Recaps

Fang Chen learned that his damaged Life Wheel gave him only three years to live, and resolved to pursue Destined Foundation Establishment to repair it. After studying the Glazed Golden Body Art, he began cultivating it and was immediately overwhelmed by pain.

• Fang Chen examined the items True Person Liuli had given him and read the cultivation guidelines for Inner Disciples.
• Fang Chen learned that Spirit Spring Valley could aid his body refinement, but its fierce Spiritual Power usually required Spirit Medicines to withstand.
• Fang Chen returned the guidelines to True Person Liuli, then went to the ruined foot of Glazed Peak and activated the jade slip.
• Fang Chen learned that the Glazed Golden Body Art could greatly enhance his abilities, though activating it burned True Qi, vitality, and soul strength.
• Fang Chen began practicing the art by directing his blood and vitality through his body, but the pain quickly became unbearable.

Fang Chen’s three cultivation arts merged into the Floating Immortal Art, and he headed to Yanhe Market to prepare for training in Spirit Spring Valley. There, he unexpectedly ran into Wang Zheng.

• Fang Chen chopped down trees with the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb its Spiritual Power and endure the pain of cultivating three conflicting arts.
• The three arts’ formulas battled in Fang Chen’s Darkness Origin space, then joined together to defeat and consume an azure current.
• Fang Chen discovered that the three arts now worked in harmony and named their merged technique the Floating Immortal Art.
• Fang Chen decided to exchange his Contribution Points for Spirit Stones and Spirit Medicine before entering Spirit Spring Valley to strengthen his body.
• Fang Chen arrived at Yanhe Market and recognized Wang Zheng, who was delighted to see him.

Fang Chen visited the Market with Wang Zheng, exchanged Contribution Points for cultivation pills, and bought supplies for Glazed Peak. Back home, Little Crane unexpectedly returned and swallowed all his purchases before vanishing again.

• Wang Zheng explained that Qi Refining Realm cultivators usually avoided Spirit Spring Valley, then told Fang Chen he could get a discount by spending Contribution Points at the Medicine Shop.
• Fang Chen exchanged Contribution Points for five first-grade Body Tempering Pills and bought supplies for Glazed Peak, but declined Wang Zheng’s offer to find him a costly Storage Bag.
• Fang Chen returned to Glazed Peak at dusk and sorted through his purchases while thinking about Little Crane.
• Little Crane appeared from the void, and Fang Chen recognized it as the Paper Crane from the Trial Path.
• Little Crane swallowed Fang Chen’s purchases, burped contentedly, and disappeared into the void.

Fang Chen discovered that his Paper Crane could store his belongings in a hidden space he named Spirit Crane Space, then traveled to Spirit Spring Valley to temper his body. The chapter left him entering the valley’s large pool while other disciples mocked his thin build.

• The Paper Crane taught Fang Chen an incantation that let him view Spirit Crane Space and retrieve or store the black gourd.
• Fang Chen named the hidden bubble Spirit Crane Space and flew to Spirit Spring Valley.
• The guards checked Fang Chen’s Identity Token, verified that he was an Inner Disciple of Glazed Peak, and let him enter.
• Fang Chen studied the valley map and reached the large pool, where disciples soaked in powerful Spiritual Qi.
• Nearby disciples mocked Fang Chen’s skinny build, and he took a Snow Lotus Pill before stepping into the pool.

Fang Chen entered the Spirit Spring and used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb its Spiritual Power despite the crowd’s warnings. He endured the pool’s pressure, broke through to the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, and left the onlookers stunned.

• Fang Chen submerged himself in the Spirit Spring and endured the scorching Spiritual Power until someone told him to circulate his cultivation art and use True Qi to filter it.
• Fang Chen summoned the Floating Immortal Sword underwater and discovered that holding it let him absorb its cool Spiritual Power, easing his pain.
• Fang Chen withdrew his True Qi and circulated the Floating Immortal Art, drawing Spiritual Power from the pool and forming a whirlpool around himself.
• The Inner Disciples and other cultivators warned Fang Chen that he would die, but he continued absorbing Spiritual Power and remained unharmed past half an incense stick.
• Liu Bo identified Fang Chen as a new Inner Disciple of Glazed Peak who had entered through the Trial Path, surprising the crowd.
• Fang Chen released a powerful aura and a faint golden glow appeared on his skin as he broke through to the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining.

Fang Chen advanced to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining while cultivating in increasingly powerful pools in Spirit Spring Valley. His body’s strength then stalled, but he discovered a way to break through the first layer of the Glazed Golden Body Art.

