Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan returned to Lingxiao City with Qin Xian'er while Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect elders threatened to kill him if he left. After Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng cleared their trial and became Five-Star Heavenly Soldiers, Chen Fan prepared to challenge the Heavenly Court trials himself.

• Chen Fan returned to Lingxiao City, followed by disciples and Golden Core elders of the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect who waited to ambush him outside the city.
• Qin Xian'er told the crowd that Chen Fan had killed eight Golden Core cultivators, and the two sect elders denied her claims while Chen Fan ignored their threats and entered the Heavenly Court Hall.
• Chen Fan and Qin Xian'er watched Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng defeat three Foundation Establishment opponents in their trial.
• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng cleared the trial and became Five-Star Heavenly Soldiers, then reunited with Chen Fan, who praised them and promised to teach them new techniques.
• Chen Fan looked at the Heavenly Soldier Ranking, saw Xiao Munan at the top as a Nine-Star Heavenly Soldier, and confirmed that he would challenge the trials to seek another Avatar Dao Talisman.

Chen Fan entered the Heavenly Court Hall and crossed from the fifth layer directly to the ninth, setting a new challenge record. After he passed through the final bronze door, the Recording Stone showed that his challenge had been hidden, leaving his companions anxious about what had happened.

• Chen Fan told Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Qin Xian'er that he planned to attempt a challenge for better rewards, and Qin Xian'er warned him about the dangers of crossing stages.
• Chen Fan passed the seventh- and eighth-layer entrances without stopping, astonishing the disciples who had gathered to watch.
• Chen Fan opened the ninth-layer bronze door and entered, becoming the first person in Lingxiao City to challenge that layer by crossing stages from the fifth.
• Chen Jingjing and the others went to check the Recording Stone, but a Heavenly Soldier reported that Chen Fan's challenge had been transmitted without revealing where he was sent.

Chen Fan arrived through a long-running Teleportation Array in a silent underground complex filled with dense spiritual energy. He and the Green-feathered Bird discovered a faded imitation of an Immortal-Demon War mural, then hid when they heard distant voices from another chamber.

• Chen Fan completed a lengthy teleport and found himself in a dark Stone Chamber where dense spiritual energy accelerated his cultivation.
• The Green-feathered Bird emerged from Chen Fan’s jade pendant and said the chamber seemed familiar, though it could not explain why it was free of restrictions.
• Chen Fan and the Green-feathered Bird entered another Stone Chamber and found an ancient, faded mural that the bird recognized as depicting the Immortal-Demon War.
• The Green-feathered Bird said the mural was an imitation and recalled that its original showed the sword sheath and the person holding it.
• Chen Fan felt a terrifying presence in a blackened patch of the mural, but the sensation vanished when he looked again.
• Chen Fan and the Green-feathered Bird heard distant voices, concealed their auras, and crept toward the doorway to listen.

Chen Fan emerged in an underground palace beneath the ruins and overheard four cultivators discussing the Immortal Palace, which had moved its sect eight hundred years earlier. After the Golden Core Realm leader attacked him, Chen Fan fought back and challenged the four, leaving their confrontation poised to escalate.

• Chen Fan heard four cultivators approach and learned they had been dragged into the palace by a black beam that destroyed their magic tools.
• Chen Fan overheard the group discuss the Immortal Palace's relocation eight hundred years earlier and their pursuit of a woman.
• A Golden Core Realm cultivator detected Chen Fan and struck his hiding place with divine lightning, but Chen Fan escaped with the Green-feathered Bird.
• Chen Fan revealed himself, discovered that the leader was at the initial stage of the Golden Core Realm and the other three were at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and clashed with the leader.
• The Golden Core Realm youth demanded answers and tried to force Chen Fan to kneel, but Chen Fan met his pressure with his Nirvana Sword Intent.

Chen Fan fought a Golden Core Realm youth and three Foundation Establishment cultivators, using paired sword formations and One Sword, Ninefold to kill the youth. After killing two more pursuers, he caught the last man and demanded to know where they were.

