Chapter Summaries

Su Fan built a concealed star-domain coordinate point in the Sulong Star Domain and established contact with the Azure Sky Star Domain, sending back extensive intelligence about the enemy. Demon Venerable Dong Ming told him the Azure Sky Star Domain was forming an alliance with nearby star domains, but its experts were still struggling to develop a transit point between the star domains.

• Su Fan searched the surrounding mountains, found a miniature Spirit Vein, and hid a star-domain coordinate point and Communication Formation Disk in a valley beneath three concealment formations.
• Su Fan activated the formation and, after several days of waiting, received a connection from the Azure Sky Star Domain.
• Su Fan spent over a month transmitting records, artifacts, and intelligence about the Sulong Star Domain’s base and its cultivators.
• Demon Venerable Dong Ming contacted Su Fan, praised his destruction of the base, and said the information he sent was invaluable to the Azure Sky Star Domain.
• Su Fan urged Demon Venerable Dong Ming to keep the war out of the Azure Sky Star Domain and avoid open-field battles; Dong Ming said they shared that view and were forming a Star Domain Alliance with nearby star domains.
• Demon Venerable Dong Ming told Su Fan that tens of thousands of formation disciples were studying the transmitted information, but the Azure Sky Star Domain had not yet established a cross-domain transit point.

Su Fan learned the Sulong Star Domain’s language and the basics of its Path of Puppetry from captives while hiding in the cave, and he investigated the strange tattoos covering his body. Sulong Star Domain reinforcements arrived at the destroyed Qiu Shan Realm base, but they blamed a Witchcraft Path Deity Transformation expert, leaving Su Fan’s coordinate point undiscovered for now.

• Su Fan woke several Sulong Star Domain cultivators, killed one who defied him, and forced the others to teach him their language and Path of Puppetry.
• Su Fan learned that the Qiu Shan Realm was part of the Dong Yuan Star Domain, which the Sulong Star Domain had invaded, and that the Azure Sky Star Domain was among its planned targets.
• True Monarch Basong and other Sulong Star Domain cultivators investigated the destroyed base, concluded that a Witchcraft Path Deity Transformation expert had attacked, and planned to report the matter to their Elder Council.
• Su Fan studied Witchcraft Path inheritances and found no explanation for the blood-red tattoos covering his body and arms.
• Sister Zhen warned Su Fan that many flying ships had appeared, and he decided to remain hidden in the cave while the Sulong Star Domain searched for the supposed Witchcraft Path expert.

Su Fan tested his first Mechanical Puppet, then investigated the rebuilt base of the "Sulong Star Domain" and learned its forces were searching for a Witchcraft Path Deity Transformation Celestial Venerable. In the mountains, he captured a demon leopard that transformed into Luosha, a surviving Witchcraft Path cultivator, and began communicating with her.

• Su Fan activated his wolf-shaped Mechanical Puppet, repeatedly disassembled it to fix faults, and concluded that he needed to build a stronger foundation in puppetry.
• Su Fan checked the star-domain coordinate point and found the base of the "Sulong Star Domain" being rebuilt under what seemed like lax security.
• Su Fan secretly gathered information from a sleeping guard and learned that the "Sulong Star Domain" was focused on searching for a Witchcraft Path Deity Transformation Celestial Venerable throughout the Dong Yuan Star Domain.
• Su Fan traveled deep into the mountains, sensed a hidden attacker, and caught a leopard-shaped demon beast after it ambushed him.
• The demon leopard transformed into an unconscious girl, and Su Fan covered her with a robe before waiting for her to wake.
• The girl introduced herself as Luosha through the narration, and Su Fan used thought transmission to tell her to get dressed so they could talk.

Su Fan gained Luosha’s trust and learned how the Sulong Star Domain had driven the Witchcraft Path survivors into hiding across Qiu Shan Realm. He told her that a Sulong base had been destroyed, then cooked a feast for her while she prayed to the Witch God, and she eagerly began eating.

