Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao cultivated with 'Cause and Effect' until he reached Peak Clarity of Nature, but abandoned his attempt to enter the God-Seeing Realm when he realized it would cost him Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate and his Qi cultivation. He accepted the end of his path with Heavenly Sword Mountain and planned to leave the Tianhuang Realm after obtaining the Incomplete Innate Treasure.

• Fang Xiao returned to his cultivation chamber and used 'Cause and Effect' to raise his Martial Dao cultivation to Peak Clarity of Nature.
• Fang Xiao formed the God-Slaying Sword and connected it to the 'heart' and 'soul' Dao tracks to prepare for the God-Seeing Realm.
• Fang Xiao sensed that completing the breakthrough would force Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate from his body and reduce his Qi cultivation to peak Deity Transformation.
• Fang Xiao stopped the breakthrough, gave up pursuing Martial Dao alongside his cultivator path, and recognized the soul body and Fang Tianxin's development as gains from his efforts.
• Fang Xiao accepted that he could not meet the cultivation requirement for Heavenly Sword Mountain's third inheritance trial and decided to leave the Tianhuang Realm after obtaining the Incomplete Innate Treasure.

After five hundred years of seclusion, Fang Xiao reviewed his cultivation and discovered that his Void Cutter Sword and Dao Domains had greatly strengthened, though his Martial Dao breakthrough had failed. He left the cultivation chamber and prepared to meet Zhang Baichuan, whom he had brought from the Realm Battlefield.

• Fang Xiao assessed his progress, noting that he had advanced his Dao Bones and refined more than two hundred Dao tracks but still needed to raise his magical power to reach late Void Refining.
• Fang Xiao considered how his strengthened Void Cutter Sword and four Dao Domains would make his journey into the Great Spring Forbidden Zone safer and give him the ability to escape powerful enemies.
• Fang Xiao wondered whether his special soul body had an undiscovered talent, but set the question aside because his Martial Dao path had been severed.
• Fang Xiao left the cultivation chamber, and the Legacy Sword Artifact realized his attempt had failed but saw that he remained composed.
• Fang Xiao admitted to the sword spirit that he regretted the failed attempt but considered five hundred years an acceptable price, then prepared to meet Zhang Baichuan.

Fang Xiao discovered that Liu Tiansheng had captured Qi Yunsheng and taken the Small World gateway. Fang Xiao emerged to reclaim it, but Liu Tiansheng slowed his attack with an unknown method, leaving the two facing off.

• Fang Xiao sensed an unfamiliar presence touching the Small World gateway and sent Dao soldiers out to scout.
• Liu Tiansheng, a late stage Body Integration cultivator, captured Qi Yunsheng and took the Small World gateway from him.
• Liu Tiansheng recognized the figures emerging from the gateway as incarnations and tried unsuccessfully to seal it.
• Fang Xiao spread his Small World domain to absorb Liu Tiansheng's sealing methods, then emerged to reclaim the gateway.
• Liu Tiansheng dodged Fang Xiao's first strike, then slowed Fang Xiao and the Void Cutter Sword before Fang Xiao withdrew.

Fang Xiao confronted Liu Tiansheng, an Integrated Body Late Stage cultivator who had tracked down Qi Yunsheng, and launched an overwhelming attack. Liu Tiansheng’s Primordial Magnetic Dao Body was swept aside by Fang Xiao’s four layered Dao Domains, leaving him stunned by Fang Xiao’s vast Great Dao Power.

• Liu Tiansheng recognized Fang Xiao as the cultivator River Daoist had mentioned and worried he might not be able to defeat him.
• Fang Xiao suspected Liu Tiansheng had come because of his own actions or as a scout for a Mahayana Stage expert, and decided he could not let him escape.
• Fang Xiao summoned Void Cutter Sword and Profound Origin Sect, activated Sword Completes Heaven and Earth, and unleashed four layered Dao Domains.
• Liu Tiansheng retaliated with a Primordial Magnetic Storm and manifested his Primordial Magnetic Dao Body.
• Fang Xiao’s four Dao Domains crushed Liu Tiansheng’s Dao Body aside, shocking Liu Tiansheng with the scale of Fang Xiao’s Great Dao Power.

