Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao escaped the Cold Abyss while the Golden Crow Sacred Fire pursued him, then entered the Profound Yellow Spiritual Gourd’s Small World to evade the heavenly tribulation. He planned to lie low, stabilize his cultivation, and wait until the tribulation flames exhausted their tribulation aura before facing a new tribulation.

• The Lord of the Netherworld Sea withdrew his twelve incarnations, giving Fang Xiao an opening to flee through the vortex of Yin Energy as the Golden Crow Sacred Fire pursued him.
• Fang Xiao crossed the mist zone and escaped the Cold Abyss with the Void Cutter Sword, then fled into the void to avoid the changing Arctic Icefield.
• Fang Xiao entered the Small World inside the Profound Yellow Spiritual Gourd, and the danger from the heavenly tribulation immediately disappeared.
• Fang Xiao decided to hide in the Small World, stabilize his late Spirit Transformation cultivation, and check on Yuan Chen while the Netherworld Sea burned.
• Fang Xiao planned to leave and undergo his tribulation again after the tribulation aura in the flames had run out.

Fang Xiao found Yuan Chen transformed inside a cocoon, with his Yin-Yang powers balanced but doubts about becoming half-devil. Yuan Chen accepted his new identity and chose to leave the Small World alone to face the heavenly tribulation and advance to Spirit Transformation.

• Fang Xiao entered the Two Forms Genesis Great Array and heard Yuan Chen speak from the gray cocoon.
• Yuan Chen explained that his Nether Physique and Innate Primordial Yang Physique had fused without conflict, though he worried about his demonic transformation.
• Fang Xiao urged Yuan Chen to judge himself by his choices, and Yuan Chen resolved that he would always remain himself.
• Yuan Chen sensed he needed the aura of heavenly tribulation to break through to Spirit Transformation, which the Small World could not provide.
• Yuan Chen refused Fang Xiao's offer of protection and decided to face the tribulation alone in the void.
• Fang Xiao sent Yuan Chen, cocoon and all, out of the cave heaven.

After fifteen years of cultivation inside the Small World, Fang Xiao left to face the heavenly tribulation, having raised his Body Refining cultivation and refined most of his Dao Track. Meanwhile, the Taichang Realm’s powers continued waiting for his return, and Ling Taichu worried that the long-delayed sect might have to be founded in the void.

• Fang Xiao raised his Body Refining cultivation to the late Fifth Order and refined more than ninety-five percent of the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Track, then left the Small World to face his tribulation.
• Fang Xiao confirmed that his tribulation aura had dispersed and searched the void for traces of Yuan Chen, but found nothing.
• Fang Xiao’s heavenly tribulation became a lightning tribulation, so he took out the Thunder Controlling Sign and met it head-on.
• Ling Taichu lamented that Fang Xiao had repeatedly disappeared and still had not returned to establish his sect.
• Ling Taichu noted that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association had gathered inheritances and helped prepare disciples, while Li Fa kept asking about Fang Xiao’s whereabouts.

Ling Taichu learned that the Ruins of the Underworld could only be contained for about ten years and urgently sought Fang Xiao, the only person he believed could resolve the danger. After returning without finding him, he confronted Yuan Chen, whose transformation and strength had advanced greatly, and demanded Fang Xiao’s location; Yuan Chen realized Fang Xiao had to be brought back.

• The Six Energies Dao Soldier continued nourishing Gold Bean, leaving it unable to respond to Ling Taichu while the process was underway.
• Ling Taichu received a message that even a Half-step Dao Artifact could suppress the Ruins of the Underworld for only around ten years.
• Ling Taichu went to the Nine Heavens to contact Fang Xiao, but returned without finding him.
• Yuan Chen and Yan Tiandong arrived at the Tianlan Sect, and Ling Taichu saw Yuan Chen’s devilish and Nether Physique features.
• Ling Taichu demanded Fang Xiao’s exact location, and Yuan Chen recognized that Fang Xiao had to return to deal with the crisis.

