Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan brought his fellow disciples into the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, discussed the Purple Moon Sect alliance and his marriage with Chen Tiangan, and trained with Yu Jin. The chapter left him seeking more battles to advance his Sword Domain, with Rong Yixian in mind as a potential sparring partner.

• Chen Fan registered his fellow disciples with the Sword Sect, where Fan Zhong and Tao Xian joined the sect while Zhang Fan stayed in Chen Fan's cave abode.
• Chen Fan told Chen Tiangan about the Purple Moon Secret Realm and the planned alliance with the Purple Moon Sect, then revealed that he had married Yun Xin.
• Chen Fan sparred with Yu Jin in the Martial Practice Pavilion and proved slightly stronger using only his Sword Domain and swordsmanship.
• Chen Fan lamented that the sect allowed only three ranking challenges per month and considered seeking Rong Yixian to study his swordsmanship.

Chen Fan discovered he could accept challenges from higher-ranked Sword Sect disciples and offered a Purple Qi Jade Marrow Pill to attract opponents who would fight seriously. After twenty-one disciples challenged him, he announced escalating rewards and a schedule for the bouts, leaving the stakes poised to grow further.

• Chen Fan visited Rong Yixian hoping to observe or spar with him, but learned that Rong Yixian was in secluded cultivation until the end of the year.
• Zhang Fan gave Chen Fan a challenge letter from Zongzheng Xiu, prompting Chen Fan to ask Yu Jin about accepting challenges from higher-ranked disciples.
• Chen Fan offered a Purple Qi Jade Marrow Pill to any disciple who challenged and defeated him, and Yu Jin spread the offer among the true disciples.
• Within three days, Chen Fan received twenty-one challenge letters from disciples ranked between roughly one hundred and fifty and the top fifty.
• Chen Fan told Yu Jin he would accept challenges from lowest rank to highest, one every other day beginning in ten days, and named a Mystic Origin Myriad Gold Pill and a Dao artifact as rewards if he lost again.

Chen Fan’s lavish challenge rewards drew growing attention across the Sword Sect as more than seventy true disciples challenged him. On the first day of the matches, Chen Fan and Yu Jin arrived at the Martial Practice Pavilion to find a crowd waiting outside.

• Yu Jin considered the value of Chen Fan’s rewards and decided to wait and see how many matches he won.
• Zongzheng Xiu declared that his improved Dao Domain made him confident he could defeat Chen Fan, while Zongzheng Xun warned him not to let defeat damage his Dao heart.
• Chen Fan gave Zhang Fan a million yuan crystals to place bets on him, and Zhang Fan accepted one percent as his fee.
• Zhang Fan told Chen Fan that an inner sect disciple from the Institute of Material Studies wanted to discuss a confidential opportunity, but Chen Fan refused to meet him.
• More than seventy true disciples challenged Chen Fan, and crowds gathered outside the Martial Practice Pavilion to await his first matches.

Chen Fan continued his true disciple winning streak while recording his battles as valuable footage, then learned that Zongzheng Xiu’s swordsmanship had improved after entering the Sword Realm. After meeting Fei Zhuo of the Institute of Material Studies, Chen Fan was poised to learn what opportunity the inner sect disciple had been offering.

• Yu Jin told Chen Fan that an inner sect disciple offered ten thousand Origin Crystals for recordings of his battles, and Chen Fan allowed her to record but not sell them to that person.
• Chen Fan won his first match by drawing out his opponent’s swordsmanship and making the fight appear difficult, then kept using that approach through ten consecutive victories while earning more from his bet.
• Zhang Fan told Chen Fan that an inner sect disciple had paid him and left a Projection Stone, and Chen Fan agreed to meet the man after his next challenge.
• Zongzheng Xiu challenged Chen Fan, claiming his swordsmanship had improved, but lost within a quarter of an hour.
• Yu Jin explained that Zongzheng Xiu had cultivated in the Sword Realm using an entry opportunity given to him by Zhan Jianming, and Chen Fan regretted that he could not earn his own chance for ten years.
• Fei Zhuo of the Institute of Material Studies arrived at Chen Fan’s cave residence with Zhang Fan and introduced himself.