• After reaching the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, Fang Chen left the first pool and cultivated in the stronger Crescent Moon Pool, drawing a crowd of Inner Disciples.
• Fang Chen continued deeper into Spirit Spring Valley as news of his cultivation spread, drawing many Inner Disciples and inspiring them to temper their bodies.
• Ten days later, Fang Chen broke through to the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining in a small pool, but his body’s strength still would not improve.
• Fang Chen focused on the Glazed Golden Body Art and synchronized his trembling muscles with his heartbeat until an inner shackle broke, red Runes appeared across his skin, and his aura surged.

After mastering the first layer of the Glazed Golden Body, Fang Chen refined all his Blood Lotus Seeds and reached the peak of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer. He headed to the Mad Demon Cave to complete the last condition set by Senior Glazed, but its formation repelled him and an old man approached.

• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes and tested the tenfold strength granted by the first layer of the Glazed Golden Body.
• Fang Chen left Spirit Spring Valley, ate a Blood Lotus Seed, and endured its fierce medicinal power while refining it with the Floating Immortal Art and Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen refined all one hundred Blood Lotus Seeds over three days and reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer Peak Realm.
• Fang Chen flew to the Mad Demon Cave in Echo Valley, where golden Formation Runes repelled him from the entrance.
• A white-haired old man approached Fang Chen and asked who he was.

Fang Chen entered the Mad Demon Cave to begin Senior Glazed’s challenge of reaching its Third Layer within three months. After enduring the cave’s pressure and piercing sounds, he found Li Yanshan, Elder Yun, and Wu Qingfeng tortured and bound, with Little Six dead.

• Fang Chen showed the cave guardian his Glazed Peak Identity Token and the rare black skull token from True Person Liuli, and the guardian opened the cave for him.
• Fang Chen entered the Mad Demon Cave and found that its mysterious force had sealed his True Qi.
• Fang Chen resisted the cave’s crushing pressure and piercing sounds as he climbed the Stone Steps without relying on the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen reached the end of the Stone Steps and found Li Yanshan, Elder Yun, and Wu Qingfeng bound, bloodied, and tortured, with Little Six beheaded.
• Li Yanshan told Fang Chen that an enforcement squad had taken them from Dog Head Ridge and tortured them for information about him.

Fang Chen discovered that True Person Liuli had abducted his friends and spent years preparing to possess Fang Chen’s Battle Saint Body. As Liuli began the possession, Fang Chen activated his Glazed Battle Runes and struck him down, shattering the space around them.

• Fang Chen tried and failed to cut the Immortal Binding Rope holding Li Yanshan, Elder Yun, and Wu Qingfeng.
• True Person Liuli revealed that he had captured the three and planned to possess Fang Chen’s body after strengthening it with the Glazed Golden Body and Blood Lotus Seed.
• True Person Liuli admitted that he had lied about Fang Chen’s damaged Life Wheel and killed Li Yanshan, Elder Yun, and Wu Qingfeng to weaken Fang Chen’s mind.
• True Person Liuli bound Fang Chen and began pulling his soul from his body.
• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes and slashed through True Person Liuli, whose body dissolved as the surrounding space shattered.

Fang Chen cleared the first level of the Mad Demon Cave and entered the far more dangerous second level, where a blazing forest and creatures made of fire attacked him. Though the Floating Immortal Sword and Glazed Battle Runes helped him fight back, a burning willow branch dragged him deeper into the Fire Origin.

• Fang Chen broke free of the first level’s illusion with the Glazed Battle Runes, and the white-haired elder congratulated him after he appeared outside the Stone Gate.
• Fang Chen chose to challenge the second level despite the elder’s warning and entered the forest.
• Red lightning set the forest ablaze, and a Flames Lion attacked Fang Chen and knocked him into the fire.
• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes and killed the Flames Lion with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen fought his way through the flames, killed a Flames lizard, and was dragged deeper into the Fire Origin by a burning willow branch.

Fang Chen battled a bloodred willow in the sea of fire, broke through the pressure of Law, and discovered that its golden sap strengthened both his body and soul. After cutting down nearly all its branches, he found that the Floating Immortal Sword could absorb sap from the trunk and further strengthen its Sword Intent and his Soul Origin.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to cut through the willow’s fiery branches, and the pain of their attacks let him perceive the tree behind the Flames.
• Fang Chen broke through the pressure of Law, unleashed Flowing Clouds Rolling Moon, and charged the great willow tree.
• The tree struck Fang Chen with a golden branch, but his sword’s Sword Intent severed another; he tasted its golden sap and discovered it strengthened his body and soul.
• Fang Chen cut down nearly every branch and reached the tree, where he found rusted weapons left by dead cultivators.
• Fang Chen’s sword lodged in the trunk and absorbed its golden sap, strengthening its Sword Intent and his Soul Origin.

