Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan followed a puppet-operated Star Vessel and reassured Zhan Ling that the independent-minded puppets were controlled by safeguards he had planted. After demonstrating the Star Vessel’s powerful teleportation and Spirit Ore detection, Xu Fan and Zhan Ling encountered the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Elder fighting Extreme Void Colossi.

• Xu Fan and Zhan Ling observed the Strange Star Vessel mining Spirit Ore Stars and discovered that its puppets acted with independent consciousness.
• Zhan Ling recalled a past disaster caused by rapidly reproducing Demon Beasts, and Xu Fan explained that he had planted the Seed of Freedom and family planning concepts in the puppets.
• Xu Fan learned that one of his puppets had become captain of the Star Vessel and leader of the Nine Phoenix Dynasty’s puppet faction before he left for the Inner Region of Extreme Sky Domain.
• Xu Fan showed Zhan Ling how his improved Space Teleportation formation could break a Space Seal, though each use consumed three years’ worth of the island’s spiritual energy.
• The Star Vessel detected a Dao Artifact-grade Spirit Ore Star, and Xu Fan explained that its detection function was reserved for the Thousand Spirits Sect’s vessel.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Elder appeared amid a group of Extreme Void Colossi and attacked one with his Exquisite Giant Tower.

Xu Fan’s group learned that the Extreme Void Colossus had damaged Venerable Qian Ling’s Star Vessel before escaping the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder. After Xu Fan set out to rejoin Venerable Qian Ling, Venerable Qian Ling and the Supreme Third Elder encountered six Moon Grade Demon Race Giant Beast Warships and prepared to fight them.

• The Extreme Void Colossus escaped after damaging Venerable Qian Ling’s Star Vessel, and the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder failed to kill it because it could use the Dao of Space.
• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder visited Xu Fan’s Star Vessel and explained how difficult the Extreme Void Colossus was to kill.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to follow Venerable Qian Ling’s trail coordinates and catch up with him.
• Venerable Qian Ling and the Supreme Third Elder learned that six Demon Race Giant Beast Warships had entered the area, so Venerable Qian Ling led their three Star Vessels to engage them.
• Venerable Qian Ling’s cannons barely penetrated the enemies’ shields, and he identified them as Moon Grade warships before the six vessels charged toward his fleet.

After divining a great loss for Venerable Qian Ling, Xu Fan waited for him to return battered after the Demon Race fleet defeated his forces. As Xu Fan began repairing the Classical Star Vessel, the six Demon Race warships pressed on through a Calamity Dense Zone in search of the Extreme Void Colossus Egg.

• After more than ten days of cruising, Hidden Spirit No. 2 found the Classical Star Vessel, and Xu Fan learned Venerable Qian Ling had lured away six Moon-class Demon Race Giant Beast Warships.
• Xu Fan cast a Loss Hexagram and warned the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder that Venerable Qian Ling would suffer severe losses but probably avoid major casualties.
• The Supreme Great Elder left to search for Venerable Qian Ling, while Xu Fan and Zhan Ling stayed nearby to mine and wait.
• Two months later, Venerable Qian Ling returned in a battered Spare Escape Pod and explained that the six Demon Race warships had defeated his forces one by one.
• Xu Fan agreed to repair the Classical Star Vessel in three months, and Venerable Qian Ling asked him to make a simplified Artifact Spirit to help manage the Sect.
• Nine-Tails led the six Demon Race Giant Beast Warships through the Calamity Barrier and ordered her crew to search for the Extreme Void Colossus Egg.

After the Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder increased Venerable Qian Ling’s punishment to one thousand Punishment Thunder Whips, Xu Fan devised a way to help him withstand them. Venerable Qian Ling received a tailored soul-protecting Divine Ability in exchange for a Dao Artifact while the Classical Star Vessel was repaired.

• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder ordered Venerable Qian Ling to receive one thousand Punishment Thunder Whips, postponing half for a hundred years if he avoided further mistakes.
• Xu Fan urged the Supreme Great Elder to return home, and a month and a half later Hidden Spirit No. 2 brought the damaged Classical Star Vessel back to the Hidden Spirit Sect for repairs.
• While fishing, Xu Fan suggested that Venerable Qian Ling cultivate a Divine Ability to protect his soul from the Punishment Thunder Whip.
• Venerable Qian Ling traded Xu Fan the Soul Controlling Eagle Dao Artifact for a custom soul-armor Divine Ability.
• Three days later, Xu Fan gave Venerable Qian Ling the Soul Power Heavy Armor Divine Ability, which Venerable Qian Ling believed could block the punishment’s soul damage.

