Chapter Summaries

After learning the Void Returning old dragon was hiding in the Profound Nether Abyss, Fang Xi was ambushed but killed it with the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light. He claimed the dragon’s treasures, discovered Mo Yin Qiu’s betrayal, and wiped out the Ink Sect remnants before leaving the sea.

• Mo Yin Qiu told Fang Xi that the wounded Void Returning old dragon was likely hiding near the Eye of the Sea and that the True Armor Whale had retreated into the abyss’s depths.
• Fang Xi sensed the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella approaching and realized the old dragon had learned his whereabouts, likely through Mo Yin Qiu.
• The Void Returning old dragon attacked Fang Xi, who revealed his Spirit Transmutation Late Stage cultivation, defended himself with the Four Sacred Beast Armor, and killed the dragon with the Supreme Big Dipper Life-Preserving Divine Light.
• Fang Xi took the old dragon’s corpse and treasures, recovered the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella, and found Mo Yin Qiu’s Blood Soul Token in the dragon’s storage bracelet.
• Fang Xi followed the token to the Ink Sect’s hidden estate, crushed it to kill Mo Yin Qiu, then slaughtered the Ink Sect remnants with Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light.

Fang Xi studied the Imperial Dragon Sect’s Beast Taming inheritance, collected Heavenly Demon Qi, and refined the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella into a powerful defensive treasure. Three years later, after a True Armor Whale called for help during their fight, Fang Xi escaped the Eye of the Sea and considered returning.

• Fang Xi learned how Blood Soul Tokens could control or torment a target but could not ensure their loyalty, and he considered using the Beast Taming Technique to raise spirit beasts in his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Fang Xi found Heavenly Heart Liquid and Dragon Saliva Spirit Fragrance in the Void Returning old dragon’s storage ring, along with rare spirit pills.
• Fang Xi repaired and refined the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella, expelled the Void Returning Flood Dragon’s Heavenly Demon Qi, and sealed the Qi in a Two Elements Tube.
• Fang Xi decided he would need to visit Three Realms Mountain to gather enough Heavenly Demon Qi for the Three Qi Union.
• Three years later, Fang Xi tested his strength against a True Armor Whale at the Eye of the Sea, but fled when it summoned a Giant Kun that unleashed Xuan Ming Rain.
• Fang Xi escaped beneath the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella and, doubtful he could obtain Dragon Saliva Spirit Fragrance, considered returning.

Fang Xi arrived in Yueyao Immortal City under the guise of the Wang Family Old Ancestor and sought information about the Lunar Jade Crystal needed for the Two Forms Void Breaking Pill. He learned that Wang Lingying had reached Spirit Transformation and went to meet him, revealing the Old Ancestor’s authority over him.

• Fang Xi reached Yueyao Immortal City, rented a cave mansion, and settled in to cultivate.
• Fang Xi visited Xuan You Pavilion and asked Tian Er about the Lunar Jade Crystal and Wang Lingying.
• Tian Er told Fang Xi that the Taiyin Secret Realm might yield Lunar Jade Crystal and would next open in eighteen years.
• Tian Er revealed that Wang Lingying had reached Spirit Transformation twenty years earlier and lived in Bao Huang Cave.
• Fang Xi used a disc-shaped artifact to open Bao Huang Cave’s formation, and Wang Lingying emerged and bowed to him as Old Ancestor.

Fang Xi entered the Taiyin Secret Realm to obtain a coordinate for future exploration, captured a rare Horned Wood Flood Dragon, and left before confronting the realm’s Void Returning cultivators. Years later, he returned to the Jiuzhou Realm, where Ghost Axe Venerable presented him with the refined Xuan Ming Banner.

• Fang Xi posed as the Wang Family Old Ancestor, gained Wang Lingying’s support, and learned that Lunar Jade Crystal could be found in the Taiyin Secret Realm.
• Fang Xi bought a secret-realm quota at auction and entered the realm alongside Spirit Transmutation cultivators and the Void Returning cultivator surnamed Guang.
• Fang Xi set a Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror coordinate, captured the Horned Wood Flood Dragon with the Mountain Sea Pearl, and crushed his token to leave the secret realm.
• Fang Xi left Yueyao Immortal City and descended to the Jiuzhou Realm rather than returning to the city.
• Ghost Axe Venerable gave Fang Xi the Xuan Ming Banner, which he had strengthened using materials from the sixth-rank Violet Jade Flood Dragon.

