Arc 26Return to the Eastern Wasteland

Chen Fan absorbed the Sword Demon's final strike, recovered the Soul-Gathering Tower, and returned to the Eastern Wasteland with Old Yellow Tooth. After awakening Qin Xian’er and learning of Mu Yunshui’s arranged wedding to Zhao Wuji, Chen Fan rode toward First Peak as Shu Mountain’s powerhouses moved to intercept him.

  • Chen Fan absorbed the Dao essence of Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands, then fought through the Golden Crab Kings and reached the Water Crystal Palace, where he took the Soul-Gathering Tower.
  • Chen Fan escaped the Black Tortoise descendant, joined forces with Ink Dragon, sealed the creature in the Cosmos Jade Bottle, and transformed Ink Dragon’s body into a Ghost Ship.
  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth crossed the sea to the Western Desert, where Wuming told them of the invasion and guided them to an ancient Teleportation Array.
  • The awakened vajra pestle gave Wuming a Buddhist inheritance, and Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth traveled through the repaired array to the Eastern Wasteland.
  • Eastern Wasteland cultivators confronted Chen Fan, who escaped with Old Yellow Tooth and entered the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm, where he reunited with his companions and awakened Qin Xian’er.
  • Chen Fan told Qin Xian’er what had happened with Mu Yunshui, then suppressed the demonic qi surging from his heart demon and left the secret realm alone.
  • News spread that Mu Yunshui would marry Zhao Wuji, and Chen Fan rode toward Shu Mountain’s First Peak as its Soul Division Stage powerhouses went to intercept him.
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Ch. 626Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands

Chen Fan survived the ancient Sword Demon's devastating strike, Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands, and chose to absorb the shattered Sword Heart despite the danger. As Samadhi True Fire flooded the Mother Stone he had become, Chen Fan rejected the idea that sharpness required abandoning emotion and faced the Sword Demon's heart again.

  • Chen Fan attacked the iron sword in the Sword Heart and was struck by its overwhelming power, which expelled his Divine Soul and gravely injured his true body.
  • Fat Daoist revealed that the Sword Heart belonged to the ancient foremost Sword Demon and contained the final strike of the war between immortals and demons, Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands.
  • Fat Daoist explained that the shattered Sword Heart could now be absorbed, and Chen Fan decided to refine the sword strike despite the risk of his soul being destroyed.
  • Chen Fan transformed himself and the Sword Demon's Sword Heart into Mother Stones, while Fat Daoist redirected Samadhi True Fire toward him.
  • As the fire surged into him, Chen Fan questioned whether emotions weakened the Sword Path, then realized sharpness did not require abandoning emotion and charged toward the Sword Demon's heart.

Ch. 627Transformed into Stone

Chen Fan endured the Samadhi True Fire to seize the Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands art, while Su Yerong and the black-robed elder searched for him beyond the golden gate. The fire had nearly vanished by the time they entered, and Su Yerong escaped as soon as the elder stepped outside.

  • Chen Fan broke the iron sword with his Divine Soul and absorbed its Dao essence, then endured the Sword Art and Samadhi True Fire as they ravaged his body.
  • Cracks spread across Chen Fan’s Mother Stone form, but a thread of vitality and the aura of Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands emerged from within.
  • The black-robed elder stopped Su Yerong from leaving, sent Ye Wu and Ye Qi to summon clan reinforcements, and ordered her to wait one more day.
  • The Fat Daoist carried the burning fake stone deeper into the transformed realm as the Samadhi True Fire dwindled to a few embers.
  • The black-robed elder and Su Yerong entered the realm, found Chen Fan and Ye San gone, and decided to return with reinforcements.
  • Su Yerong darted away when the black-robed elder stepped through the gate, leaving him unable to stop her.

Ch. 628Newborn Metamorphosis

Chen Fan survived three months of tempering in Samadhi True Fire, emerging with a remade body and greatly increased cultivation. He and the Fat Daoist traveled deeper into the dragon’s lair toward the Soul-Gathering Tower, where they encountered a bloodied Su Yerong fleeing and warning them to run.

