Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei passed the Seventh-Rank Alchemist assessment after refining a half-pill-patterned Flying Tomb Pill, then returned to the Hot Spring Inn and developed a formula that produced pills with complete patterns. Shi Changji learned of Chen Fei’s success and consulted Ou Yunlian, who planned to test Chen Fei and try to obtain his formula; Chen Fei decided to submit his improved formula to the Alchemist Alliance the next day.

• Chen Fei impressed Tu Jilin by refining a half-pill-patterned Flying Tomb Pill and received his Seventh-Rank Alchemist jade pendant.
• Chen Fei declined to submit his pill formula immediately, saying he would refine it further, then exchanged for herbs and returned to the Hot Spring Inn.
• Shi Changji learned that Chen Fei had also made a half-pill-patterned Flying Tomb Pill but had not submitted his formula.
• Shi Changji told Ou Yunlian about the rival alchemist, and she rejected killing Chen Fei as too risky and proposed testing him to obtain his formula.
• Chen Fei developed a new Flying Tomb Pill formula and successfully refined three pills with complete pill patterns.
• Chen Fei tested a pill, found its medicinal potency had increased by over forty percent, and decided to submit the formula to the Alchemist Alliance the next day.

Chen Fei refined a Pill Pattern Flying Tomb Pill and submitted his new formula to the Alchemist Alliance. After the Alliance verified it, Wei Xingshan explained that Chen Fei could sell the formula for its profits, and Chen Fei asked to exchange it for the Thousand Silk Art.

• An assassin infiltrated Chen Fei’s courtyard, but Chen Fei detected him and drove him off with poisoned arrows without pursuing him.
• Chen Fei presented Tu Jilin with a Pill Pattern Flying Tomb Pill and refined three more before several senior alchemists.
• The Alchemist Alliance verified the pills’ medicinal effects and Wei Xingshan praised Chen Fei’s formula.
• Wei Xingshan explained that Chen Fei could sell the formula and keep the profits, while the reward for his task would take more than ten days.
• Chen Fei asked whether he could exchange the pill formula for the Alliance’s Thousand Silk Art.

Chen Fei exchanged a pill formula for the first two layers of the Thousand Silk Art, then spent the following days refining pills and preparing for the secret realm. When Zeng Jingan tried to pressure him into surrendering the Origin Opening Pill, Chen Fei refused and discovered that someone had intercepted his messages to Feng Xiupu, so he turned to the Alchemist Alliance to send word.

• Wei Xingshan agreed to exchange Chen Fei's pill formula for the first two layers of the Thousand Silk Art, and Chen Fei fused it with the Tranquil Source Art to create the Thousand Source Art.
• Chen Fei spent more than ten days cultivating and refining Floating Pills to save money for the Thousand Source Art, a better bow, and possible needs in the secret realm.
• Zeng Jingan asked Chen Fei to sell him the Origin Opening Pill for his injured father, but Chen Fei refused, and Zeng Jingan threatened him before leaving.
• Chen Fei realized his message asking Feng Xiupu to come to Xianyun City might have been intercepted after someone shot down his homing pigeon.
• Chen Fei went to the Alchemist Alliance and asked Qin Jinglan to post a mission to send a message to Feng Xiupu.

Chen Fei stayed in the Alchemist Alliance after learning that Feng Xiupu was away, while the Zeng family arranged to keep Feng Xiupu occupied and planned to seize Chen Fei’s Origin Opening Pill. Chen Fei considered renting a room in the Alliance to wait safely for a reply.

• Zeng Guanwen and Zeng Jingan learned Chen Fei had asked the Alchemist Alliance to deliver a message to Feng Xiupu and discussed how his arrival could thwart their plan to obtain the Origin Opening Pill.
• Zeng Guanwen lured Feng Xiupu to Luyashan Mountain by offering the Spirit Refining Chant in exchange for help clearing a demon beast nest, leaving Zeng Jingan to deal with Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei waited at the Alchemist Alliance, where Qin Jinglan followed him as he toured the headquarters and listened to alchemists discuss their craft.
• An Alliance representative told Chen Fei that Feng Xiupu was not in the sect and that the message might take a couple of days to reach him.
• Chen Fei learned from Qin Jinglan that he could rent an Alliance room for ten Contribution Value per day and considered staying there.

