Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi secured the secret realm’s entrance and sent Nascent Soul cultivators inside to explore while monitoring their progress through a sand table. As the explorers died and revealed the realm’s layers, he prepared to refine the entire Earth Immortal Spirit Realm with the Heaven Refining Great Array.

• Yun Xi Fairy identified the dangerous Myriad Wood Mother Qi, and the cultivators read the secret realm’s entrance as the Immortal Mansion of Longevity and Immortality and the Blessed Land of Longevity Equal to Heaven.
• Fang Xi used Phoenix Seal Script formations to fix the entrance open, then ordered Nascent Soul cultivators to enter with Secret Star Talismans and prioritized those with strong Wood attributes.
• Gu Tengzi absorbed Myriad Wood Mother Qi to approach a Seven-Colored Sacred Heart Lotus, but he became a wooden statue and died; a red-haired demonic cultivator and a child-bodied cultivator were also killed by powerful wood creatures.
• Liu Xu reached a jade-like mountain and triggered a Formal Disciple Assessment that drew her into an illusion.
• Fang Xi used the explorers’ deaths and the sand table to map the realm’s outer Divine Wood Forest and inner mountain, then ordered the Heaven Refining Great Array prepared so he could refine the entire realm.

Fang Xi and his allies attacked the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm with a composite great array, defeating its guardians and breaking into its inner defenses. As Fang Xi confronted the possessed Liu Xu in the Azure Emperor Palace, the palace’s Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light unexpectedly flowed into him without harming him.

• Fang Xi used the Heaven Refining Great Array and Nine Nether Profound Sand Underworld River Great Array to breach the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm, while his allies defeated its Ten Thousand Year Wood Sprite, Heavenly Wood Spirit General, and wooden flood dragons.
• The assault exposed a secret chamber where the possessed Liu Xu mourned the vanished servants of her master and learned that the attackers had killed the Heavenly Wood Spirit General.
• Fang Xi’s group destroyed the outer barrier and confronted Liu Xu, who revealed that her master had severed the Mortal Realm’s connection with the Upper Realm and established the Eight Gates Divine Wood Great Array.
• Fang Xi used Taiyi’s calculations and the Jiuzhou Mechanism City’s star formations to breach the wooden wall, then pursued Liu Xu into the Azure Emperor Palace.
• Liu Xu activated the palace’s Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light against Fang Xi, but the light entered his body as if welcoming him, leaving her shocked.

Fang Xi opened the true Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and discovered the Chun Qiu Tree’s immortal youth, who recognized his unusual cultivation and attacked him. As Jiuzhou Mechanism City restrained the youth, Fang Xi fought back, but the youth began invoking the Withered Glory Profound Light and Supreme Northern Dipper.

• Fang Xi defeated the possessed Fairy Liu Xu, learned that the flower fairy’s soul had fused with her, and brought her back to Mechanism City for confinement.
• Fang Xi destroyed the Azure Emperor Palace and opened a rift into the true Earth Immortal Spirit Realm, revealing its vast stores of Immortal Origin Qi and the Chun Qiu Tree.
• The Chun Qiu Tree produced a youth ginseng fruit, and the awakened Earth Immortal youth recognized Fang Xi’s power and attacked him.
• The Earth Immortal youth used hidden restraints in the Withered Glory Art to hinder Fang Xi, but Fang Xi switched to demonic techniques and struck him with the Four Sacred Beast Armor.
• Taiyi and the External Incarnation used Jiuzhou Mechanism City to trap and restrain the youth, allowing Fang Xi to attack him at close range.
• The Earth Immortal youth summoned the Withered Glory Profound Light and began casting Supreme Northern Dipper against Fang Xi.

Fang Xi fought the Earth Immortal youth inside his Spirit Domain, resisting his life-draining divine ability and surviving an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure’s sword strike. The old Earth Immortal revealed that he was a Body Integration Cultivator and entered Fang Xi’s Sea of Consciousness to seize his body.

