Chapter Summaries

Fang Xuan stayed with the Longevity Clan while Yuan Zaihou hurried to guard the Holy Prison against a feared attack by evil demons. Meanwhile, Yuan Ji and his demonic allies investigated the powerful stranger who had rescued Tusi and wounded Ninth Brother, suspecting an outsider was hiding his strength.

• Yuan Dan told Yuan Zaihou that Yuan Ji had betrayed the Longevity Clan, killed their patrol, and joined evil demons who might target the Holy Prison.
• Yuan Zaihou invited Fang Xuan to stay, ordered Yuan Dan to have his sealed sea of qi restored, and rushed off to guard the Holy Prison while the ancestor sought a cure for the Saint Stone's contamination.
• A Longevity Clan member coldly led Fang Xuan to an empty room, where Fang Xuan pondered the origins of the evil demons and continued cultivating.
• Yuan Ji told the scar-faced man and the thin man that a mysterious Extraterritorial Martial Artist had rescued Tusi and injured Ninth Brother with a swift Sword Qi strike.
• The thin man and the scar-faced man concluded that someone among the martial artists in the blessed land was hiding their true strength.

Fang Xuan fought the Longevity Clan members who attacked him, overwhelming them as Yuan Dan and Yuan Zhi tried to intervene. The chapter ended with Yuan Dan pleading for Fang Xuan to spare his clansmen as Fang Xuan prepared to strike with a golden fist imprint.

• A Longevity Clan member accused Fang Xuan of attacking a clansman, and the gathered crowd demanded his execution.
• Fang Xuan shattered three attackers’ weapons and sent them flying with a kick.
• Yuan Dan tried to stop the clan from fighting Fang Xuan, but a long-faced Tusi accused him of betraying the clan and challenged Fang Xuan.
• Fang Xuan cut apart the long-faced Tusi’s sword-light dragon with Ink Abyss, but Yuan Zhi arrived and blocked his strike with a palace.
• Fang Xuan slapped the long-faced Tusi unconscious and formed a golden fist imprint as Yuan Dan begged him to stop.

Fang Xuan killed the long-faced martial artist after the man attacked him with the Longevity Clan’s forbidden Heavenly Evolution Art, then left the Main Tribe with Yuan Dan to search for the Ancestor and retrieve resources from the underground caverns. Elsewhere, Shen Hanwen’s group of Dragonwood Island martial artists discovered a large settlement as they ventured deeper into the blessed land.

• The long-faced martial artist unleashed the Heavenly Evolution Art at Fang Xuan, who vanished, appeared before him, and burned him away with blue-violet flames.
• Fang Xuan’s display of strength cowed the Longevity Clan members, and Yuan Zhi and Yuan Dan decided he should leave before the clansmen’s anger erupted into open conflict.
• Yuan Dan followed Fang Xuan and offered to help him find the Ancestor, and Fang Xuan agreed to bring him to the underground caverns to collect Spirit Liquid and mystic crystals.
• Shen Hanwen led a group of Dragonwood Island martial artists through the forest, discussing their gains, the recent deaths of visiting martial artists, and the risks posed by the Longevity Clan Ancestor.
• Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao sensed powerful auras ahead and realized they had found a large settlement.

Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao’s group was ambushed by the Longevity Clan after a Sixth Grade Martial Venerable was killed in an instant. Yuan Chen confronted them, but the Longevity Clan progenitor left for the Sacred Prison after warning that the blessed land was no longer safe, leaving the group to flee.

• Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao led their group toward the Longevity Clan’s Main Tribe, but a Wood Essence cage erupted from the ground and killed a Sixth Grade Martial Venerable.
• Shen Hanwen activated the Coiling Dragon Formation, and the group retreated as Longevity Clan martial artists pursued them.
• Yuan Chen blocked their escape, accused the Extraterritorial Martial Artists of killing people in the Main Tribe, and ordered his followers to leave none alive.
• Longevity Clan warriors killed another martial artist, while Shen Hanwen and the others gathered together inside the Coiling Dragon Formation.
• The Longevity Clan progenitor appeared and told Yuan Chen that something had happened in the Sacred Prison and the blessed land was no longer safe.
• The progenitor, Yuan Chen, and the other Longevity Clan martial artists departed, leaving Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao’s group determined to escape.

