Chapter Summaries

Fang Yang learned how to claim a Candidate Holy Son position and chose to challenge Li Rui, a candidate at Ruiguang Peak. Li Rui confronted him, unaware that Fang Yang had already mastered his secret arts and was ready to fight.

• Fang Yang gathered rumors about the Yaoguang Holy Son and learned the three ways to become a Candidate Holy Son.
• Fang Yang chose Li Rui as his target and left immediately for Ruiguang Peak despite the disciples urging him to drink more tea and wait.
• Li Rui’s companions disparaged Fang Yang, but Li Rui felt dissatisfied with their claims that Fang Yang’s rapid progress showed an unstable foundation.
• Fang Yang formally asked Li Rui for guidance, and Li Rui angrily rushed out to confront him.
• Li Rui questioned Fang Yang’s haste, while Fang Yang had already mastered his secret arts and begun cultivating the Yellow Mud Hand.

Fang Yang defeated Li Rui and claimed the Candidate Holy Son Position, then received the jade token from Li Daoming. Afterward, Li Daoming told him to consolidate his cultivation and study the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron at Yaoguang Palace.

• Fang Yang pierced Li Rui's defenses with Primal Unity Sacred Light, but Li Rui refused to accept defeat and unleashed the Divine Light Glazed World.
• Fang Yang struck Li Rui with a sacred-light seal, badly wounding him and ending the fight.
• The disciples recognized that Li Rui's defeat meant Fang Yang would inherit the Candidate Holy Son Position, and Fang Yang returned to the tea gathering while the tea was still warm.
• Fang Yang dismissed the guests and told Li Daoming that he did not trust them with his heart.
• Li Daoming gave Fang Yang the Candidate Holy Son jade token and directed him to study the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron after consolidating his cultivation.
• Fang Yang gained 2,000 Fate Points for becoming a Candidate Holy Son, bringing his total to 3,265.

Fang Yang used ten-pulls to obtain the Sun Emperor Fist and the Purple Qi Coming from the East vision, then considered how to strengthen himself and gain more Fate Points. Meanwhile, Li Rui sought Yaoguang Holy Son’s backing after losing the Candidate Holy Son Position, but the Holy Son scorned him.

• Fang Yang’s draws yielded Hundred Herb Liquid, Hundred Beast Milk, Heavenly Dew, and the Yin Yang Twin Flames, which he saw as a potential foundation for studying the Dao of Yin and Yang.
• Fang Yang drew the Sun Emperor Fist and weighed its value against his lack of a complete Emperor Scripture and the difficulty of taking the Holy Lord Position.
• Fang Yang obtained Purple Qi Coming from the East and engraved the vision into his sea of consciousness, deciding it suited his cultivation.
• Li Rui offered to serve Yaoguang Holy Son and asked to be taken in, hoping to gain resources and eventually take revenge on Fang Yang.
• Yaoguang Holy Son mocked Li Rui’s dejection and refused to treat him as an equal, so Li Rui fell to both knees and prostrated himself.

Fang Yang received a Blood Diamond from Li Daoqing but declined to use it for his Dao Proving Weapon, then studied the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron’s Dao patterns for seven days. He returned to his cave abode and teased Weiwei about her cultivation, leaving her newly content with being weaker than her junior brother.

• Li Daoqing praised Fang Yang for defeating Li Rui and advised him to wait before challenging the Yaoguang Holy Son.
• Li Daoqing gave Fang Yang a Blood Diamond rough-cut blank, which Fang Yang accepted while deciding not to make it his Dao Proving Weapon.
• Li Daoqing let Fang Yang record the Dao patterns on the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron for seven days while he studied the Yaoguang Scripture.
• After seven days, Fang Yang left the side hall and returned to his cave abode, where Weiwei teased him.
• Fang Yang asked why Weiwei had not reached Dao Palace Grand Completion, and she accepted that her junior brother had surpassed her.

Fang Yang cultivated the Purple Qi Coming from the East phenomenon and set out for the area near Taixuan Sect. He arrived in Yao Guang Sacred Land’s Southern Region and learned that the Ji Family’s attempt to seize the Green Emperor’s Emperor Weapon had failed.

