Chapter Summaries

After Jian Wuji left the Azure Sword Sect Mystic Realm, he reunited with his mother and cured her with a Spiritual Pill. Back at the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan tested Xu Gang’s new Divine Ability, sent Wang Xiangchi to meet Jian Wuji, and accidentally encouraged Su Rantian to pursue Xingci.

• Jian Wuji left the Mystic Realm, read Wang Xiangchi’s message, and learned that his mother was still alive.
• Jian Wuji gave his bedridden mother a Spiritual Pill that restored her health and youth.
• Xu Fan celebrated finishing a Dao Artifact, reflected on his disciples’ progress, and tried to give the Heavenly Fortune Turtle a defensive Cultivation Method, but the turtle ignored him.
• Xu Gang demonstrated Golden Crow Descends Upon the World, and Xu Fan froze its attack with nine Ice Crystal Dragons before urging Xu Gang to take a break and travel with Xiaoxi.
• Wang Xiangchi set out to meet Jian Wuji, while Xu Fan flagged Jian Wuji and another Protagonist for special attention in Grape’s database.
• Su Rantian lamented that Xingci would not reply to her messages, and Xu Fan told her to pursue him, prompting her to fly toward Linsen Immortal City.

Xu Fan backed the Thick-Armored Honey Badgers’ bid to gain a Mahayana patron, reviewed Feng Changning’s growing Nine Phoenix Pavilion, and sent Shi Zhan to deliver Puppets while giving him a book meant to help him win her heart. The chapter ended with Jian Wuji thanking Wang Xiangchi for his care and instruction.

• Xu Fan agreed to provide the Thick-Armored Honey Badger clan with three Earth Attribute Dao Artifacts in installments, and Grape supplied Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger with Spirit Stones to secure a Mountain Range Demon Spirit as their patron.
• Grape reported the Demon World’s growing stores of ores, Spirit Stone veins, and Ten Thousand Year Stone Milkwort, and Xu Fan ordered continued excavation and ore samples sent to Senior Brother Sha.
• Xu Fan reviewed Feng Changning’s expansion of Nine Phoenix Pavilion and approved sending her two hundred thousand Nascent Soul Stage Puppets and Spirit Boats.
• Xu Fan gave Shi Zhan five Spatial Rings for Feng Changning and an Empress Strategy Manual, urging him to pursue his feelings for her; Shi Zhan began reading it during his journey.
• Jian Wuji gave a Treasure Artifact and Spiritual Pills to the Outer Sect cultivator who had cared for his mother, then bowed to thank Wang Xiangchi for his kindness.

Jian Wuji became Wang Xiangchi’s disciple, and Wang Xiangchi returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect to tell Xu Fan. After Li Xingci announced he intended to marry Su Rantian, Xu Fan learned her master was the fearsome Void Spirit Venerable and faced the prospect of going to propose on his disciple’s behalf.

• Jian Wuji offered Wang Xiangchi a Dao Artifact Spirit Sword and insisted on becoming his disciple, so Wang Xiangchi accepted him despite the Sect’s rules.
• Wang Xiangchi invited Jian Wuji to travel the Cultivation World with him until Jian Wuji reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, then returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan warned Wang Xiangchi not to sacrifice himself to save his two Heavens Chosen disciples, while Wang Xiangchi resumed comprehending his sword strike.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan that Su Rantian had taken his chastity and that he intended to marry her, and Su Rantian agreed.
• Xu Fan asked Ning Dao about Su Rantian’s master, Void Spirit Venerable, and learned the powerful, violent elder had already killed people who pursued her.
• Xu Fan realized he would have to go propose to Void Spirit Venerable on Li Xingci’s behalf, despite the danger.

Xu Fan considered a betrothal gift for Li Xingci and Su Rantian while Sha Diao completed a new alloy and began planning a Sea Vessel. Venerable Qian Ling arrived with the Star Vessel earnings and asked Xu Fan to upgrade his Puppet’s Artifact Spirit.

• Xu Fan and Ning Dao discussed the danger of proposing marriage to Su Rantian’s father, and Xu Fan considered repairing the Demon Race Star Vessel as a betrothal gift.
• Sha Diao announced that he had developed Dao Artifact Grade Alloy, and Xu Fan found it was especially suitable for Sea Vessel and Star Vessel hulls.
• Xu Fan gave Sha Diao a Sea Vessel blueprint, agreed to supply materials, and let him lead the construction project.
• Venerable Qian Ling delivered Xu Fan his share of the Star Vessel earnings and rental fees, then asked him to replace the Artifact Spirit in his Puppet with a more capable one.

