Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei explored Flying Imperial City, sold a spirit treasure, and gathered information about the city's bounty and cultivation resources. Elsewhere, Zeng Huaizheng revealed that he had seen someone Sheng Xizhou recognized, leaving Sheng Xizhou visibly upset.

• Chen Fei noticed a Tier 4 upper-grade Secret Realm beneath the Tree Demon and learned that Baka was nearing a breakthrough to Tier 3.
• A Tier 4 Middle Stage Demon King offered to help Chen Fei if he ran into trouble in Flying Imperial City.
• Chen Fei sold Miao Wanhua's cane for 3,500 High-Grade Essence Stones and asked about the bounty for capturing Black God Subordinates.
• Chen Fei browsed cultivation techniques and assessed his progress, then rented a room at an inn.
• Zeng Huaizheng arrived at a gathering of Mountain Sea Realm cultivators and used elemental force to depict someone he had seen in Flying Imperial City, causing Sheng Xizhou's expression to darken.

Heaven Illusion Valley's disciples planned to kill Chen Fei after Sheng Xizhou recognized him as an enemy, while Chen Fei continued cultivating in Flying Imperial City. The next day, Chen Fei exchanged a captured Black God Subordinate at Merit Hall and requested a powerful sword cultivation technique, receiving three Jade Slips to consider.

• Zeng Huaizheng used the True Illusion Art to reveal Chen Fei's disguised aura, and Sheng Xizhou accused him of killing for treasure and injuring him.
• Sheng Xizhou and the other Heaven Illusion Valley disciples agreed to wait until Chen Fei left Flying Imperial City before attacking him, with Zeng Huaizheng assigned to monitor him.
• Chen Fei cultivated his second Divine Palace and Mystic Demon Sword, drawing on the Talent Sword Sect to deepen his insights.
• Chen Fei brought a sealed Black God Subordinate to Merit Hall and presented it to hall master Qu Shangzheng to claim a bounty.
• Chen Fei asked Qu Shangzheng for a powerful sword-type cultivation technique, and Qu Shangzheng brought out three Jade Slips.

Chen Fei rejected the three sword techniques offered by Qu Shangzheng and asked to see incomplete top-tier inheritances instead. The Flying Imperial Sect showed him two fragments, including an inheritance from the fallen Purple Firmament Sect.

• Qu Shangzheng offered Chen Fei an overview of three sword techniques, but Chen Fei judged them insufficient for improving his Mystic Demon Sword.
• Chen Fei demonstrated his sword technique, prompting Qu Shangzheng to recognize his skill and explain that the Flying Imperial Sect would not pass its top-tier inheritances to outsiders.
• Qu Shangzheng offered Chen Fei a guest elder position, but Chen Fei declined and requested an incomplete top-tier sword inheritance.
• Qu Shangzheng agreed and brought Chen Fei two Jade Slips containing the Netherworld Reincarnation Sword and the Purple Firmament Heavenly Lightning Art.
• Chen Fei learned that the Netherworld Reincarnation Sword was less than twenty percent complete and that the Purple Firmament Heavenly Lightning Art came from a fallen sacred land.

Chen Fei traded for the fragmented Purple Firmament Heavenly Lightning Art and fused it into a stronger sword technique, then stayed in Flying Imperial City to cultivate while Zeng Huaizheng and the Heaven Illusion Valley group waited for a chance to kill him. Their plans were interrupted when two badly wounded Mountain Sea Realm cultivators arrived at the city with a horde of demonic creatures pursuing them.

• Chen Fei chose the Purple Firmament Heavenly Lightning Art from Qu Shangzheng and received its jade slip from the Flying Imperial Sect.
• Chen Fei fused the fragmented art with his Mystic Demon Sword, creating the Purple Firmament Mystic Demon Sword, then simplified it and began cultivating.
• Chen Fei remained at the inn for two months, improving his sword technique and deciding to master the Evil Blood Shadow Escape Art before returning to Qian Yan City.
• Zeng Huaizheng and the other four Heaven Illusion Valley cultivators grew frustrated as Chen Fei stayed in the city, where they could not attack him without provoking the Flying Imperial Sect.
• Flying Imperial City's formation rose as Qiu Zesheng of Saint Yama Sect and Emperor Ascension Sword Xu Jinglun approached, badly injured and pursued by several dozen demonic creatures.

