Chapter Summaries

Si Ruoyu and Xiong Li demonstrated their strength in the Hidden Spirit Sect’s Trial Tower as Xu Fan discussed the sect’s future with Li Xingci. Meanwhile, Ye Xiaoyao received advice from Old Sword, and the newly arrived cultivators joined the desperate defense against the Demon Race at the Sheng Ling Prefecture and Elephant Prefecture border.

• Si Ruoyu’s puppets defeated waves of Giant Wolves until she withdrew after holding off three hundred and forty, while Xiong Li later endured five hundred Giant Wolves before leaving the trial.
• Xu Fan explained that he had guessed Si Ruoyu’s limit with Grape’s calculations and spoke with Li Xingci about the sect’s training and future plans.
• Li Xuandao watched the disciples’ trial performances and reflected on the Hidden Spirit Sect’s potential as disciples gathered to challenge the Trial Tower.
• Old Sword warned Ye Xiaoyao against relying on standardized cultivation, then told him to prepare a thousand Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact Five Elements Spirit Swords.
• After Venerable Pan Ling finished expounding the Dao, the cultivators arrived at the border and received orders to reinforce their assigned defense lines.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian headed toward Li Character Camp No. 1649 as its commander urged the defenders to hold on for reinforcements against the Demon Race.

Xu Gang turned Camp No. 1649’s collapsing defensive line around with enormous lava attacks while Xu Yuexian watched from hiding and Xu Fan and Li Xingci followed the battle by livestream. After surviving a lethal strike through a decoy, Xu Gang continued fighting, while Xu Fan learned that his beauty-review videos had been uploaded for sale across the Immortal Cities.

• A Void Refining Stage Cultivator deployed reinforcements to Camp No. 1649 as the Demon Race pressed its defensive line.
• Xu Gang unleashed Lava World and Lava Ghouls, covering much of the camp in lava and overwhelming the attacking demons.
• Xu Gang used Lava Rain to seal off weaker demons, then asked Little Fish whether he should narrow his attacks so nearby Cultivators could earn points.
• A Spirit Transformation Stage giant eagle struck Xu Gang with Divine Thunder, but a Bullet killed the eagle and Xu Gang reappeared, revealing that the destroyed figure had not been his real body.
• Xu Fan and Li Xingci watched the battle by livestream, and Xu Fan explained that he had spent years creating Xu Gang’s decoy technique.
• Lei Wenxi brought Xu Fan and Li Xingci food, and Xu Fan learned that his beauty-review videos had been uploaded for sale through Merchant Guilds and commercial towers across the Immortal Cities.

Xu Fan praised Lei Wenxi for creating a meat-based Spirit Feeding Pill and supported her experiments. He then spoke with his disciples and Wang Yulun in Sheng Ling Prefecture, praised Wang Xiangchi’s progress, and arranged for Wang Yulun to return to the Hidden Spirit Sect for secluded cultivation.

• Lei Wenxi fed the Turtles a homemade Spirit Feeding Pill made with Demon Beast bones and Flesh and Blood, provoking nearby Demon Beasts to attack before the giant Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle drove them off.
• Xu Fan examined Lei Wenxi’s Spirit Feeding Pill, praised her work, and raised her authorization to Level One so she could continue experimenting.
• Xu Fan connected to Xu Yuexian’s Puppet model and learned that the Demon Race’s offensive had been driven back and that Xu Yuexian, Xu Gang, Wang Yulun, and Wang Xiangchi had met in Sheng Ling Prefecture.
• Xu Fan praised Wang Xiangchi for crossing the Golden Core Stage hurdle, while Wang Yulun said he planned to return to the Hidden Spirit Sect with Qian'er and Xiangchi to cultivate in seclusion.
• Xu Fan told Xu Yuexian to reimburse Wang Yulun’s teleportation fees and arrange his return through the Cross-Prefecture Teleportation Array.

Xu Fan warned Wang Yulun that a dangerous curse threatened him, while Shi Zhan set out for Wanbao Immortal City to earn enough Spirit Stones to reclaim his hometown. At the border, the Human Race repelled the Demon Race’s schemes and prepared to fuse two realms, leaving Ye Xiaoyao chasing points and dreaming of an Immortal Sword.

