Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen completed the Circulating Heaven Star Spirit Gathering Great Array in the Meteor Mountain Range, which began gathering Spiritual Qi and Stellar Power. After checking that the formation worked, he left with Little Glazed for the Heavenly Stone Forest.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to inscribe Formation Runes on 1,008 Bronze Pillars, steadily improving his technique as he worked.
• Fang Chen drove the inscribed Bronze Pillars into the ground and spent a year carving Formation Runes into the mountains of the Meteor Mountain Range.
• Fang Chen inscribed a Jade Sword, inserted it into the Stone Platform at the Formation Core, and activated the great array.
• Fang Chen checked the formation and found it flawless, while the Little White Rabbit vanished into the clouds to tell her sister of his success.
• Fang Chen and Little Glazed set out for the Heavenly Stone Forest.

Fang Chen cleared Heavenly Stone Forest’s Ninth-Layer Space, collected the third Mark, and learned that Tianyuan Academy wanted his help finding a mole among the Human Race’s leaders. Palace Mistress Lingxin revealed that he would need to travel ten thousand years into the past to identify the traitor.

• Fang Chen and Little Glazed passed through Heavenly Stone Forest’s Formations for a month before reaching the Ninth-Layer Space.
• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to enter Enlightenment, found a weakness in the Barrier, and broke through it with Little Glazed.
• Fang Chen collected the Silver Mark, completing all three Marks and meeting Tianyuan Academy’s selection criteria.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin appeared before Fang Chen and told him that a mole among the Human Race’s core organization was trapped in a Forbidden Ground with many powerful members.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin explained that Fang Chen’s Foundation Establishment Cultivation made him suitable for the task and that he would be sent ten thousand years into the past to help identify the mole.

Fang Chen agreed to travel ten thousand years into the past on a dangerous mission after Palace Mistress Lingxin promised him access to Tianyuan Academy’s resources. Elder Bai Ling became his guide and protector, and took him to see the only Imperial Art he could cultivate at his current stage.

• Palace Mistress Lingxin explained that Tianyuan Academy had selected Fang Chen to travel back ten thousand years and offered him three years of free access to the academy’s resources if he accepted.
• Fang Chen agreed to undertake the mission for the sake of the Human Race, and Palace Mistress Lingxin departed after promising to arrange his protection.
• Elder Bai Ling arrived and told Fang Chen she would help him make use of Tianyuan Academy’s resources.
• Fang Chen asked for help with Body and Soul Refinement, and Bai Ling offered to take him to a higher-grade Body Tempering Spirit Pool and find soul-strengthening treasures.
• Fang Chen asked to study Imperial Arts, and Bai Ling explained that only one could be cultivated in the Foundation Establishment Realm and led him to see it.

Bai Ling brought Fang Chen to the City of Silence to test whether he could inherit Great Emperor Silence’s Silence Needle, but the statue did not respond. She then led him to Tianyuan Academy’s Blood Dripping Cave so he could temper his body and soul, where an enormous turtle surfaced from the Blood Pool.

• Bai Ling explained that Great Emperor Silence’s statue held the Silence Needle, a powerful soul attack, and told Fang Chen how to test for its inheritance.
• Fang Chen stared into the statue’s remaining eye for an incense stick, but nothing happened, so he accepted that the art was not meant for him.
• Fang Chen asked Bai Ling to take him to a body-tempering Sacred Ground, and she chose Blood Dripping Cave despite its usual restriction to Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
• Bai Ling opened Blood Dripping Cave with a token and led Fang Chen through its blood-scented, resentment-filled passage to an underground Blood Pool.
• An enormous turtle surfaced from the churning Blood Pool in front of Fang Chen and Bai Ling.

Fang Chen cultivated on the Giant Turtle’s back in the Blood Tan, where the immense Spiritual Power strengthened his cultivation but summoned vengeful spirits that attacked his Soul Origin. The spirits suddenly began burning, leaving Fang Chen and them startled.

• Bai Ling introduced Fang Chen to Senior Turtle, who allowed him to cultivate in the Blood Tan.
• Fang Chen jumped onto Senior Turtle’s back and began cultivating with the Floating Immortal Art and Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen absorbed Spiritual Power so quickly that he asked Senior Turtle to take him deeper into the Blood Tan.
• At a depth where the Spiritual Power became difficult to endure, vengeful spirits emerged in Fang Chen’s mind and began tearing at his Soul Origin.
• The vengeful spirits cried out as their bodies suddenly began burning.

Fang Chen spent three years cultivating beneath the Blood Tan, where vengeful souls were burned by the Floating Immortal Sword's Mark and strengthened his Soul Origin. When he left Blood Dripping Cave with Bai Ling, the Giant Turtle gave him an Inner Core that would extend his life, and Bai Ling explained why the turtle had asked to be chained there.

