Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan discovered a Lightning Rune in the Lightning-Struck Willow Wood Xu Yuexian brought back, then crafted experimental electromagnetic spears. When Wang Yulun apologized with rare Spirit Heart Ore for revealing Xu Fan’s artifact-refiner identity, Xu Fan accepted the gift and promised to make him Treasure Artifact-grade Spiritual Power Armor.

• Xu Yuexian showed Xu Fan the Lightning-Struck Willow Wood she had found, and Xu Fan absorbed its Lightning Rune before making her a life-saving Spiritual Pill.
• Xu Fan learned that Xu Gang had been doing missions with Wang Yulun and advised Xu Yuexian to tell him not to cultivate too quickly.
• Xu Fan refined three experimental spears called Electromagnetic Number One using the Lightning Rune.
• Xu Gang returned with Wang Yulun, who offered Xu Fan a basketball-sized piece of black spirit ore as an apology for exposing his identity.
• Xu Fan identified the ore as rare Spirit Heart Ore, accepted Wang Yulun’s gift, and promised to refine him Treasure Artifact-grade Spiritual Power Armor.

Xu Fan discovered that Spirit Heart Ore could give his puppets combat instincts and began planning a central controller, while Wang Yulun and Ye Xiaoyao faced costly problems of their own. Wang Yulun agreed to attend a gathering at the Baihua Sect despite Xu Fan’s warning, and Ye Xiaoyao pawned treasures to afford materials for his swords.

• Xu Fan fused a piece of Spirit Heart Ore into a Great Strength Ape Puppet, which then fought with improved combat awareness and defeated a Wolf Puppet.
• Xu Fan warned Wang Yulun about the Baihua Sect and accepted his materials for Spiritual Power Armor, but Wang Yulun’s master later ordered him to attend an exchange gathering there.
• Wang Yulun agreed to go after his master promised to disguise him and make him uglier.
• Xu Fan told Ye Xiaoyao that the Artifact Refining materials would cost one million Spirit Stones, and Ye Xiaoyao left to find the money.
• Ye Xiaoyao pawned some of his treasures at the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to pay for his sword cultivation needs.

Wang Yulun and Xu Gang accidentally destroyed a group of Giant Rock Beasts while testing Xu Fan’s powerful spear, and Xu Fan ordered his disciples to slow their cultivation. The chapter ended with Xu Fan opening a mysterious jar and finding Spirit Jade marked with a Great Sun Rune, while Old Sword secretly grinned in Ye Xiaoyao’s spiritual world.

• Xu Gang tested the Electromagnetic Number One Spear on the Giant Rock Beasts, and its blast wiped them out and destroyed Wang Yulun’s mission target.
• Xu Yuexian found that she had ruined a Cave Abode while trying to break its Forbidden Barrier.
• Wang Yulun left on the Baihua Sect Exchange Trip with his new Treasure Artifact Spiritual Power Armor as Ye Xiaoyao continued collecting flying swords.
• Xu Fan reprimanded Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian for advancing too quickly and ordered them to spend at least a year at each Qi Refining level.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian challenged Little Fatty on the arena after deciding to relieve their frustration by beating him up.
• Xu Fan opened the rune-locked jar and found Spirit Jade inscribed with a Great Sun Rune, while Old Sword grinned as Ye Xiaoyao worried in the Inner Sect.

Xu Fan regretted the losses he had suffered around Ye Xiaoyao and tried to avoid joining him on a dangerous expedition to a Soul Iron Vein. He agreed to help indirectly by providing mining Puppets and lending Ye Xiaoyao a set of armor.

• Xu Fan found that the Spirit Jade from the jar was ordinary, while Ye Xiaoyao wondered where his lighting jade had gone.
• At the Baihua Sect banquet, the Elder of the Baihua Sect dispelled Wang Yulun's disguise and subjected him to her charms, recalling his fear of the Fox Demon.
• Xu Fan resolved to keep his distance from Ye Xiaoyao, but Ye arrived with the materials for more flying swords and asked him to collect them in two months.
• Ye Xiaoyao told Xu Fan about a valuable Soul Iron Vein guarded by Golden Core Stage Earth Spirit Long-Tusked Elephants and asked him to help mine it.
• Xu Fan refused to go, but offered to make automatic mining Puppets and lent Ye Xiaoyao his Type III Spiritual Power Armor for the expedition.

