Chapter Summaries

After the auction, Madam Mei befriended Fang Xiao and gave him the three Eastern Domain teleportation tokens, while investigating his standing in the Tianlan Sect. Fang Xiao arranged for Yan Tiandong and the others to remain in the South Sea, then departed with Yuan Chen for the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

• Madam Mei visited Fang Xiao’s group, judged him to be important within the Tianlan Sect, and waived the cost of their extra teleportation token.
• Madam Mei told her subordinate to investigate Fang Xiao’s identity in the Tianlan Sect after his group left the auction hall.
• Fang Xiao told Yan Tiandong and the others that he and Yuan Chen would travel to the Eastern Domain in three days, and left Yan Tiandong the cave dwelling token.
• Fang Xiao confirmed that Luo Tianshan would remain in the South Sea rather than accompany him to the Eastern Domain.
• Three days later, Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen went to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion instead of the city’s Teleportation Hall.

Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen traveled through Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s hidden teleportation network toward the Eastern Domain, where Myriad Treasures Pavilion warned Fang Xiao of disguised Nascent Soul Cultivators in Myriad Immortal City. Fang Xiao recognized that the other travelers might have hostile intentions toward Tianlan Sect and prepared to watch them as they continued toward the Eastern Domain.

• A Myriad Treasures Pavilion cultivator escorted Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen to the hidden teleportation array and relayed Madam Mei’s warning about disguised Nascent Soul Cultivators in Myriad Immortal City.
• Two other Core Formation cultivators joined Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen, and the younger one recognized Fang Xiao as Ling Taichu’s disciple from Tianlan Sect.
• Fang Xiao overheard the pair discussing his identity and suspected they belonged to a force hostile to Tianlan Sect, but decided to let them proceed while he observed their intentions.
• The four travelers used Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s teleportation array and arrived in a guarded stone chamber with four Nascent Soul Cultivators stationed nearby.
• Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s guards directed Fang Xiao and the others to a second teleportation array leading to the Eastern Domain.

Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen arrived in Myriad Immortal City and discovered that two Tianlan Sect cultivators were plotting to capture Fang Xiao. Fang Xiao lured them out of the city, prompting Zhou Xing and five other Nascent Soul cultivators to hurry after them.

• Fang Xiao led Yuan Chen away from the teleportation hall while two Tianlan Sect cultivators arranged to follow them and summon reinforcements.
• Fang Xiao told Yuan Chen that he was waiting for the pursuers to take the bait, intending to bring captives as a gift to Ling Taichu.
• Fang Xiao grabbed Yuan Chen and fled Myriad Immortal City, and the two followers pursued them despite the city's ban on flying.
• One pursuer split off to urge Patriarch Zhou to come, while Zhou Xing learned that Ling Taichu's disciple was fleeing and demanded to leave a secret meeting.
• Zhou Xing and the five other Nascent Soul cultivators left the cave dwelling and sped out of Myriad Immortal City.

Fang Xiao captured two pursuers and waited for their allies, discovering that a faction within Tianlan Sect had conspired with other forces to destroy the sect. Six Nascent Soul cultivators arrived to capture him, unaware that he had prepared to take them alive.

• Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen landed on a mountain, where Fang Xiao used his Thought Sword to incapacitate two pursuers and stored them in the Five Peaks True Form Diagram.
• Zhou Xing told five other Nascent Soul cultivators that two of his sect’s disciples had lost contact, and Du explained how Tianlan Sect’s Identity Tokens could track Fang Xiao’s general location.
• Du revealed that his family branch and most of Tianlan Sect’s families planned to betray the sect and ally with three sacred lands seeking its destruction.
• The six cultivators agreed to capture Fang Xiao and use him against Ling Taichu, then followed the Identity Tokens toward his location.
• Fang Xiao sensed the six approaching, ordered Xing Yue to capture them alive, and listened as they debated whether he might possess a powerful method.

Fang Xiao used Xing Yue and the Five Peaks True Form Diagram to suppress Zhou Xing and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators, but Gongye Zhi broke free with a lightning method and attacked him. Fang Xiao empowered Xing Yue and struck back with the Void Cutter Sword, leaving Gongye Zhi’s remaining escape options uncertain.

