Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen arrived at Golden Cicada Palace to sell his Red Leaf Longevity Grass, while Great Emperor Clear Wind Origin learned of his return and began mobilizing to find him. After considering the trade-offs, Fang Chen decided to sell the rare grass himself at a stall.

• Fang Chen suspected the Black Silkworm Great Emperor had provoked him on purpose and said he was ready to fight Nebula Palace members again if they waited at the exit.
• The Black Silkworm Great Emperor reported Fang Chen's appearance to Great Emperor Clear Wind Origin, who ordered him to keep watch while he gathered people.
• Fang Chen chose to set up a stall after Little Golden Cicada explained that Red Leaf Longevity Grass would attract buyers and bring a better price than selling it to a shop.
• Fang Chen and his companions searched the Market, found no other sellers of Red Leaf Longevity Grass, and learned that it was worth about a hundred Emperor Origin Stones per stalk while shops paid ninety.

Fang Chen and his companions learned the value of Red Leaf Longevity Grass and set up a stall in the Outer Heavens market. There, they met Great Emperor Panshi and Great Emperor Yunxin, who welcomed Fang Chen and offered him some of her Joyful Fruits.

• Fang Chen and the others learned that Red Leaf Longevity Grass could sell for a hundred Emperor Origin Stones, while one Contribution Point could be exchanged for one Emperor Origin Stone.
• Little Crane spotted an empty stall beneath an ancient golden tree, and Fang Chen claimed it and prepared to sell his goods.
• Great Emperor Panshi recognized Fang Chen as the Floating Immortal Great Emperor and praised him for defeating Nebula Palace members.
• Great Emperor Yunxin introduced herself as a Spirit Planter and gave Fang Chen four Joyful Fruits to try.
• Great Emperor Yunxin noticed that Fang Chen readily followed Great Emperor Huo Li's advice and realized Huo Li seemed to lead their group.

Fang Chen sold Red Leaf Longevity Grass at his stall, drawing a crowd of Great Emperors and earning five million Emperor Origin Stones. True Immortal Ling Xia investigated Fang Chen’s record and became curious about his ability to provoke Nebula Palace’s Great Emperors.

• Fang Chen introduced Great Emperor Huo Li as his elder and told Great Emperors Yunxin and Panshi about his companions.
• Fang Chen offered Red Leaf Longevity Grass for ninety-five Emperor Origin Stones per stalk, and Yunxin and Panshi bought ten and twenty stalks.
• Great Emperor Panshi and Great Emperor Yunxin notified their friends, drawing buyers who crowded Fang Chen’s stall.
• Fang Chen sold fifty thousand stalks in an hour and earned five million Emperor Origin Stones.
• True Immortal Ling Xia reviewed Fang Chen’s records, including his fight with Nebula Palace’s Great Emperors, and wondered what made them act so frantically around him.

Fang Chen took Great Emperor Huo Li and Chi You to the Golden Cicada Palace’s largest shop to buy treasures that would strengthen them for the Land of Ending. After purchasing four White Jade Star Soul Fruits for Huo Li and Chi You, Fang Chen agreed to buy another fruit to test for himself.

• Fang Chen led Great Emperor Huo Li and Chi You to a shop in the Golden Cicada Palace to buy cultivation and combat treasures.
• Fang Chen convinced Huo Li and Chi You to accept resources so they could grow stronger and support one another in the Outer Heavens.
• Fang Chen and Huo Li agreed to divide their five million Emperor Origin Stones between cultivation treasures and items that increased combat power.
• Fang Chen bought four White Jade Star Soul Fruits and gave them to Huo Li and Chi You.
• After Huo Li urged Fang Chen to try a fruit, Fang Chen said he would buy another one for himself.

Fang Chen bought Azure Light Dragon Blood Jade Marrow and left the Golden Cicada Palace, where Dugu Yue invited him to join the Sword Alliance. He refused and walked toward the exit, where Nebula Palace members and onlookers were waiting for him.

