Chapter Summaries

Mo Xinghe accused Fang Mo of being a Mechanical Empire spy from the Galactic Alliance and urged the Tianli Sect to capture him. Ji Mingfeng and Tie Xiaochuan could not disprove the accusations, and Mo Xinghe ended by proposing that the sect use its grand formation to locate Fang Mo.

• Mo Xinghe presented two men and images identifying Fang Mo as a Galactic Alliance martial artist and the grandson of its leading sect master.
• Mo Xinghe argued that Fang Mo had infiltrated the Tianli Sect to sabotage the Divine Hall and destroy the Teleportation Array.
• The True Persons condemned Ji Mingfeng and Tie Xiaochuan for protecting Fang Mo, while Ji Mingfeng suspected Jiang Yuanjiu's escape was part of the Mechanical Empire's retaliation.
• Tie Xiaochuan defended Fang Mo as the man who had saved his life, but Mo Xinghe made him question whether the rescue had been staged.
• Mo Xinghe proposed activating the grand formation to locate Fang Mo and capture him.

Mo Xinghe and the Divine Hall’s True Men decided to capture Fang Mo over suspicions that he was a Mechanical Empire spy, but they could not divine his location. Ling Cangyan descended and declared Fang Mo innocent and a disciple of Great Void Peak, forbidding any True Man from pursuing him.

• Mo Xinghe rejected Ji Mingfeng’s plea to consult Ling Cangyan and ordered him to locate and capture Fang Mo, while Tie Xiaochuan asked Senior Brother Zhai to protect Fang Mo.
• Senior Brother Zhai ordered Mo Xinghe to bring Fang Mo back alive, and Ji Mingfeng activated the grand formation to search for him.
• Ji Mingfeng and the other True Men failed to divine Fang Mo’s location, prompting them to suspect that a Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm expert had hidden him.
• Ling Cangyan’s dharma body appeared in the Divine Hall and declared that Fang Mo was not a Mechanical Empire spy and belonged to Great Void Peak.
• Ling Cangyan warned that any True Man who attacked Fang Mo would face his wrath, and then his dharma body vanished.

Mo Xinghe explained that the Tianli Sect valued Fang Mo’s progress because the Yin Ruins might hold secrets beyond the Void Insight Realm, then learned Fang Mo had reached the Transcendent Realm. He recalled Shi Yuanhao and left to handle the crisis while Pang Angong executed Jiang Yuanjiu and two Galactic Alliance martial artists.

• Mo Xinghe told Bai Haizhou that the sect would prioritize uncovering the Secret of Yinxu over killing Fang Mo, whose Slaughter Points made him valuable to the investigation.
• Mo Xinghe revealed that the Ancient Realm might concern secrets beyond the Void Insight Realm, and Jiang Yuanjiu considered informing the Mechanical Empire.
• Bai Haizhou told Mo Xinghe that he had sent Shi Yuanhao to kill Fang Mo, and Mo Xinghe objected because Shi Yuanhao was near a breakthrough.
• Pang Angong reported that Fang Mo had advanced to the Transcendent Realm and become the first such cultivator on the Ascension Ranking in ten thousand years.
• Mo Xinghe ordered Yuanhao to return and left for the front line, while Bai Haizhou departed to clean up the remaining matter.
• Pang Angong captured and killed Jiang Yuanjiu and the two Galactic Alliance martial artists, reducing them to dust.

Fang Mo met Shi Yuanhao at Duanlong Abyss after advancing into the Transcendent Realm, and the two began a fierce duel. Their battle drove the Black Flood Dragon into hiding, and both men prepared to escalate the fight.

• Shi Yuanhao received Bai Hai Zhou's order to terminate his mission, but shattered the Jade Talisman when Fang Mo arrived at Duanlong Abyss.
• Fang Mo revealed that he had entered the Transcendent Realm, with his three cultivation paths fused and a Dao Seed formed.
• Shi Yuanhao proposed a duel instead of killing Fang Mo, and Fang Mo agreed while joking that he did not like men.
• The Black Flood Dragon emerged to order the fighters off its territory, then fled after their combined wills frightened it.
• Fang Mo and Shi Yuanhao exchanged powerful sword and saber attacks, ending several miles apart without either gaining a clear advantage.
• Shi Yuanhao declared he would use the Purple Prison Origin Thunder Sword Art, and Fang Mo said he would get serious too.

