Recaps

Chen Fan remained gravely burned and unable to respond as Qin Xian'er watched over him. Meanwhile, Heartless Valley searched its forbidden grounds, and the Valley Master told Cai Teng that the Heartless Fruit had appeared and might let him inherit the True Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art.

• Qin Xian'er placed a hand on Chen Fan's charred cheek and asked if he was all right, but he could not answer.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Heartless Valley disciple freed a Gold Jade Mantis and ordered the disciples to search the forbidden grounds and the mantises to guard its entrance.
• The Valley Master watched Heartless Valley disciples enter the forbidden grounds, then summoned Cai Teng and told him she had sensed the Heartless Fruit's aura.
• The Valley Master explained that the Heartless Fruit could create a trial of emotion and might allow Cai Teng, whose Cai Clan bloodline was concentrated, to inherit his ancestor's art.
• The Valley Master told Cai Teng that inheriting the True Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art could give him a chance to become number one when the Great Prodigy Battlefield opened in two years.

Chen Fan resisted the golden fruit’s illusion of a peaceful life with Qin Xian’er and broke free from the Samadhi True Fire’s trial. He emerged reborn with stronger sword intent, a phantom of Samadhi True Fire, and his Burning Fire Chapter at peak late Golden Core.

• Cai Teng questioned whether the Heartless Fruit could summon his clan’s ancestor, and the beautiful middle-aged woman said it could summon even divine artifacts’ shadows and should be able to summon the ancestor.
• Heartless Valley disciples entered the forbidden ground in pairs, using yin and yang energies to shield themselves from the rosy mist.
• Chen Fan nearly accepted the peaceful life offered by the Qin Xian’er before him, but his sword heart awakened and helped him recognize the illusion.
• Chen Fan refused to abandon either the Sword Immortal Path or those bound to him by fate, then broke the illusion and regenerated his body.
• Chen Fan awoke to find Little Golden Monkey asleep and Xiao Siqing recovering, while he gained stronger Nirvana Sword Intent, a firmer realm of Life and Death Reincarnation, a phantom of Samadhi True Fire, and peak late Golden Core cultivation.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing survived the Heartless Flowers’ poison and discovered that the Little Golden Monkey’s eyes had transformed after the Samadhi True Fire ordeal. They escaped the sealed cave with the golden Heartless Flower, but Heartless Valley’s people were approaching.

• Chen Fan noticed the poison and rosy mist had vanished and realized the Little Golden Monkey had led them into a sealed cave.
• Chen Fan saw the Little Golden Monkey’s golden eyes and suspected it had gained Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils.
• The Little Golden Monkey saw the Samadhi True Fire in Chen Fan’s dantian, attacked him, then calmed down when he contained the flames.
• Xiao Siqing woke, and Chen Fan concealed how they had escaped while she stored the golden Heartless Flower.
• The Little Golden Monkey sensed people behind the cave wall, and Xiao Siqing realized the people of Heartless Valley had found them.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing hid in a cave within Heartless Valley’s forbidden ground while the Valley Master and Cai Teng searched for the Heartless Fruit. After the Valley Master confronted them and Cai Teng attacked Chen Fan, she recognized the Nine Palaces Dao intent in his sword strike and immobilized him with her domain, forcing him to invoke Reincarnation.

• Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing cultivated in seclusion for three days, then learned from nearby disciples that the Holy Son and the Valley Master were searching the forbidden ground for the Heartless Fruit.
• Chen Fan recalled that the golden fruit’s ripples could have drawn the searchers and chose to keep hiding with Xiao Siqing for several dozen more days.
• The Valley Master and Cai Teng entered the forbidden ground, and Little Golden Monkey opened a hidden barrier to reveal Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing.
• The Valley Master demanded the Heartless Fruit, but Xiao Siqing refused to hand it over, while Chen Fan said the fruit had vanished.
• Cai Teng attacked Chen Fan, who shattered his flower-of-love technique with a sword strike; the Valley Master then recognized the Nine Palaces Dao intent and trapped Chen Fan with her domain.
• Chen Fan activated his Reincarnation intent to resist the Valley Master’s killing pressure.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing faced the Heartless Valley Master, who attacked them after demanding the golden Heartless Flower. As Chen Fan prepared to fight back despite his grave injuries, Xiao Siqing shielded him, but an angry voice intervened and destroyed the Passion Flower.

