Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan reforged Shan Chen’s heavy armor with an ice-domain Divine Ability, then rested while Shan Chen challenged the Mountain Tearing Bear. As a Beast Riot struck the Heavenly Gate Sect’s defense line, Xu Yuexian and Xu Gang fought back against the Demon Beasts.

• Xu Fan added an Extreme Ice Domain Divine Ability and a Flood Dragon Dragon Soul to Shan Chen’s heavy armor, then accepted the agreed Ten Thousand Star Meteorite and two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Shan Chen wore the finished armor to challenge the Mountain Tearing Bear for the Ten Thousand Frost Grass and fought it with an Extreme Ice Giant.
• Xu Fan returned to his house, asked Shan Chen to keep the armor’s forging confidential, and slept after setting up a Rune barrier.
• Xu Yuexian used a Cannon Sniper to kill Demon Beasts from long range as a Beast Riot attacked the Heavenly Gate Sect’s defense line.
• Xu Gang attacked the advancing Demon Beasts with lava spells, while Xu Yuexian shot down a Golden Core Stage Giant Bird Demon Beast and Xu Gang blasted the flock with Great Wind Cannon.

Xu Fan discovered that demon cultivators might carry relics of an ancient rune system and later traveled to Camp Number Two to meet the newly arrived Artifact Refining Grandmaster, Yue Shan. The chapter left him arriving as Yue Shan was preparing to refine Five Elements Giant Cannons for several camps.

• Shan Chen learned that his friend wanted to find the refiner of Shan Chen’s heavy armor, then left to accompany Junior Sister Luo Ling to Caiyun Immortal City.
• Xu Fan inspected the defense line, identified a pink egg as a Soul Repelling Eagle egg, and told his disciples to search demon cultivators for rune-related treasures.
• Xu Fan spent more than ten days repairing magic treasures and trading exaggerated artifact concepts with three boastful Artifact Refiners.
• Xu Fan received word that an Artifact Refining Grandmaster had arrived and flew to Camp Number Two.
• Sha Diao introduced the arriving master as Yue Shan, Xiang Prefecture’s Number One Artifact Refining Grandmaster, who was preparing to refine Five Elements Giant Cannons.

Xu Fan studied the Five Elements Giant Cannons, gained insight into artifact refining, and spent a month discussing Immortal Artifact designs before his service at Camp Number Five ended. While waiting for a return trip, he reunited with Xu Gang, whose fight with female cultivators earned him an infamous reputation.

• Xu Fan watched Artifact Refining Grandmasters complete a Five Elements Giant Cannon and learned that it could hide in Dimensional Space and release its recoil into the void.
• Xu Fan returned to his workstation and joined three Artifact Refining Big Shots in discussing his Immortal Artifact Mountain-Suppressing Seal concept.
• Xu Fan learned that his term at Camp Number Five had ended and found the camp transformed into a bustling cultivation region with sixty Immortal Cities.
• Xu Fan heard Xu Gang rebuff female cultivators outside a Pink Tower and went to find his disciple.
• Xu Gang told Xu Fan that he had fought forty-eight Foundation Establishment female cultivators after resisting their invitation, and the next day news branded him a perverted male cultivator who specialized in beating women.

Xu Fan advised Pang Fu to build a magical communication network and sell communication artifacts, then opened a Spiritual Pill shop while staying in the city. He discovered that Xu Yuexian had used one of the new artifacts to shop for accessories, and sent her out with spending money.

• Xu Fan gave Xu Gang a Disguise Mask and told Xu Yuexian to teach her Big Brother.
• Xu Fan suggested that Pang Fu create a market with a communication network and inexpensive Phone-shaped Magic Artifacts, prompting Pang Fu to seek support from Heavenly Gate Sect.
• Xu Fan opened a Spiritual Pill shop, which did excellent business over the next half month.
• A Qi Refining Stage Cultivator delivered a free Communication Light-Shadow Artifact to Xu Fan's shop.
• Xu Yuexian used the artifact to order Magic Artifact accessories, and Xu Fan gave her one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to spend.

