Recaps

Chen Fan learned how perilous the ruins were and watched Little Chen Yi depart with Fat Daoist and Little Golden Monkey. After spending a year with Mu Yunshui and Qin Xian'er, he set out for the ruins himself.

• Fat Daoist and Ink Dragon told Chen Fan that Equal to Heaven had fought an evenly matched duplicate in the ruins, which later named itself Six-Eared Macaque and killed many immortal-realm geniuses.
• Fat Daoist gave Chen Fan an ancient bronze Formation Disk and warned him to avoid conflict in the ruins, but Chen Fan said his path would not let him hide from challenges.
• Little Chen Yi left with Fat Daoist, and Little Golden Monkey chased after them; Chen Fan allowed it to accompany Yi'er.
• Chen Fan stayed in the secret realm with Mu Yunshui and Qin Xian'er for a year, and they revealed they had known he planned to leave for the ruins.
• Chen Fan activated the Formation Disk and disappeared from the secret realm as Mu Yunshui and Qin Xian'er watched.

Chen Fan reached the ruins through the Dark Void Realm and arrived in Field Paths Manor, where three hostile cultivators recognized the Eight-Nine Arcane Art within him. Mo Longyou warned him that servants of the Heavenly Dao at the Body Integration realm or above were due to arrive, leaving Chen Fan uncertain whether to trust the warning.

• Chen Fan crossed the Dark Void Realm and arrived at the ruins, where he entered a deserted village.
• Two men and a woman confronted Chen Fan, identified him as human, and recognized the aura of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
• Mo Longyou appeared from a house and told Chen Fan that the village was Field Paths Manor, where everyone bore the surname Mo.
• Mo Longyou warned Chen Fan to stay indoors for at least seven days because servants of the Heavenly Dao at the Body Integration realm or above were expected to arrive.
• Chen Fan recalled that the Fat Daoist had never mentioned those servants and could not tell whether Mo Longyou was telling the truth.

Chen Fan escaped pursuing Integration Stage cultivators by entering the hidden manor inside a wooden hut, where Mo Longyou sheltered him among hundreds of Soul Division Stage cultivators. Mo Longyou recognized the senior who had sent Chen Fan and began asking what he knew about the realm’s history.

• Mo Longyou left the hut door open and warned Chen Fan to seek shelter if Integration Stage cultivators arrived, while people outside urged Chen Fan to come out and become a servant.
• Several Integration Stage cultivators descended on the village, and Chen Fan broke free of their force by raising his cultivation before rushing through the hut’s open door.
• Chen Fan discovered that the hut concealed a manor filled with hundreds of Soul Division Stage cultivators, including nearly two hundred late-stage powerhouses.
• Mo Longyou dismissed the gathered cultivators and asked Mo Qiye to arrange a room for Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan asked about the realm and its Integration Stage cultivators, and Mo Longyou said Chen Fan’s senior had visited before and revealed that his ancestors had been the senior’s closest friends.

Chen Fan learned from Mo Longyou that the realm's conflict stemmed from people accepting the Heavenly Dao's bargain, and that the Heavenly Dao's history was tied to the extinction of immortals and demons. The chapter ended with Chen Fan asking whom Mo Longyou meant when he said the Heavenly Dao was dead.

• Mo Longyou explained that some inhabitants had sworn to help the Heavenly Dao reclaim the realm in exchange for freedom.
• Chen Fan was shocked when Mo Longyou said the Heavenly Dao was dead, and the two realized they meant different things by the term.
• Chen Fan told Mo Longyou and Mo Qiye that immortals and demons in the Cultivation World had died, surprising them both.
• Mo Longyou explained that the Heavenly Dao was a force sustained by living beings' faith and that cultivation challenged its laws.
• Mo Longyou said the Heavenly Dao had encouraged conflict among living beings, and Chen Fan connected this to the war that destroyed the immortals and demons.
• Chen Fan asked Mo Longyou who he had meant when he said the Heavenly Dao was dead.

