Chapter Summaries

After winning the Third Order Secret Realm, Chen Fei secured a larger share for the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and helped establish its presence there. More than half a year later, he remained in seclusion while an assassin watched from a distance, waiting for a chance to kill him.

• Mo Shiyi and his four companions accepted the Sangying Sect's costly commission, which allowed three assassination attempts before a partial refund and termination.
• Qin Haisan proposed doubling the Yuan Chen Sword Sect's share of the Third Order Secret Realm, and the leaders of the other four factions agreed.
• Chen Fei told Qu Qingsheng about the victory, then accepted a spirit-tree root from Tong Zhongqiu and asked Baka to grow it in the secret realm.
• The five allied factions moved into the cleared secret realm, and Baka began cultivating the spirit-tree root there.
• Chen Fei spent more than half a year cultivating the Primordial Profound Art while an assassin watched the Yuan Chen Sword Sect from a hundred li away.

Duanmu Xiao waited outside the Yuan Chen Sword Sect for a chance to assassinate Chen Fei, who remained in seclusion to master the Primordial Profound Art. After the Qian Yuan Sword became a Low-grade Magic Treasure, Chen Fei considered hunting sea demons for resources and a use for his sword essence.

• Duanmu Xiao continued waiting for Chen Fei to leave the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, unwilling to risk entering the sect or provoking its allies.
• Chen Fei focused on reaching Great Perfection in the Primordial Profound Art, whose secret technique could raise his cultivation to the Joint Aperture First Turn.
• A month later, the Qian Yuan Sword transformed from a Top-grade Spirit Artifact into a Low-grade Magic Treasure.
• Chen Fei considered hunting a sea demon to gain resources and avoid wasting the sword essence in his Space Grid.

After the Primordial Profound Art reached Great Perfection, Chen Fei used its secret technique to turn his joint aperture and increase his cultivation. Five days later, he left the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and Duanmu Xiao learned that the year he had spent waiting was over.

• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect flourished as new disciples arrived and its elders advanced with more resources and Chen Fei's shadow clone guiding them.
• Duanmu Xiao waited for Chen Fei to leave seclusion and planned to kill members of the Yuan Chen Sword Sect if he had to wait another two months.
• Chen Fei cultivated the Primordial Profound Art to Great Perfection and compressed his sword essence into a thin, sharply potent thread.
• Chen Fei used the art's secret technique to shatter and stabilize his joint aperture, completing its first turn as World Vital Energy poured into him.
• After five days, Chen Fei left the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and Duanmu Xiao received word that he had finally emerged.

Chen Fei turned the tables on the Sangying Sect assassin Duanmu Xiao, who had followed him into the outer sea, and launched a surprise attack. Duanmu Xiao survived Chen Fei’s opening strikes, but Chen Fei pressed forward with another sword as the fight continued.

• Duanmu Xiao followed Chen Fei through the outer sea and assessed him as a formidable target, planning to attack while he hunted a demonic beast.
• Chen Fei used a hidden clone to draw Duanmu Xiao onward, then erased his aura and slipped back to ambush him.
• Duanmu Xiao sensed danger and tried to retreat, but Chen Fei’s sword essence cut off his escape and surrounded him with sword lights.
• Duanmu Xiao used the Blood Demon Blade to repel Chen Fei’s first Mind Skill attacks, but their clash briefly disrupted his movement.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had reached the Joint Aperture First Turn and struck with the Qian Yuan Sword, which Duanmu Xiao blocked using Circling Sword Softness.
• Chen Fei stepped forward and thrust again, attaching the sword essence within the Space Grid to the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei defeated Duanmu Xiao, captured him, and kept him under interrogation, but Duanmu Xiao escaped while Chen Fei was drawn away. Duanmu Xiao tried to retrieve supplies before returning to the Sangying Sect, unaware that Chen Fei was watching him through the Dream Entering Art.

