Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing and the Azure Phoenix Daoist set out to open the remaining ancient wells, reaching the Twelfth City and its Demon Well. After killing three Guangming Clan Great Sages and taking their Supreme Emperor Weapon, Fang Qing went to the Guangming Clan's homeworld and seized its treasures as compensation.

• Fang Qing shared drops of Immortal Liquid with the Guide Envoys, Guardians, and Azure Phoenix Daoist before setting out to open the remaining ancient wells.
• Fang Qing and the Azure Phoenix Daoist traveled through the Eleventh City and reached the Twelfth City, where Fang Qing opened the second ancient well and acquired Immortal Liquid and the Heaven-Mending Technique.
• Three Guangming Clan Great Sages attacked Fang Qing with the Spirit Refining Pot, but Fang Qing killed them and took control of the Supreme Emperor Weapon.
• Fang Qing cleared the demons and Sacred Spirit remnants from the ancient well, then carried the Spirit Refining Pot to the Guangming Clan's Life Ancient Star.
• Fang Qing demanded compensation from the Guangming Clan and seized its treasures, Emperor Scripture, and Emperor Formation without destroying its homeworld.

Fang Qing plundered the Guangming Clan’s ancient star, then opened all seven ancient wells along the Human Race Ancient Road and gathered treasures while traveling through its cities. After Azure Phoenix Daoist departed at the Thirtieth Pass, Fang Qing continued alone, obtained the Kunpeng Treasure Technique, and stopped at the Fiftieth City.

• Fang Qing seized the Guangming Clan’s treasures and techniques, then returned its Spirit Refining Pot to the Human Race Ancient Road with him.
• Fang Qing shared Divine Jade and the Bright Sacred Canon with Azure Phoenix Daoist, and they continued along the Human Race Ancient Road together.
• Fang Qing opened the remaining ancient wells, obtained Immortal Liquid and the Holy Spirit Heaven Mending Technique, and gave some Immortal Liquid to Azure Phoenix Daoist for the Human Race’s young geniuses.
• At the Thirtieth Pass, Azure Phoenix Daoist bid farewell to Fang Qing and left.
• Fang Qing traveled through the Human Race’s cities, deepened his Dao insights, and obtained the Kunpeng Treasure Technique with his Fishing Rod.
• Fang Qing reached the Fiftieth City and considered whether the Xing Zi Secret or the Kunpeng Treasure Technique was faster.

Fang Qing entered the fiftieth Human Race city and visited the grave of an Ancient Desolate Sacred Body, where he punished a disrespectful Saint and absorbed the dead hero’s martial will. He left the challenge of the Heavenly Tyrant Body to Little Ye Zi.

• Fang Qing received a warm welcome from the fiftieth city’s Guide Envoy and gave him Immortal Liquid.
• Fang Qing asked to visit the grave of an Ancient Desolate Sacred Body and learned of the ancient battle between a Sacred Body and a Heavenly Tyrant Body.
• Fang Qing told the Guide Envoy that he possessed a Mortal Body and discussed how later effort and fortunate encounters could overcome the limits of one’s physique.
• At the Sacred Body’s grave, Fang Qing turned a Saint who spoke disrespectfully into a rat for five hundred years.
• Fang Qing seized the inscription Only I Reign Supreme and refined its martial will into his Humanity Path tyrannical intent, then left the duel with the Heavenly Tyrant Body to Little Ye Zi.

Fang Qing visited a Life Ancient Star where the Great Dao suppressed cultivation, revived its spiritual energy, and aided Yang Yunteng, a descendant of the Human Race Sacred Body. At the Human Race's Fiftieth City, he opened the Sacred Body ancestor’s stone casket, took three bottles of Sacred Body blood to study, and gave Yang Yunteng an Amulet containing a Minor World.

• Fang Qing changed the Life Ancient Star’s spiritual energy as he walked and met Yang Yunteng, a mortal descendant of the Sacred Body.
• Fang Qing restored Yang Yunteng’s youth and vitality, taught him complete Sacred Body secret arts, and learned about the ancestral treasures left for a future Dark Turmoil.
• Fang Qing took Yang Yunteng to the Guide Envoy’s residence, where Yang Yunteng opened the stone casket with his blood.
• Fang Qing examined and took the three bottles of Sacred Body blood, saying he would study them but not consume or refine them.
• Fang Qing gave Yang Yunteng a Minor World Amulet that could kill anyone below the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

Fang Qing took Yang Yunteng to the Cangtian Tyrant Bloodline’s ancient star to study the Heavenly Tyrant Body’s Dao, then confronted the Cang Clan over its oppression of the Sacred Body lineage. He punished the clan, collected treasures for Yang Yunteng, and left after warning the survivors not to show killing intent.