Fei Zhuo proposed recording and selling Chen Fan’s battles through Projection Stones, explaining how his team’s projection spots could earn money from repeated viewings. Chen Fan saw the broader business potential but judged Fei Zhuo’s plan too limited and considered how powerful figures might copy the technology.

• Fei Zhuo showed Chen Fan a Projection Stone and proposed recording his battles for sale.
• Chen Fan questioned the stones’ high cost and limited usefulness because they recorded neither auras nor artistic conception.
• Fei Zhuo explained that his team had established projection spots where many disciples could watch recordings, earning tens of thousands of Origin Crystals from a battle projection.
• Chen Fan recognized the projection spots as a way to make money through repeated public screenings and asked how much his battles could earn.
• Fei Zhuo estimated that Chen Fan could earn several hundred thousand Origin Crystals, but Chen Fan called his vision too small and noted that powerful figures might replicate the technology.

Chen Fan invested in Fei Zhuo’s projection-site business, which expanded across the Sword Sect and became profitable as Chen Fan’s recorded victories attracted viewers. After winning forty-nine consecutive matches and rising to rank forty-first, Chen Fan faced Liao Hongyu, whose Heaven-Returning Sword Domain might help him break through.

• Chen Fan offered Fei Zhuo five hundred thousand Origin Crystals to expand projection sites and improve Projection Stone technology, then had Zhang Fan oversee the plans.
• Fei Zhuo opened more than a dozen cinemas across the inner and outer sects, but their first-day revenue was low despite Chen Fan’s promotion.
• Over three months, Chen Fan won forty-nine consecutive matches, climbed to rank forty-first, and brought his sword domain close to a breakthrough.
• The projection business expanded to more than a hundred cinemas and turned profitable as viewers watched recordings of Chen Fan’s battles.
• Chen Fan challenged Liao Hongyu, ranked thirty-ninth and known for her sword domain, and recognized her Heaven-Returning Sword Domain as a chance to break through.

Chen Fan and Liao Hongyu fought in the Martial Practice Pavilion, where she revealed her third-level sword domain and forced him onto the defensive. Their battle ended with Liao Hongyu’s Awakening of Insects shattering Chen Fan’s matching strike and hurling him away.

• Chen Fan and Liao Hongyu traded Awakening of Insects strikes, which ended in a draw despite Liao Hongyu’s deeper mastery of the Heaven-Returning Sword Art.
• Liao Hongyu unleashed White Dew, and Chen Fan split its sword light with his self-created Marauder’s Sword before she countered and knocked him back.
• Chen Fan recognized that Liao Hongyu had reached the third level of sword domain, and she asked about his unusual sword art.
• Liao Hongyu acknowledged Chen Fan’s interest in seeing other disciples’ sword arts and agreed to continue sparring while competing for the Purple Qi Jade Marrow Pill.
• Liao Hongyu launched a more powerful Awakening of Insects, and Chen Fan answered with the same technique, but her higher-level sword domain shattered his strike and sent him flying with blood spraying from his mouth.

Chen Fan used his battle against Liao Hongyu to break through to a triple sword domain, then defeated her with his fifth-level Fire Saint Sword. The true disciples witnessed his strength, while Liao Hongyu left disappointed after becoming his stepping stone.

• Liao Hongyu's triple sword domain repeatedly injured Chen Fan, but he kept fighting to understand her Heaven-Returning Sword.
• Chen Fan's Heaven-Returning Sword advanced during their exchanges, and his sword domain broke through to the triple sword domain.
• Liao Hongyu unleashed Frost Descent, but Chen Fan used his fifth-level Fire Saint Sword to overwhelm her and win.
• The true disciples were stunned by Chen Fan's victory, and Yu Jin struggled to reconcile his strength with his recent promotion.
• Chen Fan thanked Liao Hongyu, who left without replying, while he remained eager to spar with her again.

After defeating Liao Hongyu and reaching the third level of Sword Domain, Chen Fan's reputation and cinema business surged across the Sword Sect. A new reward for young true disciples encouraged him to climb the rankings before the Plum Gathering, and he learned the rules governing challenges on the Fengyun Ranking.

