Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into a seven-year-old orphan in the Nine Provinces Continent, Chen Xiaofan gained Heaven-Defying Comprehension and used it to create powerful techniques and learn Sword Riding Flight. He set off for Mount Wudang to seek Zhang Sanfeng and pursue immortality, spotting something on the way.

• Chen Xiaofan realized he had transmigrated into a martial arts world just as a lion approached him in the forest.
• After hearing the lion roar, Chen Xiaofan comprehended and successively improved the Lion's Roar Technique, then blasted the lion through a mountain with one roar.
• Chen Xiaofan overheard white-robed disciples discussing Sword Riding Flight and comprehended the immortal method from their conversation.
• When the disciples challenged him to prove his claim, Chen Xiaofan flew on his sword, stunning them and leaving the area.
• Chen Xiaofan decided to seek Zhang Sanfeng at Mount Wudang and flew more than a hundred li before spotting something that caught his eye.

Chen Xiaofan watched two swordsmen fight and comprehended several new sword techniques, including an Internal Energy-free version of the Phoenix Arrival Swordplay. After the Man in Purple demanded that he prove his swordplay, Chen Xiaofan agreed to make a move.

• Chen Xiaofan slipped into the crowd to watch the Blue-robed Man and the Man in Purple exchange sword strikes.
• By observing their Drifting Snow Swordplay and Hu Family Swordplay, Chen Xiaofan comprehended new techniques and created the Phoenix Arrival Swordplay, including a stronger version that needed no Internal Energy.
• The Man in Purple defeated the Blue-robed Man, then boasted that his Hu Family Swordplay was superior.
• When Chen Xiaofan curled his lip at the Man in Purple's claims, the swordsman challenged him and split a massive boulder with a slash.
• The Scholar in White tried to calm the Man in Purple, but he insisted Chen Xiaofan demonstrate his swordplay or be forbidden to leave.
• Chen Xiaofan agreed to make a move and warned the Man in Purple not to freeze in fear.

Chen Xiaofan stunned the crowd by demonstrating the destructive power of the Phoenix Arrival Swordplay, leaving a massive trench in the ground. The Man in Purple honored his bet, then challenged Chen Xiaofan to face the Hu Family’s stronger fist techniques.

• Chen Xiaofan drew his sword and used the Phoenix Arrival Swordplay, cleaving a huge trench into the earth.
• The Man in Purple and the crowd stared in shock at the sword strike’s power.
• The Man in Purple admitted defeat, kowtowed to Chen Xiaofan three times, and said the Hu Family’s strongest skill was its fist techniques.
• The Man in Purple discarded his sword and unleashed a fierce aura as Chen Xiaofan welcomed the chance to learn another ultimate skill.

Chen Xiaofan copied and refined the Man in Purple’s fist technique, then demonstrated a vastly more destructive thunder fist. The Man in Purple admitted defeat and begged Chen Xiaofan to accept him as a disciple.

• The Man in Purple demolished the trees with the Hu Family’s Explosive Fist while Chen Xiaofan comprehended and improved upon the technique.
• Chen Xiaofan identified the fist technique’s connection to Shaolin’s Dragon Claw Hand and explained its dangerous restrictions, shocking the Man in Purple and the onlookers.
• The Man in Purple challenged Chen Xiaofan to show whether he could use a stronger fist technique, and Chen Xiaofan demonstrated his lightning-wreathed punch.
• Chen Xiaofan’s punch collapsed the ground across a hundred zhang into a huge crater, though he said it had shown only one-third of its power.
• The Man in Purple admitted defeat and knelt to beg Chen Xiaofan to accept him as a disciple.

Chen Xiaofan perfected several martial arts through practice and tested their devastating power before flying onward. He then spotted a middle-aged swordsman attacking a young man in a birch forest and descended, eager to learn the swordsman’s technique.

• The Man in Purple accepted that Chen Xiaofan would not take him as a disciple, and Chen Xiaofan departed on his sword.
• Chen Xiaofan practiced the Phoenix Arrival Swordplay, the Wind, Cloud, Thunder, Lightning Thunderclap Fist, and the Adamantine Lionheart King's Roar Technique until each reached consummate proficiency.
• Chen Xiaofan tested his perfected fist and roar techniques, blasting apart the ground and pool and killing a lion with the sound waves.
• After flying for several hours, Chen Xiaofan heard a fight below and saw a middle-aged man pursuing a young man through a birch forest.
• Chen Xiaofan descended because he wanted to comprehend the middle-aged swordsman's formidable sword technique.

