Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen killed the Eight Trigrams Saint and trapped Lingyun Saint, while Moon Saint held off Misty Saint. Lingyun Saint broke free by burning his Vital Blood, soul, and Saint Seal, but the Black Flame Dao Master told Fang Chen to use the Glazed Bell to prevent his escape.

• Fang Chen pierced the Eight Trigrams Saint with the Floating Immortal Sword, tore his body apart with the Twelve Flying Swords, and began refining his remains with the Four Sacred Flames.
• Lingyun Saint and Misty Saint forced Moon Saint back and tried to escape, but Moon Saint used Silver Moonlight to lock down the space around them.
• Fang Chen and the Twelve Flying Swords attacked Lingyun Saint, pinned him, and devoured his power.
• Lingyun Saint burned his Vital Blood, soul, and Saint Seal to drive off the swords, then threatened to torment the Glazed Sword Sect and claimed Fang Chen could not stop him escaping.
• The Black Flame Dao Master told Fang Chen to use the Glazed Bell and taught him its incantation, and Fang Chen summoned the bell to himself.

Fang Chen used the Glazed Bell, his Saint Swords, and two Sacred Flame weapons to defeat and refine Lingyun Saint, Misty Saint, and Eight Trigrams Saint. After collecting their weapons, he thanked Moon Saint for protecting the Glazed Sword Sect, which was now safe from any power in the Southern Wastes.

• Fang Chen sealed Lingyun Saint inside the Glazed Bell, shattered his body with its peals, and refined him with the Floating Immortal Sword and Twelve Flying Swords.
• Moon Saint kept Misty Saint occupied until Fang Chen captured her in the Glazed Bell and began refining her.
• Fang Chen used the Heaven Refining Furnace and Sky Swallowing Conch Shell to finish refining Eight Trigrams Saint.
• The Glazed Bell refined Lingyun Saint and Misty Saint, while Fang Chen's swords absorbed their Saint Force and Spiritual Power.
• Fang Chen collected the Saints' weapons, and Moon Saint congratulated him for killing three Saints and thanked him for saving the Glazed Sword Sect.

Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect after killing three enemy Saints, easing Black Flame Dao Master's burden and securing the sect's survival. Black Flame ordered the Three Great Sects destroyed, and Fang Chen set out with Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi to attack the Lingyun Sword Sect.

• Moon Saint apologized to Fang Chen for failing to stop Shi Feng, but Fang Chen and Black Flame Dao Master reassured her that she had done her best.
• Black Flame Dao Master broke down in tears as he embraced Fang Chen, whose rise as a Saint had lifted years of pressure from the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Fang Chen asked whether to destroy the remaining Three Great Sects or accept their surrender, and Black Flame ordered him to destroy them.
• Fang Chen left the Glazed Sword Sect's recovery to Black Flame and took Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi to the Lingyun Sword Sect.
• Fang Chen released his Saintly pressure over the Lingyun Sword Sect's core region, alarming its disciples.

Fang Chen led the destruction of the Lingyun Sword Sect after revealing that he had killed the Lingyun Saint, Shi Feng, and Hua Yue'e. He then destroyed the Eight Trigrams Gate and the Misty Sect, leaving the Glazed Sword Sect as the Southern Wastes' dominant power.

• Fang Chen confronted Wang Mo at the Lingyun Sword Sect and showed him the Lingyun Saint's Life-Bound Saint Sword, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and the Misty Map as proof that the three Saints were dead.
• Fang Chen summoned the Heaven Refining Furnace to seal the sect's core area and shattered its mountain-protecting formation with one strike.
• Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi killed Wang Mo and slaughtered everyone in the Lingyun Sword Sect, while the myna bird collected its treasures.
• Fang Chen took Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi to the Eight Trigrams Gate, which they destroyed an hour later.
• Fang Chen and his companions destroyed the Misty Sect two hours afterward, and Fang Chen declared that there would be more chances to kill in the future.

