Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan refined a powerful alloy formula and received a premonition that an Integration Stage Demon would attack the Hidden Spirit Sect after Su Rantian left. He arranged for Li Xingci to keep Su Rantian at the sect while he hurried to finish a Dao Artifact shield, as the demon forces began preparing to draw her out.

• Xu Fan paid Sha Diao one billion Spirit Stones for his alloy formula, and Sha Diao accepted the reward after Xu Fan explained its value to the sect.
• Xu Fan divined that disaster would threaten the sect and reasoned that an Integration Stage Demon would attack after Su Rantian departed, so he began rushing to complete the Titanium Heart Giant Shield.
• Xu Fan told Li Xingci to keep Su Rantian at the Hidden Spirit Sect for at least a month, and Li Xingci brought her to the Flower Language Palace under the pretense of asking cultivation questions.
• After receiving a request from her branch, Su Rantian chose to stay and teach Li Xingci the Dao of Exotic Arts, and Xu Fan's premonition began to subside.
• Eight Teleportation Array Disks appeared above Linsen Immortal City, while Dark Serpent watched Hidden Spirit Island and began summoning Integration Stage Demon Race cultivators to lure Su Rantian out.

Xu Fan completed the Titanium Heart Giant Shield and prepared Hidden Spirit Island’s defenses for an attack by the Demon Race. When Dark Serpent arrived and attacked the island, Xu Fan’s forces struck back, and the chapter ended as they formed a battle array around him.

• Xu Fan finished refining the Titanium Heart Giant Shield and told Li Xingci he no longer needed to sell himself.
• After seven Integration Stage Demon Race cultivators began slaughtering people in the Fei Long Kingdom region, Su Rantian left to confront them.
• Xu Fan activated Hidden Spirit Island’s weapons, puppets, and relocation system as his disciples watched the battle broadcast.
• Dark Serpent arrived, poured corrosive venom on the island’s protective array, and demanded that Xu Fan surrender himself.
• Hidden Spirit Island’s cannons and Sky Thunder Giant Heavy Cannon wounded Dark Serpent, who then attacked Xu Fan and smashed his apparent body apart.
• A Void Refining Puppet appeared with the Titanium Heart Giant Shield as Bloodthirsty Flower Seeds, silk threads, and Xu Fan’s puppet army surrounded Dark Serpent.

Xu Fan trapped Dark Serpent in the Four Extremes Heavy Water Magic Array and fought the Integration Stage serpent with his Puppets, divine abilities, and a prepared satellite strike. After exposing Dark Serpent’s slaughtered victims and destroying his darkness, Xu Fan split him in two with the Great Treasure Sword and continued striking him with lightning and the sword.

• Xu Fan activated the Four Extremes Heavy Water Magic Array and challenged Dark Serpent to get past him before reaching the sect.
• Dark Serpent attacked Xu Fan with venom and darkness, but Xu Fan and the Void Refining Puppet resisted with their shields and fire-based divine abilities.
• Xu Fan learned that Dark Serpent had massacred Human Race cities and turned their victims into Wraiths, then used Zhu Rong True Fire to burn away the darkness.
• Dark Serpent attacked with his Eighth-Grade Black Lotus, but Xu Fan restrained him with the Myriad Silk Realm and the Zhu Rong True Body.
• A satellite struck Dark Serpent with ten Heavenly Thunder Gravity Rods, and Xu Fan used the Great Treasure Sword to split him in two before attacking again with lightning and the sword.

Xu Fan defeated Dark Serpent, though its True Spirit escaped, and returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect exhausted after reuniting with his disciples and Su Rantian. A month later, he let Wang Xiangchi leave to roam the world once he understood a sword strike Xu Fan demonstrated.

