Chapter Summaries

Su Fan investigated the evil cultivators recruiting in Northern Dome Immortal City and learned that True Person Chi Song was coordinating the effort, possibly on behalf of a powerful figure within Northern Dome Immortal Sect. After tracking Chi Song to an inner-city palace, Su Fan began contacting someone with information, hoping to disrupt the looming scheme.

• Su Fan warned Shen Fang to avoid a gathering in the Black Pine Forest, but Shen Fang said he would attend with his sister and fellow disciples.
• Su Fan contacted Li Tong, learned that evil cultivators were recruiting people with promises of Spirit Crystals, and went to Northern Dome Immortal City to investigate.
• Li Tong introduced Su Fan, disguised as Xiao Ming, to True Person Chi Song, who offered a reward for an unknown job and claimed it would bring a heaven-defying opportunity.
• Li Tong revealed that Chi Song was an outer sect steward of Northern Dome Immortal Sect, leading Su Fan to suspect the scheme involved a powerful sect elder.
• Su Fan secretly followed Chi Song to a palace in the inner city, then returned to an inn and decided to interfere with the plan.
• Su Fan contacted someone who had not yet left Northern Dome Immortal City and asked whether they wanted to hear some information.

Zhang Xuan traced the rogue cultivator recruitment to Northern Dome Immortal Sect steward Li Zichang, prompting the sect to raid the rogue cultivators and arrest infiltrators. Su Fan returned to West Mountain Market Town but was summoned with other Shen Family Attendants to retrieve Shen Fang and Shen Jing from Black Pine Ridge.

• Su Fan told Zhang Xuan that a steward called Chi Song was recruiting rogue cultivators, and Zhang Xuan identified the location as the sect's External Affairs Hall.
• Zhang Xuan discovered that Li Zichang had visited the hall and learned that Li's master was a Deity Transformation elder whose lifespan was nearing its end.
• Su Fan refused to meet Zhang Xuan and returned to West Mountain Market Town, where the Shen Family summoned its Attendants to Shen Family Fortress.
• Shen Zhongfan told the gathered Attendants that the Northern Dome Immortal Sect had arrested hundreds of rogue cultivators and brought the unrest under control.
• Su Fan learned that Li Zichang had committed suicide and felt uneasy, then was ordered to join a group retrieving Shen Fang from Black Pine Ridge.
• Shen Jing kept Shen Fang in a luxurious Cave Mansion while they awaited the Shen Family Attendants sent to bring them home.

Su Fan and the others reached Black Pine Ridge to retrieve Shen Fang, but a devastating shock wave struck as they left Shen Jing’s Cave Mansion. Trapped in a ruined area where their communication and escape methods no longer worked, Su Fan learned that an ancient formation beneath Northern Dome Immortal Sect had collapsed and warned the group against leaving without knowing what awaited them.

• Wei Tao told Su Fan that White Bone Plain had once been an ancient battlefield invaded by fiends from other realms, and Su Fan feared the area might conceal Demon Ruins.
• Su Fan and the others met Shen Jing and found Shen Fang inside her Cave Mansion, then prepared to escort him away.
• A series of violent blasts struck Black Pine Ridge, hurling Su Fan aside and reducing the surrounding landscape and Cave Mansions to ruins.
• Su Fan found Wei Tao, Shen Fang, Shen Jing, and the surviving Shen Family Retainers, but discovered that his Portable Secret Realm and Communication Formation Disk no longer worked.
• Yaksha reported that the group seemed trapped inside a Domain, and Shen Jing suspected the ancient formation beneath Northern Dome Immortal Sect had collapsed.
• Su Fan warned Shen Jing and the others not to leave until they understood their surroundings, since wicked cultivators might ambush them.

Su Fan stayed behind to heal while Shen Jing and the others went to seek a Teleportation Array, but the blood sacrifice at Northern Dome Immortal Sect erupted into a realm-breaking ritual. The heretical cultivators drained the sect’s Spirit Vein and survived tribulation lightning to break through to Void Refining, leaving the sect’s defenders fleeing as blood rain fell.

