Chapter Summaries

Venerable Beixuan’s reinforcements helped True Lord Dingjun stabilize his collapsing formation, while Venerables arriving at Fang Mo’s battlefield struggled to reach the exhausted Holy Son. Meanwhile, True Lords Lingxiao, Crimson Mandarin Duck, and Cangming secretly empowered the Dark Nether Ice Phoenix, which erupted with greatly increased strength as Han Li and the other True Lords fought it.

• Venerable Beixuan led reinforcements to True Lord Dingjun, whose formation fused with their Sword Array into a stronger composite battle formation.
• Venerable Qingyun and the other Venerables found Fang Mo still fighting amid countless exotic beast corpses and tried to break through to protect him.
• True Lord Lingxiao, True Lord Crimson Mandarin Duck, and True Lord Cangming decided to use a Jade Talisman to strengthen the Dark Nether Ice Phoenix and make it fight Tianli Sect.
• True Lord Cangming slipped toward the battle and used the Mystic Jade Talisman to unleash freezing energy and Ice Fiend Qi upon the Dark Nether Ice Phoenix.
• The Dark Nether Ice Phoenix regained its wounds and erupted with violent power, blasting True Lord Qianshan, True Lord Qingya, Crimson Sun, and Tianluo backward.

The Ice Phoenix recovered and grew stronger as its fight against five True Lords intensified, while the enhanced ice beasts overwhelmed Fang Mo. Fang Mo broke through to the second stage of the Savage Ancient True Body Realm and wiped out hundreds of beasts, prompting True Lord Lingxiao, True Lord Cangming, and True Lord Crimson Mandarin Duck to prepare a joint attack.

• The Ice Phoenix absorbed the remaining ice essence, recovered from its injuries, and forced the five True Lords into a fiercer battle.
• True Lord Cangming, True Lord Lingxiao, and True Lord Crimson Mandarin Duck considered attacking Fang Mo but hesitated because he carried the Star River Token.
• The Ice Phoenix's rising strength empowered the ice beasts, increasing pressure on Venerable Beixuan's formation and leaving Fang Mo surrounded as Qingyun and the others could not reach him.
• Fang Mo broke through to the second stage of the Savage Ancient True Body Realm and unleashed a golden dragon shockwave that destroyed hundreds of ice beasts.
• After seeing Fang Mo's breakthrough, True Lord Lingxiao urged True Lord Cangming and True Lord Crimson Mandarin Duck to attack him together, and they agreed.

Fang Mo slaughtered half the ice-type exotic beasts before three True Lords attacked and tried to seize him. Cen Feng arrived to protect him and overwhelmed the attackers, leaving Fang Mo to watch as his Martial Grandfather fought all three.

• Fang Mo's strike killed half the ice-type exotic beasts, astonishing Qingyun and the five Venerables.
• The Bronze Mirror warned Fang Mo of danger as True Lord Lingxiao, True Lord Cangming, and Chi Yuan used their combined pressure and attacks to try to capture him.
• Fang Mo resisted their suppression with his Savage Ancient True Body and Ancestral Dragon Blade, while preparing to use the Star River Token.
• Cen Feng appeared, scattered the three True Lords' attacks, and told Fang Mo to watch the Myriad Forms Art.
• Cen Feng struck Cangming, Chi Yuan, and Lingxiao in turn, repeatedly sending them flying as Fang Mo watched in astonishment.

Fang Mo and the others fought off the retreating exotic beasts as Cen Feng, Houtu, and Fire-Refining True Lord turned the battle against the allied sects. Lingxiao, Crimson Mandarin Duck, and Cangming escaped by using powerful techniques, while Cen Feng and Fire-Refining True Lord headed to subdue the ice phoenix.

• Fang Mo reassured Qingyun and the others that he was unharmed after resisting the Venerables’ pressure.
• True Lord Houtu arrived and struck the ice phoenix, causing the exotic beasts to retreat toward the Ice Abyss.
• Fang Mo led Qingyun, Ling Su, and the others in fighting the returning horde while six True Lords suppressed the ice phoenix.
• Lingxiao, Cangming, and Crimson Mandarin Duck tried to escape after Fire-Refining True Lord blocked their route.
• Lingxiao and Crimson Mandarin Duck escaped with their treasures and secret techniques, and Cangming fled using Soul-Burning Thunder Escape.
• Cen Feng and Fire-Refining True Lord went to deal with the ice phoenix.

