Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan demonstrated Five Elements missile Divine Abilities to Xu Gang and gave him a jade disc to study. Xu Gang left eager to master them, while an Orbital Cannon killed a distant Demon Venerable whose destroyed True Spirit left nothing to bring back for the sect.

• Xu Gang told Xu Fan that his Great Five Elements Guardian Divine Ability felt complete, but he wanted to advance it further.
• Xu Fan had Xu Gang unleash his full strength on a mountain, then advised him to continue cultivating and introduced him to the Dao of Fusion.
• Xu Fan demonstrated the Dongfeng 15 Short-Range Missile by forming a Five Elements missile that blasted apart a mountain, then gave Xu Gang a jade disc to study.
• Xu Fan described the ancient nation behind the Dongfeng name and demonstrated the far more powerful Dongfeng 61 Long-Range Missile, telling Xu Gang he could learn it after reaching the Integration Stage.
• Grape's Orbital Cannon killed a Demon Venerable, and Xu Fan regretted that its True Spirit had been destroyed and could not nourish the sect disciples.

After Xu Fan explained that the giant eagle had been a Demon Venerable, he returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect. Li Leihu, discouraged by losing to an Outer Sect Disciple, trained with his father, the Middle-aged Butcher, and then watched him spar with a formidable Mortal puppet master.

• Xu Fan told Xu Gang that the giant eagle was a Demon Venerable, then returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect as puppets took the eagle away and repair puppets arrived.
• Li Leihu told the Middle-aged Butcher that an Outer Sect Disciple had defeated him, and his father encouraged him to cultivate harder and offered to teach him combat.
• The Middle-aged Butcher defeated Li Leihu repeatedly in the Training Dao Field and challenged him to withstand a hundred moves.
• The Middle-aged Butcher brought Li Leihu to meet the black-robed man he considered the strongest Heavenly Puppet Master, and the man defeated Li Leihu in one move.
• The black-robed man and the Middle-aged Butcher fought with Foundation Establishment Stage Basic Puppets for an hour, and the man's Swordsman Puppet won by piercing the other Puppet's Spirit Energy Core.

Xiong'er sensed his kin calling from the Great Thousand Worlds, and Xu Fan encouraged him to leave, leading to Xiong'er’s sudden ascension. Xu Fan recovered the Immortal Spirit Qi left behind and learned how it could benefit the Sect, while Zhan Ling warned that the Great Thousand Worlds might be dangerous for those who ascended without sufficient strength or support.

• The Middle-aged Butcher admitted that the Puppet Master had surpassed him, and he urged Li Leihu to spar until he could win back his honor.
• Xiong'er told Xu Fan that he felt his kin calling from another world and asked whether he should go; Xu Fan encouraged him to seek them.
• An Immortal Stairway appeared, and Xiong'er ascended to the Great Thousand Worlds after promising Xu Fan they would watch the sky together again.
• Xu Fan and Zhan Ling discussed the Immortal Spirit Qi left by Xiong'er's ascension, and Grape moved it into its Fragment Minor World.
• Zhan Ling explained that Immortal Spirit Qi could improve disciples’ souls and help them during cultivation and tribulation, then warned Xu Fan that the Great Thousand Worlds were dangerous for ordinary Mahayana cultivators.

After Xiong'er’s ascension left the Hidden Spirit Sect with less protection, Xu Fan reviewed his resources and ordered the sect to hold its territory in the Demon World while gathering more materials. In the Northern Extreme Domain, Han Feiyu and his companions trapped an Ice Race member as they worked to meet their monthly quota.

• Xu Fan ordered the Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters to make more Orbital Cannons and worried that the weapons could not defeat Demon Venerables stronger than Zhan Ling.
• Xu Fan inspected the sect’s Dao Artifact- and Immortal Artifact-grade spirit ores, then ordered Grape to stabilize their Demon World territory and stop expanding excessively.
• Han Feiyu, Tie Ta, and Tie Lan hunted Ice Race members near Heavenly Abyss Immortal City to complete their monthly quota and avoid the front-line Battlefield.
• Han Feiyu used Spirit Crystals to lure a Profound Ice Giant Bird into his Thirty-Six Path Spirit Locking Great Array.

Han Feiyu sealed a peak Nascent Soul Stage Ice Race member, then returned to Heavenly Abyss Immortal City with Tie Ta and Tie Lan and planned a route back to his Sect. When an Ice Race powerhouse attacked the city, Han Feiyu moved to evacuate the siblings through a hidden Basement gate.

