Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao defeated and killed the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon with the Void Slaying Sword Formation, surviving its powerful Crimson Thunder Divine Ability. A burst of crimson light destroyed part of the sword formation, marked Fang Xiao with a tracking mark, and let the dragon’s Demon Soul and Demon Core escape, so he pursued them.

• The Crimson Fire Flood Dragon strengthened its Crimson Thunder Divine Ability with pill qi, but Fang Xiao’s sword formation destroyed the first weakened bolt.
• The dragon unleashed a much stronger bolt, which Fang Xiao knocked away with the Void Cutter Sword before restoring the sword formation.
• Fang Xiao closed the formation around the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon and killed it, shattering its Crimson Thunder Divine Ability.
• A brightening scale on the corpse erupted with crimson light and vaporized nearby sword light, while Fang Xiao recalled the Great White Sword Pellet.
• The dragon’s Demon Soul and Demon Core fled, and another stream of light passed through Fang Xiao’s defenses and left a suspected Tracking Mark on him.
• Fang Xiao followed the fleeing Demon Soul and Demon Core, intending to destroy them before escaping.

Fang Xiao captured the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon’s Demon Core, extracted its Demon Soul, and learned that its father was a powerful Transformed Demon Beast tracking him. After the father, Crimson Flame, learned of his offspring’s death, he abandoned the fight against Yun and raced after Fang Xiao.

• The Crimson Fire Flood Dragon’s Demon Core turned back to attack Fang Xiao, but Fang Xiao disrupted its thoughts, seized it, and sealed it with Spirit Sealing Talismans.
• Fang Xiao used the Soul Refining Bowl to extract and search the Demon Soul, learning that the slain flood dragon’s father was an early Transformed-stage Crimson Fire Flood Dragon and that his Tracking Mark could be sensed from hundreds of thousands of li away.
• Fang Xiao fled away from the demon horde, unable to determine his location or whether Yun could keep Crimson Flame occupied.
• Crimson Flame discovered that his offspring’s Soul Slip had shattered and abandoned his attack on Yun, leaving Azure Scale and the other demon to continue fighting the cultivator surnamed Yun.
• Crimson Flame pursued Fang Xiao at high speed as the Tracking Mark grew weaker, determined to kill his child’s murderer.

Fang Xiao fled toward the North Sea, but Crimson Flame tracked him down and captured him. Fang Xiao killed Crimson Flame with a hidden sword weapon, then escaped the explosive fire ring by diving into the sea.

• Fang Xiao used the Vast Sea Sea Chart to confirm his route toward the North Sea and hurried away from the island.
• Crimson Flame followed the Tracking Mark and caught Fang Xiao, intending to capture and interrogate him.
• Fang Xiao claimed a sect restriction would destroy his soul if Crimson Flame performed Soul Searching, then offered a jade sword containing the culprit's appearance.
• Crimson Flame inspected the jade sword, which unleashed sword radiance and killed it by severing its head.
• Fang Xiao used the Void Cutter Sword to knock away the unstable fire ring and fled into the sea as it exploded.

After surviving Crimson Flame’s scorching attack, Fang Xiao reached Chaotic Cloud Immortal City in the North Sea and gathered information for his journey to the Extreme North Ice Plains. He learned that the Polar Primordial Light would appear in roughly four months and prepared to set out after testing wine brewed from Crimson Flame’s blood.

• Fang Xiao escaped to the seabed, recovered Crimson Flame’s headless corpse, and left with severe burns and no hair.
• Five months later, Fang Xiao entered the Myriad Treasures Pavilion in Chaotic Cloud Immortal City and posed as a Western Desert monk named Luan Lai.
• Fang Xiao bought a North Sea map, a local-products catalog, recent intelligence, and white Buddhist Prayer Beads from manager Qing Yao.
• Fang Xiao learned that demonic cultivators were fleeing the Northern Plains into the North Sea and that the Polar Primordial Light was expected in about four months.
• Fang Xiao brewed Essence Blood Wine from Crimson Flame’s blood, then opened a jar and felt its powerful aroma stir his blood and qi.

After drinking Essence Blood Wine, Fang Xiao realized that body cultivation might depend on strengthening the cells that made up his fleshly body. He left for the Extreme North Ice Plains, where he quickly killed a group of Bandit Cultivators who tried to rob him and continued north.

• Fang Xiao drank Essence Blood Wine and sensed a profound change in his body, leading him to consider the role of cells in cultivation and longevity.
• Fang Xiao stored the wine, sealed the batch brewed from Crimson Flame's heart blood, and left his cave dwelling for the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Fang Xiao traveled through Wangbei Immortal City and headed north, but a group of Bandit Cultivators blocked his path and demanded his belongings.
• Fang Xiao used the Buddha Light Pearl to blind the Bandit Cultivators and killed them with Great White Sword Light.
• Fang Xiao collected the Bandit Cultivators' Storage Bags and continued toward the ice plains.

