Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan left the Yuan Shang Secret Realm unseen and followed a Star God Seal’s trace to a powerful Star Sect woman in a nearby cave. After they fought, he recognized her as Qing Luo, and both lowered their weapons and withdrew their hostility.

• Chen Fan used his concealment talisman and Spirit-Concealing Art to slip past the guards outside the Yuan Shang Secret Realm.
• Worried that Pu Zhongyu might have harmed the Ye Family or his other acquaintances, Chen Fan headed toward Yan Capital City without revealing himself.
• The Star God Seal sensed a nearby Star Sect disciple, so Chen Fan went to investigate and found a woman hiding in a cave.
• The woman attacked Chen Fan, and he struck back with the Great Harmony Sword, overpowering her and forcing her to retreat.
• The woman unleashed a blood-red Dao Domain, but Chen Fan recognized its familiar power and asked whether she was Qing Luo.
• Qing Luo recognized Chen Fan as well, then lowered her ring blade and withdrew her Dao Domain.

Chen Fan confronted Qing Luo and learned how she had discovered his identity and why the Pu Clan was pursuing him. He questioned her about the Pu Clan’s activities in Yan Capital City and the safety of his loved ones, learning that his fiancée and niece had been away in the prefectural city for three years.

• Qing Luo recognized Chen Fan as Junior Brother Zhang because of the way he addressed her, then identified him by his true name, Chen Fan.
• Qing Luo said she learned about Chen Fan from the Pu Clan, whose favored daughter, Pu Zhongyu, had been tracking him while battling Qing Luo.
• Chen Fan agreed that the Pu Clan was their common enemy and asked why Qing Luo had come to Clear River Commandery.
• Qing Luo explained that she followed the Pu Clan to Clear River Commandery and had planted agents to monitor events in Yan Capital City.
• Qing Luo told Chen Fan that hundreds of Pu Clan members had arrived, with some staying in Yan Capital City and others establishing a wilderness base where they may have been waiting to ambush him.
• Qing Luo said Chen Fan’s fiancée and blood-related niece had gone to the prefectural city after his disappearance and had not returned for three years.

Chen Fan learned that the Pu Clan had been pressuring his allies and considered killing Pu Zhongyu, but Qing Luo warned him about the consequences and offered a way to conceal the deed. The chapter ended with her revealing that a fragment of a special Dao artifact could obscure heavenly secrets.

• Qing Luo told Chen Fan that the Pu Clan had pressured the Pure Jade Gate, the Ye Family, and people connected to him, while her followers secretly watched over them.
• Qing Luo warned that the Pu Clan was escalating its pressure to force Chen Fan to appear, and Chen Fan reacted with anger at the threats to his allies.
• Chen Fan asked Qing Luo how to kill Pu Zhongyu and prevent her from escaping, and Qing Luo proposed luring her into a Space-Locking Formation.
• Qing Luo explained that Pu Zhongyu’s ties to Yichan Palace and its Palace Master made her death dangerous, since the Heavenly Secrets Tower could trace Chen Fan.
• Qing Luo revealed that a fragment of a special Dao artifact allowed her to conceal heavenly secrets and evade the Embroidered Garment Tower.

Chen Fan joined Qing Luo’s plan to draw Pu Zhongyu out and went alone to the Yuan Shang Secret Realm ruins to confront the Pu Clan. He left the Pu Clan squad reduced to ashes, bringing him closer to a clash with Pu Zhongyu.

• Qing Luo told Chen Fan she possessed a fragment of a Dao artifact and agreed to plan with him to lure Pu Zhongyu out.
• Chen Fan learned that Pu Shaojie led the Pu Clan force stationed outside the secret realm, then headed to the ruins without concealing his presence.
• A Pu Clan squad discovered Chen Fan and its dark-faced leader dismissed a warning to notify Seventh Master before attacking.
• Chen Fan unleashed the Blazing Sun Flame Sword, overwhelming the dark-faced Grandmaster and engulfing the squad in flames.
• Chen Fan walked away as the burned Pu Clan martial artists crumbled into ashes.

