Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan crushed Zheng Wenhao and three other eighth-realm challengers at the Martial Academy, then joined the Crown Prince’s banquet for Wen Siyuan. The banquet took an unexpected turn when Chen Fan recognized Liu Ze, the former nineteenth prince, arriving with Wen Siyuan.

• Chen Fan demanded one thousand primal crystals from anyone who challenged him, and Zheng Wenhao and three others accepted.
• Chen Fan wounded Zheng Wenhao with a single sword strike, then defeated the remaining three challengers together and claimed his winnings.
• Cheng Caiying told Chen Fan that the Crown Prince was holding a banquet to welcome Wen Siyuan back to the Imperial Capital.
• Miss Cai Die congratulated Chen Fan on taking first place on the Heroes Ranking, and Chen Fan said he was already betrothed.
• Wen Siyuan arrived with Liu Ze, the former nineteenth prince, and Chen Fan recognized him.

Chen Fan met Liu Ze at the Crown Prince’s banquet, accepted his apology gift, and learned that demonic threats across Great Qian were part of a deliberate plot. The Crown Prince arranged for Chen Fan to join a new organization tasked with confronting those threats and promised to handle Wu Tianjiao’s challenge.

• Liu Ze apologized for his role in Dong Guzhi’s troubles and gave Chen Fan a Heaven-tier Nine Cauldrons Restoration Elixir, which Chen Fan accepted.
• Wen Siyuan reported that Haunting Demons remained in Beijing and warned that someone had deliberately caused the Heavenly Demon’s descent and the Demon General’s release.
• The Crown Prince told Chen Fan that the Emperor planned to establish a special institution to purge Haunting Demons and reinforce Demon General seals, and that Chen Fan would be selected through the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• The Crown Prince asked whether Chen Fan would fight Wu Tianjiao, and Chen Fan said he would accept if he could not refuse.
• The Crown Prince promised to negotiate the stakes for Wu Tianjiao’s challenge and told Chen Fan to focus on his Embroidered Garment Tower missions.

Chen Fan used the Sun-Covering Mirror to discover that Cai Die’s gift concealed ulterior intentions, then received an Embroidered Garment Tower mission after completing the fifth level of the Stellar Body Tempering Art. Meanwhile, the Seventh Prince sought a way to assess Chen Fan before accepting a costly wager, and the Tantai Clan Head urged Tantai Yue to build a relationship with him.

• Chen Fan divined that Cai Die’s sachet was harmless but that she had given it with other intentions, and he chose to keep her close without revealing his suspicions.
• The Seventh Prince told Wu Tianjiao that the Crown Prince’s Residence would accept their challenge only with a wager of one hundred thousand Origin Crystals, and they discussed how to learn Chen Fan’s strength.
• Chen Fan completed the fifth level of the Stellar Body Tempering Art, began training the Water Saint Sword, and left the Crown Prince’s Residence after receiving an Embroidered Garment Tower mission.
• Tantai Yue learned that Chen Fan ranked first on the Great Qian Heroes List and showed the list to her father.
• The Tantai Clan Head told Tantai Yue to keep in touch with Chen Fan, and she asked to go to the Imperial Capital to see him.

Chen Fan investigated reports of demon beasts, living corpses, and strange incidents in Ze Gao County, where he discovered a Haunting Demon and a second, more powerful mastermind. He defeated the black-clad man behind the lingering threat and sealed his True Essence, leaving him captured.

• Chen Fan traveled to Ze Gao County on an Embroidered Garment Tower mission and heard from Chief Constable Di Mingzhi that demon beasts and living corpses had overrun a sealed town.
• Chen Fan entered the town with Di Mingzhi and used lightning to destroy the attacking living corpses and demon beasts while dispersing the fog.
• Chen Fan spotted and killed a Haunting Demon, but noticed that the dark clouds and cold wind remained after its death.
• A black-clad man revealed himself as another mastermind and challenged Chen Fan, who swiftly wounded him and cut off both his arms.
• Chen Fan drove a Yuan-Locking Nail into the man’s spine, sealing his True Essence and leaving him unable to fight.

