Recaps

Chen Fan exhausted his lifespan to reach the mid-stage Body Integration Realm and vanished after overwhelming the Heavenly Dao Sect’s experts. A terrifying presence then darkened the sky above Five Finger Mountain, striking Gong Jiu and sending everyone fleeing.

• Chen Fan used the Wuya Sword and Nether Bone Cold Flame to attack Fu Baihou and the other throne experts, who countered with their Supreme Restrictions.
• Chen Fan invoked Reincarnation again, spending the rest of his lifespan to advance to the mid-stage Body Integration Realm.
• Chen Fan and the Wuya Sword disappeared, leaving the fighters unable to locate him as they cautiously regrouped.
• Monkey spotted something in the sky and fled, prompting Gong Jiu and the others to follow.
• A black radiance darkened the sky, and a streak of light pierced Gong Jiu and severed his sword arm.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect experts scattered as the sky brightened, and one fighter looked up in terror.

Chen Fan unleashed a sword rain beneath Five Finger Mountain, killing Fu Baihou and the other Kings, though the Six-Eared Macaque escaped. Facing death and fearing that the Heavenly Emperor would soon threaten his friends, Chen Fan rejected fate and swallowed the Chaos Green Lotus.

• Chen Fan summoned countless swords that killed the Kings beneath Five Finger Mountain, including Gong Jiu.
• Fu Baihou used a demonic armor to withstand the swords until his True Essence ran out, then died beneath them.
• The Six-Eared Macaque escaped after seeing through Chen Fan's concealed identity, and Chen Fan took Fu Baihou's armor.
• Chen Fan realized his lifespan was ending and feared he would awaken too late to save his friends from the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Fan declared that he would change his fate and swallowed the Chaos Green Lotus.

With only half an hour left to live, Chen Fan sacrificed himself to seal the gap in Five Finger Mountain and vanished inside it. Three years later, he had rebuilt his body within the Chaos Green Lotus and reached the peak of the late Divine Soul Realm, but remained trapped beneath the mountain, unable to reach the Body Integration Realm without heavenly tribulation.

• Chen Fan discovered that void power prevented Five Finger Mountain's seal from repairing the gap, then leapt into it with the Wuya Sword to pierce the barrier.
• The array patterns scattered, and Five Finger Mountain sealed the gap, while Chen Fan did not emerge.
• Several months later, the Six-Eared Macaque returned, found Chen Fan missing, and resumed guarding the exit.
• Over the next three years, Immortal Qi nourished the land above Five Finger Mountain as Chen Fan's Divine Soul and body were restored within the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Chen Fan cultivated to the peak of the late Divine Soul Realm but realized he could not leave the lotus or reach the Body Integration Realm without heavenly tribulation.

Chen Fan spent ten years cultivating inside the azure lotus while waiting for a chance to leave Five Finger Mountain. When the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Sect Master arrived and ordered the mountain’s seal broken, the Six-Eared Macaque survived her attack and entered the mountain.

• Chen Fan rejected the idea of dying again to improve his Dao charm and continued cultivating inside the azure lotus, where ten years of seclusion greatly strengthened him.
• The black-robed Heavenly Dao Sect Sect Master arrived at Five Finger Mountain and demanded that Monkey submit or die.
• Monkey attacked the Sect Master, but she opened a Dark Void Realm vortex, destroyed his clones, and sucked him inside.
• The Sect Master told a young cultivator to order the sect to enter Five Finger Mountain and break the seal in three days.
• After they left, the Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Monkey had been a false body and entered Five Finger Mountain.

After waiting beneath Five Finger Mountain, Chen Fan escaped when the Heavenly Dao Sect reopened a gap and learned that its followers planned to invade the Great Immortal Cultivation World. He shattered their formation and emerged above the mountain, leaving the startled disciples staring at him.

• Chen Fan realized the Heavenly Dao Sect had returned to break open Five Finger Mountain and waited for a gap to appear.
• After a day, Chen Fan escaped through the opening, and the Chaos Green Lotus crumbled into dust in his hand.
• Several hundred Heavenly Dao Sect experts discussed their plan to enter the Immortal Cultivation World and slaughter its people.
• Chen Fan overheard their plans and thrust the Wuya Sword into the gap, shattering the formation and escaping.
• The gap sealed behind Chen Fan, and the Heavenly Dao Sect experts recognized him as a human who had emerged from beneath Five Finger Mountain.

Chen Fan returned to Five Finger Mountain and killed the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators who threatened its seal. He joined forces with the Six-Eared Macaque to hunt down the Heavenly Dao Sect's Sect Master, and they left together to find her.

