Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei accepted Qiong’s trial to learn the Azure Heavens Lock, then mastered it quickly enough to awaken the Heavens Hall Artifact Spirit’s true nature. Qiong used the hall’s remaining power to forge the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Essence Bell into powerful Creation Mystic Treasures before disappearing with the hall.

• Qiong offered to teach Chen Fei the seventh-order Azure Heavens Lock and forge his two Sky Opening Mystic Treasures into Creation Mystic Treasures, but Chen Fei demanded they be finished within two days.
• Chen Fei accepted Qiong’s trial and used the Hidden Essence Bell’s Essence Crystals to simplify the Azure Heavens Lock into the Azure Heavens Domain.
• After practicing for a quarter of an hour, Chen Fei reached ten percent of the Azure Heavens Lock’s entry stage and demonstrated the Secret Art to Qiong.
• The demonstration broke through Qiong’s contamination by Mind Wraith Power long enough for him to apologize and begin forging the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Essence Bell with the Heavens Hall’s origin.
• Five hours later, Qiong completed the two Creation Mystic Treasures, then vanished as the Heavens Hall dissipated.
• Chen Fei took the newly forged treasures and left the canyon.

Chen Fei obtained the complete Eighth-Order Suppressing Heavens and realized the Panel could let him cultivate it alongside the seventh-order method, but simplifying it required far more High-Grade Essence Crystals than he had. He pursued a nearby cave estate left by an Eighth-Order Creation Realm expert, arriving to find hundreds of Sky Opening Realm cultivators and six Creation Realm experts gathered there.

• Qiong fused Heavens Hall's essence into the Qian Yuan Sword and Hidden Origin Bell, raising them to Creation Mystic Treasures before he and Heavens Hall vanished.
• Chen Fei studied the Eighth-Order and derived Ninth-Order Suppressing Heavens, learning that the methods cultivated the body's particles and that the ninth-order method was incomplete.
• Chen Fei realized the Panel could let him cultivate Seventh-Order and Eighth-Order Suppressing Heavens at the same time, but it demanded one hundred thousand High-Grade Essence Crystals to simplify the eighth-order method.
• Chen Fei decided to seek the cave estate mentioned by Wen Yingqi, hoping to find enough Essence Crystals to begin cultivating Eighth-Order Suppressing Heavens.
• Chen Fei followed his karmic connection to Wen Yingqi and found the mountain cave estate surrounded by hundreds of Sky Opening Realm cultivators and six Creation Realm experts.

Chen Fei entered an eighth-order cave abode and focused on finding the High-Grade Essence Crystals sustaining its failing array, rather than joining the scramble for treasures. After harvesting crystals from most of the array eyes, he headed for the central mountain, where the remaining ones were concentrated, and found cultivators fighting there.

• Bu Bingzhen and Wen Yingqi discussed Chen Fei's strength as six Creation Realm powerhouses prepared to enter the cave abode.
• Chen Fei entered the cave abode and used his perception of its failing array to locate the High-Grade Essence Crystal stores.
• Chen Fei tore open seven array eyes and collected tens of thousands of High-Grade Essence Crystals, leaving some behind to keep the array from worsening.
• Chen Fei searched the areas beyond the central mountain and then headed up the mountain to reach the remaining array eyes.
• Chen Fei arrived halfway up the mountain and found cultivators fighting near an array eye.

Chen Fei arrived at Mountain Pavilion as Geng Jingrong’s group besieged Xiao Hua, Hong Qing, and Duan Xuanzhi over the Medicine Field’s spirit plants. After Hong Qing tried to draw Chen Fei into the fight, Chen Fei shattered the pavilion’s restriction and repelled Geng Jingrong’s attacks, then confronted Hong Qing.

• Geng Jingrong demanded that Xiao Hua, Hong Qing, and Duan Xuanzhi surrender the spirit plants they had collected from the Medicine Field.
• Duan Xuanzhi offered to trap Geng Jingrong with the pavilion’s restriction while Xiao Hua and Hong Qing fought his two companions, but Hong Qing spotted Chen Fei and called to him for help.
• Geng Jingrong tried to keep Chen Fei from leaving, while Hong Qing and Xiao Hua urged him to fetch Brother Li and the others.
• Chen Fei said no one had asked his opinion, vanished to the other side of the restriction, and kicked the Ancient Pavilion, shattering its barrier and injuring Duan Xuanzhi.
• Chen Fei’s sword shield repelled the three attackers’ strikes, prompting Geng Jingrong and his companions to flee; Chen Fei appeared before Hong Qing and slapped him.