  • The Fat Daoist concealed himself in a stalactite cave while Chen Fan endured Samadhi True Fire and absorbed the Dao essence of Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands.
  • After three months, Chen Fan broke free of the fake Mother Stone with a renewed body and cultivation at the peak of the late Spirit Refining Stage.
  • The Fat Daoist warned Chen Fan that the Heavenly Dao opposed immortals and explained that Chen Fan’s tribulations were warnings against the Heaven-Burning Art.
  • Chen Fan followed the Fat Daoist deeper into the cave, using the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to search for the Soul-Gathering Tower and planning to save Qin Xian’er.
  • Chen Fan and the Fat Daoist found the corpses of Spirit Snake Clan and Sea Serpent Clan members before Su Yerong rushed toward them, covered in blood and shouting for them to run.

Ch. 629Rune Curse

Chen Fan fought the Golden Crab King and used the Immortal Sword Sheath to sever its claws, but its runes suppressed his cultivation. He erased the curse with the Supreme Restriction and killed the beast, then learned from Fat Daoist that inheriting the restriction had ruined his Dao.

  • The Golden Crab King charged after Su Yerong, and Fat Daoist warned Chen Fan that its golden claws could seal his power.
  • Chen Fan attacked with Nine Palaces Footwork, but his Sword Qi could not penetrate the Golden Crab King's claws, so he used the Immortal Sword Sheath to sever one.
  • The runes from the severed claw entered Chen Fan and sealed his cultivation down to Nascent Soul Early Stage as Fat Daoist carried him away.
  • Chen Fan used the Supreme Restriction's runes to wash away the curse and restore his cultivation.
  • Chen Fan cut off the Golden Crab King's remaining claw and killed it with a sword strike to the head.
  • Fat Daoist told Chen Fan that inheriting the Supreme Restriction had completely ruined his Dao.

Ch. 630Water Crystal Palace

Chen Fan and Fat Daoist crossed a dangerous cavern and coral clearing while Chen Fan used Golden Crab Kings to purge the Supreme Restriction from his body. They reached the Water Crystal Palace, where the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk pointed toward the Soul-Gathering Tower, but Fat Daoist urged them to leave.

  • Fat Daoist explained that the Supreme Restriction came from the Heavenly Dao and warned Chen Fan not to inherit it.
  • Chen Fan and Fat Daoist fought six Golden Crab Kings, and Chen Fan dissipated half of the Supreme Restriction within him.
  • They followed the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk through a cavern littered with the remains of cultivators killed by the Golden Crab Kings.
  • They crossed a coral-covered clearing, where Fat Daoist warned Chen Fan that the fossilized coral was lethally poisonous.
  • They reached the Water Crystal Palace and found dead Sea Dragon Clan and Spirit Snake Clan experts kneeling before its doors.
  • Chen Fan confirmed that the Soul-Gathering Tower was inside the palace, but Fat Daoist told him they needed to leave.

Ch. 631Descendants of the Black Tortoise

Chen Fan and Fat Daoist encountered the Black Tortoise descendant guarding the Water Crystal Palace, and Fat Daoist lured it away so Chen Fan could enter and seek the Soul-Gathering Tower. Chen Fan reached the tower, but the ancient Ink Dragon appeared from within it.

  • Fat Daoist warned Chen Fan that the Black Tortoise descendant guarding the Water Crystal Palace could defeat them, and urged him to retreat.
  • The giant turtle pursued Chen Fan and Fat Daoist, crushing Chen Fan's left arm and sealing part of his cultivation before Fat Daoist drew it away.
  • Chen Fan recovered enough to enter the Water Crystal Palace, where most of its ancient treasures crumbled to ash, leaving a Dragonform Grass and Lunar and Solar Stones.
  • Chen Fan followed the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk's jade needle to the dragon throne and watched its failing Magic Array reveal the Soul-Gathering Tower.
  • Chen Fan approached the Soul-Gathering Tower with the Immortal Sword Sheath, and the Ink Dragon emerged from the tower and stared at him.

