Chapter Summaries

Jian Wuji entered the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Unlimited Illusion Challenge, confident he could quickly rise through the rankings, but Zhao Yuan defeated him with a concealed second sword. Jian Wuji challenged Zhao Yuan again and flew in to fight at close range as the rematch began.

• Jian Wuji entered the Trial Tower and waited an hour for the Illusion Realm to scan him.
• Jian Wuji asked to face an opponent in the top fifty, but the Illusory Realm recommended he start outside the top 1,000, matching him with Zhao Yuan, ranked 1,083.
• Jian Wuji and Zhao Yuan exchanged friendly greetings before the match, and Jian Wuji underestimated Zhao Yuan’s flying-sword attack.
• Zhao Yuan’s hidden Spiritual Sword struck Jian Wuji, ending the battle in less than half a cup of tea.
• Jian Wuji watched the replay, realized Zhao Yuan had used two swords, and requested a rematch, which Zhao Yuan accepted.
• Jian Wuji immediately flew toward Zhao Yuan at the start of the rematch, while Zhao Yuan summoned two Spiritual Swords and used three movement arts.

Wang Yulun revealed that a mysterious Mystic Realm had drawn him into recurring dreams since his time at the Heavenly Gate Sect, where an unseen woman tried to entwine herself with him. He told Xu Fan that refusing her had triggered the Time Mystic Realm and that the power was gathering in his soul again, while Xu urged him to focus on recovering.

• Jian Wuji watched his defeat by Zhao Yuan on the Light Screen and asked to keep matching against opponents.
• Xu Fan recorded a forging blueprint and learned that the mysterious stone seemed no different from an ordinary stone.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er visited the Five Spirit Bright Monkeys, and Wang promised the two remaining monkeys he would ask Xu Fan to let them retire.
• Xu Fan brought Wang Yulun recuperative Spiritual Pills and told him to take them daily while he recovered.
• Wang Yulun told Xu Fan that a mysterious Mystic Realm had appeared in his dreams since his time at the Heavenly Gate Sect and that an unseen woman had repeatedly tried to entwine herself with him.
• Wang Yulun explained that refusing the woman had caused the Mystic Realm to explode and cast him into the Time Mystic Realm, and that its power was gathering in his soul again.

Xu Fan reassured Wang Yulun that he would find a way to keep him alive, while Li Xingci prepared to return from the Void Realm and protect the small city from an Exotic Beast attack. After Li Xingci effortlessly cut down the invading beasts, he returned home to Su Rantian.

• Xu Fan examined Wang Yulun, found the strange power in his soul had grown stronger, and promised to keep him alive while he sought a solution.
• Li Xingci felt a sudden pain in his chest and worried that something had happened to Xu Fan; he told pregnant Su Rantian they needed to return to the Cultivation World before their child was born.
• Li Xingci told the old man their plan was nearly ready, just as thousands of Exotic Beasts gathered outside the city.
• The Exotic Beasts broke through the gate, and Li Xingci used a thread from his Fingernail Covering to slice apart those that entered.
• After the battle ended without blood touching him or the old man, Li Xingci declined a victory banquet and returned to Su Rantian.

Li Xingci activated the Great Elder’s hidden Puppet Barracks, which offered weapons and armor to help him face the powerful Exotic Beasts, and accepted the old man’s cultivation after deciding to trust him. Meanwhile, Jian Wuji returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect after reaching the five-hundreds in the Trial Tower, where Wang Xiangchi encouraged him.

• Li Xingci absorbed the Beast Crystals, activated the golden fingernail covering, and received instructions from a Golden Sphere to release a Spiritless Mode Combat Survival Pack.
• Li Xingci and Su Rantian released the Puppet Barracks outside the city, which deployed satellites, Heavy Armor Puppets, and remotely controlled Spiritual Energy Armor for them to train with.
• When the old man emerged, Li Xingci aimed the barracks’ cannon at him, then accepted his blood-red sphere after the old man swallowed a Control Potion and promised to make a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• The Golden Sphere led Li Xingci, Su Rantian, and the old man into the barracks for training before they could fight the Nascent Soul Stage Exotic Beasts.
• Jian Wuji returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect after placing in the five-hundreds in the Trial Tower, and Wang Xiangchi praised him and said orthodox training would improve his combat power.