• Shen Jing led the others toward the Teleportation Array at Black Pine Ridge, while Su Fan and Wei Tao stayed behind briefly before Wei Tao followed the group.
• Su Fan healed his damaged soul with Soul Nurturing Pills, then saw crimson Blood-red Light Pillars rise above Northern Dome Immortal Sect as the heretical cultivators began their blood sacrifice.
• Several Deity Transformation cultivators fought to stop the sacrifice, while spatial overlap isolated Northern Dome Immortal Sect and the Demon Ruins from the outside world.
• The heretical cultivators’ ritual drained the Spirit Vein beneath the sect and triggered tribulation lightning as they attempted to break through to Void Refining.
• Su Fan protected himself with the Square Heaven Exquisite World Suppressing Pagoda and the Myriad Phenomena Futu Great Formation as the tribulation bolts shook him senseless.
• The heretical cultivators survived three tribulation bolts and broke through, after which Blood-colored Raindrops fell and Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s Deity Transformation cultivators fled.

Su Fan fought off waves of Demonic Souls and skeletons as the Demon Ruins overlapped with the Northern Dome Immortal Sect and a high-level greater demon neared its descent. He rescued Shen Jing, Wei Tao, Shen Fang, and the others, then insisted on leading them against several Bone Kings despite their warnings.

• A greater demon's roar shook the world, and Black Pine Ridge collapsed into a wasteland as the Demon Ruins opened beneath it.
• Su Fan used the Blood Sea Tide Soul Devouring Great Formation, his Soul Devouring Life Killing Treasure Blade, and other abilities to destroy Demonic Souls and skeletons, while discovering that the Demon Ruins weakened cultivators' powers.
• A Deity Transformation-level Bone Supreme emerged from the ground, but Su Fan fled to conserve his strength as the greater demon's shadow grew clearer in the sky.
• Su Fan sensed Shen Jing, Wei Tao, Shen Fang, and their remaining companions trapped in a formation, then cleared the surrounding Demonic Souls and skeletons with two supreme-grade offensive Dao artifacts.
• After Su Fan entered the formation, he told the exhausted group to recover while he handled the Bone Kings, and Shen Jing and Wei Tao objected.

Su Fan rescued Shen Jing, Shen Fang, and Wei Tao by defeating the Bone Kings surrounding their formation, then led them through Black Pine Ridge to a hidden shelter. There, Shen Jing reunited with Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples while Su Fan recovered and observed how they rallied around her.

• Su Fan dismissed Shen Jing's defensive plan and told everyone to recover their magical power while he prepared to handle the Bone Kings alone.
• Su Fan left the formation and killed the Bone Kings with powerful sword strikes and a charge that sent one of them flying.
• Wei Tao withdrew the formation, and he, Shen Jing, Shen Fang, and the others followed Su Fan deeper into Black Pine Ridge.
• Su Fan found a concealed formation near a collapsed mountain peak and sent Shen Jing to call for anyone from the Northern Dome Immortal Sect inside.
• Shen Jing reunited with more than a dozen cultivators, mostly Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples, while Su Fan sat apart and recovered his magical power.

Su Fan took command of the Northern Dome Immortal Sect survivors after a Bone Supreme destroyed their formation and led them in a desperate breakout. He slew the Bone Supreme with Law Power, but a swarm of flying skeletal fiends forced the group to flee toward Black Pine Valley in search of shelter.

• Shen Jing proposed waiting inside the formation for the sect's ancestors, but a Bone Supreme shattered the outer formation and Su Fan ordered everyone to break out.
• Su Fan gathered the survivors' Sixth-tier Immortal Talismans and led them through the Shade Souls and skeletal fiends, killing a Bone King along the way.
• A Bone Supreme blocked their path, and the group battered it with more than a dozen Sixth-tier Immortal Talismans before Su Fan destroyed it with Limitless Slash.
• Su Fan ordered the stunned survivors onward, but flying skeletal fiends appeared overhead and forced them to descend and flee on foot.
• Su Fan led the group toward Black Pine Valley, hoping to find caverns where Northern Dome Immortal Sect's disciples could build defensive formations while they waited for their ancestor.

Su Fan led the group through Black Pine Ridge, destroying waves of demons and several Bone Supremes while pushing his body to its limits. After more Bone Supremes converged on them, he ordered everyone to split up and flee.

