Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei accepted the Dan Chen Sect’s invitation and secured permission for the Xuan Yu Realm cultivators with him to leave Tianhai Pass and join the sect. After they agreed and gathered for the journey, Chen Fei led them back to meet Cao Feiyu.

• Kuang Yezhou and Wei Zhongqian agreed that Chen Fei could bring his Xuan Yu Realm friends to the Dan Chen Sect if the sect redeemed their military service, and Chen Fei explained how he had obtained the Xuan Yu Realm.
• Wei Zhongqian failed to trace Chen Fei’s karmic ties, accepted his explanation, and confirmed that the Dan Chen Sect would handle the redemption fees and procedures.
• Chen Fei researched the Dan Chen Sect, learned of its standing among the Blazing Sun Immortal Dynasty’s one hundred and eight sects, and summoned Le Boyang, Venerable Tianxuan, and the other Xuan Yu Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei explained the sect’s opportunities and dangers and asked the Xuan Yu Realm cultivators whether they wanted to leave Tianhai Pass; they agreed and gathered the willing cultivators into their natal realms.
• Chen Fei led the group back to Kuang Yezhou’s barracks room, where Cao Feiyu was waiting to receive them.

Chen Fei learned that the Dan Chen Sect wanted him to pursue a matter tied to Chu Xuanyu’s Plane Origin and the Sixteenth Order Great Cang Realm, while warning him that disciples were competing for the Status Spiritual Material. He arrived at the sect, heard about its ranks and True Disciple positions, and news of his arrival began stirring Emerald Screen Peak.

• Kuang Yezhou granted Chen Fei and the Xuan Yu Realm cultivators leave, and Wei Zhongqian transported them into his plane.
• Cao Feiyu spoke privately with Chen Fei, explaining that Chu Xuanyu’s Plane Origin and a Sixteenth Order cultivator were needed for an undisclosed matter connected to Heavenly Descent Prefecture.
• Cao Feiyu warned Chen Fei that obtaining the Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material would bring competition from powerful Dan Chen Sect disciples.
• Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu brought Chen Fei and the others to the Dan Chen Sect, where Cao Feiyu explained its disciple ranks and limited True Disciple positions.
• News that Chen Fei had refined Chu Xuanyu’s plane spread through the Dan Chen Sect, and an Inner Sect Disciple delivered an urgent report to a courtyard on Emerald Screen Peak.

After Chen Fei joined Emerald Screen Peak as the inheritor of Chu Xuanyu’s refined plane, Wei Zhongqian proposed granting him Chu Xuanyu’s Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material, provoking a heated dispute. The chapter ended with the opponents appealing to the Peak Fifteenth Order disciples’ sense of fairness and their hostile attention turning toward Chen Fei.

• Junior Brother Wang told Li Congjian that Chen Fei had refined the Xuan Yu Realm and that Cao Feiyu appeared to value him, prompting Li Congjian to fear losing the Status Spiritual Material he hoped to obtain.
• News of Chen Fei’s arrival spread through Emerald Screen Peak, stirring disappointment and hostility among disciples who had pursued Chu Xuanyu’s legacy.
• Wei Zhongqian summoned Emerald Screen Peak’s Great Cang Realm cultivators, elders, and Peak Fifteenth Order disciples to Dan Xin Hall, introduced Chen Fei, and confirmed he had no ties to Demonic Cultivators.
• A purple-robed Great Cang Realm disciple asked whether Wei Zhongqian meant to grant Chu Xuanyu’s Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material to Chen Fei, and Wei Zhongqian confirmed that was his intention.
• Several cultivators objected that Chen Fei lacked sect merit and proven talent, while a blue-robed disciple argued that the material was Chu Xuanyu’s personal legacy and belonged with his inheritor.
• An elder urged the assembly to consider the Peak Fifteenth Order disciples who had worked for years to earn the material, directing their resentment toward Chen Fei as he remained calm.

