Chapter Summaries

Li Fan survived the Thousand-Faced Immortal’s passage through the Door and raced across a collapsing space station to retrieve a disguised chip. Company security teams cornered him at the shuttle bay, but he killed them with blood manipulation and a subscription-locked plasma “flashlight.”

• The Thousand-Faced Immortal vanished after passing through the mirror, leaving Li Fan’s body screaming and the space station beginning to break apart.
• Li Fan hurried through the failing station while system-controlled employees evacuated, then paid a huge parking fine to reach the cargo shuttle and retrieve the disguised chip.
• Li Fan sensed four company security squads closing in around the shuttle bay and deduced that they planned to attack him with plasma blades.
• Li Fan dodged the guards’ attacks, used blood to kill one guard through his protective shield, and took the guard’s plasma weapon.
• Li Fan paid to activate the weapon’s self-defense mode and killed the remaining attackers, then received a hefty service bill and a request for a customer rating.

Li Fan survived the destruction of OP173, delivered the chip, and was recovered by the system after narrowly escaping a mysterious drone. The system warned him that a top-tier hacker might have compromised his old system and that upgrading the chip could bring further danger, but Li Fan chose to proceed.

• Li Fan crawled across the collapsing space station, fought off a drone that drilled into his skull, and leaped into space before it could catch him.
• A communication signal connected Li Fan to a luxurious shuttle, where a reflection of Li Yi praised his sacrifice and offered him work, but the encounter vanished like a dream.
• A prosthetic-bodied courier salvaged Li Fan, accepted the chip as delivered, and complained when Li Fan could not pay for a replacement head.
• Li Fan reunited with the system, which explained that agents from Seven Departments and Nine Departments had raided OP173 and that a powerful unknown drone had attacked him.
• The system warned Li Fan that a top-tier company hacker might have planted a puppet in his old system and that upgrading the chip could attract dangerous forces.
• Li Fan chose to proceed with the upgrade, and the system began the process.

After upgrading his system, Li Fan discovered the Blood Infant had reincarnated as an unborn child and received a newly forged Void Moon Soul. He tested its power by destroying Divine Lord Meng Qin’s invading Spirit Race army, ending the volume with ten years of peace secured.

• Li Fan’s system upgrade expanded his Divine Sense, letting him watch Ink Bamboo Mountain defeat the demons at Nangu Valley and see Kun slay a fiendish god.
• Li Fan found a karmic bond to an unborn child by the Li River, examined its soul, and realized the Blood Infant had reincarnated.
• Li Gan and Li Kun speculated about the Blood Infant’s reincarnation, while Profound Heaven advised Li Fan to raise the child himself.
• Profound Heaven forged Moon Soul into the ninth-grade Divine Transformation Void Moon Soul, and Li Fan brought it along to test its sword.
• Li Fan appeared above Quanke Island, where Divine Lord Meng Qin’s army was besieging Island Master Mo, and defeated the Spirit Race forces with the Void Moon Soul.

Zhang Ling was assigned to investigate a failed frontier asset after reviewing the damaged memories of its proxy manager, and he connected to 49327. There, Li Fan used a sand-like technique to seal Zhang Ling’s clone inside a cocoon, containing one of the Taiji Realm’s greatest hidden dangers for now.

• Zhang Ling met Zhang Jian on Zhuanxu and learned that the company had assigned him to investigate Frontier Asset 49327.
• Zhang Ling examined an ionic memory crystal and found fragments suggesting the asset’s proxy manager had been restricted, contacted the Legion, and been killed by a golem.
• Zhang Ling connected to 49327, while his combat clone lay unconscious in an ecological pod aboard the company’s carrier.
• Li Fan formed a sand-like shell around the clone and sealed the pod inside a cocoon.
• Li Fan opened his eyes at Zhenyang Temple, having sealed the hidden danger for now.

After ten years of study, Li Fan subdued a corporate official, then watched the Blood Infant’s reincarnation arrive at Ink Bamboo Mountain and considered making him a disciple and bait for Chen Jinu. He summoned Moon Soul to travel to the Central Plains, where he planned to join the action after divining that the Grand Tutor might soon die.

