Recaps

Fang Chen broke through the barrier sealing the Upper Region of the Liudan River and entered with Yan Ziyi and Chen Xiaofei. After finding broken stone tablets inscribed with incomplete pill formulas, he went farther upstream and discovered a river carrying countless Pills that melted into mist when they reached the bank.

• Fang Chen inspected the cracked barrier, then slashed it apart with the Floating Immortal Sword as Yan Ziyi arranged the Glazed Sword Array and the other sects watched from a distance.
• Fang Chen entered the breach with Yan Ziyi and Chen Xiaofei, and the three felt a powerful pressure beyond the barrier.
• Fang Chen and his companions found a dried riverbed covered in broken stone tablets, and Chen Xiaofei identified their inscriptions as incomplete pill formulas.
• Fang Chen went farther upstream alone, where he found water carrying countless Pills that melted into white mist when they washed onto the bank.

Fang Chen discovered that pills in the Liudan River’s Upper Region were real but dissolved soon after leaving the water, so he led the Glazed Sword Sect disciples inside to collect and eat them. The barrier sealed behind them, leaving the three major sects outside to join forces and attack it.

• Fang Chen collected pills from the Upper Region river, and Chen Xiaofei identified them as safe to eat before they began dissolving from a mysterious mark.
• Fang Chen enlarged the shrinking barrier opening and brought the Glazed Sword Sect disciples inside, telling them to adjust to the pressure before heading upstream for pills.
• Fang Chen refused to let the other sects enter, and the Glazed Sword Sect waited until the opening fully closed before he led them to the Upper Region.
• Yu Liuyan apologized to Shi Lei for her earlier rashness, and Wang Mo urged the three sects to work together against the barrier.
• Shi Lei set aside his anger over the Eight Trigrams Gate’s losses, and the three major sects began attacking the barrier together.

Fang Chen brought the exhausted Glazed Sword Sect disciples to the Liudan River’s pill-filled waters, testing the Pills before allowing them to eat. As the group feasted, the Paper Crane and the Myna bird began absorbing Pills too.

• Fang Chen built a Wooden Canoe and pulled the tired Glazed Sword Sect disciples upstream to the flowing Liudan River.
• Chen Xiaofei examined the Pills and confirmed they retained Spiritual Power, but Fang Chen tested them himself before the others ate.
• Fang Chen swallowed more than a hundred Pills, then approved the Qi Gathering and Soul Nurturing Pills while warning everyone not to take Foundation Establishment Pills.
• The Glazed Sword Sect disciples began chewing Pills, and Fang Chen discovered they were crisp and delicious.
• The Paper Crane gulped down Pills and absorbed their Spiritual Power, then the Myna bird appeared and began devouring them.

Fang Chen learned from the myna bird that the Tianluo Secret Realm was an Ancient Heavenly Court training ground and that Liudan River’s pills were rewards for passing its trials. The myna bird revealed that it feared Paper Crane and confirmed that the secret realm held the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method.

• The myna bird caught a Third Grade Soul Nurturing Pill but gave it to Fang Chen after Paper Crane stopped it from swallowing the pill.
• Fang Chen followed the myna bird to a rock by Liudan River and asked about the pills and the secret realm.
• The myna bird explained the Tianluo Secret Realm’s origins, the Heavenly Court’s stored pills, and how their quality decreased as they flowed downstream.
• The myna bird said it had awakened sealed in Mystic Ice, had lost its memories, and felt an instinctive fear of Paper Crane.
• Fang Chen asked whether the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method was in the secret realm, and the myna bird confirmed that it was.

Fang Chen learned that reaching the Fourteenth Layer of Qi Refining would unlock the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method and pills in the Tianluo Secret Realm. He resolved to deduce a method for the fourteenth layer himself, then asked the myna bird whether the Battle Saint Body had existed in the Primordial Era.

