Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi welcomed two Yueyao Immortal City elders after breaking through to Void Returning, accepted a position as a guest elder, and began secluding himself to consolidate his cultivation and improve his treasures. In the secret chamber, he tested his new Immortal Origin Qi on the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword.

• Fang Xi greeted Chi Songzi and Guang Qianjian, discussed Void Returning cultivation and swordsmanship with them, and claimed that he had obtained the Imperial Dragon Sect’s hoard in the Profound Nether Abyss.
• Chi Songzi invited Fang Xi to join Yueyao Immortal City’s Elder Council, but Fang Xi chose to become a guest elder instead.
• After the visitors left, Fang Xi repaired his formations, ordered the Little Mysterious Tortoise not to disturb him, and entered seclusion.
• Fang Xi assessed his transformed Immortal Origin Qi, expanded divine sense, longer lifespan, and treasures that he planned to upgrade.
• Fang Xi brought out his Main Nascent Soul and infused the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword with spiritual power, causing dark green radiance to gather into a blade.

After breaking through to Void Returning, Fang Xi gained deeper insight into the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror and access to countless Lesser Worlds, while considering the Earth Immortal Dao and recovering from his tribulation. He left Lake Island years later, ordered Wang Lingying to reunite the Wang Household, and learned that Fairy Ma’s marriage to Huang Muzi had become strained.

• Fang Xi tested the Fifth-Generation Green Grain Sword with Immortal Origin Qi and confirmed it could serve as a powerful trump card.
• Fang Xi comprehended the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror’s restrictions, improved his understanding of the Void Dao, and discovered access to countless Lesser Worlds and clues to scattered mirror fragments.
• Fang Xi considered cultivating the Earth Immortal Dao and found that the Hun Yuan Heavenly Net Umbrella had survived the heavenly lightning with repairable damage.
• Several years later, Fang Xi emerged from his Lake Island cave abode and lifted Wang Lingying with Heaven and Earth Origin Energy after learning he had waited outside for years.
• Fang Xi gave Wang Lingying a Yueyao Immortal City Guest Elder token and ordered him to reunite the Wang Household in the Profound Nether Abyss and send talented clansmen to the city.
• Wang Lingying told Fang Xi that Fairy Ma had completed her Daoist Companion ceremony with Huang Muzi, but they had not lived together afterward.

After Fang Xi’s Void Returning breakthrough, the Wang Family rebuilt its branches while he secured support for the Ma Family and created Taiyin, a powerful puppet. He then returned to the Mortal Realm, established his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm, and gained the ability to resist the realm’s suppression and remain there indefinitely.

• Fairy Luan Bing learned that Fang Xi had reached the Void Returning Realm and that the Iron Sword Daoist had eased tensions with Clear Sound Workshop.
• Wang Lingying restored the Wang Family in the Profound Nether Abyss, welcomed returning branches and their Li Family in-laws, and sent talented cultivators to Yueyao Immortal City.
• Fang Xi received the Brahma Sound Golden Bell from Ma Suye and agreed to resolve the Ma Family’s dispute with the Teng Snake Association, then dismissed her when she sought further help.
• Fang Xi infused a fifth-tier puppet with Taiyi’s auxiliary intelligence, named her Taiyin Fairy, and left her to guard his cave abode while he went into seclusion.
• Fang Xi returned to the Mortal Realm and used the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree and the Mountain Sea Pearl to create and expand his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Fang Xi opened his Spirit Domain, shattered the Mortal Realm’s suppressive chains, and gained the ability to remain there indefinitely.

After overcoming his Void Returning tribulation, Fang Xi hid near North Desolate City and waited for Gu Dao Ren and a Heavenly Host Camp commander. He instead encountered Bing Xuanzi, whom he ambushed and trapped at close range after Bing Xuanzi tried to escape.

• Fang Xi completed his Void Returning tribulation, strengthened the Ancestor Yao Mo Tree through the Earth Immortal method, and moved the External Incarnation’s subdued creatures into his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Fang Xi learned that his External Incarnation had investigated Gu Dao Ren and a Heavenly Host Camp commander, then teleported to the Thunder Marsh Great Wilderness and traveled toward Three Realms Mountain.
• Fang Xi avoided North Desolate City, planted spirit flowers to watch the surrounding area, and waited in concealment for his targets to appear.
• Fang Xi spotted Bing Xuanzi, recognized the former Ice Profound Palace cultivator, and decided to settle their old grievance before Bing Xuanzi could reach Void Returning.
• Bing Xuanzi recognized Fang Xi and tried to flee with his Monster Locking Tower, but Fang Xi’s spatial power brought him back within arm’s reach.

