Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei brought Zhao Ruizheng, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang to a barrier node and used his power to turn it into a region that rapidly spawned demons. After an hour of killing demons and earning Contribution Value, the group had slain thirteen early fourth-tier demons.

• Chen Fei led Zhao Ruizheng, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang to a Black God Barrier node and told them he would try to make it a special region.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had reached the Mid Mountain Sea Realm, then used the Qian Yuan Sword to force the node out of the barrier.
• Zhao Ruizheng, Zhao Tianyue, and Tang Shouchang held the node in place with elemental force ropes while Chen Fei severed its connections.
• The barrier sent an early fourth-tier demon to the node, and Chen Fei killed it instantly before the four shared its Contribution Value.
• More demons appeared rapidly, and the group killed thirteen early fourth-tier demons over the next hour.

Chen Fei harvested Contribution Value in the Black God Barrier, exchanged it for half of Star Holy Land’s Star God Art, and fused it into the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Art. As Chen Fei studied his improved cultivation art, the Black God Barrier erupted with a black pillar of light and began shrinking.

• Chen Fei moved between barrier nodes with Zhao Ruizheng and the other two, killing demonic creatures and accumulating Contribution Value while sensing that the barrier was preparing for a change.
• Chen Fei’s Indestructible Vajra Body advanced to Proficient Realm, and he urged the others to keep earning Contribution Value before the barrier became more dangerous.
• Chen Fei reported his suspicions to the Mission Hall, then exchanged his Contribution Value for half of Star Holy Land’s Star God Art and other items.
• Chen Fei fused the incomplete Star God Art with his cultivation art, producing the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Art at the beginning of Proficient Realm.
• A black pillar of light burst from the Black God Barrier as the ground shook and the barrier began shrinking.

The Black God Barrier began violently contracting, and nineteen Sun Moon Realm experts, eight Mystic Treasures, and numerous Demonic Emperors joined forces to hold the Purification Array long enough for those inside to escape. After Chen Fei and other cultivators helped reinforce the array, the survivors withdrew, and the barrier collapsed into a point and vanished.

• Chen Fei saw the Black God Barrier contract and crush the land around Misty Lake, while Zhao Ruizheng and the others realized they had escaped it in time.
• A Sun Moon Realm expert drove a sword shadow into the Purification Array, and seven more Mystic Treasures, eighteen additional Sun Moon Realm experts, and Demonic Emperors joined the effort to suppress the barrier.
• As Mountain Sea Realm cultivators and Demon Kings fled the barrier, a Sun Moon Realm expert called on them to lend their vital energy to the Purification Array.
• Chen Fei and the others poured power into the array, but its recoil forced Zhao Tianyue, Tang Shouchang, and many other Early Mountain Sea Realm cultivators away.
• Once the remaining survivors had escaped, the Sun Moon Realm experts and Demonic Emperors withdrew with the Mystic Treasures, and the Black God Barrier contracted into a point and disappeared.

Black God spread its barrier throughout the Endless Sea, allowing monsters to appear anywhere and forcing the factions to seek shelter in Sacred Cities. Chen Fei allied with Zhao Ruizheng’s group and led Qianyan City toward a Sacred City, determined to grow strong enough to face Black God.

• Black God dispersed its barrier across the Endless Sea, prompting the Sun Moon Realm experts and demon emperors to plan Sacred Cities and prepare for a prolonged war.
• News reached the Mountain Sea Realm cultivators that monsters could emerge anywhere, with powerful Fourth Order monsters threatening the Central Continent.
• Chen Fei chose to move into a Sacred City, and he and Zhao Ruizheng agreed to form an alliance with Tang Shouchang and Zhao Tianyue.
• Chen Fei’s group secured a settlement location, then spent a month reinforcing Qianyan City before lifting it toward the Sacred City.
• Chen Fei watched the city travel and resolved to keep strengthening himself for the eventual fight against Black God.

