Chapter Summaries

After killing Gong Xian, Chen Fan tested the mysterious seven-colored branch and returned to the Purple Marrow Earth Ore vein to begin mining. Hu Tian revealed the Earth Spirit Emperor’s existence to Luo Caiwei, prompting the Eclosion Sect’s Moon Ancestor to prepare to investigate.

• Chen Fan killed Gong Xian, collected his belongings, and discovered that Gong Xian’s branch converted infused True Essence into powerful seven-colored attacks.
• Hu Tian learned of Gong Xian’s death and decided to reveal the Earth Spirit Emperor’s location rather than let Chen Fan keep it uncontested.
• Hu Tian told Luo Caiwei and Wu Yan about the Purple Marrow Earth Ore deposit and the Earth Spirit Emperor at its core, then warned that an outsider Chang Sheng had defeated Gong Xian and taken the vein.
• Luo Caiwei informed the Moon Ancestor, who demanded the exact coordinates and prepared to come in person.
• Chen Fan returned to the collapsed mine, cleared the rubble, found the ore, and summoned puppets and golden-armored figures to help him mine it.

Chen Fan and White Lord mined a Purple Marrow Soil vein and discovered a newly formed Elemental Earth Emperor that could help Chen Fan forge his earth Dao and reach longevity. White Lord urged Chen Fan to absorb it quickly and leave before other experts arrived.

• White Lord emerged from the White Emperor Armor and swallowed the vein’s outer Purple Marrow Soil, while Chen Fan cleared away the discarded rock.
• White Lord sensed an Elemental Earth Emperor deep in the vein and explained that it was a higher-ranked elemental spirit.
• Chen Fan summoned his Fire Spirit, then learned that his Primordial Earth Spirit could lure the Earth Emperor so he could absorb it.
• White Lord said absorbing the Earth Emperor could help Chen Fan forge his earth Dao and reach longevity within a hundred years.
• Chen Fan began to enter an earth-intent epiphany, but White Lord slapped him awake and warned him to absorb the Earth Emperor before other experts came.

After absorbing the Earth Emperor, Chen Fan spent months comprehending the Dao of Earth and broke through to its Dao domain. He strengthened his Blood-Melting Technique and God-Defying Blood, while a powerful man who arrived too late at the mine resolved to investigate the Blood God Sect.

• A powerful man searched the ruined mine, sensed the Earth Emperor's lingering aura, and decided to visit the Blood God Sect.
• Chen Fan escaped with the Earth Emperor, spent three to four hundred thousand Origin Crystals absorbing it, and advanced his Origin Art to the eighth level.
• Chen Fan spent several months in enlightenment and comprehended the Dao domain of Earth.
• Chen Fan put Earth Sacred Sword into idle cultivation and absorbed Hilo's Blood Seed, bringing Blood-Melting Technique to the fifth level of perfection.
• Chen Fan's God-Defying Blood released more power, increasing his physical strength and allowing him to maintain Berserk for nearly a hundred breaths.
• Chen Fan left the sealed room, and White Lord flew into his arms.

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Fan discovered that Ancient Moon Pavilion had collapsed into infighting and set out to meet the Lingyun Sect party. A Blood God Sect expert intercepted him, accused him of taking the Earth Spirit Emperor, and attacked.

• Chen Fan emerged from seclusion, reassured White Lord, and promised his master he would find a place for the people staying in Star Hall.
• Chen Fan used the Star God Seal to locate Zhongli Hongyi, the Lingyun Sect members, and Luo Fangyan, then went to Ancient Moon City.
• Chen Fan learned that Hu Tian had fled with his family, trusted experts, and the pavilion's treasury, leaving Ancient Moon Pavilion's holdings to be fought over by rival factions.
• Chen Fan summoned Little Butterfly and headed toward the Lingyun Sect party, but a black-robed Blood God Sect expert pursued and intercepted him.
• The expert used a blood-red stone to identify Chen Fan's God-Defying Blood and demanded that he hand over the Earth Spirit Emperor.
• The expert charged at Chen Fan, who summoned a branch and blasted him with seven-colored light.

