Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei killed a wraith and tried to return to Xian City, but Gong Jingxiu pursued him and used his mastery of the Law of Space to drive him into the Mind Wraith Black Mist. Chen Fei revealed that he had also mastered the Law of Space and met Gong Jingxiu’s sword attack head-on, forcing him to retreat.

• Chen Fei dragged a wraith out of the Mind Wraith Power, defeated it, and collected its spiritual essence while Gong Jingxiu urged him to become a wraith.
• Gong Jingxiu attacked Chen Fei as he tried to return to Xian City, and his sword shattered the Micro Dust Reversal Array protecting Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei recognized that Gong Jingxiu had mastered the complete Law of Space and used his own mastery to break free of Gong Jingxiu’s spatial blockade.
• Gong Jingxiu pursued Chen Fei into an area filled with Mind Wraith Black Mist, intending to capture and refine him into a puppet.
• Chen Fei dropped his feigned weakness and clashed swords with Gong Jingxiu, forcing the Rain Race prodigy to retreat.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Gong Jingxiu in their battle, using his superior strength and mastery of space to injure him and prevent his escape. Cornered, Gong Jingxiu deployed his Rain Race treasures and began breaking through to the Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm, while Chen Fei faced the Sky Curtain blocking his path.

• Gong Jingxiu realized Chen Fei had reached the Mid-Stage Sky Opening Realm and was stronger than him despite his Top-Grade Sky Opening Mystic Treasure.
• Chen Fei struck Gong Jingxiu again, bending the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword and causing Gong Jingxiu to spit blood as his source began to shatter.
• Gong Jingxiu tried to flee with the Space Rule, but Chen Fei's greater control of space forced him to reappear and trapped him.
• Gong Jingxiu used Heaven Realm Jade and his robe to form defenses, then triggered a breakthrough to the Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm.
• Chen Fei examined the Sky Curtain's many rules as Gong Jingxiu's aura grew increasingly powerful.

Chen Fei broke through Gong Jingxiu’s defenses and killed him before he could complete his breakthrough to the Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm. After collecting Gong Jingxiu’s treasures and gaining fragments of his Rain Race inheritance, Chen Fei returned to Xian City, where the battle and the encroaching black fog continued.

• Chen Fei combined the Space, Power, and Karma Rules to strike through the Heaven Realm Jade and shatter Gong Jingxiu’s attempted breakthrough.
• Gong Jingxiu briefly stabilized his power and accelerated his breakthrough, but Chen Fei’s second sword strike pierced and killed him as the Mind Wraith Power overwhelmed his divine soul.
• Chen Fei collected Gong Jingxiu’s spiritual essence, innate spiritual light, Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword, Heaven Realm Jade, and robe, while the Panel organized fragments of the Ten Thousand Spirits Return to One Art.
• Chen Fei concealed the traces of the battle, disguised himself as gravely injured, and returned to Xian City.
• The battle outside Xian City continued as Mind Wraith Power’s black fog encircled the area and began gnawing at the Micro Dust Reversal Array.

Chen Fei assessed how the Rain Race’s vengeful spirits were overwhelming Xian City and returned to prepare after killing Gong Jingxiu. As the battle worsened and the Xuan Clan suffered heavy losses, Chen Fei promised to protect them if he could, then began using the Astonishing Molting Art to absorb Gong Jingxiu’s stolen treasures into his own equipment.

• Chen Fei saw that the Rain Race’s growing numbers of vengeful spirits were giving them the upper hand and submitted a killing mission for Mystic Light Stones.
• Gong Nanming learned that Gong Jingxiu had died and unleashed his power against Xian City while Chen Fei collected his mission reward.
• Li Song told Chen Fei that five of the Xuan Clan’s eleven Initial Stage Sky Opening Realm cultivators had died and asked him to protect the clan if the survivors met with misfortune; Chen Fei agreed.
• Chen Fei returned to his courtyard, checked the safeguards around the human race, and transferred the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword’s stored items into the Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei and his battle soldiers used the Astonishing Molting Art to make the Qian Yuan Sword absorb the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword and began processing Gong Jingxiu’s rune robe and the Hidden Essence Bell.

