Chapter Summaries

Xu Yunfan endured the Hundred Desires Peak disciples’ attempts to lure him out while he secretly cultivated and refined Hua Xiangrong’s true essence. A year later, he completed his meridian remodeling and strengthened his True Martial foundation, leaving him ready to pursue a Divine Martial Dao Foundation and escape his status as Talent Material.

• Hundred Desires Peak disciples repeatedly tried to tempt Xu Yunfan out of his cottage, but he stayed inside and ignored them.
• Xu Yunfan crushed a poisoned hairpin and released his pure yang aura, revealing to a woman outside that he was no longer a virgin.
• Xu Yunfan considered harvesting the woman, a direct descendant of True Person Hundred Flowers, but suppressed the thought because of her status.
• After a year of meditation, Xu Yunfan emerged with denser true essence, a solidified True Martial Millstone, and strength exceeding that of an ordinary Great Perfection Qi Refining cultivator.
• Xu Yunfan brought the Hundred Bones Connecting to the Nether Technique to great accomplishment, completing his meridian remodeling and greatly increasing the flow of his true essence.
• Xu Yunfan resolved to condense the Martial Dao Mystic Crystal and forge a Divine Martial Dao Foundation so he could gain a firm foothold in the Primal Devil Sect.

Xu Yunfan visited Hundred Desires Peak’s Scripture Pavilion to study artifact forging and other cultivation arts, only to discover that it was a shamelessly expensive scam. He left with no useful texts and a clearer sense of how the Primal Beginning Sect exploited its disciples.

• Xu Yunfan went to Hundred Desires Peak’s Scripture Pavilion and paid the guarding disciple three hundred Contribution Points to enter.
• Xu Yunfan found an almost empty hall and discovered that its books were incomplete or useless, while a dual cultivation Jade Slip had its crucial sections erased.
• Xu Yunfan noticed a locked inner chamber that charged another five hundred Contribution Points per hour and decided the exchange hall was a better use of his points.
• The guarding disciple asked Xu Yunfan how his visit had gone, but Xu Yunfan calmly left without answering.

After realizing how vicious the Primal Beginning Sect was, Xu Yunfan ambushed Zhao San and took his belongings, then used a stolen array manual to begin studying array dao. Three months later, he had made steady progress in both array dao and the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture.

• Xu Yunfan resolved to survive the Primal Beginning Sect by becoming crueler and more cunning than its disciples.
• Xu Yunfan ambushed Zhao San, killed him with his demon-subduing true essence, and took his pills, Contribution Points, and Introduction to Array Dao jade slip.
• Xu Yunfan studied the Spirit Gathering Array, suffered a backlash while attempting to form it, and quickly healed using the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture.
• Xu Yunfan spent three months cultivating and studying arrays, and array dao appeared in his Attribute Panel as its proficiency increased.

Xu Yunfan prepared to seek the Heavenly Fiend and Earthly Fiend Qi needed to establish his foundation through the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture. At the Hall of Myriad Affairs, he accepted a mission involving Heaven's Heart Snow Lotus and stunned Liu Ruyan when he broke her heart-bewitching technique.

• Xu Yunfan reviewed the foundation-establishment stages and concluded that he needed to find True Martial Heavenly Fiend and Demon Subduing Earth Fiend.
• Xu Yunfan recognized that his Martial Dao cultivation and Ten Extremes True Qi were already closely aligned with the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture.
• Xu Yunfan accepted a task to search for Heaven's Heart Snow Lotus in the far north.
• Liu Ruyan warned Xu Yunfan that he could not pass Cold Crow Pass and used her Thousand Emotion Threads to bewitch him.
• Xu Yunfan broke Liu Ruyan's technique with a flash of golden light, and she retreated after realizing he was stronger than he appeared.

Xu Yunfan accepted a mission to gather a Heaven's Heart Snow Lotus and began assembling a team. Hua Ling and Li Ergou joined him after Hua Ling intervened to protect Li Ergou from Zhou, leaving Xu Yunfan to consider how to handle the mission and his stolen treasures.

