Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After Chen Changqing neutralizes Gu Ming’s Immortal-level power of decay and uses it to strengthen the six Destiny Emperors, Gu Ming reacts with fury in his hidden Dark Forbidden Zone.
• Gu Ming reveals that he engineered the White Jade Capital’s appearance and the opening of the Immortal Road as a trap. He intended to devour the six Emperors and use their bodies, laws, and fortune to restore his strength.
• Though Chen’s unexpected intervention unsettles him, Gu Ming regains confidence. He believes his experience and power as a reincarnated Immortal King still give him the advantage over a cultivator from a lower realm.
• Gu Ming plans to exploit the tens of millions of cultivators who have used Immortal Opportunity, reasoning that Chen cannot save them all. Their suffering will help him fully unlock the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp, an Immortal King artifact, and recover his peak cultivation.
• He also intends to devour the Chen Family, coveting its unusual legacy, resurrection miracle, and powerful cultivation techniques. The chapter ends with Gu Ming revealing the lamp, whose thirteen spheres surround its flame—eleven are already lit.

Character developments

• Gu Ming shifts from rage to cautious concern when he recognizes Chen as a serious threat, but his pride as an Immortal King soon restores his confidence. He remains calculating and predatory, intent on turning the wider population and the Chen Family into resources for his recovery.
• Chen Changqing does not appear directly, but his ability to overcome and repurpose Immortal-level decay has made him a source of genuine concern for Gu Ming.

Significant themes

• Pride versus unexpected power: Gu Ming’s immense status and past achievements make him underestimate Chen, despite the evidence that Chen can counter his Immortal Dao.
• Predation and exploitation: Gu Ming views people, legacies, and secrets alike as nourishment to be consumed.
• Scale and limits of protection: Gu Ming’s plan hinges on the possibility that even a powerful protector cannot save countless people spread across an enormous realm.
• Ancient power and concealed threats: The lamp and Gu Ming’s history hint at dangers far beyond the Great Desolate Realm.

Character interactions

• The central conflict is indirect: Gu Ming responds to Chen Changqing’s recent actions and begins planning how to defeat and exploit him.
• Gu Ming frames the six Emperors, the wider cultivator population, and the Chen Family as targets in his scheme; Chen’s intervention has temporarily thwarted his plan but not ended the threat.

Plot points and events

• Gu Ming chants an ancient Immortal Dao incantation to fuel the Soul Lamp with the emotions and desires of all living beings. Eleven of its spheres glow; two remain dark, and he intends to light them to complete the artifact and reclaim the Immortal King’s throne.
• His chant unleashes a catastrophe across the Great Desolate Realm. Everyone who once drew power from the Immortal Opportunity suffers a sudden, lethal backlash as it turns into a black force of decay.
• In the Azure Mystic Sacred Land, the newly empowered Saint Realm ancestor ages rapidly and crumbles to dust during a sermon. Across the realm, cultivators of every level die in similarly horrifying ways.
• A Saint Emperor fails to protect his Dao companion; striking the black force causes it to spread to his arm, which he must sever to survive. A Saint Emperor treasure also disintegrates on contact.
• The survivors conclude that ordinary power cannot stop the calamity. They call for the Evergreen Divine Son, Chen Changqing, who previously saved six Great Emperors—but fear he cannot reach tens of millions of victims scattered across the vast realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Ming is revealed as a ruthless, ambitious figure pursuing the Immortal King’s throne through the Soul Lamp. His incantation directly triggers the realm-wide disaster.
• The Azure Mystic ancestor is abruptly destroyed, while his disciples’ desperate attempts to help—including one disciple transferring true essence—prove futile.
• The Southern Ridge Saint Emperor goes from furious protector to terrified survivor: his attack fails, and he sacrifices an arm to escape the corruption.
• The realm’s cultivators shift from seeking ways to fight the disaster to placing their last hope in Chen Changqing, even as they doubt he can save everyone.

Significant themes

• The cost of ambition: Gu Ming’s quest for power turns the emotions and desires of living beings into fuel, with catastrophic consequences.
• Powerlessness before higher forces: Saint Emperor laws and treasured artifacts are useless against Immortal Dao power.
• Hope amid overwhelming disaster: Chen Changqing represents the realm’s remaining hope, but the scale of the crisis threatens to make that hope insufficient.

