Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei broke through to Aperture Unification Second Revolutions and continued cultivating in the Thousand Feather Alliance while events around the passage to Immortal Cloud City drew attention. Tong Zhongqiu revealed that a shattered spiritual treasure lay beneath the imperial city.

• Chen Fei broke through to Aperture Unification Second Revolutions and tested the increased power of his sword forms and movement technique.
• Chen Fei continued cultivating as the Drifting Cloud Sect grew unsettled after losing its only Aperture Unification Realm cultivator, while martial artists began exploring the passage to Immortal Cloud City.
• Tong Zhongqiu told Chen Fei that an Aperture Unification Realm cultivator had been injured near the imperial city after discovering something there.
• Chen Fei stabilized his cultivation and advanced toward the Third Revolution while the Primal Chaos Severing Shadow Sword neared Great Perfection.
• Tong Zhongqiu visited Chen Fei again and revealed that a shattered spiritual treasure lay beneath the imperial city.

Chen Fei learned that Yan Xuanji had broken open the imperial city but could not remove the shattered spiritual treasure fused with the earth. With the next Origin Spirit Tide approaching, Chen Fei saw a chance to seek Spirit Rhyme on the outskirts, then returned to Immortal Cloud City with Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haishan.

• Tong Zhongqiu told Chen Fei that the imperial city's Origin Spirit Tide came from a shattered spiritual treasure beneath the city, which absorbed and released Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• Tong Zhongqiu revealed that Yan Xuanji had split the imperial city's array with three saber strikes, but neither he nor the other hidden experts could remove the spirit treasure fused with the earth.
• Tong Zhongqiu explained that the Origin Spirit Tide in three months would create a gap in the fusion, and that Spirit Rhyme released as the treasure was pried up could drift far from the site.
• Chen Fei decided the Spirit Rhyme was worth seeking because it contained insights related to the Mountain Sea Realm, though he lacked the strength to contend for the treasure itself.
• After two months, Chen Fei, Tong Zhongqiu, and Qin Haishan left the Sea Peak Region and returned to Immortal Cloud City.

Chen Fei, Qin Haishan, and Tong Zhongqiu traveled toward the imperial city to seek Spirit Rhyme, while Tong Zhongqiu explained why Xilian True Person was being hunted. At Shangwu City's ruins, Chen Fei used Judging Eye to determine that Xilian True Person was still alive.

• Zhao Tianxuan and Yu Shoucheng declined to pursue Spirit Rhyme because stronger Aperture Unification Realm cultivators would make the gathering too dangerous.
• Qin Haishan joined Chen Fei and Tong Zhongqiu, hoping Spirit Rhyme would help him reach the Aperture Unification Realm Middle Stage, while Tong Zhongqiu also hoped to return to his former home.
• Tong Zhongqiu and Chen Fei postponed visiting Immortal Cloud City because Jian Jinsheng might be nearby, and the three flew toward the imperial city.
• Chen Fei stopped at the ruins of Shangwu City and learned from Tong Zhongqiu that Netherworld Gate powerhouses were hunting Xilian True Person.
• Chen Fei used Judging Eye to read an aura from the ruins and concluded that Xilian True Person was not dead.

Chen Fei used the Judging Eye to strengthen his Heavenly Eye and track Xilian True Person, a Human-Strange who had escaped the Netherworld Gate. After hours of searching, Chen Fei found him at the Reaching Heavens River, where a hidden eyeball opened beneath the water.

• Chen Fei explained how the Judging Eye could reveal information and fused it into his Heavenly Eye.
• Chen Fei, Qin Haishan, and Tong Zhongqiu decided to pursue Xilian True Person for the threat he posed and the treasure he carried.
• Chen Fei tracked Xilian True Person’s lingering Aura across a wide area, using the Heavenly Eye despite its heavy toll on his mind.
• After three hours of searching, Chen Fei located Xilian True Person at the Reaching Heavens River.
• An eyeball with a pinprick pupil opened inside a cobblestone beneath the river.

Chen Fei and his allies confronted Xilian True Person beneath the Reaching Heavens River, where Xilian used an extraordinary concealment technique and a damaged Superior Magic Treasure to evade their attacks. Chen Fei exposed Xilian’s deception and struck again, revealing a pitch-black Human-Strange as the confrontation continued.

• Chen Fei sensed Xilian True Person hiding in the Reaching Heavens River and warned that he was about to flee.
• Chen Fei cut across the river while Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu formed a perimeter, but Xilian’s concealment allowed him to withstand their attacks unnoticed.
• Chen Fei unleashed his full strength and struck Xilian, forcing him to appear with a seal that absorbed and reflected part of the attack.
• Xilian offered his concealment inheritance in exchange for being spared, but Chen Fei used a beam of light to expose him fleeing in disguise.
• Chen Fei anticipated Xilian’s real position and struck again, manifesting a pitch-black figure with Xilian’s Aura but no human intent.

