Chapter Summaries

Six years later, Fang Xi mastered jade-talisman crafting and inscribed an incomplete Void Script onto a stable jade talisman, while reaching the limit of his Core Formation Mid Stage cultivation method. At the Mystic Ice Palace, he learned that the Crimson Blood Cult and Green Leaf Merchant Association were nearing open conflict, then privately asked Feng Bingxian to help him cultivate.

• Fang Xi successfully refined communication talismans and created a jade talisman capable of holding an incomplete Void Script.
• Fang Xi completed the fifteenth layer of his cultivation method and prepared to seek ways to break through to Core Formation Late Stage.
• Feng Bingxian assigned Junior Sister Lan to lead the Palace of Administrative Affairs and ordered the extermination of the Qi Family.
• Hong Changsheng reported that the Crimson Blood Cult suspected the Green Leaf Merchant Association was behind the deaths of several elders and that the two powers were nearing conflict.
• Fang Xi entered the Mystic Ice Palace hall, dismissed the Foundation Establishment elders, and told Feng Bingxian that he wanted her help with his cultivation.

Fang Xi gave Feng Bingxian an ice-attributed External Elixir before sealing himself in Little Cold Cave to cultivate. He broke through to the Core Formation Late Stage, then found that the Star Luo Chessboard still rejected him.

• Fang Xi gave Feng Bingxian an External Elixir containing the Ice Soul Cold Light and named Jiang Ling as its second successor.
• Fang Xi activated the Yi Wood Divine Light array, ordered Big Azure and the Demonic Blood Flood Dragon to guard the Cultivation Room, and began refining the pure Cold Air.
• Feng Bingxian refined the External Elixir, gained magical power comparable to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, and resolved to strengthen the Mystic Ice Palace.
• Fang Xi refined the Cold Air and advanced to the sixteenth layer of the Withered Glory Art, reaching the Core Formation Late Stage and extending his divine sense to sixty-six miles.
• Fang Xi opened a jade box and tried to wield the fourth-grade Void Spiritual Treasure, the Star Luo Chessboard, but its treasure spirit continued to reject him.

Fang Xi refined the Holy Son’s Myriad Souls Banner, displayed his supposed breakthrough to Core Formation Mid Stage, and rejected Qing Yang Shangren’s request for help. Qing Yang then received support from the gifted Wei Shidi, who volunteered to deal with Yun Jiezi.

• Fang Xi refined the Myriad Souls Banner and discovered it contained tens of thousands of Yin Souls and three powerful Core Formation Ghost Kings.
• Fang Xi concealed his true Core Formation Late Stage cultivation, returned to the Mystic Ice Palace as Yun Jiezi, and let his attendants believe he had advanced to Core Formation Mid Stage.
• Fang Xi declined Qing Yang Shangren’s offer of two jade-talisman methods in exchange for a move against the Green Leaf Merchant Association and the Crimson Blood Cult.
• Qing Yang Shangren shattered the communication jade talisman, and Wei Shidi arrived and offered to handle Yun Jiezi himself.

Fang Xi intercepted Old Ghost Bi and the disguised Wei Yingfan inside Mystic Ice Palace’s Myriad Ghosts Grand Array, then learned Wei Yingfan had tried to force him into killing Old Ghost Bi. Fang Xi turned against Wei Yingfan and trapped both cultivators in the array, where Wei Yingfan’s attacks failed to break through.

• Fang Xi detected Old Ghost Bi fleeing True Person Blood Drop toward Mystic Ice Palace and entered the sky to intercept them.
• Old Ghost Bi and Wei Shidi entered Fang Xi’s Myriad Ghosts Grand Array, where Fang Xi revealed himself as Yun Jiezi and blocked Old Ghost Bi’s attempt to send a message.
• Wei Shidi offered Fang Xi a Heavenly Alliance token and demanded that he help kill Old Ghost Bi, but Fang Xi destroyed the Sound Transmission Talisman and refused to choose sides.
• Fang Xi’s Ghost Kings exposed Wei Shidi as Wei Yingfan of Taixu Sect, who had used the Shape-Shifting Pearl while plotting to provoke conflict between the Green Leaf Merchant Association and the Crimson Blood Cult.
• Fang Xi attacked Wei Yingfan with two Ghost Kings and a refined corpse, and Wei Yingfan’s Taixu Tower and Forbidden Breaking Talisman failed to break the Myriad Ghosts Grand Array.

