Recaps

Chen Fan used the Dao resonance of Life and Death Reincarnation to break through the barrier in his Nirvana Sword Intent and discovered the fourth sword, the Nether Bone Cold Flame. After mastering its initial Dao resonance, he left the little wooden boat, ready to seek out Fu Baihou.

• Chen Fan guided the Dao resonance of Life and Death Reincarnation into his Nirvana Sword Intent and broke through its invisible barrier.
• Chen Fan's Divine Sense encountered a Bone Tower covered in Nether Bone Cold Flame and realized the cold flame was a sword intent that could injure the Divine Soul.
• Chen Fan advanced through the Bone Tower over two years and mastered the initial Dao resonance of Nether Bone Cold Flame, but could not reach its fifth floor.
• Chen Fan withdrew his Divine Sense after a cultivation session that lasted more than three years, bringing his time aboard the little wooden boat to ten years.
• Chen Fan stood up, decided to leave the bitter sea, and prepared to seek out Fu Baihou for a fight.

Chen Fan arrived at Boundless Village, a fishing village of ordinary humans in the relic, and learned that its people worshipped a Buddha who had once saved them. The burly fisherman warned him about the forbidden Five Finger Mountain to the east, though no one in the village had ever seen it.

• Chen Fan entered the mist-shrouded village and discovered that its residents were genuine mortals, not beings created by Supreme Restrictions.
• A child named Xiao Feng brought Chen Fan to his father after Chen Fan stopped him from running into him.
• Xiao Feng’s father invited Chen Fan into his home and explained that the villagers had revered Buddha for generations because one had saved them.
• Xiao Feng’s father said the villagers had never cultivated and that their ancestors warned them not to go to a mountain in the east.
• Chen Fan learned that the forbidden mountain was called Five Finger Mountain.

Chen Fan learned that the fishing village had been moved from another world, strengthening his suspicion that the barren land was part of the Immortal Realm. He traveled east toward Five Finger Mountain, but concealed himself after detecting two hurried cultivators.

• Chen Fan asked the burly man to search the village records for when the Buddha had saved the village.
• The burly man's wife recalled her grandfather saying the village had once belonged to a larger world and that cultivators appeared only after it was brought here.
• Chen Fan suspected the Heavenly Dao had moved part of the Immortal Realm and decided to investigate Five Finger Mountain.
• Chen Fan left the village and traveled east across the barren land for several days.
• Chen Fan detected two middle-stage Divine Soul cultivators flying east over a hill and concealed himself before approaching them on the Wuya Sword.

Chen Fan overheard two Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators discussing the key beneath Five Finger Mountain and Fu Baihou’s plan to invade Chen Fan’s world. After capturing and questioning them, Chen Fan disguised himself as one of them and forced the other to lead him toward the mountain.

• Chen Fan secretly followed two Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators and heard that their sect planned to open Five Finger Mountain, where the key to escaping this world was hidden.
• Chen Fan captured the cultivators and learned that the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master had ordered the gathering under the Heavenly Dao’s command.
• Chen Fan demanded that one cultivator lead him to Five Finger Mountain and threatened to kill him if he exposed Chen Fan’s identity.
• Chen Fan used the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to copy the appearance and aura of the cultivator he had struck, and the other cultivator mistook him for the Six-Eared Macaque.
• The surviving cultivator led Chen Fan onward while Chen Fan noticed but did not reveal the man’s hostile glance at his companion.

Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators gathered at Five Finger Mountain to enter its dangerous depths, with Throne Lord Fu Baihou and others awaiting the remaining forces. Chen Fan arrived disguised among them and learned that the Six-Eared Macaque and Gong Jiu had previously entered the mountain, while his traveling companion planned to leave him once they went inside.