The dispute over Chu Xuanyu’s Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material intensified as Shi Pojun pushed for his nephew Shi Zhoushuo to compete for it. Shi Zhoushuo challenged Chen Fei to an open battle, leaving the hall waiting for Chen Fei’s answer.

• Wei Zhongqian proposed that Chen Fei pass the Three Peaks test to earn the Spiritual Material, but elders and disciples objected that the test was too easy.
• Cao Feiyu defended Chen Fei and argued that Chu Xuanyu had left the Spiritual Material for his future disciples, before Shi Pojun arrived and insisted that sect rules and fairness should govern its distribution.
• Shi Pojun revealed that he wanted the Spiritual Material for Shi Zhoushuo, whose cultivation and potential made him a leading candidate among Emerald Screen Peak’s disciples.
• Shi Pojun and several disciples urged Chen Fei to take part in the dangerous Kunyuan Trial, while Cao Feiyu protested that Chen Fei had only just joined the sect and knew nothing about it.
• Shi Zhoushuo confronted Chen Fei and proposed an open battle, saying he would concede if Chen Fei defeated him and warning that Chen Fei should avoid the Kunyuan Trial if he could not.

Chen Fei accepted Shi Zhoushuo’s challenge and fought him at Emerald Screen Peak’s Training Ground, where the two initially reached a stalemate. Shi Zhoushuo used his Profound Insight Heavenly Eye to find a weakness in Chen Fei’s arrays, but the Array Puppet intercepted his attack just before it struck Chen Fei.

• Shi Zhoushuo challenged Chen Fei to a duel, and Shi Pojun urged Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu to allow it.
• Chen Fei accepted, asked whether the duel was to the death, and proposed they fight immediately after Shi Zhoushuo denied that it was.
• Chen Fei and Shi Zhoushuo went to the Training Ground, where Chen Fei revealed his Array Puppet and the duel began.
• Shi Zhoushuo attacked with Prairie Fire Phoenix Flame and his Crimson Flame Spirit-Nourishing Gourd, while Chen Fei’s Array Puppet defended and counterattacked with arrays.
• Shi Zhoushuo manifested his Profound Insight Heavenly Eye, found a weak node in the Array Puppet’s defenses, and sent a deep-blue cold gleam toward Chen Fei.
• The Array Puppet blocked the cold gleam with its right arm just before it reached Chen Fei.

Chen Fei used an intricate formation to trap Shi Zhoushuo, whose Four Symbols Annihilation repeatedly held off the attacks but could not locate Chen Fei’s true body. Shi Pojun learned that Chen Fei cultivated the Heaven Origin Art and halted the match just as Chen Fei’s formation was about to close, prompting Cao Feiyu to challenge his authority.

• Chen Fei filled the Training Ground with shifting phantoms and attacks, but Shi Zhoushuo countered them with Four Symbols Annihilation.
• Shi Zhoushuo failed to find Chen Fei’s true body as Chen Fei’s formation gradually tightened around him, and Shi Pojun recognized the danger of the encircling formation.
• Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu noticed that Chen Fei’s vital-energy foundation seemed hollow, and Wei Zhongqian suspected his primary cultivation technique was weak.
• Shi Pojun received word that Chen Fei had advanced rapidly by cultivating the Heaven Origin Art and concluded that Chen Fei had damaged his future prospects.
• Shi Pojun stopped the duel before Chen Fei’s formation could close, and Cao Feiyu confronted him for ending the match without a clear victor.

Chen Fei admitted that he cultivated the Heaven Origin Art, prompting the Dan Chen Sect to question whether his weak foundation made him unsuitable for Heavenly Descent Prefecture. The elders debated his future, and Cheng Zhengchu proposed that he surrender the Xuan Yu Realm, but Cao Feiyu and Wei Zhongqian defended his right to keep it.

