Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan joined a mission in Seeing Dragon Commandery against the Seamless Gate and the Paradise cult, while remaining wary of Le Shaoyuan’s token and Yu Hengcheng’s intentions. Three days later, Chen Fan traveled with Lin Tiandu and a small team on a minor operation.

• Ban Hongfei argued that Chen Fan should not accompany Le Shaoyuan, and Chen Fan agreed before accepting Le Shaoyuan’s token with caution.
• The group split into teams, while Yu Hengcheng quietly considered how Le Shaoyuan’s concern for Chen Fan complicated his plans.
• A Paradise girl sensed that enemies had arrived as Seamless Gate members discussed cooperating with the cult against Great Qian.
• More martial artists gathered in Seeing Dragon Commandery, and Chen Fan reunited with Lin Tiandu, who learned he had joined the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• Three days later, Chen Fan and Lin Tiandu traveled with a five-person team led by an eighth-level Embroidered Garment Tower martial artist on a minor operation.

Chen Fan and You Jun’s team encountered a Paradise ritual that revived a village’s slaughtered inhabitants as walking corpses, then destroyed them and burned the site. Back at the Embroidered Garment Tower, Le Shaoyuan prepared for a final assault as Chen Fan’s Spirit Tempering Art broke through and revealed new spirit techniques.

• Chen Fan and You Jun found a village massacred by Paradise, with its victims arranged in a blood ritual formation.
• A martial artist’s flames triggered the ritual, raising the corpses as walking corpses that attacked the group.
• Chen Fan and the other Grandmasters destroyed the walking corpses, and the team burned the village and sealed it off.
• Le Shaoyuan heard the teams’ reports and said they were gathering intelligence before launching a final assault on Paradise and the Seamless Gate.
• Chen Fan’s Spirit Tempering Art reached its third level, revealing the Spirit-Concealing Art, Spirit-Controlling Art, Spirit Attachment Technique, and Spirit-Shaking Art.

After completing the third level of the Spirit Tempering Art, Chen Fan gained new secret arts and grew more confident as the Embroidered Garment Tower prepared its final assault. A Paradise cultist raid exposed their hidden location, and Le Shaoyuan captured its leader alive, leaving the group with a chance to learn how the enemy found them.

• Chen Fan mastered the Spirit-Concealing, Spirit-Controlling, and Spirit-Shaking Arts after advancing the Spirit Tempering Art to its third level.
• The Embroidered Garment Tower thwarted several Paradise massacres while gathering intelligence for its approaching final assault.
• The Holy Maiden learned that more than thirty Great Qian Grandmasters had gathered in Seeing Dragon Commandery and decided to provoke them into acting sooner.
• A group of black-and-white-robed cultists carrying a red crystal approached Chen Fan and attacked him before he could alert the others.
• Chen Fan killed two attackers, but Le Shaoyuan used a blood sword to destroy the rest, shatter the crystal, and capture the leader alive.
• Le Shaoyuan asked the captured cultist how the Paradise group had discovered their location as the other martial artists arrived.

Le Shaoyuan tortured and killed a Paradise cultist, then ordered the final offensive to begin early. The Great Qian forces attacked a town under a blood-red formation, where Chen Fan and You Jun’s squad encountered Paradise’s walking corpses.

• Le Shaoyuan questioned a captured Paradise cultist, but the fanatic refused to speak and was killed after claiming pain was food for them.
• Le Shaoyuan ordered the final offensive to begin early, while Paradise’s Saintess celebrated that her plan had drawn the attackers in and Sect Master Wu prepared the Seamless Gate for battle.
• Le Shaoyuan led more than a dozen Grandmasters and a force of Great Qian constables and soldiers to the town identified by the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• Le Shaoyuan’s attack destroyed houses, but a blood-red formation enveloped the town and spread blood mist as the forces advanced inside.
• Chen Fan followed You Jun’s squad through the mist and saw walking corpses emerging to attack the Great Qian forces.

