Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang reassures Zhou Xue that she matters most to him, then asks about her plan to improve Yang Lin’er’s aptitude. Zhou Xue says she wants Yang to become independent and capable, not merely someone Fang protects. She intends to approach Yang herself and insists Fang keep her cultivation secret.
• Seven years later, in 2039, Fang Wang completes his long-awaited fusion of the Lingxiao Divine Sect and Jiuyou Free Art.
• He spends 28,700 years in the Heavenly Palace mastering the resulting technique, which he names Carefree Heaven. It combines the strengths of its source arts and grants extraordinary movement, perception, and sensitivity to the world’s rules. He marks Earth so he can sense its direction wherever he goes.
• After returning to reality, Fang Wang senses that Zhou Xue has been on Earth for six months, keeping her presence hidden but drawing near Yang Lin’er. Trusting her judgment, he decides it is time to leave Earth.
• Little Purple joins him, and Fang Wang uses Carefree Heaven to step between realms, taking them from Earth to a spiritual world.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shows his affection for Zhou Xue while admitting his restlessness about other women. He respects Yang Lin’er’s determination to build her own life and trusts Zhou Xue to help her. His immense breakthrough makes him far more powerful, though he recognizes that remaining on Earth has slowed his cultivation.
• Zhou Xue appears confident and accomplished, suggesting she has made significant progress during their years apart. She takes responsibility for helping Yang Lin’er and keeps her plans private.
• Yang Lin’er is described as strong-willed and committed to independence, despite Fang Wang’s willingness to support her.
• Little Purple is amused by Earth but agrees that its slow cultivation pace makes it time to leave. She is astonished by Fang Wang’s ability to cross realms.

Significant themes

• Love and trust: Fang Wang values Zhou Xue deeply and trusts her with Yang Lin’er’s future.
• Independence versus protection: Yang Lin’er’s ambition challenges the idea that care means sheltering someone from hardship.
• Patience and perseverance: Fang Wang’s decades on Earth and millennia of practice culminate in a powerful new art.
• The scale of time and reality: His long cultivation contrasts with the brief instant that passes outside, while Carefree Heaven reveals the hidden rules underlying the world.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang takes his third step and arrives in a world of abundant spiritual energy, then continues crossing between mortal worlds with every step. Little Purple is astonished by the speed and scope of his ability.
• After a hundred steps, Fang Wang is far beyond the world where Earth lies and can no longer sense Yang Lin’er. He lets his hair grow long and sheds his modern appearance, returning to his identity as the Dao Lord of Wang Dao.
• Finding the new realm’s spiritual energy suitable, Fang Wang decides to cultivate there. He hopes to strengthen his cultivation enough to stop fighting across realms and instead overpower opponents through superior strength.
• Fang Wang and Little Purple enter a bustling cultivation city to gather information. An attendant has never heard of Great Sage Xianglong, naming Great Sage Qiyun instead as the world’s creator god.
• At an inn, Fang Wang overhears cultivators discussing Ji Rutian, a famed genius pressured into a duel with the Tucang Demon Lord. The duel is five years away, and Fang Wang recognizes Ji Rutian’s name as that of someone born on the same date as him.

Character developments

• Fang Wang displays extraordinary command of his world-crossing ability but remains measured in his claims, saying he can stay undefeated beneath the immortals and gods. He also shows a desire to experience the advantage of higher cultivation rather than continually fighting stronger opponents.
• Little Purple is overwhelmed by Fang Wang’s ability and grows even more admiring of him. Its curiosity about this unfamiliar realm also shapes their exploration.
• Ji Rutian, though absent, is introduced as a celebrated prodigy whose coming duel may have major consequences.

Significant themes

• The vastness of existence: Fang Wang’s journey reveals countless mortal worlds, making his original home seem impossibly distant.
• Power and humility: Fang Wang’s confidence is immense, but he avoids claiming absolute invincibility.
• Identity and home: His return to his Dao Lord appearance marks a reassertion of his true self, while his search for his original world remains unresolved.
• Fate and parallel lives: Ji Rutian may represent the path Fang Wang could have followed had he not risen to prominence.

Character interactions

• Little Purple questions Fang Wang about his strength and later wonders whether this realm could be their own mortal world; Fang Wang answers cautiously.
• Fang Wang asks a city attendant about Great Sage Xianglong, learning that the local world has a different legendary figure.
• Fang Wang listens in on nearby cultivators, whose conversation about Ji Rutian and the Tucang Demon Lord draws him toward a potentially significant encounter.

Chapter 1 Summary

Key plot points and events

• After a plane crash, Yang Lin’er and her brother Yang Jun awaken on a mountainside in an unfamiliar, pristine wilderness. The passengers find no rescue crews or phone signal, and Yang Lin’er repeatedly tries to reach Fang Wang.
• Yang Jun excitedly concludes that they have been transported to another world. Yang Lin’er fears this may be true, especially because it could mean she will never see Fang Wang again.
• The passengers follow a distant temple bell to a deserted temple. Once they enter, the gates slam shut, supernatural winds and black fog surround the building, and a masked woman appears.
• The woman forces the passengers to their knees with overwhelming pressure and tells them they have been chosen for cultivation. They cannot return to Earth unless they become immortals, a pursuit that could take at least a thousand years. Many may die, become ghost slaves, or be forced to survive at others’ expense; they have also lost their place in reincarnation.
• The scene shifts to Fang Wang, who has spent five years cultivating and reached the second layer of the Tashiao Realm. He senses two powerful combatants nearby and recognizes one as Ji Rutian, a figure he had been trying to identify.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Lin’er responds to the crash with concern for Yang Jun, then becomes increasingly anxious about being stranded and separated from Fang Wang. Despite the passengers’ panic, she tries to steady herself and asks the masked woman why they were chosen.
• Yang Jun moves from shock to exhilaration, interpreting the strange surroundings as proof of transmigration, but is terrified when the masked woman demonstrates her power.
• The passengers initially share confusion and unease, then panic as the temple is engulfed by black fog and they are forced to kneel. Their reactions range from hope at the prospect of immortality to despair over its cost.
• Fang Wang remains focused on cultivation and trusts Zhou Xue’s undisclosed plans. His recognition of Ji Rutian sets up a new conflict or encounter.

