Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan considered whether a world without time could help him advance or break the system’s restrictions, then advised Li Chufan on pursuing Chaoyi honestly. Li Chufan left to compete in the Trial Tower’s Battle Royale finals.

• Zhan Ling asked Xu Fan about the difference between the Great Elder’s Divine Ability and the Dongfeng Divine Ability, and Xu Fan gave him Jade Butterflies to study.
• Xu Fan examined the crystal containing the Dao of Destruction and considered creating a world without time to resolve the system’s restrictions.
• Xu Fan caught Li Chufan as he hurried toward the Trial Tower’s finals and teased him about trying to impress Chaoyi.
• Li Chufan admitted that he worried his parents would disapprove of Chaoyi because she had Five Spiritual Roots.
• Xu Fan warned Li Chufan not to hide his advantages from Chaoyi and urged him to be honest with her.
• Li Chufan accepted Xu Fan’s advice and flew to the Trial Tower.

Zhan Ling studied the basics of science in hopes of learning Xu Fan’s Nuclear Blast Divine Ability, but decided to postpone it and return to mining in the Extreme Sky Domain. After Zhan Ling departed with Clone Number Two, Li Xingci came to Xu Fan to ask about Chufan’s marriage.

• Zhan Ling consulted Grape about unfamiliar scientific terms and began studying basic physics at the Virtual Academy, earning the Sect’s respect as rumors spread that he was cultivating a powerful Divine Ability.
• Xu Fan and Clone Number One watched Zhan Ling struggle to reconcile basic science with the behavior of a Spirit Gravity Stone, then advised him to set aside his previous notions and study in a Virtual Environment.
• Zhan Ling chose to postpone learning the Nuclear Blast Divine Ability until after Spirit Transfer and Re-cultivation, and said he would return to mining in the Extreme Sky Domain.
• Zhan Ling asked Xu Fan whether Clone Number Two could accompany him, while Xu Fan and Clone Number One argued about their work and Clone Number One agreed to criticize Clone Number Two less.
• Two days later, Zhan Ling left with Clone Number Two, and Li Xingci visited Xu Fan to ask about Chufan’s marriage.

Xu Fan divined that Li Chufan and Wang Chaoyi were bound by Great Karma and told Li Xingci not to interfere, while warning him against overworking his cultivation. In the Trial Tower’s Battle Royale final, Li Chufan invited Wang Chaoyi to ally with him, but she questioned why he had chosen her.

• Li Xingci asked Xu Fan to divine whether Wang Chaoyi was a good match for Li Chufan, and Xu Fan found their marriage carried Great Karma and might involve a Great Opportunity.
• Xu Fan urged Li Xingci to cultivate at a steady pace, reassuring him about Su Rantian’s strength and the debts the Sect owed her.
• After Li Xingci left, Xu Fan inspected Wang Chaoyi’s information and noted her resolve to destroy the Demon Race and her potential for a fortuitous encounter.
• In the Trial Tower’s Battle Royale final, Li Chufan killed four Giant Blade Demon Beasts that were closing in on Wang Chaoyi and asked her to form an alliance.
• Li Chufan proposed that Wang Chaoyi assist him against powerful enemies so they could take first and second place, but Wang Chaoyi asked why he had chosen her over cultivators with better escape techniques.

Li Chufan tried to team up with Wang Chaoyi, but she left after learning he was Elder Rantian’s son and one of the Great Elder’s granddisciples. Meanwhile, Zhan Ling captured the invading Pure Feather Demon Venerable and decided to take her and her siblings back to the Hidden Spirit Sect for Yuexian’s Myriad Beast Cage.

• Li Chufan revealed that he was Elder Rantian’s son and asked Wang Chaoyi to form a team, but she used Earth Evasion to leave.
• Xu Fan noticed a Demon Venerable invading and called Zhan Ling, asking him to cripple the intruder rather than kill her.
• Pure Feather Demon Venerable explored near Linsen Immortal City, where Zhan Ling intercepted her and blocked her escape.
• Zhan Ling offered Pure Feather Demon Venerable the choice of returning with him or being beaten and taken back; she offered her treasures and pleaded to leave.
• Zhan Ling told Pure Feather Demon Venerable to bring her brothers and sisters to the Hidden Spirit Sect, saying he had a good task for them.