• The Golden Core Realm youth attacked Chen Fan with divine lightning, but Chen Fan evaded him and trapped him and the three Foundation Establishment cultivators in two Eight Trigrams Sword Formations.
• Chen Fan unleashed One Sword, Ninefold and used the formations’ power to pin and kill the Golden Core Realm youth.
• The three Foundation Establishment cultivators fled, and Chen Fan caught and killed two of them, including a woman who identified them as disciples of the Heavenly Heart Sect.
• Chen Fan caught the final cultivator, held his sword to the man’s throat, and asked where they were.

Chen Fan learned that the Underground Palace lay in the Eastern Wasteland, then was forcibly teleported back to the Heavenly Court. He received rewards and became a nine-star Heavenly Soldier, while the rankings revealed him as the new first place.

• A Heavenly Heart Sect cultivator told Chen Fan that he and his companions had been dragged into the Underground Palace by a black beam and identified their home as the Eastern Wasteland.
• The cultivator tried to ambush Chen Fan, but Chen Fan dodged and killed him with his sword before he could learn more.
• A powerful formation teleported Chen Fan out of the Underground Palace and back to the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Fan received an Avatar Dao Talisman, golden armor, and True Essence Pills, and his jade pendant gained four bronze stars.
• Chen Fan entered the main hall, where the rankings showed him in first place; Chen Jingjing, Qin Xian'er, and onlookers from other sects reacted with joy and shock.

After winning the Heavenly Soldier Ranking, Chen Fan revealed that the Heavenly Court had sent his Divine Soul to the Great Immortal Cultivation World and may have trapped him in a deadly mission. He warned Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng to avoid the Heavenly Court, but Bald Bird accidentally exposed that Chen Fan planned to go to the Great Immortal Cultivation World.

• Chen Fan returned from the Heavenly Court and told Bald Bird that he had visited the Great Immortal Cultivation World and encountered members of the Heavenly Heart Sect.
• Bald Bird recognized the sect and confirmed that Chen Fan had truly reached the Great Immortal Cultivation World.
• Chen Fan told Chen Jingjing, Qin Xian'er, and Zhang Rumeng that the Heavenly Court's mission may have been designed to make him kill the cultivators or leave his Divine Soul imprisoned.
• Qin Xian'er recalled that the Immortal Sect's sect master had warned her and her senior sister against getting involved with the Heavenly Court.
• Chen Fan told Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng to avoid Heavenly Court trials, while Bald Bird said they would sever their ties with the Heavenly Court when they went to the Great Immortal Cultivation World.
• Bald Bird accidentally revealed Chen Fan's plan to the three women, leaving Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Qin Xian'er surprised.

Chen Fan prepared to leave for the Great Immortal Cultivation World someday, while Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Qin Xian'er set their sights on reaching the Golden Core Realm. After six months of secluded cultivation, Chen Fan reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage and hit a bottleneck in tempering his Nirvana Sword Intent, and Bald Bird urged him to find Old Yellow Tooth.

• Bald Bird explained that only Golden Core Realm cultivators could survive teleportation, so Chen Fan promised Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng he would secure their safety before leaving and return for them one day.
• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng began cultivating, while Qin Xian'er left the Stone Chamber determined to pursue the Golden Core Realm.
• Bald Bird told Chen Fan that Qin Xian'er and Mu Yunshui had Golden Core-level true essence bestowed on them by a powerful expert, though he did not know why.
• Chen Fan used the Annihilation Sword Art Jade Slip to temper his Nirvana Sword Intent, clashing with the phantom and condensing another speck of light despite suffering injuries.
• Over six months, Chen Fan condensed eight specks of light in his Nirvana Sword Intent and advanced his Burning Gold Scripture and four sword arts to Foundation Establishment Late Stage, where he reached a bottleneck.
• Bald Bird woke and told Chen Fan it was time to find Old Yellow Tooth.