Key plot points and events

• While cultivators across the Great Desolate Realm are already suffering from the backlash of the Immortal Opportunity, the world suddenly shakes and darkens.
• Vast Dark Forbidden Zones descend through rifts at the realm’s borders: an ancient city in the east, a blood sea in the west, a mountain of bones in the south, and enormous black coffins in the north. Their arrival spreads deathly pressure, demonic energy, and terror.
• The descent is identified as a dark uprising, a recurring calamity that has historically killed most of the realm’s inhabitants. The Forbidden Zones appear to be exploiting the cultivators’ weakened state.
• Yang Lin realizes this catastrophe has arrived hours earlier than in his Future Simulation. He suspects Chen Changqing’s presence may have altered events and wonders whether the uprising is not what it seems.
• Immortal King Gu Ming is shocked: although he had planned to trigger a dark uprising later as part of his scheme, he gave no order for one to begin now. His own controlled Forbidden Zones remain inactive, leaving the source of the descending zones unexplained.

Character developments

• Yang Lin becomes more fearful and uncertain as the future diverges from his predictions. His awe of Chen Changqing deepens, since he believes the master’s presence may have changed history.
• Gu Ming loses control of the situation he intended to orchestrate. His surprise suggests the uprising may involve forces beyond his plans.

Character interactions

• Terrified mortals, cultivators, and powerful elders react collectively to the disaster, pleading for mercy or recognizing the threat from past calamities.
• Yang Lin reflects on the event in relation to Chen Changqing, but does not speak with him directly.
• Gu Ming questions his subordinates, who report that none of his Forbidden Zones initiated the uprising.

Significant themes

• A fragile, changing future: Yang Lin’s reliable-seeming predictions fail as events unfold early.
• Compounding catastrophe: The realm faces the Immortal Opportunity’s backlash and the dark uprising at once.
• Hidden agency and loss of control: The calamity appears to have begun independently of Gu Ming’s plan.
• Despair and survival: The Forbidden Zones view the weakened inhabitants as prey, turning a crisis into an apparent mass extinction threat.

Plot points

• Immortal King Gu Ming realizes the Darkness Riot is unfolding beyond his plans. Though he controls many Dark Forbidden Zones, he suspects another powerful figure is behind the unexpected attack. He decides to wait and exploit the chaos, with eleven of the thirteen flames in his Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp already lit.
• The entire Great Desolate Realm is plunged into darkness as seemingly terrifying forbidden zones appear across its regions, terrifying people and creatures alike.
• Chen Changqing’s six Destiny Emperors offer to act, but he dismisses the threat as “flowers in a mirror”—the forbidden zones are illusions, not real.
• The apparent source is a ruined temple in the Ten-Thousand Mountains, where Zhang Wei, a transmigrated motorcyclist, uses his Super Shock System to project fake disasters across the realm. He hopes to harvest Shock Points from the widespread fear and astonishment.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Ming shifts from confidence to wariness when he recognizes that an unknown rival may be disrupting his plans. Rather than intervene, he chooses patience and hopes to profit from the conflict.
• Chen Changqing remains calm and perceptive. He identifies the projections as fake and recognizes that their maker is another system holder, but gives his followers no explanation.
• The six Destiny Emperors are ready to fight under Chen Changqing’s command, but his response leaves them confused.
• Zhang Wei is introduced as a modern, irreverent figure in a fantasy world: a former motorcycle rider who now stages supernatural spectacles through his system to gain rewards.

Significant themes

• Deception and appearance: The realm’s apocalyptic threats are elaborate projections, showing how easily spectacle can be mistaken for reality.
• Power gained through emotion: Zhang Wei’s system turns people’s fear and shock into a resource.
• Hidden players and shifting plans: Gu Ming’s reaction suggests that multiple powerful figures are acting behind the scenes, and that even apparent chaos may be part of a larger game.