• Chen Fan was badly wounded by the Heartless Valley Master's first strike, while Xiao Siqing explained that they had found only a golden Heartless Flower and refused to hand it over because she needed it to save her father.
• The Heartless Valley Master trapped Chen Fan in her domain, but his Reincarnation, Life and Death intent briefly broke her hold before her Heartless Flower shattered his Taiji Diagram and further wounded him.
• Chen Fan used the Burning Wood Chapter to cling to life and decided to retaliate against the Heartless Valley, while Holy Son Cai Teng recognized him as a potential future threat.
• Xiao Siqing stepped in front of Chen Fan and begged the Heartless Valley Master to kill her too, so the woman sent her Passion Flower to kill them both.
• An angry roar sounded and destroyed the Passion Flower before it could strike Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing.

Xiao Tianfang confronted Ji Qingyue in Heartless Valley while Xiao Siqing tried to protect Chen Fan and offered the golden Heartless Flower. Xiao Tianfang sent his daughter away, exposing Chen Fan as he emerged cocooned in silken threads with an aura linked to the Divine Silkworm Clan.

• Xiao Tianfang arrived unharmed by the love poison and broke Ji Qingyue’s barrier to protect Xiao Siqing and Chen Fan.
• Ji Qingyue demanded the golden Heartless Flower and refused to let Chen Fan leave, citing his strong Heartless Fruit aura.
• Xiao Siqing offered Ji Qingyue the flower but refused to abandon Chen Fan, while Chen Fan secretly formed hand seals and gathered a terrifying baleful aura.
• Xiao Tianfang sent Xiao Siqing through his bronze gate to keep her safe, leaving Chen Fan exposed as silken threads covered him like a cocoon.
• Xiao Tianfang and Ji Qingyue recognized the cocoon’s aura as belonging to the Divine Silkworm Clan.

Chen Fan unleashed the black coffin’s pressure during his escape from Heartless Valley, devastating much of the valley before he and Xiao Tianfang vanished through the bronze gate. Ji Qingyue was left furious, while Cai Teng discovered a remnant of Heartless Fruit and looked ahead to meeting Chen Fan again on the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield.

• Chen Fan used the Divine Silkworm Seal to open the black coffin, releasing the pressure of an Integration Realm corpse as Xiao Tianfang escaped through the bronze gate.
• Ji Qingyue raised the Sky-Prop Banner to protect the forbidden ground, rebounding the coffin’s pressure toward Heartless Valley.
• Chen Fan closed the coffin and escaped with Xiao Tianfang through the bronze gate as it collapsed into tribulation ash.
• The rebounding pressure devastated half of Heartless Valley, killing its Golden Core Realm and lower disciples and severely injuring Nascent Soul Realm disciples.
• Ji Qingyue sacrificed the Sky-Prop Banner and lost the forbidden ground’s accumulated rosy mist before vanishing in fury.
• Cai Teng found a remnant of Heartless Fruit and vowed to meet Chen Fan on the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield two years later.

Chen Fan, Xiao Tianfang, and Xiao Siqing escaped Ji Qingyue and traveled from the Southern Continent to the Eastern Wasteland. After they settled in an inn, Xiao Tianfang summoned Chen Fan for a private conversation about the Divine Silkworm Seal and the black coffin.