Chen Fei exposed Xilian True Person’s false cultivation inheritance and attacked him despite their agreement. Xilian True Person was driven back under Chen Fei’s overwhelming assault, with his fate still unresolved.

• Chen Fei learned that Xilian True Person’s Three Lives Mystic Flower inheritance was meant to preserve his humanity and lead him toward the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Chen Fei agreed to let Xilian True Person leave in exchange for the genuine inheritance and seal, and swore a Heart Dao Oath.
• Xilian True Person handed Chen Fei a Jade Slip, but Chen Fei’s Panel identified the Three Lives Mystic Flower inside as false.
• Chen Fei saw through Xilian True Person’s concealment and attacked, while Qin Haishan and the other man blocked his retreat.
• Chen Fei struck Xilian True Person repeatedly, overpowering his damaged seal and leaving his aura steadily weakening.

Chen Fei killed Xilian True Person by exposing his humanity beneath his Strange Power, then shared the refined spiritual essence and an incomplete Three Lives Mystic Flower inheritance with Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu. The three arrived near the imperial city’s damaged spiritual treasure, where Chen Fei sensed his Dragon Elephant Interface Point resonating with it.

• Xilian True Person tried to provoke Chen Fei’s Heart Oath and then threatened to drag someone down with him, but Chen sent Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu away from the fight.
• Chen Fei used the Shadow Reflection Severing Mystery Sword to expose Xilian True Person’s human mind and stop his strange nature from reaching full power, then killed him with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei refined Xilian True Person’s remains into spiritual essence and divided it among himself, Qin Haishan, and Tong Zhongqiu, then gave the two men copies of the damaged Three Lives Mystic Flower cultivation method.
• Chen Fei, Qin Haishan, and Tong Zhongqiu traveled to the region of the former imperial city and found many Aperture Unification Realm cultivators gathered near the damaged spiritual treasure.
• As Chen Fei and the others approached a Marketplace, the spiritual treasure trembled, and Chen Fei sensed that his Dragon Elephant Interface Point was resonating with it.

Chen Fei learned more about the spiritual treasure’s Spirit Rhyme and the restrictions around it, then discovered Teng Daoxuan had been seriously injured in an ambush. After finding no suitable techniques at a stall, Chen Fei offered some of his own for sale, and the stall owner took a particular interest in the Severing Light Shadow Sword.

• Chen Fei asked a stall owner about the spiritual treasure and learned that the major forces had claimed the area within ten li of it.
• The stall owner warned Chen Fei not to visit the southeast side, where Teng Daoxuan of Horizon's Edge Sect had been ambushed and badly injured.
• Chen Fei examined the stall owner's cultivation techniques but found none that suited him.
• Chen Fei offered several of his own techniques for sale, and the stall owner focused on the Severing Light Shadow Sword.

Chen Fei sold the Severing Light Shadow Sword to a stall owner for one hundred Mid-Grade Essence Stones, then went with Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu to observe the damaged spirit treasure. He discovered that its fragments resonated with his Dragon Elephant Interface Point, leaving him excited but wary of the powerful cultivators guarding it.

• Chen Fei demonstrated the Severing Light Shadow Sword and negotiated with a stall owner, eventually selling the complete technique for one hundred Mid-Grade Essence Stones.
• Chen Fei tried to sell other cultivation techniques around the Marketplace but found few interested buyers and no worthwhile items to purchase.
• Chen Fei met Qin Haishan, and the three left the Marketplace to watch the spirit treasure from ten li away.
• Chen Fei used his vision-enhancing technique to see the spirit treasure fragments in a deep pit, guarded by powerful Aperture Unification Realm cultivators.
• When the fragments sent out a ripple, Chen Fei's Dragon Elephant Interface Point resonated with them, and he realized the spirit treasure was connected to him.

Chen Fei struggled with the spirit treasure’s pull while knowing his cultivation was too weak to claim it safely, and he refined the incomplete Three Lives Mystic Flower into a stronger movement technique. As the Origin Spirit Tide arrived, cultivators gathered around the spirit treasure and waited for it to emerge.

• Chen Fei left the spirit treasure’s guarded area with Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu, then settled on a nearby mountain to wait for its emergence.
• Chen Fei used his technique-fusion ability to turn the incomplete Three Lives Mystic Flower into the Three Lives Severing Shadow Sword, which could summon illusory figures of his past and future.
• Chen Fei and his companions remained near the spirit treasure as more Aperture Unification Realm cultivators arrived and conflicts grew more frequent.
• Qin Haishan reported that an elder of Horizon's Edge Sect had found the person who ambushed Teng Daoxuan and was pursuing him.
• Tong Zhongqiu reported that two members of the Zhao Family had also arrived nearby.
• When the Origin Spirit Tide began, cultivators from several forces waited within ten li of the spirit treasure while others formed a surrounding ring.

