Chapter Summaries

Fang Can spent the night refining his organs while news of his victory over Wang Peng spread, though few believed he had defeated a First Turn expert. At Tribulation Sword Mountain, Jiang Ning'an accepted the news and learned that she would travel to the Great Yan Imperial Capital, where Liu Qingmeng planned to borrow Fang Can for a while for an upcoming Sixth Turn Cave Abode.

• Fang Can finished an all-night cultivation session and continued modifying his organs toward their theoretical optimum.
• Ye Qingshi demanded that Fang Can cultivate with her, so he pushed her into the sedan chair and told her to proceed alone for an hour.
• Warriors spread news of Fang Can defeating Wang Peng, but most people dismissed the claim as an unbelievable rumor.
• Jiang Ning'an heard the rumor on Tribulation Sword Mountain and trusted that Fang Can had defeated a First Turn expert.
• Jiang Ning'an paid her respects to Liu Qingmeng, who told her to prepare for the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition in the Great Yan Imperial Capital and not to see Fang Can.
• Liu Qingmeng explained that a Sixth Turn Cave Abode was expected to open and said she would borrow Fang Can for a while.

Liu Qingmeng planned to invite Fang Can to explore a Sixth Turn cave abode, while warning Jiang Ning'an to focus on cultivation and keep her distance from him. As Fang Can's procession approached the Capital City, he defeated a challenger and accumulated fifty-three top-ranked warriors hanging from its Ghost Pole.

• Liu Qingmeng told Jiang Ning'an she would leave Fang Can to choose whether to join the Sixth Turn cave abode expedition, and warned her against neglecting her cultivation for romance.
• Fang Can practiced inside the moving sedan, helping Ye Qingshi advance to the first level of the Mysterious Pass.
• A warrior ranked 349th on the Hidden Dragon Ranking arrived to challenge Fang Can, who knocked him into a four-meter-deep crater with one punch.
• Fang Can ordered his followers to hang the defeated challenger from the Ghost Pole and parade him toward the Capital City.
• Over the next ten days, Fang Can's group defeated and hung fifty-three top-thousand Hidden Dragon Ranking warriors as the procession neared the Capital City.

Fang Can arrived at Great Yan's Imperial Capital in a lavish palanquin carried across the river by his followers. After intimidating several Hidden Dragon Ranking martial artists who came to challenge him, he told his party to enter the capital.

• Fang Can's followers waited outside the capital while martial artists discussed his reputation and expected arrival.
• Fang Can's followers welcomed him, then carried his enormous palanquin across the river in alternating teams.
• Fang Can stepped out of the palanquin as his followers laid down a red carpet for him.
• Several Hidden Dragon Ranking martial artists approached to test Fang Can's strength.
• Fang Can struck the challengers with his mental power, forcing them to their knees, then ordered his party to enter the capital.

Fang Can entered the Capital after Ye Yonglie led thousands of Heart Manifestation Warriors across the river with defeated Hidden Dragon Ranking warriors displayed on a flagpole. He settled into a residence and received more than two hundred invitations from the Capital’s major powers.

• Fang Can’s arrival at the river left nearby warriors kneeling, and they watched Ye Yonglie’s group cross with fifty-odd defeated warriors hanging from the Human Banner.
• The followers of the captives begged Ye Yonglie to release their gods, and he let them take the injured warriors down after warning them not to provoke Fang Can.
• Fang Can entered the Capital with his followers and learned that the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Broadsword would be reforged into a spear within seven days.
• Ye Yonglie told Fang Can that property agents had readily offered them vacant plots, and Fang Can suspected Tribulation Sword Mountain had helped them.
• Major powers sent invitations to Fang Can’s residence, where he stared at a pile of more than two hundred letters.

Fang Can sorted through invitations from Capital City officials before meeting Liu Qingmeng, who warned him about a dangerous Sixth Turn Secret Realm and asked him to join her expedition. He accepted, and his aptitude surged past eightyfold as soon as he agreed.

• Fang Can set aside most of his invitations and chose to visit the Imperial Medical Academy's director and attend Prince Qing's gathering for Hidden Dragon Ranking martial artists.
• Fang Can noticed his aptitude falling and realized Liu Qingmeng had arrived, then explained that his superpower had alerted him to her presence.
• Liu Qingmeng told Fang Can that Xiang Xitao had also defeated a First Turn expert and warned him not to underestimate his rival in the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition.
• Liu Qingmeng revealed that a Sixth Turn Secret Realm would appear within the year and asked Fang Can to accompany her, warning that it might be dangerous.
• Fang Can agreed to join Liu Qingmeng, and his aptitude rose past eightyfold.

