Chapter Summaries

At Yaochi Holy Land, Fang Qing killed ten Archaic Ancestor Kings with a single move, stunning the human and ancient races. The Divine Silkworm Princess revived and thanked Fang Qing, while the gathering’s major figures assembled and Fang Qing confirmed that he planned to travel the Starry Sky Ancient Road.

• Fang Qing slaughtered ten Archaic Ancestor Kings in one move, leaving cultivators and young geniuses shocked by his strength.
• Fang Qing returned to the great hall, where Black Tortoise and the human Sages praised his power.
• The revived Divine Silkworm Princess arrived, reunited with the Divine Silkworm, and thanked Fang Qing for helping her revive.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess promised friendship between Divine Silkworm Ridge and Taixuan Sacred Gate before taking up residence at Yaochi.
• Fang Qing said he intended to set out on the Starry Sky Ancient Road after the gathering, as powerful figures including Hun Tuo Great Sage and Gai Jiuyou arrived.

After the No Saint in the World Conference established peace among the races, Fang Qing left an avatar to guard the Taixuan Sacred Gate and set out on the Starry Sky Ancient Road. He entered a mysterious trial world filled with bone-born lifeforms and easily sealed a Bone Sage.

• The Great Sages established peace among the races and forbade Sages from intervening, while young geniuses celebrated at Yaochi and discussed joining the Taixuan Sacred Gate.
• Fang Qing told Gai Jiuyou and the other human Sages that he planned to travel the Starry Sky Ancient Road, leaving an avatar behind to protect the Taixuan Sacred Gate.
• After the three-day conference, Fang Qing reclaimed the Humanoid Immortal Medicine, left his powerful avatar to guard Great Profound, and departed from Qishi Academy's Five-Colored Altar.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui resolved to train for the coming struggles among the younger generation as Fang Qing entered the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Fang Qing passed through the Trial Gate into a deathly world where life had arisen among countless bones, including skeletons with powerful cultivation.
• Fang Qing encountered a Bone Sage and sealed it with a single finger, leaving the Bone Sage astonished by his strength.

Fang Qing explored planets along the Starry Sky Ancient Road, gaining insights from a death-and-life stone, a Bone Saint, and the Fire God Monkeys. After strengthening his Minor World and learning of earlier travelers, he left the ancient road and arrived in the Swallowed Star Realm.

• Fang Qing took half of a death-filled stone from the Bone Saint’s planet, and its power helped his Minor World approach the creation of life.
• Fang Qing comprehended the Bone Saint’s life-and-death mysteries and created the Saint method Nine Transformations of Life and Death, then freed the Bone Saint before leaving.
• Fang Qing met the Fire God Monkeys, traded Saint Amulets for their divine wine, and learned that Wu Shi, Wan Qing, and other powerful cultivators had traveled the route before him.
• Fang Qing absorbed Fire God Stones into his Minor World, gaining fire-element power and further strengthening his vitality.
• Fang Qing chose to visit the Swallowed Star Realm and departed the Starry Sky Ancient Road, arriving there.

Fang Qing arrived in the Five Sect Alliance and watched Wang Lin glimpse the planet’s power of samsara as he approached Soul Transformation. Fang Qing met Wang Lin in his woodcarving shop, revealed his extraordinary power, and discussed the Intent of reincarnation before two Daoists arrived.

• Fang Qing entered the Five Sect Alliance capital and observed Wang Lin, a late Nascent Soul cultivator who carved wooden statues while pursuing the path to Soul Transformation.
• After a blacksmith died, Wang Lin’s soul rose above the capital and planet as he sensed the power of samsara, until Tian Yunzi introduced himself and sent Wang Lin’s soul back to his body.
• Fang Qing visited Wang Lin’s shop, recognized the Intents in his carvings, and asked whether Wang Lin’s Intent was Life and Death Samsara.
• Fang Qing manifested a tree filled with powerful Life Energy, and Wang Lin bowed to him as a senior expert.
• Fang Qing placed the tree carving inside the shop and spoke of reincarnation as snow fell, while Wang Lin watched reverently and two Daoists arrived.