• Chen Fan sensed a familiar aura and ignored the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators who challenged him.
• Chen Fan used Nine-Nine Restoration and the Wuya Sword to kill several hundred Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators.
• The Six-Eared Macaque confronted Chen Fan about consuming the Chaos Green Lotus and said it had changed its mind about their past conflict.
• The Six-Eared Macaque asked Chen Fan to help kill the Heavenly Dao Sect's Sect Master, and Chen Fan agreed.
• The Six-Eared Macaque led Chen Fan toward the exit of Five Finger Mountain to find the Sect Master.

Chen Fan and Monkey reached the Heavenly Dao Sect and challenged its powerful sect master, who refused to leave her compound. They began demolishing the sect to force her out, and a terrifying pressure finally erupted from within.

• Chen Fan and Monkey found the Heavenly Dao Sect and assessed the sect master's strength as far beyond the Soul Division Stage.
• Monkey called for the sect master to come out, but she told them to enter or leave.
• Chen Fan proposed destroying the compound, and he and Monkey attacked its gates, buildings, and protective formation.
• As the compound neared ruin, a cold snort and immense pressure surged from inside.

Chen Fan and Monkey entered the ruined dojo and discovered that the Heavenly Dao Sect's Sect Master had trapped the entrance while preparing to escape. Chen Fan exposed the escape attempt by destroying the remaining dojo, and he and Monkey moved to stop the black-robed figure.

• The Heavenly Dao Sect's Sect Master unleashed Dao-infused stones, and Chen Fan and Monkey fought through the barrage before entering the dojo.
• Monkey fled from the dark passage, while Chen Fan escaped its Dark Void Realm by using an afterimage.
• Monkey and Chen Fan realized the Sect Master had blocked the entrance and was stalling for time.
• Chen Fan's Heavenly Eye revealed a black-robed figure forming a vortex atop a formation-covered altar to escape.
• Chen Fan destroyed the remaining dojo, disrupting the figure's ritual, and he and Monkey charged the wounded figure.

Chen Fan and Monkey struggled to stop the black-robed man, whose Supreme Heavenly Formation blocked their attacks while he prepared to leave. Chen Fan gambled that the Heaven-Burning Art could break the formation and urged Monkey to activate a Teleportation Array aimed at Five Finger Mountain; the chapter ended as Monkey began activating it.

• The black-robed man's Supreme Heavenly Formation repelled Chen Fan and Monkey's attacks, and Monkey failed to break through it with his golden staff.
• Chen Fan suspected the formation was connected to the Supreme Restriction and considered using the Heaven-Burning Art to destroy it.
• Monkey revealed that he had prepared a Teleportation Array to send them to Five Finger Mountain, but admitted it could not affect the black-robed man as long as the formation remained intact.
• Chen Fan asked Monkey to finish setting up the array and trust him to break the formation at the right moment.
• As the black-robed man neared completion of his secret art, Chen Fan shouted for Monkey to activate the Teleportation Array, and Monkey began doing so.

Chen Fan and Monkey used the Heaven-Burning Art and Monkey’s staff to destroy the Supreme Heavenly Formation, then followed the black-robed man through the Teleportation Array to Five Finger Mountain. The mountain’s holy light sealed the man and resisted their attacks, but Chen Fan remained certain he could still be killed.

• Chen Fan unleashed his Heaven-Burning true essence and shattered the Supreme Heavenly Formation, preventing the black-robed man from escaping through the activated Teleportation Array.
• Monkey struck the weakened formation with its staff and destroyed it completely.
• Chen Fan, Monkey, and the black-robed man were transported to Five Finger Mountain, where the mountain’s holy light sealed the man’s cultivation and began pulling him underground.
• Chen Fan and Monkey each struck the black-robed man, but the holy light blocked both attacks and left him unharmed.
• The black-robed man claimed Chen Fan could not kill him, and Chen Fan replied that this might not be so.

Chen Fan killed the Heavenly Dao Sect's Sect Master with the Nether Bone Cold Flame, ending his alliance with Monkey and leaving Five Finger Mountain. He then visited Yang Tianji's bamboo hut to fulfill his promise and arrived at a village to return the Fangtian halberd.

• Chen Fan used the Nether Bone Cold Flame to destroy the black-robed Heavenly Dao Sect's Sect Master, who was dragged beneath Five Finger Mountain's seal.
• Monkey departed after reflecting on Chen Fan's strength, and Chen Fan left Five Finger Mountain soon afterward.
• Chen Fan visited Yang Tianji's bamboo hut and left a note saying, "The man has been killed!"
• Chen Fan reached a village to return the Fangtian halberd and met a young man in white, who said he had not expected Chen Fan to come.

