Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei fought Cai Qiuying for sixth place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking, revealing that he had mastered two high-grade Earthly Divine Skills and using Soul Origin Kill to overcome her Primordial Universe. The chapter ended with Cai Qiuying staggering back after their weapons clashed, leaving the match unresolved.

• Cai Qiuying asked Chen Fei how he had cultivated Nine Dragons Seal, then began the match with him on the Training Ground.
• Cai Qiuying activated the Primordial Universe and struck Chen Fei with the Moon Breaking Halberd, but he blocked her attack with the Qian Yuan Sword and Nine Dragons Seal.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had also mastered the high-grade Earthly Divine Skill Heaven Falls, shocking the spectators and the Purple Cloud Sect.
• Chen Fei activated Soul Origin Kill and advanced against Cai Qiuying, whose Primordial Universe could not offset his stronger combination of secret arts and divine skills.
• Cai Qiuying refused to concede and clashed with Chen Fei in midair, then turned pale and stepped back from the impact.

Chen Fei defeated Cai Qiuying in four moves, using the Nine Dragons Seal and Heavenfall to overcome her Primordial Universe and leave her gravely injured. After Cai Qiuying conceded, Chen Fei’s victory spread across the Cold Mountain Domain, where he was recognized as an exceptionally powerful World Lord but remained sixth on the Heavenly Pride Ranking without Five Elements Oak Wood.

• Cai Qiuying tried to resist Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword with Shifting Shadow and Berserk Battle, but the Nine Dragons Seal confined her and weakened her.
• Chen Fei struck Cai Qiuying with Heavenfall, and she suffered light injuries after their next clash.
• Cai Qiuying increased Primordial Universe’s power, but Chen Fei revealed he had been holding back and gravely injured her with another strike.
• Cai Qiuying admitted defeat and left the Training Ground, while Chen Fei dispersed the Nine Dragons Seal and departed.
• The five top-ranked Heavenly Pride Ranking geniuses took notice of Chen Fei, and the Spirit Nurturing Sect returned with him to Pine Forest City.
• News of Chen Fei’s victory spread through the Cold Mountain Domain, where cultivators acknowledged his strength but noted that without Five Elements Oak Wood he could not rise above sixth place.

After reaching sixth place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking, Chen Fei used the Black Flame Fruit and Purple Auspicious Grass to raise his physique to the Tenth Order threshold and began creating a secret art to combine his vital energy, soul, and physique. He challenged Qu Chengxiu for the top spot, but Qu Chengxiu refused, prompting Qiu Tangping to offer to fight him instead.

• Wei Liangzhen welcomed Chen Fei back to the Spirit Nurturing Sect and promised to provide him with Status Spiritual Material within ten years.
• Chen Fei decided to pursue the top five of the Heavenly Pride Ranking to help the Spirit Nurturing Sect gain more resources.
• Chen Fei refined the Black Flame Fruit and Purple Auspicious Grass, raising his physique to the Tenth Order threshold.
• Chen Fei began fusing the Spirit Nurturing Sect's Tenth Order inheritances into a secret art that combined vital energy, soul, and physique.
• Chen Fei challenged Qu Chengxiu, but Qu Chengxiu rejected the challenge after confirming Chen Fei's soul had not reached the Early Earth God Realm.
• Qiu Tangping, ranked third, publicly offered to fight Chen Fei.

Chen Fei faced Qiu Tangping in a packed Golden Sand City Training Ground after refining Soul Source Shatter to strengthen himself without damaging his foundation. Their match began with Chen Fei’s opening strike overwhelming Qiu Tangping and smashing him into the ground.

