Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao discovered that the Royal Court was trying to seize the Taibai Sword Sect’s forty-nine spirit veins and continued hunting its agents as he searched Pillar of Heaven Peak. Meanwhile, Li Mobai ordered Wan Ning, Gu Mingcheng, and the other formation masters to leave through their completed teleportation formation, despite their wish to stay and help.

• Fang Xiao questioned a Royal Court cultivator and learned that the Royal Court sought the spirit veins, but the word curse killed the man before he could confirm Fang Xiao’s guess.
• Fang Xiao sent the information to Li Mobai, who agreed that they had to stop the Royal Court from damaging the formation, and Fang Xiao resumed searching Pillar of Heaven Peak.
• Over six days, Fang Xiao killed nearly thirty Nascent Soul Cultivators, including thirteen Royal Court cultivators, and the gathered factions realized someone was hunting within the Taibai Sword Sect.
• Li Mobai and the others completed their teleportation formation, allowing them to connect to the external formation and attempt to leave the sect.
• Li Mobai instructed Wan Ning, Gu Mingcheng, and the other six people to teleport out, but they objected to abandoning Fang Xiao and the struggle against the Royal Court.

Li Mobai drove the remaining cultivators from the Taibai Sword Sect while Fang Xiao encountered Du Yuan, a monk who sought the Void Suppressing Sword and demanded that Fang Xiao stop obstructing the Royal Court. Fang Xiao attacked, but Du Yuan's body and divine soul repelled both his physical and spiritual sword strikes.

• Li Mobai inspected the restrictions hiding the teleportation array, then began driving isolated Nascent Soul Cultivators from the sect, killing Royal Court members and hostile forces while sending others away.
• Fang Xiao met Du Yuan, a young Nascent Soul Early Stage monk who claimed their Buddhist sect had karmic claims on Fang Xiao and demanded the return of the Void Suppressing Sword.
• Fang Xiao realized the Buddhist sect and Royal Court both sought to destroy the arrays suppressing the spiritual veins, and refused Du Yuan's demands.
• Fang Xiao attacked Du Yuan with the Thought Sword, but the monk appeared unaffected.
• Fang Xiao struck Du Yuan with the Void Cutter Sword and Nascent Soul Dao Sword, but both attacks bounced off his golden body and iron-like divine soul.

Fang Xiao and Du Yuan tested each other’s abilities, but neither could gain the upper hand, and Du Yuan admitted defeat. They discovered they had misunderstood which Spirit Treasure the other sought, leaving Fang Xiao to consider a future deal for the Swastika Pagoda Base in exchange for information about the Spirit Realm.

• Du Yuan tried to seize Fang Xiao’s Nascent Soul Dao Sword and Void Cutter Sword, but Fang Xiao recalled one and the other vanished into space.
• Du Yuan attacked with a Spirit Treasure precept blade, which Fang Xiao repelled using the Void Suppressing Sword.
• Du Yuan restrained Fang Xiao with an invisible force, but Fang Xiao broke free with the Profound Origin Dao Platform’s Primordial Magnetic Force and Yin-Yang Five Elements power.
• Du Yuan praised Fang Xiao’s abilities and admitted defeat, then revealed he was a Reincarnated Person seeking a Buddhist sect treasure rather than the Void Suppressing Sword.
• Fang Xiao realized Du Yuan meant the Swastika Pagoda Base, refused to surrender it, and considered negotiating after its resentful souls were exhausted.

Fang Xiao learned that the ruined pagoda was a damaged Prison Suppressing Pagoda from the Spirit Realm, used to seal Asura blood souls, and refused to give up its base while he still needed the souls. Du Yuan agreed to pay in advance for the base and explained the Buddhist secret art that had let him withstand Fang Xiao’s attacks.

• Fang Xiao showed Du Yuan an image of the ruined pagoda and asked about its origins and purpose.
• Du Yuan explained that the Prison Suppressing Pagodas were made to contain Asura blood souls, and revealed that he had been injured in a war between the Spirit Realm, Asura Realm, and Demon Realm.
• Fang Xiao refused to surrender the damaged pagoda base because its hundreds of millions of Asura blood souls remained useful to him, but offered to hand it over later in exchange for payment in advance.
• Du Yuan agreed to the trade on the condition that Fang Xiao make no more than three requests he could fulfill.
• Fang Xiao asked how Du Yuan had survived his attacks without a true spirit, and Du Yuan revealed the Immovable Wisdom King Sutra and its requirement that body and mind remain still.

