Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to batter Dao Master Ati’s Saint Talisman shield, but Ati activated the Void Sword Array to counter him. As the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed power from the clash, green Runes appeared on Fang Chen’s skin and his strength surged.

• Fang Chen sent the Floating Immortal Sword into Dao Master Ati’s Saint Talisman shield and repeatedly cracked it with rapid strikes.
• Dao Master Ati activated a Token and summoned the Void Sword Array, sending the Eight Divine Swords against Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen’s three bonded Flying Swords clashed with the Eight Divine Swords, damaging both sets and injuring him with backlash.
• Fang Chen recalled the Floating Immortal Sword and used it to block the Eight Divine Swords, but the impact shattered his arm before the sword’s Spiritual Power healed it.
• The Floating Immortal Sword absorbed Dao Patterns from the Eight Divine Swords, and green Runes appeared on Fang Chen’s skin as his strength increased.

Fang Chen broke through during his fight with Dao Master Ati, shattered the Void Sword Array’s Eight Divine Swords, and forced Ati to flee. He then attacked the City Lord’s Mansion, slaughtering its guards and killing a Buddhist Cultivator who tried to stop him.

• Fang Chen’s Glazed Golden Body Art reached its fifth transformation, and his growing power let him withstand the Eight Divine Swords.
• Fang Chen completed the fourth transformation of his Primordial Spirit and shattered all eight Divine Swords with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen overwhelmed Dao Master Ati’s protective barrier, but Ati escaped with a Spatial Teleportation Talisman.
• Fang Chen sent the Floating Immortal Sword to the City Lord’s Mansion and killed its guards, using his bonded Flying Swords against the Nirvana Realm cultivators.
• Fang Chen drew the guards’ corpses into the Heaven Refining Furnace to refine them.
• A Buddhist Cultivator urged Fang Chen to stop, but Fang Chen killed him with the Floating Immortal Sword.

Fang Chen slaughtered Lin Yuan City's Guards and Buddhist Cultivators after they failed to stop a monk from trying to rob him, then left before a Loulan Saint could arrive. King Ding Shou learned of the massacre from City Lord Ati and demanded to know why it had happened.

• Fang Chen killed every Guard and Buddhist Cultivator in Lin Yuan City, while three of his damaged life-bound Flying Swords mysteriously repaired themselves and grew stronger.
• Fang Chen left the city with the Myna bird, sparing the remaining residents as news of the massacre spread.
• King Ding Shou studied a mysterious cultivation method inscribed on a black box brought from the Forbidden Grounds.
• City Lord Ati reported the massacre to King Ding Shou and explained that a monk had first tried to extort Fang Chen, while the Guards did nothing.

After Fang Chen massacred Lin Yuan City, the King of Loulan faced pressure from the Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom while the story of the Lin Yuan Sword Demon spread. Three days later, Black Flame Dao Master recognized Fang Chen in a news bulletin and realized who had carried out the slaughter.

• The King of Loulan scolded City Lord Ati for letting Buddhist Cultivators run wild, then ordered him to investigate the mysterious attacker.
• Rumors spread that a fourth-layer Spirit Transformation Realm swordsman had killed more than a million people in Lin Yuan City, earning Fang Chen the name Lin Yuan Sword Demon.
• The Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom demanded an explanation, and the King of Loulan offered a huge reward to find Fang Chen, but the investigation uncovered no clues.
• Black Flame Dao Master visited Drifting Dao Master at the Glazed Sword Sect and read a bulletin about the Lin Yuan City massacre.
• Black Flame Dao Master recognized Fang Chen in the bulletin by the myna bird on his shoulder and broke into a cold sweat.

Black Flame Dao Master worried that Fang Chen’s actions in Lin Yuan City had angered the Loulan Ancient Kingdom and the Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom, while Drifting Dao Master praised the Sword Demon for opposing the Buddhist Kingdom’s influence. As rumors spread and many Human Race cultivators rallied behind Fang Chen, he entered the Abyss of Death with the Myna bird.

• Black Flame Dao Master feared the Glazed Sword Sect would face disaster if the Loulan Ancient Kingdom or the Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom discovered Fang Chen’s identity.
• Drifting Dao Master defended the Lin Yuan Sword Demon and criticized the Western Regions Buddhist Kingdom for expanding into Human Race territory.
• Black Flame Dao Master gave Drifting Dao Master a Jade Slip listing materials to buy, then invited him to play chess.
• People across Human Race territory debated Fang Chen’s killings and increasingly supported him after hearing that the City Lord’s Mansion and the Buddhist monks had provoked him.
• Fang Chen entered the Abyss of Death with the Myna bird.

