Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi opened the Valley God Secret Realm, subdued the Valley God Yao Venerable, and killed it to claim its remains. He explored the realm for treasures and Gu-cultivation methods, including recipes for refining and upgrading the Fortune Gu, but left uncertain whether he would pursue them.

• Fang Xi ordered Zen Master Golden Light and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators to open the formation, revealing the Valley God Yao Venerable behind the scarlet barrier.
• Fang Xi used wind, fire, and thunder to distract the demon, then bound it with divine sense and activated the secret realm's formation to put it to sleep.
• Fang Xi poisoned the demon, broke its Indestructible Body, and cut off its head before dispersing its soul and collecting its demonic core.
• Fang Xi stored the demon's corpse in the Mountain Sea Pearl and decided its remains, soul, and core could help improve the Yao Mo Tree.
• Fang Xi explored the secret realm and found mostly Gu-cultivation materials, along with methods for refining and upgrading the Fortune Gu.
• Fang Xi judged the Fortune Gu's advancement requirements too difficult to pursue without an opportunity and decided to treat it as a tool.

Fang Xi reinforced the Vast Sea Realm seal but could not kill the Black Taisui, while his External Incarnation sensed a failed attempt to divine him. When Kong Sang Marketplace fell under attack, Fang Xi watched from afar as Meng Zhu Zi and his siblings tried to escape amid the ensuing chaos.

• Fang Xi modified the Cloud Nether Cold Light Array and resealed the Black Taisui, though his attempt to kill it failed.
• The Fortune Gu detected a weak attempt to divine Fang Xi, which he suspected came from a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Fang Xi saw Kong Sang Marketplace engulfed in flames after its Fifth-grade formation was breached, and prepared his own defenses.
• Meng Zhu Zi led Ke Pingyuan and Zuo Xiaoxuan through the collapsing marketplace as Rogue Cultivators looted and attacked fleeing cultivators.
• Three attackers with Core Formation Level magic power struck at Meng Zhu Zi and his siblings.

Meng Zhu Zi, Zuo Xiaoxuan, and Ke Pingyuan fled the breached Kong Sang Marketplace to Sang Qing Peak, where Fang Xi revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation to protect them. He challenged Wang Lingdao to a ten-move wager, and after Fang Xi’s demonic flame ruined Wang Lingdao’s treasure, he proposed they call the contest a draw.

• Meng Zhu Zi, Zuo Xiaoxuan, and Ke Pingyuan escaped an ambush and sought refuge at Sang Qing Peak.
• Fang Xi let the three enter his formation, then drove off nearby cultivators with his Nascent Soul Late Stage spiritual pressure.
• Wang Lingdao arrived and demanded that Fang Xi hand over the three, explaining that the Reverse Water Alliance had attacked the marketplace and the Imperial Dragon Sect had targeted the Black Water Sect.
• Fang Xi refused to surrender the three and proposed a ten-move contest in which the winner could make one small request.
• Wang Lingdao attacked with coin swords and his three-legged golden toad, but Fang Xi shattered the swords and burned Wang Lingdao’s Myriad Treasures Golden Coin with demonic flame.
• Fang Xi claimed the flame had exhausted most of his magic power and suggested calling their wager a draw.

Fang Xi secured Sang Qing Peak and a thousand li of land after helping Wang Lingdao take control of Kong Sang Marketplace, while the Black Water Sect was destroyed by the Imperial Dragon Sect. After hearing that the Imperial Dragon Sect controlled a Void Returning dragon with a Blood Soul Token, Fang Xi considered attacking the sect and taking the token.

• Fang Xi defeated Wang Lingdao, then accepted the Wang Family’s control of the marketplace in exchange for keeping his abode and receiving a thousand li of land.
• Wang Lingdao spared Meng Zhuzi after confirming he had no connection to the Spirit Transmutation Yao Venerable, while Meng Zhuzi left without returning Ke Pingyuan’s savings and Zuo Xiaoxuan mourned their broken bonds.
• Wang Lingdao opened the Myriad Treasures Pavilion in Kong Sang Marketplace, and Fang Xi later accepted new contracts granting him Sang Qing Peak and a thousand li of land.
• Fang Xi summoned Zuo Xiaoxuan, who asked for a Five Elements Spirit Fruit and offered to serve him; she reported that the Imperial Dragon Sect had destroyed the Black Water Sect and killed or scattered its Spirit Transmutation Cultivators.
• Fang Xi learned that the Imperial Dragon Sect’s Void Returning dragon was controlled by a Blood Soul Token and considered destroying the sect to seize it.

