Chapter Summaries

After escaping the Fragment World, Fang Xi discovered that the Holy Son’s death had left him marked by Vengeful Soul Trace, then claimed the Mountain Sea Pearl and its mobile cave abode. He found valuable resources and an incomplete Six Desires Heaven-Mixing Demonic Corpse technique that might help him create an External Incarnation.

• Fang Xi realized the Primordial Demonic Sect could track him through Vengeful Soul Trace and decided he could never return to the Fragment World.
• Fang Xi recovered from losing nearly a thousand years of lifespan, then identified the Mountain Sea Pearl on the Holy Son’s corpse and spent three days imprinting it with his own magical power.
• Fang Xi entered the Mountain Sea Pearl with Daqing, explored its cave abode, and found a spirit vein, valuable facilities, and the Holy Son’s dead third-grade Demonic Blood Flood Dragon.
• Fang Xi inventoried the Holy Son’s treasure and destroyed the Demonic Breath Incense before searching the study’s books and hidden drawer.
• Fang Xi found an incomplete technique for refining a Six Desires Heaven-Mixing Demonic Corpse and considered combining it with his Corpse Control Art to create an External Incarnation.

Fang Xi inventoried the Holy Son’s treasures, studied the foundations he had gained, and began refining demonic corpses into combat assets. The chapter left him with Da Qing advanced to second-grade High Rank and assigned to guard the Mountain Sea Pearl’s cave abode.

• Fang Xi discovered that the Holy Son’s haul included the Poison Dragon Claw, the Myriad Souls Banner, and the unrefinable fourth-grade Star Luo Chessboard.
• Fang Xi sorted through the secret-realm spoils, including the Nine-Eyed Bodhi and an ice-attribute External Elixir, and anticipated conflict with the Primordial Demonic Sect.
• Fang Xi studied Teleportation Array formations and third-grade artifact-refining techniques, then considered seeking Nascent Soul resources in the Southern Barrens Cultivation World.
• Fang Xi decided to refine the Bull Demon cultivator into a Profound Fire Demonic Zombie and use the Holy Son’s body to attempt an External Incarnation.
• Da Qing advanced to second-grade High Rank, and Fang Xi told it to stay in the cave abode and guard it.

Fang Xi refined the Profound Fire Demonic Zombie, advanced his magic treasures, and used the Nine-Eyed Bodhi seed to complete his External Incarnation method. After a month in seclusion, he emerged and revealed that he had successfully refined the Holy Son's corpse into an incarnation, though it still needed Yin Vein Energy to function perfectly.

• Fang Xi completed the Profound Fire Demonic Zombie by merging the Nine Dragon Pearl into the Horned Demonic Cultivator and stored it in a Yin Corpse Bag.
• Fang Xi finished refining the Poison Dragon Claw and set aside several treasures he could not yet safely use or refine.
• Fang Xi used the Nine-Eyed Bodhi seed to repair and record his External Incarnation method, realizing the seed had a limited number of uses.
• Fang Xi emerged from seclusion and told Zheng Shan she could now call him Senior Brother Cao, but his unsettling appearance made her leave quickly.
• Fang Xi returned to the cave dwelling and showed that his External Incarnation, disguised as Cao Chongyun, could reveal its refined-corpse form, though it still needed Yin Vein Energy.

Fang Xi left Qing Mu Sect, defeated the rogue cultivators threatening it, and traveled to Black Water Pool to absorb Yin Vein Energy. Three years later, a group of Qi Refining Cultivators reached the ruined Situ Family ancestral grounds in search of treasure and Yin Corpse Grass.

• Fang Xi departed Qing Mu Forest after moving his valuables into the Mountain Sea Pearl and considered traveling to Yuan Country.
• Fang Xi killed Chun Sanniang and Tie Jiu after they tried to ambush him, then learned that Pei Fei and Yiling Valley were plotting to weaken Qing Mu Sect.
• Fang Xi entered Pei Fei's mountain valley with the Yao Mo Tree and swiftly wiped out the rogue cultivators hiding there.
• Three years later, Brother Zeng led the Zong Family Rogue Cultivator and his wife through Black Water Pool toward the Situ Family's ancestral grounds, hoping to find treasure and Yin Corpse Grass.