Chen Fan reunited with Fei Fengxuan, Jian Tianmo, and Cai Teng after finding them in a mysterious realm reached through a branch of the Ancient Immortal Road. He learned that something had broken Jian Tianmo’s spirit, and Cai Teng revealed a permanent mark of defeat as he prepared to explain what happened.

• Chen Fan met Fei Fengxuan at the entrance to his residence and accepted his invitation inside.
• Fei Fengxuan explained that he, Jian Tianmo, and Cai Teng had reached this realm after taking a branch path from the Ancient Immortal Road.
• Chen Fan reunited with Jian Tianmo and Cai Teng and noticed that Cai Teng had reached the middle Divine Transformation Realm while Jian Tianmo seemed dispirited.
• Chen Fan offered Jian Tianmo the trident halberd, but Jian Tianmo refused it, saying he had lost the right to wield it after his defeat.
• Cai Teng led Chen Fan outside and showed him a permanent mark of defeat branded into his Dao aura.

Cai Teng told Chen Fan how the Righteous Heaven Pavilion captured Fei Chuchu and Su Jingyun after humiliating and defeating Jian Tianmo and his companions. Chen Fan asked where the pavilion was, but the village was thrown into alarm when a visitor named Six-Eared Macaque came looking for Cai Teng and the others.

• Cai Teng recounted how the Righteous Heaven Pavilion defeated his group and took Fei Chuchu and Su Jingyun captive.
• Jian Tianmo broke through during his duel but was crippled by the youth’s Divine Soul, and the pavilion’s people humiliated the two women and marked Cai Teng and the others with the word "Defeat."
• Cai Teng and Fei Fengxuan later settled in the village and still lacked the strength and support to rescue the women.
• Cai Teng warned Chen Fan not to join their dangerous plan to infiltrate the Righteous Heaven Pavilion, unaware that Chen Fan was concealing his cultivation.
• A young man told Cai Teng that Six-Eared Macaque had arrived and was asking for him and the others.

Six-Eared Macaque came to the village seeking the ancient bronze Formation Disks carried by Fei Fengxuan, Cai Teng, and Jian Tianmo, but he found Chen Fan there and immediately tried to leave. His mistaken belief that Chen Fan wanted his help surprised the villagers, and Chen Fan ended the exchange by telling him to go.

• Cai Teng learned that Six-Eared Macaque had come looking for them and informed Fei Fengxuan and Jian Tianmo.
• Chen Fan realized Monkey had likely tracked down the three humans to find their ancient bronze Formation Disks, then followed them to meet him.
• Six-Eared Macaque entered the village, spotted Chen Fan, cursed his bad luck, and turned to leave.
• Cai Teng asked Six-Eared Macaque to stay and help them, while Monkey assumed Chen Fan had sent him to ask for help.
• Six-Eared Macaque referred to his friendship with Chen Fan, shocking the others, but Chen Fan denied seeking his help and told him to leave.

Chen Fan confronted the Six-Eared Macaque over the group’s plan to seek help from Righteous Heaven Pavilion, prompting Monkey to expose Chen Fan’s past victories against the Heavenly Dao Sect. After Chen Fan agreed to split whatever fortune they found at the pavilion with Monkey, the two decided to go there together.

• Chen Fan told Cai Teng that he would accompany them to Righteous Heaven Pavilion and that Monkey would not help them.
• Cai Teng defended Chen Fan, while Monkey realized Chen Fan had concealed his cultivation and decided to expose him.
• Monkey revealed that Chen Fan had killed thousands of Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators, the Ten Thrones, Gong Jiu's group, and the sect's leader.
• Cai Teng and the others were stunned by Chen Fan’s strength, while Chen Fan questioned Monkey about whether exposing him was amusing.
• Monkey suggested that he and Chen Fan join forces to seek the fortune at Righteous Heaven Pavilion and split it evenly.
• Chen Fan agreed, and Monkey accepted the offer and said they would turn Righteous Heaven Pavilion upside down.

Chen Fan led Cai Teng, Fei Fengxuan, Jian Tianmo, and Monkey to Righteous Heaven Pavilion to rescue its captives and take revenge. As they approached, Su Jingyun was still imprisoned there, but hearing Chen Fan’s name rekindled a flicker of life in her.

• Chen Fan and the others traveled for three days toward Righteous Heaven Pavilion, while Monkey believed they were seeking treasure.
• Cai Teng led the group to the hidden pavilion, where Chen Fan sensed more than a thousand mid-stage Divine Soul cultivators.
• Chen Fan ordered the group to advance openly, and Fei Fengxuan and Jian Tianmo prepared to confront the people who had ruined their lives.
• Inside Righteous Heaven Pavilion, a young cultivator took Su Jingyun from the basement and carried her to his room.
• The young cultivator learned that Chen Fan had attacked the main gate and went to meet him, while Su Jingyun reacted to Chen Fan’s name with tears.