Chen Xiaofan observed the Mount Hua Cold Ice Sword and created a Grandmaster Peak sword technique, then killed a Xiantian swordsman who attacked him. The swordsman’s surviving target thanked Chen Xiaofan and invited him to join the Boundless Sect, but Chen Xiaofan said he wanted to go to Wudang and accepted a meal instead.

• Chen Xiaofan comprehended and fused sword techniques into the Cold Ice Phoenix Harmony Divine Sword, which required no Internal Energy and reached Grandmaster Peak level.
• The middle-aged man revealed that he had killed the young man’s parents and attacked Chen Xiaofan after mistaking him for the young man’s helper.
• Chen Xiaofan leaped down and killed the middle-aged man with one sword strike.
• The young man confirmed his parents’ killer was dead, thanked Chen Xiaofan, and invited him to join the Boundless Sect.
• Chen Xiaofan declined the invitation because he wanted to go to Wudang, then agreed to let the young man treat him to a meal.

Chen Xiaofan and Zhang Long crossed the Withering Blood Mountain Range to confront the Man-eating Scorpion, which had killed Zhang Long’s senior brother and many others. They found the scorpion feeding on a dead man, and Chen Xiaofan prepared to kill it with one sword strike.

• Zhang Long warned Chen Xiaofan about the Man-eating Scorpion and gave him three hundred taels of silver for his journey.
• Chen Xiaofan refused to detour, and Zhang Long joined him as they entered the mountain.
• Chen Xiaofan and Zhang Long spent two days crossing the mountain, sharing food and traveling together.
• Zhang Long spotted fresh blood near a ravine and feared they had found the scorpion’s trail.
• Chen Xiaofan followed the trail with his sword drawn, and he and Zhang Long found the scorpion eating a dead Man in Black.
• Chen Xiaofan told Zhang Long to watch as he killed the scorpion with one sword strike.

Chen Xiaofan killed the Man-eating Scorpion with one sword strike and divided its valuable remains with Zhang Long, who paid him three thousand taels. Chen Xiaofan continued through the mountains alone and emerged two days later, where he noticed something behind him that delighted him.

• Chen Xiaofan faced the Man-eating Scorpion alone while Zhang Long hid behind a boulder.
• The Man-eating Scorpion attacked Chen Xiaofan with its stinger and pincers, but Chen Xiaofan cut it in half with one sword strike.
• Zhang Long helped collect the scorpion's scales, claws, stinger, and other remains, then gave Chen Xiaofan three thousand taels in Silver Notes.
• Chen Xiaofan kept an intact scale and the venomous stinger, while Zhang Long carried the rest away to sell.
• Chen Xiaofan continued alone and emerged from the mountain range two days later, then turned back and saw something that filled him with delight.

Chen Xiaofan explored a cave beneath a cliff and found the Man-eating Scorpion’s nest, where he collected a fortune in silver, weapons, manuals, and medicine. He mastered the cave’s martial arts and then tested one of its pills, whose effects surprised him.

• Chen Xiaofan entered the cave, reached its depths, and found corpses and a stone door after hearing someone cry out.
• Chen Xiaofan gathered more than six thousand taels in silver notes from the cave’s outer chamber and broke open the stone door.
• Chen Xiaofan found a mad middle-aged man, more skeletons, over ten thousand taels in silver notes, weapons, medicinal supplies, and martial arts manuals inside.
• Chen Xiaofan studied the manuals and mastered every martial art in the cave at the level of consummate mastery.
• Chen Xiaofan ate a pill and was shocked and delighted by its medicinal effects.

Chen Xiaofan watched Du Bingzhao's sword practice and unexpectedly comprehended several powerful sword techniques before curing him with a pill. After Du Bingzhao learned Chen Xiaofan had killed the Man-eating Scorpion, he invited him to visit the Tiangang Sect, and they left the cave together the next morning.

• Chen Xiaofan regained his strength with a pill and comprehended several sword techniques by observing Du Bingzhao hack at the cave wall.
• Chen Xiaofan gave Du Bingzhao a pill, and Du Bingzhao woke up from his madness and explained how the Man-eating Scorpion had killed his fellow disciples.
• Chen Xiaofan showed Du Bingzhao the scorpion's stinger and his armor, convincing him that Chen Xiaofan had killed the beast.
• Du Bingzhao invited Chen Xiaofan to join the Tiangang Sect, but Chen Xiaofan declined and agreed instead to visit it on the way to Wudang.
• The next morning, as Chen Xiaofan and Du Bingzhao left the cave, a black, sharp object hurtled toward Du Bingzhao's face.

Chen Xiaofan saved Du Bingzhao from a second Man-eating Scorpion and traveled with him to the Tiangang Sect, where Du praised Chen’s strength. Sect Master Wang Tong doubted that a seven-year-old child had killed the scorpions and demanded proof.

