Chapter Summaries

The allied sects broke through the Long Rainbow Sect’s defenses and began slaughtering its members as Chen Fei searched the sect for resources. He claimed a damaged pill furnace after defeating Bai Daoxiang and hid it in his Space Grid before continuing his search.

• Guo Huaiyu led the attack, and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, Sinking Water Pavilion, and Big Dipper Tower shattered the Long Rainbow Sect’s array.
• More than forty Aperture Refining Realm cultivators entered the sect, and Chen Fei slipped away toward its central area to collect resources.
• Chen Fei found a damaged pill furnace in the Treasure Pavilion and decided to take it.
• Bai Daoxiang attacked Chen Fei to claim the furnace, but Chen Fei wounded him with a single sword strike and escaped with it.
• Chen Fei hid the pill furnace in his Space Grid and prepared to search for more of the Long Rainbow Sect’s resources.

As the Long Rainbow Sect was destroyed, Chen Fei entered its Scripture Depository to search for Spiritual Power techniques. He defeated Nie Zhiyang with overwhelming force and remained in control of the manuals.

• Tong Zhongqiu and Jian Jinsheng fought in the sky as Jian Jinsheng tried to intervene in the Long Rainbow Sect’s destruction.
• Ding Lüzhong and the Long Rainbow Sect’s other remaining late-stage Aperture Refining Realm cultivator were killed by their besiegers.
• Chen Fei left a hidden female disciple behind and headed for the Long Rainbow Sect’s Scripture Depository to find martial arts manuals.
• Nie Zhiyang refused to let Chen Fei search the Spiritual Power techniques and attacked him with the Sword Heart Art.
• Chen Fei struck Nie Zhiyang’s sword aside and sent him staggering away, prompting Nie Zhiyang to flee the Scripture Depository.

Chen Fei found the God Slaying Sword manual in Long Rainbow Sect’s Scripture Depository, then searched for the sect’s hidden inheritance methods. Using the Dragon Elephant Array, he discovered a concealed formation beneath the Training Ground and entered a vast cavern beyond it.

• Chen Fei read through the Spiritual Power manuals and found the God Slaying Sword, a technique that formed a one-use Spiritual Power sword without backlash.
• Chen Fei left the Scripture Depository with the God Slaying Sword manual and searched Long Rainbow Sect for its hidden inheritance methods.
• Chen Fei used a simplified Dragon Elephant Array to probe the earth veins and detect concealed formations.
• Chen Fei found a formation beneath Long Rainbow Sect’s Training Ground and dug a hidden passage to reach it.
• Chen Fei passed through the formation and saw an enormous cavern with faint lights at its far end.

Chen Fei infiltrated the Long Rainbow Sect’s inheritance grounds and discovered a damaged core art of the Yuan Chen Sword Canon, along with spear techniques secretly altered to cause qi deviation. After other cultivators found the cave, he escaped and emerged near the Training Ground.

• Chen Fei quietly breached the warning formation and entered the inheritance grounds without alerting anyone.
• He discovered that one stone stele held the damaged core art of the Yuan Chen Sword Canon and took its inheritance core back in a chest.
• Chen Fei examined the Origin Breaking Spear and realized its twenty-eighth acupoint method had been altered to endanger cultivators.
• He found that the other three spear inheritances had also been altered, then destroyed the stone fragments containing them.
• When the cave’s outer formation began trembling as others arrived, Chen Fei escaped through a cut in the formation and surfaced near the Training Ground.

After the Long Rainbow Sect’s spoils were collected, Shen Tucang challenged Chen Fei to settle their old rivalry and wagered Spirit Tempering Pills against Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword. The crowd gathered to watch, and Nie Zhiyang bet his sword on Chen Fei as the match was about to begin.

• Chen Fei met Shen Tucang while leaving the Long Rainbow Sect, and Shen Tucang demanded a rematch of their old contest.
• Chen Fei refused until Shen Tucang offered ten Spirit Snow Pills, then asked to wager Spirit Tempering Pills instead.
• Shen Tucang offered seven Spirit Tempering Pills against Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword, and Chen Fei accepted.
• Shen Tucang and Chen Fei brought their wager before Guo Huaiyu and gathered the sect leaders as witnesses.
• Wu Guangyin worried that Chen Fei would lose, while Bai Daoxiang opened bets and most spectators backed Shen Tucang.
• Nie Zhiyang wagered his own sword on Chen Fei to win.

Bai Daoxiang and Nie Zhiyang tried to run a betting pool on Chen Fei’s match, but Feng Xiupu’s wager forced them to close it and refund everyone. Chen Fei fought Shen Tucang, whose growing strength impressed the spectators, then trapped him in a Heavy Origin Sword Array that revealed Chen Fei’s deep mastery of the technique.

