Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi traded with Jueyanzi for a second Three Yang Child Fire and used it to evolve the Five Fire Gu into a heaven-grade Gu. The newly evolved Gu sensed something and carried Fang Xi toward a desert, where Pan Yin and two Black Dragon Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators opened the entrance to a secret realm with the Gu God Token.

• Fang Xi persuaded Jueyanzi to trade two Three Yang Child Fires, along with the three Nascent Soul Spirit Items, and learned that Jueyanzi had secretly cultivated a second Child Fire over a century.
• Fang Xi fed one Three Yang Child Fire to the Five Fire Gu and then used the other to help it evolve inside the Mountain Sea Pearl.
• Forty-nine days later, the Five Fire Gu became a heaven-grade Gu that could store up to fifteen Demonic Fires and use their power for offense and defense.
• The Five Fire Gu suddenly sensed something and rushed with Fang Xi toward a desert, where Pan Yin, Black Xuan Shangren, and Jade True Monarch had arrived using the Pathfinding Gu.
• Jade True Monarch activated the Gu God Token, causing a pillar of light to reveal an oasis and the entrance to a secret realm.

The Valley God Secret Realm opened in a spectacular display, drawing cultivators with visions of rare treasures and prompting Fang Xi to consider exploiting the entrance rather than entering himself. He sent his External Nascent Soul, disguised as Feng Shisan and equipped with the upgraded Profound Origin Eight Sceneries Bead, into the realm while he stayed outside to guard the entrance.

• Pan Yin recognized the secret realm’s visions as signs of the ancient Valley God tradition and suspected that Tianpan Mountain, with its legendary fifth-rank Gu, lay within.
• Jade True Monarch, Black Xuan Shangren, Pan Yin, and Zen Master Golden Light entered the secret realm, followed by a rush of other cultivators as some fled to report the discovery.
• Fang Xi watched the entrance from five hundred kilometers away, spotted a possible source of Blood River Stone, and decided to wait outside for an opportunity to seize treasures.
• Fang Xi obtained the upgraded Profound Origin Eight Sceneries Bead from Professor Huo Yunzi and had his External Nascent Soul possess Feng Shisan’s puppet body.
• Fang Xi sent the External Nascent Soul toward the secret realm on the White Jade Toad with the Five Fire Gu, while he stayed behind to guard the entrance.

Fang Xi entered the Valley God Secret Realm and used Gu insects to overcome its suppression while heading toward the Underground Blood River. Outside, the Sacred Fire Cult seized control of the entrance, leaving Fang Xi to watch unseen from his hidden position.

• Fang Xi found that the secret realm suppressed cultivators but not Gu insects, so he used the Profound Origin Eight Sceneries Bead to refine several Gu and reduce the suppression.
• Fang Xi rode the White Jade Toad toward the Underground Blood River to seek the Blood River Stone.
• Black Xuan Shangren and Jade True Monarch encountered a restriction around a Nine-heart Pure Bamboo grove, and Jade True Monarch began attacking it while hiding his own plans.
• Pan Yin used her Second Nascent Soul, transformed from the Golden Silkworm Gu, to seek Tianpan Mountain and its fifth-rank Gu.
• Fang Xi monitored the secret realm entrance with a concealed Wood Puppet and saw the Sacred Fire Cult arrive, drive away cultivators, and claim the area.

Fang Xi followed the Five Fire Gu into the Underground Blood River, where he discovered a Blood River Stone that had transformed into a Blood Bat. Meanwhile, Jade True Monarch revealed himself as a Yao Race spy, killed Black Xuan Shangren, and escaped after Zen Master Golden Light injured him.