• Fang Chen learned from the myna bird that Qi Refining methods beyond the Thirteenth Layer had been erased by the laws of heaven and earth, so he would have to create one himself.
• The myna bird explained that Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment was possible at the Thirteenth Layer but required at least the Fourteenth Layer for a strong chance of success.
• The myna bird told Fang Chen that people in the Primordial Era had reached the Sixteenth Layer and that even higher layers might exist.
• The myna bird revealed that reaching the Fourteenth Layer inside the Tianluo Secret Realm would transport Fang Chen to an inheritance space containing the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method, pills, and other resources.
• Fang Chen decided he could deduce a method for the Fourteenth Layer and asked whether the Battle Saint Body had existed in the Primordial Era.

Fang Chen learned that Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment might repair his damaged Life Wheel, then discovered the Tianluo Secret Realm would close in about twenty days. He left the Glazed Sword Sect disciples to cultivate near the Heavenly Ladder and raced up its steps toward the summit.

• The myna bird told Fang Chen that the Heavenly Emperor might have possessed a Battle Saint Body and explained that Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment's ability to repair a damaged Life Wheel was only a legend.
• The myna bird warned Fang Chen that the Tianluo Secret Realm would close in roughly twenty days as its Formation Runes and imprints gathered overhead.
• Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect disciples and took them farther upstream on the Liudan River to seek purer medicinal Pills.
• At the Heavenly Ladder, the myna bird explained that its steps increased pressure and contained pill recipes, including one for the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Fang Chen told Yan Ziyi and Chen Xiaofei to cultivate without his help, encouraged Yan Ziyi to pursue the Fourteenth Layer of Qi Refining, and then charged up the Heavenly Ladder with the myna bird following.

Fang Chen reached the mountaintop and discovered that the source of the spring water and pills was the Supreme Emperor Weapon, the Universe Cauldron. After the Floating Immortal Sword protected and empowered him, his Mental Power broke through, and a Golden Egg absorbed the Eighteen Emperor Scriptures before cracking open into a vortex.

• Yan Ziyi and the Glazed Sword Sect disciples climbed the Stone Steps, cultivating with the pills and studying the pill formulas carved into the steps.
• Fang Chen reached the mountaintop, where the myna bird identified the bronze Cauldron as the sealed Supreme Emperor Weapon called the Universe Cauldron.
• Fang Chen struck the Cauldron's protective runes with the Floating Immortal Sword, and the resulting force blasted him away and severely injured him.
• The Floating Immortal Sword healed Fang Chen and poured Spiritual Power into him, allowing his Mental Power to break through its limit.
• A Golden Egg appeared in Fang Chen's changed vision, absorbed the eighteen moons and the characters around it, then cracked open and formed a vortex that swallowed stars as Fang Chen devoured surrounding Spiritual Qi.

Fang Chen broke through to the Fourteenth Layer of Qi Refining and entered an inheritance valley containing the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method and pills. He learned the method from a statue and reached a Bronze Cauldron, where he found three pills.

• Fang Chen absorbed Spiritual Qi and broke through to the Fourteenth Layer of Qi Refining, then a golden vortex carried him, the Paper Crane, and the myna bird into the inheritance space.
• The myna bird approached a Furnace Cauldron and was struck by Thunder, then told Fang Chen the cauldrons likely held Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pills and the statues contained the secret method.
• Fang Chen approached a Human Race statue, touched it, and received the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method.
• Fang Chen used the Misty Turtle Step to reach the Bronze Cauldron above the statue and found three red Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pills inside.

Fang Chen reached the Fifteenth Layer of Qi Refining in the Inheritance Space and wondered whether he could advance even further. As he searched for a faster way to cultivate, a huge black object burst from the void and crashed into the valley.

• Fang Chen found three Pills in the Bronze Cauldron but chose to pursue the Fifteenth or Sixteenth Layer of Qi Refining before beginning Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Chen cultivated with the Floating Immortal Art and Floating Immortal Sword, drawing on the power sealed in the Golden Sphere left by True Person Liuli.
• Fang Chen broke through to the Fifteenth Layer of Qi Refining in one hour, astonishing the Myna bird and delighting the Paper Crane.
• Fang Chen tested his new speed and strength, then found his cultivation advancing too slowly to reach the Sixteenth Layer soon.
• A huge, smooth black object burst from the void and crashed into the valley, overturning many stone statues.

