Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan shattered the Bronze Coffin’s seal, fought Mu Yunshui, and took treasures from within, but a black beam suddenly pulled them both and the coffin away. They vanished from the hall as Old Yellow Tooth and Bald Bird battled the returning cultivators.

• Old Yellow Tooth and Bald Bird left Mu Yunshui to confront the returning Golden Core powerhouses while she attacked Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan broke the seal with three sword strikes, then battled Mu Yunshui and forced her back with his Nine Palaces Sword Technique.
• Chen Fan opened the Bronze Coffin, took several treasures, and evaded Mu Yunshui’s attacks as Bald Bird’s True Essence escaped from the coffin.
• The Bronze Coffin shook, a black beam erupted from a hole in the floor, and its suction pulled Chen Fan, Mu Yunshui, and the coffin away.

Old Yellow Tooth and Bald Bird were forced into the main hall, where they discovered Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui had disappeared into a vast black hole. The Immortal Sect sent a disciple down to investigate, but the Heaven-Climbing Rope snapped and he vanished into the darkness.

• Old Yellow Tooth and Bald Bird fought the three Golden Core Realm powerhouses with underhanded tricks until they were driven into the main hall.
• Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth found the Bronze Coffin gone and a massive black hole in the hall, with Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui missing.
• Bald Bird suspected Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui had fallen into the hole, but the Immortal Sect disciples accused him and Old Yellow Tooth of causing their disappearance.
• Old Yellow Tooth offered the white-haired old man his Heaven-Climbing Rope, first demanding a Magic Tool or two Spirit Tools before giving it to the Immortal Sect.
• A handsome Immortal Sect disciple tied on the rope and leapt into the hole, but the rope snapped after a few breaths and he disappeared into the darkness.

Chen Fan awoke in a vast, scorching abyss beneath the Bronze Hall after the black beam pulled him and Mu Yunshui underground. As he investigated the damaged objects around him and wondered where Mu Yunshui had gone, he heard a sound from inside the Bronze Coffin.

• Above the abyss, the Heaven-Climbing Rope returned badly damaged, and Bald Bird suspected the Bronze Hall had been built to suppress the black hole.
• An Immortal Sect disciple's corpse fell into the underground darkness near Chen Fan, who woke and used Blazing Heaven Sword Qi to inspect his surroundings.
• Chen Fan healed his injuries, found the disciple's belongings corroded, and discovered that his Concealment Human-Skin Mask had also been destroyed while his sword sheath remained intact.
• Chen Fan searched for Mu Yunshui but found no trace of her, then spotted the Bronze Coffin with its lid back in place.
• Chen Fan suspected Mu Yunshui had replaced the coffin lid, but a faint rustle from inside the Bronze Coffin interrupted his thoughts.

Chen Fan opened the Bronze Coffin and discovered Mu Yunshui inside, injured and nearly naked, then searched for a way out of their underground prison. When his attacks on the mountain wall failed to free them, Mu Yunshui offered information about the Wuya Sword to get his attention.

• Chen Fan removed the Bronze Coffin lid and found Mu Yunshui hiding inside, where she recognized him as the middle-aged man who had helped her earlier.
• Chen Fan regained his composure, explored the underground prison, and found that the black beams blocking the passage destroyed clothing and threatened the items in his Storage Ring.
• Mu Yunshui worried that Chen Fan might exploit her helplessness, but he ignored her and began striking the mountain walls in search of an exit.
• Mu Yunshui recalled Chen Fan's vow to reclaim his sword from the Immortal Sect and offered to tell him about the Wuya Sword.
• Chen Fan stopped attacking the wall, approached the coffin, and asked Mu Yunshui what she knew.

Mu Yunshui told Chen Fan that the ancient sword had vanished from the Immortal Sect’s Sword Tomb and that Qin Xian'er might know where it was hidden. Trapped underground with Mu Yunshui, Chen Fan searched for an escape before studying treasures from the Bronze Coffin.

• Chen Fan gave Mu Yunshui a Shu Mountain robe, and she explained that the Immortal Sect had once sealed the ancient sword in its Sword Tomb.
• Mu Yunshui revealed that the sword had disappeared years later and that Qin Xian'er had said it was hidden elsewhere.
• Chen Fan searched the underground rock chamber for an exit while Mu Yunshui sat nearby to heal her injuries.
• Chen Fan examined the Bronze Coffin’s treasures, including a golden page bearing the Burning Gold Scripture, a Gold Essence Stone, and a sealed black box.
• Chen Fan began studying the Burning Gold Scripture.

