Chapter Summaries

Fang Che was chastised for his money-making schemes and struggled to avoid Yan Beihan’s attempts to draw him into the Southeast, while the White Cloud Palace campaign continued. A supernatural omen brought a continent-wide blizzard, and Fang Che and Dongfang Sansan mobilized disaster relief as Feng Yunqi warned that the snow carried the gods’ final traces of spiritual energy.

• Yin Shen Gong relayed Yan Nan’s orders that Fang Che must act like an upright Guardian while finding his own way to establish the Night Demon Sect, and Fang Che responded by slacking off.
• Mu Linyuan and Yin Shen Gong discussed how to manage the factional newcomers at the One Heart Sect, deciding to pressure them before dividing and consolidating them.
• Yan Beihan teased Fang Che with supposed Night Demon Sect sites in the Southeast while discussing her campaign to install a new Palace Master at the White Cloud Palace.
• Three stars and enormous animal phantoms appeared across the sky, bringing a wave of grief before dark clouds and a sudden blizzard engulfed the continent.
• Fang Che ordered the Guardian Hall and local offices to begin rescue and disaster preparations immediately, and Yu Xiaoran organized teams as others mobilized.
• Feng Yunqi identified the omen as a sign of the Three Realms and said the snowfall carried the gods’ last spiritual energy, while Dongfang Sansan opened the granaries and ordered disaster relief.

Dongfang Sansan and Fang Che prepared for the disaster as relentless snow buried the continent, while Yan Nan considered using the Heavenly Centipede God's power to redirect the storm. Sun Wutian opened and maintained escape routes for people fleeing into Heavenly Capital City, and Fang Che coordinated relief before being asked to lecture at the Heavenly Human Martial Academy.

• Dongfang Sansan warned Feng Yunqi that disaster would spoil stored grain and feared Yan Nan might invoke divine power to send the blizzard toward the Guardian Continent.
• At the Sole True Sect headquarters, Yan Nan ordered the sect to wait three days before sacrificing to the Heavenly Centipede God and pushing the storm toward the Guardian Continent.
• Fang Che and Sun Wutian found that their power could not break the cloud layer, and Fang Che organized snow removal and preparations in Heavenly Capital City.
• Sun Wutian traveled through the blizzard to spread word of the evacuation routes and clear roads, helping people from villages and towns reach the city.
• Fang Che coordinated relief inside the city and discussed sheltering newcomers with Rain Xiaoran, who suggested blaming the arrangements on Fang Che after he left.
• Qin Fengyun and leaders of the Heavenly Human Martial Academy asked Fang Che to give his scheduled lecture after the school's eighty thousand teachers and students had worked on disaster relief.

Fang Che visited the Heavenly Human Martial Academy and explained that his purge was meant to break some entrenched class barriers and give ordinary people a brief chance to rise. He left the students with a call to seize that opportunity, while privately fearing that revealing his true identity would shatter their convictions.

• Fang Che arrived at the Heavenly Human Martial Academy with Qin Fengyun and Luo Hao, where students welcomed him with snow-carved messages, including “Hello, School Belle Fang!”
• Qin Fengyun introduced Fang Che to the packed Great Hall and warned the students to show respect during the lecture.
• Fang Che acknowledged killing more than three hundred million people and explained that the purge sought to curb oppression and open a temporary path for lower-class families to advance.
• Fang Che urged the students to seize the opportunities left by the purge, pursue their own achievements, and let history judge them.
• Fang Che ended the lecture and departed to help with the capital’s snow emergency, while privately reflecting that revealing his identity as a demon-sect undercover agent could destroy the students’ faith in him.

Fang Che met with Qin Fengyun and the others, whose warm reception left him refreshed as they organized efforts to clear Heavenly Capital City’s snow. At Moon Viewing Pavilion, the Night Emperor Ye Wushang became convinced Fang Che resembled an old acquaintance named Fang, leaving Fang Che to wonder whether the man had known his father.

