Chapter Summaries

Yan Yu, Fang Xiao, and Luo Tianshan fled from the Dragon Carp, which had escaped its confinement and reached the Deity Transformation Stage. Fang Xiao created small sealed spaces to hide from it, but the Dragon Carp found his hiding place, leaving Fang Xiao to prepare a risky countermeasure as his fragile shelter began to shake.

• Yan Yu led Fang Xiao and Luo Tianshan in flight after recognizing the Dragon Carp’s aura and suspecting it had escaped through a breach in the space that held it.
• Fang Xiao stopped the group and began creating sealed spaces to conceal their auras when Yan Yu said there was no time to reach a nearby independent space.
• Luo Tianshan pulled Yan Yu into the first space, and Fang Xiao created a second space for himself before the Dragon Carp arrived on their level.
• The Dragon Carp sensed Fang Xiao’s hiding place and attacked the space, causing its fragile structure to shake.
• Fang Xiao saw that the Dragon Carp had only a badly damaged Demon Core and urged the Primordial Sword Embryo to evolve the Leaping Heaven Gate source as he planned a counterattack.

Fang Xiao completed the Leaping Heaven Gate divine ability and used a collapsing space to lure the Dragon Carp into attacking him. The chapter ended with the Dragon Carp’s Demon Core caught as the sole target of a powerful spatial vortex.

• Fang Xiao focused on evolving the Leaping Heaven Gate while the Dragon Carp battered the temporary space and planned to capture him, Luo Tianshan, and Yan Yu.
• After two days, Fang Xiao completed the divine ability and gained a broad increase in his cultivation, essence, qi, and spirit.
• Fang Xiao created spatial vortices by breaking weak points in the space, then waited for the Dragon Carp to intervene rather than let him be swallowed by them.
• The Dragon Carp reached into the space to seize Fang Xiao, who vanished and left behind a strand of Void Cutter Sword Thread.
• Fang Xiao’s sword thread destroyed the final Space Node, causing the vortices to merge and pull the Dragon Carp’s Demon Core toward them.

Fang Xiao trapped Dragon Carp in a spatial vortex and attacked his Demon Core with the Great White Sword Pellet, breaking through his demonic barrier. Dragon Carp was driven toward the vortex but retaliated by turning his mana net into a dagger and sealing Fang Xiao’s escape.

• Fang Xiao linked several spatial vortices together, trapping Dragon Carp in their combined suction.
• Fang Xiao emerged from folded space and launched the Great White Sword Pellet at Dragon Carp’s Demon Core.
• The Great White Sword Pellet shattered Dragon Carp’s demonic barrier and forced him toward the spatial vortex.
• Dragon Carp turned his mana net into an azure dagger and sealed the space around Fang Xiao, preventing him from escaping.

Fang Xiao used the Spirit God Realm gu insect limb to withstand the Dragon Carp’s azure dagger, letting the Five Peaks True Form Diagram absorb Spirit God essence and begin advancing. Just as he thought the danger had passed, the diagram expelled him and released the dagger back into the outside world.

• Fang Xiao escaped the dagger’s first strike by shifting into the independent space within the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, but the dagger followed him inside.
• Fang Xiao used the Spirit God Realm gu insect limb segment to block the dagger, and its clash released Spirit God essence that the diagram absorbed.
• The Dragon Carp continued driving the dagger against the limb segment, while the diagram’s space stabilized and showed signs of advancing into a Spirit Treasure.
• The dagger weakened and Fang Xiao believed he could survive, but the Five Peaks True Form Diagram suddenly expelled him and stripped away the mountain imprint in his palm.
• The diagram released the azure dagger into the outside world, leaving Fang Xiao and the Sea-Shaking Ape facing the renewed threat.

Fang Xiao survived the Dragon Carp’s final attack with a Substitution Talisman and escaped into the void, leaving the Dragon Carp to be pulled into the spatial vortex. After the Dragon Carp died, Fang Xiao planned to investigate the Five Peaks True Form Diagram’s newly restored spirituality.

• The Dragon Carp sealed the passage and struck Fang Xiao with the cyan dagger, apparently killing him as the Sea-Shaking Ape watched.
• Fang Xiao’s Substitution Talisman took the fatal blow, and he used the Void Cutter Sword to escape into the void while the Dragon Carp’s remaining power was spent.
• Fang Xiao recognized that the Dragon Carp had no means left to resist and waited for the spatial vortex to draw him in before releasing Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan.
• Fang Xiao resolved to inspect the Five Peaks True Form Diagram’s spirituality and determine whether it had inherited memories from its former spirituality.
• The spatial vortex dragged the Dragon Carp into the void, where he died after nearly a thousand years of dominance in the Sea of Chaotic Beasts.

