Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Shenming, a powerful cultivator and reincarnation of the Godly Great Emperor, demonstrates his strength in Jian Tianze by defeating a black-robed cultivator. He reveals the major-completion Vajra Supreme Yang Sacred Body, overpowering his opponent’s black-lamp techniques with a single sword strike.
• His display impresses onlookers, including Yang Du, Xu Qiuming, and Fairy Taixi and her companions. Taixi suspects Jiang may be seeking to challenge Fang Wang, expecting another talented cultivator to be humbled.
• Fang Wang invites Jiang to speak rather than continue fighting. He has Dugu Wenhun attend to the injured opponent, then meets Jiang privately.
• Jiang asks whether he is strong enough to become one of the Twelve Dao Sects and proposes founding the God Sect, devoted to body cultivation. Fang Wang rejects the idea, saying Jiang’s physique is not the strongest and that his sacred body is only an inherited bloodline ability.
• Fang Wang challenges Jiang to stand after placing a hand on his shoulder. Jiang cannot move or release his Yang Qi, revealing the immense gap between their power.

Character developments

• Jiang Shenming is introduced as proud, formidable, and ambitious, seeking recognition and a place among the Twelve Dao Sects. Fang Wang’s effortless suppression unsettles him and calls into question his belief in his own physical strength.
• Fang Wang remains calm and discerning. Rather than being impressed by Jiang’s battle, he evaluates whether Jiang’s proposed sect and cultivation path are truly suited to him.
• Xu Qiuming watches Jiang’s fight with clear competitive interest.
• Fairy Taixi views Jiang as another likely challenger whose confidence may be broken by Fang Wang.

Significant themes

• The gulf between apparent power and true mastery: Jiang’s overwhelming victory over another cultivator is insignificant beside Fang Wang’s effortless control.
• Identity and inherited talent: Fang Wang distinguishes Jiang’s bloodline-gifted sacred body from a deeper, potentially greater art he believes Jiang should pursue.
• Ambition tested by humility: Jiang seeks status and recognition, but must first confront the limits of his strength.

Character interactions

• Jiang taunts and defeats the black-robed cultivator, while spectators debate his identity and cultivation level.
• Fang Wang intervenes to end the fight peacefully and treats the injured opponent as a guest.
• In their private meeting, Fang Wang questions Jiang’s proposed orthodoxy, then physically tests him. Jiang’s anger gives way to shock when his Yang Qi is suppressed and he cannot rise.

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Shenming confronts Fang Wang but is effortlessly pinned down with one hand. Once he relaxes and recalls why he came, Fang Wang’s suppression eases.
• Fang Wang invites Jiang to join Wang Dao and lead the future God Sect. He warns him that a sect leader must be open-minded and generous toward disciples and other sects.
• Fang Wang promises to teach him a body-cultivation technique beyond the Vajra Supreme Yang Sacred Body, revealing his own immense yang energy. Jiang realizes Fang’s strength—and a mysterious force guiding him toward Wang Dao—are extraordinary.
• Jiang chooses to build the God Sect around his own “divine cultivation,” a system developed by combining practices from lifetimes experienced in his unusually long dreams.
• Fang Wang declares that the twelve dao sects will have equal standing, without rankings or competition; a sect would be dissolved only for violating Wang Dao’s principles.
• Over the following years, the Sword Sect selection becomes a vast, three-year event across Great Qi. Fang Wang stays out of public view, but stories of his impartial instruction enhance his reputation.
• Seventeen years after Jiang joins, Fang Wang—now at the sixth layer of the Breaking Heaven Realm—speaks privately with Gu Li on Kunlun. She asks why sword cultivators who failed selection are still allowed to demonstrate their sword dao. Fang Wang replies that choosing a sect by strength alone would make it no different from any ordinary sect.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Shenming moves from anger and humiliation to respect for Fang Wang. He accepts the leadership role and commits to his distinctive divine-cultivation path, though he remains uncertain whether Fang Wang’s ideals are genuine.
• Fang Wang shows himself as a forceful but principled leader: he values potential and character over power, and seeks cooperation rather than rivalry among the dao sects. He also enjoys recounting his past victories to Jiang.
• Song Jinyuan witnesses Jiang’s recruitment and is impressed by Fang Wang, though Jiang’s dream-based cultivation initially makes him skeptical.
• Gu Li and Fang Wang share a quiet, personal meeting after years without time alone together. Their exchange recalls their shared past, while her question probes Fang Wang’s inclusive approach to selecting the Sword Sect.

Significant themes

• Leadership and breadth of mind: Great power must be paired with tolerance and responsibility.
• Merit beyond strength or status: Potential, character, affinity, and the ability to learn matter more than background or combat ranking.
• Cooperation over competition: Wang Dao’s sects are meant to advance together, not struggle for dominance.
• Legacy and self-created paths: Jiang’s divine cultivation reflects the possibility of forging a system from unusual personal experience.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang and Gu Li discuss how the Sword Sect Master should be chosen: by swordsmanship capable of inspiring the Twelve Dao Sects and sword cultivators across the world. Gu Li jokes that Fang Wang is the obvious choice, but he declines, saying a Dao Lord should draw on the strengths of all twelve sects.
• Two years later, Wangdao establishes the Sword Sect and God Sect. Dugu Wenhun announces that Jiang Shenming, a Tashiao Realm cultivator, will lead the God Sect—a revelation that astonishes the wider world.
• Xu Qiuming is named Sword Sect Master for his influential sword creations, including the Selfless Sword Dao and Three Thousand Divine Swords Formula. Fang Wang presents him with his sect token and reflects on how those destined for greatness can still shine despite altered fortunes.
• Jiang Shenming receives his token as God Sect Master. Yang Du and Fang Wang’s first disciple, Chu Yin, privately aspire to lead future sects of their own.
• As the gathering continues, news arrives that the Dayu Divine Dynasty is in crisis. Fang Wang leaves immediately with Zhuifeng to investigate.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains modest about his own swordsmanship and prioritizes Wangdao’s collective growth. His playful, affectionate banter with Gu Li reveals their comfortable closeness.
• Xu Qiuming’s reputation grows through his swordsmanship and contributions, earning him leadership despite not being Wangdao’s strongest sword cultivator.
• Jiang Shenming is triumphant at his appointment and shares a teasing rivalry with Xu Qiuming. He is also oddly wary of Hongchen, despite believing he could defeat him.
• Yang Du interprets Fang Wang’s decision not to establish a body-cultivation sect as an opportunity intended for him, while Chu Yin plans to form a sect devoted to spiritual power.
• Hongchen keeps the meeting focused on the practical work of organizing Wangdao’s sects after Fang Wang departs.