• Fang Che accepted Qin Fengyun and Luo Hao’s invitation for tea, and the group praised his reforms while discussing the coming purges.
• After Fang Che left, Qin Fengyun ordered everyone to help clear the snow and continue investigating Eldest Brother’s affairs in secret.
• Meng Chuxing gave Meng Hejun his bell bracelet to wear and decided to open the wine he had saved for after finding Eldest Uncle.
• Wu Daotian and Ye Wushang discussed whether the deadly snowfall signaled another God's Advent and considered joining the Guardians if it continued.
• At Moon Viewing Pavilion, Ye Wushang was startled by Fang Che’s resemblance to an old acquaintance and repeatedly questioned why his surname was Fang.
• Ye Wushang apologized for upsetting Fang Che and explained that the acquaintance had been someone he owed a great debt, prompting Fang Che to suspect he had known his father.

Fang Che met Ye Wushang and Wu Daotian to negotiate the Underground World’s response to the blizzard, then learned that the snow had halted plans to transport wealth southeast. As the storm continued, Fang Che prepared to return to East Lake and named two of his spirit companions Nether Realm and Nether Sprite.

• Ye Wushang and Wu Daotian welcomed Fang Che with a feast, drank his spirit wine, and agreed to his conditions for tightening the Underground World’s security and helping clear snow.
• After Fang Che left, Ye Wushang and Wu Daotian discussed his resemblance to Fang Yunzheng and messaged Fang Yunzheng, who confirmed he knew Fang Che and ordered Ye Wushang’s name changed to “Ye Has Wounds.”
• Fang Che returned to Guardian Hall, where Yu Xiaoran told him that the blizzard had stopped the southeast-bound convoy and that Ninth Master had ordered him to store as much of its wealth as possible in Space Rings.
• Fang Yunzheng sent Fang Che a message urging him to become a cult master, and Fang Che decided to rest before returning to East Lake.
• Fang Che fed his Little sprites Blood Dragon Ginseng Liquid and named the Fang Tian Halberd sprite Nether Realm and the Little Flying Dagger sprite Nether Sprite.

Fang Che left Heavenly Capital after training with Sun Wutian and set out through the blizzard toward East Lake to establish the Sole True Sect. As he contacted allies and reflected on meeting Sun Yuan in a storm long ago, he vowed that his revenge for his master was near.

• Fang Che discovered that his five Divine Metal spirits devoured huge amounts of Blood Dragon Ginseng Liquid, and Yan Beihan explained the demands of nurturing multiple Divine Metals.
• Sun Wutian trained Fang Che brutally through forty-eight sparring sessions before Fang Che departed for East Lake the next morning.
• Yu Xiaoran and the Heavenly Capital Guardian Hall staff found Fang Che's farewell letter and secured the untouched warehouses for disaster relief.
• Fang Che checked in with his allies, learned the Southeast purge was nearing completion, and ordered Dragon, Phoenix, Horse, Cow, Sheep, and Mo Wang to prepare for the Sole True Sect's establishment at East Lake.
• Traveling through the blizzard, Fang Che remembered meeting Sun Yuan in an earlier storm and vowed to avenge his master soon.

Fang Che encountered a stranded All Under Heaven Escort Agency convoy and helped it deliver its cargo before continuing to East Lake, while the Sole True Sect sacrificed eight hundred thousand civilians to redirect the blizzard toward the Guardian Continent. Back at the Southeast Headquarters, Fang Che confronted Zhao Shanhe over the captured wealth and learned that Zhao Yinger was close to reaching Monarch-level.

• Fang Che found an All Under Heaven Escort Agency convoy struggling through the snow, scolded the escorts for talking carelessly about demons, and cleared the road so they could deliver their cargo to Four Directions City.
• Fang Che’s intervention and warnings spread across the escort agency, prompting stranded convoys to continue delivering goods and boosting the agency’s reputation.
• Fang Che saw Guardians clearing roads and helping people reach East Lake, while the blizzard left ordinary civilians on the Sole True Sect’s continent exposed to extortion and death.
• Yan Nan, Bai Jing, and the Sole True Sect’s other leaders sacrificed eight hundred thousand civilians and their own vital essence and blood to send the snow clouds toward the Guardian Continent.
• Fang Che returned to the Southeast Headquarters, questioned Zhao Shanhe about the seized spoils, and learned that Zhao Yinger was training on the verge of Monarch-level.