Chen Fan attacked the Pu Clan stronghold, killing its martial artists until Pu Shaojie confronted him. Pu Shaojie mistook Chen Fan for an impostor trying to lure Pu Zhongyu, and their fight began with Pu Shaojie’s Blazing Sun Flame Sword.

• Chen Fan burned and froze his way through the Pu Clan stronghold, cutting down the martial artists who tried to stop him.
• Pu Shaojie arrived with powerful Fire Intent and dispelled Chen Fan’s Frost Intent.
• Pu Shaojie accused Chen Fan of impersonating Chen Fan to lure Pu Zhongyu, while Chen Fan revealed that he knew Pu Shaojie was her Seventh Uncle.
• Pu Shaojie attacked Chen Fan with the Blazing Sun Flame Sword, and Chen Fan faced the incoming strike without fear.

Chen Fan used his Sword Domain and fire techniques to defeat and kill Pu Shaojie, then looted his belongings and burned the Pu Clan stronghold. He left survivors to spread news of the attack, while recognizing that Vanishing Trail Talismans could make stronger opponents difficult to kill.

• Chen Fan broke through Pu Shaojie's sixth-level Blazing Sun Flame Sword with his own sword art and intercepted him when he tried to flee.
• Chen Fan's Sword Domain suppressed Pu Shaojie, severed his arm, and let Chen Fan take the talisman he had drawn.
• Chen Fan used the first level of the Fire Saint Sword to engulf Pu Shaojie in flames, then killed him with sword qi.
• Chen Fan searched Pu Shaojie's Sumeru Ring, found a Vanishing Trail Talisman, and considered how such talismans could help powerful opponents escape.
• Chen Fan killed fleeing martial artists, set the Pu Clan stronghold ablaze, and deliberately left some survivors to carry the news.

After Pu Shaojie’s death, Pu Shaohao ordered the Pu Clan to attack the Ye Family, hoping to draw Chen Fan out. Chen Fan learned of the attack and prepared to kill Pu Shaohao with the enchantress’s help, determined to eliminate the Pu Clan’s threat.

• A Pu Clan retainer reported that Pu Shaojie and several disciples had died, and described an attacker wielding fire and ice intent domains.
• Pu Shaohao suspected the attacker was connected to Chen Fan and ordered reinforcements while directing the Pu Clan to attack the Ye Family.
• Chen Fan learned that the Pu Clan had mobilized against the Ye Family and welcomed the chance to confront them.
• Chen Fan reviewed intelligence identifying Pu Shaohao as a powerful defensive fighter and arranged for the enchantress to set up a Space-Locking Formation.
• Chen Fan resolved to kill Pu Shaohao after Pu Shaojie so that Pu Zhongyu could no longer ignore him.

Chen Fan rescued Ye Jianbing from a Pu Clan pursuer and learned that the Ye Family was under siege. With Qing Luo’s help, he prepared to lure Pu Shaohao into a Space-Locking Formation and charged toward the attackers alone.

• Chen Fan intercepted a black-clad Grandmaster pursuing Ye Jianbing, severed the man’s limbs, and killed him after he refused to identify himself as a Pu Clan member.
• Ye Jianbing told Chen Fan that the Ye Family was surrounded and its formation was close to failing, so Chen Fan accompanied him back to the estate.
• Qing Luo revealed that twelve Pu Clan Grandmasters were besieging the Ye Family, including the peak ninth-level Pu Shaohao.
• Chen Fan confirmed that Qing Luo had arranged a Space-Locking Formation and set out to lure Pu Shaohao into it and kill him.
• Ye Jianbing rushed after Chen Fan, but Qing Luo reassured him that Chen Fan had his reasons, and Ye Jianbing turned away to seek reinforcements.