• Fang Qing brought Yang Yunteng to the Cangtian Tyrant Bloodline’s ancient star and comprehended the Tyrant Bell Dao traces near the ancestors’ tomb.
• A Sage-realm divine ape attacked Fang Qing, but he immobilized it, sent it flying, and continued onward.
• Fang Qing reached the Cang Clan and made its Fire Sparrow submit to him before revealing the Spirit Refining Pot.
• The Cang Clan’s Sage Kings apologized and promised compensation after Fang Qing challenged them over their treatment of the Sacred Body lineage.
• Fang Qing destroyed the clan’s killing formation, turned the young disciples who harbored killing intent to ash, and gathered treasures for Yang Yunteng.
• Fang Qing warned the surviving Cang Clan members not to show killing intent before he left, then departed.

Fang Qing traveled through the Human Race’s ancient cities and arrived at Ruin City, where his presence awed the cultivators gathered in Star Cloud Tower. Two of Di Tian’s envoys began considering abandoning him to follow Fang Qing, just as the Great Demon God Gu Huang entered the tower and looked toward Fang Qing.

• Fang Qing continued along the Starry Sky Ancient Road after leaving Human Race City Fifty, drawing respectful welcomes from the Guide Envoys in the cities he passed.
• Fang Qing arrived at Ruin City with the Wind Thunder Ox Beast and several Saint Beast Kings, and the cultivators there recognized and feared him.
• Fang Qing went to Star Cloud Tower, where the Vermilion Bird Envoy and Qilin Envoy privately compared him with their master, Di Tian.
• Fang Qing revealed the Spirit Refining Pot, frightening Di Tian’s envoys and prompting them to consider leaving Di Tian to join Fang Qing.
• The Great Demon God Gu Huang entered Star Cloud Tower with a blood-soaked aura and looked toward Fang Qing.

Fang Qing killed Great Demon God Gu Huang with one finger after sensing his killing intent, then accepted Vermilion Bird Envoy and Qilin Envoy as followers. As Star Cloud Tower returned to its festivities, Hundred Tribulations Daoist approached Fang Qing and proposed joining forces to open a Great Emperor's Tomb, and Fang Qing agreed.

• Great Demon God Gu Huang arrived at Star Cloud Tower, and Fang Qing sensed his killing intent and told him he could die.
• Fang Qing crushed Gu Huang with one finger, shocking the cultivators who witnessed the young Supreme's death.
• Vermilion Bird Envoy and Qilin Envoy knelt before Fang Qing, pledged to follow him, and were accepted as his followers.
• The city’s protector arrived, heard what had happened, and left without challenging Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing noticed a Divine King Body among the performers at Star Cloud Tower.
• Hundred Tribulations Daoist greeted Fang Qing and proposed that they work together to open a Great Emperor's Tomb, and Fang Qing agreed.

Fang Qing traded the Hundred Tribulations Profound Scripture for the Ancient Demon Emperor Scripture and studied the technique while preparing to open the Great Emperor's Tomb. His victories and growing reputation reshaped how other races treated the Human Race, and he emerged from seclusion as the Great Strength Bull Demon Race sought permission to enter the tomb.

• Hundred Tribulations Daoist recounted how he gained intelligence, cultivated through tribulations, and reached the Great Sage Realm before offering Fang Qing the Hundred Tribulations Profound Scripture.
• Fang Qing listed several complete scriptures, then exchanged the Ancient Demon Emperor Scripture for Hundred Tribulations Daoist's technique and agreed to open the Great Emperor's Tomb with him in three days.
• Fang Qing and Hundred Tribulations Daoist entered seclusion, and Fang Qing used the Hundred Tribulations Profound Scripture to temper his body and spirit.
• News spread that Fang Qing had killed Great Demon God Gu Huang and gained the allegiance of Di Tian's Vermillion Bird Holy Envoy and Qilin Holy Envoy, while Di Tian headed toward the Star Ruins.
• A Great Sage of the Great Strength Bull Demon Race asked the Human Race protector for permission to visit the tomb and offered an alliance; Fang Qing emerged from seclusion and answered, "Yes."

