Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo protected his companions while competing with Tao Shang against Hong Tianchou, and devoted himself to pill refining and cultivation. As Hong Tianchou’s sales collapsed and his quota came under threat, Fang Mo continued advancing toward Late Xiantian.

• Fang Mo asked Tao Shang to protect Luo Jiangyan and the others, then joined him in their contest against Hong Tianchou.
• Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan told the group that Fang Mo had entered the Xiantian Realm and distributed his Spirit Grade pills and Gold Crystals before they left the city separately.
• After Luo Jiangyan reported that the group had escaped safely, Fang Mo focused on refining pills and cultivation while Tao Shang kept pace with him.
• Hong Tianchou raised material prices and cut pill prices, but Tao Shang’s better-quality, cheaper pills drew customers and sparked a cultivation boom in the base.
• Fang Mo reached the peak of Spirit Grade pill refining and pushed toward Late Xiantian as Barbarian Tribe attacks intensified outside the base.
• Hong Tianchou realized Tao Shang’s sales strategy was defeating him, and his own sales and profits fell so low that he risked missing his monthly quota.

Hong Tianchou learned that Fang Mo was likely responsible for Tao Shang’s pills and ordered Xie Lin to kill him by exploiting Fang Mo’s ties to his companions. As Tao Shang prepared to protect Fang Mo and draw Hong Tianchou’s forces away, Fang Mo appeared to succeed in refining Xiantian Pills.

• Fu Jiang showed Hong Tianchou pills that convinced him one person had made them and that Fang Mo’s alchemy was rapidly improving.
• Hong Tianchou ordered Fu Jiang to find Fang Mo’s companions and told Xie Lin to lure Tao Shang away before attacking Fang Mo.
• Tao Shang sensed Fang Mo refining Xiantian Pills, while Su Lan wondered whether Fang Mo threatened Tao Shang’s position.
• Qi Zhu reported that Hong Tianchou’s people were investigating Fang Mo’s companions, and Tao Shang ordered her to disrupt them and tighten the Safe Zone’s rules.
• A surge of spiritual power and medicinal fragrance came from the alchemy room, and Tao Shang recognized that Fang Mo had succeeded.

Fang Mo became a Xiantian Alchemist after refining Blood Moon Spirit Grass, drawing the attention of Hong Tianchou and Red Rock City's guardian, Gu Lingfeng. As Tao Shang’s pill business prospered, reports of renewed Barbarian Tribe activity foreshadowed a fierce battle for the Profound Grade Token.

• Fang Mo refined the Blood Moon Spirit Grass and advanced to become a Xiantian Alchemist.
• Hong Tianchou sensed Fang Mo's pill qi and vowed to kill him rather than allow another Xiantian Alchemist in Red Rock City.
• Gu Lingfeng learned of Fang Mo's talent, ordered him watched, and told Uncle Shui not to interfere in the lineage rivalry unless Red Rock City was threatened.
• Uncle Shui reported that Barbarian Tribe teams were hunting Trial Takers near Red Rock City, and Gu Lingfeng predicted a fierce contest for the Profound Grade Token.
• Fang Mo formed his pills while Tao Shang and Su Lan left the workshop, and Tao Shang considered how the profits could help him gather resources and advance.

Hong Tianchou offered a bounty to lure Trial Takers into hunting Fang Mo’s companions in Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. After learning the companions were truly there, Fang Mo decided to leave and told Tao Shang to stay and handle something for him.

• Tao Shang dismissed Qi Zhu’s warning that Xiantian Trial Takers planned to seize the Profound Grade Token for Hong Tianchou.
• Fu Jiang reported that Fang Mo’s companions had been found in Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, but Hong Tianchou could not send his own men past Yan Kun’s sealed gates.
• Hong Tianchou offered one thousand Gold Crystals and two True Essence Pills to anyone who captured Fang Mo’s companions, hoping Fang Mo would leave the city to rescue them.
• Qi Zhu told Tao Shang about the bounty, and Fang Mo arrived as they discussed whether to inform him.
• Fang Mo confirmed his companions were in Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, said he had to leave, and told Tao Shang to stay and handle something for him.

Fang Mo convinced Tao Shang to stop protecting him and let Hong Tianchou's people leave the city, promising to help Tao Shang obtain a Profound Grade Token in return for sending Fang Mo's companions home. Fang Mo walked out of the city to face Hong Tianchou, while Luo Feng warned him that three Mid Xiantian Experts waited in the forest.

