Chapter Summaries

Li Fan unleashed “Sunrise Emei,” destroying the Immortal Pavilion’s formations and killing the Emei disciples, then fought Xuan Yunzi with relentless swordfire until Xuan Yunzi disintegrated. Afterward, Li Fan faced the remaining Emei cultivators and cut down four Divine Lords, leaving the battlefield burning beneath the False Moon.

• Li Fan’s full-power “Sunrise Emei” shattered the Immortal Pavilion’s wards, killed the Emei disciples, and drew the Demon Claws into the ruins.
• Xuan Yunzi attacked Li Fan with the White Hidden Divine Sword, while Li Fan used the demon horde and attacks on the Hengshan disciples and healing cultivators to wear him down.
• Li Fan refreshed his three flowers and overwhelmed Xuan Yunzi with Bloodwind Whirls; Xuan Yunzi ignored the White Treasure Sword Lord’s warning, exhausted himself, and disintegrated.
• Two crippled Emei cultivators, Chu Yingxiong and Xu Yingjie, emerged and pledged themselves to Li Fan, but a concealed attacker ambushed him from underground.
• Li Fan killed the hidden attacker, then defeated Chu Yingxiong and Xu Yingjie, sending all four Divine Lords to disintegrate.

Li Fan helped the temple master cripple Hengshan’s Purple Void Dao Lord and learned that their search for the Seventh Friend was still underway. After discovering his battle had cost him more mood cap than it earned, he returned to Li Family Village, where Qin Nanxin and Jiyue were fighting and Duan Ye arrived to join Ink Bamboo Mountain.

• Li Fan dispelled his Dharma Body after the temple master ordered him to leave the wounded Purple Void Dao Lord alive, then recovered while the temple master covered their tracks.
• The temple master explained that Hengshan had lost many cultivators and its two guardians had abandoned their posts, and he told Li Fan to cultivate toward Divine Transformation.
• The temple master revealed that Purple Void Dao Lord was not the Seventh Friend and said the Seventh Friend’s Daoist Tradition had to be destroyed to avenge past atrocities.
• Li Fan checked the system and found that his kills had earned only 3,100 mood-cap points, less than the 7,200 he had spent refreshing the Three Flowers.
• Li Fan returned to Li Family Village and stopped Qin Nanxin and Jiyue from fighting, then Duan Ye arrived and announced that she wanted to join Ink Bamboo Mountain.

Li Fan encountered Zhang Yanzhi, the Northern Saintess, while retrieving a syringe from a sealed cave and learned that the Divine Cult had sent assassins to sacrifice her. After agreeing to help the cult search for fallen meteorites, he transformed into a winged tiger and offered Zhang Yanzhi a ride to the Central Plains.

• Li Fan entered the hidden cave, retrieved the syringe, and met Zhang Yanzhi, who introduced herself as Sarilang and tried to recruit him as her protector.
• Li Fan deduced that Zhang Yanzhi had been lured into a trap, and three Golden Core blood puppets arrived after killing her golden eagle.
• A blood puppet offered Zhang Yanzhi to Li Fan and asked him to help the Divine Cult find fallen meteorites, and Li Fan agreed.
• Li Fan transformed into a giant winged tiger and offered to take Zhang Yanzhi to the Central Plains, but she said there was nowhere peaceful left.

Li Fan and Zhang Yanzhi traveled through the devastated Northern Lands, where Zhang was drawn in her sleep to a mass grave and a red-clad swordsman’s painting. After Li Fan destroyed the fiend corpse, Zhang explained that the Divine Sect’s True Saintess was close to awakening, prompting Li Fan to consider finding and stopping her himself.

• Li Fan flew west with Zhang Yanzhi and saw how demons, famine, and civil war had devastated the Northern Lands.
• Zhang Yanzhi sleepwalked into a mass grave, where she encountered a vision of a wine estate and recognized the red-clad swordsman in a painting as the man from her dreams.
• When a fiend corpse attacked Zhang Yanzhi, Li Fan’s Blood Infant and Qiongqi tore it apart and killed it.
• The next morning, Zhang Yanzhi explained that the Divine Sect’s True Saintess could awaken after recovering her past-life memories, and that rival factions had traditionally tried to prevent it.
• Li Fan realized the Saintess’s cultivation method might be the True Yang Technique and decided he would have to travel west himself to deal with the coming awakening.

