Chapter Summaries

Li Fan watched the Demon Subduing Platform’s prison riot get suppressed, then discovered that dozens of Divine Transformation cultivators had gathered in disguise and slaughtered the Great Lingguan. He followed their blood-cloud formation and realized they were heading to Yangxiang Marquis’s estate to seize the Immortal Palace’s Wanyu silkworms.

• Li Fan observed the Immortal Palace’s forces and Great Lingguan rapidly suppress the demons escaping from the Demon Subduing Platform.
• Li Fan spotted Wang Hu, Zhang Bao, Cloud Person, and dozens of hidden Divine Transformation cultivators disguised as members of the Blood Talisman God Sect.
• Wang Hu declared that Bloodblade Duan Hu had arrived, and the gathered cultivators swiftly killed the Great Lingguan and vanished in a sea of blood clouds.
• Li Fan used a Blood God Child to disguise himself and followed the cultivators as they headed toward Yangxiang Marquis’s estate.
• Li Fan realized the cultivators planned to raid the Weaving Bureau and take the Immortal Palace’s Wanyu silkworms.

Li Fan searched the Yangxiang Marquis's ruined residence for the Wanyu Immortal Silkworm and discovered that the Weaving Bureau was hidden in a higher-dimensional space. Using Emei's South Bright Li Fire to open its entrance, he sent in a moth clone that rapidly evolved in the Wanyu Immortal Realm.

• The Devil Sect destroyed the Yangxiang Marquis's household, and Li Fan watched before searching the ruins for Wanyu Immortal Silk.
• Li Fan found the hidden Weaving Bureau but could not enter until he identified a brass lantern as its doorway and realized it needed a special light wavelength.
• Li Fan used Emei's South Bright Li Fire to activate the doorway and sent his Wanyu moth clone through it.
• The clone entered the Wanyu Immortal Realm, where the dense Dao Breath rapidly advanced it to the Nascent Soul Realm and the third turn of the Heavenly Silkworm Skill.

Li Fan’s moth avatar entered the Wanyu Immortal Realm, where he suspected cultivators ascended by becoming higher-dimensional insects. An immortal cockroach crossed into the Taiji Realm, and the Profound Sect’s fighters trapped it in a series of powerful formations that devastated Wang Jing as the battle continued.

• Li Fan explored the Wanyu Immortal Realm through a moth avatar and theorized that Feather Transformation Immortals returned to a higher-dimensional insect civilization.
• Li Fan’s divine sense alerted nearby immortal insects, and a Feather Transformation Cockroach crossed into the Taiji Realm and began forming a Dao Body.
• The cockroach swallowed the lampstand and South Bright Li Fire, severing Li Fan’s contact with his moth avatar, so Li Fan fled the Weaving Bureau and warned the assembled cultivators.
• The Profound Sect’s Divine Transformations raised the Red Sand Formation, which swept through Yangxiang Marquis’s residence and destroyed much of the northern Wang Jing camp’s fleet.
• Li Fan dodged the formation’s Bloodbreak Sand while the cockroach endured the attack by forming a cocoon, then the cultivators unleashed the Heavenly Severing Formation against the creature.
• The Heavenly Severing Immortal-Slaying Light struck the cockroach and its shockwaves sent immortal palaces, flying islands, and warships crashing into Wang Jing, setting the capital ablaze.

Li Fan watched the Xuan Sect cultivators use the Heaven-Cutting Formation and Red Sand Formation to nearly destroy the immortal cockroach, then entered the battle with the Tai Sha Star Core to tear it open. The cockroach spat out the candlestick, but several Divine Lords stole its scattered eggs and escaped.

• The Xuan Sect cultivators took turns firing the Heaven-Cutting Immortal-Slaying Light while the Red Sand Formation battered the cockroach immortal.
• The cockroach immortal broke out of the Red Sand Formation and attacked a weakened Divine Lord, but Wang Hu killed the possessed cultivator and the other defenders drove the cockroach back.
• Li Fan escaped the Red Sand Formation after losing part of his cultivation, then judged that the Xuan Sect had deliberately unleashed its formations despite the devastation they caused.
• Li Fan transformed into his Tai Sha Star Core combat form, seized the cockroach immortal, and exposed it to all nine beams of Immortal-Slaying Light.
• The cockroach immortal spat out the candlestick as the formations stopped, but its body burst and scattered more than a hundred egg sacs.
• Several Divine Lords abandoned the candlestick, grabbed egg sacs, and vanished while Li Fan destroyed others with Tai Sha Sword Rainbow.