• Xu Fan trapped Dark Serpent with Heavy Water Chains and struck it with the Alloy Gravity Rods, but its True Spirit escaped into the Spatial Turbulence before Xu Fan sealed the Eighth-Grade Black Lotus.
• Xu Fan collected Dark Serpent's corpse and returned toward the Hidden Spirit Sect with his disciples, then helped Su Rantian reunite with Li Xingci after she arrived wounded from fighting eight Integration Stage Great Demons.
• Xu Fan returned to his courtyard and slept for a month to recover from the mental exhaustion of controlling the Void Refining Puppet.
• Wang Xiangchi told Xu Fan he wanted to leave the sect and roam the world, and Xu Fan demonstrated a sword strike for him to understand before going.

Xu Fan recognized Xiang Yun’s talent for Sword Arrays and offered him a choice between a Heart Sword technique and the Great Five Elements Planet Destruction Sword Array. The chapter ended with Xiang Yun choosing the Sword Array after Xu Fan promised to supply the Spiritual Swords he needed.

• Xu Fan taught Wang Xiangchi the Eight Swords but said he would have to reach the Spirit Transformation Stage before learning the Great Treasure Sword divine ability.
• Xu Fan asked Grape to find sect disciples talented in Sword Arrays and learned that Xiang Yun had abandoned the path because he could not afford enough Spiritual Swords.
• Xu Fan demonstrated the Heart Sword technique Focused Mind, One Sword and the Great Five Elements Planet Destruction Sword Array to Xiang Yun.
• Xiang Yun initially chose the Heart Sword path because he feared he could not obtain the Spiritual Swords required for Sword Arrays.
• Xu Fan promised to supply Xiang Yun with Spiritual Swords as his abilities grew, and Xiang Yun accepted the Great Five Elements Planet Destruction Sword Array.
• Xu Fan had Grape begin preparing a Five Elements Spirit Sword production line and told Xiang Yun to collect his first swords from the Treasure Vault in half a month.

Xu Fan secured Spirit Stones, expanded his underground operations, and kept developing the Demon Spirit Exchange Shop through the Thick Armored Honey Badger Clan. After Dark Serpent's Void Bone was deciphered, Xu Fan examined its contents and found an unfamiliar Demon Jade.

• Xu Fan set aside emergency Spirit Stones, sent ore to Pang Fu, and asked Grape when Dark Serpent's Void Bone would be deciphered.
• Xu Fan explored underground with Excavator Type-3 Puppets, reviewed the Thick Armored Honey Badger Clan's progress, and postponed launching the wider Demon Spirit Exchange Shop plan.
• Ping Yitou delivered exchanged pills and Demon Artifacts to the Thick-Armored Honey Badger Clan Leader, then assigned the clan's controlled members to survey nearby Demon Race forces and resources.
• Xu Fan watched the Thick-Armored Honey Badgers receive resources and regional assignments, then returned the excavators to Grape after finding nothing underground.
• Grape reported that Dark Serpent's Void Bone had been deciphered, and Xu Fan inspected it, dismissing its pills and artifacts before questioning the purpose of a piece of Demon Jade.

Xu Fan examined Dark Serpent’s Demon Jade, learned more about the Demon Race, and discussed the human race’s strategy with Ning Dao. He discovered that a Mountain Uprooting Giant Ape territory held a Star Cold Iron vein and suggested Ning Dao pursue its giant club for materials to make more Dao Artifact Spirit Swords.

• Xu Fan found Dark Serpent’s diary and Demon Race information in the Demon Jade, and divined that Dark Serpent’s escaped demon spirit would return to cause trouble.
• Xu Fan visited Ning Dao, who was recovering, and learned that Su Rantian had rescued him after killing eight Integration Stage great demon apes and carried many Dao Artifacts.
• Ning Dao explained that the Elder Council planned to contain most Demon Venerables in the Extreme Sky Domain while allowing lower-ranked demons to enter human territory under an agreement.
• Ning Dao gave Xu Fan five Demon Jades, including one from a Mountain Uprooting Giant Ape.
• Xu Fan told Ning Dao that a Mountain Uprooting Giant Ape territory held an ultra-large Star Cold Iron vein and suggested he recover a giant club there; Ning Dao eagerly agreed to pursue it.