• Han Feiyu used the Thirty-Six Path Spirit Locking Great Array and a Red-White Orb to seal the Profound Ice Giant Bird.
• Han Feiyu, Tie Ta, and Tie Lan returned to Heavenly Abyss Immortal City, handed in their missions, and discussed what they would do if the city fell.
• Han Feiyu studied Teleportation Arrays while Tie Lan brought him Hangover Sweet Soup and explained that the Ice Race had killed Tie Ta's wife.
• Han Feiyu invited Tie Ta and Tie Lan to return to his Sect with him, and Tie Lan agreed.
• An Ice Race voice threatened to sacrifice every human in Heavenly Abyss Immortal City, so Han Feiyu gathered the siblings and opened a gate to the Basement.

Han Feiyu and two others escaped Heavenly Abyss Immortal City through a teleportation array while Xu Fan planned a transforming Star Vessel and examined artifacts Xu Yuexian had found. Xu Fan decided to combine the Myriad Beast Cage with an ancient clan statue to create a powerful summoning tool for Xu Yuexian.

• Han Feiyu led two others through a secret teleportation array to a base outside Heavenly Abyss Immortal City, which he believed was doomed.
• Xu Fan showed Sha Diao a design for transforming the Serpentine Demon Race warship into a Human Star Vessel reinforced by integrated Arrays.
• Sha Diao offered to develop a suitable alloy for the warship's hull connections, and Xu Fan gave him six months to do so.
• Xu Yuexian presented Xu Fan with the Myriad Beast Cage, which could hold a million Demon Beasts, and he offered to modify it for her.
• Xu Yuexian showed Xu Fan an ancient beast statue, and he explained that it had belonged to the Beast Taming Crimson Demon Clan and contained their Fortune Power.
• Xu Fan sent the statue to Grape's small space and planned to combine its Fortune Power with the Myriad Beast Cage to make Xu Yuexian a summoning tool.

Xu Fan had Clone Number One and Clone Number Two refine a fortune-based Dao Artifact for Yuexian, then opened the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Scripture Repository and Treasure Vault exchanges to Thousand Spirits Sect disciples. Xie Peng explored the newly available defensive techniques and found a strangely named Divine Ability, “Oli Gei Guardian.”

• Xu Fan asked Clone Number One and Clone Number Two to combine the Myriad Beast Cage with the Crimson Demon statue’s Fortune Power and refine a protective Dao Artifact for Yuexian.
• Xu Fan approved the Immortal Artifact Grade Spirit Ore Clone Number One had requested and ordered Grape to open an external Scripture Repository and Contribution Point Exchange System for Thousand Spirits Sect disciples.
• Xie Peng received the notice about the new access and flew to the Scripture Repository instead of sparring with Fellow Daoist Lingtai.
• Xie Peng studied the Five Spirit guardian arts and realized they formed the basis of a complete Great Five Elements Guardian Divine Ability.
• Xie Peng spotted an oddly named defensive Divine Ability, “Oli Gei Guardian,” in an inconspicuous corner.

Xie Peng discovered the Hidden Spirit Sect’s bizarre combat Divine Abilities and asked to meet Xiong Li, while Li Xingci and Su Rantian entrusted their young son Chufan to Xu Fan for guidance. Xu Fan took Li Chufan in as his Little Follower, and the chapter ended with Zhan Ling discussing the damaged Star Vessel and his wish to fight a Demon Venerable.

• Xie Peng examined Zhou Kailing’s strange Divine Abilities and asked Xu Lingtai about Oli Gei Guardian and the other techniques.
• Xu Lingtai explained that the sect restricted those Divine Abilities to life-or-death situations and gave Xie Peng Xiong Li’s communication number.
• Li Xingci and Su Rantian asked Xu Fan to guide Li Chufan, and Xu Fan agreed to have the boy stay by his side.
• Xu Fan took Li Chufan fishing, where the boy and children formed from Five Elements Spirit Qi chased the Dragon Egg across the lake.
• Zhan Ling asked when the new Star Vessel would be ready and lamented that he could not go fight Demon Race Warships; Li Chufan asked him not to let the Heavy Water Origin Blade drink blood.

Xu Fan examined Zhan Ling’s Blood Origin Crystal Stone and began binding a mysterious Immortal Artifact staff, naming it Spirit Break. He watched Li Chufan train and enlightened Wang Yulun, who was still only at the Nascent Soul Stage.