Fang Xiao negotiated with Du Yuan over the Ascension Platform and obtained a powerful Sarira as one of Du Yuan’s promised concessions. They agreed to compete fairly for the platform, while Fang Xiao stayed with Du Yuan and Li Mobai continued clearing people from the area.

• Du Yuan explained that Buddhist techniques like the Immovable Wisdom King Sutra were unsuitable for Fang Xiao and said the released spirit veins would return to Donghua Prefecture.
• Fang Xiao and Du Yuan agreed to compete fairly for the Ascension Platform, with the winner allowing the other sects to use it under agreed conditions.
• Fang Xiao requested a Sarira, and Du Yuan gave him one left behind by a Deity Transformation Stage Buddhist Cultivator.
• Fang Xiao informed Li Mobai of the agreement and stayed close to Du Yuan while Li Mobai continued clearing people out.

Fang Xiao stayed with Du Yuan while probing him about the Spirit Realm and learned that he should leave the Taichang Realm as soon as possible. When the Royal Court broke the Vein-Suppressing Grand Formation, the Taibai Sword Sect began collapsing, and Fang Xiao followed Du Yuan toward the likely location of the Ascension Platform.

• Fang Xiao kept following Du Yuan and saved his remaining two conditions for later, while Du Yuan refused to discuss the Spirit Realm.
• Fang Xiao inferred that a future calamity might strike the Taichang Realm and resolved to prepare for Deity Transformation.
• King Li's avatar confronted Li Mobai, noted Fang Xiao's killings, and obstructed him as the Royal Court neared its goal.
• The Vein-Suppressing Grand Formation broke, throwing the Spirit Peaks into chaos and causing the Taibai Sword Sect's space to destabilize.
• Du Yuan flew toward the strongest concentration of spiritual energy, and Fang Xiao followed, believing the Ascension Platform lay near a spirit vein node.

Fang Xiao and Du Yuan discovered the Ascension Platform and raced to claim it, with Fang Xiao using his new Primordial Immortal Light to break through Du Yuan’s hand seals. Du Yuan then borrowed a thread of his former self’s power and sent a dangerous treasure bottle toward Fang Xiao, warning him to stop.

• Du Yuan explained that the Buddhist sect learned the Ascension Platform’s location from the records of a surviving Taibai disciple who had joined the Heavenly Buddha Temple.
• Pillar of Heaven Peak cracked open, and a millstone containing the Ascension Platform erupted from a pillar of spiritual energy.
• Fang Xiao and Du Yuan recognized the Ascension Platform and rushed toward it, but Du Yuan blocked Fang Xiao with hand seals while Fang Xiao repeatedly struck him with Thought Swords.
• Fang Xiao used Primordial Immortal Light to dissolve Du Yuan’s hand seals and begin closing the distance.
• Du Yuan briefly raised his aura to Spirit Transformation, summoned a treasure bottle infused with heaven-and-earth primordial energy, and warned Fang Xiao not to advance.

Fang Xiao challenged Du Yuan’s treasure vase to test his strength against a Spirit Transformation technique, while Du Yuan and Li Mobai raced toward the Ascension Platform. The chapter left Fang Xiao resisting the vase’s golden strike with his Great White Sword Pellet, despite a warning that it might be destroyed.

• Du Yuan headed for the Ascension Platform as Fang Xiao continued to hold him back with his Thought Sword and considered testing the treasure vase’s power.
• Fang Xiao revealed his Primordial Dharma Aspect, surprising Du Yuan with its orderly transformations and apparent potential.
• Li Mobai arrived, and Fang Xiao asked him to stop Du Yuan at the Ascension Platform while Fang Xiao faced the treasure vase alone.
• Fang Xiao merged with his Primordial Dharma Aspect and activated the Sword Gourd as Du Yuan and Li Mobai flew toward the platform.
• The Great White Sword Pellet met the vase’s golden strike and was driven back, so Fang Xiao reinforced it with the Profound Origin Dao Platform, lunar yin, and Five Elements Dharma Aspect.
• The Void Suppressing Sword Spirit warned Fang Xiao that continued resistance could destroy his High-grade Magic Treasure, but Fang Xiao remained unconcerned.

