Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan learned that the Wood Mouse Clan’s strategist was troubling Xu Gang and arranged for a skilled battlefield commander to assist him. He also agreed to repair two Venerables’ Dao Artifacts and planned to take Zhan Ling into the Extreme Sky Domain to search for Spirit Ore and news of the outside world.

• Xu Gang complained that the cunning Wood Mouse Clan strategist had repeatedly challenged his defenses, and Xu Fan told him to keep guarding the Great Iron Wall while Grape found a war-command genius to help.
• Xu Fan met Venerable Ling Xiu and Tiger Roar Venerable at Linsen Immortal City, where they asked him to repair their damaged Dao Artifacts.
• Xu Fan accepted their Spirit Ore and said the repairs would take two months.
• Xu Fan told Ning Dao that he intended to take Zhan Ling into the Extreme Sky Domain to seek Spirit Ore and look for other Human Star Vessels.
• Ning Dao agreed that the Elder Council’s three Venerables would guard the Great Iron Wall during Xu Fan’s trip, and Hidden Spirit Island began preparing.

Xu Fan prepared the Hidden Spirit Sect’s repaired Star Vessel for a voyage to the Extreme Sky Domain, showcasing its stealth ships, cannons, and powerful propulsion thrusters. He and his companions departed aboard it, leaving the sect to test its speed and capabilities.

• Xu Fan showed Zhan Ling the Star Vessel’s reconnaissance ships, propulsion thrusters, and cannons, then said they would depart for the Extreme Sky Domain in three months.
• Xu Fan assigned Wang Yulun, Xu Gang, and Xu Xingci to join the voyage, while Li Xingci would bring Elder Rantian and Chufan for an experiment; Xu Yuexian had to remain behind and guard the sect.
• The Hidden Spirit Sect opened applications for the trip, and the Virtual Reality Game selected Heavenly Puppet Masters to serve aboard the Star Vessel.
• Ning Dao delivered repaired Dao Artifacts to Venerable Ling Xiu and received a matched pair of Dao Artifact Spirit Swords, while Tiger Roar Venerable tested his repaired artifacts against the Demon Race.
• Xu Fan and the selected disciples, game participants, and Mining Puppet Masters boarded the Star Vessel and launched for the Extreme Sky Domain.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to activate the propulsion thrusters at ninety percent power, and Zhan Ling felt the Star Vessel accelerate to extreme speed.

Xu Fan’s Star Vessel entered the Extreme Sky Domain, where it discovered safe routes for Human vessels and mined its first Meteorite Ore. The crew continued toward a Human Race channel as Xu Fan considered restoring Li Chufan’s talent.

• Xu Fan surveyed the Extreme Sky Domain and received a Jade Slip mapping safe channels and Human Race settlements.
• Grape detected a Meteorite Asteroid, and the Star Vessel captured and refined it into thousands of blocks of Refined Meteorite Ore.
• Xu Fan gave a thousand-jin block of Refined Meteorite Ore to everyone aboard, and the Middle-aged Butcher upgraded to a Void Slaying Blade.
• Xu Fan ordered the Star Vessel to continue toward the nearest Human Race channel while considering when to restore Li Chufan’s talent.
• Wang Yulun picked up Li Chufan, who asked his grandfather for candy instead of a trip to see the stars.

Xu Fan and the others traveled through an ancient Stargate channel to a Golden Ring station, where they reported on the Immortal Cities under siege by the Demon Race. The chapter left them docked at the station after learning that Spirit Stream and Flying Scale Immortal Cities had fallen and joined Linsen in resisting.

• Wang Yulun gave Li Chufan fruit candy, and Xu Fan bargained with him over candy for fishing trips as the Star Vessel set course for a Small Star.
• Iron Claw collected a Mysterious Ice Crystal Small Star, and Xu Fan guided the Star Vessel toward an ancient Stargate after seeing a map of ninety-nine Stargates.
• The Star Vessel passed through the Stargate into a channel that greatly increased its speed, then overtook another vessel after its crew taunted them.
• A month later, Xu Fan's Star Vessel docked at a Golden Ring station, where a Spirit Transformation Stage Elder Council Cultivator asked for news about Immortal Cities.
• Xu Fan reported that Spirit Stream and Flying Scale Immortal Cities had fallen and joined Linsen Immortal City, which had narrowly held on after shrinking its territory.