Chen Fan arrived at the Ye Family residence and killed the golden-hammered attacker before confronting Pu Shaohao, who had identified him and vowed revenge for Pu Shaojie. Chen Fan overwhelmed the surrounding Grandmasters with his Fire Saint Sword and eighth-level Ninefold Thunder Blade, leaving Pu Shaohao badly wounded as the battle continued.

• The golden-hammered man battered the Ye Family barrier while Ye Wushuang and the disciples feared it would soon fall and hoped Ye Jianbing would return with reinforcements.
• Chen Fan used a Concealment Talisman, Wind Intent, and Lightning Intent to reach the golden-hammered man and kill him with a single sword strike.
• Chen Fan faced the approaching martial artists and unleashed lightning that disrupted their attacks and sent several flying.
• Pu Shaohao recognized Chen Fan through his Lightning Intent, but Chen Fan denied his identity and provoked him by displaying Pu Shaojie's sword.
• Chen Fan's Fire Saint Sword engulfed seven or eight attackers, then his eighth-level Ninefold Thunder Blade shattered Pu Shaohao's black flood dragon and left Pu Shaohao coughing blood.

Chen Fan used a feigned retreat to lure Pu Shaohao into the demoness’s Space-Locking Formation, then revealed his Sword Domain and attacked him again. Pu Shaohao tried to use a talisman, but Chen Fan’s flame-infused sword qi battered his defenses.

• Chen Fan’s Blazing Sun Flame Sword shattered Pu Shaohao’s phantom shield, killed many Pu Clan disciples, and left Pu Shaohao badly injured.
• Pu Shaohao mistook Chen Fan’s restraint for an expiring secret art and pursued him when Chen Fan pretended to flee.
• Chen Fan led Pu Shaohao into the Space-Locking Formation and unfolded his Sword Domain, destroying Pu Shaohao’s spear attack.
• Pu Shaohao reinforced his defenses and drew a talisman, while Chen Fan shrank and unleashed another Blazing Sun Flame Sword within the Sword Domain.

Chen Fan killed Pu Shaohao and left Yan Capital City for Flying Spirit County, where the Bao Clan faced a violent shakedown by the Yuan Clan and Flying Tiger Sect. Bao Tianyou was beaten and given a week to pay tribute or see his clan destroyed.

• Chen Fan killed Pu Shaohao, collected his Sumeru Ring and inner armor, and returned to the Ye Family estate.
• Chen Fan left the remaining Pu Clan disciples in Yan Capital City to his Senior Sister and headed for Flying Spirit County.
• Ye Wushuang inspected the battle site outside the Ye Family estate and found only corpses and bloodstains.
• Clan Head Yuan accused the Bao Clan of hiding wealth gained through Chen Fan and ordered Bao Tianyou to hand over resources.
• Clan Head Yuan kicked Bao Tianyou aside despite Teng Bo's protest, then demanded one thousand taels of gold and thirty True Essence Pills within a week or threatened to destroy the Bao Clan.

Chen Fan returned to Flying Spirit County and killed Grandmaster Guo, ending the Yuan Clan and Flying Tiger Sect’s hold over the Bao Clan. After treating Bao Tianyou’s injuries, he reunited with his old friend and prepared to deal with the surviving enemies.

• The Yuan Clan demanded resources from Bao Tianyou and threatened his young son while the Bao Clan struggled under Grandmaster Guo’s suppression.
• Chen Fan arrived carrying Guo Chengxian’s severed head, terrifying the Yuan Clan and Flying Tiger Sect martial artists.
• Teng Bo recognized Chen Fan and knelt, while Chen Fan’s killing intent drove one fleeing martial artist to explode at the courtyard gate.
• Chen Fan apologized to Bao Tianyou for arriving late, gave the injured people pills, and used a Life Pearl to heal Bao Tianyou.
• Bao Tianyou introduced his son Bao Buyu, and Chen Fan gave the boy a Soul-Nourishing Jade pendant before asking Granny to take him inside.