Chen Fan learned that the Heavenly Dao was seeking a new Heavenly Emperor and realized that his son’s Innate Supreme Physique put him in danger. After seven days of quiet cultivation at Field Paths Manor, Chen Fan left to begin his trial.

• Mo Longyou explained that the Heavenly Emperor had served as the Heavenly Dao’s puppet and that the Heavenly Dao was searching for a suitable successor.
• Chen Fan revealed that an Innate Supreme Physique had appeared, and Mo Longyou and Mo Qiye warned him that others might try to kill its bearer.
• Mo Qiye brought Chen Fan to a quiet pavilion, where he stayed and cultivated undisturbed for seven days.
• Mo Longyou and Mo Qiye saw Chen Fan off, and Mo Longyou asked him to greet the senior and mention his ancestor, Mo Qianji.
• Chen Fan left Field Paths Manor through its wooden door, emerged in the dilapidated village, and set out on the road of trial.

Chen Fan left the ancient village and traveled through the wilderness before encountering the three cultivators he had met seven days earlier pursuing a wounded pair. As the pursuers and fugitives converged on him, Chen Fan refused to be drawn into their fight, but recognized one pursuer’s halberd as identical to Jian Tianmo’s weapon.

• Chen Fan left the ancient village and traveled through the wilderness for two days, cultivating beneath the three suns.
• He saw three cultivators pursuing a wounded young man and woman, including the silent red-robed man wielding a powerful ice-essence saber.
• The fleeing pair tried to draw Chen Fan into their fight, but he refused and told them to get lost.
• The pursuers mocked the fugitives and Chen Fan, and one young man summoned a black halberd identical to Jian Tianmo’s weapon.

Chen Fan defeated a young cultivator wielding Jian Tianmo’s Heaven-Piercing Halberd and demanded to know where it had come from. As the young man’s companions attacked, Chen Fan began a soul search, forcing the young man to beg everyone to stop.

• Chen Fan recognized the Heaven-Piercing Halberd as Jian Tianmo’s bonded weapon and questioned the young man about its origins.
• The young man attacked with the halberd, but Chen Fan’s Wuya Sword knocked it from his grasp.
• The young man unleashed Myriad Weapons and Myriad Laws Return to One, but Chen Fan used the Divine Silkworm Bracers, Wuya Sword, and Taiji Diagram to destroy his techniques and pin a sword to his throat.
• Chen Fan demanded to know where the halberd came from while the woman and red-robed man captured their two quarry and brought them over.
• The woman and red-robed man attacked Chen Fan, who ignored them and began searching the young man’s soul; the young man shouted for all of them to stop.

Chen Fan refused to spare the young man after he declined to answer questions, but Fu Hongchen intervened and demanded Chen Fan's sword. Chen Fan fought Fu Hongchen to a standstill, and the woman accompanying Fu Hongchen suspected Chen Fan's Sword Art resembled Gong Jiu's.

• The young man warned Chen Fan that searching his soul would make it explode, but Chen Fan chose to kill him rather than press for answers.
• Fu Hongchen rescued the young man with a sheet of ice, then demanded Chen Fan leave behind the Wuya Sword.
• The young man revealed Fu Hongchen's identity, and the two captives despaired at having attacked him.
• Fu Hongchen attacked Chen Fan, who evaded his strikes with afterimages and countered with Divine Silkworm Threads.
• Chen Fan and Fu Hongchen exchanged hundreds of blows without either gaining the upper hand, while the woman remarked that neither had used his full strength and wondered if Chen Fan's Sword Art came from Gong Jiu.

Chen Fan and Fu Hongchen fought to test their foundations, while Fu Hongchen killed two captured attackers who had interrupted them. Fu Hongchen unleashed his hidden strength and struck at Chen Fan, but Chen Fan’s body was only a decoy, leaving Fu Hongchen ensnared by Divine Silkworm Silk.