• Fang Chen bought a White Jade Star Soul Fruit and five bottles of Azure Light Dragon Blood Jade Marrow, giving one bottle each to Great Emperor Huo Li and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm.
• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm warned Fang Chen that Nebula Palace members might be waiting outside the Golden Cicada Palace, and Fang Chen went to the exit without hesitation.
• Great Emperors asked Fang Chen to sell them Red Leaf Longevity Grass, but he told them he had sold it all.
• Dugu Yue, the Sword Alliance Hall Master whose Dao Name was Thousand Swords, invited Fang Chen to join the Sword Alliance and offered to help him deal with Nebula Palace.
• Fang Chen declined the invitation and headed for the exit with Great Emperor Huo Li, the Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm.
• Fang Chen stepped outside and felt powerful waves of Spiritual Sense lock onto him as the waiting group spotted him.

Fang Chen confronted Great Emperor Clear Wind Origin and surprised him by seeing through his speed and striking him. The fight remained unresolved after Fang Chen discovered that Clear Wind Origin had eleven thousand years of Lifespan, making Twilight Power an impractical way to kill him.

• Great Emperor Clear Wind Origin brought more than a hundred Clear Wind Hall members to kill Fang Chen, while onlookers and True Immortal Ling Xia watched his emergence.
• Great Emperor Yunxin warned Fang Chen about Clear Wind Origin’s strength and speed, and Fang Chen told Little Crane to protect the others if they were attacked.
• Fang Chen summoned the Floating Immortal Sword and attacked Clear Wind Origin, who countered his Sword Light with an azure wind blade.
• Clear Wind Origin vanished into a breeze, but Fang Chen used the Reincarnation Eye Secret Technique to locate and strike him from behind.
• Fang Chen examined Clear Wind Origin with the Eye of Life and found that he had eleven thousand years of Lifespan, so Fang Chen decided Twilight Power was not worth using.

Fang Chen confronted Great Emperor Clear Wind outside the Golden Cicada Palace, where Nebula Palace forces trapped them both in the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array. Fang Chen marked Clear Wind with a Heavenly Buddha Flower, but Clear Wind struck back and sent him flying.

• Fang Chen sent Great Emperor Clear Wind flying with one sword strike and mocked his strength.
• Great Emperor Thousand Swords watched and speculated that Fang Chen had prepared to face Nebula Palace.
• Great Emperor Clear Wind ordered eighty-one Nebula Palace Great Emperors to surround Fang Chen with the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array.
• Fang Chen planted a Heavenly Buddha Flower on Clear Wind to track him and prevent his escape.
• Great Emperor Clear Wind attacked Fang Chen with an azure longsword, and their swords clashed with enough force to send Fang Chen flying.

Fang Chen used his speed and escalating Swordsmanship to overwhelm Great Emperor Clear Wind, culminating in a strike that repeatedly blasted apart the Great Emperor’s body. He trapped the wounded Clear Wind in the Twilight of the Gods Domain, where Clear Wind’s Life Essence began draining rapidly.

• Fang Chen vanished between attacks and repeatedly struck Great Emperor Clear Wind, preventing him from locking onto his position.
• Fang Chen’s Sword Momentum grew with each strike as Great Emperor Clear Wind endured the attacks and the watching Great Emperors recognized the escalating technique’s risk.
• Fang Chen unleashed Nine Layer Wave, hurled Great Emperor Clear Wind backward, and made him spit blood.
• Fang Chen roared Sword Shatters Xinghe and sent a red-and-gold Sword Light through Great Emperor Clear Wind, repeatedly blasting apart his body faster than he could heal.
• Fang Chen enveloped Great Emperor Clear Wind in the Twilight of the Gods Domain, and Clear Wind felt his Life Essence rapidly drain while his soul remained intact.

Fang Chen defeated Great Emperor Clear Wind inside the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array and began devouring his shattered body. As the onlookers marveled at Fang Chen’s strength, True Immortal Ling Xia wondered whether Chaos Great Immortal had deliberately sent him to Golden Cicada Ridge to temper himself.

