Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan entered the world beyond the Bronze Ghost Gate and discovered that the purple crystal was transforming Dream Origin Power into the curse power corrupting the world. After enduring its assault, he seized the crystal and used his Seal Spirit Body to begin sealing it, leaving the struggle unresolved.

• Fang Yuan opened the Bronze Ghost Gate and passed into the strange world beyond it.
• Fang Yuan traced the curses to a skeleton holding the purple crystal and realized it was Tantai Moye, whose arrival had helped the crystal learn to spread fear and death.
• The purple crystal blasted Fang Yuan away, but he charged through its light until his body was reduced to a skeleton.
• Fang Yuan released three Monster Class curses to weaken the crystal and snatched it from Tantai Moye's remains.
• Fang Yuan called on the world's will and used his evolved Seal Spirit Body to swallow the purple glow and begin sealing the crystal, which continued to resist.

After Fang Yuan sealed the purple crystal, the Heavenly Gate restored the human world and ended the Tantai Family’s curse. Thirty years later, Fang Yuan awoke in the Netherworld, learned he had contained origin power, and returned to the human world to find that three decades had passed.

• The Bronze Ghost Gate transformed into the peaceful Heavenly Gate, which sent Tantai Guijing, Daoist Master Sanmu, Master Kuhai, and the Tantai Family back to the human world and lifted the family’s curse.
• Tantai Guijing and the others realized Fang Yuan had likely succeeded, but they never heard from him again as ghosts and curses faded into legend over the next thirty years.
• Fang Yuan awoke in the Netherworld and recalled that, with help from the World Will, he had sealed the purple crystal, which he recognized as origin power.
• Fang Yuan’s Seal Spirit Body had become the Seal Body, and he realized the other four curses had vanished after being consumed by the origin power.
• Fang Yuan tore through space to reach the human world, where he sensed that thirty years had passed.

Fang Yuan returned from the Purple Eye World with a sealed drop of Inner Demon Source Power and emerged from seclusion at Nine Absolute Mountains. He learned that refugees and factions were gathering around the sect and began asking Extreme Yin about the state of the world.

• Liu Mengmei planned to shelter refugees outside the array, require them to formally join Nine Absolute Mountains, and rank trading partners to control access to supplies.
• Extreme Yin returned from a trading expedition and traded barbs with Liu Mengmei before green lights announced that Fang Yuan had emerged from seclusion.
• Fang Yuan examined the Seal Body and the sealed source power he had brought back, recognizing the source power as a burden and a path toward greater strength.
• Fang Yuan summoned his subordinates and heard that refugees and prospective disciples were increasing, Bai Ze Mountain wanted more Spirit Rice, the Alliance had shared information, and the Evil Saint Sect sought an alliance.
• Fang Yuan praised Liu Mengmei and Extreme Yin, then asked Extreme Yin to explain the state of the world.

Fang Yuan learned how the demonic spirit disaster had reshaped the Great Gan World and considered how Nine Absolute Mountains might expand. He left the possibility of an eastern expansion open while relying on the spread of Azure Origin Grass to help the world recover.

• Ji Yin reported that the demonic spirit disaster had devastated the central provinces and divided the surviving human powers among regional states and alliances.
• Ji Yin described the rise of the Northern Martial Alliance, the western Spirit Search Palace, eastern powers, the Dream Master Alliance, and the Heavenly Spirit Association.
• Fang Yuan asked Liu Mengmei to secretly check on the Qin Siblings in Dongyi Commandery and invite them to relocate if they were in danger.
• Fang Yuan concluded that the East Sea was Nine Absolute Mountains' most viable direction for expansion, though demonic spirits and food shortages remained obstacles.
• Fang Yuan trusted that Azure Origin Grass would spread and help the Great Gan World recover from the disaster.

Qian Huan Yi and Wan Sheng Wu Zun discussed the recovering world and the Demon Spirit threat, while the Church of Light faced an attack that ended in Bright Mountain's destruction. At Nine Absolute Mountains, Fang Yuan weighed his next steps before Liu Mengmei told him that two sisters claiming to be old acquaintances had come to see him.