Chen Fan and his companions stormed Righteous Heaven Pavilion to rescue Fei Chuchu and Su Jingyun, and Chen Fan revealed his late-stage Divine Separation strength as he overwhelmed the pavilion. After Monkey arrived to demand a share of the spoils, Righteous Heaven Pavilion’s cultivators were left terrified.

• Chen Fan located Fei Chuchu and Su Jingyun with his Divine Sense, then killed four Righteous Heaven Pavilion cultivators in an instant.
• Chen Fan’s aura revealed that he had reached the late stage of Divine Separation, and over a hundred cultivators fled in terror.
• Fei Fengxuan and the others attacked the fleeing cultivators while Chen Fan challenged Jian Tianmo and returned his Square Sky Halberd.
• Monkey’s taunt about dignity stirred a change in Jian Tianmo, and Monkey hurried after Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan used one hundred and eight white flames to gather Righteous Heaven Pavilion’s cultivators, including its Pavilion Master, in an open area.
• Monkey arrived demanding the fortunate opportunity, terrifying the pavilion’s cultivators and the group that recognized Cai Teng and the others.

Chen Fan, Six-Eared Macaque, and their companions attacked Righteous Heaven Pavilion to rescue Fei Chuchu and Su Jingyun, exposing the pavilion’s abuse of imprisoned women. After Fei Chuchu was brought back in a devastated state, Jian Tianmo volunteered to find Su Jingyun and was entrusted with dealing with the pavilion’s people.

• Six-Eared Macaque demanded Righteous Heaven Pavilion’s supposed great fortune, while Fei Fengxuan attacked one of the men who had assaulted Fei Chuchu.
• Six-Eared Macaque crippled the pavilion master, and Fei Fengxuan defeated the man who had first struck his sister, saving him for Fei Chuchu to kill.
• The pavilion’s cultivators blamed the pavilion master and each other for abducting and abusing women, while Chen Fan revealed that he had never promised Six-Eared Macaque any great fortune.
• Fei Fengxuan returned with Fei Chuchu, who was too weak to walk, and reported that thousands more women were imprisoned at Righteous Heaven Pavilion.
• Jian Tianmo volunteered to find Su Jingyun, and Chen Fan told him to leave the pavilion’s people for him to kill.

Monkey pretended to bargain with Chen Fan over the Righteous Heaven Pavilion captives, then revealed they had never intended to spare them. Jian Tianmo rescued Su Jingyun, and she and Fei Chuchu took revenge on the people who had attacked them years earlier.

• Monkey demanded half the captives, and Chen Fan agreed while reserving the people who had attacked Cai Teng and the others for his friends.
• Monkey revealed that he planned to torture the captives before killing them, and Chen Fan produced the Soul Devouring Banner for the task.
• Jian Tianmo returned with Su Jingyun and cut off a young man's arms while Monkey held him in place.
• Jian Tianmo handed Su Jingyun a sword, and Fei Fengxuan gave one to Fei Chuchu.
• Su Jingyun and Fei Chuchu hacked the attackers to death while Monkey pinned them, and the Pavilion Master watched in terror.

Chen Fan helped destroy Righteous Heaven Pavilion and left the village after completing Fei Chuchu’s zither score, only to discover she had taken her own life. After bidding farewell to Cai Teng and Fei Fengxuan, he returned through the Dark Void Realm toward the Four Divine Continents.

• The Pavilion Master of Righteous Heaven Pavilion killed himself, but Chen Fan and Monkey subjected the pavilion’s survivors to brutal revenge before the pavilion was destroyed.
• The imprisoned women took revenge, and Fei Chuchu and Su Jingyun later awoke from several days of unconsciousness.
• Jian Tianmo thanked Chen Fan and took Su Jingyun away, while Chen Fan visited Fei Chuchu to say goodbye.
• Fei Chuchu gave Chen Fan her unfinished zither score, and he agreed to complete it with his Sword Dao.
• Chen Fan returned with the finished score and found that Fei Chuchu had killed herself; he mourned with Cai Teng and Fei Fengxuan before leaving.
• Chen Fan departed through the Dark Void Realm and, several months later, saw the Four Divine Continents come into view.

Chen Fan returned to the cultivation world and found the declining Fei Clan facing a forced marriage and abuse from the Yan Clan. As Yan Clan men prepared to wreck the Fei residence, Chen Fan stopped them with his power.

