Chapter Summaries

Black Robe Nineteen and his group planned to attack the Chen Family after the trial, while Chen Zhixing searched for a way out of the Sky Covering Grand Formation and resolved to prevent Chen Tianchen's death. He found the formation eye, dealt with two disguised attackers, and discovered something beneath the bluestone.

• Black Robe Nineteen assigned the group to kill Chen Tianchen and seize the King Conferring Diagram from Chen Zhaosheng after the trial.
• Chen Zhixing searched the Sky Covering Grand Formation for its formation eye so he could leave and intervene in the coming attack.
• Chen Zhixing found the formation eye beneath a bluestone and encountered two Chen Family disciples who were actually setting a trap.
• The two attackers rushed Chen Zhixing, but he seized them, knocked them unconscious, and took their Bracelets.
• Chen Zhixing moved the bluestone and looked down at what had been hidden beneath it.

Chen Zhixing escaped the Sky Covering Grand Formation by altering a formation node, leaving Sword Spirit Qing Zhi amazed at his skill. Meanwhile, Elder Huixin studied Chen Zhixing’s revised Heaven Burning Art Guidance Chart and declared it a work of supernatural craftsmanship.

• Chen Zhixing found the formation flag and changed one of its nodes, opening a passage out of the Sky Covering Grand Formation.
• Sword Spirit Qing Zhi failed to decipher the formation and was stunned when Chen Zhixing said he had solved it using what he had learned from books as a child.
• At Heaven Mountain, Mo Qingyue presented Elder Huixin with Chen Zhixing’s Guidance Chart and reminded her of their agreement that she would grant Mo Qingyue one request.
• Elder Huixin studied the chart for an hour, marveling at its bold changes and new divine ability.
• Elder Huixin declared Chen Zhixing’s Guidance Chart a work of supernatural craftsmanship that seized the fortune of heaven and earth.

Elder Huixin praised Chen Zhixing’s revisions to the Heaven Burning Art as the work of one of the present age’s top ten divine-arts masters, and Mo Qingyue obtained the True Self Thirteen Methods for him. Fei Long True Person joined Mo Qingyue on a trip to the Chen Clan to settle their ten-year wager, while Chen Zhixing arrived at the Pine Needle Forest.

• Elder Huixin declared that Chen Zhixing’s changes to the Heaven Burning Art showed mastery matched by no more than ten people in the present age, and Mo Qingyue concealed his identity.
• Mo Qingyue asked Elder Huixin for the True Self Thirteen Methods, and Elder Huixin gave her the book in exchange for her promise to ask her friend about another cultivation chart.
• Elder Huixin handed Mo Qingyue a Guidance Chart with a divine-arts problem for Chen Zhixing to examine.
• Fei Long True Person lamented his repeated failures to reach the Nirvana Realm and agreed to accompany Mo Qingyue to the Chen Clan to check the ten-year wager about Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng.
• Chen Zhixing traveled north for about an hour and reached the Pine Needle Forest.

Chen Zhixing stopped searching Pine Needle Forest for Nine Wind Daoist’s tomb and devised a way to make the forest’s demons search for him. After subduing more than a hundred demons, he gave them one hour to find the tomb mound.

• Chen Zhixing killed a Black Giant Python that tried to ambush him and realized he could draw the forest’s demons out by shaking the ground.
• Chen Zhixing used Ox Demon Star Shattering to startle the beasts across Pine Needle Forest and bring them rushing toward him.
• Chen Zhixing defeated the arriving demons, leaving more than a hundred Great Demons prostrated before him.
• The Giant Bear offered Chen Zhixing melons and fruit, while the other demons insisted they were honest and harmless.
• Chen Zhixing told the demons to find a human tomb mound within one hour.

Chen Zhixing found Nine Wind Daoist’s tomb and smashed through its three question-gates rather than answering them. He claimed the Nine Gods Method and was startled by the second item on the stone table.

• Chen Zhixing sent demons across Pine Needle Forest to search for Nine Wind Daoist’s tomb, and a Squirrel Demon found its hidden entrance.
• Chen Zhixing rewarded the Squirrel Demon with a Foundation Establishment Pill and entered the tomb.
• Chen Zhixing read Nine Wind Daoist’s account of his life and punched through all three stone gates instead of answering their questions.
• Chen Zhixing bowed to Nine Wind Daoist’s remains, took the Nine Gods Method, and reacted with shock to the second item on the stone table.

Chen Zhixing found the evil cultivation art Path of Pain and the White Ten Mask, then studied the Nine Gods Method. Meanwhile, in the Chen Clan's Trial Land, Chen Zhaosheng defeated eight challengers and called out for his younger brother.

