Chapter Summaries

Fang Xi cultivated the Heavenly Yao True Body, raising his physical strength to that of a Void Returning body refiner, then tried to complete the Lesser Void Teleportation Talisman and failed. As the overseas immortal estate quieted down, he continued studying formations and other cultivation arts.

• Fang Xi learned that the Jade Family's Integrated Body Old Ancestor might investigate Yu Shusheng's death, but believed the case would remain unsolved.
• Fang Xi ate Jade Void Rice and Primordial Savage Beast meat, then cultivated the Heavenly Yao True Body until he could crush Old Demon Ji's Spiritual Treasure with his fingers.
• Fang Xi used Taiyi and his talisman knowledge to reproduce the Lesser Void Teleportation Talisman, but the incomplete talisman self-destructed and he contained the resulting Void Turbulence.
• Fang Xi observed that Void Returning forces were withdrawing from the overseas immortal estate while Wang Lingying collected remnants of formations for study.
• Fang Xi reviewed his progress in formations and the other cultivation arts as he continued his peaceful routine.

Over five hundred years, Fang Xi advanced his talisman, formation, and cultivation skills, then returned to the Mortal Realm to witness Shui Lingxin’s ascension. He met her again at Heavenly Brahma Camp and said he had come to take her home.

• Fang Xi wondered why the Jade Family had not pursued Yu Shusheng’s death and concluded that its ancestor had likely foreseen danger and chosen to concede.
• Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu visited Fang Xi, who promised to exchange Immortal Jade to help them prepare for breaking through to Void Returning.
• Over the next five hundred years, Fang Xi mastered sixth-tier Lesser Void Teleportation Talismans, developed the Xuan Ming Calamity-Removing and Dust-Sweeping Divine Light, and reached the peak of Early Void Returning.
• Fang Xi traveled to Myriad Islands Lake and learned from a young cultivator that Wang Tianjun, a descendant of Wang Xiaohu, had become a Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivator.
• Shui Lingxin ascended from the Mortal Realm to the Earth Immortal Realm, where Fang Xi appeared at Heavenly Brahma Camp and told her he had come to take her home.

Fang Xi reunited Shui Lingxin with Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu, then learned that the sisters planned to use a secret art to become ghost cultivators if they could not survive the Major Heavenly Tribulation. He promised to protect them and lend them a sixth-tier Void Returning Treasure as they prepared for the ritual.

• Fang Xi paid Shui Lingxin's ransom and escorted her by Super Teleportation Array to Heavenly Brahma City to reunite with Yun Xi Fairy.
• Yun Xi Fairy welcomed Shui Lingxin and explained that she hoped to carry on the Penglai Immortal Island lineage.
• Fang Xi learned that Yun Xi Fairy had obtained Glazed Immortal Dew and that the sisters had exchanged sect contributions for a Brahma Gold Eight Consciousness Pill.
• Yun Xi Fairy and Liu Xu revealed that they had found a Nine Nether Absolute Sha Yin Vein and a ghost-cultivation secret art in an Ancient Cultivator's remains.
• Liu Xu explained that the art could let Spirit Transmutation Cultivators who survived the Inner Demon Tribulation become Void Returning ghost cultivators, though they would be bound to the Yin Vein and unable to reach Great Ascension.
• Fang Xi promised to protect the sisters during the ritual and lend them a sixth-tier Void Returning Treasure to help resist the lightning tribulation.

Yun Xi Fairy began her Void Returning breakthrough with Fang Xi guarding her, but the Major Heavenly Tribulation destroyed her protective treasure and forced her to use her prepared ghost-cultivation secret art. She survived as a Void Returning ghost cultivator, and Fang Xi congratulated her.

• Yun Xi Fairy chose to attempt the breakthrough immediately, and Fang Xi agreed to protect her while observing her ghost-cultivation technique.
• Yun Xi Fairy entered the Nine Nether Absolute Sha Yin Vein, while Fang Xi and Shui Lingxin waited with Liu Xu nearby.
• Yun Xi Fairy refined Immortal Origin Qi, became a Void Returning Cultivator, and passed the Inner Demon Tribulation before the Major Heavenly Tribulation began.
• Yun Xi Fairy used her Black Wood Walking Stick to block several lightning bolts, but the treasure was destroyed by the sixth bolt.
• Yun Xi Fairy severed her head with the Law Sword and transformed into a ghost cultivator, weakening the remaining tribulation lightning.
• Yun Xi Fairy endured the final lightning bolts and reshaped her ghost body, and Fang Xi congratulated her on becoming a Void Returning ghost cultivator.

