Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao persuaded Yun Yuan to arrange a meeting with Lingyuan Pavilion’s absent owner, obtained the Yin Hollow Snakes, and began brewing Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine. Two days later, he secretly used his pressure to stop four rampaging demon beasts at the Beast Fighting Arena before disappearing.

• Fang Xiao questioned Yun Yuan about cultivators and revealed that he had discovered restrictions in Lingyuan Pavilion’s secret vault.
• Yun Yuan said the pavilion’s owner was away but would return to meet Fang Xiao, and arranged lodging and the Yin Hollow Snakes for him.
• Fang Xiao collected his ordered goods from Qingyuan Zhai and began brewing Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine at his residence.
• Fang Xiao went to the Beast Fighting Arena, where the defensive Gu worms failed and four demon beasts attacked the barrier.
• Fang Xiao released restrained physical pressure that frightened the beasts, allowing Yun Yuan and the other Gu Masters to regain control of them.
• After the beast fight ended without a result, Yun Yuan looked for Fang Xiao and found that he had vanished.

Fang Xiao completed brewing Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine and continued using it cautiously while waiting to meet the cultivator behind Lingyuan Pavilion. Yan Tiandong and Yuan Chen returned to the Chi Miao Tribe, where Yuan Chen resolved to attempt his tribulation before the Gu God Palace opened.

• Fang Xiao stored the newly brewed Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine and estimated that his soul's Yin transformation would be complete in less than half a month.
• Yuan Chen told Yan Tiandong that Fang Xiao had stayed behind at Lingyuan Pavilion, and Yan Tiandong decided to recruit him for his plan to obtain the Spirit God Realm.
• Yan Tiandong warned Yuan Chen that his weak foundation made attempting the tribulation extremely dangerous, but Yuan Chen insisted on reaching the Nascent Soul Realm before the Gu God Palace opened.
• Yan Tiandong recalled Yuan Chen's grandmother dying beneath a lightning tribulation and agreed to help improve Yuan Chen's chances of survival.
• Yuan Chen knelt and promised to do his utmost, and Yan Tiandong gave him a quiet assent.

Fang Xiao completed his Utter Yin Divine Soul and decided to seek a remote place to break through his cultivation. Yan Tiandong and Yuan Chen returned to Lingyuan Pavilion and went to meet him, where Fang Xiao and Yan Tiandong were startled by each other’s apparent strength.

• Fang Xiao realized the Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine’s freezing effect protected his mind while his divine soul underwent Yin transformation.
• Fang Xiao completed his Utter Yin Divine Soul, absorbed principles associated with Yin, and sensed that Pure Yang was within reach.
• Fang Xiao decided to wait until his cultivation could break through alongside his body and divine soul, then seek a remote place to do so.
• Fang Xiao assessed the Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul’s progress and estimated that his strength could grow enough to challenge mid Spirit Fusion Realm Gu Masters within a year or two.
• Yan Tiandong and Yuan Chen returned to Lingyuan Pavilion, learned Fang Xiao had stayed in the guest courtyard, and went to see him.
• Fang Xiao and Yan Tiandong sensed each other through the formation and were startled by the mismatch between their apparent cultivation levels.

Fang Xiao met Yan Tiandong and Yuan Chen, hoping Yuan Chen could help him return to the Cultivation World, but learned Yuan Chen was a native of the Barren Gu Continent with no way there. Yan Tiandong insisted Fang Xiao remain with the Chi Miao Tribe because he hoped to use Fang Xiao’s powerful dharma energy in a secret method to help Yuan Chen.

• Fang Xiao dispersed his formation and greeted Yan Tiandong, chief of the Chi Miao Tribe, and Yuan Chen.
• Yan Tiandong recognized that Fang Xiao’s mid Core Formation cultivation concealed strength rivaling a Nascent Soul Cultivator, while Fang Xiao explained that he cultivated both dharma and body.
• Fang Xiao asked Yuan Chen for a way back to the Cultivation World, but Yuan Chen said he was a native of the Barren Gu Continent and had no such means.
• Yan Tiandong urged Fang Xiao to stay with the Chi Miao Tribe, and Fang Xiao agreed while secretly planning to leave when he had an opportunity.
• After leaving Fang Xiao’s residence, Yan Tiandong told Yuan Chen that Fang Xiao’s dharma power could help trigger a qualitative transformation through an altered Fusion Yuan Secret Method, though they still lacked a solution to the divine soul problem.