Significant themes

• Displacement and separation: The crash strands the passengers in a world they do not understand, while Yang Lin’er’s chief personal fear is losing contact with Fang Wang.
• Immortality at a terrible price: Cultivation is presented not as a simple opportunity but as a dangerous, lengthy struggle involving death, coercion, and loss of one’s former life.
• Powerlessness versus resolve: The passengers are helpless before the masked woman, while Yang Lin’er attempts to control her fear and Fang Wang continues advancing through disciplined cultivation.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang divines that Ji Rutian possesses immense merit and will face a life-or-death trial after killing the Tucang Demon Lord. A year later, Fang discovers that Yang Lin’er is molding her spirit and uses the Heavenly Dao Boundless Book of Changes to lend her power.
• The scripture allows its cultivators to form a connection with Fang Wang, giving him a way to support his inheritors without relying on bloodlines.
• In another realm, Yang Lin’er successfully molds a spirit in Fang Wang’s image. The black-clad woman overseeing the group warns the others to achieve the same within ten years, then notices Yang Lin’er is practicing Fang Wang’s technique. She permits her to continue.
• Ji Rutian and his young disciple travel toward the West Heaven in search of the world’s strongest divine ability. Though Ji killed the Tucang Demon Lord, the Holy Dynasty is hunting him—possibly because the demon lord was connected to it.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shows concern for his allies and uses his new scripture to help Yang Lin’er, while continuing to refine its broader possibilities.
• Yang Lin’er channels her longing for Fang Wang into her spirit’s form. She remains determined to become an immortal and find him, despite the vast time and distance involved. Her distrust of the black-clad woman persists.
• The black-clad woman closely monitors the cultivators and recognizes Yang Lin’er’s unusual practice, though she allows it.
• Ji Rutian remains measured and avoids exposing the Holy Emperor, believing it would only endanger ordinary people while he lacks the power to challenge him. He recalls a person who overcame overwhelming odds through sheer strength, inspiring his disciple.
• Ji Rutian’s disciple admires his master, resents the injustice of the Holy Dynasty’s pursuit, and resolves to become strong enough to overcome adversity himself.

Significant themes

• Merit, karma, and fate: Divination reveals Ji Rutian’s virtue and impending hardship.
• Legacy and connection: Fang Wang’s scripture lets him aid cultivators across realms and generations.
• Devotion and perseverance: Yang Lin’er’s longing fuels her cultivation and hope of reunion.
• Power and responsibility: Ji Rutian refuses to provoke unrest when doing so would put common people at risk.
• Overcoming adversity: Ji Rutian’s recollection of an unyielding figure gives his disciple a model for strength.

Plot points and events

• After nine more years of cultivation, Fang Wang reaches the third layer of the Tashiao Realm and passes the age of five hundred. Wanting to leave the city where his growing presence is attracting powerful cultivators, he senses that Ji Rutian has encountered a major opportunity—and trouble—and travels to find him with Little Purple.
• Ji Rutian and his disciple, Duantian, are surrounded by the Holy Dynasty’s forces. A vast Sword Formation threatens to crush them, and the Holy Emperor’s representative offers Ji Rutian a chance to survive if he submits.
• As they prepare to fight, Ji Rutian reveals the grim meaning behind Duantian’s name: in his lineage, only one member of each generation may survive, and Duantian was named to either surpass his master or die by his hand.
• Fang Wang appears. Ji Rutian reacts with intense fear, astonishing Duantian, who had never seen his master afraid—not even when facing other overwhelming threats.
• The Sword Formation descends, forcing Duantian to his knees. Fang Wang casually erases the entire formation and the surrounding thunderclouds with one gesture, then orders the distant cultivators to leave or die.
• Fang Wang questions Duantian about his master’s character and ambitions. Duantian can praise Ji Rutian’s benevolence but cannot answer what he truly seeks. Ji Rutian offers himself in exchange for his disciple’s safety, and Fang Wang challenges him to compare his strength with the Sword Formation.

Character developments

• Fang Wang is now vastly more powerful and self-assured; he treats an enormous army and its Sword Formation as a minor obstacle.
• Ji Rutian is exposed as both a formidable, complicated figure and someone genuinely terrified of Fang Wang. His willingness to surrender himself suggests concern for Duantian, though the chapter leaves his motives unresolved.
• Duantian shows courage and loyalty, joking with his master even as they face death. But Fang Wang’s questions unsettle him, revealing that he does not fully understand what Ji Rutian is pursuing.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Fang Wang’s effortless destruction of a threat that had seemed overwhelming shows how drastically strength can reshape a crisis.
• Mentorship and inheritance: Duantian’s name reflects a brutal tradition in which a disciple is expected either to surpass or be killed by his master.
• Benevolence and hidden motives: Ji Rutian is known as a savior of living beings, yet his true ambition remains unclear, prompting doubt about the relationship between good deeds and personal purpose.
• Courage and fear: Duantian accepts the possibility of death, while Ji Rutian’s sudden fear of Fang Wang reveals a limit to even his confidence.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang’s arrival immediately changes the balance of power, and Ji Rutian’s fear contrasts with Duantian’s wary confusion.
• Duantian and Ji Rutian share a mix of affection, blunt honesty, and dark humor as they discuss death and the meaning of Duantian’s name.
• Fang Wang probes Duantian’s understanding of his master, then forces Ji Rutian to confront the difference between his own strength and Fang Wang’s.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang confronts Ji Rutian, who bitterly accuses him of ruining his fortunes and pursuing him across worlds. Ji Rutian admits he is ruthless and ambitious, but argues that he never bullied the weak and did not personally commit the atrocities Fang Wang condemns him for.
• Fang Wang counters that Ji Rutian helped demons ravage other worlds, then tried to present himself as a savior in this one.
• Before their dispute resolves, the Holy Emperor attacks. Fang Wang shields Ji Rutian and his disciple Duantian with a barrier of Yang Qi, then easily disperses the emperor’s golden assault.
• Duantian explains that the Holy Dynasty had used the demon Tucang to devastate rival states, then claimed credit for suppressing it. After Fang Wang killed Tucang, the Holy Emperor blamed and hunted Ji Rutian and Duantian.
• Fang Wang recognizes the Holy Emperor’s heavy karmic debt as evidence that Duantian’s account is true. The emperor and twelve purple-robed cultivators attack, but Fang Wang remains apparently untroubled as their assault reshapes the surrounding landscape.
• Seeing that Fang Wang can protect them and defeat their pursuers, Ji Rutian kneels and asks for the Heavenly Dao’s help. He offers for himself and Duantian to join Wang Dao and follow Fang Wang. Fang Wang then asks Duantian whether he wants him to defeat the attackers with a single punch; Duantian starts to answer.