Fang Che returned to Fang Wang Residence, reunited with Night Dream and his companions, and used restorative tea to correct the unstable cultivation of several allies. He resumed his work in the southeast, planned for the children to attend the Martial Academy, and left Zhao Yinger’s feelings unresolved because he still distrusted her background.

• Night Dream broke through to Monarch-level just as Fang Che returned, and the two reunited before he learned that Feng Xiangdong, Xue Wanren, Qiu Yunshang, and Dong Yunyu were helping at Nirvana Martial Academy.
• Fang Che reunited with his companions and criticized Feng Xiangdong, Xue Wanren, and Dong Yunyu for raising their cultivation too quickly and weakening their foundations.
• Fang Che gave the group tea from Feng Yun that lowered their realms while condensing their spiritual energy, and he ordered them to drink it again after a month.
• Fang Che learned that Si Kongdou kept visiting to teach the children, but they refused to become his disciples because of his remark that they were born thieves at heart.
• Fang Che told Night Dream he remained wary of Zhao Yinger’s background, and Night Dream asked about Yinger’s feelings for him.
• Fang Che promised the nine children he would send them to the Martial Academy in July, while Zhao Yinger watched and accepted that his trust would take time.

Fang Che studied Dongfang Sansan’s strict new policies, then set out to establish the Night Demon Sect while helping rescue villages trapped by the blizzard. As Mu Linyuan went to guide him to the sect’s original site, he and Yin Shen Gong confronted their shared weariness with a martial world that no longer felt like theirs.

• Fang Che attended the announcement of more than a thousand new policies for the Southeast and Heaven's Capital City, including stricter limits on hereditary privilege and a new Warden Inspectorate.
• Zhao Shanhe ordered continued search-and-rescue work, and Fang Che organized teams to find and aid mountain villagers trapped by the snow.
• Fang Che told Yin Shen Gong that he planned to establish the Night Demon Sect, and Yin Shen Gong recommended rebuilding at its original site, where a spirit vein remained.
• Yin Shen Gong agreed to send Mu Linyuan to guide Fang Che, while Mu Linyuan promised to return after finding the site.
• Mu Linyuan spoke with Yin Shen Gong about their exhaustion and how the martial world had changed, leaving Yin Shen Gong longing for their old days together.
• Fang Che met Dragon, Phoenix, Horse, Cow, Sheep, and Mo Wang in the blizzard and saw that their cultivation had advanced greatly.

Fang Che tested his six subordinates, founded the Night Demon Sect, and accompanied Mu Linyuan through the snow as a scarred stranger searched the sect’s buried ruins. Meanwhile, the Guardian Continent struggled under Yan Nan’s redirected blizzard, and An Ruoxing’s rescue party found a massacred village before Mu Feng’s men ambushed them, leaving Shen Zhixuan and the others to cover An Ruoxing’s escape.

• Fang Che sparred with his six subordinates, defeated Mo Wang after more than a thousand moves, and celebrated the Night Demon Sect’s founding with them.
• Mu Linyuan arrived, and Fang Che escorted him toward a place to establish the sect while Mu Linyuan described the One Heart Sect’s precarious situation.
• A scarred, white-robed man searched the snow-covered ruins of the former Night Demon Sect.
• Dongfang Sansan learned that Yan Nan had redirected the continent’s snowfall onto the Guardian Continent, and she ordered Xue Fuxiao and the others to keep trying to move the clouds.
• An Ruoxing and Shen Zhixuan’s rescue party found 1,116 blood-drained villagers, then Mu Feng’s Heaven’s Mandate Sect ambushed them and killed one of their companions.
• Shen Zhixuan prepared to hold off Mu Feng’s forces while An Ruoxing escaped, and he and the others vowed to stake their lives to get An Ruoxing back.

