Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan discovered that many Ancient Stars needed their arrays upgraded and promised to help Snow Spirit Star once he became an Array Great Grandmaster. After he reported a Demon Race fleet towing an enormous Spirit Ore Star and a Heavenly Land Turtle to the Elder Council, a Myriad Stars Vessel intercepted the fleet and forced it to abandon the ore star.

• Xu Fan received Snow Spirit Venerable's positioning Star Compass and learned that 108 certified Ancient Stars lay in the region, many needing their Star Grand Arrays upgraded.
• Aboard the Snake Spirit, Xu Fan's party detected five Demon Race Giant Beast Warships towing a Spirit Ore Star as large as an Ancient Star, with the Heavenly Land Turtle following them.
• Xu Fan decided the party could not defeat the fleet and ordered them to return to the nearest Human Race Channel Star to report what they had seen.
• Su Rantian reported the fleet to the Elder Council, and Xu Fan left the response to the Council.
• In the Northern Region, a Myriad Stars Vessel confronted the Demon Race fleet, and the Heavenly Land Turtle turned away before the Demon Venerable abandoned the Spirit Ore Star.
• Back on Hidden Spirit Island, Xu Fan rested on a boat and wondered why he felt people had been cursing him.

Xu Fan arranged for Clone Number Two to travel with Elder Zhan Ling and upgrade Star Protection Arrays, while Clone Number One stayed behind to refine Dao Artifacts. He then gave Wang Yulun a set of 108 Dao Artifacts, leaving him equipped to spar with Wang Xiangchi.

• Xu Fan assigned Clone Number Two to accompany Elder Zhan Ling to the Extreme Sky Domain and upgrade Ancient Stars’ Star Protection Arrays, promising him a year-long vacation for every ten years of work.
• Clone Number Two agreed to take talented disciples of the Dao of Arrays, while Clone Number One stayed behind and was told to refine Dao Artifacts without using Immortal Artifact-grade Spirit Ore.
• Xu Fan felt increasingly compelled to enter seclusion but first summoned Wang Yulun, who had just sparred with Wang Xiangchi and lost after Xiangchi’s BGM-powered counterattack.
• Xu Fan revealed a Pay-to-Win Set of 108 Dao Artifacts and had Wang Yulun complete its master-recognition ceremony.
• Xu Fan told Wang Yulun to learn how to operate the set and spar with Wang Xiangchi more often.

Wang Yulun gained a sudden mastery of Myriad Dao and defeated Wang Xiangchi, while Feng Changning expanded the Nine Phoenix Dynasty’s reach. Xu Fan received a surge of Merit and Fortune, then sensed someone talking about him as he entered seclusion.

• Wang Yulun used his newfound mastery to defeat Wang Xiangchi and demonstrate Heaven and Earth Sword, leaving his son convinced Xu Fan had possessed his father.
• Xu Fan told Wang Xiangchi that Wang Yulun had attained enlightenment and sent him away when he asked to be enlightened too.
• Feng Changning ordered the Demon Race cleared from a Minor World and its people with Spiritual Roots brought into the Nine Phoenix Dynasty.
• Feng Changning and the Young Imperial Preceptor discussed the dynasty’s growing fleet and their interest in meeting Xu Fan, while Integration Stage Puppets captured a Deep Sea Giant Serpent.
• Xu Fan received immense Merit and Fortune, then opened his eyes in seclusion and wondered who was talking about him.

Xu Fan postponed seclusion to accept Venerable Qian Ling’s request to refine a Star Vessel, then returned to his chamber and confronted an Ethereal Projection born from a special Spirit Body. He recognized it as nourishment for Grape and had Grape take care of it.

• Venerable Qian Ling asked Xu Fan to refine a Star Vessel from Thousand Star Profound Iron, and Xu Fan agreed to deliver it within fifty to a hundred years.
• Xu Fan told Clone No. 1 that the extra spirit ore would let them refine two Star Vessels, assigning the work to the clone while he went into seclusion.
• Xu Fan wondered why he felt compelled to enter seclusion and encountered an Ethereal Projection that claimed to be his Heart Devil.
• Xu Fan explained that the projection came from a special Spirit Body and was meant to be nourishment for Grape.
• The projection attacked Xu Fan, but an inexplicable force restrained it, and Xu Fan told Grape to deal with it.