Chen Fei secured the Origin Opening Pill and avoided the people coveting it by staying inside the Alchemist Alliance, where they could not reach him. After Zeng Guanwen returned to Xianyun City and learned that his scheme had failed, the Zeng family was left with no chance to obtain the pill before Feng Xiupu arrived.

• Chen Fei moved into the Alchemist Alliance, and Zeng Jingan learned that Chi Defeng and his family were staying there too, leaving him unable to lure Chen Fei out.
• Chen Fei received the Origin Opening Pill from Wei Xingshan after winning the task to improve the Flying Tomb Pill.
• Tu Jilin delivered an offer from someone willing to trade for the pill and suggested that Chen Fei need not give it to Feng Xiupu, but Chen Fei dismissed the attempt to sow discord.
• Zeng Guanwen returned to Xianyun City and learned from Zeng Jingan that Chen Fei still had the pill and had been unreachable inside the Alchemist Alliance.
• Zeng Guanwen realized the Zeng family had lost the Spirit Refining Chant without obtaining the Origin Opening Pill, and that Feng Xiupu would soon come to Xianyun City.

Chen Fei gave Feng Xiupu the Origin Opening Pill, restoring Feng Xiupu to the Aperture Refining Realm, then prepared for the Four Sects Secret Realm trial by cultivating and buying a powerful bow. The chapter ended with Feng Xiupu bringing Chen Fei and Guo Linshan to the sect’s Training Ground, where a group had gathered.

• Chen Fei handed Feng Xiupu the Origin Opening Pill, and Feng Xiupu recovered his Aperture Refining Realm cultivation.
• Zeng Jingan resented Chen Fei for giving Feng Xiupu the pill and vowed to settle the matter in the Four Sects Secret Realm.
• Chen Fei stayed at the Alchemist Alliance, cultivated the Spirit Refining Chant and Thousand Source Art, and improved his techniques before the trial.
• Chen Fei bought the weapon shop’s strongest bow after easily drawing several powerful bows.
• Feng Xiupu visited the Zeng family, after which the family announced it would accept no visitors for a month.
• Feng Xiupu brought Chen Fei and Guo Linshan to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s Training Ground, where a group had gathered.

Chen Fei and the other disciples gathered for the Four Sects' True Inheritance Trial, where they had to collect Iron Tokens in a changing secret realm. After the sect leaders opened the entrance despite sensing an unusual aura, the disciples entered, leaving Feng Xiupu concerned about what awaited them.

• Wu Guangyin explained that true inheritance seeds needed to emerge with five Iron Tokens and reminded everyone that the secret realm would remain open for one month.
• Feng Xiupu cautioned Guo Linshan and Chen Fei not to fixate on the tokens and to be wary of powerful Organ Refinement Realm cultivators.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect arrived at the valley and met Pu Yundong, who greeted Feng Xiupu after sensing that his cultivation had recovered.
• The Long Rainbow Sect arrived, followed by the Sinking Water Pavilion led by Sun Yinying.
• Wu Guangyin, Pu Yundong, Zhao Shulong, and Sun Yinying opened the secret realm and noticed its aura had changed, but agreed to continue the trial.
• Feng Xiupu warned Chen Fei and Guo Linshan to be careful, and disciples from all four sects entered the secret realm.

Chen Fei entered the changed secret realm, gathered medicinal herbs, and avoided its deadliest dangers while other disciples fell prey to hidden threats. After Pan Baoxue tried to use him as bait for an ape demon beast, Chen Fei escaped a pursuing pack and realized the herb Pan Baoxue had thrown away had attracted them.