Fang Qing welcomed several powerful visitors to the Great Emperor's Tomb, then stopped the Divine Organization and Underworld from battling on the Human Race Ancient Road. He took their Great Sage Weapons as compensation and warned them to settle their grudges inside the tomb, leaving the other visitors wary of his power.

• After three days of cultivation, Fang Qing agreed to let the Great Sage of the Great Strength Bull Demon Race and a Sacred Spirit enter the Great Emperor's Tomb.
• Fang Qing and Hundred Tribulations Daoist arrived at the tomb, where the Bull Demon Great Sage and the Sacred Spirit soon joined them.
• The Underworld arrived with a Bronze Coffin, and the Divine Organization's Great Sage attacked it with his bronze cauldron.
• Fang Qing froze the battlefield, seized the Great Cauldron and the Underworld's coffin, and demanded compensation from both Great Sages.
• The Divine Organization's Great Sage and the Underworld's Great Sage apologized, and Fang Qing warned them not to fight outside the tomb again.
• Human Race cultivators praised Fang Qing for protecting them, while the Bull Demon Great Sage felt relieved that he had approached Fang Qing politely.

Fang Qing led the Great Sages into the Demon Emperor's Tomb, where reverence for the emperor allowed them to pass through the gates. At Emperor Weapon Mountain, he captured an Imperial Weapon fragment, while the Sacred Spirit was left on the brink of death after its Immortal Tear Green Gold ruler was struck aside.

• Fang Qing opened the Great Emperor's Tomb with the Profound Divine Lamp, and the gathered cultivators entered after bowing to the gates.
• Fang Qing manifested the Future Unborn Buddha while the group crossed the tomb, and several Great Sages stopped to comprehend the Dao.
• At Emperor Weapon Mountain, a blazing fragment killed a Sage King, and Fang Qing trapped and subdued it with Emperor Pan's Living Sword.
• Another Divine Light attacked, and the Stone Man Sacred Spirit's Heaven Measuring Ruler failed to stop it.
• Fang Qing secretly used several techniques to keep the ruler from fleeing, allowing the Divine Light to pierce the Sacred Spirit and leave it near death.

Fang Qing subdued the Demon Emperor's Ruler fragments after killing two Great Sages who attacked him, leaving the other survivors too wary to challenge him. The Great Sages identified the shattered Imperial Weapon as the Demon Emperor's, Xue Yueqing's, and wondered what force had defeated him.

• Fang Qing absorbed the Sacred Spirit Great Sage's Immortal Tear Green Gold as the ruler fragment killed another Great Sage.
• Fang Qing used the Soldier Character Secret and the Way of All Spirits to persuade the Feathered Green Gold ruler fragment and its scattered pieces to follow him.
• The Underworld Great Sage and another Great Sage attacked Fang Qing, but he absorbed their origins and killed them.
• The old monk from the Amitabha Ancient Star Domain dispelled the killing intent, and the surviving Great Sages recognized the scattered weapon fragments as the Demon Emperor's Ruler.
• Fang Qing collected all the remaining Ruler fragments into his Middle Thousand World while the other Great Sages stayed silent.

Fang Qing led the Great Sages through the Great Emperor's Tomb, absorbing Yin Gods and gathering allies as he grew stronger. At the Yellow Springs' source, they discovered what seemed to be the Demon Emperor's remains, but Fang Qing recognized the snow-white dragon as a single drop of the emperor's blood.

• The Great Sages witnessed the Demon Emperor's failed attempt to enter the Immortal Realm, which ended with his death and the shattering of his Demon Emperor's Ruler into five pieces.
• Fang Qing gathered all five fragments, then used his Five-Elements Divine Bracelet to absorb ghosts and kill Yin Gods along the Yellow Springs.
• Fang Qing rescued besieged alien Great Sages in exchange for alliances, and the surviving Great Sages agreed to follow the Human Race.
• Fang Qing led the group upstream, where they found a snow-white True Dragon guarding a Dragon Lair filled with ancient Medicine Kings.
• The Great Sages knelt before the dragon's Great Emperor pressure, while Fang Qing remained standing and realized the supposed remains were only a drop of the Demon Emperor's blood.

