Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan mastered the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, broke through to the Spirit Refining Stage, and drew another heavenly tribulation while fighting Judge Liu and protecting his companions. As the others escaped through the Teleportation Array, Chen Fan dragged the Qin Clan's old crone back into the approaching lightning.

• The Eight-Nine Arcane Art healed Chen Fan, raised his cultivation to the initial Spirit Refining Stage, and triggered a heavenly tribulation.
• The Divine Silkworm Clan expert fled, while Judge Liu attacked Chen Fan and the Golden Monkey shrank back to its palm-sized form and fainted.
• Chen Fan sent Chen Jingjing and the others toward the Teleportation Array, then revealed the Eight-Nine Arcane Art's Six Arms to fight Judge Liu.
• The Spirit-Sealing Array shattered, and Nine Palaces Elder's spiritual avatar intervened to drive back Judge Liu's Mortal Purgatory.
• As the heavenly lightning poured down, Bald Bird, Chen Jingjing, Qin Xian'er, and the others escaped through the array with Dugu Han, while Chen Fan seized the Qin Clan's old crone and pulled her back toward the lightning.

Chen Fan dragged the Qin Clan’s white-haired old woman and the War Clan Patriarch into his heavenly tribulation, which summoned terrifying ancestral lightning figures and engulfed Judge Liu as well. Near exhaustion, Chen Fan escaped toward his companions and opened a coffin containing a Fusion Realm corpse to unleash an even more dangerous tribulation on Judge Liu.

• Chen Fan’s Divine Silkworm Seal trapped the Qin Clan’s white-haired old woman, and the tribulation summoned a humanoid lightning figure resembling the Ouyang Clan’s Patriarch.
• Chen Fan dragged the old woman toward the War Clan Patriarch, then bound the patriarch and pulled him into the lightning as another ancestral figure wielding a halberd appeared.
• Chen Fan dragged Judge Liu into the tribulation, and the Nine Palaces Elder sent Chen Fan toward his companions before his spirit body vanished.
• As Judge Liu charged after him, Chen Fan opened the small black coffin and hurled it at Judge Liu, using the Fusion Realm corpse inside to draw down the tribulation.

A Fusion Realm corpse triggered a terrifying heavenly tribulation, and a lightning true dragon annihilated the cultivators gathered near the Ancient Immortal Road. Chen Fan escaped with his group to the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm, where the tribulation immediately found him again.

• Judge Liu recognized the Fusion Realm threat as the opened coffin unleashed a terrifying tribulation, and the cultivators fled.
• A lightning true dragon emerged, shattered the coffin and corpse, and killed the War Clan chief, Judge Liu, and the old Qin Clan woman.
• Bald Bird activated the Teleportation Array, allowing Chen Fan and his group to escape the true dragon’s attack.
• The lightning true dragon destroyed the Ouyang ancestor’s humanoid lightning before returning to the heavens and leaving the battlefield scorched.
• Chen Fan and his group arrived injured in the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm, where lightning gathered and immediately targeted him.

Chen Fan used Bald Bird’s Nine Revolutions Essence-Replenishing Pill to survive the second stage of the lightning tribulation, discovering that he had been caught in Nine Palaces Elder’s Soul Division Stage tribulation. As Nine Palaces Elder’s final trial began, Chen Fan’s own mirror-image appeared and attacked him.

• Bald Bird gave Chen Fan a Nine Revolutions Essence-Replenishing Pill, and Chen Fan used its power to heal while drawing the lightning away from the others.
• Dugu Han realized that the tribulation belonged to Nine Palaces Elder and that Chen Fan had entered it, taking on part of his master’s Soul Division Stage tribulation.
• Chen Fan fought through the second stage as the pill and Burning Wood Chapter gradually repaired his injuries.
• The clouds darkened, and a lightning bolt revealed Nine Palaces Elder meditating inside the lone surviving peach tree as his mirror-image tribulation began.
• Chen Fan urged Dugu Han to lead the others out of the mystic realm, and Dugu Han opened the exit and took them away.
• A mirror-image of Chen Fan appeared and immediately attacked him with a sword wreathed in black-and-white flames.

