Chapter Summaries

Ye Beixuan joined Chu Feng as his fifth disciple, and Xu Caichen arrived on the final day of recruitment and was accepted as well. Xu Caichen then told his new master and fellow disciples how he had lost his wife and child to a flood dragon and escaped Lanruo Temple with his ghostly second wife.

• Chu Feng recognized Ye Beixuan's potential, accepted him as his fifth disciple, and had the others introduce themselves.
• Cao Youqian and Ye Beixuan waited through the academy's three-day recruitment; Ye was the sole recruit on the first day, and no one passed on the second.
• On the third evening, Xu Caichen reached the registration desk, answered Chu Feng's questions, and was accepted as a disciple.
• Chu Feng transported Xu Caichen to the Miscellaneous Dao Institute, where Qin Qin gave him tea before he recounted his journey.
• Xu Caichen explained that a flood dragon had taken his wife, Miss Bai, and their child, and that he had met and fled with his ghostly second wife, Xiaozhuo, after Tree Demon Granny attacked them at Lanruo Temple.
• Chu Feng praised Xu Caichen's remarkable experiences and welcomed his talents at the Miscellaneous Dao Institute.

Ye Beixuan and Xu Caichen joined Chu Feng’s Miscellaneous Dao Institute, where Chu Feng gave them seven days to choose what to cultivate. After seeing his senior disciples’ extraordinary talents and learning that Chu Feng had created their cultivation arts, Ye Beixuan wondered what kind of being his master was.

• Chu Feng told Ye Beixuan and Xu Caichen to choose their paths of cultivation within seven days, and Xu Caichen asked to have Xiaozhuo live at the academy with him.
• Chu Feng told Elder Bing that Ye Beixuan had great fortune and would achieve much, while privately suspecting that the boy might have been reborn.
• Ye Beixuan followed Cao Youqian to watch the other disciples cultivate and was stunned by their unfamiliar arts and awakened Divine Physiques.
• Cao Youqian explained that Chu Feng had created the arts practiced by the senior disciples and that they could awaken Divine Physiques by cultivating his techniques.
• Ye Beixuan was left speechless, wondering what kind of being Chu Feng was.

Ye Beixuan and Xu Caichen received cultivation arts tailored for them by Chu Feng. Ye Beixuan learned that the Primordial Chaos Creation Art could take years to cultivate and had to be mastered before he reached the True Fate Realm.

• Cao Youqian told Ye Beixuan that Chu Feng would give him a cultivation art, and Ye Beixuan eagerly prepared to ask for one.
• Ye Beixuan requested an art that would build a strong foundation, while Xu Caichen asked for an immortal art that let a scholar cultivate; Chu Feng promised to prepare both.
• Chu Feng spent a night and two more days creating the cultivation arts, while Elder Bing waited on him and massaged his shoulders.
• Chu Feng gave scrolls to Ye Beixuan and Xu Caichen, then invited them to ask questions about their arts.
• Ye Beixuan read the Primordial Chaos Creation Art and learned he needed to refine his spiritual power into Primordial Qi before breaking through to the True Fate Realm.

With the Great Void Secret Realm about to open, Chu Feng learned how it worked and attended a meeting to decide who would enter and lead the Dao-Seeking Academy’s group. The academy head began the discussion, but the chapter ended before anyone was chosen.

• Ye Beixuan asked Chu Feng for permission to descend the mountain in a month, and Chu Feng granted it.
• Xu Caichen asked how to cultivate Literary Qi, and Chu Feng explained that he already possessed it and should read and write more.
• Six months later, Chu Feng learned that his disciples had grown stronger and that the Great Void Secret Realm would soon open.
• Elder Bing explained that only cultivators below the Spirit Nurturing realm and under a hundred years old could enter the secret realm, where they could find treasures and inheritances.
• Chu Feng attended the academy meeting, where the academy head announced they would decide who would enter the Great Void Secret Realm and who would lead the group.

The Dao-Seeking Academy arranged its expedition to the Great Void Secret Realm, and Chu Feng prepared to lead his disciples there after Elder Bing left to pursue a breakthrough. After a three-month journey by flying boat, Chu Feng and the others arrived at the secret realm.

• The dean announced the expedition’s spots and escort arrangements, and the academy’s leaders agreed to the plan.
• Elder Bing told Chu Feng she would return to the Heavenly Spirit Institute to enter seclusion and break through to the Nirvana Realm; half a year later, she had achieved that breakthrough.
• Chu Feng left the Miscellaneous Dao Institute with Xiao Chen, Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, and Little Fatty, giving Xu Caichen a jade pendant for protection while he was away.
• At the academy square, Chu Feng greeted King Hengjiang and reunited with Elder Bing before boarding the flying boat with the expedition party.
• Chu Feng spent the three-month voyage drinking with King Hengjiang, Azure Flame Marquis, and Mountain-Moving Marquis, until Xiao Chen woke him to announce they had reached the Great Void Secret Realm.