• The Five Fire Gu found the Underground Blood River, and Fang Xi collected its corrosive water while the toad swallowed some and captured a winged serpent Gu.
• Fang Xi used the Taiyi Scripture to identify a Blood River Stone transformed into a Blood Bat and followed its mapped appearances through the river.
• Black Xuan Shangren broke the restrictions around the Nine-heart Pure Bamboo, but Jade True Monarch attacked him and revealed he was a Yao Race spy.
• Jade True Monarch killed Black Xuan Shangren's physical body and captured his Nascent Soul with the Monster Locking Tower.
• Zen Master Golden Light ambushed Jade True Monarch, severely injured him, and marked him with a tracking technique as the qilin escaped.
• Zen Master Golden Light turned to the Nine-heart Pure Bamboo and declared that the spiritual roots shared a karmic bond with his Buddha.

Pan Yin discovered an ancient Gu-refining formation in Tianpan Mountain and completed the fifth-tier Fortune Gu, but it escaped before she could claim it. The Fortune Gu vanished into the secret realm and appeared near Qi Baiyu, who was stabbed through the chest by a mysterious attacker.

• Pan Yin entered a hidden grotto in Tianpan Mountain and found a Gu formation designed to refine a fifth-tier Gu.
• Pan Yin read the Bronze Cauldron's inscriptions and learned that the nearly finished Fortune Gu would seek out a person with great opportunities.
• Pan Yin activated the formation and sacrificed her Gu worms and the Second Nascent Soul's origin qi to complete the Fortune Gu.
• The Fortune Gu tore through Pan Yin's restraints and escaped in a flash of five-colored light, leaving Pan Yin injured and distraught.
• Qi Baiyu fled the Sacred Fire Cult's forces, ventured into a dangerous swamp, and read the broken stele's words about the Valley God and mysterious female.
• Qi Baiyu used a defensive talisman and summoned his Heart Calming Bell, but a blood-covered green hand suddenly pierced his chest.

Fang Xi subdued the Blood River Stone’s Crimson Bat form and discovered that a mysterious Fortune Gu could divine fortune but fed on its host’s luck. He left the Underground Blood River with plans to exploit the Gu’s ability, only to find strange blue-green mist spreading across the secret realm.

• Fang Xi used the White Jade Toad, Femto-bots, and Bone Corroding Blood Flame to clear the Gu-insect swarm and sent the silver-patterned insects to search for the Blood River Stone.
• Fang Xi found the Crimson Bat guarding the Blood River Stone and tried to control it, but the stone released Pure Destructive Demonic Qi and damaged the Profound Origin Eight Sceneries Bead.
• A Five-Colored Rosy Cloud appeared, subdued the Crimson Bat, and let Fang Xi capture the Blood River Stone; Fang Xi then restrained the White Jade Spider-like Gu insect that had arrived with the cloud.
• Taiyi identified the insect as a Fortune Gu that could conceal heavenly secrets and divine good and ill fortune, but also revealed that it consumed its host’s fortune before leaving.
• Fang Xi considered using the Fortune Gu to drain other people’s luck, then rode the White Jade Toad out of the Blood River and saw blue-green mist spreading across the secret realm.

Fang Xi tried to escape the Valley God Secret Realm by locating a weak point in space while a mad Spirit Transmutation Yao Venerable’s green mist swallowed the region. He found an exit point and joined forces with Pan Yin and Jade True Monarch to break it as the mist closed in.

• Fang Xi fled the spreading green mist and used the Fortune Gu to divine that escaping through a weak point in space was auspicious.
• Fang Xi sent five-colored spirit birds to search the void while Zen Master Golden Light held back the mist with his Buddhist domain and Nine-heart Pure Bamboo.
• Fang Xi’s spirit bird found a weak point near the mist, but the Spirit Transmutation Yao Venerable’s attack overwhelmed Zen Master Golden Light and threatened to engulf it.
• Fang Xi used the Five Fire Gu’s five demonic flames to hold the mist back and struck the weak point with Black Demonic Lights, but could not shatter it alone.
• Pan Yin and Jade True Monarch emerged from the mist and offered to cooperate, and Fang Xi agreed to attack the weak point together.
• Jade True Monarch and Pan Yin struck the marked spot alongside Fang Xi, making the void fluctuate violently as the green mist drew near.

