Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao helped Xiao Yan recover after Du Yuan’s men attacked him, then brought the attackers to the Enforcement Hall and learned the suspected mastermind was connected to the powerful Du Family. After returning to the sect, Fang Xiao collected Xiao Yan’s Spirit Feeding Pills, while the Du Family Patriarch ordered his people to leave Fang Xiao alone for now.

• Fang Xiao reassured Xiao Yan, crippled the cultivation of the six attackers, and joined Yan Tingyun in taking them to Linyuan City for the Enforcement Hall.
• Fang Xiao and Yan Tingyun learned that the disciple surnamed Du might belong to the Du Family, a clan that controlled two peaks and had two Nascent Soul Realm ancestors.
• The Enforcement Hall took the six men back to the sect and said it would notify the involved parties after investigating; Yan Tingyun then departed to enter seclusion.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Fang Xiao, promised to cultivate diligently, and gave him the Spirit Feeding Pills he had refined.
• Fang Xiao returned to the sect by teleportation and asked Yan Tingyun to look after Xiao Yan.
• The Du Family Patriarch blamed Du Yuan for leaving evidence behind, while a young cultivator promised to advance the family’s standing and was told not to target Fang Xiao for now.

Fang Xiao received the Essence of Five Metals from Ling Taichu, who warned him not to rush into turning his Great White Sword Pellet into a Magic Treasure. After refining the five metals into the pellet, Fang Xiao reverse-refined Taibai Refined Gold, leaving him with a sword weapon that could devour spirit metal and improve itself.

• Fang Xiao returned to Heavenly Outer Peak, where Qing Feng gave him pills and told him that Ling Taichu was waiting in the hall.
• Ling Taichu gave Fang Xiao sword-path insights and the Essence of Five Metals, then cautioned him against inscribing an Earth Fiend Restriction before he could bear a Magic Treasure's burden.
• Fang Xiao agreed to focus on cultivation, settled Maoqiu in the Spirit Beast Room, and began refining the five metals into his Great White Sword Pellet.
• Fang Xiao used the Taibai Sword Art and Taibai Soaring Sword Canon to refine the metals, reverse-refining a trace of Taibai Refined Gold and completing the Sword Pellet.
• Fang Xiao tested the completed Sword Pellet, which destroyed a magical artifact and absorbed its spirit metal, revealing that it could devour metal to improve its quality.

After two years of secluded cultivation, Fang Xiao reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and strengthened his spiritual power, body, and Spiritual Sense. With one year remaining until the Taibai Ruins opened, he planned to travel toward Golden Jade City and visit his father after nearly six years away.

• Fang Xiao practiced controlling his Sword Pellet and continued nurturing it in his dantian.
• Fang Xiao began cultivating with the Taibai Soaring Sword Canon and Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture operating together, using a Heavenly Star Pill to aid his progress.
• Over two years, Fang Xiao reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, brewed Foundation Establishment spirit wine and Second-Order Monkey Wine, and advanced the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture.
• Fang Xiao increased his Spiritual Sense range to four hundred meters and considered seeking a spiritual material to unite his Soul Nurturing Gourd and Nascent Soul Dao Sword.
• Fang Xiao planned to search for clues about the spiritual material at the Taibai Ruins and travel to Golden Jade City to visit his father.

Fang Xiao left Heavenly Outer Peak for the Taibai Ruins after his Master warned him about the powerful sword cultivators he might face. Before setting out, he checked on Xiao Yan and Fatty Han, then began his journey toward Golden Jade City.

• Fang Xiao told Ling Taichu he was leaving for the Taibai Ruins, and Ling Taichu warned him about rival sword cultivators and promised to wait outside the ruins.
• Qing Feng gave Fang Xiao a Storage Bag of pills, and Fang Xiao left Heavenly Outer Peak while reflecting on his progress toward Sword Light Differentiation.
• Fang Xiao learned that Xiao Yan had returned to the Outer Court to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Xiao reassured Fatty Han, promised to provide a Foundation Establishment Pill if he reached the Qi Refining Peak within two years, and left the pill with Yan Tingyun.
• Fang Xiao chose a teleportation array near Golden Jade City and set out on his Road Home.

Fang Xiao returned to Golden Jade City, reunited with his father, and arranged for his family and household to relocate to Xundao City. After the Cross-Domain Flying Boat carried them away, he prepared to leave for Donghua Prefecture.

• Fang Xiao reached Golden Jade City and returned to Fang Manor, where Steward Liu recognized him and brought him to Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan embraced Fang Xiao, and the two caught up before Fang Xiao offered to move him and the household to an immortal city.
• Fang Xiao and Fang Yuan decided that willing servants could bring their immediate families, and Steward Liu counted more than a hundred people who planned to go.
• Fang Xiao turned away most visitors and dismissed the resentment of Zheng Daoxing's father, whose aura seemed unusual to him.
• Lu Baichuan arrived with the sect's Cross-Domain Flying Boat and transported Fang Yuan and the others to Xundao City.
• Fang Xiao remained in the courtyard and prepared to set off for Donghua Prefecture.