Chen Fan fought and defeated his powerful lightning mirror image, using the battle to learn its techniques and sharpen his own combat skills. The mirror image’s destruction left him holding a fragrant, pale-blue droplet of condensed liquid.

• Chen Fan exchanged blows with his lightning mirror image and learned its use of three heads and six arms while identifying its limits.
• Chen Fan grew more familiar with his Dao and techniques as the battle continued, while the Nine Palaces Elder remained locked in a motionless contest with his own mirror image.
• Chen Fan struck the mirror image with a surprise attack empowered by the Divine Silkworm Seal, but it quickly healed.
• Chen Fan used the Taiji Diagram and a feint to pierce the mirror image’s heart, then trapped it with his Life and Death Reincarnation flames until it exploded.
• Chen Fan collected a pale-blue droplet of condensed liquid from within the lingering flames.

Chen Fan obtained Lightning Condensate from his tribulation and decided to infiltrate the Qin Clan to save the gravely injured Qin Xian'er. After arranging for Dugu Han and Bald Bird to seek a life-preserving pill, he began refining the condensate before his mission.

• Chen Fan collected the Lightning Condensate, left the secret realm, and learned that Qin Xian'er might have only half a year to live because her damaged formation could not recover without its core.
• Dugu Han revealed that the Dugu Clan possessed an Origin-Returning Heart Protecting Pill, but Chen Fan decided he had to go to the Qin Clan to protect Qin Xian'er’s formation core.
• Chen Fan said Little Golden Monkey had passed the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to him, giving him the Seventy-Two Transformations, and explained that refining the Lightning Condensate would strengthen him for the mission.
• Chen Fan sent Dugu Han and Bald Bird to seek the pill while he hid Chen Jingjing and the others in the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm and left a warning for the Nine Palaces Elder.
• Chen Fan returned to the place where he had undergone his tribulation and began drinking the Lightning Condensate to refine it.

Chen Fan advanced to the Spirit Refining Stage and fused the Chaos Qi with the immortal sword scabbard, then left the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm for the Qin Clan. While gathering information in an Ancient City under a disguise, he encountered Cai Teng, Heartless Valley’s Holy Son.

• Chen Fan absorbed the condensed lightning liquid for a month, strengthening his body, Divine Sense, and arts until he reached an unusually powerful peak in the Spirit Refining Stage.
• Chen Fan tried to fuse the Chaos Qi with the immortal sword scabbard, and the Chaos Qi devoured it before recreating it as a stronger scabbard inside his dantian.
• Chen Fan tested the transformed scabbard with the White Bone Sword, found that it multiplied the sword’s power, and decided to save the Dragon Eye Stone for later.
• Chen Fan said farewell to Chen Jingjing and the others, left them safe in the mystic realm, and headed toward the Qin Clan.
• Chen Fan disguised himself as an ordinary Golden Core cultivator and entered an Ancient City to gather information, where he heard people discussing the deaths of three Soul Division Stage experts in the battle involving him.
• Cai Teng, the Holy Son of Heartless Valley, stepped forward to challenge a man’s account of Chen Fan’s battle, and Chen Fan recognized him.

Chen Fan learned about the War Clan and Qin Clan’s bounties against him while investigating events in the Ancient City. As he left for the Qin Clan, the mysterious Chu Xue recognized the White Bone Sword and asked whether he knew Chen Fan.

• Cultivators discussed Cai Teng’s strength and the mysterious Chu Xue, whose power and ancient etiquette astonished Chen Fan.
• Chu Xue gave her name and left with Cai Teng, while cultivators debated whether she and her attendants came from beyond the domain.
• Chen Fan learned that the Hell Sect had vanished and that the War Clan and Qin Clan had issued bounties for him.
• Chen Fan left the Ancient City and realized Chu Xue was also heading to the Qin Clan, so he slowed down to avoid revealing his destination.
• Chu Xue noticed Chen Fan’s White Bone Sword and asked whether he knew Chen Fan.