Fang Chen fought twelve black-clad warriors who emerged from the Black Jujube Pit, relying on the Floating Immortal Sword to heal his grievous wounds. The myna bird identified them as Nether Race Time-Space Warriors from the future who had likely come to kill Fang Chen, leaving him badly wounded and facing a deadly threat.

• The Black Jujube Pit drew in Spiritual Qi, and Fang Chen cut through an invisible barrier before a hatch opened and black-clad figures emerged.
• The warriors shot transparent needles into Fang Chen, sealing his major acupoints, then attacked him with poisoned sabers.
• The Floating Immortal Sword healed Fang Chen's wounds, and he activated the Glazed Battle Runes to fight all twelve warriors despite their nearly indestructible clothing.
• The myna bird examined the Black Jujube Pit and warned Fang Chen that the attackers were Nether Race Time-Space Warriors who had traveled from the future and probably intended to kill him.
• Three sabers struck Fang Chen as he reacted to the warning, leaving him with three horrific wounds.

Fang Chen broke through to the Sixteenth Layer of Qi Refining by defeating and draining the men in black, then faced a giant eye that tried to kill him. A mysterious Sword Ray destroyed the eye, and Paper Crane swallowed a golden liquid before spitting it into Fang Chen.

• Fang Chen reached the Sixteenth Layer of Qi Refining as Golden Flames healed his wounds and strengthened his protection.
• Fang Chen discovered that the men in black were vulnerable in their eyes, blinded them, and drained them with the Floating Immortal Sword until they became husks.
• Fang Chen reached the peak of the Sixteenth Layer of Qi Refining, but a giant eye appeared and immobilized him with a mysterious force.
• A hundred-zhang Sword Ray struck the giant eye and destroyed it, freeing Fang Chen as a Golden Light Orb fell from the sky.
• Paper Crane swallowed a golden drop from the orb, then spat it into Fang Chen's mouth.

Fang Chen refined the Golden Liquid and broke through to the unprecedented Seventeenth Layer of Qi Refining, gaining a mysterious Gray Imprint. After learning that warriors from the future had come to kill him, he wondered if their arrival proved he would survive and achieve Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

• Fang Chen endured the Golden Liquid's scorching power for ten days, using the Floating Immortal Sword to ease the pain as the Golden Mist tempered his body and expanded his True Qi Vortex.
• Fang Chen compressed his True Qi until Gray Flames erupted through his body, breaking through to the Seventeenth Layer of Qi Refining and shocking the Myna bird.
• Fang Chen discovered a Gray Imprint at the center of his dantian vortex and drew it out, but the Myna bird convulsed after examining it with its Golden Light.
• Fang Chen put on fresh clothes and asked the Myna bird about the black shuttle, which it explained could carry people through the Flowing Time River in Counterflow.
• The Myna bird said the black-clad warriors had traveled from the future to kill Fang Chen before he became too powerful, and Fang Chen took this as a sign he might survive and complete Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

Fang Chen discovered that his exceptionally pure True Qi made both Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pills and the Primordial Foundation Establishment Secret Method useless, so he set out to create a stronger method himself. After striking the Time-Space Shuttle with the Floating Immortal Sword, he entered Enlightenment as the Foundation Establishment methods unfolded in his mind.

• Myna bird warned Fang Chen that visitors from the future might attack again, urging him to grow stronger before the Tianluo Secret Realm closed.
• Fang Chen examined more than a thousand Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Methods and chose the Primordial Foundation Establishment Secret Method from the giant turtle statue.
• Fang Chen swallowed a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill, but his True Qi Vortex absorbed its power without changing, and Myna bird concluded that his True Qi was already too pure for the pill to help.
• Fang Chen tried to compress his True Qi Vortex with the Primordial Foundation Establishment Secret Method, but failed, so Myna bird told him to create his own method by combining the secret methods he had collected.
• Fang Chen struck the Time-Space Shuttle with the Floating Immortal Sword, absorbed a surge of Spiritual Power, and entered Enlightenment as the Foundation Establishment methods flashed through his mind.