• Bai Daoxiang agreed to share a betting pool with Nie Zhiyang after realizing Nie Zhiyang expected Chen Fei to win.
• Feng Xiupu tried to bet fifty primeval stones on Chen Fei, so Bai Daoxiang closed the pool and returned everyone’s wagers.
• Guo Huaiyu began the match, and Shen Tucang attacked Chen Fei with the Black Tortoise Sword Art as his power continued to grow.
• Chen Fei blocked Shen Tucang’s attacks while concealing how much stronger and more skilled he was.
• Chen Fei formed a Heavy Origin Sword Array with twenty sword beads, trapping Shen Tucang and astonishing the spectators with his comprehension.

Chen Fei defeated Shen Tucang by trapping him in the Heavy Origin Sword Array until the Black Tortoise True Body began to injure him. After returning to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect with the Yuan Chen Sword Canon's Inheritance Stone, Chen Fei revealed its identity to Qu Qingsheng.

• Shen Tucang shattered the sword beads with the Black Tortoise True Body, but the beads recovered and kept him trapped in the array.
• Chen Fei created four indistinguishable figures around the array, leaving Shen Tucang unable to locate him as his own origin energy damaged his body.
• Guo Huaiyu stopped the fight and declared Chen Fei the winner; Shen Tucang handed over the Spirit Tempering Pills and vowed to surpass him.
• Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect with the disciples and showed Qu Qingsheng the Inheritance Stone he had obtained from the Long Rainbow Sect.
• Chen Fei told Qu Qingsheng that the Inheritance Stone contained the Yuan Chen Sword Canon, leaving him stunned.

Chen Fei received the damaged Yuan Chen Sword Canon and began cultivating it, while the sect verified the inheritance and increased his resources. After a month of training and refining pills, he had opened fifteen acupoints and completed the Canon’s first layer, then began simplifying the Giant Spirit Sword.

• Chen Fei gave Qu Qingsheng the damaged Yuan Chen Sword Canon, and Qu Qingsheng took it for the elders to verify before anyone practiced it.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect rewarded Chen Fei with one hundred primestones and a soul-forging stone, and he discussed the Canon’s value with Feng Xiupu.
• Chen Fei simplified the damaged Yuan Chen Sword Canon into the Heavy Origin Sword and gained comprehension of both techniques while cultivating.
• After a month, Chen Fei returned to Xianyun City as the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect gained ground against the Divine Flame Sect and news spread of his victory over Shen Tucang.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect raised Chen Fei’s monthly resources, and he reached fifteen acupoints while completing the first layer of the Yuan Chen Sword Canon.
• Chen Fei obtained and simplified the Giant Spirit Sword, discovered that heavier loads gave him more comprehension, and applied the Heavy Origin Sword’s force field at its ultimate state.

Chen Fei cultivated the Shadow Reflection God Slaying Sword and advanced his strength before fusing the Heavy Origin Sword with the Giant Spirit Sword. After a secret realm rose in grade to admit Early Stage Aperture Refining Realm martial artists, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect arrived as the four sects prepared to investigate.

• Chen Fei cultivated the God Slaying Sword to Great Perfection, then fused it with the defensive Shadow Reflection Art into a backlash-free technique that used a phantom of his mind.
• Over the next five months, Chen Fei increased his acupoints from fifteen to twenty, strengthened his techniques, and realized his Spiritual Power might soon be insufficient to control further growth.
• Chen Fei perfected the second layer of the Yuan Chen Sword Canon and fused the Giant Spirit Sword into the Heavy Origin Sword Array, greatly increasing its power.
• Ten days later, Chen Fei learned that the four sects' secret realm had risen in grade and could now admit Early Stage Aperture Refining Realm martial artists; he thought of Baka, the little treant.
• As the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and the other three sects prepared to enter the secret realm, the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect arrived.

Chen Fei and Feng Xiupu prepared to enter the newly advanced Second Order Secret Realm with Yuan Chen Sword Sect, alongside members of the other sects. As the four sects entered, a group from Divine Flame Sect gathered around an altar-like formation with a jade plaque at its center.

• Chen Fei decided to enter the secret realm to seek resources that could strengthen his Spiritual Power, and Feng Xiupu agreed to go as well.
• Ge Hongjie and Zhang Fangqiong joined the expedition hoping to find spiritual herbs that would help them open acupoints, and Chen Fei warned them to be careful around other sects’ Aperture Refining Realm martial artists.
• The four sects assembled at the secret realm entrance, where Chen Fei assessed the stronger Immortal Cloud Sword Sect led by Liao Hanqin and Ren Zhongyang instructed Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s members to regroup after entry.
• The secret realm entrance opened, and Immortal Cloud Sword Sect entered first, followed by the other three sects.
• Dozens of miles away, Divine Flame Sect’s people gathered in a forest around an altar-like formation centered on a jade plaque.