Fang Qing comprehended the Demon Emperor’s Blood, claimed Medicine Kings, and continued along the Golden Ancient Road. After learning that ten kinds of Supreme blood were needed to enter the Mythological Ancient Road, he crossed a Heavenly Tribulation and reached Great Sage Ninth Heaven.

• Fang Qing used the Lord of the Future to study the Demon Emperor’s Blood as the Demon Emperor’s preserved memories revealed the story of his lost beloved.
• The Demon Emperor’s obsession departed with the dried flowers and Dragon Pearl, and the collapsing tomb left its Medicine Kings for Fang Qing and the other Great Sages to claim.
• Fang Qing took more than thirty Medicine Kings, gathered the tomb’s other rewards, and rode the Wind Thunder Ox Beast toward the Primordial Golden Road.
• Fang Qing traveled the Golden Ancient Road, devouring and studying strange beasts as he strengthened his blood Dao.
• Fang Qing learned that ten kinds of Supreme blood were required to enter the Mythological Ancient Road, then passed his Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to Great Sage Ninth Heaven.

Fang Qing arrived at Golden Seven Cities on the Golden Ancient Road and reached True Phoenix Tower, where he killed a young supreme and crushed a Sacred Spirit who challenged him. After the Wind Thunder Ox Beast revealed Fang Qing was only thirty-one and had reached Great Sage Ninth Heaven, he released his saintly might and left the gathered young supremes frozen, with some of their Dao Hearts shattering.

• Fang Qing entered Golden Seven Cities with the Golden Lion King, Red Tiger King, and other Saint Beast Kings, drawing wary looks from the gathered races.
• Fang Qing arrived at True Phoenix Tower, where cultivators gathered to collect ten kinds of Golden Ancient Blood and ascend the Mythological Ancient Road.
• After hidden voices insulted the Human Race, Fang Qing killed a Lion-human young supreme with one finger.
• A Sage King Realm Sacred Spirit confronted Fang Qing, and Fang Qing crushed it, refined it, and took its Immortal Tear Green Gold eye.
• The Wind Thunder Ox Beast announced that Fang Qing was thirty-one years old and had reached Great Sage Ninth Heaven, but the young supremes dismissed the claim as impossible.
• Fang Qing released his saintly might, freezing the cultivators around him and shattering some of their Dao Hearts.

Fang Qing revealed that he had reached Great Sage Ninth Heaven at thirty-one, then gathered ancient blood and entered the Mythological Ancient Road with his followers. After crossing into the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground, he recruited a Great Sage Crocodile Shark, gaining a powerful underling to bring back to Taixuan Sacred Gate.

• Fang Qing reassured the young Supremes that he had gathered them to assemble ten kinds of ancient blood, not to kill them, and they exchanged precious blood while he probed their secrets.
• Three days later, Fang Qing offered the ten kinds of ancient blood at the Mythological Altar and entered the Mythological Ancient Road with his underlings.
• Fang Qing led his group past a black hole and into the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground despite a warning that deadly creatures roamed there.
• Golden Lion King and the other Saint Beast Kings devoured schools of silver fish and several Crocodile Sharks, including Saint Beast Kings.
• Fang Qing seized the Great Sage First Heaven Crocodile Shark that appeared to attack his group, and the Crocodile Shark submitted to become his underling.

Fang Qing subdued the powerful beasts of the Mythological Ancient Hunting Ground and used the Other Shore Mystic Gate to reveal and cross the hidden Bitter Sea. The group reached a mysterious Life Spring after Fang Qing destroyed the corpses that threatened their journey.

• Fang Qing continued through the starry sky, gathering numerous Saint Beast Kings as followers.
• Fang Qing subdued the Great Sage Ancient Flood Dragon and its black tiger mount, then learned about the hidden Bitter Sea and the Mythological Other Shore.
• Fang Qing used the Other Shore Mystic Gate to reveal the Bitter Sea, and his followers joined him in crossing it.
• Fang Qing killed a Tyrant Body corpse and other obstacles in the Bitter Sea, converting their remains into origin power.
• Fang Qing and his followers saw a sacred Life Spring rising from the Bitter Sea.