Yun Xi Fairy became an Early Void Returning ghost cultivator and warned of the severe tribulations ahead, while Fang Xi advanced to Mid Void Returning with the help of the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm and survived his lightning tribulation. He later returned to Yueyao Immortal City and traded talismans and pills with the Yueyao Chamber of Commerce, where a dispute over the value of herbs began.

• Yun Xi Fairy appointed Shui Lingxin Sect Master of Penglai Immortal Island in the Earth Immortal Realm and went into seclusion to consolidate her cultivation.
• Fang Xi traveled to a swamp with Little Mysterious Tortoise and advanced to Mid Void Returning as the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm expanded.
• Fang Xi endured the ninth bolt of his Heavenly Tribulation with his Heavenly Yao True Body and Myriad Yao Armor, then rewarded Little Mysterious Tortoise for guarding the area.
• Fang Xi returned to Yueyao Immortal City and celebrated his breakthrough before visiting the Yueyao Chamber of Commerce under the false identity Elder Fu.
• Fang Xi traded Lesser Void Teleportation Talismans and six-treasure blood pills for immortal jade, then selected rare herbs to offset part of the price.
• The Great Steward disputed Fang Xi's low valuation of the Drunken Immortal Grass and insisted that the herbs were worth more immortal jade.

Fang Xi negotiated with the Yueyao Chamber of Commerce to obtain the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower and some dragon and phoenix essence blood in exchange for helping locate it in the Void Turbulence. He returned to the Mortal Realm planning to send his External Incarnation, while Penglai Immortal Island’s retreat left the Northern Plains and Western Desert in turmoil.

• Fang Xi completed his trade with the Great Steward and considered using immortal jades to accelerate the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm’s growth, but chose to prioritize stability.
• The Great Steward told Fang Xi that the Yao and Devil Races were preparing a Great Sage and Devil King to advance, and that the Yueyao Chamber of Commerce had found a Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower at Three Realms Mountain.
• Fang Xi deduced that the site might contain seventh-rank Heavenly Phoenix and Flood Dragon remains, then demanded the entire flower and several drops of any essence blood in exchange for his help.
• Fang Xi and the Great Steward agreed to sign an Immortal Spirit Document that also barred the chamber of commerce from seeking other outside assistance.
• Fang Xi returned to the Mortal Realm and decided that his External Incarnation would handle the search while he avoided risking his true self.
• After Ancestor Shui ascended, Penglai Immortal Island withdrew from the Northern Plains and Western Desert, and turmoil resumed there.

Fang Xi traveled to Three Realms Mountain to join the New Moon Chamber of Commerce on a battlefield expedition in search of the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower. As his group moved into the dangerous battlefield, Devil Race cultivators detected them and prepared to exploit their encounter for military merits.

• Fang Xi traveled to Three Realms Mountain and waited at New Moon Constant for Manager Zhou.
• Manager Zhou introduced Fang Xi to Guang Qianjian and Dong Qiuzi, and promised him the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower if their expedition succeeded.
• Fang Xi and Dong Qiuzi discussed puppet techniques aboard the spirit vessel as it passed through the battlefield's grand array.
• Mo Xuan detected four human Void Returning cultivators with a Demon Response Bead and set out to attack them on a demonized Two-Headed Flood Dragon.
• A winged Demonic Girl and a tall, withered demonic shadow watched Mo Xuan's movements and vanished together after discussing his battle merits.

Fang Xi and his companions were ambushed by Mo Xuan and fought their way through a battle involving a mutated Two-Headed Demonic Flood Dragon and two more demons. After Dong Qiuzi’s Flesh Puppet was exposed, Fang Xi used the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan to kill the two newly arrived demons, leaving the group able to continue its search.

• Mo Xuan attacked the spirit boat, and Dong Qiuzi engaged him with a sixth-rank formation while the others targeted his Two-Headed Demonic Flood Dragon.
• The flood dragon split into separate wind and lightning forms, injuring Guang Qianjian before Fang Xi, Manager Zhou, and Guang Qianjian fought back.
• A Demonic Girl and a tall, withered demonic shadow ambushed Dong Qiuzi, but the figure they attacked was a Flesh Puppet, and the real Dong Qiuzi emerged from Manager Zhou’s Cave-Heaven Treasure.
• Manager Zhou proposed retreating, but Fang Xi used a Lesser Void Teleportation Talisman to confront the two demons.
• Fang Xi unleashed the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan and burned the Demonic Girl and the withered demonic shadow to death.

