Chapter Summaries

Su Fan entered the Buddha cavern to study the Vajra Bodhi Pagoda Dharma Body and nearly fell under the influence of an evil Buddha, but he emerged with the Supernatural Buddha Sound. After his master explained the statue was sealed and harmless to sect disciples, Su Fan planned to investigate it again, then learned Shen Fang was away with Chen Qing for at least a year.

• Su Fan’s prayers awakened a golden Buddha vision that turned into an evil black Buddha, and he broke free after nearly losing himself.
• Su Fan discovered he had comprehended the Supernatural Buddha Sound and left the cavern to ask Immortal Venerable Qiuling about the statue.
• Immortal Venerable Qiuling explained that the sect’s patriarchs had sealed the Buddha statue and asked Su Fan to keep practicing the inheritance.
• Su Fan returned to his Portable Secret Realm, decided to visit the Buddha cavern again the next day, and received a message from Shen Fang.
• Shen Fang told Su Fan that he and Chen Qing were attending a Path of Formations gathering on another plane and would be away for at least a year.

Su Fan joined Xu Hongda and Town Mountain Dao Palace’s elite disciples for a feast in Town Mountain Immortal City, then returned to the underground grotto to confront the evil Buddha. The evil Buddha saw through Su Fan’s demonic cultivation and murderous past, and pressed him to reveal his true background.

• Xu Hongda summoned Su Fan away from the underground grotto and took him to meet Feng Ba and the other elite disciples in Town Mountain Immortal City.
• Feng Ba and the disciples welcomed Su Fan, then served roasted Black Blood Food Dragon Loach and Spirit Wine at their feast.
• Su Fan found the beast’s energy too weak to affect his powerful body, pretended to absorb it with the others, and left with a large portion Feng Ba gave him.
• Su Fan explored the city, enjoyed its affordable food, and returned to the underground grotto more pleased with Town Mountain Dao Palace.
• Su Fan communicated with the evil Buddha, which recognized his Demon Seed, demonic cultivation, and immense murderous aura, then challenged his claims about his cultivation.

Su Fan negotiated with the remnant soul Evil Buddha Wang De for the true Vajra Bodhi Pagoda Dharma Body inheritance, while arranging to keep Wang De’s divided soul under control. After months of study, Su Fan sealed Wang De in a lamp and let him out occasionally, but the chapter ended with Su Fan sending him back into the Yin energy secret realm for misbehaving.

• Su Fan rejected Wang De’s offer at first, then agreed to a deal requiring Wang De to swear an oath and let Su Fan seal his divided soul.
• Su Fan pressed Wang De about the Demon Seed, and Wang De said its bearers were rumored to be calamities created by demonic cultivator experts in the Daoist School.
• After several days of bargaining, Su Fan accepted Wang De’s terms and spent months receiving the Vajra Bodhi Pagoda Dharma Body inheritance.
• Su Fan learned that Wang De had been an Integration Stage evil cultivator who became a Buddhist guardian and survived the destruction of his Buddhist kingdom as a remnant soul.
• Su Fan sealed Wang De’s divided soul inside the Nine Yin Soul Suppressing Lamp and occasionally let him out in exchange for secret arts.
• When Wang De teased Su Fan about his Ghost Slave and offered another secret art, Su Fan put him back in the Yin energy secret realm and said he would have to wait a month to come out again.

Su Fan visited Immortal Venerable Qiuling to discuss his body cultivation, and his master tested his strength before agreeing to train him. The chapter ended with the two sharing grilled Black Blood Food Dragon Loach and wine, while Su Fan learned that returning to Azure Sky Star Domain would be difficult.

• Su Fan told Immortal Venerable Qiuling that he had mastered the Secret Hall inheritance and offered him two jars of Spirit Wine.
• Immortal Venerable Qiuling tested Su Fan against powerful phantoms, then fought him directly and exposed the limits of Su Fan's body-cultivation skills.
• Immortal Venerable Qiuling offered to instruct Su Fan over the next few days and mentioned the centennial Dao Assembly of Chaoguang Star Domain.
• Su Fan explained that he had reached Crimson Cloud Heaven through a Spatial Rift, and Immortal Venerable Qiuling warned that the rift might not lead back to Azure Sky Star Domain.
• Su Fan prepared a feast featuring Black Blood Food Dragon Loach, and he and Immortal Venerable Qiuling ate and drank together.

