Recaps

Fang Chen continued fighting the Blood Prison Demon Emperor while concealing how the Golden Sea was strengthening him, and the Barbaric Continent’s defenses held firm through half a year of battle. Quasi-Emperor Huo Li emerged from seclusion, learned about Little Grass and the Devil Race’s Great Emperor, and arrived at the Buddhist Land ready to fight.

• Fang Chen’s Universe Curse Seal failed to reach the Blood Prison Demon Emperor because the Demon Pot’s Light Screen blocked it.
• After half a year of fighting, the Blood Prison Demon Emperor noticed that the Barbaric Continent’s warriors were growing stronger and not turning into devils when wounded.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li emerged from seclusion with the Swordsmanship of the Tenth Wave mastered and headed toward the Buddhist Land.
• Little Grass introduced herself to Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, and he confirmed her identity with Fang Chen through the Seven-Colored Spirit Sword Talisman.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li reached the battlefield and locked his killing intent onto the Blood Prison Demon Emperor.

Quasi-Emperor Huo Li emerged from centuries of seclusion and fought the Blood Prison Demon Emperor, forcing the Great Emperor onto the defensive with his Nine Layer Wave Sword Technique. As Huo Li shattered the Demon Pot’s defenses, Fang Chen secretly sent Universe Curse Seals into the demon emperor, leaving their battle ongoing.

• The Blood Prison Demon Emperor sensed Huo Li’s formidable Sword Intent and was surprised that another peerless Quasi-Emperor had appeared on the Barbaric Continent.
• Huo Li revealed the Fire Glazed Sword and attacked the Blood Prison Demon Emperor, shattering the Demon Pot’s Light Screen with his first wave.
• Huo Li used successive waves of the Nine Layer Wave Sword Technique to keep the Blood Prison Demon Emperor defending, while Fang Chen recognized Huo Li’s sword mastery surpassed his own.
• Fang Chen released Universe Curse Seals, which slipped through the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s defenses when Huo Li shattered another Light Screen and entered his body unnoticed.

Quasi-Emperor Huo Li used his Ten Layer Wave Sword Technique to grievously wound the Blood Prison Demon Emperor, and Fang Chen exploited the opening to seal part of the Emperor’s Cultivation and drain away his Lifespan. The Blood Prison Demon Emperor died, leaving Fang Chen and Huo Li stunned by the fall of a Great Emperor.

• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li completed the Ten Layer Wave and cut a horrific wound into the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s chest.
• Fang Chen used the Universe Curse Seal to disrupt the Blood Prison Demon Emperor, then infused his wound with Twilight Power through the Floating Immortal Sword.
• The Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s Lifespan ran out, his Great Emperor Imprint dissipated, and his body fell into the Golden Spring Sea as red leaves filled the sky.
• Fang Chen confirmed with the Eye of Life that the Blood Prison Demon Emperor was dead and told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li wondered how Fang Chen’s strike had killed a Great Emperor who should have been able to recover from his wound.

Fang Chen killed the Blood Prison Demon Emperor with Twilight Power, forcing the Devil Race army to retreat while he ordered the Barren Alliance to stay inside the Green Grass Great Array. Afterward, he explained to Quasi-Emperor Huo Li how Wangxian Turtle had helped him and revealed the origin of the Golden Spring Sea.

• Fang Chen told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li that the Blood Prison Demon Emperor died after Fang Chen used Twilight Power to exhaust his lifespan.
• The Devil Race and pseudo-Demon Race lost their courage and retreated from the Green Grass Great Array, while Fang Chen forbade the Barren Alliance from pursuing them.
• The fleeing armies stopped outside the array and taunted its defenders as the formation's grass spread outward.
• Fang Chen congratulated Quasi-Emperor Huo Li on creating the Tenth Wave Sword Technique and explained that Wangxian Turtle had empowered him before his Remnant Soul vanished.
• Fang Chen told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li that the Golden Spring Sea had formed when everyone recited the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture.

Fang Chen and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li inspected the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s corpse and agreed that Fang Chen would refine it first in hopes of reaching the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor Realm. After Little Grass reported that the pseudo-Demon Race members had recovered from their Demonic Poison and Demonic Qi, Fang Chen and Huo Li decided to spare them for now and observe them.

