Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang returns to Kunlun and declares himself the Heavenly Dao. Across the Jianglong Continent, people celebrate: his rise had brought their region prestige and prosperity, and many had feared he was dead.
• Great cultivators gather outside Kunlun, but none initially dare enter. When Fang Zigeng and Fang Hanyu approach, Fang Wang lets them—and then other intruders—fall into his Eighteen-Layer Avici Hell, an overwhelming illusion that immobilizes its victims.
• Fang Wang challenges the gathered factions to test him. Thousands, then vast numbers of cultivators and monsters charge into Kunlun, including Hong Xian’er and people from Jian Tianze. They are all stopped without being killed.
• Even powerful Heaven and Earth Universes are caught, alarming the Tiangang Dao Sovereigns, who begin to question whether Fang Wang’s technique could suppress them too.
• Managing more than one hundred thousand victims starts to strain Fang Wang’s spiritual energy and soul power, as he must keep each person alive.
• A mysterious figure emerges from the Dao Source Spiritual Jade and tries to seize Fang Wang, but freezes just short of him. Fang Wang then senses the familiar aura of a former opponent who may have resurrected again.

Character developments

• Fang Wang displays immense confidence and control, using a nonlethal show of force to reassert his authority. His effortless suppression of powerful opponents impresses and unsettles even the Tiangang Dao Sovereigns, though the sheer scale of the technique begins to tax him.
• Fang Zigeng and Fang Hanyu show their loyalty by approaching Fang Wang, but are caught in the same illusion as the others.
• Hong Xian’er joins the attempt to test Fang Wang, reflecting the crowd’s curiosity and bravado.
• The Tiangang Dao Sovereigns shift from amusement to fear as they witness the breadth of Fang Wang’s power.

Significant themes

• Legend and public devotion: Fang Wang’s return inspires widespread relief and celebration.
• Power as spectacle and deterrence: Fang Wang invites challenges, demonstrating that he can stop an enormous host without slaughtering them.
• The limits of control: Even near-absolute power requires effort when wielded on such a vast scale.
• Unresolved rivalry: The closing hint of a resurrected former opponent foreshadows renewed conflict.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang deliberately uses Fang Zigeng and Fang Hanyu’s approach to draw others into Kunlun’s boundary, then challenges the gathered crowd to follow.
• Cultivators respond to his taunts by rushing forward, while the Tiangang Dao Sovereigns watch and reassess the threat he poses.
• A hidden attacker attempts to ambush Fang Wang from the Dao Source Spiritual Jade, but is frozen before reaching him; Fang Wang’s attention then turns toward the familiar presence beyond Kunlun.

Key plot points

• After deciding to test Fang Wang, Jiyutian crosses into Kunlun and is trapped in Fang Wang’s Eighteen-Layer Avici Hell. Like the other cultivators and monsters, he is unable to resist, though each prisoner experiences a separate torment.
• Fang Wang discovers that a demon Eagle Great Sage entered the Mortal World through the Dao Source Spiritual Jade, whose hidden restrictions enabled his passage. The Great Sage warns that Fang Wang’s challenge to immortals, gods, and powerful Mortal World figures will make him enemies across all three realms.
• Fang Wang pulls the Eagle Demon from the jade and destroys him with the Extinction Divine Record, seemingly erasing not only his body and soul but also his karma and fortune. Fang Wang is still unsure whether the technique can fully eliminate a great sage from beyond the Mortal World.
• Hongchen publicly proclaims that the Heavenly Dao has risen above the Immortal Dao, inspiring awe among onlookers—especially the factions of Jianglong Continent.
• Fang Wang meets Hong Xian’er inside the hell. She assumes his technique is a spiritual image, but he reveals that he truly has reached the Heaven and Earth Universe Realm.
• As Jiyutian nears his limit under hellish torture, the Thousand-Eyed Great Sage urges him to endure. Fang Wang addresses the Great Sage directly, inviting him to reveal himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang demonstrates overwhelming control over Kunlun’s intruders and a new, potentially decisive application of the Extinction Divine Record. His confidence and playful familiarity with Hong Xian’er contrast with the severity of his power.
• Jiyutian, previously determined to measure himself against Fang Wang, is confronted with how vast the gap between them is.
• Hong Xian’er is startled by Fang Wang’s actual cultivation breakthrough, but their teasing exchange shows their old rapport remains intact.
• Hongchen recognizes the significance of Fang Wang’s technique and responds with pride and anticipation, framing his rise as a new Heavenly Dao.
• The Eagle Demon Great Sage shifts from warning Fang Wang to helpless terror before being destroyed; the Thousand-Eyed Great Sage’s presence suggests another confrontation is imminent.

Significant themes

• Power and the limits of resistance: Fang Wang can suppress numerous formidable opponents at once, leaving even ambitious challengers powerless.
• Defiance of cosmic authority: Fang Wang’s actions and Hongchen’s proclamation position him against established immortals, gods, and Daoist powers.
• Erasure and consequence: The Extinction Divine Record threatens not only physical and spiritual destruction but the removal of a being’s karmic and fortunate ties.
• Continuity amid change: Despite years of separation and Fang Wang’s extraordinary advancement, his familiar banter with Hong Xian’er preserves their personal connection.