Fang Chen went to a gathering place in the Abyss of Death to ask about the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass, but a confrontation with Buddhist Cultivators erupted. After killing one and cutting a Nirvana Realm Buddhist Cultivator into pieces, Fang Chen faced the gathered monks’ golden Sanskrit attacks.

• Fang Chen disguised himself with the Mask of Oblivion and headed with Myna bird to a nearby gathering place to seek information about the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass.
• When a Buddhist Cultivator threatened to dig out his eyes, Fang Chen seized him, dug out his eyes, crushed his throat, and threw him down.
• Fang Chen summoned the Floating Immortal Sword and struck a Nirvana Realm Buddhist Cultivator twice after challenging his claim that Fang Chen’s response was excessive.
• The Nirvana Realm Buddhist Cultivator attacked, and Fang Chen repeatedly slashed him until he was cut into hundreds of pieces.
• The other Buddhist Cultivators chanted and sent golden Sanskrit characters at Fang Chen, whose True Essence shielding rippled under their attacks.

Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb the Diamond Sutra chanted by more than ten thousand Buddhist Cultivators, gaining enough power to complete his Primordial Spirit’s fifth transformation. After the chanting failed, the Buddhist Cultivators attacked him with a Golden Wooden Fish.

• Fang Chen let the Floating Immortal Sword devour the golden Sanskrit characters and absorbed the Spiritual Power it returned to him.
• More than ten thousand Buddhist Cultivators chanted the Diamond Sutra at Fang Chen, but he continued absorbing the characters and growing stronger.
• After three days, Fang Chen completed his Primordial Spirit’s fifth transformation and revealed that he was in the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The Buddhist Cultivators stopped chanting when they realized the Diamond Sutra had failed, then decided to kill Fang Chen with a Buddhist artifact.
• A Nirvana Realm Buddhist Cultivator launched a Golden Wooden Fish at Fang Chen, and Fang Chen swung the Floating Immortal Sword at it.

Fang Chen slaughtered the Buddhist Cultivators who attacked him at a Stronghold, then received a Jade Slip from Li Qingxia marking places where Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass had been found. After Fang Chen flew deeper into the Abyss of Death, Li Qingxia and her junior sisters set out to search for a mutated Zombie Emperor and Corpse Emperor Grass.

• Fang Chen destroyed the Buddhist Cultivators' artifacts, killed them all, and refined their bodies in the Heaven Refining Furnace.
• Fang Chen asked the watching cultivators where he could find Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass, and Li Qingxia gave him a Jade Slip with known locations.
• Fang Chen thanked Li Qingxia and flew deeper into the Abyss of Death.
• One of Li Qingxia's junior sisters asked why she had not asked Fang Chen to help them find Corpse Emperor Grass.
• Li Qingxia said they should rely on themselves, then led her junior sisters deeper into the Abyss of Death to search for a mutated Zombie Emperor.

Fang Chen searched Death Wolf Spider Valley for the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass, collecting Devil's Eye along the way. After the Myna bird found the grass, Hell Devil Bees attacked Fang Chen, but he killed them with the Floating Immortal Sword and recovered from their venom.

• Fang Chen entered Death Wolf Spider Valley and used the Reincarnation Eye Secret Technique to search for the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass.
• The Myna bird sent out its Clones to search while Fang Chen traveled deeper into the valley.
• Fang Chen and the Myna bird collected Devil's Eye plants from among the bones and spiderwebs.
• The Myna bird's Clones found the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass, and Fang Chen followed the Myna bird toward it.
• Hell Devil Bees stung Fang Chen and pierced his True Essence barrier, but he killed them with the Floating Immortal Sword and used its Spiritual Power to recover.

Fang Chen and the Myna bird searched for the Hell Devil Bees’ nest after Fang Chen killed a swarm and refined their metal-rich bodies into his Natal Spirit Treasures. They reached the nest, where Fang Chen fought through the bees and sent the Paper Crane to collect their bodies.

• Fang Chen questioned why the Saint Token had not protected him from the Hell Devil Bees, and the Myna bird explained that their tiny, fast stingers could bypass automatic defenses.
• The Myna bird used its Innate Divine Ability to send out red Clones and search for the bees’ nest, while Fang Chen refined their bodies and strengthened the Mortal Dust Sword and Heaven Refining Furnace.
• While the Myna bird narrowed down the nest’s location, Fang Chen trained by striking the mountainside with the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb Spiritual Power.
• The Myna bird found the nest, and Fang Chen flew there with it.
• Hell Devil Bees attacked Fang Chen at the nest, but he used the Floating Immortal Sword to keep them away and sent the Paper Crane to collect their bodies.

