Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao used the Five Elements True Light to break through Li Chunyun’s azure cloud defenses and nearly killed him, but Li Chunyun escaped with an Amulet of Substitution and fled. Qing Hong then turned his attention to Fang Xiao, leaving the crowd to marvel at Fang Xiao’s strength and wonder which of them was stronger.

• Fang Xiao’s differentiated sword lights defeated Li Chunyun’s sword lights, while Qing Hong trapped Li Chunyun’s Primordial Sword.
• Li Chunyun used azure clouds to dissolve Fang Xiao’s and Qing Hong’s sword lights, then recovered his Primordial Sword and attacked Fang Xiao.
• Fang Xiao used the Five Elements True Light to dissipate Li Chunyun’s clouds and concealed a sword light within it, forcing Li Chunyun to rely on his Amulet of Substitution to escape death.
• Li Chunyun fled as the watching Sword Cultivators recognized Fang Xiao as the Tianlan Sect’s Soaring Cloud Sword Son and discussed his talent.
• Qing Hong attacked Fang Xiao while he tried to pursue Li Chunyun, who escaped without his pride; Fang Xiao no longer considered Li Chunyun an opponent.

Fang Xiao battled Qing Hong, whose advanced sword evolutions and Twelve-Story Building divine ability failed to break Fang Xiao’s sword formation. Fang Xiao used an invisible thought-sword to defeat Qing Hong, leaving the outcome of their clash settled.

• The Tianlan Sect disciples withdrew after the Qingyang Demonic Cultivators were wiped out, and other cultivators planned to explore the grotto-heaven.
• Fang Xiao and Qing Hong faced off, and their sword lights clashed as both displayed their mastery of the second evolution.
• Fang Xiao formed the Void Slaying Sword Formation, which gradually trapped and pushed back Qing Hong’s sword lights.
• Qing Hong used his Twelve-Story Building divine ability to raise his sword light to a fourth evolution, but Fang Xiao’s expanded sword formation held against sixteen sword lights.
• Fang Xiao struck Qing Hong with an invisible thought-sword, making him clutch his head and collapse.

Fang Xiao defeated Qing Hong in their sword duel, but Qing Hong awakened a divine sense incarnation belonging to Shangqing Sect’s Cang Xi. When Cang Xi tried to take Fang Xiao to the Central Lands, Li Mobai intervened and forced Cang Xi to pay compensation before leaving.

• Fang Xiao struck Qing Hong with his sword lights while Qing Yu rushed to stop him, but Qing Hong awakened Cang Xi’s divine sense incarnation and survived.
• Cang Xi learned the story of the duel from Qing Yu, then invited Fang Xiao to visit the Central Lands.
• When Fang Xiao refused, Cang Xi tried to bind him with a golden thread, but Li Mobai melted it and confronted Cang Xi.
• Cang Xi gave Li Mobai a rare crystal as compensation, and Li Mobai allowed him and Qing Yu to leave the Taibai Sword Sect.
• The onlookers discussed Cang Xi’s retreat and turned their attention to Fang Xiao.

After Fang Xiao defeated Qing Hong, Li Mobai gave him an Immaculate True Crystal and explained its uses, while promising the sect would address Fang Xiao’s damaged origin after they returned. Fang Xiao rejoined the others at the cave-heaven entrance, where the disciples discussed its dangerous restrictions and spatial rifts as the Tianlan Sect weighed whether to explore further.

• Fang Xiao’s victory over Qing Hong strengthened his reputation among the Sword Cultivators, and Li Mobai praised Liu Jianyao and the other disciples for their conduct in battle.
• Li Mobai gave Fang Xiao a head-sized Immaculate True Crystal and a Jade Slip explaining how the rare resource could temper the body and improve Magic Treasures.
• Fang Xiao considered using the crystal to reforge the Great White Sword Pellet, temper his body, and support his other planned cultivation and crafting projects.
• Li Mobai said the sect would return ahead of schedule once its people arrived and would reward Fang Xiao, including resolving the problem of his damaged origin.
• Fang Xiao returned to the cave-heaven entrance and learned that its spirit herb garden was guarded by dangerous restrictions and scattered spatial rifts that had killed several cultivators.
• The Tianlan Sect discussed whether to enter the cave-heaven, while many other cultivators considered retreating rather than risk further losses.