After Liu Qingmeng offered Fang Can a chance to enter a Sixth Turn Cave Abode and choose a Sacrificial Artifact, he visited Fang Estate and met its master, Fang Yanbei. Fang Yanbei welcomed him by proposing a tour of the family Treasure Pavilion, leaving Fang Can and the household staff stunned.

• Liu Qingmeng told Fang Can the Sixth Turn Cave Abode could open at any time within the next year and promised him a Sacrificial Artifact from the Sword Mound even if he found nothing inside.
• Fang Can trained through the night, then went alone to Fang Estate, where guards said Fang Yanbei had been waiting for him since the previous day.
• As a servant led Fang Can through the estate, Fang Can learned that Five Demon Sect paving stones and a Wind-Fixing Pearl helped contain the damage caused by powerful warriors.
• Fang Yanbei hurried out to meet Fang Can, introduced himself as the Minister of Revenue, and offered to show him around Fang Estate.
• Fang Yanbei proposed taking Fang Can straight to the family Treasure Pavilion, astonishing Fang Can and the household staff.

Fang Yanbei brought Fang Can to the Fang family’s hidden Treasure Pavilion and showed him its collection of artifacts and secret arts. Fang Can rejected a punishing cultivation method and was astonished to learn that a strange short sword that encouraged betrayal had once been the Asura’s sect treasure.

• Fang Yanbei told Fang Can about the Fang family’s history and led him through a hidden passage into the Treasure Pavilion.
• Fang Yanbei showed Fang Can the family’s collection, including twenty-one First-Rank, five Second-Rank, and one Third-Rank Sacrificial Artifact, as well as seventy-five secret arts.
• Fang Can read about the Evil Canon of Mad Demon Self-Restraint, and Fang Yanbei explained its painful costs and the power it could grant.
• Fang Can examined the Savage Dragon City-Guarding Armor and other artifacts, then declined to pursue extreme methods of gaining power.
• Fang Can found the Scallion Short Sword, whose legacies encouraged betrayal, and Fang Yanbei revealed that it had once been the Asura’s sect treasure.

Fang Can visited the Fang Family’s Treasure Pavilion and chose the Y-God Curse, a forbidden technique whose strange requirements seemed to suit his Cauldron Body. He then joined Fang Yanbei’s family for lunch, while elsewhere a chained boy in the Tiger Fiend Sect’s basement sensed Yuan Dang had been reborn again.

• Fang Yanbei explained the Asura lineage’s sacrificial Scallion Short Sword and how its practice of provoking extreme emotions led to the lineage’s destruction.
• Fang Can used a loose hair to choose a treasure by chance and selected the Y-God Curse, despite Fang Yanbei recommending a more practical artifact.
• Fang Yanbei introduced Fang Can to his descendants at lunch, and Fang Can realized that ordinary martial artists advanced far more slowly than the elite cultivators he had faced.
• A chained boy in the basement of the Blazing Martial Hall opened his eyes and sensed that Yuan Dang had been reborn again.

Yuan Dang died after seventy-two years of imprisonment, then revived in his sealed cell with the cycle of torment beginning again. Fang Can returned to cultivating and learned the Y God's curse, an art that transferred its accumulated power to another person when its practitioner released his essence.

• After imprisoning Yuan Dang for seventy-two years, Fang Can visited him and explained that Yuan Dang's death would reset the information universe, then tossed a coin to decide his own fate.
• The coin landed tails, and Fang Can died, leaving Yuan Dang with a message to preserve the coin as a keepsake for his main body.
• Yuan Dang revived in his cell, but a guard silenced him and reminded him that Fang Can had forbidden anyone from communicating with him.
• Fang Can returned to his residence to cultivate, concerned that the number-one person in Great Chu had defeated a First Turn warrior.
• Fang Can studied the Y God's curse and learned that its accumulated power would transfer to another person if he released his essence.

方灿 learned the Y-God Curse required completing all 108 battle techniques with each partner, then practiced them with Ye Qingshi and began planning how to reach a hundred partners. He asked Ye Yonglie to find suitable women for his cultivation, and Ye Yonglie immediately rallied others to help.

