Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen opened the Swallowing Heaven Tower for the Star Sect Saints, who discovered its vast interior was unfinished and barren. After Fang Chen departed, Saint Chenwu planned to let the Star Sect vote on whether to join the Glazed Sword Sect, leaving the decision voluntary.

• The Star Sect Saints congratulated Fang Chen and asked him to open the Swallowing Heaven Tower.
• A Star Sect Saint entered the tower and found a vast, dark space with nothing visible inside.
• Fang Chen and Saint Chenwu explored the tower with the other Saints and saw its barren mountains and scarce Spiritual Qi on every level.
• Fang Chen explained that the Swallowing Heaven Tower was a half-finished treasure and then put it away.
• Saint Chenwu told Fang Chen he would let the Star Sect vote on joining the Glazed Sword Sect, and Fang Chen said no one should be forced.
• Saint Chenwu escorted Fang Chen and the Heavenly Seal Saint to the Teleportation Array, and they departed.

Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect with the Heavenly Seal Saint, who planned to research how to build Teleportation Arrays. After the myna bird urged Fang Chen to leave the sect so he could cultivate faster, Fang Chen defended his ties to its people and resolved to grow stronger for their sake.

• The Heavenly Seal Saint congratulated Fang Chen on his gains at the Star Sect, and Fang Chen offered to help with his cultivation.
• The Heavenly Seal Saint said he and fellow researchers were studying how to build Teleportation Arrays with new materials, then left to help finish repairs in the Qingyang Realm.
• Fang Chen told the myna bird that he planned to study the Artifact Refining Manuals and make treasures for his Clones and the sect.
• The myna bird suggested Fang Chen would advance faster if he left the Glazed Sword Sect, so Fang Chen struck him and warned him not to say that again.
• Fang Chen explained that the sect's people were his friends and benefactors, and that he wanted to grow stronger to protect them.

Fang Chen paid his respects at True Person Liuli’s grave before the Glazed Sword Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation came under attack. He confronted Li Changsheng, now a Quasi-Emperor, as the Great Sun Buddha Emperor arrived with the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Subduing Two Sacred Buddhas, leaving the sect facing a united assault.

• Fang Chen visited True Person Liuli’s grave and accepted Myna bird’s apology.
• Fang Chen and the Glazed Sword Sect discovered that Li Changsheng and his companions were attacking the Mountain-Guarding Formation.
• Fang Chen recognized Li Changsheng’s Quasi-Emperor aura, and the sect’s Saints gathered at the Mountain Gate.
• Fang Chen walked out through the formation and challenged Li Changsheng, who declared that he had come to destroy the Glazed Sword Sect.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor appeared with the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Subduing Two Sacred Buddhas to join Li Changsheng’s attack.

The Great Sun Buddha Emperor and Li Changsheng attacked Fang Chen before he could reach the Quasi-Emperor Realm. Fang Chen fought them with the Floating Immortal Sword, and the chapter ended with him holding his own against Li Changsheng in Chaos Space while the Great Sun Buddha Emperor still had not joined the fight.

• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor and the Ye Family agreed to kill Fang Chen and destroy the Glazed Sword Sect in exchange for dividing the Southern Wastes.
• Fang Chen taunted the Great Sun Buddha Emperor, then activated the Glazed Golden Body Secret Method and summoned the Floating Immortal Sword, Eight Trigrams Array Diagram, and Heaven Mending Goddess Manifestation.
• Li Changsheng attacked Fang Chen with the Withered Wood Staff and drove him back, while the Floating Immortal Sword absorbed energy and strengthened Fang Chen.
• Li Changsheng struck Fang Chen into Chaos Space, where Fang Chen summoned the Chaos Giant Manifestation and used the Floating Immortal Absolute Shadow Movement Technique to keep blocking his attacks.
• The myna bird said Fang Chen could face Li Changsheng and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor together, while Yun Qianxue and the others watched as Fang Chen held his ground and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor remained on the sidelines.