• Over a thousand Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators assembled before Five Finger Mountain, and Throne Lords including Fu Baihou arrived to await the rest.
• Fu Baihou argued with a smiling Throne Lord and a beautiful woman about the Sect Master's plan to open Five Finger Mountain and the risks of entering it.
• Chen Fan used the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to blend into the gathering while listening to the cultivators discuss the mountain's dangers and their hopes of leaving the realm.
• A woman said the Six-Eared Macaque and Gong Jiu had entered Five Finger Mountain before but returned without reaching its end, and Chen Fan wondered whether he might encounter Gong Jiu.
• Chen Fan's companion quietly said he would leave on his own after they entered, and Chen Fan agreed, prompting the cultivator to thank him.

Chen Fan followed Heavenly Dao Sect into Five Finger Mountain, intending to stop Fu Baihou from obtaining the key that could let the sect enter the Great Immortal Cultivation World. After the ten Throne Lords broke the mountain’s outer barrier, the cultivators entered despite Chen Fan’s growing sense of danger, and an icy wind he recognized swept toward them.

• Chen Fan resolved to deal with a hostile cultivator inside Five Finger Mountain and later find a chance to strike at Fu Baihou.
• Fu Baihou ordered Heavenly Dao Sect’s nearly ten thousand cultivators to enter the mountain and seize a black jade box.
• The ten Throne Lords joined forces to shatter Five Finger Mountain’s Supreme Restriction, revealing an eerily still and lifeless landscape.
• Chen Fan sensed a powerful danger in the mountain but entered with the crowd, reasoning that he had to prevent Heavenly Dao Sect from reaching the Great Immortal Cultivation World.
• An icy wind blew over the entering cultivators, and Chen Fan found it familiar.

Chen Fan entered Five Finger Mountain with the Heavenly Dao Sect and suspected the mountain held genuine Nether Bone Cold Flame that could greatly strengthen him. As a scheming cultivator moved away from him, Chen Fan secretly sent cold-flame Dao rhythm into the man’s Divine Soul, and a sudden shout ahead suggested the attack had taken effect.

• Chen Fan sensed a Divine Soul-assailing chill from Five Finger Mountain and suspected genuine Nether Bone Cold Flame lay within it.
• The Six-Eared Macaque, Gong Jiu, and other legendary experts arrived, startling the cultivators gathered outside the mountain.
• Fu Baihou led the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Thrones and more than ten thousand cultivators into Five Finger Mountain while the experts stayed behind.
• Chen Fan recognized Gong Jiu as his master’s Supreme Restriction avatar and considered how the cold flame could improve his chances against powerful opponents.
• A cultivator tried to leave Chen Fan’s side, so Chen Fan secretly sent cold-flame Dao rhythm into the man’s Divine Soul as they entered the valley.
• The cultivator shouted “Throne” from ahead, and Chen Fan smiled, believing his attack had worked.

Chen Fan secretly killed a Heavenly Dao Sect cultivator to sow panic, but Fu Baihou kept the crowd moving by claiming an infiltrator was responsible. The sect reached an abyss beneath Five Finger Mountain, where Fu Baihou began selecting cultivators to descend with him.

• Chen Fan’s Nether Bone Cold Flame killed a Heavenly Dao Sect cultivator who had shouted to the Throne Lords, spreading panic through the crowd.
• Fu Baihou said an infiltrator had secretly killed the cultivator and claimed the Sect Master was watching, calming the group and leading them onward.
• Chen Fan suspected Fu Baihou knew his identity but was concealing it, and resolved to wait for his own chance to confront him.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect party emerged from the mist and found a vast abyss whose cold air made their divine souls feel chilled.
• Chen Fan sensed that the cold flame Dao essence within him was drawn toward the abyss, while Six-Eared Macaque, Gong Jiu, and others entered the valley at a distance.
• Fu Baihou turned to several Heavenly Dao Sect members and told them to descend into the dangerous abyss with him.

Fu Baihou forced Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators to test the abyss before leading the rest down a hidden wind passage to a cave entrance. Chen Fan saw the frozen bodies of those sent ahead, entered the tunnel, and heard a cultivator notice that Lu San had disappeared.

