Chapter Summaries

Su Fan steadily trained Meng Chao and Shen Yue, tempering their bodies with lightning and teaching them cultivation, talismans, spells, and ruthless combat tactics. After more than a year, both disciples had advanced in cultivation and become formidable fighters, though the sect remained unaware of their progress.

• Su Fan finished lightning-tempering Meng Chao and Shen Yue, then tested their talisman-making and told them to take a Snow Lotus Pill daily and visit him every ten days.
• Su Fan grew invested in his disciples and began giving them regular instruction, including lightning-tempering, cultivation advice, and lessons in combat spells and Body Path techniques.
• Su Fan trained Meng Chao and Shen Yue in unrestricted, evasive fights and repeatedly sparred with them to prepare them for dangerous opponents.
• Over the next year, both disciples broke through their realms and greatly improved their combat skills, physiques, and Spiritual Senses.
• Su Fan taught Meng Chao and Shen Yue the soul-attack spell Spirit Shocking Stab, while the sect remained unaware of how strong they had become.

Su Fan pushed Meng Chao and Shen Yue through brutal training while they prepared for the Water Cloud Sect’s minor competition. Shen Yue won her opening match with a startlingly fast strike, leaving the competition ahead and her confidence rising.

• Meng Chao and Shen Yue failed to defeat the Ghost Crow, so Su Fan made them train before letting them eat.
• Su Fan ordered Meng Chao to place in the top twenty and Shen Yue in the top fifty at the sect competition, and the pair trained for a month.
• Shen Yue drew a place in the first group and nervously entered the arena against a Qi Refining Fourth Layer disciple.
• Shen Yue used her perfected movement skills to rush past her opponent and hold her magical sword to his throat before stopping herself from striking.
• The referee declared Shen Yue the winner, and she ran down to celebrate with Meng Chao.

Meng Chao and Shen Yue placed well in the Water Cloud Sect’s minor competition, then began brutal training under Su Fan to prepare for the gathering in Qingyang Immortal City. Su Fan escalated their drills by setting a Bronze Armored Zombie on them, and the two finally overcame their fear and brought it down.

• Meng Chao defeated his Qi Refining Fourth Layer opponent with a quick attack, while Shen Yue went on to place among the top fifty and Meng Chao ranked eighteenth in the minor competition.
• Su Fan congratulated his disciples, then ordered them to break through another level and compete at the Three Great Immortal Sects’ gathering in Qingyang Immortal City.
• Su Fan subjected Meng Chao and Shen Yue to dawn training, doubled cultivation exercises, daily lightning tempering, spirit-gathering cultivation, pills, and repeated sparring for over two months.
• Su Fan introduced a Bronze Armored Zombie and ordered Meng Chao and Shen Yue to destroy it, leaving Ghost Crow to watch over them.
• After struggling through the zombie’s attacks, Meng Chao and Shen Yue overcame their fear and toppled it, though they collapsed from exhaustion.

Su Fan finished training Meng Chao and Shen Yue, whose combat skills and cultivation had improved greatly through months of fighting Bronze Armored Zombies. After sparring with them and showing how easily he could overwhelm them, he declared their special training over.

• Meng Chao and Shen Yue overcame their fear of Bronze Armored Zombies and grew strong enough to defeat them quickly using practiced tactics.
• After months of resource-rich training and daily thunder tempering, Meng Chao and Shen Yue each broke through to the Mid Qi Refining Stage and strengthened their bodies and souls.
• Su Fan watched Meng Chao and Shen Yue practice swordsmanship and saw that they had mastered the technique and begun to grasp momentum.
• Meng Chao and Shen Yue attacked Su Fan in a coordinated ambush with talismans and sword techniques, but he calmly deflected their blows with Sword Intent.
• Su Fan used Headwind Slash and Ghost Wheel Slash to make Shen Yue feel near death, then stopped Meng Chao with the Thunderclap Sword.
• Su Fan warned Meng Chao and Shen Yue not to become complacent and told them their special training was over.

After months of brutal training, Su Fan’s disciples Meng Chao and Shen Yue rested, then learned they would soon travel to Qingyang Immortal City for a sect exchange conference. Su Fan agreed to lead the trip and gave the two disciples spirit stones before sending them down the mountain for a few days of fun.

