Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao and Li Mobai reached the grotto-heaven where Qin Qing had fallen, hoping to resurrect her despite the Xuan Clan’s growing hunt for Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect disciples. Fang Xiao devised a plan to preserve only the place of her death and entrusted Li Mobai with the Void Cutter Sword as they prepared to enter.

• Fang Xiao recounted his struggles in the lower realms, and Li Mobai marveled at how he had survived them.
• Fang Xiao and Li Mobai traveled for a month to reach Qin Qing’s grotto-heaven, avoiding conflict as Body Integration Realm incarnations from several realms entered the fray.
• Li Mobai explained that resurrecting Qin Qing would take at least three hours and that only the location where she fell had to remain intact.
• Fang Xiao planned to let the grotto-heaven shatter if necessary while using the Void Cutter Sword to preserve the small area containing Qin Qing’s death site.
• Fang Xiao gave Li Mobai the Void Cutter Sword and told him to teleport to the site and perform Yin-Yang Mutual Generation while Fang Xiao handled the danger.
• Li Mobai asked Fang Xiao whether he was truly confident in the plan.

Fang Xiao and Li Mobai entered the pocket realm and attacked the Xuan Clan ambush, which had been set to prevent the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect from rescuing anyone. Fang Xiao killed the waiting disciples and incapacitated Twelfth Uncle, leaving the two Xuan Clan Body Integration incarnations to face the newcomers.

• Twelfth Uncle explained that the Xuan Clan had stationed forces at the spatial passage because it feared the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect had plans and might be connected to the murder of Seventh Brother.
• Twelfth Uncle ordered two disciples to guard the passage and interrogate anyone who emerged, while most unaffiliated visitors had been killed over the past ten years.
• Li Mobai emerged from the passage, and Fang Xiao followed unseen using the Great Five Elements Escape Arts.
• Fang Xiao struck down the two guards with his sword, then used his Thought Sword to kill the other Xuan Clan disciples.
• Fang Xiao appeared behind Twelfth Uncle and affected him with a mind-targeting technique, while the remaining Body Integration incarnation realized the newcomers were also Body Integration experts.

Fang Xiao confronted the Xuan Clan’s two surviving members with six Dao soldiers, while Li Mobai remained nearby. The Xuan Clan members tried to destroy the grotto-heaven, but Fang Xiao’s Forbidden Dao Spirit Light weakened their attacks, leaving only fissures that could be repaired.

• The Xuan Clan’s two survivors identified Fang Xiao as the likely killer of their kin and planned to capture Li Mobai to learn Fang Xiao’s origins.
• Fang Xiao summoned six disguised Dao soldiers, surrounding the two survivors and attacking them with Sixth Order methods.
• Realizing they were outnumbered, the Xuan Clan members struck the surrounding space in an attempt to destroy the grotto-heaven and eliminate their enemies.
• Fang Xiao’s Forbidden Dao Spirit Light dispersed the Dao trajectory power in their attacks, reducing their strength and limiting the damage to repairable spatial fissures.

Fang Xiao killed two Xuan Clan incarnations, but their true bodies arrived as the grotto-heaven collapsed. He revealed his true body and overwhelmed both Body Integration Realm cultivators, while the Xuan Clan bloodline Tracking Marks continued to threaten his future.

• Fang Xiao reflected that killing the Xuan Clan incarnations had added to the bloodline Tracking Marks that could lead the Xuan Family Old Ancestor to him.
• The grotto-heaven began collapsing as the incarnations’ true bodies attacked from outside, and Fang Xiao used Space Severance and the Void Cutter Sword to destroy it.
• Fang Xiao’s true body emerged from the Xuanhuang Gourd and moved Li Mobai’s independent space behind him as two Xuan Clan Body Integration Realm cultivators appeared.
• The Xuan Clan pair tried to delay Fang Xiao and target Li Mobai while waiting for reinforcements, but Fang Xiao’s four-layered Dao Domain crushed their Dao Domains.
• Fang Xiao crushed the early-stage Xuan Clan cultivator and his Dao Domain, while the late-stage cultivator’s Dao Domain was also smashed apart.