After a Jiazi Cycle, Fang Xi found that the Yao Mo Tree and Mysterious Turtle Egg still could not advance in the Mortal Realm, while a newly refined True Blood Pill strengthened his body and cultivation. In the Earth Immortal Realm, he began fishing Dragon Salamanders for pill ingredients and traded with Zuo Xiaoxuan amid the continuing chaos in the Profound Nether Abyss.

• Fang Xi concluded that the Mortal Realm lacked the conditions for the Yao Mo Tree to break through and for the Mysterious Turtle Egg to hatch, so he planned to move the tree to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Fang Xi opened a shipment of True Blood Pills, learned that the Jiuzhou Realm had perfected their formula, and endured seven days of intense medicinal power that also tempered his body.
• Fang Xi fished a Dragon Salamander from the Profound Nether Abyss and planned to profit by refining its materials into True Blood Pills.
• Fang Xi returned to Sang Qing Peak and judged that the Wang Household and Reverse Water Alliance’s ongoing conflict left room for him to act without drawing attention.
• Zuo Xiaoxuan delivered Spirit Materials to Fang Xi, and he rewarded her with Purifying Water Pills to trade among Profound Nether Abyss cultivators.

Fang Xi advanced his fifth-tier Nine Nether Profound Sand Underworld River Great Array and considered how to combine it with his other divine abilities. After Meng Zhu Zi and Wang Lingdao discussed his dealings, Fang Xi sailed into the Profound Nether Abyss and tested the array flag at sea.

• Fang Xi refined Xuan Ming Crystal into Demonic Yin Thunders and Xuan Ming Divine Sand, bringing his Nine Nether Profound Sand Underworld River Great Array to minor mastery.
• Fang Xi met Meng Zhu Zi at the Heavenly Immortal Restaurant, accepted his thanks, and let him pay for the meal.
• Meng Zhu Zi reported to Wang Lingdao that Qing Hezi was using Purifying Water Pills to buy spirit items, and Wang Lingdao ordered that he not be provoked for now.
• Fang Xi sailed toward the Profound Nether Abyss to fish, avoiding the deeper Misty Sea because True Armor Whales frequented it.
• At Ghost Gate Reef, Fang Xi shook the Xuan Ming Array Flag and released the black river array, demonstrating that one flag could contain the entire formation.

Fang Xi fished and refined his Xuan Ming Banner in the Profound Nether Abyss until a sudden Xuan Ming Rain revealed a colossal Giant Kun emerging from the abyss. He fled the Void Returning beast and realized the Eye of the Sea could shelter other Primordial Savage Beasts.

• Fang Xi refined the Nine Nether Profound Sand Underworld River Great Array with materials from the Profound Nether Abyss, then went fishing near the Misty Sea.
• Fang Xi fished for three months, refining the array and catching aquatic beasts while avoiding the True Armor Whale.
• When Xuan Ming Rain began, Fang Xi absorbed it with the Xuan Ming Banner and brewed tea as a five-hundred-year-old horned Dragon Salamander appeared.
• Fang Xi saw a vast school of aquatic beasts worshipping a thousand-year-old Dragon Salamander, while a True Armor Whale swam among them.
• A Giant Kun emerged from the Profound Nether Abyss, stirring the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and causing the Xuan Ming Rain; Fang Xi recognized its Void Returning might and retreated.
• Fang Xi escaped the Giant Kun and concluded that the Eye of the Sea might connect to a realm inhabited by other terrifying creatures.

After escaping the Profound Nether Abyss, Fang Xi fortified Sang Qing Peak, prepared his companions for his travels, and brought the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree into the Earth Immortal Realm. He discovered that the realm’s laws might finally allow the tree and the Mysterious Turtle Egg to advance.

• Fang Xi fled the Giant Kun and the Xuan Ming Rain clouds, then decided to rest and buy spiritual objects in larger quantities.
• Fang Xi learned that his Fang Yuan identity had supposedly formed a Core, ordered Zuo Xiaoxuan to buy spiritual objects without limits, and gave her a Demonic Yin Thunder for protection.
• Fang Xi deployed the Xuan Ming Banner with Sang Qing Peak’s formation, raising its Mountain Protection Array from fourth rank to fifth rank.
• Fang Xi ordered Da Qing and Xiao Qing to stay behind and guard the Mortal Realm with Hongyu, then gave Xiao Qing a True Blood Pill while refusing Da Qing one.
• Fang Xi returned to the Earth Immortal Realm with the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree and sensed its joy as it responded to the realm’s stronger laws.

