Chapter Summaries

After three years of cultivation, Fang Chen completed the Floating Immortal Art by dividing it into nine attribute-based parts, then returned to the Glazed Sword Sect to test it. A thirteen-year-old boy without a Spiritual Root absorbed Spiritual Qi, though Fang Chen waited to see whether others could succeed.

• Fang Chen completed the Floating Immortal Art and discovered that only its full nine-attribute form could refine Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison.
• Fang Chen left the sun and returned to the Glazed Sword Sect, where he reunited with Ye Qingci.
• Fang Chen took Ye Qingci to a Branch Hall and recruited ten thousand people of different ages to test the technique.
• Fang Chen taught the group the Floating Immortal Art, and they began practicing it with the Star Imprint as their foundation.
• A thirteen-year-old boy without a Spiritual Root absorbed Spiritual Qi and reached the Qi Refining Realm, while Fang Chen withheld judgment on whether the success was exceptional.

Fang Chen’s Floating Immortal Art enabled many mortals to become Cultivators, and he taught Ye Qingci its Water-attribute version. Ye Qingci successfully merged it with her existing Immortal Scripture of Indestructibility, leaving Fang Chen pleased with the result.

• After a year, twenty percent of the ten thousand mortals had become Qi Refining Realm Cultivators through Fang Chen’s technique.
• Fang Chen explained that he had divided the Floating Immortal Art into nine complete Emperor Scriptures, one for each major attribute.
• Ye Qingci worried that the Barbaric Continent might lack spiritual qi for the growing number of Cultivators, but Fang Chen said they had to strengthen themselves and fight the World Will.
• Ye Qingci asked Fang Chen to teach her the Water-attribute Floating Immortal Art, and he agreed.
• Ye Qingci cultivated the technique and found that it merged perfectly with her Immortal Scripture of Indestructibility, improving how efficiently she absorbed and refined energy.

Fang Chen and Ye Qingci returned to the Glazed Sword Sect to test whether his Floating Immortal Art could combine with other Cultivation Techniques. The Red River Quasi-Emperor successfully merged it with his own technique, and Fang Chen explained that he planned to spread its nine separate attribute versions.

• Fang Chen used Instant Movement within the Golden Spring Sea to take Ye Qingci back to the Glazed Sword Sect and explained how the sea enabled the ability.
• Fang Chen summoned Yun Qianxue, the Red River Quasi-Emperor, Uncle-Master Black Flame, and others to the Glazed Palace and proposed testing his cultivation technique.
• Fang Chen taught the Red River Quasi-Emperor the water-attribute Floating Immortal Art, which merged with and strengthened his existing technique.
• Fang Chen explained that his Floating Immortal Art had nine attributes and that he had split it into less powerful versions with lower requirements.

Fang Chen introduced the nine-attribute Floating Immortal Art to the Glazed Sword Sect’s senior members, who found it dramatically increased their cultivation speed. He summoned the sect’s disciples to test the art before deciding whether to share it widely, and invited allied leaders to witness his plan.

• Yun Qianxue and six Quasi-Emperors chose the Floating Immortal Art attributes that matched their Spiritual Roots and quickly mastered them.
• The Black Flame Quasi-Emperor and the others praised the art after finding that it increased their energy absorption more than tenfold.
• Fang Chen explained that he intended to make the art public to help everyone grow stronger against the World Will and the devils, then said the Glazed Sword Sect’s disciples would test it first.
• The Black Flame Quasi-Emperor and Yun Qianxue ordered the scattered Glazed Sword Sect disciples to return to the sect.
• Fang Chen invited Palace Mistress Lingxin, the Goddess Empress, the Elf Empress, the Nether Emperor, and others to the sect, then explained how he had divided his art into nine attributes for wider cultivation.
• The Nether Emperor questioned whether an art cultivated by a Great Emperor could truly be taught to others on a large scale.

