Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi settled into the Black Rock Marketplace, where he observed the hardship faced by its low-level cultivators and began cultivating the He Transforms All Things secret art. After sending Little Qing to contact Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu, he discovered the art could reproduce another cultivator’s appearance and aura as he transformed into Zhou Jun.

• Fang Xi watched the Heavenly Brahma Gang steward collect protection fees and learned that Widow Liang and Little Worm struggled to survive in the marketplace.
• Fang Xi cooked Mixed-Branded Snake meat while secretly cultivating He Transforms All Things, and Little Worm watched from outside his fence.
• Fang Xi met Zhou Jun, a second-tier alchemist who cared for Little Worm, and heard how displaced cultivators had been sent to reclaim dangerous borderlands.
• Fang Xi released Little Qing and sent her with a letter to contact Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu, instructing her to conceal her aura.
• Fang Xi examined the Mixed-Branded Snake’s remains and considered how He Transforms All Things could imitate beasts and counter enemies.
• Fang Xi tested the secret art by transforming completely into Zhou Jun, matching his appearance, bloodline, and magical aura.

After more than a year in Black Rock Marketplace, Fang Xi learned from Liu Xu’s letter that Heavenly Brahma City had suffered repeated savage-beast sieges and remained dangerous, so he decided to stay in seclusion. The letter also revealed that the reclamation expedition had been pushed forward by Vajra Son on the advice of a renowned divination master.

• Widow Liang invited Fang Xi to share her newly cultivated spirit fields, but he refused while Zhou Jun had accepted a portion.
• Little Worm went to help Zhou Jun sort medicinal herbs, and Fang Xi remarked that the child’s spirit roots suited alchemy.
• Little Azure returned with Liu Xu’s letter after a long journey, and Fang Xi rewarded it with the promise of a Spiritual Treasure.
• Fang Xi read that Heavenly Brahma City had endured several savage-beast sieges and that Liu Xu and Yun Xi Fairy warned him not to go there.
• Fang Xi decided to remain outside the city and learned that Vajra Son had started the reclamation expedition after a friend’s divination predicted it would bring more benefits than drawbacks.

Fang Xi and the other cultivators endured a raid by the Righteousness Society, during which Fang Xi killed four Foundation Establishment bandits while Zhou Jun helped save Widow Liang’s household. After Widow Liang returned from a dangerous venture, Zhou Jun took Little Worm as his disciple, and twenty years passed.

• The Heavenly Brahma Gang Steward warned Widow Liang that the Righteousness Society had grown dangerous as her spirit rice neared harvest.
• The Righteousness Society raided the neighborhood, broke Widow Liang’s defenses, and injured Little Worm, while Fang Xi killed the four Foundation Establishment cultivators attacking his cave mansion.
• Fang Xi refused the Steward’s call to join the campaign against the Righteousness Society, and Widow Liang asked Zhou Jun for help after her Spirit Field was ruined.
• Widow Liang returned three days later with bloodstained storage bags and collapsed, but Zhou Jun used a spirit pill to restore her.
• Zhou Jun formally accepted Little Worm as his disciple, and another twenty years passed.

Fang Xi watched Black Rock Marketplace prosper, then saw its new Nascent Soul cultivator Thunder Fire True Lord killed by a fifth-tier Tri-horn Yuan Rhino that attacked the city. After Little Qing subdued the beast, Fang Xi revealed himself to Little Worm as a Spirit Transmutation Venerable and departed.

• Little Worm visited Fang Xi, who warned him about the dangers of hunting in the wilderness and learned that Zhou Jun's health was failing.
• Thunder Fire True Person began his Nascent Soul tribulation and succeeded, while Zhou Jun attempted an empowerment transmission to Little Worm rather than taking over his body.
• The Tri-horn Yuan Rhino attacked Black Rock Marketplace, killed Thunder Fire True Lord, and began devastating the city.
• Fang Xi sent Little Qing to capture the Tri-horn Yuan Rhino, and the Green Fire Luan defeated it as the Rogue Cultivators fled.
• Little Worm told Fang Xi that Zhou Jun had died, and Fang Xi explained that his master had passed on his memories and knowledge through an empowerment transmission.
• Fang Xi revealed his Spirit Transmutation cultivation to Little Worm, addressed him as Liang Rulong, placed a Gu Art in his Sea of Consciousness, and left with Little Qing and the captured beast.

