Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei killed a wraith and was pursued by Gong Jingxiu, a Rain Clan genius who had mastered the Space Main Rule. Gong Jingxiu trapped Chen Fei in Heart Anomaly Black Mist, but Chen Fei dropped his feigned weakness and struck back, staggering him.

• Chen Fei saw through a wraith's concealment, fought it while hiding his true strength, and shattered its spirit body to collect its spiritual essence.
• Gong Jingxiu threatened Chen Fei and the humans in his weapon, then attacked when Chen Fei tried to return to Xian City using the Dust Reversal Formation.
• Chen Fei discovered that Gong Jingxiu had mastered the Space Main Rule and escaped the formation's blockade, but Gong Jingxiu pursued him away from the city.
• Gong Jingxiu surrounded Chen Fei with Heart Anomaly Black Mist and attacked with the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword.
• Chen Fei revealed his composure, drew the Qian Yuan Sword, and met Gong Jingxiu's strike, forcing him to stagger backward.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Gong Jingxiu in battle, using his superior foundation and control of the Space Rule to wound him and prevent his escape. Gong Jingxiu deployed the Rain Clan’s defensive treasures and began forcing a breakthrough to the Late Heaven Opening Realm, while Chen Fei faced the heavenly curtain blocking his path.

• Gong Jingxiu realized Chen Fei had concealed his Mid Heaven Opening Realm cultivation and was stronger than him despite wielding a top-grade Heaven Opening Profound Treasure.
• Chen Fei struck Gong Jingxiu twice, worsening his injuries until his origin began to shatter.
• Gong Jingxiu tried to escape with the Space Rule, but Chen Fei’s superior control forced him to reappear and trapped him in distorted space.
• Gong Jingxiu used the Heaven Realm Jade and his protective robes to shield himself, then began breaking through to the Late Heaven Opening Realm.
• Chen Fei examined the heavenly curtain and prepared to overcome its defenses.

Chen Fei killed Gong Jingxiu before he could complete his breakthrough to the Late Heaven Opening Realm, then absorbed his talent and obtained the incomplete Myriad Spirits Return to One Art. Chen Fei returned to Xian City disguised as gravely wounded, where the battle continued as Black Mist encroached on the Dust Reversal Formation.

• Chen Fei pierced the Heaven Realm Jade and rune furnace cauldron with the Qian Yuan Sword, interrupting Gong Jingxiu’s breakthrough and gravely injuring him.
• Gong Jingxiu briefly steadied his power and resumed breaking through, but Chen Fei’s second sword strike pierced his chest and killed him as his Heart Anomaly Power backlashed.
• Chen Fei absorbed Gong Jingxiu’s talent spiritual light, collected his possessions, and obtained an incomplete Myriad Spirits Return to One Art from the fragments he could read.
• Chen Fei concealed the traces of the battle and returned to Xian City with his aura lowered to look gravely wounded.
• The battle outside Xian City continued as Black Mist surrounded and began gnawing at the Dust Reversal Formation.

Chen Fei returned to Xian City after killing Gong Jingxiu, while the Rain Clan and its wraiths pressed the defenders harder and Gong Nanming learned of his son’s death. As the Xuan Clan suffered heavy losses, Chen Fei promised to protect them and began using the Astonishing Molting Art to absorb the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword and other treasures into his own equipment.

• Chen Fei submitted a wraith’s spiritual essence at the Mission Hall and received three Mystic Light Stones as Gong Nanming erupted in fury over Gong Jingxiu’s death.
• Li Song and the surviving Xuan Clan cultivators returned from battle after five of their eleven Heaven Opening Realm cultivators had died, and Li Song asked Chen Fei to protect the clan if disaster struck.
• Chen Fei promised to look after the Xuan Clan and returned to his courtyard, where he had left a battle soldier, the human race’s Heaven Opening Profound Treasure, and a drop of Origin Blood.
• Chen Fei transferred the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword’s stored items into the Hidden Origin Bell and began using the Astonishing Molting Art to absorb the sword into the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei brought out Gong Jingxiu’s rune robe, and two battle soldiers joined him in using the Astonishing Molting Art on the sword, the robe, and the Hidden Origin Bell.