The Ice Phoenix was slain, and the allied True Lords began purging the frost beasts while Fang Mo cultivated and discovered that the beasts were targeting the sealing grand array. True Lord Hanli then took Fang Mo to deal with beasts elsewhere.

• Cen Feng and Fire-Refining True Lord helped defeat the Ice Phoenix, and True Lord Hanli claimed its cold soul.
• The True Lords assessed their injuries and losses, then sent the wounded for treatment and ordered the remaining forces to purge the frost beasts.
• Fang Mo cultivated atop the Ice Phoenix's corpse, absorbing frost origin energy as True Lord Dingjun and True Lord Tianluo watched in awe.
• Fang Mo sensed that devouring was dimming stars connected to the sealing grand array and realized the beasts were attacking it.
• True Lord Hanli appeared before Fang Mo and told him to leave with her to deal with beasts elsewhere.

The Holy Envoy summoned Black Flood Dragon, Flame Eagle, Red Thunder, and White Phoenix and revealed that Ice Phoenix had died after falling into a trap set by the Tianli Sect. He ordered them to prioritize the Sacred Clan’s invasion plans and continue investigating Fang Mo, whose connection to the Divine Lord could affect the clan’s future.

• Black Flood Dragon, Flame Eagle, and Red Thunder arrived at the island and discussed their injuries and the Tianli Sect’s attacks.
• White Phoenix arrived, and the Holy Envoy revealed that Ice Phoenix had perished after six True Lords from the Tianli Sect caused her origin power to run wild.
• White Phoenix questioned whether the Sacred Clan would avenge Ice Phoenix, but the Holy Envoy warned her against acting recklessly and ordered the group to focus on destroying the Nine Heavens Sealing Grand Formation.
• White Phoenix told the Holy Envoy that the Tianli Sect’s Holy Son, Fang Mo, had reached late Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm combat strength after his tribulation, but she had not confirmed the Divine Lord’s aura.
• The Holy Envoy ordered White Phoenix to find Fang Mo and told the others to report any news of him before scattering into the void.

Fang Mo and the Purge Team defeated another Heaven Penetrating Level beast, but months of nonstop battles left them exhausted and forced them to pause while Tianli Sect sought help from other powers. In Galaxy City, Bai Ling offered Guan Lu pills and suggested taking her to gain combat experience, leaving Guan Lu interested in the idea.

• Fang Mo used the Tribulation Extinction Slash to kill the Lava Mountain Dragon after the Purge Team disabled it.
• Fang Mo and the True Lords discussed their exhaustion and Tianli Sect’s difficulty responding to the growing beast disasters, then agreed to withdraw and rest.
• Fang Mo returned to recuperate while True Lord Hanli and the others prepared to reorganize and make new plans.
• Bai Ling gave Guan Lu Prenatal Clear Glory Pills to help her cultivate the Prenatal Crimson Flame Art.
• Bai Ling suggested that Guan Lu gain experience outside Galaxy City and offered to accompany her, stirring Guan Lu’s interest.

After breaking through to the Peak Heavenly Human Realm, Luo Jiangyan learned that Guan Lu had gone training in Silentwood Forest with the mysterious Bai Ling and hurried to find her when contact with the guards was lost. She reached Guan Lu safely, but the Black Armor Guard had already trained their attention on Bai Ling.

• Luo Jiangyan returned from secluded cultivation and learned from Xie Xuanqing that Guan Lu had left Galaxy City with Bai Ling for training in Silentwood Forest.
• When Xie Xuanqing could no longer contact the guards accompanying Guan Lu, Luo Jiangyan gathered a squad and set out for the forest.
• Guan Lu struggled against a Grayrock Rhinoceros while Bai Ling subtly protected her and instructed her in combat.
• Four Black Armor Guards appeared, killed the fleeing rhinoceros, and watched Bai Ling warily as Guan Lu asked whether Fang Mo had returned.
• Luo Jiangyan arrived by flying boat, reunited with the unharmed Guan Lu, and turned her attention to Bai Ling.