Fang Xi escaped the Valley God Secret Realm and ambushed Jade True Monarch in the Western Desert, killing him with the help of Elder Qing and the Divine Infant Sword. After collecting the spoils, Fang Xi sensed something from the direction of the Valley God Secret Realm.

• A mountain-sized Spirit Transformation Yao appeared, and Fang Xi and Jade True Monarch escaped through a void rift while Pan Yin was killed and her Nascent Soul swallowed.
• Fang Xi emerged in the Western Desert with the Fortune Gu, Blood River True Water, Blood River Stones, and other spoils, then sensed Jade True Monarch nearby.
• Fang Xi attacked Jade True Monarch with the Five Fire Gu's demonic flames, but Jade True Monarch survived and trapped him with the Monster Locking Tower.
• Fang Xi broke free with his Heavenly Phoenix Claw and summoned his true body and Elder Qing, who tore the Jade Qilin apart.
• Fang Xi bound Jade True Monarch's demon core, captured his Yao Soul with the Divine Infant Sword, and stored the corpse in the Mountain Sea Pearl.
• Fang Xi prepared to leave after searching the battlefield, then noticed a disturbance from the Valley God Secret Realm.

Fang Xi escaped the Valley God Secret Realm as Old Ancestor Fire resealed the Spirit Transmutation Yao Venerable and ordered the sects to build a lasting array. Back at Three Immortals Mountain, Fang Xi heard the aftermath from Cloud Pearl True Monarch, who offered him a Yellow Springs Ghost Fire.

• Fang Xi sensed a Spirit Transmutation Cultivator approaching the Valley God Secret Realm and slipped away before the Sacred Fire Cult's Old Ancestor Fire arrived.
• Old Ancestor Fire explained that ancient cultivators had weakened and sealed the Valley God Yao Venerable, then gave the Sacred Fire Cult a fifth-tier array plan to seal it for another thousand years.
• Fang Xi returned to Three Immortals Mountain and rested before Cloud Pearl True Monarch visited him three months later.
• Cloud Pearl True Monarch told Fang Xi that the Valley God Yao Venerable had been resealed and that Zen Master Golden Light had lost his physical body in the secret realm.
• Cloud Pearl True Monarch presented Fang Xi with a brazier containing Yellow Springs Ghost Fire, and Fang Xi offered to repay him with spirit treasures or pills.

Fang Xi accepted Cloud Pearl True Monarch’s treasure, prepared the Demonic Fire Refining Nascent Soul Great Law, and learned of the Black Dragon Sect’s destruction. A year later, he began refining the External Nascent Soul with six demonic flames, and its body entered a painful cycle of destruction and rebirth.

• Fang Xi accepted the pelvis from Cloud Pearl True Monarch and began preparing materials for the Demonic Fire Refining Nascent Soul Great Law.
• Fang Xi examined the Monster Locking Tower and the Langhuan Pill Book, deciding to leave the tower’s reforging to the Jiuzhou Realm.
• News spread that the Black Dragon Sect had been annihilated for colluding with the Demon Race, while the Gu Immortal Sect’s Supreme Elder also died and the southern front fell into chaos.
• Fang Xi’s External Nascent Soul analyzed the Fortune Gu and explained how it could draw in and later return fortune to aid a breakthrough.
• Fang Xi began the improved refining ritual, using an Ice Profound Pill and a formation to expose the External Nascent Soul to six demonic flames.
• The External Nascent Soul swallowed the mixed flames and began suffering as scorched flesh fell away and new flesh grew in its place.

Fang Xi successfully reforged his External Nascent Soul with the Six Paths Demonic Flame and set it on a path toward greater strength. After more than a decade of cultivation, Spirit Transmutation Yao Venerables began appearing across the Mortal Realm, and battles erupted at Penglai Immortal Island and Heavenly Guard City.

