Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi fought Palace Lord Qianji after killing her disciples, but her two Nascent Soul-level puppets proved formidable. He trapped her briefly with the Star Luo Chessboard and escaped, while Qianji chose not to pursue him.

• Fang Xi killed several Core Formation cultivators who practiced Puppet Technique and took their puppets, prompting their master, Palace Lord Qianji, to chase him.
• Fang Xi turned to fight Qianji, who summoned a Silver Armored Puppet and a Two-headed Vulture, both comparable to Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Fang Xi used the Yama Heavenly Son and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Technique, but struggled against Qianji's puppets and reserved his strongest attack.
• Fang Xi's External Nascent Soul used the Star Luo Chessboard to trap Qianji and her puppets, then Fang Xi fled.
• Qianji escaped the chessboard's array but decided not to pursue Fang Xi because he possessed formidable power and a Void Spiritual Treasure.

Fang Xi joined Zhan Tu and the old ghost at the Azure Emperor Hall after bargaining for a fragment of the Withered Glory Art, then waited for Evergreen Garden to collapse and the hall’s restrictions to fade. As powerful cultivators gathered outside, Venerable Dry Sand arrived seeking the killer of his disciple.

• Fang Xi killed a Wood Beguiler, obtained a Spirit Source Pearl, and headed for the Azure Emperor Hall.
• Fang Xi met Zhan Tu, and the old ghost agreed to give him a fragment about advancing to Spirit Transmutation in exchange for his help entering the hall.
• As Evergreen Garden began collapsing, Fang Xi and Zhan Tu disguised themselves and flew to the Azure Emperor Hall, where its restrictions were fading.
• Palace Lord Qianji and the White-browed Youth discussed his search for the Azure Emperor Mountain Remnant as cultivators gathered outside the hall.
• Venerable Dry Sand arrived and announced that his disciple was dead, while the White-browed Youth and Palace Lord Qianji responded.

Old Monster Chi, Venerable Dong Yuan, and the other cultivators entered Azure Emperor Hall after its gate’s hidden divine-light trap killed several people and destroyed Venerable Dong Yuan’s body. Fang Xi and Old Ghost took a concealed side route toward the Patriarch Hall, where they encountered a Ten Thousand Year Wood Sprite.

• Venerable Dong Yuan identified the gate’s inscriptions as Phoenix Seal Script and broke its first layer of restrictions, triggering azure divine light that killed a Core Formation cultivator and severed his body.
• Venerable Dong Yuan escaped as a Nascent Soul and entered Azure Emperor Hall, followed by Old Monster Chi, Palace Lord Qianji, the White-browed Youth, and other cultivators; Ice God Palace disciples began setting up an array at the entrance.
• Fang Xi and Old Ghost avoided the main entrance and took a side path, with Fang Xi suspecting Old Ghost might be Patriarch Nine Leaves.
• Fang Xi and Old Ghost reached a black jade plaza, where they found the dried corpse of an Azure Emperor Mountain disciple and wondered how it had died.
• Vines attacked Fang Xi and Zhan Tu, and Old Ghost and Fang Xi fought them before a Ten Thousand Year Wood Sprite appeared.

Fang Xi, the Old Ghost, and Zhan Tu fought the Ten Thousand Year Wood Sprite, which the Old Ghost wounded with a powerful thunder pearl before Fang Xi seized its core and spirit essence. Afterward, Fang Xi examined a dead Azure Emperor Mountain disciple and found a storage bag, while the Old Ghost suspected the corpse had belonged to a traitor.

• The Ten Thousand Year Wood Sprite attacked Fang Xi and the Old Ghost, regenerating from damage and tearing apart Fang Xi's Core Formation Late Stage Ghost King.
• Fang Xi revealed Nascent Soul-level mana, but the Wood Sprite continued attacking with pine needles as the Old Ghost's Wood Cauldron Magic Treasure was destroyed.
• The Old Ghost had Zhan Tu throw a Spirit Extinguishing Ancient Thunder Pearl, which wounded the Wood Sprite and cleared its pine needles.
• Fang Xi struck the wounded Wood Sprite, captured its fourth-tier yao core and spirit essence, and let Zhan Tu collect the remaining materials.
• Fang Xi examined a corpse that the Old Ghost identified as a likely Azure Emperor Mountain traitor, and a green storage bag fell out.

