Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei strengthened his techniques and reputation, defeated the remaining sects in blood battles, and advanced toward the Second Stage Joint Aperture Realm. The chapter ended when Tong Zhongqiu told him that the passage to Xianyun City had been exposed and people from the Endless Sea had begun traveling there.

• Chen Fei spent two months mastering the Star Shifting Technique and Heart Breaking Art, then hunted and killed a peak early Third Order octopus demon in the outer sea.
• Chen Fei tested all four Great Perfection forbidden arts together and found they could unleash immense power for only one or two strikes at the risk of severe injury.
• Chen Fei's demonic beast hunt raised his and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect's prestige, while news of Mo Shiyi's death caused Piaoyun Sect to fall to fifth-tier status.
• Chen Fei challenged Hu Yanwu and the other two sects to blood battles, and they conceded, giving him a total of 1,500 Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Fei cultivated the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword and Azure Firmament Art, bringing his cultivation close to the Second Stage Joint Aperture Realm.
• Tong Zhongqiu told Chen Fei that the Ghost City had vanished and exposed the passage, and two months later Chen Fei reached the peak of the First Stage Joint Aperture Realm.

Chen Fei reached the Second Rotation Joint Aperture Realm and continued cultivating while reports from beyond the passage hinted at danger and a hidden treasure beneath the imperial city. The chapter ended with Tong Zhongqiu telling Chen Fei that a shattered spirit treasure lay beneath the imperial city.

• Chen Fei quietly broke through to the Second Rotation Joint Aperture Realm and tested the increased power of his sword moves and movement techniques.
• Chen Fei continued cultivating in Haifeng Domain while the Piaoyun Sect struggled with uncertainty after losing its Joint Aperture Realm expert.
• Aperture Refining Realm cultivators returned from Xianyun City after finding its vital energy thin, while the Divine Flame Sect allowed the passage to remain open.
• Tong Zhongqiu told Chen Fei that a Joint Aperture Realm cultivator had been injured near the imperial city while investigating something.
• Chen Fei stabilized his second turn and spent half a year advancing toward the third turn as the Primordial Shadow Severing Sword neared Great Perfection.
• Tong Zhongqiu visited Chen Fei and reported that a shattered spirit treasure lay beneath the imperial city.

Chen Fei learned that Yan Xuanji had shattered the imperial city to reveal a spiritual treasure fused with the earth, which might become accessible during the next Spirit Tide. As the Spirit Tide approached, Chen Fei returned to Xianyun City with Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan, hoping to seek the Spiritual Charm scattered from the treasure.

• Tong Zhongqiu told Chen Fei that the imperial city's recurring Spirit Tides came from a shattered spiritual treasure beneath it.
• Tong Zhongqiu reported that Yan Xuanji had broken the imperial city's formation and cleaved the city open, but the spiritual treasure remained fused with the earth and could not be removed.
• Tong Zhongqiu explained that the next Spirit Tide, three months away, could create a brief chance to pry the treasure loose and scatter Spiritual Charm.
• Chen Fei decided that the Spiritual Charm's traces of Mountain Sea Realm mysteries were worth pursuing, though he could not compete for the treasure itself.
• After two months, Chen Fei, Tong Zhongqiu, and Qin Haisan crossed the passage from the Haifeng Domain and returned to Xianyun City.

Chen Fei, Qin Haisan, and Tong Zhongqiu headed toward the imperial capital to pursue the Spiritual Charm, avoiding a detour to Xianyun City. On the way, they found that Shangwu City had vanished and learned that Netherworld Gate experts were hunting True Lord Xilian, whom Chen Fei sensed was still alive.

