Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng’s group encountered a Fire Feather Divine Bird and its powerful adult, and Augustine’s greed provoked the adult into attacking. Chen Feng rescued Augustine and led the group away, leaving Bankro to realize he had lost his saber.

• The group spotted a chick Fire Feather Divine Bird hunting a python and discussed its great value, but Chen Feng warned them away when its Transcendence Level parent arrived.
• Augustine and Bankro urged the group to capture the birds, and the adult attacked Augustine after sensing his hostility.
• The adult seized Augustine and resisted Bankro’s and Randy’s attempts to rescue him.
• Chen Feng used his Bewitching Demon Tree illusion to make the bird release Augustine, then caught him and escaped with the group in the Flying Car.
• Chen Feng treated Augustine’s burned shoulder with Spirit Spring Water, and Bankro realized he had left his saber behind.

Chen Feng led his teammates through Hell Star, retrieving Bankro’s knife and protecting the group from dangerous beasts. After defeating a Flood Dragon, he let the students hunt for two days before they headed back.

• Chen Feng returned to the Fire Feather Divine Bird’s territory so Bankro could retrieve his knife, then explained why he had spared the bird.
• Chen Feng’s group encountered a Flood Dragon fighting an Iron Rhino, and the dragon pursued their Flying Car after killing its prey.
• Chen Feng used an illusion and Golden Sword Qi to kill the Flood Dragon, then collected its remains and the Iron Rhino.
• Chen Feng sent the students to hunt nearby monster beasts while he trained, and they shared half their profits with him for storing their materials.
• After two days of hunting, Chen Feng’s group left Hell Star, unaware that someone had followed them from another dimension.

Yang Jun watched Chen Feng's group before Instructor Black Prison punished the students and began two months of brutal physical and mental training that greatly improved their abilities. Meanwhile, Lei Qianren investigated rumors about a young Nirvana Realm genius in the Great Li Dynasty and heard that nobles had discussed the mysterious figure.

• Yang Jun observed Chen Feng deceive the Fire Feather Divine Bird with illusion law and continued following the students he was assigned to protect.
• Instructor Black Prison whipped the students for sneaking out, punished Yan Tiandu, and ordered everyone to begin another round of harsh training.
• Chen Feng, Jiang Shiran, Lu Xuan, Li Jian, Huo Kong, Zhang Hua, and the other students endured two months of physical trials and realistic, drug-induced illusions, improving their strength and some breaking through to the Transcendence Realm.
• Lei Qianren gathered rumors in the Great Li Dynasty about a young genius in the Imperial Palace who had reportedly reached the Nirvana Realm.
• A middle-aged man told Lei Qianren he had overheard nobles discussing the genius and offered to share what he had learned.

Lei Qianren discovered that the Great Li Dynasty’s young genius Jun Qianwu had reached the Nirvana Realm and decided to assassinate her. Her illusion thwarted his attack, and the failed attempt left him facing the Imperial Palace’s arriving experts.

• Lei Qianren heard rumors about an exceptional young genius surnamed Jun and watched a masked woman emerge from the Imperial City in a carriage.
• Jun Qianwu sensed Lei Qianren and briefly probed him with Spiritual Sense, while he realized she had reached the Nirvana Realm.
• Fearing that Jun Qianwu could become a threat to Blue Star, Lei Qianren attacked her carriage with a Lightning Spear.
• Jun Qianwu’s mental force trapped Lei Qianren in an illusion, preventing him from carrying out the assassination.
• Lei Qianren defeated the sword-wielding guard who attacked him, and several Nirvana Realm experts flew out from the Imperial Palace to confront him.

Lei Qianren fought off powerful Great Li Dynasty experts while trying to kill the person inside a carriage. Just as he reached the carriage, the young woman trapped him in an overwhelming illusion of darkness.

• Lei Qianren's attacks failed to penetrate the carriage's white protective light, while Great Li Dynasty experts gathered to stop him.
• Cui Haohen, Xiong Tianba, and other renowned fighters attacked Lei Qianren, but he defeated them with lightning and killed the whip-wielding expert.
• Lei Qianren concealed his identity and the Thunderwing Green Vulture's appearance as he pressed toward the carriage.
• The young woman inside the carriage warned Lei Qianren not to offend her and trapped him in a dark illusion he could not break.

