Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei used the Broken Ruler to break through Yan Liu’s Demon King power and kill him, then destroyed the evidence and escaped with Peng Huai Tao and the others. Yan Xie sensed the death of a descendant and left to investigate, while sea demons near Feng Hu City encountered a newly arrived figure.

• Chen Fei used the Broken Ruler to resist Yan Liu’s Demon King power, spotted flaws in Yan Liu’s control, and forced his way through the suppression.
• Chen Fei struck Yan Liu with the Six Gates Forbidden Technique, killing him as the uncontrolled Demon King power confined and crushed his attack.
• Chen Fei destroyed Yan Liu’s body and iron hammer, took useful items from the Universe Bags, and caught up with Peng Huai Tao and the others.
• Chen Fei used the Dream Entering Art to erase what Peng Huai Tao and the other two had witnessed, then hurried away with them.
• Yan Xie sensed that one of his descendants had died and vanished from his cave to investigate.
• Third Order sea demons near Feng Hu City felt an unseen figure’s arrival and fell onto the sea.

Yan Xie failed to track Chen Fei after Chen Fei killed Yan Liu, while Chen Fei escaped sea demon territory with Peng Huai Tao and two others. As Chen Fei flew toward Thousand Feathers City, a swarm of Paper Figures appeared and pursued them.

• Yan Xie searched the scene, traced the remains of Yan Liu's weapon, and used Soul Imprints to identify the human who killed Yan Liu, but he could not track that person.
• Chen Fei led Peng Huai Tao and the others a thousand miles away, crossed into the Ni Feng Sea Region, and headed for Thousand Feathers City to claim the Heavenly Gang Lingzhi.
• Chen Fei sent his avatar toward Haifeng Domain while continuing toward the city with the three rescued people.
• Chen Fei sensed an eerie ripple and tried to avoid it, but a Paper Figure pursued them as more than a hundred Paper Figures appeared around an emptied city.
• Chen Fei formed a giant sword around the group and used Mysterious Sky Evasion to flee before the Paper Figures' ripple reached its peak.

Chen Fei rescued Peng Huai Tao and his two companions from the sea demons and returned to Thousand Feathers City, where he received heavenly gang lingzhi. After hearing that anomalies were appearing more often and the Netherworld Gate had suffered heavy losses, he entered the Heart Anomaly Realm to gather heart anomaly essence before condensing his second flower, where he witnessed a late third-tier heart anomaly abruptly vanish.

• Chen Fei repeatedly forced Mysterious Sky Evasion to carry Peng Huai Tao and the other two away from the paper figures until they reached Thousand Feathers City.
• Chen Fei delivered Peng Huai Tao and his companions to Peng Xu Ming, then collected two Jade Boxes containing heavenly gang lingzhi from the Mission Hall.
• Tong Linyun told Chen Fei that anomalies were appearing more often and that Netherworld Gate disciples had suffered heavy losses fighting them.
• Chen Fei decided to condense the flower of spirit and entered the Heart Anomaly Realm to collect origin essence as a reserve.
• Chen Fei found a late third-tier heart anomaly, watched it rapidly weaken itself, and then saw it vanish.

Chen Fei discovered that Heart Anomalies might be entering the Thousand Feathers Alliance from the Heart Anomaly Realm, then refined an anomaly source and used rare materials to condense his second Spirit Flower. He reached the Eighth Turn Joint Aperture Realm and stood at the threshold of the Peak Joint Aperture Realm.

• Chen Fei saw a Third Order Heart Anomaly vanish through a tear in space and suspected that resentment or a ritual was drawing anomalies into the Thousand Feathers Alliance.
• Chen Fei hunted down another late Third Order Heart Anomaly and killed it with his sword techniques.
• Chen Fei refined the Heart Anomaly source using his Space Grid and absorbed its purified essence.
• Chen Fei used more than twenty portions of spiritual materials, including two Heavenly Gang Lingzhi, to condense his second Spirit Flower.
• Chen Fei's second Spirit Flower settled onto his joint apertures, improving his soul perception and drawing in World Vital Energy.
• Chen Fei advanced from the Seventh Turn to the Eighth Turn Joint Aperture Realm.