• 方灿 learned that the Y-God Curse counted a partner only after he completed all 108 techniques, and realized none of his previous encounters qualified.
• 方灿 invited Ye Qingshi to practice; after two hours, she completed all 108 techniques with him.
• 方灿 saw matching micro-red tally marks on his and Ye Qingshi’s stomachs and concluded his Cauldron Body had made her tally permanent, though the curse had not yet activated.
• 方灿 decided to pursue the hundred-partner requirement before the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition and asked Ye Yonglie to find women to help his cultivation.
• Ye Yonglie accepted the task and rallied others to find a hundred suitable women within five days, while Fang Can warned him not to use force.

Fang Can’s followers organized a citywide selection of God-Serving Maidens while Fang Can continued transforming his body. The posters provoked gossip and angered Fu Yuxiang, who wanted to urge Fang Can to focus on cultivation before the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition, but his believers stopped him; Prince Qing’s invitation arrived after three days of preparations.

• Ye Yonglie organized a Capital City selection for God-Serving Maidens and set criteria covering beauty, temperament, physique, martial understanding, and family background.
• Fang Can heard the warriors planning the selection but let them proceed while he worked on transforming his organs and bodily structure.
• Fang Can’s believers printed and posted thousands of selection notices, prompting the Capital City’s residents to gossip about the event.
• Fu Yuxiang read a notice, grew angry that Fang Can was selecting women instead of cultivating for the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition, and decided to visit him.
• Fu Yuxiang’s believers stopped him from going to Fang Can, and Prince Qing’s invitation arrived after three days of preparations.

Fang Can arrived at Prince Qing Mansion for a banquet and drew attention from the young warriors gathered there. After they argued over his past victories, Fang Can entered the reception hall and left them cowed into silence.

• Fang Can traveled from the West City to Prince Qing Mansion in the North City, where the steward welcomed him personally.
• Young warriors mocked Yang Feng over his defeat by Fang Can, and Yang Feng named others Fang Can had beaten.
• The defeated warriors defended Fang Can's strength while their companions questioned the stories about him.
• The herald announced Fang Can's arrival, and he entered the hall and sat down to eat an apple.
• Fang Can surveyed the gathered warriors, who fell silent in his presence.

Fang Can attended Prince Qing's banquet and learned how varied the young martial artists' Heaven Ascending Path legacies could be. When someone asked what legacy he planned to pursue for the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition, Prince Qing arrived before Fang Can could answer.

• Fang Can sat quietly at Prince Qing's reception while the martial artists sized him up and then resumed their conversations.
• The guests discussed Prince Qing's [Flash Dodge] legacy and a military youth who had been told to delay his advancement until the Imperial Guard had a vacancy.
• Jiang Kuangtuo revealed that his family expected him to turn his spinning-top skills into a legacy, while other youths described their families' traditions of diabolo and cuju.
• Fang Can listened to the guests discuss their unusual cultivation paths and considered how their insights might help him develop his Light of the Soul.
• A martial artist asked Fang Can what legacy he planned to pursue for the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition, but a herald announced Prince Qing's arrival before Fang Can answered.

Prince Qing gathered Great Yan's rising martial artists and urged them to challenge Xiang Longtao, but Fang Can dismissed the need for allies and revealed his confidence. The new Hidden Dragon Ranking placed Fang Can and Xiang Longtao in a tie for first.

• Prince Qing told Great Yan's rising stars that Xiang Longtao had slain a First Turn expert and urged them to claim first place in the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition.
• Fang Can said he would work harder to stay ahead of Xiang Longtao and rejected the idea of leading the others, then used his Heart Manifestation to silence them.
• Prince Qing revealed that Fang Can had also defeated a First Turn expert, prompting the martial artists to reconsider the rumor.
• Prince Qing opened the latest Hidden Dragon Ranking and announced that Fang Can and Xiang Longtao were tied for first place.

Fang Can was tied with Xiang Xitao for first on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, and Prince Qing urged him to lead Great Yan to victory in the upcoming tournament. Fang Can accepted the offer of First Turn sparring partners, then discovered he also topped the Rising Dragon Ranking ahead of Ye Qingshi.

• Prince Qing revealed that Fang Can and Xiang Xitao were tied for first on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, with Fang Can listed at the Mysterious Pass Tenth Layer.
• The gathered warriors questioned Fang Can about reaching the Tenth Layer, and Prince Qing explained that it was a rare threshold that required exceptional talent.
• Prince Qing asked Fang Can to work with the other warriors and win the tournament for Great Yan, explaining that the court would provide resources.
• Fang Can declined the warriors' help but asked Prince Qing to arrange First Turn sparring partners, and Prince Qing agreed to start the next day.
• Fang Can borrowed the Heavenly Secret Ranking and found himself first on the Rising Dragon Ranking, with Ye Qingshi in second place.