After reaching the Extreme North Ice Plains, Fang Xiao struggled to refine the Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale and faced a choice between strengthening his foundation and advancing his cultivation. He chose to wait for the approaching Polar Primordial Light and settled in a hidden ice cavern to complete his Purple Mansion Dao Palace.

• Fang Xiao reached the Extreme North Ice Plains after enduring repeated attacks from demonic bandit cultivators.
• He tried refining the Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale in the nine heavens but made little progress, and after two months realized completing the amount he needed could take ten years.
• Fang Xiao weighed whether to prioritize his foundation or form his core, then chose to wait for the Polar Primordial Light and see if it offered a better path.
• He descended to find a secure place, intending to finish refining the remaining Jun Tian Stone and construct his Purple Mansion Dao Palace.
• Fang Xiao found a vast ice cavern, set up a concealment formation in a hidden hollow, and prepared to complete the Dao Palace.

Fang Xiao formed his Purple Mansion Dao Palace and discovered that the Polar Primordial Light could supply the Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale he needed. After half a month of careful refinement, he successfully created the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.

• Fang Xiao completed the Purple Mansion Dao Palace after refining the Jun Tian Stone and meditated for three days.
• Sensing a disturbance outside, Fang Xiao left the ice cavern and saw the Polar Primordial Light covering the sky.
• Fang Xiao discovered that the Great White Sword Pellet was disrupted by the light’s Primordial Magnetic Force, so he rode a jade sword toward it.
• Fang Xiao found that the Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale made up most of the Polar Primordial Light and began cautiously drawing it in.
• After two days of testing and half a month of refinement, Fang Xiao formed the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.

Fang Xiao discovered a massive Jade of Spiritual Eyes in a hidden underground cave but found it protected by restrictions that could destroy it if disturbed. He decided to break through his physical-body bottleneck so he could use the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light to claim it, while its owner, Yuqing Long, learned that the cave’s restrictions had been triggered and rushed to investigate.

• Fang Xiao’s newly formed Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light merged with his Five Viscera and carried him through the Arctic Icefield into the earth.
• Fang Xiao followed dense spiritual energy into an underground cave and discovered a washbasin-sized Jade of Spiritual Eyes surrounded by restrictions.
• Fang Xiao realized the restrictions could make the jade self-destruct and chose to cultivate his body to the Core Formation level before using his divine light to break them.
• Yuqing Long sensed that the restrictions in his hidden residence had been triggered and left the Ice Soul Sect to protect the Jade of Spiritual Eyes.

Fang Xiao used Essence Blood Wine brewed from the Shapeshifting Stage Crimson Fire Flood Dragon to break through the bottleneck in his body-tempering cultivation. He reached the third layer of the Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture and prepared to retrieve the Jade of Spiritual Eyes.

• Fang Xiao spent three days tempering his cells with Essence Blood Wine until his body reached its most perfect state and his bottleneck appeared.
• Fang Xiao opened the jar of Essence Blood Wine brewed from the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon's heart's blood and inhaled its powerful contents.
• Fang Xiao guided the wine's potency through his body, and his cells transformed as he broke through his body-tempering bottleneck.
• The Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture advanced to the initial stage of the third layer, leaving Fang Xiao depleted until he drank from several jade gourds.
• Fang Xiao recovered, discovered he could compress the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light into a bracelet, and turned his attention to retrieving the Jade of Spiritual Eyes.

Fang Xiao discovered that his Primordial Sword Body had awakened a hidden ability during his physical breakthrough. By using Primordial True Qi to give that ability form, he created the Primordial Sword Embryo, a new dual divine ability that could become the foundation of his path to the Dao.

• Fang Xiao sensed his Primordial Sword Body stirring as his body underwent a cellular-level breakthrough.
• Fang Xiao realized the emerging ability needed a vessel and guided his Primordial True Qi through his body to absorb it.
• Fang Xiao watched the gray qi separate into black and white spheres, which joined and formed a tangible embryo.
• Fang Xiao named the new divine ability the Primordial Sword Embryo after it evolved beyond Primordial True Qi.
• Fang Xiao resolved to build on the Primordial Sword Embryo, sensing that it could lead him toward attaining the Dao.

Fang Xiao seized the Jade of Spiritual Eyes and confronted Yuqing Long, a Core Formation cultivator who claimed the treasure was his. Fang Xiao knocked away Yuqing Long’s Mysterious Ice Ring and took it, leaving Yuqing Long enraged.