Chen Fei advanced to Eighth Turn Joint Aperture and refined his control, then searched for rare materials needed to condense his third flower. In Bianhu City, he found two of the materials and met their seller, Nie Xinru, who offered him two ways to make the purchase.

• Chen Fei broke through to Eighth Turn Joint Aperture and examined the changes to his mind, physique, and control of sword essence.
• While Chen Fei was in seclusion, more uncanny-slaying missions appeared in Thousand Feathers City's Mission Hall, and joint aperture realm cultivators began taking them to earn rewards and gain battle experience.
• After emerging from seclusion, Chen Fei asked Chang Yuanyin to help find rare spiritual materials and offered Star Spirit Pills in exchange.
• Chen Fei traveled to Bianhu City and learned that a shop had green vine dew and purple rhyme saliva for sale.
• Nie Xinru offered Chen Fei two ways to buy the materials, but he asked her to state their price in essence stones.

Chen Fei traded the Shadow Concealing Pearl and azure mist dew, plus spirit stones, for Nie Xinru’s green vine dew and purple rhyme saliva, then continued cultivating while searching for the remaining materials. The Thousand Feathers Alliance summoned him to join a campaign against Luotian Pavilion, whose protective formation was shattered by a gigantic hand as the assault began.

• Chen Fei bargained with Nie Xinru and exchanged the Shadow Concealing Pearl, azure mist dew, and spirit stones for the green vine dew and purple rhyme saliva.
• Chen Fei investigated the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly’s cave, saw signs that someone had been sacrificed, and returned to Thousand Feathers City after slaying an early third-tier anomaly.
• Chen Fei cultivated for a month, improving his techniques and reaching great perfection in Teleportation, then investigated a supposed miraculous mushroom flower that proved to be a lookalike spiritual material.
• Tong Linyun summoned Chen Fei to the Mission Hall, where the Thousand Feathers Alliance ordered its Joint Aperture Realm cultivators to destroy Luotian Pavilion.
• Chen Fei and the assembled cultivators surrounded Luotian Pavilion, and Gu Danyang summoned a gigantic hand that shattered the sect’s protective formation.

The Thousand Feathers Alliance launched a full assault on Luotian Pavilion, overwhelming its defenders despite the appearance of three hidden Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators. While the siege continued, Chen Fei slipped through a mountain restriction and entered the area within, searching for the spiritual materials he needed.

• Gu Danyang led the Joint Aperture Realm cultivators in attacking Luotian Pavilion after True Person Haiyue shattered its outer formation.
• Chen Fei fought while watching the restricted areas, hoping to find the two spiritual materials needed for the third flower of the Unwavering Rule Method.
• Luotian Pavilion revealed three Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators, who severely wounded Jiang Xiuming before the alliance’s six Peak cultivators surrounded them.
• Chen Fei flew to a mountain range and studied a restriction that five other Joint Aperture Realm cultivators were attacking.
• Chen Fei used his Heavenly Eye to find a hidden opening in the restriction, entered through it, and let the restriction return to normal.

Chen Fei gathered spirit materials from Luotian Pavilion while its defenders fought a losing battle against the Thousand Feathers Alliance. After finding the broken remains of the Heaven Heart Fruit and Water Spirit Lotus he needed, he collected them just as Tan Bingxiu activated a formation that plunged Luotian Pavilion into darkness.

• Chen Fei avoided the traps in an alchemy hall, collected its valuable materials and pills, and left before the attacking cultivators broke through its restrictions.
• Chen Fei saw that Luotian Pavilion’s three Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators were nearing defeat, then flew to a mountain peak containing powerful spirit-material auras.
• Chen Fei helped break the peak’s restriction and sensed the Heaven Heart Fruit and Water Spirit Lotus inside as Luotian Pavilion’s defenders began destroying the stored treasures.
• Chen Fei entered a secret chamber, killed a Peak Aperture Refining Realm martial artist who was smashing the treasures, and collected the broken Heaven Heart Fruit and Water Spirit Lotus.
• Tan Bingxiu formed seals and activated Luotian Pavilion’s earth and water veins, covering the entire mountain gate in darkness.