Xu Fan returned to the Heavenly Gate Sect, advised his disciples to strengthen their foundations, and used Pang Fu’s dividend to plan further work on the Heart of Puppets. A rare Heavenly Star Pearl stalled his rune-plate trial, so he called Wang Yulun over, though their conversation left him speechless.

• Xu Fan learned that the Ancient Demon Forbidden Land contained a sleeping giant demon and that the Demon Race could undo its seal upon reaching Demon Venerable status.
• Xu Yuexian blinded Xu Fan with the light function on her cheap Phone-shaped Magic Artifact, prompting him to add a rule against shining bright lights into his eyes.
• Five months later, Xu Fan returned to his mountain peak with his two disciples and told Wang Xiangchi to slow his cultivation while warning Li Xingci not to neglect his foundation.
• Xu Fan received twenty million Spirit Stones from Pang Fu and decided to spend half on Time Attribute Runes and the rest on strengthening the Heart of Puppets.
• Xu Fan’s rune-plate trial remained stuck because he could not find a Heavenly Star Pearl, so he summoned Wang Yulun in hopes of triggering a lucky boost.
• Wang Yulun explained that the Immortal Crane he brought had once carried him and Qian'er, and Xu Fan suddenly no longer wanted to talk with him.

Xu Fan gave Wang Yulun pills and defensive treasures before Wang Yulun left on a mission, then watched Wang Xiangchi master the Gentle Wind Thunder Intent. In the Demonic Spirit Realm, Ye Xiaoyao learned that the invasion of the Human World had begun ahead of schedule, while Old Sword warned that a war between two realms was coming.

• Xu Fan gave Wang Yulun foundation-strengthening pills and life-saving treasure artifacts, and Wang Yulun left on a mission with his immortal crane.
• Wang Xiangchi defeated six speed-type feline Demon Beasts in the Soul Illusion World and formed the Gentle Wind Thunder Intent.
• Xu Fan demonstrated the technique by killing ten Foundation Establishment Stage Demon Beasts with a streak of lightning guided by the wind.
• Ye Xiaoyao, now a Nascent Soul Great Demon and the third Young Master of the Giant Butcher Sacred Land, learned that the Bear Clan had found a Cross-border Teleportation Array and that the invasion plan had started early.
• Old Sword told Ye Xiaoyao that the Demon Race's first moves were part of a larger plan and that a war between two realms would soon arrive.

Xu Fan received the Flowing Light Stone from Wang Yulun and spent a year comprehending its Sun Moon Rune in seclusion. He emerged with a refined Time Chamber and caught up with his disciples, while Wang Xiangchi’s parents’ marital troubles remained unresolved.

• Ye Xiaoyao asked Old Sword who would win the war, and Old Sword assured him that the human race would prevail if its strongest powers survived.
• Wang Yulun gave Xu Fan the Flowing Light Stone containing a Time Rune, and Xu Fan recognized it as the Sun Moon Rune he wanted.
• Xu Fan entered seclusion for a year to comprehend the rune, while his four disciples gathered outside the Artifact Refining Room and speculated about his work.
• Xu Fan emerged holding a model of a small farmhouse courtyard, then welcomed his disciples and listened to their news over a meal.
• Xu Gang reported steady cultivation, Xu Yuexian described finding a Spirit Transformation Stage inheritance, Wang Xiangchi discussed his parents’ arguments, and Li Xingci shared his interest in Illusion Art.
• Xu Yuexian offered items for the Treasure Vault, and Xu Fan lamented that the Time Chamber required costly Time Sand to use.

Xu Fan discovered that his Time Cabin required expensive Space-Time Sand to operate and found a small supply in his Treasure Vault, then traveled to Celestial Phenomenon City to seek more. He left off riding a Long Feather Bird toward Wanzhou Pavilion.

• Xu Fan realized the Time Cabin needed Space-Time Sand and decided to seek supplies from Pang Fu and major Merchant Guilds.
• Xu Fan found Space-Time Sand Yuexian had stored in the Treasure Vault and promised to reforge her Cannon Sniper and make her Time Attribute Treasure Artifact Bullets.
• Xu Fan divined that Xu Gang's upcoming journey would bring a Great Opportunity and no major trouble.
• Xu Fan arrived in Celestial Phenomenon City, admired its Nine Heavens Milky Way and Spirit Liquid Waterfall, and hired a Young Man to take him to Wanzhou Pavilion.
• The Young Man explained that the Long Feather Bird ride cost ten Spirit Stones and that six passengers would require two extra Spirit Stones.