Chen Fei examined Gong Jingxiu’s treasures, tested a method for purifying contaminated essence, and used the purified essence and Mystic Light Stones to advance his cultivation. He left the secret chamber ready to draw on the grievance spirits outside as his cultivation continued to accelerate.

• Chen Fei fused the Ten Thousand Spirits Return to One Art into the Heavenly Frost Universe Divine Art, slightly improving his understanding of the Space Rule.
• Chen Fei fed Gong Jingxiu’s Heaven Realm Jade into the Hidden Essence Bell through the Astonishing Molting Art, hoping it would strengthen the treasure.
• Chen Fei purified natural grievance spirit essence through repeated Space Grid separations, then purified Gong Jingxiu’s contaminated essence three times.
• Chen Fei sealed contamination samples for future use and cleared the polluted Heaven and Earth Essence Qi from his secret chamber.
• Chen Fei shattered the purified essences and three Mystic Light Stones, reaching Great Perfection in the Heavenly Frost Universe Divine Art and condensing his fourth Subordinate Rule of water.
• Chen Fei’s Rule of Destruction appeared within his physique, accelerating his cultivation as he prepared to draw on the grievance spirits outside.

Chen Fei completed the Qian Yuan Sword’s transformation and greatly increased his power as the battle around Xian City continued to threaten the cultivators. He then guided the Hidden Origin Bell through a more difficult transformation, leaving it as a Top-Grade Sky Opening Mystic Treasure with a powerful defensive Sky Curtain.

• As the battle outside Xian City continued, more cultivators arrived to reinforce the city, but the vengeful spirits’ growing numbers and Mind Wraith Power threatened the defenders and the Micro Dust Reversal Array.
• Chen Fei finished using the Astonishing Molting Art to make the Qian Yuan Sword absorb the Cloud Mist Heavenly Gang Sword, elevating it to a Top-Grade Sky Opening Mystic Treasure.
• After testing the Qian Yuan Sword, Chen Fei found that his spatial power’s range had increased from eleven hundred li to sixteen hundred li, letting him contend with Peak Sky Opening Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei used the Karma Rule to guide the Hidden Origin Bell’s absorption of the Rune Robe and Heaven Realm Jade, accelerating its difficult transformation.
• The Hidden Origin Bell became a mid-level Top-Grade Sky Opening Mystic Treasure and gained the Heaven Realm Jade’s Sky Curtain Trait, giving Chen Fei a defense that even Peak Sky Opening Realm experts would struggle to break.

Chen Fei left a mission briefing after deciding not to accept the Xian Race’s dangerous assignment, but Gong Tianchu’s blade destroyed the Micro Dust Reversal Array and forced Xian City’s cultivators to flee. Chen Fei escaped alongside Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators as Rain Race forces and wraiths pursued them.

• Chen Fei examined the Hidden Origin Bell, then consumed a Spirit Awakening Pill while he waited in Xian City.
• Xu Fuming summoned Sky Opening Realm cultivators and offered rare treasures and techniques to those who accepted a perilous mission to protect the Profound Spirit Domain.
• Chen Fei declined the mission and left the Mission Hall with several other cultivators.
• Gong Tianchu’s blade struck Shi Jianzhu, killed him, shattered the Micro Dust Reversal Array, and severed the connections to other Tier 8 Races’ territories.
• The Xian Race’s Eighth-Order expert ordered a retreat, and Chen Fei fled with Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators as the Rain Race and wraiths attacked.

After Gong Tianchu broke the Micro Dust Reversal Array, Chen Fei led the Xuan Clan experts in flight while An Changcheng returned to stop Gong Nanming from attacking the fleeing Sky Opening Realm cultivators. Yan Cuiping hunted for the person who killed Gong Jingxiu, and Chen Fei used a formation to speed his group away from her.

• Chen Fei kept the human race in his Sky Opening Mystic Treasure and fled with Li Song and the Xuan Clan experts after Gong Tianchu broke the array.
• Gong Nanming and Yan Cuiping appeared to demand that the fleeing cultivators become resentful spirits and identify Gong Jingxiu's killer.
• An Changcheng returned and confronted Gong Nanming, restoring the rules Gong Nanming had restricted before they began fighting.
• Yan Cuiping seized and killed a Sky Opening Realm cultivator while questioning him about whom Gong Jingxiu had pursued.
• Chen Fei formed a seventh-tier array around Li Song and the others, then used it to accelerate their escape.