Ch. 632The Soul-Gathering Tower is Acquired

Chen Fan stole the Soul-Gathering Tower from the Crystal Palace and escaped four cursed Soul Division Stage experts by luring them into poisonous coral. At the stalactite cave, the Fat Daoist revealed that the Ink Dragon inside the tower was alive and had fused with its Artifact Spirit, and Chen Fan began suppressing it after it urged the Fat Daoist to kill him.

  • Chen Fan took the Soul-Gathering Tower from the dragon throne while fighting four reanimated Soul Division Stage experts from the Sea Dragon Clan and Spirit Snake Clan.
  • Chen Fan led the four experts into poisonous coral, where their bodies and curse runes were dissolved.
  • Chen Fan hid from the returning Black Tortoise descendant, then traveled to the stalactite cave and summoned the Fat Daoist's soul through the tower.
  • The Fat Daoist recognized the Ink Dragon and explained that it had fused with the Soul-Gathering Tower's Artifact Spirit to survive.
  • The Ink Dragon revealed its hopes of rebuilding the Immortal Court and ordered the Fat Daoist to kill Chen Fan to protect their plans.
  • Chen Fan attacked the Soul-Gathering Tower with the Immortal Sword Sheath, the Soul Devouring Banner, and Black-and-White Flames, forcing the Ink Dragon to ask to negotiate.

Ch. 633Spirit Snake Clan Ambush

Chen Fan and the Fat Daoist escaped the stalactite cave with the Soul-Gathering Tower, only to be ambushed by the Spirit Snake Clan at the Dragon Gate. The Black Tortoise descendant devoured most of the clan, and Chen Fan confronted Su Yerong as she fled.

  • Chen Fan took the Soul-Gathering Tower and fled with the Fat Daoist while the Black Tortoise descendant pursued them through the collapsing cave.
  • The Spirit Snake Clan captured Chen Fan at the Dragon Gate, and Su Yerong demanded that he surrender the sword sheath.
  • The Fat Daoist possessed a Spirit Snake Clan cultivator and covered the escape with black liquid, while Chen Fan cut through the lightning net and vanished in disguise.
  • Two Spirit Snake Clan elders approached the Dragon Gate, but the Black Tortoise descendant smashed through it and suppressed their cultivation.
  • The Black Tortoise descendant swallowed the Spirit Snake Clan members in the seawater, while Su Yerong escaped and Chen Fan appeared before her.

Ch. 634The Ghost Ship That Used Dragons as Boats

Chen Fan returned to the South Sea Region and reunited with Old Yellow Tooth, seeking a fast route to the Eastern Wasteland. Their investigation pointed toward the dragon clan descendants, while a mysterious Jade Slip revealed a connection to Ink Dragon’s family.

  • Chen Fan left the Black Tortoise descendant’s territory, returned to the sea Teleportation Array, and traveled to the island where he had arranged to meet Old Yellow Tooth.
  • Chen Fan asked Ink Dragon about reaching the Eastern Wasteland quickly, and Ink Dragon suggested turning dragon clans into boats.
  • Chen Fan found Old Yellow Tooth, who had taken control of an alley and heard rumors of dragon-descendant ships nearly as fast as Teleportation Arrays.
  • Chen Fan told Old Yellow Tooth to investigate the dragon clan descendants while he recovered and worked to remove the cursed runes suppressing his cultivation.
  • Old Yellow Tooth gave Chen Fan a dragon-patterned Jade Slip, and Ink Dragon recognized it as belonging to its grandfather.

Ch. 635Ink Dragon's Physical Body

Chen Fan bargained with Ink Dragon for the dragon’s physical body as a ghost ship, but Ink Dragon required him to imitate its grandfather’s aura to get past the Black Tortoise descendant. Chen Fan began a month of secluded cultivation to strengthen the curse in his body, while Ink Dragon prepared to cultivate Demonic Waves Overwhelm the Heavens.

