Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• While battling Xunxian Daojun in the Wuzhong Land, Fang Wang reflects on what defining divine ability he should develop. He remains fully engaged in combat even as he meditates on his Dao.
• His energy shifts from aggressive gold to profound silver-white, and his strength rises sharply. He overwhelms Xunxian Daojun, who can no longer rely on his protective barrier and is forced to evade.
• Their fight devastates the Wuzhong Land. The battle is projected across the Human Emperor Continent, where both armies watch the balance of the war begin to feel uncertain.
• Wang Dao’s fighters, including Jiang Shenming and Sword Immortal Xu Yan, continue battling fearlessly, encouraged by Fang Wang’s presence. Meanwhile, the invading factions grow anxious about what Fang Wang might do even if they win.
• Xunxian Daojun reveals that he inherited the Great Sage and received the Heavenly Gods’ favor. He then unleashes terrifying white flames, seemingly burning Fang Wang’s body away.
• Fang Wang survives in skeletal form, tears Xunxian Daojun apart, and begins regenerating flesh as the chapter ends.

Character developments

• Fang Wang moves from merely fighting to deepening his understanding of his own Dao. His transformation suggests that his cultivation and physical abilities are evolving, though the nature of his emerging path remains unresolved.
• Xunxian Daojun shifts from confidence to panic, humiliation, and rage as Fang Wang steadily suppresses him. His prestigious inheritance and divine backing fail to secure an advantage.
• Zhou Xue watches the confrontation with controlled composure, but grips her sword more tightly, revealing her tension and concern.
• Jiang Shenming and Xu Yan, alongside Wang Dao’s other leaders, display confidence and ferocity, inspired by Fang Wang’s stand.

Significant themes

• The search for one’s Dao: Mastery of many techniques is not enough; Fang Wang must find a defining focus for his power.
• Power versus pedigree: Xunxian Daojun’s inheritance and divine favor are outweighed by Fang Wang’s strength and developing insight.
• Inspiration and fear: Fang Wang’s presence bolsters his allies while unsettling the enemy, affecting the wider war beyond the duel.
• Endurance and transformation: Fang Wang’s apparent destruction gives way to regeneration, underscoring his extraordinary resilience.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang ignores Xunxian Daojun’s questions and taunts, answering his contempt with relentless attacks.
• Xunxian Daojun tries to reassert dominance by invoking his lineage and unleashing white fire, but Fang Wang turns the attack around and tears him apart.
• Across the battlefield, both armies watch the duel: Wang Dao’s fighters draw courage from Fang Wang, while the invading leaders fear the consequences of provoking him.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang defeats Xunxian Daojun decisively, tearing his body in half and erasing what remains with the Extinction Divine Record. Though Fang Wang’s body was burned away, it rapidly regenerates, convincing witnesses that his victory was overwhelming rather than lucky.
• As the battle’s illusions fade across the Mortal World, factions from the Saint Clan and Imperial Clan order their forces to retreat.
• Fang Wang awakens from the Heart of the Heavenly Dao in the Wuzhong Land, a vast, unfamiliar realm beyond the Mortal World. He wonders whether his Dao bone could protect his soul if he used the Nine Extremities Blood Sacrifice Art without a body.
• A powerful figure descends and identifies himself as the Doom Heavenly God, an Orthodox God of the Immortal Court. He offers to cultivate Fang Wang and guide him to ascension, but Fang Wang questions his motives and challenges the God’s power.
• As the Doom Heavenly God prepares to attack, the Ghost Emperor appears and warns him off. The Doom Heavenly God withdraws, but promises to return with his true body when the Mortal World’s time for ascension arrives.
• The Ghost Emperor cautions Fang Wang that he will not protect him then—and that returning to the Mortal World from the Wuzhong Land will be difficult.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains composed after killing Xunxian Daojun and refuses to be intimidated by the Doom Heavenly God. His victory deepens his confidence in his strength, while his questions about the Dao bone and the nature of the Wuzhong Land suggest he is already considering new paths forward.
• The Doom Heavenly God presents himself as a patron offering immortality and advancement, but his arrogance and threatening display reveal a domineering side. He backs down only when confronted by the Ghost Emperor.
• The Ghost Emperor intervenes unexpectedly in Fang Wang’s defense, asserting his authority over the Doom Heavenly God. His help is explicitly limited, however, and he leaves Fang Wang to face the future threat himself.
• Little Purple shares Fang Wang’s unease about the strange realm and retreats into the Celestial Palace Halder when danger approaches.

Significant themes

• Power and limits: Fang Wang’s apparent invincibility over Xunxian Daojun contrasts with the Doom Heavenly God’s vastly greater presence.
• Ambition and temptation: The God’s offer of ascension and eternal life tests whether Fang Wang will submit to a powerful patron.
• Independence and responsibility: Fang Wang remains self-reliant, while the Ghost Emperor’s aid is temporary rather than a promise of rescue.
• Uncertainty and transformation: Fang Wang’s lost body, surviving Dao bone, and displacement into another realm raise questions about mortality, identity, and the path back home.

Key plot points and events

• After Ghost Emperor saves Fang Wang from Xunxian Daojun, Fang asks about the Wuzhong Land. Ghost Emperor explains it was once a prosperous mortal world, severed from the wider realms during the Immortal-Mortal War. Though protected from invasion, it is cursed: anyone who stays too long will suffer worsening karmic affliction and eventually be unable to leave.
• Fang discovers that neither the Jiuyou Free Art nor his other escape methods can take him directly out. Ghost Emperor, who is accustomed to similar curses, cannot help him escape either.
• Fang thanks Ghost Emperor and uses the Lingxiao Divine Sect to travel between realms, but its jumps are unguided. He ends up stranded in an unfamiliar world, surrounded by enormous beasts and with no clear route home.
• Fang contacts Zhou Xue through his jade bracelet. She confirms she cannot track his location, only sense that he is moving between realms. She explains that the besieging forces have withdrawn from the Dayu Divine Dynasty and promises to wait for him, even if his return takes centuries.
• Zhou Xue says she expects to ascend in about a millennium; from the Upper Realm, finding Fang should be much easier. She also argues that his adventures across multiple mortal worlds may increase his fortune and reputation.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains confident in his abilities but is unsettled by being stranded and possibly missing the Ascension Steps. He jokes with Zhou Xue and boasts that she will never catch up to him.
• Ghost Emperor provides crucial information about the Wuzhong Land and admits that, despite saving Fang, he cannot send him home.
• Zhou Xue reassures Fang and reveals that she anticipated Ghost Emperor’s intervention because Fang had mastered the Vajra Supreme Yang Sacred Body. She did not foresee that he could travel between heavens and earths, and regrets not warning him sooner. She also confirms she is independently plotting against the Xuanyou Sect and believes she can manage Fang’s enemies.

