Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei learned how the Nether Heaven Reverse Calamity Art could let him briefly embody a rule, but lacked enough top-grade spirit crystals to simplify it. After prying tens of thousands of depleted crystals from the grand hall’s ninth order formation, he emerged concealing his cultivation and faced three eighth order peak experts, one of whom recognized him.

• Chen Fei learned that ninth order peak experts monopolized powerful main rules and considered postponing any attempt to embody the power rule.
• Chen Fei discovered that simplifying the Nether Heaven Reverse Calamity Art required seventy thousand top-grade spirit crystals, far more than he possessed.
• Chen Fei froze the ninth order formation with his time subordinate rule fragment and pried open its array eyes to excavate top-grade spirit crystals.
• Liao Chengwu and two other eighth order peak experts waited outside as the formation’s power collapsed, then considered asking Chen Fei to cooperate on another formation.
• Chen Fei emerged while concealing his cultivation, but Liao Chengwu identified him as Chen Fei of the human race from the Xuanling Domain at the Creation Realm Mid Stage.

Chen Fei agreed to help Guan Xilü, Jin Deggu, and Liao Chengwu break the secret realm’s arrays, but rejected Guan Xilü’s attempt to control him with a soul-locking bracelet. When the three attacked, Chen Fei revealed overwhelming power and shattered Guan Xilü’s bonded treasure, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Liao Chengwu recognized Chen Fei and revealed his Creation Realm Mid Stage cultivation and reputation for killing Eighth Order Late Stage cultivators.
• Guan Xilü offered to divide the treasures, and Chen Fei agreed to work with the three men to break the arrays.
• Guan Xilü gave Chen Fei a soul-locking bracelet under the pretense of protecting him, but Chen Fei knocked it away.
• Guan Xilü and Jin Deggu attacked Chen Fei, who summoned the Six-legged Dragon Elephant and destroyed Jin Deggu’s cage with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei shattered Guan Xilü’s Mysterious Sky Bracelet, damaging Guan Xilü’s soul, then struck him and blasted half his body into bloody mist.

Chen Fei killed Guan Xilü, Jin Deggu, and Liao Chengwu after overpowering the three Eighth Order Peak cultivators. He learned that the Night Clan had a Ninth Order Supreme Realm expert, then reached the mountainside and found the Kuāng Clan gone as a colossal ship headed toward the Xuanling Domain.

• Chen Fei pursued Guan Xilü after shattering his Mystic Treasure, and killed him with a second sword strike while Jin Deggu and Liao Chengwu fled.
• Chen Fei trapped Jin Deggu and Liao Chengwu with the Sky Dome Domain and overwhelmed their combined defense with his sword.
• Liao Chengwu revealed that the Night Clan had a Ninth Order Supreme Realm expert, but Chen Fei ignored his threat and killed both him and Jin Deggu.
• Chen Fei absorbed the three cultivators' memories and spiritual essence, confirming that the Night Clan Supreme was confined to the Tianbo Domain.
• Chen Fei reached the mountainside and found the Kuāng Clan gone, while a colossal ship was flying toward the Xuanling Domain.

Chen Fei entered a Ninth Order palace complex and discovered a spiritual pill refined to strengthen weapons, whose power could raise an Eighth Order Top-grade Mysterious Treasure to a level approaching a Heaven Piercing Mysterious Treasure. Meanwhile, the Night Clan investigated Liao Chengwu’s death, and Chen Fei realized its ancestor had recently become a Ninth Order Supreme Realm expert.

• Liao Wangjun reported Liao Chengwu’s death to Liao Xingfeng, who ordered him to find the murderer.
• Chen Fei studied the spoils taken from Guan Xilü, Jin Deggu, and Liao Chengwu, learning that Liao Xingfeng had hidden his strength before breaking through to the Ninth Order Supreme Realm.
• Chen Fei froze a node in the Ninth Order grand formation, entered the palace complex, and sent his battle soldiers to search its halls.
• A battle soldier led Chen Fei to a hall containing a pill furnace, and Chen Fei caught the spiritual pill that flew out when he opened it.
• Chen Fei determined that the pill contained the origin of a Lower Realm Plane and could greatly enhance an Eighth Order Top-grade Mysterious Treasure, producing a half-step Heaven Piercing Mysterious Treasure.