Yan Tiandong and Yuan Chen planned to build trust with Fang Xiao before revealing their plans to reach the Cultivation World. After Fang Xiao attempted to escape, Yan Tiandong let him go and asked Yuan Chen to explain their intentions through the Sound Transmission Gu.

• Yan Tiandong told Yuan Chen to judge Fang Xiao’s character and reveal their plans only if he proved trustworthy.
• Over the next half year, Yuan Chen visited Fang Xiao nearly every day, while Fang Xiao grew frustrated that his cultivation and chance to leave were being delayed.
• Fang Xiao secretly fled the stronghold, but Yan Tiandong detected him and pursued him toward the city wall.
• Fang Xiao threatened Yan Tiandong with the Soul Nurturing Gourd, and Yan Tiandong stopped chasing after promising to share news of the Cultivation World.
• Yan Tiandong explained to Yuan Chen that Fang Xiao’s speed and dangerous weapon made it too risky to intercept him, then instructed Yuan Chen to explain their plans through the Sound Transmission Gu.

Fang Xiao fled to the edge of the Barren Gu Continent and discovered a hidden Third-Order Spirit Vein beneath the sea. In its cave, he found Milk Essence, which could produce an endless supply of spiritual milk, and planned to use it to make wine or pills that would aid his cultivation.

• Fang Xiao reached the coast near the Sea of Chaotic Beasts and decided to seek a secluded place to break through rather than trust Yan Tiandong’s information.
• The Spirit Devouring Worm sensed spiritual qi beneath a sea-crab cave, so Fang Xiao drove off the crabs and dug underground.
• Fang Xiao followed the Spirit Vein through its first and second orders to a karst cave where it had reached the limit of the third order.
• Fang Xiao found spiritual milk pooling beneath a stalactite and cut it open to reveal a fist-sized pearl of Milk Essence.
• Fang Xiao recognized Milk Essence as a rare source of endless spiritual milk and considered using it to brew Milk Spirit Wine or make Milk Spirit Pills.

Fang Xiao prepared a lava cave for his breakthrough and used a Boundary Breaking Pill and his Five Elements Primordial Magnetism power to overcome the bottleneck. After half a month, he reached late Core Formation, and five-colored spiritual clouds began spreading across the sky.

• Fang Xiao collected the useful materials in the lava cave while leaving its accumulated liquid spiritual qi for his breakthrough and future spirit-wine brewing.
• Fang Xiao sealed the Echo Bug without reading its message, then spent two days preparing himself to break through.
• Fang Xiao circulated his magical power and swallowed a Boundary Breaking Pill to help assault the bottleneck.
• Fang Xiao used the Five Elements Primordial Magnetism power from his dharma manifestation to grind away at the bottleneck.
• After half a month, Fang Xiao broke through to late Core Formation, and five-colored spiritual clouds spread across more than a thousand miles.

Fang Xiao absorbed vast amounts of spiritual energy while pursuing the principle of pure Yang, leaving him unconscious in seclusion for twenty days. Two members of the Barbarian Tribe arrived intending to capture him, but they concealed themselves when a Transformed Demon Beast approached.

• Fang Xiao's Golden Core absorbed the cave's spiritual liquid and surrounding spiritual energy as he sought to make pure Yang arise from extreme Yin.
• For twenty days, the enormous celestial phenomenon attracted demon beasts and Gu Masters, but Fang Xiao's formation kept them from reaching him.
• Two Spirit Fusion Gu Masters from the Barbarian Tribe flew toward Fang Xiao's secluded location after hearing reports of the phenomenon.
• The brothers decided to capture Fang Xiao and plant a Heart-Eroding Gu in him, hoping to use his strength for the Barbarian Tribe.
• The tall-crowned Gu Master sensed a Transformed Demon Beast approaching and concealed himself and his loose-haired brother.