• Xu Fan identified Zhan Ling’s Blood Origin Crystal Stone as coming from a Sky Gazing Ancient Demon and said it could strengthen Zhan Ling’s future Immortal Artifact blade.
• Xu Fan inspected an ancient Immortal Artifact staff, found a single Immortal Script for “break” on it, and bound it to himself as Spirit Break.
• Li Chufan told Xu Fan that the Heavy Water Origin Blade feared Spirit Break, then fought several equally cultivated opponents Xu Fan had summoned for his training.
• Wang Yulun appeared beside Xu Fan, and Xu Fan praised Li Chufan’s comprehension despite his poor aptitude.
• Xu Fan used Fire Origin to enlighten Wang Yulun and noted that Wang Yulun remained at the Nascent Soul Stage while his son had reached the Spirit Transformation Stage.

Xu Fan trained Li Chufan, taught him a powerful blade art, and promised Zhan Ling a Blood Spirit Great Art for the sect’s Scripture Repository. Meanwhile, a Puppet contingent prepared to leave the Earth Crystal Spider’s base, carrying Xu Fan’s instructions to help the Demon World’s small races resist enslavement.

• Xu Fan watched Li Chufan fight summoned opponents, then noticed the boy had used Zhan Ling’s blood-qi technique and warned that its risks required guidance.
• Zhan Ling asked Xu Fan to deduce Devil Cultivator methods, and Xu Fan promised to place a Blood Spirit Great Art in the Scripture Repository after the Hidden Spirit Sect reached the Immortal World.
• Li Chufan defeated all his opponents, and Xu Fan taught him the Five Elements Blade Method, also called Blade Dao Origin Essence.
• Grape told Xu Fan that a Puppet contingent was relocating from the Earth Crystal Spider’s base, a journey expected to take three hundred years.
• The Void Refining Puppet told Earth Crystal Spider that Xu Fan had lifted restrictions on its computing power and manufacturing and assigned it to help small Demon World races resist enslavement.

Earth Crystal Spider and the Void Refining Puppet planned to strengthen Demon Race City by training an artifact-refining expert, while Xu Fan sent Little Spider Demon Race Divine Ability Cultivation Methods. Xu Fan also helped Li Chufan defeat a powerful duplicate and left him recovering while contemplating the battle.

• The Void Refining Puppet told Earth Crystal Spider that Demon Race City needed a high-level Artifact Refining Grandmaster to forge a weapon capable of deterring ordinary Demon Venerables, so they decided to train one themselves.
• Earth Crystal Spider asked whether Xu Fan would teach her Divine Abilities, and the Void Refining Puppet suggested she send him an original letter of praise.
• Xu Fan read Little Spider's unoriginal flattery, decided to teach her directly, and ordered Grape to send her all suitable sealed Demon Race Divine Ability Cultivation Methods.
• Xu Fan encouraged Li Chufan to keep fighting his duplicate, then used Five Elements Origin and Great Dao Scriptures to help him turn the battle around.
• Li Chufan defeated the duplicate with a Heavy Water Giant Blade, collapsed, and followed Xu Fan's instruction to sit cross-legged and contemplate the fight while recovering.

Wang Yulun agreed to follow Xu Fan’s Pay-to-Win Dao, and Xu Fan began preparing a set for him. After Li Chufan went home, Xu Fan inspected the reforged Myriad Beast Cage and learned it could assimilate captured Demon Beasts and Demon Race members into Beast Taming beasts.

• Xu Fan told Wang Yulun that Li Chufan could fight up to twenty-one versions of Wang Yulun at the same cultivation stage, prompting Wang Yulun to ask for help improving.
• Xu Fan persuaded Wang Yulun to follow the Pay-to-Win Dao and told Grape to begin producing Hundredfold Return Plan No. 11 with the highest Spirit Ore priority.
• Wang Yulun left to have dinner with Qian'er, and Xu Fan sent the recovered Li Chufan home to eat with his parents.
• Grape informed Xu Fan that the Myriad Beast Cage had been reforged, and Xu Fan inspected it with Clone Number One and Clone Number Two.
• Clone Number One explained that the cage had fused with the Beast Taming Crimson Demon Clan’s fortune and will, a World Fragment, and a Grape clone, allowing it to become a small world that assimilated captured Demon Beasts and Demon Race members.
• Xu Fan learned that the cage could assimilate Mahayana Stage targets only after their bodies and souls had been severely injured, and that altering its Heavenly Dao rules would require it to become an Immortal Artifact.

