Chapter Summaries

Great Emperor Clear Wind ordered a search for Fang Chen while Recorded Images of his attack on Nebula Palace’s Great Emperors spread throughout Golden Cicada Ridge and made him famous. Unaware of the uproar, Fang Chen continued fighting the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm and found that his Crimson Lotus Power and Twilight Power recovered far faster than before.

• Great Emperor Black Toad reported that Great Emperor Golden Bear had gone into seclusion to recover from the injuries Great Emperor Ling Zhong inflicted while under the Yang Poison’s influence.
• Great Emperor Clear Wind ordered the Great Emperors under his command to find Fang Chen, who had vanished after chasing them.
• Recorded Images of Great Emperor Ling Zhong and other Great Emperors attacking their companions spread through Golden Cicada Ridge and reached the Sword Alliance, Ice Snow Palace, and Purple Light Pavilion.
• Fang Chen continued fighting the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm as his Crimson Lotus Power and Twilight Power returned to their peaks.
• Fang Chen realized that fighting the worm within Twilight of the Gods and refining water from the Swallowing Heaven Tower greatly accelerated his powers’ recovery.

Fang Chen pursued a Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm into the Red Smoke Marsh, hoping it would lead him to its Lair so he could slaughter the colony and search for Red Leaf Longevity Grass. He overcame the marsh’s corrosive force and continued deeper despite Great Emperor Huo Li’s warning that thousands of worms awaited.

• Fang Chen ended his day-long fight with the worm by striking it with the Black Stone, then had Little Crane chase it into the Red Smoke Marsh.
• Fang Chen followed the worm into the marsh, where the corrosive mud damaged his skin as the Floating Immortal Sword helped it regenerate and grow tougher.
• The worm attacked Fang Chen, but he struck it with Hand of the Heavens and forced it to flee deeper into the marsh.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Huo Li that he wanted the worm to lead him to its Lair, where he could kill the colony and look for Red Leaf Longevity Grass.
• Great Emperor Huo Li warned Fang Chen that thousands of worms lived in the Lair, but Fang Chen said he would face even a hundred thousand.

Fang Chen followed a Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm to its enormous lair and launched a reckless fight against a Worm General. He found that his sword attacks needed more power, but saw the Great Emperor-level beast as a source of valuable energy and resolved to keep fighting it.

• Fang Chen decided to stop holding back in the Heavenly River Diagram, and Great Emperor Huo Li, the myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm supported him.
• Fang Chen and Little Golden Cicada found the vast Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm lair, but barriers stopped Fang Chen from entering.
• A Worm General-class Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm attacked Fang Chen, who grew to a thousand zhang and struck it with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• The sword absorbed Dao Patterns from the Worm General, strengthening Fang Chen and raising his Soul Perception.
• Fang Chen repeatedly clashed with the Worm General and recognized that his sword techniques lacked single-target killing power, but he chose to keep fighting rather than waste the beast's energy.

Fang Chen fought a Worm General-class Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm in the Red Smoke Marsh while trying to comprehend the Ten Layer Wave Sword Technique. He mastered the technique and destroyed the creature, including its Natal Spirit Pearl.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to strike the Worm General-class Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm as he worked to advance the Nine Layer Wave Sword Technique.
• Fang Chen recited the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture, sharpening his Soul Perception as he built the attack through the waves.
• Fang Chen unleashed the Nine Layer Wave, splitting the worm's skull and damaging its brain, but the creature survived because its Natal Spirit Pearl remained intact.
• Fang Chen comprehended the Ten Layer Wave and drew in Gold Element Origin, clearing the mud across a hundred thousand zhang.
• Fang Chen struck the worm with the Ten Layer Wave, shattering its body and crushing its Natal Spirit Pearl.

Fang Chen comprehended the Tenth Wave Sword Technique and killed a Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm General with one strike. As the remaining worms swarmed him, he charged back into battle, ready to keep fighting.

• Fang Chen unleashed the Tenth Wave Sword Technique, killed the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm General, and absorbed energy from its remains through the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen realized he had drawn on Gold Element Origin through his Sword Intent without sacrificing Lifespan, and Great Emperor Huo Li congratulated him on surpassing the Nine Layer Wave Sword Technique.
• The Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm praised Fang Chen, while the other Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms rushed through the Barrier to attack him.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Huo Li he could keep fighting and charged the worms with another Tenth Wave Sword Technique.

Fang Chen fought a Worm King and discovered that the Twilight of the Gods Domain drained more Lifespan from wounded enemies. The Worm King recovered and charged him again, while Fang Chen welcomed the chance to keep fighting.