After Ye Qingshi’s ranking entry revealed her connection to Fang Can, he left Prince Qing’s banquet and hurried back to his estate. Prince Qing and officials elsewhere began investigating Fang Can and testing the rumored effects of his cultivation technique, while the Golden Chicken King’s value remained a growing concern.

• Fang Can read Ye Qingshi’s Rising Dragon Ranking entry, worried that it would expose him as the number-one Cauldron Body, and left Prince Qing’s banquet.
• After Fang Can departed, Prince Qing read the ranking entry and ordered his steward to gather information about Fang Can within a quarter of an hour.
• Prince Qing reviewed reports linking Fang Can to the Y-God Technique and ordered women to participate in its preliminary selection and report their experiences.
• Officials across the court made plans to send beautiful women into Fang Can’s harem, while the situation in Great Chu differed.

Fang Can’s first-place ranking on the Hidden Dragon Ranking made him a celebrated hero in Great Yan and across the Various Kingdoms. As Shen Shifang promoted Fang Can’s open selection for the God-Serving Maiden, the public’s praise strengthened his faith and drew a surge of believers and applicants.

• Xiang Xitao learned he was tied with Fang Can for first in heart manifestation, but his blessing steadied him and he vowed to defeat Fang Can.
• Great Yan’s officials and citizens celebrated Fang Can’s ranking, and his reputation as a national hero spread throughout the Various Kingdoms.
• Shen Shifang pasted posters for the next day’s open selection of the God-Serving Maiden while his faith in Fang Can wavered.
• A vegetable seller and other townspeople praised Fang Can, offered Shen Shifang support, and asked to enter the selection.
• The sudden surge of public admiration firmed Shen Shifang’s faith, and the number of prospective believers and selection applicants rose sharply.

Fang Can entered Fangcun Mountain, where the rules for the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition were announced. Before he could leave, Xiang Longtao confronted him and called him a perfect female Cauldron Body.

• Fang Can cultivated at his residence while Ye Qingshi brooded over the Rising Dragon Ranking’s description of her.
• Fang Can was transported as a Soul Spirit into Fangcun Mountain, where he recognized the Spirit Platform and saw other Hidden Dragon Ranking martial artists.
• A Buddha’s voice explained that the competition would begin in a month, last three days, and be a shrinking-map battle royale with no permanent deaths.
• As Fang Can prepared to leave, Xiang Longtao called him out, pushed through the crowd, and questioned him about being a female Cauldron Body.

Xiang Longtao challenged Fang Can to a physical-strength duel at the All-Kingdoms Grand Competition to settle their tie atop the Hidden Dragon Ranking, and Fang Can accepted. Afterward, Fang Can returned to Ye Qingshi, while Liu Qingmeng secretly watched their flirtation and worried about how many admirers he had.

• Xiang Longtao challenged Fang Can to fight atop the arena’s tallest building without breaking through, and Fang Can accepted.
• Fu Xiangyu warned Fang Can that the duel could leave both fighters vulnerable, while Xiang Longtao’s sister urged Fang Can to withdraw because her brother might humiliate him.
• Fang Can rejected the warnings and left Fangcun Mountain, as the other martial artists anticipated the duel and the top-ranked fighters focused on their breakthroughs.
• Ye Qingshi clung to Fang Can in the real world, and Fang Can grounded her for another day after she admitted her desire had distracted her.
• Liu Qingmeng secretly observed Fang Can and Ye Qingshi, then wondered whether her disciple Ning'an would have any chance among his many admirers.

Fang Can went to the Prince Qing Mansion to train against General Elder Yang, whom he believed to be an ordinary First Turn martial artist. He discovered that Yang’s First Turn-level strength was overwhelming, leaving him to reassess the danger posed by other First Turns such as Xiang Longtao.

• The steward told Fang Can that Sect Master Liu had visited the capital and supported him during a court meeting about the emperor’s successor.
• The steward brought Fang Can to a secluded training room, where General Elder Yang introduced himself as his sparring partner.
• Elder Yang seized Fang Can by the throat and explained that he had immobilized him by sealing his pressure points.
• Prince Qing revealed that Elder Yang was actually a Third Turn veteran from the Golden Throne Hall who had suppressed his cultivation to First Turn level.
• Elder Yang battered Fang Can with overwhelming physical strength, and Fang Can realized how much stronger a true First Turn could be than Wang Peng.
• Fang Can recovered quickly, took the sparring seriously, and agreed to continue.