Character developments and interactions

• Ji Rutian shifts from rage and despair to cautious hope. He reveals his grievances and defends his past choices, but ultimately swallows his pride and submits to Fang Wang for protection.
• Fang Wang remains calm and powerful, yet shows restraint: rather than immediately killing Ji Rutian, he challenges him to prove his sincerity. He also protects Ji Rutian and Duantian from the Holy Emperor.
• Duantian moves from fear and confusion to understanding why his master fears Fang Wang. He acts as the one who explains the Holy Dynasty’s deception.
• The Holy Emperor presents himself with regal authority, but his overwhelming display of power proves ineffective against Fang Wang.

Significant themes

• Accountability and redemption: Fang Wang questions whether good deeds can erase past atrocities; Ji Rutian disputes the extent of his guilt.
• Power and humility: Ji Rutian’s willingness to kneel marks a sharp reversal for an arrogant, ambitious figure.
• Truth revealed through consequences: The Holy Emperor’s karmic debt exposes the corruption behind his public image.
• Fear, trust, and allegiance: The crisis forces Ji Rutian and Duantian to decide whether to place their lives—and future loyalty—in Fang Wang’s hands.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang destroys the Holy Emperor and twelve purple-robed cultivators with one strike of the Nine Dragon Heaven-Suppressing Fist, demonstrating a vast gap in power.
• He tests Ji Rutian’s motives before accepting him into Wang Dao. Ji says he has no attachments to this world and reveals that he came from another mortal realm to escape Fang Wang and pursue its greatest fortune.
• Ji explains that his ancestor used a secret technique to bring him here, but cannot currently help them travel between realms.
• Fang Wang argues that ascension is not the only route to immortality and says he is seeking a way to become immortal within the mortal world. He offers to teach Ji Rutian and his disciple Duantian the Three Great True Scriptures’ combined cultivation art.
• Fang Wang passes on the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture to both men. Ji wakes first and is astonished by its depth and by Fang Wang’s willingness to share it; Duantian is equally eager to study it.
• The group heads toward the Western Heaven, where a powerful sect guards a divine ability attributed to Great Sage Qiyun. Fang Wang plans to claim it directly, confident that force will make the sect comply.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang is both overwhelmingly powerful and unexpectedly generous. He gives Ji Rutian a chance despite their history, valuing his potential and his recent change of heart, but makes clear he would not spare someone who continued to oppose him.
• Ji Rutian admits that he once fled Fang Wang to avoid being overshadowed. He remains proud, but Fang Wang’s strength, vision, and generosity leave him humbled—and increasingly excited to follow him.
• Duantian learns that his master came from another realm and receives the same powerful scripture. He looks to Fang Wang with intense admiration.
• Little Purple admires Fang Wang’s rare combination of ability and character, while questioning why he would aid a former enemy.
• Fang Wang and Ji Rutian discuss the purpose of cultivation and whether immortality requires ascension. Their exchange shifts from old rivalry toward cautious cooperation.

Significant themes

• Power paired with magnanimity: Fang Wang’s strength is matched by his willingness to teach former opponents.
• Rivalry and redemption: Ji Rutian’s past hostility gives way to a chance at cooperation.
• Ascension versus earthly immortality: The chapter questions whether leaving the mortal world is the only path to eternal life.
• Ambition and confidence: Fang Wang pursues supreme arts across realms and approaches even powerful guardians without hesitation.

Chapter 1060 Summary

• Journey to the Western Heaven: Ji Rutian tells Fang Wang that the Jianglong Continent lies in the Xuanzu Mortal World, a world named for an ancient being said to have created it before humanity existed. The group continues toward the Western Heaven, home of the Buddhist Zhutian Sect.
• A strange spiritual influence: As they enter the sect’s territory, Fang Wang senses spiritual energy mixed with a force that affects the mind. Ji Rutian identifies it as Buddha Qi, traditionally linked to a holy Buddha who descended to the mortal world and left an inheritance.
• The Zhutian Sect blocks their way: When a sect guardian orders them to stop, Fang Wang tells Ji Rutian to press on. The sect manifests a colossal golden Buddha, but Fang Wang disperses it with one sweep of his Qiankun Fan, shattering the mountains in its path.
• The sect escalates: The Zhutian Sect’s powerful auras emerge, including a cultivator Fang Wang identifies as being at the Half-Step Heaven and Earth Universe Realm—stronger than the Holy Emperor. The sect then forms the Earth Arhat Formation with tens of thousands of rock Arhats.
• Fang Wang effortlessly overcomes the formation: He erases the entire formation with his Great Return to Void Palm, leaving no spectacle or sound. The chapter ends with Ji Rutian stunned and wondering whether Fang Wang has reached the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Realm.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Fang Wang remains composed and overwhelmingly confident, treating the sect’s defenses as obstacles rather than serious threats. His strength and mysterious abilities deepen the others’ awe.
• Ji Rutian continues serving as Fang Wang’s guide, but his confidence in his own exceptional cultivation is shaken by Fang Wang’s power. He also notices Fang Wang using a life-bound treasure spirit different from the ones he expected.
• Duantian watches in excitement and amazement. He is curious about Fang Wang’s background and begins looking forward to the adventures ahead.
• Little Purple remains confident in Fang Wang and teases that the sect will soon be begging for mercy.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and humility: Fang Wang’s effortless victories expose how limited even powerful sect defenses are beside him.
• The unknown wider world: The Xuanzu Mortal World, the holy Buddha, and upper-realm beings broaden the story’s mythology.
• Awe and shifting perspective: Duantian and Ji Rutian reassess their understanding of strength as they witness Fang Wang’s abilities.