Monsters resembling but distinct from Black God Subordinates attacked Flying Imperial City, where the Tree King and Flying Imperial Sect’s Mountain Sea Realm cultivators fought them. Chen Fei judged the city’s defenders could handle the threat, while Chi Shengsheng connected the monsters to the ancient calamity that had erased Peak Forces and Holy Lands ten thousand years earlier.

• Chen Fei and Luan Qinghui recognized that the approaching monsters were unlike ordinary Central Continent monsters and questioned whether they were related to Black God Subordinates.
• Qiu Zesheng and Xu Jinglun apologized for leading the monsters to Flying Imperial City, and Luan Qinghui said their responsibility would be settled after the battle.
• The Tree King impaled the monsters, but they exploded, corrupted its roots, and recovered; Luan Qinghui then wounded several with a soul-cutting sword strike, only for them to regenerate together.
• Luan Qinghui ordered Flying Imperial Sect’s Mountain Sea Realm cultivators to form up, while the Tree King drained the surrounding Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and Qiu Zesheng and Xu Jinglun joined the fight.
• Chen Fei returned to his room to cultivate, confident that Flying Imperial City’s defenders could outlast the monsters.
• Chi Shengsheng told the Heaven Illusion Valley cultivators that other monsters like the Black God had existed on the Central Continent and linked their return to the calamity that had destroyed Peak Forces and Holy Lands ten thousand years earlier.

After the monsters vanished and Flying Imperial City lifted its month-long seal, Chen Fei remained in the city to cultivate while Zeng Huaizheng and the Heaven Illusion Valley cultivators waited for him to leave. Once Chen Fei finally departed, his pursuers followed, but his figure suddenly vanished from their perception.

• Luan Qinghui led the Flying Imperial Sect back into Flying Imperial City after sensing a powerful monster, and the city was sealed while the sect reported the threat to Azure Rock Holy Land.
• After searches found no monsters, Flying Imperial City lifted its seal, but Chen Fei stayed to cultivate the Evil Blood Shadow Escape Art, the Nine Purgatory Severing Mystery Sword, and the Purple Firmament Mystic Demon Sword.
• Zeng Huaizheng and the other Heaven Illusion Valley cultivators continued watching Chen Fei, growing impatient as he remained in the city for months.
• When Chen Fei finally headed for the East Gate, Zeng Huaizheng informed Sheng Xizhou and Qi Yunhong, and the three decided to follow him while Chi Shengsheng and Cheng were away.
• Chen Fei left Flying Imperial City after reaching Perfection in the Purple Firmament Mystic Demon Sword, then vanished from Zeng Huaizheng's perception after flying eight hundred li.

Chen Fei confronted Zeng Huaizheng, Qi Yunhong, and Sheng Xizhou after they tracked him down and tried to kill him. He countered their opening attacks and teleported behind Qi Yunhong as the battle continued.

• Zeng Huaizheng lost track of Chen Fei, but he and Qi Yunhong and Sheng Xizhou followed his trail to where he had vanished.
• Chen Fei reappeared and explained that his Innate Teleportation had brought him there, while Zeng Huaizheng raised a formation to disrupt void-based abilities.
• Qi Yunhong and Sheng Xizhou attacked Chen Fei as Zeng Huaizheng filled the area with illusory copies of them.
• Chen Fei used the Xuanyuan Sword and Heavenly Eye to break the illusion, then blocked Qi Yunhong's blade and Sheng Xizhou's palm strike with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• The three Heaven Illusion Valley cultivators launched another coordinated assault, but Chen Fei teleported behind Qi Yunhong and swung the Qian Yuan Sword at his neck.
• Qi Yunhong twisted the Shattered Moon Blade behind him to block Chen Fei's strike.

Chen Fei killed Qi Yunhong, Zeng Huaizheng, and Sheng Xizhou after stopping their escape back to Heaven Illusion Valley. He learned that two more of its members remained, while someone followed a jade ornament toward the battlefield.

• Chen Fei used an Array Plate to stop the three cultivators from teleporting back to Heaven Illusion Valley, then killed Qi Yunhong and destroyed his Blood Soul Mark.
• Chen Fei broke through Zeng Huaizheng's True Illusion Art, found his true body, and killed him.
• Sheng Xizhou tried to break the formation, but Chen Fei defeated him with a thunder-infused sword strike and killed him.
• Chen Fei used the Dream Entering Art on the dying Sheng Xizhou and learned that two Heaven Illusion Valley members had not joined the battle.
• Chen Fei's clone absorbed the spiritual essence of the three dead cultivators and charged toward the Mountain Sea Realm Barrier.
• Chen Fei noticed a Jade Talisman flickering beside Zeng Huaizheng, indicating that someone was following its location toward them.