• Xu Yunfan selected the mission to gather a Heaven's Heart Snow Lotus, accepting a blood contract that required him to repay three times the reward if he failed.
• Li Ergou offered his geomancy skills, but Zhou threatened him and mocked him for being drained of his primordial yang.
• Hua Ling arrived, drove Zhou's fan away from Li Ergou, and vouched for Li Ergou's skill in geomancy.
• Xu Yunfan agreed to team up with Hua Ling, who needed snow lotus stamens, and noticed the Soul Capturing Bells at her waist.
• Hua Ling invited Zhou to join them, but he declined and left after his sleeve wind injured a nearby disciple.
• Xu Yunfan suspected Li Ergou was more capable than he appeared and considered finding a marketplace to sell his stolen treasures.

Xu Yunfan met Hua Ling and Li Ergou at Cold Crow Pass, where they planned to follow the Green Cicada Ancient Path toward an ancient cave dwelling. After learning that the Mystic Talisman Gate and Myriad Chariots Sword Sect were fighting nearby, the group prepared to conceal their identities and set out cautiously.

• Xu Yunfan gave Hua Ling and Li Ergou Primordial Magnetic Compasses and arranged to meet them at Cold Crow Pass in three days.
• Hua Ling told Xu Yunfan about a formation fragment in an Ancient Cultivator's Cave Dwelling in the Frostbite Wasteland, while Li Ergou revealed he knew some geomancy.
• Xu Yunfan arrived at Cold Crow Pass and saw a river filled with the remains of cultivators shackled by the Primal Beginning Sect.
• Li Ergou reported that the Mystic Talisman Gate had added patrols at Snowfall Cliff and that a battle with the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect had caused heavy casualties.
• Hua Ling gave the group Breath Concealment Talismans and said they would take the Green Cicada Ancient Path, where she had brought Blazing Sun Nails to deal with Snow Demons.

Xu Yunfan, Hua Ling, and Li Ergou crossed into Mystic Talisman Gate territory, where Xu Yunfan used his cultivation to defeat a patrol that saw through their disguise. They reached Frost Leaf City and acquired travel permits, though Xu Yunfan noticed that living souls were sealed inside them.

• Hua Ling pierced a defecting Primal Beginning Sect disciple’s head and gave Li Ergou its resentment-filled soul pearl to refine.
• The three reached the Two Realms Stele, where Li Ergou warned that they could no longer use communication Jade Slips without being tracked.
• Hua Ling and Xu Yunfan disguised themselves as injured travelers, but a Mystic Talisman Gate patrol leader suspected Xu Yunfan and attacked.
• Xu Yunfan shattered the patrol leader’s defenses and turned Hua Ling’s planted Hundred Desires True Essence against him while Hua Ling incapacitated the other four disciples.
• The three reached Frost Leaf City, where Hua Ling’s contact supplied travel permits containing sealed human souls; she told Xu Yunfan they belonged to condemned prisoners.

Xu Yunfan and Hua Ling reached a hidden residence in the city, where she tried to seduce him in the hot spring and drain his essence. By morning, Xu Yunfan had absorbed her Primal Yin Qi, leaving Hua Ling’s cultivation depleted while his True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture advanced.

• Hua Ling led Xu Yunfan and Li Ergou into the city using a talisman and brought them to a quiet residence to rest before their mission for the Heaven's Heart Snow Lotus.
• Xu Yunfan asked Hua Ling about her debt to the Joyful Courtyard, and she explained that many disciples borrowed Contribution Points to begin cultivating and risked being harvested if they could not repay them.
• Hua Ling invited Xu Yunfan to bathe with her and tried to use her Hundred Desires Devouring Origin Great Method to drain his essence.
• Xu Yunfan’s True Martial essence shredded Hua Ling’s Thousand Emotion Threads, and he absorbed the Primal Yin Qi she had refined.
• By morning, Hua Ling’s true essence had dried up, while Xu Yunfan’s True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture had gained three proficiency points.