• Zhao Tianxuan and Yu Shoucheng chose not to join the pursuit, judging the gathering of stronger Joint Aperture Realm cultivators too dangerous.
• Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu joined Chen Fei, each hoping to use the Spiritual Charm for a different purpose.
• Tong Zhongqiu declined to visit Xianyun City because of the risk of encountering Jian Jinsheng, and the three flew toward the imperial capital instead.
• Chen Fei stopped above Shangwu City and saw that the city had disappeared, leaving only blackish-brown soil.
• Tong Zhongqiu reported that Netherworld Gate experts were pursuing True Lord Xilian, and Chen Fei used Judgment Eye to determine that Xilian was still alive.

Chen Fei used his Heavenly Eye to follow True Lord Xilian’s lingering aura while Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu accompanied him. After hours of searching, he located the Human Anomaly at the Tongtian River, where an eye opened inside a pebble.

• Chen Fei explained how Duanmu Xiao’s Judgment Eye worked and why he had sought to see Chen Fei before their fight.
• Chen Fei learned that True Lord Xilian had escaped Netherworld Gate’s pursuit and asked Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu to help find him.
• Chen Fei activated his enhanced Heavenly Eye and followed a faint trace of True Lord Xilian’s aura, stopping periodically to conserve his mental energy.
• After hours of searching, Chen Fei tracked True Lord Xilian to the Tongtian River, a hundred li from the ruins of Shangwu City.
• An entirely white eyeball with a needlepoint pupil opened inside a pebble beneath the Tongtian River.

Chen Fei exposed True Lord Xilian’s concealment and attacked him in the Tongtian River, revealing his Second Rotation Joint Aperture Realm cultivation. After Xilian tried to bargain and escaped through a false phantom, Chen Fei struck again and uncovered a sinister black figure.

• Chen Fei detected True Lord Xilian hiding in the Tongtian River, and Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu sealed the area with formations.
• Chen Fei unleashed his full strength and struck True Lord Xilian, forcing him to appear behind a seal that absorbed and rebounded some of the attack.
• True Lord Xilian recognized Chen Fei from Shangwu City and offered his concealment inheritance in exchange for being released.
• Chen Fei used a beam of light to expose Xilian’s distant position, while the figure before the group dissolved as a false phantom.
• As Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu moved to pursue, Chen Fei struck in the opposite direction and revealed a pitch-black figure with Xilian’s aura.

Chen Fei discovered that True Lord Xilian had offered him a fake cultivation art and attacked him despite their bargain. True Lord Xilian was driven back under Chen Fei’s assault, his aura weakening as the fight continued.

• Chen Fei learned that True Lord Xilian’s Three Lives Wonderful Flower could lead toward the Mountain Sea Realm, and agreed to spare him in exchange for the inheritance and seal.
• True Lord Xilian gave Chen Fei a jade slip containing a false version of the cultivation art and prepared to leave the seal behind fifty li away.
• Chen Fei’s panel identified the jade slip’s art as false, so he pursued True Lord Xilian and struck him with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Qin Haisan and his companion blocked True Lord Xilian’s retreat as Chen Fei accused him of breaking their agreement.
• Chen Fei attacked repeatedly, overpowering True Lord Xilian’s damaged seal and weakening him with successive blows.

Chen Fei killed True Lord Xilian, shared the refined spiritual essence and an incomplete Three Lives Wonderful Flower technique with Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu, then traveled with them to the ruins of the imperial city. As they approached a market gathered near the damaged spiritual treasure, it began to tremble in resonance with Chen Fei’s Dragon Elephant Nexus.

• True Lord Xilian tried to provoke Chen Fei into doubting his heart oath, then attempted to unleash his anomalous nature and take someone down with him.
• Chen Fei sent Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu away from True Lord Xilian, then used the Shadow Reflection Mysterious Sword Slaying to expose True Lord Xilian’s human mind and prevent his transformation from erupting.
• Chen Fei killed True Lord Xilian and refined his remains into spiritual essence, dividing it among himself, Qin Haisan, and Tong Zhongqiu.
• Chen Fei copied the incomplete Three Lives Wonderful Flower technique for Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu, kept the jade seal, and left with them for the imperial city ruins.
• Chen Fei, Qin Haisan, and Tong Zhongqiu arrived near the imperial city and approached a market where Joint Aperture Realm experts had gathered.
• The damaged spiritual treasure trembled, and Chen Fei sensed that his Dragon Elephant Nexus was resonating with it.

