Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing sensed the Southern Dipper Six Stars, strengthening his body and raising the number of stars in his Bitter Sea to twenty-five. At Clumsy Peak, he found the Clumsy Bow, triggered the inheritance, and comprehended the Natural Great Dao before sensing the peak’s Immortal Art.

• Fang Qing cultivated the Southern Dipper Star Descent Art and connected with the distant Southern Dipper Six Stars.
• Fang Qing drew in their Star Power, increased his life essence and strength, and brought the number of stars in his Bitter Sea to twenty-five.
• Fang Qing visited Clumsy Peak and, with Li Ruoyu’s permission, searched for its lost inheritance.
• Fang Qing found the Clumsy Bow in a Badger Den and brought it to Li Ruoyu, who used it to activate the Nine-Step Heavenly Ladder.
• Fang Qing entered Enlightenment before the ladder and comprehended the Natural Great Dao.
• Fang Qing sensed the Immortal Art atop Clumsy Peak.

Fang Qing received Clumsy Peak’s foundational inheritance and obtained the All Character Secret, while Elder Li Ruoyu attained Enlightenment. The chapter ended with Li Ruoyu telling Fang Qing that he was favored by fate.

• Fang Qing comprehended Clumsy Peak’s Natural Great Dao and foundational cultivation technique.
• Fang Qing obtained the All Character Secret, a secret art that could multiply his combat power.
• Li Ruoyu entered deep Enlightenment, and cultivators from the other peaks gathered to watch from afar.
• The Taixuan Sect’s Sect Master ordered everyone to stay away from Clumsy Peak so Li Ruoyu could complete his Enlightenment.
• After three days, Li Ruoyu awakened having entered a new realm and told Fang Qing that he was favored by fate.

Fang Qing demonstrated that he had comprehended Clumsy Peak’s Natural Great Dao and inheritance, earning the Taixuan Sect Leader’s recognition and a massive reward. After returning to Star Peak to cultivate, he received the Source and fished up a Dao Scripture Dao Palace Scroll.

• Li Ruoyu told Fang Qing to remain at Star Peak, and the Taixuan Sect Leader and other Taixuan Sect elders arrived to congratulate him on Clumsy Peak’s inheritance.
• Li Ruoyu revealed that Fang Qing had already comprehended Clumsy Peak’s cultivation art, and Fang Qing displayed his understanding of nature’s principles to the astonished elders.
• The Taixuan Sect Leader rewarded Fang Qing with one hundred jin of Source and promised to support his cultivation toward the Dao Palace Realm.
• Fang Qing returned to Star Peak and cultivated the Natural Great Dao, Star Great Dao, Dao Scripture, and other supreme arts while disciples were sent to Clumsy Peak.
• Fang Qing received the one hundred jin of Source, then used the Fishing Rod to obtain the Dao Scripture Dao Palace Scroll.

Fang Qing cultivated the Dao Scripture: Dao Palace Scroll and broke through to the Dao Palace Realm by opening his Heart Divine Treasury. He decided to train in the Eastern Desolation Northern Territory, and Elder Hua Wuzhou brought him to the Ancient Desolation Ji Family to use its Domain Gate.

• Fang Qing used the Dao Scripture: Dao Palace Scroll to cultivate his Heart Divine Treasury and enter the Dao Palace Realm.
• Fang Qing manifested a heart deity, then advised Zhang Mu, Wang Kui, and Yang Xinyue on cultivation.
• Elder Hua Xuansheng congratulated Fang Qing and warned him against going near the Demon Emperor's Tomb.
• Fang Qing asked to travel to the Northern Territory, explaining that he wanted to seek treasures and gain experience.
• Hua Xuansheng and Hua Wuzhou arranged for Fang Qing to travel through the Ancient Desolation Ji Family's Domain Gate.

Fang Qing traveled through the Domain Gate to the barren Northern Territory, where he discovered a Mind Storm technique and began killing bandits for Source. After finding Fifth Master Zhang and hearing that bandits threatened his village, Fang Qing agreed to escort the villagers home and protect them.

