Chapter Summaries

A Little Golden Monkey was born from the golden stone, and Chen Fan tried to hide it before a powerful middle-aged man arrived. Xiao Tianfang took Chen Fan and the monkey away to get it milk, then revealed his name and began recounting his tragic past.

• A Little Golden Monkey emerged from the golden stone and mistook Chen Fan for its mother, demanding milk.
• Chen Fan gave the monkey a Metal-Element Stalactite and set arrays to conceal them, but a middle-aged man passed through the defenses.
• The Little Golden Monkey devoured the stalactite, and the man remarked on how extraordinary it was.
• When the monkey asked the man for milk and began to cry, he decided to take it somewhere to drink milk.
• The man carried Chen Fan and the Little Golden Monkey more than ten thousand li in an instant, told Chen Fan he was a man with a story, and introduced himself as Xiao Tianfang.

Chen Fan and the little golden monkey were taken to Xiao Qingcheng, where Xiao Tianfang’s grief and confusion erupted into violence. After the monkey briefly revealed an extraordinary power, Xiao Tianfang calmed down but forgot Chen Fan again, leaving his daughter Si Qing in tears.

• Xiao Tianfang brought Chen Fan and the little golden monkey to his manor and summoned every woman in the city to find milk for the hungry monkey.
• Xiao Tianfang’s daughter Si Qing came out, and the little golden monkey tried to pull off her clothes when she took it from Chen Fan.
• Si Qing threatened to leave home, triggering Xiao Tianfang’s sorrow before he suddenly accused Chen Fan of taking his loved ones and blasted him with a roar.
• The little golden monkey transformed the ground into a desert to cushion Chen Fan and itself, then returned to its innocent appearance.
• Xiao Tianfang regained his calm, failed to recognize Chen Fan, and walked away after telling Si Qing to call for him if anyone bullied her.
• Si Qing wept as Chen Fan realized Xiao Tianfang’s grief over love was damaging his mind.

After witnessing Xiao Tianfang’s condition, Chen Fan learned that his daughter planned to seek a Heartless Flower in Heartless Valley to make her father forget his lost love. She asked Chen Fan to join her, but he refused until the little golden monkey seemed to offer a clue about the flower.

• Xiao Tianfang’s daughter brought beast milk for the little golden monkey and warned Chen Fan to keep her father’s condition secret.
• The woman invited Chen Fan to Heartless Valley to seek a Heartless Flower that could erase Xiao Tianfang’s love and save his life.
• She explained that the flower grew from the love poison of a man and woman who died inside an illusion in the valley’s forbidden grounds.
• Chen Fan refused to risk his life for the flower, and the woman admitted that she had been foolish to expect anyone to accept the deadly trial.
• After drinking the beast milk, the little golden monkey murmured “love flower” and pointed at its chest, startling Chen Fan.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing relied on the Little Golden Monkey’s claim that it could retrieve the Heartless Flower, which Xiao Siqing needed to save her father. They traveled toward Heartless Valley, where Xiao Siqing revealed that her mother was inside.

• The Little Golden Monkey conjured a phantom of the Heartless Flower and promised it could retrieve one.
• Chen Fan agreed to go with Xiao Siqing, while refusing to let the Little Golden Monkey be put in danger.
• Chen Fan and the Little Golden Monkey stayed at the City Lord’s Manor, where Xiao Siqing said Xiao Tianfang had entered the Underground Palace to cultivate.
• Xiao Siqing led Chen Fan and the Little Golden Monkey south toward Heartless Valley, traveling for several days without using a Teleportation Array.
• The Little Golden Monkey called out to its “Grandma,” and Xiao Siqing told Chen Fan that her mother was in the valley.

Xiao Siqing revealed that her mother had become the Heartless Valley Master by erasing her feelings, then led Chen Fan and Little Golden Monkey toward the valley’s forbidden grounds. After she killed one Gold Jade Mantis, ten more surrounded them, and Chen Fan charged into battle.

