Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan welcomed Black Ball and offered the Iron Eater Beast Clan protection and Inner Sect treatment for a hundred disciples. Pang Fu later established a cross-realm trade platform for the Hidden Spirit Sect, leaving the Merchant Guilds of the Cultivation World paying steep commissions to participate.

• Black Ball told Xu Fan that the Iron Eater Beast Clan would never become slaves, and Xu Fan offered Inner Sect treatment to a hundred clan disciples.
• Xu Fan promised to guarantee the clan's eternal neutrality, and Black Ball performed the clan's great rite in gratitude.
• Xu Fan explained that he felt close to Iron Eater Beasts because pandas had been national treasures in his hometown.
• Pang Fu reported successful supply agreements with the Qing Xuan Sect and proposed a joint Merchant Guild platform for trade between the Two Realms.
• Xu Fan backed Pang Fu's proposal, and Pang Fu gathered the strongest Merchant Guilds to join the platform.
• Pang Fu told Xu Fan that major Merchant Guilds paid a thirty-percent commission and smaller ones would pay forty percent for access to cross-realm trade.

The Iron Eater Beast Clan agreed to send a hundred newly weaned clansmen to the Hidden Spirit Sect, where Xu Fan welcomed them as fourth-generation disciples. Xu Yuexian discussed a new cultivation method with Xu Fan, then learned she could travel to the Nanshan Realm with Pang Fu next month.

• Black Ball and the Iron Eater Beast elders agreed to send a hundred clansmen to the Hidden Spirit Sect, with Black Ball leading them and a Demon Venerable watching over them.
• The Vegetable Spirit Rabbits devoted themselves to the Sect in their morning lessons, then went to work under Pangolin's more efficient management.
• Xu Fan welcomed the freshly weaned Iron Eater Beasts with Qiu Ziyuan and asked Black Ball to bring their families to the Hidden Spirit Sect as well.
• Xu Fan and Qiu Ziyuan registered the hundred Iron Eater Beasts as fourth-generation disciples, and the Sect set aside land to grow Spirit Bamboo for them.
• Xu Fan made one Iron Eater Beast his Registered Disciple and told Xu Yuexian not to cultivate her new method, saying she should follow his path to Great Luo and beyond.
• Xu Fan told Xu Yuexian that Pang Fu would travel to the Nanshan Realm on the first of next month and that she could go with him.

Xu Fan received Venerable Honglian, who asked for his help uniting the Nanshan Realm and conquering two neighboring realms. After learning more about the realms’ possible advancement and accepting Heaven’s Will’s request to watch Honglian in exchange for increased sect fortune, Xu Fan’s chapter ended with an unknown Hidden Spirit Sect disciple emerging from beneath the Northern Extreme Domain’s ice plain with treasures for his future ascent.

• Xu Fan gave Xu Yuexian a karma-shielding talisman and allowed Zhang Daqi to return to his clan for a visit.
• Venerable Honglian visited Xu Fan and asked him to help the Nanshan Realm devour the North Sea Realm and the Lingyuan Realm.
• Xu Fan learned that consuming more Middle Thousand Worlds might let the Nanshan Realm advance into a Small Immortal Realm, though such a realm could not exist within a Great Thousand World’s radiating range.
• After Venerable Honglian left, Heaven’s Will asked Xu Fan to keep watch over her, and Xu Fan secured a small increase in the Hidden Spirit Sect’s fortune as compensation.
• A man in the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Daoist robe emerged from beneath the Northern Extreme Domain’s ice plain, celebrating that he had obtained treasures to help him become a True Immortal after ascending.

Li Xuandao returned to Spirit Ice Immortal City and learned that Xu Fan had defeated the Demon Race’s strongest forces and made the Hidden Spirit Sect famous. Meanwhile, Xu Fan completed his Golden Immortal-level Five Elements Method and reflected on bringing the sect’s companions to the Immortal World.

• Li Xuandao entered Spirit Ice Immortal City and asked a teahouse shop assistant about major events from the past hundred years.
• The shop assistant told Li Xuandao that Venerable Youming had wiped out the Ice Race and that Xu Fan had suppressed the Golden Winged Great Peng Clone and made the Purple Jade Flood Dragon and Gold Devouring Tiger into the Dragon Tiger Banquet.
• Li Xuandao confirmed that the Great Elder was Xu Fan of the Hidden Spirit Sect and rewarded the shop assistant with five Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Xu Fan noticed Li Xuandao’s return, finished deducing the Golden Immortal-level Five Elements Method, and prepared to stretch his limbs.
• Xu Fan chatted with Fierce White and the Heavenly Fortune Turtle, promised to help the turtle evolve its bloodline, and said he would take them all to the Immortal World in a little over nine hundred years.