Fang Xiao secretly investigated City Lord Zheng and discovered that Zheng Xiu was aiding an injured Blood River Sect demon cultivator with a blood pool and a murderous array. Fang Xiao’s surprise attack wounded the demon cultivator, who activated the Eight Fiends Blood Refining Array to fight back.

• Fang Xiao used the Breath Severing Technique to slip back into Golden Jade City and discovered a concealed array beneath the City Lord’s Mansion’s ornamental lake.
• Fang Xiao entered a hidden chamber and found eight drained corpses, a blood pool, and an injured demon cultivator healing inside it.
• Zheng Xiu knelt before his master and revealed plans to use people in his manor, and eventually the city’s residents, as blood meals.
• Fang Xiao attacked the demon cultivator with his Great White Sword Pellet, piercing his shoulder after the array’s pillars disrupted the strike.
• The demon cultivator recognized Fang Xiao as a Sword Cultivator and activated the Eight Fiends Blood Refining Array to trap him.

Fang Xiao destroyed Peng Kai’s array, killed him after pursuing his escape, and used Soul Searching to uncover how he crossed the Gale Belt. He then killed Zheng Xiu and headed for a Sha Pit in the Gale Belt to investigate its five-colored Killing Intent.

• Fang Xiao shattered a stone pillar before Peng Kai could activate the Eight Fiends Blood Refining Array, forcing Peng Kai to flee.
• Fang Xiao caught and killed Peng Kai, then performed Soul Searching and learned about Peng Kai’s past, his escape through the Gale Belt, and the Nameless Spirit Jade.
• Fang Xiao discovered that Peng Kai had deceived Zheng Xiu and intended to kill him; Fang Xiao killed Zheng Xiu for threatening his father.
• Fang Xiao left Golden Jade City and traveled toward a Sha Pit that Peng Kai had seen in the Gale Belt.
• Fang Xiao planned to inspect the Sha Pit’s five-colored Killing Intent, hoping it might be Five Elements True Malevolence.

Fang Xiao crossed the Gale Belt, survived a spatial rift that tore his clothes and wounded him, and reached the five-colored Sha Pit. Unable to enter through the surrounding gale winds safely, he used the Four Spirits Soaring Array to draw them away and began rushing toward the pit.

• Fang Xiao sensed the gale winds growing stronger and used the Nameless Spirit Jade to detect spatial rifts as he traveled deeper into the Gale Belt.
• Fang Xiao tested a spatial rift with a magic artifact, then narrowly escaped a moving rift and was badly cut by the gale winds.
• Fang Xiao took shelter in a pit, treated his wounds, and continued carefully until he reached the Sha Pit after twenty-two days.
• Fang Xiao decided to draw the gale winds away with the Four Spirits Soaring Array and prepared the array opposite the Sha Pit.
• Fang Xiao activated the array, waited for the gale winds to surge toward it, then transformed into a rainbow and raced toward the Sha Pit.

Fang Xiao escaped the gale winds by taking shelter in the Sha Pit, where he discovered Five Elements True Malevolence hidden in a pile of bone powder. After five months of refining it, he advanced his cultivation technique and gained the Five Elements True Light, leaving him closer to forming his desired divine ability.

• Fang Xiao fled the gale winds and escaped into the Sha Pit just before they reached him.
• Fang Xiao found a five-colored barrier surrounding white bone powder and discovered that Five Elements spiritual power could pass through it.
• Fang Xiao drew out the powder and confirmed that it contained Five Elements True Malevolence.
• Fang Xiao stayed in the Sha Pit to gather and refine the Five Elements True Malevolence while cultivating.
• Five months later, Fang Xiao refined the final strand, advanced the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture to the middle stage of its second level, and gained the Five Elements True Light.

Fang Xiao left the Gale Belt with Five Elements True Malevolence and Killing Intent, then traveled to Tianhai Marketplace near Pillar of Heaven Peak to prepare for the Taibai Ruins. After learning from Ling Taichu that Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale appeared only in the Arctic Land, he planned to seek it after his Taibai trip.

• Fang Xiao escaped the Sha Pit using the Five Elements Reversal Array and found that his Five Elements True Light weakened the gale winds as he fled.
• Fang Xiao returned through the Gale Belt in fewer than twenty days, stored the remaining bone powder, and traveled toward Tianyun City.
• Fang Xiao reached Tianhai Marketplace after discovering that Donghua Prefecture had no teleportation arrays or immortal cities.
• Fang Xiao spent more than four months searching the Nine Heavens for Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale but found none.
• Fang Xiao asked Ling Taichu for guidance, and Ling Taichu told him the Divine Gale appeared periodically in the Arctic Land north of the North Sea.
• Fang Xiao agreed to seek the Arctic Land after the Taibai trip and promised not to miss the Taibai Ruins opening.

