Recaps

Chen Fan searched the ancient tomb for the Burning Earth Art and found the fat cultivator digging in a hidden chamber. Yuan Chuge and three Golden Core prodigies attacked Chen Fan, who charged straight into Yuan Chuge’s poisonous gas.

• Chen Fan searched the tomb chambers for the Burning Earth Chapter, breaking through a stone door with his body and moving at great speed.
• Chen Fan found the fat cultivator digging a hole and used a portrait of the Fat Daoist to test whether he recognized him.
• Three late-stage Golden Core prodigies discovered the chamber, while Yuan Chuge recognized Chen Fan and demanded to kill him.
• Yuan Chuge persuaded the three prodigies to attack Chen Fan, and they unleashed swords, talismans, lightning, and poisonous gas.
• Chen Fan deflected the swords and shattered the talismans with violet-gold sword shadows, then charged into Yuan Chuge’s poison gas.

Chen Fan survived Yuan Chuge’s poisonous mist, defeated him and the three prodigies, and killed them despite their golden resurrection marks. He then noticed that the fat cultivator had not returned from the pit and rushed down after him.

• Chen Fan emerged unharmed from the poisonous mist and wounded Yuan Chuge, then shattered the Three Talents Formation with his Array-Breaking Ruler.
• Yuan Chuge gouged out his right eyeball to summon the Red Gold Snake Emperor, but Chen Fan’s White Bone Sword devoured the blood mist and destroyed the snake phantom.
• Chen Fan killed Yuan Chuge with a violet-gold sword strike, then killed the three fleeing prodigies despite their attempts to bargain and escape.
• Chen Fan returned to the stone chamber, saw that the fat cultivator had not come back from the pit, and jumped in after him.

Chen Fan discovered that the Fat Daoist had left him a cauldron of ancient treasure blood, which contained a way to comprehend the Burning Earth Chapter. After the Fat Daoist vanished, his words led Chen Fan to understand the truth behind his rebirth.

• Chen Fan found the Fat Daoist’s note and sealed the cauldron of treasure blood in his Storage Ring.
• The Fat Daoist returned, explained that he had gotten lost, and warned Chen Fan that the tomb was about to collapse.
• Chen Fan learned that the Burning Earth Chapter could be comprehended from the treasure blood and that the tomb’s master was one of the Fat Daoist’s soul fragments.
• The Fat Daoist vanished after calling the Heaven-Burning Art a road to immortality and gifting Chen Fan the Burning Earth Chapter.
• Chen Fan reflected on the Fat Daoist’s words and understood why he had been reborn.

Chen Fan learned that the Burning chapters were tied to Fat Daoist’s scattered soul fragments and escaped the collapsing tomb through a lake, where a powerful being began to awaken. After a prodigy accused him of stealing the Burning Earth Chapter, Chen Fan prepared to attack while the other cultivators turned against him.

• Chen Fan considered Fat Daoist’s claims about the Burning chapters, Bald Bird’s shattered soul, and his own journey through time.
• As the ancient tomb collapsed, Chen Fan fled through a one-way barrier and plunged into a lake.
• Chen Fan saw a sleeping Human Emperor-level being awaken beneath the lake and hurried to the surface.
• Chen Fan emerged among the surviving cultivators, including Crown Prince Li, the mysterious woman, and the Fei Clan siblings.
• A surviving prodigy accused Chen Fan of stealing the Burning Earth Art and drew the cultivators’ attention to him.
• Chen Fan dismissed the accusation and launched a sword attack at the prodigy.

After a prodigy accused Chen Fan of taking the Burning Earth Art, exceptional prodigies and Monster Beasts descended on him, turning the lakeside into a chaotic battlefield. Chen Fan began fighting Crown Prince Li and Jian Tianmo as a whirlpool quietly formed in the lake below.

• A prodigy claimed Chen Fan had taken the Burning Earth Art, prompting exceptional prodigies to attack him.
• Jian Tianmo, Crown Prince Li, the Princess of the Kingdom of Wu's forces, Ghost Baleful Intent, and Monster Beast prodigies joined the struggle over Chen Fan.
• Jian Tianmo ordered Crown Prince Li aside, but Crown Prince Li attacked him after he refused to show respect to the Kingdom of Li.
• Jian Tianmo challenged Chen Fan and Crown Prince Li to fight him together, and the two clashed with him.
• Chen Fan formed the Heaven-Earth Disk Double Formation and used Nine-Nine Restoration to fight Crown Prince Li and Jian Tianmo.
• A tiny whirlpool appeared and began expanding in the lake beneath the battle.

