Chapter Summaries

After the exchange meeting, Feng Shisan refused to recruit Carefree Duke into the Heavenly Phoenix Clan and chose to prioritize delivering the traded treasure. Fang Xi then met Nangong Li and secretly planted Invisible Sword Qi in her body, leaving her bound to him until the great battle ended.

• Carefree Duke let Fang Xi and other cultivators leave the exchange meeting before most of the attendees, then rejected Feng Shisan’s offer to transform him into a Heavenly Phoenix.
• Feng Shisan revealed that he and Heavenly Dragon Venerable had staged their apparent disagreement to mislead Nangong Li, but he decided not to pursue Fang Xi and instead carried the treasure back to Elder Qing.
• Heavenly Dragon Venerable guessed that the traded item was exceptionally valuable, but did not pursue Fang Xi without Feng Shisan’s help.
• Fang Xi met Nangong Li at their agreed location and struck her with an Invisible Sword Qi talisman hidden inside her Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xi told Nangong Li the sword qi would let him locate her and protect her from danger, and Nangong Li realized he had restrained her to keep her silent about the Nine Heavens Pure Radiance Water.

Fang Xi refined the Five Elements Ring, gave the Phoenix Origin Pill to Little Qing, and translated the Demon Race inheritance he had acquired. His study revealed a cultivation technique that could reach the Void Returning Stage and a treasure with the potential to help cross the Grand Void Boundary Sea.

• Fang Xi broke the seal on the Five Elements Ring, refined it with the Artifact Spirit's help, and tested its powerful Five Elements Rotation defenses.
• Fang Xi tested the Phoenix Origin Pill, decided not to take it himself, and fed it to Little Qing, who fell asleep while digesting its power.
• Fang Xi began translating the beast-skin book and identified its title as the Heavenly Demon Slaughter Immortal Strategy.
• After several years of study, Fang Xi translated the strategy and learned it could be cultivated by demons up to the Void Returning Stage.
• Fang Xi discovered that the inheritance described the Monster Locking Tower, a treasure with fifth-tier potential and void abilities that could help cross the Grand Void Boundary Sea.

Fang Xi took Little Qing away to undergo her Humanoid Transformation Heavenly Tribulation, and she emerged as a Fourth-grade Green Luan with a powerful bloodline inheritance. After bringing her back toward the Ruyi Gate, Fang Xi learned that the counterattack against Tianli Plain was about to begin.

• Fang Xi sensed Little Qing's impending tribulation and carried her away from the Ruyi Gate to a desolate wilderness.
• Little Qing endured the lightning tribulation, awakened a Green Luan secret art resembling Phoenix Nirvana, and transformed into a young girl.
• Little Qing chose to stay with Fang Xi, revealed her Green Luan Secret Canon, and asked to live in the Mountain Sea Pearl.
• Fang Xi rode Little Qing back toward the Ruyi Gate and noted that her Fourth-grade flight speed rivaled that of a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
• Nangong Li told Fang Xi that the Li Shang Demonic Palace had called the assembled forces to Ice Sha Lake for an imminent counterattack against Tianli Plain.

Fang Xi encountered Ling Shu being pressured after her master Huang Yungong's death and secured her protection by speaking to Su Xuelong. At the prewar meeting, Heavenly Envy Demon Lord explained the plan to attack Tianli Plain and threatened dissenters with annihilation.

• Fang Xi met Ling Shu while she patrolled Ice Sha Lake and learned that Huang Yungong's death had left her vulnerable to pressure from Li Shang Demonic Palace.
• Fang Xi told Su Xuelong to look after Ling Shu, and Su Xuelong promised to arrange her protection.
• Heavenly Envy Demon Lord opened the meeting and described an assault on Tianli Plain to destroy the Demon Race's Conversion Grand Formation.
• Ghost Mother Yin Ji challenged the plan, and Heavenly Envy Demon Lord cited Dong Yuanzi's knowledge of the formation before threatening to wipe out her sect if she refused to cooperate.

Fang Xi was assigned to infiltrate Wind Moon Mountain with White Cloud Old Man and Turtle Fishing Old Man to destroy a Demon Race formation core and plant a counter-formation disk. Meanwhile, Elder Qing prepared hidden forces and three Golden Cicadas for the coming battle, unaware that the humans might still possess a technique that could threaten his plan.