• Shi Pojun stopped the duel, conceded that Shi Zhoushuo had been outmatched by Chen Fei's arrays, and warned that Chen Fei's Heaven Origin Art would hinder his future.
• A Great Cang Realm elder asked Chen Fei whether he cultivated the Heaven Origin Art, and Chen Fei confirmed that he did.
• The sect members debated how the Heaven Origin Art would weaken Chen Fei's Dao Domain and whether he could change cultivation techniques before entering the Great Cang Realm.
• Cheng Zhengchu proposed that Chen Fei refine a new plane and relinquish the Xuan Yu Realm, claiming it would protect him from the dangers of Heavenly Descent Prefecture.
• Cao Feiyu rejected Cheng Zhengchu's proposal and argued that Chen Fei should be given time to change techniques, while Wei Zhongqian said the sect had no right to take the Xuan Yu Realm he had earned.

After Chen Fei admitted that he cultivated the Heaven Origin Art, Wei Zhongqian offered him a chance to earn the Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material by placing in the Kunyuan Trial’s top thirty. Chen Fei accepted, prepared for the dangerous trial, and gathered with the other disciples as a massive flying ship approached.

• Cheng Zhengchu pressed Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu to address the drawbacks of Chen Fei’s Heaven Origin Art, but Wei Zhongqian refused to strip away the Xuan Yu Realm and made the spiritual material contingent on Chen Fei placing in the Kunyuan Trial’s top thirty.
• Chen Fei accepted the trial, and news of his cultivation art spread throughout the Dan Chen Sect, drawing criticism and concern from disciples and allies.
• Venerable Tianxuan and Le Boyang warned Chen Fei about the Kunyuan Trial’s hazards, and Chen Fei declined their offer to accompany him.
• Chen Fei studied information about Kun Abyss, while an inner sect steward invited him to transfer to Heaven Array Peak and offered support for changing his cultivation art.
• Cao Feiyu warned Chen Fei to beware both Demonic Cultivators and fellow disciples, and Chen Fei left for the mountain gate.
• Chen Fei gathered with the other Fifteenth Order disciples, sensed hostile gazes among them, and watched a vast black flying ship approach.

Chen Fei entered Kun Abyss for the Kunyuan Trial and quickly pushed through its outer layers into the more dangerous fourth layer, earning merit by killing demonic creatures. Three cultivators gathered at the entrance to the fifth layer after he passed through, confirming that they had anticipated his route.

• The Town Abyss Ship carried the trial disciples to Kun Abyss, where an elder announced the merit rules and forbade unjustified fighting among disciples.
• Chen Fei entered Kun Abyss, ignored the crowded outer layers, and rapidly advanced toward the fourth layer while gathering Status Fragments and merit.
• Senior Brother Wang warned another disciple that some people wanted Chen Fei dead and could conceal a fellow disciple's murder amid Kun Abyss's chaos.
• In the fourth layer, Chen Fei used the Array Puppet and his sword force to kill a Mid-stage Fifteenth Order Demonic Lizard and other creatures, climbing into the top hundred of the rankings.
• Chen Fei entered a Space Whirlpool leading to the fifth layer, and three hidden cultivators emerged nearby, with their leader saying they had expected him to press onward for a high ranking.

Cao Feiyu followed Chen Fei and three suspicious disciples into Kun Abyss, but sect law kept her true body out of the seventh layer, so she sent an avatar instead. A Demonic Fog Tide and spatial fluctuation scattered Chen Fei from his pursuers, and he began hunting in the seventh layer, where his Array Puppet split a giant Demonic Black Rat in two.

• Cao Feiyu followed Yue Qianshan and the other stalkers through the fifth and sixth layers of Kun Abyss, then watched Chen Fei enter the seventh layer.
• Zhao Qingyuan stopped Cao Feiyu from entering the seventh layer with her true body, so she created a Fifteenth Order avatar and sent it inside.
• Cao Feiyu's avatar encountered a vast Demonic Fog Tide and lost track of Chen Fei and the disciples following him.
• Chen Fei was swept away from the tide by a violent spatial fluctuation, found himself in an unfamiliar region, and set out to hunt demonic monsters for merit.
• Chen Fei's Array Puppet struck a Late Stage Fifteenth Order Demonic Black Rat with Destruction Sword Qi, splitting it in two, but the monster began regenerating and fled in separate halves.