Pang Fu organized a bidding conference to procure Spirit Ore and Exotic Treasures for Xu Fan, while Xu Fan negotiated a major sale with two Thousand Spirits Sect Elders. The Elders agreed to buy an Illusion Spirit Dao Artifact and two thousand Sky Patrol Guards for 990 billion Spirit Stones, leaving Xu Fan surprised by their convenient payment source.

• Ning Dao contacted his friends to learn which Immortal City the Mountain Uprooting Giant Ape had attacked, but found that they all knew the same report.
• Pang Fu used Xu Fan’s procurement funds to organize a bidding conference, securing the required materials for 186 billion Spirit Stones.
• Xu Fan welcomed two Integration Stage Elders from the Thousand Spirits Sect, who asked to buy a Battle Royale Illusion Realm carrier.
• Xu Fan offered an Illusion Spirit Dao Artifact and two thousand Sky Patrol Guards for one trillion Spirit Stones, then lowered the price to 990 billion.
• A Thousand Spirits Sect Elder agreed to the deal and said the Sect would pay with 99 million High-grade Spirit Stones from a Star Meteorite, leaving Xu Fan startled by the convenient find.

Xu Fan arranged for a Puppet to travel aboard the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Star Vessel, accepted a request to repair a Jade Disc, and registered Hidden Spirit Sect for the Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition. He chose Xu Gang and Xu Lingtai to compete while planning to prepare a Star Vessel and expand his Demon World operations.

• Xu Fan asked the Thousand Spirits Sect elders to take Grape’s clone aboard their next Star Vessel journey to the Extreme Sky Domain, and they agreed to bring it when the vessel departed in a month.
• The elders invited Hidden Spirit Sect to the Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition in three months and asked Xu Fan to have an incomplete inheritance Jade Disc repaired; Xu Fan accepted the disc and their payment.
• Grape advised Xu Fan to begin preparing to modify the Star Vessel, and Xu Fan sent Pang Fu a new list and registered Hidden Spirit Sect through Ning Dao, who gave him five credentials.
• Xu Fan received mined Spirit Stone ore and instructed Grape’s clone to investigate the Demonic Artifact Palace and bring back any Puppets for reverse-engineering.
• Xu Fan removed the seal on Xu Gang’s leg and invited his disciples to compete; Xu Gang accepted, and Xu Fan assigned Xu Lingtai to accompany him while planning to choose three more disciples.

Xu Fan began preparations to refine a Dao Artifact space-based satellite weapon while Xiang Yun tested his new Sword Array Dao against Xiong Li in the Illusion Arena. The two fought to a draw, and Xu Fan started the artifact-refining process as the sect celebrated their match.

• Xu Fan listed the many Dao Artifacts and sect projects that would keep him refining for years after Pang Fu gathered the materials.
• Xiang Yun collected five hundred Spiritual Swords of each of the five elements and agreed to spar with Xiong Li in a life-and-death Illusion Arena battle.
• Xiang Yun used his Five Elements Sword Arrays against Xiong Li, and they fought until the Trial Tower’s time limit ended, producing a draw.
• Xiong Li agreed to treat the gathered disciples to a grand meal at the Canteen Special, and Xiang Yun announced the offer to the crowd.
• Xu Fan began refining the Dao Artifact space-based satellite weapon, telling Sha Diao the work would take half a year.

Ye Xiaoyao received six newly forged swords and decided to enter the Central Continent Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition after Old Sword promised to help him win. Meanwhile, Xu Gang and the young Hidden Spirit Sect disciples arrived in Heavenly Refining Immortal City, where the Heaven Controlling Pearl’s Artifact Spirit recognized a familiar scent on Xu Gang before they headed to the Illusion Heart Tower.

