Chapter Summaries

Wen Xingrui learned that Ning Qiudao planned to take Han Fan as a disciple and rushed to intervene, worried that Han Fan would not inherit the Artifact Refining Combat Dao. After discovering Ning had been provoking him into making a decision, Wen Xingrui declared he would take Han Fan as his disciple.

• Fan Zhifeng told Wen Xingrui that Ning Qiudao intended to take Han Fan as a disciple, and Wen Xingrui hurried to Wu Tao’s cave abode.
• Wen Xingrui told Wu Tao that Ning no longer intended to take him as a disciple and asked him to visit the Artifact Refining Hall the next day.
• Wen Xingrui went to Ethereal Void Immortal Peak and confronted Ning Qiudao about trying to take Han Fan from him.
• Ning Qiudao revealed he had wanted Wen Xingrui to commit to taking Han Fan as a disciple, and Wen Xingrui declared that he would take him.

Wen Xingrui offered to take Han Fan as his disciple and pass down his Artifact Refining Combat Dao, and Han Fan accepted, with their formal Apprenticeship Ceremony scheduled for a month later. As preparations spread through the Ethereal Void Sect, Han Fan kept refining Immortal Boat components for the Righteous-Demonic War.

• Ji Lingxu asked Ning Qiudao why he and Wen Xingrui had shown interest in Han Fan, but Ning Qiudao said Ji would understand in time.
• Wen Xingrui offered to accept Han Fan as his disciple and teach him his Artifact Refining Combat Dao, and Han Fan agreed to the formal ceremony a month later.
• Wen Xingrui promised to teach Han Fan Secret Soul Techniques after the Apprenticeship Ceremony, and Han Fan praised Wen Xingrui as the master best suited to guide him.
• Han Fan told Chen Yao about taking Wen Xingrui as his master, and she congratulated him and said her late father would want him to advance.
• Han Fan spoke to Chen Shan's memorial tablet about taking another master as the sect prepared a grand Apprenticeship Ceremony.
• Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng congratulated Han Fan, who then returned to refining Immortal Boat components for the war effort.

Wu Tao continued his daily artifact refining and cultivation while the Ethereal Void Sect prepared for Wen Xingrui’s Apprenticeship Ceremony. Wen Xingrui gave him permission to copy the True Art and Tier 2 Advanced Magic Restrictions onto Jade Slips, saving him time traveling between pavilions.

• Wu Tao cleaned the Artifact Refining Room, received spiritual materials from Zhou Chongwen, and refined Immortal Boat components.
• Wu Tao cultivated for three hours, then went to the Magic Tool Secret Manual Building to study Tier 2 Advanced Magic Restrictions.
• Wen Xingrui summoned Wu Tao and offered him a Magic Talisman to copy the True Art and Magic Restrictions onto Jade Slips.
• Wu Tao accepted Wen Xingrui’s help and left for the Cultivation Technique Pavilion to copy the True Art.

Wu Tao copied A Point of Formless Sword at the Cultivation Technique Pavilion and settled into a routine of returning to his cave abode early to cultivate and study it alongside Tier 2 high-grade magic restrictions. On the eve of his apprenticeship ceremony with Wen Xingrui, he completed a month of cultivation and received a new ceremonial magic robe, while anticipating the combat and soul techniques his master would teach him.

• Wu Tao presented Wen Xingrui's magic talisman to Liu Sishu and copied A Point of Formless Sword onto a sect-protected jade slip.
• Wu Tao obtained a jade slip of Tier 2 high-grade magic restrictions and began studying it and the true art at his cave abode, where Chen Yao welcomed his earlier returns.
• After a month of steady cultivation, Wu Tao reached 3% progress on Layer 7 of the Six Yang Li Fire True Technique and 70% on Layer 6 of the Star Body Tempering Technique.
• Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng delivered Wen Xingrui's Tier 2 high-grade Gilded Cloud Pattern Magic Robe for Wu Tao to wear at the next day's apprenticeship ceremony.
• Wu Tao returned to his cave abode to continue comprehending the magic restrictions and A Point of Formless Sword ahead of the ceremony.

Wu Tao completed his apprenticeship ceremony and officially became Wen Xingrui’s disciple. Wen Xingrui then explained that he would teach Wu Tao the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture to strengthen his divine soul before he eventually learned the Artifact Refining Combat Dao.

