Recaps

Fang Chen rapidly produced thousands of Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon Rejuvenation Pills, astonishing the Black Flame Dao Master with their potential profits. The Black Flame Dao Master gathered the Glazed Sword Sect’s leaders to plan their sale, but they doubted the pills’ value until he revealed Fang Chen’s production speed and negligible ingredient costs.

• Fang Chen produced 5,300 pills in less than an hour and asked the Black Flame Dao Master to pack them while he made more.
• The Black Flame Dao Master took the pills and summoned Dao Lord Honghe and the Seven Peak Masters to discuss expanding their sales.
• The Zixiao Daoist recognized the pills as ungraded Mortal Pills, and the gathered leaders mistook the Black Flame Dao Master’s announcement for an offer to give them Rejuvenation Pills.
• The Black Flame Dao Master clarified that he wanted to sell the pills and said the sack could fetch five million Spirit Stones.
• The Black Flame Dao Master revealed that Fang Chen could make a sack of Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon pills in under half an hour using ingredients worth fewer than fifty Spirit Stones.

Black Flame Dao Master told Dao Master Honghe and the Seven Peak Masters about Fang Chen’s pill-making and forging talents, then helped them plan to sell the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon Pills through the Black Market. The chapter ended with most of them swallowing a pill to test its potency and hurriedly leaving when its effects overwhelmed them.

• Black Flame Dao Master revealed that Fang Chen had refined many Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon Pills cheaply and described his exceptional alchemy and forging abilities.
• Dao Master Honghe and the others agreed to help secretly capture Saint Yundan’s Rejuvenation Medicine market.
• After three hours of discussion, the group chose the Black Market as the safest way to distribute the Pills.
• Black Flame Dao Master ordered Dao Master Honghe and the others to take a pill so they could speak confidently about its effects when selling it.
• Dao Master Honghe, Azure Cloud Daoist, and the others were overwhelmed by the Pill’s potency and hurried out, while Zixiao Daoist left without taking one.

Fang Chen finished refining four million Pills for the Glazed Sword Sect, then rested before setting out for the Nine Prisons Demon Cave. At the cave entrance, Black Flame Dao Master told twelve hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators to wait for Fang Sheng, who would lead them into the forbidden zone.

• Black Flame Dao Master and the other elders divided Fang Chen’s four million Pills among themselves to sell in the Central Barrens.
• Fang Chen rested for three days, then learned from Black Flame Dao Master that preparations to enter the Nine Prisons Demon Cave were complete.
• Fang Chen set off for the cave with the Myna bird while twelve hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators waited at its entrance.
• Black Flame Dao Master explained that the sect had renamed the cave the Azure Vault Holy Land to delay revealing that it could be reopened.
• Black Flame Dao Master identified the awaited Fang Sheng as Fang Chen’s disciple and urged the cultivators to work with him as they cleared the forbidden zone.

Fang Chen led more than a thousand Glazed Sword Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators into the Nine Prisons Demon Cave and ordered them to form a defensive Sword Formation as bait. Demons swarmed the formation in growing numbers, while Fang Chen remained calm and left the disciples to defend as the crowd around them exceeded a hundred thousand.

• Fang Chen arrived at the Nine Prisons Demon Cave, where the Black Flame Dao Master introduced him as Fang Sheng, Glazed Peak's successor, and named seven peak leaders to follow his orders.
• Fang Chen entered the cave first, and the Nascent Soul Cultivators followed, bracing themselves against the spatial pressure and demonic Qi.
• Fang Chen sensed thousands of demons nearby and ordered the cultivators to form a strong Sword Formation and draw the demons in as bait.
• The peak leaders organized the cultivators into a Sword Formation and released their auras, attracting waves of demons.
• The demons surrounded and attacked the formation, but the cultivators held their defense while Fang Chen remained motionless.
• After half an hour, more than a hundred thousand demons had gathered around the Sword Formation.

