Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei killed Shi Xueqin and repeatedly defeated opponents from his past as the secret realm forced him through increasingly distorted life-and-death trials. As he used Realm Lord insights to overpower them, the trials escalated to stronger enemies, culminating in Ge Shida awaiting him in the Heart Anomaly Realm.

• Chen Fei used the Water Jade Sword to kill Shi Xueqin in the Xianyun City trial.
• In Qin Hai City, Chen Fei drew on Heaven Tilting insight and killed Hong Yuanfeng, Liang Zhongpu, and Xu Yanxin with one sword shadow.
• At Haiyu City, Chen Fei used another trace of Heaven Tilting insight to kill Shi Yuanmin.
• The secret realm changed the rules and made the combatants in the Endless Sea deathmatch attack Chen Fei together, so he unleashed the Giant Spirit Sword and drowned them in Sword Qi.
• The trials advanced through battles against a Sixth Order Dao Integration Realm cultivator and Liao Xia, then placed Chen Fei in the Heart Anomaly Realm before Ge Shida, an Eighth Order Creation Realm cultivator.

Chen Fei speedran the secret realm’s trials, defeating opponents from Ge Shida through Fan Wenzheng by using cultivation insights far beyond his sealed realm. After breaking into the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao, he awoke at the fifth order before an origin demon, still wielding Earth God Realm understanding.

• Ge Shida used the Time Subordinate Rule [Future] against Chen Fei, but Chen Fei killed him with a sword strike.
• The secret realm placed Chen Fei in the Yu Clan’s secret realm at Eighth Order Peak, where he wiped out the Bai Clan and Liang Clan forces.
• Chen Fei advanced through the Ninth Order and Tenth Order illusions, reached Early Earth God Realm, and arrived at Bowang City.
• Fan Wenzheng attacked Chen Fei, but Chen Fei used the Heaven-Tilting Sword to kill him despite having Early Earth God Realm cultivation.
• The illusion shook, Chen Fei entered the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao, and he opened his eyes before a fifth-order origin demon.

Chen Fei used his authority over the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao to enter other cultivators’ illusion realms and kill the origin demons hidden among them. After three origin demons died, Twelfth Order Origin Demon Situ Ze realized that another of his agents had perished while he remained trapped behind the secret realm’s seals.

• Chen Fei entered Xiang Kaifeng’s illusion realm and killed him effortlessly, then seized his spiritual essence and restored Earth God Weapon.
• Chen Fei entered Zhang Lifeng’s illusion realm, identified him as a hidden origin demon, and killed him despite Zhang Lifeng’s attempt to strike first.
• Chen Fei entered Sun Tingtao’s illusion realm and killed him after Sun Tingtao confirmed Chen Fei had discovered his origin demon identity.
• Situ Ze saw three spiritual lights representing hidden origin demons go dark while he continued trying to break the seals around him.

Chen Fei exploited the secret realm’s illusion trials to hunt down hidden origin demons, killing dozens while Situ Ze tried to escape his confinement and identify the killer. The chapter left Chen Fei eager to continue his hunt, with his tally at forty-one Eleventh Order origin demons.

• Situ Ze watched the spirit pearls of hidden origin demons go dark and began examining the barrier trapping him in the secret realm.
• Chen Fei slew the hidden origin demons in successive illusion realms, including Dong Xingqian, whose final message gave Situ Ze a fragmentary clue about his killer.
• Situ Ze deduced that an Early Earth God Realm cultivator had killed Dong Xingqian, then crushed the spirit pearls and attacked the barrier with all his strength.
• Chen Fei continued killing origin demons and collecting their spiritual essences, reaching a total of forty-one Eleventh Order origin demons slain.
• Chen Fei killed the twenty-eighth origin demon in his latest run and judged his overall tally insufficient.

Chen Fei used the illusion realms to slaughter Eleventh Order origin demons and discovered that Night Demon War Soldiers could bypass some of the realm’s restrictions, allowing him to increase the pace of his attacks. As Situ Ze and Chen Fengyan sensed the deaths accelerating, Chen Fei sent out more than two hundred soldiers and left the late-stage demon before him alive for the moment.