• Fang Qing traveled with Ji Family disciples through the Domain Gate and grasped the beginnings of a Primordial Spirit Mind Storm amid the space-time storm.
• Fang Qing arrived in the Northern Territory, left the Ji Family disciples behind, and set out alone to find Purple Mountain and Fifth Master Zhang.
• Fang Qing killed bandits who attacked him, collected their Source, and learned from their memories that Fifth Master Zhang lived in a nearby stockade.
• Fifth Master Zhang and the villagers pleaded with Fang Qing for help against Chen the Bearded's bandits, who demanded increasing amounts of Source.
• Fang Qing promised to protect them and used Profound Light to carry Fifth Master Zhang, the villagers, and their horses toward the Stone Stockade.

Fang Qing returned to Stone Stockade and used the power of the stars to strengthen its villagers and awaken their ability to cultivate. He remained there to advance his own cultivation before confronting the Northern Territory bandits and seeking Purple Mountain’s inheritance.

• Fang Qing returned to Stone Stockade with Fifth Master Zhang and learned that Zhang Family ancestors had warned against entering Purple Mountain, where one of them and the Source Heavenly Tome had vanished.
• Fang Qing drew Star Power from twenty-five stars, absorbing most of it and using the rest to cleanse the villagers’ bodies and awaken their Bitter Seas.
• The villagers thanked Fang Qing for transforming their bodies and giving their children and youths the chance to cultivate.
• Fang Qing declined the villagers’ meal and continued cultivating, aiming to raise his realm before dealing with the bandits and pursuing more of Star Peak’s inheritance.

Fang Qing advanced to the Dao Palace Second Heaven, strengthened his connection to the stars, and discovered Emperor Jade after killing Chen the Bearded. Stone Stockade’s villagers defeated the bandits, and Fang Qing set out to confront the Qingxia Sect that had backed them.

• Fang Qing completed his Heart Divine Treasury, opened his Lung Divine Treasury, and advanced to the Dao Palace Second Heaven.
• Fang Qing used the Five Planet Star Scripture to draw power from five-element stars, bringing the number of stars in his Sea of Life to thirty.
• Chen the Bearded and his bandits arrived at Stone Stockade to demand Source, but Fang Qing killed Chen the Bearded with his Mind Storm and took the Emperor Jade from his body.
• Stone Stockade’s villagers fought the remaining bandits and drove them off, while Fang Qing killed a fleeing bandit before he could report back.
• Fang Qing learned that the Qingxia Sect backed the bandits and decided to visit the sect.

Fang Qing attacked Qingxia Sect after learning it backed Chen the Bearded's banditry, and he annihilated the sect's defenders and leaders. He left Qingxia Sect's strongest Supreme Elder dead as well, while collecting several magic treasures.

• Fang Qing arrived at Qingxia Sect, killed its gatekeepers, and declared that he had come to destroy the sect for backing Chen the Bearded.
• Qingxia Sect's Supreme Elder revealed that Chen the Bearded was his disciple and attacked Fang Qing with the sect's cultivators, but Fang Qing killed them all with his Primordial Spirit.
• Qingxia Sect's Sect Master and nine other Dao Palace Realm experts emerged and attacked Fang Qing, who killed all ten with Mind Storm and Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor.
• Fang Qing took the Sect Master's Copper Lamp and several other magic treasures, then faced Qingxia Sect's Dao Palace Third Heaven Supreme Elder.
• Fang Qing summoned the Diagram of Stars Shining Over the Nine Heavens and killed the Supreme Elder, destroying his three Deities and ending Qingxia Sect's resistance.

Fang Qing wiped out the Qingxia Sect’s corrupt leaders, spared its remaining innocent members, and took control of its treasures. When the Li Fire Sect and Xuan Yue Cave attacked, he killed their leaders in a single strike and seized the Li Fire Divine Furnace, leaving the surviving Qingxia Sect cultivators under his protection.

• Fang Qing killed the Qingxia Sect’s Dao Palace experts, including its Supreme Elder, and looted over 3,300 jin of Source and the sect’s cultivation manuals.
• Fang Qing spared the Qingxia Sect’s remaining innocent disciples and elders, gave them the Azure Cloud Scripture, and continued studying the sect’s Dao Law Divine Abilities.
• A Li Fire Sect disciple saw the Qingxia Sect’s weakened state and reported back, prompting the Li Fire Sect and Xuan Yue Cave to join forces and attack.
• Fang Qing used the Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor to kill the sect masters, Supreme Elders, and elders from both attacking sects before they could fight back.
• Fang Qing seized and refined the Li Fire Divine Furnace, a quasi-emperor artifact, and demonstrated its power by turning its flames into a fire phoenix surrounded by streams of lava.

