Chapter Summaries

Li Fan helped Zhou Chengxue refine pills and secretly used a jade pendant to smooth spiritual-energy currents, helping the seventh turn go unusually well. After Zhou Chengxue gave him rare gems and went into seclusion, Liu Chengzong confronted Li Fan about the recent fight and invited him to a banquet to ask questions.

• Li Fan questioned Zhou Chengxue about the unusual pill factory, but Zhou Chengxue warned him not to ask about it and put him to work assisting with alchemy.
• Li Fan observed Zhou Chengxue’s nine-tier furnace and learned how the pill-refining process worked as Zhou Chengxue completed the first six turns without error.
• During the seventh turn, Li Fan used his jade pendant to smooth turbulent spiritual-energy currents entering the furnace, and Zhou Chengxue’s refining proceeded smoothly.
• Zhou Chengxue said the pills needed three days to mature before the next turn, credited the process with giving him new alchemical insights, and gave Li Fan rare gems.
• Li Fan went to Shenzhen Palace to find Xiao Yushi, but Liu Chengzong stopped him, identified himself, and invited him to a banquet to discuss the recent fight.

Li Fan endured Liu Chengzong’s interrogation while Manifestation Dao Lord secretly watched, then heard Liu’s factional pitch and accusations about Penglai’s leadership. The chapter ended with Liu claiming captured Demon Cult remnants had confessed that Xia Chengming was an infiltrator.

• Li Fan followed Liu Chengzong to Taizhen Palace and stumbled through an account of the massacre under Manifestation Dao Lord’s watchful gaze.
• Li Fan asked after the rescued women, and Liu said they had recovered and might be sent to Li Fan’s household as maids.
• Liu Chengzong offered Li Fan two hundred Nine-Turn Donghua Changchun Pills to recruit him as a protector for Disciple Xu.
• Liu told Li Fan that Penglai’s factions were preparing to fight over the next Sect Master and accused Manifestation Dao Lord of shielding Xia Chengming, a supposed Demon Cult infiltrator.
• Liu claimed captured Demon Cult remnants had confessed to Xia Chengming’s infiltration, while Manifestation Dao Lord watched Li Fan’s reaction.

Li Fan learned that Liu Chengzong and Xu Chengyang suspected Xia Chengming of betraying the Nine Truth Sect, then followed Liu Chengzong to a catastrophic explosion at Penglai’s alchemy factory. Under Manifestation Dao Lord’s pressure, Li Fan struck Liu Chengzong with a Golden Brick, leaving him collapsed and possibly dead.

• Li Fan accepted Liu Chengzong’s pills and promised to protect Xu Chengyang if evidence showed Xia Chengming was a Demon Cult spy.
• Liu Chengzong explained that a Sumera Treasure Mirror had revealed a prisoner’s origins and accused Xia Chengming of sabotaging the sect across several countries.
• Liu Chengzong revealed that disciples had sent the prisoner to Lingzhen Palace and were gathering evidence in Zhen, then warned Li Fan that something major was imminent.
• An enormous explosion destroyed part of Penglai’s alchemy factory, and Liu Chengzong flew toward the burning workshop as Li Fan followed with Manifestation Dao Lord.
• Liu Chengzong attacked a badly injured figure he identified as Xia Chengming, while Manifestation Dao Lord told Li Fan to strike Liu Chengzong with a Golden Brick.
• Li Fan threw the Golden Brick at Liu Chengzong’s head, drawing blood and knocking him to the ground.

After Manifestation Dao Lord imprisoned Li Fan, he coached him to give testimony that exposed Liu Chengzong as a Demon Sect traitor, and the sect returned Li Fan’s Golden Brick. The Shenzhen Palace elders questioned Li Fan, then Manifestation secretly tasked him with three dangerous missions and warned him to tell the truth if caught.

• Manifestation Dao Lord locked Li Fan in a cell beside Xiantong, who revealed that he had colluded with the Luo Sect and named Yan Xingyun as his sworn elder brother.
• Manifestation told Li Fan to tell the truth, and Li Fan testified that Liu Chengzong had colluded with the Demon Sect and that he had accidentally killed him with the Golden Brick.
• The Divine Lords accepted Li Fan’s testimony after Xia Chengming confirmed that Liu Chengzong had attacked him, and Manifestation returned the Golden Brick while ordering Li Fan to remain at the Shenzhen Palace.
• Jusi, Jurui, Yi Si, and another Divine Lord examined the Golden Brick and questioned Li Fan, who repeated his testimony and handed over the Changchun Pill Liu Chengzong had given him.
• Manifestation secretly instructed Li Fan to capture a Demon Sect disciple, test Xu Chengyang with the Golden Brick, and investigate Yulin Manor, giving him God Lord Jade to help locate a Ten Absolutes God Sect traitor.
• Manifestation promised Li Fan a great merit and personal discipleship if he completed the missions, and Li Fan understood that he would be blamed as the traitor if he were caught.

