Chapter Summaries

At the Green Leaf Merchant Association auction, Fang Xi learned that a damaged Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid could provide the main ingredient for a Lesser Tribulation Extinguishing Pill. The seller invited offers of spiritual items instead of spirit stones, and Elder Ling urgently submitted bids to secure the orchid.

• Old Man Heavenly Sha auctioned twenty Li Yan Secret Realm entry qualifications, then sold a Fire Element Core-Solidifying Pill to Luo Gan for one million spirit stones.
• Old Man Heavenly Sha revealed the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid, and Zhang of the Hun Yuan Sect identified it as a Nascent Soul Spirit Item.
• Fang Xi asked about the orchid and learned it was nine hundred years old, had damaged roots, and could only produce a Lesser Tribulation Extinguishing Pill unless someone restored it.
• Old Man Heavenly Sha explained that the orchid’s seller wanted spiritual items in exchange and offered the Tribulation Extinguishing Pill formula alongside it.
• Yan Ruyu learned that Elder Ling, troubled by baleful qi and multiplying inner demons from practicing the Sha Qi Art, had borrowed spiritual items and was entering offers for the orchid.

Fang Xi traded Mysterious Crystal Essence and Heavenly Fire Glaze for the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid and the Tribulation Extinguishing Pill formula, then disguised himself and left the market. Old Ghost Ling identified him and pursued him with Li Haifeng, while Old Ghost Bi refused to join them.

• Fang Xi exchanged two Core Formation Spiritual Items for the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid and the Tribulation Extinguishing Pill formula.
• Fang Xi collected his auction proceeds, left through a secret passage, and disguised himself with Mirage Qi before leaving Suspended Mountain Market.
• Fang Xi considered how to gather the formula’s ingredients, including Exquisite Grass and Flesh Ganoderma Liquid, and resolved to lie low after leaving the market.
• Old Ghost Ling recognized Fang Xi as the buyer of the orchid and waited with Old Ghost Bi at the market entrance.
• Fang Xi left openly in Fellow Daoist Cao’s appearance, but Old Ghost Ling followed his trail with a special spirit beast and recruited Li Haifeng.
• Old Ghost Bi declined to join the pursuit and realized that Fang Xi faced danger from Old Ghost Ling and Li Haifeng.

Fang Xi was ambushed by Ling Potian and Li Haifeng, who sought the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid and planned to capture him for the Hun Yuan Sect. As Fang Xi and his Profound Fire Demonic Zombie fought back, Ling Potian summoned a powerful beast with his Killing Intent Art, but three dark streaks suddenly pierced his defenses from behind.

• Ling Potian intercepted Fang Xi and demanded the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid, then attacked with Sha Demons after Fang Xi refused.
• Li Haifeng arrived to help Ling Potian capture Fang Xi and unleashed his Nine Gold Sword.
• Fang Xi struck Ling Potian with Immortal Slaying Sword Qi while his Profound Fire Demonic Zombie engaged Li Haifeng.
• Li Haifeng struggled against the demonic zombie as Fang Xi forced Ling Potian onto the defensive with Yi Wood Divine Light attacks.
• Ling Potian completed his Killing Intent Art and began summoning a formidable Demonic Beast through the Chaos Sha Bowl.
• Three streaks of dark light pierced Ling Potian's Protective Spiritual Light from behind.

Fang Xi killed Ling Potian and Li Haifeng after they ambushed him, then escaped with their treasures and discovered Ling Potian had arranged a wanted order for him. Back in the Mountain Sea Pearl, Fang Xi examined the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid and decided to delay treating it while seeking a way to preserve it longer.

• Fang Xi destroyed Ling Potian's defenses with the Poison Dragon Claw and killed him before the Sha Deity could emerge from the Chaos Sha Bowl.
• Li Haifeng fled with the Nine Gold Sword, but Fang Xi caught up with him, and the Profound Fire Demonic Zombie burned him to ashes.
• Fang Xi took the cultivators' storage bags and found a wanted order for himself among Ling Potian's belongings, then left while blaming the Green Leaf Merchant Association and Old Ghost Yan.
• Old Man Heavenly Sha, Old Ghost Bi, and Yan Ruyu arrived at the battlefield, confirmed Ling Potian and Li Haifeng had fallen, and Old Man Heavenly Sha reprimanded Old Ghost Bi for his role in the incident.
• Fang Xi inspected the spoils in the Mountain Sea Pearl and judged the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid would cost too much of his lifespan to heal immediately, so he sought a way to extend its three-year preservation window.