Chen Fei strengthened his techniques while Qianyan City traveled to the Sacred City, where it was admitted through the city’s defenses. The group arrived safely, but Chen Fei sensed another change in the World Vital Energy.

• Min Yanlu and True Person Haiyue brought several thousand people into Qianyan City after deciding to leave the Thousand Feathers Alliance.
• Chen Fei cultivated the Purple Heaven Star Radiance Art and added Prison Suppression and Shift to Sword Suppressing Star River, increasing its defenses, attack power, and speed while worsening its heavy consumption.
• Chen Fei continued working toward his fifth divine palace, while the Water Source Shadow Escape Art progressed toward Great Perfection.
• After traveling over a hundred thousand miles without encountering monsters, Qianyan City reached the Sacred City, where Chen Fei met Lu Zhongjing and followed him to the designated location.
• Qianyan City passed over the Sacred City's rune-inscribed walls, and its inhabitants sensed another subtle change in the World Vital Energy.

After Qianyan City settled in the Sacred City, demons began appearing across the Endless Sea as the Black God’s influence spread. Chen Fei continued cultivating until he sensed the Black God calling its servants from beyond the city walls.

• Lu Zhongjing assigned Qianyan City a less desirable site after Jade Spring Valley claimed its original location, and Chen Fei learned that a newly emerged secret realm lay nearby.
• Qianyan City landed and connected its formations to the Sacred City, then Zhao Ruizheng and Zhao Tianyue brought the Zhao Family to join it.
• Qianyan City expanded and grew prosperous as factions relocated to the Sacred City and the Endless Sea’s World Vital Energy grew increasingly strange.
• A ripple crossed the skies, and tens of thousands of demons descended, with some rapidly reaching the Fourth Order before hiding themselves.
• Sun Moon Realm experts ordered a search for the Black God’s true body, while Chen Fei stayed in Qianyan City to cultivate.
• A month later, Chen Fei sensed the Black God calling its servants and traced the call to beyond the Sacred City’s walls.

Chen Fei left the Sacred City on a reconnaissance mission to investigate the Black God's call and seek its promised technique insights. At the monster gathering site, he accepted a rune from the Black God, purged its corruption with the Xuanyuan Sword, and discovered it had an unexpected effect.

• Chen Fei waited more than twenty days in Tingfeng Courtyard while reports of monster activity spread through the Sacred City.
• Chen Fei accepted a reconnaissance mission to a monster gathering site thirty thousand miles away and left the city after registering.
• Chen Fei hid underground near the site until nightfall, when the Black God's call drew him to a mountain peak.
• The Black God sent Chen Fei a rune filled with corruption, and he allowed it to enter his body to preserve the appearance of submission.
• Chen Fei used phantom Xuanyuan Swords to purge the rune's corruption before merging the rune into his body.
• Chen Fei sensed the rune's effect, and his body distorted before he vanished.

Chen Fei used the Returning to the Ruins rune to infiltrate a monster stronghold, discovered monsters building an altar resembling the Thousand Feathers Alliance’s teleportation altar, and fused the rune with his Teleportation talent to create Void Walk. As he hurried toward the Sacred City to report the danger, a mysterious force struck him near Qianyan City.

• Chen Fei absorbed the Returning to the Ruins rune, received cultivation insight through the Black God's pattern, and learned that monsters would still attack him to preserve his disguise.
• Chen Fei tested Returning to the Ruins, then fused it with his Teleportation talent and created Void Walk, gaining greater speed and defense at the cost of heavy Divine Soul consumption.
• Chen Fei used Void Walk to enter a monster gathering point and saw monsters carving a gigantic altar whose core patterns resembled the Thousand Feathers Alliance's altar.
• Chen Fei left to warn the Sacred City that the Black God might be using the altars to transmit power or summon former subordinates.
• Near Qianyan City, Chen Fei saw a tremendous force erupt from Jade Spring Valley, then blocked another vast force with the Qian Yuan Sword and crashed through a mountain range as its remaining momentum swept toward the city.