• The External Nascent Soul smelted six demonic flames into the Six Paths Demonic Flame and began cultivating the modified He-Transforms-Himself-Freely Heavenly Son Commanding-All-Living-Beings True Demon Art.
• Forty-nine days later, Fang Xi found that the External Nascent Soul had reached the peak of Nascent Soul Early Stage, erased its memories of the painful tempering, and gave it the Blood River Stone to refine the Divine Infant Sword.
• Fang Xi resumed cultivation and spent more than a decade strengthening his Dao heart while the Thousand Saints Sect replaced the Black Dragon Sect in the southern regions and Spirit Transmutation Yao Cultivators appeared on battlefields.
• The Crocodile Flood Dragon Ancestor attacked Penglai Immortal Island, and a beautiful woman in a blue Palace Dress intervened to fight it.
• At Heavenly Guard City, Old Ancestor Fire battled the Qilin Yao Venerable, who withdrew after their flames clashed.

Chunyu told Cloud Pearl True Monarch that Flowing Wind Sect had seized another Spirit Stone Mine, but news soon arrived that Flowing Wind True Monarch had been murdered by his eldest disciple. As Azure Void Peak erupted with signs of a breakthrough, Fang Xi revealed that he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Late Stage and strengthened his Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light.

• Chunyu reported Flowing Wind Sect's seizure of a Spirit Stone Mine, and Cloud Pearl True Monarch admitted she could not defeat Flowing Wind True Monarch or rely on Heavenly Puppet True Monarch for minor disputes.
• A Sound Transmission Talisman revealed that Flowing Wind True Monarch had died after his injured body and Dao were betrayed by his eldest disciple, who had an affair with his concubine and murdered him.
• Cloud Pearl True Monarch and Chunyu saw Spiritual Energy gather into a lake above Azure Void Peak and recognized the signs of a Great Cultivator's breakthrough.
• Cloud Pearl True Monarch ordered the disciples to stay away from Azure Void Peak while Chunyu realized Heavenly Puppet True Monarch might have reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Fang Xi revealed that he had used the Fortune Gu's fortune to aid his breakthrough and had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage at age four hundred and twenty-five.
• Fang Xi found that his Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light had reached Great Accomplishment and judged that his strengthened abilities could contend with multiple powerful opponents.

After stabilizing his breakthrough to Nascent Soul Late Stage, Fang Xi learned the location of the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and prepared to leave the Three Immortals Sect. With conflict spreading and a Spirit Transformation cultivator making a move, he turned his attention toward the Devil Race and re-refined the Divine Infant Sword with Ghost Axe True Monarch.

• Fang Xi unlocked the spirit leaf and discovered that it mapped an entrance to the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm in the Central Region, but decided to wait until he reached Spirit Transformation before going.
• Fang Xi assessed the Yao Mo Tree’s need for high-rank sacrifices and re-refined his spirit treasures while stabilizing his cultivation.
• Fang Xi gave Cloud Pearl True Monarch a Phoenix Origin Pill to repay the Three Immortals Sect before leaving Azure Void Peak.
• Fang Xi learned that a Spirit Transformation cultivator had made a move in the Western Desert and decided to target the Devil Race instead of returning to the Southern Wasteland.
• Ghost Axe True Monarch guided Fang Xi in using volcanic Fire Element Divine Light to re-refine the Divine Infant Sword, combining it with the Blood River Stone’s spirituality.

Fang Xi received control of the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars and was publicly appointed Hall Master of Law Enforcement, while Jing Yi’s successful Core Formation was overshadowed by Zhang Huahua’s rise to Nascent Soul. After inspecting the Taiyin Defense Line through the Star Pagodas, Fang Xi spoke with Demon Slayer True Monarch about their coming fight against the devils.