Xu Yunfan subdued Hua Ling and forced her to help gather Heaven's Heart Snow Lotuses while he searched the northern ice for the Qi needed for Foundation Establishment. Their work was interrupted by Zhao Ti and three guards, who arrived to confront Hua Ling and possibly had another reason to seek out Li Ergou.

• Xu Yunfan exhausted Hua Ling's Primal Yin Qi, then set out with her and Li Ergou for the northern lands.
• Seven days later, Hua Ling and Li Ergou gathered snow lotuses while Xu Yunfan watched for Far-Northern Profound Ice Abyssal Qi.
• Xu Yunfan noticed four approaching auras and suspected they had come for Li Ergou, whose hidden secret remained unknown.
• Zhao Ti arrived with three Profound Nether Guards, taunted Hua Ling, and moved to take her mission rewards.
• Hua Ling recognized Zhao Ti as the Profound Nether Peak elder's grandson who robbed disciples, and forced herself to answer him politely.

Hua Ling poisoned Zhao Ti before a Foundation Establishment sword cultivator from the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect split the northern earth-vein dragon qi with a single strike. As Zhao Ti fled, Li Ergou betrayed Hua Ling and killed her with a Profound Yin Soul Slaughter Pill, while Xu Yunfan resolved to pursue Foundation Establishment.

• Hua Ling attacked Zhao Ti with her Heart Devouring Needle, poisoning him with Desire Poison before the Profound Nether Guards broke her arm.
• Li Qingling of the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect appeared in the sky and severed nine streams of earth-vein dragon qi with her Dragon Slaying Sword Form.
• Xu Yunfan witnessed the power of Foundation Establishment and realized the gulf between it and Qi Refining.
• A Profound Nether Guard identified Li Qingling as Azure Nether True Person, and Zhao Ti escaped with his group using an escape talisman.
• Li Ergou detonated a Profound Yin Soul Slaughter Pill against Hua Ling, killing her as Xu Yunfan watched without intervening.

Xu Yunfan exposed and killed Li Ergou, taking a fragment of Jade Gold Geng before leaving it behind to avoid attracting attention. Nearby, Azure Nether True Person Li Qingling defeated her Foundation Establishment opponent and captured the dying Ice Dragon.

• Li Ergou ambushed Xu Yunfan with a hidden sword, but Xu Yunfan's protective true essence stopped it and revealed his Half-step Foundation Establishment strength.
• Xu Yunfan recognized that Li Ergou carried the secret Zhao Ti had pursued, demanded the treasure, and killed him when he resisted.
• Xu Yunfan found a fragment of Jade Gold Geng, learned from Yu Congling that it could become a high-grade magic treasure, then left it beside Li Ergou's corpse.
• Azure Nether True Person Li Qingling destroyed the Ice Dragon's body and defeated her opponent's Blood Fiend Demonic Blade with the Azure Nether Nine Swords.
• Li Qingling formed a sword-qi cage around the dying dragon and sent three sword seals into its body.

Xu Yunfan discovered an ancient sword sheath beneath the ice and reached beginner level in Myriad Chariots Sword Transformation, then fled when it linked him to Li Qingling. Chu Chengnan intervened before Li Qingling could pursue him, and challenged her over the sword sect’s dragon-slaying practices.

• Yu Congling recognized Li Qingling’s Three Talents Sword Seed and explained that she was cultivating a sword art requiring dragon souls.
• Xu Yunfan found the Azure Firmament Dew-Receiving Sword sheath sealed in ice and triggered the complete Myriad Chariots Sword Transformation, reaching beginner level.
• Li Qingling appeared after Xu Yunfan fled, identified his True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture, and used the sheath to track him.
• Chu Chengnan arrived and shattered Li Qingling’s hidden sword seals before she could pursue Xu Yunfan.
• Chu Chengnan acknowledged that he wanted the scripture on Xu Yunfan and challenged Li Qingling over the heavenly backlash from her sect’s dragon-slaying.

Xu Yunfan realized that powerful Foundation Establishment cultivators had manipulated events around him to obtain the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture and its legacy. After learning that Li Qingling had been stopped by the Cold Crow Pact, he discovered True Martial Heavenly Fiend in the Profound Ice Abyss and concluded that his unseen enemies still wanted him to continue cultivating.