After Fang Chen cleared the Mad Demon Cave Second Layer, he learned that entering the Third Layer meant he would have to clear it to escape. A sudden collapse sent him and the Guardian into the Third Layer together, where they landed in a vast graveyard.

• Fang Chen found a golden Willow Heart in the ashes of the ancient willow and had Little Crane store it in the Spirit Crane Space.
• The ground split beneath Fang Chen, and he fell through red mist into the Second Layer’s Square.
• The Guardian confirmed that Fang Chen had cleared the Second Layer and warned him that only those who cleared a layer could leave it.
• As the Guardian prepared to open the Third Layer, lightning struck his staff and the Square collapsed beneath them.
• Fang Chen and the injured Guardian fell through a Sea of Clouds into a graveyard, where the Guardian identified their location as the Mad Demon Cave Third Layer.

Fang Chen fought through the Mad Demon Cave’s third trial, where the false Guardian sealed the Floating Immortal Sword with the Myriad Soul Ghost Seal and attacked him. As Fang Chen endured repeated injuries, he began learning the Guardian’s cane techniques and reproducing them with his sword.

• Fang Chen stepped onto the road, triggering red Runes, crushing pressure, and a swarm of ghosts whose black mist strengthened his Soul Origin.
• The Guardian attacked Fang Chen, and Fang Chen realized the old man was an illusion created by the Mad Demon Cave.
• The ghosts’ red Runes covered the Floating Immortal Sword, sealing its Spiritual Power, while the Guardian wounded Fang Chen with his cane.
• Fang Chen repeatedly charged the Guardian despite his injuries and gradually learned to anticipate and imitate the cane’s movements.
• Fang Chen’s swordsmanship improved as he reproduced the Guardian’s techniques and forced him to retreat.

Fang Chen passed the Mad Demon Cave’s third level and received a rare Nine-Leaf Sword Heart Grass. He returned to True Person Liuli, who confirmed Fang Chen had mastered the first level of the Glazed Golden Body Art and saw renewed hope for his Foundation Establishment.

• Fang Chen defeated the old man in the third-level trial, and the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed a torrent of energy as the trial vanished.
• The Guardian announced that Fang Chen had passed True Person Liuli’s trial and awarded him a Nine-Leaf Sword Heart Grass.
• Fang Chen returned to the Mad Demon Cave entrance, where the Guardian explained the grass’s nine leaves made it unusually potent.
• Fang Chen flew back to Glazed Peak and showed True Person Liuli the Sword Heart Grass as proof that he had fulfilled all three conditions.
• True Person Liuli examined Fang Chen and discovered that his physique and vitality had improved and that he had mastered the first level of the Glazed Golden Body Art.

Fang Chen became Zhang Daoling’s direct disciple and was brought to the Glazed Sword, where it accepted him and flooded him with painful power and unfamiliar knowledge. Its Seven-Colored light burst through Glazed Hall’s roof and into the sky, alerting the entire Glazed Sword Sect.

• Fang Chen fulfilled True Person Liuli’s three conditions, and Zhang Daoling accepted him as his direct disciple.
• Zhang Daoling led Fang Chen to the Glazed Sword and explained its history and Glazed Peak’s decline since the sword’s destruction.
• Fang Chen touched the stone platform, and the Glazed Sword awakened, binding his hands and sending Sword Intent and unfamiliar information into him.
• The Glazed Sword absorbed Spiritual Qi, shook Glazed Hall, and sent a Seven-Colored beam through the roof and clouds.
• Disciples and elders across the Glazed Sword Sect felt their swords tremble and looked toward Glazed Peak.

Fang Chen endured the Glazed Sword’s overwhelming power as it responded to him inside the Glazed Hall. While the Glazed Barrier kept the sect’s experts outside, Fang Chen entered a state of Enlightenment and began adapting the Glazed Body Refining Art to his body.

• The Glazed Barrier stopped the Peak Masters, Elders, and Supreme Elders from approaching the Glazed Hall as they gathered to investigate the disturbance.
• Dao Lord Honghe and Black Flame Dao Master arrived, but neither knew why the Glazed Sword had stirred.
• Fang Chen suffered as the Glazed Sword poured Spiritual Power into him faster than he could refine it, and True Person Liuli urged him to endure.
• Fang Chen entered a state of Enlightenment, gained new insight into the Floating Immortal Art, and adjusted its body-refining method as his body absorbed the power.
• Colored Runes appeared on Fang Chen’s skin while his True Qi Vortex expanded, and he continued adapting the Glazed Body Refining Art to his body.