• Chen Fan and Fu Hongchen traded blows, each testing the other's foundation without revealing their full strength.
• Fu Hongchen killed the captured man and woman who had ambushed him, then warned his companions not to interfere in his duel with Chen Fan.
• Fu Hongchen prepared his killing move as Chen Fan stayed calm and kept the Immortal Sword Sheath in reserve.
• Fu Hongchen vanished and attacked through a world of ice, extinguishing Chen Fan’s Samadhi True Fire and bringing his blade to Chen Fan’s brow.
• Chen Fan’s body shattered as a decoy, and Divine Silkworm Silk converged around Fu Hongchen and pressed him down.

Chen Fan and Fu Hongchen escalated their duel into a clash of Divine Souls, with Fu Hongchen unleashing his powerful Freeze Ten Thousand Miles technique. Recognizing that he lacked a comparable killing move, Chen Fan summoned the Immortal Sword Sheath to end the battle, and the chapter leaves their final clash unresolved.

• Chen Fan blocked Fu Hongchen with the Wuya Sword, but Fu Hongchen formed a cracking wall of void with Shatter Thousand Feet.
• Chen Fan tried to overwhelm the wall with Reincarnation intent, then used Nirvana Sword Intent to force Fu Hongchen into a Divine Soul clash.
• The collision tore apart the void as Chen Fan's Nirvana Sword Intent met Fu Hongchen's icy Divine Soul.
• Fu Hongchen unleashed Freeze Ten Thousand Miles, while the watching man and woman fled rather than risk being caught in the battle.
• Chen Fan admitted his Divine Soul lacked a powerful killing move and summoned the Immortal Sword Sheath, sending the Wuya Sword into it.

Chen Fan defeated and killed Fu Hongchen with Wuya Sword, then continued along the trial path while Fu Baihou’s group began searching for him. A month later, Chen Fan disguised himself and entered a village, where he stopped at a shop that caught his interest.

• Chen Fan revealed Wuya Sword’s power, and Fu Hongchen admitted defeat, acknowledging that Chen Fan had won.
• Chen Fan killed Fu Hongchen with a sword strike, and Fu Hongchen thanked him before dissolving into Supreme Restrictions.
• Fu Baihou’s group inspected the battlefield, learned that Chen Fan’s Sword Art resembled Gong Jiu’s, and set out to search for him.
• One month later, Chen Fan used the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to disguise himself and entered a village without attracting attention.
• Chen Fan wandered through the village and stopped at a small shop whose merchandise interested him.

Chen Fan visited a bookshop and met the mysterious scholar Yang Jian, who saw through his disguise and gave him an old map of the realm. As Chen Fan prepared to leave, Yang Jian offered him a complete Heavenly Eye.

• Chen Fan entered a village shop seeking a map and questioned the scholar about why he sold books and paintings.
• The scholar claimed that people who did not appreciate his works would see only blank paper, leaving Chen Fan intrigued by his profound Dao aura.
• The scholar gave Chen Fan an old map covering a vast region without asking for Spirit Stones.
• The scholar saw through Chen Fan's altered appearance and recognized the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, then identified himself as Yang Jian.
• Chen Fan introduced himself and thanked Yang Jian, who stopped him from leaving and offered him a complete Heavenly Eye.

Chen Fan learned why the scholar wanted Fu Baihou and Fu Hongchen dead, and discovered that he had already killed Fu Hongchen. The scholar offered Chen Fan his Heavenly Eye in exchange for killing Fu Baihou, leaving Chen Fan to consider a revenge that had become entangled with his own conflict with the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• The scholar offered Chen Fan his intact Heavenly Eye if Chen Fan would kill two people, explaining that he had sworn to his dying wife never to kill her brothers himself.
• The scholar identified the brothers as Fu Baihou and Fu Hongchen, members of the Heavenly Dao Sect who had submitted to the Heavenly Dao after their sister refused.
• Chen Fan revealed that he had already killed Fu Hongchen, prompting the scholar to explain that Fu Hongchen had watched Fu Baihou murder their sister.
• The scholar described how the Heavenly Dao established the Heavenly Dao Sect and its ten thrones, with Fu Baihou killing his wife to secure his standing.
• The scholar warned that Fu Baihou would likely target Chen Fan and asked whether Chen Fan would help him take revenge.

