Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei entered a ruined inheritance ground with other Ninth-Order experts and searched its damaged halls for remnants of its cultivation inheritances. After examining twenty-seven halls, he found Liao Xingfeng confronting Fang Xiyun over a black iron block, but both left without taking it.

• Chen Fei and the other Ninth-Order experts entered the damaged inheritance ground, where all thirty-six trial doorways had been destroyed.
• Chen Fei examined the runes in the halls behind the doorways, hoping the Panel would collect enough information to reveal an inheritance.
• Chen Fei rapidly searched twenty-seven halls before an explosion drew him to the thirty-third doorway.
• Chen Fei saw Liao Xingfeng facing Fang Xiyun over a hovering black iron block, which Fang Xiyun dismissed as ordinary Spiritual Materials.
• Fang Xiyun disappeared, and Liao Xingfeng left the iron block behind before nodding to Chen Fei and departing.

Chen Fei discovered an incomplete Three Heads Six Arms inheritance in the runes of the Inheritance Ground and made it more complete by examining every hall. As he considered how to reach the other eight occupied Inheritance Grounds, he saw Liao Xingfeng being hunted by two Ninth-Order powerhouses and pleading with him for help.

• The Ninth-Order cultivators tested the black iron block, judged it useless, and left it behind.
• Chen Fei struck the block repeatedly to study its runes, then continued examining the halls without taking it.
• In the twenty-ninth hall, Chen Fei's Panel identified the incomplete Three Heads Six Arms technique, which could produce true flesh-and-blood limbs and a head that used Soul Scorching Fierce Flames.
• Chen Fei examined all the halls and made the technique complete enough to cultivate one extra head and one extra arm.
• Chen Fei considered drawing the Ninth-Order cultivators away from the other Inheritance Grounds, then saw Liao Xingfeng being hunted by a Peak Early-Stage and a Mid-Stage Ninth-Order powerhouse.
• Liao Xingfeng, unable to escape and ignored by the watching cultivators, spotted Chen Fei and pleaded with him for help.

Chen Fei rescued Liao Xingfeng from Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun after Liao Xingfeng revealed an Inheritance Stone that could access two of the nine Inheritance Grounds. Chen Fei and Liao Xingfeng escaped into the plane’s upper layer, but their pursuers caught up, forcing Chen Fei to flee again.

• Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun cornered Liao Xingfeng, who told Chen Fei that his Inheritance Stone could connect to the other eight Inheritance Grounds.
• Chen Fei chose to help Liao Xingfeng, using his Wings of the Hanging Sky to evade Fang Changzhi’s attack and carry Liao Xingfeng away.
• Chen Fei cut through the heavenly barrier and brought Liao Xingfeng into the plane’s upper layer, where Liao Xingfeng gave him the Inheritance Stone.
• Chen Fei activated the Inheritance Stone and confirmed it provided access to two trials.
• Fang Changzhi and his companion caught up, so Chen Fei used the Wind Thunder Array to take Liao Xingfeng and change locations.

Chen Fei stopped fleeing with Liao Xingfeng and used his array techniques and Night Demon War Soldier to trap Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun in a Ninth-Order Top-Grade Profound Array. He rejected Fang Changzhi’s threats and struck him down, leaving Fang Xiyun trapped in the formation.

• Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun pursued Chen Fei and Liao Xingfeng until Chen Fei stopped and decided to confront them.
• Chen Fei raised a Ninth-Order Low-Grade Profound Array, then combined additional arrays to trap Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun in a Ninth-Order Middle-Grade Profound Array.
• Fang Changzhi used the Crimson Soul Blade to break through the formation, but Chen Fei and the Night Demon War Soldier repaired the barrier and built more arrays around the pursuers.
• Chen Fei fused the formations into a Ninth-Order Top-Grade Profound Array, suppressing Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun despite Fang Changzhi’s threat about his ties to the Amber Clan.
• Chen Fei entered the array and struck Fang Changzhi five times, knocking away his blade, breaking his protective treasure, and cutting his neck.

Chen Fei killed Fang Changzhi and Fang Xiyun inside his grand array, then examined their memories and gained the incomplete Crimson Soul Art. He learned that Fang Changzhi had a close connection to a Late-Stage Ninth-Order expert of the Amber Clan, leaving the human race and Night Race at risk of retaliation.

