Chapter Summaries

Zhang Rongfang fought Sang Lan and, after Sang Lan invoked Great God Descent, broke through the divine will suppression with his own Final Form: Godspeed. He killed Sang Lan with a surprise strike and reaffirmed his Human Immortal Path.

• Zhang Rongfang blinded Sang Lan with Yin Rainbow, then evaded his Spirit Thread whips and landed nine successive Yin Rainbow strikes.
• Sang Lan activated Great God Descent, greatly strengthening his Will Suppression and forcing Zhang Rongfang to struggle against an order to slit his own throat.
• Zhang Rongfang resisted the command and completed his second Blood Lotus, activating Final Form: Godspeed.
• Zhang Rongfang broke through the Divine Will Fields and struck Sang Lan's chest with Immortal Method: Three-Point Double-Edged Blade, destroying his arms and blasting Sang Lan away.
• Sang Lan's Silver Spirit Thread Flower dispersed into black ash, and Zhang Rongfang regenerated his arms and declared victory part of his Human Immortal Path.

Zhang Rongfang killed Sang Lan, a Spirit General, and Dongfang Mu recognized him as a newly emerged Extreme Realm peer. As they prepared to discuss the Confucian Sect, news of Sang Lan’s death spread across Great Ling, prompting Master Yuan to recognize the Human Immortal Temple as a Taboo and discover that most candidate Great Grandmasters had fled.

• Heavenly Maiden, Dongfang Mu, and Ran Xin Yue watched Zhang Rongfang defeat Sang Lan, and Dongfang Mu said a new Extreme Realm had been born.
• Zhang Rongfang reunited with the three, explained his exhaustion, and asked Dongfang Mu whether he was an Extreme Realm; Dongfang Mu described the Confucian Sect’s older path and proposed they talk further.
• Sang Lan’s death sent a warning signal throughout Great Ling, and Master Yuan found that Sang Lan’s protective spirit token had gone dark.
• Master Yuan read a Divine Decree naming the Human Immortal Temple a Taboo because Zhang Rongfang had killed Sang Lan and permanently shattered part of his Spirit Thread.
• Master Yuan ordered a replacement for the dead Yuan Feng, but a novice monk reported that three of the four candidate Great Grandmasters from the Yaksa and Asura Halls had fled.

After Sang Lan’s death, Divine Decrees sent forces from across Great Ling toward the Human Immortal Temple, while King Mu Li’s army faced a weakened coalition near the Great Capital. In Wushan Prefecture, Dongfang Mu warned Zhang Rongfang that powerful Earth Mother Walkers might be among the investigators, then asked how he would face the approaching forces.

• Master Yuan learned that Ran and other Great Grandmasters had fled the Western Sect, so he planned to use subordinate cults to probe the Human Immortal Temple and wait for the Great Capital nobles to act first.
• Divine Decrees prompted great noble families and minor sects across Great Ling to dispatch forces to investigate the Human Immortal Temple after Sang Lan’s death.
• King Mu Li’s nine-hundred-thousand-strong army confronted the coalition near Du Zhou Mountain, but the coalition’s generals stayed silent when Yuchi Hongshan asked who would challenge Chen Qizheng.
• Yue Dewen left the command tent without answering Yuchi Hongshan, recognizing that the coalition had lost its momentum.
• Dongfang Mu warned Zhang Rongfang that investigators could include Earth Mother Walkers, and he explained their place among Great Ling’s Spirit Generals and the Spirit Flight Teaching hierarchy.
• Heavenly Maiden said her Reverse Time Society contacts had not replied, and Dongfang Mu asked Zhang Rongfang how he would handle the forces gathering against the Human Immortal Temple.

Zhang Rongfang learned that Yue Dewen had deceived everyone, allied with Kexiwo, and was marching on the Great Capital after King Mu Li’s apparent death. As news spread that Yue Dewen and Kexiwo were safe, experts heading toward the Human Immortal Temple abandoned their mission and rushed back to the capital.