• Qian Huan Yi and Wan Sheng Wu Zun sensed that Origin Energy and Dream Origin Power were stabilizing and discussed their ambitions and the need to investigate the recovery.
• The Demon Spirit army surrounded Bright Mountain, and the Church of Light's Sect Master chose to stay behind as the elders fled with its Core True Inheritance.
• The Sect Master destroyed Bright Mountain in a beam of light, inflicting heavy losses on the Demon Spirit army.
• The Three-tailed Scorpion Lion revealed that stabilizing grass had spread across the world and urged the Demon Commanders to destroy its source.
• Fang Yuan studied Dream Master techniques and considered finding another world to rebuild his cultivation.
• Liu Mengmei told Fang Yuan that two sisters claiming to be his old acquaintances were waiting to see him.

The Ye Family Sisters sought Fang Yuan’s protection and revealed that Sage Gu Chen was working to reach the Ancient Chen Great World. Fang Yuan agreed to shelter them temporarily, then set out to confront Gu Chen at the Realm Alliance’s headquarters, but a familiar fluctuation drew him to a battlefield along the way.

• Ye Shuhua and Ye Shumin asked Fang Yuan to shelter them, explaining that the Realm Alliance, Bai Ze Mountain, and the Evil Saint Sect were forming a Dream Master Alliance.
• Ye Shuhua told Fang Yuan that Gu Chen was trying to reach the Ancient Chen Great World, and the sisters revealed that Gu Chen’s disciple had been exploiting them.
• Fang Yuan let the sisters stay for now and decided to investigate Gu Chen’s crossing research and the Realm Alliance’s temporary headquarters.
• The Ye Family Sisters disclosed that the headquarters was at Tianmu Lake in Jin Province, and Fang Yuan set out alone to confront Gu Chen.
• Fang Yuan sensed a familiar fluctuation ahead, changed course, and arrived at a battlefield.

Fang Yuan encountered Black Roc Son under attack, watched him unleash the Black Roc Beast’s hidden abilities, and then revealed his identity as a True Sage. Black Roc Son agreed to take Fang Yuan to Heaven’s Eye Lake in Jin Province, and learned that Fang Yuan was the Lord of the Nine Absolute Mountains.

• Fang Yuan watched Xue Jing and his followers besiege Black Roc Son and damage the inn on the Black Roc Beast’s back.
• Black Roc Son revealed that the seemingly injured Black Roc Beast had hidden powers, and it devoured the attackers with its blood-red light.
• Fang Yuan emerged from hiding, and Black Roc Son recognized him as the True Sage from the Boundary Alliance.
• Fang Yuan ordered Black Roc Son to take him to Heaven’s Eye Lake in Jin Province, and the Black Roc Beast healed its wing before taking flight.
• Fang Yuan ate a meal prepared by Black Roc Son and asked whether he would come to the Nine Absolute Mountains as his chef.
• Black Roc Son realized Fang Yuan was the Lord of the Nine Absolute Mountains, and Fang Yuan asked how people described him.

Fang Yuan infiltrated the Realm Alliance headquarters at Skyeye Lake to kill Gu Chen, but Gu Chen escaped by transferring his true spirit into the armillary sphere and transmigrating to the Great World of Gu Chen. Fang Yuan was left with Gu Chen’s dead body and no chance to stop his crossing.

• Black Pengzi offered to serve Fang Yuan, who gave him a jade token and sent him to Nine Extremes Mountain after dropping him off at Skyeye Lake.
• Fang Yuan reached the Realm Alliance’s hidden island headquarters and slipped past its outer formation toward the bronze hall where he believed Gu Chen was secluded.
• Fang Yuan triggered the hall’s powerful formation, broke through its rune chains, and forced open the bronze doors as the headquarters descended into chaos.
• Gu Chen recognized Fang Yuan, spat blood essence onto the armillary sphere, and transferred his true spirit into it to begin a crossing.
• Fang Yuan reached Gu Chen too late and realized that Gu Chen had abandoned his body to transmigrate into the Great World of Gu Chen.

