Chapter Summaries

Su Fan subdued the cultivators who had provoked him aboard the flying ship, claimed their cabin, and bound a Ghost General to himself. After questioning his two remaining cabin mates, he learned that the Northern Nether Divine Sect would send its recruits to a Plane Battlefield, where they had to earn merits within a year to join the sect.

• Su Fan crippled three Foundation Establishment Cultivators and defeated the cabin’s boss after they mocked and attacked him.
• Su Fan drove the other cultivators from the cabin, took their Storage Rings, and assigned the two uninvolved cultivators bunks across from him.
• Su Fan severed the Ghost Cultivator’s contract with the Ghost General, bound the spirit to himself, and claimed the Earth Fiend Yin Ghost Pouch.
• Huang Tianhao and Qiu Lifeng told Su Fan that their realms sent disciples to the upper sect every fifty years, while Xuanluo Realm had been overlooked.
• Su Fan learned that the Northern Nether Divine Sect would send new disciples to the Plane Battlefield, where they had to earn enough merits within a year or wait thirty years to enter the sect.
• Huang Tianhao told Su Fan the flying ship was about to pass through a Space-Time Channel, but Su Fan had no interest in watching.

Su Fan spent several months traveling aboard the Demonic Boat, learning about Kunxu Heaven and the likely Insect Race battlefield awaiting the cultivators. The boat reached Kunxu Heaven, where Northern Nether Divine Sect disciples reorganized the arrivals and led them away from the spaceport.

• Su Fan named the Ghost General Yaksha and ordered it to obey Sister Zhen and protect her.
• Su Fan cultivated and read aboard the Demonic Boat while Huang Tianhao and Qiu Lifeng brought him meals and told him about their realms.
• The Demonic Boat passed through a Space-Space Channel and arrived near Kunxu Heaven after several months of travel.
• Huang Tianhao told Su Fan and Qiu Lifeng that Demon Lord Qianhuan expected an eighty percent chance of their group being sent to an Insect Race battlefield.
• The Demonic Boat entered Kunxu Heaven and landed at a spaceport with exceptionally rich spiritual energy.
• Northern Nether Divine Sect disciples reorganized the nearly ten thousand cultivators and led them away from the spaceport.

Su Fan cultivated at a Northern Nether Divine Sect market while learning that the selected cultivators would soon be sent to the dangerous Plane Battlefield, and he accepted gifts from Huang Tianhao and Qiu Lifeng. Just as he was about to depart, True Person Jingchuan took him elsewhere because someone had summoned him, and Su Fan was brought before an unknown Grandmaster.

• Su Fan learned from Huang Tianhao and Qiu Lifeng that the cultivators would be sent to the insect race's Plane Battlefield, and he accepted their Spirit Wine and Azure Sea Pineflame.
• Several days later, Northern Nether Divine Sect cultivators gathered everyone at the spaceport, but a Golden Core True Person called Su Fan away before he could board the main demonic vessel.
• Huang Tianhao and Qiu Lifeng assumed Su Fan had powerful connections in the sect and regretted not giving him more gifts.
• During their journey, True Person Jingchuan asked Su Fan about the Chu Household, but Su Fan said he knew nothing about it and had traveled with Demon Lord Qianhuan.
• True Person Jingchuan brought Su Fan to a Cave Mansion, where a Foundation Establishment cultivator said Grandmaster had been waiting, and Jingchuan led Su Fan into the Thatched Cottage.

Su Fan was brought to Xilan City and enrolled as an Outer Sect Disciple of the Northern Nether Divine Sect, then settled near a valuable mine where he could cultivate undisturbed. After arranging two years of seclusion with True Person Zhiyuan, he visited Xilan City to sell talismans and learn about Kunxu Heaven.

• True Person Jingchuan delivered Su Fan to Demon Lord Wu Yu, who learned that the Chu Family’s Young Master had postponed meeting him and ordered Su Fan placed among the Outer Sect Disciples.
• Su Fan chose a comfortable assignment near Xilan City, trained and ate well, then visited the Purple Profound Copper mine where True Person Zhiyuan was stationed.
• Su Fan showed True Person Zhiyuan a Heavenly Demon's evil bone and used it to negotiate two years of seclusion.
• Su Fan disguised himself as a Rogue Cultivator, sold talismans in Xilan City, and learned about Kunxu Heaven’s sects and their expansion into other planes.