• Chen Zhixing recognized Path of Pain as a dangerous art that granted power through escalating physical and psychological suffering, and decided not to practice it.
• Chen Zhixing took Path of Pain so no one else could claim it, then picked up the White Ten Mask, which blocked Divine Sense probes.
• Chen Zhixing sat down to study the Nine Gods Method as the trial entered its final stage.
• Eight Void Transformation Realm disciples surrounded Chen Zhaosheng on a lake and demanded that he hand over his Bracelets.
• Chen Zhaosheng unleashed his Profound Clarity Realm power and defeated all eight disciples, leaving them unconscious on the lake.
• Chen Zhaosheng looked into the distance and demanded to know where his younger brother was and how much longer he would hide.

Chen Chou'er attacked Chen Zhaosheng with his Water Flow Blade Art, while Chen Zhixing finished comprehending the Nine Gods Method and returned to the trial. He left Lu Ying beaten and incapacitated after she mocked him.

• Chen Zhaosheng insulted Chen Chou'er’s birth and declared that he was destined to remain beneath the Chen family’s elites.
• Chen Chou'er recalled his desperate cultivation and unleashed the first form of the Water Flow Blade Art, Crimson Moon Splendor Slash, at Chen Zhaosheng.
• Chen Zhaosheng summoned his King Markings and an Emperor’s Phantom as Chen Chou'er’s attack descended.
• Chen Zhixing finished comprehending the Nine Gods Method and left the Nine Wind Daoist Tomb for the Chen Family’s Trial Land.
• Lu Ying mocked Chen Zhixing, who struck her across the face and sent her crashing to the ground.

Chen Zhixing expelled Lu Ying from the trial after threatening her, then headed toward the fighting in the forest. As Chen Zhaosheng defeated Chen Chou'er by the lake, Chen Zhixing arrived, leaving the two brothers face-to-face.

• Chen Zhixing warned Lu Ying not to challenge him again and sent her out of the Trial Land.
• Mo Qingyue and Fei Long True Person arrived near the Chen Family's Trial Land, and Mo Qingyue declared that she would win because she trusted Chen Zhixing.
• Chen Tianchen learned that only Chen Zhaosheng, Chen Chou'er, and Chen Zhixing remained in the trial, and decided to end it after half an hour.
• Chen Zhaosheng defeated Chen Chou'er beside the lake and mocked him as a lowborn servant.
• Chen Zhixing emerged from the forest, and Chen Zhaosheng greeted him as his little brother.

Chen Zhixing confronted Chen Zhaosheng, who confessed his resentment over sharing the Chen Clan’s standing and resources with him. Chen Zhixing revealed his Spirit Wandering Realm cultivation, crushed Chen Zhaosheng’s King’s Diagram, and turned to offer Chen Chou'er a chance to entrust his life to him.

• Chen Zhaosheng told Chen Zhixing he resented being treated as one of two Chen Clan prodigies and blamed him for dividing the clan’s resources and attention.
• Chen Zhixing revealed that his cultivation had reached the Spirit Wandering Realm, surpassing Chen Zhaosheng’s Profound Clarity Realm.
• Chen Zhixing used the Innate One Qi Hand to shatter Chen Zhaosheng’s King’s Diagram and send him crashing into the lake, breaking his protective bracelet.
• Chen Zhixing approached the badly injured Chen Chou'er and offered him a fortune if he entrusted his life to him.

Chen Zhixing bound the wounded Chen Chou'er to his service and sent him undercover to befriend Meng Hedong, then faced an attack by masked figures who had descended on the Chen Family's flying boat. The chapter ended as a grotesque black-robed woman charged at Chen Zhixing, intent on eating him.

• Chen Chou'er agreed to serve Chen Zhixing, who implanted strands of Mental Power in his Sea of Consciousness and healed him with a pill.
• Chen Zhixing sent Chen Chou'er downstream under a new identity to find Meng Hedong in the Qingzhou Meng Family and become his close friend.
• Five Golden Spider Mask figures struck the Chen Family's flying boat, prompting Chen Tianchen to demand to know who had trespassed.
• Emaciated Black Robe took Chen Zhaosheng's body through a vortex after confirming that he was dead, while his companion prepared to attack Chen Zhixing.
• The Strange Black Robed Figure rushed at Chen Zhixing, calling him delicious and demanding to eat him.

Chen Zhixing stopped fleeing and faced the Strange Black Robed Figure, revealing his astonishing Spirit Wandering Ninth Level cultivation. When her Black Jade identified him as a Ten Ancient Markings Wielder, he resolved to kill her before she could expose his secret and activated the Ox Demon Star Transformation Scripture.

