Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo visited Wu Qingzi in Star Sea City, where they discussed the war on the Red Rock Continent and the origins of exotic beasts. A Spiritual Energy Fog Tide erupted from the Yin Ruins, leaving the sky gray and the surrounding beasts stirred into a frenzy.

• Wu Qingzi welcomed Fang Mo with rare Spiritual Tea and sought to build a friendly relationship with him.
• Fang Mo asked Wu Qingzi about the Red Rock Continent war, and Wu Qingzi said the Mechanical Empire's machines and weapons had kept their forces from gaining the upper hand.
• A violent tremor shook the area, and Wu Qingzi identified it as a disturbance in the Yin Ruins.
• Wu Qingzi explained that the Yin Ruins periodically released spiritual energy that formed exotic beasts throughout the outside world.
• A Spiritual Energy Fog Tide swept across Star Sea City, stirring the surrounding beasts and the spiritual power in the air.

After an unusually intense Spiritual Energy Fog Tide swept across the wilderness, Fang Mo saw the surge in Exotic Beasts as an opportunity and confronted a newly formed Molten Flame Devouring Beast. Meanwhile, Ji Mingfeng and the other True Persons discovered that Yin Ruins might open ahead of schedule, but the sect ordered them not to interfere with Fang Mo.

• Wu Qingzi warned Fang Mo that the prolonged Fog Tide would bring many Exotic Beasts and endanger Star Sea City and smaller Safe Zones.
• Fang Mo explained the disturbance in Yin Ruins to his maternal grandfather and the others at Huiwu Pavilion, urged them to stay cautious, and left for the wilderness.
• Fang Mo sensed denser spiritual energy and many Exotic Beast auras in the wilderness, then found a Transcendent Realm aura in a volcanic valley.
• A Molten Flame Devouring Beast emerged from the lava, and Fang Mo attacked after it spotted him.
• Ji Mingfeng, Senior Brother Zhai, and another True Person watched the Fog Tide spread through Yin Ruins and concluded that it could cause Yin Ruins to open ahead of schedule.
• Ji Mingfeng refused to suppress Fang Mo's progress in accordance with the sect's instructions, but called for more guards to protect the Safe Zones despite their lack of manpower.

A sudden Spiritual Energy Fog Tide spawned powerful Exotic Beasts throughout the Trial Area, killing Trial Takers and driving a horde toward Qingshan City's Safe Zone. A Transcendent-level flaming lion appeared and battered the city's formation, leaving the residents desperate for reinforcements.

• Li Hu and Wang Hou encountered newly formed Xiantian blue wolves and were killed while trying to flee.
• Lin Wan'er, Zhao Lei, and Li Qing tried to cross a river toward a Safe Zone, but newly formed river beasts swept them into the water.
• Qingshan City's guards closed the gates and activated the city's formation as an Exotic Beast horde attacked, leaving stragglers outside to die.
• A Transcendent-level flaming lion struck the formation, cracked it, and prompted the guardian to request reinforcements from the Divine Hall.

Fang Mo killed the Molten Flame Devouring Beast with the Wind-Baleful Blade and its Blade Domain, then left to hunt more mutated beasts. Meanwhile, the early Fog Tide overwhelmed the Safe Zones, forcing Ji Mingfeng to consider recalling experts from the war front.

• Fang Mo battled the Molten Flame Devouring Beast, breaking its defenses with repeated Wind-Baleful Blade strikes and defeating it with Wind Fiend Returns to the Ruins.
• The Crimson Dragon devoured the wounded beast, and Fang Mo left to search for more mutated beasts.
• Ji Mingfeng watched Safe Zones come under attack as the early Fog Tide strained the Divine Hall's limited manpower.
• Senior Brother Zhai warned Ji Mingfeng that more Safe Zones would face trouble and urged him to recall people from the front lines.
• Ji Mingfeng agreed that recalling reinforcements was the only way forward.

The Thirteen Alliances and the Tianli Sect prepared for a major battle on Red Rock Continent, with Gu Poyue commanding the Alliance forces. The opening bombardment failed to breach the Tianli Sect’s defenses, and the Alliance sent a hundred thousand Aerial Sentinels forward before a ripple spread from the Heavenly Vessels.