Shen Zhixuan sacrificed himself to hold back Mu Feng and the Heaven's Mandate Sect, allowing An Ruoxing to escape as Zhao Yi, Li Cheng, and Kong Lei also stayed behind to cover his retreat. Meanwhile, Fang Che felt a sudden pain in his heart while searching the ruins of the Night Demon Sect, where a mysterious White-Clothed Man noticed his arrival.

• Shen Zhixuan told An Ruoxing to flee, then used the Shen Family technique and Fang Che's pills to immobilize Mu Feng and the Heaven's Mandate Sect's pursuers.
• Shen Zhixuan destroyed his original source and vanished in golden light, leaving his sword behind as Mu Feng ordered his men to pursue An Ruoxing.
• Zhao Yi, Li Cheng, and Kong Lei each stayed behind in turn to delay the pursuers, while An Ruoxing fled toward the southeast and urged himself to survive for their sake.
• Fang Che reached the former Night Demon Sect site with Mu Linyuan and the others, then felt a sudden pain in his heart that left him worried about Old Man Shen and his other companions.
• The White-Clothed Man sensed Fang Che's arrival near the ruins and disappeared, leaving footprints in the snow.
• Fang Che and Mu Linyuan entered the valley and discussed its defensible terrain as they continued toward the old main helm.

Fang Che began establishing a modest headquarters at the Night Demon Sect’s former site, while Mu Linyuan left to report and was intercepted by the supposedly dead Hai Wuliang. After Mu Linyuan warned Fang Che that Hai Wuliang was alive, Fang Che realized his Second Master was in danger and raced after him.

• Fang Che ordered his followers to build a small, discreet headquarters among the former Night Demon Sect’s ruins and assigned Feng Wanxia to plan its basic facilities.
• Mu Linyuan praised Fang Che, advised him to lead cautiously, and departed after Fang Che promised to bring his Masters home someday.
• Hai Wuliang revealed himself to Mu Linyuan and admitted he intended to make Yin Shen Gong suffer before killing him.
• Mu Linyuan sent warnings to Fang Che and Yin Shen Gong, then taunted Hai Wuliang by telling him the martial world no longer belonged to them.
• Fang Che discovered a fresh footprint near the ruins, realized Mu Linyuan had been there, and rushed after him with Mo Wang and the others following.
• While sprinting, Fang Che received Mu Linyuan’s message warning that Hai Wuliang was alive and that his Second Master could no longer guide him.

Fang Che found Mu Linyuan brutally murdered by Hai Wuliang and carried his remains to the One Heart Sect, where Yin Shen Gong and the others held a funeral for him. On the way back, Fang Che learned that Shen Zhixuan had died protecting An Ruoxing from Mu Feng; after burying slaughtered civilians, he raced toward the Southeast Headquarters, consumed by grief and vengeance.

• Fang Che found Mu Linyuan’s head impaled on a tree with a taunting message to the Night Demon Sect Leader, gathered his remains, and swore to avenge him.
• Yin Shen Gong learned Hai Wuliang had killed Mu Linyuan and prepared the One Heart Sect to receive him; Fang Che arrived and attended Mu Linyuan’s funeral.
• An Ruoxing told Fang Che that Shen Zhixuan had sacrificed himself to cover the retreat and that Mu Feng of the Heaven's Mandate Sect was responsible.
• Fang Che met Yin Shen Gong at the One Heart Sect, then left for the Southeast Headquarters after promising to avenge Shen Zhixuan.
• Fang Che discovered more than a hundred civilians slaughtered in a mountain hollow, buried them, and vowed to avenge them.
• An Ruoxing returned to the Southeast Headquarters with reinforcements after Kong Lei died covering the retreat, while the Guardians mourned thousands lost in the snowbound search for survivors.

As the Southeast Headquarters continued rescuing civilians despite mounting Guardian losses, Fang Che mourned Shen Zhixuan and set out to avenge him. He joined Mo Wang and the others at their new sect headquarters, established the Guardian Sect Array’s blood-collecting foundation, and led them into the snow to kill.

