Chapter Summaries

Su Fan received a healing pill from Senior Brother Nanming’s half-sister and learned that his next Dao Association Grand Competition opponent was Qin Yuan, a brutal Blood Fiend Demon Hall cultivator. Though his Martial Uncles urged him to withdraw, Su Fan decided to fight, while Feng Qingshu hired Qin Yuan to kill him and Qin Yuan ordered an investigation into his opponent.

• Ye Ziqin delivered Nanming’s healing pill to Su Fan, but she could not tell whether he was injured before he shut the door.
• Feng Qingshu learned that Su Fan’s next opponent was Qin Yuan and sent Qi Feng to offer the demon cultivator a reward for killing him.
• Su Fan reviewed Qin Yuan’s record and refused Hongfa and Tengda’s advice to withdraw from the match.
• Qi Feng offered Qin Yuan a wooden box of valuables on Feng Qingshu’s behalf, and Qin Yuan agreed to kill Su Fan.
• After hearing that Su Fan had survived Feng Qingshu’s schemes through five rounds, Qin Yuan ordered someone to investigate him.

Qin Yuan learned that Su Fan had hidden his strength and heard alarming rumors about his past, so he reconsidered Feng Qingshu’s request to kill him. He arranged to meet Su Fan, who arrived at a teahouse and found Qin Yuan and several demonic cultivators waiting.

• Qin Yuan watched Su Fan’s battle images, and the Blood Fiend Demonic Hall cultivators realized Su Fan had been concealing his strength.
• Senior Brother Yuan Qi recalled feeling his bloodline suppressed when he had encountered Su Fan at a teahouse.
• A fellow disciple reported rumors that Su Fan had killed hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators and four Deity Transformation cultivators.
• Qin Yuan’s companions urged him not to fight Su Fan, so he asked someone to find Su Fan’s residence and decided to negotiate.
• Su Fan received an invitation, went to the designated teahouse, and introduced himself to the demonic cultivators in the private room.

Su Fan met Qin Yuan, who offered him a Spirit Seizing Child as compensation for Feng Qingshu’s request to kill him in the next round. Su Fan sold the child to Qin Yuan in exchange for three powerful demonic sect inheritances, then returned to his Cave Mansion satisfied with the deal.

• Qin Yuan and the other demonic cultivators sensed Su Fan’s immense blood and qi when he entered their private room.
• Qin Yuan showed Su Fan a Spirit Seizing Child in a Life Sustaining Coffin and explained that Feng Qingshu had offered it to persuade him to kill Su Fan in their next fight.
• Qin Yuan said he would let the next round’s outcome depend on their own abilities, and Su Fan offered the Spirit Seizing Child to the room’s occupants for trade.
• Su Fan accepted Qin Yuan’s offer of three Orthodox Inheritances—the Zombie Path, Insect Gu Path, and White Bone Path—and asked the others to keep the transaction confidential.
• After Su Fan left, Qin Yuan and the others discussed his strength, and several said they would bet on him in the next round.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion, inspected the three inheritances, and was pleased with their quality and the wealth he had gained.

Su Fan entered the sixth round of the Dao Association Grand Competition after Crimson Cloud Heaven’s cultivators saw him off, and watched two top contenders fight while weighing his own strength against the need to stay unnoticed. As his turn to compete approached, he resolved to keep a low profile and left the tea booth for the stage.

• Su Fan decided Qin Yuan’s attempt to frame him with the Spirit Seizing Child had failed, and resolved to punish him without killing him after Qin Yuan bought the item back for two hundred thousand Spirit Crystals and three Devil Path inheritances.
• Two days later, Immortal Venerable Hongfa, Immortal Venerable Tengda, and the other Crimson Cloud Heaven cultivators gathered outside Su Fan’s Cave Mansion to see him off as the plane’s last remaining hope.
• Su Fan arrived at the sixth-round venue, where a Golden Core cultivator named Chen Rong guided him to his tea booth and prepared Spirit Tea while he watched the matches.
• Su Fan watched Demon Lord Bei Zhu of the True Demon Divine Sect fight True Lord Dong Yan of the Daoxuan Sword Sect, recognized their strength, and considered whether he could contend for the top ten.
• Su Fan decided against attracting attention that could lead the Forgetfulness River Palace to investigate him, and left the tea booth when Chen Rong told him it was nearly time for his match.