Li Fan discussed the awakened Saintess, sword-making, and the Celestial Immortal base’s progress before joining a chaotic battle over a supposed heavenly treasure. After Li Fan slaughtered the cultivators fighting for it, Zhang Yanzhi identified the object as a communication device and contacted the Divine Sect’s Shazhou branch.

• Li Fan asked Xuantian about responding to the Saintess’s awakening, but Xuantian dismissed the threat and refused to make Li Fan two swords.
• Li Fan checked Kun’s growth and learned that the Immortal Palace Tomb was heading toward Li Family Village while the base prepared robots, crops, weapons, and a new system.
• Li Fan and Zhang Yanzhi watched cultivators fight over a metal object, then saw a Daoist nun, a demon, and other powerful cultivators battle over it.
• Li Fan entered the fight and killed the cultivators around the object, while the green-robed demon escaped by destroying his body and releasing his Nascent Soul.
• Zhang Yanzhi photographed the object with a Divine Sect communication jade and arranged to send it to the Shazhou contact point.

Li Fan used Qiongqi to travel toward Shazhou with Zhang Yanzhi, whose recruitment pitch revealed the Divine Sect’s factions and demands. He advanced Qiongqi’s Dao Body to Divine Transformation, leaving the clone stronger and sensing a mysterious call from the Kunlun mountains.

• Zhang Yanzhi proposed using the extraterrestrial treasure to lure the Divine Sect’s enemies and recruit Qiongqi as its Guardian Demon God.
• Li Fan and Zhang Yanzhi killed three attackers, and she recorded their deaths as merit in the Divine Sect’s Blood Register.
• Zhang Yanzhi explained how altar masters gained merit and urged Qiongqi to choose between the Heavenly Mountain Light Dharma King’s faction and the Kunlun Pure Dharma King’s faction.
• Li Fan decided to advance Qiongqi rather than take on the Divine Sect’s growing list of tasks, then had the Blood Infant suppress the twin dragons and Qiongqi consume most of the other Demon Gods.
• Li Fan used one of his flowers to help Qiongqi break through to Divine Transformation, while Zhang Yanzhi remained unaware of the change.
• Qiongqi’s breakthrough gave Li Fan a premonition of something calling from the Kunlun mountains, which he planned to investigate later.

Li Fan and Zhang Yanzhi followed the Cao brothers to Feisha Palace, where Shazhou cultivators were destroying the sect. Li Fan rescued some survivors, but arrived too late to fight the Divine Transformation ancestor, and the ancestor’s death left him reflecting on the need to keep advancing.

• Zhang Yanzhi pressured the Cao brothers into guiding her and Li Fan to Feisha Palace, where Shazhou cultivators had gathered to attack it.
• Li Fan watched the attackers break Feisha Palace’s formation through a blood ritual and slaughter its disciples after a traitor opened the barrier.
• Li Fan carried Feisha Palace’s elderly, women, and children to safety while the attackers stormed the sect and looted it.
• Li Fan broke into the underground forbidden area, but found that the ancestor had possessed the wounded sect master, Qu Feihuang, and killed him with one punch.
• Li Fan uncovered the ancestor’s hoard beneath the vault and realized that cultivators had to keep striving rather than become complacent.

Li Fan destroyed Feisha Palace with Qiongqi’s sandstorm, then created a Vermilion Bird clone to handle his growing workload. After mastering the Ink Mountain technique Things Truly Exist, he spotted signs that two powerful visitors had been secretly watching Li Family Village, and feared they were Dao Lords.

• Li Fan manifested Qiongqi’s power and buried Feisha Palace and its rogue cultivators beneath a golden sandstorm.
• Zhang Yanzhi praised Li Fan, then volunteered to serve as Qiongqi’s secretary and recruited the Cao brothers to help establish a Divine Cult branch.
• Li Fan created a Vermilion Bird Dao Child clone to handle side tasks and test the Heaven Beyond Immortal’s independent system.
• Li Fan cultivated Things Truly Exist and gained the ability to perceive the underlying reality of things he observed with the Gu Guan Method.
• Li Fan discovered that two beings beyond his realm had recently stood in the evening primrose fields watching Li Family Village, and suspected they were Dao Lords.

Qin Nanxin clashed with Liuyun over her place at Li Fan’s side while Li Fan and his allies discovered that two Enlightenment Stage cultivators were secretly watching them. After Li Country’s ruler was assassinated, the abbot revealed the danger surrounding the Black Lotus Saint Mother’s descendant and asked Li Fan to stop her resurrection.