Significant themes

• Contribution over raw strength: Wangdao values service to cultivation and the people above individual power.
• Destiny and perseverance: Xu Qiuming’s rise suggests that those with the potential to reach the summit can still prosper despite lacking exceptional fate or fortune.
• Institution-building: Wangdao is expanding beyond its founding structure, while its sects still need rules and a unified order.
• Indirect warfare and vulnerability: The Dayu crisis shows enemies using disease and spiritual disruption rather than open battle to weaken a powerful dynasty.

Closing crisis

The Dayu Divine Dynasty has suffered recurring plagues for two years, killing tens of millions. The outbreaks also undermine cultivators’ tribulation success and intensify inner demons, while the emperor himself remains incurably ill. Fang Wang recognizes the calamity as the start of retaliation against the dynasty and rushes to respond.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang returns to the Imperial Palace and visits the gravely ill Emperor Hong Shou. He discovers Hong Shou has less than a year to live, though he cannot identify what is causing the decline.
• Hong Shou warns that the Dayu Divine Dynasty’s calamity is only beginning. Hong Xian’er adds that enemies in the shadows may launch a full assault, while the ministers urge Fang Wang to focus on cultivation and prepare to protect the people.
• After leaving the palace, Fang Wang and Hong Xian’er trade playful, flirtatious barbs. She tells him that Taiyou warned her the dynasty’s disaster is driven by the Upper Realm and advised him to avoid becoming entangled in its karma.
• Fang Wang considers whether Taiyou and Jian You are truly involved in the calamity, then asks Hong Xian’er to bring Little Purple to him. He returns to his cultivation hall, determined to advance beyond the sixth layer of the Potian Realm and reach the Divine Ability Realm.
• The scene shifts to a volcanic, storm-dark landscape where black-robed, white-masked figures gather. Immortal Jilie asks a green-robed elder about their unknown origins. Jilie admits his time is short and says he wants to protect his disciple and secure his legacy, despite having treated the disciple harshly.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains the dynasty’s chief hope, but the warning about Upper Realm forces makes him cautious. He puts aside social distractions to pursue greater strength.
• Hong Shou faces death with concern not for himself but for the dynasty’s survival. The ministers try to reassure him by invoking Fang Wang’s past victories.
• Hong Xian’er is affectionate and teasing with Fang Wang, yet also serves as a serious messenger of Taiyou’s warning. Their easy banter contrasts with the crisis surrounding them.
• Immortal Jilie reveals unexpected care for his disciple: though he has tormented him, he wants to ensure no outsider harms him and that his inheritance survives. The masked group and the elder remain mysterious.

Significant themes

• Impending catastrophe and uncertainty: The cause and full scope of the dynasty’s calamity remain unclear, and its enemies may come from the Upper Realm.
• Duty, legacy, and protection: Hong Shou worries about his realm’s future, while Jilie seeks to preserve his disciple and teachings.
• Power and preparation: Fang Wang sees cultivation as essential to confronting threats and protecting others.
• Affection beneath teasing or harshness: Hong Xian’er’s playful exchanges and Jilie’s stern mentorship both conceal deeper concern.

Plot points

• Immortal Jilie warns the Green-robed Old Man not to exploit Jilie’s disciple as a weapon against Fang Wang. The Old Man promises to deal with the disciple after destroying the Dayu Divine Dynasty, whose fall he says is supported by many hostile factions. He privately admits his fate is not his own to control.
• The Dayu emperor’s death deepens the dynasty’s crisis. Plagues, inner demons, and other mysterious disasters spread, while officials and cultivators struggle to protect the people.
• Four years later, Hongchen visits Fang Wang, now at Breaking Heaven Realm 7th Layer, and reveals that the disasters stem from the Doom Heavenly God of the Immortal Court, acting through mortal inheritors. The Upper Realm cannot send its Immortals and Gods down until the ascension period, eight hundred years away.
• Hongchen warns that defending Dayu will put Fang Wang in the Upper Realm’s sights and pit him against a vast alliance, including over a hundred Saint and Imperial clans. Fang Wang nevertheless resolves to act according to his Dao heart.
• Fang Wang asks Hongchen to protect Great Qi and Jianglong Continent if war begins. Hongchen instead pledges to lead Wang Dao in defending both those lands and the Dayu Divine Dynasty, making the conflict a chance to reveal Wang Dao’s strength to the mortal world.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang accepts the risks of intervention rather than letting fear of collateral consequences dictate his choices. His resolve impresses Hongchen.
• Hongchen moves from cautioning Fang Wang to enthusiastically backing him, believing the coming conflict can help prepare Fang Wang for a future confrontation with the Upper Realm.
• Immortal Jilie shows concern for his disciple despite their troubled relationship, while the Green-robed Old Man remains committed to destroying Dayu and hints that he is caught in forces beyond his control.