Fang Xiao explored the dangerous grotto-heaven alone, using Li Mobai’s compass and the Nameless Spirit Jade to avoid restrictions and spatial rifts. He reached a restriction holding a Green Thunder Date Tree and tried to exploit damage from a spatial rift, but the barrier began recovering despite his attack.

• Fang Xiao parted ways with Liu Jianyao and the Tianlan Sect cultivators, who returned to their previous exploration teams.
• Fang Xiao entered the grotto-heaven alone and used his compass and Nameless Spirit Jade to navigate its restrictions and spatial rifts.
• Fang Xiao found rare spirit herbs and fruits behind restrictions but could not reach them.
• Fang Xiao discovered a Green Thunder Date Tree bearing more than a hundred fruits, but the compass warned him not to approach it.
• A spatial rift struck the tree’s restriction, and Fang Xiao attacked the resulting depression with the Great White Sword Pellet as the barrier began to recover.

Fang Xiao used Qing Feng’s jade sword to break the restriction around the Green Thunder Date Tree, harvested its fruit and leaves, and transplanted the tree. After days of exploring deeper into the grotto-heaven, he learned from Liu Jianyao that the Taibai Sword Sect was about to close and its disciples were evacuating Pillar of Heaven Peak.

• Fang Xiao overcame his hesitation and used Qing Feng’s jade sword to pierce the restriction, causing it to dissipate.
• Fang Xiao harvested 108 Green Thunder Dates and a quarter of the tree’s jade leaves, then carefully transplanted the tree and collected its spiritual soil.
• Fang Xiao explored deeper into the grotto-heaven and found that spatial rifts increased while spirit herbs and restrictions became scarce.
• After a spatial tremor shook the grotto-heaven, Fang Xiao contacted Liu Jianyao, who reported that the Taibai Sword Sect was closing and disciples were preparing to evacuate Pillar of Heaven Peak.

Fang Xiao discovered fragments of a shattered Spirit Treasure Magic Sword in the Taibai Sword Sect grotto-heaven and used one to fend off spatial rifts. When another spatial tremor disrupted the area, he abandoned his search for the missing sword tip and prepared to leave before the sect closed.

• Fang Xiao spotted a palm-sized sword fragment deflecting spatial rifts and recovered it after cautiously approaching.
• Fang Xiao followed a sense from his Primordial Sword Body to a broken sword and found two jade-like finger bones hanging from its hilt.
• Fang Xiao determined that the broken sword had once been a Spirit Treasure and found a second fragment nearby, but could not locate the sword tip.
• Fang Xiao used the broken sword to repel spatial rifts when a new spatial tremor erupted around him.
• Fang Xiao stopped searching for the sword tip because the dangerous rifts and the approaching closure of the Taibai Sword Sect made remaining too risky.

Fang Xiao identified the Nameless Broken Sword as possibly being made of Six Harmonies Golden Essence and hurried back from the pocket realm. He led dozens of cultivators through the Sword Qi Storm and crushed an ambush at the Inner Sect boundary.

• Fang Xiao left the pocket realm and sped down Pillar of Heaven Peak, avoiding the remaining spatial rifts.
• Fang Xiao compared the Nameless Broken Sword with Li Mobai's Jade Slip and concluded that it might contain Six Harmonies Golden Essence.
• Fang Xiao let cultivators, including followers of the Tianlan Sect, trail behind him as he headed toward the Sword Qi Storm.
• Fang Xiao passed through the Sword Qi Storm with his Taibai Token, and nearly a hundred cultivators followed him into the Outer Sect.
• Five ambushers tried to block Fang Xiao, but he disarmed and killed them in two breaths before continuing onward.

Fang Xiao returned to Tianlan Sect’s Cross-Domain Flying Boat, reported his discoveries to Ling Taichu, and asked for help developing a divine ability from the Myriad Sword True Fiend. As the boat left Pillar of Heaven Peak, Qing Hong recovered in hiding and began studying the secret technique he had received: Tai Shang Wang Qing Pian.