• Fang Changzhi died after Chen Fei drained his life force inside the Ninth-Order Top-Grade Grand Array.
• Chen Fei killed Fang Xiyun with the Qian Yuan Sword despite Fang Xiyun's threat that the Amber Clan would retaliate.
• Chen Fei used the Deceiving Heaven Art, Bronze Rune, and God-Devouring to extract the two men's memories and discovered the Crimson Soul Art.
• Liao Xingfeng worried that the powerful Amber Clan could threaten the human race and Night Race, while noting that the Niobium Clan posed less danger.
• Chen Fei learned that Fang Changzhi had a deep relationship with one of the Amber Clan's Late-Stage Ninth-Order experts.

After killing Fang Changzhi, Chen Fei and Liao Xingfeng entered the inheritance ground’s Heart Image trial to pursue the Three Heads Six Arms inheritance and other rewards. Chen Fei discovered that the trial’s heart image was intelligent and its rules had changed, then defeated it through the opening stages.

• Chen Fei dismissed the array, collected the treasures, and told Liao Xingfeng they would enter the inheritance trial in the Lower Plane.
• Chen Fei created a concealed array in the mountains and activated the Inheritance Stone, opening a doorway that he and Liao Xingfeng entered.
• A heart image resembling Chen Fei appeared and revealed that challengers could no longer admit defeat and would die if they lost.
• Chen Fei learned that the heart image could tell him about other physique inheritances after the fourth stage, then defeated its first forms with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• The heart image raised its strength to match Chen Fei’s and formed three Ninth-Order Low-Grade Grand Arrays, but Chen Fei froze it with Present Time Subordinate Rule and destroyed it.

Chen Fei chose a Body Tempering Legacy and learned about the Indestructible Golden Body, Three Heads Six Arms, and Eight Nine Arcane Art inheritances. He persuaded the Heart Image to let him pursue multiple techniques and designated Three Heads Six Arms first, before facing the increasingly difficult trials.

• The Heart Image praised Chen Fei’s strength and asked what kind of inheritance he wanted.
• Chen Fei chose a Body Tempering Legacy, and the Heart Image presented three techniques: Indestructible Golden Body, Three Heads Six Arms, and Eight Nine Arcane Art.
• The Heart Image explained the techniques’ strengths and drawbacks, including Eight Nine Arcane Art’s exceptional tempering effect and great cultivation difficulty.
• Chen Fei asked to receive the other two techniques after reaching a certain trial stage, and the Heart Image agreed.
• Chen Fei designated Three Heads Six Arms as his first technique and considered how the later trials would grow stronger.

Chen Fei advanced through the Heart Image Inheritance Ground by defeating the Heart Image in the fourth and fifth trials, earning more of the Three Heads Six Arms inheritance. In the sixth trial, he concealed his purpose behind a high-speed array setup, and the chapter ended as the Heart Image's array collided with his while Chen Fei meditated with Ninth-Order spiritual essence.

• The Heart Image gave Chen Fei the first portion of the Three Heads Six Arms inheritance and explained the trial requirements for the complete technique, Invincible Golden Body, and Eight Nine Arcane Art.
• Chen Fei used the Night Demon War Soldier and an array to defeat the Heart Image in the fourth trial, earning another portion of the inheritance.
• The Heart Image matched Chen Fei's strength for the next fight, but Chen Fei used the Space Heavenly Dao to pin it and defeat it again.
• The Heart Image asked how Chen Fei possessed the Space Heavenly Dao, and Chen Fei claimed a senior had given it to him for self-defense.
• In the sixth trial, Chen Fei burned his Essence, Qi, and Spirit Soul to move quickly, then concealed himself inside a Ninth-Order Top-Grade Profound Array as the Heart Image charged its own array at him.
• The two arrays collided, while the Night Demon War Soldier controlled Chen Fei's formation and Chen Fei sat cross-legged with a cluster of Early-Stage Ninth-Order spiritual essence.

Chen Fei fused and cultivated new techniques while defending himself from the heart image’s assault, and he completed condensing the Future Time Subordinate Rule. Through it, he glimpsed the Path to Immortality that the Ninth-Order Peak experts were waiting for.