As martial artists returned from the blessed land, they learned that Fang Xuan had killed a Longevity Clan member in the Main Tribe and that the Progenitor’s son had pursued him. Meanwhile, Fang Xuan and Yuan Dan continued into the underground caverns and reached the entrance to the Longevity Clan’s immense Saint Mine.

• Xing Bei told the gathered martial artists that the Progenitor’s son had killed his companions and severed his arm while they searched for a Profound Crystal vein.
• Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao returned with their group and explained that the Progenitor’s clan had left because of an incident involving Fang Xuan, though three of their companions had died.
• Zi Donglai wondered about Fang Xuan’s strength and discovered that Lingxi had disappeared.
• Fang Xuan and Yuan Dan gathered nearly a hundred jin of millennium-old Spirit Liquid as they traveled deeper underground.
• Yuan Dan led Fang Xuan to a dim mine cavern and warned him that the tens-of-thousands-of-zhang-deep Saint Mine could disrupt the spiritual energy of anyone who fell inside.

Fang Xuan learned about the Longevity Clan’s dwindling Saint Stone supply and its inability to cure demonization before reaching the depths of the mine. There, he refined Mystic Crystals and Spirit Liquid of spiritual wood to begin advancing toward Ninth Grade Martial Venerable.

• Yuan Dan explained that the Longevity Clan’s deepening mines yielded increasingly impure Saint Stones and that the Yu clan’s method relied on sacrificing people.
• Yuan Dan told Fang Xuan that the clan confined demonized people in the Sacred Prison because even the ancestor could not remove demonic qi or easily kill those affected.
• After four hours underground, Fang Xuan reached the mining area and headed east to extract Mystic Crystals.
• Fang Xuan used Ink Abyss to cut through the rock, then refined the Mystic Crystals’ outer layer and lingering black mist with Samadhi True Fire.
• Fang Xuan swallowed the resulting crystal liquid and Spirit Liquid of spiritual wood, circulating their energy through his Acupoints as he prepared to break through toward Ninth Grade Martial Venerable.

Fang Xuan absorbed enormous quantities of profound crystal and spiritwood Spirit Liquid in the mine, opening Acupoints and attaining the legendary Golden Marrow Jade Bones. After more than twenty days, he broke through to Ninth Grade Martial Venerable, leaving Yuan Dan stunned by the power that erupted from the mine.

• Fang Xuan refined and swallowed profound crystal Spirit Liquid while opening Acupoints, eventually opening the three hundred and fourth Acupoint, the Taixi Acupoint.
• Fang Xuan directed the overflowing spiritual energy into the Tanzhong Acupoint, opening it as his bones gained golden patterns and his marrow turned gold.
• Fang Xuan continued cultivating in the mine for more than twenty days while Yuan Dan guarded the entrance.
• Fang Xuan completed the final cycle of spiritual energy through his Acupoints and broke through to Ninth Grade Martial Venerable.
• Fang Xuan released a force that cracked the surrounding void and shook the mine, leaving Yuan Dan shocked and wondering whether Fang Xuan had broken through.

After sixteen days of seclusion in the Profound Crystal Mine, Fang Xuan emerged with greatly increased strength and asked Yuan Dan to lead him to the Longevity Clan's Sacred Prison. Meanwhile, Lingxi was mistaken for an intruder and fought the Longevity Clan members besieging him, who called for Yuan Chen.

• Fang Xuan opened more than fifty Acupoints, bringing his total to three hundred and forty, and judged that he could now fight Yuan Chen evenly.
• Fang Xuan gathered Profound Crystals and decided it was time to deal with the evil demons, then left the mine after exactly sixteen days of seclusion.
• Fang Xuan told Yuan Dan he might be able to solve the Sacred Prison's hidden danger and asked to be taken there.
• Yuan Dan warned Fang Xuan that the Longevity Clan had issued a kill order and Yuan Chen was searching for him, but Fang Xuan said he would not harm Yuan Chen.
• Lingxi, searching for Fang Xuan, accidentally reached the Longevity Clan's former core territory and was attacked by more than a dozen clan members.
• Lingxi revealed power at the Ninth Grade Martial Venerable level and charged at his attackers, who called for Yuan Chen to stop him reaching the Sacred Prison.