Fang Xi and his allies destroyed Mo Xuan and the other Devil Race members, then traveled to a vast Void Rift to search for the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower. After setting up a Void Formation and sensing into the rift, Fang Xi opened his eyes with a smile, suggesting he had found something.

• Fang Xi used the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan to destroy the escaping demonic shadow, then joined Dong Qiuzi, Manager Zhou, and Guang Qianjian in killing Mo Xuan.
• Fang Xi shared the spoils with Dong Qiuzi and claimed the lightning flood dragon, while the group kept a Demon Response Bead for study and reporting.
• Fang Xi and the others traveled through a battlefield strewn with ancient Void Rifts toward the place where Steward Kuang had glimpsed the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower.
• Fang Xi used the Heavenly Phoenix aura from the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan to sense into the rift, but decided he needed a formation to search it properly.
• Fang Xi arranged a silver Void Formation, meditated for several hours, and opened his eyes with a faint smile.

Fang Xi and Manager Zhou found the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower and the fossilized dragon and phoenix remains in the Grand Void, then returned to the Earth Immortal Realm. They arrived amid a demon attack, with Guang Qianjian struggling against a Void Returning Demon Race.

• Fang Xi and Manager Zhou boarded the Nine Heavens Void Divine Ship and crossed the unstable Void Rift to a deserted island in the Grand Void.
• Fang Xi dug up the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower, while Manager Zhou used the Blood Drinker Sword to extract essence blood from the fossilized dragon and phoenix remains.
• Manager Zhou collected the island and its remains with the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion, while Fang Xi secretly learned from Little Qing that the flower's fossil contained Green Luan True Blood.
• Fang Xi and Manager Zhou returned through the Void Rift, where Fang Xi killed a demon beast that attacked their ship.
• Dong Qiuzi reported that Void Returning Demon Races had attacked soon after Fang Xi and Manager Zhou left, and Guang Qianjian was struggling against one of them.

Fang Xi escaped a Yao Race vanguard by entering the Great Void, then warned Three Realms Mountain as the Human-Yao War threatened to resume. In the Jiuzhou Realm, he received a message from Fang Xian Dao Master, who urged the Spirit Transmutation Venerables not to ascend during the coming war.

• The Bull Horned Man shattered Grandmaster Dong Qiuzi’s formation, but Fang Xi used the Five Fire Seven Birds Fan to damage his Dharma Laksana Golden Body and hold off the three Yao Race cultivators.
• Fang Xi fled into the Void Rift while Dong Qiuzi, Manager Zhou, and Guang Qianjian escaped with Lesser Void Teleportation Talismans; the Yao cultivators then watched their army’s vanguard arrive.
• Fang Xi reached the Earth Immortal Spirit Realm, assimilated his External Incarnation’s memories, planted the Dragon Blood Phoenix Marrow Flower, and found a Green Luan inheritance sealed in a fossil.
• Fang Xi sent his External Incarnation to warn Three Realms Mountain about the Yao Race army, then returned to the Heavenly Brahma Domain.
• Ghost Axe and the other Spirit Transmutation Venerables presented Fang Xi with a box from Fang Xian Dao Master, whose message said he had reached Perfect Void Returning and was heading to the Demon Race to seek a breakthrough.
• Fang Xian Dao Master warned the Venerables not to ascend during the coming war, and Fang Xi told them they could instead attempt to reach Void Returning in the Lower Realm.

Fang Xi warned his companions that war with the Demon Race was imminent, then visited Shui Lingxin and Liu Xu at the Nine Nether Absolute Sha Yin Vein to help them prepare. He suspected the new Demon Race True Spirit was the Heaven Demon King of Freedom and saw its rise as a chance to advance his demonic cultivation.

• Fang Xi bought up the War Supplies in a marketplace, then returned to Heavenly Brahma City and spotted Liang Rulong, who failed to recognize him but sensed his overwhelming power.
• Fang Xi urged Hermit Kuang Tao, Pu Xianzi, and the other Ascended Cultivators to buy back their freedom or prepare for trouble; afterward, he lent Pu Xianzi Top-grade Spirit Stones so she could leave the Heavenly Brahma Army.
• Fang Xi flew to the Nine Nether Absolute Sha Yin Yin Vein and found Shui Lingxin and Liu Xu managing a new Daoist temple there while Yun Xi Fairy remained in seclusion.
• Fang Xi told Shui Lingxin and Liu Xu that a new True Spirit had appeared among the Demon Race and that war could begin soon, warning them to prepare for possible sect mobilization.
• Fang Xi suspected the Heaven Demon King of Freedom had advanced and considered how its rise might loosen restrictions on demonic cultivation and create an opportunity for his own advancement.

