Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei searched the sealed hall for a way out while Gu Yanzhen tracked the hidden space from outside. Chen Fei found a possible connection between the Map Illustration Book and the Stone Tablet Mural, and his attempt to mark the corresponding spot caused the mural to ripple.

• Gu Yanzhen used the Nine Netherworlds Soul Chasing Seal and discovered that Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu had vanished into a hidden region nearby.
• Chen Fei studied the Map Illustration Book and noticed faint spatial connections extending from the hall’s location.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu searched the hall’s walls and floor but found no ordinary passage or mechanism.
• Gu Yanzhen restrained his demonic qi and began meticulously searching the ruins for the hidden entrance.
• Chen Fei guessed that the Map Illustration Book’s information could open a passage through the Stone Tablet Mural and touched its corresponding location with vital energy.
• Pale golden ripples spread across the Stone Tablet Mural where Chen Fei touched it.

Chen Fei used the Map Illustration Book to activate the Stone Tablet Mural and open a spatial portal to another hall filled with Sixteenth Order spirit grasses. As he and Cao Feiyu fled through it to escape the approaching Demonic Cultivators, a Great Cang Realm Late Stage pursuer burst into the hall and trapped them in overwhelming pressure.

• Chen Fei activated points on the Stone Tablet Mural according to the map, forming a spatial passage to another hall.
• Chen Fei sent a puppet through the portal and used the Mysterious Light Reflection Technique to reveal hundreds of Jade Boxes and Sixteenth Order spirit grasses beyond it.
• Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu heard the Demonic Cultivators attack the hall doors and decided to flee through the portal.
• A Great Cang Realm Late Stage pursuer burst through the doors, and its pressure slowed Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu as they raced toward the portal.

Cao Feiyu and Chen Fei escaped Gu Yanzhen’s attack through the Space Channel, but her desperate sword strike left her gravely injured. The entrance closed behind them, and Chen Fei arrived alone, realizing the spatial turbulence may have separated him from Cao Feiyu.

• Gu Yanzhen entered the hidden hall and used the Qianyuan Tracking South-pointing Compass to suppress Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu as they tried to flee.
• Cao Feiyu unleashed Heavenly Sword Returns Nothing, tearing open a brief gap in Gu Yanzhen’s spatial pressure, and Chen Fei pulled her toward the entrance.
• Gu Yanzhen intercepted them with the Nine Netherworlds Soul Shattering Palm, but Cao Feiyu blocked the blow with her sword and suffered grave injuries, allowing Chen Fei to carry her through the Space Channel.
• The entrance closed before Gu Yanzhen could follow, and his compass and demonic energy failed to reveal how to reopen it, so he began examining the Stone Tablet Mural.
• Chen Fei emerged in another space alone, found the entrance had vanished and Cao Feiyu was missing, and realized the attack may have separated them in the Space Turbulence.

Chen Fei absorbed a newly formed sixteenth-order mid-grade Status Spiritual Material and broke through to the Great Cang Realm Mid-stage, then strengthened his cultivation further with Dao Crystals. After returning to the hall and sensing beyond its doors, he collected the Jade Boxes, unaware that a Vengeful Demon was concealed nearby.

• Chen Fei examined the mural after Cao Feiyu disappeared through its gateway, then checked his injuries and waited for the Status Spiritual Material in his Space Grid to finish condensing.
• Chen Fei absorbed the sixteenth-order mid-grade Status Spiritual Material, reforging his physique and expanding his Dao Domain as he advanced to the Great Cang Realm Mid-stage.
• Chen Fei refined one million and eighty thousand Dao Crystals, stabilizing his breakthrough and reaching the Great Cang Realm Mid-stage Peak.
• Chen Fei returned to the hall, sensed the area beyond its doors, and swept the several hundred Jade Boxes into his sleeve.
• A Vengeful Demon remained hidden beneath an Illusion Barrier in a corridor about one hundred zhang from the hall doors.

Shi Junqing detected movement in the sealed hall, broke in, and attacked Chen Fei with an illusion of Emerald Screen Peak. Chen Fei saw through the illusion and overpowered Shi Junqing, who fused with the barrier’s deathly aura and charged at him as a fierce beast.

