Chapter Summaries

Li Fan investigated the massacre at the Sili Xiaowei's office, where an Enlightenment-stage assassin had killed Li Er and dozens of others, and concluded that Ink Bamboo Mountain remained too weak to face the Southern Palace Immortal Bandits. He agreed to meet Lu Chai after Imperial Censor Li Hongxian recommended him, then received a newly forged pair of Tai Sha flying swords that gave him hope of challenging the assassin.

• Li Fan examined Li Er's destroyed clone and the corpses, realized the assassin's Sword Light was far faster than his own, and suspected the attacker was the Seventh Friend or another numbered expert of the Southern Palace Immortal Bandits.
• Li Fan judged that Ink Bamboo Mountain lacked the strength to fight the Southern Palace Immortal Bandits and listened as Li Hongxian proposed Wenrao and Lu Chai to oversee Jingji.
• Li Fan recognized that Lu Chai's surviving clone, Lu Qi, might have influenced Li Country's recent political turn, but agreed to meet him at Li Family Village.
• Qin Jianshi arrived to collect the remains of twenty-four Ink Bamboo Mountain disciples, and Li Fan helped carry their coffins onto the flying boat.
• Qin Jianshi gave Li Fan a pair of swords forged by Huangfu Daoist from the Golden Dragon White Star and new Tai Sha Sword Embryos, and Li Fan tested their powerful Tai Sha Sword Qi.

Li Fan investigated the demon that had massacred villages in Zhuti Prefecture and used it to test his swordsmanship. After capturing the Devil Child and asking its number, he learned from Jade Toad Granny that it was close to becoming number twenty-nine.

• Li Fan accepted an urgent request to investigate the death of a mountain god and flew to Zhuti Prefecture.
• Li Fan found evidence that a Devil Child had wiped out three villages and threatened the prefectural city.
• Li Fan set up formations around the mine and hid there until the Devil Child emerged with a procession of corrupted villagers.
• Li Fan repeatedly cut apart the Devil Child as it tried to regenerate and escape, then seized it and demanded to know its number.
• Jade Toad Granny appeared and said the Devil Child needed five hundred more victims to become about number twenty-nine.

Li Fan followed Jade Toad Granny to a buried palace, where six numbered Devil Embryos were attacking a golden egg, and fought them while concealing his strength. As he recognized techniques from the northern sects among their arsenal, he suspected the Devil Embryos contained the remnants of the Luo Sect’s followers and that Brother Yan might have become a Beichen Sword Sect Dao Lord.

• Li Fan fought Jade Toad Granny, who ate a Devil Embryo’s head and explained that Three-Life Stones could restore the memories and power of the souls fused into Devil Embryos.
• Jade Toad Granny offered to lead Li Fan to more numbered Devil Embryos, and he agreed to follow her underground.
• Li Fan and Jade Toad Granny reached an ancient palace in Kunlun, where six Devil Embryos were attacking a golden egg protected by a formation.
• Li Fan announced himself as Li Qingyue, Mountain Lord of Ink Bamboo Mountain, and attacked the six Devil Embryos while pretending to fight at his full strength.
• Li Fan recognized the Devil Embryos’ techniques as secret arts from the northern Three Great Sects and wondered whether Brother Yan was the Beichen Sword Sect Dao Lord.

Li Fan fought the six Demon Sons until Jade Toad Granny ambushed them with an explosive and lightning, then defeated the regenerating Twenty-Eight and copied his Blood Demon Great Path Body. Jade Toad Granny escaped with the golden egg, and Li Fan’s twin swords cracked after the battle.

• Li Fan struggled against the six Demon Sons as they adapted to his attacks and coordinated their techniques, while his system analyzed and copied several martial arts.
• Jade Toad Granny threw an explosive into the battle, then struck the stunned fighters with a lightning dragon that blasted the Demon Sons and Li Fan into the abyss.
• The Demon Sons’ remains merged into Twenty-Eight, who attacked Li Fan with sword techniques; Li Fan pinned his core and repeatedly destroyed him until he copied the Blood Demon Great Path Body.
• Li Fan crushed Twenty-Eight’s core, while Jade Toad Granny took the golden egg, broke through the sealing talisman, and escaped.
• Li Fan’s twin swords cracked from the strain, so he dropped them beside the Demon Son’s remains as they absorbed the flesh and blood.

Li Fan found and learned the Taiyi Nine Songs in the ruins, then drew malt candy that could help make Tai Su transformations safer. After months of building up Ink Mountain, he received Lu Qi, who offered a ledger of indebted nobles and asked to become his disciple; Li Fan tested his desire for the orthodox path with purple rock candy.

