Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei refined Origin Spiritual Essence and a rare Status Spiritual Material, strengthening his divine soul, Heavenly Swords, and vital energy as Cold Mountain Domain prepared for war. Tian Wentao then offered the cultivators a chance to escape the Thirteenth Order Origin Demon by surviving a plane battle and following him to Tianxuan Domain.

• Chen Fei helped Zhu Shiyu refine a top-grade Tenth Order Status Spiritual Material, then sent him away.
• Chen Fei refined Origin Spiritual Essence until his divine soul reached the peak of the Late Heavenly God Realm, and used the remaining essence and half a portion of high-grade Status Spiritual Material to strengthen his Heavenly Swords and vital energy.
• Chen Fei traveled with Wei Liangzhen and Dong Gufeng to Nanxi City, where Cold Mountain Domain's Heavenly God Realm cultivators gathered.
• Tian Wentao introduced himself as a powerhouse from Tianxuan Domain and explained that cultivators there allied with origin demons against a greater threat.
• Tian Wentao revealed that he had arranged a plane battle with Chai Zhihong, offering survivors the chance to follow him to Tianxuan Domain.

The Cold Mountain Domain cultivators accepted Tian Wentao’s plane battle as their only chance to survive the origin demons. As they prepared for the battle, Chen Fei copied more than eight hundred Heavenly God Realm inheritances and began studying them in the Void Return Realm.

• Tian Wentao explained that nine randomly shifting exits and defensible natural barriers would give the Cold Mountain Domain cultivators a chance to escape the plane battle, and Qu Yuanchuan accepted the proposal for the group.
• Tian Wentao set the battle for ten days later and gave three Late Heavenly God Realm cultivators jade slips containing cultivation guidance; Qu Yuanchuan then opened Nanxi City's treasure vault and invited everyone to use its resources.
• Wei Liangzhen and the other faction leaders placed their inheritances in the vault to preserve them, and Chen Fei added several Golden Immortal cultivation arts before copying the Heavenly God Realm inheritances.
• Chen Fei returned to the Spirit Nurturing Sect with Wei Liangzhen and Dong Gufeng, while the two discussed the uncertain fate of their sect’s disciples and elders.
• Chen Fei entered the Void Return Realm with more than eight hundred Twelfth Order inheritances, including nine Top-grade ones, and immersed himself in studying them inside the Time Hut.

Chen Fei studied and merged hundreds of Twelfth Order inheritances, creating the Void Heavenly Sword God and three new secret techniques in preparation for the planar decisive battle. He entered the battle planes and, upon arrival, immediately killed a Mid Twelfth Order Origin Demon.

• Chen Fei finished studying the Twelfth Order inheritances and merged them into the Void Heavenly Sword God, Heavenly Sword, Search Heaven and Earth, and Demon Breaker.
• Chen Fei cultivated the new secret techniques to Great Perfection, while Cold Mountain Domain prepared for the impending planar decisive battle.
• Tian Wentao opened the heavenly gates and ordered all cultivators above the Realm Lord level to enter within a quarter of an hour.
• Chen Fei followed Wei Liangzhen and the Spirit Nurturing Sect through the gate, then waited for the battle planes' countdown to end.
• Chen Fei appeared above a mountain forest, spotted a Mid Twelfth Order Origin Demon, and killed it with a sword scar through its skull.

Chen Fei killed a Mid Twelfth Order Origin Demon, discovered the secret realm’s stronghold rules, and established a fortified camp to attract cultivators and increase the chance of a Heavenly Gate appearing. As cultivators began gathering at the mountain, Chai Zhihong asked Tian Wentao how many would ultimately escape.

• Chen Fei killed a Mid Twelfth Order Origin Demon with one sword strike and took its Origin Spiritual Essence and Heavenly God Weapon.
• Chen Fei used Search Heaven and Earth to sense origin demons within the secret realm and found a mountain holding information about the stronghold rules.
• Chen Fei refined the mountain’s spiritual light, established a stronghold, and deployed a Void Heavenly Sword Formation around it.
• World Lords and Earth God Realm cultivators began heading to the stronghold, while a Heavenly God Realm cultivator hesitated to join.
• Chen Fei sent the Night Demon War Soldier and three formation spirits out to hunt, then admitted Deng Yuan of Moon Spirit Palace into the stronghold.
• Outside the secret realm, Chai Zhihong asked Tian Wentao how many cultivators would escape.