• Chen Fei fused Sky Source Array Art with Crimson Soul Art into Soul Source Array Art, and combined Dragon Elephant Suppressing Heavens with part of Three Heads Six Arms to create Dragon Elephant Suppress Prison.
• Chen Fei simplified both techniques, crushed ninth-order spiritual essence, and cultivated them alongside Future Time Subordinate Rule while the heart image attacked his Ninth-Order Top-Grade Grand Array.
• The heart image tried to break Chen Fei’s array through a war of attrition, but Chen Fei continued absorbing insights and strengthening his physique.
• Chen Fei completed condensing Future Time Subordinate Rule and gained a clearer view of possible futures.
• Chen Fei saw a road through the fog and realized the Ninth-Order Peak experts were waiting for the Path to Immortality, which would make whoever reached its end the Ruin Realm’s true Supreme Expert.

Chen Fei advanced his techniques while the Ninth-Order Top-Grade arrays protecting him and Heart Image neared collapse. He defeated Heart Image in the seventh pass, then began the next contest with Heart Image and used an unexpected arm to crush him.

• Chen Fei cultivated Dragon Elephant Suppress Prison to the Proficient Realm and Soul Source Array Art to Great Perfection while the array formations weakened.
• After the arrays shattered, Chen Fei saw a flaw in Heart Image's attack and killed him with two sword strikes, gaining another portion of the Three Heads Six Arms cultivation method.
• Heart Image restored Chen Fei's injuries and began the next pass with Jade and Stone Burn Together, but Chen Fei overwhelmed him in close combat and cleared the seventh pass.
• Heart Image asked how long Chen Fei had cultivated, and Chen Fei answered that it had been ten thousand years.
• In the following fight, Chen Fei and Heart Image clashed while the Night Demon War Soldier battled Heart Image's avatar, then an arm emerged from behind Chen Fei, grabbed Heart Image's neck, and crushed it.

Chen Fei cleared the ninth trial of the Inheritance Ground, obtaining the complete Three Heads Six Arms cultivation method and planning to pursue Invincible Golden Body and Eight Nine Arcane Art as well. In the next trial, he revealed another hidden arm while the Heart Image pressed its advantage, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Heart Image questioned Chen Fei about his Three Heads Six Arms technique, and Chen Fei claimed it came from his own plane before demonstrating Dragon Elephant Suppress Prison.
• Chen Fei defeated Heart Image in the ninth trial with help from the Night Demon War Soldier, which revealed its own third arm and summoned three Ninth-Order Low-Grade Profound Arrays.
• Chen Fei obtained the complete Three Heads Six Arms method and planned to merge it into Dragon Elephant Suppress Prison after acquiring more inheritances.
• Heart Image began the next trial cautiously, then pressed its twenty-percent strength advantage and forced Chen Fei onto the defensive.
• Chen Fei's third arm seized Heart Image's third arm, and another arm suddenly emerged from Chen Fei's back.

Chen Fei defeated Heart Image in trials ten through fifteen, using his unusual techniques and endurance to overcome increasingly powerful opponents. He gained the complete Invincible Golden Body and most of the Eight Nine Arcane Art, and the chapter ended with him poised to complete the fifteenth trial.

• Chen Fei used his extra arms to defeat Heart Image in the tenth trial and received half of the Invincible Golden Body.
• The Night Demon War Soldier and its Ninth-Order Top-Grade Grand Array defeated Heart Image in the eleventh trial, granting Chen Fei the complete Invincible Golden Body.
• Chen Fei's Crimson Soul Heavenly Devil defeated Heart Image in the twelfth trial, and Chen Fei then used his Present Time Subordinate Rule to kill Heart Image in the thirteenth.
• Chen Fei endured the fourteenth trial by sustaining Jade and Stone Burn Together with the Panel's backups, then defeated Heart Image after its strength waned.
• Chen Fei used his stronger Future Time Subordinate Rule to read Heart Image's moves and turn the fifteenth trial in his favor, striking its shoulder and neck.

Chen Fei began the sixteenth trial against Heart Image while the Inheritance Ground shook under an outside attack. He used a Ninth-Order Top-Grade Profound Array and a hidden sword strike to defeat Heart Image, leaving him one trial away from completing the round.

