Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan questioned the white cat about the White Emperor Armor’s costs and why it wanted him to refine it. The cat revealed it was the armor’s artifact spirit and had helped Chen Fan pass the trial so it could leave, but Chen Fan remained suspicious of its motives.

• Chen Fan learned that the White Emperor Armor consumed about a thousand yuan crystals per breath at maximum amplification, while lower amplification and defensive use cost less.
• Chen Fan refused to refine the armor until the white cat explained why it had helped him pass the trial.
• The white cat admitted it had bent the trial rules so Chen Fan could pass the eighteenth level and said it recognized him.
• The white cat revealed it was the White Emperor Armor’s artifact spirit and wanted to leave the ruined Ancient Wilderness Sect before it decayed.
• Chen Fan reasoned that the cat could not freely control the trial’s difficulty, then remained unsure whether its apparent flaws were genuine or an act.

Chen Fan divined that the White Emperor Armor would not harm him, refined it, and tested its abilities with the help of its arrogant artifact spirit, Lord Bai. Lord Bai then explained the Ancient Wilderness Sect’s destruction and learned that humans now ruled the world.

• Chen Fan used the Sun-Covering Mirror and a powerful sacrifice to divine that the White Emperor Armor posed no danger to him.
• Chen Fan refined the armor, and its artifact spirit, the white cat, entered it and named itself Bai, telling Chen Fan to call it Lord Bai.
• Chen Fan tested the armor, confirmed its abilities, and stocked it with over ten thousand Origin Crystals.
• Lord Bai warned that the damaged armor would need rare materials repaired before Chen Fan reached the Longevity realm.
• Lord Bai recounted that the Ancient Wilderness Sect had been destroyed in a terrifying upheaval and that its Sect Master had sealed the armor to protect it.
• Chen Fan told Lord Bai about the present world, and Lord Bai was astonished that humans had become its rulers.

After leaving the trial space with the White Emperor Armor, Chen Fan searched the ruins with the White Cat for more treasures and materials to restore it. They found that the nearby vaults had already been looted, but the White Cat revealed a hidden spatial interlayer containing an Ancient Wilderness Sect mechanism.

• Chen Fan asked the White Cat to retrieve treasures from the trial ground, but it said refining it had severed its control over the place.
• Chen Fan left the trial space with the White Cat, and the jade token crumbled, preventing him from returning to take more trials.
• Chen Fan sensed Feng Cao nearby and considered killing him, but decided to wait for a safer opportunity.
• The White Cat led Chen Fan to several nearby treasure vaults, but the Zhao clan and others had already emptied them.
• The White Cat told Chen Fan that the Ancient Wilderness Sect's Sect Master had sealed valuable things in spatial interlayers and led him toward one containing a special mechanism.

Chen Fan avoided the unstable Hundred Herbs Garden and followed the white cat to a hidden mechanism in the ruins. There, the white cat recruited the Bloodstained Butterfly, a powerful flying mechanism that could become Chen Fan’s once he reached the Transcendent Mortality Realm.

• The Hundred Herbs Garden descended, and the white cat warned Chen Fan that it would collapse within half a day, so he continued toward his original destination.
• Chen Fan observed Feng Cao hiding near the garden’s entrance, then lost track of him after he entered the secret realm.
• The white cat guided Chen Fan through a ruined tower and into a hidden canyon, where he encountered the Bloodstained Butterfly.
• The Bloodstained Butterfly sent Chen Fan flying with a gust, but the white cat persuaded it to leave with them.
• The white cat explained that the Bloodstained Butterfly would acknowledge Chen Fan as its master only after he reached the Transcendent Mortality Realm, and that it could fly fast enough to evade Chang Sheng experts with sufficient energy.

Chen Fan waited outside the Hundred Herbs Garden, planning to rob those who escaped after it collapsed. After testing the Bloodstained Butterfly’s speed and ability to dodge spatial cracks, he spotted the Thirteenth Prince of Great Qian and an injured Dao Fruit expert among the survivors.