Fang Qing destroyed the Li Fire Sect, Xuan Yue Cave, Seven Star Pavilion, and Luoxia Sect, then united their surviving followers into the Qing Ling Sect. At Xuan Yue Cave, he discovered a second piece of Emperor Jade and glimpsed Great Emperor Wushi’s Dao Charm; afterward, he returned to Fifth Master Zhang with enough Source to reach the Dao Palace Third Heaven.

• Fang Qing collected the Li Fire Divine Furnace and the treasures of Xuan Yue Cave and the Li Fire Sect, then accepted the surviving Qingxia Sect members as his subordinates.
• Fang Qing attacked the Li Fire Sect, killed its worst offenders, obtained two thousand six hundred jin of Source, and acquired the Embrace Mountain Seal.
• Fang Qing entered an Ancient Cave at Xuan Yue Cave, glimpsed Great Emperor Wushi’s Dao Charm, and found a second piece of Emperor Jade.
• Fang Qing visited the Seven Star Pavilion and the Luoxia Sect, leaving just over a hundred survivors from the five sects to form the Qing Ling Sect.
• Fang Qing returned to Fifth Master Zhang at the Stone Stockade with eight thousand eight hundred jin of Source and said he could cultivate to the Dao Palace Third Heaven.

Fang Qing cultivated in Stone Stockade until he reached the Dao Palace Third Heaven, then accepted ancestral treasures from Fifth Master Zhang as preparations for entering Purple Mountain. After several more months of cultivation, his Bronze Fishing Rod caught a Jade Bottle containing Three Lights Divine Water.

• Fang Qing cultivated for a month, reached the Dao Palace Third Heaven, and opened his Liver Divine Treasury while Star Power strengthened Stone Stockade's villagers.
• Fifth Master Zhang presented Fang Qing with the Zhang Family's Stone Garment, helmet, pendant, knife, and Star Disc, and Fang Qing accepted them for his planned journey to Purple Mountain.
• Fang Qing continued cultivating and refining the Li Fire Divine Furnace, while his cultivation filled Stone Stockade with wood qi that made plants flourish and softened the local climate.
• Fang Qing's Bronze Fishing Rod finished cooling down and caught a Jade Bottle of water identified as Three Lights Divine Water.

Fang Qing refined Three Lights Divine Water, strengthening his body and Primordial Spirit, then entered Purple Mountain to rescue the gravely ill Divine King. After overcoming the mine’s dangers and reaching its depths, he resisted a demonic summons urging him onward.

• Fang Qing examined the Jade Bottle and refined several drops of Three Lights Divine Water, which enhanced his Primordial Spirit, body, and Bitter Sea.
• Fang Qing put on the Divine Source Stone Robe and entered an Ancient Mine on his way to Purple Mountain.
• Fang Qing passed carvings depicting Great Emperor Wushi suppressing the Immortal Emperor’s creatures and the Immortal Empress within Divine Source.
• Fang Qing used the Li Fire Divine Furnace and Divine Source Stone Robe to cross the natural Yin Yang gateway, then carved through a purple stone wall into Purple Mountain’s depths.
• Fang Qing read the inscriptions left by earlier visitors, including Jiang Taixu, Li Mu, Yang Yi, Zhang Jiye, and Gu Tianshu, but did not leave one of his own.
• Fang Qing resisted a powerful demonic summons with his Primordial Spirit and Stone Robe, then heard a voice call, “Come... this way...”

Fang Qing found the imprisoned Divine King Jiang Taixu in Purple Mountain and quickly comprehended the Fighting Character Secret Jiang taught him. Using the secret technique and the Li Fire Divine Furnace, Fang Qing helped Jiang Taixu escape his confinement.

