Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan devised a virtual online game to manage the millions of common people gathered in Tianchi Kingdom and help identify talented individuals who could serve the Hidden Spirit Sect. After Grape produced the first Game Helmet, Xu Fan entered the game to test it.

• Venerable Qian Ling recognized that the Star Vessels Heavenly Refining Sect had been selling were familiar and left after ordering more Sky Patrol Guards from the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• A Strange Bird attacked the little boy Hu'er during his family's journey, but an unseen defender killed it and a protective barrier saved them.
• Hu'er and his family reached the road leading to the giant city, while Hu'er declared that he wanted to become an immortal.
• Xu Fan rejected Grape's plan to assign work directly and instead asked it to design a virtual online game for the gathered common people.
• Xu Fan expanded the game plan to include talent selection and linking players' consciousness to Puppets, then ordered Game Helmets produced and prioritized for young people.
• Xu Fan put on a Game Helmet and entered a small village in the Illusion Realm.

Xu Fan turned the game into a training and recruitment tool as relocated Mortals began settling in the Immortal World. He discovered a seven-year-old with a Ten Thousand Thunder Sacred Body and expanded plans for accepting disciples, while Xingling remained stationed to watch the Golden Winged Great Peng.

• Xu Fan used reality-linked Puppets to test the game and converted Nascent Soul Stage Puppet production lines into specialized units for players.
• Xu Fan led his disciples against an Ancient Giant BOSS and ordered them to keep trying until they defeated it.
• A Butcher's family traveled by Puppet Train to Heavenly Pool No.4 Giant City, settled in assigned housing, and entered the game using helmets.
• Grape detected a seven-year-old with a Ten Thousand Thunder Sacred Body, and Xu Fan ordered the Hidden Spirit Sect entrance test sent to him.
• Xu Fan set tentative targets of one hundred thousand Third Generation Disciples and one hundred thousand talented Mortals over twelve for the Outer Sect.
• Xingling confronted the Golden Winged Great Peng at the Two Realms Passage, then returned to his star to keep watch over him.

The Golden Winged Great Peng acknowledged Xingling as the Demon Race’s greatest obstacle and relied on his unborn child as a future successor. As Demon Race forces attacked the human world, Xu Fan faced urgent demands for defenses while Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing led the Puppets to destroy an invading army.

• The Golden Winged Great Peng told Blood Phoenix that their child could lead the Demon Race to dominate the world after growing for a thousand years.
• Ning Dao warned Xu Fan that a Two Realms Natural Passage had opened into Moon Fox Clan territory, where a Mahayana Demon Venerable threatened the region, and pressed him to deliver weapons and Puppets.
• At the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake, Xiong Li gave Qianwan Bing command of the Combat Puppets as a Demon Race army approached the Great Iron Wall.
• Qianwan Bing organized the Puppet squads and used Sky-based Satellites to devastate the Demon Race army, while Xiong Li charged into battle.
• The Puppets annihilated the invading army, and Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing resolved to grow stronger and better serve the sect.

Xu Fan expanded the Hidden Spirit Sect’s teaching and used its virtual reality game to recruit mortals into cultivation and Puppet work. The game’s Heavenly Puppet Masters began supporting the Great Iron Wall, where Xiang Yun checked the identity of a promising fighter called Butcher Blade.

• Xu Fan demonstrated the evolution of the Five Elements at an Enlightenment Assembly, then had Grape organize his answers for the Sect Forum as the sect prepared to educate 100,000 new disciples.
• A boy named Hu'er told his family that the game’s fairy maiden said they could enter an Immortal Sect, and news of the game’s real-world opportunities spread through the coastal cities.
• A player with a Spiritual Root paid in-game currency for a real-world Cultivation Method, while a Martial Arts Master discovered that Heavenly Puppet Masters could earn rewards by controlling real Puppets.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to assign real-world missions to Puppet Masters and new Cultivators, and three months later their Puppets joined logistics and combat work at the Great Iron Wall.
• Xiong Li praised a sixteen-year-old Puppet controller who had killed Golden Core Demon Beasts despite lacking a Spiritual Root, while Xiang Yun heard Butcher Blade request another watch shift and asked Grape to retrieve his information.

Xiang Yun learned why the Middle-aged Butcher worked so hard to earn Spirit Stones, while Xu Fan prepared to train a new generation of disciples at Hidden Spirit Sect. After the children arrived, Xu Fan appointed Xu Yuexian dean of their academy and promised her a reward for raising them.