Chen Fei lured Chi Shengsheng and Cheng Haixiong into the Thousand Light Array after killing the three cultivators who had pursued him, then used the array’s interference to fatally strike Cheng Haixiong. Chi Shengsheng attacked Chen Fei in fury, and the chapter ended with his Heaven Descent Sword clashing against the Qian Yuan Sword.

• Chen Fei collected the fallen cultivators’ spirit treasures, then used their Aura to lure the two remaining pursuers toward him.
• Chi Shengsheng and Cheng Haixiong followed the Jade Talisman and entered the Thousand Light Array, unaware that Chen Fei had turned it against them.
• Chen Fei used the array’s brief sensory interference to pierce Cheng Haixiong’s neck and kill him.
• Chen Fei cut down Cheng Haixiong’s Blood Soul Mark as Chi Shengsheng launched Phoenix Wings Soaring Sky at him.
• Chi Shengsheng’s Heaven Descent Sword struck Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei defeated and killed Chi Shengsheng after the Heaven Illusion Valley cultivator discovered that his allies had already been slain. Chen Fei escaped toward Qian Yan City as his clone advanced to the Mountain Sea Realm, while Heaven Illusion Valley learned that five of its cultivators had died.

• Chi Shengsheng’s powerful sword strike failed to break Chen Fei’s defense, and he realized Zeng Huaizheng and the others had been killed.
• Chen Fei pursued Chi Shengsheng despite his Phoenix Cry speed, and Chi Shengsheng suffered severe injuries after spending everything to block a sword strike.
• Chen Fei killed Chi Shengsheng, collected his and Cheng Haixiong’s spiritual essences, and used them to strengthen his clone.
• Chen Fei gathered the spirit treasures, erased part of the divine soul imprints, and escaped toward Qian Yan City.
• As Chen Fei traveled, his clone condensed its second and third Divine Palaces and gained Suppress Territory and Sword Sect.
• Heaven Illusion Valley discovered that five of its Mountain Sea Realm cultivators, including Chi Shengsheng, had died.

Jiang Yuming investigated the deaths of Chi Shengsheng and four other Heaven Illusion Valley cultivators, tracing the killer to a young man who had stayed in Flying Imperial City. When the trail went cold, Jiang Yuming exhausted his origin to force a mark to follow the killer’s path back to the murder scene.

• Jiang Yuming reconstructed the battle’s faint soul imprints and concluded that an unknown cultivator had swiftly killed Sheng Xizhou, Qi Yunhong, Zeng Huaizheng, Cheng Haixiong, and Chi Shengsheng.
• Jiang Yuming asked Luan Qinghui for records of Mountain Sea Realm cultivators who had left Flying Imperial City and lived near the place where Zeng Huaizheng had stayed.
• Jiang Yuming identified a young man who had stayed at Xiang Lang Inn, but found that the man had carefully erased his soul imprints before leaving.
• Jiang Yuming confirmed at the Merit Hall that the young man had exchanged Black God Subordinates for an incomplete cultivation technique, while Qu Shangzheng had no further information about him.
• Jiang Yuming returned to Xiang Lang Inn and spent his origin gathering the remaining soul imprints into a mark that flew to the place where Sheng Xizhou and the others had died.

Jiang Yuming’s tracking mark failed when Chen Fei used teleportation, while Chen Fei escaped with a newly strengthened clone and salvaged the spiritual treasures taken from his five victims. He returned safely to Qian Yan City, where the Yuan Chen Sword Sect welcomed him back before he began inventorying his spoils.

• Jiang Yuming tracked Chen Fei’s trail with a mark, but it stopped when Chen Fei teleported, and Jiang Yuming destroyed it after explaining that continued pursuit would consume too much origin.
• Chen Fei finished improving his clone, which reached Mountain Sea Realm Peak Initial Stage and increased Chen Fei’s pressure-bearing limit when used with the Linked Body Art.
• Chen Fei hid in a mountain and extracted spiritual essence from four spiritual treasures to strengthen the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei removed Zeng Huaizheng’s traces from the Soul Startling Jade Pendant, altered its appearance, and kept it to restore and use later.
• Chen Fei returned to Qian Yan City, where Nie Li sensed him and roared in welcome, and Tang Shouchang noticed that Chen Fei had grown stronger.
• After the Yuan Chen Sword Sect members withdrew, Chen Fei began inventorying the collections from Sheng Xizhou and the other five.