The Divine Flame Sect forced open the second-order secret realm using the Long Rainbow Sect’s key, but could send only seven people inside. Chen Fei arrived at the changed secret realm, recognized Half-Bottle Mountain, and chose to find Baka before deciding whether to climb it.

• Cheng Quanming used the altar, spirit artifacts, and a bottle of black substance to force open a portal with the Long Rainbow Sect’s secret realm key.
• Cheng Quanming warned Wu Yongzhao that only seven early-stage Aperture Refining Realm cultivators could enter, and Wu Yongzhao led six others through the portal.
• Chen Fei arrived at the foot of a towering, oppressive mountain and recognized it as Half-Bottle Mountain.
• Chen Fei left the mountain, realized the secret realm’s upgrade had made it far more dangerous, and set out to find Baka.

Chen Fei explored the enlarged secret realm and collected several spirit herbs before hearing Zeng Zaiwen and Mo Yuanfei fighting a powerful Ape Demon. As the two True Disciples faced death, a sword bead killed the Ape Demon, though its wielder had not yet appeared.

• Chen Fei discovered that the secret realm had expanded and gathered several spirit herbs while heading toward Baka’s former cave.
• Zeng Zaiwen and Mo Yuanfei struggled against a peak first-order Ape Demon and decided they could not defeat it.
• The Ape Demon badly wounded Mo Yuanfei and tore apart Zeng Zaiwen’s right arm, leaving both men unable to escape.
• As the Ape Demon charged at Zeng Zaiwen, a black sword bead struck it and pierced through its head, killing it.

Chen Fei saved Zeng Zaiwen and Mo Yuanfei from an Ape Demon, then continued through the secret realm to Baka’s cave. He found Rabbit Demons occupying it and discovered a strange, pungent rock before someone outside called out to him.

• Chen Fei killed the Ape Demon, took its Demonic Core, and left its corpse for Zeng Zaiwen and Mo Yuanfei.
• Chen Fei gathered spirit herbs as he searched for Baka’s cave and eventually reached it.
• Chen Fei found Rabbit Demons inside the cave, restrained them, and entered to find abandoned medicinal fields.
• Chen Fei noticed a dark green patch of rock with a crack, dug out a piece, and put it in his sleeve.
• A voice outside asked who from the Yuan Chen Sword Sect was using a Heavy Origin Force Field, and Chen Fei went out to meet them.

Chen Fei refused Jin Weiming and Chi Shuqing’s invitation to travel together, then tracked the Ghostly Sophora Tree to a hidden cave containing a treasure. He discovered the tree had become a second-tier demonic creature, and it attacked him with a storm of branches.

• Jin Weiming invited Chen Fei to travel with him and Chi Shuqing, but Chen Fei declined and the pair left.
• Chen Fei examined a dark green stone and followed the direction Baka had taken toward a Ghostly Sophora Tree.
• Chen Fei used the Thousand Silk Art to trace the tree’s aura from its old pit to a bare earthen slope.
• Chen Fei blasted open the slope and found a hidden karst cave filled with a powerful cold aura.
• Chen Fei followed the tree’s tracks into a cavern and found the Ghostly Sophora Tree had advanced to a second-tier demonic creature.
• The Ghostly Sophora Tree attacked Chen Fei with countless branches, but his black barrier blocked its first strike.

Chen Fei tested the Yuan Chen Sword Canon against the Ghostly Sophora Tree and confronted Chang Shiwan, who had been hiding nearby. After Jin Weiming and Chi Shuqing left, Chang Shiwan attacked Chen Fei, and Chen Fei began fighting back without holding anything in reserve.

• Chen Fei used the Yuan Chen Sword Canon to withstand the Ghostly Sophora Tree's attacks, then sensed someone hiding in the cave and called them out.
• Chang Shiwan appeared and recognized Chen Fei, but fled when Jin Weiming and Chi Shuqing approached.
• Jin Weiming and Chi Shuqing declined to help Chen Fei and left after Jin Weiming explained that he had sensed a Mind Mark and expected its owner to attack.
• Chang Shiwan returned to the cave and struck at Chen Fei with his saber, while Chen Fei evaded and blocked the attack.
• Chen Fei summoned the Heavy Origin Sword Array and sent sixty sword beads toward Chang Shiwan.