Fang Yuan escaped Star Hall with the Realm Alliance’s Armillary Sphere after Gu Chen vanished, leaving the alliance to conceal its Sage’s apparent death. He identified the sphere’s destination as the Ancient Chen Great World and prepared to pursue Gu Chen, while recognizing he first needed a safer place to leave his true body.

• Fang Yuan broke out of Star Hall with the Armillary Sphere, and Realm Alliance elders found Gu Chen’s shriveled body and agreed to hide the incident.
• Elder Song urged the Dream Masters to unite and use the crisis to consolidate the Realm Alliance’s power.
• Fang Yuan studied the Armillary Sphere and discovered it could calculate world coordinates and was set to the Ancient Chen Great World.
• Fang Yuan reasoned that Gu Chen had sacrificed his ties to the Great Gan World to escape its corruption and seek a new chance at Sainthood.
• Fang Yuan decided to find a safer place for his true body, then pursue Gu Chen and stop him before he could gain power in the Ancient Chen Great World.

Fang Yuan entered the Ancient Chen Great World in the body of Jie, a Shang soldier who had fallen in battle, and used his memories to learn that Shang ruled the realm while unrest spread in the east. After confirming his Wu bloodline and inheritance, Fang Yuan realized he was the last Wu in the world and began preparing to cultivate through the Wu way.

• Fang Yuan descended into the Ancient Chen Great World and awoke in Jie's body on a battlefield littered with corpses.
• Fang Yuan left the battlefield, sheltered in the mountains, and learned from Jie's memories that Shang had sent troops to suppress an eastern Yi rebellion.
• Fang Yuan considered Gu Chen's hidden plans and recognized that his own acceptance by the world let him enter without being rejected.
• Fang Yuan inspected his status and found that the Wu bloodline, Fiery Golden Eyes, and Seal Body had carried over into Jie's body.
• Fang Yuan hunted and roasted a rabbit, then chose the Wu way as his cultivation path and recognized himself as the world's last Wu.

Fang Yuan decided to leave the battlefield and learn more about the world, while reflecting on its history and the possibility that a higher-dimensional world had influenced it. After encountering noble officer Meng Kuo and a band of Dongyi attackers, Fang Yuan revealed his formidable skill by charging into the forest and killing them.

• Fang Yuan resolved to travel to Shangdu and possibly Fang Mountain to learn about the world and investigate the tribe he had founded.
• Fang Yuan considered whether a high-dimensional world had shaped this world's history and whether it was connected to the hometown he remembered from dreams.
• Fang Yuan met Meng Kuo, a Shang centurion, who recognized the Iron Sword as his younger brother Meng Guang's and grieved over his presumed death.
• Dongyi blow-dart warriors attacked Meng Kuo's group, killing several soldiers with poison darts.
• Fang Yuan deflected a dart and charged into the forest, easily killing the attackers and stunning Meng Kuo with his skill.

Fang Yuan, calling himself Jie, rescued Meng Kuo and learned that Fang Mountain was Great Shang’s ancient capital and origin. He joined the Shang camp to help with its Eastern Yi campaign, where he began gathering information about the army.

• Fang Yuan killed the remaining Yi warriors, declined Meng Kuo’s offer to pursue a military career, and asked about Fang Mountain.
• Meng Kuo explained Fang Mountain’s history, prompting Fang Yuan to realize he was regarded as Shang’s progenitor, then described the costly Eastern Yi campaign.
• Fang Yuan changed his mind and accompanied Meng Kuo to the Shang camp, where Meng Kuo introduced him to the soldiers and promised to recommend him to Fang Bo.
• Fang Yuan ate and drank in Meng Kuo’s tent while questioning the slaves and learning that the camp held about five thousand troops on a trial punitive campaign.