• Xiao Tianfang rescued Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing after Chen Fan’s Great Dao was shattered, though he could not heal the injury to Chen Fan’s origin.
• Xiao Siqing offered Xiao Tianfang the golden love flower, but he refused it and hurried them away before Ji Qingyue could catch up.
• Xiao Tianfang used a black bronze door to take the three to an Ancient City, where Chen Fan noticed its runes resembled ones from the Fat Daoist’s secret realm.
• Chen Fan followed Xiao Tianfang and Xiao Siqing through a Teleportation Array to a hidden landing point in the Eastern Wasteland, hoping to reunite with Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth.
• After night fell, Xiao Tianfang left the inn and summoned Chen Fan to meet him atop a tower, where Chen Fan expected him to ask about the Divine Silkworm Seal and the black coffin.

Chen Fan left Xiao Tianfang and Xiao Siqing, then traveled into the wilderness to recover from his injury to the Great Dao. After seven days of cultivation, he made little progress and discovered that Little Golden Monkey had stolen spirit herbs and a thousand-year-old peach from a group of cultivators, who were chasing it toward his cave.

• Xiao Tianfang warned Chen Fan to leave because the Divine Silkworm Clan might pursue him, and Chen Fan asked for directions to Bi Fang City before departing with Little Golden Monkey.
• Xiao Siqing worried about Chen Fan's departure, while Xiao Tianfang mistakenly believed she had suffered at his hands and tried to chase him down.
• Chen Fan flew for three days and nights, then rested in a cave and spent seven days trying to piece together the fragments of his Nirvana Sword Intent.
• Chen Fan emerged from seclusion and found Little Golden Monkey returning with stolen spirit herbs and a thousand-year-old peach, pursued by more than a hundred cultivators.
• A young girl among the pursuers excitedly asked her cousins to catch Little Golden Monkey, and the late Golden Core Realm young man assured her it would not escape.

Chen Fan watched the Little Golden Monkey escape cultivators who wanted to capture it, then learned that its corpse grass might help his Great Dao injury. When the pursuers caught up and demanded the monkey, Chen Fan prepared to fight, but the young man’s claim that he belonged to the Qin Clan made Chen Fan ask which Qin Clan it was.

• The Little Golden Monkey used its golden eyes to dissolve a net and destroy a Magic Tool, then escaped into the mountains.
• The Little Golden Monkey returned to Chen Fan with corpse grass and said that burning it with the flame from the forbidden ground could help his injury.
• The young man, a girl, and a woman caught up with Chen Fan and asked him to hand over the Little Golden Monkey.
• Chen Fan refused, and the young man threatened him with a killing formation from the Qin Clan.
• Chen Fan drew his sword and asked which Qin Clan the young man belonged to.

Chen Fan confronted Qin Feng and Qin Xiaorong over their attempt to take the Little Golden Monkey, then was trapped in Qin Feng’s Immortal-Slaying Formation. He found the formation’s core and destroyed the formation, leaving Qin Feng stunned.

• Chen Fan refused to hand over the Little Golden Monkey, despite learning that the group belonged to Qin Xian’er’s Qin Clan.
• Qin Feng demanded the monkey and an apology, then activated the Immortal-Slaying Formation against Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan used his sword and Nine Palaces Footwork to break through the formation’s vines and lightning net.
• Chen Fan drew the Array-Breaking Ruler after identifying the formation’s core, then shattered the Immortal-Slaying Formation and Qin Feng’s formation disk.

Chen Fan broke Qin Feng’s Immortal-Slaying Formation and learned that the Qin Clan had no current record of Bi Fang City. Little Crescent Moon offered to reveal its location if she could play with Little Golden Monkey, leaving Chen Fan without the information he sought.

• Chen Fan used the Array-Breaking Ruler to destroy Qin Feng’s formation, and Qin Feng realized he had badly underestimated him.
• Qin Xiaorong recognized Chen Fan’s Nine Palaces Sword Art and stopped Qin Feng from provoking him further.
• Qin Xiaorong invited Chen Fan to visit the Qin Clan, and he accepted their peaceful departure without pursuing the conflict.
• Chen Fan asked whether the Qin Clan knew Bi Fang City, and Qin Xiaorong said she had never heard of it.
• Little Crescent Moon recalled seeing Bi Fang City on an old map in her grandfather’s secret chamber and demanded to play with Little Golden Monkey before sharing its direction.

