Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao realized the Void Anomaly was likely a damaged grotto-heaven that had gained a spirit and controlled an incomplete Dao Track Projection. He decided to capture and study it rather than kill it, and used the Sword Nurturing Gourd to draw it in.

• Fang Xiao concluded that the Void Anomaly's opening resembled a grotto-heaven gateway and speculated that the creature was a damaged grotto-heaven with a Dao Track Projection.
• Fang Xiao reasoned that the anomaly had spirit but no intelligence and chose to keep it alive in hopes of restoring its grotto-heaven and completing the space Dao Track Projection.
• Fang Xiao summoned the Sword Nurturing Gourd, which had fused with his small world and grown far more durable.
• Fang Xiao approached the Void Anomaly and tossed the Sword Nurturing Gourd toward it, watching as the creature opened its mouth to devour the gourd.

Fang Xiao captured the Void Anomaly and Origin Fiery Demon Peak in his small world, then planned to focus on cultivation and use Origin Fiery Demon Peak’s Dao Track Projection to upgrade the Void Suppressing Sword. In the Taichang Realm, Spirit Transformation cultivators confirmed the Ruins of the Underworld and began planning how to forge three Half-step Dao Artifacts without destabilizing the realm.

• Fang Xiao pulled the Void Anomaly into the Sword Nurturing Gourd and kept it unharmed in his small world, where Origin Fiery Demon Peak had already been collected.
• Fang Xiao decided to remain mostly in his small world, send Dao soldiers to hunt escaped True Demons, and use Origin Fiery Demon Peak’s Dao Track Projection to try to upgrade the Void Suppressing Sword.
• Spirit Transformation cultivators from the major factions gathered before the Ruins of the Underworld and confirmed their state to estimate how much longer the Taichang Realm could endure.
• Ling Taichu ended the factions’ discussion of the Royal Court and urged them to settle preparations for the future.
• The cultivators agreed to prioritize forging three Half-step Dao Artifacts, and Tian Yue revealed that the process required more earth veins than a single domain contained.
• The cultivators proposed distributing the burden across the domains and seas, with the Southern Wilderness bearing a greater share.

After the factions agreed to gather earth veins so Tian Yue could refine Half-step Dao Artifacts, Tian Yue returned to the Yuetian Sect and explained why Fang Xiao had left them with only one of the Five Divine Peaks. Yu Feng, resentful of their loss and Fang Xiao’s power, ended the chapter by pointing out that the Taichang Realm suppressed sixth-rank methods and Dao Artifacts.

• Tian Yue promised to refine Half-step Dao Artifacts once the factions gathered the required materials, and the factions divided up the earth-vein tasks.
• Tian Yue and the other Yuetian Sect members returned to the sect and held a private meeting in the discussion hall.
• The Yuetian Sect members challenged Tian Yue over why they had kept only one of the Five Divine Peaks, and he said he could not refuse Fang Xiao because of his Void Refinement methods.
• Tian Yue explained that Fang Xiao had weakened the Yuetian Sect to prevent it from rivaling the Tianlan Sect, while creating more factions to balance power.
• Yu Feng grew sinister and reminded Tian Yue that the Taichang Realm suppressed sixth-rank methods and Dao Artifacts.

Yu Feng persuaded the other Yuetian Sect cultivators to consider killing Fang Xiao and seizing his Dao Artifact and secrets, while Tian Yue agreed only to assess the opportunity and ordered preparations for the sect's possible defeat. Meanwhile, Ling Taichu and the others returned to the Tianlan Sect and faced the need to abandon the Eastern Domain, leaving them reluctant but resolved to preserve their people.