Chai Zhihong and Tian Wentao compared the cultivators’ and origin demons’ strength before Chai Zhihong reaffirmed his intent to investigate the Molten Void Realm massacre. In the secret realm, Chen Fei’s stronghold drew in cultivators while his Night Demon War Soldiers hunted origin demons, until one encountered a Late Twelfth Order Origin Demon and prepared to face it.

• Chai Zhihong showed Tian Wentao the opposing forces’ numbers and said he would personally investigate who had killed the origin demons in the Molten Void Realm.
• Chen Fei’s stronghold expanded as cultivators gathered around it, while the Void Heavenly Sword Formation’s spirit cleared origin demons within thirty million miles.
• Chen Fei split the Night Demon War Soldier into nine avatars, which ranged across the secret realm and killed more than a thousand lower-order origin demons, along with several Twelfth Order origin demons.
• A Night Demon War Soldier rescued Wei Liangzhen from an Early Twelfth Order Origin Demon and directed him to Chen Fei’s stronghold.
• After a Late Twelfth Order Origin Demon sensed the death of another origin demon and rushed toward them, Chen Fei’s other Night Demon War Soldiers converged while Wei Liangzhen flew for the stronghold.

Chen Fei fought the origin demon Mu Boshan, using his avatars and exceptional combat insight to withstand attacks from a Late Twelfth Order opponent. When Mu Boshan sensed more Chen Fei-like auras approaching and realized Chen Fei might have six avatars, he fled to report what he had discovered.

• Mu Boshan attacked Chen Fei with a soul impact and a saber strike, heavily injuring Chen Fei but failing to kill him.
• Two of Chen Fei's avatars arrived, and Mu Boshan trapped all three Night Demon War Soldiers inside a formation.
• Chen Fei fused the three Night Demon War Soldiers into one, raising his physique to the initial stage of the Late Heavenly God Realm, then struck Mu Boshan's saber's weak point.
• Mu Boshan empowered his Shadow Cold Saber with the Water and Fire Rules, but Chen Fei continued to find and attack its weaknesses.
• Mu Boshan sensed four more approaching auras like Chen Fei's, suspected Chen Fei had six avatars, and fled to report the discovery to Chai Zhihong.

Chen Fei’s Night Demon War Soldier defeated and killed Mu Boshan after thwarting his escape and surviving his desperate Heaven Opening strike. With the other avatars reunited, Chen Fei sent them back to hunt for demons while one returned to the formation site.

• The Night Demon War Soldier shattered Mu Boshan’s formation and wounded him with its mastery of both water and fire rules.
• Mu Boshan used a life-risking secret art to flee, but the Night Demon War Soldier saw through him and intercepted his desperate attack.
• The Night Demon War Soldier countered Mu Boshan’s Heaven Opening strike, suffering severe injuries while leaving Mu Boshan near death.
• The other Night Demon War Soldier avatars arrived and merged with the injured one, restoring its strength and crushing Mu Boshan’s last hope of escape.
• Chai Zhihong noticed that a Late Twelfth Order Origin Demon had died, while the Night Demon War Soldier collected Mu Boshan’s Origin Spiritual Essence and Shadow Cold Saber.
• Chen Fei split the Night Demon War Soldier into seven; six continued searching for demons, and one flew back toward the formation site.

Chen Fei returned to the Lone Peak Stronghold after Mu Boshan’s death and refined the demon’s Origin Spiritual Essence to complete the Three Thousand Heavenly Swords. Meanwhile, Di Liyang and Yin Hongwen used a blood sacrifice technique to track the cultivators, leaving Chen Fei’s stronghold at risk as the Heavenly Swords merged with his soul.

• The Night Demon War Soldier brought Wei Liangzhen back to the Lone Peak Stronghold, where Chen Fei and Qiu Fengxue received him.
• Chen Fei used the Origin Spiritual Essence from Mu Boshan and other origin demons to illuminate the remaining Heavenly Swords.
• Mu Boshan’s death unsettled the demons and raised the cultivators’ morale, while Chai Zhihong caused a dark bloodstain to appear in the sky.
• Di Liyang and Yin Hongwen decided to use Chai Zhihong’s blood sacrifice technique to locate the Late Heavenly God Realm cultivator who killed Mu Boshan.
• Yin Hongwen activated the blood sacrifice formation, using the dead cultivators’ flesh and souls to lock onto Mu Boshan’s place of death.
• Chen Fei completed the Three Thousand Heavenly Swords and merged them into his soul.