Fang Xi secretly helped Little Qing absorb the inheritance of a Seventh-Order Green Luan, then avoided a dangerous mission as Yueyao Immortal City prepared for a possible war. He learned that Chang Qingzi was gathering young, long-lived Sixth-Order spirit pets, making him suspect the search was aimed at him.

• Fang Xi arranged a concealment formation and let Little Qing use Green Luan True Fire and her essence blood to awaken the Seventh-Order Green Luan fossil’s inheritance.
• A miniature Green Luan entered Little Qing, who fainted after absorbing the inheritance, and Fang Xi put her back in her Spirit Beast Bag.
• Fang Xi considered the looming Human Race conscription and decided that the identity of Elder Fu would not appear again.
• Chi Songzi and Fairy Chen asked Fang Xi to accept a mission on behalf of Yueyao Immortal City, but he refused and claimed he could not leave while cultivating a technique.
• Fairy Chen and Chi Songzi revealed that an important figure was seeking young, long-lived Sixth-Order spirit pets, and Fang Xi recognized the scheme as Chang Qingzi’s attempt to find him.

Fang Xi refused Yueyao Immortal City's mission and prepared for Chang Qingzi's scheme, while Chang Qingzi delayed joining the battle at Three Realms Mountain. Five Void Returning demon beasts descended upon the Mortal Realm, but Fang Xi captured them and began weakening them in a separate Lesser Realm.

• Fang Xi refused Chi Songzi and Fairy Chen's request, deciding he could survive Chang Qingzi's plans and protect the Mortal Realm if necessary.
• Chang Qingzi told Vajra Son he would reach Three Realms Mountain within half a year, then watched over the spirit beasts he had gathered.
• A vast void fluctuation appeared over the Mortal Realm, and Fang Xi went to investigate while Wang Tianjun mistook the resulting shattered sky for a heavenly wonder.
• Five powerful demon beasts shattered Penglai Immortal Island's Central Plains formation and threatened Fairy Lanruo and the cultivators there.
• Fang Xi swept the five beasts into the Nine Nether Underworld River and transferred them to a savage-beast realm, where he used his Spirit Domain and divine light to bind and weaken them.

Fang Xi defeated five Void Returning demon beasts sent by Chang Qingzi, killing Gui Da and sealing the other four. He returned to the Mortal Realm, prepared for Chang Qingzi to learn of the defeat and for the damage left by the beasts to be repaired.

• Fang Xi used the Xuan Ming Calamity-Removing and Dust-Sweeping Divine Light and his Spirit Domain to weaken the five demon beasts, then broke the black-backed demon tortoise’s array with Jiuzhou Mechanism City.
• Fang Xi donned the Myriad Yao Armor and pierced the azure Black Tortoise’s shell with a punch, prompting Gui Da to offer submission.
• Fang Xi sensed the Green Round Bead was a destructive item and sent Gui Da to another realm, where the bead exploded and killed it.
• Fang Xi wounded and suppressed the remaining four demon beasts, then sealed them in the Xuan Ming Banner and sent it to another Lesser Realm.
• Fang Xi returned to the Mortal Realm, leaving puppets to collect the beasts’ blood and planning to repair the damage they had caused.

At Sword Gate Gorge, Venerable Stone Sword uncovered and killed Meng Daoxian, a spy who had defected to the Demon Race, but the Demon army soon launched an overwhelming assault. A True Spirit Phoenix destroyed the fortress, and the invasion went on to breach eighteen human strongholds in succession.

• Venerable Stone Sword and a Confucian Scholar exposed Meng Daoxian as a Demon Race spy, and Venerable Stone Sword killed him when he tried to flee.
• The Demon Race army surrounded Sword Gate Gorge and attacked its defenses with the Thunder Drum Great Array and Myriad Demon Formation.
• Venerable Stone Sword ordered the Restriction Breaking Immortal Thunder Cannons to fire, but a True Spirit Phoenix nullified their strikes.
• The True Spirit Phoenix destroyed Sword Gate Gorge, and Venerable Stone Sword's final sword attack failed to harm her before his Sword Infant disappeared.
• The Demon Race attacked Thunder Light Fort, Heavenly Flood Pass, and Myriad Sword Peak, breaching eighteen fortresses in succession.

Fang Xi joined Chi Songzi and Shi Xianzi on a dangerous mission through the Earth Abyss to retrieve injured Elder Tong and his important cargo. After the group escaped the Profound Nether Sea Eye, Old Monster Qiao of the Heavenly Demon Association confronted them and claimed Fang Xi and Shi Xianzi were his spies.