Chen Fan left the Underground Palace to meet Old Yellow Tooth at the foot of Shu Mountain, while rumors spread that Shu Mountain and the other sects faced a powerful threat. Old Yellow Tooth finally arrived late, and after he and Bald Bird finished wrestling over his wine, Bald Bird demanded to know what had happened at the ceremony.

• Chen Fan left the Underground Palace, slipped past the guards at Demon King Valley, and traveled toward Shu Mountain without drawing attention.
• On the way, Chen Fan heard rumors that Shu Mountain had sought help from the Immortal Sect and that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect had also sent elders there.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird waited for Old Yellow Tooth near Kongming City, set up a Concealment Array, and grew concerned when he did not arrive by nightfall.
• Old Yellow Tooth arrived late, and Bald Bird attacked him and wrestled him until Old Yellow Tooth handed over his wine.
• Bald Bird drank with Old Yellow Tooth, then demanded to know what had happened at the ceremony.

Chen Fan, Bald Bird, and Old Yellow Tooth learned that the Monster Beast’s finger had been sealed, but their world was cut off from the upper realm by a powerful seal. Bald Bird suggested that cracks in the seal might offer a way to reach the upper realm.

• Old Yellow Tooth told Chen Fan and Bald Bird that the Immortal Sect’s Sect Master had sealed the Bronze Hall beneath the western sea for five hundred years.
• Old Yellow Tooth explained that the threat was an imperishable Monster Beast finger, not a whole Monster Beast.
• Old Yellow Tooth revealed that their world had been sealed off from the upper realm, leaving Teleportation Arrays unusable and preventing Bald Bird from returning.
• Bald Bird speculated that the world’s seal might be connected to its past or serve as a cage or breeding ground for powerful figures.
• Bald Bird argued that cracks in the seal might exist elsewhere and could provide a chance to reach the upper realm.

After learning that Bald Bird might find a route to the Upper Realm, Chen Fan tracked down Big and Little Bai after discovering their home had been abandoned. He and Bald Bird found their trail leading toward the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, but the group nearby had no Golden Core cultivators, leaving Chen Fan unsure whether it was a trap.

• Bald Bird told Old Yellow Tooth that finding a gap to the Upper Realm could take up to ten years, and Chen Fan invited him to a gathering at Heavenly Court in a year and a half.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird reached Big and Little Bai's abandoned home and found signs that a battle had taken place there.
• Bald Bird used the spiritual-sense seed to locate Big and Little Bai several thousand li away, in the direction of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird hurried toward them, determined to rescue Big and Little Bai and Little Medicine Boy.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird sensed a group nearby but found no Golden Core cultivators, prompting Bald Bird to suspect a trap.

Chen Fan rescued Little Medicine Boy and Big and Little Bai from five Ten Thousand Swords Sect disciples who were taking them back to the sect. He killed four disciples and captured the one who had repeatedly thrown Little Medicine Boy, then asked how many times it had happened.

• Chen Fan decided the Ten Thousand Swords Sect disciples were not bait and crept toward them to attack.
• The disciples mocked Big and Little Bai, bullied Little Medicine Boy, and threatened the women.
• Little Medicine Boy refused to reveal his connection to Chen Fan, and the disciples learned that he knew him.
• Chen Fan appeared as Little Medicine Boy was thrown again, then killed four disciples and knocked down the fifth.
• Chen Fan lifted the surviving disciple by his throat and asked Little Medicine Boy how many times the man had thrown him; Little Medicine Boy answered, "Five times!"

Chen Fan rescued Little Medicine Boy, Big, and Little Bai, then led them toward Demon King Valley to reunite with Qingqing and Rumeng. Near the Underground Palace, he sensed that something was following them.