After collecting the spoils from Heaven Illusion Valley, Chen Fei studied the Thousand Illusion Body Art and fused it with his mind technique. He discovered that its illusion bodies could carry traces of the Xuanyuan Sword’s True Spirit, and he considered the potential of creating over a thousand such swords.

• Chen Fei sorted the group’s spoils, which were worth nearly forty thousand High-Grade Essence Stones, and considered seeking a Spiritual Material like the Heavenly Rain Flower in the City of Holy Land.
• Chen Fei reviewed the collected Jade Slips and kept the Thousand Illusion Body Art, which could create lifelike illusion bodies without battle strength.
• Chen Fei fused the Thousand Illusion Body Art with Escaping Heavens Wander and the Nine Purgatory Severing Mystery Sword, creating the Thousand Illusion Escaping Heavens Wander and Thousand Illusion Severing Mystery Sword.
• Chen Fei cultivated the new mind technique and caused an illusion body of the Xuanyuan Sword to gain a trace of its True Spirit.
• Chen Fei realized the technique could create over a thousand Xuanyuan Sword illusion bodies and wondered how powerful they might be together.

Chen Fei strengthened his techniques by combining the Thousand Illusion Body Art with the Xuanyuan Sword’s True Spirit and fusing several incomplete arts into the Violet Sky Astral Sword. After a month of cultivation, he returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect to witness Feng Xiupu, Zhou Zixun, and Chi Shuqing break through to the Aperture Unification Realm.

• Chen Fei condensed twenty Xuanyuan Sword illusion bodies, each carrying a True Spirit, but stopped when the strain threatened his mind and divine soul.
• Chen Fei fused five incomplete techniques into the Violet Sky Astral Sword, creating a technique more profound than the Nine Purgatory Hell Art.
• Chen Fei cultivated his techniques for a month and restored Thousand Illusion Escaping Heavens Wander to the Great Perfection Realm.
• Chen Fei visited Feng Xiupu and explained that he had come to stand by his master as Feng Xiupu prepared to break through.
• Feng Xiupu, Zhou Zixun, and Chi Shuqing each absorbed Heavenly Evolution Grass and broke through to the Aperture Unification Realm.

Chen Fei continued strengthening his cultivation in Qian Yan City while his sect members advanced to the Aperture Unification Realm. After Min Yanlu reported that a void altar had fallen into a Spatial Passage in the Thousand Feather Alliance, Chen Fei agreed to go there, dismissing the idea of bringing his Demon King because it was too weak.

• Feng Xiupu, Chi Shuqing, and Zhou Zixun advanced to the Aperture Unification Realm with Heavenly Evolution Grass, and Chen Fei helped Chi Shuqing stabilize her cultivation.
• Chen Fei spent half a year cultivating in Qian Yan City, bringing Talent Sword Sect and the Violet Sky Astral Sword to Perfection and greatly increasing his combat strength.
• Chen Fei demonstrated his powerful combined attack to Nie Li, leaving the Demon King in awe and cementing its loyalty.
• Min Yanlu, Haiyue Zhenren, and Yan Yinwen arrived in Qian Yan City to report that a void altar had fallen beside and become embedded in the Spatial Passage in the Thousand Feather Alliance.
• Chen Fei agreed to travel with them the next day to drive out the five Demon Kings and investigate the altar, then said his own Demon King would not come because it was too weak.

Chen Fei joined Min Yanlu, Yan Yinwen, and Haiyue Zhenren to confront the Demon Kings occupying the Thousand Feather Alliance, revealing that he could summon a Mountain Sea Realm avatar. When they reached the enemy, they discovered eight Demon Kings, including two at the peak of Tier 4 Initial Stage, but Chen Fei insisted they could still fight.