Plot points and events

• After Fang Wang destroys the Zhutian Sect’s Earth Arhat Formation, Little Purple carries him toward the sect’s mountain and radiant palace. Ji Rutian follows with his disciple, Duantian.
• The sect’s hundreds of thousands of cultivators prepare to defend themselves, but Fang Wang’s avatars immobilize them with a powerful Divine Ability Realm.
• Inside Zhutian Palace, Fang confronts the First Buddha, the sect’s enormous white-jade leader, and says he has come to learn the sect’s Great Sage Divine Ability Realm. He offers the Supreme Art associated with Great Sage Xianglong in exchange.
• When a sect cultivator challenges him, Fang Wang demonstrates his overwhelming power. His Nine Dragon Heaven-Suppressing Fist shakes the palace and surrounding mountain; after he strengthens it with Yang Qi and Nirvana Divine Power, both palace and mountain are destroyed.
• The First Buddha, unable to withstand the pressure, begs Fang to stop. Fang relents and insists the First Buddha recite the inheritance publicly, so the sect’s other members can hear it. The chapter ends with the First Buddha hesitating, while Fang argues that anyone who masters the art through sudden enlightenment would be a great fortune for the sect.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains calm and confident throughout, using force to establish control but presenting the exchange as beneficial to the Zhutian Sect. He shows both immense power and a willingness to spare his defeated opponents.
• The First Buddha shifts from composed authority to visible fear and submission when faced with Fang’s strength. He offers to recite the inheritance but resists making it available to everyone.
• Ji Rutian is repeatedly astonished by Fang’s abilities. Though he protects Duantian, he recognizes the First Buddha as genuinely dangerous and is relieved when Fang ends his pressure.
• Duantian witnesses Fang’s unprecedented ability to restrain the sect’s forces.
• Little Purple eagerly leads the charge and remains unaffected by Fang’s oppressive aura.
• The Zhutian Sect’s cultivators move from confidence in their leader to helpless silence, though many are excited by the prospect of hearing their sect’s secret art.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Fang’s strength instantly overturns the sect’s hierarchy and neutralizes its numerical advantage.
• Knowledge and inheritance: The dispute concerns who may access a sacred technique, with Fang challenging the sect’s restrictions.
• Force and generosity: Fang uses overwhelming coercion but claims the sect will ultimately gain from the exchange—and stops once the First Buddha yields.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang challenges the First Buddha to teach him the Great Sage Supreme Art, claiming that if he can master it, he will pass on his own supreme arts to the Zhutian Sect.
• The First Buddha recites the art’s heart-method for half an hour. Fang Wang listens once, then identifies the First Buddha’s true cultivation: the fifth turn of the Seven-Turn Buddha Body, the White Jade Body.
• Fang Wang reveals that he has already mastered the art’s highest stage, the Dao Origin Body. Its transformation astonishes the First Buddha and the gathered Zhutian Sect disciples.
• Rather than explain how he learned it so quickly, Fang Wang gives the First Buddha copies of the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture and departs with Little Purple, Ji Rutian, and Duantian.
• After Fang Wang leaves, the First Buddha wonders whether he might be the reincarnation of Great Sage Qiyun.
• In flight, Ji Rutian asks Fang Wang about that possibility. Fang Wang jokingly lists several other legendary figures he might supposedly be reincarnations of.
• Fang Wang asks Ji Rutian and Duantian whether they have any attachments to the realm. They say they do not, and he transports them across realms in a single step.

Character developments

• Fang Wang demonstrates extraordinary comprehension and power by mastering the Great Sage Supreme Art after hearing it once. His perfected Dao Origin Body also reveals a level of cultivation far beyond what others expected.
• The First Buddha shifts from calm confidence to shock and uncertainty. His inability to explain Fang Wang’s achievement leads him to speculate that Fang Wang is Great Sage Qiyun reborn.
• Ji Rutian recognizes the vast gap between himself and Fang Wang. His former confidence gives way to awe, fear, and despondency, though he continues to follow Fang Wang.
• Duantian remains respectful and readily agrees to leave the realm with Fang Wang.
• The Zhutian Sect disciples are tempted by the prospect of learning the art, then overwhelmed by Fang Wang’s display and reluctant to oppose him.

Significant themes

• Unfathomable talent and mastery: Fang Wang’s ability to learn an advanced art instantly sets him apart even from other great cultivators.
• Power and awe: His Dao Origin Body makes opponents and onlookers feel reverence and helplessness without a fight.
• Identity and legacy: The First Buddha and Ji Rutian interpret Fang Wang’s abilities through the possibility of legendary reincarnation, while Fang Wang treats such speculation lightly.
• Humility versus ambition: The sect’s desire for the art contrasts with Fang Wang’s casual generosity—and his clear superiority.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang turns the First Buddha’s lesson into a test, then proves his mastery by accurately naming the First Buddha’s stage of cultivation.
• He gives the First Buddha manuals in return, while the sect’s leaders debate whether the gesture is genuine or a trick.
• Ji Rutian questions Fang Wang about his identity and is unsettled by Fang Wang’s playful response.
• Fang Wang checks whether Ji Rutian and Duantian are ready to leave, then personally carries them across realms.

Key plot points

• Fang Wang leads Ji Rutian and Duantian through numerous mortal worlds with effortless steps, astonishing Ji Rutian, who suspects Fang may have surpassed the Ji family ancestor.
• Fang chooses to settle by a river in a spiritually rich realm and cultivate before seeking its opportunities. He has no urgency to return to the Xuanzu Mortal World, confident that Wang Dao and the Fang family are safe there.
• Fang encourages Ji Rutian to pursue strength and offers him a future position as a Dao Sect Master, while making clear that catching up to Fang himself is impossible.
• Twenty years later, the Zhutian Sect’s First Buddha confirms that Fang’s Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture is exceptionally profound—more valuable than the Seven-Turn Buddha Body. The sect decides to honor Fang as a benefactor and preserve the exchange as a legend.
• Over the same period, Fang advances from the third to the fifth level of the Tashiao Realm, aided by the Seven-Turn Buddha Body. He considers combining it with the Boundless Stainless Dao Bone Art and contacts Zhou Xue to pass the Buddha-body technique on to her.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang displays immense confidence and power, but also actively encourages Ji Rutian rather than letting him become discouraged. He continues exploring other worlds because their opportunities appeal to him.
• Ji Rutian is initially stunned by Fang’s abilities and later loses confidence when told he cannot catch up. Fang reignites his ambition by praising his aptitude and challenging him to become second under heaven.
• Duantian readily accepts Fang’s request to build a structure, hoping the work will bring him closer to Fang and lead to future guidance. Little Purple assigns him the task, while Fang objects to imposing on him.
• The First Buddha and the Zhutian Sect shift from uncertainty about Fang to reverence after realizing the value of his scripture. They see honoring him as both gratitude and a way to secure the sect’s future.
• Fang and Zhou Xue resume contact through the Dragon Jade Ring. Zhou teases him about worrying over her, but Fang says he wants to give her the Seven-Turn Buddha Body.

