Chapter Summaries

The Battle Royale’s final circle came down to Xiong Li and the hidden Xie Peng, who used a forbidden Divine Ability to claim first place. Xiong Li yielded in repayment for what had happened to Lingtai, and Xu Fan laughed as he watched the broadcast.

• Three Thousand Spirits Sect disciples challenged the Hidden Spirit Sect disciples to a best-of-three match and were quickly defeated by Xiong Li, Xu Lingtai, and Xiang Yun.
• Xiong Li fought the Hidden Spirit Sect disciples as Xie Peng remained hidden, and a hammer shockwave eliminated Xu Lingtai before Xiong Li defeated the others.
• As the Poison Circle shrank, Xie Peng emerged and asked Xiong Li to let him take first place, but Xiong Li refused to concede outright.
• Xie Peng began forming seals for a Divine Ability, and Xiong Li recognized the move and chose to withdraw, saying it was repayment for Lingtai.
• Xu Fan laughed as he watched Xie Peng win the Battle Royale with a Divine Ability created by one of his disciples.

Xie Peng worried over the meaning of Xu Lingtai’s words, while Ye Xiaoyao completed a mission in Heavenly Refining Immortal City and gathered all five Five Elements Dao Artifact Spirit Swords. As Ye Xiaoyao reflected on his lost home and loneliness, Old Sword said that inhabiting his body had changed his Destiny.

• Xie Peng recalled Xu Lingtai’s words and tried to dismiss his unease about the Divine Ability used against him.
• Ye Xiaoyao exchanged mission rewards for two Dao Artifact Spirit Swords and completed his collection of five Five Elements swords.
• Old Sword urged Ye Xiaoyao to pursue the Heavenly Refining Gate’s little princess, but Ye Xiaoyao refused and chose to keep building his strength through missions.
• Ye Xiaoyao spoke with Old Sword about the fall of Elephant Prefecture, his lost friends, and their loneliness.
• Old Sword revealed that Ye Xiaoyao’s Destiny had changed since Old Sword took up residence within his body.

Xu Fan learned that Ye Xiaoyao had gained a powerful ally and then agreed to help Zhan Ling prepare for re-cultivation through the Five Elements Spirit Domain. He tested Li Chufan against a weaker replica and used the defeat to teach him to think more carefully in battle.

• Ye Xiaoyao joked with Old Sword after learning that the former Immortal Emperor would help him face his destiny.
• Xu Fan received the final intelligence from Nine Phoenix Island and remarked that his Merit and Fortune would draw enemies in the future.
• Zhan Ling decided to re-cultivate, and Xu Fan told him to wait two hundred years before starting down the Five Elements path.
• Xu Fan demonstrated the Five Elements Spirit Domain, gave Zhan Ling two jade slips, and accepted his resolve to remain an elder of the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan challenged Li Chufan to fight a replica with eighty-five percent of his peak strength, and the replica quickly defeated him.
• Xu Fan questioned Li Chufan about the replica's advantage, leading him to realize that it thought more and used its Divine Abilities better.

Xu Fan guided Li Chufan and told him it would take about fifteen hundred years to surpass his grandfather. As the Thousand Spirits Sect disciples prepared to leave, Xu Gang continued his mission in the Demon World and demonstrated the Dongfeng Divine Ability for Zhan Ling.

• Xu Fan taught Li Chufan about his shortcomings and said he would need roughly fifteen hundred years to surpass his grandfather.
• Thousand Spirits Sect disciples nearing the end of their three-year stay discussed the Hidden Spirit Sect’s affordable treasures and hoped to buy Dao Artifacts after returning home.
• Xu Gang asked Grape how long Xu Fan’s plan to control the Spirit Qi in the Demon World would take, and Grape said three more years.
• Xu Gang explained that the Spirit Summoning Ring helped counter the Demon World’s thin Spirit Qi, while Zhan Ling showed him his Five Elements Spirit Domain.
• Zhan Ling asked Xu Gang to demonstrate the Dongfeng Divine Ability, and Xu Gang formed and launched a Five Elements-fused missile.

Xu Fan welcomed Venerable Qian Ling and a new group of Thousand Spirits Sect disciples for an exchange, but Wang Yi asked to remain in the Hidden Spirit Sect to help modify a Demon Race warship. Sun Daoling also wanted to stay, leaving Venerable Qian Ling reluctant to take his sect’s two artifact-refining grandmasters home.