Chen Fan fought through the blood-mist-covered town, killing walking corpses and cultists before defeating a Seamless Gate Grandmaster who had attacked Azure Cloud constables. As Le Shaoyuan battled a powerful opponent in the distance, Chen Fan was ambushed by Yu Hengcheng.

• You Jun ordered the disciples to help the martial artists fight the walking corpses, and Chen Fan went off alone to avoid drawing attention to his strength.
• Chen Fan used lightning-infused sword techniques to cut down walking corpses and Paradise cultists, and his Slaughter Intent Realm began to stir.
• Chen Fan sensed a battle between a powerful martial artist and Azure Cloud constables, then arrived and saw the black-clad Seamless Gate Grandmaster drive the constables back.
• The black-clad Grandmaster fled from Chen Fan, but Chen Fan pursued and killed him with a second sword strike.
• Chen Fan noticed Le Shaoyuan fighting a formidable opponent in the distance and began searching the dead Grandmaster's belongings.
• Yu Hengcheng attacked Chen Fan with a golden strike, dissolving his protective essence and forcing him to retreat.

The Paradise saintess began a mass-sacrifice ritual in Golden Shallows City as Le Shaoyuan confronted Wu Di, the Seamless Gate's sect master, and Ban Hongfei moved to stop the ritual. Elsewhere, Chen Fan fought Yu Hengcheng, who accused him of helping Qing Luo attack him at the Star Sect Underground Palace, but Chen Fan denied it.

• The Paradise saintess urged her followers to sacrifice themselves, intensifying the blood formation as a blood sword approached.
• Wu Di blocked Le Shaoyuan with his Dao Domain, while Ban Hongfei slipped past the battle to disrupt the saintess's ritual.
• Chen Fan evaded Yu Hengcheng's golden-dragon attack and countered with his Ninefold Thunder Blade, forcing Yu Hengcheng back.
• Yu Hengcheng recognized Chen Fan's strength and accused him of joining Qing Luo against him at the Star Sect Underground Palace.
• Chen Fan denied the accusation and concealed his past involvement with Qing Luo.

Chen Fan faced Yu Hengcheng’s accusations, only to discover that You Jun had betrayed him and joined Yu Hengcheng in attacking him. He held off both men without revealing his most dangerous powers, while Yu Hengcheng began to suspect Chen Fan was not the person he had encountered before.

• Yu Hengcheng demanded to inspect Chen Fan, and Chen Fan refused, warning him not to attack a fellow member of the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• You Jun appeared and exposed that he had revealed Chen Fan’s whereabouts to Yu Hengcheng in exchange for payment.
• You Jun attacked Chen Fan with his saber as Yu Hengcheng followed with a golden spear strike, forcing Chen Fan to evade and rely on his robe and resilient body for protection.
• Chen Fan unleashed a sword strike combining lightning and fire, blasting apart Yu Hengcheng’s golden light and driving both attackers back.
• Yu Hengcheng recalled his earlier encounter with a Ninefold Thunder Blade user and concluded that Chen Fan’s strength and sword intent did not match that person’s.

Yu Hengcheng and You Jun attacked Chen Fan, suspecting him of colluding with demonic sect remnants, but Lin Tiandu intervened and Le Shaoyuan’s token forced them to withdraw. The chapter ended with Lin Tiandu relieved and warning Chen Fan about provoking powerful people.

• Yu Hengcheng swallowed a pill and attacked Chen Fan alongside You Jun, but Chen Fan repelled them with a Thunderfire Blade strike.
• Lin Tiandu arrived and fired nine arrows at Yu Hengcheng and You Jun, then stood with Chen Fan to protect him.
• Yu Hengcheng accused Chen Fan of ties to demonic sect remnants and ordered You Jun to kill Lin Tiandu and seize Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan showed Le Shaoyuan’s token and suggested betting on whether Le Shaoyuan would return, making Yu Hengcheng hesitate.
• Yu Hengcheng and You Jun withdrew, and Lin Tiandu told Chen Fan he had been too bold to provoke them.