• Fang Yang decided to cultivate the Purple Qi Coming from the East phenomenon before leaving to seek opportunities through combat.
• Nine days later, Fang Yang manifested the phenomenon for three hundred li, and Li Daoming recognized it as an opportunity Fang Yang had gained himself.
• Li Daoming gave Fang Yang travel advice, a white jade cauldron with Mystic Jade Platforms and protective forbidden artifacts, and urged him to value his life.
• Fang Yang used six Domain Gates to travel toward Taixuan Sect, bought a copy of the Yaoguang Secret Records, and reached a city in Yao Guang Sacred Land’s Southern Region.
• The city’s governor told Fang Yang that the Ji Family’s future Divine King had failed to seize the Green Emperor’s Emperor Weapon because Yan Ruyu escaped.

Fang Yang waited on Zhuo Peak for its hidden inheritance to awaken, then seized a brief resonance with the Natural Dao when Ye Fan wielded the Zhuo Bow against Star Peak disciples. Li Ruoyu placed the bow on Zhuo Peak’s Nine-Step Heavenly Staircase, but the inheritance had not yet fully appeared.

• Ji Ziyue explained that Zhuo Peak held one of the Nine Secrets, a technique that could multiply a cultivator’s combat power, and described how its inheritance had gone dormant after its former master and Yaoguang’s Supreme Elder died.
• Fang Yang reached Zhuo Peak, chose to wait on a subsidiary peak, and studied the Sun Emperor Fist while Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue joined Taixuan Sect.
• Ye Fan joined Zhuo Peak while Ji Ziyue was recruited to Star Peak, and Star Peak disciples later confronted Ye Fan after he barbecued on the mountain.
• Li Ruoyu gave Ye Fan the Zhuo Bow, and Ye Fan’s threat with an arrow formed from one of Zhuo Peak’s black crows drove the Star Peak disciples away.
• Fang Yang sensed the Natural Dao’s resonance through the Zhuo Bow’s crow spirit and entered Zhuo Peak’s Dao intent to study it.
• Li Ruoyu placed the Zhuo Bow on the Nine-Step Heavenly Staircase, where flames and Divine Law Chains appeared, but Zhuo Peak’s inheritance remained dormant.

Fang Yang comprehended Nine Secrets: Jie from Zhuo Peak’s natural transformations, then was discovered by Li Ruoyu and taken before the Taixuan Sect. The Taixuan Sect Master proposed settling the dispute with a contest against six disciples, leaving Fang Yang facing a challenge from stronger opponents.

• Li Ruoyu entered Zhuo Peak’s inheritance, while Ye Fan used the Bodhi Seed to comprehend Nine Secrets: Jie.
• Fang Yang used a Bodhi Leaf to fully comprehend Nine Secrets: Jie, but Li Ruoyu discovered him and learned that he was a Candidate Holy Son of the Yao Guang Sacred Land.
• Li Ruoyu transported Fang Yang to Zhuo Peak and said he would remain in the Taixuan Sect until the Yao Guang Sacred Land ransomed him.
• The Taixuan Sect Master and elders confirmed Fang Yang’s identity from his Candidate Holy Son Token.
• The Taixuan Sect Master proposed that Fang Yang face six Taixuan Sect disciples and said the matter would be settled if Fang Yang defeated one of them.

Fang Yang accepted Taixuan Sect's challenge matches and defeated Lin Yi with a single strike, forcing the Taixuan Sect Master to change his plans. The next challenger was Hua Yunfei, Taixuan Sect's acclaimed young prodigy.

• Fang Yang agreed to settle the dispute through challenge matches, while Li Ruoyu left without getting involved.
• Ji Ziyue told Ye Fan that Taixuan Sect would likely arrange opponents to test Fang Yang and preserve its reputation.
• Lin Yi challenged Fang Yang, but his Primordial Sacred Light palm strike overwhelmed her and left her unconscious.
• The Taixuan Sect Master secretly changed the next challengers and invited Fang Yang to fight again; Fang Yang accepted.
• Hua Yunfei appeared as Fang Yang's next opponent, and Ji Ziyue told Ye Fan that Hua Yunfei had once narrowly lost a friendly match to Ji Haoyue.