• Little Golden Cicada identified a three-thousand-zhang Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm as a Worm King, and Fang Chen saw it had more than twenty thousand years of Lifespan left.
• Fang Chen activated the Twilight of the Gods Domain, swallowed the worms’ red mist to strengthen his Soul Origin, and struck the Worm King with Nine Layer Wave and Ten Layer Wave.
• Fang Chen’s sword cut the Worm King into dozens of pieces and broke a hundred-zhang breach in the Lair’s Barrier, but the Worm King survived and its blood strengthened Fang Chen.
• The Worm King’s body rejoined, and Fang Chen realized that being wounded inside the Twilight of the Gods Domain made it lose Lifespan faster.
• The Worm King roared toward the Lair and charged again as Fang Chen raised his fighting spirit and continued chanting the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture.

Fang Chen fought three Worm Kings and was struck by an illusion of his childhood while the Blue and Green Worm Kings attacked him. The memory of firecrackers gave him an idea for making his Sword Qi more destructive, and he ended the chapter striking the Green Worm King's tail.

• Fang Chen continued fighting the Silver Worm King, and two more Worm Kings—a Blue one and a Green one—emerged from the nest.
• Fang Chen clashed with the new Worm Kings, then used Ten Layer Wave to cut the Silver Worm King into pieces again and accelerate its Lifespan loss.
• The Blue and Green Worm Kings fired beams into Fang Chen's eyes, trapping him in an illusion of his childhood New Year's Eve.
• Fang Chen escaped the illusion after the last firecracker exploded and realized the memory had shown him how to strengthen his Sword Qi.
• After the Blue Worm King struck him and the Silver Worm King reassembled, Fang Chen attacked the Green Worm King's tail with Floating Immortal Sword.

Fang Chen repeatedly risked backlash while trying to combine the Gold Element Origin and Fire Origin in his swordsmanship. After a month of fighting the three Worm Kings, he succeeded in creating a devastating strike and left Great Emperor Huo Li suggesting it deserved a new name.

• Fang Chen tried to fuse the Gold Element Origin and Fire Origin into his Sword Qi, suffering repeated soul backlash as he practiced against the three Worm Kings.
• Great Emperor Huo Li warned Fang Chen about the danger, but Fang Chen kept trying and gradually improved his ability to fuse the two Origins.
• After a month, Fang Chen unleashed a Ten Layer Wave strike that sent gold-and-red Sword Qi through the Silver Dragon King, making its body explode from head to tail.
• Fang Chen absorbed energy through the Floating Immortal Sword and recovered from the strain of the attack.
• Great Emperor Huo Li told Fang Chen that his transformed technique deserved its own name, but Fang Chen said it was still the Ten Layer Wave Sword Technique.

Fang Chen named his new technique Sword Shatters Xinghe and used it to badly wound the Silver Worm King and then the Blue Worm King. After the three Worm Kings fled into their Lair, Fang Chen charged after them, despite Great Emperor Huo Li warning him about the risk.

• Fang Chen named his new sword technique Sword Shatters Xinghe after discussing it with Great Emperor Huo Li, the myna bird, and the others.
• Fang Chen found that his strike had drained the Silver Worm King's lifespan and weakened it, then fought the Blue Worm King and Green Worm King.
• Fang Chen used Sword Shatters Xinghe to blow apart the Blue Worm King's body, and the Floating Immortal Sword restored his strength as the Worm King re-formed, weakened and afraid.
• The three Worm Kings fled into their Lair, and the other Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms followed them inside.
• Fang Chen charged toward the Lair to kill the worms, while Great Emperor Huo Li warned him that dying would keep him from being revived for a hundred years.

Fang Chen entered the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms' lair despite Great Emperor Huo Li's warning, relying on the Floating Immortal Sword to withstand its defenses. After breaking through all eighty-one Barriers, he reached the lair and wondered why its illusions kept showing him the village where he grew up.

• Fang Chen learned from Little Golden Cicada that dying inside the Heavenly River Diagram would leave him waiting a hundred years for revival, and that Great Immortals could not yet be revived.
• Great Emperor Huo Li warned Fang Chen that the lair held many Worm Kings and might contain a Worm Emperor, but Fang Chen decided to enter and flee if he could not fight them.
• Fang Chen crossed the lair's outer Barrier and absorbed the soul-targeting energy inside, which his Soul Origin refined to grow stronger.
• Fang Chen used the Twilight Power in the Floating Immortal Sword to break through all eighty-one Barriers despite the pressure and illusions.
• Fang Chen saw the familiar village in the lair's illusions, wondered if it was his deepest obsession, and reached the hornet-nest-like lair with Little Crane on his shoulder.

Fang Chen attacked the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms' Lair and discovered that the Floating Immortal Sword could cut through its walls when empowered with Twilight Power. He drove the sword deeper into the living fortress, but the energy flooding into him threatened to overwhelm his body.

