Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan entered the Fox Clan Holy City disguised as an Iron Eater Beast Pill Refiner and opened a shop while preparing his plan to harm the Demon Clan’s young. He left the Fox Clan Youth working as his shopkeeper and refining Moon Radiance Pills for him.

• Moon Fox Demon Venerable gave the Iron Eater Beast his Dao Artifact Pill Refining Furnace, and Xu Fan spared him after accepting the gift.
• Xu Fan traveled with the Fox Clan Youth to the Holy City and promised to refine two batches of Moon Radiance Pills for him.
• Xu Fan entered the city by revealing his identity as a Pill Refiner, then turned away a seductive Red-tailed Beauty who offered to guide him.
• Three days later, Xu Fan opened an Iron Eater Beast Pill Refining Shop and told Zhan Ling he planned to carry out his Plan to Harm Demon Clan Young without poisoning demons directly.
• Xu Fan finished refining Moon Radiance Pills and sent the bottle to the Fox Clan Youth, who was working behind the shop counter.

Xu Fan refined Demon Core pills for the Fox Clan and arranged a trade with the Red-Tailed Beauty for Dao Artifact-grade ore and ancient Spiritual Herbs. After secretly preparing Spirit Feeding Pills with a delayed effect, he inspected the beauty’s payment and found it insufficient, though she promised to negotiate more.

• The Red-Tailed Beauty asked Xu Fan to refine Young Demonic Beast Body Tempering Pills and Spirit Tempering Pills in exchange for Dao Artifact-grade raw ore and millennium-old Spiritual Herbs.
• Xu Fan accepted the deal and refined the pills, while the Fox Clan Youth explained his fear of being lured into the beauty’s Fox Den and his ambition to restore the Moon Fox Clan.
• Xu Fan told Zhan Ling that the Moon Fox Clan might need its clansmen for the Artifact Refining Grandmaster on Hidden Spirit Island.
• After the Fox Clan Youth returned to the shop, Xu Fan secretly crushed Spirit Feeding Pills and mixed them with strange Spiritual Herbs into a powder designed to take effect ten years later.
• The Red-Tailed Beauty returned with ore and herbs for five hundred bottles of each pill, but Xu Fan said the payment was short; impressed by the pills’ quality, she promised to negotiate with her clan.

Xu Fan completed a huge pill order in the Fox Clan Holy City, secretly adding a dormant virus to every batch before leaving to visit the Moon Fox Demon Venerable. On the Demon Race’s great-clan warship to another Holy City, he befriended Fa Yun of the White Jade Giant Elephant Clan and gave him adulterated pills.

• Xu Fan accepted orders for six thousand bottles of young demonic beast pills and used automated production lines to refine them.
• After completing the orders, Xu Fan delivered pills containing a virus that would awaken when their consumers fought in the Human World.
• Xu Fan said farewell to the Fox Clan Youth, visited the Moon Fox Demon Venerable, and boarded an express warship for another Holy City.
• Xu Fan met Fa Yun, a White Jade Giant Elephant, exchanged tokens and pills with him, and privately considered the value of Fa Yun’s tusks.

Xu Fan escaped a Demon Race warship moments before the Thousand Spirits Sect destroyed it, then reunited with Venerable Qian Ling aboard the sect’s Star Vessel. As they headed back toward the Demon Race continent, Xu Fan shared what he had learned about the demons controlling Extreme Void Colossi and asked about Qian Ling’s costly Star Vessel upgrades.

• Fa Yun asked Xu Fan to contact an Artifact Refining Grandmaster to forge inheritance battle armor from the Giant Teeth of his clan’s elders.
• Grape warned Xu Fan that the Thousand Spirits Sect planned to attack the Demon Race warship, so Xu Fan fled into the Extreme Sky Domain.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect’s Star Vessels destroyed the Demon Race warship, and Xu Fan survived the blast behind his Heavy Armor Puppets’ shields.
• Xu Fan contacted Venerable Qian Ling and joined him aboard the Thousand Spirits Sect Star Vessel.
• Xu Fan told Qian Ling about the demons’ means of controlling Extreme Void Colossi, and Qian Ling explained that he had intercepted three Demon Race warships.
• Xu Fan noticed the Star Vessel’s Invisibility Magic Arrays and asked Qian Ling how much they had cost.