Significant themes

• The cost of power and survival: Even Fang’s powerful techniques cannot override the Wuzhong Land’s rules or guarantee a safe return.
• Separation, patience, and loyalty: Fang may be away for decades or centuries, but Zhou Xue promises to wait for him.
• Ambition and reputation: Zhou Xue reframes Fang’s displacement as a chance to build renown—and accumulate greater fortune—across multiple worlds.
• Limits and confidence: Fang and Zhou Xue trade teasing boasts, while the chapter shows both the limits of their current abilities and their faith in future growth.

Key plot points and events

• After discussing the situation with Zhou Xue, Fang Wang accepts that returning home may take a long time. He decides to cultivate in this unfamiliar realm before attempting the journey back, both to grow stronger and to travel faster.
• He finds a secluded place with abundant spiritual energy and begins cultivating above a lake. Little Purple stays nearby, joking that being alone with Fang Wang means no other “bad women” will be around.
• In the Dayu Divine Dynasty, Zhou Xue and Hongchen discuss Fang Wang’s progress. Hongchen says he only taught Fang Wang the cultivation method once; Fang Wang’s mastery of the Boundless Stainless Dao Bone is the result of his own insight. They believe he has become powerful enough to escape the schemes of ancient powers, though he will still need careful planning and protection.
• Elsewhere, Fang Zigeng confronts his former master, Immortal Jilie, and defeats him brutally. When Jilie taunts him with details about his wife’s suffering, Fang Zigeng erupts in rage and engulfs the surrounding landscape in blood-colored flames.
• Six years pass. Fang Wang reaches a breakthrough into the Divine Ability Realm after prolonged cultivation and reflection. As he forms his divine ability, he imagines power capable of crushing all laws and suppressing every foe.
• At the moment of his breakthrough, a wild-looking man kneels and bows toward the distant disturbance. Fang Wang, still with his eyes closed, clenches his hand toward the horizon. Mountains, earth, clouds, and then a vast portion of the visible world are annihilated, leaving darkness in their wake.

Character developments

• Fang Wang shows patience and pragmatism, choosing to strengthen himself before attempting a dangerous return. His breakthrough marks a major expansion of his power, and his new ability appears overwhelmingly destructive.
• Little Purple remains devoted and playful, accompanying Fang Wang and responding with awe to the force of his breakthrough.
• Zhou Xue and Hongchen reveal confidence in Fang Wang’s independent talent while acknowledging that his safety still requires strategic support.
• Fang Zigeng has surpassed Immortal Jilie in combat, but his hatred and grief remain intense; Jilie’s provocation triggers a devastating outburst.

Significant themes

• Self-earned mastery: Fang Wang’s advancement comes chiefly from his own comprehension, not instruction.
• Power and responsibility: Greater strength may protect Fang Wang, but its scale is so immense that it can devastate the world around him.
• Vengeance and trauma: Fang Zigeng’s victory does not free him from the pain tied to his past.
• Uncertainty and preparation: Fang Wang faces an unknown realm and a difficult return, so he prioritizes growth before action.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang reassures himself through his conversation with Zhou Xue, while Little Purple provides comic relief and loyal companionship.
• Zhou Xue and Hongchen exchange views on Fang Wang’s potential, balancing admiration with concern for his future.
• Fang Zigeng and Immortal Jilie’s former master-disciple bond has collapsed into hatred: Jilie taunts him, and Fang Zigeng responds with overwhelming violence.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang completes a new divine ability, the Great Return to Void Palm, combining insights from powers he has mastered. Its first use destroys half of the surrounding landscape, though the world begins slowly repairing itself.
• After consolidating his cultivation for six months, he and Little Purple search across different worlds for a way home. In one world, Fang Wang encounters a primitive man sculpting a statue of him. He imparts his technique to the man, hoping to repay the world for the damage he caused.
• After seven more world-jumps, Fang Wang still has not found his way back or heard of Great Sage Xianglong. He settles in a spiritually rich world and decides to cultivate there until reaching the Tashiao Realm.
• Through his connection with Zhou Xue, Fang Wang learns that the Dayu Divine Dynasty and Golden Xiao Sect continue expanding, while Wang Dao has returned to Great Qi to pursue the Dao.
• Fang Wang’s cultivation progresses rapidly: he reaches the second, third, and fourth layers of the Divine Ability Realm over sixteen years.

Character developments

• Fang Wang remains focused and disciplined, but also shows responsibility by leaving behind a Daoist tradition in the world he damaged.
• His Boundless Stainless Dao Bone appears to have been strengthened or activated after being damaged in his earlier battle with Xunxian Daojun, improving his cultivation speed.
• Little Purple stays close to Fang Wang, guards him, and is delighted by the prospect of further cultivation.

Significant themes

• Creation and responsibility: Fang Wang’s power can devastate a world, but he tries to balance that harm by passing on a path of cultivation.
• Persistence and growth: Unable to find his way home, he turns uncertainty into an opportunity to advance.
• The spread of the Dao: A single encounter may establish a tradition that outlasts its founder.