• Fang Chen explained the Golden Spring Sea’s powers to Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, then led him beneath its surface to see the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s corpse.
• Little Grass restored Quasi-Emperor Huo Li’s strength, and Myna bird praised Huo Li and Fang Chen for defeating the Great Emperor.
• Fang Chen said he would refine the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s corpse first, while Huo Li urged him to use the Green Grass Great Array’s Source Power of Emperors if needed.
• Little Grass told Fang Chen that the pseudo-Demon Race members had returned to normal after she removed their Demonic Poison and Demonic Qi.
• Fang Chen and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li decided to keep the recovered pseudo-Demon Race members alive and observe them before determining whether to accept them as allies.

Fang Chen began refining the Blood Prison Demon Emperor's corpse while Quasi-Emperor Huo Li learned the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture and took charge outside. Little Grass and the myna bird gathered the pseudo-Demon Race members for observation, and they began to wake after their Demonic Qi and poison had been removed.

• Fang Chen stored the Blood Prison Demon Emperor's corpse in the Swallowing Heaven Tower and taught Quasi-Emperor Huo Li the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture, which quickly gave Huo Li Buddha Light.
• Fang Chen entrusted Quasi-Emperor Huo Li with matters outside, ordered Little Grass to gather the pseudo-Demon Race members, and told the myna bird to help manage them and kill any who could not return to normal.
• Fang Chen entered the Swallowing Heaven Tower and used the Floating Immortal Sword and Darkness Devouring God Domain to absorb energy from the Blood Prison Demon Emperor's corpse.
• The energy transformed Fang Chen's body, soul, and Bloodline Power, strengthened his devouring ability, and rapidly increased his Cultivation.
• The pseudo-Demon Race members awoke in Little Grass's protected enclosure, feeling weak and exhausted after their Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison had been drawn out.

Little Grass and the myna bird concluded that the pseudo-Demon Race was too deeply conditioned by the Devil Race to be saved, so Little Grass killed them. Fang Chen stored the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s corpse in the Floating Immortal Ring with the Floating Immortal Sword’s help, absorbed a surge of Source Power of Emperors, and suspected the Chaos Devouring God Bee had developed consciousness.

• The myna bird told the pseudo-Demon Race that their Demonic Poison and Demonic Qi had been purged and explained how those forces made them savage.
• The myna bird and Little Grass realized that the pseudo-Demon Race accepted its enslavement and might willingly return to demonhood if exposed to Demonic Poison and Demonic Qi.
• Little Grass controlled the Green Grass Great Array and killed the pseudo-Demon Race.
• A month later, Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword’s starlight to draw the Blood Prison Demon Emperor’s corpse into the Floating Immortal Ring.
• The Floating Immortal Ring sent Source Power of Emperors into Fang Chen, who then wondered whether the Chaos Devouring God Bee had developed its own consciousness.

Fang Chen absorbed energy from the Chaos Devouring God Bee and the Blood Prison Demon Emperor, breaking through to the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor realm. He announced that he was ready to undergo Tribulation Transcendence, while his companions worried about the unknown Great Emperor Tribulation.

• Fang Chen refined the Chaos Devouring God Bee in his dantian, absorbing its Devouring God Imprints as his power increased.
• Fang Chen's soul reached the Great Achievement Realm of a Quasi-Emperor, and his Glazed Golden Body Art circulated on its own until his physical body broke through to a new realm.
• Fang Chen reached the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor realm and realized he was ready to draw down the Great Emperor Tribulation by igniting his Source Power of Emperors.
• Fang Chen told Senior Huo Li and the other cultivators that he would attempt Tribulation Transcendence, and they congratulated him.
• Fang Chen cautioned everyone that the Great Emperor Tribulation could be dangerous, and the gathered cultivators grew solemn over the changed World Will and the century-long absence of a Great Emperor.

Fang Chen underwent his tribulation above the Golden Spring Sea, but the Tribulation Clouds vanished and the Source Power Baptism began instead. After sharing the baptism with the Quasi-Emperors, he became a Great Emperor, leaving the Human Race celebrating its first new Great Emperor in over a hundred thousand years.