• Wu Tao wore the Gilded Cloud Pattern Magic Robe Wen Xingrui had made him and arrived at the Artifact Refining Hall with Chen Yao.
• The Tier 2 artifact refiners and guests congratulated Wu Tao as Wen Xingrui led the apprenticeship ceremony.
• Wu Tao offered tea to Wen Xingrui and officially became his disciple, while Wen Xingrui gave Chen Yao a magic tool.
• After the guests departed, Wen Xingrui told Wu Tao about his Artifact Refining Combat Dao and presented him with the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture.

Wu Tao received Wen Xingrui’s Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture and spent months balancing artifact work with intense cultivation. He finally comprehended the scripture and broke through to the seventh layer of the Star Body Tempering Technique, while the immortal boat project and coming decisive battle remained on the horizon.

• Wen Xingrui gave Wu Tao the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture and his cultivation notes, instructing him to keep the immortal boat project as his priority.
• Chen Yao showed Wu Tao the Tier 2 High-Grade magic tool Wen Xingrui had gifted her, then remembered her father and resolved to work toward becoming a Golden Core Master.
• Wu Tao studied the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture, learned it could greatly strengthen his divine sense, and continued comprehending A Point of Formless Sword and artifact-refining techniques.
• After two months, Wu Tao asked Wen Xingrui to explain difficulties in the soul secret technique, and Wen Xingrui urged him to balance effort with rest.
• Wu Tao comprehended the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture’s first Foundation Establishment layer after six months and broke through to the seventh layer of the Star Body Tempering Technique.

Wu Tao advanced his cultivation and began studying the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture while preparing for the Immortal Boat project. Meanwhile, the Celestial Yin Sect approved a curse operation to delay the rival sects’ Immortal Boat preparations, and Mystic Yin Protector recruited Sha Moye to help carry it out.

• Wu Tao discovered that breaking through to Spirit Body Layer Seven had increased his Divine Sense to 108 li, then told Wen Xingrui he had fully comprehended the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture.
• Wen Xingrui praised Wu Tao’s progress and explained that the Immortal Boats could fight Nascent Soul True Lords, though he warned Wu Tao to stay away from the battlefield.
• Wu Tao refined Immortal Boat components, found that the Six Yang Li Fire True Technique cultivated faster after his breakthrough, and began practicing the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture.
• Mystic Yin Protector told Zhang Taiyin that the Immortal Boat project would begin in half a year and that the allied sects planned to curse rival artifact refiners to delay it.
• Zhang Taiyin assigned Mystic Yin Protector to target the Ethereal Void Sect’s Tier 2 artifact refiners, and Mystic Yin Protector brought Sha Moye in to assist with the operation.

Wu Tao opened two Storage Bags from Purple Gold Grotto cultivators and found useful cultivation supplies, including a Jiao Pearl and a magic tool suitable for A-Yao. The next day, Wen Xingrui gave him two jade slips containing Five Spring Mountain artifact refiners’ notes on creating new Magic Restriction Runes, which could help him advance toward Tier 3.

• Wu Tao used his spare time to remove Restrictions from two Storage Bags belonging to Ninth Level Foundation Establishment cultivators from Purple Gold Grotto.
• Wu Tao found a Jiao Pearl, Spirit Stones, magic tools, pills, and other materials, and set aside a Tier 2 High-Grade Magic Tool for A-Yao.
• Wu Tao put away the remaining Storage Bags when it was time to cultivate the Star Body Tempering Technique, then spent the night cultivating.
• Zhou Chongwen told Wu Tao that Wen Xingrui wanted to see him, and Wu Tao went to the hall master's office the next morning.
• Wen Xingrui gave Wu Tao two jade slips containing Five Spring Mountain artifact refiners’ insights into creating new Magic Restriction Runes.
• Wu Tao thanked Wen Xingrui and went to the Earth Fire Hall to refine Immortal Boat components.

Mystic Yin Protector took Sha Moye to collect Blood Food and revealed that the Celestial Yin Sect would use it to awaken three ancient Supreme Elders before the decisive battle. After feeding the Blood Food to the blood pool at Snow Pool Cave, Mystic Yin Protector told Sha Moye it was time to begin the plan to delay the Immortal Boat.