Jian Wuji headed to the main peak to attend Hidden Spirit Sect lectures while Xu Fan received a troop of Five Spirit Bright Monkeys and put Pangolin in charge of them. As the Two Realms began to merge, elderly Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er talked about the secrets he had kept from her.

• Wang Xiangchi told Jian Wuji about Hidden Spirit Sect's lectures and Advanced Courses, and Jian Wuji flew to the main peak to attend them.
• Xu Fan received more than a hundred Five Spirit Bright Monkeys from Ning Dao and promised to help Ning Dao strengthen his Dual Sword Style.
• Xu Fan gave Pangolin a Jade Disc containing the Myriad Source Main Sect cultivation method and part of the Soul Artifact's core to manage the monkeys.
• Pangolin used the Soul Artifact to make the Five Spirit Bright Monkeys kneel and submit to Xu Fan.
• Xu Fan sensed that the land and sky were changing as the Two Realms drew closer to merging.
• Wang Yulun spoke with Murong Qian'er about secrets from his past, and she said she knew about several incidents and did not blame him.

Xu Fan discovered that Wang Yulun’s life was tied to a Mystic Realm sustained by a thousand years of Wang Yulun’s lifespan, and learned he could preserve his brother by trading a thousand years of his own when the realm neared collapse. He intensified protections around Wang Yulun, advanced his preparations for the Nascent Soul Stage, and welcomed Xu Lingtai and Ji Yunxi back to the Hidden Spirit Sect, arranging their wedding.

• Xu Fan entered the strange power inside Wang Yulun and met a woman in a Peach Blossom Spring who explained that her Mystic Realm had been formed from nearly a thousand years of Wang Yulun’s lifespan.
• The woman told Xu Fan to trade a thousand years of his own lifespan when the Mystic Realm was about to collapse, or Wang Yulun would return to her; she then expelled Xu Fan from the realm.
• Xu Fan promised to protect Wang Yulun, ordered Grape to assign extensive guards to him, and celebrated what he believed would be a thousandfold return.
• Xu Fan began revising his Five Elements Sutra in preparation for advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage, while the Hidden Spirit Sect benefited from his unusually generous mood.
• Xu Fan welcomed Xu Lingtai and Ji Yunxi back to the Hidden Spirit Sect, promised to shield them from their past troubles, and set a date for their wedding.

Xu Fan learned that a passage between the two realms had opened and ordered the Soul Iron Ape base evacuated before an Earth Crystal Spider attacked his Underground Base. After the spider destroyed a Void Refining Puppet, Xu Fan bound her and confronted her.

• Xu Fan told Xu Gang to reach the Spirit Transformation Stage within a hundred years and left his disciple and wife to arrange their son's marriage.
• Xu Fan ate with Wang Yulun, promised he would see Xingci again, and prepared to spend a thousand years of Lifespan to save him.
• Grape reported that the Soul Iron Ape had found a passage to the human race, so Xu Fan ordered it sealed and valuable items moved from the base.
• An Earth Crystal Spider invaded Xu Fan's Underground Base, destroyed Tool Puppets and Heavy Armor Puppets, and claimed the nest for herself.
• The spider escaped Xu Fan's Spiritual Force Giant Hand by destroying the Void Refining Puppet, but Xu Fan bound her with a Five-Colored Silk Ribbon and appeared before her.

Xu Fan captured Earth Crystal Spider but let her escape after hearing a secret about her mother and the Blood Phoenix Demon Empress. He then sent Shi Zhan back to Nine Phoenix Island with a Small Sea Vessel and urged him to pursue happiness together with Feng Changning.

• The Puppet repeatedly captured Earth Crystal Spider as she used illusions and earth-based abilities to escape, then pressured her to reveal a secret by threatening her life origin.
• Earth Crystal Spider revealed that her mother was best friends with the Blood Phoenix Demon Empress and began recounting their past before turning into blood and escaping underground.
• Xu Fan sensed that a powerful force would punish him if he killed Earth Crystal Spider, then returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect with two Five Spirit Bright Monkeys.
• Xu Fan collected the modified Small Sea Vessel from Sha Diao and gave it to Shi Zhan to take to his fellow villager, promising ten times the requested support for Nine Phoenix Island.
• Xu Fan warned Shi Zhan that Feng Changning would face a Heartbreak Tribulation, and Shi Zhan asked whether Xu Fan had another cultivation manual.