  • After Old Yellow Tooth left to collect protection money, Chen Fan learned that the Jade Slip contained the Ink Dragon Clan’s supreme arts and that Ink Dragon’s physical body was beneath the Water Crystal Palace.
  • Chen Fan unlocked the Jade Slip, memorized its cultivation runes, and handed it to Ink Dragon in exchange for the body’s location.
  • When Ink Dragon tried to evade the deal, Chen Fan transformed into an ink-black dragon and threatened to seek a ghost ship from the dragon clan’s ancestral land, forcing Ink Dragon to agree to help retrieve its body.
  • Ink Dragon required Chen Fan to restore and protect the body after returning to the Eastern Wasteland, and explained how they could imitate its grandfather’s aura to fool the Black Tortoise descendant.
  • Ink Dragon told Chen Fan to use the Immortal Sword Sheath to shake and condense the runic curse in his body, and Chen Fan began a month of secluded cultivation in a cave in the barren mountains.

Ch. 636Passing Off the Fake as Genuine

Chen Fan returned to the Ink Sea disguised as Ye Gu and used Ink Dragon’s newly transformed aura to pass himself off as an Ink Dragon. He deceived the Black Tortoise descendant long enough to reach the Water Crystal Palace, but its sudden confusion and Ink Dragon’s warning left his disguise in danger.

  • After a month of gathering the rune curses in his body, Chen Fan found Ink Dragon still pretending to sleep and traveled to the Ink Sea.
  • Chen Fan fought off the Sea Dragon Clan and Spirit Snake Clan pursuers by disguising himself among them and slipping into the water.
  • At the golden gate, Chen Fan forced Ink Dragon to demonstrate Demonic Waves Overwhelm the Heavens, then copied its aura with the Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
  • Chen Fan’s convincing Ink Dragon form frightened the pursuing clansmen, allowing him to enter the palace grounds and reach the ruins of the stalactite cave.
  • The Black Tortoise descendant treated Chen Fan like its master and followed him toward the Water Crystal Palace, but it stopped with a confused look as Ink Dragon urgently told Chen Fan to halt.

Ch. 637Cosmos Jade Bottle

Chen Fan retrieved the Cosmos Jade Bottle from beneath the Water Crystal Palace and used it to capture the Black Tortoise descendant before it could crush him. Ink Dragon explained that the bottle could absorb anything marked by a cursed rune, raising questions about the rune on his hidden physical body.

  • Ink Dragon warned Chen Fan that the Black Tortoise descendant was hungry for a Black Tortoise Stone and might rampage without one.
  • Ink Dragon told Chen Fan to find his physical body’s Cosmos Jade Bottle and use it to contain the Black Tortoise descendant.
  • Chen Fan entered the Water Crystal Palace, opened a hidden passage beneath the dragon throne, and retrieved the sealed jade bottle.
  • The Black Tortoise descendant broke into the palace and pursued Chen Fan as he escaped with the bottle.
  • Chen Fan opened the bottle with Ink Dragon Clan incantations and sealed the Black Tortoise descendant inside.
  • Ink Dragon explained that the Cosmos Jade Bottle absorbed anything marked by a cursed rune, and Chen Fan asked whether Ink Dragon’s physical body bore the rune.

Ch. 638Setting Sail

Chen Fan secured Ink Dragon’s method for avoiding the cursed runes and reunited with Old Yellow Tooth, then they fled the South Sea Region aboard a warship. The two agreed to cultivate in seclusion for three months before turning Ink Dragon’s body into a ghost ship.