Su Fan concealed his Blood Transformation Demonic Art and a Witchcraft Path formation beneath a sixth-tier Immortal Array, provoking Qin Yuan into unleashing his Blood Sea Domain. Qin Yuan crushed the visible array and engulfed Su Fan, but his final attack was deflected, leaving Qin Yuan alarmed as the chapter ended.

• Su Fan entered the secret realm, located Qin Yuan, and set up the Two Forms Primordial Magnetic Divine Light Demon-Subduing Immortal Array as cover for his hidden Blood Shadow Descent God Great Formation and Blood Transformation Demonic Art.
• Qin Yuan unleashed his Blood Sea Domain, strengthened by the Calamity Born Blood Gu, and shattered Su Fan's Immortal Array barrier.
• Su Fan activated his hidden Witchcraft Path formation just as Qin Yuan's Blood Sea Domain swallowed him.
• Feng Qingshu, Qi Feng, Senior Brother Fan He, Senior Brother Nanming, and Chen Rong believed Su Fan had been defeated as Qin Yuan's blood sea covered the secret realm.
• Qin Yuan struck with a giant hand formed from the blood sea, but sensed that a spinning force had deflected most of its power and realized Su Fan was unharmed.

Su Fan secretly devoured Qin Yuan’s Blood Sea Domain, then forced him to surrender his treasures and help stage a convincing defeat. Su Fan emerged victorious, leaving Fan He celebrating his winnings and Nanming realizing he had underestimated him again.

• Su Fan used the Blood Shadow Descent God Great Formation and Blood Demon Mist to consume Qin Yuan’s Blood Sea Domain and its Calamity Born Blood Gu.
• Qin Yuan failed to withdraw his domain, suffered a severe backlash when he attacked Su Fan’s soul, and begged for mercy.
• Su Fan rejected Qin Yuan’s offer of the Spirit Seizing Child and bargained for nearly everything in his Storage Ring, then made Qin Yuan help stage the fight.
• Su Fan appeared to be overwhelmed before counterattacking and defeating Qin Yuan, who was expelled from the secret realm.
• Feng Qingshu smashed the room and beat Qi Feng, while Fan He celebrated winning his wager on Su Fan.
• Nanming realized Su Fan had been concealing his strength throughout the competition, but the girl beside him dismissed the warning.

Su Fan returned from the secret realm after defeating Qin Yuan and claiming his wealth, then learned that he had advanced to the seventh round of the Dao Association Grand Competition. He faced a feared sword cultivator from Duanli Heaven next, but remained confident, and the chapter ended with him rewarding Chen Rong for her service.

• Su Fan took Qin Yuan's accumulated treasures after preserving the Blood Sea Domain and let him go once he had paid.
• Su Fan told Immortal Venerable Tengda that he had won, prompting celebrations across Crimson Cloud Heaven, and he shared the news with Chen Qing, Shen Fang, Senior Brother Fan He, and Senior Brother Nanming.
• Su Fan reassured Senior Brother Fan He that he could win the next round, despite Fan He's concern about the opponent's strength.
• The seventh-round matchups revealed that Su Fan would face Immortal Venerable Ming Shan of Xuanyue Sword Sect, a renowned sword cultivator from Duanli Heaven.
• Su Fan told Fan He he had at least a ninety percent chance of winning against Ming Shan, then answered worried messages from his allies.
• Su Fan gave Chen Rong a Storage Ring filled with gifts after she brought him dinner, and she was astonished by his generosity.

Chen Rong learned that Su Fan’s next opponent was the powerful Sword Path cultivator True Monarch Ming Shan, while Su Fan discovered the abilities Xuxu had gained after its long sleep. In the seventh round of the Dao Association Grand Competition, Su Fan faced Ming Shan and began a direct battle, ending as he unleashed Limitless Slash.

