Chapter Summaries

After taking control of Vermilion Bird Star, Fang Qing preached the Dao to cultivators from across the region, helping many advance and earning their devotion. He then connected the cultivation countries with Domain Gates and revived Vermilion Bird Star by restoring its Star Soul.

• Fang Qing gathered cultivators at the Great Profound Immortal Hall and preached the Dao for fifteen days, causing many Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation cultivators to advance.
• Zhou Daonan comprehended the vitality of wood during Fang Qing's preaching and advanced from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Soul Transformation Realm.
• Fang Qing's preaching helped cultivators at every level gain insights, and their gratitude strengthened his future immortal Primordial Spirit through Wish Power.
• Fang Qing established Domain Gates across Vermilion Bird Star and nearby cultivation countries, connected regions, and restored the spiritual essence of the land.
• Fang Qing extracted thirty percent of the Star Soul from seven desolate planets and sent the Star Souls beneath Vermilion Bird Star.
• Vermilion Bird Star's Star Soul revived, filling the planet with spiritual veins and vitality as mortals recovered and cultivators advanced.

Fang Qing subdued the Immortal Remnant Tribe, claimed four of its Ancestor Spirit Reincarnation Trees, and released the tortured Immortals imprisoned underground. As he prepared to enter the eighteenth level, Huang Long appeared and offered to accompany him.

• Fang Qing visited the Immortal Remnant Land and took control of a Reincarnation Tree, absorbing its mysteries into his inner world.
• The Immortal Remnant Tribe’s ancestors met Fang Qing, and the First Ancestor agreed to give him four Ancestor Spirit Reincarnation Trees in exchange for the tribe’s survival.
• Fang Qing seized and refined the four trees, then decided to confine the tribe to the Northern Extreme Land with one Ancestor Spirit Tree.
• Fang Qing reached the seventeenth underground level and scattered the tortured Immortals’ corpses to ash, freeing their lingering spirits.
• Huang Long introduced himself to Fang Qing as Grand Profound Daoist and agreed to accompany him into the eighteenth level.

Fang Qing comprehended the Talisman Clan’s Origin Power and created three great talisman arts, then awakened the Vermilion Bird Imprint with his divine fire. He survived the flames engulfing Vermilion Bird Star and gained a major increase in power, while Yellow Dragon Daoist watched the awakening unfold.

• Fang Qing comprehended the Talisman Clan’s Origin Power and created the Great Talisman Art’s three techniques: One Talisman Seals Heaven and Earth, Two Talismans Seal Living Beings, and Three Talismans Transform Myriad Laws.
• Yellow Dragon Daoist offered Fang Qing the Vermilion Bird Imprint and asked him to help a few times in return, and Fang Qing agreed.
• Fang Qing infused the Vermilion Bird Imprint with divine fire, awakening its Vermilion Bird True Spirit and drawing flames from across Vermilion Bird Star and the Sun.
• Fang Qing endured the extreme heat by absorbing it and converting it into power for his body and Minor World.
• Fang Qing absorbed the gathered flames into the Vermilion Bird Imprint, expanded his Minor World, and discovered that he could devour flames on the scale of an entire sun.

Fang Qing awakened the Vermilion Bird Sequence and mastered the first transformation of the Vermilion Bird Nine Profound Transformations, gaining command over all fire. His breakthrough alerted the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect, whose elders sent Shattered Nirvana experts to escort him, while Qing Shuang Immortal Lord appeared before him.

• Yellow Dragon Daoist gave Fang Qing the Vermilion Bird Nine Profound Transformations and asked him to protect the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect and the Four Sacred Sect.
• Fang Qing gathered flames from across the stars, formed nine Flame Totems, and completed the first transformation, empowering his Primordial Spirit to command all fire.
• Fang Qing's breakthrough sent flames surging across the universe and disturbed the Vermilion Bird Sacred Stars, where elders recognized that the Vermilion Bird Sequence had awakened.
• The Vermilion Bird Spirit manifested above the Sacred Stars, and three Shattered Nirvana experts set out to bring Fang Qing back safely.
• Fang Qing sensed the attention his breakthrough had drawn, then saw Qing Shuang Immortal Lord appear in the void.

Qing Shuang Immortal Lord asked Fang Qing to accompany her to the Immortal Spirit Celestial Realm on Tian Yun Star in search of her missing father, Qinglin Immortal Emperor. After traveling through the stars and reaching the East Sea Demon Spirit Land, they used her token to open a passage and entered the transformed abode.