Xu Fan expanded the Sect’s body-refining lineage and confronted Venerable Honglian after she tried to take the Elder Council’s Pure-blooded Kirin and captured Demon Venerables. Venerable Honglian returned her captives and their Void Bones, keeping only three.

• Xu Fan praised Xiong Li’s body-refining strength and gave him a new Five Elements Body Refining Method.
• Xiong Li proposed increasing the number of body-refining disciples, and Xu Fan ordered Grape to recruit twenty thousand qualified children from Linsen Immortal City.
• Xu Fan rewarded Xiong Li with ten jars of Sacred Bone Wine and sent the little Iron Eater Beast back.
• Xu Fan arrived at the Elder Council after Venerable Honglian tried to claim its Pure-blooded Kirin as a mount, and he stopped her.
• Xu Fan demanded that Venerable Honglian return the Demon Venerables she had captured and their Void Bones, and she released them all while keeping three.

Xu Fan released three Invincible Demon Venerables to Venerable Honglian and let Ming Kong take the rest back to the Elder Council. After discussing an alliance against the other Two Realms, he advised a Gourmet Dao disciple about pursuing immortality and watched the disciples roast lamb.

• Xu Fan gave Venerable Honglian three sealed Invincible Demon Venerables and allowed Ming Kong to take the others to the Elder Council.
• Venerable Honglian proposed joining forces to kill the Supremes of the other Two Realms, and Xu Fan questioned how the campaign would work against their Heavenly Dao's Will.
• Venerable Honglian returned to the Nanshan Realm, and Xu Fan instructed Grape to build an island for the Cross-border Teleportation Array.
• A Gourmet Dao disciple asked whether the path could lead to immortality, and Xu Fan said they would have to forge that path themselves while advising them to cultivate another method too.
• Xu Fan praised Junior Brother Song's potential and criticized the overly fanciful dishes he had created.

Xu Fan agreed to help Venerable Qian Ling’s Merchant Guild, promised to protect Li Xingci during his third tribulation, and prepared to travel with Ming Kong to the Ancient Cang Realm. He then revealed a vast supply of Immortal Artifact Spirit Ore and began planning to fortify Hidden Spirit Island.

• Xu Fan used his True Meaning of Returning to Mortality and gave Venerable Qian Ling a Divine Ability Talisman that let him experience ten days as a Mortal.
• Xu Fan offered to have Pang Fu guide the Thousand Spirits Sect’s Merchant Guild supervisor instead of lowering the trading platform’s commission.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan he could no longer sense the timing of his third tribulation, and Xu Fan said he would accompany him to the Reincarnation World in a little over three years.
• Xu Fan met Ming Kong after he inspected the repaired Myriad Stars Vessel, and agreed to travel with him to the Ancient Cang Realm in three days.
• Xu Fan showed Clones No. 1 and No. 2 the Immortal Artifact Spirit Ore and proposed refining Hidden Spirit Island into a fortified base.

Xu Fan prepared to leave Hidden Spirit Sect for a journey through the Starfield, sending his consciousness in a clone while selecting disciples to accompany him. After boarding the Myriad Stars Vessel, the group entered the Starfield, where Xu Fan warned them about its deadly cold; he then noticed something in the sky as Ming Kong adjusted the vessel’s course.

• Xu Fan told the Sect’s upper ranks that he would travel for at least three years, while his true body remained in the Sect, and invited disciples to enter a lottery for places on the trip.
• Li Xingci decided that he and Tian'er would accompany Xu Fan, while Chufan would stay behind to focus on advancing to the Integration Stage.
• The Heavenly Fortune Turtle’s lucky blessing became popular among disciples hoping to join the journey, and Xiong Li pressured Qianwan Bing into handing over nine jars of Sacred Bone Wine.
• The Hidden Spirit Sect selected two hundred disciples, and Ming Kong escorted Xu Fan and the group to the luxurious Heavenly Character District aboard the Myriad Stars Vessel.
• The Myriad Stars Vessel traveled beyond the Cultivation World, and Xu Fan warned the disciples that the Starfield’s extreme cold could freeze their divine souls.
• Xu Fan suddenly looked toward a point in the sky as Ming Kong adjusted the Myriad Stars Vessel’s course.