Fang Xi cultivated demonic arts in the Red Sun Realm while seeking a way to strengthen Tai Sui and conceal his identity in Yuan Country. When Xiao Mei asked him to protect the Xiao Household during the dangerous Pill Origin Assembly, he showed interest in investigating the event.

• Fang Xi planned to find Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice in Yuan Country and devised a more powerful disguise using the Human Chrysalis Technique, Blood Skin Method, and Mirage Pearl.
• On Futuo Mountain, Fang Xi cultivated the Demon Attraction Art and Spirit Splitting Technique, then focused on the Dao Seizing Method to form a Heavenly Demon Sarira and gain a chance at body seizure.
• Xiao Mei visited Fang Xi with gifts and asked him to help the Xiao Household survive the Dao Palace's disciple-selection assembly twenty years later.
• Xiao Mei explained that the assembly had become the Pill Origin Assembly and that fewer than one in ten participants returned from its secret realm.
• Fang Xi said he might investigate the Pill Origin Assembly when he had time.

Fang Xi, posing as the rogue cultivator Qing Yu Zi, visited Mystic Ice Palace to trade for Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice. He agreed to help Mu Yu face Mystic Ice Venerable, who arrived as they went out to confront him.

• Fang Xi traveled to Mystic Ice Palace after learning the sect might possess Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice.
• Mu Yu met Fang Xi at the palace and invited him inside, while secretly using an ice mirror to investigate his appearance.
• Fang Xi asked to buy Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice, and Mu Yu offered a piece in exchange for his help against Mystic Ice Venerable.
• Mu Yu explained that Mystic Ice Venerable was coming to avenge his wounded Young Sect Master and offered Fang Xi access to a secret art if he supported her.
• Fang Xi agreed to help after sensing Mystic Ice Venerable's arrival, and he and Mu Yu went out to meet him.

Fang Xi helped Mu Yu settle her dispute with Ice Fiend Sect, then received Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice and studied Mystic Ice Palace’s secret techniques. After he left, Mu Yu prepared to depart on a dangerous mission against Profound Yin Old Demon, leaving the palace to follow a contingency plan.

• Mu Yu and Mystic Ice Venerable secretly negotiated a settlement, and Ice Fiend Sect accepted an additional share of the Ice Jade Mine Vein’s profits.
• Mu Yu gave Fang Xi Ten Thousand Year Mystic Ice and permission to study secret techniques in Mystic Ice Palace’s Scripture Depository.
• Mu Yu contacted an organization that had tracked Profound Yin Old Demon to Senluo Marketplace, and she refused its offer to send Core Formation Cultivators to protect her sect.
• Fang Xi studied the Ice Breath Technique, then left Mystic Ice Palace with a technique that could extend his ice-sealing period by several decades.
• Mu Yu told Mystic Ice Palace’s leaders to shut the gates and follow their previous plan, then departed to confront Profound Yin Old Demon.

Fang Xi secluded himself at Bai Yuan Marketplace for ten years, cultivating and improving his alchemy while preserving the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid. After reviewing recent intelligence, he discovered that Mu Yu of the Mystic Ice Palace had gone missing and might have died.

• Fang Xi rented a Third-grade cave abode at Bai Yuan Marketplace and established a formation to preserve the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid in the Mountain Sea Cave Mansion.
• Fang Xi cultivated the Longevity Technique and planned to strengthen Tai Sui by feeding it high-grade Yao Beast flesh and pills.
• Fang Xi spent ten years cultivating and practicing alchemy, eventually refining three genuine-grade Golden Origin Pills and reaching Third-grade Mid Rank in Alchemy Art.
• Fang Xi visited the Wind Listening Tower in disguise and bought detailed intelligence about the previous ten years.
• Fang Xi learned that the Profound Yin Old Demon had died, the Golden Sword Sect had been absorbed by the Righteous Qi Sect, and Mu Yu of the Mystic Ice Palace had gone missing and might have passed away.

Fang Xi prepared his External Incarnation to form a Magic Cultivator Golden Core in the Southern Barrens Cultivation World, using the Nine-Eyed Bodhi to resolve potential conflicts in the method. Two years later, a Core Formation phenomenon erupted over his cave abode, leaving the marketplace convinced he had succeeded.