While Fang Xiao remained unconscious in seclusion, the Soul Nurturing Gourd protected him from the Azure Sea Primordial Kun and two Barbarian Tribe Gu Masters. The enemies were killed or driven off, and the Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul transformed into Fang Xiao’s Nascent Soul Dao Sword.

• Two Barbarian Tribe Gu Masters followed the Azure Sea Primordial Kun, planning to seize both the demon and Fang Xiao.
• The Azure Sea Primordial Kun broke through Fang Xiao’s formation restrictions and entered his cave as he neared awakening.
• The Sword Nurturing Gourd dimmed, and Fang Xiao’s Soul Nurturing Gourd emerged above him.
• The Soul Nurturing Gourd fired a white beam that killed the Azure Sea Primordial Kun.
• The high-crowned Gu Master used his younger brother as a shield against the beam, then fled as the loose-haired Gu Master was killed.
• The Soul Nurturing Gourd returned to Fang Xiao’s sea of consciousness with the Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul transformed into a hiltless flying sword.

While Fang Xiao remained absorbed in his breakthrough, his newly formed Nascent Soul Dao Sword killed the Azure Sea Primordial Kun and a Barbarian Tribe Gu Master’s companion. The surviving Gu Master poisoned the spiritual energy with a Soul Scattering Gu, and as Fang Xiao’s breakthrough phenomenon began to fade, he believed his attack had succeeded.

• The Soul Nurturing Gourd helped the Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul condense into a high-grade Nascent Soul Dao Sword, which killed the Azure Sea Primordial Kun and the Gu Master’s companion.
• The surviving mid Spirit Fusion Realm Gu Master fled underground, confirmed Fang Xiao seemed unable to react, and released a Soul Scattering Gu into the vortex of spiritual energy.
• Fang Xiao absorbed the poisoned spiritual energy, but his Immunity to All Poisons and Soul Nurturing Gourd protected his divine soul as the Nascent Soul Dao Sword destroyed much of the poison.
• The Soul Scattering Poison gradually destroyed Fang Xiao’s uncontrolled Spiritual Sense while the Gu Master sustained the Gu’s poison for nearly five days.
• When the spiritual-energy vortex stopped and the celestial phenomenon began to dissipate, the Gu Master rejoiced, believing he had defeated Fang Xiao and could claim the Soul Nurturing Gourd.

Fang Xiao awakened after escaping the Dao’s influence, and his soul advanced to the Nascent Soul level, granting him a trace of Pure Yang and the ability to perceive Space Nodes. He tore open a spatial rift with the Void Cutter Sword and began investigating the chaotic cave before pursuing further cultivation.

• Fang Xiao used memories and the pain caused by the Barbarian Tribe Gu Master’s Soul Scattering Poison to pull his mind free from the extreme yin Dao.
• Countless gu insects approached Fang Xiao, but he awakened as his soul transformed and reached the Nascent Soul level, suppressing the insects with its power.
• The high-crowned Gu Master sensed Fang Xiao’s recovery and fled, abandoning the gu insects.
• Fang Xiao recognized that his soul’s Pure Yang let him perceive the essence of things and see Space Nodes.
• Fang Xiao used the Void Cutter Sword to cut a spatial rift, then decided to inspect the cave before studying his new ability.

After emerging from secluded cultivation, Fang Xiao discovered that his Nascent Soul Dao Sword had slain a powerful demon beast and a human cultivator, while an unknown Gu Master had fled after trying to target him. Two years later, as the Gu God Palace’s opening drew near, Fang Xiao successfully tested a sword technique that let him exchange places with his sword light.

• Fang Xiao killed the Gu worms in the karst cave, found that the human and demon corpses had been slain by his Nascent Soul Dao Sword, and stored the demon body for its materials and Essence Blood.
• Fang Xiao realized an unknown person had tried to scheme against him, memorized their aura, and left to find another place to cultivate.
• Two years later, Yan Tiandong asked Yuan Chen about Fang Xiao and worried that he might not reach late Core Formation before the Gu God Palace opened.
• In his cave dwelling, Fang Xiao tested the Void Cutter Sword light and successfully exchanged places with it, then multiplied the sword lights and moved rapidly between them.

