Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan faced a growing Spirit Qi shortage as dragon eggs hatched and the sect’s Divine Beasts consumed more energy. After preparing Five Elements Pills, he joined Clone Number One to refine another Spirit Gathering Array Immortal Artifact Core.

• Xu Fan realized the newly hatched dragons and the Star Swallowing Snake would require the Hidden Spirit Sect to refine at least four more Immortal Artifact Spirit Gathering Array Cores.
• Xu Yuexian’s egg hatched, and then Xu Fan’s egg hatched; both produced Four-Clawed Golden Dragons, leaving Li Xingci astonished that two True Dragon bloodlines had appeared in one clutch.
• Xu Fan sent his disciples away with their little dragons and spent three months refining over a thousand top-grade Five Elements Pills.
• Grape told Xu Fan that the Spirit Gathering Array could no longer cover the sect’s daily consumption, so Xu Fan ordered the Demon World’s Fasting Spirit Gathering Array activated and went to help Clone Number One.
• Xu Fan and Clone Number One spent three months refining a Spirit Gathering Array Immortal Artifact Core.

Xu Fan restored the Hidden Spirit Sect’s spiritual energy and sought Spirit Ore to make more Immortal Artifact Cores. Emissaries Xuan Guang and Hua Jun arrived from Upper Realm sects to recruit him, but he declined and accepted their gifts; they later returned frequently to tell him about the Immortal World.

• Xu Fan installed a Spirit Gathering Array Immortal Artifact Core, reviving the Hidden Spirit Sect’s spiritual energy, and worried about obtaining enough Spirit Ore for three more cores.
• Xuan Guang and Hua Jun scattered Seven-Colored Crystals into the fusion point between the Human and Demon Realms while competing over their missions.
• Elder Zhan Ling advised Xu Fan to ask the Heavenly Devil Sect for Spirit Ore in advance, and Xu Fan planned to send Pang Fu to request it.
• Xu Fan welcomed Xuan Guang of the Heavenly Dao Palace and Hua Jun of Youxian Palace, who offered him gifts and invited him to join their sects.
• Xu Fan declined to join either sect but accepted their gifts, and the two emissaries later returned frequently to share information about the Immortal World.

Xu Fan sent Xuan Guang and Hua Jun away after they discussed the Wood Origin Realm and tried to recruit him, then learned they had decided to return to their sects and support his plans. A Four-Clawed Golden Dragon hatched from a Green Dragon Egg, and a Dragon Turtle emerged from Li Xingci’s egg as his family arrived.

• Xu Fan asked Xuan Guang about the strongest races in the Wood Origin Realm and ended their visit by saying he would enter seclusion to refine an Immortal Artifact.
• Hua Jun showed Xu Fan images of Youxian Palace’s female disciples, and Xu Fan said he would get to know them after ascending.
• Xuan Guang and Hua Jun argued over their sects’ interest in Xu Fan, then agreed to return and help him establish a small Immortal Sect.
• Xu Fan received messages that Xuan Guang and Hua Jun had been summoned back, along with an encyclopedia of Immortal World knowledge from Xuan Guang.
• Xu Fan fed the newly hatched Four-Clawed Golden Dragon a Five Elements Pill and wondered how it had come from a Green Dragon Egg.
• A Dragon Turtle hatched from Li Xingci’s egg, and Li Xingci’s family arrived.

Xu Fan and Clone No. 1 began refining the Spirit Gathering Array Immortal Artifact Core while Han Feiyu returned to Linsen Immortal City with Tie Lan and Tie Ta. Han Feiyu reunited with Jian Wuji and headed back to the Hidden Spirit Sect, where Xu Fan and his clone discussed what the sect might gain from its returning prodigies.

• Xu Fan and Li Xingci admired the newborn Dragon Turtle, which ate its eggshell and fell asleep on Li Xingci’s shoulder.
• Xu Fan joined Clone No. 1 in refining Immortal Artifact Cores using the Five Elements Foundation Spirit Ores sent by Xuan Guang and Hua Jun.
• Han Feiyu told Tie Ta and Tie Lan that they would soon reach the sect, while Tie Ta considered taking his sister to another Immortal City to distance her from Han Feiyu.
• Han Feiyu and his companions arrived at Linsen Immortal City, where he joyfully reunited with Jian Wuji and arranged for Tie Ta and Tie Lan to rest in the city before joining the Outer Sect.
• Xu Fan and Clone No. 1 debated whether Han Feiyu and Jian Wuji would bring fortune to the Hidden Spirit Sect, with Xu Fan saying the sect mainly needed to survive.