• Vengeful souls repeatedly tore at Fang Chen's Soul Origin, then burned under the Floating Immortal Sword's Mark and became nourishment that strengthened it as his body underwent Metamorphosis.
• After three years and seventy-six days, the Giant Turtle brought Fang Chen to the surface because someone had come to retrieve him.
• The Giant Turtle gave Fang Chen one of its Inner Cores, which entered his dantian and settled on his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.
• Fang Chen left Blood Dripping Cave with Bai Ling and learned that the Giant Turtle had asked the Human Race's experts to chain her there so she could suppress evil souls.
• Bai Ling said powerful evil souls and other unknown things remained deep inside Blood Dripping Cave, then carried Fang Chen away.

Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling prepared Fang Chen for his mission to travel backward through space-time by giving him a Heaven-Evading Pill and fitting him with the Inverse Scale Heavenly Robe. After three days of preparation, the robe fused with his body, leaving him ready for the journey.

• Bai Ling brought Fang Chen to the Great Hall, where Palace Mistress Lingxin introduced three golden-lit figures as Elders of Tianyuan Academy.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin fed Fang Chen a Heaven-Evading Pill to help him withstand the backlash from traveling backward through space-time.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling had Fang Chen bathe in a strange liquid and pressed his acupoints to wash away his Great Dao aura and hide him from Heavenly Secrets.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin and Bai Ling spent three days and nights helping Fang Chen put on the Inverse Scale Heavenly Robe.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin applied blood and a streak of White Light to the robe, causing it to soften, cling to Fang Chen, and sink into his skin.

Palace Mistress Lingxin sent Fang Chen thirteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-one years into the past to complete a mission. After arriving in a desolate valley, he learned that he had to find Li Qingyao at Immortal Mountain's Sacred Ground and give her the Pills when she formed her Golden Core.

• Palace Mistress Lingxin gave Fang Chen two beads and warned him to return within three months or the Law of Space-Time would scatter his soul.
• Palace Mistress Lingxin, Bai Ling, and the three golden Silhouettes activated the formation and sent Fang Chen's Time-Space Shuttle into the past.
• Fang Chen awoke inside the shuttle and used the Floating Immortal Sword to weaken the backlash from the Law of Space-Time.
• Fang Chen emerged in a desolate valley as the shuttle vanished from sight, though he could still sense its presence.
• Fang Chen crushed the red bead and learned that he had to find Li Qingyao at Immortal Mountain's Sacred Ground and give her the Pills when she formed her Golden Core.

Fang Chen entered Immortal Mountain to find Li Qingyao, the holy maiden of Yaochi Holy Land. After learning that people from Chaos Holy Land had captured her, he set out to rescue her.

• Fang Chen killed a Golden Crown Blazing Sun Snake and asked a group of cultivators whether they had seen disciples of Yaochi Holy Land.
• A disciple of the Flying Spirit Sect told Fang Chen that Yaochi Holy Land's disciples had likely traveled higher up Immortal Mountain.
• Fang Chen found an injured Yaochi Holy Land disciple, treated her wound, and asked where Li Qingyao was.
• The disciple told Fang Chen that Chaos Holy Land had captured Li Qingyao and killed many Yaochi Holy Land disciples.
• Fang Chen asked the disciple where Chaos Holy Land's people were so he could rescue Li Qingyao.

Fang Chen took a Yaochi Holy Land woman to Red Stone City, where he learned Yue Canglan was staying. He left her somewhere safe and headed west to confront the Chaos Holy Son after forcing his disciples to reveal his location.

• Fang Chen escorted the woman toward Red Stone City, killing Azure Feather Lightning Eagles and other flying Demonic Beasts along the way.
• After arriving, Fang Chen learned that Yue Canglan was in the city and told the woman to hide while he went to find him.
• Fang Chen stopped Chaos Holy Land disciples who were chasing a young man and knocked them all down.
• Fang Chen demanded Yue Canglan's location from the disciple he had seized, who told him the Holy Son was on Furong Street in the west of the city.
• Fang Chen kicked the disciple into a wall and headed toward Furong Street.

Fang Chen stormed into Chaos Holy Land territory on Furong Street and fought his way to Yue Canglan, intending to defeat the Holy Son before asking about the captive Holy Maiden of the Yaochi Holy Land. The chapter ended as Fang Chen and Yue Canglan collided in their first exchange.