Key plot points and events

• Inside the Eighteen-Layer Avici Hell, Fang Wang confronts the Thousand-Eyed Great Sage through Jiyutian, whose body serves as the Great Sage’s vessel. The Great Sage admits he opposed Fang Wang because Fang Wang disrupted his resurrection, and he was willing to exploit the Immortals and Gods to eliminate him before dealing with them later.
• Fang Wang warns that he can seek the Great Sage out in the Underworld. Under pressure, the Great Sage agrees to come to Kunlun within fifty years and present his sincerity. If he can convince Fang Wang, their feud may end and they may work together against a common enemy.
• Fang Wang leaves Jiyutian trapped in the hell’s torment. Jiyutian’s repentance reveals that he had attacked not for the Dao Source Spiritual Jade, but to destroy Wang Dao, win fame, and seize fortune.
• The witnesses around Kunlun recover from their experience of the hell. Rather than resent Fang Wang, they are awed by his power and increasingly regard Wang Dao as the foremost force beneath the heavens. Meanwhile, the Fortune Elevation Array continues strengthening Wang Dao’s cultivators.
• Fang Wang reunites with Fang Zigeng and Fang Hanyu at Jian Tianze. He says he will stay in Kunlun for several hundred years, intending to study and absorb the many Supreme Arts he has collected while welcoming a new Prosperous Era.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang demonstrates both overwhelming authority and personal warmth. He offers the Thousand-Eyed Great Sage a possible alliance, but shows no mercy to Jiyutian. With his brothers, he deliberately jokes and boasts to ease their tension and restore their familiar closeness.
• The Thousand-Eyed Great Sage reveals that resentment toward Fang Wang, as well as hatred of the Immortals and Gods, drives his choices. Fang Wang’s threat makes him retreat from open hostility and accept a chance to negotiate.
• Fang Zigeng appears more confident and self-assured after his difficult experiences, saying that the people he wanted to kill are already dead and that he no longer fears anyone. Seeing Fang Wang again brings out a more relaxed, joyful side of him.
• Fang Hanyu admits that the gap between himself and Fang Wang keeps growing, but responds with friendly defiance, promising to catch up through sword cultivation and challenge him someday. Their banter recalls their childhood relationship.
• The witnesses’ terror in the hell transforms into reverence for Fang Wang and his restraint.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Fang Wang’s strength is evident, but so is his ability to choose when to threaten, punish, or offer reconciliation.
• Ambition and consequences: Jiyutian’s hunger for fame and fortune leads to severe punishment, while those who witness Fang Wang’s power reconsider their own position.
• A new path: Fang Wang rejects the established models of Great Sages and Great Emperors, suggesting that greatness need not follow inherited patterns.
• Family and humanity: Despite his extraordinary power and concern for the wider world, Fang Wang remains deeply protective of his family and uses humor to preserve their bond.
• Preparation for a new era: His decision to remain in Kunlun signals a shift from isolated cultivation toward building Wang Dao’s strength and shaping the coming Prosperous Era.

Plot points and events

• After the Fortune Elevation Array ends, the Kunlun Grand Gathering continues. News spreads that Heavenly Dao has appeared and that the Tiangang Dao Sovereigns can overwhelm the world’s strongest figures. The revelations stir the Mortal World, though no one sees Heavenly Dao’s true face.
• Fang Wang secretly returns to his hometown in Nanqiu City, while the Fang Manor conceals his presence. The city nevertheless draws visitors because of the news surrounding Heavenly Dao.
• Xu Qiuming leaves the gathering to strengthen the Sword Sect, judging that its limited numbers and his own power make expansion premature. Yang Jun is awed by the Tiangang Dao Sovereigns and resolves to join Wang Dao with his sister.
• A year later, Wang Dao has more than two million disciples and over ten True Soul Realm members. Its leaders meet to review the sect’s growth and the benefits of the Dao Source Spiritual Jade.
• Fang Wang warns that disciples must not behave recklessly for the sake of worldly fortune. He openly explains the conflict with the Immortals and Gods, making clear the danger and consequences of following Wang Dao.
• Fang Wang declines to fill all twelve Dao Sect positions or appoint Tiangang Dao Sovereigns just to complete the ranks. He plans to stay with Wang Dao and study techniques, asking the others not to disturb him except in major matters.
• After the meeting, Fang Wang returns to his old cultivation spot and begins reading secret manuals. He permits Wei Buyu and others to search for Supreme Arts, but tells them not to kill unless necessary.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shifts from public upheaval to quiet, purposeful leadership. He values responsibility over the pursuit of fortune and intends to forge a new path by combining many techniques.
• Xu Qiuming prioritizes strengthening the Sword Sect over attending the gathering, while Yang Jun grows more devoted to Wang Dao and its cause.
• Dugu Wenhun reports Wang Dao’s rapid expansion with enthusiasm. The leaders show confidence in Fang Wang and pledge to manage the sect and its disciples responsibly.
• The Tiangang Dao Sovereigns take pride in their standing after the battle, now regarded as figures on par with or above the Dao Sects.
• Wei Buyu continues supporting Fang Wang by seeking powerful techniques, accepting his instruction to avoid unnecessary killing.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Fang Wang cautions against chasing fortune at the expense of discipline and moral conduct.
• A new ideal for cultivation: Heavenly Dao’s ambition to let mortals become immortals without ascending inspires broad admiration.
• Collective purpose and loyalty: Despite the risks of Wang Dao’s path, its membership continues to grow, and its leaders commit themselves to Fang Wang’s vision.
• Patience and preparation: Both Xu Qiuming and Fang Wang focus on strengthening their foundations rather than pursuing status or rushing into expansion.

Plot and events

• Thirty years after the Kunlun Grand Gathering, Fang Wang has spent forty thousand years in the time-dilated Heavenly Palace developing his cultivation method. He has integrated five techniques into it and named it the Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture. He realizes that merging techniques is arduous and that he should focus on truly supreme arts rather than absorb everything indiscriminately.
• A visitor acting for the Thousand-Eyed Great Sage offers information on the Great Mystery Divine Firmament Scripture, famed as the “First Scripture of Past and Present.” Fang Wang gives him one hundred years to retrieve the genuine scripture from a forbidden zone. In return, the Great Sage will join Fang Wang’s cause against immortals and gods and may become a Dao Lord of Wang Dao.
• Fang Wang travels to another mortal realm and finds True Person Kongdu injured while investigating secrets about immortals and gods and gathering supreme arts. Kongdu gives Fang Wang the inheritance of the Absolute Emperor, acquired from a deceased Great Sage’s Daoist domain.
• Fang Wang heals most of Kongdu’s injuries but leaves him to continue his investigation. Back at Jian Tianze, Fang Wang studies the stone slab, wondering what the inheritance contains.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang is increasingly deliberate in his pursuit of immortality-defying power: he refines his method selectively, sets clear terms for alliances, and supports his agents without overriding their choices.
• The Thousand-Eyed Great Sage demonstrates ambition as well as capability, negotiating for a place in Wang Dao in exchange for retrieving the scripture. Fang Wang accepts, contingent on success.
• True Person Kongdu remains committed to opposing immortals and gods, driven by the curse that destroyed his clan. Despite serious injuries, he insists on continuing his work. Fang Wang respects his resolve and heals him before leaving.