• Chen Fei overwhelmed Duanmu Xiao with the Qian Yuan Sword, knocked him unconscious, and took him to a cave to question him.
• Chen Fei repeatedly attacked Duanmu Xiao's mind with Shadow Reflection Mysterious Sword Slaying, while Duanmu Xiao hid his identity and slowly recovered.
• When a battle drew Chen Fei away from the cave, Duanmu Xiao escaped, hid on an island, and healed his injuries.
• Duanmu Xiao decided to return to the Sangying Sect for help and flew to Bohai City to retrieve medicinal pills he had stored there.
• As Duanmu Xiao opened the iron chest, Chen Fei watched his actions from beyond the heavens using the Dream Entering Art.

Chen Fei used the incomplete Dream Entering Art to make the injured Duanmu Xiao reveal his memories of the Sangying Sect headquarters and report his failed assassination mission. The dream ended with Duanmu Xiao learning that a Peak Joint Aperture Realm expert had attacked the headquarters, prompting him to flee Hailin City and retrieve his hidden belongings.

• Chen Fei placed Duanmu Xiao in a dream and accelerated time as Duanmu Xiao used his stored medicines to recover enough to travel.
• Duanmu Xiao went to Hailin City and followed a secret route into the Sangying Sect headquarters, where he reported that Chen Fei could not be killed by anyone below the Mid Joint Aperture Realm.
• Duanmu Xiao exaggerated Chen Fei's strength, and the black shadow accepted his report and disappeared.
• Chen Fei caused a Peak Joint Aperture Realm expert to attack the Sangying Sect headquarters in Duanmu Xiao's dream.
• Duanmu Xiao waited until the attacker had left, then departed Hailin City to retrieve his belongings stored at Sangying Sect branches.

Chen Fei used the Dream Entering Art to make Duanmu Xiao reveal the locations of his hidden wealth, then killed him and collected the resources. After reviewing Duanmu Xiao’s martial arts and cultivation inheritances, Chen Fei disguised himself and went to a Sangying Sect branch.

• Chen Fei ground away the spiritual imprint on Duanmu Xiao’s Universe Bag, waking him and revealing that his escape and recovery had only happened in a dream.
• Duanmu Xiao realized Chen Fei had used the Dream Entering Art, lamented that he had exposed his hidden possessions, and died when Chen Fei struck him with sword essence.
• Chen Fei fed Duanmu Xiao’s spiritual essence to the Qian Yuan Sword and flew out to collect his hidden resources.
• Chen Fei gathered Spirit Stones, cultivation pills, healing medicines, a damaged Low-grade Magic Treasure, and jade slips from nearly six locations over five days.
• Chen Fei reviewed Duanmu Xiao’s cultivation arts, considered the Shadow Clone Substitute, and kept the useful inheritances for the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.
• Chen Fei concealed his aura and appearance and entered a Sangying Sect branch in Muwan City.

Chen Fei impersonated Duanmu Xiao at a Sangying Sect branch and traced the secret chain guarding the identity of the person who ordered his assassination. After following the trail to an employer contact, he waited in Xuanlin City and recognized Jiang Liulin as he arrived.

• Chen Fei used Duanmu Xiao’s copper token and hand seals to pose as the assassin Black Liao at a Sangying Sect branch.
• Chen Fei requested a higher commission to provoke the branch representative and used the Dream Entering Art to observe the report and remember the next intermediary’s aura.
• Chen Fei followed the information through several Sangying Sect members and found the Peak Aperture Refining Realm official who could view assignment details.
• Chen Fei placed a secret message for the employer in a nearby city, then waited three hours at a Wine House in Xuanlin City.
• Jiang Liulin entered the Wine House, saw Chen Fei, and froze in recognition.

Chen Fei uncovered that Jiang Liulin had arranged his assassination for the Divine Water Sect and confronted Miao Wanhong at the sect gates. He challenged Miao Wanhong to a blood battle, leaving the two sects on the brink of combat.

