Chapter Summaries

Su Fan sensed danger and fled Qionglong Mountain City just before Long Cai's Forgetfulness River Palace team broke into his decoy courtyard. He hid deep underground, but the assassins used a tracking bone talisman and an isolation talisman to pursue his approximate location without alerting him or the Witch God Aji.

• Su Fan felt an unexplained warning, then left Qionglong Mountain City after the Witch God Aji asked him to search for a human settlement.
• Venerable Hulan gave Long Cai's team Su Fan's information, aura, and blood sample, and Mist Nightmare used them to locate a courtyard in the city.
• Long Cai's team broke through the courtyard's barrier and found only an unconscious alien cultivator, realizing Su Fan had left a decoy behind.
• Su Fan's Body Replacement Evil Art detected the intrusion, so he hid in an underground cavern and concealed himself with formations, a stealth art, a talisman, and sentries.
• Mist Nightmare used a supreme-grade tracking bone talisman to estimate Su Fan's direction, while Long Cai activated an isolation talisman to mask the team's approach.
• Long Cai's team pursued Su Fan toward his hiding place while Su Fan and the Witch God Aji remained unaware of their approach.

Su Fan faced Long Cai's assassin team after they tracked him to his mountain hideout, and Mist Nightmare and Red Sword tested his strength. The chapter left Su Fan's Thunderclap Sword locked against Red Sword's superior flying sword after it unexpectedly blocked his opening strike.

• Long Cai used a contracted beast to locate Su Fan, while Su Fan learned from Wu God Aji that five Nascent Soul assassins had found his general area.
• Mist Nightmare attacked Su Fan in the cavern as sinister wind, but Su Fan fought it with his Bone Corroding Poison Mist, Headwind Slash, and Yang-aligned abilities until Mist Nightmare withdrew.
• Iron Mountain collapsed Su Fan's mountain with his giant hammer, forcing Su Fan to abandon his concealment.
• Red Sword sent his flying sword into the ruins, and Su Fan blocked it with his Thunderclap Sword, surprising Long Cai and the others.

Su Fan fled from Long Cai’s five-man assassin squad after they overwhelmed him in battle, then sought refuge in the Void Realm with help from his Contracted Void Beast, Xuxu. He waited near the rift for the assassins, who entered the Void Realm with stealth talismans to pursue him.

• Su Fan’s Demonic Body and Iron Mountain were both sent flying, prompting Long Cai to order the assassins to attack together.
• Su Fan used Blood Escape and Wu God Aji’s help to escape the squad, then learned of a Spatial Rift leading to the Void Realm.
• Su Fan reached the rift, used Ghost Soldiers to locate it safely, and entered the Void Realm with Sister Zhen and Xuxu.
• Xuxu concealed Su Fan’s aura, and Su Fan waited near the rift for the assassins to arrive.
• Long Cai gave the others Top-grade Stealth Talismans and led them into the Void Realm to hunt Su Fan.

Long Cai’s team pursued their target into the Void Realm, where the Shadow Wind Sable and Ghost Carving were killed by an unseen attacker. Mist Nightmare acted as bait, but the attacker struck the team again, and Red Sword was caught in its jaws as the chapter ended.

• Venerable Hulan refused to enter the Void Realm and waited outside for Long Cai’s team to finish the hunt.
• Long Cai used Blue Star Sand and a Tracking Jade Talisman to guide his team through the Void Realm, but the Shadow Wind Sable was killed by an unseen attacker.
• Long Cai’s team continued deeper, and Ghost Carving was ambushed and apparently killed before they could reach it.
• Mist Nightmare agreed to act as bait, then was engulfed by a fifth-grade Ten Thousand Bone Phosphorus Fire Talisman.
• Red Sword attacked a ripple in the air with his flying sword, but an unseen attacker bit his nape and struck his defensive shield.

Su Fan and Xuxu continued their ambush in the Void World, killing Red Sword and then Long Cai as the assassin squad’s survivors struggled to escape. The chapter ended with Su Fan transformed into a giant Demonic Body, facing Iron Mountain while Mist Nightmare searched for Xuxu.