• Zhan Ling tried and failed to master Xu Gang’s Dongfeng Missile divine ability, despite Xu Gang’s instruction.
• Half a month later, the Thousand Spirits Sect disciples prepared to leave, and Xu Lingtai gave Xie Peng his Five Elements Spirit Bead Bracelet as a parting gift.
• Venerable Qian Ling arrived with one thousand disciples, and Xu Fan announced that the Hidden Spirit Sect would send eleven hundred disciples to Thousand Spirits for exchange.
• Xu Fan led Venerable Qian Ling to Wang Yi, who was debating modifications to a Serpentine Demon Race Giant Beast Warship with a Mixed-Iron Ape Artifact Refining Grandmaster.
• Wang Yi asked to remain in the Hidden Spirit Sect to see the warship completed, and Sun Daoling also asked to stay and work on it.

Xu Fan helped Venerable Qian Ling resolve the dispute over the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Artifact Refining Grandmasters by arranging for a Moon Fox Clan Grandmaster to serve the sect. After the Star Vessel returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect, its disciples regretted missing the chance to visit the Hidden Spirit Sect and acquire powerful artifacts.

• Wang Yi and Sun Daoling refused to leave the Hidden Spirit Sect, so Xu Fan suggested that Venerable Qian Ling recruit an Artifact Refining Grandmaster from the Demon Race instead.
• The Mixed-Iron Ape Artifact Refining Grandmaster advised Venerable Qian Ling to recruit from a small clan, and Xu Fan arranged for a Moon Fox Clan Artifact Refining Grandmaster to join the Thousand Spirits Sect.
• Venerable Qian Ling left Spirit Ore and Spiritual Materials with Xu Fan, promised to bring more supplies, and departed aboard the Thousand Spirits Star Vessel with the returning disciples.
• Xu Yuexian asked whether the disciples would return after three years, and Xu Fan said he expected them to come back while wondering when Li Xingci and his family would return.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect disciples regretted missing the Hidden Spirit Sect visit after seeing the strength and specialized Treasure Artifacts their fellow disciples had brought back.

The Thousand Spirits Sect hired a Moon Fox Clan Artifact Refining Grandmaster and planned to recruit more refiners from the Demon World. Its Supreme Great Elder then forced the White Jade Giant Elephant Clan to surrender a Mountain Spirit Clan Artifact Refining Grandmaster, while Xu Fan anticipated an unknown tribulation and resolved to enter seclusion.

• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder welcomed the Moon Fox Clan Artifact Refining Grandmaster and sent him to work in the Artifact Refining Room.
• Venerable Qian Ling proposed recruiting artifact refiners from small clans in the Demon World, and the Supreme Great Elder decided to go there with the Supreme Third Elder while Venerable Qian Ling guarded the sect.
• Xu Fan said he would test the modified Serpent Warship in the Extreme Sky Domain before entering seclusion because he sensed an unknown tribulation.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder confronted the White Jade Giant Elephant Clan and demanded to borrow its Mountain Spirit Clan Artifact Refining Grandmaster for a few hundred years.
• The White Jade Giant Elephant clan leader agreed to hand over the grandmaster in exchange for the Invincible Venerable leaving the clan alone.

The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Elders took Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters from several clans and brought them to Xu Fan for training. Xu Fan accepted them and received an Avatar Jade Talisman, while hinting that he could eventually refine Immortal Artifacts beyond the basic tier.

• The White Jade Giant Elephant Clan's Demon Venerables lamented losing their Artifact Refining Grandmaster and hoped Po Xuan would return as an invincible being.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder and Supreme Third Elder rescued three more Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters from minor clans.
• Three months later, the two elders returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect with four Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters, and the Moon Fox Clan grandmaster said they needed several years of training to refine Human Race Dao Artifacts.
• Venerable Qian Ling brought the four grandmasters to Xu Fan, who agreed to train them for five years.
• Venerable Qian Ling gave Xu Fan the Supreme Great Elder's Avatar Jade Talisman in exchange for his future friendship.
• Xu Fan told Venerable Qian Ling that, as a Great Grandmaster, he would be able to refine Immortal Artifacts above the Basic tier.

