Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo slaughtered hundreds of Poison Spiders in the forest, growing stronger as he fought but failing to draw out the Spider King. Three masked swordsmen then ambushed him after his exhausting battle, and the chapter ended with Fang Mo meeting their renewed attack in a fierce clash.

• Fang Mo used Jade Dew and the Bronze Mirror’s energy to sustain himself while fighting, and his Diamond Bodyguard Aura advanced as he killed Poison Spiders.
• Fang Mo wiped out more than five hundred Poison Spiders, but no Prenatal-level Spider King appeared.
• Three black-clad swordsmen emerged from the forest and attacked Fang Mo together while he was exhausted.
• Fang Mo blocked their combined strike with his saber, but the attack injured him and left the swordsmen astonished.
• The swordsmen declared that Fang Mo could not be left alive and attacked again, while Fang Mo charged to meet them in battle.

Fang Mo fought three Black-clothed Men at the peak of Great Grandmaster, then broke through to the Xiantian Realm during the battle. He used his new Xiantian power to kill two opponents and leave the third barely alive, before the Bronze Mirror began to glow again.

• Fang Mo and the three Black-clothed Men clashed repeatedly, each side exhausting themselves in a savage fight.
• The three men swallowed pills to recover, and Fang Mo drank Moon Dew before charging back into battle.
• As Fang Mo fought on, the Tiger Roaring Emperor Fist reached Peak Attainment, and its feedback helped him condense Xiantian True Qi and advance to the Xiantian Realm.
• The three men recognized Fang Mo's breakthrough and tried to flee, but he trapped them with his blade momentum and struck them with Return to True.
• Fang Mo's attack killed two men and left the third barely alive, and the Bronze Mirror buzzed again as he surveyed the battlefield.

Fang Mo advanced his Ice Fire Harmony True Force into Xiantian Primordial True Qi, then questioned and killed Hong Yunting, a Tianli Sect disciple, learning the truth about the Millennium Grand Trial and the desolate worlds. He disposed of the bodies and settled in a tree hollow for the night, where he began examining the valuables he had taken.

• Fang Mo's Ice Fire Harmony True Force fused with Moon Dew and the True Meaning of Tai Chi to become Xiantian Primordial True Qi, which he tested by blasting apart a boulder.
• Fang Mo questioned the wounded survivor, Hong Yunting, and learned that the Tianli Sect used the trials to weaken other worlds and provide its disciples with opponents.
• Hong Yunting explained that Tao Shang belonged to the Leixiao Lineage and was known for business and women, confirming Fang Mo's suspicions.
• Fang Mo refused Hong Yunting medicine and killed him, then collected valuables and spirit cores from the three dead men.
• Fang Mo threw the corpses and weapons into a river, traveled more than ten miles, and found shelter in a hollow tree.
• Fang Mo repelled insects, burned his filthy clothes, changed into clean ones, and began inspecting the contents of the three Leather Pouches.

Fang Mo obtained a jade card containing the powerful Nine Severing Ice Forms and used the Bronze Mirror to preserve both the technique and its fist intent. After practicing until he reached beginner proficiency, he headed toward the central region of the Demon Spider Forest to find the treasure Hong Yunting had mentioned.

• Fang Mo found the Nine Severing Ice Forms Jade Card among the three men’s possessions and witnessed the technique’s devastating forms.
• The Bronze Mirror recorded the Nine Severing Ice Forms and its fist intent, allowing Fang Mo to study them later despite the Jade Card cracking.
• Fang Mo spent the night in the Poison Spider Forest, then practiced the technique at dawn and blasted apart a large boulder with its third form.
• The Bronze Mirror marked Fang Mo’s Nine Severing Ice Forms as Beginner, and he flew toward the central region of the Demon Spider Forest.