Chen Fei climbed to twenty-sixth place on the Kun Abyss trial leaderboard by hunting demonic monsters with his array puppet. When Yue Qianshan, Junior Brother Wang, and Junior Brother Li tried to track him for other disciples, Chen Fei exposed their scheme and faced their ambush after they sealed off the area.

• Chen Fei hunted powerful demonic monsters on the seventh level of the Kun Abyss, sending his merit points soaring until he reached twenty-sixth place.
• While Chen Fei fought a regenerating Nine-headed Demonic Snake, Yue Qianshan, Junior Brother Wang, and Junior Brother Li invited him to travel with them, but Chen Fei accused them of tracking him for others and fled.
• Yue Qianshan and the others concealed themselves with a gray gauze treasure and pursued Chen Fei, but he circled behind them and confronted them.
• Junior Brother Wang admitted that their task was to keep Chen Fei in place until the senior brothers arrived, and Yue Qianshan used a Stone Bead to sever communications across a million-mile region.
• Yue Qianshan, Junior Brother Wang, and Junior Brother Li attacked Chen Fei with golden chains and a black pagoda as his array puppet gathered power.

Chen Fei revealed his overwhelming body-refining strength, breaking the attackers’ combined seal and crushing Wan Chengsi’s sword strikes. As Yue Qianshan, the others, and Shi Zhoushuo joined the assault, Chen Fei’s Heaven and Earth Manifestation blocked their attacks.

• Chen Fei’s Array Puppet used Destruction Sword Qi to hold back the Pagoda Phantom and Profound Gold Chains until Junior Brother Li sealed him with an enormous copper coin.
• Wan Chengsi arrived with Shi Zhoushuo and struck Chen Fei with a Heaven Origin Dao Foundation sword attack, but Chen Fei summoned the Qian Yuan Halberd and smashed the attack aside, destroying the seal and injuring Yue Qianshan, Junior Brother Wang, and Junior Brother Li.
• Chen Fei wounded Wan Chengsi with a second halberd strike even after Wan Chengsi unleashed the Heavenly Extreme Art at full power.
• Yue Qianshan, Junior Brother Wang, Junior Brother Li, and Shi Zhoushuo coordinated their attacks against Chen Fei, but his pale-golden Heaven and Earth Manifestation blocked them.

Chen Fei overwhelmed the Dan Chen Sect cultivators with his true body and Outer Body Avatars, killing Yue Qianshan, Junior Brother Wang, and Junior Brother Li while badly injuring Wan Chengsi and Shi Zhoushuo. When Xie Geting arrived, Chen Fei activated Heavenly Unity Return and his Sixteenth Order Heaven Origin Art, revealing Pseudo-Great Cang Realm power and shattering Xie Geting’s weapon as he killed Wan Chengsi.

• Chen Fei’s Outer Body Avatars attacked Yue Qianshan and the others, Wan Chengsi, and Shi Zhoushuo while his true body fought Wan Chengsi.
• Chen Fei’s avatar killed Junior Brother Wang, Yue Qianshan, and Junior Brother Li, while another avatar severely injured Shi Zhoushuo.
• Chen Fei battered Wan Chengsi until his Dao foundation shattered and he fell into a crater near death.
• Xie Geting arrived and attacked Chen Fei alongside Wan Chengsi, who renewed his assault, while Shi Zhoushuo called for help.
• Chen Fei activated Heavenly Unity Return and his Sixteenth Order Heaven Origin Art, raising his aura to the Pseudo-Great Cang Realm and shattering Xie Geting’s club and Wan Chengsi’s sword.
• Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Halberd swept through Wan Chengsi, exploding his body, protective light, and defensive Divine Weapon.

Chen Fei killed Xie Geting and Shi Zhoushuo after surviving their ambush, then concealed the battlefield and resumed the Condensed Abyss trial. The Dan Chen Sect discovered that six disciples had died, and Shi Pojun learned that Zhou Shuo's Soul Lamp had gone out.