Xu Fan and his companions arrived at the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Demon World base, where the Sect’s Supreme Elders welcomed them and hosted a banquet. The Supreme Third Elder then invited the two Sects’ disciples to exchange pointers.

• Venerable Qian Ling showed Xu Fan the costly enhancements on his Star Vessels and discussed his plans for the Demon Race tribes under his protection.
• After a month of travel, Xu Fan and Venerable Qian Ling returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Demon World base, where Venerable Qian Ling explained that small Demon Race tribes had signed contracts not to harm humans.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect’s three Supreme Elders welcomed Xu Fan, and he brought more than a thousand Hidden Spirit Sect members out of his Dao Artifact Palace.
• Xu Fan introduced Zhan Ling and Xu Yuexian to the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Supreme Elders, who treated Zhan Ling calmly despite his past as a Devil Cultivator.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect hosted a banquet, where its disciples enthusiastically toasted the Hidden Spirit Sect members, and Xu Fan announced that they would soon return to the Human World.
• The Supreme Third Elder visited Xu Fan the next day and proposed that disciples from both Sects exchange pointers.

Xu Fan agreed to a three-day disciple exchange between the Hidden Spirit Sect and the Thousand Spirits Sect, where both sides competed for arena points and rewards. As the exchange began, the Thousand Spirits Sect’s elders discussed Xu Fan’s resemblance to their Supreme Great Elder’s former bearing, and Xu Fan sensed someone was plotting against him.

• Xu Fan and the Supreme Third Elder agreed to hold a three-day disciple exchange, with both sects providing rewards.
• Xu Lingtai decided to participate, while disciples from both sects prepared for the exchange.
• The disciples entered a Mystic Realm with arenas divided between the two sects and additional free Gambling Arenas.
• Xu Fan and Zhan Ling watched the gathering as the Thousand Spirits Sect elders discussed the Hidden Spirit Sect’s strength.
• Venerable Qian Ling and the Supreme Third Elder speculated about Xu Fan’s power, and the Supreme Great Elder appeared and pressed them down.
• Xu Fan sensed someone making calculations against him, then met the Supreme Great Elder’s gaze across the venue.

The Hidden Spirit Sect’s disciples overwhelmed the Thousand Spirits Sect in the Mystic Realm arena matches, prompting the Supreme Third Elder to question his sect’s training. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Blade Series Puppet, piloted by a Mortal, battling Xie Peng as Xu Fan praised Zhan Ling’s brother.

• Ying Ci defeated Jing Fei with a swift, concealed strike, winning the opening match for the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xiang Yun blasted a Golden Core Heavenly Pride out of the arena with a Sword Array of more than three hundred Spiritual Swords, and Xu Lingtai displayed the Thousand-Hand Phantom against another challenger.
• After Hidden Spirit Sect disciples won match after match, the Supreme Third Elder asked whether their disciples had greater talent, longer cultivation, or more resources, then advised his Integration Stage Elder to study their teaching methods.
• The Heavenly Blade Series Puppet entered the arena to face Xie Peng, and the Middle-aged Butcher attacked him with increasingly fast and powerful Thunder Blade strikes.
• Xu Fan admired the Puppet’s control of the Lightning Dao and praised Zhan Ling’s brother.

Xu Lingtai and Xie Peng prepared to fight after Xie Peng won his battle against the Middle-aged Butcher’s Puppet. As Xie Peng recovered and faced Xu Lingtai, Xu Lingtai said he could usually only maintain an undefeated state, leaving Xie Peng questioning what he meant by “under normal circumstances.”

• Xie Peng endured the Middle-aged Butcher’s Puppet’s attacks before destroying it with an Earth-based Divine Ability when it lagged, winning the match for the Thousand Spirits Sect.
• The Supreme Third Elder approved Xie Peng for an opportunity to enter the Thousand Spirits Mystic Realm.
• Xu Lingtai and Xie Peng met on the arena and agreed to fight after Xie Peng rested for an hour.
• Xu Fan predicted that Xie Peng would lose because Xu Lingtai often visited Zhou Kailing, while Zhan Ling recalled Zhou Kailing’s alarming spells.
• After recovering, Xie Peng told Xu Lingtai he would fight to the end, and Xu Lingtai replied that he could usually only maintain an undefeated state.

Xu Lingtai battled Xie Peng, breaking through his defenses with Railgun attacks before unleashing the Immortal Palace Feast illusion. Xie Peng resisted its temptations and escaped one layer, but remained trapped as the illusion deepened.