Chen Fan captured Su Xingwen, the mastermind behind the living corpses, and learned about the Primordial Demon Sect and the vast Pan-Ancient Continent. After examining Su Xingwen’s map, he discovered that the Spirit God Dao Sect barely ranked among the continent’s Ten Great Sects.

• Chen Fan cleared the unnatural clouds over the town, identified Su Xingwen as the culprit, and left Captain Di to deal with the living corpses.
• Su Xingwen threatened Chen Fan with the Seven Sages Demon Emperor, prompting Chen Fan to force him to explain that the Demon Emperor belonged to the Primordial Demon Sect.
• Su Xingwen revealed that the Primordial Demon Sect was one of the Ten Great Sects and that the Pan-Ancient Continent was divided into nine regions.
• Chen Fan took Su Xingwen’s map from his Sumeru Ring and saw that Great Qian occupied only a small corner of the continent.
• Su Xingwen explained that the Spirit God Dao Sect barely ranked among the Ten Great Sects because at least twenty sects across the continent were stronger.

Chen Fan questioned Su Wenxing about the Primordial Demon Sect and learned that Paradise's Holy Maiden likely wielded its rare Demon-Killing Eye. After obtaining a map and key to Venerable Yuan Yang's tomb through a deceptive Heavenly Dao oath, Chen Fan left Su Wenxing, then returned and killed him.

• Chen Fan questioned Su Wenxing about the Primordial Demon Sect's involvement in Great Qian and learned that the sect could easily destroy the kingdom.
• Chen Fan killed an invisible ninth-layer demon beast that Su Wenxing identified as his senior sister's spirit beast, then learned the sect's Demon-Killing Eye matched the ability of Paradise's Holy Maiden.
• Su Wenxing offered information about Venerable Yuan Yang's tomb in exchange for his life, and Chen Fan swore a Heavenly Dao oath with him.
• Su Wenxing gave Chen Fan the tomb's location in the Western Wasteland and a small golden sword key, and Chen Fan promised to let him go.
• After Chen Fan departed, Su Wenxing used a secret art to regrow his arms and complained that his senior sister had sent him to Imperial Commandery to test Great Qian's response.
• Chen Fan returned and killed Su Wenxing with the second level of the Fire Saint Sword, having used a treasure to evade the Heavenly Dao oath.

After killing Su Wenxing, Chen Fan reported his connection to the Primordial Demon Sect and learned that a powerful Eclosion Sect disciple had come to help Great Qian. He left the Crown Prince resolved to keep training as the threat from the demon sect became clearer.

• Chen Fan killed Su Wenxing, looted his belongings, and turned in the corpses of Su Wenxing and the Haunting Demon at the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• A handsome man at the Tower warned Chen Fan to tell no one about the Primordial Demon Sect and the Seven Sages Demon Emperor except the Crown Prince.
• The Crown Prince revealed that the man was from the Eclosion Sect, the continent’s leading power, and would likely lead an organization formed to fight the demonic threat.
• The Crown Prince explained how an Eclosion Sect figure had previously forced the Myriad Demon Ridge to retreat and secure a thousand-year truce.
• Chen Fan learned that Tower Master Chen Wudao had reached the third level of longevity and that the Primordial Demon Sect could pose a serious danger to Great Qian.
• Concerned by the strength of the forces involved, Chen Fan went to the Imperial Capital Martial Academy to continue cultivating.

Wu Guangqi confronted Chen Fan over his refusal to fight Wu Tianjiao, and the argument escalated when Wu Guangqi attacked him with his Dao Domain. A mysterious senior intervened, leaving Wu Guangqi terrified and apologizing.

• Wu Guangqi approached Chen Fan with members of the Wu Clan, and Sang Yuanliang hurried over to challenge his intentions.
• Wu Guangqi accused Chen Fan of avoiding a fight with his son, Wu Tianjiao, over the 100,000-yuan-crystal wager.
• Chen Fan argued that Wu Tianjiao could accept the wager if he believed he could win, angering Wu Guangqi.
• Wu Guangqi unleashed his Dao Domain against Chen Fan, but Sang Yuanliang warned him that the Martial Academy Head would punish him for breaking the rules.
• Wu Guangqi threatened to suppress Chen Fan, but a handsome young man appeared and made him apologize as Senior Brother Shen.