Fang Xi, Old Ghost, and Zhan Tu uncovered valuable Azure Emperor Mountain inheritances and reached the Patriarch Hall, with the Azure Void Sect Group close behind. Old Ghost revealed that the intruders had no way to escape Azure Emperor Hall and prepared to confront them.

• Fang Xi and Zhan Tu examined the Ten Thousand Year Wood Sprite’s remains and discovered jade slips containing the Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light cultivation method and the Myriad Transformation Divine Wood Great Formation diagram.
• Fang Xi copied the formation diagram for himself, then followed Old Ghost and Zhan Tu to the White Jade Heavenly Steps leading to the Patriarch Hall.
• Fang Xi sent Da Qing up the steps and learned from Old Ghost that flight was forbidden and Extreme Terrestrial Magnetic Force made metal magic treasures dangerous.
• Madam Bi and the Azure Void Sect Group arrived and pursued them, while one disciple’s metal flying dagger was ruined by the magnetic force.
• Fang Xi and his companions reached the square before the Patriarch Hall, where Old Ghost declared that the Void Storm had likely killed those outside and that the intruders’ escape methods would not work inside Azure Emperor Hall.

Fang Xi and the old ghost fought Madam Bi outside Patriarch Hall as a catastrophic Void Storm trapped cultivators throughout Evergreen Garden. After the old ghost used the Wood Seeking Bead to unlock the hall, Fang Xi and the old ghost entered, finding a shrine of Spirit Tablets and a portrait of an Azure Clad Immortal.

• A Void Storm accelerated across Evergreen Garden, while the Myriad Transformation Divine Wood Great Formation’s lingering imprint prevented cultivators from teleporting to safety.
• A black-robed Nascent Soul Old Demon entered Azure Emperor Hall as the storm battered the palace, and Zhan Tu battled Madam Bi over the Jade Spirit Disk.
• Fang Xi summoned his Six Paths Ghostly Beings to hold Madam Bi back, but she countered with another Void Treasure and drove him from his Yama Magic Domain.
• The old ghost had Zhan Tu use the Wood Seeking Bead to complete the Jade Spirit Disk, which removed the restriction around Patriarch Hall.
• Fang Xi and the old ghost entered Patriarch Hall and found Spirit Tablets beneath a scroll depicting an Azure Clad Immortal.

Fang Xi and Madam Bi entered the Patriarch Hall, where the formation spirit, a white deer, answered Old Ghost’s call and attacked them. After Madam Bi died and Old Ghost’s plan failed, Fang Xi used the Life and Death Seal to kill Zhan Tu and Old Ghost, then faced the white deer, which recognized him as an extraordinary potential inheritor and asked what he sought.

• Old Ghost summoned the white deer formation spirit and presented the Azure Emperor Mountain True Inheritance Token, then ordered it to kill Fang Xi and Madam Bi.
• The white deer’s Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light destroyed Madam Bi’s treasures, and its void chains stopped her escape before it killed her Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xi revealed his own True Inheritance Token, so the white deer refused to kill him because the contract treated him and Old Ghost as equals.
• Old Ghost ordered Zhan Tu to attack with Withered Glory Profound Light, but Zhan Tu sensed Fang Xi’s immense lifespan and was killed by Fang Xi’s Life and Death Seal, which also killed Old Ghost through their shared fate.
• Fang Xi burned Zhan Tu’s remains and collected his storage bag, then the white deer recognized Fang Xi’s exceptional status and asked what he sought.

Fang Xi learned that White Deer did not possess the Withered Glory inheritance or know how to remove his Vengeful Soul Trace, while the legendary Immortal’s Treasure was not in Azure Emperor Hall. As the collapsing formation trapped the Nascent Soul cultivators, Fang Xi had White Deer kill Palace Lord Qianji, then released White Deer from its restriction, and it teleported him to a medicinal garden before eating Lingzhi Grass.

