Chapter Summaries

After Nan Caiming’s slaughter made the Ruin Realm’s core tense, he resolved to hunt the cultivator stealing the Space Heavenly Dao. Meanwhile, Zhao Wenxu arranged for the Feng Clan to investigate Chen Fei’s supposed supreme treasure, and Lu Xinyu entered the Profound Spirit Domain to verify Chen Fei’s cultivation.

• Nan Caiming realized he could not stop killing Ninth-Order cultivators unless he gave up the Space Heavenly Dao, so he chose to seek and kill the thief.
• Zhao Wenxu spent over a month anonymously directing information about Chen Fei’s supreme treasure to Cai Rujia of the Feng Clan.
• Cai Rujia reviewed reports that Chen Fei had rapidly advanced through the Ninth-Order and ordered his disciple Lu Xinyu to investigate.
• Lu Xinyu concealed his Aura as he traveled from the Azure Jade Sea into the Profound Spirit Domain.
• Zhao Wenxu sensed Lu Xinyu’s arrival and waited to see whether his plan would give him a chance to seize Chen Fei’s supreme treasure.

Zhao Wenxu revealed that he planned to exploit a clash between Chen Fei and Cai Rujia, relying on a black jade shard that could break laws and gravely wound Ninth-Order Peaks. Chen Fei traced the plot through the Time Rule Crystal, but could not uncover Zhao Wenxu’s trump card before Lu Xinyu reached Qiankun City and spied on him.

• Zhao Wenxu kept a black jade shard secret from the Willow Clan and believed its remaining three uses could help him kill a wounded Ninth-Order Peak and seize Chen Fei’s treasure.
• Lu Xinyu concealed his aura and slowly approached Qiankun City to confirm Chen Fei’s cultivation for Cai Rujia.
• The Time Rule Crystal warned Chen Fei of Lu Xinyu, and Chen Fei traced the Feng Clan cultivator’s past connections back to Zhao Wenxu’s scheme.
• Chen Fei learned Zhao Wenxu intended to use a fight between Chen Fei and Cai Rujia to profit, but his depleted energy prevented him from discovering Zhao Wenxu’s trump card.
• Lu Xinyu used a bell to see through Qiankun City’s defenses and located Chen Fei in the Central Great Hall.

Lu Xinyu tested Chen Fei’s strength with five Fierce Flame Birds, but Chen Fei hid his true power and killed them using arrays. Chen Fei then confronted Zhao Wenxu at the edge of the Profound Spirit Domain and accused him of leaking information to the Feng Clan.

• Lu Xinyu sent five powerful Fierce Flame Birds to attack Qiankun City and gauge Chen Fei’s cultivation.
• Chen Fei pretended to be weaker than he was, trapped the birds in Ninth-Order arrays, and killed them while Lu Xinyu watched.
• Lu Xinyu concluded that Chen Fei was exceptionally talented and left for the Azure Jade Sea to report his findings to his master.
• Zhao Wenxu waited at the edge of the Profound Spirit Domain, hoping the Feng Clan and Chen Fei would clash, then saw a Late-Stage Ninth-Order Aura depart without signs of battle.
• Chen Fei appeared beside Zhao Wenxu and accused him of passing information about Chen Fei to the Feng Clan.

Chen Fei trapped Zhao Wenxu in the Ninth-Order Supreme Black Tortoise Grand Formation rather than risk a direct attack against his unknown trump card. Zhao Wenxu used Black Jade to pierce the formation, but Chen Fei stopped his escape with Space Heavenly Dao, leaving Zhao Wenxu trapped with two uses of Black Jade remaining.

• Zhao Wenxu fled when Chen Fei confronted him, then realized Chen Fei wielded Space Heavenly Dao and suspected he had taken it from Nan Caiming.
• Chen Fei instantly deployed the Ninth-Order Supreme Black Tortoise Grand Formation around Zhao Wenxu and had the Night Demon War Soldier control it from outside.
• The Black Tortoise True Body attacked Zhao Wenxu, who used Black Jade to break through the restrictions and punch a hole through the formation.
• Chen Fei restrained Zhao Wenxu with Space Heavenly Dao before he could escape, while the formation began to recover.
• Zhao Wenxu abandoned his hopes of killing Chen Fei and obtaining the supreme treasure, then prepared to use Black Jade again to escape.