Li Fan subdued the Cockroach Immortal, but the Devil Sect’s fight over treasure devastated Wang Jing while the Grand Tutor fled and Penglai took the captured monster. After helping the city’s refugees through the night, Li Fan began teaching them about the Tai Su Dao at a mountain god temple.

• The Devil Sect cultivators abandoned the fight against the Cockroach Immortal and scattered to seize the treasures, leaving Li Fan trapped with the regenerating monster as their battles damaged Wang Jing.
• Li Fan unleashed his Revered Heavenly Demon transformation, trapped the Cockroach Immortal in baleful qi, and threw it toward Grand Tutor Manor before fleeing to seal his Tai Sha Core.
• Yuan Gong’s Microdust Avatar sealed Li Fan’s core, and Li Fan returned to Grand Tutor Manor, where Penglai’s Divine Lord Shixin claimed the monster and removed it through a Daiyu archway.
• Li Fan returned to the ruined battlefield, found the Grand Tutor gone, and spent the night making rain to help the fire’s victims.
• The court offered Li Fan an Immortal Palace, but he went to a mountain god temple and began teaching the gathered refugees about the Tai Su Dao and the Chaos Dao Ancestor.

Li Fan discovered that the hacker controlling An Yang Hou’s cloned body had replaced its personality, so he erased the intruder’s memories and revealed that Ping'er had become a carp-man. After leaving the Zhang residence with a new mansion, Li Fan sought a government post overseeing the Three Enclosures’ reconstruction and arranged to pursue an Assistant Director position in the Minister of Works’ office.

• Li Fan planted 343 Taishou seeds in the epiphyllum grove and went to the Zhang residence to check on Madam Zhang and Ping'er.
• Li Fan met Fu Lanshuo, the Shangshu Lang, and realized that a hacker from the other side of the Door was controlling Ping'er's cloned body.
• Li Fan reset Ping'er's memories, installed automata, and told him and Fu Lanshuo that Ping'er had been reborn in a carp's body; he offered them a scroll about transforming into dogs.
• Li Fan questioned Fu Lanshuo about his interest in Ping'er, but Fu Lanshuo avoided answering and stayed behind at the Zhang residence.
• Li Fan received the newly remodeled Yuhou Mansion and concluded that the Grand Tutor's regime lavishly recruited elites while neglecting ordinary people's suffering.
• Li Fan asked the Zhang Family steward to help him secure a position overseeing reconstruction, and the steward offered to recommend him for Assistant Director in the Minister of Works' office.

Qin Jiu survived his first fight with two mountain bandits, then recovered in the Spirit Pool as several cultivators fought over a broken candlestick. After the candlestick became a red gourd, Qin Jiu absorbed its red sand and advanced to Core Formation and Foundation Establishment, leaving him ready to face the bandits again.

• Qin Jiu ambushed Bandit A and Bandit B, but Bandit A blinded and bit him before Qin Jiu killed him with a blood technique; Bandit B shot Qin Jiu with poisoned arrows and fired a signal flare.
• Qin Jiu escaped to the Spirit Pool, where an old cultivator let him soak and heal before leaving with the pool’s herbs and a broken candlestick during a battle with Wang Hu.
• Guo Shen gave the candlestick to Qin Jiu, then a green-robed Daoist tried to trade for it before transforming into Han, who took it and left Qin Jiu a red gourd.
• Qin Jiu discovered that the gourd contained red sand, absorbed it with his blood aura, and completed Blood Refining Core Formation and Divine Court Foundation Establishment.
• Qin Jiu formed a Blood Record Vermilion Sword from the red sand and cut down rows of pine trees, deciding he was ready to defeat the bandits.

Li Fan organized relief and reconstruction in the Three Enclosures while the court accused Xinling Gong of colluding with the Devil Sect. As Xinling Gong escaped west and the Divine Sect invaded Hexi, the Grand Tutor proposed appointing him to lead the defense.