Fang Chen slaughtered more than a hundred thousand Demons in the Demon Cave, astonishing the Glazed Sword Sect disciples with his overwhelming strength. After they collected the corpses, he led them deeper into the cave to hunt more Demons.

• Fang Chen unleashed his twelve Mortal Dust Swords, his Nascent Soul’s Spirit Flame, and the Floating Immortal Sword against the Demons surrounding the Sword Formation.
• Fang Chen used his Seal God Domain to trap the Demons’ fleeing Nascent Souls, then killed more than a hundred thousand Demons in less than half an incense stick’s time.
• The Myna bird sealed the Demons’ Nascent Souls and devoured the Blood Qi from their corpses, while Fang Chen noticed that his bonded Flying Swords had grown stronger.
• Fang Chen told the Glazed Sword Sect disciples to release the Sword Formation and collect the Demons’ valuable remains.
• After the disciples finished processing the corpses, Fang Chen led them deeper into the Demon Cave to continue hunting.

A month after the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon appeared, it spread across the Central Barrens and displaced the Pill Pavilion’s Rejuvenation Pills. The Pill Pavilion investigated the pills’ source and ingredients, leaving the Black Dragon Dao Master waiting anxiously outside the Pill Carving Room.

• Zhang Chi told Master Hong Mo that the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon was back in stock for two thousand Spirit Stones per pill, and Master Hong Mo sent him to buy pills with a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Buyers in Yunshui City quickly bought out the renewed supply, while Black Markets spread the pills to other cities and sold them at a steep markup.
• The Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon spread throughout the Central Barrens, and its popularity caused demand for the Pill Pavilion’s Rejuvenation Pills to collapse.
• The Pill Pavilion ordered its outlets to trace the pills’ source and sent them for ingredient analysis so it could try to reproduce them.
• The Black Dragon Dao Master paced outside the Pill Carving Room in Yudan City while the Pill Pavilion examined the pills.

The Pill Pavilion failed to reproduce the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon or uncover who was supplying it through the Black Market. After six months fighting in the Nine Prisons Demon Cave, Fang Chen emerged with the Fourth-Layer Demons nearly wiped out.

• A Pill Carver told the Black Dragon Dao Master that the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon used ordinary ingredients but could not be examined with Spiritual Sense.
• Old Sun failed to reproduce the pill after more than a thousand trials and urged the Black Dragon Dao Master to find its maker.
• The Black Dragon Dao Master traced the pills to the Black Market, but the Black Market's secrecy blocked the Pill Pavilion's investigation.
• The Black Dragon Dao Master grew furious when his subordinates found no useful leads after a month.
• Fang Chen emerged from the Nine Prisons Demon Cave after six months of fighting, leaving the Glazed Sword Sect's Nascent Soul Cultivators to contain the few remaining Demons.

After clearing the Fourth-Layer Demon Cave, Fang Chen discussed the Glazed Sword Sect’s pill sales and plans to spread them across the continent with the Black Flame Dao Master. He went to the Library Pavilion to study talisman crafting and encountered the Zixiao Daoist.

• The Glazed Sword Sect’s Nascent Soul ranks grew, and Fang Chen completed his eleventh Nascent Soul transformation after six months in the Demon Cave.
• The Black Flame Dao Master told Fang Chen that the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon pills had sold through Black Market channels, with puppets concealing the sect’s involvement.
• The Black Flame Dao Master asked Fang Chen to refine more pills so they could be distributed across human and other-race territories, making their origin harder to trace.
• Fang Chen agreed to study before refining more pills, and the Black Flame Dao Master left to arrange development of the Fourth-Layer Space.
• Fang Chen went to the Library Pavilion to study talismans and found the Zixiao Daoist on its top floor.

Fang Chen learned the basics of Talisman Crafting, then made a Black Gourd, painting brushes, and a large batch of top-grade Talisman Blanks. He tested one blank and learned it could expand dramatically, while the Myna confirmed the blanks could hold Fifth- or even Sixth-Tier Formation Runes.

