Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei and his companions guarded the safe zone’s wall in the Black God Barrier, where they learned that remnants of souls could become powerful demon wraiths. As night fell, the souls outside turned ferocious and surged toward the wall.

• Chen Fei discovered that the Black God Barrier weakened cultivation power and that staying inside for too long could contaminate the soul.
• Zhao Ruizheng led Chen Fei, Tang Shouchang, and Zhao Tianyue to guard the northeastern boundary of the safe zone.
• Luo Xiaofeng warned them that remnants of souls could become fourth-rank demon wraiths without warning.
• Chen Fei used his panel to simplify the Purification Array’s cultivation method and practiced drawing its runes while watching the wall.
• At nightfall, the remnants of souls outside the wall turned savage and gathered in a surge toward the city wall.

Chen Fei resisted a Soul Impact that used his memories to lure him into an illusion, then recognized that the Black God’s mist was copying his abilities to offer him insights into Unceasing Talent. He rejected the offer, but the Black Mist produced an even greater amount of insight, leaving the temptation before him.

• Chen Fei saw an illusion in which Feng Xiupu warned him that the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had discovered his killing of Shen Dingyan and come to capture him.
• Chen Fei broke free of the Soul Impact and realized that the blood-eyed version of himself and the attackers had been simulated by the Black Mist.
• A Black Mist figure copied Chen Fei’s techniques and talents, but froze after each one except Unceasing Talent, which it demonstrated at a higher level.
• Chen Fei realized the figure was offering genuine insights into advancing Unceasing Talent, but suspected the Black God had a deeper purpose and refused to absorb them.
• The Black Mist churned and presented Chen Fei with three times as much insight into Unceasing Talent as before.

Chen Fei resisted the Black God’s tempting cultivation insights, then discovered that the Xuanyuan Sword could purge their hidden pollution and safely absorbed the insights into Unceasing Talent. After reporting the barrier’s strange events at the Mission Hall, his group received a small reward, while the threat posed by the Black God remained unresolved.

• Chen Fei rejected increasingly valuable insights into Unceasing Talent, then used the Xuanyuan Sword phantoms and Dragon Subduing Elephant to cleanse the pollution and absorb them safely.
• Chen Fei found Tang Shouchang recovering from an illusion and learned that neither Tang Shouchang nor Zhao Tianyue had received cultivation insights.
• Chen Fei saw Zhao Ruizheng disperse the insights he had earned because he could not remove their hidden trap.
• Chen Fei, Tang Shouchang, Zhao Tianyue, and Zhao Ruizheng reported the barrier’s events at the Mission Hall and received a jade ruler with contribution points for slaying a fourth-tier early-stage monster.

Chen Fei and the others learned that the Black God Barrier offered tempting cultivation insights, then left the city wall to hunt demonic creatures at Stone Forest Canyon. Chen Fei discovered the barrier seemed to empower him after he absorbed its insights, and he killed an early fourth-tier demonic creature before it could reach the group.

• The Mission Hall reported that Mountain Sea Realm cultivators could receive powerful cultivation insights by passing the barrier's illusion trials, though no one dared absorb them.
• After waiting through the night, Chen Fei and the other three returned to the city wall and earned only a small amount of Contribution Value for guarding it.
• Zhao Ruizheng decided the group should leave the wall and hunt demonic creatures at nearby Stone Forest Canyon.
• On the journey, Chen Fei sensed that his vision had improved inside the barrier and suspected the insights he had absorbed had caused it to treat him as one of its own.
• Zhao Ruizheng drew a demonic creature from the canyon with his blood energy, and Chen Fei spotted it before the others could sense it.
• Chen Fei shot the early fourth-tier demonic creature through the head and then tore its body apart with three more arrows.

Chen Fei and his companions hunted monsters near the entrance to Stone Forest Canyon, where Chen Fei’s archery swiftly killed several early fourth-tier monsters and earned him most of the Contribution Value. After waiting for more monsters to appear, the group entered the canyon to continue the hunt.

• Chen Fei killed the first monster with four arrows, and the team’s Merit Jade Rulers divided the Contribution Value according to their efforts.
• Zhao Ruizheng lured more monsters toward the canyon entrance with his blood vitality while Chen Fei used the Heavenly Eye to locate and kill them through the Black Mist.
• Chen Fei killed three early fourth-tier monsters near the entrance, earning the largest share of their Contribution Value and convincing Zhao Tianyue of his ability.
• Chen Fei killed another monster after the team waited, bringing his Contribution Value close to five points.
• After an hour passed without more monsters appearing, Zhao Ruizheng led Chen Fei, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang into Stone Forest Canyon.

Chen Fei’s group escaped Stone Forest Canyon after he detected a horde of monsters, and the survivors later thanked them for the rescue. That night, Chen Fei absorbed insights from Unceasing Talent, and his vision within the Black God Barrier expanded again.