The Thousand Spirits Sect returned home, where Venerable Qian Ling was punished by the Supreme Great Elder for his mistake. Meanwhile, Han Feiyu, Tie Ta, and Tie Lan traveled across the Northern Extreme Domain toward the Ice Realm Immortal City, taking shelter beneath the ice when an Ice Bear approached.

• The Thousand Spirits Sect Supreme Great Elder ordered the repaired Classical Star Vessel to depart, despite Venerable Qian Ling asking to delay the trip.
• After the Star Vessel returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect, the Supreme Great Elder stripped Venerable Qian Ling of his spiritual power and struck him with the Punishment Thunder Whip.
• Xu Fan watched the Thousand Spirits Sect group leave, then returned to refining the Orbital Cannon.
• Han Feiyu, Tie Ta, and Tie Lan traveled across the ice plain while searching for the Ice Realm Immortal City Teleportation Array signal.
• When Han Feiyu's Magic Artifact warned them of danger, he hid the group beneath the ice, where they identified a nearby Void Refining Stage Ice Bear and settled in to wait.

Han Feiyu accepted Tie Ta and Tie Lan as family and continued traveling with them toward Ice Realm Immortal City and, eventually, his Sect. At the Hidden Spirit Sect, Xu Fan tried to teach the Dragon Eggs good behavior, but they returned to their mischief.

• Tie Ta told Han Feiyu that he and Tie Lan would follow him wherever he went, and Han Feiyu gratefully accepted them as companions.
• Tie Lan joined Han Feiyu and Tie Ta for dinner, and Han Feiyu told her stories about his Sect days and Jian Wuji.
• Xu Fan lectured a Dragon Egg after it knocked another Dragon Egg out of Sky Blue Spirit Liquid Lake, then told the Heavenly Fortune Turtle he would assign someone else to care for the eggs.
• Xu Fan instructed Grape to have a Puppet educate the six Dragon Eggs and tried to teach them how good children behaved.
• The six Dragon Eggs understood Xu Fan's lesson, then happily went back to misbehaving.

Xu Fan and Zhan Ling discussed Xu Fan’s extraordinary talent and a reincarnated Heavenly Dao who eventually returned to become a world’s will. Zhan Ling then asked whether Xu Fan planned to recruit another Venerable before his Spirit Transfer and Re-cultivation, leaving him worried about his place in the Sect.

• Xu Fan rested beside the Spirit Liquid Lake while Zhan Ling joined him after practicing the Five Elements Spirit Domain and Nuclear Blast Divine Ability.
• Zhan Ling compared Xu Fan’s talent to that of a Heavenly Dao, then told him about an Immortal World powerhouse who reincarnated with a Middle Thousand World’s Heavenly Dao Will and eventually dissolved back into it.
• Xu Fan realized Zhan Ling’s story had indirectly called him lazy and defended his rest as a way to relieve the strain on his three working selves.
• Zhan Ling asked whether Xu Fan planned to recruit a new Venerable before Zhan Ling underwent Spirit Transfer and Re-cultivation, fearing that a recruit might take his position.

Xu Fan reassured Zhan Ling that the Hidden Spirit Sect would soon have a Mahayana-level Puppet to guard it, then responded to a report of a large spirit vein and checked on Zhang Xueling in the Scripture Repository. The chapter left Zhang Xueling studying a new batch of Divine Abilities as Xu Fan returned to his duties.

• Xu Fan told Zhan Ling that a Mahayana-level Puppet would guard the Sect while Zhan Ling underwent Spirit Transfer and Re-cultivation.
• Xu Fan and Zhan Ling discussed the Middle-aged Butcher’s Puppet collection, and Xu Fan offered to have custom Blademaster Puppets made for him at cost.
• Grape reported that Xiong Li and Xiang Yun had found a large spirit vein guarded by a major clan, so Xu Fan sent Puppets and two Orbital Cannons while Zhan Ling rushed to help.
• Xu Fan found Zhang Xueling’s vitality and cultivation declining because he was trying to comprehend the Dao of Reincarnation, and urged him to remain in the Scripture Repository.
• Xu Fan placed Great Dao Scripture in Zhang Xueling’s body for protection and ordered Grape to send new Divine Abilities to the repository.
• A Puppet delivered fifty Jade Slips, including the introductory Dongfeng Divine Ability, and Zhang Xueling began studying them.

