Chapter Summaries

Fang Qing and Ye Fan discovered Yan Ruyu’s hidden Demon Clan settlement, where Fang Qing warned the demons about the danger in the Southern Territory. After leaving, Fang Qing explained to Ye Fan why they could not linger, while Yan Ruyu ordered her people to prepare to move and report to Peacock King.

• Fang Qing used his Primordial Spirit and knowledge of the Void Scripture to discover a hidden Small World inhabited by the Demon Clan.
• Yan Ruyu sensed Fang Qing’s presence and prepared the demons for battle before Fang Qing revealed himself with Ye Fan and explained that he meant no harm.
• Yan Ruyu and Qin Yao recognized Ye Fan, questioned Fang Qing about his identity, and were shocked when he said he had reached the Four Extremities Realm after only a few years of cultivation.
• Fang Qing warned Yan Ruyu that the Southern Territory was dangerous, advised the demons to leave, and departed with Ye Fan and Nannan.
• After Fang Qing left, Yan Ruyu ordered the demons to prepare for every possibility and said the discovery should be reported to Peacock King.
• Ye Fan asked why they had left so quickly, and Fang Qing explained that Peacock King and the Ji Family made staying with the demons too dangerous.

Fang Qing returned to the Taixuan Sect with Nannan, arranged for his junior disciples to care for her, and continued cultivating. When the great powers of the Eastern Desolation Southern Territory marched to besiege the Peacock King, Fang Qing watched from a safe distance and gained new insights into the Void Scripture and holy light as four Great Powers fought.

• Fang Qing welcomed Nannan to the Taixuan Sect and gave Zhang Mu, Wang Kui, and Yang Xinyue thirty jin of Source to help care for her.
• Fang Qing cultivated the Taixuan Sect’s arts and strengthened his Primordial Spirit while developing new abilities in his Divine Treasuries and Sea of Suffering.
• After the Peacock King killed Ji Family elders, the Ji Family and Yaoguang Holy Land rallied other powers to attack him, and Fang Qing and Hua Yunfei were ordered to join the campaign.
• The allied forces arrived at the Small World, where the Peacock King confronted the Ji Family Holy Lord and Yaoguang Holy Lord; the Azure Flood Dragon King then emerged to support him.
• The four Great Powers began fighting, and their attacks killed hundreds of cultivators; Fang Qing retreated several hundred li and observed the battle with his Primordial Spirit.
• Watching the Ji Family Holy Lord and Yaoguang Holy Lord fight gave Fang Qing fresh insights into the Void Scripture, the Way of the Void, and the profundities of holy light.

Fang Qing returned safely to the Taixuan Sect after studying the battle between four Great Powers, then prepared to travel to the Northern Territory with Ye Fan and Pang Bo. The group arrived in the barren region and immediately encountered bandits, whom Fang Qing killed with Star Divine Thunder.

• Fang Qing watched the Peacock King, Azure Flood Dragon King, Yaoguang Holy Lord, and Ji Family Patriarch fight, gaining insights into the Ways of Holy Light and the Void before the two kings escaped to the Northern Territory.
• Fang Qing returned to the Taixuan Sect, where Pang Bo and Ye Fan discussed seeking Source in the Northern Territory, and Fang Qing agreed to go with them.
• Fang Qing entrusted Zhang Mu, Wang Kui, and Yang Xinyue with caring for Nannan while he was away.
• Fang Qing, Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and Taixuan Sect members used the repaired Domain Gate to reach the Northern Territory and found a barren landscape.
• More than a hundred bandits charged at the group, and Fang Qing killed them all with a bolt of Star Divine Thunder.

Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo reached Kunyun City and visited Yaochi Holy Land’s Stone Workshop after hearing that the Yaochi Saintess was there. They listened to her zither music and learned that descendants of the Thirteen Great Bandits had also gathered, just as the Saintess emerged from the pavilion.