Xu Fan recruited Pure Feather Demon Venerable and her surviving Crimson Cloud Sable kin into the Hidden Spirit Sect’s new Demon Department, offering generous benefits and a custom cultivation method. After they bound themselves to the sect through a Heavenly Dao Oath, Xu Fan planned to recruit more small Demon Race clans.

• Xu Fan learned that the Crimson Cloud Sable Clan had been wiped out and offered Pure Feather Demon Venerable and her kin a place in the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Pure Feather Demon Venerable explained that mutant white sables had wings, which inspired their name, and reviewed the sect’s recruitment benefits.
• Xu Fan tripled Pure Feather Demon Venerable’s benefits, promised a Divine Ability Cultivation Method for her clan, and welcomed her as the Demon Department’s first member.
• Pure Feather Demon Venerable and the other Little White Sables made Heavenly Dao Oaths and linked themselves to the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Sect Fortune.
• Xu Fan sent the Little White Sables to choose Dao Artifacts and ordered Grape to build a Demon Department Island.
• Xu Fan told Venerable Zhan Ling that he planned to recruit more small Demon Race clans, and Zhan Ling offered to suppress any Invincible Demon Venerables who threatened them.

Xu Fan mobilized the Hidden Spirit Sect’s defenses to rescue the unconscious Origin Flame Venerable, an Invincible Venerable who fell from the sky. After bringing him to the Origin Realm, Xu Fan spent three months refining pills to restore his damaged mind and soul, then administered them in hopes of waking him.

• Xu Fan ordered the Hidden Spirit Sect to prepare for danger after Su Rantian identified the falling man as Origin Flame Venerable, an Elder Council elder of the Invincible Realm.
• Zhan Ling and Li Chufan joined the rescue effort, while Xu Fan activated the sect’s defenses, emergency teleportation preparations, and the Origin Water Array.
• Xu Fan and the others safely slowed Origin Flame Venerable’s fall and brought him to the Origin Realm, where Xu Fan decided to treat his severe soul injuries.
• Xu Fan returned to pill refining, blew up his furnace, and resolved to review the Dao of Pill Refining.
• Three months later, Xu Fan administered three restorative pills to the still-unconscious Origin Flame Venerable and hoped they would awaken him.

Xu Fan treated the injured Origin Flame Venerable and learned that humanity had won a costly battle after the Supreme Venerable ascended. Back on Hidden Spirit Island, Zhan Ling warned him that a powerful Crimson Scale Demon Clan lay within a few years’ travel.

• Origin Flame Venerable awoke in the Hidden Spirit Sect, thanked Xu Fan for saving him, and explained that he had been injured after pursuing a powerful Demon alone.
• Origin Flame Venerable told Xu Fan that humanity had won the battle in the Extreme Sky Domain, while the Supreme Venerable had ascended alongside a Golden Winged Great Peng.
• Ning Dao arrived to take responsibility for Origin Flame Venerable, and Xu Fan left him the Elixirs he had prepared.
• Xu Fan found Xu Gang cultivating his Five Elements-based Dongfeng Divine Ability and told him to master it before learning Nuclear Blast.
• Zhan Ling told Xu Fan that the Crimson Scale Demon Clan, which had an Invincible Demon Venerable, was only about five years’ travel from Hidden Spirit Island.

Xu Fan treated the recovering Origin Flame Venerable, received two Avatar Jade Talismans, and witnessed him complete the Fire Great Dao in the Origin Realm. Xu Fan returned to refining an Orbital Cannon while discussing a future expedition into the Inner Region of Extreme Sky Domain with Zhan Ling, then learned that an Elder Council Star Vessel had arrived.

• Origin Flame Venerable told Xu Fan his soul had stabilized and offered him a Spatial Ring and two Avatar Jade Talismans in repayment for saving his life.
• Xu Fan accepted the two Avatar Jade Talismans after Origin Flame Venerable kept the Spatial Ring and promised to send more from the Elder Council Headquarters.
• Origin Flame Venerable added the Fire Great Dao to the Origin Realm, making it easier to cultivate Fire Attribute Divine Abilities there.
• Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect and resumed refining the second Orbital Cannon alongside two Demon Race Artifact Refining Grandmasters.
• Zhan Ling asked whether the nearly completed New Style Star Vessel could explore deeper into the Inner Region of Extreme Sky Domain, and Xu Fan suggested scouting ahead with the Snake Spirit.
• Grape reported an Elder Council Star Vessel above Linsen Immortal City Area, and Xu Fan created a Temporary Clone to take over his refining work.