Chen Fan reached the Qin Clan’s city while concealing his identity, but discovered that Miss Chu Xue was negotiating with the clan to obtain Qin Xian’er’s formation eye. The Qin Clan questioned her motives after she offered a rare Gold Thread Ice Soul Stone, leaving Chen Fan uneasy about her connection to him.

• A group of cultivators mocked Chen Fan’s apparent imitators, and one young man wearing a White Bone Sword passed Chen Fan without recognizing him.
• Chen Fan stored his White Bone Sword, traveled to the Qin Clan’s city, and paid a spirit stone to enter.
• After sensing Miss Chu Xue and her attendants at the Qin Clan residence, Chen Fan found the clan gathered in the rear courtyard.
• A Qin Clan woman demanded to know why Miss Chu Xue wanted Qin Xian’er’s formation eye, and Chen Fan suspected her request was connected to him.
• Miss Chu Xue offered a Gold Thread Ice Soul Stone in exchange for the formation eye, and a Qin Clan woman asked her purpose.

Chen Fan overheard the Qin Clan's First Madam admit that the clan had carved a magic array into Qin Xian'er to use her as leverage, then attacked the Qin residence to demand the formation core. He confronted a Soul Division Stage elder and launched a surprise assault, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Masked woman Chu Xue demanded Yang Xiao's whereabouts and the immortal sword sheath, but the Qin Clan's First Madam refused to give up the sheath.
• After Chu Xue left, the First Madam said the Qin Clan had carved a magic array into Qin Xian'er's body and planned to kill her and Chen Fan once they obtained the sword sheath.
• Chen Fan emerged from concealment, killed several Qin Clan guards, and demanded that the First Madam hand over the formation core.
• The Qin Clan's Vice Clan Chief appeared with a Formation Disk and attacked Chen Fan, who evaded the earth's suction force with Nine Palaces Footwork.
• Chen Fan appeared behind the Vice Clan Chief, swinging his sword at the elder's throat while his six-armed form struck with the Divine Silkworm Seal.

Chen Fan battled the Qin Clan’s Soul Division Stage Deputy Clan Head while concealing that he could control the Immortal Sword Sheath. He pierced the First Madam, then revealed the sheath and Dragon Eye Stone, drawing a transformed White Bone Sword that appeared as a golden dragon.

• Chen Fan fought the Deputy Clan Head with six arms and black-and-white flames, but the elder’s killing formation repeatedly blocked his attacks.
• The Deputy Clan Head unleashed a deadly blade formation, and Chen Fan evaded it before secretly appearing beside the First Madam.
• Chen Fan pierced the First Madam and took her Storage Ring, while five Qin Clan experts joined their formations to restore her vitality.
• Chen Fan searched the ring for Qin Xian’er’s formation core as the enraged Deputy Clan Head summoned the power of the Five Elements.
• Chen Fan manifested the Immortal Sword Sheath, fitted the Dragon Eye Stone into it, and drew the White Bone Sword as thunder strengthened the sheath.
• The sword released a dragon’s roar and tiger’s howl, and the Deputy Clan Head saw a golden giant dragon where Chen Fan’s sword had been.

Chen Fan used the Immortal Sword Sheath to kill the Qin Clan's First Madam and seize the formation core containing Qin Xian'er's aura, then devastated the clan before escaping. The masked woman returned to find Chen Fan gone and recognized an ordinary-looking man in the crowd as someone she had encountered the previous day.

• Chen Fan unleashed the Immortal Sword Sheath's golden dragon and killed the First Madam despite her threat to destroy Qin Xian'er's formation core.
• Chen Fan took the formation core and used an afterimage to evade the Qin Clan's Deputy Clan Head.
• Chen Fan unleashed Cold Heart, Hateful Snow, killing many of the Qin Clan's young prodigies and destroying half the Qin residence.
• Chen Fan vanished without a trace as cultivators and Soul Division Stage powerhouses arrived at the ruined Qin residence.
• The masked woman returned and recognized an ordinary-looking man in the crowd as someone she had encountered the previous day.