• Ghost Mother Yin Ji apologized to the Heavenly Envy Demon Lord, and he assigned Nangong Li, Heavenly Dragon Venerable, Madam Miaoyun, and Kong Sang to the eastern battlefield.
• Fang Xi met White Cloud Old Man and Turtle Fishing Old Man, who joined him in a team tasked with destroying the Wind Moon Mountain formation core and planting a fourth-tier counter-formation disk.
• At Tianli Plain, Feng Shisan reported that the Demon Race’s preparations were complete, including the Myriad Demon Formation and reinforcements from Elder Luan.
• Elder Qing learned that the Sky Blue Cloud Vulture Clan’s Great Elder and Seven Cloud Vulture Sons had arrived, and that the Cicada Clan’s Great Elder Gu Qiu offered three Golden Cicadas.
• Elder Qing planned to use the Nine Heavens Pure Radiance Water to raise the Golden Cicadas into fourth-tier high-grade Demon Cultivators, while worrying that the humans might know a long-lost secret technique that countered their ability.

Fang Xi used the Blood Sha Hall to take command of the journey to Wind Moon Mountain, while Heavenly Envy Demon Lord prepared the Devil Race’s forces and dealt with a suspected traitor. Months later, the Human and Demon armies faced each other on Tianli Plain, and the opening assault began as another battle threatened to erupt in Feng Country.

• Fang Xi revealed the Blood Sha Hall to White Cloud Old Man and Turtle Fishing Old Man, who agreed to follow his lead on the journey to Wind Moon Mountain.
• Heavenly Envy Demon Lord learned that Junior Brother Qin had leaked false intelligence and ordered Qin killed, with his corpse to be refined into a demonic corpse.
• Heavenly Envy Demon Lord and Su Xuelong prepared the Devil Race’s forces, including the Ancient Mo Beasts, the Demon Summoning Token, and suitable sacrifices.
• Months later, Nangong Li ordered Heavenly Dragon Venerable’s Dragon Beast Dao Soldiers to lead the attack against the Demon Race on Tianli Plain.
• The Seven Treasures Flowing Pagoda’s Demon-Slaying Mirror dispelled the demonic fog and exposed the Demon Race’s formations and concealed ape-like demons.
• Nangong Li launched the Dragon Beast Dao Soldiers at the Moon Gazing Rhinoceros Tribe as another Human-Demon battle neared in Feng Country.

The Yao Race and Human Race fought across several fronts while Fang Xi flew to Wind Moon Mountain to attack the formation protecting its Conversion Grand Formation. Fang Xi and his allies engaged four Fourth-grade Yao Cultivators, and he prepared to face the Bull Horned Yao Cultivator alone.

• Brother Jiao used his Fourth-grade Flood Dragon’s dragon might to disrupt Evergreen Valley’s Dragon Beast Dao Soldiers, while the Eighteen Heavenly Consorts and Human Race formations struck back against the Yao Beasts.
• Feng Shisan sent Four-winged Flying Midges against the Cultivator Camp, whose flames killed many but whose poison mist corroded the Guardian Great Array; Nangong Li warned of underground attackers, and Heavenly Envy Demon Lord countered them with the Earthquake Mountain Shake Array.
• Heavenly Envy Demon Lord prepared a Demon Summoning ritual aboard the Seven Treasures Flowing Pagoda and ordered the Nascent Soul Cultivators into battle as the conflict escalated.
• Fang Xi used the Blood Sha Hall to break through the formation at Wind Moon Mountain, then met four Humanoid Transformation Great Yao alongside White Cloud Old Man and Turtle Fishing Old Man.
• The Bull Horned Yao Cultivator attacked Fang Xi with a Wolf Tooth Club, but Fang Xi blocked the blow with his Five Elements Ring and told his companions to hold off the other three Yao Cultivators while he fought the bull.

Fang Xi fought Niu Mang with an array of spirit treasures and his Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light, then revealed his swordsmanship and trapped the demon with invisible Green Mang Needles. Niu Mang escaped the Blood Sha Hall in weakened form, but Fang Xi bound his demon soul with a White Piece.

• Fang Xi used the Star Luo Chessboard, Spirit Bird Fan, and Five Elements Ring to withstand Niu Mang's attacks and counter his earth-attribute abilities.
• Fang Xi wounded Niu Mang's armor and Wolf Tooth Club with Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light, prompting Niu Mang to consider retreating.
• Fang Xi drew the Green Grain Sword and used its Green Mang Needles to destroy Niu Mang's cattle gadflies and surround the fleeing demon.
• Niu Mang released a Black Lightning Bead and transformed into an ox, but the invisible needles pierced his demon soul and shattered his armor.
• The Blood Sha Hall bound Niu Mang, who escaped by Teleportation with his demon pill before Fang Xi's White Piece bound his weakened demon soul.