Chen Fan returned to Yan Capital City after crushing the Yuan Clan and punishing the Flying Tiger Sect, then went to warn the Ye Family about the danger posed by the Pu Clan. He reunited with Ye Wushuang, who questioned whether he was truly Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan killed the Yuan Clan head and the fleeing martial artists, then burned their remains to ashes.
• Bao Tianyou spared Teng Bo and the surviving Flying Tiger Sect martial artists, while Chen Fan ordered them to raid Guo Chengxian’s home and surrender the sect’s savings to the Bao Clan.
• Chen Fan learned that the demoness had killed the Pu Clan’s remaining core members in Yan Capital City and planned to lure Pu Zhongyu into responding.
• Chen Fan returned openly to Yan Capital City and went to the Ye Family to warn them to relocate temporarily.
• Ye Wushuang recognized Chen Fan after examining him, then grew cautious and asked whether he was truly Chen Fan.

Chen Fan reunited with Ye Wushuang and warned him to move the Ye Family out of Yan Capital City before the Pu Clan arrived. Meanwhile, Pu Zhongyu learned that Pu Clan disciples had died in Clear River Commandery and set out with Gu Tian to borrow treasures to trap Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan revealed his Grandmaster cultivation to Ye Wushuang but denied having anything to do with the attacks on the Ye Family's enemies.
• Chen Fan warned Ye Wushuang that the Ye Family was in danger, and Ye Wushuang took his family to a nearby county town.
• Pu Zhongyu decided to abandon the Emotionless Dao and pursue the Seven Emotions Divine Art, despite the cost of committing herself to the Spirit God Dao Sect.
• Pu Zhongyu learned that seventy-two Pu Clan disciples sent to Clear River Commandery had died and suspected their deaths were connected to Chen Fan.
• Pu Zhongyu asked Gu Tian to lend her the Space-Locking Formation treasure, and he proposed that they also borrow a treasure to trap Chen Fan.

Pu Zhongyu and Gu Tian borrowed a protective Dao artifact from the master of Sun-Eating Peak and headed for Yan Capital City after learning the demonic sect witch was in Clear River Commandery. There, the witch warned Chen Fan that Pu Zhongyu was approaching and explained the levels of the Dao Domain, leaving him asking for more details about his rival’s strength.

• The master of Sun-Eating Peak lent Pu Zhongyu a protective painting scroll and promised to accept her as a disciple and recommend her for the Spirit God Mystical Realm.
• Gu Tian told Pu Zhongyu about his ten years in the Spirit God Mystical Realm and his rapid rise to the ninth realm.
• Pu Zhongyu learned that the demonic sect witch was in Clear River Commandery and vowed to catch her.
• The witch told Chen Fan that Pu Zhongyu would soon arrive in Yan Capital City, possibly accompanied by others.
• The witch explained the three layers of the Dao Domain and said Pu Zhongyu’s weakest first-layer Dao Domain and powerful divine consciousness made her dangerous.
• Chen Fan asked the witch to explain Pu Zhongyu’s abilities in more detail.

Chen Fan learned that Pu Zhongyu wielded invisible Traceless Cold Moon Sand and confronted her outside Yan Capital City. Gu Tian joined the fight, and Chen Fan prepared to reveal the strength he had kept hidden.

• The demoness explained that Pu Zhongyu used spiritual-sense attacks and Traceless Cold Moon Sand, whose second form was called the Cold Moon.
• Pu Zhongyu followed Heavenly Secrets Tower’s lead toward Yan Capital City, suspecting the demoness had killed members of the Pu Clan.
• Chen Fan fired an arrow rigged with Thunder Shakers at Pu Zhongyu’s vessel, but she contained the explosions with her Dao Domain and flew into the forest.
• Chen Fan struck Pu Zhongyu with his Fire Saint Sword, but she stopped and erased the attack using the invisible force of Traceless Sand.
• Pu Zhongyu questioned whether Chen Fan stood before her, and Chen Fan denied his identity as Gu Tian arrived.
• Chen Fan felt eager to fight Pu Zhongyu and Gu Tian, having kept his Berserk and Transformation Technique in reserve, while Pu Zhongyu looked toward the forest behind him with killing intent.

