Chapter Summaries

After defeating the wounded Demon King Nie Li without reaching the mountain sea realm, Chen Fei returned to the fleet and continued toward Qianyan City. His display of strength led five sects to merge into the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, whose new branches gathered for a solemn ceremony.

• Chen Fei collected Nie Li's blood essence in the Hidden Origin Bell and admitted that his victory had depended partly on Nie Li being wounded.
• Tong Linyun and Tong Zhongqiu questioned Chen Fei about displaying mountain sea realm power, and he said he remained in the joint aperture realm.
• The fleet resumed its journey, while the Yuan Chen Sword Sect rejoiced at Chen Fei's potential and the other sects considered joining it.
• Two days later, Tong Zhongqiu and the others gave Qu Qingsheng a letter requesting that their sects merge into the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.
• Five days later, five sects, including the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, merged as branches, and Wei Xingshan regretted failing to recruit Chen Fei years earlier.

Chen Fei protected the fleet from sea demons sent by the injured demon king Nie Li while strengthening the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s resources. During the voyage, Qu Qingsheng broke through to the Joint Aperture Realm, and the fleet finally approached Qianyan City.

• Chen Fei killed a Peak Third Order turtle demon sent by Nie Li and returned its valuable shell to Qu Qingsheng for the sect treasury.
• Chen Fei continued killing the sea demons that followed the fleet and fed their spiritual essence to the Qian Yuan Sword.
• The factions aboard the fleet settled into the newly merged Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and Qu Qingsheng prepared to break through to the Joint Aperture Realm.
• Chen Fei watched as Qu Qingsheng successfully broke through, becoming the sect’s second Joint Aperture Realm expert.
• After three more months of sailing, Chen Fei spotted land ahead and recognized Qianyan City.

After Yuan Chen Sword Sect settled near Qianyan City, Chen Fei sought a Mountain Sea Realm cultivation technique to better understand his next breakthrough. He visited Tianxin Sect and offered a sword blade in exchange for its Tianxin Art, leaving the negotiation about to begin.

• Yuan Chen Sword Sect established its mountain gate in the Qianyan Mountain Range, where its lack of secret realms left it struggling to secure resources.
• Chen Fei read about the Central Continent and Sun Moon Realm, then decided to seek a Mountain Sea Realm cultivation technique from Tianxin Sect.
• Chen Fei visited Tianxin Sect, whose Peak Joint Aperture Realm leader, Situ Song, welcomed him and recognized the purpose of his visit.
• Situ Song asked what Chen Fei could offer for the Tianxin Art, and Chen Fei placed a sword blade on the table, releasing a powerful sword intent.

Chen Fei traded a top-grade magic treasure to Situ Song for the Tianxin Art, then fused it with the Profound Sky Sword to create the Heavenly Profound Sword. After half a year of cultivation, news spread that True Man Mengying’s inheritance cave abode had appeared near Qianyan City, drawing countless martial artists toward it.

• Chen Fei exchanged a top-grade magic treasure with Situ Song for the Tianxin Art and agreed not to pass it to outsiders.
• Chen Fei fused the Tianxin Art with the Profound Sky Sword, forming the Heavenly Profound Sword, and began cultivating it alongside Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect kept a restrained profile in Qianyan City while relying on its abundant stores of resources.
• After another half year, Chen Fei had advanced the Heavenly Profound Sword’s proficiency and strengthened his divine soul.
• News spread that True Man Mengying’s inheritance cave abode had appeared a thousand miles beyond Qianyan City, and martial artists flocked to seek it.

Chen Fei learned about the Mountain Sea Realm’s nine divine palaces, racial talents, and cultivation paths while waiting for True Man Mengying’s cave mansion to open. When the mansion finally opened, the gathered martial artists surged inside.