• Xu Fan warned Wang Yulun that a curse tied to Fate put him in mortal danger, so Wang Yulun hurried to return with his family while Xu Yuexian gave him teleportation expenses.
• Shi Zhan delivered Earth Steel Beast scales for five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, then chose to gamble on earning more in Wanbao Immortal City to buy back his hometown.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian returned to the defense line when the Demon Race attacked, while Ye Xiaoyao fought with his Sword Array and Old Sword suspected a larger scheme.
• Human Race Venerables revealed that they had exposed the Demon Race’s plan to unseal the Ancient Demon Forbidden Land, while the Star-eyed Youth destroyed a Demon Race warship outside the Feather Realm.
• The Star-eyed Youth prepared to activate the Two Realms Integration Great Array, and Venerable Ling Yue celebrated the coming struggle for Human Race Merit.
• The Dragon Immortal Palace crushed the Demon Race assault and led Human Race forces into Elephant Prefecture, where Ye Xiaoyao watched a Venerable kill three Demon Venerables with an Immortal Artifact.

Xu Fan discovered that Li Xuandao was a reincarnated True Immortal and negotiated a Heavenly Dao Oath that let him remain with the Hidden Spirit Sect. After testing a new space-based weapon, Xu Fan began half-seclusion.

• Xu Fan asked Li Xuandao about his cultivation path and recognized the growing Power of Reincarnation on him.
• Li Xuandao revealed that he was a True Immortal from the Netherworld Great Thousand World, currently living his eighth life through the Nine Lives Golden Immortal Sutra.
• Xu Fan offered Li Xuandao Spirit Stones and asked him to leave, but Li Xuandao proposed a Heavenly Dao Oath and promised to give Xu Fan Great Thousand Worlds knowledge upon reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Xu Fan and Li Xuandao swore their oaths, and Li Xuandao resumed his place as Xu Fan's disciple.
• Xu Fan tested a Treasure Artifact Satellite by firing a Gravity Rod at an island, producing a massive shockwave that frightened the Flood Dragon Headed Giant Turtle and her sons.
• After assuring the Elder Council that the disturbance was handled, Xu Fan entered half-seclusion.

Xu Fan cured Wang Yulun’s Demon Desire Poison, though Wang Yulun still needed a Thousand Soul Pill to heal his soul. Meanwhile, Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian fought demons on the Sheng Ling Prefecture border, then visited Sha Diao’s artifact workshop and reunited with him.

• Xu Fan summoned Li Xingci to enter Wang Yulun’s Desire World, where Li Xingci dispelled the Demon Desire Poison and woke Wang Yulun.
• Li Xingci said Wang Yulun’s soul injuries required Xu Fan’s treatment, so Xu Fan arranged for a Thousand Soul Pill or planned to refine one after reaching the Golden Core Stage.
• Xu Fan praised Wang Xiangchi and introduced him to his new disciple, Li Xuandao, before entering seclusion.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian defeated fleeing Demon Race members, redeemed their spoils for points, and decided to save for Immortal Script and a Heavenly Extreme Spirit Pill for Xu Fan.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian recognized Sha Diao’s workshop, removed their Masks, and greeted Sha Diao, who asked after Xu Fan.

Xu Yuexian invited Sha Diao to join the Hidden Spirit Sect, and he set off for the Central Continent with her help. Meanwhile, the Venerable Lord arrived in Elephant Prefecture and sealed a powerful Ancient Demon after fifteen Mahayana Venerables failed to defeat it.

• Xu Yuexian told Sha Diao about the Hidden Spirit Sect, and he eagerly agreed to join and study Artifact Refining with Xu Fan.
• Xu Yuexian gave Sha Diao Spirit Stones for his journey to Linsen Immortal City, and he departed for the sect.
• Ju Tu and the Ancient Demon threatened the human Venerables as three Ancient Demon Forbidden Lands in Elephant Prefecture erupted with blood light.
• The Ancient Demon emerged and resisted the Demon Slaying Sword, overpowering the Ninth Elder as the fifteen Mahayana Venerables struggled to contain it.
• The Venerable Lord arrived aboard a Giant Boat, sealed the Ancient Demon inside a Golden Lotus, and praised the Venerables for their efforts.

Xu Fan learned that the Human and Demon Worlds would begin merging within twenty years, with the Central Continent as the starting point, and ordered his disciples to prepare for war. As he planned to enter seclusion, he discovered that Lei Wenxi’s tailored Spirit Feeding Pills had caused his turtles to develop distinct bloodlines.

• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian chose to remain at the border and wait for reliable news, while Ye Xiaoyao followed Old Sword’s plan to enter an Ancient Demon Forbidden Land after the Ancient Demon was sealed.
• Xu Fan strolled around the Sect, asked Pang Fu to search for Phoenix-Tail Pine spirit wood, and watched Wang Xiangchi and Li Xingci spar.
• Outside the Feather Realm, the Star-eyed Youth activated the Thousand Chains Realm Fusion formation and announced that the Two Realms would begin merging within twenty years, starting with the Central Continent.
• Xu Fan divined the approaching fusion, ordered Wang Xiangchi and Li Xingci to reach Nascent Soul Stage within twenty years, and said he would enter seclusion after Uncle Sha arrived.
• Xu Fan discovered that the turtles had evolved into different bloodlines after Lei Wenxi fed them Spirit Feeding Pills tailored to their tastes.

Sha Diao arrived at the Hidden Spirit Sect, joined as its new Immortal Artifact Peak Master, and learned about Xu Fan’s puppet-driven methods. As the Two Realms Fusion began, Xu Fan prepared to strengthen the sect’s defenses and expand its Puppet Legion.

• Lei Wenxi brought Sha Diao into the Hidden Spirit Sect, where he was amazed by its spiritual energy, buildings, and arrays.
• Xu Fan welcomed Sha Diao, and the sect held a banquet to celebrate his joining as an Elder and Immortal Artifact Peak Master.
• Xu Fan showed Sha Diao the Heart of Puppets and explained artificial intelligence, production lines, and Grape’s assistance.
• Xu Fan told Yu Nan and Zhou Kailing to cultivate in the sect because the Cultivation World faced major changes.
• The Elder Council announced the Two Realms Fusion, its coming invasions, and the cancellation of sect taxes so they could shelter common people.
• Xu Fan concluded that the Hidden Spirit Sect needed more disciples and decided to expand its Puppet Legion.

Xu Fan expanded Hidden Spirit Sect’s preparations for the coming Demon Race invasion by activating a Golden Core Puppet production line and arranging to sell advanced Puppets. Seeing that the Sect also lacked disciples, he ordered Li Xingci to recruit two thousand through an Immortal Sect Recruitment Assembly.

• Xu Fan activated the Golden Core Stage Combat Puppet Production Line to prepare defenses against the Demon Race.
• Pang Fu reported that demand and prices for combat goods had risen, and Xu Fan gave him six Nascent Soul Stage Puppet samples to sell and a production plan.
• Pang Fu promised to build a Hundred Thousand Nascent Soul Puppet Army for Hidden Spirit Sect before the invasion.
• Xu Fan summoned Li Xingci and told him to recruit two thousand disciples because the Sect’s numbers were too low.
• Xu Fan directed Li Xingci to hold an Immortal Sect Recruitment Assembly with help from selected disciples and the Elder Council’s Token.

Pang Fu negotiated new prices and orders for Spiritual Power Armor and Puppets with fifteen Merchant Guilds, while Xu Fan expanded Puppet production. After Xu Fan sensed that someone had divined his location, two Integration Stage cultivators arrived above the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake to visit the Hidden Spirit Sect.

• Pang Fu told the fifteen Merchant Guild presidents that prices for Spiritual Power Armor would rise by half, set delivery quotas, and handed them Jade Slips describing Puppets.
• The Merchant Guild presidents competed to order Puppets, and Pang Fu set prices of ten million Spirit Stones for close-combat models and twelve million for long-range models.
• Xu Fan decided to open another Nascent Soul Stage Puppet Production Line and considered how to prepare the sect for the Demon Race Invasion.
• A divination expert of the Thousand Spirits Sect located Xu Fan near the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake, and Xu Fan sensed the attempt and divined an auspicious outcome.
• Three days later, two Integration Stage cultivators arrived above the lake and discussed showing respect when they met the Spirit Creator.

Xu Fan hosted Thousand Spirits Sect Elders Chong Yu and Xiang Heng, who came to investigate the unusual abilities of his disciples and learn how he trained them. After his puppet defeated a Foundation Establishment Rock Armor Demonic Beast, the elders became interested in his creations, leaving Xu Fan ready to sell them more.