• Chen Fei killed origin demons in nearby illusion realms while watching the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao, aiming to eliminate them before they cleared their trials.
• Chen Fei found that one Night Demon War Soldier could enter another illusion realm after waiting, but his attempt to send his true body between realms failed.
• Chen Fei created Ninth Order Night Demon War Soldiers, which used their Eleventh Order insights to kill demons suppressed within the illusion realms.
• Situ Ze sensed origin demons dying at a steady rate that suddenly accelerated, and prepared to seek out whoever was responsible once he escaped his sealed region.
• Chen Fengyan sensed Earth God Realm cultivators’ deaths give way to a rapid succession of origin demon deaths and wondered how they were being located so quickly.
• Chen Fei saw Night Demon War Soldiers vanish without returning, then summoned more than two hundred of them before finishing the late-stage demon facing him.

Chen Fei used his Night Demon War Soldiers to slaughter more than two hundred Eleventh Order origin demons across the secret realm’s illusions, gathering their spiritual essence and Earth God Weapons. Situ Ze and Chen Fengyan broke free of their sealing grounds and realized the secret realm’s illusion rules were linked to the Xuan Yu Realm, but Chen Fei evaded Situ Ze and collected the essence of the final twenty-six origin demons.

• Chen Fei revealed that his clones were killing origin demons in other illusions, then a clone pinned Lu Hongtao and pierced his head with a sword.
• Night Demon War Soldiers appeared across the secret realm and killed origin demons by pinning them in place and destroying their origins with sword essence.
• Situ Ze sensed dozens of origin demons dying, escaped the sealing ground, and realized the secret realm was governed by illusion rules connected to the Xuan Yu Realm.
• Situ Ze shattered illusion nodes to try to rescue the origin demons, but the Night Demon War Soldiers killed them before their power could recover; more than two hundred origin demons died.
• Situ Ze forced his way into an illusion to find the killer, but Chen Fei erased the Night Demon War Soldier and all its traces before Situ Ze arrived.
• Chen Fei gathered more than two hundred portions of Eleventh Order spiritual essence and Earth God Weapons, while Chen Fengyan escaped his sealing ground and began searching for Situ Ze.

Chen Fei waited inside the illusion while planning to use the secret realm’s power and his Origin Demon Spiritual Essence to produce Status Spiritual Materials and soul-enhancing treasures. After Earth God Realm cultivators began escaping, Chen Fei emerged and faced Situ Ze, who was trapped by Chen Fengyan in the Sky-Locking Ring and demanded to know whether Chen Fei had killed the origin demons.

• Chen Fei considered using Origin Demon Spiritual Essence and the secret realm’s origin to produce High-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Materials and treasures that could strengthen his soul.
• Situ Ze hesitated to summon more Eleventh Order Origin Demons because nearly three hundred had died, while Chen Fengyan kept him occupied above the ocean.
• Chen Fei realized that the secret realm would likely conceal its origin after its illusions failed to stop the cultivators and origin demons.
• A Late Earth God Realm cultivator broke through the illusion and received a pillar of light containing Heavenly Status fragments, but he refused the reward and remained in the secret realm.
• After nearly two hundred cultivators escaped the illusions, Chen Fei emerged and found Situ Ze confined with Chen Fengyan inside the Sky-Locking Ring.
• Situ Ze asked Chen Fei whether he had killed all the origin demons, while Chen Fei greeted Chen Fengyan.

Chen Fei evaded Situ Ze’s deductions by hiding the origin demons’ spoils in the Space Grid, gathered Secret Realm Origin, and prepared an array before leaving the secret realm. Back in Nanxi City, Chen Fengyan announced rewards for the cultivators who submitted their collected origin, while the ranking among the Early Earth God Realm cultivators began to emerge.

• Chen Fei fled from Situ Ze, who tried and failed to deduce whether Chen Fei possessed the spiritual essences and Earth God Weapons of the slain origin demons.
• Chen Fei used the Space Heavenly Dao to gather Secret Realm Origin and waited until other cultivators had collected enough before inscribing an array that could locate the secret realm and enable spatial teleportation.
• After Chen Fengyan opened a Space Channel, Chen Fei and the surviving Earth God Realm cultivators left the secret realm, while Situ Ze departed separately.
• In Nanxi City, the cultivators learned that Dong Xingqian had not returned, and Chen Fengyan decided not to investigate who had killed the origin demons.
• Chen Fengyan announced Status Spiritual Materials for the top three origin contributors in each realm, with other cultivators eligible for treasury rewards according to their submissions.
• The Early Earth God Realm cultivators began submitting their Secret Realm Origin as a light curtain recorded their totals.