• Zhao Shanhe ordered search-and-rescue teams to continue saving civilians and required them to travel in groups of at least one hundred.
• Fang Che returned to the Hall of Heroes, mourned Shen Zhixuan, took his sword, and vowed to avenge him by hunting Mu Feng and Heaven's Mandate Sect.
• Fang Che left without keeping vigil and raced through the snow, where his hatred strengthened Hate Heaven Saber, Blood Smoke Hand, and the Five Elements Spirit Gu.
• While Fang Che was away, Mo Wang and Dragon, Phoenix, Horse, Cow, and Sheep worked to carve a hidden headquarters into the mountain, and Mo Wang explained his family's desperate circumstances.
• Fang Che arrived, placed the formation-foundation jade pieces, and used the Sect Leader Seal and Five Elements Spirit Gu to establish the Guardian Sect Array's blood collector.
• Fang Che linked the six followers' weapons to the blood collector and led them into the snow to kill, so their victims' blood could help complete the array.

An Ruoxing continued rescuing survivors while mourning Shen Zhixuan, Zhao Yi, and their fallen comrades. Elsewhere, Fang Che hunted through the blizzard for targets to kill, slaughtering Lu Juntong’s Heavenly Principles Sect and then turning to bandits and beasts as he kept searching for the Heaven’s Mandate Sect and other enemies.

• An Ruoxing led another search-and-rescue mission, remembered Shen Zhixuan and Zhao Yi, and urged his team to keep saving people.
• Fang Che’s group found Lu Juntong and the Heavenly Principles Sect collecting blood from a village where they had killed civilians and two Guardians.
• Fang Che slapped and humiliated Lu Juntong, then ordered Mo Wang and the others to kill his subordinates before executing Lu Juntong himself.
• Fang Che’s men cleared the site, buried the Guardians, and continued searching, while Fang Che dismissed concerns about repercussions for killing the Heavenly Principles Sect.
• After finding no other sects, Fang Che ordered his men to slaughter a bandit den and then began killing beasts, including a large pack of demonic wolves, while searching for Hai Wuliang and the Heaven’s Mandate Sect.

Fang Che searched unsuccessfully for the Sole True Sect’s leaders, then headed for the Ten Thousand Spirits Forest to hunt Demon Beasts and fill his blood bucket. There he found Gentleman Sword Wang Zijing, gravely wounded and outnumbered, and launched a spear attack to save him.

• Fang Che ordered the Golden Horned Flood Dragon to take the Night Demon Sect to the Ten Thousand Spirits Forest after he failed to find the Sole True Sect’s leaders.
• Fang Che and his six subordinates hunted Demon Beasts along the way, then heard a fierce battle near the forest and approached cautiously.
• Fang Che discovered six Sole True Sect members surrounding the injured Guardian Wang Zijing, who continued fighting and cursing despite his grievous wounds.
• Fang Che recognized Wang Zijing as Gentleman Sword and realized the six Wang family members were about to kill him.
• Fang Che sent Mo Wang and the others away, prepared his Netherworld spear and two pills, and thrust at the six attackers.

Fang Che ambushed the six Wang family experts fighting Gentleman Sword Wang Zijing, killing five with his Netherworld Spear while Wang Zijing held off the survivors. After they defeated the last attackers, Fang Che treated Wang Zijing and learned that the unconscious Wang Weixue’s bloodline could open the secret realm containing Blood Dragon Ginseng; Wang Zijing left the treasure to Fang Che.

• Wang Weixue watched the exhausted Wang family experts close in on the badly injured Wang Zijing, unaware that Fang Che was approaching through the blizzard.
• Fang Che struck with the Netherworld Spear and killed three Wang family experts, while Wang Zijing launched a desperate counterattack to keep the remaining three from regrouping.
• Fang Che and Wang Zijing killed the other three experts, and Fang Che knocked out Wang Weixue after Wang Zijing warned him not to kill the man because he possessed a treasure.
• Fang Che gave Wang Zijing pills and Starry Sky Spirit Liquid, removed the venomous fangs embedded in him, and stabilized his injuries.
• Wang Zijing recognized Fang Che as his disciple Dong Yunyu’s superior, explained Wang Weixue’s connection to the Blood Dragon Ginseng secret realm, and left Fang Che to deal with the unconscious heir.