• Yu Feng urged Tian Yue and the other Yuetian Sect cultivators to kill Fang Xiao while he was in the Taichang Realm and claim the Five Divine Peaks, his secrets, and the lower realm planes.
• The other two cultivators agreed to gamble on the plan, and Tian Yue allowed it to be considered while ordering secrecy, obedience to his judgment, and preparations to preserve the sect's descendants if it failed.
• Ling Taichu and the others returned to the Tianlan Sect through the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association's teleportation array and looked over the Eastern Domain.
• Chen Zhongsheng lamented that the Tianlan Sect had to leave the territory and home it had regained, while his companions insisted the sect endured wherever its people remained.

Ling Taichu assigned the Spirit Transformation cultivators to extract earth veins while also collecting spirit veins for Fang Xiao. In the small world, Fang Xiao destroyed Origin Fiery Demon Peak as he prepared to advance the Void Suppressing Sword.

• Ling Taichu sent Li Qingyun and Peng Gan to extract the Extreme North Ice Plains' earth veins, while other cultivators took responsibility for the East Sea and Eastern Domain.
• Yi Tianhe questioned whether the Yuetian Sect might break its promise, but Ling Taichu said Fang Xiao had made foolproof preparations.
• Ling Taichu distributed Spirit Caskets and revealed that Fang Xiao had ordered them to collect spirit veins along with earth veins.
• The cultivators discussed how Fang Xiao could gather most of the Taichang Realm's spirit veins and then departed for their assigned regions.
• Fang Xiao used Dao Slaying power to erase Origin Fiery Demon Peak's artifact spirit and Divine Restriction, reducing it to a material carrying part of a Dao Track Projection.

Fang Xiao watched as the Void Suppressing Sword adapted its suppression divine ability to the Dao Track Projection inside Origin Fiery Demon Peak, allowing the two to resonate and join together. The Dao Track Projection accepted the sword, setting it on course to refine the projection and advance into a Half-step Dao Artifact.

• Fang Xiao recalled the Nascent Soul Dao Sword after it cleared the shattered artifact spirit from Origin Fiery Demon Peak.
• The Void Suppressing Sword struck Origin Fiery Demon Peak but could not pierce its defense, which the Dao Track Projection had activated.
• The Void Suppressing Sword adjusted its suppressive power until it resonated with the peak's suppression divine ability.
• The Void Suppressing Sword pierced Origin Fiery Demon Peak, and the Dao Track Projection accepted it.
• Fang Xiao realized that the sword could refine the Dao Track Projection because their Dao and Principle had become compatible.

After drawing inspiration from Zhenkong Sword’s advancement, Fang Xiao decided to begin refining the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Track while cultivating in the small world. He settled on Earth Star with fifth-tier Spirit Veins and Spirit Milk, leaving the Void Anomaly imprisoned for now.

• Fang Xiao decided to leave the Void Anomaly imprisoned while Zhenkong Sword advanced and the Dao soldiers hunted True Demons.
• Fang Xiao stopped observing Zhenkong Sword and traveled to Earth Star, where the small world’s Dao Tracks greatly enhanced his abilities.
• Fang Xiao resolved to refine the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Track gradually, avoiding greed and recognizing that his cultivation limited how much he could refine.
• Fang Xiao arrived at the fifth-tier Spirit Veins on Earth Star and gathered the Fifth-Order Spirit Milk produced by his Milk Essence.

After nearly seventy years of secluded cultivation in his small world, Fang Xiao advanced to mid-stage Deity Transformation and continued refining the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Track. He had refined only forty percent of it, but he gained a vast amount of sword light and remained in seclusion, with no Chaos Annihilation Great Tribulation appearing.

• Fang Xiao stood unharmed amid a storm of sword light in the void, drawing the light into his spirit gourd.
• Fang Xiao reflected that time flowed more than three times faster in his small world, making his seclusion last nearly seventy years by the outside calendar.
• Fang Xiao advanced from early-stage to mid-stage Deity Transformation while devoting much of his time to refining the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Track.
• Fang Xiao found the Dao Track far harder to refine than expected and had managed to claim only forty percent of it.
• Fang Xiao regretted that no Chaos Annihilation Great Tribulation had appeared, though he was relieved that his earlier tribulation had helped his small world grow.

