Chapter Summaries

Li Fan found Liu Zhuo among the Yellow Heaven Dao refugees, learned why they followed the dangerous sect, and helped restore their food and fighting strength. After leaving to continue his quests, he remembered Wang Hong, whom he had kept bound in his sleeve for days, and found him barely conscious.

• Li Fan met Liu Zhuo in the Yellow Heaven Dao camp and learned that Li Wugou had gone to Tianlong Mountain with a grain-borrowing party.
• Liu Zhuo explained that the Yellow Heaven Dao protected refugees and ordinary people, even though its ancestor and scripture might be dangerous, and his words restored Li Fan's Dao Heart and three blooming flowers.
• Li Fan discovered that Geng Yong had given Liu Zhuo a blank fake scripture, found the real Yellow Heaven Book of Peace, and borrowed it.
• Li Fan wrote a sword cultivation method for Liu Zhuo, taught him its basics, and used his white porcelain bowl to quadruple the Yellow Heaven Dao's food supply.
• Li Fan continued north to pursue his remaining quests, then remembered Wang Hong in his sleeve and found the bound demonic cultivator delirious from thirst.

Li Fan traveled toward the northern front and stopped near Weizhou to watch a sword duel between the Zhang and Gu families. The visiting Gu Panpan revealed herself as Gu Huiming, confronted the Gu Family head over her parents’ deaths, and beheaded him.

• Li Fan questioned the captive Wang Hong about the Black Lotus Sect’s main altar, then secured him and continued toward Hengye Army territory.
• Li Fan reached Weizhou Town as Hengye soldiers marched north for the annual Northern Expedition against the Hu Barbarians.
• Li Fan followed his compass to a gathering where the Zhang and Gu families were holding a sword duel over the right to accompany the army.
• Gu Panpan arrived with a sword pill, and the Gu Family head recognized her as his niece.
• Gu Panpan accused the Gu Family head of stealing medicine meant for her father, then revealed her true name, Gu Huiming, and killed him with her sword pill.

Li Fan followed the Si Nan to the Gu family’s slaughtered eldest young master and discovered a rare God Lord Jade, which revealed fragments of the God Lord’s inheritance. Studying them, Li Fan realized they were desperate attempts by a severely disabled God Lord to rebuild his body, while the jade’s purpose and the Gu family’s fate remained unresolved.

• Gu Huiming killed the Gu family cultivators, identified herself as Gu Panpan, broke off her engagement to Zhang Yanzong, and awarded the Hengye Army retainer position to the Zhang family.
• Li Fan followed the Si Nan into Weizhou City and found a God Lord Jade hidden inside the eldest young master of the Gu family.
• The God Lord Jade absorbed the False Moon’s light and projected fragments of cultivation techniques, prompting Li Fan to postpone Moon Worship and study them.
• Li Fan modeled the incomplete techniques and concluded that they reflected the God Lord’s missing senses, limbs, organs, and meridians, and were devised to help him rebuild his body.

Li Fan learned that the Divine Lord’s mutilation was likely the work of a company agent who loved him, then developed a Blood Infant puppet from the Divine Lord’s system data. He tested it on masked attackers, discovering that it could devour Primordial Spirits, and returned to consider how to use it.

• Li Fan transcribed the heavenly books while the Yin-Yang Fish boys revealed that the Divine Lord’s enemy was probably a company agent who had kept him alive through mechanical immortality.
• The boys speculated that the agent may have loved the Divine Lord and explained that the Divine Cult’s campaigns against the Central Plains had targeted the company.
• The Yang Fish boy created a Blood Infant puppet by combining the Divine Lord’s neural data with Li Fan’s Dao Body, and Li Fan swallowed it after agreeing to trust the boys.
• Li Fan discovered the Blood Infant in his divine chamber, then tested it on three masked Golden Core cultivators attacking an inn; it killed them by devouring their souls.
• Li Fan recalled the Blood Infant and returned to the land-god shrine, where he considered feeding it excess mood capacity from his Dao Bodies.

Li Fan returned to the Earth God Temple, where several groups of pursuers and fugitives converged, and used the Blood Infant puppet to take control of a powerful Northland Nascent Soul cultivator. After the puppet killed one of the pursuers, Li Fan left the remaining people in the temple helpless and terrified.