Luo Jiangyan investigated Bai Ling after Guan Lu returned from training, suspecting her friendship with Guan Lu might have been deliberate. As Luo Jiangyan served Guan Lu tea at Snow Listening Cottage, Guan Lu suddenly collapsed amid a violent eruption of fiery true energy.

• Luo Jiangyan met Bai Ling, questioned the guards about a mysterious fog that had disrupted their communication, and watched Bai Ling leave the forest.
• Luo Jiangyan brought Guan Lu back to Galaxy City and ordered the Black Armor Guards to investigate and monitor Bai Ling.
• A Black Armor Guard reported that Bai Ling worked at the Heavenly Sound Pill Workshop and had reached the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
• Xie Xuanqing identified Bai Ling as a member of the Jade Net Sect and suggested she might have befriended Guan Lu to curry favor with the Tianli Sect.
• Guan Lu emerged from her bath and reached for Luo Jiangyan's tea, then recoiled, clutched her chest, and collapsed as fiery true energy erupted from her body.

Guan Lu collapsed under a sinister fire poison that Su Lan identified as a Bone-Eroding Heart-Burning Curse, and Luo Jiangyan struggled to find help before it caused irreversible damage. The chapter left Guan Lu temporarily stabilized but still in danger, while Bai Ling had vanished and Fang Mo remained unreachable.

• Luo Jiangyan caught Guan Lu as she collapsed and summoned physicians, alchemists, Taichu Peak, the Black Armor Guard, and Bai Ling.
• Su Lan examined Guan Lu and determined that a corrosive fire poison had tainted her bloodline and Bone Structure and was burning her soul.
• Su Lan warned that only a Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm expert or a specialist with countering true essence could safely attempt to remove the curse, and she used cold medicinal power to suppress it temporarily.
• A guard reported that Bai Ling had disappeared, and Xie Xuanqing confirmed that searches and tracking arts had found no trace of her.
• Luo Jiangyan ordered an expanded search for Bai Ling and repeatedly tried to contact Fang Mo, but received no response.

Guan Lu was poisoned by a dangerous flame that even powerful experts could not safely remove, and Luo Jiangyan feared she could not save her. Fang Mo returned, recognized the Ice Marrow True Flame, and promised Guan Lie that he would save Guan Lu.

• Long Jianzhang, Murong Yu, and other experts examined Guan Lu but could not resolve the fire poison.
• Xiao Mufeng and Shen Yue found that the poison had entwined itself with Guan Lu’s bloodline and divine soul, and warned that removing it could kill her.
• Xiao Jingsheng explained that Fang Mo was away with the Purge Team and communications were cut off.
• Fang Mo returned to the room, examined Guan Lu, and identified the poison as Ice Marrow True Flame.
• Luo Jiangyan recounted Bai Ling’s appearance and Guan Lu’s poisoning, while Shen Yue explained the danger of forcing the poison out.
• Fang Mo reassured Luo Jiangyan and Guan Lie that he would save Guan Lu.

Fang Mo used primordial ice and fire powers to treat Guan Lu, while Bai Ling revealed that she had laid a trap to reach the mark carrying the Divine Lord’s aura. As Fang Mo neared the end of the treatment, Bai Ling’s icy will crossed the imprint and attacked him through the river of space-time.

• Fang Mo dismissed everyone from Guan Lu’s room and began treating her with the powers of the Archaic Sea Ice Flood Dragon and Scorchfire Lava Beast.
• Fang Mo carefully broke down and neutralized the Ice Marrow True Flame in Guan Lu, restoring her health and tempering her meridians and Bone Structure.
• Bai Ling watched Galaxy City from a distant mountain and sent her will toward the mark, intent on discovering why Fang Mo carried the aura of the Divine Lord.
• Fang Mo sensed an icy imprint hidden in Guan Lu’s remaining fire poison, but could not stop the treatment without endangering her.
• Bai Ling’s deathly will surged through the imprint toward Fang Mo, who sent his divine soul into the river of space-time to confront it.

Fang Mo fought Bai Ling’s Ice Phoenix will across space-time while completing Guan Lu’s treatment, and the awakened Ancestral Dragon Blade drove Bai Ling away at the cost of badly injuring him. Guan Lu survived with her poison removed and a strengthened foundation, while Fang Mo told the others he had fought an enemy across space-time.