Chen Fei killed Hong Qing, Xiao Hua, Duan Xuanzhi, and three other attackers before harvesting treasures from a formation core in the Medicine Field. Meanwhile, six Creation Realm cultivators opened the Central Great Hall, where the seated figure suddenly came to life and stabbed Nie Hongdian as he seized the Tai Chang Pill.

• Chen Fei killed Hong Qing, Xiao Hua, and Duan Xuanzhi, then cut down Geng Jingrong and the other two attackers.
• Chen Fei opened a formation core in the Medicine Field, took its High-Grade Essence Crystals, and concealed the gap after noticing it did not repair itself.
• Six Creation Realm cultivators broke through the Central Great Hall’s restrictions after discussing the cave dwelling’s Peak-Stage Creation Realm owner and his failed attempt to reach the Supreme Realm.
• Nie Hongdian grabbed the Tai Chang Pill, which could weaken a heavenly tribulation by more than ten percent, while the other five cultivators demanded he put it down.
• The figure seated in the great hall suddenly raised its head and pierced Nie Hongdian’s abdomen.

Ge Shida revealed that he had survived his failed attempt to reach the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm by comprehending part of the Time Rule, and he trapped the six Creation Realm cultivators to use their strength for another breakthrough attempt. He killed Nie Hongdian and absorbed his source, while Bu Changyin and the other four attacked him.

• A withered figure ambushed Nie Hongdian as he seized the Tai Chang Pill, but Nie Hongdian struck its arm with the Taiyuan Sword and escaped by exploding his body.
• The cave residence’s Eighth-Order Array and hall restrictions trapped Nie Hongdian, Bu Changyin, and the other five cultivators as Ge Shida emerged with his restored body.
• Ge Shida explained that he had used the Time Rule to survive his failed breakthrough and had waited a thousand years for the cultivators he foresaw to arrive.
• Ge Shida attacked Nie Hongdian, and Bu Changyin and the other four joined forces to block him before he could take Nie Hongdian’s head.
• Ge Shida used the Time Rule to seize his sword and stab Nie Hongdian, whose source the sword absorbed as Ge Shida’s power grew.
• Bu Changyin and the other four broke free of the Time Rule’s distortion and struck Ge Shida, but he had already moved from his position.

Chen Fei escaped Central Mountain Peak’s Eighth-Order Array by using the Karma Rule to find and cut through a restriction. At the cave abode’s entrance, he sensed that a second Creation Realm cultivator had fallen on the Mountain Summit.

• The cave dwelling’s power surged, sealing Sky Opening Realm cultivators into isolated areas as Chen Fei considered how to escape.
• A Creation Realm cultivator fell on the Mountain Summit, and Chen Fei used the Qian Yuan Sword to break through the array’s restrictions and flee the mountain peak.
• Chen Fei’s attack on the outer restriction failed, but the Hidden Essence Bell shielded him while he used the Karma Rule to locate a weak point and cut an opening.
• Wen Yingqi and Bu Bingzhen watched Chen Fei escape and were shocked by his ability to break through an Eighth-Order restriction.
• Chen Fei reached the sealed entrance of the cave abode, then heard the rules resonate again as a second Creation Realm cultivator fell.

Ge Shida fought Bu Changyin and three other Creation Realms, using the Time Rule to turn their combined attacks back on them. Chen Fei survived the cave residence’s shifting restrictions and reached its entrance, where he struck at the barrier with the Qian Yuan Sword.

