Chapter Summaries

Su Fan escaped Haoyuan Immortal City with the little female cultivator, then parted from her after learning she planned to join the surviving Haoyuan Sect disciples. He said goodbye to Li Miaoxue and chose to travel to Qingyang Immortal City before heading for the East Sea.

• Su Fan used Blood Escape twice to carry the little female cultivator out of Haoyuan Immortal City, then left her to make her own way.
• The little female cultivator received a message from her Master and prepared to join him after the destruction of her sect.
• Su Fan contacted Li Miaoxue and learned that she, her injured Master, and two Martial Uncles planned to gather survivors and travel to the Taixu Immortal Sect.
• Su Fan declined Li Miaoxue's invitation to go with them, promising to visit someday, and the two parted through their Communication Talisms.
• Su Fan studied Li Miaoxue's map, decided to travel to the East Sea, and chose Qingyang Immortal City as his next destination.

Su Fan traveled from Haoyuan Immortal City toward the Qingyang Mountain Range, discovering that nearby market towns had been abandoned and that the Shuiyue Sect had tightened inspections. After registering at Huixing Market Town and resting, he learned that the Central Plains’ teleportation arrays to the East Sea had been sealed, frustrating his plan to leave and cultivate there.

• Su Fan found Maplewood Market Town abandoned, then continued toward the Qingyang Mountain Range and passed another abandoned market town.
• A Shuiyue Sect Law Enforcement Team checked Su Fan’s identity and directed him to Huixing Market Town to register.
• At Huixing Market Town, a Shuiyue Sect disciple recognized Su Fan’s past service and offered him priority consideration for the sect, but Su Fan declined and registered as a traveler seeking treatment for his injuries.
• Su Fan entered Huixing Market Town, slept for two days, and then ate at a restaurant.
• Su Fan overheard cultivators say that Central Plains teleportation arrays to the East Sea had been sealed, leaving him unable to pursue his plan to cultivate there.

Su Fan sought a safe place amid the conflict between the Immortal Sects and the Evil Cult, and traveled to Shuiyue Sect to apply as a talisman master. After passing the examination, he joined the sect and settled into a Cave Mansion.

• Su Fan learned that Shuiyue Sect was recruiting talisman masters and decided to take the examination rather than hide or join the fighting.
• Su Fan traveled to Shuiyue Market Town, waited through the inspection, and joined the talisman-master examination.
• Su Fan used his talisman-making skills to produce three successful Evil Exorcising Talismans and passed the examination.
• Ge Yuntao, who oversaw Shuiyue Sect's Talisman Hall, accepted Su Fan into the sect after checking his Identity Jade Talisman.
• Su Fan received a sect Identity Jade Token and Storage Bag, chose a Cave Mansion, and became a Shuiyue Sect disciple.

Su Fan settled into the Shuiyun Sect, learned that its Talismans Hall needed help making talismans to combat evil cultivators, and quickly completed months of assignments. He then visited the Library Pavilion and found a book that surprised him.

• Su Fan inspected and furnished his Cave Mansion, then set up a simple kitchen outside because he needed to eat large quantities of food.
• Ge Yuntao explained that the Shuiyun Sect had been tasked with producing Divine Light Talismans and Evil Seeking Talismans for the three Golden Core Sects.
• Su Fan mastered both talismans within a few days and spent half a month making them in batches, building up a success rate above fifty percent.
• Su Fan handed in his assignments and went to the Library Pavilion to look for books and cultivation resources.
• Su Fan read two pages of an ancient book on the fourth floor and exclaimed that he had not expected to find it there.

Su Fan discovered that the Water Cloud Sect in the Western Wilderness had branched off from the sect he had now joined, reconnecting him with the origins of his talisman practice. After more than a year of quiet cultivation and talisman work, he was sent to Qingyang Immortal City with a group of young disciples.

• Su Fan learned that the Water Cloud Sect in the Qin State had been founded by a disciple who left the Central Plains sect during a crisis, and he obtained the second volume of the Water Cloud Talisman Scripture.
• Su Fan spent over a year cultivating in the Water Cloud Sect, advancing to the middle of the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining while improving his talisman-making skills.
• Ge Yuntao told Su Fan that reports of evil cultivators had ceased for over a year, but Su Fan chose to focus on cultivating and accepted an errand to Qingyang Immortal City.
• Ge Yuntao gave Su Fan talismans to deliver to the Tian Yue Sect station and assigned him to accompany a group of young disciples.
• Su Fan departed with the disciples and their chaperone aboard a crowded flying vessel, piloting his Greenwood Wind-Riding Shuttle behind them.