Xu Fan entered Li Xingci’s Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation to help him defeat a Heart Devil that had become the benevolent emperor of a prosperous kingdom. Xu Fan began building a rival nation without violating the dream world’s rules, while the Heart Devil recognized that a visitor had arrived.

• Xu Fan explained that Li Xingci’s Heart Devil had entered the reincarnation with him, then entered the dream world after warning Su Rantian and Li Chufan to prepare for a possible hundred-year recovery.
• Xu Fan found Li Xingci in the Tianxuan Kingdom and learned that the Heart Devil had bound itself to the world’s Heavenly Dao and repeatedly reincarnated as Li Xingci’s father.
• Li Xingci explained that the Heavenly Dao would punish him for harming his father or the kingdom, and that destroying the dream world would destroy him too.
• Xu Fan rejected the idea of overthrowing the Tianxuan Kingdom through war and traveled to the savage lands to establish a Supreme Perfect Nation with Grape’s help.
• Xu Fan bewitched a Savage Tribe of more than ten thousand people to build a city, while the Heart Devil emperor sensed Xu Fan’s arrival and asked Li Xingci to bring him along to meet the visitor.

Li Xingci’s master, Xu Fan, built the Cities of Immortals to draw people away from Tianxuan Kingdom and test the Reincarnation Dream world’s Heavenly Dao. After the cities spread across the realm and the Emperor of Tianxuan Kingdom lost his support, Li Xingci killed him and thanked Xu Fan.

• The Emperor of Tianxuan Kingdom confined Li Xingci to the palace for three years after accusing him of letting an outsider enter the Imperial Palace.
• Xu Fan established the City of Immortals, where people could satisfy their desires, and directed its residents toward the arts when they reached the limit of their pleasures.
• The Emperor of Tianxuan Kingdom sent General Huang and a million troops to block people from entering the Cities of Immortals, but the cities spread and drew in most of the population.
• The Heavenly Dao favored the Cities of Immortals as their satisfied residents accelerated its evolution, while disasters left Tianxuan Kingdom nearly empty.
• The remaining commoners brought the Emperor of Tianxuan Kingdom to the first City of Immortals, where Li Xingci executed him and absorbed his energy.
• Li Xingci thanked Xu Fan after the Heart Devil Emperor’s death.

Xu Fan discovered that an Azure Jade Boulder contained Profound Yellow Qi, which sent Wang Yulun into a century of enlightenment and offered Grape a chance to accelerate the Origin Realm’s growth. Meanwhile, Ye Xiaoyao learned that the Profound Yellow Stone he sought had been destroyed before he could claim it.

• Xu Fan told the crowd that Li Xingci would wake in about a day, then resumed seclusion after his temporary clone dispersed.
• An Azure Jade Boulder fell into Wang Yulun’s courtyard, briefly disrupting Grape’s defenses and tempting Grape to absorb it.
• Wang Yulun touched the boulder and absorbed a wisp of Profound Yellow Qi, falling into enlightenment; Xu Fan said he would awaken in a hundred years with a clear path to Spirit Transformation.
• Xu Fan brought the boulder to Grape’s Origin Realm and agreed to let Grape use most of its Profound Yellow Qi to accelerate deductions, keeping three strands for himself.
• Ye Xiaoyao discovered that the Profound Yellow Stone he had pursued in the Demon World had been destroyed when a fleet of three Star Vessels blasted apart the Demon Race Giant Beast Warship carrying it.

Ye Xiaoyao escaped the Extreme Sky Domain and crash-landed near Linsen Immortal City, where a Void Refining Puppet and its sword array challenged him. The chapter ended with the Puppets demanding his identity and Ye Xiaoyao facing his final chance to answer.

• Venerable Qian Ling destroyed four Demon Race Giant Beast Warships and used a speed booster to catch a fifth, while Nine Sword Venerable and Jian Wuji discussed Ye Xiaoyao's talent.
• Old Sword took control of Ye Xiaoyao and reshaped his Five Elements Guardian Sword Array to speed their escape from the Extreme Sky Domain.
• Ye Xiaoyao fell into a deep pit a thousand li from Linsen Immortal City, survived with a defensive Magic Treasure, and spent hours recovering.
• A Void Refining Puppet detected that Ye Xiaoyao's identity was absent from its Database and summoned eleven more Puppets to form a Twelve Heavenly Sword Execution Grand Array.
• Ye Xiaoyao gave false identities, then identified himself as Ye Xiaoyao of Sword King Sect; the Puppet rejected his explanation and warned that he had one chance remaining.