Zhan Ling arrived with overwhelming forces and compelled the Wind Blue Rain Goose clan to submit to the Hidden Spirit Sect. Rain Goose Demon Venerable agreed to relocate outside Linsen Immortal City and accept supervision, while Zhan Ling asked for directions to a stronger opponent.

• Xiong Li and Xiang Yun ambushed the Wind Blue Rain Goose Territory while awaiting the Sect's response to the large spirit vein.
• Zhan Ling arrived with Integration Stage Puppets, threatened Rain Goose Demon Venerable with an Immortal Artifact and Orbital Cannons, and demanded the clan submit as mounts.
• Grape intervened and offered the Wind Blue Rain Geese relative freedom in exchange for relocating outside Linsen Immortal City and accepting Hidden Spirit Sect supervision.
• Rain Goose Demon Venerable submitted to protect his clan from enslavement or extermination.
• Zhan Ling asked Rain Goose Demon Venerable to identify a stronger opponent, and he directed Zhan Ling to the Scorpion-Lion Clan thirty million li to the west.

The Wind Blue Rain Goose clan settled on a Giant Island and joined the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Demon Department, while Rain Goose Demon Venerable gave the Sect records about the Demon World. As Xu Fan worried about the Sect’s finances, a familiar person arrived at Hidden Spirit Island and announced their return.

• Xiang Yun helped the Wind Blue Rain Goose clan settle on a Giant Island, where Puppets built a Task Palace and a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Rain Goose Demon Venerable reviewed the Demon Department’s terms and requested an audience with Xu Fan.
• Rain Goose Demon Venerable asked to join the Demon Department and handed Xu Fan a Jade Slip containing the clan’s information about the Human World.
• Xu Fan instructed Grape to add the Jade Slip’s contents to the Database and reward Rain Goose Demon Venerable with points.
• Xu Fan considered the Sect’s rising costs and ordered defenses prepared when a Human Star Vessel approached.
• A familiar person arrived in a Treasure Artifact Spirit Boat and sent Xu Fan a message saying they had finally returned.

Xu Fan welcomed Pang Fu back after he had been stranded for decades and learned that the Commerce Department Head had built a Merchant Guild in Shuiyun Immortal City. Pang Fu prepared to use the Hidden Spirit Sect’s resources and Star Vessels to expand trade, then began telling Xu Fan how he founded the Communication Alliance.

• Pang Fu explained that he had been trapped in Shuiyun Immortal City for seventy years and had built a small Merchant Guild before earning enough to return.
• Xu Fan told Pang Fu that the Hidden Spirit Sect had its own Star Vessels and assigned him to resume trade after he rested and reviewed Grape’s information.
• Pang Fu secured an eleven-million-High-grade-Spirit-Stone refund for his return trip and eagerly reviewed the Sect’s surplus goods for sale.
• Pang Fu began recounting how he met an Artifact Refining genius and joined small Merchant Guilds to form the Communication Alliance.
• The Communication Alliance opened trade routes and communications with four nearby Immortal Cities, then faced suppression from Shuiyun Immortal City’s major Merchant Guilds.

Xu Fan welcomed Pang Fu back to the Hidden Spirit Sect and gave him command of the Snake Spirit, a powerful crew, and the resources to support the sect. Pang Fu headed for Shuiyun Immortal City to help his old friends, while Xu Fan sealed Li Xingci’s cultivation and inflicted him with the Happy Divine Ability.

• Pang Fu told Xu Fan how he had surrendered his Communication Alliance to a powerful sect in Shuiyun Immortal City and used its connections to return home.
• Xu Fan put Pang Fu in command of the Snake Spirit, assigned Pure Feather Demon Venerable as its captain, and promised him Orbital Cannons and a hundred Integration Stage Puppets.
• Xu Fan and Pang Fu discussed sect affairs, and Pang Fu left two days later for the Extreme Sky Domain with Magic Treasures and Puppets aboard the Snake Spirit.
• Xu Fan told Li Xingci to be careful with Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, then sealed his cultivation and used the Happy Divine Ability on him.
• Aboard the Snake Spirit, Pang Fu recalled his friends in Shuiyun Immortal City and promised to help them before preparing to land there.