• Fang Xiao assessed the Primordial Sword Embryo’s abilities and named its transformations Primordial Dao Evolution and Myriad Manifestations Return to Truth.
• Fang Xiao used the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light to dismantle the restrictions around the Jade of Spiritual Eyes without harming it.
• Yuqing Long entered the lava cave as Fang Xiao stored the Jade of Spiritual Eyes in his Storage Bracelet.
• Fang Xiao activated the Buddha Light Pearl and provoked Yuqing Long by claiming the Jade of Spiritual Eyes was fated to him.
• Yuqing Long attacked with his Mysterious Ice Ring, but Fang Xiao struck it away and took it with the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.

Fang Xiao fought Yuqing Long, overwhelmed his ice-based divine ability, and stripped away his treasures before killing him. He took Yuqing Long’s Golden Core and planned to claim the powerful ice-based divine ability contained within it.

• Yuqing Long used the Cold Soul Pearl and an Earth Fiend Restriction to unleash an ice-based divine ability, but Fang Xiao countered it with the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light and charged at him.
• Yuqing Long sent spells and magic tools at Fang Xiao, who ignored the spells and collected the tools with his divine ability.
• Yuqing Long tried to escape on the Water Cloud Boat, but Fang Xiao swept away the boat, the Cold Soul Pearl, his storage tools, and his clothing.
• Fang Xiao provoked Yuqing Long into losing control, then caught up and killed him with the Void Cutter Sword.
• Fang Xiao dug out Yuqing Long’s Golden Core and recognized that its Divine Ability Origin contained an ice-based divine ability he intended to claim.

After killing Yuqing Long, Fang Xiao learned that the Polar Primordial Light raised the Ice Dao Inheritance Land from the Cold Abyss and uncovered a way to enter it using an Ice Soul Sect Array Talisman. He left the karst cave to find a safe place to form his core before infiltrating the inheritance grounds.

• Fang Xiao soul-searched Yuqing Long and learned how the Jade of Spiritual Eyes had advanced his cultivation and led to his death.
• Fang Xiao discovered that the Ice Soul Sect’s Inheritance Land surfaced with the Polar Primordial Light and contained the source of most of the sect’s techniques.
• Fang Xiao took Yuqing Long’s Array Talisman and compared it with Ling Taichu’s, realizing that the talismans granted different levels of access.
• Fang Xiao planned to disguise himself as a True Disciple and enter the Inheritance Land after forming his core.
• Fang Xiao arranged the scene, left the karst cave, and set out to find a safe place to form his core.

After Yuqing Long’s death alarmed the Ice Soul Sect, Fang Xiao prepared to form his core in a hidden cave dwelling and advanced his Sword Heart and Sword Light Differentiation. As his core formation began, the Six Desires Heavenly Demonic Sect gathered to discuss the unrest in the Northern Plains.

• Lan Yan learned that Yuqing Long had died after leaving the Ice Soul Sect without permission, then sent two elders to investigate.
• Fang Xiao settled into a hidden cave dwelling and meditated before attempting to form his core.
• Fang Xiao comprehended Sword Heart Clarity and achieved the Sixth Evolution of Sword Light before core formation.
• After stabilizing his new Sword Dao realm, Fang Xiao began forming his core by grinding his spiritual energy with the Gang Sha energy and Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.
• The Six Desires Heavenly Demonic Sect’s three Spirit Transformation True Lords and dozens of Nascent Soul Cultivators convened to discuss the unrest across the Northern Plains.

Six Desires True Monarch revealed that Devil Race members had brought True Demonic Qi into the Northern Plains, causing widespread Demonic Contamination, and announced that the demonic sects would retreat to the North Sea. True Monarch Ziyan then planned how Beimíng Sword Sect would manage the incoming refugees while the major powers considered confronting the threat.

• Six Desires True Monarch showed the Nascent Soul Cultivators True Demonic Qi, and Corrosive Heart True Monarch explained that Devil Race members had descended and contaminated much of the Northern Plains.
• Six Desires True Monarch revealed that Moluo Sect's failed demon-summoning ritual had destroyed the sect, while Xu Che and the other investigators had become mindless Demonic Beasts.
• Six Desires True Monarch announced that Six Desires Heavenly Demonic Sect would withdraw to the North Sea, and Shi Mo Sect prepared to do the same as cultivators began fleeing the Northern Plains.
• Xiao Wanyun concluded that the demonic cultivators' arrival in the North Sea was only beginning, and True Monarch Ziyan proposed making room for Shi Mo Sect while directing other demonic cultivators toward the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• True Monarch Ziyan ordered Beimíng Sword Sect to coordinate with Tianlan Sect and assured Xiao Wanyun that the major powers would address the Demonic Contamination.

