Chapter Summaries

After a failed artifact refinement, Xu Fan learned that Rune compatibility and order affected whether a Magic Artifact would explode. He developed a relatively effective Rune combination through five days of experiments and returned to the Earth Core Workshop with four days left before the Mystic Realm.

• Xu Fan paid the area supervisor ten Spirit Stones and learned that conflicting Runes had caused his Magic Artifact to explode.
• Xu Fan spent hours testing different Rune orders, then decided to study Rune combinations before refining more artifacts.
• Xu Fan visited the Rune Hall, where an Outer Sect Elder explained Rune compatibility and the legendary perfection that could make a Magic Treasure draw Lightning Tribulation.
• Xu Fan experimented with Rune inscription for five days and found a relatively perfect combination, though he could not grasp the true perfect state.
• With four days remaining until the Mystic Realm, Xu Fan gathered his materials and entered the Earth Core Workshop.

Xu Fan refined three Magic Artifacts and entered the Qi Refining Stage Mystic Realm, where he set up a temporary base and gathered Spiritual Herbs. At a lake, he met Ye Xiaoyao, whose name made Xu Fan suspect he had encountered the Protagonist.

• Xu Fan broke through to the Qi Refining Fifth Layer while refining the Nether Piercing Flying Sword, then made the Embroidery Needles and Colossus Shield.
• Xu Fan raced ahead to Heavenly Secret Peak, where the Crane-Haired Youth-Faced Elder opened the Mystic Realm after collecting one thousand Spirit Stones from each entrant.
• Xu Fan gave Wang Yulun a modified Spirit Stone for emergencies, then entered the Mystic Realm alone and built a cabin in a forest of mature Spirit Wind Trees.
• Xu Fan subdued a pack of Jungle Demonic Wolves and sent them to search for spirit medicines, then collected a valuable pile of Spiritual Herbs.
• Xu Fan watched an azure flying sword burst from a lake, and the Outer Sect Senior Brother introduced himself as Ye Xiaoyao.

Xu Fan met Ye Xiaoyao in the Mystic Realm and became convinced that the unlucky, treasure-bearing cultivator fit the protagonist template. After Ye Xiaoyao called Xu Fan his friend, Xu Fan privately resolved to stay away from him.

• Ye Xiaoyao gave Xu Fan a Water-Settling Pearl in exchange for keeping his secret, then flew away on his newly acquired sword.
• Xu Fan searched the lake with a controlled Little Fish but found that others had already stripped it of treasures.
• Xu Fan settled in the forest, where his Demon Wolves brought back herbs, ore, fruit, and Spirit Stones found on a corpse.
• Ye Xiaoyao returned the next morning, shared Xu Fan's porridge, and revealed that his Cultivation Base had inexplicably fallen to Qi Refining Level Nine.
• After spotting Ye Xiaoyao's Ancient Plain Ring, Xu Fan recognized him as a protagonist, while Ye Xiaoyao sincerely declared Xu Fan his friend.

Xu Fan harvested a Spirit Wind Tree, defeated a Giant Bear Monster, and fashioned a modified Spiritual Wind Vessel with detachable wings. He raced to rescue Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er from Spirit Devouring Peak bees and unleashed his strongest group attack as they were surrounded.

• Xu Fan cut down a Spirit Wind Tree and killed a Qi Refining Eighth Layer Giant Bear Monster by blinding it with his Edgeless Needles.
• Xu Fan refined the tree into a Spiritual Wind Vessel and a wing-shaped attachment, creating a Magic Modified Spirit Wind Jet.
• Xu Fan received Wang Yulun's distress signal and flew toward him and Murong Qian'er on the unfinished vessel.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er fled a vast colony of Spirit Devouring Peak bees, using escape arts and pills to keep ahead.
• The bees surrounded Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er just as Xu Fan arrived, and Xu Fan cast Secret Art: Dimensional Sound Kill.

After saving Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er from the Spirit Devouring Bees, Xu Fan learned they had risked their lives to obtain Spirit Devouring Honey for Murong Qian'er’s mother and her betrothal gifts. Once recovered, he returned with them toward the bees’ hive, eager to collect more honey.

• Xu Fan used a sound-based ultimate move to drive back the Spirit Devouring Bees, rescued Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er, and suffered severe backlash.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er woke, thanked Xu Fan, and learned that he expected them to repay his rescue and medicine costs.
• Wang Yulun explained that he and Murong Qian'er had provoked the bees to obtain honey for her mother’s hidden injuries and to help meet her clan’s betrothal demand.
• Wang Yulun revealed that they had collected only half the expected honey, which Murong Qian'er said was worth two thousand Spirit Stones per jin.
• After recovering over three days, Xu Fan rode a Cloud Flower Deer back to the Spirit Devouring Bees’ territory and sent the deer to hide.
• Xu Fan used the Light Body Art to slip toward the Bamboo Forest and the bees’ hive in search of Spirit Devouring Honey.