• Xie Geting feigned an attack on Shi Zhoushuo, then used a life-burning escape art and a jade pendant to race toward the sealed area's boundary.
• Chen Fei unfolded a Pseudo-Dao Domain, stopped Xie Geting's escape, and killed him with the Qian Yuan Halberd.
• Chen Fei's Outer Body Avatar killed Shi Zhoushuo, ending the battle and returning to Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei collected the origins and Status Fragments, learned how the Forbidden Bead worked, destroyed it and the remaining Divine Weapons, and let the demonic qi erase the battle's traces.
• Chen Fei left to continue the Condensed Abyss trial as the Dan Chen Sect's Soul Lamp Hall reported six disciples dead, including Wan Chengsi and Xie Geting.
• A messenger told Shi Pojun that Zhou Shuo's Soul Lamp had gone out, and Shi Pojun released a terrifying Great Cang Realm aura.

Shi Pojun investigated the deaths of Shi Zhoushuo, Xie Geting, and Wan Chengsi while Chen Fei remained alive and climbed the Merit Ranking. In Kun Abyss, Cao Feiyu and Zhao Qingyuan found the battle site but no clear evidence, and Elder Wang used the True Demon Subduing Eye to search for concealed traces.

• Shi Pojun learned that Shi Zhoushuo, Xie Geting, Wan Chengsi, and several others had died near the seventh and eighth levels of Kun Abyss while Chen Fei remained alive and rose in rank.
• Cao Feiyu and Zhao Qingyuan entered the seventh level and found a devastated pit where a brief battle had taken place, but demonic qi had erased most evidence.
• Cao Feiyu acknowledged that she had tried to protect Chen Fei and warned Zhao Qingyuan that Emerald Screen Peak would reject unsupported accusations against him.
• Elder Wang and Liu arrived to investigate Xie Geting's death, but their divine senses also failed to recover useful traces.
• Elder Wang opened his True Demon Subduing Eye and began searching the area through the surrounding demonic qi.

Elder Wang concluded that a Great Cang Realm expert had killed Xie Geting and the others, clearing Chen Fei of suspicion for the moment. As the Kunyuan Trial was thrown into crisis by a battle in the depths of the abyss, Chen Fei evacuated fellow disciples to the first level, where they joined a defensive formation.

• Elder Wang used his demonic eye to identify Great Cang Realm power in the traces left by the deaths of Xie Geting, Wan Chengsi, Shi Zhoushuo, Yue Qianshan, and the others, and ruled out Chen Fei as the culprit.
• Chen Fei used his Array Puppet to hunt demonic beasts in the sixth and seventh levels, rising to around fifteenth place in the trial rankings.
• A Heaven Origin Dao Foundation Demonic Cultivator attacked Chen Fei, but Chen Fei escaped after using formations, talismans, and the abyss's terrain to shake off his pursuer.
• After sensing a clash of multiple Great Cang Realm auras near the eighth level, Chen Fei retreated and received an urgent order for all trial disciples to gather near the first-level entrance.
• Chen Fei escorted more than twenty disciples to safety, then joined them as Great Cang Realm experts arrived and began constructing a defensive formation.
• A Great Cang Realm elder ordered the disciples to enter the formation nodes and channel their Origin Power into the grand formation.

Chen Fei survived the upheaval in Kun Abyss and finished the Kunyuan Trial in thirteenth place, while the Taiyan Mirror quelled a terrifying disturbance deep below. He collected his rewards and returned to Emerald Screen Peak, where Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu awaited him.

• Chen Fei learned that Senior Brother Nie and Beitang Ao had died when their names vanished from the trial rankings, raising his rank to thirteenth.
• A soul-shaking roar and violent tremors struck the first layer of Kun Abyss, but the Taiyan Mirror appeared and entered the depths, bringing the disturbance to a halt.
• The sect ended the Kunyuan Trial and ordered the disciples to return; Chen Fei boarded the heavenly vessel and reached the Dan Chen Sect with his thirteenth-place ranking.
• At the Merit Hall, Chen Fei received one thousand sect merit points and a piece of Sixteenth Order Low-grade Crimson Stone Heavenly Splendor Wood.
• Chen Fei returned to Emerald Screen Peak and greeted Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu, who were waiting outside Dan Xin Hall.

