Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan killed three Immortal Sect Elders after they interrupted his enlightenment, then recovered an Enlightenment Tea Leaf from the cloud ceiling as the banquet’s restrictions lifted. He prepared to leave with Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng, but a Golden Core powerhouse demanded that he surrender the leaf.

• Chen Fan slew the three Immortal Sect Elders, adding to the shock of his earlier killing of a Golden Core powerhouse.
• Chen Fan leapt to the cloud ceiling and retrieved a radiant leaf as the divine tea vanished and the restrictions lifted.
• Chen Fan recognized the leaf as an Enlightenment God Tree tea leaf and stored it in his pouch.
• Mu Yunshui asked Chen Fan to return the leaf, and he privately offered to exchange it for the Wuya Sword.
• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng urged Chen Fan to leave, while Shen Wushuang warned him that a Golden Core powerhouse might attack.
• As Chen Fan set off with Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng, a voice from the high platform ordered him to leave the Enlightenment Tea Leaf behind.

Chen Fan faced two Golden Core Realm Rogue Cultivators who demanded the tea leaves, while Old Yellow Tooth could hold off only one of them. As Chen Fan prepared to fight the black-robed old woman, the assembled cultivators watched to see how long he could withstand her Magic Tool.

• A Golden Core Realm elder attacked Chen Fan with his pressure, but Chen Fan resisted and Old Yellow Tooth challenged the elder's right to seize the tea leaves.
• The black-robed old woman insisted on taking the tea leaves and rebuked Shen Wushuang when she asked her to spare Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan reassured Shen Wushuang that he did not blame her, then sent Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng to stand safely beside her.
• The two Golden Core Realm experts left the hall with Old Yellow Tooth, while Chen Fan calmly agreed to fight either one.
• Old Yellow Tooth engaged the Golden Core elder, and Chen Fan drew his sword to face the black-robed old woman and her Evil-Warding Seal.

Chen Fan faced the black-clad old woman’s Evil-Warding Seal with his sword and the Nine Palaces formations. He activated the true Celestial Plate Sword Formation, turning the battlefield into his own domain and putting the Golden Core cultivator at a disadvantage.

• The black-clad old woman brought down the Evil-Warding Seal, suppressing Chen Fan’s speed and crushing his Nirvana Sword Intent.
• Chen Fan escaped the seal’s pressure with Nine Palaces Footwork and opened an Eight Trigrams Sword Formation around himself and the old woman.
• Old Yellow Tooth prevented the other Golden Core old man from interfering, while the old man remained convinced Chen Fan could not win.
• Chen Fan used the Yu Step to strike the Evil-Warding Seal, then summoned a white sword and opened the Celestial Plate Sword Formation above the battlefield.
• The Celestial Plate Sword Formation joined the Earth Territory Sword Formation, giving Chen Fan control of the terrain and leaving the black-clad old woman in Heaven Rend, Earth Shatter.

Chen Fan fought the black-clad old woman with his sword formations and survived her first seal, then unleashed One Sword, Ninefold. The chapter ended with eight swords piercing her throat and dantian.

• Chen Fan formed a blue-white sword and strengthened his two Eight Trigrams Sword Formations as the black-clad old woman prepared the Evil-Warding Seal.
• The black-clad old woman brought down the first of her Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Seals, injuring Chen Fan but failing to break his formations.
• Chen Fan healed himself with the Three Flowers Gathering at Crown Talisman and challenged the old woman to unleash her remaining seals.
• Chen Fan used Nine Palaces Footwork and shouted “One Sword, Ninefold” before vanishing with his formations.
• The black-clad old woman dodged one incoming sword, but it split into nine blades, and eight pierced her throat and dantian.

Chen Fan defeated a Golden Core expert’s Heavenly Court body and returned to his Immortal Cave with Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Shen Wushuang. After revealing his identity as the Young Demon King, he learned that Qin Xian’er was gravely wounded after infiltrating the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.

• Chen Fan slew the old woman in black, seized her treasure seal, and shocked the hall by defeating a Golden Core expert.
• Chen Fan left with Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Shen Wushuang, then brought them to his Immortal Cave and gave them permission to enter in the future.
• Shen Wushuang warned Chen Fan that the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect might hunt him, then learned that he had also been the person who saved her by the river and the Young Demon King.
• Chen Fan admitted that he had killed the Foundation Establishment cultivators who tried to surround him, stunning Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Shen Wushuang.
• After Shen Wushuang left, Chen Jingjing told Chen Fan that Qin Xian’er had returned from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect with a sword-pierced heart and was still coughing blood.