• Liuyun mocked Qin Nanxin’s swordsmanship and questioned when she would leave, and Qin Nanxin threatened Liuyun and the other women at Li Family Village.
• Li Fan, Li Gan, and Li Kun concluded that two Enlightenment Stage beings had evaded their surveillance and decided to keep watch while Li Fan stayed cautious.
• The Black Lotus Sect assassinated Li You, and the abbot asked Li Fan to choose a successor; Li Fan selected the oldest candidate, Li Zhan, Prince of Jing.
• The abbot explained that the Black Lotus Sect might be trying to resurrect the Black Lotus Saint Mother, Shi Tong'er, and revealed that he had secretly protected her descendant, a baby girl rescued from a massacre.
• The abbot warned Li Fan that the girl might awaken as the Black Lotus Saint Mother, and Li Fan agreed to wipe out the Black Lotus Sect.

Li Fan disguised himself as a Six Fan Gate constable and enlisted Sili Xiaowei Wen Zhang to investigate the attempts on Li You’s life, hoping to uncover the Black Lotus Sect and the Seventh Friend. Wen Zhang pointed him toward the dye houses, while Li Fan learned how Li You’s own extravagance and mismanagement had left the palace vulnerable; the investigation remained unresolved.

• Li Fan decided he needed to find the Seventh Friend to protect Fuling and prevent the Beast Mother’s return.
• Using a Vermilion Bird clone and Jiyue’s Six Fan Gate badge, Li Fan posed as Li Er and approached Sili Xiaowei Wen Zhang in Changsi City.
• Wen Zhang welcomed Li Fan and shared the official accounts of the attacks on Li You, directing him to search the dye houses near the Yong'an Channel.
• Li Fan recognized that Wen Zhang had concealed details but had offered him a way to pursue the case while shifting responsibility from himself.
• Li Fan traced the palace’s weak security to Li You’s lavish construction, strained guards, and favoritism toward the Guo Family and Right Army.
• The chapter recounted how the first attack was accidentally exposed and how Xu Zhongxin later reached the royal carriage, killing Li You after the Left Army failed to arrive.

Li Fan wandered Changsi City to draw out his watchers while preparing to confront Taiping Temple, but he discovered the capital had been devastated by severed trade routes, crushing labor and taxes, and currency debasement. The chapter leaves Li Country’s townsfolk fleeing toward Ink Bamboo Mountain, where Mystic Sect subjects are exempt from Immortal Palace taxes.

• Li Fan ignored the tails following him and used his visit to Wen Zhang as cover while planning to make Taiping Temple expose the Black Lotus Sect remnants.
• Li Fan noticed West Market was nearly empty and questioned people about Changsi City’s decline.
• Li Fan learned that wars had cut off the city’s trade routes, while Ink Bamboo Mountain’s military preparations had also halted southern trade.
• Li Fan learned that corvée labor, heavy taxes, debased Divine Hardness Coins, and Li You’s spending had worsened hardship for the city’s residents.
• Li Fan learned that the Revenue Bureau had taken control of major trades and redirected local goods toward military needs, driving merchants and townsfolk into bankruptcy.
• Changsi City residents with means fled toward Ink Bamboo Mountain, where Mystic Sect subjects did not pay taxes to the Immortal Palace.

Li Fan explained how Ink Bamboo Mountain’s entry into the Xuan Sects let its disciples escape Li Country’s taxes and drew a million people from Changsi City to reclaim land. He then saw Taiping Temple’s extravagant wealth, denounced it as the Black Lotus Demon Path, and charged through its gate.

• Li Fan described how the Xuan Sects had displaced the Immortal Palace and established a system that exempted their members from taxes.
• Ink Bamboo Mountain’s new status abolished its tribute to Li Country, while its low taxes and refugee benefits drew a million people from the Jingji region to settle reclaimed land.
• Changsi City’s officials and nobles profited from the exodus by clearing poor wards for real estate, while ordinary residents and low-ranking officials struggled with rising prices and falling pay.
• Li Fan left the grieving spies and went to Taiping Temple, where he saw the wealthy district’s lavish estates and condemned its leaders.
• Li Fan kicked open Daye Ward’s gate, accused the Black Lotus Demon Path of plotting regicide, and challenged its members to face him.

Li Fan stormed into Taiping Temple to draw out its hidden Black Lotus Sect members while his drones searched Changsi City. He left after Li Kun reported three targets fleeing west through a waterway, disguising his discovery as a misunderstanding.