Spirit Rhino fought off the Longevity Clan martial artists who had trapped him, but a hidden figure used the clash to manipulate Yuan Chen into turning against him. Spirit Rhino fled as Yuan Chen attacked, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The Longevity Clan martial artists trapped Spirit Rhino with the Sacred Tree Protection Array, but he shattered their wooden walls with the Primordial Heaven Seal and wounded them with the Five Colors Divine Light.
• Yuan Chen arrived and blocked Spirit Rhino’s attack with Divine Power Roots, then accused the Extraterritorial Martial Artists of causing trouble in the Holy Prison.
• Spirit Rhino insisted he was alone and challenged Yuan Chen, while a hidden voice praised an unseen senior and vanished.
• Spirit Rhino realized someone had used him as a spear and tried to flee, but Yuan Chen pursued him for injuring thirteen Longevity Clan members.

Lingxi fought Yuan Chen of the Longevity Clan, breaking free from his spirit wood restraints but suffering a heavy injury. As Yuan Chen prepared another strike, Fang Xuan’s black longsword appeared, prompting Yuan Chen to recognize him.

• Lingxi blocked Yuan Chen’s palm strike head-on, revealing strength that surprised the Longevity Clan warriors.
• Yuan Chen attacked Lingxi with Emerald Void Rainbow Slash and spirit wood vines, then offered to recruit him into the Longevity Clan.
• Lingxi broke free of the vines and clashed with Yuan Chen’s Spirit Wood Dharma Wheel using Kan Water Bull Moan.
• Yuan Chen exploited the surrounding spirit wood to strike Lingxi in the chest, breaking his ribs and sending him crashing through a forest.
• As Yuan Chen moved to attack Lingxi again, Fang Xuan’s black longsword swept in, and Yuan Chen recognized Fang Xuan.

Fang Xuan effortlessly intimidated Yuan Chen with Ink Abyss, then urged him to set aside their grudge when the Sacred Prison Barrier came under attack. As Fang Xuan prepared to go to the Sacred Prison, two intruders inside hurried to deal with its guards and activate their long-planned scheme.

• Fang Xuan helped Lingxi up and wounded Yuan Chen with a sword strike that tore through space, prompting Yuan Dan to plead for Yuan Chen’s life.
• An explosion revealed that someone was attacking the Sacred Prison Barrier, and Fang Xuan warned Yuan Chen to put aside his grudge before handing Lingxi a Spatial Item containing three hundred jin of Spirit Liquid.
• Yuan Chen left with the thirteen Longevity Clan warriors, while Fang Xuan told Yuan Dan to take him to the Sacred Prison and reunited with the recovered Lingxi.
• Yuan Dan revealed that Fang Xuan had used a thousand jin of Saint Stones to break through to the Ninth Grade Martial Venerable.
• Inside the Sacred Prison, a scar-faced man and a thin man discussed their plan to activate the formation and hurried to deal with the guards before Yuan Ji and the others could hold out any longer.

Yuan Chen joined the Longevity Clan’s defense of the Saint Prison barrier after discovering that Yuan Ji and Yuan Biao had led a rebellion, then went out to confront them. At the Extraterritorial Passage, Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao led more than thirty martial artists toward a mysterious green light despite the Void Passage opening in five days.

• Yuan Zaihou and the Longevity Clan ancestor discussed the rebels attacking the barrier and worried about the Saint Stones needed to sustain it.
• Yuan Chen arrived with a hundred thousand men, confirmed Yuan Ji and Yuan Biao were among the rebels, and asked to capture them.
• The ancestor warned that the Extraterritorial Martial Artists trapped in the Saint Prison posed a greater danger if the barrier fell, while Yuan Chen concealed his recent encounter with a powerful demonic beast.
• Yuan Chen shot through the green light curtain to confront the rebels.
• At the Extraterritorial Passage, Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao discussed their losses and learned that the Void Passage would open in five days.
• After a huge green light appeared in the southwest, Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao agreed to investigate, and more than thirty martial artists followed.