• Dongfang Mu warned Zhang Rongfang that the Gods and Buddhas were beyond direct human resistance, then learned that King Mu Li was dead, Kexiwo had rebelled, and Yue Dewen was advancing on the Great Capital.
• Yue Dewen and Kexiwo revealed that they had staged their conflict and joined forces, while Qinghe served as King Mu Li’s successor.
• The real King Mu Li escaped with a small force, realized that the Thousand Sect Alliance and its allies had been deceiving him, and decided to return to his territory and rely on the Earth Mother Offering.
• Two Earth Mother Offerings approaching Wish Woman Canyon learned that Yue Dewen was fine and decided not to enter the Human Immortal Temple’s territory.
• Experts traveling toward Wushan Prefecture received word that Yue Dewen and Kexiwo were safe, recognized the Great Bright Teaching Alliance as part of a larger scheme, and turned back toward the Great Capital.

Zhang Rongfang questioned Dongfang Mu about Confucian martial arts and learned how Pure Heart Exchange Jade related to the Extreme Realm. Meanwhile, Yue Dewen’s coalition began its assault on Great Capital, while East Peace King watched uneasily and lamented the coming fate of the imperial family.

• Dongfang Mu told his disciples that the Confucian Sect would reappear, ally with the Human Immortal Temple, and use the Red Scarf Rebellion to win the people’s support.
• Zhang Rongfang asked Dongfang Mu about Confucian martial arts, and Dongfang Mu explained that the Extreme Realm arose from pursuing unattainable desires through Pure Heart Exchange Jade.
• Dongfang Mu revealed that his own goal was to reestablish the Confucian School, while Zhang Rongfang recognized that his desire was to complete his Human Immortal form.
• Yue Dewen and the gathered sect armies prepared to attack Great Capital, and their battle cries weakened the city’s defenders before the coalition advanced.
• East Peace King watched the assault from a guarded carriage and worried about his royal brothers, while his guards warned him not to suggest giving the throne to Yue Dewen.

Yue Dewen’s forces captured the Great Capital with little resistance, while King Mu Li learned of the defeat and redirected his surviving followers toward Wushan Prefecture to strike at Zhang Ying. There, Fierce Tiger confronted the group and revealed that he had come to kill King Mu Li, forcing Heavenly Artisan Jin Hong to face him.

• Yue Dewen and the Spirit Generals broke into the Imperial Palace, where Saint Patrol and the other golden-robed figures vanished into the palace’s shadows.
• King Mu Li learned that the Great Capital had fallen and changed course toward Wushan Prefecture, intending to destroy Yue Dewen’s protected disciple, Daozi Zhang Ying.
• King Mu Li’s group reached the forest near Wushan Prefecture, where Heavenly Artisan Jin Hong detected someone waiting ahead.
• Fierce Tiger emerged and Jin Hong recognized him as Sky Roc Hunting Tiger, third on the Black List, prompting the group to retreat.
• Fierce Tiger remembered that he had come to kill King Mu Li, and Jin Hong threw the prince to safety before attacking him with Facing Solution.

King Mu Li continued toward Wushan Prefecture, where Fan Heng confronted his group, while Zhang Rongfang learned that the Gods and Buddhas considered him a Taboo and weighed whether to help Xue Tong escape Wish Woman Canyon. The chapter ended with Zhang Rongfang losing their game and sitting alone, uncertain how Master Yue and the Great Dao Sect would respond to him.

• King Mu Li decided to press on to Wushan Prefecture and seize Zhang Ying despite Heavenly Artisan's failure to send word.
• Fan Heng stopped King Mu Li's party in the fields and recognized the Black-Robed Figure as Fan Heng's old acquaintance from the Imperial Tutor's side.
• Zhang Rongfang discussed Confucian martial arts with Dongfang Mu and refined his Twelve Immortal Arts before leaving Dongfang Stronghold.
• Xue Tong told Zhang Rongfang that four Earth Mother Walkers had approached Wu Mountain and that the Gods and Buddhas considered Zhang Rongfang a Taboo.
• Xue Tong offered to conceal Zhang Rongfang from the Gods and Buddhas if Zhang Rongfang persuaded Wish Woman to release him, but Zhang Rongfang's wariness made him defer helping.
• Zhang Rongfang lost his game with Xue Tong and remained alone, pondering how Master Yue and the Great Dao Sect would respond to his existence.

King Mu Li and his battered survivors fled toward He Country after abandoning their attempt to reach Wushan Prefecture, where Zhang Rongfang encountered them at a misty gorge. Zhang Rongfang’s words led Mu Li to recognize the gods’ role in his defeat and left him pondering how people could become as powerful as mountains.