• Xiao Siqing told Chen Fan that her mother had taken the Heartless Flower and cultivated the Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art to become Heartless Valley’s Valley Master.
• Xiao Siqing led Chen Fan and Little Golden Monkey into the forest, where she protected them from a Gold Jade Mantis’s ambush.
• Xiao Siqing used her sword art and poisonous pollen to trap and kill the Gold Jade Mantis, then warned Chen Fan to protect Little Golden Monkey.
• After three hours of travel, Xiao Siqing and her companions were surrounded by ten late Golden Core Gold Jade Mantises, including one nearing Nascent Soul strength.
• Chen Fan drew his sword and charged at the ten Gold Jade Mantises.

Chen Fan and Xiao Si Qing fought the Gold Jade Mantises guarding the forbidden ground of Heartless Valley, then prepared to enter it. Little Golden Monkey raced toward the entrance before they could stop it.

• Chen Fan killed the mantis leader and two others with one sword strike, then cut down another as the remaining mantises tried to flee.
• Xiao Si Qing trapped five mantises with her rings, and Chen Fan killed them while Little Golden Monkey swallowed their Golden Cores.
• Chen Fan stopped the final mantis from escaping, questioned it about who knew of their arrival, and left it trapped as a lookout at Xiao Si Qing’s suggestion.
• Xiao Si Qing warned that the forbidden ground was perilous, but Little Golden Monkey suddenly ran toward its entrance.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing entered Heartless Valley’s forbidden ground to seek the Heartless Flower that could save Xiao Tianfang. Little Golden Monkey proved immune to the entrance restriction and beckoned them toward the deadly rosy mist, where they could not yet see what awaited.

• Little Golden Monkey passed through the forbidden entrance unharmed, and Chen Fan sensed that its runes had neutralized the restriction.
• Xiao Siqing admitted that Xiao Tianfang would refuse the Heartless Flower, but vowed to make him take it even if she had to risk her life.
• Xiao Siqing opened the entrance with Heartless Valley’s hand seals, and Chen Fan followed her inside.
• Chen Fan discovered that the rosy mist blocked Divine Sense, while Xiao Siqing warned that its poison could disrupt their yin-yang energies unless they stayed within five inches of each other.
• Little Golden Monkey appeared beneath the mist and called Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing over, prompting Xiao Siqing to wonder whether it was trying to play with them.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing followed Little Golden Monkey through the Heartless Flower poison mist to a hidden golden Heartless Flower. After it bloomed, the mist and Little Golden Monkey vanished, leaving them alone in a cave as an unfamiliar desire began to stir.

• Chen Fan doubted whether he could pass the trial of love because his bonds had weakened his sword heart.
• Little Golden Monkey led Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing safely through the poison mist and past ineffective Heartless Flowers.
• After circling the area for hours, Little Golden Monkey revealed a hidden path to a golden Heartless Flower.
• The golden Heartless Flower bloomed and drew Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing's Divine Souls under its influence.
• The flower, mist, and Little Golden Monkey disappeared, and Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing felt their bodies grow hot as desire stirred.

Little Golden Monkey bit open the golden fruit beneath the Heartless Flower, revealing a phantom ancient cauldron and Samadhi True Fire that tormented it and threatened Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing. The fruit’s ripples alerted Heartless Valley, where a powerful woman recognized the Heartless Fruit and Liu Shangqing set out to investigate, while Chen Fan considered absorbing the phantom flames.

• Little Golden Monkey seized and bit the golden fruit, sending invisible ripples through the forbidden ground and into Heartless Valley.
• A powerful middle-aged woman recognized the ripples as the appearance of the Heartless Fruit and vanished toward the forbidden ground.
• An Elder ordered Liu Shangqing to lead disciples and Monster Beast servants to investigate, and Liu Shangqing flew toward the forbidden ground on a Gold Jade Mantis.
• Little Golden Monkey cracked the fruit open, releasing golden light and a phantom ancient cauldron filled with Samadhi True Fire.
• The phantom flames scorched Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing while Little Golden Monkey writhed in agony, and Chen Fan realized the flames were targeting it and considered absorbing them.