• Qing Shuang Immortal Lord arrived with Zhou Yi and invited Fang Qing to accompany her to the Immortal Spirit Celestial Realm, where her father had been attacked and gone missing.
• Fang Qing agreed, and he and Qing Shuang Immortal Lord traveled through the Starry Sky, visiting trading planets where Fang Qing bought rare treasures to cultivate his Divine Five Elements Dao.
• Fang Qing and Qing Shuang Immortal Lord reached Tian Yun Star, avoided entanglement with the Heavenly Fortune Sect, and headed toward the East Sea Demon Spirit Land with Zhou Yi.
• Qing Shuang Immortal Lord used a token to open a spatial passage into the Demon Spirit Land, and she and Fang Qing entered.

Fang Qing and Qing Shuang Immortal Lord explored the Demon Spirit Land while Fang Qing’s projections challenged its Demon Generals, letting him study their combat arts and improve his understanding of battle intent. Qing Shuang Immortal Lord then seized an old Ascension Realm cultivator and discovered a Jade Slip containing a message from her father.

• Fang Qing learned that he and Qing Shuang Immortal Lord had entered the Heavenly Demon Commandery, then sent projections into its cities while he explored with her.
• Fang Qing’s projection endured Yun Li Hai’s Ten Collapses Battle Intent and rewarded the Left Wing Demon General with a Five-Element Divine Talisman, inspiring Fang Qing to consider a Battle Character Secret.
• Fang Qing’s projections defeated the divine abilities of Demon Generals Mo Fei and Yu Sen without killing them, leaving the commanders bewildered and wary.
• Fang Qing gained insights into battle intent, Dao Law Divine Abilities, and the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel by facing experts throughout the Demon Spirit Land.
• Qing Shuang Immortal Lord seized an old man in the middle stage of the Ascension Realm and took several treasures from his storage bag.
• Fang Qing read a Jade Slip that began with a message from Qing Shuang Immortal Lord’s father, welcoming her as an Immortal Lord of the Rain Immortal Realm and offering her a gift.

Qing Shuang Immortal Lord reclaimed the gifts her father had left for her, then reunited with the Cloud Immortal Dao Companions, who revealed that Immortal Emperor Qing Lin was likely trapped in the True Mansion. Fang Qing accepted their offerings and used the Xing Zi Secret to lead the group past the restrictions, stopping at a stone bridge as his Bronze Fishing Rod finished cooling down.

• Qing Shuang Immortal Lord reclaimed her father's treasures and Immortal Art from the mid-Wending-stage old man, then continued through the Demon Spirit Land with Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing and Qing Shuang Immortal Lord met Wang Wei and Hu Juan, the Cloud Immortal Dao Companions and disciples of Immortal Emperor Qing Lin.
• Hu Juan told Qing Shuang Immortal Lord that Immortal Emperor Qing Lin had survived the Rain Immortal Realm's collapse but was likely trapped in the True Mansion with an ancient devil.
• Wang Wei and Hu Juan gave Fang Qing a storage bag of rare treasures and Immortal Artifacts, which he accepted and absorbed into his Minor World.
• Fang Qing used the Xing Zi Secret to take the group past the restrictions and lead them to a stone bridge, where his Bronze Fishing Rod completed its cooldown.

Fang Qing used the King of Freedom Talisman to lead his companions through the Immortal Mansion’s restrictions, where he encountered poison guardians and Flower Consort Hanyan. Before a statue of Immortal Emperor Qing Lin, Fang Qing endured the Third Step’s overwhelming pressure and strengthened his inner world, leaving the group at the statue after its power faded.

• Fang Qing fished up and refined the King of Freedom Talisman, then used it to bypass the stone bridge’s restrictive spells and the Mysterious Gold Immortal Guards.
• Qing Shuang Immortal Lord identified the After-Rain Poisonous Fragrance and Flower Spirit Poison; Fang Qing subdued the fragrance poison, destroyed the Flower Spirits, and sent their remnants into reincarnation.
• Flower Consort Hanyan appeared, told the group that Talisman Consort had framed her and turned her into a Flower Immortal, and led them onward.
• Fang Qing faced the statue of Immortal Emperor Qing Lin without activating the talisman and endured its immense pressure as his inner world repeatedly shattered and grew stronger.
• The statue’s pressure vanished, leaving the Cloud Immortal Dao Companion and Qing Shuang Immortal Lord kneeling while Fang Qing and Flower Consort remained standing.