• Fang Mo asked Tao Shang to stop shielding him and allow Hong Tianchou's people to leave, and Tao Shang agreed after Fang Mo offered to help him obtain a Profound Grade Token.
• Tao Shang agreed to arrange for Fang Mo's companions to be teleported home if Fang Mo brought them back.
• Fang Mo left Jiyun Xuan with Tao Shang's group as Trial Takers gathered to watch, and he noticed Lei He had reached the Xiantian Realm.
• At the city gates, Fang Mo traded insults with Hong Tianchou, who held back from attacking when he saw Yan Kun nearby.
• Fang Mo passed through the gates, and Luo Feng quietly warned him that three Mid Xiantian Experts were waiting in the forest outside the city.

Fang Mo defeated three Mid Xiantian guards outside the city and fled as Hong Tianchou and Xie Lin pursued him. Tao Shang remained confident that Fang Mo would survive, though his plan was unclear.

• Fang Mo faced three Mid Xiantian martial artists and fought them off with the Whirlwind Saber Art.
• Fang Mo killed two opponents, wounded the third, then killed the last guard after Yan Kun blocked Xie Lin from intervening.
• Fang Mo taunted Xie Lin and fled while Yan Kun stopped Hong Tianchou from leaving the Safe Zone until Hong showed his alchemist's token.
• Hong Tianchou ordered Xie Lin to bring Fang Mo back and then joined the pursuit, while Fu Jiang stayed behind with the corpses.
• Lei He and several Trial Takers followed the pursuers, and Tao Shang told Qi Zhu that Fang Mo would survive.

Fang Mo lured Xie Lin into a pursuit and killed him with his self-created Wind Riding Saber Art, then slew Xie Lin’s two subordinates as they fled. Hong Tianchou arrived to avenge Yun Ting, and the chapter ended as he unleashed his overwhelming Xiantian Peak aura against Fang Mo.

• Xie Lin chased Fang Mo for dozens of miles before Fang Mo stopped and revealed his powerful saber intent.
• Fang Mo defeated Xie Lin with the Wind Riding Saber Art and killed him after learning that he had created the technique himself.
• Xie Lin’s two Late Xiantian subordinates fled when they saw him dead, but Fang Mo caught and killed them with one strike.
• Fang Mo revealed that he had provoked Hong Tianchou to lure him there, and Hong Tianchou arrived, declaring that Fang Mo must die for killing Yun Ting.
• Hong Tianchou unleashed a terrifying aura and challenged Fang Mo to face a true Xiantian Peak warrior.

Fang Mo killed Hong Tianchou with a Primordial Spirit attack, then fled before Uncle Shui arrived and pursued him. Meanwhile, Luo Jiangyan and the others were confronted by three Trial Takers at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

• Fang Mo overpowered Hong Tianchou, who relied on his Inner Armor and tried to stall until his helper arrived.
• Fang Mo used the Sword of Nascent Soul to kill Hong Tianchou, then took his Leather Pouches, Inner Armor, and sword before escaping.
• Uncle Shui found Hong Tianchou dead, recognized the strength of Fang Mo's Primordial Spirit, and pursued him, warning that the Tianyan Lineage would seek revenge.
• Lei He examined Hong Tianchou's body and wondered how Fang Mo had learned to cultivate his Primordial Spirit before vanishing toward Red Rock City.
• Luo Jiangyan and his companions prepared to leave their riverside camp in Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain after relocating on Fang Mo's message.
• Three figures emerged from the forest, and one excitedly identified Luo Jiangyan's group as the ten people they had been seeking.

Feng Xuyang and his companions used their formation to defeat three Great Grandmasters, then faced a red-robed stranger who announced he had come to kill them for a bounty. Wang Jinlong hurled his spear at the stranger as the group launched an attack.

• Feng Xuyang organized the ten fighters into a defensive formation when three Great Grandmasters surrounded them and demanded to know whether they knew Fang Mo.
• Mu Yan, Wang Jinlong, Huang Yuyang, and Feng Xuyang coordinated their attacks and wounded the short-haired Great Grandmaster.
• Wang Jinlong pierced the short-haired Great Grandmaster through the chest with his spear, and the group killed the other two Great Grandmasters as well.
• A red-robed man appeared by the riverbank, praised the group, and said he intended to kill them for a bounty of one thousand Gold Crystals and one True Essence Pill.
• Wang Jinlong hurled his spear at the red-robed man, and Feng Xuyang led the others in charging forward.

Xu Ye overwhelmed Feng Xuyang and the others, but Xia Fanbai arrived and warned that their patron Hong Tianchou was dead. Xu Ye suspected Xia Fanbai was deceiving him and attacked the group anyway, leaving them facing a deadly strike.