• Chen Fei decided to seek the inheritance of True Man Mengying’s cave mansion because the Dream Entering Art’s incomplete techniques could no longer help him much as his cultivation advanced.
• Chen Fei arrived at the floating cave mansion and learned that the Mengying Stone in the Heart Anomaly Realm sustained it, though no one had found the stone’s location.
• Chen Fei studied the Tianxin Art’s explanation that Mountain Sea Realm cultivators opened nine divine palaces and could seek racial talents in the Void when their souls transformed.
• Chen Fei considered how faith, World Vital Energy, and flesh-and-blood spiritual essence could be refined to cultivate in the Mountain Sea Realm.
• The cave mansion trembled, a beam of light shot skyward, and the waiting martial artists rushed inside.

Chen Fei passed the Mengying Cave Mansion’s trials by using the Dream Entering Art to see through illusions and learn a method for controlling them. He began climbing the inheritance mountain at astonishing speed, and when he crossed its midpoint, a pair of eyes opened deep within the cave mansion.

• Chen Fei entered the cave mansion and ignored its loneliness trial while comprehending his cultivation methods.
• Chen Fei used the Dream Entering Art to identify an illusory ant among the swarm, clearing the second trial.
• Chen Fei received a Joint Aperture Realm method for controlling illusions and fused it with the Dream Entering Art.
• Chen Fei reached the inheritance mountain and began climbing, while observers outside watched his light ascend far faster than anyone else’s.
• Chen Fei crossed the mountain’s midpoint, awakening a pair of eyes deep within the cave mansion, and his ascent came to a halt.

Chen Fei broke through the dream trials on the mountain path and concluded that Mengying Cave Mansion was deliberately preventing people from reaching its summit. At the final trial, he appeared on a Training Ground surrounded by several dozen people, all urged to kill him for a Heart Soul Stone.

• Chen Fei recognized the tenth-ranked checkpoint as a dream, resisted its influence, and shattered the dream with a sword strike.
• Gu Fangyu climbed the mountain path but watched Chen Fei break through trial after trial, leaving him stunned and unable to compete.
• Chen Fei sensed Mengying Cave Mansion's power trying to infiltrate his Sea of Consciousness and suspected its Artifact Spirit was preventing trial-takers from reaching the summit.
• Chen Fei tore through the remaining seven dream trials, passed the historical first-place checkpoint, and saw a palace near the summit.
• Chen Fei stepped into the final trial and appeared on a Training Ground, where several dozen people were offered a Heart Soul Stone for killing him.

Mengying Cave Mansion’s Artifact Spirit moved the trial takers into the Training Ground and manipulated them into attacking Chen Fei to prevent him from inheriting the cave mansion. Chen Fei unleashed Nine Revolutions Qiankun and killed Lin Hanyu, while the other martial artists’ assault was still underway.

• The trial takers saw a Heart Soul Stone and learned that only the person who killed Chen Fei could claim it.
• Chen Fei sensed the dream power influencing the crowd, while the Artifact Spirit revealed that it wanted to kill him to protect its independence.
• Lin Hanyu launched the first attack, and the other martial artists swarmed Chen Fei under the Artifact Spirit’s influence.
• Chen Fei activated Nine Revolutions Qiankun and swept the Broken Ruler at Lin Hanyu’s blade.
• The clash shattered Lin Hanyu’s body, leaving Chen Fei surrounded by the remaining attackers.

Chen Fei slaughtered the Joint Aperture Realm cultivators who had surrounded him, using teleportation and the Heavenly Eye to evade their attacks and break their formations. After his ruthless killing shattered their resolve, the survivors fled and abandoned the Heart Soul Stone to the Mengying Cave Mansion.

• Chen Fei killed Lin Hanyu with one strike, then teleported through the attackers’ barrage and killed a Late Joint Aperture Realm cultivator by suppressing his divine soul.
• Chen Fei teleported to Yue Zhongrong and overcame his desperate, self-sacrificing spear attack before killing him.
• The cultivators tried to use formations to restrict Chen Fei’s teleportation, but he used the Heavenly Eye to cut through them and continued killing.
• The survivors lost their resolve and fled the Training Ground, leaving the Heart Soul Stone to the Mengying Cave Mansion.