• Xu Fan welcomed Chong Yu and Xiang Heng at Turtle Yuan Palace and claimed that Zhang Han's unusual techniques came from ancient ruins.
• The elders questioned why Xu Fan remained at Foundation Establishment despite having two Nascent Soul disciples, and Xu Fan offered to explain his training methods.
• Xu Fan summoned a Foundation Establishment Challenging puppet and arranged a fight against Xiang Heng's Rock Armor Demonic Beast.
• The puppet outmaneuvered the beast and shattered its Heart Core with a focused double punch.
• Chong Yu and Xiang Heng introduced themselves and questioned whether Xu Fan was secretly controlling the puppet, while Xu Fan recognized them as potential major customers.

Xu Fan demonstrated and sold the Thousand Spirits Sect a Heart of Puppets with one thousand puppets, then returned to Hidden Spirit Island. There, Lei Wenxi cared for the Demon Beast cubs while Li Xingci watched her.

• Xu Fan showed two Thousand Spirits Sect Integration Stage cultivators a Golden Core puppet defeating a peak Golden Core Four-tailed demon fox.
• Xu Fan offered a Heart of Puppets, one thousand puppets, and a Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact Trial Tower for two billion Spirit Stones, and let the blue-robed cultivator take the first items back to test.
• Xu Fan handed the blue-robed cultivator a Spatial Ring containing the Heart of Puppets and puppets, then flew toward Hidden Spirit Island.
• Xu Fan reflected that the sale could fund his Nascent Soul puppet Production Line and returned to prepare for more orders.
• Lei Wenxi tended the Demon Beast cubs at Beast Taming Peak and fed the Cyan Hummingbird a Spirit Feeding Pill.
• Li Xingci watched Lei Wenxi with a smile as the Shore Flower in his hand dissipated.

Lei Wenxi treated Yu Qianshan’s badly injured Deep Sea Evil Flood Dragon and urged him to improve his cultivation. Meanwhile, Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian helped Ji Muhua defeat a Mountain Crushing Bear group, then parted ways with him as he returned to his sect.

• Yu Qianshan brought Little Jiao to Lei Wenxi for treatment after Xiong Li had nearly beaten the Deep Sea Evil Flood Dragon to death.
• Lei Wenxi healed Little Jiao, warned Yu Qianshan to raise his cultivation, and left to feed the Turtle.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian joined Ji Muhua and five Thousand Spirits Sect cultivators in surrounding a group of Mountain Crushing Bears.
• Xu Gang rejected a Bear Demon’s offer to reveal its clan’s Treasure Vault, and the group continued fighting until the bears were defeated.
• Ji Muhua told Xu Gang he had been ordered back to his sect, and they agreed to compete in killing demons during a future invasion.
• Xu Yuexian teased Xu Gang about making a friend, and Xu Gang recalled the Little Fatty he had once fought alongside.

Xu Fan received a new order from the Thousand Spirits Sect while the Feather Realm and Demonic Spirit Realm began to be drawn together. At the border, Old Sword told Ye Xiaoyao that the shaking came from merit and that he had arrived at an opportune time.

• Xu Yuexian and Xu Gang decided to exchange for an Immortal Script treasure before returning to the sect, and planned to ambush more demons to earn points.
• After seeing their disciples fail the Heart of Puppets challenge, the Thousand Spirits Sect Elders ordered regular challenges and stricter Heavenly Pride advancement requirements, then bought two more sets.
• Xu Fan received the Thousand Spirits Sect's order and planned to refine two more Heart of Puppets and three Fifth-Rank Treasure Artifact Trial Towers while expanding his puppet production by one line.
• The chains linking the Feather Realm and Demonic Spirit Realm tightened and began pulling the realms together, while the Kunpeng sent a Giant Void Python to speed their movement.
• After Ye Xiaoyao and the Sword King Sect disciples defeated demons near Elephant Prefecture, Old Sword explained that the shaking was the sound of merit and said Ye Xiaoyao had arrived at the right time.

Ye Xiaoyao learned that the coming Two Realms Fusion could let him achieve Merit Immortalization by helping humanity win the war against demons. Xu Fan expanded production at the Hidden Spirit Sect, revisited the miniature city tied to his memories, and ended by telling Li Xingci about the beggar who had raised him.

• Old Sword told Ye Xiaoyao that Merit Immortalization could bring protection, fortune, and invitations from powerful Immortal Sects, and advised him to kill Demon Emperors in the coming war.
• A month later, two Integration Stage Elders from the Thousand Spirits Sect gave Xu Fan a piece of Seven-Colored Stone, and he returned two optimized Palm-sized Farms.
• Xu Fan gave Grape enough Spirit Ore to keep the underground Production Lines running for a year and said Grape could be upgraded after he reached the Golden Core Stage.
• Xu Fan spent three days gazing at the Micro City he had built underground, then emerged to find Li Xingci’s two thousand new disciples gathered at the Main Peak Dao Field.
• Xu Fan told Li Xingci that a beggar had adopted and raised him, but died before Xu Fan could buy him a Life-Prolonging Pill.

