Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao drew information from Yu Changkong about the Path-Seeking Flower and the True Immortal's Legacy Mansion. Yu Changkong offered to ally with Fang Xiao’s supposed master at the mansion’s next opening and gave Fang Xiao a command talisman for the Four Directions Immortal Sect.

• Fang Xiao told Yu Changkong that his master had sent him to deliver the Path-Seeking Flower to the Four Directions Immortal Sect.
• Fang Xiao asked Yu Changkong about the flower’s uses, and Yu Changkong revealed that its aura granted entry to the True Immortal Inner Mansion.
• Yu Changkong explained that people who entered the Inner Mansion lost their memories of it, but rumors suggested it contained immortal treasures, medicines, and methods.
• Fang Xiao suggested that Yu Changkong and the Taibai Ancestor join forces to explore the Inner Mansion when it opened again.
• Yu Changkong gave Fang Xiao a command talisman that let him travel freely through the Four Directions Immortal Sect’s territory.

Fang Xiao accepted Yu Changkong’s token and safely returned to his Small World, while Yu Changkong’s suspicions about Taibai Ancestor persuaded him not to attack. Fang Xiao then prepared to advance his Sword Dao, but discovered that his dormant Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Trajectory made the breakthrough impossible for now.

• Fang Xiao accepted Yu Changkong’s token, claimed he needed to return to his true body, and left on the Dao soldier.
• Fang Xiao waited inside the Life Forbidden Zone and guided the Dao soldier into his Small World, wary that Yu Changkong might have followed him.
• Yu Changkong followed Fang Xiao, saw him enter the Life Forbidden Zone unharmed, and decided not to risk offending Taibai Ancestor over the Path-Seeking Flower petals.
• Fang Xiao returned to his cultivation chamber, sealed away the token, and prepared to advance his Sword Dao Realm.
• Fang Xiao realized he could not use Myriad Laws Born from the Sword while his Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Trajectory remained dormant, so he halted his breakthrough.

Fang Xiao examined the Panwu True Body Art and realized its Dao Meridian Diagram might help him construct meridians for his Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate. He saw a way to attempt it before advancing his Sword Dao Realm, but two unresolved problems prevented him from starting.

• Fang Xiao decided to postpone his Sword Dao Realm breakthrough and continue refining Dao Tracks first.
• Fang Xiao controlled the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate to refine Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Tracks while studying the Panwu True Body Art.
• Fang Xiao discovered that the Panwu True Body Art was an extreme body-refining art whose Dao Track Projections fused directly into the body's meridians.
• Fang Xiao considered using the art's Dao Meridian Diagram theory to build meridians for his humanoid Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate.
• Fang Xiao realized he could not accurately identify the Venerate's acupoints and might not have enough divine soul strength to control his ever-growing number of Dao Tracks.

Over eight hundred years, Fang Xiao advanced to peak mid Void Refining and prepared to construct Dao Veins using his Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate and a partially restored Spirit Wine Recipe. With everything ready, he began the process, leaving his Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate transformed into a human-sized likeness of himself.

• Fang Xiao used Cause and Effect over eight hundred years to raise his cultivation to peak mid Void Refining and increase the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate's capacity to 122 Dao Tracks.
• Fang Xiao partially restored Yun Tiancheng's Spirit Wine Recipe, producing Dark God wine that could strengthen his control over Dao Tracks.
• Fang Xiao tried repeatedly to break through to the ninth realm of the Sword Dao, but his borrowed Dao Tracks collapsed each time he neared the threshold.
• Fang Xiao returned to the Nine Heavens Demon Purge Sect and used the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars and the Star Pointing Stone to lock down the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate's acupoints.
• Fang Xiao regulated his breath in preparation to construct Dao Veins, and the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate manifested behind him before shrinking into a human-sized likeness of Fang Xiao.

Fang Xiao used Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate, the Dark God Spirit Wine, and his divine abilities to form a Dao Vein from 108 Primordial Chaos Sword Dao tracks. The Lesser Heavenly Dao Vein took shape as the tracks linked the designated acupoints.

• Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate merged with Fang Xiao, reflecting his acupoints through starlight before separating again.
• Fang Xiao drank the Dark God Spirit Wine and used its effect to perceive and control the tangled Dao tracks.
• Fang Xiao strengthened his divine soul with Twelve-Story Building and Leaping Heaven Gate while choosing 108 of the 122 tracks for the vein.
• Fang Xiao gradually untangled the Dao tracks and guided them through Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate's body to connect the acupoints.
• The 108 tracks linked head to tail, forming the Lesser Heavenly Dao Vein.

Fang Xiao formed Dao Veins and drew in Great Dao Power, but the dormant Dao Tracks caused the power to escape. He then discovered that an anomaly had appeared in the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate’s chest, containing Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Great Dao Power.

