Chapter Summaries

After the deaths of his parents, Fang Yang hid at the Frost Blade Sect but became consumed by fear and hatred of Fang Mo. Three blue-clad martial artists killed him as the last surviving member of his family, leaving Huo Yunshan to recognize the ruthless methods of the Number One Sect Under Heaven.

• Fang Yang smashed his room in despair over Fang Mo’s rise and his own inability to cultivate, while Du Chuan tried to calm him.
• Fang Yang panicked that Fang Mo and the Qin Family and Chen Family would find him, and demanded that Du Chuan give him money to hire assassins.
• Fang Yang stabbed Du Chuan to death, then killed Sun Hongling when she tried to stop him.
• Three blue-clad martial artists arrived, identified Fang Yang as the last one, and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Huo Yunshan watched the three leave and remarked that the Number One Sect Under Heaven left no roots behind.

Fang Mo returned to Yunyang with Guan Lu after the Alliance Grand Tournament and reunited with the people at Tiger Might Martial Arts School. During a private conversation, Guan Lie told him that the Qin, Chen, and Hu families had been exterminated, leading Fang Mo to suspect his maternal grandfather was responsible.

• Fang Mo and Guan Lu left Yinji City for Yunyang after Fang Mo grew tired of receiving visitors following the tournament.
• The disciples and martial hall masters gathered to welcome Fang Mo at Tiger Might Martial Arts School, where he greeted his old companions and reunited with Ding Zhiyuan.
• Fang Mo paid his respects to Guan Lie, and the martial hall held a lively banquet before the visitors and students dispersed.
• Guan Lie warned Fang Mo to be cautious when he went to the Colony Planet, where force and slaughter ruled.
• Guan Lie told Fang Mo that the Qin and Chen families of Yunyang and the Hu Family of Haiyang City had been exterminated, and Fang Mo suspected his maternal grandfather had ordered it.

Fang Mo cultivated the Xiantian Pure Yang Art, and the Bronze Mirror converted his Tiger Roaring Emperor Fist internal force into it. After a farewell gathering, he left for Yun Kong, while Guan Lu stayed behind grieving his departure.

• Fang Mo practiced the Xiantian Pure Yang Art, gained proficiency, and had his internal force converted by the Bronze Mirror into Xiantian Pure Yang Internal Force.
• Fang Mo shattered an ironwood post with a silent palm strike and gently sent away two students who had been watching him from a tree.
• Fang Mo spent the next three days playing chess, discussing martial techniques, guiding disciples, and practicing alchemy before preparing to return to Yun Kong.
• Guan Lu drank heavily at Fang Mo's farewell meal, and Guan Lie realized she loved Fang Mo but believed he was focused only on cultivation.
• Fang Mo left the next morning with five bodyguards, and Guan Lu ran out too late to see him off, crying as his car disappeared.

Fang Mo returned to the Yun Kong Research Institute, where the elders tested his new Grandmaster strength and showered him with martial manuals and gifts. After the elders left, Elder Jiang warned him that the Alien Race would target him and began telling him about a secret realm.

• Fang Mo greeted the institute’s elders and confirmed that he had advanced to Grandmaster.
• Hong Baicheng tested Fang Mo with a palm strike, and Fang Mo endured part of the Great Grandmaster’s strength.
• Hong Baicheng, Elder Dong, Elder Liu, and the other elders gave Fang Mo cultivation insights and other gifts after claiming him as their master.
• Elder Gu gave Fang Mo the Spirit Grade Whirlwind Saber Art, which shared a lineage with his Mad Sand Saber Art.
• Elder Jiang spoke privately with Fang Mo, warned that the Alien Race would pay special attention to him, and began explaining a secret realm.

Elder Jiang explained the dangers and significance of the newly discovered secret realm, then discussed Fang Mo’s cultivation and the Mysterious Ice Force. Fang Mo took the manual to study and learned that Luo Jiming wanted to see him about the Flowing Cloud Sword.

• Elder Jiang told Fang Mo that warriors entering the vast secret realm had all died, and warned that the upcoming expedition would pit them against dangers inside and martial artists from Alien Civilizations.
• Fang Mo reassured Elder Jiang that he would survive and explained that he was cultivating the Xiantian Pure Yang Art, which his great-grandfather had praised as powerful.
• Elder Jiang handed Fang Mo the Mysterious Ice Force manual after warning that cultivating two inner forces could make them clash and cause cultivation deviation.
• Elder Jiang told Fang Mo to prepare for the Alliance briefing and said Luo Jiming wanted to discuss the Flowing Cloud Sword and its missing Thirteenth Sword.

Luo Jiangyan’s family decided to teach Fang Mo the Flowing Cloud Sword without demanding a guarantee, trusting his character. Fang Mo arrived at the Luo residence and followed Luo Jiangyan toward the mountain, accompanied at a distance by two armed guards.