Key plot points and events

• Zhang Wei’s projection system has upgraded eight times over six years. Its simulated scenes now reproduce nearly everything with about 90% fidelity and cannot be detected, touched, or dispelled by ordinary means.
• A ninth upgrade would make his projections real, but it requires far more shock points than he currently has. Zhang Wei hopes the recent upheavals—and a new spectacle he has planned—will provide enough.
• The Great Desolate Realm has been shaken by the Immortal Road’s opening, the Immortal Chen Family’s sudden rise and destruction of powerful factions, changes in the White Jade Capital, and a backlash that caused blood rain and widespread panic.
• Zhang Wei intends to exploit that fear by unleashing simulated Dark Forbidden Zones, piling terror upon terror to harvest shock points. He also hopes to trap Chen Changqing in the projections and provoke his disbelief when he cannot dispel them.
• His confidence rests on the system-provided Life-Saving Temple, which conceals him from heavenly perception and makes its grounds an invincible domain. Since arriving as a powerless mortal, Zhang Wei has never stepped outside it.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Wei is revealed as a calculating, risk-averse schemer. He has spent six years hiding safely while building his system’s power, but now plans a bold psychological gambit to reach the ninth upgrade.
• Chen Changqing is Zhang Wei’s intended target, portrayed as an immensely powerful, self-assured figure who has defeated peerless opponents and overwhelmed Quasi-Emperors and Emperor Weapons. Zhang Wei expects that even he will be shocked by projections he cannot erase.
• The chapter contrasts Zhang Wei’s cautious isolation with the confidence of the Great Desolate Realm’s powerful figures. His “interaction” with them is indirect: he aims to manipulate their fear and amazement from the safety of his temple.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Zhang Wei’s projections are almost indistinguishable from real phenomena, foreshadowing their possible transformation into reality.
• Fear as a resource: Public panic becomes an opportunity for Zhang Wei to gather power.
• Caution and ambition: His long-standing commitment to hiding now meets a desire to become a world-shaping “Creator.”
• Power and overconfidence: Zhang Wei believes even the mightiest can be unsettled when confronted with something their strength cannot resolve.

Zhang Wei reflected on how he had spent years using projections to frighten creatures across the Great Desolate Realm and planned to trap Chen Changqing in his latest spectacle. As his Shock Points soared, an unknown voice appeared inside his supposedly impenetrable temple and revealed an understanding of his system.

• Zhang Wei recalled how his first projection had made Black Wind Ridge's demonic beasts worship him as the Mountain God.
• He described spreading Projection Pearls across the Great Desolate Realm and staging increasingly elaborate spectacles while carefully keeping a low profile.
• Zhang Wei revealed that he had spent six years preparing a massive dark uprising projection and had wagered his accumulated resources on it.
• Shock Points surged as beings throughout the realm, including a hidden reincarnated Immortal King, reacted with terror and confusion.
• Zhang Wei celebrated his profits and planned to use Chen Changqing's entrapment in the projection to provoke another wave of Shock Points.
• An unidentified person spoke inside Zhang Wei's Invincible Domain and remarked that his system seemed to collect Shock Points, Fear Points, or Emotion Points.

• Zhang Wei discovers Chen Changqing inside his supposedly impenetrable temple. The temple has kept Zhang Wei safe for six years, and his system insists nothing can enter without his permission. Yet Chen is there anyway—and seems to know how Zhang Wei’s system works, including its Shock Points mechanic.
• Zhang Wei’s confidence collapses into fear. He realizes his system’s concealment and power may be no match for Chen, despite Chen’s apparent Saint King cultivation. Too frightened to turn around or move, Zhang silently sweats while Chen calmly watches the disasters playing on the temple’s light screen.
• Chen remains composed. He conjures a chair, sits down casually, and watches the growing tally of Shock Points. His unhurried manner makes Zhang even more anxious, since Zhang cannot tell whether Chen is a threat or simply waiting.
• Zhang chooses caution and flattery over confrontation. After considering whether to use the temple’s power against Chen, he decides not to risk it. He turns around with a forced but welcoming smile, offers Chen an expensive cigarette, and calls them “fellow countrymen” because they both have systems.
  Character developments and interactions: Zhang’s survival instincts override his pride and any urge to fight; his outward friendliness masks deep panic. Chen’s calm, effortless presence establishes him as an unsettlingly powerful figure. Their first direct interaction is therefore tense but superficially cordial: Zhang tries to turn a potentially dangerous encounter into a meeting between fellow transmigrators.
  Themes: The scene plays with the gap between apparent cultivation and true power, the limits of supposedly absolute protections, and the comedy of fear-driven self-preservation. It also builds suspense around Chen’s knowledge of Zhang’s hidden system and intentions.

