Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei discovered that the Black God Hall had secretly taken his comprehension of the Clone Shadow Escape Art and suspected that the Black God was sealed beneath the mountain, using exchanges and black-stone mining to weaken the seal. He went down the mountain to collect stones, while an old man and seven others carved patterns that resonated with them.

• Chen Fei found that the Black God Hall had erased his Clone Shadow Escape Art comprehension, then restored it from his panel.
• Chen Fei suspected the Hall took items and lifespan from other people or Demon Beasts to supply exchanges, and he declined Gong Shiyan’s offer.
• Chen Fei reasoned that black stones might be formation foundations and that mining them could loosen a seal holding the Black God.
• Chen Fei decided to use his remaining chances to descend the mountain, collected a cubic meter of black stones, and carried a smaller rock back up.
• An old man and seven others carved glowing patterns in caves around the mountain’s foot, where the patterns resonated with the black stones.

Chen Fei used his accumulated Contribution Points to buy breakthrough pills and body-refining pills from Xiang Qianling in Black God City. With supplies to strengthen the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and advance his Profound Suppress Dragon Elephant, he followed Xiang Qianling toward a stone house.

• Chen Fei finished hauling black stones to the well, bringing his Contribution Points to thirty-three.
• Chen Fei bought sixty bottles of Thousand Words Pill, Condensing Phoenix Pill, and Spirit Fusion Pill from Xiang Qianling for three Contribution Points.
• Chen Fei exchanged two Contribution Points for sixteen bottles of Blood Lotus Pills to aid his physique cultivation.
• Chen Fei followed Xiang Qianling toward a stone house after completing their trades.

Chen Fei bought the incomplete Soul Severing Art from Xiao Guangji and spent most of his Contribution Points on cultivation resources. As he prepared to exchange his remaining points for a displacement ability, the sky over the Black God Territory began to ripple as if it were being torn apart.

• Chen Fei asked Xiang Qianling about Mountain Sea Realm cultivation methods, and she told him Xiao Guangji was selling a half-volume Soul Secret Technique.
• Chen Fei met the gaunt Xiao Guangji, inspected part of the technique, and negotiated its price down to two Contribution Points without swearing a Heart Dao Oath.
• Chen Fei bought the incomplete Soul Severing Art, which the Panel recorded, then spent most of his remaining Contribution Points on cultivation resources.
• Chen Fei went to the Black God Hall to exchange his last ten Contribution Points for a displacement ability, but the Black God Territory suddenly trembled and ripples spread across the sky.

As Mountain Sea Realm experts attacked the Black God Territory, Chen Fei exchanged for a way out and stored the Teleportation Rune in his Space Grid, but his teleportation stopped in the black mist at the territory’s edge. He discovered that removing the Black God’s tainted items weakened the seal’s restraint, then realized his three Opportunities to Descend the Mountain might still be keeping him trapped.

• As the Black God Territory shook under an assault from several Mountain Sea Realm experts, Chen Fei exchanged his remaining Contribution Points for a Teleportation Rune and the option to leave.
• Chen Fei stored the Teleportation Rune in his Space Grid as Black God Hall began extracting his technique comprehensions.
• Chen Fei and the others who tried to leave arrived in black mist instead of escaping the Black God Territory.
• Chen Fei reasoned that the mist marked the seal’s outer edge and suspected the seal was preventing Black God-tainted items from leaving.
• Chen Fei placed the Violet Flame Exquisite Pill and Teleportation Rune in his Space Grid, weakening the seal’s restraint, but he remained trapped and suspected his three Opportunities to Descend the Mountain were responsible.

As the Black God Territory’s seal weakened, Chen Fei regained part of his strength and fought off the Black God Sect members who attacked him. He escaped the territory with his power restored, while Chen Daoheng noticed the items Chen Fei had collected and grew greedy.