• Chen Fan took Yu Jin's Projection Stone recording and planned to earn more from battle content while expanding his cinema with other disciples' recordings.
• Chen Fan's victory and Sword Domain breakthrough spread throughout the Sword Sect, drawing visitors and challenge letters to his cave residence.
• Chen Fan defeated his remaining challengers and barely entered the top thirty among true disciples.
• Chen Qingru met with Chen Tiangan, who told her to announce new rewards for young true disciples ahead of the Plum Gathering.
• Chen Fan learned that disciples under fifty who reached the top ten could enter the Sword Realm, and he suspected the new rule was meant to spur him onward.
• Yu Jin explained that Chen Fan could challenge those ranked tenth through twentieth before entering the top twenty, then challenge those ranked fifth through tenth.

Chen Fan climbed into the Sword Sect’s top ten by defeating ranked disciples, then challenged Luo Yunfei and wagered pills and a Dao Artifact against a page of the Heavenly Scripture. Their battle revealed that Luo Yunfei had secretly reached Dao Fruit, but Chen Fan’s Sword Realm overwhelmed his Dao Domain.

• Chen Fan challenged Lian Yangshuo, defeated him in the Martial Practice Pavilion, and took his place on the Fengyun Ranking.
• Over the next two months, Chen Fan won challenge after challenge, entered the top ten, and secured a Sword Realm slot.
• Chen Fan challenged Luo Yunfei and wagered his pills and a defensive one-star Dao Artifact against Luo Yunfei’s Dao Artifact sword pellet and a page of the Heavenly Scripture.
• Luo Yunfei revealed a page containing the Spellcraft Chapter, and Chen Fan accepted the wager despite Yu Jin’s warning.
• In the illusion realm, Chen Fan attacked Luo Yunfei with Awakening of Insects and discovered that Luo Yunfei had secretly advanced to Dao Fruit.
• Chen Fan’s Sword Realm tore into Luo Yunfei’s Dao Domain, causing it to crumble and leaving Luo Yunfei horrified.

Chen Fan defeated Luo Yunfei in a Martial Practice Pavilion challenge and claimed the Sword Pellet and Heavenly Scripture Fragment. After refining the Sword Pellet, he contacted Chen Qingru to ask for a Sword Sect forging master who could improve Dao Artifacts.

• Chen Fan overpowered Luo Yunfei’s Dao Domain with his Heaven-Returning Sword, and Luo Yunfei killed himself after Chen Fan asked to see more of his Cloud-Turning Rain Sword.
• Chen Fan left the illusion, received the Sword Pellet and Heavenly Scripture Fragment from Luo Yunfei, and dismissed Yu Jin’s warning about Luo Yunfei’s hidden strength.
• Chen Fan refined the Sword Pellet and found that its ability to split into a thousand spirit swords suited his Ten Thousand Swords Canon.
• Chen Fan contacted Chen Qingru and asked her to recommend a forging master who could forge or upgrade Dao Artifacts.

Chen Fan sought help refining his Sword Pill and learned he had to enter the top five among the true disciples first. He climbed the rankings through difficult challenges, defeating Rong Yixian and reaching fifth place.

• Chen Qingru told Chen Fan that her father would refine his Sword Pill for free if he broke into the top five among the true disciples.
• Chen Fan discovered that the Heavenly Scripture Fragment Luo Yunfei had given him contained the single-layer Divine Movement spellcraft, which he could not cultivate without its missing corner.
• Rong Yixian emerged from seclusion after breaking his divine sense realm through to Boundless, then agreed to Chen Fan’s challenge.
• Chen Fan lost to Zhou Wei while relying only on his Sword Domain, and she demanded a rematch using his flame sword art.
• Chen Fan defeated Zhou Wei with the Flame Dao Domain, the third layer of the Sword Domain, and the Fire Saint Sword, earning seventh place.
• Chen Fan used nearly all his methods to barely defeat Rong Yixian and reach fifth place among the true disciples.

Chen Fan expanded his Projection Stone cinema business while climbing the Sword Sect rankings through repeated battles. After finishing the year in fifth place, he told Chen Qingru he had earned 2.23 million origin crystals and still held tens of thousands of profitable Projection Stones.

