Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi returned to Emerald Island, kept Demon Venerable Chi Lian’s schemes in check, and studied the techniques and treasures he had acquired. After deciphering the Two Forms Unified Yuan Art, he realized it could let Yao cultivate human techniques, but its demanding requirements for a Void Spiritual Treasure left him doubtful it was practical.

• Fang Xi freed Demon Venerable Chi Lian from the throne’s bindings while keeping the outer restrictions and Nine Yang True Fire ready, then burned the altar and fled after learning her name.
• Fang Xi returned to Emerald Island, celebrated with Zhong Hongyu, and used the Assimilation Technique to bring his External Nascent Soul back under control.
• Fang Xi examined Feng Shisan and Elder Qing as Wood Puppets and resolved to improve his alchemy so he could refine the Spirit Severing Pill.
• After deciphering the Phoenix Seal Script in the beast-skin book, Fang Xi discovered the Two Forms Unified Yuan Art, which was designed to let Yao cultivate human techniques.
• Fang Xi considered the danger of Yao spies using the art to infiltrate the Western Desert, then judged its Virtual Dantian requirements difficult to meet.

Fang Xi examined the Two Forms Unified Yuan Art and planned to have his External Nascent Soul simulate it before he attempted cultivation, then considered leaving Emerald Island as the Demon Race’s descent threatened the Lower Realm. After testing Liu Xu’s exceptional Spiritual Roots, he kept her on Emerald Island and gave her the Qing Mu Longevity Art to learn.

• Fang Xi realized the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror could suppress the Spiritual Energy and Demon Qi required by the Two Forms Unified Yuan Art, but decided to let his External Nascent Soul analyze the technique and other demonic arts first.
• Fang Xi assessed his slow progress in the Withered Glory Art and, fearing a Spirit Transmutation Demon Race Venerable might enter the Lower Realm, decided to hide in the Cultivation World of the Western Desert while seeking alchemy materials and inheritances.
• Zhong Hongyu brought Liu Xu to Evergreen Hall after a Spiritual Root Testing Assembly revealed that she had a Heaven-grade Wood Spiritual Root and an Earth-grade Water Spiritual Root.
• Fang Xi heard how Liu Xu had fled from Mu Country with an old servant and decided she should remain on Emerald Island, though he did not formally accept her as a disciple.
• Fang Xi gave Liu Xu a jade slip containing the Qing Mu Longevity Art, choosing it over the dangerous and difficult Withered Glory Art.

Fang Xi returned to the Western Desert, destroyed the teleportation array, and traveled in disguise to Wood Beam City to seek a place to cultivate and learn about the Demon Race. At the Earth Listener Tower, he discovered that the Demon Race was demanding True Monarch Mu’s surrender and recognized that the shopkeeper Wan Ying was a Gu cultivator.

• Fang Xi returned to the Western Desert, ruined the Ancient Teleportation Array, and set out to find a fourth-order spirit vein, demonic fire, Blood River Stone, and information about a Spirit Severing Pill.
• Fang Xi disguised himself with a bamboo hat and entered Wood Beam City, where he noticed Madam Snake but chose not to approach her.
• Fang Xi hired Earth Dragon Son to guide him to the Earth Listener Tower and paid him before entering.
• Wan Ying sold Fang Xi intelligence about Heavenly Guard City, including Elder Zi’s repeated attacks and demand that the city hand over True Monarch Mu.
• Fang Xi learned that Zen Master Golden Light had helped defend Heavenly Guard City and then told Wan Ying he knew she was a Gu cultivator.

Fang Xi sought information and special Gu insects from the Gu Immortal Sect’s Earth Listener Tower, but its staff secretly spied on him with a Flying Eye Gu. After Fang Xi exposed the surveillance and revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation, Pan Lei and Wan Ying apologized and gave him the information he had requested.

• Fang Xi recognized Wan Ying as a Gu cultivator and asked to buy Gu insects and information about Demonic Dao Spirit Flames and a Grandmaster of Alchemy.
• Wan Ying reported Fang Xi’s requests to Pan Lei, who used her newly refined Flying Eye Gu to spy on him.
• Fang Xi detected and destroyed the Flying Eye Gu with Yi Wood True Fire, then summoned Pan Lei and Wan Ying to his room.
• Pan Lei and Wan Ying knelt and apologized after realizing Fang Xi was a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Pan Lei gave Fang Xi a jade slip describing Dan Dingzi’s planned Infant Transformation Pill refinement and a coming Black Dragon Sect auction featuring Fourth-grade alchemy texts.