Xu Fan brought four Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters to help modify the Serpent Warship while his clones continued refining a Dao Artifact Set. He then let Grape absorb the Colored Gas formed by the Primordial Bell Sword and a World Fragment, and Grape began creating a Minor World.

• Xu Fan handed four Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters to Wang Yi to assist with the Serpent Warship modifications.
• Xu Fan found that Clone Number One and Clone Number Two had finished seven pieces of the Dao Artifact Set and urged them to keep working.
• Xu Fan observed the Primordial Bell Sword and a World Fragment collide, producing Colored Gas that Grape identified as a Minor World Seed.
• Xu Fan allowed Grape to devour the Colored Gas and take half of the Five Elements Origin from the Treasure Vault, improving Grape’s Logical Ability.
• Grape absorbed the shattered space into the seed, which sprouted into a giant tree and opened a Chaos Space, giving Xu Fan insight into World Creation.

After two years of comprehending the Dao, Xu Fan grasped the origins of Yin Yang and the Five Elements and shared his insights with his disciples and clones. He then visited Grape’s newly habitable Minor World, where he found the Heavenly Fortune Turtle and Cloud Flower Deer.

• Xu Fan awakened from two years of Dao comprehension and showed his disciples a flower formed from the laws of Yin Yang and the Five Elements.
• Xu Fan promised to organize his insights and lecture the Hidden Spirit Sect disciples on the Dao.
• Sha Diao told Xu Fan that Grape had completed the Dao Artifact Alloy, and Xu Fan ordered Grape to begin the Serpent Warship’s final modification.
• Xu Fan transferred his insights to Clone Number One and Clone Number Two, strengthening their Phoenix Spirit Fires, and urged them to finish their artifact work quickly.
• Xu Fan entered Grape’s Minor World and learned that the Heavenly Fortune Turtle and Cloud Flower Deer had arrived once it could support living beings.

Xu Fan explored Grape’s growing Minor World and learned about its potential, then heard that the Jade Light Rabbits were struggling to grow spirit fruits they had come to love. He restored the spiritual energy in their territory, saving Yuxiang’s fruit grove and lifting the rabbits’ spirits.

• Xu Fan found that Grape’s Minor World offered a place to comprehend the Dao, and Xu Gang gained insight there before Xu Fan stopped him from absorbing its Five Elements Origin Spirit Qi.
• Grape explained that the Minor World could eventually support new cultivation laws, reincarnation, and cultivation-method deductions, but could not yet accelerate time.
• Xu Fan watched Jade Light Rabbits sell Water Spirit Carrots to afford spirit fruits and learned that their territory’s spiritual energy was too low to grow them well.
• Yuxiang and the other rabbits worried their fruit grove would fail, and several offered to work as caregivers in the Human World to earn spirit stones.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to restore the spiritual energy in the Jade Light Rabbit territory, and Yuxiang rejoiced that the spirit fruit trees could grow again.

Xu Fan raised the price of Spirit Power Receiving Rings for the Jade Light Rabbit Clan, while Lin Yun completed his Five Elements Sword Array Dao training during an exchange visit to the Hidden Spirit Sect. After the visiting disciples returned, Xu Fan began a Dao exposition for the sect and its guests.

• Xu Fan told Grape to raise the price of Spirit Power Receiving Rings sold to the Jade Light Rabbit Clan by twenty percent and limit each rabbit to one ring.
• Lin Yun used his exchange opportunities to obtain all five swords for the Five Elements Sword Array Dao and reached the final circle of the Battle Royale Game before losing to a Thousand Spirits Sect disciple.
• Lin Yun returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect with his fellow disciples, while Xu Fan heard the Hidden Spirit Sect disciples' reports about their exchange visit.
• Xu Fan announced that he would expound the Dao in one month, and the sect's disciples gathered with the visiting Thousand Spirits Sect disciples for the session.
• Xu Fan began expounding the Dao of Yin Yang and the Five Elements as golden merit light and Spiritual Light rain appeared over the Dao Field.

Xu Fan’s three-day lecture prompted Hidden Spirit Sect disciples to break through, while Li Leihu and Er Yuan toured the Thousand Spirits Sect. The Thousand Spirits Sect elders discussed making a gift to Li Leihu and preserving ties with Hidden Spirit Sect, then Venerable Qian Ling arrived with a massive Spirit Ore Star.