• Fang Xi asked White Deer about the Withered Glory inheritance, the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light, the Immortal’s Treasure, and the Vengeful Soul Trace, but White Deer knew little and revealed that the treasure was not there.
• Nascent Soul cultivators reached the Ten Thousand Step Cloud Ladder as the Void Storm threatened Azure Emperor Hall, and Fang Xi waited at the top with White Deer.
• Fang Xi ordered White Deer to kill Palace Lord Qianji, and White Deer’s Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light destroyed her Puppets and struck her Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xi used the Sky Banning Talisman and Star Luo Chessboard to stop Palace Lord Qianji from teleporting, allowing White Deer to finish her and return her storage bag and Puppet fragments.
• Fang Xi released White Deer from its restriction, and White Deer enveloped him in white light and teleported him to a medicinal garden.
• White Deer ate Lingzhi Grass, saying it was the thing it most wanted to do before its life ended.

After the White Deer vanished, Fang Xi emerged in the Western Desert Cultivation World and was welcomed by the Hu Yan Family after compensating them for damaged herbs. He agreed to stay with the clan, whose elders then gathered secretly to discuss using his presence to address a serious problem.

• The White Deer revealed that its green leaf opened the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and warned Fang Xi not to enter before reaching Nascent Soul Late Stage or Spirit Transformation, then disappeared.
• Fang Xi found himself in the Hu Yan Family's Spirit Herb Garden, where a girl raised an alarm after finding the Immortal Ganoderma Grass damaged.
• Hu Yan Dou recognized Fang Xi's overwhelming cultivation, accepted a thousand-year Dragon Transformation Ginseng as compensation, and invited him to the family residence.
• Fang Xi learned from the Flowing Sand Atlas that he was in the Western Desert's Flowing Sand Domain and agreed to stay with the Hu Yan Family while recovering his magic power.
• Hu Yan Dou and the clan elders secretly discussed how to use Fang Xi's stay to intimidate nearby powers and address a serious matter troubling their family.

Fang Xi sorted through the treasures he had gained in the secret realm and discovered several resources that could support his future advancement. He left the Mountain Sea Pearl determined to improve his alchemy, build up his magical power, and prepare to form his Nascent Soul.

• Fang Xi sealed Hu Yan Family's cave abode with array flags before entering the Mountain Sea Pearl to sort his spoils.
• Fang Xi inventoried the secret realm's techniques, spirit medicines, formation diagram, and spiritual treasures, then found two Top-grade Spirit Stones in the puppet remains.
• Fang Xi opened Madam Bi's storage bag and found only a modest collection, but Palace Lord Qianji's bag contained the Thousand Mechanisms Secret Codex and helped push his High-grade Spirit Stone count past a thousand.
• Fang Xi opened the old ghost's storage bag and found Ten Thousand Year spirit medicines, Spirit Extinguishing Ancient Thunder Pearls, Fourth-grade jade talismans, and a genuine Ten Thousand Year Azure Bottle.
• Fang Xi discovered a Nascent Soul Pill inside the bottle, then left the Mountain Sea Pearl planning to refine his alchemy, strengthen his magical power, and prepare for Nascent Soul formation.

Fang Xi tested the Flash Spirit Pearl, learned about the Flowing Sand Domain, and refused to involve himself in the Hu Yan Family’s troubles. He left their cave abode for Thick Earth City, where he began buying up local goods and gathering resources.

• Fang Xi refined the Flash Spirit Pearl and discovered that it let him use a short-range spatial ability called Flash.
• Fang Xi questioned Hu Yanrou about nearby markets and learned that Venerable Dry Sand, one of the Yellow Sand Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators, might have died in Evergreen Garden.
• Hu Yan Dou asked Fang Xi to help the Hu Yan Family, but Fang Xi refused and soon departed their cave abode.
• Fang Xi entered Thick Earth City and placed a large order for local spirit materials, paying a deposit for goods to be gathered within three days.
• Fang Xi continued purchasing supplies and rare items throughout Thick Earth City, while his Core Formation Late Stage cultivation deterred would-be attackers.

Several months later, Fang Xi attended a Grand Auction in Thick Earth City and won the Crimson Heart Pill Book. Its seller, Madam Snake, asked him to help her Household escape the Flowing Sand Domain, revealing that the Yellow Sand Sect was weakened and faced an imminent invasion.