• Chen Fan told the white cat he would wait outside the Hundred Herbs Garden and seize the gains of those who emerged.
• Chen Fan rode the Bloodstained Butterfly to the garden’s entrance and waited instead of going inside.
• The Hundred Herbs Garden collapsed, unleashing dense spatial cracks that destroyed forests and ruins.
• Chen Fan fed the Bloodstained Butterfly origin crystals, and she sped through the cracks while dodging them with ease.
• Chen Fan spotted survivors emerging from a spatial vortex, including the Thirteenth Prince of Great Qian and an injured Dao Fruit expert.

Chen Fan forced Liao Yuanfeng and the Thirteenth Prince to surrender their secret-realm gains, then discovered that the injured Feng Cao had escaped with the King of Ten Thousand Medicines. Chen Fan pursued Feng Cao, who was ambushed near the ruins’ exit.

• Chen Fan attacked Liao Yuanfeng with his amplified White Emperor Armor and forced him to surrender the group’s gains after Liao Yuanfeng’s injuries made resistance too dangerous.
• Chen Fan accepted Liao Yuanfeng’s Sumeru Ring and left, while Liao Yuanfeng urged the Thirteenth Prince to retreat.
• Chen Fan spotted Feng Cao in the Star God Seal and watched Zhao Wuguang pursue him before Feng Cao escaped using a talisman.
• Chen Fan tracked Feng Cao with the Star God Seal and set off on Bloodstained Butterfly to kill him while he was injured.
• Feng Cao celebrated escaping with the King of Ten Thousand Medicines, but a bloodthirsty aura and killing sword light struck as he neared the ruins’ exit.

Chen Fan ambushed Feng Cao and used the Star God Seal, Bloodstained Butterfly, and his sword techniques to overcome the Dao Fruit Realm traitor. After recovering the Medicine King pouch and trapping Feng Cao, Chen Fan revealed his true face, leaving Feng Cao astonished to recognize him.

• Chen Fan ambushed Feng Cao, weakened him with the Star God Seal, and struck him with the Seven-Kill Sword, but Feng Cao escaped after a spiritual barrier blocked the fatal blow.
• Chen Fan rode Bloodstained Butterfly to catch Feng Cao and wounded him with the Fire Saint Sword despite Feng Cao's fiery attack.
• Feng Cao threatened to destroy the Medicine King, but Chen Fan teleported close and blasted away the left half of his body with the Seven-Kill Sword.
• Feng Cao threw the Medicine King pouch toward a field of spatial rifts and fled in the opposite direction, but Chen Fan pursued him, shattered his Dao Domain, and subdued him with the Yuan-Locking Ring.
• Bloodstained Butterfly returned with the pouch, and Chen Fan revealed his original appearance as Feng Cao realized who he was.

Chen Fan killed Feng Cao and learned more from the white cat about the ancient divine races and the fall of the Four Great Divine Courts. Meanwhile, the Zhao clan began investigating the Dao Fruit cultivator who stole the Medicine King.

• Chen Fan revealed his identity to Feng Cao, then used his sword domain and Seven-Kill Sword to kill him and took his corpse.
• Chen Fan left on the Bloodstained Butterfly and asked the white cat about the God-Defying Race and ancient history.
• The white cat explained that the God-Defying Race was one of four divine races, that the Divine Courts had fought and destroyed it, and that the Ancient Wilderness Sect had later suffered a catastrophe.
• The white cat said the Ancient Wilderness Sect had been subordinate to the Yuan Shang Imperial Dynasty, whose emperor was a Solar God Race descendant.
• At the Zhao clan, Zhao Wuguang reported that the thief had escaped with the Medicine King, and a boy said he would share information with the seven great clans to identify the Dao Fruit cultivator.

