Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei challenged Xing Shengjie, the tenth-ranked prodigy, before securing his Heavenly God Realm Peak prodigy status, prompting concern across Spirit Illusion Peak. Their duel began with Xing Shengjie attacking first, but Chen Fei used the Illusionary Moon Maze Step and Mirror Flower Water Moon Art to overwhelm him with images, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Xing Shengjie learned of Chen Fei’s rapid progress and decided to use him as a honing stone rather than concede.
• Disciples at Spirit Illusion Peak realized Chen Fei had not yet passed the Heavenly God Realm Peak prodigy trial and risked losing his prodigy status if he lost.
• Three days later, Xing Shengjie and Chen Fei arrived at the central Training Ground, where a Void True God Realm deacon began their duel under rules forbidding killing.
• Xing Shengjie attacked immediately while Chen Fei used afterimages from the Illusionary Moon Maze Step to evade him and tug at his divine soul.
• Chen Fei revealed his mastery of the Mirror Flower Water Moon Art, and the fighters’ images clashed as Chen Fei’s multiplied while Xing Shengjie’s dwindled.

Chen Fei defeated Xing Shengjie through his mastery of illusion, claiming tenth place on the Heavenly Pride Ranking and setting an unprecedented record. After weeks of silence and no further challenge, Chen Fei departed with the group for the Wuxiang Demonic Palace, where the Demonic Son was about to ascend to the top.

• The Void True God Realm deacon recognized Chen Fei’s mastery of water and wind rules and his peak techniques as Xing Shengjie became trapped in Chen Fei’s illusion.
• Xing Shengjie tried to use the Aura Furnace to break free, but Chen Fei’s illusion made him attack the wrong direction and left him open to defeat.
• Chen Fei defeated Xing Shengjie, and the deacon declared him the winner, making him the first Heavenly God Realm disciple to claim tenth place without taking the prodigy trial.
• Chen Fei visited Enlightenment Peak and the Hidden Skill Pavilion, but did not challenge another prodigy despite widespread speculation that he might challenge Yu Fangqiu.
• Xing Shengjie asked Yu Fangqiu whether Chen Fei could surpass him, and Yu Fangqiu revealed his mastery by making Xing Shengjie appear inside a teacup.
• A month later, Chen Fei left with the group for the Wuxiang Demonic Palace as the Demonic Son prepared to ascend to the top.

Chen Fei traveled with the Illusionary Gate to the Wuxiang Demonic Palace, where he learned about Demonic Son Gu Yingzhi and the challenge of stopping his ascent. The gathered forces watched as Gu Yingzhi appeared beneath the Wuxiang Staircase to begin climbing.

• Chen Fei discussed spatial traces with Yu Fangqiu and Xing Shengjie, who explained Gu Yingzhi’s strength and their own reasons for considering a challenge.
• The Flying Cloud Ship arrived at the Sky-Piercing Divine Mountain, where Elder Yan and Elder Wu welcomed the Illusionary Gate party.
• Chen Fei and the others saw the Wuxiang Staircase, shaped like a dragon from hundreds of millions of skeletons, as forces from across the Tianxuan Domain gathered to observe.
• After the arriving sects and forces settled around the staircase, a black moon appeared and transformed into Gu Yingzhi beneath it.

Gu Yingzhi climbed the Wuxiang Staircase to become the Wuxiang Demonic Palace’s Demonic Son, but Hong Junhao emerged from the staircase and defeated him with the Wuxiang Void Return Great Law. After the other factions’ cultivators refused to challenge Hong Junhao, Chen Fei stepped onto the staircase to block his path.

• Gu Yingzhi ascended the Wuxiang Staircase, refining its source essence as he approached the summit.
• Hong Junhao emerged from a black boulder and revealed that he had cultivated the Wuxiang Void Return Great Law by enduring years of imprisonment and being forgotten.
• Hong Junhao overcame Gu Yingzhi’s techniques, seized his soul, and sealed him within the staircase.
• Hong Junhao challenged the surrounding factions, but Yu Fangqiu, Xing Shengjie, and the other cultivators judged that they could not defeat him.
• After Hong Junhao mocked the silent factions, Chen Fei appeared on the staircase and blocked his way.