Significant themes

• Power and humility: Fang’s vast superiority is undeniable, yet he uses it to motivate Ji Rutian rather than simply dismiss him.
• Fortune, karma, and gratitude: The Zhutian Sect interprets its exchange with Fang as a fortunate connection and hopes his favor may protect it later.
• Opportunity through exploration: Fang chooses to roam weaker mortal worlds, treating their hidden inheritances as worthwhile opportunities.
• Knowledge as a legacy: Fang’s cultivation teachings influence the Zhutian Sect and may soon benefit Zhou Xue as well.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang tells Zhou Xue that he has learned the Seven-Turn Buddha Body from Great Sage Qiyun. Zhou Xue explains that Qiyun is a high-ranking Immortal Court figure and that the ability can help cultivators comprehend the laws of heaven and earth and the Supreme Great Dao.
• Zhou Xue says the Upper Realm prevents mortal worlds from developing power capable of challenging it. The Xuanzu Mortal World is an exception, with ancient great sages and emperors—and lingering souls—making it a persistent threat.
• Eager to learn the technique, Zhou Xue asks Fang Wang to teach it to her. He agrees, and the two exchange news about their experiences.
• Zhou Xue reveals she arranged for a female sage to guide Yang Lin’er and the others. Fang Wang reflects on the growing number of great sages and emperors and resolves to become stronger, uncertain how he compares with such figures.
• They discuss Fang Wang’s decision to bring Ji Rutian into Wang Dao. Zhou Xue predicts that Wang Dao’s members, with Fang Wang’s help, may surpass even their former lives. Fang Wang jokes that he would come to her aid in the Upper Realm; she warns that doing so could bring total ruin. He replies that seeing her suffer would be just as unbearable.
• Back in the physical world, Fang Wang watches Ji Rutian cultivate and Duantian practice saber techniques, then returns to his room to pursue the True Soul Realm and ultimately the Heaven and Earth Universe Realm. He plans not to return to the Xuanzu Mortal World until reaching that level unless his family or Wang Dao needs him.
• The chapter shifts to Nan Qiu City, where the white-haired Fang Zigeng arrives at the Fang Manor. When challenged by the household’s young members, he claims it is his home and asks after its head. Learning that Fang Mo is still alive, he approaches the gates while a young woman goes to alert the family head.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shows growing ambition and caution: despite confidence in his strength, he recognizes the uncertainty of facing genuine great sages and emperors. His exchange with Zhou Xue also reveals deep affection beneath their teasing.
• Zhou Xue displays both knowledge of Upper Realm politics and practical concern for her allies, having arranged guidance for Yang Lin’er and the others. Her desire to learn the Seven-Turn Buddha Body reflects her long-term cultivation goals.
• Ji Rutian and Duantian are shown steadily training under Fang Wang’s watch, reinforcing his role as mentor and observer.
• Fang Zigeng’s unexpected return introduces a new mystery. His nostalgia toward the Fang Manor and mention of Fang Mo suggest an old connection, though his identity and intentions remain unclear.

Significant themes

• The Upper Realm’s control over the mortal worlds: powerful cultivation is regulated to prevent challenges to the existing order.
• Cultivation and the limits of power: advancing beyond spiritual-qi-dependent stages requires understanding cosmic laws and the Dao.
• Legacy and revival: ancient sages and emperors may return, while Wang Dao’s members have the potential to exceed their past achievements.
• Loyalty and affection: Fang Wang’s willingness to support Zhou Xue contrasts with the danger such loyalty would invite.

Plot and events

• Fang Zigeng returns to the Fang Manor after years away. He recalls childhood memories of Fang Wang and reveals that he once trained alongside Fang Wang and the other Fang family heirs.
• Fang Mo, the manor’s current head, welcomes Zigeng warmly. He recounts how Fang Wang became legendary, Zhou Xue became the Golden Sect’s Master, and Fang Hanyu earned fame as Jian Li. Zigeng’s survival and perseverance inspire the younger Fang disciples.
• Eleven years later, Fang Wang reaches the Sixth Layer of the Tashiao Realm and visits the riverbank, where Duantian is practicing with a saber.
• Fang Wang helps Duantian recognize that what attracts him is not the weapon itself but its forceful, unstoppable intent. When Duantian admits his interest in Fang Wang’s fist techniques, Fang Wang transmits the Nirvana Divine Power directly to him.
• The transfer awakens strange veins and a powerful aura in Duantian. Fang Wang senses an extraordinary destiny and peers into the Underworld, where he sees a silver-armored figure resembling Duantian—and feels unexpectedly pressured by its gaze.
• Meanwhile, Ji Rutian is breaking into sects in search of powerful techniques, while Little Purple is cultivating sea monsters and building a Dragon Palace. Fang Wang suspects Little Purple has a deeper purpose but chooses to observe rather than demand an explanation.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Zigeng is established as a survivor whose determination matters more than natural talent. His return reconnects him with Fang Mo and strengthens the younger generation’s admiration for the family’s history.
• Fang Mo shows genuine affection for Zigeng and pride in the accomplishments of their former companions.
• Fang Wang acts as a mentor to Duantian, guiding him toward the deeper nature of his martial preference and sharing a powerful cultivation method. His calm generosity is balanced by his curiosity about Duantian’s hidden lineage and Little Purple’s plans.
• Duantian moves from uncertainty about his path toward a better understanding of his affinity, but the revelation of his bloodline suggests his potential is much greater than he knew.
• Ji Rutian continues to seek growth through dangerous confrontations; Fang Wang believes such crises may awaken his talent. Little Purple pursues its own long-term agenda independently.

