Chapter Summaries

Back in the Sword Sect, Chen Fan purified the baleful power in Wen Bu’s corpse to strengthen his cultivation and studied the Marauder’s blade. After creating the first move of the Marauder’s Sword, he sensed that his sword domain was close to its third level.

• Chen Fan returned to the Sword Sect, answered messages from Yu Jin, Lian Yangshuo, Chen Qingru, and the others, then entered Star Hall and concealed the secrets of heaven with the Sun-Covering Mirror.
• Chen Fan purified the baleful power in Wen Bu’s body, raising his cultivation progress by nearly five percent.
• Chen Fan ordered Hu Jiuguang to eat Wen Bu’s corpse, but Hu Jiuguang could not bite through it, and Chen Fan struggled to cut off even a small piece.
• Chen Fan recalled the Marauder’s blade and fought a bound Marauder to study its attacks and refine his swordsmanship.
• Chen Fan created the first move of the Marauder’s Sword and tested it on Wen Bu’s corpse, then sensed that his sword domain was nearing its third level.

Chen Fan broke through to the second level of the Dao Domain, strengthened the White Emperor Armor, and transferred his consciousness into a reforged avatar. After Lian Yangshuo and Yu Jin visited, Chen Fan learned the Jialan Kingdom crisis had ended and asked about Zhan Jianming.

• Chen Fan refined a Purple Qi Jade Marrow Pill, reached the second level of the Dao Domain, and gave purified ores to White Lord to strengthen the White Emperor Armor.
• Chen Fan transferred his consciousness into his reforged avatar and sent it out to cultivate using the Azure Origin Art.
• Du Jun told Chen Fan that Lian Yangshuo and Yu Jin had come to see him, and Chen Fan welcomed them into his cave residence.
• Lian Yangshuo and Yu Jin thanked Chen Fan for saving them and gave him healing pills.
• Chen Fan learned that the Sword Emperors had returned from the Jialan Kingdom and that the Sword Sect had not gone to war with the Demon Sects.
• Chen Fan admitted that he had marked the Demon Prison Gate, learned the Sword Sect had concealed who destroyed it, and asked whether there was news about Zhan Jianming.

Chen Fan received the Mystic Origin Myriad Gold Pill and learned that the Sword Sect had concealed his destruction of the Demon Prison Gate to protect the secret of his Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill. He met Sect Leader Chen Tiangan, who tested his Dao Domains and questioned how he had killed the Great Qian Emperor.

• Yu Jin told Chen Fan that Zhan Jianming had suffered severe injuries and remained in seclusion, while Chen Fan reasoned that Zhan Jianming was keeping the Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill secret so he could still try to take it.
• Chen Qingru summoned Chen Fan to the Sword Pavilion to receive his rewards.
• Elder Hong Wen gave Chen Fan the Mystic Origin Myriad Gold Pill and warned him not to reveal that he had obtained the Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill.
• Chen Qingru brought Chen Fan to meet her father, Sect Leader Chen Tiangan, who tested Chen Fan's Sword Domain and pressed him with greater force until he also revealed his Lightning Dao Domain and Flame Dao Domain.
• Chen Tiangan praised Chen Fan's strength, then asked whether his powers and a Jianmu branch alone could have been enough to kill the Great Qian Emperor.

Chen Tiangan revealed that he knew of Chen Fan’s past and offered to take him as his disciple, which Chen Fan accepted. After giving Chen Fan a Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill and offering to upgrade Flying Shadow, Chen Tiangan received two ores Chen Fan owned to assess for reforging.

• Chen Tiangan praised Chen Fan’s talent, and Chen Fan explained that a time-distorting secret realm made him appear seven years younger than he was.
• Chen Tiangan asked Chen Fan to become his disciple, and Chen Fan accepted.
• Chen Tiangan gave Chen Fan a Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill and warned him not to refine it before attaining a Dao Fruit.
• Chen Tiangan offered to reforge Flying Shadow with Taiyi Geng Metal and gave Chen Fan a list of materials suitable for upgrading it.
• Chen Fan found that he possessed two listed materials in the Heavenly Gold Nest and showed them to Chen Tiangan.

