Chapter Summaries

Li Fan fought the immortal puppet controlled by the Qiankun Sha Qi storm, then faced the far stronger Immortal Lord Canglong after he absorbed the storm. Li Fan survived repeated deaths, but the chapter left him gravely injured and uncertain how much he had lost.

• Li Fan ambushed "Yang Ying" and discovered that the storm of Yin-Yang evil qi in the sky was her true body, while her humanoid form was only a puppet.
• Li Fan destroyed the puppet with the Taiyin Haoguang Sword Technique, but the evil-qi storm remained, and the system shut down as a pudgy Daoist boy arrived and absorbed it into his gourd.
• The Daoist boy killed Qianchun and Han Jiu, then killed Li Fan, who revived after the boy flew away and found that his Dao Bodies and Fuli the demon wolf were dead.
• The Daoist boy returned, killed Li Fan again, and learned that Li Fan could revive; he identified himself as Immortal Lord Canglong, one of Mount Emei's Three Elders.
• Canglong severed Li Fan's arms, but the disc and bell in them activated a door and vanished with him; the system reported that the interference source was gone and urged Li Fan to evacuate.

Li Fan recovered from his battle with Immortal Lord Canglong, learned the Original Use technique, and returned to the hidden Qiankun Gourd to investigate it. On his way north, he discovered that the Northern Expedition had ended in a devastating defeat.

• Moon Soul explained the long history of conflict between Emei and the Beichen Sword Sect, and Li Fan vowed to avenge his losses.
• Li Fan assessed his injuries and ruined equipment, then learned the Original Use technique and drew an alchemy robot from the system.
• Li Fan spent a month restoring his Dao Body and chose to travel under his true identity, Qingyue of Lou Guan.
• Li Fan retrieved the still-sealed Qiankun Gourd and prepared to investigate the Tai Su Qiankun within it.
• Li Fan flew north and saw the battlefield strewn with tens of thousands of dead soldiers, realizing he had missed the Northern Expedition's defeat.

Li Fan discovered that Canglong had used Yang Nanying as a vessel to contain a second Non-Thing, Yang Ying, and that baleful qi both restrained and empowered it. After probing the gourd and drinking its transformed contents, Li Fan expelled a white Qiongqi made of baleful qi and found he could summon it with a black-wind hand.

• Li Fan abandoned the northern battlefield after judging that the Chanyu's army was too organized and dangerous to approach, then found an isolated frozen lake and began Moon Worship.
• The system showed Li Fan Emei's notes, and he recognized the gourd's talisman as Purify Heaven and Earth and its surrounding runes as a formation related to Emei's mountain-protecting array.
• Li Fan realized that Yang Nanying and Yang Ying had been separate Non-Things, with Yang Nanying serving as a human gourd that contained Yang Ying.
• Li Fan stared into the sealed gourd, striking at the Non-Thing's core until its vortex slowed and its contents became a thick black-and-white liquid.
• Li Fan drank some of the liquid, suffered severe indigestion, and vomited out a white Qiongqi made of baleful qi.
• Li Fan discovered that a black-wind hand could emerge from his throat and pull Qiongqi toward him.

Li Fan restored his strength with the baleful energy, hunted Hu Barbarian forces, and learned that the Great Chanyu had left the campaign. He killed the Right Prime Minister and his allies, then spared Wang Hong after acquiring the Black Lotus Dao Body.

• Li Fan rebuilt several Dao Bodies, formed Taiji Qiankun, and rode Qiongqi through the snowy battlefield to hunt scouts and cultivators.
• Li Fan questioned Hu Barbarian Nascent Soul cultivators and learned the Chanyu had gone to the Western Regions, while the Right Prime Minister's army was moving toward the Eguna River.
• Li Fan burned the Right Prime Minister's abandoned camp and found the Right Prime Minister and two shamans fighting Wang Hong, who had transformed into a black lotus.
• Li Fan killed the Right Prime Minister with his baleful-energy hand and destroyed the two shamans, then took the Right Prime Minister's head as a trophy.
• Wang Hong identified himself and offered his Black Lotus technique, and Li Fan cultivated the Black Lotus Dao Body before letting him escape.

Li Fan entered the Xianbei camp to rescue a Shuofang scout and challenge the Chanyu’s cultivators to a Murder Tribulation. After killing the Left Prime Minister and several other opponents, he pressed deeper into the camp, lamenting that his enemies were too weak to make the fight worthwhile.