Chen Fan fought Jian Tianmo and Prince Li while waiting for the lake’s vortex to swell, then drew the gathered prodigies toward the water by throwing in a golden page. The lake erupted under a majestic pressure as a powerful being was about to emerge.

• Chen Fan battled Jian Tianmo and Prince Li while cultivators watched, and the Fei siblings discussed Fei Fengxuan’s sharp battle intent and Chen Fan’s Sword Dao.
• Jian Tianmo drove back prodigies who tried to join the fight, while two descendants of ministers from the Kingdom of Wu attacked Chen Fan for the Burning Earth Art.
• Chen Fan used his domain and One Sword, Ninefold to kill the two attackers and strike Jian Tianmo, Prince Li, and a man in white, but their Spirit Treasure armor protected them.
• Chen Fan swallowed Pure Wood Essence and threw a golden page recording the Azure Dragon Lotus Hand into the lake, prompting the cultivators and prodigies to rush toward it.
• The lake boiled, a huge column of water surged upward, and a majestic pressure blanketed the area.

Chen Fan escaped as a late Spirit Refining Stage toad emerged and annihilated everyone in the secret realm with one attack before pursuing him. Outside, the guardians learned that Chen Fan had taken the Burning Earth Art and prepared to capture him when the realm closed, while suspicion fell on the Kingdom of Wu.

• Chen Fan fled as the being beneath the lake revealed itself as a late Spirit Refining Stage powerhouse and emerged as a gigantic toad.
• The toad gathered the region’s spiritual energy and killed every cultivator and living creature nearby with a single golden shockwave.
• The toad noticed the direction Chen Fan had gone and leaped after him.
• At the secret realm entrances, the guardians learned that a mid-Golden Core cultivator had taken the Burning Earth Art and that he had no golden character protecting him.
• Cultivators accused the Kingdom of Wu of plotting to take the treasure, but the Princess of the Kingdom of Wu denied the accusation.
• The guardians agreed to watch all eighty-one entrances and warned that they would act against anyone who shielded Chen Fan when he was teleported out.

Chen Fan escaped the mystic realm with help from the giant toad beast, which had been entrusted by Fat Daoist to guide him past the guarded exits. As the beast carried him through an unstable passage, Chen Fan glimpsed a terrifying ancient flood dragon before they continued onward.

• Crown Prince Li and the other cultivators waited at the mystic realm exits, ready to capture Chen Fan.
• The giant toad beast intercepted Chen Fan and explained that Fat Daoist had asked it to send him safely beyond the eighty-one exits.
• The giant toad beast opened a portal with a red pearl and swallowed Chen Fan to protect him from the unstable passage.
• Chen Fan saw a colossal flood dragon with half its face missing, and its remaining eye nearly injured him with its gaze.
• The giant toad beast shielded Chen Fan, warned him to conceal his aura, and carried him onward as the flood dragon faded into the void.

Chen Fan crossed the red vortex passage with the giant toad beast and witnessed an ancient flood dragon, a shattered Heavenly Court, and groups of ancient people and Monster Beasts drifting through the void. The giant toad beast warned him to keep the sightings secret before Chen Fan emerged from the passage and saw a village.

• The giant toad beast warned Chen Fan to stay silent as they passed a ruined Immortal Court bearing the words "Heavenly Court".
• Chen Fan saw countless ancient people and Monster Beasts drifting through the void, including a White-Robed Woman whose eyelashes quivered and an armored three-eyed man.
• At the far end of the passage, the giant toad beast told Chen Fan to treat the sights as an illusion and warned that speaking of them could bring calamity.
• The giant toad beast departed, and Chen Fan thanked it before continuing through the now-stable vortex passage.
• Chen Fan emerged into sunlight and dense spiritual energy, then froze at the sight of a village and stepped toward it.

Chen Fan returned to Windless Town and hid in Old Wu’s abandoned house to refine ancient treasure blood and seek the lost Burning Earth Chapter. After days of seclusion, he gained the Heavenly Eye Treasure Art from the Fat Daoist’s inheritance.

• Chen Fan returned to Windless Town, recalled the villagers’ fate, and settled in Old Wu’s abandoned house.
• Chen Fan concealed the house with an array and used the small cauldron of ancient treasure blood to temper his body and pursue the Burning Earth Chapter.
• Chen Fan endured the treasure blood’s violent energy and illusions as the Heaven-Burning Art refined his body.
• Chen Fan discovered that the treasure blood contained several divine abilities and treasure arts, which he began to comprehend.
• Chen Fan gained the Heavenly Eye Treasure Art through his comprehension of the Fat Daoist’s inheritance.

