Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei entered the Heart Realm after touching a Bronze Bead and learned that the beads were array artifacts for a Heart Array sealing a half-human, half-anomaly being. To pass the monk’s trial, Chen Fei performed a trick that left the monk stunned.

• Sun Quan ordered the sect disciples to open the anomaly realm entrance within two hours as it began to tremble.
• Chen Fei used the Dragon Subduing Elephant to absorb most of the Alien Energy in his mind, then found that the entrance had disappeared and Ge Hongjie and the others were still trapped inside.
• Chen Fei approached a Bronze Bead and used the Alien Energy to enter a space containing a Stone Tower, where he touched the bead and was transported to the Heart Realm.
• The monk told Chen Fei that the Heart Beads were array artifacts for undoing a Heart Array and revealed that the being it sealed was half human and half anomaly.
• Chen Fei accepted the monk’s trial and pulled a warm roasted chicken from nowhere, leaving the monk stunned.

Chen Fei passed the first Heart Bead trial and gave the bead to Fang Qinghong, who released Zhang Fangqiong and Mu Langtao but kept Ge Hongjie hostage. After absorbing most of Fang Qinghong’s Alien Energy and seeing fragments of his past, Chen Fei reached the second Heart Bead, where the monk asked him to demonstrate the same technique again.

• Chen Fei passed the monk’s trial, received the damaged Heart Bead, and learned that all three Heart Beads had to be destroyed at once to break the Heart Formation.
• Chen Fei returned the Heart Bead to Fang Qinghong, who released Zhang Fangqiong and Mu Langtao and sent Chen Fei to retrieve another bead while keeping Ge Hongjie behind.
• Chen Fei absorbed most of the Alien Energy Fang Qinghong had placed in his Dantian and saw memories suggesting Fang Qinghong might be trying to possess him or make him into a clone puppet.
• Chen Fei reached the second Heart Bead and met the monk again, who asked him to repeat the technique he had used in the previous trial.

Chen Fei passed the second Heart Bead trial by demonstrating his Space Grid, then sought the third bead to gain control of the Heart Array and thwart Fang Qinghong. He lured the anomalies away with a White Candle and entered the third trial, where the monk proposed a trade that Chen Fei could not accept.

• Chen Fei demonstrated his Space Grid to the monk, passed the second trial, and obtained the Heart Bead.
• Chen Fei studied the Heart Bead’s patterns, then decided to pursue the third bead rather than return to Fang Qinghong, who planned to turn him into an avatar puppet.
• Sun Quan learned that the anomaly realm entrance would take at least three more hours to break and called for Elder Qin’s help.
• Fang Qinghong sensed movement in the second Heart Bead and planned to escape during the fight between the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and the Anomaly King; he had also recaptured Mu Langtao and another person.
• Chen Fei used a flaming arrow to light a White Candle, drawing nearby anomalies away long enough for him to enter the third Heart Bead’s trial.
• The monk offered to teach Chen Fei basic Heart Array control in exchange for learning his technique, but Chen Fei said his innate ability could not be taught.

Chen Fei received the third Heart Bead from the monk and mastered its control method enough to seize control of the Heart Array. He discovered the Anomaly King’s location and freed Zhang Fangqiong and Mu Langtao, then began forcing the array toward Fang Qinghong.

• The monk gave Chen Fei the third Heart Bead after watching him produce a ration, then moved him away from the violent anomalies.
• Chen Fei simplified the Heart Array’s control method into Heartquake and raised his proficiency by accelerating his heartbeat.
• Fang Qinghong gave Chen Fei half an hour to return with the second Heart Bead and threatened his fellow disciples when Chen Fei reported the anomalies blocking the way.
• Chen Fei used the Heart Beads to locate the Anomaly King inside a grave and found Zhang Fangqiong and Mu Langtao imprisoned beneath Fang Qinghong’s courtyard.
• Chen Fei moved Zhang Fangqiong and Mu Langtao to the city gate and took control of the Heart Array, trapping Fang Qinghong as his attempts to break free failed.