• Xuxu helped Su Fan kill Red Sword, and the injured Mist Nightmare, Long Cai, and Iron Mountain decided to flee.
• The squad attacked Su Fan’s suspected position with their trump-card techniques, but he avoided the strikes and counterattacked with his lightning-wrapped flying sword.
• Xuxu ambushed Long Cai while Su Fan distracted the others, and Su Fan destroyed Long Cai’s head with the Nine Strength Bone Transformation Hand.
• Iron Mountain and Mist Nightmare regrouped against Su Fan and Xuxu, while Su Fan transformed into a Demonic Body more than a hundred zhang tall.
• Mist Nightmare summoned a fierce frigid storm and searched for Xuxu as Iron Mountain prepared to fight Su Fan.

Su Fan defeated Iron Mountain in a fierce Body Cultivator duel while Xuxu killed Mist Nightmare, but the group found their escape from the Void Realm blocked by powerful Ghost Clan cultivators. As Su Fan prepared to wait them out, a Void Beast appeared, forcing them to leave immediately.

• Su Fan and Iron Mountain exchanged blows, and Su Fan gained insight into Law Power before overpowering Iron Mountain with Void Slash.
• Su Fan defeated Iron Mountain in another clash and killed him after Iron Mountain burned his blood essence to unleash a secret technique.
• Su Fan found that Xuxu had killed Mist Nightmare, thanked him, and asked him to stay by his side from then on.
• Sister Zhen collected the battlefield spoils and souls, but Witch God Aji warned Su Fan that several Ghost Clan Spirit Transformation cultivators guarded the Void Realm exit.
• Su Fan decided to wait inside the Void Realm, but Xuxu sensed a Void Beast drawn by the battle and urged everyone to leave at once.

Su Fan and Xuxu hid deep in the Void World while Ghost Clan pursuers entered the rift to hunt him. Venerable Hulan pressed on alone, but an adult Void Beast approached the hiding place, leaving Su Fan and Xuxu caught between two threats.

• Su Fan used Witch God Aji's warnings to steer Xuxu away from nearby Void Beasts and hide deeper in the Void World.
• Saint Egu told Venerable Hulan that Forgetfulness River Palace's five assassins had died and ordered the Ghost Clan to kill Su Fan before he escaped.
• Venerable Hulan and the other Ghost Clan cultivators entered the rift, endured repeated Void Beast ambushes, and eventually split up, with Hulan continuing alone.
• Witch God Aji warned Su Fan that Venerable Hulan was approaching, so Su Fan and Xuxu stayed motionless in hiding.
• An adult Void Beast drew near, silencing the juvenile Void Beasts waiting to ambush the Ghost Clan cultivators.

Su Fan survived the battle between Venerable Hulan and an adult Void Beast, then followed Witch God Aji’s advice and attacked the badly weakened Ghost Clan cultivator. Venerable Hulan destroyed Su Fan’s summoned forces and knocked away the Thunderclap Sword, but a sinister power began weakening him.

• Witch God Aji told Su Fan that an adult Void Beast might sense Xuxu, while Venerable Hulan prepared for an unseen attack.
• Venerable Hulan crushed two seventh-tier bone talismans, and their phantom beasts helped him fight the adult Void Beast as Su Fan and Xuxu were pinned by the battle’s pressure.
• After the Void Beast’s death, Witch God Aji urged Su Fan to exploit Venerable Hulan’s weakened state, so Su Fan sent Sister Zhen’s Nascent Soul Fierce Souls against him.
• Venerable Hulan annihilated the fierce souls, then crushed Su Fan’s White Bone Monarchs and Nascent Soul Corpse Puppets while exhausting his remaining strength.
• Venerable Hulan knocked away Su Fan’s Thunderclap Sword, but a cold, sinister aura descended into him and rapidly weakened his body.

Su Fan killed Venerable Hulan after a brutal fight in the Void Realm, then escaped with the corpses of Hulan and the Xubeast and recovered in his Portable Secret Realm. The Witch God Aji warned him that the Forgetfulness River Palace would keep pursuing him, leaving Su Fan to consider escaping the Void Realm through an unknown rift.