Li Fan escaped Penglai by using a clone to fool Xiao Yushi and the Ling sisters, then headed toward Yingzhou to intercept Xu Chengyang. Along the way, he learned that the system’s crystal-mining mission was guarded by an orbital cannon.

• Li Fan decided to cooperate with the Manifestation Dao Lord’s orders while avoiding his scrutiny, and Zhou Chengxue delivered two hundred Nine-Turn Changchun Pills.
• The Ling sisters joined Xiao Yushi at Li Fan’s residence, so Li Fan created a clone and illusion to make it appear he was cultivating with them.
• Li Fan escaped the Shenzhen Palace through the Nine Heavens Nether River Formation while the Dao Lord and Penglai’s Divine Lords were away.
• Li Fan learned the Dao Lord had gone to Fanghu to investigate Amao, then chose to intercept Xu Chengyang at Yingzhou instead of following the Dao Lord’s plan.
• The system explained that the green crystals could provide computing power, but an orbital defense cannon guarded the mining site, leaving Li Fan to help the group reach it.

Li Fan joined a mission to disable a Legion orbital gun platform, but the Thousand-Faced Immortal took control of his Dao Body and crossed the threshold in a way that left the platform’s occupants dead. Li Fan awoke beneath the False Moon, exhausted but having learned how to cross to the other side of the threshold.

• Li Fan studied the orbital gun platform and agreed to ride a drone mine hidden inside a graphite warhead toward it.
• The system used a drone mine to steer a meteorite into the gun platform’s range and scatter its fragments as cover for Li Fan.
• As the meteorite shattered, Li Fan’s Thousand-Faced Immortal Dao Body crossed into the platform and removed the brain hosting its ODS system.
• Li Fan realized the Thousand-Faced Immortal had taken control of his body, drained his mood, and carried the brain across the threshold.
• Li Fan tried to repeat the crossing and split apart fourteen Legion apostles aboard the station.
• Li Fan woke beneath the False Moon, physically depleted but having learned the method for crossing the threshold.

After using a spatial crossing that nearly destroyed his body, Li Fan rebuilt himself with the Thousand-Faced Immortal's Dao Body and received a plasma cannon from the system. He ambushed Xu Chengyang's treasure ship to target two Penglai cultivators involved in the Huan family's destruction, but his shot coincided with a violent clash among the ship's escorts, and he rushed in to exploit the confusion.

• Li Fan recovered from the damage caused by crossing the door and used Jade Pure Jade Quality Flawless Escape to reconstruct his body as a carbon-based Thousand-Faced Immortal's Dao Body.
• The system delivered a plasma reactor prototype, which Li Fan combined with the Gauss launcher to create a portable plasma cannon and test its destructive power.
• Li Fan planned to disguise himself as an envoy of the Legion and a Divine Cult infiltrator, using the cannon to assassinate two Penglai Nascent Soul cultivators while making Xu Chengyang appear to be his target.
• Li Fan and Yue Po practiced firing while escaping, and Li Fan then went to lie in ambush near Yingzhou as Xu Chengyang traveled aboard a heavily guarded treasure ship.
• Li Fan fired the plasma cannon at one of his targets, then saw the ship catch fire as its Divine Transformation escorts and protectors attacked the Nascent Soul cultivators aboard.
• Li Fan's God Lord Jades pointed toward the treasure ship, so he decided to approach and use the chaos to carry out his sect leader's mission.

Li Fan disrupted a killing calamity aboard a burning treasure ship, killed many Spirit Race protectors, and fought two Divine Transformation Mystic Sect experts with his plasma cannon before retreating to recover. He slipped back into the battlefield and found one Divine Lord attacking four trapped Nascent Souls while the other searched for him.

• Li Fan concluded that an explosion aboard the ship had left four Nascent Soul cultivators under attack from their supposed allies, including two Divine Lords.
• Li Fan killed four Spirit Race protectors as they prepared a killing calamity, then blasted the remaining protectors on the ship’s perimeter.
• Li Fan wounded one Divine Lord with his plasma cannon, but the Divine Lord’s senior brother intervened and cut Li Fan’s back with a Qi Sword.
• Li Fan escaped the killing calamity by turning into a Kun, healed, and decided to return after assessing the two Mystic Sect experts.
• Li Fan reentered the battlefield and saw the junior Divine Lord attacking four Nascent Souls behind a barrier while his senior brother patrolled the seafloor for Li Fan.

