Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei learned that the Origin Spirit Tide would arrive in about twenty days and that Tianyang True Person was seeking a final disciple, then began selling Spirit Artifacts in the imperial city. Outside the city, Yan Zigu fled a killer who intended to take him to Tianyang True Person.

• A waiter told Chen Fei about the coming Origin Spirit Tide and Tianyang True Person's search for a final disciple.
• Chen Fei spent the night practicing the Starry Night Sword and cultivating Water Jade Sword and Sword Return Eye insights.
• Chen Fei sold three Low-Grade Spirit Swords and one Mid-Grade Spirit Sword at Jade Treasure Pavilion.
• Yan Zigu fled after his master and fellow disciples were killed, but a person beneath a bamboo hat caught him and insisted on taking him to Tianyang True Person.
• Chen Fei sold more Spirit Swords at a second shop and planned to find a third shop to sell his Town Yuan Mirror.

Chen Fei consigned the Town Yuan Mirror at Thousand Treasure Pavilion while preparing resources for his cultivation. After witnessing a martial contest tied to Tianyang True Person's disciple selection and the approaching Origin Spirit Tide, he returned to Fu Lai Inn as the shopkeeper reported the artifact to the Main Family.

• Chen Fei passed Green Rain Pavilion without entering and continued to Thousand Treasure Pavilion to sell the Town Yuan Mirror.
• The shopkeeper appraised the mirror and offered either 1,900 Primordial Stones for an immediate sale or consignment with a small fee.
• Chen Fei consigned the mirror after the shopkeeper promised a result within three to ten days, and he gave Fu Lai Inn as his lodging.
• Chen Fei watched two Initial Aperture Refining Realm cultivators fight in a protected Martial Arts Arena before heading back to Fu Lai Inn.
• The shopkeeper sent word of the High-Grade Spirit Artifact to Thousand Treasure Pavilion's Main Family and decided against attempting to seize it.

At Tianyang Residence, Ning Pusheng captured talented cultivators for Tianyang True Person’s technique, while Tantai Ting accepted his reassurance that their sacrifice would help avert the Shangwu City calamity. Chen Fei sold the Town Yuan Mirror and returned to Fu Lai Inn, where a sharp-aura sword cultivator from Tianyang Residence came to see him.

• Ning Pusheng left Tianyang Residence’s dungeon after capturing another talented Aperture Refining Realm cultivator and silencing the prisoners with his footsteps.
• Ning Pusheng told Tantai Ting that Tianyang True Person was gathering people to cultivate a technique that could eliminate the threat of Shangwu City, and she accepted his explanation.
• Chen Fei stayed at Fu Lai Inn for several days, advanced his techniques, and opened three Apertures, bringing his total to eighty-five.
• Chen Fei sold the Town Yuan Mirror through Thousand Treasure Pavilion for 2,330 Primordial Stones after two buyers competed for it.
• Chen Fei returned to Fu Lai Inn and met a sharp-aura sword cultivator from Tianyang Residence who had come to see him.

Chen Fei received an invitation from Tianyang Residence, unaware that its members were assessing his talent and planning to watch him. As the Origin Spirit Tide approached, he continued cultivating, increasing his Mind Power and Apertures and advancing the Thousand Thread Art to its ninth layer.

• Shen Zhengshu of Tianyang Residence delivered Chen Fei a Jade Slip inviting him to hear Tianyang True Person lecture after the Origin Spirit Tide, and Chen Fei accepted while doubting the invitation's purpose.
• Shen Zhengshu reported to Tao Shiye that Chen Fei was young and talented, and Tao Shiye ordered people to watch him and report any unusual movements.
• Chen Fei ignored the invitation and spent more than ten days cultivating and buying spirit pills as the imperial city grew crowded with visitors and martial arts contests.
• Chen Fei entered the Heart Strange Realm, killed several second-rank heart stranges, and raised his Mind Power from eighty-eight beads to ninety-three.
• Chen Fei raised his Apertures from eighty-five to ninety and completed the eighth layer of the Thousand Thread Art, reaching the ninth layer.