Fang Qing judged Zhou Wutai and his disciple, then spoke with Wang Lin about their respective paths and the possibility of becoming his True Disciple. He recognized the kindness of Wang Lin’s mortal neighbors, Da Niu and his wife, and blessed their family before the chapter ended.

• Zhou Wutai brought his disciple to meet Wang Lin, but slapped the young Daoist when he insulted Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing saw through Zhou Wutai’s plan to love and later kill his disciple to advance toward Soul Transformation, then told him to gather the Five Sect Alliance in a few days.
• Fang Qing praised Wang Lin’s Life and Death Samsara intent and offered to make him a genuine True Disciple, while Wang Lin remained wary.
• Fang Qing noticed the kindness Da Niu and his wife showed Wang Lin by bringing him food and keeping him company.
• Fang Qing blessed Da Niu’s family with a happy life and wished that their children would have the chance to cultivate.

Fang Qing founded the Great Profound Immortal Sect and made the Five Sect Alliance’s leaders join it, ordering them to follow the righteous path and contribute their techniques. He praised Qing Song’s Time Intent, which the old cultivator had spent one hundred and fifty years comprehending, and promised him a generous reward.

• Fang Qing welcomed Da Niu and his pregnant wife, blessed their unborn child, and waited for the Five Sect Alliance’s leaders to arrive.
• Zhou Wutai led the sects’ cultivators and the imperial dynasty’s representatives to Fang Qing, and Yun Tianhe, Zhou Wujiang, Zhang Wujiu, Wang Yu, and the white-haired elder bowed to him.
• Fang Qing established the Great Profound Immortal Sect and commanded the Five Sect Alliance’s cultivators to become its disciples and let Humanity’s radiance shine across their lands.
• Fang Qing formed a Five Elements Divine Mountain and required the new disciples to contribute their Dao Law Divine Abilities; the cultivators eagerly offered their techniques and intents.
• Qing Song presented his Time Intent, explaining that he had comprehended it after watching the Human World for one hundred and fifty years, and Fang Qing promised to reward him well.

Fang Qing subdued the four great sects of a level-four cultivation country, rewarded cultivators who had forged their own paths, and ordered his statues erected throughout the land. As he studied the Dao Marks of time, he began to control the passage of time around himself and other living things.

• Fang Qing rewarded Qing Song for comprehending Time Intent, raising his cultivation to the great perfection of the Soul Transformation Realm.
• Fang Qing invited the Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators of the four great sects to present their techniques and Intents, then rewarded cultivators including an Ink Wash Sect painter and Wang Yu of the Black Soul Sect.
• Fang Qing claimed the level-four cultivation country for the Great Profound Immortal Sect and ordered his statues placed in its cities for the people to worship.
• The sect cultivators spread across the country to announce the new rules and begin establishing Fang Qing's statues among the mortal population.
• Fang Qing used the Dao Marks he perceived through the Bodhi Seed to accelerate time within his body and drain the vitality of a blade of grass.
• Wang Lin felt the Star Power strengthening him and wondered whether Fang Qing was truly so generous.

Fang Qing built up the Great Profound Immortal Sect by sharing spiritual qi and cultivating Wish Power among the people, then protected its territory from an artificial snow calamity launched by the Snow Domain Country. The chapter left him with the Rain Cauldron, granting him entry to the Rain Immortal Realm and its immortal qi.

• Fang Qing spread cultivation opportunities and rewarded disciples for teaching mortals, gaining Dao insights and Wish Power as the people’s lives and cultivation improved.
• Fang Qing and Zhou Wutai discovered that unnatural snow was pouring from spatial rifts across the Five Sect Alliance, including its desert regions.
• Fang Qing identified the Snow Domain Country as the attacker and erased the snow’s killing intent, preventing the calamity from freezing people or ruining crops.
• Fang Qing received the Rain Cauldron, which Zhou Wutai identified as a token for entering the Rain Immortal Realm.
• Fang Qing decided to visit the Rain Immortal Realm to obtain its high-level immortal qi.

Fang Qing’s sect fought off Snow Domain Country’s invasion, then he seized Red Butterfly’s Five Elements Spirit and killed her. He sent her soul and the spirits into an unborn child, leaving Red Butterfly to begin again in the next life.