Fang Xiao devoured the sword Dao tribulation and gathered its Dao Track power into his small world, then prepared to return to the Taichang Realm after stabilizing his cultivation. He did not know that an earthshaking upheaval was underway there.

• Fang Xiao absorbed the sword Dao tribulation into the Sword Nurturing Gourd, collecting the acquired sword Dao Track in his small world.
• After the tribulation ended, Fang Xiao considered returning to the Taichang Realm to check on the Yuetian Sect, collect spirit veins, and plan to found a sect.
• Fang Xiao recognized that he needed a sixth-order spirit vein to support his powerful mana and future cultivation.
• Fang Xiao drank Spirit Milk Wine and began stabilizing his cultivation, unaware of the upheaval in the Taichang Realm.

Over twenty years, Ling Taichu, Li Fa, and the major powers cleared the Demonic Contamination from the Northern Plains and prepared it for Fang Xiao to establish a sect. With the North Sea nearly cleansed as well, Li Fa asked when Fang Xiao would return so he could recruit promising disciples for him.

• Li Fa supplied Demon-Quelling Artifacts and led the effort to cleanse the Northern Plains, prompting the major powers and cultivators across Taichang Realm to join in.
• The Tianlan Sect organized Demon Purge Missions, offered rewards, and provided discounted or free travel to the Northern Plains and North Sea.
• The cultivators cleared the visible Demonic Contamination in the Northern Plains within ten years and spent five more years removing hidden threats.
• Li Fa organized the realignment of the Northern Plains' spiritual and earth veins and had a mountain gate built for Fang Xiao's future sect.
• Li Fa told Ling Taichu that the North Sea would be cleansed within half a year and asked when Fang Xiao would return so he could find disciples for him.

Li Fa asked Ling Taichu about contacting Fang Xiao and placing a gifted child in his sect, but the conversation turned to the unfinished Half-step Dao Artifact and a sudden disaster in the Central Lands. A vast phenomenon stirred the Ruins of the Underworld, and an earthquake began spreading northward, leaving Ling Taichu and Li Fa facing an unfolding catastrophe.

• Li Fa told Ling Taichu that a Heavenly Spiritual Root had been found and asked whether Fang Xiao had returned or could be contacted.
• Ling Taichu explained that the spiritual veins and Demonic Contamination matters were complete, but the Yuetian Sect had not finished forging the Half-step Dao Artifact.
• Ling Taichu said Yu Feng had confirmed that Tian Yue and two others were secluded and could not say how long the forging would take.
• Ling Taichu and Li Fa both felt a sudden warning from the mind, and Li Fa checked a stream of urgent messages on his communication jade talisman.
• Li Fa reported that a vast phenomenon had appeared in the Central Lands and that the Ruins of the Underworld was rapidly expanding across its Eight Regions.
• Ling Taichu and Li Fa saw the land heaving on the southern horizon as a violent earthquake spread northward and creatures fled across the Northern Plains.

As tremors spread from the Central Lands across the Taichang Realm, Li Fa and Ling Taichu decided to investigate the disaster at its source. The Ruins of the Underworld continued swallowing the Central Lands as fleeing cultivators faced mounting chaos and looting.

• Li Fa and Ling Taichu witnessed the tremors devastate the Northern Plains, though the Mountain Protection Array shielded Fang Xiao's mountain gate.
• Li Fa prepared to hurry to the Central Lands to investigate the disaster threatening the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association, and Ling Taichu agreed to accompany him.
• Ling Taichu left to relay the situation to Fang Xiao, while Li Fa went to activate the transmission array leading to the Central Lands.
• The Ruins of the Underworld expanded to more than twice its previous size, swallowing settlements and trapping those unable to escape.
• Cultivators fled toward the edges of the Central Lands as Bandit Cultivators began looting amid the collapse of the region's remaining powers.