Fang Chen defeated the Three Great Sects and visited True Person Liuli’s grave, where Myna bird recognized his loneliness. Daoist Misty Lord reported Fang Chen’s victory and new status as a Saint to the Heavenly One Talisman Saint, who was shocked by his feat.

• Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect and announced that the Misty Sect, Eight Trigrams Gate, and Lingyun Sword Sect had been eliminated from the Southern Wastes.
• The Moon Saint departed for Yaochi Holy Land, while Daoist Misty Lord stayed with the Glazed Sword Sect and then left to inform his father.
• Fang Chen asked Black Flame Dao Master to manage the sect while he entered seclusion, then visited True Person Liuli’s grave and spoke to his master.
• Myna bird watched Fang Chen at the grave and recognized how lonely he was despite the bonds he had found at the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Daoist Misty Lord recounted Fang Chen’s battle and the deaths of three Saints to the Heavenly One Talisman Saint, who was astonished by Fang Chen’s achievement.

Heavenly One Talisman Saint learned that Fang Chen possessed four Sacred Flames and planned to invite him to help craft the Heaven Void Talisman. Meanwhile, news of Fang Chen’s victories spread, leaving the Glazed Sword Sect poised to unite the Southern Wastes.

• Dao Lord Misty told Heavenly One Talisman Saint that she would remain at the Glazed Sword Sect to support its growth and their branch.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint said their attempt to craft the Heaven Void Talisman had failed because the Sacred Flame was too weak.
• Dao Lord Misty revealed that Fang Chen possessed four Sacred Flames, and Heavenly One Talisman Saint asked her to invite him to help.
• Fang Chen sat at True Person Liuli’s grave for three hours, then returned to the Glazed Hall and fell asleep.
• News spread that Fang Chen had killed the Saints of the Misty Sect, Eight Trigrams Gate, and Lingyun Sword Sect, and that their sects had been destroyed.
• Powers that had persecuted the Glazed Sword Sect’s disciples fled, while many people expected the sect to unite the Southern Wastes.

After waking from a three-day sleep, Fang Chen planned to rebuild and strengthen the Glazed Sword Sect while considering a request from the Heavenly One Talisman Saint involving Sacred Flame. He learned that several sect elders still could not sense Saint Force and resolved to find a way to help them advance.

• Fang Chen woke in the Glazed Hall and decided to help rebuild the sect's Seven Great Main Peaks and mountain-protecting Formation.
• Daoist Misty Dao Lord asked Fang Chen to help the Heavenly One Talisman Saint with a matter concerning Sacred Flame, and Fang Chen agreed to go to Heavenly Talisman Mountain after stabilizing the sect.
• Fang Chen asked the Black Flame Dao Master about the sect's condition, and the Black Flame Dao Master and other elders came to meet him in the Glazed Hall.
• The Black Flame Dao Master and the others said they had completed Nirvana but still could not sense Saint Force, while Chen Xiaofei and Yan Ziyi had become Quasi-Saints after their ninth Nirvana.
• Fang Chen considered how he could help the elders enter the Quasi-Saint realm and possibly become Saints to strengthen the Glazed Sword Sect.

Fang Chen began strengthening the Glazed Sword Sect’s formations and decided to give his nine clones more freedom to cultivate. He also sought ways to help Great Nirvana Completion cultivators perceive Saint Force and learned that strengthening their Soul Origin could help.

• Black Flame Dao Master asked Fang Chen to repair the Glazed Sword Sect’s mountain-protection formation and the formations on its main peaks, Glazed Hall, and Glazed Peak.
• Fang Chen spent three days inspecting the mountain-protection formation, devised a plan to reinforce it, and gave the treasures taken from the Three Great Sects to Black Flame Dao Master and the others to sort for materials.
• Fang Chen found that all nine clones had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and decided to let them cultivate freely, requiring them to return to the Glazed Sword Sect once every hundred years if they left.
• Fang Chen asked Myna bird how Great Nirvana Completion cultivators could perceive Saint Force, and Myna bird explained that strengthening their Soul Origin could improve their soul perception.
• Myna bird passed Fang Chen information about natural treasures, Pills, and Soul Secret Methods that could strengthen the soul.

