Chapter Summaries

Yang Xiao entered a void fissure that Chen Fan believed led to the legendary Gods and Devils Wall, then vanished. Chen Fan and his companions decided to return to the Earth Cultivation World to thwart Hell Sect, and raced toward the City Lord’s Manor to use its world breach.

• Yang Xiao recognized Little Golden Monkey was not the person he sought, then entered a void fissure that closed behind him.
• Chen Fan said he had glimpsed the Gods and Devils Wall beyond the fissure, and he and Dugu Han concluded it might lead to the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Fan warned Qin Xian'er that the Qin Clan might tamper with the killing formation inside her, while she revealed that the clan and Hell Sect were plotting to return to the Earth Cultivation World.
• Dugu Han agreed to accompany Chen Fan to protect his family there, and Qin Xian'er said the world breach was at the City Lord’s Manor.
• Chen Fan realized Hell Sect might already be on the move, so Dugu Han led the group toward the City Lord’s Manor while Cai Teng, Jian Tianmo, and Fei Fengxuan watched them leave.

Chen Fan and his companions used Bald Bird’s Teleportation Array to return to the Underground Palace, only to find it empty. When Chen Fan searched for Chen Jingjing with his Divine Sense, his expression darkened.

• Chen Fan stopped Bald Bird and Little Golden Monkey from looting spirit herbs in City Lord Guo’s secret palace and ordered them to find the breach.
• Bald Bird located the breach, and Chen Fan protected the chamber with Five Elements Sword Array Talismans while Bald Bird activated the Teleportation Array.
• Chen Fan, Qin Xian'er, Dugu Han, and Bald Bird arrived safely at the Underground Palace, where they found no one and the lamps extinguished.
• Chen Fan and Dugu Han left to search for Chen Jingjing while Qin Xian'er stayed behind to inspect the secret chamber for the Qin Clan’s killing formation.
• Chen Fan spread out his Divine Sense over the eastern continent, then his face turned ugly.

Chen Fan, Dugu Han, and Bald Bird discovered that Hell Sect had occupied much of the world and imprisoned cultivators at Shu Mountain. After Dugu Han killed a Hell Sect expert who revealed the sect was searching for a lost Qin Clan killing formation and an ancient treasure, the group headed to Shu Mountain to rescue the captives.

• Chen Fan discovered Hell Sect cultivators searching Demon King Valley and found Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and other cultivators imprisoned at Shu Mountain.
• Dugu Han trapped and subdued a late-stage Spirit Refinement expert and several Nascent Soul Realm disciples who approached them.
• The expert revealed that Hell Sect was searching for a lost Qin Clan killing formation and an ancient supreme treasure, but Dugu Han killed him before he could use the Underworld Fire Sacrifice Art.
• Chen Fan, Dugu Han, Bald Bird, and Little Golden Monkey concealed their auras and flew toward Shu Mountain to save the prisoners.

The Hell Sect captured the people of Shu Mountain and demanded their allegiance, leaving Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and Big and Little Bai trapped in the guarded square. After they learned Chen Fan was alive, Su Ziyue revealed to the Hell Sect that she knew about him and that he came from their world.

• The Hell Sect seized Shu Mountain, sealed the captives’ cultivation, and gathered them in a square guarded by a lightning array.
• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng worried about Chen Fan’s fate while Big and Little Bai faced certain death if they swore allegiance because of their heart-demon seeds.
• Zhang Rumeng overheard Hell Sect disciples say Chen Fan had killed Qin Changtian, taken first place on the Heavenly Prodigy Rankings, and been saved by the Nine Palaces Sect.
• Chen Jingjing and Zhang Rumeng rejoiced that Chen Fan was still alive and resolved to survive.
• Su Ziyue stood and told a Hell Sect senior that Chen Fan came from their world.