• Meng Chao and Shen Yue slept for a day and a night after their special training ended, then ate with Su Fan.
• Zuo Zonghao summoned Su Fan and assigned him to lead Water Cloud Sect’s top fifty disciples to an exchange conference in Qingyang Immortal City amid renewed trouble from the Evil Cult.
• Su Fan told Zuo Zonghao that Meng Chao and Shen Yue had each advanced a level, surprising the Sect Master before leaving the Sect Affairs Hall.
• Su Fan gave Meng Chao a Storage Bag of spirit stones for both disciples and sent Meng Chao and Shen Yue down the mountain to relax.

Su Fan arrived in Qingyang Immortal City with the Water Cloud Sect disciples, learned that East Sea and Western Wilderness cultivators were entering the Central Plains as its crisis deepened, and gave Meng Chao and Shen Yue supreme-grade protective artifacts. The chapter ended as a Ziwei Immortal Palace disciple began fighting in the exchange meet, while Su Fan considered fleeing the Central Plains if its situation worsened.

• Su Fan arrived in Qingyang Immortal City, left the Water Cloud Sect group with the elders, and learned from a shop assistant that East Sea cultivators were arriving to travel onward into the Central Plains.
• Su Fan contacted He Bin, who said that Central Plains sects had ceded territory in the Western Wilderness to secure the aid of its demonic sects, and confirmed that Su Youzhen and Gu Qinghuan had not come.
• Su Fan bought two supreme-grade protective magical artifacts with his spoils and gave them to Meng Chao and Shen Yue for the exchange meet.
• Zhou Ji persuaded Su Fan to attend the Qingyang Immortal City exchange meet, where Su Fan met Xiao Wen of Qinghong Sect.
• Xiao Wen told Su Fan that a Nascent Soul Sect had fallen after heretical cultivators opened a spatial passage and summoned Great Heavenly Demons, and that Ziwei Immortal Palace had sent disciples to compete.
• Su Fan asked Xiao Wen how to reach the East Sea and learned that Golden Core Cultivators guarded the city's Teleportation Arrays; then a Ziwei Immortal Palace disciple took the arena to face a Tian Yue Sect disciple.

Su Fan watched Shen Yue and Meng Chao overwhelm their opponents at the exchange conference, drawing the interest of Cheng Xi, a Golden Core cultivator from Ziwei Immortal Palace. Cheng Xi offered to take both disciples as her students and bring Su Fan to the East Sea, and he accepted.

• Su Fan watched Shen Yue defeat a Ziwei Immortal Palace disciple with a surprise talisman attack, while Meng Chao won his match using close combat.
• Shen Yue and Meng Chao continued winning, with Shen Yue defeating several opponents, including Sixth Level of Qi Condensation cultivators, and impressing the gathered cultivators.
• Cheng Xi decided she wanted Shen Yue as her disciple, while Su Fan told Xiao Wen that he had always had pretty good luck.
• After the matches ended, Cheng Xi approached Su Fan and asked about the training that had strengthened his disciples.
• Su Fan agreed to let Cheng Xi take both Shen Yue and Meng Chao as disciples in exchange for her help getting him to the East Sea and introducing him to a Golden Core Sect.

Su Fan reluctantly prepared Meng Chao and Shen Yue to leave for Ziwei Immortal Palace, then secretly helped them form lightning pill Dao seeds before Cheng Xi took them away. At the exchange gathering, Su Fan told Xiao Wen about their new master, leaving Xiao Wen envious and frustrated.

• Su Fan told Meng Chao and Shen Yue that Cheng Xi of Ziwei Immortal Palace had chosen them as disciples, but both begged not to leave him.
• After thinking overnight, Su Fan took them into the mountains and used Heaven and Earth Lightning to form lightning pill Dao seeds in their bodies.
• Su Fan continued taking the two disciples to endure lightning for two days, strengthening their Dao seeds before bringing them to meet Cheng Xi.
• Cheng Xi accepted Meng Chao and Shen Yue, gave Su Fan a jade pendant promising help, and took the children away.
• At the exchange gathering, Xiao Wen asked about Su Fan's disciples, and Su Fan revealed they had joined Cheng Xi, making Xiao Wen intensely jealous.

