Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen emerged from the Golden Cicada Ridge Secret Realm onto Mantis Mountain and openly challenged the Five Great Families. The families sealed the passage back to Golden Cicada Ridge and began gathering their forces to hunt him down.

• The Chen Family guards recognized Fang Chen at the Space Vortex, and he ordered their captain to tell the Chen Family he had arrived on Mantis Mountain.
• Fang Chen waited outside Mantis Palace and killed several people from the Five Great Families, spreading news of his return across Mantis Mountain.
• Iron River True Immortal consulted with the other four family heads, and they ordered their Half-Immortals to gather and surround Fang Chen.
• Three days later, the Five Great Families sealed the Spatial Passage to Golden Cicada Ridge while Cultivators debated whether Fang Chen could defeat them.

Fang Chen destroyed all five of the Five Great Families’ headquarters on Mantis Mountain to provoke them into sending more experts after him. He remained defiant as a Lu Family Half-Immortal warned that the route to Golden Cicada Ridge was sealed and the families’ top experts were arriving.

• Little Crane and Myna bird mapped the Five Great Families’ strongholds, and Fang Chen led Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others to attack them.
• Fang Chen shattered Wuyou Palace’s powerful defensive Barrier with one strike of the Floating Immortal Sword, killing the cultivators inside.
• Fang Chen destroyed the Tang Family’s Green Lotus Palace, then the Bai Family’s Golden Light Hall, the Qin Family’s Penglai Hall, and the Lu Family’s Qingxu Hall.
• Fang Chen taunted the Five Great Families, hoping to enrage them and draw more experts to Mantis Mountain.
• A Lu Family Half-Immortal warned Fang Chen that the road to Golden Cicada Ridge was sealed and the families’ top experts were arriving, but Fang Chen said he had no reason to flee.

After Fang Chen destroyed the Five Great Families’ bases on Mantis Mountain, cultivators gathered to watch their confrontation. Three days later, the families arrived with five powerful Grand Arrays that sealed the Void around him, and the battle was poised to begin.

• Fang Chen remained above the Lu Family’s Qingxu Hall ruins while news of his attack spread among Human Cultivators and other races.
• Cultivators discussed why the Five Great Families feared Fang Chen’s potential and came to Mantis Mountain to witness the confrontation.
• The Five Great Families gathered to combine their forces, knowing they could not defeat Fang Chen individually.
• After three days, the Tang Family’s Green Lotus Great Array and the Bai Family’s Golden Light Great Array appeared, each radiating Half-step Great Immortal power.
• The Chen Family’s Worry-Free Battle Array, the Qin Family’s Penglai Battle Array, and the Lu Family’s Void Great Array arrived, surrounding Fang Chen with five Grand Arrays.

Fang Chen fused three Origin energies and unleashed power on the level of a Great Immortal, destroying the Five Great Families’ battle arrays and killing their cultivators. The Mantis Mountain Secret Realm fell silent as the watching cultivators struggled to believe what they had witnessed.

• The Five Great Families’ cultivators surrounded Fang Chen with their five battle arrays, and the Worry-Free Battle Array demanded that he surrender.
• Fang Chen fused three Origin energies, blocked the Worry-Free Battle Array’s attack, and destroyed it with one sword strike.
• Fang Chen killed the more than thirty thousand Chen Family cultivators who had formed the Worry-Free Battle Array, while Little Crane collected their bodies.
• Fang Chen struck the other four battle arrays with four sword rays and shattered them.
• Fang Chen unleashed a Soul Devouring Storm that killed more than a hundred thousand cultivators, and Little Crane collected their bodies as the watching cultivators stood stunned.

Fang Chen defeated the Five Great Families' Super Battle Array and claimed Mantis Mountain for Floating Immortal City. He chose to remain in Mantis Mountain and Golden Cicada Ridge to train, leaving Great Emperor Huo Li to organize the new territory.

• Fang Chen destroyed the Five Great Families' Super Battle Array, and its cultivators fled Mantis Mountain.
• Fang Chen declared Mantis Mountain part of Floating Immortal City and offered joining cultivators half the treasures they obtained.
• News of the defeat spread, and the Five Great Families' cultivators guarding the Spatial Passage withdrew.
• Fang Chen told Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li that he would stay in Golden Cicada Ridge and Mantis Mountain to train rather than enter Oriole Mountain.
• Fang Chen asked Great Emperor Huo Li to gather Mantis Mountain's cultivators and resources while he studied the Floating Immortal Battle Array and refined Meteor Tears.
• Ye Qingci said she would train as well so she would not fall too far behind Fang Chen.

Fang Chen began studying the Floating Immortal Great Array after defeating the Five Great Families on Mantis Mountain, while the families withdrew and Huo Li organized the mountain. As the treasures were sorted, the myna bird and Little Crane discovered a White Stone far larger than the ones Little Crane had found before.