Fang Xiao prepared for the Taibai Ruins, gathered supplies in Tianhai Marketplace, and learned that East Sea Sword Cultivator Li Chunyun would enter the ruins. After comparing their sword intents, Fang Xiao left for Pillar of Heaven Peak to await the ruins’ opening.

• Fang Xiao planned to seek Sword Fiend in the Taibai Ruins, then pursue cultivation goals including forming Divine Ability Seeds and reaching the False Core stage.
• Fang Xiao spent a month in Tianhai Marketplace, observing East Sea cultivators and buying spirit mines to feed his Great White Sword Pellet.
• Fang Xiao sensed two powerful Sword Cultivators fighting as they raced past the marketplace, then went to the Eight Treasures Tower to learn their identities.
• A cultivator surnamed Liu identified the wielder of the green sword light as Li Chunyun of the Qingyun Sword Sect, who possessed a Taibai Token and had reached Sword Energy Turns into Rainbow.
• Fang Xiao judged both fighters’ sword intents and Sword Dao Realms inferior to his own, then ended his lease and flew toward Pillar of Heaven Peak.

Fang Xiao rescued Xie Ling from pursuers near Pillar of Heaven Peak and confronted a red-robed cultivator before the spatial rifts closed. He entered the Taibai Ruins, while Xie Ling stayed behind to explore the outer regions.

• Fang Xiao received a distress signal from a fellow Tianlan Sect disciple and flew to rescue her.
• Fang Xiao killed the pursuer threatening Xie Ling, then faced a red-robed cultivator whose killing intent was overwhelmed by Fang Xiao’s sword intent.
• The spatial rifts around Pillar of Heaven Peak closed, opening the way into the ancient Taibai Sword Sect.
• The red-robed cultivator fled into Pillar of Heaven Peak, and Xie Ling told Fang Xiao that the pursuers belonged to the Qisha Sword Sect.
• Fang Xiao entered the Taibai Ruins with his Taibai Token, while Xie Ling remained to explore the outer regions.

Fang Xiao reached the Taibai Sword Sect ruins and raced Wei Jingxian up Pillar of Heaven Peak before they encountered a barrier of Sword Qi. Wei Jingxian shared a list of formidable Sword Cultivators they had encountered, leaving Fang Xiao aware that many powerful rivals were gathering at the ruins.

• Fang Xiao explored the ruined mountain gate and climbed Pillar of Heaven Peak, passing empty floating islands as he searched for the Inner Sect and its Sword Mound.
• Wei Jingxian's sword light passed Fang Xiao, and the two competed in speed without attacking as they flew toward the summit.
• Fang Xiao and Wei Jingxian reached an endless Sword Qi Storm barrier and introduced themselves, identifying their respective sects.
• Fang Xiao asked Wei Jingxian about other Sword Cultivators, and Wei Jingxian handed him a Jade Slip listing several powerful rivals.
• Fang Xiao read that Qing Hong had reached Sword Light Differentiation and realized he had underestimated the strength of the other Sword Cultivators.

Fang Xiao entered the ruined Taibai Sword Sect Inner Sect and used his Primordial Sword Body to locate the Sword Mound Cave Heaven. He found a vast resting place filled with the bonded swords of generations of Taibai Sword Sect disciples.

• Fang Xiao declined Wei Jingxian's challenge and entered the Sword Qi Storm with a Taibai Token.
• Fang Xiao reached the desolate Inner Sect and sensed countless swords scattered around Pillar of Heaven Peak.
• Fang Xiao collected more than a hundred ownerless flying swords as he searched for the Sword Mound.
• Fang Xiao followed a concentration of sword lights beyond Pillar of Heaven Peak and discovered a hidden space.
• Fang Xiao entered the Cave Heaven and saw the countless bonded swords preserved as the Sword Mound.

Fang Xiao reached the Sword Mound’s center and spoke with Zhenkong, the spirit of the Void Suppressing Sword, learning about the Taibai Sword Sect’s destruction and the treasures kept there. He obtained a Sword Fiend and learned that passing the Suspended Sword Tower trial could grant him a True Disciple token, allowing him to claim another treasure.

• Fang Xiao discovered that his Primordial Sword Body let him control swords within the Sword Mound, then found that the central Sword Stele was a Spirit Treasure.
• Zhenkong questioned Fang Xiao about his connection to the Taibai Sword Sect, and Fang Xiao explained that the sect had been destroyed tens of thousands of years earlier.
• Zhenkong revealed that the Sword Mound had been nurturing Sword Fiends and another treasure for the sect’s disciples.
• Zhenkong told Fang Xiao that a True Disciple token could be earned by passing the Suspended Sword Tower trial and shared its activation incantation.
• Fang Xiao accepted the Sword Fiend and learned that Zhenkong helped him because the Taibai Ancestor had also possessed the Primordial Sword Body.