Fang Chen fused the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Methods into the Floating Immortal Art and formed a Flawless Dao Platform. He reached Foundation Establishment with at least a hundred Innate Dao Diagrams, just as dark clouds and thunder gathered overhead.

• Fang Chen’s sword strikes against the Time-Space Shuttle triggered Enlightenment, revealing living statues that battled over the Gray Imprint.
• The headless statue absorbed the other statues’ Runes, took on Fang Chen’s likeness, and merged the Gray Imprint into its brow.
• Fang Chen used the transformed Floating Immortal Art to compress his True Qi Vortex and condense a flawless lotus Dao Platform.
• Fang Chen’s consciousness witnessed a series of ancient scenes, including a Giant splitting the heavens, a serpent woman molding people from mud, and a man shooting down suns.
• Fang Chen’s seventeen-layer Dao Platform bore at least a hundred Innate Dao Diagrams, and his Body Protection Spiritual Light changed into Body Protection Gang Qi.
• Dark clouds covered the sky above Fang Chen as lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.

Fang Chen endured twelve bolts of Heavenly Punishment as his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform and Floating Immortal Sword absorbed the lightning. The Gray Imprint fused with his platform, and after the storm passed, Fang Chen completed Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

• The myna bird recognized that Fang Chen had drawn Heavenly Punishment after forming his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, and the Paper Crane and myna bird moved away.
• Fang Chen survived the first red lightning bolt by absorbing its lightning, and red Heavenly Dao Runes appeared on his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.
• Fang Chen endured additional orange and other bolts as the Floating Immortal Sword healed him and absorbed the lightning, while the myna bird was stunned by the repeated strikes.
• The Gray Imprint blazed with light, covered Fang Chen in gray Runes, and empowered him to withstand the remaining bolts of Heavenly Thunder.
• After the twelfth bolt, the clouds dispersed and the Gray Imprint fused with Fang Chen's Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, releasing green mist that healed his body.
• Half an hour later, Fang Chen's platform stopped shaking, and he opened his eyes knowing he had succeeded.

After Fang Chen completed Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, the secret realm sent him to the ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Court, where a cloaked figure forcibly took his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform. Fang Chen asked the Myna bird to inspect his Life Wheel, and the bird began using its power to examine him.

• The Myna bird told Fang Chen that most cultivators faced only one Heavenly Punishment, while he had survived twelve.
• A golden beam carried Fang Chen, the Paper Crane, and the Myna bird out of the Tianluo Secret Realm and into the ruins of an Ancient Heavenly Court Sacred Ground.
• A black-cloaked figure immobilized Fang Chen, tore out his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, and disappeared into the void.
• Fang Chen discovered his dantian was empty and raged over the loss while the Myna bird stared in shock.
• Fang Chen asked the Myna bird to check whether his Life Wheel had been repaired, and it summoned a golden aura to examine him.

Fang Chen learned that his Life Wheel was still broken and that he had at most a year to live, but the cloaked man returned his damaged Foundation Establishment Dao Platform and gave him an Elixir of Immortality. The chapter ended with the old man telling Fang Chen to eat the elixir as it was.

• The myna bird showed Fang Chen the gap in his Life Wheel and warned that his Life Essence was leaking away, leaving him at most a year to live.
• Fang Chen asked whether he could cultivate again after losing his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, and the myna bird advised him to try.
• The wounded cloaked man reappeared, gave Fang Chen an Elixir of Immortality, and returned his damaged Dao Platform, saying it could recover as he cultivated.
• The myna bird identified the elixir as legendary Sky-Reaching Grass and explained that it could extend Fang Chen's life by a thousand years.
• When Fang Chen asked how to take the elixir, the old man's voice told him to eat it as it was.