Shen Yuansi stopped Wu Guangqi from attacking Chen Fan and ordered him to accept punishment for breaking academy rules. Chen Fan defeated Wu Yuance in the challenge arena and demanded the promised wager, while Wu Guangqi hinted that Wu Tianjiao would still challenge him.

• Shen Yuansi intervened between Chen Fan and Wu Guangqi, ordered Wu Guangqi to obey academy rules, and sent him to the Law Enforcement Hall for punishment.
• Wu Yuance challenged Chen Fan for five thousand Origin Crystals, with Wu Guangqi promising to cover the wager if Wu Yuance lost.
• Chen Fan defeated Wu Yuance with a lightning-fast sword strike that overwhelmed him and left him unconscious.
• Wu Guangqi claimed Chen Fan's displayed strength could not defeat a prodigy, but Chen Fan repeated that Wu Tianjiao needed to bring one hundred thousand Origin Crystals to challenge him.
• Chen Fan stopped Wu Guangqi as he turned to leave and demanded the five thousand Origin Crystals owed for the wager.

Chen Fan defeated Wu Yuance, investigated Wu Guangqi’s strength in the virtual realm, and learned that Wu Tianjiao had accepted a wager for a battle six months later. As Chen Fan continued cultivating while Haunting Demons spread across Great Qian, Chen Wudao and Mister Guanqiu delayed gathering the selected geniuses until they found a way to confront the Primordial Demon Sect.

• Chen Fan collected the wager from Wu Guangqi, and Sang Yuanliang explained that Shen Yuansi was one of the Ten Young Masters and that Wu Guangqi had a special physique.
• Chen Fan fought Wu Guangqi’s phantom in the virtual realm, defeated it with Berserk, and then trained against it without using Berserk to study its moves.
• Wu Tianjiao and the Seventh Prince assessed Chen Fan’s strength, and Wu Tianjiao said refining the Soul-Burning Terrifying Flame would give him an eighty percent chance of winning.
• Chen Fan received the Crown Prince’s reply that Wu Tianjiao had accepted a wager of one hundred thousand yuan crystals, with their battle set for half a year later.
• Chen Fan spent the following months cultivating, taking Embroidered Garment Tower missions, and gathering materials to use the Sun-Covering Mirror as Haunting Demons continued appearing across Great Qian.
• Chen Wudao and Mister Guanqiu discussed the Demon Suppression Bureau’s selected candidates and postponed gathering them until they found a way to deal with the Seven Sages Demon Emperor and the Primordial Demon Sect.

Chen Fan found an underground tribe while tracking a silver fragment and was accused of stealing the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart. After an outsider took the sacred heart and caused the cavern to collapse, Chen Fan saved the tribe from falling rocks and then looked toward another part of the cavern instead of pursuing the thief.

• Chen Fan used the Sun-Covering Mirror to locate a silver fragment in a snowy plain and uncovered an underground town beneath a barrier.
• A burly eighth-level martial artist accused Chen Fan of seeking the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart, but Chen Fan subdued him with his sword domain and asked about the fragment.
• The ancient silver tree withered and the barrier shattered after an outsider stole the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart, triggering the cavern’s collapse.
• Chen Fan used the Fire Saint Sword to destroy the falling rocks and save the underground tribe from being buried.
• The burly man thanked Chen Fan and admitted his mistake, while Chen Fan sensed the thief had escaped and looked toward another direction in the cavern.

Chen Fan pursued and killed the man who stole the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart from the Icewind Tribe, then discovered that a silver fragment contained part of the Heavenly Scripture’s Void-Escaping Wings spell art. He recovered the Bodhi seed and left with a new method for teleporting short distances.