• Fang Xiao left Pillar of Heaven Peak, reached Tianlan Sect’s flying boat, and escaped the crowd of disciples eager to meet him.
• Qing Feng told Fang Xiao that his victory over Shangqing Sect had brought honor to Tianlan Sect and heard his account of Zhenkong.
• Fang Xiao presented Ling Taichu with the Myriad Sword True Fiend and the Nine Heavens Divine Fiend Sword Light method, and Ling Taichu agreed to ask Li Mobai to help refine the cultivation method.
• Two days later, Tianlan Sect’s flying boat departed as spatial rifts covered Pillar of Heaven Peak again.
• Qing Hong rested in a remote cave while Qing Yu lamented the loss of his Immaculate True Crystal, then Qing Hong began studying Tai Shang Wang Qing Pian.

Two months after returning to Heavenly Outer Peak, Fang Xiao reunited with his friends and arranged their help expanding his Spirit Wine business. Ling Taichu then summoned him to the Tianlan Sect’s True Spirit Hall, where Fang Xiao climbed the steps to attend.

• Fang Xiao returned to Heavenly Outer Peak, checked on his Green Thunder Date Tree, visited his father and Old Man Fan, and learned Yan Tingyun was preparing to form his core.
• Fang Xiao invited Xiao Yan and Fatty Han to Heavenly Outer Peak, offered them cave dwellings, and asked them to help expand his Spirit Wine business.
• Fang Xiao gave Fatty Han Spirit Stones to buy Vajra Ape cubs and tasked Xiao Yan with supplying Spirit Feeding Pills and preparing spirit liquid from Immaculate True Crystal.
• On the tenth day after his return, Ling Taichu summoned Fang Xiao to the Tianlan Sect’s main hall, and Fang Xiao climbed to the True Spirit Hall atop Taixuan Peak.

Fang Xiao received four sect rewards and a promotion to Lingxiao True Inheritance disciple, but Li Mobai judged them inadequate and promised him a Spirit Transformation grotto-heaven if he reached Nascent Soul within a hundred years. After Li Mobai reprimanded Du Yuan for objecting, he took Fang Xiao away from True Spirit Hall.

• Yi Tianhe promoted Fang Xiao to Lingxiao True Inheritance disciple and granted him the right to challenge the Top Ten True Inheritors, a Purple Mansion Scripture, a Jun Tian Stone, and Core Formation Spirit Medicine.
• Li Mobai arrived and criticized the sect for giving Fang Xiao too little, then promised him entry into Taibai Sword Sect and one of its Spirit Transformation grotto-heavens if he reached Nascent Soul within a hundred years.
• Du Yuan objected to granting Fang Xiao a grotto-heaven, and Li Mobai rebuked him and ordered him into ten years of seclusion.
• Li Mobai declared the meeting over and took Fang Xiao away, while Ling Taichu departed and the remaining cultivators stood stunned.

Fang Xiao recovered from his origin and divine-soul injuries under Li Mobai’s care, then learned that Li Mobai had created a new method for him to condense Gang Qi. Meanwhile, the Beimíng Sword Sect investigated a Nascent Soul cultivator’s mysterious death in the Northern Plains.

• Fang Xiao’s promotion to Lingxiao True Inheritance spread his fame throughout the Eastern Domain, and Li Mobai warned him that his origin was badly damaged and ordered him to rest for two months.
• Xiao Wanyun learned that Junior Brother Chen’s Soul Lamp had gone out and sent Junior Brother Gu, Junior Sister Zhao, and Junior Brother Zhang to investigate the Northern Plains.
• After two months in Li Mobai’s formation, Fang Xiao’s origin and divine-soul injuries recovered, and his Soul Nurturing Gourd improved.
• Li Mobai took Fang Xiao to condense Gang Qi and gave him the Primordial One Qi Method, a new divine ability adapted from the Nine Heavens Divine Fiend Sword Light.
• Fang Xiao questioned whether the untested method would work, but agreed to try it under Li Mobai’s protection.