• Fang Chen used the Reincarnation Eye Secret Technique to examine the Lair and saw that its Dao Patterns and unusual substance formed a powerful fortress.
• Fang Chen struck the Lair with the Floating Immortal Sword, but its defenses repelled him while the sword's energy strengthened his body.
• Fang Chen channeled Twilight Power into the sword and cut through the Lair's wall, where red fluid corroded his protections and sent a mysterious force toward his mind.
• Fang Chen's Soul Origin devoured the strange force and refined it with energy from the Floating Immortal Sword, while the Lair's wound quickly closed.
• Fang Chen pierced the Lair again and used his Spiritual Sense to see young Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms swimming in an inner chamber.
• Fang Chen channeled his Source Power of Emperors into the Floating Immortal Sword and drove it through deeper layers, but the immense energy surging into him made him feel as though his body might explode.

Fang Chen tried to pierce the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm Lair with the Floating Immortal Sword and absorbed its energy, awakening the Worm Emperor. The Worm Emperor and eighteen Worm Kings emerged from the Lair to confront him.

• Fang Chen enlarged himself with the Glazed Battle Runes and drove the Floating Immortal Sword into the Lair, but its golden barrier stopped the blade.
• Fang Chen activated the Darkness Devouring God Domain and repeatedly pushed the sword back into the Lair as it tried to force the blade out, absorbing energy through it.
• The Worm Emperor woke from his sleep, and the Worm Kings told him that Fang Chen had fought his way into the Lair.
• The Worm Emperor entered a red vortex with the eighteen Worm Kings as the Lair shook and red liquid gushed from its base.
• The Worm Emperor emerged beneath the Lair, and Fang Chen pulled out the Floating Immortal Sword as the eighteen Worm Kings surfaced alongside him.

Fang Chen discovered that the Worm Emperor had only three hundred years of Lifespan remaining and killed it with a single Twilight Power-infused sword strike. Afterward, the Floating Immortal Sword poured immense energy into him, which his Dao Platform and Life Wheel began to absorb, and he stored the Worm Emperor’s corpse in the Swallowing Heaven Tower.

• Fang Chen used the Eye of Life and discovered the Worm Emperor had only three hundred years of Lifespan left.
• The Worm Emperor attacked Fang Chen with a beam from its golden horn, and the impact briefly disoriented him.
• Fang Chen struck the Worm Emperor’s tail with the Floating Immortal Sword and Twilight Power, killing it instantly.
• The Worm Kings fled into the Lair after seeing Fang Chen kill the Worm Emperor.
• Fang Chen endured the energy released by the Floating Immortal Sword as his Dao Platform and Life Wheel absorbed it.
• Fang Chen stored the Worm Emperor’s corpse in the Swallowing Heaven Tower.

Fang Chen entered the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms' Lair to find Red Leaf Longevity Grass, while the Chaos Demonic Star Vine helped gather it and devoured the Lair's rich red liquid. Fang Chen then asked Little Golden Cicada whether they could take the entire Lair with them.

• Fang Chen broke through the Barrier beneath the Lair and entered as the Worm Kings called the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worms to flee.
• Fang Chen reached the Core Space and found abundant Red Leaf Longevity Grass growing along its walls.
• Fang Chen released the Chaos Demonic Star Vine, which proved able to withstand the pressure and began gathering grass with red leaves.
• The Chaos Demonic Star Vine devoured the Core Space's red liquid, and Chi You told Fang Chen that its pure energy was excellent nourishment for Star.
• Fang Chen asked Little Golden Cicada if they could take the entire Lair, startling him with the idea.

Fang Chen tried to take the enormous Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm lair into the Swallowing Heaven Tower, using the Floating Immortal Sword to strip away the lair’s Dao Patterns and drain its energy. The tower absorbed the patterns and Fang Chen’s Soul Power recovered, but the lair had not yet been taken in.

• Little Golden Cicada warned Fang Chen that taking the lair would require a higher-grade treasure and consume enormous Soul Power, and the Myna bird urged him to try the Swallowing Heaven Tower.
• Fang Chen left Little Star collecting Red Leaf Longevity Grass and summoned the Swallowing Heaven Tower above the abandoned lair, but the tower’s Devouring Power could not take it in.
• Fang Chen sent the Floating Immortal Sword into the lair, where its pulses loosened the Dao Patterns and the Swallowing Heaven Tower absorbed most of them.
• Fang Chen discovered that the Dao Patterns merged into the Swallowing Heaven Tower, while energy from the lair flowed through the Floating Immortal Ring and replenished his Soul Power.

Fang Chen strengthened the Swallowing Heaven Tower by feeding it Dao Patterns from the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm's lair and using the Bagua Diagram to accelerate its growth. After learning that his Glazed Golden Body Art was too low-level for his increased Cultivation, he entered the Heavenly Mechanism Tower to seek a stronger body-refinement method.

