Chapter Summaries

Li Fan met Bei Gong Wuji and Xu Luoyan at the Yuntai Peak gathering, drank spirit-healing wine, and learned more about the factions among the Mystic Sects. After Jia Gui found three spirit-splitting arts for him to consider, Li Fan discovered that Bei Gong Wuji was descended from the imperial family and heard Jia Gui insult the Nangong Family and people from Ink Bamboo Mountain.

• Li Fan met Bei Gong Wuji, who invited him to drink Fusang Biqiong Xianniang, and Xu Luoyan joined them and praised the wine's healing effects.
• Li Fan drank the wine and bloomed one of the three flowers above his head, impressing Bei Gong Wuji and Xu Luoyan as they introduced him to guests and discussed sect factions.
• Li Fan escaped Bei Gong Wuji and Xu Luoyan's invitation to combine Golden Liquid wine with Five Minerals Powder, and Jia Gui presented three spirit-splitting arts available for trade.
• Li Fan promised Jia Gui two Changchun Pills for his work, but Jia Gui asked instead for Li Fan to help him through his connections with Xu Luoyan and Bei Gong Wuji.
• Jia Gui explained that Bei Gong Wuji was an imperial descendant of the North Sect Country and disparaged the Nangong Family and Ink Bamboo Mountain as southern bumpkins.

Li Fan learned how Yuntai Peak and its Xuan Gates worked, then entered the primordial spirit illusion to search for methods of cultivating divided spirits. He arrived at a pill banquet hosted by True Lord Ming Sheng, where he learned about the powerful but dangerous Golden Liquid Pill.

• Real Person Xue explained Yuntai Peak's origins, the Xuan Gate's uses, and the schedule for returning to the Central Plains.
• Li Fan asked about methods for cultivating divided spirits, and Real Person Xue and Xuantian warned him against pursuing too many clone techniques.
• Li Fan entered Yuntai Peak's primordial spirit illusion as Qingyue, saw his sword-pierced Gui Xu Nascent Soul, and sought help from Jia Gui.
• Jia Gui brought Li Fan to True Lord Ming Sheng's pill banquet, where Golden Liquid Pills were being offered in exchange for treasures and divine arts.
• Jia Gui explained that Golden Liquid Pills could greatly boost a True Person's power but were toxic and also used to push through cultivation bottlenecks or enhance dual cultivation.

Li Fan bought a second-spirit method and sword-forging materials, then discovered that Flying Rainbow could remove the Blood Talisman Sword power from his body. He cultivated a Qingxu second spirit to control Daoist Qiongqi, but upon connecting to the body, he found it had reached the Chanyu's Royal Court and killed several demons.

• Li Fan bought Taishang Sanshi Zhongjing, Qingxu Second Yuanshen, and Chengxing Lingtai Miyao, then spent most of his savings on materials to repair four flying swords.
• Flying Rainbow absorbed the Blood Talisman Sword power lodged in Li Fan's body, healing Gui Xu Nascent Soul's injuries, so Li Fan decided not to sell it.
• Xuantian advised Li Fan to use Qingxu Second Yuanshen to control the distant Qiongqi Dao Body, and Li Fan cultivated a second spirit for that purpose.
• Li Fan entered Daoist Qiongqi's body, found a demon woman cooking human flesh, and killed her before leaving her cave.
• Li Fan recognized Barile and Ao Hai as demons connected to the Chanyu's Royal Court, took Barile's saber, and killed both demons.
• Li Fan recovered Qiongqi's memories and realized it had been chasing wild horses and had apparently found the Chanyu's Royal Court.

Li Fan established Qiongqi as a remote-controlled clone, learned about the Yuan of 𫘦𬳿 and treasures hidden there, and prepared to search for Beichen Sword Sect relics. After sending Li Wugou to cooperate with Emei, he began looting demons in the northern mountains.

• Li Fan moved into the tiger demons’ cave, created the Qingxu Yuanshen, and tested his ability to control both his main body and Qiongqi from afar.
• The Profound Heaven Sword Intent told Li Fan that the Chanyu might still be alive and revealed that it had hidden Cultivation Methods and treasures near the Yuan of 𫘦𬳿.
• Li Fan learned that Li Wugou had been taken to Emei for investigation, advised her to cooperate, and carved a Xuan Girl Seal into his arm after the Profound Heaven Sword Intent explained its uses.
• Li Fan sent his main body to map the underground palaces beneath Yuntai Peak while Qiongqi searched the Yuan of 𫘦𬳿 for hidden treasures.
• Li Fan attacked and killed a goat-eyed demon and subdued a stag-antlered demon, then looted their cave and flew toward the next mountain.