• Mystic Yin Protector brought Sha Moye to Demon Cultivator City, where a Foundation Establishment cultivator handed over a bag of captured Demonic Dao rogue cultivators.
• Mystic Yin Protector explained that the Blood Food was for awakening three Supreme Elders who had remained in nirvana for five thousand years, not for delaying the Immortal Boat.
• Mystic Yin Protector led Sha Moye into the Forbidden Land and revealed the three Supreme Elders were inside Snow Pool Cave, sustained by monthly offerings of Blood Food.
• Mystic Yin Protector poured the captured rogue cultivators into the blood pool, where tentacles pulled them under and turned them into bloodwater.
• Sha Moye considered abandoning his undercover identity if the six sects' awakened elders defeated the Seven Demon Dao Sects.
• Mystic Yin Protector told Sha Moye to come with him to carry out the plan to delay the Immortal Boat.

The Mystic Yin Protector brought Sha Moye into the Secret Order Hall and ordered three cultivators skilled in the Cursing Secret Technique to curse the Ethereal Void Sect’s artifact refiners, delaying its Immortal Boat project. The cultivators reviewed their targets and questioned whether the intelligence about their names and cultivation levels was reliable before beginning.

• The Mystic Yin Protector led Sha Moye into the Secret Order Hall and introduced him as acting under his personal command.
• The Mystic Yin Protector showed the Sect Master's Token and ordered three Cursing Secret Technique practitioners to curse the Ethereal Void Sect's Tier 2 Artifact Refiners.
• The Mystic Yin Protector named Han Fan, Zhao Zhen, and Fan Zhifeng as the targets and provided jade slips and aura-tainted items for the curses.
• The three cultivators reviewed the targets' details and raised concerns that Han Fan might use an alias and that inaccurate cultivation levels could cause backlash.
• The Mystic Yin Protector assigned disciple Guang to curse Zhao Zhen and told the other two to choose between Han Fan and Fan Zhifeng, but a cultivator asked him to confirm the targets' cultivation realms.

Mystic Yin Protector arranged for three devilish cultivators to curse Wu Tao, Zhao Zhen, and Fan Zhifeng, while Wu Tao unknowingly faced an eerie intrusion in his Sea of Divine Sense. The Coffin Nail destroyed the invading aura, and the curse aimed at Han Fan backfired when the caster discovered Han Fan was neither his true name nor his actual cultivation realm.

• Mystic Yin Protector and Sha Moye waited three days while three Foundation Establishment devilish cultivators prepared their curses against Zhao Zhen, Fan Zhifeng, and Han Fan.
• Wu Tao met Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng at the Artifact Refining Hall, declined Fan Zhifeng's invitation, and went to refine Immortal Boat components.
• While Wu Tao cultivated the Six Yang Li Fire True Technique, an eerie black qi entered his Sea of Divine Sense, but the Coffin Nail annihilated it.
• Ning Qiudao shouted against the ghostly intrusion at the Ethereal Void Sect.
• The Foundation Establishment Layer 6 devilish cultivator cursing Han Fan suffered fatal backlash after realizing Han Fan was not his true name and was not at Foundation Establishment Layer 5.

A bizarre attack struck three Tier 2 Intermediate-or-higher artifact refiners in the Ethereal Void Sect, disrupting work on the Immortal Boat and draining Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng’s lifespans. Wu Tao escaped unharmed, and Wen Xingrui concluded that a Devil Dao Sect had targeted the Immortal Boat Project.

• Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng were attacked while refining Immortal Boat components, losing sixty years of lifespan and suffering damage to their magic power and divine sense before Ning Qiudao and the Supreme Ancestor stopped the assault.
• Ning Qiudao and Senior Brother Lao investigated Wu Tao’s refining room, where the bizarre aura had already vanished, and quietly departed without Wu Tao noticing them.
• Wu Tao checked his sea of divine sense, found the Coffin Nail and golden page calm, and went to report the attack to Wen Xingrui.
• Wu Tao found Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng at Wen Xingrui’s office and claimed he had found and obliterated the bizarre aura himself.
• Wen Xingrui said only Wu Tao, Zhao Zhen, and Fan Zhifeng had been attacked, and identified the assault as an attempt by a Devil Dao Sect to delay the Immortal Boat Project.

After Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng lost sixty years of lifespan to a mysterious attack, Wen Xingrui suspected the devil dao sects had used a long-lost curse spell. With the two unable to continue refining Immortal Boat components, Wu Tao accepted the added workload, while the chapter revealed that the Celestial Yin Sect’s curses had been interrupted by an Ethereal Void Sect Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng confirmed that the attack had cost them sixty years of lifespan and injured their magic power and divine sense, so Wen Xingrui sent them to recuperate.
• Wen Xingrui suggested the attack was a curse spell and said Senior Brother Ning and the Supreme Elder had intervened to save Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng from worse losses.
• Wen Xingrui told Wu Tao to take over the injured cultivators’ Immortal Boat work, and Wu Tao agreed while resolving to prioritize cultivation and the sect’s war effort.
• At the Celestial Yin Sect, the Mystic Yin Protector and Sha Moye saw the two remaining cursers collapse after their curses were interrupted and their life force spent.
• Nephew Guang reported that he had cursed Zhao Zhen successfully but suffered fatal backlash when a Nascent Soul True Lord broke the curse.

Mystic Yin Protector reported that the curse had crippled two Ethereal Void Sect artifact refiners, while the Celestial Yin Sect’s Zhang Taiyin ordered Han Fan killed once he left the sect. At Ethereal Void Immortal Peak, Ning Qiudao discussed the curse with Senior Brother Lao and praised Han Fan as a future pillar of the sect.

• Mystic Yin Protector learned that the curse on Han Fan’s target had caused its caster to die, leaving the curse’s success uncertain.
• Sha Moye considered informing Yao Guangsheng about the Cursing Secret Technique but decided against risking his cover.
• Mystic Yin Protector told Zhang Taiyin that two Tier 2 Intermediate Artifact Refiners had lost sixty years of lifespan and could no longer refine artifacts.
• Zhang Taiyin inferred that Han Fan was a powerful Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator and ordered Fang Baiyin to kill him when he left the Ethereal Void Sect.
• Ning Qiudao visited Senior Brother Lao and discussed how they had severed the curse’s source.
• Ning Qiudao told Senior Brother Lao that Han Fan’s abilities could make him a pillar of the Ethereal Void Sect.

Sect Master Ning explained that the Devil Sect had used a curse to delay the Immortal Boat’s construction while a Nascent Soul devil cultivator underwent the Blood Food Nirvana Technique. Wu Tao was assigned the remaining Immortal Boat component work and returned to refining, aware that the burden on him had grown heavier.

• Senior Brother Lao ended his meeting with Sect Master Ning and went back into seclusion, then grumbled that Sect Master Ning had taken his prayer mat.
• Sect Master Ning went to Wen Xingrui’s office, where he confirmed that the attacks on Han Fan, Zhao, and Fan had been caused by a curse spell.
• Sect Master Ning explained that the Devil Sect had cursed the Artifact Refining Hall’s skilled refiners to delay the Immortal Boat while its Nascent Soul devil cultivator used the Blood Food Nirvana Technique.
• Sect Master Ning told Wu Tao that he was now the Artifact Refining Hall’s only Tier 2 Intermediate-or-higher artifact refiner and asked him to take on more Immortal Boat work.
• Wu Tao checked that the curse had not reduced his lifespan, then returned to refining as Zhou Chongwen delivered materials for Tier 2 Intermediate components.

Wu Tao kept refining Immortal Boat Components despite the curse attacks, and Chen Yao visited to make sure he was safe. Zhang Taiyin’s plans to target Wu Tao continued, while Wen Xingrui explained that the Immortal Boat Project would still meet its deadline.

• Wu Tao spent three days refining Immortal Boat Components, cultivating, and comprehending the World-Transmitting Rune while staying in the Artifact Refining Hall.
• Chen Yao brought Wu Tao a meal and confronted him for hiding that he had been attacked by a curse; Wu Tao promised not to conceal his troubles from her again.
• Mystic Yin Protector reported to Zhang Taiyin that Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng were incapacitated while Han Fan remained unharmed, and Zhang Taiyin rejected an assassination inside the Ethereal Void Sect.
• Zhang Taiyin ordered Mystic Yin Protector to monitor Blood Pool Cave, and Mystic Yin Protector decided to send Sha Moye on a dangerous task.
• Wen Xingrui told Wu Tao that the Immortal Boat Project would proceed on schedule because the original one-year deadline allowed enough time despite the injuries to artifact refiners.