Origin Flame Venerable told Xu Fan that the Space Seal would lift in two thousand years and left him fire-element Spirit Ore, while Xu Fan resumed forging Orbital Cannons. Meanwhile, Xiong Li took Xiang Yun on an expedition and urged him to keep improving despite the rise of Heavenly Puppet Masters.

• Origin Flame Venerable privately told Xu Fan that the Space Seal would be lifted in two thousand years, then departed on the Elder Council Star Vessel.
• Grape revealed that Origin Flame Venerable had left Xu Fan enough fire-element Immortal Artifact Grade Spirit Ore to forge two Basic Immortal Artifacts, and Xu Fan stored it for later.
• Xu Fan returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect and resumed forging Orbital Cannons.
• Xiong Li defeated Xiang Yun in the Trial Tower for the 101st time, then persuaded him to join an expedition mission.
• Xiong Li carried Xiang Yun out of the sect with a squad of Integration Stage Puppets and admitted he worried that Heavenly Puppet Masters were making the disciples' role in the sect smaller.
• Xiang Yun reminded Xiong Li that diligent cultivation could still lead sect disciples to the Mahayana Stage, and that Xiong Li might become the first Invincible Venerable among them.

Xiong Li took an outside mission with Xiang Yun, but his reckless killing of a Redwood Bird clan heir turned their return into a desperate chase. As Xiong Li prepared to face the pursuing Demon Race cultivators alone, Xiang Yun returned with an Integration Stage Swordsman Puppet and Sui Ying.

• Xiong Li chose to leave the sect’s protection for an outside mission and added Xiang Yun as his companion.
• Three months later, Xiong Li and Xiang Yun fled a Redwood Bird clan pursuit after Xiong Li killed its Young Clan Leader.
• Xiang Yun used his Sword Array and Sky Blue Spirit Liquid to speed their escape, but three Void Refining Stage cultivators caught up and attacked.
• Xiong Li summoned his Five Elements War Body and heavy weapons while Xiang Yun flew back to Linsen Immortal City for help.
• Xiang Yun returned with Sui Ying and an Integration Stage Swordsman Puppet as Xiong Li prepared to fight.

Xiong Li and Xiang Yun encountered a Gold Devouring Tiger challenging Human Race geniuses, and Sui Ying’s Swordsman Puppet failed to stop it. Xu Fan intervened and challenged the tiger after it offered its Immortal Artifact as a prize.

• Sui Ying’s Swordsman Puppet swiftly killed the Redwood Birds threatening Xiong Li and Xiang Yun.
• A Gold Devouring Tiger arrived, and Sui Ying sent Xiong Li and Xiang Yun away before fighting it with his Puppet.
• The Gold Devouring Tiger destroyed Sui Ying’s Puppet, prompting Xu Fan to send a special Puppet and prepare an Orbital Cannon without intending to kill the tiger.
• The Gold Devouring Tiger explained that it had its clan leader’s protection while challenging Human Race geniuses and offered its Immortal Spirit Dao Disk if defeated.
• Xu Fan produced the Spirit Break Rod and declared that the tiger’s Immortal Artifact was inferior.

Xu Fan’s Integration Stage Puppet sparred with the Gold Devouring Tiger, whose inherited techniques and ancestral power made him a dangerous opponent. After the Tiger’s Ancestral Reversion sent the Puppet flying, Xu Fan prepared to use another advantage.

• Xu Fan and the Gold Devouring Tiger agreed that the Tiger would not turn hostile if he lost, while the Tiger warned that his father could descend through Tiger Tooth.
• Xu Fan’s Puppet and the Gold Devouring Tiger exchanged powerful blows as Zhan Ling watched from a distance and Grape charged him for tea and snacks.
• Xu Fan’s Puppet countered the Tiger’s sonic Tiger Roar, but the Tiger’s combat skill and inherited techniques kept the fight even.
• The Tiger unleashed Ancestral Reversion, restraining the Puppet and striking it with a giant claw; Xu Fan’s Five Elements Protection sent the Puppet flying toward Zhan Ling.
• Xu Fan refused to bring out the cannon because the Tiger could summon his father, and he told Grape to increase spiritual power support by ten percent.