• Li Fan found eighty-one golden birdmen, learned the Taiyi Nine Songs with the system, and advanced Guiche Dao Body to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Fan destroyed the golden birdmen and their legacy, then drew malt candy whose medical nanobots could help prepare Dao Bodies for Tai Su transformation.
• Li Fan ordered Li Gan and Li Kun to develop the candy-making plan, sent the Golden Dragon White Star back for an overhaul, and returned to Li Family Village as its residents began cultivating.
• Over three months, Li Fan reached Divine Transformation, settled thousands of people, planted Tai Su wheat, expanded the village network, and established the Heavenly Ghost Pact.
• Lu Qi arrived with his sister's mechanism core and a ledger detailing how he had driven Li Country's nobles toward bankruptcy, then asked to serve as Li Fan's nominal disciple.
• Li Fan questioned Lu Qi about his loyalties and gave him purple rock candy, saying he would accept him if he survived making epiphyllum-and-rock-candy soup.

Li Fan learned that Lu Xing’s repaired Heavenly Soldiers suit had awakened and escaped, so he set out to retrieve the dangerous ancient armor. Before heading north, he saw Ink Bamboo Mountain transformed by mass migration and opened the Tai Su Dao to would-be disciples seeking its fifty-fifty chance of survival.

• Li Fan connected Lu Xing’s core to a speaker, and she warned him that a Nascent Soul-level Heavenly Soldiers suit had resisted her control and escaped from the Lu family’s ancestral home.
• Li Fan handed Lu Xing’s core to Du Gongshi for maintenance, and Du explained that the suit was an ancient divine weapon animated by a Martial God’s remnant soul.
• Li Fan located the escaped suit near the northern borderlands, gathered his swords and Kun, and set out to stop it before it caused casualties.
• Li Fan surveyed Ink Bamboo Mountain and saw refugees, workshops, and rival factions reshaping the region into a sprawling settlement.
• Li Fan ordered Ink Mountain’s Iron Guards to let aspiring disciples reach his village for Tai Su sugar water, then flew north to capture the rogue mech.

Li Fan tracked the rampaging divine weapon to a ruined manor and discovered a hidden passage into the Void Abyss, where the weapon was fighting fly-like Non-Things. After defeating their patriarch, he identified the divine weapon as an ancient Martial God’s armor and earned its loyalty by presenting his military credentials, then saw an image of the Immortal Venerable.

• Li Fan followed divinations to a manor filled with preserved human skins and deduced that its inhabitants had been replaced by things from beyond a hidden door.
• Li Fan entered the Void Abyss beneath the False Moon and found the divine weapon fighting fly-people and maggot-people.
• Kun devoured the Non-Things while Li Fan burned and cut down the fly patriarch, which weakened each time it revived.
• Li Fan found the ancient mechanical armor controlled by the Martial God’s remnant soul and introduced himself as Li Qingyue of Lou Guan Dao.
• Li Fan showed the armor his edict, and Li Gan recognized him as a superior officer and offered to become his armor.
• Li Fan asked about the Immortal Venerable, and Li Gan showed him an image of the fat man.

Li Fan learned that the Nangong Family had challenged Wei Gao over his shrine and defenses, using the dispute to threaten North Garrison. He sent a berserk mech north under cover of darkness and followed the Nangong army in disguise, preparing to respond without exposing his true identity.

• Li Gan refused to return to Ink Bamboo Mountain and asked Li Fan to take him to the fighting near the northern border.
• Li Fan reached South Garrison and learned that the Nangong army was preparing to besiege North Garrison while challenging Wei Gao to formal duels.
• Real Person Wei explained that the Nangong Family had accused Wei Gao of treason and demanded that he dismantle his blood shrine and formation.
• Li Fan decided to send a puppet north while Real Person Wei used a magic treasure to conceal it with black clouds.
• Li Fan made a Blood Demon Body clone, disguised himself as Tai Su Dao Body, and followed the puppet toward the Nangong camp.

Li Fan used the Blood Demon Great Path Body to absorb the Nangong soldiers as Li Gan wrecked their camp, but the blood river’s flood of memories and primordial spirits pulled him into a nightmare involving the Wisdom Dharma King and the Thousand-Faced Immortal. Kun helped him break free, and Li Fan awoke beside Qiongqi and Saintess Sarilang to discover that his connection to his main body had been severed.