• The Earth Immortal youth used the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light, but Fang Xi’s Eternal Evergreen Body and the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree helped him endure its lifespan drain.
• The youth opened his Spirit Domain, cut Fang Xi off from the Jiuzhou Mechanism City, and shattered his Fifth-grade Spiritual Treasure and Four Sacred Beast Armor.
• Fang Xi realized the youth’s body was failing from his injuries and limited ability to attack.
• The youth wielded a cyan broken sword that Fang Xi recognized as an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure, and its strike cleaved the Spirit Domain apart.
• Fang Xi survived the sword with a demonic Calamity Substitution Secret Technique, prompting the old Earth Immortal to reveal his greed and burn away his body.
• The old Earth Immortal revealed his half-materialized Nascent Soul and Body Integration Cultivation before teleporting into Fang Xi’s Sea of Consciousness to seize his body.

Fang Xi defeated Chang Qingzi’s rebellious Second Nascent Soul and absorbed his memories, gaining the complete Withered Glory Art and knowledge of the path to immortality. As the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm collapsed and the Central Region began to recover, Fang Xi learned Chang Qingzi’s history and reflected on the dangers of the Second Nascent Soul technique.

• Fang Xi used the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror to shatter Chang Qingzi’s soul and memorized his cultivation methods and memories.
• Little Qing, Ghost Axe, Demon Slayer, and the Bai Family Old Ancestor rushed into the collapsing Earth Immortal Spirit Realm to seize its remaining treasures.
• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation let the cultivators plunder the realm, while rain brought the first signs of revival to the Central Region.
• Fang Xi woke and studied the complete Withered Glory Art, learning its path to Void Returning, Great Ascension, and eventual immortality.
• Fang Xi learned that Chang Qingzi had descended to the Lower Realm after his Second Nascent Soul rebelled and had sought a worthy body to seize.

Fang Xi studied Chang Qingzi’s Earth Immortal inheritance, refined the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword enough to store it in his dantian, and prepared to cultivate the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light in another Lesser Realm. After decades passed, he marked his thousandth birthday by refusing a grand celebration and offered to take qualified companions with him when he ascended in roughly one or two hundred years.

• Fang Xi decided to cultivate the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light outside the Earth Immortal Realm and named the broken Immortal Sword the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword.
• Fang Xi mastered more of the Withered Glory Art and convened the cultivators who had explored the secret realms to distribute their rewards and bind them to an Immortal Spirit Document.
• Fang Xi offered Ghost Axe Venerable and Demon Venerable Slayer the use of the Ascension Platform, and they chose to wait until reaching Spirit Transmutation Completion.
• Fang Xi spent decades refining the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword until he could store it in his dantian, then considered going to the Ming Huan Realm to practice the divine light.
• Fang Xi received Zhong Hongyu, Liu Xu, Ling Shu, and Shui Lingxin at Evergreen Hall for his thousandth birthday and declined to hold a grand banquet.
• Fang Xi told Shui Lingxin that he planned to ascend in one or two hundred years and invited her and others to join him if they had reached Spirit Transformation.

Fang Xi returned to the Witch Tribe secret realm and revealed his Spirit Transformation power, alarming the Primordial Demonic Sect and its two Nascent Soul inspectors. He told the Witch Tribe People that he would open the secret realm and let them choose whether to leave, leaving their fate in their own hands.

• Fang Xi entered the Witch Tribe secret realm in concealment and remembered Danya, wondering whether she could still be alive.
• Fang Xi released his Spirit Transformation pressure, and the Witch Tribe People mistook him for a heavenly god and knelt before him.
• At the Primordial Demonic Sect's Hall of Inspection, Xia and Zhuo discussed the old incident in which Fang Xi had killed the Holy Son, unaware that he had entered the secret realm again.
• Xia and Zhuo detected the intrusion and saw Fang Xi's enormous face in the monitoring mirror, which shattered under his power; they called for the Supreme Elder.
• Fang Xi spoke to the Witch Tribe People in their language and offered to open the secret realm so they could decide whether to leave or stay.

