Chapter Summaries

Li Fan used the Golden Silver Treasure Tree to send his primordial spirit to Yuntai Peak, where he explored the Xuan Sects’ center and learned about their power and organization. At the Beichen Sword Sect’s old sword-fighting arena, he saw cultivators simulating the battle in Kun Country and learned that the Western Imperial Guards had suffered a humiliating defeat.

• Cihui showed Li Fan how to use the Golden Silver Treasure Tree to hide his Dao body and send his primordial spirit to Yuntai Peak.
• Li Fan arrived at Yuntai Peak, met Fa Hui, and learned where the Xiao family’s gathering was being held before setting out to explore.
• Li Fan surveyed the Xuan Sects’ administrative islands and reflected on the Nine Great Sects and Mount Emei’s overwhelming strength.
• Li Fan found the old Beichen Sword Sect sword-fighting arena and recognized that the cultivators playing Go were simulating the battle in Kun Country.
• A cultivator added red pieces that surrounded Wen Tianjun’s Thunder Department forces, while others removed many pieces representing the Western Imperial Guards.
• A round-faced cultivator cursed the Western Imperial Guards for sending mostly inexperienced troops and demanded that the group count the Divine Sect’s forces.

Li Fan listened as cultivators debated the God Sect’s surprise victory and the Immortal Palace’s prospects, then explored the Beichen Sword Sect memorial hall and learned about Yuntai Peak’s storage and currency system. The chapter ended with Jia Gui revealing that Li Fan’s Mysterious Purple Gold Pills and Donghua Changchun Pills were priceless elixirs.

• Li Fan and the cultivators speculated that the Eight Banner Immortal Palace had defected to the God Sect and debated how the battle might affect the Three Enclosures.
• The cultivators concluded that the God Sect’s victory would not change the war’s overall outcome, and Li Fan left to explore the Beichen Sword Sect relics.
• Li Fan paid respects to the Beichen Sword Sect’s ancestors, including Sword Ancestor Xuantian, at the memorial hall.
• Jia Gui tried to sell Li Fan copied secret records, and Li Fan memorized several unofficial histories while asking about Yuntai Peak’s goods and currency.
• Jia Gui explained that Mysterious Purple Gold Pills and Donghua Changchun Pills were priceless life-saving elixirs, leaving Li Fan to realize their value.

Li Fan visited Yuntai Peak’s treasury and learned how its soul-based trading system worked before discovering the Beichen Sword Sect’s hidden private stores. The sword spirits rejected him as an unqualified heir but gave him the Moonspirit rabbit sword, which promptly kicked him out.

• Jia Gui explained Yuntai Peak’s role in evaluating prospective Xuan Sect disciples and described the Purple Hair Fairy and her estate.
• Li Fan entered the treasury, exchanged ten Nine Revolutions Mysterious Purple Gold Pills with Jia Gui for three hundred Spirit Coins, and spotted his sect’s stored supplies.
• Li Fan was sent into the Beichen Sword Sect’s private stores, where the flying sword Chunjun and other sword spirits judged him unqualified to wield their swords.
• A golden-eyed youth recognized Li Fan’s use of the Taiyin Sword Art and gave him Moonspirit, a first-grade Nascent Soul treasure shaped like a rabbit.
• Li Fan asked for a different sword suited to Qiankun Flying, but Moonspirit kicked him out through the jade gate.

Li Fan searched Yuntai Peak for a treasure spirit he suspected was connected to Du Xia, learning that she had ties to the Central Guard. He left with more questions about the conflict surrounding the royal house of Xun and asked Jia Gui to help him research famous swords.

• Jia Gui gave Li Fan a young Pixiu and explained how Pixiu and Spirit Coins worked.
• Jia Gui led Li Fan toward a banquet hosted by the Central Guard, but the guards turned them away from the private residence.
• Li Fan paid Jia Bing for information, and Jia Bing identified Du Xia as an arrogant object spirit who had recently arrived and spent her days at the library.
• Li Fan realized Du Xia was backed by the Central Guard and wondered whether the Grand Tutor was connected to the plots against the royal house of Xun.
• Li Fan asked Jia Gui about records of famous flying swords, and Jia Gui offered him a book about Sword Ancestor Xuantian and his swords.

Li Fan visited the Book Pavilion to find Du Xia and encountered Zhang Chongyang, a Central Guard captain who recognized his disguises and offered him a job. Li Fan agreed to kidnap Xun Country’s ruler, Sun Zhonghu, in exchange for one of three rewards, leaving him wary of Zhang Chongyang’s true power and motives.