Fang Chen finished strengthening the Glazed Sword Sect’s defenses and traveled to Heavenly Talisman City. He arrived as Heavenly One Talisman Saint and other Talisman Masters awaited his help in finding Sacred Flame for their Heaven Stabilizing Talisman.

• Fang Chen repaired the Glazed Sword Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Grand Array, added formations across its peaks, and built a Spirit Gathering Array and a Quasi-Saint Tribulation Ground.
• Fang Chen left the Glazed Bell and three Saint Weapons at the sect, making the Glazed Bell the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array’s Formation Core before departing with the myna bird.
• Fang Chen used Space Divine Art to reach Heavenly Talisman City after ten days of travel.
• Dust Heart Talisman Saint questioned Heavenly One Talisman Saint about the Sacred Flame needed to craft the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman, and Heavenly One said his friend would arrive within ten to fifteen days.
• Fang Chen entered Heavenly Talisman City and used his Saint Token to tell Heavenly One Talisman Saint he had arrived.

Fang Chen met Heavenly One Talisman Saint and the assembled Talisman Saints, who warned him that his Dao Name, Floating Immortal, was an ill omen. He refused to change it, then revealed his four Sacred Flames after Heavenly One asked to see them.

• Heavenly One Talisman Saint brought Fang Chen to the City Lord's Mansion and introduced him to the gathered Talisman Saints.
• Dust Heart Talisman Saint and Purple Star asked Fang Chen for his Dao Name, and Dust Heart warned him that using “Immortal” brought bad luck.
• Fang Chen declined Dust Heart Talisman Saint and Heavenly One Talisman Saint's advice to change his Dao Name, saying he was unafraid of heaven's envy.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint asked Fang Chen whether he possessed four Sacred Flames, and Fang Chen confirmed it.
• Fang Chen summoned the Red Lotus Sacred Fire, Green Lotus Sacred Fire, Purple Lotus Sacred Fire, and Crimson Lotus Earth Core Fire for the Talisman Saints to inspect.

Fang Chen joined Heavenly One Talisman Saint and the others to help refine the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman, a Dao Talisman capable of trapping Saints by locking down space. They traveled to Divine Wood Valley and reached the entrance to Black Talisman Mountain’s largest Origin World.

• Heavenly One Talisman Saint warned Fang Chen to keep his Four Sacred Flames secret and explained that they needed them to refine the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman.
• Fang Chen studied the talisman’s complicated refinement instructions and asked Heavenly One Talisman Saint and the others questions until he understood the process.
• Fang Chen and the others left the Great Hall through a Teleportation Array and arrived in Divine Wood Valley, where Heavenly Talisman Mountain cultivated Spirit Wood and divine trees.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint led Fang Chen through the valley to a Space Vortex and explained the origins of Heavenly Talisman Mountain and its three branches.

Fang Chen entered the Black Talisman Origin Realm with the Heavenly One Talisman Saint and learned that they were beginning to prepare the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman's blank. The Purple Star Talisman Saint drew a golden feather from a cauldron, and its power attracted the surrounding Space Dao Patterns.

• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint led Fang Chen and the others through a Space Vortex into the Black Talisman Origin Realm.
• Fang Chen saw the realm's abundant Spiritual Qi, Spirit Beasts, cities, and cultivation grounds as they traveled to an ancient palace.
• Two Azure-eyed Profound Flame Beasts guarding the palace calmed down when the Heavenly One Talisman Saint told them Fang Chen was his friend.
• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint explained that the nine Cauldrons held the materials for the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman's blank, and the Talisman Saints began preparing it.
• The Purple Star Talisman Saint activated a Cauldron and drew out a golden feather whose fluctuations attracted nearby Space Dao Patterns.