Significant themes

• Following one’s convictions despite danger: Fang Wang chooses action over safety and inaction.
• Mortal agency versus divine manipulation: The Immortal Court uses mortal believers as instruments while keeping its own involvement hidden.
• Destiny, power, and sacrifice: The impending war threatens countless people, yet may also forge Wang Dao’s reputation and help Fang Wang grow toward a greater confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang resumes seclusion after Hongchen assures him he will be warned if a large-scale invasion approaches.
• Wangdao’s cultivators spread through the Dayu Divine Dynasty, rescuing people with special talismans. Within three years, Wangdao becomes widely admired, and the new emperor officially recognizes it as the dynasty’s sacred Dao.
• Despite this relief, other powers begin cutting ties with Dayu, signaling that a major conflict is nearing.
• Fang Wang briefly leaves seclusion to relax and speak with Zhao Zhen, who is still studying the sarira. He weighs seeking additional inheritances but decides his existing strength and techniques should suffice.
• Xu Qiuming and Lv Xianming arrive from the Dihai Xuan Dynasty to subdue a newly appeared demonic sword. The sword has resisted even powerful cultivators and can apparently be mastered only through sword intent. Xu Qiuming agrees to investigate it, while Wangdao’s Xuan Sect handles intelligence gathering.
• Sensing an extraordinary sword intent, Fang Wang summons the Sword Immortal. The spirit feels compelled to pursue it and reveals that other strong sword intents are approaching as well.
• The Sword Immortal asks Fang Wang to lend him a sarira so he can rebuild a physical body without reincarnating, offering to help bear the coming tribulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains confident in his strength but cautious about wasting time before the looming crisis. His exchange with Zhao Zhen shows a relaxed, familiar side.
• Zhao Zhen continues examining the sarira, resigned to his limited cultivation prospects.
• Xu Qiuming displays confidence and curiosity about the demonic sword, while Lv Xianming seeks to understand its origins and the wider crisis.
• The Sword Immortal shifts from contemplating death to seeking resurrection and a chance to fight. Fang Wang challenges his earlier despair, and the two recognize the strength of the sword intent.
• The imperial general’s interest in Wangdao’s Xuan Sect reflects the sect’s growing influence and the trust Xu places in it.

Significant themes

• A coming catastrophe: Political defections, the demonic sword, and converging sword intents all point toward a major upheaval.
• Wangdao’s growing influence: Its humanitarian work earns public and imperial recognition.
• Purpose and renewal: The Sword Immortal’s request suggests that even a spirit who had given up may find a new role in confronting danger.
• Strength and specialization: Fang Wang recognizes that mastery of every path is unnecessary; his diverse supreme arts and practical abilities are his real advantage.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang bargains with the Sword Immortal: he will help him resurrect if the Sword Immortal teaches him his supreme sword art and joins Wang Dao.
• Zhao Zhen willingly gives the Sword Immortal a Sarira. The Sword Immortal enters it, which begins absorbing spiritual energy; the process takes two years and repeatedly releases sword intent across the Dayu Divine Dynasty.
• The Sword Immortal is reborn from the Sarira in a new body. Fang Wang gives him clothes, and the Sword Immortal’s original vitality and strength return.
• The Sword Immortal reveals the Nine Lives Nirvana Sword Formula, a cultivation method that channels sword intent rather than spiritual power. Fang Wang immediately masters its principles through cultivation in the Heavenly Palace.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shows consideration for Zhao Zhen’s claim to the Sariras and offers the Sword Immortal a place in Wang Dao. He recognizes that the rebirth technique has profound potential—and limitations—and connects it to his questions about Zhou Xue’s own rebirth.
• Zhao Zhen puts aside any hesitation and gives up the Sarira, welcoming the Sword Immortal’s return.
• Xu Yan, the Sword Immortal, returns with a renewed body and a sense of gratitude toward Fang Wang. Though Fang Wang killed him, Xu Yan bears no grudge; he sees Fang Wang as the kind of person he himself aspired to be. He is also surprised by how much Fang Wang understands about his own sword formula.

Significant themes and revelations

• Rebirth has a price: The Nine Lives Nirvana Sword Formula allows up to nine rebirths, each requiring a suitable cultivation relic from a more powerful cultivator. The reborn practitioner must rebuild their body and cultivation, though they gain new insights and potentially greater aptitude.
• Life through death: At Great Perfection, the formula offers a deliberate choice to sacrifice one’s cultivation, reverse time, and retrace one’s path. It does not automatically activate when someone is killed.
• Power and identity: Fang Wang observes that Xu Yan’s treasure spirit resembles him because it came from Xu Yan’s nature, not the other way around. This hints that Xu Yan can regain his distinctive potential even after losing the treasure spirit.
• Fang Wang concludes that the Nirvana formula complements the Nine Extremities Blood Sacrifice Art, though Xu Yan has only understood both techniques superficially.

