Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei slaughtered the anomalies drawn to him, feeding their spiritual essence to the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Origin Bell as both treasures began advancing. Elsewhere, Tan Bingxiu and his allies killed Ran Xintang, then discovered that too little spiritual essence had reached Shen Yuanjun’s shell.

• Chen Fei used the Induce Anomaly Art to draw in anomalies and killed the horde with his Broken Ruler, while the Profound Sword Body repelled their attacks.
• Chen Fei sent most of the extracted spiritual essence into the Qian Yuan Sword and the rest into the Hidden Origin Bell, causing both treasures to enter dormancy as they advanced.
• Chen Fei continued summoning anomalies after killing every one within a one-li radius, while dozens of Joint Aperture Realm cultivators watched in shock and Tong Linyun admired him.
• Tan Bingxiu hurriedly joined Guo Xuanji and Si Huayuan in killing Ran Xintang, then took his spiritual essence to the altar.
• Tan Bingxiu told Guo Xuanji and Si Huayuan that many anomalies had died without their spiritual essence reaching Shen Yuanjun’s shell, threatening its chance to break through to the Mountain Sea Realm.

Chen Fei confronted the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly in its own realm and overwhelmed it with his strength, pursuit, and swordsmanship. Tan Bingxiu and two others arrived just before Chen Fei killed the gravely wounded anomaly.

• Tan Bingxiu sent the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly ahead while Luotian Pavilion’s altar raced toward the place where anomalies had vanished.
• Chen Fei’s Hidden Origin Bell advanced to a High-grade Magic Treasure, and the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly attacked him outside Bewildered City.
• The Thousand-Eyed Anomaly immobilized the Joint Aperture Realm cultivators, but Chen Fei resisted its mind-twisting power and destroyed more than a hundred of its eyes with Dragon Subduing Elephant.
• Chen Fei opened five gates of a Forbidden Art, stopped the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly from escaping through the void, and struck it into grave injury.
• Chen Fei pursued the fleeing Thousand-Eyed Anomaly and dealt it a fatal blow despite Tan Bingxiu and two others shouting for him to stop.

Chen Fei killed the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly and intercepted its spiritual essence, then faced Tan Bingxiu, Guo Xuanji, and Si Huayuan as they joined forces against him. Tan Bingxiu offered to let Chen Fei and his companions leave, but Chen Fei demanded that everyone trapped in the anomaly realm be freed, and the three Luotian Pavilion cultivators activated forbidden arts as he prepared to answer with Six Gates.

• Chen Fei killed the Thousand-Eyed Anomaly in three moves and sent its spiritual essence into the Hidden Origin Bell.
• Zhao Hong led the Joint Aperture Realm cultivators to help Chen Fei, but Tan Bingxiu divided space to keep them away from the battle.
• Chen Fei fought Si Huayuan and blocked the combined attacks of Tan Bingxiu, Guo Xuanji, and Si Huayuan without being injured.
• Tan Bingxiu offered to let Chen Fei and his relatives and friends leave the anomaly realm, but Chen Fei demanded that they take everyone trapped there with them.
• Guo Xuanji rejected Chen Fei's demand, and Tan Bingxiu, Guo Xuanji, and Si Huayuan activated forbidden arts as Chen Fei began using Six Gates.

Chen Fei fought Tan Bingxiu, Guo Xuanji, and Si Huayuan in Shen Yuanjun’s strange realm, revealing power beyond their expectations by opening seven forbidden art gates and using Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression. After breaking through their defensive sword formation, he killed Si Huayuan, while Tan Bingxiu and Guo Xuanji remained gravely wounded.

• Tan Bingxiu, Guo Xuanji, and Si Huayuan opened their second forbidden art gates and chose to fight Chen Fei to the death.
• Chen Fei summoned his avatar, opened seven forbidden art gates, and used Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression to control the power and clear Shen Yuanjun’s will from the World Vital Energy.
• Chen Fei attacked Si Huayuan, but Tan Bingxiu, Guo Xuanji, and Si Huayuan joined their sword forms to block his strike.
• Chen Fei struck again and opened a gap in their defensive formation, leaving Tan Bingxiu and Guo Xuanji badly injured.
• Chen Fei swept the Broken Ruler into Si Huayuan’s sword, killing him in a burst of blood mist.