Fang Qing crossed the teleportation array toward Qinglin Immortal Emperor’s sealed domain, reclaimed a dangerous treasure, and gained the Immortal Art Heaven Burning. He discovered the imprisoned Talisman Consort Qiu Yao, whose connection to the Immortal Remnant Tribe and the realm’s bloody history made her a potential source of power, while she spun a self-serving account of her past.

• Flower Consort revealed the teleportation array leading to the sealed land, and Fang Qing led the others through it as the Immortal Spirit Celestial Realm began returning to its former state.
• Fang Qing broke out of Qinglin Immortal Emperor’s World in the Bottle with the King of Freedom Talisman, refined its artifact spirit Nether Sea, and obtained the Immortal Art Heaven Burning.
• Fang Qing absorbed the Heaven Burning Amulet into his Vermillion Bird mark and brought the remaining worlds in the bottle under his control.
• Fang Qing used the King of Freedom Talisman to locate the eyeless woman Qiu Yao, the Talisman Consort and ancestor of the Talisman Clan, sealed nearby.
• Fang Qing recognized Qiu Yao’s connection to the Immortal Remnant Tribe and learned that Qinglin Immortal Emperor had sealed her after she and her clan helped threaten the Immortal Realm.
• Qiu Yao told Fang Qing that her clan had sought refuge and that she had willingly given Qinglin Immortal Emperor her eyes, but Fang Qing recognized her account as a lie.

Fang Qing gained ancestral talisman inheritances from Talisman Consort but refused to free her, then watched Immortal Emperor Qing Lin suppress her and learned from his sealing arts. He continued exploring Qing Lin’s Immortal Mansion, amassed treasures, and helped Zhou Yi advance to the Ascension Realm.

• Fang Qing appeared before Talisman Consort beneath the Immortal Burial Pool and received several ancestral talisman source intents before leaving without rescuing her.
• Immortal Emperor Qing Lin’s restriction appeared, absorbed Talisman Consort’s attack, fixed her in place, and sealed her back into the pool as Fang Qing observed his techniques.
• Fang Qing returned to Qing Shuang Immortal Lord and the Cloud Immortal Dao Companion, and the group continued through the Immortal Mansion using the King of Freedom Talisman to bypass restrictions.
• Fang Qing collected Immortal Jade, immortal pills, and other treasures from the mansion, while Zhou Yi took an immortal pill and advanced from Soul Transformation to the late Ascension Realm.
• Zhou Yi thanked Fang Qing and continued pursuing greater cultivation so he could draw closer to Ting'er.

Fang Qing achieved Vermillion Bird’s second awakening on the seventh level of Immortal Emperor Qing Lin’s cave mansion, drawing the attention of the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect and the Cultivation Alliance. He brought Qing Shuang Immortal Lord and the Cloud Immortal Dao Companion through to the ninth level, where he faced the Eight-star Ancient Demon possessing Qing Lin.

• Fang Qing absorbed the volcano’s fire power, seized its fire dragon, and condensed a source fire seed that advanced his cultivation toward the Third Step.
• Vermillion Bird transformed into white and underwent its second awakening, making Fang Qing the undisputed future Vermilion Bird Sacred Emperor.
• Four Shattered Nirvana experts of the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect rushed to protect Fang Qing, while the Cultivation Alliance’s Grand Elder Void Son led cultivators to eliminate him.
• Fang Qing avoided damaging the cave’s restrictions and used the King of Freedom Talisman to take Qing Shuang Immortal Lord and the Cloud Immortal Dao Companion past the sealed passage to the eighth and ninth levels.
• Fang Qing found the Eight-star Ancient Demon possessing Immortal Emperor Qing Lin, with forty-eight of the ninety-nine formation lamps extinguished, and prepared to end the conflict.

Fang Qing brought Immortal Emperor Qing Lin to the Rain Realm Venerable Hall, where the Reverse Soul Formation let Qing Lin confront Ancient Demon Taga in his sea of consciousness. Qing Lin joined with Fang Qing’s spirit to demonstrate Third Step rule techniques, and after Taga’s desperate attacks failed, the Ancient Demon admitted defeat.