Chen Fan comprehended the Burning Earth Chapter and used it to absorb the earth aura of five spirit mountain ranges, bringing all five chapters of his Heaven-Burning Art to the Golden Core stage. He left Windless Town for the imperial city, carrying a straw hat that concealed his appearance.

• Chen Fan formed a false Heavenly Eye and glimpsed the Snow Studio sword art, though he could only remember several sword forms.
• Chen Fan obtained the complete Burning Earth Chapter, and the art transformed the wooden hut into stone as his Golden Core made room for it.
• Chen Fan cultivated in the small cauldron until the Burning Earth Chapter reached the initial Golden Core stage, while the Burning Fire Chapter and Burning Wood Chapter also advanced.
• Chen Fan absorbed the earth aura of five spirit mountain ranges, weakening the Kingdom of Wu's dragon vein and bringing all five chapters of his Heaven-Burning Art to the Golden Core stage.
• Chen Fan left Windless Town and bought a gauzed straw hat in an Ancient City before continuing toward the imperial city.

Chen Fan returned to the imperial city after hearing rumors about the secret realm and the blue-robed youth. He learned that Li Baimin had escaped with the Li Clan, then sought to travel to Skybend City, where the array guards demanded to see his face.

• Chen Fan heard cultivators debate whether the blue-robed youth had obtained the Burning Earth Art or died in the secret realm.
• Chen Fan learned that Crown Prince Li had brought back a divine spring and the princess of the Kingdom of Wu had returned with three Spirit Treasures.
• Chen Fan entered the imperial city in disguise and found the Li residence abandoned.
• Chen Fan learned from a stall owner that Li Baimin had fled with the Li Clan before the Human Emperors returned, while the Spirit Refining Stage expert who helped him was killed.
• Chen Fan went to the great Teleportation Array and requested passage to Skybend City.
• A Nascent Soul Realm expert ordered Chen Fan to remove his hat so the guards could see his face.

Chen Fan used the Teleportation Array in the imperial capital to escape toward Skybend City while secretly extracting the Kingdom of Wu’s dragon vein. The princess recognized him too late to stop the teleportation, and Chen Fan vanished with the stolen golden dragon.

• Chen Fan removed his hood at the Teleportation Array and paid the guards two hundred high-grade Spirit Stones, then added ten more when they demanded a gratuity.
• Chen Fan sensed the Kingdom of Wu’s dragon vein beneath the array and used the Burning Earth Chapter to draw its aura into himself.
• The Kingdom of Wu’s princess approached the array and recognized Chen Fan as he pulled a tiny golden dragon from beneath the ground.
• Chen Fan fed the array one hundred high-grade Spirit Stones and one hundred thousand mid-grade Spirit Stones, activating it before the princess could reach him.
• The Teleportation Array transported Chen Fan away, leaving the princess enraged and unable to stop him.

After stealing the Kingdom of Wu’s dragon vein, Chen Fan evaded pursuit by disguising himself and changing routes, but the Princess of Wu and Elder Liu tracked him to Heavenly River City. As Chen Fan used his little gold stone to absorb the dragon vein, the stone cracked and a powerful life aura began to emerge from within.

• The Human Emperor ordered the Princess of Wu to recover the dragon vein and Burning Earth Art, while the Princess arrested the Teleportation Array operators and pursued Chen Fan toward Skybend City.
• Chen Fan escaped Skybend City by changing his appearance, teleporting east, and then flying against the expected route to Heavenly River City.
• The Princess of Wu and three Spirit Refining Stage powerhouses lost Chen Fan’s trail, then split into groups to search for him using the Human Emperor’s golden talismans.
• The Princess of Wu and Elder Liu learned that a mid-Golden Core Realm cultivator had traveled east, searched the route, and sensed Chen Fan’s dragon vein through a golden talisman.
• Chen Fan brought out the golden dragon in his concealed room, and his little gold stone absorbed it, converting its earth aura into metal-element true essence.
• Cracks spread across the gold stone, and Chen Fan sensed a powerful life aura emerging from inside it.

Chen Fan helped the creature inside the golden stone absorb earth-element aura as he traveled toward the Eastern Wasteland, bringing it close to breaking free. Near Xiao Qingcheng, he encountered a powerful stranger and abandoned the mountain range, leaving the creature still sealed in the cracked stone.

• A living creature opened its eye inside the golden stone, and Chen Fan realized it needed the earth-element aura of many mountain ranges to escape.
• The Princess of the Kingdom of Wu and Elder Liu lost the golden talisman’s signal and searched nearby cities while Chen Fan flew past them toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• Chen Fan drained the aura from mountain ranges, and the creature revealed a second eye that seemed able to see through him.
• After taking a Teleportation Array to Xiao Qingcheng, Chen Fan judged that the creature needed the aura of three more mountain ranges to emerge.
• Chen Fan began draining a mountain range near Xiao Qingcheng, but a stranger’s powerful sigh shook the surrounding wilderness, so Chen Fan fled to another range.