Su Fan settled into life at the Town Mountain Dao Palace, trained under Immortal Venerable Qiuling, and prepared for the upcoming Centennial Dao Assembly in Chaoguang Star Domain. Before leaving on a long journey, he returned to visit Immortal Venerable Ru Feng, while disciples at the Town Mountain Dao Palace began to suspect that the unfamiliar Junior Uncle Fan Su was the notorious Great Demon.

• Su Fan and Immortal Venerable Qiuling discussed the Chaoguang Star Domain and the Centennial Dao Assembly, where one sect spot remained unfilled.
• Su Fan stayed at Immortal Venerable Qiuling's Cave Mansion for several months, improving his body cultivation and growing close to his master and Senior Disciple Brother Xu Hongda.
• Immortal Venerable Qiuling told Su Fan that the trip to the assembly would take several years, and Su Fan decided to visit Immortal Venerable Ru Feng before leaving.
• The next morning, Su Fan teleported from the Town Mountain Dao Palace to Lingxiao Immortal City using his elite disciple Identity Jade Talisman.
• Disciples on duty checked Su Fan's name and wondered if he was the Great Demon from Northern Dome Immortal Sect; after one disciple asked a relative in the Sect Affairs Hall, they became more suspicious.

Su Fan’s identity as a demonic cultivator became widely known after he used Town Mountain Dao Palace’s Teleportation Array, though rumors about his past had largely been softened. Before traveling to the Centennial Dao Assembly, he visited his former master Immortal Venerable Ru Feng, then returned to Town Mountain Dao Palace, where other disciples wondered about his background.

• Su Fan’s Teleportation Array trip exposed his identity to Town Mountain Dao Palace, and Immortal Venerable Qiuling confirmed it to Xu Hongda, who celebrated the prospect of doing better at the Centennial Dao Assembly.
• Su Fan changed his appearance in Lingxiao Immortal City, traveled to Northern Dome Immortal City, and met Lu Yan and Luo Hu outside the Law Enforcement Hall branch.
• Su Fan visited Immortal Venerable Ru Feng, told him about the coming Centennial Dao Assembly, and received a scolding and further instruction in the Path of Formations during a stay of more than a month.
• Su Fan traveled from Lingxiao Immortal City toward Town Mountain Immortal City, and the Lingxiao Immortal Palace disciples changed their attitude after reading his Identity Jade Talisman.
• Disciples at Town Mountain Immortal City’s teleportation hall questioned Su Fan about his background, and he said he had recently joined the sect and had been cultivating underground.

Su Fan returned to the Town Mountain Dao Palace, resumed cultivating, and prepared for the Centennial Dao Assembly. Before departure, he used his promised Treasure Hall selection to acquire three artifacts, then joined the other assembly-bound disciples at the Sect Affairs Hall.

• Su Fan visited Immortal Venerable Qiuling and Xu Hongda, cooked them hot pot, and soon withdrew to his Cave Mansion to cultivate in seclusion.
• Su Fan slowed his cultivation after reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage, received his master's order to assemble in three days, and decided to claim his three promised treasures before leaving.
• Su Fan entered the Treasure Hall, examined its collection, and selected the Dragon Binding Gloves, Great Vajra Demon Subduing Pestle, and Taihao Battle Robe.
• Su Fan left for the Sect Affairs Hall plaza at dawn three days later, where the other Centennial Dao Assembly disciples had gathered and Xu Hongda greeted him.

Su Fan joined the Town Mountain Dao Palace’s delegation to the centennial Dao Association in Qingluan Heaven, spending the long journey cultivating before reaching the crowded venue. While waiting for the competition to begin, he sold Immortal Formations in Taibai Immortal City and attended lectures, earning enough Spirit Crystals to ease his financial troubles.

• Xu Hongda introduced Su Fan to the Town Mountain Dao Palace disciples, and Sect Master Immortal Venerable Zhong Hai gave him five thousand Spirit Crystals before the delegation departed for Lingxiao Immortal City.
• Su Fan reluctantly attended Feng Ba’s gathering, then traveled with a hundred elite disciples from Crimson Cloud Heaven toward the Lingxiao Immortal Sect’s Space Gate.
• Su Fan spent the more-than-year-long voyage studying formations and practicing spells in his cabin while declining invitations to socialize.
• The delegation arrived in Qingluan Heaven and was settled in a valley outside Taibai Immortal Palace because Crimson Cloud Heaven ranked below the super planes.
• Su Fan sold the sixth-grade Immortal Formations he had made, spent nights crafting more to sell, and attended the Deity Transformation Stage cultivators’ lectures in Taibai Immortal City.

