Chapter Summaries

The Young Emperor and the blindfolded girl sought sacrifices to strengthen the Demon-Killing Eye and escape the barrier, while Primordial Demon Sect forces hunted Great Qian martial artists trapped inside. Chen Fan failed to break the barrier, then rushed toward the slaughter after hearing screams.

• The Young Emperor learned the barrier could only be broken from within by force or with enough sacrifices, and ordered his forces to kill everyone except himself and the blindfolded girl.
• A woman in violet killed a fleeing ninth-level cultivator, then sensed Chen Fan’s explosive aura and reported it to the Young Emperor.
• The Young Emperor and the blindfolded girl recognized the distant aura as a potential sacrifice, while Chen Fan’s second-layer Berserk failed to break the barrier.
• Chen Fan left the barrier’s edge, followed the sounds of fighting through the forest, and found Primordial Demon Sect members discussing how to make their victims suffer before using them as sacrifices.

Chen Fan rescued no one from the Demon Suppression Bureau after finding its members tortured and killed, and he slaughtered the Primordial Demon Sect fighters responsible. He then killed Ziyi in a clash and escaped, while the Young Emperor and his Junior Sister began tracking him.

• Chen Fan found Demon Suppression Bureau members bound and tortured by Primordial Demon Sect fighters, but they died before he could save them.
• Chen Fan used the Three-Foot Sword to kill the sect members, demonic beasts, and Haunting Demons, then fled into the forest as Ziyi pursued him.
• Ziyi located Chen Fan with her divine consciousness and tested him with her Dao Domain, but Chen Fan shattered it and killed her with Berserk and his sword.
• Chen Fan ate a Blood Spirit Flower and wondered how many tenth-level experts the Primordial Demon Sect had sent before leaving the area.
• The Young Emperor discovered Ziyi's death and asked his Junior Sister to use her Demon Eye to find Chen Fan; she pointed out his direction.

Chen Fan confronted the Primordial Demon Sect’s Young Emperor and a blindfolded girl after they tracked him down, then unleashed his second-level Berserk and struck the Young Emperor. The Young Emperor survived behind a jade talisman’s black mist as Chen Fan continued his assault.

• Chen Fan learned that the Primordial Demon Sect was led by the Seven Sages Demon Emperor’s son, the Young Emperor, and hid himself with concealment techniques.
• The Young Emperor found Chen Fan with help from a blindfolded girl, who attacked him with the Demon-Killing Eye.
• Chen Fan destroyed the girl’s crimson-and-black threads with his Fire Saint Sword, forcing the Young Emperor to shield her.
• The Young Emperor attacked with his blood-red Dao Domain and staff, but Chen Fan’s sword domain held firm.
• Chen Fan activated second-level Berserk, dodged the Young Emperor’s blood-red pillar, and struck him hard enough to shatter his protective spiritual radiance.
• A jade talisman protected the Young Emperor with black mist, and Chen Fan continued striking as their battle devastated the surrounding forest.

Chen Fan faced the Young Emperor’s devastating trump card and survived when the sword intents in his Sword Domain rose to protect him. He drove off the Young Emperor’s defenses, destroyed the girl’s apparent body, and ended the chapter exhausted as the Young Emperor fled.

• The Young Emperor used a bronze statue to unleash a massive demonic claw at Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan fought back with his Flame and Water Saint swords, but the claw shattered his Sword Domain.
• Over a thousand sword intents in Chen Fan’s Sword Domain surged out and tore the demonic claw apart.
• Chen Fan charged the Young Emperor, but his black-mist defense kept Chen Fan from breaking through.
• Chen Fan struck down the girl, whose body turned into scattered points of light, revealing that it was not her true body.
• The Young Emperor fled, and Chen Fan dispelled Berserk and sat down to recover.

Chen Fan recovered after fighting the Primordial Demon Sect’s Young Emperor, but rushed toward the sealed Demon General when he sensed someone freeing it. Demon General Xun Mo broke out, ate one of the Young Emperor’s subordinates, and demanded more food before he would break the barrier.

• Chen Fan replenished his blood with Blood Spirit Flowers and planned to leave the barrier while concealing how many enemies he had killed.
• A girl formed from a black-and-crimson flower recognized Chen Fan and worried that the Young Emperor would struggle to escape after their clash.
• Chen Fan sensed the Demon General’s seal being broken and flew toward the cliff rather than leave the decision to fate.
• Demon General Xun Mo broke free, failed to smash through the blue barrier, and swallowed one of the Young Emperor’s tenth-level subordinates.
• The Young Emperor confronted Xun Mo, who shrank down and demanded more people to eat before he would break the barrier.