After Luotian Pavilion’s secret formation transported everyone into a hostile realm, Chen Fei struggled against its draining energy and supernatural dangers. He escaped a deadly encounter and searched for a way out, while two other cultivators found a grave bearing the old man’s name.

• Luotian Pavilion’s formation activated, transporting Chen Fei and everyone else into a gray realm beneath a projected blood moon.
• Chen Fei discovered that the realm’s World Vital Energy could not be controlled and rapidly drained his vital energy.
• A funeral procession and a red-robed entity attacked Chen Fei, leaving him wounded and mentally disoriented.
• Chen Fei used his vital energy to heal himself, then moved through the realm in search of an exit.
• An old man and a younger Joint Aperture Realm cultivator found an earthen grave whose tombstone bore the old man’s name.

Chen Fei investigated Bewildered City, learning that its residents were brought there from the Thousand Feathers Alliance and that the city’s protection required sacrifices. After entering the city, he sensed a dark presence overhead and realized there might be a way to use its World Vital Energy safely.

• An old man and a young Joint Aperture Realm cultivator fled a grave after finding the same name and death date as the current day, but the old man began to carry a deathly aura and the smell of soil.
• Five Joint Aperture Realm cultivators avoided a strange thatched hut, then a man in green heard a chopping sound and watched the people around him—and himself—begin to come apart.
• Chen Fei used his Heavenly Eye to evade dangers, found a city, and learned through Yan Wendou’s memories that Bewildered City’s residents were sacrificed to protect the city from strange entities.
• Chen Fei questioned more residents and learned that special items could let martial artists absorb limited World Vital Energy, while some city martial artists retained considerable strength.
• Chen Fei entered Bewildered City, saw a pitch-black presence above it in his black-and-white vision, and realized he might not need to deliberately devise a way to remove foreign matter from its World Vital Energy.

Chen Fei entered Bewildered City and concluded that Luotian Pavilion was using its people and anomalies as nourishment to approach a breakthrough into the Mountain Sea Realm. With the Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators missing and no clear escape route, the city was suddenly engulfed by blood-red mist.

• Chen Fei realized he could use the Space Grid to separate ordinary vital energy from World Vital Energy, but needed special objects to absorb the latter.
• Chen Fei entered Bewildered City, where the Joint Aperture Realm cultivators gathered and reported worsening anomaly attacks, dwindling elemental force, and the disappearance of the city's rulers.
• Chen Fei suspected Luotian Pavilion had removed the rulers and separated Gu Danyang and the other Peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators, leaving the rest trapped and vulnerable.
• Chen Fei inferred that Luotian Pavilion was raising anomalies and using everyone in the realm as nourishment to help someone cross the threshold into the Mountain Sea Realm.
• A scream abruptly stopped as blood-red mist spread through Bewildered City, and Chen Fei saw the sky turn crimson.

Chen Fei discovered how the butcher anomaly killed and helped the Joint Aperture Realm cultivators destroy it, while the Ghost Bride that had followed him was also eliminated. Meanwhile, Luotian Pavilion used Sun Congshu’s spiritual essence to revive Chen Daoheng, who was asked who had killed him.

• The butcher anomaly killed an Early Joint Aperture Realm cultivator by manipulating the World Vital Energy, and Chen Fei used the Celestial Eye to uncover how it worked.
• Chen Fei warned the cultivators to resist the abnormal World Vital Energy, and they attacked the butcher while it was striking and destroyed it.
• The Ghost Bride appeared behind Chen Fei and asked him to come with her, but Chen Fei struck it down and explained when the butcher could be attacked.
• Chen Fei realized the anomalous realm absorbed the butcher’s origin essence, potentially benefiting Luotian Pavilion.
• Sun Congshu was killed, and Tan Bingxiu gave his spiritual essence to Guo Xuanji, who used it to awaken Chen Daoheng.
• Chen Daoheng regained his memories of being killed by Chen Fei, and Tan Bingxiu asked him who had killed him.