Fang Xi killed Bing Xuanzi and searched his memories, then his External Incarnation joined a mission against Fire Cave Beasts before learning that the reclamation had been suspended after Commander Tang was assassinated. The armies were ordered to return and prepare for a possible war with the demon and devil races, while the External Incarnation suspected Fang Xi’s deed had been blamed on them.

• Fang Xi seized Bing Xuanzi’s Monster Locking Tower, killed him, and searched his memories for useful intelligence about human commanders and armies.
• Months later, Fang Xi’s External Incarnation and several commanders fought Fire Cave Beasts in the Thunder Marsh Great Wilderness, where Fang Xi used the Xuan Ming Banner and Divine Infant Sword to help defeat them.
• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation returned to Xumi Military Camp and continued nurturing his treasures, while deciding not to pursue cultivation until he resolved a problem with his method.
• Fei Xing Daoist summoned the commanders and announced that the reclamation had ended after a cultivator assassinated Commander Tang of the Heavenly Host Camp.
• Fei Xing Daoist said a Great Ascension cultivator had found no trace of the assassin and ordered the armies to return and prepare for a possible great battle with the demon and devil races.
• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation suspected the human upper levels had blamed the demon and devil races for the assassination, and wondered whether the incident would lead to war.

Fang Xi inspected and tended his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm, enjoying its Jade Void Rice and discovering insights into talismanic bloodline patterns. At Three Realms Mountain, he learned that Gu Dao Ren had died and that Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu had joined the Heavenly Charm Sect, whose Charm Technique could influence Heaven and Earth.

• Fang Xi surveyed the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm, assessed how Myriad Wood Mother Qi would advance his cultivation, and recalled killing Commander Tang and taking his treasures.
• Fang Xi harvested and steamed Jade Void Rice, then ate it and enjoyed its gentle body-tempering effects.
• Fang Xi drew essence blood from a demonic bird and studied the bloodline runes as inspiration for talisman inscriptions.
• Fang Xi returned to the Heavenly Brahma Army camp, learned from a Sound Transmission Talisman that Gu Dao Ren had fallen, and resumed meditating and refining his treasures.
• Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu told Fang Xi they had joined the Heavenly Charm Sect and explained that its Charm Technique could progress from influencing individuals to charming Heaven and Earth.

Fang Xi explored Jia You Realm, discovered that it was governed by Yao Cultivators, and learned that a fragment of the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror lay toward their capital. After he left, Qing Lang recovered and brutally reasserted control over his village.

• Fang Xi entered a village of half-yao and disguised his cultivation as Heavenly Demon Qi before approaching them.
• Fang Xi summoned Qingfeng Village’s Core Formation wolf yao, Qing Lang, and knocked him unconscious with Vajra Lion's Roar.
• Fang Xi searched Qing Lang’s soul and learned about the Yao Court, its Yao Capital, and the treasure fragment’s eastern location.
• Fang Xi departed toward the east, leaving Qing Lang among the half-yao.
• A tiger yao attacked the helpless Qing Lang, but Qing Lang killed it and fed on its corpse.
• Qing Lang raised the village’s Blood Tax by thirty percent, and the half-yao submitted rather than resist.

Fang Xi infiltrated Yao Capital and stole a fragment of the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror from the Yao Court's treasury. He then confronted Blood Owl, the Yao God guarding the city, and demanded his lifebound feathers before their battle began.

• Fang Xi disguised himself as a Demon Race cultivator, entered Yao Capital through its Myriad Demon Formation, and visited the Heavenly Fragrance Tower.
• Fang Xi left the tower during the night and stole a fragment of the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror from the Yao Court's secret treasury.
• Blood Owl confronted Fang Xi for trespassing, but Fang Xi revealed that he wanted Blood Owl's lifebound feathers as materials for a fan imitation.
• Blood Owl attacked Fang Xi with a giant night owl formed from spiritual energy, and Fang Xi blocked its strike with his Azure Flame Armor's shield.

Fang Xi forced the Spirit Transmutation Blood Owl to surrender its natal feather, then returned to the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and surveyed the clans and creatures he had gathered there. Meanwhile, his External Incarnation advanced the Xuan Ming Banner to the sixth stage and entered the Three Yin Mountain black market to trade for supplies.