Chen Fan used the Burning Fire Chapter to devour the phantom of Samadhi True Fire, but the flames nearly killed him. As the golden fruit helped restore his fading consciousness, Qin Xian'er appeared before him and he woke.

• Little Golden Monkey endured a painful inheritance as its golden runes began to run out, while Xiao Siqing struggled to withstand the phantom flames.
• Chen Fan used the Burning Fire Chapter to draw the Samadhi True Fire phantom into himself, and the flames burned his body to charcoal.
• The golden fruit released a thread of light that helped Chen Fan’s fading obsession recover as he heard the voices of Zhang Rumeng, Chen Jingjing, and others.
• Chen Fan’s body began digesting the flames, while Little Golden Monkey and Xiao Siqing felt the pressure ease.
• Qin Xian’er appeared, touched Chen Fan’s cheek, and called him to open his eyes.
• Chen Fan woke and asked Qin Xian’er inwardly how she had come there.

Chen Fan remained gravely burned and unable to respond as Qin Xian'er watched over him. Meanwhile, Heartless Valley searched its forbidden grounds, and the Valley Master told Cai Teng that the Heartless Fruit had appeared and might let him inherit the True Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art.

• Qin Xian'er placed a hand on Chen Fan's charred cheek and asked if he was all right, but he could not answer.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Heartless Valley disciple freed a Gold Jade Mantis and ordered the disciples to search the forbidden grounds and the mantises to guard its entrance.
• The Valley Master watched Heartless Valley disciples enter the forbidden grounds, then summoned Cai Teng and told him she had sensed the Heartless Fruit's aura.
• The Valley Master explained that the Heartless Fruit could create a trial of emotion and might allow Cai Teng, whose Cai Clan bloodline was concentrated, to inherit his ancestor's art.
• The Valley Master told Cai Teng that inheriting the True Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art could give him a chance to become number one when the Great Prodigy Battlefield opened in two years.

Chen Fan resisted the golden fruit’s illusion of a peaceful life with Qin Xian’er and broke free from the Samadhi True Fire’s trial. He emerged reborn with stronger sword intent, a phantom of Samadhi True Fire, and his Burning Fire Chapter at peak late Golden Core.

• Cai Teng questioned whether the Heartless Fruit could summon his clan’s ancestor, and the beautiful middle-aged woman said it could summon even divine artifacts’ shadows and should be able to summon the ancestor.
• Heartless Valley disciples entered the forbidden ground in pairs, using yin and yang energies to shield themselves from the rosy mist.
• Chen Fan nearly accepted the peaceful life offered by the Qin Xian’er before him, but his sword heart awakened and helped him recognize the illusion.
• Chen Fan refused to abandon either the Sword Immortal Path or those bound to him by fate, then broke the illusion and regenerated his body.
• Chen Fan awoke to find Little Golden Monkey asleep and Xiao Siqing recovering, while he gained stronger Nirvana Sword Intent, a firmer realm of Life and Death Reincarnation, a phantom of Samadhi True Fire, and peak late Golden Core cultivation.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing survived the Heartless Flowers’ poison and discovered that the Little Golden Monkey’s eyes had transformed after the Samadhi True Fire ordeal. They escaped the sealed cave with the golden Heartless Flower, but Heartless Valley’s people were approaching.

