Chapter Summaries

Fang Xiao accepted Jiang Xia’s invitation to visit the Fengyuan Sect instead of returning to Wangbei Immortal City, where the Six Desires Heavenly Demonic Sect’s evacuation route made travel risky. As they set off, Jiang Xia and Fang Xiao competed to show off their swift movement techniques.

• Jiang Xia told Fang Xiao that factions might contact the Spirit Realm through the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association to address the Northern Plains’ Demonic Contamination.
• Fang Xiao considered seeking a Divine Ability Origin from the Beimíng Sword Sect if advancing the Netherworld Filth Light into Lunar Divine Light failed, and chose to pursue an origin associated with the Obscurity Scroll.
• Jiang Xia invited Fang Xiao to stay at the Fengyuan Sect, and Fang Xiao agreed rather than return to Wangbei Immortal City.
• Jiang Xia introduced Fang Xiao to his four disciples and told them to address him as Martial Uncle.
• Jiang Xia and his disciples sped ahead using Mu Ru Qing Feng, but Fang Xiao caught up in a flash of sword light, and the two began competing to see who could travel faster.

Jiang Xia and Fang Xiao raced to the Fengyuan Sect, where Jiang Xia was astonished that Fang Xiao could keep pace with him. After Fang Xiao settled into a guest cave dwelling, he prepared to enter seclusion while waiting for the sect master to return.

• Jiang Xia pushed his escape speed to its limit and was surprised when early Core Formation Fang Xiao followed close behind.
• Fang Xiao kept pace by using five primordial magnetic rings to increase his flight speed while replenishing his spiritual power.
• Jiang Xia and Fang Xiao arrived at the Fengyuan Sect, exchanged praise, and Jiang Xia escorted Fang Xiao inside.
• Jiang Xia explained that the sect master was away at the main sect discussing relocation with the demonic sect.
• Fang Xiao settled into a guest cave dwelling and asked Jiang Xia to notify him when the sect master returned, then began preparing for several days of seclusion.

Fang Xiao broke through to mid Core Formation in a cave dwelling at Fengyuan Sect, drawing spiritual qi from across the sect and creating a striking phenomenon. Sect Master Zheng Xiyi and Zhao Shouzhong arrived to investigate, while the gathered disciples remained curious about Fang Xiao’s identity.

• Fang Xiao inspected his cave dwelling, activated its Forbidden Arrays, and began seclusion to break through his bottleneck.
• After seven days, Zheng Xiyi arrived at Fengyuan Sect with Zhao Shouzhong and ordered him to announce the sect’s resolution.
• Zheng Xiyi noticed spiritual qi gathering into clouds and recognized that a cultivator was breaking through a bottleneck.
• Fang Xiao absorbed spiritual qi from the Jade of Spiritual Eyes and the sect’s spiritual vein as his Supreme-grade Golden Core filled with mana.
• Fang Xiao recalled that his breakthrough had been smooth after six months of tempering his mana and strengthening his body.
• Jiang Xia and other cultivators gathered outside Fang Xiao’s cave dwelling, and Zheng Xiyi and Zhao Shouzhong arrived to ask about the cultivator inside.

Fang Xiao discovered that his Primordial Sword Embryo was developing like a living being and continued feeding it Divine Ability Origins as he cultivated. He attempted to reverse-refine the Lunar Divine Light, but the Sword Dao transformation made the five powers incompatible, leaving him to pursue another transformation at the Fengyuan Sect.

• Jiang Xia stopped the duty disciple and told the Sect Master True Person that he had brought the cultivators back and would explain.
• Fang Xiao discovered that a nucleus within his Primordial Sword Embryo had divided, and he anticipated that it might eventually become the source of his humanoid Dharma Form.
• Fang Xiao extracted Divine Ability Origins from both Ghostly Vulture Demon Cores and used them to deduce and cultivate the Netherworld Filth Light.
• Fang Xiao fused the Netherworld Filth Light with the Ice Soul Divine Light and other transformations, then began reverse-refining them with the Reverse Lunar Method.
• The five transformations collapsed because the Sword Dao transformation was incompatible, and Fang Xiao resolved to seek the final transformation at the Fengyuan Sect.