During the Origin Spirit Tide, Chen Fei used the Mind Wraith Source to accelerate his comprehension and advanced the Water Jade Sword to Great Perfection before leaving the imperial city. On the road, Sheng Renyuan tried to drag Chen Fei into a pursuit by Tao Shiye, who recognized Chen Fei as Chen Mu.

• Ning Pusheng and the Tianyang Residence cultivators took Heart Infiltration Pills and used a formation to receive the Origin Spirit Tide's spiritual inspiration.
• Chen Fei discovered that the unabsorbed Mind Wraith Source drew spiritual inspiration toward him, then practiced the Starry Night Sword and comprehended the Water Jade Sword.
• Chen Fei advanced the Water Jade Sword to Great Perfection and the Slaughtering Edge Sword to Perfection, raising his maximum number of open Apertures to one hundred and three.
• Two days later, Chen Fei left the imperial city and headed away from the city gate.
• Sheng Renyuan called for Chen Fei's help while fleeing Tao Shiye, then used a burst of speed to charge toward him; Tao Shiye pursued them and recognized Chen Fei as Chen Mu.

Chen Fei fought Tao Shiye after Tao Shiye refused to let him leave, and Chen Fei proved stronger despite Tao Shiye’s elite Tianyang Sword inheritance. As Chen Fei pressed his attack, Tao Shiye called for help from Tong Wenxuan, another Late Aperture Refining Realm cultivator.

• Sheng Renyuan tried to use Chen Fei to escape Tao Shiye, but Chen Fei struck him down and sent him flying toward Tao Shiye.
• Tao Shiye sealed Sheng Renyuan’s cultivation, then pursued Chen Fei into a dense forest and tried to flush him out with a sweeping sword attack.
• Chen Fei ambushed Tao Shiye, and their first clash injured Tao Shiye despite his powerful Tianyang Sword inheritance.
• Tao Shiye fled, but Chen Fei stopped him with repeated Severing God Swords and trapped him in the Heavy Yuan Sword Formation.
• Chen Fei broke through Tao Shiye’s defenses and wounded him with successive strikes until Tong Wenxuan arrived nearby and Tao Shiye called for help.

Chen Fei burned his stored essence blood to overpower and kill Tao Shiye, then erased his traces and fled before Tianyang Residence could catch him. Ning Pusheng arrived at the scene and, unable to find Chen Fei’s aura, called for the Soul Searching Mirror.

• Chen Fei used his enhanced Burning Blood Art and forced Tao Shiye to shatter his acupoints to survive their clash.
• Chen Fei blocked Tong Wenxuan from entering the forest while Tao Shiye fled, then caught him and killed him despite his plea for mercy.
• Tao Shiye’s Vengeance Blood Seal became a beacon for Tianyang Residence after Chen Fei shattered it with five Severing God Swords.
• Chen Fei erased his aura, collected Tao Shiye’s belongings, and escaped; his clone then dispersed in front of Tong Wenxuan.
• Ning Pusheng arrived with Tianyang Residence cultivators, failed to find the killer’s aura, and ordered someone to bring the Soul Searching Mirror.

Ning Pusheng used the Soul Searching Mirror to follow a trace of aura, but Chen Fei’s Sword Return Eye had concealed his trail and left Tianyang Residence chasing a false lead. After visiting the abandoned Ruan Family courtyard in Linshui City, Chen Fei headed for the place where Ruan Qiaojun’s father had found Heaven Stone Gold and discovered Yu Shijin and Yu Yuqi surrounded by spider Demon Beasts.

• Ning Pusheng traced a faint aura to Sheng Renyuan, learned that Chen Fei had been the person Tao Shiye pursued, and kicked Sheng Renyuan unconscious in anger.
• Chen Fei confirmed that his Sword Return Eye had erased his trail and that the faint aura he planted had misled Ning Pusheng.
• Chen Fei saw that the Qian Yuan Sword’s transformation had accelerated after absorbing spiritual essence from Tao Shiye.
• Chen Fei visited the vacant Ruan Family courtyard in Linshui City and found Ruan Qiaojun’s letter saying the family had moved to Beimo City.
• Chen Fei traveled to the place marked on Ruan Qiaojun’s map and found Yu Shijin and Yu Yuqi surrounded by spider Demon Beasts.