Fang Xi revealed his Core Formation Late Stage cultivation and defeated Bi Yunzi, then wore down Wei Yingfan inside the Myriad Ghosts Grand Array. Wei Yingfan’s attempt to escape with an ancient teleportation talisman was disrupted by Fang Xi’s Sky Banning Talisman, leaving him trapped as the Taixu Tower broke apart.

• Fang Xi asked Bi Yunzi and Wei Yingfan their ages, then sent the Profound Fire Demonic Zombie and Yin Yang Ghost King to attack the elderly Bi Yunzi.
• Fang Xi revealed his Core Formation Late Stage cultivation and summoned the Lion Tiger Beast, which helped the Ghost Kings kill Bi Yunzi.
• Wei Yingfan fought Fang Xi’s beasts and ghosts, but his golden flying swords were damaged and his magical power dwindled as Fang Xi watched from the array.
• Wei Yingfan activated an ancient jade talisman to break through the array, but Fang Xi’s incomplete Void Jade Talisman disrupted its power and created chaotic void currents.
• Fang Xi used the Myriad Souls Banner to summon another Core Formation Late Stage Ghost King and unleash the array against Wei Yingfan, whose Taixu Tower split apart under the attacks.

Fang Xi escaped the Mystic Ice Palace after defeating two Core Formation Cultivators, then uncovered the limits of Wei Yingfan’s intelligence and discovered the incomplete Taibai Sword Art. After finding Qing Yang Shangren’s headquarters abandoned, he sold the Taixu Sect’s secrets to the Xue Family Old Shop and disappeared from Star-Moon Market.

• Fang Xi told Feng Bingxian that he had driven off two Core Formation Cultivators, then left the Mystic Ice Palace and changed his appearance while traveling.
• Fang Xi learned from Wei Yingfan’s memories that Qing Yang Shangren had lied about a way to dispel the Vengeful Soul Trace, and he examined the incomplete Taibai Sword Art in Wei Yingfan’s belongings.
• Fang Xi found Qing Yang Shangren’s underground headquarters empty and concluded that its occupants had relocated after learning of Wei Yingfan’s death.
• Fang Xi sold Wen Lan the intelligence about the Heavenly Alliance’s arrangements in Yuan Country, and Wen Lan confirmed the information’s value.
• Fang Xi left Star-Moon Market, concealed himself in a white cloud, and vanished.

Fang Xi encountered Yu Hua while hiding in a city in the Red Sun Realm, where Yu Hua saved the people from the Seven Sons of Yellow Springs. When the Dao Palace’s Core Formation True Persons trapped Yu Hua, Fang Xi intervened and offered him a chance to learn the immortal method, though it would require destroying his Golden Core.

• Fang Xi learned from a wandering Daoist that the Daoist world had fallen into chaos after the Pill Origin Assembly and the destruction of several temples.
• The Seven Sons of Yellow Springs surrounded the city to blood-sacrifice its people, but the Daoist revealed himself as Yu Hua and killed them with his blood arts.
• Kun True Person and another Core Formation True Person arrived, revealed that Yu Hua’s Blood Spring Method was a dead end, and captured him with a treasure borrowed from the Young Palace Master.
• Fang Xi appeared unnoticed, sent two late-stage Core Formation ghost kings to attack the Dao Palace cultivators, and greeted Yu Hua as his former benefactor.
• Yu Hua asked Fang Xi to teach him the true immortal method, and Fang Xi warned that Yu Hua would have to cripple his Golden Core to cultivate it.

Fang Xi taught Yu Hua the Hun Yuan Art after Yu Hua surrendered his Golden Core, and Yu Hua rapidly rebuilt his cultivation on the immortal path. After a hundred days of secluded cultivation, Fang Xi sensed that someone had arrived, but the visitor was Hua Fei Ye, who did not recognize him.

• Yu Hua gave Fang Xi his Golden Core and asked him to transmit the Dao, so Fang Xi returned the Boundless Blood Sea Elixir and accepted Yu Hua as a disciple.
• Fang Xi taught Yu Hua the Hun Yuan Art, and Yu Hua converted the Blood Skin Method’s magic power into immortal-path cultivation, reaching Qi Refining perfection in a hundred days.
• Yu Hua began orthodox Foundation Establishment, and Fang Xi set up a formation around his residence to protect him during seclusion.
• After another hundred days, Fang Xi sensed an arrival and revealed his power, only to find Hua Fei Ye, who asked who he was.

