Chapter Summaries

Fang Xuan converted Wood Daoist, who then helped refine the Eightfold Pagoda and revealed the secret of Dragon Wood Star’s developing core. Fang Xuan set out with Wood Daoist to claim it, leaving them traveling through the dangerous Extraterritorial Starry Sky.

• Fang Xuan and several million heavenly demons chanted the Six-Word Mantra for seven days and nights until Wood Daoist submitted to the Great Salvation Zen Light.
• Fang Xuan ordered Wood Daoist to serve within the Eightfold Pagoda, where Wood Daoist drew in Immortal Realm Essence and helped refine the tower.
• Wood Daoist revealed that Dragon Daoist could be brought under Fang Xuan’s command and that Dragon Wood Star was nurturing a valuable star core.
• Fang Xuan had Wood Daoist guide him toward Dragon Wood Star, and they traveled through the Extraterritorial Starry Sky for a month.
• Fang Xuan reflected that he needed to learn the Great Teleportation Art to make future journeys faster and safer.

Fang Xuan collected magnetic storm crystals on the way to Dragon Wood Star, where he planned to convert Dragon Daoist without sacrificing the star’s inhabitants. Wood Daoist lured Dragon Daoist into Fang Xuan’s pagoda, and the assembled forces converted him.

• Fang Xuan swallowed a vast magnetic storm with the Great Devouring Technique and collected several hundred colored crystal diamonds.
• Fang Xuan promised Wood Daoist the Azure Emperor Wood Monarch Art if he successfully converted Dragon Daoist.
• Fang Xuan considered how Dragon Daoist had once used a blood sacrifice to bring forth the Dragon Wood Star Core early, but rejected slaughtering innocents.
• Wood Daoist lured Dragon Daoist away from Dragon Wood Star by promising him a secret realm that led to the Great Dao.
• Fang Xuan transported Dragon Daoist into a pagoda, where Wood Daoist and the other Eternal Giants attacked him alongside a million heavenly demons.
• The combined assault overwhelmed Dragon Daoist and converted him.

Fang Xuan and Dragon Daoist used millions of heavenly devils and the power of five Eternal Giants to bring the Dragon Wood Star Core to maturity ahead of schedule. The core emerged as a blazing sphere amid a bloody rain of demonic qi.

• Dragon Daoist declared his conversion to Buddhism and supplied the Eightfold Pagoda with Immortal Realm Essence, while Fang Xuan welcomed his addition to the pagoda.
• Dragon Daoist offered Dragon Wood Star’s collections and proposed sacrificing its inhabitants to mature the star core, but Fang Xuan asked to use heavenly devils instead.
• Fang Xuan revealed the Hate Heaven Compass, containing three million six hundred thousand heavenly devils and three hundred and sixty-five Heavenly Devil Kings, and gave Dragon Daoist the Qiankun Diagram to evacuate Dragon Wood Star’s inhabitants.
• Dragon Daoist moved the inhabitants into the Qiankun Diagram, then used Aro Blood Explosion to sacrifice the heavenly devils and send their blood qi underground.
• Fang Yang, Wood Daoist, Ye Kailong, Dragon Daoist, and Fang Xuan poured Immortal Realm Essence and pure yang power into Dragon Wood Star, causing its core to form ahead of schedule.

Fang Xuan seized the newly formed Dragon Wood Star Core and escaped to the Five Elements Land as powerful rivals arrived too late. There, he discovered that Taiyi Sect and three sword sects had sent an elite force to seize the Five Elements Spirit Talisman and claim the land.

• Fang Xuan stored the Dragon Wood Star Core in the Eightfold Pagoda and escaped through a spatial passage as Dragon Wood Star began to die.
• Ba Liming, Jidu Star Lord, Dharma King Jidu, and other Eternal Giants arrived too late to claim the core.
• Fang Xuan decided the Dragon Wood Star Core was better used to enhance the Eightfold Pagoda than for his cultivation.
• Fang Xuan sensed intruders in the Five Elements Land and discovered that Taiyi Sect had opened a gate of space-time with the help of an immortal artifact.
• Fortune Longevity True Person learned that Taiyi Sect had brought disciples from the Dan Ding Sword Sect, Tong Tian Sword Sect, and Ri Yue Sword Sect to seize the Five Elements Spirit Talisman.