Fang Xiao killed Twelfth Uncle of the Xuan Clan and fled back to the Small World before the clan’s reinforcements could arrive. Meanwhile, the gathered Xuan Clan cultivators revealed their plan to force the three realms into ending the war, unaware that Xuan Twelve had already fallen.

• Twelfth Uncle tried to send a warning to the Xuan Clan, but Fang Xiao killed him and crushed his communication jade talisman with his Dao Domains.
• Fang Xiao decided to leave the area to avoid attracting the Xuan Clan’s Mahayana ancestor, then returned to the Small World.
• The Void Cutter Sword carried Li Mobai’s independent space deeper into the void while the Profound Yellow Spiritual Gourd shrank and hung from the sword.
• More than ten Xuan Clan Body Integration Realm cultivators gathered in the void and questioned why they had been redirected from helping Twelfth Elder.
• The Xuan Clan’s strategy was to threaten the Realm Battlefield and provoke the upper powers of the Spirit Realm, Tianhuang Realm, and Devil Realm into negotiating an end to the war.
• The cultivators learned that Xuan Twelve had reported capturing a major target and asked them to surround him, not knowing Fang Xiao had killed him.

Xuan Yi learned that Xuan Twelve and Zhong Ting had been killed and suspected a Mahayana Stage cultivator was responsible, so the Xuan Clan decided to report the threat to their father rather than seek revenge. Meanwhile, Li Mobai revived Qin Qing through the Yin-Yang Mutual Generation method, and Fang Xiao learned how its resurrection worked.

• Xuan Yi showed the Xuan Clan genealogy and revealed that Xuan Twelve's name had vanished, confirming his death.
• Xuan Yi displayed Xuan Twelve's incomplete message warning the clan not to rescue him and to retreat.
• Xuan Yi concluded that a Mahayana Stage cultivator had likely killed both Xuan Twelve and Zhong Ting, and the clan decided to inform their father.
• Li Mobai used the Yin-Yang Mutual Generation method to bring Qin Qing back to life after three hours.
• Fang Xiao learned that the method restored a person from an imprint in the Great Dao of Yin-Yang and required the pair to share their lifespans.

Fang Xiao asked Li Mobai for the complete inheritance of the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song so his Taiyin Sun Incarnations could cultivate it, but Li Mobai could not pass on the restricted method. As Fang Xiao planned to visit the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect, Li Mobai urged him to join its efforts, though Fang Xiao remained wary of being drawn into the sect’s conflict with Mahayana powers.

• Fang Xiao summoned his Taiyin Sun Incarnations and explained that they could benefit from the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song and its method of Yin-Yang Mutual Generation.
• Li Mobai and Qin Qing examined the incarnations’ powerful Yin-Yang Dao charm, while Li Mobai joked with the Yang Incarnation.
• Li Mobai told Fang Xiao that he could not pass on the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song’s inheritance.
• Fang Xiao said he planned to visit the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect and bring Martial Uncle Purple Flame to reunite with Fellow Daoist Nie, then asked Li Mobai about obtaining the inheritance.
• Li Mobai urged Fang Xiao to seek the inheritance through his Tianlan Sect background and reassured him that the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect had been unable to help because of its own troubles.
• Fang Xiao understood Li Mobai hoped he would help the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect, but he remained reluctant to enter the conflict between Mahayana powers.

Fang Xiao set aside Li Mobai’s recruitment offer and returned to the Earth Immortal Realm after Li and Qin agreed to stay with Man Shan and the others. He planned to raise his cultivation, infiltrate the Devil Realm with Six Desires’ help, and travel to the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect while settling old scores along the way.

• Li Mobai said he would not contact Qianyuan Pavilion again because its disciples had rejected his warning and attacked him.
• Fang Xiao asked Li Mobai and Qin to reunite with Man Shan and the others, then returned to the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Fang Xiao planned to use the power of Cause and Effect to raise his magical power from mid Void Refining to peak Void Refining.
• Fang Xiao decided to seek the Immortal Mansion Jade Talisman in the Devil Realm by using Six Desires to carry the Small World’s gateway through the Realm Battlefield passage.
• Fang Xiao planned to reach the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect through an Ascension Platform and confront the Royal Court, Emperor Teng, and King Xun, while avoiding Mahayana Stage cultivators.