Xu Fan deceived the Spirit Devouring Bees, collected honey, and searched the Mystic Realm for valuable inheritances before returning to Heavenly Gate Sect. He reunited with Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er for a celebratory meal, while Ye Xiaoyao was expelled from the Bamboo Forest and began hearing an Immortal Emperor's summons.

• Xu Fan used his Illusion Heart Art to approach the Spirit Devouring Bees, but an Integration Stage Elder stopped him after he collected five hundred pounds of Spirit Devouring Bee King Honey.
• Ye Xiaoyao gathered more than ten thousand pounds of honey before the Integration Stage Elder expelled him from the Bamboo Forest, whereupon an Immortal Emperor offered him a chance to seek vengeance.
• Xu Fan searched the Mystic Realm for an Artifact Refining Grandmaster's inheritance, found a Pill Refining Chamber and many Spell Divine Ability Jade Slips, and was returned to Heavenly Secret Peak when the Mystic Realm closed.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er invited Xu Fan to the Drunken Immortal Restaurant to thank him for saving their lives.
• Xu Fan ordered nearly a thousand Spirit Stones' worth of food and teased Wang Yulun by offering to finish it all and order another table.

Xu Fan sold Spirit Devouring Bee King Honey at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, then spent his Spirit Stones on pill- and artifact-making materials and knowledge. After three years of refining, he completed his self-designed Magic Artifact, Thousand Blades.

• Xu Fan sold one hundred pounds of Spirit Devouring Bee King Honey to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for 3,200 Spirit Stones per pound after rejecting Wan Ling'er's lower offer.
• Xu Fan returned to his mountain peak, assessed his Mystic Realm gains, and sent a paper crane to summon Pang Fu.
• Xu Fan used three hundred thousand Spirit Stones to acquire Artifact Refining Runes, pill ingredients, and Spirit Ores.
• Xu Fan spent three years pursuing mastery of pills and artifacts while leaving his cultivation progress to fate.
• Xu Fan replaced incompatible Runes during the final fusion of his Magic Artifact and successfully completed Thousand Blades after six attempts.

Xu Fan reflected on romance and his growing collection of Magic Artifacts before Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er announced their wedding. He gave the couple their choice of artifacts as wedding gifts, and they selected a pair of Heart Seal Swords and the Thousand Blade Flying Sword.

• Xu Fan admired his Thousand Blade Flying Sword and considered whether he should find a girlfriend after seeing a pair of cultivators flirting in the sky.
• Xu Fan read sect news about the upcoming Elephant Prefecture Sect Exchange Meet, the damaged Floating Sky Vessel, a new Spirit Stone Ore Vein, and Ye Xiaoyao slaying a Golden Core traitor.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er visited Xu Fan and announced that their wedding would take place on the fifteenth of the next month.
• Xu Fan showed the couple his Magic Artifact collection and invited them to choose a Magic Artifact each as a wedding gift.
• Murong Qian'er chose the paired Heart Seal Swords, while Wang Yulun chose Xu Fan's Thousand Blade Flying Sword.

Xu Fan prepared to travel to Wang Yulun’s wedding and was forced to accompany Ye Xiaoyao, who was also attending. Their journey ended in an ambush by Desire Devil Sect cultivators targeting Ye Xiaoyao.

• Xu Fan met Pang Fu at the Merchant Guild, accepted a commission to make a Treasure Artifact Sword Box, and agreed to help Artifact Refining Peak repair the Floating Sky Vessel.
• Xu Fan prepared for his journey and left Heavenly Gate Sect for Daiding City to attend Wang Yulun’s wedding.
• Ye Xiaoyao appeared, revealed he was also traveling to Wang Yulun’s wedding, and brought Xu Fan aboard his faster Sword Vessel.
• Ye Xiaoyao sensed enemies ahead and left the vessel to confront five Sword Vessels carrying Desire Devil Sect cultivators, who accused him of killing their senior brother.

Xu Fan fled a Golden Core Devil Cultivator by awakening his Flood Dragon Puppet to Golden Core strength, but a Death Soul Worm struck him and he lost consciousness. The story then shifted to Cloud Mist Mountain, where a boy named Little Fang learned the rules of survival from Grandpa Chang Shan.

• Ye Xiaoyao trapped five Golden Core Devil Cultivators in a Sword Array while Xu Fan's Sword Vessel fled toward the Heavenly Gate Sect.
• A Golden Core Devil Cultivator named Lei Shi pursued Xu Fan, who used a Flood Dragon Soul Pearl to raise his Flood Dragon Puppet to Golden Core Initial strength and ordered it to fight.
• Xu Fan fled as the Flood Dragon Puppet battled Lei Shi, but Lei Shi sent a Death Soul Worm after him.
• The Death Soul Worm struck Xu Fan, causing his Magic Artifacts to lose control as he drifted unconscious beneath the clouds.
• On Cloud Mist Mountain, Grandpa Chang Shan taught Little Fang the rules for surviving while gathering herbs.