Xu Yuexian tracked down Zheng Feng, recovered her stolen Space Ring, and collected his bounty and a stash of stolen rings. After Xu Fan divined an unsettling sign for her, the story left the cause of her coming trouble unexplained.

• Venerable Qian Ling gave Xu Fan a valuable payment to upgrade Grape’s clone, and Xu Fan prepared a Puppet that could control a Star Vessel and recover after being disassembled.
• Zheng Feng’s stolen Space Ring triggered Xu Fan’s karmic curse, making Zheng Feng fart whenever he circulated spiritual power and allowing Grape to track him.
• Xu Yuexian pursued Zheng Feng, defeated him with a Vibration Rod, and sealed him in a coffin designed to suppress spiritual power.
• Xu Yuexian collected the bounty and Zheng Feng’s unopened stolen Space Rings, then returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect with Xu Gang and Xiaoxi.
• Xu Fan examined the stolen rings’ contents and divined that Xu Yuexian would achieve success in the Immortal Dao but lose wealth, though he could not explain the sign.

Xu Fan opened Zheng Feng’s stolen Spatial Rings and found Soul Illusion Recording Stones before Grape reported that Earth Crystal Spiders were attacking the Demonic Spirit Realm base. Xu Fan sent reinforcements and went after the Spirit Transformation Stage spider leader, intending to capture it for research.

• Xu Fan dismissed Xu Yuexian and began examining the Spatial Rings, finding mostly personal items and ordinary treasures.
• Xu Yuexian reported that she had placed three Dao Artifacts in the Treasure Vault, and Xu Fan said he would strengthen two for her and equip the third on a Void Refining Puppet.
• Xu Fan found Soul Illusion Recording Stones in one Spatial Ring, but Grape interrupted him to report the base was under attack by Earth Crystal Spiders.
• Xu Fan sent high-level Puppets and a Five Spirit Bright Monkey to reinforce the base, then traveled underground toward the fighting.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to use the Magic Art Puppets to turn the battle around and located the Spirit Transformation Stage spider leader.
• Xu Fan sent the Five Spirit Bright Monkey, transformed into a Rock Giant, to attack the spider leader while he planned to capture it.

Xu Fan’s Demonic Spirit Realm Underground Base was attacked by Earth Crystal Spiders, so he began evacuating its valuables and relocating operations. A Mahayana Stage Earth Crystal Spider later destroyed the base, but the central treasure vault and supplies for a new sub-base were saved.

• A little Earth Crystal Spider sliced apart Xu Fan’s Five Spirit Bright Monkey and threatened him, but Xu Fan caught her and nearly killed her before a sealed spatial force carried her away.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to move the base’s valuables to Hidden Spirit Island, establish a sub-base with the Thick Armored Honey Badger Clan, and activate contingencies.
• Xu Fan returned to the Satellite Island, reflected on his losses, and ordered upgrades to the puppet production lines on Hidden Spirit Island.
• Grape reported that a Mahayana Stage Earth Crystal Spider had destroyed the Demonic Spirit Realm Underground Base, but the central treasure vault had been evacuated and the Teleportation Array disks had reached the Thick Armored Honey Badger Clan.
• Grape reported the losses, including 43.46 million High-grade Spirit Stones and numerous puppets, and Xu Fan was relieved that his contingencies had preserved the most important supplies.

Xu Fan planned to establish Gold-Devouring Spirit Rat and Mixed-Iron Ape identities in the Demon World while expanding his foothold beneath the Thick-Armored Honey Badger territory. Meanwhile, Venerable Qian Ling admired his upgraded Star Vessel and regretted publicizing his captured Demon Race Giant Beast Warship.

• Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger received Xu Fan’s plans to build a base beneath his territory and help the Thick-Armored Honey Badger clan rise.
• A Little Earth Crystal Spider asked her mother for an underground nest, but her mother told her to wait until she reached the Integration Stage and reserved the space for her if no Demon Race claimed it.
• Xu Fan chose the Gold-Devouring Spirit Rat clan and Mixed-Iron Ape tribe as identities for his puppets, assigning the Gold-Devouring Spirit Rats to develop beneath the Thick-Armored Honey Badger territory.
• Xu Fan studied the Demon World’s factions and resources with Grape and said he would wait for the Human World and Demonic Spirit Realm to merge before pursuing the Demon Race.
• Grandmaster Tieling showed Venerable Qian Ling the upgraded Star Vessel, whose speed was five times higher and whose Main Cannons could fire together twice before damaging the hull.
• Grandmaster Tieling offered to modify Venerable Qian Ling’s captured Demon Race Giant Beast Warship, and Venerable Qian Ling regretted that he had publicly revealed its capture.