• After Fang Qing defeated more than a hundred bandits, he shared their Source and magical treasures with the Taixuan disciples before the group split up.
• Ye Fan and Pang Bo asked to visit a Stone Workshop, and Fang Qing brought them to Kunyun City.
• The three changed their appearances with the Great Method of Changing Heaven and Earth and entered Yaochi Holy Land’s Stone Workshop.
• They listened as the veiled Yaochi Saintess played the zither, while Fang Qing recognized her distant, fairy-like bearing.
• Fang Qing identified several young men as descendants of the Thirteen Great Bandits, and the Yaochi Saintess emerged after finishing her song.

Fang Qing examined the nine Source Stones at Yaochi’s Stone Workshop and warned that several contained dangerous blood and killing qi. He introduced himself as Qing Xuan, declined the Yaochi Saintess’s invitation for now, and received a token to visit later.

• The Yaochi Saintess announced that Yaochi would reward insightful observations about nine Source Stones, while Tu Fei joked with the crowd and identified them as having come from the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Fang Qing inspected the stones and told Yaochi that the smallest contained ancient blood and should not be opened lightly; he also warned that the largest held great terror and that only one stone seemed to contain ordinary Source.
• The Yaochi Saintess asked Fang Qing’s name and cultivation, and he introduced himself as Qing Xuan, a lone cultivator from the wilderness.
• Fang Qing declined the Yaochi Saintess’s invitation to visit immediately, saying he had other matters to attend to.
• The Yaochi Saintess accepted his decision, gave him a token, and invited him to visit Yaochi when he had time.

Fang Qing visited Yaochi Holy Land's Stone Workshop and demonstrated his skill at selecting Source Stones, astonishing the onlookers with two valuable discoveries. After refusing to sell the Great Luo Silver Essence, he continued the stone-cutting, drawing the interest of the young cultivators around him.

• Fang Qing accepted Yaochi Holy Land's token and proposed buying Source Stones, while Song Tianfeng challenged him and then recoiled in fear after Fang Qing's gaze left him feeling utterly alone.
• Fang Qing selected six Source Stones for three thousand jin of Source and had the Source Master begin cutting them.
• The first, smallest Source Stone yielded five jin of Fire Seed Source, worth about a thousand jin of ordinary Source, astonishing Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the watching cultivators.
• The heaviest Source Stone contained over ten jin of Great Luo Silver Essence, which Yaochi Holy Land's Female Supreme Elder offered to buy for one hundred and fifty thousand jin of Source.
• Fang Qing refused to sell the Great Luo Silver Essence, and the onlookers, including descendants of the Thirteen Great Bandits, resolved to befriend him.

After uncovering valuable Exotic Source and Divine Source in the Yaochi Stone Workshop, Fang Qing met the descendants of the Thirteen Great Bandits and learned that they planned to confront the Holy Son of Yaoguang. He warned that their prospects were poor and proposed discussing the Dao to improve their chances.

• Fang Qing opened all six Source Stones, revealing Great Luo Silver Essence, three pieces of Exotic Source, and a fist-sized piece of Divine Source.
• Fang Qing sensed others’ greed but left the Yaochi Stone Workshop without reacting to their malice.
• Tu Fei, Wu Zhongtian, Liu Kou, Li Heishui, and Jiang Huairen invited Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo to a restaurant and introduced themselves as descendants of the Thirteen Great Bandits.
• Ye Fan used the name Gu Feng, and he and Pang Bo quickly became friendly with the bandits’ descendants.
• Wu Zhongtian and the others revealed their plan to confront the Holy Son of Yaoguang, and Fang Qing warned them that their fortunes looked poor.
• Fang Qing suggested that the group improve their strength by discussing the Dao, and the descendants of the Great Bandits agreed.

Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo left Kunyun City for an oasis, but the Five Elements Hall pursued them to seize Fang Qing’s treasures. Fang Qing killed the attackers and took their arts and possessions, then shared the Five Elements techniques with Ye Fan and Pang Bo as they continued toward the descendants of Great Bandits.