Fang Che uncovered Wang Weixue’s role in the plot against Sun Yuan, killed him, and took the Wang family’s Blood Dragon Ginseng harvest and bloodline Space Ring. Meanwhile, Mo Wang’s group prepared to ambush a newly formed sect in the blizzard, and Yang Jiucheng stepped out to confront its members.

• Fang Che forced Wang Weixue to open the Wang family’s hidden valley, where the Five Tiger Generals devoured some of its hundreds of Blood Dragon Ginseng plants.
• Fang Che made Wang Weixue collect the remaining Blood Dragon Ginseng Liquid into spirit-jade barrels, then took his bloodline Space Ring.
• Fang Che questioned Wang Weixue about Sun Yuan and learned that Wang Weixue and his relatives had helped trap Sun Yuan while seeking Night Demon’s whereabouts.
• Fang Che revealed himself as Night Demon and killed Wang Weixue to avenge Sun Yuan before rushing toward Mo Wang’s reported encounter.
• Mo Wang’s group hid in the blizzard and planned to stall a group of twenty-five Heavenly God Sect members until Fang Che arrived.
• Yang Jiucheng emerged before the Heavenly God Sect and demanded a toll from its leader and followers.

Fang Che led the Night Demon Sect in ambushing and killing Wei Yishan and the Heavenly God Sect, despite Wei Yishan invoking Young Master Yun. Unable to find the Heaven's Mandate Sect, Fang Che considered attacking the Light Sect and the Three Saints Sect, while Yan Nan began investigating how his Five Elements Spirit Gu had reached level two.

• Yang Jiucheng, Niu Baizhan, Ma Qianli, Feng Wanxia, Long Yikong, and Mo Wang surrounded Wei Yishan and revealed that they belonged to the Night Demon Sect.
• Wei Yishan offered to submit to Fang Che, then threatened him with Young Master Yun; Fang Che ignored the warning and ordered the Heavenly God Sect killed.
• Fang Che and the others wiped out the Heavenly God Sect, gathered its valuables, and continued their mission to hunt Demon Beasts.
• Fang Che asked Yin Shen Gong about finding the Heaven's Mandate Sect, then considered targeting the Light Sect and Three Saints Sect when he could not find it.
• Yin Shen Gong warned Fang Che that the sects were difficult to locate and that attacking allies would create enemies, so Fang Che headed toward a nearby city to ask about Black Mist Peak.
• Yin Shen Gong told Yan Nan that Fang Che was desperate to establish his sect; Yan Nan investigated the secret of the Five Elements Spirit Gu and questioned why Fang Che's had reached level two.

Yan Nan investigated the Night Demon’s Five Elements Spirit Gu while Fang Che led his disguised group through a blizzard to search for Black Mist Peak and Nine Dragon Stream. Fang Che tracked down Ding Ziran, who identified himself as a Night Demon Sect seed, but Fang Che wounded him and left him unable to move.

• Yan Nan asked Yan Beihan to investigate how the Night Demon’s Five Elements Spirit Gu had reached its second level and how it had changed.
• Fang Che’s group hired guides in White Elephant Continent and set out through the blizzard to find Black Mist Peak and Nine Dragon Stream.
• Mo Wang and the others discussed the Guardians’ disaster-relief efforts and their reluctance to attack people rescuing civilians.
• Fang Che’s group found a slain Demon Beast and pursued the lone swordsman whose tracks the Golden Horned Flood Dragon had detected.
• Fang Che fought Ding Ziran and gained the upper hand, forcing Ding Ziran to kneel and claim he was a Night Demon Sect seed planted by Hai Wuliang.
• Fang Che doubted Ding Ziran’s story and pierced his shoulders and legs, disabling him in the snow.