• Chen Fan noticed the poison and rosy mist had vanished and realized the Little Golden Monkey had led them into a sealed cave.
• Chen Fan saw the Little Golden Monkey’s golden eyes and suspected it had gained Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils.
• The Little Golden Monkey saw the Samadhi True Fire in Chen Fan’s dantian, attacked him, then calmed down when he contained the flames.
• Xiao Siqing woke, and Chen Fan concealed how they had escaped while she stored the golden Heartless Flower.
• The Little Golden Monkey sensed people behind the cave wall, and Xiao Siqing realized the people of Heartless Valley had found them.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing hid in a cave within Heartless Valley’s forbidden ground while the Valley Master and Cai Teng searched for the Heartless Fruit. After the Valley Master confronted them and Cai Teng attacked Chen Fan, she recognized the Nine Palaces Dao intent in his sword strike and immobilized him with her domain, forcing him to invoke Reincarnation.

• Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing cultivated in seclusion for three days, then learned from nearby disciples that the Holy Son and the Valley Master were searching the forbidden ground for the Heartless Fruit.
• Chen Fan recalled that the golden fruit’s ripples could have drawn the searchers and chose to keep hiding with Xiao Siqing for several dozen more days.
• The Valley Master and Cai Teng entered the forbidden ground, and Little Golden Monkey opened a hidden barrier to reveal Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing.
• The Valley Master demanded the Heartless Fruit, but Xiao Siqing refused to hand it over, while Chen Fan said the fruit had vanished.
• Cai Teng attacked Chen Fan, who shattered his flower-of-love technique with a sword strike; the Valley Master then recognized the Nine Palaces Dao intent and trapped Chen Fan with her domain.
• Chen Fan activated his Reincarnation intent to resist the Valley Master’s killing pressure.

Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing faced the Heartless Valley Master, who attacked them after demanding the golden Heartless Flower. As Chen Fan prepared to fight back despite his grave injuries, Xiao Siqing shielded him, but an angry voice intervened and destroyed the Passion Flower.

• Chen Fan was badly wounded by the Heartless Valley Master's first strike, while Xiao Siqing explained that they had found only a golden Heartless Flower and refused to hand it over because she needed it to save her father.
• The Heartless Valley Master trapped Chen Fan in her domain, but his Reincarnation, Life and Death intent briefly broke her hold before her Heartless Flower shattered his Taiji Diagram and further wounded him.
• Chen Fan used the Burning Wood Chapter to cling to life and decided to retaliate against the Heartless Valley, while Holy Son Cai Teng recognized him as a potential future threat.
• Xiao Siqing stepped in front of Chen Fan and begged the Heartless Valley Master to kill her too, so the woman sent her Passion Flower to kill them both.
• An angry roar sounded and destroyed the Passion Flower before it could strike Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing.

Xiao Tianfang confronted Ji Qingyue in Heartless Valley while Xiao Siqing tried to protect Chen Fan and offered the golden Heartless Flower. Xiao Tianfang sent his daughter away, exposing Chen Fan as he emerged cocooned in silken threads with an aura linked to the Divine Silkworm Clan.

• Xiao Tianfang arrived unharmed by the love poison and broke Ji Qingyue’s barrier to protect Xiao Siqing and Chen Fan.
• Ji Qingyue demanded the golden Heartless Flower and refused to let Chen Fan leave, citing his strong Heartless Fruit aura.
• Xiao Siqing offered Ji Qingyue the flower but refused to abandon Chen Fan, while Chen Fan secretly formed hand seals and gathered a terrifying baleful aura.
• Xiao Tianfang sent Xiao Siqing through his bronze gate to keep her safe, leaving Chen Fan exposed as silken threads covered him like a cocoon.
• Xiao Tianfang and Ji Qingyue recognized the cocoon’s aura as belonging to the Divine Silkworm Clan.

Chen Fan unleashed the black coffin’s pressure during his escape from Heartless Valley, devastating much of the valley before he and Xiao Tianfang vanished through the bronze gate. Ji Qingyue was left furious, while Cai Teng discovered a remnant of Heartless Fruit and looked ahead to meeting Chen Fan again on the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield.