At the Situ Family's ancestral grounds, Old Daoist Zeng betrayed Zong Xiu and his wife while pursuing the Yin Corpse Grass, but the Horned Corpse King overwhelmed him and brought the couple to Fang Xi. Fang Xi treated Zong Xiu's wife and gave him an enhanced talisman inheritance before warning him to keep Fang Xi's whereabouts secret.

• Old Daoist Zeng and Zong Xiu's wife helped Zong Xiu fight corpse refiners and found Yin Corpse Grass in the ruined ancestral grounds.
• Old Daoist Zeng ambushed Zong Xiu, wounded him and his wife, and demanded the ancestral talisman inheritance, admitting he had arranged the Fire Toxin and leaked the Yin Corpse Grass formula.
• A Horned Corpse King appeared, destroyed Old Daoist Zeng's magic tool, burned him to ashes, and carried Zong Xiu and his wife away.
• The Horned Corpse King brought the wounded couple to Fang Xi, who gave Zong Xiu a healing pill for his wife and asked about his family origins.
• Fang Xi recognized Zong Xiu's connection to old friends, granted him an enhanced talisman inheritance, and had him swear not to reveal Fang Xi's whereabouts.

Fang Xi nurtured a Yao Mo Tree inside the Mountain Sea Pearl, recovering lost lifespan and considering ways to improve the space’s spiritual energy. After arranging for Zong Xiu and his partner to leave Black Water Pool, he set out with his External Incarnation in the Holy Son’s concealed Demonic Dragon Chariot, heading toward the broader Cultivation World.

• Fang Xi returned to the Mountain Sea Pearl and used the subsidiary Yao Mo Tree to recover lifespan while drawing on its life force.
• Fang Xi concluded that he needed a higher-grade spirit vein or Spirit Eye Items, and considered Emerald Island as a possible future place to plant the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree.
• Fang Xi decided to strengthen the Tai Sui and studied the Holy Son’s books on the Ming Huan Realm and cultivation.
• The Profound Fire Demonic Zombie returned after escorting Zong Xiu and his partner away, and Fang Xi prepared to leave with his External Incarnation.
• Fang Xi concealed the Mountain Sea Pearl as a tattoo, then rode in the Demonic Dragon Chariot pulled by the Demonic Blood Flood Dragon as the External Incarnation hid their procession.

Fang Xi sent his External Incarnation into a newly opened world beneath a red sun and began exploring its wilderness. After a series of encounters with dangerous evil creatures, he stopped before a half-skeletal woman in the fog.

• Fang Xi traveled through Wu Country and entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range in his concealed Demonic Dragon Chariot.
• He sent his External Incarnation through the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror into a world he named the Red Sun Realm, where he could summon it back to himself.
• The External Incarnation explored the wilderness and found a giant Human-faced Sunflower, whose attacks he cut apart before fleeing.
• After encountering several evil creatures, including a soul-seizing Glowing Jellyfish, Fang Xi changed direction and found a quieter route.
• Fang Xi entered a fog where a woman hummed mournfully, then saw her turn to reveal that half her face was bare bone.

Fang Xi escaped the dangerous forest, learned about the world’s Daoist cultivation system by searching Yu Hua’s soul, and gave him the Blood Maze Snake he had frightened away. Yu Hua returned to the city and hoped to join the Skinless Temple as a Dao Child.

• Fang Xi devoured a half-faced female ghost and finally rode out of the forest.
• Yu Hua waited in a muddy trap for a Blood Maze Snake so he could cultivate the Peeling Skin Art, but Fang Xi’s arrival frightened the snake away.
• Fang Xi searched Yu Hua’s soul, learned the local language and the history of the Dao Palaces, and discovered how arts and techniques let people enter the Dao and forge a Dao foundation.
• Fang Xi revived Yu Hua, apologized for scaring off his prey, and gave him the Blood Maze Snake before departing.
• Yu Hua hurried back to the city, where Daoists of the Skinless Temple guarded the people from the ghosts and fiends outside.

Fang Xi infiltrated a brothel run by the Mysterious Yin Temple and learned that the Skinless Temple’s dying master would leave behind a coveted Golden Core called the Boundless Blood Sea Elixir. After killing Granny Lan and searching her memories, Fang Xi wondered whether the Red Sun Realm’s demonic cultivation methods had been designed to enable cultivators to steal one another’s foundations.