After leaving the Ancient Wilderness Ruins, Chen Fan opened Feng Cao’s sack and subdued the Medicine King, a sentient Profound Heaven Root with immense potential. He then searched Feng Cao’s storage treasure and recovered valuable pills and medicinal herbs.

• Chen Fan told Zhao Tianhua he was safe and had already left the Ancient Wilderness Ruins.
• Chen Fan opened Feng Cao’s sack, and the Medicine King burst out and struck him before crashing into his barrier.
• Chen Fan subdued the Medicine King, and Lord Bai identified it as a Profound Heaven Root that could aid future advancement but should not be refined yet.
• Chen Fan searched Feng Cao’s jade waist token and recovered the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill, two other Void Saint-grade pills, and many medicinal herbs.
• Chen Fan recognized the Life-and-Death Profound Dragon Pill as a dangerous last-resort way to cross the tenth-level boundary.

Chen Fan returned toward the Star Sect Underground Palace, hoping to refine the Star Hall into a portable pocket heaven where he could protect and cultivate the Medicine King. Meanwhile, the Zhao clan's ancestor suspected Feng Cao had taken the Medicine King, unaware that Feng Cao was already dead.

• Chen Fan realized the Star Hall could serve as a hidden place to grow herbs and hurried back toward the northwest to refine it before Zhongli Chenghe could claim it.
• The Zhao clan's ancestor concluded that Feng Cao had likely taken the Medicine King and went with the Great Qian Emperor to confront him, but Feng Cao was missing from the palace.
• The Zhao clan's ancestor decided to seek help from the Heavenly Secrets Tower to find Feng Cao.
• Uncle Chen told Crown Prince Liu Lun that he had lost track of Chen Fan in the Ancient Wilderness Ruins, and Liu Lun worried that Chen Fan's death would undo his efforts.
• Chen Fan received Liu Lun's relieved message, then continued riding the Bloodstained Butterfly toward the Star Sect Underground Palace.

Chen Fan encountered Pan Wuying outside the Star Sect Underground Palace and offered him a Heavenly Origin Pill. Pan Wuying broke through to Grandmaster, paid Chen Fan for the pill, and watched him enter the palace without learning his name.

• Chen Fan recognized Pan Wuying, whom he had met years earlier, at a stall outside the Star Sect Underground Palace.
• Chen Fan showed Pan Wuying a Heavenly Origin Pill, and Pan Wuying broke through to Grandmaster upon seeing it.
• An elderly Grandmaster tried to disrupt Pan Wuying's breakthrough, but Chen Fan struck him down with an invisible force.
• Pan Wuying thanked Chen Fan, then traded valuable goods and Origin Stones for the Heavenly Origin Pill.
• Chen Fan left without giving his name and entered the underground palace.

Chen Fan refined the Star Hall by enduring a fierce assault on his soul, gaining full control of the Star God Seal and learning the powers of its three complete seals. He entered the Star Hall in its portable form, where twelve golden-armored men knelt and hailed him as their master.

• Chen Fan reached the Star Hall and used the Star God Seal to begin refining its core, enduring a powerful assault on his sea of consciousness as the underground palace shook.
• Chen Fan learned that the Star Hall and Star God Seal were one Dao artifact, with the complete seals Guard, Control, and Break among its seven forms.
• Zhongli Chenghe and Star Spirit recognized Chen Fan as the true Sect Master, while Zhongli Chenghe warned that the Star Hall's favor bound Chen Fan to its karma.
• Chen Fan completed the refinement, shrank the Star Hall into a spherical jade stone, and entered the hall through its connection to the Star God Seal.
• Twelve golden-armored men knelt before Chen Fan inside the Star Hall and called him their master.

After refining the Star Hall, Chen Fan claimed its treasures and appointed White Lord to manage it. He discovered that an unknown woman had visited two years earlier, then began transplanting spirit herbs into the hall’s courtyard.

