Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen and his companions learned that the Ghost Realm was the Barbaric Ancient Region’s hidden base in the Land of Ending, protected by a powerful Realm Spirit and concealed by soul contracts. Fang Chen ended the conversation by asking whether their recording Personal Puppets could expose the Ghost Realm.

• Hei Xun greeted Great Emperor Huo Li, and Xuanhuang Great Immortal revealed that he had long reached the Great Immortal Realm.
• Xuanhuang Great Immortal explained that the Ghost Realm was a refined broken world serving as the Barbaric Ancient Region’s main base in the Land of Ending.
• Xuanhuang Great Immortal told Fang Chen’s group that the Realm Spirit could rescue cultivators with Ghost Pearls, though the dangers of the Land of Ending could still prevent him from reaching them in time.
• Xuanhuang Great Immortal explained that the Ghost Realm’s location constantly changed and that those who left had to sign soul contracts to keep its secrets.
• Fang Chen asked whether their Personal Puppets’ recordings could reveal the Ghost Realm to outsiders.

Fang Chen and his companions celebrated Great Emperor Huo Li’s reunion with Great Immortal Liuli, who promised to guide them through the dangers of the Land of Ending. The chapter ended with Fang Chen asking Liuli to help identify a white stone that aided Little Crane’s Cultivation.

• Xuanhuang Great Immortal explained that the Ghost Realm suppressed Fang Chen’s personal puppets, and Fang Chen found that Little Golden Cicada could not respond.
• Great Emperor Huo Li reunited with Great Immortal Liuli after more than ten thousand years apart, and the two celebrated together.
• Great Immortal Liuli told Fang Chen that Yaochi Great Immortal brewed Qiongyao Immortal Dew Wine and was currently in seclusion.
• Great Immortal Liuli offered to take Fang Chen and the others to the Ghost Realm’s Book-Collection Space so they could learn about the Land of Ending.
• At Little Crane’s request, Fang Chen showed Great Immortal Liuli an image of a white stone, and Liuli agreed to ask other Daoist Friends from the Barbaric Ancient Region to look for it.

After learning about the dangers and treasures of the Land of Ending, Fang Chen agreed to craft Demon-Devouring treasures for the Ghost Realm in exchange for rewards and a chance to cultivate in its Time Acceleration Secret Realm. He began work on Gray Mist Island under Great Immortal Liuli’s watch, who wanted to observe his crafting method.

• The myna bird used the Clone Technique to read the Ghost Realm’s books about the Land of Ending and shared their contents with Fang Chen and the others.
• Great Immortal Liuli asked Fang Chen to craft Demon-Devouring Immortal Artifacts and Emperor Treasures to help the Ghost Realm confront the Devil Race.
• Great Immortal Liuli offered Fang Chen cultivation resources and said he might secure a place in the Ghost Realm’s hundredfold Time Acceleration Secret Realm after completing the treasures.
• Great Immortal Liuli led Fang Chen and the others to Gray Mist Island so Fang Chen could craft there.
• Fang Chen learned that Great Immortal Liuli planned to stay and watch because his senior brother was curious about Fang Chen’s crafting method.

Fang Chen crafted an artifact in the Ghost Realm while Great Immortal Liuli and the Ghost Realm Spirit watched his powerful Manifestations at work. After months of refining the Heaven Refining Furnace with their help, the mysterious figure from his Bagua Diagram appeared to form Dao Patterns, then vanished.

• Fang Chen sent Ye Qingci, Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm to cultivate while he began crafting an artifact under Great Immortal Liuli's gaze.
• The Medicine-Brewing Old Farmer opened a Space Vortex, and Fang Chen traveled through it to collect Bamboo Shoots before joining his Manifestations for Hot Pot.
• The Ghost Realm Spirit tried and failed to send World Power into Fang Chen's Heaven Refining Furnace, which he found shielded by strange energy.
• After Fang Chen and his Manifestations ate for a month, they attacked the Heaven Refining Furnace for half a year, then Fang Chen began forming Dao Patterns.
• A figure emerged from the Bagua Diagram, knocked Fang Chen aside, and formed Dao Patterns for five months before vanishing along with the Innate Eight Trigrams Array Diagram.