• Fang Xi followed Yu Hua into the city and observed him prepare and use a secret medicine with the Peeling Skin Art.
• Fang Xi entered the Mysterious Pavilion’s rear courtyard, where he exposed the female cultivators’ attempt to ensnare him and forced Granny Lan to meet him upstairs.
• Fang Xi revealed his Core Formation aura, and Granny Lan explained that the Mysterious Yin Temple collected materials for the Human Medicine Refinement Method and sought the Skinless Temple master’s great elixir.
• Granny Lan tried to escape by splitting into two bodies, but Fang Xi trapped and captured both, then searched their memories and killed her.
• Fang Xi learned that Granny Lan had sought the Boundless Blood Sea Elixir, a Golden Core left by a deceased Magic Cultivator, and considered whether the realm’s methods were meant to facilitate stealing cultivation foundations.

Yu Hua entered the Skinless Temple after cultivating the Peeling Skin Art, while Fang Xi secretly watched and planned to investigate the temple. Senior Brother Li brought Yu Hua before the Shadow Transformation Daoist, who saw him as a possible cure for his cultivation deviation, but Yu Hua poisoned Li after discovering he meant him harm.

• Yu Hua successfully cultivated the Peeling Skin Art and headed for the Skinless Temple as Fang Xi observed him in concealment.
• The fat Daoist recognized Yu Hua’s cultivation and brought him into the temple, where Senior Brother Li gave him a courtyard and promised to introduce him to his master.
• Senior Brother Li reported Yu Hua to the Shadow Transformation Daoist, who hoped to use him as a great medicine to recover from cultivation deviation.
• Senior Brother Li summoned Yu Hua at night to meet the Shadow Transformation Daoist, but Yu Hua handed him a poisoned gift box.
• Yu Hua explained that a pale-faced Daoist had warned him and that he had obtained Marrow Penetrating Poison; Li collapsed as the poison took effect.

Fang Xi rescued Yu Hua from the Skinless Temple and taught him the Puppet Shadow Technique, using him to test the world's demonic arts. Three months later, Yu Hua successfully established the Great Dao Foundation, and Fang Xi reflected on how the method differed from Steal Immortal Opportunity.

• Fang Xi explained that the Skinless Temple had become leaderless and taught Yu Hua how to seize the foundations of Senior Brother Li and the white-faced Daoist.
• Yu Hua refined Senior Brother Li's and the white-faced Daoist's skins into powerful puppet shadows, while Fang Xi warned him about the Puppet Shadow Technique.
• Fang Xi brought Yu Hua to Primordial Void Hall, killed its puppet shadows, and promised to teach him the Puppet Shadow Technique in exchange for devouring the hall's human skins and advancing to the Great Dao Foundation.
• Fang Xi and Yu Hua escaped the Skinless Temple, and Yu Hua learned the Puppet Shadow Technique by refining a portion of Old Daoist Huaying.
• Fang Xi gave Yu Hua Old Daoist Huaying's Human Skin Mask, and Yu Hua used it to establish his foundation.
• Three months later, Fang Xi sensed Spiritual Energy gathering and concluded that Yu Hua's breakthrough had succeeded.

Fang Xi watched Yu Hua break through to Foundation Establishment, then confronted the Skinless Temple Master to seize his Boundless Blood Sea Elixir. The battle escalated as the temple master’s Painted Skin Demons attacked, but Fang Xi’s formidable body and demonic power turned the fight in his favor.

• Yu Hua’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough drew Daoists from the Skinless Temple, and Fang Xi ordered them to leave before killing the goateed Daoist and defeating the female Daoist.
• Yu Hua emerged after his breakthrough, and Fang Xi flew to the Skinless Temple and demanded the Boundless Blood Sea Elixir from its master.
• The Skinless Temple Master attacked Fang Xi with a blood-sea technique, but Fang Xi used his white bone sword and corpse fire to break through the attack.
• The Skinless Temple Master trapped the bone sword in a human-skin cloak and summoned two Painted Skin Demons to attack Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi’s body repelled one demon’s claw, and his punch destroyed it, badly injuring the Skinless Temple Master.
• The remaining Painted Skin Demon merged with the Skinless Temple Master, transforming him into a larger Blood Skin Demonic Creature with a terrifying aura.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation defeated the Skinless Temple Master, seized the Boundless Blood Sea Pill and the Blood Skin Method, then returned to Fang Xi in the Southern Barrens Cultivation World. Fang Xi began absorbing the incarnation’s memories of its time in the Red Sun Realm.

• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation summoned the Unicorn Ghost King and fought the Skinless Temple Master’s four-armed Blood Skin Demonic Creature.
• The incarnation used Primordial Demon Stabs and the Six Desires Mixed Heaven Demonic Corpse to remove the Skinless Temple Master’s soul from the Boundless Blood Sea Pill, then sealed the pill away.
• The Unicorn Ghost King tore open the Blood Skin and chased the fleeing Painted Skin Demon, while the incarnation took the Skinless Temple Master’s human-skin cloak and found the Blood Skin Method written on it.
• Wu Tong told Old Black and Old White that a mysterious True Person had killed the Skinless Temple Master and taken the pill; the elders ordered him to undergo the Yellow Springs Punishment and set out to investigate.
• Fang Xi recalled his External Incarnation through the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror and began viewing its memories of the Red Sun Realm.

Fang Xi prepared his External Incarnation to investigate the Red Sun Realm and set out for the ruins of the Yama Dao Palace. After questioning a caravan near Futuo Mountain, he reached the abandoned palace.

• Fang Xi repaired the External Incarnation's restrictions and discussed gathering cultivation methods and studying the Red Sun Realm's evil entities.
• Xiao Mei led the Baoguang Chamber of Commerce caravan through the wilderness while Attendant Pang demanded payment and refused to scout near Futuo Mountain.
• Fang Xi encountered the caravan and asked Xiao Mei and Attendant Pang about the Yama Dao Palace and its dangers.
• Attendant Pang explained that the palace had been abandoned since the Yan Mo Dao Master disappeared a hundred years earlier, and Fang Xi flew north.
• Fang Xi arrived at Futuo Mountain and saw the Yama Dao Palace buildings rising toward the peak.

Fang Xi investigated the Yama Dao Palace, lost a portion of his divine sense to the Dao Sin within, and learned enough from Concubine Pang to plan how to cultivate this world's techniques. Two years later, a young Gong cultivator was left facing a frenzied Four-armed Ape after her companions fled, just as a phoenix cry sounded.

• Fang Xi sent his Unicorn Ghost King into the Yama Dao Palace and discovered a Demonic Venerable statue and the dangerous Demon Attraction Art.
• A mysterious presence destroyed the Ghost King and part of Fang Xi's divine sense, cracking his demonic banner and forcing him to leave.
• Fang Xi confronted Concubine Pang, learned the presence was called Dao Sin, and searched his soul for more information.
• Fang Xi resolved to cultivate local techniques by targeting demonic cultivators, then the story moved ahead two years.
• A Four-armed Ape used Blood Frenzy Technique against Gong's group, severely injuring one Foundation Establishment Cultivator and breaking through the encirclement.
• Gong's companions fled, leaving her vulnerable to the ape until a clear phoenix cry rang out from the horizon.

Fang Xi reached Yuan Country after evading a powerful Green Fire Luan and learned that the war between Hun Yuan Sect and Crimson Blood Cult had ended. Disguised as an ordinary Core Formation cultivator, he entered Star-Moon Market to seek pills and intelligence, and began negotiating at Dan Ding Workshop.

• Fang Xi arrived at the northern border of Yuan Country after the Green Fire Luan withdrew into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, and Gong Ling told him the war had ended ten years earlier.
• Fang Xi knocked Gong Ling unconscious and altered her recent memories so she would remember a mysterious demonic beast driving off the Four-armed Ape instead of seeing him.
• Fang Xi concealed his appearance with the Mirage Pearl and traveled to Star-Moon Market, where he learned that Dan Ding Workshop sold pills and Xue Family Old Shop dealt in intelligence.
• A market guard escorted Fang Xi to Dan Ding Workshop, where Shopkeeper Ying personally welcomed him and asked what pills he wanted to buy.