Venerable Qian Ling led the upgraded Thousand Spirits Star Vessel into an ambush by Demon Race Giant Beast Warships in the Extreme Sky Domain. With Grape remotely controlling the Puppet, the vessel destroyed five enemy ships, and Venerable Qian Ling called for reinforcements after discovering their hidden base.

• Venerable Qian Ling ordered the Thousand Spirits Star Vessel to approach a habitable star in the Asteroid Belt.
• The star fired Spirit Gathering Cannons at the vessel, and Venerable Qian Ling spotted five Demon Race Giant Beast Warships and chose to fight.
• Grape remotely took control of the Puppet, and the Thousand Spirits Star Vessel attacked the enemy ships while evading the star's cannon fire.
• Venerable Qian Ling ordered Pu Shan to report the hidden Demon Race presence and request reinforcements as a fleet of thirty Star Vessels headed toward the Asteroid Belt.
• The Thousand Spirits Star Vessel destroyed all five Giant Beast Warships, leaving their wreckages intact enough to be repaired.

Venerable Qian Ling defeated the Demon forces guarding a hidden planet, uncovered more such planets, and prepared to return with his prize. A Human Race reinforcement fleet arrived and spotted him towing the planet, while Venerable Yu Jun watched enviously from another Star Vessel.

• Venerable Qian Ling evaded the planet's cannons and destroyed their bases, then led three Integration Stage Elders onto the planet.
• Venerable Qian Ling used the Thousand Spirits Bell to seal the planet and force its remaining demons to submit.
• The Earth Spirit Tribe's Mahayana Demon Venerable claimed the Demon Race had coerced it, and Venerable Qian Ling confirmed the claim through a Soul Search.
• Venerable Qian Ling learned that ten more hidden planets were in the asteroid belt, spared the Earth Spirit Tribe member, and ordered the planet and five destroyed warships bound for transport.
• Thirty Human Race Star Vessel Warships entered the region, where Venerable Yu Jun watched from the lead ship as its controller recognized Qian Ling's flawless victory.

Venerable Qian Ling concealed the Puppet that had destroyed five Demon Race Giant Beast Warships, then sent the captured warships to the Hidden Spirit Sect. Xu Fan studied one of them and planned a complex modification, leaving Sha Diao to begin work on the design.

• Venerable Yu Jun entered the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Star Vessel seeking the expert who had destroyed five Demon Race warships, but Venerable Qian Ling claimed credit and distracted him with news of the fleet.
• Venerable Qian Ling warned the Elders to keep the Puppet secret, then returned it to the controls after Yu Jun left.
• Venerable Qian Ling allocated three captured warships to the Heavenly Refining Sect and two to the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Great Elder.
• Xu Fan examined the serpent-shaped warship and explained his modification plan to Sha Diao, who studied the design and agreed to work on it after finishing another Star Vessel.
• Xu Fan revealed that the modified warship could be disassembled into scattered artillery units and hinted that destroying it would trigger another surprise.

Xu Fan welcomed Li Xuandao’s departure with a gift, then discovered that Xu Yuexian’s Gather Immortals, Lose Wealth Destiny had cost the Hidden Spirit Sect over one hundred and fifty million High-grade Spirit Stones. After probing Xu Yuexian’s causality, he learned that the force behind her misfortune remained beyond his reach, and he let the incident pass while promising to restore the Five Spirit Bright Monkey’s cultivation.

• Xu Fan accepted Li Xuandao’s Immortal Scripts and gave him the Eighth-Grade Black Lotus before seeing him off.
• Xu Fan learned that Xu Yuexian had withdrawn more than one hundred and fifty million High-grade Spirit Stones and caught her as she headed back to the Treasure Vault.
• Xu Yuexian showed Xu Fan the pills, treasures, and Spirit Transformation Stage cultivation she had gained from her purchases.
• A Five Spirit Bright Monkey dispelled the influence on Xu Yuexian, and Xu Fan drained its life force while investigating her Causality Threads before stopping short of killing it.
• Xu Fan determined that a Great Thousand Worlds was connected to the plot against Xu Yuexian and said her Gather Immortals, Lose Wealth Destiny would likely persist throughout her life.
• Xu Fan estimated the purchased goods were worth at most sixty million High-grade Spirit Stones, forgave Xu Yuexian, and asked her to explain how the sellers had cheated her.

Xu Fan discovered that the Yin Yang Fortune Boosting Art could affect luck after Xu Yuexian brought back unusual items from an ancient shop. After the art’s bad-luck effect nearly got Xu Fan killed, he used it on Xu Yuexian and caused an Immortal Artifact Spirit to recognize her as its master.

• Xu Yuexian told Xu Fan about the ancient shop and the treasures she had obtained from its Immortal Fate Bags, and Xu Fan identified several useful cultivation methods among them.
• Xu Fan tested the Yin Yang Fortune Boosting Art, drew the yin side, and suffered a catastrophic stroke of bad luck when a Gravity Alloy Rod smashed through the Hidden Spirit Sect’s defenses.
• The Heavenly Fortune Turtle gave Xu Fan a colorful bubble that dispelled his bad luck, and Grape showed them the Demon Suppressing Star withdrawing its attack.
• Xu Fan used a trace of Xu Yuexian’s karmic aura to create a Yin Yang Copper Coin and tossed it until it landed Yang-side up.
• A Spirit Infusing Array Disk transformed into a black dragon and entered Xu Yuexian, whose new Immortal Artifact Spirit told her that its body was in the Great Thousand World and might be bought from the shop.

Xu Fan discovered that Xu Yuexian’s Destiny had destroyed most of the wealth in his Spatial Ring, then ordered Pang Fu to move funds and test the market for Void Refining Stage Puppets. Meanwhile, Venerable Qian Ling returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect aboard the Star Vessel and refused to take on more work, drawing the ire of two elders.

• Xu Fan found his Spatial Ring filled with spiritually empty powder and stone after Xu Yuexian’s Immortal Artifact Spirit consumed its contents, and he blamed the loss on her Destiny.
• Xu Fan ordered the Treasure Vault Puppets to stop accepting items from him and told Xu Yuexian he would refine her Immortal Artifact Spirit once he could make Immortal Artifacts.
• Pang Fu reported that the Hidden Spirit Merchant Guild had multiplied its funds, and Xu Fan ordered him to transfer one hundred million High-grade Spirit Stones to the Treasure Vault.
• Xu Fan gave Pang Fu four Void Refining Stage Puppets to test the market, explaining that they could not yet be mass-produced, and reassured him that his position in the Sect was irreplaceable.
• Xu Fan asked the Heavenly Fortune Turtle to use its Colored Bubble on him, but the Turtle and a Little Deer mocked him in beast language.
• Venerable Qian Ling refused to operate the Thousand Spirits Sect’s other Star Vessels after returning with the Star Vessel, and two elders scolded him for becoming arrogant.

Xu Fan received two Demon Race Giant Beast Warships from Venerable Qian Ling and agreed to help keep his Star Vessel functioning in emergencies. He then began a sect-wide Q&A session, advising disciples on their cultivation and skills.

• Venerable Qian Ling delivered two Ape-shaped Demon Race Giant Beast Warships to Xu Fan and asked him to ensure his Star Vessel could still unleash its power in critical situations.
• After Venerable Qian Ling left, Xu Fan summoned the Hidden Spirit Sect disciples to the Main Peak Dao Field for an Enlightenment Q&A session.
• Xu Fan teased Zhang Xueling for remaining at Qi Refining Level Six and told him to collect a Youth Preserving Pill if he planned to delay Foundation Establishment for a hundred years.
• Xu Fan demonstrated the Edgeless Sword Momentum for a Foundation Establishment disciple, who entered a state of sudden enlightenment.
• Xu Fan told an Artifact Refining Peak disciple that his fire control needed work and directed him to study the Microscopic Fire Control Art before pursuing artifact refining further.

Xu Fan tested Zhang Xueling’s resolve and then discovered that Xiong Li had been drawn into hunting demons alongside women from Joyful Union Sacred Land’s Heroes Tomb. He planned to use the sect’s Heart Sensing Art to help his disciples attract Heroes Tomb cultivators.

• Xu Fan told Zhang Xueling to take a test in the Trial Tower for a chance to become his Registered Disciple.
• Xu Fan asked Grape for reports on the Golden Core Disciples training outside and learned that Xu Lingtai had married and Xiong Li was hunting demons with a group of women.
• Xu Fan reviewed Xiong Li’s records and learned that an Elder of Joyful Union Sacred Land had arranged for Heroes Tomb female cultivators to approach him.
• Xu Fan learned that Heroes Tomb recruited talented cultivators but allowed its female disciples to marry those who refused to join Joyful Union Sacred Land.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to send the Heart Sensing Art to the disciples training outside and plan to have each of them bring home a Heroes Tomb cultivator within ten years.

Zhang Xueling entered the Thousand Autumn Dream Great Dao to face the Great Elder’s test, while Xu Fan discussed training plans with Lei Wenxi and considered pushing more disciples toward Golden Core. Elsewhere, an Outer Sect Elder arranged deliveries to the sect’s traveling disciples, and the Joyful Union Sacred Land women considered having Zhuang Ling try to win Xiong Li’s affection.

• Zhang Xueling climbed Trial Peak, entered the Thousand Autumn Dream Great Dao, and learned he had to persist in the dream for one year to pass the test.
• Xu Fan watched Zhang Xueling enter the array and noted that keeping it running consumed much of the remaining Space-Time Sand.
• Lei Wenxi visited Xu Fan after seclusion, prepared to advance to Golden Core, and agreed to go out for training with several Spirit Beasts.
• An Outer Sect Elder assigned Jade Slip deliveries to Immortal Cities and hoped his child would eventually qualify for the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Entry Assessment.
• Xiong Li fought Nascent Soul Stage Demon Race cultivators outside Stone Domain Immortal City while seven Joyful Union Sacred Land disciples discussed whether Zhuang Ling could win his affection.

Zhuang Ling received a mission to approach Xiong Li, a body-cultivating prodigy, and saved him from a staged attack by a Giant Stone Demonic Beast. After Xiong Li thanked her, Zhuang Ling abruptly asked him to marry her, and he recognized her approach as a honey trap from the Joyful Union Sacred Land.

• Zhuang Ling's elders assigned her to contact Xiong Li and cautioned her not to damage the Heroes Tomb Lineage's reputation.
• The Joyful Union Sacred Land's female cultivators left Xiong Li, and a Hidden Spirit Sect Outer Member delivered him a jade slip containing a spell.
• A Giant Stone Demonic Beast charged at Xiong Li, who realized someone had framed him and ran toward the Immortal City.
• Zhuang Ling leaped in and defeated the Giant Stone Demonic Beast with two punches, driving it back into the Deep Wilderness.
• Zhuang Ling demanded that Xiong Li marry her as repayment, and Xiong Li recognized her origins and told her she had used the wrong words.

Xiong Li fought Zhuang Ling, a body cultivator from Joyful Union Sacred Land who wanted to bring him back to her sect, and defeated her with his Magic Treasure. Qianwan Bing and Xiang Yun arrived afterward, each carrying out a Grape mission to hunt Demon Race members in a nearby Immortal City.

• Zhuang Ling challenged Xiong Li to a fight, wagering that he would return with her to Joyful Union Sacred Land if she won.
• Xiong Li and Zhuang Ling fought with their transformed bodies, and Xiong Li eventually summoned a Giant Spirit God Projection that shattered her Golden Body and sent her flying.
• Xu Fan watched the battle remotely and discussed with Grape whether Xiong Li might be interested in Zhuang Ling.
• Qianwan Bing arrived, arranged for a Puppet to retrieve the unconscious Zhuang Ling, and said he had a Grape mission to clear Demon Race members from Black Stone Immortal City.
• Xiang Yun joined Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing, then revealed that his Grape mission was to hunt Demon Race members in Warm Jade Immortal City.

Xiong Li and the other Hidden Spirit Sect disciples received a mission to find Dao Companions among the Joyful Union Sacred Land’s Heroes Tomb disciples, with the Great Elder’s favor as the reward. At the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan discussed the mission with Grape and worried over Xu Lingtai’s dangerous relationship with a woman whose background remained hidden.

• A Hidden Spirit Sect disciple noticed that the mission cities lay within the Joyful Union Sacred Land’s sphere of influence, and Xiong Li identified the Heroes Tomb Lineage as the mission’s real target.
• Grape sent the disciples a mission to find a Dao Companion and bring them back to the Sect, along with intelligence and portraits of Heroes Tomb women.
• Qianwan Bing urged the disciples to pursue the mission for the Great Elder’s favor, and most of them left to seek a Dao Companion.
• Xiong Li took Zhuang Ling to an inn, left a Puppet to care for her, and departed the city.
• Xu Fan reassured Xu Gang about Xu Lingtai’s marriage and recalled that his investigation into Xu Lingtai’s partner had been blocked by Heavenly Mechanism.
• Xu Fan considered his divination that Xu Lingtai and the woman shared an even chance of life or death, while Xu Lingtai sensed that he had caused his Grandmaster trouble.