Fang Mo and Shi Yuanhao clashed in a fierce battle, and Fang Mo’s blade skill shattered Shi Yuanhao’s Purple Thunder Sword and wounded him. Fang Mo followed with attacks powered by his battle marks and blood qi, leaving Shi Yuanhao struggling to defend himself.

• Fang Mo unleashed the Burning Heaven Splitting Mountain Slash against Shi Yuanhao’s colossal Purple Thunder Sword.
• Ji Mingfeng, Tie Xiaochuan, Xiang Yunqing, and Meng Xiuping watched the battle through the Divine Hall Grand Array, but Ji Mingfeng refused to intervene.
• Fang Mo’s saber strike shattered the Purple Thunder Sword and sent Shi Yuanhao flying, while Fang Mo’s Dominant Body Battle Mark Record shielded him from the blast.
• Shi Yuanhao recognized Fang Mo’s Spirit Grade blade skill and counted 166 battle marks on him.
• Fang Mo struck Shi Yuanhao with Battle Mark Heavenly Aura, then sent a Blood Qi Coiling Dragon after him as Shi Yuanhao formed the Purple Thunder Sword Prison.

Fang Mo battled Shi Yuanhao until Shi Yuanhao offered compensation to end the fight. Fang Mo accepted a continuation of the Wind-Baleful Blade and a pouch of pills, while observers in the Divine Hall discussed the outcome.

• Fang Mo and Shi Yuanhao traded powerful attacks, with neither able to secure a decisive victory.
• Shi Yuanhao asked to stop and offered compensation, but Fang Mo refused until Shi Yuanhao promised him the Transcendent Realm forms of the Wind-Baleful Blade.
• Fang Mo demanded pills as additional compensation, and Shi Yuanhao handed over a pouch containing Heavenly Human and Transcendent-level pills.
• Shi Yuanhao fled after Fang Mo accepted the compensation and warned him not to expect an easy conversation next time.
• Tie Xiaochuan, Meng Xiuping, Xiang Yunqing, and Ji Mingfeng watched the fight end and discussed how Shi Yuanhao had been wary of damaging his origin.

After Fang Mo survived Shi Yuanhao’s attack, Ling Cangyan sent him the Transcendent Realm Form Creation Chapter and warned him of the power gap between realms. Fang Mo began cultivating the Taichu Myriad Manifestations Art, condensing his first drops of Taichu Primordial Liquid.

• Fang Mo reflected on his hard-fought battle with Shi Yuanhao and realized he needed a Transcendent Realm cultivation technique.
• A Jade Talisman arrived and suppressed Fang Mo before stopping without harming him.
• Fang Mo recognized the Taichu Myriad Manifestations Art: Form Creation Chapter in the talisman and thanked Ling Cangyan, whom he assumed had sent it.
• Fang Mo recovered in a cave, absorbed the technique from the Jade Talisman, and learned it was one of the Tianli Sect’s five supreme arts.
• Fang Mo began cultivating the Form Creation Chapter, refined his true essence, and condensed Taichu Primordial Liquid in his Dantian.

Ling Cangyan and Venerable Gu Yu discussed Fang Mo’s talent, Shi Yuanhao’s defeat, and the need to prepare Tianli Sect disciples for the Mechanical Empire invasion. Fang Mo refined all his true essence into Taichu Primordial Liquid, then learned from Tie Xiaochuan that the front lines on the Red Rock Continent needed reinforcements, while the trial kept Fang Mo from joining them.