Fang Xi sold several demonic cultivator pills, gathered intelligence about Yuan Country, and learned that a major auction would be held at Suspended Mountain Marketplace in a year. He left the marketplace planning to travel there and continue investigating the Vengeful Soul Trace.

• Fang Xi sold demonic pills to Dan Ding Workshop after Shopkeeper Ying identified their effects and warned that the shop could offer only a low price.
• Fang Xi visited Xue Family Old Shop, where Wen Lan sold him updated intelligence on Yuan Country and told him about the Grand Auction at Suspended Mountain Marketplace.
• Fang Xi learned about Yuan Country's three Nascent Soul factions, the Hun Yuan Sect's Five Elements Body, and the Star Point Sect.
• Fang Xi asked Wen Lan about the Vengeful Soul Trace, but she had never heard of it, then rejected her attempt to recruit him because her faction had no Nascent Soul Spirit Item.
• Fang Xi left the marketplace, intending to sell more of his spoils on the way to Suspended Mountain and seek information about the Vengeful Soul Trace in demonic territory.

Fang Xi traveled to Suspended Mountain for the Grand Auction and entered the marketplace under a false identity. Old Ghost Bi saw through his disguise and recognized him from a Hun Yuan Sect wanted order, but let him pass; Fang Xi settled into a guest cave and began surveying the marketplace.

• Fang Xi disposed of low-level demonic materials at marketplaces and headed for Suspended Mountain, hoping to sell rare goods at the Grand Auction.
• Fang Xi met Li Haifeng, who explained how Suspended Mountain was kept aloft and brought him to the high-level cultivator entrance.
• Old Ghost Bi issued Fang Xi an identity jade token, then privately told Li Haifeng that Fang Xi's appearance was false and matched a Hun Yuan Sect wanted order.
• Li Haifeng and Old Ghost Bi chose not to pursue Fang Xi, judging the risk greater than the modest reward.
• Fang Xi took a free cave abode at the Guest Reception Pavilion and browsed the busy marketplace to learn the prices of Yuan Country's cultivation resources.

Fang Xi visited the Green Leaf Merchant Association to identify rare items from the secret realm and ask about Nascent Soul opportunities and Spirit Eye Items. He arranged to auction a breakthrough pill and left with an invitation to the Grand Auction, still reflecting on his prospects of reaching the Nascent Soul realm.

• Fang Xi entered the Green Leaf Merchant Association and met Yan Ruyu, a Core Formation cultivator who appraised his treasures.
• Yan Ruyu identified Fang Xi's pill as a Profound Origin Clarity Breaking Pill and his crystalline material as Black Haze Crystal, but could not name his scarlet fourth-grade spirit herb.
• Fang Xi asked Yan Ruyu for leads on Nascent Soul Spirit Items and Spirit Eye Items, but she had no useful clues.
• Fang Xi agreed to sell the Profound Origin Clarity Breaking Pill at the Grand Auction, subject to his reserve price.
• Yan Ruyu gave Fang Xi a private-room token for the auction and offered him a credit line of one hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Fang Xi left the merchant association and reflected on the rarity of Nascent Soul opportunities and the old ghost's claim about the Yi Wood Dharma Body and Withered Glory Art.

Fang Xi attended the Suspended Mountain Grand Auction, where rival sect cultivators drove up the price of a magical treasure before his Profound Origin Clarity Breaking Pill sold for 680,000 spirit stones. The auction continued, and the buyer’s identity and prospects remained uncertain.

• Fang Xi spent twelve days cultivating and searching for spirit herbs and objects before heading to the Grand Auction at Suspended Mountain.
• Old Man Heavenly Sha opened the auction, and the Green Leaf Merchant Association’s Core Formation cultivators discussed his declining lifespan and their plans for the event.
• Hun Yuan Sect cultivator Zhang and Crimson Blood Cult Protector Luo Gan outbid each other for the Sharp Gold Ring until Zhang won it for 510,000 spirit stones.
• Old Man Heavenly Sha presented Fang Xi’s Profound Origin Clarity Breaking Pill, which attracted intense bidding from Core Formation cultivators.
• A magnetic-voiced Core Formation cultivator bought the pill for 680,000 spirit stones, leaving Fang Xi unsure whether the buyer was Yan Ruyu.