The Young Emperor fed his subordinates and gave Xun Mo a Chaos Crystal to persuade the demon general to help him escape the sealing formation. After learning Chen Fan carried the God-Defying bloodline, Xun Mo tracked him down and attacked him in the forest.

• The Young Emperor offered his remaining subordinates to Xun Mo, who swallowed them but demanded more energy to recover.
• The Young Emperor gave Xun Mo a Chaos Crystal after they signed a contract, and Xun Mo regained strength and prepared to break the barrier.
• The Young Emperor convinced Xun Mo to hunt Chen Fan by telling him Chen Fan had the God-Defying bloodline.
• Chen Fan hid in the forest with a Breath-Concealing Talisman, but Xun Mo found him and smashed toward his location.

Chen Fan used the four fused Sacred Sword intents to unleash the Primordial Sword, destroying the Young Emperor, Demon General Xun Mo, and the barrier. He found a massive black crystal that still carried Xun Mo’s lingering aura.

• Chen Fan fought Demon General Xun Mo with Berserk, talismans, and pills, but realized he could not defeat the demon before his power ran out.
• The Young Emperor watched from nearby and expected Chen Fan to die once his forbidden art ended, while Chen Fan prepared a desperate move.
• Chen Fan combined the earth, fire, water, and wind Sacred Swords into the Primordial Sword, frightening Xun Mo and sending him fleeing with the Young Emperor.
• The Primordial Sword’s blast engulfed Xun Mo, the Young Emperor, and the azure barrier, leaving only a massive black crystal behind.
• Chen Fan sensed Xun Mo’s lingering aura in the crystal and wondered whether the Primordial Sword could kill demons that even Chang Sheng experts could not destroy.

Chen Fan recovered in hiding after killing the Chaos Primordial Demon, while the Seven Sages Demon Emperor prepared a retaliatory invasion of Great Qian. The Demon Suppression Bureau learned that Chen Fan was alive but missing and badly injured.

• Chen Fan stored the dead black crystal, escaped into the mountains, and hid in a cave to recover from his injuries and depleted True Essence.
• Guanqiu Jing inspected the devastated mountain range and realized the Chaos Primordial Demon had been killed by an extraordinary power.
• The Seven Sages Demon Emperor learned that Jun'er was dead and ordered Gongjian Xiu to invade Great Qian with the Seven Demon Army, granting him the Primordial Demon Mirror.
• Shi Chen told Teng Jin that Chen Fan's life lamp still burned, though Chen Fan was likely trapped or severely injured, and said a newcomer would temporarily replace him.

Chen Fan returned to the Crown Prince's Residence after surviving a dangerous mission, while secretly planning to deal with Teng Jin for setting him up. As he recovered and refined the Painting Scroll, Feng Alchemist reported that the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill was nearly complete.

• In the Heavenly Prison, Yu Tianlei questioned a wounded prisoner about the identity of the Green-Robed Alliance's Prison King and asked him to help lure Prison King out.
• Chen Fan received a message from the Green-Robed Alliance and suspected it was preparing for another operation, possibly alongside a Primordial Demon Sect counterattack.
• Chen Fan returned to the Crown Prince's Residence, where the Crown Prince arranged for him to recover and reported his condition to the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Wu Guangqi and Teng Jin worried Chen Fan might expose Teng Jin's betrayal, then agreed Teng Jin should act against Chen Fan when he returned to their squad.
• Chen Fan chose to conceal what Teng Jin had done and planned to kill him during a future mission after refining the Painting Scroll's first artifact restriction.
• Feng Alchemist informed Chen Fan that the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill was almost complete.

Chen Fan obtained the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill from Feng Alchemist and refined it in seclusion, breaking through to divine sense and discovering his new senses surpassed those of ordinary experts. Feng Alchemist secretly kept both pills for himself, while Chen Fan remained unaware of the deception.

• Feng Alchemist completed the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill’s refinement, and the pill furnace survived a heavenly tribulation.
• Feng Alchemist gave Chen Fan a jade box and claimed one pill as his payment, then revealed that he had kept both pills for himself.
• Chen Fan returned to the Crown Prince’s Residence and swallowed the pill, which calmed his emotions and stirred his sea of consciousness.
• After three days of seclusion, Chen Fan broke through to divine sense, strengthening his perception, comprehension, and martial arts training.
• Chen Fan sensed most of the Crown Prince’s Residence and found that his divine sense exceeded that of ordinary tenth-level experts.

Chen Fan advanced his divine sense, discovered that the Star God Seal let him spy on Feng Cao, and learned Feng Cao had taken two Ice-Heart Bodhi Pills. After months refining the Painting Scroll’s second restriction, Chen Fan left seclusion with a trap strong enough to threaten Teng Jin.