Yuan Chen told Ling Taichu that Fang Xiao was trapped in the Small World and could not be contacted, leaving the Taichang Realm facing the Ruins of the Underworld. A message revealed that Fang Xiao had sold Yuetian Sect's Half-step Dao Artifact to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association, giving the realm a chance to hold out while Yuan Chen went to the void and Ling Taichu led cultivators to the Central Lands.

• Yuan Chen explained that Fang Xiao was trapped in the Small World and could not be reached, and Ling Taichu considered evacuating the Taichang Realm.
• Yuan Chen said he would travel into the void to find Fang Xiao while Ling Taichu prepared for evacuation.
• Ling Taichu received a message from Li Fa and learned Fang Xiao had sold Yuetian Sect's Half-step Dao Artifact to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association.
• Ling Taichu said the artifact could temporarily delay the Ruins of the Underworld and planned to help the merchant association activate it.
• Yuan Chen departed for the void, and Ling Taichu led Tianlan Sect's other Spirit Transformation cultivators through a transmission array to the Central Lands.

Yuan Chen found Fang Xiao enduring a powerful lightning tribulation near the Profound Yellow Spiritual Gourd, and Fang Xiao cut it apart to complete his advancement to late-stage Spirit Transformation. Yuan Chen then told him that the Ruins of the Underworld had begun stirring again and that the sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators had gone to the Central Lands to suppress it.

• Yuan Chen traveled toward the Profound Yellow Spiritual Gourd, worrying about Fang Xiao’s safety and the destroyed Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Yuan Chen discovered Fang Xiao at the center of an immense lightning tribulation and saw him withstand its strikes.
• Fang Xiao summoned a colossal sword and severed the lightning domain, ending the tribulation and reaching late-stage Spirit Transformation.
• Fang Xiao asked why Yuan Chen had returned, and Yuan Chen explained that the Ruins of the Underworld had shown signs of becoming active again.
• Yuan Chen said the sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators had gone to the Central Lands to jointly activate a Half-step Dao Artifact and suppress the Ruins of the Underworld.

Fang Xiao feared that using the Five Divine Peaks alongside the Void Suppressing Sword could cause their Dao Tracks to conflict and worsen the Ruins of the Underworld’s eruption. He rushed Yuan Chen back to the Central Lands, where Ling Taichu and Li Fa prepared to activate the Divine Mountain cautiously.

• Fang Xiao warned Yuan Chen that the Five Divine Peaks might conflict with the Void Suppressing Sword and make the Ruins of the Underworld more dangerous.
• Fang Xiao used the Void Cutter Sword to enter a teleportation array from the void, then traveled with Yuan Chen to the Central Lands.
• Li Fa asked Ling Taichu whether the sword spirit knew what had caused the Ruins of the Underworld to stir, but Ling Taichu said it did not.
• Ling Taichu proposed that the cultivators activate the Divine Mountain together so they could learn its power and use it if the Void Suppressing Sword neared its limit.

Li Fa and Ling Taichu used the Divine Mountain to help the Void Suppressing Sword restrain the Ruins of the Underworld, but the artifact instead clashed with the sword and joined forces with the ruins. As the situation spiraled out of control, Fang Xiao rushed toward them, and Zhenkong could only hope he arrived in time.

• Li Fa supplied the method for wielding the Divine Mountain, and the cultivators raised its phantom near the Ruins of the Underworld.
• Fang Xiao sensed the Divine Mountain’s power and hurried with Yuan Chen toward the ruins, using Sword Seals along the way.
• Zhenkong tried to warn Ling Taichu and the others by shaking the Void Suppressing Sword, but Ling Taichu mistook it for a plea to act immediately.
• Ling Taichu and the others pressed the Divine Mountain toward the ruins, causing it to clash with the Void Suppressing Sword and become entangled with it.
• Li Fa and Ling Taichu failed to find a way to retrieve the Divine Mountain as the Ruins of the Underworld grew stronger, while Zhenkong awaited Fang Xiao’s arrival.