Fang Chen helped Heavenly One Talisman Saint and Dust Heart Talisman Saint remove the Space Dao Patterns from the Nine-Headed Mysterious Bird's feather and the Kongtong Divine Wood, then heat materials for twelve Talisman Blanks. After the blanks soaked for three days, Heavenly One Talisman Saint began testing them.

• Fang Chen used his Sacred Flames to heat the feather and Kongtong Divine Wood while Heavenly One Talisman Saint and Dust Heart Talisman Saint stripped away their Space Dao Patterns.
• Fang Chen brought out the Crimson Lotus Earth Core Fire to loosen the patterns embedded inside the materials, and the two Talisman Saints finished removing them.
• Fang Chen asked to study intact Kongtong Divine Wood, then waited while Heavenly One Talisman Saint and Dust Heart Talisman Saint recovered for three days.
• Fang Chen heated the materials as the Talisman Saints refined them into twelve Talisman Blanks, which they soaked in a special liquid for three days.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint lifted the golden Talisman Blanks from the pool and began examining and testing them.

Fang Chen and the Talisman Saints completed a Heaven Stabilizing Talisman and prepared to test its ability to restrain space. The Heavenly One Talisman Saint activated it among their Life-Bound Saint Weapons, and its power began drawing together the surrounding Space Dao Patterns.

• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint discovered that Fang Chen had helped refine twelve high-quality Talisman Blanks.
• The Talisman Saints moved to another level of the Palace, where Fang Chen heated a giant Talisman Blank while they inscribed its Formation Runes.
• Fang Chen increased the Crimson Lotus Earth Core Fire's heat, allowing the blank to absorb Space Dao Patterns and transform into a palm-sized Heaven Stabilizing Talisman.
• The Talisman Saints decided to test the talisman's space-restraint ability on their Life-Bound Saint Weapons rather than risk testing it on Fang Chen.
• The Heavenly One Talisman Saint activated the Heaven Void Talisman and threw it toward the weapons, causing it to release Space Dao Patterns that attracted those around them.

Fang Chen and the Black Talisman Mountain Saints tested the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman and confirmed it could restrain and shatter space around an enemy. After producing 330 talismans, Heavenly One Talisman Saint gave Fang Chen twenty for his help.

• Heavenly One Talisman Saint used the Heaven Stabilizing Talisman to trap the group’s Saint Weapons, then demonstrated how a talisman-enhanced punch could shatter the restrained space.
• Fang Chen realized the talisman could trap an enemy, tear apart their body, and keep their remains from escaping, though its restraints would eventually fade and it would not work on a Seven-Tribulation Saint.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint celebrated the successful test and urged the group to make more talismans to help Black Talisman Mountain overcome White Talisman Mountain and Gray Talisman Mountain before the Great Calamity.
• Fang Chen and the others spent half a year using all their materials to make 330 Heaven Stabilizing Talismans.
• Heavenly One Talisman Saint gave Fang Chen twenty talismans, and the others agreed that he had earned them.

Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect and asked Fire Origin Glazed Saint how to open the Glazed Origin Realm. He learned that he could try the surviving Glazed Bell with the damaged Glazed Mirror and Glazed Sword, or force open the realm's seal.

• Dust Heart Talisman Saint gave Fang Chen a branch from the Kongtong Divine Wood, and Heavenly One Talisman Saint escorted him from the Black Talisman Origin Realm.
• Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect after ten days and went to the Forbidden Grounds to speak with Fire Origin Glazed Saint.
• Fang Chen taught Fire Origin Glazed Saint a Clone Technique that might let him use a descendant to form a body and be reborn.
• Fire Origin Glazed Saint told Fang Chen that the Glazed Bell could be used with the damaged Glazed Mirror and Glazed Sword to open the Glazed Origin Realm.
• Fire Origin Glazed Saint explained that Fang Chen could also break the realm's entrance seal by force, though repairing it afterward would be difficult.