Chen Fan agreed to fuse with Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye and prepare to face Fu Baihou, despite the scholar’s warning that the odds were against him. As the fusion neared completion, Chen Fan’s Heaven-Burning Art stirred, and Yang Jian realized that Chen Fan was not from the Immortal Realm.

• Chen Fan agreed to remain in the village, cultivate, and fuse with the Heavenly Eye rather than seek out Fu Baihou himself.
• Chen Fan told Yang Jian that he had lost to Fu Hongchen in battle but won through his superior foundation, and he welcomed Fu Baihou as a chance to temper himself.
• Yang Jian led Chen Fan into his secluded forest residence and explained that his late companion had built the cottage.
• Yang Jian brought out the Heavenly Eye and began merging it with Chen Fan’s third eye, drawing out the aura of the Supreme Restriction.
• As the fusion neared completion, Chen Fan’s Heaven-Burning Art surged, shocking Yang Jian, who cried out that Chen Fan was not from the Immortal Realm.

Chen Fan fused with the Heavenly Eye and learned that the scholar was Yang Tianji, a descendant of the Yang Family rather than Yang Jian. Yang Tianji revealed that the Heavenly Dao Sect would eventually find them, leaving Chen Fan with a limited time to prepare for his inevitable fight with Fu Baihou.

• Chen Fan and Yang Tianji suppressed the Supreme Restriction and the Heaven-Burning Art, allowing the Heavenly Eye to merge with Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan challenged the scholar's identity, and Yang Tianji admitted he had changed his name after learning that the Heavenly Dao had created them.
• Yang Tianji explained that he was a descendant of the Yang Family and that he had dug out his Heavenly Eye; Chen Fan shared that immortals and demons had perished in his world.
• Chen Fan tested his newly fused Heavenly Eye, which let him see spiritual energy and glimpse Yang Tianji's true essence and Great Dao.
• Yang Tianji warned Chen Fan that the Heavenly Dao Sect would find them within five to ten years, and explained that his bamboo grove had never been in the village.

Chen Fan learned from Yang Tianji how Great Dao realms differed from domains and found a natural Spirit Gathering Array in the bamboo grove. He concealed the cultivation ground and began comprehending the Great Dao of Life and Death Reincarnation.

• Yang Tianji explained that Chen Fan alone could see his manifested realm and that profound Great Dao accumulation could create a small world.
• Yang Tianji clarified that the wooden door was a Teleportation Array and directed Chen Fan to a cultivation ground fifty thousand li into the bamboo grove.
• Chen Fan used his Heavenly Eye to discover that the bamboo stalks formed a dormant natural Spirit Gathering Array.
• Chen Fan activated the array, set up defensive and concealment arrays, and hid himself at its center.
• Chen Fan returned his true essence to his dantian and began comprehending the Great Dao of Life and Death Reincarnation.

Chen Fan spent seven years in a bamboo forest refining his understanding of life, death, and reincarnation, and finally glimpsed how to break through his emotional fetters. The Heavenly Dao Sect arrived before he could complete his comprehension, forcing him to face five pursuers led by Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui.