• Shi Junqing sensed the Jade Box’s movement, tore through the Illusion Barrier, and smashed open the hall doors.
• Shi Junqing found Chen Fei beside the empty Jade Box outlines and conjured an illusion of Emerald Screen Peak, where disciples and elders surrounded Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei identified the illusion’s source and shattered it with a punch that struck Shi Junqing and forced him back against a pillar.
• Shi Junqing gathered deathly aura and vengeful souls from the Illusion Barrier, transformed into a blue-faced fierce beast, and charged at Chen Fei.

Chen Fei saw through Shi Junqing’s illusion and shattered his beast form with one punch, leaving the Vengeful Demon near death. Shi Junqing burned his Soul Body to reach the Great Cang Realm Late Stage, but Chen Fei exploited the flaws in his unstable power and stopped his final attack, leaving him immobilized and helpless.

• Chen Fei recognized that Shi Junqing’s beast form combined illusion with his true body and the Bronze Demonic Hammer.
• Chen Fei charged into the beast and destroyed it with a punch, severely injuring Shi Junqing.
• Shi Junqing absorbed the ruins’ corrosive aura and burned his Soul Body to force his cultivation into the Great Cang Realm Late Stage.
• Shi Junqing attacked with the black-flame giant hammer, but Chen Fei read its flaws and wounded him with a counterpunch.
• Shi Junqing launched a final desperate hammer strike, and Chen Fei stopped it and sealed the force inside Shi Junqing’s Soul Body.

Chen Fei defeated Shi Junqing, repaired the Illusion Barrier, and opened a portal by deciphering the mural’s proper activation sequence. He reached the hall where Cao Feiyu and Shi Pojun were battling two Vengeful Demons, disguising his cultivation before joining them.

• Chen Fei caused Shi Junqing’s forcibly elevated power to spiral out of control, killing him and turning his Bronze Demonic Hammer into ordinary iron.
• Chen Fei collected Shi Junqing’s Vengeful Demon Origin and repaired the torn Illusion Barrier.
• Chen Fei began activating the Stone Tablet Mural, sensed Cao Feiyu’s aura through one section, and stopped after his attempt to activate that section alone made the mural unstable.
• Chen Fei retraced his earlier successful activation and carefully tested the mural’s nodes until he opened a stable Teleportation Portal.
• Chen Fei sent a bronze puppet through the portal and learned that Cao Feiyu, Shi Pojun, and a dark-green-robed cultivator were fighting two Great Cang Realm Mid-stage Vengeful Demons.
• Chen Fei concealed his Great Cang Realm Mid-stage Peak cultivation, crossed the portal, and arrived at the battle plaza.

Chen Fei emerged from the ancient palace and used the Spirit Light Mirror to dispel the Vengeful Demons’ illusions, exposing them to the others. Cao Feiyu saved him from Wei Zhaoting’s hidden attack, and Shi Pojun and Chang Guwu seized the opening to launch a coordinated assault.

• Cao Feiyu, Shi Pojun, and Chang Guwu struggled against Vengeful Demons Gongsun Qing and Wei Zhaoting as Cao Feiyu’s wounds and exhaustion worsened.
• Chen Fei emerged from the palace, and Cao Feiyu felt relieved to see him unharmed.
• Gongsun Qing trapped Chen Fei in Thousand Layer Mountain while Wei Zhaoting sent a concealed Bone Sha sword essence toward his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Fei’s Spirit Light Mirror dispelled the illusion and exposed the hidden attack, which Cao Feiyu intercepted with her sword.
• The Spirit Light Mirror stripped away the Vengeful Demons’ disguises and illusions, allowing Shi Pojun and Chang Guwu to attack them together.

Shi Pojun, Chang Guwu, and Cao Feiyu overwhelmed Gongsun Qing and Wei Zhaoting with a coordinated assault, but the Vengeful Demons burned their soul power to fight back. Shi Pojun held them off and exposed their weakness, and his final strike shattered Gongsun Qing’s whip and arm.