Pu Zhongyu trapped Chen Fan and Qing Luo inside a barrier formed by a Dao Artifact and attacked them with Gu Tian. Chen Fan overwhelmed Pu Zhongyu with his transformed sword strikes, but as he charged again, she launched a spiritual attack that made the Star God Seal tremble.

• Pu Zhongyu sealed the forest in a Dao Artifact barrier and vowed to kill Chen Fan and Qing Luo for her brother's death.
• Chen Fan assigned Qing Luo to hold off Gu Tian while he confronted Pu Zhongyu, and the two women clashed with their Dao Domains.
• Chen Fan shrank his body and tore apart Pu Zhongyu's Dao Domain, then sent Gu Tian's giant bell flying with a sword strike.
• Chen Fan pressed his attack, forcing Pu Zhongyu back despite her using Trace-Free Sand to erase his flames, while Gu Tian grew afraid of Chen Fan's strength.
• Pu Zhongyu tried to strike Chen Fan's spirit, and the Star God Seal in his sea of consciousness suddenly trembled and shone.

Chen Fan overwhelmed Pu Zhongyu with his Sword Domain while the demoness trapped Gu Tian in a killing formation. As Pu Zhongyu prepared to use a mysterious jade box, Chen Fan unleashed Berserk and struck at her, leaving the battle at a critical moment.

• Chen Fan used the eighth level of the Thunder Blade to break through Pu Zhongyu’s Dao Domain and send her crashing into the barrier.
• The demoness intercepted Gu Tian’s bell and trapped him inside a blue killing formation.
• Chen Fan revealed his Sword Domain, shattered Pu Zhongyu’s Dao Domain, and pressed his attack despite her purple gourd’s explosive counterattack.
• Pu Zhongyu offered to end their enmity if Chen Fan helped her kill the demoness, but Chen Fan rejected the offer and attacked again.
• Pu Zhongyu took out a white jade box, prompting Chen Fan to unleash Berserk and slash toward her.

Chen Fan fought to kill Pu Zhongyu, but her defensive pendant gave her time to swallow the Life-and-Death Profound Dragon Pill and break through to the tenth level. Their battle resumed with Chen Fan in Berserk, and the chapter left him advancing through her Dao Domain as she wielded Trace-Free Sand’s Cold Moon state.

• Chen Fan’s Berserk sword strikes failed to break the automatically triggered defense protecting Pu Zhongyu.
• Pu Zhongyu swallowed the Life-and-Death Profound Dragon Pill, gambling her life on a chance to break through to the tenth level.
• Qing Luo explained that the pill had an equal chance of advancing Pu Zhongyu or killing her, while Chen Fan waited for her pendant’s ten breaths of protection to end.
• Pu Zhongyu broke through to the tenth level and expanded her red Dao Domain, forming a crescent blade from Trace-Free Sand.
• Chen Fan entered Berserk, smashed apart Pu Zhongyu’s Cold Moon Flying Blade, and charged at her while tearing through her Dao Domain.

Chen Fan killed Pu Zhongyu after breaking through her defenses and preventing her escape, then turned on Gu Tian as the demoness’s formation collapsed. Gu Tian summoned the phantom of his patriarch to protect him, leaving Chen Fan facing a powerful new opponent.

• Chen Fan overwhelmed Pu Zhongyu’s Dao Domain and shattered her escape talisman with the Space-Locking Formation in place.
• Chen Fan struck Pu Zhongyu as she tried to put away the Painting Scroll, then killed her with his final sword strike.
• Chen Fan released Berserk, and his Slaughter Intent advanced toward the Dao Domain realm as the demoness’s formation shattered.
• Gu Tian fled, but Chen Fan caught him, broke through his defenses, and knocked away his great bell.
• Gu Tian summoned the phantom of a white-haired patriarch, who met Chen Fan’s Blazing Sun Flame Sword with spiritual light.