The Ruins of the Underworld and the expanding Sea of Mist threatened to consume the Taichang Realm after its domains fractured and spiritual qi dwindled. At the Yuetian Sect, Tian Yue and the others realized their Five Divine Peaks had amplified the instability, leaving the realm on the brink of collapse.

• The Ruins of the Underworld pulled the Central Lands inward, breaking the Eastern Domain, Southern Wilderness, and Western Desert into islands and fragments.
• Fang Xiao's agents extracted fifth-tier Spirit Veins across the domains, causing spiritual qi to decline and the Sea of Mist to spread into the Four Seas.
• Tian Yue and the other three examined the Five Divine Peaks, which they had refined into five linked Half-step Dao Artifacts.
• Yu Feng blamed the crisis on their haste, while the others recalled that they had skipped treating the earth veins to finish the peaks before Fang Xiao returned.
• The untreated earth veins remained connected to the landmasses, and the Five Divine Peaks amplified that connection, triggering the domains' upheaval, the Ruins of the Underworld's eruption, and the Sea of Mist's expansion.

The Yuetian Sect’s leaders planned to use the newly refined Five Divine Peaks to suppress the Ruins of the Underworld and lure Fang Xiao into the Taichang Realm. Fang Xiao recognized that the Five Divine Peaks had caused the strange phenomenon above the Ruins, but he had not yet learned the sect’s full plan.

• Tian Yue accepted that the Yuetian Sect would have to fight Fang Xiao and asked Yu Feng to devise their next steps.
• Yu Feng proposed that the four leaders train with the Five Divine Peaks while using them to suppress the Ruins of the Underworld and slow the Taichang Realm’s collapse.
• Yu Feng and the others planned to use the Ruins as leverage against Fang Xiao, lure him into the Taichang Realm, and retreat or deny responsibility if their scheme failed.
• The Six Energies Dao Soldier reached the skies above the Ruins after receiving news from Ling Taichu and observed a phenomenon that carried the flavor of Dao Track power.
• Fang Xiao deduced that the newly refined Five Divine Peaks had caused the phenomenon, since a Half-step Dao Artifact could not naturally arise in a lower realm like the Taichang Realm.

Fang Xiao hurried back toward the Taichang Realm, relying on the Void Suppressing Sword to confront the Ruins of the Underworld while worrying that it would devour the Central Lands and their resources. After the Five Divine Peaks’ celestial phenomenon vanished, one of the peaks struck toward the Ruins of the Underworld, and Fang Xiao pulled his senses away to avoid risking his Dao Soldiers.

• Fang Xiao judged that the Six Energies Dao Soldier could not suppress the Ruins of the Underworld without risking its power being devoured and strengthening the disaster.
• Fang Xiao relied on the Void Suppressing Sword’s advanced refinement and the cooperation of its spirit as the source of his confidence that he could suppress the Ruins of the Underworld.
• Fang Xiao rushed back to the Taichang Realm, fearing the Ruins of the Underworld would consume the Central Lands and the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association’s resources before he arrived.
• The five-colored clouds dispersed, and Fang Xiao concluded that Tian Yue and the others had brought the Five Divine Peaks under control.
• One of the Five Divine Peaks appeared as a towering mountain phantom and sped toward the Ruins of the Underworld.
• Fang Xiao withdrew his senses beyond the Ruins of the Underworld as the mountain phantom descended upon it.

Fang Xiao watched the Ruins of the Underworld resist the Five Divine Peaks and feared it would devour them. Tian Yue and the others brought in three peaks, halting the calamity for now, though the lost regions remained gone and the Sea of Mist continued to expand.