Fang Chen swallowed the Sky-Reaching Grass and transformed into a stone statue while Yan Ziyi and the other cultivators pursued Foundation Establishment in the Tianluo Secret Realm. Outside, Wang Mu reported that Fang Chen had killed hundreds of disciples from the Three Great Sects, leaving the sect elders alarmed as more survivors emerged without anyone from the Glazed Sword Sect.

• Fang Chen swallowed the Sky-Reaching Grass, fell asleep, and became encased in a hard gray layer as Paper Crane and Myna bird watched.
• Yan Ziyi reached the mountaintop, found Fang Chen missing, and began Foundation Establishment with pills from the Universe Cauldron.
• Yu Liuyan, Shi Lei, and Wang Mo abandoned their attack on the barrier and led the Three Great Sects' disciples in Foundation Establishment before the secret realm closed.
• Wang Mu emerged in Blackwind Valley and told the gathered sect elders that Fang Chen had killed hundreds of Eight Trigrams Gate disciples and led the Glazed Sword Sect through the barrier.
• More than a dozen disciples from the Eight Trigrams Gate, Misty Sect, and Lingyun Sword Sect arrived, but none from the Glazed Sword Sect.

The Tianluo Secret Realm closed before any Glazed Sword Sect disciples emerged, leaving Dao Master Honghe and the others fearing they had all died. A distress signal led them to a desolate valley, where they found Yan Ziyi, Chen Xiaofei, and sixty Glazed Sword Sect disciples alive.

• Dao Master Honghe questioned Kumou Dao Master about the missing Glazed Sword Sect disciples, but Kumou angrily refused to answer.
• Yu Liuyan, Shi Lei, and Wang Mo emerged from the secret realm with Myriad Manifestations Dao Platforms while the Glazed Sword Sect disciples remained missing.
• The Tianluo Secret Realm closed, and disciples of the other three sects celebrated as Dao Master Honghe, Zixiao Daoist, and Azure Cloud Daoist grieved.
• Zixiao Daoist received a distress signal from Zi Yi and led Dao Master Honghe and the others away from the entrance.
• Zixiao Daoist and the others found Yan Ziyi, Chen Xiaofei, and sixty other Glazed Sword Sect disciples in a desolate valley.

The Glazed Sword Sect disciples returned from the Tianluo Secret Realm with exceptional Foundation Establishment achievements, while everyone believed Fang Chen had died. Six months later, Fang Chen emerged from his stone shell, reborn and filled with power.

• Yan Ziyi reunited with Zixiao Daoist and explained how Fang Chen had guided the disciples through the Tianluo Secret Realm before disappearing at the mountaintop.
• Dao Master Honghe and the others assumed Fang Chen had perished and returned to the Glazed Sword Sect with the surviving disciples.
• Twenty-two disciples had formed Myriad Manifestations Dao Platforms, and the Glazed Sword Sect began investing in them despite recruiters' efforts to lure them away.
• After six months sealed inside stone, Fang Chen's shell cracked as Paper Crane and Myna bird watched over him.
• Fang Chen burst out of the shell in nine-colored light, regained his hair and eyebrows, and opened his eyes with renewed power.

Fang Chen woke after half a year and discovered that the Elixir of Immortality had strengthened his Life Wheel and begun repairing his Dao Platform. At the Glazed Sword Sect, Yan Ziyi was defeated in a sparring match against a Primordial Sacred Land disciple.

• Fang Chen learned from Myna bird that he had slept for half a year after taking the Elixir of Immortality.
• Myna bird used its Secret Art to inspect Fang Chen's Life Wheel and confirmed that its vitality had increased and its gap had shrunk.
• Fang Chen found that his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform had begun to recover, dressed, and flew southwest with Myna bird's guidance.
• Spirit Wood Dao Master visited the Glazed Sword Sect with Primordial Sacred Land disciples to recruit its geniuses.
• Yan Ziyi unleashed her Ice Sky Snow Land vision against the young man in black, but his Hell Asura vision overwhelmed her attacks.
• The young man in black struck Yan Ziyi down and held his saber to her throat.

