Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao fulfilled his wager by defeating a Spirit Transformation opponent and continued pursuing his next goal: reaching the Deity Transformation Stage within two hundred years. After Ling Taichu inspected the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s contaminated corpse, Fang Xiao considered whether his Lunar Divine Light could purify it.

• Fang Xiao and the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit acknowledged that Fang Xiao had won their wager, and Fang Xiao said he would fulfill their other wager by advancing to the Deity Transformation Stage within two hundred years.
• Demon Slaying Immortal City enjoyed a period of peace after Fang Xiao slaughtered the demonic beasts gathered at the border, and the cultivators who fought received contribution rewards.
• Ling Taichu praised Fang Xiao for condensing a True Spirit and killing the Sun Devouring Mastiff, then examined his mana and advised him on nurturing its spiritual resonance.
• Fang Xiao told Ling Taichu he hoped to purify the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s contaminated body so he could use its blood and bones to brew Spirit Wine.
• Ling Taichu asked whether Fang Xiao’s Lunar Yin divine ability could purify the corpse, and Fang Xiao explained that Lunar Divine Light could cleanse Demonic Qi but not contamination from True Demonic Qi.

Fang Xiao and Ling Taichu used the Great Yin and Great Yang Dharma Forms to draw out the Demonic Contamination in the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s corpse, allowing Ling Taichu’s Jianmu Dharma Form to absorb it. They completely purged the contamination, though the corpse lost some vital essence in the process.

• Fang Xiao released the Great Yin and Great Yang powers together after Ling Taichu explained how they would draw out the contamination.
• The two Dharma Forms provoked the contamination buried deep within the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s body, and Ling Taichu extracted and sealed the exposed True Demonic Qi.
• Ling Taichu placed his Jianmu Dharma Form on the corpse, where its roots absorbed the contamination along with some of the corpse’s vital essence.
• Fang Xiao maintained the Dharma Forms at full strength as the corpse’s black fur faded to crimson.
• Ling Taichu and Fang Xiao completely purged the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s corpse of Demonic Contamination.

Fang Xiao and Ling Taichu removed the Demonic Contamination from the Sun Devouring Mastiff by transferring it into flowers and fruits on Ling Taichu’s Jianmu Dharma Form. After the dangerous process succeeded, Fang Xiao offered Ling Taichu Fifth-Order Spirit Milk and turned his attention to the Jianmu Dharma Form.

• Ling Taichu drew in the Demonic Contamination from the Sun Devouring Mastiff and struggled to suppress it within his Jianmu Dharma Form.
• Fang Xiao gave Ling Taichu Fifth-Order Spirit Milk when the effort left him pale and exhausted.
• Ling Taichu used the Jianmu Dharma Form to transfer the Demonic Contamination into twelve flowers and twelve fruits, sealing them in boxes until the Dharma Form was clear again.
• Fang Xiao apologized for putting Ling Taichu at risk and offered him the jade bottle of Spirit Milk.
• Ling Taichu praised his Jianmu Dharma Form after Fang Xiao indicated that he wanted it.

Fang Xiao extracted the Jianmu Dharma Form’s power to learn how to seal Demonic Contamination, then dissected the Sun Devouring Mastiff and found a strange pellet and its Demon Core. He planned to study the pellet and use the Demon Core’s solar-devouring ability to complete his solar attribute and balance it with the Great Yin.

• Ling Taichu told Fang Xiao that his opportunities had come from his own ability and allowed him to take the Jianmu Dharma Form’s power.
• Fang Xiao used the Primordial Reflection Mirror to extract enough of the Jianmu Dharma Form to deduce it, hoping to seal Demonic Contamination.
• Fang Xiao dissected the Sun Devouring Mastiff with the Void Suppressing Sword and stored its useful materials.
• Fang Xiao found a crimson-purple Demon Core and an unusual grayish-white pellet, which he suspected might be a dog treasure.
• Fang Xiao decided the Demon Core’s ability to devour and refine solar attributes could help him complete his solar attribute and balance the Great Yin and sun among his dharma forms.