• Fu Baihou ordered several cultivators to leap into the abyss, then sent another group down after the Throne Lords judged the first test insufficient.
• When the second group vanished, Fu Baihou led the nine other Throne Lords down a white-mist wind passage and threatened to execute anyone who fell behind.
• Chen Fan followed the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators into the abyss and noticed the Six-Eared Macaque, Gong Jiu, and others arriving at the cliff.
• The wind passage guided Chen Fan to a cave entrance, where he saw cultivators, including those sent down first, frozen into the abyss's rock wall.
• Chen Fan entered the dark tunnel after the Throne Lords, and a cultivator behind him wondered where Lu San had gone.

Chen Fan realized Fu Baihou had abandoned the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators as sacrificial offerings and rushed out of the cave before its entrance was sealed. He joined the powerful figures by a newly revealed Bronze Gate, where Gong Jiu confronted him and Chen Fan gave his name.

• The cultivators discovered that Li Yu, Lin Hong'er, the ten Throne Lords, and most of the people ahead had vanished from the tunnel.
• Chen Fan suspected Fu Baihou had left the remaining cultivators behind as sacrifices, but waited for Six-Eared Macaque and the others to arrive.
• When the powerful figures stopped at the cave entrance, Chen Fan hurried out and narrowly avoided being trapped as a boulder sealed the entrance behind him.
• A rock wall opened to reveal a Bronze Gate whose ice-covered keyhole began to thaw, and Chen Fan retreated with the powerful figures as the wind passage shifted.
• Gong Jiu recognized the Dao aura in Chen Fan's Nine Palaces Footwork, and Six-Eared Macaque also studied him; when Gong Jiu asked who he was, Chen Fan calmly answered, "Chen Fan."

Chen Fan and the powerful figures entered the Bronze Gate in search of the Nether Bone Cold Flame, passing through a lightless, freezing passage. They found fresh footprints left by Fu Baihou’s group and reached an open-air exit, where Chen Fan was stunned by what lay beyond.

• Gong Jiu tested Chen Fan, warned him that killing him would be easy, then led the others toward the Bronze Gate.
• The Six-Eared Macaque asked Chen Fan whether he was someone’s disciple, and Chen Fan gave an ambiguous answer before following the others.
• Gong Jiu opened the Bronze Gate, and the group entered a pitch-black passage filled with a chill colder than the wind beneath the cliff.
• A powerful figure noticed that the Heavenly Dao Sect had entered ahead of them through another entrance, and the Six-Eared Macaque dismissed their head start.
• After traveling for two hours, Chen Fan and the others found fresh footprints and reached an open-air exit, where Chen Fan was shaken by the sight beyond it.

Chen Fan followed Six-Eared Macaque and the others across a deadly snowfield to an ancient ice tower, suspecting it held the supreme treasure the monkey sought. Six-Eared Macaque attacked him to seize his Formation Disk, and Chen Fan prepared to face what he believed would be the greatest trial of his journey.

• Chen Fan crossed a snowfield filled with frozen cultivators and realized Six-Eared Macaque was waiting for the right moment to take his ancient bronze Formation Disk.
• Chen Fan and the others reached an ancient three-story ice tower, where Gong Jiu and the powerful cultivators entered while Six-Eared Macaque stayed outside.
• Six-Eared Macaque revealed its killing intent and told Chen Fan he had to die because he was that person's disciple.
• Six-Eared Macaque attacked Chen Fan with a golden staff, but Chen Fan met the blow with his Wuya Sword and matched the monkey's strength.
• Chen Fan tricked Six-Eared Macaque into revealing that no one could obtain the treasure in the tower without it, then accepted the fight as a chance to temper himself.

Chen Fan fought the Six-Eared Macaque and struggled against the overwhelming power of its Dao Rhyme. Rather than retreat or rely on the Immortal Sword Sheath, he chose to press on through Dao comprehension and revealed a fifth Dao Rhyme.

