Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan learned that the Purple Jade Gourd could absorb and store attacks, refined it, and prepared to return from his pursuit of escaped prisoners. He received a desperate request for help from the Blood Cloud King and realized that Yu Tianlei might be too powerful for him to face.

• The Seventh Prince told Wu Tianjiao that he had secured him a year and a half in the Spirit God Mystical Realm and promised breakthrough pills to help him surpass Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan identified a purple gourd taken from a Yichan Palace expert and contacted Qiu Hong to learn that it was a Purple Jade Gourd capable of storing attacks up to its limit.
• Chen Fan washed away the Purple Jade Gourd's imprint, refined it, and set off to return after gathering prisoners and recovering much of his strength.
• The Blood Cloud King contacted Chen Fan through the Prison King's communication stone and begged him for help while fleeing pursuers.
• The Blood Cloud King blamed Yu Tianlei for forcing him to act against Chen Fan, and Chen Fan judged that Yu Tianlei could be beyond his ability to defeat.

Chen Fan avoided Yu Tianlei’s trap while pretending to attack Blood Cloud King, then used his battle merits to acquire cultivation materials and spirit swords. As Zhao Tianhua explained the Eclosion Sect’s opportunity, Chen Fan learned that only martial artists at the second layer of the Dao Domain or below were eligible.

• Blood Cloud King offered Chen Fan a Dao Artifact fragment in exchange for rescue, but Yu Tianlei had staged his escape to lure Prison King out.
• Chen Fan found Blood Cloud King and attacked him, then acted surprised when Yu Tianlei intervened and claimed Blood Cloud King was an undercover agent.
• Most escaped Heavenly Prison prisoners were recaptured, and Chen Fan earned tens of thousands of battle merits before exchanging them for cultivation supplies and one hundred spirit swords.
• Chen Fan hosted Zhao Tianhua, who told him that the Eclosion Sect opportunity had ten places, including five for those above the tenth level.
• Zhao Tianhua revealed that applicants above the second layer of the Dao Domain were ineligible for the opportunity.

Chen Fan learned that the Ancient Wilderness Ruins were sealed because dangerous spatial rifts had appeared and a connected medicinal-garden secret realm was about to emerge. He left the matter in Zhao Tianhua’s hands and refused Zhao Tianhua’s offer to send Cai Die to his residence as a concubine.

• Chen Fan asked Zhao Tianhua about visiting the Ancient Wilderness Ruins, but Zhao Tianhua explained that the Seven Great Families had jointly sealed them.
• Zhao Tianhua revealed that the ruins were a collapsed grotto-heaven connected to small secret realms, and spatial rifts there had killed even tenth-level experts.
• Zhao Tianhua said his clan’s Chang Sheng Realm ancestor had confirmed that a medicinal-garden secret realm was about to emerge, but the Primordial Demon Sect’s offensive had delayed their exploration plans.
• Zhao Tianhua promised to notify Chen Fan when the families lifted the blockade, and Chen Fan accepted that he could not enter the ruins for now.
• Cai Die’s maid delivered Spirit-Rhyme Fruit to Chen Fan, and Zhao Tianhua offered to arrange for Cai Die to become Chen Fan’s concubine.
• Chen Fan rejected Zhao Tianhua’s offer, saying Cai Die was not a tool and privately suspecting she might serve one of several factions.

Chen Wudao and Guanqiu Jing learned that the Primordial Demon Sect’s armies had withdrawn, while Chen Fan returned to Clear River Commandery to hunt Haunting Demons and search for a sealed demon general. After probing the area with his Void-Escaping Wings, he left for Clear Tea Martial Academy without finding the hidden prison.