Xu Fan and Ming Kong’s Myriad Stars Vessel visited the Golden Stone Spirit, paid it spirit ore, and received Skyfire Gold Copper in return. As they continued toward the brightest star, Ming Kong recalled how Supreme Venerable had captured the vessel from Star Bandits, and worried that Supreme Venerable was trapped by the Golden Winged Great Peng Clan.

• Xu Fan asked Ming Kong about the planet-sized Golden Stone Spirit, and Ming Kong explained that it was a mild-tempered star beast that charged passing vessels a toll.
• Ming Kong guided the Myriad Stars Vessel to the Golden Stone Spirit’s mouth, where its crew unloaded a mountain of spirit ore.
• The Golden Stone Spirit thanked them with a strange sound and gifted them a millstone-sized piece of Skyfire Gold Copper, which Ming Kong stored in the Dao Artifact Palace.
• Ming Kong showed Xu Fan an image of a colossal white giant turtle, and Xu Fan compared it to Fierce White before returning the sleepy creature to the Dao Artifact Palace.
• Xu Fan asked about the dangers of the route, and Ming Kong explained that Supreme Venerable had once defeated Star Bandits and seized the Myriad Stars Vessel at great cost.
• Ming Kong worried that Supreme Venerable might be trapped by the Golden Winged Great Peng Clan, while Xu Fan expressed confidence that he would escape.

As the Myriad Stars Vessel traveled through the starfield, Xu Fan comprehended Sacred Sun and Moon yin and mastered their combined power, alarming Ming Kong with its destructive potential. When three familiar star bandit vessels trapped them, Ming Kong asked Xu Fan to deal with the threat.

• Xu Fan entered seclusion aboard the Myriad Stars Vessel to sense the Great Dao Laws of the starfield.
• Ten months later, Xu Fan fused Sacred Sun and Moon yin into a powerful orb and threw it into the starfield, shocking Ming Kong.
• Xu Fan made a sealed talisman from the fused power and gave it to Ming Kong as a protective gift.
• As the Myriad Stars Vessel approached a dangerous area, Xu Fan offered to turn the fused power into cannonballs to defend against star bandits.
• Three star bandit vessels sealed off the starfield and demanded that the Myriad Stars Vessel surrender, and Ming Kong asked Xu Fan to handle them.

Xu Fan and Ming Kong destroyed the Giant Bird Universe Vessel and pursued another Star Bandit vessel, where Xu Fan controlled its Quasi-Immortal captain and sent the vessel to guard the Feather Realm. They then headed toward the Ancient Cang Realm, and Ming Kong began describing its role as a trading center.

• Xu Fan sealed Holy Yang Music Fusion Power into ten Spiritual Power Cannonballs, and Ming Kong fired one at the Giant Bird Universe Vessel before the Myriad Stars Vessel escaped through space.
• The Fusion Power destroyed the Giant Bird Universe Vessel, while its two remaining pursuers fled.
• Ming Kong followed the spatial-jump traces of one fleeing vessel, and Xu Fan sealed the surrounding space before boarding it.
• Xu Fan controlled the vessel's Foreign Race Quasi-Immortal captain and ordered him to return to the Feather Realm and stand guard.
• Ming Kong steered the Myriad Stars Vessel toward the Ancient Cang Realm and explained its trade with nearby worlds and visiting Merchant Guilds from the Wood Origin Realm.

Xu Fan and Ming Kong arrived at the Ancient Cang Realm and visited the Spring Flower Merchant Guild, an Immortal World trading house stationed there. After Ming Kong sold rare ores, Xu Fan asked whether the guild would buy his powerful talismans.

• Xu Fan and Ming Kong discussed the Ancient Cang Realm’s immense scale and the possibility that Supreme Venerables or True Immortals guarded it.
• The Spring Flower Merchant Guild of the Wood Origin Realm announced its fifty-year stay and its list of goods to purchase, prompting Ming Kong to explain its profitable trade with the Cultivation World.
• Xu Fan and Ming Kong traveled to the guild’s Immortal warship and entered its bustling marketplace through a Teleportation Array.
• A guild representative welcomed them and assessed their status before a saleswoman bought Ming Kong’s Spirit Ores and Space Dao Artifact for eight thousand Immortal Jade.
• Xu Fan asked the saleswoman whether the guild also purchased high-powered Talismans.

Xu Fan demonstrated his Talisman-making skill at the Spring Flower Merchant Guild and discovered that his work could earn large sums of Immortal Jade. The Black Robe Cultivator placed a broad order, and Xu Fan agreed to return within a year after consulting his two brothers.