• Ling Cangyan and Venerable Gu Yu agreed that Shi Yuanhao and Tianli Sect’s disciples needed battle experience against the Mechanical Empire, while Ling Cangyan dismissed concerns about Fang Mo’s Liquid Metal Battle Armor.
• Fang Mo advanced Taichu Form Creation to mastery, refined all his true essence into Taichu Primordial Liquid, and reached the peak of the early Transcendent Realm.
• Tie Xiaochuan visited Fang Mo and praised him for defeating Shi Yuanhao.
• Tie Xiaochuan told Fang Mo that the Mechanical Empire had increased its forces and that he and others were heading to the Red Rock Continent.
• Tie Xiaochuan told Fang Mo that Trial Takers could not leave before the trial ended and advised him to keep cultivating; he named Xiang Yunqing, Meng Xiuping, and Ji Mingfeng as people Fang Mo could seek while he was away.

Fang Mo accepted that he needed to grow stronger and continued hunting Exotic Beasts, widening his lead on the Ascension Ranking. Meanwhile, Ye Qiuchen overheard news of a war between the Tianli Sect and the Mechanical Empire, then faced capture after three Heavenly Human Realm experts accused him of spying.

• Fang Mo resolved to cultivate his arts and build enough strength that Mo Xinghe and others would not dare threaten him.
• Fang Mo hunted Exotic Beasts until his Slaughter Points passed one million, discouraging the other Ascension Ranking competitors.
• Ye Qiuchen returned to the Divine Hall and overheard three Tianli Sect members discussing heavy losses in the war against the Mechanical Empire.
• The three experts accused Ye Qiuchen of being a spy and attacked him when he tried to resist.
• One expert crushed Ye Qiuchen's punch and stepped toward him as Ye Qiuchen lay injured, until someone shouted, "Stop!"

Mu Yunlan arrived to rescue Ye Qiuchen from three Tianli Sect warriors, but their clash drew the Enforcement Team, whose captain accused them of being spies. The guards prepared to take Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen to the Enforcement Office, leaving both men facing a dangerous choice.

• Mu Yunlan struck the brown-haired Tianli Sect warrior, then learned from Ye Qiuchen that the men had attacked him over a supposed eavesdropping incident.
• Mu Yunlan used his heavy sword to drive back all three Tianli Sect warriors when they attacked him and Ye Qiuchen.
• The Enforcement Team intervened, and the brown-haired warrior accused Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen of spying for the Mechanical Empire.
• The Enforcement Team captain ordered them to the Enforcement Office, while Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen realized they were surrounded and could not safely escape.

Ye Qiuchen and Mu Yunlan faced arrest by the Enforcement Team until Xu Shou intervened and secured their release. Mu Yan and the others reunited with them and revealed that they had arrived with Fang Mo.

• Ye Qiuchen offered to go with the Enforcement Team alone, but the captain ordered officers to take both him and Mu Yunlan.
• Mu Yan recognized his grandfather’s voice, and Xu Shou stopped him from rushing into the confrontation before learning who the two men were.
• Xu Shou showed the captain his tokens and spoke with him, prompting the Enforcement Team to withdraw and call the accusations a misunderstanding.
• Mu Yan reunited with Mu Yunlan and told him that he had come there with Fang Mo.
• Luo Jiangyan and Yue Quan greeted Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen, who were surprised that they had survived.

Mu Yan and the others reunited with Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen, who learned that Fang Mo had reached the Transcendent Realm and that the Mechanical Empire threatened the Galactic Alliance. After they contacted Fang Mo and prepared to meet him, the chapter ended with Fang Mo in White Bear Ridge, growing stronger by devouring a giant bear’s blood qi as he flew toward a Safe Zone.

• Mu Yan and the others recounted their journey, and Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen learned that Fang Mo was first on the Ascension Ranking and had reached the Transcendent Realm.
• Luo Jiangyan and Mu Yan described how Fang Mo had protected them and given them valuable medicines, prompting Mu Yunlan to scold Mu Yan for wasting his pills.
• Ye Qiuchen asked Luo Jiangyan to contact Fang Mo about the Mechanical Empire’s threat to the Alliance, and Fang Mo replied that he could return that day.
• Xu Shou obtained visitor passes, and the group went to Fang Mo’s residence on the seventh level, where Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen felt the dense spiritual energy.
• In White Bear Ridge, Fang Mo received Luo Jiangyan’s message after killing a giant white bear and absorbed its blood qi with his Blood Dragon, which had eight golden dragon patterns.
• Fang Mo failed to condense a ninth dragon pattern, dismembered the bear, and flew toward the nearest Safe Zone.