A Little Golden Monkey was born from the golden stone, and Chen Fan tried to hide it before a powerful middle-aged man arrived. Xiao Tianfang took Chen Fan and the monkey away to get it milk, then revealed his name and began recounting his tragic past.

• A Little Golden Monkey emerged from the golden stone and mistook Chen Fan for its mother, demanding milk.
• Chen Fan gave the monkey a Metal-Element Stalactite and set arrays to conceal them, but a middle-aged man passed through the defenses.
• The Little Golden Monkey devoured the stalactite, and the man remarked on how extraordinary it was.
• When the monkey asked the man for milk and began to cry, he decided to take it somewhere to drink milk.
• The man carried Chen Fan and the Little Golden Monkey more than ten thousand li in an instant, told Chen Fan he was a man with a story, and introduced himself as Xiao Tianfang.

Chen Fan and the little golden monkey were taken to Xiao Qingcheng, where Xiao Tianfang’s grief and confusion erupted into violence. After the monkey briefly revealed an extraordinary power, Xiao Tianfang calmed down but forgot Chen Fan again, leaving his daughter Si Qing in tears.

• Xiao Tianfang brought Chen Fan and the little golden monkey to his manor and summoned every woman in the city to find milk for the hungry monkey.
• Xiao Tianfang’s daughter Si Qing came out, and the little golden monkey tried to pull off her clothes when she took it from Chen Fan.
• Si Qing threatened to leave home, triggering Xiao Tianfang’s sorrow before he suddenly accused Chen Fan of taking his loved ones and blasted him with a roar.
• The little golden monkey transformed the ground into a desert to cushion Chen Fan and itself, then returned to its innocent appearance.
• Xiao Tianfang regained his calm, failed to recognize Chen Fan, and walked away after telling Si Qing to call for him if anyone bullied her.
• Si Qing wept as Chen Fan realized Xiao Tianfang’s grief over love was damaging his mind.

After witnessing Xiao Tianfang’s condition, Chen Fan learned that his daughter planned to seek a Heartless Flower in Heartless Valley to make her father forget his lost love. She asked Chen Fan to join her, but he refused until the little golden monkey seemed to offer a clue about the flower.

• Xiao Tianfang’s daughter brought beast milk for the little golden monkey and warned Chen Fan to keep her father’s condition secret.
• The woman invited Chen Fan to Heartless Valley to seek a Heartless Flower that could erase Xiao Tianfang’s love and save his life.
• She explained that the flower grew from the love poison of a man and woman who died inside an illusion in the valley’s forbidden grounds.
• Chen Fan refused to risk his life for the flower, and the woman admitted that she had been foolish to expect anyone to accept the deadly trial.
• After drinking the beast milk, the little golden monkey murmured “love flower” and pointed at its chest, startling Chen Fan.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing relied on the Little Golden Monkey’s claim that it could retrieve the Heartless Flower, which Xiao Siqing needed to save her father. They traveled toward Heartless Valley, where Xiao Siqing revealed that her mother was inside.

• The Little Golden Monkey conjured a phantom of the Heartless Flower and promised it could retrieve one.
• Chen Fan agreed to go with Xiao Siqing, while refusing to let the Little Golden Monkey be put in danger.
• Chen Fan and the Little Golden Monkey stayed at the City Lord’s Manor, where Xiao Siqing said Xiao Tianfang had entered the Underground Palace to cultivate.
• Xiao Siqing led Chen Fan and the Little Golden Monkey south toward Heartless Valley, traveling for several days without using a Teleportation Array.
• The Little Golden Monkey called out to its “Grandma,” and Xiao Siqing told Chen Fan that her mother was in the valley.

Xiao Siqing revealed that her mother had become the Heartless Valley Master by erasing her feelings, then led Chen Fan and Little Golden Monkey toward the valley’s forbidden grounds. After she killed one Gold Jade Mantis, ten more surrounded them, and Chen Fan charged into battle.

• Xiao Siqing told Chen Fan that her mother had taken the Heartless Flower and cultivated the Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art to become Heartless Valley’s Valley Master.
• Xiao Siqing led Chen Fan and Little Golden Monkey into the forest, where she protected them from a Gold Jade Mantis’s ambush.
• Xiao Siqing used her sword art and poisonous pollen to trap and kill the Gold Jade Mantis, then warned Chen Fan to protect Little Golden Monkey.
• After three hours of travel, Xiao Siqing and her companions were surrounded by ten late Golden Core Gold Jade Mantises, including one nearing Nascent Soul strength.
• Chen Fan drew his sword and charged at the ten Gold Jade Mantises.