Chen Fei learned that the major powers had barred outsiders from the area within ten miles of the spirit treasure, and that Teng Daoxuan had been badly injured in an ambush. After finding no useful cultivation arts at a stall, Chen Fei offered several of his own for sale, drawing the stall owner’s interest in the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword.

• Chen Fei learned that the spirit treasure stirred several times a day and that the major powers had divided up the area within ten miles of it.
• The stall owner warned Chen Fei to avoid the southeast because Teng Daoxuan of Horizon Sect had been ambushed and badly injured.
• Chen Fei examined the stall owner’s cultivation arts but found none that suited him.
• Chen Fei offered the Primordial Profound Art, the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword, the Azure Firmament Art, and the Sword Slaying Profound for sale.
• The stall owner examined Chen Fei’s jade slips and focused his attention on the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword.

Chen Fei sold the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword to a stall owner for one hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones, then went with Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu to observe the damaged spiritual treasure. When its fragments resonated with the Dragon Elephant Nexus, Chen Fei realized the treasure was connected to him, but powerful cultivators guarded it.

• Chen Fei demonstrated the Splitting Light Severing Shadow Sword and negotiated its price with a stall owner.
• The stall owner verified the complete technique and paid Chen Fei one hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chen Fei tried to sell techniques at other stalls but found few interested buyers and no worthwhile items to purchase.
• Chen Fei, Qin Haisan, and Tong Zhongqiu left the market and observed the spiritual treasure from beyond the forbidden area.
• The spiritual treasure fragments resonated with Chen Fei's Dragon Elephant Nexus, convincing him that the damaged treasure was connected to him.

Chen Fei waited with Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu for a damaged Spirit Treasure to emerge, while struggling with the danger of trying to claim it. He reorganized the incomplete Three Lives Wonderful Flower into the Three Lives Shadow Severing Sword, then watched the Spirit Tide arrive as cultivators gathered around the treasure.

• Chen Fei judged that his Early Joint Aperture Realm strength left him little chance of taking the Spirit Treasure or escaping with it, so he withdrew to a nearby mountain with Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu.
• Chen Fei used the incomplete Three Lives Wonderful Flower to create the Three Lives Shadow Severing Sword, a movement technique that could split into past and future phantoms alongside his true body.
• Chen Fei cultivated the new technique while Qin Haisan and Tong Zhongqiu monitored the area, where returning cultivators and frequent clashes made the atmosphere increasingly tense.
• Qin Haisan reported that a Late Joint Aperture Realm elder of the Horizon Sect had gone after the Early Joint Aperture Realm cultivator who ambushed Teng Daoxuan, while Tong Zhongqiu noted that two members of the Zhao Family were nearby.
• The Spirit Tide arrived, and factions gathered within ten miles of the Spirit Treasure as other cultivators, including Mid and Late Joint Aperture Realm experts, formed a ring beyond them.

As the sixteen Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators pried the shattered spiritual treasure from its pit, a sealed Black Mist erupted and trapped everyone nearby. The Dragon Elephant Nexus led the treasure to Chen Fei, who stored it after repelling True Lord Tianyang's ambush.

• The sixteen Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators attacked the spiritual treasure's fractured weak points after the Spirit Tide passed.
• The spiritual treasure came free, scattering Spiritual Charm, and the Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators began fighting over it.
• A black orb burst above the pit, filling the area with Black Mist that compressed everyone's senses and trapped Chen Fei.
• The Dragon Elephant Nexus trembled violently, tearing open the Black Mist and drawing the broken ruler spiritual treasure to Chen Fei.
• True Lord Tianyang ambushed Chen Fei, but Chen Fei blocked his blade and blasted him back with sword essence.
• Chen Fei stored the spiritual treasure inside his spatial grid.