• Fang Qing carried Immortal Emperor Qing Lin and his companions to the Rain Realm Venerable Hall and activated the Reverse Soul Formation with Qing Shuang Immortal Lord, the Cloud Immortal Dao Companions, and Zhou Yi.
• The formation brought Fang Qing and the others into Qing Lin’s sea of consciousness, where Ancient Demon Taga appeared and attacked them.
• Immortal Emperor Qing Lin entered Fang Qing’s Primordial Spirit, and Fang Qing used Qing Lin’s power to change rules and defeat Taga’s attacks.
• Taga shattered his Ancient Demon stars and unleashed the Heavenly Dao Four Desires, but Fang Qing countered with Rain Calling and froze him.
• Taga sacrificed his soul to unleash the Purple Qi Demonic Tribulation, but Qing Lin destroyed it with the Sun, Moon, and Star Three Burials, leaving Taga to admit defeat.

Qinglin Immortal Emperor awakened and restored the shattered Rain Immortal Realm, then honored Fang Qing for saving him and Qing Shuang. Fang Qing returned to the Shrouding Heavens Realm with a clone left behind, where the Vermilion Bird Sacred Emperor protected the clone from the Cultivation Alliance and invited him to the Four Sacred Sect.

• Fang Qing and the others withdrew their Primordial Spirits, and Qinglin Immortal Emperor awoke to reunite with Qing Shuang and Cloud Immortal Dao Companion.
• Qinglin Immortal Emperor used Qing Shuang's immortal power to gather the Rain Immortal Realm's fragments and create a new continent protected by a spatial barrier.
• Qinglin Immortal Emperor gave Fang Qing a token granting free passage into the Rain Immortal Realm and awakened his understanding of the Third Step.
• Fang Qing's true body departed for the Shrouding Heavens Realm, while his clone waited for the Vermilion Bird Sacred Sect cultivators.
• Void Son ordered his forces to kill Fang Qing, but the Vermilion Bird Sacred Emperor arrived with the Four Sacred Sect and drove the Cultivation Alliance away.
• The Vermilion Bird Sacred Emperor welcomed Fang Qing's clone as the next Sacred Emperor and took him toward the Four Sacred Sect.

Fang Qing underwent his Sage King tribulation on the Starry Sky Ancient Road and fought the powerful Great Emperor figures manifested within it. After defeating and learning from many of them, he encountered the Ruthless Great Emperor, who vanished after taking Little Nannan's form, while more palaces remained ahead.

• Fang Qing returned to the Shrouding Heavens Realm and absorbed successive lightning tribulations, advancing to the Ninth Heaven of the Sage Realm.
• Fang Qing broke through to the Sage King Realm and defeated the nine Young Great Emperors manifested by the tribulation, including the Azure Emperor and Great Emperor Luangu.
• Fang Qing fought the Fighting Saint Emperor and the Wushi Bell, then absorbed the Solar Holy Emperor's Solar Power and the Taiyin Human Emperor's Greater Yin Power.
• Fang Qing fought the Azure Emperor again and gained secret methods before facing the Ruthless Great Emperor and resisting her Flying Immortal Force and other techniques.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor's form shrank into Little Nannan's appearance and vanished, and Fang Qing saw that more palaces remained.

Fang Qing survived the Sage King tribulations, defeated the lightning manifestations of the Immortal Emperor and other powerful beings, and reached Sage King Ninth Heaven. He chose to continue along the Human Race Ancient Road and collect its opportunities before attempting to become a Great Sage.

• Fang Qing defeated the Immortal Emperor’s lightning body and shattered the lightning-formed Immortal Heavenly Blade, passing that stage of the tribulation.
• Fang Qing crushed or refined the immortal spirits, heavenly soldiers, and other tribulation opponents, then used his genuine Immortal Ascension Cauldron fragments to strike the false cauldron and sense other fragments.
• Fang Qing absorbed the tribulation’s Dao laws and lightning, advancing his Saint Weapons into Sage King Weapons.
• Fang Qing seized and examined a Sage Realm wandering soul on a trial planet, then left it alive and continued along the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Fang Qing crossed minor tribulations until he reached Sage King Ninth Heaven, deciding to gather the ancient road’s opportunities before advancing to Great Sage.

Fang Qing reached the Human Race Trial First City as a Sage King Ninth Heaven and opened its gates with a few calm words. The Guide Envoy learned Fang Qing was nearly thirty and was left stunned by his cultivation.

• Fang Qing traveled toward the Human Race trial road and reached Sage King Ninth Heaven while nearing thirty.
• Fang Qing arrived at the Human Race First Pass, where hundreds of Dao Slaying Kings and Half-Saints waited for the gates to open.
• Fang Qing asked the city soldiers to open the gates, and his Dao Charm compelled them to obey.
• Fang Qing entered First City and met the gray-robed Guide Envoy, who could not discern his cultivation.
• Fang Qing told the Guide Envoy that he had reached Sage King Ninth Heaven and was nearly thirty, leaving the old man stunned.

