Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo persuaded the Tianli Sect’s leaders to treat mechs as weapons that could give Xiantian martial artists a new path and strengthen the sect. After the peaks agreed to order mechs, he moved the meeting on to the more contentious division of territory.

• Fang Mo argued that mechs could help martial artists who had stalled at the Xiantian Realm gain combat power and new opportunities to advance.
• True Monarch Qingshui, True Lord Houtu, Duan Feng, True Lord Biqiong, and Fire-Refining True Lord supported developing mech forces for the sect.
• Fang Mo said the Nine Great Alliances could produce mechs to match each peak’s reported needs, and quoted about twenty million Gold Crystal for a Level 3 Liquid Metal Battle Armor.
• True Lord Houtu accepted the price, and Fang Mo concluded the mech discussion before raising the division of territories among the peaks.

The Five Peaks began evacuating their Safe Zones from the Central Continent as beast tides and coming conflicts made the cities increasingly difficult to defend. Wu Qingzi reluctantly prepared to move Star Sea City to the Red Rock Continent, while merchants debated whether to follow or seek opportunities elsewhere.

• Wu Qingzi watched Star Sea City’s evacuation begin, but Bai Wuchen told him Cloud Palace Peak would retain Falling Mountain City instead and ordered him to relocate Star Sea City to the Red Rock Continent.
• Hu Zaosheng worried that relocating would ruin his business, while Yang Qingye urged him to move with Star Sea City and warned that the new Safe Zone planned by three sects might not survive.
• Hu Zaosheng ordered his assistants to prepare for relocation but planned to inspect Falling Mountain City and the city being built by the three sects before deciding where to go.
• The Five Peaks continued withdrawing their other Safe Zones, including Imperial Sky Peak and Taichu Peak, while the remaining Safe Zones drew large numbers of newcomers.

Jihuang Sword Palace prepared to benefit from Tianli Sect's withdrawal by expanding Sword River City, while Snow Soul Grotto-Heaven focused on building a stronghold on Lingxi Continent. Snow Maiden rejected a bid for Central Continent territory and ordered gifts sent to congratulate Fang Mo, leaving her reasons for caution unstated.

• Sikong Dao celebrated the influx of people to Sword River City and learned from Huang Yuanji that its Teleportation Array would connect to a new city within three days.
• Sikong Dao and Huang Yuanji planned to receive martial artists displaced from Tianli Sect's Safe Cities before rival sects could do so.
• True Lord Xixue told Snow Maiden that Fang Mo had become Tianli Sect's First Deputy Sect Master and that the sect was withdrawing from all but five Safe Zones.
• Snow Maiden refused to compete for Central Continent territory, reasoning that Tianli Sect's withdrawal was not merely a reaction to wounded pride.
• Snow Maiden ordered Xixue to send gifts to congratulate Fang Mo, despite Xixue's doubts about maintaining courtesies with Tianli Sect.

Fang Mo unloaded a vast trove of Mechanical Empire supplies and energy reactors, then argued that the Tianli Sect needed to develop technology to strengthen itself. True Monarch Qingshui revealed that the Sect had sealed the Mechanical Empire’s imperial planet in its forbidden ground, and Fang Mo hurried to claim it before Yunhe stopped him.

• Fang Mo filled Galaxy City’s starship parking field with mechas, starships, weapons, materials, and several fortress-class and stellar-class energy reactors.
• Fang Mo warned that the Mechanical Empire could not defend all its fortresses and said he would retaliate if it provoked him.
• Fang Mo urged True Monarch Qingshui to develop technology as a way to reduce the Tianli Sect’s losses and improve its strength.
• True Monarch Qingshui said the Tianli Sect had sealed the Mechanical Empire’s imperial planet in its forbidden ground, which Fang Mo could enter with the Sect Master’s token.
• Fang Mo hurried to the forbidden ground with Qingshui, but Yunhe appeared and called him to a stop.