• Fang Chen used the Darkness Devouring God Domain and the Chaos Devouring God Bee to suppress Great Emperor Clear Wind and collapse the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array.
• The Chaos Devouring God Bee’s sound wave injured the Great Emperors’ souls, leaving the Nebula Palace fighters unable to rescue Great Emperor Clear Wind.
• Fang Chen and three Magic Treasures devoured Great Emperor Clear Wind’s shattered body as distant Great Emperors watched in shock.
• The Myna bird, Little Crane, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, Great Emperor Huo Li, and Great Emperor Thousand Swords praised or marveled at Fang Chen’s strength.
• True Immortal Ling Xia and the Sky Swallowing Cloud Sparrow wondered whether Chaos Great Immortal had deliberately let Fang Chen enter Golden Cicada Ridge to temper himself.

Fang Chen used the Chaos Devouring God Bee, the Black Wooden Fish, and the Demon Subduing Curse to kill Great Emperor Clear Wind and all eighty-one Nebula Palace Great Emperors who had formed the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array. The watching Great Emperors and True Immortal Ling Xia were stunned by his strength, while the Sky Swallowing Cloud Sparrow said he had the makings of a Great Immortal.

• Fang Chen swallowed Great Emperor Clear Wind's shattered body with the Darkness Devouring God Domain.
• Fang Chen struck the Black Wooden Fish with the Floating Immortal Sword and chanted the Demon Subduing Curse as the Chaos Devouring God Bee's wings tormented the Nebula Palace Great Emperors.
• Fang Chen's combined attacks caused the Great Emperors' Soul Origins to collapse, killing all eighty-one members who had formed the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array.
• Fang Chen gathered the corpses and Formation Flags into the Swallowing Heaven Tower after killing every Nebula Palace member present.
• The watching Great Emperors praised Fang Chen and said his talent qualified him to enter Mantis Mountain or Oriole Ridge directly.
• True Immortal Ling Xia praised Fang Chen, and the Sky Swallowing Cloud Sparrow said he had the makings of a Great Immortal.

After killing nearly a hundred Great Emperors from Nebula Palace, Fang Chen returned to Golden Cicada Palace with Great Emperor Huo Li to sort through and sell the spoils. He kept the treasures private as they began inventorying them inside the Reincarnation Tower.

• Fang Chen asked if anyone else wanted to challenge him, then led Great Emperor Huo Li and the others back to Golden Cicada Palace.
• News and recordings of Fang Chen's battle spread across Golden Cicada Ridge, astonishing its Great Emperors.
• Fang Chen declined Little Golden Cicada's suggestion to let a shop sort the loot, fearing outsiders would learn about his rare treasures.
• Fang Chen opened the sealed storage Magic Treasures with ease and brought out their contents inside the Reincarnation Tower.

Fang Chen and his companions sorted the treasures they had taken from the Great Emperors of Nebula Palace, and Little Crane discovered a White Stone that strengthened him as he refined it. After the myna bird finished sorting, Fang Chen brought the treasures to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to sell.

• Fang Chen and Great Emperor Huo Li began sorting the stolen treasures, while the myna bird used his feathers to make black birds handle the work.
• Little Crane sensed a familiar aura in the pile, found a White Stone covered in Space Dao Patterns, and swallowed it to refine its spatial power.
• Little Crane grew stronger as the White Stone drew in Space Dao Patterns, and Fang Chen promised to look for more stones like it.
• The myna bird finished sorting the treasures, and Fang Chen stored them and left the Swallowing Heaven Tower with his companions.
• With Little Golden Cicada guiding them, Fang Chen and the others reached the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, where a woman in a Black Gauze Dress examined their Storage Ring and led them onward.

Fang Chen and his companions spent their Emperor Origin Stones on Dragon Soul Essence, then went to open Fang Chen’s Cave Abode on Chishui Mountain. The local Great Emperors expected Nebula Palace to notice the opening and arrive, setting the stage for another clash.