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Key plot points and events

• Hongchen advises Fang Wang to let the Dayu Divine Dynasty defend itself, giving Wang Dao’s cultivators a chance to prove their strength. He shares intelligence on likely enemy attacks and suggests seeking help from the Golden Xiao Sect.
• The dynasty’s war begins and spreads across the Human Emperor Continent. Over four years, Fang Wang advances to the eighth layer of the Breaking Heaven Realm while remaining focused on cultivation.
• The Golden Xiao Sect arrives to aid the dynasty, bringing a ninth-layer True Soul Realm cultivator. Its involvement is especially significant because Fang Wang’s fiancée, Zhou Xue, is the Devil Lord’s disciple.
• Hong Xian’er warns Fang Wang that a Heaven and Earth Universe Realm expert may soon act. That expert has been drawn into the conflict by the Dayu Divine Dynasty, a powerful rival preparing for war against the current dynasty.
• Fang Wang welcomes the prospect of battle and declares that he will make a name for himself in the coming conflict. Hong Xian’er also reports that Jiang Shenming has become Wang Dao’s most prominent figure.
• The chapter ends with Jiang Shenming confronting a Luo Clan opponent over the sea, demonstrating Wang Dao’s growing influence and power.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang trusts Hongchen completely and accepts that the dynasty must develop its own strength. Despite the mounting war, he remains calm and intent on breaking through, while revealing an increasingly forceful ambition.
• Hongchen acts as a capable strategist, sharing detailed intelligence and shaping Wang Dao’s customs through his respectful conduct toward Fang Wang.
• Hong Xian’er is strained by her duties in the war but shows relief at the Golden Xiao Sect’s arrival. She warns Fang Wang about the looming threat and briefly becomes distracted by his confidence, prompting Little Purple’s jealousy.
• Little Purple remains protective and possessive, interrupting Hong Xian’er when she appears captivated by Fang Wang.
• Jiang Shenming emerges as a prominent Wang Dao figure, and the closing confrontation signals his readiness to challenge the Luo Clan.

Significant themes

• Self-reliance through hardship: The dynasty must grow stronger by facing war rather than relying entirely on Fang Wang.
• Trust and leadership: Fang Wang’s trust empowers Hongchen, while Hongchen’s example helps establish Wang Dao’s traditions.
• Coalitions and political stakes: The Golden Xiao Sect’s intervention offers crucial support, but the conflict involves many rival powers and cannot be ended easily.
• Ambition and reputation: Fang Wang and Jiang Shenming embody Wang Dao’s rising confidence as the wider conflict escalates.

Key plot points and events

• In a vast whirlpool, Luo Yue argues that the fallen Eastern Duke Emperor was selfish and that the Dayu Divine Dynasty should be destroyed. Jiang Shenming challenges him to explain why he is making the accusation to Jiang, who is neither the emperor nor a member or subject of the dynasty.
• Jiang Shenming’s pressure stills the ocean. He then dives at Luo Yue, triggering a tremendous explosion of waves; the outcome of their clash is not shown.
• Later that night, two masked Tashiao Realm cultivators infiltrate the Pilgrimage Mansion and mistake Xu Yan for Fang Wang. They try to recruit him on behalf of the Dayu Divine Dynasty, offering him the title and status of Chaosheng.
• Xu Yan plays along to gather information, but escapes when one infiltrator seals his cultivation. Fang Wang appears behind the pair, effortlessly suppresses them, and turns them to ash with the Extinction Divine Record.
• Fang Wang warns Xu Yan not to rely on casual questioning to obtain intelligence: when an enemy is certain, he should simply kill them. Fang Wang returns to meditation, reflecting on how his cultivation has amplified the power of the Extinction Divine Record.

Character developments

• Jiang Shenming is forceful and self-possessed, refusing to accept blame for the Eastern Duke Emperor’s actions or the dynasty’s history.
• Luo Yue reveals intense resentment toward the former emperor and the Dayu Divine Dynasty, though the source of his personal grievance is not explained.
• Xu Yan shows caution and quick thinking, using the mistaken identity to buy time and probe the intruders. He is also struck by how far Fang Wang’s power exceeds his own.
• Fang Wang demonstrates overwhelming strength and a pragmatic, ruthless approach to threats. His casual destruction of two Tashiao Realm cultivators confirms that his abilities have grown substantially.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and inherited guilt: Jiang Shenming rejects being held accountable for a ruler’s choices simply because of an assumed connection to him.
• Power and political persuasion: The dynasty tries to recruit Fang Wang with status and promises of a new era, but its emissaries’ coercive tactics undermine their appeal.
• Strength and perception: Xu Yan’s mistaken identity and Fang Wang’s sudden arrival emphasize the gap between reputation, cultivation, and true capability.
• Pragmatism versus information-gathering: Fang Wang argues that caution has limits and that perceived enemies should be dealt with decisively.

Character interactions

• Jiang Shenming confronts Luo Yue’s condemnation, turning the argument back on Luo Yue’s assumptions before attacking.
• The masked emissaries threaten and attempt to recruit Xu Yan, who questions them while concealing that he is not Fang Wang.
• Fang Wang rescues Xu Yan by subduing the emissaries, then offers him a blunt lesson in handling enemies.