The Enforcement Team let Fang Mo’s companions go after learning that Fang Mo had killed powerful Imperial Sky Peak experts and gained the backing of a Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm expert. Fang Mo returned to the Divine Hall, reunited with Ye Qiuchen, and met Mu Yunlan, leaving them to share a banquet and catch up.

• The Enforcement Team captain explained that the people they had released were connected to Fang Mo, whose steward had shown his token.
• The captain told the team that Fang Mo had killed two Transcendent Realm experts from Imperial Sky Peak and Ao Kong, and that Great Void Peak protected him.
• Fang Mo returned to the Divine Hall, where Yue Quan, Mu Yunlan, Ye Qiuchen, and the others welcomed him.
• Fang Mo reunited with Ye Qiuchen and learned that his Maternal Grandfather and the others were near Star Sea City.
• Ye Qiuchen introduced Mu Yunlan and Mu Yan to Fang Mo, who insisted that he and Mu Yan were close friends despite their difference in strength.
• Fang Mo invited everyone to sit and talk, then asked Xu Shou to prepare a banquet with wine.

Fang Mo told Mu Yunlan, Ye Qiuchen, and the others that the Mechanical Empire was using the Galactic Alliance as cannon fodder and that the Ancient Realm could only be entered through its Teleportation Array. The group learned that Martial Ancestor Long Yao was searching for a base inside the secret realm, while Ye Qiuchen was left shocked by Fang Mo’s skill as an alchemist.

• Fang Mo explained that the front-line fighting was fierce, the Tianli Sect was sending reinforcements, and the Ancient Realm’s Teleportation Array would close after its trial ended.
• Fang Mo warned Mu Yunlan and Ye Qiuchen that the Mechanical Empire could not send Starships into the Ancient Realm, leaving Alliance forces there at risk of being stranded.
• Ye Qiuchen revealed that Martial Ancestor Long Yao and several Half-step Heavenly Human Realm cultivators had entered the secret realm to find a place to establish a base.
• Fang Mo agreed to travel with Mu Yunlan and the others to Star Sea City the next day and offered to pay their Teleportation fee.
• Ye Qiuchen described how Gu Liangyunzong had advanced to the Mid Heavenly Human Realm and helped him reach the Mid Xiantian Realm.
• Fang Mo gave Ye Qiuchen six Heavenly Human Treasure Pills and revealed that he had refined them himself, shocking Ye Qiuchen.

Gu Liangyunzong returned to Huiwu Pavilion and learned that the Longevity Society had injured Huiwu while trying to seize their residence. As the Society arrived with three Heavenly Human Realm experts, Gu Liangyunzong led his allies outside to face them.

• Gu Liangyunzong returned to Huiwu Pavilion and found its members gathered anxiously in the inner courtyard.
• Yu Qingzi told Gu Liangyunzong that the Longevity Society had demanded their residence and injured Huiwu when they refused.
• Gu Liangyunzong discovered hidden true essence in Huiwu's injury and expelled black blood that threatened to shatter his heart meridians.
• Yu Qingzi and Hua Xianling warned that Huiwu Pavilion was outnumbered, while the others argued over whether to fight or yield.
• A messenger reported that the Longevity Society had arrived with twenty or thirty people and three Heavenly Human Realm experts, and Gu Liangyunzong led everyone outside.

Gu Liangyunzong fought five Heavenly Human Realm martial artists who attacked the Galactic Alliance’s foothold in Star Sea City. Just as they moved to strike him while he was injured, an unknown ally appeared behind him and sent all five flying.

• Gu Liangyunzong confronted three Heavenly Human Realm martial artists after they injured three Xiantian guards at the gate.
• Gu Liangyunzong held off the three attackers, including a Mid Heavenly Human Realm fighter, while Yu Qingzi and the others watched.
• Two more Heavenly Human Realm martial artists joined the fight, and the five overwhelmed Gu Liangyunzong and injured him.
• The five attackers advanced to strike Gu Liangyunzong again, but a newcomer appeared behind him and blasted all five away.