• Li Fan battered his way through Taiping Temple’s guards and accepted the overseer Linchun’s challenge to pass the three gates.
• Li Fan defeated the hammer and whip generals with martial techniques, then threatened the two remaining generals with a Phoenix Mystical Fire move until a pink-clad Taoist nun intervened.
• The pink-clad nun and the white-browed eunuch blamed Linchun and offered Li Fan the temple’s supposed Black Lotus Sect criminals, including maidservants whose tattoos had just been applied.
• Li Fan accused Taiping Temple’s master of harboring criminals, but the eunuch revealed the planted evidence and surrounded him with armed troops.
• Li Kun told Li Fan that his drones had found three targets escaping west through the waterway, so Li Fan released the eunuch and left, claiming the confrontation had been a misunderstanding.

Li Fan followed the system’s signal to Yong'an Channel, where he learned about the plight of indentured servants and faced the white-browed eunuch, a remnant of the Nangong Seven Thieves’ legacy. He destroyed the eunuch’s Devil Embryo with Li Er’s phoenix flames, while nine other enemies remained across the canal.

• Li Fan waited near Yong'an Channel for the system’s delayed signal and bought wontons from an old vendor.
• A sickly girl asked Li Fan for food in exchange for sleeping with him, and the vendor explained that indentured servants were bound to their masters by the Immortal Palace’s contracts.
• The white-browed eunuch urged Li Fan to join his group in destroying the Immortal Palace, then challenged him to a deadly wager over the vendor and girl.
• Li Fan recognized the eunuch’s allies as remnants of the Nangong Seven Thieves’ legacy, and the eunuch revealed himself as a Devil Embryo and attacked.
• Li Fan transformed Li Er into phoenix flames, seized the Devil Embryo, and blasted it into plasma with Radiant Light, Myriad Transformations.

Li Fan defeated the white-browed eunuch but learned that the Nangong Seven Thieves planned to open a Door beneath Changsi City and kill its residents. He found a Black Lotus Sect altar fed by corrupted underground spiritual veins, stopped the remaining ritualists, and vowed to find a home for the people they had abandoned.

• Li Fan fought the white-browed eunuch, who resurrected after each defeat and used Beichen Sword Sect techniques against him.
• The eunuch unleashed a blood-sword attack that badly wounded Li Fan, then revealed that the group planned to open the Door and destroy Changsi City.
• A yellow-whiskered warrior called Sixteen collected the eunuch and fled with the others after warning that Little Nineteen was approaching.
• Li Fan discovered that baleful energy was rising through the underground spiritual veins and corroding the foundations beneath Changsi City's southern wall.
• Li Fan found a Wusheng Laomu altar where Black Lotus Sect disciples were trying to open the Door amid the bodies of people who had taken their own lives.
• Li Fan subdued the ritualists, prevented them from continuing, and promised to find the desperate people a place where they could live.

Li Fan visited Baisun Yuan as Li Country prepared to choose a new ruler from the feudal princes, then confronted court officials who offered him treasures and a fortune. He gave the officials the Golden Bowl’s riches in exchange for freeing the capital’s servants and slaves and settling willing people on his mountain.

• Li Fan visited Baisun Yuan and learned how the royal clan would use three infant sons of Li Heng to preserve the legitimate succession.
• Dachangqiu, a confused Divine Transformation eunuch, mistook Li Fan for the ruler before Qiu Liang corrected him and presented him with treasures.
• Li Fan rejected an ancient sword and a spirit-bearing zither, accepted a meteorite, and discovered that the Golden Bowl held over 1.48 billion Divine Astral Coins.
• Li Hongxian explained that officials had raised the money through state projects and defended the hardship and bankruptcies in Changsi City as necessary wartime measures.
• Li Fan asked about servants and slaves bound to Changsi City, and Li Hongxian proposed freeing them and paying for their resettlement.
• Li Fan gave the Golden Bowl to Li Hongxian and asked the officials to free willing servants and slaves so they could reclaim farmland on his mountain.

Li Fan attended Li Country’s enthronement ceremony while deciding to use the powerful clans who owed him a favor as test subjects for his Tai Su Dao. In Heping Fang, he discovered the Black Lotus Sect was feeding desperate people flesh from a captured Non-Thing Devil Seed, and he called them to follow him to the Vacuum Home.