Fang Chen battled Li Changsheng at the Glazed Sword Sect while factions across the Barbaric Continent learned that Li Changsheng was the Ye Family’s Quasi-Emperor. The Great Sun Buddha Emperor joined the fight, and the chapter ended with him striking Fang Chen from behind.

• Fang Chen and Li Changsheng exchanged hundreds of blows inside the Chaos Space as Li Shanshan explained that Li Changsheng was still adapting to his Quasi-Emperor power.
• Saints and powerhouses across the Barbaric Continent sensed the battle, gathered at the Glazed Sword Sect, and learned that Li Changsheng was the Ye Family’s Quasi-Emperor.
• Fang Chen emerged from the Chaos Space battered but stronger, and he mocked Li Changsheng as the assembled factions sent news of the clash to their leaders.
• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine returned to the Southern Wastes, while Li Changsheng called on the Great Sun Buddha Emperor to attack.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor struck Fang Chen with Buddha’s Palm, Fang Chen countered with the Hand of the Heavens, and Li Changsheng and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor then attacked him from behind.

Fang Chen fought Li Changsheng and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor, using the Black Stone to wound Li Changsheng while the Buddha Emperor repeatedly battered him. Li Changsheng severed his own hand to escape the Floating Immortal Sword, but the sword continued devouring power through a vine, leaving him unable to remove it.

• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor struck Fang Chen into Li Changsheng's reach, but Fang Chen hurled the Black Stone at Li Changsheng, who bound it with vines from the Withered Wood Staff.
• Fang Chen withdrew the Heaven Mending Goddess Manifestation, causing the Black Stone to expand, snap many vines, and drag Li Changsheng down as Fang Chen stabbed him in the back with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor trapped Fang Chen with his strengthened black Buddhist Prayer Beads and struck him with the golden Zen staff, while energy from the Floating Immortal Ring rapidly healed Fang Chen's injuries.
• Li Changsheng grabbed the Floating Immortal Sword's hilt and found himself unable to let go as it drained his power, so he severed his own hand.
• Li Changsheng tried to pull the Floating Immortal Sword free with a green vine, but the sword drained the vine's power and remained lodged in his body.

Li Changsheng escaped the Floating Immortal Sword by shattering his body while keeping the Black Stone occupied, but Fang Chen broke free of the Buddhist Prayer Beads and fought the Great Sun Buddha Emperor without it. Fang Chen knocked aside the Golden Lotus Platform with the Swallowing Heaven Tower and sent the tower toward the emperor, who raised his Golden Bell to defend himself.

• Li Changsheng shattered his body to escape the Floating Immortal Sword, then agreed to keep the Black Stone suppressed while the Great Sun Buddha Emperor attacked Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen used his Natal Flying Sword to shrink and slip free of the Buddhist Prayer Beads, reclaimed the Floating Immortal Sword, and charged the Great Sun Buddha Emperor.
• Fang Chen and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor clashed in Chaos Space, where Fang Chen held his own without the Black Stone.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor summoned the Golden Lotus Platform and used its Spatial Suppression Force to bear down on Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen summoned the Swallowing Heaven Tower, knocked the Golden Lotus Platform away, and sent the tower at the Great Sun Buddha Emperor.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor brought out his Natal Buddhist Artifact, the Golden Bell, to defend himself.

Fang Chen battled the Great Sun Buddha Emperor with the Floating Immortal Sword, repeatedly unleashing his Nine Layer Wave Sword Technique and damaging the Emperor’s natal Buddhist artifact. As Fang Chen tried to use the technique again, the Great Sun Buddha Emperor interrupted him with the Golden Lotus Platform and struck him.

• The Swallowing Heaven Tower knocked away the Great Sun Buddha Emperor’s Golden Bell, and Fang Chen charged him with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Fang Chen fought the Great Sun Buddha Emperor through the Nine Layer Wave, while the Floating Immortal Sword continually fed him power.
• Fang Chen’s Nine Layer Wave damaged the Great Sun Buddha Emperor’s golden Zen staff and gave Fang Chen a brief, elusive insight into the Ten Layer Wave.
• Fang Chen failed to grasp the insight and began another Nine Layer Wave attack.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor summoned the Golden Lotus Platform, knocked away Fang Chen’s Floating Immortal Sword, and slammed the platform into him.