Xu Fan finished Ye Xiaoyao’s weapons and Spiritual Power Armor, then used the armor’s damage to obtain Ye Xiaoyao’s Soul Iron. Ye Xiaoyao left to find Spirit Heart Ore, while Xu Fan planned to settle the score for past schemes.

• Xu Fan completed Ye Xiaoyao’s flying swords, Mining Puppets, and Spiritual Power Armor, and gave him instructions for using them.
• Old Sword urged Ye Xiaoyao to manipulate Xu Fan for profit, but Ye Xiaoyao insisted he regarded Xu Fan as a brother and would not set traps for him.
• Ye Xiaoyao tested his armor against Earth Spirit Long-Tusked Elephants and praised its boost to his combat strength.
• Ye Xiaoyao returned after damaging the armor’s Spirit Energy Core, and Xu Fan claimed he needed Spirit Heart Ore to repair it.
• Ye Xiaoyao left Xu Fan a Spatial Ring containing the damaged armor and a large pile of Soul Iron, then promised to find Spirit Heart Ore.
• Xu Fan revealed that he had planned to use the armor’s damage to make Ye Xiaoyao compensate him with Soul Iron.

Wang Yulun left the Baihua Sect with a strawberry mark after a Peerless Beauty hugged him, while Zhang Weiyun reunited with Xu Fan and then departed with Venerable Xuanqing. Xu Fan accepted Zhang Weiyun as his wife in his heart and promised to wait until she finished her apprenticeship.

• A Peerless Beauty hugged Wang Yulun and left a mark on his neck as the Heavenly Gate Sect disciples watched.
• Venerable Xuanqing visited the Heavenly Gate Sect and told the Azure-Robed Man she had brought Zhang Weiyun to see her husband.
• Zhang Weiyun reunited with Xu Fan, introduced herself to his disciples, and gave Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian Phoenix Blood Pills.
• Xu Fan placed a ring on Zhang Weiyun's finger before she left with Venerable Xuanqing, who promised to let her visit him after she reached the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Xu Fan explained the Phoenix Blood Pills' life-saving power, and Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian offered their bottles to him.

Xu Fan refined the Heart of Puppets and helped Wang Yulun cover the Strawberry Mark on his body with a soul-burning blade scar. After Wang Yulun left, Xu Fan tried to uncover the secret of the rusted Iron Plate he had brought back.

• Xu Fan decided to refine a Treasure Artifact with an Artifact Spirit to control Puppets, using Soul Iron and Spirit Heart Ore.
• Xu Fan completed the Heart of Puppets, then welcomed Wang Yulun back and accepted the rusted Iron Plate he had bought for 10,000 Spirit Stones.
• Xu Fan found that Wang Yulun's Strawberry Mark had fused with his soul and could only be purified when he advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Xu Fan struck Wang Yulun with the flat of a Black Soul Blade, leaving a blade scar over the Strawberry Mark so he could explain it more easily.
• After Wang Yulun went home, Xu Fan tried spiritual power, Spiritual Fire, and increasingly powerful brushes to clean the Iron Plate, but barely removed any rust.

Xu Fan deciphered the rune trials on a mysterious iron plate, collecting rare runes before exhaustion forced him to rest. While he slept, Ye Xiaoyao activated a repaired Teleportation Array and vanished to a distant realm; Xu Fan later awoke and reassured Xu Gang after another sparring loss.

• Xu Fan discovered that linking runes into an Array advanced the iron plate's trial and rewarded him with rare runes.
• Xu Fan reached the 32nd level after five days of trials, accepted food from Xu Yuexian, and slept from exhaustion.
• Ye Xiaoyao fled Nascent Soul Stage Demon Beasts and followed Old Sword's directions to an abandoned Teleportation Array.
• The Teleportation Array sent Ye Xiaoyao toward the distant Demonic Spirit Realm as Xu Fan slept.
• Xu Fan awoke three days later, watched Xu Yuexian defeat Xu Gang, and comforted Xu Gang by explaining that the matchup favored her.