Significant themes

• Perseverance over aptitude: Zigeng’s example encourages the Fang disciples to believe that resolve can overcome modest natural ability.
• Mentorship and inheritance: Fang Wang passes on both insight and cultivation power, continuing a lineage of knowledge and strength.
• Hidden potential and destiny: Duantian’s transformation and the Underworld figure hint at a significant, possibly supernatural origin.
• Patience and trust: Fang Wang allows Ji Rutian and Little Purple to follow their own paths, choosing observation over control.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang recognizes the silver-armored figure as Great Sage Qiyun, who confirms he is Duantian’s mentor and has been secretly acting through an avatar.
• Qiyun proposes a deal: Fang Wang will help cultivate Duantian, and Qiyun will protect Fang Wang and his people after they ascend. Fang Wang agrees conditionally, asking about Doom Heavenly God.
• Qiyun reveals that Doom Heavenly God plans to descend to the mortal world and that Fang Wang’s name is already spreading through the Immortal Court. Anyone karmically connected to Fang Wang may be caught in the coming disaster. Qiyun opposes Doom Heavenly God but will not help Fang Wang kill him; greater threats are also involved.
• After Qiyun warns that further discussion would touch taboos, Fang Wang enters the Underworld and asks to test himself against a great sage.
• Qiyun attacks with the power of his early-stage great-sage avatar. Fang Wang withstands the blast using the seventh turn of the Seven-Turn Buddha Body, his Dao bone, and his Supreme Yang physique, then heals and pushes back against the attack.
• Qiyun is astonished by Fang Wang’s cultivation and physical strength. Fang Wang returns to the Human World, keeping the boundary between them.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains cautious about making bargains but confidently challenges powerful figures. He uses the exchange to confirm Qiyun’s ties to the Immortal Court and assess the strength of a great sage.
• Great Sage Qiyun is revealed as a powerful but constrained figure who resents Doom Heavenly God and may be pursuing a larger plan against the Immortal Court. His admiration for Fang Wang grows after seeing his abilities.
• Duantian is the reason for Qiyun’s proposed alliance: Qiyun wants Fang Wang to help cultivate him and appears to be protecting him.
• Fang Wang and Qiyun negotiate warily: Fang Wang probes Qiyun’s motives, while Qiyun questions how Fang Wang knows about his connections and backing.

Significant themes

• Power and resistance: Fang Wang refuses to submit to anyone, even the heavens, if they try to control him.
• Hidden alliances and political danger: Qiyun’s secret dealings and Doom Heavenly God’s impending descent point to a larger conflict with the Immortal Court.
• Ambition tempered by caution: Fang Wang’s confidence is matched by his effort to measure his limits and avoid being caught unprepared.
• Karma and collateral consequences: The coming threat may harm not only Fang Wang but also those connected to him.

Plot and events

• Fang Wang thanks Great Sage Qiyun for sparing him. Their exchange was partly a test: Fang deliberately held back to gauge a Great Sage’s strength. He concludes that Great Sages are formidable but not unbeatable, and resolves to advance toward the True Soul and Heaven and Earth Universe realms.
• Duantian awakens from the inheritance of the Nirvana Divine Power and is thrilled by its potential, immediately beginning to practice it.
• Elsewhere, the Black-Clad Woman tells the gathered cultivators that their training period is over. She will send them to a vast Mortal World to cultivate and seek opportunities, without accompanying them. They must reach at least the Nirvana Realm if they hope to meet her again.
• She reveals that a calamity will eventually threaten the myriad realms, and Earth’s Mortal World is too weak to survive it. The cultivators are being trained as part of a sect’s effort to protect their homelands; returning to Earth will require them to grow strong enough to help.
• Before their departure, she promises to teach them one more spell. The chapter ends with a mysterious figure briefly appearing in the moon before disappearing.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang gains a clearer sense of the power gap between himself and Great Sages, turning the experience into motivation rather than fear.
• Duantian becomes intensely devoted to mastering the Nirvana Divine Power after receiving its inheritance.
• Yang Lin’er firmly rejects Yang Jun’s suggestion that she consider Fang Wang romantically, insisting she remains devoted to her absent husband. Still, Fang Wang’s talent inspires her to keep cultivating, and she vows to seek her husband if she becomes immortal.
• Yang Jun masks his grief over being separated from Earth, his partner, and children, while acknowledging that returning home may be impossible for now.
• The Black-Clad Woman shifts from mentor to stern guide, explaining the cultivators’ role in a greater conflict and leaving their future choices to them.

Significant themes

• Power and perseverance: Encounters with stronger opponents and extraordinary techniques spur characters to pursue further cultivation.
• Separation and loyalty: Yang Lin’er’s devotion and Yang Jun’s homesickness highlight the emotional cost of being displaced from Earth.
• Destiny and agency: The cultivators are described as pawns in a larger plan, yet their ability to protect their homeland depends on their own effort and choices.
• The cost of survival: Returning home is framed not as a simple reunion, but as a responsibility requiring strength.