Xu Fan visited the Celestial Phenomenon City Trading Area, sold goods, and secured an order for Palm-sized Farms while searching unsuccessfully for affordable Space-Time Sand. He encouraged the young guide before returning to the Heavenly Gate Sect with a bold idea.

• Xu Fan sold miscellaneous goods to the Huang Region Merchant Guild for six million spirit stones and learned it would buy Palm-sized Farms for two hundred thousand spirit stones each.
• Xu Fan signed a contract to deliver fifty Palm-sized Farms within a year and received a five-hundred-thousand-spirit-stone deposit.
• Xu Fan searched several Merchant Guilds for Space-Time Sand, but found it scarce and prohibitively expensive.
• Xu Fan gave the young guide five hundred spirit stones and encouraged him before leaving the Trading Area.
• Xu Fan returned to the Heavenly Gate Sect after forming a bold idea prompted by the Palm-sized Farm order.

Xu Fan worked out a way to automate Magic Treasure production and sent Xu Yuexian to buy the materials he needed. He also agreed to explore a Mystic Realm with her, while wondering what had become of Ye Xiaoyao.

• Xu Fan hosted the heartbroken Wang Yulun, who drunkenly described his encounters with Female Cultivators and the latest scandal that had upset Qian'er.
• After seeing that a puppet could not reliably engrave runes, Xu Fan devised a puppet controlled by a portion of his own soul to handle the final production step.
• Xu Fan gave Xu Yuexian a shopping list and Spirit Stones for materials costing over ten million Spirit Stones.
• Xu Yuexian invited Xu Fan to join her in exploring a Mystic Realm, and he agreed after she finished the purchase.
• Xu Yuexian left the Sect with the Treasure Hunting Fox aboard her Bamboo Leaf Boat, while Xu Fan wondered whether Ye Xiaoyao had changed maps.

Xu Fan completed a soul-splitting Puppet that could refine Palm-sized Farms, giving him a way to earn the Spirit Stones needed to buy Space-Time Sand. After returning from seclusion, he saw Li Xingci's extraordinary Light Shadow Art, which created a vivid miniature palace complex from the courtyard.

• Wang Xiangchi brought Li Xingci back to the mountain, and Xu Fan learned that Xu Yuexian had beaten Wang Yulun badly before Wang Xiangchi talked her down.
• Xu Fan prepared the underground Secret Chamber, and Xu Yuexian returned half a month later with supplies bought for 9.68 million Spirit Stones.
• Xu Fan spent three months building a Palm-sized Farm assembly line and split part of his soul into a Puppet, enduring severe pain to transfer it into the Puppet Core.
• Xu Fan had the soul-carrying Puppet finish a Palm-sized Farm and estimated it could produce one every day and a half, earning enough to buy Space-Time Sand.
• Xu Fan emerged from seclusion and learned that Li Xingci's first spell was the Light Shadow Art.
• Li Xingci used the Light Shadow Art to transform the ruined courtyard into an imagined Holy Land of immortals filled with palaces, dragons, phoenixes, and Auspicious Clouds.

Xu Fan discovered that Li Xingci had extraordinary talent for the Light Shadow Art and comforted him over his dead mother. He also made Wang Xiangchi fight a powerful puppet to expose his weaknesses, then began helping Li Xingci choose spells.

• Xu Fan watched Li Xingci use the Light Shadow Art to conceal himself and create lifelike illusions, including a rabbit fleeing a tiger across a snowy hillside.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan he liked creating a world with his dead mother in it, and Xu Fan embraced him and promised that his master and fellow disciples would be his family.
• Wang Xiangchi asked for a real opponent, so Xu Fan summoned a Qi Refining Fifth Layer Swordsman Puppet that swiftly defeated him.
• Xu Fan told Wang Xiangchi he could not advance to Qi Refining Level Six until he defeated the puppet, and Wang Xiangchi accepted the challenge.
• Xu Fan led Li Xingci to the cultivation room and laid out more than a hundred Jade Slips for him to choose spells from.