Chen Fei used the Heart Array to send Fang Qinghong into the Anomaly King's grave, destroying the array in the process. As the anomaly realm destabilized and the disciples escaped, Sun Quan and Qin Dingyu arrived and refused Fang Qinghong's pleas for help, trapping him when he tried to flee.

• Fang Qinghong battered the damaged Heart Array, but Chen Fei poured his power into it and forced the seal into the Anomaly King's grave.
• The Anomaly King recognized Fang Qinghong, and the two began fighting while Chen Fei stored the shattered Heart Bead fragments and fled toward the city gate.
• Chen Fei reunited with Ge Hongjie, Zhang Fangqiong, and Mu Langtao as the anomaly realm shook and its exit reopened.
• Sun Quan and Qin Dingyu arrived, ordered the disciples to leave, and found the grave cracking as the Anomaly King fought inside.
• Fang Qinghong pleaded with the elders to help him, but they refused and Qin Dingyu set up an array around the grave.
• Fang Qinghong burst from the grave in a streak of spiritual light, but Qin Dingyu's array stopped him.

Qin Dingyu and Sun Quan killed Fang Qinghong after he tried to seize control of the Ghost Realm, and the survivors returned to camp. Chen Fei learned that reaching the Aperture Refining Realm required practitioners to locate and carefully open their own acupoints.

• Qin Dingyu and Sun Quan forced Fang Qinghong back into the tomb, where the Anomaly King attacked him.
• Fang Qinghong unleashed the Reverse Anomaly Art to destabilize the Ghost Realm, but Qin Dingyu sealed off his control and stabilized it.
• The Anomaly King tore apart Fang Qinghong’s final soul, and Sun Quan entered the tomb to confront the creature.
• At camp, Chen Fei realized Fang Qinghong had died, while Ge Hongjie, Zhang Fangqiong, and Mu Langtao discussed their recovery and plans to attempt the Aperture Refining Realm.
• Ge Hongjie explained that practitioners had to use Spiritual Power to find and excavate their individual acupoints before guiding qi into them.

After the Wind Ghost Realm collapsed, Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect alive and advanced to the Marrow Refinement Realm. He then learned that the Alchemist Alliance was offering a mission to improve the Flying Tomb Pill, which could help him obtain its scarce ingredients.

• Sun Quan announced that the Wind Ghost Realm had shattered, and Qin Dingyu revealed that the dead Anomaly King had left behind a jade fragment containing an incomplete half-anomaly transformation technique.
• Chen Fei returned to the sect with the surviving disciples, where Guo Linshan and Feng Xiupu welcomed him and discovered he had reached the Marrow Refinement Realm.
• Chen Fei went back to his residence and sent Chi Defeng word that he had returned, intending to earn silver through alchemy and repay the fifty thousand taels he owed his master.
• Chi Defeng told Chen Fei that shops had monopolized the aged medicinal ingredients needed for the Flying Tomb Pill, making bulk purchases difficult.
• Chi Defeng told Chen Fei that the Alchemist Alliance had a popular mission to improve the Flying Tomb Pill by reducing its need for aged ingredients, and Chen Fei asked what reward the Alliance offered.

Chen Fei learned that an Alchemist Alliance task offered an Origin Opening Pill for a new pill formula, giving him a chance to heal Feng Xiupu, and agreed to join Guo Linshan in a secret realm assessment. After Yu Yisheng challenged Chen Fei to a spar, Chen Fei refused and told the messenger to say Yu was stronger if he kept pressing.

• Chi Defeng told Chen Fei that the Alchemist Alliance offered an Origin Opening Pill for a qualifying pill formula, and Chen Fei decided to pursue the task to heal Feng Xiupu.
• Chen Fei told Chi Defeng to bring more medicinal ingredients so he could raise his Flying Tomb Pill proficiency.
• Guo Linshan told Chen Fei he had passed the first True Disciple assessment and invited him to join the upcoming secret realm assessment as his assistant.
• Chen Fei agreed to enter the secret realm with Guo Linshan and considered how to improve his strength beforehand.
• Yu Yisheng sent Chen Fei a challenge to spar, but Chen Fei refused and said he would concede that Yu was stronger if he kept pressing.