Chen Fan brought rare ores to Chen Tiangan to help upgrade his sword, and Chen Tiangan exchanged a defensive Dao artifact for the extra Moon-Cold Iron. When Chen Fan showed him the Sword Young Master's weapon, Chen Tiangan identified it as a Primordial Steel Sword Embryo, leaving Chen Fan to offer it as an apprenticeship gift while Chen Qingru objected.

• Chen Fan presented Chen Tiangan with Scarlet Blood Copper and Moon-Cold Iron, and Chen Tiangan said the materials could help raise Chen Fan's sword to four stars.
• Chen Tiangan offered Chen Fan a Purple Radiance Pearl in exchange for the remaining Moon-Cold Iron, and Chen Fan accepted it.
• Chen Fan showed Chen Tiangan the Sword Young Master's sword embryo, and Chen Tiangan recognized it as a Primordial Steel Sword Embryo formed by heaven and earth.
• Chen Tiangan explained that a sword forged from the sword fetus could let a swordsman wield a weapon beyond its inherent Dao artifact grade.
• Chen Fan offered the sword fetus to Chen Tiangan as an apprenticeship gift, and Chen Qingru hurriedly objected.

Chen Tiangan told Chen Fan that the coming Plum Gathering was part of the Eclosion Sect’s effort to prepare talented martial artists for a great calamity expected in at least ten thousand years. Chen Qingru suggested that Chen Fan’s arrival at the Sword Sect might be heavenly fate.

• Chen Tiangan offered to reforge Chen Fan’s sword embryo into the Flying Shadow Sword, and Chen Fan entrusted it to him.
• Chen Tiangan warned Chen Fan to improve his strength before the unusual Plum Gathering in three years.
• Chen Tiangan explained that the Eclosion Sect was gathering young talents to prepare for a new cycle of great calamity.
• Chen Fan connected the calamity to the many ruins and secret realms, the Ancient Wilderness Sect’s destruction, and the Mutated Blood Demon.
• Chen Tiangan explained that the Plum Gathering sought young martial artists with the potential to reach longevity, while Chen Qingru hinted that Chen Fan’s arrival might be heavenly fate.

Chen Fan learned from Chen Tiangan why his first Dao would shape his future cultivation and resolved to prioritize the Sword Dao. At Yu Jin’s cave residence, she showed him a Projection Stone displaying Zhan Jianming and Rong Ziqi facing each other in what appeared to be the Martial Practice Pavilion’s illusion realm.

• Chen Tiangan told Chen Fan that the Dao he used to enter Chang Sheng would become the foundation for future advancement and urged him to break through with the Sword Dao.
• Chen Fan left the Sword Pavilion, felt a new urgency to study the Sword Sect’s sword arts, and contacted Yu Jin.
• After Chen Fan left, Chen Tiangan and Chen Qingru discussed his extraordinary fortune as a Child of Destiny and the dangers that came with it.
• Yu Jin welcomed Chen Fan to her cave residence, where he accepted a shoulder massage from Xue Shu and declined Yu Jin’s offer to give her to him as a bedmaid.
• Yu Jin activated a Projection Stone that showed Zhan Jianming and Rong Ziqi facing each other, and Chen Fan wondered if they were sparring in the Martial Practice Pavilion’s illusion realm.

Chen Fan learned how the Sword Sect ranked its true disciples and what rewards the top positions offered. He considered climbing the rankings to hone his swordsmanship, but his first potential opponent was unlikely to accept his challenge.

• Chen Fan watched a recording of Rong Ziqi challenging Zhan Jianming, who won and remained the Sword Sect's top true disciple.
• Yu Jin explained that true disciples could challenge those ranked up to twenty places above them, and Chen Fan discovered he was ranked last at two hundred and ninety-third.
• Yu Jin described the ranking rewards, including Void Saint-grade pills for the top ten, and explained that Zhan Jianming would have to enter the Sword Pavilion after reaching a century in the top three.
• Chen Fan considered challenging his way up the rankings to train his swordsmanship and found Yu Jianpeng, the disciple ranked twenty places above him.
• Yu Jin warned Chen Fan that Yu Jianpeng belonged to Zhan Jianming's faction and would not accept the challenge, so Chen Fan looked for another opponent.

Chen Fan rose through the true disciple rankings, collected a large batch of pills, and completed his apprenticeship under Chen Tiangan. The chapter ended with Chen Tiangan finishing the reforged Flying Shadow Sword as a six-star Dao Artifact.