• Chen Fei captured Jiang Liulin at a restaurant and used his power to uncover Jiang Liulin’s ties to the Divine Water Sect and the Sangying Sect’s assassination plot.
• Chen Fei brought Jiang Liulin to the Divine Water Sect, where Miao Wanhong recognized Chen Fei’s sword intent and summoned Mo Shiyi and three allies.
• Miao Wanhong denied knowing Jiang Liulin, abandoning his disciple despite Jiang Liulin’s years of service to the Divine Water Sect.
• Chen Fei presented Miao Wanhong with a challenge, and the envelope burst into a sword-like scar across the sky.
• Chen Fei announced that he wanted to settle the dispute through a blood battle.

Chen Fei challenged Miao Wanhong to a blood battle and demanded five hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones after exposing the Divine Water Sect’s role in hiring the Sangying Sect. Miao Wanhong admitted he could not win, but Mo Shiyi proposed lending him the Mysterious Origin Pearl so the five conspirators could empower him before the fight.

• Chen Fei challenged Miao Wanhong to a blood battle in ten days and demanded five hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Mo Shiyi arrived at the Divine Water Sect, learned Chen Fei knew about the Sangying Sect, and joined Miao Wanhong in discussing the challenge.
• Hu Yanwu, Meng Heng, and the other conspirators arrived, and Miao Wanhong said he would refuse to enter the arena unless they shared the cost.
• Mo Shiyi warned that paying could invite Chen Fei to challenge them one by one, then proposed that Miao Wanhong accept the challenge.
• Mo Shiyi offered Miao Wanhong the Mysterious Origin Pearl and said the four others would pour their power into it before the blood battle.

After Miao Wanhong refused to use the Mysterious Origin Pearl, Mo Shiyi recruited Zhu Guannu to fight Chen Fei in the blood battle. Chen Fei revealed that he had reached the first rotation, while Zhu Guannu accepted the offer and vowed to kill him.

• Miao Wanhong rejected using the Mysterious Origin Pearl, so Mo Shiyi proposed finding a Guest Official to fight Chen Fei in his place.
• Mo Shiyi suggested Zhu Guannu, a ruthless first-rotation cultivator whose combat strength exceeded his realm, and the others agreed to approach him.
• Chen Fei told Qin Haisan and the others that the Divine Water Sect had hired assassins to kill him, and Qin Haisan recorded Jiang Liulin's testimony in a jade slip.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had reached the first rotation, stunning Qin Haisan, Tong Zhongqiu, and the others.
• Mo Shiyi offered Zhu Guannu five hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones to fight Chen Fei, and Zhu Guannu accepted after demanding that Chen Fei be killed.

With his deadly battle against the Divine Water Sect only days away, Chen Fei refined a third-tier Heart Anomaly origin and mastered Shadow Clone Substitute. By fusing it with Heaven Escaping Movement, he greatly improved his movement speed as he prepared for the fight.

• News spread across Haifeng Domain that Chen Fei had challenged the Divine Water Sect to a bloody battle over the Sangying Sect’s assassination.
• Chen Fei refined a third-tier Heart Anomaly origin using his five-layer Heart Refining Array without suffering contamination.
• Chen Fei practiced Shadow Clone Substitute and raised it to Great Perfection, though he found it could only block attacks at the Aperture Refining Realm level.
• Chen Fei fused Shadow Clone Substitute with the shadow clone of Heaven Escaping Movement and discovered that the combination increased his movement speed by roughly thirty percent.

Chen Fei prepared for his blood battle against Zhu Guannu, whose strength Mo Shiyi boosted with the Mysterious Origin Pearl. When Zhu Guannu charged, Chen Fei used his fused Shadow Clone Substitute to move an astonishing distance, leaving everyone stunned.