• Fang Chen knocked aside the guards at the entrance and demanded that Yue Canglan come out and die.
• Fang Chen used the flat of the Floating Immortal Sword to defeat more than a thousand Chaos Holy Land disciples while a rescued woman watched from the shadows.
• A disciple warned Yue Canglan that an attacker had invaded, and Yue left his cultivation chamber to confront him.
• Fang Chen recognized Yue Canglan and charged without explaining why he had come.
• Yue Canglan met Fang Chen’s attack with a punch.

Fang Chen and Yue Canglan fought fiercely in Red Stone City after Fang Chen challenged the Chaos Holy Land’s Holy Son. As Yue Canglan’s disciples worked to stabilize the Skyfaring Formation for their journey up the Immortal Mountain, the two fighters unleashed their battle runes and continued clashing above Furong Street.

• Fang Chen matched Yue Canglan’s strength and forced him back, shocking the Chaos Holy Land’s disciples.
• Yue Canglan attacked with his Long Spear, but Fang Chen caught it and traded blows with him using the Floating Immortal Sword.
• The Stone House shook, and Yue Canglan ordered his disciples inside to stabilize the Skyfaring Formation, which would carry them toward the Immortal Mountain’s summit to collect Immortal Flowers.
• Fang Chen refused to stop fighting, so Yue Canglan unleashed black flames on his Long Spear and activated his Battle Runes.
• Yue Canglan attacked with Dragon Out of the Sea, and Fang Chen activated his Glazed Battle Runes to meet the strike.
• Fang Chen and Yue Canglan continued their high-speed battle across the sky and ground, destroying houses and trees along Furong Street.

Fang Chen and Yue Canglan fought across Furong Street, with Fang Chen breaking through Yue Canglan’s Sea of Bitterness Cultivating Green Lotus Manifestation using his second-form Glazed Golden Body. Yue Canglan then revealed a Heavenly Dao Mark as his aura surged, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Yue Canglan released the golden dragon from his spear, but Fang Chen destroyed it with Heaven and Earth Creation and wounded him through his Protective Armor.
• Fang Chen charged to finish Yue Canglan, who summoned the Sea of Bitterness Cultivating Green Lotus Manifestation and pinned him under its pressure.
• Yue Canglan urged Fang Chen to use his Manifestation, but Fang Chen said he had none and activated the second form of his Glazed Golden Body.
• Fang Chen’s surging power shattered Yue Canglan’s Manifestation and made him spit blood.
• Yue Canglan laughed as his aura rose, dark clouds gathered over the city, and a Golden Heavenly Dao Mark appeared between his brows.

Yue Canglan activated his Heavenly Dao Mark and unleashed the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon, but Fang Chen defeated him with the Hand of the Heavens. After learning Yue Canglan knew nothing about Li Qingyao’s disappearance, Fang Chen heard that Yue Canglan was actually her devoted suitor.

• Yue Canglan revealed his Heavenly Dao Mark and summoned a powerful Golden True Dragon with the Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon.
• Fang Chen used the Hand of the Heavens to seize and destroy the Golden True Dragon, then trapped Yue Canglan in its grip.
• Fang Chen demanded that Yue Canglan hand over Li Qingyao, but Yue Canglan said he knew nothing about her abduction.
• Fang Chen released Yue Canglan after sensing he was telling the truth, and Yue Canglan recovered from his injuries.
• Yue Canglan told Fang Chen through Spiritual Sense that he was Li Qingyao’s devoted suitor and would not have abducted her or harmed Yaochi Holy Land disciples.

Fang Chen learned that the woman he had saved was Li Qingyao, the saintess of Yaochi Holy Land, and discovered why she had misled him. As he tried to persuade her to stay with him until she formed her Golden Core without revealing his mission, the Spiritual Qi tide erupted early, sending cultivators toward Immortal Mountain.

• Fang Chen recognized the plain-clothed woman, and Yue Canglan identified her as Li Qingyao, the saintess of Yaochi Holy Land.
• Li Qingyao admitted she had told Fang Chen that Yue Canglan captured her and killed Yaochi disciples because she had not trusted Fang Chen.
• Li Qingyao explained that mysterious pursuers had wounded her before Fang Chen helped her, and she asked why he wanted to find her.
• Fang Chen refused to reveal his identity or mission and asked to stay with Li Qingyao until she formed her Golden Core, but she declined to help without more information.
• The Spiritual Qi tide erupted ahead of the full moon, revealing Immortal Mountain as cultivators rode their Flying Spirit Treasures toward its summit.

As the Spiritual Qi Tide erupted early, Li Qingyao struggled to finish the Yaochi Holy Land’s Skyfaring Formation in time to reach the summit of Immortal Mountain. Fang Chen offered to help, and Li Qingyao brought him to a section of the Formation to test his rune-inscribing skill.