Five seekers found the Demon Spider Forest battlefield and learned that the White Spirit Fruit was gone, then headed for the Blood Mist Withered Moon Forest. Fang Mo had taken the fruit and also traveled there to hunt Prenatal-level exotic beasts and strengthen his abilities.

• The five seekers inspected the Demon Spider Forest battlefield, found a severed arm with Prenatal-level bones, and suspected a Prenatal expert had killed the Demon Spider King and taken the White Spirit Fruit.
• The five reached Demon Spider Mountain, watched a man fly past, and found the mountain stripped of its spiders and the fruit.
• The five decided to seek Blood Moon Spirit Grass in the Blood Mist Withered Moon Forest and set off there.
• Fang Mo collected the ripened White Spirit Fruit, then trained while traveling through the Black Water Marsh and headed for the Blood Mist Withered Moon Forest.
• Fang Mo entered the forest, intending to hunt Prenatal-level exotic beasts and stabilize his advancement.

Fang Mo fought Blood Mist Moon Owls in Blood Mist Withered Moon Forest and found a Blood Moon Spirit Grass for Yue Quan. After taking the herb, he continued deeper to search for more, while a group of five arrived at Moon Lake three days later and found it gone.

• Fang Mo entered Blood Mist Withered Moon Forest, resisted the Blood Mist Moon Owl’s spiritual attack with help from the Bronze Mirror, and killed it with an arrow.
• Fang Mo ventured deeper, defeated a Xiantian-level Blood Mist Moon Owl, and collected its spirit core, eyes, and primary Blood Feathers.
• Fang Mo found Blood Moon Spirit Grass growing beneath the clear water of Moon Lake and carefully stored it in a jade bottle for Yue Quan.
• Fang Mo continued deeper to seek more Blood Moon Spirit Grass, and three days later five travelers found the harvested stalk at Moon Lake and decided to press onward.

Gu Xueyi, Yun Xiuping, Master Xuanzang, and Daoist Songming were overwhelmed by six mechs until a giant flying sword appeared and destroyed two of them. A terrifying True Person drove the sword away, and Zhong Yuanqiu decided to speak with Gu Poyue about the threat.

• Gu Xueyi, Yun Xiuping, Master Xuanzang, and Daoist Songming exhausted their defenses and saw their Sword Array shattered by six particle cannon blasts.
• Burning Heaven ordered the mechs to attack the four Transcendent Experts, but a giant golden sword appeared and pierced Xiao Qi's mech.
• Burning Heaven broke the giant sword in two, then retreated when it pursued him; Xiao Si sacrificed himself to let Burning Heaven escape.
• Dark clouds and lightning appeared, frightening the giant sword into shrinking and vanishing into the void.
• Gu Xueyi led the four survivors away, while Jiang Zhong and Zhong Yuanqiu recognized the arrival of a True Person.
• Zhong Yuanqiu decided to go speak with Gu Poyue about the True Person Realm threat.

After the Burning Heaven Mech was pierced by a single sword strike, the Galactic Alliance prepared for war while Zhong Yuanqiu warned Gu Poyue that the Alliance might need to evacuate. Mr. Farrow arrived and claimed True Man Realm experts could not act recklessly in this world, leaving Gu Poyue demanding an explanation.

• At the Domey Alliance base, Modi and Sangbini agreed to slow their advance and visit the Galactic Alliance to learn what it knew about the other force.
• Gu Poyue rallied the shaken command hall, ordered reconnaissance and outpost construction halted, established an information defense network, and placed the base on Level A combat readiness.
• After Gu Poyue crushed a cup in frustration, Zhong Yuanqiu challenged him to consider preparing for war or evacuating important personnel and supplies.
• Mr. Farrow entered the lounge and claimed True Man Realm experts could not act recklessly in this world.
• Gu Poyue asked Mr. Farrow to explain what he meant.

Farrow persuaded Gu Poyue and the Galactic Alliance leaders that local laws restrained powerful cultivators, encouraging them to pursue expansion with advanced mechs. Zhong Yuanqiu left the command building determined to investigate Farrow and warn Gu Liangyunzong and Fang Mo to stay away.