• Chen Fan defeated Rong Yixian and learned that Rong Yixian had strengthened his divine sense after obtaining the Supreme Divine Pill.
• Chen Fan arranged to buy broadcasting rights from Rong Yixian and Rong Ziqi for a considerable sum of origin crystals.
• Chen Fan defeated Zhou Wei again, then lost to the higher-ranked Rong Ziqi and Wei Dong as his third-layer sword domain advanced through intense sparring.
• Chen Fan finished the year ranked fifth among the true disciples and went to the Sword Pavilion to see Chen Qingru about his master's promise and another matter.
• Chen Fan explained his cinema business to Chen Qingru and revealed that it had earned him 2.23 million origin crystals, with tens of thousands of Projection Stones still generating profits.

Chen Fan persuaded Chen Qingru and Chen Tiangan to expand the Projection Stone cinema business, and Chen Tiangan agreed to develop the technology and give Chen Fan a tentative ten percent share. Chen Tiangan warned Chen Fan not to neglect cultivation for wealth, then asked when he planned to enter the Sword Realm; Chen Fan said he would go within a month or two after consolidating his gains.

• Chen Fan urged Chen Qingru to promote cinemas across the Sword Sect's territory, Yuan Shen Province, and the Central Region.
• Chen Tiangan reviewed Chen Fan's account book and ordered the Institute of Material Studies to improve Projection Stone technology while collecting stones and temporarily suspending cinema operations.
• Chen Tiangan offered Chen Fan a tentative ten percent share of the profits, and Chen Fan considered the business's potential to generate enormous returns.
• Chen Tiangan advised Chen Fan to focus on cultivation and warned that origin crystals could not buy treasures such as the Golden Dragon Transcendent Immortal Pill.
• Chen Tiangan asked when Chen Fan would go to the Sword Realm, and Chen Fan said he planned to go within a month or two after consolidating his gains.

Chen Fan entered the Sword Realm, where a giant boulder revealed that the sword diagrams were marks on its body and offered to display their full Dao power in exchange for a promise of freedom. Chen Fan agreed to free it if he ever took control of the Sword Sect, and a special law made the promise binding.

• Chen Tiangan explained the Sword Realm's nine sword diagrams and scheduled Chen Fan to enter in a month and a half.
• Chen Tiangan reforged Chen Fan's sword pellet into a four-star Dao artifact.
• Chen Fan secluded himself to absorb his gains, and his Earth Dao Domain advanced to the second level.
• Chen Fan entered the Sword Realm and encountered a giant boulder that recognized his fused earth spirit.
• The boulder offered to reveal the full power of the sword marks on its body if Chen Fan promised to free it after taking control of the Sword Sect.
• Chen Fan accepted, and rosy clouds and golden lotuses appeared as a special law made his promise binding.

Chen Fan explored all nine sword diagrams in the Sword Realm, strengthened his sword arts, and learned from Chen Tiangan what was needed to condense a Dao Fruit. He then comprehended the Wind Dao Domain and received a message from Cheng Shifei.

• Chen Fan made an agreement with the innate spirit and spent his ten days in the Sword Realm sensing all nine sword diagrams.
• Chen Fan integrated the nine sword intents into his Myriad Swords Sword Domain, then spent more than a month in Star Hall consolidating his gains.
• Chen Tiangan told Chen Fan that condensing a Dao Fruit required sufficient realm comprehension, powerful will, and faith, and warned him about inner demons.
• Chen Fan used the Eye of Wind and Chaos Crystals to comprehend the Wind Dao Domain, completing his understanding of the earth, fire, water, and wind Dao Domains.
• Chen Fan received a signal on his communication token from Cheng Shifei.

Chen Fan agreed to help Cheng Shifei after learning that the Jade Scepter was tied to a major secret and that Cheng Shifei was fleeing a White Cloud Association power struggle. As Chen Fan traveled toward Northern Abyss Province, Cheng Shifei’s protector fought Cheng Yulang to buy him time, but a sudden blast sounded from the direction of Cheng Shifei’s escape.