Ye Xiaoyao arrived in Linsen Immortal City, obtained legal residence, and discovered that the Hidden Spirit Sect’s mass-produced swords were affordable. Xu Fan ordered Grape to scare him away, but Ye Xiaoyao escaped through a strange teleportation method, vanishing from the entire city area.

• Twelve Void Refining Puppets questioned Ye Xiaoyao, confirmed he was not a Demon, and issued him an identity card after he chose to remain in Linsen Immortal City.
• Ye Xiaoyao bought one Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact for each of the Five Elements after learning that further purchases required completing missions.
• Old Sword urged Ye Xiaoyao to seek entry into the Hidden Spirit Sect so he could obtain its mass-produced Spiritual Swords at low prices.
• Xu Fan learned Ye Xiaoyao had arrived and told Grape to lock an Orbital Cannon onto him without firing, intending to drive him away indirectly.
• Ye Xiaoyao sensed the threat, followed Old Sword’s instructions to use special Spirit Pearls, and was swallowed by a black hole.
• Grape reported that Ye Xiaoyao had disappeared from the entire Linsen Immortal City Area.

Xu Fan learned that three Heterogeneous Demon Race Demon Venerables wanted the Two Realms Passage and prepared to evacuate the Demon World. As Grape began sealing the passage, an Invincible Demon Venerable arrived, and Xu Fan sent the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder's avatar to confront it.

• Xu Fan used the Thousand Spirits Sect Great Elder's Avatar Jade Talisman to frighten three Heterogeneous Demon Venerables into fleeing after they demanded the Two Realms Passage.
• Grape proposed using the Origin Realm to absorb the passage's spatial power, so Xu Fan ordered the Hidden Spirit Sect and the Jade Light Rabbit Clan to withdraw to the Human World.
• Five days later, Grape began sealing the passage with the Origin Realm and the Sect's Five Elements Origin, while Ning Dao brought additional reserves from Linsen Immortal City.
• Grape warned Xu Fan that an Invincible Demon Venerable was approaching, so Xu Fan summoned the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder's avatar and poured out Ning Dao's Five Elements Origin.

Xu Fan sacrificed his Merit Fortune Canopy to seal the Two Realms Passage and protect the Minor World from the Demon Race. After returning to Hidden Spirit Island, he left Grape to establish a second branch, while the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder prepared another Avatar Jade Talisman for him.

• Xu Fan learned that the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder's avatar could hold the Invincible Demon Venerable for only another quarter of an hour.
• Xu Fan detonated his Merit Fortune Canopy to speed up the Minor World's formation and close the Two Realms Passage.
• Xu Fan's disciples tried to comfort him, and Li Xingci offered a Stone Sword for him to absorb.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to build the Hidden Spirit Sect Second Branch, then led everyone back to Hidden Spirit Island.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder took back the Avatar Jade Talisman he had given the Supreme Third Elder so he could strengthen it for Xu Fan.
• Venerable Qian Ling rushed into Taiyi Hall and asked the Supreme Great Elder what he needed.

Xu Fan discovered that the Young Imperial Preceptor had sent twelve Integration Stage Puppets to capture him, but he reprogrammed and sent them back to Nine Phoenix Island. The Young Imperial Preceptor accepted that his plan had failed and began considering a stronger attack while expanding his Sea Vessel operations.

• The Supreme Third Elder sent Venerable Qian Ling to deliver another Avatar Jade Talisman to Great Elder, while Xu Fan discussed his vanished Merit Fortune Canopy with the Heavenly Fortune Turtle.
• Xu Fan sensed a threat from Nine Phoenix Island and learned that Grape had captured twelve Integration Stage Puppets manufactured there.
• Xu Fan examined the puppets, identified their self-evolving cultivation, and placed clusters of Spiritual Light in their cores to return them to their master.
• Xu Fan sent the twelve puppets back through a Teleportation Array, sacrificing five Node Dao Artifacts in the process.
• The puppets decided to disguise themselves as Void Refining Stage Puppets and serve a new master rather than report their failure to the Imperial Preceptor.
• The Young Imperial Preceptor acknowledged that his plan had failed, considered sending Mahayana Stage Puppets next, and asked about the progress of the Sea Vessels.