Fang Xiao returned just as the Ruins of the Underworld swallowed the Void Suppressing Sword, and his dharma manifestation reversed the crisis by suppressing the ruins and dispelling the Divine Mountain’s interference. After reassuring Ling Taichu and Li Fa, he borrowed the Divine Mountain and created five copies before vanishing to arrange a way to use it alongside the sword.

• The Ruins of the Underworld swallowed the Void Suppressing Sword, leaving Ling Taichu and Li Fa ready to abandon hope.
• Fang Xiao’s Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate manifestation reached into the black pillar, reclaimed the sword, and pushed the Ruins of the Underworld back.
• Fang Xiao’s manifestation tapped the Divine Mountain and reduced it to miniature form, removing its pressure so the Void Suppressing Sword could suppress the ruins.
• Fang Xiao and Yuan Chen arrived before Ling Taichu and Li Fa, and Fang Xiao apologized for returning late.
• Fang Xiao borrowed Li Fa’s Divine Mountain, explained that he needed it to help stabilize the Ruins of the Underworld, and produced five mountains before disappearing.

Fang Xiao traced the Ruins of the Underworld’s anomaly to tribulation fire that had burned through the earth’s crust, causing some of its power to leak into a magma cavern. He contained the leak and remained underground to finish locking down the Ruins of the Underworld, while sending Taiyin and Taiyang to investigate the Netherworld Sea.

• Fang Xiao descended beneath the Ruins of the Underworld and suspected its renewed anomaly was connected to the Netherworld Sea’s tribulation fire.
• Fang Xiao found leaked power from the Ruins of the Underworld gathered in a magma cavern, where crimson-gold tribulation fire had burned through the crust.
• Fang Xiao used a Divine Mountain to force the leaked power back into the Ruins of the Underworld and plugged the opening, separating it from the magma and tribulation fire.
• Fang Xiao sent the Dao soldiers Taiyin and Taiyang toward the Netherworld Sea to look for anything that might have survived the tribulation fire.
• Fang Xiao stayed within the earth’s crust and planned to use the remaining four Divine Mountains to suppress the Ruins of the Underworld from four sides and cut it off from the outside world.

Fang Xiao completed the seal containing the Ruins of the Underworld and returned to his newly built sect in the Northern Plains. He named it the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect and announced that it would regulate the Nine Heavens’ Gang Qi through missions and contribution points to support the fight against the Devil Race.

• Fang Xiao arranged the four Divine Mountains to complete a seal around the Ruins of the Underworld and remained in the Taichang Realm to guard it.
• A month later, Fang Xiao received Spirit Transformation cultivators at the sect Li Fa had built for him.
• Fang Xiao named the sect the Demon Purge Sect and declared that it would eradicate the Devil Race and devilish influence.
• Fang Xiao announced that his sect would regulate the Nine Heavens’ Gang Qi and require cultivators to complete Demon Purge Missions to earn it.
• Jingyuan questioned Fang Xiao’s authority to claim the Gang Qi, but Fang Xiao argued that the system would preserve access to it and motivate the fight against the Devil Race.
• Ling Taichu suggested the name Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect, which Fang Xiao accepted, and the gathered cultivators congratulated him as its patriarch.

Fang Xiao tested potential disciples for the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect’s special lineage inheritance and revealed that Yu Linglong possessed the Great Yin Star Fate. The sect’s unusual entry requirement remained unexplained, but Yu Linglong’s test demonstrated its celestial power.

• Cultivators flocked to the Northern Plains to seek entry into Fang Xiao’s newly founded Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect.
• Li Manshan and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators failed to activate the black sphere, and Fang Xiao explained that the sect required a special inheritance aptitude.
• Fang Xiao summoned Yu Linglong and introduced her as his Nominal Disciple, explaining that she had once been a core disciple of the Ice Soul Sect.
• Li Qingyun and Peng Gan confronted Yu Linglong’s connection to the destroyed Ice Soul Sect, but Fang Xiao assured them that she had left her former identity behind.
• Yu Linglong touched the black sphere, which shook as a mark appeared between her brows and a Great Yin projection filled the sky.
• Fang Xiao explained that Yu Linglong possessed the Great Yin Star Fate, a destiny tied to the favor of a celestial star.