Fang Mo decided to unseal the Mechanical Empire’s forbidden ground to strengthen Tianli Sect, with Mu Cangming leaving the choice to him. Before returning to the sect with Qingshui, Fang Mo also approved selling the Safe Zones the sect planned to withdraw from, warning that a beast tide threatened the wilderness.

• Fang Mo told Yunhe he wanted to unseal the Mechanical Empire’s forbidden ground, and Yunhe explained why the sect had sealed it and asked Mu Cangming for guidance.
• Mu Cangming declared that Fang Mo, as First Deputy Sect Master, should decide all matters, so Yunhe agreed to let him open the forbidden ground.
• Yunhe told Fang Mo that other sects wanted to buy the Safe Zones Tianli Sect planned to abandon, and Fang Mo approved the sales, saying the wilderness would soon belong to mutant beasts.
• Fang Mo left Yunhe to manage affairs in the Ancient Realm and departed with Qingshui for Tianli Sect.
• Yanzhen activated the interplanar Teleportation Array, and Fang Mo and Qingshui vanished into the void.

After counting the enormous losses Fang Mo inflicted, Mu Lei and the Mechanical Empire’s generals debated how to counter him. The Tianli Sect’s retreat from the Central Continent offered the Empire an opening, but Fang Mo’s appointment as its First Vice Sect Master forced Mu Lei to proceed cautiously.

• Silard reported that Fang Mo had destroyed six fortresses and caused more than two trillion Imperial star coins in losses across multiple battles.
• Mu Lei rejected a proposed surprise attack on Galaxy City and ordered an investigation into how Fang Mo bypassed the Empire’s defenses.
• A staff officer reported that the Tianli Sect had abandoned the alliance, moved the Divine Hall and Safe Zones, and withdrawn to Red Rock Continent.
• Mu Lei celebrated the Empire’s chance to advance into the Yin Ruins and ordered the legions to prepare to return to the Central Continent.
• The staff officer revealed that Fang Mo had become the Tianli Sect’s First Vice Sect Master, so Mu Lei ordered a fleet to establish a bridgehead and test the sect’s response before deploying more troops.

Fang Mo arrived at the Tianli Sect’s home planet with Qingshui and learned how vast its resources and martial lineages were. As they approached the sect aboard the Sect Master Hall’s Heavenly Vessel, a fleet came to welcome them.

• Dao Xing and Tianli Sect disciples welcomed Fang Mo at the teleportation platform and escorted him onward with Qingshui.
• Fang Mo arrived at the Tianli Sect’s home planet and marveled at its immense mountain ranges, palaces, and bustling teleportation platforms.
• Qingshui brought out the Sect Master Hall’s Heavenly Vessel for Fang Mo’s journey to the sect, explaining that it symbolized the Sect Master’s authority.
• Fang Mo learned that the Tianli Sect’s eight Outer Sect lineages spanned many planets and supported a vast population of martial artists.
• Qingshui pointed out a fleet of Heavenly Vessels approaching to welcome Fang Mo.

Fang Mo arrived at the Tianli Sect as its new Deputy Sect Master and was introduced to the Sect Master Hall’s leaders and departments. When he asked to enter the forbidden ground, True Lord Xuanyu said the Celestial Venerable had provided an Elder Token and they could open it at any time.

• More than a dozen Heavenly Vessels welcomed Fang Mo, who ordered the group to proceed to the Sect Master Hall before making introductions.
• True Monarch Qingshui explained the origins of the Five Peaks and the Five Absolute Heavenly Sword Array as Fang Mo’s vessel crossed the sect’s mountain ranges.
• At the Sect Master Peak, Fang Mo greeted the welcoming party and met True Lord Fengyou and the leaders of the Sect Master Hall’s departments.
• Fang Mo met True Lord Xuanyu and representatives of the Five Peaks, then asked Qingshui when they could enter the forbidden ground.
• True Lord Xuanyu told Fang Mo that the Celestial Venerable had sent an Elder Token and they could open the forbidden ground at any time, so Fang Mo urged them to proceed.