Fang Xiao learned from the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit that the Killing Intent was the rare Myriad Sword True Fiend and received guidance on how it might work with his Nine Heavens Divine Fiend Sword Light. He left the Sword Mound to seek the Suspended Sword Tower before the Taibai Sword Sect closed.

• Fang Xiao asked the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit to identify the Sword Fiend, and it named it the Myriad Sword True Fiend.
• Fang Xiao shared the Taibai Soaring Sword Canon and Nine Heavens Divine Fiend Sword Light method with the sword spirit for review.
• The Void Suppressing Sword Spirit explained that combining the Myriad Sword True Fiend with all nine kinds of Gang Qi could let the divine ability evolve many sword-path techniques, but warned that the Gang Qi might conflict.
• Fang Xiao decided to seek his Master's help with the conflict after leaving Taibai and asked the sword spirit where to find the Suspended Sword Tower.
• Fang Xiao thanked the sword spirit, left the Sword Mound, and flew toward the higher levels of Pillar of Heaven Peak.

Fang Xiao interrupted the siege of Wei Jingxian, killed one Law Cultivator in a single exchange, and joined Wei against the three remaining attackers. After the surviving men threatened them, Fang Xiao unleashed the swords he had collected on them.

• Fang Xiao sensed Wei Jingxian fighting Lu Wusheng, another Sword Cultivator, and two Law Cultivators, and hurried to help him.
• One Law Cultivator flew to intercept Fang Xiao, but Fang Xiao used the Five Elements True Light and Great White Sword Pellet to defeat him and destroy his soul.
• Fang Xiao returned to Wei Jingxian, who was badly wounded, while his Great White Sword Pellet forced the remaining three attackers to defend themselves.
• Fang Xiao rejected the Law Cultivator’s threat and sent a sky full of collected flying swords crashing down on the three men.

Fang Xiao killed the four cultivators who had besieged Wei Jingxian and learned they had attacked him to steal his Yang Jing Fruit. Wei Jingxian gave Fang Xiao five bunches of the precious fruit, leaving the rest of his discovery unexplained.

• Fang Xiao used his flying swords to trap Lu Wusheng and another cultivator while pursuing Gao Tianyang.
• Gao Tianyang sacrificed his left foot to activate Blood Shadow Sword Evasion, but Fang Xiao disrupted his flying sword and killed him with the Great White Sword Pellet.
• Fang Xiao’s flying swords crushed Lu Wusheng and the other cultivator, killing all four attackers.
• Fang Xiao collected the cultivators’ Storage Bags and asked Wei Jingxian why they had attacked him.
• Wei Jingxian said they wanted to rob him, showed Fang Xiao the Yang Jing Fruit, and gave him five bunches.

Fang Xiao activated the Suspended Sword Tower and learned the requirements and rewards for the three stages of the True Inheritance Assessment. Seeking a chance to enter the Taibai Sword Sect’s main hall, he entered the Assessment Realm and faced the first stage’s opponent.

• Fang Xiao exchanged communication jade talismans with the injured Wei Jingxian, who then left to seek a place to heal.
• Fang Xiao reached the damaged Suspended Sword Tower and used the Void Suppressing Sword Spirit’s incantation to transfer its light into his Taibai Token.
• Fang Xiao learned that passing the second assessment stage would let him claim a rare resource, while passing the third could grant access to the sect’s main hall.
• Fang Xiao activated the Taibai Token, opened the Assessment Realm, and entered after setting warning talismans.
• Fang Xiao stood on the assessment platform as a same-level opponent appeared before him for the first stage.

Fang Xiao fought through the first three stages of the Taibai True Inheritance Assessment, defeating two projections and beginning a difficult duel with a False Core opponent. He discovered that his Great White Sword Pellet could weaken Ma San’s flying sword, but the third battle remained unresolved.

• Fang Xiao defeated the first Mosaic projection with his Great White Sword Pellet and stayed in the arena to continue the assessment.
• Fang Xiao outmaneuvered the second projection, Ma Er, trapping its flying sword with sword light before splitting Ma Er in two.
• Fang Xiao ignored the exit gateway again and received a full restoration of his spiritual power before the third stage began.
• Fang Xiao faced Ma San, whose cultivation had reached the False Core stage and whose perfected Sword Energy Turns into Rainbow nearly matched the speed of his Sword Pellet.
• Fang Xiao sent sword light against Ma San while his Great White Sword Pellet attacked its flying sword, and he noticed that the opposing weapon dimmed upon impact.