Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan investigated a promising sect location near Linhai Immortal City and learned that resource depletion and beast tides had driven the area’s sects away. After spotting Ye Xiaoyao there, Xu Fan abandoned the location and decided to keep his sect far from the Sword King Sect.

• Xu Fan and his companions bought communication artifacts, reviewed the Central Continent map, and chose several possible sect locations to inspect.
• Xu Fan traveled alone to Linhai Immortal City and found it rundown and sparsely populated.
• A shop assistant told Xu Fan that mining, depleted nearshore resources, and beast tides had caused the city’s decline and driven away the sects.
• Xu Fan spotted Ye Xiaoyao entering the hotel with an old man and a young girl, recognized his disguised Sword Box, and left for the Teleportation Array.
• Xu Fan decided to establish his sect as far as possible from the Sword King Sect.

Xu Gang and Xiaoxi explored the area around a lake as a possible site for their secluded sect, but Xu Gang’s attack on a Demon Beast horde destroyed valuable Spiritual Fields. After he paid the villagers for the damage, a Nascent Soul Cultivator invited the couple to the Elder Council to discuss their plans.

• Ye Xiaoyao sensed Xu Fan at a hotel, but Old Sword said the disguised cultivator was not someone Ye Xiaoyao knew.
• Xu Gang and Xiaoxi discussed establishing a small sect and considered the islands on the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake.
• Demon Beasts charged toward a nearby town, and Xu Gang and Xiaoxi flew to confront them.
• Xu Gang destroyed most of the Demon Beast horde with powerful spells, also devastating the villagers’ Spiritual Fields.
• Xu Gang gave the Nascent Soul Cultivator one million Spirit Stones to compensate the villagers for their losses.
• After Xu Gang explained that they were seeking a place to establish a sect, the Nascent Soul Cultivator invited him and Xiaoxi to the Elder Council.

Xu Fan and his companions chose Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake as the site for their sect and completed its registration. They began planning their new home on the lake’s largest island, with Li Xingci presenting a design for a sect built to accommodate ten thousand people.

• Xu Fan heard his companions’ reports on possible sect locations, and Xu Gang presented a map of Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake and its proposed tax reduction.
• Xiaoxi explained the lake’s resources, Demon Beast threats, and the terms of a permanent tax reduction, and Xu Fan decided to establish their sect there.
• Xu Fan and the others traveled to the Elder Council, paid ten million registration Spirit Stones, and signed a contract granting them the lake as their sect’s residence.
• Xu Fan led the group to the tallest mountain on the lake’s largest island and asked Li Xingci to shape the site into a holy land.
• Li Xingci presented a design for a sect sized for ten thousand people, and Xu Fan approved it without revisions.

Xu Fan established the new sect’s construction and assigned his companions tasks while preparing a mountain chamber to house his production lines. A month later, the Heart of Puppets exposed Wang Yulun’s feelings about Li Xingci, leaving him unsure how long he could hide the truth.

• The Heart of Puppets deployed thousands of puppets to begin building the mountain-top residence, and Xu Fan assigned his companions tasks to explore the island, hunt Demonic Beasts, find resources, recruit disciples, and protect the workers.
• Xu Fan used an Earth-Eating Beast Puppet to hollow out a mountain chamber and installed his farm assembly line, firearm production line, and bullet production line inside.
• A month later, Wang Yulun asked the Heart of Puppets about its control over the construction puppets, and it introduced itself as Black Spirit.
• The Heart of Puppets showed Wang Yulun images and clips revealing that he had overlooked Li Xingci while showing affection toward his son, Wang Xiangchi.
• Xu Fan told Wang Yulun to consider how he would explain himself to Xingci, and Wang Yulun said he would hide the truth as long as he could.

Xu Fan welcomed sixty-five new disciples to the Hidden Spirit Sect and appointed Xu Yuexian as sect master. After Xu Yuexian reported her search of the lakebed, Xu Fan began forging an instrument to locate treasures and considered how to mine the lake’s Spirit Iron Ore.