Xu Fan visited the Elder Council’s Heavenly Machine Pavilion, traded Dao Artifact refinements for rare Spirit Ore, and arranged a large Treasure Artifact commission. There he reunited with Shan Chen, now a powerful Elder Council cultivator, and shared a drink with him and his disciples.

• Xu Fan gave the Elder Council information about Demon World clans near his territory and received intelligence about the neighboring Demon World.
• A guard brought Xu Fan and his group through the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, where Xu Fan searched notices and posted offers for refining and materials.
• Xu Fan accepted commissions to refine five Dao Artifacts, obtaining the Spirit Ore he needed and a large order for the Moon Fox Clan Artifact Refiners.
• Xu Fan reunited with Shan Chen, who had reached the peak of Refining Void and invited him to drink.
• Xu Gang, Wang Xiangchi, Li Xingci, and the others joined Xu Fan and Shan Chen, who praised their rapid cultivation and welcomed them to sit.

Xu Fan agreed to forge Shan Chen a Dao Artifact and decided to retrieve Jian Wuji from the Nine Sword Venerable. After Xu Fan secretly took Jian Wuji aboard the Star Vessel, a streak of Sword Light pursued them.

• Xu Fan told Shan Chen he had become an Artifact Refining Grandmaster and agreed to forge him armor and gauntlets from the Spirit Ores Shan Chen provided.
• Wang Xiangchi revealed that Jian Wuji was nearby with the Nine Sword Venerable, and Xu Fan agreed to bring him back to the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan ordered everyone to return to the Star Vessel so they could leave as soon as Jian Wuji was rescued.
• Xu Fan passed Jian Wuji while the Nine Sword Venerable haggled with a stall owner, then secretly took Jian Wuji away aboard the Star Vessel.
• Jian Wuji told Wang Xiangchi how dissatisfied he had been with his time beside the Nine Sword Venerable, while Xu Fan worried that a powerful pursuer might catch them.
• A streak of Sword Light hurtled toward the Star Vessel.

The Nine Sword Venerable boarded Xu Fan’s Star Vessel to take Jian Wuji and threatened Xu Fan and Wang Xiangchi, but Jian Wuji stopped him with the First Bow of his Three Bows. The Nine Sword Venerable left with Jian Wuji, and Xu Fan reassured Wang Xiangchi that his bond with his disciple remained.

• The Nine Sword Venerable broke through the Star Vessel’s protective barrier and demanded to know who had taken his disciple, Jian Wuji.
• Wang Xiangchi said Jian Wuji had originally been his disciple, and the Nine Sword Venerable threatened to kill him and Xu Fan while taking Jian Wuji away.
• As the Nine Sword Venerable prepared to attack, Jian Wuji began the First Bow, terrifying his master into agreeing to spare Xu Fan and Wang Xiangchi.
• The Nine Sword Venerable departed with Jian Wuji, and Xu Fan wrote his name in a notebook for future revenge.
• Jian Wuji told the Nine Sword Venerable that Xu Fan had taught him the Three Bows and helped him draw out vast vitality, prompting his master to reconsider Xu Fan’s strength.
• After the Star Vessel resumed its journey, Xu Fan told Wang Xiangchi that his bond with Jian Wuji had only just begun and urged him to cultivate until he could defeat the Nine Sword Venerable.

Xu Fan and Li Xingci discussed having an Immortal Artifact recognize Chufan as its master, then returned to the Extreme Sky Domain. Xu Fan found an adult Extreme Void Colossus and attacked it, but the beast swallowed the cannon blast unharmed.

• Li Xingci asked Xu Fan whether an Immortal Artifact could be sealed inside Chufan, and Xu Fan advised having the artifact recognize Chufan as its master instead.
• Xu Fan promised to help Chufan claim Elder Rantian's Immortal Artifact and told Zhan Ling he could refine an Immortal Artifact if Zhan Ling obtained suitable Spirit Ore.
• After the Star Vessel entered the Extreme Sky Domain, Xu Fan heard an Extreme Void Colossus roar and ordered the crew to pursue it.
• Xu Fan spotted an adult Extreme Void Colossus feeding on a Small Star and ordered Grape to conceal the Star Vessel and maneuver in front of it.
• Xu Fan fired the Main Cannon into the Colossus's mouth, but it emerged unhurt and appeared to enjoy the blast, so Xu Fan ordered Grape to calculate its weaknesses.