Fang Xiao captured Liu Tiansheng and learned that River Daoist had sent him to investigate Qi Yunsheng’s connection to Fang Xiao. The sword spirit warned that River Daoist was likely closing in and that escape from Changchun Domain was nearly impossible, leaving Fang Xiao to consider destroying the Small World gateway.

• Fang Xiao crushed Liu Tiansheng’s defenses, sealed his Great Dao, took the Small World gateway, and stored Liu Tiansheng and Qi Yunsheng inside it before fleeing.
• After hiding for several days, Fang Xiao returned to the Small World, where Fang Tianxin and the sword spirit told him that Liu Tiansheng had been sent by River Daoist.
• The sword spirit explained that River Daoist suspected a connection between Fang Xiao and Qi Yunsheng and had likely sent someone to watch Liu Tiansheng as well.
• The sword spirit warned that River Daoist might already be heading to Changchun Domain and that the teleportation formations and other escape routes were likely compromised.
• Fang Xiao realized that leaving Changchun Domain or fleeing into the void would not shake River Daoist’s pursuit, and the only apparent option was to destroy the Small World gateway.

Fang Xiao decided to head for the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, hoping its dangers would deter River Daoist from pursuing him. Meanwhile, River Daoist learned that Liu Tiansheng had vanished and returned one of Su Che’s Dao Bones as a reward.

• Fang Xiao decided to enter the Great Spring Forbidden Zone and planned to bring Zhang Baichuan along, then left the Small World for Great Chun’s main body.
• River Daoist questioned Su Che about Liu Tiansheng’s disappearance, and Su Che identified the escaped cultivator as the one who had captured Liu Tiansheng.
• River Daoist gave Su Che one of his Dao Bones, and Su Che accepted it submissively.

River Daoist set out for the Changchun Domain to capture Fang Xiao, while Su Che secretly hoped the journey would bring River Daoist trouble. In the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, Fang Xiao and his companions learned that Zhang Baichuan had concealed several suspected taboos as they searched for an Incomplete Innate Treasure.

• River Daoist decided to travel to the Changchun Domain to capture Fang Xiao, and Su Che silently wished that River Daoist would die there.
• Fang Xiao, Fang Tianxin, and Zhang Baichuan entered the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, where Zhang Baichuan explained its confirmed taboos against killing plants and harboring malicious intent.
• Zhang Baichuan claimed that cutting the abundant vines would not kill them, and Fang Tianxin confirmed to Fang Xiao that his explanation was not the whole truth.
• Fang Tianxin revealed that Zhang Baichuan had concealed a suspected no-fly taboo involving mayflies that attacked airborne objects.
• Fang Tianxin also revealed that Zhang Baichuan's sect suspected Great Chun killed a Body Integration Realm cultivator for using Great Dao Power, though the taboo had never been confirmed.

Fang Xiao and Zhang Baichuan encountered a Tree Slave while traveling deeper into the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, forcing them to flee. Zhang Baichuan explained that people who violated the taboos were eroded by Great Chun and turned into mindless Tree People enslaved forever.

• Fang Xiao grew suspicious of Zhang Baichuan because Fang Tianxin could not see part of his thoughts whenever Great Chun came up.
• Zhang Baichuan warned Fang Xiao that trouble lay ahead, and Fang Xiao spotted a human eye watching them through a crack in the vine-covered wall.
• Zhang Baichuan recognized the creature as a Tree Slave and immediately fled through the passage, with Fang Xiao and Fang Tianxin following.
• The group reached an open area, where Zhang Baichuan confirmed they were no longer being pursued.
• Zhang Baichuan told Fang Xiao that people who violated the Great Spring Forbidden Zone's taboos became mindless Tree People controlled by Great Chun.