Zhou Chuyi and the Taiyi Sect planned to use the Five Elements Land to strengthen their influence and suppress the Yuhua Sect, while the three sword sects cautiously gathered their own disciples. The arrival of Yan Shuiyi, a powerful Taiyi Sect cultivator, left the other sects fearing that Taiyi intended to claim the land.

• Zhou Chuyi discussed with Fortune Longevity True Person how the Taiyi Sect would recruit the three sword sects and target the Yuhua Sect, especially Fang Xuan and Fang Han.
• Zhou Chuyi reminded Fortune Longevity True Person and five other True Persons that they had been defeated by Fang Han and ordered them to atone by cultivating in the Five Elements Land.
• Taiyi Sect disciples, including Yang Yi, Wu Yi, Zheng Yi, and Shou Yi, gathered as the three sword sects organized their own groups and warned their disciples not to scatter or fight over treasures.
• Yan Shuiyi emerged from the Gate of Spacetime, and the Taiyi Sect disciples bowed to her while the elders of the three sword sects worried that Taiyi would seize the Five Elements Land.

Taiyi Sect disciples used the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity to destroy an attacking horde of Heavenly Devil Kings, while Fang Xuan received five Spirit Pearls from the Crimson Abyss Demon Lord. The chapter left Fang Xuan heading toward the Taiyi Sect disciples as they faced a swarm of Heavenly Devils and Five Elements Demon Beasts near the Space-Time Gate.

• Zhou Chuyi and eleven Taiyi Sect Golden Core grandmasters joined forces to unleash the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, tearing apart the approaching Heavenly Devil Kings.
• Yan Shuiyi warned the grandmasters not to rely on their combined mystical power and told them to master their individual arts.
• The Crimson Abyss Demon Lord gave Fang Xuan five Spirit Pearls to help him form a Five Elements Great Array, explaining that he was refining the Five Elements Land into a magic treasure.
• Fang Xuan declined the Crimson Abyss Demon Lord's offer to drive away approaching intruders and flew toward the Taiyi Sect disciples.
• Taiyi Sect disciples saw countless Heavenly Devil Kings and Five Elements Demon Beasts besieging the Space-Time Gate, while the surrounding Five Elements Power gathered densely around them.

Taiyi Sect’s disciples advanced amid the Five Elements Land battles, while the other sword sects hunted demons nearby. Yan Shuiyi detected Fang Xuan, whose appearance prompted Zhou Chuyi and eleven Golden Core disciples to attack him with Doomsday Heavenly Calamity.

• Fushou, Luming, Kanli, Kunyuan, and Changchun broke through to the Return to One Realm as Taiyi Sect’s cultivators absorbed Five Elements Essence Qi.
• The three great sword sects formed sword formations to kill Demon Beasts and Heavenly Devil Kings, while Sword Maniac Elder urged his disciples to stay near Taiyi Sect for safety.
• Yan Shuiyi sensed Fang Xuan nearby and called him out of hiding.
• Fang Xuan emerged and exchanged barbed remarks with Yan Shuiyi about their cultivation and her failure to reach the Eternal Life Realm.
• Zhou Chuyi and the other eleven Golden Core disciples unleashed Doomsday Heavenly Calamity against Fang Xuan, aiming to kill him and seize the Five Elements Spirit Talisman.

Fang Xuan defeated the combined assault of Taiyi Sect’s disciples and forced the other sects to abandon the Five Elements Land. He remained there after warning the elders to beware of Taiyi Sect.

• Fang Xuan broke Zhou Chuyi and the twelve Golden Core disciples’ Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, damaging their Golden Cores.
• Fang Xuan matched Yan Shuiyi in a clash and declared that the Five Elements Land belonged to Yuhua Sect.
• Fang Xuan nearly killed Zhou Chuyi with Profound Gold Sword Qi, but Yan Shuiyi intervened and saved him.
• Fang Xuan attacked the spatial gate, prompting Sword Maniac Elder to strike and Yan Shuiyi to block his sword qi.
• Yan Shuiyi sent Zhou Chuyi and the other disciples back through the gate, and the three elders withdrew after warning Fang Xuan about Taiyi Sect.

Fang Xuan kissed Yan Shuiyi and used their connected water-origin energies to strengthen his Black Emperor Water Emperor Power. He gave her three Mystic Divine Fruits in exchange for the Great Heavenly Calamity Art, leaving with the powerful Dao in his possession.