Chen Fei concealed the spirit treasure in his Space Grid, killed the wounded True Lord Tianyang, and erased their traces before escaping. The sixteen Peak Joint Aperture Realm experts arrived too late to find the treasure, and Gong Jianlan’s tracking art revealed no useful clues.

• Chen Fei stored the spirit treasure in his Space Grid and severely wounded True Lord Tianyang when Tianyang attacked him.
• True Lord Tianyang used Void Escape to hide, but Chen Fei found and killed him before the secret art could restore his strength.
• Chen Fei erased the traces and auras with the Qian Yuan Sword, took True Lord Tianyang’s blade and Universe Bag, and fled.
• The sixteen Peak Joint Aperture Realm experts reached the site and discovered that the spirit treasure’s aura had vanished.
• Gong Jianlan used the Phoenix Dance Pavilion’s phoenix eye but could not recover the erased traces, and the experts’ other secret arts also failed.

Chen Fei followed the Heavenly Eye through the Black Mist, collected Spiritual Charm, and discovered the anomaly’s phantoms could be struck by Spiritual Power. Near the edge of the mist, he encountered Jian Jinsheng in the midst of a demonic deviation, and Jian Jinsheng appeared before him.

• Chen Fei used the Heavenly Eye to find a route through the Black Mist and evaded Gong Jianlan and other Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators searching for the spiritual treasure.
• Chen Fei found Spiritual Charm and defeated the phantoms guarding it with sword lights from his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chen Fei considered using the Heart Refining Array on the anomaly but chose to leave the Black Mist instead.
• Chen Fei followed the Heavenly Eye toward the outskirts and saw Jian Jinsheng kneeling beside a corpse as Black Mist entered his body.
• Jian Jinsheng raised his blackened eyes, vanished, and appeared before Chen Fei.

Chen Fei overpowered the demonic-deviation-stricken Jian Jinsheng, but Jiang Xiuming intervened before Chen Fei could kill him. Jiang Xiuming offered to cure Jian Jinsheng if he could sense a spirit treasure and ordered Chen Fei to help search for it.

• Chen Fei fought Jian Jinsheng and recognized that accumulated mental contamination had driven him into demonic deviation.
• Chen Fei used two forbidden arts to overwhelm Jian Jinsheng, tearing through the Black Mist and wounding him badly.
• The injury briefly restored Jian Jinsheng's clarity, and he recognized Chen Fei as the former Aperture Refining Realm cultivator from the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.
• Jiang Xiuming, the Heavenly Saber Sect's Grand Elder, stopped Chen Fei from killing Jian Jinsheng and asked whether he could sense a spirit treasure.
• Jiang Xiuming promised to remove Jian Jinsheng's mental contamination if he helped locate the spirit treasure, then ordered Chen Fei to stay by his side and assist in the search.

Jiang Xiuming forced Chen Fei and Jian Jinsheng to help search the shrinking Black Mist for the spiritual treasure, but they found only Spiritual Charm. After the mist receded and the gathered cultivators revealed no trace of the treasure, the Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators left to guard the passage, and Chen Fei turned his attention to the corrupted Jian Jinsheng.

• Jiang Xiuming ordered Chen Fei and Jian Jinsheng to help search for the spiritual treasure, and Chen Fei agreed to avoid attracting suspicion.
• Jiang Xiuming cleared the Black Mist from Jian Jinsheng's consciousness, and Jian Jinsheng used the mist to sense the treasure's aura but found only Spiritual Charm.
• Jiang Xiuming and Gong Jianlan took Chen Fei and Jian Jinsheng out of the shrinking Black Mist and kept them near while cultivators were gathered and watched.
• After three hours, the Black Mist stopped shrinking, and Gong Jianlan rescued the remaining cultivators trapped inside.
• The sixteen Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators found no sign of the spiritual treasure among the gathered people and eventually left to guard the passage.
• Chen Fei looked at Jian Jinsheng, whose mind was again clouded by the Black Mist.