Xu Fan returned to Hidden Spirit Island after the Star Vessel’s cannon failed to harm the Extreme Void Colossus, then completed a Realm Ring Dao Artifact to absorb a Minor World. He entered the world founded by Feng Changning to claim it, where the story left him surrounded by women in the capital.

• Xu Fan gave up on attacking the Extreme Void Colossus after the Star Vessel’s weapons failed to break its defenses, and returned to Hidden Spirit Island with Venerable Zhan Ling.
• Xu Fan’s Hula Hoop-shaped Dao Artifact survived its Lightning Tribulation with Grape’s help, and Xu Fan named it the Realm Ring.
• Xu Fan explained that the Realm Ring would absorb a Minor World and decided to collect a nearby world despite Clone Number Two’s warning that it was low-grade.
• Xu Fan opened a passage into the Minor World above a lake, entered it, and found his cultivation suppressed to the Golden Core Stage.
• Xu Fan appeared in the capital of the Dynasty founded by Feng Changning and strolled through its streets before a group of women surrounded him.

Xu Fan visited Youyue Workshop, where he met its Three Absolutes and discovered that the Chef and Youyue were involved in a plan to replace the declining Dynasty. With less than a shichen before the Realm Ring absorbed the Minor World, Xu Fan suggested using Youyue’s Moon Illusion Body to trap everyone in their dreams.

• Xu Fan entered Youyue Workshop and sealed the long street so he could meet the Three Absolutes.
• Xu Fan sampled the Chef’s food, watched Youyue dance, and revealed that he had noticed cultivators stationed around the Royal City.
• The Chef confirmed that he served Great Emperor Changning and planned to put a more suitable ruler on the throne before Foreign Races destroyed the Dynasty.
• The Chef described his ideal society, and Xu Fan questioned how it would handle ambitious people.
• Xu Fan proposed using Youyue as a medium to unleash a super Illusion Art, and the Chef reacted with fear and excitement.

Xu Fan requisitioned the Minor World for the Hidden Spirit Sect, arranged for its mortals to be cared for, and invited several of its Cultivators to join the sect. The newcomers reached the Hidden Spirit Sect and began learning about the wider Cultivation World, where even an Outer Sect Spirit Transformation Cultivator dwarfed their former understanding of power.

• Xu Fan caught a Golden Core Stage elder’s message and explained that his plan for the Minor World would provide for mortals while allowing ambitious people to pursue their goals.
• Xu Fan announced that the Hidden Spirit Sect had requisitioned the realm and gave its Cultivators half a month to leave through the Heavenly Gate.
• Xu Fan invited the Chef to join as a Spirit Chef and offered the elder and his disciples a chance to join the Outer Sect.
• A bright Round Moon put the mortals to sleep while a voice explained the new world’s rules, and Spirit Boats carried Puppets and Game Helmets across the realm.
• Xu Fan used a Star Vessel to tow the Hula Hoop back toward Hidden Spirit Island and reflected on the Minor World’s potential to produce talented Heavenly Puppet Masters.
• Ten days later, the elder, a burly man, and two women arrived at the Hidden Spirit Sect, where a Spirit Transformation Outer Sect Cultivator taught them the cultivation realms and revealed his own level.

Xu Fan recruited a chef from the Minor World while probing Wang Yulun about a dream of a shattered world. At the Great Iron Wall, the Middle-aged Butcher led puppet forces against the Demon Race and returned with a damaged puppet after an ambush.

• Cultivators learned that the Upper Realm’s war with the Demon Race made joining the Hidden Spirit Sect Outer Sect their safest choice, and a Spirit Transformation Stage Puppet recruited the chef as the sect’s chief chef.
• Xu Fan asked Wang Yulun about a dream of a shattered world, and Wang Yulun recalled a woman speaking to him but dismissed the possibility of a previous life affecting his present.
• At the Great Iron Wall, Zhan Ling and the Middle-aged Butcher discussed the Demon Race’s strength as an Integration Stage great demon was struck down by the Demon Suppressing Stars.
• The Middle-aged Butcher led tens of thousands of puppets in a charge against the Demon Race Army and fought with his Void Slaying Blade.
• The Middle-aged Butcher returned with a damaged puppet arm after being ambushed by a Spirit Transformation Stage Demon Race member, and he complained to Zhan Ling about the cost of using a warranty claim.