• Fang Xi defeated the Spirit Transmutation Blood Owl with his demon-god transformation and Monster Locking Tower, then took the Blood Owl's natal feather in exchange for sparing its life.
• Xuanji Demon revealed herself after Fang Xi departed and told the Blood Owl that even Yao Capital's formation would not have stopped him.
• Fang Xi later plundered the Monster Realm's clan treasuries after learning that the Spirit Transmutation Heavenly Phoenix had ascended, then checked on the Cicada Clan, Wood Spirit Souls, and Horned Wood Flood Dragon in his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• The External Incarnation advanced the Xuan Ming Banner to a sixth-stage Void Returning Treasure and continued avoiding recruitment by the Heavenly Brahma Army's forces.
• During leave, the External Incarnation changed his appearance and aura, entered the Three Yin Mountain black market, and noticed something that made his expression shift.

The External Incarnation met Demon Venerable Chi Lian and received True Demon Qi and a new version of the demonic cultivation art, which supposedly delayed its deadly drawback until the Void Returning peak. He took the jade slip to verify its authenticity and safety before deciding whether to use it.

• The External Incarnation found Chi Lian’s secret message hidden in a black-and-red bird and learned that she had located True Demon Qi and information about the Devil Race.
• The External Incarnation tracked Chi Lian using her captured soul and vital blood, tormented her, and took the True Demon Qi she brought.
• Chi Lian explained that the Heavenly Demon King of Freedom had revised the cultivation art so its foundation-stealing calamity occurred only near the Integrated Body breakthrough.
• Chi Lian revealed that the Heavenly Demon King cultivated and publicly promoted the art, challenging its practitioners to fight him and offer their cultivation if they lost.
• Chi Lian gave the External Incarnation the revised cultivation art, which he planned to take back to Jiuzhou for scientific verification and a feasibility simulation.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation discovered that Chi Lian Venerable and Yuan Li were plotting against him, so he ambushed them and killed Chi Lian before fighting Yuan Li’s incarnation. Fang Xi’s true body then defeated and captured Yuan Li’s Late Void Returning true body with the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword, leaving the External Incarnation to search the captured demon’s memories for the complete cultivation method.

• The External Incarnation rejected Chi Lian Venerable’s incomplete technique and left, after which Chi Lian revealed to Yuan Li that Fang Xi was the new Fang Xian Dao Master.
• Yuan Li and Chi Lian planned to use a future trade to capture Fang Xi, but Fang Xi activated Chi Lian’s restriction and killed her with the Nine Nether Underworld River.
• The External Incarnation battled Yuan Li’s Spirit Transformation incarnation with the Nine Nether Underworld River, poisonous mist, and Six Paths Demonic Flame.
• Yuan Li’s Late Void Returning true body emerged to rescue his incarnation, but Fang Xi appeared and destroyed him with the Fifth Generation Green Grain Sword.
• Fang Xi used his Spirit Domain and Monster Locking Tower to capture Yuan Li’s demonic infant, then departed while his External Incarnation searched the battlefield and hoped to find the complete cultivation method in its memories.

Fang Xi searched the captured devil Yuan Li’s soul and learned a cultivation technique for his External Incarnation, along with intelligence about the Devil Race’s leaders and the fragile peace between the races. After emerging from seclusion, he reviewed the rebuilt Wang Household’s progress and declined Old Monster Chi’s invitation to explore the overseas Immortal Mansion for now.

• Fang Xi used his Earth Immortal Spirit Domain to search Yuan Li’s soul, learning that the devil had been sent to investigate the assassination of Commander Tang and Fang Xi’s connection to the Fang Xian Dao Master.
• Fang Xi repeatedly searched Yuan Li’s weakened Devil Infant and obtained the He Transforms Himself Freely Heavenly Son Commanding Myriad Spirits True Demon Technique, which could help his External Incarnation reach Perfect Void Returning.
• Fang Xi learned from Yuan Li’s memories that the Heavenly Demon King of Freedom might possess a treasure resembling the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror, while the demon and devil races prepared for a future war and potential breakthroughs to the Mahayana Realm.
• Fang Xi emerged from seclusion in Yueyao Immortal City, received letters about Wang Lingying’s rebuilt household and Wang Chongling, and instructed the Wang Household members before visiting Chi Songzi.
• Old Monster Chi invited Fang Xi to join him and Purple Wind Spirit Lord in exploring the overseas Immortal Mansion, but Fang Xi said he needed to consolidate his cultivation.