Fang Mo and the others opened a passage to the Mechanical Empire’s Imperial Star and discovered a ruined mechanical planet filled with immense resources and ancient technology. As Fang Mo’s Liquid Metal Battle Armor responded to a signal from within the planet, he turned toward its interior.

• Fang Mo and True Lord Xuan Yu used the Sect Master Token and Elder Token to activate the altar and open a passage to the Imperial Star.
• Fang Mo, Qingshui, Xuan Yu, and Feng You entered the passage while Zhen Yue stayed behind to guard it.
• Fang Mo and the others arrived in space and saw the shattered, battle-scarred mechanical planet that had once faced Tianli Sect’s forces.
• Fang Mo scanned the planet and found vast stores of weapons, starships, and energy piles, while noting that parts of the planet blocked his Primordial Spirit.
• Fang Mo’s Liquid Metal Battle Armor reacted to a signal, and information entered his consciousness as he looked toward the planet’s interior.

Fang Mo activated the Mechanical Empire’s inheritance seed and began receiving its stored technology through his Liquid Metal Battle Armor. The seed revealed a path to perfect evolution, but the process stopped until Fang Mo obtained Source Essence Crystals.

• Fang Mo and Xuan Yu, Feng You, and Qingshui discovered Entropy Void at the Imperial Star’s core, where it identified Fang Mo as a Liquid Metal Warrior and offered to pass on the Mechanical Empire’s seed.
• Fang Mo asked whether the seed could be controlled if the old civilization returned, and Entropy Void explained that it carried technology rather than the old civilization’s ideology.
• Fang Mo connected his Liquid Metal Battle Armor to Entropy Void, and the armor absorbed vast amounts of stored information by distributing it across his cells.
• The Liquid Metal Battle Armor detected a perfect evolution plan and began its automatic evolution process.
• The evolution process reported that Fang Mo had enough Primordial Vibranium but only three percent of the required Source Essence Crystal, so it could not continue.

After completing the Mechanical Empire inheritance, Fang Mo learned that Level Seven Liquid Metal Battle Armors required Origin Matter Crystals made from Starry Sky Beast source cores. He brought Imperial Star out of its concealment to prepare its materials for the coming beast tide, then discovered that the sect had no known Starry Sky Beast crystals.

• Fang Mo learned that his Origin Matter Crystal was only 3% complete and discovered that Starry Sky Beast crystals were needed to evolve Level Six Liquid Metal Battle Armors to Level Seven.
• Fang Mo told Qingshui that the inherited data could help the Nine Alliance catch up technologically, and he ordered preparations to dismantle Imperial Star and use its supplies to strengthen Red Rock Continent's defenses.
• Fang Mo and Xuan Yu used their tokens to break Imperial Star's void seal, revealing it near the Tianli Sect's main star.
• Fang Mo ordered True Lord Feng You to retrieve the sect's sealed Liquid Metal Battle Armors and asked True Lord Yun Hui about Starry Sky Beasts.
• Qingshui explained that Starry Sky Beasts were elusive creatures of the void, while Yun Hui said the sect had no record of hunting them and likely possessed no source crystals.

The Mechanical Empire's twelve Elders investigated the activation of its inheritance spark and discovered that Fang Mo had received it on the Imperial Star. They ordered the fleet to reach the target star system sooner and sent instructions to reinforce the vanguard, leaving Fang Mo in the Empire's sights.

• Morwell learned that the signal required Level Eighteen authorization, prompting all twelve Elders to gather and open the Imperial Star's core.
• Elder Zhan explained that the inheritance spark had activated, and the group examined the data recorded at the altar.
• The Elders saw Fang Mo receiving the inheritance and learned he was the Tianli Sect's Holy Son and a major obstacle to the Empire's plans.
• The Elders ordered Morwell to accelerate the fleet's journey and directed the vanguard to build a star gate and request reinforcements.

At Nine Alliance Headquarters, the researchers saw the Mechanical Empire’s enormous imperial planet and eagerly fought over who would dismantle it. After learning Vice Sect Master Fang had obtained the Empire’s complete technological civilization, they organized a ten-thousand-strong team to head to the Tianli Sword Domain and begin dismantling work.