• Chen Fan and the Six-Eared Macaque exchanged blows, shattering the frozen ground, and the monkey mocked Chen Fan's strength.
• The monkey unleashed its golden Dao Rhyme, while Chen Fan brought forth his Taiji Diagram, Nirvana Sword Intent, and Nether Bone Cold Flame Dao Rhyme.
• Chen Fan sent his weak cold flame toward the monkey's golden sun, but the monkey expanded it into a vast golden lake and nearly crushed Chen Fan with its pressure.
• The monkey claimed it had slain a Fusion Realm cultivator, shaking Chen Fan's confidence and making him consider using the Immortal Sword Sheath.
• Chen Fan cleared his thoughts, decided to keep fighting through Dao Rhymes, and revealed a fifth Dao Rhyme matching the monkey's golden light.

Chen Fan used the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to match the Six-Eared Macaque, but the macaque unleashed greater power and destroyed his Nether Bone Cold Flame. Chen Fan drew the Wuya Sword from the Immortal Sword Sheath and rejected the macaque’s offer of a truce, leaving them poised for another clash.

• Chen Fan revealed his Five Dao essences fused through the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and held the Six-Eared Macaque at bay.
• The Six-Eared Macaque used the Transformation Formula to unleash a golden sea that overwhelmed Chen Fan’s Dao essence and extinguished his Nether Bone Cold Flame.
• Chen Fan brought out the Immortal Sword Sheath and drew the Wuya Sword, preparing to fight despite doubting his chances.
• The Six-Eared Macaque offered to stop fighting to avoid injury, but Chen Fan refused and attacked its golden sea with a powerful sword strike.
• The Six-Eared Macaque grew furious and recognized Chen Fan’s relentless Dao Heart as a threat.

Chen Fan pressed his fight with the Six-Eared Macaque while probing it about the Heavenly Dao Sect’s plans for the sealed realm. The monkey revealed that the Heavenly Emperor was the Heavenly Dao—and was not dead.

• Chen Fan wounded the Six-Eared Macaque with the Wuya Sword, but the monkey held back rather than fight without restraint.
• The Six-Eared Macaque offered to share half the fortune and leave Chen Fan’s Formation Disk untouched if they ended the battle.
• The monkey explained that Five Finger Mountain was both the key and the lock sealing the realm.
• Chen Fan asked who had established the Heavenly Dao Sect and sought to reclaim the realm, and the monkey answered, “Heavenly Dao.”
• When Chen Fan challenged the monkey to clarify, it finally revealed that the Heavenly Dao was the Heavenly Emperor and that he was not dead.

Chen Fan learned that the Heavenly Emperor had replaced the Heavenly Dao and planned to use the ruin to invade the Immortal Cultivation World. He entered the ice tower seeking the Nether Bone Cold Flame, while Gong Jiu and an ally waited for a chance to follow the Six-Eared Macaque.

• The Six-Eared Macaque confirmed that the Heavenly Emperor now manipulated events and that he knew no more about the past.
• Chen Fan concluded that the Heavenly Dao had protected the Immortal Cultivation World and that the Heavenly Emperor planned to break the Five Finger Mountain seal and conquer it.
• Chen Fan followed the Six-Eared Macaque into the ice tower, hoping to find the Nether Bone Cold Flame and gain strength.
• Chen Fan found footprints leading underground, then chose the right passage after his cold flame Dao essence guided him toward it.
• Gong Jiu and an ally emerged from the left passage and decided to wait before following the Six-Eared Macaque to seize its opportunity.

Chen Fan passed through a series of strange, frostless chambers and found the true Immortal-Demon Mural depicting the ancient war. After recognizing legendary figures and his own sword sheath in the mural, he suspected others from the Great Immortal Cultivation World had reached the ruins before him and continued toward the Nether Bone Cold Flame.

• Chen Fan crossed a corridor lined with corpses frozen in the ice and entered a series of identical, frostless stone chambers.
• After passing through six doors, Chen Fan remembered the chambers resembled the place where he had once seen a blurred Immortal-Demon Mural.
• Chen Fan found the true mural and recognized Equal to Heaven, True Lord Erlang Yang Jian, and a white-clad immortal maiden among its figures.
• Chen Fan spotted the Fat Daoist in the battle scene and realized he had survived the ancient war.
• Chen Fan recognized four sword sheaths on a man in black, including his own, and concluded the man resembled Tongtian, the Sect Master of the Interception Sect.
• Chen Fan suspected that other people from the Great Immortal Cultivation World, including Jian Tianmo, had visited the ruins, then followed the cold flame's Dao rhythm onward.