Fang Xuan approached the Holy Prison as the Longevity Clan crushed the rebellion, while the Ancestor and Yuan Zaihou wondered which side he would take. After captured rebels revealed that Extraterritorial Martial Artists had plotted the uprising and two Demon Envoys had entered the Holy Prison, Yuan Ji began to self-destruct his Dantian Qi Sea.

• The Ancestor asked Yuan Zaihou which side Fang Xuan would support, and Yuan Zaihou judged that Fang Xuan would choose neither side.
• Fang Xuan, Lingxi, and Yuan Dan arrived near the Holy Prison, where Fang Xuan examined the battlefield and decided to seek out the Ancestor about the fiends.
• Yuan Chen returned through the Holy Prison barrier with Yuan Ji and Yuan Biao captured, while vines bound the remaining rebels.
• Yuan Biao confessed that Extraterritorial Martial Artists had promised to help him reach the Spirit Wandering Realm if he destroyed the Holy Prison, and Yuan Chen killed him by piercing his Dantian Qi Sea.
• Yuan Ji revealed that both Demon Envoys had entered the Holy Prison, then began self-destructing his Dantian Qi Sea as Yuan Zaihou warned the others.

After Yuan Ji self-destructed, the Longevity Clan faced an assault by more than thirty Jiuzhou martial artists, while the Ancestor disappeared into the Sacred Prison. Yuan Chen attacked Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao, leaving them in immediate danger.

• Yuan Ji self-destructed, and the Ancestor shielded Yuan Chen and Yuan Zaihou from the blast.
• Yuan Chen tried to enter the Sacred Prison, but the Ancestor forbade everyone else and went inside himself.
• More than thirty Extraterritorial Martial Artists arrived and attacked the Longevity Clan guards as the green barrier shattered.
• Fang Xuan and Lingxi searched for the Ancestor, and Yuan Dan warned that he might have entered the Sacred Prison.
• Yuan Chen killed three attackers, accused Shen Hanwen and Chang Botao of plotting to free the imprisoned demons, and smashed through their joint defense with a Wood Essence fist seal.

Fang Xuan arrived at the battle outside the Saint Prison, refused the Longevity Clan’s offer of Saint Stones, and warned everyone not to release the evil within. He entered the forbidden prison to address the evil aura, leaving the combatants in an uneasy truce as Yuan Dan revealed what he knew about Fang Xuan’s abilities.

• Yuan Chen identified Fang Xuan and feared his arrival could turn the battle against the Longevity Clan.
• Yuan Zaihou apologized for the clan’s past treatment of Fang Xuan and offered him three hundred jin of Saint Stone to stay out of the fight.
• Fang Xuan refused to intervene in the battle but warned that releasing the evil inside the Saint Prison would doom everyone, then walked into the prison unopposed.
• Yuan Zaihou and Yuan Chen questioned Yuan Dan, who said Fang Xuan had come to find the Ancestor and intended to resolve the Saint Prison’s evil aura.
• Yuan Dan told them Fang Xuan had restrained evil aura before and refined nearly a thousand jin of Saint Stone without being affected by its impurities.

Fang Xuan found the Ancestor in the Holy Prison, where they uncovered the history of the frozen man and the demonic corruption spreading through the Blessed Land. As a Netherworld Reincarnation Array drained the prisoners to awaken the frozen man, the Ancestor's attempt to reinforce the seal instead cracked the ice.