Chen Fei killed Guo Xuanji and pursued Tan Bingxiu into Luotian Pavilion, where he discovered Shen Yuanjun’s mindless body was the shell Tan Bingxiu planned to claim. The chapter ended with Tan Bingxiu beginning the takeover as Chen Fei faced him at the altar.

• Tan Bingxiu and Guo Xuanji fled toward the Luotian Pavilion gateway after Chen Fei killed Si Huayuan, but Chen Fei disrupted the gateway and intercepted Guo Xuanji.
• Guo Xuanji unleashed five forbidden arts and attacked with Tan Bingxiu, but Chen Fei’s strike shattered Guo Xuanji into a blood mist and badly injured Tan Bingxiu.
• Tan Bingxiu escaped through the gateway, intending to take over Shen Yuanjun’s shell and use its power against Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei vanished from Tan Bingxiu’s sight, forced his way through the gateway, and arrived at the altar before Tan Bingxiu.
• Chen Fei recognized Shen Yuanjun’s mindless body as the shell Tan Bingxiu had plotted to claim, while Tan Bingxiu began forming seals to take it over.

Chen Fei killed Tan Bingxiu and uncovered Luotian Pavilion’s Netherworld Record and its plan to use Shen Yuanjun’s shell to reach the Mountain Sea Realm. When Chen Fei addressed the seemingly lifeless shell, Shen Yuanjun opened his eyes and unleashed overwhelming mental power.

• Chen Fei used his Teleportation ability to bypass Tan Bingxiu’s altar shield and appear behind him.
• Chen Fei severed Tan Bingxiu’s connection to the altar, then killed him and absorbed his spiritual essence.
• Chen Fei examined Shen Yuanjun’s shell and discovered the Netherworld Record, which explained Luotian Pavilion’s scheme to create a path to the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Chen Fei resisted the temptation to take over the shell and spoke to Shen Yuanjun, suggesting that a peerless genius could not easily die young.
• Shen Yuanjun opened his eyes, and his mental power shook the strange realm and rippled the Void.

Chen Fei confronted Shen Yuanjun, who revealed that he had planned to devour Chen Fei and use his powerful body to overcome the Netherworld Record’s limits. They fought at the threshold of the Mountain Sea Realm, and the chapter ended with Chen Fei’s body breaking down under the force of their first clash.

• Shen Yuanjun asked how Chen Fei had uncovered his concealed nature, and Chen Fei stayed silent, having sensed the weakness in Shen Yuanjun’s divine soul.
• Shen Yuanjun explained that he had shifted his plan from devouring Tan Bingxiu to taking Chen Fei’s body, then tried to seize him using the anomaly realm’s World Vital Energy.
• Chen Fei opened all seven gates of his forbidden technique and broke through Shen Yuanjun’s control over the surrounding World Vital Energy.
• Shen Yuanjun opened three gates, and the two men attacked with Chen Fei’s sword formations and Shen Yuanjun’s descending blade.
• Chen Fei’s Broken Ruler clashed with Shen Yuanjun’s blade and destroyed the altar, while the impact shattered Chen Fei’s flesh and destabilized his seven-gate technique.

Chen Fei used Dragon Subduing Elephant to suppress and refine Shen Yuanjun’s attacks, then overwhelmed him in a clash that devastated the strange realm. Shen Yuanjun tried to flee, but Chen Fei bound him and struck him down, leaving him exploded into blood mist.