Chen Fei upgraded the Qian Yuan Sword, found seeds that might help Baka, and dismantled another ninth-order array for its spirit crystals. He used those resources to simplify the Nether Heaven Reverse Calamity Art and cultivate until his essence reached the absolute limit of the eighth order, while considering how to conceal a rule from ninth-order supremes.

• Chen Fei fused a pill into the Qian Yuan Sword to raise its power and collected shriveled seeds from a pot for Baka.
• Chen Fei excavated the ninth-order array’s eyes, collapsing the array and obtaining more than forty thousand top-grade spirit crystals.
• Chen Fei spent seventy thousand top-grade spirit crystals to simplify the Nether Heaven Reverse Calamity Art into the Nine Heavens Nether Demon Art.
• Chen Fei absorbed spiritual essence and cultivation insights, increasing his rule crystals from nineteen to twenty-one.
• Chen Fei’s essence reached the absolute limit of the eighth order, and he wondered whether powerful essence could conceal his rule from other supremes.

Chen Fei advanced his techniques and explored the Heavenly Dao, learning the cultivation methods for several powerful rules while deciding to embody the weaker hail rule. He left the mountain without attempting the dangerous transformation and headed toward an unoccupied mountain to seek resources.

• Chen Fei raised the Nether Heaven Reverse Calamity Art to Great Perfection, condensed five new main rules, and brought the True Codex of the Mystic Matriarch to Perfection.
• Using his minor heaven passage state, Chen Fei observed the Heavenly Dao and discovered cultivation methods for the life, chaos, and fate rules.
• Chen Fei saw that seven Dao ancestors occupied the nine powerful rules, while Ninth Order experts from other domains had claimed many other rules in the Void Return Realm.
• Chen Fei chose to embody the hail rule, but withdrew from the special state without attempting the minor heaven passage because he lacked enough resources to recover safely.
• Chen Fei used the Heavenly Derivation Technique, found that its suggested mountains were overcrowded, and headed for an unoccupied mountain to break its array and collect resources.

Chen Fei collected spirit crystals and treasures from unattended ninth-order arrays, simplified his time subordinate rule to Stillness, and began cultivating it more quickly. As he searched another array, five Eighth Order Peak cultivators arrived to kill him, and he noticed them approaching.

• Chen Fei broke unattended ninth-order arrays, gathered over two hundred thousand top-grade spirit crystals, and found Golden Goblet Pills and a medicinal field that greatly accelerated plant growth.
• Chen Fei used the spirit crystals to simplify the time subordinate rule to Stillness and learned that focused cultivation could condense it in about twenty years.
• Chen Fei chose to remain in the secret realm and continued searching arrays for more spirit crystals, despite having already obtained his main goals.
• Yu Shizhong, Miao Yonghe, and three other Eighth Order Peak cultivators gathered after learning Chen Fei was on the mountain and set out to kill him.
• As Chen Fei examined another ninth-order array, he sensed the five cultivators approaching and turned to look at them.

Chen Fei faced Yu Shizhong and four other Eighth Order Peak cultivators who had come to kill him, then revealed his mastery of the Time Rule and killed the Illusion Clan Ancestor in one strike. The remaining four fled, but Chen Fei blocked their escape and slowed them with an aura of extreme cold.

