Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao revealed the Void Suppressing Sword, a Half-step Dao Artifact, when Tian Yue and the other Yuetian Sect members tried to trap him with two divine peaks. The sword drove back one peak, but the other reached Fang Xiao as the four pressed their attack.

• Tian Yue and the other three Yuetian Sect members used the Taichang Realm to restrain Fang Xiao and aimed to seize his secrets and Dao Artifact.
• Fang Xiao produced the Void Suppressing Sword, shocking Yu Feng and the others and forcing aside the Yuetian Sect's protective formation.
• Tian Yue steadied the group with their backup plan, and Fang Xiao sent the sword to intercept one of the two divine peaks.
• The Void Suppressing Sword overpowered the divine peak, whose controller warned that it could not hold out for long.
• Tian Yue and Yu Feng drove the other divine peak toward Fang Xiao, bringing it within moments of crushing him.

Fang Xiao used his Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate dharma manifestation to stop the Yuetian Sect’s Divine Peak phantom and destroy the sect’s last chance to defeat him. With the Void Suppressing Sword gone and Yu Feng laughing despite the sect’s collapse, Fang Xiao waited to hear what he would do next.

• Fang Xiao’s Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate stopped the Divine Peak phantom, and Tian Yue recognized the manifestation’s power as coming from a genuine Dao Track.
• Yu Feng rejected Fang Xiao’s strength and blamed fate for giving Fang Xiao what he wanted for himself.
• The Divine Peak crushed its two Spirit Transformation controllers, and the Void Suppressing Sword stored the Half-step Dao Artifact before breaking the Yuetian Sect’s protective formation and flying away.
• Tian Yue collapsed in despair as he realized the Yuetian Sect had been destroyed, while Yu Feng began laughing wildly.
• Fang Xiao watched Yu Feng, who asked whether Fang Xiao really thought he had won.

Tian Yue begged Fang Xiao to spare the Yuetian Sect, but Yu Feng demonized and attacked him, stealing and devouring his Nascent Soul. Tian Yue died, leaving Yu Feng transformed by demonic power and the sect’s fate unresolved.

• Tian Yue knelt before Fang Xiao and offered everything the Yuetian Sect possessed in exchange for preserving its lineage.
• Yu Feng condemned Tian Yue for abandoning the sect’s dignity, then stabbed him and tore out his Nascent Soul.
• Tian Yue recognized that Yu Feng had fallen to demonhood, unaware that True Demonic Qi had slowly corrupted him during their practice with the Divine Peaks.
• Yu Feng bit into Tian Yue’s Nascent Soul and devoured it, causing Tian Yue to die.

Yu Feng discovered that devouring Tian Yue’s Nascent Soul had brought him no strength, while Fang Xiao revealed that he had already suppressed the Five Divine Peaks and the Ruins of the Underworld. Yu Feng realized his fall to demonhood had broken his Dao Vow and summoned heavenly punishment, as Fang Xiao destroyed the last divine peak phantom.

• Yu Feng devoured Tian Yue’s Nascent Soul, but the power leaked from his body without strengthening him.
• Yu Feng threatened Fang Xiao with control of the Ruins of the Underworld, but Fang Xiao revealed his Half-step Dao Artifact had suppressed the divine peaks and the ruins.
• Fang Xiao explained that Yu Feng’s fall to demonhood had severed his Dao path because he had sworn not to join the Devil Race.
• Yu Feng remembered his Dao Vow as tribulation clouds gathered above Yuetian Sect, and Fang Xiao chose not to help him survive the punishment.
• Fang Xiao commanded the Primordial Chaos Dao Venerable to slash through the remaining divine peak phantom, making it dissipate.

Fang Xiao took control of the Divine Peak after Yu Feng’s Oath Tribulation killed him, then received the Five Divine Peaks’ wielding method Yu Feng had left behind. He found the Jade Pendant he had sought on Tian Yue and was left considering its resemblance to the Ascension Platform, which also contained an incomplete Dao Track Projection.

• Fang Xiao dispersed the Divine Peak’s phantom with Dao Slaying and took the peak’s true form as Yu Feng watched helplessly.
• Yu Feng died beneath the Oath Tribulation’s single bolt of lightning, kneeling toward Tian Yue and the depths of Yuetian Sect.
• Fang Xiao read Yu Feng’s Jade Slip and obtained the Secret Art for wielding and possibly merging the Five Divine Peaks.
• Fang Xiao searched Tian Yue’s storage artifact and found the Jade Pendant that had sealed a Dao Track Projection.
• Fang Xiao recalled that the Ascension Platform also concealed an incomplete space Dao Track Projection, though it was not equivalent to a Half-step Dao Artifact.