Xu Fan learned that the True Dragon father of the Dragon Eggs was coming to retrieve its children and planned to use the arrival to deal with two Invincible Demon Venerables. The chapter ended with Xu Fan preparing to take the young dragons and remaining eggs to the Demon World to set a trap.

• Han Feiyu gave Jian Wuji’s mother a Heavenly Spirit Aperture Jade Bracelet, and Jian Wuji persuaded her to accept it.
• A True Dragon sensed four bloodline calls from its offspring and set out to find them in the lower realm.
• Xu Fan learned that the True Dragon was coming for the dragon children and discussed the danger with Clone No. 1 and Li Xingci.
• Li Xingci advised Xu Fan to hide his valuables, warning that the True Dragon might object to the equal contracts Xu Fan had signed with its children.
• Xu Fan decided to take the Four-Clawed Little Golden Dragon, the Dragon Turtle, and the remaining eggs to the Demon World to lure out the two Invincible Demon Venerables.

Xu Fan waited for the True Dragon father to retrieve his children, but the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon seized his puppet, Immortal Artifact, Giant Turtle, and Spirit Liquid Lake. Xu Fan recorded the theft in his notebook and vowed to grow strong enough to confront the Dragon Race.

• Xu Fan brought Xu Gang, Xu Yuexian, and Li Xingci to the Demon World and waited a year for the dragon father to arrive.
• The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon appeared, took back his dragon children, and criticized Xu Fan for forming equal contracts with them.
• The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon seized Xu Fan’s Mahayana Stage Puppet and Spirit Break, took the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle, and removed the Spirit Liquid Lake.
• Xu Fan asked the dragon father to deal with two Invincible Demon Venerables who had threatened the Dragon Eggs, and the dragon father killed them.
• After the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon left, Xu Fan wrote down what he had lost and vowed to teach the dragons manners once he grew stronger.

After losing an Immortal Artifact to a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, Xu Fan resolved to grow stronger and prepare for an ominous event he could not foresee. Two years later, he completed new Immortal Artifact cores and Star Vessels, sent one into the Extreme Sky Domain, and ordered Grape to deduce a Mahayana Stage Puppet production line.

• Xu Fan told his disciples that the weak were prey to the strong, while Xu Gang vowed to reclaim his master's honor through diligent cultivation.
• Xu Fan and Clone Number One continued refining Immortal Artifacts as Xu Fan prepared for an event his divinations could not reveal.
• Two years later, Xu Fan installed two Spirit Gathering Array Immortal Artifact Cores and completed the Extreme Void Colossus Star Vessel.
• Venerable Qian Ling took the large Star Vessel, while Xu Fan sent Clone Number Two into the Extreme Sky Domain with a Mahayana Stage Puppet.
• Xu Fan asked Grape to begin deducing a Mahayana Stage Puppet production line so he could build more puppets and avoid being caught unprepared again.

After the Hidden Spirit Sect’s disciples learned about the dangers Xu Fan faced, many sought permission to train beyond the sect’s territory. Xu Fan approved their requests and prepared Departure Gift Packs, while Xiong Li waited for his pack and considered whether to team up with Qianwan Bing.

• Grape told the Hidden Spirit Sect’s disciples that a True Dragon had taken their hatched Dragon Eggs and one of Xu Fan’s Immortal Artifacts, prompting them to cultivate with renewed urgency.
• Xiong Li asked Grape for permission to leave the sect for dangerous training, and Xu Fan agreed after hearing his resolve to grow stronger and protect the sect.
• Xu Fan announced that first- and second-generation disciples could register to train outside the sect and collect Departure Gift Packs, while third-generation disciples would have to wait fifty years.
• Xu Fan planned packs containing protective equipment, supplies, and an Integration Stage Puppet, then tasked Clone Number Two with arranging a Treasure Artifact that could conceal disciples from a Demon Venerable.
• Xiong Li went to collect his pack but learned that one key Treasure Artifact would take three more days to finish, and Qianwan Bing proposed that they team up.