Fang Chen’s Heaven Refining Furnace absorbed lightning and gray mist, then revealed a miniature world filled with the treasures he had crafted. Great Immortal Liuli tested the Demon Devouring Immortal Sword and proved it could remove Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison, so Fang Chen entrusted him with the weapons to help fight the Devil Race in the Land of Ending.

• The Realm Spirit sent the Heaven Refining Furnace out of the Ghost Realm, where it endured ten days of lightning before returning to Gray Mist Island.
• Gray Tendrils on the furnace absorbed the island’s gray mist, and Fang Chen discovered that its interior had expanded into a miniature world containing his five Imperial Flames and crafted treasures.
• Fang Chen released more than a million treasures, including over a thousand Immortal Artifacts, and Great Immortal Liuli and the Ghost Realm Spirit were astonished by their quantity and quality.
• Great Immortal Liuli tested a Demon Devouring Immortal Sword on a Devil Race corpse and himself, confirming that it devoured Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison.
• Fang Chen gathered the Demon Devouring Emperor Weapons and Immortal Artifacts and handed them to Great Immortal Liuli.

Great Immortal Liuli brought Fang Chen to Ghost Hall and requested priority access to the Time Acceleration Secret Realm, citing Fang Chen’s strength and achievements. Great Immortal Black Stone challenged Fang Chen to make him take one step back, and the chapter ended before their test began.

• Great Immortal Liuli took Fang Chen to Ghost Hall to apply for access to the Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen found Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, Xuanhuang Great Immortal, and others gathered in Ghost Hall.
• Great Immortal Liuli introduced Fang Chen and requested that the Realm Spirit grant him priority access to the Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Great Emperor Huo Li suggested that a fight could prove Fang Chen’s strength, and Great Immortal Black Stone volunteered to test him.
• Great Immortal Black Stone told Fang Chen to strike first and declared that he would lose if Fang Chen made him take even one step back.

Fang Chen defeated Great Immortal Black Stone with one sword strike, winning his support for priority access to the Time Acceleration Secret Realm. Great Immortal Black Stone warned that Fang Chen also needed to contribute to the Ghost Realm, and Great Immortal Liuli then began presenting Demon Devouring Treasures.

• Fang Chen activated his techniques and raised his aura to the level of a First-Turn Great Immortal.
• Fang Chen struck Great Immortal Black Stone with Sword Shatters Xinghe, blasting him into a mist of blood before the Realm Spirit restored him.
• Great Immortal Black Stone praised Fang Chen and voted to support his application for priority access to the Time Acceleration Secret Realm, while warning him that contributions to the Ghost Realm were also required.
• Great Immortal Liuli returned to the Square and released more than ten thousand Demon Devouring Treasures from Fang Chen's Storage Ring.

Great Immortal Liuli introduced Demon Devouring Treasures that could purge Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison, and Cultivators at the gathering tested them and were cured. He revealed that Fang Chen had given him the treasures, while keeping their true origin secret.

• Great Immortal Liuli displayed the treasures and explained that they could devour Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison.
• Cultivators of different ranks selected treasures, inserted them into their bodies, and had their afflictions completely purged.
• The cured Cultivators expressed disbelief and asked Great Immortal Liuli why he had not brought the treasures out sooner.
• Great Immortal Liuli said he had only just received the treasures and revealed that Fang Chen had given them to him.
• Great Immortal Liuli withheld the fact that Fang Chen had refined the treasures, leaving their origin as Fang Chen's secret.

Fang Chen gained priority access to the Ghost Realm’s Time Acceleration Secret Realm after donating Demon Devouring Treasures that could cleanse Demonic Qi and Demonic Poison. Great Immortal Liuli offered to give him the remaining treasures for Contribution Points and saw Fang Chen’s abilities as a source of hope against the coming Great Calamity.