Fang Xi advanced research into synthesizing Heavenly Demon Qi and True Demon Qi, then returned to the Mortal Realm and learned of major changes during his absence. He mourned Zhong Hongyu’s death, while Shui Lingxin and Liu Xu had reached Spirit Transmutation and Ling Shu had died during her tribulation.

• Fang Xi tested the Xuan Ming Banner and discussed its potential with Ghost Axe Venerable before returning to Fangxian University.
• Fang Xi and Ghost Axe True Monarch studied the Violet Jade Flood Dragon’s sixth-rank core and made artificial Heavenly Demon Qi and True Demon Qi synthesis top research priorities.
• Fang Xi discovered that his External Incarnation had reached late-stage Spirit Transmutation by absorbing the demonic cultivator in the coffin, and he continued to plan cautiously around the technique’s dangers.
• Fang Xi learned that Zhong Hongyu had refused his fifth-rank Longevity Pill and had died, and he visited her grave.
• Fang Xi learned that Shui Lingxin had advanced to early-stage Spirit Transmutation, Ling Shu had died during her tribulation, and Liu Xu had survived hers to reach early-stage Spirit Transmutation.

Fang Xi visited Fairy Ma after the Taiyin Secret Realm expedition to offer condolences and learn what happened to the other cultivators. He left with the route map from Fairy Ma’s group and resolved to have his External Incarnation pursue Lunar Jade Crystal instead.

• Wang Lingying reported that several Spirit Transmutation Cultivators had died in the Taiyin Secret Realm, including Fellow Daoist Kou, and Fang Xi decided to visit Fairy Ma.
• Fang Xi met Fairy Ma at Cold Moon Cave and entered her Cave-Heaven Treasure for a banquet.
• Fang Xi claimed that a Wood Flood Dragon had forced him to leave the secret realm, while Fairy Ma recounted her group’s poor harvest and Fellow Daoist Kou’s death.
• Fairy Ma explained that Yueyao Immortal City reserved Lunar Jade Crystal for exchanges with major forces, and Fang Xi chose not to trade his Solar Gold Essence.
• Fang Xi paid Fairy Ma for her group’s secret-realm route map and decided his External Incarnation would seek Lunar Jade Crystal.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation searched the Taiyin Secret Realm and found a third piece of Lunar Jade Crystal, while Fang Xi cultivated to Spirit Transformation Completion and prepared for a future attempt at Void Returning. He then gathered his Mortal Realm allies to arrange their ascension to the Earth Immortal Realm, leaving them to prepare for a confrontation with the ancestor of Azure Emperor Mountain.

• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation sent puppets through the Taiyin Secret Realm, found Immortal Jade beside a dead Spirit Transmutation cultivator, and slew a late-stage Spirit Transmutation desolate beast.
• Fang Xi studied the secret realm’s resources and secluded himself to cultivate, while the Horse-faced Elder urged Fairy Ma to befriend the Wang Family and accepted a dangerous mission that promised Lunar Jade Crystal.
• Over the next Jiazi Cycle, Fang Xi established himself in Yueyao Immortal City and advanced to Spirit Transmutation Completion; his External Incarnation returned with a third Lunar Jade Crystal.
• Fang Xi decided to send his External Incarnation to the Lower Realm to prepare for formal ascension and considered using his Lunar Jade Crystals and Solar Gold Essence to refine Two Forms Void Breaking Pills.
• In the Mortal Realm, Fang Xi’s External Incarnation asked Demon Venerable Chi Lian, Little Qing, Liu Xu, and Yun Xi Fairy to join the ascent to the Earth Immortal Realm and proposed an Immortal Spirit Contract before they faced Azure Emperor Mountain’s ancestor.

Fang Xi opened the Ascension Platform and led Yun Xi Fairy, Liu Xu, and Xiao Qing into the Void Rift to ascend, leaving Shui Lingxin behind. After they departed, Shui Lingxin attacked Ice God Palace and fought Bai Family Old Ancestor, while Fang Xi secretly watched from the sky.

• Fang Xi activated the Ascension Platform with Top-grade Spirit Stones, opening a Void Rift for the group’s ascent.
• Fang Xi, Yun Xi Fairy, Liu Xu, and Xiao Qing rode the Xuan Ming Banner into the Void Rift as Shui Lingxin watched them depart.
• Shui Lingxin killed the Nascent Soul cultivators at the Ascension Platform and flew to the Great Snow Mountain to attack Ice God Palace.
• Shui Lingxin broke Ice God Palace’s protective formation and confronted the injured Bai Family Old Ancestor, intent on killing him before he could threaten Penglai Immortal Island.
• Fang Xi True Body watched Shui Lingxin’s attack from high above.