Lei Qianren escaped Jun Qianwu’s illusion and left the Great Li Dynasty, alarmed by its growing strength and worried about the threat it posed to the Great Xia Nation. He traveled to Rakshasa Star to investigate other races, arriving near a vast Rakshasa stronghold while wary of its powerful defensive array.

• Lei Qianren broke free of Jun Qianwu’s illusion and fled as the other Nirvana experts watched.
• The experts discussed Lei Qianren’s lightning abilities and recalled the failed campaign against Blue Star, while Jun Qianwu continued on without pursuing him.
• Lei Qianren considered the Great Li Dynasty’s new strength a danger to the Great Xia Nation and decided to leave before his identity was discovered.
• Lei Qianren reviewed leads about Heaven-Piercing Experts and planned to investigate other planets before possibly visiting the Death Barrier in the Dark Sea of Vast Star.
• Lei Qianren traveled through a wormhole to Rakshasa Star and entered another dimension near a huge Rakshasa nest, avoiding its powerful Asura Demon Array.

Lei Qianren secretly investigated the Rakshasa and other Alien Races, finding no widespread mobilization except among the Winged Tribe. He returned to Vast Star to search the island in the Dark Sea for a way to reach the heavens and overcome the looming threat.

• Lei Qianren infiltrated the Rakshasa stronghold and overheard Flying Yaksa discussing humanity and the lack of cooperation among the Alien Races.
• Asura King Stan briefly opened one of his eyes after Lei Qianren departed, then returned to sleep.
• Lei Qianren investigated the Green People, Orcs, vampires, Insect Race, and other Alien Races, finding no signs of mobilization apart from the Winged Tribe's army on Angel Star.
• Lei Qianren returned to Vast Star and flew toward the island within the Dark Sea's Death Barrier, seeking information about reaching the heavens.

Lei Qianren discovered that a barrier around an island only allowed people under twenty-eight to enter, while older cultivators and a corpse artifact were killed by its defenses. He decided to bring Chen Feng, Randy, and Yan Tiandu to compete for its treasures and any clues about Tongtian.

• Lei Qianren arrived at the barrier as cultivators broke it open, but a divine beam killed the first person to enter.
• A young Transcendence expert entered safely, while a fifty-year-old Transcendence expert was killed by red Malevolent Qi.
• A burly man concluded that the barrier restricted age, and the Bald Man's Transcendence-level zombie was destroyed after entering.
• The cultivators claimed they were leaving, but Lei Qianren suspected they would send young geniuses into the island instead.
• Lei Qianren thought of Chen Feng, Randy, and Yan Tiandu and took out his spacecraft to bring them to the island.

After two months of brutal training on Hell Star, Chen Feng and the other students completed their exercises and showed major advances in strength. Chen Feng awakened Spiritual Sense and revealed that its range had already reached fifty meters, leaving Teacher Black Prison astonished.

• The students completed Teacher Black Prison's cliff-climbing and three-day burial exercises, bringing their two-month training period to an end.
• Chen Feng reflected on the students' improvements: Guo Rong, Li Lian, and Delis had reached Transcendence, while he and Yan Tiandu had advanced to its middle stage.
• Chen Feng sensed his surroundings with his newly awakened Spiritual Sense, which initially seemed to cover five meters.
• Teacher Black Prison praised Chen Feng's five-meter range, but Chen Feng spread his Spiritual Sense to fifty meters and shocked him.

Chen Feng and the other students completed Teacher Black Prison’s brutal two-month training and departed Hell Star, while Black Prison faced his stalled cultivation alone. On the journey home, the Great Li Dynasty’s emperor asked whether there was news about a previous matter.

• Chen Feng demonstrated fifty-meter Spiritual Sense and controlled more than three thousand streams of Golden Sword Qi, while Randy revealed his own Spiritual Sense and Yan Tiandu said he was close to developing it.
• Teacher Black Prison revealed he had been joking about extending the training, then dismissed the students and bid farewell as they boarded the spacecraft.
• Black Prison praised Chen Feng’s talent and temperament, reflected on his students’ determination, and returned to his base to struggle with his failed attempts to break through to the Heavenly Bridge Realm.
• Chen Feng and the others relaxed and talked during the journey home, while Lu Xuan stayed beside Chen Feng and Yan Tiandu practiced his Fire Dragons alone.
• The emperor of the Great Li Dynasty asked his assembled experts whether they had found any news about the previous matter.

The Great Li Dynasty emperor sent Xiong Batian to Blue Star to investigate whether Lei Qianren was alive and gather intelligence before a possible invasion. After arriving, Xiong Batian ignored his mission at first and explored the Great Xia Nation, leaving the chapter with him heading toward a District Chief’s office.

