Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing hosted a grand martial competition at the Taixuan Sacred Gate, welcomed Gai Jiuyou, and used the gathering to observe the techniques and talents of cultivators from across Beidou. As the contests continued and Fang Qing drew strength from the Myriad Daos, he noticed an extraterrestrial sage approaching the Taixuan Sacred Gate.

• Xia Jiuyou brought Gai Jiuyou to the Taixuan Sacred Gate, where the gathered Great Sages recognized his formidable strength and Fang Qing welcomed him.
• Fang Qing described the Human Race Ancient Road and displayed the starry sky behemoths he had raised within his Middle Thousand World, astonishing the assembled cultivators.
• Fang Qing watched the martial contests, noticed the promising Lu Li, and saw Taixuan Sacred Gate disciples defeat renowned competitors from other factions.
• Cultivators from across Beidou displayed their techniques and Dao abilities while competing for prizes and Fang Qing's attention.
• Fang Qing illuminated the contestants' Myriad Daos and refined them into Dao Fire that strengthened his spirit and flesh.
• Fang Qing sensed an extraterrestrial sage arriving at Big Dipper Star and heading toward the Taixuan Sacred Gate.

Daoist Xuanhua and his disciple Wang Xu visited the Taixuan Sacred Gate and discovered that its Supreme Sect Master, Fang Qing, was a Great Sage Ninth Heaven. Wang Xu challenged several local geniuses and was repeatedly defeated, ending with Ye Fan.

• Daoist Xuanhua and Wang Xu arrived at the Taixuan Sacred Gate, where Hua Chenxin told them that the contest offered three Saint Weapons and that Fang Qing had reached Great Sage Ninth Heaven.
• Fang Qing welcomed Xuanhua and invited Wang Xu to join the martial contest, then arranged for Zixia to fight him.
• Zixia defeated Wang Xu after more than a hundred exchanges, leaving him badly injured.
• Fang Qing sent King Yaoguang to fight Wang Xu, and Yaoguang beat him; Pang Bo then also defeated him.
• Fang Qing restored Wang Xu with Divine Water, and Wang Xu challenged Ye Fan, whose defenses Wang Xu could not penetrate.

The Taixuan Sacred Gate concluded its martial arts and Dao discussion conference, rewarding the victors and gaining Daoist Xuanhua and Qingling Star as new members. As factions submitted to Fang Qing, he sensed Yaoguang Holy Land beginning to collapse and moved to confront a Sage King.

• Fang Qing awarded Ye Fan, Zhang Tong, and Tu Fei three Supreme Sacred Weapons, then distributed King's Divine Weapons and other treasures to outstanding cultivators.
• Daoist Xuanhua offered to bring Qingling Star into the Taixuan Sacred Gate, and Fang Qing accepted him as a Supreme Elder; Wang Xu also joined the sect.
• Several factions, including Xiaoyao Sect and Moon Worship Cult, submitted to the Taixuan Sacred Gate, leaving it, the Ancient Desolation Ji Family, and Yaoguang Holy Land as the Southern Territory's three major powers.
• Fang Qing sensed that Duan De's schemes were hastening Yaoguang Holy Land's collapse and saw fissures spread as a terrifying aura rose from beneath it.
• Fang Qing plucked a Sage King toward himself and declared that it was time to settle their accounts.

Fang Qing freed Hua Yunfei by killing the Ruthless Person lineage’s Dao Protector, then chose not to seize Yaoguang Holy Land’s Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron as the sect relocated. As cultivators gathered around a newly exposed Great Emperor’s Tomb, Ye Fan and Duan De sensed danger, and the Wind Thunder Ox Beast arrived to cow an Archaic Ancestor King.

• Fang Qing crushed the Sage King who had threatened Hua Yunfei and absorbed his memories, divine arts, and Origin Power.
• Hua Yunfei thanked Fang Qing and resolved to pursue his own Dao, while Tu Fei and the others went to explore the upheaval at Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Yaoguang Holy Land lifted its land into the sky with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and Fang Qing decided not to attack or seize the weapon.
• Cultivators from across the Five Regions gathered at the cracked site, which Ouyang Ye and others judged to be a dangerous Great Emperor’s Tomb.
• Ye Fan and Duan De felt uneasy as Big Black Dog brought Little Nannan to the tomb, while the gathered cultivators debated which emperor might be buried there.
• An Archaic Ancestor King arrived, but the Wind Thunder Ox Beast’s presence made him suppress his aura, prompting the Human Race to marvel that Fang Qing’s mount could be invincible under heaven.