Chen Fei fled with the Xuan Clan after Yan Cuiping discovered he was the one Gong Jingxiu had pursued, while the Rain Race’s assault devastated the Profound Spirit Domain. With the realm’s protective barrier shattered and its Heaven and Earth Essence Qi beginning to be contaminated, Chen Fei led his group away from the former Tier 8 Race territories, but Rain Race pursuers spotted them.

• Chen Fei recognized that Yan Cuiping was questioning cultivators about Gong Jingxiu’s killer and used the Space Rule to teleport himself and the Xuan Clan far away.
• Yan Cuiping extracted Liao Jian’s memories, identified Chen Fei as the cultivator Gong Jingxiu had pursued, and ordered Rain Race cultivators to hunt him.
• Chen Fei and the Xuan Clan considered heading for Xiao Clan Territory, but Gong Tianchu’s six saber strikes killed seven Creation Realm experts and shattered the Eighth-Order Arrays.
• Chen Fei sensed the Profound Spirit Domain’s Heaven and Earth Essence Qi becoming contaminated and decided to keep away from the former Tier 8 Race territories.
• Xue Tangzhu and other Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm cultivators followed Chen Fei’s traces and spotted him and the Xuan Clan.

Chen Fei led Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators away from the Rain Race, then turned to face Xue Tangzhu and her four Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm companions alone. After revealing Mid-Stage cultivation and overpowering their formation with the Rule of Destruction, he broke through the Sea Abyss Formation and struck one of them.

• Chen Fei drew the pursuing Rain Race cultivators away from the route where other fighters might sense their battle, then told Li Song and the others to fall back.
• Chen Fei charged at Xue Tangzhu and her four companions, while Li Song led the Xuan Clan cultivators after him despite knowing they were outmatched.
• Xue Tangzhu formed the Sea Abyss Formation with her companions, but Chen Fei’s first sword strike suppressed their combined attack and revealed his Mid-Stage Sky Opening Realm cultivation.
• Xue Tangzhu shifted the formation and unleashed its power at Chen Fei, forcing Li Song and the others back.
• Chen Fei triggered the Rule of Destruction, shattered the Sea Abyss Formation, and stabbed one of the Rain Race members with the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei used the Rule of Destruction and his two Top-Grade Sky Opening Mystic Treasures to defeat five Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm Rain Race cultivators. After killing them as they tried to flee, he left no survivors.

• Chen Fei broke the Sea Abyss Formation and killed Jing Huang while the Hidden Essence Bell blocked Xue Tangzhu and the others’ attacks.
• Chen Fei shattered the Rain Race cultivators’ defensive formation and killed another Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm cultivator, prompting Li Song and his companions to retreat farther away.
• Xue Tangzhu and two surviving Rain Race cultivators fled in different directions using Sky Escape Talismans, but Chen Fei stopped all three talismans with a sword strike.
• Chen Fei pursued the fleeing cultivators and killed two of them, stopping one from self-destructing with the Heavenly Frost Universe Divine Art.
• Chen Fei killed Xue Tangzhu with the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei escaped the Rain Race pursuers with Li Song and the others, but a power from the Heart Strange Realm trapped them and sealed his soul. He awoke in an imperial examination illusion with memories of being a scholar, even as his cultivation panel appeared before him.

• Chen Fei absorbed the spiritual essence of Xue Tangzhu and the other four Rain Race cultivators, learned Yan Cuiping had sent them, and collected their treasures.
• Chen Fei transported Li Song and the others toward the edge of Profound Spirit Domain to avoid further pursuit and digest the contaminated spiritual essence.
• A chanting voice overcame Chen Fei and his companions, suppressed Suppressing Heavens, and sealed Chen Fei's soul.
• Chen Fei awoke in an examination hall with memories of studying to become a xiucai, though he sensed he had never read books and remembered martial arts instead.
• Chen Fei wrote “Breathing, waving a hand” on the exam paper, drawing source essence from his body, and saw a Panel appear before countless memories surged into him.

Chen Fei recovered his memories in the Imperial Examination Strange Entity and discovered that its exam papers drained the origin of his techniques. After passing the Prefectural Examination, he received a jade that granted one wish, but his request for an eighth-order Creation Realm technique was answered with a profound Body Refining Realm manual.