• Li Fan detected five groups approaching the Earth God Temple, including a caravan, monsters, fleeing cultivators, and Gu Huiming being captured by a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Li Fan stayed in the temple and let the Northland cultivator enter with Gu Huiming, then sent the Blood Infant puppet into the man’s Nascent Soul and began taking control of him.
• A swollen-faced young cultivator fled into the temple, and Li Fan repelled his pursuers’ magical treasures before sealing the young man’s acupoints.
• The Blood Infant puppet overwhelmed the Northland cultivator’s two-headed wolf Nascent Soul and transformed it into a puppet under its control.
• A pursuer attacked three fleeing riders near the temple, but the controlled Northland cultivator burst out and killed him with one punch.
• Li Fan confirmed that the Blood Infant puppet controlled the Northland cultivator’s body, while the captives watched in fear.

Li Fan subdued a Nascent Soul brute with the Blood Infant, rescued Gu Panpan, and uncovered the political struggle surrounding Gao Xing’s bid to reunify Gen Country. He left Gu Panpan’s treasures in his possession and flew off to test them against nearby monsters.

• Li Fan confirmed the Blood Infant could invade and control a cultivator’s body, then found Gu Panpan poisoned and pretending to be unconscious.
• Li Fan questioned Yang Yan and the scouts, and Xiao San revealed that she and her adoptive father were protecting the Xu Family’s young miss from the southern armies that had joined Gao Xing.
• Gu Panpan explained Gao Xing’s rise and Wangwu Mountain’s support for his campaign to restore Gen Country.
• Li Fan treated the young miss’s injury, returned Xiao Tou and Yang Yan to the scouts, and refused to return Gu Panpan’s magical treasures.
• Li Fan flew away with the Blood Infant and used Gu Panpan’s treasures to smash nearby monsters, thinking Li Wugou might appreciate them.

After defeating the Fuli tribe’s Wolf God during Moon Worship, Li Fan discovered that digesting the demon granted doubled rewards and decided to join the Northern Expedition to hunt more Non-Things. He left the Wolf God wounded but alive, with a Blood Infant clone hidden in its soul, and prepared to feast on its remains before heading north.

• Li Fan learned that the slain shaman warrior was Fuli Bojin, a scout for the Xianbei Chanyu, whose forces threatened the Central Plains.
• During Moon Worship, a shamanic spell pulled Li Fan into the Wolf God’s realm, where the two-headed demon wolf ambushed him.
• Li Fan tested the Wolf God’s defenses, then used the Blood Infant to control it briefly and tore through its Dao Body with the Crimson Eyes and Ghost Hand.
• The Wolf God escaped by abandoning its damaged body, while Li Fan recorded its Divine Sense and left a Blood Infant clone inside its soul.
• Li Fan began consuming the Wolf God’s remains and learned that For Knowing doubled the rewards from digesting Non-Things when like-minded companions comprehended together.
• Realizing the Wolf God’s remains could benefit him, the Blood Infant, Qiongqi, and Gonggong, Li Fan decided to join the Northern Expedition and hunt more Non-Things.

Li Fan finished consuming the demon wolf and weighed how his Tai Su cultivation might conflict with his orthodox techniques before receiving a system programming manual. He encountered Gu Panpan, who apologized and offered an unexpected sword-pill trade while trying to recruit him to the Qingtang Sect.

• Li Fan finished digesting the demon wolf, raised his mood to 14,000 out of 28,000, and considered whether advancing his Tai Su Dao would force him to abandon orthodox cultivation methods.
• Li Fan received a beginner programming textbook from the system, found it daunting, and put it away before preparing to travel north.
• Li Fan discovered Gu Panpan trapped in his illusion array, and she apologized, gave him an antidote for the poison she had used, and praised him for saving her.
• Gu Panpan invited Li Fan to visit the Qingtang Sect on Wangwu Mountain, explaining that her elders were away and she had left the sect without permission.
• Gu Panpan claimed the sword pill Li Fan held was tied to her fate and offered to trade it for another sword pill she had concealed, describing it as a betrothal gift from the Gao family.
• Gu Panpan defended the Qingtang Sect's matchmaking reputation and offered Li Fan a discounted fortune reading.

