Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao agreed to brew Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine for Tianlan Sect in exchange for access to Xuanming Grotto-heaven. Li Mobai and Qin Qing led him into the grotto-heaven, where he prepared to cultivate and pursue a breakthrough into the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Fang Xiao offered to try deducing the Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine to the Fourth Order, and Li Mobai promised him access to the sect's resources and Xuanming Grotto-heaven.
• Li Mobai ordered Fang Xiao, Wen Daoyun, and Qin Qing to keep the wine secret, and the four arranged for the sect to gather materials while Fang Xiao brewed what he could around his cultivation.
• Tianlan Sect decided to pass the Spirit Wine Master inheritance to the Eight Outer Courts and train suitable disciples to brew the wine in the future.
• Fang Xiao proposed entering seclusion in Xuanming Grotto-heaven, and Li Mobai and Qin Qing led him to its hidden entrance beneath True Spirit Hall.
• Li Mobai opened the grotto-heaven's restrictions with Qin Qing, and Fang Xiao sensed spiritual qi so dense it reached the peak of the Fifth Order.

Fang Xiao spent five years in Xuanming Grotto-heaven studying the path of Yin-Yang while enduring the Primordial Chaos Bead’s crushing pressure. He broke through in Body Refining, bringing his strength to a level comparable to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Fang Xiao discovered that a Primordial Chaos Bead within the peak Fifth Order spiritual vein generated the Yin-Yang spiritual energy in Xuanming Grotto-heaven.
• Li Mobai explained that approaching the bead would temper Fang Xiao’s essence, energy, and spirit, and warned him against advancing recklessly.
• Fang Xiao began half-seclusion in Xuanming Grotto-heaven to deepen his understanding of Yin-Yang and prepare to condense a true spirit.
• Over five years, Fang Xiao advanced more than a hundred li toward the Primordial Chaos Bead while cultivating on the Profound Origin Dao Platform.
• Fang Xiao absorbed blood from a jade gourd, broke through his Body Refining, and reached the middle stage of the fourth layer of the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture.

Fang Xiao’s physical body broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, and he asked Li Mobai for permission to undergo his Nascent Soul tribulation outside a grotto-heaven to temper Pure Yang faster. Li Mobai opposed the risk but agreed to consider a tribulation site within the sect, ordering Fang Xiao to wait for his return.

• Li Mobai remarked that Fang Xiao’s body-refining cultivation had advanced again, while Fang Xiao reflected on his physical strength and the limits of preserving his lifespan.
• Fang Xiao explained that he wanted to undergo Nascent Soul tribulation in the Taichang Realm, where abandoning a grotto-heaven’s protection would strengthen the lightning tribulation and speed his Pure Yang tempering.
• Li Mobai rejected the plan, warning that the sect’s Xuanming Grotto-heaven could not be risked and that few cultivators chose to face tribulation unprotected.
• Fang Xiao argued that forming a True Spirit early could give Tianlan Sect a hidden Spirit Transformation-level battle strength, and asked Li Mobai to grant his request.
• Li Mobai told Fang Xiao to return to Heavenly Outer Heaven, stabilize his newly advanced body, and wait for Li Mobai to return before undergoing tribulation; he said the site should be within the sect.

Fang Xiao returned to the Tianlan Sect, where Ling Taichu approved preparations for his heavenly tribulation and reminded him that he had become one of the sect’s pillars. Fang Xiao moved to Thousand Illusions Peak to await the tribulation, while curious disciples speculated about why the sect had cleared the peak.

• Fang Xiao returned to Heavenly Outer Heaven and met with Xiao Yan and Fatty Han, who had advanced to mid Core Formation and fourth-grade Core Formation respectively.
• Fang Xiao increased production of Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine, then waited for Ling Taichu to summon him.
• Ling Taichu agreed to prepare a tribulation site for Fang Xiao, told him to keep his Jade of Spiritual Eyes safe, and urged him to recognize his role in protecting the Tianlan Sect.
• Fang Xiao returned to his cave dwelling to cultivate in seclusion while Ling Taichu and Li Mobai arranged the tribulation site.
• Fang Xiao moved to Thousand Illusions Peak, where the sect had stationed several Nascent Soul cultivators and driven away resident disciples.
• The displaced disciples speculated about the sect’s plans for Thousand Illusions Peak, while some stayed nearby hoping to witness what happened.