• Chen Zhixing led the Strange Black Robed Figure away from the flying boat and stopped in a remote forest to fight.
• Chen Zhixing revealed his Spirit Wandering Ninth Level cultivation, then shattered her Purple Tentacles with a storm of punches.
• Chen Zhixing struck the Strange Black Robed Figure, but her body absorbed the blow and trapped his fist.
• The Strange Black Robed Figure's Black Jade identified Chen Zhixing as a Ten Ancient Markings Wielder, and she tried to seize him for the Fire Seed Project.
• Chen Zhixing decided his markings could not be exposed and activated the Ox Demon Star Transformation Scripture, lighting up five hundred of his acupoints.

Chen Zhixing killed the Strange Black Robed Figure and learned that she considered him Fire Seed Number One, the final link in the Fire Seed Project and a perfect Reincarnation Vessel. As he destroyed the Black Jade and pondered the revelations, Chen Tianchen began summoning a colossal Buddha above the Ten Thousand Mountains.

• Chen Zhixing used his ten years of cultivation to strike the Strange Black Robed Figure, who revealed her monstrous form and called him Fire Seed Number One before melting away.
• The Strange Black Robed Figure praised Eternal Heaven and declared Chen Zhixing the final link in the Fire Seed Project and a perfect Reincarnation Vessel.
• Chen Zhixing picked up the Black Jade, saw the words Ten Ancient Marks appear, and tested how the Nether Mask affected its detection.
• Chen Zhixing crushed the Black Jade because he feared it could track him.
• Chen Tianchen rose above the damaged flying boat, formed seals, and summoned the thousand-zhang Spring Sunshine Transforming Buddha from trees, stone, and earth.

Chen Zhixing entered the battle disguised in a black robe and White Ten Mask, then crushed the Spider Web fighters threatening Elder Zhaoguang. The remaining enemy detonated his body and divine soul to attack Chen Zhixing.

• Chen Tianchen and Black Robe Nineteen fought with enormous Dharma Manifestations while Elder Zhaoguang and Elder Guichen struggled against two other black-robed cultivators.
• Chen Zhixing arrived and shattered Black Robe Twenty-Three’s hand, then smashed him into the ground until he was dead.
• Chen Zhixing rushed toward the other Spider Web fighter, leaving Elder Zhaoguang stunned by his strength.
• The remaining Spider Web fighter judged himself no match, praised Eternal Heaven, and exploded his body and divine soul into a shock wave aimed at Chen Zhixing.

Chen Zhixing helped Chen Tianchen and the elders survive Black Robe Nineteen’s attack, then withdrew before they could learn his identity. He reflected on the Fire Seed Project and resolved to grow stronger before returning to the Chen Family after the Southern Border Trial.

• Chen Zhixing killed a black-robed attacker who had tried to seize him, but the man self-destructed before Chen could question him about Spark and Eternal Heaven.
• Chen Zhixing, Chen Tianchen, Elder Zhaoguang, and Elder Guichen surrounded Black Robe Nineteen, who escaped through a vortex after conceding that he could not kill Chen Tianchen.
• Chen Tianchen thanked Chen Zhixing, but Chen Zhixing left without giving his name; Chen Tianchen then ordered the elders to search for Chen Zhaosheng and Zhixing.
• Chen Zhixing hid in a cave, changed out of his black robe, and reflected that he needed to reach the True Self Realm and investigate the Fire Seed Project.
• Chen Zhixing disguised himself as a frightened survivor and ran out of the cave calling for the elders and his Fourth Uncle.

Chen Zhixing returned safely to Chen Tianchen after hiding through the trial, while Chen Zhaosheng remained missing and the Chen Clan prepared to leave. In the Ten Thousand Mountains, Fei Long True Person lost his way with Mo Qingyue, and Black Robe Nineteen discovered that Zi Xulu had been killed.

• Chen Zhixing told Zhaoguang and Guichen that he had hidden in a cave after knocking out two Chen Clan disciples, and they reported that Chen Zhaosheng was missing.
• Chen Tianchen reunited with Chen Zhixing, praised the White Cross Masked senior who had rescued him, and ordered Guichen to keep searching for Chen Zhaosheng.
• Chen Tianchen carried the unconscious Chen Clan disciples aboard the Flying Shuttle and headed for Yan Province with Chen Zhixing.
• Mo Qingyue pointed out that Fei Long True Person was walking north after he insisted the Chen Family's Trial Land lay to the east.
• Black Robe Nineteen met Emaciated Black Robe in a karst cave, learned that Number 37 Fire Seed had been recovered, and revealed that Zi Xulu had already been killed.

After returning to the Chen Clan, Chen Zhixing comforted Bi Luo and perfected the Nine Gods Method while planning to condense the Great Dao of Power first. News of Chen Zhaosheng’s death reached him, and the Family Head summoned him to the great hall.