Chen Fan traveled east toward Giant Ten Thousand City while using Dead Man Grass to speed his recovery, then searched the city for an old map pointing to Bi Fang City. As he left an antique shop without finding one, he spotted a woman he recognized as Mu Yunshui.

• Qin Xiaorong directed Chen Fan toward Giant Ten Thousand City, and he departed with Little Golden Monkey.
• During his journey, Chen Fan used Samadhi True Fire to burn Dead Man Grass and accelerated the fusion of Dao fragments in his body.
• Chen Fan reached Giant Ten Thousand City and searched its marketplace and shops for an old map, but found none.
• As Chen Fan left an antique shop, he glimpsed a woman in white and recognized her as Mu Yunshui.

Chen Fan encountered Mu Yunshui in the Marketplace, where she acted as if she did not know him while an Immortal Palace disciple secretly marked him. After discovering where old maps might be sold, Chen Fan reached the ancient Treasure Pavilion and sensed a powerful Nine Palaces Dao resonance in its signboard.

• Chen Fan found Mu Yunshui shopping with several Immortal Palace disciples and a Spirit Refining Stage elder.
• Mu Yunshui denied knowing Chen Fan and stopped the handsome disciple from confronting him before leaving with the group.
• Chen Fan discovered that the handsome disciple had secretly placed a mark inside his body, and he decided to use it to lure the man to him.
• Chen Fan's Great Dao injury flared and made him cough up blood, but he continued searching the Marketplace for old maps.
• Chen Fan learned that an old shop might have old maps and arrived at the Treasure Pavilion, whose signboard carried a powerful Nine Palaces Dao resonance.

Chen Fan visited a mysterious old shopkeeper and obtained an ancient map to Bi Fang City as a gift after discussing the Nine Palaces Sword Art. As Chen Fan left Giant Ten Thousand City, Mu Yunshui appeared and called him to follow her.

• Chen Fan entered the old man's shop, sensed the man's formidable Sword Dao attainments, and asked for an ancient map to Bi Fang City.
• The old man recalled visiting Bi Fang City thousands of years earlier and found a worn map with one-third missing.
• The old man asked who had taught Chen Fan the Nine Palaces Sword Art, recognized that Chen Fan possessed a Sword Heart, and gave him the map for free.
• The old man sent Chen Fan outside the shop with a wave of his hand, and Chen Fan thanked him before leaving for Giant Ten Thousand City's gate.
• Chen Fan checked the map at the gate, where Mu Yunshui passed by and told him to follow her.

Mu Yunshui warned Chen Fan not to enter the Immortal Palace and revealed that Qin Xian'er had been sent back to the Qin Clan, where she was likely confined. Chen Fan learned he might see Xian'er at the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield in two years and resolved to participate.

• Mu Yunshui met Chen Fan outside Giant Ten Thousand City and warned him that the Immortal Palace was too powerful for him to challenge.
• Mu Yunshui told Chen Fan that Qin Xian'er had returned to the Qin Clan and revealed her connection to its clan head.
• Mu Yunshui explained that the Qin Clan had hidden Xian'er away because it considered her existence shameful, and that her mother had died under house arrest.
• Mu Yunshui said Xian'er would likely enter the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield in two years and warned Chen Fan not to participate unless he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Fan erased the mark left by the Immortal Palace man, vowed to join the battlefield, and headed back toward Giant Ten Thousand City.
• The Immortal Palace man greeted Mu Yunshui, then realized Chen Fan had come from the same world and sneered.