Fang Xiao prepared for his Nascent Soul tribulation while waiting for Li Mobai, who returned with a Thunder Control Divine Ability Golden Core and Pure Yang Limitless Pills. Fang Xiao planned to combine Thunder Control with Method Gathering Artifact to condense the Thunder Controlling Sign before facing the tribulation.

• Fang Xiao examined the protective formation and prepared pills and spirit wine, but planned to endure the tribulation lightning himself to temper his divine soul.
• Li Mobai returned after a month and a half and gave Fang Xiao a Golden Core containing Thunder Control Divine Ability and a bottle of Pure Yang Limitless Pills.
• Fang Xiao swallowed the Golden Core to absorb its Divine Ability Origin, while Li Mobai explained that the three pills could help complete Fang Xiao’s divine soul’s Pure Yang transformation by his Second Thunder Tribulation.
• Li Mobai urged Fang Xiao to advance Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine and then departed, leaving it unclear whether he remained nearby to guard him.
• Fang Xiao planned to derive Thunder Control Divine Ability and use Method Gathering Artifact to form the Thunder Controlling Sign before beginning his Nascent Soul tribulation.

Fang Xiao used the Embryo Nurturing Pill and Infant Rearing Pill to form and rapidly mature his Nascent Soul as tribulation clouds gathered over Thousand Illusions Peak. His Nascent Soul opened its eyes and began cultivating before the first thunderous blow of the heavenly tribulation jolted him awake.

• Fang Xiao absorbed the Embryo Nurturing Pill, greatly increasing the spirituality of his mana as he began forming his Nascent Soul.
• Dark tribulation clouds gathered over Thousand Illusions Peak, and Tianlan Sect disciples speculated that Fang Xiao was undergoing Nascent Soul Formation.
• Fang Xiao consumed the Infant Rearing Pill, which rapidly shaped his Nascent Soul into an infant resembling him.
• Fang Xiao transferred his consciousness into the Nascent Soul and instinctively began cultivating, draining the nearby spiritual energy.
• A thunderous heavenly tribulation struck through Fang Xiao's body and jolted his Nascent Soul awake.

Fang Xiao faced his Nascent Soul Formation lightning tribulation after recognizing and resisting a heart demon that had distracted him. He began refining his divine soul with tribulation lightning and Pure Yang Limitless Pills, accelerating its transformation toward Pure Yang.

• Fang Xiao realized a heart demon had clouded his mind and turned his attention back to the lightning tribulation.
• Fang Xiao swallowed a Shell Dissolving Pill and two Pure Yang Limitless Pills, then rose above Thousand Illusions Peak with the Thunder Controlling Sign.
• Ling Taichu worried that Fang Xiao had left the lightning-suppressing formation, while Li Mobai trusted that Fang Xiao had his own reasons.
• Fang Xiao used the Profound Origin Dao Platform and Thunder Controlling Sign to catch the first tribulation bolt and draw it into his sea of consciousness.
• Fang Xiao exposed his divine soul and the Pure Yang Limitless Pills to the bolt, enduring intense pain as the pills dissolved and his soul's Pure Yang transformation accelerated.

Fang Xiao used the lightning tribulation to refine his divine soul but could not break open his Primordial Golden Core with the Shell Dissolving Pill. He brought the core out to face the lightning, opened a tiny crack, and then unleashed overwhelming sword intent as the tribulation clouds scattered.

• Fang Xiao refined more than fifty bolts of tribulation lightning, advancing his divine soul to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and nearing seventy percent Pure Yang transformation.
• Fang Xiao found that his Nascent Soul could not break the pill shell and that tribulation lightning striking the Golden Core inside his dantian was repelled.
• Fang Xiao left his body with the Primordial Golden Core and used a powerful lightning bolt to create a tiny gap in it.
• Li Mobai and Ling Taichu watched anxiously as Fang Xiao prepared to face the remaining tribulation.
• Fang Xiao released sword intent that scattered the tribulation clouds and let sunlight shine through.