• Su Fan used powerful divine abilities to clear the path through Demonic Souls and evil demonic bones while Wei Tao, Shen Fang, Shen Jing, and the others followed.
• Su Fan directed the group to counter a swarm of flying bones, and Wei Tao, Shen Fang, and the disciples helped destroy it before a Bone Supreme arrived.
• The group weakened the flying Bone Supreme with Sixth-tier Immortal Talismans, and Su Fan killed it with Headwind Slash.
• When three more Bone Supremes appeared, Su Fan killed two with sword techniques containing Law Power while the group bombarded them with talismans.
• Su Fan and the others defeated the final Bone Supreme, but Su Fan was badly injured and consumed healing pills.
• Sensing more Bone Supremes approaching from every direction, Su Fan ordered everyone to split up and run.

After drawing every nearby Bone Supreme toward him, Su Fan escaped into the Demon Ruins, where the deadly cold and weakened senses left him struggling to survive. He moved deeper while concealed and sensed an overwhelmingly powerful presence that he suspected belonged to the sealed Foreign Great Demon.

• Wei Tao, Shen Jing, Shen Fang, and the others said their farewells to Su Fan and escaped in different directions.
• Su Fan used his blood escape to travel away, but the Bone Supremes tracked him after sensing his attacks and began converging on him.
• With no safe route out, Su Fan chose to enter a nearby crack leading into the Demon Ruins.
• Su Fan descended into the freezing darkness, lost his Mist Body, and used Yang Extreme Earth Fiend to endure the cold; the Bone Supremes did not follow him inside.
• Su Fan concealed himself with several stealth techniques and cautiously walked through the Demon Ruins.
• Su Fan sensed a tremendously powerful aura, retreated from it, and suspected its owner was the sealed Foreign Great Demon.

Su Fan fled the Bone Supreme into the Netherworld Yin Fire and risked entering its core to cultivate the sixth stage of the Demonic Saint Body Art. As cultivators gathered outside the sealed Demon Ruins, Su Fan endured the flames, and the little figure inside him began swallowing them.

• Su Fan escaped the Bone Supreme by entering a field of pale flames and learned from a Jade Slip that they were Netherworld Yin Fire needed to temper the sixth stage of the Demonic Saint Body Art.
• With the Bone Supreme waiting behind him, Su Fan entered the fire’s core, gave Yaksha his belongings, and leaped into a fissure protected by the Bone Corroding Yin Wind and Nine Nether Profound Water.
• Deity Transformation Cultivators and Void Refining old monsters gathered outside Northern Dome Immortal Sect and attacked the spatial barrier separating the Demon Ruins from the outside world.
• Su Fan’s protective barriers collapsed in the fissure, and the Netherworld Yin Fire burned away his skin, muscles, and bones as he struggled to circulate the technique.
• The little figure within Su Fan opened its mouth and began swallowing the Netherworld Yin Fire surging through his body.

After surviving a perilous breakthrough to the sixth stage of the Demonic Saint Body Art, Su Fan gained the Netherworld Yin Fire and greatly increased physical and soul strength. He tested his new power by battling the Bone Supremes and unleashed Whirlwind Slash against a group of them.

• Su Fan survived the Netherworld Yin Fire and completed his breakthrough, gaining a sixth Nascent Soul halo and purifying and strengthening his body.
• Su Fan discovered that his soul power had doubled, then transformed and charged a Bone Supreme, crushing it with Bear Mountain Lean.
• Su Fan used Wind Falcon Blade and the Netherworld Yin Fire to burn another Bone Supreme down to bone fragments and ashes.
• Several more Bone Supremes charged Su Fan, who summoned a pitch-black greatsword and unleashed Whirlwind Slash, cleaving the nearest enemies in two.

After breaking through to the sixth stage of the Demonic Saint Body Art, Su Fan recovered most of his strength in the Demon Ruins and fought his way toward a sleeping Integrated Body Realm Foreign Great Demon. The dharma sword weakened the demon’s pressure, and Su Fan reached the demon beneath its towering body, leaving his survival dependent on the sword.

• Su Fan defeated the Bone Supremes, collected their remains, and discovered he could not escape the Demon Ruins through the space above.
• Su Fan realized the Netherworld Yin Fire had helped him adapt to the Demon Ruins, restoring roughly eighty percent of his strength, and he returned to explore the area near the enormous presence.
• Su Fan slew the Bone Supremes guarding the way and used his senses to locate a hidden barrier; striking it unleashed a terrifying aura that overwhelmed him until a tiny figure within him restored his clarity.
• Su Fan’s dharma sword shone and weakened the pressure, so he chose to keep advancing toward the sleeping Foreign Great Demon rather than flee.
• Su Fan reached the several-hundred-zhang-tall demon and sensed it would soon awaken; his dharma sword conveyed an urgent impulse as he prepared to rely on it.