Xu Fan tested the Heart of Puppets with Xu Yuexian and Xu Gang, then obtained Meteorite Spirit Fire and commissioned a Sea-Containing Bottle. A week later, Xu Yuexian revealed she had found a Mystic Realm filled with Spiritual Liquid, rare herbs, and ruins guarded by Golden Core Demon Beasts, and gave Xu Fan a Jade Slip with her preparations.

• Xu Fan tested the Heart of Puppets by having Xu Yuexian fight a Blademaster Puppet, then told her its Spirit Energy Core was its weakness.
• Pang Fu brought Xu Fan Meteorite Spirit Fire in exchange for a Second Rank Sea-Containing Bottle, which Xu Fan completed a week later.
• Xu Yuexian asked whether Xu Fan could handle Golden Core Stage Demon Beasts and told him she had discovered a Mystic Realm rich in Spiritual Liquid and thousand-year-old Spiritual Herbs.
• Xu Fan questioned Xu Yuexian about the Mystic Realm's dangers, supplies, and escape plans, and she handed him a Jade Slip with her preparations.

Xu Fan joined Xu Yuexian and Xu Gang on a trip to a Mystic Realm, stopping in Artifact Refining City before speeding across the countryside. Near a lake, he caught the Treasure Hunting Fox Xu Yuexian had pursued for months and gave it to her.

• Xu Fan agreed to accompany Xu Yuexian and Xu Gang to the Mystic Realm and spent three days preparing weapons.
• Xu Fan traveled with his disciples to Yijin City, where he demonstrated a Paper Airplane to an eager Artifact Refining apprentice.
• Xu Fan upgraded the Spiritual Wind Vessel with Wing Pendant Magic Treasures, letting it fly at a speed rivaling a Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• Xu Yuexian guided the group to a lake where she had once chased a Treasure Hunting Fox.
• Xu Fan caught the fox with his Wood Spirit Puppet and gave it to Xu Yuexian, who placed a Beast Taming Ring around it.

Xu Fan led Xu Yuexian, Xu Gang, and a fox into a Mystic Realm, where he deployed an army of Puppets to harvest its resources and fight its Demon Beasts. He ended by demonstrating the Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon, which obliterated a Golden Core Stage Ice Bear Demon Beast and stunned his disciples.

• Xu Yuexian guided Xu Fan and the others through a Stone Gate at the bottom of a lake into the Mystic Realm.
• Xu Fan noticed the Spirit Liquid Lake had fallen by about two chi since Xu Yuexian’s last visit and realized someone had taken water equal to the Sea-Containing Bottle’s capacity.
• Xu Fan sent more than three hundred Puppets to collect herbs, mine, and fight the Demon Beasts, then added three Golden Core Stage Frost Wolf Puppets after several Puppets were lost.
• Xu Yuexian watched the Semi-Automatic Puppets defeat a Golden Core Stage giant ape without losing a unit.
• Xu Fan fired the Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon and blasted a Golden Core Stage Ice Bear Demon Beast into a cloud of blood mist, shocking Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian.

Xu Fan taught Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian how to trap a fast enemy by defeating a Black Golden Core Giant Tiger, then gathered Spiritual Liquid sediment and rare herbs in the Mystic Realm. He sent Puppets to clear the wilderness and investigate the ruins while he and his disciples stopped for a meal.

• Xu Fan used Electromagnetic Long Spears to seal off the Black Golden Core Giant Tiger’s escape routes, kill it, and teach his disciples to finish off enemies and conceal their strength.
• Xu Fan had Puppets collect the Spiritual Liquid sediment from the drained lake to use in a Top-Level Spirit Gathering Array.
• Xu Fan and Xu Yuexian discussed why a previous Cultivator had left the thousand-year Spiritual Herbs guarded by Golden Core Stage Demon Beasts.
• Xu Fan ordered the Heart of Puppets to gather Demon Beast materials, mine, collect Spiritual Herbs, and investigate the ruins.
• Xu Fan declined to explore the ruins himself, transformed a tree into a table, and invited Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian to eat.