• Li Gan disguised itself as a Nangong soldier, infiltrated the camp, killed Nangong Wutian, and sent the troops fleeing.
• Li Fan spread his Dao Blood through the battlefield, dissolving and absorbing hundreds of Nangong soldiers while reflecting on the Blood God Lord Great Path Body and its need for immense magical power.
• Li Fan’s absorption of the soldiers’ primordial spirits overwhelmed his mood and drew him into a nightmare where the Wisdom Dharma King and the Thousand-Faced Immortal tore apart his imagined body.
• Kun appeared in the void and sucked Li Fan’s head into its mouth, allowing him to wake up screaming beside Qiongqi and Saintess Sarilang.
• Li Fan realized that his connection to Qingxu Second Yuanshen had been severed from the other side and that he had lost contact with his main body.

After the Thousand-Faced Immortal and Wisdom Dharma King destroyed Li Fan’s Second Yuanshen, he was trapped in his Qiongqi clone and tried to contact the system for his true body’s location. Zhang Yanzhi guided him to a demon-occupied ancient city, where he discovered monsters and undead assembling humanlike robots.

• Li Fan assessed the damage to his Yuanshen, realized he could not control his true body, and used Zhang Yanzhi’s voice-transmitting jade to try to reach the system.
• The system replied in Morse code, but a Legion Apostle interrupted their exchange before Li Fan could get useful information.
• Zhang Yanzhi contacted a nearby Skeleton King and told Li Fan about the Divine Sect’s history, power blocs, and influential families as they traveled to the ancient city.
• Li Fan asked about the Divine Lord’s past and the Wisdom Dharma King, while Zhang Yanzhi explained how powerful families supported the sect’s leaders and supplied Dao Bodies.
• At the ancient city, Li Fan saw monsters and undead assembling crude robots and dressing them in human skin.

Li Fan discovered that the Wisdom Dharma King had split off a Blood River to spread through Li Country’s waterways, while he remained trapped in Shanshan Kingdom. He sought a way to protect himself from the Divine Cult’s possession techniques and learned that Zhang Yanzhi’s lingering soul could shield him.

• Li Fan inspected the corpse robots in Shanshan Kingdom, found Stone Hearts inside them, and ate one before Kuro Laina asked him to stop dismantling the soldiers.
• Li Fan sent his Primordial Spirit into the Legion’s underground base, frightened the Legion Apostle, and accessed the factory’s electronic network.
• Li Fan learned that the Wisdom Dharma King’s Blood River had entered the Li River and planned to spread through the country’s water system, while the Thousand-Faced Immortal and other powerful forces confronted it.
• Li Fan discovered that the Blood River had taken the Kun and that his Tai Sha Sword Embryo remained with his main body, leaving him unsure how to intervene.
• Li Fan asked the Divine Cult’s sergeant and Zhang Yanzhi how to resist possession, and they explained that three failed possessions would block the technique, while Zhang Yanzhi’s lingering soul could protect him immediately.

Li Fan learned how the Divine Church’s Primordial Spirit Technique worked, then raced to confront the Wisdom Dharma King before he could recover. After Li Yi lent him the Tai Sha Sword Embryo and Li Fan formed the Tai Su Qiankun Dao body, he charged into the battle at the Blood River and attacked the Dharma King.

• The sergeant explained that Zhang Yanzhi’s remnant soul could shield Li Fan from the Primordial Spirit Technique, while Zhang Yanzhi offered to give up her position as Northern Saintess through a soul-transfer ritual.
• Li Fan decided to head for the main altar on Mount Tian, but first flew to Border Prefecture to find his stolen body and confront the Thousand-Faced Immortal.
• Li Fan discovered that the black stone man was Li Yi, who refused to lend him the body but gave him the Tai Sha Sword Embryo.
• Li Yi’s words helped Li Fan form the Tai Su Qiankun Dao body from Black and White Evil Qi, and Li Fan flew toward the Blood River.
• Li Fan arrived as Ink Bamboo Mountain and the Nangong Family fought the Blood Demon, then challenged the Wisdom Dharma King and clashed with him using the Tai Sha Qiankun Double Dragon Sword.

Li Fan fought Lu Zhihui’s Blood River while trying to reclaim the True Yang Heart, then abandoned his weakening clone and escaped inside the Tai Sha Sword Embryo. He found the heart with Si Nan’s help and emerged from the Blood River at a demon lair, where Cangwu Dao Lord ordered an infant survivor taken to the Golden Summit.