• Yu Shizhong and four other Eighth Order Peak cultivators surrounded Chen Fei as he tried to break the Ninth Order grand formation.
• Miao Yonghe and the others attacked together, but Chen Fei used the Time Subordinate Rule Fragment to freeze them in place.
• Chen Fei killed the Illusion Clan Ancestor with one sword strike while the others were immobilized.
• Yu Shizhong, Miao Yonghe, and the other two fled down the mountain, and Chen Fei's Dark Curtain briefly blocked their path before they shattered it.
• Chen Fei caught up and sealed the mountain path ahead of the four cultivators, then slowed them with extreme cold.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Miao Yonghe, Yu Shizhong, the Wall Clan Ancestor, and the Radiance Clan Ancestor with his mastery of the Nether Heaven Reverse Calamity Art and the Time Rule, killing all four. He then appeared at the mountain path and forcibly drew out a phantom resembling Yu Shizhong.

• Yu Shizhong and the others spread out and tried to exhaust Chen Fei by seizing control of World Vital Energy, but Chen Fei claimed nearly all of it.
• Chen Fei exploited flaws in Miao Yonghe's defenses and the others' coordinated attack, then killed Miao Yonghe with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• The Wall Clan Ancestor, the Radiance Clan Ancestor, and Yu Shizhong burned their Essence, Qi, Spirit, and Soul and charged Chen Fei, but he froze them with the Time Subordinate Rule Fragment and killed all three with one sword.
• Chen Fei went to the mountain path and forcibly pulled out a phantom resembling the dead Yu Shizhong.

Chen Fei killed Yu Shizhong, collected the spoils, and resumed breaking a ninth-order formation while other cultivators realized the secret realm was dangerous. Ge Shida used his future rule to enter another formation, while Chen Fei found a meditation cushion and began cultivating in the hall.

• Chen Fei caught Yu Shizhong despite his Mo Clan escape art, killed him, and gathered spiritual essence and mysterious treasures from the five defeated cultivators.
• Chen Fei used the Bronze Runes and God Devouring, then searched the five cultivators' soul fragments but failed to find their ninth-order techniques.
• Chen Fei resumed disrupting the ninth-order formation, while other eighth-order experts sensed the deaths and grew wary of the secret realm.
• Ge Shida used his future rule fragments to pass through a ninth-order formation and enter the palace beyond.
• Chen Fei entered another hall, found a meditation cushion that strengthened his focus and soul, and began cultivating with spiritual essence.

Chen Fei used vast resources to strengthen his cultivation and break the ninth-order formation on his peak, then sensed that the secret realm’s rules had changed. He flew above the realm to investigate and vanished after glimpsing what he believed was the truth.

• Chen Fei cultivated the fate subordinate rule and realized that the Bronze Runes contained an incomplete fate rule that let them plunder innate talent.
• Chen Fei consumed spiritual essence, spirit crystals, and spiritual materials, condensing eight new types of rules and advancing Dragon Elephant Heaven Suppressing and the True Codex of the Mystic Matriarch.
• As Eighth Order Experts broke formations across the secret realm, subtle changes spread among its peaks, unnoticed even by Ge Shida.
• Chen Fei broke the ninth-order formation on his peak and found fewer top-grade spirit crystals than he expected.
• Chen Fei sensed an eerie change in the secret realm’s rules, flew above the realm to survey it, and then vanished.

Chen Fei broke through Yu Congzhang’s Ninth Order formation and discovered that the Yu Clan’s secret realm was being turned into a furnace to harvest its Eighth Order cultivators. He resisted Yu Congzhang’s soul attack and uncovered the clan’s bloody fate, leaving Yu Congzhang confronted over sacrificing his kin for a breakthrough.

• Chen Fei saw through the illusion created by the Ninth Order formation and froze eight of its poorly functioning nodes, causing the formation to collapse.
• Chen Fei entered a cavern and found Yu Congzhang, the formation’s controller, chained within it.
• Chen Fei realized Yu Congzhang planned to turn the secret realm into a furnace that would trap and consume every Eighth Order cultivator inside.
• Yu Congzhang attacked Chen Fei’s divine soul with a flood of information, but Chen Fei endured the assault and recovered his soul power.
• Chen Fei learned that Yu Congzhang had sacrificed the Yu Clan members to pursue the Ninth Order and accused him of having killed them all.