• Fang Xiao completed the initial formation of his Dao Veins, advancing beyond the Sixth Order into the Seventh Order.
• Fang Xiao circulated the Lesser Heavenly Cycle, causing Great Dao Power in the Small World to surge toward the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate.
• The Great Dao Power soon escaped, and Fang Xiao confirmed that neither the Venerate nor its Dao Veins had been damaged.
• Fang Xiao realized the Dao Tracks had returned to dormancy, interrupting the draw of Great Dao Power and leaving the drawback of Cause and Effect unresolved.
• Fang Xiao released the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate again and discovered an anomaly in its chest containing Primordial Chaos Sword Dao Great Dao Power.

Fang Xiao discovered that the four Dao Tracks he had refined had become Dao Bone, allowing him to forge Dao Bone and continue refining Dao Tracks without first reaching the Body Integration Realm. With his Dao Vein still recovering and a heavenly tribulation beyond his current confidence, he stayed in the Small World and decided to improve his Spirit Wine while he waited.

• Fang Xiao suspected that the Great Dao Power remaining in Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate's body was connected to Dao Bone and studied the Panwu True Body Art to understand it.
• Fang Xiao realized that the four Dao Tracks had been forged into Dao Bone in his chest, at the starting point of the Lesser Heavenly Dao Vein.
• Fang Xiao concluded that he could forge Dao Bone and refine Dao Tracks during the Void Refining Stage, then potentially pass three tribulations upon reaching the Body Integration Realm.
• Fang Xiao considered the advantages of Body Refining but remained satisfied with his choice of qi cultivation.
• Fang Xiao decided to stay in the Small World until his Dao Vein recovered and planned to use the wait to raise the grades of his Spirit Wine.

After a hundred years away, Fang Xiao returned to the lower realm to undergo his Void Refining tribulation in the void, while his disciples and fellow sect members watched from afar. He survived the lightning tribulation but discovered that using his Primordial Chaos Sword Dao in the greater world depended on expanding his Small World domain, a weakness he would need to outgrow.

• Fang Heng, Yuan Chen, Zhong Wu Huo, and the others gathered in the lower-realm void near the conquered Xuan Ling Realm as a terrifying heavenly tribulation began.
• Fang Xiao chose to undergo tribulation in the lower-realm void, where he would avoid the Heavenly Dao's deliberate interference and the dangers of the upper-realm void.
• Li Manshan questioned the tribulation's severity, and Jiang Qinyue rebuked him as the group watched Fang Xiao.
• Fang Xiao endured lightning infused with Great Dao Power and brought his Void Refining tribulation close to a successful end.
• Fang Xiao realized that in the greater world he had to expand his Small World domain to use the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao's full power, which could expose the Small World and leave him vulnerable to suppression.

Fang Xiao survived the heavenly tribulation, advanced to late Void Refining, and prepared to return to the Tianhuang Realm. Before leaving, he urged his sect members and disciples to delay ascension until they had secured the sect’s inheritance and dealt with the Demon Tribulation.

• Fang Xiao used the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate to cleave apart the final tribulation lightning, ending the heavenly tribulation and advancing to late Void Refining.
• Fang Xiao activated Cause and Effect to absorb the Myriad Origin Qi in his Small World and its domain, stabilizing his cultivation and pushing it slightly further.
• Fang Xiao appeared before Fang Heng and the others, explained that he had to return to the upper realm, and warned them that the Spirit Realm was too dangerous for them to ascend yet.
• Li Manshan questioned how the sect members could advance if they delayed ascension, and Fang Xiao asked whether the Tianlan Sect had found successors to cultivate the Yin-Yang Profound Clarity Path Derivation True Scripture.
• Fang Xiao urged them to preserve the sect’s inheritance and eradicate the Demon Tribulation, promising to take them to a suitable cultivation destination once they reached peak Deity Transformation.

Fang Xiao visited Ling Taichu in the small world, then returned to the Earth Immortal Realm and saw that Li Hanyang’s spirit-rice cultivation methods were working. He planned to help Li Hanyang overcome his cultivation bottleneck and develop the Farming Dao.

• Fang Xiao reassured the lower-realm cultivators about ascending and left through the small world's portal.
• Fang Xiao visited Ling Taichu, who chose to remain in the small world and postpone deciding whether to pursue Heavenly Sword Mountain’s martial cultivation inheritance.
• Fang Xiao noted that Qi Yunsheng was traveling through the Skyfall Domain toward the Yao Clan Territory using teleportation arrays, saving decades of travel.
• Fang Xiao returned to the Earth Immortal Realm and saw spirit rice advancing to the Second and Third Orders under Li Hanyang’s cultivation method.
• Fang Xiao resolved to help Li Hanyang break through his damaged foundation and make use of the Farming Dao Dao Track Projection.