Su Ziyue exposed Chen Fan’s identity to the Hell Sect and pointed them toward his younger sister, Chen Jingjing. Just as the Hell Sect was about to take Chen Jingjing, Chen Fan arrived and challenged their claim that he could not survive a fight with them.

• Su Ziyue identified Chen Fan as her father’s killer and told the Hell Sect that his younger sister was in the plaza.
• Chen Jingjing admitted who she was and tried to kill herself rather than be captured, but the Hell Sect prodigy restrained her and pulled her from the Magic Array.
• The Hell Sect disciples threatened Chen Jingjing and mocked the possibility that Chen Fan could avenge her.
• A White Bone Sword streaked into the plaza, and Chen Fan appeared in the sky, confronting the Hell Sect prodigy.

Chen Fan returned to Shu Mountain’s Ninth Peak and reunited with Chen Jingjing while the Hell Sect threatened them. As the sect’s assassins attacked, Chen Fan spotted a dagger aimed at her and struck at the hidden attacker.

• The people at Shu Mountain recognized Chen Fan, and Chen Jingjing and the others were overjoyed that he had returned.
• Asura Child dismissed Chen Fan and ordered his disciples to test him, planning to use the Underworld Fire Sacrifice Art if needed.
• Chen Fan greeted Chen Jingjing and asked her to stand beside him as the Hell Sect assassins vanished into the void.
• Chen Fan used the Heavenly Eye Treasure Art to spot an assassin’s fiery-red dagger approaching Chen Jingjing.
• Chen Fan pulled a sword from the ground, wrapped it in black-and-white flames, and slashed into the void behind Chen Jingjing.

Chen Fan killed four Hell Sect disciples who attacked him and Chen Jingjing, while Asura Child escaped. Bald Bird and Dugu Han then arrived with the six dead Hell Sect elders, and Asura Child tried to save himself by offering a secret about an ancient treasure.

• Chen Fan killed a Hell Sect disciple with one sword, then faced Asura Child and the others as they used the Underworld Fire Sacrifice Art.
• Five Hell Sect disciples surrounded Chen Fan and Chen Jingjing, but Chen Fan's apparent disappearance was an illusion; he reappeared and killed four attackers with his sword and black-and-white flames.
• Asura Child fled, while Chen Fan healed the cut on Chen Jingjing's neck and dismissed the approaching Spirit Refinement experts as no threat.
• Bald Bird and Dugu Han arrived with the six dead Hell Sect elders tied to a golden rope, and Asura Child recognized Dugu Han.
• Dugu Han told Asura Child it was time to die, but Asura Child begged for his life and offered to reveal the identity of an ancient supreme treasure.

Chen Fan and Dugu Han learned that the Hell Sect’s map pointed to the Eye of the True Dragon, a flame-wreathed gemstone said to be the mother stone of Samadhi True Fire. They let Asura Child leave after he shared what he knew, but a black-clad woman attacked him as he fled.

• Asura Child revealed that the Hell Sect had found an ancient map carved on a true dragon bone, which Bald Bird recognized as the bone stolen from his Bi Fang Treasury.
• Asura Child identified the treasure as the Eye of the True Dragon, a gemstone bestowed on the War Clan’s ancestor and said to generate Samadhi True Fire.
• Chen Fan realized the stone might be connected to the Samadhi True Fire phantom within his body and could perhaps be sensed through it.
• Chen Fan and Dugu Han agreed to spare Asura Child, and he flew into the clouds while Bald Bird mingled with the Shu Mountain elders.
• A black-clad woman formed a massive stone stele and struck at Asura Child as he tried to escape.

Qin Xian'er killed Asura Child, and Chen Fan freed the cultivators from the Hell Sect’s array and reunited with his companions. As the group prepared to leave and search for the Dragon Eye Stone later, Chen Fan suggested he knew where its mother stone was and revealed his Samadhi True Fire.