Fang Chen completed the Glazed Sword's inheritance, and True Person Liuli named him his eldest direct disciple and the Glazed Peak's Holy Son. After the sect learned of his new status, Fang Chen emerged from the inheritance stronger in body and soul, though his cultivation remained at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.

• The Glazed Barrier vanished, and the Black Flame Dao Master, Dao Master Honghe, and the other sect leaders entered the Glazed Hall to ask True Person Liuli about the Glazed Sword's reaction.
• True Person Liuli announced that Fang Chen had received the Glazed Sword's inheritance and was now his eldest direct disciple and the Glazed Peak's Holy Son.
• The Black Flame Dao Master and the others congratulated True Person Liuli, then returned to their peaks and warned their disciples not to offend Fang Chen.
• News of Fang Chen's appointment spread through the Glazed Sword Sect's inner sect, prompting shock, excitement, and skepticism among the disciples.
• Fang Chen finished receiving the inheritance and found his body and soul greatly strengthened, while his cultivation stayed at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.
• True Person Liuli asked Fang Chen about the inheritance, and Fang Chen confirmed he had received the Glazed Sword Art before closing his eyes to sort through it.

Fang Chen learned that his damaged Glazed Sword Art legacy was more complete than True Person Liuli’s, while his master warned him not to sacrifice his future to a lost cause. True Person Liuli then used enlightenment to transmit his power to Fang Chen, leaving a huge golden sphere above Fang Chen’s True Qi Vortex as his own body turned to ashes.

• Fang Chen told True Person Liuli that he had received 3,372 characters of the Glazed Sword Art, and True Person Liuli said the legacy was unusually extensive.
• True Person Liuli explained how his failed attempt to repair the Glazed Sword had damaged his foundation and urged Fang Chen to seize opportunities to grow stronger.
• After coughing and releasing a surge of Spiritual Power, True Person Liuli sealed Fang Chen’s Acupoints and began transmitting his power through enlightenment.
• Fang Chen circulated the Floating Immortal Art as scorching golden energy entered his Meridians and formed a golden liquid above his full True Qi Vortex.
• By the next morning, the golden liquid had condensed into a rune-covered sphere, and Fang Chen saw True Person Liuli standing beside a pile of ashes.

True Person Liuli used his remaining life to pass his power to Fang Chen and told him that completing Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment required entering a Primordial Era secret realm. After True Person Liuli’s Soul Phantom vanished, Fang Chen summoned the Glazed Sword Sect’s leaders, who comforted him and promised to send him to the Tianluo Secret Realm.

• True Person Liuli explained that he had passed his power to Fang Chen and that Fang Chen needed to reach the Twelfth Layer of Qi Refining in a Primordial Era secret realm to complete Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
• True Person Liuli told Fang Chen about two Storage Rings and a Jade Slip, then vanished as his Soul Phantom faded.
• Fang Chen gathered True Person Liuli’s ashes and the relics, left the Glazed Hall, and snapped the Jade Slip to summon the sect.
• The Peak Masters, Dao Lords, and elders arrived at Glazed Peak, and Fang Chen told them that True Person Liuli had died and gave them the rings.
• Honghe Dao Lord read True Person Liuli’s message and comforted Fang Chen, while Black Flame Dao Lord said the sect would send him to the Tianluo Secret Realm for Foundation Establishment.

After True Person Liuli's death, Fang Chen observed mourning before preparing to enter the Tianluo Secret Realm and pursue Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. Dao Master Honghe gave him a plan and resources, leaving Fang Chen ready to seek help from Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi.

• Fang Chen chose to observe mourning for True Person Liuli until the Seventh-Day Memorial before entering the Tianluo Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen and the others buried True Person Liuli's ashes behind his house on Glazed Peak, and Fang Chen mourned at his grave.
• Dao Master Honghe, Black Flame Dao Master, and other Glazed Sword Sect leaders agreed to devote their resources to helping Fang Chen achieve Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
• Dao Master Honghe told Fang Chen to find Chen Xiaofei for help refining a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill and to seek Yan Ziyi's essence blood for the pill.
• Dao Master Honghe gave Fang Chen jade slips identifying sect disciples and their allies, along with three dragon scales containing the tenth through twelfth layers of the Glazed Qi Refining Art.