• Fang Chen sent Little Crane, Huahua, and Chi You to help Huo Li settle matters on Mantis Mountain, then entered seclusion at its summit to study the Floating Immortal Great Array.
• Recorded Images of Fang Chen destroying the Five Great Families' Super Battle Array spread through the Human Race, alarming the Chen Family and cheering cultivators on Golden Cicada Ridge.
• Iron River True Immortal ordered the Chen Family cultivators to withdraw from Mantis Mountain, and the Five Great Families' forces fled the mountain.
• Great Emperor Huo Li organized the remaining factions and arranged for Mantis Mountain's resources to be gathered and sorted.
• While searching the Five Great Families' cultivators' bodies for treasures, the myna bird and Little Crane found a White Stone more than a hundred zhang across.

Little Crane swallowed a White Stone filled with Space Dao Patterns, then slept against Fang Chen as he cultivated. A century later, Nine Stars Alignment stirred the bond between Fang Chen and his nine Clones, and a force pulled his consciousness into the depths of the starry sky.

• Little Crane discovered that the White Stone could help her grow stronger, but neither Ye Qingci's nor the myna bird's Personal Puppet could identify it.
• Great Emperor Huo Li recorded the White Stone and sent its image out for others to identify, while Little Crane swallowed it and grew sleepy.
• Little Crane flew to Fang Chen, who tucked her against his chest and continued studying the Floating Immortal Great Array.
• A hundred years later, Nine Stars Alignment appeared, drawing people across the Outer Heavens and the Land of Ending to witness it.
• Fang Chen felt a summons linked to his nine Clones grow stronger as the stars aligned, then a force pulled his consciousness toward the starry depths; his Clones at the Glazed Sword Sect felt the same summons.

During the Nine Stars Alignment, Fang Chen and his nine clones established contact across the distance between the Outer Heavens and the Barbaric Ancient Region. Before the connection faded, he learned about the region’s progress, warned the clones to stay, and passed them his techniques to share.

• Eldest Brother Fang led the nine clones in fusing, which strengthened their connection to Fang Chen during the Nine Stars Alignment.
• Fang Chen learned that the Barbaric Ancient Region had gained many Great Emperors and that Xiao Yi had discovered a Special Space that shielded its occupants from the Land of Ending’s summons.
• Eldest Brother Fang told Fang Chen that the region’s Great Emperors had entered the Special Space, and Fang Chen was relieved that they would not be exposed to the Five Great Families.
• Fang Chen told the clones about the Outer Heavens, the immortals there, and his conflict with the Five Great Families, and urged them not to come.
• As the alignment began to end, Fang Chen transferred his Outer Heavens techniques and Secret Methods to the nine clones so they could teach them to the Barbaric Ancient Region’s Cultivators.

During the Nine Stars Alignment, Fang Chen connected with his nine clones in the Barbaric Ancient Region and learned that its Great Emperors had found a Special Space that blocked the call of the Land of Ending. He shared the news with Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others, then resolved to focus on building a fair cultivation realm in the Outer Heavens.

• Fang Chen taught his nine clones his ultimate techniques before the Nine Stars Alignment ended and their connection faded.
• Fang Chen gathered Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, the Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to tell them he had contacted his clones.
• Fang Chen explained that Xiao Yi had become a Great Emperor and found a Special Space where the Barbaric Ancient Region's Great Emperors could escape the call of the Land of Ending.
• Great Emperor Huo Li and the others were relieved that the Barbaric Ancient Region's Cultivators no longer had to risk traveling to the Outer Heavens.
• Fang Chen told the Myna bird that they might someday find a way back to the Barbaric Ancient Region, though they could not return now.
• Fang Chen chose to remain in the Outer Heavens and create a fairer cultivation realm for Cultivators oppressed by the Five Great Families.

Fang Chen perfected the Floating Immortal Battle Array and taught it to Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm. They began testing whether cultivators and Demonic Beasts of different races could use the array together, leaving the result uncertain.

• Fang Chen returned to cultivating on Mantis Mountain and spent a year perfecting the Floating Immortal Battle Array.
• Fang Chen taught the perfected array to Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm.
• Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li quickly cultivated the array, and Fang Chen explained that he had combined it with the Starry Sky Art so cultivators of any attribute could use it.
• Myna bird asked Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li to test the array with Fang Chen, and Fang Chen invited Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to join them.
• Great Emperor Huo Li activated the Floating Immortal Battle Array, and Formation Runes appeared on all four participants as surrounding Fire Origin power surged toward him.

Fang Chen tested the Floating Immortal Battle Array with Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, the myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, finding that they could merge into it smoothly and greatly increase its power. He then taught the array to a thousand volunteers to help defend Mantis Mountain and Golden Cicada Ridge, and they began training.

• Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, the myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm merged into Fang Chen's Floating Immortal Battle Array.
• Fang Chen tested the array's power and control, then separated from the others and decided to try it with a thousand people.
• Great Emperor Huo Li brought Fang Chen a thousand Half-Immortals and Great Emperors to learn the array.
• Fang Chen explained that the cultivators would use the Floating Immortal Battle Array to defend their land from the Five Great Families.
• The cultivators eagerly began training in the array.

Fang Chen tested the Floating Immortal Battle Array with the Cultivators, then made it public across Mantis Mountain and Golden Cicada Ridge. He developed and crafted Immortal Artifact Beads to conceal the array’s flaw and sustain its power, completing a batch of thirty-three thousand.

• Fang Chen led the Cultivators in forming the Floating Immortal Battle Array and raised its aura to the level of a Third-Turn Great Immortal with his Swordsmanship.
• Fang Chen told Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li that he would select controllers who knew the array’s flaw and craft special Immortal Artifacts to counter it.
• Fang Chen sent the Cultivators back to teach the Floating Immortal Battle Array throughout Mantis Mountain and Golden Cicada Ridge.
• Fang Chen studied Artifact Crafting Secret Manuals in the Heavenly Mechanism Tower and designed beads to conceal the array’s flaw and store energy.
• Fang Chen refined the beads in the Heaven Refining Furnace and completed a batch of thirty-three thousand Immortal Artifacts.

Fang Chen completed the Floating Immortal Beads and made the Floating Immortal Battle Array available to allies, unsettling the Chen Family and the other Great Families. Ten years later, he finished a million Meteor Tears, but their power still fell short of his expectations.

• Fang Chen crafted 108 Floating Immortal Beads to fix the Floating Immortal Battle Array Flaw and gave them to Great Emperor Huo Li to distribute.
• Fang Chen began studying Meteor Tears, while Great Emperor Huo Li organized array training and Ye Qingci returned to cultivation.
• Cultivators across Golden Cicada Ridge, Mantis Mountain, and the Chen Family learned the freely distributed Floating Immortal Battle Array, prompting Chen Family members to worry that it threatened the Five Great Families' control.
• After ten years in seclusion, Fang Chen completed a million Meteor Tears using Immortal Material Green Gold he had mined from the Green Gold Mountain Range.
• Fang Chen tested the Meteor Tears and found that their power ranged from killing ordinary Great Emperors to Fourth Revolution True Immortals, but he was disappointed that they remained weaker than he had hoped.

Fang Chen gave Great Emperor Huo Li a large supply of powerful Meteor Tears and decided to study how to refine ones capable of killing Great Immortals. On the way to Mantis Mountain’s summit to enter seclusion, he discovered that its Spatial Pressure was loosening the myna bird’s seals.

• Fang Chen gave Great Emperor Huo Li a Storage Ring containing Meteor Tears, including some that could kill Fourth Revolution True Immortals.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Huo Li and the myna bird that he planned to improve his refining methods until he could make Meteor Tears capable of killing Great Immortals.
• The myna bird asked to accompany Fang Chen into seclusion, and Fang Chen agreed.
• As Fang Chen and the myna bird flew up Mantis Mountain, the Spatial Pressure began loosening the myna bird’s seals, so it decided to cultivate there.
• Fang Chen continued alone toward the summit.

Fang Chen spent a hundred years refining a new batch of Meteor Tears, while the Myna bird and Ye Qingci reached the summit with strength on par with Great Immortals. The batch included many varieties, and Fang Chen ended by examining a rare set of Gray Meteor Tears whose power remained unknown.

• The Myna bird flew toward the summit, where Spatial Pressure weakened the Seal inside it and released energy from its Natal Spirit Pearl.
• After thirty years of research, Fang Chen used the Heaven Refining Furnace to refine Meteor Tears, while his Manifestations and a Mysterious Silhouette drove attacks and Dao Patterns into the furnace.
• The furnace devoured energy for over a hundred years, underwent Tribulation Transcendence, and returned a month later with countless Meteor Tears.
• The Myna bird reached Fang Chen and revealed its Cultivation had risen to the Half-Immortal Realm, while Ye Qingci also arrived at the summit with Great Immortal strength.
• Fang Chen, the Myna bird, and Ye Qingci examined the new Meteor Tears, including Nine-Colored ones and only a hundred small Gray Meteor Tears.

Fang Chen tested a gray Meteor Tear whose explosion nearly reached the power of a Second-Turn Great Immortal and could gravely wound or kill a First-Turn Great Immortal. He distributed Meteor Tears to his allies and planned to refine another batch before traveling to the Land of Ending to train.