• Qin Xian'er struck Asura Child with a stone stele condensed from the killing array’s power, pulverizing him into blood mist.
• Chen Fan shattered the array, restoring the cultivators’ powers, and erased the heart demon seeds in Big and Little Bai.
• Demon Sect disciples confronted Su Ziyue after she tried to flee, and Shu Mountain’s Law Enforcement Hall Master expelled her and Xiao Munan from the sect.
• Demon Sect disciples pursued Su Ziyue as Chen Fan let them go, while Shu Mountain elders thanked him and asked after Old Yellow Tooth.
• Dugu Han urged the group to return and search for the Dragon Eye Stone another day, but Chen Fan said he might know where the mother stone was.
• Chen Fan circulated the Burning Fire Chapter and released Samadhi True Fire, startling Dugu Han and Bald Bird.

Chen Fan used the Samadhi True Fire phantom to sense the Dragon Eye Stone in Demon King Valley and traveled there with Dugu Han to find it. As the flame grew harder to suppress, they reached a mountain summit and recognized the waiting figure as Yang Xiao.

• Chen Fan sensed that the Samadhi True Fire Mother Stone was hidden in Demon King Valley, and Dugu Han agreed to help him search for it.
• Chen Fan left Qin Xian'er and the others in the Underground Palace and traveled to Demon King Valley with Dugu Han.
• Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, Big and Little Bai, and Qin Xian'er stayed behind with Little Golden Monkey while Chen Fan and Dugu Han set out into the valley.
• Chen Fan followed the flame's pull toward the Mother Stone, stopping repeatedly to suppress the increasingly violent phantom as Dugu Han guarded him.
• After nearly three days of travel, Chen Fan and Dugu Han saw Yang Xiao standing atop a mountain.

Chen Fan and Dugu Han encountered Yang Xiao on a mountain that was a fragment of an ancient battlefield and learned that it could not be reached by ordinary means. As Yang Xiao searched for his token, Chen Fan realized the Dragon Eye Stone might be only one of many treasures lost there.

• Chen Fan and Dugu Han saw Yang Xiao on the mountain, and Yang Xiao asked Chen Fan whether he knew where the Fat Daoist was.
• Yang Xiao said he had come to trace the Fat Daoist’s path and had last found him there several thousand years earlier.
• Chen Fan asked Yang Xiao to help him reach the mountain for a gemstone, but Yang Xiao explained that it was a fragment of a battlefield from the ancient war and did not belong to this world.
• Dugu Han tried to approach the mountain, but it remained out of reach, and he returned to Chen Fan without getting closer.
• Yang Xiao told Chen Fan and Dugu Han to leave, explaining that the mountain would vanish without him there.
• Chen Fan realized the Dragon Eye Stone might have fallen onto the battlefield fragment and wondered whether it was filled with weapons and artifacts from the ancient war.

Chen Fan waited beneath the mountain while Yang Xiao searched for treasures, hoping to obtain a Dragon Eye Stone. Yang Xiao revealed that Chen Fan’s Heavenly Eye art was a fragment of the Yang Clan’s secret technique, leaving Chen Fan to connect the clan to a figure from myth.

• Chen Fan asked Yang Xiao to find him a Dragon Eye Stone, but Yang Xiao ignored him and searched the mountain for three days and nights.
• Chen Fan sent Dugu Han back as the factions and the Qin Clan threatened to discover the gap in the world and reach Immortal River City.
• Bald Bird arrived and demanded immortal weapons, then reminded Yang Xiao that Chen Fan had helped save him.
• Yang Xiao said he no longer owed Chen Fan, but counted Chen Fan’s possession of the Heavenly Eye Divine Ability as repayment.
• Yang Xiao explained that Chen Fan’s art was an unorthodox fragment and warned that he would kill Chen Fan if he took a true Heavenly Eye from the Yang Clan.
• Chen Fan wondered whether Yang Xiao’s clan was connected to a mighty figure from myth and asked for its ancestor’s name.