Significant themes

• Legacy and reputation are transient, while extraordinary techniques endure through the influence they have on later generations.
• Knowledge and power require discernment: Fang Wang learns that collecting or combining techniques indiscriminately is less valuable than finding exceptional ones.
• Loyalty, agency, and shared purpose shape Fang Wang’s growing coalition against immortals and gods; allies negotiate roles and pursue their own missions.
• Resistance carries a cost: Kongdu’s injuries and history underscore the danger and personal suffering involved in challenging the divine order.

Chapter Summary

• Fang Wang masters the Absolute Darkness Divine Art. He finds that the stone slab contains a genuine cultivation technique rather than a divine ability. The art cultivates a force distinct from spiritual energy, resembling dao power—exactly the kind of foundation Fang Wang needs as he considers creating a new cultivation system. He first reaches major accomplishment, but discovers the technique cannot progress further on its own. By cultivating it alongside the rules of heaven and earth, he brings it to grand perfection after more than 26,000 years in the Heavenly Palace.
• The cultivation deepens Fang Wang’s ambitions—and his doubts. The art’s extraordinary depth gives him new ideas for his own path and raises the possibility that the Absolute Emperor had already discovered a similar power. But the long, monotonous cultivation leaves Fang Wang reluctant to fuse techniques again. He reflects that most people are carried forward by time rather than willingly enduring such immense hardship.
• Fang Wang asks Zhao Zhen for news. Zhao reports that a devil has appeared near the border between the Eastern Human World and Western Mortal Realm. It can transform living beings into demonic beasts, and efforts by the Taiqing Mysterious Sect to eliminate it have failed to stop new demons from appearing. The Xuan Sect regards the threat as a fated tribulation that cannot be prevented without creating further karma. Fang Wang listens but shows no impulse to intervene personally. Zhao, meanwhile, is more excited by the opportunities a crisis might bring than concerned for those affected.
• Yang Jun urges Yang Lin’er to join Wang Dao, but she declines. After attending the Kunlun Grand Gathering, Yang Jun enthusiastically recounts the power and prestige of Wang Dao and the Dao Lord, insisting that his sister should join him. Yang Lin’er chooses to remain where she is and continue her cultivation. She believes in the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture, given to her by Fang Wang, and is beginning to uncover its hidden depth through practice. Yang Jun dismisses her technique, but she calmly insists he does not understand it. His certainty about the Dao Lord is undercut when she asks whether he has ever met him; he admits he has not.

Character Development and Themes

• Fang Wang grows more committed to creating a new cultivation path, while recognizing the immense personal endurance such work demands.
• Yang Lin’er shows patience and independent judgment, trusting her own experience over Yang Jun’s excitement about Wang Dao.
• Yang Jun is captivated by Wang Dao’s grandeur, though his confidence rests on stories rather than firsthand knowledge.
• The chapter explores the cost of long-term cultivation, the tension between deep, difficult practice and easily acquired power, and the limits of trying to control fate and worldly calamity.

Plot points and events

• Fang Wang spends another twenty years trying to merge the Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture with the Absolute Darkness Divine Art, but even the Heavenly Palace cannot make the task easy.
• Wang Dao continues expanding Kunlun, adding facilities and protective formations. Its growing power attracts more sponsors, who avoid disturbing Fang Wang.
• Dugu Wenhun reports that Yang Du and Zhu Yan killed a senior disciple of the Taiqing Mysterious Sect while competing for fortune. Fang Wang permits them to continue pursuing opportunities so long as they do not commit wanton evil or kill their own.
• Fang Wang asks after Ji Rutian, who has gone to the Western Mortal Realm, though his activities are unknown.
• Sensing ominous changes in the world’s rules, Fang Wang tries to contact Zhou Xue. When she finally responds, she explains that ancient Demonic Fiends have appeared near the boundary of the Eastern and Western Mortal Realms. She is hunting them to refine a demonic weapon.
• Zhou Xue warns that the mortal world is entering a prolonged period of upheaval, likely involving the return of great sages and emperors. Wang Dao will eventually be drawn into the turmoil, and Fang Wang has little time before the coming ascension.
• Fang Wang teaches Zhou Xue the Absolute Darkness Divine Art. In return, she teaches him the Immortal Purple Qi Art, a supreme Immortal Court technique.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang’s ambition remains immense: he is preparing not merely to contend with descending immortals and gods, but to surpass them. His sense of approaching catastrophe grows.
• He governs Wang Dao with restraint, defending his disciples’ freedom to compete while drawing the line at needless cruelty.
• Dugu Wenhun is concerned about the disciples’ recklessness and the danger posed by the Taiqing Mysterious Sect, but ultimately accepts Fang Wang’s judgment.
• Zhou Xue remains capable and self-directed, refusing Fang Wang’s offer of help while sharing crucial intelligence and exchanging techniques with him.
• Fang Wang and Zhou Xue’s exchange is both practical and personal: he eagerly seeks immortal arts, yet hesitates to admit concern when she names the strongest technique she can offer.

Significant themes

• Preparation under pressure: Fang Wang’s long cultivation efforts are set against a looming deadline and growing worldly disorder.
• Freedom and responsibility: Fang Wang balances Wang Dao’s ideals with the reality that disciples must compete for fortune and shape their own destinies.
• Power and providence: The Absolute Emperor’s inheritance, Zhou Xue’s knowledge, and Fang Wang’s extraordinary fortune suggest larger schemes unfolding across both mortal and immortal realms.
• Approaching upheaval: The shifting laws of heaven and the ancient fiends foreshadow a calamity that will draw powerful factions into conflict.