• Xiang Yun told the Middle-aged Butcher that Spirit Stones were unnecessary in the Sect, but the butcher said he wanted to help his son and enjoyed killing demons.
• Xu Fan gave Xu Gang a Jade Disc containing an Origin Essence Divine Ability and sent him to the Great Iron Wall to practice.
• The Middle-aged Butcher and his family brought Li Leihu to Hidden Spirit Sect, where the boy was assigned a dormitory and separated from his parents.
• Xu Fan and Xu Yuexian observed the new disciples settling into the academy, and Xu Fan appointed Xu Yuexian its dean.
• Xu Yuexian agreed to train the children to the Nascent Soul Stage after Xu Fan offered her a Sea Vessel and a Grape Clone.

Xu Fan and Ning Dao coordinated the defense of Linsen Immortal City's mortals by moving the city beside the Great Iron Wall and expanding the barrier with Elder Council resources. Construction advanced rapidly, while Xu Fan expected the completed wall to withstand all but the strongest Demon Race members.

• Xu Fan ordered Grape to increase Spirit Transformation Stage Puppet production as tens of millions of Demon Race members attacked the Great Iron Wall.
• Ning Dao told Xu Fan that the Demon Race had destroyed three sects and killed over three hundred million mortals, and Xu Fan agreed to shelter the survivors behind the wall.
• Ning Dao arranged to move Linsen Immortal City beside the Great Iron Wall and secured unlimited supplies of several kinds of Spirit Ore from the Elder Council.
• Xu Fan and Ning Dao planned to use nearby Minor Worlds to accommodate at least forty billion mortals.
• An Elder Council Venerable moved Linsen Immortal City three thousand kilometers outside the Great Iron Wall, and cultivators began clearing the surrounding Demon Race.
• Grape's Puppets built five thousand kilometers of Great Iron Wall from each end in one day, and Xu Fan said the completed barrier would stop ordinary Demon Race members.

Xu Fan’s Great Iron Wall repelled a Fire Rock Bird Demon attack and drew reinforcements from Linsen Immortal City, while Xu Gang killed a Moon Fox Clan woman who attacked near the wall. The chapter left Xu Fan’s defenses standing and the Fox Clan facing Xu Gang’s hostility.

• Xu Fan activated the Great Iron Wall’s gravity array, grounding the Fire Rock Bird Demon force and allowing his Puppets to defeat them.
• Ning Dao received ten Void Refining and a hundred Spirit Transformation Cultivators from the Elder Council to guard the wall, and Xu Fan offered rewards for captured Demon Race True Spirits.
• A concealed Void Refining Stage Demon was killed near the wall, and Xu Fan set an exchange rate of five Demon Race True Spirits for a Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact Magic Treasure.
• Xu Gang bombarded the Demon Race with Lava Boulder Rain as Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing watched the battlefield.
• A seven-tailed Moon Fox Clan woman attacked Xu Gang, but he killed her with Chaos Fire after she claimed her clan affiliation.

Xu Fan learned that Xu Gang had killed the only daughter of the Moon Fox Clan Demon Venerable, who planned to seek revenge, and prepared to have Zhan Ling defend the Great Iron Wall. Meanwhile, Little Cloud Sect and other small Sects began evacuating Mortals toward Linsen Immortal City, while Zhan Ling entertained Li Chufan with tales of his past battles.

• Grape reported Xu Gang's brutal treatment of demons, and Xu Fan approved while reminding him to leave some enemies alive to make Fertilizer.
• Xu Fan reviewed talented Heavenly Puppet Masters in the virtual reality game and identified the Middle-aged Butcher as too dangerous to provoke.
• Senior Brother Jianyuan and two Spirit Transformation Stage Cultivators evacuated children from a Mortal City as demons advanced, then learned their Sect would relocate near Linsen Immortal City and protect the Mortals on the way.
• Ning Dao told Xu Fan that Xu Gang had killed the Moon Fox Clan Demon Venerable's only daughter and that the Demon Venerable might come through the Natural Passage for revenge.
• Xu Fan agreed to have Zhan Ling guard the Great Iron Wall, then found Zhan Ling telling Li Chufan stories about killing powerful enemies while Li Xingci watched helplessly.

Xu Fan sent Zhan Ling to intercept the Moon Fox Clan’s Demon Venerable and suggested the Demon Venerable’s True Spirit could awaken Zhan Ling’s Dao Artifact. Zhan Ling ambushed the demon army, leaving its disguised Demon Venerable alive as his next target.