• Fang Xuan grabbed Yan Shuiyi by the waist and kissed her, overcoming her attempt to break free with his strength.
• Their water-origin energies merged, nourishing Fang Xuan and condensing his Black Emperor Water Emperor Power.
• Fang Xuan released Yan Shuiyi and stopped her from summoning the Azure Sea Divine Pearl by offering to help her cultivate half an Undying Body.
• Fang Xuan gave Yan Shuiyi three Mystic Divine Fruits containing True God Seeds and asked her to keep them secret.
• Yan Shuiyi agreed to give Fang Xuan the Great Heavenly Calamity Art and passed it to him through her consciousness.

Fang Xuan reported the Five Elements Land crisis to Yuhua Sect and reunited with Fang Qingxue, giving her Forget Love Water to refine her golden core. Their reunion was interrupted when Meng Shaobai’s mountain drew in a vast surge of spiritual energy, revealing the immense killing aura of his cultivation.

• Fang Xuan told Yuhua Sect’s elders that Crimson Abyss Demon Lord intended to refine the Five Elements Land, and Feng Baiyu decided the sect would not provoke Taiyi Sect.
• Yuhua Sect’s elders discussed Fang Xuan’s potential, the released Crimson Abyss Demon Lord, and Meng Shaobai’s connection to the demon’s Devil Embryo Parasitic Art.
• Fang Xuan met Fang Qingxue on Mystic Peak, and she praised his rapid cultivation after returning from the Ruins of Return.
• Fang Xuan gave Fang Qingxue Forget Love Water and explained that Fang Han had become the Yellow Springs Great Emperor’s successor.
• Fang Qingxue suggested marrying Fang Qingwei to Fang Han, but Fang Xuan urged her to let their relationship develop naturally.
• Fang Xuan and Fang Qingxue saw spiritual energy gather around Meng Shaobai’s peak, where sword-shaped lights swam amid a powerful aura of slaughter.

Meng Shaobai challenged Fang Xuan to fight at the Heavenly Punishment Platform in one month, while secretly fusing himself with a Kunpeng egg through the Devil Embryo Parasitic Art. Fang Xuan revealed the Great Chaos Thunder Sword to Fang Qingxue, leaving her astonished by the High Grade Dao Item and its Great Chaos Lightning Method.

• Wan Luo visited Meng Shaobai, who gave him a vitality-restoring pill and ordered him to tell Hua Tiandu to bring the remaining Panwu Great Strength Mystical Power.
• Meng Shaobai challenged Fang Xuan to a life-or-death fight at the Heavenly Punishment Platform one month later, and Fang Xuan accepted.
• Meng Shaobai entered the Kunpeng egg using the Devil Embryo Parasitic Art and later roared like an ancient divine beast from within its cracked shell.
• Fang Qingxue warned Fang Xuan about Meng Shaobai, but Fang Xuan said he had wanted Meng Shaobai's Great Slaughter Art.
• Fang Xuan showed Fang Qingxue the Great Chaos Thunder Sword, explaining that he had taken it from Fan Qingying and learned the Great Chaos Lightning Method from it.

Fang Xuan and Fang Qingxue brought the Great Chaos Thunder Sword and the Undying Lightning Talisman together so their artifact spirits could cultivate rather than devour each other. As the two Dao Items merged and revealed the evolution of a small world, Fang Qingxue discovered that Fang Xuan's Eightfold Pagoda housed several Eternal Giants.

• Fang Xuan passed the Great Chaos Lightning Method to Fang Qingxue, who vowed to support him and kill anyone who obstructed his rise in the Yuhua Sect.
• The artifact spirits of the Great Chaos Thunder Sword and the Undying Lightning Talisman tried to devour each other, so Fang Xuan and Fang Qingxue ordered them to cooperate and make up for each other's flaws.
• Fang Xuan brought the two Dao Items and Fang Qingxue into the Eightfold Pagoda, where she met Dragon Daoist, Wood Daoist, Ju Bi, Ye Kailong, and Fang Yang.
• Fang Xuan and Fang Qingxue infused the Dao Items with their power, and the sword and talisman combined into a tiny world that displayed the formation of heaven, life, and civilization.
• Peacock King, Feng Taicang, and the Immortal Slayer Bandit were drawn from their cultivation to witness the transformation.