Li Fan traveled with Gu Panpan toward Qingtang Sect while trying to learn the secret behind her calculations of marriage ties and destiny. After Gu Panpan demonstrated her fighting skills and explained why she planned to pursue her Senior Brother, Li Fan realized he still could not reveal that he was the man she meant.

• Li Fan returned Gu Panpan's pink sword pill, and she exchanged the Gao Family's stone sword pill for her treasures, explaining that she wanted to settle her worldly ties before courting her Senior Brother.
• Gu Panpan refused to explain Qingtang Sect's secret teachings and invited Li Fan to visit the sect, so he followed her north on his Frost Stone sword pill.
• Gu Panpan diverted to a fight over a celestial peach, defeated four concubines who attacked her, and frightened off three nuns before sharing the peach with Li Fan.
• Gu Panpan explained that she intended to win her Senior Brother's heart to benefit from his fortune and said the sect's founder had predicted she might attain the Dao through their connection.
• Li Fan urged Gu Panpan to pursue cultivation sincerely, but she described the limits of cultivation paths for women and insisted she would do whatever it took to marry her Senior Brother.

Li Fan investigated Gu Panpan’s claims while escorting her, then uncovered a northern invasion plot and captured its commander after learning about the barbarians’ plans and unusual cultivation. He returned to Gu Panpan, who embraced him as her adoptive father and offered Qingtang Sect techniques in exchange for instruction.

• Gu Panpan gathered rare treasures as Li Fan helped her, then asked him to become her adoptive father.
• Li Fan sensed two northern cultivators approaching and hid Gu Panpan with an invisibility talisman.
• Wujiudu identified himself as a commander under the Left Wise King and revealed plans to capture twelve cultivators and open a pass for a hundred thousand troops.
• Li Fan attacked Wujiudu after extracting information, studied his baleful-energy Dao Body, and captured him alive.
• Gu Panpan praised Li Fan’s skill and offered him her sect’s cultivation methods in exchange for guidance and the Qingcheng Mountain Profound Nether Escape Technique.

Li Fan brought Gu Panpan to Wangwu Mountain, passed her intelligence about the Hu Barbarians, and settled into seclusion at Qingtang Sect. He strengthened several Dao Bodies but discovered that forcing the mountain gods into the Nascent Soul Realm had increased their hostility, leaving him only a little stronger.

• Li Fan and Gu Panpan exchanged secret manuals for the Dragon-Rising Wind and Cloud Technique, and Li Fan learned that Wild Fox Ridge and the Xuan Girl Mountain Range might be connected to the Hu Barbarians' plans.
• Li Fan gave Gu Panpan information about the Left Wise King and Wu Jidu so Wangwu Mountain could investigate a possible invasion, then accompanied her to Wangwu Mountain.
• Gu Panpan brought Li Fan to Qingtang Sect, where he chose a secluded courtyard and began cultivating after she took Wu Jidu to report to the founding ancestor.
• Li Fan raised the four remaining mountain god Dao Bodies to the Nascent Soul Realm, but their hostility grew and one of his Three Flowers withered.
• Li Fan created Yin and Yang Fish Dao Bodies and a Fuli wolf Dao Body, then ended his cultivation with increased strength and greater progress toward the Tai Su Dao Body.

After emerging from seclusion, Li Fan visited Qingtang Sect to learn how its disciples used Purple Micro Astrology to divine romantic fates. He left with Jing Yao’s divination method memorized, while Wang Hong escaped after learning he had one destined connection.

• Li Fan read Gu Panpan’s letter and reviewed the Azure Mist Purple Micro Heavenly Garment True Art, Purple Micro Astrology, and Heavenly Union Calculation.
• Li Fan entered Worry-Free Convent and met Jing Yao, asking her to demonstrate Qingtang Sect’s romantic-fate divination.
• Jing Yao explained the limits of Purple Micro Astrology under the False Moon, and Li Fan brought out Wang Hong to provide the birth details for a demonstration.
• Li Fan memorized Jing Yao’s calculations and let Wang Hong go after Jing Yao told him he had one destined connection.
• Jing Yao explained that Heaven-ordained bonds were rare and suggested that Li Fan’s question about competing for a place might concern someone with imperial destiny.