Fang Xiao discovered that the Gu God Palace was the abdomen of an enormous wasp-like Gu insect suspended in the void, and that the Dragon Carp's breakthrough had awakened it. Realizing the palace would soon purge its intruders, he prepared to resolve the spatial vortex and warn Yan Tiandong before time ran out.

• Fang Xiao sensed the Gu God Palace trembling and saw the void outside the spatial vortex becoming chaotic, which he suspected was connected to the Dragon Carp's Spirit Transformation breakthrough.
• Fang Xiao used his special eyesight to search the void and glimpsed a vast living creature whose demon core had vanished.
• Fang Xiao reconstructed the creature's shape and realized the Gu God Palace was its abdomen, with the cultivators inside its body.
• Fang Xiao concluded that the giant Gu insect was awakening to purge the palace and that the Dragon Carp had triggered the process.
• Fang Xiao decided to hurry with teleportation, send a warning to Yan Tiandong, and deal with the Five Peaks True Form Diagram after summoning back the Sea-Shaking Ape.

Fang Xiao learned that the Five Peaks True Form Diagram had regained its Spirit Treasure rank and met its newly formed artifact spirit, Xing Yue. With the misunderstanding resolved, Fang Xiao prepared to escape the shrinking grotto-heaven and informed Yan Tiandong about the danger posed by the giant bee.

• The Five Peaks True Form Diagram transformed into a child, and Xing Yue introduced himself to Fang Xiao as its artifact spirit.
• Fang Xiao examined Xing Yue's memories and learned that his former master's command had caused him to expel the other beings from the diagram's space.
• Fang Xiao ordered Xing Yue to obey only his commands, and Xing Yue agreed.
• Fang Xiao returned Xing Yue and the Sea-Shaking Ape to the marks in his palm and waited for the spatial vortex to shrink further.
• Fang Xiao told Yan Tiandong about his encounter with the Dragon Carp and his suspicions about the giant bee.
• After more than an hour, the vortex's pull weakened enough for Fang Xiao to approach it using his abilities.

Fang Xiao used his newly mastered control of Space Force to close the spatial vortex, then set out with Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan while concealing the Dragon Carp’s death. At the fifth-tier Spirit Vein, Yan Tiandong read Fang Xiao’s message and froze in shock.

• Fang Xiao guided Space Force into the damaged strings and completely repaired the spatial vortex.
• Fang Xiao told Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan that the gravely injured Dragon Carp had died, and they agreed to continue onward.
• Fang Xiao revealed that he had already warned Yan Tiandong about the danger, and the three set out together.
• Yan Tiandong reopened the spatial gateway and unsealed his Sound Transmission Gu after the Gu God Palace trembled.
• Yan Tiandong read messages about the Dragon Carp’s breakthrough and escape, then froze after seeing Fang Xiao’s message.

Fang Xiao, Yan Yu, and Luo Tianshan pushed through the awakening Giant Bee’s increasingly hostile body toward the teleportation array. When a vast swarm of bee-like gu insects attacked, they fought their way forward, but the flesh tendrils began draining their gu arts.

• Fang Xiao tested the passage mucus and nearly lost a finger to its corrosion before purifying it with Lunar Divine Light and regrowing the injury.
• Fang Xiao shielded Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan from the acidic mist as the three advanced through levels filled with mucus and attacking fleshy tendrils.
• The Gu God Palace shook again, and Fang Xiao sensed a dense swarm of dark yellow gu insects rushing toward them.
• Fang Xiao, Yan Yu, and Luo Tianshan charged into the swarm, with Fang Xiao’s Thought Sword and their elemental attacks cutting down the insects.
• The fleshy tendrils plunged into Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan’s gu arts and rapidly drained away their elemental power.

Fang Xiao led Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan through the bee-filled passage to the spatial entrance, where Yan Tiandong joined them and opened the way into the teleportation-array space. The group reunited with Yuan Chen and the others inside a cave dwelling that appeared to belong to the Cultivation World, and they went in together.

• Fang Xiao used the Thought Sword to clear the bee insects while Yan Yu and Luo Tianshan guarded him as they advanced toward the spatial entrance.
• Fang Xiao identified the entrance to the teleportation-array space, and Yan Tiandong arrived after Fang Xiao sensed his approach.
• Yan Tiandong opened the entrance, and Fang Xiao, Yan Yu, Luo Tianshan, and Yan Tiandong entered just before powerful Fifth Order bee insects emerged.
• Fang Xiao found himself in a vast plaza containing a cave dwelling whose design suggested the teleportation array led to the Cultivation World.
• Yuan Chen and the others welcomed the group, and Fang Xiao saw that Yun Shu had returned to the Fourth Order and grown stronger before they entered the cave dwelling together.