Fang Xiao studied the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s collapsing Space Stomach and found a trapped Demon Cultivator named Xie Kun. After Fang Xiao and Ling Taichu questioned him, Xie Kun began explaining how he had chosen to become a Demon Cultivator.

• Fang Xiao found spatial fluctuations inside the Sun Devouring Mastiff and opened a rift into its innate Space Stomach.
• A peak Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator attacked Fang Xiao, who knocked him unconscious with a Thought Sword as the Space Stomach began collapsing.
• Fang Xiao studied the space as it vanished, learning that it could carry living creatures but could not support spirit veins or cultivation.
• Ling Taichu examined the unconscious man and warned Fang Xiao that a restriction in his soul made Soul Searching dangerous.
• Fang Xiao awakened the man, who identified himself as Xie Kun and agreed to answer their questions.
• Xie Kun explained that he had come from a Central Lands formation sect and had become a Demon Cultivator because he feared reaching the end of his lifespan without breaking through to Deity Transformation.

Xie Kun explained how he became a demon cultivator, served as a go-between for the Sun Devouring Mastiff and a True Devil, and helped disable the formations at Demon Slaying Immortal City. Fang Xiao confronted him over his crimes, and Xie Kun begged for his life by offering to help capture the True Devil.

• Fang Xiao learned that Xie Kun had traded formation artifacts for Essence Blood and disabled arrays at the Gold Vein of Five Elements Sect and Demon Slaying Immortal City.
• Xie Kun explained that becoming a demon cultivator prolonged his life but left him dependent on higher-level demon cultivators' Essence Blood.
• Xie Kun revealed that a True Devil had placed a restriction in his divine soul and ordered him to win Spirit Transformation True Lords over to the Devil Race.
• Xie Kun admitted that he had introduced the Sun Devouring Mastiff to the True Devil, and Ling Taichu suggested its True-Spirit bloodline might explain its conversion.
• Fang Xiao accused Xie Kun of helping slaughter humans, and Xie Kun fell to his knees and offered to help capture the True Devil in exchange for his life.

Fang Xiao stayed in Demon Slaying Immortal City to brew Fifth-Order Essence Blood Wine from the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s Essence Blood and prepare for his cultivation breakthrough. He began the painstaking brewing process while Ling Taichu took Xie Kun back to the Tianlan Sect.

• Ling Taichu judged Xie Kun’s account to be partly true, spared his life, and took him back to the Tianlan Sect.
• Fang Xiao decided to remain in Demon Slaying Immortal City under Ling Taichu’s protection and use the Spirit Transformation Demon Cultivator’s Essence Blood to brew wine.
• Fang Xiao recognized that fifth-tier refinement required dividing and sealing spirituality throughout the medicinal power.
• Fang Xiao processed the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s Essence Blood, bones, organs, and supplementary herbs for more than a month.
• Fang Xiao began simmering the Essence Blood with supplementary ingredients, carefully timing each addition to preserve the wine’s effects.

After a year of progress in brewing, cultivation, and Dao comprehension, Fang Xiao prepared to cultivate the Five Qi Returning to Origin Method as his mana approached the Nascent Soul limit. The chapter ended with him studying how the method used the Five Viscera to bear and adapt to the Five Elements primordial qi.

• Fang Xiao completed his first batch of Fifth Order Essence Blood Wine and noted that later batches would be even more effective.
• Fang Xiao deduced a recipe for Fifth Order Spirit Milk Wine and connected with the Great Yin-Yang Dao Track, accelerating his cultivation and comprehension.
• Fang Xiao learned that Li Mobai and Qin Qing had reached late Deity Transformation and had secretly traveled to the Central Lands with Xie Kun and Yuan Chen.
• Fang Xiao decided to begin preparing for the Spirit Within Mana stage and studied the Five Qi Returning to Origin Method in his Jade Slip.
• Fang Xiao learned that the method could use the Five Viscera, strengthened by body refinement, to share the burden of Five Elements primordial qi and gradually temper his mana.