Fang Chen drained the Hell Devil Bees’ Barrier with the Floating Immortal Sword, repeatedly advancing his cultivation before breaking through into their underground nest. He kept carving through a Jade Vein toward the nest, and after absorbing the sword’s stored Spiritual Power, he continued digging without reaching another breakthrough.

• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb the Barrier’s Spiritual Power, breaking through to the sixth, seventh, and eighth layers of the Spirit Transformation Realm over the following month.
• The Barrier shattered, and Fang Chen fought off the Hell Devil Bees that swarmed him as the Paper Crane collected their corpses.
• Fang Chen and the Myna bird found the bees’ nest beneath a cliff and dug more than three thousand zhang underground into a Jade Vein.
• Fang Chen carved through the Jade Vein with the Floating Immortal Sword, then absorbed the Spiritual Power stored in it and began his Nascent Soul’s eighth Metamorphosis.
• Fang Chen recovered and resumed carving through the Jade Vein, still at the eighth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Fang Chen reached the Hell Devil Bees' nest and negotiated with their powerful Queen, who revealed she was a Hell Devouring God Bee and offered to pass on her race's inherited Secret Method. After consulting the Myna bird, Fang Chen accepted the risky transfer and relaxed as the bee prepared to sting him between the brows.

• Fang Chen entered the nest's central chamber, where the Floating Immortal Sword cut down the attacking Hell Devil Bees.
• The Queen Bee emerged, stopped the swarm, and offered Fang Chen ninety percent of the nest's honey to spare her kin.
• The Queen Bee revealed she was a Hell Devouring God Bee and offered to teach Fang Chen its race's innate Secret Method.
• Fang Chen consulted the Myna bird, who said the method might be learnable and urged him to accept the offer.
• The Hell Devouring God Bee said it had to sting Fang Chen between the brows to pass on the method, and Fang Chen agreed despite the danger.

Fang Chen survived the Hell Devouring God Bee’s venom and received the Devouring God Art, then took most of the hive’s honeycomb and left. He revealed to the Myna bird that the bee had intended to kill him, prompting it to ask why he had spared the bee.

• The Hell Devouring God Bee stung Fang Chen and passed its inherited Secret Method into his Soul Origin, leaving him writhing in agony.
• Fang Chen shattered the jade with the Floating Immortal Sword, absorbed its Spiritual Power, survived the venom, and underwent another Metamorphosis.
• Fang Chen learned about the Devouring God Art, its Devouring God Imprints, and how the Hell Devil Bees had gained their devouring ability.
• Fang Chen agreed to take eighty percent of the honeycomb, and the Hell Devouring God Bee promised that anyone bearing a Devouring God Imprint could collect honey again after a hundred years.
• Fang Chen and the Myna bird left the hive, and Fang Chen said the Hell Devouring God Bee had tried to kill him; the Myna bird asked why he had spared it.

After reaching the Ninth Layer of the Primordial Spirit realm, Fang Chen followed the Myna bird to find the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass and fought through the Hell Wolf Spiders guarding it. He discovered the grass growing atop the Hell Wolf Spider King and charged at the beast.

• Fang Chen spared the Hell Devouring God Bee and left with the Myna bird to search for the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass.
• Three days later, the Myna bird led Fang Chen to the Hell Wolf Spider lair, where Fang Chen cut through the webs and killed the attacking spiders.
• Fang Chen refined the spiders’ corpses and found spirit medicines deeper in the cavern.
• The Hell Wolf Spider King emerged, revealing the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass growing on its head.
• The Myna bird told Fang Chen that even the powerful Hell Wolf Spider King was no match for a Saint, and Fang Chen resolved to become a Saint before charging at it.

Fang Chen found the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass and hurried back through the Abyss of Death to save Chen Xiaofei, but stopped when he saw Jin Yuanzi attacking Li Qingxia. He freed Li Qingxia with a slap that sent Jin Yuanzi flying, and the chapter left them facing the aftermath of the confrontation.

• Fang Chen killed the Hell Wolf Spider King and began refining its corpse while the myna bird gathered the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass.
• After the myna bird found the herb, Fang Chen set off at once toward the Abyss of Death's exit so he could return and save Chen Xiaofei.
• Fang Chen sensed a fight in a canyon and saw Jin Yuanzi using a Saint Weapon Golden Bowl to capture Li Qingxia.
• Jin Yuanzi declared that Li Qingxia would not escape, despite her resistance and her junior sisters' attempt to help her.
• Fang Chen appeared before Jin Yuanzi and slapped him away, disrupting the Golden Bowl and freeing Li Qingxia.