• Ye Xiaoyao accepted six Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact spiritual swords from his junior and stored them in his Universe Sword Box.
• Old Sword urged Ye Xiaoyao to compete in the Central Continent Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition and offered to fight for him, so Ye Xiaoyao went to ask the Sect Master for a quota.
• Xu Gang arrived in Heavenly Refining Immortal City with Xu Lingtai, Xiong Li, Xiang Yun, and Zhou Tong, and learned that the city was a Quasi-Immortal Artifact containing many powerful Dao Artifacts.
• The Heaven Controlling Pearl’s Artifact Spirit brought snow to the city and then flew into Xu Gang’s private room, saying he recognized a familiar scent on Xu Gang.
• Xu Lingtai suspected the Artifact Spirit was connected to Grape, and Xu Gang agreed to tell his Grandmaster when they returned before the group rode toward the Illusion Heart Tower.

Xu Gang and the four young disciples explored the Illusion Heart Tower, using the Dao Enlightenment Holy Land before discovering the Battle Holy Land on the fourth floor. While Xu Fan continued refining a Dao Artifact in the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Gang and Xiong Li tested themselves against powerful simulated versions of themselves, and Xu Gang struggled to last even half an hour.

• Xu Gang paid for five Crystal Jade Pendants and led Xiong Li, Xiang Yun, Xu Lingtai, and Zhou Tong into the Dao Enlightenment Holy Land, where each experienced a world suited to their Dao.
• After a day of enlightenment, Xu Gang encouraged the four disciples to keep using the Illusion Heart Tower while they waited for the competition.
• Xu Fan continued refining a Dao Artifact component and explained his methods to Sha Diao, while Clone Number One offered to help before returning to work on the Titanium Heart Giant Shield.
• Xiong Li entered a Battle Holy Land Secret Chamber on the fourth floor and challenged a simulated version of himself, determined to overcome his previous defeat.
• Xu Gang also fought his simulated self but admitted he could not last half an hour against it.

Xu Gang mastered Frozen Void and entered the Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition, where he quickly qualified by defeating five opponents. After reuniting with Ji Muhua and sharing a meal with his group, Xu Gang heard about several formidable competitors.

• Xu Gang defeated his black-clad incarnation with Frozen Void, while Xu Lingtai, Xiong Li, Xiang Yun, and Zhou Tong also overcame their incarnations.
• Xu Gang and Ye Xiaoyao crossed paths at the Illusion Heart Tower, and Xu Fan told Xu Gang to avoid crossing paths with him.
• The Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition began, and Xu Gang entered an island battlefield with fifteen hundred contestants, where he froze and eliminated five cultivators from the same Sect.
• Xu Fan watched the competition broadcast while refining artifacts, and Sha Diao explained that his master was crafting a Star Vessel to fight the Demon Race.
• Xu Gang reunited with Ji Muhua, joined his group for a Thousand Spirits Banquet, and asked him about the strongest competitors.
• Ji Muhua named Chen Beihan, Hua Qianrou, and Su Luo among the competition's formidable Heavenly Prides.

Xu Gang defeated Su Luo in the competition after freezing his wood-and-lava battlefield, while Xiang Yun lost to a formidable Sword Feather Sect disciple. The chapter ended with Xu Fan praising the Sword Feather Sect disciple as the fight’s replay continued.

• Ji Muhua warned Xu Gang about Su Luo’s parasitic Wood God Flower Seeds, and Xu Gang changed his face after learning that his combat footage had made him famous.
• Xu Gang faced Su Luo in the competition and allowed him to unleash his Divine Ability before freezing the battlefield with Frozen Void and winning.
• Su Luo accepted his defeat calmly and decided to request a trial from his Sect Elders after the competition.
• Ye Xiaoyao watched Xiang Yun battle a Sword Feather Sect disciple who broke through Xiang Yun’s sword arrays and ultimately killed him.
• Xu Fan called the Sword Feather Sect disciple impressive, while Sha Diao joked that the opponent had only a fraction of Xu Fan’s former strength.