Li Fan built a Qiongqi clone by possessing a dead slave boy, rapidly cultivating it to an Azure Sun Golden Core before continuing his explorations. In a ruined underground palace, he found the Beichen Sword Sect’s Big Dipper Seven Stars Sword, learning that the relics marked him as the sect’s eighteenth-generation leader but required seven compatible disciples to unleash their full power.

• Li Fan possessed a dead slave boy, reshaped his body, and reached Foundation Establishment with the Azure Sun Yin Mountain Tai Xuan Art.
• Under the False Moon, Li Fan cultivated through a storm that destroyed a Hu Barbarian tribe and formed an Azure Sun Golden Core in one night.
• Li Fan returned his consciousness to his main body as Yuntai Peak arrived in the Three Enclosures, then continued exploring and studying the Blood Talisman Sword.
• After Real Person Xue told Li Fan that the Temple Master and Yao Xuanzhou had emerged from seclusion, Profound Heaven led him to a hidden bundle in a ruined Daoist palace.
• Li Fan discovered seven sword pellets that Profound Heaven identified as the Beichen Sword Sect’s Big Dipper Seven Stars Sword and learned they could only unleash their full power through seven compatible disciples.
• Li Fan wrapped up the swords and accepted that he was the Beichen Sword Sect’s eighteenth-generation sect leader.

Li Fan traveled with Yao Xuanzhou to the Three Enclosures, where he learned about the Immortal Palace’s power structure and met the Grand Tutor, Duke of Shouyang. The Grand Tutor offered Li Fan a place in his service, and Li Fan challenged him to explain how he would bring justice and peace to a realm dominated by the flying palaces.

• Guanzhu Feng told Li Fan that the Grand Tutor Manor would award him a marquis title, a military merit rank, and ten million in cash, and Li Fan asked to be made Marquis Within the Pass instead.
• Guanzhu Feng recommended Li Fan as the guardian of Ink Mountain, entrusted Five Sons Peak to him, and told him to go with Yao Xuanzhou to meet the Grand Tutor.
• Yao Xuanzhou taught Li Fan court etiquette and explained the Three Enclosures as they traveled to the capital aboard a flying boat.
• Li Fan and Yao Xuanzhou arrived at the Grand Tutor Manor, where Duke of Shouyang personally met them and invited Li Fan to work for him.
• Li Fan asked what the Grand Tutor could offer beyond his title, then questioned how he could create justice and peace while the flying palaces blocked out the sky.
• The Grand Tutor laughed and said they could kill everything blocking the sun, while Yao Xuanzhou explained that the Grand Tutor was joking.

Li Fan received a hundred million gold coins from the Grand Tutor's household and learned that Ink Bamboo Mountain urgently needed scarce immortal silk for talismans. He went to ask Xinling County Duke Bei Gong Wuji for help, and the chapter ended with Wuji welcoming him warmly despite the hostile reception from his household guards.

• Yao Xuanzhou delivered Ink Bamboo Mountain's reply to the Grand Tutor, who offered Li Fan a token and invited him to serve as his Black Sword.
• Li Fan asked about Zhang Chongyang and received five Golden Dragon hairpins containing a hundred million gold coins, which Zhang's mother paid on the captain's behalf.
• Yao Xuanzhou explained that Ink Bamboo Mountain needed rare raw immortal silk, but its trade routes were cut off and the remaining supply was fiercely contested.
• Li Fan and Yao Xuanzhou agreed to seek help from different sources, with Li Fan going to Xinling County Duke Bei Gong Wuji for an introduction to the Weaving Bureau.
• Immortal soldiers and attendants treated Li Fan with suspicion until Bei Gong Wuji came out barefoot and greeted him like a close friend.

Li Fan visited Bei Gong Wuji and pretended to seek help raising his noble rank so he could learn how to obtain celestial silkworm silk. He left with Zhang Rang to pursue a chance to buy raw silk at auction, while Bei Gong Wuji went to Guanglu Temple.

• Li Fan joined Bei Gong Wuji for a lavish feast at the Xinling Duke's residence and asked about changing his Guan Nei Hou title to Marquis of the First Rank.
• Bei Gong Wuji agreed to escort Li Fan to the Taiwei Yuan, and Li Fan questioned their attendants about the Immortal Palace's offices and celestial silkworms.
• Li Fan learned that Minister Wang oversaw the Weaving Bureau and that the bureau's raw silk was headed to Tianshi Yuan for an auction that night.
• Zhang Rang offered to take Li Fan to choose raw silk, and Bei Gong Wuji sent them on while he continued to Guanglu Temple.

