Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei passed the Seventh-Rank Pill Refiner assessment and developed a new Flying Mausoleum Pill recipe that produced pills with a complete Pill Pattern. Shi Changji and Ou Yunlian learned of his success and planned to test him and try to obtain the recipe.

• Chen Fei earned his Seventh-Rank Pill Refiner Jade Pendant after refining a Flying Mausoleum Pill with half a Pill Pattern, but chose to improve his recipe before submitting it to the Alliance task.
• Shi Changji learned that Chen Fei had matched his pill result and had not submitted a recipe, while Ou Yunlian advised against killing him and proposed testing him for a chance to learn his recipe.
• Chen Fei developed a new recipe in less than three hours and successfully refined three Flying Mausoleum Pills, each with a complete Pill Pattern.
• Chen Fei tested one pill and found that its medicinal power was over forty percent stronger and had few impurities, then decided to deliver the recipe to the Pill Refiner Alliance the next day.

Chen Fei refined a Flying Mausoleum Pill with a complete Pill Pattern and proved his method to the Pill Refiner Alliance. After learning that he could choose how to sell the recipe, he asked to exchange it for the alliance’s Thousand Thread Art.

• Chen Fei spotted an assassin infiltrating his courtyard, wounded him with poisoned arrows, and refused to pursue when the assassin fled.
• The assassin reported that Chen Fei had discovered him immediately and that the poisoned arrows had injured him.
• Chen Fei presented Tu Jilin with a Flying Mausoleum Pill bearing a complete Pill Pattern and demonstrated that he could reproduce it before several pill refiners.
• Wei Xingshan verified Chen Fei’s Pill Recipe and explained that Chen Fei could sell it outright or receive a share of the proceeds.
• Chen Fei asked whether he could exchange the Pill Recipe for the Pill Refiner Alliance’s Thousand Thread Art.

Chen Fei exchanged a pill recipe for the first two layers of the Thousand Thread Art and spent the following days preparing for the Qi Yuan Pill task and an upcoming trip to a Secret Realm. When Zeng Jing'an threatened him to surrender the pill and someone shot down his message to Feng Xiupu, Chen Fei decided to send word through the Pill Refiner Alliance instead.

• Chen Fei traded a pill recipe to Wei Xingshan for the first two layers of the Thousand Thread Art.
• Chen Fei refined pills to earn money, fused the Thousand Thread Art with the Tranquil Source Incantation, and prepared for the Secret Realm and the Qi Yuan Pill task deadline.
• Zeng Jing'an asked Chen Fei to sell him the Qi Yuan Pill, then threatened him after Chen Fei refused.
• Chen Fei sent a Messenger Pigeon to Feng Xiupu, but an arrow shot it down before it could reach the sect.
• Chen Fei went to the Pill Refiner Alliance and asked Qin Jinglan to post a mission delivering a verbal message to Feng Xiupu.

Chen Fei stayed at the Pill Refiner Alliance after learning that Feng Xiupu could not be reached, while the Zeng Family plotted to keep Feng Xiupu away and seize Chen Fei’s Qi Yuan Pill. The chapter ended with Chen Fei considering lodging inside the Alliance for protection.

• Zeng Guanwen learned that Chen Fei had sent a message to Feng Xiupu through the Pill Refiner Alliance and decided the message could not be intercepted.
• Zeng Guanwen sent word to lure Feng Xiupu to Luya Mountain with the Refining Spirit Chant as payment, leaving Zeng Jing'an to deal with Chen Fei and the Qi Yuan Pill.
• Feng Xiupu met Zeng Guanwen at Luya Mountain and agreed to help hunt a Demon Beast in exchange for the Refining Spirit Chant, which he intended to pass on to his disciple.
• Chen Fei learned at the Alliance that Feng Xiupu was outside the sect and his message might take two days to arrive.
• Chen Fei asked Qin Jinglan about lodging inside the Alliance and realized he could afford its ten Contribution Points per day guest room.