Xu Fan prepared to keep mortal geniuses alive by upgrading his equipment to produce an Immortal Artifact, while arranging for Xu Yuexian to use the Myriad Beast Cage. He then rushed to the Demon World to face the approaching Cloud Saint Demon Venerable, leaving Zhan Ling ready to fight and the Great Iron Wall on alert.

• Xu Fan showed his clones a plan to assemble 108 top-tier Dao Artifact sets so he could produce an Immortal Artifact, and he considered selling more technology to fund it.
• Xu Fan gave Xu Yuexian the refined Myriad Beast Cage and sent her to the Great Iron Wall to collect Demon Beasts and Demon Race members.
• After learning that Cloud Saint Demon Venerable was approaching, Xu Fan hurried to the Great Iron Wall and discovered the Saint Lion Demon Venerable had been close to the slain Blood Lion Demon Venerable.
• Xu Fan prepared the Four Orbital Cannons and told Zhan Ling to target Cloud Saint Demon Venerable while sparing the lesser demons for Xu Yuexian's cage.
• Xiong Li watched Xu Fan prepare for the threat and resolved to become the Hidden Spirit Sect's strongest combatant, though he remained a Golden Core Stage disciple.

Xu Fan sent Zhan Ling to test Cloud Saint Demon Venerable, whose Light Dao overwhelmed him and left him restrained. As Zhan Ling offered to trade Blood Lion Demon Venerable’s True Spirit for his life, Xu Fan fired two Orbital Cannons, forcing Cloud Saint Demon Venerable to flee as a dazzling blast erupted.

• Xiong Li admitted he resented being too weak to help the sect, and Xu Fan urged him to cultivate patiently and gain experience.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable appeared beyond the Great Iron Wall, blamed Zhan Ling for killing her younger brother, and threatened to make a wine cup from his skull.
• Xu Fan warned Zhan Ling that Cloud Saint Demon Venerable’s Light Dao countered his Blood Sea, then sent him to intercept her and probe her strength.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable suppressed Zhan Ling, pierced his Blood Sea with her Light Dao, and restrained him with a formation and a Light Seal.
• Zhan Ling offered Cloud Saint Demon Venerable Blood Lion Demon Venerable’s True Spirit in exchange for his life, while Xu Fan fired two Orbital Cannons toward her predicted position.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable fled after sensing danger, and a dazzling explosion tore through the space between heaven and earth.

Xu Fan drove off Cloud Saint Demon Venerable with Orbital Cannon fire but realized she could overwhelm the Hidden Spirit Sect if she approached the Great Iron Wall. He ordered a cannon sent toward the Saint Lion Clan’s Holy City to threaten its other Demon Venerables, while Cloud Saint Demon Venerable planned to subjugate the Jade Light Rabbit Clan.

• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable dodged Xu Fan’s Orbital Cannon shots after her battle with Zhan Ling, and Xu Fan explained that firing another shot would have destroyed an unseen Immortal Artifact.
• Zhan Ling admitted that Cloud Saint Demon Venerable’s Dao countered his own, while Xu Fan and Grape assessed the limits of their ability to hit her with the cannons.
• Xu Fan ordered the first Orbital Cannon sent toward the Saint Lion Clan’s Holy City, planning to threaten its other Demon Venerables if Cloud Saint Demon Venerable attacked the Great Iron Wall.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable questioned a Jade Light Rabbit about the human race’s weapons, then declared that the Jade Light Rabbit Clan would become her servant clan after she wiped out the humans.
• The Jade Light Rabbit hesitated over whether to report Cloud Saint Demon Venerable’s threat to Jade Light Demon Venerable.

Xu Fan kept Cloud Saint Demon Venerable searching for his concealed weapons while preparing the Great Iron Wall’s defenses. He then sparred with Zhan Ling using an Integration Stage Puppet and Spirit Break, ending with Zhan Ling cutting the Puppet apart.

• Xu Fan reviewed the Saint Lion Clan’s unification plan and called it naive despite its appeal.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable searched the sky for the hidden Demon Suppressing Star, then sent a giant bird toward the Saint Lion Clan’s Holy City.
• Xu Fan learned that fifteen percent of the Absolute Food Spirit Gathering Array was complete and ordered its receivers prepared.
• Xu Fan controlled an Integration Stage Puppet with Spirit Break and challenged Zhan Ling to spar.
• Zhan Ling kept his spiritual power at the Integration Stage during their battle, then released his full power and cleaved the Puppet into pieces.