• The Left Prime Minister identified a Shuofang scout among the captives, and Li Fan secretly protected the youth as he escaped on Qiongqi.
• Li Fan revealed the Right Prime Minister’s severed head, declared a Murder Tribulation, and challenged the Xianbei cultivators gathered at the camp gate.
• Li Fan killed the attacking shamans, demons, and rogue cultivators while Yuepo deterred the Left Prime Minister from intervening.
• Li Fan discovered the Left Prime Minister was struggling to suppress a force inside his divine court and disrupted his Dao heart by invoking forbidden names.
• Li Fan killed the Left Prime Minister and the remaining mages, then flew deeper into the camp to seek more opponents.

Li Fan slaughtered the wounded Hu Barbarian cultivators but could not break the King of Tortoises’ defensive tent until Xuantian taught him the Tai Sha Sword Embryo method. After using his new sword art to wound the king, Li Fan watched Li Wugou finish him off, then faced the arrival of an unexpected old acquaintance.

• Li Fan killed the wounded Nascent Soul cultivators and fiendbeasts around the camp, then tried unsuccessfully to force the King of Tortoises out of his tent.
• Xuantian arrived in Li Fan’s divine court, recognized Moonpoise, and taught Li Fan the Tai Sha Sword Embryo method.
• Li Fan forged the Tai Sha Sword Embryo after two failed attempts and used it to pierce the king’s tent and wound the King of Tortoises.
• The King of Tortoises charged Li Fan, armored himself with the bodies of Hu Barbarian soldiers, and was struck by Li Fan’s Tai Sha Sword Rainbow before fleeing as a head.
• Li Wugou entered the killing calamity and destroyed the fleeing King of Tortoises with four flying swords.

Li Fan, Yao Xuanzhou, and Li Wugou examined the Beichen Sword Sect’s Tai Sha Sword Embryo while Li Fan learned that Ink Bamboo Mountain had joined the Nine Great Xuan Sects amid escalating wars. The three Beichen remnants then agreed to travel north together to gather baleful energy and undergo killing calamities.

• Li Fan discussed the Tai Sha Sword Embryo with Yao Xuanzhou, while Li Wugou meditated on the sword method.
• Li Fan beat his Dao Bodies after Guiche, Gonggong, and Fuli fought over corpses and merged into a grotesque creature; Guiche ended up in control of its body.
• Yao Xuanzhou told Li Fan that Ink Bamboo Mountain Lou Guan Dao had rejoined the Xuan Sects and described the growing conflicts across the Central Plains.
• Yao Xuanzhou explained that he had met Li Wugou near Di Prefecture, helped her stop a formation refining baleful corpses, and taught her Beichen Sword Sect methods.
• Li Fan concealed his connection to Li Wugou and urged her to join him and Yao Xuanzhou in hunting Hu Barbarians for baleful energy and fate.
• Li Wugou accepted the proposal, and the three remnants flew north on their swords.

Li Fan, Yao Xuanzhou, and Li Wugou reached the besieged Shuofang Army and learned how the Northern Expedition had collapsed. Li Fan accepted Zhang Ji’s military order to attack the Hu Barbarian forces that night, leaving the story poised for the assault.

• Yao Xuanzhou explained how Dao Lord Tian Gang’s policies weakened the Beichen Sword Sect’s inner and outer lineages, and how Xuantian’s rise and later disappearance contributed to its decline.
• Yao Xuanzhou and Li Wugou discussed the reputations and histories of Xuantian, Dao Lord Manifestation, and the Xuan sects, while Xuantian shared stories about past Daoist heirs.
• Li Fan, Yao Xuanzhou, and Li Wugou flew through the Hu Barbarian blockade and found the Shuofang Army remnants trapped on a hillside.
• Zhang Ji told Yao Xuanzhou that the Northern Expedition had been defeated and that his exhausted army was surrounded by Hu Barbarian forces and demons.
• Zhang Ji revealed that he planned to lead a desperate nighttime raid, but Li Fan offered to attack the enemy instead and requested a military order to kill the Hu Barbarians.

Li Fan, Yao Xuanzhou, and Li Wugou attacked Tuoqi King's camp and fought the Transformation Stage demon lord. After they crippled Tuoqi King, he self-destructed and summoned the real Blood God Child, leaving Li Fan to face it with a last-minute technique from Profound Heaven.