• Chen Rong learned from her friend that Su Fan would face True Monarch Ming Shan of the Xuanyue Sword Sect and warned Su Fan about his formidable opponent.
• Su Fan entered the Portable Secret Realm, tested Xuxu’s improved concealment and innate abilities, and saw it sever a forest and mountain with a wave of air.
• Feng Qingshu learned from Qi Feng that his attempt to persuade Ming Shan had failed, then relied on Ming Shan killing Su Fan in the next round.
• Su Fan entered the seventh round and faced True Monarch Ming Shan, who invited him to attack first.
• Su Fan summoned the Five Directions Evil-Exterminating Soul-Swaying Divine Lightning, and Ming Shan’s flying sword destroyed its bolt with one strike.
• Su Fan drew the Demon Slaying Sword and began Limitless Slash against True Monarch Ming Shan.

Su Fan overwhelmed True Monarch Ming Shan with repeated sword strikes containing Law Power, then stopped short of killing him before knocking him unconscious. Feng Qingshu realized Su Fan had concealed his strength and began arranging to kill him after the Dao Association Grand Competition.

• Su Fan and True Monarch Ming Shan clashed with powerful sword strikes, shocking the spectators and revealing Su Fan's strength.
• True Monarch Ming Shan suffered severe injuries but refused to yield, while Su Fan continued attacking until Ming Shan was near collapse.
• Su Fan decided to spare True Monarch Ming Shan, but Ming Shan insisted on fighting and prepared one final strike.
• Su Fan appeared in front of the exhausted Ming Shan and struck him unconscious with a punch.
• Feng Qingshu recognized that Su Fan had been hiding his strength and ordered Qi Feng to find two old men to prepare a plan for after the competition.

After Su Fan defeated True Monarch Ming Shan and entered the top thousand of the Dao Association Grand Competition, his sectmates celebrated and explained that the next round would take place in the dangerous Falling Star Heavenly Ruins. His success brought attention and rewards to Crimson Cloud Heaven, while Hanhai Dao Palace offered him a chance to join; Su Fan was left weighing that offer against his loyalty to Town Mountain Dao Palace.

• Su Fan returned to the teahouse, learned Chen Rong had won Spirit Crystals by betting on him, and sent news of his victory to his sect and friends.
• Senior Brother Fan He visited, praised Su Fan for defeating True Monarch Ming Shan, gave him his share of the winnings, and asked him to arrange future bets.
• Senior Brother Fan He and Senior Brother Nanming told Su Fan that the next round would send the top thousand competitors to a dangerous region, and Susu learned it would be the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins.
• Immortal Venerable Hongfa and Immortal Venerable Tengda brought Su Fan a Storage Ring and news that his achievement had attracted attention from Crimson Cloud Heaven's upper sects.
• Immortal Venerable Tengda told Su Fan that Hanhai Dao Palace had asked whether he would join; Su Fan postponed his answer and considered whether he could belong there as he did at Town Mountain Dao Palace.

Su Fan hosted Senior Brother Fan He, Senior Brother Nanming, and Susu for a meal, then learned about the dangers of the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins and accepted a meeting with two Xuanyue Sword Sect disciples. At the banquet, Senior Brother Su Long began to reveal why he and Senior Brother Mu Yuan had sought Su Fan out.

• Su Fan served his guests Spirit Peach juice, Spirit Wine, and skewers made from seventh-grade Black Blood Food Dragon Loach, whose scorching power forced Fan He, Nanming, and Susu to circulate their cultivation techniques.
• Su Fan studied Susu’s information about the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins and judged that the perilous expedition would include many elite disciples, so he was not overly worried about going.
• Fan He arranged a meeting between Su Fan and Xuanyue Sword Sect disciples Su Long and Mu Yuan, who wanted to thank him for showing mercy to True Monarch Ming Shan and build a relationship before the expedition.
• Su Fan met Su Long and Mu Yuan at a hotel banquet attended by Fan He, Nanming, and Susu, and exchanged polite praise with the two Sword Cultivators.
• After several rounds of wine, Su Long glanced at Su Fan and began to explain the real purpose of their visit.

Su Fan joined Senior Brother Su Long and Senior Brother Mu Yuan’s team for the dangerous Falling Star Heavenly Ruins and settled into a luxurious Cave Mansion in Taibai Immortal City. After accepting invitations to gatherings with his new teammates and Senior Brother Fan He, Su Fan arrived at Mingxiang Garden for the first meeting.