Fang Chen brought the four Glazed Saint Weapons to the sealed entrance of the Glazed Origin Realm and activated them together. Their energy awakened silver Glazed Battle Runes on his body, revealing that his Glazed Golden Body Art had reached its eighth layer.

• Fang Chen asked Black Flame Dao Master to gather the Glazed Saint Weapons so he could examine the Glazed Origin Realm’s seal.
• Black Flame Dao Master and the others accompanied Fang Chen to the entrance in the Forbidden Grounds and explained that the four weapons could open it if activated together.
• Fang Chen took control of the Glazed Bell, the Glazed Mirror, the Glazed Pagoda, and the Glazed Sword and poured Saint Force into them.
• The weapons released Nine-Colored Roselight that flowed into Fang Chen, awakening silver runes across his skin and releasing a powerful aura.
• Fang Chen realized the silver runes were Glazed Battle Runes and that his Glazed Golden Body Art had reached its eighth layer.

Fang Chen reached the Eighth Layer of the Glazed Golden Body Art, gained the four Glazed Saint Weapons’ complete trust, and opened the entrance to the Glazed Origin Realm. He and the others entered the depleted world and traveled toward its heart after finding weak cultivators living there.

• The four Glazed Saint Weapons’ energy pushed Fang Chen’s Glazed Golden Body Art to the Eighth Layer, and the weapons mistook him for Ancestor Glazed and accepted him completely.
• Fang Chen linked his Spiritual Sense with the four Saint Weapons and made them resonate, opening the entrance to the Glazed Origin Realm.
• Fang Chen, Black Flame Dao Master, Dao Master Honghe, and the others entered the realm and found barren mountains with almost no Spiritual Qi and few weak living beings.
• Black Flame Dao Master explained that the realm’s Spiritual Qi had dwindled after Ancestor Glazed fell and its entrance closed more than ten thousand years earlier.
• Fang Chen led the group deeper into the realm, where Spiritual Qi grew denser and they discovered villages, towns, cities, and cultivators whose strongest had reached Foundation Establishment Realm.

Fang Chen and the Glazed Sword Sect members entered Glazed City and met Yun Qianxue, a descendant of the Glazed Saint. As they discussed the sect’s history and future cooperation, Yun Qianxue learned that the Glazed Sword Sect had gone more than three thousand years without a Sect Master.

• Fang Chen and the others reached Glazed City, where Yun Qianxue sensed them and came out to ask who they were.
• Fang Chen identified himself and displayed the four damaged Glazed Saint Weapons, prompting Yun Qianxue to reveal that she was a descendant of the Glazed Saint named Yun Qianxue.
• Yun Qianxue brought Fang Chen and the others to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Fang Chen introduced his companions and said he had recently become a Saint.
• Dao Master Honghe told Yun Qianxue that the Glazed Origin Realm was open to travel and proposed working together to strengthen the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Yun Qianxue asked who the Sect Master was, and the Black Flame Dao Lord explained that the sect had lacked one for over three thousand years and that he had managed its affairs for more than two thousand years.

Yun Qianxue and the Black Flame Dao Master discussed how to lead the Glazed Sword Sect, but neither Yun nor Fang Chen wanted to become Sect Master. Yun proposed that Fang Chen take the title while she and Black Flame handled management, and the group awaited Fang Chen’s answer.

• Yun Qianxue asked Black Flame how the sect should be managed and what position she would hold.
• Fang Chen suggested that Yun become Sect Master, but she refused and said she could serve as vice Sect Master instead.
• Yun explained that making her Sect Master could harm the sect’s unity, while fair treatment would win the Glazed Origin Realm’s people over.
• Yun recommended Fang Chen as Sect Master, and Black Flame agreed that they should ask him what he wanted.
• Everyone turned to Fang Chen to hear his decision.