Chen Fei learned the Void Roaming Steps to improve his agility ahead of the True Disciple secret realm, then went to Xianyun City to earn money and heard that Si Yuanhai and Si Yinan had disappeared. He began improving the Flying Tomb Pill formula while training his movement techniques.

• Yu Yisheng grew furious when Chen Fei refused to fight and said he would concede that Yu Yisheng was stronger.
• Chen Fei agreed to join Guo Linshan in the True Disciple secret realm, and Feng Xiupu gave him the Void Roaming Steps to strengthen his maneuvering.
• Chen Fei discovered he lacked the silver to simplify the technique, so he went to Xianyun City to earn money and learned from Chi Defeng that Si Yuanhai and Si Yinan had disappeared.
• Chen Fei spent five days in Xianyun City training the Void Roaming Steps and Soul Chasing Steps, then accepted a Flying Tomb Pill improvement task from the Alchemist Alliance.
• Qin Jinglan told Chen Fei that veteran alchemists had found clues about improving the Flying Tomb Pill formula, then gazed at him with a suggestive smile.

Chen Fei set out to improve the Flying Tomb Pill formula and developed Lingering Pill No. 2, a cheaper pill with about sixty percent of the Flying Tomb Pill’s efficacy. He brought it to the Alchemist Alliance for evaluation, where Duanmu You began assessing his claim.

• Qin Jinglan explained that the Alchemist Alliance would judge improved pill formulas and that other alchemists would have a month to submit better results.
• Chen Fei moved into a hot spring inn to cultivate and, on the fifth day, reached Great Perfection in the Flying Tomb Pill formula.
• Chen Fei fused the Flying Tomb Pill and Floating Pill formulas, refined Lingering Pill No. 1, and found its efficacy fell far short of the Flying Tomb Pill.
• Chen Fei revised the formula using some aged medicinal ingredients and refined Lingering Pill No. 2, whose efficacy reached about sixty percent of the Flying Tomb Pill’s at just over half the ingredient cost.
• Chen Fei took Lingering Pill No. 2 to the Alchemist Alliance, where Duanmu You questioned his rank and Chen Fei offered the pill for verification or a Seventh-Rank Alchemist assessment.

Chen Fei sold the Lingering Pill No. 1 formula, bought a pill formula to study, and began simplifying it into Egg Fried Rice. While heading to his rented courtyard to cook, he encountered the grown-up Si Yinan, who begged him to save her unconscious grandfather.

• Tu Jilin told Chen Fei that his pill did not meet the Alliance's requirements and explained that the improved Flying Tomb Pill had to retain at least seventy percent of its effect while costing less than half as much.
• Chen Fei decided he needed to study more pill formulas, sold Lingering Pill No. 1 to the Alliance for three thousand Contribution Value, and exchanged for the Grain Abstinence Pill formula.
• Chen Fei simplified the Grain Abstinence Pill into Egg Fried Rice, but the innkeeper refused to let him use a kitchen, so he planned to cook at his rented courtyard.
• After completing his Dragon Subduing Elephant cultivation, Chen Fei left the inn to buy rice and eggs and heard Si Yinan call to him in an alley.
• Si Yinan explained that her grandfather was unconscious and pleaded with Chen Fei to help before he failed to wake.

Chen Fei prepared to help Si Yinan rescue Si Yuanhai from the Heart Anomaly Realm, where the old man's spiritual power was trapped. After perfecting the Tranquil Source Art, Chen Fei entered the realm with Si Yinan and began following the jade thumb ring to locate Si Yuanhai.

• Si Yinan brought Chen Fei to the hidden courtyard where Si Yuanhai lay unconscious and explained that his spiritual power was trapped in the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Si Yinan described the heart candle, the realm's taboos, and the protections prepared for their physical bodies, and Chen Fei agreed to join her rescue attempt.
• Chen Fei cultivated the Tranquil Source Art to Great Perfection, gaining a spiritual attack trait that could briefly freeze an enemy's thoughts.
• Si Yinan lit the heart candle and used a secret technique to send Chen Fei and herself into the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei found himself in a colorless plain beside the childlike Si Yinan, who held Si Yuanhai's jade thumb ring to guide their search.