Chen Fei challenged Hong Junhao on the Wuxiang Staircase and overwhelmed him with the Floating Life Dreamlike Fist, despite Hong Junhao’s powerful Wuxiang Void Return Great Law. After Hong Junhao refused to concede, Chen Fei trapped him in an illusion that made him charge into the staircase’s seal.

• Chen Fei stepped forward to face Hong Junhao, and the surrounding cultivators learned he was Illusionary Gate’s newly risen prodigy.
• Hong Junhao attacked Chen Fei, but Chen Fei’s sword strike sent him flying and revealed the strength of his three perfected rules.
• Hong Junhao combined the Wuxiang Ghost Shadow Steps with the Wuxiang Void Return Great Law, but Chen Fei struck him back and tore away his right shoulder and arm.
• Hong Junhao insisted he had not lost, so Chen Fei crooked a finger at him and used illusion arts to make him charge into the Wuxiang Staircase’s seal.

Chen Fei defeated Hong Junhao at the Wuxiang Demonic Palace’s ascension ceremony and earned a Thirteenth Order lower-grade Status Spiritual Material from the Illusionary Gate. After returning to the sect, he received it and prepared to refine it, while news of his victory spread throughout Tianxuan Domain.

• Chen Fei used an illusion to make Hong Junhao rush into the Wuxiang Staircase’s seal, despite Hong Junhao sensing the deception and briefly stopping.
• Chen Fei returned to the Illusionary Gate with Yan Haoyang, and disciples from several sects congratulated him on defeating the Wuxiang Demonic Palace’s Demonic Son.
• Yan Haoyang explained that Chen Fei’s talent surpassed that of the Illusionary Gate’s current Heavenly God Realm disciples and brought him to the treasury.
• Yan Haoyang gave Chen Fei a Thirteenth Order lower-grade Status Spiritual Material for origin energy, while withholding physique materials for now.
• Chen Fei returned to his cave residence to refine the material as news of his victory spread across the Illusionary Gate and Tianxuan Domain.

After defeating Hong Junhao at the Wuxiang Staircase, Chen Fei refined Thirteenth Order lower-grade Status Spiritual Material and broke through to the Void True God Realm. His Origin Power and divine soul transformed, leaving him stronger but still limited by the lack of a Thirteenth Order cultivation art.

• Cultivators across the Tianxuan Domain discussed how Chen Fei had defeated Hong Junhao and learned that he had come from the Cold Mountain Domain only two months earlier.
• Illusionary Gate disciples recognized that Chen Fei had used the Heavenly Pride Ranking to secure a place at the Wuxiang Demonic Palace and obtain Status Spiritual Material.
• Qu Yuanchuan, Wei Liangzhen, and Dong Gufeng reflected on Chen Fei's rise from the Cold Mountain Domain and the Spirit Nurturing Sect.
• Chen Fei examined the Thirteenth Order lower-grade Status Spiritual Material, then absorbed it to advance his Origin Power and divine soul into the Void True God Realm.
• Chen Fei stabilized his breakthrough, sensed a formidable power watching over the Illusionary Gate, and watched the remaining Heavenly God Weapons turn into Origin Spiritual Essence.

After breaking through to the Early Void True God Realm, Chen Fei moved to Illusionary God Peak and borrowed resources to raise the Void Return Realm to the lower Thirteenth Order. He selected Thirteenth Order inheritances and began studying them in his new cave residence.

• Chen Fei invited the cave residence Artifact Spirit to Illusionary God Peak and renamed it Baka before receiving congratulations from Spirit Illusion Peak’s disciples.
• Shen Tingyu and Tian Wentao discussed whether to invite Chen Fei to join a dangerous undertaking, deciding to explain the risks and let him choose.
• Chen Fei selected a cave residence near a lake on Illusionary God Peak and accepted a loan of Azure Morning Sky Iron to advance the Void Return Realm.
• The Hidden Skill Pavilion deacon explained the inheritance limits, and Chen Fei chose nineteen jade slips, including the Early Void True God Realm portion of an Illusionary Gate core inheritance.
• Chen Fei returned to his cave residence, used the Azure Morning Sky Iron to resume the Void Return Realm’s advancement, and began reading the inheritance jade slips.