Chen Fei examined Gong Jingxiu’s treasures, tried to strengthen the Hidden Origin Bell with the dangerous Heaven Realm Jade, and discovered a way to purify wraith spiritual essence. Using purified essence and Mystic Light Stones, he advanced his cultivation in Xian City and prepared to return to the battle outside.

• Chen Fei fused the Myriad Spirits Return to One Art into the Heavenly Frost Universe Divine Art, gaining a modest improvement in his understanding of the Space Rule.
• Chen Fei fed Gong Jingxiu’s Heaven Realm Jade to the Hidden Origin Bell through the Astonishing Molting Art, hoping it would absorb the treasure’s power.
• Chen Fei purified wraith spiritual essence by repeatedly merging Space Grids, then purified Gong Jingxiu’s spiritual essence and sealed samples of the contaminants for future use.
• Chen Fei shattered the purified wraith and Gong Jingxiu spiritual essences, restoring the Heavenly Frost Universe Divine Art to Great Perfection and expanding his Space Rule to a radius of one thousand one hundred miles.
• Chen Fei completed the fourth Subordinate Rule of water and advanced Heaven Suppressing until the Destruction Rule began to emerge in his physique.

Chen Fei used the Astonishing Molting Art to upgrade the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Origin Bell while Xian City’s defenders faced an increasingly dangerous war of attrition. With both treasures now powerful enough to contend with Peak Heaven Opening Realm cultivators, he prepared to face the escalating threat.

• As the battle around Xian City settled into a precarious deadlock, the growing Black Mist strengthened the resentful spirits, weakened the cultivators, and corroded the Dust Reversal Formation.
• Chen Fei used himself and his battle avatar to complete the Qian Yuan Sword’s transformation, sacrificing the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword to raise it to a Seventh Rank supreme Heaven Opening Profound Treasure.
• The upgraded Qian Yuan Sword increased Chen Fei’s usable power of space from a radius of eleven hundred miles to sixteen hundred miles, making him ready to properly challenge a Peak Heaven Opening Realm cultivator.
• Chen Fei infused the Karma Rule into the Hidden Origin Bell and joined his two battle avatars in accelerating its transformation with the rune robe and Heaven Realm Jade.
• The Hidden Origin Bell reached the middle stage of supreme Heaven Opening Profound Treasures and gained the Heaven Realm Jade’s protective heavenly curtain, which Chen Fei said could withstand attacks from Peak Heaven Opening Realm cultivators as long as his Origin Power lasted.

Chen Fei left a dangerous mission briefing in Xian City just as Gong Tianshu’s blade killed Shi Jianzhu and destroyed the Dust Reversal Formation. With the city exposed to the Rain Clan and resentful spirits, Chen Fei fled alongside Li Song and other cultivators.

• Chen Fei stored the Hidden Origin Bell, took a Spirit Awakening Pill, and was summoned by Elder Xu to the Mission Hall.
• Xu Fuming offered valuable treasures and manuals to Heaven Opening Realm cultivators willing to undertake a dangerous mission vital to Xuanling Domain’s survival; Chen Fei declined and left with several others.
• A blade radiance from the Rain Clan’s territory wounded the divine souls of cultivators across Xian City and killed Shi Jianzhu, breaking the Dust Reversal Formation.
• With the formation destroyed, the Xian Clan withdrew as the Rain Clan and resentful spirits attacked the exposed cultivators.
• Chen Fei joined Li Song and several Xuan Clan cultivators in flight, hiding his speed among the fleeing crowd as slower cultivators began to die.

After the Dust Reversal Formation fell, Chen Fei helped the fleeing cultivators escape while Gong Nanming and Yan Cuiping tried to capture them and uncover who killed Gong Jingxiu. An Changcheng confronted Gong Nanming, and Chen Fei sped his group away under cover of a formation as Yan Cuiping continued hunting for answers.

• Chen Fei reassured Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators that they were allies, then sensed the danger as they fled the broken formation.
• Gong Nanming and Yan Cuiping intercepted the Heaven Opening Realm cultivators and demanded they become resentful spirits, while Yan Cuiping asked who had killed Gong Jingxiu.
• An Changcheng returned to protect the fleeing cultivators and fought Gong Nanming, preventing him from trapping them.
• Yan Cuiping seized and killed two fleeing cultivators while searching for information about whom Gong Jingxiu had pursued.
• Chen Fei formed a seventh-order formation around his group, using it to boost their speed and catch up with the cultivators ahead.