• Long Jianzhang showed the Alliance’s leaders and researchers images of the Mechanical Empire’s gigantic imperial planet, leaving them awestruck.
• Liang Wanqiu, Zhou Jianmin, and Qian Jiashu argued over who should lead the effort to dismantle the planet.
• Long Jianzhang revealed that Vice Sect Master Fang had obtained the Mechanical Empire’s complete technological civilization, and the researchers shifted their focus to studying the inheritance.
• Long Jianzhang directed each department to select researchers and crews for a dismantling team bound for the Tianli Sword Domain.
• A ten-thousand-strong dismantling force set out for the Tianli Sword Domain.

Fang Mo returned to Taichu Peak as Tianli Sect’s deputy sect master and accompanied Ling Cangyan around the places he once managed. Ling Cangyan revealed that he had begun developing a cultivation method for the Primordial Spirit, and the chapter ended with Fang Mo bringing him to Taichu Peak’s Cultivation Hall.

• Fang Mo dismissed Xiao Chengdao and greeted Ling Cangyan, who reflected on returning to Taichu Peak and rejected reincarnation or possessing another body.
• Ling Cangyan told Fang Mo that the Phoenix Blood Dragon Soul Grass had helped him deduce a rudimentary Primordial Spirit cultivation method and strengthen his soul.
• Fang Mo considered seeking stronger techniques from Tianli Sect’s cultivation technique pavilion, while Ling Cangyan reminded him to comprehend the final layer of the Taichu Myriad Manifestations Art at the Cultivation Hall.
• Fang Mo showed Ling Cangyan his nearly complete Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, astonishing him with how quickly he had comprehended it.
• Fang Mo accompanied Ling Cangyan around Taichu Peak for a day, then brought him to the peak’s Cultivation Hall.

Fang Mo entered Taichu Peak’s Martial Arts Hall to search its manuals and instead comprehended the Taichu Myriad Manifestations Art, greatly advancing his Taichu Spirit Roaming Realm. He left without finding a suitable blade skill, and Ling Cangyan suggested he search the sect master’s Martial Arts Hall.

• Fang Mo entered the Martial Arts Hall through its Teleportation Array and examined cultivation arts and techniques as he climbed the floating stairs.
• Fang Mo reached the True Lord Realm stairs but found only sword skills that did not suit his body-focused cultivation path.
• Fang Mo touched the sphere containing the Taichu Myriad Manifestations Art and experienced the Wordless Heavenly Book’s vision of the Dao of Myriad Manifestations.
• Fang Mo’s Taichu Spirit Roaming Chapter advanced to the perfected realm after the comprehension, and he left the Martial Arts Hall without choosing a blade skill.
• Ling Cangyan told Fang Mo that the sect master’s Martial Arts Hall might contain Divine Ability-level Blade Skills.

Fang Mo visited the Tianli Sect’s Myriad Splendor Treasure Tower to seek a Divine Ability-grade blade skill and encountered its enigmatic guardian, Wuyi Heavenly Venerate. Wuyi directed him to the twelfth floor, while Fang Mo left newly aware of the gulf between his strength and that of Void Comprehension experts.

• Baohua True Lord led Fang Mo to the Myriad Splendor Treasure Tower and explained its history and collection of cultivation techniques.
• Fang Mo entered the courtyard with Baohua and observed the many young Tianli Sect Disciples visiting to exchange contribution points for techniques.
• Fang Mo noticed an old man sweeping leaves and sensed that his concealed strength surpassed the Spirit Roaming Realm.
• Baohua identified the old man as Elder Wuyi, guardian of the tower, and Wuyi recognized Fang Mo as Cangming’s first Deputy Sect Master.
• Wuyi pulled Fang Mo into a space-time domain, praised his strength, and directed him to two suitable Blade Skills on the twelfth floor.
• Fang Mo realized how far he remained from Void Comprehension experts, renewed his desire to reach that realm, and headed into the tower.