• Jia Gui explained the Book Pavilion’s collection, examination system, and restrictions on reading its books to Li Fan.
• Li Fan found Du Xia leaving the pavilion with a veiled Nascent Soul scholar and sensed that the man was connected to the Grand Tutor.
• The scholar recognized Li Fan as Li Yaoshi, revealed his name as Zhang Chongyang, and identified himself as a captain of a thousand under the Central Guard.
• Zhang Chongyang asked Li Fan to kidnap Sun Zhonghu during an impending coup, when Xun Country’s Divine Transformation cultivators would be occupied.
• Zhang Chongyang offered Li Fan a choice of a military rank and wealth, a decree clearing the Luo Feng Immortal King’s lineage, or help reviving the Beichen Sword Sect.
• Li Fan accepted the assignment, and Zhang Chongyang departed with Du Xia, his artifact spirits, and gathered divine generals.

Li Fan learned that the Western Imperial Guards had been routed by infiltrators transformed into powerful, disciplined corpse-devils, though their origins and connection to the Divine Cult remained unclear. He returned to Apricot Grove with a possible opening to obtain Xun Country’s original Heavenly Scripture and received Cihui’s ranked Nascent Soul prayer beads, which might reconnect him to the female immortals.

• Li Fan returned from Yuntai Peak and heard Blue Fatty explain how infiltrators sabotaged the Imperial Guards’ camp before the Devil Cult’s ambush.
• Blue Fatty described the recruits’ transformation into corpse-devils and recounted the Immortal Palace’s history of developing Corpse Refining Pills, while Li Fan wondered whether the new soldiers came from another secret technique.
• Li Fan learned that the diviners at Yuntai Peak sold their calculations and reports to wealthy cultivators, then decided the turmoil in Xun Country might help him obtain the original Heavenly Scripture from Tiger-Perch Palace.
• Li Fan returned to Apricot Grove and found Cihui, who said she had failed to buy a Divine Infant Pill because one buyer had purchased all the remaining pills.
• Cihui gave Li Fan her ranked Nascent Soul prayer beads to repay his loan and settle her karmic connection to the female immortals, then walked into Apricot Grove.

Li Fan examined Lin Xiang's Corpse-Refining Pill transformation, tested the sword pill Moon Soul, and learned of a plot to seize the Ruler of Xun Country during a tiger hunt. He chose to prioritize obtaining the Heavenly Tome and protecting Lin Xiang, then left Jiujiang Prefecture with the Lin siblings for Ink Bamboo Mountain as conflict approached.

• Li Fan confirmed that Lin Chen and Lin Xiang were safe, found that Lin Xiang needed baleful aura or similar sustenance, and resolved to have the temple master examine her.
• Li Fan tested Moon Soul, watched it take control of parts of his divine court, and judged that its power came with a heavy demand on his true energy.
• Li Fan read Zhang Chongyang's secret letter and learned that conspirators planned to seize the Ruler of Xun Country during a tiger hunt, while rival factions might try to protect or assassinate him.
• Li Fan decided to wait for the fighting to weaken the factions before pursuing the Heavenly Tome, while putting Lin Xiang's safety ahead of involvement in the coup.
• At daybreak, Li Fan took Lin Chen and Lin Xiang aboard a merchant ship bound for Ink Bamboo Mountain, hiding Lin Xiang in a talisman-covered basket of oranges.

Li Fan gathered baleful energy to keep Lin Xiang alive, then entered the Void Abyss and seized a karmic fragment while four sword cultivators fought to the death. After returning to the Li River, he found it crowded with cultivators who had gathered for an opportunity offered by Yang Fu.

• Li Fan took the comatose Lin Xiang to a mountain qi vent and collected enough baleful energy to restore her breathing.
• Li Fan entered a ruined Tai Su Realm, found an iron feather containing a fragment of karma, and seized it as the world began to collapse.
• Li Fan watched four cultivators from the Demon Sect, Penglai, Songshan, and Hengshan battle; the Moon Soul killed the last two after the others had fallen.
• The Moon Soul refused to submit to Li Fan unless he defeated four Nascent Soul cultivators without its help.
• Li Fan returned to the mortal world, found Lin Xiang sleeping safely, and flew toward Lin Chen before noticing a crowd of cultivators gathered around a riverboat.
• Yang Fu stepped forward from the boat and announced that he had invited the cultivators to offer them a great opportunity.