• King Mu Li turned away from Wushan Prefecture and led his surviving followers toward He Country after fearing further ambushes.
• Mu Li’s group entered Mist of Doubt, and he used his Imperial Clan Token to clear a path through the fog.
• At the gorge, Zhang Rongfang warned the travelers that the stream water carried poisonous miasma and gave them directions toward the He Country border.
• Mu Li spoke with Zhang Rongfang about his defeat and the turmoil in the realm but did not ask about the Human Immortal Temple or Zhang Ying.
• Zhang Rongfang’s remarks about gods, men, and mountains helped Mu Li realize he had lost because of the gods’ influence.
• Zhang Rongfang described an Immortal as a human mountain, leaving Mu Li wondering how people could become as mountains.

After the rebellion was suppressed, Zhang Rongfang waited to learn whether Yue Dewen would protect him despite his revealed Taboo nature. Yue Dewen completed a hidden array beneath Heavenly Sincerity Palace, while Kexiwo and Daoist Qing Yi pressed him to decide how to handle Zhang Rongfang.

• The East Peace King took the throne with Yue Dewen as National Preceptor, and the Great Dao Sect became the state religion as the Red Turban Riot was suppressed.
• Ran Xin Yue offered Zhang Rongfang protection if Yue Dewen rejected him, but Zhang Rongfang postponed his answer and later received a secret message from Ming Yuan.
• Ming Yuan confirmed that Yue Dewen wanted to know whether Zhang Rongfang could abandon his Taboo nature, and Zhang Rongfang said it was an innate gift that could not be abandoned.
• Zhang Rongfang told Ming Yuan that Yue Dewen would always be his Master regardless of his decision, and Ming Yuan departed to report back.
• Yue Dewen completed a vast array beneath Heavenly Sincerity Palace and formed a Spirit Character as Kexiwo and Daoist Qing Yi watched.
• Kexiwo and Daoist Qing Yi warned Yue Dewen that he still had to decide how to deal with Zhang Rongfang, whose Taboo nature could have serious consequences.

Yue Dewen defied the God Lords’ demand to capture Zhang Rongfang, driving the visiting Spirit Generals from the Underground Palace and choosing to wait for his disciple to change his mind. A month later, Zhang Rongfang remained undisturbed at Human Immortal Temple, then went to Mu Chi Prefecture to care for his pregnant sister as his body began to shrink and grow denser.

• Kexiwo, Qing Yi, Master Yuan, Mo Gu Du Ya, and Saint Heaven One confronted Yue Dewen and demanded that he deal with the Taboo.
• Yue Dewen agreed to capture the Taboo but delayed, then used his overwhelming willfield to force the Spirit Generals to retreat when they threatened to act themselves.
• Yue Dewen told Ding Rui he would let Qiankun live as he wished and wait for him to come to understand and Worship God.
• Over the next month, Zhang Rongfang cultivated at Human Immortal Temple without being pursued, and Ming Yuan brought him Yue Dewen’s message: “Take care of yourself.”
• Zhang Rongfang stopped creating Blood Descendants and traveled to Mu Chi Prefecture to care for his pregnant sister.
• Zhang Rongfang noticed that after forming his second Blood Lotus, his height decreased while his muscles and bones became denser.

Zhang Rongfang settled in Wushan Prefecture, opened the Mountain Man Clinic, and sought information from Ran Xin Yue about Gods and Buddhas. He also began using Wooden Puppets to pursue children’s wishes as he prepared to investigate the marks on his body.

• Suda Heqi and the household waited anxiously until Xiao Yu gave birth to a healthy boy, later named Zhang Huanqing.
• After helping celebrate the birth, Zhang Rongfang decided to open a clinic and investigate the three Gods and Buddhas marks on his body.
• Zhang Rongfang questioned Ran Xin Yue about Gods and Buddhas; she explained that the Extreme Realm could erase them from memory and mentioned a former Yu Feng God in Ruins Town.
• Zhang Rongfang opened the Mountain Man Clinic and began searching for children’s wishes with Wooden Puppets while teaching his two apprentices.
• A familiar voice arrived outside the clinic and asked where the healer was.

Lu Mei Sha visited Zhang Rongfang’s clinic and lingered after learning he had parted ways with Jin Xiu. Meanwhile, Zhang Rongyu secured her son Huanqing’s place as the Confucian Sect’s sole heir to the Righteousness Lineage, as its plans continued to advance.