Pang Fu returned to Shuiyun Immortal City with the Hidden Spirit Sect’s backing and rallied his former companions to build the Hidden Spirit Merchant Guild across the Central Continent. After Huang Shan secured Xiaoyun Sect’s support against the Three Major Merchant Guilds, he was ambushed on his way back.

• Pang Fu entered Shuiyun Immortal City and dismissed a rival Merchant Guild president’s threats before heading to the former Union Merchant Guild headquarters.
• Pang Fu revealed that the Hidden Spirit Sect had provided a Star Vessel, powerful combat support, and valuable goods, then assigned his companions roles in the new Hidden Spirit Merchant Guild.
• Pang Fu tasked Huang Shan with negotiating Xiaoyun Sect’s help to suppress Shuiyun Immortal City’s Three Major Merchant Guilds.
• Huang Shan presented the Magic Treasures to Xiaoyun Sect, and Xiaoyun Venerable agreed to cut ties with the Three Major Merchant Guilds and move against them.
• The Three Major Merchant Guild presidents and an Idle Venerable blocked Huang Shan and his party as they returned to Shuiyun Immortal City.

Huang Shan used the Union Merchant Guild’s hidden strength to force the Three Major Merchant Guilds to pay compensation, then took charge of the Hidden Spirit Merchant Guild’s business in Shuiyun Immortal City. Back at the Hidden Spirit Sect, Zhan Ling reported that the Invincible Demon Venerable was injured, while Xu Fan warned him that the Inner Region of Extreme Sky Domain had become dangerous.

• Huang Shan intimidated the Three Major Merchant Guilds with a thousand Void Refining Puppets after Idle Venerable withdrew, then demanded compensation for emotional distress.
• Pang Fu explained that he had deliberately let Huang Shan take his revenge, and Huang Shan promised to manage the Hidden Spirit Merchant Guild in Shuiyun Immortal City.
• Three days later, Snake Spirit circled Shuiyun Immortal City and flew toward the Extreme Sky Domain.
• Zhan Ling returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect with two Demon Venerable True Spirits and reported that the Invincible Demon Venerable was injured and would need a hundred years to recover.
• Xu Fan told Zhan Ling to stay near the outer area of the Inner Region, warning that it had become a Great Ominous Land and that Extreme Void Colossi might attack.

Xu Fan resumed the Hidden Spirit Sect’s production plans, visited the Soul Therapy Pavilion, and checked in with Ning Dao before Pang Fu returned with a cargo of urgently needed Spirit Ores. Pang Fu’s successful trading trip eased the Sect’s shortages, and Xu Fan rewarded him with three customized Dao Artifacts as Pang Fu prepared to leave on another run.

• Xu Fan ordered Grape to restart the sealed Puppet and Magic Treasure production lines, hoping Pang Fu would bring good news.
• Xu Fan visited a Soul Therapy Pavilion in Linsen Immortal City, where he saw Zhan Ling and the Middle-aged Butcher arrive for treatments before trying the service himself.
• Xu Fan met Ning Dao at the Immortal City Elder Council and learned that Ning Dao’s dao companion was recovering, but the Council could not sell him Spirit Ores.
• Pang Fu returned three months later with the Snake Spirit’s warehouse full of Spirit Ores and proceeds from Magic Treasure sales.
• Xu Fan agreed to have No. 1 and No. 2 make more Portable Space Warehouses and gave Pang Fu three of five customized Dao Artifacts before Pang Fu set off on another trading trip.

Xu Fan accepted Zhang Daqi as his Registered Disciple after testing his Artifact Refining talent. Zhang Daqi revealed that he had fled an arranged marriage, and Xu Fan learned that his intended bride had also run away.

• Pang Fu accepted Xu Fan’s two Dao Artifact rings and brought Zhang Daqi to ask Xu Fan to take him as a disciple.
• Xu Fan tested Zhang Daqi’s ability to appraise the rings, confirmed his identity, and made him a temporary Registered Disciple pending the Sect assessment.
• After the assessment, Xu Fan accepted Zhang Daqi as his Registered Disciple and told him to study Artifact Refining theory and the Sect’s Runes.
• Zhang Daqi explained that his clan had expelled him after he fled an arranged marriage, and that the woman he was meant to marry had fled too.