• Su Fan followed Luosha to her forest home, and they struggled to communicate until he used a Devil Race bone fragment.
• Luosha’s poisonous snake killed a Sulong Star Domain cultivator, but Su Fan remained unharmed by its venom and drained the corpse with his Blood threads.
• Luosha explained that the Sulong Star Domain had nearly wiped out the local Witchcraft Path and Demon Race, forcing survivors into hidden settlements where Sulong People sometimes hunted them for sport.
• Su Fan told Luosha that a Sulong base had been destroyed and nearly ten thousand people had died, but he concealed that he was responsible.
• Luosha celebrated the news as an answer to her prayers and worshipped the Witch God, while Su Fan prepared a meal using his special range hood to conceal the smoke and heat.
• Luosha smelled the food, sat down with Su Fan, and eagerly tried a skewer of meat.

Su Fan traveled with Luosha to her impoverished settlement in Qiu Shan Realm, where the clan leader welcomed him after recognizing his true cultivation. The clan leader assigned Luosha to look after Su Fan, who donated several hundred sacks of spirit rice to the settlement, while Kun Bo threatened to force Luosha to marry him.

• Su Fan and Luosha crossed the mountains over several days, sharing meals as Su Fan learned the language of Qiu Shan Realm and heard of Luosha's wish to see peaceful star domains.
• After Luosha revealed the settlement's hidden path, Can Kun challenged Su Fan and tried to turn him away, but Luosha went to fetch the clan leader.
• Luosha led Su Fan into the valley, where Kun Bo grabbed her and threatened that his father would arrange their marriage; Luosha rejected him and hurried inside.
• The clan leader saw through Su Fan's aura concealment and welcomed him into the settlement, then asked Luosha to care for him.
• Su Fan gave the clan leader a Storage Ring containing several hundred sacks of spirit rice, and the grateful clan leader chatted with him before Luosha took him to rest.

Su Fan settled in Luosha’s house, gave her valuable supplies and witchcraft inheritance bone talismans, and used her knowledge to investigate the bloody runes on his body. The chieftain identified a rune as a forbidden divine talisman drawn by a high-level witchcraft expert, leaving Su Fan to wonder whether his own markings came from the Witch God.

• Su Fan moved into Luosha’s small house and gave her a hundred-cubic-meter Storage Ring filled with food, talismans, artifacts, and pills.
• Over the following days, Luosha enjoyed the settlement’s kinder treatment, while Su Fan planned to stay in Qiu Shan Realm and investigate his bloody tattoos.
• Su Fan gave Luosha a witchcraft inheritance bone talisman, then handed her several more; she excitedly asked to copy them for the chieftain.
• Su Fan showed Luosha an obscure rune on Talisman Paper, and she fetched the chieftain to examine it.
• The chieftain tried to copy the rune onto a bone fragment, but it exploded before he could finish; he told Su Fan that it was a forbidden divine talisman associated with high-level witchcraft experts.
• Su Fan connected the rune to the blood-red markings on his body and wondered whether they had been bestowed by the Witch God.

Su Fan and Luosha returned to find their settlement destroyed by the Sulong People, who had killed some residents and taken others as prey. While Luosha set out to rescue her clansmen, Su Fan sent Sister Zhen and Yaksha to watch over her and left the settlement; elsewhere, a Mechanical Puppet killed Can Kun as someone hunted through the mountains.

• Su Fan established a cross-domain long-distance Communication Formation Disk in a hidden valley and waited for Luosha to return from patrol.
• Su Fan and Luosha found their settlement ruined, its formation breached and its residents scattered among the dead.
• Luosha mourned the patriarch and told Su Fan the Sulong People had captured most of her clansmen, then went to try to save them.
• Su Fan sent Sister Zhen and Yaksha after Luosha, ordered Mechanical Puppets to gather and bury the remains, and left the settlement on the Ghost Crow.
• A Mechanical Puppet attacked Can Kun in the mountains and killed him before the hunter collected his remains.

Su Fan intervened when Luosha reached the destroyed Sulong hunting ground, where she gained immense power after praying to the Witch God and fought Bassoon's puppets. Su Fan defeated Bassoon and stopped Luosha from killing him, leaving the Sulong cultivator unconscious and Luosha exhausted but alive.

• Bassoon searched the forest for the hidden Su Fan, then left when his scouting puppet sent back a message.
• Su Fan learned Luosha had arrived and decided to rescue her, while Luosha prayed at the ruined settlement and received power from the Witch God.
• Luosha transformed into a cheetah, destroyed Bassoon's puppets attacking her clansmen, and fled before Bassoon pursued her.
• Bassoon's flying puppets overwhelmed Luosha, but she poisoned his mechanical arm with a black snake and prepared to die when the poison failed.
• Su Fan emerged from the mist, defeated Bassoon in the cockpit, and carried him to Luosha after his puppets froze.
• Luosha tried to kill the unconscious Bassoon, but Su Fan stopped her and said Bassoon could not be killed yet.