Li Fan prepared a teleporting bomb to attack the two Godly Monarchs while they battled Xu Chengyang and the other cultivators. The fighting escalated when Xu Chengyang’s group launched a counterattack, and Li Fan stayed hidden as the confrontation continued.

• Li Fan rejected a direct suicide-bomb attack and tried to fit three metal-nitrogen bomb capsules into the experimental flying sword so its teleportation heat might detonate them near the Godly Monarchs.
• Godly Monarch Yinian trapped four Nascent Soul cultivators beneath four talisman battle flags and accused them of colluding with the Demon Path and sabotaging Fanghu Mountain.
• Xu Chengyang denied the accusations, while Yinian identified Liu Chengzong’s alleged attempt to assassinate a True Dao heir and destroy the pill workshop as evidence against the Yingzhou faction.
• Sun Chengchi appealed to Yinian as a fellow Fanghu cultivator, but Yinian denounced him and attacked when four sword rainbows rose from the formation.
• Li Fan stayed hidden because Godly Monarch Shi Zai had yet to enter the fight, while Xu Chengyang urged Li Fan to join the battle and then attacked Yinian with four blue Sword Lights.

Li Fan observed Penglai's sword-rainbow battle, then used his prototype flying sword and three metallic hydrogen bombs to devastate the fighters. He killed Yinian and exposed Shi Zai Godly Monarch as a Divine Religion spy, but Shi Zai possessed a wounded cultivator and tried to make peace with Li Fan.

• Li Fan recognized that the Penglai Real People's sword-rainbow technique was powerful but poorly mastered, and he watched them struggle to break through Yinian's defenses.
• When Shi Zai Godly Monarch killed a faltering Nascent Soul cultivator, Li Fan detonated his prototype flying sword's three metallic hydrogen bombs, but Shi Zai survived and the system reported no kill.
• Li Fan returned to the blasted battlefield, found Yinian and the three surviving Nascent Soul cultivators badly wounded, and killed Yinian after the others failed to subdue him.
• Li Fan questioned the survivors about Sun Chengchi and Xu Chengyang, then used the God Lord Jade to reveal Shi Zai Godly Monarch hiding in Yinian's remains.
• Shi Zai possessed one of the wounded cultivators and confronted Li Fan, who fled with the Moon Spirit and Sword Light before Shi Zai tried to persuade him to make peace.

Li Fan struggled to kill Shi Zai Godly Monarch, who had survived by possessing Yinian’s Dao Body, while Xu Chengyang pieced together Shi Zai’s betrayal of Penglai. After Xu destroyed Li Fan’s plasma cannon and Shi Zai attacked, Li Fan fought back with the Profound Heaven Sword Method, and both swordsmen recognized their opponent’s use of Gu Yingshi’s style.

• Li Fan weighed how to stop Shi Zai and escape the killing tribulation as Moon Soul claimed Beichen Sword Intent could slay spiritual essences.
• Xu Chengyang questioned Shi Zai’s identity, and Shi Zai admitted he had betrayed Lingzhen Palace and joined the divine cult to escape his approaching death.
• Xu Chengyang deduced that Shi Zai had manipulated Penglai’s internal conflicts and arranged the attacks to conceal his identity; Shi Zai agreed with his account.
• Xu Chengyang struck Li Fan’s plasma cannon with a beam of sword light, and Shi Zai followed with a relentless sword attack.
• Li Fan met Shi Zai’s Qi Sword with Return to Dust sword qi and the Profound Heaven Sword Method, then both men recognized Gu Yingshi’s style in each other’s moves.

Li Fan defeated Shi Zai in a deadly sword duel, but Xu Chengyang’s ambush left him gravely injured. As Shi Zai began rebuilding his blood shadow, he and Li Fan exchanged mistaken guesses about each other’s identities, and Li Fan learned that Yuepo had not mastered the soul-slaying technique he needed.