Fang Xi, Liu Xu, Fairy Yun Xi, and Little Qing survived a perilous ascension to the Earth Immortal Realm and arrived at Three Realms Mountain. They learned that ascended cultivators owed a steep fee or military service, and Little Qing was registered as Fang Xi’s spirit beast rather than an army officer.

• Fang Xi and the three women emerged from the Ascension Welcoming Platform after surviving ferocious beasts and two Void Storms, while several uncontracted demon beasts in Fang Xi’s Cave-Heaven Treasure perished.
• Master Hua Yan greeted the group, explained the Human Race’s star-domain classification system, and asked them to register their magic power and receive Identity Tokens.
• Hua Yan told the ascended cultivators they could settle their karmic debt by paying with rare spiritual items or roughly one thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, or serve in the Heavenly Brahma Army for one thousand years.
• Fang Xi, Yun Xi Fairy, and Liu Xu registered and received the rank of School Commandant, while Fang Xi secretly noted that the listed rare items included Solar Gold Essence.
• Little Qing’s magic power revealed her fifth-grade Demon Race identity, but Fang Xi said she was his spirit beast, and Hua Yan confirmed her blood contract and registered her as Fang Xi’s mount.

Fang Xi settled into the Heavenly Brahma Army, searched for scarce cultivation resources, and faced pressure from Gu Dao Ren over the origins of Ascended Cultivators. He left the camp for the Three Yin Mountain black market, where he spotted a suspicious mark.

• Fang Xi established himself at Little Night Peak, allied with Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu, and learned that the army marketplace lacked the Heavenly Yao Qi and True Demon Qi he needed.
• Fang Xi released Demon Venerable Chi Lian and offered to remove her restriction in exchange for a bottle of True Demon Qi.
• Gu Dao Ren demanded information about the women's Lower Realm origins on behalf of a higher-ranking commander, but Fang Xi and the women refused and planned to contact other Ascended Cultivators.
• Fang Xi left the camp to investigate the outer black markets, released Chi Lian to gather True Demon Qi, and used his Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror to mark a route to Yueyao Immortal City.
• Fang Xi entered the Three Yin Mountain marketplace in disguise and noticed a mark that made him wary.

Fang Xi followed a hidden mark to a black-market shop, where he acquired a damaged talisman designed for an Ascended Cultivator from the Jiuzhou Realm. After repairing it, he activated a communication talisman and spoke with the previous Fang Xian Dao Master, who explained that he had foreseen Fang Xi succeeding him.

• Fang Xi bought a fifth-rank Heavenly Phoenix gallbladder from a red-eyed cultivator after seeing through the fake feathers at his stall.
• Fang Xi used the hidden mark to find the Treasure Pavilion, where its shopkeeper gave him a damaged talisman to repair.
• Fang Xi left the black market, traveled far away, and set up a formation underground to repair the talisman.
• Fang Xi revealed a silver communication talisman beneath the damaged talisman and used his demonic essence to activate it.
• The previous Fang Xian Dao Master appeared through the silver mirror, greeted Fang Xi, and said he had expected Fang Xi to succeed him.

Fangxian Dao Master told Fang Xi that he had returned from the Devil Realm as a Void Returning cultivator but was now being hunted by Five Elements Son over Fangxian Dao Palace. He asked Fang Xi to help him escape, and Fang Xi agreed to attempt a risky teleportation using a damaged Super Teleportation Array and the Gate of Myriad Worlds.

• Fangxian Dao Master explained how he escaped Devil Race territory, reached the human race, and advanced to Void Returning.
• Fangxian Dao Master revealed that Fangxian Dao Palace was an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure fragment and that Five Elements Son's Wood Incarnation was hunting him.
• Fangxian Dao Master told Fang Xi that a tracking mark would expose him again in half a month and that he needed a distant teleportation to recover and remove it.
• Fangxian Dao Master offered Fang Xi immortal jade, True Demon Qi, and insights into the Three Revolutions Yuan Destruction Art in exchange for help.
• Fang Xi agreed to try repairing a damaged Super Teleportation Array with the Gate of Myriad Worlds, and Fangxian Dao Master arranged to meet him at Treasure Pavilion in three days.