• Chen Fei regained his memories and realized that writing on the exam paper let the Strange Entity drain his origin, while his Status Panel Backup could restore what he lost.
• Chen Fei completed the Prefectural Examination, sacrificing the origin of his Body Refining Realm techniques, then left the examination hall among the other Sky Opening Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei recognized Yan Cuiping and Hao Yue Rong among the cultivators outside, and learned that several Peak Sky Opening Realm experts had recovered their spiritual wisdom.
• The examiner declared the cultivators had passed and gave jade tokens to the Peak Sky Opening Realm cultivators and Chen Fei before summoning them to the Provincial Examination.
• Chen Fei wished for an eighth-order Creation Realm cultivation technique, and the jade brought him a secret manual containing an exquisitely profound Body Refining Realm method instead.

Chen Fei recognized that the examination rewarded those who broke the spiritual insight seal, then wrote his answers while the Imperial Examination Strange Entity drained his cultivation origin. He discovered that Suppressing Heavens preserved his combat strength despite the loss, but that any origin he cultivated from techniques written on the paper was immediately taken; meanwhile, the other cultivators continued to face the examination’s threat.

• Chen Fei read the Body Refining Realm manual he had received as a reward and began writing his Provincial Examination answers.
• Hao Yue Rong and the other Peak Sky Opening Realm cultivators watched Chen Fei, while they considered how to resist the strange entity and their origins began draining.
• Chen Fei finished his exam paper and found that losing his Aperture Refining Realm and Aperture Unification Realm origin had barely weakened his physique.
• Chen Fei noticed that Li Song and the other Xuan Clan cultivators remained trapped and were losing their origins without understanding the danger.
• Yan Cuiping lost far less origin than the other Peak Sky Opening Realm cultivators and gave Chen Fei a cold smile before continuing her exam.
• After the gong sounded, Chen Fei tried to cultivate, but the strange entity absorbed the origin he produced before it could fuse into his body.

Chen Fei tested whether sacrificing more origin to the Imperial Examination Strange Entity would improve the cultivation techniques it granted, hoping to strengthen the human race. After the Provincial and Metropolitan Examinations, he received increasingly refined manuals but found no change in the wish’s stated reward, and he noticed a possible loophole in the Strange Entity as the Palace Examination began.

• Chen Fei restored his plundered Body Refining Realm origin, then let the Strange Entity take another portion each of his Aperture Refining Realm and Aperture Unification Realm origins.
• Hao Yue Rong approached Chen Fei to propose mutual support, but Yan Cuiping’s hostility toward Chen Fei prompted Hao Yue Rong to withdraw.
• After the Provincial Examination ended, Chen Fei wished for a top-tier Eighth-Order Creation Realm technique and received two manuals whose methods leaned toward the traits of the human race.
• Chen Fei studied the manuals, completed the Metropolitan Examination, and again allowed the Strange Entity to plunder his origin.
• Chen Fei noticed a small loophole in the Imperial Examination Strange Entity as the examiner announced the Palace Examination.

Chen Fei entered the Imperial Palace and endured the tribute examination, allowing the Strange Entity to drain his Sky Opening Realm source essence while he relied on the Status Panel to recover it. He carried Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators with him into the Palace Examination, where he and the surviving cultivators sensed the Creation Realm power of the Strange Entity.

• The Examination Institute transformed into the Imperial Palace, where Chen Fei and the other Sky Opening Realm cultivators were ordered to present tribute by writing about their cultivation method.
• Chen Fei used the jade stone to obtain three cultivation manuals, restored his lower-realm origins, and wrote the requested method while the Strange Entity drained his Sky Opening Realm source essence.
• Chen Fei's Sky Opening Realm source essence was completely drained, and he began restoring it as the other cultivators struggled against the siphoning.
• After the bell rang, the cultivators who had lost all their source essence collapsed, and Chen Fei used the Hidden Essence Bell to carry Li Song and the other Xuan Clan cultivators.
• Chen Fei, Hao Yue Rong, and the other surviving cultivators entered the main hall and sensed the Strange Entity's Creation Realm power; Chen Fei then activated the jade stone in his sleeve.