Fang Chen entered the Tianluo Secret Realm wearing a one-use Divine Silkworm Treasure Robe and discovered that the realm’s Spiritual Qi could be absorbed directly through the Floating Immortal Sword Art. After arriving safely, he studied the identities of the Glazed Sword Sect disciples who had entered and examined the method for the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining.

• Fang Chen received the scales containing the final three layers of the Glazed Qi Refining Art and visited True Person Liuli’s grave before leaving the Glazed Sword Sect with Dao Master Honghe.
• Dao Master Honghe gave Fang Chen a Divine Silkworm Treasure Robe and an incantation for safely crossing into the Tianluo Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen entered the twisted valley, recited the incantation, and survived the passage as the robe formed a cocoon that eventually burst apart.
• Fang Chen landed in a forest and discovered that the Floating Immortal Sword and the Floating Immortal Sword Art absorbed the realm’s abundant Spiritual Qi.
• Fang Chen studied a Black Jade Slip identifying the hundred Glazed Sword Sect disciples in the realm, then examined the scale containing the Tenth Layer cultivation method.

Fang Chen fused the Tenth Layer of the Glazed Qi Refining Art with the Floating Immortal Art, greatly increasing his strength, then entered a grove where Three-Eyed Long-Armed Apes attacked him with Golden Thread Rock Fruit. The chapter ended with a frenzied ape’s flaming fruit blasting Fang Chen into a tree and leaving him badly scorched.

• Fang Chen cultivated the Tenth Layer of the Glazed Qi Refining Art with the Floating Immortal Art and reached the Tenth Layer of Qi Refining.
• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes and felt his strength rise further before heading deeper into the Tianluo Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen encountered a troop of unusually large Three-Eyed Long-Armed Apes in a grove of Golden Thread Rock Fruits.
• Fang Chen dodged and struck apart the fruit the apes hurled at him, defending himself against their growing barrage.
• A frenzied Three-Eyed Long-Armed Ape threw a flaming Golden Thread Rock Fruit that exploded against Fang Chen and left him scorched and battered.

Fang Chen survived the Golden Thread Rock Fruit explosions, mastered a new movement technique by combining the Misty Turtle Step with the Three-Eyed Long-Armed Apes’ agility, and slaughtered several apes. The remaining apes fled when their leader, the Ape King, appeared before Fang Chen.

• The Three-Eyed Long-Armed Apes bombarded Fang Chen with Golden Thread Rock Fruits, but he blocked them with the Floating Immortal Sword and the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique.
• Fang Chen discovered he could walk through the air using the Misty Turtle Step and chased the apes through the treetops.
• Fang Chen combined the Misty Turtle Step with the apes’ movements and gained a faster, more agile movement technique.
• Fang Chen used his new technique to catch and kill an ape, then cut down the apes that charged at him as the Floating Immortal Sword strengthened him.
• The Ape King appeared, and the remaining Three-Eyed Long-Armed Apes stopped attacking and fled.

Fang Chen killed Demonic Beasts in the Tianluo Secret Realm and absorbed their Spiritual Power until he broke through to the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining. As he prepared to hide from a surge of energy in the mountains, a wounded Demonic Flame Devouring Python rushed toward him.

• Fang Chen slew the Three-Eyed Long-Armed Ape King and took its Inner Core as he continued searching for Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi.
• After three days of hunting, Fang Chen found thirty Blazing Tyrant Lizards feeding on a giant python carcass and charged into battle.
• Fang Chen killed all thirty Blazing Tyrant Lizards, absorbed their Spiritual Power, and broke through to the Eleventh Layer of Qi Refining.
• A powerful disturbance drew closer from the mountains, and Fang Chen prepared to hide.
• A wounded Demonic Flame Devouring Python, an Ancient Desolate Exotic Beast with strength rivaling the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, barreled toward Fang Chen.

Fang Chen encountered Misty Sect disciples after they killed a Demonic Flame Devouring Python, but they tried to silence him to protect the valuable beast. He killed the entire group, took the Python’s Inner Core and their treasures, and continued deeper into the Tianluo Secret Realm.

• Misty Sect disciples killed the injured Demonic Flame Devouring Python while Fang Chen watched from nearby.
• Gu Xin and his companions surrounded Fang Chen and ordered him to die rather than reveal their kill.
• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes, killed Gu Xin and the black-robed disciple, then fought off the remaining Misty Sect disciples.
• Fang Chen killed the fleeing archer and the wounded survivors, wiping out the entire group.
• Fang Chen stored the Python’s Inner Core and the disciples’ treasures, including Foundation Establishment Pills, before continuing deeper into the secret realm.