Fang Xi opened Void Rifts that gave the Witch Tribe People a chance to leave their secret realm, then crossed into the Ming Huan Realm. He began seeking a suitable place to cultivate and gained information from Master Xiyu at the Fine Rain Pavilion.

• Fang Xi opened Void Rifts, and a Great Witch charged through one while a Witch King urged the others to be cautious.
• The Primordial Demonic Sect's Holy Maiden sensed that the day was unsuitable for spell combat and kept her group from confronting Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi opened a Void Passage with the Fourth-generation Qing He Sword and traveled into the Ming Huan Realm.
• Fang Xi sensed the realm's abundant Spiritual Energy and decided to find a cultivation force and ask about the region.
• At the Fine Rain Pavilion, Master Xiyu welcomed Fang Xi after learning he was a Spirit Transmutation Cultivator.
• Fang Xi asked Master Xiyu ordinary questions and offered him pointers on formations, leaving the Nascent Soul cultivator grateful.

Fang Xi settled in Ligou Immortal City and spent decades cultivating the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light with his fifth-tier Life and Death Seal. As his divine ability neared mastery, Zen Master Zhuiyue faced a challenge from the Taiqing Sect and decided the Carefree Alliance must ask Fang Xi to emerge from seclusion.

• Fang Xi entered Ligou Immortal City in secret and persuaded Zen Master Zhuiyue to let him cultivate quietly on Little Moon Lake.
• Fang Xi built a secluded cave abode, considered his plans for reaching Void Returning, and reforged the Life and Death Seal to cultivate the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light.
• After decades of seclusion, Fang Xi brought the divine light close to its mastery threshold and assessed its ability to threaten cultivators across a major realm.
• Zen Master Zhuiyue met with three Nascent Soul cultivators and learned that the Taiqing Sect had demanded a battle over the Spirit Mines and the next Grand Auction.
• Recognizing that the Carefree Alliance could not settle the conflict peacefully, Zen Master Zhuiyue said they would have to ask Fang Xi to come out of seclusion.

Zen Master Zhuiyue tried to recruit Fang Xi to help protect the Carefree Alliance and Ligou Immortal City from the Taiqing Sect, but he refused to avoid trouble while cultivating a secret technique. Years later, the Taiqing Sect arrived to challenge the city, while Fang Xi mastered the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light and triggered a strange crimson rain.

• Zen Master Zhuiyue told Fang Xi that the Primordial Demonic Sect had challenged the Carefree Alliance and the Taiqing Sect was seeking control of Ligou Immortal City's Grand Auction.
• Zen Master Zhuiyue offered Fang Xi her Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Nourishing Wood Buddhist beads to enlist his help, but Fang Xi returned them and refused.
• Several years later, Old Ghost Min arrived at Ligou Immortal City aboard the Taiqing Divine Thunder Ship, and Zen Master Zhuiyue proposed deciding their dispute through three battles between Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Fang Xi mastered the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light in seclusion, and crimson rain began falling over Ligou Immortal City.

After Fang Xi mastered the entry-level Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light, a Heaven-shaking phenomenon revealed his power to the Ming Huan Realm’s sects. He gained the Taiqing Sect’s concession over Ligou Immortal City’s Grand Auction and received Zen Master Zhuiyue’s Buddhist prayer beads.