Fang Xi lured two Tri-horn Yuan Rhinos into an array and used his He-Transforms-Himself-Freely Demonic Art to become a Mixed-Branded Snake, while his True Body joined the fight. He killed both beasts and collected their souls and inner cores, then wondered whether the secret art came from a Heavenly Demon Inheritance.

• Fang Xi set up an array in a mountain range and used the wounded Tri-horn Yuan Rhino cub to lure its parents there.
• When the two Tri-horn Yuan Rhinos arrived, Fang Xi transformed into a sixth-order Mixed-Branded Snake and bound one with poisonous coils.
• Fang Xi's True Body appeared beside the other rhino and struck it with a Jade Hammer, while the External Incarnation used the Substitute Art to evade its attack.
• Fang Xi attacked the second rhino with the Divine Infant Sword, Xuan Ming Banner, and Nine Nether Underworld River, then killed it and captured its soul and inner core.
• The Mixed-Branded Snake's poison killed the remaining rhino, and Fang Xi collected its inner core before questioning whether his demonic art was a Heavenly Demon Inheritance.

Fang Xi visited Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu at the Heavenly Charm Sect’s temporary stronghold, where they explained that Senior Sister Ding had been targeting them. When Senior Sister Ding’s group arrived to confront them, Fang Xi revealed his Void Returning cultivation and scattered the approaching cultivators.

• Little Qing directed the butchering of three Tri-horn Yuan Rhinos, and Fang Xi’s External Incarnation set aside their horns to refine into Formation Breaking Cones.
• The External Incarnation rode Little Qing to visit Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu and bring them Primordial Savage Beast meat.
• Senior Sister Luo questioned Yun Xi and Liu Xu about the supplies they had gathered and learned that they had not found the Golden Flow Root.
• Fang Xi arrived at the stronghold, and Yun Xi and Liu Xu took him aside to explain how Senior Sister Ding had been ostracizing them.
• Senior Sister Ding learned that Yun Xi and Liu Xu were meeting an outsider and led fellow disciples to question them.
• As Senior Sister Ding’s group confronted Fang Xi, he released his concealment and his Void Returning aura scattered the approaching cultivators.

Fang Xi visited the Heavenly Charm Sect, reunited with Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu, and agreed to help Thousand Flower Fairy hunt a Cloud Piercing Crane guarding an Immortal Cloud Lingzhi. He and Thousand Flower Fairy lured the crane into a prepared formation, where the chapter ended as it plunged inside.

• Fang Xi revealed his Void Returning cultivation, and Senior Sister Ding and the other Heavenly Charm Sect cultivators bowed to welcome him.
• Thousand Flower Fairy greeted Fang Xi, accepted his gift of Primordial Savage Beast flesh, and offered to recruit him as an outer sect elder.
• Fang Xi visited Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu, shared Tri-horn Yuan Rhino flesh with them, and stayed at the sect for several months while Senior Sister Ding apologized to them.
• Thousand Flower Fairy told Fang Xi about an Immortal Cloud Lingzhi guarded by a Cloud Piercing Crane, and they agreed to hunt it in exchange for its feathers and a share of the pills.
• Fang Xi and Thousand Flower Fairy waited in a concealed formation as Little Qing lured the Cloud Piercing Crane toward them, then escaped to Fang Xi as the crane plunged into the formation.

Fang Xi and Thousand Flower Fairy killed Cloud Piercing Crane and went to retrieve the ten-thousand-year-old Immortal Cloud Lingzhi. An Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix appeared, took the lingzhi, and fixed her attention on Xiao Qing for her apparent comprehension of the Dao of Void.

• Fang Xi activated the sixth-tier Nine Nether Underworld River Black Sand Great Array and trapped Cloud Piercing Crane while Thousand Flower Fairy joined the fight.
• Thousand Flower Fairy bound Cloud Piercing Crane with Three Thousand Feet of Mortal Dust, and Fang Xi helped suppress it until she beheaded it with her flying sword.
• Xiao Qing asked for Cloud Piercing Crane's inner core, but Fang Xi and Thousand Flower Fairy agreed to store the corpse and seek the Immortal Cloud Lingzhi first.
• Thousand Flower Fairy approached the lingzhi while Fang Xi stayed behind, but she prepared her sword against him before a phoenix cry interrupted her.
• An Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix appeared, broke through Thousand Flower Fairy's defenses, plucked the Immortal Cloud Lingzhi, and praised Xiao Qing's comprehension of the Dao of Void.