Chen Fei broke through to the Late Heavenly God Realm, with his divine soul reaching the Heavenly God Realm Peak, and strengthened the nine Night Demon War Soldiers. As Di Liyang and Yin Hongwen investigated Mu Boshan’s death, one Night Demon War Soldier defeated and sealed Lu Wuhen, while Chen Fei prepared to continue fighting without alerting the Thirteenth Order Origin Demon.

• Chen Fei shattered the barrier in his divine soul and reached the Heavenly God Realm Peak, extending his perception across a vast area of the secret realm.
• Chen Fei forced his Origin Energy into the Late Heavenly God Realm and condensed his Heavenly Status, causing the Void Return Realm to rise in rank.
• Chen Fei used High-grade Great Dao Stones to raise his Late Heavenly God Realm strength and increased all nine Night Demon War Soldiers’ Origin Energy to the Mid Heavenly God Realm.
• Lu Wuhen attacked a Night Demon War Soldier with the Sky Locking Pagoda, but the soldier shattered the weapon, defeated him, and sealed him rather than killing him.
• Di Liyang and Yin Hongwen followed the blood sacrifice technique to Mu Boshan’s death site, where Yin Hongwen realized Mu Boshan had been killed in a one-on-one battle.

Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang suspected that a mysterious cultivator had killed Mu Boshan, but Chai Zhihong could not find him with his Spiritual Sense and ordered them to target Qu Yuanchuan instead. As Chai Zhihong and Tian Wentao faced off outside the secret realm, Chen Fei used his Thirteenth Order Void Space Characteristic to break through to Heavenly God Realm Peak.

• Yin Hongwen’s blood sacrifice technique pointed vaguely toward three Late Heavenly God Realm cultivators, leading Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang to suspect the mysterious cultivator who had fought in the Molten Void Realm had killed Mu Boshan.
• Chai Zhihong searched the secret realm with his Spiritual Sense but failed to find the mysterious cultivator, then gave Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang the locations of the three Late Heavenly God Realm cultivators and told them to kill them.
• Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang chose to pursue Qu Yuanchuan, while Chai Zhihong blocked Tian Wentao from sending his Spiritual Sense into the secret realm.
• Tian Wentao withdrew his aura and returned to his chessboard rather than take Chai Zhihong’s provocation, while Chai Zhihong threatened that few cultivators might escape the secret realm.
• Chen Fei returned to the Void Return Realm and began another breakthrough attempt, using his Thirteenth Order Void Space Characteristic to push his physique to Heavenly God Realm Peak.

Chen Fei used his understanding of the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao to make Heavenly Gates appear, allowing cultivators to escape while his Night Demon War Soldier pursued the remaining Late Twelfth Order origin demons. Chen Fei left the secret realm with the Lone Peak stronghold’s cultivators, while the War Soldier remained behind and drew close to Di Liyang and Yin Hongwen.

• Chen Fei realized that Chai Zhihong might destroy the secret realm and chose to evacuate cultivators while continuing to hunt origin demons by another method.
• Chen Fei studied the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao and discovered how to manipulate its nodes, while the Night Demon War Soldier gathered and concealed its cultivation.
• Chen Fei used a strange art fluctuation to locate the five remaining Late Twelfth Order origin demons and sent the Night Demon War Soldier after them.
• Chen Fei made Heavenly Gates appear near cultivators, enabling them to escape the secret realm as origin demons stayed behind.
• Chen Fei opened a Heavenly Gate above the Lone Peak stronghold and led its cultivators out, while the Night Demon War Soldier approached Di Liyang and Yin Hongwen.

Chen Fei’s Night Demon War Soldier attacked Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang, overpowering their defenses and trapping them in the Void Heavenly Sword Formation. It killed Di Liyang and sealed his divine soul while Yin Hongwen remained trapped nearby.

• Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang recognized Chen Fei as he approached and tried to contact Chai Zhihong with a blood sacrifice technique, but Chen Fei severed the connection.
• Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang fled, but the Night Demon War Soldier caught up with Di Liyang and struck the Mountain-Opening Shield as Yin Hongwen used it to defend them.
• The Night Demon War Soldier used its knowledge of the secret realm’s Heavenly Dao to weaken the shield’s connection, then shattered it and sent Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang fleeing again.
• The Void Heavenly Sword Formation descended and blocked their escape, and their attacks could not break through its barrier.
• The Night Demon War Soldier struck Di Liyang, shattered half his body, then crushed him and sealed his divine soul with Sword Silks.
• Yin Hongwen watched Di Liyang’s death in terror.