Fang Xiao forced the lightning tribulation to grow stronger so it would crack his Primordial Golden Core, and he successfully formed a Nascent Soul. As the final bolt was expected, the tribulation clouds suddenly dispersed, leaving the outcome of the last trial uncertain.

• Fang Xiao provoked the tribulation clouds, causing the remaining lightning bolts to grow far stronger.
• Fang Xiao endured three-colored lightning while focusing on the cracks in his Primordial Golden Core, which repeatedly healed.
• Fang Xiao merged the lightning he controlled with a silver tribulation bolt and used its increased power to shatter the Primordial Golden Core.
• Fang Xiao's Nascent Soul emerged from the silver lightning, then returned to his dantian as he prepared to face the final bolt.
• The tribulation clouds rapidly dispersed before the final bolt descended.

Fang Xiao was dragged into Endless Samsara by the Demon Tribulation and lived through countless mortal lifetimes, gradually losing his sense of separation from them. In a university dormitory, memories of his former world awakened, and he began to break free before an unknown force pulled him away.

• Fang Xiao was struck by Void-Born Thunder after his tribulation ended and fell unconscious, while Li Mobai explained that he had been dragged into Endless Samsara.
• Fang Xiao lived through dozens of lifetimes, sensing that he did not belong in the reincarnated world as that feeling steadily faded.
• Fang Xiao began a new life as a university student and went with his roommate to an internet café, where familiar surroundings stirred hazy memories.
• Fang Xiao recognized that the voices of his parents and roommates connected this life to his world before crossing over, and his consciousness separated from his mortal self.
• An overwhelming force rejected Fang Xiao and drew him into an invisible vortex.

Fang Xiao survived the heart demon hidden within his final Nascent Soul tribulation and began condensing a vast Dharma Aspect from his Primordial Sword Embryo and cultivated treasures. He entered the chaotic mist and merged with the completed Dharma Aspect, leaving his transformation at its culmination.

• Fang Xiao awakened from the heart demon tribulation and realized that his hundred lifetimes of reincarnation had tempered his mind and spirit.
• Li Mobai and Ling Taichu recognized the renewed celestial phenomena as Fang Xiao's Dharma Aspect forming, while the disciples gathered Lunar Moon Essence beneath the Great Yin projection.
• Fang Xiao's Dharma Aspect manifested the Heavenly Gate, Purple Mansion Dao Palace, Profound Origin Dao Platform, and his bound magical treasures.
• The Heaven-Earth Six Aspects formed a towering phantom resembling Fang Xiao, which he shrank and placed on the Dao Platform inside the Purple Mansion Dao Palace.
• Chaotic gray mist engulfed Fang Xiao's manifestations, and he recited a verse before entering the Heavenly Gate, sitting on the Dao Platform, and merging with his Dharma Aspect.

Fan Chen, a descendant of Elder Fan, met Fang Xiao using a gourd his great-grandfather had left him. Fang Xiao offered to repay Elder Fan’s kindness, and Fan Chen asked for a chance to study Spirit Wine brewing, prompting Fang Xiao to reconsider the sect’s strict selection requirements.

• Xiao Yan brought his Nominal Disciple Fan Chen to meet Fang Xiao after Fan Chen presented a gourd linked to an old connection.
• Fang Xiao learned that Fan Chen was the great-grandson of Elder Fan, who had guided Fang Xiao and recommended him to Ling Taichu.
• Fang Xiao promised to help Fan Chen repay Elder Fan’s kindness, while Xiao Yan and Fang Xiao expected Fan Chen to request discipleship.
• Fan Chen instead asked for an opportunity to study Spirit Wine brewing, explaining that he had sensed some talent but could not qualify under the sect’s requirements.
• Fang Xiao reflected that the sect’s cultivation and aptitude restrictions might unfairly exclude people with genuine Spirit Wine talent.

After accepting Fan Chen as a potential nominal disciple, Fang Xiao sought Ling Taichu’s guidance on entering the Sword Breaks Myriad Laws realm. He realized the key was to unite his sword lights into one and use the Void Slaying Sword Formation to achieve that, leaving him with a clearer path to advance his sword dao.