• Fang Xiao saw the Ruins of the Underworld contract beneath one divine peak, then erupt and lift the mountain phantom into the air.
• A second divine peak joined the fight, and the two phantoms merged to crush the black pillar back into the Ruins of the Underworld.
• Tian Yue and the others brought forth a third divine peak, combining the three peaks' power to silence and halt the Ruins of the Underworld.
• Fang Xiao noted that the three shattered regions could not be restored and that the Sea of Mist continued expanding, with more than half of the Extreme North Ice Plains already lost.

After the Five Divine Peaks suppressed the Ruins of the Underworld, Ling Taichu and Li Fa returned to their respective plans, with Li Fa accelerating the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association’s relocation. The Yuetian Sect celebrated its success and began preparing to wield two divine peaks at once so it could kill Fang Xiao.

• Ling Taichu and Li Fa learned that the Yuetian Sect had used the Five Divine Peaks to suppress the Ruins of the Underworld, then parted ways to return to their duties.
• Li Fa contacted Zi Xun and began the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association’s relocation plan, starting with its resource sites in the Central Lands.
• Tian Yue proposed pairing the Yuetian Sect’s cultivators to wield two divine peaks, hoping to overpower Fang Xiao.
• Yu Feng supported Tian Yue’s plan and declared he was willing to risk harming his cultivation foundation to kill Fang Xiao.
• Tian Yue and the others formed pairs and began practicing with the divine peaks.

Fang Xiao returned to Taichang Realm to reclaim control of the Five Divine Peaks and secure its resources, especially the Nine Heavens, before Yuetian Sect could threaten his rule. After the Seven Souls Sword Artifacts rejoined him, he headed straight for Yuetian Sect, unaware that the sect was waiting to deal with him.

• Fang Xiao sensed the fading aura of King Gan near Taichang Realm but chose not to pursue him.
• Fang Xiao entered Taichang Realm and decided to reclaim the Five Divine Peaks and hand the task of suppressing the Ruins of the Underworld to Zhenkong.
• Fang Xiao crossed the Nine Heavens, which the Six Energies Dao Soldier controlled, and considered how its divine gang qi could support his forces and incentivize other realms to fight the Devil Race.
• The Seven Souls Sword Artifacts left the Nine Heavens and merged into Fang Xiao.
• Fang Xiao continued toward Yuetian Sect, where its members were already waiting to deal with him.

Fang Xiao arrived at the Yuetian Sect seeking the method to command the Five Divine Peaks, while Tian Yue and the others prepared to ambush him. After testing the peaks, they drank Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to restore their strength before meeting Fang Xiao.

• Fang Xiao reached the Yuetian Sect's closed mountain gate and asked its disciples to summon Tian Yue.
• Tian Yue, Yu Feng, and two other cultivators tested the Five Divine Peaks in the sect's grotto-heaven, shaking its space with their power.
• Tian Yue gave each of the other three a drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and told them Fang Xiao had arrived.
• Tian Yue and the others agreed to lure Fang Xiao into the protective grand formation and kill him with the peaks' power.
• The four cultivators drank the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk to restore their spiritual power before facing Fang Xiao.

Fang Xiao visited the Yuetian Sect to claim the promised Divine Peaks, but Tian Yue led him into a trap. The chapter ended with Yu Feng and the others activating two Half-step Dao Artifacts against Fang Xiao and demanding the secrets he carried.

• Fang Xiao waited outside the Yuetian Sect until Tian Yue appeared and explained that the sect's leaders had been in seclusion.
• Tian Yue led Fang Xiao into the sect and promised to let him see the Five Divine Peaks.
• Fang Xiao realized they had entered a formation, and Tian Yue vanished as mountain masses closed in around him.
• Tian Yue revealed that he intended to let Fang Xiao witness the Five Divine Peaks' power, while Fang Xiao used the Azure Cloud Dharma Aspect to resist the formation's pressure.
• Tian Yue and the others activated two phantom Divine Peaks on either side of Fang Xiao.
• Yu Feng mocked Fang Xiao, declared they would kill him, and demanded the secrets he carried in exchange for sparing his divine soul.