• Fang Chen met Zixiao Daoist in the Library Pavilion and asked her about Talisman Crafting, then read several books to learn its basics.
• Fang Chen left the Library Pavilion and bought materials for crafting Spirit Pens and Talisman Blanks without telling Black Flame Dao Master.
• Fang Chen went to Ice Cloud Valley and crafted a Black Gourd as a Natal Spirit Treasure, then finished making painting brushes.
• Fang Chen refined the Talisman Blank materials with his Nascent Soul and produced a hall full of top-grade blanks.
• Fang Chen infused a blank with True Essence Power and watched it expand, while the Myna tested its strength and praised its quality.

Fang Chen crafted a Strength Talisman and asked Zixiao Daoist to appraise it, learning that it was a Top Grade Fourth-Tier Spirit Talisman. He admitted that he had made it, and Zixiao Daoist confronted him for claiming earlier that he could not craft talismans.

• Fang Chen crafted and activated a Strength Talisman, but initially thought its doubling of his strength was disappointing.
• The Myna bird explained that Fang Chen's unusually powerful body limited the boost, and Fang Chen contacted Zixiao Daoist for an appraisal.
• Zixiao Daoist examined and activated the talisman, then judged it a Top Grade Fourth-Tier Spirit Talisman.
• Fang Chen revealed that he had crafted the talisman, and Zixiao Daoist questioned why he had denied knowing Talisman Crafting earlier that day.

Fang Chen demonstrated his talent for Talisman Crafting by making powerful Strength and Diamond Talismans in front of Zixiao Daoist. When she asked him to try an Earth Escape Talisman, he made the required Talisman Blanks himself, leaving Zixiao Daoist astonished.

• Fang Chen made another top-grade Fourth-Rank Strength Talisman, and Zixiao Daoist confirmed it was even more effective than the first.
• Fang Chen crafted a Diamond Talisman, which withstood a full-strength strike from Zixiao Daoist before breaking.
• Zixiao Daoist asked Fang Chen to make an Earth Escape Talisman, but Fang Chen explained that he first needed suitable Talisman Blanks.
• Fang Chen revealed that he had made the blanks himself and used his enormous Nascent Soul to craft a new batch in less than half an hour.

Fang Chen revealed that he could produce tens of thousands of high-quality Talisman Blanks in less than half an hour, prompting the Glazed Sword Sect leaders to plan a new source of income. He agreed to make blanks for the sect, and Zixiao Daoist stayed to help him obtain what he needed.

• Zixiao Daoist was astonished when Fang Chen covered the Glazed Hall floor with flawless Talisman Blanks, and she realized the sect could sell them to Heavenly Talisman Mountain.
• Zixiao Daoist summoned Black Flame Dao Master, Honghe Dao Lord, and the other Peak Masters, then told them Fang Chen had made all the blanks in less than half an hour.
• Fang Chen confirmed he had learned Talisman Crafting that morning, and the Peak Masters agreed that selling Talisman Blanks would be safer and more profitable than selling Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon Pills.
• Fang Chen agreed to help the Glazed Sword Sect and asked Black Flame Dao Master to obtain more materials so he could begin refining.
• Black Flame Dao Master told Zixiao Daoist to stay with Fang Chen and help him get whatever he needed.

Fang Chen and Zixiao Daoist selected Five Elements Talisman Embryos for him to craft in bulk, while the myna bird broke another seal and recovered powerful cultivation methods. The myna bird began teaching Fang Chen the Invincible Clone Technique, which could let him create reusable clones for cultivation tasks.