• Xu Fan finished his lecture, causing the Hidden Spirit Sect’s First Generation Disciples to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage, then returned to his Small Courtyard to sleep.
• Er Yuan asked Li Leihu about his battle with the Outer Sect Chief Disciple, and Li Leihu said it had ended in a draw before speeding away from her.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Third Elder recognized Li Leihu’s Ten Thousand Thunder Sacred Body and decided to give him a Lightning Pearl as a fortunate opportunity.
• The Supreme Great Elder and Supreme Third Elder discussed their plans to maintain a good relationship with Xu Fan and the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Venerable Qian Ling brought a Spirit Ore Star to the Thousand Spirits Sect, and the Supreme Great Elder praised him for the valuable find.

Xu Fan oversaw the modification of a Demon Race Giant Beast Warship into the Hidden Spirit Sect’s new Star Vessel, the Snake Spirit. After three years of work, the vessel was ready to depart for the Extreme Sky Domain, and Xu Fan revealed that it could reach the domain’s depths.

• Venerable Qian Ling proposed trading five captured Demon Race Giant Beast Warships for a ready-made Star Vessel, then using the recovered Spirit Ore Stars to have Xu Fan refine a stronger one.
• Xu Fan personally supervised the Giant Beast Warship modifications after the Artifact Refining Grandmasters repeatedly made faulty components, and continued overseeing the work for three years.
• Xu Fan finished the Snake Spirit, a Star Vessel that could transform into a thirty-thousand-zhang Demon Race Giant Beast Warship, and said Grape would finish loading it before its first trip.
• Xu Fan announced that the Snake Spirit would leave for the Extreme Sky Domain in three days and invited Hidden Spirit Sect disciples to register for the journey.
• Xu Fan told Zhan Ling that the Snake Spirit could teleport in an emergency and pass through the barrier into the Extreme Sky Domain Depths.

Xu Fan took the Snake Spirit and more than a thousand disciples into the Extreme Sky Domain, then stopped at the Human Race Channel Star to meet Shan Chen and await Li Xingci. He arranged for Hidden Spirit Sect’s artifact refiners to take commissions in exchange for needed materials, and Li Xingci arrived with his family.

• Xu Fan and Zhan Ling tested the Snake Spirit’s speed and maneuvers as it carried the sect disciples into the Extreme Sky Domain.
• The middle-aged butcher urged Sui Ying to marry Little Su and pass on his swordsmanship, and Sui Ying agreed to consider it.
• Xu Fan decided to explore the Extreme Sky Domain Depths after collecting Li Xingci and Elder Su, and Zhan Ling set course for the Human Race Channel Star.
• Shan Chen greeted Xu Fan and explained that Li Xingci’s family would arrive through the Teleportation Array.
• Xu Fan agreed to accept Dao Artifact commissions through Shan Chen in exchange for Spirit Ore and heavenly treasures listed on a Jade Slip.
• Li Xingci arrived with Li Chufan and greeted Xu Fan.

Xu Fan and his companions traveled aboard the Snake Spirit into the Extreme Sky Domain Depths, where Grape's upgraded detection system helped them navigate its frequent calamities. They found a star containing Star Fire Refined Iron and began mining the region.

• Xu Fan reunited with Li Xingci and Li Chufan, who explained that the Elder Council wanted Li Chufan for the Immortal Artifact inside him.
• The Snake Spirit detoured around an Extreme Void Colossus after Xu Fan warned that they could not defeat it safely.
• Xu Fan had Grape activate Second-Level Navigation Mode so the Snake Spirit could detect calamities ahead and avoid them.
• After crossing the Giant Stone Barrier Belt, the crew entered the Extreme Sky Domain Depths and Grape detected a Dao Artifact-grade ore star.
• Zhan Ling used the Mechanical Flying Claw to retrieve the star containing Star Fire Refined Iron for Xu Fan to use in refining Integration Stage Puppets.

Zhan Ling and Xu Fan explored the Extreme Sky Domain Depths aboard the Snake Spirit, collecting valuable spirit ores while Xu Fan teased Zhan Ling with an elaborate scheme for buying off the Heavenly Dao. They found Soul Crystals that could help Grape grow stronger and eventually become a Spirit Cultivator.