Su Fan learned that the Demon Suppressing Bell signaled an invasion from Great Luo Heaven, and Qingyang Immortal City sealed itself as cultivators were mobilized for war. Though Cheng Xi offered to help him join the Ziwei Immortal Palace, Su Fan chose to remain with the Water Cloud Sect and reported to the central plaza, still hoping to find a chance to escape the fighting.

• Su Fan heard the Demon Suppressing Bell toll eighty-one times, and Xiao Wen explained that its unprecedented tolling meant a major crisis had begun.
• Qingyang Immortal City activated its Defensive Array, trapping the fleeing cultivators, and Su Fan was ordered to report to the central plaza with the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Cheng Xi told Su Fan that Great Luo Heaven was invading the Central Plains and that they would both be among the first cultivators conscripted.
• Cheng Xi assured Su Fan that Meng Chao and Shen Yue would not be conscripted until the minor-sect cultivators were gone, and offered to help Su Fan join the Ziwei Immortal Palace.
• Su Fan declined Cheng Xi's offer, resolved to stay with the Water Cloud Sect and look for a chance to escape the battlefield, then went to the central plaza to register.

Su Fan was forced to enlist in the Central Plains Immortal Sects’ campaign and discovered that the Demon Suppressing Stele had marked him, making escape impossible. After enduring a chain of long-distance teleports, he reached Qinglian Immortal City and was assigned to a squad headed for the front line.

• A Nascent Soul True Lord arrived in Qingyang Immortal City, killed hidden evil cultivators, and ordered cultivators above Foundation Establishment to answer the recruitment.
• Su Fan registered at the Demon Suppressing Stele, which took his blood and implanted a Magic Mark that he could not remove.
• Su Fan told Sect Master Zuo Zonghao that the recruitment was sending cultivators to the battlefield, and learned their Old Ancestor had already departed through a Teleportation Array.
• The Demon Suppressing Stele randomly assigned Su Fan to a group, and he teleported with hundreds of cultivators through several cities toward Qinglian Immortal City.
• At Qinglian Immortal City, Su Fan registered again and was assigned to a hundred-person squad led by a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator.

Su Fan’s squad prepared to travel from Qinglian Immortal City to the front, where he feared the battle would be worse than the recruits realized. As their forces departed, the Western Wilderness mobilized, old companions emerged from seclusion, and Ye Tianhe eagerly set out to fight.

• Xue Hongchou assigned Su Fan and nine other cultivators to a group led by Li Zhen, and the recruits discussed their journey and the Merit Points rewards.
• Li Zhen distributed supplies and revealed that recruits could exchange Merit Points for the Nine Revolutions Pure Yang Pill and Dragon Tiger Barrier Breaking Pill, while Su Fan worried about the battlefield’s danger.
• Su Fan’s group boarded a super flying ship at Qinglian Immortal City and headed for the front.
• In the Western Wilderness, Zhuang Rui and Liu He ate wraps Liu He had learned to make from Su Fan and wondered whether they would see him again.
• Senior Sister and Gu Qinghuan left seclusion after their master summoned them, then tried to contact Su Fan without receiving a reply.
• Li Miaoxue boarded an airship with her disciple watching, while Ye Tianhe and other sword cultivators traveled toward battle, eager to fight Great Luo Heaven’s invaders.

Su Fan arrived at the front line against Great Luo Heaven’s Foreign Demonic Beings and learned that the recruits were being sent to buy time for new defenses. When a demon’s sound wave struck the overwhelmed reinforcements, Su Fan vanished in a flash of blood-colored light.

• Su Fan woke from a dream of his former life as Li Zhen told him their flying vessel was nearing the front line.
• Su Fan’s group reached the Falling Star Mountain Range, where Xue Hongchou explained that the Central Plains sects were struggling to hold back the invasion while larger defenses were built.
• Zhou Qi confronted Su Fan for knowing the danger in advance, and Su Fan said that warning them would not have changed anything.
• Su Fan and the other recruits passed through the defensive arrays and were sent to a mountain pass where Foreign Demonic Beings were breaking through.
• After a Golden Core Cultivator used a Nine Heavens Imperial Thunder Immortal Talisman to clear demons, the stunned reinforcements failed to seal the breach, and a demon unleashed a sound wave that killed dozens of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Su Fan vanished in a flash of blood-colored light as the sound wave swept over the battlefield.