Su Fan arrived in Qingyang Immortal City with the Shuiyun Sect disciples to deliver talismans for the sect, then explored the city and bought pills to prepare for Foundation Establishment. He began cultivating with one of his new pills at the Shuiyun Sect residence.

• Su Fan and the Shuiyun Sect group reached Qingyang Immortal City, where young disciples had gathered for an exchange event between the three Immortal Sects.
• Su Fan left the group and delivered the Shuiyun Sect’s talismans to the Tian Yue Sect’s residence, reflecting on how heavily the major sects burdened minor sects.
• Su Fan explored Qingyang Immortal City and bought ten bottles of Nine Revolutions Jade Liquid Pill and three bottles of Azure Parasol Pure Origin Pill from the Hundred Herbs Pavilion.
• Su Fan checked into the Shuiyun Sect’s city residence, took a pill from his Storage Ring, and began cultivating the Primordial Chaos Technique.

Su Fan discovered that using the spiritual-power method from Blood Demon Mist let him absorb Nine Revolutions Jade Liquid Pills far faster, accelerating his cultivation toward Great Perfection of Qi Refining. On the journey back to the Shuiyun Sect, Guo Yun left him to watch the young disciples in a remote valley, where Su Fan suddenly noticed something in the sky.

• Su Fan used Blood Demon Mist's method to absorb a Nine Revolutions Jade Liquid Pill's spiritual power in hours and realized he could take one pill each day.
• Su Fan cultivated in Qingyang Immortal City until his Game Panel showed his realm had advanced, then learned from Guo Yun that the sect could return the next morning.
• Guo Yun asked Su Fan to watch the young disciples while she handled business on the way back, and Su Fan agreed.
• Su Fan bought sixty bottles of Nine Revolutions Jade Liquid Pills before he and Guo Yun led the disciples out of Qingyang Immortal City.
• Guo Yun landed the flying boat in a remote valley and left, while the youths played and Su Fan waited nearby.
• Su Fan rose to call the youths back, then suddenly looked sharply toward the sky.

Su Fan was forced to join the Luotian Sect after its forces ambushed him and killed the Shuiyun Sect disciples he had been protecting. He warned Ge Yuntao about the invasion, then followed the attackers to the Shuiyun Sect, where the mountain protection array trapped their leading force and blocked the rest; Su Fan arrived ready to keep them from escaping.

• Luotian Sect forces surrounded Su Fan, killed the Shuiyun Sect disciples, and pressured him into joining their sect.
• Su Fan killed the two remaining Shuiyun Sect boys to prove his allegiance, then Sister Zhen helped him kill the Foundation Establishment guards and the other evil cultivators left behind.
• Su Fan contacted Ge Yuntao and warned him that Guo Yun and hundreds of evil cultivators were heading for the Shuiyun Sect.
• Guo Yun's flying boat entered the sect and was trapped in its array, while the mountain protection array activated against the pursuing boats.
• Su Fan followed the attackers to the mountain gate and piloted his boat toward the trapped evil cultivators, declaring that none of them would leave.

Su Fan thwarted Luotian Sect’s attack on Shuiyun Sect, then sought Elder Ge’s reassurance about his coerced allegiance before preparing to establish his foundation. He returned in disguise to Shuiyun Market and learned that the Evil Cult had resumed its attacks across the region.

• Su Fan incapacitated the evil cultivators aboard several flying vessels, then killed the Foundation Establishment attackers threatening Shuiyun Sect’s Mountain Protection Array.
• Sister Zhen devoured the slain cultivators’ Shade Souls, while Su Fan drained blood qi from the attackers’ vessels and left to recover.
• Two Golden Core Cultivators arrived and helped Shuiyun Sect repel the assault; Elder Ge later told Su Fan that Guo Yun and the other trapped attackers had been killed.
• Su Fan told Elder Ge that the Evil Cult had forced him to submit a token of allegiance, and Elder Ge assured him he had done nothing wrong.
• After refining his body with heavenly lightning, Su Fan disguised himself in Shuiyun Market and heard that Luotian Sect had resumed attacks and found a way to counter the Divine Light Talisman and Evil Seeking Talisman.

After returning to Shuiyun Sect, Su Fan received a generous reward and was named Deputy Hall Master of the Talismans Hall, but he intended to avoid its duties and focus on cultivation. He reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining and began preparing for Foundation Establishment as the Evil Cults continued to threaten the Central Plains.

• Su Fan returned to Shuiyun Sect, visited Ge Yuntao, and accepted his bottle of Three-Root Blood Coagulating Pills.
• Zuo Zonghao and two Foundation Establishment Elders rewarded Su Fan with Merit Points and cultivation resources, including two Foundation Establishment Pills, and promoted him to Deputy Hall Master of the Talismans Hall.
• Su Fan told Ge Yuntao he planned to enter seclusion to restore his vital essence, and Ge Yuntao agreed after recalling Guo Yun and her tragic fate.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion and reviewed his reward, then used pills and the Blood Demon Mist method to cultivate for over a month.
• Su Fan reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining and decided to prepare for Foundation Establishment amid the Evil Cults' growing threat.