• Guanqiu Jing told Chen Wudao that the major demon armies had withdrawn from Great Qian, and he planned to hunt the remaining demon sect disciples before the Little Clear Void opened.
• Chen Fan took a Demon Suppression Bureau mission to clear Haunting Demons from the northwest and killed several of them.
• Chen Fan returned to Clear River Commandery and searched the place where Hua Wenbin had died, suspecting a demon general was sealed nearby.
• Chen Fan used divine sense to search the surrounding area but found no sign of the hidden demon general.
• Chen Fan tested the area with his Void-Escaping Wings to locate an air-restricted zone, then marked his position and headed to Clear Tea Martial Academy.

Chen Fan returned to Clear Tea Martial Academy, where he reunited with his family and friends and gave Chen Xi, Ye Yunxin, and the Ye brothers valuable gifts. After Ye Wushuang suggested settling Chen Fan and Ye Yunxin’s marriage, the chapter left their response pending.

• Chen Fan returned to Clear Tea Martial Academy, and Mao Wangchen welcomed him and showed him how the academy had grown.
• Chen Fan reunited with Ye Yunxin, Chen Xi, and his fellow disciples, while Zhang Fan and Chi Liuguang were away on missions.
• Chen Fan gave Chen Xi and Ye Yunxin Qianyuan Bone-Transmutation Pills and protective treasures, then helped them refine the pills.
• Chen Fan gave the Ye brothers valuable pills, and Ye Wuji said they could help him break through to the ninth level.
• Ye Wushuang suggested that Chen Fan and Ye Yunxin settle their marriage now that Chen Fan had returned.

Chen Fan settled his marriage plans with Ye Yunxin, restored Bao Tianyou’s severed arm, and met Zhongli Chenghe in the Yuan Shang Secret Realm. He then prepared to challenge the Battle Hall for another chance to cultivate in the Enlightenment Hall.

• Chen Fan told Ye Wushuang and Ye Wuji that he would settle his marriage with Ye Yunxin after traveling to Great Qing to look for Master.
• Chen Fan gave Bao Tianyou a Muscle-Regrowing Bone-Replenishing Pill, and Bao Tianyou’s severed arm regenerated.
• Chen Fan left the Bao Clan with cultivation pills, avoiding giving them Heaven-tier pills that could put them in danger.
• Chen Fan entered the Yuan Shang Secret Realm and found Zhongli Chenghe with Star Spirit, who said he would investigate the Demon Lord’s past.
• Chen Fan went to challenge the Battle Hall again so he could earn another chance to enter the Enlightenment Hall.

Chen Fan defeated the Battle Hall’s special giant and used five days in the Enlightenment Hall to perfect his earth, water, and wind intents, while his flame and lightning intents neared the Dao Domain. After finding a hidden cavern beneath a lake in Fujinian, he discovered a sealed demon who revealed that it had served Great Yong and had been imprisoned for over a thousand years.

• Chen Fan activated the second level of Berserk to kill the Battle Hall giant and earned five days of Enlightenment Hall access.
• Chen Fan perfected his earth, water, and wind intents, then focused on flame and lightning, which came close to reaching the Dao Domain.
• Chen Fan searched for a flight-forbidden area and found its core beneath a lake in Fujinian.
• Chen Fan followed an underwater passage into a concealed cavern and discovered a chained, horned demon that mistook him for someone it had met before.
• Chen Fan showed the demon the stone Hua Wenbin had left him, and the demon recognized it as a piece of its broken horn.
• The demon identified itself as a Chaos Primordial Demon from the Chaos Sea, said its master had made it a divine general of Great Yong, and revealed that it had been sealed for over a thousand years.

Chen Fan met a sealed Chaos Primordial Demon in the Chaos Sea and learned that its Chaos Crystals aided cultivators of the Laws of Chaos. After the demon offered to serve him for ten thousand years in exchange for being freed, Chen Fan took its crystals and learned that Yellow Springs Water could help break the seal.