Chen Fan learned that Bald Bird and Dugu Han had been caught trying to take the Dugu Clan’s Origin-Returning Heart Protecting Pill, then went to watch their standoff. The Dugu Clan elder demanded the pill back, while Dugu Han warned that the clan would regret taking it.

• Chen Fan disguised himself and learned that Bald Bird and Dugu Han were surrounded by the Dugu Clan after trying to steal the Origin-Returning Heart Protecting Pill.
• Chen Fan went to the mountain where cultivators had gathered to watch the standoff and encountered a little girl who mistook his disguise for an old uncle.
• The Dugu Clan’s Soul Division Early Stage elder, Uncle Bai, blocked Dugu Han from escaping and demanded that she return the pill.
• Bald Bird argued with the Dugu Clan disciple about the pill’s value, while Dugu Han warned Uncle Bai that the clan would regret taking it.

Chen Fan returned to the valley in his true appearance and stopped Dugu Han from fighting over the pill, then left after warning Jin'er to be careful. The Dugu Clan elders learned that Chen Fan had recently devastated the Qin residence, and the clan realized it had rejected a great opportunity.

• Chen Fan revealed his identity at the valley’s edge, stunning Dugu Han, Bald Bird, the Dugu Clan, and the people who had met him in disguise.
• Chen Fan told Dugu Han to return the pills and leave, then gave Jin'er an iron sword and warned her to be careful before vanishing with the Nine Palaces Footwork.
• Dugu Han returned the Origin-Returning Heart-Replenishing Pill to the Dugu Clan’s Soul Division Stage elder and departed with Bald Bird.
• A black-robed Dugu Clan elder arrived and told his Third Brother that Chen Fan had leveled half the Qin residence, slain over a hundred Qin Clan disciples, and escaped the deputy clan leader.
• The Third Brother and everyone in the valley froze in shock at the news of Chen Fan’s feat.

Chen Fan and Bald Bird restored Qin Xian'er's array core, but she remained unconscious because the formation had suppressed her soul. Chen Fan decided to search for the Soul-Gathering Tower, while Bald Bird suddenly remembered the Six Paths Jade Disk.

• The Qin Clan declared Chen Fan its mortal enemy, while factions and challengers across the world searched for him.
• Chen Fan and Bald Bird studied Qin Xian'er's array core as Little Medicine Boy advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and became Dugu Han's disciple.
• Bald Bird used Fat Daoist's portrait to restore the array core, but Qin Xian'er did not wake because the formation had suppressed her soul.
• Bald Bird said only the Soul-Gathering Tower could awaken Qin Xian'er, and Chen Fan offered to search for it.
• Bald Bird remembered the Six Paths Jade Disk and asked Chen Fan whether he recalled it.

Chen Fan learned that the Six Paths Jade Disk was one half of a treasure that could lead him to the Soul-Gathering Tower, then set out alone to find its counterpart and save Qin Xian'er. After five years of searching and gaining insight into the Dao, he encountered a familiar woman confronting Immortal Palace disciples in a city.

• Bald Bird explained that Chen Fan's Six Paths Jade Disk was incomplete and that its other half could guide him to the Soul-Gathering Tower.
• Chen Fan chose to search alone, spent a quiet moment beside the sleeping Qin Xian'er, and promised to wake her.
• Chen Fan disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and traveled across the Eastern Wasteland while searching for the other jade disk.
• Over five years, Chen Fan crossed less than a tenth of the continent, found no trace of the other half, and deepened his understanding of the Dao.
• In a prosperous city, Chen Fan watched Immortal Palace disciples fly in defiance of the city's rules, then recognized the red-clad Nascent Soul woman who challenged them.