Chen Fei fused three physique inheritances into the Thirteenth Order high-grade Corroding Heaven Nether Prison Canon, then received Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu, who explained Tian Wentao’s Karmic Debt of Fate and asked for his help resolving it in a secret realm. The chapter ended with Chen Fei learning that the task would take him into a dangerous Thirteenth Order secret realm where Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and Origin Cultivators might threaten them.

• Chen Fei fused three physique cultivation techniques and created the Corroding Heaven Nether Prison Canon, which included the Eternal Night Prison domain.
• Baka informed Chen Fei that Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu had come to see him, and Chen Fei welcomed them into his cave dwelling.
• Tian Wentao offered Chen Fei a gift, but Shen Tingyu explained that they had come to ask for his help with Tian Wentao’s Karmic Debt of Fate.
• Tian Wentao recounted how his wife in a Thirteenth Order secret realm revived as a different lifeform and demanded that he remain with her forever.
• Tian Wentao revealed that they needed Chen Fei, a Void True God from outside the Tianxuan Domain, to help resolve the karmic debt in the Black Domain.
• Tian Wentao warned Chen Fei that the secret realm could contain Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and dangerous Origin Cultivators.

Chen Fei learned that Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu wanted him to accompany them into the Veiling Spirit Realm to seek a Time Origin Pearl, and he agreed. After they left, he studied and simplified a new Thirteenth Order technique, preparing to strengthen himself before the journey.

• Chen Fei asked about the Veiling Spirit Realm and learned that it was a Top-grade Thirteenth Order secret realm where Status Spiritual Materials could still appear.
• Tian Wentao revealed that their greatest possible reward was a Time Origin Pearl, and Chen Fei agreed to join them.
• Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu gave Chen Fei a jade slip about the Fox Clan and the Veiling Spirit Realm, along with one million Top-grade Immortal Crystals and one hundred Top-grade Great Dao Stones.
• Chen Fei discovered the Shore Mirror Flower Art in the Illusionary Gate's technique jade slips and fused it into the Shore Illusory Void Art.
• Chen Fei simplified the Shore Illusory Void Art and Corroding Heaven Nether Prison Canon, then began cultivating in the Void Return Realm.

Chen Fei perfected the Corroding Heaven Nether Prison Canon and Shore Illusory Void Art, then used his remaining Great Dao Stones to strengthen his cultivation and combat power. Meanwhile, Destiny Mansion’s Lu Xuanying considered whether Chen Fei had killed Chai Zhihong and weighed capturing him to uncover what had happened.

• Chen Fei realized that fourteen carefully chosen Void Secret Treasures might let him condense an immortal body in advance, and he planned to consult the Illusionary Gate’s Void Secret Treasure Hall.
• Chen Fei reached Great Perfection in the Corroding Heaven Nether Prison Canon and Shore Illusory Void Art, whose breakthroughs affected beings throughout the Void Return Realm.
• Chen Fei refined his remaining Top-grade Great Dao Stones, raising his soul and origin power to twenty percent of the Early Void True God Realm and greatly increasing his combat power.
• Chen Fei read the jade slip Tian Wentao and the others had left about the Veiling Spirit Realm.
• At Destiny Mansion, Su Qifang told Lu Xuanying he suspected Chen Fei had killed Chai Zhihong, but Lu Xuanying considered another passing expert more likely.
• Lu Xuanying considered capturing Chen Fei to learn who had killed Chai Zhihong, but noted that Chen Fei’s standing within the Illusionary Gate made any attempt risky.

Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu prepared to enter the Veiling Spirit Realm after Tian Wentao’s Karmic Debt of Fate worsened. Though a puppet found no obvious danger, strange changes were spreading beneath Tongtian Valley as the three entered the realm.

• Deep beneath Tongtian Valley, two voices discussed a hidden secret realm, the Primordial Sacred Body, and other revelations from a reincarnated soul.
• Chen Fei warned Tian Wentao that his karmic burden had intensified, and Tian Wentao discovered a black spot on his divine soul.
• Shen Tingyu proposed using his Thirteenth Order puppet to scout the Veiling Spirit Realm before they entered.
• The puppet returned safely and reported no obvious abnormalities, though the realm’s World Vital Energy had increased.
• Tian Wentao, Chen Fei, and Shen Tingyu decided the Fox Demon was likely responsible for the worsening karmic burden and headed into the Veiling Spirit Realm.
• At Tongtian Valley, ripples spread outward from underground after the two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons disappeared.

Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu entered the Black Domain to draw out Tian Wentao’s karmic force and form a Karma Bead, but Chen Fei sensed danger as the bead condensed. As they tried to retreat, a Pale Eyeball appeared and fixed its gaze on them.

• Tian Wentao explained that they needed to lure an Early Thirteenth Order Spirit Devouring Beast out of the Black Domain so they could set up an array and resolve his Karmic Debt of Fate.
• Chen Fei used a Breath Concealing Bead and Soul Luring Grass to lure the beast, but nothing emerged, and Shen Tingyu’s puppet found no beast or battle traces inside the Black Domain.
• Chen Fei noticed Tian Wentao’s karmic force had rapidly multiplied, so the three entered the Black Domain and Tian Wentao formed an altar that began drawing the force from his soul.
• As the Karma Bead took shape, Chen Fei warned that it made him feel increasingly uneasy, and Tian Wentao ordered them to retreat.
• A giggling voice spoke as a Pale Eyeball covered in curled granulation tissue appeared and fixed its gaze on Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu.

Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu encountered a Pale Eyeball in the Black Domain that attacked them with powerful illusions. Chen Fei resisted its tricks, discovered its true body could not enter the realm, and destroyed the Eyeball, while Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu remained trapped in its influence.

• Tian Wentao, Shen Tingyu, and Chen Fei tried to escape the Black Domain as the Pale Eyeball shattered and took control of their mirror images.
• Chen Fei recognized that the black mirror images were illusions, allowing Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu to avoid being drawn deeper into the deception.
• Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu fell under the Pale Eyeball's illusion, while Chen Fei remained unaffected and confronted it directly.
• Chen Fei determined that the Pale Eyeball was only a manifestation and that its stronger true body could not enter the Veiling Spirit Realm.
• Chen Fei used his physique, Qian Yuan Sword, and black furnace to cut apart and destroy the Pale Eyeball, leaving Black Top-grade Great Dao Stones amid the blood mist.

Chen Fei killed Pale Eyeball, rescued Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu, and helped them complete the Karma Bead. The three left the Black Domain for the Fox Clan’s territory to seek a Time Origin Pearl, but found the clan missing.

• Chen Fei collected 673 Top-grade Great Dao Stones from Pale Eyeball and suspected its master came from a higher-level secret realm connected to the Veiling Spirit Realm.
• Chen Fei freed Shen Tingyu from the illusion and brought Tian Wentao’s broken altar back so Tian Wentao could repair it and draw out his karmic debt.
• Tian Wentao sealed the completed Karma Bead, and the three set off for the Fox Clan’s territory to obtain a Time Origin Pearl.
• Tian Wentao explained that they would use the Karma Bead to seize an origin stone beneath the Fox Clan’s forbidden Illusory Sand Dune.
• Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu reached the Fox Clan’s territory and found it deserted.

Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu discovered that the Fox Clan had been exterminated and the Time Origin Pearl was gone, confirming that a powerful new secret realm had emerged. They received a trace of the Pearl’s Spiritual Charm, but found the Veiling Spirit Realm’s exits sealed and then saw a Golden World attack the stranded cultivators.

• Chen Fei reasoned that the Fox Clan’s disappearance and the Pale Eyeball’s appearance pointed to a new secret realm at least Fourteenth Order Low-grade.
• Tian Wentao used the Karma Bead to reveal the gray source stone, but the Time Origin Pearl was gone; he refined its remaining Spiritual Charm and gave the trace to Chen Fei.
• The three decided to report the new secret realm to Illusionary Gate and flew toward the Veiling Spirit Realm’s exit, where they found the entrance had vanished.
• Chen Fei, Tian Wentao, and Shen Tingyu discussed the sealed exits and the danger posed by projections from the new secret realm, then set off for Illusionary Gate’s station.
• A Golden World appeared behind them and unleashed golden weapons at the cultivators stranded near the vanished entrance.