Su Fan explored Xilan City, stocked up on supplies for two years of secluded cultivation, and bought two powerful demonic formations. After returning to his cave abode, he deployed both formations to protect himself from intruders before beginning his preparations for seclusion.

• Su Fan toured Xilan City, bought an expensive communication formation disk, and observed the city’s broadcasts, markets, and cultivation industries.
• Su Fan purchased large quantities of premium spiritual grains, demonic-beast meat, and other necessities, then sold off unwanted spoils and exchanged his raw spirit-stone ore.
• Su Fan attended auctions and acquired the Grand Formation of Absolute-Trace Soul-Mesmerizing Filthy Qi and the Seven-Kill Heart-Eroding Soul-Locking Grand Formation.
• Su Fan returned to his cave abode and spent nearly a day deploying the Grand Formation of Absolute-Trace Soul-Mesmerizing Filthy Qi around it.
• Su Fan set up the Seven-Kill Heart-Eroding Soul-Locking Grand Formation inside the cave abode and felt reassured about entering secluded cultivation.

After more than a year in seclusion, Su Fan greatly strengthened his cultivation, soul, and combat abilities while resolving to return to the Xuanluo Realm by reaching Nascent Soul. True Person Zhiyuan summoned him to join a sect mission, and Su Fan set out with other Foundation Establishment disciples, uncertain what awaited them.

• Su Fan advanced his techniques and formations during seclusion, and his Spiritual Sense and soul grew substantially stronger.
• Su Fan decided to focus on building a firm foundation before pursuing higher realms, hoping to return to the Xuanluo Realm and reunite with his family.
• True Person Zhiyuan summoned Su Fan and told him to join Zhou Lie and Shi Qing on a mission led by True Person Xiuyuan.
• Su Fan bought demonic artifacts, pills, and talismans in Xilan City before traveling to the airfield the next morning.
• Su Fan overheard Outer Sect Disciples speculate that the mission might involve Inner Sect Disciples and that they could be sent as bodyguards.

Su Fan traveled with Northern Nether Divine Sect Outer Sect Disciples to Wushan Market, where he learned their assignment in the Kuixing Realm was a safe arrangement for privileged Inner Sect family disciples to fulfill their service. After settling in, he explored the market and was angered by its exorbitant prices.

• Su Fan arrived at the spaceport plaza and heard Outer Sect Disciples speculate about his background and his connection to True Person Zhiyuan.
• True Person Xiuyuan brought three privileged Inner Sect Disciples, including a Zhang Family girl, to the plaza, and the Outer Sect group boarded a separate demonic ship.
• After two days of travel, Su Fan and the others landed at Wushan Market and learned they would accompany the Inner Sect Disciples in the Kuixing Realm, a largely safe territory occupied by the Molten Sun Sect.
• Su Fan settled into a courtyard with a separate room, then explored Wushan Market and paid an outrageously high price for a mediocre meal.

Su Fan arrived in the Kuixing Realm and began serving at a nearly depleted ore-vein outpost, where patrols seemed uneventful until he discovered Crimson Blood Worms underground. He warned the other disciples that more insectoids were approaching, but they realized the danger too late and several were killed.

• Su Fan and the other drafted disciples traveled through the Plane Battlefield passage to the Human Race base in the Kuixing Realm.
• Su Fan began his three-year assignment at an ore-vein outpost, where he patrolled a barren wasteland and found no sign of life.
• Su Fan sensed movement underground during a patrol, and an insectoid severed one disciple's leg when the group investigated.
• Su Fan cut down a Crimson Blood Worm and recognized that its presence could signal an approaching swarm.
• Su Fan warned the patrol that more insectoids were coming, but two Outer Sect Disciples were killed by giant pincers bursting from the ground.

Su Fan rescued Feng Zhen from the Crimson Blood Worms, then spotted a swarm of Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes and fled toward the mining-vein stronghold. After two Annihilation Thunder Pellets destroyed the pursuing mosquitoes and sent the Devilship crashing toward the ground, Su Fan regained control and escaped as a vast insect swarm approached.