• Chen Fan learned from the Icewind Tribe’s chieftain that an outsider had stolen the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart and that the sealed tribe had been endangered.
• Chen Fan chased the thief through the caverns and struck him with his sword, but the man escaped using a spatial technique before Chen Fan caught and killed him.
• Chen Fan took the thief’s possessions and found a large silver fragment in his Sumeru Ring that fused with two of his own fragments.
• Chen Fan learned that the fragment revealed part of the Heavenly Scripture’s Void-Escaping Wings, a spell art that allowed active or automatic short-range teleportation.
• Chen Fan searched the Sumeru Ring again and found a silver-radiant Bodhi seed inside a jade box.

Chen Fan learned the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart could be refined into a powerful pill and traveled to Azure Cloud City for an auction. There, he received word that the Green-Robed Alliance planned another attempt on Tantai Yue, and he warned her and Su Xin.

• Chen Fan left the northern borderlands with the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart and learned from Tantai Yue about an upcoming auction in Azure Cloud City.
• Chen Fan arrived in Azure Cloud City, where Su Xin explained the Ice Crystal Bodhi Heart’s effects and its use in making a Void Saint-grade Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill.
• Chen Fan received a message identifying his alternate identity as the Prison King and learned that the Green-Robed Alliance planned to target Tantai Yue at the auction.
• Chen Fan warned Tantai Yue and Su Xin about the planned assassination, and Su Xin appeared unsurprised by the threat.

Chen Fan learned that the Tantai Clan had staged its auction plans to draw out the mastermind targeting Tantai Yue, and agreed to stay by her side. At the Treasure Exchange House auction, Chen Fan won a healing pill with a bold bid, drawing the attention of other bidders.

• Zong Qingchun told Chen Fan that the Tantai Clan had arranged a secret defense around Tantai Yue and was using the auction to lure out the mastermind behind the attacks.
• Zong Qingchun asked Chen Fan to remain beside Tantai Yue, and Chen Fan agreed.
• Chen Fan accompanied the Tantai Clan to the Treasure Exchange House, where he learned how bidders used certified funds and tokens to place bids.
• Chen Fan bid one thousand Origin Crystals for an Essence-Breaking Calamity-Expelling Pill, causing the hooded youth in Private Room No. 13 to abandon his bid.
• Chen Fan won the pill, while bidders in other private rooms began investigating who was in Private Room No. 3.

Chen Fan attended the auction, buying materials for the Void-Escaping Wings while the Tantai Clan waited to bid on the Purple Frost Bamboo. Their contest with a bidder from private room seven continued after the bidder invoked the name of the Sword Young Master, Yu Tianlei, but Tantai Yue refused to yield.

• Chen Fan bought tools and materials for the Void-Escaping Wings, spending nearly ten thousand primeval crystals as the Tantai Clan made no bids.
• The Purple Frost Bamboo drew fierce bidding, and Tantai Yue entered the contest when its price neared eight thousand primeval crystals.
• A young man from private room seven asked the Tantai Clan to give the bamboo to his young master, whose surname was Yu.
• Tantai Yue said she would buy the bamboo only if its price stayed below twenty thousand primeval crystals, and she continued bidding.
• The young man revealed that his young master was Yu Tianbao, the younger brother of the Sword Young Master, Yu Tianlei.
• Tantai Yue refused to withdraw, and the young man left after warning the Tantai Clan they would regret it.

Tantai Yue won the Purple Frost Bamboo after Yu Tianbao tried to pressure her into stopping the bidding, then Chen Fan went to meet the Green-Robed Alliance. There, he encountered the Silver Fox King, who had never met the Prison King before.

• Yu Tianbao entered Chen Fan and Tantai Yue’s private room and demanded that they stop bidding for the Purple Frost Bamboo, invoking his brother Yu Tianlei’s influence.
• Tantai Yue offered to sell Yu Tianbao the bamboo for eighteen thousand Origin Crystals if he stopped bidding, but Yu Tianbao left after she refused to yield.
• Tantai Yue won the Purple Frost Bamboo for eighteen thousand Origin Crystals when Yu Tianbao’s collateral proved insufficient to support a higher bid.
• Yu Tianbao smashed the furniture in his room and ordered his people to identify the occupants of Private Room Three.
• Chen Fan changed his disguise and met the Green-Robed Alliance’s Silver Fox King, who remarked that Chen Fan’s Prison King persona matched its reputation.