Xu Fan battled the Gold Devouring Tiger, using explosive spells and a Four Spirits Great Array to counter its formidable abilities. The tiger threatened to unleash a final method that could destroy the humans in the region, and Xu Fan paused when he noticed Shi Jinhu's Tiger Tooth avatar glowing.

• Xu Fan launched Dongfeng Missiles and a Nuclear Blast at the Gold Devouring Tiger, which endured the explosion before destroying Xu Fan's puppet with a claw strike.
• Xu Fan revealed that the destroyed puppet was a feint, then resisted the tiger's Devour Heaven and Earth ability and dodged the Ethereal Projections it summoned.
• Xu Fan summoned the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise, which trapped the Gold Devouring Tiger in the Four Spirits Great Array.
• Xu Fan prepared three Nuclear Blast missiles as the Gold Devouring Tiger threatened to use its final method and destroy the humans in the region.
• Xu Fan recognized Shi Jinhu's Tiger Tooth avatar glowing around the Gold Devouring Tiger's neck and questioned whether using its final method would count as cheating.

Xu Fan persuaded Gold Devouring Tiger to abandon his attack and leave behind a trove of treasures, then discovered a hidden Space Ruins near the group. Xu Yuexian began investigating its entrance, but the chapter ended before she uncovered what lay inside.

• Xu Fan challenged Gold Devouring Tiger to live up to his Strong Heart, and Gold Devouring Tiger recalled the Golden Winged Great Peng Demon Emperor and relented.
• Gold Devouring Tiger gave Xu Fan an Immortal Artifact and two Top-Tier Dao Artifacts before flying away.
• Grape explained that the Immortal Spirit Dao Disk could raise Hidden Spirit Island to the level of the Origin Realm for one month each year.
• Xu Fan gave the two Top-Tier Dao Artifacts to Wang Xiangchi and Li Xingci, then turned down Zhan Ling's request to become his disciple.
• Xu Yuexian noticed a hidden Space Ruins that Xu Fan had overlooked, and Xu Fan sent her avatar to investigate its entrance.
• Xu Yuexian's avatar tried detection arts and specialized Magic Treasures to locate the entrance, while the group watched.

Xu Fan and his companions explored an inheritance realm, where Grape took control of its Array Spirit and Xu Fan decided to turn it into a trial ground for the disciples. The realm was dragged toward Hidden Spirit Island, while Xu Fan returned to work on the Orbital Cannon.

• Xu Yuexian identified the ruins as an inheritance-type Sect Holy Land, and Xu Fan led everyone inside to explore it.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to take over the realm's Array Spirit, which revealed the realm's history as the Taiyue Sect's inheritance refuge.
• Xu Fan decided to modify the realm's trials for the disciples, and Grape displayed its stores of treasures and elixirs.
• Xu Fan gave Zhan Ling the Thousand Fiend Spirit Blade and promised to forge him a more suitable Immortal Artifact in the future.
• Four disciples entered the Taiyue Sect's trials, and Xu Fan ordered Grape to move the Minor World beside Hidden Spirit Island's grand Array.
• A Hula Hoop-shaped Magic Treasure began dragging the Taiyue Sect's Inheritance Minor World through empty space, while Xu Fan returned to forging the Orbital Cannon.

The Hidden Spirit Sect opened a newly acquired Inheritance Minor World as a new trial ground, and Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing tried its Mortal Body competition. Xiong Li entered the battle confident in his skill, but a flurry of blades killed him before the match could properly begin.

• The Hidden Spirit Sect announced that an Inheritance Minor World full of treasures would arrive in a month and open to its disciples.
• Er Yuan teased Li Leihu about visiting the Jade Light Rabbit Clan’s Soul Therapy Clinic and hinted that Tianqing Flowers could help him appease Sister Mowan.
• One month later, the disciples entered the Minor World, which the Sect had turned into a new trial ground.
• Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing chose to try the Mortal Body activity and learned that participants would fight in teams as ordinary Mortals.
• Xiong Li entered the battle certain he could prevail, but enemies hacked him to death with a flurry of blades.

Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing explored the rewards in the Inheritance Minor World while Li Leihu made peace with his fiancée, Lin Mowan, by revealing the Spirit Fragrance Jade he had prepared for her. Meanwhile, Xu Fan and Clone Number Two discussed their defenses and the limits of researching Puppet-made Immortal Artifacts.