• Su Fan severed and killed a Crimson Blood Worm, rescued the injured Feng Zhen, and warned the patrol squad that more creatures were underground.
• Hu Wen Hai refused to withdraw, and two disciples were killed by the Crimson Blood Worms’ acid and pincers.
• Su Fan returned to the Devilship with a Crimson Blood Worm corpse and spotted a swarm of Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes approaching.
• Hu Wen Hai and the other disciples were caught by the mosquitoes, while Su Fan fled with Feng Zhen and left Hu Wen Hai behind.
• A second mosquito swarm moved to surround the Devilship, so Su Fan destroyed it with two Annihilation Thunder Pellets.
• The explosions hurled the Devilship toward the ground, but Su Fan pulled it back into the air and escaped as an enormous insect swarm arrived.

Su Fan escaped Kuixing Realm with Feng Zhen and Zhang Yao after warning others that the insect swarms had returned. Once they reached Kunxu Heaven, they learned that several Insect Kings had destroyed the base and plane passage, leaving few survivors; Su Fan and the others hurried toward the Northern Nether Divine Sect.

• Su Fan warned Huo Yuming that insect swarms were approaching the ore-vein stronghold, but Huo Yuming went outside to assess the danger while Su Fan took the injured Feng Zhen to the base.
• Su Fan reported the Crimson Blood Worm attack to True Person Chu Yang, who dismissed them, and then sought a way to leave Kuixing Realm.
• Su Fan secretly entered the Inner Sect Disciples' street and persuaded Zhang Yao to take him back to Kunxu Heaven; Zhang Yao agreed to bring Feng Zhen as well.
• Su Fan, Feng Zhen, and Zhang Yao left through the plane passage just before it began operating again, and they saw Golden Core True Persons and Molten Sun Sect disciples rush to respond.
• Zhang Yao learned that several Insect Kings had breached the base's defenses and destroyed the plane passage, while only a small number of cultivators escaped.
• Su Fan urged Zhang Yao and Feng Zhen to leave Wushan Market before the Molten Sun Sect detained them, and Zhang Yao took them toward the Northern Nether Divine Sect on her magic boat.

After returning from Kuixing Realm, Su Fan secured Zhang Yao’s help with the resources and arrangements for his Golden Core breakthrough, while Feng Zhen sought compensation and time to recover. Zhang Yao summoned Su Fan to the External Affairs Hall of Xilan City and led him away to find a better place to cultivate.

• Zhang Yao offered Su Fan a favor, and he revealed his hidden Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivation and asked her for Golden Core breakthrough resources.
• Zhang Yao agreed to provide the resources and arrange a suitable posting for Su Fan after his breakthrough, then told him that Golden Core disciples had to serve at the Plane Battlefield.
• Zhang Yao returned to Xilan City and was welcomed by a crowd, while Su Fan carried the injured Feng Zhen back to their mining post and demanded recovery time and compensation from True Person Zhiyuan.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion and told Zhang Yao he planned to cultivate to the Quasi-Core Stage; she offered him a spiritual-energy-rich place near the sect gate for his breakthrough.
• Su Fan waited outside the External Affairs Hall while Zhang Yao met with officials, and she finally told him to leave with her.

Su Fan discovered that the Primordial Chaos Qi Transformation True Scripture could strengthen his cultivation, so he spent more than two years rebuilding his foundation and reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection. Zhang Yao contacted him about joining a Plane Battlefield, but gave him only one year to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Su Fan tempered his Quasi-Core with Heaven and Earth Lightning while preparing for a Golden Core breakthrough, then found the Primordial Chaos Qi Transformation True Scripture in Wulin City.
• Su Fan bought the technique and decided to cultivate it from the beginning, despite delaying his breakthrough.
• Su Fan used a Spirit Gathering Formation, High-grade Spirit Stones, and top-grade pills to cultivate the technique, while continuing to temper himself with lightning.
• After more than two years, Su Fan reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, greatly improving his dantian, magical power, soul, and Spiritual Sense while exhausting his wealth.
• Zhang Yao contacted Su Fan and said she had found a Plane Battlefield and wanted to bring him along.
• Su Fan promised to reach the Golden Core Realm within a year, and Zhang Yao warned him she would not give him another chance.

Su Fan prepared for his Golden Core breakthrough by mastering divine-soul techniques and refining bone needles, then finally sensed the right opportunity. When the Northern Nether Divine Sect’s External Affairs Hall refused to provide him a suitable Cave Mansion, Zhang Yao intervened, but her familiar manner toward him drew the attention of a hostile disciple.