• Yue Canglan led the Chaos Holy Land disciples into a Stone House and activated their Skyfaring Formation.
• Li Qingyao refused to help Fang Chen unless he explained what had happened, but Fang Chen followed her back to the Yaochi Holy Land’s base camp.
• Li Qingyao told her disciples that Fang Chen had defeated Yue Canglan, then learned their Formation was damaged and unfinished.
• Li Qingyao inspected the Formation and realized repairs at their current pace would take at least twenty days.
• Fang Chen offered to help inscribe runes, and Li Qingyao led him to a section of the Formation to test his skill.

Fang Chen used his sword to inscribe the Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate Formation for Li Qingyao and the Yaochi Holy Land disciples, completing it in a day and improving its design. When the summoned carp reached its expected limit, he revealed that attacks on its eyes could make it grow larger, and the disciples joined him in powering it up.

• Fang Chen carved Formation Runes across the wall with the Floating Immortal Sword, astonishing Li Qingyao and the Yaochi Holy Land disciples with his speed and precision.
• At Li Qingyao's request, Fang Chen helped inscribe the Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate Formation and changed parts of its design.
• After a day, Fang Chen completed the Formation, and Li Qingyao gathered everyone to activate it.
• The Formation's runes formed a red carp that absorbed Spiritual Qi and grew to thirty zhang long.
• Fang Chen stopped Li Qingyao from sending the disciples into the carp, explaining that his changes let it grow further if they attacked its eyes.
• Fang Chen struck the carp's eye with Sword Qi, and Li Qingyao led the disciples in attacking its eyes as it grew larger.

Fang Chen and Li Qingyao led the Yaochi Holy Land’s disciples up Immortal Mountain inside a Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate Formation that grew into a giant carp large enough to carry more than seven thousand people. After learning about the mountain’s twelve Heavens, they reached the Six Heaven, where the carp raced past the Chaos Holy Land’s Dragon Turtle Formation and continued toward the Seventh Heaven.

• Fang Chen and the Yaochi Holy Land disciples expanded their Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate Formation into a 150-zhang carp, allowing all seven thousand disciples to enter.
• Li Qingyao controlled the carp as it broke through the illusion Formation, swallowed Spiritual Qi, and flew past a sea turtle Formation.
• After the carp reached the First Heaven, Li Qingyao explained Immortal Mountain’s twelve Heavens and their treasures to Fang Chen.
• At the Fifth Heaven, Li Qingyao sent disciples who could not endure the pressure out of the Formation to search the mountain slopes.
• Three days later, the carp reached the Six Heaven with eleven people remaining, including Fang Chen and Li Qingyao.
• The giant carp sped past the Chaos Holy Son’s Dragon Turtle Formation and continued upward, prompting the Chaos Holy Son to urge his companions to race toward the Seventh Heaven.

Fang Chen and Li Qingyao reached the Eighth Heaven after the Yaochi Holy Land disciples left the formation. When the Big Carp began cracking under the pressure, Fang Chen reinforced it with Sword Qi and set out with Li Qingyao for the Ninth Heaven.

• The nine Yaochi Holy Land disciples left the formation in the Seventh Heaven to search for treasures and form their Golden Cores.
• Fang Chen told Li Qingyao to shrink the formation, then a Spiritual Qi Storm sent them tumbling together; afterward, Li Qingyao explained the storm and apologized for clinging to him.
• Fang Chen and Li Qingyao traveled for three more hours and entered the Eighth Heaven, where the pressure intensified and cracks spread across the Big Carp.
• Li Qingyao prepared to leave and form her Golden Core, but Fang Chen urged her to try reaching the Ninth Heaven with him.
• Fang Chen reinforced the formation with Sword Qi as Li Qingyao focused on controlling it and drove it toward the Ninth Heaven.

Fang Chen and Li Qingyao reached Immortal Mountain, where the pressure weakened and Li Qingyao’s disguise fell away. They found a seven-leaf Sumeru Grass protected by a blue Barrier, and Fang Chen began probing one of its weaknesses to break through without damaging the plant.

• Fang Chen caught Li Qingyao after the Ninth Heaven’s pressure broke the Carp Battle Formation and made her faint.
• Fang Chen carried Li Qingyao to Immortal Mountain, where her disguise peeled away and revealed her true face.
• Li Qingyao explained that Sumeru Grass could dispel the pressure, so she and Fang Chen climbed the mountain to search for it.
• Fang Chen and Li Qingyao found a seven-leaf Sumeru Grass growing from a fallen tree, but a natural blue Barrier blocked their way.
• Li Qingyao failed to find a weakness in the Barrier, so Fang Chen used the Reincarnation Eye Secret Technique and thrust the Floating Immortal Sword into one he had found.