Fang Xiao began cultivating the Five Qi Returning to Origin Method, using his Primordial Chaos Mana to activate the formation within his Five Viscera. By combining it with the Great Five Elements Heavenly Heart Art and the Great Five Elements Dao Track, he controlled the Five Elements heaven and earth qi and brought his Mana with Spirit closer to advancing into Spirit Within Mana.

• Fang Xiao judged that his abundant mana, true spirit, and ability to stop at any time made cultivating the Five Qi Returning to Origin Method manageable despite its risks.
• Fang Xiao used the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture to activate miniature formations in his Five Viscera, and his Primordial Chaos Mana flowed through them without resistance.
• Fang Xiao summoned the Five Elements heaven and earth qi and used the Great Five Elements Heavenly Heart Art to connect with the Heaven and Earth Great Five Elements Dao Track.
• Fang Xiao discovered that the Dao Track greatly weakened the qi's pressure, while the formation further distributed it across his body.
• Fang Xiao concluded that gradually adapting to the Five Elements heaven and earth qi would let him control it and advance his Mana with Spirit to Spirit Within Mana.

Fang Xiao rapidly adapted his mana to Heaven and Earth essence qi while tempering his body, and after a year and a half reached the Spirit Transformation standard of Spirit Within Mana. He completed the breakthrough under Ling Taichu’s watch and showed signs of Golden Muscle Jade Bone, while preparing to use Fifth Order Spirit Milk Wine to advance his cultivation further.

• Fang Xiao used his Five Viscera, Indestructible Body, Fifth Order Essence Blood Wine, and Fourth Order Spirit Milk Wine to safely cultivate against five-element Heaven and Earth essence qi.
• Over a year and a half, Fang Xiao gradually stopped relying on the Grand Five-Element Dao Track to suppress and conceal Heaven and Earth essence qi.
• Ling Taichu arrived at Fang Xiao’s cave dwelling and sensed that Fang Xiao was close to receiving complete Heaven and Earth essence qi.
• Fang Xiao received the complete Heaven and Earth essence qi without pressure, reaching the Spirit Transformation standard of Spirit Within Mana.
• Fang Xiao’s skin began to show golden gleams and his skeleton signs of turning jade-like, indicating Golden Muscle Jade Bone; his Fifth Order Spirit Milk Wine was ready for his next stage of cultivation.

After leaving seclusion, Fang Xiao explained his cultivation method to Ling Taichu, who challenged him to a spar to assess his strength. The two flew beyond the nine heavens to a secluded place, where Ling Taichu prepared for Fang Xiao to go all out.

• Fang Xiao retained Five Elements Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi within his Five Viscera after ending his cultivation and realized it could temper his magical power and body.
• Ling Taichu visited Fang Xiao after sensing the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi disperse and asked how he had advanced so quickly.
• Fang Xiao offered to demonstrate his method, and Ling Taichu agreed to spar with him.
• Fang Xiao followed Ling Taichu out of Demon Slaying Immortal City and gradually used Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi to increase his escape speed until he nearly surpassed his Master.
• Ling Taichu stopped above the nine heavens near the void and invited Fang Xiao to unleash his full strength.

Fang Xiao demonstrated to Ling Taichu how the Heaven and Earth Dao Track let him alter the activity and flow of heaven and earth origin energy. Ling Taichu recognized the method’s connection to the Great Five Elements Heavenly Heart Art and learned that it drew on the Taichang Realm’s Dao Track, not the Heavenly Heart.

• Fang Xiao used the Profound Origin Dao Platform and Yin-Yang Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Force to pin down and wear away Ling Taichu’s Jianmu Dharma Form.
• Ling Taichu noticed that his wood-attributed heaven and earth origin energy had become sluggish while Fang Xiao’s grew more active, giving Fang Xiao a decisive advantage.
• Fang Xiao withdrew his force and summoned his own Jianmu Dharma Form, drawing the wood-attributed origin energy toward himself while Ling Taichu’s remained sluggish.
• Fang Xiao explained that the method was tied to the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture and the Great Five Elements Heavenly Heart Art, but depended on the Taichang Realm’s Heaven and Earth Dao Track rather than the Heavenly Heart.