• Fang Chen drove the Floating Immortal Sword to loosen Dao Patterns from the lair, which the Swallowing Heaven Tower devoured as it gradually grew larger.
• Fang Chen used the Eight Trigrams Array Diagram to reinforce the Swallowing Heaven Tower, and the Mysterious Silhouette formed Dao Patterns that greatly accelerated its growth.
• Fang Chen asked Great Emperor Huo Li why the Glazed Golden Body Art now increased his physical strength by less than tenfold.
• Great Emperor Huo Li and the myna bird explained that Fang Chen had outgrown the low-level art, and Little Golden Cicada advised him to cultivate a stronger body-refinement method.
• Fang Chen activated his Identity Token and sent his consciousness into the space where the Heavenly Mechanism Tower stood to search for an advanced Secret Method.

Fang Chen found that powerful Secret Methods in the Heavenly Mechanism Tower cost more Contribution Points than he could afford, so he asked Huahua to gather free manuals to help him create his own body-strengthening technique. After receiving them in the Spirit Crane Space, he prepared to leave while Great Emperor Huo Li and the others continued cultivating there.

• Fang Chen saw that even basic Immortal Techniques cost over ten million Contribution Points and learned from Little Golden Cicada why the Outer Heavens charged for its resources.
• Fang Chen decided to study free Imperial Arts and use them as material for a Secret Method that could briefly increase his physical strength.
• Fang Chen asked Huahua to read the free Secret Methods related to strengthening the body and pass them on to him.
• Three days later, Huahua sent Fang Chen to the Spirit Crane Space, where Great Emperor Huo Li said his Soul Power had recovered but the pressure outside remained too strong.
• Fang Chen offered Great Emperor Huo Li and Huahua his five million Contribution Points, but Great Emperor Huo Li refused and said he still had two million.
• Huahua passed the collected Secret Methods to Fang Chen, who told Great Emperor Huo Li, Huahua, and Chi You to keep cultivating as he headed out.

Fang Chen combined the strengths of several Power Secret Methods and created one suited to his constitution, transforming his Glazed Battle Runes into stronger gray runes. He named his new technique Floating Immortal Transformation, which currently had only its first transformation.

• Fang Chen studied Power Secret Methods and realized he could fuse Source Power into his Battle Runes to increase their strength.
• Fang Chen spent a year developing his own method as the Swallowing Heaven Tower and Floating Immortal Sword consumed the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm's lair, gradually shrinking it.
• Fang Chen's Glazed Battle Runes shattered and re-formed as gray runes, releasing powerful Law energy and keeping the surrounding liquid away from him.
• Fang Chen told the myna bird that he had succeeded and named his new Power Secret Method Floating Immortal Transformation.
• Fang Chen noted that Floating Immortal Transformation had only one transformation so far, but he intended to strengthen it by fusing in more kinds of Source Power.

After completing the Floating Immortal Art, Fang Chen used the Swallowing Heaven Tower to absorb the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm's Lair and found that Little Star had grown substantially inside it. The chapter ended with Fang Chen collecting over a hundred bundles of Red Leaf Longevity Grass and recognizing that he still had a long way to go before reaching the Half-Immortal Realm.

• Fang Chen finished creating the Floating Immortal Art and discovered that the Swallowing Heaven Tower had grown while the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm's Lair had shrunk.
• Fang Chen drove the Swallowing Heaven Tower at full strength, and after thirteen days it drew the lair inside.
• Fang Chen and Little Crane entered the tower's Ninth Layer and saw that the lair had returned to its original size.
• Fang Chen and Little Crane visited Little Star in the lair's Core Space and found that the Chaos Demonic Star Vine had grown much larger.
• Little Star gave Fang Chen over a hundred bundles of Red Leaf Longevity Grass, which Little Crane stored in the Spirit Crane Space.
• Fang Chen withdrew the tower into his body and reflected that, despite his increased strength, he had yet to sense Immortal Spiritual Energy.

Fang Chen went to Golden Cicada Palace to sell some Red Leaf Longevity Grass and trade for treasures that could strengthen Great Emperor Huo Li and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm. After Nebula Palace members confronted him, he refused their challenge and promised to meet their leader at the palace exit when he was finished.

• Fang Chen decided to sell some of his Red Leaf Longevity Grass and asked Little Golden Cicada where to go.
• Little Crane carried Fang Chen and his companions out of the Mud World, and Little Golden Cicada guided them to Golden Cicada Palace.
• Cultivators at Golden Cicada Palace recognized Fang Chen as the Floating Immortal Great Emperor and recalled his clash with Nebula Palace.
• A young Nebula Palace member challenged Fang Chen to fight in the Battle Space, but Fang Chen refused and told him to wait at the exit.
• Great Emperor Huo Li suggested through their mental link that the young man's hotheaded behavior might have been an act.