• Chen Fei learned that completing the trials of five Inheritance Grounds was required for an extra reward, then sensed Ninth-Order Peak cultivators attacking the Inheritance Ground.
• Despite his unrecovered injuries, Chen Fei asked Heart Image to begin the sixteenth trial, and Heart Image charged at him with its clone and Heavenly Devil.
• Chen Fei unveiled a Ninth-Order Top-Grade Profound Array from his Space Grid, slowing Heart Image and trapping it inside.
• Heart Image burned its power and sent its clone and Heavenly Devil toward the array, but the Crimson Soul Heavenly Devil and Night Demon War Soldier held them back.
• Chen Fei appeared before Heart Image, then used the Space Grid to strike from behind while defending against Heart Image’s sword, blasting Heart Image into spiritual light.

Chen Fei left the collapsing Inheritance Ground with three powerful inheritances and received a map to a hidden resource location from Heart Image. After helping the wounded Liao Xingfeng leave the plane, Chen Fei merged his body-tempering inheritances into Dragon Elephant Return to Ruin, a technique that could eventually grant him an Immortal Body.

• Chen Fei chose to leave the Inheritance Ground, and Heart Image gave him a map before strengthening the Inheritance Grounds against the Ninth-Order Peak experts inside.
• Several Inheritance Grounds shattered, expelling cultivators, while some who emerged soon died from their injuries.
• Chen Fei found Liao Xingfeng near death, escorted him through the firmament, and sent his Night Demon War Soldier to guide him toward the exit.
• Liao Xingfeng gave Chen Fei a Jade Slip containing insights into the past aspect of the Time Subordinate Rules before departing.
• Chen Fei flew toward the location on Heart Image's map and merged Dragon Elephant Suppress Prison, Three Heads Six Arms, Invincible Golden Body, and Eight Nine Arcane Art into Dragon Elephant Return to Ruin.
• Chen Fei learned that Dragon Elephant Return to Ruin could raise his physique to Ninth-Order Peak, Dao Ancestor level, and ultimately the Immortal Body as he cultivated it.

Chen Fei learned the Past Time Subordinate Rule from Liao Xingfeng’s insights and traveled to a divine mountain where many Ninth-Order cultivators had gathered. As a strange tremor darkened the mountain, a small window appeared before Chen Fei, showing a cultivator kneeling and bowing toward him.

• Chen Fei reflected that Dragon Elephant Return to Ruin could let him surpass a Dao Ancestor’s physique, so he planned to prioritize cultivation and the technique over pursuing Powerful Heavenly Daos.
• Chen Fei studied the Jade Slip Liao Xingfeng had given him, and the Panel revealed that he had discovered the Past Time Subordinate Rule.
• Chen Fei reached the divine mountain and sensed more than a hundred Ninth-Order Supreme Realm cultivators there, including several Ninth-Order Peak experts.
• Chen Fei searched the already-opened palaces for leftover runes or cultivation methods but found nothing, then stopped short of the summit with the other cultivators.
• A strange tremor spread from the summit, darkness covered the mountain, and a small window appeared before Chen Fei with a cultivator kneeling and bowing outside it.

Chen Fei found himself cast as the Mo Xuan Artifact Spirit in a strange cultivation trial, where a new disciple named Lu Chongguang offered him ten thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals. After discovering that advice cost more crystals and that the window blocked his power, Chen Fei used the Space Heavenly Dao and Space Grid to guide Lu Chongguang through a cultivation problem.

• Chen Fei saw that each Ninth-Order Supreme Realm cultivator had been placed behind a barrier and given a window into a cultivator’s life.
• Lu Chongguang formed a contract with Chen Fei, whom he believed to be the Mo Xuan Artifact Spirit, and offered ten thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals.
• A clash at the Mountain Summit shook the divine mountain, but Sha Xiong stopped attacking the restriction, and Chen Fei had the Night Demon War Soldier accept Lu Chongguang’s crystals.
• After time accelerated outside the window, Lu Chongguang sought help with a cultivation technique before his sect entrance test, and Chen Fei learned that each word of advice cost one thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals.
• Chen Fei paid one thousand crystals and used the Space Heavenly Dao with the Space Grid to send spiritual light through the window, correcting Lu Chongguang’s cultivation.

Chen Fei helped Lu Chongguang rise through the Heaven Flame Sect’s entrance trial, where cultivators on the divine mountain could guide disciples in exchange for Top-Grade Essence Crystals. Lu Chongguang placed nineteenth and rewarded Chen Fei with 360,000 crystals, while Chen Fei realized the trials could be a profitable gamble; a year passed within the sect.

