Chapter Summaries

Su Fan uncovered a hidden Evil Cult basement in Qiuhong Market and swiftly defeated the cultivators inside, saving Wang Ze from an ambush. Afterward, Martial Aunt Miaoxue summoned him and recognized him as a body cultivator.

• Su Fan led Wang Ze and the Haoyuan Sect disciples to a suspicious shop and discovered a hidden basement by smashing through a wall.
• The shopkeeper attacked the guards and fled, while Wang Ze opened the basement door and was nearly struck by a magical artifact.
• Su Fan knocked Wang Ze aside, charged into the basement, and defeated the Evil Cult cultivators hiding there.
• The Haoyuan Sect disciples killed the fleeing shopkeeper, and Su Fan returned to his room to study the Purple Cloud Thunderous Sword Art.
• Wang Ze thanked Su Fan and brought him to meet Martial Aunt Miaoxue, who identified him as a body cultivator.

Su Fan declined Li Miaoxue’s offer to join the Haoyuan Sect and spent the next half-month patrolling Qiuhong Market. During a night patrol, he detected a powerful Evil Cultivator aura approaching the town.

• Li Miaoxue rewarded Su Fan with one hundred Merit Points and offered to recommend him as an Outer Sect Disciple, but Su Fan politely refused.
• For half a month, Qiuhong Market remained peaceful, and Su Fan avoided drawing attention to his role in wiping out the Evil Cultivators’ stronghold.
• While patrolling with He Qiang, Su Fan denied rumors that he had killed several Evil Cultivators and changed the subject by asking about He Qiang’s alchemy.
• Su Fan used his Fragrance Sensing Technique near the market entrance and realized an Evil Cultivator had been watching Qiuhong Market.
• After returning to He Qiang, Su Fan suddenly smelled a dense Evil Cultivator aura spreading toward the market town.

Su Fan waited for the Evil Cultivators to attack Qiuhong Market so he could escape amid the chaos. As the Haoyuan Sect’s defenses collapsed across the region, Li Miaoxue prepared to hold off the attackers while Su Fan abandoned any plan to help a Sect disciple.

• Su Fan hid in an alley and waited while the Evil Cultivators attacked Qiuhong Market’s Defensive Array.
• Li Miaoxue rallied the market’s defenders, but Distress Flares from nearby settlements revealed that the attacks were widespread.
• Li Miaoxue realized the Luotian Sect had exploited the Haoyuan Sect’s absence, and the Sect’s mountain gate sealed itself behind its Mountain Protection Array.
• Li Miaoxue told Wang Ze to lead the other disciples out through the north gate if the market’s array fell, and warned him not to return to the Sect.
• Su Fan joined the recruited cultivators and decided to escape alone after detecting five Foundation Establishment Realm enemies outside the market.
• The Evil Cultivators breached Qiuhong Market’s Defensive Array.

Su Fan fought his way out of Qiuhong Market after the Luotian Sect trapped it in a domain formation, then fled from pursuing Evil Cultivators. He found an unconscious Haoyuan Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator and gave her a healing pill, and she woke as he was about to leave.

• The Luotian Sect breached Qiuhong Market, and Wang Ze and the Haoyuan Sect disciples fled as the market's defenses collapsed.
• A domain formation trapped the market, so Su Fan killed the Blade Demons and Evil Cultivators in his path and destroyed the Demonic Statue sustaining the formation.
• Su Fan escaped the market and used blood escape repeatedly to shake off two pursuing Foundation Establishment Evil Cultivators.
• Su Fan stopped at a safe place to recover, then found an unconscious female Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Haoyuan Sect nearby.
• Su Fan gave the injured cultivator a healing pill, and she regained consciousness just as he turned to leave.

Su Fan learned that Haoyuan Sect had sealed its gates after a Golden Core-level threat left it vulnerable, so he stayed to protect the injured Li Miaoxue. When the two Foundation Establishment evil cultivators pursuing him arrived, Su Fan fought back and killed one, leaving the other vulnerable as Li Miaoxue faced defeat.