Fang Xi searched for demonic flames and learned from Pan Lei that the Five Fire Gu could preserve them, then traveled to the Gu Immortal Sect to claim one. Pan Yin refused to hand over the sect’s treasure, leaving Fang Xi confronting the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Fang Xi reviewed information about demonic flames, dismissed dangerous or protected sources, and chose a rogue Nascent Soul cultivator’s crimson flame as a possible target.
• Pan Lei told Fang Xi that the Five Fire Gu could devour and preserve flames, but Fang Xi declined to let her accompany him to the Gu Immortal Sect.
• Fang Xi observed Madam Snake rob and kill a Core Formation cultivator to obtain a treasure map, then continued south toward the Gu Immortal Sect and the Black Dragon Sect’s Grand Auction.
• Months later, Fang Xi arrived at the Gu Immortal Sect and told Pan Yin that Pan Lei had promised him a Five Fire Gu as an apology.
• Pan Yin refused to give Fang Xi the sect’s Five Fire Gu, and Fang Xi warned that her Hundred Poisons Divine Fiend Banner could not stop him.

Fang Xi confronted Pan Yin over the Gu Immortal Sect’s broken promise, and the two Nascent Soul cultivators tested each other’s strength before agreeing to settle the dispute peacefully. Pan Yin led Fang Xi into the sect’s Hundred Refinements Cave to claim the Five Fire Gu, where the sealed Gu awakened as its seal was removed.

• Fang Xi summoned several Core Formation Puppets and a Fourth-grade Puppet to challenge Pan Yin, who countered with her Hundred Poisons Divine Fiend Banner and emerald heavenly scorpion.
• Pan Yin’s Second Nascent Soul attacked Fang Xi from behind, but Fang Xi’s Wood Puppet drove it back.
• Pan Yin withdrew from the fight and agreed to give Fang Xi the Five Fire Gu after recognizing his strength and multiple Fourth-grade Puppets.
• Pan Yin brought Fang Xi into the Gu Immortal Sect and led him through the Hundred Refinements Cave to its forbidden inner chamber.
• Pan Yin opened the sealed Cold Ice Cave and explained how Fang Xi could refine the Five Fire Gu; the white toad awakened with a croak.

Fang Xi subdued the Five Fire Gu, exchanged knowledge and bought body-refining Gu from Pan Yin, then traveled to Black Dragon City for the Black Dragon Sect’s Grand Auction. There, Black Xuan Shangren recognized him and welcomed him, but the auction catalog did not list the Blood River Stone Fang Xi sought.

• Fang Xi used his Nascent Soul power to subdue the Five Fire Gu, then persuaded Pan Yin to exchange cultivation insights and sell him Gu in return for valuable materials.
• Fang Xi left the Gu Immortal Sect, cultivated inside the Mountain Sea Pearl, and tested the Five Fire Gu’s ability to store and devour his Azure Infant Fire.
• Several months later, Fang Xi arrived at Black Dragon City and examined its Fourth-grade Dragon Transformation Great Array.
• Black Xuan Shangren recognized Fang Xi as the Heavenly Puppet True Monarch, welcomed him to the city, and gave him the latest Grand Auction catalog.
• Fang Xi found no Blood River Stone listed in the catalog, though he noted a Fourth-grade Middle-grade alchemy inheritance.

Fang Xi attended the Grand Auction seeking an alchemy inheritance and other rare treasures, while discovering that Jade True Monarch was likely a Demon Cultivator. He watched Jade True Monarch acquire the Langhuan Pill Book, then saw a potent demonic fire revealed as the auction continued.

• Fang Xi entered the Star Palace, met Black Xuan Shangren and Jade True Monarch, and sensed that Jade True Monarch's immense life force suggested he was a Demon Cultivator.
• Black Heaven True Monarch opened the auction, and Fang Xi watched the early lots sell without bidding.
• The auctioneer offered the Langhuan Pill Book in exchange for rare spirit materials, and Jade True Monarch traded a damaged Spirit of Jia Mu to obtain it.
• The auctioneer introduced the Bone Corroding Blood Flame, and it rapidly melted a bone from a Fourth-grade Flood Dragon.

Fang Xi watched the Grand Auction, then entered Black Dragon Sect’s Great Black Heaven secret trading space and negotiated for the Bone Corroding Blood Flame. He agreed to meet the White Bone Demon for a private exchange inside Black Dragon City, leaving the transaction’s risks unresolved.