• Chen Fan’s divine sense drew the attention of an expert at the Crown Prince’s Residence, so he stopped sweeping it recklessly.
• Chen Fan used the Star God Seal to observe Feng Cao and heard him boast that two Ice-Heart Bodhi Pills could help him break through further.
• Chen Fan realized Feng Cao had taken his pills and decided to learn the alchemist’s strength before considering revenge.
• Chen Fan’s breakthrough accelerated his work on the Painting Scroll, and after several months he refined its second restriction.
• Chen Fan left seclusion, able to use the Painting Scroll to trap experts at the second stage of the Dao Domain Realm and planning to use it against Teng Jin.

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Fan learned that the Primordial Demon Sect had invaded eastern Great Qian, killing over a hundred million people, and decided to join the war despite the Crown Prince’s warnings. The Crown Prince gave him a Dragon Soul Jade that could become the Son of Heaven Sword, asking him to survive for the Origin Hunt Rite.

• Chen Fan visited Crown Prince Liu Lun, who told him the Primordial Demon Sect had invaded Great Qian and caused over a hundred million deaths.
• The Crown Prince explained that Gongjian Xiu, the Seven Sages Demon Emperor’s disciple, led the invasion, and warned that the Demon Emperor might soon arrive.
• Chen Fan learned that Great Qian’s Longevity Realm experts and much of the Demon Suppression Bureau had gone east to fight the demon army.
• The Crown Prince urged Chen Fan to remain in seclusion, but Chen Fan insisted on going east to establish merit and fight amid the chaos.
• The Crown Prince gave Chen Fan a Dragon Soul Jade linked to the Son of Heaven’s aura, which could transform into the Son of Heaven Sword.

Chen Fan returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau as Great Qian fought the Primordial Demon Sect’s invasion. At Anyuan Commandery, Shi Chen ordered him to escort reinforcements to Changdu Commandery, where Chen Fan’s teammates were stationed.

• The Crown Prince gave Chen Fan the Dragon Soul Jade and warned that its power was limited and costly for someone outside the imperial family to use.
• Chen Fan worried that the Green-Robed Alliance had not contacted him during his months of secluded cultivation and decided to avoid using Prison King's disguise casually.
• Chen Fan learned that the Demon Suppression Bureau’s core members had gone to the northern border and set out for Anyuan Commandery to rejoin his team.
• At Anyuan Martial Academy, independent martial artists recognized Chen Fan as a Demon Suppression Bureau member and the famed genius from the Prodigy Ranking.
• Chen Fan met Shi Chen, who told him Teng Jin, Yuan Daokong, and Hong Haonan were stationed at Lin'an City in Changdu Commandery.
• Shi Chen ordered Chen Fan to escort a group of reinforcements to Changdu Commandery and promised to record military merit for him.

Chen Fan joined a large force bound for Changdu Commandery while the Spirit God Dao Sect prepared to send reinforcements to Great Qian. When Chen Fan detected a trap in Pingshi Town and confronted its ambusher, Yu Longguang of the Seamless Gate, he calmly considered the military merit he could earn by killing him.

• Shi Chen gave Chen Fan a wartime map and warned him that even regions without top-tier experts remained dangerous.
• Chen Fan traveled toward Changdu Commandery with nearly a thousand martial artists, using his divine sense to scout while refining the seal on the Painting Scroll.
• The Spirit God Dao Sect's Sect Master selected more than a dozen peak masters and their disciples to reinforce Great Qian.
• Near Pingshi Town, Chen Fan sensed danger, ordered the convoy to stop, and entered the town alone.
• Yu Longguang revealed himself as the Seamless Gate's thirteenth-ranked master and challenged Chen Fan with his Dao Domain.
• Chen Fan judged Yu Longguang to be below the Tenth Realm and considered how much military merit killing him would bring.

Chen Fan tested the Son of Heaven Sword, Void-Escaping Wings, and Traceless Cold Moon Sand against Seamless Gate assassin Yu Longguang, then killed him when he attempted a forbidden technique. He returned to the convoy and announced that a spy among them had leaked his route.

• Yu Longguang attacked Chen Fan with his Dao Domain, but Chen Fan used the Son of Heaven Sword to tear through it and severely injure him.
• Chen Fan used the Void-Escaping Wings to appear beside Yu Longguang, then struck him with the invisible Traceless Cold Moon Sand.
• Chen Fan questioned Yu Longguang about how the Seamless Gate learned his route, but Yu Longguang tried to trigger a forbidden technique instead of answering.
• Chen Fan killed Yu Longguang with his Dao Domain and stored the body in his Sumeru Ring.
• Chen Fan returned to the convoy and told the people there that a Seamless Gate spy among them had leaked his movements.