Chen Fei’s Night Demon War Soldier sealed Yin Hongwen after his curse failed, then continued hunting Late Twelfth Order Origin Demons while Chai Zhihong investigated the secret realm. Chai Zhihong discovered that Yin Hongwen and Di Liyang were missing and unleashed a terrifying pressure over the entire realm.

• Yin Hongwen burned his origin to curse the Night Demon War Soldier, but Chen Fei’s defenses left it unharmed, and the soldier shattered Yin Hongwen’s body and sealed his divine soul.
• The Night Demon War Soldier set out to capture another Late Twelfth Order Origin Demon as Chai Zhihong sent his divine sense into the secret realm to investigate his growing unease.
• Chai Zhihong proposed using cultivators and origin demons as pieces in a deadly game, but Tian Wentao refused and challenged Chai Zhihong to continue investigating if he suspected something was wrong.
• The Night Demon War Soldier concealed its cultivation and waited as Chai Zhihong and Tian Wentao swept the secret realm with their divine senses.
• Chai Zhihong discovered that Yin Hongwen, Di Liyang, and other Origin Demons were missing, then unleashed a terrifying pressure that shook the entire secret realm.

Chai Zhihong tried to expose the hidden cultivator, but Tian Wentao opposed his plan to search everyone’s souls and instead helped the Cold Mountain Domain cultivators locate their enemies. As the plane confrontation erupted into a full battle, Chen Fei’s Night Demon War Soldier detected Chai Zhihong’s concealed Spiritual Sense and killed another Origin Demon.

• Chai Zhihong spread his Spiritual Sense across the secret realm, but Tian Wentao refused to help him search the cultivators’ souls and warned him about the consequences of acting alone.
• Chai Zhihong revealed the cultivators’ locations to the Origin Demons, while Tian Wentao sent the Origin Demons’ locations to the Cold Mountain Domain cultivators.
• Qu Yuanchuan learned that only three Late Twelfth Order Origin Demons remained, and both sides abandoned their defensive preparations and rushed into battle.
• The Night Demon War Soldier sensed Chai Zhihong’s concealed Spiritual Sense through disturbances in the secret realm’s Heavenly Dao and changed course toward a nearby Origin Demon.
• The Night Demon War Soldier trapped an Early Twelfth Order Origin Demon in the Void Heavenly Sword Formation and took away its sealed divine soul and Heavenly God Weapon.

The Night Demon War Soldier exploited Chai Zhihong’s limited surveillance to seal and eliminate Twelfth Order origin demons, turning the planar battle in the cultivators’ favor. Chai Zhihong withdrew his Spiritual Sense and used a bronze mirror to envelop the secret realm, leaving Chen Fei and the Night Demon War Soldier facing an unknown threat.

• The Night Demon War Soldier continued hunting origin demons while hiding his true strength whenever Chai Zhihong’s Spiritual Sense searched the secret realm.
• Chai Zhihong discovered that many Twelfth Order origin demons had vanished, and Tian Wentao confirmed that the cultivators had gained the advantage.
• Tian Wentao urged Chai Zhihong to end the planar battle, but Chai Zhihong refused and spread his Spiritual Sense throughout the secret realm.
• The Night Demon War Soldier destroyed the soul pearls of sealed origin demons, openly provoking Chai Zhihong as their auras disappeared outside the secret realm.
• Chai Zhihong withdrew his Spiritual Sense, burned some of his foundation, and used a bronze mirror to envelop the secret realm while Chen Fei watched from outside.

The Night Demon War Soldier sacrificed itself to strike the Late Heavenly God Realm battlefield from six hundred million li away, killing two Late Twelfth Order Origin Demons and gravely wounding a third. Chai Zhihong failed to capture the hidden cultivator before it vanished, while Qu Yuanchuan and the cultivators secured victory in the plane duel.

• Qu Yuanchuan and two Late Heavenly God Realm cultivators engaged three Late Twelfth Order Origin Demons while the Night Demon War Soldier approached the battlefield cautiously.
• The Night Demon War Soldier crushed the remaining origin demon soul pearls, revealing that three Late Twelfth Order Origin Demons had fallen.
• The Night Demon War Soldier used Demon Suppressor and Heaven Splitting to burn itself away and send a fist six hundred million li into the battle.
• Chai Zhihong froze the space where the Night Demon War Soldier had been and searched for the hidden cultivator, but found nothing; Tian Wentao recognized that the attacker had used Extreme Sublimation.
• Qu Yuanchuan and his allies recovered to find two Late Twelfth Order Origin Demons dead and the last one near death, giving the cultivators victory in the plane duel.