Zuo Xiaoxuan defied Meng Zhu Zi in Kong Sang Marketplace, while Fang Xi protected her and prepared for the Wang Family’s response. The Ancestor Yao Mo Tree survived its tribulation and reached the fifth tier, bringing Fang Xi to Spirit Transformation and leaving him ready to negotiate with the Wang Family.

• Zuo Xiaoxuan threatened Meng Zhu Zi with a fourth-tier lightning bead, forcing him to let her leave the marketplace.
• Zuo Xiaoxuan reported the encounter to Fang Xi, who reassured her that the Wang Family would not attack and gave her pills in exchange for her supplies.
• The Ancestor Yao Mo Tree began its breakthrough, and Zuo Xiaoxuan and Wang Lingdao recognized the Spirit Transformation phenomenon.
• The Ancestor Yao Mo Tree survived its heavenly tribulation and advanced to the fifth tier, while Fang Xi’s Eternal Evergreen Body broke through and his lifespan increased.
• Fang Xi sensed that the Mysterious Turtle Egg was nearing hatching and planned to negotiate with the Wang Family for a larger share of True Blood Pills.

Fang Xi learned from Venerable Hei Miao that the Imperial Dragon Sect periodically harvested subordinate Spirit Transmutation forces to feed its Flood Dragons, but declined to ally with the Black Water Sect. A month later, the Wang Family Old Ancestor and Dragon Capturer visited Sang Qing Peak to congratulate Fang Xi on his breakthrough.

• Fang Xi discovered a hidden message in Xiyi Rogue's invitation and spoke with Venerable Hei Miao through a water mirror.
• Venerable Hei Miao warned Fang Xi that the Imperial Dragon Sect harvested Spirit Transmutation forces to feed its Flood Dragons and offered an alliance.
• Fang Xi refused to commit to the Black Water Sect, noting he could leave the region and asking whether it possessed a Fifth-grade Spiritual Treasure.
• Fang Xi ended the conversation and dismissed Venerable Hei Miao's water mirror, having no intention of allying with the Black Water Sect.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor and Dragon Capturer arrived at Sang Qing Peak and entered Fang Xi's formation.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor presented Cloud Cotton Ginseng, while Dragon Capturer offered a bone as congratulatory gifts to Fang Xi.

Fang Xi used the skull of a Spirit Transmutation Buddha’s Son to display his demonic fire, then bargained with the Imperial Dragon Sect for control of Kong Sang Marketplace by promising a larger True Blood Pill tribute. Dragon Capturer proposed a magic duel to settle the dispute, and the Wang Family Old Ancestor opened the fight with an earth-element attack.

• Dragon Capturer presented Fang Xi with a Buddha’s Son’s skull, and Fang Xi refined it into a White Bone Sarira using the Six Paths Demonic Flame.
• Fang Xi asked to remain in the Profound Nether Abyss and claim Kong Sang Marketplace, offering to increase the Wang Family’s True Blood Pill tribute by twenty percent.
• Dragon Capturer accepted Fang Xi’s offer, while the Wang Family Old Ancestor protested losing the marketplace and facing a higher tribute quota.
• Dragon Capturer suggested that Fang Xi and the Wang Family Old Ancestor settle the dispute with a magic duel, and Fang Xi agreed despite being forbidden to use his demonic flame.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor summoned an armored earth giant and sent a storm of rune-covered boulders crashing toward Fang Xi.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation defeated the Wang Family Old Ancestor in a staged battle to win Dragon Capturer’s trust, then Fang Xi’s true body ambushed the fleeing Wang with Thousand Absolute Poison. The chapter ended with Fang Xi attacking the severely poisoned Wang again.

• Fang Xi transformed into the Five Prisons Peacock Demonic Body and overwhelmed the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s Earth Spirit Giant.
• The Wang Family Old Ancestor used a damaged Fifth-grade Spiritual Treasure to defend himself, but Fang Xi’s Scarlet Giant Sword and Divine Infant Sword wounded him and forced him to flee.
• Dragon Capturer agreed to let Fang Xi decide the marketplace’s affairs after Fang Xi demonstrated his hostility toward the Wang Family.
• Fang Xi’s true body ambushed the fleeing Wang Family Old Ancestor with Thousand Absolute Poison, leaving him severely injured.
• Fang Xi struck again with his Green Grain Sword and Qing He Invisible Needles as the poison weakened Wang.