• Great Immortal Liuli privately warned Fang Chen to keep his ability to craft Demon Devouring Treasures secret.
• Great Immortal Liuli proposed granting Fang Chen priority access to the Time Acceleration Secret Realm for ten thousand years, and the assembled cultivators unanimously supported it.
• The Realm Spirit approved the proposal and reminded Fang Chen that using the secret realm would still require Contribution Points.
• Great Immortal Liuli offered to give Fang Chen his remaining Demon Devouring Treasures so Fang Chen could exchange them for Contribution Points, but Fang Chen said he could craft more.
• Great Immortal Liuli resolved to keep Fang Chen’s ability to make Heaven Demon Powder secret and preserve it as an ultimate weapon.

After Fang Chen gained access to the Ghost Realm’s Time Secret Realm, Great Immortal Liuli gave him Demon Devouring Treasures to exchange for cultivation resources for himself and his companions. Fang Chen agreed to help them grow stronger and offered to teach the Ghost Realm a Battle Array he had created.

• The Realm Spirit ended the meeting, and Ye Qingci, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, the Myna bird, Great Emperor Huo Li, Xuanhuang Great Immortal, and Great Immortal Liuli congratulated Fang Chen.
• Great Immortal Liuli gave Fang Chen a Storage Ring of Demon Devouring Treasures worth about a billion Contribution Points, enough to pay for a thousand years in the Ghost Realm’s hundredfold Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Great Immortal Liuli promised to help Ye Qingci secure her own Time Acceleration Secret Realm and explained that Fang Chen could refine more Demon Devouring Treasures to fund cultivation for their companions.
• Fang Chen agreed to refine the treasures so Ye Qingci and the others could cultivate, then offered to teach Great Immortal Liuli the Battle Array he had created using the Starry Sky Art.

Fang Chen taught Great Immortal Liuli the Floating Immortal Battle Array, which Liuli found exceptionally powerful. They brought it to the Realm Spirit to arrange an assessment and possible listing in the Ghost Realm’s Book-Collection Space, and the Realm Spirit decided to summon the powerhouses already in the realm first.

• Great Immortal Liuli advised Fang Chen to charge cultivators for learning the Floating Immortal Battle Array and told him to prepare for cultivation in the Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen taught Great Immortal Liuli the Floating Immortal Battle Array, and Liuli quickly mastered it and praised its power and efficiency.
• Great Immortal Liuli took Fang Chen to the Ghost Hall to ask the Realm Spirit to arrange an assessment of the battle array.
• The Realm Spirit agreed to summon the powerhouses currently in the Ghost Realm to the Ghost Hall, postponing a wider summons until they assessed the technique.

The Realm Spirit tested Fang Chen’s Floating Immortal Battle Array with the Great Immortals, who found it powerful, easy to learn, energy-efficient, and simple to form together. Convinced it could strengthen the Ghost Realm, the Realm Spirit recalled every cultivator exploring the Land of Ending, leaving them gathered back in the realm and wondering why they had been summoned.

• The Realm Spirit summoned more than twenty Great Immortals, including Xuanhuang Great Immortal, and asked Fang Chen to teach them the Floating Immortal Battle Array.
• The Great Immortals mastered the array and praised its strength, ease of use, and low energy consumption.
• The Great Immortals joined forces into a hundred-zhang Giant with half-step Immortal King strength, succeeding without practicing together.
• The Great Immortals urged the Realm Spirit to spread the array throughout the Ghost Realm, and he agreed to summon everyone back.
• The Realm Spirit used his manifestations and Spatial Passages to bring every cultivator exploring the Land of Ending back to the Ghost Realm in less than half an hour.
• The recalled cultivators wondered whether a Great Calamity had arrived, while the Great Immortals headed to the Ghost Hall.