• Zhao Ruizheng called off the group’s exploration when Stone Forest Canyon seemed unnaturally empty, but Chen Fei detected monsters pursuing several Mountain Sea Realm cultivators and led his companions toward the exit.
• Chen Fei’s group escaped the canyon and reported the situation to Luo Xiaofeng, who sent a team to rescue the pursued cultivators.
• Xiao Qiping and the surviving cultivators returned to thank Zhao Ruizheng’s group, while Zhao Ruizheng declined Xiao Qiping’s fourth-rank spiritual material.
• After night fell, Chen Fei saw an illusion of Haiyu City and the Demon King, then gathered and filtered insights from the figure demonstrating Unceasing Talent.
• Chen Fei’s Xuanyuan Sword phantoms absorbed the insights, raising his Unceasing Talent proficiency, and his black-and-white vision expanded in range and breadth.

Chen Fei used his enhanced sight to guide Zhao Ruizheng, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang through the Black God Barrier, killing monsters from afar as they approached Stone Forest Canyon. When Chen Fei spotted someone from Xiao Qiping’s group following them, Zhao Ruizheng chose to change course rather than engage the monsters ahead.

• Chen Fei decided that his expanded vision made the Black God Barrier’s restrictions manageable and continued cultivating Unceasing Talent.
• Chen Fei persuaded Zhao Ruizheng’s group to return toward Stone Forest Canyon, saying his eye technique let him sense monsters through the Black Mist.
• Chen Fei killed two monsters with arrows from a distance, earning most of their Contribution Value while Zhao Ruizheng, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang followed safely.
• Near Stone Forest Canyon, Chen Fei spotted six monsters, including two mid fourth-tier monsters, and Zhao Ruizheng proposed a plan to fight them.
• Chen Fei noticed someone from the group chased by monsters the previous day following them, so Zhao Ruizheng ordered the group to change direction.

Chen Fei and his companions fought six monsters near Stone Forest Canyon, but the two mid fourth-tier monsters proved far stronger and more resilient than expected. As Zhao Tianyue and Tang Shouchang faced a fatal strike, Chen Fei drew the Qian Yuan Sword and blocked it.

• Chen Fei’s group killed four monsters, with Chen Fei’s arrows and his companions’ weapons working together to bring them down.
• Zhao Ruizheng struggled to hold off two mid fourth-tier monsters while Chen Fei’s Xuanyuan Sword-enhanced arrows wounded the other one, whose injuries rapidly healed.
• Zhao Tianyue and Tang Shouchang burned their Divine Souls but were smashed into a crater by the monster’s ink-black attack.
• The monster raised its claw to kill Zhao Tianyue and Tang Shouchang as Zhao Ruizheng was unable to reach them in time.
• Chen Fei appeared with the Qian Yuan Sword and blocked the monster’s attack.

Chen Fei fought a Mid Mountain Sea Realm fourth-tier beast alone and overcame its strength and rapid healing. After the beast fell, Zhao Tianyue and Tang Shouchang stopped, having arrived too late to help.

• Chen Fei blocked the beast’s claw strike, and Tang Shouchang pulled Zhao Tianyue back while Zhao Ruizheng watched in disbelief.
• Chen Fei forced the beast back and wounded it with a sword strike, but Black Mist rapidly healed its injuries.
• Zhao Tianyue and Tang Shouchang charged to help Chen Fei as the beast attacked again, but its aura slowed their approach.
• Chen Fei broke the beast’s horn and used the Xuanyuan Sword Array to weaken its healing.
• Chen Fei split the beast in two with the Qian Yuan Sword and engulfed it in violet lightning to destroy its life force.

Chen Fei and his companions killed the monsters inside the Black God Barrier and returned to the Mission Hall, where Chen Fei exchanged his contributions for the Seven Stars Radiance Art. After studying it, he fused it with the Purple Heaven Gang Sword and obtained the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Sword.

• Chen Fei used the Xuanyuan Sword Formation and its true spirit to wear down and kill a mid-stage fourth-rank monster while Zhao Ruizheng, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang killed the other one.
• Chen Fei and the others left the Black God Barrier, and Zhao Ruizheng reported the monsters before he and his companions rented secret chambers to recover.
• Chen Fei exchanged his medium Contribution Value for small contributions and chose the Seven Stars Radiance Art, a body-tempering art that could ignite stars to increase combat strength.
• Chen Fei rented a secret chamber, studied the Seven Stars Radiance Art, and fused it with the Purple Heaven Gang Sword to create the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Sword.

Chen Fei discovered that the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Sword could cultivate the Talent Fusion Skill Sword Suppressing Star River, which combined three talents to enhance his abilities. After weighing defensive, balanced, and offensive options, he decided to prioritize attack power as he prepared to choose a new talent.