Fang Xiao learned that the Great Spring Forbidden Zone’s Tree Slaves were nearly impossible to kill and confronted Zhang Baichuan about the dangers and purpose of their journey. As they approached Great Chun, Fang Tianxin could no longer read Zhang Baichuan’s thoughts, and Fang Xiao concluded that something was seriously wrong with him.

• Zhang Baichuan explained that Tree Slaves retained their former cultivation, regenerated through Great Chun, and could not be killed without drawing Great Chun’s retaliation.
• Fang Xiao demanded that Zhang Baichuan disclose the location of the Incomplete Innate Treasure and the dangers ahead, invoking his Dao Vow.
• Zhang Baichuan said the treasure belonged to a fallen Mahayana Stage cultivator whose corpse had not become a Tree Slave, then revealed that he hoped to claim some of the cultivator’s other wealth.
• Fang Xiao questioned why Zhang Baichuan had willingly led him into the forbidden zone and suspected that his stated motive was false.
• Fang Tianxin could no longer see into Zhang Baichuan’s thoughts, and Fang Xiao concluded that something was wrong with him.

Fang Xiao used Soul Searching on Zhang Baichuan and discovered the location of the Incomplete Innate Treasure, but a green light restored Zhang Baichuan's soul and transformed his body. Fang Xiao realized the creature before him was a conscious being resembling a Tree Slave.

• Fang Xiao decided Zhang Baichuan's unexplained ability to evade his Dao Vow made him too dangerous to trust, so he suppressed him and began Soul Searching.
• Fang Xiao broke through Zhang Baichuan's soul defense with a Thought Sword, shattering his martial soul and searching his memories as they rapidly crumbled.
• Fang Xiao found the location of the Incomplete Innate Treasure and the place where a Mahayana Stage existence had fallen.
• A green light emerged from Zhang Baichuan's soul, dissolved Fang Xiao's Spiritual Sense, and restored the damaged soul, forcing Fang Xiao to retreat.
• Fang Xiao attacked Zhang Baichuan with countless sword lights, but vines and flowers burst from his mangled body and reassembled it.
• Fang Xiao recognized the transformed Zhang Baichuan as a Tree Slave-like creature with its own consciousness.

Fang Xiao escaped from Zhang Baichuan and the tree slaves, then devised a plan to test whether tree slaves could be taken beyond the Great Spring Forbidden Zone and destroyed there. He began searching along the boundary between the outer and inner regions for a lone, weak tree slave.

• Zhang Baichuan summoned more than twenty tree slaves, and Fang Xiao used the Great Five Elements Escape Arts to flee with Fang Tianxin in the Small World.
• Zhang Baichuan healed, became the tree slaves’ king, and watched Fang Xiao depart without pursuing him.
• Fang Xiao decided not to use Dao soldiers to kill tree slaves because Great Chun might trace their connection to him.
• Fang Xiao planned to lure a tree slave outside the forbidden zone and began circling the inner region’s boundary to find one alone.
• Fang Xiao returned to search for the first tree slave he had encountered, but it had disappeared.

Fang Xiao used River Daoist’s attack on Great Chun to draw its attention away while he moved toward its true body and the Incomplete Innate Treasure. He found a Tree Slave and prepared to test whether he could isolate it inside his Small World.

• Fang Xiao recognized River Daoist’s sword strike against Great Chun and realized the two powerful beings were now clashing as he had planned.
• Great Chun regenerated its severed canopy, wrapped around River Daoist’s giant sword, and withered it into nothingness.
• Fang Xiao headed toward Great Chun’s true body, intending to find Tree Slaves and test his hypothesis while Great Chun focused on River Daoist.
• Fang Xiao spotted a Tree Slave racing toward the core region and overtook it without attacking.
• Fang Xiao opened the entrance to his Small World, intending to bring the Tree Slave inside and sever its connection to Great Chun.

Fang Xiao captured a Tree Slave inside his Small World and discovered that Great Chun could not detect or attack the gateway. As River Daoist continued attacking Great Chun, six more Mahayana Stage cultivators arrived, bringing the seven great powers of the Tianhuang Realm together.