Li Fan learned the Ink Mountain Primordial Spirit Method Against Fate, then traveled to the Tai Su Realm to attack the recovering demonic wolf. There, Gonggong rebelled against him, but Li Fan defeated it and forced the other Tai Su Dao Bodies to submit.

• Jing Yao and Li Fan cultivated together for several days, and he learned to manifest Heavenly Garment True Qi before she entered seclusion to pursue Divine Transformation.
• Li Fan received Gu Panpan’s letter about the Hu Barbarian threat near Wangwu Mountain, then studied the Against Fate Primordial Spirit Method on the moon and gained resistance to special spell effects and increased combat power under pressure.
• Li Fan used the Revered Heavenly Demon formation to return to the Tai Su Realm and found that the wounded demonic wolf had regrown its head, though blood infants had infected its body.
• When Li Fan struck the wolf, Gonggong refused to obey and challenged him inside his divine court, so Li Fan fought and defeated it with the Gui Xu Nascent Soul.
• Gonggong’s new head grew back, but it prostrated itself before the Gui Xu Nascent Soul, and the other Tai Su Dao Bodies bowed as well.

Li Fan defeated the Fuli Wolf God, discovered a strange tentacle inside it, and decided to rely on his Tai Su Dao Bodies while cultivating toward Divine Transformation. As he flew north and intervened in attacks on ordinary people, Gao Ao stopped him and accused him of stealing a sword from the Gao family.

• Li Fan used his strengthened Ghost Hand to overpower the Fuli Wolf God, and the Blood Infant devoured the demon wolf’s body and primordial spirit.
• Li Fan found a living tentacle inside the wolf, but the Crimson Eyes opened on their own and destroyed it.
• Li Fan decided not to advance his Tai Su Dao Bodies further and planned to focus on cultivating his Gui Xu Nascent Soul toward Divine Transformation.
• Li Fan flew north, killing demons, Hu Barbarians, bandits, and warlord troops when they preyed on ordinary people.
• Gao Ao intercepted Li Fan and accused him of stealing the flying sword he had given his eldest nephew.

Li Fan drew Gao Ao away from his troops and defeated him with the Dalu Jing Tian Finger, then agreed to spare his life in exchange for a million strings of cash for refugees displaced by the Hu invasion. He left Gao Ao in Gao Jin’s care and flew away as the Gao clan prepared to meet the border crisis.

• Li Fan dodged Gao Ao’s attacks while studying his fighting style and assessing the nearby cavalry.
• Li Fan tried to start a death feud over Frost Stone, but his talisman failed because he had used a false name; a young officer then stopped Gao Ao from accepting Li Fan’s proposed wager.
• After Gao Ao turned to leave, Li Fan attacked him and lured him away from his troops, pretending his defenses had failed.
• Li Fan struck the Tiger Demon in the eye with the Dalu Jing Tian Finger, then repeatedly attacked Gao Ao from a safe distance until Gao Ao fell from the clouds with severe internal injuries.
• Li Fan tore off the Tiger Demon’s head with Ghost Hand and began stripping Gao Ao’s armor before Gao Jin pleaded for his uncle’s life.
• Li Fan demanded a million strings of cash for disaster relief in exchange for sparing Gao Ao, and Gao Jin agreed; Li Fan returned the unconscious Gao Ao to him and departed.

Li Fan disguised himself as a Hu tribesman in Ba Fu and accepted Gao Ming’s invitation to a dragon feast, where he tested the heir’s nerve and defeated his retainers. Gao Ming welcomed him as an honored guest and served the dragon meat Li Fan had wanted.

• Li Fan disguised himself as Aruba, a refugee from the Fuli tribe, and questioned Hu herdsmen about the northern tribes and the grasslands.
• Duan Tie invited Li Fan to Gao Ming’s residence after noticing his Nascent Soul cultivation, and Li Fan agreed when promised dragon meat.
• Gao Ming introduced himself as the Heavenly Soldiers Army’s acting General Superintendent and invited Li Fan to join the feast.
• When the retainers challenged Li Fan’s manners, he tested Gao Ming by rushing toward the heir, then knocked down Duan Tie and the other cultivators who tried to stop him.
• Gao Ming praised Li Fan, ordered the soldiers to stand down, and gave him the seat of honor at the dragon feast.