• Fang Xi learned that the Mystic Ice Palace had lost its Supreme Elder Mu Yu and was in decline, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate.
• The Wind Listening Tower shopkeeper learned Fang Xi had rented a cave abode for long-term cultivation and warned his assistant not to target the wealthy cultivator.
• Three years later, Fang Xi found that his External Incarnation had reached the threshold of Core Formation through the Dao Seizing Method.
• Fang Xi used the Nine-Eyed Bodhi to identify and address risks, then had the External Incarnation refine the Mysterious Crystal Essence and Heavenly Fire Glaze to form a Golden Core.
• Two years later, the Wind Listening Tower shopkeeper and his assistant witnessed a Core Formation phenomenon gathering over Fang Xi's cave abode.
• The shopkeeper warned his assistant not to provoke Fang Xi and said he would seek to have him transferred.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation formed a Heavenly Demon Sarira and survived its Inner Demon Tribulation after Fang Xi erased and restored its memories. Fang Xi then presented himself as newly advanced Core Formation cultivator Yun Jiezi in the Ice Cave Marketplace and began receiving congratulations, including a visit from Jiang Ling.

• Fang Xi watched his External Incarnation complete Core Formation and recognized that it was falling under an Inner Demon’s influence.
• Fang Xi used the External Incarnation Secret Art to erase and restore the incarnation’s memories, destroying the Inner Demon and allowing its Heavenly Demon Sarira to form.
• Fang Xi sent the External Incarnation to the Red Sun Realm and disguised his aura as that of a newly advanced Core Formation cultivator.
• Fang Xi emerged from the Ice Cave Mansion, read the congratulatory messages, and decided to establish his new identity as Yun Jiezi.
• Hongye True Person visited and gave Yun Jiezi a Mishin Pill, and he later received representatives and invitations from local factions.
• Jiang Ling of the Mystic Ice Palace arrived to congratulate Yun Jiezi, unaware that he had once been Qing Yu Zi.

Fang Xi heard offers from the Wind Spirit Sect and the Mystic Ice Palace after reaching Core Formation, but he wanted a better spirit vein cave mansion without being tied down by a powerful sect. He agreed to become the Mystic Ice Palace’s Guest Supreme Elder on strict conditions, including taking Jiang Ling as his maidservant.

• Jiang Ling delivered a High-grade Spirit Stone from the Mystic Ice Palace and told Fang Xi that its palace master would visit him personally.
• Proprietor Qu revealed that he belonged to the Wind Spirit Sect and offered Fang Xi a Guest Elder position, but Fang Xi privately rejected the idea of joining a sect that might investigate him.
• Feng Bingxian visited Fang Xi with Jiang Ling and asked him to become the Mystic Ice Palace’s Guest Supreme Elder after revealing that Supreme Elder Mu Yu had died.
• Feng Bingxian offered the palace’s best cave mansion, an annual High-grade Spirit Stone, and her Phoenix Cry Physique’s dual-cultivation benefits, but Fang Xi asked for two conditions.
• Fang Xi required that he only intervene if the Mystic Ice Palace faced destruction and demanded Jiang Ling as his maidservant, prompting Feng Bingxian to consider his terms.

Fang Xi escorted Feng Bingxian and Jiang Ling away from Bai Yuan Marketplace, but an unknown Core Formation Cultivator ambushed them and challenged his claim to protect the Mystic Ice Palace. Fang Xi defeated the attacker’s advance, forced him to withdraw, and left Feng Bingxian facing new terms.

• Jiang Ling recalled that Feng Bingxian had offered her as a servant to secure Fang Xi’s help, and she resolved to make the most of the opportunity.
• An unfamiliar Core Formation Cultivator intercepted Fang Xi, Feng Bingxian, and Jiang Ling, prompting Fang Xi to shield them with a demonic treasure.
• Fang Xi destroyed the attacker’s winged Strange Snakes and summoned a Lion Tiger Beast, which damaged the stranger’s green inkstone magic treasure.
• The stranger claimed to have been Mu Yu’s friend, then retreated after Fang Xi forced him to concede and took his Green Jade Token.
• Feng Bingxian admitted her negligence and promised to conceal nothing else from Fang Xi, who agreed to let the matter end if she added two more maids.

Fang Xi settled into Mystic Ice Palace as its Supreme Elder, secured a powerful cave abode, and learned that Mu Yu had belonged to the mysterious Heavenly Alliance. He began exploring the sect’s resources while considering whether the Alliance could help him obtain knowledge of jade talismans.