Fang Xiao explained to Ling Taichu how the Heaven and Earth Dao Track had helped him sense the Heavenly Heart and improve his understanding of the Dao. After discussing ways the Tianlan Sect’s True Lords might investigate it, Fang Xiao left for the Southern Wilderness while Ling Taichu returned to Demon Slaying Immortal City.

• Fang Xiao told Ling Taichu that contact with the Heaven and Earth Dao Track had revealed its influence on spiritual qi and improved his comprehension of the Dao.
• Fang Xiao suggested that Ling Taichu reverse the Great Five Elements Heavenly Heart Art to seek the Wood Dao Track, or study the method with True Lords representing all five elements.
• Ling Taichu agreed to consider Fang Xiao’s suggestions and planned to contact the other True Lords, though they still needed a Gold Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator.
• Fang Xiao told Ling Taichu that he would travel to the Southern Wilderness instead of going directly to the Central Lands.
• Ling Taichu warned Fang Xiao to be careful, then returned to Demon Slaying Immortal City as Fang Xiao set out for the Southern Wilderness.

Fang Xiao explored the Southern Wilderness after learning that nine Spirit Transformation great demons remained there, and he chose to hunt the Thunder Luan. After capturing and searching a Leopard Head Demon Cultivator, he learned that the Thunder Luan ruled the region and began pursuing it.

• Fang Xiao studied information from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and learned that nine Spirit Transformation great demons remained in the Southern Wilderness.
• Fang Xiao traveled through the wilderness using the Great Five Elements Escape Arts and followed migrating beast herds in search of transformed Demon Cultivators.
• Fang Xiao found and swiftly captured an early-stage Leopard Head Demon Cultivator, then searched its memories.
• Fang Xiao learned that the Thunder Luan ruled the region and decided to capture it alive for its thunder techniques.
• Fang Xiao considered the Green Back Mountain Flood Dragon and Earth Origin Bear King as alternatives to the Thunder Luan.

Fang Xiao set out for the Thunder Luan’s territory after learning its location, leaving behind a Sword Seal as a safeguard. Meanwhile, the Thunder Luan met with the Golden Mane Roar and Six-tailed White Fox, who discussed the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s death and the Demon Race’s need to avoid provoking humans.

• Fang Xiao decided not to pursue the powerful demons and departed for the Thunder Luan, leaving a Sword Seal that let him use the Method of Shifting Form and Escaping Void as a backup.
• The Golden Mane Roar criticized the Thunder Luan for opening a grotto-heaven, while the Six-tailed White Fox defended her and said she would make it their gathering place.
• The Thunder Luan welcomed her sworn siblings and asked why they had come together.
• The Golden Mane Roar said he had learned of the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s death and had visited to check on the Thunder Luan’s safety.
• The Thunder Luan and Golden Mane Roar agreed that the Sun Devouring Mastiff had brought its death upon itself by acting recklessly, and the Golden Mane Roar warned that demons who provoked humans risked being eliminated.

Golden Mane Roar told Thunder Luan and Six-tailed White Fox that the Demon Realm had changed course and was no longer headed toward the Spirit Realm, forcing them to choose between the Devil Realm and the Spirit Realm. As they discussed the Royal Court’s plans to leave Taichang Realm, Fang Xiao entered Thunder Luan’s grotto-heaven, ready to attack.

• Golden Mane Roar explained that a True Devil had revealed the Demon Realm was now moving away from the Spirit Realm after intersecting with a Netherworld Realm.
• Golden Mane Roar said the Royal Court confirmed the Demon Realm’s changed course with a Realm Positioning Disk and gave the three demons fewer than ten years to choose between the Devil Realm and the Spirit Realm.
• Six-tailed White Fox grieved that she might never return to the Green Hill Fox Clan, while Thunder Luan questioned why the Royal Court was rushing them to decide.
• Golden Mane Roar and Thunder Luan concluded that the Central Plains Royal Court intended to flee Taichang Realm before the Devil Realm arrived.
• Fang Xiao followed the Leopard Head Demon Cultivator’s memories to Thunder Luan’s nest, found its grotto-heaven entrance, and stepped inside.