• Fang Chen and his companions sold their treasures for twelve million Emperor Origin Stones and bought three bottles of Dragon Soul Essence.
• Fang Chen led the group out of the Golden Cicada Palace and decided to visit his unopened Cave Abode.
• Little Golden Cicada guided Fang Chen and his companions to Cave Abode No. 13,872 on Chishui Mountain, where Great Emperor Lingxing showed them the way.
• Great Emperor Lingxing told the other residents that Fang Chen had come to find his Cave Abode, and they worried Nebula Palace would come after sensing its opening.
• The Great Emperors on Chishui Mountain hoped Nebula Palace would arrive and that Fang Chen would kill its members.

Fang Chen entered his high-grade Cave Abode with Great Emperor Huo Li and the others, but Nebula Palace Great Emperors soon arrived to seize it. After they recognized Fang Chen and tried to flee, he trapped them in his Darkness Devouring God Domain, survived their self-destruction, and absorbed the resulting energy before returning to the Cave Abode to focus on cultivation.

• Fang Chen brought Great Emperor Huo Li and the others into his expansive Cave Abode and offered to let them cultivate there.
• Twelve Nebula Palace Great Emperors arrived and demanded that the Cave Abode's occupants come out.
• When Fang Chen emerged, the Nebula Palace Great Emperors recognized him and tried to flee, so he trapped them and the nearby cultivators in his Darkness Devouring God Domain.
• The twelve Nebula Palace Great Emperors self-destructed, shattering Fang Chen's domain and gravely wounding Great Emperor Lingxing and his companions.
• Fang Chen cast his domain again, compressed and absorbed the resulting energy into a Black Orb in his dantian, then apologized to the injured cultivators.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Huo Li that Nebula Palace would keep pursuing them and proposed returning inside to refine their treasures and increase their Cultivation.

Fang Chen, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm consumed White Jade Star Soul Fruit, while Fang Chen’s Soul Perception surged beyond its limit through the fruit and the Floating Immortal Sword. At Nebula Palace, Great Emperor Wuji learned Fang Chen had secluded himself at Chishui Mountain and ordered the Hall Masters to watch him until the Palace Master emerged.

• Fang Chen, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm ate White Jade Star Soul Fruit and refined its power.
• Fang Chen drove the Floating Immortal Sword into the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm’s nest, and the combined energy pushed his Soul Perception beyond its limit.
• Fang Chen considered using White Jade Star Soul Fruit in battle and continued absorbing Source Power of Emperors while refining the sword’s energy.
• Nebula Palace’s Hall Masters gathered after Fang Chen killed Great Emperor Clear Wind and eighty-one Great Emperors, but Great Emperor Wuji refused to act without the Palace Master’s direction.
• Great Emperor Wuji received word that Fang Chen had gone into seclusion at Chishui Mountain and ordered the Hall Masters to monitor him rather than surround the mountain.

Fang Chen absorbed the Dragon Soul Essence, learned the Void Lotus technique, and discovered how far his Soul Realm was from the Half-Immortal Realm. He ended the chapter recovering his strength and confronting the vast gap between himself and the higher realms.

• Fang Chen finished absorbing the White Jade Star Soul Fruit, then drank the Dragon Soul Essence and strengthened his Soul Perception, body, and cultivation.
• Fang Chen asked Little Golden Cicada about Soul Perception realms and learned that the Void Lotus technique could reveal a cultivator's Soul Realm.
• Fang Chen obtained the Void Lotus technique from the Heavenly Mechanism Tower and formed three lotuses, with the third still a bud.
• Fang Chen performed the Nine Layer Wave Sword Technique and used Sword Shatters Xinghe, causing the third lotus to bloom and briefly forming a fourth bud.
• Fang Chen's Soul Perception fell after he ended the sword technique, and he realized that even a Half-Immortal's Soul Realm remained far beyond his own.

Fang Chen discovered he could keep absorbing energy from the Floating Immortal Sword after leaving the Swallowing Heaven Tower, then learned that higher cultivation areas had Time Acceleration Secret Realms. He waited with the Myna bird for Great Emperor Huo Li and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, and the worm awoke after half a year with greatly increased strength.