• Shi Pojun’s blade and Chang Guwu’s Gale Ghost Prison trapped and severely wounded Gongsun Qing and Wei Zhaoting, while Cao Feiyu’s sword formation attacked their Soul Bodies.
• Chen Fei used the Indestructible Spirit Light Mirror to dispel the Vengeful Demons’ attempts to use illusions and demonic sounds.
• With no escape, Gongsun Qing and Wei Zhaoting burned their soul-power origins and absorbed death energy to raise their strength toward the Great Cang Realm Late Stage.
• Shi Pojun recognized their unstable power and met their attack with his eighth-level Myriad Phenomena True Realm Dao Body, leaving them badly cracked and near collapse.
• Cao Feiyu and Chang Guwu intensified their attacks on the Vengeful Demons’ weakened Soul Bodies as Shi Pojun unleashed Myriad Phenomena True Realm: Mountain Shattering.
• Shi Pojun’s blade cleaved Gongsun Qing’s whip in two and shattered the arm holding it.

After Chen Fei helped Cao Feiyu, Shi Pojun, and Chang Guwu defeat two Vengeful Demons, Shi Pojun proposed an unequal division of their spoils. Cao Feiyu rejected it and tried to leave with Chen Fei, but Shi Pojun blocked their way and offered them their share, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Gongsun Qing lost control of his power and exploded, and Cao Feiyu and Chang Guwu killed the weakened Wei Zhaoting, who also exploded.
• Chang Guwu thanked Chen Fei for breaking the demons’ illusion, while Shi Pojun scrutinized Chen Fei’s mastery of the Indestructible True Nature Spirit Light Mirror.
• Chen Fei checked on Cao Feiyu, who said she was relieved he had survived the Great Cang Realm Late Stage demon’s pursuit.
• Shi Pojun proposed that he and Chang Guwu take forty percent of the Vengeful Demon Origin each, leaving Cao Feiyu and Chen Fei to split the remaining twenty percent.
• Cao Feiyu refused the proposed share, took Chen Fei’s arm, and tried to leave, but Shi Pojun blocked their path with his aura.
• Shi Pojun insisted he meant no slight and sent the pair their twenty-percent share of the Vengeful Demon Origin.

Cao Feiyu and Chen Fei left after Shi Pojun forced them to accept part of the Vengeful Demon Origin. Shi Pojun revealed that he planned to kill them with Chang Guwu and Liu Yanqing, but Liu Yanqing arrived and questioned why he had let Chen Fei go.

• Cao Feiyu collected the Vengeful Demon Origin and left the plaza with Chen Fei after Shi Pojun cleared their path.
• Shi Pojun told Chang Guwu that he wanted to kill Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu because Chen Fei had killed his nephew and was growing too dangerous.
• Chang Guwu agreed to help, and Shi Pojun explained that he wanted Liu Yanqing's formations and musical arts to ensure the ambush succeeded.
• Liu Yanqing arrived and learned that a Great Cang Realm Early Stage cultivator had broken the Vengeful Demons' illusions with the Indestructible True Nature Spirit Light Mirror.
• Liu Yanqing praised Chen Fei's talent and asked Shi Pojun why he had let such a useful fellow sect disciple leave.

Shi Pojun recruited Liu Yanqing and Chang Guwu to hunt down Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu, using a tracking curse and planning to kill them. Meanwhile, Chen Fei revealed his breakthrough to the Great Cang Realm Mid-stage and offered Cao Feiyu rare herbs so she could treat her injuries while he worked on his Array Puppets.

• Liu Yanqing learned of Shi Pojun’s grudge against Chen Fei and agreed that they should kill him for revenge and possible gains.
• Shi Pojun assigned Liu Yanqing to trap Cao Feiyu and Chang Guwu to kill her, then revealed that he had marked Cao Feiyu with a Shadow-Following Curse.
• Cao Feiyu and Chen Fei reached a ruined side hall, where Cao Feiyu urged them to flee before Shi Pojun’s group could catch up.
• Cao Feiyu noticed Chen Fei’s weakened Life Origin, and Chen Fei explained that an ancient hall’s altered time flow had helped him cultivate and condense a Sixteenth Order Mid-grade Status Spiritual Material.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had advanced to the Great Cang Realm Mid-stage, and Cao Feiyu congratulated him before worrying about her own injuries.
• Chen Fei produced rare spirit herbs for Cao Feiyu to use in healing and said he would improve his Array Puppets while they stayed in the side hall.

Chen Fei gave Cao Feiyu rare healing medicines, and she lent him Purple Mansion Dao Origin Jade to upgrade his Array Puppet while recovering in a concealed rift valley. The Ancient Heavenly Court Ruins’ dark side descended with unprecedented force, exposing Cao Feiyu to a dangerous resonance with the surrounding death qi.