• Shen Yuanjun and Chen Fei exchanged blows, and their forbidden techniques caused the strange realm to shake and crack.
• Chen Fei summoned the Dragon Subduing Elephant phantom, suppressed the force within his body, and unleashed a stronger strike with the Broken Ruler.
• Shen Yuanjun used the strange realm’s power to meet Chen Fei’s blow, but their collision destroyed the surrounding area and left Shen Yuanjun gravely injured.
• Chen Fei suppressed Shen Yuanjun’s attempt to escape and appeared before him with the Broken Ruler.
• Chen Fei struck Shen Yuanjun, whose body exploded into blood mist.

Chen Fei killed Shen Yuanjun’s scattered remnants in the anomaly realm and discovered that a portion of his soul had escaped beyond it. A Mountain Sea Realm cultivator shattered the realm and brought everyone out, and Chen Fei later returned safely to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect with Tong Linyun.

• Chen Fei harvested spiritual essence from anomalies containing Shen Yuanjun’s will, killing seventeen suspicious anomalies and storing their essence in the Hidden Origin Bell.
• Chen Fei realized that part of Shen Yuanjun’s soul was missing and suspected it had escaped the anomaly realm.
• Chen Fei found and destroyed the revived phantoms of Chen Daoheng and Yan Gongli just as a Mountain Sea Realm cultivator tore open the anomaly realm.
• True Person Haiyue brought everyone from the shattered realm to an island, while Chen Fei concealed his identity and traces.
• Chen Fei and Tong Linyun left Thousand Feathers City ten days later and returned to Haifeng Domain, where the Yuan Chen Sword Sect welcomed Chen Fei’s safe return.

Chen Fei sorted through Luotian Pavilion’s treasures, strengthened his cultivation art, and used Shen Yuanjun’s spiritual essences to forge a Peak Joint Aperture Realm avatar. Meanwhile, Shen Yuanjun took over Yu Xinfeng’s body, and Chen Fei’s new avatar sensed a peculiar aura in the distance.

• Chen Fei organized the treasures and inheritances he had taken from Luotian Pavilion and integrated the Luotian Art into the Profound Sky Sword.
• Chen Fei planned to strengthen his physique and soul before attempting to break through to the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Chen Fei used Shen Yuanjun’s spiritual essences to raise his avatar’s cultivation, overcoming its former limit at the Early Joint Aperture Realm.
• Yu Xinfeng’s strange dreams and cultivation led him to lose control of himself, allowing Shen Yuanjun to take over his body and vow revenge on Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei’s avatar reached the Peak Joint Aperture Realm and sensed a peculiar aura resonating in the distance.

Shen Yuanjun sensed Chen Fei through their spiritual resonance and eroded most of his soul to conceal himself, leaving Yu Xinfeng with a strange cultivation method that rapidly improved his abilities. Chen Fei tracked Yu Xinfeng to North Watch City and found him cultivating, though the Heavenly Eye revealed no obvious anomaly.

• Shen Yuanjun considered fleeing into sea demon territory or exposing Chen Fei, but abandoned both plans because he could not reach safety or gain an audience with Min Yanlu.
• Shen Yuanjun reversed the Netherworld Record and crushed his soul until only a wisp of spirituality remained, making the resonance fade as he sank into silence.
• Yu Xinfeng awoke confused after the cultivation, unaware of what had happened but astonished by his greatly improved comprehension.
• Chen Fei sensed the resonance disappear, traveled to Xiangtan Domain, and tracked Yu Xinfeng to North Watch City.
• Yu Xinfeng displayed his improved saber skills in a gang battle and prepared to break through to the Aperture Refining Realm.
• Chen Fei appeared in Yu Xinfeng's courtyard while he cultivated, and Yu Xinfeng seized his blade and demanded to know who he was.

Chen Fei killed Shen Yuanjun, then secluded himself to cultivate while the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and the Thousand Feathers Alliance recovered. The sea demons suddenly returned in force, and Thousand Feathers City fell as the alliance was overwhelmed.