• Li Miaoxue warned Su Fan that Haoyuan Sect had sealed its gates because its main forces were away fighting a Foreign Great Demon, making Haoyuan Immortal City dangerous.
• Su Fan agreed to guard Li Miaoxue while she recovered, then accepted her Communication Talisman after she introduced herself.
• Su Fan spotted the two Foundation Establishment evil cultivators who had been chasing him, and Li Miaoxue stepped forward to hold them off so he could escape.
• Su Fan refused to leave Li Miaoxue behind and urged them to fight the evil cultivators together.
• Su Fan used the Bone Corroding Yin Wind Roll and Bone Severing Hand to shatter one evil cultivator's barrier and bones, sending him crashing down.
• The surviving evil cultivator struck Li Miaoxue and launched another attack, but Su Fan appeared behind him and sent him plunging from the sky.

Su Fan killed two Foundation Establishment Evil Cultivators and helped the injured Li Miaoxue recover before agreeing to hide with her in a secret mine. After discovering the mine had fallen to Evil Cultivators, he exposed Li Miaoxue’s Second Uncle as a member of the Luotian Sect.

• Su Fan ambushed and killed two Foundation Establishment Evil Cultivators, then gave Li Miaoxue healing pills for her injuries.
• Li Miaoxue recovered and offered to take Su Fan to a secluded secret mine where they could hide.
• Su Fan investigated the mine and sensed demonic aura, warning Li Miaoxue that Evil Cultivators had occupied it.
• Li Miaoxue entered the mine and met her Second Uncle, who denied that Evil Cultivators were nearby.
• Su Fan used his lightning technique to stun Li Miaoxue’s Second Uncle and told her that he had joined the Luotian Sect.

Su Fan uncovered that Li Miaoxue’s second uncle had joined the Luotian Sect and turned the secret mine into an Evil Cult stronghold, forcing Li Miaoxue to kill him and the mine’s cultivators. As they prepared to face returning evil cultivators, Su Fan revealed his sword cultivation and stunned Li Miaoxue.

• Su Fan exposed Li Miaoxue’s second uncle as a Luotian Sect disciple who had converted the secret mine’s cultivators to the Evil Cult and participated in its recent attack.
• Li Miaoxue killed her second uncle, then killed the remaining cultivators in the secret mine to keep the affair from reaching the Haoyuan Sect.
• Li Miaoxue asked Su Fan to keep the incident secret, and he urged her to warn her Household about possible Evil Cult members among them.
• Li Miaoxue contacted her family and learned that several elders had begun investigating, while the Haoyuan Sect’s Sect Master would take three days to return.
• Su Fan decided they should remain at the mine and prepare for returning evil cultivators, then demonstrated his Thunderclap Sword and revealed that he was a sword cultivator.

Su Fan and Li Miaoxue ambushed Evil Cult cultivators at the secret mine, killing several Foundation Establishment attackers and claiming their spoils. Li Miaoxue offered to report Su Fan’s contribution to Haoyuan Sect, but he declined to join the sect and asked her to keep his sword cultivation secret.

• Su Fan explained to Li Miaoxue that he cultivated both the body and the sword, reassuring her about their defense of the secret mine.
• After Sister Zhen reported Evil Cult activity nearby, Li Miaoxue killed the returning Qi Refining cultivators while guarding the mine entrance with Su Fan.
• Su Fan and Li Miaoxue ambushed four Foundation Establishment Evil Cult cultivators as they entered the formation and killed them all.
• Su Fan collected the attackers’ Storage Bags, while Li Miaoxue offered him the sect contributions for destroying the stronghold.
• Su Fan asked Li Miaoxue to report that her Second Uncle had died resisting the Evil Cult and to split the Merit Points with him in exchange for cultivation resources.
• Su Fan refused Li Miaoxue’s invitation to join Haoyuan Sect and asked her not to tell anyone there that he was a sword cultivator.