• Li Xingci brought sixty-five qualified children to the sect, and Xu Fan told him and Wang Xiangchi to recruit thirty-five more.
• Xu Fan appointed Xu Yuexian sect master once the sect had gathered a hundred disciples.
• After searching the lakebed for a month, Xu Yuexian concluded that a Space attribute treasure might lie near a spatial weak point and asked Xu Fan for a specialized detector.
• Xu Fan began forging the All-Heavens Treasure-Seeking Instrument and considered how to mine the Spirit Iron Ore beneath the lake.

Xu Fan sent Wang Yulun and his wife to buy supplies while making plans to develop Hidden Spirit Island, and Wang Yulun encountered Pang Fu in Central Prefecture. After returning safely, Wang Yulun told Xu Fan that Pang Fu wanted to meet him, and Xu Fan agreed to receive him as the sect’s new Department Head of Foreign Trade.

• Xu Fan gave Wang Yulun Spirit Stones, a procurement list, and Concealment Treasure Artifacts, then explained that Hidden Spirit Sect members should conceal their identities and sect affiliation.
• As Xu Fan planned defenses, detection systems, mining puppets, and a Treasure Artifact production line, he lamented his shortage of Spirit Stones and thought Pang Fu would be useful.
• Pang Fu, whose merchant business had been ruined by the Demon Race’s attack, recognized Wang Yulun and his wife by their Myriad Clothes Balls in a Central Prefecture Immortal City.
• Wang Yulun told Pang Fu that Xu Fan would need to approve a meeting, and Pang Fu asked him to pass along the request.
• After completing their purchases and returning safely, Wang Yulun told Xu Fan that Pang Fu wanted to see him, and Xu Fan agreed to send him an address.

Xu Fan opened Wang Yulun’s blind-box Spatial Ring and found immense wealth, including Soul Crystals, prompting him to forge a Quasi-Dao Artifact-grade control center. He completed the Purple Cube, named it Grape, and assigned it projects to develop Hidden Spirit Island and expand its production and Puppet forces.

• Wang Yulun gave Xu Fan a Spirit-Sealing Stone containing a blind-box Spatial Ring, and Xu Fan found vast quantities of rare Spirit Ore, five jin of Space-Time Sand, and three Soul Crystals inside.
• Xu Fan realized the Soul Crystals could support his plans for a Second Clone and decided to forge a Quasi-Dao Artifact-grade Control Center.
• Pang Fu waited three days for Xu Fan’s reply, then received an address and set off for Linsen Immortal City with his family.
• Xu Fan forged a Purple Cube from precious Spirit Ore, and a Thunder Cloud above Hidden Spirit Island exploded into a Thunder Stone when the final Rune nearly went awry.
• Xu Fan ordered the Purple Cube to upgrade Puppets, establish an ore-refining Production Line, and develop Hidden Spirit Island; he named it Grape.

Wang Yulun registered the Hidden Spirit Sect and brought Pang Fu and his family to Hidden Spirit Island, where Pang Fu joined as head of the Commerce Pavilion. After the sect’s peaks and leadership were established, Xu Fan planned its defenses, but Demon Beasts attacked the island’s construction crews.

• Wang Yulun and Pang Fu registered the Hidden Spirit Sect with the Elder Council and agreed that Pang Fu’s family could join.
• Xu Fan welcomed Pang Fu and appointed him Commerce Pavilion Master, settling on one percent of the pavilion’s profits as his compensation.
• Xu Fan used the Heart of Puppets to select a site and design for the Commerce Pavilion.
• The Hidden Spirit Sect named Xu Yuexian sect master and established its peaks, including the Commerce Pavilion and Thousand Dao Peak.
• A month later, Xu Fan planned to build the island’s defenses as Demon Beasts came ashore and attacked the Tool Puppet workers, prompting Xu Gang to strike back.

Xu Gang used his newly mastered Thousand-Hand Phantom to destroy a Nascent Soul Stage Demon Beast and drive the lake demon beasts back into the water. With the sect’s Spirit Stones running low, Xu Fan reviewed Pang Fu’s inspection and moved to adapt production for Spiritual Power Armor.