• Chen Fan smashed the cultivator who had attacked Little Medicine Boy five times, killing him, then freed Big and Little Bai with Sword Qi.
• Little Medicine Boy explained that he had counted five throws because the cultivator had tried to bully Big and Little Bai, and Chen Fan promised to take him to Qingqing and Rumeng.
• Big and Little Bai told Chen Fan how they had fled the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and were eventually captured while traveling with Little Medicine Boy.
• Chen Fan sent Big and Little Bai into Demon King Valley ahead of him, and they passed the entrance without drawing the guards' attention.
• Chen Fan entered Demon King Valley with Little Medicine Boy and Bald Bird, reunited with Big and Little Bai, and led the group toward the Underground Palace.
• Chen Fan stopped near the Underground Palace and warned the others that something was following them.

Chen Fan and his companions discovered a guide bee queen following them through Demon King Valley. After learning it might have been drawn by the Bee Emperor Jade Nectar, Chen Fan decided to tame it, while the timid Bee King cautiously approached Bald Bird.

• Chen Fan sensed a small creature following the group and led everyone behind a tree to hide their tracks.
• A guide bee queen arrived, and Bald Bird warned that it could track them and summon a swarm, so Chen Fan attacked it.
• The Bee King begged Chen Fan to spare its life and claimed it had followed the scent of honey, surprising Chen Fan and Bald Bird with its cowardice and lack of clansmen.
• Bald Bird urged Chen Fan to tame the Bee King, explaining that it could eventually command huge numbers of guide bees.
• Bald Bird threatened the Bee King into approaching and offered it Bee Emperor Jade Nectar in exchange for joining them, but the Bee King said it only ate honey.

Chen Fan returned to the Underground Palace with the Bee King, Big and Little Bai, and Little Medicine Boy, reuniting the child with Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng. After Qin Xian'er accepted his claim that he had forged the ancient sword, Chen Fan resumed cultivation, seeking to temper his Chaos Qi into a sword sheath for his battered old sword.

• Chen Fan gave the Bee King some Bee Emperor Jade Nectar, and the Bee King agreed to follow him as his little brother.
• Chen Fan brought the group to the Underground Palace, where Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng joyfully reunited with Little Medicine Boy.
• Bald Bird had the Bee King address the women as Elder Sisters and introduced Big and Little Bai to the others.
• Qin Xian'er asked about Chen Fan's journey and the sword he planned to reclaim, and she said she believed he had forged it.
• Bald Bird taught the Bee King to flatter Chen Fan, then argued with it over who deserved the compliments.
• Chen Fan returned to cultivating, intending to temper his Chaos Qi into a sword sheath that could merge with his old sheath as a bonded Dharma Treasure.

Chen Fan slowly tempered the Chaos Qi while evading the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and his Heavenly Court body became known as a formidable young genius. After gathering the ingredients for the Youth-Preserving Pill, he watched Bald Bird begin refining it, with the women awaiting the results outside the Stone Chamber.

• Chen Fan spent months tempering the Chaos Qi and searched the Heavenly Court for rare materials, while the Immortal Sect and Ten Thousand Swords Sect repeatedly failed to capture his Heavenly Court body.
• Chen Fan killed a Golden Core Realm Elder and several Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators who tried to stall him, earning recognition as a young genius comparable to an early Golden Core Realm cultivator.
• Xiao Munan emerged from seclusion and challenged Chen Fan in the Heavenly Court, but Chen Fan had disappeared and did not learn of the challenge.
• Chen Fan gathered the ingredients for the Youth-Preserving Pill and found many, but not all, of the materials needed for a Teleportation Array; his Chaos Qi also began taking the shape of a pillar.
• Bald Bird prepared to refine the Youth-Preserving Pill and secluded itself in a Stone Chamber, while Qin Xian'er, Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, Big Bai, and Little Bai gathered outside three months later for the pills to emerge.

Bald Bird emerged from a furnace explosion with eight successfully formed Youth-Preserving Pills, which Chen Fan and the others divided among themselves. After everyone returned to seclusion to refine the pills, half a year passed, bringing Chen Fan closer to condensing his Golden Core.