The Realm Spirit summoned the Great Immortals to the Ghost Hall to introduce Fang Chen, a Great Emperor whose strength rivaled theirs, and reveal his Floating Immortal Battle Array. After the Great Immortals tested the technique and formed a half-step Immortal King-level Giant, the Realm Spirit announced plans to add it to the Ghost Realm’s Book-Collection Space for a fee.

• Great Immortal Liuli introduced Fang Chen, also known as Floating Immortal, and Great Immortal Black Stone confirmed that Fang Chen had gravely wounded him in a fight.
• The Great Immortals praised Fang Chen’s talent and agreed that he had Immortal King Potential.
• The Realm Spirit summoned the Great Immortals to learn Fang Chen’s Floating Immortal Battle Array.
• The Great Immortals quickly mastered the array, joined together into a Giant with half-step Immortal King strength, and tested its power under Chaos Great Immortal’s control.
• The Realm Spirit said the Floating Immortal Battle Array would be added to the Ghost Realm’s Book-Collection Space for a fee, and the Great Immortals accepted.

The Realm Spirit showcased Fang Chen’s Demon Devouring Treasures and confirmed his priority access to the Ghost Realm’s best Time Acceleration Secret Realm. After the gathering ended, Fang Chen met several founders of ancient holy lands and learned why Star Heavenly Emperor had not advanced beyond the Half-Immortal Realm; the group then prepared to celebrate with wine.

• The Realm Spirit borrowed Fang Chen’s Demon Devouring Treasures, explained their abilities, and announced that Fang Chen had priority access to the Ghost Realm’s finest Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• The Realm Spirit stored the treasures in the Treasure Pavilion and dismissed the gathered Great Immortals, who stayed to introduce themselves to Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen met Yaochi Great Immortal, Great Immortal Cosmos, Great Immortal Heavenly Talisman, Great Immortal Black Tortoise, and Great Immortal North Nether, then asked why the Star Sect’s founder was absent.
• Great Immortal Liuli explained that Star Heavenly Emperor remained in the Half-Immortal Realm by choice, since his strength made him well suited to the Land of Ending.
• Chaos Great Immortal offered to buy drinks, but Yaochi Great Immortal insisted on treating the group because her wine-making had made her wealthy.

At a banquet in the Square of the Ghost Hall, Fang Chen reunited with Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao and caught up on how his companions had grown stronger. Great Emperor Huo Li met the Sword Emperor, whose legacy he had claimed, and Great Immortal Liuli asked the Sword Emperor to guide him in swordsmanship.

• Yaochi Great Immortal hosted a banquet where Fang Chen reunited with Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao after more than a thousand years apart.
• Fang Chen and his companions discussed their cultivation, including Li Qingyao's winemaking lessons, Yue Canglan's training under the Chaos Great Immortal, and Ye Kong's instruction from the Xuanhuang Great Immortal.
• Great Immortal Liuli summoned Great Emperor Huo Li and introduced him to the Sword Emperor.
• Great Emperor Huo Li told the Sword Emperor that he had claimed the legacy he left in the Sacred Land, surprising the Sword Emperor.
• Great Immortal Liuli asked the Sword Emperor to guide Great Emperor Huo Li in swordsmanship.

After the banquet, Fang Chen sold more than a million Demon Devouring Treasures and entered the Ghost Realm’s Time Acceleration Secret Realm to cultivate. The Realm Spirit left him alone in the empty realm, where he began preparing to refine Heaven Demon Powder and test its strength.

• The Sword Emperor and Great Emperor Huo Li exchanged insights on the Sword Dao during the three-day banquet.
• After the gathering, the cultivators practiced the Floating Immortal Battle Array, while Fang Chen sold his Demon Devouring Treasures for 1.3 billion Contribution Points.
• Fang Chen told Ye Qingci and the others to cultivate, then received a Ghost Pearl from the Realm Spirit.
• The Realm Spirit opened a passage, and Fang Chen entered the Time Acceleration Secret Realm, where it explained that living beings depleted the realm’s origin.
• Fang Chen summoned the Heaven Refining Furnace to refine Demon Devouring Treasures, Meteor Tears, and Heaven Demon Powder and assess whether the powder could harm powerful members of the Devil Race.