Li Fan joined Yang Sheng’s operation, then witnessed a devastating explosion trigger chaos across Xingye City and hurried to Taichu Palace to rescue Pan Liu’s son. He found the child transformed into a Devil Embryo, uncovered the Heavenly Book beneath Taichu Hall, and discovered the Ruler of Xun Country had been dead for a year or two.

• Yang Sheng offered wooden, iron, and jade mission tokens, and Li Fan took a wooden token after masked cultivators claiming to be Flying Eagle Stronghold seized the remaining iron tokens.
• Li Fan contacted a disguised Luo Sect spy, Pan Liu, who denied knowing about the Heavenly Book before an enormous explosion struck Rouge Pool and devastated the district.
• Pan Liu revealed that the Ruler of Xun Country had imprisoned her son in Taichu Hall, and Li Fan rushed to the palace as fighting spread through the city.
• Li Fan entered Taichu Hall and found Pan Liu’s son transformed into a Non-Thing, which he destroyed to expose the hidden chamber beneath the hall.
• Li Fan found the Heavenly Book’s twelve stone slabs and a skin sack that appeared to be the remains of the Ruler of Xun Country, dead for a year or two.

Li Fan uncovered the formation sustaining the Ruler of Xun’s transformation and fought off a powerful demon in the Grand Primordial Hall. As the baleful energy consumed Xingye City, he chose to stop the Ruler before he could become the Tai Su Dao Ancestor, and Moon Soul pledged to help him.

• Li Fan traced the baleful mercury from Tiger-Crouching Palace to thousands of women’s corpses beneath Rouge Pool and concluded that Sun Zhonghu was preparing to transform into the Tai Su Dao Ancestor.
• Li Fan killed a eunuch possessed by a Super Greater Chi, devoured its remains, and collected the lambskin, stone slabs, and baleful mercury.
• Li Fan realized that the baleful energy had infected Xingye City and that the two royal factions were unlikely to stop fighting, so he left the city’s crisis unresolved to pursue Sun Zhonghu.
• Li Fan found Pan Liu transformed into a pomegranate tree and placed her son’s remaining cheek in her embrace before flying toward the Imperial Garden.
• Moon Soul recognized Li Fan as its master and agreed to help him slay the demon.

Li Fan fought his way toward the forbidden hunting grounds, where the Ruler of Xun Country was trapped, and killed a Penglai True Person with the Moon's Essence. Unable to enter through the guarded mountain, Li Fan learned that formations blocked the way, then transformed into a Kun and leaped inside.

• Li Fan rode his Sword Light into the battle around the hunting grounds and used the Moon's Essence to break through the fighting cultivators and soldiers.
• A Penglai sword immortal trapped the Moon's Essence in a jade cup, but the sword broke free and killed him with a strike through the eye.
• The Moon's Essence explained the Taiyin Sword Ghost Divine Repository and questioned Li Fan about the North Star Taiyin Ice Wheel True Explanation and the purple Nascent Soul.
• Li Fan found the mountain's entrance blocked, defeated Fa Jue and his two companions, and took their five iron tokens, but still could not enter.
• Fa Jue explained that Iron Token envoys and three formations guarded the mountain; Li Fan abandoned the formal route, transformed into Li Kun, and leaped inside.

Li Fan infiltrated Beast's Child’s mental illusion as a fish and watched a banquet turn into a staged struggle among Xun Country’s factions and the Three Enclosures sects. When Yang Sheng exposed Beast’s Child and the attacks began, Beast’s Child expelled Li Fan from the illusion, leaving him to suspect the Night Banquet had been repeating and that he had only one chance to change events.

• Li Fan used his mind’s eye to discover that Beast’s Child had covered the hunting grounds and cocooned the guests in baleful mercury while its true body incubated near the mountaintop.
• Li Fan hid in the mental world as a fish in a soup pot and observed Yang Si'an, Princess Quan, Yang Sheng, the Ruler of Xun Country, and cultivators from the Mystic Sects at the banquet.
• Yang Sheng broke from his role and launched a hostage-taking attack, prompting the Song Mountain, Heng Mountain, and Penglai cultivators to fight while the Transformation Stage eunuch defended the ruler.
• The eunuch was killed after the sects united against the Ten Absolutes Demon Sect, and Xie Mingchen’s attempt to strike the ruler revealed that the ruler’s neck was a living maw.
• Yang Sheng recognized the ruler as a Devil Embryo consuming primordial spirits, but Beast’s Child blew Li Fan out of the illusion and back to the rabbit.