• Xu Ye caught Wang Jinlong's spear barehanded, shattered its energy, and injured Feng Xuyang and the others with a single counterattack.
• As Xu Ye prepared to kill them, Xia Fanbai appeared and told him to abandon the one thousand Gold Crystals because Hong Tianchou was dead.
• Xia Fanbai left without explaining further, and Xu Ye decided he was lying to claim the reward for himself.
• Xu Ye attacked Feng Xuyang and the others with a bloody blade strike, and they unleashed their full strength to defend themselves.

Fang Mo defeated and killed Xu Ye in Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, taking his powerful Blood Shadow Blade. News of the killing reached Red Rock City, where Tao Shang worried that Fang Mo had now angered both the Tianyan Lineage and the Illusory Moon Lineage and arranged to help him leave the city.

• Fang Mo appeared on the battlefield and sent Xu Ye flying with a single slash, revealing himself as the One-Strike Slash who had killed Hong Tianchou.
• Xu Ye tried to flee, but Fang Mo caught him and struck him down before searching his belongings and claiming the Blood Shadow Blade.
• Xia Fanbai examined Xu Ye's corpse and identified Fang Mo as his greatest rival for the Profound Grade Token.
• Two Trial Takers found Xu Ye's body and fled, fearing Fang Mo would mistake them for enemies.
• Qi Zhu told Tao Shang that Fang Mo had killed Xu Ye, and Tao Shang ordered his people to help Fang Mo's companions leave while keeping watch on Xu Ji.

Fang Mo searched Hong Tianchou’s belongings and learned the Xiantian Foundation Cultivation Pill formula, then used Silver Flood Dragon Essence Blood to strengthen himself. He left the cave with the Indestructible Diamond Body near its seventh level.

• Fang Mo sheltered Luo Jiangyan and the others in a cave so they could recover, then sorted through his spoils.
• Fang Mo found Xiantian Pills and a sealed bottle labeled Xiantian Foundation Cultivation Pill among Hong Tianchou’s possessions.
• Fang Mo studied Hong Xuanling’s Jade Card and learned the Xiantian Foundation Cultivation Pill formula, while Hong Tianchou’s alchemy insights gave him further guidance.
• Fang Mo refined two drops of Silver Flood Dragon Essence Blood, strengthening his body and Xiantian Primordial True Qi.
• Fang Mo saw that the essence blood had advanced his Indestructible Diamond Body’s proficiency and swallowed ten more drops to continue refining it.

Fang Mo endured the Silver Flood Dragon Essence Blood and broke through to the seventh level of the Indestructible Diamond Body, strengthening his body and Primordial Spirit. He left the cave after sensing that someone had been watching the group, but the shadow had vanished.

• Fang Mo refined ten drops of Silver Flood Dragon Essence Blood through intense pain, then swallowed another ten drops to continue cultivating.
• Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan watched Fang Mo cultivate before leaving, while Mingzhen and Mu Yan later kept watch near his cave.
• Mingzhen and Mu Yan spotted a shadow watching their hiding place, but a dragon-like roar and surge of energy from Fang Mo's cave startled it into disappearing.
• Fang Mo broke through to the seventh level, Soul like Torchlight, and found that his Primordial Spirit and ability to control the power of heaven and earth had greatly improved.
• Fang Mo sensed that someone had probed the area and walked out of the cave to find out who it was.

Fang Mo fought a black-clothed stranger who revealed himself as Uncle Shui, steward to Red Rock City's garrison commander, Gu Lingfeng. Uncle Shui said his master had taken an interest in Fang Mo, while the identity of the earlier watcher remained unknown.

• Fang Mo sensed someone in the forest and took watch while Mu Yan and Mingzhen rested in the cave.
• Fang Mo attacked a black-clothed man who had approached the cave, and the two exchanged powerful sword and blade strikes.
• The man stopped the fight and identified himself as Uncle Shui, steward to Gu Lingfeng, the garrison commander of Red Rock City.
• Fang Mo questioned why Uncle Shui had come, and Uncle Shui said Gu Lingfeng had taken an interest in him.

Fang Mo negotiated with Gu Lingfeng’s steward over recruitment and refused to accept without better terms. He prepared his group to leave for Red Rock City the next morning, then kept watch beside Luo Jiangyan until dawn.

• Fang Mo questioned Uncle Shui about Gu Lingfeng’s offer and demanded benefits, citing Tao Shang’s offer from the Leixiao Lineage as an alternative.
• Uncle Shui agreed to relay Fang Mo’s request to Gu Lingfeng and hurried away, while Fang Mo chose not to kill him because he feared Gu Lingfeng’s influence over the Teleportation Array.
• Fang Mo told Yue Quan and the others that Gu Lingfeng had tried to recruit him, then announced they would leave for Red Rock City early the next morning.
• Fang Mo shared pills and weapons with the group, giving Huang Yuyang the Snow Drinker Blade and distributing other swords among the others.
• Luo Jiangyan sat beside Fang Mo as he kept watch, and they quietly watched the Xinghe together until dawn.