Chen Fei secured second place among the Early Earth God Realm cultivators by submitting eight portions of secret realm origin, earning an eleventh-order mid-grade status spiritual material. After refusing Ma Chenyang’s offer to trade for it, Chen Fei joined Chen Fengyan in the grotto-heaven and asked to study the treasury’s cultivation inheritances.

• Chen Fei submitted eight portions of secret realm origin to Chen Fengyan and took second place among the Early Earth God Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fengyan praised Chen Fei, and the remaining cultivators finished submitting their origin without changing the rankings.
• Ma Chenyang offered Chen Fei a stalk of sky ink grass for his status spiritual material, but Chen Fei refused to sell it.
• Chen Fengyan took Chen Fei and the other eight top-ranked cultivators to Nanxi City's grotto-heaven, where the other eight refined their status spiritual materials.
• Chen Fei stored his status spiritual material in his heavenly status and asked Chen Fengyan whether he could study cultivation inheritances in the treasury using mid-grade immortal crystals.

Chen Fei gained access to thirty cultivation art inheritances in the Nanxi City treasure vault and chose arts to strengthen his Origin Power, physique, and divine soul. After returning to the Spirit Nurturing Sect, he fused the inheritances and created the Heavenly Demon Tide Art and the Heavenly God Skill Three Thousand Heavenly Swords.

• Chen Fengyan granted Chen Fei access to thirty cultivation art inheritances without payment after hearing that studying more arts accelerated Chen Fei's comprehension.
• Chen Fei entered the Nanxi City treasure vault, examined its inheritances, and selected five body-refinement arts, ten secret arts, and fifteen Origin Power arts.
• Chen Fei returned to the Spirit Nurturing Sect, where Wei Liangzhen and the other Earth God Realm cultivators congratulated him on obtaining a Mid-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Material.
• Chen Fei entered the Void Return Realm and used the Time Hut to study all thirty inheritances before the Illusionary Secret Realm's refinement began.
• Chen Fei fused the inheritances, modifying the Heaven-Tilting Sword Canon and creating the Heavenly Demon Tide Art and the Heavenly God Skill Three Thousand Heavenly Swords.

Chen Fei completed the Great Perfection cultivation of the Heavenly Tilting Sword Canon, Three Thousand Heavenly Swords, and Heavenly Demon Tide Art, strengthening his offense, divine-soul defenses, and protection. After rejecting Ma Chenyang’s challenge, he accepted Jiang Hanyi’s wager for an Eleventh Order mid-grade Status Spiritual Material, setting up a highly anticipated duel between Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spots.

• Chen Fei cultivated the Heavenly Tilting Sword Canon (Modified) and Three Thousand Heavenly Swords to Great Perfection, then completed the Heavenly Demon Tide Art and gained its protective Heavenly Demon Body.
• Chen Fei discovered that the Xuan Yu Realm could fully charge one Heavenly Sword each day, allowing his divine soul to reach the Early Heavenly God Realm in roughly eight or nine years, with treasures able to speed the process.
• Ma Chenyang of Cold Mountain Academy sent Chen Fei a Challenge Letter, but Chen Fei refused it as unimportant.
• Jiang Hanyi, a former Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spot, challenged Chen Fei and wagered an Eleventh Order mid-grade Status Spiritual Material.
• Chen Fei accepted Jiang Hanyi’s challenge, and news of their matching wagers spread throughout the Cold Mountain Domain.

Chen Fei faced Jiang Hanyi in Golden Sand City for a wager of Mid-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Materials. After Jiang Hanyi opened with a vast Sword Rain, Chen Fei pierced through it and counterattacked, leaving Jiang Hanyi on the defensive as the contest continued.

• Golden Sand City filled with cultivators eager to watch Chen Fei and Jiang Hanyi compete for their Mid-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Materials.
• Chen Fengyan arrived as referee, took custody of both stakes, and began the contest between the two Heavenly Pride Ranking Top Spots.
• Jiang Hanyi unleashed tens of thousands of sword shadows that locked onto Chen Fei and overwhelmed ordinary Early Earth God Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei used the Heaven-Tilting Sword Technique to carve through the Sword Rain and injure Jiang Hanyi's divine soul.
• Chen Fei followed with recurring sword scars that struck Jiang Hanyi and forced him into passive defense.