Fang Xi prepared a fake Super Teleportation Array to secretly send Fang Xian Dao Master away, while his External Incarnation learned that Yaksha Camp’s unruly Ascended Cultivators had been assigned a dangerous reclamation mission in the Thunder Marsh Great Wilderness. He arranged for his Main Body and External Incarnation to switch places, leaving the Main Body in camp as an alibi while the External Incarnation guarded the array for Fang Xian Dao Master’s arrival.

• Fang Xi received Fang Xian Dao Master's locked box and built a convincing but coreless Super Teleportation Array in an underground cavern.
• Fang Xi's Main Body traveled toward Star Sect to establish a distant spatial node, while the External Incarnation met Liu Xu and attended a gathering of Ascended Cultivators.
• The Hermit Kuang Tao revealed that Yaksha Camp's defiant Ascended Cultivators had been assigned to reclaim the Thunder Marsh Great Wilderness, where an earlier army had reportedly been wiped out.
• Fang Xi agreed to work with the other cultivators, asked Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu to investigate the mission and gather information, and resolved to prevent Gu Dao Ren from causing more trouble.
• Fang Xi's Main Body established a spatial node at Star Sect, then switched places with the External Incarnation so the Main Body could remain in camp as an alibi.
• Fang Xi's Main Body completed the array's final adjustments, and several days later Fang Xian Dao Master arrived.

Fang Xi completed his escape arrangement with Fang Xian Dao Master, then prepared to break through to Spirit Transmutation by refining the Two Forms Void Breaking Pill in the Jiuzhou Realm. The chapter ended as Fang Xi and the alchemists began the first batch under the Sun and Moon Shine Together phenomenon.

• Fang Xi received the modified Three Phases Annihilate Yuan Art, True Demon Qi, and other payment from Fang Xian Dao Master, then activated the Super Teleportation Array to send him away.
• Fang Xi destroyed the Super Teleportation Array and its traces, while an enraged emerald figure later arrived at the empty wilderness.
• Fang Xi's Main Body gathered the required materials and traveled to the Jiuzhou Realm, leaving his External Incarnation to cultivate and nurture the Divine Infant Sword.
• Fang Xi, Ghost Axe Venerable, and Demon Venerable Slayer organized the Jiuzhou Realm's alchemy scholars and researchers to refine the Two Forms Void Breaking Pill.
• Fang Xi began refining the pill with Solar Gold Essence and Lunar Jade Crystal as the Sun and Moon Shine Together, and the alchemists added the prepared auxiliary ingredients.

Fang Xi successfully refined Two Forms Void Breaking Pills and gathered the resources he needed to attempt a breakthrough to Void Returning. A letter from Fairy Ma revealed the Ma Family’s losses and her proposal to become Dao companions with the Wang Family Old Ancestor, which Fang Xi rejected before preparing to enter seclusion.

• Fang Xi refined two Two Forms Void Breaking Pills from three sets of materials and kept one while leaving the other as payment to the Jiuzhou Realm.
• Fang Xi returned to Lake Island, reviewed his preparations for breaking through to Void Returning, and learned that Fairy Ma had returned after the Ma Family’s mission went wrong.
• Fang Xi read Fairy Ma’s letter, realized she wanted to become Dao companions with the Wang Family Old Ancestor, and sent back a refusal.
• Fairy Ma learned that the Wang Family Old Ancestor had rejected her and decided to seek another Dao companion to help support the weakened Ma Family.

Fang Xi and the Yaksa Camp endured the dangers of pioneering the Thunder Marsh Great Wilderness after establishing a base at the Xumi Mountain Range. After Fang Xi helped suppress a deadly gray-white spirit, Hermit Kuang Tao summoned the group to deal with a herd of powerful Wood Antelopes.

• The Yaksa Camp moved the Xumi Mountain Range into the wilderness, where Liu Xu explained that its Buddhist mantras could repel malevolent spirits.
• Fang Xi inspected his assigned territory, then rescued the Qian Yuan Squad from a gray-white spirit that resisted his lightning and flames before he suppressed it with the Xuan Ming Banner.
• Fang Xi heard that Daoist Yu had been gravely wounded by a cursed Blood Pool and had frozen himself while awaiting rescue.
• Hermit Kuang Tao invited Fang Xi, Yun Xi Fairy, Xu Qingzi, and the female cultivator surnamed Pu to discuss a desolate beast threatening his patrol area.
• Hermit Kuang Tao revealed that the Wood Antelope was not a single Spirit Transmutation Late Stage beast but an entire herd.

