Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan confronted Qin Feng and Qin Xiaorong over their attempt to take the Little Golden Monkey, then was trapped in Qin Feng’s Immortal-Slaying Formation. He found the formation’s core and destroyed the formation, leaving Qin Feng stunned.

• Chen Fan refused to hand over the Little Golden Monkey, despite learning that the group belonged to Qin Xian’er’s Qin Clan.
• Qin Feng demanded the monkey and an apology, then activated the Immortal-Slaying Formation against Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan used his sword and Nine Palaces Footwork to break through the formation’s vines and lightning net.
• Chen Fan drew the Array-Breaking Ruler after identifying the formation’s core, then shattered the Immortal-Slaying Formation and Qin Feng’s formation disk.

Chen Fan broke Qin Feng’s Immortal-Slaying Formation and learned that the Qin Clan had no current record of Bi Fang City. Little Crescent Moon offered to reveal its location if she could play with Little Golden Monkey, leaving Chen Fan without the information he sought.

• Chen Fan used the Array-Breaking Ruler to destroy Qin Feng’s formation, and Qin Feng realized he had badly underestimated him.
• Qin Xiaorong recognized Chen Fan’s Nine Palaces Sword Art and stopped Qin Feng from provoking him further.
• Qin Xiaorong invited Chen Fan to visit the Qin Clan, and he accepted their peaceful departure without pursuing the conflict.
• Chen Fan asked whether the Qin Clan knew Bi Fang City, and Qin Xiaorong said she had never heard of it.
• Little Crescent Moon recalled seeing Bi Fang City on an old map in her grandfather’s secret chamber and demanded to play with Little Golden Monkey before sharing its direction.

Chen Fan traveled east toward Giant Ten Thousand City while using Dead Man Grass to speed his recovery, then searched the city for an old map pointing to Bi Fang City. As he left an antique shop without finding one, he spotted a woman he recognized as Mu Yunshui.

• Qin Xiaorong directed Chen Fan toward Giant Ten Thousand City, and he departed with Little Golden Monkey.
• During his journey, Chen Fan used Samadhi True Fire to burn Dead Man Grass and accelerated the fusion of Dao fragments in his body.
• Chen Fan reached Giant Ten Thousand City and searched its marketplace and shops for an old map, but found none.
• As Chen Fan left an antique shop, he glimpsed a woman in white and recognized her as Mu Yunshui.

Chen Fan encountered Mu Yunshui in the Marketplace, where she acted as if she did not know him while an Immortal Palace disciple secretly marked him. After discovering where old maps might be sold, Chen Fan reached the ancient Treasure Pavilion and sensed a powerful Nine Palaces Dao resonance in its signboard.

• Chen Fan found Mu Yunshui shopping with several Immortal Palace disciples and a Spirit Refining Stage elder.
• Mu Yunshui denied knowing Chen Fan and stopped the handsome disciple from confronting him before leaving with the group.
• Chen Fan discovered that the handsome disciple had secretly placed a mark inside his body, and he decided to use it to lure the man to him.
• Chen Fan's Great Dao injury flared and made him cough up blood, but he continued searching the Marketplace for old maps.
• Chen Fan learned that an old shop might have old maps and arrived at the Treasure Pavilion, whose signboard carried a powerful Nine Palaces Dao resonance.

Chen Fan visited a mysterious old shopkeeper and obtained an ancient map to Bi Fang City as a gift after discussing the Nine Palaces Sword Art. As Chen Fan left Giant Ten Thousand City, Mu Yunshui appeared and called him to follow her.

• Chen Fan entered the old man's shop, sensed the man's formidable Sword Dao attainments, and asked for an ancient map to Bi Fang City.
• The old man recalled visiting Bi Fang City thousands of years earlier and found a worn map with one-third missing.
• The old man asked who had taught Chen Fan the Nine Palaces Sword Art, recognized that Chen Fan possessed a Sword Heart, and gave him the map for free.
• The old man sent Chen Fan outside the shop with a wave of his hand, and Chen Fan thanked him before leaving for Giant Ten Thousand City's gate.
• Chen Fan checked the map at the gate, where Mu Yunshui passed by and told him to follow her.

Mu Yunshui warned Chen Fan not to enter the Immortal Palace and revealed that Qin Xian'er had been sent back to the Qin Clan, where she was likely confined. Chen Fan learned he might see Xian'er at the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield in two years and resolved to participate.