Chen Fei and Si Yinan searched the Heart Anomaly Realm for Si Yuanhai's heart-soul, but dangerous regions and the dwindling Heart Candle forced them to change course and hurry. Chen Fei entered a Black Mist to press onward, where a figure appeared before them.

• Chen Fei sensed deadly danger ahead and guided Si Yinan through several detours, eventually finding a passable route near the Shuiyun River.
• As the Heart Candle burned down, Chen Fei carried Si Yinan and ran, but the whispers nearly drove her to destroy the candle before he stopped her.
• Chen Fei found another dangerous barrier and chose to enter the weaker Black Mist rather than risk running out of time.
• Chen Fei resisted the mist's whispers with the Great Perfection Tranquil Source Art and halted when a figure appeared ten meters ahead.

Chen Fei and Si Yinan escaped the Black Mist and used a Heart Bead fragment to stop Si Yuanhai's soul from being dragged away, but they were forced out of the Heart Anomaly Realm when danger approached their bodies. In Xianyun City, Yan Dequan attacked them for Si Yuanhai's school's secret art, and Chen Fei stayed behind to let Si Yinan escape with her grandfather.

• Chen Fei used Eternal Moment to freeze the Anomaly Shadows resembling himself and Si Yinan, then led them out of the Black Mist.
• Chen Fei gathered the Heart Candle's light around them, slowing its burn, but Si Yinan warned that Si Yuanhai's soul was being dragged away.
• Chen Fei wrapped a Heart Bead fragment around Si Yinan's thumb ring, causing Si Yuanhai's soul to stop moving, before an escalating danger forced them from the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Yan Dequan and his disciples confronted Chen Fei and Si Yinan in the courtyard, demanding Si Yuanhai's school's secret art.
• Chen Fei told Si Yinan to carry Si Yuanhai away, blocked Yan Dequan's Anomaly Hands, and wounded two pursuing disciples as Si Yinan fled.

Chen Fei drove Yan Dequan away by invoking the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, then rescued Si Yinan and Si Yuanhai and brought them to a rented courtyard. With Si Yuanhai still near death and their chances to enter the Heart Anomaly Realm exhausted, Chen Fei questioned Si Yinan about activating the Anomaly Jade.

• Chen Fei fought Yan Dequan, breaking through his Anomaly Hands and illusions, but neither combatant committed to a decisive final move.
• Chen Fei claimed to be a disciple of the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and warned that fellow disciples were coming, so Yan Dequan withdrew with his two disciples.
• Chen Fei followed Si Yinan's tracks to a courtyard, carried Si Yuanhai away, and moved them to a rented courtyard for safety.
• Chen Fei placed Heart Bead fragments around Si Yuanhai's bed and gave more to Si Yinan to help conceal their auras.
• Si Yinan explained that she had exhausted her strength and could no longer activate the Anomaly Jade, prompting Chen Fei to ask what power it required.

Chen Fei discovered that the Heart Anomaly Realm might refine Spiritual Power, then used the Essence Gathering Bead to restore Si Yuanhai and Si Yinan. Si Yinan regained enough strength to activate the Anomaly Jade again, leaving the group ready to return to the Heart Anomaly Realm and retrieve Si Yuanhai’s soul.

• Chen Fei found that Spiritual Power could activate the Anomaly Jade, but Si Yinan lacked the strength to use it again until she recovered.
• Chen Fei arranged for Guo Linshan, Ge Hongjie, and Zhang Fangqiong to guard the courtyard against Yan Dequan while he and Si Yinan entered the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei noticed that his Spiritual Power had become more refined after entering the Heart Anomaly Realm and suspected that resisting its contamination could temper it.
• Guo Linshan, Ge Hongjie, and Zhang Fangqiong arrived, and Chen Fei explained Si Yuanhai’s condition and the plan to recover his soul.
• Chen Fei used the Essence Gathering Bead to send vital energy into Si Yuanhai and Si Yinan, briefly improving Si Yuanhai’s condition while restoring Si Yinan’s strength.
• Si Yinan announced that she could activate the Anomaly Jade again.