Yu Congzhang’s history revealed how a Dao Ancestor’s curse drove him to sacrifice the Yu Clan in a desperate bid to break free, and why he had lured eighth-order cultivators into the secret realm. After his soul attack and Wailing Souls failed against Chen Fei, Chen Fei struck him down, though Yu Congzhang’s fate remained unresolved.

• Yu Congzhang escaped his confinement, seized control of the secret realm’s formations, and eventually sacrificed the entire Yu Clan, but the Dao Ancestor’s curse still prevented him from advancing or leaving the realm.
• Yu Congzhang arranged for cultivators from the Xuanling Domain to enter the secret realm, hoping to sacrifice enough eighth-order cultivators to break the curse.
• Yu Congzhang attacked Chen Fei with a Divine Soul Skill, but Chen Fei emerged unscathed and confronted him about sacrificing his clansmen.
• Yu Congzhang defended his actions as mercy for the Yu Clan and launched his chains and Wailing Souls at Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei resisted the phantoms with his cultivation arts and physique, then struck Yu Congzhang with the Qian Yuan Sword, shattering his body.

Chen Fei faced Yu Congzhang, who used the Yu Clan’s power to wield Ninth Order strength, and countered by entering the Minor Heaven Passage realm through the Hail Rule. Chen Fei killed Yu Congzhang, whose remaining phantom could not return to reality.

• Yu Congzhang recovered from Chen Fei’s sword strike and explained that his cultivation art let him survive by drawing on the fused Yu Clan members.
• Yu Congzhang burned the Yu Clan phantoms within him to temporarily gain Ninth Order power and attacked Chen Fei with a Sky-Piercing Giant Palm.
• Chen Fei used his knowledge of the Hail Rule to enter the Minor Heaven Passage realm and gain newly entered Ninth Order power.
• Chen Fei froze Yu Congzhang with Time Stagnation and cut him apart with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Yu Congzhang’s remaining phantom struggled to descend into reality as his vitality vanished.

Chen Fei killed Yu Congzhang, ending the Yu Clan and its curse, but the backlash from his secret art left him gravely weakened. Ge Shida found Chen Fei in the secret realm’s hidden layer and attacked him, while the Hidden Origin Bell failed to stop him.

• Chen Fei froze Yu Congzhang with Time Stagnation and destroyed the special node sustaining the Yu Clan phantoms, causing Yu Congzhang to die and the Dao Ancestor’s curse to vanish.
• A distant figure learned that the Yu Clan had perished, while eighth-order experts in the secret realm sensed a threat lift and some chose to leave.
• Chen Fei’s aura fell from the ninth order to the eighth order peak and continued declining, so he took Yu Congzhang’s spiritual essence to study his techniques.
• Ge Shida entered the hidden layer, recognized Chen Fei as the cultivator who had escaped his cave abode, and mistook his weakened state for an easy opportunity to seize his treasure.
• Chen Fei summoned the Hidden Origin Bell, but Ge Shida used his time subordinate rule fragment to bypass its defenses and reach for Chen Fei.

Chen Fei examined Yu Congzhang’s spirit essence and obtained five incomplete techniques while Ge Shida attacked him, believing him injured. After Chen Fei finished, he put away the damaged Hidden Origin Bell and struck back, forcing Ge Shida to stagger.

• Ge Shida used the Time Subordinate Rule [Future] to attack Chen Fei, but Chen Fei blocked him, revealing that both possessed Time Subordinate Rule Fragments that neutralized each other.
• Ge Shida saw Chen Fei’s weakened aura and attacked again with the Phantom Sun Sword while Chen Fei examined Yu Congzhang’s divine soul fragments.
• Chen Fei obtained incomplete versions of the Heaven Deceiving Art, Yu Light Art, Heaven Piercing Treasure Forging, Soul Spirit Art, and Sacrifice Fiend Art from Yu Congzhang’s memories.
• Ge Shida’s three sword strikes cracked the Hidden Origin Bell, and he challenged Chen Fei to withstand more attacks.
• Chen Fei put away the Hidden Origin Bell and swung the Qian Yuan Sword at Ge Shida, whose Phantom Sun Sword failed to stop the blow from driving him backward.