• Li Fan and Shi Zai fought with Gu Ying, and Li Fan gradually learned Shi Zai’s original Profound Heaven Sword Method before turning the duel in his favor.
• Li Fan tricked Shi Zai with a feint and an invisible qi barrier, then struck him down with both swords.
• Xu Chengyang attacked with the Crimson Vein Child Sword, and Li Fan sacrificed an arm and a leg to kill Xu Chengyang with Returning Dust Sword Qi and smash his head with a brick.
• Shi Zai began reforming from his blood while Li Fan, badly wounded and exhausted, questioned him and falsely claimed to be a spy named Derun.
• Shi Zai guessed Li Fan might be a Qingcheng Mountain spy and explained that he had bought the Profound Heaven Sword Method at Yuntai Peak.
• Li Fan asked Yuepo for a technique to slay a soul, but Yuepo admitted that he had not learned it, leaving Li Fan fearing Shi Zai would recover.

Li Fan survived the killing tribulation by forging improvised swords from Mountain God Dao Bodies and using Exorcism Sword Intent to defeat Shizai. While his true body recovered at Yulin Manor, he used a clone to learn that the Nine Truth Sect was in crisis, then Zhou Chengxue was summoned to face the Three Mountains Dao Lords.

• Yuepo explained that Li Fan needed sword intent and a sword scripture to destroy Shizai's primordial spirit, and Li Fan used the Ruyi Sword Scripture to attack him with bone swords forged from Mountain God Dao Bodies.
• Shizai invoked the Blood Demon Soul-Devouring Art, but Li Fan struck at his Dao Heart and defeated him in the killing tribulation.
• Li Fan's subconscious controlled his prepared clones to rescue his unconscious true body and take it to Yulin Manor for treatment.
• Using his Li Tang clone in Shenzhen Palace, Li Fan learned that the Nine Truth Sect had ordered disciples to remain in their halls while the Three Dao Lords investigated the crisis.
• Zhou Chengxue told Li Fan that his Zhou Family's ties to Emei made him reluctant to compete for advancement within Penglai.
• Lord Jusi reported that Xu Chengyang's party had been wiped out, Cheng Chengzhi had fled, and Xia Chengming was gravely injured, then summoned Zhou Chengxue to be questioned by the Three Mountains Dao Lords.

Li Fan survived the investigation at Yulin Manor and was rewarded with a transfer into Zhenzhen Palace’s Inner Sect. He ended the chapter burdened with the duties formerly handled by Zhou Chengxue.

• Li Fan learned that Shizai had been exposed as a spy, the Demon Cult captive had escaped with the Sumera Treasure Mirror, and Penglai had ordered a search of the sea; Yi Si Shenjun sent Li Tang to assist.
• Li Fan found three cultivators attempting to break the seal at Yulin Manor, but Manifestation and two other Dao Lords arrived, captured one, and told Li Fan to wait in ambush without opening the door.
• Li Fan’s clone kept watch for seven days while his injured main body escaped through the spring’s source; he then returned to Penglai and found Xiao Yushi with the surviving Huan family women.
• Yi Si Shenjun told Li Fan that Manifestation had approved his entry into Zhenzhen Palace’s Inner Sect under the name Li Datang, and Li Fan accepted the transfer.
• Yi Si Shenjun gave Li Fan two hundred Donghua Changchun Pills and the seal and duties of Zhenhai Real Person, leaving him overwhelmed by a growing list of tasks.

Li Fan recovered some of his strength and decided to leave Penglai, using his patrols to assess the Nine Truth Sect’s strained system and the danger of remaining near the Legion. As he prepared to depart, Xiao Yushi told him that Ruler Xiao had died and Zhen Country had fallen into chaos.

• Li Fan filled his mood meter through cautious moon worship, recognized that the Thousand-Faced Immortal had severely damaged his Gui Xu Nascent Soul, and resolved to leave Penglai.
• Li Fan drew a single-use purple bell designed to cross extra dimensions, then packed his altar and prepared to return to Penglai to arrange his departure.
• Li Fan learned from his patrols and Xiao Yushi that the Nine Truth Sect had tightened its resource quotas and competition, placing heavy burdens on the East Sea’s cultivation families.
• Xiao Yushi told Li Fan that Hou Gu’s rebels had captured Taicheng, Ruler Xiao had died, and the Crown Prince had become a puppet ruler.
• The Xiao princes withdrew their armies and fought to carve out their own territories, leaving Zhen Country in chaos.

Li Fan left Penglai on three missions from Manifestation Dao Lord, then traveled through Zhen Country and witnessed the chaos and mass flight caused by the princes’ wars. The chapter ended with Li Fan flying north, troubled by his inability to help the suffering people.