• Fang Qing warned Ye Fan and Pang Bo that leaving Kunyun City would bring a killing calamity, while Wu Zhongtian, Tu Fei, and Liu Kou departed ahead for their oasis.
• Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo left the city, and four Four Extremities elders and eight Dao Palace disciples from the Five Elements Hall pursued them to steal Fang Qing’s Great Luo Silver Essence.
• Fang Qing used a Mind Storm to kill the pursuers, seized the elders’ memories, and obtained five supreme arts, several treasures, and twenty thousand jin of Source.
• Fang Qing gave Ye Fan and Pang Bo the Five Elements Hall’s five divine abilities, and the three began studying them as they traveled.
• Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo finally saw the descendants of Great Bandits ahead.

Fang Qing arrived at Tu Fei’s territory and joined the descendants of the Great Bandits for a feast and a discussion of the Dao. He defeated Jiang Huairen in one move, leaving the gathered cultivators astonished and Ye Fan wondering whether Beidou’s Eight Divine Savage Strength had a connection to Earth’s ancient past.

• Fang Qing told Wu Zhongtian and the others that he had killed four Four Extremities experts from the Five Elements Hall who ambushed his group.
• Tu Fei welcomed Fang Qing, Gu Feng, and Pang Bo to Haozhou, where they shared a feast of Northern Territory delicacies.
• Wu Zhongtian proposed a martial contest, and Jiang Huairen stepped forward to challenge Fang Qing.
• Jiang Huairen used Eight Divine Savage Strength, but Fang Qing countered with chaotic light and the Great Sun and Bright Moon Seals, defeating him in one move.
• Ye Fan considered the similarities between Eight Divine Savage Strength and the Eight Deities recorded in Earth’s ancient history.

Fang Qing defeated Jiang Huairen in a Dao discussion, then exchanged techniques with the descendants of the Great Bandits and deepened his cultivation. After five days, Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo left to find a city and test their Source Art, while their new friends reflected on how fortunate they were not to have made Fang Qing an enemy.

• Fang Qing defeated Jiang Huairen with his mastery of Taiyin, Taiyang, and Yin-Yang Flow, earning praise from Wu Zhongtian and the other descendants of the Great Bandits.
• Fang Qing shared the Five Elements Hall's ultimate arts, and Wu Zhongtian, Liu Kou, Tu Fei, Jiang Huairen, and the others traded techniques they had acquired.
• Li Heishui revealed a Heavenly Yin Absolute Water technique, and the group discussed using their new abilities against the Holy Son and Holy Maiden of Yaoguang.
• Fang Qing comprehended the exchanged arts and developed new transformations in his divine treasuries, strengthening his Five Elements Great Dao.
• After five days of discussion, Fang Qing, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo exchanged contact tokens with the descendants of the Great Bandits and departed to test their Source Art in a city.
• Wu Zhongtian and the others said they were fortunate to have befriended Fang Qing rather than made him an enemy.

Fang Qing studied the Ruthless Great Emperor’s traces in the Cloud Break Mountain Range, then used his fishing rod to obtain the coordinates of the Chinese Paladin World and entered it. He appeared on an Immortal Island before Zhao Ling'er and its other inhabitants, who were startled by his power.

• Fang Qing sent Ye Fan and Pang Bo to search for Source in Chaoyang City while he went to investigate the Cloud Break Mountain Range.
• Fang Qing found traces of the Ruthless Great Emperor’s cultivation ground and vaporized Situ Feng and his two maids when they demanded he leave the peak.
• Fang Qing spent ten days studying the Emperor Marks and formations left in the mountains.
• Fang Qing’s Bronze Fishing Rod caught the coordinates of the Chinese Paladin World, and he decided to enter it.
• Fang Qing appeared on an Immortal Island, recognized Zhao Ling'er as a Descendant of Nuwa, and revealed his presence to the startled inhabitants.

Fang Qing visited Immortal Spirit Island, where his power impressed the Old Woman and Zhao Ling'er. After demonstrating his ability to see Yuhang Town from afar, he accepted Zhao Ling'er as his disciple and agreed to bring her into the Great Profound Immortal Sect.