Fang Chen badly wounded Li Changsheng and pressed his attack with the Swallowing Heaven Tower, but the Great Sun Buddha Emperor began chanting the Diamond Sutra for his ultimate move. As the Great Sun Buddha Emperor gathered golden Scriptures, Li Changsheng summoned a ghostly Graveyard to stop Fang Chen.

• The Floating Immortal Sword healed Fang Chen, who used Second Wave to stab Li Changsheng and shred his body with Sword Qi.
• Fang Chen tried to collect Li Changsheng’s fragments, but the Great Sun Buddha Emperor’s Golden Lotus Platform disintegrated some of them; Li Changsheng then restored his body.
• Fang Chen struck Li Changsheng’s Life-Bound Alchemy Furnace with the Swallowing Heaven Tower, sending the furnace flying and worsening Li Changsheng’s injuries.
• Li Changsheng escaped into Chaos Space as Fang Chen attacked, while the Great Sun Buddha Emperor sat on the Golden Lotus Platform and began chanting the Diamond Sutra.
• The Heavenly Seal Saint warned Fang Chen not to let the Great Sun Buddha Emperor finish chanting, and Fang Chen sent the Swallowing Heaven Tower at him.
• Li Changsheng charged out of Chaos Space and summoned a ghost-filled Graveyard with the outline of a huge Stone Tablet at its far end.

Li Changsheng trapped Fang Chen in his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, a cemetery world that he said would hold Fang Chen until the Great Sun Buddha Emperor prepared a killing move. Fang Chen failed to escape with Little Crane or by flying upward, and remained trapped as the shattered graves restored themselves.

• Li Changsheng engulfed Fang Chen in his Manifestation and revealed a cemetery world he called Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.
• Li Changsheng explained that his world was real and said he intended to keep Fang Chen trapped until the Great Sun Buddha Emperor finished preparing his ultimate killing move.
• Fang Chen's Floating Immortal Sword absorbed energy, but his attack passed through Li Changsheng's incarnation without harming him.
• Fang Chen used the Samsara Eye and asked Little Crane to take him away, but Little Crane could leave the space without bringing Fang Chen into the Spirit Crane Space.
• Fang Chen tried to fly out with the Shadowless Movement Technique, but Spatial Suppression Force made him fall into the ground, where the shattered graves began restoring themselves.

Fang Chen destroyed Li Changsheng’s tombs and used the Dao Patterns they released to strengthen the Floating Immortal Sword and deploy the Floating Immortal Great Array. Unable to dig his way out of Li Changsheng’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, Fang Chen tried to disrupt the Great Sun Buddha Emperor’s preparations with a new sword move.

• Fang Chen smashed a tomb with the Floating Immortal Sword and absorbed the power that surged from it.
• Fang Chen shattered the tombs with his sword moves, absorbing their Dao Patterns and growing stronger.
• Fang Chen deployed the Floating Immortal Great Array, which suppressed Li Changsheng’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth and formed a golden lotus field.
• Fang Chen dug underground but found that Li Changsheng’s world kept closing in around him.
• Fang Chen withdrew the array and used One Sword Samsara, creating a vortex ahead of the Floating Immortal Sword.

Fang Chen escaped Li Changsheng’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth after opening a Space Vortex that drained its Source Power, then attacked the Great Sun Buddha Emperor. The Great Sun Buddha Emperor defended himself, and Fang Chen emerged from the Chaos Space with an even stronger aura and struck at him with the Floating Immortal Sword.