  • Ink Dragon taught Chen Fan the Clear Heart Art after Chen Fan promised to give it the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk once he no longer needed it.
  • Chen Fan returned to Old Yellow Tooth and revealed that Ink Dragon had survived as a soul inside the Soul-Gathering Tower.
  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth departed aboard a warship as a crowd of cultivators chased Old Yellow Tooth for swindling them.
  • Old Yellow Tooth and Ink Dragon traded insults during the voyage until Chen Fan stopped their quarrel and taught Old Yellow Tooth the Clear Heart Art.
  • Chen Fan entered secluded cultivation to use Chaos Qi and Samadhi True Fire to erase the cursed runes, while Old Yellow Tooth cultivated the Clear Heart Art; they planned to build a ghost ship after three months.

Ch. 639Curses All Gone

Chen Fan purged the curse runes from his body and studied the runes needed to turn Ink Dragon’s body into a ghost ship. After betting that Chen Fan could master them, Ink Dragon and Old Yellow Tooth watched as Chen Fan summoned Ink Dragon’s physical body onto the deck.

  • Chen Fan used the Clear Heart Art with Samadhi True Fire and chaotic energy to purge the curse runes, recovering his cultivation and eventually removing them all.
  • Chen Fan studied the runes in Ink Dragon’s Jade Slip while Old Yellow Tooth emerged from seclusion having mastered the Clear Heart Art.
  • Ink Dragon doubted Chen Fan had understood the runes in a single day, and Old Yellow Tooth wagered an ancient painting that Chen Fan could do it.
  • Old Yellow Tooth revealed a painting that manifested a seven-colored female dragon, and Ink Dragon reluctantly accepted it as the wager.
  • Chen Fan summoned Ink Dragon’s physical body from a jade bottle and sealed away the Black Tortoise descendant before looking toward Ink Dragon’s enormous body.

Ch. 640Building a Ghost Ship

Chen Fan carved runes into the Ink Dragon’s body and transformed it into a powerful Ghost Ship. After the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk pointed toward the Eastern Wasteland, he decided to spend three months learning curse runes so he could control the Black Tortoise descendant before facing the powerful overlords at sea.

  • Chen Fan carved runes across the Ink Dragon’s head, body, and tail, transforming its body into a black Ghost Ship.
  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth boarded the Ghost Ship, and Chen Fan activated it to travel at extraordinary speed.
  • After a month at sea, Chen Fan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to locate the route southeast toward the Eastern Wasteland.
  • Chen Fan warned that overlords from the East Sea Region and South Sea Region could threaten their journey, and he admitted he could not yet safely control the Black Tortoise descendant.
  • Chen Fan agreed to stay for three months to study curse runes, and the Ink Dragon gave him an ancient beast-hide pouch bearing runes from its grandfather.

Ch. 641Returning to the Eastern Wasteland

Chen Fan mastered the curse runes in three months, restored his cultivation, and set the Ghost Ship toward the Eastern Wasteland. As he traveled, he reflected that after six years away, he was finally heading home.

  • Chen Fan suppressed the Clear Heart Art and let the curse runes invade his body so he could study them.
  • Chen Fan deciphered the first rune after a month and realized the runes could form commands to control those they cursed.
  • Chen Fan mastered all the curse runes within three months and expelled them, restoring his cultivation to peak Spirit Refinement Late Stage and advancing slightly further.
  • Chen Fan told Ink Dragon that he was not the Fat Daoist's disciple, while Ink Dragon and Old Yellow Tooth resumed trading insults.
  • Chen Fan activated the Ghost Ship and sailed through the void toward the Eastern Wasteland, reflecting on the six years since he left home.

Ch. 642Return to the Four Divine Continents

After returning from the Southeast Sea Region, Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth reached the Western Desert and discovered that the overlords had invaded the Four Divine Continents. They followed signs of life toward an ancient city, where Chen Fan’s Heavenly Eye revealed an ancient temple as their destination.

  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth arrived at the Western Desert, where they found countless dead monks, monster beasts, and human cultivators.
  • Chen Fan realized the overlords had already landed and begun attacking the Four Divine Continents, so he set out with Old Yellow Tooth for the Eastern Wasteland.
  • They found the nearby Teleportation Array destroyed, and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk pointed them toward living beings ten thousand miles east.
  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth flew east on the White Bone Sword and reached a ruined ancient city filled with corpses.
  • Chen Fan used the Heavenly Eye Treasure Art to search the city and fixed his gaze on a damaged ancient temple.