Chapter 807 Summary

Key events

• Twelve years after meeting Great Sage Qiyun, Fang Wang advances to the Tashiao Realm Seventh Layer. After stabilizing his cultivation, he divines the progress of Little Purple and Ji Rutian, then plans to push on toward the Ninth Layer.
• Little Purple’s Dragon Palace is growing rapidly and moving toward dominance over the four seas. When he meets opponents beyond his strength, he turns to Ji Rutian for help.
• Ji Rutian has become powerful enough to contend with Tashiao Realm cultivators. He repeatedly risks death while making enemies, but stubbornly refuses Fang Wang’s assistance; these struggles help him grow stronger.
• Fang Wang notices that Duantian, who remains outside the pavilion cultivating, now carries traces of Nirvana Divine Power and Great Sage Qiyun’s aura. He suspects Duantian may be closely tied to Qiyun—perhaps even another expression of him—though Duantian has independent thoughts.
• The scene shifts to Yang Lin’er, Yang Jun, and their companions exploring a bustling city in the Western Mortal Realm. At an inn, they learn about local sects and hear of Xu Qiuming, an Eastern Human World sword prodigy who has won a hundred battles and is celebrated across the region.
• The group is astonished to learn that Xu Qiuming’s strength far surpasses the Nirvana Realm, and that he is regarded as one of the weakest among the Twelve Dao Sects’ prodigies. They also hear rumors about the even more extraordinary Heavenly Dao.
• Inspired by Xu Qiuming, Yang Jun decides to seek out the Immortal Cave with the strongest sword tradition and make the prodigy his example.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains focused on cultivation, while observing the growth of those around him. He admires Ji Rutian’s independence and recognizes Duantian’s unusual connection to Great Sage Qiyun.
• Little Purple and Ji Rutian continue their adventures without returning. Their relationship is practical: Little Purple seeks Ji Rutian’s help when necessary, while Ji Rutian grows through danger and refuses to depend on Fang Wang.
• Duantian displays patience and discipline through constant outdoor cultivation, even in harsh weather. His connection with Qiyun remains mysterious.
• Yang Jun emerges as ambitious and curious. He asks questions about the wider world, then turns his admiration for Xu Qiuming into a concrete goal.
• Yang Lin’er chooses to stay with the group partly out of concern for Yang Jun, and supports his next step.

Significant themes

• Growth through hardship and independence: Ji Rutian’s refusal to seek Fang Wang’s help strengthens him, while Duantian cultivates steadily on his own.
• A vast hierarchy of power: The newcomers discover that the world’s strongest cultivators exist far beyond what they previously understood.
• Ambition and inspiration: Xu Qiuming’s reputation awakens Yang Jun’s desire to improve and make a name for himself.
• Mystery and hidden connections: Duantian’s relationship with Great Sage Qiyun raises questions about identity, influence, and possible schemes among powerful figures.

Chapter Summary

• Yang Lin’er and her companions set out to pursue the Seventy-Two Immortal Caves. Yang Lin’er refuses Yang Jun’s impulsive suggestion, knowing his interests change quickly, and privately thinks Fang Wang would be delighted by the vast world of immortal cultivation.
• Thirty years later, Fang Wang has reached the ninth layer of the Tashiao Realm and is preparing to break through. Little Purple interrupts his seclusion with news that Ji Rutian may have died. Three years earlier, Ji helped Little Purple subdue a demon king, who told him of a supreme art hidden in a forbidden zone. Ji entered despite the danger; months ago, his severed head emerged from the zone.
• Fang Wang refuses to assume Ji is dead based on the head alone. He sets out with Little Purple, Duantian, and Niu Hai, the demon king who witnessed what happened. Little Purple explains that Niu Hai was once a farmer’s ox, later gained the opportunity to cultivate, and rose to power after consuming a rare fruit. Fang Wang notes that Niu Hai is still following orders after Ji’s apparent death, prompting Niu Hai to stiffen uneasily.
• The group reaches the forbidden region, known as the Other Shore of the Immortal Path. Fang Wang masks his face and orders everyone inside. When Niu Hai hesitates, Fang Wang makes it clear that refusal is not an option. As the mist blocks sight and punishes spiritual sense, Fang Wang reveals that Ji Rutian is still alive—a discovery he made by divining within the forbidden zone. Duantian is relieved.
• After crossing a profound restriction that even Fang Wang cannot understand, the group hears a mysterious voice address him as the “Heavenly Palace True God” and ask whether he has prepared himself this time.

Character Developments and Interactions

Fang Wang remains calm and decisive, but his concern for Ji Rutian drives him into a place others fear to enter. Little Purple is anxious yet loyal, while Duantian’s faith in Ji’s strength is affirmed by the news that he survives. Niu Hai’s loyalty is tested: intimidated by Fang Wang, he continues leading the party despite his dread.

Significant Themes

The chapter contrasts ordinary ambition with the immense scale of cultivation, and explores loyalty, courage, and faith in companions. The forbidden zone’s strange restrictions and its recognition of Fang Wang suggest that his past—or a prior encounter—may be tied to a larger mystery.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang leads Little Purple, Niu Hai, and Duantian through a strange realm filled with colossal skeletons, ruined structures, and the lingering energy of an immense battle.
• Using the Xuandu Book of Changes, Fang Wang tracks Ji Rutian and learns that the enemy has deliberately set a trap.
• The group finds Ji Rutian reduced to a nearly extinguished soul, bound in a golden web between two giant skeletons alongside three other captives.
• A mysterious being offers a choice: seek the Dao by carving a name on the Crime and Resentment Monument, or seek immortality by challenging “This Sage.”
• The Sage appears as a Daoist-robed skeleton and releases an illusion through the monument’s bloody light. Little Purple, Niu Hai, and Duantian are overcome, but Fang Wang resists it with the Great Perfection Formless and Intangible Zhoutian Technique.
• The Sage claims Fang Wang has visited this forbidden zone eight times before, making this his ninth visit, and says the same destiny has played out anew. Fang Wang questions how such repeated lives relate to his identity as the Heavenly Palace True God.
• The Sage explains that “Heavenly Palace True God” was a title Fang Wang carved out during his previous visit to the Upper Realm; his title has differed each time.

Character developments

• Fang Wang remains composed and demonstrates powerful deduction and resistance to illusion. His questions show growing curiosity about his past lives and the nature of destiny.
• Duantian is anxious for his master but stays devoted, calling out to Ji Rutian as soon as he sees him.
• Little Purple remains protective and suspicious of Niu Hai, though it follows Fang Wang’s lead.
• Niu Hai insists he has never entered the realm and swears an extreme oath to prove it.
• Ji Rutian is revealed to be near death, surviving only as a fragile soul.