Fang Xiao considered how to repair the Ascension Platform and planned for his journey to the Cold Abyss, but news from the Tianlan Sect interrupted his plans. He met Li Manshan and Jiang Qinyue, assigned them to help manage the Yuetian Sect, and asked after Yuan Chen and Xian Hua.

• Fang Xiao realized the Jade Pendant could fill the Ascension Platform’s missing parts, while the Void Anomaly’s space Dao Track Projection could replace its damaged projection.
• Li Manshan and Jiang Qinyue arrived from the Tianlan Sect, both having reached Spirit Transformation Early Stage, and Li Manshan told Fang Xiao about the sect and the shattered Eastern Domain.
• Fang Xiao explained that Li Manshan and Jiang Qinyue would eventually inherit the Tianlan Sect and left them to decide how to handle the Yuetian Sect.
• Jiang Qinyue promised to keep Li Manshan from acting recklessly, and Fang Xiao asked whether Yuan Chen and Xian Hua had attempted to reach Spirit Transformation.

Fang Xiao learned that Yuan Chen could not advance to Deity Transformation without the Yin-Yang Constitution Reversal Method hidden beneath the Cold Abyss, so he promised to take him there. Li Fa arrived and hinted that something had happened at the Cold Abyss, leaving Fang Xiao eager to hear the details.

• Li Manshan reported that Xian Hua had reached Deity Transformation and returned to the Five Elements Sect to help prepare for Fang Xiao's sect.
• Jiang Qinyue explained that Yuan Chen's unstable Yin-Yang spiritual power prevented him from advancing, and that he had stopped cultivating while awaiting Fang Xiao's return.
• Fang Xiao agreed to take Yuan Chen to the Cold Abyss to obtain the Ancient Ice Dao's Yin-Yang Constitution Reversal Method.
• Li Fa arrived and explained that he had tracked Fang Xiao's return through the Void Suppressing Sword's commotion at the Ruins of the Underworld.
• Fang Xiao apologized for suspecting Li Fa's intelligence network and asked what had happened at the Cold Abyss.

Li Fa explained that Fang Xiao’s extraction of spirit veins had weakened the Four Seas and allowed the Sea of Mist to threaten the Extreme North Ice Plains, complicating Fang Xiao’s planned descent into Cold Abyss. Fang Xiao also considered using the spreading mist to locate the Barren Gu Continent and claim the weakened Giant Bee, then turned to Li Fa to discuss a business deal.

• Li Fa told Fang Xiao that the extraction of spirit veins and the upheaval caused by Yuetian Sect’s Half-step Dao Artifact had weakened the Four Seas and stirred the Sea of Mist.
• Li Fa warned that the Sea of Mist had reached the Extreme North Ice Plains, so Fang Xiao would have to cross a Land of Spiritlessness before entering Cold Abyss.
• Fang Xiao judged that his resources could sustain him through the mist and reasoned that its spread might help him find the Barren Gu Continent and the weakened Giant Bee.
• Fang Xiao sent Li Manshan and the other man to inspect Yuetian Sect and told them to inform Junior Brother Yuan that he would soon meet him in the North Sea.
• Fang Xiao told Li Fa that he wanted to discuss the business deal, and Li Fa wondered what resource Fang Xiao intended to acquire.

Fang Xiao offered a Half-step Dao Artifact to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association in exchange for the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars and other terms. He began outlining three conditions, starting with the association funding all his cultivation needs during the future war against the Devil Race.

• Fang Xiao asked Li Fa whether the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association would sell him the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars.
• Li Fa said Fang Xiao could use the formation as a Guest Elder but would need to offer something of equal value to acquire it.
• Fang Xiao showed Li Fa a Half-step Dao Artifact, one of the Five Divine Peaks, and explained that it had originally been part of a complete Dao Artifact split into five by the Yuetian Sect's patriarch.
• Li Fa warned that the divine peak was worth far more than the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars, but Fang Xiao said the trade would include other conditions.
• Fang Xiao stated his first condition: during the future war against the lower realm of the Devil Race, the association had to provide all the cultivation resources he needed, even if he attempted to reach the Void Refining Stage there.

Fang Xiao negotiated with Li Fa over the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association’s purchase of a Half-step Dao Artifact, demanding vast resources and a promise of support for the Tianlan Three Sects. Li Fa accepted the resource terms but refused to abandon the Association’s neutrality, leaving the final condition unresolved.

• Li Fa eagerly agreed to consider Fang Xiao’s conditions for purchasing a Half-step Dao Artifact.
• Fang Xiao demanded the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association’s Sword Dao and Star Dao inheritances, treasures, and resources, then narrowed the Sword Dao terms to set quantities of treasures and a century of holy-land-level resources.
• Li Fa and Fang Xiao settled on the quantities and delivery schedule, with resources to arrive once every ten years.
• Fang Xiao asked the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association to promise it would stand with the Tianlan Three Sects regardless of future circumstances.
• Li Fa refused, saying the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association could not change its neutral stance.