• Li Fan used divination, formations, and a Radiant Star Avatar to trap company official Zhang Ling in a primordial spirit dream and seal him inside his pod.
• Li Fan watched the new-disciple recruits arrive and identified Qin Jiu, the Blood Infant’s reincarnation, as a possible disciple and candidate bait for his enemies.
• Li Fan recalled that his remote clashes with Chen Jinu had favored him, and planned to use a true disciple to lure Chen Jinu and other demonic heirs into a trap.
• Qin Jiu spotted Li Fan’s Microdust Avatar on a bamboo tree, but the other recruits mistook it for a ghost or a Thunder Monkey’s ghost.
• Li Fan summoned Moon Soul and invited her to the Central Plains, then revealed that he had divined the Grand Tutor might be about to die.

Li Fan left seclusion to represent Ink Bamboo Mountain at the Three Enclosures and witness the Grand Tutor’s coming tribulation, which could determine whether the world’s power shifted and the chaos ended. Before departing, he visited Xuantian, who showed him new Void Jade research and insisted that Asha accompany him to gain experience.

• Li Fan reviewed the worsening disasters and shifting alliances across the Central Plains as the Grand Tutor prepared to face his tribulation of bodily demise.
• Li Fan checked Ink Bamboo Mountain’s progress and found that its forces had advanced slowly while Xuantian and the system developed Void Jade materials in the secret realm beyond the heavens.
• Xuantian explained how Void Jade could store demon remains and serve as a new material for crafting artifacts.
• Li Fan told Xuantian he was going to the Three Enclosures to witness the Grand Tutor’s tribulation on Ink Bamboo Mountain’s behalf.
• Xuantian refused to go but ordered Li Fan to bring Asha along, and Li Fan agreed to have Moon Soul fetch her before they set off.

Li Sheng and the people of Ink Mountain killed the demon lion Fu Li, provoking the Divine Transformation Realm White Lion Demon Lord, who attacked them and pursued Chen Asha. After the lion exposed the Bamboo Mountain disciples’ attempted ambush and devastated them, it cornered Chen Asha and struck at her.

• Li Sheng and thirteen people of Ink Mountain brought down Fu Li and claimed the lion demon’s corpse, but Nine Bends God arrived to avenge his sworn brother.
• Li Sheng and the others transformed into heavenly demons and fought the White Lion Demon Lord until Chen Asha arrived with the severed heads of the lion’s two daughters.
• The White Lion Demon Lord injured Li Sheng and chased Chen Asha, while Li Sheng was rescued underground by a black lotus.
• At Lu Wu Mountain, the lion saw through the Bamboo Mountain disciples’ false ambush and attacked them with its six-headed true form.
• Chen Asha turned back to protect the wounded disciples, but the lion shattered her sword attack, paralyzed her with its roar, and leaped at her.

Chen Asha fought a Divine Transformation lion demon with poison, pills, and a succession of sword techniques, but she exhausted herself before she could kill it. Moon Soul arrived, saved her, and gave her a sword pill as the lion demon escaped.

• Chen Asha used the Five Poisons Blood Transformation Skill to raise her cultivation and wounded the lion demon with a series of sword attacks.
• The lion demon unleashed a barrage of fire, ice, and demonic wind, forcing Asha to defend herself until her strength and weapons were spent.
• Asha used Dragon Fetus Feathering and her poisonous insects to unleash a thousand poisoned sword strikes, leaving the lion demon weakened but still alive.
• As Asha lay unable to move, the lion demon recovered from the poison and prepared to attack her again.
• Moon Soul appeared, severed the lion demon's heads, and gave Asha a purplish-black sword pill before the wounded demon escaped.
• Asha remained alive and summoned the sword pill with the words, “False Moon Soul, unsheathe.”

Ink Bamboo Mountain expanded into the Ten-thousand-mountains and reorganized its Nine Peaks as Tianyu Mountain, while Li Fan treated Chen Asha after she nearly died fighting the Snow Lion King. Seeing that his disciples needed experience beyond the mountains, he considered taking one to the Central Plains, then went to find Lin Chen and the other boys fishing on the Yong River.