• Fang Chen sustained the Samsara Vortex inside Li Changsheng’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, rapidly draining Li Changsheng’s Source Power.
• Li Changsheng ignored the Great Sun Buddha Emperor’s unanswered voice transmission and closed his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, ejecting Fang Chen to protect himself from collapse.
• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Absolute Shadow Movement Technique to rush the Great Sun Buddha Emperor and struck him with the Swallowing Heaven Tower, knocking him off the Golden Lotus Platform.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor confronted Li Changsheng through a voice transmission, and Li Changsheng explained that Fang Chen’s Space Vortex had threatened to collapse his Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor sent the Golden Lotus Platform into the Swallowing Heaven Tower, and their collision swept Fang Chen into the Chaos Space.
• Fang Chen summoned the Chaos Giant Manifestation, grew more powerful, and used the Floating Immortal Sword to slash at the Great Sun Buddha Emperor.

Fang Chen relentlessly attacked the Great Sun Buddha Emperor, using the Floating Immortal Sword and the advantage of Chaos Space to overpower him. The Great Sun Buddha Emperor was left exhausted and dependent on the Golden Lotus Platform as Fang Chen’s sword absorbed its scattered dao patterns.

• Fang Chen drove the Great Sun Buddha Emperor through Chaos Space, where the Buddha Emperor’s strength was suppressed and Fang Chen’s attacks grew stronger.
• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor retreated to the Golden Lotus Platform and asked Li Changsheng for help, but Li Changsheng said his last trump card had failed to trap Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen’s First Wave struck the Golden Lotus Platform and sent both fighters into Chaos Space, but the Buddha Emperor could not escape Fang Chen’s pursuit.
• Fang Chen continued battering the Golden Lotus Platform while the watching Glazed Sword Sect members cheered and the other factions’ Saints watched in shock.
• Fang Chen’s latest slash knocked the Golden Lotus Platform away, and his sword absorbed its scattered dao patterns as the Great Sun Buddha Emperor’s strength dwindled.

Fang Chen drove the Great Sun Buddha Emperor and Li Changsheng from the Glazed Sword Sect, leaving the Southern Wastes secure from rival factions. He returned to the sect after learning the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and Little Star had found many high-grade mineral veins.

• The Great Sun Buddha Emperor and Li Changsheng fled with their allies after deciding they could not defeat Fang Chen.
• The Glazed Sword Sect disciples and other observers celebrated Fang Chen's victory, while visiting Saints departed to report what had happened.
• Fang Chen recovered the Black Stone with the Heaven Mending Goddess and learned from the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm that he and Little Star had grown stronger and found many mineral veins beneath the Southern Wastes.
• Fang Chen and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm returned to the Glazed Sword Sect, where Chen Xiaofei, the Elders, and the Black Flame Saint praised Fang Chen and felt the sect no longer had to fear invasion.

After Fang Chen drove off Li Changsheng and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor, the Ye Family and Buddhist Kingdom feared his growing strength. Fang Chen secluded himself to study the Swallowing Heaven Tower and planned to make a tower modeled on it for his clones.

• Fang Chen told the Glazed Sword Sect’s people to cultivate while he entered seclusion, then left with Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm.
• Ye Mian and the Ye Family learned that Fang Chen had defeated Li Changsheng and the Great Sun Buddha Emperor together, and realized they could not safely challenge the Glazed Sword Sect.
• The Buddhists and other Human Race powers learned of Fang Chen’s victory and were astonished by how quickly his strength had grown.
• In a secluded valley, Fang Chen studied the Swallowing Heaven Tower’s manuals and decided to use the Primordial Chaos Artifact Nurturing Art on it.
• Fang Chen told Myna bird he would craft a tower modeled on the Swallowing Heaven Tower for his clones, while acknowledging that he lacked the rare materials needed to reproduce the original.

Fang Chen planned to create Origin Worlds and use them to forge a pagoda modeled on the Swallowing Heaven Tower, while Little Crane and Huahua gathered the required materials. The chapter ended with Huahua multiplying into a huge swarm of black myna birds to help with the task.

• Fang Chen explained that the Swallowing Heaven Tower required nearly a thousand Emperor Grade Origin Worlds, then said he would create top-tier Origin Worlds with help from the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Fang Chen gave Huahua the tower’s material list and assigned Little Crane to help gather the items.
• Fang Chen left with the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine to work on the Origin Worlds.
• Little Crane suggested finding more help, and Huahua bristled at the implication that he could not manage the list alone.
• Huahua shook black feathers from his body, transforming them into a vast flock of myna birds.