• Xu Fan drew a powerful Talisman in the grand hall, alarming the Cultivators there, then gave it to the Black Robe Cultivator as an apology.
• The Black Robe Cultivator assessed the Talisman and offered Xu Fan thirty Immortal Jade for it.
• Xu Fan asked whether the Spring Flower Merchant Guild would buy more of his Talismans, and the Black Robe Cultivator invited him to sell as many as he could make.
• The Black Robe Cultivator ordered Five Elements Origin Talismans for one thousand Immortal Jade per set, up to ten sets, and Xu Fan promised delivery within half a month.
• The Black Robe Cultivator listed many other Great Dao Origins and offered one thousand Immortal Jade for up to ten Talismans of each type.
• Xu Fan said his two brothers were also Talisman Great Grandmasters and agreed to return within a year after discussing the order with them.

Xu Fan secured a large talisman order from Black Scale and explored the Merchant Guild district with Ming Kong, where he bought a half-damaged True Immortal Puppet for one hundred Immortal Jade. The chapter ended with Xu Fan learning the Puppet had been sold through a common bargaining trick as another customer fell for the shopkeeper’s pitch.

• Black Scale gave Xu Fan a communication Spirit Pearl and five thousand Immortal Jade as a deposit, and Xu Fan left with Ming Kong.
• Xu Fan spotted a half-damaged Puppet and eventually bought it from Old Liu’s shop for one hundred Immortal Jade.
• A neighboring shopkeeper told Xu Fan and Ming Kong that Old Liu’s Guild had found many such Puppets in Battlefield Ruins and used the high starting price to trick customers into buying them.
• Xu Fan accepted that he had paid more than necessary, while another customer turned back to Old Liu’s shop after hearing the Puppet’s price had fallen to two thousand Immortal Jade.

Xu Fan arranged for the Myriad Stars Vessel to stay for a month so his disciples could explore the Immortal World’s Floating Vessel while he prepared to refine talismans. As the disciples began shopping and planning how to use their Immortal Jade, Su Rantian and Li Xingci reached the limits of their budget, and Zhou Kailing arrived with a Spring Flower Merchant Guild Storage Bag.

• Xu Fan asked the puppet shopkeeper about Golden Immortal-level puppets and offered one hundred thousand Immortal Jade for one at the headquarters’ Treasure Vault.
• Xu Fan gave Li Xingci thirty thousand Immortal Jade to distribute among the Elders and disciples, with part of each disciple’s share to be repaid to the Sect after they reached the Immortal World.
• Li Xingci led the disciples to the Floating Vessel, where Qianwan Bing called on Song Ming to investigate the market and plan how to maximize their spending.
• Su Rantian shopped with Li Xingci but put back an Immortal Silk Dress after he explained that they had already exceeded their budget.
• Su Rantian wished she could buy an Immortal Dao Sacred Embryo Pill for Li Chufan, while Li Xingci promised to buy her favorite things once he had more Immortal Jade.
• Zhou Kailing greeted Li Xingci and Su Rantian, carrying a Storage Bag marked with the Spring Flower Merchant Guild’s emblem.

Li Xingci sold Reincarnation Shore Flowers to earn Immortal Jade for Su Rantian, while Zhou Kailing searched for a gift for his master and avoided a tempting encounter. Meanwhile, Xu Fan began mass-producing valuable Sacred Sun Moon Yin Power Talismans aboard the Myriad Stars Vessel.

• Zhou Kailing told Li Xingci that he had sold his Immortal Palace Feast Divine Ability for a thousand Immortal Jade and had sold some Talismans as well.
• Li Xingci had a Shore Flower containing his A Lifetime, One Dream Divine Ability appraised and agreed to sell up to a hundred for five Immortal Jade each.
• Li Xingci planned to condense Shore Flowers to earn enough Immortal Jade to buy Su Rantian an Immortal Artifact gown, and the two went browsing together.
• Zhou Kailing wandered the street looking for a filial gift for his master, refused a woman's advances after she stepped in an Indescribable Substance, and drew the attention of a True Immortal.
• Xu Fan used his Thousand-Hand Phantom to draw Sacred Sun Moon Yin Power Talismans, producing three thousand in an hour while Ming Kong calculated their value at ninety thousand Immortal Jade.

Xu Fan completed a large batch of Dao talismans and orders while Song Ming began managing investments for the Dao of Commerce lineage. After the work was done, Zhou Kailing brought Xu Fan a gift that turned out to be another badly damaged True Immortal Puppet.