Xu Fan praised a young Spiritless Body who piloted a powerful Spirit Transformation Stage Puppet, then prepared to exploit a seven-month delay to abduct the Moon Fox Clan’s remaining Artifact Refining Grandmasters. The chapter ended with Xu Fan, Clone Number Two, and a Moon Fox Grandmaster debating how to refine a Dao Artifact that resembled an Immortal Artifact.

• Logistics Puppets cleared the battlefield while Zhan Ling showed the Middle-aged Butcher footage of a Swordsman Puppet killing a Spirit Transformation Stage Giant Serpent.
• Xu Fan and Li Xingci discussed the young Puppet controller’s exceptional talent, his Spiritless Body, and the loss of his family to the Demon Race.
• Xu Fan asked Li Xingci about the Moon Fox Demon Clan, and Li Xingci reported that preparations could delay its investigation for seven months.
• Xu Fan told Li Xingci to spend time with his son while he prepared a plan to bring the Moon Fox Clan’s remaining Artifact Refining Grandmasters to Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan, Clone Number Two, and the Moon Fox Clan’s Artifact Refining Grandmaster debated an Immortal Script Array for refining a Dao Artifact, and Xu Fan rejected the Grandmaster’s proposal.

Clone Number One decided to return to Xu Fan after discovering that freedom felt empty, and he prepared to leave Volcanic Immortal Town with Er Tie and his little sister. As he traveled toward the Main Body, Xu Fan continued working on Immortal Script Arrays and planned to investigate the Moon Fox Clan’s Immortal Artifacts.

• Clone Number One invited Er Tie and his little sister to return to the Sect with him, offering her a chance to pass the Sect’s test or join the Outer Sect.
• Clone Number One told the Hall Master of Artifact Refining Hall that he preferred life beside Xu Fan, and the Hall Master gave him the Phoenix Divine Fire as a farewell gift.
• Clone Number One gave the Hall Master a Magic Plate containing Immortal Script Arrays, then departed Volcanic Immortal Town aboard his Spirit Boat.
• Xu Fan sensed that Clone Number One might be coming to find him while discussing Immortal Script Arrays with Clone Number Two.
• Xu Fan decided to have Elder Zhan Ling capture Integration Stage Moon Foxes for Soul Search to learn how to fool the Moon Fox Clan’s Artifact Refining Grandmaster.

Xu Fan struggled to disguise an Immortal Artifact well enough to fool Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters, until Clone Number One returned and offered to perfect the Immortal Script Array. Half a year later, the Thousand Net Umbrella appeared near the Moon Fox Clan Holy City, drawing the attention of powerful Demon Race figures.

• Xu Fan received a Wisdom Light blessing from the Heavenly Fortune Turtle, but it did not solve his problem with the Immortal Script Array.
• Clone Number One returned to Hidden Spirit Sect with Er Tie and a little girl, and Grape offered to take over the Spirit Boat's Artifact Spirit.
• Xu Fan showed Clone Number One the Moon Fox Clan Artifact Refiners and asked him to complete the array; Clone Number One agreed to finish it in three days and shared his experiences and insights.
• Half a year later, the Thousand Net Umbrella appeared ten thousand li from the Moon Fox Clan Holy City with the aura of an Immortal Artifact.
• The Moon Fox Demon Venerable summoned Moon Heart Grandmaster while an Earth Bear and a Wolf Shadow offered to help seize the umbrella in exchange for Dao Artifacts.

Xu Fan and three Human Race Venerables ambushed the Demon Race as four Artifact Refining Grandmasters prepared to claim the Thousand Net Umbrella. The attack began just before the Immortal Script Array could be broken, but the four Demon Venerables seized the Immortal Artifact and confronted Zhan Ling.

• The four Demon Venerables negotiated how to share the Thousand Net Umbrella and the benefits of the Human Race's Great Iron Wall, agreeing to recruit Artifact Refining Grandmasters to suppress the artifact.
• Xu Fan listened in, then arranged for Zhan Ling, Tiger Roar Venerable, and Venerable Ling Xiu to help seize the Demon Race's Artifact Refining Grandmasters in exchange for customized Dao Artifacts.
• After the four Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters began deciphering the Immortal Script Array, Xu Fan and the others waited in ambush for three days.
• As the Grandmasters neared a breakthrough, Xu Fan activated the Illusionary Void Array and Zhan Ling unleashed a Blood Sea toward them.
• The four Demon Venerables seized the Thousand Net Umbrella and faced Zhan Ling, who was joined by Tiger Roar Venerable and Venerable Ling Xiu.