• Xu Fan told Zhan Ling to stop the Moon Fox Clan’s Demon Venerable and explained that the Demon Venerable’s True Spirit could complete Zhan Ling’s Dao Artifact.
• Xu Fan advised Li Xingci to stop over-supplementing Li Chufan, then helped the child burp with a gentle pat.
• The disguised Demon Venerable ordered the Moon Fox Clan to attack the Great Iron Wall and seek revenge for his daughter, while Xu Gang struck distant demons with a Golden Crow projection.
• Grape locked onto the Demon Venerable’s position, and Zhan Ling flew to intercept the Moon Fox Clan army.
• Zhan Ling’s Blood Spirit Great Blade killed every demon in the army except the Demon Venerable, whom Zhan Ling prepared to fight.

Zhan Ling defeated the Moon Fox Clan's Mahayana Demon Venerable, while Xu Fan studied his final slash and arranged for Li Xingci to help relocate Linsen Immortal City's Mortals. As escorted transport missions began and Mortals poured through the Teleportation Array, Ning Dao wondered whether this was the effortless victory the Great Elder had predicted.

• Zhan Ling resisted the Moon Fox Clan's Mahayana Demon Venerable's illusion, recalled his past in the Void Realm, and killed the fox's true body with a single slash.
• Zhan Ling told Xu Gang he had acted to obtain a Demon Venerable's True Spirit for Xu Fan to refine into a Dao Artifact.
• Xu Fan reflected on Zhan Ling's Return to Mortal Dao and sent Li Xingci to help move Mortals inside the Great Iron Wall.
• An Elder Council Cultivator offered escort missions as Spirit Boats carried batches of Mortals from Linsen Immortal City to Mortal Giant City No. 38.
• Ning Dao watched Mortals and small Sects relocate to the area and wondered if this was the effortless victory the Great Elder had mentioned.

Zhan Ling and the Middle-aged Butcher fought demons in the game before retreating as Nascent Soul Stage enemies appeared. The Middle-aged Butcher dreamed of saving up for his own Puppet, while Xu Fan and Grape discussed raising Puppet prices to stabilize the game’s Spirit Stone economy.

• Zhan Ling and the Middle-aged Butcher fought demons at the Great Iron Wall until Nascent Soul Stage demons forced lower-order Heavenly Puppet Masters to retreat.
• The Middle-aged Butcher settled his missions and received 179 Spirit Stones after rental and repair costs were deducted.
• The young salesman tried to sell the Middle-aged Butcher a Nascent Soul Stage Blademaster Puppet for a 200,000-Spirit-Stone down payment, but he left without buying it.
• The Middle-aged Butcher resolved to save for a personal Puppet so he could earn the full rewards from missions.
• Xu Fan told Grape that the game’s Puppet prices were too low to sustain its Spirit Stone economy.

Xu Fan adjusted the costs in the virtual game, heard Zhan Ling’s concerns about Butcher Li, and refused to make the Mountain Giant Demon easier to defeat. Meanwhile, Han Feiyu searched the Sect Disciple Outing Manual for a way to escape his stranded situation, while Xu Fan returned to the game and fought Demon Race cultivators.

• Xu Fan reviewed the Puppet purchase system and raised the cost of spiritual power supply to thirty percent above base cost.
• Zhan Ling told Xu Fan about Butcher Li, whom he suspected had a lightning-related Sacred Body, and Xu Fan advised letting him follow his own path.
• Zhan Ling asked Xu Fan for a Supreme-Grade Magic Treasure to defeat the Mountain Giant Demon, but Xu Fan refused so the game would remain challenging.
• At Tie Ta’s wedding, Han Feiyu told Tie Lan he still wanted to leave Warm Jade Immortal City, then searched his belongings in his hidden Treasure Artifact Palace.
• Han Feiyu found a section on spatial turbulence and stranded locations in the Sect Disciple Outing Manual and began looking for advice suited to his situation.
• Xu Fan controlled a Puppet in the game, fought an Integration Stage Demon Race cultivator and his underlings with dual swords, and had Tool Puppets carry away the remains.

Xu Fan learned that the Demon Race war had devastated the Central Continent, then watched the two realms’ teleportation and communication systems collapse after powerful figures sealed space. The Hidden Spirit Sect was cut off from distant regions, and Grape could no longer activate its Teleportation Arrays.