Xiong Li agreed to travel with Qianwan Bing, and hundreds of Hidden Spirit Sect disciples set out for trials. Xu Fan focused on preparing for the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon by completing more Mahayana Stage Puppets, and the chapter ended with a Sword Cry above the sect.

• Xiong Li agreed to join Qianwan Bing on a journey, and their partnership helped spur other First Generation Disciples to leave for trials.
• Xiang Yun visited the Soul Therapy Pavilion for a final session before departing, bringing business back to the Rabbit-eared Girls.
• Three days later, hundreds of Spirit Boats left the Hidden Spirit Sect as Xu Fan discussed the disciples' preparations with Clone Number One.
• Xu Fan vowed to build an Academy of Etiquette at the Heavenly Dragon Realm and make True Dragons pay tuition with their fortunes.
• Two years later, Xu Fan completed two more Mahayana Stage Puppets, and Clone Number Two delivered their matching Top-Level Dao Artifacts.
• A Sword Cry suddenly rang out above the Hidden Spirit Sect.

Xu Fan and the Hidden Spirit Sect’s puppets attacked Nine Sword Venerable after he shouted over the sect, trapping him in a powerful array and using him as a punching bag. Xu Fan appeared before the furious swordsman and declared that he would kill him for insulting the sect.

• Nine Sword Venerable demanded that Jian Wuji come out, and a Mahayana Stage Puppet struck him into the lake with a Giant Axe.
• Nine Sword Venerable rose from the lake and vowed to destroy the Hidden Spirit Sect, then fought three Mahayana Stage Puppets as the sect’s Sky-Covering Array trapped and weakened him.
• Nine Sword Venerable broke through the array, but six Dao Artifact-grade Thunder God Type III Gravity Rods knocked him back inside, where the puppets attacked again.
• Nine Sword Venerable demanded to meet the Hidden Spirit Sect Great Elder, and Xu Fan appeared as an Ethereal Projection.
• Xu Fan admitted that Nine Sword Venerable might have been used as a punching bag and said he would kill him for insulting the sect.

Xu Fan forced Nine Sword Venerable to test three Mahayana Stage Puppets, then let him leave with Jian Wuji after giving him a healing pill. As Xu Fan planned to make more Puppets, Thunderclap Demon Venerable returned from the Inner Region with a valuable piece of Spirit Ore.

• Nine Sword Venerable apologized to the Hidden Spirit Sect and agreed to test the limits of Xu Fan's three Mahayana Stage Puppets.
• Xu Fan trapped Nine Sword Venerable in the array for three days of combat, then gave him a Four-Revolutions Soul-Returning Treasure Pill.
• Jian Wuji chose to leave with Nine Sword Venerable and received permission to visit his mother in the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan and his clones discussed making ten Mahayana Stage Puppets and prepared to refine more.
• Thunderclap Demon Venerable returned from the Inner Region carrying a piece of azure Spirit Ore.

Xu Fan received Profound Azure Stone, which improved the Hidden Spirit Sect’s puppet materials and production plans. After ten years of work, he completed ten Mahayana Stage Puppets, giving the Sect the strength to stand against Invincible Demon Venerables.

• Thunderclap Demon Venerable gave Xu Fan Profound Azure Stone and asked him to spare Wind Thunder Demon Venerable; Xu Fan agreed if Thunderclap lured an equally strong Demon Venerable into the Sect’s territory.
• Xu Fan sent Profound Azure Stone to Grape and Sha Diao, who found that it could strengthen the Universal Alloy and enable Integration Stage Puppets to be produced at full capacity.
• Xu Fan ordered Clone No. 1 and Clone No. 2 to make five basic Mahayana Stage Puppets and five stronger Performance Editions.
• Sha Diao refined a Universal Alloy that could replicate spirit ores below the Immortal Artifact level while improving their performance by twenty percent.
• Xu Fan and his clones spent ten years refining the ten Mahayana Stage Puppets, and Xu Fan declared that the Hidden Spirit Sect could now stand firm against Invincible Demon Venerables.