• Fang Mo battled Bai Ling’s Ice Phoenix will with Primordial Silence Slash and Dragon Skeleton: Prison Suppression while maintaining Guan Lu’s treatment.
• Bai Ling formed a white-flame spear and attacked Fang Mo, who unleashed Dragon Skeleton: Prison Suppression again and shattered his Primordial Spirit incarnation.
• The Ancestral Dragon Blade awakened, erased Bai Ling’s spear, and sent a karmic backlash that wounded Bai Ling and forced her to flee.
• Fang Mo collapsed back in Snow Listening Cottage, but confirmed that Guan Lu’s poison had been completely removed and her foundation strengthened.
• Xiao Mufeng, Shen Yue, Luo Jiangyan, and Guan Lie found Fang Mo injured, and Fang Mo said he had fought an enemy across space-time.

True Lord Hanli and True Monarch Qingshui failed to track the strange beast that attacked Fang Mo, but its connection to the Yin Ruins prompted them to report the threat to Tianli Sect. After Fang Mo helped Guan Lu recover and revealed that she might soon reach the Transcendent Realm, the Divine Hall debated the incident and questioned how Fang Mo had injured a beast at the peak of the Heaven Penetrating Level.

• True Lord Hanli traced the summit’s residual aura through time, but the Ice Phoenix’s will shattered her investigation, and she and True Monarch Qingshui could not track the strange beast.
• Fang Mo told Hanli and Qingshui that he sensed Yin Ruins and strange beast auras during the fight, and they decided to report the suspected threat to the sect.
• Guan Lu woke, and Fang Mo reassured her that the fire tribulation had strengthened her foundation, gave her the Flame Spirit True Art, and said she could soon reach the Transcendent Realm.
• True Lord Hanli and True Monarch Qingshui reported the suspected Yin Ruins connection to the Divine Hall, where the gathered True Lords discussed the threat.
• Fire-Refining True Lord questioned whether Fang Mo could really have injured a beast at the peak of the Heaven Penetrating Level, leaving True Monarch Qingshui unable to answer.

Tianli Sect’s True Lords debated whether Fang Mo’s encounter with a shapeshifting exotic beast made him suspicious, but Yunhe prioritized the threat to the Safe Zones and the Ancient Realm. After the meeting, Yunhe questioned Hanli and Cen Feng about how the enemy infiltrated Galaxy City and why it targeted Fang Mo.

• Fire-Refining True Lord suggested Fang Mo might be tainted by or connected to the evil aberration, while Hanli, Dingjun, Qianshan, and Crimson Sun defended him or redirected attention to the exotic beasts.
• Yunhe declared that shapeshifting exotic beasts evading the city-protecting arrays posed the greatest crisis and ordered the arrays strengthened, Safe Zones investigated, and the Celestial Venerables informed.
• Yunhe said he would personally look into Fang Mo but rejected suspicion based only on speculation, then urged the True Lords to protect the Ancient Realm and adjourned the meeting.
• Yunhe asked Hanli to remain with Cen Feng and confirmed that the exotic beast using the name Bai Ling had entered Galaxy City without retaining an exotic beast aura.
• Hanli said she suspected the beast had possessed Bai Ling’s body and admitted she did not know why the enemy had targeted Fang Mo; Yunhe then asked Cen Feng for his view.

The sect elders let Fang Mo’s methods remain private, while Yunhe ordered the Purge Team to keep searching for Bai Ling and warned of other hidden possessions. Bai Ling revealed that Fang Mo carried the Divine Lord origin, and the Holy Envoy planned to kill him and seize it; days later, True Lord Hanli arrived at Snow Listening Cottage.

• Yunhe questioned Cen Feng about Fang Mo’s defeat of an exotic beast, but Cen Feng and Hanli defended Fang Mo’s privacy, and Yunhe dropped the matter.
• Yunhe told Hanli to continue searching for Bai Ling with Fang Mo and asked Cen Feng to watch the Divine Hall before he entered the Yin Ruins.
• Bai Ling told the Holy Envoy that Fang Mo carried a karma-severing Blade Intent and the Divine Lord origin.
• The Holy Envoy gave Bai Ling a Lihuo origin flame seed and ordered her to recover before personally killing Fang Mo and taking the Divine Lord origin.
• Fang Mo sensed a faint threat through the Ancestral Dragon Blade, then resumed cultivating as Guan Lu recovered under Luo Jiangyan’s care.
• Several days later, True Lord Hanli arrived at Snow Listening Cottage.