• Fang Qing stirred Human Dao Evil among Snow Domain Country’s cultivators, provoking them to attack the Five Sect Alliance ahead of schedule.
• The White-clad Woman led Snow Domain Country’s forces against the Great Profound Immortal Sect, while Daoist Qing Song and Wang Yu killed several Soul Transformation cultivators.
• The Great Profound Immortal Sect’s statue broke the White-clad Woman’s fan attack, and its disciples killed her; Red Butterfly then appeared with Snow Domain elders and a Vermilion Bird Country cultivator.
• Fang Qing seized Red Butterfly’s five Five Elements Spirits and tore her body apart, killing her.
• Fang Qing combined Red Butterfly’s soul with the Five Elements Spirits and placed them in the body of a woman who had been pregnant for three days.

Fang Qing defeated the invading forces and sent Wang Lin back to Zhao Country after Wang Lin reached a new understanding of Life and Death Samsara. Fang Qing then ordered the Great Profound Immortal Sect to expand its territory with his empowered statues and prepared to enter the Ancient Immortal Realm.

• Fang Qing killed the seven Soul Transformation elders of Snow Domain Country and the Vermilion Bird Country cultivators, ending their invasion of the Great Profound Immortal Sect.
• Wang Lin carved sculptures of people he had killed and deepened his comprehension of Life and Death Samsara until he reached great perfection in the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Wang Lin thanked Fang Qing and said he would return to Zhao Country to break through to the Soul Transformation Realm.
• Fang Qing opened a Domain Gate to Zhao Country, and Wang Lin stepped through it to return to the Xuan Dao Sect.
• Fang Qing ordered the Great Profound Immortal Sect's Soul Transformation cultivators to expand its territory with empowered statues and commit less slaughter.
• Fang Qing turned his attention to the Rain Cauldron and prepared to enter the Ancient Immortal Realm.

Fang Qing watched the Great Profound Immortal Sect expand across Vermilion Bird Star, then ascended with a Rain Cauldron when the Heavenly Dao opened. He reached the Rain Immortal Sect with Wang Lin and other cultivators, and the Immortal Gate opened as they waited to enter the Ancient Immortal Realm.

• Fang Qing’s Great Profound Immortal Sect forced several Level Four and Level Five cultivation countries to submit, attracting the vigilance of Vermilion Bird Country.
• When the Heavenly Dao opened, Fang Qing used the Rain Cauldron to rise beyond Vermilion Bird Star and pass through the clouds into the Starry Sky.
• Wang Lin and four other cultivators ascended from Vermilion Bird Star, and Wang Lin greeted Fang Qing as his master.
• The six cultivators arrived at the enormous ruined Rain Immortal Gate, where cultivators fought over the remaining fragments of the Immortal Realm.
• The Immortal Gate rumbled and slowly opened inward.

Fang Qing explored the Ancient Immortal Realm, devouring its fragments and gathering Immortal Realm Qi that greatly increased his lifespan and strength. After witnessing ancient Immortals’ manifestations and learning their Immortal Arts, he continued onward, leaving other cultivators bewildered by the places he had emptied.

• Fang Qing entered the Ancient Immortal Realm ahead of Wang Lin and devoured a continent-sized fragment, refining the Immortal Realm Qi hidden at its core.
• A Green-clad Man arrived at the fragment Fang Qing had consumed, found it gone, and followed the same route, finding more empty sites.
• Fang Qing gathered a small pond’s worth of Immortal Realm Qi, pushing his lifespan beyond ten thousand years and rapidly increasing his strength.
• Fang Qing watched manifestations of ancient Immortals perform Immortal Arts and gained insight into their techniques.
• Fang Qing devoured another ruined fragment, gathered more Immortal Realm Qi, and brought surviving immortal beasts into his Minor World.
• Two Great Luo Sword Sect cultivators arrived at the vanished Immortal Mansion and fragment, astonished that nothing remained.

Fang Qing devoured the resources of the Ancient Immortal Realm and seized two Rain Immortal Swords from beneath a vast palace complex. Their emergence awakened the other buried swords, which shattered flying swords across the realm and rushed toward Fang Qing as cultivators converged on his location.