• Chen Fan located the Chaos Sea on his map and learned that the demon's horns were made of Chaos Crystals tied to the Laws of Chaos.
• The Chaos Primordial Demon revealed that it had lured Hua Wenbin to seek help escaping its seal, then offered Chen Fan a reward and swore an oath upon the Heavenly Dao of Chaos.
• The demon disclosed that it was a Demon Emperor equal to a human Longevity master, and offered Chen Fan its primordial spirit and ten thousand years of service if freed.
• The demon broke off part of its horn to give Chen Fan twelve Chaos Crystals and taught him a method to devour them.
• Chen Fan asked how to free the demon, and the demon described several methods, including one that required Yellow Springs Water.

Chen Fan absorbed a Chaos Origin Crystal, advancing several elemental intents into Dao Domains, then set out toward Great Qing to find Fan Zhong. The Crown Prince summoned him back to the Imperial Capital because Guanqiu Jing was preparing to lead a group into a special grotto-heaven, delaying Chen Fan’s search for his master.

• Chen Fan refused to help the sealed demon general break free, then used the Sun-Covering Mirror to confirm that the twelve Chaos crystals were safe to absorb.
• Chen Fan swallowed a Chaos crystal and entered an altered state of awareness, advancing his flame and lightning intents into Dao Domains and strengthening his other elemental intents.
• Chen Fan combined his Flame, Lightning, and Sword Dao Domains, then realized he needed to wait before absorbing another Chaos crystal.
• Chen Fan left Clear River Commandery and traveled toward the Spirit God Dao Sect, intending to pass through it on his way to Great Qing and Fan Zhong.
• The Crown Prince summoned Chen Fan back to the Imperial Capital because Guanqiu Jing had selected him for a grotto-heaven expedition.
• Chen Fan joined the other nine selected members at the Embroidered Garment Tower, and Guanqiu Jing told them it was time to depart.

Guanqiu Jing brought Chen Fan and nine others from Great Qian to Clear Void Temple, where they entered the Little Clear Void Grotto-Heaven alongside cultivators from many sects. Chen Fan arrived in the vast inheritance realm, where he had one year to choose and compete for a cave abode.

• Guanqiu Jing took ten people from Great Qian to Clear Void Temple and introduced them to Lingyun.
• Guanqiu Jing explained that the Little Clear Void Grotto-Heaven contained over ten thousand cave abodes and their inheritances.
• Lingyun led the assembled cultivators through a sacrificial ceremony and explained that each person could choose only one cave abode and would have one year inside.
• Lingyun transported the cultivators into the Little Clear Void Grotto-Heaven, where Chen Fan saw mountains and glowing cave abode gates.

Chen Fan and the Great Qian warriors entered Little Clear Void, where an Eclosion Sect disciple attacked them over the slots they had received. Yuan Daokong helped the Great Qian fighters overcome him, but Senior Sister Cai Wei intervened before the conflict escalated further.

• Chen Fan and the other newcomers struggled with Little Clear Void’s immense pressure as most of the geniuses hurried off to claim grotto residences.
• An Eclosion Sect disciple confronted the ten Great Qian warriors and accused them of taking his sect’s entry slots.
• The disciple trapped the Great Qian warriors in his Dao Domain and attacked with ice-fire lotuses, leaving even their three second-level Dao Domain fighters struggling.
• Yuan Daokong sent out his flying sword, helping the Great Qian warriors destroy the lotuses and force the disciple to retract his Dao Domain.
• The disciple’s violent aura rose again until Senior Sister Cai Wei stopped him and apologized to the Great Qian warriors on his behalf.

Chen Fan watched Cai Wei restrain an arrogant Eclosion Sect disciple, then searched Little Clear Void for an inheritance suited to his abilities. Though he found a promising lightning cave abode, he chose a hidden killing-intent cave instead, where a streak of light suddenly approached.

• Cai Wei apologized for her junior brother’s provocation and led him and the other Eclosion Sect disciples away.
• Chen Fan sensed the cave abodes’ different inheritances and selected a lightning cave abode because of his lightning Dao Domain.
• Before entering, Chen Fan detected a concealed killing-intent inheritance and decided it was too rare to pass up.
• Chen Fan reached a dilapidated cave abode, but a streak of light flashed toward him through the clouds.