• Chen Fei found the Sword Suppressing Star River cultivation method in the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Sword and learned that it could fuse three talents.
• Chen Fei calculated that combining Sword Sect Talent, Unceasing Talent, and Prison Suppression Talent could raise his endurance limit by twenty percent, while an offensive talent could boost his attack power.
• Chen Fei considered choosing Bronze Skin, Iron Bones to improve both attack and defense, but concluded that his existing defenses were already sufficient.
• Chen Fei recalled killing a mid-fourth-tier demon creature and reasoned that greater attack power could help him defeat similar enemies without relying on the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Chen Fei resolved to choose an offensive talent and used Simplify.

Chen Fei hunted monsters, exchanged his Contribution Value for Purple Spirit Pills, and cultivated Unceasing Talent to Great Perfection. He completed his fourth divine palace and entered the void to seek a talent, choosing Indestructible Vajra Body before his divine soul could no longer endure the journey.

• Chen Fei killed monsters near Stone Forest Canyon and gained Contribution Value before cultivating the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Sword and absorbing insights from the Black God Barrier.
• Chen Fei exchanged seven Contribution Value points for seven Purple Spirit Pills and prepared to break through inside the barrier.
• Chen Fei absorbed the final insight of Unceasing Talent, reached its Great Perfection Realm, and used the pills to complete his fourth divine palace.
• Chen Fei entered the void to search for a talent and passed Piercing the Firmament, Confinement, Bronze Skin, Iron Bones, and Tenacity.
• Chen Fei discovered Divine Protection and Indestructible Vajra Body, chose Indestructible Vajra Body, and flew back toward the starting point.

Chen Fei broke through to the Mid Mountain Sea Realm and gained the Indestructible Vajra Body talent, greatly increasing his strength and defense. He tested his new power against a group of fourth-rank monsters and faced the last surviving mid fourth-rank monster with his Qian Yuan Sword.

• Chen Fei returned from the Void with the Indestructible Vajra Body talent, and the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Sword connected his first three Divine Palaces as he broke through to the Mid Mountain Sea Realm.
• Chen Fei stabilized his new strength, assessed how his Spiritual Treasures had fallen behind, and headed toward the entrance of Stone Forest Canyon.
• Chen Fei killed an early fourth-rank monster with two arrows from the Shadow Lock Bow.
• Chen Fei blasted apart two more early fourth-rank monsters as the remaining mid fourth-rank monster charged at him.
• Chen Fei put away the Shadow Lock Bow, drew the Qian Yuan Sword, and faced the charging monster.

After reaching the Mid Mountain Sea Realm, Chen Fei tested his increased strength against monsters in the Black God Barrier and gathered merits, but he avoided Stone Forest Canyon after spotting a Late Fourth Order monster among a large group. He spent his Contribution Value on materials to improve his Spiritual Treasures, beginning with the Qian Yuan Sword, which advanced to Mid-grade.

• Chen Fei killed a monster with his strengthened thunder swordsmanship, then simplified his Indestructible Vajra Body talent into body tempering.
• Chen Fei found dozens of monsters, including a Late Fourth Order monster, gathered inside Stone Forest Canyon and chose to investigate elsewhere.
• Chen Fei hunted monsters for three hours, raising his Merit Jade Ruler's tally to five Medium Merits and sixteen Minor Merits, then returned to the city.
• Chen Fei encountered Xiao Qiping's group and went to the Mission Hall, where he spent all his Contribution Value on materials to upgrade his Spiritual Treasures.
• Chen Fei infused a Shining Star Stone into the Qian Yuan Sword, raising it to the rank of a Mid-grade Spiritual Treasure.

Chen Fei upgraded his Spiritual Treasures, tested the power and cost of Sword Suppressing Star River, then entered the Black God Barrier to absorb technique insights. Xiao Qiping’s group tracked him into the barrier and planned to injure him and search his soul for the location of his hunting ground.

• Chen Fei upgraded the Hidden Origin Bell, Shadow Lock Bow, and Spirit Shocking Jade Pendant, improving their abilities despite difficulties refining the pendant.
• Chen Fei activated Sword Suppressing Star River and found that it increased his attack power and damage reduction, but heavily burdened his mind and soul.
• Chen Fei cultivated for several hours, then entered the Black God Barrier alone to absorb technique insights and noticed that the Black Mist had grown denser.
• Xiao Qiping’s group used Gu Yande’s compass to track Chen Fei, suspecting he had found a place where monsters were easy to kill.
• Xiao Qiping ordered his group to injure Chen Fei and search his soul for the location, while Jing Chaodong cautioned them not to kill him outright.

Chen Fei sensed Xiao Qiping’s group pursuing him, but stayed to absorb insight into the Indestructible Vajra Body before facing their attack. He killed Gu Yande with a single arrow, leaving Xiao Qiping and the others confronted with Chen Fei’s unexpectedly powerful Mid Mountain Sea Realm strength.