Fang Xi and Little Qing encountered an Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix that coveted Little Qing’s talent in the Dao of Void and attacked them. As Fang Xi fled, the Heavenly Phoenix killed Thousand Flower Fairy and pursued him, but his void talismans disrupted her Void-Breaking Arrow.

• The Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix targeted Little Qing after seeing her evade Cloud Piercing Crane’s attack with Void-Breaking Teleportation, then attacked Thousand Flower Fairy and Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi used the Essence Blood Substitution Great Law to survive the Heavenly Phoenix’s strike, retrieved Little Qing and the Xuan Ming Banner, and fled with Blood Escape.
• The Heavenly Phoenix fired a five-colored arrow that pierced Thousand Flower Fairy as she escaped underground, then chased Fang Xi.
• Fang Xi transformed into a black-winged great peng and accelerated with dark-golden wings, but the Heavenly Phoenix pursued him and fired her Void-Breaking Arrow.
• Fang Xi sent out Phoenix Seal Script Talismans and used Void Lock to swallow the arrow in Void Turbulence, surprising the Heavenly Phoenix.

Fang Xi fled the Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix through Ten Thousand Horn Forest and reached Heavenly Brahma City, where Divine Calculator appeared to confront her. The Heavenly Phoenix teleported away, and Divine Calculator pursued her through a temporary teleportation array.

• The Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix attacked Fang Xi with a Void Breaking Arrow, but Xiao Qing intervened, and Fang Xi seized the Heavenly Phoenix's Five-Colored Feather.
• Fang Xi transformed into a Tri-horn Yuan Rhino and entered Ten Thousand Horn Forest, using his formation knowledge to evade the Heavenly Phoenix as she pursued him with a formation plate.
• Venerable Yuan Yin and her patrol encountered Fang Xi near Heavenly Brahma City, then fled when they sensed the pursuing Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix.
• Fang Xi reached Venerable Yuan Yin and urged her to weather the attack with him, while the Heavenly Phoenix followed and killed several Spirit Transformation Cultivators who failed to escape.
• Divine Calculator emerged from Heavenly Brahma City, prompting the Heavenly Phoenix to flee; he formed a temporary teleportation array with his abacus and vanished in pursuit.

Fang Xi bought his freedom from the Heavenly Brahma Army and learned that Divine Calculator had returned after capturing an Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix. Divine Calculator discovered Fang Xi’s Fortune Gu, exchanged a cultivation secret for it, and promised the Heavenly Brahma Domain’s Super Teleportation Array would soon reopen.

• Fang Xi recovered from his injuries in his abode and vowed to avenge himself on the Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix.
• Fang Xi paid Zen Master Golden Flood Dragon a thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones to leave the Heavenly Brahma Army, and Jade Brush Scholar accepted that they could not stop him.
• Divine Calculator visited Fang Xi, boasting that he had captured an Integrated Body Heavenly Phoenix and learned secrets about the Demon Race.
• Fang Xi showed Divine Calculator his fifth-grade Fortune Gu and gave him a secret technique for refining and upgrading it.
• Divine Calculator promised the Super Teleportation Array would soon be restored and gave Fang Xi three Falling Cloud Profound Pills.

After the Heavenly Brahma Domain’s reclamation effort resumed, Fang Xi stayed out of the fighting and spent a century cultivating and restoring the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror. He emerged from seclusion in Yueyao Immortal City to find Little Mysterious Tortoise nearing its Major Heavenly Tribulation, and prepared to protect it through its breakthrough.

• Fang Xi declined to take Hermit Kuang Tao, Xu Qingzi, and Pu Xianzi under his command, and suggested they seek an alliance with Yun Xi and Liu Xu.
• The Super Teleportation Array reopened, and Fang Xi remained in Heavenly Brahma City while the Heavenly Brahma Domain resumed reclamation; Xu Qingzi later died in an attack by an evil entity.
• A hundred years later, Fang Xi gathered the final Lower Realm fragment of the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror and decided to wait before pursuing fragments in the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Fang Xi calculated that steady cultivation would take another five hundred and four years to bring him to the peak of the Early Void Returning stage.
• Fang Xi emerged from seclusion in Yueyao Immortal City and found Little Mysterious Tortoise at fifth-rank Completion, nearly ready to undergo the Major Heavenly Tribulation.

Fang Xi helped Little Mysterious Tortoise survive its Void Returning tribulation, then learned that the overseas Immortal Mansion in the Profound Nether Abyss would open ahead of schedule. He refused to join the expedition and told the Wang Household to stay out while studying the formation, leaving him safely in Yueyao Immortal City as other cultivators set out.