Chen Fan encountered the fleeing Wu Yan and nearly killed him before Shi Xin warned him of Wu Yan’s powerful status. He then followed a killing aura to a ruined cave dwelling, where two formidable young martial artists were already fighting.

• Chen Fan hid in the mist as Wu Yan fled from Shi Xin, then Wu Yan attacked Chen Fan and was nearly killed before Shi Xin’s killing aura forced Chen Fan to stop.
• Shi Xin explained that Wu Yan was a peerless Ice-Fire Dao Body genius from the Feather Gate branch of the Eclosion Sect, and Chen Fan and Shi Xin introduced themselves before parting ways.
• Chen Fan followed the killing aura to a remote ruined cave dwelling and found a young man with a fire Dao Domain fighting a black-gauzed woman with a dark purple Dao Domain.
• Chen Fan watched the battle from a distance and considered whether the two fighters had also comprehended the intent of slaughter.

Wu Yan escaped Chen Fan and fled in fear, while Chen Fan confronted Zheng Hao and Lin Jiangxian over the Heaven-Slaying Daoist's inheritance. Chen Fan refused to ally with either rival and attacked them both, leaving Zheng Hao badly wounded by his first strike.

• Wu Yan crashed into a mountain valley after escaping Chen Fan and broke down in fear, abandoning thoughts of retaliation.
• Chen Fan emerged from hiding as Zheng Hao and Lin Jiangxian paused their battle and revealed their interest in the inheritance.
• Lin Jiangxian disclosed that the cave estate held the Heaven-Slaying Daoist's inheritance and proposed joining forces with Chen Fan against Zheng Hao.
• Chen Fan rejected Lin Jiangxian's offer, reasoning that only one person could gain the cave estate's recognition, and decided to fight both opponents alone.
• Chen Fan unleashed his triple Dao Domain and struck Zheng Hao with the Fire Saint Sword, tearing through his Dao Domain and sending him flying as he spat blood.

Chen Fan forced Lin Jiangxian and Zheng Hao to choose whether to fight him for the inheritance cave abode. Lin Jiangxian withdrew, while Chen Fan sealed Zheng Hao inside a barrier and attacked with the Primordial Demon Mirror and a hundred spirit swords.

• Chen Fan used the Void-Escaping Wings to strike Zheng Hao, who survived the attack and questioned which Central Region sect Chen Fan belonged to.
• Chen Fan refused to reveal his origins and demanded that Lin Jiangxian and Zheng Hao leave or fight him to the death.
• Lin Jiangxian withdrew after deciding the incomplete inheritance was not worth risking her life for, but Zheng Hao chose to stay and fight.
• Chen Fan summoned the Painting Scroll to create a barrier, then weakened Zheng Hao with the Primordial Demon Mirror.
• Chen Fan sent a hundred spirit swords at Zheng Hao, who used his Dao Domain to summon flame giants and block them.

Chen Fan overwhelmed Zheng Hao with the second level of Berserk and restrained him to learn about the Heaven-Slaying Daoist’s inheritance. Zheng Hao revealed that he had sought the inheritance for his powerful younger twin, Zheng Zhun, and explained the standing of the Eastern Region’s great sects.

• Chen Fan stopped using the Ten Thousand Swords Canon, activated the second level of Berserk, and struck Zheng Hao before he could use his Spatial Escape Talisman.
• Chen Fan shattered Zheng Hao’s defenses with another blow, then restrained the badly wounded survivor with the Yuan-Locking Ring instead of killing him.
• Zheng Hao identified himself as a disciple of the Profound Heaven Sect and described it as the Eastern Region’s second-strongest sect, beneath Star-River Pavilion.
• Zheng Hao told Chen Fan that the Heaven-Slaying Daoist was a legendary Chang Sheng realm expert who had left a valuable inheritance in the Little Clear Void.
• Zheng Hao explained that he had entered the contest for his younger twin brother, Zheng Zhun, a Profound Heaven Sect genius who had reached the third layer of the Dao Domain and comprehended the Dao Domain of Slaughter.