Chen Fan fought a powerful Blood God Sect martial artist, then used Little Butterfly to feign weakness and lure him into lowering his guard. When the man finally turned away, Chen Fan revealed the deception and caught up to attack him.

• The Blood God Sect martial artist shattered Chen Fan’s seven-colored attack, blocked his escape, and fought him to a draw.
• Chen Fan summoned Little Butterfly and fled, while the martial artist pursued and wounded him with the aftershocks of his halberd.
• Chen Fan and Little Butterfly repeatedly feigned exhaustion to tempt the martial artist into continuing the chase.
• The martial artist recognized the trap and turned away, but Chen Fan dropped the act and had Little Butterfly catch up to him.
• Chen Fan brought down the Flying Shadow Sword on the fleeing martial artist.

Chen Fan used Little Butterfly’s speed to exhaust and defeat Ling Luo, a Blood God Sect martial artist who had pursued him. While inspecting the spoils and considering the threat of the Blood God Sect, Chen Fan was startled by a mysterious youth who had approached without detection.

• Chen Fan and Little Butterfly evaded Ling Luo’s attacks until his God-Defying Blood-fueled strength faded, then Chen Fan killed him.
• Chen Fan searched Ling Luo’s belongings and found a Blood Seed, a one-star Dao Artifact halberd, and a blood-red stone that could identify the God-Defying Race’s aura.
• Chen Fan suspected Hu Tian had spread information about the Earth Emperor and worried that the Blood God Sect might send stronger fighters after him.
• As Chen Fan prepared to leave and locate Zhongli Hongyi and the others, a black-clad youth appeared nearby without Chen Fan noticing.
• The youth praised Chen Fan’s divine sense and said he seemed close to the Boundless Realm, leaving Chen Fan to suspect he was an exceptional longevity-level powerhouse.

Chen Fan faced Sang Ning, the Blood God Sect’s leader, who blamed him for the sect’s losses and demanded that he sign a Divine Control Contract. Chen Fan appeared to agree, leaving his true intentions unclear.

• Chen Fan tried to escape Sang Ning’s spatial domain, but his Void-Escaping Wings moved him less than half a zhang.
• Sang Ning explained that the Eclosion Sect had attacked the Blood God Sect after a misunderstanding about the Earth Emperor, and confronted Chen Fan over killing Ling Luo and other sect members.
• Sang Ning revealed that he had come to avenge Ling Luo and claim the Earth Emperor, but Chen Fan’s identity and secrets interested him more.
• Sang Ning offered to spare Chen Fan if he signed a Divine Control Contract, which would make Chen Fan his obedient servant.
• Chen Fan concealed his resistance, told Sang Ning he would sign, and stepped toward the contract.

Chen Fan tried to escape Sang Ning with Little Butterfly, but Sang Ning’s overwhelming strength left him badly injured despite his defenses and rapid healing. Chen Fan refused Sang Ning’s offer to sign the Divine Control Contract, and after Sang Ning drove him into the earth again, Chen Fan vanished.

• Chen Fan sent Little Butterfly fleeing at full speed, but Sang Ning caught up and struck them with a gigantic palm.
• Chen Fan’s strongest sword attack failed to break Sang Ning’s defense, and Sang Ning’s palm smashed Chen Fan and Little Butterfly into a crater.
• Chen Fan used the Origin Pearl to heal, and Sang Ning offered to spare him if he signed the Divine Control Contract.
• Chen Fan refused Sang Ning and raised his sword, so Sang Ning appeared behind him and drove him underground with a flick of his finger.
• Sang Ning searched the crater and surrounding cracks but could no longer sense Chen Fan.

Chen Fan hid inside Star Hall while Sang Ning searched for him, but after nearly three months Sang Ning discovered the artifact. With Star Hall in Sang Ning’s grasp, Chen Fan tried White Lord’s desperate suggestion and emerged before his enemy.