Hermit Kuang Tao recruited Fang Xi, Yun Xi Fairy, Pu Xianzi, and Xu Qingzi to hunt Muhan for their valuable materials and nearby treasures. After the group trapped the beasts in an array, Fang Xi captured one and asked Yun Xi Fairy to give him another for his research.

• Hermit Kuang Tao offered a Spirit Transformation pill formula and shares of Muhan materials to recruit Pu Xianzi, Xu Qingzi, Fang Xi, and Yun Xi Fairy.
• Hermit Kuang Tao led Nascent Soul Cultivators to wound a Muhan and lure five pursuing beasts into a prepared array.
• Fang Xi faced a Muhan that attacked him with Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light, and he suppressed it with his Xuan Ming Banner.
• Fang Xi captured his Muhan and then helped Yun Xi Fairy defeat a female Muhan with the Divine Infant Sword and demonic light.
• Fang Xi asked Yun Xi Fairy for the female Muhan, and she agreed to give it to him.

Fang Xi’s expedition team returned from hunting wooden oxen to find that a Primordial Savage Beast had overwhelmed Commander Feixing, while Fang Xi’s Wang Family identity reached Spirit Transmutation Completion. At Fairy Ma’s celebration, her new dao companion learned of the Old Ancestor’s breakthrough just as a terrifying Void Returning Major Heavenly Tribulation began.

• Hermit Kuang Tao used his Taotie Divine Demon Body to help kill a wooden ox, and Fang Xi’s team returned to camp with their spoils.
• Xu Qingzi learned that an exploration team had been wiped out by a Primordial Savage Beast that Commander Feixing could not overcome.
• Wang Lingying received invitations to Fairy Ma and Huang Muzi’s dual-cultivation celebration, then discovered that the Wang Family Old Ancestor had reached Spirit Transmutation Completion.
• Fang Xi declined to attend the celebration and told Wang Lingying to give the couple a generous gift.
• At the celebration, Huang Muzi questioned Wang Lingying about the absent Old Ancestor and learned of his breakthrough.
• A vast magical fluctuation reached Bigen Plain, and a guest recognized it as a Void Returning Major Heavenly Tribulation.

Fang Xi began his breakthrough to Void Returning in the Lake Island cave abode, transforming his magic power into Immortal Origin Qi and drawing in Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. As he entered the Inner Demon Tribulation and the Major Heavenly Tribulation gathered, Old Monster Chi and the Guang-surnamed Sword Cultivator realized someone in Yueyao Immortal City was attempting to break through.

• Fang Xi used the Two Forms Void Breaking Pill and gathered spiritual power to transform his magic power into Immortal Origin Qi.
• Fang Xi combined Immortal Origin Qi, True Demon Qi, and Heavenly Demon Qi to withstand the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy Tribulation.
• Fang Xi drew Heaven and Earth Origin Energy into his body and became an Early Void Returning cultivator.
• Fang Xi swallowed the Heavenly Heart Liquid and sat still to face the Inner Demon Tribulation as the Major Heavenly Tribulation formed above Lake Island.
• Old Monster Chi and the Guang-surnamed Sword Cultivator sensed the breakthrough and concluded that a hidden cultivator was attempting to reach Void Returning.

Fang Xi crossed the Inner Demon Tribulation and endured the nine bolts of his Void Returning Major Heavenly Tribulation, surviving with the help of his treasures and Eternal Evergreen Body. As the auspicious signs appeared, Wang Lingying, Fairy Ma, and Huang Muzi realized the tribulation had taken place at Lake Island and suspected the Wang Family Old Ancestor had reached Void Returning.

• Fang Xi emerged from thousands of reincarnations in the Inner Demon Tribulation and prepared to face the Major Heavenly Tribulation.
• Fang Xi resisted the first three golden lightning bolts with Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, the Grand Unity Azure Wood Divine Light, and his treasures, but a jade mountain seal was destroyed.
• Fang Xi used the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella to withstand the fourth through seventh bolts, then brought out the Four Sacred Beast Armor as the lightning intensified.
• Fang Xi and his defenses faced the final Heavenly Eye Lightning, which shattered his armor and damaged his dantian qi sea before the Eternal Evergreen Body healed him.
• Wang Lingying, Fairy Ma, and Huang Muzi saw the tribulation's auspicious aftermath and recognized that it had centered on Lake Island, where the Wang Family Old Ancestor might have broken through to Void Returning.