• Lu Mei Sha visited Zhang Rongfang’s empty clinic, compared him favorably to her other suitors, and began wondering whether he had feelings for her.
• Zhang Rongfang told Lu Mei Sha he had sent Jin Xiu away and that they had parted ways, prompting Lu Mei Sha to stay and question him about martial arts and medicine.
• Zhang Rongyu met with her teacher, who confirmed that her son Huanqing would inherit the Righteousness position and receive the lineage’s support.
• Zhang Rongyu’s teacher warned her to stop contacting Dongfang Mu after his exposure and discussed Zhang Rongfang’s possible connection to Zhang Ying.
• The old man declared that the Seven Gentlemen’s return would bring back the masters of the Seven Lineages.

Zhang Rongfang advanced the Illusory Image Talisman Method to Grandmaster Full Moon, discovering that his Final Form had grown more powerful while changes in his body raised new questions about the Blood Lotus. He traveled to the ruins of Hui Lin County to search for remnants of a God or Buddha statue and clues about Worship God rituals.

• Zhang Rongfang spent ten Attribute Points to reach Grandmaster Full Moon and learned how a Grandmaster's body and mind adapted to the Final Form.
• Zhang Rongfang tested Godspeed, grew nearly five meters tall with three arms, and found he could sustain his Final Form for a long time, but could not advance further toward Great Grandmaster.
• Zhang Rongfang added his remaining Attribute Points to vitality and discovered a third Blood Lotus and leaf-like protrusions growing beneath his skin.
• A Daoist reported that the abandoned Hui Lin County had been found, and Zhang Rongfang ordered him to lead the way.
• Zhang Rongfang reached Hui Lin County's ruins and searched its inner street, locating a damaged stone altar and considering how to find fragments of a God or Buddha statue.

Zhang Rongfang discovered the White Scale God and learned that she could communicate with him, but he destroyed her statue and portrait to make her dependent on him. After learning about the two kinds of Gods and Buddhas, he left with the statue fragments and promised to feed her brain marrow.

• Zhang Rongfang found a hidden portrait of the Jade Radiance White Scale God, which drew him into Doubtful Cloud Mist and brought the White Scale God before him.
• The White Scale God told Zhang Rongfang to recover her true-form statue and spread her faith, and he dug it out from behind the altar.
• Zhang Rongfang shattered the statue and tore up the portrait, forcing the White Scale God to rely on him as the only person who knew her true form.
• Zhang Rongfang summoned the three Innate Gods on his back to deter the White Scale God when she attacked him.
• White Scale explained the difference between Physical Body Gods and Innate Gods, and Zhang Rongfang promised to provide her with brain marrow.
• Zhang Rongfang gathered the statue fragments and left, planning to test whether the White Scale God could eat pig brain.

Zhang Rongfang questioned the White Scale God about becoming a Physical Body God and learned how she could descend, then began testing ways to fulfill Child Wishes. He granted a little girl her wish for a hundred candied hawthorn skewers, while his search for other suitable wishes continued.

• Zhang Rongfang asked the White Scale God how Physical Body Gods were made and learned that gods could descend through Void-fragment statues or a Spirit General's Great God Descent.
• Zhang Rongfang offered the White Scale God a pig Brain Flower, watched her drain it through a Silver Spirit Thread, and took away another statue fragment when she stopped answering.
• A little girl found a candied hawthorn skewer and wished she could eat them every day, prompting a wooden puppet to offer to grant her wish.
• Zhang Rongfang sent a black-clad man to leave a hundred candied hawthorn skewers outside the girl's home, fulfilling his first Child Wish.
• Zhang Rongfang told Zhang Rongyu he did not know where a Blue Butterfly had come from and reflected that most children's wishes were too frightening or impossible to fulfill.

Zhang Rongfang guarded Zhang Rongyu’s flower-viewing gathering, where armed attackers tried to reach her before a White-Haired Elder defeated them. The attack and Li Zhen’s remarks made Zhang Rongfang realize his sister had powerful Confucian Sect connections, but he remained determined to protect her himself.