Yang Xiao escaped through a rift toward the world beyond the Gods and Devils Wall, leaving Chen Fan the Samadhi True Fire Mother Stone, which let Chen Fan wield genuine Samadhi True Fire and begin refining it. After returning to the Underground Palace, Chen Fan learned that Shen Wushuang and Little Medicine Boy were still missing, then sensed something was wrong and rushed toward the exit.

• Yang Xiao found a black token, opened a rift with his three-pointed, double-edged saber, and left for the world beyond the Gods and Devils Wall after giving Chen Fan the Samadhi True Fire Mother Stone.
• Chen Fan used the Mother Stone to unleash genuine Samadhi True Fire, and Bald Bird warned him to keep it separate from the immortal sword sheath.
• Chen Fan cautiously refined a thread of true fire with the Burning Fire Chapter, tempering his body and loosening the cultivation art's limits.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird returned to the Underground Palace, where Bald Bird told the others about Yang Xiao's escape and Dugu Han said they should inform their Master.
• Chen Jingjing asked Chen Fan to find Shen Wushuang and Little Medicine Boy, and Chen Fan sensed something was wrong and rushed toward the Underground Palace's exit.

Shen Wushuang and Little Medicine Boy fled from Hell Sect assassins, but Little Medicine Boy was overpowered when he turned to fight them. As the assassins threatened them and mocked Chen Fan, Chen Fan appeared on the sea and announced his arrival.

• Shen Wushuang and Little Medicine Boy raced across the sea while Hell Sect disciples pursued them.
• Shen Wushuang urged Little Medicine Boy to escape, but he turned back to hold off the Nascent Soul Realm assassins.
• Little Medicine Boy attacked the pursuers, but one assassin defeated him and held a dagger to his throat.
• The Hell Sect disciples reacted with alarm when Little Medicine Boy invoked Chen Fan, then mocked him and threatened Shen Wushuang.
• Chen Fan arrived on the sea, sending up a huge spray as his sword shot toward the Hell Sect disciples.

Chen Fan returned in time to rescue the Little Medicine Boy and Shen Wushuang, then helped wipe out the remaining Hell Sect disciples. He discovered a mysterious power in the Little Medicine Boy’s dantian, which Dugu Han identified as resembling Ye Qingyang’s aura.

• Chen Fan arrived as Hell Sect disciples attacked Shen Wushuang and the Little Medicine Boy, and the disciples tried to flee while sending a warning signal.
• Chen Fan killed the disciple who attacked him and rescued the Little Medicine Boy, while Bald Bird, Dugu Han, Qin Xian'er, and Little Golden Monkey eliminated the other Hell Sect disciples.
• Chen Fan reunited with Shen Wushuang, Chen Jingjing, Zhang Rumeng, and the Little Medicine Boy, who revealed that he had reached Golden Core Late Stage and stopped aging.
• Chen Fan examined the mysterious power in the Little Medicine Boy’s dantian, and Dugu Han said its aura resembled Ye Qingyang’s.

Chen Fan’s group returned from the Earth Cultivation World to the Great Immortal Cultivation World and hurried along the Ancient Immortal Road toward its exit. They emerged into a crowd of cultivators, where powerful factions were waiting to confront them.

• Dugu Han recognized an aura in Little Medicine Boy that he associated with Ye Qingyang, and he and Chen Fan decided to return to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.
• Dugu Han sealed the crack above Shu Mountain’s First Peak while Chen Fan’s group used the Teleportation Array to reach the underground palace beneath Immortal River City.
• Chen Fan’s group left the City Lord’s Manor and learned that the Qin Clan, the War Clan, and Hell Sect had stationed powerful cultivators at the Ancient Immortal Road’s exit.
• Dugu Han led the group through the Ancient Immortal Road using Nine Palaces Sword Formations, and Qin Xian’er protected them as they broke through the exit.
• Chen Fan’s group emerged beneath blue skies and green grass amid a sea of cultivators who turned to look at them.