• Fang Qing introduced himself as Daoist Qing Xuan of Tai Xuan Immortal Mountain, and the Old Woman welcomed him alongside Young Palace Master Zhao Ling'er.
• Fang Qing sampled the island’s spiritual tea and fruits, then explained that their spiritual energy could nourish the body and extend Lifespan.
• Fang Qing displayed Yuhang Town on a water curtain and told the women that powerful cultivators could use their Primordial Spirits to cover the world.
• The Old Woman offered Water Moon Palace’s treasures as a teacher’s fee and asked Fang Qing to take Zhao Ling'er as his disciple.
• Fang Qing accepted Zhao Ling'er into the Great Profound Immortal Sect, and she knelt to acknowledge him as her master.

Fang Qing watched Zhao Ling'er demonstrate her Curse Magic and explained how it drew on spiritual power to channel the forces of heaven and earth. He decided to teach her the Shrouding the Heavens Method, then demonstrated his command of the stars, leaving Zhao Ling'er and the others astonished.

• Fang Qing asked Zhao Ling'er to show him the techniques she had learned, and she cast the Lightning Curse, blasting a pit in the ground.
• Zhao Ling'er demonstrated the Ice Condensation Curse and Wind Curse, while Fang Qing observed how the incantations connected her spiritual power to the laws of heaven and earth.
• Fang Qing compared Curse Magic with the Shrouding the Heavens Method and decided to teach Zhao Ling'er the Dao Scripture: Wheel Sea Scroll and other techniques.
• Fang Qing considered passing on Star Peak's inheritance, then drew down Star Power with his Primordial Spirit, astonishing Zhao Ling'er, her Grandmother, and the other women.

Fang Qing tested Water Moon Palace’s Curse Magics and rescued Li Xiaoyao’s aunt after the Miao Witches used Gu poison to lure him to Immortal Spirit Island. He froze the Miao Witches’ attack and learned their Gu techniques, leaving them at his mercy.

• Fang Qing amplified the Lightning Curse into a devastating lightning strike and then used the Wind Curse to unleash deadly gales and Wind Blades.
• The Miao Witches poisoned Li Xiaoyao’s aunt and sent him to Immortal Spirit Island to exploit the island’s defenses.
• Li Xiaoyao begged Fang Qing to save his aunt, and Fang Qing brought him back to Yuhang Town on the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud.
• Fang Qing woke Li Xiaoyao’s aunt and revealed that Gu poison remained in her body, identifying the Miao Witches at the inn as the culprits.
• The Miao Witches attacked Fang Qing, but he froze their Gu-filled spell and extracted their Gu techniques from their memories.

Fang Qing killed the Miao Witch cultivators who attacked him, gave Li Xiaoyao Divine Water, and created a scroll recording the boy’s affection for his aunt. He claimed the Water Spirit Pearl and began mastering its power before the Drunken Sword Immortal arrived.

• Fang Qing killed the Miao Witch cultivators and burned their bodies to ashes after they attacked him.
• Fang Qing took the Water Spirit Pearl as payment, refused to teach Li Xiaoyao personally, and gave him Divine Water to improve his physique.
• Fang Qing recorded Li Xiaoyao and his aunt’s familial affection in a new artifact he named the True Love of the Human World Scroll.
• Fang Qing discovered that the Water Spirit Pearl could command immense quantities of water and used it to explore the Way of Water.
• Fang Qing comprehended the pearl’s mysteries, refined Primordial Heavy Water and Three Yin True Water, and sensed the Water God’s destructive intent.
• The Drunken Sword Immortal arrived while Fang Qing was studying the Water Spirit Pearl.

Fang Qing discussed existence, emotion, and ruthlessness with the Wine Sword Immortal, whose questions led him to act on what he believed was right. Fang Qing continued searching for the Earth Spirit Pearl, passed Suzhou City, and frightened a snake demon and fox demon into abandoning their plan to capture human women.

• The Wine Sword Immortal offered Fang Qing Shanyin Sweet Wine, and Fang Qing drank it with his hand before discussing cultivation and the Dao with him.
• Fang Qing explained that existence was Dao and weighed the Paths of Ruthlessness and Emotion, advising the Wine Sword Immortal to follow his heart.
• The Wine Sword Immortal departed toward the Nanzhao Kingdom after deciding to do what he believed was right, while Fang Qing continued seeking the Earth Spirit Pearl.
• Fang Qing passed over Suzhou City, noticed Lin Tiannan and Lin Yueru, and looked into the Hidden Dragon Grotto at the snake demon, fox demon, and their daughter Su Mei.
• The snake demon and fox demon felt Fang Qing watching them and begged for mercy, promising never to capture human women again.