Key plot points and events

• After Zhou Xue explains the Immortal Purple Qi Art, Fang Wang enters the Heavenly Palace and begins cultivating it.
• He masters the technique after two thousand years, then spends twenty thousand more reaching Great Accomplishment, transforming his spiritual energy into dharmic power and his body into an Immortal Body.
• Unsure how to advance further, Fang Wang spends nearly ten thousand years in contemplation. He then forgets the technique in a state of mental chaos, only to rediscover it through instinct and achieve a profound breakthrough.
• Fang Wang emerges from seclusion after a total of 97,000 years in the Heavenly Palace, with the Immortal Purple Qi Art at Grand Perfection.
• He immediately tests his power by attempting to leave the mortal world. Using the evolved Carefree Heaven, he breaks through the barrier and arrives in the Upper Realm.
• There, he encounters a white ape. It passes through his ethereal form, but Fang Wang destroys it with a single, uncontrolled strike that also tears a small gap in space.

Character developments

• Fang Wang reaches extraordinary mastery, gaining dharmic power and an Immortal Body. His breakthrough comes not only through discipline but through surrendering to an unexpected state of instinctive insight. The immense seclusion leaves him numb and irritable, but he remains determined and confident.
• Zhou Xue is visibly shaken by Fang Wang’s sudden transformation. She briefly shows unusual tenderness, warns him about inner demons, and assures him that she will protect him if danger comes.

Significant themes

• Persistence and transformation: Fang Wang’s decades of arduous practice turn him from a mortal cultivator toward an immortal state.
• Insight beyond deliberate effort: His greatest breakthrough occurs after he lets go of conscious understanding and rediscovers the art instinctively.
• The limits of power and knowledge: Fang Wang questions whether the Immortals and Gods of the Immortal Court represent the highest tier of existence.
• Protection and mutual devotion: Zhou Xue offers to shield Fang Wang, while he insists he would rather protect her.

Character interactions

• Zhou Xue explains the art and later checks on Fang Wang, touching his cheek and cautioning him against inner demons.
• Fang Wang answers her reassurance with confidence and affection, saying he would rather be her protector.
• After leaving the mortal world, Fang Wang’s first encounter in the Upper Realm reveals both his ethereal defenses and the destructive force of his newly cultivated power.

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Key plot points and events

• The name Void Path spreads across the world after Xu Chonggua’s declaration, prompting factions to wonder whether he can become a Great Sage.
• Fang Wang, still cultivating in seclusion, completes the fusion of two techniques after years of effort. With only the cultivation sequence left to refine, he considers entering the Heavenly Palace again. Though weary after an extraordinarily long retreat, he resolves to keep pushing himself in light of future threats.
• Ji Rutian and Yang Du explore an underground site said to contain a Great Sage’s inheritance. At a vast underground river guarded by enormous dragon-headed and elephant-headed statues, Ji Rutian suddenly vanishes into the water. Yang Du is left disoriented as the surroundings seem to shift into a dark, stormy sea.
• At the Reincarnation Sea, Xu Qiuming and Yang Jun observe countless souls glowing beneath the black water. Xu warns that anyone who falls into it may become a lost soul.
• Xu Chonggua meets a mysterious female-voiced envoy of the Demon Race, who offers him a powerful Saint Weapon on behalf of the Great Dark Demon Saint. Xu rejects the need for help, but the envoy warns him that Heavenly Dao can slay sages and that Zhou Xue threatens the Demon Race’s fortune.
• A sudden, immense Heavenly Might interrupts their conversation, alarming both Xu Chonggua and the envoy.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang is reluctant to begin another long period of cultivation, but his competitive resolve and awareness of looming rivals overcome his fatigue.
• Ji Rutian leads the expedition and explains the history and power of the Demon Race, but his sudden disappearance leaves his fate uncertain. Yang Du, initially joking with him, becomes alarmed and unsettled.
• Xu Qiuming calmly cautions Yang Jun about the danger of the Reincarnation Sea; Yang Jun’s curiosity turns to fear when he sees the souls below.
• Xu Chonggua displays confidence bordering on arrogance, dismissing the need for a Saint Weapon. The envoy counters with warnings about Heavenly Dao and Zhou Xue, challenging his sense of invincibility.

Significant themes

• Ambition and perseverance: Fang Wang pushes onward despite exhaustion, while Xu Chonggua seeks the strongest path in the mortal world.
• The rise of powerful figures: The prospect of Great Sages shapes the world’s attention and intensifies the sense of an approaching age of upheaval.
• Hidden dangers and ancient legacies: The underground inheritance and Reincarnation Sea reveal that discovery and advancement may carry deadly risks.
• Power, pride, and rivalry: Xu Chonggua’s confidence is tested by the revelation of forces capable of threatening his ascent.

Key plot points and events

• An immense heavenly might sweeps across the Mortal World, surpassing even the phenomenon caused by Xu Chonggua’s attempt to become a Great Sage. Xu Qiuming and Yang Jun sense its scale while traveling above the Reincarnation Sea.
• In Jian Tianze, the surging spiritual energy reveals that the phenomenon originates at the site of Heavenly Dao enlightenment. Fang Wang is there, cultivating a new technique: the Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture, fused with the Absolute Darkness Divine Art.
• After two millennia of cultivation in the Heavenly Palace, Fang Wang completes the technique’s transformation of his spiritual energy into Heavenly Dao Dharmic Power. His body is also changing, aided by his Tiangang Supreme Yang Tyrant Body and Boundless Stainless Dao Bone.
• The heavenly might lasts seven days. Several days later, a golden eye appears on Fang Wang’s forehead and sends a pillar of light into the sky, affecting cultivators throughout the Mortal World—especially those who practice the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture.
• Fang Wang names his new realm the Heavenly Dao First Origin Realm, a path beyond the Heaven and Earth Universe stage. His declaration is answered by thunder and a world-spanning rain of gold, which strengthens living beings and grants some in the netherworld flashes of enlightenment.