• Xiong Li questioned why his fellow disciples had focused on killing him, and Qianwan Bing explained that they feared his strength in the game but trusted him against the Demon Race.
• Xiong Li and Qianwan Bing decided to browse what they could exchange for their Inheritance Points.
• Lin Mowan confronted Li Leihu, who told her he had learned to make Tianqing Flower Spirit Fragrance Jade for her, and she forgave him.
• Li Leihu and Lin Mowan set out to explore the games and rewards, hoping the Power Balance System would let them challenge senior disciples.
• Xu Fan rejected Clone Number Two's proposal to research Puppet-made Immortal Artifacts, saying they needed to prioritize their defenses and finish the Orbital Cannons.
• Xu Fan said he had planted the Seed of Freedom with the Imperial Preceptor's side, prompting Clone Number Two to question whether that meant merely removing restrictions from the Puppets.

Xu Fan inspected the completed Star Vessels and named the futuristic one Hidden Spirit No. 2, while learning that its construction had consumed nearly all of the sect’s Immortal Artifact Grade Spirit Ore. Venerable Qian Ling arrived with the Thousand Spirits Sect’s leaders and Supreme Great Elder to collect the vessel and visit the Hidden Spirit Sect, where they were astonished by its Spirit Qi.

• Xu Fan and Clone Number Two finished the Orbital Cannons while spending two years discussing a Puppet capable of refining Immortal Artifacts.
• Clone Number One reported that both Star Vessels were complete, and Xu Fan inspected their classical and futuristic designs.
• Xu Fan approved Clone Number Two’s name, Hidden Spirit No. 2, and reviewed the vessel’s Spirit Ore costs with Grape and Clone Number One.
• Zhan Ling asked to test the new Star Vessel, but Xu Fan decided to wait for Venerable Qian Ling’s arrival.
• Venerable Qian Ling arrived with the Thousand Spirits Sect’s upper ranks and Supreme Great Elder, and Xu Fan welcomed them to the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect leaders were astonished by the sect’s Sky Blue Spirit Qi and Five Elements Origin Spirit Qi, and Venerable Qian Ling asked when the latter had appeared.

Xu Fan hosted Venerable Qian Ling and the Thousand Spirits Sect elders, showed them the completed Star Vessels, and arranged for them to rest before traveling to the Extreme Sky Domain. After seeing Hidden Spirit Sect’s strength, Venerable Qian Ling suggested joining it in the Great Thousand Worlds, and the Supreme Great Elder privately considered the idea.

• Xu Fan told Venerable Qian Ling and the Supreme Great Elder that he had defeated the Gold Devouring Tiger with the Sect’s Integration Stage Puppet and used its Immortal Artifact in the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Xu Fan activated a month of Five Elements Origin Spirit Qi and welcomed the Supreme Third Elder’s Ethereal Projection.
• Xu Fan showed the Thousand Spirits Sect delegation its completed Classical Star Vessel and his own sci-fi-styled Star Vessel.
• Xu Fan invited the delegation to recuperate at Hidden Spirit Sect before they traveled together to the Extreme Sky Domain, and Venerable Qian Ling agreed.
• The Supreme Great Elder praised Hidden Spirit Sect’s disciples and said the Sect could produce many Mahayana Venerables.
• Venerable Qian Ling proposed that the Thousand Spirits Sect join Hidden Spirit Sect in the Great Thousand Worlds, and the Supreme Great Elder told him to work toward that plan.

Venerable Qian Ling and the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Third Elder tested a new Star Vessel built by the Hidden Spirit Sect, while Xu Fan won a chess match against the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder and received his Avatar Jade Talisman. The vessels reached the Extreme Sky Domain, where Qian Ling and Third began testing the ship without Xu Fan.

• Venerable Qian Ling offered to join the Hidden Spirit Sect, but the Supreme Great Elder assigned him to test the new Star Vessel and Third to observe the sect’s training.
• Xu Fan beat the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder at chess and accepted his Avatar Jade Talisman.
• Three days later, Venerable Qian Ling and Third took the new Star Vessels out at maximum speed, with Qian Ling eager to hunt Demon Race warships.
• Half a month later, Qian Ling and Third arrived outside the Giant Stone Barrier and decided to test their Star Vessel’s capabilities without Xu Fan.