Fang Xiao mastered the Method of Shifting Form and Escaping Void, greatly strengthening his combat and escape abilities. After learning that Luo Tianshan controlled the Guiyi Gu and had targeted cultivators to pass a thunder tribulation, Fang Xiao planned to contact Yuan Chen and visit the Qingmiao Tribe.

• Fang Xiao spent two years mastering the Method of Shifting Form and Escaping Void, enduring severe injuries as he learned to control Space Force.
• Fang Xiao gained a powerful new means of escape and improved the Void Slaying Sword Formation, bringing his abilities closer to the balanced Sword Cultivator path he wanted.
• Fang Xiao learned through Soul Searching Hong Yi and Ma Yuan that Yan Tiandong was the continent's strongest expert and that Luo Tianshan alone knew where the Guiyi Gu was kept.
• Fang Xiao realized the Gu Masters had hunted him because they mistook him for a Nascent Soul Cultivator whose nascent soul could help them pass the Third Thunder Tribulation.
• Fang Xiao decided to contact Yuan Chen for news about the Qingmiao Tribe and prepare to visit Luo Tianshan, while keeping Yan Tiandong waiting for a more advantageous negotiation.

Yuan Chen contacted Fang Xiao to recruit him for an attempt to open a Forbidden Art inside the Gu God Palace, revealing the history of a Spirit God Realm chieftain who found a hidden teleportation array there. Fang Xiao learned that the task required both a Gu Master and a cultivator, while concealing that his Pure Yang Divine Soul could meet the requirement.

• Yuan Chen anxiously awaited Fang Xiao’s reply, fearing he would have to force his own breakthrough to Nascent Soul Formation.
• Fang Xiao contacted Yuan Chen after leaving seclusion and said he had reached late Core Formation.
• Yuan Chen told Fang Xiao how a former Chi Miao Tribe chieftain discovered a concealed dark chamber and teleportation array in the Gu God Palace before leaving the warning, “It has come.”
• Yuan Chen explained that opening the Forbidden Art required a Gu Master and a cultivator, and that the Chi Miao Tribe’s modified Fusion of Origin Art could raise their combined power to Nascent Soul level.
• Yuan Chen revealed that the Forbidden Art also required divine soul power of the corresponding realms, while Fang Xiao secretly recognized that his Pure Yang Divine Soul could satisfy the condition.

Fang Xiao secured the Chi Miao Tribe’s agreement to swear Heart Demon Oaths for their planned teleportation, then gathered intelligence on three tribes linked to his past enemies. After slaughtering the Barbarian Tribe Gu Masters who attacked him and finding Tu Zhan absent from the Zhanman Tribe, he reached the Qingmiao Tribe to investigate the Guiyi Gu.

• Fang Xiao required the Chi Miao Tribe’s Spirit Fusion experts to swear Heart Demon Oaths and asked Yuan Chen to investigate the Qingmiao, Zhanman, and Barbarian Tribes.
• Yan Tiandong agreed to Fang Xiao’s conditions, and Yuan Chen shared details about the three tribes.
• Fang Xiao went to the Barbarian Tribe, confirmed that a Gu Master there had attacked him, and killed the experts and Gu Masters who attacked him.
• Fang Xiao visited the Zhanman Tribe to find Tu Zhan, but Tu Zhan was absent, so Fang Xiao headed to the Qingmiao Tribe.
• Fang Xiao captured two Qingmiao Tribe Gu Masters and prepared to search their souls for clues to the Guiyi Gu.

Fang Xiao captured Qingmiao Tribe Gu Masters to lure out Bai Fusheng and demand the Guiyi Gu. Bai Fusheng arrived, refused to hand it over, and attacked Fang Xiao with a tornado.

• Fang Xiao learned that Luo Tianshan had stayed secluded for nearly twenty years and decided to use the missing clansmen to force him to reveal the Guiyi Gu's location.
• Fang Xiao knocked out four approaching third-rank Gu Masters and waited for someone stronger to investigate.
• Bai Fusheng heard that around twenty clansmen had vanished and suspected Fang Xiao was responsible, so he went to the outskirts of the city.
• Bai Fusheng found the unconscious Gu Masters and confronted Fang Xiao, who said the Qingmiao Tribe had attacked him first and demanded the Guiyi Gu.
• Bai Fusheng refused Fang Xiao's demand and launched a tornado at him.