• Fang Chen began compressing and burning his Source Power, but the Tribulation Clouds dispersed without striking him, and Source Power descended.
• Fang Chen invited others to share his Source Power Baptism, and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, the myna bird, and other Quasi-Emperors entered the Sea of Origin while the Saints were barred.
• Fang Chen and the gathered Quasi-Emperors absorbed Source Power for an hour, strengthening themselves before a gray Mark merged into Fang Chen's forehead.
• Fang Chen emerged as a Great Emperor amid auspicious manifestations, and the Glazed Sword Sect, Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, the Human Race, and the Buddhists celebrated his breakthrough.
• Fang Chen tested his new power with a wave of his hand, shattering the sky and opening a vast black hole.

Fang Chen broke through to the Great Emperor Realm, gaining immense power and six thousand years of lifespan, and the Human Race and other factions celebrated his ascension. He then faced the Demonic Beasts around the Barbaric Continent, striking the Black Wooden Fish with his Floating Immortal Sword while chanting the Demon Subduing Curse.

• Fang Chen examined his restored Life Wheel after becoming a Great Emperor and discovered he had six thousand years of lifespan remaining.
• The Devil Race forces surrounding the Barbaric Continent witnessed Fang Chen's terrifying celestial Manifestation and were stunned by his breakthrough.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, Fang Chen's companions, and leaders from several factions congratulated him, while Human Race and other-race cultivators bowed in respect.
• Fang Chen sent Huo Li and the others into the Golden Spring Sea, then prepared to deal with the Demonic Beasts surrounding the Barbaric Continent.
• Fang Chen summoned the Black Wooden Fish and Floating Immortal Sword, struck the fish, and chanted the Demon Subduing Curse, overwhelming the cultivators listening below.

Fang Chen used the Demon Subduing Curse on the Black Wooden Fish to devastate the Devils and pseudo-Demon Race surrounding the Barbaric Continent, while discovering that the energy returned by the Floating Immortal Sword weakened the mysterious call in his soul. He left the Golden Spring Sea to pursue the fleeing armies toward the Sacred Land and sent images of the battle back to his allies.

• Fang Chen discovered that energy from striking the Black Wooden Fish with the Floating Immortal Sword weakened the mysterious call in his soul, and the Myna bird urged everyone to dive deeper into the Golden Spring Sea.
• Fang Chen chanted the Demon Subduing Curse, causing Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison to pour from the Devils and pseudo-Demon Race and be swallowed by the Black Wooden Fish.
• Little Crane sent images of the suffering armies to the Myna bird and the others, while the Myna bird and Little Grass identified the curse and Palace Mistress Lingxin explained that she had given Fang Chen the Black Wooden Fish.
• Many Devils and pseudo-Demon Race members fled toward the Sacred Land, so Fang Chen left the Golden Spring Sea to pursue them because his curse could not reach that far.
• Fang Chen agreed to the Myna bird's request and used the Seven-Colored Spirit Sword Talisman to send images of the battle back to the Golden Spring Sea.

Fang Chen and Little Crane entered the Great Yi Demon Realm, where Fang Chen used the Demon Subduing Curse to kill the Devil Race and subdue the pseudo-Demon Race. As the Black Wooden Fish devoured the realm’s Demonic Clouds, Qi, and Poison, Fang Chen discovered that his Twilight of the Gods could now cover a thousand li and absorb Twilight Power from the Floating Immortal Sword.

• Fang Chen entered the Great Yi Demon Realm with Little Crane, leaving the cultivators outside worried about him.
• Fang Chen pursued the Devil Race and pseudo-Demon Race through the vast realm, and after three hours the Devil Race had been killed while the pseudo-Demon Race had fallen asleep.
• Fang Chen struck the Black Wooden Fish among the Demonic Clouds, causing it to grow and devour the clouds, Demonic Qi, and Demonic Poison.
• Fang Chen tried to probe the Black Wooden Fish’s core with his Spiritual Sense, but the force within shattered it and hurt his soul.
• Fang Chen activated Twilight of the Gods and discovered that its reach had expanded to a thousand li and that he could absorb Twilight Power from the Floating Immortal Sword while striking the Wooden Fish.