Ch. 643The Monk in the Statue

Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth rescued the monk Wuming from a golden Buddha statue and learned that invaders had devastated the Western Desert. Wuming led them to a hidden Teleportation Array in the desert, where an ancient chant sounded from underground.

  • Chen Fan used his Heavenly Eye Treasure Art to discover a living person sealed inside a golden Buddha statue, then broke the seal and revived the injured monk.
  • Wuming revealed that invaders had killed his master and fellow monks, while Old Yellow Tooth warned that more than ten late-stage Spirit Refining Stage overlords and nearly a thousand cultivators had set out to conquer the Four Divine Continents.
  • Wuming told Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth about an ancient Teleportation Array leading to the Eastern Wasteland, and they agreed to seek it out.
  • Wuming led Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth across the desert to a buried stone door and opened it with a Buddhist seal.
  • An ancient Buddhist chant came from beneath the stone staircase, startling Old Yellow Tooth.

Ch. 644Vajra Pestle

Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth followed Wuming into an underground ancestral temple and repaired its Teleportation Array so they could leave the Western Desert. As the array activated, the Buddha statue spoke with a powerful new chant, drawing everyone’s attention to the vajra pestle.

  • Wuming explained that the voice came from a damaged ancient vajra pestle sealed beneath the temple, then led Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth into the ancestral grounds.
  • Chen Fan discovered a broken Teleportation Array in the underground temple and learned that Wuming’s master had left it unrepaired, believing it was fate.
  • Chen Fan used divine ore and sword Qi to restore the Teleportation Array, then invited Wuming to travel with them to the Eastern Wasteland.
  • Wuming declined to leave until he had buried his master and senior brothers, and Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth prepared to depart without him.
  • Chen Fan placed high-grade Spirit Stones in the array, but its activation released an unusually powerful aura and the Buddha statue began chanting, making all three stare at the vajra pestle.

Ch. 645The Buddha's Creation

Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth witnessed Wuming inherit a Buddhist legacy from the vajra pestle, which left behind two true relics. After Wuming departed, Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth used the Teleportation Array to reach the Eastern Wasteland and headed toward the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.

  • The vajra pestle awakened, its chants nearly swaying Old Yellow Tooth until Chen Fan shielded him with his own path essence.
  • Wuming received a Buddhist inheritance from the vajra pestle and advanced to the late stage of the Spirit Refinement Realm.
  • The vajra pestle crumbled into golden dust, leaving two true relics that Wuming offered to Chen Fan before departing.
  • Chen Fan accepted the relics and traveled with Old Yellow Tooth through the Teleportation Array to the Eastern Wasteland.
  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth emerged from an ancient tree and flew toward the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.

Ch. 646The Roadblock

Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth were ambushed on their way to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm by cultivators who had tracked them. After revealing his late Spirit Refining Stage cultivation and learning that a scarred Shu Mountain clone planned to marry Mu Yunshui, Chen Fan transformed into an Ink Dragon as the encirclement closed in.

  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth were pursued and surrounded by cultivators from the Eastern Wasteland.
  • Chen Fan revealed his true form and late Spirit Refining Stage cultivation, startling the Spirit Severing experts and their followers.
  • A scarred Shu Mountain youth said he had inherited the Supreme Restriction and revealed that he and Mu Yunshui would become Dao companions in a month.
  • Chen Fan used his Heavenly Eye Treasure Art to identify the youth as a clone, and the youth announced that the Shu Mountain headmaster was approaching.
  • Chen Fan told Old Yellow Tooth that no one could stop him from leaving, then transformed into an enormous Ink Dragon.