Fang Xiao confronted Bai Fusheng and studied the spatial abilities of his Sky Refining Gu while defending against his attacks. After predicting Bai Fusheng’s shifts, Fang Xiao struck him through the right shoulder, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Bai Fusheng tried to teleport two Qingmiao Tribe clansmen to safety, but they vanished when he touched them, and Fang Xiao warned him not to move the others.
• Bai Fusheng challenged Fang Xiao to a one-on-one fight, then attacked with wind blades and repeated short-distance shifts.
• Fang Xiao defended himself with sword light while observing Bai Fusheng’s movements and understanding how the Sky Refining Gu used the Space Force.
• Fang Xiao moved through his sword light and pierced Bai Fusheng’s right shoulder before he could react.

Fang Xiao outmaneuvered Bai Fusheng’s spatial Gu arts, incapacitated him, and drained his remaining essence energy. He demanded that Bai Fusheng reveal where the Guiyi Gu was, and Bai Fusheng agreed to share what he knew while asking Fang Xiao to spare the juniors.

• Bai Fusheng repeatedly teleported with the Sky Refining Gu, but Fang Xiao used spatial fluctuations to appear ahead of him each time.
• Fang Xiao explained that he wanted Bai Fusheng alive so he could force him to summon Luo Tianshan.
• When Bai Fusheng attempted a long-distance escape, Fang Xiao struck with the Chanting Sword Art, injuring both Bai Fusheng and the Sky Refining Gu.
• Fang Xiao used the Spirit Devouring Worm to drain Bai Fusheng’s remaining essence energy and demanded the location of the Guiyi Gu.
• Bai Fusheng agreed to tell Fang Xiao everything he knew and asked him to spare the juniors, leaving their fate to Fang Xiao’s judgment.

Fang Xiao learned from Bai Fusheng how the Luo Clan found and raised Guiyi Gu, then sent word to Luo Tianshan that he could help him survive his lightning tribulation. While they waited for Luo Tianshan to respond, Fang Xiao questioned Bai Fusheng about the Sky Refining Gu and discussed the Way of Space with him.

• Bai Fusheng told Fang Xiao that the Luo Clan tracked Guiyi Gu within the shifting Gu God Palace and that each Guiyi Gu emerged with fixed attributes.
• Bai Fusheng explained that Luo Tianshan had left the tribe two years earlier to avoid risking its members during his lightning tribulation, and Fang Xiao asked him to deliver a message offering help.
• Fang Xiao asked about the Sky Refining Gu, and Bai Fusheng swore that it had been found alone with no mother worm.
• Luo Tianshan replied, “I understand,” and Fang Xiao concluded that he would eventually return because he wanted Fang Xiao’s help or his Nascent Soul.
• While waiting, Fang Xiao kept Bai Fusheng captive and discussed the Way of Space with him, finding that the Sky Refining Gu had given Bai an unusual grasp of its principles.

Fang Xiao waited for Luo Tianshan, then fought off the chieftain’s surprise attacks with his sword techniques and Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Dharma Manifestation. Luo Tianshan stopped the assault when Fang Xiao’s power threatened the tribesmen, leaving the two to face each other in a tense standoff.

• After four days of waiting, Bai Fusheng worried that Luo Tianshan’s delay would put their group in danger, while Fang Xiao remained calm.
• Fang Xiao sensed an ambush, avoided Luo Tianshan’s ice spikes, and endured heavenly wind that pierced his sword light and wounded him.
• Fang Xiao activated his defenses and used his Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Dharma Manifestation to shatter Luo Tianshan’s Void-Born Thunder and disperse the wind.
• As Fang Xiao’s expanding power ground away the surrounding terrain and threatened the tribesmen, Bai Fusheng shouted for Luo Tianshan to stop.
• Luo Tianshan emerged and asked Fang Xiao to withdraw his divine ability, and Fang Xiao mocked him for attacking and then demanding a halt.
• Luo Tianshan apologized and chose to negotiate rather than continue fighting while the lightning tribulation restrained his full strength.