Chen Fei defeated the Joint Aperture Realm martial artists, claimed the Heart Soul Stone, and resisted Mengying Cave Mansion’s attempts to force him out. He continued toward the great hall, where the Artifact Spirit offered him another Heart Soul Stone to abandon the trial.

• Chen Fei slaughtered his way through the siege, causing the Joint Aperture Realm martial artists to admit defeat and leave Mengying Cave Mansion.
• Chen Fei took the Heart Soul Stone and inferred that the cave mansion’s Artifact Spirit was bound by True Man Mengying’s rules.
• When Mengying Cave Mansion tried to expel him, Chen Fei resisted its force and used his Celestial Eye to attack the cave mansion’s underlying structure.
• Chen Fei saw through the Artifact Spirit’s void-like dream, returned to the mountain path, and continued toward the great hall despite the cave mansion’s malice.
• The Artifact Spirit demanded that Chen Fei leave and offered him another Heart Soul Stone, but Chen Fei replied that he would receive one anyway if he passed the trial.

Chen Fei slaughtered the Heart Anomalies guarding the Mengying Cave Mansion, while its Artifact Spirit summoned a Fourth Order Heart Anomaly from the Heart Anomaly Realm to kill him. After clearing the remaining Heart Anomalies, Chen Fei approached the fissure as the terrifying enemy’s power poured through.

• The Mengying Cave Mansion’s Artifact Spirit unleashed a horde of Third Order Heart Anomalies, but Chen Fei fused his Sword Slaying Profound swords into an Extreme Sword Slaying Profound and began cutting them down.
• The Artifact Spirit, determined to pursue transcendence rather than acknowledge a master, opened a passage to the Heart Anomaly Realm and lured a Fourth Order Heart Anomaly toward the cave mansion.
• The Fourth Order Heart Anomaly began crossing through the passage, while Chen Fei sensed its formidable power and recognized it as a threat he had avoided in the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• The Artifact Spirit threatened Chen Fei, but he swiftly destroyed the remaining Heart Anomalies and gathered their yin energy into the Heart Refining Array.
• Chen Fei walked toward the fissure as the aura of the Fourth Order Heart Anomaly surged through it.

Chen Fei drove off a Fourth Order Heart Anomaly by releasing the Black God's power, then moved to claim Mengying Cave Mansion. The Artifact Spirit refused to acknowledge him and destroyed the Trial Peak as he approached the great hall.

• Chen Fei confronted the Fourth Order Heart Anomaly, but his sword strike barely harmed it and its roar shook his Sea of Consciousness and soul.
• The Artifact Spirit reinforced the cave mansion's shield to trap Chen Fei, so he released the sealed Black God's power toward the rift.
• The Fourth Order Heart Anomaly sensed the danger and retreated into the Heart Anomaly Realm, while the Black God's power drifted after it.
• Chen Fei shattered a node in the rift, collected the Third Order Heart Anomaly Origin Power, and headed for the great hall after the trials ended.
• The Artifact Spirit refused to acknowledge Chen Fei as its master and caused the Trial Peak to crumble.

Chen Fei claimed Mengying Cave Mansion, sacrificed its Spirit Treasure origin to help the Qian Yuan Sword attempt a breakthrough, and destroyed the rebellious Artifact Spirit. He left the Mengying Stone and its Dream Entering Art hidden in the dangerous Heart Anomaly Realm, while a crimson eye sensed the Sovereign’s power.