• Su Fan reached the Quasi-Core Stage, studied the Demon Eye Divine Soul Refining True Scripture, and prepared the Thousand Soul Attachment Silk and Lifeless White Bone Light Needle for the Plane Battlefield.
• After months of cultivation and an outing in Wulin City, Su Fan sensed the opportunity to break through while watching the dawn and decided the time had come.
• Su Fan went to Northern Nether Immortal City to rent a Cave Mansion, but an impatient External Affairs Hall disciple claimed none were available for months.
• Su Fan contacted Zhang Yao, who arrived and arranged a Cave Mansion for him through the External Affairs Hall.
• Zhang Yao gave Su Fan a jade talisman and left, while one of her companions looked at him with hostility, leading Su Fan to fear the Zhang Family would investigate him.

Su Fan settled into a secluded valley to prepare for his Golden Core breakthrough, but delayed it until Zhang Yao left for the Plane Battlefield. After she departed, her attendant Zhang Song reported Su Fan’s connection to her to Song Yi, who tasked Zhuang He with preventing any trouble that might jeopardize his family’s planned marriage alliance with the Zhang Family.

• Su Fan reached Xixia Valley, secured a Cave Mansion, and concealed it with two demonic formations while deciding to avoid traveling with Zhang Yao.
• The Zhang Family investigated Su Fan and found that he had only saved Zhang Yao, then ordered her not to meet Outer Sect Disciples.
• Su Fan practiced and suppressed his growing urge to break through while waiting for Zhang Yao to leave, then told her he still had not reached the Golden Core Realm.
• Zhang Yao departed for the Plane Battlefield and instructed Zhang Song to watch Su Fan and arrange a place for him after his breakthrough.
• Zhang Song told Zhuang He that Zhang Yao remained concerned about Su Fan, and Zhuang He reported the matter to Song Yi.
• Song Yi said his family’s marriage alliance with the Zhang Family was expected to be settled soon and assigned Zhuang He to handle the matter.

Su Fan prepared for his breakthrough and endured a ferocious Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation, while the phenomenon drew disciples and cultivators to the valley. The Tribulation Clouds finally dispersed, leaving the valley restored, though Su Fan’s condition after the ordeal remained unknown.

• Su Fan spent several days preparing, then used a Taishang Induction Pill and a Taiyi Dust Crossing Immortal Pill before attempting his breakthrough.
• A vast Spiritual energy vortex and dark Tribulation Clouds formed above Su Fan’s Cave Mansion, and the pressure immobilized the Qi Refining disciples on duty.
• Su Fan endured successive levels of purple Heaven and Earth Lightning, with ancient demonic beast phantoms and fierce Sword lights appearing to meet the strikes.
• Hundreds of cultivators gathered as Su Fan’s black flying sword repeatedly rose to clash with the tribulation lightning.
• After the final bolt, the Tribulation Clouds dispersed into a fine drizzle, and sunlight returned to the valley.

Su Fan survived the tribulation lightning and began the Heart Demon Trial, where his use of demonic techniques exposed him to the wrath of the Shadow Ghost Demons. After an old Human Race expert intervened and gave him a bone talisman, Su Fan returned safely to his Cave Mansion and prepared to examine the changes from his breakthrough.

• Su Fan endured the final three layers of tribulation lightning, recovered through the surge of vitality, and discovered the unusual Golden Core he had formed.
• Su Fan faced the Heart Demon Trial, overcame the Spirits of the Dead with the power of his Dao Seed, then was seized by a Shadow Ghost Demon projection that began turning him into a demon.
• Sister Zhen guarded Su Fan while Yakasha and Ghost Crow tried to help, and an old Human Race expert appeared and destroyed the Shadow Ghost Demon projection.
• The old man recognized Su Fan's cultivation of the Demonic Saint Body Art, gave him a bone talisman, and told him to visit the Heavenly Demon God Sect in Tongyou Heaven once he reached the fifth layer.
• Su Fan returned to the Cave Mansion, reassured Sister Zhen and Ghost Crow, sent them to guard the valley, and began sensing the changes from his breakthrough.

Su Fan broke through to the Golden Core Realm, stabilized his cultivation, and returned to Northern Nether Immortal City, where the Discipline Hall conscripted him to serve for five years in the newly opened Plane Battlefield of Yunze Realm. He reached Redstone Market and learned that the realm’s fierce war against the insect race offered great rewards, then waited for the Plane Passage to open.