• Xu Fan visited Linsen Immortal City, where Ning Dao reported that only 1,436 of the Central Continent’s 1,589 Immortal Cities remained and described the Thousand Spirits Sect’s invasion of the Demon World.
• After a Demon Race Holy City appeared at a Two Realms Natural Passage, Xu Fan ordered Grape to fire the Demon Suppressing Star’s main cannon, but the Moon Fox Clan’s protective barrier held.
• A wave swept across the Central Continent and disabled its communication treasures and Teleportation Arrays, though Grape’s Inner Area network recovered after briefly disconnecting.
• At the Dual Realm Fusion Passage, the Supreme Venerable shattered four Immortal Artifact Dharma Mirrors to seal space across both realms, while Xingling’s Myriad Demon Instrument also broke apart.
• Grape told Xu Fan that the sealed spatial laws prevented Teleportation Arrays from working, cutting off the Demon World and Nine Phoenix Island through the Underground Space.

After the Central Continent and Demon World were sealed off, Xu Fan dealt with the loss of the Teleportation Arrays and used his Merit and Fortune to create a small lake. He helped Ning Dao accept leadership of Linsen Immortal City and began seeking resources to develop it, ending with Xu Fan discovering the city’s treasure vault was extremely wealthy.

• Xu Fan learned that the Teleportation Arrays to the Demon Race and Nine Phoenix Island had failed, and Grape explained what would happen to the isolated avatars.
• Xu Fan found that teleportation had become far more difficult, then realized the Demon World had also been sealed off and the Demon Race could not receive reinforcements.
• A surge of Merit and Fortune formed a Fortune Treasure Canopy above Xu Fan, and he tested his ability to create water, clouds, rain, and earth with it.
• Xu Fan learned that the Empress of Nine Phoenix Island had established a Dynasty, while Demon Race clans and Immortal Cities began forming alliances.
• Ning Dao told Xu Fan that a Mahayana Venerable had made him Lord of Linsen Immortal City, and Xu Fan agreed to support him with Grape rather than take the position himself.
• Xu Fan proposed seeking resources from the Endless Sea and asked about Spirit Ores to repair the Sect’s Star Vessel; he explored Linsen Immortal City’s treasure vault and found it remarkably well stocked.

Xu Fan infiltrated the Moon Fox Holy City and used an illusion to extract information from a Moon Fox heir, while Feng Changning advanced universal cultivation in the Nine Phoenix Dynasty. Grape’s new Artifact Spirit revealed that Feng Changning’s full authority had activated a module that let puppets refine more puppets.

• Xu Fan accepted Ning Dao’s offer of Dao Artifact-grade spirit ores and promised him twenty percent of the Star Vessel’s future profits after losses.
• Xu Fan followed a golden-bloodline Moon Fox prince’s heir, planted a terrifying dream in his mind, and learned that the Demon Race had kept Artifact Refining Array Masters in the Demon World.
• Feng Changning ordered Cultivation Academies established across the Nine Phoenix Dynasty and said she would personally teach citizens with exceptional Spiritual Roots.
• A newly reincarnated child in the imperial palace recognized the Fortune Divine Beast and recalled having been a Great Elder of the Heavenly Craft Immortal Sect.
• Little Ling welcomed a new Artifact Spirit as Brother Grape, and he told Feng Changning that he had lost contact with the main body but now held full authority.
• Brother Grape revealed that Feng Changning’s authority had activated the Aid Puppet Production Module, allowing puppets supplied with materials to refine more puppets.

Feng Changning received authority from Xu Fan and reunited with Shi Zhan, who had escaped from a Minor Thousand World. As teleportation and communication networks failed across the Cultivation World, Xu Fan worried that his wife might be stranded, while life on Hidden Spirit Island continued as usual.

• Feng Changning resolved to repay Xu Fan after learning he had granted her authority, though Little Ling reminded her that Xu Fan had already received his reward.
• Shi Zhan escaped from a Minor Thousand World with a Spirit Transformation Stage Heavy Armor Puppet and learned that the Cultivation World's Teleportation Arrays had failed.
• Feng Changning arrived by Sea Vessel to bring Shi Zhan home, and he openly revealed his affection for her.
• Sha Diao worried about his family because messages could no longer get through, and Xu Fan reassured him before realizing his own wife might be stranded.
• Li Leihu gave his father an Academy reward, then accidentally struck his father's monster-farming Puppet with a Fireball Art while they played a game together.

Xu Fan and Sha Diao developed Sha Diao Alloy, which made Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifacts widely available and earned Sha Diao a measure of merit and a new ambition to achieve Merit Immortalization. Xu Fan then updated the Moon Fox Clan’s illusion, leaving a Spirit Transformation Stage moon fox terrified by a dream resembling the Moon Fox Clan’s historical encounter with a human Mad Devil.