• Chen Fei gave Cao Feiyu Sixteenth Order High-grade healing herbs, and she handed him the Purple Mansion Dao Origin Jade for his Array Puppet upgrade.
• Cao Feiyu recovered part of her strength as Chen Fei sensed the dark side approaching, and they left the side hall to seek shelter.
• Chen Fei led Cao Feiyu into a concealed stone platform deep in a rift valley, where she resumed healing and he oversaw the Array Puppet’s upgrade.
• The Array Puppet began advancing from Sixteenth Order Low Grade to Sixteenth Order Mid-grade as Chen Fei kept watch and read a jade slip.
• The dark side descended over the ruins, filling the rift valley with death qi and whispers, and Cao Feiyu’s protective halo rippled under its influence.

Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu were confronted by Shi Pojun, Chang Guwu, and Liu Yanqing after Liu Yanqing killed the fleeing Vengeful Demon Huang Jiugao. Chen Fei turned Liu Yanqing’s Boundary Separation Technique against the three enemies, sent Cao Feiyu away, and remained trapped with them inside the barrier.

• Cao Feiyu recovered enough to defend herself, but a wounded Vengeful Demon named Huang Jiugao rushed onto the stone platform while fleeing something behind it.
• Liu Yanqing killed Huang Jiugao with a sword strike that divided yin from yang, and Shi Pojun, Chang Guwu, and Liu Yanqing appeared and confronted Chen Fei and Cao Feiyu.
• Liu Yanqing used the Boundary Separation Technique to form a barrier, but Chen Fei’s newly upgraded Array Puppet disrupted its formation and altered whom it enclosed.
• Chen Fei entangled Liu Yanqing’s barrier with his own formation power and used the resulting spatial force to push Cao Feiyu thousands of miles away.
• Cao Feiyu chose to trust Chen Fei, leave the ruins to report Shi Pojun, and seek safety while Chen Fei faced the three enemies inside the barrier.

Chen Fei revealed his Great Cang Realm Mid-stage Peak cultivation and challenged Shi Pojun, Chang Guwu, and Liu Yanqing to attack him together. He shattered Chang Guwu’s storm and drove Shi Pojun back with one halberd strike, then vanished as he set his sights on Chang Guwu.

• Huang Jiugao failed to escape the barrier and tried to persuade Chen Fei to ally with him or let him go.
• Chen Fei summoned the Qian Yuan Halberd, revealed his Great Cang Realm Mid-stage Peak aura, and challenged all his opponents to attack together.
• Shi Pojun, Liu Yanqing, and Chang Guwu launched coordinated attacks, while Huang Jiugao swung his bronze hammer at Liu Yanqing’s strike.
• Chen Fei activated the Heaven Swallowing Divine Forge and swept out with the Qian Yuan Halberd, breaking Chang Guwu’s Wind-Thunder-Earth-Fire Tornado and knocking Shi Pojun backward.
• Huang Jiugao’s hammer deflected Liu Yanqing’s sword strike, and Chen Fei vanished after locking his gaze on Chang Guwu.

Chen Fei withstood Shi Pojun and Liu Yanqing’s coordinated attacks, shattered their techniques, and broke through Chang Guwu’s barriers. Chang Guwu burned his origin and Dao Domain and destroyed his fan to unleash a final desperate attack against Chen Fei.

• Chen Fei appeared before Chang Guwu and struck, forcing him to raise layers of Wind-Thunder Barriers and retreat using a life-saving secret art.
• Shi Pojun unleashed his Myriad Phenomena True Realm Dao Body and attacked Chen Fei from behind while Liu Yanqing sent a void-piercing sword strike at him.
• Huang Jiugao refused Liu Yanqing’s offer to join forces and attacked the violet-gold Boundary Barrier, seeking to escape.
• Chen Fei turned and swept his halberd upward, repelling Shi Pojun and shattering Liu Yanqing’s sword strike against the halberd’s defenses.
• Chen Fei tore through Chang Guwu’s barriers and pursued him, forcing Chang Guwu to burn his origin and Dao Domain and destroy his Ink Jade Xunlei Fan for a final attack.