Chen Fei fled with Li Song and the Xuan Clan after Yan Cuiping identified him as the cultivator who killed Gong Jingxiu and ordered the Rain Clan to hunt him. When Gong Tianshu’s six strikes shattered the remaining Eighth Order formations and began contaminating the Xuanling Domain, Chen Fei set out to escape the former Eighth Order territories, only to appear directly before Xue Tangzhu and the Rain Clan pursuers.

• Yan Cuiping tortured Liao Jian, searched his memories, and recognized Chen Fei as the cultivator Gong Jingxiu had pursued.
• Chen Fei used the Space Rule to move Li Song and the Xuan Clan tens of thousands of miles away from Yan Cuiping and the other Heaven Opening Realm cultivators.
• Yan Cuiping ordered Xue Tangzhu and the Rain Clan cultivators to locate Chen Fei and hunt him down.
• Gong Tianshu unleashed six blade strikes, killing seven Creation Realm experts and shattering the seven Eighth Order formations as the Xuanling Domain’s World Vital Energy began to become contaminated.
• Chen Fei decided to flee the former Eighth Order territories with Li Song and the others, but his group appeared in front of Xue Tangzhu and the Rain Clan pursuers.

Chen Fei led Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators away from the Rain Clan pursuers, then confronted Xue Tangzhu and her four companions alone. After the Rain Clan’s formation matched his Peak Heaven Opening Realm strength, Chen Fei unleashed the Destruction Rule and pierced one of them with the Qian Yuan Sword.

• Chen Fei carried Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators away from Xue Tangzhu and the four Rain Clan cultivators pursuing them.
• After flying far from the other cultivators, Chen Fei told Li Song and the others to stay back and charged toward the Rain Clan group.
• Li Song led the Xuan Clan cultivators forward to support Chen Fei, while Xue Tangzhu and her companions formed the Sea Abyss Formation.
• Chen Fei’s first sword strike suppressed the formation, revealing his Mid Heaven Opening Realm cultivation and strength on the level of a Peak Heaven Opening Realm cultivator.
• Xue Tangzhu shifted the formation and unleashed its power against Chen Fei, who activated the Destruction Rule and shattered the sea abyss with his next strike.
• Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword pierced a Rain Clan cultivator.

Chen Fei overwhelmed five Late Heaven Opening Realm Rain Clan cultivators, killing them one by one despite their formation, treasures, and escape talismans. Li Song and the others watched from a safe distance as Chen Fei finished off Xue Tangzhu, leaving the Rain Clan’s threat unanswered.

• Chen Fei blocked the Rain Clan cultivators’ attacks with the Hidden Origin Bell and killed Jing Huang with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei broke the Sea Abyss Formation with another sword strike and killed a second Rain Clan cultivator.
• Li Song and the others retreated farther away, recognizing why Chen Fei had told them to keep their distance.
• Chen Fei stopped Xue Tangzhu and two others from escaping with Heaven Escape Talismans, then killed two of them in quick succession.
• Chen Fei killed the last survivor, Xue Tangzhu, after Xue Tangzhu threatened him on behalf of the Rain Clan.

Chen Fei defeated Xue Tangzhu and the other four Rain Clan cultivators, then fled across the Xuanling Domain with Li Song’s group as the Heart Anomaly Realm contaminated the region. A mysterious force suppressed Heaven Suppressing and trapped Chen Fei in an imperial examination, where he began to recognize fragments of his true life and saw a familiar panel appear.

• Chen Fei absorbed the spiritual essence and memories of Xue Tangzhu’s group, confirming that Yan Cuiping had sent them.
• Chen Fei took Li Song and the others away from the battlefield and headed for the edge of the Xuanling Domain to find a safe place to cultivate.
• A chanting voice overtook Li Song and the others, while a power from the Heart Anomaly Realm suppressed Chen Fei, Heaven Suppressing, and his soul.
• Chen Fei awoke in an imperial examination hall with memories of studying to become a scholar, though he sensed that he had actually trained in martial arts.
• Chen Fei answered a question about cultivation by writing “Breathe, swing your arms!” and watched part of his origin flow into the paper.
• A familiar illusory panel appeared before Chen Fei, and countless memories surged into his mind.