Fang Yang defeated Hua Yunfei in a public battle between Yao Guang Sacred Land and Taixuan Sect, earning 1,000 Fate Points. The onlookers were stunned, while Fang Yang acknowledged that neither fighter had used their full strength.

• Hua Yunfei opened with Stars Shining on the Blue Sky, and Fang Yang countered with Purple Qi Coming from the East.
• Hua Yunfei used the Star Peak Secret Art, Stars Ablaze, Becoming a Sea, but Fang Yang answered with the Primordial Sacred Light Art and conjured a cauldron resembling the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• Fang Yang's ten thousand dragon heads devoured Hua Yunfei's sea of stars, and Hua Yunfei conceded defeat.
• Fang Yang gained 1,000 Fate Points for defeating Hua Yunfei and decided against considering killing him because he had no grudge against him and feared the Ruthless Lineage.
• Fang Yang modestly credited his victory to the advantage of an Extreme Emperor Weapon, while admitting to himself that Hua Yunfei had not used his full strength.
• Ye Fan teased Ji Ziyue about Fang Yang's victory, and she defended her brother Ji Haoyue's ability to defeat Hua Yunfei.

Fang Yang drew the Source Technique Treasure Record and traveled to Yao Guang Sacred Land’s mining zone, only to flee when the Tenth Great Bandit attacked. He later intervened when bandits threatened a village, and his sword killed thirty-six of them.

• Ye Fan decided to leave Taixuan Sect for the Northern Domain, hoping to find resources and eventually catch up to Fang Yang.
• Fang Yang drew the Source Technique Treasure Record, memorized its teachings, and traveled through a Domain Gate to a mining zone.
• Fang Yang recognized the Tenth Great Bandit leading a raid and used a Snake Talisman to turn invisible and escape.
• Bandits in a village prepared to execute three elders after demanding Pure Source from the villagers.
• A young man cursed the bandits, and a flash of sword light killed all thirty-six, earning three Fate Points.

Fang Yang hunted down Sun Kun and his bandits, earning enough Fate Points to draw a rare treasure: essence blood from a Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body. He considered refining it to strengthen his physical body.

• Fang Yang left the village after killing thirty-six bandits and reflected that Fate Points came from killing people with whom he had a grudge.
• In Li City, Sun Kun complained that someone had killed his men while his subordinate worried over how to deal with the mysterious attacker.
• Fang Yang entered the tavern and killed Sun Kun and his subordinates with a fist of divine power, earning 500 Fate Points.
• Fang Yang escaped Li City with the Snake Talisman and collected Pure Source, Exotic Ice-Snow Source, and other spoils.
• After accumulating 1,231 Fate Points, Fang Yang drew a red card containing Essence Blood of a Great Accomplishment Tyrant Body and considered using it to refine his body.

Fang Yang refined his body with a trace of Great Completion Tyrant Blood, strengthening himself and glimpsing the Kunpeng Divine Form before absorbing the Mysterious Yellow Flame. He then began drawing the Yin Yang Twin Flames into his Bitter Sea to refine them.

• Fang Yang sealed his cave with Dao patterns, then used the Replica of the Supreme Emperor Sword to shave off and swallow a tiny trace of Tyrant Body Essence Blood.
• Fang Yang endured the blood's violent refinement for half a month, using his divine sense and cultivation techniques to strengthen his body and expand his secret realms.
• Fang Yang absorbed the trace of Tyrant Blood and glimpsed the true meaning of the Kunpeng Divine Form before sealing the remaining essence blood in the Blood Diamond Treasure Tripod.
• Fang Yang summoned the Mysterious Yellow Flame and used the power of his five Dao Palaces to subdue it and draw it into his Spleen Dao Palace.
• Fang Yang sent chains of divine light from his Bitter Sea to wrap around the Yin Yang Twin Flames and began drawing them in.