Tian Wentao, Shen Tingyu, and Chen Fei escaped a secret realm powerhouse and reported the vanished Veiling Spirit Realm entrances to Lu Wenxuan at Suspended Peak Mountain. Lu Wenxuan recalled the Illusionary Gate deacons and prepared to investigate the new secret realm, while Chen Fei began cultivating inside the mountain’s formation, which soon came under attack.

• Tian Wentao, Shen Tingyu, and Chen Fei fled as a secret realm powerhouse attacked the cultivators near the Veiling Spirit Realm entrance, then reached Suspended Peak Mountain.
• Lu Wenxuan let the three Illusionary Gate disciples into the outpost and learned that the entrance had vanished and a powerful secret realm being had killed cultivators.
• Lu Wenxuan recalled the Illusionary Gate’s Void True God Realm cultivators and told them that a secret realm above the Fourteenth Order might have appeared beside the Veiling Spirit Realm.
• Lu Wenxuan assigned the deacons to investigate with puppets while their true bodies guarded Suspended Peak Mountain’s formation, and he volunteered to seek a way into the new realm.
• Chen Fei refined Top-grade Great Dao Stones and examined the Spiritual Charm of the Time Origin Pearl at a formation node before the formation barrier began to tremble.

Chang Yangyan attacked Suspended Peak Mountain with a Golden World, forcing Lu Wenxuan to defend with the Thousand Leaf Formless Lotus and then retreat behind the Mirror Moon Array. As the array held against Chang Yangyan, another expert with a nearly identical Golden World arrived to join the assault.

• Chen Fei recognized that Chang Yangyan's Golden World seemed to combine innate bloodline talent with a Void Secret Treasure.
• Chang Yangyan named himself and unleashed a torrent of golden weapons at Lu Wenxuan and Suspended Peak Mountain.
• Lu Wenxuan used Void Leaf Barrier and Mirror Lotus Realm to redirect and reflect attacks, but the escalating pressure strained his power and soul.
• Lu Wenxuan retreated to Suspended Peak Mountain and defended through the Mirror Moon Array instead of counterattacking.
• Chang Yangyan mocked Lu Wenxuan while his golden weapons battered the array, then a bewitching figure emerged from the void and joined the assault with a nearly identical Golden World.

Lu Wenxuan and the fifteen Void True God Realm cultivators of Suspended Peak Mountain fought to hold the Mirror Moon Array against Chang Yangyan and Chang Yuning, but a third Thirteenth Order Extreme powerhouse arrived. Lu Wenxuan used the array’s final transformation to trap the attackers briefly and teleport everyone a million miles away.

• Lu Wenxuan strengthened the Mirror Moon Array with twelve bronze pillars as Chang Yangyan and Chang Yuning battered its barrier with their Golden Divine Treasure.
• Chang Yuning unleashed Myriad Weapons Pay Homage to the Ancestor, but Lu Wenxuan used Thousand Leaves Return to Silence to deflect the attack and injure Chang Yangyan.
• Chen Fei realized the array’s defenders were losing primordial energy, while Chang Yangyan and Chang Yuning continued their assault and waited for the Mirror Moon Array to weaken.
• A third Thirteenth Order Extreme powerhouse arrived, prompting Lu Wenxuan to activate Mirror Shatter and trap the three attackers for three breaths.
• The Mirror Moon Array teleported Lu Wenxuan and the other fourteen Void True God Realm cultivators a million miles away.

Chen Fei hid himself and Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu from the pursuing Chang Yangyan by concealing their auras in his Space Grid and taking shelter inside a demonic fish. Chang Yangyan failed to find them and pretended to leave, but he still watched from a Space Rift.

• Lu Wenxuan took five Void True God Realm cultivators into his plane and fled, while Chen Fei invited Tian Wentao and Shen Tingyu to follow him.
• Chen Fei stored the Void Return Realm in his Space Grid, concealed his own aura, and hid inside a demonic fish beneath the sea.
• Chang Yangyan searched for the three cultivators, then unleashed his Golden Divine Treasure and devastated the sea without locating them.
• Chen Fei remained motionless inside the carbonized fish, knowing the Time Origin Pearl’s Spiritual Charm could not overcome his gap in foundational power.
• Though Chang Yangyan seemed to leave, he continued watching Chen Fei’s hiding place from within a Space Rift.