• Xu Gang suppressed tens of thousands of lake demon beasts while Xu Fan discussed his disciples’ Divine Abilities with them.
• Xu Gang used his Thousand-Hand Phantom to fire a lightning-charged cannonball that killed a Nascent Soul Stage Demon Beast and forced the other demon beasts to retreat.
• Pang Fu urged Pang Shuo to help the sect rise and then brought Xu Fan a report proposing Spiritual Power Armor and mount Magic Treasures for sale.
• Xu Fan learned that the sect had fewer than a hundred million Spirit Stones left and that its construction projects were consuming them rapidly.
• Xu Fan ordered Grape to prepare a Spiritual Power Armor production line and commissioned one hundred Magic Artifact sets and one hundred Type One Treasure Artifact sets.

Xu Fan tested his disciples’ combat skills instead of letting them advance to Nascent Soul, while Pang Fu secured major orders for Spiritual Power Armor and eased the sect’s shortage of Spirit Stones. Xu Fan then discovered a Thunder Stone containing a Tribulation Lightning Rune, which could give a Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact a chance to evolve into a Dao Artifact.

• Xu Yuexian asked Xu Fan to remove the Challenging puppet requirement, but he challenged all four disciples to withstand him for five minutes instead.
• Xu Fan defeated Xu Gang, found Xu Yuexian’s hiding place, and fought Wang Xiangchi before sending the disciples back to cultivate.
• Pang Fu reopened his shop, promoted Spiritual Power Armor to major Merchant Guilds, and received orders for two thousand Magic Artifact-grade sets and eight hundred Type One Treasure Artifact sets.
• Xu Fan celebrated Pang Fu’s successful deal with the Hidden Spirit Sect and its hundred children.
• Xu Fan discovered a Thunder Stone with a naturally formed Tribulation Lightning Rune that could help a Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact evolve into a Dao Artifact.

Xu Fan completed a Spiritual Power Armor production line and discovered a Minor World whose inhabitants were led by the ascending swordsman Shi Zhan. After Xu Fan avoided recruiting him, Shi Zhan returned ten days later to ask whether a Cultivation Sect was nearby.

• Xu Fan started the production line, then asked Grape to plan an automated line for ordinary and Mid-Grade Spiritual Pills.
• Xu Yuexian showed Xu Fan a Minor World containing a unified nation whose strongest cultivators had reached only the Core Formation Stage, and Xu Fan marked its location for future use.
• Shi Zhan emerged from the Minor World and asked Xu Fan and Xu Yuexian whether he had reached the Immortal World; Xu Fan told him he was in the Cultivation World and left.
• Xu Fan told Xu Yuexian that Shi Zhan had no affinity with Hidden Spirit Sect and decided to conceal Hidden Spirit Island with an island-protecting formation.
• Ten days later, Shi Zhan landed on Xu Fan's boat and asked whether there was a Cultivation Sect nearby, despite Hidden Spirit Sect's prominent main gate standing close by.

Shi Zhan sought to join the Hidden Spirit Sect, but Xu Fan required him to defeat Wang Xiangchi first. After Wang Xiangchi easily won, Xu Fan gave Shi Zhan more chances to challenge him and promised Wang Xiangchi a custom Sword Dao Divine Ability once he reached the Golden Core Stage.

• Shi Zhan asked Xu Fan to let him join the Hidden Spirit Sect, explaining it was his only choice because it was close to his hometown world.
• Xu Fan summoned Wang Xiangchi and made Shi Zhan fight him as a test for joining the Sect.
• Wang Xiangchi defeated Shi Zhan with his Wind Thunder Twin Swords, and Shi Zhan conceded but asked for another chance to challenge him.
• Xu Fan allowed Shi Zhan three chances in total and warned Wang Xiangchi that he would expel him if he lost.
• Xu Fan promised to create a Sword Dao Divine Ability called Heaven and Earth One Color when Wang Xiangchi reached the Golden Core Stage, then asked him to take a crab Demon Beast to his Senior Sister for dinner.

Xu Fan expanded the Hidden Spirit Sect’s finances and preparations while learning that the Elder Council expected the new sect to pay a huge annual tax. He paid the tax but discovered the Council would not guarantee the Sect’s safety from powerful cultivators.