• Mu Yunshui met Chen Fan outside Giant Ten Thousand City and warned him that the Immortal Palace was too powerful for him to challenge.
• Mu Yunshui told Chen Fan that Qin Xian'er had returned to the Qin Clan and revealed her connection to its clan head.
• Mu Yunshui explained that the Qin Clan had hidden Xian'er away because it considered her existence shameful, and that her mother had died under house arrest.
• Mu Yunshui said Xian'er would likely enter the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield in two years and warned Chen Fan not to participate unless he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Fan erased the mark left by the Immortal Palace man, vowed to join the battlefield, and headed back toward Giant Ten Thousand City.
• The Immortal Palace man greeted Mu Yunshui, then realized Chen Fan had come from the same world and sneered.

Chen Fan arrived in Heaven and Earth City and learned that Bald Bird had opened a treasury near the city, drawing crowds with stories of its infamous past. He realized Bald Bird was likely hiding inside a deadly array-filled vault and worried about how to reach it, while Old Yellow Tooth’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Chen Fan traveled from Giant Ten Thousand City to Heaven and Earth City after selling a three-star Spirit Treasure sword to pay the Teleportation Array fee.
• Chen Fan heard cultivators discuss a Bi Fang Treasury that had opened after an ugly bird in floral underpants blasted apart a nearby mountain and entered the vault.
• Young cultivators recounted Bald Bird’s past crimes against powerful factions, including stealing the Qin Clan’s array records and treasures from the Divine Silkworm Clan, Shu Mountain, and the Immortal Palace.
• Chen Fan learned that the two city lords had sealed the treasury entrance and planned to invite the Qin Clan to help breach its killing arrays.
• Chen Fan concluded Bald Bird was probably hiding in the treasury and suspected its arrays were a trap, while he still had no clue where Old Yellow Tooth had gone.

Chen Fan joined the cultivators gathering outside Bald Bird's treasure vault, whose deadly formation no one could yet breach. As the Qin Clan arrived to tackle it, Chen Fan recognized a Heavenly Heart Sect disciple and remained wary of the search for him over the destruction of Heartless Valley.

• Chen Fan studied the treasure vault's killing formation but found only the Life Gates for its first two steps before retreating to avoid attention.
• Chen Fan heard that Heartless Valley and the Divine Silkworm Clan were searching across the continents for the Golden Core youth who had attacked the valley, and he kept a low profile.
• A Heavenly Heart Sect elder claimed her young disciple had found the Life Gate of the formation's first step, prompting the crowd to admire the disciple and argue over whether the Qin Clan would still have to break the formation.
• Chen Fan recognized the Heavenly Heart Sect and remembered killing its cultivators at the Immortal Palace ruins to protect their secret.
• Six Qin Clan cultivators arrived, including three Spirit Refining elders and three Nascent Soul prodigies, drawing the crowd's attention.

The Qin Clan’s three prodigies entered Bi Fang’s treasure vault and began breaking its linked killing formations. They were stumped near the end of the first formation, while Chen Fan realized where its hidden formation core was.

• Cultivators gathered outside the treasure vault praised the Qin Clan’s three peerless prodigies and watched them approach the entrance.
• The three prodigies recognized the Qin Clan formation, used Formation Disks, and advanced through its first hundred steps.
• The Qin Clan prodigies stalled at the final eight steps, unable to locate the formation core.
• The Heavenly Heart Sect’s young woman and the Qin Clan elders explained that the Life Gate could shift and that finishing the formation could change the route.
• Chen Fan inferred that Bald Bird had made the formation core movable and realized where it was hidden.

The Qin Clan’s prodigies became trapped in Bald Bird’s killing formation until Murong Lanxin found the formation core beneath the Life Gate and helped the elders destroy it. The remaining formations activated together, and Bald Bird recognized Chen Fan inside the crowd, drawing suspicion toward him.

• The three Qin Clan prodigies completed the first formation’s final eight steps without finding the hidden core, losing their route back.
• Murong Lanxin used a Formation Disk to discover that the formation core lay beneath the Life Gate, and the Qin Clan elders confirmed her finding.
• The Qin Clan elders destroyed the first formation, while the Heavenly Heart Sect’s elder worried the Qin Clan might recruit Murong Lanxin.
• Bald Bird revealed that destroying the first formation had activated the formations behind it, creating a far more dangerous chain of traps.
• Bald Bird recognized Chen Fan, prompting the crowd to search for the boy it had called and consider using him as leverage.

The Qin Clan and other powerful cultivators sought volunteers to probe Bald Bird’s killing array, then began seizing Rogue Cultivators to force them inside. Chen Fan was captured as the fifth probe, but he had deliberately allowed it after Bald Bird secretly promised to guide him safely through the array.