Yao Xi and Weiwei faced a Great Bandit assault on Yaoguang's mining area while the Holy Lord battled Peacock King. Ye Fan tried to escape the chaos, but Fang Yang arrived with a Mysterious Yellow Cauldron and joined the fight, drawing the bandits' attention.

• Yao Xi and Weiwei waited for the Holy Lord of Yaoguang after an old woman took the Pyramid from the mining area.
• Green Flood Dragon King, Tu Tian, and Peacock King ambushed the Holy Lord, who fought Peacock King away from the mining area while the Great Bandits attacked the Yaoguang defenders.
• Ye Fan tried to slip out of the battlefield and recognized Fang Yang arriving on a cauldron made from Mysterious Yellow Qi.
• Fang Yang killed a bandit with a Sacred Light Great Palm Seal and sent his Mysterious Yellow Cauldron crushing enemy cultivators.
• Bandits targeted Fang Yang to seize his cauldron as Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators moved behind him to attack.

Fang Yang fought through the bandits, killing a Dragon Transformation cultivator with his fists while Weiwei and Yao Xi joined forces with the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron. He struck back at a Dragon Transformation bandit with the Sun Emperor Fist, drawing the attention of powerful cultivators and leaving the bandit with no way to escape or defend himself.

• A Dragon Transformation cultivator ambushed Fang Yang, but Fang Yang snapped his dagger, dodged the returning blade, and killed him with three punches, gaining 600 Fate Points.
• Fang Yang charged into the battlefield while controlling the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron, and Yao Xi expressed disbelief at his physical strength to Weiwei.
• Weiwei joined forces with the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron to sweep through the enemy cultivators, then let Yao Xi enter the cauldron and fight alongside her.
• Fang Yang met two battling Dragon Transformation cultivators, bent a Brass Pagoda with his fist, and unleashed the Sun Emperor Fist against its wielder.
• The Sun Emperor Fist drew the attention of Immortal Platform cultivators and overwhelmed the Dragon Transformation bandit, who unleashed his four weapons as his opponent fled.

Fang Yang killed a Dragon Transformation bandit with the Sun Emperor Fist, drawing attention to his forbidden secret art. After the battle turned against the bandits and they withdrew, he healed injured Yao Guang disciples with his Yin Yang Twin Flames and retreated to a stone house.

• Fang Yang used the Sun Emperor Fist to destroy a Dragon Transformation bandit's four fused weapons and kill him, gaining 800 Fate Points.
• Yao Guang disciples recognized the Sun Emperor Fist, and an elder noted Fang Yang had driven it with the Yaoguang Scripture rather than the Sun True Scripture.
• Fang Yang continued seeking opponents until the Jiang Family forces arrived, prompting the Peacock King to retreat with the Green Flood Dragon King, Tu Tian, and their troops.
• The Holy Lord of Yaoguang, Li Daoqing, thanked the Jiang Family's Supreme Elder, while the disciples tended to their dead and wounded.
• Fang Yang healed the Yao Guang disciples with pure white flames from his Yin Yang Twin Flames, earning their gratitude before speaking with Weiwei and Yao Xi.
• Fang Yang withdrew to an empty stone house and checked that he had 3266 Fate Points.

Fang Yang drew several rare cards, absorbed a Mortal Body Origin, and refined the Flame of Living Beings before preparing to travel to the Holy City with Weiwei and Yao Xi. Li Daoqing warned him about the danger of possessing the Sun Emperor Fist and gave him a Mystic Jade Platform, while Yao Xi declined Fang Yang’s request to spar.

• Fang Yang drew Heaven-Reaching Creation Dew and Flame of Living Beings, chose to save the dew, and decided to refine the flame.
• Fang Yang fused with the Mortal Body Origin, strengthening his origin and the Five Elements Divine Light.
• Li Daoqing praised Fang Yang’s luck, warned him that the Sun Emperor Fist could attract greedy pursuers, and gave him a Mystic Jade Platform that could transport him five thousand li.
• After refining the Flame of Living Beings, Fang Yang emerged with a stronger foundation and nearly a hundred additional years of lifespan.
• Weiwei and Yao Xi arrived to travel with Fang Yang to the Holy City, and Yao Xi declined his invitation to spar.

