Chapter Summaries

Zhao Wenxu secretly spread word that Chen Fei possessed a supreme treasure, hoping to draw the Feng Clan into investigating him. Cai Ruojia sent Lu Xinyu to the Xuanling Domain to verify Chen Fei’s cultivation, while Zhao Wenxu waited to see whether his plan would succeed.

• The chapter explained that the Immortal Ascension Path remained imminent despite Nan Caiming’s massacre, and that Nan Caiming had to find and kill the cultivator who stole the Space Heavenly Dao.
• Zhao Wenxu spent more than a month spreading information about Chen Fei to Cai Ruojia of the Feng Clan while concealing his own involvement.
• Cai Ruojia received a report claiming Chen Fei had rapidly advanced to Ninth Order Mid Stage and ordered his disciple Lu Xinyu to investigate.
• Lu Xinyu traveled to the Xuanling Domain to check Chen Fei’s cultivation, and Zhao Wenxu sensed his arrival from afar.

Zhao Wenxu prepared to use a mysterious black jade shard to attack Chen Fei after Cai Ruojia and Chen Fei fought, while Lu Xinyu secretly approached Qiankun City. Chen Fei traced the plot through the Time Rule Crystal, but Lu Xinyu’s bell revealed Chen Fei’s location as the chapter ended.

• Zhao Wenxu revealed that the black jade shard could weaken a Ninth Order Peak expert’s defenses and planned to use it if Cai Ruojia clashed with Chen Fei.
• Lu Xinyu concealed his aura with a secret art and Mystic Treasure before flying toward Qiankun City.
• Chen Fei sensed Lu Xinyu through the Time Rule Crystal and traced his past movements back to Cai Ruojia and the Eighth Order cultivator who had given her information.
• Chen Fei traced the plot to Zhao Wenxu and learned that several Tiger Clan and Liu Clan experts had abandoned their revenge, but he lacked the power to discover Zhao Wenxu’s trump card.
• Lu Xinyu reached a point one hundred thousand miles from Qiankun City, where his bell revealed Chen Fei seated inside the central hall.

Chen Fei staged a difficult battle against five blazing birds to conceal his true strength from Lu Xinyu, who returned to Qingyu Sea to report what he had learned. Chen Fei then confronted Zhao Wenxu, whom he knew had passed information about him to the Feng Clan.

• Lu Xinyu sent five blazing birds to attack Qiankun City and test Chen Fei's cultivation, and Chen Fei pretended to struggle before defeating them with three fused Mystic Arrays.
• Lu Xinyu recognized Chen Fei's talent in the Array Dao and left for Qingyu Sea to report his findings to his master.
• Chen Fei told Shi Ding'an that his injuries were minor and claimed the blazing birds might have escaped from a Broken Plane.
• Zhao Wenxu waited near the edge of the Xuanling Domain, hoping Cai Ruojia would come looking for Chen Fei, but resolved to wait only three days.
• Chen Fei appeared before Zhao Wenxu and accused him of passing information about him to the Feng Clan, leaving Zhao Wenxu stunned.

Chen Fei trapped Zhao Wenxu in a ninth order top-grade Black Tortoise Formation, avoiding a direct attack because Zhao Wenxu possessed a powerful black jade trump card. Zhao Wenxu pierced the formation and tried to escape, but Chen Fei restrained him with Space Heavenly Dao, leaving Zhao Wenxu trapped with two uses of the black jade remaining.

• Zhao Wenxu fled, but Chen Fei used Space Heavenly Dao to appear in front of him and block his path.
• Chen Fei produced a ninth order top-grade Black Tortoise Formation, and the Night Demon War Soldier controlled it to trap Zhao Wenxu.
• Zhao Wenxu used the black jade to break free of the formation's restraints and pierce the Black Tortoise True Body, but the formation began to recover.
• As Zhao Wenxu tried to escape, Chen Fei contracted the space around him and halted his movement.
• Zhao Wenxu abandoned his plan to kill Chen Fei and reach for his supreme treasure, then retrieved the black jade with two uses left.

Chen Fei trapped Zhao Wenxu with successive Black Tortoise Formations and killed him after Zhao’s Black Jade Power failed to overcome Chen Fei’s Space Heavenly Dao. Meanwhile, Lu Xinyu delivered information about Chen Fei to Cai Ruojia, who learned that intelligence had spread to Mist Island Pond.