• Luo Jiming urged Luo Jiangyan to contact Fang Mo and teased her about her feelings for him, while she denied fighting Glaireo for his sake.
• Luo Jiangyan joked that she could become Fang Mo’s concubine, and Luo Qingshan arrived and teased her about it.
• After learning Fang Mo had returned, Luo Jiming worried he might refuse to return the Flowing Cloud Sword, but Luo Jiangyan argued that trying to bind him would damage their relationship.
• Luo Qingshan decided the family would teach Fang Mo the Flowing Cloud Sword Total Manual and mental cultivation method and let him observe the Ancestor’s Sword Wall, trusting him to return them if he chose.
• Fang Mo arrived at the Luo residence, where Luo Jiangyan met him at the gate and led him toward the mountain as two black-clad martial artists followed them.

Fang Mo entered the Yun Kong underground palace to study the Thirteen Swords of Flowing Cloud, an inheritance left by Luo Yun Kong. After learning the remaining forms, he began sensing the sword intent on the stone walls, with only three days before he had to leave for Yinji City.

• Luo Jiming introduced Fang Mo to Elder Gu, who recognized Fang Mo's rapid progress but warned that mastering the Flowing Cloud Sword would depend on his aptitude.
• Luo Jiming opened a hidden passage beneath Luo Yun Kong's statue and led Fang Mo and Luo Jiangyan underground.
• Elder Gu stopped two Fengxing Guards of the Guliang Family from entering the forbidden ground and told them to wait outside.
• Luo Jiming showed Fang Mo the thirteen sword walls and asked him to learn the inheritance and someday help Luo Jiangyan master the thirteenth sword.
• Fang Mo memorized Luo Jiming's mental formula, learned the tenth through twelfth forms, and began studying the sword walls.

Fang Mo used the Bronze Mirror’s new Sword Intent Imprint ability to study Luo Yun Kong’s sword walls and rapidly comprehended the first twelve forms of the Flowing Cloud Sword. Stuck before the blank thirteenth wall, he reached Complete proficiency in the twelve forms and suddenly realized the secret that could lead him toward the final sword.

• Fang Mo comprehended the first sword wall, awakened the Bronze Mirror’s Sword Intent Imprint ability, and imprinted the first form so he could study its sword intent and inner-force pathways in a manifested scene.
• Fang Mo progressed through the sword walls with increasing speed, reaching the thirteenth sword by noon on the third day; Luo Jiangyan told Luo Jiming and Luo Qingshan of his progress, raising their hopes that he could restore the sword art’s former power.
• Fang Mo remained motionless before the blank thirteenth sword wall, and Luo Jiangyan, Luo Jiming, Luo Qingshan, and Elder Gu worried that he had become stuck and might not have enough time.
• Fang Mo returned to the Mirror’s space and repeatedly studied the twelve sword walls until the Bronze Mirror raised his Flowing Cloud Twelve Forms to Complete proficiency.
• Fang Mo recited that flowing clouds were both formed and formless, then exclaimed that he understood.

Fang Mo comprehended the Thirteen Swords of Flowing Cloud but collapsed from the thirteenth sword’s backlash. After recovering, he explained that the sword was a spiritual attack and prepared to leave for Yinji City.

• At dawn, Elder Gu and the others sensed the sword intent from underground and realized Fang Mo had mastered the thirteenth sword.
• Luo Jiangyan found Fang Mo unconscious, and Elder Gu said the backlash would only make him sleep for a day or two.
• Luo Jiangyan carried Fang Mo back to her room, where he slept for more than half a day before waking.
• Fang Mo told Luo Jiming and Luo Qingshan that the thirteenth sword was a Sword of Nascent Soul that attacked on a spiritual level.
• Luo Qingshan asked Fang Mo to pass the thirteenth sword on to Luo Jiangyan, and Fang Mo agreed before preparing to depart for Yinji City.

Fang Mo and Luo Jiangyan traveled with Feng Xuyang to the Space Elevator Base to join the Martial Artist Guard Corps bound for Zhiyuan Star. After saying goodbye to their companions, they registered and entered a heavily guarded conference room, where a group of officials arrived.

• Gu Liangyunzong praised Fang Mo for learning the Luo Family's Thirteen Swords of Flowing Cloud and ordered Shadow to protect him on Zhiyuan Star.
• Gu Liangyunzong arranged to travel to Zhiyuan Star himself, promising to protect Fang Mo, the only bloodline left by Xiao Shuang.
• Fang Mo, Luo Jiangyan, and Feng Xuyang reached the Space Elevator Base, where Ding Bingxiu, Qu Jiang, and Luo Jiming said farewell to them.
• General Cheng Long greeted the three, explained that he and General Jiang Zhong had joined the Martial Artist Guard Corps, and escorted them through registration.
• Fang Mo and his companions passed multiple security checks and entered a packed conference room, where a group of people arrived and silenced the room.