• Fang Xi met Fang Xian Dao Master, who explained the benefits of manipulating all elemental powers after Spirit Transformation and congratulated Fang Xi on reaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Fang Xian Dao Master transferred the authorization key for the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars to Fang Xi and arranged to publicly announce Zhang Huahua’s Nascent Soul advancement and appointment as Hall Master of Law Enforcement.
• Jing Yi successfully formed his core, then learned from the news that Zhang Huahua had advanced to Nascent Soul and gained control of a Primordial Spirit Magic Tool.
• Fang Xi attended the public appointment ceremony and watched a Star Pagoda launch into space as part of the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars.
• Fang Xi used the Taiyi Scripture to connect with the Star Pagodas, inspect the Taiyin Defense Line, and observe the human race fighting the devils.
• Demon Slayer True Monarch contacted Fang Xi, and the two expressed their hope to fight side by side soon.

Fang Xi learned that Fang Xian Dao Master had created the Three Phases Annihilate Yuan Art and planned to undergo Spirit Transformation in the Jiuzhou Realm before launching a war against the Devil Race. Back in the Western Desert, Fang Xi used the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror to cultivate the art himself, gaining the ability to transform his magical power among human, demon, and devil forms.

• Fang Xi brought Heavenly Demon Qi to the Origin Energy Research Institute, and its researchers made a major breakthrough before studying his Two Forms Unified Yuan Art.
• Fang Xian Dao Master revealed that he had developed the Three Phases Annihilate Yuan Art and planned to use it to undergo Spirit Transformation in the Jiuzhou Realm, then launch a great war.
• Fang Xian Dao Master explained that the art could help cultivators reach Void Returning through the Three Qi as One, and gave Fang Xi its complete information.
• Fang Xi returned to his Western Desert cave abode and refined Heavenly Demon Qi and True Demon Qi into a three-colored seed of magical power.
• Fang Xi used the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror to suppress the unstable seed and confirmed that his magical power could transform freely among demonic, devilish, and human forms.

After months of seclusion, Fang Xi mastered techniques that let him wield demonic and devilish powers and enhance his body, while the Fang Xian Dao Master began his Spirit Transmutation breakthrough. The breakthrough’s heavenly tribulation coincided with a Devil Race assault on Taiyin Star, leaving the Dao Master’s fate and the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Fang Xi revealed his late-stage shapeshifting-demon aura, demonstrated the Myriad Yao Armor, and easily refined the Monster Locking Tower.
• Fang Xi and Demon Slayer True Monarch joined the Fang Xian Dao Master at a remote site, where the Dao Master prepared to risk a breakthrough to Spirit Transmutation.
• After seven days, the Fang Xian Dao Master absorbed the True Martial phantom and broke through the Nascent Soul Realm as a heavenly tribulation gathered.
• The Twelve Yuan Chen Heavenly Fiend Formation stopped, and a Bull Horn Mo Race led a Devil Race assault on Taiyin Star.
• Sword Daoist Jiannan unleashed the Geng Metal Femto Sword Array from a Sky Patrol Warship, killing many Devil Race cultivators while the Bull Horn Mo Race shielded himself and his subordinates.

On Taiyin Star, the Devil Race learned that Fang Xian Dao Master was undergoing Spirit Transformation and launched a decisive assault on the Jiuzhou Realm. Ghost Axe True Monarch unleashed Hidden Dragon, killing Green Robe Demon Venerable and forcing Ao Kun to press on toward the realm while White Brow True Monarch held Fire Dome Demon Venerable back.

• Chi Lian reported that Fang Xian Dao Master was undergoing Spirit Transformation, and Ao Kun led the Demon Venerables toward the Jiuzhou Realm while Green Robe Demon Venerable left a clone to guard the Bronze Gate.
• White Brow True Monarch and Ghost Axe True Monarch moved to stop the Demon Venerables from disturbing the Dao Master's Spirit Transformation.
• Ghost Axe True Monarch activated Hidden Dragon, which severed the Virtual Network and gathered the Jiuzhou Realm's accumulated spiritual power into a dragon-shaped soul attack.
• Hidden Dragon destroyed Green Robe Demon Venerable's divine soul, while Ao Kun, Chi Lian, and Fire Dome Demon Venerable survived.
• White Brow True Monarch challenged Fire Dome Demon Venerable as Ao Kun and Chi Lian descended into the Jiuzhou Realm.