• A female Taiqing Sect Nascent Soul Cultivator defeated Ligou Immortal City’s champion, so Zen Master Zhuiyue conceded that the Taiqing Sect could host the Grand Auction.
• The Heavenly Blood Rain and Ghosts and Gods Weeping phenomenon prompted Zen Master Zhuiyue to identify the cultivator in seclusion as Yun Jiezi, a visitor from another realm.
• After three days, Fang Xi emerged having mastered the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light and cautioned himself about its limits against Void Returning Cultivators.
• Fang Xi met Zen Master Zhuiyue and Min Hongru, discussed the Grand Auction, and secured Min Hongru’s promise that it would proceed in Ligou Immortal City.
• Min Hongru returned to the Taiqing Sect and urged its cultivators to endure Fang Xi by relying on their sect’s defenses rather than confronting him.
• Zen Master Zhuiyue left Fang Xi a string of Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Nourishing Wood prayer beads, which he recognized as a treasure for warding off Inner Demons.

Chang Qingzi learned that someone from the Ming Huan Realm had triggered the Heaven-Watching Disk and arranged for a Winged Tribe cultivator to descend, while Taiqing Sect received orders to capture Fang Xi. Fang Xi attended Ligou Immortal City’s marketplace, bought a mysterious urn, and confronted True Lord Wanbao, who coveted it before reacting in shock to Fang Xi’s prayer beads.

• Chang Qingzi ordered an Early Void Returning Winged Tribe member sent to the Lower Realm, then traded Purple Pattern Longevity Pills and Purple Profound Wood to Five Elements Son for Ming Huan Realm ascendants and World-Breaking Incense.
• Min Hongru and two Taiqing Sect Spirit Transformation Cultivators received their patriarch’s command to capture Fang Xi, though Min Hongru doubted they could safely attack him.
• Fang Xi continued cultivating at Little Moon Lake, then visited Ligou Immortal City’s marketplace to shop before leaving the realm and refining his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Fang Xi walked away when True Lord Wanbao outbid him for a Spiritual Treasure fragment, then bought a Golden Silver Urn from a young girl in exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• True Lord Wanbao demanded the urn after Fang Xi completed the trade, but froze in shock when Fang Xi produced a string of Black Wood Gold Thread Prayer Beads.

Fang Xi intimidated Monarch Wanbao into giving him a rare fragment and his Treasured Eyes Technique, then discovered that a seemingly ordinary jar concealed a Golden Silver Bean Mother, a spiritual root that could produce Dao Soldier seeds. As the Grand Auction continued, Min Hongru and Old Demon Gong secretly coordinated to keep someone inside Ligou Immortal City until emissaries from the Upper Realm arrived.

• Fang Xi revealed Zen Master Zhuiyue’s prayer beads to Monarch Wanbao, who surrendered a Fifth-grade Fragment and a copy of his Treasured Eyes Technique.
• During the Grand Auction, Fang Xi crushed the Golden Silver Urn and uncovered a brass-colored seed that reacted to his Withered Glory Art.
• Fang Xi identified the seed as a Golden Silver Bean Mother, capable of producing beans that could be refined into Dao Soldiers of increasing strength as the plant matured.
• The auction opened its centerpiece offerings with a Three Cavern True Pill, while Fang Xi judged it unimpressive.
• Outside Ligou Immortal City, Min Hongru and Old Demon Gong discussed their shortage of allies and planned to delay Zen Master Zhuiyue with a private exchange meeting while they awaited Upper Realm emissaries.

Fang Xi discovered that Spirit Transmutation Cultivators from the Righteous and Demonic Paths had been monitoring him outside Ligou Immortal City, and he confronted them. The chapter ended as five Spirit Transmutation Cultivators attacked together and Fang Xi summoned his seals to meet them.

• Old Demon Gong proposed using rumors of top-tier treasures to keep Spirit Transmutation Cultivators from leaving, while the Holy Maiden chose to return to the sect and open the True Demon Hall.
• After the Grand Auction, Fang Xi examined the Treasured Eyes Technique and grew suspicious when the high-level exchange gathering was delayed.
• Fang Xi expanded his divine sense beyond Ligou Immortal City, discovered eye-patterned Bewitching Butterflies, and destroyed several of them.
• Old Demon Gong and Old Demon Zhan discussed their suspicions about Fang Xi when his Nine Radiance Seal broke through their concealment.
• Fang Xi confronted Min Hongru, Old Demon Gong, Old Demon Zhan, and two other Spirit Transmutation Cultivators as they prepared to attack him.
• Fang Xi raised the Nine Radiance Seal and Life and Death Seal, then invoked the Tai Shang Big Dipper technique against Min Hongru and Old Demon Gong.