• Chen Fei gathered Mengying Cave Mansion’s Spirit Treasure origin into the Qian Yuan Sword, and the Broken Ruler helped temper it as the sword began its transformation into a Spirit Treasure.
• Chen Fei demanded the Dream Entering Art from the Artifact Spirit, which refused and challenged him to find its true body in the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei activated True Man Mengying’s safeguard, causing the Artifact Spirit’s spirituality to disperse until it vanished.
• Chen Fei sensed a connection to the hidden Mengying Stone but decided to wait until he reached the Mountain Sea Realm before searching for it.
• Chen Fei left Mengying Cave Mansion, which crumbled into powder, while Tang Shouchang watched from afar and recognized Chen Fei’s spatial movement talent.
• Chen Fei appeared more than two hundred miles away, checked his gains, and a crimson eye beneath a cold pool opened at the power of the Sovereign.

Chen Fei refined a Heart Soul Stone and attended Qianyan City's celebration to hear Mountain Sea Realm experts discuss martial arts, gaining insight into his own breakthrough. During the third day's lecture, his attention shifted to his avatar at the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, where it suddenly appeared in a kitchen before an old woman.

• Chen Fei examined the dormant Qian Yuan Sword and began refining a Heart Soul Stone to strengthen his divine soul.
• Qu Qingsheng delivered Qianyan City's invitation, and Chen Fei agreed to prepare a gift for the city's celebration.
• After refining more than thirty percent of the Heart Soul Stone, Chen Fei judged that Dragon Subduing Elephant Spirit Suppression was nearing Perfection and his Mountain Sea Realm breakthrough.
• Chen Fei attended the four Mountain Sea Realm experts' lectures, listening closely to their insights and considering Ning Bo Zheng's advice about breaking through.
• During the third day's lecture, Chen Fei's avatar appeared inside a kitchen at the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, where an old woman saw him.

Chen Fei discovered that fewer than thirty members of the Yuan Chen Sword Sect had been silently contaminated by energy resembling Black God's, and sealed them away. Suspecting the contamination had spread beyond the sect, he went to Qianyan City to meet City Lord Tang Shouchang, but his senses were obscured as soon as he entered the study.

• Chen Fei examined the kitchen workers’ memories and inner force, then uncovered a faint cyan-green energy similar in essence to Black God’s.
• Chen Fei sealed the contaminated kitchen workers, searched the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and found fewer than thirty infected members in total.
• Chen Fei raised the sect’s formations to isolate it and wondered how widespread the contamination might be across the Qianyan Mountain Range.
• Chen Fei left a Mountain Sea Realm lecture in Qianyan City and requested an audience with Rotating City Lord Tang Shouchang.
• Qu Shangzhang escorted Chen Fei into Tang Shouchang’s study, where Chen Fei’s senses were suddenly obscured.

Chen Fei warned Tang Shouchang that a contaminating gu threatened the Qianyan Mountain Range, but Tang’s inspection triggered its spread through Qianyan City. Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, where his avatar killed a wave of mutated attackers, but their blue-green energy surged toward the sect.

• Chen Fei told Tang Shouchang about the contaminating force and led him to a person infected with blue-green energy.
• Tang Shouchang examined the gu, causing it to erupt and contaminate thousands of people across Qianyan City before the city’s formations contained the spread.
• Tang Shouchang took Chen Fei out of the city, then led two other Mountain Sea Realm experts toward the Qianyan Mountain Range.
• Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and found that his seals had suppressed the gu in more than twenty infected people there.
• Several thousand mutated creatures approached the sect, and Chen Fei’s avatar slaughtered them with the Heavenly Profound Sword Array.
• Blue-green energy from the dead creatures surged toward the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.

Chen Fei faced a powerful Gu worm attacking the Yuan Chen Sword Sect while Tang Shouchang, Wu Renxu, and Zhang Chaoyun wore down a Black God subordinate in Qianyan City. After learning Feihuang City offered Crimson Flame Gold for capturing such creatures alive, the three tried to seal it, but a faint crack sounded just as the seal neared completion.

• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect's formation damaged the Gu worm, but it repeatedly recovered and began cracking the formation as Chen Fei moved outside to confront it.
• Tang Shouchang, Wu Renxu, and Zhang Chaoyun attacked the Evil creature together, steadily reducing its size and strength.
• Wu Renxu identified the Evil creature as a Black God subordinate and proposed capturing it for Feihuang City's reward.
• After hearing that the reward included Crimson Flame Gold, Tang Shouchang and Zhang Chaoyun agreed to capture the Evil creature alive.
• The three cultivators weakened the Evil creature and enclosed it in Wu Renxu's formation, but a faint cracking sound came as the seal was about to close.

Wu Renxu, Tang Shouchang, and Zhang Chaoyun discovered that the Evil creature could neither be sealed nor killed while weakened, so Wu Renxu proposed feeding it bloody food and resentful thoughts to make it sealable. Wu Renxu and Zhang Chaoyun set out to sacrifice surviving sects for the reward, while Tang Shouchang followed to watch them; at the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, Chen Fei felt a sudden palpitation.

• Wu Renxu's seal and spirit treasure both cracked when they tried to contain the Evil creature, and he realized its weakened state resisted sealing and recovered faster than they could kill it.
• Wu Renxu explained that the Evil creature drew World Vital Energy from the Void and proposed feeding it bloody food and resentful thoughts before sealing it.
• Wu Renxu offered Tang Shouchang a share of Feihuang City's reward if he joined them, while Zhang Chaoyun agreed to proceed for the Crimson Flame Gold and Mysterious Sky Fruit.
• Tang Shouchang condemned their plan to use surviving sects as food, then followed Wu Renxu and Zhang Chaoyun to keep watch over them.
• At the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, Chen Fei killed a Gu worm with Divine Soul Power and suddenly felt palpitations as he looked into the distance.

Wu Renxu and Zhang Chaoyun drove the weakened evil creature toward the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, intending to use its people as blood food despite Tang Shouchang’s objections. Chen Fei confronted them, and after they attacked him, he broke Wu Renxu’s restraint and met Zhang Chaoyun’s spear with the Qian Yuan Sword, whose dormant spirituality awakened.

• Wu Renxu, Zhang Chaoyun, and Tang Shouchang pursued the weakened evil creature past the devastated sects of the Qianyan Mountain Range.
• Tang Shouchang recognized the Yuan Chen Sword Sect ahead and urged Wu Renxu not to make it the evil creature’s blood food because Chen Fei had helped discover the threat.
• Wu Renxu and Zhang Chaoyun rejected Tang Shouchang’s objection and continued driving the evil creature toward the sect.
• Chen Fei sensed the approaching danger and went outside the formation to confront the Mountain Sea Realm cultivators.
• Wu Renxu pinned Chen Fei down, but Chen Fei broke free as Zhang Chaoyun thrust at him with his spear.
• Chen Fei raised the Qian Yuan Sword to meet Zhang Chaoyun’s spear, and the sword’s dormant spirituality awakened in a burst of light.

Chen Fei survived Zhang Chaoyun’s devastating spear strike and began breaking through to the Mountain Sea Realm while Zhang Chaoyun and Wu Renxu tried to stop him. With the Yuan Chen Sword Sect threatened and his power surging, Chen Fei entered the Void, where myriad talents resided.

• Zhang Chaoyun’s spear nearly destroyed Chen Fei, and Wu Renxu shattered the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s formation as its disciples watched helplessly.
• Chen Fei reappeared far from the pit, drawing in World Vital Energy to heal his injuries and begin his Mountain Sea Realm breakthrough.
• Wu Renxu and Zhang Chaoyun attacked Chen Fei, but his changing soul let him perceive their moves and teleport away.
• Wu Renxu threatened to kill the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s disciples if Chen Fei teleported again, and Chen Fei vowed to destroy their sects if they harmed them.
• Chen Fei’s power began to sublimate, the surrounding World Vital Energy surged, and he entered the Void where myriad talents resided.