Xu Fan abandoned his attempt to advance his Artifact Refining Puppet design and discovered that possessing a Spirit Body made from Five Elements Origin Spirit Qi was a smoother path. After successfully refining a third-rank Treasure Artifact Spiritual Sword through the Spirit Body, he set his sights on building the Sect’s first Mahayana-level Puppet within sixty years.

• Xu Fan tested Zhang Daqi’s Spiritual Sword against two Spirit Beasts and assigned him a trial to refine a sword that remained undamaged after their battle.
• Xu Fan realized that a Spirit Body might work better than a Puppet, then used the Five Elements Origin to create a body identical to himself.
• With Clone Number Two’s Array Formation helping his soul leave his body, Xu Fan possessed the Spirit Body and refined a third-rank Treasure Artifact Spiritual Sword.
• Xu Fan resolved to refine Dao Artifacts that could enhance Spirit Bodies and improve his spirit-qi-condensing Divine Ability.
• Xu Fan called Clone Number One and Clone Number Two to plan their next work, and Clone Number Two estimated they could jointly refine a similar Immortal Artifact with the Sect’s materials in half a year.

Xu Fan worked with Clones Number One and Number Two to refine a powerful Array-Assisting Dao Artifact while Grape devoted all its computing power to deducing a Divine Ability. Pang Fu delivered supplies and a mysterious Star Stone to the Hidden Spirit Sect, and Grape’s new ability drew Sha Diao’s interest.

• Xu Fan agreed to help Clones Number One and Number Two refine a Dao Artifact after they warned that the difficult work could fail without him.
• Three months later, Pang Fu visited the Hidden Spirit Sect and learned from Qiu Ziyuan that Xu Fan and Grape were occupied with artifact refinement.
• Pang Fu gave Qiu Ziyuan a Star Stone said to connect to a Mystic Realm in the Upper Realm, asking him to pass it to Xu Fan for assessment.
• Xu Fan and his two clones refined an Array-Assisting Dao Artifact in the Underground Space while Xu Fan also worked on deducing a Divine Ability.
• Sha Diao learned that Grape was independently deducing the Divine Ability and asked whether it could help optimize his artifact-refining fusion Dao, but Xu Fan advised against it.

Sha Diao showed Xu Fan a Universal Dao Artifact Alloy that absorbed the properties of Spirit Ore, and Xu Fan urged him to continue researching it. Meanwhile, Ye Xiaoyao gained control of a Mystic Realm and vowed to learn its strongest Sword Arrays.

• Xu Fan explained basic and logic computing power to Sha Diao, who said he would focus on developing alloys for basic Dao Artifacts.
• While refining artifacts, Xu Fan coated a Dao Artifact embryo with melted Immortal Artifact-grade Spirit Ore.
• Sha Diao demonstrated a silver jelly-like alloy that changed to match the properties of Profound Iron after absorbing it.
• Xu Fan offered Grape's computing power to help produce and refine the alloy, but Sha Diao chose to keep researching it himself.
• Xu Fan and his clones discussed how he had intercepted opportunities meant for Ye Xiaoyao, whose progress had slowed but whose foundation remained solid.
• Ye Xiaoyao celebrated taking control of a Mystic Realm and its Ten Thousand Swords Pool, then vowed to learn only the strongest Sword Arrays.

Xu Fan completed the Heaven Soul Jade Spirit Disk and used it to create a Spirit Body that could help his clones refine Immortal Artifacts. After assigning the work to his clones and taking a year off, he reunited with Pang Fu, who had acquired the Immortal Artifact Grade Spirit Ore the sect needed.

• Xu Fan finished refining the Heaven Soul Jade Spirit Disk after three years of work and received Dao Artifact Feedback alongside his clones.
• Xu Fan used the disk and Five Elements Origin Spirit Qi to create a Spirit Body, then demonstrated that possessing it let him reach the early Integration Stage.
• Xu Fan transferred Clone Number One's consciousness into the Spirit Body and assigned Number One and Number Two different stages of future Immortal Artifact refining.
• Xu Fan gave his clones a year off before they began work on the Hidden Spirit Sect's first Mahayana Stage Puppet, then went fishing at the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake.
• Pang Fu arrived and congratulated Xu Fan, who learned that Pang Fu had acquired the Immortal Artifact Grade Spirit Ore the sect needed.