Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi learned that Zhang Mingding had perfected a Blood Qi method for becoming a Martial Immortal and used a secret art to view Zhang Mingding’s memories of the Yao Mo Tree. The memory revealed the tree facing a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation that reduced its trunk to a charred stump.

• Zhang Mingding told Fang Xi that he had perfected the Blood Qi method for becoming a Martial Immortal and described finding the Yao Mo Tree’s Demon Domain fifty years earlier.
• Zhang Mingding brought Fang Xi to the Martial God Sect and granted him access to its secrets and archives.
• Fang Xi reviewed Zhang Mingding’s writings and judged that the revised method had a fifty percent chance of producing a Living Elixir.
• Fang Xi used a soul-related secret art to enter Zhang Mingding’s memories of the Yao Mo Tree.
• Fang Xi witnessed lightning strip away the Demon Domain and strike the Yao Mo Tree with a powerful Heavenly Tribulation, leaving its main trunk charred.

Fang Xi recovered the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree’s seed from Zhang Mingding and returned to the Cultivation World with it and the Martial Immortal method. Seeking access to a powerful Spirit Vein under a new identity, he traveled to Mu Country and began preparing a disguise to join a Golden Core faction.

• Fang Xi watched Zhang Mingding’s memories of the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree’s destruction and discovered its surviving seed hidden beneath Zhang Mingding’s bed.
• Fang Xi sealed the seed, rewarded Zhang Mingding with techniques to pursue the Anti-God Association, and urged him to promote Han Yue.
• Back in the Southern Barrens Cultivation World, Fang Xi assessed the seed and Martial Immortal method, then used the Mirage Pearl to test disguises before leaving his deserted island.
• Fang Xi considered the Profound Heaven Sect, Yiling Valley, and Qing Mu Sect as possible places to access a Third-grade Spirit Vein, favoring the Qing Mu Sect despite Lu Qing’s expected death.
• Fang Xi entered Green Gourd Market in Mu Country and planned to impersonate a Qi Refining rogue cultivator after killing him and refining his Wood Puppet.

Fang Xi attended a private exchange gathering in the Green Pot Marketplace, where he traded pills for a feather he recognized as belonging to a phoenix-blooded demon king. After secretly exchanging Yin Blood Stones for a Longevity Pill, he followed the buyer to a hidden residence, where a Qing Mu Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator confronted the injured Situ Qingqing.

• Feng Zheng led Fang Xi to a private exchange gathering, where Fang Xi traded a bottle of pills for a green feather from a third-order demon king.
• A monkey-masked merchant offered a second-order Longevity Pill in exchange for three Yin Blood Stones, but none of the gathering's attendees accepted.
• Fang Xi used Wood Escape Technique to follow the merchant and traded him three Yin Blood Stones for the Longevity Pill.
• The merchant's buyer disguised himself several times before returning to a hidden residence and reporting to Situ Qingqing that he had obtained the pill and supplies.
• A monkey-masked Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator revealed himself as a Qing Mu Sect pursuer and used a Silver Mirror to break the residence's concealment restrictions.

Fang Xi watched Situ Qingqing escape a Qing Mu Sect ambush, then found her dying from her injuries and the damage caused by her cultivation techniques. After she entrusted the last child of the Situ Family to him, Fang Xi buried her and departed with the girl.

• Fang Xi secretly followed Situ Qingqing and watched a monkey-faced Qing Mu Sect cultivator attack her and kill the Situ Family members who tried to protect her.
• Situ Qingqing used the Nether Transformation Technique to escape, but collapsed on a hillside with the little girl she called her grand-niece.
• Fang Xi revealed himself and told Situ Qingqing that her life force had withered and that the Longevity Pill she had bought was counterfeit.
• Situ Qingqing asked Fang Xi to give the last surviving bloodline of the Situ Family a place to live, and Fang Xi agreed to take the girl away from the Three Kingdoms.
• Situ Qingqing revealed that the Steal Immortal Foundation technique had made Core Formation impossible, then died after asking Fang Xi about their encounter outside Green Bamboo Mountain Market.
• Fang Xi burned Situ Qingqing's body, buried her beneath a blank stone tablet, and left the mountain carrying the little girl.