• A Qin Clan elder offered a treasure to anyone who would probe the array, but the cultivators distrusted his promise of protection.
• The Qin Clan threatened to claim the vault with the city lords if no one cooperated, and a Demon Race expert urged the crowd to use Rogue Cultivators as probes.
• Spirit Refining Stage experts seized Rogue Cultivators and gathered five people to send into the array.
• A Spirit Refining Stage expert pulled Chen Fan to the vault entrance, unaware that Chen Fan had let himself be captured following Bald Bird’s secret instructions.
• Bald Bird told Chen Fan to follow the route he had described and assured him he would pass through the array unharmed.

Chen Fan entered the treasure vault’s killing formation after the Qin Clan freed him and four Rogue Cultivators to test its Life Gates. Following Bald Bird’s secret route through the Death Gates, he reached the second step as the Qin Clan elders hurriedly retreated.

• The Qin Clan elder explained that five people must stand on the first step’s Life Gates to reveal the next route, while Chen Fan stayed calm because Bald Bird had told him the way through.
• Chen Fan refused to reveal his identity and demanded to enter the formation, so the Qin Clan elders freed him and the four Rogue Cultivators but left them surrounded.
• The Qin Clan directed the five to enter their assigned positions while Bald Bird secretly instructed Chen Fan to take the Death Gate and follow the death positions.
• As the five stepped forward together, Chen Fan turned into the Death Gate and swiftly reached its position on the second step.
• The Qin Clan elders and young geniuses shouted for everyone to fall back and retreated beyond the entrance.

Chen Fan safely crossed the killing formation by following Bald Bird’s instructions and reached a cavern filled with rare treasures. The Little Golden Monkey claimed a golden fruit and twice sent Bald Bird flying, while Bald Bird revealed that even more valuable treasures had escaped.

• Chen Fan crossed the killing formation unharmed, leaving the Qin Clan elders and other experts stunned as they realized he had found the path through it.
• Chen Fan emerged into a cavern filled with ancient herbs, a radiant divine tree bearing golden fruits, and a wall of divine ore.
• The Little Golden Monkey rushed to the divine tree and ate a golden fruit before Bald Bird could stop it.
• The Little Golden Monkey punched Bald Bird away twice when the bird tried to drive it from the tree.
• Bald Bird admitted it had hidden treasures more precious than the golden peach tree and said several supreme treasures had escaped when it opened the entrance.

Chen Fan reunited with Bald Bird in the Qin Clan treasury, learned that Little Golden Monkey might share the bloodline of a monkey shown in an ancient war mural, and was promised a cure for his Great Dao wound. Despite Bald Bird's warnings about the deadly Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield, Chen Fan resolved to enter in two years, while attackers began battering the treasury entrance.

• Bald Bird told Chen Fan that several supreme treasures had escaped his vault and revealed that he had prepared a Teleportation Array to leave.
• Bald Bird identified Little Golden Monkey's pure Divine Soul as a sign of ancestral reversion and recognized its golden eyes from a mural of the war between immortals and demons.
• Chen Fan described his Great Dao wound and the Heartless Fruit, and Bald Bird offered ten-thousand-year Dead Man Grass that could heal him in two years.
• Chen Fan declared that he would enter the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield in two years, despite Bald Bird's account of its dangers and sealed, older competitors.
• Attackers struck the treasury entrance, and Chen Fan urged Bald Bird to activate the Teleportation Array, but Bald Bird said he had one more thing to do.

Chen Fan, Bald Bird, and Little Golden Monkey left the treasure vault after Bald Bird tricked the cultivators outside with a fake array and caused the entrance to collapse. They escaped through the Teleportation Array just before the Spirit Refining Stage experts reached them.

• Chen Fan collected the last golden peach and several spirit herbs, then left with Little Golden Monkey and Bald Bird.
• Bald Bird taunted the Qin Clan elders and the other cultivators waiting outside the array.
• Bald Bird secretly placed a Spirit Stone to disrupt the array, and Chen Fan followed it toward the treasure vault as the cultivators charged in.
• The array exploded and the entrance collapsed, covering the cultivators in rubble and dust.
• Chen Fan, Bald Bird, and Little Golden Monkey escaped through the Teleportation Array before the pursuing experts could catch them.

Chen Fan escaped the Qin Clan with Bald Bird and Little Golden Monkey, then entered secluded cultivation in a hidden space to heal his injuries and prepare to condense a Nascent Soul. Bald Bird and Little Golden Monkey headed back toward Heaven and Earth City while Chen Fan began refining ten-thousand-year Dead Man Grass.