Li Fan attended Gao Ming’s lavish banquet, learned the Chanyu was a reincarnated Blood Talisman God Sect expert preparing to duel Qin Tianjue, and agreed to fetch Real Person Ling to treat Gao Ao. He left the feast bound for the northern plains of Yin Mountain.

• Li Fan devoured the dragon stew and impressed Gao Ming and the assembled cultivators with his appetite and robust constitution.
• Gao Ming revealed that he wanted Li Fan’s body-refining method, then tried to recruit him by offering wealth and telling him the Chanyu’s origins and plans.
• Gao Jin returned with the crippled Gao Ao, and Gao Ming ordered his brother and Duan Tie to muster troops before begging the retainers to save his uncle.
• The cultivators said only the absent Penglai cultivator Real Person Ling might save Gao Ao, so Gao Ming asked Li Fan to find him on the northern plains.
• Li Fan accepted the mission to repay Gao Ming’s hospitality and set out to bring Real Person Ling back.

Li Fan traveled with Han Jiu and Qianchun across the grasslands to deliver a letter and search for the Heavenly Soldiers Army, but their attempt to question an Emei household was interrupted by a monstrous creature. The creature pursued the group, and Li Fan hid in the clouds to assess how to fight it.

• Li Fan set out with Han Jiu and Qianchun on Quan Mao Ju to deliver Gao Ming's letter and search for the Heavenly Soldiers Army.
• Using his Divine Sense and Si Nan, Li Fan led the group across the grasslands to a house where they hoped to ask for directions.
• Qianchun attacked the household and tried to seize its women, but Li Fan stopped him and learned that their mistress was the Emei disciple Yang Nanying, who had gone to Moon Worship three days earlier.
• A monstrous white antelope-like creature with a woman's upper body leapt from the Yin Mountains, destroyed the house, and chased the group.
• Li Fan hid in the clouds and decided to use Han Jiu and Qianchun as bait while he searched for the creature's core.

Li Fan and Aruba fought the antelope-shaped Non-Thing alongside Qianchun and Han Jiu, until the beast transformed into Yang Nanying and formed a Tai Su Qiankun from baleful aura. Li Fan battled her despite her Divine Transformation strength, and the chapter left him thrown aside as Yang Nanying regenerated and named herself Yin Mountain, Yang Ying.

• Qianchun and Han Jiu were trapped by the antelope’s attacks and fought back with poison, weapons, and talismans.
• Li Fan seized the antelope’s mouthpart and drained it while Qianchun and Han Jiu struck its wounds, eventually severing its head.
• The antelope’s body exploded, revealing a woman as black and white baleful aura gathered into a Tai Su Qiankun above her.
• Li Fan attacked the woman, who matched his palm strike and revealed herself as a Divine Transformation-level Emei cultivator.
• Li Fan exploited her apparent weakness and tore off her head, but her counterattack sent him flying as she regenerated and formed an Emei robe from the baleful aura.
• The woman gave a Daoist salute and identified herself as Xuan Girl of the Nine Heavens, Emei—or Yin Mountain, Yang Ying.

Li Fan fought Yin Mountain Yang Ying as she absorbed Yang Nanying’s memories and regained her strength, using a Divine Transformation Stage brick and Mo Mountain techniques to attack her. Yang Ying overwhelmed him with Emei arts, then killed a hostage and declared that Emei Nanying was gone and only Yin Mountain Yang Ying remained.

• Li Fan examined Yang Ying’s growing power and realized her core was hidden beneath her protective baleful-energy robes.
• Li Fan hurled the Divine Transformation Stage brick at Yang Ying twice, blasting apart parts of her body, but she regenerated and counterattacked with Emei techniques.
• Yang Ying used sword rain, ranged palm strikes, and an escape-art combo to badly injure Li Fan, who recovered with help from Quan Mao Ju and a Changchun Pill.
• Han Jiu and Venerable Qianchun seized Yang Family members as hostages and demanded a way out.
• Yang Ying blasted the hostage Venerable Qianchun held into a cloud of blood and declared that only Yin Mountain Yang Ying remained.