• Li Fan agreed to attend the enthronement ceremony as Ink Bamboo Mountain’s representative and decided the powerful clans of Li Country would become the first test subjects of his Tai Su Dao.
• Li Fan recognized King Ying, Li as the chubby youth he had once encountered at Ink Bamboo Mountain, and asked Qiu Liang about Taiping Temple and its attendant Cen Hun.
• Li Fan ordered Qiu Liang to give him Taiping Ship’s plot in Heping Fang, then sent Real Person Wei away during the ceremony.
• Li Fan’s clone Li Er followed Huai Wu and Xiaolian to the Black Lotus Sect’s headquarters, where he saw desperate people risking death to eat flesh from a captured Non-Thing Devil Seed.
• Li Fan found a tofu voucher in a Black Lotus Sect follower’s sachet and realized the Heavenly Clothes’ vouchers were being used by the Luo Sect and the Black Lotus Sect.
• Li Fan set the sky ablaze and called the people at the Black Lotus Sect to follow him to the Vacuum Home, promising that no one would bind them again.

Li Fan uncovered how the Black Lotus Sect and the Taiping Ship’s medicine trials were driving Changsi City’s desperate poor toward demonic transformation, and decided to move vulnerable people to Ink Bamboo Mountain. He returned to discuss the plan while his clone continued searching for the Nangong Seven Friends, setting up a confrontation with the country’s powerful landowners over freeing their serfs.

• Li Fan questioned the Black Lotus Sect believers at Heping Fang and learned that desperate residents were testing dangerous pills, while survivors were recruited into the sect or taken away by the Taiping Ship.
• Wang Zhi explained how bankruptcy and persecution had driven him to the Black Lotus Sect, and how he had stayed in Changsi City rather than abandon his family.
• Real Person Wei and reinforcements from Ink Bamboo Mountain’s Discipline Institute contained the Devil Seed and transported more than a hundred believers for inspection.
• Li Fan gained support from Real Person Wei and the eunuch faction for relocating the city’s poor, but recognized that the plan threatened the great landowners who controlled vast estates and serfs.
• Li Fan flew back to Ink Bamboo Mountain to consult the temple master and the system, while Li Er’s clone stayed in Jingji to investigate the Nangong Seven Friends.
• The authorities prioritized about a thousand vulnerable people for relocation to Ink Mountain and planned to spread the abolition decree and migration across the Li Country.

Li Fan questioned Wen Zhang about Taiping Temple and the missing immortal thieves, uncovering a trail through Xianyi Temple and its elusive nun, Mysterious Opportunity. At the abandoned temple, Li Fan found a hidden painting of Yuan Shi, which triggered a nosebleed and revealed what the valuable paintings really were.

• Li Fan cornered Wen Zhang at his residence and used a Three Enclosures token to persuade him to discuss the immortal thieves.
• Wen Zhang told Li Fan that Cen Hun had rescued Mysterious Opportunity from prison and revealed that Xianyi Temple’s scholars and nobles traded in her collected paintings and calligraphy.
• Wen Zhang deduced that the paintings had helped move Taiping Temple’s wealth into land deeds, which could be exchanged for grain, people, and land.
• Li Fan went to Xianyi Temple but found it deserted and decided the money trail could still lead him to the fugitives.
• Li Fan followed his compass to a buried box in the temple’s flower bed and found a painting of Yuan Shi, after which blood gushed from his nose.

Li Fan sought the temple master's help to hunt the Tai Su Devil Embryos and proposed turning Ink Bamboo Mountain into a protected cultivation site for migrants affected by baleful energy. After Dao Lord Cangbai visited and warned him about Xuantian's supposed heir, Li Fan learned that an assassin had killed his clone and more than a hundred people in Changsi City, destroying the confiscated Yuan Shi.

• Li Fan reported the Nangong Immortal Thieves' growing influence and asked the temple master to divine where their Devil Embryos had gone, but the temple master said their shared destiny made them difficult to find.
• The temple master agreed to perform three divinations after Li Fan gathered Yuan Shi, while Li Fan proposed growing Tai Su Realm wheat and settling affected migrants on Ink Bamboo Mountain.
• Li Fan and the temple master planned to search Changsi City for Yuan Shi and demonized people, move them to Ink Bamboo Mountain, and build a contained Tai Su cultivation site across its five peaks.
• Li Fan recruited the system, Twin Fish, and Kun to help develop Ink Bamboo Mountain, then discovered interference from a powerful presence when he tried to install signal equipment.
• Dao Lord Cangbai visited Li Family Village, gave Qin Nanxin the White Treasure Sword, and warned Li Fan that a direct disciple of Xuantian might be targeting him, leaving him a protective talisman.
• The system told Li Fan that an assassin had killed Li Er, Wen Zhang, and more than a hundred others in Changsi City with one sword, and had destroyed the confiscated Yuan Shi.