Character interactions

• Little Purple witnesses Fang Wang’s power with awe and asks why he teaches the primitive man; Fang Wang explains his wish to make amends.
• The man responds to Fang Wang with reverence, later honoring his name beside the statue.
• Fang Wang stays connected to Zhou Xue for news of events back home, while Little Purple serves as his companion and protector.

Key plot points

• Heavenly Dao Fang Wang continues cultivating in seclusion in another mortal world. After ten years, he advances from the Divine Ability Realm Fourth Layer to the Fifth and aims for the Sixth.
• He occasionally checks on Little Purple, who has gathered a group of devoted mortal followers by displaying its powers. Fang Wang finds the spectacle amusing and reflects that quiet cultivation suits him better than endless conflict—though he still enjoys occasional change.
• Zhou Xue contacts Fang Wang and reports that the Ascension Steps are underway. This edition is unusually grand, drawing major figures and cultivators from both the Eastern Human World and Western Mortal Realm. The Golden Sect, Wang Dao, Hongchen Faction, and Dayu Divine Dynasty participants cooperate as allies.
• The Nine-Lives Treasure Spirit has joined the event and is seeking Fang Wang. Fang Wang’s reputation has spread widely, attracting powerful challengers, but he welcomes the prospect of stronger rivals.
• Zhou Xue describes the Dayu Divine Dynasty’s post-crisis prosperity and Hong Xian’er’s rise as the leading female genius under heaven, with many believing she could become a Great Emperor. She also teases Fang Wang about rumors linking him and Hong Xian’er.
• Later, Fang Wang sees a shooting star but decides it poses no threat and does not investigate.
• Elsewhere, Jiang Shenming—the reincarnation of the Godly Great Emperor—rows across the sea with a prospective Wang Dao follower. He says they are slowly traveling to welcome Fang Wang when he returns from another mortal world. Their journey is interrupted when a gigantic dragon head rises from the water.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains focused on cultivation but shows a more reflective, relaxed side, appreciating the scenery and the life he has built. His confidence is undiminished, and he looks forward to testing himself against stronger opponents.
• Zhou Xue serves as an informed ally, updating Fang Wang on the Ascension Steps, the growth of their factions, and the changing balance of power. Their conversation is familiar and playful, especially when she teases him about Hong Xian’er.
• Hong Xian’er has gained widespread recognition through her achievements, becoming a figure admired even by the Fang Family.
• Jiang Shenming appears calm and enigmatic, guiding a potential recruit while journeying toward Fang Wang. The eager boatman admires Fang Wang and hopes to join the Wang Dao God Sect.
• Little Purple is treated by mortals as a divine being, while Fang Wang watches its antics with amusement.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and respite: Even powerful cultivators need rest, reflection, and appreciation of ordinary beauty.
• Rising competition: The unusually flourishing Ascension Steps signal a more intense era, with new geniuses emerging and Fang Wang’s fame drawing challengers.
• Alliances and shared growth: The allied factions support one another, while their leaders believe pressure can help talented members reach their potential.
• Reputation and legend: Fang Wang’s achievements have become widely known, shaping the ambitions and fears of people across the mortal world.
• Unfolding mystery: The unexplained shooting star and the sudden appearance of the enormous sea creature foreshadow events beyond Fang Wang’s immediate concern.

Chapter summary

• A clash at sea is foreshadowed: Jiang Shenming confronts a colossal, sealed Nine-Headed Dragon that recognizes him as a member of the Jiang clan. Confident despite the dragon’s True Soul Realm power, Jiang Shenming prepares to fight. A man in a straw raincoat watches with eager curiosity. The outcome is not shown.
• Fang Wang’s cultivation and ambition advance: Twenty years pass. Fang Wang rises from the fifth to the seventh layer of the Divine Ability Realm and plans to cultivate to the Tashiao Realm before venturing out. At 424, he is nearing the age limit for the Four Heroes of Nanqung and has developed a powerful drive to become the strongest, determined to surpass even extraordinary talents and resurrected sages.
• Little Purple takes initiative: Little Purple tells Fang Wang that an Otherworldly Demon is slaughtering people. It has spread Fang Wang’s name through the Mortal World, where people have erected statues and offer incense to him. Rather than confronting the demon without permission, Little Purple asks Fang Wang to authorize its intervention. Fang Wang sends it to gain experience, pleased by its newfound compassion. His reaction also reveals how deeply he cares for the companion who has been with him through nearly four centuries of battles.
• The demon’s threat becomes clear: The chapter introduces Changheng Shensui, a pale, white-haired fiend surrounded by a vast landscape of corpses and bones. A group of cultivators watches him from hiding, debating how to attack. They fear that he will soon slaughter the Xuanhuang Continent and note that he has already killed six Mahayana Realm experts. Their prepared treasures are useless in his territory, leaving them uncertain whether he is asleep or deliberately baiting them.
• Little Purple arrives: As the cultivators struggle to devise a plan, a purple dragon appears in the sky. Its arrival clears the storm clouds and brings sunlight, signaling Little Purple’s entrance and setting up a confrontation with Changheng Shensui.

Character developments and themes

Fang Wang’s pursuit of strength is not purely selfless: alongside his willingness to help others, he openly seeks fame and the title of strongest. Little Purple, meanwhile, has grown more compassionate and acts with deference to Fang Wang’s wishes. The chapter contrasts that developing sense of duty with the demon’s mass slaughter, emphasizing responsibility, compassion, ambition, and the value of loyal companionship.

Key plot points and events

• Little Purple, now a thousand-zhang true dragon, confronts the Otherworldly Demon Changsheng Shensui, declaring itself the Great Dragon God serving under Heavenly Dao Fang Wang.
• Changsheng mocks the title and attacks with a chilling aura. Little Purple answers with Sword Qi and the Nine Heavens Azure Thunder Sword Formation, defeating him after an hour and reducing him to ashes.
• Fang Wang watches from afar and senses powerful, similar beings beyond the mortal realm, whose strength approaches the Half-Step Heaven and Earth Universe Realm. He wonders how they cross the barriers between worlds.
• Little Purple spends the next six months displaying itself across the mortal realm and spreading the names of itself and Fang Wang. When it returns, it proudly reports its victory.
• Fang Wang warns that Changsheng’s backers are coming. Soon seven beings resembling Changsheng break through the heavenly barrier and descend. Fang Wang realizes they are all avatars sharing one soul—and that Changsheng may not have been truly eliminated.