Myna Bird created a vast, orderly flock of clones to sort materials while Fang Chen recruited allies to help open Origin Worlds and refine a replica of the Swallowing Heaven Tower. He left the chapter still gathering reinforcements, with the Heavenly Seal Saint asked to invite people from the Qiankun Holy Land.

• Myna Bird shed and regrew his feathers repeatedly until he filled the sky with orderly clones that began sorting materials.
• Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect and asked the Moon Saint and North Nether Saint to send people to help open Origin Worlds.
• Fang Chen recruited Saint Ziwei, the Heavenly One Talisman Saint, Ao Xuan the East Sea Dragon King, and the Dragon Turtle of the South Sea, and they agreed to bring help.
• Fang Chen asked Saint Chenwu and the Chaos Holy Lord to assist with refining a replica pagoda based on the Swallowing Heaven Tower, and both agreed.
• Fang Chen contacted the Heavenly Seal Saint and asked him to invite people from the Qiankun Holy Land.

Fang Chen gathered help and brought captured Devil Race Saints out of the Demon Cave to assist him in opening the Origin World. The Moon Saint and the Want-to-Eat Sacred Ground arrived as Fang Chen stood with the devils on the Southern Barrens.

• Fang Chen asked Uncle-Master Black Flame and the sect leaders to gather the Saints and direct his arriving allies near the Tribulation Ground.
• Fang Chen demonstrated Silver and Golden Meteor Tears to the devils, then had them swallow one each with his Soul Imprint so they could help open the Origin World.
• Fang Chen led the devils out of the Demon Cave and Glazed Sword Sect, astonishing the sect members with their numbers and Demonic Qi.
• Fang Chen told the devils that a Spatial Storm had destroyed their camps in the Sacred Land, but they remained doubtful.
• The Moon Saint and forty people from the Want-to-Eat Sacred Ground arrived and saw Fang Chen surrounded by devils.

Fang Chen gathered the Yaochi Holy Land and Chaos Holy Land cultivators to help open the Origin World, while bringing captured Devil Race powerhouses along. The devils witnessed the Green Grass Great Array revive tribulation victims and strengthen their breakthroughs, and the chapter ended with Yue Canglan asking Fang Chen why so many devils were there.

• Fang Chen reassured the Moon Saint that the Devil Race powerhouses were controlled and would help open the Origin World.
• The Devil Race powerhouses watched an Eight-Tribulation Saint from the Star Sect survive his tribulation through the Green Grass Great Array and condense his ninth Saint Seal after an unusually pure, lengthy Source Power Baptism.
• The Yaochi Holy Land cultivators underwent their tribulations inside the Green Grass Great Array and all survived, leaving the devils amazed by its power.
• Yue Canglan arrived with more than three hundred people from Chaos Holy Land and greeted Fang Chen.
• Yue Canglan noticed the Devil Race powerhouses, and Fang Chen explained that he had captured them in the Sacred Land and brought them to help.

Fang Chen gathered more than ten thousand Saints at the Glazed Sword Sect and asked them to help create nine Origin Worlds with different attributes. Yue Canglan explained that creating one required reaching the Seventh Layer of Chaos Space, then began describing the layers surrounding their world.

• Yue Canglan praised Fang Chen for bringing back Human Race factions and capturing more than a thousand Devil Race powerhouses, while Fang Chen recalled his regret over Ye Qingci losing her eyes.
• Fang Chen greeted the Dragon Turtle and several hundred South Sea Dragon Clan powerhouses as they arrived.
• After all his invitees gathered, Fang Chen asked the Saints to work together to create nine Origin Worlds, and fewer than thirty stepped forward with relevant experience.
• Yue Canglan told Fang Chen that creating an Origin World required entering the Seventh Layer of Chaos Space and refining its Chaos Matter.
• Yue Canglan used an egg to explain that their world was like the yolk, while the Chaos Space they usually encountered was only one of several surrounding layers.