• Mountain Sea Realm experts’ assault shook the Black God Territory and weakened the seal on Chen Fei and the others.
• Gong Shiyan led the Black God Sect members in a sudden attack, and Chen Fei killed Yue Yuankan before cutting down three more sect members with one sword.
• Chen Fei told the others to abandon the items they had exchanged from the Black God Hall, and those who discarded them began recovering their strength.
• Chen Fei collected a dozen medicinal pills before the black mist swallowed the other discarded items, then stored the pills in his pill furnace.
• Another explosion outside the territory broke Chen Fei’s Shackles and displaced him to the bottom of the sea near the Black God Cave.
• Chen Fei flew away after seeing Chen Daoheng and Huang Yuheng, while Chen Daoheng grew greedy after noticing the items Chen Fei had picked up.

Chen Daoheng pursued Chen Fei to seize the exchange items from Black God Hall, but Chen Fei revealed his true cultivation and killed him. Chen Fei erased the traces of the fight, leaving him to deal with Huang Yuheng’s likely suspicions and Fallen Sky Pavilion’s scrutiny.

• Chen Daoheng and Huang Yuheng decided to send Chen Daoheng after Chen Fei for the valuable exchange items.
• Chen Fei sensed Chen Daoheng following him, flew away, and stopped over a deserted stretch of sea when Chen Daoheng caught up.
• Chen Daoheng attacked with Fallen Sky Art, Milky Way Falls from the Ninth Heaven, and Chen Fei revealed his Aperture Unification Fifth Revolutions cultivation before overpowering him.
• Chen Daoheng tried to escape with Heavenly Travel Escape, but Chen Fei found him and cut off his head.
• Chen Fei absorbed Chen Daoheng’s sword and Qiankun Bag, destroyed the body, and erased his Aura from the scene.

Chen Fei ambushed the gravely injured Huang Yuheng on the Desolate Island and used the Four Forbidden Arts and the Broken Ruler to overwhelm him. After breaking through Huang Yuheng’s mental defenses, Chen Fei killed him, leaving Fallen Sky Pavilion’s response unresolved.

• Huang Yuheng struggled to heal his injuries on the Desolate Island and grew increasingly uneasy while Chen Daoheng was away.
• Chen Fei ambushed Huang Yuheng, whose counterstrike revealed that Chen Daoheng had likely been killed.
• Chen Fei unleashed the Four Forbidden Arts and brought out the Broken Ruler, shocking Huang Yuheng.
• Chen Fei battered Huang Yuheng with repeated attacks as Huang Yuheng’s injuries worsened and he stacked another forbidden art.
• Chen Fei broke through Huang Yuheng’s Sea of Consciousness with the Shadow Reflection Severing Mystery Sword and cut his throat with the Broken Ruler.

Chen Fei killed Huang Yuheng, fed the spiritual essence from his and Chen Daoheng's swords into the Qian Yuan Sword, and erased all traces of their disappearance. After returning to Haiyu City, he helped the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and prepared to cultivate with the Azure Sky Flower.

• Chen Fei destroyed Huang Yuheng's body and used the spiritual essence from Huang Yuheng's and Chen Daoheng's swords to accelerate the Qian Yuan Sword's transformation.
• Chen Fei destroyed the evidence in the two men's belongings, killed a Tier 3 Initial Stage sea demon for its Demon Core, and returned to Haiyu City.
• Chen Fei gave Qu Qingsheng pills to strengthen the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and left an avatar at its encampment.
• Chen Fei canceled the Azure Dragon Carp mission, handed in the Demon Core for a month of free time, and bought Spiritual Materials.
• Chen Fei visited Tong Linyun, then returned to his Cultivation Room and prepared Spiritual Materials to use with the Azure Sky Flower.

Chen Fei removed the Black God's contamination from the treasures in his pill furnace by combining the Heart Refining Formation with the Space Grid, then used his cultivation resources to strengthen his physique and compress his aperture beyond the Top-Grade limit. He broke through to Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage.