Jiang Xia defended Fang Xiao’s rapid breakthrough to the Fengyuan Sect, whose disciples planned to test themselves against him. In the Eastern Domain, Ling Taichu prepared to face the lightning tribulation after avenging his wife and resolving the knot in his heart.

• Jiang Xia told the Fengyuan Sect that Fang Xiao had advanced from initial Core Formation in just seven days, but several cultivators doubted his account.
• Jiang Xia warned the sect’s Core Formation disciples not to underestimate Fang Xiao, while Zheng Xiyi arranged for Jiang Xia to bring him to meet the Sect Master after his seclusion.
• Qin Qing confronted Li Mobai for hiding that Ling Taichu had killed Luo Yunsheng, and Li Mobai urged her to let the matter rest and stop supporting the Luo Clan.
• Li Mobai and Qin Qing watched Ling Taichu prepare for his Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation after he avenged his wife and overcame his heart demon.

Ling Taichu battled his Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation, first unleashing his Jianmu Dharma Form and then charging into the tribulation clouds. After surviving the final strike with his ultimate Sword Breaks Myriad Laws technique, he emerged gravely injured but with bright, half-open eyes.

• Ling Taichu shattered the brewing tribulation lightning with his natal Magic Sword, provoking the clouds into unleashing a storm of bolts.
• Ling Taichu used his Jianmu Dharma Form to withstand the lightning, and Li Mobai and Qin Qing speculated that a wood scrap Ling Taichu had chosen from the sect treasury was a fragment of Jianmu.
• As the lightning damaged his Dharma Form, Ling Taichu charged into the tribulation clouds and fought them with his Sword Dao.
• Ling Taichu met the final bolt with his ultimate Sword Breaks Myriad Laws technique, causing him to vanish into a collapsing point before reappearing and falling toward the ground, severely injured.

Li Mobai and Qin Qing left Ling Taichu to recover after his breakthrough and set out for the North Sea, while Fang Xiao finished his seclusion and met Fengyuan Sect headmaster Zheng Xiyi. Zheng Xiyi recognized Fang Xiao’s master, Ling Taichu, as a formidable rival from his youth.

• Li Mobai teased the injured Ling Taichu, examined his wounds, and gave him a medicinal pill after the lightning tribulation passed.
• Li Mobai persuaded Qin Qing to accompany him to the North Sea to help guard against the demonic path, telling Ling Taichu to return to the sect after recovering.
• Fang Xiao finished absorbing spiritual energy, found Jiang Xia’s voice transmission talismans, and agreed to meet the Fengyuan Sect headmaster.
• Jiang Xia brought Fang Xiao to Zheng Xiyi, who was tending a field of ordinary spiritual vegetables and rice.
• Zheng Xiyi asked whose disciple Fang Xiao was, then recognized Ling Taichu and recalled being defeated by him in the past.

Fang Xiao asked Zheng Xiyi for a Divine Ability Origin from the Yin or Obscure Volume of the Carefree Roaming Scroll, and Zheng offered to seek one from the Beimíng Sword Sect if Fang Xiao sparred with and defeated its True Disciples. Fang Xiao accepted and quickly overwhelmed his first challenger, exposing the disciples’ lack of combat experience.

• Fang Xiao asked Zheng Xiyi for a Divine Ability Origin from the Yin or Obscure Volume, but Zheng said the Fengyuan Sect had none.
• Zheng explained that the North Sea factions were preparing to purge the Carefree Alliance and asked Fang Xiao to defeat Fengyuan Sect True Disciples to temper them; in return, he would seek the Origin from the Beimíng Sword Sect.
• Fang Xiao accepted, returned to his cave dwelling, and waited for challengers.
• Before the next day, a mid Core Formation disciple surnamed Fan came to spar with Fang Xiao.
• Fan attacked with only a flying dagger, and Fang Xiao knocked it away with one punch before placing the Void Cutter Sword at Fan’s neck.