Fang Mo told True Lord Hanli that Bai Ling's aura seemed to lead to Fenyu Continent, now occupied by the Mechanical Empire, and Hanli left to consult the other True Lords. Back in Galaxy City, Guan Lu broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm and began testing her new strength with Luo Jiangyan.

• Fang Mo suggested that Bai Ling's pursuit of him might be connected to his experience in the Yin Ruins, while Han Li promised the sect would not force him to reveal his opportunities.
• Fang Mo told True Lord Hanli he could sense Bai Ling's aura heading toward Fenyu Continent, and Hanli left to discuss how the sect should respond.
• Fang Mo returned to cultivating and recovering in Galaxy City while teaching Guan Lu.
• Guan Lu broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm, and Luo Jiangyan rushed in to congratulate her.
• Fang Mo took Guan Lu and Luo Jiangyan to the training ground, where Guan Lu tested her fire powers and sparred with Luo Jiangyan under his guidance.
• A surprised female voice called out from beyond the training ground after learning Guan Lu had advanced.

Yue Quan returned from training and discovered that Guan Lu and Luo Jiangyan had advanced through Fang Mo’s help, then demanded a deep exchange of her own. After recovering, Fang Mo went to the Fenyu Continent to verify the Ancestral Dragon Blade’s information about White Phoenix and secretly followed Mechanical Empire forces into the Black Flame Mountain Range.

• Yue Quan returned and found Guan Lu and Luo Jiangyan had reached the Peak Heavenly Human Realm, then teased them about advancing through deep exchanges with Fang Mo.
• Yue Quan asked Fang Mo for a deep exchange, then took Guan Lu and Luo Jiangyan aside to hear about their experiences.
• Fang Mo enjoyed several days with the three women and recovered most of the damage to his divine soul.
• Fang Mo traveled to the Fenyu Continent, cleared exotic beasts from an abandoned Teleportation Gate, and followed the Ancestral Dragon Blade’s aura to the Black Flame Mountain Range.
• Fang Mo watched Mechanical Empire Mech Warriors kill a Spirit Transformation Level flaming bull and then quietly followed them.

Fang Mo entered the Black Flame Mountain Range to find White Phoenix and discovered her hidden within a separate space beneath the lava sea. After she sensed him and he escaped, White Phoenix resumed refining the Li Fire origin source and prepared to settle accounts with her enemies once she recovered.

• Fang Mo circled the Mechanical Empire fortress and traveled through the Black Flame Mountain Range, disguising himself as a fire-element exotic beast to evade danger.
• Fang Mo reached the central lava domain and sensed White Phoenix’s faint aura, then discovered another space hidden beneath the lava sea.
• Fang Mo entered the hidden space and found White Phoenix healing her injuries while refining the Li Fire origin source.
• White Phoenix sensed Fang Mo and fixed her gaze on him, but Fang Mo used his connection to the Ancestral Dragon Blade to vanish.
• White Phoenix concluded that an ancient fire-element exotic beast had been spying on her and continued refining the Li Fire origin source.

Fang Mo impersonated a Mechanical Empire soldier and approached Black Flame Fortress, hoping to use the fortress against the pursuers hunting him. He reached the gate but remained unsure whether he could get inside.

• Fang Mo decided to use the Mechanical Empire rather than reveal his ability to teleport anywhere in the Ancient Realm.
• Two Level 4 Liquid Metal Warriors killed a Lava Python in the Black Flame Mountain Range, but a Crimson Sky Ape attacked and killed them both.
• Fang Mo revealed himself as the Crimson Sky Ape, devoured the warriors’ armor, erased the battle’s traces, and took the Lava Earth Dragon’s energy core.
• Fang Mo copied Kaide’s appearance and learned that he had served in the Black Flame Third Pioneer Legion’s Seventh Reconnaissance Squad.
• Fang Mo flew to Black Flame Fortress, noted its defenses and cargo traffic, and headed toward the gate without knowing whether he could enter.