Sixteen Aperture Unification Realm Peak cultivators pried the spirit treasure from its pit, releasing Spirit Rhyme and a black fog that trapped everyone nearby. The spirit treasure flew to Chen Fei, who stored it after repelling Tianyang True Person’s ambush.

• The sixteen Peak cultivators sensed a strange fluctuation beneath the spirit treasure but continued with their plan to seize it.
• After the Origin Spirit Tide passed, the sixteen cultivators attacked the treasure’s weak points and pried it free, scattering Spirit Rhyme.
• A black orb exploded above the pit, shrouding the area in fog and compressing everyone’s perception.
• Chen Fei tried to escape the fog, but the Dragon Elephant Interface Point trembled and a force split the blackness to reveal the spirit treasure before him.
• Tianyang True Person ambushed Chen Fei and proposed working together, but Chen Fei’s sword essence blasted him aside and Chen Fei stored the spirit treasure in his Space Grid.

Chen Fei seized the spiritual treasure in the black mist, killed the wounded Tianyang True Person, and erased their traces before escaping. The sixteen Aperture Unification Realm Peak experts arrived too late, and Gong Jianlan could not track the person who took it.

• Chen Fei stored the ownerless spiritual treasure in his Space Grid after the black mist obscured perception.
• Tianyang True Person ambushed Chen Fei, was badly wounded by the sword essence, and used Void Escape to hide.
• Chen Fei saw through Tianyang True Person's concealment, killed him with the Qian Yuan Sword, and erased their auras and traces.
• Chen Fei took Tianyang True Person's sword blade and Qiankun Bag, then vanished from the area.
• The sixteen Aperture Unification Realm Peak experts arrived and found the spiritual treasure's aura had disappeared.
• Gong Jianlan used the Phoenix Eye but failed to identify the thief, while the other experts also searched without success.

Chen Fei took the spirit treasure and searched for a way out of the black fog, where he discovered Spirit Rhyme guarded by illusory figures formed from the Weird. Near the fog’s edge, he encountered Jian Jinsheng absorbing the black mist and staring at him with pitch-black eyes.

• The Aperture Unification Realm Peak experts realized the weakened Weird could not recover beyond the third tier and continued searching within its black fog.
• Chen Fei used his Heavenly Eye to find a route through the distorted fog and avoided Gong Jianlan and other experts who searched him for the spirit treasure.
• Chen Fei found Spirit Rhyme, defeated its illusory guardians with sword lights from his Sea of Consciousness, and left without attempting to refine the Weird.
• Chen Fei followed his route toward the fog’s edge, cutting down more illusory figures with his mind-projected sword lights.
• Chen Fei spotted Jian Jinsheng kneeling beside a corpse as black fog merged into him, then Jian Jinsheng vanished and appeared in front of Chen Fei with completely black eyes.

Chen Fei overwhelmed the demon-corrupted Jian Jinsheng, but Jiang Xiuming intervened before Chen Fei could kill him and proposed using Jian Jinsheng to locate a spiritual treasure. Jiang Xiuming also ordered Chen Fei to stay by his side as they searched.

• Chen Fei recognized that Jian Jinsheng's mind was deeply polluted and fought him as the black fog empowered him.
• Chen Fei shattered Jian Jinsheng's sword illusion and badly wounded him, briefly restoring Jian Jinsheng's clarity.
• Jiang Xiuming appeared and stopped Chen Fei from killing Jian Jinsheng.
• Jiang Xiuming offered to cleanse Jian Jinsheng's mind if he used his demonic state to sense the spiritual treasure.
• Jiang Xiuming ordered Chen Fei, whom he knew was skilled in searching Secret Arts, to stay by his side.

Jiang Xiuming forced Chen Fei and Jian Jinsheng to help search for the spirit treasure, but Jian Jinsheng found only Spirit Rhyme as the black mist shrank. The Aperture Unification Realm Peak experts gathered the survivors and failed to locate the treasure before leaving to guard the passage, while Jian Jinsheng remained corrupted by the mist.

• Jiang Xiuming ordered Chen Fei and Jian Jinsheng to help him find the spirit treasure, and Chen Fei agreed while concealing his own suspicions.
• Jiang Xiuming cleared some black-mist corruption from Jian Jinsheng, who used the mist to locate Spirit Rhyme but could not distinguish the spirit treasure's main body.
• Jiang Xiuming collected Spirit Rhyme as the group searched more than a dozen locations, and Gong Jianlan joined them before urging everyone to gather outside.
• Gong Jianlan and the other Peak experts assembled the survivors as the black mist shrank, but none could detect the spirit treasure among them.
• Gong Jianlan and the other Peak experts left to guard the passage after the search failed, and Chen Fei's glance made Jian Jinsheng stiffen.