Fang Xiao used the terrain of the Taibai Sword Sect to weaken the Treasure Bottle Golden Light and finally dissolved most of it, but its last strand struck him and left him gravely injured. He survived through the Void Suppressing Sword’s protection and his Indestructible Body, and emerged convinced he had taken a firm first step toward fighting Spirit Transformation opponents.

• Fang Xiao chose the Great White Sword Pellet to hold back the Treasure Bottle Golden Light, but the pellet was scattered when the Leaping Heaven Gate’s time limit arrived.
• Fang Xiao sent out the Void Cutter Sword, which was destroyed after tearing a spatial rift that forced the golden light to expend more power crossing it.
• Fang Xiao fused the surrounding Yin-Yang Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Force into Primordial Immortal Light and dissolved the greatly weakened golden light, but a hidden strand pierced toward his heart.
• Fang Xiao blocked the final strike with the Void Suppressing Sword, whose body remained unharmed, while the impact shattered his bones, meridians, and organs and hurled him into Pillar of Heaven Peak.
• Fang Xiao’s Indestructible Body rapidly healed him, and he celebrated surviving the Spirit Transformation strike while planning to seek empowerment in the Five Elements Grotto-heaven.

Fang Xiao raced Li Mobai and Du Yuan for control of the Ascension Platform when a Qingyun Sword Sect cultivator arrived with Myriad Green Clouds. As Fang Xiao reached for the platform, a powerful Spirit Treasure sword attacked his arm.

• The Void Suppressing Sword Spirit resolved to stay by Fang Xiao's side, and Fang Xiao returned to the spiritual energy pillar to pursue Li Mobai and Du Yuan.
• Fang Xiao caught up with Li Mobai and Du Yuan, who were still fighting over access to the Ascension Platform, and Li Mobai held Du Yuan back so Fang Xiao could approach it.
• A newcomer spread Myriad Green Clouds across the area, and Li Mobai and Du Yuan recognized the arrival as a Demon Cultivator from the Qingyun Sword Sect.
• Fang Xiao used Primordial Immortal Light to break through the green clouds and raced the newcomer toward the Ascension Platform.
• As Fang Xiao reached for the Ascension Platform, a Spirit Treasure sword emerged from the clouds and slashed toward his arm.

Fang Xiao seized the Ascension Platform from a powerful Qingyun Sword Sect opponent, but the Taibai Sword Sect began collapsing before he could escape. As Li Mobai and Du Yuan rushed to help, spatial destruction swallowed Fang Xiao into the void.

• Fang Xiao wounded the Qingyun Sword Sect man with the Void Cutter Sword, then used the sword threads to distract him and seized the Ascension Platform.
• Fang Xiao could not store the platform, and the man's beastly roar disrupted his attempt to escape through space.
• Nearly thirty Nascent Soul Realm cultivators outside the Taibai Sword Sect attacked its spatial weak point to force it to close early and planned to rob anyone who emerged.
• Li Mobai and Du Yuan rushed toward Fang Xiao, while the Qingyun Sword Sect man approached him and grabbed the Ascension Platform.
• The space around Fang Xiao shattered, and he was swallowed by the darkness of the void.

Fang Xiao fell into the void after forcing a Qingyun Sword Sect cultivator to go with him, while Li Mobai and Du Yuan abandoned the Ascension Platform and left Taibai Sword Sect. Outside, the Royal Court Nascent Soul Cultivators fled with twenty-four spirit veins as pursuers hunted them, and Li Mobai and Qin Qing entered the void to search for Fang Xiao while the Tianlan Sect completed a teleportation link that might help him return.

• Fang Xiao used Size Manipulation to seize the Qingyun Sword Sect cultivator and threatened to drag him into the void unless he helped pull him out.
• Fang Xiao sent Li Mobai a secret voice transmission, after which Li Mobai left for the sect-protecting grand formation; Du Yuan also abandoned the Ascension Platform and departed.
• Fang Xiao attacked the Qingyun Sword Sect cultivator's mind with the Thought Sword, and both men sank completely into the void.
• The shattered space stopped expanding but remained unrepaired, while the Taibai Sword Sect's surrounding space stayed fragile and would likely take a hundred years to reopen normally.
• Outside the sect, Nascent Soul Cultivators pursued the fleeing Royal Court group, which had intercepted twenty-four spirit veins and lost all but nine of its thirty-six cultivators from the sect.
• Wan Ning and the others returned to the Tianlan Sect to connect the teleportation formations, while Li Mobai and Qin Qing entered the void to search for Fang Xiao.