Fang Chen revealed that he had created the Floating Immortal Art, a technique even mortals could cultivate, and invited the alliance leaders to help test it. After discovering its power and compatibility with their existing techniques, they agreed to wait for broader testing before spreading it across the Barbaric Continent.

• Fang Chen told the Nether Emperor and the others that twenty percent of mortals practicing the Floating Immortal Art could reach the Qi Refining Realm within a year.
• The Nether Emperor, the Elf Queen, the Goddess Empress, and the Demon Race representatives offered to share the risks, and Fang Chen asked each group to send ten thousand testers.
• Fang Chen gave the Goddess Empress, the Elf Queen, the Nether Emperor, Palace Mistress Lingxin, and the others versions of the Floating Immortal Art suited to their attributes.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and the others cultivated the art, found that it fused with their existing techniques, and absorbed Spiritual Qi more quickly while strengthening their bodies, souls, and vital blood.
• The alliance leaders praised the Floating Immortal Art, and Fang Chen said he would wait for more testing before spreading it and went to make Inheritance Steles.

Fang Chen refined batches of Inheritance Steles carrying increasingly advanced portions of the Floating Immortal Art while sharing a strengthening hot pot meal with his Manifestations. After he completed eighty-one steles containing the full art, a massive Heavenly Tribulation formed over the Barbaric Continent and began striking the Heaven Refining Furnace.

• Fang Chen broke apart the rocky ground beyond the Golden Spring Sea, gathered the rock and magma into the Heaven Refining Furnace, and began refining the steles.
• Fang Chen entered the Bamboo Grove through the Medicine-Brewing Old Farmer’s Space Vortex, harvested Bamboo Shoots, and returned to eat hot pot with his Manifestations.
• Fang Chen discovered that the Worms, other hot pot ingredients, and Bamboo Shoots had gained much more Spiritual Power, while nearby Quasi-Emperors watched in confusion.
• Fang Chen refined successive batches of Inheritance Steles, progressing from the Body Refining and Qi Refining portions of the Floating Immortal Art to its complete form.
• Fang Chen finished eighty-one complete Inheritance Steles, drawing Tribulation Clouds across nearly the entire Barbaric Continent.
• Little Grass shielded the mortals with her leaves as Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning struck the Heaven Refining Furnace, while she and the Golden Spring Sea absorbed the lightning’s power.

Fang Chen refined eighty-one Inheritance Steles, drawing down Heavenly Punishment that dramatically expanded the Green Grass Great Array and strengthened the Heaven Refining Furnace. After the storm ended, he opened the furnace and found the steles divided into nine sets, each set carrying versions of the Floating Immortal Art aligned with different attributes.

• Fang Chen realized that refining artifacts and other objects could summon Heavenly Punishment, whose power Little Grass could absorb to expand the Green Grass Great Array.
• The Heavenly Punishment lasted three hours and expanded the Green Grass Great Array by tens of thousands of miles.
• The Cultivators marveled at the tribulation and debated whether it surpassed a Great Emperor Tribulation as Fang Chen explained that refining eighty-one Supreme Emperor Weapons had drawn it down.
• The Heaven Refining Furnace endured and absorbed the lightning, growing stronger instead of being destroyed.
• Fang Chen sank the furnace into the Golden Spring Sea, then opened it and found eighty-one Inheritance Steles divided into nine sets.

Fang Chen completed Inheritance Steles carrying the Floating Immortal Art and began refining Heaven Demon Powder, but the mysterious Silhouette took three years to form Dao Patterns. After seeing the art greatly improve its cultivators’ progress, Fang Chen went with Ye Qingci to visit Quasi-Emperor Huo Li and share good news.