Chen Fan cultivated the Burning Gold Scripture inside the Bronze Coffin, combining the Gold Essence Stone’s power with the remaining Metal energy from the Three-Tailed Tiger’s Demon Core. After a month, Mu Yunshui recovered and watched as Chen Fan’s cultivation transformed his body and destroyed the coffin.

• Chen Fan used a Talisman to set up a defensive array around the Bronze Coffin before beginning his cultivation.
• Chen Fan circulated the Burning Gold Scripture and drew Metal energy from the Three-Tailed Tiger’s Demon Core and the Gold Essence Stone into his body.
• After seven days, Chen Fan had reached Qi Refining Eighth Layer and developed a body nearly as strong as the Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Mu Yunshui recovered from her injuries and was astonished to find the Bronze Coffin riddled with holes and Chen Fan radiating dense Metal energy.
• The Bronze Coffin collapsed into scraps of metal, and Chen Fan opened his eyes with a physique approaching that of a Golden Core Realm monk’s Indestructible Vajra Body.

After a month trapped beneath the Abyss of the Earth Core, Chen Fan emerged from cultivation vastly stronger, while he and Mu Yunshui remained unable to find a way out. Their search was interrupted when something burst through the cavern wall, leaving them recoiling at its appearance.

• Chen Fan completed a month of cultivation, reaching the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage in the Burning Gold Scripture and greatly strengthening his body with power from the Bronze Coffin.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui discussed the Bronze Hall and the Immortal Sect’s knowledge of it, but Mu Yunshui refused to reveal the secrets behind the seal.
• Chen Fan considered abandoning his Storage Ring to pass through the black beams of light, but balked at losing the Soul Devouring Banner and Bone Sword.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui heard something gnawing and knocking through the rock wall, then watched it smash through into the cavern.
• Chen Fan unleashed Blazing Heaven Sword Qi, and he and Mu Yunshui recoiled in shock at the creature’s appearance.

Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui watched a colossal, eyeless creature resembling a finger take a White Bone Dagger before withdrawing through the rock. After waiting three days, they crawled into the passage it had left in search of a way out, and Chen Fan stopped when his Sword Qi revealed something ahead.

• A huge, snake-like creature emerged through the rock, and Chen Fan realized it looked like a gigantic Monster Beast's finger.
• The finger pierced and took one of Chen Fan's White Bone Daggers, then retreated through the rock wall, leaving a deep passage behind.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui debated whether to risk using the passage or remain trapped, then waited three days.
• Chen Fan entered the passage to investigate, and Mu Yunshui followed him as they crawled forward under the light of his Blazing Heaven Sword Qi.
• Chen Fan stopped when the Sword Qi revealed a new area ahead, leaving Mu Yunshui anxious about what he had seen.

Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui escaped the underground passage and returned to the Bronze Hall, where they found the aftermath of a battle and realized the hall might be suppressing the Monster Beast. The sound of another Bronze Gate opening sent them rushing toward the entrance.

• Chen Fan chose an upward passage, and Mu Yunshui followed after he used true essence to pull her through the cramped tunnel.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui climbed more than a thousand meters and emerged through a damaged Bronze Gate into a chamber within the Bronze Hall.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui passed through several Bronze Gates and returned to the hall that had housed the Bronze Coffin, finding more than a dozen dead Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fan concluded that the Bronze Hall had likely been placed to suppress the Monster Beast and shut the hidden gate behind them.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui heard a distant boom like a Bronze Gate opening and hurried toward the hall's entrance.

Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui encountered the weakened Golden Core monk who had been searching for the battered scabbard and the middle-aged man. Chen Fan refused to surrender the sword and scabbard, then attacked the monk, who recognized his fighting style.

• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui moved toward the Bronze Hall exit after sensing activity inside.
• A Golden Core monk emerged from a secret chamber and asked where the other Immortal Sect cultivators were.
• The monk spotted Chen Fan's scabbard, demanded to know where the middle-aged man was, and ordered Chen Fan to hand over the sword and scabbard.
• The monk used golden light to pull the scabbard toward himself, but Chen Fan caught it and demanded the monk's Golden Core in exchange.
• Chen Fan attacked with Nine Palaces Footwork and purple-gold sword shadows, and the monk recognized the moves as those of the middle-aged man.