Chen Fei avoided the schemes surrounding the Qi Yuan Pill by moving into the Pill Refiner Alliance, then won the pill and rejected an attempt to turn him against Feng Xiupu. Zeng Guanwen returned to learn that the Zeng Family had failed to obtain the pill and would soon have to face Feng Xiupu.

• Chen Fei rented a hot-spring courtyard inside the Pill Refiner Alliance, and Chi Defeng stayed in a guest room there.
• Zeng Jing'an learned that Chen Fei and Chi Defeng were inside the Alliance and gave up trying to seize the Qi Yuan Pill.
• Chen Fei won the Flying Mausoleum Pill task, received the Qi Yuan Pill from Wei Xingshan, and dismissed Tu Jilin's message urging him to sell it instead of giving it to Feng Xiupu.
• Chen Fei resolved to strengthen himself so that others could not bully him over valuable possessions.
• Zeng Guanwen returned to Immortal Cloud City and learned from Zeng Jing'an that the Zeng Family had failed to get the Qi Yuan Pill.

Chen Fei gave Feng Xiupu the Qi Yuan Pill, helping him recover his Aperture Refining Realm cultivation, and prepared for the Four Sects Secret Realm trial. After buying a powerful bow and returning to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, Chen Fei joined Feng Xiupu and Guo Linshan at the Martial Arts Arena as the trial approached.

• Chen Fei handed Feng Xiupu the Qi Yuan Pill, and Feng Xiupu recovered his Aperture Refining Realm cultivation the next day.
• Zeng Jing'an resented Chen Fei for giving the pill to Feng Xiupu and planned to confront him in the Four Sects Secret Realm.
• Chen Fei stayed in the Pill Refiner Alliance, cultivated the Thousand Source Incantation and Refining Spirit Chant, and improved his strength while preparing for the trial.
• Chen Fei bought the strongest bow in a weapon shop after demonstrating that he could draw it with the help of his giant strength trait.
• Chen Fei returned to the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, learned Feng Xiupu had visited the Zeng Family, and went with Feng Xiupu and Guo Linshan to the Martial Arts Arena.

Chen Fei and the other disciples gathered for the Four Sects Secret Realm trial, where they had to collect five anonymous Iron Tags to qualify for the true inheritance. The sect leaders opened the realm despite sensing an unusual change, and Chen Fei entered with Feng Xiupu’s warning to be cautious.

• Wu Guangyin explained that each True Inheritance Seed would receive an anonymous Iron Tag and need five tags to qualify, then ordered the disciples to set out for the secret realm.
• Feng Xiupu warned Guo Linshan and Chen Fei not to risk too much for the tags, since peak Viscera Refining Realm cultivators could dominate the lawless trial.
• The Yuan Chen Sword Sect arrived at the valley and met Pu Yundong, who recognized Feng Xiupu’s restored cultivation and offered to have his disciples look after Chen Fei and Guo Linshan.
• The Long Rainbow Sect arrived with Zhao Shulong, followed by Sinking Water Pavilion led by Sun Yinying, and the four sect leaders prepared to open the realm.
• Wu Guangyin, Zhao Shulong, and Sun Yinying sensed that the secret realm’s aura had changed, but they agreed with Pu Yundong to proceed with the trial.
• Feng Xiupu warned Chen Fei and Guo Linshan that the changes might be significant, and the disciples entered the secret realm.

Chen Fei entered the Secret Realm, found unusually vigorous growth and abundant herbs, and avoided the dangerous Half Bottle Mountain. After Pan Baoxue tried to draw an ape Demon Beast toward him, Chen Fei escaped the beasts and suspected that the Secret Realm’s changes had a hidden cause.

• Chen Fei arrived alone in the Secret Realm, found a thirty-year-old Paris Herb, and used a Twin Stone to try to locate Guo Linshan.
• Two Sinking Water Pavilion Disciples tried to steal a Dreamlike Lotus, but a Demon Beast dragged them away and killed them.
• Three travelers celebrated escaping after a Yuan Chen Sword Sect disciple died, then were suddenly killed by an unseen threat that absorbed their blood.
• Chen Fei avoided Half Bottle Mountain, gathered several herbs, and noted that the Secret Realm seemed to hold unusually plentiful resources.
• Pan Baoxue tried to lead an advanced First Tier ape Demon Beast toward Chen Fei, who warned him off with an arrow and refused his offered herb.
• More than a dozen ape Demon Beasts appeared, forcing Chen Fei to flee; he saw some of them go for Pan Baoxue’s discarded herb and suspected it was involved.