• Wei Wuzi recognized Xing Yue as a Spirit Treasure, prompting the six Nascent Soul Cultivators to retreat in fear and greed.
• Xing Yue summoned the Five Peaks True Form Diagram, slowing all six attackers and immobilizing the four Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators.
• Gongye Zhi used a peak Nascent Soul lightning method to break through the suppression and charged at Fang Xiao, hoping to seize control of Xing Yue.
• Fang Xiao poured his mana into Xing Yue, greatly increasing its suppressive force and stopping Gongye Zhi midair.
• Fang Xiao revealed the Void Cutter Sword and used Refining Sword into Silk to create spatial rifts that steadily weakened Gongye Zhi’s lightning.

Fang Xiao pursued Gongye Zhi after he used a borrowed lightning escape technique to flee, eventually disrupting the technique and capturing Gongye Zhi’s Nascent Soul. He returned to Yuan Chen and Xing Yue, then led them toward Myriad Immortal City to leave by teleportation array, with Xundao City as their next destination.

• Gongye Zhi merged with the remaining lightning and attempted to strike Fang Xiao, but Fang Xiao evaded the attack with Shifting Form and Escaping Void.
• Gongye Zhi fled using a lightning escape technique borrowed from his elder cousin, and Fang Xiao pursued him with Void Cutter Sword Threads and repeated teleportation.
• Gongye Zhi’s lightning escape began to falter, so Fang Xiao struck him with the Thought Sword and caused his already strained body to collapse.
• Fang Xiao sealed Gongye Zhi’s exposed Nascent Soul with restrictive seals and Spirit Sealing Talismans, then returned to Yuan Chen and Xing Yue.
• Fang Xiao led Yuan Chen and Xing Yue toward Myriad Immortal City to use its teleportation array and travel to Xundao City.

Fang Xiao returned to Fang Manor after sixty years and reunited with his dying father, Fang Yuan. After sharing memories and refusing Fang Xiao’s offer to begin cultivating, Fang Yuan died in his son’s arms.

• Fang Xiao arrived at Fang Manor with Yuan Chen and asked to visit his family alone.
• Fang Xiao found Fang Yuan near death, and the two embraced after Fang Yuan recognized his son.
• Fang Xiao recounted his experiences while Fang Yuan shared memories and urged him to keep following his chosen path.
• Fang Xiao offered Fang Yuan a way to cultivate, but Fang Yuan refused and said he wanted to reunite with his wife.
• Fang Yuan died after seeing Fang Xiao again, and Fang Xiao held him and wept.

Xiao Yan and Huang Lin confronted Yuan Chen outside Fang Manor after reports of an intruder raised fears for Father Fang’s safety. Fang Xiao’s identity token confirmed his return, ending the standoff, and Huang Lin invited Xiao Yan and Yuan Chen to wait with him at a restaurant.

• Two disciples guarding Fang Manor reported that an unknown cultivator had driven them away, prompting Xundao City to seal its gates and summon help.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the teleportation hall and hurried to Fang Manor, where he met Huang Lin, the city’s Core Formation cultivator.
• Yuan Chen told Xiao Yan and Huang Lin that his Senior Brother was reuniting with relatives, but could not prove he belonged to Tianlan Sect.
• Xiao Yan accused Yuan Chen of impersonating Fang Xiao and prepared to force his way into Fang Manor, while Huang Lin tried to prevent a fight.
• Fang Xiao’s identity token flew out of the manor, confirming his return and easing Xiao Yan’s anger.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Huang Lin with pills, and Huang Lin invited him and Yuan Chen to wait at a restaurant across the street.

Fang Xiao left Tianlan Sect to bury his parents together and learned from Xiao Yan about the coming True Inheritance Grand Competition, its powerful contenders, and growing tensions within and beyond the sect. He also discovered that a family lineage had targeted Han’s Spirit Wine business and vowed to settle the score with them.