Fang Xiao traveled through the Spirit Realm for over a century, gathering experiences and Spirit Wine inheritances while his true body cultivated in seclusion. He reached the peak of late Void Refining but stopped short of advancing because his Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate could not contain the nine Dao tracks needed to complete his planned Great Heavenly Dao Vein, leaving him to seek a way to break its limit.

• Fang Xiao chose to travel in winding routes through the Spirit Realm instead of heading directly to the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect.
• Fang Xiao gathered Spirit Wine inheritances, deduced the Thousand-Recipe Wine Pool's recipes through the Sixth Order, and brewed several crucial Seventh Order Spirit Wines.
• Fang Xiao cultivated in seclusion for eighteen hundred years, passed the lightning tribulation, and reached the peak of late Void Refining.
• Fang Xiao found that his Primordial Chaos Sword Venerate could hold only three hundred and fifty-one Dao tracks, nine short of the Great Heavenly Cycle he wanted.
• Fang Xiao decided to break his Dharma Idol's limit again, though he recognized that he had already pushed beyond the Void Refining ceiling many times.

Fang Xiao fused Buddhist Essence and Vast Righteous Qi into Myriad Origin Qi, strengthening his foundation and raising his cultivation again. He nearly reached peak Void Refining, but stopped one Primordial Chaos Sword Dao track short.

• Fang Xiao opened two boxes containing special Seventh Order spirit veins and waited as their powers merged with Myriad Origin Qi.
• The four auxiliary stars shifted into a new orbit, becoming six as the Earth Immortal Realm incorporated Buddhist Essence and Vast Righteous Qi.
• Fang Xiao cultivated with the renewed Myriad Origin Qi, reshaping his foundation and increasing his capacity.
• Fang Xiao summoned nine Dao tracks and used Cause and Effect to push his cultivation toward peak Void Refining.
• Fang Xiao's breakthrough stopped with 359 Primordial Chaos Sword Dao tracks, leaving him one track short.

Fang Xiao realized that finding another power of heaven and earth to complete his Myriad Origin Qi would require looking beyond the Spirit Realm, and he planned to search the Devil Realm while pursuing the Immortal Mansion Jade Talisman. As his Yin-Yang Incarnation reached the Yin Yang Domain, he discovered that the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect had lost control of its territories and was nearing collapse.

• Fang Xiao concluded that he needed a suitable Seventh Order or higher power from outside the Spirit Realm to advance his Myriad Origin Qi, and chose the Devil Realm as his next destination.
• As the Realm War neared its end, Fang Xiao prepared to resolve the matters of True Monarch Ziyan and the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song before the Xuan Clan could intensify its attacks.
• Fang Xiao sent a Dao Soldier to secretly follow Six Desires, relying on him to help infiltrate the Devil Realm.
• Fang Xiao's Yin-Yang Incarnation reached the Yin Yang Domain and found chaos across territories that the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect had once governed.
• Fang Xiao learned that many regional forces had lost their Body Integration Realm protectors or withdrawn, leaving the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect too weak to restore order.

Fang Xiao decided to deal with the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect only through equal transactions, then encountered sect disciples betraying and killing their fellows. He intervened to stop the pursuit, leaving the six cultivators immobilized before him.

• Fang Xiao concluded that the chaos around the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect would continue unless the sect regained strength, and decided to communicate with it through Li Mobai or Qin Qing rather than get involved in its fate.
• Wu Yong fled from five fellow disciples who had tried to steal sect resources and defect, after they killed two companions and wounded him.
• The five traitors urged Wu Yong to surrender as his injuries worsened and he struggled to escape.
• Fang Xiao froze Wu Yong and his five pursuers in midair with his power, then appeared before them with the Yin-Yang Incarnation.