• Zhan Ling piloted the Snake Spirit through the Extreme Sky Domain Depths and praised the rich spirit ore haul made possible by Xu Fan's modifications.
• Xu Fan teased Zhan Ling with the idea of achieving immortality through Spirit Thought Incarnation Void and claimed the Heavenly Dao could be bought off by merging worlds.
• Zhan Ling realized Xu Fan was playing him and nearly mentioned threatening the Heavenly Dao, but Xu Fan warned him before he could say the words.
• Xu Fan promised to share profound Clone Divine Abilities with Zhan Ling after he rebuilt his cultivation.
• Zhan Ling used the Snake Spirit's grappling hooks to capture a Spirit Ore Star, and Xu Fan discovered it contained Soul Crystals useful for Grape's growth and transformation into a Spirit Cultivator.
• Grape vowed to remain Xu Fan's servant and serve him and the Hidden Spirit Sect forever.

Xu Fan and the Hidden Spirit Sect’s crew discovered Snow Spirit Star, a vast human-inhabited Ancient Star hidden deep in the Extreme Sky Domain, and met its ruler, Snow Spirit Venerable. He asked Xu Fan for news of the war between the Human and Demon Realms, and Xu Fan explained the conflict’s current state.

• Li Xingci brought Xu Fan a Soul Crystal from the dismantled Spirit Ore Star, and Xu Fan confirmed its purity before telling him to have Grape refine it.
• Xu Fan noticed an abnormality on the Ethereal Map and identified a huge Concealment Array hiding an Ancient Star, so Snake Spirit approached while readying its cannons.
• A Puppet from Snake Spirit disabled the crude Star Array, revealing a colossal Ancient Star whose inhabitants had watched the Star Vessel approach.
• Snow Spirit Venerable arrived and welcomed Xu Fan and the others to Snow Spirit Star, where he introduced himself and explained that the star had lost contact with the Cultivation World after the space was sealed.
• Snow Spirit Venerable asked about the Human-Demon war, and Xu Fan described the sealed space, the fighting at the Two Realms Fusion Point, and the spreading Natural Passages.

Xu Fan agreed to build a powerful defensive Star Grand Array for Snow Spirit Star in exchange for a vast quantity of spirit ore. After nearly completing the Array and teaching Cao Jun to operate it, Xu Fan hinted that an even stronger formation would require more than Snow Spirit Star and its Treasure Vault could provide.

• Snow Spirit Venerable offered Xu Fan half the Snow Spirit Sect's spirit ore to rearrange Snow Spirit Star's Array, and Xu Fan proposed a Star Guardian Array capable of fighting Demon Race Giant Beast Warships.
• Xu Fan and Snow Spirit Venerable agreed on the Array's construction, with Xu Fan promising two Giant Cannons and Snow Spirit Venerable offering thirty percent of the Treasure Vault as a deposit.
• Xu Fan directed Grape and hundreds of thousands of Puppets to build the Array while he taught the talented Array Master Cao Jun.
• After ten months, Xu Fan gave Snow Spirit Venerable the Array's control Compass and confirmed that Cao Jun could operate it.
• When Snow Spirit Venerable asked about stronger Arrays, Xu Fan described one that could harness Calamity and suggested Snow Spirit Star and its Treasure Vault alone would not suffice.

Xu Fan completed Snow Spirit Star’s Star Array, allowing Snow Spirit Venerable to move the Ancient Star through the Extreme Sky Domain. Snow Spirit Venerable then asked Xu Fan to upgrade the array so he could hunt Demon Race Warships beyond the Giant Stone Barrier.

• Zhan Ling piloted the Snake Spirit to Snow Spirit Star, where Xu Fan was finishing the Star Array with Cao Jun.
• Xu Fan gave Cao Jun an Array Spirit and an inheritance, then activated the array and set Snow Spirit Star in motion.
• Snow Spirit Venerable explained that the Elder Council had once rejected his offer to fight, so he had hidden Snow Spirit Star until the Human Race won.
• Xu Fan advised Snow Spirit Venerable to preserve a lineage in the Extreme Sky Domain rather than risk joining the war.
• Snow Spirit Venerable asked Xu Fan to upgrade the Star Array so he could absorb Calamity and hunt Demon Race Warships beyond the Giant Stone Barrier.