• Li Fan and Yao Xuanzhou led the assault on Tuoqi King's camp while Li Wugou supported them, killing the first wave of shamans and demon soldiers.
• Tuoqi King emerged in his demon-god form and trapped Yao Xuanzhou in a storm of demonic flames as Li Wugou fought off attackers protecting Li Fan.
• Li Fan used the Tai Sha Sword Embryo to pierce Tuoqi King's chest, and Yao Xuanzhou and Li Wugou helped him wound the demon lord and cut off his limbs.
• The Right Wise King rushed to aid Tuoqi King but vanished after Zhang Ji unleashed a forty-layer Astral Fist.
• Tuoqi King refused to surrender and used Heavenly God Blood Dissolution, transforming into a blood figure that revealed itself as the real Blood God Child.
• Profound Heaven began teaching Li Fan the Beichen Lineage's Sword Embryo Flying Crossing, the Technique of Corpse Dissection Reincarnation, as the Blood God Child confronted him.

Li Fan battled Blood God Child Qingyue in his primordial spirit while Li Wugou and Yao Xuanzhou prepared a way to drive the clone from his body. They trapped and killed the Blood God Child, but Li Fan ended the chapter vomiting Dao-body matter with an “Execution” mark on his forehead.

• Li Wugou found Li Fan unconscious and learned from Xuantian that a Blood God Child was attacking his primordial spirit, so she sent for help and set up a sword formation.
• Li Fan fought waves of Blood God Children in his divine court, using his system to endure their attacks and increase his mood limit.
• Blood God Child Qingyue emerged and overwhelmed Li Fan with swift, powerful sword techniques, driving him to the brink of defeat.
• Yao Xuanzhou struck Li Fan with Taiyin Divine Thunder while Li Wugou used the Four Walls and Four Aspects Minor World Chain Formation to trap the Blood God Child clone.
• Li Fan recovered enough to destroy the trapped clone with Tai Sha Sword Rainbow, killing Tuoqi King and the clone and gaining mood limit.
• Li Fan vomited Dao-body matter and discovered a large “Execution” mark on his forehead.

After surviving the Blood God Child, Li Fan slowly recovered in Shuofang Town while Li Wugou and Xuantian warned that the Chanyu’s forces might attack. As the town sounded its war drums and Zhang Xiang went to fight, Li Fan remained unsure whether to flee or use his hidden trump card.

• Li Fan gradually recovered from his injuries by using the Gui Xu Nascent Soul and Blood Infant to break down the Blood Talisman Sword’s remaining force.
• The Shuofang Army retreated to Shuofang Town, where Li Fan, Li Wugou, and the still-meditating Yao Xuanzhou took shelter with Zhang Xiang.
• Li Fan taught Zhang Xiang an Ancient Immortal Palace Dou Department cultivation method after learning how the Immortal Palace’s combat techniques and pills worked.
• Li Wugou reported that Demon Race scouts had returned, and Xuantian urged everyone to flee before the Chanyu besieged Shuofang Town.
• The Kui Niu Drum sounded as the town prepared for an attack, and Li Fan gave Zhang Xiang a Northern Expedition Army spearhead before he went to battle.

Li Fan searched for a body to possess while Shufang Town prepared to face a demon invasion, but the city was surrounded and reinforcements seemed unlikely. As the attack began, Mo Zhe Tianyu and the Moist cultivators arrived and revealed their monstrous forms to fight the creatures beyond the walls.

• Li Fan tried to find a suitable corpse at the charity hall, but the blind Black Lotus Sect shamaness drove him away, so he headed for the mass grave outside the city.
• Li Wugou found Li Fan at the grave and brought him back after a Demon Race force blocked the retreat and the Chanyu appeared to be leading it.
• Li Fan and Li Wugou learned that Emei had sealed its mountain and could not send reinforcements, while demon kings gathered south of the city.
• Mo Zhe Tianyu and seven Moist cultivators arrived, and Tianyu raised eight earthen hills to surround Shufang Town.
• Enormous human-headed beasts emerged beyond the hills, and Li Fan identified them as allies while the townspeople collapsed from the mental assault.