Chen Fei found only a depleted Essence Stone Mine in the spider demons’ cave, then went to investigate Rice Village and Pingyin County after reaching the Late Aperture Refining Realm. As he prepared to attack the Pingyin County Weird, he was pulled into a memory of his days at the Medical Hall and killed Qi Chun again, then struck at a shadow in the ruined temple.

• Chen Fei’s avatar entered the spider demons’ cave and discovered a nearly exhausted Essence Stone Mine beneath the Spider Queen.
• Chen Fei left as Yu Shijin and his sister escaped the spiders using lifesaving treasures.
• Chen Fei reached the vanished site of Rice Village and failed to trace its past with the Sword Return Eye.
• Chen Fei found the Pingyin County Weird still in place and prepared to attack it from a distance with an Electromagnetic Cannon.
• The Weird’s gaze plunged Chen Fei into a memory of roasting rabbit with the Medical Hall Handymen, where he killed Qi Chun and stabbed a moving shadow with the Woodcutter’s Knife.

Chen Fei broke free of Pingyin County’s illusion, found and destroyed part of the Weird’s source, then used the Electromagnetic Cannon to kill the Weird’s true body. Afterward, he examined a crystal left in the pit where it died.

• Chen Fei tore through a wall and entered the black mist, arriving in an illusion of Pingyin County where he recognized Ling Hanjun and Jian Liang.
• Chen Fei realized the Weird had clouded other people’s minds but had not deceived him, and he searched the illusion for its source.
• Chen Fei found the source inside a stone lion and split it with sword light, shattering the illusion and locating the Weird’s true position.
• Chen Fei fired the Electromagnetic Cannon into Pingyin County, piercing its wall and gravely damaging the Weird; he fired again and erased its aura.
• Chen Fei picked up the crystal left in the pit and carefully infused it with elemental energy, causing it to tremble.

Chen Fei learned that the crystal held an incomplete Dream Entering Art made from the remains of a mythical Dream Eater. In the Heart Strange Realm, he discovered that Jian Jinsheng had reached Aperture Unification Realm Middle Stage Mind Strength, then hurried back to warn the Yuan Chen Sword Sect about the threat to the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and their alliance.

• Chen Fei activated the crystal with Mind Power in the Heart Strange Realm and received information identifying it as a remnant of the Dream Eater containing part of the Dream Entering Art.
• Chen Fei hunted down and killed a Tier 2 Mind Wraith, then sensed a powerful battle nearby and used the Stargazing Art to observe it.
• Chen Fei recognized Jian Jinsheng fighting a Tier 3 Mind Wraith and discovered that Jian Jinsheng's Mind Strength had reached Aperture Unification Realm Middle Stage.
• Jian Jinsheng sensed Chen Fei's observation and sent a sword strike toward him, but Chen Fei severed his aura and escaped the Heart Strange Realm.
• Chen Fei concluded that Jian Jinsheng could threaten the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, then hurried back to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect to report what he had learned.

After destroying Sword Return Pavilion, Chen Fei warned Qu Qingsheng that Jian Jinsheng’s mind had reached the Aperture Unification Realm Middle Stage, prompting the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect to plan an evacuation to the Endless Sea. Chen Fei rapidly improved his cultivation while the sects prepared to leave, and the chapter ended with him asking Chi Defeng and his wife whether they would come with them.

• Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect at Late Aperture Refining Realm, reported that Sword Return Pavilion had been destroyed, and warned Qu Qingsheng that Jian Jinsheng’s mind may have reached the Aperture Unification Realm Middle Stage.
• Qu Qingsheng relayed Chen Fei’s warning to Tong Zhongqiu and the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect, whose leaders considered how to respond to Jian Jinsheng’s growing power.
• Chen Fei gave Feng Xiupu the cultivation cushion from Sword Return Pavilion, then spent a month cultivating and raised his Apertures to one hundred, his Mind Power to one hundred and three Apertures, and the Dream Entering Art to Perfection.
• Tong Zhongqiu fought Jian Jinsheng without a victor, confirmed the danger, and sought the Yu family’s help before deciding to move the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect to the Endless Sea with the Yu family as an ally.
• The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect invited the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and Sinking Water Pavilion to join the migration, while unrest and rumors spread through Immortal Cloud City.
• Chen Fei asked Chi Defeng and his wife whether they would go to the Endless Sea with them.