• The myna bird's seal began breaking, and it left the Glazed Hall to avoid damaging it with the surge of Spiritual Power.
• Fang Chen told Zixiao Daoist that the myna bird might come from the era of the Ancient Heavenly Court and had many sealed memories and cultivation methods.
• After ten days of study, Zixiao Daoist chose Five Elements Talisman Embryos for Fang Chen to produce and arranged for the materials to be delivered.
• The myna bird returned with silver feathers, saying its seal had broken and it had recovered the Invincible Clone Technique.
• Fang Chen eagerly agreed to learn the technique, and the myna bird pecked between his brows to pass on the Clone Secret Method.

Fang Chen began cultivating the Invincible Clone Technique and mass-produced Five Elements Talisman Embryos for the Glazed Sword Sect. After learning the goods came from the sect, Heavenly One Talisman Saint set out for the Southern Wastes.

• Fang Chen used his blood essence to form a Spiritual Fetus inside his Nascent Soul, beginning the Invincible Clone Technique.
• Zixiao Daoist delivered materials, and Fang Chen refined batches of Five Elements Talisman Embryos that Black Flame Dao Master and the others sold.
• Hu Zhongtian examined the embryos in Tianfu City and learned they came from the Glazed Sword Sect, with more than a million available.
• Hu Zhongtian ordered Hu Yichuan to keep the news secret and left for the Southern Wastes.

The Heavenly One Talisman Saint arrived at the Glazed Sword Sect to ask about a batch of exceptionally crafted Five Elements Talisman Embryos. The sect hid Fang Chen in the Demon Cave while Black Flame Dao Master received the visitor, who asked to meet the craftsman.

• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint arrived outside the Glazed Sword Sect and announced his visit to the Nirvana Realm cultivators.
• Black Flame Dao Master and Dao Master Honghe suspected the visit concerned the Talisman Blanks and arranged for Fang Chen to hide in the Fourth-Layer Demon Cave.
• Dao Master Honghe took Fang Chen away while Zixiao Daoist went with Black Flame Dao Master to receive the visitor.
• Black Flame Dao Master invited the Heavenly One Talisman Saint into the Glazed Hall and welcomed him with tea.
• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint asked whether the Glazed Sword Sect had crafted the exceptional Five Elements Talisman Embryos and requested to meet their maker.

The Heavenly One Talisman Saint visited the Glazed Sword Sect to recruit the maker of the Five Elements Talisman Embryos, but Fang Chen refused to join another force. At Black Flame Dao Master's urging, Fang Chen began crafting a batch with thirty percent of his ability to demonstrate his talent and support possible cooperation.

• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint told Black Flame Dao Master that he wanted to meet the Talisman Blank maker and invite him to join Heavenly Talisman Mountain without leaving the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Dao Master Honghe brought Fang Chen to the Glazed Hall, where the Heavenly One Talisman Saint learned that Fang Chen had crafted the Five Elements Talisman Embryos and could also draw talismans.
• Black Flame Dao Master told Fang Chen through Spiritual Sense to show only thirty percent of his ability, and Fang Chen firmly refused to join Heavenly Talisman Mountain.
• Fang Chen summoned the Heaven Refining Furnace and explained that he could use it to refine Pills, Magic Treasures, and Talisman Blanks.
• Fang Chen placed materials in the furnace and began channeling Spirit Flame into it to craft three thousand Five Elements Talisman Embryos.

Fang Chen demonstrated his exceptional skill by refining a large batch of flawless Five Elements Talisman Embryos, impressing the Heavenly One Talisman Saint. Fang Chen declined the Saint’s offer to become his disciple but accepted a protective token and secured a long-term partnership between Heavenly Talisman Mountain and the Glazed Sword Sect.

• Fang Chen used the Heaven Refining Furnace to produce many Five Elements Talisman Embryos, all of them Top Grade.
• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint praised Fang Chen’s talent and offered to make him his Direct Disciple and successor.
• Fang Chen refused to leave the Glazed Sword Sect and proposed a long-term partnership with Heavenly Talisman Mountain.
• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint accepted Fang Chen’s choice, gave him a token bearing a Soul Imprint, and promised that Heavenly Talisman Mountain’s doors would remain open to him.
• Black Flame Dao Master gave the Heavenly One Talisman Saint tea, and the Saint gave him three Universe Saint Talismans in return.