• Chu Chengnan reminded Li Qingling of the Cold Crow Pact, suppressing her sword intent and forcing her to leave without killing the Jiaolong.
• Three days later, Yu Congling told Xu Yunfan that he had been set up as a pawn in a scheme involving the True Martial Subduing Demon Scripture and the Divine Martial Realm.
• Xu Yunfan and Yu Congling discussed how Foundation Establishment True Persons coveted the Divine Martial Realm and the fortune tied to the Boundary Heaven.
• The Profound Ice Abyss shook, and Xu Yunfan broke the ancient ice to reveal a strand of True Martial Heavenly Fiend.
• Xu Yunfan grasped the Heavenly Fiend Qi and reasoned that his enemies still wanted him to cultivate because they had not yet discarded him.

Xu Yunfan refined the North Pole Heavenly Fiend Qi into True Martial Heavenly Fiend, strengthening his power and forming the Demon Suppressing Seal. He descended to the ninth level of the Earth Meridian Molten Prison to ferry departed souls and refine Demon Subduing Earth Fiend, and finally spotted a pure wisp of it.

• Xu Yunfan spent three months refining the North Pole Heavenly Fiend Qi, then used the Big Dipper’s starlight to condense it into the Black Tortoise Star Lord’s Demon Suppressing Seal.
• Xu Yunfan tested his enhanced True Martial Heavenly Fiend, which froze and shattered ice and drew magma from the ninth level of the Earth Meridian Molten Prison.
• Xu Yunfan realized his Demon Suppressing Seal lacked true intent and descended into the lava sea to seek Demon Subduing Earth Fiend.
• Xu Yunfan used the True Martial Demon Suppressing Seal and his Martial Dao Avatar to ferry the departed souls bound by Earth Fiend Qi onward.
• After half a month, Xu Yunfan purified a patch of Earth Fiend Qi and locked onto the pure wisp of Demon Subduing Earth Fiend it left behind.

Xu Yunfan began his Foundation Establishment enthronement by merging the Heavenly Fiend and Earthly Fiend, then discovered Chu Chengnan had come to offer protection in exchange for joining his faction. The chapter left Xu Yunfan weighing a mission to retrieve something needed by a True Monarch from a contested blessed land.

• Xu Yunfan swallowed the purified Demon Subduing Earth Fiend and endured its collision with the True Martial Heavenly Fiend as they forged his Dao Foundation.
• Xu Yunfan formed the Black Tortoise Demon Suppressing Seal, refined his Martial Dao Mystic Crystal, and began the True Martial Returning to Position ritual.
• Xu Yunfan reached the summit of the Ice Abyss and saw the Myriad Stars Array manifest in the sky as his enthronement ritual began.
• Chu Chengnan appeared before Xu Yunfan and offered to protect his Dao if Xu Yunfan joined his faction.
• Chu Chengnan asked Xu Yunfan to retrieve something needed by a True Monarch from a blessed land also discovered by the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect and Bodhi Zen Pure Land.

Xu Yunfan accepted Chu Chengnan’s arrangement and hunted demons to strengthen his True Martial foundation, killing a Great Perfection Qi Refining cultivator along the way. After preparing to subdue his heart ape and willful horse, he was transported by Chu Chengnan into the Blessed Land.

• Xu Yunfan agreed to Chu Chengnan’s terms and used his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye to locate demons tied to the True Martial Demon Subduing ritual.
• Xu Yunfan destroyed an Old Monk demon in an abandoned temple, then killed a red-eyed giant wolf in Bloodmist Forest and a monstrous fish near a lake.
• At Cold Crow Pass, the Black Tortoise Demon Suppressing Seal refined resentful souls, strengthening Xu Yunfan’s body and Dharma Image.
• Xu Yunfan killed a Dust Peak cultivator whose demonic influence had driven him to seek a Foundation Establishment opportunity in the Northern Wasteland.
• Chu Chengnan warned Xu Yunfan to leave the Blessed Land before consolidating his Dao foundation, then transported him into it.