Fang Xi killed five Spirit Transformation cultivators who had been sent to monitor him, then learned they were acting on orders tied to an upper-realm envoy. After looting the Taiqing Sect, he confronted the Primordial Demonic Sect, where a powerful demon emerged from its sealed True Demon Hall.

• Fang Xi killed Min Hongru and Old Demon Gong with the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light, then captured Old Demon Zhan and defeated the two remaining Taiqing Sect cultivators.
• Fang Xi’s battle nearly overwhelmed Ligou Immortal City’s protective formation, while Zen Master Zhuiyue shielded the city and True Monarch Wanbao realized Fang Xi’s true power.
• Fang Xi searched the captured cultivators’ souls and discovered that the five had been ordered to monitor him for an envoy from the upper realm.
• Fang Xi took the Taiqing Sect’s treasures and later looted its treasury and Spirit Herb Garden, leaving the sect devastated and near collapse.
• Fang Xi arrived at the Primordial Demonic Sect aboard the Taiqing Divine Thunder Ship as its elders opened the True Demon Hall, and a purple-lit demon emerged and swallowed the ship’s divine thunder.

Fang Xi fought the Primordial Demonic Sect’s Spirit Transmutation Completion ancestor and forced Qian Wan to negotiate from behind a Flesh Puppet. After learning the ancestor had been sealed to prevent a demonic technique from turning him into another Great Demon’s incarnation, Fang Xi realized the same hidden danger might remain in the technique he had obtained.

• Fang Xi battled the transforming Divine Demon, breaking its attacks with his treasures and Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light.
• The Divine Demon ambushed Fang Xi as a Dragon Whale Great Strength White Bone Divine Demon, but Fang Xi shattered its arm and wounded its chest with the Four Sacred Beast Armor protecting him.
• Qian Wan sealed the injured ancestor inside a coffin and approached Fang Xi through a Flesh Puppet, offering compensation to end the conflict.
• Fang Xi demanded the sealed ancestor and everything related to his demonic technique, the He Transforms Himself Freely Heavenly Son Commanding-All-Myriad-Spirits True Demon Technique.
• Qian Wan explained that the technique turned its practitioners into incarnations of a Great Demon and carried their cultivation and souls back to its true body upon reaching the Spirit Transmutation stage.
• Fang Xi realized that even the modified version of the technique might not escape its hidden trap.

Fang Xi learned that the Heavenly Demon King of Freedom had spread the dangerous demonic art and discovered that its practitioners could devour one another’s cultivation. After sensing a powerful descent from the Earth Immortal Realm, he concluded that Chang Qingzi could not follow him into the Lower Realm and vanished to investigate.

• Fang Xi traded an end to his grievances with Qian Wan for information, a Restriction Token, and records of the True Demon Art of the Son of Heaven Who Transforms Himself Freely and Commands the Myriad Spirits.
• Fang Xi studied the Primordial Demonic Sect’s records in the Mountain Sea Pearl and learned that the Heavenly Demon King of Freedom’s art could drain its practitioners, especially when they approached ascension.
• Fang Xi refined the Restriction Token, gained control of the Spirit Transmutation Completion Devil Cultivator in the coffin, and sensed that their versions of the art could let them devour each other’s magic power.
• Fang Xi suppressed his urge to devour the Devil Cultivator and considered letting his External Incarnation cultivate the art further while staying below Spirit Transmutation Completion.
• Fang Xi sensed that someone had descended from the Earth Immortal Realm and concluded that Chang Qingzi could not descend into the Lower Realm; he then put away the Mountain Sea Pearl and vanished.