The Heavenly One Talisman Saint gave the Glazed Sword Sect three valuable Saint Talismans and promised to buy its Talisman Blanks at above-market prices. The sect's leaders decided to use the talismans to gather resources and invest in Fang Chen's growth.

• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint gave Black Flame Dao Master three Saint Talismans and promised support for the Glazed Sword Sect's Talisman Blank business.
• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint left after urging Fang Chen to visit Heavenly Talisman Mountain.
• Fang Chen refused to keep the three Saint Talismans, saying the Heavenly One Talisman Saint's Token was enough to protect him.
• Black Flame Dao Master and Dao Master Honghe gathered the sect's Nirvana Realm cultivators to discuss using the talismans and buying Pills to help Fang Chen reach the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Black Flame Dao Master assigned the five cultivators to take turns using the Saint Talismans to enter the Eighth Layer of the Demon Cave, kill Demons, and gather resources.

Black Flame Dao Master urged the five hidden elders to wait until Fang Chen could refine the Glazed Nirvana Pill, keeping the sect’s Seven Swords formation intact. Drifting Dao Master arrived from Heavenly Talisman Mountain to serve as the sect’s contact and settled into his new residence while waiting to meet Fang Chen.

• The five Silhouettes pressed Black Flame Dao Master to let them refine the Glazed Nirvana Pill, but he said he was still gathering materials and hoped Fang Chen would eventually refine it.
• Black Flame Dao Master, Dao Master Honghe, and the five Silhouettes pledged to protect the Glazed Sword Sect and restore its former glory.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint sent his son, Drifting Dao Master, to live at the Glazed Sword Sect and work with its members, though Drifting Dao Master worried the move would hinder his ambitions.
• Drifting Dao Master arrived at the sect, where Black Flame Dao Master welcomed him, showed him around, and gave him a Token granting access to many areas.
• Drifting Dao Master rested at his new residence and decided he could wait until Fang Chen emerged from seclusion.

Fang Chen received a Seven-Colored Spirit Jade Ginseng King from the Glazed Sword Sect, then entered the Fifth-Layer Demon Cave with the myna bird to test his cultivation and attack its core region. He arrived at the region’s towering Divine Mountain, preparing to wipe out one of its cities.

• Zixiao Daoist gave Fang Chen a Seven-Colored Spirit Jade Ginseng King that the Glazed Sword Sect had bought with money from selling his Talisman Blanks.
• Fang Chen accepted the ginseng but kept it instead of eating it, then told Zixiao Daoist he wanted to enter the Demon Cave and advance his cultivation by killing demons.
• Zixiao Daoist told Fang Chen that the Glazed Sword Sect had grown stronger and wealthier over the past half year, so Fang Chen set out with the myna bird for the Fifth-Layer Demon Cave.
• Fang Chen and the myna bird flew to the core region, where they saw a Divine Mountain towering above the five cities.

Fang Chen attacked White Jade City and confronted the White Jade Demon Lord, overwhelming the city lord with his strength. The White Jade Demon Lord broke out his Manifestation and Secret Arts, and the chapter ended as he thrust his spear at Fang Chen.

• Fang Chen flew over White Jade City and used the Floating Immortal Sword to kill its demons, trapping their Nascent Souls and Primordial Spirits within the city.
• The White Jade Demon Lord arrived and attacked Fang Chen with a crimson spear beam, but Fang Chen shattered it with a punch and struck him in the face.
• The White Jade Demon Lord unleashed his Manifestation and used White Jade Cage to twist space around Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen activated the Fourth Transformation of his Glazed Golden Body and shattered the spatial pressure with a punch.
• The White Jade Demon Lord appeared before Fang Chen and thrust his glowing red spear at him.