Jian Jinsheng recovered from demonic corruption and surrendered his cultivation arts, Magic Treasure, and Universe Bag to Chen Fei in exchange for his life. After Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan pursued Jian Jinsheng, Chen Fei stayed behind to study the damaged spiritual treasure and continue improving his cultivation art.

• Jian Jinsheng recognized that Chen Fei was far stronger than him and explained how the Heart Anomaly Realm’s contamination had led to his demonic corruption.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan arrived, and Tong Zhongqiu realized Jian Jinsheng’s corruption was too deep for him to recover.
• Chen Fei demanded Jian Jinsheng’s cultivation arts, Magic Treasure, and Universe Bag, and Jian Jinsheng recorded his arts in a jade slip and swore a Heart Dao Oath.
• Chen Fei inspected the Withered Prosperity Scripture and Heart Intent Sword, then accepted Jian Jinsheng’s Universe Bag and sword as Jian Jinsheng departed.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan pursued the wounded Jian Jinsheng while Chen Fei stayed behind to examine the damaged spiritual treasure inside his Space Grid.

Chen Fei refined material from the Black Mist into a mysterious black stone, then overheard Sui Minghua, Xu Hualu, and Jia Wenbing plotting to seize his Universe Bag and Black God Bead. He killed Jia Wenbing and fought the other two, leaving one of them fleeing into the distance.

• Chen Fei used a seven-layered Heart Refining Array to refine the Black Mist phantoms into a black stone, but he could not tell whether it was safe to use.
• Chen Fei noticed Sui Minghua, Xu Hualu, and Jia Wenbing watching him, then entered the Black Mist as the three disappeared.
• Sui Minghua, Xu Hualu, and Jia Wenbing discussed killing Chen Fei and taking his Universe Bag to reclaim the Black God Bead.
• Chen Fei suddenly appeared beside the three men and killed Jia Wenbing with the Three Lives Shadow Severing Sword.
• Chen Fei fought Sui Minghua and Xu Hualu, and one of them fled after the battle's explosions abruptly stopped.

Chen Fei pursued and killed Sui Minghua inside Misty Mountain, then used the Dream Entering Art to learn of a Secret Treasure in the Endless Sea. He returned to the imperial city’s vicinity and found Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan back as well.

• Chen Fei killed two of Sui Minghua’s companions and chased Sui Minghua into Misty Mountain despite his desperate flight.
• Sui Minghua hid underground by merging with a Second-tier Anomaly, but Chen Fei used the Heavenly Eye to locate him and struck him down.
• Chen Fei killed Sui Minghua and took his possessions, including two Black God Beads.
• Before Sui Minghua died, Chen Fei used the Dream Entering Art and learned about a Secret Treasure in the Endless Sea.
• Chen Fei returned to the imperial city’s vicinity and found Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan there, with Tong Zhongqiu injured but smiling.

After Jian Jinsheng’s death, Chen Fei discovered that black stones refined from a fourth-tier anomaly could strengthen Magic Treasures, though they carried hidden contamination. He used the stones to improve the Qian Yuan Sword and continued refining more from the anomaly, leaving the sword approaching the upper boundary of a Low-grade Magic Treasure.

• Jian Jinsheng died after Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haisan joined forces with Chen Fei to defeat him.
• Tong Zhongqiu thanked Chen Fei and Qin Haisan for helping him eliminate the threat to the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, then returned to Haifeng Domain with Qin Haisan.
• Chen Fei tested a black stone from the fourth-tier anomaly on Jian Jinsheng’s sword and found that it improved the blade but left hidden filth behind.
• Chen Fei refined another black stone from the anomaly and fused it into the Qian Yuan Sword, then used the Spirit Slaughter Technique to remove its contamination.
• Chen Fei used the Spiritual Charm to draw more shadows from Black Mist and fed another black stone into the Qian Yuan Sword, pushing it toward the limit of a Low-grade Magic Treasure.