Fang Qing absorbed the life essence of nine Heavenly Venerate Life Springs in the Bitter Sea, growing vastly stronger and refining the guardians he encountered. He persuaded the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to follow him and seized them, then tested their overwhelming power with a strike that cut down stars and sent the sea surging.

• Fang Qing devoured the first Heavenly Venerate Life Spring, gaining immense power as Golden Lion King and the other Saint Beast Kings absorbed enough essence to approach the Great Sage Realm.
• Fang Qing crushed a Primordial God-Demon corpse and absorbed successive Life Springs, expanding the Middle Thousand World within him and refining a Divine Race King of Kings.
• Fang Qing found the central Life Spring and recognized the Four Immortal Slaying Swords of Lingbao Tianzun, then approached them alone and communicated with their deity using the Scripture for Saving Beings and his other inheritances.
• The deity of the Four Immortal Slaying Swords agreed to follow Fang Qing, who seized the swords and unleashed a strike that cut down countless stars and raised enormous waves in the Bitter Sea.

Fang Qing led his followers from the Heavenly Venerate Bitter Sea to the Other Shore, where they discovered a Divine Domain ruled by a god who possessed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords' array diagram. After the god ordered the outsiders killed, Fang Qing confronted him and killed him with a single finger.

• Fang Qing used an Other Shore Mystic Gate to carry his companions past the Divine Bridge and into the Heavenly Venerate Dao Palace.
• The Saint Beast Kings underwent tribulations and advanced into the Great Sage Realm, while the Ancient Flood Dragon reached the third level.
• Fang Qing explored the Divine Domain, collected Divine Demon Liquid, and learned that its god possessed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords' array diagram.
• The god sensed Fang Qing and ordered the Divine Domain to exterminate the outsiders.
• Fang Qing ascended Life Ancient Mountain and killed the god, who had reached the peak of the Great Sage Realm and was half a step into the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

Fang Qing completed the Nine Secrets by obtaining the Formation Character Secret and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, then explored the Primordial God-Demon inheritances before meeting his old classmate Wang Ziwen on Tianbing Ancient Star. The reunion revealed Fang Qing's immense strength and Wang Ziwen's unexpected rise to the Immortal Platform Realm.

• Fang Qing obtained the Formation Character Secret and formation diagram, bringing his collection of the Nine Secrets to completion and strengthening his body and inner world.
• Fang Qing and his followers comprehended the runes of ten thousand Primordial Divine Mountains, received Divine Demon Liquid, and Fang Qing created several Great Sage-level arts.
• Fang Qing led his group across the starry sky to Tianbing Ancient Star, where he recognized Wang Ziwen as an old friend.
• Wang Ziwen welcomed Fang Qing and learned that Fang Qing had reached Great Sage Ninth Heaven, while the Great Sages accompanying him startled Wang Ziwen's family elders.
• Wang Ziwen recounted how pill fragments from a Purple Gold Gourd had helped him reach Immortal Platform First Heaven after he and several classmates left Beidou.
• Fang Qing told Wang Ziwen that people had called him the Eastern Emperor before he left Big Dipper Star.

Fang Qing reunited with Wang Ziwen on Tianbing Ancient Star, learned about his marriage to Lin Ling, and offered help to Lin Han in breaking through to the Great Sage Realm. While expounding the Dao to the Lin Family, Fang Qing discovered a Golden Crow Divine Embryo undergoing nirvana beneath the star, leaving him to consider whether he should interfere.

• Fang Qing recounted his rise to Great Sage Ninth Heaven and the upheavals he had faced, while Wang Ziwen shared how he had met and married Lin Ling.
• Fang Qing gave Lin Ling demi-divine medicines and showed Wang Ziwen images of his parents on Earth, assuring him that they could cultivate as Earth’s spiritual energy revived.
• Wang Ziwen told Fang Qing that Lin Han was attempting to break through to the Great Sage Realm, and Fang Qing opened a gateway to Lin Han’s seclusion chamber.
• Lin Han learned of Fang Qing’s cultivation and joined the Lin Family as Fang Qing prepared to expound the Dao.
• Fang Qing expounded the Dao to the Lin Family and discovered a Fire Crow Great Sage guarding a Divine Embryo beneath Tianbing Ancient Star.
• Fang Qing recognized the Divine Embryo as a Quasi-Emperor’s nirvana form that could become the Golden Crow Great Emperor, and wondered whether he should intervene.