• Chen Fei arrived alone near Half-Bottle Mountain, found an unusually potent Chonglou Grass, and stored it after checking for danger.
• Two Sinking Water Pavilion disciples tried to steal a Dream-Weaving Lotus, but a demon beast dragged them into the pool and killed them.
• Three fleeing disciples escaped a monster that ate a Yuan Chen Sword Sect disciple, then were killed by another unseen threat that absorbed their remains into the vegetation.
• Chen Fei avoided Half-Bottle Mountain, collected several herbs, and reflected on how the secret realm had changed.
• Pan Baoxue tried to lead an ape demon beast toward Chen Fei, but Chen Fei threatened him with an arrow until Pan Baoxue fled and discarded a medicinal herb.
• More than a dozen ape demon beasts appeared, forcing Chen Fei to escape; he saw some of them rush toward the discarded herb and suspected Pan Baoxue had set a trap.

Chen Fei found a tree bearing Crimson Fruits guarded by a peak first-rank python and used arrows to draw the beast toward Kuang Dingbo. As the other martial artists rushed for the fruit, the tree itself killed two of them, leaving the Crimson Fruits protected by another deadly threat.

• Kuang Dingbo and Yu Doushan watched the nearly ripe Crimson Fruits and waited for a chance to get past the python guarding them.
• Chen Fei followed the fruits’ fragrance into the forest and spotted the python and the martial artists hiding nearby.
• Chen Fei shot the python in the head, drawing it toward Kuang Dingbo while the others rushed for the Crimson Fruits.
• The python struck Kuang Dingbo and left him gravely injured as the martial artists raced toward the tree.
• Chen Fei sensed danger and stopped near the tree, but its branches pierced two martial artists and drained their bodies.

Chen Fei survived the Crimson Fruit Tree’s attack and used arrows to retrieve two Iron Tokens while the python remained still. Qu Jintai tried to ambush him for a token, but Chen Fei exposed him with an arrow before leaving, while Qu Jintai stayed hidden and watched.

• The Crimson Fruit Tree killed two Organ Refinement Realm martial artists and five Marrow Refinement Realm martial artists as the others fled.
• Chen Fei stayed nearby, then shot arrows through the loops of two Iron Tokens and retrieved them without provoking the tree or python.
• Qu Jintai, concealed by his Wind Shadow Illusion Art, demanded one of Chen Fei’s tokens and threatened him when Chen Fei refused.
• Chen Fei shot into a tree and forced Qu Jintai to emerge, then fired again as Qu Jintai escaped among the trees.
• Chen Fei left the area, and Qu Jintai remained hidden, relieved that Chen Fei had gone.

Chen Fei used a jade pendant to silently shoot one Crimson Fruit from the guarded tree and escaped the enraged python with the fruit. He found a cave to spend the night and hid his Iron Tokens in the Space Grid so other holders could not track him.

• Qu Jintai hid from Chen Fei after the arrow attack, while Chen Fei considered gathering more Iron Tokens for the True Disciple task.
• Chen Fei discovered that his two Iron Tokens emitted a ripple that could let other holders sense them, so he put them away before approaching the Crimson Fruit Tree.
• Chen Fei used the jade pendant to silence and soften three arrows, sending one Crimson Fruit flying while the tree destroyed the other two arrows.
• Chen Fei retrieved the fruit from a treetop and fled when the python pursued him, eventually outrunning the disturbance.
• Chen Fei found a cave, checked it for danger, and placed the Iron Tokens in the Space Grid before preparing to refine the Crimson Fruit.

Chen Fei cautiously absorbed a mutated Crimson Fruit and rapidly advanced his Marrow Refinement cultivation. As he returned to observe the Crimson Fruit Tree, a crushing beast approached and Chen Fei felt himself targeted.

• Chen Fei tested the Crimson Fruit’s juice on his skin and used Dragon Subduing Elephant to withstand its dangerous power.
• Guo Linshan escaped after a giant earthworm killed three of his companions and another martial artist.
• Yu Doushan killed the injured Kuang Dingbo by crushing his heart, then approached him as his shadow resembled a rabbit.
• Chen Fei spent five days refining one Crimson Fruit, raising his Marrow Refinement progress to nearly half and strengthening his body.
• Chen Fei went back toward the Crimson Fruit Tree, but a behemoth’s approach made him feel targeted before he could see it.