• Fang Chen distributed Inheritance Steles bearing the Floating Immortal Art to Palace Mistress Lingxin, the Nether Emperor, the Goddess Empress, the Elf Queen, and Demon Race representatives, instructing them to test the art with selected cultivators.
• Fang Chen began refining Heaven Demon Powder, but the Silhouette in the Eight Trigrams Array Diagram continued forming Dao Patterns and took three years without stopping.
• Cultivators who practiced the Floating Immortal Art reported that it greatly accelerated their cultivation, and Buddhist Cultivators praised Fang Chen while chanting the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture.
• Ye Qingci asked Fang Chen to let her master, Quasi-Emperor Huo Li, cultivate the Floating Immortal Art to absorb the Source Power of Emperors faster.
• Fang Chen and Ye Qingci entered the Core Space, where Huo Li stopped cultivating and asked what had happened; Fang Chen told him they had good news.

Fang Chen gave Quasi-Emperor Huo Li a Fire-Attribute Floating Immortal Art inheritance stele and explained how he had adapted his powerful cultivation art for others. After Huo Li began cultivating it, Fang Chen and Ye Qingci discussed fairly allocating the emperor source power for future breakthroughs, but Ye Qingci said they needed to inform one person first.

• Fang Chen told Quasi-Emperor Huo Li that he had made the Floating Immortal Art easier to cultivate, and Huo Li accepted the Fire-Attribute art through a Supreme Emperor Weapon inheritance stele.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li praised the art, and Fang Chen explained that the version he had received was one of nine weakened attribute-based versions of the complete art.
• Quasi-Emperor Huo Li said the art would help him absorb Emperor Source Power and reach the Great Accomplishment Quasi-Emperor Realm sooner, and Fang Chen left with Little Grass and Ye Qingci.
• Ye Qingci noted that the Green Grass Great Array held enough Emperor Source Power for two or three people to attempt a breakthrough, and Fang Chen said she could go after Huo Li.
• Ye Qingci urged Fang Chen to allocate future breakthrough opportunities fairly by ranking people according to strength, then said they had to inform someone before notifying the others.

Fang Chen and Ye Qingci visited Tianyuan Academy to discuss how to allocate the remaining Emperor Source Power breakthrough opportunities, then Fang Chen asked Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor about visions he believed came from his past-life memories. Neither woman recognized the scenes, leaving their connection to Fang Chen unexplained.

• Fang Chen brought Ye Qingci to Tianyuan Academy to pay his respects to Palace Mistress Lingxin.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor agreed that the strongest experts should compete for the remaining breakthrough opportunities from the Green Grass Great Array.
• Fang Chen described visions featuring Palace Mistress Lingxin, Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor, and other figures, then showed them the scenes.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor failed to recognize the scenes or explain why they appeared in Fang Chen's mind.
• Fang Chen revealed that Elder Gu Yu had identified the visions as memories from his past, startling both women.

Fang Chen, Palace Mistress Lingxin, and Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor discussed their missing memories and the possibility that a Hidden Mastermind had controlled Palace Mistress Lingxin. Fang Chen summoned Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao to ask about images from their shared past at Immortal Mountain, leaving them shocked as they recognized the scenes.

• Fang Chen explained that memories of his past were resurfacing as his cultivation and soul recovered, while Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor questioned why they also remembered nothing.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin said she suspected a Hidden Mastermind had been controlling her, and Fang Chen and Ye Qingci wondered whether it had sealed their memories.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin summoned Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao to Tianyuan Academy at Fang Chen's request.
• Fang Chen showed Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao images of them training at Immortal Mountain, and they recognized the scenes.

Fang Chen learned that he had traveled more than ten thousand years into the past and helped Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao at the Immortal Mountain, likely through the power of the Hidden Mastermind. The group then questioned why Nether Clan Time-Space Warriors from the future had attacked Fang Chen in the Tianluo Secret Realm.

• Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao confirmed Fang Chen’s memories and recounted how he had led them up the Immortal Mountain and helped Li Qingyao form her Golden Core.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin suggested that a powerful being had sent Fang Chen ten thousand years into the past, since he was only a little over a thousand years old.
• Fang Chen and the others suspected that the Hidden Mastermind behind Palace Mistress Lingxin had reversed spacetime and might be a true Immortal.
• Ye Qingci asked whether an Immortal could have survived two Great Calamities, and Fang Chen considered the possibility that other Reincarnated Immortals existed.
• Fang Chen recalled that Nether Clan Time-Space Warriors had attacked him while he established his Foundation Establishment in the Tianluo Secret Realm, and he had killed them.
• Li Qingyao questioned why Nether Clan warriors from the future had attacked Fang Chen despite the Nether Race’s alliance against the World Will.

Fang Chen led his companions to the Tianluo Secret Realm to inspect the Flying Shuttle that had brought warriors from the future. The Swallowing Heaven Tower could not absorb it, and Palace Mistress Lingxin concluded that it was at least an Immortal Artifact.

• Fang Chen told Palace Mistress Lingxin and the others that future enemies had tried and failed to kill him in the past, then agreed to show them their Flying Shuttle.
• Fang Chen led the group into the Tianluo Secret Realm and found the black, jujube-pit-shaped Time-Space Shuttle.
• Fang Chen recalled killing twelve Nether Clan warriors a thousand years earlier and receiving golden blood from Little Crane after a Giant Eye was destroyed.
• Fang Chen examined the shuttle with his Samsara Eye but could not perceive its innermost Dao Patterns.
• Fang Chen summoned the Swallowing Heaven Tower, but its Devouring Power failed to take in the shuttle.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin said the shuttle was at least an Immortal Artifact, more advanced than Tianyuan Academy.

Fang Chen tested the future-made Time-Space Shuttle with the Floating Immortal Sword and discovered that striking it greatly strengthened him without leaving a mark. Palace Mistress Lingxin warned that the shuttle’s unknown origin meant its arrival did not guarantee Fang Chen or the Human Race would survive the Great Calamity.

• Palace Mistress Lingxin said the Time-Space Shuttle was at least as powerful as an Immortal Artifact, but she and the others could not open it.
• At Palace Mistress Lingxin’s urging, Fang Chen struck the Time-Space Shuttle once with the Floating Immortal Sword, shaking the Tianluo Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen absorbed a surge of energy from the strike, but found no damage on the shuttle and stopped to avoid destroying the secret realm.
• Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor asked whether the shuttle’s future assassins meant Fang Chen would survive and help the Human Race win the Great Calamity.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin explained that the shuttle could have come from before or after the calamity and that enemies might travel back in time to kill Fang Chen as a child.

After leaving the Tianluo Secret Realm, Fang Chen gathered the leaders of the races to reveal the Source Power of Emperors stored in the Green Grass Great Array and explain that it could help selected experts break through. The leaders agreed to prioritize the strongest cultivators, with Ye Qingci nominated to enter after Huo Li, though Ye Qingci objected.

• Bai Ling Quasi-Emperor questioned whether those who could reverse Spacetime were invincible, and Palace Mistress Lingxin explained that such powers were likely balanced by rivals and came at a great cost.
• Fang Chen and Palace Mistress Lingxin led everyone out of the Tianluo Secret Realm, and Fang Chen asked Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao to stay because Huo Li was nearing a breakthrough.
• Fang Chen summoned the leaders of the races to the Green Grass Great Array's Core Region and asked Little Grass to reveal its stored Source Power of Emperors.
• Fang Chen explained that Huo Li was cultivating in the array and that its remaining Source Power could help a few more experts break through, but they would have to enter one at a time.
• The Goddess Empress and Elf Empress proposed that Ye Qingci enter after Huo Li, and the other leaders agreed, but Ye Qingci said she did not think it was appropriate.

Fang Chen organized a tournament to rank the Barbaric Continent’s strongest Quasi-Emperors and determine who would receive limited Source Power of Emperors to attempt a breakthrough. After the races selected their contestants, more than a hundred powerhouses gathered above the Green Grass Great Array as the competition began.