Fang Yang visited the ruined Tianxuan Stone Workshop in Holy City and used his Source Heaven Divine Sense to inspect its stones. As Yao Xi and Weiwei joined him, a Tuoba Clan cultivator decided to gamble on stones to show off before Yao Xi.

• Yao Xi admired the still-standing Tianxuan Stone Workshop, and Fang Yang entered to look for hidden treasures.
• Fang Yang asked Tianxuan Saint about the prices, then used his Source Heaven Divine Sense to examine the stones while Weiwei watched.
• Weiwei sensed vitality inside a fist-sized stone, but Fang Yang picked it up first and continued searching.
• Yao Xi entered the workshop as a Tuoba Clan cultivator and his friend discussed Fang Yang's strength and Source Technique.
• Goaded by his friend and eager to impress Yao Xi, the Tuoba Clan cultivator searched for stones to challenge Fang Yang.

Fang Yang chose and cut stones at Tianxuan Stone Workshop while Yao Xi helped him, ultimately uncovering a valuable Exotic Source and a Human Origin Fruit. Tuoba Sheng left in embarrassment, and the crowd pressed Fang Yang to sell the prized fruit.

• Yao Xi carried Fang Yang’s chosen stones as he used Source Technique to search the workshop.
• Fang Yang paid six pounds of Pure Source for his stones, and Tuoba Sheng bought six stones of his own.
• Fang Yang’s first stone was empty, while Tuoba Sheng cut through five empty stones before finding a small Purple Crystal Source in his last one.
• Fang Yang uncovered a fist-sized Exotic Source and a Human Origin Fruit, leaving Tuoba Sheng stunned and prompting him to slip away.
• The crowd praised Fang Yang and asked him to sell the Human Origin Fruit.

Fang Yang rejected Jiang Yixuan’s offer for the Human Origin Fruit and exchanged it with Li Cheng for the Demon Fetus. He discovered that the stone contained a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed, while the Tuoba Clan Head ordered his son to defeat him.

• Fang Yang finished cutting the last stone, which was empty, and refused Jiang Yixuan’s offer of Source and a favor for the Human Origin Fruit.
• Weiwei asked Fang Yang to cut her stone later, and they haggled over how to split anything inside it.
• Rumors about Fang Yang’s Stone Gambling victory spread through the Holy City, while Yao Xi told him that elders were bidding for the Human Origin Fruit.
• Fang Yang chose Li Cheng’s offer and secretly traded him the Human Origin Fruit for the Demon Fetus, which he put into the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron.
• Fang Yang identified the Demon Fetus’s contents as a Qilin Immortal Medicine seed and planned to try cultivating it.
• The Tuoba Clan Head ordered Chang'er to defeat Fang Yang.

Fang Yang and Weiwei discovered a Golden Stone Gall, shared its benefits, and used it to improve their Source Technique abilities. Fang Yang then opened the Demon Fetus and revealed the Qilin Immortal Medicine seed, which he chose to nurture cautiously.

• Weiwei and Fang Yang found a Golden Stone Gall in the stone, and Fang Yang explained its rarity and ability to help cultivate a Heavenly Eye.
• Weiwei offered to split the gall with Fang Yang, who agreed to teach her Source Heaven Divine Sense from the Source Technique Treasure Record.
• Fang Yang divided the gall's juice between them, and they dripped it into their eyes to strengthen their Source Heaven Divine Sense.
• After reaching Great Accomplishment in Source Heaven Divine Sense, Fang Yang used it to glimpse the sleeping Qilin inside the Demon Fetus.
• Fang Yang cut open the Demon Fetus with the Supreme Emperor Sword and revealed the Qilin Immortal Medicine seed.
• Fang Yang poured Divine Spring Water over the seed but decided not to use Heaven-Reaching Creation Dew, fearing he could mishandle the Undying Medicine.