Character developments and interactions

• Little Purple grows more confident after its victory, believing the fight made it stronger. Its pride is tempered by its deference to Fang Wang: it insists he should face the newcomers as its “backer,” while the public wants to see his power firsthand.
• Fang Wang remains calm and observant, treating Little Purple’s battle as ordinary, yet recognizing that the threat extends beyond the mortal realm. He watches the seven arrivals without rising.
• Changsheng Shensui is revealed to be part of a larger, coordinated threat: seven versions share a single soul. The newcomers target Little Purple and look toward Fang Wang.
• The mortal cultivators are awed by Little Purple’s appearance and victory, while the arriving demons’ laughter and pressure revive their fear.

Significant themes

• Reputation and worship: Little Purple uses its victory to establish itself—and Fang Wang—as divine figures among the people.
• Power and hidden scale: What seems like a decisive victory is only the opening of a greater conflict, with forces beyond the mortal world.
• Master and disciple: Little Purple’s bravado is balanced by its reliance on Fang Wang, while Fang Wang’s composure underscores their difference in strength and experience.

Key plot points and events

• Changsheng Shensui reveals that the one Little Purple killed was a false body: seven copies appear and announce their return, threatening to end all life in the Mortal World.
• Fang Wang quietly uses the Great Return to Void Palm to erase all seven—bodies and souls alike—before they can attack. Little Purple is astonished by the effortless display.
• Fang Wang explains that he avoided absorbing their souls, both to test his control and to avoid entangling himself in the possible karma of Immortals and Gods.
• After years of cultivation, Fang Wang reaches the ninth layer of the Divine Ability Realm. As people gather near his sanctuary, he sends Little Purple to distribute copies of the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture to promising cultivators, establishing his teachings in that realm.
• Fang Wang advances into the Tashiao Realm, consolidates his power, and becomes confident that he could dominate the universe he came from, barring the intervention of beings such as Immortals, Gods, or resurrected Great Sages and Emperors.
• He resumes searching for a way home, traveling between mortal realms. A terrifying presence in the Underworld forces him to retreat. Little Purple recounts how it has spread Fang Wang’s name and scripture.
• During their journey, Fang Wang suddenly recognizes a modern-looking cityscape of glass towers, roads, cars, and advertisements—the place where the chapter ends.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang demonstrates increasingly refined power and caution. Rather than pursuing revenge or absorbing his enemies’ souls, he eliminates the threat decisively and returns to cultivation. He also leaves behind a legacy by sharing his scripture, while remaining detached from choosing its future practitioners himself.
• Little Purple shifts from anger at being deceived to awe at Fang Wang’s ability. It later embraces its role as his emissary, spreading his teachings, and eagerly reports its efforts during their travels.
• Fang Wang and Little Purple remain a close master-and-companion pair: he promises to teach Little Purple his technique, entrusts it with distributing the manuals, and carries it along as they search for home.

Significant themes

• Power tempered by restraint: Fang Wang’s strength is immense, but he acts carefully around forces he does not understand.
• Legacy and transmission: By leaving his scripture behind, Fang Wang gives another world the chance to develop beyond his own presence.
• Distance from the mortal world: Though his influence grows, Fang Wang remains focused on returning home rather than ruling or personally shaping the realm.
• The unknown beyond mortal limits: The Changsheng Shensui’s claims and the lethal presence in the Underworld suggest dangers that even great cultivators must approach cautiously.

Plot points and events

• After traveling through many mortal realms, Fang Wang realizes he has returned to Earth. He confirms it with his Spiritual Sense, which reveals the familiar spherical world and the surrounding universe.
• Overwhelmed by memories of his past life, he asks Little Purple to stay still and remain inconspicuous.
• Two siblings, Yang Jun and Yang Lin’er, find Fang Wang standing on a rooftop and mistakenly assume he might jump. Once he steps down, they notice his striking appearance and ancient-style clothing.
• Fang Wang tells them his belongings were stolen and asks them about the city. They invite him to eat and offer to help him contact his family or visit the police.
• While walking through the city and talking with them, Fang Wang confirms the year is 2011, not 2029—the year he remembers dying in his previous life.
• At a Sichuan restaurant, the siblings talk about university, anime, and role-play. Fang Wang struggles to recall details from his old life but enjoys the chance to act like an ordinary person.
• Yang Jun offers to buy Fang Wang a set of clothes. Fang Wang accepts, wanting a brief respite from the violence and demands of cultivation.

Character developments

• Fang Wang is shaken by the reality of returning to Earth. Though he has lived 110,000 years in his current life, his memories of Earth are fading and incomplete. He chooses to explore this unfamiliar version of his former home rather than immediately reveal who he is.
• Little Purple is confused by Fang Wang’s unusual restraint but obeys. It becomes irritated when Yang Lin’er mistakes it for a toy, and Fang Wang calms it before it can react.
• Yang Jun comes across as friendly, talkative, and eager to help a stranger.
• Yang Lin’er is curious and perceptive, though she assumes Little Purple is a doll.

Significant themes

• Returning home and confronting time: Earth is familiar yet displaced from Fang Wang’s memories, existing in 2011 rather than the 2029 he remembers.
• Immortality and ordinary life: After immense cultivation and conflict, Fang Wang wants to experience simple human pleasures and everyday conversation.
• Identity and disconnection: Fang Wang’s long life has blurred his former memories, leaving him a visitor even in his old home.
• Misunderstanding across worlds: The siblings interpret Fang Wang’s unusual appearance and Little Purple through ordinary modern assumptions.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang quietly directs Little Purple to stay hidden and later soothes it when Yang Lin’er calls it a doll.
• Yang Jun and Yang Lin’er approach Fang Wang out of concern, then warmly include him in their plans.
• Their casual conversation helps Fang Wang orient himself in modern Earth and gives him a temporary taste of normal human companionship.