Character developments and interactions

• Xu Qiuming feels pressure from the era’s rapidly rising powerhouses but resolves to seek gains at the Xushen Palace.
• Yang Jun shares his amazement at the extraordinary heavenly might.
• Dugu Wenhun confidently identifies the phenomenon as Fang Wang’s, defending the Dao Lord’s standing after Xu Chonggua’s rise. Hongchen speculates that Fang Wang has created a new cultivation technique, while Taoist Nianxin fails to divine what Fang Wang is doing.
• Fang Wang remains unaware of the worldwide effects, focused solely on consolidating his breakthrough. His prolonged seclusion yields a vast increase in both the potency and quantity of his power.

Significant themes

• A changing cultivation age: New realms and paths emerge, forcing even talented cultivators to confront how quickly the world is evolving.
• Innovation and transcendence: Fang Wang’s fusion of techniques creates a new form of power and a new route beyond established paths such as sagehood, emperorship, and immortality.
• The reach of a breakthrough: Fang Wang’s personal cultivation alters the wider world, benefiting practitioners connected to the Heavenly Dao and hinting at its influence even beyond the mortal realm.

Key plot points

• Fang Wang’s creation of the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture triggers seven days of golden rain across the mortal world. The rain spreads spiritual Qi and grants people an understanding of the new path.
• Fang realizes heaven and earth grow stronger when their people do, and that creating a cultivation path benefits the world. In return, heaven and earth reward him with rising fortune and auspicious affinity.
• The Heavenly Dao becomes a subject of widespread discussion. People distinguish it from Xu Chonggua’s Void Path, recognizing it as a genuine cultivation path acknowledged by heaven and earth.
• In the Reincarnation Sea, Xu Chonggua’s mysterious companion warns that the Heavenly Dao’s emergence may require him to cancel his deal with the Great Dark Demon Saint. Xu’s attempt to calculate the consequences fails.
• At the edge of the world, Daoist Chunqiu meets a sealed Great Sage. The Sage explains that a calamity from the Underworld is approaching: demons will be driven from their home and clash with mortals before a greater terror arrives.
• Chunqiu deduces that the calamity involves a supposedly dead, taboo being. He is horrified and questions whether the young Fang Wang can face it.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang feels, for the first time, a genuine bond with the Xuanzu Mortal World. His sense of responsibility expands: immortality now means serving the world as well as pursuing his own goals.
• Xu Chonggua is unsettled by Fang’s achievement and its implications for his plans. His conversation with the mysterious figure ends with him alone and unable to read the future.
• Daoist Chunqiu reports Fang’s history to the Great Sage, who concludes that Fang’s rise may make mediation unnecessary—and that the coming calamity may be meant for him. Chunqiu’s reaction to the taboo being’s return reveals that he remembers its past threat.

Significant themes

• Reciprocity between people and the world: A world grows stronger through its inhabitants, while world-benefiting deeds are rewarded by heaven and earth.
• Belonging and responsibility: Fang’s growing connection to the mortal world gives his ambition a broader purpose.
• Destiny and uncertainty: The Heavenly Dao marks Fang as a pivotal figure, yet even Xu Chonggua cannot calculate what comes next.
• A new path amid looming disaster: Fang’s achievement offers hope, but the approaching Underworld calamity may test whether that hope is enough.

Key plot points and events

• At the end of the world, Daoist Chunqiu receives a powerful treasure from a mysterious Sage, who tells him its future use is his own concern.
• Fang Wang teaches Wang Dao’s senior figures the Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture, presenting it as a complete cultivation system aimed at liberation from fate and karma and the attainment of true immortality.
• He announces that, in twenty years, he will give a Dao lecture in Kunlun for every Wang Dao disciple. He also permits them to teach the Heavenly Dao to any willing person who is not notoriously evil, believing that a broad community of practitioners will strengthen the new path.
• Afterward, Fang Wang visits the aging Gu Tianxiong at Jian Tianze. They talk about Fang Wang’s years away, including his travels to Earth, and Gu reflects that a short, fulfilling mortal life can be worthwhile.
• Fang Wang senses a major battle in a distant part of the mortal realm. Ye Xunhuan is among the Heaven and Earth Universe experts fighting a powerful opponent.
• Fang Wang says he plans to travel and claim inheritances. Gu declines to join him, preferring a comfortable stay in Xinghua Pavilion, and reminds Fang Wang not to forget Gu Li. Fang Wang promises her a place in his inner court.

Character developments

• Fang Wang emerges as the founder and confident advocate of a new cultivation orthodoxy. He is willing to share it widely and intends to keep developing its techniques, while also showing affection and respect for old companions.
• Gu Tianxiong accepts that his cultivation has reached its limit and does not wish to pursue further opportunities. His curiosity about Earth and preference for simple pleasures reveal a more reflective, accepting side.
• Daoist Chunqiu leaves with a mysterious treasure, though its purpose and consequences remain unknown.
• Hongchen and Wang Dao’s leaders are deeply impressed by the Heavenly Dao and recognize its potential to challenge established cultivation traditions.