• Zhao Wenxu fled using the Black Jade Power, but Chen Fei used his Space Heavenly Dao to intercept him and trap him in the Black Tortoise Formation.
• Zhao Wenxu broke through the formation with an explosive strike and used the Black Jade Bridge against Chen Fei, but Chen Fei dodged it.
• Zhao Wenxu sacrificed his Essence, Qi, Spirit, and Soul to unleash greater power, yet Chen Fei’s Night Demon War Soldier and another Black Tortoise Formation stopped his attack.
• Chen Fei kept Zhao Wenxu imprisoned in the top-grade formation until the Black Tortoise True Body killed him, then collected his spiritual essence and inspected his soul fragments.
• Lu Xinyu returned to the Feng Clan and gave Cai Ruojia a report about Chen Fei, while Cai Ruojia learned that Chen Fei’s information had also reached Mist Island Pond.

Cai Ruojia dismissed reports about Chen Fei, while rumors of Chen Fei’s rapid cultivation spread and drew the attention of cultivators across the Void Return Realm. Back in Qiankun City, Chen Fei tested ways to restore Zhao Wenxu’s black jade and finally placed it in the Space Grid with the Divine Protection Resurrection spiritual light.

• Lu Xinyu reported that Chen Fei was a Ninth Order Early Stage cultivator who could deploy a Ninth Order Mid Stage formation, and Cai Ruojia decided not to investigate further.
• News of Chen Fei’s rapid advancement spread through the Void Return Realm, prompting some Ninth Order cultivators to consider killing him for his secret.
• Chen Fei returned to Qiankun City and resolved to grow stronger and seize the Space Heavenly Dao Authority before the Space Dao Ancestor could threaten him.
• Chen Fei tried using several kinds of power to restore Zhao Wenxu’s black jade, but only the Time Rule made it react slightly.
• Chen Fei put the black jade and the Divine Protection Resurrection spiritual light together in the Space Grid.

Chen Fei refined the black jade and learned to recharge its three devastating uses through the Space Grid, then improved his Black Tortoise Sword Art and cultivation. Meanwhile, a surge of world vital energy drew cultivators to a red brilliance over Tianbo Ridge, where a Heaven Opening Realm cultivator was annihilated, and Ni Zhongli sensed the disturbance from Guzhao Island.

• Chen Fei used the Space Grid to restore the black jade's power, refined the jade, and confirmed he could recharge it in fewer than ten breaths.
• Chen Fei merged the Spiritual Heart Art into his techniques, restored the Black Tortoise Sword Art to great perfection, and continued cultivating the clear sky heavenly Dao.
• A red brilliance appeared above Tianbo Ridge, causing the world vital energy to surge as the Jiang Clan fled the area.
• Cultivators approaching Tianbo Ridge sensed ninth-order-level world vital energy and retreated, while some bold Heaven Opening Realm cultivators flew toward the brilliance.
• A Heaven Opening Realm cultivator reached for the red brilliance and disintegrated, terrifying the cultivators behind him.
• Ni Zhongli opened his eyes on Guzhao Island and looked toward the disturbance with a grave expression.

Ni Zhongli and the other top experts gathered at Tianbo Ridge to investigate a dangerous red anomaly that was pouring World Vital Energy into the Void Return Realm. The chapter ended with the Dao Ancestors and other powerful figures unable to identify it, while their Heavenly Daos continued to tremble.

• Ni Zhongli followed the Karma Heavenly Dao's trembling to Tianbo Ridge and found its World Vital Energy rising around a brilliant red anomaly.
• Ni Zhongli warned Cao Wenkui away from the anomaly, gave him a jade pendant, and invited him to Guzhao Island.
• Nan Caiming arrived, could not identify the anomaly, and killed the Heaven Opening Realm cultivators gathered nearby.
• Dao Ancestors, outer-domain experts, and eight Ninth Order Peak wraiths arrived at Tianbo Ridge to investigate the anomaly.
• Ni Zhongli's ninth-order puppet shattered when it attacked the anomaly, whose force resembled the Karma and Destiny Heavenly Daos.