After leaving the Situ Family’s surviving daughter in a mortal household, Fang Xi examined Situ Qingqing’s belongings and discovered a powerful corpse-refining inheritance. He studied its Corpse Control Art and the Profound Fire Demonic Zombie method, then prepared to retrieve the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror fragment from Danya during a ritual.

• Fang Xi reflected on the Situ Family’s downfall and examined an azure feather that seemed connected to a phoenix-blooded demon king in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.
• He searched Situ Qingqing’s storage pouch and found demonic treasures, the Situ Family’s Five Extremes Primordial Demonic Art, and a collection of corpse-refining methods.
• Fang Xi studied the method for creating a Profound Fire Demonic Zombie and discovered the inheritance’s powerful Corpse Control Art.
• After three months of secluded study, Fang Xi decided to retrieve the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror fragment from Danya without revealing his ability to travel through it.
• Danya sealed the unresponsive Bronze Fragment in a guarded treasury before preparing to preside over the grand sacrifice.

Fang Xi stole the Bronze Fragment and several treasures from Danya’s treasury, then escaped back to the Southern Barrens Cultivation World. With the third world now accessible through the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror, he planned to scout it using a refined corpse before crossing over himself.

• Fang Xi entered the treasury and used his knowledge of its restrictions to steal the Bronze Fragment, which completed the mirror and opened access to a third world.
• Fang Xi secretly took the Mysterious Crystal Essence, Heavenly Fire Glaze, and Vermillion Fruits, then broke the restrictions around a piece of high-grade Spirit Wood.
• The treasury’s alarms activated, so Fang Xi disguised himself as a Witch King and used an Earth Shaking Treasure Talisman to escape through the mountain.
• Danya pursued Fang Xi with a Golden Light Earth-Traversing Treasure Talisman, but he entered the earth and traversed away before she could find him.
• Danya discovered the missing treasures and Bronze Fragment, realized her great opportunity was gone, and vowed to find the thief.
• Back in the Southern Barrens Cultivation World, Fang Xi celebrated his gains and decided to send a puppet or refined corpse to scout the third world before entering it himself.

Fang Xi entered Qing Mu Sect under the fabricated identity of Cao Chongyun, using a backstory secretly prepared by the Situ Family. As he sought to join the sect and choose a cave abode, he encountered a masked Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator he had seen before.

• Fang Xi, disguised as Cao Chongyun, met Zheng Tie outside Aoki Forest and accepted his invitation into Qing Mu Sect.
• Fang Xi reflected that the Situ Family had invented Cao Chongyun and his father as part of a plan to infiltrate the sect, and that he had adopted the identity after finding their records and Cao Chongyun's human skin.
• Fang Xi told Zheng Tie that he wanted to join Qing Mu Sect rather than establish his own force, and Zheng Tie agreed to vouch for him.
• Zheng Tie took Fang Xi to the Hall of Administrative Affairs, where Old Daoist Qian said they could complete their joining formalities alongside Tie Jiu, a newly Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator.
• Fang Xi recognized Senior Brother Fu, a masked Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator, among the people gathered to handle the new recruits.

After joining the Qing Mu Sect, Fang Xi chose a secluded cave abode and went to the Scripture Depository to study its secret arts and records. There, he found a possible connection between the Qing Mu Longevity Art and ancient sect inheritances, and learned how spirit veins could be created or strengthened.

• Fang Xi and Tie Jiu joined the Qing Mu Sect, and Fang Xi used the Human Cocoon's Skin's blood to conceal his identity during the token ritual.
• Tie Jiu claimed the third-tier middle-grade cave abode, while Fang Xi chose a remote residence in Green Bamboo Forest and offered Old Daoist Qian a storage bag in exchange for time to cultivate and take talisman tasks later.
• Fang Xi headed to the Scripture Depository, where he encountered Tie Jiu leaving and entered using his Identity Token.
• Fang Xi examined the Qing Mu Longevity Art and learned it had originated with the destroyed Mu Yuan Sect, which had supposedly obtained an ancient great sect's inheritance.
• Fang Xi read about spirit veins and learned that Feng Shui Practitioners, Dragon-Seeking Masters, Top-grade Spirit Stones, and other Spirit Eye Items could help create them.

Fang Xi chose the incomplete Jade Talisman Secret Record, inspected his new cave residence in Green Bamboo Forest, and began cultivating as a Core Formation cultivator. Meanwhile, Lu Qing prepared the Mu Qing Sect for his coming death and considered Old Ghost Yan’s proposal for peace talks, leaving the sect to watch its new recruits carefully.