Chen Fei defeated Jiang Hanyi in their Training Ground match by using the Heavenly Tilting Sword Technique to outmaneuver Jiang Hanyi’s hidden attack. Three days later, as the Cold Mountain Domain continued discussing Chen Fei’s talent, its Heavenly God Realm experts began refining the origin of the Illusionary Secret Realm.

• Chen Fei kept Jiang Hanyi on the defensive, and the spectators realized he was close to winning an Eleventh Order mid-grade Status Spiritual Material.
• Jiang Hanyi shattered his Ice Crystal Sword and concealed himself in a storm of ice Sword Rain while gathering power for a decisive strike.
• Chen Fei split his aura among seven sword scars with a movement technique, leaving Jiang Hanyi unable to identify his true body.
• Jiang Hanyi chose the wrong sword scar to attack, admitted defeat, and Chen Fei spared him further injury.
• Cultivators across the Cold Mountain Domain discussed Chen Fei’s victory, and three days later the domain’s Heavenly God Realm experts began refining the Illusionary Secret Realm’s origin.

Chen Fei secretly entered the Illusionary Secret Realm while Shangguan Yang refined it, using Secret Realm Origin and Origin Demon Spiritual Essence to cultivate a High-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Material and soul-nourishing treasures. After Shangguan Yang’s search failed to find him, Chen Fei gathered what he could and left the secret realm.

• Chen Fei gave Jiang Hanyi’s mid-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Material to the Spirit Nurturing Sect, then used a Teleportation Formation to enter the Illusionary Secret Realm.
• Chen Fei used his remaining authority over the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao and supplied Secret Realm Origin and Origin Demon Spiritual Essence to persuade the secret realm to cultivate a Status Spiritual Material.
• Shangguan Yang sensed the secret realm resisting refinement and searched it with his divine sense, while Chen Fei concealed himself inside the formation and avoided detection.
• Chen Fei cultivated the Status Spiritual Material to High-grade Eleventh Order and stored it within his Heavenly Status.
• Chen Fei cultivated Heavenly Sound Flowers and Green Smoke Grass to nourish his soul and the Three Thousand Heavenly Swords while Shangguan Yang found no anomaly.
• After a day, Chen Fei collected the Green Smoke Grass and used the last of his Secret Realm Origin to leave the Illusionary Secret Realm.

Chen Fei used the resources he had gathered to break through to the Late Earth God Realm and strengthen his divine soul. After building three hundred Heavenly Swords with Green Smoke Grass, he shattered the barrier to the Peak Earth God Realm and advanced his divine soul.

• Shangguan Yang noticed that the Illusionary Secret Realm’s refinement had suddenly accelerated, but he continued cautiously without investigating further.
• Chen Fei returned from the Illusionary Secret Realm to the Void Return Realm and refined High-grade Eleventh Order Status Spiritual Materials to advance to the Late Earth God Realm.
• Chen Fei spent more than a dozen Earth God Weapons and other treasures to raise the Void Return Realm toward High-grade Eleventh Order.
• Chen Fei refined eight Heavenly Sound Flowers, bringing his divine soul to the peak of the Late Earth God Realm.
• Chen Fei used twenty Green Smoke Grass to form three hundred Heavenly Swords, then drove them into his divine soul and broke through to the Peak Earth God Realm.

Chen Fei refined divine soul materials to strengthen his Peak Earth God Realm divine soul, then risked repeated bodily collapses to force his physique through a breakthrough. With power from the Night Demon War Soldier, he succeeded in reaching the Peak Earth God Realm in physique.

• Chen Fei chose to refine his divine soul materials instead of using them to accumulate Heavenly Swords, raising his divine soul to more than seventy percent of the Peak Earth God Realm.
• Chen Fei refined Mid-grade Great Dao Stones until his origin power and physique reached the limits of the Late Earth God Realm.
• Chen Fei devoured the spiritual essence of Earth God Weapons to temper his physique, repeatedly suffering bodily collapse and using the Panel Backup to review his failures.
• On his fifth attempt, Chen Fei's flesh and blood reformed, and the Late Earth God Realm Night Demon War Soldier transferred all its power into him.
• Chen Fei's physique broke through to the Peak Earth God Realm, and the resulting force shattered the Time Hut and surrounding Void before he brought the ripples under control.