• Su Fan agreed to join Su Long and Mu Yuan’s team after they explained their preparations for the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins and gave him a Jade Slip of information.
• Fan He and Nanming introduced Su Fan to other disciples, who mostly ignored him, while Su Fan remained content with his decision to join the Xuanyue Sword Sect team.
• Su Fan moved into a valley Cave Mansion, hosted his Town Mountain Dao Palace fellow disciples for a night of drinking, and enjoyed several quiet days afterward.
• Su Long invited Su Fan to a team gathering at Mingxiang Garden, while Fan He invited him to a separate gathering; Su Fan declined Fan He’s invitation and arranged for him and Nanming to visit the next night instead.
• Su Fan accepted Su Long’s invitation and arrived at Mingxiang Garden in Taibai Immortal City.

Su Fan joined Senior Brother Su Long and Senior Brother Mu Yuan’s team for the expedition to the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins and discovered that its many sword cultivators left it poorly balanced. After realizing how many combat and survival methods he possessed, he decided he would be better off preparing to explore the ruins alone.

• Senior Brother Su Long introduced Su Fan to the gathered cultivators, and Senior Brother Mu Yuan revealed that Su Fan had defeated Junior Brother Ming Shan, earning him a grudging acknowledgment from Senior Brother Dong Yan.
• Su Fan met Xue Qi, a Shadow Path cultivator from Tongyou Temple, and the two discussed the team’s lack of scouts, support specialists, and cannon fodder.
• Su Fan mentally assessed his extensive abilities, resources, puppets, undead forces, and contracted beasts, then realized he could enter the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins without relying on the team.
• Su Fan and Xue Qi agreed that the team needed more specialists, but Xue Qi warned him not to raise the issue with the stubborn sword cultivators.
• Su Fan decided not to risk a conflict over the team’s weaknesses and began planning to replenish supplies and organize his forces before exploring the ruins alone.

After the banquet, Su Fan prepared for the trip to the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins, strengthened his ties with Xue Qi, and organized his forces in the Gathering Yin Secret Realm. The next morning, he disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Early Stage Rogue Cultivator and set up a stall in Taibai Immortal City.

• Su Fan and Xue Qi exchanged contact information after bonding over their awkward positions among the major-sect disciples.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion, then entered his Portable Secret Realm and played with Xuxu and the Ghost Crow before checking the spoils Sister Zhen had sorted.
• Su Fan visited the Gathering Yin Secret Realm, gave the Yaksha demonic-sect inheritances, and promised to help it break through to the Ghost Emperor Realm.
• Su Fan assigned the Yaksha to organize and command his ghostly armies for the upcoming trip to the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins.
• Su Fan disguised himself as a Nascent Soul Early Stage Rogue Cultivator and set up a stall in Taibai Immortal City's crowded market.

Su Fan bought a battered Witchcraft School wooden carving at the free market and discovered that it held an ancient, powerful aura, though he could not fully activate it. After evading the old stall owner’s search party, he returned to his Cave Mansion and prepared for Senior Brother Fan He, Senior Brother Nanming, and Susu to visit with information about other star domains.

• Su Fan sold his goods at the free market, then bought a Witchcraft School wooden carving and a useless animal-hide record from a suspicious old stall owner.
• Su Fan left the market and changed his appearance, while the old man gathered cultivators to search for him.
• Su Fan sensed Witchcraft Path power in the wooden carving and briefly awakened its ancient aura, but the damaged object soon fell silent.
• Senior Brother Fan He invited himself over for food and Spirit Wine and promised to bring information about other star domains.
• Senior Brother Nanming said he and Susu would visit with Spirit Wine and intelligence, and Susu asked whether Su Fan had any fruit juice.

Su Fan shared drinks with Senior Brother Fan He, Senior Brother Nanming, and Susu before receiving valuable gifts and spending the night with Chen Rong. The next morning, Ancestor Hongchang visited to meet the sect’s newly celebrated disciple and asked him for wine.

• Senior Brother Fan He gave Su Fan four seventh-grade talismans and urged him to reach the top two hundred of the Battle Record Ranking, while Su Fan said he could make the top five hundred.
• Senior Brother Nanming gave Su Fan a Nine Transformations Life Replenishing Pill, and Susu gave him a Ruyi Copper Coin containing three divinations from her ancestor.
• Susu gave Chen Rong a jade talisman for protection in Taibai Immortal Palace, and Chen Rong later offered herself to Su Fan in gratitude; they spent the night together.
• Su Fan woke feeling refreshed and sensed that his divine soul had grown slightly, then accepted breakfast from Chen Rong.
• Ancestor Hongchang appeared in Su Fan’s courtyard, summoned him inside, and asked him to bring out wine instead of tea.