• The Alliance and Tianli Sect armies gathered across a devastated battlefield as Gu Poyue and the generals watched from the command hall.
• Luo Qingshan watched the Tianli Sect’s flying experts, hoping to discover a path beyond the Prenatal realm, while Jiang Zhong told him they could only evacuate him after the battle began.
• Luo Yuan and Xiong Ji prepared to pilot Level 1 Mechs as Guan Yang warned them that the Tianli Sect forces were moving out.
• The Tianli Sect’s Heavenly Human Realm experts formed ranks in the sky, and Gu Poyue ordered the Alliance forces to advance.
• The Alliance’s warships and city weapons fired, but the Tianli Sect’s Heavenly Vessels shielded the fleet with an Array Formation.
• Gu Poyue deployed a hundred thousand Aerial Sentinels, and a ripple spread outward from the Heavenly Vessels.

Tianli Sect used a secret art to destroy the Aerial Sentinels, then launched a battle against the Thirteen Alliances' mechs. The fighting escalated when Tie Xiaochuan confronted Thorne, and Tie Xiaochuan vowed to kill him.

• Tianli Sect's attack brought down the Aerial Sentinels, shocking the Alliance commanders, while Farrow urged them to rely on their mechs.
• Mo Xinghe ordered Tianli Sect's forces to deploy, and Gu Bingbing sent the mech squads into battle.
• Tianli Sect's Transcendent Realm experts launched flying swords at the mechs, and both sides began a fierce battle that caused heavy losses.
• Long Jianzhang urged Gu Bingbing to deploy the Liquid Metal Warriors, but Gu Poyue held them back until Tianli Sect's True Man Realm experts appeared.
• Tie Xiaochuan attacked the mech formation, drawing Thorne and the Liquid Metal Warriors into battle; Tie Xiaochuan recognized Thorne and charged at him.

The Mechanical Empire and the Tianli Sect fought a brutal battle as Farrow waited for his hidden advantage to turn the tide. After Taoist Qingqiu fell to a Level 5 Liquid Metal Warrior, the Ancient Realm’s rules forced the Tianli Sect to retreat, and reserve mechs joined the pursuit.

• Tie Xiaochuan and more than a dozen True Persons attacked the Mechanical Empire’s forces, while Level 3 Mechs struggled to hold them back.
• Farrow refused the Thirteen Alliances’ requests to send reserves, insisting the battle would make the Tianli Sect pay.
• Taoist Qingqiu died protecting Tie Xiaochuan from a Level 5 Liquid Metal Warrior, and Tie Xiaochuan’s counterattack failed to stop it.
• A powerful cultivator drove the Level 5 Liquid Metal Warrior away, but their battle triggered the Ancient Realm’s rules and weakened the Sky-Shrouding Talisman.
• Mo Xinghe ordered the Tianli Sect to retreat, while Thorne pursued Tie Xiaochuan and Gu Poyue deployed thousands of reserve Level 1 Mechs against the fleeing forces.

Tianli Sect’s forces were routed after the Ancient Realm’s rules prevented its strongest cultivators from fighting, and the Mechanical Empire and Thirteen Alliances pursued them. As Tie Xiaochuan fled Thorne, a strange ripple preceded heavenly lightning striking Thorne, leaving the pursuit’s outcome uncertain.

• Mo Xinghe ordered Tianli Sect to retreat after violet lightning killed a True Man who had intervened in the battle.
• Mo Xinghe directed the Heavenly Vessel to expand its defensive formation and shelter the retreating forces while enemy warships and mechas continued their attack.
• Gu Poyue ordered the Thirteen Alliances to press forward and wipe out the retreating Tianli Sect forces.
• Mo Xinghe heard a familiar voice tell him to retreat another one hundred li and urged his forces onward.
• Thorne pursued Tie Xiaochuan and repeatedly attacked him as Tie Xiaochuan fled under the threat of heavenly punishment.
• A ripple passed through the sky, and heavenly lightning struck Thorne, shattering his shield and making him scream in pain.

The Heavenly Punishment struck the Liquid Metal Warriors and destroyed most of the mechs that had entered a vast formation set by the Tianli Sect. The surviving Alliance leaders questioned Farrow about their losses and whether they could continue fighting.