Fang Yuan watched the Shang army clash with the Eastern Yi and witnessed supernatural martial arts on both sides. After Doctor Jiu was captured, the Shang forces charged, and Fang Yuan faced the vicious Eastern Yi warrior with interest.

• Meng Kuo told Fang Yuan that Fang Bo had refused to reward him, and Fang Yuan accepted that the dispute was not worth pursuing.
• The Eastern Yi attacked, and Fang Yuan observed the Shang army’s chariots and the disorganized coalition opposing them.
• Guan Zhongbao killed Shang warrior Nuo in a chariot duel, but Doctor Jiu defeated and killed Guan Zhongbao with his sword aura.
• An Eastern Yi horseman used white qi to knock Doctor Jiu from his chariot and capture him alive.
• Fang Bo ordered the Shang army to rescue Doctor Jiu, and both armies charged into battle.
• The horseman swept aside the Shang fighters with bursts of white qi, while Meng Kuo looked to Fang Yuan for help and Fang Yuan studied the attacker.

Fang Yuan captured the Yi Qi Refiner Heizhong and learned how he had gained his unusual white-qi ability. He also learned that Qi Refiners had risen to prominence in this world, while Heizhong begged him to spare his life.

• Fang Yuan captured the Yi general Heizhong, and the Yi forces fled as the Shang counterattacked and won a decisive victory.
• After the battle, Fang Yuan confronted Heizhong in his tent when the captive broke free and attacked him with white qi.
• Heizhong admitted that a strange man had taught him a simple spell, leaving Fang Yuan without a lead to the Qi Refiners who might have trained him.
• Fang Yuan asked Meng Kuo about Qi Refiners and learned of their belief in purifying Primal Qi to become immortal.
• Heizhong, fearing Fang Yuan would kill him, begged to be sold back or kept as a slave.

Fang Yuan accepted Heizhong as his slave, received rewards for his service, and traveled with the army toward Shang Yi. After a Kui Niu’s passage caused heavy losses, a demon white tiger attacked the rear guard, and Fang Bo ordered the army to confront it.

• Fang Yuan saw through Heizhong’s attempt to bargain for cultivation teachings, then accepted him as a slave and promised to teach him a Cultivation Technique.
• Meng Kuo brought Fang Yuan rewards, including bronze Vessels, weapons, and twenty servants, and said Fang Yuan’s rank would be granted in Shang Yi.
• The army set off for home, and Fang Yuan reflected on his growing Wu Clan blood and the realm’s class system.
• A Kui Niu bounded past the army without attacking, but its passage left several hundred people dead and prompted Fang Yuan to study Heizhong’s magic arts.
• A white tiger demon charged into the rear guard and seized a slave, so Fang Bo ordered the troops to surround it and ready their crossbows.

The Shang army killed the White Tiger after Meng Kuo broke its protective glow, while Doctor Jiu tried to attack Heizhong and Fang Yuan intervened. That night, Fang Yuan found two White Fox spirits cultivating in a valley and learned they had been planning to steal the White Tiger’s pelt.

• The Shang archers weakened the White Tiger’s protective glow, and Meng Kuo broke through it with three arrows, blinding the beast with the last shot.
• Heizhong rescued Meng Kuo from the White Tiger, but Doctor Jiu attacked Heizhong with a Flying Sword, and Fang Yuan knocked it aside with his own sword.
• Heizhong and the Shang soldiers killed the wounded White Tiger, and Fang Bo ordered its pelt taken as an auspicious offering to the Great King.
• Fang Yuan followed a spiritual trace from the camp and found two White Foxes bowing to the moon in a valley.
• Fang Yuan caught the White Foxes and made them reveal their human forms; the frightened fox girls confessed they had wanted to steal the White Tiger’s pelt.