• Ink Bamboo Mountain established Tianyu Mountain as a united sect lineage and began recruiting disciples through examinations and a shared training system.
• Li Fan examined Chen Asha, found her badly injured from fighting the Snow Lion King, and ordered her to rest while she recovered.
• Li Fan invited Li Shisheng to accompany him to the Central Plains, but Li Shisheng refused and praised Asha's strength.
• Nie Feilian volunteered to go, but Li Fan told her to cultivate longer; he also dismissed Li Tangyuan's request for food.
• Li Fan learned that the Three-Eyed Divine Kun had gone to investigate a possible Non-Thing demon god at Danxue Mountain and that Lin Chen and the boys were fishing on the Yong River.
• Li Fan used a speck-of-dust escape art to fly to the Yong River and see what the boys were doing.

Li Fan watched Lin Chen and the others struggle against a school of unusually powerful fish-men, then made them fight the creatures as training. Suspecting the fish-men might be connected to his fish farm on E Shenyu, he sent his Starfire Avatar to investigate the South Sea.

• Lin Chen, Xiang Kong, Song Dayou, and the Yan brothers were chased ashore by fish-men until Li Fan rescued them.
• Li Fan restored the youths, trapped the fish-men in a formation, and ordered the group to defeat them through careful study and teamwork.
• Li Fan noticed the fish-men had unnatural strength and coordination but no spiritual or demonic energy, and wondered whether they were manufactured.
• Li Fan recalled that the system's fish farm on E Shenyu produced enhanced fish-men vessels for transmigrators and considered whether its operations or a customer had caused the creatures to appear.
• Li Fan projected his consciousness through his Starfire Avatar and sent divine light toward the South Sea to inspect the E Shenyu fish farm.

Li Fan traced the fishing grounds’ contamination to a Mo family member stealing factory waste and decided to use the incident to draw spies toward Tai Su Dao. Mo Qiongya pursued Mo Qiongtian into E Shenyu’s coral formation, where an impostor defeated her and headed for the Demon-Sealing Palace.

• Li Fan and Li Gan discovered that fish and shrimp had eaten waste from the feed factory, and surveillance showed a Mo family cultivator stealing it.
• Li Fan identified the thief as Mo Qiongtian and suspected the Three Great Sects were concealing the stolen waste’s trail, so he decided to use the situation to spread Tai Su Dao.
• Li Fan asked Mo Hainiang about the theft, and Mo Qiongya went to fetch Mo Qiongtian after learning he was underwater practicing.
• Mo Qiongtian broke through to the Golden Core Realm, fled from Mo Qiongya, and used a jeweled pearl to pass through E Shenyu’s coral formation.
• Inside the formation, Mo Qiongya found that Mo Qiongtian had been replaced or possessed by someone else, who defeated her and made for the Demon-Sealing Palace.
• Li Fan secretly protected Mo Qiongya’s heart meridian as the impostor continued toward the palace.

Li Fan prepared to spread Tai Su Dao and traveled to the Three Enclosures for an imperial tribute mission, leaving Qin Jiu to train in the Central Plains. At Yuntai Peak, he learned that political tensions and Xuan Sect activity were building, while Zhi Jingzi and Nangong Wubu remained out of reach.

• Li Fan assessed Mo Qiongya’s defeat and concluded that Ink Bamboo Mountain’s disciples still lacked the inherited combat knowledge needed to face Xuan Sect cultivators.
• Li Fan drove the spy disguised as “Mo Qiongtian” out of the Demon-Sealing Altar after planting Tai Su techniques and treasures for him to carry away.
• Li Fan appointed Qin Jiu as his direct disciple, sent him falling toward the Central Plains protected by a Microdust Avatar, and then continued to Yuntai Peak with Moon Soul.
• Real Person Xue told Li Fan that Xuan Sect figures had gathered at Yuntai Peak, Hou Gu was being brought there for execution, and rumors linked the Divine Sect to a rescue attempt.
• Li Fan dismissed the rescue rumors, explained that the Divine Sect was preparing for war, and heard that Zhi Jingzi and Nangong Wubu could not be located.
• Real Person Xue advised Li Fan to visit the Court of State Ceremonial first, and Li Fan prepared to present Li Country’s tribute, including Void Jade and Taisha flying swords.