Xu Fan tested Grape’s Mahayana Stage Puppets while helping Thunderclap Demon Venerable escape four Fire Cloud Bird Clan Demon Venerables. Wang Yulun fished up a mysterious nine-tiered pagoda that Xu Fan could not activate, and they stored it away for later study.

• Wang Yulun and Xu Fan reunited after ten years and discussed Senior Xiu Xin’s Tribulation Crossing Stage cultivation and preparations for her Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Fan sent Grape’s four Mahayana Stage Puppets to rescue Thunderclap Demon Venerable, who arrived injured and received Sacred Bone Healing Pills.
• Xu Fan assessed the puppets’ combat performance as weaker than expected while Grape tested their limits and battle formation.
• Wang Yulun caught a Wooden Chest containing a nine-tiered Miniature Pagoda, but Xu Fan failed to activate it.
• Xu Fan and Wang Yulun stored the useless pagoda in the Treasure Vault, while the puppets defeated three Fire Cloud Bird Clan Demon Venerables and imprisoned them in the Myriad Beast Cage.

Xu Fan wondered about an ominous sense of crisis after checking the Unicorn Giant Snake’s inherited memories and ruling out its parents. Meanwhile, Han Feiyu considered teaming up with Ying Ci for missions and training outside the Hidden Spirit Sect, then discussed how hidden resources could help someone grow stronger with Wang Xiangchi.

• Xu Fan gave the Unicorn Giant Snake half a unit of Five Elements Origin and checked its memories, learning that Star Swallowing Snake parents abandon their eggs and concluding they were not behind his sense of crisis.
• Han Feiyu learned that his ranking among the First Generation Disciples had fallen despite reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, and Ying Ci invited him to team up for Sect missions and outside training.
• Han Feiyu asked for time to consider Ying Ci’s invitation, and Ying Ci departed as a cloud of black mist.
• Han Feiyu asked Wang Xiangchi whether limitless cultivation resources could make someone the strongest of the younger generation, and Wang Xiangchi explained that success depended on hiding and using them wisely.

Han Feiyu asked Wang Xiangchi about the strongest Dao, then brought a mysterious transparent Cube to Xu Fan for appraisal. Xu Fan discovered it briefly lifted the Space Seal, advised Han Feiyu to keep it, and explained that he needed to let the medicinal power of his aptitude-enhancing herbs digest.

• Wang Xiangchi told Han Feiyu that the Pay-to-Win Dao, described by Xu Fan, could make someone the strongest with enough Spirit Stones and treasures.
• Han Feiyu swallowed a hundred-thousand-year Five Elements Spirit Fruit and examined the transparent Cube he had found on his way back to the Sect.
• Grape alerted Xu Fan that the Space Seal had briefly opened across a radius of one hundred thousand li, then sealed again.
• Han Feiyu brought the Cube to Xu Fan, who found that it triggered the Space Seal's temporary release when he held it.
• Xu Fan told Han Feiyu the Cube might have other uses and advised him to let his accumulated medicinal power digest for fifty years before consuming more aptitude-enhancing herbs.

Xu Fan guided Han Feiyu in Sword Arrays and began investigating the Cube Han Feiyu lent to the Sect. Three days after the Thousand Refining Sect requested a visit, its Artifact Refining Grandmasters arrived at the Hidden Spirit Sect and sensed an aura surpassing their own.

• Han Feiyu returned the Cube to Xu Fan, who accepted it as a loan and offered him annual contribution points in exchange for the Sect's use of it.
• Xu Fan observed Han Feiyu's Sword Arrays, then brought him into a world of Spiritual Swords to help him comprehend their essence.
• Han Feiyu awakened half a month later, and Xu Fan gave him a year to study the Sword Array world in the Trial Minor World as the Sect's first payment for the Cube.
• Grape detected a sealed consciousness inside the Cube, and Xu Fan asked it to study the item while cautioning against taking a protagonist's belongings.
• Xu Gang accepted a Visit Card from the Thousand Refining Sect, and Xu Fan arranged a Rune Path welcome for its Artifact Refining Grandmasters.
• Three Artifact Refining Grandmasters from the Heavenly Refining Sect approached the Hidden Spirit Sect and sensed an aura above the level of Artifact Refining Grandmasters.