After sixty years of seclusion, Xu Fan reached Spirit Transformation Stage perfection and emerged to find the sect’s affairs continuing in his absence. He began using Grape’s completed special law to transform the dying Sui Ying into a Spiritual Root body, with Jade Light Demon Venerable watching.

• Xu Fan emerged from sixty years of seclusion, collected the Great Dao Scripture from the grand array, and reunited with Xu Gang, Wang Xiangchi, Li Xingci, and Zhou Kailing.
• Xu Fan told his disciples he had perfected his cultivation and revised the Five Elements Method, then went to meet Grape at the former Two Realms Passage.
• Grape reported that the special law was ready, and Xu Fan arranged for Sui Ying and Jade Light Venerable to enter the array.
• Xu Fan learned that Sui Ying had lost his wife and spent decades fighting the Demon Race, leaving his soul near death.
• Xu Fan promised Jade Light Demon Venerable that the Hidden Spirit Sect and her clan would remain allies, then began transforming Sui Ying into a Spiritual Root body as she watched.

Xu Fan transformed Sui Ying and hundreds of Heavenly Puppet Masters, then returned to oversee the nearly completed Star Vessels and meet Venerable Qian Ling. Qian Ling described a strange Puppet-controlled Star Vessel he had seen in the Extreme Sky Domain, and Xu Fan recognized it as a specialized vessel for capturing Star Vessels.

• Xu Fan used the Spirit Transformation Grand Array to give Sui Ying Five Spiritual Roots, helping him reach the Golden Core Stage and cultivate as both a Sword Cultivator and Heavenly Puppet Master.
• Xu Fan transformed several hundred Heavenly Puppet Masters and entrusted Grape with control of the Spirit Transformation Grand Array.
• Xu Fan visited the Star Vessel Forging Ground, where he promised the Thousand Spirits Sect artifact refiners blueprints for the completed Star Vessels.
• Venerable Qian Ling visited Xu Fan and asked about a strange Star Vessel controlled by Puppets that he had seen in the Extreme Sky Domain.
• Venerable Qian Ling showed Xu Fan an image of the vessel, and Xu Fan identified it as a specialized Star Vessel designed to capture other Star Vessels.

Xu Fan agreed to build Venerable Qian Ling a high-spec Landing Ship, then grew wary as the Nine Phoenix Dynasty began converting captured Demon Race Giant Beast Warships into a source of power. He decided the Hidden Spirit Sect could no longer afford to develop slowly and would need to use its Dao Artifact-level resources.

• Xu Fan explained that a high-spec Landing Ship could use Space Teleportation, and Venerable Qian Ling ordered one for the Thousand Spirits Sect.
• Xu Fan gave Venerable Qian Ling a list of materials and said the Star Vessel would be ready for inspection in two years.
• Feng Changning and the Young Imperial Preceptor discussed modifying two captured Giant Beast Warships to gather Spirit Ore and strengthen the Nine Phoenix Dynasty.
• Feng Changning promised to support the people’s livelihood while the Young Imperial Preceptor led the warship modifications and pursued his plan to avenge his past life.
• Xu Fan realized other powers were developing too quickly and resolved to use the Dao Artifact-level goods Number Two had accumulated.

Xu Fan discussed defenses against a modified Demon Race Giant Beast Warship as Supreme Venerable Xingling maneuvered the Golden Winged Great Peng into ascending. Both powerful leaders departed for the Great Thousand Worlds, leaving the Human and Demon Realms poised for conflict.

• Xu Fan rejected Grape’s offer to send an avatar and ordered defensive preparations, including adding a self-advancing Spiritual Energy Array to the Puppets.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng and Supreme Venerable Xingling confronted each other at the Dual Realm Fusion Passage and discussed ascending together.
• Supreme Venerable Xingling revealed that Immortal Spirit Qi had reached the realm and the Ascension Gate had appeared, then provoked the Golden Winged Great Peng by mentioning Hong’er and trapping Jun Gui.
• When another ascension phenomenon appeared, the Golden Winged Great Peng summoned his Father, whose giant claw seized Supreme Venerable Xingling and pulled him through a Light Door.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng followed Xingling into the Light Door, and leaders in both realms called for war after learning the two had ascended.