Su Fan and Li Miaoxue guarded a secret mine through repeated attacks by Evil Cultivators, then returned to Haoyuan Immortal City after the Haoyuan Sect’s forces drove the threat away. Su Fan saw that the city faced a severe shortage of supplies and decided to hold onto his spoils until prices rose further.

• Su Fan fooled Li Miaoxue with a story about a sword cultivator senior, then the pair fought off several waves of Evil Cultivators, including five Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Su Fan inspected the Evil Cultivators’ Storage Bags and sorted their large haul of resources for later sale.
• Li Miaoxue learned that the Haoyuan Sect had suffered heavy losses and returned with Su Fan to Haoyuan Immortal City, where she offered to help him find a Cave Mansion.
• Su Fan visited a talisman shop and learned that Spirit Rice, pills, and talismans were scarce and prices were rising, so he decided not to sell his spoils yet.
• Su Fan surveyed the subdued city and returned to his Cave Mansion through a miniature Teleportation Array.

Su Fan sorted the spoils from the secret mine and found that prices in Haoyuan Immortal City were soaring after the Luotian Sect invasion. Li Miaoxue visited his Cave Mansion, offered to exchange his Merit Points for supplies, and gave him a Greenwood Wind-Riding Shuttle he eagerly accepted.

• Su Fan sorted the seized goods and found that supplies were becoming scarce and expensive after the invasion.
• Su Fan visited Haoyuan Immortal City and confirmed that prices, including Talisman Paper, had multiplied.
• Li Miaoxue visited Su Fan, gave him a jade talisman with Merit Points, and agreed to exchange it for better cultivation resources at the sect.
• Su Fan asked for a fast flying magical artifact and two sets of high-quality formations, and Li Miaoxue offered to look for them.
• Li Miaoxue gave Su Fan her Greenwood Wind-Riding Shuttle, and he asked her to deduct its cost from his Merit Points.

Su Fan accepted Li Miaoxue’s Greenwood Wind-Riding Shuttle and shared an awkward lunch with her before she left. After a month of cultivation, he went to the city in disguise and sold off all his stored supplies while prices remained high.

• Li Miaoxue gave Su Fan the Greenwood Wind-Riding Shuttle, and he asked her to help find defensive, confusing, and concealing arrays.
• Su Fan invited Li Miaoxue to lunch, and she accepted despite her embarrassment; after eating, she left.
• Li Miaoxue did not visit again for a month while Su Fan cultivated in his Cave Mansion and brought the Purple Cloud Thunderous Sword Art close to mastery.
• Su Fan checked the city’s resource prices and decided to sell his supplies before the market stabilized further.
• Su Fan disguised himself with the Asura Ghost Mask and Void Spirit Art, changed identities, and spent several days selling the entire batch of supplies.

After selling his goods for more than forty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, Su Fan hosted Li Miaoxue for lunch, where she bound him to follow her arrangements for Haoyuan Sect recruitment. Li Miaoxue enjoyed his homemade drinks and gave him three sets of array formations, leaving Su Fan with a powerful ally and the equipment he had requested.

• Su Fan sold most of his goods around Haoyuan Immortal City and earned more than forty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Miaoxue arrived at Su Fan's Cave Mansion, joined him for lunch, and asked for his Identity Jade Token.
• Li Miaoxue used a Miniature Array Plate to place Su Fan under her command, explaining that he could fulfill recruitment tasks according to her arrangements without leaving his Cave Mansion.
• Su Fan served Li Miaoxue grape wine and chilled immortal peach juice, which she enjoyed.
• Li Miaoxue gave Su Fan a Storage Bag containing the three sets of array formations he had requested.

Su Fan received three premium formations from Li Miaoxue and repaid her kindness by cooking for her, while their friendship grew closer over the following months. As winter came, Li Miaoxue told him the Evil Cults were overwhelming the Haoyuan Sect and that sects from the East Sea and Western Wilderness would soon join the fight.