Chen Fan learned that Qin Xian'er had risked her life to retrieve his corpse and set out to save her. After revealing plans to meet Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng in Demon King Valley, he returned to his true body and prepared to leave with Bald Bird.

• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng told Chen Fan that Qin Xian'er had gone to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect to retrieve his corpse and that Iron Ox had gone to seek medicine for her.
• Chen Fan promised he could save Qin Xian'er and learned that Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng were hiding beneath an underground palace east of Demon King Valley.
• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng left to tell Qin Xian'er that Chen Fan was alive, while Chen Fan reflected on his master's words about lovelessness, love, and forgetting love.
• The Green-feathered Bird emerged and explained that Enlightenment Tea Leaves required Nine-Flower Jade Dew to brew.
• Chen Fan returned to his true body, told Bald Bird about the tea, and set out with it for Demon King Valley.

After Chen Fan’s victories exposed him as both the Heavenly Court fighter and the Young Demon King, the Central Lands’ great sects and western forces began hunting him. Chen Fan and Bald Bird reached Demon King Valley undetected, where Bald Bird warned that their world might be a sealed cage, before they encountered someone waiting ahead.

• News spread that Chen Fan had killed Madam Fayin and was also the Young Demon King, prompting the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, the Immortal Sect, Shu Mountain, and western forces to search for him.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Sect and the Immortal Sect found Shu Mountain sealed for an early ritual and could not question Old Yellow Tooth.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird slipped into Demon King Valley through Heavy Sword City to hide from their pursuers.
• As they traveled east, Bald Bird warned Chen Fan about the secretive Hell Sect and speculated that their world had been sealed off as a cage or breeding ground.
• Chen Fan suddenly stopped when he sensed someone waiting ahead, and Bald Bird recognized that they appeared to be waiting for him.

Chen Fan and Bald Bird found the hidden entrance to the Underground Palace and opened its stone door. They entered a lamp-lit passage, where Bald Bird detected the smell of blood.

• Mu Yunshui warned Chen Fan that ten Golden Core Realm cultivators were searching for him and promised to help find the sword and present his conditions to the Grand Elder.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird found an inconspicuous hill and activated the Concealment Array to reveal the entrance.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird entered the hidden passage and discovered sword marks on its walls and a sealed stone door.
• Chen Fan used the method Chen Jingjing had described to open the stone door and reveal a bluestone passage lined with everlasting lamps.
• Bald Bird sensed the smell of blood as they entered the passage.

Chen Fan reunited with Qin Xian'er in the Underground Palace and healed her damaged heart meridian with Pure Wood Essence. Qin Xian'er told him that Chen Jingjing and Rumeng were cultivating nearby, then led him to a room they had prepared for him.

• Qin Xian'er revealed her face to Chen Fan and explained that she had searched for his body at the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Bald Bird revealed that its name was Bi Fang and warned that Qin Xian'er's heart meridian injury could become fatal without treatment.
• Chen Fan gave Qin Xian'er Pure Wood Essence, which healed her heart meridian.
• Qin Xian'er told Chen Fan that Chen Jingjing and Rumeng were cultivating in seclusion after gaining much at the Immortal Ascension Banquet.
• Qin Xian'er led Chen Fan and Bald Bird to the stone chambers and showed Chen Fan a room Chen Jingjing and Rumeng had prepared for him, leaving him frozen.

Qin Xian'er prepared a meal in the stone chamber, drawing Bald Bird into an eager feast and persuading Chen Fan to drink some soup. After she left, Bald Bird wondered why two women had fallen for Chen Fan while Chen Fan turned his attention back to his cultivation techniques.

• Bald Bird demanded heavenly treasures and earthly riches, but Qin Xian'er offered to cook dishes instead.
• Bald Bird urged Qin Xian'er to prepare food for Chen Fan, then tried to hide his eagerness when she brought the dishes.
• Chen Fan declined to eat, so Bald Bird devoured the dishes while Qin Xian'er served Chen Fan hot soup.
• Qin Xian'er teased Chen Fan by whispering close to his ear, and he leaned away while she giggled.
• After Qin Xian'er left, Bald Bird questioned why two women had fallen for Chen Fan, who began contemplating the Divine Silkworm Seal and the Divine Silkworm Art.

Chen Fan prepared to pursue Golden Core cultivation and traveled with Green-feathered Bird to Hundred Flowers Mountain to gather Nine-Flower Jade Dew. He learned that the mountain was home to swarms of deadly Man-Eating Bees and Soul-Snatching Butterflies.

• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng visited Chen Fan, confirmed he was safe, and learned Qin Xian'er's injuries had healed.
• Chen Fan concluded that he needed to form a Golden Core before he could fully wield the Divine Silkworm Seal or open the black coffin.
• Chen Fan fed the souls of two Golden Core experts to his two main souls in the Soul Devouring Banner so they could refine them and grow stronger.
• Chen Fan entered the Heavenly Court Realm and agreed to visit Hundred Flowers Mountain with Green-feathered Bird to collect Nine-Flower Jade Dew.
• Green-feathered Bird revealed that it wanted to show Little Red, a fire-covered qilin, its new five-star status.
• Chen Fan left the city on his sword and headed toward Hundred Flowers Mountain, where dangerous Man-Eating Bees and Soul-Snatching Butterflies lived.

Chen Fan traveled toward Hundred Flowers Mountain while the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect pursued him, and he killed the disciples sent to track him. He reached the mountain to collect Nine-Flower Jade Dew and began searching its deadly flower fields.

• Chen Fan flew toward Hundred Flowers Mountain as cultivators admired him and disciples of the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect followed him.
• Chen Fan lured the pursuing disciples close, then killed them all with his sword and Nine Palaces Footwork.
• Elder Han and two other Golden Core Realm experts arrived after the massacre but failed to find Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan reached Hundred Flowers Mountain with the Green-feathered Bird, which warned him that gathering Nine-Flower Jade Dew would be dangerous and difficult.
• Chen Fan concealed his aura and climbed into the flower fields, where the Green-feathered Bird pointed out a strange purple flower.

Chen Fan found and harvested a rare Hundred Flowers Essence before collecting divine flower jade dew in Hundred Flowers Mountain. A young man wielding a short flute ambushed him and demanded the dew, leaving Chen Fan facing a dangerous confrontation.

• The Green-feathered Bird identified a tiny purple bloom as Hundred Flowers Essence, and Chen Fan cut it off and stored it in a jade box.
• Chen Fan continued into the mountains and gathered jade dew from a divine flower.
• A poisoned needle struck at Chen Fan, but he dodged it with the Nine Palaces Footwork.
• The Green-feathered Bird recognized the attacker as the master of Little Red, a qilin who had survived in Hundred Flowers Mountain for three years.
• The short-flute-wielding young man demanded Chen Fan's jade dew, and Chen Fan asked whether he had any himself.
• The young man admitted he carried plenty of jade dew and challenged Chen Fan to try taking it.

Chen Fan survived an attack by more than ten thousand man-eating bees summoned by a flute-wielding young man, then pursued him to seize his Divine Flower Jade Dew. The young man tried to summon the swarm again, but Chen Fan’s attack left him begging for his life.

• The flute-wielding young man summoned a vast swarm of man-eating bees and fled, expecting them to kill Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan used his domain and fire True Essence to burn the entire swarm, replenishing his strength with a Three Flowers Gathering at Crown Talisman.
• Chen Fan followed the young man’s aura while concealing his own figure and caught up with him among the flowers.
• The young man warned Chen Fan not to provoke every bee and butterfly on Hundred Flowers Mountain, then raised his flute to summon another swarm.
• A piercing attack struck as the young man lifted his flute, and he cried out for Chen Fan to spare his life.

Chen Fan pursued a young man for his short flute and used it to summon Man-Eating Bees, which killed the man. He discovered Bee Emperor Jade Nectar in the man’s storage and, just as he prepared to return up Hundred Flowers Mountain for the Green-feathered Bird, a formation at the mountain’s foot flashed with white light.

• Chen Fan chased the young man, sent the Green-feathered Bird to collect the bottles of Divine Flower Jade Dew, and demanded the short flute.
• The young man handed over the flute and tried to flee, but Chen Fan played it and summoned Man-Eating Bees that devoured him.
• Chen Fan collected the young man’s storage pouch and burned the attacking bees with his Five Dwellings Center technique.
• Chen Fan found Bee Emperor Jade Nectar in the storage pouch and realized the young man had hidden on Hundred Flowers Mountain for three years to obtain it.
• Chen Fan prepared to return up the mountain to find the Green-feathered Bird, but a formation at the foot of the mountain suddenly flashed with white light.

Chen Fan and the Green-feathered Bird collected Nine-Flower Jade Dew and Bee Emperor Jade Nectar before four Golden Core Elders pursued them up Hundred Flowers Mountain. Chen Fan drew the man-eating bees toward the Elders with a thread of the nectar, leaving their fate unresolved as the swarm surged in.