• A Spirit Transformation Stage moon fox questioned his memories of being human and grew distrustful of the Moon Fox Clan’s Holy City as Xu Fan continued researching formulas.
• Sha Diao developed a powerful black Alloy, and Xu Fan encouraged him to name and distribute it as Sha Diao Alloy to help humanity resist the Demon Race.
• A month later, Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifacts made from Sha Diao Alloy spread through Linsen Immortal City, and an inscription praising Sha Diao’s sacrifice made his name famous and brought him a faint thread of Merit and Fortune.
• Sha Diao asked Xu Fan whether developing a Dao Artifact-grade Alloy could lead to Merit Immortalization, and Xu Fan explained that it would require an enormous contribution to humanity’s victory over the Demon Race.
• Xu Fan sent a Puppet to update the Moon Fox Clan Holy City’s illusion, and the moon fox dreamed of a human Mad Devil slaughtering Demon Race clans before waking in terror at the resemblance to a real figure in Moon Fox Clan history.

Xu Fan’s Dream Teaching awakened a Spirit Transformation Stage Moon Fox’s buried human memories, turning him against his clan and leading him to bring Moon Fox craftsmen to the Hidden Spirit Sect. The craftsmen began working under Li Xingci with the goal of forging treasures and destroying the demon races.

• The Spirit Transformation Stage Moon Fox remembered his human mother as he faced a captured child, then killed the surrounding Moon Fox demons and escorted the child toward his mother.
• Xu Fan watched the Moon Fox’s actions through a Puppet and reflected that Dream Teaching had planted a seed that would eventually bear fruit.
• Three months later, Xu Fan told Lei Wenxi that her round Spirit Turtles could rest while he waited for news from the Great Iron Wall.
• Li Xingci returned with a Palace Magic Treasure containing several hundred Moon Fox demon Artifact Refiners and Array Masters, and Xu Fan explained how he had turned their leader against the Demon World.
• Xu Fan handed the Palace Magic Treasure to Li Xingci, and the Moon Fox craftsmen began working in the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Underground Space, resolved to forge magic treasures and destroy the demon races.

Xu Fan’s clones used Moon Fox Clan artifact refiners to forge Dao Artifacts while the sealed Teleportation Arrays left the Hidden Spirit Sect short on Spirit Ore. In Supreme Immortal City, Clone Number One sent Er Tie to gather rare materials and secretly planned to reunite with Xu Fan after finishing a flying ship.

• Xu Fan learned that Grape could control up to four Moon Fox artifact refiners to forge Dao Artifacts, though each artifact made at full cost consumed one refiner.
• Clone Number Two and a Moon Fox artifact-refining grandmaster continued forging the Boundary Absorption Tower, using the grandmaster’s knowledge of a Space-attribute Boundary Character Immortal Script.
• Er Tie told Clone Number One that Supreme Venerable had permanently sealed travel and communication arrays between the Cultivation World and Demon World after fighting the Golden Winged Great Peng.
• Clone Number One gave Er Tie a list of rare Spirit Ore and offered a Dao Artifact-forging opportunity to whoever supplied three listed materials.
• Er Tie gathered interested cultivators and recorded their offers; within three days, he had obtained all the materials Clone Number One required.
• Clone Number One revealed that he intended to finish a flying ship and then find Xu Fan rather than separate from him.

Clone Number One challenged Er Tie to prove that his hammer-based method could produce an intermediate Magic Artifact while he entered seclusion. Xu Fan discovered that Merit and Fortune could bypass the spatial seal, finished modifying a Demon Race Star Vessel, and was called to command the Great Iron Wall front line.

• Clone Number One gave Er Tie a custom hammer and ordered him to forge an intermediate Magic Artifact during the next month, without asking for instructions.
• Cloud Flower Deer brought a Spirit Herb Rabbit through a spatial door, prompting Xu Fan to test teleportation using Merit and Fortune and discover it bypassed the spatial seal.
• Xu Fan decided to explore using the Heavenly Dao to connect locations and considered seeking Pang Fu's help with commerce-based methods.
• Xu Fan and the Moon Fox Clan Artifact Refining Grandmaster spent two years repairing and modifying the Demon Race Star Vessel, then Xu Fan asked him to inspect it.
• Xu Gang met Xu Fan after he emerged from the Underground Space and said the Great Iron Wall front line needed him to take command.