Fang Chen killed the White Jade Demon Lord after his Innate Dao Diagram returned and he summoned a Manifestation, then slaughtered demons in White Jade City to absorb their Spiritual Power. The Floating Immortal Sword revealed the Slaughter Heaven and Earth sword technique in Fang Chen's mind, where its mysterious wielder destroyed every attacker before vanishing.

• Fang Chen defeated the White Jade Demon Lord with Heaven and Earth Creation, cut him in half, and trapped his fleeing Primordial Spirit in the Seal God Domain.
• Fang Chen discovered that his Innate Dao Diagram had returned and that he had summoned a hazy Manifestation.
• The Myna bird sealed the White Jade Demon Lord's Primordial Spirit and the other demons' Primordial Spirits and Nascent Souls.
• Fang Chen charged through White Jade City, killing demons with the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb their Spiritual Power as the survivors fled.
• The Floating Immortal Sword flooded Fang Chen's mind with Spiritual Power and showed him the Slaughter Heaven and Earth technique, whose mysterious wielder annihilated every approaching figure before disappearing.

Fang Chen reached Chaotic Sword City and repeatedly attacked its defensive formation while drawing power from the Floating Immortal Sword. As the city prepared for its fall, his Nascent Soul underwent its eleventh Metamorphosis, greatly increasing his strength.

• Fang Chen received a flood of information from the Floating Immortal Sword and flew toward Chaotic Sword City.
• The Chaotic Sword Demon Lord learned of the White Jade Demon Lord's death, activated the city's defensive formation, and shut the gates against fleeing demons.
• Fang Chen struck Chaotic Sword City's Barrier repeatedly, while the Chaotic Sword Demon Lord ordered the demons to flee toward the sixth layer if the city fell.
• Fang Chen's Nascent Soul underwent its eleventh Metamorphosis, covering him and the Floating Immortal Sword with red Flames and Red Runes.
• The demons in Chaotic Sword City realized Fang Chen was only in the Nascent Soul Realm, while his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform absorbed the Spiritual Power released by his Nascent Soul.

Fang Chen destroyed Chaotic Sword City with a devastating sword strike, then followed the Chaos Demonic Star Vine beneath the city to a Blood Pool guarded by Bloodthirsty Red Velvet Bats. The vine attacked the bats as Fang Chen and the Myna bird discovered the hidden underground threat.

• Fang Chen broke Chaotic Sword City's Barrier and cut a long path through the city, prompting the Chaotic Sword Demon Lord and his subordinates to flee by breaking through to higher realms.
• Fang Chen unleashed Slaughter Heaven and Earth, killing every living thing in Chaotic Sword City and reducing it to ruins.
• The Floating Immortal Sword restored Fang Chen's Spiritual Power, while the Myna bird devoured the city's Blood Qi and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine flew toward the City Lord's Mansion.
• Fang Chen followed the vine through a mysterious passage and found a Blood Pool filled with tormented souls, guarded by Bloodthirsty Red Velvet Bats.
• The Chaos Demonic Star Vine plunged into the Blood Pool and pierced the bats, dragging their corpses into the water.

Fang Chen continued clearing demons from the Fifth Layer of the Demon Cave, prompting the survivors to flee to the Sixth Layer. The Three Great Demon Emperors learned he was approaching and began planning a trap to kill him.

• Fang Chen left the Chaos Demonic Star Vine in the underground blood pool and continued hunting demons across the Fifth Layer.
• Fang Chen found Thousand Illusions City empty and kept slaughtering demons to clear the Demon Cave for the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Fifth-Layer demons fled upward and warned the Sixth-Layer demons that Fang Chen had destroyed cities with a single sword strike.
• The Three Great Demon Emperors heard that Fang Chen had devastated the Fourth and Fifth Layers and discussed how to stop him.
• The Flame Demon Emperor, Sword Demon Emperor, and Dream Demon Empress agreed to join forces, strengthen a city with Formations, and prepare a trap for Fang Chen.