Fang Xian Dao Master endured the Five Elements Tribulation and began facing the Lightning Tribulation as the Devil Race attacked the Jiuzhou Realm. Fang Xi used the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars to delay the two Demon Venerables, but Ao Kun broke through and rushed toward the tribulation.

• Fang Xian Dao Master overcame the Five Elements Tribulation by countering its elements with spells and transforming into a merman to absorb the final surge of Dark Black Water.
• Fang Xi and Demon Slayer True Monarch learned that Hidden Dragon had killed Green Robe Demon Venerable, while Demon Slayer True Monarch left to activate the Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Formation of Heavenly Dreadful Baleful Energy.
• True Monarch Jiannan received remote charging from the Dijiang Space Station and defeated the Bull Horn Mo Race, while Demon Slayer True Monarch ordered the Sky-Space Hall forces to attack Taiyin Star.
• Fang Xian Dao Master began the Lightning Tribulation, and Fang Xi activated the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars to strike Ao Kun and Demon Venerable Chi Lian.
• Ao Kun split the formation and rushed toward Fang Xian Dao Master, while Fang Xi reappeared after the demonic blade struck him, badly depleted but still blocking Demon Venerable Chi Lian.

Fang Xi survived Ao Kun Demon Venerable’s attack and fought Demon Venerable Chi Lian while Fang Xian Dao Master advanced to Spirit Transmutation and sealed Ao Kun. Fang Xi and Fang Xian Dao Master rushed to Taiyin Star, where Green Head Demon Venerable arrived through the Bronze Gate and confronted the newly advanced Dao Master.

• Fang Xi used a blood-transformation secret art to survive Ao Kun Demon Venerable’s attack, then trapped Demon Venerable Chi Lian in the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars and struck her with the Divine Infant Sword.
• Fang Xian Dao Master used the Spirit Transmutation heavenly tribulation to unlock the Fangxian Dao Palace, reached Spirit Transmutation Early Stage, and sealed Ao Kun Demon Venerable.
• Fang Xian Dao Master told Fang Xi that Devil Race reinforcements were coming, and they hurried to Taiyin Star to support Demon Slayer True Monarch.
• Green Head Demon Venerable emerged from the Bronze Gate, used a spiritual sense attack against the defenders, and prepared to strike Demon Slayer True Monarch, who was pinned by seven demonic nails.
• Fang Xi and Fang Xian Dao Master arrived in time to block Green Head Demon Venerable’s attack, and Fang Xian Dao Master transformed into a Spirit Transmutation Demon Venerable to challenge him.

Fang Xi was trapped inside the Blood Fiend Banner, where he wounded the Devil Race elder before escaping the treasure’s void. He returned to the White Bone Altar and killed the purple-horned demon guarding it, interrupting the defenders’ formation.

• Fang Xi used the Star Lord Incarnation’s stellar radiance to attack the White Bone Altar, but the seven Heavenly Mad Battle Demons blocked it with their array.
• The aged Devil Race member drew Fang Xi into the Blood Fiend Banner’s inner void and tried to kill him with its power.
• Fang Xi wounded the elder with the Divine Infant Sword and Six Paths Demonic Flame, then escaped the Blood Fiend Void.
• The Ghost Axe True Monarch prepared to unleash the Six Annihilation Secret Array as the Devil Race defenders held the altar and the Bronze Gate’s demon tide briefly stopped.
• Fang Xi summoned his External Nascent Soul back, used the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror to return to the altar, and killed the purple-horned Devil Race member with a sword strike.