• Fang Xi took Little Mysterious Tortoise to Spring Departure Swamp, where it advanced to sixth grade and survived its Void Returning tribulation; Fang Xi killed three Spirit Transmutation Cultivators who approached to plunder the tribulation’s spoils.
• Little Mysterious Tortoise shared its inherited techniques with Fang Xi, who found a Void Returning chapter of the Heavenly Demon Slaughtering Immortal Record among them.
• Chi Songzi told Fang Xi that the overseas Immortal Mansion’s formation was weakening ahead of schedule, but Fang Xi declined to join an expedition because he wanted to remain in Yueyao Immortal City.
• As cultivators left for the Profound Nether Abyss, the Wang Household profited by selling stockpiled resources, and Wang Lingying brought Fang Xi eight immortal jades.
• Fang Xi told Wang Lingying that the Wang Household would give up entering the Immortal Mansion but should carefully observe and copy its formation patterns.

In Yueyao Immortal City, Fang Xi enjoyed Wang Lingying’s food while wondering what was unfolding in the overseas Immortal Estate. A Giant Kun awakened into a Kun Peng and escaped its Void Returning pursuers, who abandoned the chase after learning of a major incident; days later, Chen told Fang Xi that a Star Sect Star Body Disciple had been killed.

• Wang Lingying brought Fang Xi spirit dishes and said the Wang Household would remain in Yueyao Immortal City until the Profound Nether Abyss matter was settled.
• Void Returning Cultivators cornered a Giant Kun in the Profound Nether Abyss, and the True Armor Whale intervened to help it escape.
• The Giant Kun awakened its bloodline, transformed into a Kun Peng, and flew off with the wounded True Armor Whale despite the cultivators’ attacks.
• The Void Returning Cultivators received news of a deadly incident in the overseas Immortal Estate and left the pursuit to head there.
• Chen arrived at Fang Xi’s Lake Island and reported that a Star Sect Star Body Disciple had been killed.

Fang Xi learned that the Star Sect’s Star Holy Son and several Void Returning cultivators had died after challenging the Fang Xian Dao Master, who was revealed to be Fang Xi himself. Years later, Fang Xi saw his family depart for the Profound Nether Abyss and visited Chi Songzi and Guang Qianjian, then asked about joining a high-level cultivator exchange gathering.

• Fang Xi heard from the female cultivator surnamed Chen that the Star Holy Son had been killed by the Fang Xian Dao Master, who also killed the Three Sword Spirit Lord and escaped the Star Sect’s pursuit.
• The female cultivator surnamed Chen recounted the rise of an ancient Ascended Cultivator who had led the Human Race to power, while Fang Xi concealed his identity as the wanted Fang Xian Dao Master.
• Several years later, Fang Xi saw Wang Lingying, Li Rulíng, and other Wang Family cultivators depart for the Profound Nether Abyss on a golden spirit boat.
• Fang Xi visited Chi Songzi and Guang Qianjian, who told him that the Fang Xian Dao Master had defeated the Star Sect’s Integrated Body Old Ancestor after killing the Purple Wind Spirit Lord and breaking Guang Qianjian’s sword.
• Fang Xi asked Chi Songzi and Guang Qianjian whether they could help him join a high-level cultivator exchange gathering.

Fang Xi attended the Black Tortoise Pavilion Underground Trade Fair, bought a damaged Lesser Void Teleportation Talisman inheritance, and traded for rare spirit-bird feathers. After acquiring a quasi-seventh-tier Kun Peng feather, he left the venue hoping to lure robbers into attacking him, but no one pursued him.

• Fang Xi followed Chi Songzi's map to the Mountain-Carrying Turtle and entered the Black Tortoise Pavilion's underground trade fair in disguise.
• Spirit Turtle Child opened the auction, and Fang Xi bought the incomplete Lesser Void Teleportation Talisman inheritance for sixty immortal jades.
• During free trading, Fang Xi exchanged immortal jades for a peacock feather and a Honghu feather from a masked female cultivator.
• Fang Xi negotiated with Ku Xuzi and acquired a quasi-seventh-tier Kun Peng feather, bringing him close to gathering the materials for the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan.
• Fang Xi left the trade fair and tried to attract robbers by displaying his wealth, but no one attacked him before he departed.