Fang Xi welcomed Hua Fei Ye and accepted her as a disciple after she chose to abandon her Golden Core cultivation and pursue the new immortal path. At Futuo Mountain, he confronted the Young Palace Master, whose Seven Star Pill Art let him wield abilities drawn from multiple Golden Cores.

• Hua Fei Ye told Fang Xi that the Daoist Temple coalition had suffered a crushing defeat and that the Young Palace Master had killed White Bone True Person with a powerful divine ability.
• Yu Hua emerged from seclusion after dissolving his demonic cultivation and successfully establishing his foundation on a new path.
• Hua Fei Ye asked Fang Xi to accept her as a disciple so she could learn the new immortal path and deny the Young Palace Master her Seven Emotions Desire-Cutting Elixir.
• After months passed without the Young Palace Master appearing, Fang Xi's External Incarnation met him at Futuo Mountain, where he demanded the Boundless Sea of Blood Elixir.
• Fang Xi and the Young Palace Master exchanged punches, then battled as the Young Palace Master used Golden Core abilities to summon a Yellow Springs python and freeze and damage Fang Xi's Three Yin White Bone Banner.

Fang Xi countered the Young Palace Master's Seven Star Pill Art and fought off his Heart Nightmare Divine Generals, forcing him to unleash a powerful divine ability. The Young Palace Master sacrificed several golden cores to form the Yama Heavenly Son Demon God, trapping Fang Xi in a terrifying netherworld domain.

• Fang Xi disrupted the Young Palace Master's control of one golden core with the Primordial Demon Stab, devoured its divine sense clone, and seized the core.
• The Young Palace Master recalled his remaining cores and summoned four Heart Nightmare Divine Generals, but Fang Xi's Heavenly Demon Sarira destroyed two before the Young Palace Master reclaimed the others.
• The Young Palace Master accused Fang Xi of cultivating the Heavenly Demon Sarira and declared that he would kill him with his hidden trump card.
• The Young Palace Master revealed that his forces had captured the Heartless Temple and refined its disciples, including Xiao Mei, into the Seven Emotions Desire-Cutting Elixir.
• The Young Palace Master combined several elixirs and a talisman to summon the Yama Heavenly Son Demon God, whose domain pulled Fang Xi into a vast netherworld.

Fang Xi struggled against the Young Palace Master's Yanluo Heavenly Son Demon God inside the Yama Magic Domain, then brought his true body into the battle and turned the tide with his ghost army. The fight continued as Fang Xi unleashed a giant Ghost King against the Demon God, while keeping his most powerful trump card in reserve.

• The Young Palace Master used the Hungry Ghost, Animal, and Hell Daos to strengthen the Yama Magic Domain and summon six regenerating Core Formation Yao Ghosts against Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi fought the Yao Ghosts with his Demonic Corpse Body, but was badly wounded and realized he could not defeat the Young Palace Master alone.
• Fang Xi used the Substitute Art to bring his true body into the domain, then sent the Myriad Souls Banner and Yi Wood Divine Light Array against the ghost army and Yanluo Heavenly Son.
• The Young Palace Master broke Fang Xi's restraints, seized the Poison Dragon Claw, and attacked Fang Xi and his External Incarnation with crimson sword-rain.
• Fang Xi combined the Core Formation Late Stage Ghost King, the Yin Yang Ghost King, and countless Yin Soldiers into a giant Ghost King that charged the Yanluo Heavenly Son.

Fang Xi defeated the Young Palace Master and survived the Yama Dao Master's attempt to seize his body when the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror erased the intruding Nascent Soul. Months later, he finished absorbing the Yama Dao Master's memories and learned how the master came to the Red Sun Realm and planned to take over the Young Palace Master's body.

• Fang Xi and his External Incarnation broke the Yama Heavenly Son's defenses, and the Young Palace Master's false pill dissipated, collapsing the Yama Magic Domain.
• Fang Xi trapped and killed the Young Palace Master, while the External Incarnation suppressed the Heavenly Demon Sarira that emerged from his head.
• The Yama Dao Master's hidden Nascent Soul entered Fang Xi's Sea of Consciousness to seize his body, but the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror erased it.
• Fang Xi recovered and left the battlefield with his External Incarnation, who guarded him as he rested in a cave abode.
• Fang Xi digested the Yama Dao Master's memories and learned the master had arrived from the Yama Realm during a Realm Descent and had hidden part of his Nascent Soul in the Young Palace Master.