Fang Xiao refined the Myriad Sword True Fiend and traveled with Li Mobai into spatial turbulence, where he discovered that he could easily condense the Primordial Divine Firmament. After three months, he completed the Primordial One Qi Method and formed the Primordial True Qi Seed of Divine Ability, bringing the False Core and Core Formation stages within reach.

• Li Mobai took Fang Xiao beyond the nine heavens and into spatial turbulence, where he urged him to refine the Myriad Sword True Fiend and sense the Primordial Divine Firmament.
• Fang Xiao condensed the Primordial Divine Firmament and found that it immediately merged with the Myriad Sword True Fiend into gray Primordial True Qi.
• Li Mobai discovered Fang Xiao's Primordial Sword Body and concluded that it explained his unusual compatibility with the Primordial Divine Firmament.
• After half a month in spatial turbulence, Li Mobai returned the flying boat to the Taichang Realm, where Fang Xiao continued refining the Killing Intent.
• Three months later, Fang Xiao merged all the Myriad Sword True Fiend into Primordial True Qi and successfully formed its Seed of Divine Ability.

Four years after entering seclusion, Fang Xiao completed his second sword, Void Cutter, and advanced his sword radiance to its fifth evolution. Meanwhile, Fatty Han and Maoqiu oversaw a growing group of Vajra Apes on Heavenly Outer Peak, and Fang Xiao continued developing his swordsmanship and equipment.

• Fang Xiao entered seclusion to reach the False Core stage before the journey to the North Pole.
• Over four years, Fatty Han built up a group of seventy-two Vajra Apes, while Maoqiu advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm and helped manage them.
• Fatty Han established the Pill Alliance, which took over supplying the Spirit Feeding Pills needed to raise the monkeys.
• Fang Xiao forged Void Cutter using Six Harmonies Golden Essence, supreme-grade spirit metals, Immaculate True Crystal, and Innate Geng Metal Qi.
• Fang Xiao practiced with Void Cutter and completed the fifth evolution of his sword radiance, splitting it into thirty-two streams.
• Fang Xiao placed Void Cutter in his dantian alongside the Sword Nurturing Gourd containing the Great White Sword Pellet, and recognized that further speed gains required forging a magic treasure.

After years of preparation, Fang Xiao left Heavenly Outer Peak for the North Sea to seek the Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale and advance his cultivation before forming a Golden Core. As Fang Xiao set out, Ling Taichu entrusted Heavenly Outer Peak to Qing Feng and departed to prepare for his Spirit Transformation breakthrough.

• Fang Xiao reviewed his progress toward Core Formation and decided to travel to the Extreme North Ice Plains for the Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale.
• Fang Xiao bid farewell to Ling Taichu, who gave him Core Formation Spirit Medicine, a sword talisman with three strikes, and an unfamiliar jade talisman.
• Qing Feng gave Fang Xiao a replacement jade sword and warned him to stay safe as he departed for the Teleportation Hall.
• After Fang Xiao left, Qing Feng told Ling Taichu that demonic conflicts had reached the North Sea and that Chen Wen had died while investigating the Northern Plains.
• Ling Taichu said Fang Xiao should avoid the conflict in the Extreme North Ice Plains, then left Heavenly Outer Peak to prepare for Spirit Transformation, leaving Qing Feng in charge.

Fang Xiao traveled to Donglai Immortal City and paid to join a Myriad Treasures Pavilion merchant caravan bound for the North Sea. As the Cross-Domain Flying Boat departed, the sight of the sea helped him settle his feelings about his past and focus on the road ahead.

• Fang Xiao arrived in Donglai Immortal City and asked the Myriad Treasures Pavilion about merchant caravans to the North Sea.
• Shopkeeper Man Lin offered Fang Xiao the choice of serving as a guard or paying Spirit Stones, and he paid for passage and received a jade token.
• Three days later, Fang Xiao boarded the Cross-Domain Flying Boat and secured himself in a guest room while waiting for departure.
• Fang Xiao watched the sea appear beyond the mountains and contemplated his past, accepting its place in his life as his thoughts turned toward the future.

After a sword-intent insight helped Fang Xiao break through to an early Core Formation stage divine soul, he planned to elevate the Great White Sword Pellet and Sword Nurturing Gourd into magic treasures. Three months into the voyage, as the merchant caravan neared the Vast Sea, he began engraving restrictions on both artifacts at once.