Fang Xi and his allies defeated the demon beasts guarding the formation core at Wind Moon Mountain, after which he left to seek Heavenly Demon Qi. As he approached a towering spirit plant on Tianli Plain, a massive five-colored demonic bird blocked his path.

• Fang Xi sent Xiao Qing into the battle, where her Green Luan Fire burned the Black Wind Wolf while Fang Xi and the two Nascent Soul cultivators fought the wolf-Bèi pair.
• Fang Xi and his allies killed the silver wolf and Bèi Yao, then divided the spoils and destroyed the formation core at Wind Moon Mountain.
• White Cloud Old Man and Turtle Fishing Old Man agreed to support the main battlefield, while Fang Xi parted from them and rode Xiao Qing away.
• Fang Xi directed Xiao Qing toward the densest demonic energy in search of Heavenly Demon Qi and spotted a towering spirit plant on Tianli Plain.
• A huge five-colored demonic bird flew out and blocked Fang Xi's path.

Fang Xi fought Feng Qing, a Heavenly Phoenix guarding a strand of Heavenly Demon Qi, and forced her to flee after she countered his sword art with Void abilities. He found the qi at the spirit tree’s altar and prepared to seal it in a Two Elements Tube.

• Fang Xi asked Feng Qing for Heavenly Demon Qi, but she attacked him with her Void-Breaking Claw and a sealing treasure.
• Xiao Qing burned Feng Qing’s threads with Green Luan True Fire and rejected her offer to join the Heavenly Phoenix Clan.
• Fang Xi used his Green Grain Needles to strike Feng Qing, but she displaced them with the Power of Void and escaped by voidifying herself.
• Fang Xi told Xiao Qing to learn about the Void Dao, then had her clear away the remaining Demon Race members.
• Fang Xi found a strand of Heavenly Demon Qi on an altar inside the spirit tree and took out a Two Elements Tube to seal it.

Fang Xi destroyed the Conversion Grand Formation and sealed its Heavenly Demon Qi, weakening the Demon Race and boosting the human cultivators. As the main battlefield turned against the demons, Feng Shisan ordered Golden Cicada to prepare to kill Heavenly Envy when given the signal.

• Fang Xi collapsed the altar, captured its Heavenly Demon Qi in the Two Elements Tube, and sensed that Nangong Li was in trouble on the main battlefield.
• Nangong Li spotted the Sky Azure Cloud Vultures, and Heavenly Envy Demon Lord sent Ghost Mother Yin Ji to stop their Sky Azure Cloud Realm.
• Ghost Mother Yin Ji summoned nine Ghost Kings and the Nine-Child Mother God-Demon to fight the vultures, while Kong Sang Old Demon unleashed his enhanced demon corpses beside Nangong Li.
• Elder Qing and Heavenly Envy Demon Lord began fighting as Feng Shisan crushed a Concentric Worm and prepared to have Golden Cicada kill Heavenly Envy.
• Feng Shisan realized the Conversion Grand Formation had been destroyed, then contacted Hui Qiu to ready Golden Cicada for the attack.

Nangong Li survived Heavenly Dragon Venerable’s betrayal, while Fang Xi reached the battlefield as three Golden Cicadas appeared and turned the tide against the cultivators. After learning the Golden Cicadas were near the end of their lives, Fang Xi offered to deal with them in exchange for the complete Seven Emotions Severance Score, but they first annihilated Ghost Mother Yin Ji and her God-Demons.

• Nangong Li’s formation repelled Heavenly Dragon Venerable’s surprise attack after a sword cry disrupted him, and she trapped him in the Miaoxiang Immortal-Slaughtering Formation.
• Fang Xi arrived near the battlefield and saw the cultivators gaining ground after the Conversion Grand Formation was destroyed.
• Three golden pillars emerged from the General Mobilization Platform, revealing fourth-grade upper-grade Demon Race members who broke through the Heavenly Envy Demon Lord’s Devil Palace.
• Fang Xi met the wounded Heavenly Envy Demon Lord and offered to defeat the three Golden Cicadas in return for the complete Seven Emotions Severance Score.
• The three Golden Cicadas destroyed Ghost Mother Yin Ji’s nine ghost-child God-Demons, tore apart her God-Demon, and killed her after she fled.