Su Fan reunited with Shen Fang in Taibai Immortal City, where their attempt to dine at a hotel led to a dispute with disciples of the Liyang Immortal Sect. After one disciple insulted them, Su Fan revealed a terrifying killing intent that made even Meng Fan He wary, and the hotel staff hurried after the pair to make amends.

• Su Fan received Shen Fang’s message and learned that Shen Fang and Chen Qing had come to Taibai Immortal City for the Dao assembly.
• Shen Fang met Su Fan, then took him to an expensive hotel and insisted on paying for their meal.
• A hotel attendant gave their reserved Private Room to Meng Fan He of the Liyang Immortal Sect, and Su Fan pulled Shen Fang away from the resulting confrontation.
• After a Liyang Immortal Sect disciple called them bumpkins, Su Fan unleashed killing intent that overwhelmed the disciples and alarmed Meng Fan He.
• Meng Fan He warned Junior Brother Guang Kun not to act rashly and sent Spirit Wine after Su Fan and Shen Fang.

Su Fan learned that Feng Qingshu was harassing Chen Qing and decided to protect her despite Feng’s powerful connections. He provoked Feng by acting intimately with Chen Qing, drawing Feng’s hostility onto himself.

• Su Fan and Shen Fang ate an extravagant meal at the hotel, where Su Fan overheard that the Demonic Sect would arrive the next night.
• Shen Fang told Su Fan that Feng Qingshu had been relentlessly harassing Chen Qing and had two Deity Transformation Stage attendants protecting him.
• Su Fan promised to help Chen Qing and received a summons from Xu Hongda to meet later that night.
• Su Fan visited Chen Qing and publicly took her hands, acting as though they were close to make Feng Qingshu think she had his protection.
• Feng Qingshu left after exchanging polite words with Su Fan, and Su Fan accepted that his display would make Feng target him instead of Chen Qing.

Su Fan learned that Town Mountain Dao Palace answered to Hanhai Dao Palace and was forced to wait outside while the super-plane sect dismissed its visitors. The next morning, he returned to Chen Qing and Shen Fang, noticed Feng Qingshu’s spies watching them, and left with Chen Qing while holding her hand.

• Su Fan returned to Town Mountain Dao Palace and learned from Xu Hongda that its lineage came from Hanhai Dao Palace and that the sect owed it resources and deference.
• Xu Hongda told Su Fan that all ten disciples had to visit Hanhai Dao Palace, so Su Fan joined the sect’s delegation despite not wanting to go.
• Taibai Immortal Palace’s Golden Core disciples made the delegation wait for nearly an hour before admitting them, and Hanhai Dao Palace kept them waiting until after midnight before sending them away.
• Xu Hongda warned Su Fan that previous Dao Assemblies had been deadly for Crimson Cloud Heaven’s disciples, but Su Fan said he would strive to reach the top thousand.
• Su Fan returned to Chen Qing and Shen Fang’s courtyard, sensed Feng Qingshu’s spies watching, and invited them to breakfast without warning them about the watchers.
• Su Fan took Chen Qing’s hand as they left the courtyard, and she blushed but let him lead her through the streets.

Su Fan tried to protect Chen Qing from Feng Qingshu’s attention while keeping his own strength hidden, then avoided a confrontation with demonic cultivators in Taibai Immortal City. As the Dao Association Grand Competition approached, Feng Qingshu planned to have Su Fan killed in the arena, while Su Fan stayed in his Cave Mansion and prepared.

• Su Fan took Chen Qing to breakfast to make Feng Qingshu see them as a couple, then sent her back and returned to the sect’s encampment.
• Su Fan visited a crowded teahouse, yielded his seat to several demonic cultivators, and received a Storage Ring containing five hundred Spirit Crystals.
• The demonic cultivators’ leader admitted privately that Su Fan had made him sense danger, though he told his junior brothers he had offered compensation out of courtesy.
• Su Fan stayed in his Cave Mansion studying formations and spells, while Feng Qingshu’s subordinates watched him and Chen Qing and arranged to learn Su Fan’s tournament schedule.
• As the Dao Association Grand Competition neared, cultivators gathered information and placed bets, while Feng Qingshu planned to use Su Fan’s arena opponent to arrange his death.