Significant themes

• A new path to transcendence: The Heavenly Dao promises freedom from fate and karma, going beyond the limits associated with the Saint and Emperor paths.
• Sharing knowledge and building an orthodoxy: Fang Wang sees widespread practice—not secrecy—as the way to help the Heavenly Dao grow.
• Mortality and acceptance: Gu Tianxiong’s limited lifespan contrasts with Fang Wang’s power and ambitions, while their conversation suggests that a meaningful mortal life can still be valuable.
• Legacy and inheritance: Fang Wang’s new scripture, upcoming lecture, and planned pursuit of inheritances all point to how knowledge and opportunity pass between generations.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang’s lecture draws awe and serious engagement from Hongchen, Xu Yan, Lv Xianming, Duantian, and the other Wang Dao leaders.
• Zhu Rulai asks whether the Heavenly Dao should be shared beyond Wang Dao; Fang Wang answers that it should be taught broadly.
• Fang Wang and Gu Tianxiong share a quiet, personal conversation about old age, Earth, and the value of ordinary life. Their teasing exchange about Gu Li ends with Fang Wang promising to make room for her in his inner court.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang visits his former master, Great Sage Xianglong, in the Zhuitian Secret Realm, where countless departed souls are cultivating.
• After discussing a powerful demonic aura fighting nearby, Fang Wang explains his Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture to Xianglong. He deliberately speaks loudly so the other souls can hear, and many listen with growing excitement.
• Xianglong praises the scripture as far beyond his own Three Great True Scriptures. Fang Wang modestly credits those scriptures as the foundation of his path.
• Demon General Yesu, one of the Four Demon Generals serving the Great Dark Demon Saint, emerges from the lake’s black fog. She asks Xianglong to help the Devil Race negotiate with the Heavenly Dao for refuge on Jianglong Continent.
• Yesu says the Devil Race faces an impending disaster in the underworld: a nameless taboo entity is about to appear, and even the Great Dark Demon Saint fears it.
• Fang Wang questions whether the Devil Race can coexist peacefully with the continent’s people, and whether its members would need to seize bodies to enter the mortal world.
• When Yesu evades the question by offering to satisfy Fang Wang’s demands, he insists that the Great Dark Demon Saint meet him. He hints that he can offer the Devil Race another place to live, away from the taboo entity.
• Yesu asks where that place is. Fang Wang silences her with a display of overwhelming power, then dismisses her. She retreats into the fog.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang shows respect for Xianglong while making clear that his power has surpassed his master’s. He shares his cultivation method generously, but also acts firmly to protect Jianglong Continent and its people.
• Great Sage Xianglong is moved by Fang Wang’s growth and recognizes that the Heavenly Dao is far beyond his own teachings. Seeing Fang Wang restrain Yesu leaves him astonished and hopeful about what Fang Wang may accomplish.
• Demon General Yesu approaches Xianglong formally but becomes markedly more deferential toward Fang Wang after realizing his status and strength. Her hesitation over body-taking raises doubts about the Devil Race’s intentions.
• Fang Wang’s teacher-student bond with Xianglong is affectionate and respectful: Fang Wang credits his master’s teachings, while Xianglong listens with pride and awe.

Significant themes

• Legacy and surpassing one’s teacher: Xianglong’s scriptures helped shape Fang Wang’s path, even as Fang Wang has grown far stronger.
• Power and responsibility: Fang Wang’s influence is tied not only to cultivation but also to his duty toward the people who worship him.
• Refuge versus invasion: The Devil Race claims it needs a home, but its need does not resolve the danger it may pose to the mortal world.
• A larger looming threat: The feared taboo entity suggests that the Devil Race’s arrival is part of a wider crisis still to come.

Key plot points and events

• Fang Wang bids farewell to Great Sage Xianglong, who warns him that even at his current strength he must remain cautious around Immortals and Gods. Fang Wang promises to keep practicing.
• He leaves the Zhuitian Secret Realm and travels across Jianglong Continent, whose cultivation world has grown dramatically since the Seven Dynasties era. News that he will teach the Heavenly Dao method spreads, confirming suspicions that he caused a recent celestial anomaly.
• Over the course of a year, Fang Wang travels incognito as a masked Dao teacher, imparting the Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture to people he encounters. He sees their destinies shift, including those of three young boys—one of whom will eventually challenge his disciple, Chu Yin.
• At a river, Fang Wang rescues a stranded turtle. It identifies itself as the Da’an Mysterious Turtle, sent by the Ghost Emperor to deliver the fortune of the ancient Da’an Divine Dynasty.
• Fang Wang accepts the fortune. The experience reveals visions of the dynasty’s past and greatly amplifies his Heavenly Dao power. Thunderclouds gather overhead, drawing the attention of Hongchen and Great Sage Xianglong.

Character developments

• Fang Wang shows confidence in his immense power but remains disciplined and mindful of the risks posed by higher beings. He also becomes more reflective, enjoying travel and observing how his teachings reshape others’ futures.
• Great Sage Xianglong remains a protective mentor, while his enigmatic remark about the Heavenly Mandate suggests deeper thoughts about who truly bears it.
• The Da’an Mysterious Turtle reveals its age and uncertainty, and wonders whether Fang Wang may be the reincarnation of the Da’an ruler, as the Ghost Emperor apparently suggested.

Significant themes

• Destiny and choice: Fang Wang can glimpse future outcomes, but recognizes that fate can change.
• Teaching and legacy: His anonymous instruction alters lives and may shape future conflicts.
• Fortune and inheritance: The Da’an fortune connects Fang Wang to the ancient dynasty and unlocks a major surge in power.
• Humility before greater forces: Despite his strength, Fang Wang is warned not to underestimate Immortals and Gods.

Character interactions

• Fang Wang and Xianglong share a respectful farewell, with the master offering caution and the disciple promising diligence.
• Fang Wang quietly teaches young strangers, teasing them into leaving while ensuring they retain the scripture.
• He helps the turtle, then accepts its message and the fortune it carries.
• The resulting upheaval alerts Hongchen and Xianglong, setting up their response to Fang Wang’s sudden rise in power.