• Chen Fei tested the Shadow Clone Substitute and found that merging with his shadow clone greatly improved his movement, then continued cultivating the Primordial Profound Art fused with the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword.
• Several days later, Chen Fei and his companions arrived at the blood battle arena in Haiguang City, where Zhu Guannu appeared as the Divine Water Sect's representative.
• Bi Zhongxun confirmed that both Chen Fei and Zhu Guannu had reached the Joint Aperture First Turn, surprising their companions and changing Zhu Guannu's expectations for the fight.
• Mo Shiyi used the Mysterious Origin Pearl to grant Zhu Guannu power equivalent to two Joint Aperture Realm cultivators, damaging the pearl's spirituality in the process.
• Inside the arena, Zhu Guannu rushed toward Chen Fei at high speed, but Chen Fei merged with his shadow and reappeared one li away, astonishing Zhu Guannu and the onlookers.

Chen Fei used his improved movement technique to evade Zhu Guannu and wait for the Mysterious Origin Pearl’s power to fade. Zhu Guannu swallowed a Mid-grade Spirit Stone to accelerate and force a fight, and the chapter ended as Chen Fei’s Shadow Reflection Mysterious Sword Slaying reached Zhu Guannu’s Sea of Consciousness and his jade pendant lit up.

• Chen Fei’s speed surprised Zhu Guannu, Mo Shiyi, and the others, as his movement technique now surpassed Zhu Guannu’s.
• Zhu Guannu pursued Chen Fei while the Mysterious Origin Pearl’s power rapidly dissipated, but Chen Fei refused to fight before it weakened further.
• Zhu Guannu swallowed a Mid-grade Spirit Stone, then used the resulting surge of power to close in on Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei stopped evading as Zhu Guannu prepared a decisive blade strike at close range.
• Chen Fei unleashed Shadow Reflection Mysterious Sword Slaying, but Zhu Guannu’s blade origin energy shattered most of the sword lights before they reached his Sea of Consciousness, where his jade pendant began to glow.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Zhu Guannu with relentless Mind Skills, then struck through his defenses and forced him to unleash three forbidden arts. Their final clash left Zhu Guannu gravely wounded in a crater and Chen Fei standing with a self-inflicted wound, as Zhu Guannu began recovering.

• Zhu Guannu’s Mind Jade shield shattered under Chen Fei’s successive sword lights, and Zhu Guannu struggled to control the unstable blade force granted by the Mysterious Origin Pearl.
• Zhu Guannu shattered the bronze bell in his mind to suppress Chen Fei’s weaker sword lights, but Chen Fei followed with an original Sword Slaying Profound that pierced Zhu Guannu’s mind and sent his power spiraling out of control.
• Chen Fei advanced on the injured Zhu Guannu, who activated the Star Shifting Technique, Heart Breaking Art, and Aperture Splitting Art to unleash one overwhelming strike.
• Chen Fei met Zhu Guannu’s strike with the Qian Yuan Sword, and the collision blasted Zhu Guannu into a crater while leaving Chen Fei standing with a wound he had inflicted on himself.
• Zhu Guannu began rapidly recovering in the crater and looked up at Chen Fei in confusion.

Chen Fei killed Zhu Guannu in the Blood Battle Arena and collected the promised Spirit Stones, strengthening his reputation and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect. Back at Tingfeng Courtyard, he cultivated with the spoils and discovered the Profound Forging Treasure Art, a body-tempering technique that could make the body as powerful as a Magic Treasure.

• Chen Fei reviewed Zhu Guannu’s life through the Dream Entering Art, then killed him and claimed his Universe Bag and two Low-grade Magic Treasures.
• Chen Fei left the Blood Battle Arena, and Miao Wanhong handed over the promised five hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Mo Shiyi and the other factions left to consider how to face Chen Fei’s expected challenges, while news of his victory spread across Haiguang City and the Haifeng Domain.
• More people sought to join the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and Chen Fei used Third-order Mid-grade Pills to advance his cultivation.
• Chen Fei examined a jade slip from Zhu Guannu’s Universe Bag and found the Profound Forging Treasure Art, a technique for tempering the body to the might of a Magic Treasure.

After killing Zhu Guannu, Chen Fei obtained the Profound Forging Treasure Art and fused it with the Dragon Subduing Elephant. Meanwhile, Mo Shiyi and the other sect leaders plotted to kill Chen Fei while he was injured, and Chen Fei learned of their plans through the Sangying Sect.