Plot and key events

• Fang Wang reflects that the Divine Ability Realm is not simply about mastering existing powers; it is about creating original divine abilities. After killing two Tashiao Realm attackers with a concealed, highly concentrated Extinction Divine Record, he begins considering what kind of ability to create.
• The war spreads across the Human Emperor Continent. Five years pass amid escalating danger, and Fang Wang’s companions continue their own pursuits: Zhao Zhen studies the Nine Lives Nirvana Sword Formula, while Hongchen serves as a strategist in the Imperial City.
• In the Northern Territory, Xu Qiuming, Xu Yan, and other Wang Dao sword cultivators face a colossal tentacled monster. A powerful sword light approaches, and Xu Yan charges the creature. Just as Xu Qiuming prepares to join the fight, an unidentified figure rushes past him.
• Two years later, Fang Wang has reached the ninth layer of the Breaking Heaven Realm. With the Dayu Divine Dynasty under mounting pressure, Hongchen warns him that four Heaven and Earth Universe experts are poised to attack, apparently with guidance from the Upper Realm. Dayu may survive only another three or four years—and perhaps not even a day if one of those experts intervenes.
• Fang Wang decides to enter the war, bringing Hongchen and Little Purple with him. Little Purple agrees to join, despite worrying that she may hinder him.
• Meanwhile, the Dawu Son of Heaven travels with Daoist Xuanzhi, a Heaven and Earth Universe expert. Xuanzhi declares that they will reach Dayu, destroy it, and kill Fang Wang that same day.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang advances from the eighth to the ninth layer of the Breaking Heaven Realm and shifts from solitary cultivation toward active involvement in the war. His interest in inventing a personal divine ability continues.
• Hongchen remains a calm, strategic presence, keeping Fang Wang informed and confirming that he is ready to act.
• Little Purple shows loyalty and willingness to fight alongside Fang Wang, even while questioning whether she is strong enough to help.
• Zhao Zhen remains committed to mastering his sword formula, hoping to regain life and build a reputation of his own.
• Xu Yan and Xu Qiuming confront a major battlefield threat; Xu Yan acts decisively, while Xu Qiuming is startled by the arrival of the unknown figure.
• Daoist Xuanzhi emerges as an exceptionally powerful and openly hostile enemy. His confidence contrasts with the Dawu Son of Heaven’s deferential attitude toward him.

Significant themes

• Originality and cultivation: True progress toward the Divine Ability Realm requires creating abilities of one’s own, not merely mastering inherited powers.
• War and urgency: The spreading conflict forces Fang Wang to abandon a prolonged period of cultivation and take action.
• Loyalty and ambition: Little Purple’s devotion and Zhao Zhen’s wish to forge his own legacy reflect different forms of personal resolve.
• Escalating power and threat: The arrival of Heaven and Earth Universe experts raises the stakes dramatically, setting up an imminent assault on Dayu and Fang Wang.

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Key plot points and events

• Daoist Xuanzhi challenges Fang Wang with his Heaven and Earth Universe Spiritual Image, transforming the sky into a star-filled cosmos and summoning tens of thousands of enormous fingers that threaten the Human Emperor Continent.
• Xuanzhi’s spiritual image suppresses the spiritual and demonic power of those nearby. He fires a cyan beam at Fang Wang, apparently swallowing him.
• Fang Wang bursts through the beam and defeats Xuanzhi in a single punch, shattering his arm, chest, and the entire spiritual image. He explains that the technique’s weakness is that its caster remains inside it, then annihilates Xuanzhi.
• Fang Wang retrieves Xuanzhi’s storage ring and leaves to help clear the battlefield. His victory triggers jubilant celebrations across the Dayu forces and populace.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang displays overwhelming confidence and power, though his apparent ease conceals that he used his full strength. He combines several techniques and abilities at Great Perfection to land the decisive blow. He speaks calmly to Xuanzhi, exposes the flaw in his technique, and then departs without seeking praise.
• Daoist Xuanzhi begins arrogantly, convinced his cosmic spiritual image will overwhelm Fang Wang, but is shocked when Fang Wang breaks through and kills him.
• Little Purple, Fang Wang’s longtime companion, is astonished by how quickly he has grown stronger and celebrates his victory.
• Xu Tianjiao watches Fang Wang with admiration but accepts that their difference in strength and status makes a relationship impossible.
• Ye Xiang and the others feel both excitement and complicated awe, having witnessed Fang Wang’s rise from humble beginnings.