Chen Fei pursued Zhao Wenxu and killed him after trapping him in the Black Tortoise Grand Formation and foiling his desperate attacks. Meanwhile, Lu Xinyu brought Chen Fei’s information to Cai Rujia, who began investigating the human cultivator.

• Zhao Wenxu used the black jade’s power to flee, but Chen Fei caught up with him using the Space Heavenly Dao and trapped him in the Black Tortoise Grand Formation.
• Zhao Wenxu broke through the formation and attacked Chen Fei with the Black Jade Bridge, but Chen Fei evaded it.
• Zhao Wenxu sacrificed his Essence, Qi, and Spirit Soul to unleash greater power, but Chen Fei’s formations trapped him again.
• The Black Tortoise True Body defeated Zhao Wenxu, who died in Dao Dissipation; Chen Fei collected his spiritual essence and examined his Divine Soul Fragments.
• Lu Xinyu returned to the Feng Clan and gave Cai Rujia a Jade Slip containing information about Chen Fei, prompting Cai Rujia to ask about his cultivation realm.

Cai Rujia dismissed the threat posed by Chen Fei, but news of Chen Fei’s rapid cultivation spread through the Ruin Realm and drew interest from other Ninth-Order cultivators. Back in Qiankun City, Chen Fei tested Zhao Wenxu’s powerless Black Jade and finally placed it with the Divine Blessing Revival spiritual light, hoping the Panel could restore it.

• Lu Xinyu reported that Chen Fei had Early-Stage Ninth-Order cultivation and could set up a Mid-Stage Ninth-Order Grand Formation, and Cai Rujia decided not to investigate further or pursue the humans.
• Information about Chen Fei’s rapid cultivation spread through the Ruin Realm, prompting some Ninth-Order cultivators to consider seizing his secret while others worried about his combat strength.
• Chen Fei returned to Qiankun City and judged that the Space Dao Ancestor was his greatest current threat, so he focused on strengthening himself and mastering the Space Heavenly Dao Authority.
• Chen Fei tried feeding Zhao Wenxu’s Black Jade various energies and powers, but only the Time Rule made it float without restoring its black color.
• Chen Fei realized he had not tested the Panel, took out the Divine Blessing Revival spiritual light from the Space Grid, and placed the black jade inside.

Chen Fei discovered that the Space Grid could restore the Black Jade’s Law Breaking and Dao Annihilation power in ten breaths, then refined the jade and gained Zhao Wenxu’s Spirit Heart Incantation. Meanwhile, a vast red phenomenon appeared over Tianbo Ridge, destroying a cultivator who approached it, and Ni Zhongli sensed the disturbance from Solitary Illumination Island.

• Chen Fei infused the Black Jade through the Space Grid, refined it, and found he could restore its three powerful uses in ten breaths.
• Chen Fei merged Zhao Wenxu’s incomplete Spirit Heart Incantation into the Black Tortoise Sword Art and quickly cultivated the art back to Great Perfection.
• A red phenomenon appeared over Tianbo Ridge as Heaven and Earth Essence Qi surged, prompting the Crimson Clan to evacuate.
• Cultivators who approached Tianbo Ridge found the Essence Qi had reached ninth-tier levels, and one Sky Opening Realm cultivator disintegrated after reaching for the red phenomenon.
• Ni Zhongli opened his eyes on Solitary Illumination Island and looked gravely toward the disturbance.

Ni Zhongli and the other top powerhouses gathered at Tianbo Ridge to investigate a dangerous red anomaly that was pouring Heaven and Earth Essence Qi into the Ruin Realm. They could not identify it or approach it safely, and the Heavenly Daos continued to tremble.

• Ni Zhongli followed the Karma Heavenly Dao’s vague guidance to Tianbo Ridge, where he found the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi rising around a vivid red smear in the sky.
• Ni Zhongli warned Cao Wenkui away from the anomaly and gave him a Jade Pendant to seek him out at Solitary Illumination Island.
• Nan Caiming arrived, confirmed that something was forcing its way into the Ruin Realm behind the red smear, and killed the nearby Sky Opening Realm cultivators.
• Dao Ancestors, outer-domain Ninth-Order Peak powerhouses, and eight Ninth-Order Peak wraiths gathered at Tianbo Ridge to investigate the disturbance.
• Ni Zhongli and Nan Caiming failed to discern the anomaly’s nature; touching it or attacking it destroyed a Ninth-Order puppet, while the Heavenly Daos kept trembling.