Chen Fei defeated and killed Ge Shida after overpowering his defenses, then examined his divine soul fragments for insight into the Time Subordinate Rule. He discovered a Time Subordinate Rule Particle—Future.

• Chen Fei’s power surged, and he sent Ge Shida flying with a sword strike that nearly overwhelmed Ge Shida’s self-locked state.
• Ge Shida gathered his power into an absolute defense and tried to escape, but Chen Fei used the remnants of the Ninth Order grand formation to block him.
• Ge Shida burned his Origin to strengthen his defense, but Chen Fei released the stored killing move from the Space Grid and cut through it.
• Ge Shida exploded into blood mist and died, and Chen Fei drew out his spiritual essence and examined his divine soul fragments.
• Chen Fei discovered a Time Subordinate Rule Particle—Future in Ge Shida’s fragments.

Chen Fei extracted the secret realm’s origin and prepared to gather more spirit crystals, but two ninth-order experts arrived as the remaining cultivators looked on in fear.

• Chen Fei simplified the time subordinate rule into the Fate rule and used spiritual essence to develop his cultivation and master Heaven Piercing Treasure Forging.
• Chen Fei used the secret art to extract the secret realm’s origin and stored it in his Space Grid without advancing his treasures.
• Chen Fei returned to the secret realm and found that most eighth-order experts had already left.
• A warship entered the secret realm, bringing a ninth-order expert and hundreds of captured eighth-order cultivators from the Xuanling Domain.
• A black mountain appeared through a second opening, and another ninth-order aura descended.

Chen Fei watched as the Bai Clan and Liang Clan, two ninth-order Supreme Races, claimed the Xuanling Domain and divided the secret realm’s spoils. The chapter left Fu Zhongan ordering the eighth-order cultivators to reveal everything in their mystic treasures.

• Chen Fei realized that the warship and black mountain had both come from the Xuanling Domain, bringing two ninth-order mid-stage experts into the secret realm.
• Kou Haixia and Fu Zhongan agreed to split the Xuanling Domain and make its eighth-order tribes pay tribute to both the Bai Clan and the Liang Clan.
• Kou Haixia struck dozens of mountains, killing nearly forty eighth-order cultivators and destroying the formations there.
• Kou Haixia and Fu Zhongan divided the secret realm’s spirit crystals, spiritual materials, and pills, and both noted that the realm seemed unusually fragile.
• Kou Haixia returned to the black mountain, and Fu Zhongan ordered the eighth-order cultivators to open their mystic treasures and display their contents.

After the Liang Clan and Bai Clan seized valuables from the eighth-order cultivators in the secret realm, Chen Fei returned to Qiankun City and reckoned with the threat posed by the two ninth-order races. He decided to borrow resources to strengthen himself.

• Fu Zhongan ordered the eighth-order cultivators to open their mystic treasures, and Fu Mingtao and Fu XianBing searched them and confiscated their top-grade spirit crystals and selected materials.
• Chen Fei concealed most of his remaining valuables in a Space Grid, then let Fu XianBing inspect the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Origin Bell, surrendering only a few hundred top-grade spirit crystals.
• Fu Mingtao ordered the Xuanling Domain tribes to pay annual tribute before the Liang Clan and Bai Clan departed.
• Shi Ding'an returned to Xian City with the Xian Clan cultivators, while Chen Fei went back to Qiankun City and told Wan Xinjing and Wan Aili that two ninth-order races had arrived.
• Chen Fei considered how vulnerable the eighth-order tribes were to the ninth-order experts, then left the central hall to borrow resources.