• Fang Xi refused to offer his Phoenix Origin Pill for the Bone Corroding Blood Flame, which went unsold at the Grand Auction.
• Fang Xi used Black Xuan Shangren’s token to enter Great Black Heaven, where Black Heaven True Monarch introduced the secret trading gathering.
• Fang Xi watched Shi Niang auction a female Core Formation cultivator as a Cauldron, then browsed the gathering without finding anything he wanted.
• Fang Xi approached the White Bone Demon and offered a White Bone Flying Dagger Spiritual Treasure plus five Harmony Separation Pills for the Bone Corroding Blood Flame.
• The White Bone Demon proposed trading privately inside Black Dragon City, and Fang Xi accepted despite suspecting the demon might be planning to attack him.

Fang Xi traded for the Bone Corroding Blood Flame, discovered Jade True Monarch had joined the Black Dragon Sect, and decided to leave the southern domains. As he traveled west, he sensed something following him and sent a puppet onward while hiding himself.

• Fang Xi met the Blood Flame Lord at the Heavenly Immortal Building and exchanged a White Bone Flying Dagger and Harmony Separation Pill for the Bone Corroding Blood Flame, which his Five Fire Gu swallowed.
• After the Blood Flame Lord's attempted offer of an alchemist opportunity went nowhere, Fang Xi left and began watching Jade True Monarch.
• Fang Xi saw Jade True Monarch repeatedly visit Black Xuan Shangren's cave abode, then learned that Jade True Monarch had met Black Heaven Supreme and joined the Black Dragon Sect.
• Fang Xi declined Black Xuan Shangren's invitation to join the sect and left Black Dragon City, suspecting danger in the southern domains.
• As Fang Xi traveled toward the Western Six Domains, he noticed something strange, sent his Iron-winged Eagle Wood Puppet ahead carrying the Five Fire Gu, and concealed himself.

Fang Xi uncovered an ambush linked to the Bone Corroding Blood Flame, killed the Blazing Flame Old Demon and the girl tracking him, and reunited the flame’s halves. He then visited True Lord Black Sand in the guise of True Monarch Mu and warned him that a demon spy called Jade True Monarch had infiltrated the Black Dragon Sect and might have recruited Black Heaven True Monarch.

• Fang Xi discovered that the girl who had sold him the Bone Corroding Blood Flame was tracking him, with a concealed Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator approaching alongside her.
• Fang Xi’s puppets and Elder Qing overwhelmed the attackers, and Elder Qing killed the Blazing Flame Old Demon after he tried to flee.
• Feng Shisan killed the girl, and Fang Xi reunited the two halves of the Bone Corroding Blood Flame before collecting the Blazing Flame Old Demon’s demonic flame as well.
• Fang Xi traveled to the Yellow Sand Sect and found True Lord Black Sand recovering from his injuries.
• Fang Xi warned True Lord Black Sand that a demon spy using the alias Jade True Monarch was in the Black Dragon Sect and might have recruited Black Heaven True Monarch.

Fang Xi killed Myriad Poisons True Monarch and took his Myriad Poisons Demonic Flame, bringing the Five Fire Gu close to completion. He then secured a place to cultivate at Three Immortals Mountain, where Cloud Pearl True Monarch agreed to host him on Azure Void Peak for up to one hundred years.

• Fang Xi warned True Lord Black Sand that Jade True Monarch and Black Heaven True Monarch might be involved in the Western Desert’s troubles, then left him to decide whether to report it.
• Two years later, Fang Xi confronted Myriad Poisons True Monarch, killed him with the Withered Glory Profound Light, and had the White Jade Toad absorb the Myriad Poisons Demonic Flame.
• Fang Xi added the Myriad Poisons Demonic Flame to the Five Fire Gu and considered seeking a child flame from the Sacred Fire Cult before settling down to cultivate.
• Fang Xi visited Three Immortals Mountain and gave Cloud Pearl True Monarch Myriad Poisons True Monarch’s head as a gift.
• Cloud Pearl True Monarch accepted Fang Xi’s request to cultivate on Azure Void Peak for one hundred years and introduced him to the Three Immortals Sect’s high-level Core Formation Cultivators.

Fang Xi settled at Azure Void Peak, prepared to refine the Spirit Severing Pill, and continued pursuing ways to strengthen his cultivation. In the Jiuzhou Realm, he obtained access to a supercomputer and bionic dantian, but Qi Biao’s investigation of Zhang Huahua’s file led him to suspect a connection to the Dark Moon Cult.