Chen Fei recovered his memories and Spiritual Wisdom inside the Imperial Examination Anomaly, then tested how its rules worked. After passing the preliminary examination, he wished for an Eighth Order Creation Realm cultivation method and received an unexpectedly profound Body Refining Realm manual instead.

• Chen Fei realized that writing answers let the anomaly drain the origins of his cultivation methods, but the Panel Backup could protect his foundation.
• Chen Fei completed the preliminary examination and saw Yan Cuiping and Hao Yuerong among the Heaven Opening Realm cultivators waiting outside.
• The examiner announced that the cultivators had passed and gave jade stones to several Peak Heaven Opening Realm cultivators, including Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei entered the provincial examination, read the jade stone's promise to grant one wish, and asked for an Eighth Order Creation Realm cultivation method.
• The examiner brought Chen Fei a secret manual that contained a Body Refining Realm method rather than the requested cultivation method.

Chen Fei completed the Imperial Examination paper, losing his Aperture Refining and Joint Aperture Realm origin but discovering that Heaven Suppressing preserved his physical combat strength. As he tested whether he could restore his origin, the Imperial Examination Anomaly absorbed the vital energy he drew from the void.

• Chen Fei studied the Body Refining Realm manual he had wished for and began answering the examination questions while Yan Cuiping, Hao Yuerong, and the other Peak Heaven Opening Realm experts watched.
• Chen Fei recalled his failed attempt to join the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and filled the paper as the Anomaly drained his Aperture Refining and Joint Aperture Realm origin.
• Chen Fei found that Heaven Suppressing had left his physique almost unaffected, while Li Song and the other Xuan Clan cultivators remained trapped under the Anomaly’s influence.
• Chen Fei noticed that Yan Cuiping had lost far less origin than the other Peak Heaven Opening Realm experts and saw her give him a cold smile.
• After the gong sounded, Chen Fei tried to cultivate with the Yuan Chen Sword Canon and draw vital energy from the void, but the Anomaly absorbed the newly formed origin before it could enter his body.

Chen Fei tested whether offering the Imperial Examination Anomaly more origin would improve the cultivation techniques it granted, and received two increasingly refined manuals suited to the human race. After passing the metropolitan examination and discovering a flaw in the anomaly, he entered the palace examination with his origin severely depleted.

• Chen Fei restored his plundered Body Refining Realm origin, then deliberately let the anomaly take another portion of his Aperture Refining Realm and Joint Aperture Realm origin.
• Hao Yuerong offered to watch over one another, while Yan Cuiping continued to regard Chen Fei with hostility over her descendant's death.
• After Chen Fei made a wish for a top-tier Eighth Order Creation Realm cultivation technique, the examiner gave him two manuals that showed stronger human-race characteristics.
• Chen Fei studied the manuals, completed the metropolitan examination, and let the anomaly plunder his origin up to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Chen Fei noticed a flaw in the Imperial Examination Anomaly as he left the courtyard, and the examiner announced that the palace examination was beginning.

Chen Fei let the Imperial Examination Anomaly drain all of his cultivation origins so he could qualify for the palace examination and obtain a powerful Heaven Opening Realm inheritance. He carried the unconscious Xuan Clan cultivators with him into the hall, where he and the remaining cultivators faced the anomaly’s Creation Realm power.

• Chen Fei used the jade stone to request a top-tier eighth-order cultivation art, then studied the three manuals the examiner brought him.
• Chen Fei wrote his answer on the examination paper and allowed the anomaly to drain his Heaven Opening Realm origin, while he secretly began restoring it with the panel.
• The bell ended the examination, and the cultivators whose origins had been completely drained collapsed unconscious.
• Chen Fei covered Li Song and the other Xuan Clan cultivators with the Hidden Origin Bell and carried them into the hall, leaving the other unconscious cultivators behind.
• Chen Fei, Hao Yuerong, Yan Cuiping, and the remaining cultivators entered the hall and sensed the anomaly’s Creation Realm power; Chen Fei then activated the jade stone at his seat.