Chapter 1 Summary

• After spending an afternoon with Yang Jun and Yang Lin’er, Fang Wang parts from the siblings. Yang Lin’er worries about his loneliness and safety, while Yang Jun assumes Fang Wang is doing well and jokes that he may become a famous star. Fang Wang leaves with Little Purple, who asks about cosplay and jokes about Gu Tianxiong’s interests.
• The next morning, Fang Wang visits the hometown of his former life. He finds his parents, but learns that on this Earth they had a different child instead of him. This confirms it is not the Earth he remembers, though the discovery brings him relief.
• Using illusions, Fang Wang obtains official identification and secretly gives his father a large sum of money, making it seem like lottery winnings. He also alters his mother’s memory so the money causes no suspicion. He then settles in Donghai City and supports himself by selling valuables from his Dragon Jade Ring.
• Over the next year, Fang Wang adapts to modern life. When Little Purple grows restless, he lets it roam after making it agree to rules. It soon causes a worldwide stir after appearing as a gigantic sea creature—apparently a dragon—in the Pacific.
• Fang Wang spends his days studying how to fuse the Lingxiao Divine Sect and Jiuyou Free Art, while his cultivation advances slowly in Earth’s weak spiritual energy. He often eats at the same restaurant, watching ordinary people and reflecting on their shared struggles and what an immortal might do for the mortal world.
• Four years after their first meeting, Yang Jun and Yang Lin’er enter the restaurant arguing about a secret Yang Lin’er refuses to keep from their parents. Yang Jun spots Fang Wang, recognizes him immediately, and is astonished that he looks unchanged—and is still wearing clothes he gave him.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Fang Wang moves from being a mysterious stranger to quietly establishing a life on Earth. Though powerful and detached from ordinary time, he shows care for his parents and curiosity about mortal life. His repeated reflections suggest he is considering the responsibilities that might come with immortality.
• Yang Lin’er remains compassionate and protective, worrying about Fang Wang after their first meeting. Four years later, she shows resolve in opposing Yang Jun’s plan to conceal something from their parents.
• Yang Jun is practical and humorous, initially predicting Fang Wang’s success as a celebrity. Years later, his recognition and surprise renew the connection between them.
• Little Purple is mischievous and restless, eventually attracting public attention in its enormous sea-creature form. Fang Wang’s fond but cautionary exchanges with it highlight their master-servant familiarity.

Significant Themes

• Belonging and identity: Fang Wang discovers that this Earth is not truly his former home, yet still creates a place for himself in it.
• The ordinary and the extraordinary: His immortal perspective contrasts with the routines and hardships of mortal life.
• Responsibility and compassion: Fang Wang secretly helps his parents and wonders what he could do for humanity if he attains immortality.
• Time and change: Four years transform the siblings and deepen their relationship with Fang Wang, while he himself appears unchanged.

Plot and key events

• Fang Wang unexpectedly meets siblings Yang Lin’er and Yang Jun at a restaurant. They catch up over dinner, reminiscing about their earlier meal together and discussing their plans and family expectations.
• Fang Wang says he intends to remain in Donghai. The siblings are pleased, and the three exchange phone numbers and spend the night socializing. Yang Jun and Yang Lin’er are surprised to learn Fang Wang lives in a spacious apartment and is well known at local venues.
• While the siblings sleep, Fang Wang sends his Primordial Spirit into space to search for powerful beings. He finds no intelligent life on other planets and concludes that the Mortal World may be devastated remnants of a great ancient battle, though hidden opportunities or inheritances could remain.
• The next day, Fang Wang gently teases Yang Lin’er about possibly liking him. She denies it, though her disappointment suggests otherwise. They talk comfortably about mysterious creatures and dragons before the siblings leave.
• Over the following months, Fang Wang focuses on his secret-technique fusion by day and explores the universe by night. Half a year later, his Primordial Spirit makes a discovery.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang enjoys the siblings’ lively companionship, which gives him a rare sense of closeness in his mortal life. He is willing to remain in Donghai for decades and let their lives intersect with his.
• Yang Jun remains outgoing and mischievous, teasing his sister about her interest in Fang Wang and revealing his wish to become a war correspondent, despite her objections.
• Yang Lin’er is protective of her brother but also appears to have feelings for Fang Wang. She is pleased he will stay nearby, though she hides her disappointment when he says he already has partners.
• Their playful bickering shows the siblings’ strong, affectionate relationship, while Fang Wang’s easy banter helps them grow closer.

Significant themes

• The richness of ordinary life: Fang Wang appreciates friendship, meals, and lively conversation alongside his extraordinary existence.
• Mortality and connection: His decision to remain in Donghai reflects a willingness to share time and relationships with mortals.
• A ruined but promising world: The seemingly empty universe suggests catastrophe and loss, yet Fang Wang believes it may still conceal powerful inheritances.
• Unspoken affection and family bonds: Yang Lin’er’s concealed feelings and the siblings’ teasing underscore both romantic tension and familial warmth.

Plot and events

• Fang Wang’s Primordial Spirit explores a ruined continent in the cosmic void and discovers a restriction on a stone tablet marked “South Heavenly Gate.”
• Breaking the restriction reveals the Xuandu Book of Changes, a vast, evolving Daoist art combining cultivation with divination, metaphysics, spells, and other techniques. Its energy can absorb others’ power and convert it into his own.
• Fang Wang spends 18,000 years cultivating it to grand perfection. He then returns to his body in the modern world and goes out to eat.
• Finding many unanswered messages from Yang Lin’er, he meets her at the restaurant. They trade jokes about being an immortal and the reincarnated Jiutian Xuannü, then spend the day sightseeing. He drops her off at the subway that evening.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang’s patience and determination are underscored by his immense, solitary training; afterward, he is eager for ordinary company and considers whether to pursue a relationship.
• Yang Lin’er has grown increasingly worried during his absence. Her frustration softens when she sees him, revealing her affection and fascination with his unusual personality.
• Their teasing exchange shows a comfortable, playful rapport, though Fang Wang’s fantastical explanation of his absence is not believed.