Fang Xiao completed his Core Formation on the Extreme North Ice Plains, forging a Golden Core that surpassed the known first-grade limit. After breaking through the apparent ceiling with the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light, he achieved a ten-revolution core and rose into the sky.

• Two passing cultivators spotted the enormous spiritual energy vortex and hurried toward it, believing a treasure was appearing.
• Fang Xiao condensed his unique mana imprint with the help of the Primordial Sword Body’s warnings, then formed a silver-and-gold Golden Core.
• Fang Xiao used his accumulated foundations to drive the Golden Core through nine revolutions, reaching the peak of the first grade.
• Fang Xiao infused Divine Ability Origin from the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light into his core and struck beyond the first-grade limit with his Sword Heart.
• Fang Xiao’s Golden Core completed a tenth revolution, and he blasted through the earth, soared into the sky, and recited a verse celebrating his achievement.

Fang Xiao broke through the Golden Core limit and formed a Supreme-grade Golden Core, then learned why demonic cultivators were fleeing the Northern Plains. While investigating near the Ice Soul Sect’s Inheritance Land, he discovered his Sword Light Differentiation had reached its Seventh Evolution and his body had advanced toward a Leakless Body.

• Fang Xiao formed a Supreme-grade Golden Core and used mind swords to incapacitate two Foundation Establishment cultivators who had been hiding nearby.
• Fang Xiao soul-searched the two cultivators, learned of High-level Demon Race and Demonic Contamination, then destroyed their bodies and erased all traces.
• Fang Xiao left his cave dwelling and, ten days later, waited in an underground cave near the Cold Abyss while watching for news about the Ice Soul Sect and its Inheritance Land.
• Fang Xiao realized his Sword Light Differentiation had reached the Seventh Evolution as his understanding of the sword path deepened.
• Fang Xiao examined his Supreme-grade Golden Core’s effects and found that his vital essence drained far more slowly, advancing his Immaculate Body toward a Leakless Body.

Fang Xiao investigated the abilities of his Supreme-grade Golden Core and discovered that it gave him vast, self-regenerating mana. By testing techniques and Divine Ability Origins, he realized his mana could transform into any attribute, freeing him from the limits of his Gold attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.

• Fang Xiao found that his Golden Core held abyssal mana and rapidly absorbed surrounding spiritual energy to replenish itself.
• Fang Xiao tested his magical treasures and the Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Sword Wheel but found no sign of the change he sensed.
• Fang Xiao cast techniques of different attributes and extracted the Ice Soul Divine Light and Bing Fire Divine Thunder origins from Yuqing Long's Golden Core and the Mutant Crimson Fire Flood Dragon's Demon Core.
• Fang Xiao fed both Divine Ability Origins to the Primordial Sword Embryo, which generated new Divine Abilities without rejecting either origin.
• Fang Xiao realized his mana could transform into any attribute, effectively freeing it from the restrictions of his Gold attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.

Fang Xiao mastered the transformations of his divine abilities, found the cause of his hair loss, and waited for a chance to infiltrate the Ice Soul Sect. He trapped a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a staged rescue and offered him a chance to live.

• Fang Xiao tested merging Ice Soul Divine Light and Bing Fire Divine Thunder, then decided he needed to comprehend their principles first.
• Fang Xiao stayed near the Inheritance Land to cultivate, upgrade his natal magic treasures, and gradually wear away the scorching aura that had kept his hair from growing.
• Three months later, Fang Xiao set a trap in the Ice Soul Sect’s patrol zone using four demonic cultivators and two patrol disciples as bait.
• A Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator led a rescue group into the trap, and an unseen force suddenly knocked everyone down except him.
• Fang Xiao spoke to the immobilized cultivator and offered him a chance to live.

Fang Xiao recruited Zhao Kuo as an informant inside the Ice Soul Sect, binding him with soul restrictions and a Thought Sword. After Zhao Kuo reported that he had covered up the incident, Fang Xiao stayed in his cave dwelling to refine his magic treasures and consider the slow growth of the Soul Nurturing Gourd.

• Fang Xiao questioned Zhao Kuo and learned that the Ice Soul Sect's Core Formation true disciples remained in their Cave Dwellings while the sect's higher cultivators were absent.
• Fang Xiao offered Zhao Kuo resources to spy for him, then planted soul restrictions and a Thought Sword in Zhao Kuo's mind.
• Fang Xiao ordered Zhao Kuo to kill four demonic cultivators and report what happened at the Ice Soul Sect; Zhao Kuo also asked Fang Xiao to place a restriction in his own mind.
• Zhao Kuo sent word less than two days later that he had successfully covered up the incident, and Fang Xiao warned him to keep sending information.
• Fang Xiao continued refining his four magic treasures in his cave dwelling and noted that the Soul Nurturing Gourd still absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Sword Soul too slowly.