Fang Chen cleared the Great Yi Demon Realm of Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison, then returned to Tianzhu City after learning that the pseudo-Demon Race members could not be saved. The chapter left him weighing the mysterious summons in his soul and the possibility of returning from the Sacred Land Depths.

• Fang Chen found that his Twilight Power had grown more than tenfold after reaching the Great Emperor Realm.
• The Black Wooden Fish devoured all the Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison in the Great Yi Demon Realm, revealing a clear sky and strengthening Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen realized energy from the Floating Immortal Sword could suppress the mysterious summons in his soul for now.
• Fang Chen considered whether Wangxian Turtle and Empress Honglian proved that a path back from the Sacred Land Depths existed.
• Fang Chen and Little Crane returned to Tianzhu City, where Little Grass explained that the pseudo-Demon Race members could not be cured and had been killed inside the Green Grass Great Array.

After becoming a Great Emperor, Fang Chen discussed the growing summons drawing him toward the Sacred Land Depths and hoped to find a way to resist it without breaking his Great Emperor Imprint. He mourned at True Person Liuli’s grave, then began strengthening the Glazed Sword Sect with Great Emperor formation patterns.

• Fang Chen promised to help the Quasi-Emperors obtain Source Power of Emperors and told them the summons toward the Sacred Land Depths was growing stronger.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li offered to protect the Barbaric Continent, while Fang Chen said he would delay leaving and seek a way to escape the summons without shattering his imprint.
• Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect and spoke with True Person Liuli at his grave about feeling lost after reaching the Great Emperor Realm.
• Little Crane and the myna bird discussed accompanying Fang Chen if he went to the Sacred Land Depths.
• The next day, Fang Chen laid Great Emperor formation patterns across Glazed Peak and the entire Glazed Sword Sect.

After becoming a Great Emperor, Fang Chen planned to create a legacy for the Glazed Sword Sect and the Human Race before the mysterious call drew him away. A strange energy pulse from the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone led him to go investigate the Glazed Pagoda alone.

• Fang Chen visited the Demon Suppressing Abyss and decided to strengthen the Human Race’s cultivation foundations before answering the call from the Sacred Land Depths.
• Fang Chen realized he lacked a complete set of his own Legacy Secret Arts and resolved to create one.
• Fang Chen gathered Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, Yun Qianxue, Black Flame Quasi-Emperor, and Red River Quasi-Emperor and told them he would enter seclusion to prepare his legacy.
• Fang Chen sensed an unusual pulse from the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone, though Quasi-Emperor Huo Li and the others could not detect it.
• Fang Chen went alone to investigate the Glazed Pagoda while Quasi-Emperor Huo Li and the others waited at the Glazed Palace.

Fang Chen traced the mysterious pulse in the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone to the Glazed Pagoda and discovered that the artifact was a Quasi-Immortal Artifact. He continued exploring the pagoda with his companions, reaching the Glazed Hall and finding the Nether Flower thriving.

• Fang Chen entered the Sky Lake Forbidden Zone with the myna bird, Little Crane, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine to investigate the pulse.
• Fang Chen sensed the pulse coming from the Glazed Pagoda and discovered higher-level Dao Patterns beneath its Great Emperor formation patterns.
• Fang Chen concluded that the Glazed Pagoda was a Quasi-Immortal Artifact and told the myna bird that its creator might have reached the Half-Immortal Realm.
• Fang Chen contacted Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, who said he did not know whether Senior Glazed had forged the pagoda himself.
• Fang Chen ended the conversation and led his companions deeper into the pagoda, where he found the Nether Flower growing stronger in the Glazed Hall.

Fang Chen discovered that the Nether Flower had absorbed energy from the Green Bronze Coffin and bloomed into a Nine-Colored Flower, revealing a Lotus Pedestal and a mysterious man formed from Dao Patterns. The man greeted Fang Chen as a Great Emperor of the Glazed Sword Sect, appearing after more than ten thousand years.