• Fang Xiao drew the Tree Slave into his Small World domain, captured it, and quickly closed the gateway.
• Great Chun sent roots to surround and probe the gateway, but they withdrew without attacking it, and Fang Xiao realized he could safely capture more Tree Slaves.
• Zhang Baichuan sensed a Tree Slave’s disappearance but turned its attention back to River Daoist’s renewed attack.
• River Daoist continued striking Great Chun from beyond its reach while martial cultivators fled the Changchun Domain.
• Yu Changkong and five other Mahayana Stage cultivators joined River Daoist, who greeted them as they arrived.

River Daoist gathered seven Mahayana Stage cultivators by claiming the Divine Tree Fruit might have ripened in the Great Spring Forbidden Zone. He had fabricated the report to draw them into the zone while he pursued Fang Xiao and the Heavenly Sword Mountain Inheritance, and his premature attack on Great Chun raised suspicions.

• River Daoist welcomed the seven Mahayana Stage cultivators he had summoned, including the newly advanced Jun Wuya.
• Fairy Lan explained that the True Meaning of the Divine Tree strengthened a cultivator’s Great Dao, revealing why the Divine Tree Fruit was so valuable.
• Zhao Zhenyi demanded to know whether the fruit had truly ripened, and River Daoist claimed the report was uncertain.
• River Daoist’s real plan was to distract the other cultivators with the supposed fruit while he seized Fang Xiao and pursued the Heavenly Sword Mountain Inheritance.
• The cultivators accepted that they needed to investigate, but noticed River Daoist had started attacking Great Chun before they arrived.

River Daoist persuaded the eight Mahayana cultivators to join forces to fell Great Chun and divide its True Meaning, hoping to strengthen the Tianhuang Realm before the True Immortal's Legacy Mansion appeared. Meanwhile, Fang Xiao advanced toward the core of the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, puzzled by the absence of other Tree Slaves.

• Elder Yao challenged River Daoist about his fierce attack on Great Chun, and River Daoist claimed he had only been curious about the Divine Tree Fruit.
• Ling Wujian proposed rules forbidding the cultivators from attacking one another before finding the Divine Tree Fruit, after which they would compete for it individually.
• River Daoist urged the group to fell Great Chun and divide its True Meaning, arguing that the Tianhuang Realm needed greater strength for the coming True Immortal's Legacy Mansion.
• Jun Wuya warned that Great Chun had slain Mahayana cultivators, but River Daoist convinced the others to accept the risks and attack it.
• Fang Xiao continued toward the core of the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, where he had encountered no Tree Slaves beyond the one he had used for testing.

Fang Xiao reached the Great Chun Divine Tree’s core region, where a mass of Tree Slaves blocked his path, and used his Small World to begin absorbing them. He then realized River Daoist had summoned all eight Mahayana Stage cultivators of the Tianhuang Realm to attack Great Chun, leaving Fang Xiao caught near the coming battle.

• Fang Xiao found the path to Great Chun’s core region blocked by a huge crowd of Tree Slaves and decided to absorb them with the Small World.
• Great Chun briefly reacted to the Small World’s gate but then stopped responding as Fang Xiao continued taking in the Tree Slaves.
• Fang Xiao wondered whether River Daoist had abandoned his attack, but concluded that River Daoist was likely pursuing another plan.
• Fang Xiao sensed an overwhelming crisis and saw eight Mahayana Stage auras attack Great Chun from different directions beyond the Changchun Domain.
• Fang Xiao recognized Zhao Zhenyi’s Manifestation of Heaven and Earth technique and realized River Daoist had gathered every Mahayana Stage cultivator in the Tianhuang Realm.

Fang Xiao risked staying in the Great Spring Forbidden Zone and expanded the Small World’s entrance to clear a path through the Tree Slaves while eight Mahayana cultivators attacked Great Chun. He entered the core region as the chapter revealed that Zhang Baichuan was possessed by Great Chun’s trapped tree spirit, which feared the attackers would take the Divine Tree Heart.