• Sang Ning used bloodlight to seal and search the area after Chen Fan vanished, while Chen Fan concealed himself inside Star Hall and recovered from his injuries.
• Chen Fan and White Lord worried that Sang Ning would discover Star Hall, and Chen Fan waited inside while Sang Ning remained nearby.
• After nearly three months, Sang Ning examined every grain of dust with his divine sense and found Star Hall in its speck-sized form.
• White Lord suggested that Chen Fan use the Mutated Blood Demon, whose hidden nature frightened him, and Chen Fan rushed to the hall where it was imprisoned.
• Sang Ning held Star Hall but could not damage it, and Chen Fan suddenly appeared before him.

Chen Fan sent an avatar and a Mutated Blood Demon to confront Sang Ning, but their clash released a horrifying black entity that consumed Sang Ning and destroyed the avatar. Chen Fan returned to his true body in Star Hall, then found the Blood Beast surrounded by Blood Spirit Flowers bearing the auras of both the Blood Demon and Sang Ning.

• Chen Fan ordered the Mutated Blood Demon to attack Sang Ning, who destroyed the Blood Beast and badly damaged Chen Fan's avatar with the force of his attack.
• Black evil auras gathered from the Blood Beast's scattered flesh, forming a tentacled shadow that overwhelmed Chen Fan's and Sang Ning's minds.
• Sang Ning embraced the shadow, which flooded into and transformed his body, while a wooden statue summoned a Blood God phantom that rescued a wisp of Sang Ning's consciousness.
• Chen Fan's consciousness returned to his true body in Star Hall, where he briefly saw black scales and tentacles before they vanished.
• Chen Fan left Star Hall and found the Blood Beast surrounded by countless Blood Spirit Flowers, sensing the auras of both the Blood Beast and Sang Ning within it.

After narrowly surviving Sang Ning’s strange Blood Demon, Chen Fan hid in the Star Hall and rebuilt a clone to use outside while his true body stayed concealed. He returned to the Lingyun Sect survivors just as they debated whether to leave the Thousand Cliffs Kingdom.

• Chen Fan confirmed the Mutated Blood Demon still retained its own consciousness, collected Sang Ning’s belongings, and stored the beast away as a dangerous trump card.
• Chen Fan entered the Star Hall with Little Butterfly and began reforming his clone, since his Origin Art could not directly provide cultivation to it.
• Chen Fan transferred his consciousness into the clone and raised it to the ninth level with the White Cloud True Art, origin crystals, and medicinal pills.
• Chen Fan used the clone to travel to the Lingyun Sect survivors, who were considering leaving because Ancient Moon Pavilion’s forces might find them.
• Zhongli Hongyi chose to wait a few more days for Chen Fan, but an unfamiliar voice suddenly asked where everyone planned to go.

Hu Zhongxing attacked the Lingyun Sect refugees, and Zhongli Hongyi's trusted disciple ambushed him, leaving him badly wounded. As Hu Zhongxing overwhelmed the group, Zhongli Hongyi tried to hold him off so the others could escape, while Luo Fangyan chose to stay and help.

• Hu Zhongxing broke through the Lingyun Sect's defenses and confronted Zhongli Hongyi, declaring that he would kill them in revenge for the Ancient Moon Pavilion.
• Zhongli Hongyi clashed Dao Domains with Hu Zhongxing while his black-clad disciple secretly struck him with a blood-red talisman.
• Hu Zhongxing shattered Zhongli Hongyi's weakened Dao Domain and attacked the Lingyun Sect martial artists, while the gray-haired elder and others turned on the traitorous disciple.
• The disciple fled behind Hu Zhongxing and urged Zhongli Hongyi to surrender, but Zhongli Hongyi ordered the Lingyun Sect disciples to escape with Miss Luo and volunteered to hold Hu Zhongxing back.
• Luo Fangyan refused to leave and raised her sword to help Zhongli Hongyi, but as Hu Zhongxing pressed his attack, Zhongli Yuru and the others turned to flee.