Little Fang and his grandfather rescued Xu Fan after he fell from the Snow Mountain, and Little Fang and his sister cared for him until he woke. Grateful for their help, Xu Fan tested the siblings and prepared to take them as disciples, leaving them inside a Dream World trial.

• The old man led Little Fang to the fallen Xu Fan and promised the children a chance at wealth and glory if they saved him.
• Little Fang and the old man carried Xu Fan home, where Little Fang and his younger sister cared for him for half a month.
• Xu Fan woke after defeating the Death Soul Worm in his Soul Space and learned that the siblings had rescued him.
• Little Fang and his sister kowtowed and asked Xu Fan to take them as disciples so they could eat meat every day.
• Xu Fan checked their spiritual roots, accepted them as qualified candidates, and sent them into a Dream World test of their nature.

After recovering from the Illusion Realm trial, Xu Fan brought the siblings and the elderly couple to the Heavenly Gate Sect. He began registering the children as his apprentices while Wang Yulun continued to wait for Xu Fan’s return.

• Xu Fan thanked the old man who had saved him, gave him Longevity Pills, and invited him and his wife to the Heavenly Gate Sect.
• The little boy and little girl woke after completing the Illusion Realm trial, and Xu Fan decided to take both as his disciples.
• Xu Fan carried the siblings onto a Spiritual Wind Vessel and flew with the old couple toward the Heavenly Gate Sect.
• Wang Yulun waited outside Xu Fan’s Small Hilltop, blaming himself for Xu Fan’s apparent misfortune, while Murong Qian'er stayed by his side.
• Xu Fan brought the children to the Outer Sect Affairs Hall and began their apprentice registration, then led them to take a Spiritual Root Test.

Xu Fan returned to the Heavenly Gate Sect with the two children who had saved his life and took them in as disciples. After reuniting with Wang Yulun and Murong Qian’er, he named the siblings Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian, then met with Pang Fu to exchange gifts and arrange the sale of Magic Artifacts.

• Xu Fan brought the siblings into the Outer Sect and sent Pang Fu a message to find their elders a safe place to live.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian’er welcomed Xu Fan home, and Xu Fan gave them Myriad Clothes Balls before celebrating with the siblings over a feast.
• Xu Fan learned the children had no proper names and named them Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian.
• Pang Fu told Xu Fan he had arranged for the siblings’ elders to be cared for, and Xu Fan gave him a Diamond Shuttle.
• Xu Fan received the materials he had requested and asked Pang Fu to sell three top-tier Magic Artifacts for 50,000 Spirit Stones each.

Xu Fan taught Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian basic cultivation expectations, then left them at the Teaching Hall for three months of study. He forged a Sword Box for Pang Fu, but an excited Outer Sect Elder stopped him as he left the workshop.

• Xu Fan used the Spirit Rain Art to water the Spirit Rice and told Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian they needed to study before beginning cultivation.
• Xu Fan brought the siblings to the Immortal City Teaching Hall, gave Xu Gang Spirit Stones, and left them to study for three months.
• Xu Fan entered the Earth Core Workshop and rented a First-Rank Flame Fire Artifact Refining Pool, while declining to claim he could forge a Treasure Artifact.
• Xu Fan forged a Sword Box from Void Iron, Space Sand, attribute materials, Geng Metal, and engraved arrays, completing it after a day and a half.
• Xu Fan left the workshop to deliver the Sword Box to Pang Fu, but an excited Outer Sect Elder stopped him.

The Outer Sect Elder recruited Xu Fan to help repair a damaged Floating Sky Vessel in the Inner Sect, offering him generous pay and instruction in new runes. Xu Fan reached the vessel and learned the repair work would involve its outer surface and damaged runes.

• The Outer Sect Elder examined Xu Fan's Sword Box, praised his rune foundation, and recruited him to repair a Floating Sky Vessel.
• Xu Fan sold three Magic Artifacts through Pang Fu for 200,000 Spirit Stones and asked him to purchase supplies, including powerful Demon Beast corpses.
• Xu Fan received a message from the Protagonist and decided he would move away after bringing back his disciples.
• The Outer Sect Elder brought Xu Fan through the Giant Gate into the Inner Sect, which he explained was half a Minor Thousand World.
• The Elder showed Xu Fan the damaged Floating Sky Vessel and offered him 1,000 Spirit Stones per square meter of repairs, along with instruction in twenty runes.