Fang Xiao focused on refining Dao Tracks and considered how to strengthen his incarnations and help Li Hanyang break through. He watched the Great White Sword Pellet begin to fuse its Dao Tracks into a unified whole, leaving its transformation underway.

• Fang Xiao decided that Li Hanyang needed a soul-strengthening treasure and planned to seek one from the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association in the Tianhuang Realm.
• Fang Xiao entered seclusion and had the Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate refine Dao Tracks as his cultivation advanced to late Void Refining.
• Fang Xiao summoned the Taiyin and Sun incarnations, set them to refining Dao Tracks, and resolved to obtain the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song for its Dao Meridian Diagram.
• Fang Xiao examined the Great White Sword Pellet and saw it absorb the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao's Great Dao Power to fuse and reforge its Dao Tracks.

Fang Xiao advanced the Soul Nurturing Gourd and Nascent Soul Dao Sword along different Dao Tracks while Qi Yunsheng was hunted in the Dongyuan Domain after asking for the Yao Clan Territory. Surrounded by numerous powerful pursuers, Qi Yunsheng contacted Fang Xiao through the Small World gateway.

• Fang Xiao advanced the Soul Nurturing Gourd with the Soul Dao Dao Track and the Nascent Soul Dao Sword with the Heart Dao Track.
• Qi Yunsheng was ambushed repeatedly after asking about the Yao Clan Territory, and he suspected the Yao Clan's Heavenly Sword Mountain inheritance had attracted the pursuers.
• Qi Yunsheng hid underground while his weakened cultivation and repeated battles left him close to exhaustion.
• A peak God-Seeing Realm pursuer exposed Qi Yunsheng, and dozens of Spiritual Senses, including those of multiple peak God-Seeing Realm experts, locked onto him.
• Qi Yunsheng contacted Fang Xiao through the Small World gateway as his enemies closed in.

Fang Xiao arrived in time to save Qi Yunsheng from cultivators hunting for the Yao Clan and the Heavenly Sword Mountain inheritance, then revealed power that made them believe he had reached the Body Integration Realm. After killing the attackers, he confronted a hidden Tianhuang Realm cultivator at the Integrated Body Middle Stage and launched a probing Sword Dao strike.

• Qi Yunsheng realized the attackers had heard rumors about the Yao Clan and could not escape their combined assault.
• Fang Xiao appeared, froze the attacks, and destroyed the martial cultivators with his Primordial Immortal Light and Small World domain.
• Fang Xiao killed the remaining attackers and called out a concealed cultivator, who revealed himself as a Tianhuang Realm expert.
• The man declared that Fang Xiao had infiltrated the Tianhuang Realm for the Heavenly Sword Mountain inheritance and disclosed his Integrated Body Middle Stage cultivation.
• Fang Xiao judged that the man had only recently forged a Dao Bone and sent a probing Sword Dao strike toward him.
• The man raised a hand to meet Fang Xiao's sword light.

Fang Xiao tested a Seventh Order martial cultivator whose Heaven-Intercepting Hand and Spiritual Eye Technique let him find and disrupt the weak points in attacks. The man began reaching through Fang Xiao’s Primordial Immortal Light to break it, while Fang Xiao deliberately let him try.

• The man caught Fang Xiao’s sword light with his bare hand, disrupted its power, and shattered it.
• Fang Xiao exchanged moves with the man and used his Primordial Immortal Light to defend against his close-range attacks.
• Fang Xiao realized the man used extraordinary eyes and precise strikes to locate the nodes and flaws in techniques.
• The man revealed that he cultivated the Heaven-Intercepting Hand and the Dao Track Projection of Interception, which could sever methods by targeting their veins and patterns.
• The man saw that Fang Xiao’s Primordial Immortal Light had countless interlinked patterns and no apparent weak point, but decided to break through it anyway.
• The man moved in several shifting figures and thrust his hands into the Primordial Immortal Light as Fang Xiao watched to see whether he could destroy it.

Fang Xiao faced a man who used the Heaven-Intercepting Hand to seal his Dao Meridians, but Fang Xiao sealed the unfamiliar Great Dao Power and turned the fight around. He trapped the man in a storm of sword lights and declared that his opponent had no chance of victory.

• The man disrupted Fang Xiao’s Primordial Immortal Light with unfamiliar Great Dao Power and struck him at close range.
• The man claimed his Heaven-Intercepting Hand had sealed Fang Xiao’s Dao Meridians, while Fang Xiao realized he could still use the Great Dao Power intercepted in his Dao Bone.
• The man offered Fang Xiao reincarnation in exchange for surrender, but Fang Xiao answered with sword lights infused with Great Dao Power.
• The man recognized that Fang Xiao was at least an Integrated Body Middle Stage cultivator and had underestimated him.
• Fang Xiao sealed the unfamiliar power in his Dao Meridians with Forbidden Dao Spirit Light and surrounded the man with sword lights.