• Chen Fan and the others waited outside Bald Bird's alchemy room as the Youth-Preserving Pills neared completion.
• A pill furnace exploded, and Bald Bird staggered out unharmed, claiming it had salvaged eight pills despite failing to finish the full batch.
• Bald Bird gave the eight Youth-Preserving Pills to the group, while Xiao Hei followed it away, repeating his praise.
• Qin Xian'er gave pills to Big and Little Bai and asked Chen Fan for one to give Mu Yunshui; Chen Fan agreed and kept one for himself.
• Chen Fan and the others returned to their stone chambers to refine the pills, and half a year later the brewing of the Enlightenment God Tea neared completion as Chen Fan's Golden Core condensation drew close.

Chen Fan gathered his companions in the Heavenly Court to share the Enlightenment God Tea he had brewed. After opening the sealed cauldron and pouring eight cups, everyone began drinking tea to comprehend the Dao.

• Chen Fan invited Chen Jingjing, Qin Xian'er, Big and Little Bai, and others to his Immortal Cave to drink the divine tea.
• Bald Bird asked Chen Fan to save tea for it and the Bee King, while Chen Fan entered the Heavenly Court.
• Old Yellow Tooth and the Green-feathered Bird tried to open the sealed bronze cauldron, then argued over who had tried to steal the tea.
• Chen Jingjing told Chen Fan that Sister Matchless had not entered the Heavenly Court for some time.
• Chen Fan broke the seal, opened the cauldron, and poured the Enlightenment God Tea into eight cups.
• Chen Fan advised Qin Xian'er and Big and Little Bai to drink slowly, and everyone sat down to drink and comprehend the Dao.

Chen Fan used the Enlightenment God Tea to seek a breakthrough into the Golden Core Realm by reconsidering his Nirvana Sword Intent. After consuming an enormous amount of tea, he remained trapped in enlightenment as those around him worried, while Qin Xian'er believed he would succeed.

• Chen Fan drank a full cup of Enlightenment God Tea and examined how his Nirvana Sword Intent could lead him toward the Golden Core Realm.
• He struggled with the contradiction between a sword intent based on death and the survival of its wielder, then drank the equivalent of twenty cups to force another breakthrough.
• The immense tea dose caused wounds to split open across Chen Fan's body, but he continued exploring how annihilation connected to life, death, and reincarnation.
• Chen Jingjing and the others worried over Chen Fan, while Old Yellow Tooth warned that a failed attempt could injure his Divine Soul.
• After twelve hours, Chen Fan still had not awakened, and Qin Xian'er quietly declared that he would succeed.

After consuming God Tea, Chen Fan comprehended the Golden Core Sword Dao of Annihilation but halted his breakthrough because he feared forming a Golden Core in the Heavenly Court would affect his true body. Qin Xian'er remained in his Immortal Cave while Chen Fan planned to return to his true body and break through there with Bee Emperor Jade Nectar.

• The Green-feathered Bird drank Old Yellow Tooth's cup of God Tea and entered a state that seemed to awaken its sealed memories and strength.
• Old Yellow Tooth left Chen Fan's Immortal Cave, while Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, Big and Little Bai, and Qin Xian'er continued comprehending the Dao.
• Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, Big and Little Bai, and Qin Xian'er awoke; Qin Xian'er sent the others back to the Underground Palace and stayed to watch over Chen Fan.
• Qin Xian'er drank a fourth cup of God Tea and entered Dao comprehension as Chen Fan continued meditating on Life and Death and Annihilation.
• Chen Fan comprehended the Golden Core Dao of Annihilation after consuming twenty cups of God Tea, then stopped his breakthrough because he feared forming a Golden Core in the Heavenly Court would affect his true body.
• Chen Fan decided to return to his true body, consume Bee Emperor Jade Nectar, and attempt to break through to the Golden Core Realm there.