• Li Miaoxue explained the concealment, defensive, and illusory formations she had obtained for Su Fan, and Su Fan thanked her for the tremendous favor.
• Su Fan prepared a barbecue for Li Miaoxue, and she offered him her spacious Cave Mansion so he could plant fruit trees there.
• Over the next several months, Su Fan cultivated in peace, completed the Purple Cloud Thunderous Sword Art, and planted fruit trees in Li Miaoxue's Cave Mansion as their friendship grew closer.
• Li Miaoxue regularly visited Su Fan to share food and drink, bringing Spirit Wine and Spirit Tea she had taken from her master.
• As Su Fan and Li Miaoxue ate hotpot during a heavy snowfall, she said the Evil Cults were increasingly difficult to control and that cultivators from the East Sea and Western Wilderness would soon help fight them.

Su Fan studied the talisman inheritance Li Miaoxue had left behind, hoping it would help him overcome a bottleneck in his craft. When Li Miaoxue returned for the Jade Slip, Su Fan denied reading it, and she stayed for lunch.

• Li Miaoxue told Su Fan that the Immortal and Demonic Paths had made peace and discussed her training in the Path of Talismans.
• Su Fan admitted that he only knew how to make basic talismans, and Li Miaoxue lost interest in his skills.
• After Li Miaoxue left a Jade Slip behind, Su Fan studied its Haoyuan Sect talisman inheritance and transcribed it for future reference.
• Li Miaoxue returned to retrieve the Jade Slip, and Su Fan handed it back while pretending he had not read it.
• Li Miaoxue went to the kitchen to inspect Su Fan's stews, burned her hand on a clay pot, and laughed.

Su Fan studied the inheritance Jade Slip and improved his talisman-making before selling a new batch to a shopkeeper in Haoyuan Immortal City. He learned that Haoyuan Sect had withdrawn its disciples from the Mortal World and compared the Central Plains’ weak lower-level cultivators with the battle-hardened fighters of other regions.

• Su Fan cooked Drunken Shrimp and Crispy Fried River Shrimp for Li Miaoxue, who enjoyed the meal before leaving with the inheritance Jade Slip.
• Su Fan studied the inheritance Jade Slip and made talismans in his Cave Mansion, sensing that he had reached the threshold of the Path of Talismans.
• Su Fan brought a stack of talismans to a shop in the city, and the shopkeeper praised their lively spiritual patterns while explaining that shortages had driven up material prices.
• Su Fan told the shopkeeper that sects from the East Sea might enter the Central Plains, then heard that Haoyuan Sect had withdrawn its disciples from the Mortal World.
• The shopkeeper described the battle-tested cultivators of the East Sea, Western Wilderness, and Southern Barbarians, and Su Fan wondered why the Central Plains’ Nascent Soul Great Experts had not acted.

Su Fan discovered that Haoyuan Sect had been tracking him because of his closeness to Li Miaoxue, so he decided to leave Haoyuan Immortal City. After escaping his watchers and disguising himself, he headed for the city gate but suddenly sensed something behind him.

• Su Fan noticed Rogue Cultivators following him through the city and used lightning to evade them.
• A Haoyuan Sect disciple told his Second Uncle that Su Fan was a talisman master, and Su Fan later captured and interrogated the gang leader who had been ordered to track him.
• Su Fan suspected Li Miaoxue had drawn the sect's attention, while she told him she would enter seclusion and had arranged for his recruitment.
• Su Fan packed his Cave Mansion, killed the watchers nearby with his Spiritual Sense, disguised himself with the Asura Ghost Mask, and left for the city gate.
• Su Fan stopped and turned sharply after sensing something inside the city.

Su Fan witnessed a Nascent Soul Celestial Phenomenon over the Haoyuan Sect and watched three layers of lightning strike the Giant Peak before the tribulation abruptly ended. Fiendish Aura then engulfed Haoyuan Immortal City, and a dazzling radiance revealed a Vast Starry Sky that Su Fan recognized.