• Qiu Tangping challenged Chen Fei, who accepted a match in Golden Sand City three days later.
• Chen Fei fused the secret art Soul Source Shatter, and Tong Zhitian warned him about the advantage of Qiu Tangping’s Early Earth God Realm divine soul.
• Cultivators and Earth God Realm experts gathered at the Training Ground as Chen Fei and Qiu Tangping arrived with their sects.
• Qiu Tangping entered the Training Ground and taunted Chen Fei, while Chen Fei activated Soul Source Shatter and revealed a stronger aura than before.
• Chen Fei rushed Qiu Tangping and struck with the Qian Yuan Sword, smashing Qiu Tangping into the ground.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Qiu Tangping in their spar, revealing exceptional physical and primordial energy strength as well as mastery of powerful skills. Qiu Tangping finally unleashed Heaven Descends, and Chen Fei stood tall after their final clash, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Chen Fei knocked Qiu Tangping to the ground with their first sword exchange, shocking the spectators.
• Qiu Tangping used Frost Source Shatter and Ice Domain, but Chen Fei countered his Mystic Underworld with Heaven Tilt and injured him.
• Chen Fei stopped restraining Soul Source Shatter and sent Qiu Tangping flying into the Nine Dragons Seal, leaving him badly hurt.
• Qiu Tangping gave up trying to win in a normal state and unleashed the high-grade Divine Soul Skill Heaven Descends.
• Chen Fei met the descending heavenly curtain with Soul Source Shatter, Heaven Tilt, and Dao God Seal, and a figure stood tall in the sunken Training Ground.

Chen Fei defeated Qiu Tangping and claimed third place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking despite withstanding repeated Earth God Realm soul attacks. After the victory drew widespread attention and set up a challenge with Qu Chengxiu, Chen Fei reviewed recordings of Qu’s past matches and judged that Qu’s divine soul might be close to the mid Earth God Realm.

• Qiu Tangping used Heaven’s Descent twice, but Chen Fei endured both attacks with little injury while Qiu’s condition worsened.
• Chen Fei met Qiu Tangping’s third Heaven’s Descent head-on, empowered the Qian Yuan Sword with the Dao God Seal, and broke through the canopy to strike him down.
• The Frost Condensation Hall conceded and withdrew Qiu Tangping, leaving Chen Fei to claim third place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking.
• Chen Fei acknowledged Qu Chengxiu, who accepted that a challenge between them was now unavoidable.
• News of Chen Fei’s victory spread throughout the Cold Mountain Domain, and the Spirit Nurturing Sect left Golden Sand City.
• At Tianyang Peak, Chen Fei watched recordings of Qu Chengxiu’s matches and assessed Qu’s essence power, physique, and divine soul.

Chen Fei prepared to face Qu Chengxiu by mastering Illusionary God Shadow, then challenged him for the Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spot. A Heavenly God Realm expert changed their contest into a secret-realm race for Golden Banquet Bamboo, and Chen Fei and Qu Chengxiu entered the realm as spectators watched across the Cold Mountain Domain.

• Chen Fei assessed Qu Chengxiu's strength and decided to learn Illusionary God Shadow to weaken the impact of his High-grade Earthly Divine Skill.
• Zhu Shiyu brought Chen Fei several ordinary Earthly Divine Skills, and Chen Fei reached Great Perfection in Illusionary God Shadow.
• Chen Fei challenged Qu Chengxiu, who accepted and chose Golden Sand City as their contest location.
• Luo Guanglong proposed that Chen Fei and Qu Chengxiu compete in a secret realm to obtain the Golden Banquet Bamboo, and both accepted the change.
• Three days later, Chen Fei and Qu Chengxiu arrived at the secret realm entrance in Nanxi City, where the steward showed them the bamboo's location before opening the entrance.

Chen Fei crossed the secret realm while avoiding demon beasts and discovered Five Elements Oak Wood guarded by a pack of beasts. After using his Night Demon War Soldier to draw away the Eleventh Order beast, he seized the treasure and fled, leaving everyone to wonder whether he would refine it.

• Chen Fei concealed his presence with Shadow Concealment and used Search Heaven and Earth to navigate toward the secret realm’s core.
• Chen Fei and Qu Chengxiu both detected an Eleventh Order demon beast, and observers compared their perceptive abilities.
• Chen Fei discovered Five Elements Oak Wood in a lake guarded by numerous demon beasts, including an Eleventh Order beast.
• Chen Fei sent his Night Demon War Soldier to lure away the Eleventh Order beast and clear a path to the lake.
• Chen Fei grabbed the Five Elements Oak Wood and escaped to a distant location, where he considered whether to refine it.