• Chen Xiaofan cut down the second Man-eating Scorpion and rescued Du Bingzhao, who knelt to thank him.
• Du Bingzhao realized Chen’s swordplay resembled the Tiangang Sect’s Heavenly Dipper Swordplay and suspected Chen had learned it by watching him.
• Chen Xiaofan took the scorpion’s venomous stinger, while Du Bingzhao gathered the remaining spoils and carried them toward the Tiangang Sect.
• Chen Xiaofan and Du Bingzhao hired a carriage and arrived at the Tiangang Sect around noon.
• Du Bingzhao told the gathered disciples and elders that Chen had killed two Man-eating Scorpions and surpassed Sect Master Wang Tong.
• Wang Tong questioned Du Bingzhao’s claim and demanded that Chen prove his abilities.

Chen Xiaofan proved his strength to the Tiangang Sect by splitting a Mysterious Iron stele, then sold his scorpion and continued toward Mount Wudang. As he traveled, he integrated the sect’s martial arts and created a new sword technique.

• Wang Tong challenged Chen Xiaofan to prove his strength by splitting the Tiangang Sect’s Mysterious Iron stele.
• Chen Xiaofan’s delayed sword strike split the stele and shook the hall, stunning the sect’s elders and disciples.
• Wang Tong and the Tiangang Sect members knelt, apologized, and paid Chen Xiaofan 3,500 taels for his scorpion.
• Chen Xiaofan declined Wang Tong’s invitation to join the Tiangang Sect and said he planned to take True Man Zhang as his master.
• Wang Tong gave Chen Xiaofan a ten-thousand-tael Silver Note, and Chen Xiaofan stayed at the sect for three days before departing.
• On the road, Chen Xiaofan integrated the Tiangang Sect’s martial arts and created a new sword technique.

Chen Xiaofan fused the Tiangang Sect’s martial arts with the Beacon Tower Divine Sword to create the Wind Thunder Earth Fire Form Intent Sword, then demonstrated its immense power at a lake. A greedy man demanded to buy the sword art and attacked Chen Xiaofan when he refused.

• Chen Xiaofan combined the Tiangang Sect’s martial arts into the Nameless Rushing Thunder Intent Sword, then fused it with the Beacon Tower Divine Sword to create the Wind Thunder Earth Fire Form Intent Sword.
• Chen Xiaofan tested the new sword art by slashing a lake, sending up a towering wave and piercing the surrounding forest with rain-like droplets.
• A passing man witnessed the strike, found Chen Xiaofan on the far shore, and assumed he could obtain the sword art from the child.
• The man offered Chen Xiaofan five thousand taels for the sword art, but Chen Xiaofan demanded five million taels and then refused to sell it.
• The man threatened Chen Xiaofan and pressed a palm onto his shoulder as Chen Xiaofan tried to leave.

Chen Xiaofan defeated and killed Ma Tao and his Senior Disciple Brother after they tried to seize his sword technique, then continued flying toward Wudang. He reached a city to rest from the heat and was scooped up by a maid at the Fulai Inn.

• Ma Tao called his Senior Disciple Brother to help him force Chen Xiaofan to hand over his martial art.
• Chen Xiaofan unleashed four consecutive sword strikes, destroying the trees around the lake and proving he could repeat the technique.
• Chen Xiaofan killed the Man in Black and Ma Tao after they realized he was a Great Grandmaster.
• Wang Tong arrived and apologized for failing to escort Chen Xiaofan, but Chen Xiaofan declined an escort and flew away.
• After two days of travel, Chen Xiaofan reached a city and entered the Fulai Inn to rest.
• The inn maid saw Chen Xiaofan, called him handsome, and picked him up in an embrace.

Chen Xiaofan watched a contest between the Jiang and Yang Clans and used the Jiang Clan's inner cultivation method to create new methods and rapidly advance his cultivation. After reaching the Innate Master realm, he turned his attention to the Yang Clan contender.

• Chen Xiaofan woke from his nap refreshed and prepared to continue toward Mount Wudang.
• Chen Xiaofan heard that the Jiang and Yang Clans were holding a public contest to compare their Internal Energy.
• The maid explained that the two families had competed with their ancestors' inner cultivation methods for generations, and Chen Xiaofan went to watch.
• Chen Xiaofan observed the Jiang Clan's method, comprehended the Twelve Meridian Cultivation Method, and created several new cultivation methods.
• Chen Xiaofan cultivated the Circulation Transport Cultivation Method and advanced from Third-rate to First-rate and then to Innate Master.
• Chen Xiaofan turned toward the Yang Clan contender, hoping to gain further insights from his inner cultivation method.