• Chen Fan entered the Ancient City where the Fei Clan lived and learned that the family had declined after Fei Fengxuan and Fei Chuchu disappeared.
• A Yan Clan procession arrived at the Fei residence with a bridal sedan, and onlookers revealed that the Yan Clan patriarch intended to take the Fei Clan's fourteen-year-old daughter.
• Chen Fan heard that Yan Chang had defeated Ye Xiaotian with help from the Yan Clan patriarch and had made provocative claims about Chen Jingjing and Fairy Mu.
• Steward Yan seized the Fei Clan patriarch's Storage Rings, shoved him aside, and ordered his subordinates to smash the residence.
• As the Yan Clan subordinates raised their weapons, Chen Fan's power froze them in place.

Chen Fan revealed his identity and late Soul Division Stage cultivation while confronting the Yan Clan at the Fei residence, then pledged to protect the Fei Clan. Fei Lingling discovered Fei Chuchu’s hidden portrait of Chen Fan on the qin score, leaving him stricken with grief before he ordered the Yan Clan’s burly man to kneel and beg forgiveness.

• Chen Fan confronted the Yan Clan’s burly man and demanded to know who was backing the clan.
• Chen Fan revealed his true appearance and Soul Division Stage aura, frightening the burly man and shocking the onlookers.
• Chen Fan reassured the Fei Clan Head that Fei Fengxuan was alive and promised he would return, while indicating that Fei Chuchu had not survived.
• Chen Fan met Fei Lingling, gave her Fei Chuchu’s qin score, and promised to protect the Fei Clan.
• Fei Lingling showed Chen Fan the portrait of him hidden on the score, and Chen Fan realized Fei Chuchu had concealed her feelings and chosen to die.
• The burly man begged Chen Fan for mercy, and Chen Fan ordered him to kneel and kowtow to the Fei Clan.

Chen Fan protected the Fei Clan, killed the Yan Clan head and the burly man, and learned that the Wu Clan had led the persecution of the Dugu Clan and Xiao Family. He arrived at the Wu Clan’s city with killing intent, and an elder recognized that he had returned and called for the other clans to be notified.

• Chen Fan ordered the burly man to lead him to the Yan Clan after securing the Fei Clan’s safety.
• The Fei Clan head thanked Chen Fan, while Fei Lingling watched him leave and said she wanted to marry him when she grew up.
• Chen Fan entered the Yan residence and demanded to know who had ordered the attacks on the Dugu Clan and Xiao Family.
• The Yan Clan head revealed that the Wu Clan had led several great clans, and Chen Fan killed him and the burly man.
• Two days later, Chen Fan arrived at the Wu Clan’s city with his aura exposed, and a secluded elder ordered servants to warn the other clan heads of his return.

Chen Fan returned to the Wu Clan residence after its patriarch fled through a Teleportation Array, then confronted Yan Chang at a banquet. He rejected Yan Chang’s appeal to the realm’s rules and prepared to make an example of him as he began settling accounts with the Wu Clan.

• The Wu Clan Patriarch and a white-haired old woman escaped through a hidden Teleportation Array after deciding to rendezvous with other patriarchs.
• Chen Fan arrived at the Wu Clan gates, where onlookers recognized him and the guards fell after he flicked his fingers.
• At a banquet, Yan Chang boasted that he would surpass Chen Fan and take Chen Jingjing as a concubine, unaware that Chen Fan had entered the hall.
• Yan Chang froze when Chen Fan revealed himself, then invoked the realm’s rules to warn him against attacking a junior.
• Chen Fan dismissed Yan Chang’s appeal and summoned Sword Qi, declaring that he would become the rule as he settled accounts with the Wu Clan.

Chen Fan declared that he would take control of the realm, killed Yan Chang and a Wu Family youth, then set out to reunite with his companions. He met Bald Bird, Old Yellow Tooth, and Little Golden Monkey, and learned that Ye’s injuries still had not healed.

• Chen Fan killed Yan Chang after declaring that he would become the law and purge the realm.
• Chen Fan killed a Wu Family youth who threatened him with harm to Chen Jingjing and his other companions, then left to find them.
• Chen Fan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and found Chen Jingjing and the others in the Southern Continent, while Qin Xian'er and Mu Yunshui were safe in the Peach Garden Minor Mystic Realm.
• Chen Fan spotted Bald Bird, Old Yellow Tooth, and Little Golden Monkey fleeing more than a hundred pursuers, who turned and ran when they recognized him.
• Bald Bird told Chen Fan that he had been preparing spiritual medicine for Ye, whose injuries still had not healed.