After Chen Fei subdued the demonic-corrupted Jian Jinsheng, he took Jian’s cultivation techniques, sword, and Qiankun Bag before Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haishan pursued him. Chen Fei stayed behind to study the black fog and damaged spirit treasure, which he recognized as a valuable resource despite its poor condition.

• Jian Jinsheng recognized that he could not defeat Chen Fei and explained how the Heart Strange Realm’s contamination had driven him into demonic corruption.
• Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu arrived, and Jian Jinsheng warily faced Tong Zhongqiu, his old enemy.
• Chen Fei demanded Jian Jinsheng’s cultivation techniques, magical treasures, and Qiankun Bag, and Jian Jinsheng handed them over and swore a Heart Dao Oath.
• Chen Fei examined Jian Jinsheng’s Wither Bloom Scripture and Mind Sword, then let him leave with Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haishan in pursuit.
• Chen Fei stayed behind to cultivate and inspect the black fog and damaged spirit treasure in his Space Grid, judging the treasure valuable at his current level.

After Jian Jinsheng fell to demonic corruption, Chen Fei forced him to surrender his techniques, sword, and Qiankun Bag, then let him leave. Chen Fei stayed behind to study the damaged spiritual treasure and continued improving his sword technique.

• Jian Jinsheng remembered how the Heart Strange Realm had contaminated his mind and caused him to fall to demonic corruption.
• Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu arrived, and Jian Jinsheng agreed to give Chen Fei his cultivation methods, magical treasures, and Qiankun Bag in exchange for his life.
• Jian Jinsheng recorded his techniques in a Jade Slip and swore a Heart Dao Oath; Chen Fei examined the Wither Bloom Scripture and Mind Sword and found no problems.
• Chen Fei let Jian Jinsheng leave with his sword and Qiankun Bag, and Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haishan pursued him.
• Chen Fei stayed near the imperial city, observed the damaged spiritual treasure inside his Space Grid, and practiced the Three Lives Severing Shadow Sword.

Chen Fei tested a sevenfold Heart Refining Formation on the Tier 4 Strange Entity’s black fog and produced black stones whose nature and danger he could not determine. After discovering that Sui Minghua, Xu Hualu, and Jia Wenbing planned to take Tianyang True Person’s Qiankun Bag and Black God Pearl from him, Chen Fei ambushed them and killed Jia Wenbing before the others fled or fought back.

• Chen Fei used a sevenfold Heart Refining Formation to refine the Strange Entity’s phantoms into black stones, but the stones began to dissipate and he could not tell whether they were safe to use.
• Chen Fei overheard Sui Minghua, Xu Hualu, and Jia Wenbing discussing how to seize his Qiankun Bag and the Black God Pearl, and the three decided to attack him while he was alone.
• Chen Fei used the Three Lives Severing Shadow Sword to ambush the trio and pierce Jia Wenbing through with a single thrust.
• Sui Minghua and Xu Hualu charged Chen Fei, and their clash ended with one figure fleeing into the distance.

Chen Fei hunted down Sui Minghua after defeating his group, then used the Dream Entering Art to learn about a hidden treasury in the Endless Sea. He returned to the imperial city area, where Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haishan had also come back.

• Chen Fei caught up with Sui Minghua in Misty Mountain despite his attempts to escape and hide, then killed him and took his possessions.
• Chen Fei discovered two Black God Pearls among Sui Minghua's belongings and recalled how the Dream Entering Art had revealed information from his dying dream.
• Chen Fei learned that Sui Minghua knew of a hidden treasury in the Endless Sea.
• Chen Fei returned to the vicinity of the imperial city and found Tong Zhongqiu and Qin Haishan back; Tong Zhongqiu was injured but smiling.

After Jian Jinsheng’s death, Chen Fei tested the black stone refined from a Tier 4 Strange Entity and discovered it could strengthen magic treasures but carried hidden pollution. He used the stone to improve the Qian Yuan Sword and continued refining more from the Strange Entity, leaving the sword close to the boundary of a Low-Grade Magic Treasure.

• Tong Zhongqiu thanked Chen Fei and Qin Haishan for helping kill Jian Jinsheng, ending the threat to the Immortal Cloud Sword Sect.
• Qin Haishan and Tong Zhongqiu left to return to Sea Peak Region while Chen Fei stayed behind to handle his own matters.
• Chen Fei tested the black stone on Jian Jinsheng’s sword and found it improved the blade while leaving a trace of filth inside it.
• Chen Fei used the black stone he refined from the Tier 4 Strange Entity to strengthen the Qian Yuan Sword, then removed the hidden filth with the Slaughtering Spirit Art.
• Chen Fei refined another, larger black stone and merged it into the Qian Yuan Sword, pushing the sword closer to the boundary of a Low-Grade Magic Treasure.