Fang Xiao defeated Senior Brother Fan twice, first with a swift strike and then by freezing his fiery tornado and counterattacking with sword lights. After cultivators recognized his Ice Soul Divine Light, they accused him of being an Ice Soul Sect traitor who had infiltrated the sect.

• Fang Xiao quickly defeated Senior Brother Fan, prompting spectators to accuse him of launching a sneak attack.
• Zheng Xiyi privately told Fang Xiao he could strike harder, so Fang Xiao invited Senior Brother Fan to fight again at full strength.
• Senior Brother Fan unleashed a fiery tornado, but Fang Xiao froze it with blue light and shattered his opponent’s defense with icy sword lights.
• Fang Xiao defeated Senior Brother Fan again while avoiding his vital points, and disciples carried the defeated cultivator away.
• Several cultivators identified Fang Xiao’s technique as Ice Soul Divine Light and accused him of being an Ice Soul Sect traitor in disguise.

Fang Xiao challenged Fengyuan Sect’s Core Formation disciples to test his sword, unleashing a powerful formation after Zheng Xiyi secretly protected them from mortal harm. The chapter ended with the Void Slaying Sword Formation enclosing the gathered disciples.

• Fang Xiao told Zheng Xiyi that he had learned the Ice Soul Divine Light and asked him to keep it secret, then said he wanted to fight Fengyuan Sect’s disciples.
• Fengyuan Sect’s disciples surrounded Fang Xiao and attacked, while Zheng Xiyi blocked an approaching Nascent Soul cultivator and other Nascent Soul cultivators watched from hiding.
• As the attackers overwhelmed his defenses, Fang Xiao announced that he would test his sword against Fengyuan Sect and summoned a vast sword light above him.
• Fang Xiao unleashed 512 streaks of sword light, apparently killing more than twenty disciples, but Zheng Xiyi secretly moved them away before they died.
• Fang Xiao raised the Void Slaying Sword Formation, returning the sword lights to their positions and enclosing the disciples within it.

Fang Xiao used the Void Slaying Sword Formation to overwhelm Fengyuan Sect’s Core Formation cultivators while the sect’s Nascent Soul observers hoped to temper their disciples before an upcoming campaign against demonic cultivators. Fang Xiandao gathered his power to break the formation, but the divine ability he summoned transformed into a Dao tally bearing Fang Xiao’s Dharma Form.

• Fang Xiao controlled the completed Void Slaying Sword Formation and attacked the trapped cultivators with Ice Soul Sword Light and Bing Fire Divine Thunder.
• The hidden Nascent Soul Cultivators discussed using Fang Xiao to correct Fengyuan Sect’s disciples’ complacency ahead of the coming sweep against demonic cultivators.
• Fang Xiao recognized that Fang Xiandao’s powerful azure-purple lightning could attack the mind and divine soul, but it could neither harm him nor break the formation.
• Fang Xiandao took a pill and circulated a Secret Art while his fellow disciples shielded him, allowing Zheng Xiyi to secretly move several people away.
• Fang Xiandao concentrated the lightning in his palm, but when its radiance faded, Fang Xiao recognized the remaining Dao tally as his own Dharma Form.

Fang Xiao used the Great White Sword Pellet to hold off Fang Xiandao’s Thunder Controlling Sign while regaining control of the Void Slaying Sword Formation. As the formation trapped the Fengyuan Sect cultivators, Fang Xiandao began to self-detonate his Golden Core to create an opening for them.

• Fang Xiandao drained Fang Xiao’s Bing Fire Divine Thunder into the Thunder Controlling Sign and launched it at him with the other cultivators’ attacks.
• The Thunder Controlling Sign broke through the Void Slaying Sword Formation, but Fang Xiao used the Great White Sword Pellet to stop it.
• Fang Xiandao ordered the cultivators to flee, but Fang Xiao regained control of the formation and began closing its gap.
• Fang Xiao used the Chanting Sword Art to knock the escaping cultivators unconscious, leaving Fang Xiandao trapped inside the formation.
• Fang Xiandao charged the sword formation and began self-detonating his Golden Core to make another chance for his fellow disciples to escape.