• Chen Fan won three ranking challenges and climbed fifty-three places among the true disciples.
• Zongzheng Xiu and Zongzheng Xun discussed Chen Fan's rise, and Zongzheng Xiu planned to challenge him after entering the Sword Realm.
• Chen Fan collected more than ten Void Saint pills and nearly two hundred heaven-grade pills from Xi Yan, then learned an anonymous true disciple wanted a Spirit-Refining Herb for a Meridian-Cleaving Exquisite Pill.
• Chen Tiangan held Chen Fan's apprenticeship ceremony and ordered the witnesses to keep it secret until the Plum Gathering.
• Chen Fan watched Chen Tiangan reforge the Flying Shadow Sword, which became a six-star Dao Artifact after five days.

Chen Fan received the reforged six-star Cold Edge Sword from Chen Tiangan and rejected Luo Yunfei’s attempt to buy the Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill for Zhan Jianming. After climbing into the Sword Sect’s top two hundred core disciples, Chen Fan left for Canghai City while deliberately leaving traces to bait Zhan Jianming into acting.

• Chen Tiangan named Chen Fan’s reforged sword the Cold Edge Sword, which gained the Domain of Frost and Geng Metal Qi.
• Chen Fan refined the Cold Edge Sword and assessed how it and the upgraded White Emperor Armor strengthened his combat power.
• Luo Yunfei and Mo Chengkong visited Chen Fan to convey Zhan Jianming’s offer to buy his special treasure, but Chen Fan refused to part with the Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill.
• Chen Fan challenged higher-ranked core disciples and rose into the Sword Sect’s top two hundred.
• Chen Fan left for Canghai City, deliberately leaving traces to lure Zhan Jianming into making a move.

Chen Fan used his departure from the Sword Sect to test whether Zhan Jianming would target him, but instead he caught Dongli Lou, who had plotted an ambush with several Magnolia Kingdom disciples. The Sword Sect punished the conspirators, while Zhan Jianming learned that his own subordinate Luo Yunfei had leaked the information and was ordered to suppress demons in Northern Abyss Province.

• Chen Fan left the Sword Sect without activating Little Butterfly, detected someone following him, and confronted Dongli Lou outside the sect.
• Chen Fan trapped Dongli Lou with the Painting Scroll and severed his arm with the Cold Edge Sword, then learned that Dongli Lou had acted out of greed for the Mystic Origin Myriad Gold Pill.
• The Law Enforcement Hall discovered that Dongli Lou had conspired with Magnolia Kingdom disciples, including a true disciple, and publicly executed them.
• Chen Fan concluded that Zhan Jianming had not ordered the ambush and went to meet the seller of the Meridian-Cleaving Exquisite Pill after Xi Yan arranged the meeting.
• Zhan Jianming confronted Luo Yunfei over leaking Chen Fan's information and revealed that Elder Hong Wen had ordered him to suppress demons in Northern Abyss Province until the Plum Gathering.
• Zhan Jianming acknowledged that Chen Fan was not easy to deal with and had begun treating him as an opponent.

Chen Fan traded Spirit-Refining Herbs with Rong Yixian for a share of the Supreme Divine Pills, which could strengthen divine sense. After consuming one, Chen Fan failed to reach the Boundless realm but advanced his Great Evolution Divine Art to its third level and brought all three streams of divine sense to the Celestial Being realm’s limit.

• Chen Fan met Rong Yixian and Xuan Yingying at the Pill Pavilion, where Rong Yixian recognized him as the person who had saved Rong Ziqi.
• Rong Yixian waived the crystal-essence price for the Meridian-Cleaving Exquisite Pill in exchange for a Spirit-Refining Herb, then revealed he needed four herbs to make the Supreme Divine Pill.
• Chen Fan provided the four Spirit-Refining Herbs, and Rong Yixian successfully refined three Supreme Divine Pills, promising Chen Fan two of them.
• Chen Fan gave Rong Yixian Fountain of Youth water in return and took the two Supreme Divine Pills back to his cave abode.
• Chen Fan swallowed one Supreme Divine Pill, but his divine sense did not reach the Boundless realm; instead, his Great Evolution Divine Art advanced to its third level and all three streams of divine sense reached the Celestial Being realm’s limit.

