Recaps

Chen Fan entered the secret realm seeking the Burning Earth Art, but won the golden page and refined his swordsmanship while clashing with Monster Beasts and Crown Prince Li. After escaping the tomb’s rune traps, he found the other geniuses fighting over precious blood and began searching for the treasure it concealed.

• Chen Fan refined Gold Essence from the golden stone, strengthening his body and advancing the Burning Gold Scripture before leaving with Li Baimin for the secret realm.
• Chen Fan evaded a Nascent Soul Monster Beast, entered the secret realm, and seized a golden page and four Spirit Treasures from Yuan Chuge and the Monster Beasts.
• Chen Fan found goldstones in a cave and challenged Crown Prince Li, transforming the Nine Palaces Sword Art as they fought.
• Chen Fan shattered Crown Prince Li’s golden dragon, then pursued the tomb after the Burning Earth Art was announced as found.
• Chen Fan entered the tomb with the other cultivators, studied its runes, killed a Kite Eagle Clan Monster Beast, and opened an exit from the looping passage.
• Chen Fan learned the rune wall had scattered the tomb’s entrants, cultivated with a golden stalactite, and searched for the treasure hidden behind the precious blood.

Chen Fan escaped the collapsing tomb with the Burning Earth Chapter, then fled the Kingdom of Wu while its princess pursued him. After a Little Golden Monkey hatched from his golden stone, Chen Fan joined Xiao Siqing in seeking the Heartless Flower and was drawn into its trial, where Qin Xian’er appeared as he survived the Samadhi True Fire.

• Chen Fan killed Yuan Chuge and three prodigies in the tomb, then received the Burning Earth Chapter from the Fat Daoist before escaping the collapsing tomb.
• Chen Fan battled Jian Tianmo and Crown Prince Li, escaped the lake’s giant toad, and traveled through the void to Windless Town, where he cultivated the Burning Earth Chapter.
• Chen Fan drained the Kingdom of Wu’s dragon vein and escaped the princess’s pursuit, while his little gold stone absorbed the dragon’s aura and began to crack.
• A Little Golden Monkey hatched from the stone, and Xiao Tianfang carried Chen Fan and the monkey to his manor, where Chen Fan learned of Xiao Tianfang’s grief and the Heartless Flower that might save him.
• Chen Fan agreed to accompany Xiao Siqing to Heartless Valley, where he and the Little Golden Monkey defeated Gold Jade Mantises and entered the forbidden ground.
• The Little Golden Monkey led Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing to a golden Heartless Flower, whose fruit drew them into its trial and released a phantom cauldron of Samadhi True Fire.
• Chen Fan drew the phantom flames into himself with the Burning Fire Chapter, endured the burning as the Little Golden Monkey and Xiao Siqing recovered, and woke when Qin Xian’er called to him.

Chen Fan survived the Heartless Fruit's illusion and escaped Heartless Valley after devastating it with the black coffin, but suffered a shattered Great Dao. While seeking recovery and news of his companions, he learned about Qin Xian'er, reunited with Bald Bird, and escaped its besieged treasury with a way to heal before the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield.

• Chen Fan broke the Heartless Fruit's illusion, regenerated his body, and strengthened his sword intent and cultivation.
• Ji Qingyue nearly killed Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing before Xiao Tianfang intervened, and Chen Fan opened the black coffin to escape while its pressure devastated Heartless Valley.
• Chen Fan departed with Little Golden Monkey despite his shattered Great Dao and began repairing its fragments with Dead Man Grass and Samadhi True Fire.
• Chen Fan defeated Qin Feng's formation and obtained directions that led him to Giant Ten Thousand City, where an old swordsman gave him a map to Bi Fang City.
• Mu Yunshui told Chen Fan about Qin Xian'er's confinement by the Qin Clan and her likely participation in the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield, which Chen Fan vowed to enter.
• Chen Fan traced Bald Bird to a sealed treasury near Heaven and Earth City and followed its instructions through the killing formations after experts forced him to serve as a probe.
• Bald Bird reunited with Chen Fan and offered ten-thousand-year Dead Man Grass that could heal his Great Dao wound in two years.
• Bald Bird disrupted the treasury's array to trap the pursuing cultivators, then escaped with Chen Fan and Little Golden Monkey through a Teleportation Array.

Chen Fan entered the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield and overcame successive challenges despite the powerful factions seeking to seize his arts. After Crown Prince Li’s attack cracked his Golden Core and Qin Changtian interrupted his breakthrough, Mu Yunshui saved him, allowing him to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Chen Fan emerged from two years of secluded cultivation, met Bald Bird and Little Golden Monkey, and learned that the Burning Earth Chapter and Fat Daoist’s portrait concealed powerful secrets.
• At the Eastern Wasteland gathering, Chen Fan encountered the gathered factions and prodigies, then entered the battlefield despite the Wind Kingdom Sixteenth Prince’s threats.
• Chen Fan won the first-stage elimination battle in the seventy-fourth arena by using the Divine Silkworm Seal and a Fusion Realm corpse, astonishing the spectators with his Late Golden Core cultivation.
• Chen Fan defeated a Golden Roc Clan prodigy in the second stage after disrupting Kunpeng Descends, prompting major factions to plot to capture him and seize his arts.
• During the final altar battle, Chen Fan fought off groups of prodigies with his sword arts and Divine Silkworm Seal, then unleashed Annihilation and the Six Swords of Nirvana against more than twenty opponents.
• Crown Prince Li ambushed Chen Fan with Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and took his Pure Wood Essence, cracking Chen Fan’s Golden Core as he began to comprehend the Annihilation Sword Dao.
• Qin Changtian interrupted Chen Fan’s breakthrough and knocked him off course, but Mu Yunshui rescued him and gave up her chance at first place so he could reach the platform’s center.
• Chen Fan comprehended Life and Death Reincarnation and successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm.