Chapter Summaries

Xu Lingtai learned that his wife Mu Xi had fled the Heavenly Devil Sect, where she had been a Saintess Candidate, but he reassured her that he accepted her. Outside the sect, Xu Fan discussed Mu Xi with Xu Gang, demonstrated a summoned Mermaid, and began testing Xu Gang’s strength against a faceless cultivator.

• Xu Lingtai recognized the Heavenly Devil Sect emblem on Mu Xi’s clothes, and Xu Fan identified her as a former Saintess Candidate.
• Mu Xi shared how she had escaped the Heavenly Devil Sect and told Xu Lingtai that she would have run away rather than sacrifice the other candidates; Xu Lingtai embraced her and affirmed that she was his wife.
• Xu Gang told Xu Fan that he accepted Mu Xi as long as Xu Lingtai loved her, and Xu Fan advised Xu Gang on his cultivation and his sister Yuexian’s foundation.
• Xu Fan summoned a Nascent Soul Stage Mermaid and ordered her to catch an Azure Spearfish, then told Xu Gang that the Mermaid would defeat him in a fight.
• Xu Fan sent Xu Gang into the air to fight a faceless cultivator, and Xu Gang froze the opponent with his Divine Ability, Frozen Void.

Xu Gang passed Xu Fan’s combat test by defeating the Ice Crystal Dragon with his improved Frozen Void and Golden Crow Spirit Fire. Xu Fan then tested Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger’s loyalty and discovered that no mysterious force protected him as a Protagonist.

• Xu Gang fought Xu Fan’s Ice Crystal Dragon, froze it with a stronger Frozen Void, and destroyed its fragments with Ice Flame and Golden Crow Spirit Fire.
• Xu Fan praised Xu Gang’s improvement and declared that he had passed the test.
• Grape told Xu Fan that Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger wanted help curing his clan’s loss of sanity in battle, so Xu Fan summoned him.
• Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger told Xu Fan he would lead his race to serve the human race and believed a powerful race could rise beyond the Demon Race label.
• Xu Fan’s Five Spirit Bright Monkey avatar threatened Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger and drew a drop of his Brow Essence Blood, confirming that he was not a Demon Race Protagonist.

Xu Fan secured Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger’s cooperation and directed his puppets to expand their foothold in the Demonic Spirit Realm. Back at the Hidden Spirit Sect, he trapped Xu Yuexian’s awakened Immortal Artifact Spirit and warned her that its former master could use it to seize her body.

• Xu Fan demanded the loyalty and Soul Origins of the talented Thick-Armored Honey Badger Clan members, then strengthened his control over Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger while promising continued support.
• Number One Thick-Armored Honey Badger returned to the underground Puppet Base, received Void Bone and five thousand sets of battle armor, and agreed to take over the Sand Snake Clan’s territory.
• Gold-Devouring Spirit Rat Puppets established a base beneath the Poisonous Miasma Forest, and Xu Fan ordered a Mixed-Iron Ape Puppet to develop the region.
• Xu Yuexian told Xu Fan she had advanced to the Spirit Transformation Stage without a proper foundation, and he promised to help her build an unsurpassed Foundation of Immortality.
• Xu Fan trapped Xu Yuexian’s painting-scroll Immortal Artifact Spirit in a Purple Spirit Bead and warned her that its former master could beguile her and seize her body.

Xu Fan learned that someone had targeted him as he raced to treat Jian Wuji, who had been struck by a fatal curse. He stabilized Jian Wuji but revealed that saving his cultivation required reversing the curse, a method with less than a ten percent chance of success.

• Xu Fan warned Xu Yuexian to stay in the sect, gave her three Jade Discs containing Divine Ability Secret Techniques, and told her to strengthen her combat ability.
• Xu Fan sensed that someone had set their sights on him, then received Wang Xiangchi's urgent message that Jian Wuji had been fatally cursed.
• Wang Xiangchi carried Jian Wuji toward the Hidden Spirit Sect after Jian Wuji gave him the key to the Azure Sword Sect's Mystic Realm.
• Xu Fan and the Five Spirit Bright Monkey treated Jian Wuji with Wood Origin, Water Origin, spiritual herbs, and Healing Spirit Pills.
• Xu Fan discovered that the curse had drained Jian Wuji's Origin Essence and proposed reversing it to draw Origin Essence from the Poison Infant, though the chance of success was below ten percent.

Xu Fan used a dangerous Curse Reversal Array to make Jian Wuji absorb the Origin Essence of a Poison Infant, hoping to turn the entire Poison Infant Clan into his reservoir. Jian Wuji began recovering, but the nourishing power made his body swell as the trial continued.

• Wang Xiangchi worried that Jian Wuji had less than a ten percent chance of surviving, while Xu Fan trusted the Heavens Chosen disciple to succeed.
• Xu Fan took control of Pangolin and directed Grape to control the Five Spirit Bright Monkeys and Void Refining Puppet, then formed a Curse Reversal Array around Jian Wuji.
• Xu Fan revealed that he planned to connect the Poison Infant Clan through causality and drain their Origin Essence into Jian Wuji.
• The array bound a Poison Infant in the Central Continent, and the Poison Infant eventually stopped resisting as its Origin Essence was absorbed.
• Jian Wuji's injuries began healing, but his body swelled from the excessive nourishment, and Xu Fan said the one-percent trial had only just begun.

Xu Fan saved Jian Wuji by guiding him through a dangerous refinement, while the Sword Seals and nine Dao Artifact Spirit Swords protected him from the Origin Essence and Causality Power. Wang Xiangchi took Jian Wuji to continue their travels, and Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect, where he checked on the Heroes Tomb plan and learned that Zhuang Ling was pursuing Xiong Li.

• Xu Fan pushed Jian Wuji’s treatment to the brink, and a Sword Seal and Dao Artifact Spirit Sword appeared to absorb the Origin Essence and save him.
• Pangolin raised a Blood Purple Array, sending Causality Power through Jian Wuji to Poison Infant, who destroyed himself to keep it from harming his clan.
• Nine Top-Tier Dao Artifact Spirit Swords appeared and absorbed the Origin Essence, completing Jian Wuji’s recovery as Xu Fan told Wang Xiangchi to take him away.
• Xu Fan let the exhausted array guardians return to their Satellite Island, then sent Wang Xiangchi and Jian Wuji on their way.
• Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect and learned from Grape that most Heroes Tomb disciples had found Dao Companions and that Zhuang Ling was pursuing Xiong Li.

Zheng Fei used a Tower Array to capture a Golden Lion Demon Clan stronghold while posing as a disciple of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect, drawing the attention of the Joyful Union Sacred Land. Xiong Li escaped from Zhuang Ling, but Xu Fan learned that the Sacred Land had uncovered the Hidden Spirit Sect’s plan.

• Zheng Fei activated his Tower Array, froze the Golden Lion Demon Clan members, and told his companion that his Sect was the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect.
• The Pulse Master of the Joyful Union Sacred Land learned that someone was targeting its Female Disciples and ordered them to recruit the disguised Sect’s genius disciples.
• Xiong Li summoned his Giant Spirit God Projection to knock Zhuang Ling unconscious, then fled toward Stone Domain Immortal City.
• Zhuang Ling woke, found Xiong Li gone, and vowed that no man had ever escaped the Heroes Tomb Lineage.
• Xu Fan heard from Grape that the Joyful Union Sacred Land had discovered the plan and cursed the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect name that Hidden Spirit Sect disciples used.

Xiong Li met Xiang Yun in Heavenly Refining Immortal City and provoked him into an intense spar with a bizarre illusion technique. After they reconciled, they noticed a young man carrying a powerful demonic aura, whose inner voice urged him to establish his own force.

• Xu Fan ordered Hidden Spirit Sect disciples traveling outside to leave the Joyful Union Sacred Land's sphere of influence, and Xiong Li traveled from Stone Domain Immortal City to Heavenly Refining Immortal City.
• Xiong Li met Xiang Yun, and the two went to the Illusion Heart Tower to spar.
• Xiong Li used Fifth Martial Uncle's Illusion Soaring Technique on Xiang Yun, making him experience an illusion in which an old woman tried to feed him an Indescribable Substance.
• Angry, Xiang Yun unleashed his Sword Array Azure Dragon and fought Xiong Li for an hour before they emerged exhausted.
• Xiong Li used a Talisman to remove Xiang Yun's lingering mental side effects, and Xiang Yun agreed to spar with him again the next day.
• Xiong Li and Xiang Yun sensed the demonic aura of a passing young man, while a voice within the young man's heart urged him to establish his own force.

Ye Xiaoyao tried to recruit Xiong Li and Xiang Yun with powerful cultivation methods, but they defended the Hidden Spirit Sect and brought the gifts back to Xu Fan. Xu Fan ordered them away from Ye Xiaoyao, praised Zhou Kailing’s new Divine Ability Amplification Talismans, and watched as Zhou Kailing demonstrated his unfinished Divine Ability.

• Xu Fan learned Ye Xiaoyao had appeared in Heavenly Refining Immortal City and warned the Hidden Spirit Sect disciples to avoid provoking him.
• Ye Xiaoyao offered Xiong Li and Xiang Yun Immortal World cultivation methods, but they rejected his dismissal of their Sect and left with the gifts.
• Xu Fan examined the methods, recognized their hidden backdoors, and ordered Grape to remove Xiong Li and Xiang Yun from the city.
• Zhou Kailing presented Divine Ability Amplification Talismans, and Xu Fan tested their power before ordering ten production lines and rewarding Zhou Kailing.
• Zhou Kailing began demonstrating his unfinished Divine Ability, transforming the surroundings into an Immortal Court Feast.

Xu Fan watched Feng Changning develop Nine Phoenix Island and strengthened its defenses after a dangerous cultivator threatened the island. Ning Dao then visited with a Sea King Giant Trident, and Xu Fan offered to forge its recovered material into a Water Dragon Pearl.

• Xu Fan evaluated Zhou Kailing's harmful Divine Ability and directed him to study Thousand Layered Dream.
• Xu Fan watched Feng Changning build Nine Phoenix Island, support its people, and recruit Shi Zhan to lead its border defenses.
• After seeing Feng Changning survive a Spirit Transformation Stage Cultivator's attack, Xu Fan ordered Grape to send Space-Based Weapon Satellites and target the cultivator if he returned.
• Ning Dao brought Xu Fan a Sea King Giant Trident and asked him to forge it into a Dao Artifact Spirit Sword.
• Xu Fan explained that the trident's Deep Sea Profound Gold could instead make Water Dragon Pearls, and Ning Dao agreed to have one forged.

Xu Fan built a Melting Tower to produce Dao Artifact Alloy for Sha Diao’s Sea Vessel project and arranged for Sha Diao to practice on smaller vessels. After learning that Li Xingci’s Reincarnation Clone had been captured, Xu Fan contacted his disciple to ask about the clone.

• Xu Fan gave Clone Number One a Divine Ability to maintain rationality while refining artifacts, then went to receive the Merchant Guild’s Spirit Ore.
• Xu Fan refined a Melting Tower, and Sha Diao began producing plans for the Sea Vessel’s Dao Artifact Alloy.
• Xu Fan gave Sha Diao designs for three Small Sea Vessels to build for practice and explained their connection to the Sect’s plans for the Nine Phoenix Pavilion.
• Ning Dao told Xu Fan that Rantian’s master had captured Li Xingci, but Li Xingci assured Xu Fan that only his Reincarnation Clone was trapped.
• Xu Fan contacted Li Xingci in Illusion Sea Immortal City and asked why he had a clone whenever he reached the Void Refining Stage.

Li Xingci told Xu Fan that he had refined a Reincarnation Clone from a Seven-Colored Shore Flower and that Su Rantian remained confined by her master. The Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle returned to Hidden Spirit Island covered in barnacles, and after Xu Fan and Xu Gang cleaned her, Xu Fan learned she was pregnant again.

• Li Xingci told Xu Fan that he had refined a Reincarnation Clone from a Seven-Colored Shore Flower and that Su Rantian expected her master to allow their marriage after ascending.
• Xu Fan welcomed the returning Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle and twelve Golden Core Stage Spirit Turtles to the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake.
• Xu Fan cut the barnacles from the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle's shell while Xu Gang guarded her and later polished the shell.
• Xu Fan removed and burned the barnacle seeds hidden in the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle's Soul Space.
• The Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle told Xu Fan that she was pregnant again, this time with a dragon's child.

Xu Fan learned that the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle was carrying a True Dragon’s child and brought her to the Hidden Spirit Sect, where her enormous spiritual qi consumption strained the Sect’s resources. After months of work, he refined nine Dao Artifact-grade Spirit Pearls to restore the Sect’s spiritual qi, but the turtle’s growing appetite immediately drained it again.

• Xu Fan viewed the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle’s memory and saw a Four-Clawed Divine Dragon mate with her.
• Xu Fan brought the pregnant Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle into the Hidden Spirit Sect and settled her in the Spirit Liquid Lake, while the Heavenly Fortune Turtle withdrew resentfully.
• Grape warned Xu Fan that the Sect’s spiritual qi would be drained within three years, so Xu Fan entered the Underground Space to create a solution.
• After months of work, Xu Fan completed nine Dao Artifact-grade Spirit Pearls, and the Sect’s spiritual qi began to recover.
• The Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle’s spiritual qi vortex expanded again, lowering the Sect’s spiritual qi density once more.

Xu Fan prepared to support the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle’s six Dragon Eggs and considered using them to hatch another Dragon Egg. He then visited Jian Wuji, whose fated grand bow left Xu Fan dizzy with the burden of karma.

• Xu Fan found that the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle had formed six Dragon Eggs and promised to refine Dao Artifact-grade Spirit Gathering Arrays to support them.
• Ao Shuang told his Fourth Brother that Mother of Ten Thousand Snakes had ambushed him and that he had left Sub-Dragon bloodlines in a distant world.
• Xu Fan considered placing the Heavenly Gestation Beast’s Dragon Egg with the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle’s eggs, then checked Clone Number One’s progress on a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Xu Fan took control of Clone Number Two and traveled to meet Jian Wuji, who was nearing the Golden Core Stage and needed an adjustment to his Reverse Curse.
• Xu Fan appeared before Jian Wuji and tried to stop him from kneeling, but his spiritual power vanished, allowing Jian Wuji to perform the Three Bows and Nine Kowtows and leaving Xu Fan dizzy.

Xu Fan gave Jian Wuji a way to control the curse in his body and taught him the Three Kowtows Divine Ability, which nearly terrified Wang Xiangchi when Jian Wuji tested it. Later, Xu Fan encountered a pickpocket in Wanyu Immortal City and ended up with the thief’s Spatial Rings.

• Xu Fan gave Jian Wuji a Spirit Pearl and a secret art to switch off the curse absorbing the Poison Infant Clan's Origin Essence.
• Xu Fan taught Jian Wuji the Three Kowtows Divine Ability and told him it could save his life in a critical moment.
• Xu Fan advised Wang Xiangchi to cultivate steadily, while Wang Xiangchi wondered if he was his master's least talented disciple.
• Jian Wuji tested the First Bow of Three Kowtows on Wang Xiangchi, who felt overwhelming pressure and ordered him to stop.
• Xu Fan walked through Wanyu Immortal City as a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator disguised as an old man targeted him for theft.
• Xu Fan later examined a bag of Spatial Rings and realized he had taken them from the would-be thief.

Xu Fan dealt with Zheng Feng’s failed attempt to disguise Spatial Rings and discovered that one ring held a fortune stolen from Wang Feiyu, a disciple with a protagonist’s luck. He spent some of the Immortal Jade to restore the Sect’s Long Dragons, then arranged another Dao Artifact Spirit Gathering Array to support the Dragon Eggs.

• Zheng Feng regretted losing his fake Spatial Rings and wished he could meet Xu Fan again to seek guidance.
• Xu Fan gave Xu Yuexian the shrunken Number Two Demon Suppressing Star and ordered her to sell Zheng Feng out again for the bounty.
• Xu Fan found Immortal Jade and rare treasures in a Spatial Ring, then confirmed with Wang Xiangchi that it belonged to Feiyu.
• Xu Fan used most of the Immortal Jade to restore the nine Long Dragons, whose renewed spiritual energy would last only four months.
• A Thousand Spirits Sect disciple delivered nearly two thousand Small Goals in profits, and Xu Fan told Pang Fu to buy materials for another Dao Artifact Spirit Gathering Array.