Fang Chen confronted Jin Yuanzi, wounded him, and forced him to rely on a Protective Saint Artifact before Jin Yuanzi unveiled his Manifestation and two Saint Weapons. Their clash shook the valley and sent them both flying, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Li Qingxia recognized Fang Chen’s rapid advancement as he stepped forward to face Jin Yuanzi.
• Fang Chen kicked Jin Yuanzi in the crotch and tried to cut off his head, but Jin Yuanzi’s Protective Saint Artifact blocked the sword.
• Fang Chen called himself Dog Slayer, and Jin Yuanzi revealed his Sunrise in the East Manifestation as cultivators arrived to watch.
• Jin Yuanzi brought out his Demon-Subduing Pestle, golden bowl Saint Weapon, and Golden Lotus Platform before attacking Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes and met Jin Yuanzi’s pestle with the Floating Immortal Sword, and the impact hurled them both backward.

Fang Chen shattered Jin Yuanzi’s Demon-Subduing Pestle and countered Buddha’s Palm with his own Hand of the Heavens, badly injuring Jin Yuanzi. He then clashed head-on with Jin Yuanzi’s golden bowl and stood ready as Jin Yuanzi returned to the sky, feeding the Saint Weapon with golden light.

• Fang Chen shattered Jin Yuanzi’s Demon-Subduing Pestle with the Floating Immortal Sword and sent him crashing into a mountaintop.
• Jin Yuanzi emerged from the rubble and struck Fang Chen with Buddha’s Palm, but Fang Chen’s Hand of the Heavens shattered the attack and wounded him.
• The golden bowl flew at Fang Chen, who struck it with the Floating Immortal Sword and left a sword mark on the Saint Weapon.
• Jin Yuanzi reappeared in the sky and poured golden light from behind him into the bowl.

Fang Chen overpowered Jin Yuanzi in a series of clashes, weakening his Golden Bowl while his own sword grew stronger. Jin Yuanzi abandoned his attempt to break through and fled, and Fang Chen asked the Myna bird how he could prevent powerful opponents from escaping.

• Fang Chen repeatedly struck Jin Yuanzi's Golden Bowl with the Floating Immortal Sword, damaging the bowl and absorbing its Dao Patterns.
• As the fight continued, Fang Chen's power and Sword Intent grew while Jin Yuanzi consumed pills and grew increasingly frustrated.
• Jin Yuanzi prepared to become a Saint to kill Fang Chen, but his master's restriction restored his senses and stopped him.
• Jin Yuanzi fled on his Golden Lotus Platform, and Fang Chen chose not to pursue him.
• Fang Chen asked the Myna bird about treasures that could prevent enemies from escaping, and it explained that powerful weapons could lock down spacetime.

Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect with the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass after escaping the Abyss of Death and avoiding Lin Yuan City. He and Black Flame Dao Master headed to Profound Flame Valley to study how to refine the Soul Reversal Pill.

• Fang Chen left the Abyss of Death with the myna bird, avoided Lin Yuan City, and traveled beyond the Loulan Ancient Kingdom before using a Teleportation Array.
• Fang Chen returned safely to the Glazed Sword Sect a month later and told Black Flame Dao Master that he had found the Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass.
• Black Flame Dao Master scolded Fang Chen for killing Buddhist Cultivators in Lin Yuan City and warned him to keep a low profile.
• The myna bird gave Black Flame Dao Master a large supply of Three-Colored Soul Returning Grass, and Fang Chen credited Li Qingxia with showing them where to find it.
• Fang Chen and Black Flame Dao Master agreed to try refining the Soul Reversal Pill themselves and went to Profound Flame Valley to join Senior Brother Azure Cloud.

Fang Chen, the Black Flame Dao Master, and the Azure Cloud Daoist studied Soul Reversal Pill formulas at Profound Flame Valley, where the Myna revealed simpler Soul Nurturing Pill formulas from its sealed memories. They began preparing to refine both pills, and the Azure Cloud Daoist noticed that Fang Chen’s Heaven Refining Furnace had grown stronger.

• Fang Chen and the Black Flame Dao Master met the waiting Azure Cloud Daoist at Profound Flame Valley and went with him to the Spirit Flame chamber.
• The Black Flame Dao Master showed Fang Chen twenty Soul Reversal Pill formulas, and Fang Chen studied their different refinement methods.
• The Myna recognized similarities to formulas in its memory and passed Fang Chen the Soul Nurturing Pill formulas, which the Black Flame Dao Master and Azure Cloud Daoist found simpler.
• Fang Chen explained the Myna’s origins, then asked the Black Flame Dao Master to provide materials so they could refine both kinds of pills.
• The Black Flame Dao Master, Azure Cloud Daoist, and Fang Chen summoned their furnaces and began refining, and the Azure Cloud Daoist asked how Fang Chen’s Heaven Refining Furnace had grown stronger.