Fang Xi returned to the Earth Immortal Realm under the identity of the Wang Family Old Ancestor and learned how the Profound Nether Abyss and the Wang Family had changed. After rescuing several cultivators from a Fourth-grade Black Water Mysterious Snake, he heard that Wang Lingying had set out for Yueyao Immortal City to seek a chance at Spirit Transformation.

• Fang Xi withdrew from the Void Returning Cultivator in Ming Huan Realm, returned to his cave abode, and considered the risks posed by his External Incarnation’s demonic cultivation.
• Fang Xi ascended to the Earth Immortal Realm, disguised himself as the Wang Family Old Ancestor, and flew toward Kong Sang Marketplace, which he found likely submerged by the Black Tide.
• Wang Benchu, Xie Qian, and the Mo brothers lured a Black Water Mysterious Snake into their formation, but a Fourth-grade Black Water Mysterious Snake emerged and killed the Mo brothers.
• Fang Xi arrived on an ocher giant tiger and killed the Fourth-grade Black Water Mysterious Snake with one spell, saving Wang Benchu and Xie Qian.
• Wang Benchu and Xie Qian told Fang Xi about the Wang Family’s decline and the region’s upheavals, and Wang Benchu reported that Wang Lingying had gone with a merchant caravan toward Yueyao Immortal City to seek a Spirit Transformation opportunity.

Fang Xi reached Qingsang Marketplace and learned that the overseas immortal estate had drawn powerful cultivators to the Profound Nether Abyss, where its restrictions and Fourth-grade Puppets had killed several Void Returning cultivators. He decided the region was too dangerous for quiet cultivation and began considering leaving to find a suitable place to advance toward Void Returning.

• Fang Xi arrived at Qingsang Marketplace with Wang Benchu and sent him to find a source of intelligence.
• At the Eight Winds Tower, the master surnamed Zhuang recounted how the Black Tide and the Giant Kun revealed the overseas immortal estate and how the Imperial Dragon Sect was destroyed.
• The master surnamed Zhuang explained that the estate suppressed intruders' cultivation, its Fourth-grade Puppets killed Void Returning cultivators, and a Star Sect Body Integration cultivator later weakened its restrictions for a brief period every 365 years.
• Fang Xi realized that the next opening would attract powerful cultivators and resolved to leave the Profound Nether Abyss after checking on old connections.
• Fang Xi paid the master surnamed Zhuang a Top-grade Spirit Stone and let him believe the Wang Family Old Ancestor had advanced to Spirit Transmutation Middle Stage.

Fang Xi visited Clear Sound Workshop, where Fairy Luan Bing faced pressure from the Star Iron Sword Sect, then entered the Profound Nether Abyss disguised as Qing Hezi to meet Mo Yin Qiu. Mo Yin Qiu confirmed that the secret realm they had excavated was an immortal abode inheritance, while the Ink Sect continued pursuing its plans there.

• The Iron Sword Daoist pressured Fairy Luan Bing to give up Clear Sound Workshop's spirit stone mine or merge the sect into his Sword-Nurturing Residence.
• Fang Xi arrived at Clear Sound Workshop, prompting the Iron Sword Daoist to leave, and advised Fairy Luan Bing that he could only buy her time.
• Fairy Luan Bing told Fang Xi that the Xuan You Chamber of Commerce was backed by Purple Wind Spirit Lord and had rumored ties to the Star Sect.
• Fang Xi left Clear Sound Workshop, disguised himself as Qing Hezi, and traveled into the Profound Nether Abyss to meet Mo Yin Qiu.
• After a puppet bird was destroyed, Fang Xi waited half a month before a bionic puppet brought him to Mo Yin Qiu, who confirmed the secret realm held an immortal abode inheritance.