• Chen Fei used the Heavenly Eye to detect the Black God's brand on the Violet Flame Exquisite Pill and tested the Heart Refining Formation to draw out a trace of Cyan Energy.
• Chen Fei used two interconnected Space Grids to separate the Cyan Energy from the pill, then removed the contamination from the other items in the pill furnace.
• After five days of recovery, Chen Fei consumed Blood Lotus Pills and trained Profound Suppress Dragon Elephant until it reached Great Perfection, bringing his physique to Aperture Unification Realm Peak.
• Chen Fei opened the Four Forbidden Arts and found that his strengthened physique could now withstand their power without suffering aftereffects.
• Chen Fei compressed his aperture past the Top-Grade position with the power of Profound Suppress Dragon Elephant, and the surge of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi carried him into Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage.

After reaching the Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage, Chen Fei transplanted a Teleportation Rune from a fox-like Demon Beast and gained the Teleportation talent. He simplified the talent into Skip Step and tested its seventeen-li range, leaving him with a powerful new movement ability to develop.

• Chen Fei tested the Five Forbidden Arts and stored a Limit Sword Yuan in the Space Grid for a possible future battle.
• Chen Fei absorbed energy from the Broken Ruler spirit treasure to strengthen his physique while the Qian Yuan Sword continued transforming.
• Chen Fei transplanted the Teleportation Rune, enduring intense pain and alternating heat and cold as it integrated into his body.
• Chen Fei discovered that the rune had greatly enhanced his Movement Technique and that the Panel recorded Teleportation as a talent.
• Chen Fei spent three hundred and fifteen Mid-Grade Essence Stones to simplify Teleportation into Skip Step, then tested its seventeen-li range while moving around the Cultivation Room.

Chen Fei completed the Nirvana Blood Origin Art, used it to imitate sea demon auras, and began cultivating the incomplete Soul Severing Art. He strengthened his clone to the Aperture Unification Realm and, as a clash between Mountain Sea Realm experts and a Tier 4 Sea Demon erupted south of Haiyu City, watched the disturbance from afar.

• Chen Fei reached Great Perfection in the Nirvana Blood Origin Art and activated a Demon Blood Mark to imitate a Tier 3 Middle Stage sea demon’s aura.
• After learning that four Tier 3 Peak Stage sea demons had been killed, Chen Fei bought one’s blood and used it to imitate the aura of a furious Tier 3 Peak Stage sea demon.
• Chen Fei simplified the incomplete Soul Severing Art into the Dream Entering Art and continued cultivating as the Clone Shadow Escape Art reached Great Perfection.
• Outside Haiyu City, Chen Fei killed two sea demons and fed one’s spiritual essence to his clone, raising it to nearly the peak of the Aperture Unification Realm Initial Stage.
• Chen Fei introduced the strengthened clone to Qu Qingsheng and the others, then had it conceal its true strength by displaying an Aperture Refining Realm aura.
• Twenty days later, a powerful surge shook Haiyu City, and Chen Fei saw a Mountain Sea Realm expert and a Tier 4 Sea Demon clash to the south.

Chen Fei sensed that Min Yanlu had been trapped by two Tier 4 Sea Demons and warned the people in Haiyu City to prepare for the worst. As sea demons gathered around the city and Min Yanlu’s disciples flew to aid him, Haiyue Zhenren’s cave abode suddenly swept past Haiyu City.

• Chen Fei sensed that Min Yanlu was likely fighting two Tier 4 Sea Demons and warned Tong Linyun, Qin Haishan, and the others to prepare for trouble.
• Tong Linyun returned to her sect to issue orders, while Chen Fei’s avatar gathered the Yuan Chen Sword Sect members so he could evacuate them if necessary.
• Shen Yanhe led Gu Danying and the others toward Min Yanlu with the Spirit Stabilizing Formation, while other experts in Haiyu City chose not to follow.
• Sea demons gathered around all four sides of Haiyu City, and the city’s formation rose as Chen Fei feared the city would be besieged if Min Yanlu fell.
• Haiyue Zhenren’s Haiyue Cave Abode hurtled south past Haiyu City, making its formation shake violently.