Fang Mo reunited with his maternal grandfather, Gu Liangyunzong, in Star Sea City and killed five Longevity Society experts who tried to flee. After the Guardian Wu Qingzi recognized Fang Mo as a fellow Tianli Sect disciple, he ordered the Enforcement Team to handle the remaining troublemakers and invited Fang Mo to visit him.

• Fang Mo steadied the injured Gu Liangyunzong and reunited with him while Ye Qiuchen and Mu Yunlan arrived.
• Fang Mo killed five injured Heavenly Human Realm experts of the Longevity Society with a single palm strike as they attempted to escape.
• Wu Qingzi appeared in response to the killings and recognized Fang Mo as the new Great Void Peak disciple who topped the Ascension Ranking.
• Wu Qingzi excused Fang Mo, invited him to the Guardian Residence, and ordered the Enforcement Team to deal with the Longevity Society members.

Fang Mo reunited with the Galactic Alliance in Star Sea City, where he explained the Mechanical Empire’s threat and the cultivation realms beyond their understanding. He promised to seek a way to help the Alliance, then began describing the power of the Nascent Soul Tribulation and hinted that even it was not the highest realm.

• Fang Mo watched the Enforcement Team kill or capture the Longevity Society members, while Wu Qingzi and the onlookers treated him with awe.
• Fang Mo entered the Central Hall with Gu Liangyunzong and the others, then described the changes in Red Rock City, the Mechanical Empire, and the war between the Galactic Alliance and the Tianli Sect.
• Fang Mo warned the group that the Mechanical Empire harvested martial artists and promised to investigate the front lines and seek a way to help the Galactic Alliance.
• Fang Mo explained the cultivation realms, from the Postnatal Realm through the True Man Realm and the Nascent Soul Tribulation.
• Fang Mo declared that the Nascent Soul Tribulation was not the strongest realm, silencing the crowd.

Fang Mo explained the Spirit Roaming and Void Comprehension realms to the others, then agreed to contact the Galactic Alliance after the passage to the Advanced Trial Area was destroyed. He also told Hua Xianling that Yue Quan and several others had advanced to the Prenatal realm.

• Guliang Yunzhong asked about the Spirit Roaming Realm, and Fang Mo explained how its experts could travel through the stars using their Primordial Spirits.
• Fang Mo described the Void Comprehension Realm and said that even Void Glimpse Great Powers had not found whether a higher realm existed.
• Guliang Yunzhong and Mu Yunlan turned the discussion to contacting the Galactic Alliance, and Fang Mo volunteered to handle it carefully.
• Hua Xianling asked about Yue Quan, and Fang Mo said she had reached the Prenatal realm along with Mingzhen, Feng Xuyang, and Xuan Chenzi.
• Yu Qingzi and Master Huiwu reacted with shock when Fang Mo confirmed Xuan Chenzi and Mingzhen had advanced to the Prenatal realm.

Fang Mo helped the Alliance elders establish Huiwu Pavilion in Star Sea City and gave Gu Liangyunzong Gold Crystals and pills. After warning his maternal grandfather to prioritize cultivation and keep the gifts secret, Fang Mo left for Guardian Hall.

• Hua Xianling learned that Yue Quan had stayed behind because Mu Yunlan had told the younger disciples not to travel to Star Sea City.
• Fang Mo agreed that Huiwu Pavilion should gather Alliance members in the advanced Trial Area and said he would ask the local guardian to protect them.
• Fang Mo gave Gu Liangyunzong five thousand Gold Crystals to fund Huiwu Pavilion, then privately gave him another ten thousand Gold Crystals and Heavenly Human-level pills.
• Fang Mo warned Gu Liangyunzong to keep the gifts secret and focus on raising his strength, and Gu Liangyunzong assured him he would use his judgment.
• Fang Mo departed in a Spirit Taming Carriage and arrived at Guardian Hall, where Wu Qingzi was waiting.