Li Kun used Yang Sheng's lingering memories to disrupt the banquet and turn the Xun Country cultivators against the Ruler of Xun Country. The ruler and Dachangqiu were struck down, but the furious cultivators recognized the repeated cycle and denounced the ruler for deceiving them again.

• Li Kun concluded that he needed to disrupt the banquet, awaken the True Cultivators, and try to kill the Ruler of Xun Country.
• Li Kun asked Yuepo how to attack a soul, and Yuepo explained that emotional conviction strengthened divine-light attacks.
• Yang Sheng noticed that his court tablet's character count was wrong and that he had forgotten something important.
• Li Kun sent a fish head bearing coded messages to Yang Sheng, who recognized the clues and began accusing the ruler's court of wrongdoing.
• Yang Sheng publicly claimed that Gu Mo had been murdered for exposing treason, and Xie Mingchen charged in while declaring that the Luo Feng Immortal Army had arrived.
• Dachangqiu stabbed the ruler as the Xuan Sect cultivators attacked, and the cultivators cursed the ruler for repeatedly deceiving them.

Li Fan and the others disrupted the Beast’s Child’s gestation and destroyed its core, but the creature still emerged as a powerful black dragon. Yang Sheng’s sacrifice brought the Divine Transformation cultivators to the battlefield, and they pursued the fleeing demon god.

• The Ruler of Xun Country attacked the cultivators, but Xie Mingchen severed his head and Li Kun dragged it into the Phantom Moon Treasure Mirror.
• Li Fan reached the Beast’s Child’s egg, freed the surviving captives, and tore open its shell while the Ruler’s trapped souls distracted him.
• Li Fan pierced the Beast’s Child’s core with Crimson Eyes, causing the egg to explode and blasting the fighters out of the underground cavern.
• The Beast’s Child emerged as a black dragon, and Li Fan revealed that Yang Sheng had broken the jade tablet and undone the calamity.
• Jueyin Shenjun, the Six Lords of Luofeng, four Divine Transformation generals, and an old general arrived as the Beast’s Child fled west.
• Eleven Divine Transformation cultivators pursued the Beast’s Child while Li Fan watched, exhausted and clutching a black golden pyramid.

Li Fan rescued Yang Sheng and Xie Mingchen after the battle with Gu Mo, then learned that Hou Gu had seized Lanling and that Xun Country had been devastated. He returned to ruined Xingye City to search for the Lin siblings, rescue survivors, and investigate the chaos, ending with Zhang Chongyang and Li Fan exchanging uncertain reports before Zhang vanished.

• Yang Sheng recalled that he had once been Jia Jia, while Xie Mingchen entrusted Li Fan with caring for his adopted sons at Luo Feng Cave Heaven.
• Li Fan brought Yang Sheng and Xie Mingchen to Iron Buddha Temple for treatment, where a novice reported that Hou Gu had rebelled, burned Lanling, and thrown Zhen Country into chaos.
• Li Fan returned to Xingye City, found the city ruined and the Lin siblings’ ship missing, then used divination to confirm that the siblings were not in immediate danger.
• Li Fan rescued trapped survivors from Xingye City while the Divine Transformation battle moved farther away.
• Zhang Chongyang questioned Li Fan about the forbidden garden, and Li Fan told him that Hou Gu had taken Lanling before Zhang disappeared.

Li Fan pursued the Beast's Child across Xun Country as rival factions clashed, then seized his chance to kill its fleeing head. After fighting off three Nangong generals, he escaped into the sea with the Beast's Child's remains.

• Li Fan examined the Rouge Pool explosion site, learned from his system that a rival Apostle had used a compact metal-nitrogen bomb, and resumed tracking the Beast's Child toward the South Sea.
• Li Fan found Luofeng Mountain's six Divine Lords facing General of Pacifying the East and the Four Great Clans, then continued chasing the Beast's Child to the coast.
• Li Fan watched the Immortal Palace's four spirit officials batter the Beast's Child, but the Nangong Family arrived and began attacking the spirit officials under the pretext of claiming the Devil Embryo.
• Lu Yi and a hidden swordsman using the Sun Sword Art ambushed two spirit officials, while the Beast's Child escaped the Nangong army as the fighting erupted.
• Li Fan used the Taiyin Sword Art and his Crimson Eye to destroy the Beast's Child's head, then killed two Nangong generals and wounded their Vermilion Bird before fleeing into the sea with the skull.