• At the auction, Fang Xi outbid the Green Pill Sect Young Sect Master and bought the Crimson Heart Pill Book for one million Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Madam Snake met Fang Xi privately and asked him to reveal his true appearance before discussing the seller's request.
• Madam Snake explained that her Household descended from Crimson Heart Son and was being blocked from migrating by a Core Formation Elder of the Yellow Sand Sect.
• Madam Snake told Fang Xi that Venerable Dry Sand's soul lamp had gone out and True Lord Black Sand had suffered a Cultivation Deviation.
• Madam Snake revealed that the Eight Desolations Sect planned to invade the Flowing Sand Domain, prompting her Household to flee before it was conscripted into the war.

Fang Xi agreed to help Madam Snake move her family in exchange for a Bodhi Enlightenment Pill, then confronted Old Ghost Huang when he pursued the convoy. After Fang Xi easily subdued him, the Black Sand Ancestor appeared, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Madam Snake offered Fang Xi her family's sole Bodhi Enlightenment Pill in return for helping her family migrate, and he accepted.
• Fang Xi accompanied Madam Snake and her clan's convoy across the desert toward Flowing Moon Continent.
• When Old Ghost Huang pursued the convoy, Fang Xi faced him and effortlessly bypassed his Earthen Divine Sand to disarm him.
• Fang Xi spared Old Ghost Huang and told him to stop pursuing the convoy.
• The Black Sand Ancestor appeared and addressed Fang Xi, making Old Ghost Huang tremble.

Fang Xi revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation to protect Madam Snake from True Lord Black Sand, who agreed to settle the matter if Fang Xi could withstand three moves. The chapter ended as Fang Xi blocked Black Sand’s first attack with a Three Eyes Six Arms phantom.

• True Lord Black Sand exposed Old Ghost Huang as an Eight Desolations Sect spy, then trapped and sealed him in a black sand coffin.
• True Lord Black Sand moved to punish Madam Snake’s Household for violating the ban on migration, but Fang Xi revealed his Nascent Soul power and asked him to spare her.
• Fang Xi introduced himself as Wood True Person, a Rogue Cultivator, and refused True Lord Black Sand’s offer to join the Yellow Sand Sect.
• True Lord Black Sand proposed that Fang Xi receive three moves to settle the matter, and Fang Xi accepted.
• True Lord Black Sand unleashed a barrage of Black Marsh Profound Sand needles, which Fang Xi blocked with a towering Three Eyes Six Arms phantom.

Fang Xi fought True Lord Black Sand, secured the Bodhi Enlightenment Pill from Madam Snake, and returned to Yu Prefecture after a year in the Western Desert. Back home, he planned to enter seclusion and digest the gains from his secret-realm expedition.

• True Lord Black Sand and Fang Xi exchanged powerful attacks, then ended their three-move contest without continuing the fight.
• Madam Snake gave Fang Xi the Bodhi Enlightenment Pill as promised, and he rejected her offer to become his Registered Disciple or concubine.
• One year later, Fang Xi returned to his underground cave dwelling in Yu Prefecture and retrieved his unharmed Primordial Soul Lamp.
• Fang Xi recalled collecting Spirit Materials and inheritances in the Western Desert, trading with the Yellow Sand Sect, and checking on his two disciples in the Red Sun Realm.
• Fang Xi decided to enter seclusion and digest his gains.

Fang Xi returned to Dragon Fish Island, settled affairs there, and strengthened his soul by absorbing the split soul stored in the Primordial Soul Lamp. He then studied the Crimson Heart Pill Book to improve his alchemy for refining the Tribulation Extinguishing Pill.

• Ying Mei and her senior brother watched Fang Xi's Dragon Phoenix carriage cross their island and discussed his reputation and the opportunities on Dragon Fish Island.
• Zhong Hongyu reported that the Three Kingdoms Cultivation World was peaceful and told Fang Xi that Yiling Valley remnants had fled toward Yuan Country; Fang Xi dismissed the threat.
• Fang Xi gave Zhong Hongyu several second-grade Azure Water Winged Snakes to raise as future guardians, then returned to Evergreen Pavilion and began planning a move.
• Fang Xi absorbed the Primordial Soul Lamp's cultivated split soul, increasing his spiritual sense's range to ninety li.
• Fang Xi cultivated in the Mountain Sea Pearl, then chose to study alchemy in the Crimson Heart Pill Book rather than focus on puppet techniques or formations.