Chen Fei escaped the demonic python guarding the Crimson Fruit Tree and headed southwest, gathering medicinal herbs along the way. When the Gemini Stone reacted, he followed it toward Guo Linshan, who was being overwhelmed by Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan as they planned to use him to investigate a pool containing a Dream-Weaving Lotus.

• Chen Fei tested the Crimson Fruit Tree's range, realized it could still sense him despite his concealed aura, and fled the forest rather than risk another fight with the python.
• Chen Fei headed southwest around the forest, collected more than a dozen medicinal herbs, and stored them in his wooden cabinet.
• The Gemini Stone reacted intermittently, and Chen Fei followed its signal toward Guo Linshan.
• Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan attacked Guo Linshan over a Thousand Rock Grass, leaving him badly injured and trapped between them.
• Yu Peiyan proposed throwing Guo Linshan into a dangerous pool to investigate the Dream-Weaving Lotus, and Sun Zonghai agreed to try again later.

Chen Fei intervened as Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan were about to capture Guo Linshan, using his archery to keep them at bay before defeating Yu Peiyan with his sword. Sun Zonghai fled, leaving Yu Peiyan mortally wounded.

• Sun Zonghai battered Guo Linshan while Yu Peiyan waited for a chance to paralyze him and take him to the pool as bait for the demonic beast.
• Chen Fei appeared and used his arrows to prevent Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan from advancing, forcing Sun Zonghai to retreat from Guo Linshan's bundle.
• Yu Peiyan used Gale Step to charge Chen Fei, while Guo Linshan recovered enough to block Sun Zonghai.
• Chen Fei resisted Yu Peiyan's seductive art, deflected her dagger with a sword shield, and struck her with a powerful sword move.
• Sun Zonghai saw Yu Peiyan mortally wounded and fled as Chen Fei turned toward him.

Chen Fei saved Guo Linshan from Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan, then helped him recover in a cave. On the tenth day in the secret realm, their Iron Tokens led them toward a pool where more than twenty people had gathered around a Dream-Weaving Lotus.

• Sun Zonghai fled using the Ten Scenes of Heavenly Lake technique, while Chen Fei chose to treat the gravely wounded Guo Linshan instead of pursuing him.
• Chen Fei killed Yu Peiyan, took her Iron Token and bundle, and carried Guo Linshan back to a safe cave.
• After waking, Guo Linshan gave Chen Fei Yu Peiyan's Iron Token and shared Thousand Rock Grass with him; Chen Fei's breakthrough threshold fell after he consumed it.
• Guo Linshan recovered fully over three days, and on the tenth day their Iron Tokens resonated toward a gathering near a pool.
• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan learned that a Dream-Weaving Lotus grew at the pool, where more than twenty people had assembled.

Chen Fei and Guo Linshan headed for the pond to seek the Dream-Weaving Lotus, but Chen Fei detected and evaded Fu Zhaoxing’s ambush along the way. When they finally arrived, Nie Quan was already struggling to drag the pond’s demonic beast ashore.

• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan decided to seek the Dream-Weaving Lotus and followed their Iron Tokens toward the pond.
• At the pond, Jiao Xiangyuan, Chai Xianjun, and Nie Quan agreed to work together to draw out the demonic beast and divide the lotus among those who contributed.
• Chen Fei discovered Fu Zhaoxing hiding nearby and fled with Guo Linshan before Fu Zhaoxing’s group could surround them.
• Fu Zhaoxing slapped Qu Jintai for letting his excitement disrupt the group’s concealment and nearly expose their ambush.
• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan detoured around Fu Zhaoxing’s group and reached the pond, where Nie Quan was pulling the demonic beast’s corrosive tongue toward shore.

Nie Quan and the martial artists dragged the Poison Toad from its pool and fought it for the Dream-Weaving Lotus. Chen Fei’s archery helped weaken it, and Chai Xianjun delivered the spear thrust that fatally wounded it before the group finished it off.