Li Fan escaped the Nangong Family, recovered, and copied the Beast's Child's Heavenly Book, but learned that an overwhelming enemy threatened Ink Bamboo Mountain. After hearing that the Divine Sect had decisively defeated the Immortal Palace forces, he left to heal and grow stronger as the realm descended further into war.

• Li Fan discovered that killing opponents during the Nangong Family's death tribulation had raised his mood limit by 2,000 points, then hid beneath the sea to recover from his injuries and mental exhaustion.
• Li Fan copied the Beast's Child's Heavenly Book and its twelve passages in the teahouse, then returned to the mortal world after someone knocked at the door in the Void Abyss.
• The Mountain Lord warned Li Fan not to return to Ink Bamboo Mountain because an exceptionally powerful enemy was coming, and told him he might become the lineage's ninth-generation giant if the sect fell.
• Li Fan read Blue Fatty's battle report and learned that the Divine Sect had routed the Immortal Palace's forces in Kun Country, while the Nangong army betrayed the Xun army.
• Li Fan concluded that the Three Great Sects' conflict would keep escalating and left to heal and strengthen himself.

Li Fan sought a safe place to recover his cultivation and followed the Si Nan to Jinlin Isle, bringing along an ordinary-looking slave boy named A Mao, whom he renamed Li Mao. At the Golden Scale Palace, Li Fan tried to provoke a minor incident to win the Huan family's attention, but instead discovered that the young noble he killed was an apostle of the Legion.

• Li Fan spotted a sea battle, ignored the pirates' takeover, and followed the Si Nan to the enslaved boy A Mao, whom he freed and renamed Li Mao.
• Li Fan flew with Li Mao to Jinlin Isle, where he planned to seek a cultivation refuge from the Huan family's Golden Scale Palace.
• Li Fan dressed as a wealthy gentleman and took Li Mao aboard the Golden Scale Palace's tower ship, intending to attract the Huan family's notice and become a guest retainer.
• Li Mao bumped into a young noble, and Li Fan kicked the man to start a staged confrontation.
• The young noble revealed armor and a handgun, so Li Fan snapped his spine and discovered that he was an apostle of the Legion.
• Li Fan killed the two Jin Qing concubines, gathered and crushed their souls, then continued onward with the stunned Li Mao.

Li Fan used the system’s clues to find and kill a hidden Divine Cult squad, then learned from Yuepo that their leader had pursued a dangerous primordial-spirit technique and carried three God Lord Jades. The chapter left Li Fan holding the jades and discovering how close the dead cultivator had come to placing a lethal mark on him.

• Li Fan left Amao partying in a private room, concealed the bodies there, and followed the system’s directions to another room.
• Li Fan killed three Foundation Establishment men through the wall and found their bodies, protective suits, and advanced equipment inside.
• Li Fan examined the squad’s weapons and devices with the system, which identified the group as a tactical team and explained their communications and stealth gear.
• Li Fan placed the four bodies and recovered equipment together, found three locked God Lord Jades on Xiba, and summoned Yuepo for an explanation.
• Yuepo identified the corpses as blood-puppet doubles and said Xiba had cultivated the Blood God Child Great Law; she explained that his three jades could have enabled him to brand Li Fan with a Blood Execution Seal.

Li Fan learned more about the God Sect’s prized jade before discovering that Amao’s extraordinary constitution had attracted the Golden Scale Palace. After Madam Chi Lin helped Amao establish his foundation through dual cultivation, Li Fan found that Amao could not cultivate effectively on his own.

• Li Fan questioned Yuepo about the God Lord Jade and secured the electronic equipment and other supplies left by the dead mercenaries.
• Li Fan found a crowd watching Amao outlast the Golden Qings, and an old man claimed Amao possessed the rare Golden Body of the Blissful Youth.
• Madam Chi Lin offered to take Amao in, and Li Fan agreed to let her teach him the Golden Scale Palace’s secret art after they asked Amao what he wanted.
• Li Fan met Huan Delang, learned that Madam Chi Lin was a Golden Qing and Huan family member, and agreed to stay on the island while she taught Amao.
• Madam Chi Lin helped Amao establish his foundation through dual cultivation, but Li Fan discovered that Amao’s breathing technique made ordinary cultivation difficult for him.