The crimson glow spread throughout the Void Return Realm and gradually revealed an ancient Training Ground, while Chen Fei continued advancing his cultivation in the Xuanling Domain. As the Space Dao Ancestor’s lineage hunted suspicious cultivators, Wen Zhengyi arrived at Qiankun City and demanded that Chen Fei come to the Jinhu Domain.

• The Destiny Dao Ancestor and the other powerhouses attacked the crimson glow at Tianbo Ridge, but it vanished there and appeared across the Void Return Realm.
• Chen Fei examined the glow in the Xuanling Domain, then returned to Qiankun City and used the Time Hut to continue cultivating.
• Over half a month, Chen Fei advanced his Heavenly Dao authorities as the glow revealed the outline of an ancient Training Ground and raised world vital energy.
• Si Yizhong ordered Wen Zhengyi to bring in Chen Fei, whose rapid cultivation had drawn suspicion, while Nan Caiming’s lineage hunted other suspected cultivators.
• Wen Zhengyi reached the Xuanling Domain and ordered Chen Fei to accompany him to the Jinhu Domain.

Wen Zhengyi arrived in Xuanling Domain and ordered Chen Fei to go to Jinhu Domain wearing a Sky-Locking Ring, but Chen Fei refused and fought back. Chen Fei’s hidden attack pierced Wen Zhengyi, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Wen Zhengyi told Chen Fei that he had to go to Jinhu Domain and demanded that he wear the Sky-Locking Ring.
• Wen Zhengyi threatened Shi Ding'an and attacked Chen Fei and the cities with a Sky-Piercing Sword Shadow.
• Chen Fei summoned the Crimson Soul Heavenly Demon, which used the Black Tortoise Sword Art to withstand Wen Zhengyi’s strike and reflect its power.
• Wen Zhengyi dismissed the Crimson Soul Heavenly Demon and turned toward Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei sent a streak of black light from his sleeve, and it pierced through Wen Zhengyi’s arms and body despite his defenses.

Chen Fei defeated Wen Zhengyi, captured his remnant soul, and learned enough from his memories to impersonate him. He planned to take Shi Ding'an and the cities to Jinhu Domain under Wen Zhengyi’s identity, while a Void Race steward noticed Wen Zhengyi’s soul lamp fluctuate.

• Wen Zhengyi’s Sacred Profound Talisman failed to protect him or teleport him away, and Chen Fei stopped him from killing himself before blasting apart his body and sealing his remnant soul.
• Chen Fei extracted Wen Zhengyi’s spiritual essence, crippled the sentience of the Divine Condensing Sword, and read memory fragments from Wen Zhengyi’s soul, discovering the incomplete Heavenly Gate Sword Art.
• Shi Ding'an watched Chen Fei defeat Wen Zhengyi, and Chen Fei asked him to trust him and travel with him to Jinhu Domain while the Hidden Origin Bell carried Qiankun City and Xian City.
• Chen Fei transformed his appearance and soul aura to match Wen Zhengyi, then merged the Heavenly Gate Sword Art with the Black Tortoise Sword Art to create the Black Tortoise Heavenly Sword Art.
• Chen Fei began cultivating the new art as a Void Race steward in Jinhu Domain noticed Wen Zhengyi’s soul lamp fluctuate.

Chen Fei brought Qiankun City and Xian City into the Hidden Origin Bell, then impersonated Wen Zhengyi to enter Jinhu Domain with Shi Ding'an. He presented Si Yizhong with black jade power as proof of his account, leaving Si Yizhong’s suspicions mostly dispelled.

• Shi Ding'an told Chen Fei that Qiankun City and Xian City were ready to be taken into the Hidden Origin Bell, and Chen Fei revealed his ability to imitate a ninth order late stage aura.
• Chen Fei took both cities into the Hidden Origin Bell and flew with Shi Ding'an toward Jinhu Domain, impersonating Wen Zhengyi to evade the Void Race and seek resources.
• Chen Fei and Shi Ding'an reached Jinhu Domain, where Shi Ding'an waited anxiously as Chen Fei entered Si Yizhong’s hall.
• Si Yizhong questioned Chen Fei about the humans in Xuanling Domain, and Chen Fei claimed he had killed a human who tried to ambush him.
• Chen Fei offered Si Yizhong a stone box containing black jade power, and Si Yizhong examined it and said he understood why the human had resisted.