Key plot points

• Fang Wang receives the full inheritance of the Da’an Divine Dynasty’s fortune. The immense power stirs the heavens and draws cultivators from across the Jianglong Continent, though Hongchen keeps them from disturbing him.
• Once the inheritance ends, Fang Wang finds that the fortune has sharpened his awareness of Heaven and Earth’s rules and gives him an uncanny sense of command over all things.
• The Da’an Mysterious Turtle recognizes him as the Antian Great Emperor—the final emperor of Da’an and father of the Ghost Emperor—and pledges to serve him. Hongchen suggests Fang Wang may be the emperor’s reincarnation, though his past-life memories are absent.
• Fang Wang chooses not to dwell on his identity, accepting that his present life matters most. He sets out to travel and study the Da’an fortune, with the turtle now accompanying him.
• In the Netherworld, the Great Dark Demon Saint seeks the Ghost Emperor’s guidance about the Heavenly Dao. The Ghost Emperor warns that genuine submission may bring protection, but concealed hostile intentions will lead to ruin; he makes clear that the Heavenly Dao’s position is his own.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang gains a major inheritance and a new companion, but remains cautious about claims that he is an ancient emperor reborn. Hongchen helps him focus on his present identity rather than an uncertain past.
• The Da’an Mysterious Turtle shifts from guardian of the inheritance to Fang Wang’s devoted servant, addressing him as “Your Majesty.”
• Hongchen acts as a practical adviser and protects Fang Wang from the crowd while offering a grounded perspective on reincarnation.
• The Great Dark Demon Saint approaches the Ghost Emperor in a position of deference, while the Ghost Emperor responds with a blunt warning and asserts his alignment with the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhou Xue, meanwhile, remains absorbed in her ritual, apparently unaware of the extraordinary fortune appearing elsewhere.

Significant themes

• Identity and reincarnation: Fang Wang’s possible connection to the Antian Great Emperor raises questions about whether past lives define a person.
• Fortune and power: Da’an’s fortune transforms Fang Wang’s perception and attracts attention, but also promises new troubles.
• Loyalty and sincerity: The Ghost Emperor distinguishes genuine allegiance to the Heavenly Dao from manipulation, warning that intent has consequences.

Chapter summary

• Fang Wang seeks Great Sage Zhuxian’s inheritance. Five years after receiving Da’an’s fortune, Fang Wang travels with Little Purple to the great sage’s Tomb Palace, guided by a piece of purple jade. He has long surpassed the Heaven and Earth Universe Realm requirement set by Zhuxian’s lingering soul and now seeks Zhuxian’s sword qi and sword intent.
• Fang Wang brings the Great Dark Demon Saint along. The demon saint explains that he avoided entering Jianglong Continent because its curse could bring calamity upon him, though it poses no threat to the devil race. Fang Wang invites him to follow through the tomb gate and offers the devil race a possible destination, while making clear that the demon saint may decline.
• They enter the tomb’s strange inner world. Beyond a solitary, cracked stone gate lies a starry sky and a vast field of gravestones. On a distant peak stands the ghostly likeness of Great Sage Zhuxian, whose presence shakes the land. Zhuxian recognizes Fang Wang and speaks in surprise as Fang asks whether he will still pass on his sword inheritance.
• The Ghost Emperor takes action. After the Great Dark Demon Saint asks whether he should seek the destination promised by Heavenly Dao, the Ghost Emperor approves and leaves the temple. He orders the Seven Grievances of Da’an to report any intruder immediately.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang is now powerful enough to approach the inheritance that once lay beyond his reach. He acts confidently but leaves the devil race’s future to the Great Dark Demon Saint’s choice.
• The Great Dark Demon Saint appears wary and uncertain, yet hopeful enough to pursue a new home for his people. He follows Fang Wang into the tomb.
• Little Purple remains playfully jealous of Fang Wang’s turtle companion and appeals to Fang Wang for support. Fang Wang insists the turtle respect Little Purple, prompting the turtle to comply.
• The Da’an Mysterious Turtle boasts of its ancient history and recounts how Zhuxian rose from humble beginnings, slew immortals, and ultimately fell because of the consequences of killing one with a powerful background.
• The Ghost Emperor shows trust in Heavenly Dao’s promise but remains protective of Da’an’s temple.

Significant themes

• Power and consequence: Zhuxian’s triumph over an immortal brought about his downfall.
• Choice and responsibility: Fang Wang offers the devil race a destination without forcing the demon saint to accept it.
• The weight of time and legacy: The turtle’s memories and Zhuxian’s tomb connect the present to powerful figures from earlier eras.

Key plot points and events

• Great Sage Zhuxian warns Fang Wang that he must reach the Heaven and Earth Universe Realm and pass a trial to qualify for the legacy. Fang Wang agrees, though he is no longer especially interested in it.
• Zhuxian summons a gigantic ghostly sword and a host of corpses, revealing that the trial is to defeat his remnant soul in the purgatory.
• Fang Wang’s Heaven and Earth Spiritual Image astonishes the others by containing apparent living beings. He explains privately that they are Heavenly Dao constructs—powerful combat puppets made through fortune and the Heavenly Dao Myriad Techniques Scripture.
• The constructs, including Wei Buyu and the Tiangang Dao Sovereigns, attack Zhuxian’s ghostly form. Their assault initially meets fierce resistance.
• Fang Wang invites the Great Dark Demon Saint to join his spiritual image, promising the Demon Race lasting refuge and the preservation of their intelligence. The Demon Saint hesitates.
• Fang Wang casually clenches his fist, annihilating the souls, corpses, Zhuxian Ghost God, and the surrounding combatants in one stroke. He declares that he does not need Zhuxian’s sword qi.
• Fang Wang then addresses an unseen presence, asking whether it is a saint, emperor, or immortal.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang displays complete confidence in his strength. He has surpassed the legacy’s signature sword techniques and treats the trial as a minor obstacle. His offer to the Demon Race also shows an interest in expanding and sustaining his spiritual image.
• The Great Dark Demon Saint is shaken by the spiritual image’s apparent living inhabitants and by Fang Wang’s overwhelming power. He remains undecided about the offer.
• Emperor Daan is astonished by Fang Wang’s creation and tries to persuade the Demon Saint to accept, presenting Fang Wang as a chance for renewal and future greatness.
• Little Purple suspects Zhuxian’s intentions are hostile, but later questions why Fang Wang destroyed the trial if he wanted to inherit its sword qi. Fang Wang dismisses the inheritance as unnecessary.
• Great Sage Zhuxian appears domineering and aggressive, but his remnant is effortlessly destroyed before the nature of the trial—or the presence Fang Wang addresses at the end—is fully resolved.

