let Jiang Shan go, then discussed business with Yun Ya Zi and Wang Hao over the communicator.
• Chen Changsheng said he had invented the Epoch Trade Plan as a deception and planned to harvest the efforts of Chang Sheng Epoch and Pill Epoch through his real scheme.
• Yun Ya Zi agreed to work with Chen Changsheng, and Wang Hao challenged him to explain why he needed their help and how dangerous the plan was.
• Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao that, after hearing the plan, he would have to join them, and Wang Hao agreed to hear it.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that his true plan was to create an immense Virtual World for all living beings, and Wang Hao questioned whether everyone would want to enter it.

Chen Changsheng explained his plan to build a Virtual World that would grow through its users and turn their mental energy into cultivation. He argued that connecting it to the Qilin Communicator would give him influence over beings across epochs, leaving Yun Ya Zi convinced of its immense authority.

• Chen Changsheng told Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi that the Virtual World would let beings cultivate without truly dying and feed their progress back into reality.
• Chen Changsheng explained that users' overflowing mental energy would expand the Virtual World and sustain a cycle that attracted more cultivators and cultivation arts.
• Wang Hao grasped how lower-level cultivators could expand the world while their mental energy helped attract stronger cultivators.
• Yun Ya Zi questioned how the Virtual World could retain high-level cultivators, and Chen Changsheng argued that the Qilin Communicator offered greater authority than cultivation arts or treasures.
• Yun Ya Zi recognized that the Qilin Communicator could deliver Chen Changsheng's orders to every living being and mobilize an immense force.

Chen Changsheng recruited Wang Hao and Yun Ya Zi to help secure the Virtual World and instructed them to prepare the Pill Epoch and Chang Sheng Epoch for its expansion. Meanwhile, Jiang Shan sought Jun Lin’s help in establishing an urgent Epoch Passage, and the two set off for the Epoch Boundary.

• Chen Changsheng told Yun Ya Zi that he would rely on him as the Virtual World’s final line of defense, while Wang Hao agreed to join the plan.
• Chen Changsheng asked Wang Hao to hide until needed and ordered Yun Ya Zi to return to the Pill Epoch to organize its Five Spirits stages and keep the Virtual World secret.
• Jiang Shan reached the Great Shang Dynasty, where Jun Lin welcomed him and asked whether he had received Grandfather Changsheng after his return from death.
• Jiang Shan formally invited the Great Shang Dynasty and the Heavenly Court to establish an Epoch Passage, and Jun Lin agreed to help contact the Jade Emperor.
• Jiang Shan and Jun Lin headed for the Epoch Boundary to begin constructing the passage as soon as possible.

Feng Zhi spent six months studying the Phoenix Empress’s fist technique before creating a style of her own and vowing to restore her lineage’s reputation. In a small world, Li Yibai stopped Li Changsheng’s dangerous pressure training and offered to teach him the Undying Seal Art so he could compete for the Five Spirits.

• Feng Zhi studied the Phoenix Empress’s fist technique for six months, realized its power lay in its momentum, and began creating her own technique.
• Feng Zhi declared that she would strengthen her lineage and reclaim the Great-Grandmaster’s fist technique from the Imperial Tutor, then continued punching as the Ten Thousand Year Earth Core Fire healed and strengthened her.
• Li Yibai halted Li Changsheng’s training after warning that the strain could damage his foundation, but Li Changsheng insisted he would enter the Cosmic Black Hole to complete the Five Spirits task and meet the Imperial Tutor.
• Li Yibai told Li Changsheng that he needed to tap into his potential rather than raise his cultivation, and advised him to master the eight forms of the Undying Seal Art.
• When Li Changsheng said he had no manual, Li Yibai offered to teach him the art and declined to explain how she knew it.

Li Changsheng prepared to learn the Undying Seal Art with Li Yibai’s help as rivals in the Cosmic Black Hole drew closer to claiming its treasure. Long Aotian committed to strengthening himself for an early confrontation, while Lu Mingyu’s return shocked Jun Lin with the gap between their strength.

• Li Yibai told Li Changsheng that Mo Bai and the others had survived in the Cosmic Black Hole for more than half a year and offered to awaken his potential through the Way of Music so he could learn the Undying Seal Art quickly.
• Long Aotian endured the strain of his training as Chen Xiao warned him that he needed to improve before entering the Cosmic Black Hole, where a dangerous treasure could grant even Great Emperors another life.
• Chen Xiao revealed that Mo Bai and the others had sent news from the Cosmic Black Hole and had grown stronger than she and Long Aotian had been at their age, prompting Long Aotian’s bloodline to boil as he resolved to catch up.
• Jiang Shan and Jun Lin reached the Epoch Boundary, where they found Lu Mingyu had opened and secured a passage through the barrier.
• Lu Mingyu tested Jun Lin with a single punch, leaving him stunned despite being only at the Ninth Grade of the Quasi-Emperor Realm, then explained that cultivation realm was not the only measure of strength.

Lu Mingyu discussed his cultivation limits with Jun Lin and Jiang Shan, explaining that he needed battles against Chen Feng and the Phoenix Empress before entering the Emperor Realm. He also revealed his plans to promote the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System and showed them the Epoch Passage he had built.

• Lu Mingyu told Jun Lin that his fist technique had not reached its pinnacle, and Jun Lin admitted he could not match the Phoenix Empress.
• Lu Mingyu explained that he faced formidable opponents, including the Desolate Heaven Emperor and the Phoenix Empress, and needed real battles before entering the Emperor Realm.
• Lu Mingyu named Chen Feng and the Phoenix Empress as the two opponents he could not be sure of defeating.
• Lu Mingyu said he wanted to promote the Bitter Sea Emperor Realm System and compete with his First Senior Brother to enter it first.
• Lu Mingyu took Jiang Shan and Jun Lin to the Epoch Passage and revealed that he had built it to help carry out his teacher's plan.

Lu Mingyu explained how Teacher was using the Epoch Passage and the Five Spirits mission to manage powerful figures, then revealed that Meng De might hold the key to the Virtual World. Meanwhile, Mo Bai continued fighting in the Cosmic Black Hole, and Zhang Ling strengthened his body in the Daoist Holy Land to prepare for the Five Spirits in the Heavens Forbidden Ground.

• Lu Mingyu told Jiang Shan and Jun Lin that Teacher had divided the Chang Sheng Epoch into ranks and assigned the Epoch Passage to restrain powerful figures.
• Lu Mingyu said he would seek a share of the Virtual World through cunning rather than force and would wait for its true purpose to emerge.
• Lu Mingyu revealed that Meng De was the one among the first six Virtual World slots going against the Five Spirits mission, and Jun Lin agreed he might be the key.
• Mo Bai defeated an Immortal Venerable Realm puppet in the Cosmic Black Hole and recalled that he had spread word of it after seeing something terrifying in its core region.
• Zhang Ling broke through a physical bottleneck while practicing the Daoist Breathing Method, and the old man said he could still compete for the Five Spirits in the Heavens Forbidden Ground.