Chen Fei chose to keep competing after obtaining the Five Elements Oak Wood and abandoned the dangerous search for the Golden Banquet Bamboo in favor of fighting Qu Chengxiu. Their battle began with Qu Chengxiu unleashing two Earthly Divine Skills, but Chen Fei used Illusionary God Shadow to split into two figures and weaken the attacks.

• Chen Fei kept the Five Elements Oak Wood in the Qian Yuan Sword and used Night Demon War Soldiers to distract Eleventh Order demonic monsters as he approached the central snow mountain.
• Chen Fei sensed that the Golden Banquet Bamboo was moving through the monster-filled area, judged it too difficult to obtain, and waited for Qu Chengxiu instead.
• Qu Chengxiu detected Chen Fei nearby, and Chen Fei led him away from the central snow mountain to an area without Eleventh Order demonic monsters.
• Chen Fei and Qu Chengxiu formally began their duel, and Qu Chengxiu attacked with Spirit Binding Kill and Divine Descent.
• Chen Fei used Illusionary God Shadow to create two figures, forcing Qu Chengxiu to divide his attacks while Chen Fei's true body neutralized them.

Chen Fei overcame Qu Chengxiu’s ranged attacks by revealing the high-grade movement skill Wind God, then trapped and battered him with Nine Dragons Seal and his sword techniques. After Qu Chengxiu broke free with Divine Descent, Chen Fei struck him again, and Qu Chengxiu conceded by leaving the secret realm.

• Qu Chengxiu’s Divine Descent failed to injure Chen Fei, so Qu Chengxiu retreated and attacked from a distance to wear him down.
• Chen Fei used Wind God to catch Qu Chengxiu, forced him back with a sword strike, and trapped him inside Nine Dragons Seal.
• Chen Fei combined Soul Source Shatter and Heaven Tilting to attack Qu Chengxiu until he was driven against the seal’s barrier.
• Qu Chengxiu shattered Nine Dragons Seal with Divine Descent, but the effort worsened his injuries.
• Chen Fei pursued Qu Chengxiu and struck him with the Qian Yuan Sword, and Qu Chengxiu spat blood before leaving the secret realm.

Chen Fei defeated Qu Chengxiu and claimed the Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spot, securing resources and recognition for the Spirit Nurturing Sect. Back at the sect, he created the Pearl Concealment Art, transformed his soul to the Early Earth God Realm with the Five Elements Oak Wood, and prepared to advance his physique.

• Qu Chengxiu conceded defeat and left the secret realm, making Chen Fei the Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spot.
• Cultivators across the Cold Mountain Domain reacted to Chen Fei’s victory, while the Spirit Nurturing Sect celebrated the benefits it had secured.
• Qiu Xihong led Chen Fei through Nanxi City’s secret treasury, where Chen Fei studied the Pearl Concealment Art and selected a Tenth Order body-refinement inheritance for the sect.
• Chen Fei returned to the Spirit Nurturing Sect and created the Pearl Concealment Art using the panel.
• Chen Fei refined the Five Elements Oak Wood, transformed his soul to the Early Earth God Realm, and swallowed a Jade Jue Fruit.

Chen Fei used the reverse Condensing Spirit Transformation technique and a backup to raise his physique to the early Earth God Realm, then forced breakthroughs in his essence power. He overcame the accumulating demonic nature by using status fragments to form a heavenly status, and five days later Elder Wei summoned him.

• Chen Fei burned his divine soul and essence power to break his physique through to the early Earth God Realm, then used a panel backup to restore only his divine soul.
• Chen Fei began advancing his essence power with Condensing Spirit Transformation, burning his physique to drive it past the threshold and break through.
• As demonic nature accumulated and disrupted his attempt to condense a heavenly status, Chen Fei merged status fragments into his divine soul to accelerate the process.
• Chen Fei completed his heavenly status and reached the early Earth God Realm, forming a phantom world that nurtured embryonic rules.
• Five days later, a message arrived in Chen Fei's courtyard saying Elder Wei had summoned him.

Chen Fei went to meet Wei Daozhen, an Elder of the Spirit Nurturing Sect, and discovered that he was an early Earth God Realm primal demon whose soul had been corrupted. Wei Daozhen tried to kill Chen Fei, but Chen Fei revealed that he had also reached the Earth God Realm and overwhelmed him in combat.