Chen Fei effortlessly split Chang Guwu’s desperate attack, leaving Chang Guwu badly wounded, while Liu Yanqing tried to recruit Huang Jiugao against him. As Chang Guwu and Liu Yanqing launched a combined assault, Shi Pojun used a forbidden art to force his strength into the Great Cang Realm Late Stage.

• Chang Guwu burned his origin and Dao Domain to unleash the Wind-Thunder Fire Prison, but Chen Fei split it with his halberd and emerged unharmed.
• Chang Guwu used the brief opening to escape Chen Fei’s halberd, then staggered back to Shi Pojun and Liu Yanqing with severe injuries.
• Huang Jiugao demanded that Chen Fei open the barrier, but Liu Yanqing urged him to attack Chen Fei instead, and Chen Fei challenged all of them to fight together.
• Chang Guwu trapped Chen Fei with Xunlei Nine Tribulations, Sky Net, while Liu Yanqing burned her origin and unleashed Myriad Swords Slaying Gods as Shi Pojun gathered power for a killing strike.
• Shi Pojun activated the Myriad Phenomena Reverse Blood Divine Dissolution Grand Art, forcing his combat strength to the Great Cang Realm Late Stage.

Chen Fei unveiled the full power of his Heaven Swallowing Divine Body and shattered the attacks of Chang Guwu, Liu Yanqing, Huang Jiugao, and Shi Pojun. After crippling Shi Pojun, Chen Fei rushed to kill Liu Yanqing before she could use the Boundary Barrier to trap them again, while the others tried to stop him.

• Shi Pojun unleashed a forbidden, fatal saber strike as Huang Jiugao attacked Chen Fei with an illusion and a giant hammer, completing the encirclement alongside Chang Guwu and Liu Yanqing.
• Chen Fei activated the Heaven Swallowing Divine Body and swept his Qian Yuan Halberd, breaking Chang Guwu's Wind Thunder Silk, Liu Yanqing's Sword Rain, and Huang Jiugao's hammer while resisting the soul illusion.
• Chen Fei found a flaw in Shi Pojun's saber aura and shattered it with a precise halberd strike, leaving Shi Pojun gravely injured and horrified by Chen Fei's power.
• Chen Fei rushed toward Liu Yanqing and struck at her as she fled behind a Sword Barrier, intending to eliminate her before she could use the Boundary Barrier.
• Shi Pojun, Chang Guwu, and Huang Jiugao launched weakened attacks at Chen Fei to protect Liu Yanqing, but Chen Fei ignored them and kept pursuing her.

Chen Fei grievously wounded Liu Yanqing and defeated her final attack while Shi Pojun destroyed his Life-bound Saber to escape through the barrier. The opening healed before Chang Guwu and Huang Jiugao could follow, leaving them trapped as Chen Fei turned toward them.

• Shi Pojun wounded Chen Fei with a desperate saber strike, but Chen Fei broke Liu Yanqing's defenses and left her gravely injured with his halberd.
• Shi Pojun sacrificed his Life-bound Saber to tear open the barrier, then fled alone and abandoned Liu Yanqing and the others.
• Liu Yanqing cursed Shi Pojun and burned her remaining life force to attack Chen Fei, but Chen Fei dispersed her strike and killed her.
• Chang Guwu and Huang Jiugao rushed for the opening, but the barrier healed before they could escape and hurled them back.
• Chang Guwu pleaded with Chen Fei, claiming Shi Pojun had wanted to kill him.

Chen Fei killed Chang Guwu and Huang Jiugao after they launched desperate attacks, then pursued the fleeing Shi Pojun using hidden Soul Imprints. Shi Pojun discovered nine linked imprints with a golden page but struggled to remove them while escaping.

• Chang Guwu detonated his remaining power, while Huang Jiugao attacked Chen Fei with its bronze hammer during the ensuing chaos.
• Chen Fei split Chang Guwu's destructive storm, withstood Huang Jiugao's strike, and killed both attackers with the Qian Yuan Halberd.
• Chen Fei collected the three fallen cultivators' origin light spheres and damaged Divine Weapons, then sensed his Imprints on Shi Pojun and gave chase.
• Shi Pojun fled through the ruins while searching himself for Chen Fei's tracking mark, but initially found nothing.
• Shi Pojun used a golden page to reveal nine linked Soul Imprints and began trying to erase them as he continued fleeing.