Qi Dong defeated Yan Ziyi and mocked the Glazed Sword Sect, while Yan Ziyi defended her absent Junior Uncle-Master, Fang Chen, whom she believed might be dead. As the Primordial Sacred Land disciples laughed at Fang Chen’s supposed death, he appeared in the sky and challenged their assumption.

• Qi Dong defeated Yan Ziyi and urged her to leave the Glazed Sword Sect for the Primordial Sacred Land.
• Qi Dong insulted the Glazed Sword Sect, and Dao Master Honghe revealed that their Junior Uncle-Master was Fang Chen, who had vanished in the Tianluo Secret Realm.
• Yan Ziyi praised Fang Chen and said he might be dead, prompting Qi Dong and the Primordial Sacred Land disciples to laugh at him.
• Azure Cloud Daoist silenced the laughing disciples, but Spirit Wood Dao Master dismissed their mockery.
• Fang Chen’s voice rang out from the sky, and he strode through the air toward the gathered sects.

Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect and found its disciples being bullied by Qi Dong of the Primordial Sacred Land. After humiliating Qi Dong, Fang Chen challenged the remaining Primordial Sacred Land disciples to attack him together.

• Fang Chen arrived at the Martial Arts Arena, where the Glazed Sword Sect disciples and Dao Master Honghe welcomed him back.
• Fang Chen told Yan Ziyi to withdraw and faced Qi Dong, who challenged him to prove his strength.
• Fang Chen slapped Qi Dong, knocked away his saber, and struck him again, sending him tumbling across the arena.
• Qi Dong revealed his Sea of Fire Manifestation and attacked Fang Chen with two red Sword Rays, but Fang Chen dodged and kicked him away, making the Manifestation vanish.
• Fang Chen challenged the other Primordial Sacred Land disciples, who summoned their Spirit Treasures and charged at him.

Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect, rejected Spirit Wood Dao Master’s offer to join the Primordial Sacred Land, and drove off his disciples. After paying respects at True Person Liuli’s grave, he told his sect that he had formed a Flawed Dao Platform, and Dao Master Honghe examined his improving Life Wheel with the Glazed Mirror.

• Fang Chen swiftly defeated the Primordial Sacred Land disciples who had challenged the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Spirit Wood Dao Master offered Fang Chen a place at the Primordial Sacred Land, but Fang Chen refused and returned to Glazed Peak.
• Spirit Wood Dao Master left with his disciples on a Three-Colored Auspicious Cloud, while Dao Master Honghe and the sect disciples celebrated Fang Chen’s return.
• Fang Chen burned Joss Paper at True Person Liuli’s grave, then greeted Dao Master Honghe, Black Flame Dao Master, and the Seven Peak Masters.
• Fang Chen said he had summoned Heavenly Punishment during Foundation Establishment but awakened with a Flawed Dao Platform and concealed the other secrets of his experience.
• Dao Master Honghe used the Glazed Mirror to examine Fang Chen’s Life Wheel, and the gathered disciples saw that its gap had narrowed and was leaking less Life Essence.

Fang Chen’s recovered Life Wheel and immense Flawed Dao Platform impressed the Glazed Sword Sect elders, who prepared him for a chance to enter Tianyuan Academy. They then brought him to the Glazed Hall to test whether he could use the Glazed Sword to open the Glazed Sacred Pool, and the sword reacted powerfully when he touched it.

• Dao Master Honghe and the others examined Fang Chen’s Dao Platform and found that his strength rivaled an ordinary early-stage Golden Core Cultivator.
• Black Flame Dao Master gave Fang Chen a Storage Bag of second-grade Qi Gathering Pills and told him to prepare for Tianyuan Academy’s recruitment in six months.
• Dao Master Honghe proposed that Fang Chen try to open the Glazed Sacred Pool with the Glazed Sword, and Black Flame Dao Master agreed.
• Fang Chen approached the Glazed Sword in the Glazed Hall, and its protective Runes parted to let him reach the hilt.
• Fang Chen grasped the Glazed Sword, whose seven-colored light vanished as Azure Runes appeared and an even more terrifying Sword Intent erupted.