Venerable Hongchang visited Su Fan, praised his achievements, and gave him rewards while urging him to reconsider joining Hanhai Dao Palace. After Hongchang left, Su Fan examined the gifts, including an immortal artifact, and prepared to continue his cultivation with ample resources.

• Venerable Hongchang drank with Su Fan, praised his success in the Dao Association Grand Competition, and presented him with rewards from Crimson Cloud Heaven, the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, Town Mountain Dao Palace, and himself.
• Venerable Hongchang urged Su Fan to reconsider Hanhai Dao Palace, and Su Fan explained his loyalty to Town Mountain Dao Palace before agreeing to obey his ancestor's decision.
• Venerable Hongchang left after giving Su Fan information about the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins, and Su Fan worried he might never return to Crimson Cloud Heaven.
• Su Fan inspected the gifts from Crimson Cloud Heaven's nine super immortal sects and the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, finding abundant supplies, formation materials, and two Eighth-tier Immortal Arrays.
• Su Fan discovered that Venerable Hongchang's gift was the immortal artifact Demon Subduing Heaven Splitting Mountain Suppressing Hammer, which his physical strength allowed him to wield.
• Su Fan examined Town Mountain Dao Palace's reward of Spirit Crystals, healing pills, and Eighth-grade Immortal Talismans.

Su Fan traveled with the elite disciples of Chaoguang Star Domain to the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins, exchanging intelligence with Xue Qi along the way. At the Heavenly Ruins Market, he learned that the group would soon explore an unknown Spatial Fragment in a dangerous contest against cultivators from several star domains.

• Su Fan and Xue Qi secretly exchanged information about the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins before boarding the Star Domain Flying Boat.
• Su Fan traveled for several months, spending much of the journey with Chen Rong and privately trading a Jade Slip with Xue Qi.
• Su Fan arrived at the Heavenly Ruins Market and learned about the shattered fragments and dangers of the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins.
• A Void Refining Stage expert told Su Fan and the other disciples that they would explore a newly discovered Spatial Fragment alongside cultivators from several star domains.
• Su Fan realized the expedition would be a deadly contest for a century of exclusive exploration rights, and the group prepared to depart for the sealed fragment in a few days.

Su Fan learned that the disciples would enter the unknown Spatial Fragment scattered across a dangerous environment and prepared for the mission by consulting Susu’s Ruyi Copper Coin. After Xue Qi arrived at his room and silently placed an item before him, the chapter left the reason for the Devil cultivator’s visit unrevealed.

• The Chaoguang Star Domain leaders distributed supplies and Jade Slips describing the other star domains that would explore the Spatial Fragment.
• Su Fan read the intelligence about the rival star domains and received a message from Senior Brother Su Long calling the team to a meeting.
• Su Long told the team that everyone would enter the Spatial Fragment scattered and showed them a location formation disk that could locate nearby teammates.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion, divined with Susu’s Ruyi Copper Coin, and received a result indicating no danger or bloody calamity.
• Xue Qi contacted Su Fan, came to his room, and placed an unidentified item before him.

Su Fan accepted location artifacts from Xue Qi and Su Long before joining nearly a thousand disciples on a perilous journey to an unknown Spatial Fragment. The mission began, and Su Fan was transported alone to a barren land.

• Xue Qi gave Su Fan half of a Yin-Yang Jade Pendant that could sense the other holder’s general location, and Su Fan exchanged Essence Blood with him to activate it.
• Su Long visited Su Fan and gave him a similar positioning artifact.
• Nearly a thousand disciples from the Chaoguang Star Domain traveled for over a month through dangerous regions of the Falling Star Heavenly Ruins and reached the unknown Spatial Fragment.
• Xue Qi and Su Long sent Su Fan telepathic requests to support each other once inside the fragment, and Su Fan agreed.
• A voice announced the mission’s start, and the disciples disappeared from the flying vessel one by one.
• Su Fan fell through an endless abyss and landed on barren ground, where he released his Spiritual Sense to survey the area.