After a vivid red anomaly spread across the Ruin Realm and began revealing an ancient Martial Arts Arena, Chen Fei continued cultivating while the Space Dao Ancestor’s clan hunted suspicious cultivators. Wen Zhengyi arrived in Profound Spirit Domain and ordered Chen Fei to accompany him to the Golden Lake Domain.

• Fate Dao Ancestor and the other powerful figures attacked the vivid red anomaly, but it vanished and reappeared throughout the Ruin Realm.
• Chen Fei examined the untouchable red anomaly in Profound Spirit Domain, then returned to Qiankun City to cultivate under the Time Hut.
• After half a month, an ancient Martial Arts Arena began emerging behind the red anomaly, while Chen Fei increased his Space Heavenly Dao Authority to forty percent.
• Si Yizhong ordered Wen Zhengyi to capture Chen Fei, whose rapid cultivation had attracted the clan’s suspicion.
• Wen Zhengyi reached Profound Spirit Domain, found Chen Fei near Qiankun City, and demanded that he come to the Golden Lake Domain.

Wen Zhengyi ordered Chen Fei to go to the Golden Lake Domain and demanded that he wear a Sky Locking Ring, but Chen Fei refused and fought back. Wen Zhengyi’s attack was checked by Chen Fei’s Crimson Soul Heavenly Devil, then a Black Light pierced through Wen Zhengyi as the confrontation continued.

• Wen Zhengyi told Chen Fei that he had to go to the Golden Lake Domain and threw him a Sky Locking Ring.
• Shi Ding An tried to explain their situation, but Wen Zhengyi suppressed him with his Late-Stage Ninth-Order Aura.
• Chen Fei saw through the ring’s effect and put it away instead of wearing it, prompting Wen Zhengyi to attack him and Shi Ding An.
• Chen Fei summoned the Crimson Soul Heavenly Devil, which used the Black Tortoise Sword Art to withstand Wen Zhengyi’s Heaven Reaching Sword Shadow and return its power.
• Chen Fei sent a Black Light at Wen Zhengyi, who raised his Spirit Condensing Sword and a plane phantom but was pierced through the body.

Chen Fei defeated Wen Zhengyi, sealed his surviving soul, and learned the Heavenly Gate Sword Art from his memories. Rather than flee, Chen Fei planned to impersonate Wen Zhengyi and enter the Golden Lake Domain with Shi Ding An, while a Kong Clan steward noticed Wen Zhengyi’s soul lamp flicker.

• Wen Zhengyi tried to escape with his Saint Profound Talisman, but Chen Fei used his Space Heavenly Dao Authority to stop him.
• Wen Zhengyi tried to die and alert the Kong Clan, but Chen Fei halted his suicide, destroyed his body, sealed his Remnant Soul, and damaged the Spirit Condensing Sword.
• Chen Fei read Wen Zhengyi’s memories and discovered the incomplete Heavenly Gate Sword Art as Shi Ding An watched in disbelief.
• Chen Fei told Shi Ding An they would take Qiankun City and Xian City into the Hidden Essence Bell and travel to the Golden Lake Domain, then transformed into Wen Zhengyi.
• Chen Fei merged the Heavenly Gate Sword Art with the Black Tortoise Sword Art to create the Black Tortoise Heaven Sword Art.
• A Kong Clan steward in the Golden Lake Domain Soul Lamp Hall noticed Wen Zhengyi’s soul lamp fluctuate.

Chen Fei disguised himself as Wen Zhengyi and returned to the Golden Lake Domain with Shi Ding An, intending to avoid Nan Caiming and seek resources within the Kong Clan. He entered Si Yizhong’s hall and claimed that a human had ambushed him with a strange power, leaving his disguise under scrutiny.