• Chen Fan used the Divine Silkworm Seal to open the black coffin, releasing the pressure of an Integration Realm corpse as Xiao Tianfang escaped through the bronze gate.
• Ji Qingyue raised the Sky-Prop Banner to protect the forbidden ground, rebounding the coffin’s pressure toward Heartless Valley.
• Chen Fan closed the coffin and escaped with Xiao Tianfang through the bronze gate as it collapsed into tribulation ash.
• The rebounding pressure devastated half of Heartless Valley, killing its Golden Core Realm and lower disciples and severely injuring Nascent Soul Realm disciples.
• Ji Qingyue sacrificed the Sky-Prop Banner and lost the forbidden ground’s accumulated rosy mist before vanishing in fury.
• Cai Teng found a remnant of Heartless Fruit and vowed to meet Chen Fan on the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield two years later.

Chen Fan, Xiao Tianfang, and Xiao Siqing escaped Ji Qingyue and traveled from the Southern Continent to the Eastern Wasteland. After they settled in an inn, Xiao Tianfang summoned Chen Fan for a private conversation about the Divine Silkworm Seal and the black coffin.

• Xiao Tianfang rescued Chen Fan and Xiao Siqing after Chen Fan’s Great Dao was shattered, though he could not heal the injury to Chen Fan’s origin.
• Xiao Siqing offered Xiao Tianfang the golden love flower, but he refused it and hurried them away before Ji Qingyue could catch up.
• Xiao Tianfang used a black bronze door to take the three to an Ancient City, where Chen Fan noticed its runes resembled ones from the Fat Daoist’s secret realm.
• Chen Fan followed Xiao Tianfang and Xiao Siqing through a Teleportation Array to a hidden landing point in the Eastern Wasteland, hoping to reunite with Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth.
• After night fell, Xiao Tianfang left the inn and summoned Chen Fan to meet him atop a tower, where Chen Fan expected him to ask about the Divine Silkworm Seal and the black coffin.

Chen Fan left Xiao Tianfang and Xiao Siqing, then traveled into the wilderness to recover from his injury to the Great Dao. After seven days of cultivation, he made little progress and discovered that Little Golden Monkey had stolen spirit herbs and a thousand-year-old peach from a group of cultivators, who were chasing it toward his cave.

• Xiao Tianfang warned Chen Fan to leave because the Divine Silkworm Clan might pursue him, and Chen Fan asked for directions to Bi Fang City before departing with Little Golden Monkey.
• Xiao Siqing worried about Chen Fan's departure, while Xiao Tianfang mistakenly believed she had suffered at his hands and tried to chase him down.
• Chen Fan flew for three days and nights, then rested in a cave and spent seven days trying to piece together the fragments of his Nirvana Sword Intent.
• Chen Fan emerged from seclusion and found Little Golden Monkey returning with stolen spirit herbs and a thousand-year-old peach, pursued by more than a hundred cultivators.
• A young girl among the pursuers excitedly asked her cousins to catch Little Golden Monkey, and the late Golden Core Realm young man assured her it would not escape.

Chen Fan watched the Little Golden Monkey escape cultivators who wanted to capture it, then learned that its corpse grass might help his Great Dao injury. When the pursuers caught up and demanded the monkey, Chen Fan prepared to fight, but the young man’s claim that he belonged to the Qin Clan made Chen Fan ask which Qin Clan it was.

• The Little Golden Monkey used its golden eyes to dissolve a net and destroy a Magic Tool, then escaped into the mountains.
• The Little Golden Monkey returned to Chen Fan with corpse grass and said that burning it with the flame from the forbidden ground could help his injury.
• The young man, a girl, and a woman caught up with Chen Fan and asked him to hand over the Little Golden Monkey.
• Chen Fan refused, and the young man threatened him with a killing formation from the Qin Clan.
• Chen Fan drew his sword and asked which Qin Clan the young man belonged to.