Ch. 647Effortless Escape

Chen Fan used his dragon transformation and a staged sea of lightning to escape Shu Mountain’s forces with Old Yellow Tooth, while warning them that invaders from beyond the sea regions were approaching. After they vanished through a Nine Palaces Sword Formation, the scar-faced Shu Mountain youth revealed that he expected Chen Fan to appear at his wedding to Fairy Mu in one month.

  • Chen Fan transformed into an Ink Dragon and unleashed lightning-filled rain, killing and injuring cultivators before the mid-Soul Division Stage powerhouses shielded the survivors.
  • Chen Fan warned the Shu Mountain forces not to block his path, and Old Yellow Tooth told them that the Western Desert had become a battlefield because of invaders from beyond the sea regions.
  • The Shu Mountain elders dismissed Old Yellow Tooth’s warning, and Chen Fan transformed again and feigned a vast sea of lightning to create an opening.
  • Chen Fan seized Old Yellow Tooth and escaped through a Nine Palaces Sword Formation that led toward the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.
  • The scar-faced Shu Mountain youth told the elders that Chen Fan would likely come to his Dao companion ceremony with Fairy Mu in one month.

Ch. 648Waking Qin Xian'er

After returning to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm with Old Yellow Tooth, Chen Fan reunited with his friends and brought out the Soul-Gathering Tower. He used it to awaken Qin Xian'er, whose eyes opened at the chapter’s end.

  • Chen Fan and Old Yellow Tooth concealed their auras, opened the Nine Paths Gate, and entered the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.
  • Bald Bird, Dugu Han, Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Little Medicine Boy rushed to greet Chen Fan, and Chen Jingjing tearfully embraced her brother.
  • Chen Fan showed everyone the Soul-Gathering Tower while Old Yellow Tooth shared heavenly treasures and wrestled with Bald Bird over the herbs.
  • Chen Fan entered the cottage where Qin Xian'er slept and activated the Soul-Gathering Tower, causing her to open her eyes.

Ch. 649The Powerful Inner Demon

Chen Fan awakened Qin Xian'er after seven years and told her what had happened between him and Mu Yunshui. As Qin Xian'er fell asleep, Chen Fan was overwhelmed by a heart demon and left the secret realm to keep from harming his companions.

  • Chen Fan told Qin Xian'er that she had been unconscious for seven years and recounted how he had found a way to awaken her.
  • Chen Fan confessed that he and Mu Yunshui had been trapped together in the Supreme Restriction and had become intimate after an old man cast an arousal-type spell on them.
  • Qin Xian'er accepted what had happened and urged Chen Fan to treat Mu Yunshui well, then grew exhausted and fell asleep.
  • Chen Fan's heart demon surged, corroding his Life and Death Reincarnation intent and Annihilation Sword Dao as demonic qi poured from his body.
  • Chen Fan suppressed the demonic qi with the Taiji Diagram, left the secret realm, and told his companions not to follow.
  • Dugu Han sensed a trace of demonic qi where Chen Fan had vanished and wondered whether it had been an illusion.

Ch. 650Feast of Shu Mountain

Shu Mountain and the Immortal Palace prepared for Zhao Wuji and Mu Yunshui’s wedding while expecting Chen Fan to come seeking them. As the wedding began, Chen Fan approached First Peak, and Shu Mountain’s Soul Division Stage powerhouses went out to meet him.

  • Shu Mountain and Immortal Palace powerhouses failed to find Chen Fan and discussed the coming wedding and the sealed Teleportation Arrays to the Western Desert.
  • News spread across the Eastern Wasteland that Mu Yunshui would marry Zhao Wuji, while rumors circulated about her disappearance and Chen Fan’s return.
  • Shu Mountain decorated First Peak for the wedding, and its guests gathered as guards waited for Chen Fan.
  • Zhao Wuji threatened Mu Yunshui that Chen Fan would die at the wedding, while Mu Yunshui told him she would never become his Dao companion and began recovering her cultivation.
  • Chen Fan rode toward First Peak on a White Bone Sword wrapped in golden lightning, and Shu Mountain’s Soul Division Stage powerhouses left to intercept him.
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