• Fang Xiao offered Fan Chen the Five Spirit Wine Recipes and a year to brew three kinds in exchange for becoming his nominal disciple, and Xiao Yan urged Fan Chen to seize the opportunity.
• Fang Xiao considered his cultivation plans before visiting Ling Taichu, while Qing Feng praised his rapid progress and gave him a Storage Bag.
• Fang Xiao asked Ling Taichu how to advance from Refining Sword into Silk to Sword Breaks Myriad Laws.
• Ling Taichu explained that Sword Breaks Myriad Laws required returning to one, and Fang Xiao realized he needed to unite his sword lights.
• Ling Taichu revealed that the Void Slaying Sword Formation was designed to merge its five hundred and twelve strands of sword light into one.

Fang Xiao watched Ling Taichu demonstrate Sword Breaks Myriad Laws and used his Primordial Sword Body to perceive its principles and the spatial changes connected to opening a grotto-heaven. He then asked to visit the sect’s inner treasury before entering seclusion, and Ling Taichu took him to the True Spirit Hall, where Fang Xiao noticed the awkward tension between Ling Taichu and Wen Daoyun.

• Fang Xiao asked Ling Taichu to demonstrate Sword Breaks Myriad Laws, and Ling Taichu showed him its ultimate point striking a knot of condensed space.
• Fang Xiao used his Primordial Sword Body to grasp aspects of Sword Breaks Myriad Laws and asked whether the spatial change was related to opening a grotto-heaven.
• Ling Taichu confirmed that the technique involved the Way of Space and heaven and earth essence energy, but told Fang Xiao to wait until he could control that energy before learning more.
• Fang Xiao told Ling Taichu he planned to enter seclusion while waiting for the Taibai Sword Sect to open and asked to use his reward to select treasures from the inner treasury.
• Ling Taichu brought Fang Xiao to the True Spirit Hall, where Fang Xiao noticed the awkward looks exchanged between Ling Taichu and Wen Daoyun.

Li Mobai took Fang Xiao to Tianlan Sect’s Myriad Treasures Hall, where Fang Xiao learned about Silent Daoist, the hall’s artifact spirit, and the sect’s vast collection. After seeing the treasures catalogued in Artifact Hall, Fang Xiao discovered it held 266 items, including seventeen Spirit Treasures.

• Li Mobai arrived at True Spirit Hall, and Fang Xiao persuaded him to leave with him for the sect treasury while Ling Taichu and Wen Daoyun spoke privately.
• Li Mobai and Fang Xiao found an unfamiliar daoist in the rear hall, who opened a spatial entrance leading them into Myriad Treasures Hall.
• Li Mobai identified the daoist as Silent Daoist, the artifact spirit of a Spirit Treasure left by Patriarch Zhiyang, and explained his role in endowing Identity Tokens with communication abilities.
• Li Mobai showed Fang Xiao the six subsidiary halls and explained that Mysterious Hall housed valuable objects whose uses remained unknown.
• Fang Xiao chose to inspect Artifact Hall and learned from its Jade Slip that its 266 treasures included 202 Top-grade magic treasures, 47 Exotic Treasures, and 17 Spirit Treasures.

Fang Xiao and Li Mobai explored Myriad Treasures Hall, where Fang Xiao chose the Heart-Chilling Cauldron for its potential to make brewing Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine easier. They then entered the Technique Hall and found Jade Slips containing inheritances collected from holy land-level powers across the Taichang Realm.

• Li Mobai explained why the Spirit Treasures in Myriad Treasures Hall remained unused and why Fang Xiao did not want to claim one.
• Fang Xiao found the Heart-Chilling Cauldron and explained how its icy Yin attribute could help Spirit Wine Masters brew Xuan Yin Spirit Forging Wine.
• Li Mobai handed the cauldron to Fang Xiao, who said he would test it and raise the idea of easing the requirements for training Spirit Wine Masters.
• Fang Xiao and Li Mobai entered the Technique Hall and saw racks of Jade Slips labeled with the names of holy land-level sects and families.
• Li Mobai defended Tianlan Sect's collection of inheritances, and Fang Xiao awkwardly praised the achievements of its predecessors.