Fang Qing went to White River Town after learning that a zombie outbreak in neighboring Blackwater Town had made glutinous rice scarce and expensive. At Jade Buddha Temple, he subdued Master Zhixiu, a sentient Buddhist bead, and gained Buddhist scriptures and cultivation methods before setting out to confront the threat behind the zombies.

• Fang Qing saw that the villagers of White River Town were struggling to afford glutinous rice because Lord Luo had raised prices during the zombie outbreak in Blackwater Town.
• The villagers begged Fang Qing to save them, and he promised to deal with the zombies before flying toward Blackwater Town.
• Fang Qing visited Jade Buddha Temple, froze monks who tried to convert him, and forced Master Zhixiu to reveal his true form as a Buddhist bead.
• The Buddhist bead explained that the Crimson Ghost King had stopped him from attacking the zombies and offered to help Fang Qing defeat the Ghost King.
• Fang Qing accepted the Buddhist bead's service and learned its scriptures and methods, including teachings on the six Buddhist powers.

Fang Qing entered Blackwater Town’s General’s Tomb and destroyed its undead inhabitants before finding and eradicating Crimson Ghost King’s blood-filled cultivation ground. He killed the monster lurking in the Blood River and took the Earth Spirit Pearl.

• Fang Qing arrived in ruined Blackwater Town, where the few remaining villagers explained why they had not left.
• Fang Qing entered General’s Tomb, and his Vermillion Bird incinerated the zombies and yin ghosts across its levels.
• Fang Qing confronted General Fu Yuan and burned him to ashes.
• Fang Qing uncovered Crimson Ghost King’s Blood Pools and Blood Rivers and used divine fire to destroy them.
• Fang Qing killed the monster that emerged from the Blood River and collected the Earth Spirit Pearl.

Fang Qing obtained the Earth Spirit Pearl and used it to explore underground before traveling to Spider Forest for the Lightning Spirit Pearl. After taking the pearl and cleansing Poisonous Lady of her demonic aura, he left her to cultivate elsewhere.

• Fang Qing refined the Earth Spirit Pearl, mastered earth escape, and collected rare treasures underground while learning about the Great Dao of Earth.
• Fang Qing traveled to Spider Forest near the Capital City to seek the Lightning Spirit Pearl held by Poisonous Lady.
• Poisonous Lady offered Fang Qing the Lightning Spirit Pearl, which he refined and used to gain new insights into the Thunder Great Dao.
• Fang Qing cleansed Poisonous Lady's demonic aura with Three Lights Divine Water and urged her to leave Spider Forest and cultivate in peace.
• Poisonous Lady asked to follow Fang Qing, but he refused and departed on the Myriad Heavens Auspicious Cloud.

Fang Qing returned to Immortal Spirit Island with three Spirit Pearls and found Zhao Ling'er had advanced rapidly by studying the Dao Scripture. After tempering his body and Primordial Spirit with lightning for a day and night, he invited Zhao Ling'er to leave the island with him.

• Fang Qing returned to Immortal Spirit Island and found Zhao Ling'er comprehending the Dao Scripture amid the Peach Blossom Forest.
• Zhao Ling'er cultivated a Human-headed Serpent Body Primordial Spirit, and Fang Qing explained that it reflected her descent from Great Goddess Nuwa and the Dao Character.
• Fang Qing sent Little Prayer Beads aside and used the Lightning Spirit Pearl to summon lightning, absorbing it to temper his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Little Prayer Beads, Zhao Ling'er, a middle-aged woman, and the Water Moon Palace maids watched Fang Qing withstand the lightning.
• Fang Qing cultivated through a day and night of lightning, extended his Primordial Spirit's reach to Shushan and Nanzhao, and then invited Zhao Ling'er to go out with him.