• Xie Peng defended against Xu Lingtai's Thousand-Hand Phantom while trying to locate his true body, and the arena elder expanded the platform for their fight.
• Xu Lingtai fired Spirit Iron Alloy Railgun shots that cracked Xie Peng's shield, but Xie Peng dodged the barrage until Xu Lingtai ran out of cannonballs.
• Xu Lingtai offered to call the match a draw rather than use his cruel abnormal method, but Xie Peng asked him to use it and refused to retreat.
• Xu Lingtai cast the Immortal Palace Feast, surrounding Xie Peng with celestial visions and layers of illusion.
• Xie Peng resisted the first illusion with his Heart Mirror Divine Ability, but found himself still trapped in the feast and struggled to break free.

Xu Lingtai’s Immortal Palace Feast illusion forced the duel with Xie Peng to end in a draw after the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Third Elder intervened. Three days later, the exchange concluded with Hidden Spirit Sect taking most of the arenas and all of the top twenty points places.

• Xie Peng fell into Xu Lingtai’s Immortal Palace Feast illusion and enjoyed its food and company until a dish’s strange taste made him question what he was experiencing.
• Xu Fan asked the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Third Elder to stop the match, and the elder ruled the round a draw, ending the illusion and rescuing Xie Peng.
• Xu Fan told Zhan Ling that Hidden Spirit Sect disciples learned his Fifth Disciple’s Divine Abilities and recommended the Scripture Repository technique Most Beautiful Meal.
• The two sects continued their arena exchange for three days, after which Hidden Spirit Sect held fourteen arenas and all of the top twenty points rankings, while Thousand Spirits Sect held six arenas.
• Venerable Qian Ling called the outcome better than expected, and the Supreme Third Elder questioned whether it counted as a good result.

Xu Fan repaired a Star Vessel for the Thousand Spirits Sect and taught its Artifact Refining Grandmasters how to repair Spirit Energy Cores. Before leaving, Venerable Qian Ling told Xu Fan that Han Feiyu was in the Northern Extreme Domain and asked to buy the Divine Ability Immortal Palace Feast.

• The Supreme Third Elder arranged for Thousand Spirits Sect disciples to study at the Hidden Spirit Sect in exchange for repairing Xu Fan's Star Vessels for free.
• Xu Fan began repairing a damaged Star Vessel and offered to teach the Thousand Spirits Sect's Artifact Refining Grandmasters how to fix its Spirit Energy Core.
• After a month, Xu Fan had repaired the Spirit Energy Core and estimated that finishing the Star Vessel would take about three more months.
• Venerable Qian Ling told Xu Fan that he had encountered Han Feiyu in the Northern Extreme Domain, where Han Feiyu vanished after meeting him.
• Venerable Qian Ling asked Xu Fan whether the Hidden Spirit Sect would sell him the Divine Ability Immortal Palace Feast.

Xu Fan finished repairing the Star Vessel with help from the Thousand Spirits Sect and prepared to return to the Hidden Spirit Sect with his companions and a group of Thousand Spirits Sect disciples. The vessel departed for the Human Race Channel, while Xu Fan looked forward to being back in the Human World.

• Xu Fan gave Venerable Qian Ling a Jade Slip describing his Illusion Realm Divine Ability, and the Thousand Spirits Sect disciples and Xu Fan’s companions trained and formed friendships.
• Xie Peng asked Xu Lingtai about his Illusion Realm ability and proposed sparring again, while Xu Lingtai concealed how it truly worked.
• After three months, Xu Fan and two Artifact Refining Grandmasters repaired and modified the Star Vessel, and Venerable Qian Ling arranged for the grandmasters to visit the Hidden Spirit Sect in turn.
• Xu Fan and his group boarded the Star Vessel alongside one hundred Thousand Spirits Sect disciples, including Xie Peng, whose arrival made Xu Lingtai uneasy.
• Three Supreme Great Elders saw Xu Fan off, and the Star Vessel departed toward the Stargate in the Human Race Channel.
• The Star Vessel entered the Extreme Sky Domain and accelerated toward the Stargate as Xu Fan said it felt good to be back in the Human World.

Venerable Xuanqing and Zhang Weiyun were pursued into an ancient Mystic Realm, where they explored the ruins of the Ten Thousand Layers Palace and subdued an Immortal Artifact. Zhang Weiyun planned to give the ugly dragon-spirit rod to her husband, Xu Fan, who sensed that good fortune was coming.