• Farrow claimed that True Man Realm experts and the Tianli Sect were restricted by the planet's laws, while mechs could operate freely and eventually defeat even Spirit Roaming Realm experts.
• Zhong Yuanqiu warned Gu Poyue that he would regret trusting Farrow, but Gu Poyue decided to request Zhong's transfer to the rear so he could proceed with the expansion plan.
• Farrow told Gu Poyue that Fourth Generation Mechs could handle current threats and that Fifth Generation Mechs using self-repairing material could be mass-produced within one to three years.
• Zhong Yuanqiu left the command building with Jiang Zhong and predicted that the Alliance would soon transfer him away from the base.
• Zhong Yuanqiu asked Jiang Zhong to contact Gu Liangyunzong and Fang Mo and tell them not to return, while he investigated Farrow's secrets.

Fang Mo battled and killed a Prenatal Blood-Spined Silver Flood Dragon and a Moon Owl at Star Lake, then extracted the Flood Dragon’s essence blood. He stopped Zhao Heng and his companions as they considered leaving.

• Zhao Heng’s five-person herb-seeking group arrived at Star Lake and found Fang Mo fighting the Blood-Spined Silver Flood Dragon.
• A Moon Owl swooped at Fang Mo while the Flood Dragon attacked, forcing him to use the Nine Severing Ice Forms against both beasts.
• Fang Mo froze the lake, killed the Moon Owl, and overpowered the Flood Dragon with an ice dragon attack.
• Fang Mo killed the frozen Flood Dragon and purified its essence blood into a mass he stored in a jade bottle.
• Su Yue asked whether the group should leave, but Fang Mo told them to wait, leaving all five tense and wary.

After defeating the Silver Flood Dragon and Moon Owl, Fang Mo returned to the base, where Captain Luo recognized his Xiantian strength. He went to Jiyun Xuan to refine herbs and agreed to Tao Shang's request, with Su Lan arranging his lodging.

• Fang Mo gave Zhao Heng and his companions the exotic beast remains and revealed the Blood Moon Spirit Grass in Lakeheart Cave before leaving.
• Two days later, Fang Mo returned to the base, and Luo Feng waived his entrance fee and asked him to call him Captain Luo.
• Luo Feng told the guards that Fang Mo had reached Xiantian and sensed that Fang Mo's True Qi was unusually pure.
• Fang Mo sensed a dangerous presence in the central building but headed to Jiyun Xuan instead to refine his gathered herbs.
• Su Lan and Qi Zhu welcomed Fang Mo on Tao Shang's behalf, and Fang Mo agreed to Tao Shang's request and accepted lodging.

At Jiyun Xuan, Fang Mo began an unusually intensive Alchemy session, while Qi Zhu and Su Lan suspected he had reached Prenatal and could help Young Master challenge the Tianyan Lineage’s market. Meanwhile, Hong Tianchou learned that Yun Ting was in grave danger and sent Xie Lin to search Demon Spider Forest.

• Fang Mo refused Su Lan’s offer to attend him at dinner and gave her a list of Spiritual Medicine to prepare for his Alchemy.
• Qi Zhu and Su Lan noticed that Fang Mo’s fluctuations resembled Young Master’s and speculated that he had advanced to Prenatal.
• Hong Tianchou successfully refined the Nine Yang Pill and declared himself a Xiantian top-tier Alchemist.
• Hong Tianchou sensed that Yun Ting’s life force was faint and ordered Xie Lin to search Demon Spider Forest for him.
• Fang Mo continued refining pills at Jiyun Xuan, repeatedly summoning Su Lan for more Spiritual Medicine.

Fang Mo refined hundreds of Heaven Grade Qi Replenishing Pills and planned to challenge Spirit Grade pills soon, then spent the night cultivating and practiced his saber at dawn. He left Su Lan and Qi Zhu blushing after an awkward exchange.