Fang Xi used a Bodhi Enlightenment Pill to break through his alchemy bottleneck, then returned to Emerald Island and sealed its Netherworld Earth Vein with a formation and the Yao Mo Tree. Emerald Island became a promising cultivation site, though its seal still required ongoing support.

• Fang Xi used the Bodhi Enlightenment Pill to understand the Crimson Heart Pill Book and Tribulation Extinguishing Pill Formula, advancing his alchemy to the third-grade High Rank and gaining confidence in refining the pill.
• Fang Xi recovered from the pill’s mental strain and prepared to cultivate toward Core Formation Perfection on a fourth-grade Spirit Vein.
• Fang Xi returned to Emerald Island, inspected its damaged Ancient Teleportation Arrays, and gave Zhong Hongyu and the other cultivators formation materials to study.
• Fang Xi led the cultivators in activating the Heavenly Dipper North Star Demon Sealing formation, drawing away the ghost fog and temporarily sealing the Netherworld Earth Vein.
• Fang Xi planted the Yao Mo Tree over the fissure to help sustain the seal and establish it as the core of a future fourth-grade formation.

After claiming Emerald Island, Fang Xi secured it with a powerful formation and cultivated there using its Fourth-grade spiritual vein. Several years later, he reached Core Formation Perfected, and his Life and Death Seal had advanced into a spirit treasure.

• Hai Daniu buried a dead cultivator, kept the cultivator’s storage bag, and later handed over several artifacts and bags to Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi let Hai Daniu and the others search the island for spiritual objects, then sent them away and barred outsiders from his cultivation grounds.
• Fang Xi completed the Nine Nether Profound Wood Great Array, isolating Emerald Island behind dark mist.
• Fang Xi cultivated in Evergreen Hall and prepared to form his Nascent Soul, relying on the External Nascent Soul and the Life and Death Seal for protection.
• After several years of secluded cultivation, Fang Xi reached Core Formation Perfected, and the Life and Death Seal awakened as a spirit treasure.

Fang Xi restored the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid and spent a thousand years of his lifespan raising it to a Thousand-Year Spirit Medicine, then began replenishing his vitality beneath the Yao Mo Tree. Meanwhile, Wei Changsheng led Hun Yuan Sect cultivators toward the three countries, revealing that their revenge mission concealed preparations for a possible invasion by the Seven Sha Hall.

• Fang Xi used Yi Wood Divine Light and a thousand years of his lifespan to repair the Illusion Extinguishing Heart Orchid and bring it to a thousand years old.
• Fang Xi sealed away the orchid and cultivated beneath the Yao Mo Tree to restore his vitality, feeding the tree a piece of Third-grade Taisui meat.
• Wei Changsheng and other Hun Yuan Sect cultivators traveled through the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, where Senior Brother Iron demonstrated his sword against Iron-Horned Rhinoceroses.
• Wei Changsheng explained that the sect’s mission to the Yue, Wu, and Mu Countries was meant to seize resources and establish a fallback route, not merely avenge Senior Brother Yan.
• Wei Changsheng revealed that the Seven Sha Hall had abandoned strongholds in Jiang Country and was preparing to enter Yuan Country in force, prompting Hun Yuan Sect to protect its Dao Lineage.

Fang Xi completed the preparations for forming his Nascent Soul and began his breakthrough in seclusion on Emerald Island. He used the Yi Wood Undying Body to withstand the spirit vein’s surging energy as he started expanding his Withered Glory Golden Core.

• Fang Xi visited the Great Liang World, gathered several demons, and secretly checked on Zhang Mingding and his old acquaintances.
• Fang Xi refined the Tribulation Extinguishing Pill and declared his Nascent Soul preparations complete.
• Fang Xi stationed Little Azure, Big Azure, the Profound Fire Demonic Zombie, and the Demonic Blood Flood Dragon to guard Emerald Island during his seclusion.
• Fang Xi reflected beneath a Spirit Peach Tree, then entered his prepared cave dwelling with his External Nascent Soul to begin forming his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xi activated the Yi Wood Undying Body and drew in the Fourth-grade spirit vein’s Spiritual Energy, channeling it into his Withered Glory Golden Core.