Li Fan trained Qin Jiu by brutally teaching him how to endure pain and survive, and recognized the boy’s potential. Meanwhile, Li Fan joined the tribute procession into Tianshi Yuan, assessed the capital’s strength, and accepted an invitation to visit the Zhang Clan’s flying palace.

• Qin Jiu endured Yuan Gong’s pinecone blows, learned to direct his Dao Breath to protect himself, and eventually broke free after 108 strikes.
• Li Fan revealed that he had been reshaping Qin Jiu’s body and praised him for standing back up after a near-fatal blow.
• Li Fan observed the wealth and power of the Three Enclosures during the tribute parade and planted Heavenly Book Magic Puppets in the Divine Transformation cultivators who scrutinized him.
• A steward from the Grand Tutor Manor brought Li Fan gifts and invited him to stay at the Zhang Clan’s flying palace to guide its younger generation.
• Li Fan recognized the invitation as a calculated opportunity to connect with the Sima Clan and agreed to consider the generous welcome.

Li Fan accepted Zhang Rang’s request to take him into Ziwei Yuan, while weighing the Grand Tutor’s power against the court’s hidden forces. At a private banquet at the Zhang residence, Madam Zhang surprised him by asking about the Tai Su Dao.

• Zhang Rang asked Li Fan to help Bei Gong Wuji and then requested passage into the palace, offering five hundred jin of immortal silk and access to the Immortal Emperor’s treasury.
• Li Fan agreed to take Zhang Rang to Ziwei Yuan after learning that his adoptive father, Duke Yuyang, was a powerful Dachangqiu who had defeated Nangong Wubu.
• Li Fan checked on Qin Jiu, who was recovering in a medicinal spring after enduring his first day of demonic training.
• Li Fan attended a private banquet at the Zhang residence and met the Grand Tutor’s daughter, the Nanyang County Princess, and her husband, Marquis Xun.
• Madam Zhang asked Li Fan about cultivating the Tai Su Dao, startling him because the subject was usually kept secret.

Li Fan uncovered the scheme behind Madam Zhang’s attempt to rescue Ping’er and agreed to travel to the Tai Su Realm after creating a replacement body for her son. He found Ping’er trapped in a sword formation and suspected that Magu Mountain’s involvement served a more sinister purpose.

• Li Fan recognized Ping'er as an echo exploiting Madam Zhang’s grief, while a sword formation sealed the hall’s occupants and concealed the creature’s appearance.
• Madam Zhang admitted that a Daoist from Magu Mountain had arranged the formation, and Li Fan agreed to retrieve Ping’er using his personal belongings and birth details.
• Li Fan secretly created a Dao Fish clone fashioned to look and act like Anyang Hou, then prepared to enter the Tai Su Realm himself.
• Li Fan used Moon Worship to reach Ping’er’s plane and found the echo pinned beneath the False Moon by 343 ritual swords.
• Li Fan recognized the sword formation as evidence that Magu Mountain was behind Ping’er’s imprisonment and suspected a larger plot against the Grand Tutor’s faction.

Li Fan studied and broke Magu Mountain’s Demon-Sealing Sword Formation, swallowed the Turtle Jelly, and uncovered the Mystic Sect’s use of Luo Sect methods. After defeating the Cloud Person in a brief contest of magical treasures, he tricked the Mount Song disciple into abandoning his auspicious cloud and claimed it for himself.

• Li Fan deduced that the Turtle Jelly scheme involved Anyang Ting Hou and examined the sword formation built from Luo Sect methods.
• Li Fan memorized the formation, entered it, and broke all 343 spell-swords before swallowing the Turtle Jelly.
• Li Fan found a damaged bronze mirror and waited for its owner to arrive on a purple auspicious cloud.
• Li Fan tested the Cloud Person’s treasures, forced him to reveal a sword talisman, and introduced himself as a fellow explorer.
• Li Fan claimed that the Cloud Person’s Dao Companion was in danger and offered to accompany him, then asked to keep the cloud.
• The Cloud Person fled in rosy light, leaving Li Fan with the auspicious cloud.