• Venerable Xuanqing and Zhang Weiyun stopped their Spirit Vessel while a Demon Race Giant Beast Warship pursued them, but a Star Sea Giant Serpent bit the warship apart and sent them crashing through a barrier into an ancient Mystic Realm.
• Venerable Xuanqing defeated the Mystic Realm's Mahayana Stage Guardian Beast, and she and Zhang Weiyun broke the sealing Array Formation to uncover an ancient Sect.
• Xuanqing sensed an Immortal Artifact in the Mystic Realm and led Zhang Weiyun toward the Ten Thousand Layers Palace, overcoming its dangers along the way.
• After a day of effort, Xuanqing and Zhang Weiyun sealed the Immortal Artifact, an ugly rod containing a dragon spirit, and Zhang Weiyun decided to give it to Xu Fan.
• Xu Fan, traveling home, felt as though a blessing and good fortune were about to come his way.

Xu Fan returned to Hidden Spirit Island and learned that the Sect had secured a Supergiant Heavy Spirit Fire Copper Mine, while the Thousand Spirits Sect disciples settled in and explored the Sect’s activities. He hurried to Artifact Refining Peak after a Dao Artifact’s formation caused powerful fluctuations and found that Sha Diao had produced a Flame Copper Alloy suitable for refining Dao Artifacts.

• Zhan Ling piloted the Star Vessel through the Stargate and brought Xu Fan and the others back to Hidden Spirit Island, where Xu Fan learned the Sect was mining a Supergiant Heavy Spirit Fire Copper Mine in the Demon World.
• Xu Fan reunited with his disciples, welcomed them, and arranged accommodations for the Thousand Spirits Sect disciples and the Artifact Refining Grandmaster.
• Xu Lingtai showed Xie Peng and the other Thousand Spirits Sect disciples around Hidden Spirit Island, explained the Battle Royale Game, and introduced them to Grape.
• A Dao Artifact’s formation sent powerful fluctuations across Hidden Spirit Island, and Xu Fan rushed from his Small Courtyard to Artifact Refining Peak.
• Xu Fan and Sha Diao examined the Flame Copper Alloy that Sha Diao had refined to the level of an Alloy Spirit Ore usable in Dao Artifacts.

Xu Fan and Sha Diao perfected Flame Copper Alloy and Xu Fan spent a month designing a production line for Void Refining Puppets. His wife Zhang Weiyun returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect, reuniting with him, while her Master briefly confronted Zhan Ling before revealing her connection to the sect.

• Sha Diao celebrated becoming an Artifact Refining Grandmaster, and Xu Fan praised Flame Copper Alloy for refining Dao Artifacts, puppets, and Star Vessel cannons.
• Xu Fan took the alloy formula and designed a production line for Void Refining Puppets using Flame Copper Alloy and Rock Star Iron Spirit Ore.
• Grape announced that Zhang Weiyun had returned, and Xu Fan hurried to meet her at the edge of the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake.
• Xu Fan and Zhang Weiyun embraced and returned to Hidden Spirit Island after she reproached him for disappearing without telling her about the danger.
• Zhan Ling confronted Zhang Weiyun's Master, who identified herself as the Great Elder's wife's Master and then vanished.

Zhang Weiyun returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect and showered Xu Fan, his disciples, and Grape with valuable gifts, including an Immortal Artifact for Xu Fan. The reunion ended with Xu Fan learning she could stay only one month and would have to reach the Integration Stage before completing her apprenticeship.

• Xu Gang, Xu Yuexian, Wang Xiangchi, Li Xingci, and Zhou Kailing welcomed Zhang Weiyun, who gave each of them a suitable treasure.
• Zhang Weiyun showed Xu Fan a Dao Artifact Palace filled with treasures she had gathered with her Master, then gave Grape Crystal Marrow.
• Zhang Weiyun presented Xu Fan with an Immortal Artifact rod, which he sealed and sent to the Treasure Vault.
• Xu Fan and Zhang Weiyun shared a meal, and she told him she could stay only one month before returning to her apprenticeship.
• Zhang Weiyun explained that she could complete her apprenticeship only after reaching the Integration Stage, when her Master would also be ready to ascend.