• The fall of a second Creation Realm convinced the trapped cultivators that they might need to rescue themselves, while Ge Shida battled Bu Changyin and the other three Creation Realms on the Mountain Summit.
• Ge Shida shifted the cave residence’s entrance and used its remaining power to drag Chen Fei through the twisting restrictions.
• Ge Shida explained that Supreme Realm experts pursued the Time Rule, then used the Sky Nether Sword to redirect the four Creation Realms’ attacks back at them.
• Chen Fei resisted the cave residence’s dragging force and used the Space Rule and Karma Rule to return to the entrance.
• Chen Fei slashed the entrance restriction with the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei escaped Ge Shida’s cave estate after discovering that Bu Changyin and the other Creation Realm cultivators were trapped with him, then returned to the Reaching Heaven Tree. He advanced his Suppressing Heavens cultivation and concealed his true realm before submitting grievance spirit essence to the tree.

• Chen Fei cut through the cave estate restriction with the Qian Yuan Sword and escaped while Ge Shida chose to pursue Bu Changyin and the other three.
• Chen Fei rushed back to the Reaching Heaven Tree’s barrier and worried that he could not warn anyone about the cultivators trapped in the cave estate.
• Chen Fei used High-Grade Essence Crystals to simplify Eighth-Order Suppressing Heavens and cultivated it alongside the Rule of Destruction and subordinate rules.
• Chen Fei shattered six portions of spirit essence, raising his physique to the peak of Initial Stage Eighth-Order and advancing his Suppressing Heavens cultivation.
• Chen Fei used Eighth-Order Suppressing Heavens to conceal his cultivation, returned to the barrier, and submitted early seventh-order Grievance Spirit Essence to receive the tree’s spiritual light.

Chen Fei used the Reaching Heaven Tree’s spiritual light, reunited with Li Song and the Xuan Clan cultivators, and then began breaking through to the Peak Sky Opening Realm. The chapter ended as his soul entered the void and encountered a sky full of stars.

• Chen Fei assessed the Reaching Heaven Tree’s spiritual light and concluded that its cultivation guidance was less useful to him than the Panel, though its healing remained powerful.
• Li Song told Chen Fei that the Xuan Clan cultivators had recovered by hunting wounded grievance spirits and that a Creation Realm expert’s attack had created the opportunity.
• Li Song and the others chose to hunt with other cultivators rather than continue traveling with Chen Fei, and Chen Fei accepted their decision.
• Chen Fei left the barrier, traveled twenty thousand li away, and began breaking through from the Late-Stage Sky Opening Realm.
• Chen Fei’s aura crossed into a new realm as Essence Crystals released Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, and his soul entered the void, where he saw stars.

After reaching the Peak Sky Opening Realm, Chen Fei entered the void and chose the Extreme Rule Characteristic, Force Breaks All Techniques, gaining a major boost to his physical strength and perception. He returned with his breakthrough complete and his power greatly increased, while leaving the Void characteristic for a future breakthrough to the Creation Realm.

• Chen Fei realized his Heavenly Tribulation breakthrough had granted him a chance to strengthen a void Rule Characteristic, a privilege normally reserved for Creation Realm cultivators.
• He examined the characteristics available through the rules he had mastered and considered Cold, Void, and Extreme.
• Chen Fei chose Extreme, deciding that Force Breaks All Techniques would help him handle the unpredictable dangers of the Heart Strange Realm.
• Extreme merged into the Power Rule, causing Chen Fei's physical strength to rise to the Mid-Stage Eighth-Order level even as his defensive toughness remained at the Initial Stage peak.
• After absorbing the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi from hundreds of thousands of Mid-Grade Essence Crystals, Chen Fei's transformation ended and his aura stabilized at the Peak Sky Opening Realm.
• Chen Fei's perception expanded from three hundred li to one thousand li, and he resolved to choose Void when he later broke through to the Creation Realm.

Chen Fei tested his resistance to Mind Wraith Power and unleashed the Calamity Sword, storing its Creation-Realm-level strike in a Space Grid. After spending ten days cultivating inside the Reaching Heaven Tree barrier, he heard a blast from the firmament as the barrier began to shake.

• Chen Fei found that his physique and essence power could keep Mind Wraith Power from tainting him without relying on the Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei used the Calamity Sword beyond the Reaching Heaven Tree barrier, stored its devastating sword light in a Space Grid, and recovered with crystals and the Panel.
• Chen Fei returned to the barrier and learned that several hundred Sky Opening Realm cultivators and six Creation Realm cultivators had died in a cave dwelling.
• Chen Fei stayed inside the barrier, judging that the Heart Strange Realm’s apparent calm would not last and focusing on cultivation.
• Chen Fei chose to cultivate Seventh-Order Suppressing Heavens and two subordinate Rules of wind, then a blast from the firmament made the barrier tremble.