Fang Xiao explained how Star Fate worked and outlined his plans for recruiting disciples to the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect. The Tianlan Sect supported his preparations, while Ling Taichu made clear that Fan Chen would remain with the Tianlan Sect.

• Fang Xiao explained that the Star Pointing Stone could reveal Star Fate and that secondary Star Fates were more common than primary ones.
• Fang Xiao said he would accept people with poor or no spiritual roots and use Body Refining to cultivate those who possessed Star Fate.
• Ling Taichu urged Fang Xiao to screen recruits for clean backgrounds, and Yi Tianhe left to retrieve the Heart Questioning Mirror from the Tianlan Sect.
• Fang Xiao thanked Ling Taichu for the Tianlan Sect's support in establishing the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect.
• Ling Taichu told Fang Xiao not to take Fan Chen, and Fang Xiao promised that Fan Chen would remain in the Tianlan Sect.

The Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect opened its gates to a vast crowd seeking discipleship, while Li Fa and Ling Taichu discussed the factions’ hopes for the assessment. Yu Linglong announced that candidates would face a Heart Questioning Mirror and a test for star fate, then led them into the sect.

• Crowds and Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered outside the mountain gate to witness the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect’s opening and seek discipleship.
• Li Fa asked Ling Taichu whether he was selecting promising candidates, and revealed that a junior of the Li family planned to join the sect.
• Ling Taichu mentioned the Gongye Family’s acquired star-type physique and hinted that their plan to win Fang Xiao’s favor would soon fail.
• The sky darkened, stars appeared, and Fang Xiao announced that the appointed hour had arrived and the sect was open.
• Yu Linglong explained that the assessment required candidates to pass the Heart Questioning Mirror and possess star fate, then led them into the sect.

After Yu Linglong revealed that the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect valued Star Fate rather than spiritual roots, Fang Xiao began testing prospective disciples. Fang Heng became the first to reveal a primary Star Fate and joined Fang Xiao as his personal disciple, but no other Star Fate appeared during the following half day.

• The crowd debated Star Fate and gradually entered the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect for testing, while Fang Xiao handled the assessments himself.
• The first person to touch the Star Pointing Stone revealed the Seven Kill Star Fate, prompting Fang Xiao to recognize him as a potentially fateful first disciple of the new sect.
• Fang Heng told Fang Xiao that his ancestors had been demonic cultivators from the Northern Plains and that he had come from the East Sea to seek a place in the sect.
• Fang Xiao accepted Fang Heng as his personal disciple, and Fang Heng agreed and stood behind his new Master.
• No other primary or auxiliary Star Fate appeared during the next half day, leaving Fang Xiao worried that the sect might gain only one disciple.

Fang Xiao oversaw the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect’s recruitment and considered how to train the Star Fate disciples. By the ninth day, the sect had found more Star Fate bearers than expected, and Fang Xiao had accepted five quintuplet brothers with the Five Luminaries Star Fates as personal disciples.

• Fang Xiao decided Fang Heng’s Seven Kill Star Fate suited the sect’s sword inheritance, though he worried that the baleful star might consume him with killing intent.
• Yu Linglong sorted applicants without Star Fates, sending some away and directing talented unaffiliated applicants toward the Tianlan Sect and the Beimíng Sword Sect.
• Fang Xiao noticed that two disciples shared the same auxiliary Star Fate and concluded that multiple people could be fated to the same star luminary.
• By the ninth day, the sect had identified three-digit numbers of Star Fate bearers, but only Yu Linglong and Fang Heng possessed primary star fates.
• Fang Xiao accepted five identical quintuplet brothers from the West Sea as personal disciples after learning they shared linked minds, mutually generating Dual Spirit Roots, and the Five Luminaries Star Fates.