Fang Xi prepared the External Incarnation to cultivate an External Nascent Soul using the Yama Dao Master's methods and resources. At the Yama Dao Palace, he fed the Dao Sin the near-Nascent Soul Yama Heavenly Son Body, then sent the Heavenly Demon Sarira into it to begin seizing its body.

• Fang Xi gathered five Core Formation Elixirs and studied the incomplete External Dao Nascent Soul Method, concluding that he also needed to use the Dao Sin to complete the process.
• Over three years, Fang Xi used a Nine-Eyed Bodhi Seed to comprehend and improve the method, then placed the Unity Seal and Void Seal on the External Incarnation.
• Fang Xi and the External Incarnation returned to the ruined Yama Dao Palace, where the External Incarnation assembled the Core Formation Elixirs into the Yama Heavenly Son Body.
• Fang Xi allowed the Dao Sin to devour the Yama Heavenly Son Body, causing the creature to take a defined human form as it was assimilated.
• Fang Xi sent the Heavenly Demon Sarira into the Dao Sin to begin the body-seizing attempt.

Fang Xi used the Void Seal and the Water Demon’s Water of Forgetfulness to suppress Dao Sin and complete the External Nascent Soul. The new Nascent Soul emerged as cyan tribulation lightning struck, then teleported to attack two Core Formation True Persons who had approached Yama Dao Palace.

• Fang Xi restrained Dao Sin with the Void Seal and poured the Water Demon’s Water of Forgetfulness over it to weaken its madness.
• Fang Xi spent several years processing Dao Sin with rare materials and methods derived from the External Nascent Soul Method and the Nine-Eyed Bodhi.
• Two Core Formation True Persons discussed the danger at Yama Dao Palace and feared that the Young Palace Master might still be inside.
• Fang Xi’s External Nascent Soul emerged from Dao Sin and triggered cyan tribulation lightning, then gained a portion of Fang Xi’s memories through the Unity Seal.
• The External Nascent Soul teleported before the two Core Formation True Persons and pierced the mountain-like True Person with a blood-colored lance.

After forming an External Nascent Soul, Fang Xi concealed it inside his body to avoid triggering a tribulation and visited his former students, Yu Hua and Hua Fei Ye. He approved their plans to recruit disciples and promised each a Core Formation Spiritual Item, leaving them to spread the immortal path while the Dao Alliance weakened.

• Fang Xi’s External Nascent Soul killed the two Golden Core True Persons, then returned to Fang Xi’s dantian before the thunder jiao’s tribulation lightning could strike.
• Fang Xi tested the External Nascent Soul’s Magic Power, flew to the small city where Yu Hua and Hua Fei Ye had lived, and located them in their mountain cave residence.
• Yu Hua showed Hua Fei Ye his completed Wood Blade Talisman, and the two worried about their slow cultivation and wondered whether Fang Xi would approve them taking disciples.
• Fang Xi appeared and praised Yu Hua and Hua Fei Ye for reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage, then approved their plan to recruit disciples and promised each a Core Formation Spiritual Item.
• Hua Fei Ye told Fang Xi that the Dao temples had formed the Dao Alliance under the Qiankun Two Friends, and Fang Xi realized he had already killed its two remaining Golden Core cultivators.

Fang Xi returned to Yuan Country to gather intelligence and prepare for his century-long appointment, while strengthening his Withered Glory Profound Light and refining the Star Luo Chessboard. He arrived at Suspended Mountain Market for its grand auction and encountered a woman he recognized.

• Fang Xi disguised himself as a Core Formation scholar and learned at Star-Moon Market that Wen Lan had died and that Yuan Country's factions had shifted during his absence.
• Fang Xi discovered that Mystic Ice Palace remained safe and that the Suspended Mountain Grand Auction would take place in two months, so he set out for the market.
• During the journey, Fang Xi cultivated the Withered Glory Profound Light to Great Accomplishment and used his External Nascent Soul to fully refine the Star Luo Chessboard.
• Fang Xi arrived at Suspended Mountain Market and introduced himself to Huang Hu Zi as Jade Sword Scholar.
• A woman in a white palace gown arrived on the high platform, and Fang Xi recognized her with surprise.