• Chen Fei studied the status fragments and comprehended the rule characteristic of retardation, while keeping his breakthrough to the Earth God Realm secret.
• Chen Fei traveled to Tianqian Peak after Wei Daozhen summoned him and entered the Elder's courtyard.
• Wei Daozhen sealed the courtyard, revealed his primal demon nature, and announced that he intended to kill Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei blocked Wei Daozhen's attack and revealed that both his primal power and physique had reached the early Earth God Realm.
• Chen Fei restrained Wei Daozhen and battered him with punches and kicks until most of his body was destroyed.

Chen Fei defeated and sealed Wei Daozhen, then searched his memories and learned techniques while concealing the incident. After attacks on the Cold Mountain Domain’s heavenly prides exposed a wider origin-demon threat, Chen Fei fused his new inheritances into the God Slaying Sword and simplified its cultivation requirements.

• Chen Fei gravely wounded Wei Daozhen, sealed him instead of killing him, and returned to Tianyang Peak without disturbing the formation around Wei Daozhen’s courtyard.
• Chen Fei searched Wei Daozhen’s soul and recovered incomplete versions of the Heavenly God Slaying Sword and Demon Eye Art, but learned nothing about other hidden origin demons.
• Tong Zhitian told Chen Fei that Qiu Tangping was dead, Qu Chengxiu was gravely wounded, and three other heavenly prides were missing; Chen Fei reported that Wei Daozhen had summoned him.
• Tong Zhitian stayed behind to warn and protect Chen Fei while the other elders went to investigate Wei Daozhen at Tianqian Peak.
• Chen Fei fused the Soul Origin Sword Canon, Heavenly God Slaying Sword, and Demon Eye Art into the God Slaying Sword, then simplified its cultivation to the Soul Origin Sword Canon and the Water Rule of the Void Return Realm.

Chen Fei mastered the rule characteristic of retardation and worked to strengthen his combat arts as the Cold Mountain Domain descended further into chaos. After Origin Demons weakened several Heavenly God Realm experts and empowered the anomalies, the domain ordered its factions—including Chen Fei—to mobilize against them.

• Chen Fei cultivated the God Slaying Sword to Great Perfection and advanced his mastery of the rule characteristic of retardation to one hundred percent.
• Chen Fei tested his improved understanding, then returned to the Void Return Realm to optimize Demon Suppressor.
• Zhu Shiyu told Chen Fei that hidden Origin Demons had afflicted several Heavenly God Realm experts with curses and contamination, causing their strength to plummet.
• Zhu Shiyu reported that panic had strengthened the anomalies until they threatened to swallow more cities in the Cold Mountain Domain.
• The Cold Mountain Domain ordered its factions to attack the anomalies and link controlled secret realms to them, mobilizing Chen Fei as the Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spot holder.

Chen Fei learned from Tong Zhitian about the deadly, expanding Heavenly Desolation and the unsettling theories surrounding the Xuan Yu Realm. He joined the assault on Bowang City, entering a house split off from the anomaly and finding himself in a vast wheat field.

• Chen Fei asked Tong Zhitian why records said little about lands beyond the Cold Mountain Domain, and Tong explained that the Heavenly Desolation blocked travel with extreme demonic corruption and mindless monsters.
• Tong Zhitian said the Heavenly Desolation was expanding and shared the theories that the Xuan Yu Realm might be a mighty being’s remains or a breeding farm, though the Spirit Nurturing Sect’s patriarch had favored neither theory.
• Chen Fei and the Spirit Nurturing Sect’s forces reached Lianjuan City, where they prepared to weaken Bowang City by destroying portions of the anomaly separated with secret realms.
• When Bowang City’s houses appeared outside its walls, Tong Zhitian led Chen Fei and other cultivators into one of them.
• Chen Fei entered the house and found himself in a boundless field of waving wheat.

Chen Fei broke the wheat-field Aberration by repeatedly destroying it with brute force, helping Tong Zhitian and the other cultivators escape Bowang City. He returned to Lianjuan City with valuable spiritual materials, but the wider battle continued and his team had suffered casualties.