Li Xingci chose secret arts while Xu Fan recovered, refined challenge Puppets for his disciples, and spent a year researching the Dao of Immortality with costly Space-Time Sand. The chapter ended with his disciples discovering that the Puppets revealed openings after an hour, while Xu Fan vowed to lower the sand’s price.

• Li Xingci selected seven secret arts, and Xu Fan sent him away to study while recovering from soul injuries.
• Xu Fan stocked the underground Production Line and gave Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian Foundation Establishment Puppets to challenge before setting a new advancement rule for his disciples.
• Xu Fan gave his disciples a Returning Light Mirror so they could review their defeats, and their training accelerated.
• After a year of using the Time Cabin, Xu Fan spent thirty million Spirit Stones on Space-Time Sand and vowed to drive down its price.
• Wang Xiangchi, Xu Gang, and Xu Yuexian reviewed their battles and discovered that the Puppets exposed an opening after an hour.

Xu Fan learned that Xu Gang had avoided marriage because Xiaoxi's weak cultivation prospects might hold him back, so he arranged for her to cultivate and marry him. He then tried to turn his attention to Xu Yuexian's future, but she asked to remain unmarried.

• Xu Fan celebrated twenty-four years since Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian had joined him, and learned their grandparents had died peacefully after living to a hundred.
• Xu Yuexian revealed that Xu Gang's grandfather had wished for him to marry Xiaoxi, but Xu Gang said he saw her as a younger sister and feared her Five Spiritual Roots would cut short her cultivation path.
• Xu Fan dismissed Xu Gang's concerns and proposed using Five Elements Origin and other resources to help Xiaoxi cultivate, then asked whether he would marry her if she could accompany him on the path.
• Xu Gang agreed only after asking whether marriage would still let him focus on cultivation, and Xu Fan told Xu Yuexian to introduce Xiaoxi as an Immortal Citizen and prepare a courtyard for the wedding.
• Xu Fan asked Xu Yuexian about finding a husband, but she emerged from the kitchen and asked whether she could simply remain unmarried.

After fifty years of seclusion and cultivation, Xu Fan emerged near his Life Span Limit, alarming his disciples and Wang Yulun’s family. He refused their attempts to extend his life, and Xu Yuexian used spiritual power to restrain him so she could add insurance to his plan.

• Ye Xiaoyao asked Old Sword how long it would take to gather enough Origin Spirit Qi, and Old Sword told him to remain in Giant Butcher Sacred Land and collect resources.
• Xu Fan met Xiaoxi, took her in as an Outer Sect Disciple, and gave her cultivation pills and the Five Elements Sutra before presiding over her wedding to Xu Gang three months later.
• Xu Fan entered seclusion to continue deducing the Five Elements Sutra, and fifty years passed as his disciples advanced in cultivation.
• Xu Fan emerged from the Time Cabin with the appearance and aura of someone nearing his Life Span Limit, shocking Li Xingci and the others.
• Xu Fan told his disciples that his condition came from researching a Life Secret Art and refused Xu Yuexian’s offer of Wood Origin, insisting he was pursuing the Supreme Great Dao.
• Xu Yuexian declared that she would make the decision for him and locked Xu Fan in place with spiritual power.

Xu Fan waited out his final month before reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage, while his disciples prepared to intervene if his life ran out. Elsewhere, Ye Xiaoyao decided to leave the Demonic Spirit Realm and return to the Human World.

• Xu Yuexian tried to give Xu Fan the Wood Origin, but he asked her to wait one month before using it.
• Xu Fan spent the month receiving care from his disciples, while Li Xingci showed him scenes from his travels and discussed the Dao of Desire.
• On Xu Fan’s final day, his disciples planned how they would break into his cultivation room and force the Wood Origin on him if necessary.
• Xu Fan saw the system’s countdown reach 30 minutes until his Life Span Limit and waited for it to carry him into Foundation Establishment.
• Ye Xiaoyao chose to return to the Human World after more than sixty years in the Demonic Spirit Realm, despite Old Sword urging him to stay.