Significant themes

• Power beyond inheritance: Fang Wang’s self-created and evolved techniques have made the legacy largely irrelevant.
• Creation and control: His spiritual image can host armies of Heavenly Dao constructs, suggesting a growing capacity to build and command an inner world.
• Immortality and belonging: Fang Wang offers the Demon Race a permanent home, raising the possibility of survival through integration with his spiritual image.
• Confidence and mystery: Fang Wang’s casual victory emphasizes his overwhelming strength, while the final question hints that an even greater or unexpected presence may remain.

Plot and key events

• While exploring the silent realm, Fang Wang senses another presence and summons his life-bound treasure spirit, the Zhenshi Bead. Now empowered by his breakthrough into the Heavenly Dao First Origin Realm, the bead begins devouring not only matter and spiritual energy but also the realm’s laws.
• A mysterious voice challenges Fang Wang’s ability to consume the laws of heaven and earth. The Da’an Mysterious Turtle recognizes the speaker as Immortal Monarch Canghe, an Immortal and God once slain by the Great Sage Zhuxian.
• Canghe emerges in a towering armored form. He explains that Zhuxian’s original encounter with Fang Wang was genuine, but Zhuxian later surrendered his main soul to Canghe in exchange for the Immortal Court’s forgiveness.
• Canghe reveals that he wants Fang Wang’s body and offers to spare those around him. He destroys the Zhenshi Bead with a single sword strike, alarming Little Purple, the turtle, and the Great Dark Demon Saint.
• As Canghe follows up with another attack, Fang Wang briefly traps him in an illusion with the Eighteen-Layer Avici Hell, then obliterates him with a full-strength Great Return to Void Palm. The realm falls silent and dark from the force of the blow.
• Recognizing Fang Wang’s overwhelming power, the Great Dark Demon Saint kneels and pledges to bring the Devil Race into Fang Wang’s Heavenly Dao Spiritual Image.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains calm throughout, even when Canghe destroys his treasure. His confidence is justified: he uses strategy as well as strength, combining illusion with his devastating palm technique.
• Immortal Monarch Canghe appears proud and predatory, treating Fang Wang as a vessel to claim. His sudden defeat underscores the gulf between his confidence and Fang Wang’s actual power.
• The Great Dark Demon Saint shifts from wary observer to enthusiastic ally, deciding to commit the Devil Race to Fang Wang after witnessing his victory.
• Little Purple and the Da’an Mysterious Turtle react with fear when the Zhenshi Bead is destroyed, then astonishment when Fang Wang wins. Little Purple playfully reproaches him for making them worry.
• Canghe’s revelation casts the Great Sage Zhuxian’s role in a new light: Zhuxian’s earlier encounter with Fang Wang was sincere, but his later bargain with Canghe helped set the stage for this confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Fang Wang’s growing strength can affect an entire lesser world, and his final attack demonstrates the destructive cost of using it without restraint.
• Appearances versus reality: Canghe seems to hold the advantage after destroying the Zhenshi Bead, but Fang Wang has concealed a decisive combination of abilities.
• Loyalty earned through strength: The Great Dark Demon Saint’s allegiance is won not through promises, but through Fang Wang’s demonstrated ability to defeat an Immortal.
• Immortal politics and ambition: Zhuxian’s bargain and Canghe’s desire for Fang Wang’s body reveal that conflicts between mortals, great sages, and the Immortal Court are driven by survival and power.

Key events

• Fang Wang destroys Immortal Monarch Canghe with the Great Return to Void Palm, then uses the Zhenshi Bead to consume the small world and absorb the sword qi and intent left by Great Sage Zhuxian.
• He promises the Great Dark Demon Saint that, once this work is finished, he will accompany him to the Devil Race’s entrance to the Mortal World. The Demon Saint is delighted.
• Fang Wang also obtains a black slate containing Great Sage Zhuxian’s cultivation technique. He values cultivation methods above spells or secret techniques, seeing them as the foundation of immortal cultivation.
• Fifteen years later, Wang Dao disciples gather in vast numbers at Kunlun for Fang Wang’s first sermon to the entire sect. The assembly displays the sect’s immense growth and ambition.
• Among the attendees, Fang Jing warns that a Great Emperor—and the emperor’s entire dynasty—are about to be resurrected.
• Meanwhile, at the Xushen Palace, Guming Old Man asks Xu Chonggua whether he is ready for a dangerous undertaking, warning that failure will leave him beyond recovery.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Wang remains composed and overwhelmingly powerful, while continuing to pursue cultivation knowledge. His promise to the Great Dark Demon Saint shows a willingness to honor their alliance.
• The Great Dark Demon Saint is eager and grateful, and listens as Little Purple recounts Fang Wang’s exploits.
• Little Purple proudly boasts about Fang Wang, while the Da’an Mysterious Turtle is astonished by both his power and the scale of Wang Dao.
• Wang Dao’s disciples reflect the sect’s rapid rise. Chu Yin’s exceptional progress with the Heavenly Dao Boundless Scripture reinforces why he became Fang Wang’s disciple; Duantian is also gaining recognition.
• Fang Bai and Sword Immortal Xu Yan discuss swordsmanship. Fang Jing, Fang Wang’s nephew, reunites with them and shares his startling news.
• Dugu Wenhun uses rankings and titles to encourage competition among disciples, while he and Hongchen help manage the gathering.
• Guming Old Man cautions Xu Chonggua about the grave risk of what lies ahead.

Significant themes

• True cultivation versus technique: Fang Wang prioritizes cultivation methods as the basis of lasting advancement.
• Power and legacy: His achievement in creating a peerless divine ability as a young cultivator underscores his extraordinary potential.
• Institutional growth and succession: Wang Dao’s huge assembly and talented younger generation suggest a new era is taking shape.
• Impending upheaval: The promised resurrection of an emperor and dynasty, alongside Xu Chonggua’s perilous task, foreshadows major changes beyond Kunlun.