Xu Fan agreed to summon Li Xingci’s father home, then challenged Li Xingci’s confidence in resisting Illusion Art by trapping him in a humiliating game. The chapter left Li Xingci enduring the game while secretly resolving to make Xu Fan play one of his own someday.

• Li Xingci suggested building a city by the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake for the families of commoner disciples, and Xu Fan told him to handle it.
• Xu Lingtai asked Xu Fan when his father would return, so Xu Fan promised to summon him and the others home.
• Li Xingci told Xu Fan he had made a cruel Stone Spirit Battle Body into a Reincarnation Slave and planned to advance to the Nascent Soul Stage alongside his Third Senior Brother.
• Xu Fan proposed a match against his four disciples and threatened to spank Li Xingci in an Illusion Realm, but Li Xingci claimed Xu Fan’s Illusion Art could no longer affect him.
• Xu Fan trapped Li Xingci in a Catching Ducks game, where Li Xingci was forced to catch a hundred thousand ducks and quack.
• As he played, Li Xingci resolved to make Xu Fan play a game called Counting Puppies once his Illusion Art surpassed his master’s.

Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian returned to the Hidden Spirit Sect with an Immortal Script Treasure they had obtained through Demon Extermination points and gave it to Xu Fan. As Xu Fan began studying it and prepared to resume seclusion, Li Xuandao offered him a collection of knowledge from the Great Thousand Worlds.

• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian evaded cultivators targeting their treasure and traveled back to the Hidden Spirit Sect.
• Lei Wenxi greeted the siblings at the Hundred-thousand Li Great Lake and told Xu Gang that her turtles could become Divine Beasts if she continued feeding them.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian returned to the Sect, and Xu Yuexian said she hoped to give up the Sect Master position to pursue treasure hunting.
• Xu Gang and Xu Yuexian presented Xu Fan with an Immortal Script Treasure, which he identified as the earth character among the Five Elements.
• Xu Fan began studying the Immortal Script in seclusion, while Li Xuandao offered him Cultivation Methods, Divine Abilities, Immortal Scripts, Pill Recipes, and Immortal Artifact refining methods.

Li Xuandao told Xu Fan about his imprisoned mother and asked him to save her before their fifty-thousand-year bargain expired. Xu Fan promised to help Li Xuandao become a Golden Immortal in this life and began studying the reincarnation method that could make it possible.

• Li Xuandao explained that his father had imprisoned his mother for fifty thousand years and would execute her if Li failed to return as a Golden Immortal.
• Li Xuandao asked Xu Fan to save his mother, and Xu Fan told him to save her himself by reaching Golden Immortal in this life.
• Xu Fan revealed that he had deduced a Mahayana Stage cultivation method resembling Li Xuandao's Nine Lives Golden Immortal Sutra.
• Li Xuandao handed Xu Fan the True Spirit Jade Disc containing the reincarnation method for him to examine.

Xu Fan studied Li Xuandao’s Nine Lives Golden Immortal Sutra while Hidden Spirit Sect disciples began spell training, and Xu Gang sought advice after a gifted child exposed his waning drive. Wang Yulun worried about facing his son Xingci’s impending Nascent Soul advancement, so Xu Fan arranged a trip to keep Murong Qian’er away while Wang Yulun prepared to speak with Xingci.

• Xu Fan found the Nine Lives Golden Immortal Sutra too difficult to reverse-engineer and returned the Jade Disc to Li Xuandao.
• Xu Gang watched eight-year-old Lin Chanyu combine Storm Art and Fireball Art, then reflected on his own declining effort in cultivating Dao Methods and Divine Abilities.
• Xu Fan reassured Xu Gang and directed him to train using the Trial Tower’s cultivation challenges.
• Wang Yulun worried that Xingci would soon advance to the Nascent Soul Stage and asked Xu Fan what his son might do about their past.
• Xu Fan suggested Wang Yulun talk to Xingci and arranged for Wang Xiangchi to take Murong Qian’er to Phoenix Feather Immortal City.
• Wang Xiangchi invited Murong Qian’er to shop for a Phoenix Feather Immortal Robe, and she agreed to go.