• Fang Xi asked Cloud Pearl True Monarch to have the Three Immortals Sect’s disciples search for materials and rare devil flames, then established a warning formation and renovated a cave dwelling on Azure Void Peak.
• Fang Xi cultivated at the peak, assessed his progress toward the later Nascent Soul stage, and wondered why he had received no news about changes in the southern Black Dragon Sect.
• Fang Xi entered the Origin Energy Research Institute to use its supercomputer and bionic human-dantian to analyze cultivation techniques and secret arts.
• Qi Biao tried to persuade Fang Xi to give up his computing time, but Fang Xi refused and left for the machine room.
• Qi Biao used his security authority to examine Zhang Huahua’s file and found a past investigation linking him to a Moon Demon attack and an alibi provided by Huo Yunzi.
• Qi Biao decided to keep watching Zhang Huahua because he suspected him of ties to the Dark Moon Cult.

Fang Xi used the supercomputer to test demonic techniques, uncovering hidden flaws while worrying that his identity was becoming exposed. He then met Lu Shiming in a void-research laboratory and asked to use the Quantum Interference Microscope.

• Fang Xi simulated the He Transforms Himself Freely Heavenly Son's Command over All Spirits True Demon Technique and discovered that its circulation concealed flaws and a risk of turning him into a Demon Venerable's incarnation.
• Fang Xi used the remaining supercomputer time to analyze flaws in the Divine Infant Sword and Demonic Fire Refining Nascent Soul Great Law, but could not complete his planned work on the Two Forms Unified Yuan Art.
• Qi Biao questioned Fang Xi about the supercomputer and the Dark Moon Cult, while privately considering how to make him seem suspicious.
• Fang Xi considered whether to silence Qi Biao, then concluded that further action could deepen suspicion around Zhang Huahua.
• Lu Shiming summoned Fang Xi to his laboratory, showed him the institute's fixed Void Rift, and praised his Origin Energy research.
• Fang Xi asked Lu Shiming for permission to use the Quantum Interference Microscope.

Lu Shiming told Fang Xian Dao Master that Zhang Huahua’s demon-energy research might help save Jiuzhou, while the Dao Master revealed his own divination about the suspicious researcher had yielded only a haze. Fang Xi began testing Heavenly Demon Qi in the institute as Qi Biao arrived to seize him as a suspected Dark Moon Cult spy.

• Lu Shiming visited Fang Xian Dao Master in the Fangxian Dao Palace and reported Zhang Huahua’s research progress and Qi Biao’s suspicions.
• Fang Xian Dao Master told Lu Shiming to let events take their course, then examined evidence linking Zhang Huahua to Green Horned Silver Arm and the Dark Moon Cult.
• Fang Xi entered the Quantum Interference Laboratory, sent the researchers away, sealed the room, and produced a wisp of Heavenly Demon Qi.
• Qi Biao stormed into the research institute with security cultivators and accused Zhang Huahua of spying for the Dark Moon Cult.
• Lu Shiming confronted Qi Biao and released his Nascent Soul spiritual pressure as Qi Biao demanded that Zhang Huahua be seized and interrogated.

Fang Xi killed Qi Biao after his Nascent Soul identity was exposed, then negotiated with the Fang Xian Dao Master and White Brow True Monarch. He agreed to trade Heavenly Demon Qi and research schematics for resources and support, including a Primordial Spirit Magic Tool.

• Fang Xi realized the Jiuzhou Realm’s investigation had put him at risk and transferred his Heavenly Demon Qi and True Demon Qi to his true body.
• Qi Biao entered the laboratory with security officers to arrest Zhang Huahua, but Fang Xi revealed his Nascent Soul power and killed him with Infant Fire.
• White Brow True Monarch arrived, dismissed the witnesses, and brought Fang Xi through a passage to meet the Fang Xian Dao Master.
• The Fang Xian Dao Master recognized that Fang Xi came from another realm, and Fang Xi offered Heavenly Demon Qi and completed particle-research schematics in exchange for assistance.
• Fang Xi demanded a supercomputer, cultivation advancement to Nascent Soul Late Stage, Demon Slayer True Monarch’s help disabling the Twelve Yuan Chen Dutian Divine Fiend Formation, and a Primordial Spirit Magic Tool or Fifth-grade Spiritual Treasure.
• The Fang Xian Dao Master agreed to consider providing a Primordial Spirit Magic Tool, and Fang Xi additionally requested a Yellow Turban Warrior production line and spare-parts factory.