Fang Xi helped turn the battle against the Yao into a human victory by killing three Golden Cicadas and supporting the demonic forces, but Feng Country’s defenders suffered a catastrophic defeat. After learning that Tian Xingzi was fleeing toward Jiang Country, Fang Xi turned toward Ruyi Gate to seek Heavenly Consort’s help and prepare for secluded cultivation.

• Fang Xi used the Life and Death Seal to exhaust the lifespans of three Fourth-grade Upper-rank Golden Cicadas, then collected their corpses.
• Heavenly Envy Demon Lord sacrificed the Demon Summoning Physique to summon an Ancient Demon’s divine sense, which created seven Ancient Demons that attacked the Yao.
• Elder Qing held off the Ancient Demons and Heavenly Envy Demon Lord while Feng Shisan ordered the Yao to retreat; the humans won after the Yao left many creatures behind.
• Fang Xi failed to capture Feng Shisan, then learned from Nangong Li that Elder Qing had escaped after holding off the reinforcements until their bodies collapsed.
• At a victory banquet, Fang Xi received the Seven Emotions Severance Score and other rewards, but news arrived that a newly advanced Fourth-grade Upper-rank Yao had ambushed Tian Xingzi and devastated the Heavenly Pillar Alliance.
• Fang Xi left Ice Sha Lake and turned toward Ruyi Gate to seek Heavenly Consort’s assistance and prepare for secluded cultivation.

Fang Xi discovered that the Golden Cicada remains were hollow shells bearing mysterious Dragon Seal Script, then cultivated the Seven Emotions Severance Score and removed the Vengeful Soul Trace. The chapter ended as a surge of spiritual energy gathered around his cave mansion, signaling that he was breaking through to the Middle Nascent Soul Stage.

• Fang Xi found that the Golden Cicadas had dissolved into foul liquid, leaving only three shells inscribed with what he suspected was Dragon Seal Script.
• Fang Xi entered secluded cultivation while Nangong Li told him that the Righteous and Devil Paths were delaying the reorganized Demon Race at the Jiang-Feng border.
• Fang Xi completed the first layer of the Seven Emotions Severance Score, increasing his divine sense and learning its attack and defense secret arts.
• Fang Xi drew out the Vengeful Soul Trace, including the resentment of the Seven Kill Demon Lord, and used it to temper his divine sense.
• Nangong Li saw spiritual energy surge into Fang Xi's cave mansion and realized he was breaking through to the Middle Nascent Soul Stage.

Fang Xi broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and strengthened his Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light. After leaving seclusion, he learned that White Cloud Old Man wanted help taking revenge on Carefree Duke, but Fang Xi saw no reason to get involved without a worthwhile benefit.

• Fang Xi broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, aided by his improved aptitude and cultivation, and found that his magical power had increased.
• Fang Xi advanced the Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light to minor mastery and assessed that his combat strength now rivaled a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator when he used the Withered Glory Profound Light.
• Fang Xi left seclusion and received invitations from Ling Shu and White Cloud Old Man; Nangong Li explained that White Cloud Old Man was seeking revenge on Carefree Duke.
• Fang Xi learned that the injured Heavenly Envy Demon Lord could not join White Cloud Old Man, and he refused to help without a benefit such as a way to advance to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

Fang Xi was ambushed by Elder Qing and Feng Shisan, who accused him of being an Azure Emperor Mountain remnant and tried to kill him. He fought back with his puppets and Little Qing, then countered Elder Qing’s powerful wind-and-fire attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fang Xi detected Elder Qing and Feng Shisan near Yuan Country’s border and learned they believed he had inherited Azure Emperor Mountain’s Withered Glory Profound Light.
• Elder Qing declared that the Venerable One had ordered all Azure Emperor Mountain disciples killed, while Feng Shisan blamed Fang Xi for ruining the Demon Race’s plans.
• Fang Xi summoned his Fourth-grade puppets and Little Qing, who overwhelmed Feng Shisan with support from the Green Luan True Fire.
• Elder Qing revealed an External Incarnation that had launched a surprise attack on Fang Xi, then joined it in unleashing Green Luan True Fire and wind-element powers.
• Fang Xi used the Wind Settling Pearl and Five Elements Ring to weaken Elder Qing’s attack and counter it with a Five Elements Water Lotus.
• Elder Qing recognized Fang Xi as the person who had traded with Feng Shisan and praised his ability to match a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