Chen Fan reached Lin'an City after escorting martial artists and fighting the Primordial Demon Sect across Changdu Commandery. Teng Jin plotted to kill him, but Yuan Daokong went to meet Chen Fan instead, leaving Chen Fan to plan for another opportunity.

• Chen Fan identified and killed a Seamless Gate assassin hidden among the travelers, then escorted them to Changdu Commandery and earned two hundred military merits.
• Chen Fan traveled toward Lin'an City, killing Primordial Demon Sect forces and witnessing the devastation they had caused.
• At Lin'an City, Teng Jin learned Chen Fan had arrived and discussed killing him with Wu Guangqi.
• Yuan Daokong offered to receive Chen Fan in Teng Jin's place, so Teng Jin abandoned his chance to arrange an immediate accident.
• Chen Fan received Yuan Daokong's meeting arrangements and decided to wait for a better chance to deal with Teng Jin.

Chen Fan reunited with Yuan Daokong and joined the defense of Lin'an City, where he refined the Illusory Body Stone and learned its limits. When the Primordial Demon Sect launched a full-scale assault, Chen Fan saw his chance to act against Teng Jin amid the battle.

• Chen Fan met Yuan Daokong and Hong Haonan before entering Lin'an City, where Teng Jin welcomed him back and asked Yuan Daokong to explain the situation.
• Yuan Daokong showed Chen Fan that the city faced repeated attacks from the Primordial Demon Sect, whose tenth-level expert was waiting outside.
• Chen Fan refined the Illusory Body Stone and created a phantom with his cultivation and Sword Domain, but its strength was limited and it could not use the Primordial Sword.
• Teng Jin messaged that the Primordial Demon Sect's tenth-level expert had led a full-scale assault, and Yuan Daokong asked Chen Fan to help defend the city.
• The Primordial Demon Sect's army charged into Lin'an City as the Black Panther Guard and Great Qian's martial artists fought to hold the line.

Chen Fan fought through the battlefield before using the Painting Scroll to trap Teng Jin and a Primordial Demon Sect expert during their battle. Teng Jin recognized Chen Fan and asked whether he had created the barrier.

• Yuan Daokong’s flying sword tore through the beast horde while Chen Fan attacked the enemies with his Eightfold Thunder Blade.
• A heavily armored ninth-level-limit warrior with a Wind Dao Domain attacked Chen Fan, and Yuan Daokong intervened to fight him.
• Chen Fan left Yuan Daokong to face the armored warrior and headed toward the clash between Teng Jin and a tenth-level Primordial Demon Sect expert.
• Chen Fan unfurled the Painting Scroll and enclosed both tenth-level fighters in its barrier.
• Teng Jin stopped fighting, recognized Chen Fan, and asked whether Chen Fan had set up the barrier.

Chen Fan defeated two tenth-level experts, then forced the wounded Teng Jin to admit that Wu Guangqi had paid him to send false orders and trap Chen Fan. Teng Jin offered to help Chen Fan oppose the Wu Clan, but Chen Fan killed him because he did not trust him.

• Chen Fan killed Teng Jin's companion after the man failed to teleport away.
• Chen Fan restrained Teng Jin, healed him enough to wake him, and demanded an explanation for the false orders.
• Teng Jin claimed he had meant to rescue Chen Fan, but Chen Fan cut off his arm and accused him of lying.
• Teng Jin admitted Wu Guangqi had promised him a quasi-Saint-grade pill to set Chen Fan up.
• Teng Jin offered to swear a Heavenly Dao oath and help Chen Fan deal with the Wu Clan, but Chen Fan beheaded him.

Chen Fan killed Teng Jin and a wounded Primordial Demon Sect expert, helping secure Great Qian’s victory at Lin'an City. After finding a Divine Control Contract among his spoils, he was summoned by Yuan Daokong, who announced that something major had happened.

• Chen Fan killed Teng Jin, then ambushed and beheaded a wounded ninth-realm-limit expert from the Primordial Demon Sect.
• Yuan Daokong routed the demonic army beneath his Heavenly Dipper Baleful Sword, and Great Qian’s forces pursued the survivors.
• Chen Fan returned to Lin'an City and found a Divine Control Contract among the possessions of the tenth-realm expert he had killed.
• Yuan Daokong reported Teng Jin missing after he failed to return, while confirmation of his death awaited contact with the Aberrant Blood Society.
• Yuan Daokong summoned Chen Fan and the other junior brothers, then told them something major had happened.