Significant themes

• The rewards of cultivation and hidden strength: Fang Wang’s mastery, built through rigorous development, enables a seemingly effortless triumph.
• Confidence and hope in crisis: His victory restores morale after decades of exhausting warfare and gives the people of Dayu renewed hope.
• The cost of extraordinary power: Fang Wang’s ascent inspires others but also creates distance between him and those who once knew him.
• Overconfidence and vulnerability: Xuanzhi’s supposedly overwhelming technique contains a fatal weakness that Fang Wang understands and exploits.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang travels from the western battlefield to the northern front in only a dozen steps, arriving as the Dayu Divine Dynasty, Wang Dao, and Golden Xiao Sect fight a massive demonic invasion.
• His arrival on Little Purple, now a powerful two-hundred-zhang dragon, lifts the defenders’ morale. Zhu Rulai and Shen Xin watch from the garrison.
• Fang Wang confronts Yizun, the eighth-layer True Soul Realm Demon Venerable. Yizun recognizes the immense power of Fang Wang’s earlier clash with Daoist Xuanzhi and identifies Fang Wang as “Heavenly Dao Fang Wang.”
• Fang Wang tests a finger technique combining Dao Power and the Extinction Divine Record, then kills Yizun with a single strike. He notes that the two forces remain difficult to fuse.
• He proceeds to slaughter more than one hundred thousand demons in moments. Determined to end the repeated invasions through overwhelming force, Fang Wang continues deeper into the battlefield.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang displays overwhelming strength and resolve, treating the invasion as something to be stopped decisively rather than merely driven back. He tests his techniques even while facing a formidable enemy.
• Little Purple enjoys the attention its arrival brings and carries Fang Wang into battle.
• Yizun shifts from hesitation to fear when he realizes who Fang Wang is, but is killed before he can respond.
• Zhu Rulai, who has been injured fighting Yizun, feels the growing distance between himself and Fang Wang. Rather than surrender to discouragement, he resolves to become strong enough to stand beside him.
• Shen Xin observes Fang Wang’s arrival, while the gathered defenders and demons are stunned by his effortless victory and devastating slaughter.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and the widening gap between cultivators: Fang Wang’s strength has surpassed even renowned figures like Zhu Rulai.
• Resolve in the face of being surpassed: Zhu Rulai turns envy and loss into renewed ambition.
• Violence as deterrence: Fang Wang intends to end the invasions by making the Mortal World fear the cost of attacking Dayu.
• Experimentation and mastery: Fang Wang’s battle also serves as a test of how Dao Power interacts with the Extinction Divine Record.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang advances over the sea of clouds with Little Purple, carrying the Celestial Palace Halberd. He senses that three powerful enemies have arrived and warns Little Purple to prepare.
• Lord Zhulang Mountain traps Fang Wang inside his Spiritual Image of the Heaven and Earth Universe Realm, transforming the landscape into a volcanic world under a storm of falling meteorites. The Spiritual Image suppresses the body, soul, and senses of anyone caught within it.
• The three attackers—Lord Zhulang Mountain, the Demon-Subduing Patriarch, and Dao Shijiu—are unsettled by Fang Wang’s ability to kill Daoist Xuanzhi, a cultivator of their realm. They suspect he has an extraordinary background and question why he is defending the Dayu Divine Dynasty.
• Fang Wang declares himself stronger than all three and uses the Celestial Palace Halberd and the Dharmakaya of the Extinction Divine Record to shatter the Spiritual Image.
• Emerging amid a sea of solar fire, Fang Wang challenges the three to a fight to the death. He suddenly attacks Dao Shijiu, whose attempt to block the blow sends him flying beyond the Human Emperor Continent; his fate is left uncertain. The other two launch a pincer attack.
• At sea, the Qin Household’s fleet and forces from other Saint Clans and Imperial Clans set out to invade the Dayu Divine Dynasty. Thunderclouds darken the continent as the wider conflict begins.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains calm and confident against three Heaven and Earth Universe Realm experts. His words and decisive assault show that he sees himself as their superior and will defend the dynasty directly.
• Little Purple recognizes the danger and takes refuge inside the Celestial Palace Halberd, reinforcing it with purple dragon scales.
• Lord Zhulang Mountain initially relies on his Spiritual Image but is alarmed when Fang Wang breaks through it.
• Dao Shijiu mocks Lord Zhulang Mountain’s technique before becoming Fang Wang’s first target. The Demon-Subduing Patriarch stays silent and contemplative before joining the attack.
• The fleet commander rallies the Qin Household’s forces with an order to invade, while other powerful clans mobilize at the same time.

Significant themes

• Defiance against overwhelming power: Fang Wang challenges opponents who should be far above him in cultivation.
• The limits of apparent superiority: The three experts’ high realm does not guarantee control over Fang Wang.
• Escalation toward war: A personal clash above the continent coincides with a coordinated invasion, signaling that the Dayu Divine Dynasty faces a full-scale crisis.

Chapter summary

• Fang Hanyu worries about Fang Wang. During a storm, he asks his master whether Fang Wang and the Dayu Divine Dynasty can survive the coming assault by powerful clans. His master says her divination still predicts the dynasty’s destruction—and that Fang Hanyu should focus on reaching the Ascension Steps rather than throwing his life away in a conflict far beyond his strength.
• A sign changes the prediction. To illustrate how unlikely victory seems, the master says Fang Wang would have a chance only if the spilled tea turned to fire. It initially remains water, but then suddenly ignites. Her new divination reveals that the dynasty’s Imperial Qi is rising again and that a Great Emperor will emerge. She wonders what Fang Wang truly is; Fang Hanyu is relieved but suspects his brother may be an ancient powerhouse reborn.
• Fang Wang dominates a battle. In the Human Emperor Continent, Fang Wang fights Dao Shijiu, Lord Zhulang Mountain, and the Demon-Subduing Patriarch. Wearing powerful treasures and backed by the Extinction Divine Record, he has split the clouds and devastated the landscape. He hurls the Celestial Palace Halberd into Dao Shijiu, shattering his life-bound treasure spirit and leaving him gravely wounded. Dao Shijiu is horrified that, despite his three thousand years of cultivation, he is losing to someone of a lower realm.
• The fight continues. Lord Zhulang Mountain attacks with mountains conjured from a painted scroll, while the Demon-Subduing Patriarch attempts to trap Fang Wang in his spirit elephant. Fang Wang breaks free almost instantly. The Patriarch suspects Fang Wang may be the reincarnated Eastern Duke Emperor because of his mastery of the Extinction Divine Record. Fang Wang gives no answer and moves behind him, preparing a deadly strike.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Hanyu remains deeply loyal to Fang Wang, though he recognizes the enormous gap between his own power and the forces threatening the dynasty. The prophecy’s sudden reversal gives him hope.
• The white-haired master is initially certain the dynasty is doomed, but the flaming tea forces her to revise her reading. She cannot divine Fang Wang himself, making him a decisive unknown.
• Dao Shijiu shifts from confidence in his long cultivation to fear and despair as Fang Wang overwhelms him.
• The Demon-Subduing Patriarch is shaken by Fang Wang’s abilities and tries to explain them through the possibility of reincarnation.
• Fang Wang remains focused entirely on killing his opponents; the Heavenly Dao’s influence leaves him without distraction or hesitation.