• Chen Fei drew Shen Yuanjun's soul out of Yu Xinfeng and destroyed it, then returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect to cultivate Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression.
• Over the following months, Chen Fei advanced his Mountain Sea cultivation technique while the Yuan Chen Sword Sect's members and allies made progress in their cultivation.
• Min Yanlu learned that his close friend had died fighting the sea demons and grew increasingly concerned about their apparent pause in attacks.
• Five demon kings appeared before Thousand Feathers City and unleashed their power against it.
• Several days later, news spread that Thousand Feathers City had fallen, and the sea demons surged across the Thousand Feathers Alliance's sea territories.

After Thousand Feathers City fell, Chen Fei led the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and five allied sects away from the Haifeng Domain toward Qianyan City. As the fleet entered the outer sea, a powerful peak third-order sea demon ambushed them, and the others realized Chen Fei had reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm.

• With the Mountain Sea Realm cultivators missing and the Thousand Feathers Alliance overrun, Chen Fei decided to take the Yuan Chen Sword Sect to Qianyan City using a route he had prepared from sea demons' memories.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect refused the Qianren Sect's request to join its migration and prepared to travel with five allied sects, including the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and the Panfeng Sect.
• Chen Fei ordered the six sects to set sail, and their fleet traveled for more than ten days through the Thousand Feathers Alliance while avoiding sea demon territory.
• After the fleet entered the outer sea, Chen Fei sensed an attack, appeared in the sky, and used the Qian Yuan Sword to form a Great Profound Sword Array that stopped the demonic blast.
• A peak third-order sea demon with nine tails, four ears, and an enormous abdominal eye appeared and threatened to devour the fleet.
• The sea demon's aura clouded Tong Zhongqiu and the others' minds, but Chen Fei's sword cry restored their clarity, and they recognized that he had reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm.

Chen Fei lured Kua Rong away from the fleeing fleet and revealed overwhelming strength in their battle. Kua Rong used Demon King power to escape, but Chen Fei appeared in its path, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Chen Fei sent his original body to draw Kua Rong away from Tong Zhongqiu and the fleet, while his peak Joint Aperture Realm clone helped the ships move on.
• Tong Zhongqiu, Tong Linyun, and the others were stunned to discover that Chen Fei's clone had also reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm.
• Chen Fei stopped more than a hundred li from the fleet and fought Kua Rong, resisting its soul-locking ability and cutting off seven of its nine tails.
• Chen Fei pressed his attack, and Kua Rong unleashed Demon King power to flee after realizing it could not defeat him alone.
• Kua Rong raced toward other powerful sea demons to recruit them, but Chen Fei suddenly appeared in front of it.

Chen Fei pursued Kua Rong and slaughtered the four Peak Third Order demon beasts it summoned, then caught and killed Kua Rong after its demon king's power ran out. An hour later, Chen Fei dragged Kua Rong's body onto a deserted island.

• Kua Rong tried to flee using the demon king's power, but Chen Fei repeatedly teleported to block its path.
• Kua Rong summoned four Peak Third Order demon beasts, and Chen Fei killed the first with two sword strikes.
• Chen Fei used a burst of the slain beast's spiritual essence to break through the other three beasts' defenses and kill them.
• Kua Rong abandoned the fight and fled, but Chen Fei caught up after the demon king's power was exhausted and killed it.
• An hour later, Chen Fei dragged Kua Rong's body onto a deserted island.

Chen Fei used Kua Rong’s spiritual essence to force his physique past its limit and into the Mountain Sea Realm, then concealed Kua Rong and returned to the fleet. Three months later, he sensed a Demon King and a Mountain Sea Realm expert fighting hundreds of li away.

• Chen Fei extracted Kua Rong’s spiritual essence and used Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression to compress it and force his body to absorb it.
• After two days of cultivation, Chen Fei’s physique broke through to the Mountain Sea Realm amid a surge of World Vital Energy and lightning.
• Chen Fei removed the blood-red light sustaining Kua Rong, buried it on the island, concealed its aura, and hurried back toward the fleet.
• Three months later, Chen Fei sensed a Demon King and a Mountain Sea Realm expert locked in battle hundreds of li away.