Fang Xiandao tried to sacrifice himself to save the Fengyuan Sect disciples, but Zheng Xiyi rescued him as Fang Xiao ended the staged battle by teleporting everyone out of the sword formation. The disciples learned that Fang Xiao had exposed their weaknesses, leaving them humbled and better prepared for the operation against demonic cultivators.

• Fang Xiandao, overcome by guilt over his failure to protect the sect, began to self-detonate his Golden Core before the sword formation.
• Fang Xiao noticed the disciples’ shock and rapidly closed the formation, while Zheng Xiyi retrieved Fang Xiandao and stopped his self-detonation.
• Fang Xiandao discovered that his fellow disciples were alive, and Fang Xiao sent the remaining people inside the formation out at once.
• Jiang Xia emerged from hiding and praised Fang Xiao’s strength as they returned to the Immortal Greeting Pavilion.
• Zheng Xiyi explained the staged battle to Fang Xiandao and the other Golden Core cultivators, who recognized their weaknesses and resolved to act more cautiously against demonic cultivators.

Fang Xiao learned that Li Mobai had arranged for him to receive the origins of all Six Qi Divine Abilities from the Beimíng Sword Sect, in exchange for joining the coming Demon Purge Operation. After Zheng Xiyi summoned him to the Beimíng Sword Sect, Fang Xiao packed up and left Fengyuan Sect.

• Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan discussed Fang Xiao’s request, and Li Mobai proposed giving him a wisp of each Six Qi Divine Ability Origin instead of Golden Cores.
• Li Mobai revealed that Ling Taichu had reached the Deity Transformation Stage, persuading True Monarch Ziyan to agree to provide the origins if Fang Xiao joined the Demon Purge Operation.
• Li Mobai messaged Fang Xiao, who was practicing Refining Sword into Silk, and told him that all Six Qi Divine Ability Origins had been secured.
• Zheng Xiyi sent word summoning Fang Xiao to the Beimíng Sword Sect, and Fang Xiao bade farewell to Jiang Xia and Fang Xiandao before heading to the Teleportation Hall.

Fang Xiao received the Six Qi Divine Ability Origins from True Monarch Ziyan and learned the origins of their powers. With Lunar Annihilation and Primordial Yang Creation in hand, he saw a clear path to reverse-cultivating Lunar Divine Light and strengthening his body, though he could use the latter only for himself.

• Fang Xiao met Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan at Beimíng Sword Sect and recounted his journey and the Ice Dao Inheritance Land.
• Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan realized Fang Xiao’s actions had devastated the Ice Soul Sect and explained why its kill-on-sight search for him was so fierce.
• True Monarch Ziyan gave Fang Xiao four crystal bottles containing the Six Qi Divine Ability Origins and identified the divine abilities they came from.
• Fang Xiao recognized the origins of Summoning Wind and Rain and Holding Obscurity and Clarity True, then learned that Lunar Annihilation could help him reverse-cultivate Lunar Divine Light.
• Fang Xiao learned that Primordial Yang Creation condensed qi from vital essence to nourish the body and potentially restore lifespan, and decided he needed to cultivate it continuously.

Fang Xiao derived four divine abilities with the Primordial Sword Embryo and used them with Ice Soul Divine Light to refine the Lunar Divine Light. He successfully created the new divine ability and sent it into the Primordial Sword Embryo.

• Li Mobai told Fang Xiao to stay in the grotto-heaven and wait for a message, so Fang Xiao settled into a vacant cave dwelling.
• Fang Xiao sent four Divine Ability Origins into the Primordial Sword Embryo, and their derivation succeeded after three days.
• Fang Xiao set up the formation and chose Ice Soul Divine Light as the foundation for refining the Lunar Divine Light.
• Fang Xiao used the Secret Art to combine the five yin-attributed transformations into a stable state, then activated the formation.
• The moon resonated with the formation and sent down moonlight, transforming Ice Soul Divine Light into a black orb that Fang Xiao recognized as the Lunar Divine Light and sent into the Primordial Sword Embryo.