• Fang Xiao decided not to retreat to the Small World and raced the eight Mahayana cultivators to find the Incomplete Innate Treasure before they felled Great Chun.
• Fang Xiao expanded the Small World entrance, causing it to absorb Tree Slaves over a vast area and angering Great Chun.
• Fang Xiao crossed the cleared ring of Tree Slaves and entered the core region of the Great Spring Forbidden Zone.
• Zhang Baichuan cursed Fang Xiao and the eight Mahayana cultivators, while the chapter revealed that Great Chun’s tree spirit occupied his body.
• The chapter explained that Great Chun’s immense foundation had trapped its late-born tree spirit, and that a fallen Mahayana cultivator had sought a way to take the living Divine Tree Heart.

Great Chun's tree spirit and an ancient divine-tree being merged after their battle left both near death, then the tree spirit hid inside Zhang Baichuan. After Zhang Baichuan revealed the Innate Treasure to Fang Xiao and returned to the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, the tree spirit began to awaken, but could not immediately pursue him.

• A Mahayana being used an Incomplete Innate Treasure to extract Great Chun's Divine Tree Heart, releasing the tree spirit, which struck his soul with the Power of Wither and Flourish.
• The being counterattacked and, after gravely wounding Great Chun's tree spirit, merged with it using a Secret Art to avoid certain death.
• Unable to return to the decaying body or Great Chun's tree heart, the tree spirit entered the captured Zhang Baichuan and fell asleep from its injuries.
• Zhang Baichuan escaped the Great Spring Forbidden Zone, later wandered the Tianhuang Realm, and planned to seek the Innate Treasure after reaching the Body Integration Realm.
• Fang Xiao captured Zhang Baichuan on the Realm Battlefield, and Zhang Baichuan revealed the treasure's secret hoping to save himself and lure Fang Xiao into danger.
• After Zhang Baichuan returned to the Great Spring Forbidden Zone with Fang Xiao, the tree spirit began awakening; Fang Xiao's Soul Searching accelerated the process, but it remained too weak to pursue him.

The tree spirit possessed Zhang Baichuan and revealed the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Heart’s abilities and the former Endless Wood spirit’s plan to create an innate tree heart from five Divine Tree Hearts. Having fused with Great Chun’s spirit, the newborn tree spirit stood ready to extract Great Chun’s heart and continue that quest.

• The tree spirit held the five-orifice Nine-Orifice Exquisite Heart, which enhanced comprehension and could preserve items before fusing them to reverse them to the innate.
• The tree spirit’s two occupied orifices contained Divine Tree Hearts taken from Endless Wood and Ruomu Tree.
• Endless Wood’s spirit had planned to collect five element-aligned Divine Tree Hearts and use the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Heart to create an innate tree heart or Innate Divine Tree.
• Endless Wood’s spirit had found Great Chun in the Tianhuang Realm but was defeated after underestimating the possibility of other intelligent tree spirits.
• The tree spirit fused with Great Chun’s spirit and prepared to extract Great Chun’s heart before seeking the remaining Divine Tree Hearts.

As Great Chun resisted the tree spirit’s attempt to take its Tree Heart, the tree spirit realized Fang Xiao’s Small World might offer a way to escape with the heart. It went to negotiate with Fang Xiao, who had just reached the core region and encountered it.

• Great Chun resisted the tree spirit’s efforts to extract its Tree Heart while eight Mahayana Stage cultivators attacked, forcing the tree spirit to consider abandoning the heart and fleeing.
• The tree spirit recalled that Fang Xiao had used his Small World to transport Zhang Baichuan, and concluded Fang Xiao might be able to carry it away with Great Chun’s Tree Heart.
• The tree spirit decided to negotiate with Fang Xiao rather than risk turning him into an enemy, then continued extracting the Tree Heart and headed out of the core region.
• Fang Xiao passed through the Tree Slaves into the core region, where he saw the tree spirit approaching and grew wary of its unknown strength.