Xu Fan and Zhang Weiyun spent her final month with him sightseeing and trying to conceive a child before she returned to Venerable Xuanqing. Venerable Xuanqing revealed that Zhang Weiyun’s Heavenly Fortune Spirit Body would face a deadly tribulation after ascending, and planned to seek an item containing a race’s fortune to help her overcome it.

• Xu Fan welcomed Zhang Weiyun as a Hidden Spirit Sect Elder, and the disciples celebrated with a feast before the couple spent the night together.
• Xu Fan and Zhang Weiyun traveled through the Cultivation World and Demon World by day and tried to conceive a child by night during her final month with him.
• Zhang Weiyun left the Hidden Spirit Sect on a Xuanqing Bird and reunited with Venerable Xuanqing, who praised the Dao Artifacts Xu Fan had made for her.
• Venerable Xuanqing told Zhang Weiyun that Heavenly Fortune Spirit Bodies faced a life-and-death Major Tribulation after ascending to the Immortal World.
• Venerable Xuanqing explained that Zhang Weiyun could overcome the tribulation by ascending with an item containing a race’s fortune, and said her own hopes depended on Zhang Weiyun’s future Spirit Transfer and Re-cultivation.

After Zhang Weiyun left with Venerable Xuanqing for the Northern Extreme Domain, Xu Fan approved Xu Yuexian’s trip to a Demon World Mystic Realm and inspected the newly completed Void Refining Puppet production line. Grape proposed linking the Sect’s satellites into a Fasting Spirit Gathering Array to supply the Sect’s growing forces.

• Venerable Xuanqing and Zhang Weiyun set out for the Northern Extreme Domain, where Zhang Weiyun would help her master face her life-and-death Major Tribulation.
• Xu Yuexian told Xu Fan she had found a Demon World Mystic Realm, and he let her explore it with a Demon Suppressing Star for protection.
• Grape reported that the Sect’s production line had completed its first Void Refining Fire Spirit Puppets, which could fight at mid-stage Void Refining strength.
• Xu Fan learned the Sect’s energy reserves could support up to seventy thousand Void Refining Puppets in combat and considered upgrading its Spirit Gathering Array.
• Grape used the Sect’s satellite network to demonstrate a Fasting Spirit Gathering Array, and Xu Fan praised the idea and promised to create Spirit Cultivator Cultivation Methods for Grape.

Xu Fan approved converting two-thirds of the Linsen Immortal City Area for deployment in the Demon World, while Grape’s training missions brought Inner and Outer Sect disciples into conflict over a Golden Core Earth Bear. Li Leihu and Bai Xuan entered a designated duel to settle their rivalry, leaving the fight undecided.

• Xu Fan decided the Fasting Spirit Gathering Array could be used in the Demon World and ordered two-thirds of the Linsen Immortal City Area converted and sent there.
• Grape assigned Third Generation Disciples missions beyond the Great Iron Wall, where Er Yuan, Li Leihu, and Lin Mowan fought a Golden Core Earth Bear.
• Bai Xuan and Qin Lu arrived on an Outer Sect mission to retrieve the Earth Bear’s Demon Core, and Grape announced that both teams had been assigned a contested mission.
• Li Leihu and Bai Xuan agreed to duel for the Demon Core while Er Yuan collected the bear’s severed legs to take home for cooking.
• Grape designated a Duel Arena and sent a Spirit Transformation Stage Magic Art Puppet to protect the fighters; Li Leihu and Bai Xuan flew into the arena to begin their fight.

Bai Xuan and Li Leihu fought in the Duel Arena, with Bai Xuan ultimately winning after the Puppet stopped the battle to prevent a fatal outcome. Li Leihu accepted the defeat and resolved to undergo Intense Training after returning to the sect.

• Bai Xuan admitted his jealousy of the Inner Sect and attacked Li Leihu with his Spiritual Sword Arrays.
• Li Leihu spotted Bai Xuan’s concealed Sword Array and used lightning attacks to challenge his defenses.
• Bai Xuan wounded Li Leihu’s sword arm, but Li Leihu continued fighting with his left hand and unleashed a faster lightning attack.
• Li Leihu pierced Bai Xuan’s defensive Sword Array and struck with his final blow, but Bai Xuan blocked it with a Sword Shield.
• Bai Xuan’s remaining Spiritual Swords attacked Li Leihu, and the Puppet stopped the fight before the blow could kill him and declared Bai Xuan the winner.
• Li Leihu accepted his defeat and said he would undergo Intense Training after returning to the sect.