Chen Fei repelled a Black God follower attacking Qianyan City, while Sacred City investigated a simultaneous assault on Jade Spring Valley. The attack was revealed as a failed plot by Black God defectors Tang Zhiliang and Duan Suizhi, who planned to destroy Qianyan City later.

• Chen Fei arrived at Qianyan City as a Black God follower attacked, and the attacker vanished after Chen Fei withstood its strike.
• Tang Shouchang provided Sacred City stewards with Imprint Stone footage showing the attack, and the stewards left to investigate Jade Spring Valley.
• At Jade Spring Valley, Ji Zhanfeng examined the footage and questioned Tang Zhiliang and Duan Suizhi, whose valley had suffered heavy damage.
• After the Sacred City stewards left, Duan Suizhi regenerated his arm, revealing that he and Tang Zhiliang had staged the attack as defectors serving Black God.
• Tang Zhiliang blamed Chen Fei's unexpected strength for disrupting their plan and proposed attacking Qianyan City together in a month or two.

Chen Fei reported the anomalies’ Teleportation Altar to the Holy Lords and earned five major merits. He then entered the Heart Anomaly Realm, retrieved the Mengying Stone, and destroyed its hidden Artifact Spirit, leaving him free to pursue its inheritance.

• Chen Fei told Yang Dingwu that anomalies were carving a Teleportation Altar, and demonstrated what he had seen to the Holy Lords.
• The Holy Lords recognized the threat and awarded Chen Fei five major merits for discovering the altar.
• Chen Fei returned to Qianyan City, then used Void Return to slip past the Anomaly Kings and retrieve the Mengying Stone from the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei exposed the Mengying Stone’s concealed Artifact Spirit, ignored its offer to help him cultivate, and shattered it.

Chen Fei restored the Mengying Stone enough to learn True Man Mengying’s Divine Protection Dream Entering Art and discovered its powers of dream entry, soul recovery, possible resurrection, and technique-comprehending clones. He also learned that the clones’ unreliable insights had flawed True Man Mengying’s foundation and contributed to his failure to reach the Sun Moon Realm.

• Chen Fei fused the Dream Eater crystal into the Mengying Stone and entered its restored space to receive True Man Mengying’s five-hour explanation of the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art.
• Chen Fei used his panel to simplify the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art into the Dream Entering Art and quickly gained initial insights into the technique.
• Chen Fei learned that the art could strengthen and gradually heal his divine soul, and that at Great Perfection it offered a twenty percent chance to restore part of his soul after its destruction.
• Chen Fei learned that the art could create Myriad Phenomena Clones from Myriad Phenomena Bamboo to help comprehend techniques, but their insights could be wrong.
• Chen Fei realized that the flawed insights from True Man Mengying’s many clones had led him to cultivate some primary techniques incorrectly and ultimately fail at the Sun Moon Realm breakthrough.

Chen Fei decided to use the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art and Myriad Phenomena Clones to accelerate his cultivation, then spent his merits and most of his wealth acquiring fifty portions of Myriad Phenomena Bamboo. On his way back to Qianyan City, he used the dream art to confirm that Jade Spring Valley’s people bore Black God marks, then left the matter aside to test his new clones.

• Chen Fei reasoned that his cultivation panel could correct errors in the insights provided by Myriad Phenomena Clones, making the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art especially useful against the Black God’s threat.
• Chen Fei exchanged five major merits at the Mission Hall for thirty portions of Myriad Phenomena Bamboo, then bought twenty more at Qingyun Market after comparing prices.
• Chen Fei spent nearly his entire fortune on the fifty portions and flew back toward Qianyan City to test how well the bamboo could support his cultivation.
• Chen Fei used the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art to make his Black God mark resonate with nearby marks, and the dream net pointed toward Jade Spring Valley.
• Chen Fei confirmed his suspicion that Jade Spring Valley was connected to the Black God, then headed to Qianyan City to test the Myriad Phenomena Clones.