Chen Fan fought the Golden Core monk alone in the Bronze Hall, revealing his improved strength and enduring the monk’s attacks while striking back. He trapped the monk inside his domain, leaving the immobilized opponent terrified.

• The Golden Core monk recognized Chen Fan’s true appearance and clashed with him using his Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Chen Fan struck the monk’s head with his sword and took a punch to the shoulder, while the monk’s old injury worsened and made him spit blood.
• The monk used his prayer beads and Buddhist techniques against Chen Fan, who countered with Nirvana Sword Intent and the Earth Territory Sword Formation.
• Chen Fan and the monk unleashed powerful attacks that shook the Bronze Hall as Mu Yunshui watched in astonishment.
• Chen Fan released his domain within the Nine Palaces Sword Formation and completely restrained the Golden Core monk.

Chen Fan killed the Golden Core monk and took his relic, but he and Mu Yunshui heard another Bronze Gate opening deeper in the hall. Suspecting a Monster Beast was behind it, they headed for the exit, where Chen Fan stopped at the passageway entrance and stared ahead.

• Chen Fan used the Bone Sword and his domain to drain the monk’s blood, then struck down the monk after the prayer beads’ explosion wounded him.
• Chen Fan captured the monk’s soul in the Soul Devouring Banner and took the relic left by the consumed corpse.
• Mu Yunshui recognized the relic and was shocked that Chen Fan had defeated a Golden Core monk with the Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui heard another Bronze Gate open and found no second gate in the monk’s secret chamber.
• Chen Fan suspected a Monster Beast was opening the gates, and he and Mu Yunshui hurried toward the exit.
• Chen Fan stopped at the passageway entrance, gripping his sword and staring beyond it with an icy expression.

Six black-robed Foundation Establishment cultivators led by Elder Liu confronted Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui, then attacked after deciding to capture Mu Yunshui and kill Chen Fan. The chapter left Chen Fan facing three assailants, with his spiritual energy sealed and two flying swords rushing toward him.

• Six black-robed men led by Elder Liu arrived at the hall and demanded to know how Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui had entered.
• Mu Yunshui identified herself as a disciple of the Immortal Sect and asked the men to let them leave.
• The men disbelieved her, leered at her, and conspired to capture her while killing Chen Fan.
• Elder Liu ordered two men to surround Mu Yunshui and three to attack Chen Fan.
• Mu Yunshui countered two attackers with her sword as the other three sealed Chen Fan's spiritual energy and sent resentful souls and flying swords after him.

Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui defeated the guards inside the underwater hall and learned that several cities had sealed off the sea region after a deadly battle. When Chen Fan emerged from the hall, he found Mu Yunshui surrounded by dozens of cultivators amid a force of hundreds.

• Chen Fan broke the Primordial Unity Token's suppression, killed the guards who attacked him, and drove the black-haired old man to flee.
• Mu Yunshui subdued a surviving guard and learned that city forces had sealed the sea after a battle in which Rogue Cultivators died and an Immortal Sect disciple went missing.
• The guard identified Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth as the culprits behind recent treasure-vault robberies, and Mu Yunshui let Chen Fan remain undiscovered before leaving.
• Chen Fan killed the last guard, shut the bronze gate, and swam out of the hall.
• Chen Fan surfaced to find hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators overhead and Mu Yunshui besieged by dozens of them.

Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui emerged from the water into a hostile crowd of hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators, who attacked them and slandered Mu Yunshui. After Mu Yunshui was wounded and stopped resisting, Chen Fan rescued her and prepared to fight with his white-bone sword and Soul Devouring Banner.

• The black-haired old man accused Chen Fan and Mu Yunshui of indecency and murder, prompting the surrounding cultivators to taunt them and target Mu Yunshui.
• Chen Fan blocked the attackers' strikes with a seawater curtain and sent water swords into the crowd, killing several cultivators before joining the battle in the air.
• The cultivators were shocked that Chen Fan's body repelled their attacks, while he considered capturing their souls for his Soul Devouring Banner.
• Six cultivators overwhelmed Mu Yunshui, and another wounded her as she fell without defending herself.
• Chen Fan caught Mu Yunshui, placed her on his flying sword, and brought out his white-bone sword and Soul Devouring Banner.