• Chen Fan and Bald Bird escaped the collapsing treasure vault through the Teleportation Array, leaving the Qin Clan elders furious and determined to discover Chen Fan's identity.
• Bald Bird told Chen Fan that Qin girl had returned to the Qin Clan and reached Nascent Soul Early Stage, and Chen Fan revealed that she had told him about Xian'er.
• Chen Fan decided to cultivate for two years, while Bald Bird planned to investigate Old Yellow Tooth and take Little Golden Monkey along.
• Bald Bird led Chen Fan to a remote barren mountain and opened a concealed cultivation space inside a black boulder.
• Chen Fan entered the space, and Bald Bird sealed it before leaving with Little Golden Monkey for Heaven and Earth City.
• Chen Fan burned the ten-thousand-year Dead Man Grass with Samadhi True Fire and began cultivating as his fragmented Great Dao trembled.

After two years of recovery and seclusion, Chen Fan remained hidden as the four great divine continents prepared for the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield. As the competition neared, sealed and rising prodigies emerged across the world, setting the stage for a major clash.

• News that Chen Fan had destroyed half of Heartless Valley spread after the Bi Fang Treasury affair, while Bald Bird and Little Golden Monkey secretly plundered sect treasuries.
• Chen Fan secluded himself inside a boulder, using a Dead Man Grass to heal and repeatedly comprehending the Great Dao for two years.
• As attention shifted to the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield, people discussed the leading contenders, including Jian Tianmo, Crown Prince Li, Su Jingyun, and Mu Yunshui.
• Jian Tianmo opened his eyes in a Southern Continent volcano and declared his readiness for the coming battle.
• Ji Qingyue watched a young man rebuild his cultivation through the True Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art and wondered whether he could catch up in time.
• A cultivator sealed beneath ice and seawater for twenty years emerged in the Northern Sea, while other hidden prodigies began appearing across the continents.

After two years of secluded cultivation, Chen Fan emerged with his Great Dao wounds healed and traveled to Heaven and Earth City to meet Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth before the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield opened. He arrived amid a gathering of powerful young cultivators and encountered the Dugu Clan’s imposing procession.

• Chen Fan exited the boulder after two years, having healed his Great Dao wounds and brought his cultivation techniques to the Golden Core Late Stage, just short of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Fan flew to Heaven and Earth City, where nearby cultivators remarked on the many heavenly prodigies gathering for the coming battlefield.
• Chen Fan entered the city and briefly passed a young woman whose Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivation and aura impressed him; she also sensed his unusual strength.
• A street vendor told Chen Fan that a veteran of the battlefield was sharing battle experience at a gathering in the southern city, so Chen Fan headed there while hoping to find Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth.
• A three-headed golden lion pulling a carriage announced that the Dugu Clan was passing, and the crowd cleared the street for them.

Chen Fan encountered Dugu Ghost Sword, a powerful masked prodigy whose true face he glimpsed, then learned the rules of the upcoming Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield from Li Muqing. The gathering ended with Dugu Ghost Sword suspecting that Chen Fan had seen through her disguise.

• Dugu Ghost Sword arrived at the residence, and Chen Fan sensed that the masked swordsman was actually a woman.
• Chen Fan entered the garden, searched for Bald Bird and Little Golden Monkey, and felt eager to compete in the battlefield.
• The young master invited Li Muqing to explain the Heavenly Prodigy Battlefield’s stages and final sacrificial-platform battle.
• A confident cultivator vowed to fight in the final battle, while Li Muqing reflected on how few prodigies dared step onto the platform.
• Dugu Ghost Sword told Li Muqing that the green-robed Chen Fan seemed to have seen her true face.

Dugu Ghost Sword recognized that Chen Fan possessed a Sword Heart, and Li Muqing approached him with an invitation that drew the attention of the cultivators around them. After Chen Fan refused and exchanged threats with Xu Tianguang, he drew his sword to face him.

• Dugu Ghost Sword told Li Muqing that Chen Fan had a Sword Heart, and Chen Fan sensed their attention before slipping into the crowd.
• Li Muqing caught up with Chen Fan and invited him to drink immortal tea, making him the focus of the residence.
• Chen Fan declined Li Muqing's invitation, and Xu Tianguang and other cultivators criticized him for refusing her.
• Chen Fan warned Xu Tianguang to stop provoking him, but Xu insisted on making him apologize after Li Muqing left.
• Chen Fan recognized Li Muqing's invitation as an attempt to provoke a fight, then drew his sword and released its powerful aura.