Su Fan and his squad endured repeated assaults by the Foreign Demonic Beings, suffering heavy losses as the first defensive line collapsed. During the retreat toward the second line, a Foreign Great Demon blocked their path and attacked.

• Su Fan dodged a Great Demon's divine ability with Blood Escape, but dozens of Foundation Establishment Cultivators died before a Golden Core Cultivator used a Third-tier Talisman to protect the survivors.
• Su Fan's squad suffered mounting casualties over several days defending the front line, while Li Zhen became squad leader and urged Su Fan to lead their group; Su Fan refused and recommended Zhou Qi.
• A Foreign Great Heavenly Demon attacked, and the Human Race's first line of defense broke as demons poured through the gap.
• Su Fan recognized that the squad had to retreat, and he and Li Zhen led the survivors through repeated demon attacks toward the second line of defense.
• A several-zhang-tall Foreign Great Demon landed in the squad's path and attacked before Li Zhen could finish ordering everyone to scatter.

Su Fan escaped the collapsing first defense line and discovered that the Foreign Demonic Beings had opened spatial passages behind the defenses, trapping retreating cultivators. He attacked an altar powering one passage, but a Foreign Great Demon arrived as he harvested the surrounding corpses for blood and qi.

• Su Fan escaped a great demon’s earth-wave attack, then used repeated blood escapes to break free of the Demonic Beings surrounding him.
• Su Fan flew toward the second line of defense and discovered demonic smoke ahead, then sent Sister Zhen to scout an altar that was summoning Demonic Beings through a spatial passage.
• Su Fan realized the passages had encircled retreating cultivators and that he lacked enough blood and qi to escape, so he hid near the altar and waited for an opportunity.
• When Human Race Nascent Soul True Lords engaged the Great Heavenly Demons, Su Fan took advantage of the guards leaving the altar and struck the remaining Demonic Beings with his Yang Extreme Earth Fiend and Yin wind techniques.
• Su Fan began devouring the corpses piled beside the altar with Blood Demon Mist, but a Foreign Great Demon charged at him.

Su Fan destroyed a teleportation altar, slew two Foreign Great Demons, and slaughtered many other Demonic Beings, earning first place on the Demon Slaying Ranking. He returned to the second line of defense, where he realized his demonic cultivation had surged but was making his emotions harder to control.

• Su Fan used a bone talisman, purple lightning, and repeated attacks to kill a Foreign Great Demon, then absorbed the blood from Human Race cultivator corpses and destroyed the altar with Rage Slash.
• Su Fan fought through the surrounding Demonic Beings and killed a second, gravely wounded Foreign Great Demon before fleeing as Human Race Golden Core Cultivators arrived.
• The Demon Slaying Ranking placed Su Fan first, astonishing cultivators across the Central Plains; Cheng Xi regretted misjudging him, while Li Miaoxue recognized him.
• Su Fan fled to the second line of defense, converted the excess qi and blood in his body, and returned injured before checking his Game Panel and finding his realm and technique had risen sharply.
• Su Fan suppressed a surge of violent emotion with the purple lightning in his Dao Seed and decided to seek more lightning while recovering.

After surviving the collapse of the first line of defense, Su Fan learned he had topped the Demon Slaying Ranking and was summoned by three Golden Core cultivators from Huoyun Dao Palace. He returned to his room hoping to enjoy his recovery, only to learn that Huoyun Dao Palace had taken him into the sect without asking.

• Su Fan traveled with the few surviving cultivators to Chiyun Market, where he was given three months to recuperate.
• Su Fan discovered that he ranked first on the Demon Slaying Ranking and worried that his battlefield achievements would draw attention.
• Meng Li escorted Su Fan to meet True Person Haoxuan and two other Golden Core cultivators, who praised him and examined his Ghost Crow before dismissing him without explanation.
• Su Fan spent several comfortable days in his room until Meng Li returned and announced that True Person Haoxuan had accepted him into Huoyun Dao Palace.
• Su Fan suspected that Huoyun Dao Palace had recruited the survivors to use them as cannon fodder.