After Chen Daoheng was revived, he recounted how Chen Fei had killed him and Huang Yuheng, alarming Luotian Pavilion’s elders with Chen Fei’s extraordinary strength. The elders then revealed that Shen Yuanjun was being cultivated as an empty shell through the Netherworld Record, leaving Chen Daoheng to grasp the sect’s long-running scheme.

• Si Huayuan and Guo Xuanji warned Chen Daoheng to control his volatile emotions after his divine soul awakened.
• Tan Bingxiu asked Chen Daoheng about his death, and Chen Daoheng learned that Huang Yuheng had also been killed by Chen Fei.
• Chen Daoheng described Chen Fei, the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and the Black God Domain, prompting Tan Bingxiu and the other elders to recognize Chen Fei’s remarkable power.
• Chen Daoheng asked about the figure cultivating on the altar, and Guo Xuanji identified him as Shen Yuanjun, whom Luotian Pavilion had captured and killed.
• Tan Bingxiu and the others shared the Netherworld Record with Chen Daoheng, who realized Shen Yuanjun was an empty shell being strengthened through a scheme that gathered the thoughts of sentient beings.

Luotian Pavilion planned to use Shen Yuanjun's shell and the deaths of cultivators in the anomaly realm to raise Tan Bingxiu to the Mountain Sea Realm, while Chen Fei searched for a way to resist the realm's will. After identifying Chen Fei, Yan Gongli tried to withdraw and wait for reinforcements, but Chen Fei blocked his path.

• Tan Bingxiu and Luotian Pavilion's elders discussed how Shen Yuanjun's shell could make Tan Bingxiu a Mountain Sea Realm cultivator and identified Chen Fei as a potential target for another shell.
• Chen Daoheng recognized Chen Fei's aura, and Tan Bingxiu ordered Guo Xuanji to help two Late Joint Aperture Realm disciples capture him.
• After the butcher's defeat, Chen Fei and the other cultivators agreed to leave Bewildered City and seek a way to break out of the anomaly realm.
• Chen Fei prepared to pursue a breakthrough but could not find enough World Vital Energy, and he realized the realm's will was strengthening as cultivators died.
• Chen Fei spotted Yan Gongli secretly watching him in Bewildered City and followed him away from the crowd.
• Yan Gongli recognized Chen Fei and tried to leave until reinforcements arrived, but Chen Fei stepped out of the Void and blocked his path.

Chen Fei confronted Yan Gongli in the strange realm and defeated him with a single sword, despite the realm’s rejection of outsiders. He shattered Yan Gongli’s mind to search for Luotian Pavilion’s location, then disappeared as Guo Xuanji and another figure arrived.

• Yan Gongli attacked Chen Fei, expecting the strange realm’s World Vital Energy to weaken him, but Chen Fei forced the energy aside and revealed his Late Joint Aperture Realm strength.
• Yan Gongli tried to defend himself and escape, but Chen Fei opened four gates of the Forbidden Art and crushed Yan Gongli’s Black Tortoise Stance with one sword.
• Chen Fei shattered Yan Gongli’s mind, briefly used the Dream Entering Art to seek information, and watched Yan Gongli’s aura disappear.
• Chen Fei turned Yan Gongli’s body to ash, absorbed the spiritual essence from his sword, consumed his medicinal pills, and vanished.
• Guo Xuanji and another figure arrived and saw the distorted terrain, while Guo Xuanji sensed that Yan Gongli’s aura had vanished.

Guo Xuanji and Qu Yueping searched for Chen Fei after Yan Gongli’s overwhelming death, while Gu Danyang escaped Luotian Pavilion’s confinement. Hidden nearby under a changed aura, Chen Fei rescued Tong Linyun from an anomalous mural and began refining a piece of it to test how to draw on World Vital Energy.

• Qu Yueping and Guo Xuanji found Yan Gongli dead and suspected Chen Fei, then searched Bewildered City and the surrounding area without finding him.
• Guo Xuanji refused to use Shen Yuanjun’s power to locate Chen Fei, wary of jeopardizing Shen Yuanjun’s planned breakthrough to the mountain sea realm.
• Guo Xuanji received word that Gu Danyang had escaped, leaving Tan Bingxiu and Si Huayuan to intercept him as Gu Danyang fled badly wounded.
• Chen Fei concealed his identity by activating the sea demon mark and found Tong Linyun trapped inside an anomalous mural.
• Chen Fei cut Tong Linyun out of the painting, took a piece of the mural, and began refining it to test the fragmentary method for mobilizing World Vital Energy.