Fang Qing watched the Ruthless Great Emperor’s tomb as cultivators fought over its treasures and the Bronze Immortal Palace sealed the entrance. The Ruthless Great Emperor emerged from the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone, killed the Ancient Clan Ancestor Kings, took the treasures from the Chaos Immortal Land, and returned to the forbidden zone with the palace.

• Fang Qing stayed back while treasures erupted from the tomb, and Big Black Dog, Ye Fan, Duan De, Pang Bo, Tu Fei, and the others explored the underground depths and found Chaos Source Land.
• The Wind Thunder Ox Beast refused Hun Tuo Great Sage’s invitation to explore, saying he would wait for his Master, while the Bronze Immortal Palace blocked everyone from entering the tomb.
• Chains shattered in the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone, and the Ruthless Great Emperor emerged, causing cultivators across the area to kneel in fear.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor drained the life force of the Ancient Clan Ancestor Kings, ignored their attacks, and killed them.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor opened the Bronze Immortal Palace, entered the Chaos Immortal Land, took its treasures, and returned to the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone carrying the palace.

After the Ruthless Great Emperor took the Bronze Immortal Palace back to the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone, Fang Qing gained insights from witnessing her Dao and prepared Ye Fan and the other young Supremes to leave on the Starry Sky Ancient Road. Their departure left the remaining Taixuan Sacred Gate members to train for their own journeys, while Fang Qing captured a mysterious flying saucer for them to investigate.

• The Ruthless Great Emperor returned the Bronze Immortal Palace to the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone, and Fang Qing gained profound insights and treasures by observing her.
• Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Zixia, and other young Supremes gathered at the Taixuan Sacred Gate as several older cultivators joined the sect.
• Fang Qing warned Ye Fan about the Heavenly Tyrant Body and sent Yaoguang to the Demon Clan's ancient trial road.
• The young Supremes departed on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, while Tu Fei, Li Heishui, Wu Zhongtian, and Jiang Huairen stayed behind to cultivate.
• Fang Qing seized a flying saucer that had been abducting powerful beings, and its occupants announced that they were under attack.

Fang Qing captured a group of Eternal Star Domain cultivators and discovered their advanced mechas and Bloodline Evolution Fluid. He exposed their clans to his power, demonstrated that he could create the rare materials they sought, and ordered his companions to study the technology.

• Fang Qing opened the captured flying saucer and revealed thousands of powerful beings imprisoned in its rune-bound cages.
• When the purple-haired woman insulted the natives, Fang Qing seized the outsiders’ souls and learned they came from the Eternal Star Domain.
• Fang Qing opened a gateway to the outsiders’ home and warned them that he could reach their clans, ending their defiance.
• Fang Qing demonstrated a Sage-level mecha, and Tu Fei wore it to experience its power.
• Fang Qing identified the Bloodline Evolution Fluid, absorbed its world-origin fragments, and created the divine mineral materials the outsiders had spent years seeking.
• Fang Qing told Tu Fei, Nangong Zheng, the Zifu Holy Lord, and the others to study the technology and combine it with their cultivation.

Fang Qing returned to the Yang Shen Realm and watched Hong Yi prepare to open Zhouyi Academy, where scholars would gather to compile books and advance the Humanity Path. As the academy's opening drew near, Dragon Tooth Rice attracted support, while rival academies arrived intent on challenging Hong Yi.

• Fang Qing arrived at Hong Yi's residence and advised him that understanding the good and evil in his heart would help him pass the Seventh Level Lightning Tribulation.
• Hong Yi said he would open Zhouyi Academy on the fifth day of the fifth month and invite scholars from across the land to compile books.
• Chi Zhuiyang offered Primordial Dragon Tooth Rice to the Chongyang Academy Master, who was impressed and agreed to join the undertaking.
• Zhouyi Academy was completed outside the Imperial Capital City as scholars and literary masters gathered beneath its vast literary aura.
• Huang Tianbo and the Academy Masters of Shanhe Academy and Wenli Academy arrived with other rivals, vowing to stop Hong Yi from rising.

At Zhouyi Academy’s opening, Hong Yi defeated Huang Tianbo in a debate over righteousness and profit, and the Academy Master of Four Seasons Academy died from qi deviation. Hong Yi then used the gathering to make Primordial Dragon Tooth Rice public and unveil the Hall of All Saints, while Fang Qing considered how righteous reputation could empower a treasure.