• Heavenly Punishment struck Thorne and then killed three more Level 4 Liquid Metal Warriors and two Level 3 Mechs, forcing the others to retreat.
• Farrow and Gu Yuepo detected spatial energy fluctuations and ordered their forces to stop pursuing the Tianli Sect and withdraw.
• Lightning erupted inside the blue energy region, destroying nearly two-thirds of the nearly two thousand mechs that had entered it.
• Luo Yuan, Xiong Ji, and Guan Yang were relieved that they had not entered the deadly region, while the Tianli Sect's forces escaped.
• Farrow explained that an Array Master had prepared a grand formation for the Tianli Sect and claimed the Alliances had still won overall.
• Sangbini and the other Alliance leaders warned Farrow that their mech-pilot reserves were depleted and demanded to know how they could continue.

Farrow pressured the Thirteen Alliances to continue fighting the Tianli Sect by warning they could not escape its reach and promising conquered worlds and resources. On the battered Heavenly Vessel, Mo Xinghe and Tie Xiaochuan blamed each other for the defeat until two figures arrived, with Ling Cangyan supporting one of them.

• Farrow dismissed the Alliances’ concerns about losing their martial artists and warned that the Tianli Sect could find them even if they retreated.
• Farrow tempted the Alliances with territory, resources, and the chance to conquer other martial arts worlds, and most leaders agreed to continue the campaign.
• Gu Poyue urged the Alliances to divide the territory of influence under their earlier agreement.
• The wounded Tianli Sect forces regrouped aboard the Heavenly Vessel, where Mo Xinghe lamented their heavy losses.
• Tie Xiaochuan blamed Mo Xinghe for ordering the decisive battle, while Mo Xinghe blamed Tie Xiaochuan for Qingqiu’s death and the defeat.
• A cold voice interrupted Mo Xinghe and Tie Xiaochuan as two figures descended, one supported by Ling Cangyan.

After the Mechanical Empire inflicted heavy losses on Tianli Sect, Ji Mingfeng and Senior Brother Zhai summoned a True Lord’s divine will to ask for help. The True Lord promised to consult the sect, but the rebellion in the Guoluo Star Domain delayed reinforcements, leaving them to seek a way to hold their position.

• Ji Mingfeng told Senior Brother Zhai that the battlefield defeat had caused nearly three thousand Heavenly Human Realm casualties, nearly a hundred Transcendent Realm casualties, five True Man Realm deaths, and seven serious injuries.
• Senior Brother Zhai learned that Gu Yu had been severely injured by the Ancient Realm’s heavenly punishment and that Ling Cangyan’s Array Formation had driven back the Mechanical Empire and destroyed over a thousand mechs.
• Ji Mingfeng and Senior Brother Zhai summoned a True Lord’s divine will, which said reinforcements would be delayed because True Lords were suppressing the rebellion in the Guoluo Star Domain.
• Senior Brother Zhai recalled warning the sect about a possible rebellion among the exotic beasts of Guluo Star, while Ji Mingfeng wondered whether the revolt was connected to the Mechanical Empire.
• Ji Mingfeng decided to contact Mo Xinghe and ask him to send back a few True Man Realm cultivators.

Tianli Sect regrouped at the Coastal Divine Hall as its leaders struggled with heavy losses and pressure from the Mechanical Empire. Mo Xinghe sent Tie Xiaochuan back to reinforce the Trial Area, where Tie Xiaochuan reunited with Bai Wuchen and discussed Fang Mo’s extraordinary progress.

• Mo Xinghe reviewed Tianli Sect’s losses and argued with Bai Hai Zhou over whether they could spare True Persons to reinforce the Trial Area.
• Mo Xinghe ordered Tie Xiaochuan to return with three lightly injured people, while Bai Hai Zhou blamed him for the defeat and Tie Xiaochuan warned that the Mechanical Empire had a scheme.
• Tie Xiaochuan departed through the vortex and arrived above Red Rock City, where Bai Wuchen met him.
• Tie Xiaochuan credited Fang Mo’s inheritance and cultivation for his recovery, and he and Bai Wuchen remarked that Fang Mo might soon surpass his own teacher.