• Fang Mo refined 750 Heaven Grade Qi Replenishing Pills and told Su Lan and Qi Zhu he would make Blood Replenishing Pills next.
• Fang Mo limited Qi Replenishing Pill production to once every three days to protect their market price and said he expected to refine Spirit Grade pills within three to five days.
• Qi Zhu ordered the shop staff to keep Fang Mo's alchemy secret, protect him, and release only three days' worth of pills onto the market.
• Fang Mo's Mystic Fire Alchemy Art reached Proficient at 1690 points, and he cultivated after leaving the alchemy room.
• Before dawn, Fang Mo practiced his martial arts and saber technique, overwhelming Su Lan and Qi Zhu with its pressure.
• Fang Mo asked whether he or their young master was more formidable, making Qi Zhu blush before he hurried off to wash up.

Fang Mo’s pill production flooded the market with high-quality, low-priced medicine, sharply reducing the Base Pill Exchange Hall’s sales. Hong Tianchou dismissed the threat, but news that Hong Yunting had died left him enraged.

• Fang Mo refined hundreds of pills daily using the Spiritual Medicine Tao Shang supplied, and his alchemy skills rapidly improved.
• Fu Qing'an learned that cheaper, purer pills had cut the exchange hall’s sales and brought samples to Hong Tianchou.
• Hong Tianchou recognized the pills as top-grade Heaven Grade medicine but refused to lower prices or investigate further.
• Fu Qing'an suspected the rival lineages were behind the pill supply and left, believing the exchange hall would face a greater threat if Spirit Grade pills appeared.
• An alchemist rushed into the back courtyard and told Hong Tianchou that Hong Yunting was dead; Hong Tianchou demanded to know who had killed him.

Fang Mo refined a Spirit Grade pill while Tao Shang returned injured from a failed attempt to enter the Barbarian Tribe’s inner region. Fang Mo collected the pills, improved his alchemy, and chose to keep relying on Tao Shang’s resources without meeting him yet.

• Fang Mo used his Primordial Spirit to control the ingredients, flames, and more than twenty vortices while refining a furnace of Spirit Grade pills.
• Tao Shang recognized the Spirit Grade pill’s aura, and Qi Zhu and Su Lan told him Fang Mo could refine Heaven Grade pills in the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Tao Shang revealed that a Late Xiantian Barbarian Tribe expert had injured him while pursuing him from the trial area, where he had been seeking a Profound Grade Token for a Heaven Breaking Pill.
• Fang Mo collected ten pills, judged their three pill patterns insufficient, and saw that his Mystic Fire Alchemy Art had advanced.
• Fang Mo sensed Tao Shang’s Prenatal aura, realized he was a Xiantian Expert, and decided not to meet him before resuming his alchemy practice.

Hong Tianchou learned that Jiyun Xuan was disrupting the pill market and ordered a price war, then sent guards to seize Trial Takers who might know who took the White Spirit Fruit. Zhao Heng realized the guards were looking for him and prepared to flee the base.

• Fu Qing'an reported that Spirit Grade pills had caused sales at the Exchange Hall to collapse, and Hong Tianchou learned that Jiyun Xuan was behind the competing supply.
• Hong Tianchou ordered Fu Qing'an to cut Spiritual Medicine prices and then dispatched guards to capture Trial Takers who had discussed the White Spirit Fruit.
• Xie Lin confronted Su Yue's group at a tavern, beat them, and ordered guards to find Zhao Heng.
• Zhao Heng, who had witnessed the arrests, suspected the guards were pursuing the Xiantian Martial Artist who had given his group the Silver Flood Dragon corpse and decided to leave the city.

Fang Mo left the pill room with Tao Shang and intervened when base guards tried to capture Zhao Heng, who was accused of involvement in Hong Yunting’s death. Zhao Heng escaped, and the furious guard turned on Fang Mo instead.