Chen Fan sensed a sinister blood array after killing a Seamless Gate warrior and left Lin Tiandu to pursue his own plans. Meanwhile, Le Shaoyuan killed Wu Di but discovered that the Saintess of Paradise was using the dead to complete an array that sealed the entire town, as a monstrous creature appeared.

• Chen Fan found that the Seamless Gate warrior's corpse had vanished and noticed blood-red patterns spreading across the ground.
• Chen Fan separated from Lin Tiandu, who suspected he had another purpose but chose not to follow him.
• Le Shaoyuan defeated Wu Di, whose Escape-Space Rune failed, and saw Wu Di's corpse disappear in blood-red light.
• Le Shaoyuan discovered that Ban Hongfei and the other people in the ritual area had been killed, and the Saintess of Paradise revealed that everyone was a sacrifice for Paradise's opening.
• The Saintess completed the blood array, trapping Le Shaoyuan and enclosing the town in a red barrier that blocked his Escape-Space Rune.
• Le Shaoyuan saw the phantom of an enormous monstrous creature appear.

Chen Fan pursued Yu Hengcheng and You Jun through a town sealed by a self-repairing scarlet barrier, then used Berserk to kill them both in a lightning-fast ambush. The chapter ended with Chen Fan's momentum cracking the barrier and both targets dead.

• Yu Hengcheng and You Jun saw the scarlet barrier seal the town and fled to its edge when they realized the assault had gone wrong.
• Chen Fan tracked Yu Hengcheng with the Spirit Attachment Technique and prepared an ambush, taking a Life-Shortening Origin-Detonating Pill and shrinking his body with the Transformation Technique.
• Yu Hengcheng and You Jun failed to break through the barrier despite striking it together, while chaos spread throughout the town.
• Chen Fan activated Berserk and killed Yu Hengcheng in an instant, smashing through his protective spirit light and cracking the scarlet barrier with his charge.
• You Jun tried to escape with a talisman, but Chen Fan caught him and killed him with a sword strike before the talisman could activate.

Chen Fan killed Yu Hengcheng and You Jun but discovered that a blood-colored barrier and Space-Locking Formation prevented escape. As a Heavenly Demon rampaged through the trapped town, Chen Fan used Berserk again and finally pushed the barrier to its limit, though it remained intact.

• Chen Fan killed Yu Hengcheng and You Jun with Berserk, then realized You Jun's Vanishing Trail Talisman had failed and the blood-colored barrier was healing.
• Le Shaoyuan identified a powerful Heavenly Demon above the town, warned everyone to flee, and tried unsuccessfully to break the barrier before the creature attacked him.
• Le Shaoyuan's warning spread through the town, where fleeing martial artists found themselves trapped inside the barrier.
• Chen Fan concluded that only Berserk might damage the barrier, replenished his blood with pills and Blood Spirit Flowers, and struck again.
• Chen Fan's Berserk-powered sword strike spread cracks across the barrier, but did not break through it.

Chen Fan escaped the blood-colored barrier after clashing with a mysterious girl whose strange power seemed connected to his God-Defying Blood. His distress signal reached the Embroidered Garment Tower, and the Tower Master set out to rescue the trapped disciples.

• Chen Fan fought off a black-and-red phantom and defeated the black-and-white-robed girl, who reappeared elsewhere and realized he possessed the God-Defying Blood.
• Chen Fan replenished his strength, tore a hole in the barrier, escaped, and sent a distress signal while the barrier sealed itself again.
• Chen Fan retreated, unable to return for Le Shaoyuan and the others because his Berserk power was nearly exhausted.
• A Seeing Dragon Commandery branch received distress signals from the trapped disciples and relayed the emergency to the main tower.
• The Embroidered Garment Tower Master sensed a distress signal still transmitting and used Shrinking the Earth to an Inch to depart for the rescue.