• Chen Fei recognized the Lin Yuxi who appeared in the wheat field as an illusion, then destroyed the field when its ghostly faces attacked him.
• After the Aberration restored the wheat field and reset the scene, Chen Fei repeatedly stomped it apart while Tong Zhitian and the others weakened it from within.
• Chen Fei found Ice Soul Wood and later obtained two more portions of Eleventh Order Spiritual Material as the Aberration's power dwindled.
• Tong Zhitian and the surviving cultivators escaped Bowang City and returned to Lianjuan City, where Chen Fei saw that two Realm Lord Peak cultivators were missing and Lin Yuxi was severely injured.
• Chen Fei counted nearly five hundred Mid-grade Great Dao Stones' worth of materials, while battles against the remaining Aberrations continued and further waves were expected.

Chen Fei entered a powerful Anomaly in Bowang City and destroyed its ghostly processions, only to face two Eleventh Order origin demons, Yu Chenggu and Wei Xusheng. After Chen Fei wounded Yu Chenggu and restrained Wei Xusheng, Yu Dongzhou revealed himself as a mid Eleventh Order origin demon hidden within Spirit Nurturing Sect and attacked Chen Fei.

• Cold Mountain Domain destroyed the houses outside Bowang City, then sent teams to confront the stronger courtyards that appeared.
• Chen Fei entered a village Anomaly, smashed a Cursed Coffin, and destroyed its mourning and wedding processions.
• Yu Chenggu and Wei Xusheng appeared as early Eleventh Order origin demons and attacked Chen Fei from both sides.
• Chen Fei used Illusionary God Shadow to deceive the demons, kicked Yu Chenggu through the abdomen, and trapped Wei Xusheng with nine giant dragons.
• Yu Dongzhou emerged from the Black Mist, and Chen Fei recognized that he was an origin demon before Yu Dongzhou attacked him.

Chen Fei turned the ambush by Yu Dongzhou, Yu Chenggu, and Wei Xusheng around, killing Yu Chenggu and Wei Xusheng while resisting the Anomaly’s power. He charged Yu Dongzhou, whose soul attack met Chen Fei’s Mid Earth God Realm soul, leaving their final clash unresolved.

• Chen Fei blocked Yu Dongzhou’s attack with Demon Suppressor and the rule characteristic of stagnation.
• Chen Fei used a hidden Space Grid attack to kill Yu Chenggu and severely wound Wei Xusheng.
• Chen Fei killed Wei Xusheng inside the Nine Dragons Seal, while Yu Dongzhou summoned the Anomaly’s power against him.
• Chen Fei endured the Anomaly’s death force and charged Yu Dongzhou, who was unable to escape Chen Fei’s seventy-percent stagnation rule characteristic.
• Yu Dongzhou enlarged his body and launched a soul attack that shattered six of Chen Fei’s subsidiary souls, but Chen Fei’s core soul remained at the Mid Earth God Realm.

Chen Fei killed Yu Dongzhou by unleashing a complete rule trait after Yu Dongzhou resorted to a mutually destructive secret art. Once the anomaly collapsed, Chen Fei revealed that he had broken through to the early earth god realm, leaving the Spirit Nurturing Sect elders astonished and pleased.

• Chen Fei kept Yu Dongzhou under pressure, while Yu Dongzhou realized the anomaly might collapse before Chen Fei's secret art expired.
• Yu Dongzhou unleashed Heavenly Demon Dissolution, burning his soul and plane to trap Chen Fei in a sea of blood.
• Chen Fei turned back to attack, shattered his heavenly status, and used a complete rule trait to strike Yu Dongzhou down.
• Yu Dongzhou disintegrated, while Chen Fei stabilized his collapsing aura by absorbing energy from shattered mid-grade immortal crystals.
• The anomaly shattered, and the group returned to Lianjuan City, where they discovered Yu Dongzhou and three Realm Lord disciples were missing.
• Chen Fei admitted that he had forcibly condensed his heavenly status and reached the early earth god realm, prompting Qi Chuanjiang and Tong Zhitian to praise his success.