• Su Fan cursed and ambushed Venerable Hulan, then used sword techniques containing Law Power and a barrage of further slashes to kill him.
• Su Fan stored Venerable Hulan's and the Xubeast's corpses, fled on Xuxu, and hid in his Portable Secret Realm to recover.
• Saint Egu told the Ghost Clan elders that Venerable Hulan's Bone Card had shattered and ordered them to stop pursuing Su Fan in the Void Realm.
• After recovering, Su Fan discovered that devouring Venerable Hulan's corpse had advanced his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• The Witch God Aji warned Su Fan that the Forgetfulness River Palace would pursue him for up to a thousand years and could reach the Void Realm.
• Su Fan asked where another Void Realm rift might lead, and the Witch God Aji said he would have to leave it to fate.

Su Fan escaped the Void Realm and entered a spiritual-energy-rich world, where he cautiously explored before finding a thriving cultivation market town. After receiving Witch God Aji’s formation inheritance and parting from her, he arrived at Changyang Market Town, impressed by the strength and quality of its cultivators and resources.

• Su Fan decided to leave the Void Realm, and Witch God Aji warned him to keep his connection to Forgetfulness River Palace secret before they said an awkward farewell.
• After nearly a year of searching with Xuxu, Su Fan found a tiny rift and crossed into a lush mountain forest, then returned briefly to the Void Realm to receive Witch God Aji’s formation inheritance.
• Su Fan emerged from the rift, sent Yaksha to scout, and settled in a concealed cave with Sister Zhen while he examined his treasures and studied the Witch Gate inheritance.
• Yaksha found no nearby settlements or powerful demonic beasts, so Su Fan spent nearly a year crossing the mountain range and discovered human villages beyond it.
• Su Fan followed the growing spiritual energy to Changyang Market Town in Qixia Mountain and entered the bustling settlement, where he noticed its strong cultivators and high-quality goods.

Su Fan explored Changyang Market Town and learned that it lay in Crimson Cloud Heaven, a resource-rich plane dominated by human immortal sects, then spent years traveling toward Falling Maple Sect in search of advanced Orthodox Inheritances. Aboard the flying boat, He Tianhua explained the sect’s fierce recruitment selection and the alternative of serving a Cultivation Family, leaving Su Fan to consider his limited prospects.

• Su Fan browsed Listen to the Waves Bookstore, bought ancient books and a map, and learned that Changyang Market Town lay in Crimson Cloud Heaven’s impoverished frontier near the obscure Falling Maple Sect.
• Su Fan studied Crimson Cloud Heaven’s customs and cultivation resources, decided to seek better Orthodox Inheritances in its prosperous regions, and set out for Falling Maple Sect.
• After traveling for years aboard a flying boat, Su Fan met He Tianhua in a teahouse and learned that Falling Maple Sect held a highly competitive selection for Foundation Establishment cultivators every ten years.
• He Tianhua told Su Fan that unsuccessful Rogue Cultivators could seek Orthodox Inheritances by attaching themselves to Cultivation Families, which required decades of service.

Su Fan learned about the Cultivation Families and Body Cultivator sects near Falling Maple Sect, then reflected on how outdated his techniques had become after facing powerful assassins from the Forgetfulness River Palace. He resolved to seek Crimson Cloud Heaven’s strongest inheritances, beginning with a better fundamental technique, soul cultivation technique, spells, and other arts.

• He Tianhua gave Su Fan a Jade Slip about nearby Cultivation Families and explained that Crimson Cloud Heaven had several sects specializing in the Path of the Body.
• Su Fan returned to his cabin, entered his Portable Secret Realm, and played with Xuxu before joining Sister Zhen in the courtyard.
• Su Fan studied the Jade Slip and learned that nearby Nascent Soul Families offered Rogue Cultivators inheritances in exchange for decades of service.
• Su Fan assessed the weaknesses in his techniques and recalled how the Forgetfulness River Palace assassins had pushed him to the brink.
• Su Fan decided to pursue superior inheritances in Crimson Cloud Heaven, including a fundamental technique, a soul cultivation technique, and new spells and secret arts.

Su Fan sold a vast collection of cultivation resources and spoils from the Star Domain Battlefield to the Prosperous Star Pavilion, then learned of an upcoming Nascent Soul cultivator exchange gathering where he might find crafting inheritances. His conversation with Li Yanshan also revealed that cultivators faced fifty years of battlefield conscription, leaving Su Fan concerned about how Crimson Cloud Heaven's rules might affect him.