Xu Fan completed the Demon Suppressing Star, and the Dao Artifact’s power briefly granted him the Myriad Dao Immortal Body before an unknown force sealed it and kept him at Golden Core Great Perfection. He let Su Rantian use the artifact within Linsen Immortal City, promised to make her one later, and agreed to finish Ning Dao’s Spirit Sword in four months.

• Xu Fan judged the Green-Robed Youth’s match against Chen Beihan and Ye Xiaoyao’s match, concluding that the Youth was likely to win the Nascent Soul Stage competition.
• Xu Fan engraved the final runes on his Dao Artifact, and its power flooded into him, repairing his body and awakening his Myriad Dao Immortal Body without advancing his cultivation.
• A Black Light Pillar sealed Xu Fan’s Myriad Dao Immortal Body, after which he named the fifty-meter artifact the Demon Suppressing Star and let Grape take control of it.
• Sha Diao gained insight from watching the artifact’s completion and left to enter seclusion, while Su Rantian offered Xu Fan a trillion Spirit Stones for the Demon Suppressing Star; Xu Fan refused to sell it but promised to make her one in ten years.
• Ning Dao explained that he had sold one of his swords to treat his wife, and Xu Fan promised to refine him a Dao Artifact Spirit Sword in four months.

Xu Fan watched the Heavenly Pride Battle Power Competition as Xu Lingtai conceded the Foundation Establishment final to Xiong Li, and Xu Gang faced Zuo Xuan in the Nascent Soul final. Xu Gang won by overwhelming Zuo Xuan with foul-smelling spells, then apologized and removed the odor from his mind, while Zuo Xuan asked to learn the technique.

• Li Xingci woke Xu Fan to tell him the competition finals were underway, and Xu Fan watched from a wheelchair at the Main Peak Dao Field.
• Xu Lingtai conceded the Foundation Establishment final so Xiong Li could claim the Thunder Giant Hammers, and the Heavenly Refining Sect won the Golden Core final.
• Xu Gang used defensive tactics against Zuo Xuan, then covered him with Explosive Shit Bomb Art and Fly Cloud Art until Zuo Xuan conceded.
• Xu Fan and the spectators recoiled from Zhou Kailing after he explained the spells’ effects, while Zuo Xuan vowed revenge against Zhang Han.
• Xu Gang removed the foul odor from Zuo Xuan’s mind and apologized, and Zuo Xuan asked to learn the spell from Xu Gang’s Junior Brother.

Xu Fan used the Demon Suppressing Star to ambush three Integration Stage Demon Race members and captured the cautious Pangolin Demon after killing the Giant Tiger and Giant Snake. He learned that they had come to retrieve a Dark Serpent True Spirit beneath the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake, and sent the subdued Pangolin to bring it back.

• Xu Fan welcomed the returning disciples, accepted Xu Gang's Nine Dragon Array Disk, and allowed disciples to travel outside the sect before Xu Yuexian, Wang Xiangchi, and Li Xingci departed.
• Xu Fan guided Xu Gang's cultivation of the Five Elements Dao and prepared to rest until Pang Fu's materials arrived.
• Grape detected three concealed Integration Stage Demon Race members near Linsen Immortal City, and Xu Fan deployed the Demon Suppressing Star to test its cannons against them.
• The Pangolin Demon sensed danger and led the group underground, but the Demon Suppressing Star killed the Giant Tiger and Giant Snake with its Alloy Gravity Rod and Orbital Cannon.
• The Pangolin Demon surrendered, and Xu Fan placed a flower seed in his soul before learning that the group had come to retrieve a Dark Serpent True Spirit beneath the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake.
• Xu Fan sent the Pangolin Demon to retrieve the Dark Serpent True Spirit and warned that the flower seed could destroy his soul if he left the lake's range.