• Li Fan asked Manifestation Dao Lord for a dangerous mission and was told Hou Gu could not yet be killed.
• Manifestation gave Li Fan the Skull-Sundering, Head-Controlling Method and assigned him to kill Cheng Chengzhi, investigate the Death Gate Dao’s old site, and find Yan Xingyun or his remains.
• Li Fan left Penglai after saying farewell to Xiao Yushi and the three women, intending to travel north and cultivate along the way.
• Li Fan chose to focus on the Tai Su Dao before crossing into Zhen Country and heading toward Gen Country.
• Li Fan saw refugee ships and vast crowds fleeing Zhen Country as the princes’ armies fought across the land.
• Li Fan flew above the fleeing people, overwhelmed by the devastation and his inability to stop the chaos.

Li Fan left Penglai Mountain to study Mount Mo’s To Know primordial spirit method and find a safe place to cultivate, but the war-torn north offered little peace. After mastering the method and treating an injured rogue cultivator, he encountered two Golden Core cultivators searching for the man, and one introduced herself as Shen Lianzi of the Heng Hai Army.

• Li Fan crossed the Gen River into Hebei and traveled north to find a secluded spiritual vein where he could cultivate safely.
• He unearthed and buried three dead Golden Core cultivators, then visited the moon’s surface and found no one from Mount Mo.
• Li Fan studied Mount Mo’s To Know method, mastered it, and learned that it doubled rewards from digesting Non-Things and provided bonuses for companions who comprehended together.
• He restored three Dao bodies to strengthen his ability to damage primordial spirits, then treated an injured rogue cultivator who had wandered into his formation.
• Two Golden Core cultivators arrived while searching for the rogue cultivator, and Shen Lianzi introduced herself as a retainer of the Heng Hai Army in Di Prefecture.

Li Fan entered Dizhou in Gen Country seeking information and a safe place to settle, but the city's violence and suspicion thwarted him at every turn. He flew toward Shen Family fort and encountered a ruthless Nascent Soul Daoist nun who reminded him of Qin Nanxin.

• Li Fan disguised himself as Li Er, but Shen Lianzi and her companion attacked him; he killed both after surviving their poison and weapons, while the wanted man escaped underground.
• Li Fan observed Dizhou's armed population and frequent street battles, then tried to ask about the city at Quemei Tower but was mistaken for a constable and chased away.
• At a noodle shop, Li Fan was poisoned and attacked by the shopkeeper, while beggars caused a deadly brawl; two soldiers took his money and told him to seek the Shen Family fort for lodging or work.
• Li Fan flew south toward the burning Shen Family fort, where a Nascent Soul cultivator was massacring a group of fleeing Golden Core cultivators.
• A fleeing cultivator begged Li Fan for help, and the Daoist nun confronted him; she resembled Qin Nanxin in manner and aura, then threatened to gouge out his eyes for staring.

Li Fan encountered Li Wugou, a volatile woman who claimed to be from Emei, and failed to shake her after she began following him. In Dizhou City, he learned that the warlords were preparing a Northern Expedition against a newly united Hu force, and he headed toward the unfolding conflict.

• The Shen Family patriarch tried to turn Li Wugou against Li Fan, but Li Fan caught him fleeing and brought him back to face her; Li Wugou later killed him with one slap.
• Li Wugou followed Li Fan despite his attempts to escape, introduced herself as Li Wugou of Emei, and said she was waiting for a reason to challenge him.
• Yue Po suggested Li Wugou had taken an interest in Li Fan and was testing him, while Li Wugou watched him with a softened expression.
• Li Fan returned to Dizhou City and questioned a shopkeeper about nearby sects, supernatural threats, and the Heng Hai Army.
• The shopkeeper told Li Fan that envoys from the Ten Jiedu of Gen Province were gathering in Shuofang to plan a Northern Expedition against a new Hu chanyu near the Yin Mountains.

Li Fan accompanied Li Wugou to a ruined sect, where she revealed that she had been expelled from her former sect and hoped to enter Emei. As Li Fan offered to help her study for the Five Arts exam, Yellow Heaven Dao cultivators ambushed them, but an old acquaintance intervened.

• Li Fan bought Li Wugou a yellow robe and followed her to a ruined sect where she planned to take treasures guarding three immortal-filled coffins.
• Li Wugou explained that her master had expelled her after she accidentally killed someone, and that she had claimed an Emei inheritance to gain a chance to join the sect.
• Li Wugou asked Li Fan to help her prepare for Emei’s Five Arts exam, and he gave her textbooks to study.
• A Yellow Heaven Dao group attacked Li Fan and Li Wugou with a giant meteor hammer.
• The middle-aged cultivator Li Fan had once fed half a Golden Core stepped forward and told Liu Zhuo that Li Fan and Li Wugou were with his squad.