• Xu Fan gave the ten thousand finished talismans to his Spatial Ring and entered seclusion to comprehend the Daos needed for future orders.
• Song Ming raised twenty thousand Immortal Jade from disciples and earned three thousand through market operations aboard the Floating Vessel.
• Xu Fan gave Song Ming one hundred thousand Immortal Jade to manage, with twenty percent of future profits going to Song Ming and the rest to the Dao of Commerce lineage.
• Xu Fan comprehended the required Daos, then used his Thousand-Hand Phantom to complete every order in three days.
• Xu Fan told Ming Kong that they would wait until their people returned before going to the Ancient Cang Realm, then delay delivery for half a year or ten months.
• Zhou Kailing presented Xu Fan with a damaged True Immortal Puppet he had bought for one thousand Immortal Jade as a gift.

Xu Fan and the Myriad Stars Vessel traveled toward the Ancient Cang Realm and encountered the Star Beast Azure Dragon, whose nomadic cities were under attack by the Spring Flower Merchant Guild. Xu Fan and his disciples watched the battle and studied the forces’ strengths, leaving them impressed by the importance of battle formations and the power of True Immortals.

• Xu Fan accepted the half-crippled True Immortal Puppet Zhou Kailing had bought for him and told Grape to monitor his disciple against future scams.
• Xu Fan and Ming Kong departed for the Ancient Cang Realm aboard the Myriad Stars Vessel, and Xu Fan told Zhou Kailing he had lost nine hundred Immortal Jade to a Merchant Guild.
• Xu Fan spotted the Star Beast Azure Dragon and learned from Ming Kong that it carried thousands of colossal cities and passed the Ancient Cang Realm once every ten thousand years.
• An immortal vessel approached the Azure Dragon, and the Spring Flower Merchant Guild clashed with black-robed forces across the Star Beast’s cities.
• Xu Fan projected the battle for his disciples and explained the opposing forces’ numbers, combat strengths, and the Spring Flower Merchant Guild’s advantage in training and formations.
• Xu Fan’s disciples watched the fighting and reflected on the importance of battle formations and the strength of True Immortals.

Xu Fan and the Myriad Stars Vessel watched the Spring Flower Merchant Guild battle Star Beast Azure Dragon, and he saved their vessel from a beam before refusing the Guild’s offer of fifty thousand Immortal Jade. After the Guild won, Xu Fan discussed battle formations with Ming Kong and learned that the conflict began with a raid on a Merchant Guild-controlled Middle Thousand World.

• Ming Kong arrived in the Heavenly Character District and asked Xu Fan about his Divine Ability for observing the battle.
• A crimson beam destroyed a watching Universe Vessel and then threatened the Myriad Stars Vessel, but Xu Fan opened a gate of the void and diverted it.
• A Spring Flower Merchant Guild Venerable offered Xu Fan fifty thousand Immortal Jade to fight, but Xu Fan refused and sent the Venerable away.
• The Merchant Guild’s True Immortal-level Puppets joined the battle, and its forces learned to evade the beams and defeated Star Beast Azure Dragon’s side.
• Xu Fan and Ming Kong agreed to arrange battles between their disciples after returning, with a wager of one hundred Immortal Jade per match.
• A broadcast explained that the Merchant Guild intercepted Star Beast Azure Dragon in revenge for a faction aboard it raiding a Merchant Guild-controlled Middle Thousand World.

Xu Fan rejected the Spring Flower Merchant Guild supervisor’s recruitment offer but sold her Great Dao Origin Talismans and agreed to produce more Sacred Sun Moon Yin Power Talismans. After seeing Xu Fan earn Immortal Jade through his craft, Li Xingci asked to learn a profitable Divine Ability Dao so he could support his family.

• Xu Fan declined the Spring Flower Merchant Guild supervisor’s offer to recruit him, while proposing a future cooperative relationship.
• Xu Fan demonstrated that he could conceal his thoughts from the Floating Vessel’s immortal spirit and handed over his completed Great Dao Origin Talismans for 420,000 Immortal Jade.
• Xu Fan offered to make up to 100,000 Sacred Sun Moon Yin Power Talismans, and the supervisor agreed to buy them.
• The supervisor praised Xu Fan’s Talisman and Array Formation skills before leaving as the Myriad Stars Vessel accelerated toward the Ancient Cang Realm.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan he was short on money because Tian’er liked the Spring Flower Merchant Guild’s Immortal Artifact clothes and accessories, and asked to learn a Divine Ability Dao that could earn Immortal Jade.