Chen Fei hurried the fleet away from a battle between Tu Zaichuan and the demon king Nie Li, but Tu Zaichuan fled the fight and headed toward the fleet. The chapter ended with Chen Fei sensing both powerful combatants approaching at astonishing speed.

• Chen Fei warned Tong Linyun and the others that a Mountain Sea Realm cultivator and a demon king were fighting, and they accelerated the fleet away.
• Tu Zaichuan lured Nie Li with the souls of his slain kin, then used them to wound him and drain his blood and vital energy.
• Nie Li unleashed a pulse that erased many of Tu Zaichuan's blood spirits, and the two continued fighting until both were gravely injured.
• Tu Zaichuan fled with one arm lost and most of his blood spirits destroyed as Nie Li pursued him.
• Tu Zaichuan sensed the fleet's blood and vital energy and charged toward it while Chen Fei and the others continued retreating.
• Chen Fei sensed Tu Zaichuan and Nie Li approaching the fleet at astonishing speed.

Chen Fei’s fleet was caught between Tu Zaichuan and the demon king Nie Li, who pursued each other across the sea. Chen Fei destroyed most of Tu Zaichuan’s blood spirits and blocked Nie Li’s attack, but as the fleet fled, Nie Li appeared behind them again.

• Chen Fei realized Tu Zaichuan and Nie Li were pursuing the fleet and tried to change course, but Tu Zaichuan sent nearly a hundred blood spirits toward the ships.
• Chen Fei used divine soul power to destroy many blood spirits, while Tong Linyun and the others tried to protect the fleet from those that remained.
• Nie Li shattered the weakened Sin Blood Source Formation and fired a pillar of light at the fleet despite Chen Fei’s plea that they were not Tu Zaichuan’s allies.
• Chen Fei blocked Nie Li’s attack, and his clone and Tong Linyun helped shield the ships from the resulting shock waves.
• Chen Fei led the fleet more than a hundred li away, but Nie Li soon appeared behind them again.

Demon King Nie Li attacked the fleet and demanded to kill everyone aboard, but Chen Fei unleashed all nine gates of his forbidden technique to meet him head-on. Chen Fei survived their clash and realized he could fight the wounded demon king, while Nie Li stared in disbelief at his bleeding claw.

• Nie Li turned back after Tu Zaichuan escaped and threatened to kill Chen Fei and everyone aboard the fleet, despite Chen Fei insisting they had no connection to Tu Zaichuan.
• Tong Linyun and the others urged Chen Fei to escape so he could avenge them, but Chen Fei stayed to face Nie Li.
• Chen Fei opened all nine gates of Nine Revolutions Qiankun, drawing on his Mountain Sea Realm physique and the Dragon Subduing Elephant's regenerative power.
• Chen Fei combined the Broken Ruler spirit treasure with the Qian Yuan Sword and struck Nie Li's claw, while his avatar dragged the fleet farther from the battle.
• Chen Fei endured the clash and recognized that Nie Li's injuries left him able to fight the demon king; Nie Li saw blood on his claw and was shocked that Chen Fei remained alive.

Chen Fei fought demon king Nie Li, using teleportation, the Qian Yuan Sword, and Dragon Subduing Elephant to withstand and overpower him. Nie Li fled after Chen Fei shattered his comb and weakened him, and Chen Fei returned to the fleet to collect the demon king’s blood and vital essence.

• Nie Li charged Chen Fei, but Chen Fei teleported behind him and slashed Nie Li’s serpentine tail to pieces.
• Nie Li regained his peak aura and attacked Chen Fei, who met his claws in repeated clashes and healed rapidly from his injuries.
• Chen Fei’s strength rose as he endured Nie Li’s blows, and he struck Nie Li’s head with the Qian Yuan Sword, shattering his comb and badly weakening him.
• Nie Li withdrew into his tortoise shell and fled, while Chen Fei pursued him for over a hundred li before the demon king escaped.
• Chen Fei returned to the fleet and gathered Nie Li’s blood and vital essence.