With the Fog Tide overwhelming Safe Zones, Tie Xiaochuan was pushed to the brink while racing between battles. Moon Pass City then came under attack by a powerful Flame Demon, and its defenders prepared for the formation to fail as they waited for help.

• Tie Xiaochuan returned with three injured True Persons and hunted Exotic Beasts across Safe Zones, but complained to Ji Mingfeng that the nonstop battles were exhausting him and nearly got him killed by a Black Flood Dragon.
• Ji Mingfeng sent Tie Xiaochuan to defend Dragon Rock City from two Transcendent-level Exotic Beasts, then told him to go to Moon Pass City afterward.
• Exotic Beasts battered Moon Pass City's formation, and a massive fire attack made the city's guards fear it would not hold.
• A Flame Demon emerged from underground magma, prompting panic as residents learned that the city's Teleportation Array could not be used during the energy turmoil.
• Fu Lanzhou urged Moon Pass City's residents to stay calm and trust the Divine Hall to send reinforcements, while Lian Qingyi and Yue Muhong prepared to break out to the north if the formation fell.

Lian Qingyi and Yue Muhong helped Fu Lanzhou stabilize Moon Pass City's failing formation as the Flame Demon grew stronger and prepared another devastating strike. Just as the defenders gave up hope and prepared to flee, a powerful blade attack arrived, signaling that reinforcements had come.

• Lian Qingyi and Yue Muhong, trapped in Moon Pass City by the beast tide, watched the Flame Demon batter the city's formation until it began to collapse.
• Fu Lanzhou poured his spiritual power into the array foundation and called on the city's Heavenly Human Realm cultivators to help repair the defenses.
• Yue Muhong and Lian Qingyi joined Fu Lanzhou, and several other cultivators followed, slowing the formation's collapse.
• The Flame Demon absorbed more magma energy, grew over thirty meters tall, and prepared a strike too powerful for the weakened formation to withstand.
• Fu Lanzhou and the others gave up on holding the city and prepared to flee, but a heaven-shaking blade aura struck toward the Flame Demon, announcing the arrival of reinforcements.

A Blood Qi Coiling Dragon and mysterious attacks from the sky battered the Flame Demon while Moon Pass City’s martial artists held their formation. The Flame Demon was frozen in the magma lake, but it was still alive, and the attackers’ identities remained unknown.

• Fu Lanzhou and the martial artists reinforced the grand formation until it withstood the falling magma and flames.
• A nine-mark Blood Qi Coiling Dragon attacked the Flame Demon, prompting Yue Muhong and Lian Qingyi to wonder whether Fang Mo had arrived.
• The Flame Demon fought back from the magma lake and began overpowering the Blood Qi Coiling Dragon.
• An unseen attacker struck the Flame Demon with star energy, and the Blood Qi Coiling Dragon continued to knock it into the magma.
• A massive starlight fist blasted the Flame Demon apart, then a burst of frigid energy froze the magma lake and trapped the demon in ice.
• Yue Muhong and Lian Qingyi concluded the mysterious attacker was not the person they had suspected, and someone in Moon Pass City cried out that the Flame Demon was still alive.

Fang Mo appeared at Moon Pass City and destroyed the Flame Demon with his overwhelming strength, shocking the onlookers. Tie Xiaochuan took him to a secluded mountain, praised his rapid progress, and began to explain why he had returned.

• Fang Mo shattered the ice around the Flame Demon, battered it apart with Zhou Tian Battle Mark Fist, and devoured its blood essence with his Blood Qi Coiling Dragon.
• Yue Muhong and Lian Qingyi recognized Fang Mo as the top-ranked figure on the Ascension Ranking, while the people of Moon Pass City erupted in astonishment.
• Fang Mo called out Tie Xiaochuan, who appeared, praised his strength, and took him away to talk.
• Tie Xiaochuan marveled at Fang Mo's Savage Body Refinement Art, nearly three hundred battle marks, and three Myriad Manifestation Laws.
• Fang Mo explained that the Fog Tide had let him fight many mutated beasts and advance toward Peak Transcendent, and Tie Xiaochuan sighed when Fang Mo asked why he had returned.

Fang Mo learned that Tianli Sect was unlikely to send enough forces soon to crush the Mechanical Empire, then agreed to help the Divine Hall rescue Safe Zones in exchange for more Exotic Beast essence blood. He joined the operations and arrived at Yunqi City just as a beast tide broke through its defenses.