Xu Fan examined Wang Yulun after his early awakening and learned that Wang Yulun had spent over a thousand years in a dream, where his beloved sacrificed everything to keep him alive. After Wang Yulun chose Xu Fan’s Joy Divine Ability, he felt hopeful again and asked to visit his daughter in Yan Prefecture.

• Xu Fan told Wang Yulun that the Human and Demon forces had begun a war likely to end in a draw or a pyrrhic victory.
• Xu Fan questioned why Wang Yulun had awakened early and learned about his thousand-year dream in which he became Dao Companions with a female cultivator from the Dream World.
• Wang Yulun recounted how his partner sacrificed herself and fell to the demonic path to prolong his life before he eventually died in her Minor World.
• Xu Fan offered to seal or erase Wang Yulun’s painful memories, but Wang Yulun chose to keep them and selected the Joy Divine Ability.
• After Xu Fan used the Joy Divine Ability, Wang Yulun felt renewed hope and asked Xu Fan to send him and Qian'er to Yan Prefecture to visit his daughter.

Xu Fan sent Wang Xiangchi out to gain experience and focused on refining Orbital Cannons while recruiting skilled Puppet users from the Virtual Reality Game. The chapter ended with a new Heavenly Puppet Artifact Refiner practicing in the game as Xu Fan watched his real-world artifact refining.

• Xu Fan sent Snake Spirit away with a large arsenal and reassured Wang Xiangchi about his father’s departure.
• Wang Xiangchi asked to leave Linsen Immortal City for experience, and Xu Fan gave him a protective Great Dao Scripture before granting permission.
• Xu Fan began refining Orbital Cannons and planning to strengthen Hidden Spirit Island’s movement and teleportation capabilities.
• Qiu Ziyuan showed Xu Fan a Spiritual Sword made by a Mortal using a Puppet, prompting Xu Fan to seek more Puppet users skilled in artifact refining and pill refining.
• Xu Fan rewarded Qiu Ziyuan with greater Sect Authority and urged him to focus more on cultivation.
• The Virtual Reality Game introduced Heavenly Puppet Artifact Refiner and Heavenly Puppet Pill Refiner professions, and Xu Fan watched a Young Man practice artifact refining through a Puppet.

Xu Fan forged an Orbital Cannon to strengthen the Hidden Spirit Sect’s defenses while Xu Yuexian brought him a crystal containing the Dao of Destruction. After two years, he completed the cannon and took a month to rest, leaving plans to make smaller Myriad Beast Cages for the Sect’s Demon Beast handlers.

• Xu Fan ordered Grape to transform people with strong Artifact Refining aptitude into Spiritual Root bodies, then returned to the Underground Space to forge Orbital Cannons.
• Xu Yuexian gave Xu Fan a crystal containing the Dao of Destruction, which he decided to incorporate into an Orbital Cannon.
• Xu Fan told Xu Yuexian that Elder Zhan Ling could help her capture Demon Venerables and have Grape contract them before they were placed in her Myriad Beast Cage.
• After two years of work with two Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters, Xu Fan completed an Orbital Cannon and joked with Grape about its ability to hit anything in range.
• Xu Fan rested by fishing at the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake, spoke with Lei Wenxi, and promised to have smaller Myriad Beast Cages made for the Demon Beast handlers.

Xu Fan welcomed Zhan Ling back with a trove of Five Elements Origin Spirit Stones and showed him the power of his Nuclear Blast Divine Ability. He gave Zhan Ling the technique’s foundational inheritance to study, leaving him eager to rebuild his cultivation and master it.

• Zhan Ling told Xu Fan that the Snake Spirit had found a star rich in Five Elements Origin Spirit Qi, and Xu Fan inspected the Origin Spirit Stones aboard the vessel.
• Xu Fan said the stones could help the Sect’s disciples cultivate and make the Origin Realm more complete, while noting that Calamities might contain other valuable resources.
• Zhan Ling asked whether Xu Fan’s recent artifact crafting meant enemies were coming, but Xu Fan reassured him that the Sect was safe and encouraged him to continue his travels.
• Xu Fan demonstrated the Five Elements Nuclear Blast Divine Ability, startling Zhan Ling with its immense power despite its minimal spiritual cost.
• Xu Fan recommended that Zhan Ling speak with Zhang Xueling and then gave him two Jade Butterflies containing the foundational inheritance for the Nuclear Blast Divine Ability.