• Fang Qing watched the academy’s rites and music, and the Virtue Wind stirred Humanity Path runes around him as he pondered a Moral Sacred Body.
• The Academy Master of Righteous Qi Academy heard Zhouyi Academy’s complete ancient Virtue Wind, welcomed Hong Yi and the other scholars, and entered the academy with them.
• Huang Tianbo challenged Hong Yi’s interpretation of the Qian Hexagram, and Hong Yi defended benefit as one of a gentleman’s virtues while exposing Four Seasons Academy’s hypocrisy over Snow Leaf Rice.
• Huang Tianbo suffered qi deviation and died, leaving his Fifth Level Lightning Tribulation thoughts in his corpse; a Four Seasons Academy disciple collected the body and departed.
• Hong Yi offered to make Primordial Dragon Tooth Rice public, pressured the Aristocratic Families to contribute their reserves, and brought forth the Hall of All Saints.
• Fang Qing reflected that the Hall of All Saints could gain power through righteous legitimacy and public belief, unlike the weapons of the Shrouding Heavens Realm.

Hong Yi’s poem silenced the Neo-Confucian masters and inspired one of Xie Wenyuan’s disciples to become a Ghost Immortal, while Meng Shenji challenged Hong Yi to a Dao contest in ten years. As the scholars gathered to compile the Book of Changes, Fang Qing captured Su Mu and secretly created the Tai Xuan Scripture, intending to spread it after becoming an emperor.

• Hong Yi recited a poem about the Hall of All Saints that left the academy masters unable to find fault, and one of Xie Wenyuan’s disciples reached the Ghost Immortal realm after hearing it.
• Su Mu delivered Meng Shenji’s challenge for a contest with Hong Yi at the South Sea in ten years, and Fang Qing seized her and kept her at Zhouyi Academy to write books and record Tai Shang Dao techniques.
• A qilin condemned the departing Neo-Confucian factions, causing their academy masters to lose their reputations as they fled Zhouyi Academy.
• The remaining scholars brought books and teachings to Zhouyi Academy, where Hong Yi began compiling the Book of Changes and Fang Qing shared knowledge and displayed the Sacred Lamp.
• Fang Qing developed the Tai Xuan Scripture, a cultivation system built around gates of the body and soul, but decided to wait until after becoming an emperor before spreading it.

The Book of Changes spread throughout the Great Thousand Worlds, deepening the cultivation and understanding of readers while strengthening Fang Qing’s Sacred Lamp and Hall of All Saints with Wisdom Qi. As Hong Yi prepared for his Seventh Level Lightning Tribulation, he divined lessons of humility and change, and Fang Qing agreed to protect him in the Wilderness.

• Scholars, cultivators, and powerful figures across the realm studied the Book of Changes, while Dark Emperor Daoist ordered the Yunmeng Great Emperor to include it in the imperial examination and vowed to take Hong Yi’s cultivation if he failed his Creator Tribulation.
• Fang Qing observed the Book of Changes’ spread and used the scholars’ Wisdom Qi to refine the Hall of All Saints and Sacred Lamp, greatly increasing their power and his own perception.
• Hong Yi stopped compiling the Book of Changes and prepared to undergo the Seventh Level Lightning Tribulation.
• Hong Yi cast the Qian Hexagram for himself and the Fire in the Marsh hexagram for the realm, concluding that he should be humble within and adaptable toward the outside world.
• Fang Qing offered to protect Hong Yi from anyone who interfered with his tribulation, and Hong Yi chose the Wilderness as the place to undergo it.

Fang Qing entered the Ninth Level Lightning Tribulation and gained Pure Yang Origin, while Hong Yi fought off Dark Emperor Daoist. The chapter ended with Fang Qing effortlessly capturing Dark Emperor Daoist, Primordial Qi God, and Kong.

• Fang Qing brought Hong Yi and the others to the Raging Thunder Forbidden Zone, where the Fragrant Fox King, Great Golden Spider, Little Mu, and the three little foxes passed their tribulations, while Bai Ziyue and Chan Yinsha advanced to higher levels.
• Hong Yi entered the lightning to undergo his tribulation, and Fang Qing traversed the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Level Lightning Tribulations.
• Fang Qing absorbed the Ninth Level Lightning Tribulation's Origin Power, transformed his Primordial Spirit into Pure Yang Origin, and strengthened his physical body.
• Dark Emperor Daoist attacked Hong Yi, who cut him down with the Reform Sword, but Dark Emperor Daoist revived.
• Fang Qing seized Dark Emperor Daoist, shattered and captured Primordial Qi God, and grabbed Kong.