Fang Xiao and Li Fa finalized a deal to protect the three sects and exchanged support before Li Fa left to prepare for Fang Xiao’s new sect. As Fang Xiao prepared to depart for the Cold Abyss, Li Manshan and Jiang Qinyue arrived with urgent news.

• Li Fa offered to provide a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s combat support to the three sects up to five times, and Fang Xiao accepted.
• Fang Xiao gave Li Fa the Divine Mountain Wielding Method and the spirit veins, while asking him to prepare for the new sect’s establishment.
• Li Fa realized Fang Xiao’s sect would focus on the Sword Dao and Star Dao and planned to seek suitable disciples among the Li Clan’s children.
• Li Fa left Yuetian Sect, and Fang Xiao prepared to travel north to meet Yuan Chen and explore the Taichang Forbidden Land.
• Li Manshan rushed to Fang Xiao with an anxious Jiang Qinyue and warned him that something had happened.

Fang Xiao reached the North Sea and found the Sea of Mist had suddenly swallowed the Extreme North Ice Plains and nearly half the sea, trapping cultivators and stranding Yuan Chen. After collecting the Five Divine Peaks and Yuan Chen's Life-Soul Lamp, he entered the mist to rescue the trapped cultivators and search for Yuan Chen.

• Fang Xiao stopped at the Sea of Mist and learned it had rapidly expanded, trapping cultivators and cutting off their supplies.
• Fang Xiao waited for his two Dao Soldiers, who delivered the Five Divine Peaks and Yuan Chen's Life-Soul Lamp.
• Fang Xiao entered the Sea of Mist holding Yuan Chen's lamp, intending to rescue the trapped cultivators and locate Yuan Chen.
• Fang Xiao found that the mist drained his magic power rapidly and suppressed his Spiritual Sense, making it difficult to navigate.

Fang Xiao tested how the Sea of Mist interacted with spiritual qi and discovered that the Jade of Spiritual Eyes could create a protective space around him. Meanwhile, Yuan Chen fled a deranged Demonic Beast on the Extreme North Ice Plains after the Sea of Mist erupted, and Fang Xiao’s Life-Soul Lamp indicated that he was drawing closer.

• Fang Xiao opened his Spirit Casket slightly, but the Sea of Mist surged toward it and dissolved the spiritual liquid released by the Spirit Veins.
• Fang Xiao tested the Jade of Spiritual Eyes and found that its spiritual qi could hold back the mist and form a protective space as he continued following the Life-Soul Lamp.
• Fang Xiao entered the sheltered space, and the lamp showed that he was getting closer to Yuan Chen.
• At the border of the Extreme North Ice Plains, Yuan Chen fled a deranged Demonic Beast that had attacked him after he escaped a Demonic Contamination region during the Sea of Mist’s sudden eruption.
• Yuan Chen, exhausted and out of magical power, could not shake off the Demonic Beast as it pursued him relentlessly.

Yuan Chen, out of spiritual power and being consumed by Demonic Contamination, chose to fight the crazed demon to the death. Fang Xiao followed Yuan Chen’s weakening Life-Soul Lamp to the Ice Plains, where he found Yuan Chen buried beneath the ice and close to losing his mind.

• Yuan Chen realized that Demonic Contamination was spreading and, despairing of survival, resolved to kill the demon before he died.
• Yuan Chen fought the demon in a savage battle, trading injuries with it until both were buried beneath the shattered ice.
• Fang Xiao sensed Yuan Chen’s Life-Soul Lamp weakening and hurried deeper into the Ice Plains on the Jade of Spiritual Eyes.
• Fang Xiao ordered the Void Cutter Sword to search for Yuan Chen, and it used its spatial power to locate him beneath the ice.
• Yuan Chen lay badly wounded and more than half consumed by Demonic Contamination, with his mind close to shattering; the demon was also trapped beneath the ice.

Fang Xiao rescued Yuan Chen from the brink of death and halted his demonization, but Yuan Chen remained half human and half devil, with his cultivation path seemingly lost. Yuan Chen asked to visit the Ice Dao Inheritance Land before Fang Xiao took him to the small world and agreed to help him seek a way to recover.

• Yuan Chen’s consciousness faded as he lay dying, while Fang Xiao found him, fed him spirit pills, removed the Demonic Contamination, and repeatedly called his name.
• Yuan Chen’s consciousness gathered again, and he woke up beside Fang Xiao, apologizing for disappointing his Senior Brother.
• Yuan Chen realized that more than half his body, spirit soul, and nascent soul had become devilish, leaving him in an unstable half-human, half-devil state.
• Fang Xiao promised to help Yuan Chen recover, even if they had to seek a solution in the upper realm.
• Yuan Chen asked Fang Xiao to take him to the Inheritance Land of the Ice Dao to fulfill his final wish, and Fang Xiao agreed.