Fang Xi bought Primordial Savage Beast meat in Heavenly Brahma City to support his Body Refining and resource-trading plans, then stopped purchasing when the volume attracted suspicion. After detecting a Confucian tracking mark hidden on meat bought through one of his false identities, he destroyed it and vanished underground.

• Fang Xi haggled with the Jade Brush Scholar over an Ancient Green Beast corpse, then stopped buying Primordial Savage Beast meat and began refining his Six Paths Demonic Flame toward a Five Fire Seven Birds Fan replica.
• Old Man Huang tried to sell Fang Xi three Yellow Peak Lions, but Fang Xi refused because he had already stopped purchasing Savage Beast meat.
• Fang Xi used a false Body Refiner identity to buy Savage Beast meat and spirit plants from shops in Heavenly Brahma City, then left the city.
• Fang Xi reflected that his buying and reselling scheme had drawn growing scrutiny, especially after Senior Luo took charge of Heavenly Brahma City.
• Fang Xi discovered ink-colored runes on a piece of Primordial Savage Beast meat, recognized them as a Confucian tracking method, and burned the meat to ashes with his Six Paths Demonic Flame.
• Fang Xi plunged into the earth and vanished in silver light.

Fang Xi oversaw the Jiuzhou Realm’s attempt to refine the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan using seven powerful spirit-bird feathers and Primordial Earth Lung Poison Flame. The Heavenly Phoenix continued battling the poison dragon, leaving the artifact’s refinement unfinished.

• Fang Xi fed Taisui Meat to the Yao Mo Tree and sensed the growing power of his Earth Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Fang Xi welcomed Wanzang Venerable’s successful Spirit Transmutation and considered using the Myriad Heavens Treasure Mirror to help the Jiuzhou Realm obtain more resources.
• Fang Xi and Wanzang Venerable visited Ghost Axe and the other Spirit Transmutation Cultivators at a magma factory to begin refining the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan.
• Fang Xi and the cultivators used the Primordial Earth Lung Poison Flame and their magic power to make the seven spirit-bird feathers fight and absorb refining materials.
• After ten days, the poison dragon defeated the Kun Peng, and Fang Xi released the Five Colored Heavenly Phoenix to continue the battle.

After completing the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan, Fang Xi tested his new treasure in the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and uncovered a plot by Jade Brush Scholar and two other Void Returning cultivators to ambush him. Fang Xi trapped and defeated them, leaving Jade Brush Scholar isolated inside the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm with his messages intercepted.

• Fang Xi completed the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan in the Lower Realm, then returned to the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm to replenish his supplies.
• Fang Xi bought Primordial Savage Beast meat and a Nine-Change Butterfly Orchid from the Cold Spring Merchant Association, unaware that Jade Brush Scholar had arranged for Pumi Butterflies to track the orchid.
• Jade Brush Scholar, Old Woman Ning, and Old Demon Ji ambushed Fang Xi, and Jade Brush Scholar trapped him inside the Gate of Life and Death.
• Fang Xi revealed his identity and used the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan to badly wound Jade Brush Scholar while breaking the Gate of Life and Death.
• Fang Xi’s true body killed Old Woman Ning and Old Demon Ji, then opened the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and blocked Jade Brush Scholar’s escape.
• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation pursued Jade Brush Scholar inside the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm as Fang Xi intercepted the scholar’s ink-fish message.

Fang Xi defeated Jade Brush Scholar with the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan, captured his Nascent Soul, and searched his memories for information about the Heavenly Brahma Domain. He learned that the Jade Family planned to establish a presence in Heavenly Brahma City, where its ancient Integrated Body ancestor would soon arrive.

• Fang Xi overwhelmed Jade Brush Scholar with the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan, destroyed his protective treasures, and captured his Nascent Soul and Lesser Void Teleportation Talisman.
• Fang Xi examined the spoils from Old Woman Ning and Old Demon Ji, then had the Yao Mo Tree begin turning their corpses into Spirit Transformation puppets.
• Fang Xi found Immortal Jades, demonic materials, and Void Returning treasures in the defeated cultivators' storage bags, while noting how little they possessed.
• Fang Xi used a demonic soul-searching art on Jade Brush Scholar's Nascent Soul and learned that the Cold Spring Merchant Association kept secret warehouses in the Heavenly Brahma Domain.
• Fang Xi discovered that Jade Brush Scholar, also known as Yu Shusheng, belonged to the Jade Family, which planned to establish a branch in Heavenly Brahma City under the direction of its aging Integrated Body ancestor.