Chen Fan encountered Xiao Si Qing enforcing the Ancient City's ban on flying, then heard an Immortal Palace disciple mention a jade disc while the Immortal Palace recruited cultivators for an ancient tomb expedition. The chapter ended with the disciple pointing Chen Fan out to a Spirit Refining Stage expert aboard the Treasure Gourd.

• Xiao Si Qing confronted Immortal Palace disciples who ignored the Ancient City's flying ban, and Chen Fan knocked the first disciple from his flying sword.
• Xiao Si Qing prepared to punish the fallen disciple, but an Immortal Palace Soul Division Stage expert arrived and Xiao Tianfang told her to let the disciples go.
• An Immortal Palace disciple revealed that the group sought a jade disc, prompting Chen Fan to suspect it was connected to the Six Paths Jade Disk.
• The Immortal Palace offered Spirit Stones to recruit cultivators for an ancient tomb expedition, and Rogue Cultivators began signing up.
• Chen Fan considered joining the expedition, but the disciple he had knocked down pointed him out to a Spirit Refining Stage expert.

Chen Fan learned that the ancient tomb held the other half of the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and arrived at the expedition site with the Immortal Palace. He killed Mo Wu and revealed his Spirit Refining Stage strength as the gathered factions prepared to enter the tomb.

• Mo Feng and Mo Wu planned to use Chen Fan as cannon fodder and sent Immortal Palace disciples to provoke him aboard the Treasure Gourd.
• Chen Fan drew out that the tomb was said to contain the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and a cultivation manual, confirming his search had led him to the disk’s other half.
• The Treasure Gourd reached a wilderness where cultivators from the Immortal Palace, Shu Mountain, the Divine Silkworm Clan, and other factions had gathered, and Chen Fan spotted Mu Yunshui among them.
• Mo Wu threatened Chen Fan, but Chen Fan drew his sword and killed him with a single strike.
• Chen Fan revealed his true appearance and released the aura of a Spirit Refining Stage cultivator.

Chen Fan evaded the Immortal Palace and the other factions by using the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, then infiltrated the group preparing to enter the ancient cultivator’s Tomb. As the factions arranged a deadly nine-deaths-one-life formation, Chen Fan stayed focused on obtaining the Six Paths Jade Disk, but a strange man approached him about his Spirit Stones.

• Chen Fan escaped the Soul Division Stage experts’ barriers and disguised himself as a burly Rogue Cultivator, leaving the experts to identify his technique as the Eight-Nine Arcane Art.
• The five factions prepared to enter the Tomb, where only one in every ten people would survive, and assigned their disciples to the Life Gates while the Rogue Cultivators faced the other positions.
• Chen Fan recognized the factions’ arrangement but kept quiet, determined to obtain the Six Paths Jade Disk and awaken Qin Xian'er.
• The Immortal Palace elder distributed storage bags of Spirit Stones and told the group to prepare for the full-moon entry into the Tomb.
• A smiling, yellow-toothed man approached Chen Fan and asked whether he had dropped his bag of Spirit Stones.

Chen Fan reunited with Old Yellow Tooth at the ancient tomb, where they agreed to seek the Six Paths Jade Disk and gained a Void Talisman as a means of escape. As the full moon rose, moonlight formed a vast sacrificial altar, and the five Soul Division Stage experts ordered the gathered cultivators to take their positions and ascend it.

• Chen Fan recognized Old Yellow Tooth, traded with him for ordinary talisman supplies, and learned that he had left Shu Mountain after a dispute.
• Chen Fan told Old Yellow Tooth that he had come to obtain the tomb’s half of the Six Paths Jade Disk and save the unconscious Xian'er.
• Old Yellow Tooth revealed that he had stolen a Void Talisman from Shu Mountain’s treasure vault and handed its box to Chen Fan.
• The experts forbade anyone from illuminating the cave and waited for the full moon to appear.
• Moonlight streamed through the cave, activated runes in the rock walls, and formed a huge sacrificial altar that filled Chen Fan with unease.
• The five Soul Division Stage experts ordered the cultivators into their assigned positions and onto the altar, while Old Yellow Tooth told Chen Fan it was his turn.