Fang Mo searched the twelfth floor of the Myriad Splendor Treasure Tower for a blade skill and chose the high-grade Blood River Calamity Slaying Blade. He entered its inheritance in only a few breaths, astonishing Celestial Venerable Baohua while Celestial Venerable Wuyi recognized his choice and heavy killing nature.

• Fang Mo found hundreds of supernatural arts on the tower’s twelfth floor and marveled that the Tianli Sect had acquired them by destroying powerful sects.
• Fang Mo rejected low-grade blade arts and the mid-grade Space-time Blade Mark because they did not suit his needs.
• Fang Mo compared the high-grade Nine Nether Underworld Prison Slash with the Blood River Calamity Slaying Blade and chose the latter for its connection to his Blood Prison First Opening and powerful blood qi.
• Fang Mo sat before the stele and began comprehending the Blood River Calamity Slaying Blade, drawing forth his Blade Intent and a sea of blood.
• Celestial Venerable Baohua expected Fang Mo to need a long time, but Celestial Venerable Wuyi realized he had entered the inheritance after only a few breaths, leaving Baohua astonished.

Fang Mo comprehended the Blood River Calamity Slaying Blade and reassured True Lord Baohua that its killing intent would not corrupt him. Celestial Venerable Wuyi gave Fang Mo the Blood Demon Blade, and Fang Mo left with his new weapon.

• Fang Mo comprehended the Blood River Calamity Slaying Blade by studying the marks on the stone stele.
• Fang Mo left the Myriad Splendor Treasure Tower after learning that he could not enter its thirteenth floor or find the cultivation art his master needed.
• True Lord Baohua warned Fang Mo that the blade skill's killing intent had driven its cultivators, including the Blood River Patriarch, to madness.
• Fang Mo told Celestial Venerable Wuyi that extinguishing the heart of slaughter left only a blade, impressing Wuyi with his conviction.
• Celestial Venerable Wuyi gave Fang Mo the Blood Demon Blade, which Fang Mo accepted and briefly unleashed before putting it away.

As Tianli Sect sold Star Sea City to Seven Star Sword Pavilion, residents learned they would not have to relocate after all. Yang Qingye still distrusted Tianli Sect’s sudden withdrawal and ordered his shop moved to Red Rock Continent.

• Hu Zaosheng told Yang Qingye he had secured a shop in Heaven-Soaring City and urged him to move there.
• After a notice was posted, Yang Qingye learned Star Sea City had been sold to Seven Star Sword Pavilion and would remain in place.
• Yang Qingye told Hu Zaosheng the news, and Hu Zaosheng regretted spending three hundred thousand Gold Crystals on a shop in Heaven-Soaring City.
• Yang Qingye told his shopkeeper that other Safe Zones had also been sold and said Tianli Sect’s withdrawal made him uneasy.
• Yang Qingye ordered his shop packed so they could relocate to Red Rock Continent.

Fang Mo explained that the Tianli Sect had abandoned its Safe Zones to preserve its people and force rival factions to face the growing threat of mutated beasts. As he passed Heaven-Soaring City, its leaders mistook the withdrawal for weakness and discussed whether to act against him.

• Fang Mo and the Tianli Sect’s leaders saw the newly built Heaven-Soaring City and debated why the sect had withdrawn from its territories.
• Fang Mo showed Yunhe and True Monarch Qingshui intelligence about rising energy activity and rapidly multiplying mutated beasts across the continents.
• Fang Mo said the rival factions would eventually seek the Tianli Sect’s help after suffering losses, allowing it to set better terms for a new alliance.
• True Monarch Ziji, True Lord Wuyan, True Monarch Green Mandarin Duck, and Wordless watched Fang Mo’s vessel pass and argued that the Tianli Sect had retreated because it was weak.
• Wordless suggested attacking Fang Mo, but the others’ reaction made him reconsider, and he asked what Fang Mo was doing in Central Continent.