• Chen Fan meditated in the bamboo forest and concluded that the Great Dao could be pursued without pause, focusing on life, death, and reincarnation.
• After six years, Chen Fan recognized that his attachment to Qin Xian'er, Mu Yunshui, Chen Yi, and Chen Jingjing had become a shackle, and resolved to break it without letting go of them.
• In the seventh year, Chen Fan caught a glimpse of how to forge a supreme Great Dao and believed ten more years would let him succeed.
• Yang Tianji warned Chen Fan that the Heavenly Dao Sect had arrived and gave him a Ten-Thousand-Year Strong Wine Pill to preserve his state of comprehension, though it would intoxicate his Divine Soul.
• Yang Tianji said the five pursuers included Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui, whose strength matched Fu Hongchen's, then left as the group entered the bamboo grove.

After taking the Ten-Thousand-Year Fiery Liquor Pill, Chen Fan preserved his chance to break through but became drunk and lost his usual composure. His memories returned him to his emotionless youth, and he faced Feng Wuji, Xu Wuhui, and their companions with chilling calm as they prepared to kill him.

• Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui arrived with three Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators to confront Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan swallowed the Ten-Thousand-Year Fiery Liquor Pill, which preserved his breakthrough opportunity and strengthened his Burning Wood Chapter while leaving his Divine Sense intoxicated.
• Chen Fan recalled his master teaching him to remain emotionless and to choose death over surrender when facing a great calamity.
• The liquor temporarily sealed Chen Fan's emotions and brought him back to his former, detached self, exciting the Wuya Sword and its Sword Spirit.
• Feng Wuji dismissed Chen Fan's changed demeanor and declared that he would kill him to learn how Fu Hongchen had died.

Chen Fan entered a ruthless state under the effects of the wine and faced Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui in battle. He unleashed the Nine Palaces Sword Art, leaving the outcome uncertain as he prepared to use its strongest sword.

• Chen Fan's killing intent surged after Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui threatened to kill him, while Yang Tianji watched from the bamboo grove.
• Xu Wuhui asked Chen Fan his name, but Chen Fan refused to answer and raised the Wuya Sword.
• Feng Wuji attacked with a hurricane shaped like an ancient tiger, and Xu Wuhui followed with his sword art.
• Chen Fan summoned nine figures with the Nine Palaces Sword Art and prepared to counter their attacks.
• Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui realized Chen Fan was forming a Nine Palaces Sword Formation to unleash Nine-Nine Restoration.

Chen Fan combined Nine-Nine Restoration with Nine Swords Into One, using the ninefold sword strike to kill three members of the Heavenly Dao Sect and surprise Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui. As he launched a further attack against the two survivors, Yang Tianji recognized his sword as the Unfeeling Sword and wondered how Chen Fan had entered that state.

• Chen Fan switched between sword techniques and completed the Nine Palaces Sword Formation as nine figures began Nine-Nine Restoration.
• Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui attacked to interrupt Chen Fan, but he stopped the move and drew his nine figures back together into Nine Swords Into One.
• Chen Fan unleashed Nine-Nine Restoration with nine layers of power, killing the three Heavenly Dao Sect members while Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui retreated.
• Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui realized Chen Fan's distant figure was an afterimage, but Chen Fan appeared with the Wuya Sword and enveloped them in Sword Intent.
• Feng Wuji summoned a dragon-shaped tornado to evade Chen Fan's attack, while Xu Wuhui struggled to find Chen Fan's true body.
• Yang Tianji recognized Chen Fan's sword as the Unfeeling Sword and wondered how Chen Fan could be unfeeling after previously showing emotion.

Chen Fan used his desperate swordsmanship to overwhelm Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui, then faced their counterattack by reincarnating himself into the future. His transformed aura sent both opponents fleeing, while Yang Tianji watched from hiding.

• Chen Fan’s relentless Nine-Nine Restoration forced Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui to defend without landing a blow on him.
• Yang Tianji watched the fight and decided that Chen Fan was the person he had been looking for.
• When Chen Fan’s sword sequence ended, Feng Wuji unleashed the Purple-Gold Fan’s void-charged winds and Xu Wuhui attacked with One Sword, No Regrets.
• Chen Fan poured his true essence and life force into Reincarnation, summoning the power of his future self.
• Chen Fan emerged weathered and charged with profound Dao rhythms, prompting Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui to flee.