• Fang Chen brought the Myna bird and the others to the Green Bronze Coffin, where he sensed a mysterious fluctuation and drew energy from it with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• The Nether Flower rooted itself in the Green Bronze Coffin, absorbed multicolored energy, and produced a nine-colored bud.
• The Nine-Colored Flower bloomed, revealing a Lotus Pedestal as Dao Patterns gathered around it.
• The Nether Flower guided Fang Chen onto the Lotus Pedestal, and the petals closed around him.
• A mysterious man formed from Dao Patterns appeared before Fang Chen, who introduced himself and learned the man had waited more than ten thousand years.

Fang Chen met Yun Shengjun, the Glazed Heavenly Emperor, who explained that the Land of Ending was created by the World Will to kill Great Emperors. The chapter ended as Fang Chen asked how the World Origin’s awakening had caused the Path to Immortality to be severed.

• Yun Shengjun revealed that he was the Glazed Sword Sect’s founder, had reached the Half-Immortal Realm, and was known in his era as a Heavenly Emperor.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor asked Fang Chen about the Floating Immortal Sword and Ring, and Fang Chen said Huo Li had given him the ring after returning to life and reaching the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Fang Chen told the Glazed Heavenly Emperor that Huo Li had created the Ten Layer Wave Sword Technique, which could let him gravely wound a Great Emperor.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained that he had sent the Glazed Pagoda from the Land of Ending to show future generations a path forward.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor said the World Will summoned Great Emperors to the Land of Ending to kill them and explained that the World Origin had gained consciousness during the Primordial Era.
• Fang Chen asked how the World Origin’s awakening was connected to the severed Path to Immortality.

The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained how the World Will severed the Ascension Passage, nearly destroyed the Immortals, and later brought down the Ancient Heavenly Court. He told Fang Chen that the mystery of the Saint Realm’s Source Power Baptism would be answered in the Land of Ending.

• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor said the World Will severed the Ascension Passage because it resented cultivators taking the Savage World's energy when they ascended.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained that the World Will attacked the Immortals, nearly wiped them out, and destroyed cultivation inheritances before falling asleep from its wounds.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor said the Ancient Heavenly Court rose while the World Will slept, but its invasion of Origin Space awakened the World Will, which used the Devil Race and Restrictions to destroy it and forbid Destined Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Chen recalled how he had created his own Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Secret Method after failing to find one in the Tianluo Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen asked who bestowed the Source Power Baptism, and the Glazed Heavenly Emperor told him he would learn the answer in the Land of Ending.

Fang Chen questioned the Glazed Heavenly Emperor about the Land of Ending, the world’s Great Calamity, and the Devil Race. He learned why the Devil Race had been sealed and how the World Will empowered them, but the Glazed Heavenly Emperor did not know what promise had made them betray the Heavenly Court.

• Fang Chen learned that some Great Emperor powerhouses who entered the Land of Ending were still alive, and the Glazed Heavenly Emperor expected Fang Chen to join them there.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor confirmed he knew what was inside the mysterious coffins but told Fang Chen he would learn the secret after reaching the Outer Heavens.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained that Space Rifts led to the Land of Ending and appeared under the World Will’s Laws to reap lives and prevent powerful cultivators from emerging.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained that cultivators sealed the Devil Race because killing them would return their energy to the World Origin and help the World Will recover.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor revealed that the World Will had empowered the Devil Race with mutated bodies, Demonic Qi, and Demonic Poison after they became its lackeys.
• Fang Chen asked what the World Will had promised the Devil Race to make them change sides, but the Glazed Heavenly Emperor said they did not know.

The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained how the Land of Ending had established contact with the Southern Wastes and revealed the Outer Heavens, a refuge for Great Emperors traveling toward the Land of Ending. He taught Fang Chen the Star Imprint and urged him to unite the races of the Barbaric Continent before the awakened Heavenly Dao Will brought destruction.

• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor told Fang Chen that the Southern Wastes had been anchored so its cultivators could receive stronger Source Power Baptism.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained that the Outer Heavens was a hidden space where cultivators intercepted Great Emperors heading toward the Land of Ending.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor taught Fang Chen the Star Imprint, a Secret Method created by the Star Emperor that could help Outer Heavens cultivators find him.
• Fang Chen learned the Star Imprint as the Green Bronze Coffin shook and the Glazed Heavenly Emperor grew insubstantial.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor warned Fang Chen that the Heavenly Dao Will would soon awaken and urged him to unite the races of the Barbaric Continent and cultivate more Great Emperors.