• Fang Xi found the Mu Qing Sect’s Wood-based secret arts inferior to his Withered Glory Art and chose the Jade Talisman Secret Record instead.
• Fang Xi inspected Green Bamboo Forest, planned to conceal it with a formation, and began cultivating in his cave residence.
• Lu Qing warned Wei Xuan and the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators that he would arrange the Mu Qing Sect’s affairs before his death and discussed the failed attempt to capture Situ Qingqing.
• Wei Xuan and the others read Old Ghost Yan’s proposal to swear a Netherworld Oath of non-aggression, and Lu Qing said he would personally verify it.
• Lu Qing noted that Cao Chongyun and Tie Jiu had joined the sect and ordered Wei Xuan to observe them without acting against them without evidence.

Three years later, Fang Xi refined Vermillion Pills and continued cultivating in Green Bamboo Forest while carefully avoiding attention. When Uncle Zheng introduced him to Zheng Shan as a helper for his Spirit Herb Garden, the Qing Mu Bell rang thirteen times, announcing that Old Ancestor Qing had passed into meditation and leaving the sect in shock.

• Fang Xi refined a furnace of Vermillion Pills and used one to strengthen his cultivation, estimating that he could reach the peak of Core Formation Early Stage within twenty or thirty years.
• Fang Xi decided to remain secluded, avoid dangerous regions and sect politics, and wait until he was stronger before plundering the Fragment World during the next Heavenly Demon Tribulation.
• Fang Xi tended his Spirit Herb Garden, assessed the Myriad Bamboo Forest Array, and considered how to conceal his spatial traversal.
• Fang Xi accepted Uncle Zheng's invitation, met Zheng Shan, and agreed to let her work in his Spirit Herb Garden.
• The Qing Mu Bell rang thirteen times, and Uncle Zheng told Fang Xi and Zheng Shan that Old Ancestor Qing had passed into meditation.

After Lu Qing’s death, Fang Xi learned that Qing Mu Sect and its neighbors had secured peace, then spent seven years cultivating and gathering resources. When his ten-year term ended, he accepted a safe talisman-making mission from Old Daoist Qian, while the sect remained uneasy without its ancestor.

• Wei Xuan announced that Lu Qing had secured a peace agreement with Yiling Valley, and Zheng Tie later confirmed the Profound Heaven Sect had also signed an alliance treaty.
• Tie Jiu approached Fang Xi after the funeral, and Zheng Tie told him the sect would give him treatment equal to its core Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Seven years later, Fang Xi returned from the Fragment World with Third-grade Spirit Wood, considered the limits of his Green Grain Sword, and continued studying treasure patterns and corpse-refining techniques.
• Zheng Shan summoned Fang Xi to the Affairs Hall when his ten-year term arrived.
• Old Daoist Qian assigned Fang Xi an annual quota of second-grade talismans, and Fang Xi accepted the mission while Qian continued to watch him and Tie Jiu.

Fang Xi watched Qing Mu Sect weaken after Lu Qing’s death, then saw a disastrous ambush and internal power struggle force the sect to retreat to a defensive strategy. He remained focused on his own cultivation and plans, but his attempt to move to a better cave abode was rejected.

• Fang Xi returned to Green Bamboo Forest after learning that Qing Mu Sect faced growing attacks and political pressure following Lu Qing’s death.
• Four years later, Fang Xi celebrated his two-hundredth birthday and reflected on the aging and declining prospects of his old friends.
• Old Daoist Qian increased Fang Xi’s talisman quota and told him that Qing Mu Sect was preparing to ambush the rogue cultivator Pei Fei.
• Nine bell tolls announced a major death, and Fang Xi learned from Zheng Tie that Pei Fei had been a Foundation Establishment Perfection demonic cultivator who had destroyed the ambush and killed the Hall of Punishment Elder and other cultivators.
• Sect Master Wei Xuan stepped down, and Ling Yun Zi took over Qing Mu Sect and ordered a defensive retreat that reduced Fang Xi’s talisman mission.
• Fang Xi’s request to move to a better cave abode was rejected as competition for superior spirit-vein abodes intensified.