• Fang Qing followed Jiang Taixu's voice to a purple stone wall and told the trapped Divine King that he had reached the Dao Palace Third Heaven.
• Jiang Taixu judged Fang Qing too weak to rescue him, then taught him the opening move of the Fighting Character Secret to test his comprehension.
• Fang Qing comprehended the move in ten breaths, astonishing Jiang Taixu, who then transmitted the complete technique.
• Fang Qing used the Fighting Character Secret to evolve his other techniques, prompting Jiang Taixu to wonder whether he possessed the legendary Innate Dao Embryo.
• Fang Qing used the Fighting Character Secret to activate the Li Fire Divine Furnace, and Jiang Taixu added his divine power to break free from the stone wall.

Fang Qing rescued Divine King Jiang Taixu from confinement in Purple Mountain and used Three Lights Divine Water to restore much of his strength. After finding Zhang Jiye’s remains and studying the Source Heavenly Tome, they used Fang Qing’s Emperor Jade tokens to escape Purple Mountain.

• Jiang Taixu recognized the Li Fire Divine Furnace, and Fang Qing explained how he had taken it from the Li Fire Sect.
• Fang Qing gave Jiang Taixu Three Lights Divine Water, and the Divine King rapidly regained his strength.
• Jiang Taixu showed Fang Qing the remains of Zhang Jiye, and Fang Qing took the Source Heavenly Tome and buried him.
• Fang Qing studied the Source Heavenly Tome and discovered incomplete Yaochi cultivation passages within it.
• Fang Qing and Jiang Taixu failed to open the Wushi Scripture, but Jiang Taixu recognized Fang Qing’s Emperor Jade tokens as Great Emperor Wushi’s tokens.
• Fang Qing placed the tokens in the Dao Marks, and they transported him and Jiang Taixu out of Purple Mountain.

Fang Qing returned from Purple Mountain with Divine King Jiang Taixu and the Source Heavenly Tome, then studied the tome and received two Four Extremities scriptures from Jiang Taixu. The chapter left Fang Qing with the Dao Scripture Four Extremities Scroll and the Hengyu Scripture Four Extremities Scroll to guide his cultivation.

• Fang Qing brought Jiang Taixu to the Zhang Family's Stone Stockade, where the villagers welcomed them and Jiang Taixu offered to help the young men with cultivation.
• Fang Qing returned the Source Heavenly Tome to Fifth Master Zhang, who asked him to safeguard it and pass it to a worthy Zhang Family descendant in the future.
• Fang Qing studied the Source Heavenly Tome, drawing in Star Power as his Sea of Life and Dao Palace Divine Treasuries transformed.
• Fang Qing told Jiang Taixu that he cultivated the Dao Scripture and struggled with the Four Extremities Secret Realm, so Jiang Taixu passed him the Dao Scripture Four Extremities Scroll.
• Jiang Taixu also passed Fang Qing the Hengyu Scripture Four Extremities Scroll, allowing him to compare the two methods as he cultivated.

Fang Qing tested his Source Art on Stone Stockade’s ancestral stones, finding both a tiny grain of Divine Source and a valuable Human Origin Fruit amid evidence that something had stolen treasures from several stones. After the villagers gave the Human Origin Fruit to Divine King Jiang Taixu, Fang Qing decided it was time to go out and explore.

• Fang Qing used the Source Heavenly Tome to cut open a grindstone and found a tiny grain of Divine Source, which he planned to use alongside the power of All Heavens Stars to reach the Dao Palace Fourth Heaven.
• Fang Qing opened more ancestral stones and found that their treasures, including a Stone Fruit and a washbasin-sized cache of Divine Source, had already been drained or stolen.
• Divine King Jiang Taixu suspected that Source Gods inside ancient Divine Source had devoured the missing treasures.
• Fang Qing uncovered an intact Human Origin Fruit, and Divine King Jiang Taixu explained its value and poisonous nature before offering twenty thousand jin of Source for it.
• Fang Qing left an unopened stone containing an immature Stone Gall sealed away, then decided to go out and take a walk.

Fang Qing tested the Source Heavenly Tome in Pingyan City, earning a fortune by extracting Exotic Source from stones at the Zifu and Yaochi Holy Land workshops. He left the Yaochi workshop with more than five thousand jin of Source, while its manager wondered if the Source Heavenly Master Lineage had returned.