• Li Fan’s Qiankun dragons tore apart Lu Zhihui’s Blood Dragon, but Lu Zhihui trapped him inside a Blood River orb filled with blood-demon copies of himself.
• Li Fan fought through the blood demons and realized Lu Zhihui was using the battle to delay him until the Dust Cloud Seal Script ran out, while the Dao Lords watched to see which of them would claim Li Qingyue’s body.
• After his clone was overwhelmed, Li Fan hid his primordial spirit in the severed arm’s Tai Sha Sword Embryo and slipped into the Blood River to search for the True Yang Heart.
• Li Fan evaded the pursuing blood demons, found Si Nan among the sealed objects, and followed its directions back to the Kun carrying the heart.
• Li Fan and the Kun burst out of the Blood River at a mountain demon lair, where Cangwu Dao Lord gave an infant survivor to an Emei Daoist to raise at the Golden Summit.
• Li Fan inspected the lair and found dead child experiments and Luo Sect scriptures, while the Kun remarked that Li Fan’s pre-awakening soul resembled Thunder Monkeys.

Li Fan watched memories of his previous life as a bullied Emei disciple, then learned how Lu Ya had revived him after a sword-wielding Divine Lord killed him. Lu Ya proposed merging with Li Fan to escape the Dao Lords waiting outside, but revealed he planned to abandon his humanity and force a breakthrough instead.

• Li Fan and Kun watched Li Fan's previous life endure beatings at Emei, where Cangwu explained that the disciples bullied him because of his origins and refused to shield him from every hardship.
• The former Li Fan earned coins by letting fellow disciples beat him, and Yang Ying hired him as a punching bag before his body recovered and formed a Golden Core of Primordial Chaos.
• A bloody hand dragged Kun through Li Fan's memories, and Li Fan slashed at it with the Tai Sha Sword Embryo before seeing his previous life dead in the Devil Domain.
• A Divine Lord resembling Xuantian revived the dead Li Fan with a blood mixture, and Lu Ya revealed that Xuantian had killed him and that the revived man was Lu Ya himself.
• Lu Ya urged Li Fan to merge with him so they could escape the four Dao Lords, then crushed his True Yang Heart and declared that he was done being human.

Li Fan was trapped by Lu Ya’s Vacuum Home and dragged into a dreamlike realm where Lu Ya repeatedly killed him. Remembering his master’s advice, Li Fan turned the tables with a broken rib and attacked Lu Ya’s weakness, then confronted a childlike Lu Ya as the dream continued.

• Lu Zhihui used Vacuum Home to trap Li Fan’s Tai Sha Sword Embryo and restrained him with blood talismans.
• Lu Ya pulled Li Fan into a shadowy subconscious realm and repeatedly killed him with the Blood Talisman Sword.
• After many deaths, Li Fan remembered his master’s advice to fight dirty and fashioned a weapon from his own broken rib.
• Li Fan pinned Lu Ya and stabbed the area beneath his right fifth rib until the Blood Demon’s body collapsed into blood.
• A boyish Lu Ya emerged, and Li Fan grabbed him and began stabbing him with the bone blade.

Li Fan defeated Lu Ya’s apparent body and fought off twelve demonic sons, but Lu Ya revealed he had faked his death, while Lu Hansheng also emerged from hiding inside Li Fan’s Divine Court. The two began fighting over the Dao Body as Li Fan, badly wounded and furious, struggled to rise.

• Li Fan rebuilt his body after destroying Lu Ya’s apparent primordial spirit, then faced twelve Nascent Soul Realm demonic sons who invaded his Divine Court.
• Li Fan killed three demonic sons with the Tai Sha Sword Embryo and Vacuum Home before battling the remaining nine in the blood mire and stabbing them all to death.
• Li Fan sensed danger when the demonic sons’ bodies remained untouched by the blood, and the corpses and surrounding flesh struck him with Transformation Stage techniques.
• Lu Ya and the black-robed Observer re-formed from the bodies and blood; Li Fan realized Lu Ya had faked his death and identified the Observer as Lu Hansheng.
• Lu Hansheng explained that he had hidden soul fragments in magic treasures and revealed he had been Old Liang, then clashed with Lu Ya over the demonic-son Dao Body.
• Lu Hansheng attacked Lu Ya, who fled through the Divine Court, while Li Fan set his broken neck and vowed to kill them all.

Li Fan used the True Yang Dao Fire and Tai Sha Sword Embryo to unleash a catastrophic explosion, surviving the destruction of his Blood Demon Dao Body and trapping Lu Ya and Lu Hansheng in a new Tai Sha Star Core. Afterward, Zhi Jingzi invited Li Fan to Hengshan and proposed a spar, while Li Fan demanded his body back first.