• Black Robe Nineteen ordered Emaciated Black Robe to investigate Chen Zhixing, test whether he could join the organization, and eliminate him if he could not.
• Chen Tianchen advised Chen Zhixing to avoid the great hall so Chen Tianxiong would not take his anger over Chen Zhaosheng’s disappearance out on him.
• Bi Luo tearfully welcomed Chen Zhixing home, and he comforted her before she made him braised lion’s head.
• Chen Zhixing comprehended the Nine Gods Method to perfection and decided to condense the Great Dao of Power before the Great Dao of Divine Sense.
• Bi Luo told Chen Zhixing that Chen Zhaosheng’s Soul Lamp had gone out and that Chen Tianxiong had blamed Chen Tianchen for his death.
• A servant informed Chen Zhixing that the Family Head had summoned him to the great hall.

Chen Daoyan summoned Chen Zhixing to learn the extent of his cultivation and found that he had reached the Spirit Wandering Realm. Seeing Chen Zhixing as the Chen Clan’s hope, Chen Daoyan asked him to take charge of the clan.

• Chen Zhixing went to the Main Peak Great Hall after Chen Daoyan summoned him.
• Chen Daoyan warned Chen Zhixing that Chen Tianxiong might act rashly over Chen Zhaosheng’s death, but said he had ordered him not to cause trouble for now.
• Chen Daoyan asked whether Chen Zhixing resented having hidden his talent while Chen Zhaosheng received more attention, and Chen Zhixing said he understood the Family Head’s reasons.
• Chen Daoyan asked Chen Zhixing to reveal his cultivation realm, and Chen Zhixing manifested his Yin Spirit to show he had reached the Spirit Wandering Realm.
• Chen Daoyan rejoiced at Chen Zhixing’s cultivation and asked whether he was willing to take charge of the Ziwei Chen Clan.

Chen Daoyan gave Chen Zhixing responsibility for five Spirit Veins, assigned Elder You as his Dao Protector, and supplied him with protective treasures. He then sent Chen Zhixing to You Province to receive Ruan Nanzhu, whose appearance made Chen Zhixing realize that the Servant Chapter’s Destined Protagonist might already be in the Ruan family.

• Chen Zhixing declined to consider taking charge of the Chen family, so Chen Daoyan gave his Third Peak five Spirit Veins to manage and promised three Clan Elders to guard it.
• Chen Daoyan assigned the Half-Step Nirvana Realm Elder You to protect Chen Zhixing, and gave him the Snow Feather Garment and several True Self Realm Treasure Artifacts.
• Chen Daoyan told Chen Zhixing to visit You Province and receive Ruan Nanzhu, a sixteen-year-old genius from the affiliated Ruan family, while hinting that he should consider marrying her.
• Chen Zhixing recognized Ruan Nanzhu as the heroine of the Servant Chapter and suspected its Destined Protagonist had already become a servant in the Ruan family.
• Chen Zhixing agreed to go to You Province and left the hall.

Chen Zhixing prepared to travel to You Province to pursue the Sword God Inheritance and deal with Ruan Nanzhu, while Chen Daoyan pledged the clan’s support and ordered an investigation into Spider Web. At the mountain gate, Xu Dalong delivered Chen Zhixing a letter from Yuan Bufui, whose opening words caught his attention.

• Chen Zhixing decided to visit You Province to seek the Sword God Inheritance, break through to the True Self Realm, and kill Ruan Nanzhu if he was there.
• Chen Daoyan defended his decision to transfer the mineral vein’s resources to Third Peak and warned that anyone who moved against Chen Zhixing would become the clan’s enemy.
• Elder You praised Chen Zhixing’s concealed strength and shrewdness, and Chen Daoyan ordered him to accompany Chen Zhixing to You Province without prying into his actions.
• Chen Daoyan instructed Elder You to have Ming Lao and the Family Shadow Division investigate Spider Web and uncover everything within a month.
• Xu Dalong gave Chen Zhixing an unopened letter from Yuan Bufui, and Chen Zhixing read its first line with a sharp gleam in his eyes.

Chen Zhixing learned from Yuan Bufui’s letter that Meng was a powerful rising enemy with a blood feud against the Chen Clan, then sent Xu Dalong to lure fire-path cultivators toward the Ten Thousand Snake Cave. Three days later, Chen Zhixing traveled toward the Ruan Family and resolved to break through to the True Self Realm.

• Chen Zhixing read Yuan Bufui’s report about Meng’s strength, unusual ring, companions, and hatred of the Chen Clan over his father’s death at Third Master’s hands.
• Chen Zhixing rewarded Xu Dalong with a Void Transformation Pill and recruited him to work for the Chen Clan.
• Chen Zhixing gave Xu Dalong a flame-patterned black longblade to bury near the Ten Thousand Snake Cave and spread rumors that a Great Dao of Fire divine weapon would emerge.
• Three days later, Chen Zhixing traveled by flying boat with Elder You toward the Ruan Family in You Province to meet Ruan Nanzhu.
• Chen Zhixing consulted an ancient book on divination and resolved to enter the True Self Realm that day.