Fang Xiao selected the Heaven Measuring Sword Art and a Fifth Order Soul Strengthening Pill, then asked Li Mobai for advice on improving his magic treasures. Li Mobai recommended Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron for the Void Cutter Sword, and Fang Xiao accepted it.

• Fang Xiao chose the Heaven Measuring Sword Art from the Lietian Sword Sect’s inheritance because its mana-amplifying effects suited his deep reserves.
• Fang Xiao selected a Fifth Order Soul Strengthening Pill from the Pill Hall to help his divine soul progress after his future tribulation.
• Fang Xiao showed Li Mobai the Profound Origin Dao Platform and Void Cutter Sword and asked for suitable treasure materials.
• Li Mobai said the Material Hall had no suitable Five Elements materials for the Dao Platform but recommended Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron for the metal- and space-aligned Void Cutter Sword.
• Fang Xiao accepted the heavy Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron and sensed that its chaotic spatial force might complement the orderly spatial force in the sword’s existing materials.

Fang Xiao visited the Myriad Treasures Hall with Li Mobai and chose a Primordial Chaos Stone to strengthen his Profound Origin Dao Platform. In the Mysterious Hall, he began examining the sect’s unidentified treasures but had not yet discovered their secrets.

• Fang Xiao thanked Li Mobai for showing him extraterrestrial meteorite iron, then asked to see another treasure.
• Fang Xiao explained that he wanted to refine a Primordial Chaos Stone into his Profound Origin Dao Platform, and Li Mobai agreed the plan might work.
• Li Mobai advised Fang Xiao to study the Xuanyuan Sect’s inheritance, while Fang Xiao briefly visited the Medicine Hall and found no reason to linger.
• Fang Xiao asked whether the Mysterious Hall held treasures from the Spirit Realm, and Li Mobai dismissed the claim as rumor.
• Li Mobai removed the restrictions in the Mysterious Hall and let Fang Xiao examine its unknown objects.
• Fang Xiao compared the collection with a Jade Slip and inspected a Fifth Order spirit pill whose effects no Pill Dao grandmaster had identified.

Fang Xiao discovered that a Spirit Jade he had found years earlier completed an ancient compass, which Li Mobai identified as a Realm Positioning Disk from the Spirit Realm. The disk revealed their current location, and Fang Xiao began asking whether Tianlan Sect had an Ascension Platform.

• Fang Xiao found a humanoid mecha in the Mysterious Hall and learned from Li Mobai that its power had run dry and could not be restored with ordinary means.
• Fang Xiao recognized that the hollow in an incomplete compass matched the Nameless Spirit Jade he had obtained in Golden Jade City.
• Fang Xiao fitted the jade into the compass, restoring its markings and causing its outer rings to turn and its center to project a beam of light.
• Li Mobai identified the restored object as a Realm Positioning Disk from the Spirit Realm, explaining that it could locate realms but lacked Spirit Realm coordinates.
• Fang Xiao asked whether Tianlan Sect had built an Ascension Platform, considering what he would need to ascend after reaching Spirit Transformation.

Li Mobai explained how Tianlan Sect could reach the Spirit Realm and accepted Fang Xiao's Realm Positioning Disk, while the two discussed the difficulty of secretly obtaining an Ascension Platform. As preparations for the struggle over Taibai Sword Sect loomed, Fang Xiao returned to cultivate and strengthen his Nascent Soul Dao Sword.

• Li Mobai told Fang Xiao that Tianlan Sect had lost its Ascension Platform and described the costly routes to the Spirit Realm, then accepted the Realm Positioning Disk Fang Xiao offered him.
• Li Mobai and Fang Xiao inspected the rest of the Myriad Treasures Hall, found nothing else, and Li Mobai gave Fang Xiao a token talisman from Taibai Sword Sect.
• Li Mobai warned Fang Xiao that rival forces had learned of Tianlan Sect's plan to seize Taibai Sword Sect and urged him to prepare for powerful opponents.
• Fang Xiao returned to his cave dwelling, considered how the timing of the Five Elements Grotto-heaven's empowerment limited his plans, and resolved to cultivate his Nascent Soul Dao Sword.