After Chai Zhihong ended the plane battle and took the remaining origin demons away, Tian Wentao brought the Cold Mountain Domain cultivators toward the Tianxuan Domain and the Illusionary Gate. The group arrived in a realm where cultivators and Origin Cultivators allied against Celestial Demons, and Tian Wentao prepared to take them through the Horizon Sect’s screening.

• Chai Zhihong refused to accept the wager’s outcome, removed the remaining origin demons, and left after Tian Wentao refused to let him soul-search the cultivators.
• Tian Wentao gathered the Cold Mountain Domain cultivators into his plane and used formations in the Heavenly Chasm to travel to the Tianxuan Domain.
• Chai Zhihong appeared in the Heavenly Chasm, but Tian Wentao had used a false body to distract him while his true body crossed through the formation.
• Tian Wentao explained that cultivators and Origin Cultivators had allied against Celestial Demons from beyond the Xuan Yu Realm, who sought the remains of a great power.
• Tian Wentao showed the cultivators the Heaven, Earth, and Mystic Rankings, explaining that Celestial Demons held first and third place on the Heaven Ranking.
• Tian Wentao reached the Illusionary Gate with the group and said they would first pass through the Horizon Sect to prevent Celestial Demons from infiltrating.

Chen Fei entered the Illusionary Gate with the cultivators from Cold Mountain Domain and learned about the sect’s ranks, resources, and rules. After settling into his cave abode, he investigated whether the Tianying Illusion would preserve challengers’ information and learned that its core could not retain records.

• Horizon Sect tested the Cold Mountain Domain cultivators and detected no Heavenly Demons or concealed cultivation realms, leaving Tian Wentao uncertain whether the suspicious cultivator had died or stayed behind as an avatar.
• The Illusionary Gate assigned Heavenly God Realm cultivators as Inner Sect Disciples and gave them jade tokens, while Yu Song introduced the sect and explained that cultivators could obtain Status Spiritual Materials through the Tianying Illusion or by buying them.
• Chen Fei read his jade token and learned about the sect’s disciple ranks, cultivation resources, and opportunities to become a True Disciple or steward.
• Chen Fei followed his token’s directions to a cave abode on the edge of Spirit Illusion Peak and asked its Artifact Spirit about the Tianying Illusion.
• The Artifact Spirit told Chen Fei that Venerable Tianxuan had forbidden the Tianying Illusion from retaining challengers’ information, and that its core drew on 1,296 Secret Realm Heavenly Daos.

Chen Fei learned about the Illusionary Gate’s trials, rankings, cultivation inheritances, and places to advance, then traveled to the Hidden Skill Pavilion to study its Top-grade Twelfth Order inheritances. He left the chapter beginning to browse them.

• Chen Fei asked the Spirit Illusion Peak Artifact Spirit about the Tianying Illusion, the Heaven, Earth, and Profound Rankings, heavenly demons, and access to sect inheritances.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the Illusionary Gate had seven Profound Ranking members and two Earth Ranking members, and warned that the Heaven Ranking’s leading powerhouse was an extraterritorial heavenly demon.
• The Artifact Spirit described the Enlightenment Tree in the Tianying Illusion and the dangerous Demon Luo Horn Prison as places that could help cultivators comprehend the Dao and advance.
• Chen Fei flew to Spirit Illusion Peak’s central region, surveyed its marketplace, and headed for the Hidden Skill Pavilion.
• Chen Fei told the Hidden Skill Pavilion Artifact Spirit that he wished to peruse all Top-grade Twelfth Order inheritances.

Chen Fei studied the Illusionary Gate’s Top-grade Twelfth Order inheritances and fused them into three cultivation arts, then entered the Tianying Illusion to seek an Enlightenment Tree Seed. He chose a trial of Heterodox Paths after buying Zhao Bo’an’s information, while Yuan Demon Chai Zhihong considered searching his soul.

• Chen Fei collected all 423 Top-grade Twelfth Order cultivation arts from the Hidden Skill Pavilion and studied their inheritances in his cave dwelling.
• Chen Fei fused the arts into the Illusory Void Sword Art, Heaven Splitting Demon Art (Limit Break), and Illusionary Heaven Step, then simplified them to raise their proficiency.
• Chen Fei traveled to Tianying City and met Zhao Bo’an, who sold him a jade slip claiming to explain how to obtain an Enlightenment Tree Seed.
• Chen Fei entered the Tianying Illusion, activated the aura of the Illusory Void Sword Art, and chose the Heterodox Paths trial.
• Yuan Demon Chai Zhihong watched Chen Fei enter and considered searching his soul later.