Chen Fan returned to Cloud Lantern Mountain after advancing his cultivation and found Lingyun Sect thriving. He offered his fellow disciples the chance to join him at the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, while Dong Guzhi chose to remain behind.

• Chen Fan returned to Cloud Lantern Mountain and gave Zhongli Hongyi Heaven-level pills and other cultivation resources for Lingyun Sect.
• Chen Fan reunited with Dong Guzhi, gave him a Vast Origin Pill, and revealed that he had reached the tenth level.
• Tao Xian asked whether Chen Fan had joined the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, and Chen Fan confirmed he was now a true disciple who could recommend others.
• Chen Fan invited his master and fellow disciples to join the Sword Sect; Dong Guzhi declined, while Fan Lin, Tao Xian, Zhang Fan, and other disciples wanted to go.
• Chen Fan learned that Yun Wei, He Hongshan, Luo Fangyan, Yun Xin, and Chen Xi had formed the Red Matchmaker Society.

Chen Fan discovered that Xiaoxi and the women traveling with her had vanished from contact, then used the Sun-Covering Mirror to locate them in the Purple Moon Kingdom. After finding a hidden boundary with the Apricot-Yellow Flag and crossing it using Origin Qi, he emerged above a vast lake in a mysterious space.

• Chen Fan failed to reach Xiaoxi, Yun Xin, or Luo Fangyan and learned from Zhongli Hongyi that their group had last contacted him from the Purple Moon Kingdom.
• Chen Fan confirmed the group's Lifebound Soul Lamps were still burning and used the Sun-Covering Mirror, with Wen Bu's hand as a sacrifice, to deduce a crescent-shaped lake in the kingdom.
• Chen Fan searched the deduced location but found no lake, so he used the Apricot-Yellow Flag to reveal a hidden curtain in the air.
• Chen Fan found that Origin Qi from the Origin Pearl removed the curtain's resistance and stepped through the boundary.
• Chen Fan appeared above a vast, shimmering lake and wondered whether he had entered a small space.

Chen Fan entered the Purple Moon Secret Realm, discovered a sacred lake whose water lost its power when removed, and confronted Bai Zhi while seeking information about other outsiders. Her master intervened and attacked him, leaving Chen Fan’s sword strike to overwhelm her pagoda.

• Chen Fan found the vast Crescent Moon Lake, but its spiritually rich water became ordinary as soon as he tried to collect it.
• Chen Fan concealed himself from Bai Zhi, then threatened her for information; after he broke her Dao Domain, she said she had never seen outsiders and had guarded the Sacred Land for three months.
• A purple-clad woman appeared after discovering Chen Fan’s Painting Scroll barrier, and Bai Zhi called her Master.
• The purple-clad woman attacked Chen Fan, who defended himself with the White Emperor Armor and Purple Radiance Pearl before counterattacking with a Seven-Kill Sword strike.
• Chen Fan’s sword strike made the purple-clad woman’s pagoda treasure collapse like a deflated balloon.

Chen Fan fought Ziyi and the Water Emperor in Purple Moon Lake, then learned that the attacks stopped after Ziyi received a message from her Little Ancestor. After explaining that he had entered the secret realm while searching for missing friends, Chen Fan reached a cautious understanding with Ziyi and wondered who the Little Ancestor was.

• Chen Fan shattered Ziyi’s pagoda, but a giant water whale struck him and broke through the Purple Radiance Pearl’s barrier.
• White Lord identified the attacker as an exceptionally powerful Water Emperor that could form water-based phantom creatures and was difficult to harm with physical attacks.
• Chen Fan used the Cold Edge Sword’s Ice Domain to slow the phantom forms, then teleported to Ziyi and demanded she stop the Water Emperor.
• Ziyi ordered the phantom forms to retreat after receiving a message from her Little Ancestor.
• Chen Fan explained how he had entered the Purple Moon Secret Realm while looking for his missing friends, and Ziyi softened her stance after hearing him out.

Chen Fan apologized to Zi Yan for trespassing on Purple Moon Lake’s sacred ground and was escorted to the Purple Moon Sect, where he learned that the sect consisted entirely of women and relied on its spring water to continue its lineage. He waited for the Little Ancestor and Luo Fangyan to arrive, relieved that his companions were safe and newly wary of the sect’s sacred spring.