• A Soul Lamp Hall deacon noticed an abnormal fluctuation in Wen Zhengyi’s soul lamp and went to report it to Si Yizhong.
• Chen Fei showed Shi Ding An that the Seventy-Two Transformations could convincingly imitate a Late-Stage Ninth-Order aura, then stored Qiankun City and Xian City in the Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei transformed into Wen Zhengyi and traveled with Shi Ding An to the Golden Lake Domain, planning to use Wen Zhengyi’s status and assets to gain time and resources.
• Chen Fei entered Si Yizhong’s hall and presented a stone box containing a wisp of Black Jade Power, claiming a human had used it to ambush him.
• Si Yizhong examined the Black Jade Power and said its unfamiliar nature explained why the human had dared to resist.

Chen Fei, disguised as Wen Zhengyi, survived the Kong Clan’s scrutiny and sold Wen Zhengyi’s fiefs to gather resources for a breakthrough. He asked Si Yizhong for guidance on using the Heaven Condensing Array, and left with additional support from his master.

• Si Yizhong released Chen Fei after questioning him about Shi Ding An, then secretly ordered Yang Hong to test Wen Zhengyi’s cultivation.
• Chen Fei brought Shi Ding An to Changyang Peak and waited out the Kong Clan’s surveillance while advancing his mastery of the Space Heavenly Dao.
• Yang Hong challenged Chen Fei, who used the Black Tortoise Heaven Sword Art to match Wen Zhengyi’s expected cultivation and satisfy the Kong Clan’s scrutiny.
• Chen Fei sold one of Wen Zhengyi’s fiefs, then told Si Yizhong he wanted to reach Ninth-Order Peak and presented him with the Heaven Condensing Array diagrams.
• Chen Fei sold all of Wen Zhengyi’s remaining fiefs, gaining abundant resources, and Si Yizhong supplied additional Top-Grade Essence Crystals.

Chen Fei, disguised as Wen Zhengyi, entered the Kong Clan’s Hidden Scripture Pavilion and studied its complete Ninth-Order legacies. After finishing them all, he returned to Changyang Peak to resume cultivating with the Top-Grade Essence Crystals he had acquired.

• Rumors that Wen Zhengyi was selling his fiefs to fund a formation eased the Kong Clan Supreme Realm cultivators’ concerns.
• Chen Fei used Si Yizhong’s Jade Pendant to enter the Hidden Scripture Pavilion’s third floor and access its Ninth-Order legacies.
• Chen Fei studied all the legacies, including the eighteen Ninth-Order Supreme-Grade Legacies, and recorded their techniques on the Panel.
• The pavilion master saw Chen Fei’s approach to finding a path to Ninth-Order Peak and began studying an Inheritance Stone himself.
• Chen Fei returned to Changyang Peak, activated its formations, and prepared to use his Top-Grade Essence Crystals to increase his strength.

Chen Fei fused his inheritances to obtain the Chaotic Sky Sword Chapter and used Top-Grade Essence Crystals to advance his techniques and Heavenly Dao cultivation. After five days on Changyang Peak, he saw the dormant Martial Arts Arena manifest in the Ruin Realm.

• Chen Fei fused his inheritances and discovered the Chaotic Sky Sword Chapter, a technique that could let him condense his own dao and eventually draw on the Ruin Realm Source.
• Chen Fei simplified the Chaotic Sky Sword Chapter into the Black Tortoise Sword Art and cultivated it alongside Dragon Elephant Return to Ruin and the Clear Sky Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Fei stopped cultivating the Clear Sky Heavenly Dao before its Authority was fully mastered, then began cultivating the Drizzle Heavenly Dao to avoid revealing his identity as Wen Zhengyi.
• Chen Fei spent five days on Changyang Peak without borrowing Top-Grade Essence Crystals and continued cultivating the Space Heavenly Dao in the Time Hut.
• The Martial Arts Arena rang out and manifested in the Ruin Realm as Chen Fei looked up from his cultivation.

The Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena appeared across the Ruin Realm and offered Plane Origin to victors in deadly duels, potentially raising them to Dao Ancestor-level strength. Chen Fei and the other experts realized the arena could not be sealed and might reshape the coming struggle for the Path to Immortality; they were left wondering how strong its opponents would be.