• Fang Qing disguised himself as a noble youth and entered the Zifu Holy Land Stone Workshop to test his Source Heavenly Technique.
• Fang Qing extracted Crimson Source and Qi Hua Source from two stones, earning more than nineteen hundred jin of Source in total.
• Manager Zhang rejected a disciple's suggestion to attack Fang Qing, warning that his cultivation and background were too dangerous to challenge.
• Fang Qing visited the Yaochi Holy Land Stone Workshop and privately recalled the Yaochi women who had once sung at the Demon Emperor's Tomb.
• Fang Qing selected several stones at the Yaochi workshop and earned more than five thousand jin of Source, startling the manager woman.

Fang Qing killed thirty-five Dao Palace cultivators who pursued him for his Source, then cultivated in the Zhang Family Stone Stockade and opened his Spleen Divine Treasury. Black Emperor later sought him out and offered to reveal the location of the Empress Xi Scripture in exchange for Divine Source, leaving Fang Qing to consider their new arrangement.

• Fang Qing used a Mind Storm and the Diagram of Stars Shining Over the Nine Heavens to kill thirty-five Dao Palace cultivators who chased him after he left Pingyan City.
• Fang Qing returned to the Zhang Family Stone Stockade, shared Source with its villagers, and entered secluded cultivation while Jiang Taixu taught them the Dao.
• Fang Qing opened his Spleen Divine Treasury, advanced to Dao Palace Fourth Heaven, and strengthened the Embrace Mountain Seal.
• Black Emperor arrived at the Stone Stockade seeking Fang Qing, and Fang Qing recognized that the dog had followed him out of Purple Mountain.
• Black Emperor offered to reveal where Fang Qing could find the Empress Xi Scripture in return for a great deal of Divine Source, and Fang Qing agreed.

Fang Qing and the Black Emperor searched for the Empress Xi Scripture and reached the Old Yaochi Site beneath the Primordial Ancient Mine. There, Fang Qing found traces of Yaochi’s past and carved techniques, ending with a scene of the Yaochi Holy Mother seeking to deduce the Fighting Saint Method.

• Fang Qing traveled with the Black Emperor for several days, gathering Source while cultivating and absorbing starlight.
• The Black Emperor led Fang Qing toward the Primordial Ancient Mine, and Fang Qing used his spiritual sense to locate an ancient well leading underground.
• Fang Qing and the Black Emperor followed an underground river to the Old Yaochi Site, where they found barren lands and ruined palaces alongside pockets of life.
• The Black Emperor plunged into Yaochi’s Sacred Lake, discovered it was filled with corpses, and quickly climbed back out.
• Fang Qing and the Black Emperor explored Yaochi’s stone carvings, where Fang Qing recognized the Embrace Mountain Seal and found other incomplete divine abilities.
• Fang Qing saw a carving of the Yaochi Holy Mother trying to deduce the Fighting Saint Method.

Fang Qing explored Yaochi's old grounds with the Big Black Dog, gaining the Empress Xi Scripture's Dao Palace and Four Extremities Scrolls before black mist drove them away. After returning to the Zhang Family's Stone Stockade, he cultivated for a month and advanced to Dao Palace Fifth Heaven, just as Divine King Jiang Taixu returned.

• Fang Qing studied the Yaochi Holy Mother's carvings and used them to deepen his understanding of the Fighting Saint Method and its Dao Law Divine Abilities.
• Fang Qing activated the Empress Xi Scripture's stone inscriptions, comprehended all five Divine Treasury chapters, and obtained its complete Dao Palace Scroll.
• Fang Qing taught the Big Black Dog the Nine Slashes of the Demon Emperor, and the dog gave him the Scripture Guide that let him comprehend the Empress Xi Scripture's Four Extremities Scroll.
• Fang Qing and the Big Black Dog fled Yaochi's old grounds when black mist surged from the Immortal Pool, leaving without obtaining the Dragon Transformation Scroll.
• Fang Qing returned to the Zhang Family's Stone Stockade and cultivated for a month, opening the Kidney Divine Treasury and reaching Dao Palace Fifth Heaven.
• Divine King Jiang Taixu returned to the Zhang Family's Stone Stockade.