Significant themes

• Destiny, reincarnation, and causality: The Sage describes repeated lives as a karmic sequence in which past causes create the present.
• Identity and memory: Fang Wang’s former title raises questions about whether past versions of him are truly the same person.
• Power and spiritual trials: The monument’s illusion tests the newcomers, while Fang Wang’s mastery sets him apart.
• The Dao versus immortality: The Sage presents spiritual insight and eternal life as distinct paths, each requiring a different trial.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang calmly directs the group and reassures Duantian that Ji Rutian is not yet dead.
• Little Purple challenges Niu Hai’s claim, while Fang Wang’s silence leaves it uncertain.
• Duantian calls to Ji Rutian; Ji Rutian recognizes that the group came after him.
• Fang Wang directly challenges the Sage’s claims, questioning both its knowledge of his past visits and the origin of his title.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang learns that the Heavenly Palace True God he met in a previous life was himself. The Dao-robed Skeleton explains that this realm exists outside the Three Realms, beyond ordinary reincarnation and spacetime; beings trapped here appear immortal but are actually stuck in a cursed, half-dead existence.
• The Skeleton reveals that he once taught Emperor Hongxuan secret techniques by falsely claiming they traded lifespan for extraordinary power. Hongxuan believed him and suffered the same fate. The Skeleton remains evasive when Fang Wang asks where the technique came from.
• The Skeleton says countless reincarnated figures have passed through the realm, though he can no longer tell which are real. He then challenges Fang Wang, recalling several of his past appearances and remarking that Fang Wang grows stronger each time.
• The Skeleton mocks Fang Wang for once vowing not to return, only to arrive again with no memory of his former identity as the Heavenly Palace True God. He introduces himself as the Crime Sage and demands Fang Wang give his name.
• Fang Wang identifies himself as Heavenly Dao Fang Wang. The Crime Sage laughs at his confidence, transforms through black Qi, and attacks.
• Fang Wang sends Little Purple into the Celestial Palace Halberd and tells Duantian to look for a chance to rescue Ji Rutian. He then rises to meet the Crime Sage in battle.
• The Crime Sage’s first strike clashes with Fang Wang’s halberd, but Fang Wang’s strength forces him back. Fang Wang’s aura then intensifies as his Seven-Turn Buddha Body and Vajra Supreme Yang Sacred Body manifest.
• The Crime Sage summons the enormous Crime and Resentment Monument and raises the surrounding skeletons to attack. Fang Wang answers with the Great Return to Void Palm, reducing the skeletons and the dust covering the land to powder.

Character developments

• Fang Wang gains a clearer understanding of his connection to the realm and its past inhabitants, but the revelations only deepen the mystery surrounding his previous lives. He meets the Crime Sage’s challenge with confidence and quickly demonstrates overwhelming power.
• The Crime Sage is revealed as a manipulative, bitter, and unpredictable figure who helped bring about Emperor Hongxuan’s downfall. His fascination with Fang Wang stems from having watched him return repeatedly and grow stronger.
• Ji Rutian recognizes how far he falls short of Fang Wang. Seeing Fang Wang’s power and hearing of his repeated encounters with the Crime Sage, Ji Rutian accepts that surpassing him is beyond reach.
• Duantian is given a chance to act on Ji Rutian’s behalf, while Little Purple stays close to Fang Wang by retreating into the halberd.

Significant themes

• Reincarnation and identity: Fang Wang’s past selves and forgotten titles blur the boundaries between lives and personal identity.
• Immortality as torment: The realm’s inhabitants seem deathless, but their existence is portrayed as a cursed, stagnant state rather than true freedom.
• Arrogance and repeated trials: The Crime Sage delights in watching powerful figures make confident vows and later return to face him again.
• Power and perspective: Fang Wang’s strength makes Ji Rutian confront his own limitations, while the battle emphasizes the gulf between them.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang questions the Crime Sage about the realm, Emperor Hongxuan, and the source of the secret technique; the Crime Sage answers some questions but evades others.
• The Crime Sage taunts Fang Wang about his past visits and challenges him to state his name. Fang Wang answers boldly, prompting the Sage’s transformation and attack.
• During the fight, Fang Wang protects his companions with Yang Qi, directs Duantian to help Ji Rutian, and confronts the Crime Sage alone.

Key plot points

• Fang Wang effortlessly destroys the enormous skeleton army with a single palm, stunning Duantian, Ji Rutian, and the three newly awakened Dao Spirits.
• Crime Sage attacks with a blood-faced manifestation of the Crime and Resentment Monument, claiming Fang Wang was defeated by the move in a previous life. Fang Wang counters with his Dao Power and Celestial Palace Halberd, shattering the attack and splitting the distorted sky.
• Fang Wang and Crime Sage clash directly. Fang Wang overpowers him enough to drive the monument into the ground, but the battle shifts into a sinister realm beneath a blood moon, filled with armored giants and corpses.
• While Crime Sage believes Fang Wang has been trapped in darkness, Fang Wang emerges behind him and impales him with the halberd, using the Extinction Divine Record—an inheritance associated with the Absolute Emperor—to destroy him.
• Crime Sage reconstitutes himself from a skeleton and black Qi, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

Character developments

• Fang Wang displays overwhelming strength, composure, and tactical ingenuity. He reveals both the power of his Celestial Palace Halberd and his possession of the Extinction Divine Record.
• Crime Sage remains confident in his supernatural trap, but Fang Wang’s escape and lethal counterattack visibly shock him.
• Ji Rutian has become so convinced of Fang Wang’s superiority that even facing a Great Sage no longer surprises him.
• Duantian and the Dao Spirits are awed and disoriented by Fang Wang’s power.

Significant themes

• Power and growth: Fang Wang has grown stronger than in his previous life, overturning Crime Sage’s assumptions.
• Confidence versus misjudgment: Crime Sage mistakes Fang Wang’s apparent entrapment for victory, underestimating his ability to escape and counterattack.
• Death and persistence: Even after Fang Wang annihilates him, Crime Sage reforms, suggesting that defeating him may require more than a single killing blow.
• The scale of power: Fang Wang’s abilities affect not merely armies or landscapes but reality itself, creating a striking contrast between his strength and the observers’ helpless awe.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang’s displays of force leave Duantian, Ji Rutian, and the Dao Spirits watching in stunned silence.
• Crime Sage taunts Fang Wang about his former defeat and tries to overwhelm him with the blood-face technique and a dark realm.
• Fang Wang answers Crime Sage’s taunts with a surprise attack, then calmly tells him he can kill him repeatedly until he is satisfied.