Fang Xi advanced to the threshold of Spirit Transformation Completion by devouring a Primordial Demonic Sect ancestor’s demonic essence, then learned that the Heavenly Brahma Army would undertake a Major Pioneering. He formed a temporary alliance with his neighbors and other allies as the campaign was confirmed, leaving preparations for the expedition underway.

• Fang Xi absorbed demonic essence from the coffin-bound ancestor, nearly reached Spirit Transformation Completion, and destroyed the ancestor’s body and spirit.
• Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu visited Fang Xi and told him the war with the Demon and Devil Races had been delayed, but the Heavenly Brahma Army would be sent on a Major Pioneering.
• Fang Xi learned Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu could not buy their freedom and agreed to renew their alliance, proposing that Pu Xianzi join them.
• Fang Xi visited Hermit Kuang Tao, Pu Xianzi, and others, and secured a temporary offensive and defensive alliance.
• Three months later, the army posted a massive immortal ranking list, confirming the Major Pioneering.

Fang Xi patrolled the Heavenly Brahma Domain, rescued cultivators from the Ten Thousand Hands Forest, and worried that the reclamation was forcing low-level cultivators into danger too quickly. That night, a Body Integration Heavenly Phoenix appeared over Heavenly Brahma City and fought an Eight-Armed Arhat, unleashing a Spatial Storm across the city’s Super Teleportation Array.

• Fang Xi burned away the Ten Thousand Hands Forest’s grasping arms and directed the surviving caravan toward Black Rock Marketplace.
• Fang Xi reflected that the Heavenly Brahma Army was relocating low-level cultivators before the wilderness had been made safe, then returned to Black Rock Marketplace.
• Xu Qingzi, Pu Xianzi, and Hermit Kuang Tao discussed the dangers and costs of the reclamation while Fang Xi cooked savage beast meat for them.
• A Body Integration Heavenly Phoenix appeared over Heavenly Brahma City, prompting its cultivators to flee.
• An Eight-Armed Arhat confronted the Heavenly Phoenix, and their clash twisted space and sent a Spatial Storm sweeping over the city’s Super Teleportation Array.

Vajra Son captured a Six-tailed White Fox spy after it destroyed the Super Teleportation Array, leaving the Heavenly Brahma Domain isolated. As savage beasts threatened to migrate through the damaged grand array, Fang Xi decided to seize the chaos as an opportunity to advance to Void Returning.

• Vajra Son stopped a Six-tailed White Fox from escaping and ordered the cultivators in the Heavenly Brahma Domain to hold their positions until reinforcements arrived.
• Fang Xi rejected Fu Wu Er's persistent offer to join the Three Green Workshop and reached Spirit Transformation Completion in seclusion.
• Fu Wu Er confronted Fang Xi, but the Heavenly Sound Bell summoned them to Venerable Yuan Yin's cave abode.
• Venerable Yuan Yin announced that a Body Integration Demon Cultivator had attacked Heavenly Brahma City, damaging its grand array and destroying the Super Teleportation Array.
• Venerable Yuan Yin ordered the cultivators at Black Rock Marketplace to use it as a stronghold while repairs were attempted and savage beast migrations were expected.
• After seeing panic spread among the marketplace's low-grade cultivators, Fang Xi decided to advance to Void Returning amid the disorder.

Fang Xi prepared to leave Black Rock Marketplace and pursue a breakthrough, but a Tri-horn Yuan Rhino attacked the city before he could depart. After Venerable Yuan Yin fought back, a second beast appeared and forced her and the other cultivators to flee, leaving the marketplace to collapse into chaos.

• Liu Xu and Yun Xi Fairy told the gathering that Martial Aunt Qian Hua planned to abandon the marketplace and take a small group to a safer wilderness refuge.
• Fang Xi returned to his cave abode and decided to find a secluded place to consolidate his recent breakthrough rather than remain in the marketplace.
• A Tri-horn Yuan Rhino attacked Black Rock Marketplace and shattered the Six Brahma Water Gate Array's defenses with its formation-breaking horns.
• Venerable Yuan Yin restrained the beast while Spirit Transmutation Cultivators reinforced the formation, but the Rhino broke through and rampaged through the outer city.
• Venerable Yuan Yin snapped the beast's smaller horn with her wind-and-thunder cymbals, but a second Tri-horn Yuan Rhino appeared and destroyed more of the formation.
• Venerable Yuan Yin ordered everyone to break out separately and fled, while the two beasts continued threatening Black Rock Marketplace.