• Zhang Rongfang took charge of security at Zhang Rongyu’s charity flower-viewing gathering and met Li Zhen, a powerful martial artist and Zhang Rongyu’s close friend.
• Five disguised attackers approached the pavilion, intending to kill Zhang Rongyu and prevent her son from inheriting the Gentleman’s position.
• Zhang Rongfang and Li Zhen spoke about the world and martial arts before the attackers stormed the pavilion and defeated guards on the lower floors.
• A White-Haired Elder unleashed a brilliant sword strike that incapacitated the attackers rushing upstairs, then threw them out of a window and disappeared.
• Zhang Rongfang recognized the sword style’s Confucian Sect elements and resolved to protect Zhang Rongyu, while Li Zhen acknowledged her formidable strength.

Zhang Rongfang questioned White Scale God about Doubtful Cloud Mist and settled into his quiet routine in Wushan Prefecture. After Lu Mei Sha mistook his medicine for secret affection, he received a message and hurried to a destination outside the city.

• Zhang Rongfang fed Brain Flower to White Scale God, who explained that Doubtful Cloud Mist protected nearby creatures from Innate Gods’ Heart Fusion and revealed that remembered divine forms could shape Void.
• Zhang Rongfang treated patients at Mountain Man Clinic and gave Lu Mei Sha medicine after noticing her ailment, but declined her invitation to a Western Tea Garden.
• After the medicine cured her chronic ailments, Lu Mei Sha concluded that Zhang Rongfang had been secretly watching over her and began wondering whether to give him a chance.
• Zhang Rongfang received a paper message at the clinic, told Xiao Dong and Xiao Xia to watch the shop, and hurried out of the city toward the location it described.

Tong Tong and Xi Xi escaped their village’s sacrifice, only to encounter Zhang Rongfang as the Human Immortal Temple attacked White Melon. Zhang Rongfang confronted the Stone God, Gu Tali, and stopped its fist just before it struck him.

• Tong Tong and Xi Xi’s parents sent them through a dog hole to flee the villagers who planned to sacrifice them to the Stone God.
• A pack of wolves rushed past the girls, fleeing from Zhang Rongfang, who emerged from the forest and gave them wooden puppets.
• Zhang Rongfang ordered the Human Immortal Temple disciples to find the Stone God statue and attack its followers, and they overwhelmed the villagers.
• Zhang Rongfang glided toward White Melon, entered a field of Doubtful Cloud Mist, and met the giant stone figure calling itself Gu Tali.
• After Zhang Rongfang told Gu Tali that its followers were nearly dead, Gu Tali swung at him, but its fist stopped half a meter away.

Zhang Rongfang tested his own strength against Stone God without using the Blood Lotus deities’ power, but his attacks barely affected the Remnant God. He kept evading Stone God as White Scale explained the gulf between mortal and divine strength.

• Stone God attacked Zhang Rongfang with crushing divine pressure and a paralyzing shock, but Zhang Rongfang recovered from a devastating blow with his Life Attribute.
• Zhang Rongfang activated his Blood Lotus and entered Godspeed form, then tested Yin Rainbow and Three-Point Double-Edged Blade against Stone God.
• Stone God’s body healed from Zhang Rongfang’s attacks, while black Spirit Threads let it accelerate enough to track his movements.
• White Scale explained that Gods and Buddhas had bodies built from three kinds of Spirit Thread and that ordinary humans could not injure them.
• Zhang Rongfang continued evading Stone God, determined to observe its powers despite White Scale urging him to give up.

After failing to harm the Stone God, Zhang Rongfang escaped the Doubtful Cloud Mist with the help of three gods and withdrew from the village with the surviving children and his followers. He later resolved to grow stronger while the Great Sect Alliance learned that the Spirit Flight Teaching was letting rival sects and their Gods and Buddhas grow before harvesting them during Heaven and Earth Convergence.

• Zhang Rongfang fought the Stone God but could not injure it, so he asked three gods to pull him out of the Doubtful Cloud Mist.
• Zhang Rongfang ordered the Human Immortal Temple members to withdraw with Tong Tong and her sister, leaving the village behind.
• In Wushan Prefecture, Zhang Rongfang visited Zhang Rongyu and her infant son, Zhang Huanqing, and decided to stay and build his strength rather than rush into confronting Gods and Buddhas.
• At the Great Capital's Underground Heavenly Treasure Palace, Yue Dewen and the Great Sect Alliance leaders discussed the Spirit Flight Teaching's failure to suppress the Thousand Sect Alliance's riots.
• Yue Dewen and the others concluded that the Spirit Flight Teaching was allowing rival Gods and Buddhas to gather strength so it could harvest them during Heaven and Earth Convergence.