Chen Fan arrived in time to save the Lingyun Sect martial artists, killing Hu Zhongxing and exposing the sect’s traitor. After the group escaped to the wilderness, Zhongli Yuru asked how Chen Fan had found them without contacting Yan’er.

• Hu Zhongxing shattered Zhongli Hongyi’s domain and sent black ghosts after the fleeing Lingyun Sect martial artists.
• Chen Fan arrived on Little Butterfly, destroyed the black ghosts with his flying swords, and killed Hu Zhongxing with the Flying Shadow Sword.
• Chen Fan treated the wounded and severed the black-clad traitor’s arm as he tried to escape with a silver talisman.
• The Lingyun Sect martial artists captured the traitor, who confessed to leaking information to the Ancient Moon Pavilion, and Zhongli Hongyi beheaded him.
• Chen Fan led the group away from the city to rest in the wilderness, where Zhongli Yuru asked how he had found them without contacting Yan’er.

Chen Fan agreed to escort Luo Fangyan and Lingyun Sect through the Southern Cloud Desert toward the Central Region, where he also hoped to learn the Void-Storing Sword Art. The group set out aboard Chen Fan’s mechanical warship, and Luo Fangyan explained that the desert was one of the continent’s Nine Great Strange Lands.

• Chen Fan explained that his tracking marks had let him find Luo Fangyan and the others, easing her concern that he distrusted her.
• Zhongli Hongyi planned to take Lingyun Sect to the Central Region, and Luo Fangyan invited Chen Fan to join them by way of a shortcut through Devil Gorge.
• Chen Fan accepted and agreed to protect the group as they traveled through the dangerous route.
• Chen Fan brought out a mechanical warship, and the group boarded it to cross the Southern Cloud Desert.
• Chen Fan found that the desert weakened his divine sense, and Luo Fangyan explained its hazards and its place among the Nine Great Strange Lands.

Chen Fan learned about the dangers and routes across the Southern Cloud Desert, then guided the warship through Devil Gorge as demon beasts attacked. The warship continued through the perilous gorge after Chen Fan defeated the threats it encountered.

• Luo Fangyan explained that travelers usually detoured around the Southern Cloud Desert, while a known shortcut could get the warship to the Central Region within five days.
• After the warship entered the desert, Chen Fan handed control to Luo Fangyan and kept watch as they approached Devil Gorge.
• Luo Fangyan warned Chen Fan that attacks might begin in Devil Gorge, and he spread his divine sense around the warship.
• Chen Fan killed a vulture demon beast, then used more than a hundred flying swords to slaughter a flock of vultures.
• Over the following days, Chen Fan repelled more attacks, including a demon beast comparable to a late tenth-stage expert, which he defeated with the White Emperor Armor and a Flying Shadow Sword strike.

Chen Fan and Luo Fangyan encountered the Sand Clan attacking human martial artists in Devil Gorge, and Chen Fan killed the three attackers. After learning the surviving man was Cheng Shifei of the White Cloud Association, Chen Fan and Luo Fangyan continued on their way.

• Chen Fan and Luo Fangyan heard fighting ahead in Devil Gorge, and Luo Fangyan went to investigate while Chen Fan followed.
• Chen Fan found three powerful Sand Clan members overwhelming a group of human martial artists, and Luo Fangyan ambushed one before the others forced her out of hiding.
• Chen Fan rescued Luo Fangyan by breaking the Sand Clan's sandstorms and killing the remaining two attackers.
• Chen Fan cut open the Sand Clan corpses and collected their Sand Cores after Luo Fangyan identified the creatures.
• Cheng Shifei of the White Cloud Association thanked Chen Fan for saving him, but Chen Fan suspected Cheng Shifei was hiding why the Sand Clan attacked.
• Chen Fan told Luo Fangyan to leave with him.