Su Fan subdued Luosha and Bassong, then disguised himself as Bassong and infiltrated the Sulong cultivators’ base. After reaching Nine Yang Heaven, he saw the scale and military organization of the Sulong Star Domain and recorded what he learned for the Azure Sky Star Domain.

• Su Fan knocked Luosha unconscious, sensed her connection to the Witch God, and placed her in his Portable Secret Realm to study her divine grace.
• Su Fan questioned Bassong, drained most of his qi and blood, took his belongings, and ordered Sister Zhen to keep him alive.
• Su Fan used a Blood Path technique and Bassong’s clothes and treasures to copy his appearance and aura, then joined the other Sulong cultivators.
• Su Fan passed a Nascent Soul old monster’s inspection and traveled with the Sulong group through a teleportation array to Nine Yang Heaven.
• Su Fan arrived in Kunrong City and saw its vast skyscrapers, aircraft, and Star Domain Mother Ships, then recorded the Sulong Star Domain’s military society for Demon Venerable Dong Ming.

Su Fan infiltrated Kunrong City’s underground core, replaced his identity with Suo Gen, and traveled to the remote Shattered Stone Realm. He left behind a devastating attack on Kunrong City, whose destruction was confirmed after he arrived at his new posting.

• Su Fan explored Kunrong City’s public maps, identified hidden locations, and infiltrated the underground facilities until he reached the city’s core.
• Su Fan chose the low-ranking Sulong cultivator Suo Gen as his new identity and abducted him after knocking Basong and his two cousins unconscious.
• Su Fan transformed into Suo Gen, killed Basong and his cousins, and concealed their deaths before leaving Kunrong City with other cultivators bound for remote service.
• Su Fan arrived at the Shattered Stone Realm and waited as the attack he had arranged was set to reach Kunrong City.
• News spread that the Kunrong City base in Nine Yang Heaven had been destroyed, while Su Fan calmly continued eating.

Su Fan learned that his delayed talismans had destroyed Kunrong City, then established a secret link to Azure Sky Star Domain and sent back intelligence on Sulong Star Domain. Assigned to a remote outpost, he settled in while keeping Luosha close because her prayers to the Witch God caused his blood-colored tattoos to react.

• Su Fan heard cultivators discuss Kunrong City's destruction and knew his talismans had triggered the catastrophe, which devastated Sulong Star Domain's forces and bases.
• Su Fan spent over a month establishing a star-domain coordinate point and remote Communication Formation Disk, then sent intelligence about Sulong Star Domain to Azure Sky Star Domain.
• Su Fan contacted Demon Venerable Dong Ming and learned that his family was being protected, then reported for assignment after the two-month adjustment period.
• Su Fan was assigned with two others to a remote outpost, where he welcomed the freedom and comfortable facilities after their long journey.
• Su Fan ate breakfast in his Portable Secret Realm, where Sister Zhen and Luosha had become close friends, and reflected that Luosha's prayers to the Witch God made his tattoos react.

Su Fan volunteered for ten years of guard duty at the Yun Mang Star Domain coordinate point, where he helped Azure Sky Star Domain establish contact with the other domain. When Yun Mang Star Domain’s powerful cultivators arrived and began preparing for the threat from Sulong Star Domain, they sent Su Fan to a Cave Mansion outside an Immortal City.

• Su Fan volunteered to guard a foreign-domain coordinate point for ten years and was assigned to Yun Mang Star Domain.
• Su Fan left for the Shattered Stone Realm base, received supplies, and traveled through a Space-Time Channel to the barren plane containing the coordinate point.
• Su Fan took over the coordinate point from a Sulong cultivator, then spent more than half a month setting up communication formations for Azure Sky Star Domain.
• An old man arrived, followed by powerful cultivators from Yun Mang Star Domain, and Su Fan gave them information and records about Sulong Star Domain.
• Yun Mang Star Domain’s cultivators established a cross-domain Teleportation Array and sent batches of cultivators to the coordinate point.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord took Su Fan to an Immortal City and arranged for him to stay in a Cave Mansion outside it.