Chen Fei and Si Yinan entered the Heart Anomaly Realm to retrieve Si Yuanhai, evaded its dangers, and used a Heart Bead fragment to identify and seal the anomaly mimicking him. They returned to Xianyun City, where Si Yuanhai awoke, and Chen Fei found that his Spiritual Power had grown more refined.

• Zhang Fangqiong straightened Chen Fei's clothes and warned him to be careful before Si Yinan used the Anomaly Jade to send him and Si Yinan into the Heart Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei carried Si Yinan through the black mist and used repeated Eternal Moment Mind Skills to get past the paired anomalies resembling them.
• Chen Fei and Si Yinan found two identical Si Yuanhais, and Si Yinan explained that choosing the wrong one could destroy her grandfather's mind and soul.
• Chen Fei used a Heart Bead fragment to expose the anomaly's icy aura, then struck it with Eternal Moment and pushed the thumb ring into its forehead.
• The anomaly vanished into the thumb ring, Si Yuanhai briefly regained lucidity, and Chen Fei and Si Yinan returned to Xianyun City.
• Si Yuanhai opened his eyes beside Si Yinan and Chen Fei, while Chen Fei noticed his Spiritual Power had become more refined.

After helping Si Yuanhai recover, Chen Fei received Heart Anomaly Stones and discovered that refining them could purify his Spiritual Power, though he had to carefully withstand their contamination. He spent the following days training and grinding Grain Abstinence Pill proficiency, and the chapter ends with his Dragon Subduing Elephant Body Suppression reaching Proficient.

• Si Yuanhai thanked Chen Fei and the others with Heart Anomaly Stones, then agreed with Chen Fei on a code phrase for finding him later.
• Chen Fei tested a Heart Anomaly Stone and used the Tranquil Source Art to resist its whispers, purifying his Spiritual Power as the stone crumbled.
• Chen Fei decided to earn enough Contribution Value to exchange for the Heart Locking Art rather than ask Feng Xiupu for more help.
• Chen Fei repeatedly cooked small batches of egg fried rice to raise his Grain Abstinence Pill experience to 1075/3000.
• Chen Fei cultivated at the hot spring inn for several days until Dragon Subduing Elephant Body Suppression reached Proficient.

Chen Fei completed his Grain Abstinence Pill and Void Roaming Steps training while continuing to improve the Flying Tomb Pill formula after learning that another pill master had nearly won the Alliance task. The chapter ended with Chen Fei completing the fifth layer of the Source Connection Technique, though his pill formula remained unfinished.

• Chen Fei reached Great Perfection in the Grain Abstinence Pill and gave his oily Egg Fried Rice to beggars and neighborhood children.
• Chi Defeng told Chen Fei that a young pill master had met the basic requirements for the Flying Tomb Pill task, prompting Chen Fei to intensify his experiments.
• Chen Fei bought a high-grade pill furnace after his old one broke during his formula tests.
• Chen Fei reached Great Perfection in Void Roaming Steps and demonstrated how it let him create five lifelike afterimages within a few steps.
• Chen Fei continued testing pill formulas, and on the tenth day his fifth layer of the Source Connection Technique reached completion.

Chen Fei advanced his alchemy skills while continuing to refine the Origin Opening Pill formula, then earned Tu Jilin’s recognition by producing Flying Tomb Pills with half a Pill Pattern during his Seventh-Rank Alchemist examination. He learned Shi Changji had met the same improvement-task standard, but realized he had not yet shown the full extent of his ability.

• Chen Fei found that Titanic Strength and Iron Bones complemented each other, leaving him able to contend with ordinary Organ Refinement Realm martial artists.
• After another failed attempt at the Origin Opening Pill formula, Chen Fei decided to obtain his Seventh-Rank Alchemist certification.
• Chen Fei met Tu Jilin at the alliance headquarters and began the Flying Tomb Pill examination, using fierce heat and forceful refinement.
• Chen Fei unexpectedly produced Flying Tomb Pills with half a Pill Pattern, astonishing Tu Jilin, who said Chen Fei was now Shi Changji’s equal.
• Tu Jilin explained that Shi Changji had met the Flying Tomb Pill task requirements by producing pills with half a Pill Pattern using ordinary herbs.
• Chen Fei realized he had achieved the same result without even exerting himself yet.