Su Fan broke through to Foundation Establishment in the Shuiyun Sect, drawing the attention of its leaders, who welcomed him and offered him generous support. After agreeing to remain with the sect, he bonded with a Magic Beast egg that had begun to stir and placed it in a spiritual spring to hatch.

• Su Fan used an Azure Parasol Pure Origin Pill and cultivated the Primordial Chaos Technique, breaking through to Foundation Establishment and expanding his Purple Mansion and dantian.
• Several Foundation Establishment Cultivators sensed the breakthrough, and Sect Master Zuo Zonghao and three others came to congratulate Su Fan.
• Su Fan explained that he had concealed his cultivation, and Zuo Zonghao thanked him for thwarting the Evil Cult's scheme and offered him a spiritual mountain peak and monthly cultivation resources.
• Su Fan accepted the Shuiyun Sect's offer and returned to his Cultivation Room after seeing Zuo Zonghao and the others off.
• Su Fan sensed life stirring in a Magic Beast egg taken from Zhou Tong, performed a master-recognition ritual, and placed the egg in his spiritual spring to hatch.

Su Fan moved into Shaohua Peak and secluded himself to stabilize his Foundation Establishment cultivation, though his progress with the Primordial Chaos Technique remained slow. After several days of waiting, the Magic Beast egg hatched into an ugly naked fledgling, whose identity remained unknown.

• Su Fan placed the Magic Beast egg in the Spirit Spring and learned that its hatching time was unpredictable.
• Guo Song and the Sect Affairs Hall deacons prepared Shaohua Peak for Su Fan, who inspected the grounds and declined to have servant disciples sent to his Cave Mansion.
• Su Fan began secluded cultivation at Shaohua Peak and stabilized his Foundation Establishment Realm over the following months.
• Su Fan found that his cultivation progressed slowly and checked his progress on the Game Panel.
• The Magic Beast egg cracked, and Su Fan consulted a Jade Slip about hatching before waiting beside the Spirit Spring.
• Several days later, the egg hatched, and Su Fan found himself holding an ugly naked fledgling.

Su Fan discovered that his pet was a rare Ghost Crow and emerged from two years of seclusion to ask Zuo Zonghao about the Evil Cult. He returned to his quiet routine at Shaohua Peak, cultivating and keeping the Ghost Crow company.

• Su Fan watched the hatchling grow and realized it was a Ghost Crow capable of flight and invisibility, with the potential to reach the fourth order.
• Su Fan spent two years secluded at Shaohua Peak, tending his garden and raising the Ghost Crow, which grew close to him.
• Su Fan visited the Shuiyun Sect's main hall, where Zuo Zonghao explained that the Evil Cult had grown more active despite several failed campaigns.
• Su Fan offered to help the sect if trouble arose, then visited Ge Yuntao at the Talismans Hall but found their former familiarity had faded.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion and resumed cultivating, drawing talismans, crafting artifacts, and spending time with the Ghost Crow and Sister Zhen.

Su Fan continued teaching combat skills at Shuiyun Sect until a secluded Foundation Establishment Elder underwent a successful tribulation and became a Golden Core Cultivator. The sect celebrated its new status, but several Golden Core Cultivators soon arrived at the mountain gate.

• Su Fan lectured Shuiyun Sect disciples on cultivation insights and battle experience, drawing large crowds and praise from Zuo Zonghao and the other elders.
• Su Fan spotted tribulation clouds forming above the rear mountains and prepared to flee if the breakthrough involved demonic methods.
• Zuo Zonghao and Su Fan watched as the secluded elder endured six lightning strikes and successfully advanced to the Golden Core Realm.
• Zuo Zonghao, Su Fan, and the other cultivators congratulated the newly advanced Martial Uncle, who told them to leave while he stabilized his cultivation.
• Shuiyun Sect celebrated its new Golden Core Cultivator until a disciple reported that several Golden Core Cultivators had arrived outside the mountain gate, and Zuo Zonghao led the elders to welcome them.

Water Cloud Sect flourished after a Golden Core Cultivator emerged, but several newly admitted Foundation Establishment Cultivators demanded Su Fan surrender his mountain peak. Su Fan defeated their challenger in one blow and invited the rest to step forward.