• Cui Haohen and the emperor discussed the unknown assassin, and the emperor suspected he might be Lei Qianren from Blue Star.
• Xiong Batian volunteered to travel to Blue Star, and the emperor ordered him to investigate Lei Qianren and Blue Star’s forces.
• The emperor asked Jun Qianwu to protect the Imperial Palace, and she agreed to repel or cripple intruders but refused to kill them.
• Xiong Batian reached Blue Star, changed into local clothes, and wandered through the Great Xia Nation instead of investigating Lei Qianren.
• Xiong Batian robbed and searched a violent man’s memories, then visited a woman before heading toward a District Chief’s office.

Xiong Batian returned from spying on humanity and reported that Lei Qianren might be alive, prompting the Great Li Emperor to organize the foreign races against humanity. As the Emperor prepared his princes to enter the Dark Sea, Xiong Batian agreed to help destroy humanity in exchange for a Soul Returning Pill for his injured father.

• Xiong Batian searched a District Chief's soul, suspected Lei Qianren had returned, then spent several days enjoying the city's attractions and causing trouble.
• Zhao Muyun, Jiang Nalan, Chen Yitian, and Zhou Zhenxiong discovered that Xiong Batian had entered human territory, but learned he had left without killing anyone.
• The National Councilors ordered military preparations and placed human territory on alert after concluding that foreign races were making moves.
• Xiong Batian told the Great Li Emperor that Lei Qianren might have returned and targeted foreign geniuses, and the Emperor ordered him to rally foreign races for an assault on humanity.
• Xiong Batian agreed to help destroy humanity in return for a Soul Returning Pill to heal his father's damaged soul.
• The Emperor summoned several Imperial Princes and sent them toward the Dark Sea, giving them Beast Hide for protection.

The Great Xia Nation’s young geniuses traveled toward Vast Star’s Dark Sea to enter a dangerous formation rumored to contain information about Tongtian. Before they arrived, Lei Qianren gave them cultivation resources and life-saving talismans, urging them to survive and search carefully.

• The emperor sent Prince Chengtian and four other princes toward the Dark Sea, warned them to be cautious, and told them to bring Jun Qianwu, who flew separately.
• Chen Feng and other Great Xia geniuses boarded Lei Qianren’s spacecraft, while Chen Feng agreed to let Lu Xuan follow him during the trial.
• The students discussed the dangers of the formation and their recent cultivation, while Yan Tiandu decided he would act alone.
• Lei Qianren distributed origin stones worth two hundred and ten billion and told the geniuses to absorb them during the journey.
• Lei Qianren gave each student three life-saving talismans and emphasized that they should prioritize survival while seeking information about Tongtian.

Lei Qianren prepared the students for Vast Star, warning them about a powerful masked girl and giving them protective talismans and healing pills. After cultivating aboard the spaceship, Chen Feng and the others reached the island barrier, where crowds of cultivators were arriving.

• Lei Qianren gave each student three lightning talismans and warned them to avoid a young woman wearing a silver-white mask, whom even he treated cautiously.
• The students cultivated with origin energy on the slowed spaceship, while Chen Feng absorbed far more than the others through his Life Divine Tree.
• The spaceship reached the Dark Sea, and Lei Qianren brought the students by boat to the island barrier, gave them healing pills, and concealed himself.
• Chen Feng and the others approached the island dressed in ancient-style clothing to hide their origins from Blue Star.
• People from across the Great Li Dynasty arrived in large numbers, including a group escorted on a black dragon by a young late-stage Transcendence Realm expert.

Powerful young heirs and Imperial Princes arrived at the island ruin, where they gathered to seek information about Tongtian. Jun Qianwu noticed Chen Feng and his companions, prompting Cheng Tian to ask whether she knew them.

• Fang Yuan arrived, and the crowd discussed his dragon-blooded right leg and formidable strength.
• Qian Yu arrived in a carriage drawn by three White Dragon Horses, and his elders praised his power and claimed the ruin's treasures for him.
• Five Imperial Princes arrived, led by Cheng Tian, who was said to be a realm stronger than Qian Yu.
• Jun Qianwu arrived, drawing the attention of the gathered experts, and said she had come for information about Tongtian.
• Jun Qianwu noticed Chen Feng and his companions on their boat, and Cheng Tian asked whether she knew them.