• Jing Chaodong joined Xiao Qiping’s team, and the group used Gu Yande’s compass to track Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei spotted his pursuers, fled nearly fifty miles, and waited for night to absorb insight from the remnant souls’ illusion.
• Xiao Qiping’s group followed Chen Fei to his location, where he dismissed their suspicions and ordered everyone to attack together.
• Chen Fei revealed his Mid Mountain Sea Realm cultivation and shot Gu Yande, whose defenses shattered before the arrow killed him.

Chen Fei used the Shadow Lock Bow to kill Gu Yande and hold off Xiao Qiping, Jing Chaodong, Liao Zhongqing, and Huo Yuyin inside the Black God Barrier. Jing Chaodong used Water Source Heavenly Release to reach Chen Fei at close range, and Chen Fei drew the Qian Yuan Sword to meet his attack.

• Chen Fei killed Gu Yande with one arrow, then shot at Liao Zhongqing as Xiao Qiping rushed to intercept it.
• Xiao Qiping and Jing Chaodong blocked Chen Fei's arrows and advanced while Chen Fei continued firing at them and their companions.
• Xiao Qiping burned his divine soul to withstand Chen Fei's attacks, while an arrow blew away Liao Zhongqing's right arm and shoulder.
• Huo Yuyin pulled the wounded Liao Zhongqing behind him as Xiao Qiping and Jing Chaodong kept closing in on Chen Fei.
• Jing Chaodong used Water Source Heavenly Release to appear beside Chen Fei and slashed at his neck with the Water Source Blade.
• Chen Fei sent the Shadow Lock Bow behind him and drew the Qian Yuan Sword to slash at Jing Chaodong.

Chen Fei killed Jing Chaodong, Xiao Qiping, Liao Zhongqing, and Huo Yuyin after they ambushed him, then discovered that the Black God Barrier rewarded him for killing Mountain Sea Realm cultivators. He left to hunt monsters and, at Qingsong Lake, spotted a familiar-looking tree deep within the lake.

• Chen Fei severely wounded Jing Chaodong with one sword strike, then killed him as Xiao Qiping and the others charged.
• Xiao Qiping burned his Divine Soul and entered his Yaksa state, but Chen Fei unleashed his full power and killed him with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei killed Liao Zhongqing and Huo Yuyin, collected the five men’s spiritual treasures and essence, and destroyed their Merit Jade Rulers.
• Chen Fei realized the Black God Barrier had expanded his vision as a reward for killing Mountain Sea Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei went to Stone Forest Canyon and then Qingsong Lake, where he spotted a familiar-looking tree deep in the water.

Chen Fei discovered that the Tree King of Feihuang Sect might be hiding at Qingsong Lake and reported the danger to the Mission Hall. He then experimented with disrupting a Black God Barrier node near Stone Forest Canyon, making progress toward creating a monster-spawning region, and exchanged his rewards for cultivation pills.

• Chen Fei recognized the Tree King of Feihuang Sect at Qingsong Lake and realized its strength could threaten Mountain Sea Realm cultivators and Demon Kings.
• Chen Fei found seven cultivators guarding a basin where monsters rapidly formed and understood it was a node of the Black God Barrier.
• Chen Fei reasoned that he might exploit his unusual connection to the barrier to disrupt a node and create a similar region himself.
• At Stone Forest Canyon, Chen Fei used the Heavenly Eye and Qian Yuan Sword to test a barrier node, gradually extending the disruption before surrounding nodes repaired it.
• Chen Fei reported the possible presence of the Tree King at Qingsong Lake and received three minor merits pending verification.
• Chen Fei exchanged all his Contribution Value for pills to aid his cultivation.

Chen Fei fused Water Source Heavenly Release into a cultivation art that let him transpose to his clone across vast distances, gaining a concealed escape route. After discussing the Black God Barrier’s accelerating changes with Zhao Ruizheng and the others, he led them into the barrier toward a different opportunity than the newly announced Qingsong Lake mission.

• While sorting the belongings of Xiao Qiping’s group, Chen Fei studied Jing Chaodong’s Water Source Heavenly Release and devised a way to combine its body exchange with his clone art and Teleportation talent.
• Chen Fei fused the cultivation art into the Water Source Shadow Escape Art, creating a method to transport his body to his clone’s location, then began cultivating it alongside other arts.
• After five days of recovery, Zhao Ruizheng and the other two met Chen Fei, who told them that the Black God Barrier’s mutations were accelerating.
• The Mission Hall announced an encirclement of Qingsong Lake with increased rewards, and Chen Fei found that he had received a medium merit for confirming the Tree King’s appearance there.
• Chen Fei declined to head straight to Qingsong Lake and led Zhao Ruizheng and the other two into the Black God Barrier to check another location.