• Su Fan examined his strengthened magic power, body, soul, Spiritual Sense, Dao Seed, and Thunderclap Sword after reaching the Golden Core Realm, then told Zhang Yao that he had formed a first-grade Golden Core.
• Su Fan spent three years stabilizing his cultivation in the Cave Mansion before leaving for Northern Nether Immortal City, where he received new sect supplies and was assigned to serve as a garrison elder in Xilan City.
• The Discipline Hall detained Su Fan for failing to report to Xilan City's External Affairs Hall and conscripted him for five years at the Yunze Realm Plane Battlefield.
• Feng Ru told Zhuang He that he had sent Su Fan to Yunze Realm as arranged, and Zhuang He reported the result to Song Yi.
• Su Fan gathered supplies, traveled to Redstone Market, and learned that cultivators were battling the insect race in Yunze Realm for valuable battle merits and rewards.

Su Fan reached Yunze Realm with a plan to avoid unnecessary fights, then explored its base and bought detailed intelligence about the newly opened plane. Meanwhile, Zhuang He asked his cautious Third Uncle to deal with Su Fan, and the chapter ended with the old man selling Su Fan three expensive Jade Slips.

• Su Fan watched the brawling and betting culture in Redstone Market, then gave up his Cave Mansion to a troublemaking disciple rather than fight over it.
• Su Fan traveled with more than a thousand Golden Core disciples to Yunze Realm, where he was assigned a small Cave Mansion in a base built among giant trees.
• Zhuang He told his Third Uncle that Su Fan had arrived in Yunze Realm and urged him to handle the matter at Senior Brother Song Yi's request; Third Uncle agreed after learning Su Fan was a newcomer from a Lesser Plane.
• Su Fan heard that powerful demonic sects had also sent disciples to Yunze Realm, then visited the base's trading hall to look for useful information.
• Su Fan bought three detailed Jade Slips from a stall owner for three hundred High-grade Spirit Stones after failing to negotiate a lower price.

Su Fan was assigned alone to a dangerous Chishui Lake squad alongside elite cultivators from three Super Demonic Sects, and learned that someone had arranged the posting to put his life at risk. Unable to escape the squad, he set out with them for the front lines, where the other cultivators dismissed him as likely to die quickly.

• Su Fan was assigned alone to the Chishui Lake War Zone and boarded a demonic boat with cultivators from the Chunjun Demonic Sect, the Xuan Yue Demonic Sect, and the Heart Demon Divine Hall.
• Chen Li told Su Fan that his dangerous assignment and placement in the elite squad suggested someone wanted him dead, and identified the squad's leaders as Qiu Daoquan, Zhou Hanshan, and Xu Miaolan.
• Su Fan settled into an empty Cave Mansion in the squad's stronghold, received supplies from a squad member, and learned that his formation disk would reveal any attempt to desert.
• The squad gathered to leave for the front lines, and its members discovered Su Fan was part of their group before dismissing him as unlikely to survive.
• Qiu Daoquan led the squad onto three demonic boats, and Su Fan nearly lost his balance when his boat accelerated suddenly.

Su Fan joined Qiu Daoquan, Xu Miaolan, and Zhou Hanshan on a covert raid against a Red-bellied Poison Spider insect king’s lair, despite desperately wishing he could turn back. The group fought through the spider swarm and reached the nest, where enormous Red-bellied Poison Spiders emerged.

• Senior Brother Guanghao identified the Red-bellied Poison Spider lair as the group’s first target, and Qiu Daoquan set the raid for the next morning.
• Zhang Junpu gave Su Fan an earring and promised to keep him close as the group set out aboard invisible demonic boats.
• The demonic boats slipped through the Insectoid Race’s aerial defenses and a swarm of Iron-toothed Dragonflies before entering the insect nest during a violent storm.
• Qiu Daoquan sent Xu Miaolan and Zhou Hanshan’s boats to draw away the spiders while his boat rushed deeper into the nest; the insect king’s hiss stunned Su Fan, but he resisted it.
• The cultivators battled through the cavern’s spider swarm as the Chunjun Demonic Sect deployed zombies, a Ghost King charged into battle, and Qiu Daoquan transformed and smashed through the spiders.
• The other two teams rejoined Qiu Daoquan near the insect nest, where several enormous Red-bellied Poison Spiders appeared and the cultivators were told to take Detoxification Pills.