Chen Fan used Reincarnation to summon his future power, killing Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui before collapsing from exhaustion. Yang Tianji rescued him and erased the traces of the battle, while the Heavenly Dao Sect launched a brutal search; three years later, Chen Fan remained hidden.

• Chen Fan unleashed his future late Soul Division Stage strength and killed Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui with the Wuya Sword.
• Yang Tianji gave the exhausted Chen Fan a spiritual pill, carried him away, and burned the bamboo forest and the bodies.
• Fu Baihou discovered that Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui's life-bound Jade Tokens had shattered and vowed to find Chen Fan.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect hunted for Chen Fan, and hundreds of villages were destroyed as its forces suppressed resistance.
• Mo Longyou suspected Chen Fan had revealed something that drew the Heavenly Dao's attention, but the search eventually stalled.
• Three years passed without anyone finding Chen Fan; only Yang Tianji knew where he was.

Chen Fan awoke after three years of sleep aboard a boat in the Boundless Bitter Sea, with only a hundred years of lifespan remaining after his heartless-state battle. He reflected on the battle’s gains and risks, then began cultivating to advance his Great Dao.

• Chen Fan woke after three years and learned from Yang Tianji that he had been sleeping aboard a boat in the Boundless Bitter Sea.
• Chen Fan recalled that his heartless state had killed Feng Wuji and Xu Wuhui but consumed thousands of years of lifespan and much of his true essence.
• Chen Fan recognized that the battle had deepened his understanding of Life and Death Reincarnation and the Nine Palaces Sword Art, but resolved not to enter the heartless state again unless absolutely necessary.
• Yang Tianji told Chen Fan to remember their agreement, explained that the shore lay behind him, and departed.
• Chen Fan sat cross-legged in the boat and resumed cultivating to break through his Great Dao realm and strengthen himself.

Chen Fan broke through to a deeper understanding of the Great Dao of Life and Death and Reincarnation, then began exploring the dark half of his inner Taiji Diagram to discover how its Dao resonance worked. He made only slight progress toward the white moon within the darkness, while the dark half of the diagram quietly began to shine.

• Chen Fan pushed open the gate of the Great Dao and entered a deeper level of understanding beyond cultivation realms.
• Chen Fan assessed his strength against Fu Hongchen and Fu Baihou, then decided he needed a stronger killing move before challenging powerful opponents.
• Chen Fan suspected the Dao resonance of Life and Death might let him restore himself or survive death, and resolved to comprehend it.
• Chen Fan sent his Divine Sense into the dark half of the starry Taiji Diagram and moved toward the white moon within it.
• After several dozen days, Chen Fan confirmed that the white moon had drawn slightly closer, though his understanding had barely advanced and the dark half of the Taiji Diagram began to brighten.

Chen Fan abandoned his attempt to deepen his understanding of the Dao Rhythm of Life and Death and turned to deducing the fourth sword of the Six Swords of Nirvana. His Divine Sense struck an invisible barrier within the Nirvana Sword Intent, and he realized that something he carried might be able to break through it.

• After a year of meditation, Chen Fan saw that the Taiji Diagram in his dantian had grown stronger, but decided he could not spend more of his remaining lifespan pursuing the Dao Rhythm of Life and Death.
• Chen Fan focused on the Nirvana Sword Intent and tried to deduce the fourth sword using his experience and mastery of the Nine Palaces Sword Art.
• Chen Fan plunged his Divine Sense into the Nirvana Sword Intent and pressed through its deathly aura and mountains of bones.
• Chen Fan's Divine Sense met an invisible wall that he could not cross, leaving him uncertain how to advance before Fu Baihou found him.
• Chen Fan realized that something more powerful than nirvana, already on his person, could break through the obstacle.