Chen Fei maintained his cover as Wen Zhengyi while Si Yizhong arranged a test of his cultivation, then used the resulting trust to sell Wen Zhengyi’s fiefs and acquire resources for a breakthrough. He left with all of Wen Zhengyi’s holdings sold and additional spirit crystals from Si Yizhong.

• Si Yizhong accepted Chen Fei’s explanation for bringing Shi Ding'an back and secretly ordered Yang Hong to test Wen Zhengyi’s progress.
• Chen Fei and Shi Ding'an settled on Changyang Peak while Chen Fei waited for the Void Race’s surveillance to end.
• Yang Hong attacked Chen Fei with the Heavenly Gate Sword Art, and Chen Fei matched him closely enough to satisfy the observers.
• Chen Fei sold one of Wen Zhengyi’s fiefs, then gave Si Yizhong the Heaven Condensing Array diagrams and said he wanted to strengthen himself amid uncertainty.
• Chen Fei sold all of Wen Zhengyi’s remaining fiefs, and Si Yizhong contributed more top-grade spirit crystals.

Chen Fei, disguised as Wen Zhengyi, used Si Yizhong’s support to enter the Void Race’s Hidden Skill Pavilion and record its ninth order inheritances. After exhausting the collection, he returned to Changyang Peak to improve his strength, while the pavilion master was inspired to pursue his own breakthrough.

• Si Yizhong’s financial support reassured the Void Race’s Supreme Realm members that Wen Zhengyi was selling his fiefs to fund a breakthrough formation.
• Chen Fei entered the Hidden Skill Pavilion with Si Yizhong’s jade pendant and gained access to its ninth order inheritances.
• Chen Fei studied every Inheritance Stone on the pavilion’s third floor and recorded dozens of complete cultivation methods, including eighteen ninth order top-grade inheritances.
• The Hidden Skill Pavilion’s master watched Chen Fei leave and decided to study the inheritances himself in hopes of condensing his own Dao.
• Chen Fei returned to Changyang Peak, activated its formations, and prepared to continue improving his strength.

Chen Fei merged his inheritances to obtain the Hun Tian Sword Chapter, then used top-grade spirit crystals to advance his cultivation and strengthen his control over several heavenly daos. After five days on Changyang Peak, the Training Ground suddenly manifested in the Void Return Realm.

• Chen Fei decided borrowing more top-grade spirit crystals would draw suspicion, then merged his inheritances and discovered the Hun Tian Sword Chapter.
• Chen Fei simplified the Hun Tian Sword Chapter into the Black Tortoise Sword Art and cultivated it alongside Dragon Elephant Void Return and the clear sky heavenly dao.
• Chen Fei raised Dragon Elephant Void Return to ninety percent of the proficient realm and the Hun Tian Sword Chapter to forty percent of the perfection realm, while beginning to cultivate the Mu heavenly dao.
• Chen Fei stayed on Changyang Peak for five days instead of borrowing more spirit crystals and continued cultivating the space heavenly dao in the Time Hut.
• The Training Ground suddenly rang out and manifested within the Void Return Realm, prompting Chen Fei to appear in midair and look up.

The Myriad Realms Martial Arts Arena appeared in the Void Return Realm, offering Plane Origin to winners and death to losers. Chen Fei and the other supreme realms recognized that the arena could let Outer Realm Heavenly Demons compete for entry and give Void Return Realm experts a chance to gain Dao Ancestor-level strength, but they still needed to learn how powerful the opponents were.

• Chen Fei and the other Void Race supreme realms read the arena’s stone stele, which explained that winners could obtain Plane Origin while losers would die and lose their Dao.
• Chen Fei and the other supreme realms suspected the arena’s appearance was connected to the approaching Immortal Ascension Path and the ambitions of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• Illusory figures appeared above the arena, showing that the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had not yet entered the Void Return Realm with their true bodies.
• Chen Fei reasoned that the arena could be a route for Outer Realm Heavenly Demons to earn the right to enter the Void Return Realm by defeating its experts.
• The Void Return Realm’s Dao Ancestors realized that the arena could not be sealed and that Plane Origin could strengthen their own Heavenly Daos, making prohibition difficult to enforce.
• The Ninth Order experts considered entering the arena, but they still needed to confirm the strength of the opponents.