Chen Fei used the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art to refine Myriad Phenomena Clones, despite the strain on his soul and the high cost of the materials. After testing the first clone's progress, he found that even a hundred clones would improve his comprehension speed by less than ten percent.

• Chen Fei drew a Myriad Phenomena Formation and spent nearly five hours refining his first Myriad Phenomena Clone from Myriad Phenomena Bamboo, separating a painful soul fragment to complete it.
• Chen Fei ordered the clone to comprehend his Indestructible Vajra Body talent while he began refining another clone.
• After a day, Chen Fei had made three clones, but repeated soul-fragment separation had worsened his soul injury, so he used a Redwood Fruit to recover.
• Chen Fei considered choosing the Divine Protection talent to improve his soul recovery and then checked the first clone's insights into the Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Chen Fei gained only one proficiency point and estimated that fifty clones working for a day would equal about half an hour of his own cultivation.

Chen Fei sacrificed Myriad Phenomena Clones to rapidly perfect the Indestructible Vajra Body, then used Dragon Breath Pills to build his fifth Divine Palace. He broke through the Void barrier and entered a realm of endless starlight.

• Chen Fei destroyed Myriad Phenomena Clones to absorb their insights into the Indestructible Vajra Body, using Redwood Fruits to recover his soul between attempts.
• While Chen Fei cultivated, Black God followers attacked forces across the Sacred City, and three captured followers destroyed their own souls with the Black God mark.
• Chen Fei destroyed all forty-nine prepared Myriad Phenomena Clones and corrected the flaws in their insights until the Indestructible Vajra Body reached Great Perfection.
• Chen Fei's fourth Divine Palace shone as his Indestructible Vajra Body reached Great Perfection, raising his offense and defense.
• Chen Fei swallowed Dragon Breath Pills and constructed his fifth Divine Palace, then used the Indestructible Vajra Body to break through the Void barrier and entered a realm of endless starlight.

Chen Fei explored deeper into the Void and discovered several rare talents, including Piercing the Firmament, Heavenly Connection, Observing Weakness, and Thunderclap. He chose Divine Protection and returned toward the Void’s starting point, preparing to use it to create a Myriad Phenomena Clone.

• Chen Fei passed over familiar talents and continued beyond Divine Protection to search for stronger options.
• He examined Piercing the Firmament, which could double an attack’s power with a chance, and Heavenly Connection, which could repeat an attack but weakened normal attacks.
• Chen Fei discovered Observing Weakness, which could forcibly reveal an opponent’s flaw, and Thunderclap, which strengthened lightning cultivation arts.
• After reaching Thunderclap, Chen Fei turned back without choosing it or the other newly discovered talents.
• Chen Fei collected Divine Protection and flew back toward the Void’s starting point.

Chen Fei’s Divine Protection talent resonated with the Divine Protection Dream Entering Art, increasing their proficiency and improving his divine soul’s recovery. While investigating a Black God follower near Qianyan City, Chen Fei encountered Duan Suizhi and killed him with a single overwhelming sword strike.

• Chen Fei’s Divine Protection talent and Divine Protection Dream Entering Art resonated, raising their proficiency and strengthening his divine soul’s recovery.
• Chen Fei accepted a mission to search for hidden demon hordes and posted a separate mission seeking information about the Spirit Slaughter Technique’s inheritance.
• Chen Fei’s dream net detected a Late Mountain Sea Realm Black God follower approaching the Sword Concealment Palace, and he discovered that the follower was Duan Suizhi.
• Chen Fei forced Duan Suizhi out of the Void state with a lightning attack and withstood Duan Suizhi’s full-powered saber strike.
• Chen Fei activated his talents and burned his divine soul, then shattered Duan Suizhi’s defense and cleaved him apart with the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei killed Duan Suizhi, erased the traces with Returning Ruin, and returned to Qianyan City with his spoils. After simplifying Divine Protection, he considered how to sell Duan Suizhi’s recognizable saber safely and vanished into a Space Rift.