Chen Fan escaped the blood-red barrier and was rescued by Chen Wudao, the Embroidered Garment Tower's chief master, who killed the Heavenly Demon with one move. Chen Fan and Le Shaoyuan then went to rescue the other martial artists, while the black-and-white-clad girl vanished after her plans were ruined.

• Chen Wudao appeared before Chen Fan, healed many of his injuries, and learned that a Heavenly Demon had descended inside the barrier.
• Chen Wudao opened the barrier and brought Chen Fan back to Le Shaoyuan, who was fighting the winged Heavenly Demon.
• Chen Wudao restored Le Shaoyuan's strength and destroyed the Heavenly Demon as it tried to flee.
• Chen Wudao identified himself as Great Qian's number one expert, praised Chen Fan, and left the remaining crisis to Le Shaoyuan.
• Chen Fan and Le Shaoyuan split up to rescue the other martial artists, while the black-and-white-clad girl concealed her eyes and disappeared.

After the blood-sacrifice battle, Chen Fan recovered, counted his gains, and planned to use Seamless Gate’s response to advance within the Embroidered Garment Tower. Meanwhile, Pu Zhongyu joined forces with a Spirit God Dao Sect disciple who possessed a space-locking treasure and set out for Clear River Commandery to pursue Qing Luo.

• Chen Fan and the others found Yu Hengcheng and You Jun missing after the battle, while Lin Tiandu kept silent about their past conflict with Chen Fan.
• The Embroidered Garment Tower rewarded Chen Fan for helping break the scarlet barrier, bringing him close to advancing to the Earth Tower.
• Chen Fan recovered with Blood Spirit Flowers, kept Yu Hengcheng’s valuables hidden, and planned to capture a Seamless Gate branch master to earn promotion and access the Nine Supreme Secret Canons.
• A young disciple of the Spirit God Dao Sect arrived in Western Radiance Prefectural City and offered Pu Zhongyu help in avenging her younger brother with his space-locking treasure.
• Pu Zhongyu told him that Qing Luo had escaped after attacking the Pu Clan estate, then asked him to accompany her to Clear River Commandery.

Chen Fan returned to Clear River Commandery and learned that Yu Hengcheng had sought him out, prompting him to conceal any traceable belongings while Cheng Caiying offered him help. Meanwhile, Yu Hengcheng’s family sought a divination about his death, and Zhang Fan heard Guan Longping propose a gathering to explain himself.

• The crown prince ordered a guard to ensure nothing happened to Chen Fan, who had returned to Clear River Commandery and used the Embroidered Garment Tower’s intelligence channels to investigate people.
• Cheng Caiying told Chen Fan that Yu Hengcheng had looked for him, offered to help him with difficulties, and left him wary that Yu Hengcheng’s death might be connected to him.
• Yu Hengcheng’s mother persuaded the Jade Family Head to provide a token so she could seek a divination about her son’s death at the Heavenly Secrets Tower.
• Divine Calculator refused to divine personally, so his apprentice told Yu Hengcheng’s mother that he had died at the hands of a foreign race or someone with an unusual bloodline.
• After Zhang Fan improved his Myriad Forms Illusory Realm ranking, Guan Longping approached him and asked to gather with their martial brothers so he could explain his past difficulties.

Guan Longping tried to learn Chen Fan’s whereabouts for Seamless Gate, while Zhang Fan exposed his deception to Embroidered Garment Tower. Chen Fan deliberately appeared in Yan Capital City to draw Seamless Gate into a trap, where Lin Shiyu recognized him at the former White Cloud Martial Academy.