• Su Fan saw a Five-Colored Spiritual Cloud gather over the Haoyuan Sect, drawing Golden Core Cultivators and the city’s attention as the Mountain Protection Array activated.
• The Nine-Layered Lightning Tribulation began, and its first three layers struck the Giant Peak while a triangular flag and a Golden Giant Cauldron were destroyed.
• The thunderclouds dispersed after only three layers, leaving Su Fan and the other cultivators wondering whether the breakthrough had failed.
• Su Fan detected growing Fiendish Aura as black demonic smoke surged from the Haoyuan Sect and covered Haoyuan Immortal City.
• A dazzling radiance dispelled the demonic smoke and revealed an unfamiliar Vast Starry Sky that Su Fan recognized.

Su Fan tried to escape Haoyuan Immortal City after realizing a forbidden ritual had opened a passage to the Outer Realm, but the city’s teleportation array was destroyed and a barrier sealed the area. As demons poured through the passage, the city’s Golden Core Cultivators flew toward the Haoyuan Sect to destroy the formation sustaining it.

• Su Fan fled to Haoyuan Immortal City’s teleportation array, but a blast destroyed the pavilion and left him without a way to teleport away.
• Su Fan contacted Li Miaoxue and learned that the Haoyuan Sect had been destroyed, while she was trapped in a land where talismans and magic artifacts did not work.
• Li Miaoxue told Su Fan that the sect’s Supreme Elder had been a peak Golden Core Cultivator, confirming Su Fan’s suspicion that he had used an evil technique to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• A terrifying force descended over the city, and deep-blue barriers sealed Haoyuan Immortal City beneath the Vast Starry Sky.
• Countless Outer Realm Demonic Beings emerged from the vortex, and the city’s Golden Core Cultivators flew toward the Haoyuan Sect to destroy the Evil Law Great Formation.

Su Fan tried to survive the Demonic Beings’ invasion of Haoyuan Immortal City by fighting only when necessary and navigating its alleys. A young Haoyuan Sect cultivator followed him despite his efforts to keep her safe, and he ended by ordering her to hide while she begged him not to leave.

• Su Fan escaped the pressure around the vortex, sheltered himself with a talisman, and killed a Demonic Being that crashed into the alley.
• Su Fan saved a terrified young Haoyuan Sect cultivator from a Blade Demon, then warned her not to attract more enemies.
• The young cultivator followed Su Fan and witnessed him summon Sister Zhen, while Su Fan continued scouting the alleys and killing Demonic Beings.
• Su Fan killed a flying Demonic Being that ambushed him, then realized its kind had made escape by flying boat too dangerous.
• Su Fan carried the young cultivator into a room and told her to stay there, but she pleaded with him not to leave her.

Su Fan watched a Foreign Great Heavenly Demon descend into Haoyuan Immortal City and feared that no Nascent Soul experts would intervene. Several Central Plains Nascent Soul experts finally appeared, destroyed the spatial passage, and forced the Great Heavenly Demon away, but they left the city’s remaining demonic beings behind.

• Su Fan warned Li Miaoxue that a Nascent Soul Great Heavenly Demon might descend and told her to hide, while she said she was still looking for her master and Household.
• A tentacled Foreign Great Heavenly Demon emerged from the vortex, its aura knocking Su Fan and the young female cultivator unconscious.
• A Bone-Piercing Fiend landed nearby and smashed buildings as Su Fan struggled to find the will to fight.
• An invisible giant hand destroyed the vortex and the barrier around Haoyuan Immortal City, while several powerful divine senses locked onto the Great Heavenly Demon.
• The Great Heavenly Demon vanished with the powerful divine senses, leaving Su Fan and the young cultivator alive, but the Bone-Piercing Fiend and other demonic beings remained in the city.