• After Fang Xiao emerged from Fang Manor in mourning clothes, he told Yuan Chen, Xiao Yan, and Huang Lin that his father had died and that he was returning to Golden Jade City to bury his parents together.
• Xiao Yan accompanied Fang Xiao and explained that only seven of the Top Ten True Inheritors held ranked seats, with several family-lineage disciples opposing their Master-Disciple lineage.
• Xiao Yan named Fu Beichen, Gu Yunxiu, and Du Yuanjun as contenders with records of standing against Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, and said Du Yuanjun was favored to take first seat.
• Xiao Yan told Fang Xiao that the Holy Son and Holy Maiden might also join the competition, while Fang Xiao resolved to raise his cultivation and challenge the strongest contenders.
• Xiao Yan reported that Han had completed Gang Sha Fusion and cultivated a Divine Ability Seed, but that a family lineage had previously tried to seize Han’s spirit apes and Spirit Wine Recipe.
• Fang Xiao vowed to settle the score with the family lineage that had targeted Han’s Spirit Wine business.

Fang Xiao returned to Golden Jade City, reflected on the loss of his old ties, and rebuilt his mother’s grave before heading back to Tianlan Sect. He reached Heavenly Outer Heaven and went to see Ling Taichu while Xiao Yan waited elsewhere.

• Fang Xiao found Golden Jade City changed beyond recognition and gained a new understanding of cultivation as he rejected forcibly severing his emotions.
• Fang Xiao worshiped at his mother’s grave, dug up the site, and raised a new grave before leaving several days later.
• A hidden group suspected that six missing Nascent Soul cultivators had fallen into Tianlan Sect’s hands and decided to investigate Ling Taichu’s disciple without warning their allies.
• Fang Xiao and Xiao Yan entered Tianlan Sect, and Xiao Yan guided him through the formation wall to Heavenly Outer Heaven.
• Xiao Yan went to wait at Han’s place while Fang Xiao headed up the mountain to see Ancestor Ling.

Fang Xiao paid respects to Ling Taichu, recounted his journey through the Land of Chaotic Gu, and asked for the sect’s help with his plans for Yan Tiandong and Yuan Chen. Ling Taichu approved Yuan Chen’s admission but explained that lending a blessed land for Yan Tiandong’s breakthrough remained unresolved.

• Fang Xiao greeted Qing Feng at Heavenly Outer Peak and learned that Ling Taichu was waiting for him inside.
• Fang Xiao congratulated Ling Taichu on reaching Spirit Transformation and told him about the Land of Chaotic Gu, the Gu God Palace, and his return to the South Sea.
• Fang Xiao asked Ling Taichu to help Yan Tiandong break through in a blessed land and to admit Yuan Chen so he could rebuild his cultivation.
• Ling Taichu approved Yuan Chen’s admission and instructed Fang Xiao to take him to Li Mobai for help with his Heavenly Fire Spirit Root.
• Ling Taichu said he and Li Mobai supported lending a blessed land, but Qin opposed it, leaving Ling Taichu to decide whether to offer his own.

Fang Xiao told Ling Taichu about the Jade of Spiritual Eyes and presented the captured cultivators, including a Tianlan Sect Nascent Soul who appeared to have betrayed the sect. Ling Taichu took the prisoners away to investigate, while Fang Xiao stayed behind to arrange for Xing Yue’s training and collect cultivation pills.

• Ling Taichu explained that the grotto-heaven his master had used was intact, but its fifth-tier Spirit Vein had been moved beneath Heavenly Outer Peak; Fang Xiao offered his Jade of Spiritual Eyes as a substitute.
• Fang Xiao presented his Five Peaks True Form Diagram and revealed the captured cultivators and Gongye Zhi’s Nascent Soul, then recounted how he had captured them.
• Ling Taichu identified the prisoners as hostile cultivators from several sects and families, and revealed that Du Zhenfa belonged to the Tianlan Sect.
• Ling Taichu warned Fang Xiao to stay in the sect and keep the matter secret, then sealed the prisoners and took them away to meet with Senior Brother Li and the others.
• Fang Xiao left Xing Yue with Qing Feng to learn how to conceal himself, then received a large batch of Nascent Soul cultivation pills from Qing Feng.