Li Fan learned from Zhang Rang that the Weaving Bureau’s silk was tightly allocated and that Ink Bamboo Mountain could not easily obtain a large share. When Zhang Rang tried to keep him from reaching the bureau, he explained that he was protecting his young master, then revealed rumors that Changping Xianghou led the Beichen Sword Sect and had inherited Sword Ancestor Xuantian’s legacy.

• Li Fan questioned Zhang Rang about his connections and threatened to expose his illegal sale of Tianshi silk.
• Zhang Rang explained the Weaving Bureau’s production, the auction allocations, and why the Nine Great Sects and wealthy families would leave little silk available.
• Li Fan considered asking the Grand Tutor to intervene, then followed Zhang Rang toward the Weaving Bureau.
• Zhang Rang led Li Fan in circles to delay him, but Li Fan confronted him and demanded to be taken to the bureau.
• Zhang Rang refused to help because he feared involving his young master in a conflict with the Sects, and warned Li Fan about Changping Xianghou.
• Zhang Rang said Changping Xianghou commanded assassins, had the Beichen Sword Array’s support, and was the eighteenth-generation sect master of the Beichen Sword Sect; Li Fan and Sword Ancestor Xuantian reacted with alarm.

Li Fan realized that the Grand Tutor’s growing power had helped leave Ink Bamboo Mountain surrounded by enemies, but he chose to use the Beichen Sword Sect assassins as a chance to test their strength. With Zhang Rang’s help, he reached a cultivator market and prepared to investigate the assassins in a Divine Church disguise.

• Li Fan concluded that the Grand Tutor had benefited from the turmoil that weakened Ink Bamboo Mountain, then asked Zhang Rang to help him find the Beichen Sword Sect assassins in exchange for a chance to earn a reward.
• Zhang Rang led Li Fan out of Taiwei Yuan and sent him by carriage to a busy cultivator market, where Li Fan sensed that a nearby tavern might be a gathering place for the Grand Tutor’s death warriors.
• Li Fan posed as Li Yaoshi, the eighteenth-generation Beichen Sword Sect master, and bought a red sword, a black outfit, and a God Lord mask from a shopkeeper.
• Xuantian returned from scouting and offered to teach Li Fan Dao Breath Blood Refining so his disguise would mimic the Divine Church’s blood energy.
• Xuantian revealed that he had once infiltrated the Divine Church to obtain the Xuan Girl Heavenly Book, but the Saintess had eventually seen through him.

Li Fan followed the Beichen Sword Sect death swords to a treasure-ship raid and killed them while posing as a Ten Absolutes God Sect challenger. After discovering Wanyu immortal silk among the wreckage, he was attacked by the songstress in a powered armor suit and realized he could no longer stay in the Three Enclosures.

• Li Fan ate at the tavern, where a songstress told him that four true swords and twelve death swords were operating nearby.
• Li Fan waited for the twelve assassins to leave, then followed them and found them attacking a merchant treasure ship while an Immortal Palace burned near Taiwei Yuan.
• Li Fan chose to intervene, introduced himself as a Ten Absolutes God Sect member, and killed the twelve Beichen Sword Sect swordsmen using the Blood Talisman Sword.
• The treasure ship crashed, spilling Wanyu immortal silk, and Li Fan received a warning that a hostile system intrusion had been detected.
• Li Fan dodged a ray-rifle shot and tore the helmeted attacker’s head off, discovering that the powered armor had been piloted by the songstress.

Li Fan collected a huge cache of Wanyu immortal silk from a crashed treasure ship and went to Taiwei Yuan in his spirit form, where his rumors stirred a crowd into chaos. After the Guardian General Sima Shijing entered the palace, Li Fan tried to turn the night’s events into a chance to secure raw silk for Ink Bamboo Mountain.

• Li Fan found a hidden compartment packed with Wanyu immortal silk and stored it in a God Lord Jade on Xuantian’s advice.
• Li Fan sent his body south under Xuantian’s watch and flew in spirit form toward Taiwei Yuan, where the defenses stopped him outside the palace.
• Li Fan challenged Xu Luoyan’s reassurance that nothing serious had happened, then amplified rumors until the gathered Yin Spirits began arguing among themselves.
• Sima Shijing appeared, revealed his Divine Transformation strength, and entered Ziwei Immortal Palace as the Guardian General.
• Li Fan asked Xu Luoyan to help him acquire raw silk and pitched Ink Bamboo Mountain’s pills as a trade for Mount Song’s supplies.