Plot points and events

• Zhang Wei concludes that Chen Changqing must be a fellow transmigrator with a system, reasoning that this could explain Chen’s extraordinary power and achievements.
• Hoping to avoid being killed, Zhang offers Chen two Huazi cigarettes and tries to build rapport, though he is terrified that Chen may see him as a rival.
• Chen refuses the cigarettes and condemns Zhang as a coward: despite wanting to kill Chen, Zhang lacks the nerve to attack and instead hides behind flattery and evasions.
• Zhang realizes Chen intends to kill him and drops to his knees, pleading for his life. He claims they are fellow countrymen and offers to share the advantages of his Super Shock System.
• Chen undermines Zhang’s claim: having systems does not prove they came from the same world. He then asserts that, through the Divine Ability Path, he can personally grant fortune and longevity—and challenges Zhang to say whether his system can do the same.

Character developments

• Zhang Wei is exposed as fearful and self-serving. His apparent friendliness is a survival tactic, and his confidence in his system is weakened by its limited combat usefulness and its failure to stop Chen.
• Chen Changqing remains composed and dominant. He judges Zhang’s character sharply and rejects both his appeals to shared identity and the value of his system.

Character interactions

• Zhang tries to approach Chen as a potential fellow transmigrator, offering cigarettes and then bargaining with the benefits of his system.
• Chen responds with cold scrutiny, interpreting Zhang’s deference as cowardice rather than respect. His final challenge makes clear that he does not consider Zhang’s system impressive.

Significant themes

• Fear versus courage: Chen condemns Zhang not simply for being afraid, but for letting fear become his defining instinct.
• Trust and supposed kinship: Shared labels such as “fellow countryman” offer no real guarantee of safety or common origin.
• Power and rivalry: Zhang assumes Chen must depend on a system, while Chen presents his own ability to bestow fortune and longevity as superior—and possibly independent of any system.

Zhang Wei learned that Chen Changqing had no system and wrongly concluded that his own system made him unbeatable. He activated his Invincible Domain inside the Divine Temple and attacked Chen Changqing.

• Chen Changqing told Zhang Wei he could grant longevity without relying on a system, leaving Zhang Wei stunned.
• Zhang Wei decided Chen Changqing's lack of a system meant he could not compete with the Super Shock System.
• Zhang Wei regained his confidence, stood up, and taunted Chen Changqing for acting arrogant without a system.
• Zhang Wei resolved to suppress Chen Changqing, steal his cheat, and plunder his storage space inside the Divine Temple.
• Zhang Wei activated the Super Shock System's projection nodes and roared at Chen Changqing to die.

Chen Changqing remained untouched by the Divine Temple’s system-powered suppression, shattering Zhang Wei’s belief that the system was invincible. To prove that systems were only playthings to him, Chen Changqing filled Zhang Wei’s soul with countless system-binding prompts.

• Zhang Wei unleashed the Divine Temple’s hidden power of rules against Chen Changqing, but it had no effect.
• Zhang Wei repeatedly intensified the suppression while Chen Changqing calmly brushed his sleeve.
• Chen Changqing challenged Zhang Wei for surrendering himself to the system, and Zhang Wei defended his dependence on it before giving up.
• Zhang Wei assumed Chen Changqing must have a superior system, but Chen Changqing declared that he could create systems at will.
• Chen Changqing sent a flood of different system-binding prompts into Zhang Wei’s soul, leaving him numb.

After revealing that he could create hundreds of systems, Chen Changqing drove Zhang Wei to despair and killed him. Chen Changqing then stopped Zhang Wei’s Super Shock System from self-destructing and reconstructed it under his own control.

• Zhang Wei realized Chen Changqing could create hundreds of systems and gave up all thought of opposing him.
• Zhang Wei asked Chen Changqing to kill him, and Chen Changqing stripped away his life force until he vanished.
• Zhang Wei’s Super Shock System triggered its self-destruct protocol after its host died.
• Chen Changqing used the Longevity Origin Divine Ability and Primordial One-Qi Method to suppress and refine the system’s origin.
• Chen Changqing gave the system his Dao resonance, and it completed its reconstruction with him as its authority holder.