The Myriad Realms Martial Arts Arena revealed rules that sealed outside enhancements and matched challengers against opponents at the same cultivation level. Nan Caiming sent the imprisoned Ran Yangguan to test the arena, and Ran Yangguan stepped onto the Training Ground as powerful figures watched.

• A second stone stele explained that weapons, treasures, pills, talismans, Heavenly Dao enhancements, and other external aids were forbidden in the Training Ground, while opponents' cultivation was sealed to match the challenger's.
• Nan Caiming considered using the arena to win Plane Origin and strengthen his Derivation Heavenly Dao, but chose not to risk entering himself.
• Nan Caiming ordered Si Yizhong to send a Ninth Order cultivator from another race to test the arena.
• Si Yizhong brought the imprisoned Ran Yangguan and offered him a chance to change his fate by winning Plane Origin.
• Ran Yangguan weighed the potential to strengthen his Lightning Heavenly Dao against the danger of the unknown, then entered the arena with his power restored.
• The figures above the Training Ground turned their attention to Ran Yangguan, while Ninth Order powerhouses across the Void Return Realm reacted to his appearance.

Ran Yangguan tested the Myriad Realms Martial Arts Arena’s Training Ground and questioned Ning Jisheng, a cultivator from the stronger Xuan Yu Realm, about higher planes and ways to leave the Void Return Realm. Ning Jisheng revealed that the Arena sought to produce a Realm Lord and recruit Void Return Realm powerhouses, while offering them a contract to leave with it if no Realm Lord appeared first.

• Ran Yangguan tested his weapon and powers in the Training Ground, then abandoned the idea of drawing on the Void Return Realm’s Heavenly Dao after sensing the Arena’s warning.
• Ning Jisheng arrived to face Ran Yangguan and confirmed that the Xuan Yu Realm was much stronger than the Void Return Realm, where Ninth Order was only a foundational realm.
• Ning Jisheng explained that cultivators from the Xuan Yu Realm entered planes through the Myriad Realms Martial Arts Arena to seek opportunities to become Realm Lords.
• Ning Jisheng said Void Return Realm cultivators could leave by tearing through the Plane Barrier, receiving permission from their Realm Lord, or signing a ten-thousand-year contract with the Arena.
• Ning Jisheng revealed that the Arena’s faction wanted to make one of its cultivators the Void Return Realm’s Realm Lord and could recruit Ninth Order cultivators if that effort failed.

Ning Jisheng offered Ran Yangguan Plane Origin and a way to leave the Void Return Realm without a death match, and Ran used it to become a Dao Ancestor-level expert. As Ran departed, Si Yizhong entered the Myriad Realms Martial Arts Arena to investigate the Void Race’s predicament but was defeated and killed.

• Ning Jisheng offered Ran Yangguan a portion of Plane Origin and the option to sign a contract with the Training Ground instead of fighting a death match.
• Ran Yangguan refined the Plane Origin in the Training Ground and strengthened the Lightning Heavenly Dao into a Powerful Heavenly Dao, becoming a Dao Ancestor-level expert.
• Ran Yangguan left the Training Ground, confronted Nan Caiming and the Void Race, then vanished after vowing to repay their treatment of him.
• Si Yizhong asked Nan Caiming for permission to enter the Myriad Realms Martial Arts Arena and investigate, then stepped inside.
• A figure defeated Si Yizhong in the arena and sent him crashing into its barrier, where he spat blood and died.

Si Yizhong and several other Void Return Realm cultivators died challenging the Training Ground, while Ning Jisheng declared that challengers below Ninth Order Peak would face defenders of the same realm. Seeing an opportunity to advance more quickly, Chen Fei decided to borrow top-grade spirit crystals from a Void Race Supreme before entering the arena.

• Si Yizhong died in the Training Ground, and his identity light rose into the void as Nan Caiming weighed the danger of challenging its defenders.
• Ning Jisheng announced that challengers below Ninth Order Peak would fight defenders of the same realm, prompting Zhuang Shanghua to enter the Training Ground.
• Ou Daoqi killed Zhuang Shanghua despite matching his Ninth Order Mid Stage cultivation, and three other Ninth Order cultivators also died in succession.
• Chen Fei judged that he could defeat Ou Daoqi but worried that entering the Training Ground would expose his identity and draw Nan Caiming’s wrath.
• Chen Fei approached a Void Race Supreme and asked to borrow top-grade spirit crystals.