• Fang Chen left the Swallowing Heaven Tower and found that the Floating Immortal Ring still supplied him with energy from the sword in the Bloodthirsty Mist-Eating Worm's Lair.
• Fang Chen told Little Golden Cicada he had formed three Void Lotuses, and learned that Oriole Ridge and higher cultivation areas had Time Acceleration Secret Realms.
• Fang Chen stayed to guard Great Emperor Huo Li and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm instead of leaving to hunt Nebula Palace members.
• Fang Chen told the Myna bird about the Void Lotus Secret Method, and the Myna bird formed two Void Lotuses after learning it.
• Half a year later, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm awoke, greeted Fang Chen as his master, and reported that the White Jade Star Soul Fruit and Dragon Soul Essence had greatly improved his strength.

Fang Chen planned to raid Nebula Palace’s Great Emperors in Golden Cicada Ridge, while Chi You and Great Emperor Huo Li tested their strength by cultivating the Void Lotus secret method. Their results showed how far they remained from the Half-Immortal Realm.

• Fang Chen told Chi You that they would attack Nebula Palace’s Great Emperors and take their treasures once Great Emperor Huo Li woke up.
• Fang Chen directed Chi You to cultivate the Void Lotus, and Chi You formed one half-open lotus before asking for another Great Emperor’s corpse to devour.
• A month later, Great Emperor Huo Li finished refining the Dragon Soul Essence and learned that Fang Chen and Chi You had already finished their treasures.
• Great Emperor Huo Li cultivated the Void Lotus and formed two, while Fang Chen said he had formed three.
• Great Emperor Huo Li explained that cultivators needed ten Void Lotuses to perceive and absorb Immortal Spiritual Energy and become Half-Immortals.

Fang Chen and Great Emperor Huo Li left their Cave Abode intending to attack Nebula Palace, then used Little Crane to escape their pursuers through the Ruins of Luoxing Ancient City. Inside Spirit Crane Space, Great Emperor Huo Li proposed raiding Nebula Palace’s resource sites instead of focusing on killing its members.

• Fang Chen woke Little Crane, learned the White Stone had strengthened it, and set out with Great Emperor Huo Li and his companions to rob Nebula Palace members.
• Great Emperor Wuji ordered Nebula Palace Great Emperors to follow Fang Chen’s group after they emerged from their Cave Abode.
• Fang Chen led his group toward the Ruins of Luoxing Ancient City, where Little Golden Cicada warned them about the dangerous Demonic Beasts and unstable space.
• Little Crane carried Fang Chen and the others away in Spirit Crane Space, leaving the Nebula Palace pursuers unable to track them.
• Great Emperor Huo Li suggested raiding Nebula Palace’s mines, plantations, and other resource sites rather than killing its members.

Fang Chen and his companions targeted Nebula Palace’s Thousand Yuan Immortal Medicine Garden, hoping to tunnel into it rather than face its guarded entrance. The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm began gnawing through Thousand Yuan Mountain’s exceptionally hard rock, revealing a possible way inside.

• Fang Chen agreed with Great Emperor Huo Li’s plan to raid a Nebula Palace mine or Plantation, while the little golden cicadas warned him about the dangers and promised not to expose the plan.
• Fang Chen asked Myna bird whether his Soul Searching Secret Technique could work on Great Emperors, and Myna bird said it could not.
• After ten days of scouting, Fang Chen and his companions discovered the Thousand Yuan Immortal Medicine Garden inside a former Thousand Yuan Immortal Jade Mine, where Nebula Palace grew Thousand Yuan Immortal Grass.
• Little Crane brought the group to the garden’s entrance, where Great Emperor guards and a powerful Formation made a direct entry too risky.
• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm proposed digging through the unguarded rear of Thousand Yuan Mountain, and Fang Chen agreed to test the rock.
• Myna bird and Fang Chen barely marked the Black Stone, but the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm easily crumbled the mountain rock as it began digging.