Fang Xiao reunited with Xiao Yan and Fatty Han on Heavenly Outer Peak and learned how they had built up the Vajra Ape tribe’s wine-brewing and pill-refining operations. He entrusted them with new tasks and resources, then decided to handle Yuan Chen’s guidance himself.

• Fang Xiao saw the young Vajra Apes and the ranked apes brewing Spirit Wine, then met Xiao Yan and Fatty Han.
• Fang Xiao noticed Fatty Han had grown lean and promised to help him reach Core Formation and investigate the family that had harmed him.
• Fatty Han offered Fang Xiao the accumulated profits, but Fang Xiao told him to keep managing the funds and use them for the operation.
• Fang Xiao learned that Maoqiu was attempting to break through to the late stage of the second rank.
• Fang Xiao gave Fatty Han a Beast Taming Sect Secret Art and asked him to seek rare spirit plants, while Xiao Yan received pill formulas to supply the Vajra Apes.
• Fang Xiao decided to go guide Yuan Chen himself after Xiao Yan became absorbed in the new pill formulas.

Fang Xiao brought Yuan Chen to the Tianlan Sect, where Li Mobai examined Yuan Chen’s damaged cultivation and discovered he had an Innate Primordial Yang Physique. The chapter ended with Li Mobai asking whether Yuan Chen’s primordial yang was still intact, since that would determine whether his cultivation could be rebuilt.

• Fang Xiao returned with Yuan Chen after completing his registration, and Yuan Chen officially became a Tianlan Sect disciple.
• Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen visited Li Mobai, who explained that his true body was away and scolded Fang Xiao for recklessly using a teleportation formation.
• Li Mobai examined Yuan Chen and found that his cultivation was badly disordered, though it could potentially be repaired.
• Li Mobai identified Yuan Chen’s Innate Primordial Yang Physique and explained that its benefits depended on whether Yuan Chen had lost his primordial yang.
• Li Mobai asked Yuan Chen directly whether he was still a virgin, leaving Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen stunned.

Li Mobai offered Fang Xiao uncertain news about Innate Xin Metal Qi in the Central Lands and promised to accompany him there in about sixty years. Fang Xiao then paid to send a coded message to Lu Liang at the South Sea outpost, asking him to pass it to Yan Tiandong.

• Li Mobai promised to help Yuan Chen rebuild his Dao foundation and offered Fang Xiao a choice between rare resources and important news.
• Fang Xiao chose the news and learned that Innate Xin Metal Qi might be in the Central Lands; Li Mobai offered to accompany him there in about sixty years.
• Li Mobai reminded Fang Xiao that he had to reach Nascent Soul Formation before Taibai Sword Sect opened again in less than forty years, and suggested he seek the chief disciple position for access to the sect treasury.
• Fang Xiao went to the External Affairs Hall to contact Lu Liang at Tianliang Island in the South Sea.
• Hua Ling explained the cost and precautions for long-distance transmissions, and Fang Xiao paid to send Lu Liang a coded message to relay to Yan Tiandong.

Fang Xiao returned to Heavenly Outer Heaven, arranged for the Sea-Shaking Ape to tend his medicinal garden, and prepared to refine the Guiyi Gu Mother Worm. Ling Taichu then revealed a plot to destroy the Tianlan Sect during the True Inheritance Grand Competition, while the sect delayed moving against its traitors to avoid alerting them.

• Fang Xiao left the Sea-Shaking Ape on Heavenly Outer Peak to tend the medicinal garden and told Fatty Han he could help it.
• Fang Xiao began preparing to regenerate the Guiyi Gu Mother Worm and study Luo Tianshan's refined middle dantian Gu-refining method.
• Ling Taichu gave Fang Xiao intelligence taken from the souls of six captured Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Fang Xiao learned that the three great holy lands, the Shangqing Sect, and the Gongye Family planned to join forces with traitors to attack the Tianlan Sect during its True Inheritance Grand Competition.
• Ling Taichu told Fang Xiao that the traitors did not know their scheme had been exposed, so the Tianlan Sect had not yet moved against them.