Huoyun Dao Palace forcibly enrolled Su Fan, then won him over with lavish treasures and three months of recovery before sending him back to the front lines. Assigned to the rear and protected while he remained first on the Demon Slaying Ranking, Su Fan provoked his new sectmates by shamelessly devouring the cafeteria’s Spirit Food.

• Huoyun Dao Palace changed Su Fan’s sect affiliation on the Demon Slaying Ranking and enrolled him without asking, while Taiyi Pill Sect recruited other cultivators from Chiyun Market.
• Meng Li told Su Fan about Huoyun Dao Palace, and True Person Haoxuan gave him a Storage Ring packed with top-grade artifacts, talismans, pills, and a powerful Spirit Robe.
• Huoyun Dao Palace supplied its new recruits with food, medicine, and rewards for three months, restoring their health and morale before sending them back to the battlefield.
• Su Fan returned to the front lines with Huoyun Dao Palace and was stationed at the third defensive line, where he realized the sect was protecting him while he remained atop the Demon Slaying Ranking.
• Su Fan ate enormous quantities of Spirit Food in the Huoyun Dao Palace cafeteria and threatened the disciples who confronted him, drawing the gathered sectmates’ anger.

Su Fan antagonized Huoyun Dao Palace’s disciples, then took advantage of its well-stocked Artifact Forging Workshop to rapidly improve his skills. His progress eventually drew the attention of the sect’s senior cultivators.

• Su Fan drove the disciples out of the canteen by berating them and continued eating while they avoided him.
• Su Fan learned that he could earn Merit Points by accepting artifact-forging missions and began practicing with Huoyun Dao Palace’s free materials.
• After a month of failures, Su Fan forged his first Flowing Wind Sword and saw his Artifact Refining Technique improve on the Game Panel.
• Su Fan completed workshop missions, kept the extra spirit artifacts he made, and advanced quickly with help from the Game Panel.
• Huoyun Dao Palace disciples and Golden Core True Persons examined Su Fan’s improving artifacts and recognized his rapid progress and fighting ability.

Su Fan refined better spirit artifacts and learned that his Evil Spirit Bone from a Great Heavenly Demon was extraordinarily valuable against the invading demons. He began a private bidding process with Huoyun Dao Palace disciples, who offered rare treasures for the bone.

• Su Fan refined an Azure Flood Dragon Ge and exchanged his completed artifacts for Merit Points before accepting a Wind Fire Demon Slaying Saber task.
• Su Fan showed a duty disciple a fragment of withered bone, and the disciples identified it as Evil Spirit Bone from a Great Heavenly Demon.
• The duty disciples and other disciples offered rare materials, talismans, and spirit artifacts to trade for the Evil Spirit Bone.
• Su Fan brought out more pieces of bone and moved the negotiations into a room behind the counter to prevent further commotion.
• Su Fan set rules for a written bidding process and began taking offers for a piece of Evil Spirit Bone.

Su Fan traded the Evil Spirit Bones for valuable talismans, artifacts, pills, and materials, then continued exchanging them with Huoyun Dao Palace disciples and Golden Core True Persons. After months at the base, he had amassed a fortune and knew he would eventually be sent to the front lines.

• Su Fan traded one Evil Spirit Bone during the bidding and received powerful combat resources in exchange for the five bones sold there.
• Su Fan examined his new talismans, spirit artifacts, pills, and forging materials, then returned to his Cave Mansion to calm himself.
• Li Han visited Su Fan and traded a Greedy Wolf Breaking Army Seven Kill Sword Formation and other materials for Su Fan’s final piece of Evil Spirit Bone.
• Su Fan obtained Artifact Dao books and notes from Li Han, then traded more Evil Spirit Bones to disciples who came to his door.
• Su Fan continued selling broken bones to Huoyun Dao Palace disciples and Golden Core True Persons, accumulating valuable goods over several months at the base.