• Xu Fan ordered his disciples to remain at the Sect, train the next generation, and take three Personal Disciples each before traveling far.
• Pang Fu delivered Spirit Stones and supplies, and Xu Fan gave him twenty million Spirit Stones to establish a Hidden Spirit Sect Merchant Guild.
• Xu Fan refined Spirit Gathering Pearls for the Sect Grand Array and planned to mount thirty-six of them to increase the island’s spiritual energy.
• An Elder Council Deacon explained the Council’s power and showed Xu Fan the Sect’s precise annual tax bill.
• Xu Fan paid thirty million Spirit Stones in taxes, then asked whether the Elder Council would protect his Sect from attackers.
• The Deacon said the Council would only warn powerful cultivators who threatened the Sect, leaving Xu Fan privately frustrated.

Xu Fan registered the Hidden Spirit Sect as a reclusive sect with the Elder Council, then improved the sect’s signal and expanded its production plans. Grape discovered that one of the sect’s children, Zhou Kailing, had the talent of a Spirit Creator.

• A Nascent Soul Cultivator explained the Elder Council’s protection policy and agreed to stop revealing information about the Hidden Spirit Sect after Xu Fan registered it as reclusive.
• Xu Fan discussed the Elder Council’s protection fees and its practice of letting smaller factions grow before harvesting their wealth with Xu Yuexian.
• Xu Fan promised to make Xu Yuexian prettier Magic Treasures and later refined a Signal Amplifier after studying the signal in Linsen Immortal City.
• Xu Fan inspected the Hidden Spirit Sect’s expanding production lines, learned that the Spiritual Iron Cannonball Production Line would be finished in half a year, and decided to teach disciples talented in Artifact Refining and Pill Refining.
• Grape reported that Zhou Kailing had the talent of a Spirit Creator, surprising Xu Fan.

Xu Fan chose Zhou Kailing as his fifth disciple after discovering the boy’s unusual spellcraft, while Xu Gang neared the Nascent Soul Stage and received techniques to cultivate with Xiaoxi. As the Demon Race spread across Elephant Prefecture, Wang Yulun left Hidden Spirit Sect to join the wider conflict, carrying Xu Fan’s gifts and promise to return in fifty years.

• Grape showed Xu Fan a recording of Zhou Kailing’s spell and revealed that the boy had studied Xu Fan’s notes, so Xu Fan chose him as his fifth disciple.
• Xu Gang told Xu Fan he was close to completing the Puppet trial, and Xu Fan gave him the Heavenly Yang Sutra and Moon Yin Technique to cultivate with Xiaoxi before advancing.
• At dinner, Wang Yulun told Xu Fan that the Demon Race had occupied Elephant Prefecture and said he wanted to leave for Sheng Ling Prefecture and visit his clan.
• After the Whole Serpent Feast, Xu Fan announced that Zhou Kailing was his Personal Disciple.
• Three months later, Xu Fan gave Wang Yulun a Spatial Ring of treasures and pills and told him to return to Hidden Spirit Sect in fifty years, then watched him depart aboard a Treasure Vehicle.

Xu Fan prepared a Trial Tower and an Illusion Realm teaching hall for the Hidden Spirit Sect before a massive Demon Beast invasion struck Hidden Spirit Island. He learned the invasion was led by a turtle searching for its egg on the island and set out with Xu Yuexian to confront it.

• Xu Fan allowed Wang Xiangchi to leave for training after he reached the Golden Core Stage and learned his final Divine Ability.
• Xu Fan let Zhou Kailing continue watching battle anime in the Illusion Realm to broaden his imagination.
• Xu Fan installed a nine-floor Trial Tower and modified the Teaching Hall for disciples to study in the Illusion Realm.
• Grape alerted Xu Fan that a large-scale Demon Beast invasion had begun, and Xu Gang defended one attack point with his Lava abilities.
• Xu Fan and Xu Yuexian headed toward the Demon Beast leader while Xu Gang stayed to guard the area.
• Xu Fan searched a Foundation Establishment Stage Demon Beast's memories and discovered that the leader was a turtle seeking its egg on the island.

Xu Fan battled a Spirit Transformation Stage giant turtle while Xu Yuexian helped create a wound for his seeds to reach. His Wood Attribute Divine Ability took hold, leaving the giant turtle controlled and wearing a Little Red Flower.