Fang Xi secured control of the Jiuzhou Realm’s supercomputer for Taiyi and arranged support for his cultivation and preparations against the Demon Race. After strengthening his ties with the Three Immortals Sect and refining a demonic cultivation technique, he began cooperating with the Ghost Axe True Monarch on precious spirit medicines, leaving a factory director alarmed by the order to process them only into raw liquid.

• Fang Xi agreed with Fang Xian Dao Master to take charge of the Primordial Spirit Magic Tool after reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage and promised to help resolve the Gate of Heavenly Demons.
• The Ghost Axe True Monarch gave Fang Xi the highest authority over the supercomputer Yi, and Fang Xi installed Taiyi and ordered it to improve itself before asking for a scripture-shaped vessel.
• Cloud Pearl True Monarch learned that famous demonic-flame cultivators had suffered repeated disasters and sent Chunyu to deliver spiritual medicines to Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi rewarded Chunyu with spirit stones and a Third-grade High Rank Golden Dragon Blade, then completed revisions to the He Transforms Himself Freely Heavenly Son Commands All Spirits True Demon Technique.
• Fang Xi sent processing instructions and spirit medicines to the Ghost Axe True Monarch, and Lu Chuanwu at Creation Factory Six worried that producing only raw liquid would waste precious ingredients.

Fang Xi used the Myriad Transformations Furnace and Taiyi to refine Spirit Severing Pills, then considered the powerful treasures and technologies of Jiuzhou Realm. The chapter left him using Spiritual Root Optimization Fluid to improve his own aptitude.

• Fang Xi used the Myriad Transformations Furnace and Taiyi to refine Spirit Severing Pills, producing three genuine pills and two inferior pills while others transformed into rainbows and vanished.
• Fang Xi sent his External Nascent Soul back to Jiuzhou Realm with the inferior pills as gifts for the Endless Treasury Master, Sky Hall Master, and Heavenly Craft Pavilion Master.
• Fang Xi pondered the capabilities of the Fangxian Dao Palace and the Gate of Heavenly Demons, and considered the treasures anchoring the Gate.
• Fang Xi examined the Spiritual Root Optimization Fluid supplied by the External Nascent Soul and decided to use it before taking the Spirit Severing Pills.
• Fang Xi shattered the test tube, absorbed the purple qi from the Spiritual Root Optimization Fluid, and began refining its medicinal power.

After thirty years of seclusion, Fang Xi learned that a Three Yang Demonic Fire child flame might be available at auction and set out to obtain it. Meanwhile, Pan Yin traveled to the Western Six Regions with Jade True Monarch and Black Xuan Shangren to open an ancient Gu cultivation Secret Realm.

• Chunyu visited Fang Xi, who guided him through his worries about the Three Immortals Sect and learned that a Sacred Fire Cult elder might trade Three Yang Child Fire for a Nascent Soul Spirit Item.
• Fang Xi left Three Immortals Mountain to pursue the Three Yang Child Fire, while Chunyu admitted the Sect had found no lead on the Blood River Stone.
• Pan Yin used a Pathfinding Gu to guide an azure carriage carrying her, Jade True Monarch, and Black Xuan Shangren toward the Western Six Regions.
• Jade True Monarch and Black Xuan Shangren revealed that they had found the Gu God Token needed to open the ancient Gu cultivation Secret Realm, and Pan Yin agreed to cooperate.

Fang Xi arrived in Shaoyang City and arranged a private meeting with Jueyanzi, who sought a Nascent Soul Spirit Item to aid his breakthrough. Fang Xi offered three unusual treasures in exchange for Jueyanzi’s Three Yang Child Fire, leaving Jueyanzi to consider the final item.

• The Sickly Ghost True Lord and Zen Master Golden Light discussed monitoring the Black Dragon Sect, the Jade Qilin’s fate, and the mysterious Gu God Token.
• Fang Xi entered Shaoyang City and used the Three Talents Shop to contact Jueyanzi through Wang Siyu.
• Two days later, Jueyanzi met Fang Xi at the Heavenly Fragrance Tea House and revealed the Three Yang Child Fire he was willing to trade for a Nascent Soul Spirit Item.
• Fang Xi presented Jueyanzi with a Blood Dragon Crystal, a Seven Profound Essence Augmentation Pill, and a Seven Emotions Mirror as possible trade items.