Fang Xiao entered the void to follow a Taibai Sword Sect token to a hidden grotto-heaven. He found its entrance, but a restriction barred him from entering, leaving him to seek a way past it.

• Fang Xiao used the Void Cutter Sword to withstand the void’s erosion and followed the token’s guidance, while leaving a Qingyun Sword Sect cultivator stranded behind him.
• Fang Xiao reached the token’s destination and discovered that the grotto-heaven’s entrance had been opened within the void.
• Fang Xiao realized the grotto-heaven must be important to the Taibai Sword Sect because reaching it required the ability to walk the void.
• Fang Xiao tried to enter the grotto-heaven, but Senior Zhenkong identified a second-layer restriction designed to block outsiders who had obtained its token.

Trapped in the void, Fang Xiao spent nearly ten days testing Taibai Sword Sect Sword Arts to open an unnamed grotto-heaven’s Double Restriction, but none worked. Just as he prepared to leave, he remembered an incomplete Sword Art he had acquired at auction and decided to try it.

• Fang Xiao asked the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit how to lift the Double Restriction and learned that it required a specific Sword Art.
• The Void Suppressing Sword Spirit taught Fang Xiao nearly ten thousand Taibai Sword Sect Sword Arts, which he practiced one by one.
• After nearly ten days, Fang Xiao found that none of the Sword Arts affected the Double Restriction and prepared to leave the void.
• Fang Xiao remembered an incomplete Sword Art he had bought at auction and asked the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit whether it came from the Taibai Sword Sect.
• The Void Suppressing Sword Spirit identified the scroll as a rare top-tier Sword Art that was forty percent incomplete, and Fang Xiao decided to try it with its guidance.

Fang Xiao opened the gateway to the Taibai Legacy Grotto-heaven by practicing the incomplete Nameless Sword Art, and the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit acknowledged him as its master. Inside, he discovered the Taibai Ancestor’s inheritance was reserved for those with a Primordial Sword Body, and resolved to surpass the Ancestor rather than merely match him.

• Fang Xiao practiced the incomplete Nameless Sword Art and sent its power through the gateway, successfully opening the second layer of restrictions.
• The Void Suppressing Sword Spirit gave Fang Xiao its Sword Seal and voluntarily acknowledged him as its master.
• Fang Xiao entered the grotto-heaven and found a stele identifying it as Taibai Grotto-heaven.
• Fang Xiao read the stele’s inscription, which explained the Taibai Ancestor’s history and the purpose of his legacy grotto-heaven.
• Fang Xiao learned that only someone with a Primordial Sword Body could receive the inheritance, which contained a cultivation method suited to his physique.
• Fang Xiao agreed the inheritance suited him but declared that he aimed to stand above everyone, not merely reach the Taibai Ancestor’s heights.

Fang Xiao read the Taibai Ancestor’s inheritance and learned the Nine Revolutions Primordial Heaven Art, a comprehensive cultivation method suited to his Primordial Sword Body. He also discovered the Primordial Reflection Method and began considering how to integrate it into his own abilities.

• Fang Xiao thanked the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit for helping him enter the grotto-heaven, then approached the offering table.
• Fang Xiao studied the Jade Slip for three hours and learned the Nine Revolutions Primordial Heaven Art, which unified Taibai Sword Sect techniques and included body tempering methods.
• Fang Xiao decided the art was an ideal replacement for his current cultivation methods because it could advance beyond Spirit Transformation and complemented his primordial foundation.
• Fang Xiao learned that the Taibai Ancestor’s Primordial Reflection Method could evolve Divine Abilities by gathering their power, while Fang Xiao’s Myriad Manifestations Return to Truth could unite all arts into one.
• Fang Xiao found the Primordial Reflection Method’s Divine Ability Origin in the crystal pearl and considered gathering Myriad Green Clouds power when retrieving the Ascension Platform.
• Fang Xiao learned that the Taibai Ancestor had made little progress in unlocking the Primordial Sword Body before Spirit Transformation, while Fang Xiao had already used his Primordial Sword Embryo to develop its potential.