• Fang Mo refined high-grade Spirit Grade pills for three days and advanced to Mid Xiantian.
• Tao Shang accompanied Fang Mo as he went to meet his friends outside the base.
• Fang Mo recognized Zhao Heng as he fled from a Xiantian guard and heard him deny knowing who had taken the White Spirit Fruit or killed Hong Yunting.
• Fang Mo realized the Hong Family’s investigation could expose his role and blocked a guard from striking Zhao Heng.
• Fang Mo knocked the guard back, revealing his Xiantian strength, while Luo Feng and the other guards let Zhao Heng escape.
• The thwarted guard accused Fang Mo of being Zhao Heng’s accomplice and threatened to hold him accountable.

Tao Shang and Luo Feng stopped Xie Lin and the Pill Workshop from taking Fang Mo in the Safe Zone, but Fu Jiang pressed the accusation and the standoff neared violence. As Tao Shang prepared to hold Xie Lin off so Fang Mo could escape, a powerful purple-eyed man arrived with a squad of guards.

• Tao Shang drove away the Pill Workshop guards who tried to seize Fang Mo, but Fang Mo decided to leave rather than risk bringing trouble upon him.
• Xie Lin arrived with guards and accused Fang Mo of killing a Tianli Sect trial participant, while Tao Shang refused to let them take him.
• Luo Feng intervened to enforce the Safe Zone rules, and Xie Lin hesitated to fight the guards.
• Fu Jiang arrived and ordered Xie Lin to capture Fang Mo, prompting Tao Shang, Qi Zhu, and Su Lan to prepare for battle.
• Tao Shang offered to hold off Xie Lin while Fang Mo escaped, and Fang Mo readied his Primordial Spirit Sword before a purple-eyed man arrived with a squad of guards.

Yan Kun stopped Fu Jiang and Xie Lin from taking Fang Mo in the Safe Zone, and Tao Shang introduced Fang Mo to Yan Kun as a friend under his protection. Hong Tianchou then ordered a price war against Tao Shang’s pill business while keeping men ready to ambush Fang Mo if he left the city.

• Yan Kun intervened and forbade further fighting in the Safe Zone, forcing Xie Lin, Fu Jiang, and their guards to withdraw.
• Tao Shang introduced Fang Mo to Yan Kun, who promised to help protect him; Tao Shang advised Fang Mo to stay in the city because Hong Tianchou had arranged an ambush outside.
• Fang Mo returned to Jiyun Xuan with Tao Shang and worried that Hong Tianchou might target Luo Jiangyan and the others.
• Hong Tianchou ordered Xie Lin to watch Fang Mo and detain him if he left Jiyun Xuan.
• Hong Tianchou ordered Fu Jiang to slash pill prices and buy up Spiritual Medicine to pressure Tao Shang, despite Fu Jiang warning that the costly strategy could hurt both sides.

Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan secretly reunited with Fang Mo in Jiyun Xuan after learning he was in danger from Hong Tianchou. Fang Mo gave them valuable pills and warned them to keep their distance, leaving them to part as he prepared for a possible journey to Red Rock Valley.

• Luo Jiangyan and her group entered Jiyun Xuan to sell their hunting materials and spotted Fang Mo and Tao Shang.
• Fang Mo arranged a private meeting with Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan, then explained his conflict with Hong Tianchou and revealed that he had advanced to the Prenatal Realm.
• Fang Mo warned Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan that Hong Tianchou might target them and told them not to meet him or remain in the city for long.
• Fang Mo gave the women more than three hundred spirit-grade pills and two bottles of Xiantian Treasure Medicine to help them advance.
• Fang Mo said he might go to Red Rock Valley and would try to refine medicine to help them reach the Prenatal Realm before leaving.
• Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan embraced Fang Mo goodbye and left the courtyard.