• Chen Fei revealed his Mountain Sea Realm avatar and said it could help them face the Demon Kings, while keeping Nie Li behind to guard the Yuan Chen Sword Sect.
• Chen Fei and the other three flew to the Thousand Feather Alliance, where Min Yanlu explained that the five Demon Kings had gathered near the fallen altar.
• The group crossed the devastated Alliance, and Chen Fei recognized Chenshui Island as the former site of the Yuan Chen Sword Sect's mountain gate.
• As they approached the Demon Kings, Min Yanlu planned for the others to hold four while Chen Fei quickly killed one, but they discovered a sixth Demon King, then two more, including a second peak Tier 4 Initial Stage Demon King.
• Min Yanlu and the others were shocked and prepared to flee, but Chen Fei told them they could fight.

Chen Fei charged toward eight Demon Kings despite Min Yanlu, Haiyue Zhenren, and Yan Yinwen warning that they could not win. The others chose to follow him, and the chapter ended as Chen Fei faced three Demon Kings’ attacks and used the Hidden Essence Bell to block Lei Xie Hu’s claw.

• Min Yanlu, Haiyue Zhenren, and Yan Yinwen urged Chen Fei to retreat or wait for reinforcements as eight Demon Kings approached.
• Chen Fei said he would test the Demon Kings and hold them back if necessary, then continued forward.
• Min Yanlu and Haiyue Zhenren followed Chen Fei, and Yan Yinwen joined them after weighing the risk.
• The four Mountain Sea Realm cultivators met the eight Demon Kings, and the Dragon Pattern Fish appeared behind them to block their escape.
• Lei Xie Hu, the Kongtong Python, and the Celestial Peak Ape attacked Chen Fei while five other Demon Kings charged at Min Yanlu and the others.
• Chen Fei brought out the Hidden Essence Bell to take Lei Xie Hu’s claw head-on, shattering the bell’s golden shield as its force surged into him.

Chen Fei withstood the attacks of three Demon Kings, then used the Celestial Peak Ape's Heaven Flipping Cudgel to cripple the Kongtong Python and kill the Ape. The remaining Demon Kings rushed to support Lei Xie Hu, while Chen Fei's avatar pierced the Dragon Pattern Fish's head.

• Chen Fei blocked the attacks of Lei Xie Hu, the Kongtong Python, and the Celestial Peak Ape without being moved.
• Chen Fei seized the Celestial Peak Ape's Heaven Flipping Cudgel and smashed the Ape into the Kongtong Python, destroying half the Python's body.
• Chen Fei thrust the cudgel through the Celestial Peak Ape's chest and then pulled it free, churning the Ape into Blood Mist.
• Lei Xie Hu attacked Chen Fei as the five other Demon Kings abandoned their opponents and rushed to join him.
• Chen Fei's avatar pierced the Dragon Pattern Fish's head with the Constant Heng Sword.

Chen Fei and his clone overwhelmed the Demon Kings, killing several while protecting Min Yanlu and the others. Lei Xie Hu fled, and the remaining enemies faced Chen Fei’s forces.

• Chen Fei’s clone killed the Dragon Pattern Fish with one sword and used illusory bodies to hold four Demon Kings back.
• Chen Fei survived Lei Xie Hu’s thunder attack, took control of the lightning, and split the Kongtong Python in two.
• Another Demon King died in the distance, and Lei Xie Hu faked a desperate last stand before burning its divine soul to flee.
• The three Demon Kings trapped by Min Yanlu and the others despaired as Chen Fei’s clone isolated Yan Xie and left the other two for the humans to fight.

Chen Fei defeated Lei Xie Hu and enslaved him rather than killing him. Lei Xie Hu arrived at Qian Yan City under Chen Fei’s command, where the sect gained a second Demon King to guard it.

• Chen Fei killed Yan Xie and caught up to the fleeing Lei Xie Hu, overwhelming him with thunder and sword attacks.
• Lei Xie Hu surrendered and offered to serve Chen Fei, who decided to take him as a sect-guarding divine beast.
• Chen Fei spent two hours engraving enslavement runes onto Lei Xie Hu’s Divine Soul despite its resistance.
• Chen Fei returned to Min Yanlu, Yan Yinwen, and Haiyue Zhenren after the Demon Kings who ambushed the Thousand Feather Alliance had been defeated.
• Lei Xie Hu reached Qian Yan City, where Tang Shouchang, Ning Bozheng, and Nie Li prepared to face him.
• Lei Xie Hu announced that he had come by his master's command to protect the sect, revealing his enslavement to the residents of Qian Yan City.