Xu Fan captured the Dark Snake Spirit, made Pangolin a guardian slave demon, and modified the Hidden Spirit Sect’s protective array to use spirits as Soul Ignition Lamps. Meanwhile, a Devil Sect Star Vessel attacked the Thousand Spirit Star Vessel, leaving its Venerable furious and unable to control the battle effectively as the enemy prepared a deadly trap.

• Pangolin explained how Demon Race spirits could be used for avatar puppets or Soul Ignition Lamps, and Ning Dao gave Xu Fan the Elder Council’s version of the Soul Ignition secret art.
• Xu Fan assigned Pangolin to guard the Hidden Spirit Sect and sent him through a final Illusion Realm trial before having him taken to Satellite Island.
• Xu Fan integrated the Nine Dragon Array Disk and the spirits of three Integration Stage Demon Race cultivators into the Mountain Protecting Array, creating a soul-power drizzle that aided the sect’s disciples.
• Xu Fan sent Li Xingci a message about leaving Su Rantian behind, and Li Xingci replied that he had traveled away to preserve his virginity and gain some peace.
• In the Demonic Spirit Realm, Grape’s avatar and Number One received Xu Fan’s order to collect spirits, while Number One planned to provoke a fight with the Night Dog clan.
• A Devil Sect Star Vessel attacked the Thousand Spirit Star Vessel, and the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Venerable argued with his elders about whether to leave the vessel before the Black Robe Venerable prepared a hidden weapon to make him a sinner in his sect’s eyes.

A Puppet belonging to the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Great Elder took control of the damaged Thousand Spirit Star Vessel and turned the battle against the Devil Sect Star Vessel. After destroying the enemy vessel, the Puppet reminded Venerable Qian Ling that he had promised its Master eighty percent of the spoils.

• The Black Robe Venerable fired a Netherworld Dark Thunder Cannonball that pierced the Thousand Spirit Star Vessel and broke its Dragon Bone, leaving Venerable Qian Ling preparing to hold off the enemy so the others could escape.
• The Puppet told Venerable Qian Ling it could save the Star Vessel, then took over its controls with the Venerable’s help and began dodging incoming cannon fire.
• After reattaching the arm Venerable Qian Ling had knocked off, the Puppet calibrated its aim and countered the Black Robe Venerable’s attacks while teaching the Elders advanced Star Vessel tactics.
• The Puppet negotiated eighty percent of the spoils for its Master, then directed the Thousand Spirit Star Vessel to break through the Devil Sect vessel’s defenses and detonate its Spiritual Power Core.
• Venerable Qian Ling offered to make the Puppet the Thousand Spirits Sect’s exclusive Star Vessel controller, but the Puppet clarified that it had learned to pilot through observation and insisted that its Master receive the promised spoils.

After Venerable Qian Ling’s Star Vessel returned safely, he visited Xu Fan to reward the Puppet that had saved his crew and ask to buy or commission another one. Xu Fan refused to sell it but agreed to lease it for Star Vessel trips, then entered a control game at Qian Ling’s invitation to test his piloting skill.

• The Thousand Spirits Sect salvaged the Devil Sect Star Vessel’s wreckage, paid the Puppet ten million High-grade Spirit Stones, and returned to the Sect.
• Xu Fan watched the Puppet’s recorded rescue and prepared for Venerable Qian Ling’s visit, while Su Rantian arrived to order another Dao Artifact-level Sky Patrol Guard and ask about reforging Bear Demon armor.
• Venerable Qian Ling offered Xu Fan a reward and asked to buy or commission a Puppet, but Xu Fan refused and instead agreed to lease it to the Thousand Spirits Sect for two hundred billion Spirit Stones per Star Vessel trip.
• Xu Fan and Qian Ling discussed spell accuracy, and Qian Ling invited Xu Fan to try the Heavenly Refining Sect’s Star Vessel control Graduation Game.
• Xu Fan took the main control seat and examined the complex Rune controls as Qian Ling explained the vessel’s control systems.