• Fang Qing consumed Immortal Realm Qi and fragments along his route while other cultivators found the areas behind him stripped bare.
• Fourth Senior Brother deliberately left Seventh Junior Brother to die to an Immortal Beast's Food, then fled with his junior brother's belongings.
• Fang Qing captured several Voids to study and reached a layered Immortal Realm fragment filled with Immortal Realm Qi and extravagant palaces, which he absorbed into his inner world.
• Fang Qing dug beneath the palace complex, obtained and refined a Rain Immortal Sword, then drew out a second sword as cultivators across the realm sensed their appearance.
• The Rain Immortal Realm trembled as buried immortal swords flew toward Fang Qing, shattering other flying swords and killing cultivators who tried to block or seize them.

Fang Qing used countless Immortal Swords to forge sword souls for the Rain Immortal Swords while inviting nearby cultivators to demonstrate their realms of intent. He rewarded those whose insights impressed him and continued learning from their Dao, leaving the cultivators gathered around him to present their realms.

• Fang Qing guided the arriving Immortal Swords into the Rain Immortal Swords, absorbing their sword qi and strengthening his Geng Metal Qi.
• Fang Qing’s presence stopped the gathered cultivators from attacking, and he invited them to discuss the Dao before the sword souls were complete.
• Tian Shiji displayed his realm of filial piety, and Fang Qing rewarded him with protective talismans and Five-Colored Divine Light while inviting him to join the Great Profound Immortal Sect.
• Zhao Yi displayed his realm of righteousness, received a physical-body enhancement from Fang Qing, and declared his willingness to join the sect.
• More cultivators displayed realms including ruthlessness, severance, and calamity, while Fang Qing studied their insights and continued forging the sword spirits.

Fang Qing gathered four Rain Immortal Swords and drove Sword Venerable Ling Tianhou away, while Vermilion Bird Country ordered an assault on the Five Sect Alliance. He then encountered Zhou Yi, whose devotion to a female corpse had shaped his life, and told him his arrival might be an opportunity.

• Fang Qing rewarded cultivators who discussed the Dao with him, and the four Rain Immortal Swords grew powerful enough to threaten worlds.
• Sword Venerable Ling Tianhou arrived on a Kirin Beast, judged Fang Qing too dangerous to challenge, and quickly departed.
• Cultivators became more reverent toward Fang Qing, while Vermilion Bird Mountain ordered an army, including the Soul Refining Sect, to destroy the Five Sect Alliance.
• Fang Qing ignored the impending conflict on Vermilion Bird Star and continued searching the Rain Immortal Realm for treasures.
• Fang Qing found Zhou Yi tenderly speaking to the female corpse he called Ting'er and told him that his arrival might be an opportunity.

Fang Qing revived Qing Shuang Immortal Lord, who had survived with a trace of vitality, and Zhou Yi learned that she no longer recognized him as Ting'er. As Qing Shuang taught Fang Qing several Immortal Arts, he mastered them with extraordinary speed and she began to hope he could help her father, Immortal Emperor Qing Lin.

• Fang Qing revived Qing Shuang Immortal Lord, and she spared Zhou Yi after he called her Ting'er, explaining that she was not the person he remembered.
• Fang Qing asked Qing Shuang to teach him Ancient Immortal Realm techniques, and she demonstrated Wind Calling, which he immediately mastered and used to form thirteen black Spears.
• Qing Shuang taught Fang Qing Rain Calling, and he completed it at once, creating four blue immortal swords from a river of rain.
• Qing Shuang demonstrated Mountain Collapse and then introduced the Body Fixing Technique, while Fang Qing quickly comprehended both arts.
• Qing Shuang recognized Fang Qing's exceptional comprehension and hoped he might help her father, Immortal Emperor Qing Lin, escape his predicament.

After leaving the Rain Immortal Realm with vast treasures and Immortal Qi, Fang Qing expanded the Great Profound Immortal Sect’s influence across Vermilion Bird Star. The chapter ends with Duntian, Sect Master of the Soul Refining Sect, offering to submit his sect, and Fang Qing approving.