Chen Fan and Xiao Si Qing fought the Gold Jade Mantises guarding the forbidden ground of Heartless Valley, then prepared to enter it. Little Golden Monkey raced toward the entrance before they could stop it.

• Chen Fan killed the mantis leader and two others with one sword strike, then cut down another as the remaining mantises tried to flee.
• Xiao Si Qing trapped five mantises with her rings, and Chen Fan killed them while Little Golden Monkey swallowed their Golden Cores.
• Chen Fan stopped the final mantis from escaping, questioned it about who knew of their arrival, and left it trapped as a lookout at Xiao Si Qing’s suggestion.
• Xiao Si Qing warned that the forbidden ground was perilous, but Little Golden Monkey suddenly ran toward its entrance.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing entered Heartless Valley’s forbidden ground to seek the Heartless Flower that could save Xiao Tianfang. Little Golden Monkey proved immune to the entrance restriction and beckoned them toward the deadly rosy mist, where they could not yet see what awaited.

• Little Golden Monkey passed through the forbidden entrance unharmed, and Chen Fan sensed that its runes had neutralized the restriction.
• Xiao Siqing admitted that Xiao Tianfang would refuse the Heartless Flower, but vowed to make him take it even if she had to risk her life.
• Xiao Siqing opened the entrance with Heartless Valley’s hand seals, and Chen Fan followed her inside.
• Chen Fan discovered that the rosy mist blocked Divine Sense, while Xiao Siqing warned that its poison could disrupt their yin-yang energies unless they stayed within five inches of each other.
• Little Golden Monkey appeared beneath the mist and called Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing over, prompting Xiao Siqing to wonder whether it was trying to play with them.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing followed Little Golden Monkey through the Heartless Flower poison mist to a hidden golden Heartless Flower. After it bloomed, the mist and Little Golden Monkey vanished, leaving them alone in a cave as an unfamiliar desire began to stir.

• Chen Fan doubted whether he could pass the trial of love because his bonds had weakened his sword heart.
• Little Golden Monkey led Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing safely through the poison mist and past ineffective Heartless Flowers.
• After circling the area for hours, Little Golden Monkey revealed a hidden path to a golden Heartless Flower.
• The golden Heartless Flower bloomed and drew Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing's Divine Souls under its influence.
• The flower, mist, and Little Golden Monkey disappeared, and Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing felt their bodies grow hot as desire stirred.

Little Golden Monkey bit open the golden fruit beneath the Heartless Flower, revealing a phantom ancient cauldron and Samadhi True Fire that tormented it and threatened Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing. The fruit’s ripples alerted Heartless Valley, where a powerful woman recognized the Heartless Fruit and Liu Shangqing set out to investigate, while Chen Fan considered absorbing the phantom flames.

• Little Golden Monkey seized and bit the golden fruit, sending invisible ripples through the forbidden ground and into Heartless Valley.
• A powerful middle-aged woman recognized the ripples as the appearance of the Heartless Fruit and vanished toward the forbidden ground.
• An Elder ordered Liu Shangqing to lead disciples and Monster Beast servants to investigate, and Liu Shangqing flew toward the forbidden ground on a Gold Jade Mantis.
• Little Golden Monkey cracked the fruit open, releasing golden light and a phantom ancient cauldron filled with Samadhi True Fire.
• The phantom flames scorched Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing while Little Golden Monkey writhed in agony, and Chen Fan realized the flames were targeting it and considered absorbing them.

Chen Fan used the Burning Fire Chapter to devour the phantom of Samadhi True Fire, but the flames nearly killed him. As the golden fruit helped restore his fading consciousness, Qin Xian'er appeared before him and he woke.

• Little Golden Monkey endured a painful inheritance as its golden runes began to run out, while Xiao Siqing struggled to withstand the phantom flames.
• Chen Fan used the Burning Fire Chapter to draw the Samadhi True Fire phantom into himself, and the flames burned his body to charcoal.
• The golden fruit released a thread of light that helped Chen Fan’s fading obsession recover as he heard the voices of Zhang Rumeng, Chen Jingjing, and others.
• Chen Fan’s body began digesting the flames, while Little Golden Monkey and Xiao Siqing felt the pressure ease.
• Qin Xian’er appeared, touched Chen Fan’s cheek, and called him to open his eyes.
• Chen Fan woke and asked Qin Xian’er inwardly how she had come there.