• Chen Fan let White Lord live in the Star Hall and told its golden-armored guards to obey him.
• Du Jun identified himself as the Star Hall’s artificer-soldier master and showed Chen Fan the treasure pavilion.
• Chen Fan found Spirit Intent Pills, other treasures, and more than twenty high-grade spirit swords in the Star Hall.
• Du Jun revealed that a woman had visited two years earlier, reached the ninth level of martial arts, and exchanged for two Heaven-rank pills.
• Chen Fan asked Du Jun to show him a place to grow spirit herbs, then planted herbs he had brought from Feng Cao’s token and seized from the royal family.

Chen Fan used the Star Hall to establish a spirit-herb garden and discovered he could enter it even when space was sealed. After returning to the Blood Demon Secret Realm and studying the Star Hall’s incomplete divine ability, he concluded he needed more fragments of the Star God Seal to comprehend it fully.

• Chen Fan assigned Du Jun and the spell soldiers to replant the spirit herbs, then released the Profound Heaven Root Medicine King for Lord Bai to train and oversee.
• Lord Bai persuaded the Medicine King to help tend the herbs, which flourished as Chen Fan supplied them with origin crystals.
• Chen Fan retrieved the Star Hall’s true body from the Star Sect Underground Palace and confirmed that he could enter it even with the Void-Sealing Stone activated.
• Chen Fan avoided the Embroidered Garment envoys in the underground palace and left, then planned to bring the Mutated Blood Demon into the Star Hall when the Blood Demon Secret Realm reopened.
• Chen Fan studied the phantom in the Star Hall and improved his Shattered Star Sword, but could not comprehend its incomplete divine ability and decided he needed other Star God Seal fragments.

Chen Fan unlocked the Great Evolution Divine Art from the mural and began cultivating it, eventually splitting his divine consciousness and greatly increasing its total strength. After reaching the limits of the Ice-Heart realm, he considered using the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill to break through to the Heavenly Being realm.

• Chen Fan observed the mural for several days and unlocked the Great Evolution Divine Art, a secret art that divided and strengthened divine consciousness.
• Chen Fan continued cultivating the art while waiting in seclusion inside the Blood Demon Secret Realm, and his Wind Sacred Sword reached perfection in its third level.
• Chen Fan set the Great Evolution Divine Art to idle cultivation, broke through to its first level, and split his divine consciousness into two strands.
• Chen Fan consumed the Spirit-Refining Herb with the Great Evolution Divine Art, causing both strands to reach their limits and more than doubling his total divine consciousness.
• Chen Fan sensed that his divine consciousness had reached the limit of the Ice-Heart realm and considered using the Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill to advance to the Heavenly Being realm.

Chen Fan stole the Mutated Blood Demon and raced toward the Blood Demon Secret Realm's exit, where a powerful Blood Demon intercepted him. Simo intervened and let Chen Fan leave with the creature, but warned him that it was dangerous and coveted; back in Star Hall, Chen Fan heard Lord Bai demand to know what he had brought inside.

• Chen Fan used the Void-Escaping Wings and Little Butterfly to escape the Research Tower's pursuing guard with the Mutated Blood Demon.
• As Chen Fan neared the secret realm's entrance, a towering Chang Sheng expert blocked his way and attacked him.
• Simo appeared, drove the giant away, and told Chen Fan to take the Mutated Blood Demon, warning him about its danger and the people who coveted it.
• Chen Fan passed through the entrance into Great Qian, fled far away, and entered Star Hall.
• Lord Bai trembled as he asked Chen Fan what evil thing he had put inside Star Hall.

Chen Fan raised the Blood Beast for its Blood Spirit Flowers and used an Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill to begin a risky breakthrough to the Celestial Realm. Meanwhile, the Great Qian clans continued searching for the supposedly living Feng Cao, and Crown Prince Liu Lun lost contact with Chen Fan as the Origin Hunt Rite approached.