Chen Xiaofan created and perfected the Limitless Heavenly Heart Inner Cultivation Art, then cultivated to Great Grandmaster Peak at age seven. As he left after the Yang Family won the arm-wrestling contest, he heard that the approaching swordsman was Qiu Chuji.

• Chen Xiaofan fused cultivation methods and refined the resulting Limitless Heavenly Heart Inner Cultivation Art.
• Chen Xiaofan cultivated from Xiantian to Great Grandmaster Peak and used a pill to stabilize his foundation.
• Chen Xiaofan sensed the cultivation levels of the people around him, including the two Early Grandmasters and the Xiantian woman at the inn entrance.
• The Yang Family's middle-aged man won the arm-wrestling contest, and the Jiang Clan's man accused him of cheating.
• Chen Xiaofan started to leave, then heard onlookers identify an approaching swordsman as Qiu Chuji.

Qiu Chuji and Ximen Chuixue were stunned when they discovered that the young child passing by had an unfathomable cultivation. They watched him fly away on a sword, leaving the crowd convinced they had seen an immortal.

• Qiu Chuji arrived in the city and praised the inner strength of the Jiang and Yang family fighters.
• Qiu Chuji noticed a child in white pass him without being affected by his aura and could not sense the child's cultivation.
• Ximen Chuixue sensed the child as well and joined Qiu Chuji in speculating that the child might be a Grandmaster Peak.
• The child mounted a sword and soared into the sky, astonishing Qiu Chuji, Ximen Chuixue, and the crowd.

While passing Peach Blossom Island, Chen Xiaofan secretly watched Huang Yaoshi teach the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm and used his extraordinary comprehension to create increasingly powerful versions of it. He left the island with a Great Grandmaster-level version that did not require Internal Energy, as Huang Yaoshi asked his disciples how much they had learned.

• Chen Xiaofan landed on Peach Blossom Island, picked peaches, and followed the sound of applause to watch Huang Yaoshi teach his disciples.
• Chen Xiaofan saw Ye Gucheng, who had defeated two of Huang Yaoshi's disciples after challenging him to a match.
• As Chen Xiaofan watched Huang Yaoshi demonstrate the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm, he comprehended several stronger palm techniques and fused them into the Land Immortal-level Great Earth Moving Thunderous Form Intent Palm.
• Chen Xiaofan realized that his cultivation could not yet support the Land Immortal-level technique, then created a version usable at the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Chen Xiaofan discovered that cultivating an internal method had further increased his comprehension, allowing him to create a version that required no Internal Energy.
• Huang Yaoshi finished demonstrating the palm technique and asked his disciples how much they had comprehended.

Ye Gucheng challenged Huang Yaoshi's disciples on Peach Blossom Island and defeated each of the fighters who faced him with a single palm strike. Huang Yaoshi finally confronted him, furious at the insults and the defeat of his disciples.

• Huang Yaoshi asked his disciples how much of the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm they had understood, then sent Lu Chengfeng and Mei Chaofeng to teach Ye Gucheng a lesson.
• Ye Gucheng refused to take the pair seriously and told them to have Huang Yaoshi fight him instead.
• Mei Chaofeng attacked Ye Gucheng and was blasted through three trees by his counterstrike.
• Lu Chengfeng attacked to avenge Mei Chaofeng, but Ye Gucheng sent him flying with another casual palm.
• A third disciple charged Ye Gucheng and was also defeated, prompting Ye Gucheng to insult Peach Blossom Island and Huang Yaoshi to roar at him to stop.

Huang Yaoshi taught his disciples the Jade Flute Swordplay while Chen Xiaofan watched from afar and transformed it into a flawless Land Immortal-level sword art. After Mei Chaofeng and Lu Chengfeng failed to challenge Ye Gucheng, Huang Yaoshi began considering whether to reveal his Finger Flicking Divine Skill.

• Huang Yaoshi healed Mei Chaofeng and another disciple, then demonstrated the Jade Flute Swordplay as a powerful weapon-based art.
• Chen Xiaofan watched Huang Yaoshi and successively created and perfected several versions of the sword art, ultimately raising the Invincible Jade Flute Xingyi Sword to the Land Immortal level.
• Cheng Ying, Mei Chaofeng, and Lu Chengfeng reported comprehending thirty, forty, and fifty percent of the art, respectively, disappointing Huang Yaoshi.
• Mei Chaofeng attacked Ye Gucheng, but he broke her sword and knocked her away; Lu Chengfeng then avoided fighting by claiming he had not eaten.
• Ye Gucheng mocked Huang Yaoshi and his disciples, prompting Huang Yaoshi to consider the risks of revealing his Finger Flicking Divine Skill before he called several disciples over to watch.