Su Fan took Luosha to Heshou Immortal City, where she explored the marketplace and bought a haul of inexpensive goods. He then bought her two powerful contracted beasts, leaving Luosha touched by his generosity and worried about repaying him.

• Su Fan praised Luosha's breakfast and agreed to take her into Heshou Immortal City after giving her a moon-white magic robe to wear.
• Su Fan gave Luosha a Storage Ring full of Spirit Stones, and they entered the bustling city together.
• Luosha balked at the shops' high prices but spent most of the day haggling for bargains in the marketplace.
• Su Fan brought Luosha to Myriad Beasts Hall and chose a Fierce Wind Falcon egg and an Earth-splitting Armadillo cub for her.
• Su Fan paid five hundred High-grade Spirit Stones for the beasts, and Luosha worried about repaying him as they rode home on Ghost Crow.

Su Fan spent nearly ten years in Heshou Immortal City studying the Sulong Star Domain’s Path of Puppetry while Luosha’s cultivation and prayers strengthened the reaction of the blood-colored Runes on his body. The Yun Mang Star Domain summoned him to its massive base, questioned him about the Shattered Stone Realm, and ordered him to return there in two days to do them a favor.

• Su Fan raised Luosha to Foundation Establishment, and her prayers began to faintly affect the blood-colored Runes on his body.
• Su Fan and Luosha spent years cultivating and studying in Heshou Immortal City, while Su Fan learned to make increasingly advanced Mechanical Puppets.
• Demon Venerable Dong Ming told Su Fan that the Yun Mang Star Domain had made progress on a space-time crossing point, but offered no promise to share it with the Azure Sky Star Domain.
• A Nascent Soul Cultivator escorted Su Fan from Heshou Immortal City to a vast Yun Mang Star Domain base near the Sulong Star Domain coordinate point.
• The Yun Mang Star Domain’s elders questioned Su Fan about the Shattered Stone Realm base, and he gave them a map and a recording.
• The leading elder told Su Fan that the Sulong cultivator meant to replace him was under their control and ordered him to return to the Shattered Stone Realm in two days to do them a favor.

Su Fan smuggled several Yun Mang Star Domain cultivators into the Shattered Stone Realm, then escaped to Angu City under a new identity and kept out of their plans. Months later, a combat-readiness alarm sounded as Angu City burned, revealing that the Yun Mang cultivators had launched an attack.

• Su Fan carried a brocade pouch concealing Yun Mang Star Domain cultivators through the Shattered Stone Realm base, then released them in a secluded valley and crushed the communication jade talisman they gave him.
• Su Fan left for Nine Yang Heaven, changed identities, and eventually settled in Angu City as the low-rank puppet master Ba Lin.
• Su Fan stayed hidden for more than half a year while monitoring the news, then returned to his Portable Secret Realm and learned Luosha was nearing the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Su Fan received a violent combat-readiness alarm and saw flames spreading through Angu City as the sky turned red.
• Su Fan recognized that the Yun Mang Star Domain cultivators had launched their attack and smiled at the chaos.

Su Fan watched the Yun Mang Star Domain devastate Angu City, then scavenged the ruins while Luosha prayed to the Witch God. The Witch God drew the blood of tens of millions of Sulong corpses into Su Fan, and the chapter ended with the runes on his body devouring it as he feared the power would make him explode.

• Su Fan saw a devastating battle destroy Angu City's satellite cities and force the Sulong cultivators to retreat.
• Su Fan escaped the destruction, returned to the ruined main city, and summoned Sister Zhen and Yaksha to scavenge corpses, souls, and valuables.
• Su Fan brought Luosha to the ruins, where she wept over the Sulong dead before kneeling to pray to the Witch God.
• The Witch God immobilized Su Fan and drew vital blood from the corpses across Angu City toward him.
• Su Fan's blood-colored Runes devoured the blood storm, leaving him afraid that the immense power would make him explode.

Su Fan survived the Witch God’s blood sacrifice, escaped Angu City, and discovered that his cultivation had advanced to the late Golden Core stage. While he celebrated with Luosha in the Portable Secret Realm, Luosha’s eyes changed into a cold, emotionless stare.

• Blood and vital energy from the Sulong corpses flooded Su Fan until a celestial phenomenon activated the Runes on his body and revealed that he served as the Witch God’s fleshly altar.
• The Dao Seed expelled a frigid aura from Su Fan, restoring his consciousness; he sent the unconscious Luosha into the Portable Secret Realm and fled Angu City with Sister Zhen, Yaksha, and their forces.
• Su Fan hid beneath Void Beast fur as powerful cultivators searched the area, then entered the Portable Secret Realm and found Luosha safe.
• Venerable Wuyin and a white-haired cultivator investigated Angu City’s ruins and discussed their plan to open the Space Gate by the next day.
• Su Fan found that he had advanced to the late Golden Core stage but suspected the Witch God’s gift came at a hidden cost.
• Su Fan ate hotpot with Luosha while Sister Zhen and Yaksha sorted Storage Rings, and Luosha’s eyes turned cold and emotionless when she turned away from him.

Su Fan discovered that the Witch God had descended into Luosha and granted her rapid cultivation and two divine abilities, then left his Portable Secret Realm to investigate the war between the Yun Mang and Sulong Star Domains. After reporting the battlefield situation to the Azure Sky Star Domain, he warned Demon Venerable Dong Ming against an alliance with Yun Mang, but the Star Domain’s leaders remained divided.

• Sister Zhen told Su Fan that Luosha sometimes had a sinister, godlike presence, and Su Fan realized the Witch God had descended into her.
• Luosha showed Su Fan that she had reached Late Golden Core Great Perfection and received two divine abilities from the Witch God, leaving Su Fan wary of the deity’s generosity.
• Su Fan secretly investigated the Yun Mang Star Domain’s base in Angu City and learned that Yun Mang had seized more than half of the Dong Yuan Star Domain’s planes after a surprise attack.
• Su Fan set up a Star Domain coordinate point and a cross-domain Communication Formation Disk, then sent the Azure Sky Star Domain details about the war.
• Demon Venerable Dong Ming told Su Fan that Yun Mang wanted an alliance against the Sulong People, and Su Fan warned that the war could devastate both Star Domains; Dong Ming ended the call without revealing a decision.

Su Fan infiltrated the rear of Yun Mang Star Domain as Li Bin to monitor the war, while keeping Luosha and the Witch God confined to his Portable Secret Realm. After a month of gathering rumors, he learned that Sulong Star Domain had begun counterattacking, and his attempt to hide his puppetry skills drew the attention of his squad captain, who summoned him away from his workshop.

• Su Fan entered the Portable Secret Realm, explained the situation to Luosha, and decided to infiltrate Yun Mang Star Domain’s rear rather than approach the battlefield.
• Su Fan replaced a solitary Foundation Establishment Cultivator named Li Bin and joined a group of reinforcements arriving at Kunsha City.
• Su Fan spent over a month working at a puppet-production base and collecting battlefield rumors, which suggested the war had reached a stalemate.
• Su Fan heard that Qingman City and several other Immortal Cities had been abandoned, then recorded the news and concluded that Sulong Star Domain had begun counterattacking.
• Su Fan refused Luosha’s repeated requests to leave the secret realm, suspecting that the Witch God attached to her wanted to get out.
• Su Fan’s squad captain praised his rune work after a base official noticed its quality, then told him to leave the workshop and follow her.

Su Fan was promoted to a luxurious workroom, where he avoided advances from two assistants and tried to keep his undercover identity safe. After Luo Bing pressed him to attend a gathering and match him with Luo Yao, Su Fan staged a passionate confession to Luo Bing to scare her off, leaving her flustered and him free to enjoy his tea.

• Luo Bing gave Su Fan a prestigious workroom with two assistants, and he handed the assistants a Jade Slip of puppetry insights to deter their flirtation.
• Su Fan completed his reduced workload quickly, and Luo Bing praised his skill before inviting him to a gathering and insisting he attend.
• At the gathering, Su Fan overheard family disciples discussing the worsening front line against the Sulong People, while Luo Yao ignored him and left with another cultivator.
• Luo Bing asked Su Fan whether he liked Luo Yao, and he claimed that he loved Luo Bing instead.
• Su Fan swore he would marry only Luo Bing, frightening her into fleeing the workshop while he relaxed with Spirit Tea.