• Fang Xuan entered the altar chamber and found the Ancestor killing a scar-faced demonic fiend who claimed the Netherworld Reincarnation Array would bring the great King down.
• Fang Xuan and the Ancestor discussed the Yu Clan Traitor, the demonic fiends, and the frozen man whose corruption had once led the Ancestor to seal him in the Holy Prison.
• The Ancestor explained that the demonic aura did not originate in the Saint Stones and said Fang Xuan would have to find the answer elsewhere.
• Crimson inscriptions activated the Netherworld Reincarnation Array and drained the qi and blood of the nine bound martial artists into the frozen man.
• The Ancestor tried to reinforce the ice with his secret art, but cracks spread through it, and he declared that the seal had failed.

Sacred Prison collapsed, freeing Wang Yuling and the Longevity Clan members imprisoned within. Wang Yuling had Ling Mu test Fang Xuan, but Fang Xuan swiftly destroyed Ling Mu with a single sword strike.

• Sacred Prison collapsed, and Fang Xuan emerged beside the Longevity Clan's Ancestor with nine shriveled corpses scattered nearby.
• Wang Yuling stepped out of the ruins with dozens of freed Longevity Clan members and confronted Yuan Zhen, who vowed to repay the sins of a thousand years.
• Wang Yuling chose Fang Xuan as an opponent and ordered Ling Mu to test his skills.
• Ling Mu attacked Fang Xuan with wooden dragons, but Fang Xuan shattered them with his speed and physical strength.
• Fang Xuan split Ling Mu's barrier with Ink Abyss and cut him apart with a single sword strike.

Fang Xuan blocked Wang Yuling’s Spirit Wandering Realm attack, proving he could challenge a higher realm, before the Longevity Clan ancestor stepped in to face Wang Yuling. As fiends attacked the Nine Provinces martial artists, Fang Xuan rallied them to fight back.

• Fang Xuan killed Ling Mu with one sword strike, shocking Yuan Chen and the other witnesses.
• Wang Yuling attacked Fang Xuan with a bloody handprint, but Fang Xuan answered with the True Dragon Seal and their clash tore open a Void Rift.
• Wang Yuling prepared to attack again, but the Longevity Clan ancestor stepped between him and Fang Xuan and agreed to settle their thousand-year grudge.
• Wang Yuling sent more than a dozen fiends to attack the crowd, and they killed three fleeing Nine Provinces martial artists.
• Fang Xuan rescued Shen Hanwen from three fiends and urged the Nine Provinces martial artists to fight, stirring them to join the battle.

Fang Xuan used a powerful sword array to destroy dozens of fiends, while the remaining fiends fled toward the Longevity Clan’s Main Tribe. Wang Yuling then unleashed Divine Power Limit and engulfed the martial artists in a blood wave, leaving them trapped as their blood was drained.

• Fang Xuan drove back the three fiends confronting him and unleashed Martial Dao Divine Power Sword Array, killing dozens of fiends with a sweeping dragon of Sword Qi.
• The remaining fiends fled after uttering a phrase in the Longevity Clan’s language, and Yuan Zaihou left with the clan members to defend their Main Tribe.
• Wang Yuling raised his power to Divine Power Limit and drew blood from the corpses around him as the Ancestor warned the martial artists to flee.
• Wang Yuling’s bloody mist engulfed Shen Hanwen, Chang Botao, and the others, and an injured martial artist was drained of blood and collapsed as a dried corpse.

Wang Yuling activated a powerful array that trapped the fighters in Blood Food mist, and Fang Xuan helped the Ancestor by forming a barrier for the Nine Provinces martial artists. Fang Xuan then faced Wang Yuling in battle, and despite fighting above his realm, he was driven back and suffered a broken arm.

• Wang Yuling unleashed an array that stopped the Blood Food mist from spreading but shrouded the surrounding area, and the Ancestor warned Fang Xuan that Wang Yuling knew many arrays.
• Fang Xuan laid down a barrier and told the Nine Provinces martial artists to channel their force energy into it to resist the Bloodline Limit.
• Wang Yuling split off a demonic figure to fight Fang Xuan, then urged him to follow him and revealed that he had also come from the Nine Provinces.
• Fang Xuan and Wang Yuling exchanged powerful fist seals that cracked the space around them as the martial artists watched below.
• Wang Yuling struck Fang Xuan through his guard, breaking his arm and forcing him to retreat a hundred zhang.