Fang Xi attended the Suspended Mountain Grand Auction, where he bought a Spirit Source Pearl after rejecting a Hun Yuan Sect elder’s attempt to intimidate him. The auction’s final lot was a Water Element Core-Solidifying Pill, and Feng Bingxian opened the bidding.

• Fang Xi entered the Grand Auction and watched the Spirit Fox Fairy present its lots.
• The Green Leaf Merchant Association auctioned a girl with a Heaven-grade Water Spiritual Root, who sold for five hundred and thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Fang Xi bid eight hundred thousand spirit stones for the Spirit Source Pearl and won it after telling a Hun Yuan Sect elder to scram.
• A Hun Yuan Sect disciple and his female companion decided not to retaliate, noting their mission and the pressure on their sect.
• The Spirit Fox Fairy presented a Water Element Core-Solidifying Pill, and Feng Bingxian bid seven hundred thousand spirit stones.

Fang Xi left the auction with the Spirit Source Pearl and a purchased supply cache, but a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s attack plunged Suspended Mountain Market into chaos. He found Feng Bingxian fighting two Core Formation Cultivators over the Water Element Core-Solidifying Pill.

• Fang Xi left the auction after Feng Bingxian failed to win the Water Element Core-Solidifying Pill, then collected his supplies from Shopkeeper Gong and paid in High-grade Spirit Stones.
• A Nascent Soul Cultivator attacked the Green Leaf Merchant Association, accusing it of abducting and selling his beloved disciple, while Spirit Fox Fairy and Huang Hu Zi struggled to defend the auction hall.
• Fang Xi avoided the battle as the Green Leaf Merchant Association activated the Yuan Magnetic Grand Formation, and cultivators and Evil Cultivators began looting the market.
• Fang Xi killed robbers who attacked him, then sensed Feng Bingxian using Ice Soul Cold Light against two Core Formation Cultivators who accused her of taking the Water Element Core-Solidifying Pill.

Fang Xi rescued Feng Bingxian from the Gao Family's Twin Demons, then revealed his Nascent Soul-level power to defeat Zhong Wuwang and escape the Yuan Magnetic Grand Formation. Outside, he met Huang Yungong and his disciple before leaving with Feng Bingxian.

• Fang Xi intervened when the Gao Family's Twin Demons threatened Feng Bingxian, destroyed their magic treasure, and killed them with the Primordial Demon Stab and Lion Tiger Beast.
• Fang Xi confronted Zhong Wuwang, who tried to use the Yuan Magnetic Grand Formation to capture him and Feng Bingxian.
• Fang Xi shattered Zhong Wuwang's attack, revealed power that made Zhong Wuwang mistake him for a Nascent Soul cultivator, and killed him with Blood Red Spears.
• Fang Xi took Zhong Wuwang's formation flag and opened a passage through the Yuan Magnetic Grand Formation, allowing him and Feng Bingxian to escape.
• Fang Xi waited outside for Huang Yungong and his Heavenly Spirit Root disciple, then departed with Feng Bingxian as Huang Yungong vowed revenge on his enemies.

Fang Xi lured the Green Fire Luan into an ambush during his return through the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range and used his External Nascent Soul to subdue it. He left the journey with the yao bird marked as his spirit beast and pulling his carriage alongside the Demonic Blood Flood Dragon.

• Fang Xi placed a Spirit Source Pearl in the Mountain Sea Pearl grotto-heaven to strengthen its Spiritual Energy and considered ways to help Tai Sui advance.
• Fang Xi sensed Da Qing's panic through their soul contract and emerged from the Mountain Sea Pearl as the Green Fire Luan attacked the carriage.
• The Green Fire Luan unleashed its Green Luan True Fire, but Fang Xi blocked the flames and revealed his External Nascent Soul.
• The Green Fire Luan tried to flee, but the External Nascent Soul trapped it with the Star Luo Chessboard and struck it down with a White Piece.
• Fang Xi threatened to kill the Green Fire Luan unless it submitted, then planted a soul mark after it surrendered.
• Da Qing and the Green Fire Luan pulled Fang Xi's carriage onward while nearby Yao Kings retreated.