Significant themes

• Cultivation and time: A brief absence in the modern world contains millennia of focused spiritual practice.
• Isolation and human connection: After a long solitary ordeal, Fang Wang seeks companionship, while Yang Lin’er’s concern highlights the emotional ties of ordinary life.
• Truth and disbelief: Fang Wang tells Yang Lin’er the truth about being an immortal cultivator, but she assumes he is joking.

Key plot points and events

• After sending Yang Lin’er home, Fang Wang spends more than half a month resting in modern society. During the Spring Festival, he reflects on reincarnation and gains new insight from the Xuandu Book of Changes.
• Yang Lin’er calls to wish him a happy New Year. Their playful bickering turns into a long conversation, revealing their comfortable, affectionate rapport.
• The next morning, Yang Lin’er unexpectedly arrives after driving 800 kilometers overnight. She brings gifts and looks around Fang Wang’s home, checking whether he has had other women over.
• Fang Wang uses his mastery of the Xuandu Book of Changes to foresee Yang Lin’er’s tragic future: her family’s financial ruin and deaths, followed by her own illness and suicide. He resolves to change her fate.
• He teaches her a cultivation breathing method. While she practices, Fang Wang watches Little Purple instruct animals in Qi gathering on the other side of Earth. The resulting shifts in fate across the world deepen his understanding of destiny.
• When Zhou Xue sends a spiritual message through his jade bracelet, Fang Wang excuses himself and goes to his bedroom to respond.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang is increasingly interested in reincarnation, destiny, and the power to alter people’s futures. His concern for Yang Lin’er prompts him to intervene, though he presents the cultivation method as a modest way to improve her health and vitality.
• Yang Lin’er shows how attached she is to Fang Wang by traveling overnight to see him. She teases him, searches his home for signs of another woman, and feels a moment of unease at the sense that he might be beyond her reach. She remains skeptical of cultivation but trusts that Fang Wang is not a lunatic.
• Little Purple is independently teaching animals to gather Qi, an act whose consequences Fang Wang observes through a vast web of shifting destinies.
• Fang Wang and Yang Lin’er’s banter and New Year conversation establish warmth and familiarity, while his abrupt departure to contact Zhou Xue shifts the scene back toward cultivation and supernatural affairs.

Significant themes

• Fate and free will: Fang Wang sees Yang Lin’er’s painful future but rejects the idea that destiny must be respected, choosing to change it.
• Reincarnation and spiritual insight: His reflections on his deceased parents and the Dao of reincarnation broaden his understanding of the soul and samsara.
• The supernatural entering ordinary life: Modern holidays, family visits, and domestic routines coexist with cultivation, Qi, and visions of humanity’s changing destinies.
• Care expressed through action: Fang Wang’s concern for Yang Lin’er appears less in emotional declarations than in his decision to give her a path toward better health and a different future.

Key events

• Fang Wang meets Zhou Xue in the Fang Manor’s Illusion Realm. She teases him about his slow cultivation progress and his relationships with mortal women.
• Zhou Xue explains that the Ascension Steps’ completion has weakened the barrier between the Western Mortal Realm and the Eastern Human World. Western cultivators and monsters are entering in greater numbers, and Fang Wang’s absence has only strengthened his reputation as the Eastern world’s protector.
• Fang Wang tells Zhou Xue about the Xuandu Book of Changes. She recognizes it as a renowned Upper Realm technique created by the still-living Xuandu Great Sage, and says mastery of it can make a cultivator exceptionally formidable.
• Zhou Xue asks about Earth. Fascinated by its technology, she requests that Fang Wang bring her some technological products when he leaves.
• Back in his mortal home, Fang Wang watches Yang Lin’er wake. They later dine together, where she speaks about her wish to build a career through her own efforts.
• Yang Lin’er stays overnight at Fang Wang’s home, while Fang Wang spends the night in Dao contemplation.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains focused on cultivation and longevity, politely deflecting Zhou Xue’s teasing about romance. He rejects the idea of having children for future advantage, but reflects on how his techniques—especially the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture—might be developed and passed on.
• Zhou Xue combines teasing intimacy with a serious, strategic outlook. She sees emotional bonds and descendants as potentially useful, while also advising Fang Wang not to grow complacent in weaker mortal worlds. Their conversation shows familiarity and trust, and their shared interest in cultivation and Earth’s technology.
• Yang Lin’er reveals a modest but earnest ambition: to establish a career independently rather than rely on her parents. She worries about her younger brother Yang Jun, who has gone abroad to pursue his dream. Her conversation with Fang Wang leaves her feeling closer to him, though she struggles to sleep that night.
• Fang Wang listens closely to Yang Lin’er and uses her perspective on ordinary life to reflect on his own purpose.

Significant themes

• Ambition and purpose: Longevity is an abstract goal; Fang Wang considers what specific path and methods should lead him toward it, while Yang Lin’er seeks independence through work.
• Immortality versus attachment: Fang Wang resists having children or forming bonds that might tie him down, even as Zhou Xue views relationships and bloodlines as sources of future strength.
• Learning across worlds: Weaker realms can still offer valuable opportunities and insights; Earth’s technology fascinates Zhou Xue, and mortal lives inspire Fang Wang’s Dao comprehension.
• Reputation and changing worlds: The opening of the realms brings new powers into the Eastern Human World, while Fang Wang’s growing legend makes him a symbol of stability.