Xu Fan studied cultivation techniques, spent Zheng Feng’s bounty on the Dragon Egg’s care, and received a rare True Dragon Bloodline Spirit Pill from Ning Dao. When Li Xingci said Tian’er’s master wanted to meet him, Xu Fan decided to accompany him, just as two Demon Suppressing Stars descended toward the Hidden Spirit Sect.

• Xu Fan refined the flawed Eighteen Refinements of Heavenly Thunder into a Thirty-Six Refinements method, and Xu Yuexian reported that Heavenly Net Hall had sold Zheng Feng for a larger bounty.
• Xu Fan and Xu Yuexian discussed the Sect’s expenses for the Dragon Egg, while Ao Shuang felt Good Karma and returned to the Dragon Realm after being summoned by the Clan Leader.
• Xu Fan poured Hundred Spirit Liquid into the Spirit Liquid Lake to nurture the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle’s unborn offspring, spending the bounty on it.
• Ning Dao gave Xu Fan a True Dragon Bloodline Spirit Pill, and Xu Fan thanked him and ordered Grape to store it away from the Dragon Egg.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan that Tian’er’s master wanted to see him, and Xu Fan decided to accompany him; meanwhile, two Demon Suppressing Stars descended toward the Hidden Spirit Sect.

Xu Fan accompanied Li Xingci to the Elder Council Headquarters, where Xu Fan sought recognition as an Artifact Refining Grandmaster. After the local Hall Master recognized him and waived the assessment, he invited Xu Fan to join an exchange of Dao Artifacts.

• Xu Fan told Li Xingci to stay calm and handle the dispute with Su Rantian's master through surface courtesies.
• Xu Fan and Li Xingci reached Supreme Immortal City and learned that Xu Fan needed either Integration Stage cultivation or grandmaster status to enter the Elder Council Headquarters.
• Xu Fan marveled at the star-wide Rune Array and saw a phoenix made of Divine Fire above a volcanic range.
• Xu Fan asked to take the Artifact Refining Grandmaster Examination at Fire Phoenix Mountain and was brought to meet the Hall Master.
• The Hall Master recognized Xu Fan, offered him an Artifact Refining Grandmaster token without an assessment, and explained the grandmasters' Dao Artifact exchange custom.

Xu Fan inspected the Dao Artifacts forged by the Hall Master and explained that the Hall Master's reliance on his Immortal Script Array System was limiting his path to becoming a Great Grandmaster. After Xu Fan asked for help with Li Xingci and Su Rantian, the Hall Master contacted Venerable Yantian, who was already confronting Su Rantian about her choice of partner.

• The Hall Master showed Xu Fan and Li Xingci his Dao Artifacts, and Xu Fan praised their craftsmanship.
• The Hall Master asked Xu Fan for his honest assessment, and Xu Fan said the Immortal Script Array System had reached its limit and was holding back his advancement.
• Xu Fan told the Hall Master about Li Xingci and Su Rantian, and the Hall Master promised to handle Venerable Yantian on his behalf.
• Venerable Yantian argued with Su Rantian about her devotion to Li Xingci and said he would speak with Li Xingci and his master.
• Venerable Yantian's Communication Magic Treasure rang.

Venerable Yantian tested Li Xingci’s worthiness as Su Rantian’s partner and invoked the costly Heavenly Dao Heart Inquiry to judge him. Li Xingci entered the golden gate alone, leaving Su Rantian and the others to await the trial’s outcome.

• Venerable Yantian agreed to meet the Hall Master of Artifact Refining Hall in Volcanic Immortal Town, while Su Rantian teased him about her relationship with Li Xingci.
• Venerable Yantian told Su Rantian he would not interfere if Li Xingci passed the Heavenly Dao Heart Inquiry, and the two traveled to Volcanic Immortal Town.
• Venerable Yantian met the Hall Master, Xu Fan, and Li Xingci, then asked whether Li Xingci was worthy of Su Rantian.
• Li Xingci stood against Venerable Yantian’s pressure, declared his love for Su Rantian, and said he was worthy of her.
• Venerable Yantian invoked the Heavenly Dao Heart Inquiry despite its cost, and Li Xingci entered the golden gate to face the trial.