Chen Fan arrived in Heaven and Earth City and learned that Bald Bird had opened a treasury near the city, drawing crowds with stories of its infamous past. He realized Bald Bird was likely hiding inside a deadly array-filled vault and worried about how to reach it, while Old Yellow Tooth’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Chen Fan traveled from Giant Ten Thousand City to Heaven and Earth City after selling a three-star Spirit Treasure sword to pay the Teleportation Array fee.
• Chen Fan heard cultivators discuss a Bi Fang Treasury that had opened after an ugly bird in floral underpants blasted apart a nearby mountain and entered the vault.
• Young cultivators recounted Bald Bird’s past crimes against powerful factions, including stealing the Qin Clan’s array records and treasures from the Divine Silkworm Clan, Shu Mountain, and the Immortal Palace.
• Chen Fan learned that the two city lords had sealed the treasury entrance and planned to invite the Qin Clan to help breach its killing arrays.
• Chen Fan concluded Bald Bird was probably hiding in the treasury and suspected its arrays were a trap, while he still had no clue where Old Yellow Tooth had gone.

Chen Fan joined the cultivators gathering outside Bald Bird's treasure vault, whose deadly formation no one could yet breach. As the Qin Clan arrived to tackle it, Chen Fan recognized a Heavenly Heart Sect disciple and remained wary of the search for him over the destruction of Heartless Valley.

• Chen Fan studied the treasure vault's killing formation but found only the Life Gates for its first two steps before retreating to avoid attention.
• Chen Fan heard that Heartless Valley and the Divine Silkworm Clan were searching across the continents for the Golden Core youth who had attacked the valley, and he kept a low profile.
• A Heavenly Heart Sect elder claimed her young disciple had found the Life Gate of the formation's first step, prompting the crowd to admire the disciple and argue over whether the Qin Clan would still have to break the formation.
• Chen Fan recognized the Heavenly Heart Sect and remembered killing its cultivators at the Immortal Palace ruins to protect their secret.
• Six Qin Clan cultivators arrived, including three Spirit Refining elders and three Nascent Soul prodigies, drawing the crowd's attention.

The Qin Clan’s three prodigies entered Bi Fang’s treasure vault and began breaking its linked killing formations. They were stumped near the end of the first formation, while Chen Fan realized where its hidden formation core was.

• Cultivators gathered outside the treasure vault praised the Qin Clan’s three peerless prodigies and watched them approach the entrance.
• The three prodigies recognized the Qin Clan formation, used Formation Disks, and advanced through its first hundred steps.
• The Qin Clan prodigies stalled at the final eight steps, unable to locate the formation core.
• The Heavenly Heart Sect’s young woman and the Qin Clan elders explained that the Life Gate could shift and that finishing the formation could change the route.
• Chen Fan inferred that Bald Bird had made the formation core movable and realized where it was hidden.

The Qin Clan’s prodigies became trapped in Bald Bird’s killing formation until Murong Lanxin found the formation core beneath the Life Gate and helped the elders destroy it. The remaining formations activated together, and Bald Bird recognized Chen Fan inside the crowd, drawing suspicion toward him.

• The three Qin Clan prodigies completed the first formation’s final eight steps without finding the hidden core, losing their route back.
• Murong Lanxin used a Formation Disk to discover that the formation core lay beneath the Life Gate, and the Qin Clan elders confirmed her finding.
• The Qin Clan elders destroyed the first formation, while the Heavenly Heart Sect’s elder worried the Qin Clan might recruit Murong Lanxin.
• Bald Bird revealed that destroying the first formation had activated the formations behind it, creating a far more dangerous chain of traps.
• Bald Bird recognized Chen Fan, prompting the crowd to search for the boy it had called and consider using him as leverage.

The Qin Clan and other powerful cultivators sought volunteers to probe Bald Bird’s killing array, then began seizing Rogue Cultivators to force them inside. Chen Fan was captured as the fifth probe, but he had deliberately allowed it after Bald Bird secretly promised to guide him safely through the array.