Fang Xiao continued overwhelming a Body Integration cultivator with sword light until the man invoked Star Plucking Pavilion to demand that his life be spared. After learning from Qi Yunsheng that the Pavilion controlled the Dongyuan Domain, Fang Xiao killed the cultivator anyway, destroying his body and soul.

• Fang Xiao kept the Star Plucking Pavilion cultivator trapped in sword light, wearing down his defenses with repeated attacks.
• The cultivator pleaded for his life and claimed that he belonged to Star Plucking Pavilion.
• Fang Xiao summoned Qi Yunsheng and asked him about the Pavilion and its strength.
• Qi Yunsheng explained that Star Plucking Pavilion controlled the Dongyuan Domain and had two Body Integration cultivators, one of whom was at the Realm Battlefield.
• Fang Xiao redirected the sword light at the cultivator and destroyed his body and soul.

Fang Xiao investigated the power absorbed by his Small World after killing a Body Integration Realm attacker, then questioned Qi Yunsheng about the Heavenly Sword Mountain inheritance and the Yao Clan. He brought Yao Ling to the Dongyuan Domain, where she offered to lead him to her clan in exchange for help, but Fang Xiao demanded a proper bargain.

• Fang Xiao absorbed remnants of the attacker’s Great Dao Power and martial soul into his Small World, then asked Qi Yunsheng how the inheritance’s location had leaked and what had happened to the Yao Clan.
• Qi Yunsheng said he did not know how the news had spread and suspected the Yao Clan had already hidden themselves; Fang Xiao worried the information might have reached powerful cultivators beyond the Dongyuan Domain.
• Fang Xiao revealed that he could summon Yao Ling and brought her from Xuan Yan City to the Dongyuan Domain in less than the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Yao Ling insisted that soul restrictions should have prevented the inheritance from leaking, but Fang Xiao told her that restrictions could be broken and urged her to focus on saving her clan.
• Yao Ling offered to contact the Yao Clan and lead Fang Xiao to them if he would help, but Fang Xiao rejected her condition and said he would only assist in exchange for sufficient compensation.

Fang Xiao negotiated with Yao Ling for the details of the Heavenly Sword Mountain inheritance in exchange for protecting the Yao Clan within his abilities. Yao Ling revealed how the inheritance worked and warned that its trials were extraordinarily difficult.

• Fang Xiao pressured Yao Ling to offer everything she knew about the inheritance before he risked helping her clan.
• Yao Ling admitted she had concealed details and promised to reveal them, asking Fang Xiao to protect the Yao Clan.
• Fang Xiao agreed to help so long as the danger remained within his ability, while Yao Ling warned she would defend the inheritance if he betrayed her.
• Yao Ling explained that an ordinary-looking sword contained the inheritance and required the previous inheritor's bloodline to activate its trials.
• Yao Ling said each completed trial granted part of the inheritance, but few Yao Clan members had passed even the first or second trial, and only one had attempted the third.

Yao Ling explained that Heavenly Sword Mountain's inheritance trial required challengers to defeat a swordsmanship duplicate of themselves three times, and Fang Xiao believed the trial suited him. When Yao Ling revealed that the Yao Clan's outside contact was in Tianyun City, Fang Xiao decided they would enter openly and force their way in.

• Yao Ling explained that the inheritance trial tested challengers by making them defeat a duplicate of themselves three times using only swordsmanship.
• Fang Xiao recognized Heavenly Sword Mountain's philosophy as the Invincible Dao and felt confident he could pass the trial.
• Yao Ling revealed that the Yao Clan's outside contact was inside Tianyun City, where she, Qi Yunsheng, and Fang Xiao risked being recognized.
• Fang Xiao proposed taking Yao Ling into Tianyun City openly rather than trying to sneak past its investigators.
• Fang Xiao planned to find the Yao Clan quickly and escape before enemies could respond.

Fang Xiao and Yao Ling reached Tianyun City as they searched for a hidden contact, but Fang Xiao chose to approach openly. After martial cultivators recognized Yao Ling and attacked them, Fang Xiao killed the attackers instantly, leaving Yao Ling to realize how badly she had underestimated his power.

• Fang Xiao sent Qi Yunsheng back into the sealed space within the Small World and brought Yao Ling toward Tianyun City.
• Fang Xiao ignored Yao Ling's warnings and headed openly for the city, confident that its defenses could not threaten him.
• Nearby martial cultivators recognized Fang Xiao as a cultivator and identified Yao Ling as the Great Elder of the Yao Clan, then attacked them.
• Fang Xiao instantly killed the martial cultivators who charged at him.
• Yao Ling realized Fang Xiao had concealed strength far beyond her own and that he did not fear Body Integration Realm experts.