Fang Xi learned that Zheng Tie had been crippled in an ambush and helped Zheng Shan secure the contribution points needed to pursue Foundation Establishment. He then sealed his cave, entered the Fragment World disguised as a Witch King, and headed for Black Nirvana City as the Primordial Demonic Sect sent Foundation Establishment disciples into the realm with orders to hunt Danya.

• Fang Xi discovered that Elder Shu had died and learned that Zheng Tie had suffered severe injuries in an attack by Chun Sanniang.
• Zheng Shan told Fang Xi that the Qing Mu Sect’s share of Golden Jade Ganoderma had been reduced, complicating her plans for Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Xi gave Zheng Shan two thousand contribution points and sealed his cave abode behind a quasi-third-tier formation.
• Fang Xi entered the Fragment World disguised as a Witch King and headed toward Black Nirvana City to seek the Thousand-Year Vermillion Fruit and find Danya.
• The Primordial Demonic Sect’s former Holy Son and Holy Maiden sent Foundation Establishment disciples into the Fragment World and offered Great Merit for killing Danya and investigating her Outer World techniques.
• The Holy Maiden agreed to give her senior brother a share of a treasure she had arranged for Bai to collect.

Fang Xi watched three demonic sect cultivators attack Black Nirvana City, where Danya and the Witch Kings defended against them. As the attackers overwhelmed the defenders, Fang Xi slipped toward the Witch Tribe’s sacred ground.

• Fang Xi concealed himself near Black Nirvana City and waited for an opportunity to reach its sacred ground and Vermillion Fruit resources.
• Three Foundation Establishment Perfection demonic sect cultivators arrived, and the gray-robed cultivator sent his Red-haired Ghost King into the city to attack the Witch Kings.
• Danya emerged with two Witch King allies, but the Bull Horned Man shattered her Immortal Slaying Treasure Talisman and charged through the city wall.
• The seductive woman and gray-robed cultivator trapped the three Witch Kings while the Bull Horned Man engaged Danya.
• Fang Xi judged that Danya was in danger and used a wood-escape technique to sneak toward the sacred ground.

Fang Xi raided the Vermillion Fruit Grove during the battle over Black Nirvana City, taking Vermillion Fruits and killing a demonic sect cultivator before joining the fight. After the Bull Horned Man killed the two Witch Kings and threatened Danya, Fang Xi attacked him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fang Xi entered the Vermillion Fruit Grove, subdued its guards with his Core Formation Domain, and sent puppets to collect the outer Vermillion Fruits.
• Fang Xi broke the weakened restriction around one Thousand-Year Vermillion Fruit tree, took its three fruits, and left the tree intact as a stronger restriction re-formed around it.
• Fang Xi killed the black-robed demonic sect cultivator with the Green Grain Sword and took his storage bag and magic banner while You Kun fought the charming woman.
• Fang Xi urged the two Witch Kings to help Danya, and they joined the fight against the Bull Horned Man.
• The Bull Horned Man killed the two Witch Kings with his Extreme Terrestrial Magnetic Force and moved to strike Danya, so Fang Xi attacked his wrist with the Green Grain Sword.

Fang Xi defeated the Bull Horned Man in the Mysterious Witch Secret Realm, returned to his cave abode with the spoils, and used the recovered Thousand-Year Vermillion Fruits to begin breaking through to mid-stage Core Formation. The chapter ended with spiritual energy pouring into him as he pushed toward the fifteenth layer of the Withered Glory Art.

• Danya escaped the Bull Horned Man and fled to seek help while Fang Xi attacked the man’s mind and crushed him with the Life and Death Seal.
• Fang Xi collected the Bull Horned Man’s corpse and the black-robed cultivator’s belongings, warned Danya to flee Black Nirvana City, and returned to his cave abode.
• Fang Xi learned that the Bull Horned Man’s soul-searching had failed because of a restriction, then examined a map of the Mysterious Witch Secret Realm and planned to seek the Five Elements Fruit and Bodhi Seed.
• Fang Xi preserved the Bull Horned Man’s corpse, recovered his magical power, and decided to use a Thousand-Year Vermillion Fruit to assault the mid-stage Core Formation bottleneck.
• Three days later, Fang Xi ate a Thousand-Year Vermillion Fruit and circulated the Withered Glory Art as his Yi Wood Dharma Body repaired his strained meridians.

Fang Xi advanced to the Core Formation Mid Stage and strengthened his Withered Glory Profound Light before returning to the Fragment World. As he gathered resources and fought demonic cultivators, Martial Nephew Bai manipulated the Bodhi Tree’s restrictions in pursuit of a Nine-Eyed Bodhi Seed.