Chen Fei arranged for his friends and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect to leave Immortal Cloud City for the Endless Sea as the Divine Flame Sect prepared to take control of the region. The migration began through the Yu Family’s damaged Tier 2 Secret Realm, while Chen Fei guarded the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s procession near Half Bottle Mountain.

• Chi Defeng and Lan Yunzhi agreed to go with Chen Fei to the Endless Sea, and Si Yuanhai also agreed so Si Yinan could have better prospects.
• The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect stripped its resources and prepared to leave, while the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and Sinking Water Pavilion gathered their people and belongings for migration.
• Qu Qingsheng and Zhou Zixun relied on Chen Fei’s future strength as confidence that the Yuan Chen Sword Sect might one day return to Immortal Cloud City.
• Half a month later, the Yu Family and Tong Zhongqiu forcibly opened their Tier 2 Secret Realm, allowing a vast crowd to move toward Half Bottle Mountain.
• Chen Fei guarded the rear of the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s procession alongside Feng Xiupu and watched Strange City’s aura flicker above Half Bottle Mountain.

As the sects crossed Strange City toward the Endless Sea, Chen Fei sent a clone into a shop to retrieve a Celestial Jade Stone he had previously failed to take. He used the Dream Entering Art to make the shopkeeper accept illusory Copper Coins, then rejoined the group with the stone.

• Feng Xiupu asked Chen Fei about his progress cultivating Escaping Heavens Travel and posed questions about the technique.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng suppressed Strange City and opened a passage so the gathered sects and the Yu Family could cross toward the Endless Sea.
• Chen Fei’s clone left the protected passage and entered a shop, where Chen Fei bought a Celestial Jade Stone using the Dream Entering Art to deceive the shopkeeper.
• The shopkeeper realized the Copper Coins had vanished and roared in anger as Chen Fei’s clone returned to the group with the Celestial Jade Stone.

Chen Fei and the others crossed the Strange City and emerged onto a stormy shore in the Endless Sea, where they sensed the region’s far richer Heaven and Earth Essence Qi. Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng began sealing the passage temporarily to delay Jian Jinsheng while the group waited to travel to the Thousand Feather Alliance.

• Chen Fei obtained Celestial Jade Stone from a shop in the Strange City, then refrained from using his clone to loot more places.
• The procession passed the Netherworld Soldiers at the city gate, and Chen Fei realized he had grown strong enough to kill them with ease.
• Chen Fei and the others exited the Strange City and found themselves on a cliff above the stormy Endless Sea.
• Yu Shoucheng told Tong Zhongqiu that the Thousand Feather Alliance had even richer Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and the group took shelter until the weather cleared.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Yu Shoucheng worked together to block the passage temporarily, aiming to delay Jian Jinsheng’s arrival.

Chen Fei, Qu Qingsheng, and Zhou Zixun decided that the Yuan Chen Sword Sect would join the Thousand Feather Alliance independently rather than become a branch of the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect. After the sect settled in the Endless Sea, Chen Fei completed the sixth Slaughtering Edge Sword inheritance and advanced to 106 Apertures.

• Chen Fei learned that the Thousand Feather Alliance had two Mountain Sea Realm powerhouses and decided with Qu Qingsheng and Zhou Zixun that the Yuan Chen Sword Sect would join independently.
• The Yu Family led everyone across the sea to its former island, where the Yuan Chen Sword Sect applied to join the alliance through nearby Sea Swallow City.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect and Sinking Water Pavilion settled together on a resource-poor island after the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect accepted their decision to remain independent.
• Three people from the two sects broke through to the Aperture Refining Realm, while Ge Hongjie and later challengers failed to advance.
• Chen Fei reached Great Perfection in the sixth Slaughtering Edge Sword inheritance and increased his total Apertures to 106.