After killing Uncle Shui, a mysterious White-clothed Man vanished with his belongings while another swordsman took the body away. Fang Mo led his companions out of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, where Trial Takers feared his reputation, and the chapter ended with him fixing his gaze on two people who said the governor would avenge his steward.

• Uncle Shui met the White-clothed Man in the forest, who killed him with a swift sword strike and took his sword and belongings.
• A greatsword-carrying figure found Uncle Shui's corpse, examined the wound, and carried the body away.
• Fang Mo led his group through Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, and Trial Takers recognized him as One-Strike Slash and quickly made way.
• Fang Mo and his companions reached the mountain entrance after two days, where the crowd discussed his killings and feared the governor's retaliation.
• Fang Mo stopped and fixed his gaze on two people who claimed the governor would not let him live.

Fang Mo learned that someone had falsely spread news that he killed Uncle Shui, putting his plans to reach Red Rock City and use its Teleportation Array in danger. He weighed his options at Eagle-Beak Crag, then reassured his companions that he would face Gu Lingfeng if necessary, while a hidden watcher observed their camp and left.

• Fang Mo questioned two people about the rumor and learned that a stranger had spread it before heading to Red Rock City.
• Fang Mo led his companions away from the mountain pass and decided they would scout near Red Rock City before choosing what to do.
• At Eagle-Beak Crag, Fang Mo considered trusting Tao Shang, forcing a passage through Red Rock Valley, or cultivating until he reached the Heavenly Human Realm.
• Luo Jiangyan and the others encouraged Fang Mo, and he promised to bring them out and said he would kill Gu Lingfeng if Gu Lingfeng challenged him.
• A figure watched Fang Mo's camp from a nearby mountain, then vanished into the darkness.

Fang Mo hid in a mountain cave and repeatedly cultivated the Sword of Nascent Soul to strengthen his Primordial Spirit. In Red Rock City, Tao Shang learned that Gu Lingfeng would pursue Fang Mo, then decided to leave the city and head through Red Rock Valley to find him.

• Fang Mo led his group away from Eagle-Beak Crag before dawn and hid them in a cave a hundred li away.
• Fang Mo trained with the Sword of Nascent Soul, discovered that the Diamond Meditation Method restored his Primordial Spirit quickly, and completed seven rounds of practice.
• Tao Shang learned that Xu Ji had left the city and that Yan Kun had warned him not to get involved in Fang Mo's troubles.
• Tao Shang suspected that Uncle Shui had gone to meet Fang Mo because of Jiang Yuanjiu, but he could not understand why Fang Mo had killed Uncle Shui.
• Tao Shang decided to leave Red Rock City ahead of schedule, find Fang Mo, and cross Red Rock Valley to the Main Trial Area.

Fang Mo broke through in Primordial Spirit Sword cultivation and confronted the mysterious figure who had been tracking him, only to discover that the figure was an impostor using Lei He's name. Their clash revealed the impostor's strange silver-armored form and overwhelming strength, leaving Fang Mo battered.

• Fang Mo advanced his Primordial Spirit Sword, expanded his perception, and sensed someone watching him from beyond his former range.
• Fang Mo pursued the presence to a mountain peak and confronted a white-clad man who identified himself as Lei He.
• Lei He admitted he was not the original Lei He and suggested Gu Lianglong Yao had taught Fang Mo a Primordial Spirit cultivation method.
• Fang Mo demanded that Lei He leave, but Lei He blocked his departure, forcing Fang Mo to attack.
• Lei He covered himself in silver armor and struck down Fang Mo's blade attack, blasting Fang Mo through several trees.

Fang Mo unleashed his strongest blade attack and Primordial Spirit Sword against Lei He, but Lei He’s Level 2 Energy Seal and Liquid Metal Battle Armor blocked them. Lei He defeated Fang Mo and declared that his strength made him valuable to be used.

• Fang Mo gathered his full strength and unleashed a devastating blade strike that battered Lei He’s shield.
• Lei He unlocked the Level 2 Energy Seal of his Liquid Metal Battle Armor and restored his defenses.
• Fang Mo’s Primordial Spirit Sword struck Lei He’s helmet but shattered without injuring him.
• Lei He appeared before Fang Mo and struck him, sending him through trees and leaving him badly injured.
• Lei He told Fang Mo that his strength made him valuable to be used.