Su Fan devoured demonic blood from a sleeping Integration-stage Foreign Great Demon, nearly lost himself to its Demonic Thoughts, and awakened with greatly increased power. His Demon Slaying Sword also transformed, and after escaping the Demon Ruins, he faced a horde of Bone Supremes.

• Su Fan hurled his magic sword into the Foreign Great Demon's thigh, where it absorbed demonic power and grew dozens of times larger.
• Su Fan used the Blood Shadow Descent God Great Formation and Blood Demon Mist to purify and consume the blood splashed from the sword, but the Foreign Great Demon's Demonic Thoughts drove him into a murderous transformation.
• The tiny figure within Su Fan snapped its fingers and dispelled the Demonic Thoughts, allowing Su Fan to regain consciousness and discover that his strength and Spiritual Sense had greatly increased.
• Su Fan examined the transformed Demon Slaying Sword, found that it had regained its original form and power, and stored it beside his Nascent Soul.
• Su Fan escaped through a crack in the Demon Ruins and used Pure World Red Lotus to destroy the Demonic Souls and skeletal evil demons around him.
• More than a dozen Bone Supremes charged toward Su Fan.

Su Fan annihilated Demon Ruins creatures as he searched for Shen Fang and the others, while they struggled to defend their valley from a Bone Supreme. Su Fan arrived and faced the Bone Supreme, leaving the valley’s cultivators watching anxiously as it fell before him.

• Su Fan killed a Bone Supreme with one sword strike and continued through the Demon Ruins, defeating more Bone Supremes and other ghost creatures.
• Shen Jing, Wei Tao, Shen Fang, and the Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples retreated through protective formations as Demonic Souls and bone fiends besieged their valley.
• A Bone Supreme breached the outer formation, but Su Fan’s Five Directions Divine Thunder of Exorcism and Soul-Shaking scattered the surrounding ghost creatures.
• Su Fan emerged from the mist near the valley, and Shen Fang recognized him and urged Shen Jing to open the formation, but she kept everyone inside to finish setting up defenses.
• The Bone Supreme charged Su Fan as the valley’s cultivators shouted warnings, and its enormous body suddenly crashed to the ground.

Su Fan killed a Bone Supreme and rescued Shen Fang, Shen Jing, Wei Tao, and other cultivators, then cleared the Demon Ruins around their valley while a great demon prepared to descend. Three Void Refinement mighty figures destroyed the halo, and Su Fan survived the battle’s aftershocks only to find several hundred human mighty figures gathered overhead.

• Su Fan killed the Bone Supreme with one attack, and Shen Jing released Shen Fang from the formation so he could reunite with Su Fan.
• Shen Fang, Shen Jing, Wei Tao, and the others bowed to Su Fan for saving them, while Su Fan warned that they might not survive if the great demon descended.
• Su Fan left the valley, killed Demon Ruins fiends, collected more than a hundred Bone Supreme skeletons, and sent rescued Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples to Shen Jing’s group.
• As the halo boiled and a terrifying aura spread, Su Fan braced himself for the great demon’s arrival.
• Three Void Refinement mighty figures attacked the halo in succession and destroyed it, while the shockwaves battered Su Fan but left him alive.
• Su Fan looked up and saw several hundred human mighty figures, including powerful Integrated Body Realm cultivators, gathered in the sky.

Su Fan avoided the aftermath of the Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s calamity, refused Wei Tao’s efforts to recruit him into the sect, and planned to leave the Shen Family once his contract ended. Just as he waited for Wei Tao to arrange the contract’s early termination, Shen Fang told him that Shen Jing was coming to see him.

• Su Fan pretended to be dead while human experts captured the fleeing Evil Dao cultivators, then escaped to West Mountain Market Town and returned to his Portable Secret Realm.
• Su Fan told Wei Tao that his injuries prevented him from returning to help the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, though he was actually avoiding involvement.
• Su Fan spent the following days cultivating the sixth layer of the Demonic Saint Body Art and studying formation texts and body-cultivation secret arts.
• Wei Tao urged Su Fan to join the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, but Su Fan admitted he did not want to join and asked Wei Tao to help end his Shen Family contract early.
• Wei Tao told Su Fan that the Northern Dome Immortal Sect and nearby Cultivation Families planned to relocate, and Su Fan decided to leave the region once his contract ended.
• Shen Fang messaged Su Fan that he and Shen Jing were on their way to West Mountain Market Town because Shen Jing wanted to see him.