Xu Fan returned from the Mystic Realm with his disciples and a trove of treasures, bringing his net worth above ten million Spirit Stones. As he planned upgrades and new projects, Ye Xiaoyao was captured by a Demon Venerable in the Demonic Spirit Realm.

• Xu Fan asked Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian about their grandparents, then joked about finding Yuexian a husband.
• Xu Fan examined the Mystic Realm’s pill-refining treasures, kept the inheritance for later, and led his disciples back to Yijin City with their loot.
• Ye Xiaoyao discussed gathering more treasures with Old Sword, who promised him tens of thousands of Dao Artifact-grade flying swords in the future.
• The Great Butcher Demon Venerable snatched Ye Xiaoyao from the sky and proposed taking him as a disciple.
• Xu Fan counted his wealth at more than ten million Spirit Stones and planned to upgrade his Puppet army, seek Space attribute Runes, and refine storage Magic Treasures.

Ten years passed as Xu Fan joked with his disciples and welcomed Wang Yulun, who asked him to take another child as a disciple. The chapter ended with Wang Yulun revealing the boy’s name and tragic family history.

• Xu Fan reflected on his age and joked with Xu Yuexian about not reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage.
• Wang Yulun visited Xu Fan with Xu Gang and brought food, hoping to discuss a favor.
• Wang Yulun asked Xu Fan to accept his unborn child with Qian'er as a disciple once the child turned six.
• After the others left, Wang Yulun asked Xu Fan to take in a child entrusted to him by a deceased friend.
• Wang Yulun explained that Li Xingci was his son from an encounter with a Qianyun Sect disciple, who later died on a mission, and said the six-year-old lived with a foster family in an Immortal City.

Xu Fan accepted Li Xingci as his fourth disciple after the boy passed his Soul Trial, then discussed his disciples’ cultivation and plans for their training. The chapter ended with Xu Fan considering whether to cultivate beyond the Qi Refining Twelfth Level while searching for a way around his lifespan limit system.

• Xu Fan met Li Xingci, learned the boy wanted to make his father apologize at his mother's grave, and accepted him after he passed the Soul Trial.
• At dinner, Xu Fan told Wang Xiangchi to visit his parents and advised Xu Gang to stabilize his Foundation Establishment cultivation for at least sixty years before advancing.
• Wang Xiangchi chose the Dao of the Heart Sword, and Xu Fan promised to teach him a Secret Art if he passed a Soul Illusion after three days of heart cultivation.
• Xu Fan introduced Li Xingci to Xu Gang, Xu Yuexian, and Wang Xiangchi as their Fourth Junior Brother, and they welcomed him.
• Xu Fan wondered whether to cultivate beyond the Qi Refining Twelfth Level and continued seeking a way to understand his lifespan limit system.

Xu Fan forged a long-range Magic Treasure Sniper Rifle for Xu Yuexian and began creating a Soul Illusion World for Li Xingci. As Wang Xiangchi grew close to his new Junior Brother and reunited with his parents, Xu Fan continued hiding the two boys’ true family connection.

• Xu Fan finished a two-meter Sniper Rifle and Magic Treasure Bullets for Xu Yuexian, then began building a Soul Illusion World for Li Xingci.
• Wang Xiangchi taught Li Xingci the Five Elements Sutra, and the two bonded after Li Xingci explained that Wang Yulun had promised his late mother to look after him.
• Wang Xiangchi told Li Xingci that they were family and promised to act as his older brother.
• Wang Yulun and Murong Qian'er visited Wang Xiangchi, and Murong Qian'er warmly welcomed Li Xingci after Wang Yulun explained who he was.
• Xu Fan praised Wang Xiangchi for comforting his mother, then stopped him from reciting more extravagant praise that Wang Yulun had taught him.

Nascent Soul Stage demons from the Raging Thunder Tribe discovered the Human World through the Teleportation Array and returned to report their findings. Meanwhile, Xu Fan studied new runes, tested Wang Xiangchi’s state of mind, and began teaching Li Xingci the Five Elements Sutra.