Fang Xi defeated the Wang Family Old Ancestor, captured his Nascent Soul, and searched its memories before disguising himself as the Old Ancestor. He infiltrated the Wang Family and left them believing their leader was injured, while secretly keeping the real Old Ancestor imprisoned in the Mountain Sea Pearl.

• The Wang Family Old Ancestor abandoned his poisoned body and tried to escape, but Fang Xi trapped his Nascent Soul in the Nine Nether Underworld River and sealed it in the Monster Locking Tower.
• Fang Xi searched the Old Ancestor's soul, learned fragments of his recent memories, and used his blood and magical power to imitate his appearance and aura.
• Fang Xi entered the Wang Family's ancestral grounds disguised as the Old Ancestor and told Wang Lingying that Qing Hezi had taken the Kong Sang Marketplace and that a Spirit Transmutation Yao Venerable had wounded him.
• Wang Lingying accepted Fang Xi's explanation and used a blood compass to verify his identity, then left to handle the marketplace dispute.
• Fang Xi checked on the imprisoned Old Ancestor in the Mountain Sea Pearl and lamented that the Yao Mo Tree could not create Spirit Transmutation puppets capable of drawing on Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.

Fang Xi took control of Kong Sang Marketplace and built Evergreen Pavilion into a thriving trading hub. He then unveiled a vast mechanical offshore platform designed to increase fishing yields in the Profound Nether Abyss while keeping its output low enough to avoid drawing the Imperial Dragon Sect’s attention.

• Wang Lingdao handed Zuo Xiaoxuan the control core of the marketplace’s fifth-tier formation, then departed with the Wang Household disciples.
• Fang Xi took over Kong Sang Marketplace, renamed Myriad Treasures Pavilion Evergreen Pavilion, and promised Zuo Xiaoxuan resources and staff to run it.
• Over the following years, Zuo Xiaoxuan helped Evergreen Pavilion thrive by attracting Rogue Cultivators with valuable goods and spirit items.
• Fang Xi assembled a massive mechanical offshore platform in the Profound Nether Abyss, complete with automated fishing ships, puppets, defenses, and production facilities.
• Fang Xi planned to limit the platform’s output to avoid provoking the Imperial Dragon Sect while using the opportunity to accumulate True Blood Pills and advance his cultivation.

Fang Xi continued consolidating his control over the Wang Family while secretly benefiting from its resources and advancing his cultivation. When the Mysterious Turtle Egg began its fourth-grade transformation tribulation, lightning struck its shell as it started to crack.

• Fang Xi used the Wang Family’s spiritual vein and resources to cultivate, while Wang Lingying concealed the resulting strain from the family.
• Wang Lingying reported that the Wang Family fleet had suffered heavy losses after clashing with Qing Hezi’s mechanical island, and Fang Xi agreed to send Charm Technique practitioners as a possible ruse.
• Fang Xi ordered the family to raise its newly discovered Immortal Seedlings and limited Wang Xuanding’s request to borrow Good Deeds for a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Fang Xi sensed the Mysterious Turtle Egg’s transformation tribulation, took it to a remote place, and watched azure lightning strike its shell as cracks appeared.

Fang Xi watched the Little Mysterious Tortoise hatch, discovered its powerful concealment talent, and resumed cultivating while waiting for his Eternal Evergreen Body to advance. After the Nine Radiance Seal was repaired, he learned that the Mo Family Mechanical City would hold a Grand Auction near the Profound Nether Abyss in a year and sent Wang Lingying and Wang Lingdao to attend.