The Great Chaos Thunder Sword and the Undying Lightning Talisman fused their powers, creating World Power that strengthened the surrounding cultivators. The energy triggered Fang Qingxue’s Wind Fire Tribulation, and Fang Xuan watched as it began.

• Wood Daoist warned that the two High Grade Dao Items were about to devour each other and destroy the Eightfold Pagoda, so Wan Qingxue, Fang Xuan, Wood Daoist, Dragon Daoist, Fang Yang, Heavenly God Jubi, and Ye Kailong helped stabilize them.
• The Great Chaos Thunder Sword and the Undying Lightning Talisman fused their powers, formed a stable small world, and produced Heavenly Flower Crystals and World Power.
• Wood Daoist urged everyone to absorb the World Power, and Fang Xuan sensed that it could help his Heavenly Emperor Dharma Image advance.
• Fang Qingxue’s Golden Core trembled as she triggered the Wind Fire Tribulation, and Dragon Daoist told Fang Xuan that she had to face it alone.
• Red Lotus Tribulation Fire erupted from Fang Qingxue’s Golden Core, followed by black tribulation wind that fed the flames.

Fang Qingxue survived the Wind Fire Tribulation and, with Fang Xuan’s help, condensed her Lightning Mother Dharma Image. A month later, Fang Xuan arrived for his long-awaited duel with Meng Shaobai as Meng transformed into a kunpeng before the gathered disciples.

• Fang Qingxue perfected her lightning powers using the Minor Destiny Technique, and Fang Xuan gave her nine Great Taiqing Jade Nectar Return Pills to replenish her vitality.
• Fang Qingxue shattered her Golden Core and formed the Lightning Mother Dharma Image, revealing her identity as the reincarnation of the Lightning Mother Heavenly Monarch.
• Fang Xuan and Fang Qingxue separated the Great Chaos Thunder Sword and the Undying Lightning Talisman, whose power and inheritances had grown through their entanglement.
• Fang Qingxue joined Fang Xuan on his way to face Meng Shaobai, confident that their allies could overcome any threat.
• A month later, disciples and elders gathered at the Heavenly Punishment Platform to watch Fang Xuan and Meng Shaobai’s duel.
• Meng Shaobai unleashed the Demon Embryo Parasitic Art and transformed into a kunpeng, sending a towering aura into the sky.

Fang Xuan defeated Meng Shaobai on the Heavenly Punishment Platform, devouring half of his Kun Peng Primordial Spirit and taking his sword before Ruyi Zi intervened to save him. Fang Xuan appealed to the Sect Leader Supreme to judge Ruyi Zi for violating the duel’s rules.

• Meng Shaobai appeared with his six-winged Heaven and Earth Dharma Image and attacked Fang Xuan with powerful winds.
• Fang Xuan froze Meng Shaobai in midair and struck him down with a single palm.
• Fang Xuan used the Great Devouring Technique to consume half of Meng Shaobai’s Kun Peng Primordial Spirit, advancing his Great Slaughter Art, and seized the Inconstant Sword.
• Fang Xuan moved to kill Meng Shaobai, but Ruyi Zi blocked him and used Immortal Realm Essence to preserve Meng Shaobai’s life.
• Fang Xuan accused Ruyi Zi of breaking the sect’s laws and called on the Sect Leader Supreme to judge the matter.

Fang Xuan challenged the Yuhua Sect’s double standard after Ruyi Zi tried to stop his duel with Meng Shaobai, prompting the Sect Leader Supreme to let the fight continue. Ruyi Zi attacked Fang Xuan in a rage, and the Heavenly Punishment Elder stepped in to defend him.

• Fang Xuan accused Ruyi Zi of violating sect laws and declared he wanted permission to enter a demonic sect to cultivate demonic arts.
• Feng Baiyu ruled that Fang Xuan and Meng Shaobai’s duel would continue and that no one could interfere.
• Fang Xuan challenged Ruyi Zi to fight him on the Heavenly Punishment Platform after he dealt with Meng Shaobai.
• Ruyi Zi attacked Fang Xuan with Taiyi Ruyi Transformation, but the Heavenly Punishment Elder blocked him.
• Ruyi Zi broke through the Heavenly Punishment Elder’s defense, so the elder drew the Heavenly Punishment Twin Blades and stood between him and Fang Xuan.