After Xu Fan advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, the Heavenly Gate Sect received a warning that the Demon Race was attacking, forcing its disciples to flee. Ye Xiaoyao returned to the Human World as Great Butcher Demon Venerable began an invasion, while the Supreme Great Elder fought to buy the Sect time to escape.

• Old Sword activated barriers to repair an ancient Teleportation Array as he prepared to send Ye Xiaoyao back to the Human World.
• Xu Fan recovered under the Five-Colored Divine Light, advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage, and sensed a bloody calamity approaching.
• The Supreme Great Elder ordered the Heavenly Gate Sect disciples to flee north after the Sect's divination mirror warned of the Demon Race attack.
• Ye Xiaoyao arrived in the Human World, but his Storage Bag revealed a Cross-Realm Teleportation Disk, and Great Butcher Demon Venerable emerged with other Demon Race figures and ordered an invasion.
• Wang Yulun carried Xu Fan and his disciples north while the Supreme Great Elder used the fleet to kill one Demon Venerable and hold off the attackers.
• Xu Fan told Wang Yulun to bypass the first teleportation Immortal City and take them to Northernmost City.

After Elephant Prefecture was devastated, Xu Fan decided to take his group to Central Prefecture and joined forces with Shan Chen to escape the region. The chapter ended with them activating a cross-prefecture teleportation array toward Sheng Ling Prefecture, the farthest available stop.

• Ye Xiaoyao blamed Old Sword for not warning him about the Great Butcher Demon Venerable, then met an old man who invited him to join the Sword King Sect.
• Xu Fan learned that the Heavenly Gate Sect and the Forbidden Land Defense Line had been destroyed and decided to take Wang Yulun's family to Central Prefecture.
• Wang Yulun agreed to travel with Xu Fan, and the group prepared to leave Elephant Prefecture.
• At the crowded teleportation arrays, Xu Fan encountered Shan Chen, who offered to help them travel together.
• Xu Fan paid thirty million Spirit Stones for the group, and the array operator sent them toward Sheng Ling Prefecture.

Xu Fan and his group traveled from the Main Immortal City toward the Central Continent as Elephant Prefecture fell to the Demon Race. After reaching the Dragon Carriage, Xu Fan prepared to establish a sect in the Central Continent, though its name remained undecided.

• Xu Fan shopped at the Spirit Wind Merchant Guild while his companions explored the Main Immortal City, then learned that a quarter of Elephant Prefecture had fallen to the Demon Race.
• Xu Fan's group traveled for half a month to a remote city in Imperial Dragon Prefecture and waited three days for the Dragon Carriage.
• While stabilizing his Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation, Xu Fan planned to upgrade his Puppets and establish a sect in the Central Continent.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian proposed that Xu Fan establish a sect, and Xu Fan agreed to the idea but rejected Xu Gang's suggested name, Steel Gate.
• Xu Fan and his group boarded a lavish Cloud Carriage pulled by a Gale Flood Dragon at the Tribulation Crossing Stage, beginning their journey toward the Central Continent.

Xu Fan and his companions arrived on the Central Continent after a year aboard the Cloud Carriage and began exploring its advanced cities and institutions. After learning that the Central Continent Elder Council was its most powerful organization, Xu Fan prepared to settle in the Main Immortal City and eventually establish a sect.

• Xu Fan asked Shan Chen why vast wildernesses separated the prefectures, and Shan Chen explained that Demon Beasts, unconquered lands, and unknown terrors made the Deep Wilderness dangerous.
• Xu Fan promised to refine a Dao Artifact for Shan Chen after reaching Golden Core, and the Cloud Carriage delivered the group safely to a remote Immortal City on the Central Continent.
• Xu Fan told his companions to travel to the Main Immortal City in Central Prefecture, learn about the region, and then find a suitable place to establish their sect.
• Two sect recruiters argued over which sect was better, and Li Xingci used an art that made them embrace while Xu Fan led the group into the city.
• A shopkeeper gave Xu Fan and his companions Jade Slips about the Central Continent, and Xu Fan learned that the Central Continent Elder Council levied taxes and oversaw development.
• Xu Fan realized the floating island served as a base station and service area as a thousand-meter-long Treasure Flying Car roared overhead.