Fang Xiao found and killed the Demonic Beast that had nearly killed Yuan Chen, discovering it was Lan Hong, a former enemy transformed by demonic obsession. After ending her suffering, he reflected on the need to keep advancing on the path of cultivation.

• Fang Xiao settled Yuan Chen in the pocket realm and learned that other cultivators were already organizing the rescue of those trapped in the fog.
• Fang Xiao used the Void Cutter Sword to find the wounded Demonic Beast buried beneath the ice and pulled it free with Space Force.
• The Demonic Beast recognized Fang Xiao and threatened to kill him, allowing him to identify it as Lan Hong, the former Ice Soul Sect cultivator who had pursued him in the Inheritance Land of the Ice Dao.
• Fang Xiao realized Lan Hong's obsession with him had persisted through her madness and demonic transformation.
• Fang Xiao killed Lan Hong with Space Force, then resolved to continue advancing in cultivation rather than become trapped by obsession.

Fang Xiao descended into the Cold Abyss to find the Ice Soul Sect's Inheritance Land, discovering that mist and Netherworld Qi could not coexist. As he concealed himself in the Netherworld Land, an Unknown Existence detected him and set out to wait at the inheritance site.

• Fang Xiao passed the ruins of the Ice Soul Sect and continued toward the Cold Abyss.
• Fang Xiao investigated the Cold Abyss, left behind a Sword Seal, and leaped into its depths.
• Fang Xiao found that the mist thinned as Netherworld Qi appeared, and learned that the two forces dissolved one another.
• Fang Xiao put away the Jade of Spiritual Eyes, brought out the Profound Origin Dao Platform, and used the Yin Yang Escape Technique to conceal himself.
• An Unknown Existence noticed Fang Xiao entering the Netherworld Land, identified his likely destination, and headed to the Inheritance Land to wait for him.

Fang Xiao searched the Netherworld Sea for the Ice Dao's Inheritance Land by using the Profound Origin Dao Platform to sense Primordial Magnetic Force. He found the drifting land and its grand array, though he realized its damaged state had made it easier to track.

• Fang Xiao surveyed the dangerous Netherworld Sea and concluded that the Inheritance Land could still drift safely within it.
• Fang Xiao summoned Profound Origin and ordered it to continually sense for nearby Primordial Magnetic Force.
• Profound Origin detected a trace of Primordial Magnetic Force, allowing Fang Xiao to follow it to the Inheritance Land.
• Fang Xiao's Array Talisman reacted when he reached the Heavenly Yin Cold Soul Array.
• Fang Xiao realized that the array's damaged abilities had allowed Primordial Magnetic Force to leak out, making the Inheritance Land easier to find.

Fang Xiao entered the Inheritance Land in the Netherworld Sea and discovered that Yu Linglong, the Ice Soul Sect’s former chief True Disciple, had survived for more than a century and grown powerful through Netherworld Force. He told her that the Ice Soul Sect was gone, leaving her shocked and unable to believe him.

• Fang Xiao entered the Heavenly Yin Cold Soul Array and found no bodies or skeletons in its outer layer.
• Fang Xiao bypassed the inner array barrier and found signs of fierce battles around the inheritance ice pillars.
• Fang Xiao discovered Yu Linglong meditating atop the central inheritance ice pillar, alive but transformed and surrounded by powerful Netherworld Force.
• Yu Linglong mistook Fang Xiao for a Spirit Transformation True Lord sent to rescue her and asked whether they had returned to the Ice Plains.
• Fang Xiao told Yu Linglong that the Ice Soul Sect no longer existed and that they were still in the Netherworld Sea.
• Yu Linglong rejected the news, insisting that the Ice Soul Sect’s two True Lords and sacred-land status made its destruction impossible.

Fang Xiao learned how Yu Linglong acquired the Nine Yin Death Veins and Nether Physique, then considered whether her method could save Yuan Chen. Yu Linglong revealed that her Nether Physique draws heavenly tribulation, leaving her at risk if she stays in the inheritance site.

• Yu Linglong offered to guide Fang Xiao to the inheritances and serve him in exchange for her life.
• Yu Linglong explained that she cultivated an ancient method requiring her to shed her vitality and refine Netherworld power to survive.
• Fang Xiao studied Yu Linglong's Jade Slip and learned her method transformed her into a Nine Yin Death Veins cultivator with a Nether Physique.
• Fang Xiao concluded that the method might save Yuan Chen but would be perilous because of his Nascent Soul, four yin-yang techniques, and Innate Primordial Yang Physique.
• Yu Linglong told Fang Xiao that her Nether Physique caused heavenly tribulation, threatening her despite the usual freedom of body cultivators from calamities.