• Chen Fei killed Duan Suizhi, erased the battle’s lingering aura and divine soul imprints, and left before nearby cultivators arrived.
• Wu Zhankun and Ji Zhanfeng investigated the erased traces and discussed the slow spread of Qianyan City’s Imprint Stone method.
• Tang Zhiliang learned that Duan Suizhi’s Soul Tablet had shattered and left Jade Spring Valley to gather information.
• Chen Fei watched Tang Zhiliang depart, decided not to pursue him, and returned to Tingfeng Courtyard with Duan Suizhi’s belongings.
• Chen Fei gained nearly thirty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, simplified Divine Protection into Divine Soul Visualization, and sorted the rest of Duan Suizhi’s collection for sale.
• Chen Fei considered how to sell the recognizable Sparrow Cloud Saber safely, then entered a Space Rift without leaving the secret chamber.

Chen Fei used the Void to erase Duan Suizhi’s residual aura from the Sparrow Cloud Saber and sensed a summons tied to the Dragon Subduing Elephant. After gathering materials and preparing a clone-based escape route, he headed to Bone Cliff Mountain to investigate the summons.

• Chen Fei pushed the Sparrow Cloud Saber through the Void membrane, where Void Power erased Duan Suizhi’s residual aura, and sensed a summons calling for the Dragon Subduing Elephant from the direction of Bone Cliff Mountain.
• Tang Zhiliang returned to Jade Spring Valley unaware that Chen Fei had killed Duan Suizhi, while Ji Zhanfeng and the others suspected the killer was a powerful Black God adherent and watched the valley.
• Chen Fei sold spiritual materials and pills in Qingyun Market, bought eleven stalks of Myriad Phenomena Bamboo, and returned to Qianyan City to refine eleven Myriad Phenomena Clones.
• Chen Fei used one clone to bring the Water Source Shadow Escape Art to Great Perfection, giving him a way to exchange places with a clone in Tingfeng Courtyard and escape danger.
• Chen Fei flew to Bone Cliff Mountain to find out why the Dragon Subduing Elephant Stone Tablet was calling him.

Chen Fei traveled to Bone Cliff Mountain to investigate the Dragon Subduing Elephant Stone Tablet and hunt monsters, but found no monsters along the way. At the ruined Sacred Yan Sect gate, he drove off Xu Pingshan, who had tried to keep him from approaching the tablet.

• Chen Fei left the Sacred City and traveled toward Bone Cliff Mountain, using the Black God mark and dream power to search for monsters.
• Chen Fei passed Liuyu City and found the Sacred Yan Sect's mountain gate in ruins, with the Dragon Subduing Elephant Stone Tablet damaged but slowly restoring itself.
• Chen Fei found Xu Pingshan comprehending the tablet and asked to use it for a day, but Xu Pingshan demanded that he wait or defeat him.
• Xu Pingshan attacked with Blood Sea Surging to the Heavens, but Chen Fei struck him with the Hidden Origin Bell and sent him flying away in a bloody retreat.

Chen Fei activated the Dragon Subduing Elephant Stone Tablet and discovered it opened a passage to a harsher world beyond the Endless Sea. After testing the passage with phantom bodies and an avatar, he found the other world’s pressure suppressed cultivators, and his avatar uncovered a terrifying scene hidden behind an illusion.

• Chen Fei resonated with the Dragon Subduing Elephant Stone Tablet, which transformed into a teleportation passage after he cultivated Dragon Subduing Elephant to Great Perfection.
• Chen Fei sent phantom bodies through the passage and learned that the other world’s pressure crushed them, while the tablet’s power began to weaken.
• Chen Fei sent his Early Mountain Sea Realm avatar through and found that the world’s rules severely suppressed its body, soul, flight, and ability to draw on World Vital Energy.
• Chen Fei’s avatar found ruined buildings and a cliff sealed off by countless Space Cracks, then the Xuanyuan Sword reacted and revealed scorched land beneath the apparent landscape.
• Chen Fei’s avatar looked up and saw an enormous blood-red eyeball staring at it from only a finger’s breadth away.