Li Xingci, Su Rantian, and the old man faced a massive Exotic Beast attack on their barracks, then relocated and resumed training. As they traveled, the old man learned Li Xingci’s connections and vowed to become his Dao Protector, while Xu Fan reassured Wang Yulun that Xingci would return safely.

• Li Xingci struggled with the Virtual Training Ground while Su Rantian reached the sixth stage and the old man reached the fifth, and they planned for the old man to lead their journey through the Void Gate.
• An alarm warned that tens of thousands of Golden Core Level Beasts were attacking the barracks, and its defenses destroyed many beasts but lost half its Puppets and Giant Cannons.
• Li Xingci, Su Rantian, and the old man left the bloodied barracks, packed it away, and flew by Helicopter to a Mountain Top where the barracks unfolded again.
• Su Rantian asked Li Xingci to hold their Dao companion ceremony after they returned, and the old man vowed to become Li Xingci’s Dao Protector after learning his ties to the Elder Council and Venerable Yantian.
• At the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan reassured Wang Yulun that Li Xingci would return safely, while Wang Yulun admitted he was worried about never seeing his son again.

Jian Wuji was repeatedly targeted in the Battle Royale Game while Han Feiyu sought permission to join the Hidden Spirit Sect. Xu Fan agreed to take him in, then learned of a dangerous passage to the Demonic Spirit Realm and prepared for war as the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle began laying eggs.

• Jian Wuji was blasted out of the Battle Royale Game for the fifth time by a senior brother seeking revenge for his defeat.
• Han Feiyu told Jian Wuji that he had made no progress in Pill Refining and asked Wang Xiangchi for permission to cultivate at the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan agreed to let Han Feiyu join, while warning Wang Xiangchi that the sect could not provide expensive Dao Artifacts for his Sword Array cultivation.
• Ning Dao told Xu Fan that Linsen Immortal City had found a passage to the Demonic Spirit Realm near the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake, and Xu Fan agreed to produce battle supplies in exchange for Spirit Ore.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to recall the sect's traveling disciples, then used Verdant Spirit Liquid and Water and Wood Spirit Qi to help the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle as it began laying eggs.

Xu Fan oversaw the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle giving birth to six green dragon eggs, then prepared the Hidden Spirit Sect for a newly opened passage to the Demonic Spirit Realm. Xu Gang led a force to the front, returning disciples joined the defense, and the sect dispatched thousands of spirit boats as the battle began.

• Xu Fan replenished the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle’s life source and used pills and Wood Origin to help her deliver six green dragon eggs.
• Xu Fan learned that a natural passage to the Demonic Spirit Realm had appeared in Xiyun Prefecture and ordered Xu Gang to lead a large puppet force there.
• Qianwan Bing returned to the sect, and Xiong Li told him to recover before joining the defense at the Two Realms Passage.
• Xiang Yun returned with a subdued Dao Artifact Spirit Sword, and other disciples came back to the sect to prepare for the fighting.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to equip Heavy Armor Puppets with shields made from Heavy Alloy, then sent several thousand spirit boats toward the front.

Ning Dao received Xu Gang and the Hidden Spirit Sect’s defenses at the Two Realms Passage while a powerful Venerable drove the Demon Race forces into an uproar. Back at the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan bonded with the six Dragon Eggs, checked on Wang Yulun, and his disciples began selling their defensive towers to Elder Council Cultivators.

• Ning Dao welcomed a heavily armored Venerable, who entered the Two Realms Passage to confront the Demon Race and returned carrying a wolf leg.
• Xu Gang arrived with a Spirit Boat Fleet and equipment for the passage’s defenses, including Tool Puppets, Giant Cannons, and unfamiliar machines.
• Xu Fan communicated with the Six Dragon Eggs, told them he was their godfather, and spent time answering their questions.
• Xu Fan examined Wang Yulun, who was cultivating the Five Elements Sutra, and learned from Grape that Venerable Qian Ling had stayed quiet while the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder traveled with the ships.
• Hidden Spirit Sect Disciples showed Elder Council Cultivators their Defense Towers and Railguns, then pitched the towers for sale.

Xu Fan prepared the Hidden Spirit Sect for danger by accelerating Dao Artifact production and bringing Han Feiyu into the sect. He later discovered that the Mystic Realm could be maintained with his brother’s Lifespan, and eagerly pretended he would sacrifice his own as the woman questioned his feelings for Wang Yulun.