Chen Fan and his allies faced a gathering of powerful factions at the entrance to the Ancient Immortal Road, who demanded his treasures and secrets. The Nine Palaces Elder’s incarnation joined the battle, and Chen Fan drew the ancient immortal sword before challenging his enemies to fight.

• Chen Fan saw the War Clan, Qin Clan, Hell Sect, Divine Silkworm Clan, and other powers gathered to block his way, while Mu Yunshui and Shu Mountain’s people watched from the sidelines.
• The Hell Sect’s deputy sect master demanded Yang Xiao’s whereabouts and the ancient painting, while the War Clan patriarch demanded the inherited sword sheath and the Qin Clan’s old woman threatened Qin Xian’er.
• Chen Fan promised to kill the Qin Clan’s old woman for her past treatment of Qin Xian’er, then the Nine Palaces Token summoned the Nine Palaces Elder’s incarnation.
• The Nine Palaces Elder’s incarnation fought the War Clan patriarch, the Qin Clan’s old woman, and a Divine Silkworm Clan powerhouse as the Hell Sect’s deputy sect master attacked Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan joined Qin Xian’er and Dugu Han in restraining the sword sheath, then drew the ancient immortal sword and called on his enemies to fight.

Chen Fan challenged Hell Sect Vice Sect Master Judge Liu with the restored sword sheath, but struggled to control its immense weight. When Judge Liu launched a sudden attack, Chen Fan comprehended how to wield the sword through the Dao and began countering him, ending with a powerful strike aimed at Judge Liu.

• Chen Fan refused the War Clan Patriarch and Judge Liu’s demands for the sword sheath and slashed at Judge Liu, tearing open the void.
• Judge Liu used the Underworld Fire Sacrifice Art to melt Chen Fan’s frozen world and thrust a dagger toward his throat.
• Chen Fan halted Judge Liu’s dagger with a Taiji diagram and spoke of the Dao, then used its principles to wield the heavy sword with ease.
• Chen Fan appeared behind Judge Liu and attacked him with the Snow Studio Sword Art as icy Sword Qi filled the battlefield.
• Chen Fan invoked “Cold Heart... Snow’s Grudge” and swung the sword down at Judge Liu.

Chen Fan was overwhelmed by Judge Liu while Bald Bird prepared an escape route, and the battle worsened when the Qin Clan attacked Qin Xian'er. The chapter ended with Shen Wushuang catching Qin Xian'er as her life force rapidly faded.

• Judge Liu struck Chen Fan with his dagger and sent him crashing into a mountain, while Dugu Han and the others held back from intervening and Bald Bird built a Teleportation Array.
• The Qin Clan's old woman blocked Qin Xian'er and revealed that the clan had killed her mother before stabbing her heart and carving array patterns into it.
• Mu Yunshui fought the three Immortal Palace protectors, while Dugu Han stopped the old woman from continuing her attack on Qin Xian'er.
• Qin Xian'er fell unconscious as her life force ebbed, and Shen Wushuang caught her and realized she was growing cold.

Chen Fan lay near death while Qin Xian'er and the golden ape were endangered, but the ape shared its immortal blood with him and awakened the Eight-Nine Arcane Art. Chen Fan recovered enough to recognize the technique’s other name: Seventy-Two Transformations.

• Little Golden Monkey gave Qin Xian'er its blood to stop her wound from worsening, then transformed into a towering golden ape.
• Liu the Judge defeated Chen Fan and demanded the ancient painting and Yang Xiao’s whereabouts while Chen Fan lay helpless.
• The golden ape attacked Liu the Judge, who discovered that its blood carried an immortal bloodline.
• The golden ape gave Chen Fan its blood, and Chen Fan entered a state of seeing through life and death as his injuries began to heal.
• Golden runes formed a page in Chen Fan’s dantian and forced the Eight-Nine Arcane Art into him, which he recognized as Seventy-Two Transformations.