Wu Tao tracked his cultivation progress while continuing to refine immortal boat components for the Ethereal Void Sect, expecting the decisive battle of the Righteous-Demonic War in five months. At his Cave Abode, Chen Yao reunited with Lu Feixue, who invited her on a task, but Chen Yao declined.

• Wu Tao found that his Six Yang Li Fire True Technique had advanced to 22% and his Star Body Tempering Technique to 4%, and he estimated how long his next breakthroughs would take.
• Wu Tao studied the World-Crossing Ancient Restriction Token runes before returning to refining immortal boat components.
• Chen Yao fed a Spirit Source Pill to her Golden Winged Eagle and wondered when Wu Tao would finish his Artifact Refining Hall duties and give her the prepared Tier 2 Demonic Beast.
• Lu Feixue visited Chen Yao, admired her Golden Winged Eagle, and chatted with her in the reception hall.
• Lu Feixue invited Chen Yao to join a group task, but Chen Yao declined.

After finishing the last immortal boat components, Wu Tao returned to his cave abode, reunited with Chen Yao, and gave her a soul-devouring insect to tame. Ten days later, artifact refiners from the six other righteous sects arrived at the Ethereal Void Sect, and final assembly of the immortal boats was about to begin.

• Wu Tao delivered the completed immortal boat components and learned that assembly would begin at the Ethereal Void Sect within ten days.
• Wu Tao returned to his cave abode and gave Chen Yao a Tier 2 soul-devouring insect, which she bound with a divine soul imprint.
• Wu Tao visited Zhao Zhen and Fan Zhifeng, whose injuries had improved though their lost lifespans could not be restored.
• Ten days later, artifact refiners and Golden Core protectors from the other six righteous sects arrived at the Ethereal Void Sect for the immortal boats' final assembly.

Wen Xingrui welcomed the Artifact Refiners from the other sects and gave Wu Tao the complete Immortal Boat Refining Secret Manual to study before the project began. After two days of study, Wu Tao left to meet his master as the Immortal Boat’s assembly and refinement was about to start.

• Ning Qiudao and Wen Xingrui welcomed the visiting Artifact Refiners from five sects, and Wu Tao greeted the Third Tier Artifact Refiners alongside his master.
• Wen Xingrui told the Artifact Refiners to rest for two days before beginning the Immortal Boat’s assembly and refinement.
• Wen Xingrui invited Wu Tao to observe the project and gave him the complete Immortal Boat Refining Secret Manual.
• Wu Tao studied the manual for two days, marveling at the Immortal Boat’s design and power.
• Wu Tao left the Magic Tool Secret Manual Building to meet Wen Xingrui as the Immortal Boat’s assembly and refinement was about to begin.

Wu Tao watched as the Ethereal Void Sect’s Nascent Soul Supreme Elder moved Earth Fire Peak, clearing the way for eight Tier 3 Artifact Refiners to begin assembling and refining an immortal boat. The process began with the artifact refiners combining thousands of components in their true fires and earth fire, while Wu Tao and the others observed without interruption.

• Wu Tao told Wen Xingrui that he had only roughly studied the Immortal Boat Refining Secret Manual, and Wen Xingrui led him to meet the other sects’ Tier 3 Artifact Refiners.
• At Wen Xingrui’s request, True Monarch Lao used a sword light to move Earth Fire Peak several hundred miles away and expose the earth fire magma beneath it.
• Wen Xingrui and the other seven Tier 3 Artifact Refiners took their positions in a trigram array, and Wu Tao and Zhou Qinghe sat behind them to observe.
• The eight Tier 3 Artifact Refiners released the immortal boat components their sects had crafted and began joining them with their true fires, drawing on the earth fire as well.
• Wu Tao and the other Foundation Establishment refiners watched the continuous assembly day after day as the eight artifact refiners worked without stopping.