Li Fan watched Mount Mo’s disciples battle the False Moon-mutated demons, then helped defend Shuofang Town against Hu Barbarian shamans despite his injuries. He discovered the earthen rampart suppressed magic and used its terrain to kill one attacker and frighten another.

• Li Fan observed the Mount Mo disciples’ transformed combat styles as they fought the demon horde, while Yue Lanzi guarded Shuofang Town from the sky.
• Hu Barbarian shamans attacked the town, and Li Wugou flew up to fight them with her twin swords.
• Li Fan sent the Blood Infant to assist, then drew the shamans’ attacks while defending himself on the rampart.
• A Hu Barbarian warrior fell into the gap beside the rampart and could not use magic, so Li Fan realized the baleful-aura-soaked earth suppressed spiritual energy and arts.
• The warrior charged up the rampart, but Li Fan dodged his saber and killed him with the Tai Sha Sword Embryo.
• Li Fan spat baleful aura near a Hu Barbarian mage in the moat, who vomited in fright, and Li Fan charged at him along the wall.

Li Fan witnessed the Daoist Sect’s assault on Shuofang Town, as powerful fighters clashed over Yue Lanzi and the Luo Ancestor’s Heavenly Book. The chapter ended with Manifestation Dao Lord destroying the Barefoot Bandit’s giant centipede form with one punch.

• Li Fan rescued the unconscious Yue Lanzi from the Void Star after a Mount Emei Daoist cut her down, then watched the Daoist defeat Li Wugou and slaughter Tianyu’s Dao Bodies.
• Mo Zhi arrived to confront the Mount Emei Daoist, who turned out to be a talisman clone; Mo Zhi reclaimed Tianyu’s head and used it to heal Yue Lanzi.
• Three old men appeared and took Yue Lanzi, while Manifestation Dao Lord confronted Mo Zhi and demanded the Luo Ancestor’s Heavenly Book.
• Mo Zhi transformed into a colossal centipede, and Manifestation Dao Lord shattered it with a single Four Hundred and Eighty-Layer Vajra Fist.

Li Fan transcribed the Empty Star Heavenly Book in exchange for the Ink Bamboo Mountain disciples’ lives while Xianhua’s group faced the arrival of Yuntai Peak. After Xianhua handed Li Fan over to Guanzhu Feng, Li Fan confirmed that the Ink Bamboo Mountain disciples were safe.

• Xianhua defeated the Mountain Lord after Wangshu’s purple beam struck him, then gathered the captured demon leaders and offered Li Fan a chance to leave with him.
• Li Fan began transcribing the Empty Star Heavenly Book to secure the Ink Bamboo Mountain disciples’ lives, as a vast immortal mountain made of mirror-like metal appeared above Shuofang.
• Xianhua agreed to honor the exchange, and the Grand Tutor arrived with Yuntai Peak while Xianhua claimed to be eliminating demons.
• The Daoist Xu destroyed Vacuum Home’s barrier and blasted the charity morgue, then killed a monster that emerged from the corpse mound.
• Guanzhu Feng searched Shuofang for Li Fan, and Xianhua summoned Li Fan to his side after Li Fan finished copying the scripture.
• Li Fan confirmed that the Ink Bamboo Mountain disciples were safe, and Xianhua released him to Guanzhu Feng.

Li Fan recovered in Yuntai Peak’s Rebirth Jade Pool while Mysterious Heaven explained the danger surrounding Xianhua and revealed that his abandoned Dao body may have become Dao Ancestor Youquan. Mysterious Heaven urged Li Fan to survive and keep seeking a way forward for the Taiji Immortal Dao, and Li Fan resumed healing.

• The temple master placed Li Fan in the Rebirth Jade Pool, where he used Mysterious Heaven’s guidance to absorb the medicine and regenerate his wounds.
• Mysterious Heaven explained Yuntai Peak’s history and warned Li Fan that Xianhua’s search for Ancestor Luo’s Heavenly Book could endanger Ink Bamboo Mountain and the Xuan Sects.
• Mysterious Heaven suspected that Xianhua had mastered the nine Heavenly Books and might be preparing to follow the Divine Sect’s path.
• Mysterious Heaven revealed that he believed his body had been pulled out of him when he ascended, and that his abandoned Dao body had likely become Dao Ancestor Youquan.
• Mysterious Heaven warned that other Xuan Sect masters might follow the Demonic Dao unless someone found a new path, then encouraged Li Fan to keep living and searching for a solution.
• Li Fan set down the flowerpot, cleared his mind, and submerged himself in the Jade Pool to continue repairing his Dao body.