Chen Fan reached the frozen Stone Chamber where the Nether Bone Cold Flame was hidden and used his cold flame Dao essence to absorb the icy power blocking his way. He realized that the chamber’s countless ice pillars were the true form of the cold flame, and sent his flame to absorb them.

• Chen Fan found the final Stone Chamber sealed by ice pillars and discovered their chill could cut through his powerful body.
• Chen Fan sent his weakened cold flame Dao essence into an ice pillar, where it absorbed the chill and restored his Dao essence and injuries.
• Chen Fan watched the ice pillar crack, shrink, and vanish as his cold flame Dao essence grew stronger.
• Chen Fan entered the chamber and found no visible flame, but his Dao essence urged him deeper among the ice pillars.
• Chen Fan realized the ice pillars themselves were the true Nether Bone Cold Flame and began absorbing one of them.

Chen Fan absorbed the Nether Bone Cold Flame from the chamber’s ice pillars, then discovered and captured its hidden core. He left with greatly strengthened Dao essence and a tiny flame tower inside his dantian, returning to find the passageway piled with corpses.

• Chen Fan sent dozens of white flames to devour the ice pillars, rapidly increasing his cold-flame Dao essence and comprehending its true meaning.
• After draining the chamber, Chen Fan sensed a remaining cold flame but could not locate it, so he left and secretly returned using a Nine Palaces Footwork afterimage.
• A ghostly flame gathered into a tiny Bone Tower, and Chen Fan’s one hundred and eight flames surrounded and absorbed it.
• The Bone Tower flame transformed into a tiny tower in Chen Fan’s dantian, strengthening his Dao essence and raising his estimated chance of defeating the Six-Eared Macaque to sixty percent.
• Chen Fan left the chamber and returned to the passageway, where countless corpses covered the ground.

Chen Fan tracked down the Six-Eared Macaque and Gong Jiu, who were trapped in a standoff over a hidden fortuitous opportunity. He had his Primary Souls steal their Storage Rings, then discovered something inside the monkey’s ring that shocked him.

• Chen Fan followed the Six-Eared Macaque’s golden hair through the underground passages and found the monkey, Gong Jiu, and several injured experts in a dark stone chamber.
• The monkey urged Chen Fan to approach and help seize the opportunity, while Gong Jiu warned him that entering could trigger a deadly backlash.
• Chen Fan realized the group’s Divine Souls were restraining the monkey and that the monkey wanted him to break the stalemate and bear the consequences.
• Chen Fan summoned his two Primary Souls and ordered them to take the Storage Rings from the monkey and Gong Jiu without touching the dangerous aura in the chamber’s center.
• Chen Fan erased the imprints on both rings and searched the monkey’s ring first, where he found something that left him deeply shaken.

Chen Fan discovered a Chaos Green Lotus in the monkey’s Storage Ring and escaped the ancient tower with it before the monkey and Gong Jiu could pursue him. He continued searching for the Heavenly Dao Sect’s trail to stop the seal on Five Finger Mountain from being broken, then rushed toward a strange burst of Immortal Qi.

• Chen Fan found the Chaos Green Lotus in the monkey’s Storage Ring and felt his Divine Soul power rise when he sensed its aura.
• Chen Fan left with the monkey’s and Gong Jiu’s Storage Rings, while the monkey and Gong Jiu agreed to cooperate and pursue him after withdrawing their Divine Soul Dao auras.
• Chen Fan emerged from the Ice Tower and crossed the blood-red meltwater, where countless frozen cultivators’ corpses floated.
• Chen Fan lost the Heavenly Dao Sect’s tracks but stayed behind to search for them and prevent the seal on Five Finger Mountain from being broken.
• Chen Fan saw white mist rise among the mountains and burst into seven colors, recognized the sign of Immortal Qi, and charged toward it.