• Li Fan secured a construction post, arranged reconstruction work with the great houses, and hired refugees to provide shelter and emergency aid.
• Troops sealed off the Three Enclosures as Li Fan learned that the Sili Xiaowei had accused Xinling Gong of conspiring with the Devil Sect.
• Li Fan worried that the Grand Tutor was using the accusation to eliminate the Bei Gong imperial clan, but he chose to keep guarding the refugee camp.
• Li Fan heard that Xinling Gong had escaped west with a Tiger Tally reportedly stolen from Ziwei Yuan.
• News arrived that the Divine Sect had broken through Heishan Pass and taken Quanzhou City.
• The Grand Tutor proposed appointing Xinling County Duke Conquering West General, and Ziwei Yuan approved the memorial.

Li Fan gathered rumors about the Grand Tutor, the Xuan Sects, and the Divine Church’s surprise attack, learning that Songshan hoped to lead the Xuan Sects while Great Yi prepared for a possible ascension. He then used an illusion of the Blood Talisman Ten Ultimate Formation to test Sarilang’s memories, but she recognized only a cockroach.

• Li Fan paid Tang Jiyao and the other information brokers for rumors about the Grand Tutor, the coming Yuntai Peak Assembly, and the rivalry between Songshan’s Great Yi Dao and Supreme Purity Dao.
• The brokers explained that the Grand Tutor might leave the Immortal Palace to take charge of Songshan and Great Yi, whose Nine Palaces formation depended on support from other Xuan Sects.
• Li Fan learned from Sarilang that the Divine Church had begun a surprise attack on Dui Country, with legion commanders reorganizing and directing its forces.
• Li Fan declined to have Sarilang investigate the legion’s deployments and offered to send his Guiche avatar to the front if the Church needed more strength.
• Li Fan recreated the Blood Talisman Ten Ultimate Formation with an illusion to try to awaken Sarilang’s memories, but she recognized only a cockroach.

Sarilang explained how ancient clan scholars transformed into insects through cultivation methods derived from Demon Race texts, then received a secret report that the Demon Palace’s Son of Heaven had gone missing. Li Fan began investigating the disappearance before being sent to intercept an external hacker near the Three Enclosures, where Qin Jiu faced a metal-armored giant.

• Sarilang showed Li Fan an ancient archive describing insect transformations among clan families and explained their history, hidden cultivation methods, and eventual destruction by the God Lord.
• A Divine Sect messenger delivered a secret report, and Sarilang announced that the Demon Palace’s Son of Heaven was missing before sending Li Fan to guard the main altar.
• Li Fan reasoned that the emperor’s disappearance explained the Grand Tutor’s secrecy and wondered whether Xinling Gong had helped him escape.
• An outside voice told Li Fan that a hacker had accessed company systems through a backdoor and sent him coordinates to eliminate the hacker.
• Li Fan suspected the hacker might be connected to the missing emperor, while the voice suggested a virus could explain the system irregularities.
• Qin Jiu blocked a metal-armored giant that had fallen from the sky and realized his opponent was far stronger than expected.

Qin Jiu pursued the bandits, defeated their mechanical pursuer, and slaughtered the gang with the power of the Bloodbreak Sand. A mysterious attacker then seized the wounded bandit chief and shattered Qin Jiu, but the green-robed Daoist found him alive and took him away.

• Qin Jiu evaded the Immortal Palace mech’s attacks, then used Blood Flow Sword Rain to bury and disable it.
• Qin Jiu discovered a young man inside the mech, captured him as the bandit chief, and drew the remaining bandits out.
• Qin Jiu killed the bandits’ burly leader with a long, needle-thin Bloodbreak Sand sword and sliced through the fleeing gang with red threads.
• A green-robed Daoist approached Qin Jiu and wondered if he was Sect Leader Zhang, then reacted with surprise when Qin Jiu gave his surname as Qin.
• An attacker sprang from the ground, shattered Qin Jiu with one blow, and escaped with the bandit chief; the Daoist recognized Qin Jiu’s resilience and took him away.

Li Fan tracked a hacker to a village and fought the eunuch Dachangqiu, who was protecting the true Son of Heaven. After killing Dachangqiu, Li Fan found and killed the hacker, destroyed the network equipment, and checked on Qin Jiu and Yue Po.

• Li Fan passed Xu Luoyan at the capital gate and left to pursue the hacker’s signal.
• Li Fan found cultivators battling in a village, where Dachangqiu ambushed him from underground to protect the Son of Heaven.
• Li Fan and Dachangqiu exchanged powerful techniques before grappling with Astral Fist; Dachangqiu’s right hand exploded, letting Li Fan strike his heart and cut him apart.
• Li Fan located the injured hacker in a medical pod beneath the fortified manor, killed him with a Blood God Child, and destroyed the servers and databases.
• Li Fan checked on Qin Jiu, who was badly injured despite having formed his Golden Core, and learned Yue Po had left North Mang Mountain amid signs of great misfortune.