Chen Fei took two Iron Tags from near the Scarlet Fruit Tree, then was confronted by the hidden Qu Jintai, who demanded one. Chen Fei exposed Qu Jintai with an arrow, but Qu Jintai escaped into hiding again as Chen Fei vanished from the clearing.

• The Scarlet Fruit Tree killed two Viscera Refining Realm Martial Artists and five Marrow Refining Realm Martial Artists with its branches while Chen Fei escaped its reach.
• Chen Fei decided to risk retrieving the Iron Tags and Scarlet Fruits, then used two arrows to hook two Iron Tags and pull them away from the python and tree.
• An unseen voice demanded one of Chen Fei's Iron Tags, but Chen Fei refused and shot Qu Jintai out of his hiding place with an arrow.
• Qu Jintai used his Wind Shadow Illusion Art to evade Chen Fei's next arrow and disappeared again.
• Chen Fei assessed Qu Jintai's concealment technique and vanished from where he stood, while Qu Jintai watched from the shadows and felt relieved.

Chen Fei used a quiet arrow to snatch one Scarlet Fruit from the dangerous tree and fled as the python pursued him. He escaped to a cave for the night, hid his Iron Tags in his Space Grid, and prepared to refine the fruit.

• Qu Jintai hid from Chen Fei after nearly being killed by his arrow, while Chen Fei set aside the search for him and considered his Iron Tags.
• Chen Fei discovered that the Iron Tags emitted a signal when gathered and suspected they could reveal their holders to one another.
• Chen Fei used the Jade Pendant to silence three arrows and shot one Scarlet Fruit free, while the Scarlet Fruit Tree destroyed the other two arrows.
• The python chased Chen Fei, who retrieved the arrow and fruit before fleeing until the pursuit faded.
• Chen Fei found a cave, checked it for danger, put his two Iron Tags in the wooden cabinet inside his Space Grid, and prepared to refine the Scarlet Fruit.

Chen Fei safely absorbed a mutated Scarlet Fruit and greatly advanced his Marrow Refining cultivation, then set out to observe the Scarlet Fruit Tree again. Elsewhere, Guo Linshan escaped a giant earthworm, while Yu Doushan killed the injured Kuang Dingbo and revealed a monstrous nature.

• Chen Fei tested the Scarlet Fruit’s juice, endured its destructive heat with Suppress Dragon Elephant, and spent five days refining the fruit, raising his Marrow Refining progress from ten percent to forty-five percent.
• Guo Linshan escaped after a giant earthworm swallowed three of the martial artists traveling with him and feared for Chen Fei’s safety.
• Yu Doushan served Kuang Dingbo rabbit meat, then killed him with a heart-wrenching attack and revealed rabbit-like red eyes.
• Chen Fei decided to approach the Scarlet Fruit Tree and observe it from a distance, but a colossal creature’s approach made him feel targeted before he saw the tree.

Chen Fei failed to approach the Scarlet Fruit Tree again and traveled southwest, gathering medicinal herbs until the Twin Stone pointed him toward Guo Linshan. He found Guo Linshan battling Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan, who had ambushed him over a Thousand Rock Grass and planned to use him to investigate a dangerous pool containing a Dreamlike Lotus.

• Chen Fei realized the Scarlet Fruit Tree could sense him despite his concealed Aura, abandoned the Scarlet Fruits, and left the dense forest while avoiding the python.
• Chen Fei headed southwest, collected more than a dozen medicinal herbs, and stored them in his wooden cabinet.
• The Twin Stone briefly reacted, and Chen Fei followed its signal to Guo Linshan.
• Guo Linshan accused Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan of ambushing him after they found a Thousand Rock Grass, while the two pressed their attack.
• Yu Peiyan and Sun Zonghai discussed throwing the badly wounded Guo Linshan into a dangerous pool to investigate the Dreamlike Lotus.
• Guo Linshan, still alive despite his injuries, mocked Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan as they made plans for him.