Fang Xiao revealed that he already possessed Nascent Soul-level mana and a pure-yang Divine Soul, sparing Yuan Chen from sacrificing his cultivation. He helped Yan Yunyi undo the Forbidden Art and activated the teleportation array, and the group departed the Gu God Palace and the Barren Gu Continent.

• Fang Xiao identified serious drawbacks in the Secret Arts, but Yuan Chen said he was willing to bear them to help the group escape.
• Fang Xiao demonstrated his Nascent Soul-level mana and pure-yang Divine Soul, convincing Yan Tiandong that Yuan Chen no longer needed to use the Spirit Agitation Technique.
• Fang Xiao learned that the cave dwelling periodically expelled its occupants, making the teleportation array their only way to safety.
• Fang Xiao and Yan Yunyi activated the formation that had been called the Forbidden Art, revealing the stone chamber containing the ultra-large teleportation array.
• Fang Xiao inspected the array, inserted high-grade Spirit Stones, and confirmed it worked.
• Yan Tiandong and the others boarded the array, and the group vanished in its pillar of white light.

Fang Xiao and his group escaped the Sea of Mist after months of travel and prepared to find out where they had emerged. Elsewhere, five demon hunters fled an Azure Flow Flood Dragon that had recently advanced to Core Formation.

• Fang Xiao and his group emerged from the Sea of Mist after following directions left on a desolate island near the Gu God Palace teleportation array.
• Luo Tianshan and Yan Tiandong discussed how the Sea of Mist’s boundary seemed to have shifted, while Yan Yu wondered whether they had reached the Sea of Chaotic Beasts.
• Fang Xiao assured the group they were unlikely to have returned to their starting point and agreed to help them settle into the Cultivation World if they found it.
• The group stopped to recover after crossing the Sea of Mist, with Yuan Chen especially drained from the journey.
• Five Foundation Establishment Late Stage demon hunters fled after discovering their target, an Azure Scale Sea Serpent, had become an Azure Flow Flood Dragon.
• The Azure Flow Flood Dragon pursued the five hunters as they tried to escape.

Fang Xiao confirmed that he and his companions had arrived in the South Sea after rescuing local cultivators and obtaining a sea chart. The group set out for Tianliang Island to gather information and acclimate, while Fang Xiao advised Yan Tiandong to seek a grotto-heaven for his eventual breakthrough.

• Fang Xiao killed the Azure Flow Flood Dragon and saved Wang Hu and four other cultivators, who said they were from Tianliang Island.
• A female cultivator gave Fang Xiao a sea chart of the South Sea, confirming where he had arrived; Fang Xiao copied it and gave the dragon’s corpse to the group.
• Fang Xiao told Yan Tiandong and the others that they were in the South Sea and proposed visiting nearby Tianliang Island to gather information.
• Fang Xiao cautioned Yan Tiandong against undergoing his breakthrough on a conspicuous fifth-tier Spirit Vein and recommended finding a grotto-heaven instead.

Fang Xiao brought Yan Tiandong's group to Tianliang Island, secured a cave dwelling, and contacted the Tianlan Sect station to learn about the sect. He discovered that Heavenly Outer Peak no longer existed, but Lu Liang reassured him that the sect now had a Heavenly Outer Heaven.

• Fang Xiao led the group to Tianliang Island, where they marveled at the bustling Immortal City.
• Fang Xiao bought a cave dwelling on a fourth-tier Spirit Vein and warned the group not to cause trouble in the city.
• Fang Xiao left the others to explore and used his Identity Token to locate the Tianlan Sect's Tianliang Island station.
• Fang Xiao found the station concealed in an ordinary general store and met its shopkeeper, Lu Liang.
• After inspecting Fang Xiao's Identity Token, Lu Liang revealed that Heavenly Outer Peak was gone and that the sect now had a Heavenly Outer Heaven.

Fang Xiao learned that his master, Ling Taichu, had advanced to Deity Transformation and heard about growing tensions among the Eastern Domain’s sacred lands. He decided to return to Tianlan Sect for its True Inheritance Grand Competition, though he found no known teleportation formation in the South Sea.

• Lu Liang told Fang Xiao that Ling Taichu had advanced to Deity Transformation and established Heavenly Outer Heaven, making Fang Xiao a leading successor within Tianlan Sect.
• Lu Liang reported that Five Elements Sect had gained a Deity Transformation cultivator from a Central Lands clan and joined Nanhua Sect and Profound Origin Sect in opposing Tianlan Sect.
• Lu Liang said the Demon Race had withdrawn from the Eastern Domain after the Central Lands and Western Desert allegedly attacked the Southern Wilderness.
• Lu Liang reminded Fang Xiao that the True Inheritance Grand Competition would take place in three years and that its foremost contender could choose a treasure from the sect’s inner treasury.
• Fang Xiao decided to return to Tianlan Sect for the competition and asked whether it had a teleportation formation in the South Sea, but Lu Liang knew of none.