Chen Fei answered the Imperial Examination Strange Entity’s question about eighth-order cultivation methods and received a complete eighth-order inheritance. When Gong Nanming tore open the strange world to rescue Yan Cuiping, she attacked Chen Fei as he fled through the opening.

• Chen Fei fused the Ten Thousand Aspects Stabilization Art with his other techniques to create the Ten Thousand Aspects Heavenly Frost Art.
• Chen Fei wrote the incomplete eighth-order Secret Arts he knew and handed in his paper, wishing for a top-tier eighth-order cultivation technique.
• The strange entity gave Chen Fei a complete eighth-order inheritance as the palace began to shake under an attack from outside.
• Gong Nanming tore open the sky, and the pressure inside the strange world vanished as the entity focused on resisting him.
• Yan Cuiping attacked Chen Fei, but he dodged and used the Space Rule to escape through the crack; Yan Cuiping pursued him.

Chen Fei escaped Gong Nanming’s restrictions by combining Sky Escape Talismans with his mastery of the Karma, Space, and Power Rules, but Yan Cuiping pursued him with Gong Nanming’s help. Yan Cuiping recognized the Heaven Realm Jade protecting Chen Fei and flew into a rage as he prepared to resist her.

• Chen Fei endured Yan Cuiping’s sword attack with his Peak Sky Opening Realm body, then used three Sky Escape Talismans and a brief fluctuation in Gong Nanming’s restrictions to escape.
• Yan Cuiping told Gong Nanming that Chen Fei had killed Gong Jingxiu, and Gong Nanming tried to pursue him but was pinned down by the Imperial Examination Strange Entity and its powerful shadows.
• Gong Nanming gave Yan Cuiping a Small Cauldron and empowered her to follow Chen Fei’s trail, while Hao Yue Rong and the other cultivators remained trapped.
• Chen Fei transposed more than ten thousand li before Yan Cuiping caught up and confined the surrounding space with the Small Cauldron.
• Chen Fei’s Sky Curtain stopped Yan Cuiping’s Nine Abyss Swords, and she recognized it as a changed form of Gong Jingxiu’s Heaven Realm Jade and attacked in fury.

Chen Fei recovered his strength by shattering a hundred thousand Mid-Grade Essence Crystals and turned the battle against Yan Cuiping. He killed her with World Piercing Slash, leaving the conflict with Gong Nanming unresolved.

• Yan Cuiping repeatedly attacked the Hidden Essence Bell's Sky Curtain with the Nine Abyss Sword until she shattered it, but Chen Fei blocked her strike with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei's origin rapidly recovered from the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and he overpowered Yan Cuiping even after she used a secret art to strengthen her sword.
• Yan Cuiping defended herself with the Nine Abyss Swords and Heaven Realm Jade, but Chen Fei's World Piercing Slash pierced through her sword defense and tore open her chest.
• Yan Cuiping tried to escape with the Sky Universe Cauldron, but Chen Fei's Azure Heavens Domain disrupted its teleportation.
• Chen Fei struck with World Piercing Slash, cut aside the Nine Abyss Sword, and killed Yan Cuiping by destroying her Rule Body.

Chen Fei killed Yan Cuiping, destroyed her Sky Opening Mystic Treasures to strengthen his own, and escaped while Gong Nanming remained trapped fighting the Imperial Examination Strange Entity. After reaching the Profound Spirit Domain’s impassable border, Chen Fei sheltered the rescued Xuan Clan cultivators and gave the human race cultivation techniques and Spiritual Materials.

• Chen Fei extracted Yan Cuiping’s spiritual essence and incomplete Ascension Spirit Art, then destroyed the Nine Abyss Sword and Sky Universe Cauldron and fed their spiritual essence to the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Essence Bell.
• Gong Nanming learned Yan Cuiping was dead, burned his origin to try to escape the Imperial Examination Strange Entity, and continued fighting when it charged him.
• Chen Fei reached the Ninth-Order barrier at the edge of the Profound Spirit Domain, then released Li Song and the other Xuan Clan cultivators from the Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei gave the Xuan Clan cultivators Earth Origin Stone to help restore their origins, though they could not regain their former realms without higher-order treasures.
• Chen Fei gave Dao Yuefeng and the others cultivation techniques and Spiritual Materials to support the human race’s cultivation and future breakthroughs.