Xu Yunfan saw the Suspended Mountain Blessed Land and learned that three Golden Core True Monarchs were contesting its Mountain Seal through qi-refining disciples. As the protection around the mountain failed, he flew toward it alongside rival disciples from the Primal Beginning Sect and the Bodhi Pure Land.

• Xu Yunfan witnessed the overwhelming auras of Pure Yang True Monarch, Subtle Truth Bodhisattva, and Clear Source True Monarch clashing around Suspended Mountain.
• Chu Chengnan explained that the Grand Void Sword Sect’s fallen mountain had reappeared, and that disciples had to seize its Mountain Seal because Golden Core True Monarchs and Foundation Establishment True Persons could not enter.
• The three True Monarchs manifested their Dharma Images, and their spiritual pressure destroyed the mountain’s remaining protective array.
• Hundred Peaks True Person sent Xu Yunfan into Suspended Mountain to seize the Mountain Seal, and he flew toward it.
• Xu Yunfan spotted disciples from other Primal Beginning Sect branches and eighteen Wrathful Vajras arriving from the Bodhi Pure Land, then sensed an exceptionally sharp aura.

Xu Yunfan entered the battle at Suspended Mountain and demonstrated overwhelming strength, killing a Myriad Chariots Sword Sect cultivator and shattering a Buddhist Arhat Array with a punch. His display drew the attention of an unseen True Monarch and left fighters from all three factions convinced he was secretly a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• The Myriad Chariots Sword Sect, Primal Beginning Sect, and Bodhi Zen Pure Land clashed at Suspended Mountain as Xu Yunfan watched for an opportunity to prove himself.
• A female sword cultivator attacked Xu Yunfan, but he seized her flying sword, punched through her chest, and devoured her true essence.
• Yuanzhen and eight warrior monks descended and tried to convert Xu Yunfan into a Vajra Protector, but Xu Yunfan's Black Tortoise Dao Aspect swallowed the conversion light.
• Xu Yunfan shattered the monks' Arhat Array with one punch, killing the vertical-eyed monk and blasting nearby fighters from all three factions away.
• Xu Yunfan sensed a True Monarch watching him, while surviving disciples from the three factions concluded that he must be a Foundation Establishment True Person.

Xu Yunfan fought his way toward Cloud Mist Palace, slaughtering the Sword Sect, Pure Land, and Primal Beginning Sect disciples who stood in his path. After devouring their power, he reached the limit of Qi Refining and began forming his Dao foundation, leaving Foundation Establishment imminent.

• Xu Yunfan drew the Gossamer Sword and killed the sword cultivators blocking his way to the summit.
• Xu Yunfan broke through the sword formation and killed Cihang and most of the monks guarding Cloud Mist Palace.
• Xu Yunfan slaughtered the remaining enemies, devouring their sword intent, Buddhist power, and essence to strengthen his true essence.
• Xu Yunfan realized demon slaying had formed the basis for his Dao foundation and that his foundation was taking shape on its own.
• Xu Yunfan reached the limit of Qi Refining, and the notifications warned that he was about to enter Foundation Establishment.

Xu Yunfan took the Mountain Seal from Suspended Mountain and broke through to Foundation Establishment as the three Golden Core powers watched. He left the chapter with his Essence, Qi, and Spirit gathering to form a Black Tortoise Dao Aspect.

• Xu Yunfan took the Mountain Seal and flew out of Suspended Mountain toward Clear Source True Monarch.
• Xu Yunfan’s breakthrough drew the attention of Clear Source True Monarch, Pure Yang True Monarch, and Subtle Truth Bodhisattva, who tried to influence or claim him before the others intervened.
• Xu Yunfan’s True Martial magic power transformed his body and awakened divine sense, allowing him to perceive the laws and karmic traces of the world.
• Xu Yunfan’s Black Tortoise Demon Suppressing Seal shattered, and his Essence, Qi, and Spirit joined to form a Three Heads Six Arms Black Tortoise Dao Aspect.