• Chen Fei confirmed that Lu Chongguang and the world beyond the window were real, then guided him from the Flesh Refining Realm to the Viscera Refining Realm.
• Lu Chongguang fought through the Heaven Flame Sect entrance trial, advancing to nineteenth place among the new disciples.
• After the trial, Lu Chongguang received 400,000 Top-Grade Essence Crystals and offered Chen Fei 360,000 of them in gratitude.
• Chen Fei took the crystals and concluded that the trials could bring substantial profits to cultivators who invested wisely, while poor results could drain their resources.
• A year passed within the Heaven Flame Sect.

Lu Chongguang entered Blood Refinement Valley with Chen Fei’s protection, gathered spirit materials, and emerged with a modest rank while earning Chen Fei a large sum of Top-Grade Essence Crystals. Over the decades that followed, Lu Chongguang advanced to the Aperture Unification Realm and continued bringing Chen Fei Primordial Stones, leaving Chen Fei with nearly eight million Top-Grade Essence Crystals in profit.

• Lu Chongguang told Chen Fei that he needed an Aperture Refining Pill from Blood Refinement Valley to break through, and Chen Fei agreed to protect him there.
• After entering Blood Refinement Valley, Lu Chongguang used his empowered shield to kill an Initial Aperture Refining Realm demon and gathered spirit materials while avoiding other cultivators.
• Lu Chongguang defeated attacking disciples from other sects with his shield, collected their Top-Grade Essence Crystals, and gave Chen Fei more than two hundred thousand of them before leaving the valley ranked seventeenth.
• Lu Chongguang returned to the Heaven Flame Sect, broke through to the Aperture Refining Realm, and gave Chen Fei one million Primordial Stones.
• Lu Chongguang later entered Demon Heaven Palace and advanced to the Peak Aperture Refining Realm, then joined other cultivators in quelling trouble at the Fallen Demon Sea after reaching the Aperture Unification Realm.
• Chen Fei received further offerings from Lu Chongguang, bringing his gains to nearly eight million Top-Grade Essence Crystals against expenses of seventeen thousand.

Lu Chongguang reached the peak of the Aperture Unification Realm but was unable to find a path to the Mountain Sea Realm. As the Heaven Flame Sect came under attack, Chen Fei urged him to fight back, and Lu Chongguang confronted the Mountain Sea Realm cultivator Jing Hegao.

• Over fifty years, Lu Chongguang cultivated to the Aperture Unification Realm Peak and asked Chen Fei for guidance on breaking through to the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Lu Chongguang planned to seek Mountain Sea Pills at Soaring Sun Market, but dozens of Mountain Sea Realm cultivators and numerous others attacked the Heaven Flame Sect.
• Lu Chongguang fled with the disciples, concealing his aura, but Jing Hegao pursued him because he was an Aperture Unification Realm Peak cultivator.
• Chen Fei threw ten thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals into the window and told Lu Chongguang to kill more Mountain Sea Realm cultivators, causing his shield to shine.
• Lu Chongguang stopped and insulted Jing Hegao, who attacked him; the Faceless Divine Shield blocked the strike as blood mist billowed.

Lu Chongguang used the Formless Shield to ambush and kill three Mountain Sea Realm cultivators, while Chen Fei gathered their Primordial Stones. After the Divine Mountain formation collapsed and Chen Fei left, a Late-Stage Ninth-Order Amber Clan expert confronted him over his gains and secrets.

• Lu Chongguang used Jing Hegao’s appearance and spiritual treasure to lure three companions into an ambush, then killed them with the Formless Shield and collected their Primordial Stones.
• A voice from the Divine Mountain announced that the formation would be broken, and Chen Fei told Lu Chongguang to leave, giving him an Essence Power Seed as they parted.
• Ninth-Order Peak cultivators broke the formation, causing the Divine Mountain to collapse and restoring Chen Fei’s perception of his surroundings.
• Chen Fei left the mountain with eighteen million Top-Grade Essence Crystals and decided to return to the Lower Plane to inspect the Inheritance Ground.
• A Late-Stage Ninth-Order Amber Clan expert approached Chen Fei, accusing him of profiting while others lost out and questioning the secrets he possessed.