Xu Fan guided Sui Ying through a sword-puppet duel, then drank with Zhan Ling atop the Great Iron Wall and discussed weapons powerful enough to kill Venerables. He explained that the Heavenly Dao had wiped out the Ancient Demons because their ascent drained the world of resources, leaving the conversation focused on the world’s limits.

• Zhan Ling praised Xu Fan after their battle and asked to spar with him once his dao companion gave him an Immortal Artifact Great Blade.
• Sui Ying challenged Xu Fan’s puppet, whose swordsmanship turned Sui Ying’s Myriad Blade Silk Kill back against him and defeated his puppet while giving him insight.
• Li Chufan joked with Zhan Ling about how he had become more ingratiating toward Xu Fan, then presented food, fruit, and wine for the group.
• Xu Fan and Zhan Ling drank on the Great Iron Wall and discussed the possibility of building a cannon powerful enough to kill Cloud Saint Demon Venerable or an Invincible Venerable.
• Xu Fan explained that the Heavenly Dao had eliminated the Ancient Demons because they consumed vast resources and carried more away when they ascended to the Great Thousand Worlds.

Xu Fan and Grape coordinated the Orbital Cannons to drive Cloud Saint Demon Venerable away from the Great Iron Wall, though Xu Fan was left exhausted after the fourth shot. He spent the following month guiding the disciples while awaiting the cannons’ arrival above the Saint Lion Clan’s Holy City.

• Xu Fan assigned Grape the third shot and coordinated the other Orbital Cannon attacks as Cloud Saint Demon Venerable approached the Great Iron Wall.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable dodged the first attacks and used her External Avatar to evade the third, but the fourth strike forced her to retreat.
• Li Chufan gave Xu Fan a Spiritual Pill, and Zhan Ling offered to provide True Spirit Origin for future shots before Xu Fan declined to use the Divine Ability.
• Xu Fan reassured the disciples that Cloud Saint Demon Venerable was unlikely to return soon and waited for the Orbital Cannons to reach the Saint Lion Clan’s Holy City.
• Xu Fan spent over a month advising the disciples and Heavenly Puppet Masters, then showed Zhan Ling the Ten Thousand Souls Return to Origin Divine Ability.

Xu Fan used the Orbital Cannon to deter Cloud Saint Demon Venerable and negotiate a nonaggression agreement with the Saint Lion Clan. Later, Wang Yulun caught an ancient Compass that transported Xu Fan and him into a phantom of an Immortal City from tens of thousands of years ago.

• Grape warned Xu Fan that three clones of Cloud Saint Demon Venerable were approaching, and Xu Fan confronted her with a projection beside them.
• Xu Fan showed Cloud Saint Demon Venerable the Orbital Cannon and fired a shot outside Saint Lion Holy City to demonstrate its power.
• Cloud Saint Demon Venerable agreed that her clan would not invade the region, and Xu Fan promised the Orbital Cannon would stay away from her clan's Territory unless the agreement was broken.
• Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect and teased Wang Yulun while they watched two Blade Dao masters fight over the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake.
• Wang Yulun caught a Giant Spirit Shark, and Xu Fan discovered an ancient Dao Artifact Compass inside it.
• Xu Fan examined the Compass, which transported him and Wang Yulun into a phantom of an Immortal City from tens of thousands of years ago.

Xu Fan and Wang Yulun watched a Dao Artifact’s light-and-image story about a handsome womanizer who eventually ascended to the Immortal World. Meanwhile, the Hidden Spirit and Thousand Spirits Sect disciples began their monthly Battle Royale finals, where Xie Peng aimed to win.

• Xu Fan and Wang Yulun watched an old beauty pageant and discovered that the handsome young man in the recording pursued several ranked beauties before ascending to the Immortal World.
• Xu Fan praised Li Chufan’s progress and gave him a day off, then resumed watching the Dao Artifact with Wang Yulun.
• Xu Lingtai and Xie Peng exchanged remarks before entering the Battle Royale finals, where Xie Peng vowed to restore the Thousand Spirits Sect’s honor.
• Xie Peng appeared beneath an iceberg in the Five Elements World and avoided Ying Ci’s ambush by escaping through the ice.
• Xu Fan watched as disciples from both sects fought and hid while advancing toward the final circle, expecting Xie Peng to surprise him.