Su Fan and the Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples entered the Dao Association’s initial selection, where they had to reach a marked destination on a hostile insect-tribe plane. When a seventh-tier Insect King and a swarm of Eight-Winged Blood-Devouring Demonic Mosquitoes trapped them, Senior Brother Qiyun ordered the group to abandon the flying boat and protect the elite disciples as they fled.

• The Dao Association participants entered Taibai Immortal City and passed through a Space Gate to the barren competition plane.
• Senior Brother Qiyun organized the Crimson Cloud Heaven squad and named Su Fan as its highest-priority elite to protect.
• Su Fan sensed an insect swarm ahead and warned the squad, which discovered a seventh-tier Insect King among the insects.
• The Insect King’s screech incapacitated several disciples, and Senior Brother Qiyun sped away in the flying boat.
• Hundreds of Eight-Winged Blood-Devouring Demonic Mosquitoes pursued the boat, while Su Fan warned that the Insect King’s domain had trapped them.
• Senior Brother Qiyun ordered everyone to abandon the boat and cover the squad’s elite disciples as they escaped.

Su Fan left the flying boat to confront the swarm of Eight-Winged Blood-Devouring Demonic Mosquitoes and killed its seventh-tier Insect King on his own. He returned to the Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples, who recognized his overwhelming strength and welcomed him back.

• Senior Brother Qiyun put Su Fan in command as the Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples prepared to break through the insect swarm.
• Su Fan unleashed Pure World Red Lotus and burned or severely wounded hundreds of sixth-tier Eight-Winged Blood-Devouring Demonic Mosquitoes while devastating the surrounding swarm.
• The seventh-tier Eight-Winged Blood-Devouring Demonic Mosquitoes Insect King attacked Su Fan, who countered its sound wave with Buddha Descends.
• Su Fan used Demonic Transformation, Limitless Slash, and Void Slash to overwhelm the Insect King, then killed it with the Demon Slaying Sword and stored its body.
• The remaining mosquitoes scattered after their Insect King died, and the Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples welcomed Su Fan back aboard the flying boat.

Su Fan led all one hundred Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples safely through the elimination stage by killing three seventh-stage Insect Kings, then avoided questioning by claiming he needed secluded healing. Meanwhile, Feng Qingshu arranged for a Liyang Immortal Sect disciple to face Su Fan and ordered Qi Feng to ensure that opponent killed him.

• Su Fan told Xu Hongda that he had killed several Deity Transformation cultivators, and the news left the Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples astonished and more respectful of him.
• Su Fan killed two more seventh-stage Insect Kings, bringing all one hundred Crimson Cloud Heaven disciples safely to the designated location and then back to Taibai Immortal City.
• Su Fan withdrew to his Cave Mansion under a sign claiming he was healing, while Crimson Cloud Heaven's elders celebrated the group's survival and offered him healing pills.
• Feng Qingshu learned from Qi Feng that he had arranged for an elite disciple from Liyang Immortal Sect of Qingluan Heaven to face Su Fan, then gave Qi Feng a Storage Ring and ordered him to make sure the disciple killed Su Fan.

Shi Guangfeng accepted Feng Qingshu’s request to kill Fan Su, but Fan He recognized Fan Su as the dangerous cultivator he had met and tried to stop the plot. Fan He arranged for Su Fan to meet Hanhai Dao Palace’s Senior Brother Nanming, and Su Fan was surprised to see Fan He waiting there.

• Qi Feng gave Shi Guangfeng Feng Qingshu’s Storage Ring and secured his agreement to kill Fan Su.
• Shi Guangfeng told Fan He about the arrangement, and Fan He initially approved before learning that Shi Guangfeng’s opponent was Fan Su.
• Fan He warned Shi Guangfeng of Fan Su’s strength and danger, but Feng Qingshu and Qi Feng ignored Shi Guangfeng’s messages to withdraw.
• Fan He learned that a sect in Crimson Cloud Heaven inherited Hanhai Dao Palace’s Orthodox Inheritance and decided to contact Fan Su through his connection there.
• Fan He’s message prompted Immortal Venerable Tengda to bring Su Fan to a hotel to meet Senior Brother Nanming.
• Su Fan entered the private pavilion and recognized Fan He among the cultivators waiting inside.