• Feng Bingxian introduced Yun Jiezi as Mystic Ice Palace’s new Supreme Elder, and Jiang Ling announced that he had forced the Ice Fiend Sect to restore the old division of mineral veins.
• Fang Xi broke the restrictions on Little Cold Cave, claimed its spirit plants, and established a Yi Wood Divine Light Formation around the area.
• Fang Xi studied a jade talisman and learned from the Heavenly Alliance that Mu Yu had detonated her Golden Core to kill the Profound Yin Old Demon.
• Fang Xi rejected the Alliance’s vague offer of future help but kept the jade talisman as a possible channel for buying the jade talisman refining method.
• Fang Xi visited Mystic Ice Palace’s Scripture Depository and began reading its collection using his authority as Supreme Elder.

Fang Xi continued cultivating in the Outer World while considering how to advance and resolve the Vengeful Soul Trace, then traveled in the Red Sun Realm with Hua Fei Ye to attend the Pill Origin Assembly. Meanwhile, Yu Hua disguised himself as another Daoist Priest and prepared to enter the Myriad Transformations Secret Realm.

• Fang Xi maintained his position at the Mystic Ice Palace, focused on cultivating the Withered Glory Art, and weighed future plans for the Jade Talisman Art, the Vengeful Soul Trace, and breaking through to the Core Formation Late Stage.
• In the Red Sun Realm, Fang Xi met Hua Fei Ye of the Heartless Temple, confirmed his promise to attend the Pill Origin Assembly, and agreed to accompany her to the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Fang Xi and Hua Fei Ye set out to meet cultivators from the Five Viscera Temple, White Bone Temple, and Yellow Springs Temple.
• Yu Hua traveled to the Pill Origin Assembly disguised as Yunhezi of the Sunset Glow Temple and declined Baiyunzi's offer to join his alliance.
• Yu Hua bought Baiyunzi's secret-realm booklet for three Five Viscera Pills and realized he had offered more than necessary.

Fang Xi attended the Pill Origin Assembly at Myriad Transformations Mountain and discovered that the secret realm and its divine tree formed a pill-refining formation that sacrificed Daoists to create fruits of divine abilities. Yu Hua survived the Red Mushroom Lake and reached the secret realm’s inner area, where he learned that its Earth Origin Elixirs could help him form a Core.

• Hua Fei Ye brought Fang Xi to the Pill Origin Assembly, where Huo Xin Zi welcomed them and the assembled True Persons feasted and watched the secret realm through jade walls.
• Fang Xi spotted Yu Hua in the secret realm, where he shed his skin to counter a curse and used giant hornets to kill the mushroom baleful creatures blocking his path.
• Yuan Tu Zi noticed the Myriad Transformations Divine Tree reacting to the disciples, and the True Persons fed it their magic power as pill-like fruits formed.
• Fang Xi realized the secret realm was a pill-refining formation that used dead Daoists as nourishment and the assembled cultivators’ magic power to cultivate fruits that aided Core formation.
• An Earth Origin Elixir fell from the divine tree, while Fang Xi saw that the secret realm’s smaller fruits were inferior copies made from scraps.
• Yu Hua, disguised in the skin of a White Bone Temple Daoist, reached the inner divine tree and learned that the secret realm offered him a chance to form a Core.

At the Golden Core Grand Gathering, Fang Xi concealed the Earth Origin Elixir he received and revealed that he possessed a Boundless Blood Sea Elixir. Yu Hua attacked other temples’ disciples while they formed cores, prompting the True Persons to rush into the secret realm, as Fang Xi flew away and a hidden plot against him unfolded.

• Fang Xi stored his Earth Origin Elixir and reflected on how the great temples had used the secret realm’s cultivators to create elixirs and cultivate Core Formation disciples.
• Kun True Person questioned Fang Xi about his Boundless Blood Sea Elixir, and Fang Xi said he had killed its previous owner and taken it.
• After Yu Hua ambushed other temples’ disciples forming cores, Huo Xin Zi and the other True Persons rushed into the secret realm, while Fang Xi flew away rather than help Yu Hua.
• Kun True Person alerted the Black and White Elders, who decided Fang Xi’s elixir could serve their Young Master’s plan and summoned the Heart Nightmare Divine General to capture him.
• A Black Armored Person attacked Fang Xi with an external demon technique, and Fang Xi pretended to lose consciousness as the attacker approached with clawed gauntlets.