• Chen Fei and the Kong Clan Supreme Realm experts read the arena’s stele and learned that victors could gain Plane Origin while losers faced death and Dao Dissipation.
• Chen Fei and many other experts suspected the Extraterritorial Heavenly Devils sought the Ruin Realm’s qualification for immortality, and Chen Fei considered whether the ultimate prize might be mastery of the realm.
• The Dao Ancestor-level experts recognized that the arena had manifested throughout the Ruin Realm and could not be sealed off.
• The Ninth-Order cultivators considered entering the arena to strengthen themselves for the Path to Immortality, but wondered how powerful their opponents would be.

The Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena revealed rules that sealed outside items and Heavenly Dao augmentation, while matching opponents’ cultivation realms. Nan Caiming sent the imprisoned Ran Yanguan to test the arena, and Ran Yanguan entered as the first challenger.

• A second stone stele explained that fighters could rely only on their own power, and that opponents with Ninth-Order cultivation would be matched to the challenger’s realm.
• Nan Caiming considered entering the arena to win Plane Origin and strengthen his Derivation Heavenly Dao, but chose not to risk his life testing it.
• Nan Caiming ordered Si Yizhong to send an imprisoned outsider to the arena, and Si Yizhong brought Ran Yanguan before him.
• Si Yizhong removed Ran Yanguan’s seals and told him the arena offered a chance to change his fate.
• Ran Yanguan entered the arena, drawing the attention of the figures above it and the Ninth-Order powerhouses watching across the Ruin Realm.

Ran Yanguan faced Ning Jisheng in the Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena and learned how outside cultivators sought the Path to Immortality and entry to the Ruin Realm. Ning Jisheng revealed that the arena was recruiting ninth-rank experts to serve it, but its chance to leave the plane depended on whether a realm lord appeared first.

• Ran Yanguan tested the arena's rules and realized that drawing on the Ruin Realm's Heavenly Dao would trigger punishment, so he refrained.
• Ning Jisheng of the Mystic Feather World arrived and told Ran Yanguan that the ninth order was only a foundational realm in his world.
• Ning Jisheng explained that outside cultivators entered planes like the Ruin Realm to seek the chance to become a realm lord, using the Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena for equivalent exchange.
• Ning Jisheng described ways for Ruin Realm cultivators to reach the Mystic Feather World, including serving the arena for ten thousand years while the plane had no realm lord.
• Ning Jisheng revealed that he had signed a contract with the arena and was recruiting ninth-rank experts for its faction, which aimed to claim the Ruin Realm or gather talented cultivators.

Ning Jisheng gave Ran Yanguan Plane Origin instead of making him fight, and Ran Yanguan refined it to become a new Dao Ancestor with control of the Thunder Heavenly Dao. After Ran Yanguan escaped the Kong Clan, Si Yizhong entered the Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena to investigate and was killed in a duel.

• Ning Jisheng offered Ran Yanguan Plane Origin and the chance to sign a contract with the Martial Arts Arena rather than fight a life-and-death duel.
• Ran Yanguan refined the Plane Origin in the arena, broke through to Dao Ancestor-level, and strengthened the Thunder Heavenly Dao into a new Powerful Heavenly Dao.
• Ran Yanguan confronted Nan Caiming and the Kong Clan, then vanished before they could stop him.
• Si Yizhong entered the Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena to find out what was happening and was fatally defeated in under fifteen minutes.

After Si Yizhong and several other Ruin Realm cultivators died in the Ten Thousand Realms Martial Arts Arena, Chen Fei considered challenging it under its same-stage rules. He left the arena without fighting and approached a Kong Clan Supreme Realm expert to borrow Top-Grade Essence Crystals.

• A challenger killed Si Yizhong, and Nan Caiming realized the arena’s fighters posed a serious threat even to him.
• Ning Jisheng offered same-stage opponents to draw in cultivators below Ninth-Order Peak, and Zhuang Shanghua accepted the challenge.
• Ou Daoqi defeated and killed Zhuang Shanghua, while three other Mid-Stage Ninth-Order cultivators waiting nearby also entered the arena and died.
• Chen Fei considered challenging the arena but worried that revealing his strength would expose Wen Zhengyi’s identity and provoke Nan Caiming.
• Chen Fei flew to a Kong Clan Supreme Realm expert and asked Brother You to lend him Top-Grade Essence Crystals.