Fang Chen told the Glazed Heavenly Emperor that he had united the Barbaric Continent’s races and discussed the Third Great Calamity. With the Glazed Heavenly Emperor’s Remnant Soul fading, Fang Chen brought Quasi-Emperor Huo Li into the Nine-Colored Flower, where Huo Li reunited with his long-lost senior brother.

• Fang Chen told the Glazed Heavenly Emperor that he had united the races of the Barbaric Continent and described the devastation caused by the Great Calamity.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor explained that this was the Third Great Calamity and agreed that the Heavenly Dao Will might have recovered during the long gap since the second.
• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor said his Remnant Soul had only about a cup of tea left, so Fang Chen asked him to open the Nine-Colored Flower.
• Fang Chen sent Little Crane to bring Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, then urged Huo Li to enter the flower before the Remnant Soul faded.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li saw the Glazed Heavenly Emperor’s Remnant Soul inside and recognized him as his senior brother.

Fang Chen learned that the Glazed Heavenly Emperor’s Remnant Soul had returned from the Land of Ending with the Glazed Pagoda, while Quasi-Emperor Huo Li spoke with him inside the Nine-Colored Flower. After the group prepared to leave, Little Crane could not draw Fang Chen into the Spirit Crane Space because his Great Emperor Realm power was too strong.

• The Glazed Heavenly Emperor told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li that his Remnant Soul had little time left and answered his questions.
• Fang Chen told the Myna bird that Senior Glazed was the Glazed Heavenly Emperor, a Half-Immortal who had refined the Glazed Pagoda.
• Fang Chen tried to explain the Land of Ending, but the Heaven and Earth Laws prevented him from revealing its secrets.
• The Nine-Colored Flower dissipated, and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li emerged after learning about the Land of Ending and the Outer Heavens.
• Fang Chen asked Little Crane to take the group out, but she could not draw him into the Spirit Crane Space because he had reached the Great Emperor Realm.

Fang Chen learned that Ye Qingci had emerged from her centuries-long seclusion and hurried to reunite with her at the Glazed Sword Sect. He welcomed her back and revealed that he had become a Great Emperor, while planning to prepare his allies before entering the Land of Ending.

• Fang Chen told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li that he planned to strengthen his allies and cultivate more Great Emperors before they entered the Land of Ending.
• Fang Chen received a message from Ye Qingci and learned that she had come out of seclusion after hundreds of years in the Ninth Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li left the Glazed Pagoda and met Ye Qingci at the Glazed Sword Sect, where she embraced Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen introduced Little Grass as the Green Grass Great Array's formation spirit, and Ye Qingci warmly welcomed her.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li told Ye Qingci that Fang Chen had become a Great Emperor, and Fang Chen reassured her that he was glad she had returned.

Ye Qingci returned after sleeping for hundreds of years in the Ninth Secret Realm, and she chose to let Quasi-Emperor Huo Li absorb the Green Grass Great Array’s Source Power of Emperors before attempting her own breakthrough. Huo Li entered the array’s core to cultivate, while Fang Chen asked Little Grass to watch over him.

• Ye Qingci told Fang Chen that she had fallen asleep during the Ninth Secret Realm checkpoints and woke to find that hundreds of years had passed; she assured him that blue Ice Crystals had protected her.
• Fang Chen told Ye Qingci that Ye Kong had reached the Ninth Layer, then offered her and Quasi-Emperor Huo Li the array’s Source Power of Emperors to attempt breakthroughs.
• Ye Qingci declined to cultivate first and asked Fang Chen to let Master absorb the Source Power of Emperors before her.
• Fang Chen led Quasi-Emperor Huo Li and the others to the Green Grass Great Array’s core, where Little Grass opened a vortex into its store of Source Power of Emperors.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li entered the space, sat down, and began absorbing the Source Power of Emperors to reach the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor stage.
• Fang Chen asked Little Grass to watch over Quasi-Emperor Huo Li and report any trouble.