• Xu Fan used the Myriad Silk Realm, Electromagnetic Long Spears, and flower seeds to clear the lake of Demon Beasts and wound three Nascent Soul Stage beasts.
• The thousand-meter Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle rose from the lake and attacked Xu Fan, while Xu Yuexian tried to strike its tail and was sent flying.
• Xu Fan instructed Xu Yuexian to use the Armor-Piercing Spirit Stab Secret Art, and she pierced the base of the turtle's tail before retreating.
• Xu Fan's tiny seeds gathered in the turtle's wound, and the giant turtle later writhed in pain as he waited for his plan to take effect.
• Xu Fan snapped his fingers, placed a Little Red Flower on the giant turtle's head, and revealed that his Wood Attribute Divine Ability had controlled it.

After defeating the Demon Beasts, Xu Fan welcomed a giant turtle and its hatchlings into the Hidden Spirit Sect and watched his disciples advance in cultivation. Ten years later, he remained on the sect’s lake as Qiu Ziyuan reported the sect’s progress and the impending arrival of the Phantom Soul Peak Master with two children.

• Xu Fan subdued the giant turtle, learned it had returned for its eggs, and made the turtle and its twelve hatchlings stay on Hidden Spirit Island.
• Wang Xiangchi and Li Xingci gained enlightenment, and Xu Yuexian discussed leaving to travel and seek treasure on the Central Continent.
• Xu Gang became the Hidden Spirit Sect’s first Nascent Soul Cultivator, while Wang Xiangchi and Li Xingci advanced to the Golden Core Stage.
• Xu Fan gave Wang Xiangchi and Li Xingci Jade Slips of Divine Ability Secret Techniques before the two Peak Masters left the sect with the sect master.
• Ten years later, Qiu Ziyuan reported successful Elixir Production Line development and an increased Spirit Rice harvest, then told Xu Fan that the Phantom Soul Peak Master was coming with two ten-year-old children.

Xu Fan evaluated Zhou Kailing’s new spell and ordered him to travel through twenty-four Immortal Cities, while a young woman searched the Central Continent for her husband. At the Sword King Sect, Ye Xiaoyao, now called Ye Chen, received a newly forged sword and planned to complete his sword array.

• Xu Fan praised Zhou Kailing’s bullet spell, then demonstrated a more powerful design and gave him a Magic Artifact-grade bullet to study.
• Xu Fan ordered Zhou Kailing to travel with Pavilion Master Pang, visit twenty-four Immortal Cities, and record their streets and major events; Zhou Kailing said Xiaocui had already married someone else.
• Xu Fan caught a large Thousand Lake Fish and carried it back toward Hidden Spirit Island with Zhou Kailing.
• A young woman rode through a Central Continent Immortal City with her Cloud Flower Deer, hoping to find her husband after learning he had left Elephant Prefecture.
• At the Sword King Sect, Ye Xiaoyao, now called Ye Chen, received the completed Autumn Water Sword from Artifact Refiner Brother Wu and gave him rune-bearing Exotic Treasures.
• Old Sword told Ye Chen to nurture Brother Wu into an Artifact Refining Grandmaster and said twelve more Dao Artifact-grade flying swords were needed for the Thousand Sword Forbidden Sky Sword Array.

Xu Fan welcomed Li Xingci back to Hidden Spirit Island and took in the siblings Lei Ren and Lei Wenxi, then advised Li Xingci as he struggled with his place in the world. Li Xingci left to train in Sheng Ling Prefecture, while Wang Yulun was rescued from demons by Wang Xiangchi.

• Li Xingci returned to Hidden Spirit Island with Lei Ren and Lei Wenxi, siblings whose parents had been killed by bandits he had already avenged.
• Xu Fan accepted the siblings as his Little Followers after hearing about their cultivation talents and learning their names.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan that his travels had left him feeling like a pawn of unseen forces, and Xu Fan urged him to follow his Heart Dao.
• Li Xingci said he wanted to fulfill his mother's wish by using the Secret Art of Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation to give her a perfect lifetime with Wang Yulun if Wang Yulun was his father.
• After staying for a month, Li Xingci departed for Sheng Ling Prefecture, while Wang Yulun was overwhelmed by demons in the wilderness between the Two Prefectures.
• Wang Xiangchi arrived and cut through several Golden Core demon race members to rescue Wang Yulun.