• Cheng Shifei offered Chen Fan his Sand Clan holy-land gains and what he knew about the Jade Scepter in exchange for help.
• Cheng Shifei explained that rival White Cloud Association factions were hunting him after his family fell apart, and Chen Fan set out for Northern Abyss Province.
• Cheng Yulang intercepted Cheng Shifei and Uncle Fu, then overwhelmed them with his powerful Dao Domain.
• Uncle Fu swallowed a Void Saint-level Frenzy Life-Shortening Pill, sent Cheng Shifei fleeing, and attacked Cheng Yulang to hold him back.
• After hundreds of exchanges between Uncle Fu and Cheng Yulang, a sudden blast sounded from the direction Cheng Shifei had fled, and Cheng Yulang smiled.

Chen Fan rescued Cheng Shifei and Uncle Fu from Cheng Yulang, then learned that Cheng Shifei’s Jade Scepter was connected to an Ascension Gate. White Lord revealed that the gates led to the Sun God Court, where successful ascenders could earn divine gifts, leaving Chen Fan curious about the scepter and the Court.

• Uncle Fu’s attacks failed to break Cheng Yulang’s Dao Artifact defense, but Cheng Shifei and Chen Fan arrived before Cheng Yulang could finish him.
• Chen Fan destroyed Cheng Yulang with his sword pellet, took the cyan jade pendant, and gave Uncle Fu Fountain of Youth to help him survive.
• After escorting Cheng Shifei and Uncle Fu into Yuan Shen Province, Chen Fan asked Cheng Shifei about the Jade Scepter, and Cheng Shifei connected it to a legendary Ascension Gate leading to the Divine Court.
• White Lord recalled that the Divine Court was the Sun God Court and that 108 Ascension Gates were guarded by its warriors.
• White Lord explained that ascenders who passed the Sun God Court’s trials could receive its gifts and were called the God-favored.

Chen Fan learned that the Jade Scepter might lead to the Divine Court's Heaven Gate in the Southern Cloud Desert, then returned to the desert to investigate. There, he defeated Sand Clan pursuers who demanded the scepter and left them offering to ransom it back.

• White Lord told Chen Fan that he still had to pass the Divine Court's trial to become God's Favored, and Cheng Shifei explained that the Jade Scepter might be a key connected to the Southern Cloud Desert.
• Chen Fan suspected the map he had found could point to the Heaven Gate, learned the Sand Clan had only a few Chang Sheng experts, and set off for the desert.
• Following the map through the desert, Chen Fan was attacked by Sand Clan warriors whose tornadoes gave his Wind Dao Domain a moment of insight.
• Chen Fan used his Ice Domain and sword to defeat the Sand Clan pursuers, critically wounding their strongest Dao Fruit warrior.
• The Sand Clan warrior accused Chen Fan of stealing their treasure, and Chen Fan admitted he had the Jade Scepter but refused to return it after their attack.
• The Sand Clan offered to pay a price to ransom the scepter, and Chen Fan pointed out they should have negotiated before attacking him.

Chen Fan entered an underground ruin opened by the gray stone slab, where a sand puppet left behind a message from a Sand Clan expert named Nai Liu. After negotiating with Jiumi for the Jade Scepter, Chen Fan translated the message and learned that Nai Liu’s treasures and inheritances were stored inside the blue pendant.

• Chen Fan agreed to trade the Jade Scepter for a treasure containing Wind Dao resonance, and the Sand Clan member left to fetch one.
• At the map’s destination, Chen Fan used the gray stone slab to open a hidden passage beneath the sand and descended into an ancient hall.
• A sand puppet formed, delivered a message in the Sand Clan language, then dissolved and left behind a Sand Core and blue pendant.
• Jiumi returned with an Eye of Wind, but Chen Fan rejected it as insufficient and demanded Dao Fruit-level resonance before agreeing to an exchange under a Heavenly Dao oath.
• Chen Fan learned Jiumi’s name and obtained a crystal recording that helped him translate the puppet’s message.
• Chen Fan discovered that Nai Liu had hidden his treasures and inheritances inside the blue pendant before leaving to fight a powerful enemy.