Xu Fan tested his rune knowledge and repaired the Floating Sky Vessel’s outer wall alongside a Void Refining Senior, finishing the job ahead of schedule. He earned rewards and an invitation to join Artifact Refining Peak after reaching Foundation Establishment, then left to return to the sect.

• An Inner Sect Elder tested Xu Fan’s rune skills and recruited him to repair the Floating Sky Vessel’s hull.
• A Void Refining Senior brought Xu Fan to the vessel and helped him refine metal to fill a breach while Xu Fan inscribed runes and restored the hull’s array.
• Xu Fan and the Void Refining Senior completed the repairs half a month early, and the Senior gave Xu Fan five Rune Stones and promised to wait for a Dao Artifact.
• An Inner Sect Elder paid Xu Fan forty-two thousand Spirit Stones and two thousand one hundred Contribution Points, then invited him to join Artifact Refining Peak after Foundation Establishment.
• Xu Fan departed aboard a Spiritual Wind Vessel and reflected on the scale of the sect’s Inner Sect.

Xu Fan returned to his mountain, cared for the Cloud Flower Deer, and went to sleep, while Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er fought Demon Beasts and used a powerful disposable treasure to defeat three Foundation Establishment Stage beasts. They remained focused on earning enough Contribution Points for the Myriad Universe Fetal Spirit Pill, despite Wang Yulun's hope of being reimbursed for the treasure.

• Xu Fan found the Cloud Flower Deer waiting by the Forbidden Barrier, gave her more Spirit Grain Pills, and put a protective Beast Collar around her neck.
• Xu Fan watered his neglected Spiritual Field, noticed its harvest would suffer, and went to sleep after the Cloud Flower Deer used her newly awakened talent skill.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er fought Demon Beasts near the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain while working toward the Contribution Points needed for the Myriad Universe Fetal Spirit Pill.
• When three Foundation Establishment Stage Demon Beasts appeared, Wang Yulun used the disposable Magic Treasure he had bought from Xu Fan for 10,000 Spirit Stones.
• The treasure obliterated the beasts and left a huge crater, but Wang Yulun was denied reimbursement and joked with Murong Qian'er about how long he could last against Xu Fan.

Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er found a valuable piece of Soul Iron, while Xu Fan received supplies and custom Magic Artifact orders from Pang Fu. The chapter ended with Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian wandering the Outer Sect Immortal City after finishing their introductory lessons early.

• Murong Qian'er used the Heart-Imprinting Flying Swords to kill a group of Qi Refining Stage Demon Beasts while Wang Yulun searched the pit for Soul Iron.
• Wang Yulun found one large piece of Soul Iron, and he and Murong Qian'er decided to send it to Xu Fan rather than keep its value for themselves.
• Pang Fu brought Xu Fan requested supplies, Ye Xiaoyao's Soul Iron, twenty thousand Spirit Stones, and a list of twenty-three custom Magic Artifact orders.
• Xu Fan agreed to take the orders and let Pang Fu handle sales in exchange for a ninety-ten profit split, while Pang Fu declined to take a share.
• Xu Gang worried that Xu Fan would be angry about his and Xu Yuexian's finishing their introductory lessons early, but Xu Yuexian reassured him as they walked through the Outer Sect Immortal City.

Xu Fan moved with Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian to a secluded mountain site after welcoming his disciples and helping Xu Gang recover from a fight. He used his summoned giants to prepare their new home, and Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er arrived with a valuable gift of Soul Iron.

• Xu Fan found Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian fighting Dong Hei and his group, healed Xu Gang, and encouraged the siblings to cultivate for revenge.
• Xu Fan took the siblings to the Political Affairs Hall and chose a concealed mountain near the edge of the Outer Sect barrier as their new home.
• Xu Fan summoned Earth and Wood Attribute giants to clear and level the mountain, then began constructing rooms and furnishings.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er arrived and gave Xu Fan a large piece of Soul Iron as a housewarming gift.
• Xu Fan finished forming a farmhouse courtyard with the giants and told Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er that his technique came from Ancient Spells, not the Nascent Soul Stage.

Xu Fan accepted the Soul Iron Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er had brought him and promised to supply them with Magic Treasures and Elixirs until they reached the Golden Core Stage. When Wang Yulun challenged Xu Fan to prove his strength, Xu Fan defeated him instantly with a mental attack and made him dance as punishment.

• Xu Fan learned that Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er had brought him their only piece of Soul Iron, and he offered to provide them with Magic Treasures and Elixirs until they reached the Golden Core Stage.
• Xu Fan agreed to take the couple's unborn child as a disciple when the child turned six.
• Wang Yulun asked how long he could last against Xu Fan, and Xu Fan said the fight would end in an instant.
• Wang Yulun challenged Xu Fan to spar, and Xu Fan shattered his mental defense with a feather-shaped spiritual attack.
• Xu Fan made Wang Yulun dance with Ethereal Projections of beauties while Murong Qian'er watched.