Chen Fei prepared escape plans for the Yuan Chen Sword Sect as Min Yanlu, Xu Xizhang, and Haiyue Zhenren returned injured from battle with the sea demons. After the Thousand Feather Alliance ordered Haiyu City abandoned, the departing ships were ambushed, and Chen Fei led his followers away from the main fleet toward another route.

• Chen Fei instructed Qu Qingsheng to prepare for the possibility that the Yuan Chen Sword Sect would have to flee Haiyu City.
• Haiyue Zhenren arrived and helped Min Yanlu break away from two Tier 4 Demon Kings; Min Yanlu revealed that Xu Xizhang was fighting a third.
• Chen Fei sensed the three Mountain Sea Realm experts returning injured, while Haiyu City celebrated their return.
• The Thousand Feather Alliance announced that Haiyu City and its surrounding sea region would be abandoned, and the Yuan Chen Sword Sect joined the evacuation fleet three days later.
• The sea demons ambushed the ships, and Chen Fei pushed his ship away from the main group toward another route as Tong Linyun followed him.

Chen Fei steered the Yuan Chen Sword Sect’s ship through the Sea Demon assault while Min Yanlu, Xu Xizhang, and Haiyue Zhenren fought three Demon Kings above. Chen Fei’s group avoided most danger, but a Tier 3 Middle Stage sea demon blocked their path.

• Chen Fei used his Heavenly Eye to guide the ship around stronger Sea Demons and struck back at those that approached.
• The martial artists on the ship relied on Chen Fei as the Sea Demons steadily wore down the human forces, while Shen Yanhe’s group fought Tier 3 Peak Stage Sea Demons.
• Min Yanlu, Xu Xizhang, and Haiyue Zhenren fought three Demon Kings, who aimed to kill or further injure the Mountain Sea Realm experts and weaken the Thousand Feather Alliance.
• Chen Fei continued steering through the thinning Sea Demons, and the people following him recognized how well he had kept them out of danger.
• A turtle-type Tier 3 Middle Stage sea demon confronted the ship, and Tong Linyun flew forward to block it.

Chen Fei led the ships out of the Sea Demon encirclement by using the aura of a Tier 3 Peak Stage sea demon to drive off a pursuing Tier 3 Late Stage Sea Snake Demon. After the group reached the Haiya Region, Shi Yuanmin appeared and confronted Chen Fei, leaving everyone in danger again.

• Tong Linyun returned after holding off the Turtle Demon, and Chen Fei steered the ship away from the danger.
• A Tier 3 Late Stage Sea Snake Demon pursued the ships, terrifying Tong Linyun, Qin Haishan, and the other cultivators.
• Chen Fei released the aura of a Tier 3 Peak Stage sea demon, making the Sea Snake Demon abandon its pursuit.
• Chen Fei used his Heavenly Eye to guide the ships through the remaining Sea Demons until they escaped the encirclement and reached the Haiya Region.
• Shi Yuanmin emerged from the void, questioned Chen Fei about his perception and his imitation of the powerful sea demon's aura, and appeared ready to kill everyone present.

Chen Fei confronted Shi Yuanmin, an Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage traitor who wanted to capture him and seize his secrets. After Chen Fei evaded Shi Yuanmin’s attacks and revealed the transformed Qian Yuan Sword, he broke the confinement array with one strike, leaving Qu Mingdao wounded.

• Shi Yuanmin confronted Chen Fei and admitted he intended to take Chen Fei’s secrets, while Chen Fei urged Tong Linyun and the others to leave.
• Shi Yuanmin attacked Chen Fei, but Chen Fei used the Teleportation Rune to evade his first strike as the others moved away.
• Shi Yuanmin trapped the area with a Confinement Array and used the Heaven Binding Sword, but Chen Fei’s Movement Technique let him escape again.
• Shi Yuanmin turned his attention toward Tong Linyun and the others, so Chen Fei unsheathed the Qian Yuan Sword and revealed it had become a Superior Magic Treasure.
• Chen Fei’s sword essence shattered the confinement array and struck its core, wounding Qu Mingdao.