Chen Fei intervened as Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan were overpowering Guo Linshan, first suppressing them with archery and then defeating Yu Peiyan in close combat. Sun Zonghai fled, leaving Chen Fei with the badly wounded Guo Linshan and the Thousand Rock Grass still nearby.

• Sun Zonghai continued attacking Guo Linshan while Yu Peiyan waited to capture him alive and take him to the pool.
• Chen Fei appeared and used arrows to stop Yu Peiyan and Sun Zonghai from advancing, forcing Sun Zonghai to try to leave with Guo Linshan's bundle.
• Yu Peiyan used Returning Wind Rapid Movement to reach Chen Fei, while Guo Linshan blocked Sun Zonghai from attacking him.
• Chen Fei resisted Yu Peiyan's charm art, blocked her dagger with a sword shield, and wounded her with a sword strike.
• Yu Peiyan collapsed with a fatal wound, and Sun Zonghai fled from Chen Fei.

Chen Fei rescued Guo Linshan from Sun Zonghai and Yu Peiyan, then helped him recover in a cave while learning about the Aperture Breaking Pill and gaining strength from Thousand Rock Grass. On the tenth day in the Secret Realm, their Iron Tags led them toward a water pool where more than twenty people had gathered around a Dreamlike Lotus.

• Sun Zonghai fled using the Ten Scenes of Heavenly Lake, while Chen Fei killed Yu Peiyan and chose to save the gravely injured Guo Linshan.
• Chen Fei treated Guo Linshan, took Yu Peiyan's Iron Tag, and brought him back to a cave; Guo Linshan later woke and gave Chen Fei the Iron Tag.
• Guo Linshan explained that the sect awarded an Aperture Breaking Pill to True Inheritance Disciples and offered six thousand Contribution Points for Thousand Rock Grass.
• Guo Linshan and Chen Fei ate the Thousand Rock Grass, and Chen Fei's breakthrough limit fell as his cultivation progress rose past fifty percent.
• Three days later, Guo Linshan had recovered, and the Iron Tags led him and Chen Fei toward a water pool where more than twenty people had gathered around a Dreamlike Lotus.

Chen Fei and Guo Linshan headed toward a pool to seek the Dreamlike Lotus, while a group of cultivators prepared to lure the Demon Beast ashore and claim it. After Chen Fei escaped an ambush led by Fu Zhaoxing, the pair reached the pool and found the fight already underway.

• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan set out for the pool after deciding to seek the Dreamlike Lotus and Iron Tags.
• Jiao Xiangyuan, Chai Xian-jun, and the others agreed to drag the Demon Beast from the pool, with Nie Quan demanding a share for taking the lead.
• Chen Fei sensed Fu Zhaoxing and his hidden companions, shot an arrow to expose Fu Zhaoxing, and escaped with Guo Linshan before they could complete their ambush.
• Fu Zhaoxing struck Qu Jintai for letting his excitement reveal the group’s presence and warned him not to make the same mistake again.
• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan skirted the ambushers and reached the pool, where Nie Quan was pulling the Demon Beast’s tongue while the others fought.

Nie Quan, Jiao Xiangyuan, Chai Xian-jun, Chen Fei, and the other martial artists fought together to kill a Poison Toad guarding the Dreamlike Lotus. The Poison Toad died, and Jiao Xiangyuan recognized Chen Fei as Feng Xiupu’s disciple.

• Nie Quan dragged the Poison Toad from the pool, revealing a First Tier Peak Demon Beast with three deadly tongues.
• The Poison Toad’s tongues killed several Marrow Refining Realm Martial Artists, while Chai Xian-jun and the others helped fend off its attacks.
• Jiao Xiangyuan called the newcomers into the fight, and Chen Fei joined Guo Linshan before piercing the Poison Toad’s back with his arrows.
• The Poison Toad severed its tongues and unleashed a cloud of concentrated poison, but Jiao Xiangyuan and Nie Quan blocked its escape.
• Nie Quan hurled the Poison Toad back, and Chai Xian-jun pierced its head with his spear; the martial artists then killed it.
• Jiao Xiangyuan approached Chen Fei and recognized him as Feng Xiupu’s disciple.