• Ye Qingci proposed that the strongest powerhouses compete for priority to enter the Green Grass Great Array, and Fang Chen arranged a ranking tournament.
• Fang Chen set the tournament for one month later in the Core Region and asked each race to select thirty participants.
• The news spread across the Barbaric Continent, and the Human Race selected thirty Quasi-Emperors after ten days of competition.
• More than a hundred contestants from six races gathered above the Green Grass Great Array, while Little Grass projected the event across major cities.
• Fang Chen explained that all 180 participants would fight ten matches, with those ranked below one hundred eliminated after the first stage.

Fang Chen began the tournament by pairing Yue Canglan against the Nether Emperor, two of the strongest contestants. Both unleashed their powerful manifestations, and the battle began with neither willing to hold back.

• Fang Chen had the contestants draw numbered beads and called the contestants holding number one into the arena.
• Yue Canglan and the Nether Emperor faced each other as the other contestants discussed their chances, with most believing Yue Canglan would lose.
• Fang Chen explained that the Green Grass Great Array would protect them and that they could use any means to fight.
• The Nether Emperor summoned the Death Scythe, while Yue Canglan declared that he was his own weapon and manifested a massive Chaos Green Lotus.
• The Nether Emperor unleashed Death Purgatory, filling his half of the battlefield with a black sea and a towering red skeleton as Yue Canglan’s lotus illuminated the other half.

Yue Canglan blocked the Nether Emperor’s strongest attack with his manifested Ancient Bell, then struck back with the Chaos Seed Green Lotus. The lotus sprouted inside the Nether Emperor and began absorbing his energy, leaving him unable to control his body.

• The Nether Emperor attacked Yue Canglan with Death Slash, but Yue Canglan blocked it with an azure Ancient Bell formed from his Secret Method.
• Fang Chen told the Myna bird that Yue Canglan’s Manifestation absorbed energy more than ten times faster than the Nether Emperor’s.
• Yue Canglan bloomed a golden lotus from the Chaos Green Lotus and sent its motes into the Nether Emperor.
• The motes shattered the Nether Emperor’s Natal Spirit Pearl, and an azure sprout spread roots through his Meridians.
• Lotus leaves grew from the Nether Emperor as they absorbed his energy, leaving him unable to control his body or self-destruct.

Yue Canglan defeated the Nether Emperor with his Chaos Green Lotus, earning the highest score before Fang Chen revived the Nether Emperor. Ye Qingci then faced the Elf Queen and emerged unharmed after crushing her powerful arrow.

• Yue Canglan devoured the Nether Emperor with his Chaos Green Lotus and gathered eighteen Seven-Colored lotus seeds containing the Nether Emperor.
• Fang Chen awarded Yue Canglan ten points, then used the Green Grass Great Array to revive the Nether Emperor, who admitted defeat and thanked Yue Canglan.
• Fang Chen called the contestants holding number two, and Ye Qingci faced the Elf Queen in her first match.
• The Elf Queen summoned her wings and Golden Longbow, then fired her rune-covered arrow technique at Ye Qingci.
• Ye Qingci caught and crushed the arrow, then stepped out of the resulting energy storm and faced the Elf Queen from across the battlefield.

Ye Qingci defeated the Elf Queen with two strands of blue Sword Qi, while the tournament continued until Yue Canglan and Ye Qingci reached the final. The chapter ended with the two facing off, as the spectators wondered how Yue Canglan had become so powerful.

• Ye Qingci caught and crushed the Elf Queen's arrow, then struck her with blue Sword Qi that burned her body to ashes.
• The Elf Queen reappeared through the Green Grass Great Array, accepted defeat, and Ye Qingci received ten points.
• An Elf expert and a God Race expert fought for half an hour, and the winner received three points.
• A month later, Yue Canglan and Ye Qingci became the finalists after defeating every opponent with one move.
• Yue Canglan and Ye Qingci faced each other in the void, while the spectators struggled to explain Yue Canglan's strength.