Fang Xi used the Green Qing He Sword and hidden needles to batter Elder Qing, who realized he could not easily defeat him and tried to retreat. As Feng Shisan also attempted to escape, Fang Xi brought in an External Nascent Soul, whose Divine Infant Sword struck down the Heavenly Phoenix; the fight’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Fang Xi’s invisible Green Qing He Needles destroyed Elder Qing’s External Incarnation, and his Green Qing He Sword broke Elder Qing’s flying knives and Five-Colored Feather Robe.
• Elder Qing used his void-shifting ability to evade Fang Xi’s sword strikes, but Fang Xi’s invisible needles wounded him and a Sky Banning Talisman let another needle slip into his body.
• Elder Qing transformed into a Green Fire Luan and tried to flee, while Fang Xi summoned an External Nascent Soul from the Jiuzhou Realm.
• Little Qing and the Fourth-grade Puppets fought Feng Shisan, and the Wind Winged Tiger destroyed itself to badly wound the Five Colored Heavenly Phoenix.
• Fang Xi disrupted Feng Shisan’s escape with a Sky Banning Talisman, and the External Nascent Soul’s Divine Infant Sword pierced Feng Shisan’s body and then its fleeing soul.

Fang Xi killed Feng Shisan and Elder Qing, using the Withered Glory Profound Light to overcome the Heavenly Phoenix’s escape and defenses. Back in the Jiuzhou Realm, he planned to take away the Gate of Heavenly Demons and began setting up a formation in the abandoned wilderness.

• Fang Xi’s Divine Infant Sword devoured Feng Shisan’s soul, and Little Qing carried the External Nascent Soul to reinforce him against Elder Qing.
• Elder Qing used a Five-Colored Feather to repel the Divine Infant Sword and tried to flee, but Fang Xi struck it with the Withered Glory Profound Light and captured its corpse and feather.
• Fang Xi reflected on his strength, sent the External Nascent Soul and the Two Elements Tube back to the Jiuzhou Realm, and flew toward the Three Kingdoms Cultivation World.
• In the Jiuzhou Realm, Fang Xi considered studying the Heavenly Demon Qi and decided that taking away the Gate of Heavenly Demons was necessary to end the conflict between the realms.
• The External Nascent Soul traveled to an abandoned wilderness city with formation materials and demon beast corpses, then began building an underground cavern and laying out a formation.

Fang Xi summoned a Spirit Transmutation Demon Venerable with the Demon Summoning Formation and negotiated for True Demon Qi and an orthodox demonic art. The Demon Venerable offered to teach him only if he released his Nascent Soul and accepted her Demon Seed.

• Fang Xi built a Demon Summoning altar and surrounded it with sealing and demon-slaying formations, including a Blazing Sun Banner containing Nine Yang True Fire.
• Fang Xi activated the altar with True Demon Qi and sacrificed demonic beast corpses, summoning a Female Demon Venerable from a flesh-and-blood gate.
• The Female Demon Venerable tried to bewitch Fang Xi, but his formations restrained her phantom, and she recognized that he was an External Incarnation.
• Fang Xi asked the Female Demon Venerable for True Demon Qi and an ancient demonic art to help advance his External Nascent Soul.
• The Female Demon Venerable proposed that Fang Xi help tear open the Taiyin Defense Line, then offered to teach him if he accepted her Demon Seed and joined her side.

Fang Xi trapped a Spirit Transmutation Female Demon Venerable and negotiated a Phoenix Seal Script contract in exchange for True Demon Qi and demonic arts. He accepted a hundred-year task to stop the Twelve Yuan Chen Dutian Baleful Qi Great Array for several hours, then learned that refining his External Nascent Soul would require enduring demonic fire.

• Fang Xi used Phoenix Seal Script to cut off the Female Demon Venerable’s escape route, but she warned that destroying her divine will would make her his enemy forever.
• The Female Demon Venerable offered a contract: she would teach Fang Xi demonic arts if he stopped the Twelve Yuan Chen Dutian Baleful Qi Great Array for several hours within a hundred years, and Fang Xi agreed.
• Fang Xi and the Female Demon Venerable sealed their terms in a Phoenix Seal Script contract on a black stone slab.
• The Female Demon Venerable gave Fang Xi a wisp of True Demon Qi and taught him the He Transforms Himself Freely Heavenly Son Commanding All Spirits True Demonic Art, the Divine Infant Sword formula, and a Nascent Soul refining technique.
• The Female Demon Venerable explained that Fang Xi would need to burn his External Nascent Soul in several kinds of demonic fire to refine it.