Li Fan broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm during a lightning tribulation, but a Blood God Child chased him into an ancient Sword Sect array that nearly killed him. Trapped and badly wounded, he waited for nightfall to use the False Moon’s evil qi to recover, only to find the sky overcast.

• Li Fan assessed the Qiongqi clone’s cultivation and decided to risk a lightning tribulation to strengthen it.
• Li Fan survived a golden lightning bolt and broke through to the True Immortal Realm.
• A Blood God Child belonging to the Chanyu appeared and pursued Li Fan as he fled across the snowy plains.
• The Blood God Child drove Li Fan into the Sword Sect’s Beichen Sword Array, which shattered his Dharma Body and left him gravely wounded.
• Li Fan used Black and White Evil Qi to stop his bleeding and waited for the False Moon to appear, but clouds covered the sky.

Li Fan slowly crossed the Beichen Sword Array and found a Heavenly Book beside the remains of Yan Xingyun, but Zhang Xun, the Great Strength Dharma King, emerged from his body and seized it. Zhang Xun revealed why the Three Great Sects destroyed the Luo Sect and left Li Fan facing death as the Dharma King raved about the past.

• Li Fan realized the clouds blocking the moon were part of the Beichen Sword Array and cautiously advanced through it, using white baleful energy to reassemble his body after each strike.
• After nine days, Li Fan reached the array’s center, identified the remains as likely belonging to Yan Xingyun, and discovered the Scroll of Enlightenment through Hard Work sealed in the ice.
• Zhang Xun burst from Li Fan’s body, knocked over the remains, broke the Sun Sword Array, and claimed the Heavenly Book as a chance to attain enlightenment and ascend.
• Zhang Xun revealed that the Three Great Sects had feared the Luo Sect’s rapid cultivation and the possibility that former enemies like Yan Xingyun would unite to end their conflicts.
• Zhang Xun recounted how he had killed former comrades during the sect wars and bitterly condemned Yan Xingyun and the others for pursuing peace, while Li Fan listened helplessly.

Li Fan confronted Zhang Xun while preparing to activate the Sunlit Golden Light Sword Array, but Zhang Xun revealed his history and accused Ziwei Yuan of manipulating the Three Great Sects’ conflicts. As a devastating beam destroyed Yinshan and Zhang Xun flew skyward with hundreds of others to challenge “Heaven,” Li Fan was left watching their lights vanish.

• Zhang Xun exposed Li Fan’s plan to use his broken rib to activate the Sunlit Golden Light Sword Array and invited him to fight openly.
• Li Fan denounced Zhang Xun for betraying Yan Xingyun and argued that the Divine Sect’s battles dragged ordinary people into the conflict.
• Zhang Xun explained that the Divine Sect sought to destroy the Immortal Palace and blamed Ziwei Yuan for manipulating Yan Xingyun, the Luo Sect, and the Three Great Sects.
• Zhang Xun revealed that he had been a county magistrate named Zhang Xun in his first life and claimed that Yan Xingyun had been manipulated by a fox spirit from Ziwei Yuan.
• A beam from the heavens obliterated Yinshan, and Zhang Xun gave Li Fan The Scroll of Bitter Cultivation and Enlightenment before flying into the sky.
• Hundreds of lights rose against “Heaven” and were destroyed; Li Fan watched the red aurora fade and understood that a Dao Lord had fallen.

Li Fan recovered from his fight with Zhang Dali, copied the Bitter Work Enlightenment Scroll for Heartstring, and learned that a company citizen may have authorized the cruiser’s planet-killer weapon. After returning to his main body, he drifted through Yunmeng Marsh with Xuantian, who recounted the region’s history and described an official named Zhang Xun.

• Li Fan stayed in the ice field to heal, gathered Brother Yan’s remains and empty sword case, and memorized the Bitter Work Enlightenment Scroll while recovering under False Moon.
• Li Fan met the twin fish children in Heartstring’s chatroom, shared his account of the company’s attack, and wrote out the scroll for them.
• The twin fish children explained that firing the cruiser’s gamma-ray cannon required authorization from a senior company citizen and speculated that an employee might already be hiding in Ziwei Yuan.
• Li Fan asked whether he could become a full-time employee and authorize weapons, and the Yin Fish child said he would need company credentials, a legitimate tax record, and to raise the fish.
• Li Fan returned to his main body and found himself drifting in Yunmeng Marsh, where Xuantian explained the flooding and destruction caused by the Immortal Palace’s war with the Demon Race.
• Xuantian told Li Fan that Zhang Xun had defended a city for two years, saved court officials, and later starved to death without aid.