• Fang Xi consumed three Thousand-Year Vermillion Fruits to break through to the Core Formation Mid Stage, increasing his spiritual power and sense while advancing his Withered Glory Profound Light to Minor Accomplishment.
• Martial Nephew Bai entered the Bodhi Sacred Land after the Witch Tribe People fell into slaughter, killed an ambushing Witch King, and used a token and Phoenix Seal Script to influence which Bodhi Seed would fall.
• A demonic cultivator’s soul banner drove Witch Tribe warriors into a doomed attack, and Fang Xi returned to the Fragment World and killed the cultivator with a surprise strike.
• Fang Xi found the Five Elements Tribe in ruins, then traveled toward the Bodhi Tree and killed several demonic cultivators along the way.
• Fang Xi opened the Blood Dragon Tribe’s sacred-land restriction with a demonic cultivator’s identity token, collected the Blood Dragon Fruits, and discarded the token.

Fang Xi ambushed and fought a white-robed Demonic Dao cultivator who had obtained a Nine-Eyed Bodhi seed, trapping her in his formation and killing her. At the Primordial Demonic Sect, Wan'er discovered that Bai had died, and a handsome man used a World-Descending Talisman to enter the Mysterious Witch Secret Realm.

• A white-robed cultivator retrieved a Nine-Eyed Bodhi seed from the Bodhi Sacred Land and left, intending to deliver it to Martial Aunt Wan'er.
• Fang Xi ambushed the woman outside, but she resisted his Primordial Demon Stab and escaped his first sword strike with a substitute technique.
• Fang Xi and his puppet You Kun fought the woman and her demonic corpse; she used a talisman treasure and Blood Escape to try to flee.
• Fang Xi sealed the area with his Yi Wood Divine Light Formation and struck the woman with the Life and Death Seal, leaving her defeated.
• At the Primordial Demonic Sect, Wan'er found that Bai's bead had cracked, and the handsome man decided to enter the secret realm using a World-Descending Talisman.

Fang Xi captured a demonic corpse at Bodhi Sacred Land and discovered that it was the white-robed female cultivator’s External Incarnation. After killing her, he left the secret realm, unaware that a handsome man had identified him as the culprit and begun tracking him.

• Fang Xi used the Yi Wood Divine Light Formation to trap the demonic corpse and placed a Corpse Sealing Talisman on it.
• Fang Xi discovered through the Purple Qi Heavenly Eye that the demonic corpse was the white-robed female cultivator’s External Incarnation, and she begged him to spare her.
• The female cultivator broke the talisman’s effect, defended herself with a third-grade corpse pearl, and then self-destructed it when Fang Xi continued attacking.
• Fang Xi destroyed the female cultivator’s remaining soul with Yi Wood True Fire and decided to raid two more locations before fleeing the secret realm for several centuries.
• A handsome man arrived in the Mysterious Witch Secret Realm and sent his Ghostly Beings to attack the Witch Tribe People and collect Spirit Materials.
• The handsome man traced the deaths of Sacred Sect disciples to Fang Xi, identified his direction from the white-robed woman’s remains, and pursued him.

Fang Xi was trapped by a powerful Core Formation Demonic Cultivator in the secret realm and spent nearly a thousand years of his lifespan to kill him with the Withered Glory Profound Light. After escaping to the Southern Barrens Cultivation World with the man’s corpse and treasures, Fang Xi learned that a Vengeful Soul Trace could expose him to the Primordial Demonic Sect.

• Fang Xi traveled toward a resource site, killing Demonic Sect disciples along the way but finding no Five Elements Spirit Fruit.
• A handsome Core Formation Perfected Demonic Cultivator ambushed Fang Xi, shattered You Kun, and trapped him inside the Star Luo Chessboard.
• The demonic cultivator confined Fang Xi’s Green Grain Sword and seized his Life and Death Seal, but Fang Xi struck back with the Withered Glory Profound Light.
• Fang Xi killed the demonic cultivator at the cost of 981 years of lifespan, then took his corpse and magical treasures back to the Southern Barrens Cultivation World.
• Fang Xi searched the dead man’s soul and discovered that the man had been a Holy Son of the Primordial Demonic Sect and carried a Vengeful Soul Trace.