• White Lord sensed the Blood Beast's aura from the destruction of the Ancient Wilderness Sect, and Chen Fan's attempt to investigate the creature was overcome by terror.
• Chen Fan fed the Blood Beast daily, had golden-armored men harvest its flowers, and obtained more than a thousand Blood Spirit Flowers in a month.
• Chen Fan swallowed an Ice-Heart Bodhi Pill and began refining it to break through to the Celestial Realm.
• The Seven Great Clans searched Great Qian for Feng Cao, but rumors that he had stolen the Medicine King and defected gradually lost attention.
• As the Origin Hunt Rite drew near, Crown Prince Liu Lun discovered that he could no longer contact Chen Fan.

With the Origin Hunt Rite a week away, Wu Tianjiao and the Seventh Prince learned that Chen Fan was missing, while the Crown Prince and Wen Siyuan discussed their plans for him. Chen Fan emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the Heavenly Being Realm, contacted the Crown Prince, and hurried toward the Imperial Capital.

• The Seventh Prince told Wu Tianjiao that the Crown Prince had submitted a roster without Chen Fan because no one could contact him.
• Wu Tianjiao revealed that he had reached the ninth level and absorbed the Soul-Burning Terrifying Flame, then declared that he could win the Deer Hunt without Chen Fan.
• Wen Siyuan questioned Crown Prince Liu Lun about Chen Fan's disappearance and warned that they must act on their plans if Chen Fan returned.
• The Crown Prince received Chen Fan's message and realized he could still compete in the Origin Hunt Rite.
• Chen Fan emerged from seclusion after breaking through his divine consciousness into the Heavenly Being Realm, replied to the Crown Prince, and set off for the Imperial Capital.

Chen Fan returned to the Imperial Capital and learned the rules and likely opponents for the Origin Hunt Rite’s Deer Hunt. As the ceremony began, the Seventh Prince approached the Crown Prince and hinted that he had an unexpected plan.

• Chen Fan reached the Imperial Capital and met Crown Prince Chong, who explained that the Deer Hunt would take place in an illusory realm created by the Myriad Forms Gourd.
• The Crown Prince warned Chen Fan that the other contestants might unite against him and gave him intelligence on seventeen powerful participants, including Hutuba, Yuan Siwei, and Wu Tianjiao.
• The Crown Prince identified Wu Tianjiao, who had a Fire Spirit body and a heaven-grade spirit flame, as the rival Chen Fan should watch most closely.
• The Origin Hunt Rite began in the Imperial Capital, where the Emperor and three heads of the seven great families performed a heaven-worship ceremony.
• Wu Tianjiao watched Chen Fan from behind the Seventh Prince, who approached the Crown Prince and remarked that he was impossible to fathom.

The princes and their recruited geniuses gathered for the Origin Hunt Rite, where Chen Fan assessed the hidden strength of the contestants. The Deer Hunt began as more than three hundred geniuses entered the Myriad Forms Gourd’s illusory realm under rules that allowed victory by holding the deer spirit or eliminating every other contestant.

• The Crown Prince explained Chen Fan’s late appearance, while he and the other princes questioned the Thirteenth Prince’s last-minute choice of Cen Heyu.
• Chen Fan recognized Cen Heyu from the Ancient Wilderness Ruins and sensed that she had reached ninth-level perfection with divine sense, while discovering several other contestants had concealed their ninth-level cultivation.
• The Emperor briefly tested several royal descendants before the Origin Hunt Rite moved on to its main event, the Deer Hunt.
• Yan Shoudao introduced himself as the Martial Academy’s chief dean and entrusted Shen Yuansi with explaining the rules of the Deer Hunt.
• Shen Yuansi explained that contestants could win by holding the deer spirit for more than an hour or by becoming the last one alive, while the arena shrank and updates were broadcast every quarter hour.
• Shen Yuansi activated the Myriad Forms Gourd, transporting the contestants into its illusory realm as spiritual screens displayed the competition and the remaining participants.