• Su Fan disguised himself as a Nascent Soul cultivator and visited the Prosperous Star Pavilion to sell his accumulated spoils.
• Li Yanshan inspected Su Fan's cultivation resources, accepted them for Spirit Crystals, and provided a VIP jade talisman.
• Su Fan offered Ghost Clan Bone Rings after Li Yanshan said the pavilion also bought extraterrestrial Devil Race goods and evil cultivators' possessions.
• Li Yanshan invited Su Fan to a Nascent Soul cultivator exchange gathering and gave him a Communication Formation Disk.
• Li Yanshan explained that cultivators fulfilled fifty years of conscription on the Star Domain Battlefield to earn battle bounties and obtain cultivation resources and Orthodox Inheritance.

Su Fan traded a segment of an adult Void Beast’s skeleton for the Crimson Flame Artifact Sect’s inheritance Jade Slip at a Nascent Soul exchange meeting. Wang Zheng then lured him to a valley and demanded the Jade Slip, revealing that he suspected Su Fan had the corpse of an adult Void Beast; Su Fan faced him with the conflict unresolved.

• Su Fan attended a private exchange meeting with True Lord Yanshan and sensed a trace of Evil Qi from the solitary Rogue Cultivator Wang Zheng.
• True Lord Qinghu offered the Crimson Flame Heavenly Craft Treasure Scroll inheritance, and Su Fan traded an adult Void Beast skeleton segment for its Jade Slip.
• Wang Zheng asked to speak with Su Fan privately, while True Lord Yanshan warned that even the Falling Maple Sect gave Wang Zheng leeway.
• Wang Zheng took Su Fan to his temporary Cave Mansion and demanded the inheritance Jade Slip.
• Wang Zheng guessed that Su Fan had found an adult Void Beast corpse in the Void Realm and still possessed more of its skeleton.

Su Fan revealed his ambush, defeated Wang Zheng after he transformed into a demonic beast, and destroyed his Nascent Soul despite a mysterious voice ordering him to stop. After cleaning himself, Su Fan looked toward the end of the valley, where something had drawn his attention.

• Su Fan attacked Wang Zheng with the Pure World Red Lotus, a freezing storm, and demonic curse techniques, but Wang Zheng used talismans to resist.
• Wang Zheng was engulfed by poisonous fog and transformed into a colossal Demonic Body, while Su Fan revealed his own enormous Demonic Body.
• Su Fan struck Wang Zheng with Limitless Slash, cleaving through his weapon and Demonic Body and leaving him mortally wounded.
• Wang Zheng begged Su Fan to spare him in exchange for an opportunity, but Su Fan killed him with Cold Wind Blade and seized his Nascent Soul.
• A mysterious voice told Su Fan to let Wang Zheng's Nascent Soul go, but Su Fan crushed it, then looked toward the end of the valley.

Su Fan destroyed Wang Zheng’s demonic altar, returned to Falling Maple Immortal City, and secretly took Wang Zheng’s identity to travel onward. In Dragon Stone Immortal City, he sold his accumulated spoils and discovered an extraordinary Jade Ornament Sister Zhen found among Wang Zheng’s possessions.

• Su Fan found and destroyed the demonic altar at the end of the valley, then left after confirming it had collapsed.
• Su Fan returned to the Prosperous Star Pavilion and told True Monarch Yanshan that Wang Zheng had taken the Artifact Path Inheritance Jade Slip; he concealed that he had killed Wang Zheng.
• Su Fan disguised himself as Wang Zheng, used Wang Zheng’s Identity Jade Token to leave Falling Maple Immortal City, and traveled under other identities to Dragon Stone Immortal City.
• Su Fan examined Wang Zheng’s Storage Ring and found a vast hoard of cultivation resources, then asked Sister Zhen to organize it after she finished cooking.
• Su Fan sold his accumulated spoils at the Prosperous Star Pavilion in Dragon Stone Immortal City and returned to his Cave Mansion.
• Sister Zhen showed Su Fan an exquisite Jade Ornament from Wang Zheng’s Storage Ring, and Su Fan reacted with astonishment.

Su Fan discovered that the jade ornament opened a vast Portable Secret Realm, moved his household into it, and had Sister Zhen arrange their new home. After examining Wang Zheng’s spoils, he selected several Nascent Soul Dao Arts and powerful artifacts, then returned to find the valley being developed to suit their needs.