Fang Xiao entered the cave-heaven and discovered three Spirit Transformation demons discussing the Central Plains Royal Court’s plan to flee the Taichang Realm. Trapped inside, he used his treasures and abilities to resist them, and the chapter ended with him facing the Six-tailed White Fox.

• Fang Xiao entered the cave-heaven and overheard the Golden Mane Roar mention that the Central Plains Royal Court intended to flee the Taichang Realm.
• The Golden Mane Roar attacked Fang Xiao as the cave-heaven portal closed, trapping him with the Golden Mane Roar, Thunder Luan, and Six-tailed White Fox.
• Fang Xiao summoned the Void Suppressing Sword, which engaged the Golden Mane Roar, while he used the Void Cutter Sword to tear open space.
• Thunder Luan and the Six-tailed White Fox attacked Fang Xiao, but he dispelled the fox’s illusion with his Sword Intent Domain and trapped Thunder Luan with the Thunder Controlling Sign and Primordial Magnetic Force.
• Fang Xiao located the approaching Six-tailed White Fox and turned to face it.

Fang Xiao trapped the Six-tailed White Fox with the Void Slaying Sword Formation after discovering its ability to shift between void and reality. He identified that the technique drained the fox’s cultivation, while the Golden Mane Roar and Thunder Luan pleaded for him to spare it.

• Fang Xiao struck at the Six-tailed White Fox with the Nascent Soul Dao Sword, but the fox turned intangible and evaded the attack.
• Fang Xiao formed the Void Slaying Sword Formation, surrounding the fox with hundreds of sword lights to overwhelm its shifting technique.
• The Golden Mane Roar and Thunder Luan promised to cooperate if Fang Xiao spared the fox, but he ignored them and tightened the formation.
• Fang Xiao noticed that the fox’s six tails grew more illusory each time it shifted between void and reality, revealing that the technique consumed its cultivation.
• The Six-tailed White Fox repeatedly used illusion and charm techniques against Fang Xiao to disrupt him and buy time for the other demons to intervene.

Fang Xiao captured the Six-tailed White Fox and escaped the Golden Mane Roar and Thunder Luan by translocating underground. Hidden in the Mobile Spirit Mansion, he discovered that his Sword Seal could only support one translocation because the Void Cutter Sword lacked sufficient power, and concluded that he needed to raise it to Spirit Treasure level.

• Fang Xiao overwhelmed the Six-tailed White Fox with the Void Slaying Sword Formation, sealed her, and stored her in the Mobile Spirit Mansion.
• The Golden Mane Roar tried to reach Fang Xiao, but the Void Suppressing Sword held him back as the Thunder Controlling Sign began to crack.
• Fang Xiao translocated to the hidden realm's exit and escaped, while the Golden Mane Roar and Thunder Luan pursued him and found no trace of him outside.
• The Thunder Luan guessed Fang Xiao was heading toward the Eastern Domain, and it and the Golden Mane Roar split up to search for him.
• Fang Xiao used a Sword Seal to translocate underground instead, concealed his presence, and entered the Mobile Spirit Mansion.
• Fang Xiao determined that the Sword Seal lost its worldly primordial energy because the Void Cutter Sword was not powerful enough, and decided he needed to make it a Spirit Treasure.

Fang Xiao interrogated Bai Ling after capturing her, learning why she and the other demons had gathered at the Thunder Luan’s nest. He then asked what had happened to the Central Plains Royal Court.

• Fang Xiao considered how the Void Cutter Sword could advance into a Spirit Treasure and put it away before approaching the imprisoned fox demon.
• Fang Xiao exposed Bai Ling’s feigned unconsciousness and threatened her with the Sun Devouring Mastiff’s hide to make her cooperate.
• Fang Xiao attempted to search Bai Ling’s soul but found that her clan’s Secret Art blocked his Spiritual Sense.
• Bai Ling identified herself and explained that she had come with Heaven’s Wrath and Lan Ying because the Sun Devouring Mastiff had fallen and Lan Ying had been close to it.
• Bai Ling realized Fang Xiao had been targeting Lan Ying, and Fang Xiao asked her what had happened to the Central Plains Royal Court.