Wang Baole joined Nangong Yu, Zhang Heng, and Xiong Kui to hunt a tiger demon in the mountains. After they defeated and killed it, a group of young cultivators emerged and claimed the tiger demon, and Wang Baole recognized one of the women.

• Chu Feng led the Miscellaneous Dao Institute off the flying boat, established camp, and warned the disciples to travel in groups and use their Sword Jades against powerful enemies.
• Wang Baole joined Nangong Yu, Zhang Heng, and Xiong Kui to search the forest for prey, and they found a tiger demon at the Middle Stage of the True Fate Realm.
• Nangong Yu and the others fought the tiger demon, then pursued it when it fled; Nangong Yu used a sword talisman to knock it from the sky.
• Wang Baole approached the fallen tiger demon and killed it with his woodcutting knife before it could launch a desperate counterattack.
• As Wang Baole prepared to claim the tiger demon, more than a dozen young men and women emerged from the woods and told him to stop; he recognized one of the women.

Wang Baole reunited with Wang Yulin, who scorned him and denied their engagement, until Nangong Yu and his Dao-Seeking Academy companions intervened and drove off Sima Rui’s group. Back at camp, Wang Baole told Chu Feng and the others what had happened, and Chu Feng began explaining how the encounter could bring him fortune.

• Wang Yulin rebuked Wang Baole for calling her his wife and accused him of stealing the tiger demon they had killed.
• Sima Rui of the Luo River Aristocratic Family ordered Wang Baole to leave, but Nangong Yu, Zhang Heng, and Xiong Kui revealed their True Fate Realm cultivation and confronted him.
• Sima Rui and his companions fled after Nangong Yu identified herself and threatened them, while Wang Yulin vowed to ask her clan’s old ancestor to cancel their engagement.
• Wang Baole returned to camp, told Chu Feng and the others about the encounter, and heard Chu Feng say it could bring him a fortune buff.

Chu Feng explained how fortune and opportunities shaped his disciples’ futures and offered each of them guidance. Half a month later, the disciples gathered with him to attend the first day of the Rogue Cultivators’ contest for places in the Great Void Secret Realm.

• Chu Feng explained that Cao Youqian’s fortune had grown through hardship and encounters with Nangong Yu, and that a new opportunity awaited him in the Great Void Secret Realm.
• Chu Feng advised Wang Baole to grow strong enough to choose his own fate rather than marry someone from the Wang Clan out of obligation.
• Chu Feng told Xiao Chen he was missing the guidance of a reclusive expert, predicted Cao Youqian’s opportunity would arrive with a troublesome chosen one, and told Qin Qin that future enemies would deliver treasures.
• Half a month passed as cultivators from more than a hundred forces gathered around the Great Void Secret Realm, while the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples stayed mostly out of trouble.
• Chu Feng told his disciples he had drawn the first day of the Rogue Cultivators’ selection contest, then led them and the Mountain-Moving Marquis to the venue the next morning.

At the Great Void Valley, Rogue Cultivators competed for entry slots to the Great Void Secret Realm as Wang Yulin learned of Wang Baole’s standing and fled in disbelief. That night, the Great Evolution Holy Land’s Chief Zhong ordered his disciples to kill Qin Qin if they found her alone.

• Chu Feng and his companions arrived at Great Void Valley, where the Rogue Cultivators began competing for ten daily slots to enter the Great Void Secret Realm.
• Wang Yulin heard cultivators explain Wang Baole’s achievements and fled, unable to accept that he had become a prominent Dao-Seeking Academy disciple.
• Chu Feng exchanged knowing looks with the Great Evolution Holy Land’s Dark Hall chief, who ordered an investigation into Chu Feng.
• The first day’s ten slots were decided, and Chu Feng’s group returned to camp.
• Chief Zhong confirmed Qin Qin would join the expedition and ordered the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples to kill her if they found her alone, offering merit as a reward.

Wang Baole confronted Wang Yulin and agreed to end their engagement, then joined Chu Feng and the other disciples as they entered the Great Void Secret Realm. The chapter ended with Chu Feng watching the disciples disappear through the gate and anticipating what they would find.

• Wang Baole told Wang Yulin he would ask the old ancestor to end their engagement after the secret realm trip, and she left in a daze.
• Chu Feng gathered Xiao Chen, Cao Youqian, Qin Qin, and Wang Baole before their departure, and they revealed their disguises and agreed on a code phrase.
• King Hengjiang led the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples to the valley, where representatives of the ten holy lands opened the gate to the Great Void Secret Realm.
• The Great Thunderclap Temple’s monks entered first, followed shortly by the Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples.
• Chu Feng watched the disciples enter and wondered what surprises they would bring back.

Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er entered the Great Void Secret Realm, joined forces to gather herbs, and traveled to the Sword Tomb. After they encountered an ambush in its mist, the desolate mountain began to transform as night fell.

• King Hengjiang invited Chu Feng and the other cultivators to spend the month before the secret realm opened discussing the Dao and cultivating in his palace.
• After arriving alone in the secret realm, Xiao Chen found Liu Yue'er fighting several cultivators and helped her claim a thousand-year-old Blood Spirit Ginseng.
• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er searched the mountain, rested overnight, then used a map to head northeast toward the Sword Tomb.
• At the Sword Tomb, Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er drew their swords as Sha Qi thickened, and Xiao Chen struck an attacker hiding in the mist.
• Xiao Chen ignored the fleeing attackers, took the dead man's storage bag, and continued up the mountain with Liu Yue'er.
• As darkness fell, the once-desolate Sword Tomb underwent an earth-shaking transformation.

Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er fought through the Sword Tomb’s undead, rescued Dao-Seeking Academy disciples, and reached the summit, where the factions were waiting outside the Sword Cottage. Xiao Chen proposed a sword contest to decide who entered first and challenged the gathered cultivators to say who agreed or objected.

• Xiao Chen and Liu Yue'er battled skeletons and departed souls through the night, then rescued Yuan Hua and other cultivators with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• Xiao Chen led the Dao-Seeking Academy disciples up the mountain while other factions followed, and the group reached the summit two days later.
• Xiao Chen met Ye Lingxiao outside the Sword Cottage and learned the factions had not agreed on who should enter first.
• Xiao Chen proposed that the cultivators test their Sword Intent on the sword-testing stone to decide who entered first, then asked who agreed and who objected.

Xiao Chen won the right to enter the sword cottage by displaying the strongest Sword Intent, then was transported to a dark cavern where he awakened an ancient sword spirit. The spirit offered him an inheritance test, but Xiao Chen asked to trade the inheritance for something else, enraging the spirit.

• Xiao Chen and Ye Lingxiao stood together as the gathered cultivators agreed to determine who entered the sword cottage by testing their Sword Intent.
• Ye Lingxiao tied for first with a Divine Sword Holy Land cultivator at nine feet of Sword Intent, but Xiao Chen surpassed them all with nine feet and nine inches.
• Xiao Chen entered the cottage, saw a painting of an old man swinging a sword, and was enveloped by a beam of light after clashing with its Sword Intent.
• Ye Lingxiao and Xie Biwen entered the cottage and found Xiao Chen gone, while he awoke in a dark cavern and approached a statue holding a sword.
• Xiao Chen resisted the statue's imposing presence and awakened an ancient phantom, then introduced himself as Black Robe, a deathsworn with no name.
• The phantom offered Xiao Chen a chance to earn its inheritance, but Xiao Chen asked to exchange it for something else, making the phantom furious.

Xiao Chen challenged a phantom claiming to be the Heaven-Treading Divine King and defeated his God-Slaying Sword Intent with the Invincible Sword Dao. He then drew the sentient divine sword from the statue after naming it Peerless, leaving the phantom astonished.

• Xiao Chen refused the phantom’s offer to teach him the God-Slaying Sword Art and asked to see his God-Slaying Sword Intent instead.
• The phantom suppressed his cultivation to the peak of Heavenly Origin and attacked Xiao Chen with a sword strike.
• Xiao Chen countered with Ten Thousand Swords Return to One, pierced the phantom’s remnant soul, and proved his Invincible Sword Dao surpassed the God-Slaying Sword Intent.
• The phantom admitted he had nothing to teach Xiao Chen and allowed him to try claiming the divine sword held by the statue.
• Xiao Chen named the sword Peerless and asked it to ring three times if it accepted him; the sword rang three times and he drew it, stunning the phantom.

Xiao Chen left the dilapidated hall with the God-Slaying Sword Art after promising to pass it on, while Cao Youqian entered the Trial Tower and fought his way to the eighth floor. The chapter ended with Cao Youqian unleashing his Extreme Dao Divine Fist against the bronze figures’ formation.

• Xiao Chen received the God-Slaying Sword Art jade slip from the apparition and promised to leave it for someone fated to learn it.
• Cao Youqian arrived at the Trial Tower, and the waiting cultivators made way for him after recalling his brutal reputation.
• Cao Youqian defeated the bronze figures on the first six floors with one punch apiece and fought his way through the seventh floor.
• Cao Youqian chose to ascend rather than comprehend the Dao after clearing the seventh floor, then faced eighteen bronze figures attacking in formation on the eighth.
• Cao Youqian gathered his strength and launched his Extreme Dao Divine Fist at the bronze figures.