Chen Fei considered how to fill the final two Apertures and complete the damaged Yuan Chen Sword Body, weighing the risks of forcing his cultivation to the Peak Aperture Refining Realm. He set out for Sea Swallow City to seek help from the Enlightenment Tower, which might complete the technique and the Yuan Chen Sword Canon.

• Chen Fei's Qian Yuan Sword advanced to a Superior Spirit Sword as he assessed his growing strength and the consequences of reaching the Peak Aperture Refining Realm with an incomplete technique.
• Zhang Fangqiong watched Chen Fei from nearby and reflected on how far he had advanced since they first met in the Wind Anomaly Realm.
• Chen Fei considered forcing open his remaining two Apertures, but recognized that doing so could leave his foundation and breakthrough prospects somewhat weaker.
• Chen Fei decided to visit Sea Swallow City and use the Enlightenment Tower to try to complete the damaged Yuan Chen Sword Body.
• Chen Fei told Qu Qingsheng of his plan and left the mountain gate for Sea Swallow City, looking back at the growing settlement on the island.

Chen Fei arrived in Sea Swallow City, hired Mi Xian as his guide, and entered the Enlightenment Tower to test his ability to cultivate under its pressure. After reaching the seventh floor and briefly deducing the Yuan Chen Sword Body, he continued toward the eighth floor, surprising Yan Zesong.

• Chen Fei entered Sea Swallow City and paid Mi Xian ten Silver Taels to guide him to the Enlightenment Tower.
• Mi Xian told Chen Fei that her younger brother had studied martial arts for six years and reached the Flesh Refining Realm, and Chen Fei said she could have reached Bone Forging Realm in that time.
• Chen Fei paid fifty Low-Grade Essence Stones to enter the Enlightenment Tower and climbed from the first floor to the seventh without showing strain.
• Chen Fei sat on the seventh floor and deduced the Yuan Chen Sword Body for a quarter of an hour.
• Chen Fei stood and headed for the eighth floor, prompting Yan Zesong to open his eyes and watch him.

Chen Fei reached the eighth floor of the Enlightenment Tower and used its pressure-enhanced inspiration to rapidly deduce the later portions of the Yuan Chen Sword Body. Yan Zesong discovered him there but assumed a powerful spirit artifact was protecting him, while the other cultivators blamed the tower’s weakened power on Yan Zesong.

• Chen Fei adapted to the eighth floor’s immense pressure and began deducing the Yuan Chen Sword Body, finding that his thoughts advanced far more clearly and quickly than before.
• Chen Fei recalled that the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect had denied possessing any more of the Yuan Chen Sword Body, and he set the dispute aside as he continued his deductions.
• Yan Zesong noticed that the Enlightenment Tower’s power had weakened and suspected an Aperture Unification Realm expert was using it.
• Yan Zesong went up to the eighth floor, found Chen Fei cultivating there without apparent strain, and returned to the seventh floor believing a spirit artifact was shielding him.
• The cultivators on the other floors also noticed the weakened deduction power, but they assumed Yan Zesong had caused it by cultivating on the eighth floor.

Chen Fei completed his deduction of the Yuan Chen Sword Body in the Enlightenment Tower and left after less than a day. He invited Mi Xian to eat with him at the restaurant she had long wanted to visit, reflecting that his progress on the martial path had brought him far from his former life.

• Yan Zesong realized Chen Fei was enduring the eighth floor through his own strength, not a Spirit Artifact.
• Chen Fei deduced the Yuan Chen Sword Body’s eighty-eighth Aperture and completed the cultivation method.
• Chen Fei left the Enlightenment Tower, telling the attendant disciple that he had benefited greatly.
• Chen Fei found Mi Xian waiting outside and asked her to take him to Sea Swallow City’s tastiest restaurant.
• Chen Fei invited Mi Xian inside for a meal, and she followed him in delightedly.