Fang Xi destroyed the Heart Nightmare Divine General with his Heavenly Demon Sarira and realized that the fiend had been controlled by someone using a related technique. In the Myriad Transformations Secret Realm, the Young Palace Master continued his deadly scheme against the Golden Core cultivators, while the survivors faced the demonic formation and Yu Hua discovered that his success had been engineered to obtain his Boundless Blood Sea Elixir.

• Fang Xi shattered the Black Armored Person with his Heavenly Demon Sarira, which absorbed the fiend’s Black Qi and strengthened his magic power.
• Fang Xi concluded that the fiend had been controlled by a cultivator who had condensed a Heavenly Demon Sarira and vanished to seek retaliation.
• The Young Palace Master killed Huo Xin Zi, took his Five Qi Circulation Elixir, and revealed that he was gathering elixirs for his plans.
• The Young Palace Master learned that his Heart Nightmare Divine General had been destroyed and ordered the demonic formation to attack the remaining Golden Core cultivators.
• White Bone True Person’s White Bone Great Strength Divine Demon shielded the surviving cultivators, while Hua Fei Ye and others prepared to resist.
• Yu Hua realized that the Young Palace Master had secretly aided his progress to obtain his Boundless Blood Sea Elixir.

Fang Xi attacked the Black and White Elders outside the Myriad Transformations Secret Realm and defeated Elder White, disrupting the Demonic Transformation Array. Inside, the array collapsed, allowing White Bone True Person, Yu Hua, and the other Golden Core cultivators to flee through spatial rifts while the Young Palace Master was left behind.

• Yu Hua and the Golden Core cultivators learned that the Young Palace Master's secret technique made those who had not independently condensed their Golden Cores easy to control, and White Bone True Person's independent Golden Core let him resist it.
• The Demonic Transformation Array overwhelmed White Bone True Person's divine demon, forcing him to swallow his White Bone Sarira as the cultivators prepared to fight.
• Fang Xi infiltrated the formation outside the secret realm, used an Earth Shaking Treasure Talisman to break its restrictions, and attacked the Black and White Elders.
• Fang Xi destroyed Elder White's Netherworld technique, seized his white Golden Core, and vanished, leaving Elder Black unable to find his partner.
• The formation inside the secret realm collapsed amid the earth's upheaval, and White Bone True Person led Yu Hua and the other Golden Core cultivators through spatial rifts to the Outer World.
• The Young Palace Master recovered from the backlash of the array's collapse and watched the cultivators escape.

Fang Xi learned the Red Sun Realm’s secrets from Elder Bai’s memories and arranged to meet a Heavenly Alliance cultivator about Jade Talisman methods and his Vengeful Soul Trace. The Green Robed Man arrived and began using a Demon Seeking Dog’s eye to inspect Fang Xi, leaving the result unrevealed.

• Fang Xi learned that the Young Palace Master sought five special Cores to gain a powerful divine ability, and the External Incarnation agreed to watch for him.
• Fang Xi fed the Earth Origin Elixir to Tai Sui, checked the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid, and searched the Holy Son’s study for records about Magic Cultivators.
• Fang Xi received word from the Heavenly Alliance that it had information about both Jade Talismans and the Vengeful Soul Trace, and insisted on choosing a remote meeting place.
• Fang Xi met the Green Robed Man on a glacier, where the man explained the limits of the Alliance’s Jade Talisman inheritance and described the Vengeful Soul Trace.
• The Green Robed Man used a Demon Seeking Dog’s eyeball to examine Fang Xi, then cried out.

Fang Xi learned that Qing Yang Shangren was a member of the Heavenly Alliance and declined to join, but bought Talisman Jade and a teleportation talisman method from him. Back in Mystic Ice Palace, Fang Xi began refining Talisman Jade and ruined his first attempt, suspecting the technique was deliberately difficult.

• Qing Yang Shangren revealed his identity and explained that the Heavenly Alliance opposed the Crimson Blood Cult, then offered Fang Xi a way to dispel his Vengeful Soul Trace if he joined under an oath.
• Fang Xi rejected the Alliance’s terms for now and exchanged High-grade Spirit Stones for the Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman method and several pieces of Talisman Jade.
• Fang Xi returned to Mystic Ice Palace, gave Jiang Ling a list of materials to gather, and prepared to cultivate the talisman technique.
• Fang Xi tried to refine Talisman Jade with Pill Fire and Vermilion Sand, but the jade cracked and shattered.
• Fang Xi suspected Qing Yang Shangren had made the technique difficult to increase future sales and decided he might join the Alliance’s periphery later, while postponing any operations until the Core Formation Late Stage.