• Fang Qing agreed to help Qing Shuang Immortal Lord rescue her father once she had recovered and he had finished his affairs in the mortal world.
• Fang Qing left the Rain Immortal Realm with Immortal Artifacts, Immortal Arts, and enough Immortal Qi to greatly strengthen himself.
• Fang Qing arrived in Wei Yuan Country and rewarded Daoist Qing Song with Immortal Qi, helping him break through to the Infant Transformation Realm.
• Inspired by Qing Song’s breakthrough, Wei Yuan Country’s Soul Transformation cultivators joined the Great Profound Immortal Sect, while other cultivation countries joined as well.
• Duntian, Sect Master of the Soul Refining Sect, offered to bring his sect into the Great Profound Immortal Sect in hopes of becoming a Level Six cultivation country, and Fang Qing approved.

Fang Qing accepted the Soul Refining Sect as a subordinate after studying its soul arts and taking control of its Ten Billion Soul Banner. He strengthened the aging Duntian and then took him to Vermilion Bird Country to deal with Vermilion Bird Son.

• Fang Qing agreed to Duntian's condition that the Soul Refining Sect become a level-six cultivation country in exchange for the sect's techniques.
• Duntian explained the Soul Refining Sect's arts and the Ten Billion Soul Banner, including how its main souls came from the sect's own deceased Infant Transformation cultivators.
• Fang Qing activated the banner, comprehended its soul power and wishes, and developed insights for his Nine Soul Refining Transformations.
• Fang Qing made the Soul Refining Sect a subordinate of the Great Profound Immortal Sect and forbade it from using its methods against people without grudges.
• Fang Qing restored Duntian's vitality and lifespan, giving him hope of reaching the Ascension Realm.
• Fang Qing took Duntian and the Ten Billion Soul Banner to Vermilion Bird Country to settle matters with Vermilion Bird Son.

Fang Qing confronted Vermilion Bird Son on Vermilion Bird Mountain and demanded the Star Cultivation Heart, which could control the lives of everyone born on Vermilion Bird Star. He defeated Vermilion Bird Son with the Word of Stillness Secret and took the Heart, leaving him with the crystal and the world’s cruel system exposed.

• Fang Qing arrived at Vermilion Bird Mountain with Duntian and demanded that Vermilion Bird Son hand over the Star Cultivation Heart.
• Vermilion Bird Son refused, then attacked Fang Qing with Vermilion Bird Fire, an immortal sword, and the Vermilion Bird Profound Seal.
• Fang Qing used the Word of Stillness Secret to freeze Vermilion Bird Son, his attacks, and everything else around them.
• Fang Qing took the feather containing the secret of Vermilion Bird Fire and crushed the immortal sword, while the Vermilion Bird Profound Seal's attack vanished beneath his gaze.
• Fang Qing pulled the Star Cultivation Heart from Vermilion Bird Son's body and condemned the system that let it threaten everyone born on Vermilion Bird Star.

Fang Qing explored the Vermilion Bird Tomb, gaining insights into fate and the Five Elements while collecting a willing blade soul and refusing Ye Wuyou’s Vermilion Bird inheritance. After he returned life souls to cultivators across Vermilion Bird Star, countries and powerful figures submitted to the Great Profound Immortal Sect, bringing the entire star under its control.

• Fang Qing entered the Vermilion Bird Tomb, examined gathered life souls, and gained new insights into Karmic Cause and Effect and fate.
• Fang Qing studied water and metal life souls, accepted a crescent-shaped blade soul as his follower, and continued through the tomb.
• Fang Qing found Ye Wuyou’s corpse and inheritance, declined the Vermilion Bird title, and decided he wanted Vermilion Bird Star.
• Fang Qing found Wang Lin’s life soul, then returned life souls to their cultivators across Vermilion Bird Star.
• Daoist Qing Song and Wang Yu realized their souls were complete, and their countries surrendered to the Great Profound Immortal Sect.
• Chu Yunfei, Earth Soul Gate, and Human Dao Immortal also submitted, leaving all of Vermilion Bird Star under the Great Profound Immortal Sect’s control.