Fang Yuan took in the two fox sisters, Da Bai and Xiao Bai, and advanced his cultivation while studying Heizhong’s supernatural abilities. At Shang Yi, his Fiery Golden Eyes revealed the Shang Tribe’s qi and several rising figures, while news of the Hundred Schools of Thought made him suspect they were competing for control of the world.

• Fang Yuan questioned the fox sisters about their cultivation and learned that Grandpa Sang Qing had taught them and told them to seek him in Tu Shan.
• Fang Yuan named the sisters Da Bai and Xiao Bai, claimed them as his servants, and ordered Heizhong to care for them.
• Fang Yuan studied Heizhong’s supernatural abilities and the foxes’ soul-visualization method as the army traveled to the Shang Dynasty’s Royal Domain.
• At Shang Yi, Fang Yuan used his Fiery Golden Eyes to see the Shang Tribe’s qi and several beams of purple qi rising from the city.
• Meng Kuo told Fang Yuan that Sword Saint Cao Zi had opened a school in Shang Yi and that other schools were gathering there to teach and recruit disciples.
• Fang Yuan recognized the Hundred Schools of Thought and suspected that they were backed by other powers seeking control of the world.

After refusing Great Shang’s offer of a post, Fang Yuan took Heizhong to watch a sword challenge in Shang Yi and recognized the Sword Saint Cao Qiu. Heizhong won the prize money with his strange arts, but conceded when Cao Qiu entered the contest.

• Fang Yuan rejected Meng Kuo’s invitation to meet the King of Shang and left with Heizhong.
• Fang Yuan sent Heizhong to challenge Can for the hundred gold coins, and Heizhong defeated him by breaking his sword with a burst of white qi.
• Heizhong argued with Ang over the prize, and Cao Qiu ordered Ang to pay before challenging Heizhong.
• Heizhong defeated Ang by steering his white qi after him, prompting Cao Qiu to enter the platform himself.
• Heizhong recognized Fang Yuan’s instruction to concede and yielded to Cao Qiu.

Fang Yuan defeated the Sword Saint Cao Qiu with a single sword strike, then explained why Cao had conceded. That night, he met a young swordsman named Nie and gave him the surname Gai, leaving the youth eager to learn from him.

• Fang Yuan introduced Heizhong as his servant, and Cao Qiu challenged him to a sword duel.
• Cao Qiu cut apart Heizhong's Soul Bewitching Technique, but Fang Yuan healed Heizhong and agreed to compare three moves with Cao Qiu.
• Fang Yuan blocked Cao Qiu's wind-and-thunder strike, and Cao Qiu conceded after recognizing Fang Yuan's superior foundation.
• Da Bai and Xiao Bai asked Fang Yuan to teach them swordsmanship, and he explained that Cao Qiu had conceded because he would lose in a fight to the death.
• Fang Yuan sensed an intruder at the guesthouse, and Heizhong forced the young swordsman Nie out of hiding.
• Nie asked to study under Fang Yuan, who suggested the surname Gai; Nie accepted the name Gai Nie and bowed to him.

Fang Yuan accepted Gai Nie as his student, then went to the Gathering of Sages Hall and met Gongzi Wu, the son of the Marquis of Western Zhou. After learning that the King of Shang had ordered his arrest, Fang Yuan left without agreeing to join Western Zhou.

• Fang Yuan accepted Gai Nie as his student and ordered Heizhong to teach him the Great Yin Orthodox Method.
• Fang Yuan exposed Mo Ge, who delivered an invitation to the Gathering of Sages Hall on behalf of his young master.
• Fang Yuan visited the hall, where Mo Ge introduced him to Gongzi Wu, the son of the Marquis of Western Zhou.
• Gongzi Wu tried to recruit Fang Yuan and questioned him about his background and school, but Fang Yuan said he wanted to live freely.
• A servant told Gongzi Wu that Doctor Jiu had accused Fang Yuan before the King of Shang, who ordered Fang Yuan's arrest.
• Gongzi Wu offered Fang Yuan protection in Western Zhou, but Fang Yuan gave a noncommittal reply and left.