Significant themes

• Fate versus the impossible: Divination predicts the dynasty’s fall, yet a miraculous sign suggests that the future can change.
• Fang Wang as an unpredictable force: Even powerful seers cannot read him, while his enemies struggle to account for his strength.
• Power and helplessness: Dao Shijiu’s long cultivation offers no protection against an opponent vastly beyond expectation.
• Loyalty amid overwhelming danger: Fang Hanyu’s concern for Fang Wang contrasts with his master’s pragmatic warning to preserve himself.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang brutally defeats Demon-Subduing Patriarch with a single punch, then turns to face Lord Zhulang Mountain.
• Lord Zhulang Mountain argues that the Dayu Divine Dynasty’s fall is inevitable and necessary: its national fortune should be redistributed so the Mortal World can enter a new era. He empowers himself with the eerie vapor of a crimson moon.
• Fang Wang challenges his claim to speak for everyone and unleashes the Heaven-Connecting Emperor River, a vast golden flood from Emperor Hongxuan’s legacy. It overwhelms the battlefield, swallowing Lord Zhulang Mountain, Demon-Subduing Patriarch, and the wounded Dao Shijiu.
• While resisting the river, Lord Zhulang Mountain is cut in half by Fang Wang’s Heaven and Earth Zhuxian Sword, which takes the form of a ghost god. The river then suppresses and corrodes his body, leaving him unable to recover or fight back.
• The vision of the golden flood spreads across the continent as Saint and Imperial Clans launch a broad invasion. In the south, Emperor Hongxuan, Suxuan, and Goldenxiao Sect forces prepare to defend the coast, and battle erupts.

Character developments

• Fang Wang displays overwhelming mastery of inherited techniques, wielding the Heaven-Connecting Emperor River and the Heaven and Earth Zhuxian Sword with devastating effect.
• Lord Zhulang Mountain, once convinced that history’s upheaval served the common good, is reduced to helpless despair when Fang Wang’s power overwhelms him.
• Emperor Hongxuan is impressed by Fang Wang’s command of his legacy but cautions that a Great Emperor’s strength ultimately comes from realm, not techniques alone.
• Little Purple voices astonishment at Fang Wang’s power, while Suxuan suggests his use of Emperor Hongxuan’s techniques surpasses the original master’s.

Significant themes

• Power and legitimacy: Fang Wang questions whether Lord Zhulang Mountain truly represents the common people.
• Old order versus new: Lord Zhulang Mountain frames dynastic replacement as an eternal cycle and a path to progress; the chapter leaves that argument under pressure from the human cost and violence of invasion.
• Inherited power and mastery: Fang Wang’s use of Emperor Hongxuan’s legacy raises the question of whether a technique’s wielder can surpass its originator.
• War’s vast scale: The clash between Fang Wang and Lord Zhulang Mountain unfolds alongside a continent-wide invasion, linking personal combat to political upheaval.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang directly rejects Lord Zhulang Mountain’s claim to act for all living beings, answering his rhetoric with force.
• Lord Zhulang Mountain recognizes the Heaven-Connecting Emperor River from his past pursuit of Emperor Hongxuan’s legacy, but cannot withstand it.
• Suxuan and Emperor Hongxuan discuss Fang Wang’s mastery, with Hongxuan distinguishing technical skill from the advantage of a higher realm.
• Goldenxiao Sect’s leader rallies the cultivators to defend their position, and Emperor Hongxuan and Suxuan join the charge.

Chapter 170 Summary

• Fang Wang defeats three powerful enemies: Fang Wang’s sword strikes devastate Lord Zhulang Mountain and the other Heaven and Earth Universe experts. Their vitality lets them survive briefly, but the Heaven-Connecting Emperor River drains their will and Fang Wang’s ghost-god sword Qi consumes their souls. As the river disappears, thunderclouds gather—an apparent sign that heaven and earth mourn the deaths of such powerful cultivators.
• A new force arrives: More than one hundred thousand black-robed, white-masked figures descend from a vortex in the clouds. Their leader, the green-robed Xunxian Daojun, recognizes Fang Wang’s strength and laments the loss of four Heaven and Earth Universe experts. When Fang Wang challenges him, the masked crowd sacrifices itself, dissolving into black mist and trapping Fang Wang inside a vast Heaven and Earth Universe Spiritual Image.
• Xunxian Daojun’s identity and power are revealed: Little Purple identifies him as a disciple of Great Sage Xianglong. Xunxian Daojun also recognizes Little Purple as a princess of the True Dragon Race and claims that his master’s plans cannot overcome the heavens. He gathers strength from lightning striking his body, then attacks Fang Wang with a lightning-charged whisk.
• The battle becomes a public spectacle: The confrontation appears in the thunderclouds above the Human Emperor Continent, visible to fighters and civilians alike. Xunxian Daojun addresses everyone, presenting Fang Wang’s fate as a warning against defying heaven. The Dayu Emperor and Hong Xian’er both witness the projection while occupied with their own conflicts.
• The chapter ends mid-fight: Fang Wang combines two powerful body techniques to withstand the lightning and rushes Xunxian Daojun with his Celestial Palace Halberd. Xunxian Daojun counters by opening a vertical eye in his forehead and firing a beam at him.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains composed after his victories and immediately confronts the next threat. Though he recognizes Xunxian Daojun’s exceptional strength, he shows no fear and openly asks whether killing him would end further opposition.
• Xunxian Daojun emerges as a formidable, long-lived adversary who frames the conflict as a struggle against heaven. His remarks suggest a deep connection to Great Sage Xianglong and a broader agenda.
• Little Purple recognizes Xunxian Daojun and reveals his identity, but her surprise is cut short by the overwhelming pressure of the arriving force.
• The wider world becomes an audience to Fang Wang’s battle, raising the stakes beyond the immediate confrontation.