• The Little Mysterious Tortoise hatched during the Fourth-grade Heavenly Tribulation, ate its eggshell, and could not transform into human form.
• Fang Xi named the turtle Little Mysterious Tortoise and discovered its Turtle Breath talent could hide it even from his Spirit Transformation-level divine sense.
• Fang Xi tended to the turtle and the Yao Mo Tree while his Eternal Evergreen Body's transformation progressed beyond halfway.
• Fang Xi tested the repaired Nine Radiance Seal and found it could transform into a powerful Fifth-grade Yao Tiger.
• Wang Lingying told Fang Xi that the Mo Family Mechanical City would arrive near the Profound Nether Abyss in a year for its Grand Auction.
• Fang Xi declined to attend and ordered Wang Lingying and Wang Lingdao to seek Nascent Soul Spirit Items at the auction.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation advanced the Divine Infant Sword to a fifth-grade Spiritual Treasure using the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s Nascent Soul. When the Mo Family Mechanical City arrived at Kong Sang Marketplace, Fang Xi visited it for intelligence and learned of major events across the Earth Immortal Realm, including the Sky-Turning Great Sage’s attack and the Imperial Dragon Sect’s hunt for a Spirit Transcendence cultivator.

• Fang Xi used the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s Nascent Soul to advance the Divine Infant Sword into a fifth-grade Spiritual Treasure.
• The Mo Family Mechanical City arrived near Kong Sang Marketplace, drawing cultivators away from the marketplace.
• Fang Xi entered the Mechanical City in disguise and asked an intelligence seller for news about the Star Domain and the human race.
• The intelligence seller reported that the Sky-Turning Great Sage had infiltrated the Yan Xuan Domain and destroyed a sect guarded by a Body Integration Cultivator.
• The intelligence seller said the Star Sect had accepted a disciple with a Star Body and the Imperial Dragon Sect was still pursuing a Spirit Transcendence cultivator from the Black Water Sect.

Fang Xi helped Li Rulíng escape his debt-bound life by giving him a cultivation technique and pills, then waited for Mechanism City's Grand Auction to begin. At the auction, he saw Fairy Luan Bing and a mysterious Void Returning cultivator before entering a private room.

• Fang Xi watched Li Rulíng argue with the Old Fu Family Shop owner over damaged talisman paper and an extended service contract.
• Fang Xi secretly summoned Li Rulíng and gave him the Profound Talisman Secret Record and a bottle of pills, identifying himself as the guest lecturer from Fei Ri City.
• Li Rulíng recognized Fang Xi as Fang Yuan, a legendary benefactor of the Li Family, and returned to the shop.
• Fang Xi rented a cave abode and waited until a pillar of light announced the start of the Grand Auction.
• Fang Xi saw Fairy Luan Bing and a silver-robed Void Returning cultivator arrive, then passed an asset check and entered a private room.

Fang Xi attended the Ink Sect's auction, where he bought Ten Thousand Year Yellow Springs Wood for his array flags and watched the bidding over the Golden Scale Boat. The auction continued after Luan Bing yielded the boat to Dragon Capturer, but her pointed remark left Mo Yin Jiao displeased.

• Fang Xi studied the auction catalogue and took particular interest in the Ten Thousand Year Yellow Springs Wood and the sixth-grade Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella.
• Mo Yin Jiao opened the auction, and Purple Wind Spirit Lord praised his stone puppets while another cultivator hinted at the Ink Sect's secrets.
• Fang Xi outbid another cultivator for the Ten Thousand Year Yellow Springs Wood at sixty-three Top-grade Spirit Stones and verified its quality with his Yellow Springs Ghost Fire.
• Luan Bing bid two hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones for the Golden Scale Boat, but Dragon Capturer outbid her by one stone.
• Luan Bing stopped bidding and told Dragon Capturer he could have the treasure, while Mo Yin Jiao appeared displeased after the auction concluded.

At the auction, Mo Yin Jiao revealed the damaged Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella and demonstrated its ability to absorb a Spirit Transformation lightning pearl. The umbrella drew fierce barter bids from powerful cultivators, while Fang Xi decided not to compete and left the hall.

• Mo Yin Jiao displayed the Myriad Skull Ring, and cultivators bid on the last-minute demonic treasure despite its horrific means of creation.
• Mo Yin Jiao presented the damaged Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella and showed it absorbing a Spirit Transformation lightning pearl without harming him.
• Mo Yin Jiao announced that the umbrella could only be exchanged for specified pills and spirit herbs, prompting Purple Wind Spirit Lord and other cultivators to discuss their offers.
• An Imperial Dragon Sect cultivator claimed his sect could provide the required quantity of True Blood Pills, and Fang Xi privately resolved to reclaim the umbrella if the sect obtained it.
• Several cultivators began bidding with rare pills and Ten Thousand Year Spirit Medicine, while Fang Xi left the auction hall to avoid possible violence.