Plot points

• Two years pass, bringing the story to 2018. Fang Wang spends nearly all his time at home combining the vast Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture and Xuandu Book of Changes, now searching for underlying patterns rather than simply joining them piece by piece.
• At work, Yang Lin’er worries about Fang Wang’s isolation and wonders whether his cultivation has made him delusional. She also becomes concerned about her younger brother, Yang Jun, who is working in South America, after hearing reports of unusually large, possibly mutated animals around the world.
• In South America, Yang Jun and an expedition team flee a gigantic python. A purple dragon—Little Purple—rises from the sea and kills the python with sword qi, destroying the team’s cameras in the process. Yang Jun survives but is left stunned by the encounter.
• Later, Little Purple tells Fang Wang that increasingly numerous, bloodthirsty beasts threaten the mortal world. Fang Wang confirms that a powerful, worldwide organization is behind them. Its members are not cultivators, but have unusual physiques, and its influence reaches back to World War I.
• Fang Wang advises Little Purple to intervene secretly rather than openly. He is focused on completing his scripture fusion and does not want to draw attention or take on the role of saving the world.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang is more discerning in his cultivation work and remains detached from worldly affairs, though he permits Little Purple to act discreetly.
• Yang Lin’er is frustrated by Fang Wang’s reclusiveness and increasingly anxious about her brother’s safety.
• Yang Jun goes from an ordinary expedition member to a firsthand witness of dragons and monstrous beasts.
• Little Purple acts protectively toward Yang Jun because Fang Wang favors him, then reports the wider threat to Fang Wang and seeks his guidance.
• Yang Lin’er’s coworker teases her about Fang Wang, while Chen Glasses warns of a possible global catastrophe, prompting a brief workplace argument.

Significant themes

• Cultivation versus ordinary life: Fang Wang’s pursuit of spiritual knowledge separates him from everyday concerns.
• A hidden supernatural world: Strange beasts and a real dragon emerge amid modern life, while the public remains largely unaware.
• Power and responsibility: Fang Wang chooses secrecy and restraint, while Little Purple takes limited action to prevent disaster.
• Uncertainty about the threat: The organization behind the beasts is formidable, but its ties to governments complicate whether it is simply evil.

Key events

• Yang Jun visits Fang Wang with his sister, Yang Lin’er, and asks about a purple dragon doll Fang once owned. Fang claims he bought it at a roadside stall, found a note mentioning the Dragon God Cult, and later threw it away.
• Yang Jun connects the doll to the purple dragon—Little Purple—that rescued him a week earlier. Excited by the encounter, he believes dragons and the Dragon God are real and recounts what happened. Yang Lin’er is skeptical but becomes uncertain after seeing his wounds.
• Fang calmly advises Yang Jun to check his account with the other people who witnessed the encounter. Yang Jun takes the advice and agrees to return home; he stays the night at Fang’s, then leaves the next morning.
• Yang Lin’er stays behind and asks Fang whether the apocalypse is real and whether her efforts still matter. Fang reassures her that she would not face it alone, though his attention remains on his cultivation.
• Four years later, Fang Wang completes the fusion of the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture and the Xuandu Book of Changes. After spending twelve thousand years cultivating in the Heavenly Palace, he perfects the new technique and names it the Heavenly Dao Boundless Book of Changes.
• Fang tests the technique beyond the solar system, where a mysterious, human-shaped figure of light appears and asks what a cultivator from another mortal world is seeking.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Jun shifts from frightened silence to fervent belief in the supernatural, then becomes calmer under Fang’s influence. His injuries make his story harder for Yang Lin’er to dismiss.
• Yang Lin’er worries about her brother and remains troubled by conflicting signs of possible catastrophe. Fang’s reassurance briefly comforts her and deepens their intimacy.
• Fang Wang remains composed and strategically avoids revealing Little Purple’s identity. He is affectionate toward Yang Lin’er on the surface, but chiefly focused on cultivating; his immense expertise culminates in a new supreme art.
• Little Purple leaves before Yang Jun arrives, keeping the creature’s connection to Fang’s old doll concealed.

Significant themes

• Belief and uncertainty: Yang Jun’s extraordinary experience challenges ordinary assumptions, while Fang encourages verification rather than immediate certainty.
• Meaning and companionship: Fang suggests life need not possess an ultimate purpose, and that facing hardship together matters more than answers about the apocalypse.
• Time, mastery, and creation: Fang’s thousands of years in the Heavenly Palace show both the scale of cultivation and how perfecting a technique requires ongoing invention.
• A changing world: Earth’s increasingly strange weather and divergence from Fang’s former world hint at larger forces and approaching upheaval.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang meets the Xuandu Great Sage, who reveals that the Xuandu Book of Changes was his supreme art.
• The Great Sage asks Fang Wang to prevent immortal cultivation from spreading on Earth. He believes it would bring disaster: cultivation is a rare personal opportunity, not a path that should be imposed across an entire mortal world. Unable to intervene directly, he entrusts the task to Fang Wang.
• Fang Wang agrees, and the Great Sage gives him a divine ability: the Xuanyan Divine Transformation, which creates convincing clones that share his senses and can act in his place.
• Fang Wang reaches Great Consummation after 2,500 years of cultivation, gaining the ability to create unlimited clones, subject to his spiritual power.
• He then resumes cultivating the Heavenly Dao Boundless Book of Changes. Its immense power generates a cosmic force that threatens Earth, so Fang Wang shields the planet with his spiritual power until the disturbance passes.
• During the resulting storm, Yang Lin’er worries about Fang Wang and rushes to find him. She finds him safe at home. The next morning, normal conditions return.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shows restraint and a willingness to accept responsibility for Earth, while keeping his deeper identity and abilities largely hidden. He reassures Yang Lin’er during the storm and privately resolves to stay with her for the rest of her lifetime before leaving.
• The Xuandu Great Sage shifts from a mysterious presence to a mentor who explains his concern for Earth and entrusts Fang Wang with protecting it.
• Yang Lin’er reveals her lingering insecurity about Fang Wang, whom she loves but does not fully understand. The sudden storm intensifies her fear that something is wrong or that he may leave her.
• Fang Wang and Yang Lin’er share a quiet, affectionate moment as he comforts her, though his private plan suggests their time together is temporary.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Great power can endanger ordinary people, and Fang Wang must restrain or shield the world from its effects.
• The dangers of imposing a path: The Great Sage argues that widespread cultivation could invite calamity, even if it offers extraordinary possibilities to individuals.
• Love, secrecy, and impermanence: Yang Lin’er’s devotion contrasts with her inability to understand Fang Wang, while he anticipates eventually leaving her.
• Immortality versus mortal life: Fang Wang’s immense timescale and cultivation stand apart from the human lifetime he chooses to share with Yang Lin’er.