• Kuang Xiong and the other demons learned from an eagle’s memories that they had reached the Human World, then returned through the array to report to Lord Lei Ting.
• Xu Fan bought the Expansion Character rune and ordered Pang Fu to acquire a Spirit Void Rune and several materials.
• Xu Fan began Wang Xiangchi’s trial in an Illusion Room, where Wang had to defeat enemies that targeted his weaknesses.
• Xu Fan displayed the first level of the Five Elements Sutra to Li Xingci, who absorbed his first strand of spiritual energy five days later.
• Wang Xiangchi emerged from the Illusion Room after passing the test and earning a resolute state of mind.

Xu Fan gave Wang Xiangchi a musical Magic Artifact that played a battle song suited to him, then developed and sold his Palm-sized Farm. When a Human-Demon War threatened Elephant Prefecture, Xu Fan ordered Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian to prepare at home and began arranging ways to protect them.

• Wang Xiangchi told Xu Fan that music in the Illusory World strengthened his enemies, and Xu Fan gave him the Unrivaled Battle Song, which sent him into an Enlightenment State.
• Xu Fan refined Palm-sized Farms, and Pang Fu sold two for 200,000 Spirit Stones before securing an order for ten more.
• Pang Fu proposed auctioning the farms and expanding their sales, while Xu Fan agreed to provide more in a month.
• Xu Gang reported that the Demon Race had slaughtered everyone in Western Gold Kingdom and that the sects of Elephant Prefecture were preparing for war.
• Xu Fan told Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian to stop taking missions, train at home, and learn an Escape Secret Art; he sent Yuexian to buy Spiritual Herbs and Gang to collect Demon Beast souls.

Xu Fan sent Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian into a soul illusion to train while he refined Palm Farms and followed reports of the Demon Race’s invasion. After Sha Diao recommended him for the Forbidden Land Defense Line, Xu Fan and his disciples traveled there, where Sha Diao explained why the Demon Race could enter the Human World and Xu Fan feared the conflict would escalate.

• Xu Fan gave Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian Soul Replenishing Pills and trained them for two years inside the Soul Illusion while one month passed outside.
• Xu Fan learned that the Demon Race had invaded the Borderlands, then retreated into a Forbidden Land after Taiyi Sword Immortal Venerable destroyed their teleportation site and wounded two Mahayana Demon Venerables.
• Sha Diao recommended Xu Fan to join the effort to install Five Elements Giant Cannons, and Xu Fan agreed to travel to the Forbidden Land Defense Line with his disciples.
• Xu Fan arrived at the defense line and learned from Sha Diao that the Demon Race could enter the Human World because the Heavenly Dao’s Wills of the Two Realms had fused and could no longer be separated.
• Xu Fan worried that no place was truly safe and asked when the human race and Demon Race had last fought on a large scale.

Xu Fan arrived at Camp Number Five and was immediately asked by Shan Chen to repair his badly damaged Giant Spirit Heavy Armor. With Shan Chen’s Fire Spirit and rare materials, Xu Fan began improving the armor, leaving the work underway and earning a promise of Ten Thousand Star Meteorite if Shan Chen was satisfied.

• A warship blasted a group of Demon Beasts approaching the Heavenly Gate Sect’s camp, leaving a large crater filled with water.
• Xu Fan and his disciples Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian reported to Camp Number Five, where Shan Chen asked Xu Fan to repair his damaged Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact armor.
• Xu Fan examined Shan Chen’s Giant Spirit Heavy Armor and said he could repair it while increasing its power by twenty percent.
• Xu Fan toured the camp with Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian, then built a Small Courtyard after they received a notice to gather.
• Shan Chen brought Xu Fan back to the Artifact Refining Room and supplied Iron Mother Cloud Crystal and Sky Qilin Stone for the work.
• Xu Fan took control of Shan Chen’s cyan Fire Spirit and began refining the materials as Shan Chen promised him Ten Thousand Star Meteorite if the repair pleased him.