Fang Xiao discussed the threat from hostile sects with Ling Taichu, then received his master’s guidance on his cultivation and Sword Dao. Ling Taichu’s warning about the Primordial Sword Embryo’s true purpose left Fang Xiao stunned and reconsidering his approach.

• Fang Xiao worried that hostile sects might exploit Tianlan Sect’s True Inheritance Grand Competition, and Ling Taichu assured him that allies in the Central Lands and Beimíng Sword Sect could provide support.
• Ling Taichu gave Fang Xiao a Jade Slip with the grotto-heaven’s teleportation formation location and incantation, and Fang Xiao memorized it before destroying it.
• Ling Taichu assessed Fang Xiao’s cultivation, warned that his abundant spiritual power could make Nascent Soul Formation especially dangerous, and promised to address the missing portion of the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture.
• Ling Taichu gave Fang Xiao his Sword Dao insights and advised him to learn from experience without following another person’s path.
• Ling Taichu warned that Fang Xiao had mistaken the Primordial Sword Embryo’s purpose by using it to control ten thousand arts rather than returning to the Primordial and the Sword Dao, leaving Fang Xiao stunned.

Fang Xiao regained his Original Heart after Ling Taichu warned him that he had strayed from the purpose of the Primordial Sword Embryo. Three days later, he met Yan Tiandong in Myriad Immortal City and took him toward a hidden realm, where Yan asked about Yuan Chen.

• Ling Taichu rebuked Fang Xiao for pursuing the myriad transformations of divine abilities instead of primordial unity and reminded him of his Original Heart.
• Fang Xiao drank from the yellow-skinned gourd, renewed his resolve to uphold his Original Heart, and returned to his cave dwelling to meditate.
• Three days later, Fang Xiao received a signal from Yan Tiandong and went to the Teleportation Hall in Myriad Immortal City.
• Fang Xiao met Yan Tiandong and led him to a teleportation array bound for an immortal city under Tianlan Sect's influence.
• Yan Tiandong asked Fang Xiao whether Yuan Chen had entered Tianlan Sect and resolved his cultivation issue.

Fang Xiao helped Yan Tiandong enter a hidden grotto-heaven to pursue a breakthrough, then returned to the Tianlan Sect to plan his cultivation. He began examining how to fuse the Primordial Sword Embryo’s many attributes into primordial unity before reaching peak Core Formation.

• Fang Xiao reassured Yan Tiandong that Yuan Chen would be cared for in the Tianlan Sect, and Yan explained his plan to join the Myriad Cultivators Alliance by cultivating some factions and opposing others.
• Fang Xiao activated a hidden teleportation array connected to the city’s protective formation, and Yan Tiandong teleported away to pursue the Spirit God Realm within five years.
• Fang Xiao returned to Heavenly Outer Peak and entered seclusion, deciding to correct the Primordial Sword Embryo’s development.
• Fang Xiao identified sixteen apparent attributes within his divine abilities and considered how to trace their transformations back to their origins and fuse them.
• Fang Xiao worried that the Primordial Sword Embryo might become a dharma manifestation before he achieved primordial unity, and considered relying on the Guiyi Gu.

Fang Xiao refined the newly hatched Guiyi Gu Mother Worm as his natal Gu, but his Supreme-grade Golden Core unexpectedly seized and devoured the Dharma seal it formed, killing the worm. He found a new Dharma seal suspended above the Golden Core’s original mana imprint, leaving its effects unknown.

• Fang Xiao watched the sole surviving Guiyi Gu Mother Worm egg hatch and trapped the newborn worm in prepared attributeless mana.
• Fang Xiao refined the mother worm, supplying it with vast amounts of mana and vitality until it condensed a gray Dharma seal.
• Fang Xiao’s Supreme-grade Golden Core suddenly flew out and drew the Dharma seal from the mother worm, killing it.
• Fang Xiao inspected his Golden Core and discovered the new Dharma seal suspended above its original mana imprint.