Fang Xi escaped the Primordial Savage Beasts’ attack on Black Rock Marketplace and chose to advance to Void Returning in the wilderness rather than risk conscription in Heavenly Brahma City. After claiming a mountain stronghold and breaking through his External Incarnation, he faced the incarnation’s Major Heavenly Tribulation.

• Fang Xi fled Black Rock Marketplace through a swarm of Mind-Bewildering Moths and fought off Savage Beasts, while the Tri-horn Yuan Rhino killed another Spirit Transmutation cultivator and seized his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xi traveled away from Heavenly Brahma City, intending to find a spirit vein and advance to Void Returning before anyone could conscript him.
• Fang Xi killed the Azure Lion Human-Faced Beast at Azure Gold Mountain and established a cave abode and formation in its mountain range.
• Fang Xi used his Main Nascent Soul and the Brahma Sound Golden Bell to help his External Incarnation refine True Demon Qi and break through to Early Void Returning.
• The External Incarnation faced the Major Heavenly Tribulation above the Azure Gold Mountain Range and met its first golden lightning strike with the Jade Hammer.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation reached Void Returning, and Fang Xi True Body killed a mutated Thousand Claw Beast during the incarnation’s tribulation. Later, the External Incarnation hunted down Fu Wu Er, who had once threatened Fang Xi, and left him dead while trapping Scholar surnamed Yi in the Xuan Ming Banner.

• Fang Xi True Body killed a mutated Thousand Claw Beast with the Life and Death Seal and his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm while the External Incarnation endured its Major Heavenly Tribulation.
• The External Incarnation recovered, reached Void Returning, and set out to avenge the attack on the workshop by the Tri-horn Yuan Rhinos.
• Fu Wu Er and Scholar surnamed Yi planned to kill a Mixed-Branded Snake guarding a Heaven Origin Sacred Fruit Tree and negotiated over Myriad People Paper.
• Fang Xi encountered Fu Wu Er and Scholar surnamed Yi, trapped Scholar surnamed Yi in the Xuan Ming Banner, and revealed that he had reached Void Returning.
• Fang Xi blocked Fu Wu Er’s Seven Talisman Sword Array, destroyed his defenses, and killed him with black-and-red sword light.

Fang Xi killed the Scholar surnamed Yi, discovered his connection to a secret organization and his use of stolen Literary Qi, then followed the scholar’s memories to a Heavenly Origin Sacred Fruit Tree. He later killed a Poisonous Qi-spewing Mixed-Branded Snake and found three ripe fruits that could aid in refining a sixth-order detoxifying pill.

• Fang Xi used the Xuan Ming Banner and poisonous flood dragon to break the Righteous Qi Palace, kill the Scholar surnamed Yi, and search his soul.
• Fang Xi learned that Yi had secretly recruited Ascended Cultivators and possessed Myriad People Paper made from the Literary Qi of tens of thousands of scholars.
• Fang Xi took Yi’s treasures and learned the location of a Heavenly Origin Sacred Fruit Tree, then set out to find it.
• Fang Xi used desolate beasts shaped from Heaven and Earth Origin Energy to exhaust and kill a Mixed-Branded Snake, then collected its body and materials.
• Fang Xi found three ripe fruits on a tree near the snake’s cave and decided they could be used to try refining a sixth-order detoxifying spirit pill.

Fang Xi returned to the ruined Black Rock Marketplace and found a small population surviving amid dangerous arrays and lawless factions. He chose a secluded place to build a cave mansion, where he discovered an injured Nascent Soul cultivator nearby and attracted the curiosity of a young boy.

• Fang Xi entered Black Rock Marketplace and found that the Savage Beasts had withdrawn, leaving around a thousand survivors among the ruins.
• Fang Xi bought Savage Beast meat from a white-haired shopkeeper, who warned him about the Heavenly Brahma Gang and Thunder Fire Hall and advised him to live somewhere secluded.
• Fang Xi explored the ruined marketplace, observed its improvised customs, and chose a remote district where he sensed an injured Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Fang Xi used spirit artifacts from the Scholar surnamed Yi's storage bag to carve out a cave mansion and build a fence.
• A chubby young boy ran out of a nearby wooden hut to watch Fang Xi's construction.