Li Fan learned more about the Luo Sect’s destruction and Xuantian’s role in the battle, then received a system prize that could shield his storage items from company surveillance. The system abruptly shut down as a purple qi passed overhead, and hundreds of female cultivators pursued Purple Void Dao Lord toward the north.

• Xuantian explained that the Luo Sect’s popularity threatened the Three Great Sects, so the Immortal Palace proposed a contest between its disciples and their elites; the Luo Sect lost and suffered heavy casualties.
• Xuantian said he had promised his disciple not to kill the fox, then warned Qingyue not to let a desire for peace dull her sword.
• Li Fan drew a river-clam disguise device that could block the company from scanning or stealing items stored in his Storage Jades, and he hurriedly hid his God Lord Jades inside it.
• The system warned Li Fan that it was shutting down urgently, and a purple streak of qi passed over him before the alert cleared.
• Xuantian identified the passerby as Purple Void Dao Lord of Yellow Court Palace, and hundreds of female Divine Lords and True Lords flew after her toward the north.
• Xuantian revealed that a Hengshan disciple had once challenged him to sword duels and that he had accidentally killed her.

Li Fan crossed Yunmeng Marsh and rescued an injured Hengshan disciple, earning the sect’s trust and a token granting him access to its territory. After considering the resources and rivalries shaping the great sects, he stayed at a Hengshan Daoist grounds and sent his nascent spirit to the moon, where he found the centipede dead and faced the loneliness of carrying on alone.

• Li Fan avoided sending out his nascent spirit near Mount Heng and traveled south across Yunmeng Marsh while keeping out of sight.
• Li Fan watched three Golden Core cultivators ambush a Hengshan female disciple, then offered to take her back to the sect in exchange for letting them leave.
• Li Fan rescued the Bai Family woman, brought her to a Mount Heng Daoist grounds, and received supplies, Spirit Coins, talismans, and a token recognizing him as a friend of the sect.
• Li Fan reflected on Mount Heng’s lack of resources and the competition among the great sects, considering what his own future sect would need to survive.
• Li Fan stayed at the Daoist grounds and sent his nascent spirit to the moon, where he found the centipede dead and examined the scriptures on its cracked shell.

Li Fan learned new traits of Ink Bamboo Mountain’s Primordial Spirit Method, then met Bai Shuangying, who thanked him for saving Su Xiaoji and asked him to investigate the attack. As they traveled to Yunmeng Marsh, Bai Shuangying told him the Bai Family’s history, prompting Xuantian to recall an unexplained connection to Float-and-Sink Powder.

• Li Fan mastered Skillful Transmission, Seeking the Cause, and The Same Principle, gaining a chance to analyze and replicate skills he observed with the Gu Guan Method.
• Bai Shuangying arrived to thank Li Fan for saving Su Xiaoji and gave him Mingyang Fuchen San, which she explained was the Bai Family’s Float-and-Sink Powder for regulating cultivation.
• Bai Shuangying asked Li Fan to show her where Su Xiaoji had been attacked, and they flew together toward Yunmeng Marsh.
• Bai Shuangying told Li Fan that her ancestors had served as Imperial Physician Assistants before the Bai Family was stripped of its possessions and exiled.
• Xuantian recalled meeting a young doctor who refused to execute people and laughed after recognizing the name Float-and-Sink Powder, but he did not explain the connection.

Li Fan helped Bai Shuangying investigate Mount Heng’s forbidden grounds, then watched her slay a sealed demon before two Mount Heng disciples ambushed her over an inner-sect competition. As Bai Shuangying fought for her life, Profound Heaven revealed she was descended from an old friend, and Li Fan secretly used a newly analyzed art to help her.

• Li Fan and Bai Shuangying investigated a surge of demonic energy and found a rotting demon god loose in Yunmeng Marsh.
• Bai Shuangying used her sword techniques to wound the demon and then decapitate it, while Li Fan criticized her combat habits.
• Xiao Wancheng and Zhou Xing attacked Bai Shuangying, and she recognized them as the men who had harmed Su Xiaoji.
• Bai Shuangying fought the two Mount Heng disciples over their accusations that she had unfairly won a chance to become a true disciple.
• Profound Heaven urged Li Fan to help Bai Shuangying because she was descended from an old friend, and Li Fan secretly opened blocked acupoints as the Supreme Purity Subjugation Demon Art was analyzed.