Chen Fei trapped and killed Chang Shiwan with the fused Yuan Chen Sword Canon, then absorbed the remaining spiritual essence from Chang Shiwan’s damaged blade to nourish the Qian Yuan Sword. He turned to the transformed Ghostly Sophora Tree and discovered that its icy defensive domain stopped his attack, leaving him facing a foe with far greater reserves of elemental power.

• Chang Shiwan tried to break out of Chen Fei’s Heavy Origin Sword Array, but its sixty sword beads overwhelmed his attacks and injured his arms.
• Chang Shiwan offered compensation and threatened the Divine Flame Sect’s retaliation, but Chen Fei refused and killed him with the sword array.
• Chen Fei collected Chang Shiwan’s Origin Stones, pills, and damaged blade, then used the Sword Nourishing Art to absorb the blade’s remaining spiritual essence into the Qian Yuan Sword.
• The Ghostly Sophora Tree withdrew its branches and gathered its power into a frigid defensive domain.
• Chen Fei threw a stone at the Ghostly Sophora Tree, but its icy force stopped and shattered the stone before it could reach the tree.

Chen Fei defeated the Ghostly Sophora Tree by combining his sword array with a shadow clone and the Yuan Chen Sword Canon, then claimed the Mystic Spirit Stone and the tree’s essence. As he prepared to leave the cavern, several people arrived outside and stopped after sensing him.

• Chen Fei used the Heavy Origin Sword Array and Refine Sword into Silk to wear down the Ghostly Sophora Tree’s defenses.
• The Ghostly Sophora Tree drew on an object beneath its roots to unleash a burst of power, but the strain cracked its trunk.
• Chen Fei sent out a shadow clone and concentrated the sword array’s power into the Qian Yuan Sword, piercing the Ghostly Sophora Tree and destroying it.
• Chen Fei discovered a large Mystic Spirit Stone beneath the tree and collected it along with the tree’s essence.
• Several people arrived outside the cavern, sensed Chen Fei inside, and stopped without entering.

Chen Fei fled a group of Divine Flame Sect disciples, then searched for the Rat Demon so he could subdue it and use its senses to investigate Baka’s disappearance. He baited the Rat Demon with enhanced Ghostly Sophora Tree sap, but a Leopard Demonic Beast arrived first.

• Chen Fei sensed danger near the karst cave, escaped using Heaven Escaping Movement, and evaded the four Divine Flame Sect disciples pursuing him.
• Chen Fei found the Crimson Fruit Tree toppled and stripped of its essence, then headed for the pool where the Dream-Weaving Lotus had grown to look for the Rat Demon.
• Chen Fei saw disciples from four sects struggling against a demonic plant near the pool, but searched the area for the Rat Demon instead of joining the fight.
• Unable to find the Rat Demon, Chen Fei mixed Ghostly Sophora Tree sap with refined spiritual grass to strengthen its scent and lure the beast.
• A Leopard Demonic Beast approached the bait but stopped several dozen meters from Chen Fei, wary of the danger he posed.

Chen Fei trapped the second-rank Rat Demon, defeated it, and bound it with a Sword Seal. After healing its injuries, he asked it to follow the scent on an ink-black stone and lead him to its owner.

• Chen Fei killed the demonic beasts drawn by the Ghostly Sophora Tree sap as the Rat Demon finally raced toward him.
• The Rat Demon tried to flee, but Chen Fei used the Heavy Origin Sword Array and Shadow Reflection God Slaying Sword to trap and subdue it.
• After wearing the Rat Demon down, Chen Fei demanded its submission and placed a Sword Seal in its Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Fei fed the injured Rat Demon a healing pill and showed it an ink-black stone, asking it to lead him to the owner of the scent.

Chen Fei and the Rat Demon found a poisonous swamp guarded by a massive Earthworm Monster, and Chen Fei fought it while the Rat Demon retrieved a Spiritual Plant. The Rat Demon returned with a lotus, but the Earthworm Monster remained unharmed and the confrontation was unresolved.

• Chen Fei decided to postpone exploring Half-Bottle Mountain and followed the Rat Demon to search for Spiritual Plants that could strengthen Spiritual Power.
• At a poisonous swamp, the Rat Demon provoked the creature below, and Chen Fei severed its attacking tentacle with his sword barrier.
• The Earthworm Monster emerged and attacked Chen Fei, who told the Rat Demon to retrieve the Spiritual Plant while he held the beast off.
• Chen Fei's sword beads shattered the monster's tentacles, but they regenerated, and its hardened shell resisted his attacks.
• Chen Fei blasted the Earthworm Monster's mouth with the Qian Yuan Sword, interrupting its suction, as the Rat Demon returned with a lotus.