After Chen Fei placed thirteenth in the Kunyuan Trial, Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu gave him Xuanyu’s spiritual materials and brought him to the Merit Hall to restore a damaged Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material. The Zhen Dan Furnace finished its work, and the renewed material emerged before Chen Fei.

• Wei Zhongqian publicly confirmed that Chen Fei had earned the promised Low-grade Sixteenth Order Status Spiritual Material with his thirteenth-place trial result.
• Cao Feiyu and Wei Zhongqian gave Chen Fei the damaged Status Spiritual Material, five Sixteenth Order spiritual materials, and access to a semi-finished mid-grade Status Spiritual Material for later use.
• Chen Fei told them he had enough Status Fragments and showed them the Azure Spirit Bamboo Kuang Yezhou had given him.
• Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu accompanied Chen Fei to the Merit Hall, where Elder Zhao let him use the Zhen Dan Furnace to condense the damaged material.
• The Zhen Dan Furnace consumed the Status Spiritual Material, Status Fragments, and Azure Spirit Bamboo, then produced a restored dark-red Status Spiritual Material for Chen Fei.

Chen Fei used the Status Spiritual Material to break through to the Great Cang Realm, triggering a transformation that benefited the entire Void Return Realm. He emerged as a new source of strength for Emerald Screen Peak, while the question of his future path and the Kun Abyss remained unresolved.

• Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu escorted Chen Fei to Dan Xin Hall's secluded chamber, where Cao Feiyu worried about the limits imposed by the Heaven Origin Art and Wei Zhongqian regretted their haste in Tianhai City.
• Cao Feiyu asked whether the sect would enter Kun Abyss, and Wei Zhongqian said no decision had been made because the Ancient Heavenly Court relic could draw in other sects.
• Chen Fei entered the Void Return Realm and used the Status Spiritual Material to merge his Future True Body with his present body, refine his Dao, and break through his divine-soul barrier.
• Chen Fei's transformation released a surge of World Vital Energy and heavenly phenomena throughout the Void Return Realm, allowing its inhabitants to cultivate and break through.
• A pillar of light and a vast energy vortex announced Chen Fei's successful Great Cang Realm breakthrough, prompting Emerald Screen Peak's residents to react with envy, joy, or bitterness.
• Great Cang Realm disciples and elders gathered to congratulate Chen Fei, while those who had opposed giving him the spiritual material remained distant and unconvinced that his breakthrough was worthwhile.

Chen Fei completed his breakthrough into the Great Cang Realm, awakening the innate divine ability Method of Heaven and Earth Manifestation and helping the Void Return Realm begin recovering toward a Sixteenth Order plane. He went with Cao Feiyu to the Dan Chen Sect’s Scripture Depository to select a cultivation art, where she began explaining how Great Cang cultivators could strengthen a Dao Domain.

• Chen Fei stabilized his Great Cang Realm cultivation and manifested a towering golden phantom through his innate divine ability, Method of Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Chen Fei’s breakthrough power awakened the remnant origin of the Xuan Yu Realm, setting the Void Return Realm on a path of recovery.
• Chen Fei emerged from seclusion and received congratulations and gifts from Emerald Screen Peak elders and disciples, including Cheng Zhengchu.
• Chen Fei told Wei Zhongqian and Cao Feiyu that he lacked a suitable Sixteenth Order cultivation art, and Cao Feiyu offered to guide him at the Scripture Depository.
• Cao Feiyu explained that Great Cang cultivation centered on strengthening the Dao Domain and described the Dan Chen Sect’s cultivation art benefits and peak inheritances.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu arrived at the Scripture Depository, where Fifteenth Order disciples recognized Chen Fei and reacted to his rapid breakthrough.