Chen Fei rescued Tong Linyun and tried to refine a fragment of the Anomalous Painting while Tan Bingxiu and the Luotian Pavilion hunted the Thousand Feathers Alliance cultivators. Gu Danyang was captured after his Mountain Sea Realm saber intent failed to kill his pursuers, leaving the Luotian Pavilion close to securing its rise to power.

• Chen Fei revealed his face to Tong Linyun, then disguised himself again and began trying to refine the Anomalous Painting.
• Gu Danyang, exhausted after evading three peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators, prepared to fight Tan Bingxiu, Si Huayuan, and their companion with Mountain Sea Realm saber intent.
• Gu Danyang's strike failed to kill Si Huayuan, and he lost consciousness after the three cultivators surrounded him.
• Tan Bingxiu sealed Gu Danyang and decided to postpone choosing whether to kill him or turn him into a vessel.
• Sheng Zequan died, leaving only three peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators in the anomaly realm as Shen Yuanjun neared his breakthrough.

After learning that Chen Fei had killed Yan Gongli, the Luotian Pavilion leaders unleashed the anomalies across the realm to force him out. Chen Fei used the Anomalous Painting and the Broken Ruler to control world vital energy, then successfully reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm by condensing his third flower.

• Tan Bingxiu revived Yan Gongli, who identified Chen Fei as his killer and revealed that Chen Fei had reached Eighth Turn Joint Aperture and condensed two flowers.
• Guo Xuanji ordered the anomalies to attack everyone across the anomalous realm so the Luotian Pavilion could capture Chen Fei before he advanced further.
• Chen Fei finished refining the Anomalous Painting into a blank sheet and used it with the Broken Ruler to gather and control world vital energy.
• Chen Fei circulated the Unwavering Rule Method and endured the pressure of condensing his third flower, with the Dragon Elephant Nexus strengthening his joint aperture.
• Chen Fei successfully brought all three flowers together above his joint aperture and reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm.

Chen Fei reached the peak joint aperture realm, awakened the Broken Ruler’s imprint, and obtained the incomplete Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression technique. He gave Tong Linyun a bead that could command the world vital energy and warned her not to absorb it, as the will controlling the anomaly realm was nearing transformation.

• Chen Fei’s breakthrough stirred his divine soul and brought his physique to the limit below the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Chen Fei sent divine soul power into the Broken Ruler, awakening its former owner’s imprint, which vanished after he saw it.
• The panel revealed the incomplete Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression technique, and Chen Fei simplified and began cultivating it.
• Chen Fei crushed the Anomalous Painting and sensed that the will within the world vital energy would transform within days.
• Chen Fei handed Tong Linyun the bead refined from the Anomalous Painting and told her she could command the world vital energy but must not absorb it.

Chen Fei slaughtered anomalies around Bewildered City, rescued the trapped cultivators, and captured Luotian Pavilion elders to learn the pavilion hid in the anomaly domain’s Space Layer. He lured the domain’s anomalies toward himself, preparing to confront them as they gathered around him.

• Chen Fei killed a late third-tier anomaly with the Broken Ruler while disguising his identity, then continued slaughtering anomalies as Tong Linyun and the rescued cultivators followed.
• Chen Fei arrived at Bewildered City and killed the thirteen anomalies surrounding it with the Sky-Piercing Sword, freeing the embattled Joint Aperture Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei caught Ming Ji'an and another Luotian Pavilion elder as they fled, suppressed their minds, and learned the pavilion hid in the anomaly domain’s Space Layer.
• Chen Fei used the Induce Anomaly Art and his blood to draw anomalies toward the mountains south of Bewildered City.
• Anomalies crowded around Chen Fei as eerie giggles and an old woman’s curses sounded beside him.