After acquiring the Lunar Divine Light, Fang Xiao learned that the Six Desires Heavenly Demonic Sect had entered the Extreme North Ice Plains and helped the Carefree Alliance seize territory in the North Sea. Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan recruited him to use his wanted status to draw the Ice Soul Sect into the conflict, and he prepared to return north with two powerful protective talismans.

• Fang Xiao returned the Lunar Divine Light to his palm after refining it, though he still needed to understand the Dao and its techniques to use it fully.
• True Monarch Ziyan gave Fang Xiao a Jade Slip describing the demonic sects’ advance, the Carefree Alliance’s expansion, and the Immortal Cities and Markets under threat.
• Fang Xiao realized Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan planned to use him as bait for the Ice Soul Sect, and he worried that a Deity Transformation cultivator might pursue him.
• Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan gave Fang Xiao a Substitution Talisman and a Teleportation Talisman to protect him.
• Fang Xiao agreed to return to the Extreme North Ice Plains and cause a commotion among the demonic sects using the Ice Soul Divine Light.

Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan arranged to support Fang Xiao while he operated on the Extreme North Ice Plains. Fang Xiao reached the ice plains after meeting Fang Xiandao in Tianshui Immortal City, but someone intercepted him soon after he set out.

• Li Mobai gave True Monarch Ziyan a Spirit Transformation-grade Barrier Breaking Talisman for Nie Ying and discussed confronting the Six Desires Heavenly Demonic Sect to protect Fang Xiao.
• Li Mobai and True Monarch Ziyan arranged for Qin Qing to hide nearby while they faced the enemy cultivators, leaving Fang Xiao free to act on the ice plains.
• Fang Xiao arrived in Tianshui Immortal City, where he encountered Fang Xiandao, who thanked him for changing the sect disciples' outlook and invited him to observe his future Nascent Soul tribulation.
• Fang Xiao left the city and flew toward the Extreme North Ice Plains, but he was intercepted less than half an hour later.

Fang Xiao continued his campaign against devil cultivators on the Extreme North Ice Plains, killing two Xuan Shi Sect disciples and capturing a Mysterious Ice Leopard for its Essence Blood. After destroying four Markets, he headed toward a fifth, planning to hide afterward as the Ice Soul Sect’s powerful cultivators began searching for him.

• Fang Xiao shattered a bandit cultivators’ formation and froze the ambushers, including their three Core Formation leaders.
• A month later, two Xuan Shi Sect disciples searched the ice plains for a Mysterious Ice Leopard that could locate frozen corpses.
• Fang Xiao killed both disciples with the Ice Soul Divine Light and captured the unconscious leopard for its Essence Blood.
• Fang Xiao recalled that he had killed more than ten thousand devil cultivators and destroyed four Markets, and he suspected the Ice Soul Sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators had heard of him.
• Fang Xiao decided to destroy a fifth Market in Xuan Shi Sect territory, then hide for a while.

Fang Xiao abandoned his plan to destroy the Xuan Shi Sect Market’s teleportation array after Li Mobai warned him that Nan Xuan and Nan Kong were approaching. He fought his way out of the Market and fled south, but an unfamiliar Nascent Soul Cultivator began pursuing him.

• Fang Xiao searched the Xuan Shi Sect Market and found its teleportation array guarded by Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Li Mobai warned Fang Xiao that Nan Xuan and Nan Kong were heading toward him, so Fang Xiao decided to use the array to escape instead of destroying it.
• A Xuan Shi Sect Core Formation Cultivator shut down the array, and two more Core Formation Cultivators killed cultivators who tried to leave the Market.
• Fang Xiao used Lunar Divine Light to annihilate the corpse-refined puppets and kill the two Core Formation Cultivators, then walked out of the Market.
• Fang Xiao flew south toward the North Sea, but an unfamiliar Nascent Soul Cultivator caught up behind him, and Fang Xiao gripped a sword talisman.