Fang Xiao restrained the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect disciples pursuing Wu Yong and exposed conflicting claims about who had betrayed the sect. Elder Yuan Xie joined the accusers, and Fang Xiao learned that Yuan Xie's Master and grandmaster were powerful sect members, leaving him eager to investigate whether they were traitors too.

• Five Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect disciples falsely accused Wu Yong of betraying the sect and tried to convince Fang Xiao of their story.
• Fang Xiao silenced the group, revealed that someone else was hiding nearby, and froze the fleeing Spirit Transformation cultivator, Elder Yuan Xie.
• Wu Yong recognized Yuan Xie, but the elder called Wu Yong a traitor and claimed he had intercepted Wu Yong's distress message instead of answering it.
• Fang Xiao questioned which side to believe as Yuan Xie repeated the accusations and said his Master was a Void Refinement cultivator and his grandmaster was a Body Integration cultivator.
• Fang Xiao pretended to doubt Yuan Xie's claims, and Yuan Xie offered to send a message to his Master.

Fang Xiao let Yuan Xie summon his master and grandmaster to expose the suspected traitors in the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect, while Wu Yong failed to persuade him to alert Zhang Tiansheng first. Li Mobai accepted Fang Xiao’s plan to seize the defectors and resolved to persuade Zhang Tiansheng to keep Fang Xiao with the sect.

• Fang Xiao asked Yuan Xie to summon his master and grandmaster to prove his innocence, and Yuan Xie sent his master a detailed message.
• Wu Yong despaired over the apparent betrayal in the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect and tried to convince Fang Xiao to alert Zhang Tiansheng, but Fang Xiao sealed his mouth.
• Inside the Small World, Li Mobai condemned the traitors but worried that exposing a Body Integration cultivator’s betrayal would throw the Dao Sect into chaos.
• Fang Xiao told Li Mobai that the Dao Sect’s stability depended on Zhang Tiansheng’s survival, not on how many Body Integration cultivators remained.
• Li Mobai agreed to help seize the suspected defectors and resolved to urge Zhang Tiansheng to persuade Fang Xiao to stay.

Yan Hong and Zhao Zhishui arranged to steal a Profound True Dao Artifact and lead their branch out of the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect. Yan Hong then told Zhang Chengdao he would investigate a suspected Body Integration Realm cultivator, while Zhang Chengdao assigned Lu to accompany him, leaving Yan Hong wary of being watched.

• Yan Hong told Zhao Zhishui that a stranger's appearance could provide cover for their escape from the sect.
• Yan Hong gave Zhao Zhishui a Void Breaking Flag and ordered him to gather their branch's disciples and hide them inside it.
• Yan Hong took the Profound True Dao Artifact and went to the main hall to report to Zhang Chengdao about the stranger who had detained the sect's disciples.
• Zhang Chengdao arranged for Junior Brother Lu to accompany Yan Hong to investigate the stranger.
• Yan Hong accepted the arrangement and set a meeting with Lu at the mountain gate in half a day.

Fang Xiao waited for the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect’s cultivators while questioning Yuan Xie about the sect’s predicament. When Yan Hong and Lu Fengzhou arrived, their conflicting reactions to Fang Xiao’s Yin Yang Dao Body revealed they were not acting together.

• Fang Xiao questioned Yuan Xie about the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect, and Yuan Xie condemned Wu Yong while trying to gauge whether Fang Xiao might join him in fleeing.
• Yan Hong and Lu Fengzhou arrived, and Fang Xiao recognized both as Body Integration Realm cultivators.
• Yan Hong was shocked to see Fang Xiao’s Yin-Yang Incarnation and Yin Yang Dao Body, while Lu Fengzhou tried to report the discovery to Zhang Chengdao.
• Yan Hong shattered Lu Fengzhou’s communication jade talisman and argued that the Yin Yang Dao Body could not save the sect before its ancestor fell.
• Fang Xiao noticed that Yan Hong and Lu Fengzhou seemed to be on opposing sides.