Chen Fei and the other cultivators followed Qi Anxiao to a black swamp, where they fought swarms of poisonous demon spirits under the Reaching Heaven Tree's protection. As the tree's barrier weakened, powerful figures appeared and attacked Qi Anxiao, bringing the Ninth-Order Supremes into the battle.

• Qi Anxiao ordered the cultivators to follow the Reaching Heaven Tree as it flew to a swamp surrounded by Reaching Heaven Trees from other domains.
• Qi Anxiao commanded the cultivators to leave the barrier and kill the demon spirits, and the Profound Spirit Domain cultivators charged into the swamp.
• An anti-flight force grounded the cultivators, and Chen Fei used his Heavy Hammer to fight off demon spirits as the swarm overwhelmed them.
• The demon spirits' attacks killed and wounded Sky Opening Realm cultivators while the swamp's gray poison gas grew denser and the Reaching Heaven Tree's barrier weakened.
• A huge gap appeared in the Reaching Heaven Tree, and Qi Anxiao calmly faced several attacks from beyond the heavens as other Ninth-Order Supreme Realm cultivators appeared.

Ji Zhongzhong and the other Ninth-Order Supremes drove the Grievance Spirits away from the suspected Drowning Abyss while cultivators struggled against Strange Entities in the swamp. After the Reaching Heaven Tree purged the swamp, Ji Zhongzhong ordered everyone to dig, revealing a vast abyss more than nine hundred li below the surface.

• Ji Zhongzhong blocked the Ninth-Order Grievance Spirits at the Reaching Heaven Tree, and they withdrew after conceding the Drowning Abyss.
• Chen Fei and the other cultivators fled toward the swamp's center as Ninth-Order battles erupted around the Reaching Heaven Trees.
• Grievance Spirits joined the Strange Entities in attacking the cultivators, but some Strange Entities turned against them.
• The Reaching Heaven Tree purged the swamp, weakening and destroying the Strange Entities, while Black Light carried off the Grievance Spirits.
• Ji Zhongzhong ordered the cultivators to dig through the dried swamp, and they uncovered a vast hollow abyss more than nine hundred li below.

Ji Zhongzhong sent cultivators into the Drowning Abyss to investigate, but the abyss trapped them and began threatening both those inside and the Supreme Realm experts above. As Qi Anxiao unleashed a Shallow Red Flower to break the abyss, light engulfed Chen Fei and the others, and the Xuanyuan Sword briefly stirred.

• Ji Zhongzhong ordered fifteen Taihang Domain Sky Opening Realm cultivators to descend into the Drowning Abyss, where they stopped making progress and became trapped.
• Ji Zhongzhong sent several dozen more cultivators inside to rescue them, but a massive black substance appeared overhead and he and the other Supreme Realm experts intercepted it.
• The Drowning Abyss rippled like water, causing the cultivators within it to feel as if they were drowning while Ninth-Order Grievance Spirits tried to pull Ji Zhongzhong and the other Supreme Realm experts into its depths.
• Ji Zhongzhong told Qi Anxiao to break open the Drowning Abyss, and Qi Anxiao released a seed that bloomed into a Shallow Red Flower below.
• Chen Fei moved in front of Li Song and the others as light flooded the abyss, strange voices filled his ears, and the Xuanyuan Sword briefly fluctuated.

Chen Fei found himself alone in a vast Barren Land where strange energy obscured the rules and prevented him from using Talent Unceasing. After a Strange Entity attacked and proved extraordinarily difficult to kill, Chen Fei struck it with greater force as it tried to flee.

• Chen Fei realized the other cultivators had vanished and that he could barely sense the rules or draw Heaven and Earth Essence Qi in the Barren Land.
• Chen Fei crossed tens of thousands of li through the barren yellow sands without finding a way out.
• A massive wormlike Strange Entity erupted from the sand and attacked Chen Fei, whose kick shattered its mouthparts.
• Chen Fei cut the Strange Entity in two with the Qian Yuan Sword, but it regenerated rapidly and endured his attacks.
• The Strange Entity tried to escape beneath the sand, but Chen Fei intercepted it and shattered its mouthparts with a stronger whip kick.