Li Fan awakened as Daoist Qiongqi’s Tai Xuan clone north of Yinshan and discovered that this body could not use Moon Worship to enter the Tai Su Realm or reconnect with the system. After exploring the ice fields, he encountered demon horses and killed a horned stallion, learning that Yinshan was three days away and the North Pole Ruins three years away.

• Li Fan awakened in the snow north of Yinshan after Daoist Qiongqi’s Nascent Soul took control and reshaped the clone’s body.
• Li Fan fled north in the form of wind, avoided Hu tribes and demon beasts, and tried Moon Worship, but he could not enter the Tai Su Realm or contact the system.
• Li Fan tested Qiongqi’s fragile Dao Body, found its combat abilities limited, and spent days cultivating and exploring the ice fields.
• Li Fan found two green-maned stallions fighting over a mare and killed the horned demon horse that attacked him.
• Li Fan learned from the green stallion that Yinshan was three days away and the North Pole Ruins three years away, then ate the horned demon and prepared to follow the horses.

Li Fan recovered in the Jade Pool and explored Yuntai Peak, where he learned that the Immortal Palace was preparing campaigns in both the east and west. He discovered that Ink Bamboo Mountain faced threats on several fronts while the profound sects delayed mobilizing, leaving the timing of support uncertain.

• Li Fan emerged from the Jade Pool healed, learned that the Blood Execution Seal had vanished, and asked Xuantian how to control his distant clone.
• Xuantian advised Li Fan to seek a primordial spirit art at Yuntai Peak, and Li Fan explored the crowded steel city and its wooden puppet attendants.
• Li Fan registered at Lou Guan Dao's branch temple, where Real Person Xue told him that Kun had incurred a large debt in Li Qingyue's name and that Li Fan had to pay it.
• Real Person Xue explained that the Immortal Palace was preparing eastern and western campaigns while the Nangong Family kept supplying the Divine Cult.
• Li Fan learned that Ink Bamboo Mountain faced possible attacks from the Nangong Family, the Demon Race, the Ling King, and the Divine Cult, while Emei, Penglai, and Hengshan delayed mobilizing for war.

Li Fan registered at the Lou Guan branch on Yuntai Peak, learned how its Nascent Soul illusion worked, and sought methods for cultivating a split spirit. He left the temple to explore the illusion and arrived at a pill banquet where True Lord Ming Sheng promoted Golden Liquid Pills.

• Real Person Xue arranged for Li Fan to stay at the Lou Guan temple and explained Yuntai Peak's history, layout, and Xuan Gate.
• Real Person Xue warned Li Fan against dividing his spirit too many times, while Xuantian advised him to perfect a few existing methods and avoid the Sword Sect's territory.
• Li Fan entered the Yuntai Peak illusion as Li Qingyue and asked attendant Jia Gui about methods for cultivating a split spirit.
• Jia Gui brought Li Fan to True Lord Ming Sheng's pill banquet, where Golden Liquid Pills were offered in exchange for treasures.
• Jia Gui explained that Golden Liquid Pills could dangerously boost an Immortal Real Person's power, though cultivators also used them for breakthroughs, study, and dual cultivation.

Li Fan recovered in the Jade Pool and explored Yuntai Peak, where he learned the Immortal Palace was preparing campaigns across the realm. He discovered that Ink Bamboo Mountain faced threats from several directions while Xuanmen’s promised mobilization remained stalled.

• Li Fan woke from a vision after the Jade Pool dried up, found his body healed, and asked Xuantian how to control his distant Qiongqi clone.
• Li Fan explored Yuntai Peak and saw its mechanical acolytes, expanding facilities, and the civilians and soldiers evacuated from Shuofang Town.
• Li Fan met Real Person Xue at the Lou Guan Dao temple and learned Kun had spent his unpaid stipend and left him owing the sect grain.
• Real Person Xue told Li Fan that the Immortal Palace was preparing western and eastern campaigns while targeting the Nangong Family’s supply routes to the Divine Cult.
• Real Person Xue warned that Ink Bamboo Mountain might face the Nangong Family, the Demon Race, the Ling King, and the Divine Cult, while Xuanmen’s mobilization could take another year or two.