• Guan Longping got Zhang Fan drunk and questioned him about Chen Fan, but Zhang Fan feigned drunkenness and revealed that Guan Longping was working for Peng Wansha.
• A Seamless Gate branch master and a young subordinate suspected Chen Fan’s reported return was an Embroidered Garment Tower trap and decided not to act until Sect Master Long arrived.
• Chen Fan openly entered Yan Capital City, intending to draw Seamless Gate experts there, confident in his strength and two Vanishing Trail Talismans.
• Chen Fan visited the former White Cloud Martial Academy, now the White Cloud Branch of Pure Jade Gate, and Lin Shiyu recognized him.

Chen Fan returned to Yan Capital City and met with Lin Shiyu before visiting Ye Wushuang, who warned him that his presence could attract Seamless Gate assassins. Chen Fan revealed that he was carrying out a dangerous plan to draw them out and reassured Ye Wushuang that he had ways to escape.

• Chen Fan met Lin Shiyu at White Cloud Martial Academy, learned that Lin Shiyu had given up on the Martial Academy assessment, and asked him to gather their former seniors that night without revealing Chen Fan's identity.
• Chen Fan went to Pure Jade Gate's main branch, where Ye Wushuang ordered the steward to keep his arrival secret and scolded him for exposing himself in Yan Capital City.
• Ye Wushuang insisted that Chen Fan stay at Ye Residence and that he would accompany him, but Chen Fan explained that he had returned to carry out a secret plan involving a trap for Seamless Gate.
• Chen Fan showed Ye Wushuang a Vanishing Trail Talisman and said he had other ways to survive, though Ye Wushuang warned that the talisman could fail and urged him to protect himself.

After returning to Yan Capital City, Chen Fan visited the Ye Family and reunited with Ye Yunxin and Xiaoxi before meeting former White Cloud Martial Academy disciples. He sensed someone watching him and confronted a white-haired old woman in an alley.

• Chen Fan told Ye Wushuang that he would visit the Ye Family so Seamless Gate would not suspect his plans and might send assassins.
• Chen Fan reunited with Ye Yunxin at the Ye Family and spent the day with her and Xiaoxi, who now lived there as Ye Chenxi.
• Chen Fan attended a gathering of former White Cloud Martial Academy disciples arranged by Lin Shiyu and reunited with Lin Mo.
• After the gathering, Chen Fan sensed he was being watched and returned toward the Ye Family alone.
• Chen Fan stopped in an empty alley and called out his pursuer, who revealed herself as a white-haired old woman.

Chen Fan tested Granny Rong’s ability to protect him, then visited Yun Wei and gave her valuable cultivation gifts. Meanwhile, the Seamless Gate held back from attacking until Sect Master Long arrived, and he asked whether Chen Fan’s whereabouts had been confirmed.

• Chen Fan showed Granny Rong that his speed surpassed her ability to protect him, and she left after agreeing to return to Ye Yunxin.
• Chen Fan spent the night waiting for a Seamless Gate attack, but no one came, leaving him puzzled about who was watching him.
• Chen Fan visited Yun Wei at the Yun Family and gave her a White Jade Scarlet Sun Pill and Blood Spirit Flowers.
• Helmsman Zhang reported to Sect Master Long, who asked whether the Seamless Gate had confirmed Chen Fan’s whereabouts.

Pu Zhongyu arrived at the Ye Family’s secondary residence with a Spirit God Dao Sect disciple and confronted Chen Fan, seeking information about the Star Demon Sect’s demoness. Chen Fan denied knowing anything and claimed he was not Chen Fan.

• Master Long urged the Seamless Gate to wait until Chen Fan left Yan Capital City, believing his exposed location was a trap.
• Chen Fan grew frustrated when the Seamless Gate still did not attack him in Yan Capital City.
• Pu Zhongyu and a young Spirit God Dao Sect disciple reached the Ye Family’s secondary residence, and the disciple went to intercept a powerful protector nearby.
• Pu Zhongyu attacked Chen Fan with a spirit-striking technique, then asked where he had been six months earlier and whether he knew the Star Demon Sect’s demoness.
• Chen Fan denied knowing about the demoness and claimed he was not Chen Fan.