Chen Fei explored the Barren Land, learning that its Strange Entities yielded unfamiliar energy and that neither its sky nor its bedrock offered an easy escape. After hours of searching, he found a ruined city radiating immense power, where several other cultivators soon gathered.

• Chen Fei killed a Strange Entity by cutting through its body, sealed the dark-green energy it left behind, and fled from more than a thousand creatures beneath the sand.
• Chen Fei learned that other cultivators from the Drowning Abyss had also been Transpositioned into the Barren Land and were struggling against its restrictions and Strange Entities.
• Chen Fei found that a special force blocked his ascent into the sky and that the rapidly regenerating, rule-formed bedrock made digging underground impractical.
• Chen Fei flew for hours across the seemingly endless desert and discovered a ruined city whose surviving power felt like that of a sleeping ancient beast.
• Several cultivators arrived from different directions and descended near Chen Fei as he watched the city from a distance.

Chen Fei, Wang Gongsheng, and the four Xiang brothers approached the mysterious Ancient City, which began fading after noon. As the group tested the city gate’s deadly restriction, Wang Gongsheng sent his Treasure Hunting Mouse to investigate, and its first step inside went unharmed.

• Wang Gongsheng and Chen Fei met the four Xiang brothers, who decided to wait for their Creation Realm martial uncle before entering the Ancient City.
• After the city began to blur following noon, Xiang Zongyan proposed that the five cultivators enter together before it disappeared.
• Xiang Zongyan sent three Mechanism Demon Beasts through the gate, where they collapsed as the restriction disrupted their power; he pulled them back unharmed.
• Wang Gongsheng, recognizing the Xiang brothers as prodigies of a Ninth-Order Supreme Race, summoned his Treasure Hunting Mouse to scout instead of risking himself or Chen Fei.
• The Treasure Hunting Mouse cautiously put its right claw within the city gate’s range, and nothing attacked it.

Chen Fei entered the disappearing Ancient City and found an ancient book that responded to him and bore the title Mystic Womb True Understanding. When Xiang Zongyan demanded the book and attacked after Chen Fei refused, Chen Fei struck back with enough force to shatter Xiang Zongyan’s right arm and destroy the city.

• The Treasure Hunting Mouse explored the Ancient City and found a glowing book inside a central hall, while Chen Fei recognized the characters on the hall as Ancient Seal Script.
• The Treasure Hunting Mouse opened the hall doors, revealing a figure that crumbled into ash and a book that resisted the mouse’s attempt to touch it.
• As Chen Fei entered the hall, the book reacted to the Xuanyuan Sword Scar in his mind, flew to him, and revealed the title Mystic Womb True Understanding.
• Xiang Zongyan demanded that Chen Fei hand over the book, but Chen Fei refused and placed it in his sleeve.
• Xiang Zongyan attacked Chen Fei, who met his palm strike and shattered Xiang Zongyan’s right arm as the Ancient City was annihilated.

Chen Fei overwhelmed Xiang Zongyan and his three brothers, shattering Xiang Zongyan’s arm and forcing them to use a protective talisman to escape. As their teleportation began, Chen Fei caught Xiang Dao Xian with the Azure Heavens Lock and held his ground against the pull.

• Xiang Zongyan attacked Chen Fei over the classics, but Chen Fei shattered his right arm with one strike.
• Xiang Jingcheng and Xiang Xu Fu joined Xiang Zongyan in attacking Chen Fei, whose Extreme Abyss Sword Shield blocked their combined blows.
• Chen Fei distorted the space around Xiang Dao Xian and struck with the Qian Yuan Sword, forcing Xiang Dao Xian’s protective talisman to activate.
• Xiang Zongyan ordered his brothers to flee, and Xiang Dao Xian used the talisman to begin teleporting all four away.
• Chen Fei sent out the Azure Heavens Lock, wrapped it around Xiang Dao Xian, and braced against the teleportation’s pulling force.