Xu Fan gave the Heavenly Refining Sect Star Vessel designs while asking its Artifact Refining Grandmasters to keep his Great Grandmaster status secret. He later discussed Spirit Ore and future Spirit Sword plans with Venerable Qian Ling, and left him waiting another 10 years for his Immortal Artifact.

• Xu Fan welcomed three Artifact Refining Grandmasters from the Heavenly Refining Sect and learned they had come to seek his Star Vessel designs.
• Xu Fan gave the elders three Star Vessel blueprints, accepted a Dao Artifact Palace in return, and asked them to keep his Great Grandmaster identity confidential.
• The three elders discussed Artifact Refining with Xu Fan for three days before leaving, and Grape then told him Venerable Qian Ling had arrived.
• Xu Fan and Venerable Qian Ling discussed the Thousand Spirits Sect's Star Vessels, Spirit Ore, and Xu Fan's plans to make Dao Artifact Spirit Swords for Hidden Spirit Sect disciples.
• Xu Fan said the Supreme Great Elder's custom Immortal Artifact would be ready within 20 years, then told Venerable Qian Ling to wait another 10 years for his own.

Xu Fan planned to strengthen Hidden Spirit Island and learned that Demon Race warships were invading the Extreme Sky Domain. When five warships attacked the Hidden Spirit Sect, his Puppets captured four, but an Invincible Demon Venerable escaped from the Moon-class ship.

• Zhan Ling visited Venerable Qian Ling to show off the strength he gained from Spirit Transfer and Re-cultivation.
• Xu Fan and his clones debated how to upgrade Hidden Spirit Island, and Xu Fan ordered Grape to prepare a blueprint focused on strengthening the Sect's Array Formation.
• Pang Fu returned with supplies and reported that Demon Race warships had become more common after the Elder Council's Starship Fleet was defeated.
• Xu Fan discovered that Pang Fu carried a tracking mark and saw five Demon Race warships approaching the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Xu Fan sent Mahayana Stage Puppets into the warships, and they captured the crews of the four ordinary ships.
• An Invincible Demon Venerable escaped from the Moon-class warship by breaking through the Space Seal, leaving Xu Fan to secure the remaining Demon Race crew.

Xu Fan prepared to trade the captured Demon Race Giant Beast Warships and began planning a Spiritual Sword production line to strengthen the Hidden Spirit Sect. Wang Yulun then told him that Ling'er seemed to have feelings for Sui Ying, leaving Xu Fan to advise him to let things take their course.

• Xu Fan promised Han Feiyu a small Star Vessel and decided to sell the captured Giant Beast Warships to the Heavenly Refining Sect for Spirit Ore.
• Xu Fan had Grape strip the warships and planned to use the ore to make Immortal Swords and Dao Artifact-grade Spiritual Swords for Sword Array Puppets.
• Xu Fan inspected the Spiritual Sword production line and agreed that its current production speed was sufficient.
• Wang Yulun told Xu Fan that Ling'er seemed to have feelings for Sui Ying, who did not appear interested in finding a Dao companion.
• Xu Fan advised Wang Yulun to let things take their course and reflected that Sui Ying had suffered the loss of his wife.

Xu Fan learned that the Invincible Demon Venerable was disguising himself to infiltrate Linsen Immortal City, so he set an ambush along the demon’s route. As the demon approached, Xu Fan waited with his puppets and formations, confident that the city’s identity checks would expose him.

• Xu Fan divined that Xiao Ling and Sui Ying were a good match, though their marriage would likely take several thousand years, and Wang Yulun planned to use his Dao Artifact Set to confront Sui Ying as a puppet.
• Grape reported that the Invincible Demon Venerable was disguising himself as a human Cultivator and heading toward Linsen Immortal City, so Xu Fan took his puppets to intercept him.
• The Invincible Demon Venerable blamed the human Sect for destroying his fleet and decided to infiltrate it and kill its members.
• Xu Fan set up grand formations along the demon’s route, and Grape explained that its improved detection had revealed the disguise without alerting the demon.
• Grape demonstrated a jade ring that bypassed Space Seals, and Xu Fan approved allocating an Immortal Artifact-grade Spirit Gathering Array core to support Grape’s Computing Power.
• The disguised Invincible Demon Venerable approached Linsen Immortal City slowly while Xu Fan watched from his formation and waited to strike.