Fang Xiao learned why the Tianlan Sect kept its South Sea base hidden and had no open teleportation array: the Southern Dipper True Monarch had driven out the region’s sects and established the Myriad Cultivators Alliance. Lu Liang told him he could leave through the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s auction, and Fang Xiao invited Lu Liang to accompany him while planning to leave his followers in the South Sea.

• Lu Liang explained that the Southern Dipper True Monarch, a Rogue Cultivator, founded the Myriad Cultivators Alliance and purged sect factions from the South Sea.
• Fang Xiao concluded that he would have to return to the Tianlan Sect through the East Sea because its South Sea base had no usable teleportation array.
• Lu Liang revealed that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auctioned limited teleportation slots out of the South Sea every three months, with the next auction less than a month away.
• Fang Xiao declined Lu Liang’s offer of Spirit Stones and asked him to attend the auction with him, which Lu Liang readily accepted.
• Fang Xiao planned to leave Yan Tiandong and the others in the South Sea so they could establish themselves there, while taking only Yuan Chen to the Eastern Domain.

Fang Xiao planned to use Yan Tiandong’s future breakthrough to gain control of the Myriad Cultivators Alliance and invited Yuan Chen to join the Tianlan Sect. Yan Tiandong and the others agreed to enter the alliance as Gu Cultivators, hoping to establish and preserve their inheritance in the South Sea.

• Fang Xiao left Lu Liang’s shop after arranging to be contacted when the auction approached.
• Fang Xiao returned to the cave dwelling and invited Yuan Chen to join the Tianlan Sect, offering him a chance to abandon his current cultivation and begin anew.
• Yuan Chen agreed without hesitation to start over, and Fang Xiao promised to arrange his return to the sect.
• Fang Xiao told Yuan Chen about the Tianlan Sect, leaving Yuan Chen eager to walk the path of Dao anew.
• Yan Tiandong and the others agreed to join the Myriad Cultivators Alliance and present themselves as Gu Cultivators under the banner of Insect Cultivators.

Fang Xiao and Yan Tiandong’s group attended an auction at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where Madam Mei discovered that several unfamiliar Nascent Soul Cultivators had arrived. The group entered the auction hall with their strength concealed, leaving Madam Mei alarmed by the powerful cultivators accompanying Fang Xiao.

• Fang Xiao and Yan Tiandong discussed finding a suitable blessed land so Yan Tiandong could advance, while the group continued making connections in Tianliang Immortal City.
• Lu Liang grew close to Yan Tiandong and the Chi Miao Tribe members, and Fang Xiao left him to help them connect with the Myriad Cultivators Alliance.
• When the auction began, Yan Tiandong and the others joined Fang Xiao and Lu Liang on the way to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Madam Mei monitored the incoming cultivators and sensed unfamiliar Nascent Soul Cultivators among Fang Xiao’s group.
• Yan Tiandong and Luo Tianshan noticed Madam Mei’s surveillance and looked toward her, frightening her into realizing that two of the newcomers were likely Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators.

Madam Mei learned that Fang Xiao’s group had an extraordinary background and arranged a better auction room for them. At the auction, Fang Xiao recognized a volume of the Nameless Sword Art linked to the Taibai Sword Sect and watched as bidding began.

• Madam Mei investigated Fang Xiao’s group, learned of their unusual origins, and ordered their private room upgraded.
• Lu Liang questioned the steward about the room change, and Fang Xiao led the group inside.
• Yan Yu observed the auction and concluded that bidding depended on both wealth and strategy, while Fang Xiao dismissed the idea.
• The host presented the Nameless Sword Art as a work connected to the Taibai Sword Sect, but warned that it was incomplete and difficult to understand.
• Fang Xiao hurried to the viewing wall and explained that he had dealt with the Taibai Sword Sect earlier in his life.
• Lu Liang realized Fang Xiao may have advanced from Foundation Establishment to late Core Formation in less than sixty years as bidders competed for the Sword Art.

Fang Xiao bought the Nameless Sword Art and studied it during the rest of the auction. When the final item offered teleportation slots to several regions, he and Yuan Chen secured passage to the Eastern Domain, departing in three days.

• Fang Xiao outbid the competition and purchased the Nameless Sword Art for 1.4 million low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Fang Xiao paid with 140 high-grade Spirit Stones and began examining the incomplete Sword Art while Yan Tiandong and the others bid on later auction items.
• The auction offered teleportation slots to six accessible regions, and the routes to the East Sea, West Sea, and North Sea went unsold.
• Bidders filled all twenty Central Lands slots at a fifty percent premium, while eight people secured slots to the Western Desert at the starting price.
• Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen bid for Eastern Domain slots, and Fang Xiao bought one more when their four bidders were not enough to meet the minimum.