Xu Fan and the Human Race Venerables seized four Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters while Zhan Ling held off the Demon Venerables. The group returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect, where Xu Fan planned to use the new grandmasters to advance Star Vessel trade and prepared for the Demon Race’s retaliation.

• Zhan Ling trapped Moon Fox Venerable and Frost Wolf Venerable in his Blood Sea and transformed into Blood Spirit to overwhelm them.
• Xu Fan recovered the four unconscious Artifact Refining Grandmasters and told the Venerables to draw the other Demon Venerables toward Zhan Ling.
• Zhan Ling detonated his Blood Spirit Clone to force back the four Demon Venerables, giving Xu Fan and the others a chance to withdraw.
• Xu Fan asked the three Venerables to guard the Great Iron Wall and ordered Grape to raise the alert and mobilize undercover agents.
• Xu Fan told Li Xingci to send Demon Traitors to try to rescue captured humans who might be used as leverage.
• Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect with the four Artifact Refining Grandmasters and planned to begin Star Vessel trade.

Xu Fan ordered a massive bombardment of the Demon Race army gathered beyond the Great Iron Wall, then negotiated with the Moon Fox Demon Venerable over the captured Artifact Refining Grandmasters. After the Demon Venerables withdrew, Xu Fan considered their likely retaliation and faced a decision about whether to admit Er Tie’s food-loving younger sister into the sect.

• Xu Fan ordered Grape to fire the Star Vessel’s cannons at the Demon Race army and the Four Great Demon Venerables beyond the Great Iron Wall.
• Tens of thousands of Light Beams devastated the Demon Race army, and the Moon Fox Demon Venerable appeared to accuse the Human Race of ruthlessness.
• The Moon Fox Demon Venerable offered fifty years of peace in exchange for four Artifact Refining Grandmasters, but Zhan Ling countered with a hundred-year deal exchanging one grandmaster every twenty-five years, prompting the Demon Venerables to leave in anger.
• Xu Fan worried that the Demon Race would retaliate and considered buying more Main Cannon shells as Magic Art Puppets cleared the ruined land beyond the wall.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan that the Moon Fox Demon Clan had sent over a hundred more Artifact Refiners, leaving few in their clan.
• Xu Fan asked Clone Number One whether he had come to plead for Er Tie’s younger sister, whose test showed an extreme devotion to protecting the sect’s food.

Xu Fan accepted Er Yuan as a Third Generation Disciple, and Er Tie enrolled her in the Hidden Spirit Academy as its students competed in a virtual battle. Meanwhile, the Four Great Demon Venerables planned to recover their captured Artifact Refining Grandmasters, while Grape Number One continued stockpiling resources in the Demon World as it waited for its Master.

• Xu Fan agreed to let Er Yuan become a Third Generation Disciple after Clone Number One resolved his concerns.
• Er Tie stopped Er Yuan from begging the Chief Chef to take her as a student and enrolled her in Class One at the Hidden Spirit Academy.
• Li Leihu led Class One against Lin Mowan's Class Two in a game battle, where Lin Mowan's misty forest trapped students and Li Leihu struck back with a lightning blade.
• The Four Great Demon Venerables decided to trade captured Humans with Spiritual Roots for their Artifact Refining Grandmasters and seek help from neighboring Demon Venerables.
• Grape Number One told the Earth Crystal Spider that the Teleportation Array remained sealed and continued gathering resources for its Master's return and the base's self-preservation.

The Earth Crystal Spider agreed to serve as Grape’s proxy Demon Beast in exchange for a share of expansion profits. Meanwhile, Xu Fan and Wang Yulun opened a sealed box containing a Black Smoke Giant, whose threats prompted Xu Fan to reveal his overwhelming power.

• The Earth Crystal Spider negotiated with a Void Refining Puppet and accepted a ten percent share of profits for serving as Grape’s representative Demon Beast.
• Xu Fan examined Wang Yulun and warned that the strange space inside him was connected to his previous life.
• Wang Yulun fished up a black box, and Xu Fan opened it, releasing the Black Smoke Giant.
• The Black Smoke Giant threatened Xu Fan and Wang Yulun and demanded that they submit to him.
• Xu Fan stabilized the box’s Magic Artifact and revealed a world-shattering illusion that terrified the Black Smoke Giant into claiming he had only been joking.