Fang Qing impressed the First Guide Envoy with his cultivation and gifted him self-created Demi-God Medicine fruits before discussing the Dao with him. When Fang Qing stopped an assassination in First City, he killed the assassin and sent the rescued Sage Lin Rong to the Taixuan Sacred Gate as an elder.

• The First Guide Envoy announced the rules for the Human Race First City, then invited Fang Qing to the City Lord's Mansion, leaving the other trial-takers suspicious of Fang Qing's apparent backing.
• Fang Qing gave the Guide Envoy Divine Five Elements Fruits, which increased his lifespan and helped him comprehend the Great Dao of Fire, and the two began discussing the Dao.
• While the Peerless Geniuses argued in the city without striking first, Fang Qing sensed a masked Saint Assassin attacking Lin Rong and froze them both with a word.
• Fang Qing killed the assassin and told Lin Rong to leave the trials, then opened a star gate that sent him directly to the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• Lin Rong accepted a place as an elder at the Taixuan Sacred Gate and headed there, uneasy about the power he sensed in the Big Dipper Star Domain.

Zixia welcomed Lin Rong, a young Sage sent by Fang Qing to guard Taixuan Sacred Gate, where he gained powerful techniques and took up teaching and protection duties. On the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Fang Qing joined the First City trial participants as they were transported to an ancient island to begin their trial.

• Zixia met Lin Rong, who explained that Fang Qing had saved him on the Starry Sky Ancient Road and reached Sage King Ninth Heaven.
• Taixuan Sacred Gate welcomed Lin Rong, who learned the All Character Secret and Dao Scripture before leaving an avatar to teach and guarding the gate's Northern Territory holdings with his true body.
• Fang Qing killed an assassin Sage who attacked in Human Race First City, and the Guide Envoy announced that anyone who fought in the city would be killed.
• The Guide Envoy gathered the trial participants and told them to comprehend the Great Dao of the trial ground before proceeding to the Second City.
• Fang Qing and the other participants were transported to a vast, ancient island that served as the trial ground.

Fang Qing entered Saint Slaying Island’s Forty-Ninth District, gathered its treasures and absorbed its fire-related Great Daos before moving on to the Forty-Eighth District. There, he trapped Nalan Jie in an unbreakable Boundary and released him only after Nalan Jie grew anxious.

• Fang Qing entered the Forty-Ninth District while other trial participants chose districts around the island, including Nalan Jie in the Forty-Eighth and a woman in the First.
• Fang Qing explored the Forty-Ninth District, collected Medicine Kings, absorbed the Way of Divine Fire and the Dao of Poison, and brought volcanoes and their Fire Fierce Beasts into his inner world.
• Fang Qing found Great Sage Dao Marks and gained insight into the Great Dao of Fire before crossing into the Forty-Eighth District.
• Nalan Jie confronted Fang Qing, but lowered his killing intent and proposed that they preserve harmony and stop at the right point.
• Fang Qing trapped Nalan Jie with Boundary; Nalan Jie unleashed a series of spear techniques but could not break free.
• Fang Qing released the Boundary and told Nalan Jie not to be anxious, leaving Nalan Jie shaken by Fang Qing’s Dao attainment.

Fang Qing traveled through the forty-eighth region, gaining Nalan Jie as a sworn younger brother and a Wind Thunder Ox Beast as his mount. After entering the forty-seventh region, he survived a trap laid by six Half-Saints and killed them, leaving their Saint Weapons in his possession.

• Fang Qing defeated Nalan Jie, revealed that he had reached Sage King Ninth Heaven, and accepted him as his little brother.
• Fang Qing comprehended the Primordial Great Dao and captured the eighth-level Sage Wind Thunder Ox Beast, which begged to become his mount.
• Fang Qing accepted the Wind Thunder Ox Beast, gave it Dao insights and a demi-divine medicine, and continued through the regions with Nalan Jie.
• Fang Qing and his companions entered the forty-seventh region and found six Half-Saints fighting with Saint Weapons.
• The six Half-Saints joined forces, detonated six Saint-grade Forbidden Artifacts against Fang Qing, and discovered that he and his mount were unharmed.
• Fang Qing killed all six Half-Saints and sealed their Saint Weapons.