• Su Fan tested the jade ornament’s Portable Secret Realm with a Ghost General, explored its vast mountains and valley, and decided to move there with Sister Zhen.
• Su Fan refused Sister Zhen’s request to keep the old Secret Realm, explaining that he planned to turn it into a place for raising ghosts, refining corpses, and crafting skeletons.
• Su Fan examined Wang Zheng’s Storage Ring and selected three Nascent Soul Dao Arts, several Dao Artifacts, and Wang Zheng’s complete Artifact Path Inheritance.
• Sister Zhen finished arranging the new Secret Realm, where Xuxu showed Su Fan its natural cave home and the Ghost Crow had found a nest.
• Su Fan approved Sister Zhen’s plans to build a courtyard in the valley, provided she left the Thatched Cottage untouched.

Su Fan spent a year secluded in his Portable Secret Realm while Sister Zhen remodeled the valley and persuaded him to make her chief steward. Later, he tested a newly refined cloak that let him approach the wary Xuxu without being detected.

• Su Fan studied Dao arts and Artifact Path Inheritance in the Thatched Cottage while Sister Zhen served him meals and completed work on the valley.
• Sister Zhen showed Su Fan the gardens she had built for his three wives and suggested preparing space for future Madams, prompting him to scold her.
• Su Fan learned that Sister Zhen’s small courtyard resembled her childhood home and told her she was family, then named her his chief steward.
• At midnight, Su Fan used his newly crafted Shadow Concealing Traceless Limitless Cloak to sneak past the sleeping Xuxu.
• Su Fan explained that he had crafted the cloak from an adult Void Beast’s hide, making its concealment stronger than the Secret Hall inheritance described.

Su Fan tested his newly acquired Dao artifacts and learned that Wang Zheng had belonged to the secret evil-cultivator organization called the Demon Person Mansion. After uncovering its network and Wang Zheng’s account, Su Fan realized the organization might investigate his death and make him a suspect.

• Su Fan tested his three Nascent Soul Stage Dao Arts and discovered the defensive and surveillance capabilities of his new Dao artifacts.
• A black wooden token from Wang Zheng’s spoils revealed the name Tianyi Sword Sect, Li Shuyuan, and a mission message, leading Su Fan to suspect Wang Zheng had an organization behind him.
• Su Fan and Sister Zhen searched Wang Zheng’s spoils and found a Jade Slip, a Communication Formation Disk, and a transaction disk.
• Using Wang Zheng’s blood and aura, Su Fan learned that Wang Zheng had joined the Demon Person Mansion, an underground organization of evil cultivators with missions, services, and secret communications.
• Su Fan decoded the Communication Formation Disk and found that its messages included evil-path trades, bounties, and violent missions.
• Su Fan discovered that the Demon Person Reincarnation Disk held Wang Zheng’s account and feared the Demon Person Mansion would investigate his death and identify him as a suspect.

Su Fan decided to keep using the dead Wang Zheng’s identity to access the Demon Person Mansion’s intelligence network and learn about Orthodox Inheritances in Crimson Cloud Heaven. He accepted an enforced mission to kill Li Shuyuan within three years, intending to use the time and its advance payment to gather information while postponing the dangerous task.

• Su Fan realized destroying Wang Zheng’s Demon Person Mansion items could reveal his death, so he chose to keep Wang Zheng’s identity and posted a bounty for information on Li Shuyuan.
• A member quickly accepted Su Fan’s bounty and sent detailed, verified information about Li Shuyuan in exchange for one hundred Ghost Money.
• Su Fan sought Body Path inheritances, but the available arts were too expensive and risky to obtain through physical transactions, so he instead paid for intelligence on several cultivation paths and sect inheritances.
• After studying the information through the night, Su Fan mapped out a route to seek Orthodox Inheritances and sent the Demon Person Mansion his response to its enforced mission.
• The Demon Person Mansion accepted Su Fan’s three-year deadline and offered one hundred thousand Ghost Money, with fifty thousand paid in advance, for killing Li Shuyuan.
• Su Fan resolved to use Wang Zheng’s identity and the platform for as long as possible, and believed he could eventually kill Li Shuyuan with preparation and Xuxu’s help.