• Tie Xiaochuan told Fang Mo that Tianli Sect was preoccupied with suppressing a rebellion and might not launch a large-scale war against the Mechanical Empire soon.
• Fang Mo said he had condensed the Nine Dragon Mark but still needed vast amounts of Transcendent Realm Exotic Beast essence blood to advance the Savage Body Refinement Art.
• Tie Xiaochuan recruited Fang Mo to help the Divine Hall rescue Safe Zones and promised him the Exotic Beasts he killed.
• Fang Mo began traveling between Safe Zones and slaughtering Exotic Beasts, while Ji Mingfeng welcomed his strength and assistance.
• In Yunqi City, an early-stage Transcendent Realm giant ape broke the grand formation and led the beast tide into the city.
• Fang Mo's blade qi cut down the invading Exotic Beasts, and his Blood Dragon struck the giant ape and sent it crashing to the ground.

Fang Mo slaughtered exotic beasts across multiple Safe Zones, earning the name Venerable Blood Dragon as his blood qi grew toward its limit. At Dragon Severing Valley, he devoured the blood qi of dozens of powerful beasts, and his Nine Dragon Mark fused into a Ten Dragon Mark.

• Fang Mo’s Blood Qi Coiling Dragon killed the giant ape and helped clear the exotic beasts besieging the Safe Zone.
• Fang Mo devoured the battlefield’s blood qi, condensed another drop of True Dragon Blood, and left to support other Safe Zones.
• Fang Mo’s repeated rescues spread his reputation as Venerable Blood Dragon, and people learned he was Fang Mo, first on the Ascension Ranking.
• After more than ten days of fighting, Fang Mo sensed he was nearing his blood qi limit and received Tie Xiaochuan’s summons to Dragon Severing Valley.
• Tie Xiaochuan showed Fang Mo more than fifty Transcendent Realm beasts, including a Spirit Transformation-level Black Flood Dragon, and asked him to test his Blood Dragon’s transformation.
• Fang Mo devoured the beasts’ blood qi, and his Nine Dragon Mark fused into a new mark that Tie Xiaochuan identified as a Ten Dragon Mark.

Fang Mo refined a Spirit Transformation Level beast’s blood qi, condensed ten Dragon Marks and three hundred Battle Marks, and reached the Savage Body Refinement Art’s Realm of Purity and Flawlessness. After confirming his success, Tie Xiaochuan urgently asked him about the art’s sixth realm.

• Fang Mo continued devouring blood qi after condensing ten Dragon Marks, drawing in the blood qi of a Spirit Transformation Level exotic beast and forming a massive Blood Qi Coiling Dragon.
• The Blood Qi Coiling Dragon plunged into Fang Mo’s spine, triggering a painful transformation as True Dragon Blood replaced his blood.
• Fang Mo used his Hegemon Body Battle Marks to condense Battle Marks until he reached three hundred, while Tie Xiaochuan watched in shock.
• Fang Mo’s Dragon Marks settled into his body, and he attained the Realm of Purity and Flawlessness with a physical body at the True Man Realm level.
• Fang Mo’s Bronze Mirror displayed the Savage Body Refinement Art at Peak Attainment, and Tie Xiaochuan asked him about its sixth realm.

Fang Mo taught Tie Xiaochuan the Savage Battle Body, while the Mechanical Empire and the Thirteen Alliances launched attacks across multiple worlds and overwhelmed Tian Yuan Continent. As the Tianli Sect struggled to respond, Bai Hai Zhou proposed turning to Fang Mo.

• Tie Xiaochuan learned the Savage Battle Body from Fang Mo, who then continued accepting missions to gather energy for his battle marks and Dragon Blood Battle Armor.
• The Galactic Alliance sent mechs through the Teleportation Gate and defeated Tian Yuan Continent’s defenders, after which allied forces began plundering the world.
• The Mechanical Empire and the Thirteen Alliances began attacking low-level worlds, with scouts reporting that five Small Worlds were under attack.
• Mo Xinghe lamented that the Tianli Sect lacked the strength to protect the worlds until reinforcements arrived.
• Bai Hai Zhou suggested that Fang Mo might offer a way to respond.