Chen Fei strengthened his physique and divine soul while Shangguan Yang discovered that an unidentified cultivator had concealed the Illusionary Secret Realm’s records. Two months later, the Cold Mountain Domain launched an assault on Yougu City, where Chen Fei entered and spotted two origin demons.

• Chen Fei refined Mid-grade Great Dao Stones, raised his physique to eighty percent of the Peak Earth God Realm, and tested the power of his Heavenly Tilting Sword.
• Shangguan Yang examined the Illusionary Secret Realm’s history and found that a mysterious figure had planted spiritual materials and obscured the traces of the Earth God Realm cultivators who entered it.
• Chen Fengyan and the other Heavenly God Realm experts discussed the mystery, and Chen Fengyan placed the participating cultivators under watch.
• After two months of cultivating and tempering his divine soul with the Three Thousand Heavenly Swords, Chen Fei raised it to eighty-five percent of the Peak Earth God Realm.
• Shangguan Yang led the Cold Mountain Domain’s forces into Yougu City with the Illusionary Secret Realm, and Chen Fei entered alongside the other Earth God Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei stabilized himself inside Yougu City and spotted a Late Eleventh Order origin demon and a Peak Eleventh Order origin demon more than a hundred thousand miles away.

Chen Fei faced two origin demons who expected to kill an apparent Early Earth God Realm cultivator, then revealed his true Late Earth God Realm cultivation and overwhelming sword skill. After gravely wounding Mu Xiaoyun and forcing both demons to retreat, Chen Fei appeared in Liu Qitao’s path.

• Chen Fei realized Cold Mountain Domain’s Earth God Realm cultivators were being matched against stronger origin demons while Heavenly God Realm experts were held back by Twelfth Order enemies.
• Mu Xiaoyun attacked Chen Fei from afar, but Chen Fei evaded the strike without injury as Liu Qitao and Mu Xiaoyun closed in.
• Chen Fei halted the world with his soul and struck Mu Xiaoyun with the Qian Yuan Sword, cutting him in two and nearly annihilating his origin.
• Liu Qitao stabilized Mu Xiaoyun and retreated with him after recognizing Chen Fei’s attack as a Heavenly God Skill and seeing Chen Fei’s Late Earth God Realm cultivation.
• Chen Fei vanished and appeared directly before the retreating Liu Qitao, telling him to stop running.

Chen Fei killed Mu Xiaoyun and Liu Qitao after overpowering them with the Heaven-Tilting Sword. He then tried to find more origin demons, but the Yougu City anomaly distorted his perception and transported him into a strange scene.

• Liu Qitao attacked Chen Fei with a soul-focused sword move, but Chen Fei’s Heaven-Tilting Sword overwhelmed him and forced him to flee.
• Chen Fei killed the wounded Mu Xiaoyun and struck Liu Qitao again, leaving Liu Qitao gravely injured.
• Liu Qitao used Mutual Destruction and an added strange power, but Chen Fei retreated and let the attack rupture Liu Qitao’s body; afterward, Chen Fei collected Liu Qitao’s and Mu Xiaoyun’s spiritual essences and weapons.
• Chen Fei searched the anomaly for other origin demons, but could not sense them and found himself returned to his starting point.
• Chen Fei struck a courtyard whose buildings did not interact with his sword, then the surroundings changed and he found himself seated on a couch before singing maidens.

Chen Fei learned that Yougu City's courtyard forced captured opponents into battles where the loser became the Anomaly's ghost thrall, while the winner could trade spoils for treasures. Seeing a chance to obtain Azure Grass and strengthen his divine soul, he found a way to reenter while making the Anomaly lock onto his Night Demon War Soldier instead of his true body.

• Chen Fei killed the early Eleventh Order Origin Demon Jiang Rongxuan with the Heavenly Tilt Sword and extracted his spiritual essence.
• A message revealed that the courtyard connected opponents separated by vast distances, and that losing inside it turned a fighter into the Anomaly's enslaved ghost thrall.
• Chen Fei learned that victories let fighters process spiritual essences and Earth God Weapons into treasures, including Azure Grass that could strengthen his divine soul.
• Chen Fei weighed the risk of fighting Earth God Realm practitioners from the Cold Mountain Domain and decided to leave the courtyard.
• Chen Fei used his Night Demon War Soldier to fool the Anomaly's lock, then reentered the courtyard with the lock targeting the soldier rather than his true body.