• Water Cloud Sect received visitors and benefits from sects and families across the Qingyang Mountain Range after its Golden Core breakthrough, while Su Fan focused on cultivating and lecturing on the Dao.
• Sect Master Zuo Zonghao admitted several Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators, but some complained that Su Fan occupied a mountain peak despite having only recently reached Foundation Establishment.
• A Foundation Establishment Cultivator challenged Su Fan to a spar, wagering a Talisman Treasure if Su Fan won and demanding his mountain peak if he lost.
• Su Fan accepted the challenge, used lightning to close the distance, and knocked Deng Jie unconscious with a single strike.
• When another cultivator accused Su Fan of a sneak attack, Su Fan claimed he had failed to control his strength and challenged the others with, “Who else...”

Su Fan defeated two Foundation Establishment Cultivators in succession using only his physical strength, then taught the Water Cloud Sect disciples to fight evil cultivators without hesitation. The bout established his prestige in the sect, and his lectures soon drew packed crowds.

• After Su Fan challenged the Foundation Establishment Cultivators, one stepped forward to spar with him while He Bin refereed.
• Su Fan slapped away his opponent’s magical artifacts barehanded and pressured him into conceding without using his movement technique.
• Su Fan urged the Water Cloud Sect disciples to attack evil cultivators swiftly and show no mercy, then ended the lesson.
• The defeated cultivators left Su Fan alone, and word of his strength spread through the sect to Sect Master Zuo Zonghao.
• Su Fan’s lectures became so popular that disciples arrived hours early to claim a place.

Su Fan trained his swordsmanship, spells, and physical techniques before Sect Master Zuo Zonghao summoned him to take disciples. Su Fan accepted the assignment and chose two children from a group of Qi Refining disciples.

• Su Fan practiced the Nine Extremes Consecutive Slashes, several Thunderclap Sword techniques, and Xingyi Quan until he was exhausted.
• Zuo Zonghao summoned Su Fan to the Sect Affairs Hall and told him Old Ancestor Qing Xuan had ordered him to take disciples.
• Su Fan agreed to accept disciples despite finding the task troublesome.
• Zuo Zonghao led Su Fan to meet a group of young Qi Refining disciples, and Su Fan chose two of them.

Su Fan took Meng Chao and Shen Yue as disciples and brought them to his Cave Mansion, where he gave them welcoming gifts and sent them to establish their own homes on Shaohua Peak. The two children were thrilled to have been chosen, and Shen Yue was stunned when she opened her Storage Bag.

• Su Fan selected Meng Chao and Shen Yue as disciples, and Zuo Zonghao completed a brief apprenticeship ceremony.
• Su Fan brought the children to his Cave Mansion and prepared two Storage Bags with gifts for them.
• Meng Chao and Shen Yue introduced themselves and explained their humble backgrounds in mortal families.
• Su Fan gave the children Storage Bags and Formation Jade Talismans, told them to return in ten days, and lent Meng Chao a Yin Wind Boat for travel.
• After leaving Su Fan's room, Shen Yue opened her Storage Bag and stared at Meng Chao in disbelief.

Shen Yue and Meng Chao were astonished by the lavish gifts Su Fan had given them, then settled into their new homes near his Cave Mansion. Su Fan checked on their cultivation and gave them a soul technique to practice daily.

• Shen Yue and Meng Chao discovered that Su Fan's meeting gifts included magical artifacts, many Talismans and pills, and a second-order Protective Jade Talisman.
• The two built Thatched Cottages in a distant valley, then bought necessities at Water Cloud Market and finished arranging their Cave Mansions.
• Su Fan reflected on his slow Foundation Establishment progress and his difficulty finding pills for early-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• On the tenth day, Su Fan found Shen Yue preparing breakfast and Meng Chao tending a vegetable plot, and spoke with them about their past work and cultivation.
• Su Fan called the two into the Study Room, handed Meng Chao a Jade Slip, and told them to cultivate its soul technique once every day.

Su Fan gave Meng Chao and Shen Yue a demonic soul-tempering art, then used the purple lightning in his Dao Seed to cleanse Meng Chao’s body. Meng Chao recovered with improved meridians and Spiritual Sense, while Shen Yue faced the same painful treatment.

• Meng Chao and Shen Yue questioned whether they should cultivate the Demonic Sect art, and Su Fan explained that he had used it himself for years.
• Su Fan told them how often to take Snow Lotus Pills, then decided to test whether his Dao Seed’s lightning could temper their bodies.
• Su Fan taught Meng Chao the first layer of the Demonic Saint Body Art and sent purple lightning through him as he cultivated.
• Meng Chao endured the ordeal as the lightning purged impurities from his body, then staggered off to wash away the foul sludge.
• Meng Chao felt renewed in the Spirit Spring, with smoother meridians and stronger Spiritual Sense, while Shen Yue screamed as Su Fan began her treatment.