• Xu Fan asked Clone Number One to accelerate Hidden Spirit Island’s Dao Artifact component refinement and gave Clone Number Two his Artifact Refining insights by splitting off part of his soul.
• Jian Wuji welcomed Han Feiyu to the Hidden Spirit Sect and promised to show him around and help him learn Pill Refining.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to watch Han Feiyu as closely as Jian Wuji, while preparing the sect to support its Protagonists and their troubles.
• After a year passed without activity at the Natural Passage, Xu Fan visited the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm with Wang Yulun and learned that either brother’s Lifespan could sustain it.
• Xu Fan claimed he would give up even ten thousand years of Lifespan for Wang Yulun, and the woman suggested his devotion came from unconventional feelings that would ultimately be misplaced.

Xu Fan endured the woman’s time reversal and reached the Nascent Soul Stage, while his apparent death alarmed the Hidden Spirit Sect. The woman ended the ordeal, restored Wang Yulun’s stolen lifespan, and prepared to send Xu Fan away after he asked her to give Wang Yulun even more of his own lifespan.

• The woman warned Xu Fan that advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage during the time reversal could destroy his Immortal Path, then sent him into a shattered world where time flowed backward.
• Xu Fan aged to the Golden Core Stage’s lifespan limit as Heavenly Dao Power enveloped him, and Wang Yulun realized Xu Fan was sacrificing himself for him.
• Xu Fan’s body lost all vitality, prompting Xu Gang, Wang Xiangchi, Li Xingci, and Xu Yuexian to fear for him as Great Dao Scriptures and Celestial Phenomena appeared over the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage and returned to Peach Blossom Spring after absorbing a small World Fragment.
• The woman decided to let Xu Fan and Wang Yulun’s brotherly bond continue, restored the lifespan she had taken from Wang Yulun, and offered to send Xu Fan away.
• Xu Fan asked the woman to give Wang Yulun more of his lifespan and leave him only five years.

Xu Fan returned from the Shattered World, stabilized his new Nascent Soul cultivation, and updated Clone Number Two with a Venus Spirit Fire. He then gave his disciples new techniques and used his Fortune Power to intervene in Li Xingci’s fate, leaving Li Xingci sensing a mysterious light in the Void Realm.

• Xu Fan returned to his main body, reassured Wang Yulun, and revealed his Nascent Soul advancement to the Hidden Spirit Sect, whose disciples and spirit creatures celebrated him.
• Xu Fan secluded himself for three days to stabilize his cultivation, then merged with Clone Number Two to update it and gave it the Venus Spirit Fire.
• Xu Fan learned that Clone Number One had also advanced through Dao Artifact Feedback and would need his help absorbing excess energy.
• Xu Fan gave Xu Gang, Xu Yuexian, Wang Xiangchi, and Zhou Kailing techniques or instructions, then reassured Wang Xiangchi that Xingci was all right.
• Xu Fan used half his Fortune Power and Li Xingci’s Causality Power to influence Li Xingci’s fate, causing Li Xingci to sense a light in the sky while training beside Su Rantian.

Li Xingci entered Reincarnation training and lived through a new life on the Heavenly Puppet Continent, where he became an expert at controlling Heavenly Puppets. Back in the Void Realm, he used his newfound skill to reach Level 11 and prove he could defeat the beasts guarding the Void Gate, giving Su Rantian and Zhan Ling hope of escaping.

• Li Xingci fell asleep and was reborn as the infant heir of a wealthy family on the Heavenly Puppet Continent.
• At age seven, Li Xingci trained relentlessly as a Heavenly Puppet Master, while his parents worried over his hardship.
• Li Xingci awoke in the Void Realm and told Zhan Ling that he could make him reveal his real name.
• Li Xingci had Jin Ling fly the barracks toward the Void Gate and demonstrated his newfound Energy Armor skills in the Training Room.
• Li Xingci reached Level 11 and slaughtered one hundred Nascent Soul Stage Demonic Beasts, prompting Zhan Ling to reveal his name.
• Su Rantian tearfully said she had been joking about giving birth after their escape and wanted to keep nurturing their child's talent.

Li Xingci, Su Rantian, and Zhan Ling fought their way through the Void Gate and returned to the Heavenly Devil Continent, where Zhan Ling regained his strength and promised to become Li Xingci’s Dao Protector. Su Rantian worried that their child had missed its best Spirit Nurturing Time, and Li Xingci offered reassurance with a saying from his master.