Chen Fan vowed to kill the hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators surrounding him and Mu Yunshui, then used Talismans and his blood to activate a formation. As he began slaughtering his attackers, the formation gathered their blood into the dark clouds above.

• Chen Fan rescued Mu Yunshui and dismissed her offer to escape, insisting he would kill everyone gathered there.
• Chen Fan used his Bone Sword to repel attacks and spread a blood cloud around himself and Mu Yunshui.
• Chen Fan circled the area, burning Talismans that formed a formation as thunder and dark clouds gathered overhead.
• Chen Fan scattered drops of his blood to activate the formation, then killed several Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivators whose blood surged into the clouds.
• The remaining cultivators dismissed the formation as a trick and watched Chen Fan without fear.

Chen Fan trapped the cultivators above the sea in the Blood Prison Soul-Refining Array and began a slaughter. As the formation sealed the area, he unleashed the Soul Devouring Banner and its Golden Core Realm souls.

• Chen Fan used the Eight Trigrams Sword Formation to kill the Foundation Establishment Late Stage monks who attacked him, and their blood was absorbed into the clouds.
• The clouds turned the sky red and formed a spherical barrier that sealed everyone above the sea inside.
• Several cultivators who tried to flee struck the barrier and were thrown back, while Chen Fan's opponents mistook it for a Spirit-Sealing Formation.
• Black chains fell from the clouds, killing dozens of cultivators and dragging their corpses upward, and an old man identified the formation as the Blood Prison Soul-Refining Array.
• Chen Fan left the sword formation, ascended into the clouds, and unleashed more than ninety thousand souls from the Soul Devouring Banner, including two Golden Core Realm main souls.

Chen Fan used the Blood Prison Soul-Refining Array and Soul Devouring Banner to slaughter the trapped cultivators, while Mu Yunshui watched in shock. Far away, onlookers saw the bloody battle from the Ancient City, until the bald bird frightened them into fleeing.

• More than three hundred cultivators tried to kill Chen Fan, but over ninety thousand vengeful souls poured from the Soul Devouring Banner and stopped their attack.
• The two Golden Core Realm chief souls devoured cultivators as the arrays’ chains dragged victims into the clouds, and the surviving cultivators fled in panic.
• Chen Fan killed a cultivator who had insulted him, then approached the black-haired old man who had stirred up the crowd and fed him to the vengeful souls.
• Mu Yunshui watched from the center of the Sword Formation and wondered how Chen Fan had become so powerful in three years.
• Cultivators in the Ancient City watched the distant blood-red clouds and speculated about the battle, then fled when they saw the bald, ugly bird wearing floral shorts.

Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth plundered Heavenly Sand City while the Blood Prison Soul-Refining Array reduced the trapped cultivators to a few dozen. After Bald Bird recognized Chen Fan at sea, he and Old Yellow Tooth rushed to find him as Chen Fan ordered his main souls to finish the survivors before the commotion attracted a Monster Beast.

• Bald Bird persuaded Old Yellow Tooth to share his treasures, then fought him over the contents of his Storage Ring.
• Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth's month of plundering left Heavenly Sand City's great families terrified and stripped of their hidden treasures.
• A blast from the sea revealed that only a few dozen of the more than six hundred trapped cultivators remained, and Bald Bird recognized Chen Fan among the blood-red waters.
• Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth used Swift Travel Talismans to race toward Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan ordered the Ant King main soul and the first main soul to kill the remaining cultivators quickly, and both charged into battle.

Chen Fan and the two Golden Core main souls wiped out the attacking cultivators, ending the slaughter and leaving Mu Yunshui safe. After warning Chen Fan about the Immortal Sect’s hidden strength, Mu Yunshui reunited with Old Yellow Tooth and Bald Bird, who asked whether Chen Fan had found heavenly treasures.

• The two Golden Core main souls turned on the cultivators, and the survivors tried to reach Mu Yunshui but were cut down by the Nine Palaces Sword Formation.
• Chen Fan’s White Bone Sword, the chains, and the pursuing souls helped kill the remaining cultivators, while the Ant King's soul grew stronger by devouring them.
• Chen Fan recalled the souls and condensed the remnants of the slaughter into a blood pellet, then Mu Yunshui thanked him and warned him not to challenge the Immortal Sect.
• Old Yellow Tooth and Bald Bird arrived outside the Spirit-Sealing Array, teased Mu Yunshui about wearing Chen Fan’s clothes, and asked Chen Fan about treasures beneath the great hall.