Su Fan agreed to show mercy to Shi Guangfeng in their upcoming match, while securing an introduction between the Town Mountain Dao Palace and Hanhai Dao Palace. As the Dao Association battles began, Shi Guangfeng entered the secret realm to face his opponent, and several people watched Su Fan’s match with keen interest.

• Senior Brother Fan He asked Su Fan to spare Shi Guangfeng, and Su Fan said Shi Guangfeng could fight without holding back.
• Senior Brother Nanming invited the Town Mountain Dao Palace’s leading martial uncle to meet Hanhai Dao Palace’s elders, and Fan He said Su Fan could reach the battle rankings’ top five hundred.
• Su Fan told Martial Uncle Tengda that Hanhai Dao Palace would arrange the introduction, reassuring the two Deity Transformation Stage elders.
• The Dao Association Grand Competition began in a newly built arena, while Feng Qingshu and Qi Feng waited to watch Su Fan’s battle.
• Xu Hongda returned from his match victorious, and Shi Guangfeng entered the secret realm to face his opponent.
• Feng Qingshu, Qi Feng, Senior Brother Nanming, and Senior Brother Fan He watched the light screen as Su Fan’s battle approached.

Su Fan defeated Shi Guangfeng while concealing his true strength, then met Chen Qing and brought her to meet Liyang Immortal Sect’s Fan He and Shi Guangfeng. He asked whether Fan He’s promised favor still stood, leaving the favor’s purpose unresolved.

• Su Fan concealed his strength and defeated Shi Guangfeng, who realized he had been toyed with, while Fan He praised Su Fan’s convincing performance.
• Feng Qingshu raged over Shi Guangfeng’s loss and ordered Qi Feng to arrange Su Fan’s death in the next match.
• Su Fan returned to his residence, received a Storage Ring from Martial Uncle Tengda, and then visited Chen Qing’s Cave Mansion, where he sensed hidden protectors.
• Su Fan learned that Feng Qingshu had prevented sects from recruiting Chen Qing and asked whether she would join a sect in Qingluan Heaven.
• Fan He summoned Su Fan to Sky Sea Pavilion, where Su Fan introduced Chen Qing to Fan He and Shi Guangfeng.
• Su Fan asked Fan He whether the favor he had mentioned the previous night still counted.

Su Fan arranged for Chen Qing to join Liyang Immortal Sect, hoping to protect her from Feng Qingshu and create distance between them. Chen Qing left Taibai Immortal City, while Feng Qingshu blamed Su Fan and vowed to kill him in the next round of the Dao Association Grand Competition.

• Su Fan showed Senior Brother Fan He Chen Qing's talent for inscribing formations in the void, and Fan He agreed to introduce her to a sect uncle of Liyang Immortal Sect.
• Su Fan told Chen Qing that Feng Qingshu had targeted him and secretly escorted her to the sect's city residence, where she was accepted into Liyang Immortal Sect.
• Su Fan and Chen Qing exchanged messages about her departure and his promise to visit, while he avoided meeting her before she left Taibai Immortal City.
• After waking from a night of drinking, Su Fan declined Senior Brother Fan He's invitation to meet Nanming and chose to keep his distance from the powerful sects.
• Qi Feng reported that Chen Qing had joined Liyang Immortal Sect and left the city, so Feng Qingshu smashed the room and vowed to kill Su Fan the next day.

Su Fan survived five rounds of the Dao Association Grand Competition by faking injuries and defeating opponents in last-second counterattacks, while Feng Qingshu’s attempts to have him killed repeatedly failed. As Su Fan prepared for the stronger seeded contestants in the sixth round, an unexpected visitor arrived at his room.

• Su Fan killed four opponents arranged by Feng Qingshu, including a sword cultivator, and appeared gravely injured after his fifth victory.
• Immortal Venerable Hongfa and Immortal Venerable Tengda urged Su Fan to recover and consider withdrawing from the next round, but he insisted he would fight.
• After the others left, Su Fan revealed that his injuries were an act and decided he could trust no one with the truth except Senior Brother Fan He and Senior Brother Nanming.
• Su Fan told Fan He to bet on him again, while giving Nanming only partial reassurance about his condition.
• Su Fan considered the seeded contestants who would begin appearing in the sixth round and knew his opponents would no longer underestimate him.
• A visitor claiming to have brought refreshments demanded that Su Fan open his door, and Su Fan sensed something was wrong before opening it and freezing.