Plot points and events

• Fang Hanyu travels by flying ship to the Yu Clan’s celebration of King Yuwang’s thousandth birthday. The gathering has drawn powerful guests from across the Eastern Human World.
• On the way, Hanyu hears talk of rising young elites competing for fame, destiny, and the chance to become saints or emperors. He senses that the Yu Clan’s unusual power may strengthen his blood-red eyes.
• Hong Xian’er and Fairy Taixi arrive on a gigantic fire bird. Hanyu is struck by Hong Xian’er’s overwhelming aura and reflects on how formidable Fang Wang must be.
• Ten years later, in 2032, Fang Wang is living peacefully on Earth with Yang Lin’er. He has spent the decade studying the Jiuyou Free Art and combining it with the Lingxiao Divine Sect’s teachings, aided by the Xuandu Book of Changes.
• Fang Wang believes he is close to mastering a method of rapid travel through heaven and earth, including the ability to leave marks that let him return to places he has visited.
• Sensing something unusual, Fang Wang tells Yang Lin’er he is going out to shop. He secretly leaves Earth, travels toward the Milky Way’s center, and encounters an expanding black vortex containing a pair of blood-red eyes.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Hanyu feels driven to test himself rather than resent Fang Wang or other talented relatives. News of the Fang family’s many rising geniuses—and his own sense of being left behind—strengthens his resolve to pursue the opportunity at the Yu Clan gathering. The Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul warns him that the Yu Clan is dangerous, but Hanyu trusts his master and sees potential in the clan’s power.
• Fang Wang balances a peaceful life with Yang Lin’er against his enduring desire to fight and challenge powerful opponents. His cultivation and understanding of spatial travel have advanced substantially.
• Yang Lin’er is now a successful entrepreneur and feels secure in her long-term relationship with Fang Wang. Although they never married and have chosen not to have children, both are content. She accepts his sudden departure without suspicion.
• Hanyu’s thoughts link him to Fang Wang, Zhou Xue, Fang Zigeng, and the Fang family’s other prodigies, whose accomplishments fuel his competitive ambition. Yang Lin’er’s brief phone call with her sister Yang Jun provides a light, everyday contrast to Fang Wang’s sudden cosmic encounter.

Significant themes

• Ambition and destiny: Young elites seek recognition and power by overcoming formidable rivals, believing destiny is tied to future sainthood and emperorship.
• Self-reliance and perseverance: Hanyu accepts the dangers of pursuing greatness and chooses to venture out rather than remain fearful.
• Peace versus the call to action: Fang Wang values his settled life but remains drawn to conflict and exploration.
• Power and mystery: The Yu Clan’s unusual influence and the blood-red eyes in the Galactic Center hint at forces that may drive future events.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang confronts a black-armored cultivator who emerges from a vortex in the starry sky. The stranger is from the Tashiao Realm and threatens Fang Wang, who says he is protecting this realm and warns him not to attack.
• The stranger summons a magma-hot black rod and releases a wave of murderous intent. Fang Wang reaches out with his Great Return to Void Palm, but the man vanishes into the vortex before the encounter can turn into a fight.
• Back on Earth, Fang Wang returns home with roasted chestnuts and catches up with Yang Jun, who excitedly calls about reports of dragons. Yang Jun remains fascinated by supernatural creatures despite having changed careers and given up traveling abroad.
• Over dinner, Fang Wang and Yang Lin’er discuss Yang Jun’s belief in dragons, spiritual-energy revival, and apocalyptic change. They joke about meeting again in a future life as powerful cultivators, prompting Fang Wang to reflect on Yang Lin’er’s years of devotion and the time they have spent apart because of his cultivation.
• Later, Fang Wang meets Zhou Xue in the Illusion Realm and tells her about the Xuandu Divine Transformation, a clone technique. He then asks whether Yang Lin’er could be reborn with her memories intact. Zhou Xue offers an alternative: she may be able to give Yang Lin’er a new life and exceptional aptitude without reincarnation, if Fang Wang agrees to let her help.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains confident against the mysterious intruder, but his concern for Yang Lin’er reveals a more emotionally vulnerable side. He recognizes that he has not been an attentive partner and begins considering her future beyond mortal life.
• Yang Lin’er expresses regret that work consumed much of her life and wishes she and Fang Wang could remain together across lifetimes. Their teasing and mutual affection show the warmth and intimacy of their relationship.
• Zhou Xue sees through Fang Wang’s hesitation and quickly guesses that his question concerns Yang Lin’er. Her offer puts the decision—and the trust it requires—back in Fang Wang’s hands.
• Yang Jun remains absorbed in supernatural news, providing a link between ordinary Earth life and the larger fantastical world.

Significant themes

• Protection and confrontation: Fang Wang claims responsibility for defending the realm, setting up a possible conflict with an unknown outsider.
• Love and mortality: Yang Lin’er’s aging and Fang Wang’s inability to reverse death make their relationship’s limits newly urgent.
• Time and regret: Their conversation highlights the cost of Fang Wang’s long devotion to cultivation and the ordinary moments the couple may have missed.
• A choice between paths: Zhou Xue’s offer raises the possibility of extending Yang Lin’er’s life, while leaving the means—and Fang Wang’s willingness to accept help—unresolved.