• Chen Fei examined Zhu Guannu’s memories, learned how the Profound Forging Treasure Art had strengthened his body, and decided the technique could complement the Dragon Subduing Elephant.
• Chen Fei fused the Profound Forging Treasure Art with the Dragon Subduing Elephant.
• Mo Shiyi and the other four leaders discussed taking advantage of Chen Fei’s injuries, and they pressed the Sangying Sect to lure him into the outer sea or send a Mid Joint Aperture Realm assassin.
• Mo Shiyi ordered his hidden agents to monitor Qin Haisan and the others in case Chen Fei went to the outer sea without them.
• Chen Fei received a message through Duanmu Xiao’s jade stone and learned that the Sangying Sect was waiting for him to lure Chen Fei out or have a Mid Joint Aperture Realm assassin take over the mission.

Mo Shiyi and the leaders of several factions prepared to ambush Chen Fei in the outer sea, while Chen Fei rapidly advanced through intensive cultivation. The chapter ends as Mo Shiyi encountered the hooded Sangying Sect assassin on an uninhabited island.

• Mo Shiyi learned that the Sangying Sect’s assassin would lure Chen Fei into the outer sea, but hiring an additional Mid Joint Aperture Realm expert would cost more than the factions could afford.
• Mo Shiyi urged Meng Heng and the others to use all their hidden trump cards when they confronted Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei spent half a month consuming large quantities of Third-order Mid-grade Pills, rapidly improving his cultivation and continuing to strengthen his physique through Dragon Subduing Elephant.
• The Sangying Sect reported that Chen Fei would leave the Yuan Chen Sword Sect within days, then sent Mo Shiyi and the others a location in the outer sea.
• Mo Shiyi and the other faction leaders checked that Qin Haisan and the other three remained in their sects, then secretly traveled to the outer sea and dispersed.
• Mo Shiyi met a hooded, aura-concealing figure holding the blade identified as the Sangying Sect assassin’s.

Chen Fei impersonated a Sangying Sect assassin and lured Mo Shiyi away from the others before revealing himself and launching a forbidden-art-enhanced sword strike. Mo Shiyi died in the attack, while Hu Yanwu and the others rushed toward the distant explosion.

• Chen Fei passed Mo Shiyi’s identity checks by posing as a Sangying Sect assassin and claimed Chen Fei would soon arrive at the ambush site.
• When no target appeared, Chen Fei said the target was testing them, gave Mo Shiyi a Breath Jade, and led him away from the others.
• Chen Fei brought Mo Shiyi far enough from the group, then turned and attacked him at close range.
• Chen Fei used the Aperture Splitting Art and unleashed a sword strike layered with stored sword essence and several forbidden arts.
• Mo Shiyi died in the attack, and Hu Yanwu and the other three sensed the Linked Jade crack as they hurried toward the explosion.

After Mo Shiyi’s sudden death, Hu Yanwu and the surviving allies fled and decided to cancel their Sangying Sect contract rather than continue fighting Chen Fei. Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect with Mo Shiyi’s damaged treasures and planned to challenge the three remaining sects in blood battles.

• Hu Yanwu and the other three retreated to the Haifeng Domain after Mo Shiyi died, fearing a Mid Joint Aperture Realm opponent might be involved.
• Miao Wanhong suggested staying within their sects and relying on the Sangying Sect, but Hu Yanwu suspected its assassin had contributed to Mo Shiyi’s death.
• Meng Heng proposed canceling the assassination mission and easing tensions with Chen Fei, and Hu Yanwu agreed despite the contract-breaking fee.
• Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect with Mo Shiyi’s damaged Mysterious Origin Pearl, blade, and Universe Bag, and decided to challenge the three remaining sects in blood battles.
• The Sangying Sect informed Duanmu Xiao that the mission to assassinate Chen Fei had been canceled and offered fifty Mid-grade Spirit Stones in compensation.