• Chen Fan met the Green-feathered Bird, took its bottles of Nine-Flower Jade Dew, and revealed that he had found Bee Emperor Jade Nectar.
• After learning that four Golden Core Elders were coming to kill them, Chen Fan led the Green-feathered Bird uphill and said he would catch them all in one net.
• The four Elders and several disciples followed Chen Fan's sword marks to the summit while the other cultivators stayed at the foot of Hundred Flowers Mountain.
• Chen Fan confronted the Elders among the flowers and opened the jade box, then tossed a thread of Bee Emperor Jade Nectar into the air.
• The man-eating bee swarm surged toward the nectar, but a Ten Thousand Swords Sect Elder persuaded the others to stay and watch Chen Fan, who calmly faced the approaching swarm.

Chen Fan used a flute to redirect a massive swarm of Man-Eating Bees and Soul-Snatching Butterflies onto the four Golden Core experts and their disciples, then escaped from Hundred Flowers Mountain. The swarm later descended on the teleportation array, killing cultivators who had failed to flee as Chen Fan’s survival became a new sensation across the Heavenly Court Realm.

• Chen Fan struck at the four Elders to expose their hiding place, then played his flute and sent the swarm surging toward them.
• Chen Fan fled down the mountain while the Man-Eating Bees and Soul-Snatching Butterflies overwhelmed the four Golden Core experts and the Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Chen Fan reached the foot of Hundred Flowers Mountain and activated the Teleportation Array, leaving the waiting cultivators stunned by his escape.
• The swarms poured down toward the teleportation array, and cultivators who activated it in time escaped while those left behind were devoured.
• The next day, rumors of Chen Fan’s survival spread across the Heavenly Court Realm.

After surviving the Hundred Flowers Mountain conflict, Chen Fan brought the Bee Emperor Jade Nectar and Nine-Flower Jade Dew to his Underground Palace. Bald Bird revealed that a divine medicine called Hundred Flowers Essence could help Chen Fan brew Enlightenment God Tea and form his Golden Core within two years.

• News spread that four Golden Core Realm cultivators from the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect had died while trying to kill Chen Fan, and Chen Fan’s reputation rose among young cultivators.
• Chen Fan gave Green-feathered Bird a small piece of Bee Emperor Jade Nectar and stored the remaining treasure and Nine-Flower Jade Dew before returning from the Heavenly Court to the Underground Palace.
• Chen Fan showed Bald Bird the Nine-Flower Jade Dew and Bee Emperor Jade Nectar, then recounted what had happened at Hundred Flowers Mountain.
• Bald Bird said Chen Fan could form his Golden Core within two years if he brewed Enlightenment God Tea using a divine medicine called Hundred Flowers Essence.

Chen Fan brewed Enlightenment God Tea in the Heavenly Court by combining Nine-Flower Jade Dew, an Enlightenment Tea Leaf, and Hundred Flowers Essence, then sealed the cauldron to steep for two years. After returning to the Underground Palace, he learned Qin Xian'er had come looking for him and asked when she had arrived.

• Chen Fan and Bald Bird agreed to steep the divine tea in the Heavenly Court, where its dense spiritual energy would strengthen it.
• Chen Fan bought a bronze cauldron, added Nine-Flower Jade Dew and an Enlightenment Tea Leaf, then submerged Hundred Flowers Essence to hasten the brewing.
• Chen Fan sealed the cauldron with a rune to reinforce it and keep Green-feathered Bird from opening it.
• Chen Fan resolved to work on his Artifact Heart, tempering Chaos Qi into a sword sheath, and condensing Nirvana Sword Intent during the next two years.
• Chen Fan left the Heavenly Court and returned to the Underground Palace, where Bald Bird told him Qin Xian'er had come looking for him.
• Chen Fan asked Bald Bird when Qin Xian'er had visited.

Chen Fan told Qin Xian'er he would enter seclusion and explained that the Enlightenment God Tea would be ready in two years, easing her fears about his plans to reach the Golden Core Realm. He then entered the Heavenly Court and set out for Lingxiao City to watch Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng challenge the Fifth Layer and attempt a cross-stage challenge of his own.

• Chen Fan met Qin Xian'er, told her he planned to enter seclusion for about half a year, and promised to return for their plans to enter the Immortal Sect.
• Qin Xian'er worried Chen Fan might use a harmful shortcut to form a Golden Core, but Chen Fan reassured her that the Enlightenment God Tea would be ready in two years.
• Qin Xian'er told Chen Fan that Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng were challenging the Fifth Layer of the Heavenly Court in Lingxiao City.
• Chen Fan decided to watch the challenge and pursue another cross-stage attempt for rewards such as an Avatar Dao Talisman.
• Chen Fan entered the Heavenly Court, mounted his flying sword, and headed for the Teleportation Array to Lingxiao City.