Fang Qing captured three Creator-level opponents, seized their treasures and ultimate arts, and guarded Hong Yi as he passed the Seventh Level Lightning Tribulation. After Hong Yi revealed several new swords he had created, Fang Qing shared the captured experts’ arts with his companions and turned his attention to an Immortal Monument in the Divine Wind Kingdom.

• Fang Qing effortlessly captured the Dark Emperor Daoist, the Primordial Qi God, and Kong, then examined their powers and took the Primordial Qi God's Three Realms Primordial Qi Pool.
• Fang Qing's companions marveled at his strength, and he congratulated Hong Yi on passing the Seventh Level Lightning Tribulation.
• Hong Yi shared his new Sword of Governance, Peel Sword, Enlighten Sword, Fellowship Sword, and Escape Sword, along with other arts he had created from the Book of Changes.
• Fang Qing refined the captured experts' memories into ultimate arts for Hong Yi, Xie Wenyuan, Yun Xiangxiang, and the others to study.
• Fang Qing spotted an Immortal Monument in the Divine Wind Kingdom and decided to obtain it.

Fang Qing freed the Heavenly Snake King and Ji Xiang Tian from Outer Heavens’ forces, then defeated Ancestor Zongheng and Young Master Chun. Young Master Chun’s amulet revealed a powerful will that Hong Yi suspected belonged to Outer Heavens’ leader, and Fang Qing confronted it.

• Fang Qing found the Heavenly Snake King Xing Mou and Ji Xiang Tian trapped by Young Master Chun, Ancestor Zongheng, and eighty-one Divine Generals.
• Fang Qing collected the Divine Generals and broke the magnetic barrier, freeing Xing Mou and Ji Xiang Tian.
• Ancestor Zongheng attacked Fang Qing, who shattered his body, absorbed his armor, and sealed him inside a Great Dao Treasure Bottle.
• Fang Qing struck Young Master Chun and made him explode, but an amulet within Young Master Chun summoned a vast, fatherly will.
• Hong Yi sensed that the will might belong to Outer Heavens’ leader, and Fang Qing stepped forward to challenge it.

Fang Qing defeated the Outer Heavens Humanity Path leader’s summoned will, took his techniques and Emperor Pan’s Void Sword, then tracked down Young Master Xu. He subdued Young Master Xu, captured his Wild God puppet, and found Emperor Pan’s Years Sword within him.

• Fang Qing shattered the Outer Heavens Humanity Path leader’s thought and sealed his Golden Immortal Nascent Soul with the Great Five Elements Seal.
• Fang Qing absorbed the leader’s memories and acquired his divine arts, Moral True Qi, and Emperor Pan’s Void Sword.
• Fang Qing followed a trail of Karmic Cause and Effect to Young Master Xu, who attacked Hong Yi with Five Qi Towards Origin.
• Young Master Xu summoned the Wild God puppet, but Fang Qing captured it with his Great Dao Treasure Bottle and suppressed Young Master Xu.
• Fang Qing declared that Young Master Xu would become his subject and extracted Emperor Pan’s Years Sword from him.

Fang Qing absorbed the Emperor Pan's three divine swords and gained new insights into time, space, and acupoint cultivation while his inner world expanded. He and the others gathered the Outer Heavens Leader's treasures and reached the Immortal Monument beneath the earth.

• Fang Qing comprehended the Emperor Pan's Living Sword, Void Sword, and Years Sword, then drew them into his inner world as it rapidly expanded.
• Hong Yi, Bai Ziyue, and the others examined the Outer Heavens Leader's spoils, including more than six hundred acupoint cultivation methods.
• Hong Yi used the new methods to strengthen his cultivation and gained enough accumulation to attempt the Eighth Level Lightning Tribulation.
• Fang Qing studied the Yang Shen Realm's physical cultivation stages and recognized how its acupoint methods could benefit his own cultivation and the Taixuan Sacred Gate's disciples.
• Bai Ziyue and Hong Yi discovered three Heavenly Origin Divine Pills among the treasures, and Fang Qing examined their internal formations.
• Fang Qing led the group through the magnetic layer into the Earth Milk layer, where they found the Immortal Monument forged by the Longevity Great Emperor.