• Chen Fan admitted to Zi Yan that he had entered the sacred ground by mistake, and Zi Yan explained that the Little Ancestor had told her guests including Luo Fangyan were in the secret realm.
• Zi Yan left Bai Zhi to guard Purple Moon Lake and escorted Chen Fan toward the sect; once he was away from the lake, Chen Fan used the Star God Seal to confirm that Cheng Caiying, Zhongli Yuru, and the others were safe.
• Zi Yan brought Chen Fan to the Purple Moon Sect, where he saw that its disciples were all women and met Sect Master Ziyun.
• Ziyun told Chen Fan that the sect had one hundred thousand female disciples and used the sacred spring water to allow partners to conceive, then said the Little Ancestor and Luo Fangyan would arrive shortly.
• Chen Fan apologized again for trespassing, realizing that the spring was essential to the sect’s descendants and relieved he had not drunk it.

Chen Fan reunited with Lanruo in the Purple Moon Sect and learned she was its mysterious little ancestor. As he stayed in the secret realm to seek opportunities and meet his companions, he learned the sect’s disciples had been trapped there since an ancient calamity, though Lanruo expected the realm to soon emerge into the world.

• Chen Fan recognized Lanruo as the little ancestor when Luo Fangyan brought her to meet Ziyun, and Lanruo recognized him as Zhang Fan from the Kunwu Secret Realm.
• Lanruo advised Ziyun to build a good relationship with Chen Fan, revealing that he had been only at the ninth level when they met a few years earlier.
• Chen Fan agreed to stay in the Purple Moon Secret Realm, hoping to improve his Water Dao Domain by sparring with the Water Emperor.
• Chen Fan reunited with Yun Xin, Xiaoxi, and the other women, and learned that Yun Xin and Xiaoxi had joined the Purple Moon Sect.
• Ziyun explained that the Purple Moon Immortal had protected the sect during an ancient calamity but bound its ordinary disciples to the secret realm, which Lanruo said would soon be able to emerge into the world.

Chen Fan improved Xiaoxi and Yun Xin’s physiques and advanced his Water Dao Domain and swordsmanship while cultivating in the Purple Moon Sect. As he prepared to leave, Lanruo revealed that she would need his help after he attained longevity, and tied the request to his Kunwu inheritance and a place with immense Demon God Remnant power.

• Chen Fan used a Meridian-Cleaving Exquisite Pill dissolved in the Fountain of Youth to improve Xiaoxi and Yun Xin’s physiques.
• Chen Fan cultivated at Purple Moon Lake with the Water Emperor, perfected his Water Saint Sword, and advanced his Water Dao Domain to the second layer.
• Chen Fan left Purple Moon Lake and told Ziyun he planned to leave the Purple Moon Secret Realm, but learned he needed to find Lanruo to do so.
• Lanruo asked Chen Fan to return after attaining longevity to help her with a matter that could also aid his future breakthrough.
• Lanruo connected the matter to Chen Fan’s Kunwu inheritance, and Chen Fan asked whether their destination held immense power of the Demon God Remnants.

Chen Fan learned that the Origin Primordial Demon had been Kunwu's past life and that the Origin inheritance was part of a plan to prepare against an invasion from the Abyss. After leaving the Purple Moon Sect, he returned to his room and found Yun Xin waiting to confess her feelings.

• Lanruo asked Chen Fan to visit the place where a Demon God King had fallen once Chen Fan reached the Longevity Realm, and explained the Origin Primordial Demon’s relationship to Kunwu.
• Lanruo revealed that Origin’s father occupied the Ultimate of the Origin Great Dao, that Kunwu had passed Origin’s inheritance to multiple successors, and that the great calamity came from the Abyss.
• Chen Fan asked whether the sword Dao had an Ultimate, then wondered if Lanruo was a reincarnated figure; Lanruo gave him a jade bracelet for entering the Purple Moon Secret Realm.
• Chen Fan said farewell to Xiaoxi and Yun Xin, and Luo Fangyan held a banquet before his departure.
• Chen Fan returned to his room and found Ye Yunxin waiting; she called him “Husband” and threw herself into his arms.