Chen Fei broke Qu Mingdao’s Confinement Array and faced Shi Yuanmin in battle while Tong Linyun and the others tried to escape. After revealing overwhelming power and speed, Chen Fei killed Shi Yuanmin and left the others stunned.

• Chen Fei cut through Qu Mingdao’s Confinement Array, and Qu Mingdao tried to delay Tong Linyun and the others until Shi Yuanmin arrived.
• Tong Linyun led Qin Haishan and the others toward safety while Shi Yuanmin threatened to kill them if Chen Fei kept dodging.
• Shi Yuanmin attacked Chen Fei with the Severing Remnant Sword, but Chen Fei suppressed its mental assault and revealed an Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage Aura.
• Shi Yuanmin unleashed his full strength and Secret Art, but Chen Fei’s Four Forbidden Arts gave him the advantage, and their clash badly wounded Shi Yuanmin.
• Shi Yuanmin used the Severing Remnant Sword to flee more than a dozen li, but Chen Fei caught up and killed him with the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei killed Shi Yuanmin and Qu Mingdao, shocking the Five Sect Alliance with his concealed Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage strength. After escorting everyone back to the Sea Peak Region, he prepared for the worsening sea demon crisis as Tong Linyun arranged for the Rock Peak Sect to seek refuge with him.

• Chen Fei caught and killed Shi Yuanmin, whose desperate attempt to escape failed against Chen Fei's displacement technique.
• Tong Linyun and the others restrained Qu Mingdao until Chen Fei arrived and killed him, then Chen Fei distributed Qu Mingdao's pills and formation records among them.
• Chen Fei concealed his aura as an Aperture Unification Realm Initial Stage cultivator again and pushed the ship back to the Sea Peak Region in five hours.
• Tong Linyun parted from Chen Fei and arranged to bring the Rock Peak Sect to the Sea Peak Region in three months for protection.
• The Immortal Cloud Sword Sect and other sects departed with respect, while the Yuan Chen Sword Sect became the undisputed strongest force in the Sea Peak Region.

Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect after defeating powerful enemies, and the sect learned he had reached the Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage. As sea demons expanded into neighboring regions, new forces arrived in the Sea Peak Region and began eyeing the secret realm controlled by the Yuan Chen Sword Sect and its allies.

• Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect with its Haiyu City cultivators, gave Qu Qingsheng pills to distribute, and withdrew to his courtyard.
• Qu Qingsheng told the elders that Chen Fei had reached the Aperture Unification Realm Late Stage and killed a Late Stage expert and a Middle Stage Array Master, then urged them to keep the news secret.
• Chen Fei examined Shi Yuanmin's possessions, found Earth Core Jade Marrow, and continued cultivating his techniques.
• News spread that the Thousand Feather Alliance had suffered heavy losses, and sea demons began probing into the three regions neighboring Haiyu City.
• The Thousand Feather Alliance began relocating people as new Fourth-Level and Third-Level Forces arrived in the Sea Peak Region and turned their attention toward the Tier 3 Low-Grade Secret Realm.

Thousand Blade Sect pressed Yuan Chen Sword Sect and its allies to share the Tier 3 Secret Realm, while Qu Qingsheng avoided agreeing to its demands. Chen Fei learned of the growing tensions after improving his Soul Severing Art and Teleportation Talent, and the chapter ended with Soulshade Sect members considering killing him to plunge Sea Peak Region into chaos.

• Ye Qishan welcomed Sea Peak Region’s sect leaders and signaled that Thousand Blade Sect intended to claim the lion’s share of the Tier 3 Secret Realm.
• Qu Qingsheng and the other four left the meeting without discussing the Secret Realm, and Ye Qishan ordered his plan carried out.
• Gong Guanzhi and the others reported the meeting to their sects, whose leaders left the decision to Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei told Qu Qingsheng he was surprised by the influx of sects and reflected on his recent cultivation gains, including reaching Perfection in Teleportation Talent.
• Soulshade Sect members discussed their losses and proposed killing Chen Fei to throw Sea Peak Region into chaos.