Chen Fei and the others defeated the Poison Toad and harvested the Dreamlike Lotus, but Chen Fei sensed something wrong with the plant’s seeds. After testing one with a Mind Skill and suffering a mental blow, he grabbed Guo Linshan and fled.

• Jiao Xiangyuan invited Chen Fei and Guo Linshan to travel with his group, but Chen Fei said he would consider it.
• The group tested the Dreamlike Lotus with a mountain deer, then Nie Quan approached it and harvested the plant without apparent incident.
• Jiao Xiangyuan and Chai Xian-jun distributed the Dreamlike Lotus among the group, and several people swallowed their Lotus Seeds.
• Chen Fei stopped Guo Linshan from eating his seeds, sealed their share in a jade box, and attacked a crushed Lotus Seed with a Mind Skill.
• The Lotus Seed struck Chen Fei’s mind hard enough to make him bleed, and he shouted for everyone to run as he fled with Guo Linshan.

Chen Fei broke free of the Dreamlike Lotus’s illusion and saved himself and several martial artists from its mind control. He left with Guo Linshan and returned to their cave, intending to study how to consume the mutated Lotus Seeds and Lotus Leaves.

• Chen Fei sensed something was wrong, dragged Guo Linshan away, and prompted Jiao Xiangyuan and the others to follow.
• The Lotus Seeds and Lotus Leaves transformed into poisonous toads, while the martial artists left behind mutated and plunged into the pool.
• Nie Quan realized the Dreamlike Lotus had manipulated their emotions and replaced the Demon Core with a stone, and the Lotus reappeared unharmed.
• Jiao Xiangyuan invited Chen Fei to travel with his group, but Chen Fei declined and departed with Guo Linshan.
• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan returned to their cave, where Chen Fei took out the Lotus Seeds and Lotus Leaves to study how to eat them.

Chen Fei planned to neutralize the dangerous remnants in the Dreamlike Lotus seeds and leaves, while Sun Zonghai was captured and transformed by the monstrous Yu Doushan. On Half Bottle Mountain, Shen Fengxiu found the Spiritual Material she hoped would let her break through to the Aperture Refining Realm, unaware that her hairpin was reacting violently.

• Chen Fei told Guo Linshan he planned to treat the lotus seeds and leaves with medicinal liquid so they could be eaten safely.
• Sun Zonghai, still weakened from escaping Chen Fei, resolved to find allies and seek revenge for Yu Peiyan.
• Yu Doushan entered Sun Zonghai's cave, immobilized him, and let a blood-eyed rabbit merge with him as more than a dozen crimson-eyed martial artists gathered outside.
• Yu Doushan emerged with Sun Zonghai following expressionlessly and led the group toward another Iron Tag.
• Shen Fengxiu refused her Junior Sister's plea to leave Half Bottle Mountain and continued searching for Spiritual Material that could help her break through.
• Shen Fengxiu recognized the Spiritual Material nearby and walked toward it, unaware that her hairpin was trembling violently.

Chen Fei and Guo Linshan used a medicinal mixture to safely consume the Dreamlike Lotus fragments, greatly increasing their Mind Power. After driving off Fu Zhaoxing’s group, they saw the group racing back with scarlet-eyed pursuers behind them.

• Chen Fei prepared a medicinal mixture, neutralized the Lotus Seeds and Leaves, and swallowed them after confirming they were safe.
• Guo Linshan swallowed his three Lotus Seeds, and Chen Fei consumed the remaining Lotus Seeds and Leaves as well.
• After a day of recovery, Chen Fei found his Mind Power had increased by around thirty percent, while Guo Linshan also felt his Mind Power grow.
• Chen Fei detected Fu Zhaoxing and five others hiding nearby, then forced them into the open with arrows and made them retreat.
• Chen Fei and Guo Linshan saw Fu Zhaoxing’s group charging back toward them with many scarlet-eyed creatures behind them.