Li Fan went to rescue Yue Po and infiltrated the Three Heavens Mixed Yuan Palace, where he found Amao trapped by the sect’s cultivators. After helping Amao escape, Li Fan tracked Yue Po to the sect’s treasury and discovered she had been sealed inside a golden phoenix goblet.

• Li Fan crossed the North Mang Mountains and infiltrated the Three Heavens Mixed Yuan Palace after its three Transformation Stage cultivators left.
• Li Fan found Amao, defeated him, and learned that the sect had imprisoned him and forced him to help its female cultivators detoxify and cultivate.
• Li Fan gave Amao talismans and basic training methods, then helped him escape while he dealt with the three returning cultivators.
• Li Fan possessed a cultivator named Seventh Sister and used her to enter the sect’s treasury.
• Li Fan found the Sword Child’s presence in a golden phoenix goblet and heard Yue Po shouting from inside it.

Li Fan helped Moon Soul escape the Chaos Golden Phoenix Jue, then let her use a newly refined Sword Child body to attack the Three Heavens Mixed Yuan Palace. Moon Soul killed many disciples and a Divine Lord before Cloud Sky Venerable arrived and his two companions intercepted her next attack.

• Li Fan identified the golden jue’s curse and used patterned knocks to guide Moon Soul out through its phoenix-shaped opening.
• Moon Soul escaped into the puppet, then beheaded the jade dragon guarding the exit and destroyed its artifact spirit.
• Li Fan transformed Seventh Sister into a Sword Child body, which Moon Soul possessed before charging through the palace and killing dozens of disciples.
• Moon Soul shattered a blue stone seal and killed Lord Bixiao with the Taiyin Sword Rainbow.
• Cloud Sky Venerable arrived with two female Divine Lords and declared his interest in Moon Soul; when she attacked him, the two women struck together and knocked her sword rainbow aside.

Li Fan watched Yuepo battle the Cloud Sky Venerable and discovered that his power relied on ancient treasures and gray curse energy. After the Cloud Sky Venerable trapped Yuepo, he decided to refine her, and Li Fan followed him into the Three Heavens Mixed Yuan Palace.

• Yuepo defeated the green and red Divine Lords, but the Cloud Sky Venerable attacked her with the curse-filled Heavenly Vein Vast Chalice.
• Yuepo destroyed the jade dragons repeatedly, while Li Fan recognized that the chalice's curse energy came from the treasure itself and signaled her to finish the fight.
• The Cloud Sky Venerable fused the two injured Divine Lords into a monster, whose flesh and gray energy formed a trap that captured Yuepo and her Sword Rainbow.
• The jade cicada warned the Cloud Sky Venerable that Emei had ascended, but he dismissed the concern and declared he would refine Yuepo from ninth grade to first.
• The Cloud Sky Venerable returned to the Three Heavens Mixed Yuan Palace to refine Yuepo, and Li Fan followed him.

The Cloud Sky Venerable tried to force Moonspirit into becoming a precelestial treasure by burning her with Hunyuan Qi, while Li Fan discovered that the technique consumed artifact spirits. Li Fan turned the Venerable’s own flames against him, and afterward gave Moonspirit a human-bone cricket cage.

• The Cloud Sky Venerable brought the Tianmai Huanshang into the Cloud Sky Hall and tried to make Moonspirit acknowledge him as her master.
• The Cloud Sky Venerable demonstrated the Hunyuan Divine Art and began burning ancient junk and magical treasures to refine Moonspirit.
• Li Fan realized the gray energy was Chaos left behind when the Cloud Sky Venerable extracted primordial Qi from artifact spirits.
• The Cloud Sky Venerable failed to break Moonspirit’s sword talismans, so Li Fan struck him into the flames and used his shadow to keep him trapped there.
• The Cloud Sky Venerable was consumed in the fire, and Li Fan handed Moonspirit a cricket cage made of human bone.