Chen Fan tried to stop the Heavenly Dao Sect from opening Five Finger Mountain’s seal, but enemies closing in forced him to break through to the late stage of Spirit Severing. Immortal Qi flooded his body, and the chapter ended with his flesh splitting apart under the strain.

• Chen Fan raced toward Five Finger Mountain as Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators widened a gap in its seal and released Immortal Qi.
• Monkey, Gong Jiu, and their companions pursued Chen Fan, leaving him trapped between them and the three Thrones guarding the mountain.
• Chen Fan released the suppression on his dantian and began breaking through to the late stage of Spirit Severing.
• The escaping Immortal Qi surged into Chen Fan, overwhelming his meridians as he chose to endure the infusion and rely on his body and the Heaven-Burning Art.
• Chen Fan completed his breakthrough, but the Immortal Qi continued pouring into him, and his body split apart as the Thrones recognized him as the human Fu Baihou was hunting.

Chen Fan struggled to contain the Immortal Qi flooding from the breach in Five Finger Mountain and attacked the Heavenly Dao Sect to stop them widening it. His inexhaustible power drew the monkey, Gong Jiu, and other experts into a fight, and he ended the chapter targeting the sect’s thousands of cultivators.

• As the Heavenly Dao Sect widened the breach, Chen Fan’s Heaven-Burning Art could not absorb the surging Immortal Qi, and he considered using the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Chen Fan charged the mountain peak and killed a Heavenly Dao Sect cultivator and more than a dozen others with a powerful sword strike.
• Chen Fan unleashed wave after wave of sword arts, using the replenishing Immortal Qi to keep fighting as the three Throne Lords blocked his attacks.
• The Six-Eared Macaque, Gong Jiu, and other experts arrived, and the monkey attacked Chen Fan; Chen Fan summoned the Immortal Sword Sheath and faced the combined group.
• As the monkey, Gong Jiu, and the others attacked him, Chen Fan aimed his next strike at the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators below, leaving the three Throne Lords unable to protect them.

Chen Fan stopped the Heavenly Dao Sect from breaking the seal of Five Finger Mountain by unleashing a devastating sword strike, but the Immortal Qi flooding his body threatened to overwhelm him. With the monkey refusing to share the green lotus, Chen Fan prepared to keep fighting and target the powerful figures who were already injured.

• Chen Fan used a golden sword strike to kill more than a hundred Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators and disrupt their attempt to break the seal.
• Chen Fan evaded the monkey and combined nine uses of Nine-Nine Restoration into a powerful Nine Swords Into One, which killed or injured thousands of Heavenly Dao Sect members.
• Gong Jiu and the monkey recognized Chen Fan's formidable strength, while a Throne Lord lamented that the sect's chance to escape had been lost.
• Chen Fan warned a Throne Lord to speak only after escaping and realized that the Immortal Qi pouring into him could soon make him lose control.
• The monkey demanded the green lotus, rejected Chen Fan's offer to split it and work together, and forced Chen Fan to prepare to attack the already-injured opponents.

Chen Fan used Reincarnation to borrow the strength of his future self, reaching Fusion stage at the cost of his lifespan. He intercepted Fu Baihou and the Heavenly Dao Sect Thrones, then struck one of them down as they tried to retreat.

• Chen Fan unleashed the Snow Studio Sword Art with the Nether Bone Cold Flame, putting Gong Jiu, Monkey, and the other experts under pressure.
• Fu Baihou and six other Heavenly Dao Sect Thrones returned, leaving Chen Fan facing overwhelming odds and fearing they would resume trying to break the seal on Five Finger Mountain.
• Chen Fan invoked the Dao resonance of Reincarnation, spending his lifespan to borrow the cultivation of his future self and attain Fusion stage strength.
• Fu Baihou ordered the Thrones to retreat, but Chen Fan appeared in their path and challenged their claim to represent the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Fan slashed at Fu Baihou with the Wuya Sword, and a Throne beside him was caught by the strike and lost more than half his head.