• Nie Quan dragged the Poison Toad from the pool, and Jiao Xiangyuan led the martial artists in attacking it.
• The Poison Toad revealed its three tongues and killed several Marrow Refinement Realm martial artists before Chai Xianjun and the Organ Refinement Realm fighters held off its attacks.
• Guo Linshan and Chen Fei joined the fight, and Chen Fei repeatedly shot the Poison Toad’s back, deepening its wound.
• The Poison Toad severed its restrained tongues and released a cloud of potent poison, forcing the martial artists to retreat.
• Jiao Xiangyuan and Nie Quan stopped the Poison Toad from returning to the pool, and Chai Xianjun pierced its head with his spear.
• The martial artists killed the Poison Toad, and Jiao Xiangyuan recognized Chen Fei as Feng Xiupu’s disciple.

Chen Fei and the others defeated a Poison Toad and harvested its Demonic Core and a Dream-Weaving Lotus. After dividing the lotus, Chen Fei sensed something wrong, crushed a seed, and used Eternal Moment on it, then fled with Guo Linshan.

• Jiao Xiangyuan invited Chen Fei and Guo Linshan to travel with his group, but Chen Fei left the decision open.
• The group tested the Dream-Weaving Lotus with a mountain deer, then Nie Quan approached it and dug it up after it showed no apparent danger.
• Jiao Xiangyuan and Chai Xianjun divided the Dream-Weaving Lotus and Poison Toad Demonic Core, giving Chen Fei five lotus seeds and a share of the leaves.
• Chen Fei stopped Guo Linshan from swallowing a lotus seed, sealed their lotus pieces in a Jade Box, and attacked a crushed seed with Eternal Moment.
• Chen Fei suffered a violent backlash, shouted for everyone to run, and fled at full speed with Guo Linshan.

Chen Fei discovered that the Dream-Weaving Lotus had hypnotized the martial artists and was transforming those who stayed behind, so he escaped with Guo Linshan and several others. He and Guo Linshan returned to their cave with lotus seeds and leaves sealed in a Jade Box, where Chen Fei planned to find a way to consume them safely.

• Chen Fei’s Mind Skill backfired against the Dream-Weaving Lotus, but the backlash awakened his Spiritual Power and alerted him to danger, so he pulled Guo Linshan away.
• Jiao Xiangyuan and the others followed Chen Fei, and the lotus seeds and leaves in their hands transformed into Poison Toads before merging and vanishing.
• The martial artists left behind mutated into plant-like puppets and plunged into the pool, while Nie Quan realized the Dream-Weaving Lotus had fabricated the earlier victory and Demonic Core.
• The Dream-Weaving Lotus reappeared unharmed, and Jiao Xiangyuan invited Chen Fei to travel with the group, but Chen Fei refused and departed with Guo Linshan.
• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan returned to their cave, where Chen Fei took out the sealed lotus materials and said he would figure out how to eat them.

Chen Fei and Guo Linshan considered how to make the dangerous Dream-Weaving Lotus safe, while Sun Zonghai was captured and transformed by the inhuman Yu Doushan. On Half-Bottle Mountain, Shen Fengxiu found the spiritual herb she hoped would let her break through to the Aperture Refining Realm, unaware that her concealment hairpin was trembling.

• Chen Fei proposed treating the Dream-Weaving Lotus seeds and leaves with juice from other medicinal herbs, while Guo Linshan suggested handing them to the sect or refining them in an alchemy furnace.
• Sun Zonghai recovered in a cave and planned to join a group so he could turn others against Chen Fei and Guo Linshan.
• Yu Doushan entered Sun Zonghai's cave, revealed his monstrous nature, and immobilized him after Sun Zonghai's spear pierced his face and his wounds instantly healed.
• A blood-eyed rabbit fused with Sun Zonghai, and Yu Doushan led him and a group of emotionless martial artists away to find another target.
• Shen Fengxiu refused her junior sister's suggestion to retreat from Half-Bottle Mountain and explained that she sought a nearby spiritual herb to break through.
• Shen Fengxiu's junior sister spotted the herb, and Shen Fengxiu walked toward it as the Half-Spirit Artifact hairpin on her head trembled.