After refining Zhang Wei’s super shock system, Chen Changqing understood the complete Dao of Emotion and stole fortune from the mastermind’s universe. He transformed the projected Dark Forbidden Zones into real ones, leaving the Great Desolate Realm’s sky cracking under their pressure.

• Chen Changqing followed the system’s connection to the mastermind’s universe and siphoned its fortune into the Chen Family.
• After refining the system, Chen Changqing grasped the Dao of Emotion and its many branches beyond shock.
• Chen Changqing realized Gu Ming, a reincarnated Immortal King in the Dark Forbidden Zone, also wielded the Dao of Emotion.
• Chen Changqing reshaped the projected Dark Forbidden Zones and used Words Become Law to make them real.
• The new Forbidden Zones awakened genuine entities and immense pressure fractured the sky across the Great Desolate Realm.

Chen Changqing discovered that the fear and other emotions of the Great Desolate Realm’s inhabitants could increase his cultivation, then watched as the Dark Forbidden Zones he had created attacked the realm’s genuine Dark Forbidden Zones. The living beings were relieved to see the enemies fighting each other, while Immortal King Gu Ming was enraged by the invasion.

• The terror of the Great Desolate Realm’s inhabitants flowed into Chen Changqing and loosened his barrier to the eighth level of the Saint King Realm.
• Chen Changqing realized he could refine emotional power into cultivation and welcomed the chance to harvest more of it.
• The newly appeared Dark Forbidden Zones turned on the genuine Dark Forbidden Zones, launching a devastating attack.
• The original Dark Supremes fought back, and the battle’s rage and murderous intent further increased Chen Changqing’s cultivation.
• The Great Desolate Realm’s inhabitants watched in shock, then hoped the fighting would weaken both sides and spare them for now.
• Immortal King Gu Ming was enraged by the invasion of the Dark Forbidden Zones Chen Changqing had created.

Immortal King Gu Ming ordered the forces under his control to counterattack the newly emerged dark forbidden zones after they annexed his territories. Across the Great Desolate Realm, dozens of ancient Dark Supremes awakened, and stunned cultivators recognized their origins as former Destiny Emperors.

• Battle reports told Immortal King Gu Ming that Dark Supremes had been slain and several forbidden zones annexed.
• Immortal King Gu Ming recognized the newcomers’ immense power and their connection to the Dao of Emotion, then ordered his forces to attack them.
• The Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp spread Gu Ming’s command, awakening dark forbidden zones throughout the Great Desolate Realm.
• Cultivators recognized Eclipse Sun, a former Destiny Emperor, as the Dark Supreme wielding a black sun.
• Dark Supreme Mystic Coffin burst open and killed a giant beast with a coffin nail, while Dark Supreme Ten Thousand Bones raised a bone army and struck a forbidden-zone demonic shadow.
• Cultivators identified Dark Supreme Blood River and Dark Supreme Netherworld Candle as other ancient former Destiny Emperors emerging to battle.

Chen Changqing observed the newly awakened ancient Dark Supremes holding back the invading Dark Forbidden Zones, including the uncanny creations Zhang Wei had designed. The battles remained unresolved as Immortal King Gu Ming wondered who truly controlled the invaders.

• Eclipse Supreme, Dark Supreme Mystic Coffin, Dark Supreme Ten Thousand Bones, and other ancient Supremes halted the invading forces and stabilized the battlefronts.
• Immortal King Gu Ming saw the offensives being held back but remained uneasy because the masterminds behind the new Dark Forbidden Zones had not appeared.
• Chen Changqing watched the battles near the ruined temple in the Purple Star Domain and considered the uncanny Dark Supremes' strength.
• Angel's Eye, Faceless Buddha Head, Ghost Bride, and Devouring Nightmare attacked with powers that foresaw moves, erased identities, forced victims into ghost marriages, and devoured dreams.
• Eclipse Supreme, Dark Supreme Mystic Coffin, Dark Supreme Ten Thousand Bones, and Dark Supreme Netherworld Candle countered the uncanny beings and kept them at bay.

Chen Changqing granted Ghost Bride and the other dark weird beings the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net’s abilities, including health bars, resurrection, and leveling up through kills. Their forces became fearless of death and turned the battle against the Dark Supremes, who now also had health bars.