• Li Fan rejected Kun's suggestion to flee and decided to use the True Yang Core Explosion against Lu Ya and Lu Hansheng.
• Li Fan plunged the Tai Sha Sword Embryo into his True Yang Heart, triggering an explosion that devastated the battlefield and destroyed his Blood Demon Dao Body.
• Li Fan reformed himself from sand and dust and discovered that the True Yang Heart and Sword Embryo had fused into the Tai Sha Star Core, likely trapping Lu Ya and Lu Hansheng inside.
• Zhi Jingzi appeared, congratulated Li Fan on surviving his tribulation, and invited him to Hengshan to help restore Emei.
• Li Fan asked whether Zhi Jingzi intended to seize his Dao Body, then challenged him to wait until he recovered the rest of his body before sparring.

Li Fan merged with Li Yi to reclaim the Chaos Dao Body, then sparred with Zhi Jingzi, whose swordsmanship could neither overcome Li Fan’s core nor withstand Li Fan’s knowledge of the Eighteen Forms of Xuantian. Zhi Jingzi revealed his connection to Sword Ancestor Xuantian and offered Li Fan Mount Heng’s leadership; Li Fan took the written promise but did not agree to join.

• Zhi Jingzi admitted he had once belonged to the Nangong Seven Thieves and said he wanted to spar with Li Fan, not avenge Lu Ya or Lu Hansheng.
• Li Fan reached Shatang Village and merged with Li Yi, drawing the surrounding land into the void of his reclaimed Chaos Dao Body.
• Zhi Jingzi’s Profound Heaven Sword Intent pierced Li Fan’s body but could not reach the Tai Sha Star Core, and the two then exchanged sword techniques.
• Li Fan countered Zhi Jingzi’s Eighteen Forms of Xuantian and won their friendly match after eighteen exchanges.
• Zhi Jingzi identified himself as Huangfu Jing, Sword Ancestor Xuantian’s last disciple, and offered Li Fan the position of Mount Heng’s sect leader.
• Li Fan accepted Zhi Jingzi’s written offer for consideration but told him to leave without agreeing to join Mount Heng.

Li Fan inspected his newly formed Chaos Dao Body and learned that his black-hole domain had affected the surrounding armies and revealed a higher-dimensional connection to Zhi Jingzi. After sealing his Chaos Dao Body inside a shell shaped like Qingyue, he recovered Kun and discovered that a red eyeball had parasitized its head.

• Li Fan realized Zhi Jingzi had held back during their sparring and that their apparent equality had concealed a vast gap in power.
• Li Fan examined his domain, withdrew it, and found four armies surrounding him; cultivators who approached were torn apart by his unstable Dao Body, frightening the forces into retreat.
• Li Fan shaped an Infinite Dust Dao Body shell to contain his Chaos Dao Body, molded its face into Qingyue's, and learned from the system that his Gu Guan Method had let him interfere with Zhi Jingzi's strings across eleven dimensions.
• The system began planning a major upgrade to process Li Fan's new abilities and directed him to Kun's distress signal.
• Li Fan found Kun with a red eyeball embedded in its head, failed to remove it, and learned that Kun had swallowed the eyeball along with his belongings.

After mastering a higher-dimensional leap across the membrane, Li Fan learned that Jiangling had fallen to Xun Country and traveled there amid the chaos. He rescued Xiao Hanzhen by stuffing her into Kun, then realized the true opportunity might lie among the burning books in the Prince of Xiangdong's palace.

• Li Fan explained his leap across the membrane to Yao Xuanzhou and learned that Real Person Liang had died alongside Wisdom Dharma King.
• Yao Xuanzhou told Li Fan that Lou Guan Dao planned to divert the Li River despite Xun Country's objections, while Xun Country's army attacked Jiangling.
• Li Fan learned that the Prince of Xiangdong had been defeated and that Jiangling was falling, then leaped across the membrane to the city.
• Li Fan arrived during the Prince of Xiangdong's suicide by fire and found Xiao Hanzhen wounded while fleeing the burning palace.
• Li Fan accidentally injured Xiao Hanzhen with the Dalu Jing Tian Finger, then had Kun swallow her to protect her from the battle.
• Li Fan discovered that the opportunity he sensed was still inside the mansion, learned that the Xiao family had a vast collection of books, and ordered Kun to swallow every book in the palace.