Shen Jing visited Su Fan to thank him, terminate his Shen Family contract, and recruit him into the Northern Dome Immortal Sect. Su Fan demanded elite disciple status and the Secret Hall inheritance, and Shen Jing's master replied with conditions for the inheritance.

• Shen Jing gave Su Fan a Storage Ring and confirmed that his contract with the Shen Family had been terminated.
• Shen Jing invited Su Fan to join the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, explaining that the sect needed powerful cultivators after its calamity.
• Su Fan realized the sect had a pressing need for his strength and decided to negotiate despite having no interest in joining.
• Shen Jing offered generous terms, but Su Fan demanded to enter as an elite disciple and receive the Secret Hall inheritance.
• Shen Jing reported Su Fan's demands to her master, who agreed to elite disciple status but required fifty years in the sect and one hundred thousand Merit Points for the inheritance.

Su Fan accepted Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s offer to become an elite disciple and met the sect’s leaders before completing his entry procedures. After settling into a temporary cave mansion, he returned to his Portable Secret Realm and celebrated his new status with Sister Zhen and Xuxu.

• Shen Jing told Su Fan that the sect had granted him elite disciple status and the chance to inherit the Secret Hall; Su Fan agreed to join and teased Shen Jing by calling her Junior Sister.
• Shen Jing brought Su Fan into Northern Dome Immortal Sect, where he met Immortal Venerables Tian Chen and Shao Hua and disclosed that he came from the Azure Sky Star Domain.
• He Fei took Su Fan to the Sect Affairs Hall, where Immortal Venerable Ru Feng reacted coldly to his arrival before Su Fan completed the simplified entry procedures and received his identity items.
• He Fei assigned Su Fan a temporary cave mansion, explaining that the sect would likely migrate within a few months.
• Su Fan entered his Portable Secret Realm, greeted Sister Zhen and Xuxu, and announced that he had become an elite disciple of a supreme Immortal Sect.

Su Fan learned that the Northern Dome Immortal Sect had made him an elite disciple to rely on his strength after its migration to the dangerous Falling Cloud Mountain Range. As the sect prepared to move in two months, Su Fan continued cultivating and discovered several new messages on the Demon Person Mansion Communication Formation Disk.

• Su Fan learned that the sect's disciples resented his rapid promotion, while the Northern Dome Immortal Sect prepared to move to the Falling Cloud Mountain Range and face Rogue Cultivators and Evil Cultivators.
• Shen Fang and Wei Tao visited Su Fan, told him the sect had chosen its new mountain-gate location and would begin migrating within two months, and described tensions with the Ten Great Super Immortal Sects.
• Su Fan shared breakfast with Shen Fang and Wei Tao, dismissed their formal treatment of him as an elite disciple, and said little when they relied on him to fight in the Falling Cloud Mountain Range.
• After his guests left, Su Fan cultivated the sixth layer of the Demonic Saint Body Art, confident he could handle Nascent Soul cultivators with the Northern Dome Immortal Sect behind him.
• At midnight, Su Fan activated the Demon Person Mansion Communication Formation Disk with Wang Zheng's blood and qi and found several messages waiting.

Su Fan joined the Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall as the sect relocated to its new mountain gate. Senior Brother Lifeng assigned him the newly recruited Rogue Cultivator disciples, leaving Su Fan to manage the sect’s most troublesome recruits.

• Su Fan exchanged messages with an acquaintance on the Demon Person Mansion trading platform, who described the Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s broad recruitment drive for powerful cultivators.
• He Fei summoned Su Fan to the Sect Affairs Hall, where Senior Brother Lifeng gathered Nascent Soul disciples and led them through the teleportation array to the new mountain gate.
• The disciples arrived at Qinghuan Peak, and Senior Brother Lifeng led them through the Attendant Hall to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Senior Brother Lifeng introduced Su Fan as a new Law Enforcement Hall officer, prompting the gathered disciples to whisper about his reputation and elite status.
• Senior Brother Lifeng told Su Fan that the newly recruited Rogue Cultivators would serve under him, and promised to support him if they resisted his management.