The Lu Family’s five gifted children joined Fang Xiao’s personal disciples, and Zhong Wu Huo arrived with a Lucky Star Fate to become his youngest personal disciple. With the selection complete, Yu Linglong welcomed the major factions into the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect, where the founding ceremony began.

• The Lu Family sold its assets to buy five places on a flying boat to the Northern Plains, and the five joined Fang Xiao as personal disciples of the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect.
• As the recruitment assessment was about to end, Fang Xiao noticed a mortal army approaching with a youth who possessed a Water attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.
• The youth, Zhong Wu Huo, entered the sect alone, and a Lucky Star appeared above him, confirming his Star Fate.
• Fang Xiao accepted Zhong Wu Huo as his youngest personal disciple, completing the assessment and selection.
• Yu Linglong led the major factions into the sect, and the founding ceremony began at the Patriarch Hall.

Fang Xiao welcomed the selected disciples into the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect and passed down the Star Plucking secret art, which let cultivators connect with their fated celestial stars. The ceremony ended with the disciples receiving cultivation methods and instructions, while the rejected families departed disappointed.

• The selected disciples worshipped Fang Xiao, recited the sect rules, lit their Life-Soul Lamps, and officially joined the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect.
• Li Fa accepted that the Li Clan juniors lacked Star Fate, while Xian Hua realized the five Lu Family brothers would not be founding the Five Elements Sect.
• The Gongye Family’s Star Constitution disciple failed the sect’s Star Fate requirement, leaving the family’s future uncertain against the Violet Heaven Sect.
• Fang Xiao gave every disciple a Jade Slip containing a cultivation method and the Star Plucking secret art, which used the Star Pointing Stone to connect cultivators with their fated stars.
• Yu Linglong guided the disciples in receiving and studying their Jade Slips as Fang Xiao prepared them to cultivate and become a fighting force.

Fang Xiao instructed the new disciples to cultivate diligently before the war with the Devil Race and explained the sect’s shared lineage. He then outlined cultivation paths for his seven personal disciples, leaving them with guidance for their future training.

• Fang Xiao told the disciples that resources would be free while they remained in the Taichang Realm, but they would need to fight for resources once the war with the Devil Race began.
• Fang Xiao sent Yu Linglong to arrange accommodations and guide the younger disciples, then asked Fang Heng and the six other personal disciples to stay behind.
• Fang Xiao explained his ties to the Tianlan Sect, the Beimíng Sword Sect, Master Ling Taichu, and Fan Chen, and told the disciples the three sects shared one lineage.
• Fang Xiao instructed Fang Heng to cultivate the Seven Kill Sword Art as a Sword Cultivator, warning him to control its killing intent rather than become ruled by it.
• Fang Xiao praised the five Lu brothers’ shared Five Elements aptitude and explained how their inherited cultivation arts could help them advance together.

Fang Xiao gave Zhong Wu Huo a month to experience life without the Lucky Star's protection so he might overcome his laziness, while preparing to cultivate before the Devil Race arrived. The Taiyin and Sun Dao Soldiers returned with the Lord of the Netherworld Sea's true spirit Essence Blood, whose absorption began transforming them.

• The five Lu brothers celebrated learning they had the Five Luminaries Auxiliary Star Fate and had entered Fang Xiao's lineage.
• Zhong Wu Huo told Fang Xiao that cultivation was too troublesome, so Fang Xiao gave him a month to explore the world and severed his connection to the Lucky Star.
• Zhong Wu Huo immediately fell on his face while descending the Patriarch Hall steps, and Fang Xiao let the misfortune unfold under his watch.
• Fang Xiao learned through the returning Dao Soldiers that tribulation fire had destroyed the Extreme North Ice Plains, Cold Abyss, and Netherworld Sea, killing the Lord of the Netherworld Sea.
• The Taiyin and Sun Dao Soldiers absorbed the Lord of the Netherworld Sea's Taiyin Youying and Golden Crow Essence Blood, triggering an unpredictable transformation.