Li Fan accepted a heavenly book from Madam Zhang and then faced a succession of Xuan Sect challengers during his procession through Jingji. After defeating Wang Hu and the Diancang Seven Sons in exchanges of techniques, he was interrupted by another group seeking his guidance.

• Li Fan gave Yuepo a sword attendant and the auspicious cloud so she could travel and earn resources in the Central Plains.
• Li Fan delivered the An Yang Hou clone to Madam Zhang, who rewarded him with the heavenly book Sighing at the World's Inaction; Li Fan accepted it and resolved to protect the Grand Tutor’s family.
• At the banquet, Li Fan questioned the Marquis of Ten Thousand Years about the captured rebel Hou Gu and the threat to Jingji, but the Marquis withheld details.
• Wang Hu and Zhang Bao challenged Li Fan during his procession; Li Fan broke Wang Hu’s ice sword, survived his sealing technique, and returned a Black Sword forged from its baleful-qi ice.
• The Diancang Seven Sons sent three immortal corpses flying at Li Fan, who sealed their baleful qi and subdued them with pressure-point techniques.
• The Four Friends of Mei Mountain arrived to seek Li Fan’s guidance.

Li Fan trained Qin Jiu in the Blood Refining Technique while preparing for an audience with the Emperor, then tested Qin Jiu against a Yellow Weasel demon. Qin Jiu survived the attack and learned that Li Fan expected him to use his new strength to protect the weak.

• After Li Fan defeated numerous Orthodox Sect elders, Ziwei Yuan promoted him to village marquis and summoned him to meet the Emperor at Taiwei Palace.
• Li Fan taught Qin Jiu the Blood Refining Technique and told him to prepare to fight bandits, then watched as a Yellow Weasel demon approached the medicinal spring.
• The Yellow Weasel attacked Qin Jiu, who dodged its first claw with Blood Refining Dao Breath before being struck and pretending to lose consciousness.
• Li Fan secretly immobilized the Yellow Weasel, allowing Qin Jiu to kill it with a blood-coated stone.
• Li Fan told Qin Jiu about the demon's victims and urged him to protect the weak, then destroyed the demon's body so Qin Jiu could absorb its blood and essence.

Li Fan attended a ceremonial audience at Ziwei Yuan, where he received a new title and authority that set him against the Nangong Family. While selecting gifts in the Imperial Treasury, he uncovered a hidden vault filled with gruesome human-body ornaments and secretly took a mask made from a Divine Lord’s face.

• Li Fan began teaching Qin Jiu the Blood Record Sword Scripture and Xuantian Five Forms, while discovering that Moon Soul had become trapped in a formation inside a royal tomb.
• Li Fan entered Ziwei Yuan, used demon puppets to compromise its defenses, and observed the Immortal Emperor and the palace’s hidden forces.
• The Immortal Palace appointed Feng Qingniu General of the Front and granted Li Fan the title Duke of Yudu, giving him authority over the Nangong Family’s stronghold.
• Li Fan accepted the titles and honors, then went to the Imperial Treasury to choose rare gifts before leaving the palace.
• Li Fan opened a hidden vault filled with ornaments made from dismembered bodies and secretly stole a mask made from a Divine Lord’s face.

Li Fan visited Zhong Hui and other Three Enclosures officials, delivering gifts and negotiating on behalf of Ink Bamboo Mountain while planning to spread Tai Su Dao. After arranging a public discourse, he saw the Immortal Prison Sky Prison erupt in flames and secretly went to investigate.

• Li Fan studied the Divine Lord's Face, learned it could disguise its wearer and influence others, and considered giving it to the Divine Sect.
• Li Fan visited Zhong Hui, gave him gifts and Guanzhu's confidential letter, and discussed the court's plans and Hou Gu's situation.
• Li Fan called on the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, then checked on Qin Jiu and Yue Po before inviting Dao-seekers to a public discourse at dawn.
• Li Fan saw the Immortal Prison Sky Prison burning, calculated that a major incident had begun, and concealed himself to watch.