Fang Xuan and Ruyi Zi entered a life-and-death duel on the Heavenly Punishment Platform after Feng Baiyu approved their demand to settle their feud. Fang Xuan revealed that several Eternal Giants fought for him inside the Eightfold Pagoda and pinned Ruyi Zi beneath it.

• Feng Baiyu sealed the Heavenly Punishment Platform and allowed Fang Xuan and Ruyi Zi to fight to the death.
• Ruyi Zi summoned five Heaven and Earth Dharma Images and threatened to kill Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan unleashed the Eightfold Pagoda, whose treasures and demons attacked Ruyi Zi.
• Wood Daoist, Dragon Daoist, Heavenly God Jubi, and Ye Kailong appeared from within the Eightfold Pagoda as Eternal Giants.
• Fang Xuan said he had converted the Eternal Giants and used the Eightfold Pagoda to pin Ruyi Zi in place.
• The spectators recognized Dragon Daoist and Wood Daoist and connected Fang Xuan to the destruction of Dragon Wood Star.

Fang Xuan battled Ruyi Zi, who sacrificed a Pure Yang Heaven and Earth Dharma Image to empower the Nine Bend Yellow River Map and trap Fang Xuan’s Dharma Image. A figure revealed to be Fang Xuan’s clone used the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel to kill Ruyi Zi, leaving the onlookers stunned by Fang Xuan’s feat.

• Fang Xuan revealed the Eternal Giants in the Eightfold Pagoda and used it to attack Ruyi Zi.
• Ruyi Zi unleashed the Nine Bend Yellow River Map and sacrificed one of his Pure Yang Heaven and Earth Dharma Images to strengthen it.
• Ruyi Zi trapped Fang Xuan’s Natal Heaven and Earth Dharma Image and prepared to make the map self-destruct.
• Fang Yang used the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel to destroy Ruyi Zi’s four Heaven and Earth Dharma Images and kill him.
• Jiang Rourou and Heavenly Punishment Elder recognized Fang Yang as Fang Xuan’s clone cultivated from the Undying Body.

Fang Xuan killed Ruyi Zi before the Yuhua Sect, establishing his overwhelming authority and drawing the support of the sect’s disciples and elders. After a celebration on Mystic Peak, Fang Qingxue warned him that only reaching the Eternal Life Realm would secure his position, and Fang Xuan prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• The Heavenly Punishment Elder, Jiang Rourou, and Feng Baiyu recognized that Fang Xuan had become powerful enough to surpass Eternal Giants, while Feng Baiyu worried about Hua Tiandu’s response to Ruyi Zi’s death.
• Fang Xuan collected Ruyi Zi’s belongings and returned to Mystic Peak as the Heavenly Punishment Platform fell silent.
• Disciples, elders, and grand elders gathered on Reincarnation Peak to congratulate Fang Xuan, who urged them not to spread the matter as anything but a scandal within the Yuhua Sect.
• Fang Xuan hosted a banquet on Mystic Peak, where Elder Guan Miao and others pledged their support.
• Fang Qingxue warned Fang Xuan that disciples might turn against him when Hua Tiandu reached the Eternal Life Realm, and Fang Xuan said he would refine Ruyi Zi’s remains and cultivate toward Defying Heaven Changing Fate.

Fang Xuan refined the spoils from Ruyi Zi and used the four Heaven and Earth Dharma Images to strengthen his own Dharma Image. He broke through to the Tenth Level of Mystic Divine Realm, Defying Heaven Changing Fate, and sensed the mysterious gate above him more clearly than before.

• Fang Xuan assessed his spoils, including Meng Shaobai’s primordial spirit, the Inconstant Sword, Ruyi Zi’s Dharma Images, and the Nine Bend Yellow River Map.
• Fang Xuan absorbed Ruyi Zi’s four Heaven and Earth Dharma Images into his Eightfold Pagoda and refined the Nine Bend Yellow River Map into his possession.
• Fang Xuan devoured the four Dharma Images’ Pure Yang Qi, strengthening his Heavenly Emperor Dharma Image and forming the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel.
• Fang Xuan sensed his lifespan and fate, then broke through to the Tenth Level of Mystic Divine Realm: Defying Heaven Changing Fate.
• Fang Xuan sensed the mysterious world’s gate above him more clearly, with its limitless treasures still beyond reach.