Fang Xiao learned that the Nine Revolutions Primordial Heaven Art could let him open an independent inner Grotto-heaven, which would grow with his cultivation and strengthen his Primordial Sword Body. When he tried to leave the Taibai Grotto-heaven, a spatial storm nearly killed him, leaving him wary of traveling through the void.

• Fang Xiao learned that an inner Grotto-heaven could evolve into a Primordial Chaos Grotto-heaven and amplify his Sword Dao, though the art's later portions remained concealed.
• Fang Xiao decided to return to the Tianlan Sect and retrieve the Ascension Platform, then absorbed the Primordial Reflection Method's Divine Ability Origin into the Primordial Sword Embryo.
• Fang Xiao left the Taibai Grotto-heaven but was severely injured by a spatial storm outside and fled back inside using Body Integration with Sword.
• Fang Xiao recovered as the Void Suppressing Sword returned, and he realized that the void's dangers made strength more reliable than luck.

Fang Xiao remained trapped in the void by a fierce spatial storm and began cultivating in the Taibai Ancestor’s grotto-heaven while waiting for it to pass. Meanwhile, Tianlan Sect leaders failed to locate him and decided to publicly declare him dead and a traitor, letting him operate in secret if he was rescued.

• Fang Xiao recovered, learned the spatial storm had intensified, and asked the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit to keep watch while he cultivated.
• Fang Xiao used the grotto-heaven’s fourth-tier Spirit Vein and began converting his cultivation to the Nine Revolutions Primordial Heaven Art.
• Li Mobai and Qin Qing returned to Tianlan Sect without finding Fang Xiao, but Ling Taichu confirmed that his Soul Lamp remained steady.
• Li Mobai proposed waiting for the storm to pass before searching again and told Ling Taichu to secure the Spirit Veins scattered across Donghua Prefecture.
• Ling Taichu explained that several factions were demanding an accounting for Fang Xiao’s actions, so Li Mobai proposed publicly declaring Fang Xiao a traitor who had died in the void while secretly concealing him.

After three years trapped in Taibai Grotto-heaven, Fang Xiao advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage and strengthened his body and divine soul while the Cultivation World remained tense beneath a calm surface. The Void Storm began to weaken, and Fang Xiao learned he could leave within half a month.

• Tianlan Sect claimed Fang Xiao had been expelled and died at Taibai Sword Sect, while the destruction of Beast Taming Sect and Du Yuan’s exposed identity kept the factions focused on the Royal Court.
• Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s request for an upper-realm method to combat Demonic Contamination was expected to bring the factions together in the Central Lands in about a dozen years.
• Fang Xiao told the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit that he had reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and the Sword Spirit confirmed the Void Storm would disperse within half a month.
• Fang Xiao reflected on how the Nine Revolutions Primordial Heaven Art accelerated his cultivation and helped raise his physical body to Nascent Soul Late Stage and his divine soul to great completion in pure yang.
• Fang Xiao made progress cultivating the Great Five Elements Heavenly Heart Art and planned to use his fifth-tier Soul Strengthening Pill to raise his divine soul further before leaving Taibai Grotto-heaven.

Fang Xiao reunited with Li Mobai and Qin Qing after surviving a spatial storm in Taibai Grotto-heaven and advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. He revealed that the Ascension Platform remained unclaimed, and the group prepared to retrieve it before leaving the void.

• Fang Xiao sensed his Life-Soul Lamp and changed course to meet the person approaching him.
• Li Mobai and Qin Qing arrived aboard Li Mobai’s flying vessel, and Fang Xiao joined them safely.
• Fang Xiao apologized for worrying his Master and Martial Uncles, then recounted surviving in Taibai Grotto-heaven and learning the Nine Revolutions Primordial Heaven Art.
• Li Mobai proposed returning to the Taichang Realm to discuss the sect’s arrangements for Fang Xiao.
• Fang Xiao reminded Li Mobai and Qin Qing that they had not retrieved the Ascension Platform, surprising them with the possibility of securing it for future cultivators.