Significant themes

• Defiance of heaven: Xunxian Daojun casts Fang Wang’s resistance as defiance of a higher cosmic order, while Fang Wang’s actions challenge that claim.
• The cost of power: The deaths of elite cultivators provoke a heavenly response, and Xunxian Daojun’s followers sacrifice themselves to empower his attack.
• Public legend and fear: The projected battle turns a private confrontation into a lesson broadcast across the continent, making Fang Wang’s struggle a symbol for others.

Chapter 1 Summary

Key events

• Xunxian Daojun catches Fang Wang off guard with a sealing beam from a third eye, suppressing most of Fang’s spiritual energy. He follows with thunder and black mist, but Fang evades and knocks him back by hurling the Celestial Palace Halberd with the Great Perfection Sword Control Technique.
• Xunxian Daojun unleashes a barrage of destructive light from the Sea of Thunder Clouds. Fang closes in despite his weakened spiritual energy and attacks with Nirvana Divine Power, but Xunxian Daojun escapes by swapping places with a shadow.
• Fang uses Dao Power to shatter Xunxian Daojun’s Heaven and Earth Universe Spiritual Image. However, the fight remains inside the Wuzhong Land, a poisonous realm chosen by Xunxian Daojun; even after the image breaks, Fang cannot return to reality.
• Xunxian Daojun begins invoking the power of doom. Fang counters by manifesting his Heaven-Connecting Dharma Form and six Life-Bound Treasure Spirits. Their battle continues as a fierce contest of divine abilities.
• On the Human Emperor Continent, the conflict is seen in the sky. Fang’s early counterattack inspires the defenders, who fight with renewed morale. The chapter ends with Fang blocking a massive blow from Xunxian Daojun’s black palm using the Samsara Bell.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang remains calm and tactical despite being outmatched and having most of his spiritual energy sealed. Even during the battle, he reflects on needing a decisive finishing technique after reaching the Divine Ability Realm.
• Xunxian Daojun is revealed as a powerful and unconventional opponent, combining sealing, spatial substitution, a poisonous battleground, and the power of doom. Seeing Fang’s extraordinary treasures, he shows jealousy and questions why fate has singled Fang out for destruction.
• Little Purple reacts with alarm to Fang’s casual thoughts about improving his abilities while facing an enemy many realms stronger.
• Emperor Hongxuan recognizes the Wuzhong Land and its connection to Xunxian Daojun’s methods.

Significant themes

• Fate versus defiance: Xunxian Daojun’s use of doom suggests that Fang’s exceptional fortune may have made him a target of heaven, yet Fang continues to resist.
• Power and ingenuity: Although weakened, Fang adapts through physical speed, weapons, and defensive treasures rather than relying solely on spiritual energy.
• Inspiration and collective struggle: The spectators’ confidence in Fang strengthens the wider battlefield, linking the duel to the fate of the Human Emperor Continent.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang continues his battle with Xunxian Daojun, trading hundreds of attacks while using the Six Directions and Eight Wastelands Seal, Celestial Palace Halberd, Samsara Bell, and ghostly sword energy. Xunxian Daojun’s forehead eye emits white flames, and his many shadow doubles briefly obscure his true body.
• Fang Wang destroys the doubles with Ghost God Sword Qi, but Xunxian Daojun answers with a colossal golden palm from the sky, proclaiming that mortals cannot defeat the heavens. Fang Wang breaks the palm and grows to gigantic proportions before driving Xunxian Daojun back.
• Though Xunxian Daojun’s attacks initially seem overwhelming, Fang Wang’s unfamiliar power neutralizes them, returning the fight to a stalemate. The spectators across the Human Emperor Continent regain hope.
• Observers in the Zhuitian Secret Realm—including ghosts Fairy Lanxin and Liang Xunqiu—watch the battle. Great Sage Xianglong judges that Xunxian Daojun is not truly an immortal and is no match for Fang Wang, though his chosen location gives him an advantage.
• In the midst of combat, Fang Wang realizes he need not deliberately choose a new technique: he can let his many cultivated powers guide him toward a unique ability of his own, one capable of killing immortals. He senses that Xunxian Daojun may carry the aura of the Doom Heavenly God.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains focused and increasingly confident, adapting rapidly and discovering a new direction for his cultivation through battle. He begins to envision creating a divine ability specifically to slay immortals.
• Xunxian Daojun shifts from lofty confidence to anger and unease as Fang Wang withstands his strongest attacks and reveals powers he cannot identify.
• Emperor Hongxuan recognizes Fang Wang’s extraordinary mastery but worries about the vast gap between him and Xunxian Daojun.
• Hongchen watches calmly, showing no concern for Fang Wang’s chances.
• Little Purple mocks Xunxian Daojun for bleeding, provoking his anger.
• Great Sage Xianglong offers a measured assessment to the gathered ghosts, distinguishing Xunxian Daojun’s formidable strength from true immortality and affirming Fang Wang’s superiority.
• Former opponents Fairy Lanxin and Liang Xunqiu now watch as ghosts, convinced of Fang Wang’s greatness and hoping he wins.

Significant themes

• Defying heaven: Xunxian Daojun embodies the arrogance of celestial authority, while Fang Wang’s resistance inspires hope among mortals.
• Growth through conflict: The battle becomes a catalyst for Fang Wang’s breakthrough, turning combat into a path toward a power uniquely his.
• The limits of appearances and titles: Despite his heavenly aura and overwhelming display, Xunxian Daojun is not truly an immortal—and Fang Wang may be stronger.
• Hope and perspective: Spectators’ reactions show how one person’s struggle can strengthen or weaken the morale of entire communities.