• A Qin Clan elder offered a treasure to anyone who would probe the array, but the cultivators distrusted his promise of protection.
• The Qin Clan threatened to claim the vault with the city lords if no one cooperated, and a Demon Race expert urged the crowd to use Rogue Cultivators as probes.
• Spirit Refining Stage experts seized Rogue Cultivators and gathered five people to send into the array.
• A Spirit Refining Stage expert pulled Chen Fan to the vault entrance, unaware that Chen Fan had let himself be captured following Bald Bird’s secret instructions.
• Bald Bird told Chen Fan to follow the route he had described and assured him he would pass through the array unharmed.

Chen Fan entered the treasure vault’s killing formation after the Qin Clan freed him and four Rogue Cultivators to test its Life Gates. Following Bald Bird’s secret route through the Death Gates, he reached the second step as the Qin Clan elders hurriedly retreated.

• The Qin Clan elder explained that five people must stand on the first step’s Life Gates to reveal the next route, while Chen Fan stayed calm because Bald Bird had told him the way through.
• Chen Fan refused to reveal his identity and demanded to enter the formation, so the Qin Clan elders freed him and the four Rogue Cultivators but left them surrounded.
• The Qin Clan directed the five to enter their assigned positions while Bald Bird secretly instructed Chen Fan to take the Death Gate and follow the death positions.
• As the five stepped forward together, Chen Fan turned into the Death Gate and swiftly reached its position on the second step.
• The Qin Clan elders and young geniuses shouted for everyone to fall back and retreated beyond the entrance.

Chen Fan safely crossed the killing formation by following Bald Bird’s instructions and reached a cavern filled with rare treasures. The Little Golden Monkey claimed a golden fruit and twice sent Bald Bird flying, while Bald Bird revealed that even more valuable treasures had escaped.

• Chen Fan crossed the killing formation unharmed, leaving the Qin Clan elders and other experts stunned as they realized he had found the path through it.
• Chen Fan emerged into a cavern filled with ancient herbs, a radiant divine tree bearing golden fruits, and a wall of divine ore.
• The Little Golden Monkey rushed to the divine tree and ate a golden fruit before Bald Bird could stop it.
• The Little Golden Monkey punched Bald Bird away twice when the bird tried to drive it from the tree.
• Bald Bird admitted it had hidden treasures more precious than the golden peach tree and said several supreme treasures had escaped when it opened the entrance.

Chen Fan reunited with Bald Bird in the Qin Clan treasury, learned that Little Golden Monkey might share the bloodline of a monkey shown in an ancient war mural, and was promised a cure for his Great Dao wound. Despite Bald Bird's warnings about the deadly Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield, Chen Fan resolved to enter in two years, while attackers began battering the treasury entrance.

• Bald Bird told Chen Fan that several supreme treasures had escaped his vault and revealed that he had prepared a Teleportation Array to leave.
• Bald Bird identified Little Golden Monkey's pure Divine Soul as a sign of ancestral reversion and recognized its golden eyes from a mural of the war between immortals and demons.
• Chen Fan described his Great Dao wound and the Heartless Fruit, and Bald Bird offered ten-thousand-year Dead Man Grass that could heal him in two years.
• Chen Fan declared that he would enter the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield in two years, despite Bald Bird's account of its dangers and sealed, older competitors.
• Attackers struck the treasury entrance, and Chen Fan urged Bald Bird to activate the Teleportation Array, but Bald Bird said he had one more thing to do.

Chen Fan, Bald Bird, and Little Golden Monkey left the treasure vault after Bald Bird tricked the cultivators outside with a fake array and caused the entrance to collapse. They escaped through the Teleportation Array just before the Spirit Refining Stage experts reached them.

• Chen Fan collected the last golden peach and several spirit herbs, then left with Little Golden Monkey and Bald Bird.
• Bald Bird taunted the Qin Clan elders and the other cultivators waiting outside the array.
• Bald Bird secretly placed a Spirit Stone to disrupt the array, and Chen Fan followed it toward the treasure vault as the cultivators charged in.
• The array exploded and the entrance collapsed, covering the cultivators in rubble and dust.
• Chen Fan, Bald Bird, and Little Golden Monkey escaped through the Teleportation Array before the pursuing experts could catch them.