• Fang Xi learned that the Heavenly Demon Association had infiltrated the Star Domain and accepted Chi Songzi's offer of a Flying Void Pill to help retrieve Elder Tong.
• Fang Xi, Chi Songzi, and Shi Xianzi traveled through the Profound Dark Sea Eye and followed a hidden route into the Earth Abyss.
• The group found Elder Tong severely injured in a cave after he escaped a Heavenly Demon Association ambush and encountered an Earth Nether Beast.
• Fang Xi and the others escorted Elder Tong back through the Earth Abyss and emerged from the Profound Nether Sea Eye.
• Old Monster Qiao and several Void Returning cultivators ambushed the group, declared Fang Xi and Shi Xianzi were Heavenly Demon Association spies, and prompted both to ready their defenses.

Fang Xi used a Brahmanist formation talisman and explosive formations to survive Old Monster Qiao’s ambush, then broke through the Heavenly Demon Association’s blockade with Formation Breaking Cones. He escaped with Shi Xianzi and the others, but Kun Peng and Old Monster Qiao pursued them in separate directions.

• Fang Xi refused Old Monster Qiao’s offer to betray Chi Songzi and Shi Xianzi, and his formation talisman blocked a Blood Corpse’s attack.
• Fang Xi and Shi Xianzi fought off demonic corpses while Chi Songzi offered to pay double for their help escaping.
• Fang Xi detonated two formation talismans to hold off Old Monster Qiao, then used Formation Breaking Cones to breach the Heavenly Demon Association’s encircling formation.
• Fang Xi, Shi Xianzi, and the others fled in different directions after escaping the blockade.
• Old Monster Qiao ordered the pursuit, and Kun Peng emerged from the Profound Nether Abyss to chase one of the escape routes.

Fang Xi killed Old Monster Qiao, took control of the Three Corpses Demonic Banner, and subdued its three rebellious Void Returning corpses with the Little Mysterious Tortoise. While examining Old Monster Qiao’s spoils, he discovered a secret technique for breaking through to Body Integration and learned how Nascent Souls changed across the higher cultivation stages.

• Fang Xi drew Old Monster Qiao into pursuit and killed him with the black wooden seal before collecting his corpse and demonic banner.
• Fang Xi used a Purification Talisman to refine the Three Corpses Demonic Banner and gathered its lesser Corpse Refiners and Demonic Zombies.
• Fang Xi summoned the Little Mysterious Tortoise to restrain the banner’s three Void Returning Demon Corpses, then sealed all three inside the banner.
• Fang Xi examined Old Monster Qiao’s storage bag and found a seventh-grade bone fragment and a jade slip among his treasures.
• Fang Xi used the Blood Corpse’s Corpse Qi and blood essence to read the bone fragment, then discovered that the jade slip contained the Three Corpses Nascent Soul Method, a secret technique for breaking through to Body Integration.

Fang Xi’s External Incarnation broke through to Mid Void Returning and passed its Minor Heavenly Tribulation, while Little Qing awakened and survived her Sixth-Order Major Heavenly Tribulation. Little Qing’s inheritance revealed a technique that could postpone a Mahayana cultivator’s Immortal Lightning Tribulation for up to eighty-one years, leading Fang Xi to suspect that the Demon Race’s advance on Heavenly Absolute City was tied to a looming battle between Mahayana cultivators.

• Fang Xi returned to Yueyao Immortal City, learned that Tong Bai had died and the mission’s resources had been delivered, then collected his promised rewards from Chi Songzi.
• Thirty years later, Fang Xi’s External Incarnation hunted Devil Race infiltrators in the Heavenly Brahma Domain and absorbed their Demonic Yuan to reach the peak of Early Void Returning.
• Yun Xi Fairy told Fang Xi that the Demon Race had reached Heavenly Absolute City and that a battle between Mahayana cultivators might erupt there.
• Fang Xi’s External Incarnation passed the Minor Heavenly Tribulation and broke through to Mid Void Returning, while Little Qing awakened and began her Sixth-Order Major Heavenly Tribulation.
• Little Qing survived the Major Heavenly Tribulation, achieved bloodline ancestral return, and gave Fang Xi the Green Luan inheritance.
• Fang Xi learned that the Phoenix Dwelling Nirvana Technique could delay an Immortal Lightning Tribulation for up to eighty-one years and suspected that the Demon Race’s attack on Heavenly Absolute City was connected to an impending Mahayana battle.