Fang Chen spent three hundred years in the Time Acceleration Secret Realm crafting treasures for his allies before turning to cultivation and his Fusion Dao. He began working toward fusing a fourth Origin with the Floating Immortal Sword’s help.

• Fang Chen crafted successive batches of Demon Devouring Treasures and gave two batches to the Realm Spirit to convert into Contribution Points for Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others.
• Fang Chen spent a hundred years refining Demon Devouring Treasures, another hundred refining Meteor Tears, and a hundred refining Heaven Demon Powder.
• Fang Chen reflected on the value of the Time Acceleration Secret Realm and his friends, then decided to focus on his fusion swordsmanship.
• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to pierce the realm’s Barrier and enter an extreme state for studying which Origin to fuse next.

Fang Chen pressured the Time Acceleration Secret Realm with the Floating Immortal Sword, causing it to absorb energy from the Ghost Realm and grow stronger. After ten thousand years of cultivation, he ruled out Light and Darkness as Origins to fuse next, left the realm, and contacted Great Immortal Liuli.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to pressure the Time Acceleration Secret Realm's barrier, and the Realm Spirit noticed the realm drawing energy from the Ghost Realm.
• Over ten years outside, the Time Acceleration Secret Realm grew stronger as Fang Chen's continued pressure made it devour outside energy.
• The Realm Spirit explained that Fang Chen's method had accelerated the realm's growth, though Fang Chen remained unaware of its effect.
• After ten thousand years inside the realm, Fang Chen stopped cultivating and told the Realm Spirit he had ruled out Light and Darkness as Origins to fuse.
• The Realm Spirit sent Fang Chen out, and Fang Chen contacted Great Immortal Liuli, who arranged to meet him at the Glazed Hall.

Fang Chen tested whether his Heaven Refining Furnace could block the Realm Spirit's surveillance, leaving Great Immortal Liuli uncertain whether the furnace had truly isolated them. Fang Chen then asked to leave the Ghost Realm, claiming he wanted to visit the dangerous Land of Ending for fun.

• Fang Chen brought Great Immortal Liuli into the Heaven Refining Furnace, where the Realm Spirit could no longer watch them from outside.
• Great Immortal Liuli explained that the Realm Spirit's power reached everywhere in the Ghost Realm and said no one could escape his surveillance.
• Great Immortal Liuli failed to summon the Realm Spirit from inside the furnace, leaving him unsure whether the furnace had blocked the Realm Spirit or the Realm Spirit was pretending not to respond.
• Fang Chen said he wanted privacy despite the Realm Spirit's impartiality, but admitted he still did not feel entirely safe.
• Fang Chen asked Great Immortal Liuli to take him to the Land of Ending, and Great Immortal Liuli warned him that it was too dangerous.

Fang Chen persuaded Great Immortal Liuli and Chaos Great Immortal to escort him from the Ghost Realm to the Land of Ending. After they crossed the passage, Fang Chen discovered that his Spiritual Sense there was comparable to that of a Fourth-Turn Great Immortal.

• Fang Chen asked Great Immortal Liuli to take him to the Land of Ending, and Great Immortal Liuli summoned Chaos Great Immortal to help protect him.
• Great Immortal Liuli and Chaos Great Immortal agreed to escort Fang Chen out of the Ghost Realm.
• The three flew through a vast sea vortex and emerged beside the Ghost Realm, which appeared as an enormous, Rune-covered egg before a spatial tide swallowed it.
• Fang Chen found that his Spiritual Sense could reach only ten thousand li in the Land of Ending, but Great Immortal Liuli said that range matched a Fourth-Turn Great Immortal.