• Fang Chen detonated a gray Meteor Tear, shattering space and sending him, Ye Qingci, and Myna bird tumbling away in the shockwave.
• Ye Qingci and Myna bird recognized that the blast could gravely wound a First-Turn Great Immortal, and Fang Chen collected his Meteor Tears and gave them some for protection.
• Fang Chen returned to Floating Immortal City, where Great Emperor Huo Li learned that Fang Chen's test had caused the disturbance.
• Fang Chen gave Meteor Tears to the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and handed the rest to Great Emperor Huo Li to distribute among Floating Immortal City's people.
• Fang Chen said he would refine another batch before heading to the Land of Ending to train among powerful enemies.

Fang Chen welcomed Palace Mistress Lingxin back to Mantis Mountain and learned that Senior Chaos had sent her to manage the region while Fang Chen and Great Emperor Huo Li prepared to travel to the Land of Ending. Lingxin also brought news that Glazed True Immortal had already reached the Great Immortal Realm.

• Great Emperor Huo Li left Fang Chen’s Meteor Tears behind, and Fang Chen asked him to distribute them among the cultivators of Golden Cicada Ridge and Mantis Mountain.
• Great Emperor Huo Li told Fang Chen that Palace Mistress Lingxin had arrived, and Fang Chen invited her to the Floating Immortal Hall.
• Lingxin explained that Senior Chaos had sent her back to manage Mantis Mountain so Fang Chen could leave for the Land of Ending.
• Lingxin gave Huo Li a Jade Slip from his Senior Brother, and Huo Li learned through it that Glazed True Immortal had become a Great Immortal.
• Fang Chen and Huo Li asked Lingxin to manage Mantis Mountain and Golden Cicada Ridge while they traveled to the Land of Ending.
• Lingxin questioned the usefulness of Fang Chen’s Meteor Tears against Outer Heavens opponents, and Fang Chen asked whether she thought they were ineffective.

Fang Chen refined increasingly powerful Meteor Tears for a thousand years, then prepared to travel with his companions to the Land of Ending. Palace Mistress Lingxin gave him a black bead to activate upon arrival, while he asked her to keep their journey secret.

• Ye Qingci told Palace Mistress Lingxin that Fang Chen's Meteor Tears might be powerful enough to kill a First-Turn Great Immortal, and Fang Chen explained that he had only inferred their strength from tests.
• Fang Chen asked Great Emperor Huo Li to leave Mantis Mountain and Golden Cicada Ridge in Palace Mistress Lingxin's care before continuing to refine Meteor Tears.
• After a thousand years, Fang Chen had refined ten batches and discovered a Gray Meteor Tear marked with two golden lines.
• Fang Chen gave Palace Mistress Lingxin millions of Meteor Tears and confirmed that he still had plenty of his own.
• Fang Chen and his companions prepared to leave for the Land of Ending, and Palace Mistress Lingxin gave him a black bead that would summon someone when activated there.
• Fang Chen asked Palace Mistress Lingxin to keep their journey secret because powerful human and foreign-race factions had noticed him.

Fang Chen and his companions left the Heavenly River Diagram and arrived at the dangerous Land of Ending. After checking that he could withstand its hostile conditions, Fang Chen activated the Black Bead to search for Glazed True Immortal and the others.

• Fang Chen summoned Little Crane and asked it to take him and his companions out of the Heavenly River Diagram without being noticed.
• Little Crane carried the group through the void and, a month later, reached the Land of Ending.
• Fang Chen ordered Little Crane to keep everyone else inside the Spirit Crane Space while he went out alone.
• Fang Chen used the Immortal-Veiling Umbrella to withstand the Land of Ending’s hostile energies and decided to remain at the Great Emperor Realm.
• At Great Emperor Huo Li’s suggestion, Fang Chen activated the Black Bead Palace Mistress Lingxin had given him.

Fang Chen activated the Token in the Land of Ending and was brought to the Black Orb, where Xuanhuang True Immortal welcomed him and his companions. Xuanhuang True Immortal settled them at Glazed Hall and introduced Great Emperor Huo Li to Black Spirit Daoist Friend as his master's junior brother.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb the energy around him while waiting for help.
• A gray-haired old man sensed Glazed Daoist Friend's Token and appeared before Fang Chen, then escorted him and Little Crane through a Space Rift into the Black Orb.
• Xuanhuang True Immortal arrived at the Hanging Island, greeted Fang Chen, and learned he had brought Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others.
• Xuanhuang True Immortal led Fang Chen and his companions to Glazed Hall, explaining that it was Glazed Daoist Friend's residence in the Ghost Realm.
• Xuanhuang True Immortal introduced Great Emperor Huo Li to Black Spirit Daoist Friend as his master's junior brother.