• Fang Xiao controlled his newly strengthened sword intent with the Chanting Sword Art, then realized his Sword Heart had grown clear and his divine-soul bottleneck was close to breaking.
• Fang Xiao used the Soul Nurturing Gourd to draw spiritual essence from the Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul and advanced his divine soul to the early Core Formation stage.
• Fang Xiao decided to elevate the Great White Sword Pellet and Sword Nurturing Gourd together while leaving the newly formed Void Cutter Sword unchanged.
• Three months into the voyage, the merchant caravan neared the Vast Sea, and Fang Xiao focused on constructing his Purple Mansion Dao Palace and preparing his two magic treasure embryos.
• Fang Xiao summoned the Sword Nurturing Gourd and Great White Sword Pellet, enveloped them in True Fire, and began engraving their restrictions simultaneously.

Fang Xiao completed the Earth Fiend Restriction on the Sword Nurturing Gourd and Great White Sword Pellet, and the two treasures fused their restrictions, giving the gourd the ability to build sword momentum. A sea of blue-green flames then engulfed the Cross-Domain Flying Boat, which escaped only after the cultivators surnamed Yun used a Jade Bowl to shield it and led it through the thunderclouds above.

• Fang Xiao finished inscribing the Sword Nurturing Gourd and Great White Sword Pellet, turning them into Low-grade Magic Treasures with one layer of Earth Fiend Restriction.
• The treasures' restrictions fused, and the Great White Sword Pellet settled inside the gourd, where it could accumulate sword momentum.
• A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator ordered everyone aboard the Cross-Domain Flying Boat to the deck as a blue-green sea of flames ignited beneath them.
• The cultivator surnamed Yun directed five Core Formation cultivators to raise the flying boat, but the expanding flames caught it and overwhelmed its protective formation.
• The cultivator surnamed Yun used a Jade Bowl Magic Treasure to shield the flying boat as it rose through the flames and entered the thunderclouds.
• The Cross-Domain Flying Boat passed beyond the thunderclouds, and the cultivators saw the clear azure sky again.

After the Cross-Domain Flying Boat survived the Yin Fire, Fang Xiao and the other cultivators were attacked by a horde of Demon Beasts. The boat’s Core Formation cultivators destroyed it to create an opening to flee, but they escaped first and left the rest to die amid the demon attack.

• The Myriad Treasures Merchant Association explained that an eruption from a hidden Netherworld Sea Eye had caused the Yin Fire Burning Sea, and the Nascent Soul Cultivator surnamed Yun ordered cultivators who had hidden during the crisis to leave the boat.
• Four days later, Demon Beasts swarmed the Cross-Domain Flying Boat and struck it with a massive water column as Fang Xiao rushed onto the deck.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivator surnamed Yun fought Azure Scale and Crimson Flame, but fled when another Transformed Demon Beast arrived, leaving the passengers behind.
• The Core Formation cultivators announced that they would disintegrate the Cross-Domain Flying Boat to hold back the demons while everyone fled.
• Fang Xiao and the other passengers fled as the boat exploded, but the Core Formation cultivators had escaped first, and the survivors were caught by Demon Beasts or killed in the blast.

Fang Xiao fled the demon beast horde but was pursued by a Crimson Fire Flood Dragon, forcing him into a secluded-sea battle. He trapped the beast in his sword formation, and the chapter ended as it unleashed an unstable thunder divine ability.

• Fang Xiao escaped the demon beast horde, but the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon spotted him and chased him far from the battlefield.
• Fang Xiao used the Sword Nurturing Gourd to strike off the tip of the dragon's horn, then blocked its flames with Five Elements True Light and the Void Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Crimson Fire Flood Dragon charged Fang Xiao, but he used the Chanting Sword Art to stun it and trapped it in the sword formation.
• Fang Xiao taunted the trapped dragon and focused the sword formation's attacks on its tail until the beast revealed its Demon Core.
• The Crimson Fire Flood Dragon formed a thunder divine ability, and Fang Xiao combined his remaining sword lights into the formation as the beast launched its unstable attack.