Cao Youqian passed the Trial Tower’s ninth-floor challenge by defeating an illusion twice as strong as himself. He began cultivating inside the tower’s reward light, unaware that the tower spirit was baffled by his choice of techniques.

• Cao Youqian shattered the Eighteen Bronze Men Grand Formation and advanced to the ninth floor.
• Cao Youqian faced an illusion that copied his appearance and techniques and was twice as strong as him.
• Cao Youqian activated his Divine Physique and defeated the illusion with the Extreme Dao Divine Fist and numerous attached Fist Intents.
• The Trial Tower rewarded Cao Youqian with eighty-one days to comprehend the Dao, and he began cultivating the remaining techniques among the hundred techniques.
• The tower spirit watched Cao Youqian cultivate what it considered a trash technique and wondered why he had chosen it.

Qin Qin faced an attack by the Great Evolution Holy Land while playing zither in Supreme Yin Valley. After her music made the attackers fight each other, she revealed her Double Pupils and unleashed a taiji phenomenon that swallowed them.

• Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciples reached Supreme Yin Lake and saw Qin Qin cultivating in the pavilion at its center.
• Senior Brother Du arrived with Great Evolution Holy Land disciples and their allies, demanding that Qin Qin summon her fellow disciples from the Dao-Seeking Academy.
• Qin Qin refused, saying she alone was enough, and Senior Brother Du ordered the attackers to surround the lake and kill her.
• Qin Qin's zither music made the attackers slaughter one another until only a few wounded cultivators remained.
• Qin Qin revealed her Double Pupils and turned the Spiritual Qi vortex into a black-and-white taiji diagram that swallowed the Great Evolution Holy Land attackers.

Qin Qin let the Thousand Mechanisms Sect retrieve corpses from Supreme Yin Lake in exchange for half of the Supreme Yin Stone they found. After they delivered her spoils and a nine-Dao-Runed stone, she continued cultivating and waited for more people from the Great Evolution Holy Land to bring her treasures.

• Qin Qin spared the Thousand Mechanisms Sect and offered them access to Supreme Yin Lake if they retrieved the corpses and gave her half their findings.
• Zhuge Zheng led his disciples into the lake to recover the corpses and collect the belongings of the dead cultivators.
• At the Great Evolution Holy Land encampment, the head of the Dark Hall and the elders discovered that more than a dozen disciples' soul lamps had shattered.
• Qin Qin let Junior Sister Lan select ten weapons for the Thousand Mechanisms Sect and erased the spiritual-sense traces on the recovered storage bags and rings.
• After three days and nights, Zhuge Zheng delivered Qin Qin a Supreme Yin Stone bearing nine Dao Runes, and she stored it away before resuming cultivation.

At Hundred Treasures Mountain, Wang Baole and Nangong Yu were cornered by cultivators seeking their Dragon Blood Fruits. Wang Baole used his master's Sword Jade to defeat them and forced the surviving monks to surrender their valuables before continuing to search the mountain.

• Wang Baole rescued Nangong Yu, and they found nine Dragon Blood Fruits before other factions began pursuing them.
• Xue Sha threatened Nangong Yu, while Monk Puyuan offered to let them go if they surrendered the fruit.
• Wang Baole dismissed the threats and revealed that he had been holding back to avoid hurting his fellow disciples.
• Wang Baole called for his master’s help and unleashed a Sword Qi strike from the Sword Jade, killing Xue Sha and the pursuing cultivators.
• Wang Baole let Puyuan and the other monks leave after they handed over their storage ring and bags, then set off with Nangong Yu to search for more treasure.

Wang Baole and Nangong Yu explored a cavern beneath Hundred Treasures Mountain, ate spirit fish that helped them break through, and discovered a colony of Taisui. The Crimson Taisui set them a one-day trial: eat as much Taisui meat as they could, and they could take away Taisui of equal size.

• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu found an underground spirit river and caught Dragon-Tail Fish to cook and eat.
• After cultivating on the fish’s spiritual energy, Wang Baole and Nangong Yu each broke through a minor realm, then caught more fish to take back.
• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu discovered a huge cavern filled with Taisui and met the Crimson Taisui, who mistook them for Great Void Sect disciples.
• Nangong Yu told the Crimson Taisui that their master had left the trial’s terms to it, and it ordered them to eat Taisui meat for one day, allowing them to take away Taisui equal in size to what they ate.
• Wang Baole and Nangong Yu agreed to the trial and began searching for smaller Taisui to eat.