Chen Fan accepted Cheng Shifei and his companions aboard his warship in exchange for a living segment of Bloodsun Heavenly Bamboo, then carried them through Devil Gorge toward the Central Region. As the Sand Clan caught up with them, White Lord revealed that one of the stolen sacrificial items was tied to the Sun God Court.

• Cheng Shifei offered Chen Fan a living segment of Bloodsun Heavenly Bamboo in exchange for a lift, and Chen Fan accepted and sent White Lord to plant it in Star Hall.
• Cheng Shifei recognized the warship as belonging to Great Qian, and Chen Fan said he had been expelled from the dynasty before declining an invitation to join the White Cloud Association.
• Chen Fan’s group passed through Devil Gorge and entered the Central Region, but a Sand Clan sandstorm soon rose behind them.
• Cheng Shifei admitted that he and his companions had entered the Sand Clan’s sacred ground and stolen several sacrificial items.
• White Lord told Chen Fan that the golden wine cup bore the aura of the Sun God Court and urged him to obtain it.

Chen Fan agreed to protect Cheng Shifei and his companions from a pursuing Sand Clan expert in exchange for Bloodsun Heavenly Bamboo and two treasures. After leaving the great desert, the travelers parted ways, and Luo Fangyan revealed that her sect had dwindled to just her after her master's death.

• Chen Fan negotiated with Cheng Shifei for three segments of Bloodsun Heavenly Bamboo and two items in exchange for stopping the Sand Clan pursuer.
• Chen Fan defeated the peak Dao Fruit-level Sand Clan expert with his true body and took its sand core.
• Cheng Shifei gave Chen Fan the promised bamboo and treasures, and Chen Fan chose the Golden Goblet and a gray stone tablet.
• Chen Fan and the others crossed the great desert without further pursuit, and Cheng Shifei and his companions disembarked once they were safe.
• Luo Fangyan said Cloud Lantern Mountain was near, then revealed that she was the only one left in her Void Gate after her master's death.

Chen Fan and Luo Fangyan reached Canghai City, where Chen Fan learned about the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and its Sword Emperors. After they reclaimed Luo Fangyan’s ruined mountain gate, Chen Fan examined mysterious artifacts in Star Hall and uncovered a special map on a gray stone slab.

• Luo Fangyan explained that her master had died of old age, and Chen Fan wondered how she would teach him the Void-Storing Sword Art.
• Canghai City patrol martial artists boarded Chen Fan’s flying boat to register it, and Luo Fangyan described the city’s rule under the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and the Canghai Sword Emperor.
• Chen Fan learned that the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect had two Sword Emperors and became eager to encounter its sword masters, but decided to learn the Void-Storing Sword Art first.
• Chen Fan and Luo Fangyan reached her dilapidated mountain gate, drove out the bandits, and watched Lingyun Sect martial artists begin rebuilding it.
• Chen Fan entered Star Hall, failed to uncover the golden wine cup’s secret, and found a special map on the gray stone slab after washing away its seal with Yellow Springs Water.

Chen Fan entered the Sword Mound and used his idle cultivation ability to learn the contents of the Void-Storing Sword Art. The inheritance site collapsed after his three-day visit, but he promised Luo Fangyan he would teach her the complete art once he mastered it.

• Chen Fan postponed searching the Southern Cloud Desert map and asked Luo Fangyan how to cultivate the Void-Storing Sword Art.
• Luo Fangyan took Chen Fan to the Sword Mound, where her blood awakened the broken-sword sculpture and transported him to a desolate realm containing the sword art.
• Chen Fan read the sword art’s three pages and independently comprehended the first page during a brief state of enlightenment.
• Chen Fan returned to reality after three days, and the broken-sword sculpture shattered, ending access to the Sword Mound.
• Luo Fangyan revealed she had sacrificed her final chance to enter the Sword Mound and mourned the loss of the inheritance.
• Chen Fan promised to teach Luo Fangyan all three levels after he mastered the Void-Storing Sword Art.