Fang Qing confronted the sealed Terror Divine King and offered him a chance to reincarnate and serve him. After demonstrating his overwhelming power and revealing the Longevity Token and several divine artifacts, Fang Qing won the Divine King's submission and refined the Immortal Monument.

• Hong Yi advised the little girls not to plunder the Earth Milk essence, and they broadened their states of mind by contemplating its nurturing nature.
• Fang Qing entered the plaza where the Terror Divine King was sealed, and Hong Yi used his righteous aura to dispel the Divine King's mental pressure.
• Fang Qing offered the Terror Divine King a chance to reincarnate and serve him, then seized the Immortal Monument and sealed it with the Yuan Emperor Secret Technique.
• Fang Qing revealed the Longevity Token and entered the Immortal Monument with his Primordial Spirit, while the Terror Divine King considered attacking but hesitated.
• Fang Qing displayed the Sacred Lamp, Emperor Pan's Three Swords, and the Ark of Creation, convincing the Terror Divine King to follow him.
• Fang Qing refined the Immortal Monument after the Terror Divine King submitted.

Fang Qing studied the Immortal Monument’s four hundred eighty million arrays, used two of them to help his companions cultivate, and defeated the Outer Heavens Leader’s Wife to seize another monument and her supreme arts. He returned to Imperial Capital City with her sealed, intending to spend time comprehending and cultivating.

• Fang Qing examined the Immortal Monument’s countless unique arrays and considered how they could strengthen the Taixuan Sacred Gate and the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Fang Qing cast the Fortune and Prosperity Life-Nourishing Array and the Thoughtless Mind Array on Bai Ziyue, Chan Yinsha, the Great Golden Spider, the little foxes, and the others to support their cultivation.
• Fang Qing brought his companions to confront the Eighth Level Lightning Tribulation woman, whom Hong Yi recognized as resembling his late mother.
• The Outer Heavens Leader’s Wife attacked Fang Qing with the Transform and Destroy runes, but Fang Qing struck her, seized her Immortal Monument, and sealed her with a Five Elements Mountain.
• Fang Qing took the Outer Heavens Leader’s Wife’s memories and learned her supreme arts, including the Myriad Immortals Myriad Spirits Curse, Heavenly Court Great Realm, and Six Directions Nascent Soul.
• Fang Qing returned to Imperial Capital City with the Leader’s Wife and prepared to focus on comprehension and cultivation.

Fang Qing and Hong Yi advanced their physical cultivation by comprehending acupoints and the mysteries of the flesh, while Fang Qing studied Immortal Divine King's flesh and gained power by consuming it. As Hong Yi examined the flesh, another Outer Heavens expert, Minister of War, appeared in the Great Thousand Worlds.

• Hong Yi opened his Gao and Huang acupoints, cleansed them of sickness qi and worms, and reached Heaven and Earth Coexist in Longevity.
• Fang Qing's cultivation caused his hair, sweat, skin, and even pupils to manifest as independent living forms capable of performing his martial arts.
• Hong Yi comprehended Fang Qing's methods, opened more than eight hundred acupoints, and advanced to Flesh and Blood Derivation.
• Fang Qing showed Hong Yi two chunks of Immortal Divine King's flesh, explaining that they could regenerate and that the Outer Heavens Leader's spiritual will within them could control whoever consumed them.
• Hong Yi studied the flesh while Fang Qing swallowed one chunk and used its power to open many Middle Thousand Worlds.
• An Outer Heavens expert named Minister of War emerged through a rift in space within the Great Thousand Worlds.

Fang Qing killed the Minister of War, absorbed his memories and war intent, and learned about the Outer Heavens and its martial arts. He decided to compile a new Martial Scripture for the Great Thousand Worlds, and its publication stirred the world.

• The Minister of War appeared in the Great Thousand Worlds and planned to capture Luo Yun to force Hong Yi to submit, but Fang Qing killed him with a finger and sealed his remains.
• Fang Qing examined the Minister of War's memories, learned his supreme arts and the Outer Heavens' history, and refined him into a bright red war banner.
• Fang Qing learned about Pan Star's military conquests, the Dead Silence Prison, and the Outer Heavens' detailed martial arts and restricted access to Dao cultivation.
• Fang Qing decided to spread the Outer Heavens' martial cultivation methods throughout the Great Thousand Worlds by compiling the Martial Scripture.
• Fang Qing spent more than half a year compiling the Martial Scripture, whose arrival shook the world.