Zhong Yuanqiu briefed the young martial artists on the dangers of the secret realm on Zhiyuan Star and their mission to face Alien Race competitors and protect any higher martial arts inheritance. After no one withdrew, the selected prodigies were assigned to teams and began their journey to the Space Elevator.

• Zhong Yuanqiu warned the prodigies that the secret realm was dangerous, explained that only those under twenty-five with strength above the Transforming Realm could enter, and invited anyone who wished to withdraw to leave.
• The prodigies chose to stay, and Zhong Yuanqiu explained that ten Alien Race civilizations would send powerful martial artists who might unite against them.
• Zhong Yuanqiu told the group that the secret realm might contain a higher-level martial arts inheritance and ordered them not to let the Alien Race obtain it.
• Jiang Zhong and the other officers divided the prodigies into ten teams and assigned officers to lead them aboard the starship.
• The teams boarded vehicles and traveled to the Space Elevator departure station.

Fang Mo and the others arrived at the Starship Port, where they were assigned rooms and told to adapt to the space environment before boarding their starships. Yue Quan and Luo Jiangyan both visited Fang Mo, and Cheng Long’s offer to show him around turned into a group outing.

• The Space Elevator carried Fang Mo and the others from Yinji City to the Starship Port, where soldiers escorted them to their quarters.
• Jiang Zhong told everyone to follow their captains, clean up, change clothes, and spend three days adapting to the space environment.
• Fang Mo showered, changed into a spacesuit, and practiced the Pure Yang Inner Art until his discomfort in space faded.
• Yue Quan visited Fang Mo and teased him about Luo Jiangyan, who arrived shortly afterward.
• Cheng Long offered to show Fang Mo around, and Yue Quan and Luo Jiangyan both agreed to join them.

Yue Quan confronted Luo Jiangyan about Fang Mo’s near-collapse while learning the Flowing Cloud Sword, and Luo Jiangyan declared that she liked him and would not use him. After training late into the night, Fang Mo encountered Song Hongyi and sensed something unusual about her Qi-Blood Power.

• Cheng Long showed Luo Jiangyan, Yue Quan, and Fang Mo around the base before Fang Mo left to train and the two women went to talk.
• Yue Quan warned Luo Jiangyan that Fang Mo had suffered greatly and accused her of putting him at risk by pushing him to comprehend the Flowing Cloud Sword in three days.
• Luo Jiangyan said she liked Fang Mo for himself and would not use him, then challenged Yue Quan to compete fairly for his affection.
• Fang Mo trained in an empty Gravity Room until late at night to advance his Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Fang Mo met Song Hongyi outside the training rooms and sensed that her Qi-Blood Power was unusually violent.

Fang Mo left the training room after three days of nonstop cultivation and boarded an Interstellar Battleship with his team. As the starship began its 107-day journey to Zhiyuan Star, Glaireo recognized Fang Mo’s growing influence and began considering alliances against him.

• Fang Mo spent three days cultivating in a training room before emerging when his team was preparing to depart.
• Cheng Long led the assembled teams aboard a black Interstellar Battleship at the Starship Port.
• The starship departed Earth and entered its cruising orbit, beginning a 107-day voyage to Zhiyuan Star.
• Fang Mo reunited with Yue Quan, Luo Jiangyan, Feng Xuyang, Mu Yan, and others, while the group joked about his constant cultivation.
• Glaireo saw how many Grandmasters gathered around Fang Mo and considered Sun Jingfei, Mo Feiyu, and Ye Lanxin potential allies against him.

During the voyage to the secret realm, Fang Mo broke through to the fourth level of the Indestructible Diamond Body and advanced his Whirlwind Saber Art. After Song Hongyi recognized his breakthrough, Fang Mo continued cultivating, then frowned when an unexpected visitor knocked on his door.

• Fang Mo cultivated the Twelve Diamond Forms until the Bronze Mirror recorded his Indestructible Diamond Body as complete, and he reached the fourth level, Organs like Stone Carvings.
• Fang Mo tested his increased strength, reviewed the Primordial Spirit Sword, and began learning the Whirlwind Saber Art.
• Fang Mo fused the Wild Sand Blade Technique into the Whirlwind Saber Art, raising the saber art to mastery.
• Song Hongyi sensed Fang Mo's breakthrough and watched him leave in surprise.
• Fang Mo continued cultivating and helping Luo Jiangyan with the Flowing Cloud Swordplay, then saw a visitor at his door and frowned.