Li Fan reshaped Moon Soul into a Transformation Stage Hunyuan Sword Child and learned why she had gone to North Mang Mountain. While searching the imperial tomb for Qin Jiu, he discovered that rat spirits were manufacturing Yuanfeng Liutie, leaving him with a new mystery as he suspected Qin Jiu might have contacted Zhi Jingzi.

• Li Fan crushed treasures from the Three Heavens Mixed Yuan Palace to forge Moon Soul a Transformation Stage Hunyuan Sword Child body, while she practiced stabbing the caged Cloud Sky Cricket.
• Moon Soul told Li Fan that she had gone to North Mang Mountain seeking Yuanfeng Liutie and planned to return there alone to prove herself.
• Li Fan divined great misfortune for Qin Jiu, learned he was also at North Mang Mountain, and wondered whether Qin Jiu had made contact with Zhi Jingzi.
• Li Fan reached North Mang Mountain ahead of Moon Soul, entered the underground imperial tomb, and collected some Yuanfeng Liutie.
• Li Fan watched rat spirits soak crossbow bolts in Yuanfeng Liutie and saw them pour more of the mercury-like metal into the tomb's waterways, realizing they had made it themselves.

Li Fan uncovered a vast rat civilization beneath North Mang Mountain and followed a trail of Yuanfeng Iron-Flow jars to investigate its source. Meanwhile, Qin Jiu awoke after being mysteriously restored and traveled with Xiao Qingzhi toward Mount Song, where he hoped to reunite with his master.

• Li Fan discovered that intelligent rat spirits had built an underground city beneath North Mang Mountain, led by elder rats and supported by mutated rat monsters.
• Li Fan found that the rats had received Yuanfeng Iron-Flow in clay jars but had no workshop for making it, and he suspected the Divine Sect or the Nangong Seven Friends might be involved.
• Li Fan saw his omen change from "Great Misfortune" to "Danger Present," abandoned his plan to confront Zhi Jingzi, and followed the jars' route away from the rat city.
• Qin Jiu awoke inside a coffin as a rotted corpse, and Jade Toad and another woman discussed how to save him before a golden figure's warmth restored him.
• Qin Jiu woke aboard Xiao Qingzhi's flying ship, thanked him for rescuing him, and learned they were approaching Tai Shi Mountain, also known as Mount Song.

Qin Jiu recovered at Mount Song, where a servant girl named Xiao Ai mistook him for a noble hostage and dragged him into a dispute with Jia. After Qin Jiu defeated Jia in the dining hall, Xiao Ai revealed her identity, and Qin Jiu clarified that he was a fisherman already engaged to Xiao Li.

• Xiao Qingzhi taught Qin Jiu Mount Song's breathing technique and told him to focus on recovering before returning to his master.
• Qin Jiu cultivated until he grew hungry, then followed Xiao Ai across an iron-chain bridge to Mount Song's dining hall.
• Xiao Ai introduced Qin Jiu as a hostage from the Xiao family of Lanling, and Jia challenged him after hearing that Xiao Ai had refused to become his Dao Companion.
• Qin Jiu blocked Jia's Dry Heaven Absolute Yang Palm and broke Jia's arm, sending him into the Five Immortals Soup cauldron.
• Xiao Ai admitted that she was an illegitimate child named Xiao Ai, and Qin Jiu told her he was a fisherman engaged to Xiao Li.

After Qin Jiu and Xiao Ai fought Mount Song’s privileged disciples, Xiao Ai explained the sect’s inequalities and recruited him into her anti-noble Fallen Petals Society. Qin Jiu returned to Xiao Qingzhi, who revealed that Jia Baojue had died from Qin Jiu’s palm and offered to teach him a sword art.

• Xiao Ai helped Qin Jiu defeat the disciples who attacked him, and they fled the dining hall before deciding to roast a peacock.
• As they explored Mount Song, Xiao Ai described how powerful families controlled the sect’s resources and recounted how the Jia Family sought to exploit her.
• Qin Jiu condemned the nobles and promised to protect Xiao Ai, who recruited him into the Fallen Petals Society and made him head of its Zhenri Palace branch.
• Xiao Ai introduced Qin Jiu to poor Mount Song disciples, who welcomed him after learning he had injured Jia Baojue and agreed to rob powerful families’ estates together.
• Qin Jiu returned to Guest Peak and apologized to Xiao Qingzhi, who told him Jia Baojue had died from Qin Jiu’s palm and offered to teach him the Dustless Easy Qi Sword.