• Chen Changqing reflected that Dark Supremes had sacrificed their invincible hearts to survive and therefore feared death.
• As Ghost Bride and the other weird-type Supremes began losing ground, Chen Changqing granted the Weird Army access to the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net’s powers.
• Ghost Bride and her dark weird subordinates gained health bars, resurrection, and leveling through slaughter, and their auras became fearless.
• Angel's Eye regenerated after Black Sun burned through it and taunted its attackers.
• Faceless Buddha endured an ancient Dark Supreme’s punch and declared that it was his turn to strike.
• Devouring Nightmare, pinned by nine nails, mocked the others for now having health bars.

Chen Changqing made Zhang Wei’s Dark Beings real and granted them resurrection, turning them into fearless fighters who grew stronger each time they were killed. As they overwhelmed the Dark Supremes in the Purple Star Domain, cultivators in the Great Desolate Realm began to suspect a connection to the Immortal Chen Family.

• Chen Changqing harvested reverence and gratitude from the Dark Beings, whose new personalities and loyalty made their emotions genuine.
• The Dark Beings repeatedly resurrected after the Dark Supremes killed them, returning stronger and continuing their attacks.
• Angel's Eye, the Faceless Buddha Head, and the Ghost Bride each returned after being destroyed and taunted their opponents.
• Eclipse Supreme and the other Dark Supremes grew frightened and confused as the fearless Dark Beings proved impossible to defeat.
• An old cultivator compared the Dark Beings' resurrection and growing strength to the Chen Family's army, prompting others to wonder whether the Dark Forbidden Zones were connected to the Immortal Chen Family.

Chen Changqing gained power from the Great Desolate Realm’s fear that the Immortal Chen Family was connected to the Dark Forbidden Zone. Immortal King Gu Ming coveted the resurrection ability, but Chen Changqing appeared beside him inside his sealed sanctuary.

• The Great Desolate Realm’s beings mistook the Dark Beings’ repeated resurrections for proof that the Immortal Chen Family was connected to the Dark Forbidden Zone, and Chen Changqing harvested their fear.
• Immortal King Gu Ming recognized the Dark Beings’ ability as resembling the Chen Family’s methods and became determined to discover its source.
• Gu Ming imagined using the ability to raise an unstoppable army and conquer the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Changqing’s voice surprised Gu Ming inside the sanctuary sealed by the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp.
• Gu Ming turned and saw Chen Changqing standing three feet away, examining the bone dais and lamp.

Chen Changqing confronted Immortal King Gu Ming over his schemes and used an inexplicable method to wrest control of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp from him. The lamp acknowledged Chen Changqing as its master, leaving Gu Ming stunned and powerless to stop him.

• Immortal King Gu Ming suspected that Chen Changqing and the Immortal Chen Family were connected to the Dark Forbidden Zones.
• Chen Changqing accused Immortal King Gu Ming of using an Immortal Opportunity as bait, harvesting living beings, and refining their emotions through the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp.
• Chen Changqing said he had heard Gu Ming recite his Control Mantras, then recited the lamp's mantra to make it slip from Gu Ming's grasp.
• Immortal King Gu Ming invoked the Dao of Decay and tried to burn Chen Changqing's emotions with the lamp's flames.
• Chen Changqing flicked a finger, causing the flames to freeze and acknowledge him as their master.
• Chen Changqing took the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp into his hand while Immortal King Gu Ming watched in disbelief.

Chen Changqing used the Treasure-Gathering Art to seize Immortal King Gu Ming’s Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp, then revealed his mastery of the Dao of Emotion by igniting all thirteen flames. He began absorbing Gu Ming’s fear and disbelief as nourishment for his cultivation.

• Chen Changqing used the Treasure-Gathering Art to take the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Lamp from Immortal King Gu Ming.
• Immortal King Gu Ming claimed Chen Changqing could not use the Immortal King-grade artifact without mastering the Dao of Emotion.
• Chen Changqing infused the lamp with emotional power and ignited all thirteen flames, restoring it to its complete form.
• Chen Changqing told Gu Ming that he had mastered the Dao of Emotion while Gu Ming had only reached its foothills.
• Chen Changqing absorbed the fear, confusion, and disbelief flowing from Gu Ming to advance his cultivation.