Chen Feng and the others entered the dangerous formation alongside powerful young geniuses from the Great Li Dynasty, including Jun Qianwu and Qian Yu. After the red Malevolent Qi examined them, they moved deeper into a field of bones and shadowy figures.

• Jun Qianwu and the other Great Li Dynasty geniuses entered the formation, while Chen Feng judged Jun Qianwu to be a grave threat and recalled Lei Qianren's warning.
• Qian Yu entered after discussing the dangers with the black-robed Heavenly Dao Sect elder and revealed he was willing to kill others for their treasures.
• Chen Feng warned his companions to be cautious, and Li Jian urged the weaker members to stay near the outskirts.
• Chen Feng and his group entered through a crack and were examined by the formation's red Malevolent Qi.
• Lu Xuan spotted vast numbers of scattered bones, and Chen Feng warned everyone to use vital energy to expel the Malevolent Qi.

Chen Feng led Lu Xuan and the others through a region where malevolent qi drove cultivators mad, then faced a Mystic Heart Sect group trying to rob them. He killed the attackers with his illusion abilities and sword qi, and the group continued toward the ruins.

• Chen Feng warned Lu Xuan, Guo Rong, and the others about the malevolent qi and killed three crazed cultivators who attacked them.
• Chen Feng led the group toward an entrance to some ruins while they avoided a small-eyed young man who was robbing travelers.
• Hao Ming intercepted Chen Feng's group with Mystic Heart Sect disciples and demanded their belongings and Chen Feng's Storage Ring.
• A short Transcendence cultivator attacked Chen Feng, but Chen Feng used his illusion abilities and Golden Sword Qi to kill him.
• Chen Feng incapacitated the other attackers, causing several disciples to kill themselves under his illusion, then collected their belongings and led the group onward.

Chen Feng and the others explored an underground palace, where powerful zombies forced the group to split up. Chen Feng took Lu Xuan and her Treasure Seeking Mouse deeper into a dangerous passage, and they found a cabinet of medicinal pills.

• Yan Tiandu and Randy left to explore the underground palace alone, while Chen Feng and the others chose a passage together.
• Chen Feng's group encountered zombies and then fought a powerful armored zombie, killing it after a difficult battle.
• Chen Feng told the others to take safer routes and continued deeper alone, but Lu Xuan persuaded him to let her come along with her Treasure Seeking Mouse.
• The others split off, while Chen Feng and Lu Xuan entered the dangerous passage and cut through more zombies with his Golden Sword Qi.
• Lu Xuan's Treasure Seeking Mouse sensed medicinal pills in a nearby room, where Chen Feng opened a cabinet and found several bottles glowing with light.

Chen Feng and Lu Xuan searched the underground palace, collecting pills and following the Treasure Seeking Mouse to a cavern containing four Heavenly Bridge Level Kirin skeletons. Just as they prepared to claim the remains, Qian Yu arrived and eyed Chen Feng and the bones.

• Chen Feng and Lu Xuan found King-grade Origin Sun Pills and split them, then searched nearby rooms for more pills.
• Chen Feng and Lu Xuan traveled deeper into the underground maze, collecting hundreds of Spirit Grade Pills and more than twenty King-grade Pills while Chen Feng fought off zombies and corpses.
• Lu Xuan's Treasure Seeking Mouse led them to a cavern containing four crimson skeletons that Lu Xuan identified as Heavenly Bridge Level Kirin remains.
• Chen Feng prepared to collect the Kirin Bones, but Qian Yu entered the cavern and recognized Chen Feng from the ship.

Chen Feng confronted Qian Yu and Fang Yuan over four demon beast skeletons, then revealed overwhelming Sword Intent when Fang Yuan attacked him. Fang Yuan called on Qian Yu to join forces against Chen Feng.

• Qian Yu ordered Chen Feng and his companion to leave, then Fang Yuan arrived and demanded all four demon beast skeletons.
• Qian Yu proposed that he and Fang Yuan kill Chen Feng and split the skeletons, but Fang Yuan refused to share.
• Chen Feng rejected Qian Yu’s offer and claimed the skeletons, challenging both geniuses to attack him together.
• Fang Yuan struck Chen Feng with his golden Dragon Leg, but Chen Feng blocked the blow with thousands of Golden Sword Qi strands and drove Fang Yuan back.
• Fang Yuan recognized Chen Feng’s profound Sword Intent and urged Qian Yu to team up with him against Chen Feng.