• Li Xingci led the attack on the Void Gate, killing the Nascent Soul Stage Exotic Beasts while Su Rantian and Zhan Ling followed behind.
• The group reached the Void Gate, and Li Xingci urged Su Rantian and Zhan Ling not to look back as he led them through.
• After they crossed, Jin Ling activated the self-destruct disposal mode for the Energy Armor and Puppets left behind in the Void Realm.
• On the Heavenly Devil Continent, Zhan Ling recovered his cultivation, declared himself Li Xingci’s Dao Protector, and left after Li Xingci suggested they meet at Linsen Immortal City.
• Su Rantian said their child would have at best Five Spiritual Roots, and Li Xingci told her that everyone could cultivate the Strongest Dao before she asked what it was.

Li Xingci returned with Su Rantian and their child, while Xu Fan prepared for an ominous threat and activated Hidden Spirit Island’s underground array at great expense. The Demon Race prepared to attack the Human World, and Xu Fan was left worrying over the array’s cost and the dragon eggs’ appetite.

• Li Xingci told Su Rantian that Pay-to-Win was the strongest of the Three Thousand Great Dao, and Xu Fan sent Grape to retrieve them after sensing an omen of destruction and rebuilding.
• Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu were eliminated during a Battle Royale match, then agreed that Han Feiyu should attend the basic classes.
• The Moon Shadow Wolf Clan and Snow Fox Clan’s Demon Venerables welcomed their returning ancestors, who planned to suppress Butcher Venerable and send their forces into the Human World.
• Butcher Venerable told Ning Dao he would provoke a fight soon, while Ning Dao reported that a Demon Race warship had left its camp.
• Xu Fan installed eight Dao Artifact components beneath Hidden Spirit Island and activated the array by spending thirty million High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Xu Fan lamented the cost as the Six Dragon Eggs absorbed Spiritual Liquid, then joked about stealing Han Feiyu’s Jade Gourd and quickly denied meaning it when a Thunder Cloud appeared.

Li Xingci and Su Rantian returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect, where Xu Fan welcomed them and Li Xingci realized that his master had guided him through his tribulation. Later, Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu visited the source of the Spirit Liquid Waterfall and learned how the Sect’s vast spirit-gathering array worked.

• Xu Fan asked the Six Dragon Eggs to absorb less energy, but let them continue when they objected.
• Li Xingci and pregnant Su Rantian returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect, and Xu Fan welcomed them and promised to care for their future child.
• Li Xingci visited Xu Fan, thanked him for helping him and Su Rantian survive their tribulation, and pledged to protect him.
• Xu Fan sent Li Xingci’s avatar away and flicked a copper coin, noting that his Merit and Fortune were nearly spent.
• Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu received Grape’s approval to visit the source of the Spirit Liquid Waterfall.
• Grape showed Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu the Nine Dragon Swallowing Heaven Great Array, and Han Feiyu envied its many artifacts.

Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu soaked in a Spirit Liquid Hot Spring until Han Feiyu’s Spatial Ring exploded, releasing a Spring Eye Stone that transformed the Hidden Spirit Sect’s waterfall into Sky Blue Spirit Liquid. Xu Fan explained the valuable benefits of the change and told Han Feiyu that the Sect had gained a great deal from his mistake, then heard a mysterious chuckle.

• Grape led Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu to a Spirit Liquid Hot Spring, where Jian Wuji warned Han Feiyu to suppress his Spatial Ring.
• Han Feiyu entered an Enlightenment State while studying the rune patterns above them, and his Spatial Ring exploded after he let its spiritual-power control lapse.
• Han Feiyu collected his scattered treasures and admitted that a Spring Eye Stone from his stash had been absorbed by the Spirit Gathering Array.
• The Spirit Gathering Pearls consumed the Spring Eye Stone’s powder, turning the Sect’s Spirit Liquid Waterfall pale blue and energizing the Dragon Egg.
• Xu Fan summoned Jian Wuji and Han Feiyu, explained Sky Blue Spirit Liquid’s benefits and the value of the Spring Eye Stone, and told Han Feiyu that the Sect had taken a huge advantage of him.
• Xu Fan heard a soft, mysterious chuckle and wondered whether he had imagined it.