Chen Fei gained a new human cultivation inheritance and used the anomalous imperial examination to obtain a complete Eighth Order technique. When Gong Nanming tore open the anomaly to rescue Yan Cuiping, she attacked Chen Fei, who fled through space as she pursued him.

• Chen Fei fused the Myriad Phenomena Settling Art with his existing techniques to create the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Frost Art.
• Chen Fei wrote incomplete Eighth Order cultivation methods on the examination paper and offered his Heaven Opening Realm origin.
• Chen Fei made a wish for a top-tier Eighth Order cultivation technique and received a complete Eighth Order inheritance as Gong Nanming's attack shook the anomalous world.
• Gong Nanming tore open the sky, and Yan Cuiping recognized his hands as the anomaly's pressure disappeared.
• Yan Cuiping attacked Chen Fei, who evaded her and vanished using the Space Rule, but she followed his trail.

Chen Fei escaped Gong Nanming’s blockade by combining Heaven Escape Talismans with his mastery of the Karma, Space, and Power Rules, but Yan Cuiping pursued him and trapped him again. When he used Heaven Realm Jade to stop her sword attack, she recognized it as Gong Jingxiu’s and flew into a rage.

• After Yan Cuiping struck Chen Fei with her sword, he endured the blow with his body tempered by Heaven Suppressing despite having little origin left.
• Chen Fei used three Heaven Escape Talismans and a fleeting fluctuation in Gong Nanming’s restriction to escape, while Hao Yuerong and the others failed to break through the blockade.
• Yan Cuiping asked Gong Nanming to send her after Chen Fei because he had killed Jingxiu, and Gong Nanming teleported her along Chen Fei’s trail while remaining caught in the Imperial Examination Anomaly’s counterattack.
• Chen Fei shifted away after emerging hundreds of thousands of miles away, but Yan Cuiping caught up and sealed the space with a small cauldron.
• Chen Fei blocked Yan Cuiping’s Nine Nether Swords with a heavenly curtain, which she recognized as Heaven Realm Jade like Gong Jingxiu’s, then shattered one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals.

Chen Fei recovered his Origin Power with shattered spirit crystals and fought Yan Cuiping, who had trapped him after Gong Jingxiu’s death. He killed Yan Cuiping with World Breaking Slash, leaving her dead and her escape attempt thwarted.

• Yan Cuiping shattered the Hidden Origin Bell’s heavenly canopy with the Nine Nether Sword, but Chen Fei blocked her next strike with the Qian Yuan Sword after recovering his strength.
• Chen Fei clashed with Yan Cuiping and overpowered her even after she sacrificed her foundation to strengthen the Nine Nether Sword and seize control of the surrounding World Vital Energy.
• Yan Cuiping raised her Heaven Realm Jade, but Chen Fei’s World Breaking Slash pierced her defenses and opened a hole through her chest.
• Yan Cuiping tried to escape using the Sky Universe Cauldron, but Chen Fei’s Sky Dome Domain interrupted its teleportation.
• Chen Fei struck Yan Cuiping with World Breaking Slash, destroying her head and erasing her life from her Rule Body.

Chen Fei destroyed Yan Cuiping’s traceable treasures and escaped while Gong Nanming remained locked in battle with the Imperial Examination Anomaly. At the Xuanling Domain’s impassable border, he sheltered the rescued Xuan Clan cultivators and gave the human race new cultivation arts and breakthrough materials.

• Chen Fei extracted Yan Cuiping’s memories, then destroyed the Nine Nether Sword and Sky Universe Cauldron to feed their spiritual essence to the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Origin Bell.
• Gong Nanming burned his origin and attacked the Imperial Examination Anomaly, but it kept him from leaving while the other cultivators fled.
• Chen Fei reached the border of the Xuanling Domain, found its Ninth Order barrier impossible to cross, and hid inside a mountain.
• Chen Fei released Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators from the Hidden Origin Bell and gave them Earth Origin Stones to help restore their depleted origins.
• Chen Fei gave Dao Yue Peak and the others cultivation arts from the anomalous world and spiritual materials to help Peak Dao Integration Realm cultivators break through to the Heaven Opening Realm.