Song Hongyi sought Fang Mo’s help after exotic beast blood sent her qi into a life-threatening riot, and she gave him a secret scroll of techniques accompanying the Indestructible Diamond Body in exchange for his aid. Fang Mo read the first two techniques and grew excited about the new powers they offered.

• Song Hongyi’s exotic beast blood caused a violent backlash, and she decided to ask Fang Mo for help.
• Fang Mo recognized that Song Hongyi’s blood and qi were out of control, but rejected her pleas and refused to learn her dangerous cultivation method.
• Song Hongyi offered Fang Mo the secret martial techniques of the Indestructible Diamond Body and handed him a Beast Skin Scroll.
• Fang Mo read the Diamond Shockwave Fist and Diamond Void-Locking Finger techniques and was thrilled by their potential.

Fang Mo examined Song Hongyi to diagnose the violent energy raging through her body, but the energy affected them both before he regained control. He sent her away to consider a cure, and she left embarrassed after running into Luo Yuan and the others outside his room.

• Fang Mo agreed that the Five Diamond Techniques were sufficient payment, then told Song Hongyi to undress so he could examine her.
• Fang Mo circulated his inner force through Song Hongyi and discovered that her blood carried a powerful, violent aura, likely from tempering her body with alien beast blood.
• The aura affected Fang Mo’s state of mind and stirred Song Hongyi’s blood energy, but Fang Mo snapped awake and called out to her.
• Fang Mo told Song Hongyi he understood her condition but needed time to decide how to treat it, and she reluctantly agreed to leave.
• Song Hongyi opened the door and encountered Luo Yuan, Yang Yanzhi, Mu Yan, Wang Jinlong, and the others, who teased Fang Mo about her flushed face and torn clothes.

Fang Mo’s friends and Yue Quan and Luo Jiangyan mistook Song Hongyi’s visit for a tryst, but he explained that she had come seeking help with the Five Diamond Techniques. After they left, Fang Mo noticed Song Hongyi’s lingering aura had slightly strengthened his Qi-Blood Power and began investigating.

• Fang Mo’s friends teased him about a woman leaving his room, then fled when Yue Quan and Luo Jiangyan arrived.
• Yue Quan confronted Fang Mo over the rumpled, damp bed, while Luo Jiangyan said she believed him.
• Fang Mo showed the women the beast hide containing the Five Diamond Techniques and explained that Song Hongyi had asked for help with her agitated Qi-Blood Power.
• Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan left after hearing Fang Mo had no solution yet for Song Hongyi’s condition.
• Fang Mo sensed that Song Hongyi’s lingering aura had slightly strengthened his Qi-Blood Power and sat down to examine himself.

Fang Mo failed to remove the Blood Fiend Qi he had caught from Song Hongyi, even after advancing his Xiantian Pure Yang Art and testing his martial techniques. After finding that the Jade Purity Pill could only suppress the condition and required rare ingredients he lacked, he began considering whether he could resist the Qi by clearing his mind and focusing his spirit.

• Fang Mo tried using his blood qi, pure yang inner force, and cultivation to remove the Blood Fiend Qi, but it remained and began affecting his mood.
• Fang Mo advanced the Xiantian Pure Yang Art to Minor Accomplishment and reached Mid Grandmaster, but the Blood Fiend Qi was still present.
• Fang Mo practiced his martial arts and found that the Blood Fiend Qi strengthened his attacks while also intensifying bloodlust and desire.
• Fang Mo told Song Hongyi that he had been infected by her Killing Intent, then left before its effects caused him to embarrass himself.
• Fang Mo searched Xie Changmin's alchemy notes and found the Jade Purity Pill, but its rare Spirit Grade ingredients and temporary effects offered no immediate cure.
• Fang Mo found no answer in martial arts records and considered resisting the Blood Fiend Qi by clearing his mind and focusing his spirit.

Fang Mo cultivated the Mysterious Ice Force to suppress the blood Baleful Intent affecting Song Hongyi and learned to keep it separate from his Xiantian Pure Yang Internal Force. He emerged after four days and revealed his new cold power, shocking Yue Quan and the others.

• Fang Mo began cultivating the Mysterious Ice Force, but his Xiantian Pure Yang Internal Force repeatedly drove the cold energy from his body.
• Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan grew worried when Fang Mo stayed in his room for days, so they asked Cheng Long to check his vital signs and room temperature.
• Fang Mo gradually guided cold energy into his Dantian, where it calmed the blood Baleful Intent, and spent four days strengthening the Mysterious Ice Internal Force until it no longer clashed with his Pure Yang Internal Force.
• Fang Mo emerged from his room, reassured everyone, and told Song Hongyi he had found leads toward treating her condition.
• Fang Mo explained that Song Hongyi had used exotic beast blood as Medicinal Liquid and demonstrated cold air from his palm, prompting Yue Quan to exclaim that he had cultivated two internal forces.