Yan Hong tried to recruit Lu Fengzhou and Fang Xiao to help him break away from the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect, but Fang Xiao’s overwhelming power turned the negotiations into a demand for the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song. Yan Hong could not provide the inheritance, so Fang Xiao decided to use him as a gift of introduction to the Dao Sect.

• Yan Hong asked Lu Fengzhou to join him in leaving the decaying Dao Sect, but Lu Fengzhou accused him of betrayal.
• Yan Hong invited Fang Xiao’s Yin-Yang Incarnation to leave the Yin Yang Domain with him, and Fang Xiao showed interest in the offer.
• Lu Fengzhou interrupted them, so Fang Xiao sealed his Dao meridians and abducted him.
• Fang Xiao asked Yan Hong for the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song in exchange for letting him leave the Yin Yang Domain unharmed.
• Yan Hong explained that the inheritance could only be accessed in a Secret Realm beneath the Dao Sect’s Mahayana ancestor, so Fang Xiao resolved to take him to the Dao Sect as a gift of introduction.

Fang Xiao captured Yan Hong and left the decision on the sect’s response to his Martial Uncle. At Chaotian Palace, the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect leaders debated punishing Yan Hong and persuading Fang Xiao to return, ending with Yan Wushuang proposing they offer him a forbidden art from the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song.

• Fang Xiao suppressed Yan Hong with Forbidden Dao Spirit Light after Yan Hong tried to flee, then entrusted the next steps to his Martial Uncle.
• Half a month later, Zhang Tiansheng and the sect’s other leaders gathered at Chaotian Palace to discuss Yan Hong’s betrayal and Fang Xiao.
• Wang Zhi urged severe punishment for Yan Hong, and Zhang Chengdao ordered the Punishment Hall to investigate while sparing disciples who had been misled.
• Zhang Chengdao argued that Fang Xiao’s talent made him vital to the sect, while Lu Fengzhou noted that Fang Xiao wanted the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song only as part of a transaction.
• Yan Wushuang urged the sect to win Fang Xiao’s favor with generous terms and proposed offering him a forbidden art contained in the Yin-Yang Great Dao Song.

Zhang Tiansheng agreed to meet Fang Xiao before deciding whether to sacrifice himself to help the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect stake its future on him. Meanwhile, Fang Xiao uncovered a sealed Profound True Dao Artifact among Yan Hong’s spoils and awakened its artifact spirit, whose Great Dao Power revealed it was connected to the Farming Dao.

• Zhang Tiansheng told the Body Integration cultivators he would meet Fang Xiao and decide whether the young cultivator was worthy of his full support.
• Fang Xiao asked the sword spirit about a sundial found among Yan Hong’s possessions and learned it was a sealed Profound True Dao Artifact belonging to the Yin-Yang Great Dao Sect.
• Fang Xiao used the Azure Cloud Dharma Aspect to dissolve the sundial’s seal and release its artifact spirit.
• The artifact spirit appeared, angrily demanded to know where Yan Hong was, and confronted Fang Xiao and the sword artifact.
• Fang Xiao sensed the Great Dao Power around the artifact spirit and recognized it as the Farming Dao.

Fang Xiao learned that the Profound True Dao Artifact was the Square Sundial, a treasure with Farming Dao abilities that could ripen spirit plants and promote their seeds across tiers. He decided to keep it to help grow spirit rice in the Earth Immortal Realm, leaving its Artifact Spirit to accept that Fang Xiao would not send it back.

• Fang Xiao attacked the arrogant sundial Artifact Spirit until it agreed to answer his questions.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the Square Sundial had been forged by a Body Integration Realm spirit plant cultivator and could accelerate plant growth through ripening.
• The Artifact Spirit revealed that its Cross-Tier Seed Promotion ability could guide spirit plants toward higher grades by drawing on plants of the same kind.
• Fang Xiao realized the Square Sundial could solve his trouble with producing spirit rice while Li Hanyang and the Shaking Sea Ape advanced too slowly.
• Fang Xiao decided to keep the Square Sundial, then told its Artifact Spirit that its new home was with him.