Chen Fan infiltrated the Green-Robed Alliance by posing as the Prison King and learned that it planned to kill Tantai Yue and frame the Zhao clan to provoke war. At the auction, he bought supplies for his junior and felt his Blood Crystal respond to a Blood Seed.

• Chen Fan imitated the Prison King's arrogance as Black Tiger and the Silver Fox King explained their plan to ambush Tantai Yue, kill her, and pin the attack on the Zhao clan.
• Chen Fan left without raising suspicion, then returned to the Tantai Clan's room and considered ambushing one of the Green-Robed Alliance's tenth-level experts.
• Chen Fan bid on a Qianyuan Bone-Transmutation Pill for Chen Xi, but Su Xin offered to sell him one from the Tantai Clan's stock.
• Chen Fan's first-day auction ended without the Muscle-Regrowing Bone-Replenishing Pill, and the next day he examined talisman treasures he had bought for Chen Xi, Ye Yunxin, and the others.
• When the auctioneer opened a sealed jade box, Chen Fan felt his Blood Crystal react to the blood-red stone inside and recognized it as a Blood Seed.

Chen Fan recognized an unusual Blood Seed from the Blood Demon Secret Realm and won it at auction despite Yu Tianbao's attempt to provoke him. On the auction's third day, he bid aggressively on a Muscle-Regrowing Bone-Replenishing Pill, driving its price beyond the black-coated youth's budget.

• Chen Fan recognized the auctioned Blood Seed as a concentrated source of God-Defying Race power and decided it could greatly help him.
• Yu Tianbao raised the Blood Seed's price to spite Chen Fan and the Tantai Clan, but stopped bidding after Chen Fan increased it by five hundred Origin Crystals.
• Chen Fan won the Blood Seed for nearly two thousand Origin Crystals and stored it in his Sumeru Stone.
• On the third day of the auction, Chen Fan began bidding on the Muscle-Regrowing Bone-Replenishing Pill, which the youth in private room number thirteen also wanted.
• After the youth bid two thousand one hundred Origin Crystals, Chen Fan raised the price to two thousand five hundred Origin Crystals.

Chen Fan and Yu Tianbao drove up the price of a Muscle-Regrowing Bone-Replenishing Pill until Chen Fan withdrew, leaving Yu Tianbao stuck with a bid of four thousand five hundred yuan crystals. Yu Tianbao tried to cancel the purchase, but the Treasure Exchange Pavilion staff member warned that doing so would violate the auction rules.

• Chen Fan raised his bid to three thousand yuan crystals after Yu Tianbao bid on the pill, which Chen Fan needed to restore Bao Tianyou's severed arm.
• Yu Tianbao ignored his attendant's warnings and raised the price to three thousand five hundred yuan crystals, then four thousand five hundred as Chen Fan countered.
• Chen Fan decided the price had become too high and stopped bidding, allowing Yu Tianbao to win the pill when the countdown ended.
• Yu Tianbao realized he could not afford the overpriced pill and asked the Treasure Exchange Pavilion staff member to cancel his final bid.
• The staff member refused to treat the cancellation as routine and asked whether Yu Tianbao intended to violate the auction rules.

Yu Tianbao was fined for refusing to buy the pill he had bid on, allowing Chen Fan to purchase it cheaply at the re-auction. Chen Fan sold the pill to a mysterious cloaked man, who warned that someone had set their sights on him, and Chen Fan left Azure Cloud City with the Tantai Clan under a sense of surveillance.

• Yu Tianbao paid a 450-Origin-Crystal penalty after Treasure Exchange House enforced its rules, then angrily blamed Tantai Yue.
• Chen Fan won the re-auction for the Muscle-Regrowing Bone-Replenishing Pill for 2,000 Origin Crystals after no one else bid.
• A cloaked man offered Chen Fan 200 additional Origin Crystals and a strange reconnaissance device for the pill, and Chen Fan accepted.
• The cloaked man warned Chen Fan that someone had set their sights on him before departing.
• Chen Fan received the Green-Robed Alliance's message, left Azure Cloud City with the Tantai Clan, and sensed that someone might be watching him.