Chen Fan killed Zheng Hao and entered the Heaven-Slaying Daoist’s cave abode by unleashing his slaughter intent. After enduring the Daoist’s killing-intent trial, Chen Fan passed and began watching the inheritance’s sword techniques.

• Chen Fan killed Zheng Hao despite his plea that his younger brother was one of the Profound Heaven Sect’s ten greatest geniuses, then checked the body for tracking marks and concealed his identity.
• Chen Fan discovered that slaughter intent weakened the repulsive force at the cave abode’s entrance and struggled inside.
• Chen Fan found the cave abode filled with dense spiritual energy and saw a statue of the Heaven-Slaying Daoist.
• The statue subjected Chen Fan to a prolonged killing-intent assault, and Chen Fan endured it until the Daoist declared that he had passed.
• The Heaven-Slaying Daoist explained that he had left behind a sword technique at the request of his friend, the Master of Clear Void Temple, and demonstrated its first strike before continuing to the second.

Chen Fan rapidly mastered the first two forms of the Seven-Kill Sword, but could not practice the later forms without comprehending a Slaughter Dao Domain. He left the Heaven-Slaying Daoist's cave abode early and entered the unclaimed lightning cave abode.

• The Heaven-Slaying Daoist taught Chen Fan the first two forms of the Seven-Kill Sword and explained that he would have to create the seventh form himself.
• Chen Fan used his cultivation progress and auto-cultivation to perfect the first two forms, prompting the statue to demonstrate the remaining forms as he met each milestone.
• The statue warned that the third form required a Dao Domain, and Chen Fan realized he could not yet advance without comprehending a Slaughter Dao Domain.
• Chen Fan chose to leave early, and the Heaven-Slaying Daoist opened the cave abode gates while predicting Chen Fan might create a seventh sword beyond his own.
• Chen Fan went to the still-empty lightning cave abode and entered it.

Chen Fan acquired all seven forms of the Thunder Roc Phantom Body from paintings in a Lightning Daoist's cave mansion and mastered its second level before Little Clear Void expelled him. He reunited with Yuan Daokong, who had broken through to the tenth level, as the survivors gathered and learned that many entrants had died.

• Chen Fan entered the Lightning Cave Mansion and discovered that its seven paintings each contained a form of the Thunder Roc Phantom Body.
• Chen Fan spent a year cultivating the movement technique, mastered its second level, and was expelled from the cave mansion.
• Chen Fan reappeared beside Yuan Daokong, who revealed that he had broken through to the tenth level during his time in Little Clear Void.
• Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong observed that two of the ten Great Qian geniuses had not returned, while Lin Jiangxian suspected Zheng Hao had died and worried about Zheng Zhun's response.
• Cai Wei warned Wu Yan not to stir up trouble, while Chen Fan kept his identity concealed from the gathered martial artists.
• Lingyun announced that only eighty-three of the 121 people who entered Little Clear Void had emerged, leaving thirty-eight dead.

After leaving Little Clear Void, Chen Fan and the other survivors found Clear Void Temple had vanished. Zheng Zhun then blocked their path with his Slaughter Dao Domain, seeking his elder brother’s killer and demanding to inspect everyone’s storage treasures.

• Lingyun told the survivors that thirty-eight people had died and invited future Chang Sheng experts to leave inheritances in Little Clear Void.
• Chen Fan and Yuan Daokong left Clear Void Temple, which vanished behind them before they could go far.
• Zheng Zhun descended and used his Slaughter Dao Domain to suppress the martial artists who had emerged from the temple.
• Zheng Zhun said his elder brother Zheng Hao had died inside Little Clear Void and that he had come to find the killer.
• Zheng Zhun demanded that everyone open their storage treasures for inspection, and the survivors objected.