Chapter Summaries

After Tuoba Chang challenged Fang Yang to a public source technique match, Fang Yang insulted the Tuoba Clan and other source technique clans, then accepted Holy Lord Li Daoqing’s request to challenge Grandmaster Tuoba. His display of skill impressed Li Daoqing, and the challenge set a contest in motion as the source technique grandmasters gathered in Holy City.

• Tuoba Chang publicly challenged Fang Yang to a source technique gambling match, and Fang Yang responded by denouncing the Tuoba Clan and insulting the ancient source technique clans.
• Li Rui criticized Fang Yang, so Fang Yang returned to Yao Guang Sacred Land and beat him outside his cave abode.
• Li Daoqing asked Fang Yang to prove his source technique skill, and Fang Yang opened a Blazing Sun Stone to reveal a human-sized Divine Source.
• Li Daoqing told Fang Yang that the Tuoba Clan’s old grandmaster was spreading rumors with help from Sacred Land elders, and Fang Yang agreed to challenge him.
• Li Daoqing’s intervention spread news of the challenge through Holy City, and Grandmaster Tuoba agreed to face Fang Yang despite the other grandmasters’ mockery.

Fang Yang challenged Grandmaster Tuoba to a stone-gambling contest at Wanchu Stone Workshop, wagering a million jin of Pure Source. After selecting three stones, Fang Yang began the contest by cutting open the Dragon Chant Stone and revealing a golden Dragon Loach, leaving Grandmaster Tuoba stunned.

• Fang Yang arrived at Wanchu Stone Workshop, where disciples taunted him and Grandmaster Tuoba questioned whether he could meet the wager.
• Fang Yang invoked Li Daoqing, the Holy Lord of Yaoguang, as proof he could cover the million-jin stake.
• Fang Yang used his Source Heaven Divine Sense to select the Yin-Yang Stone, the Blood Phoenix Stone, and the Dragon Chant Stone.
• Fang Yang challenged Grandmaster Tuoba to add the treasures hidden in their stones to the wager, and Grandmaster Tuoba agreed.
• Fang Yang cut open the Dragon Chant Stone and revealed a golden Dragon Loach, leaving Grandmaster Tuoba speechless.

Fang Yang uncovered several rare treasures and decisively defeated Grandmaster Tuoba in their stone-cutting wager. Grandmaster Tuoba admitted defeat and promised to pay the million jin of Source tomorrow, while Fang Yang gained 2,000 Fate Points.

• The Great Xia Old Imperial Uncle offered 500,000 jin of Source for Fang Yang’s Dead Dragon Loach, but Fang Yang refused and continued cutting stones.
• Fang Yang uncovered Phoenix Blood Red Gold while Grandmaster Tuoba found a tattered stone page, and Fang Yang then extracted Mystic Yang Source and Mystic Yin Source from the Yin-Yang Stone.
• Grandmaster Tuoba found nothing in his second stone and only a small Divine Source in his third, leaving his haul far less valuable than Fang Yang’s treasures.
• Fang Yang demanded the million jin of Source owed under their wager, and Grandmaster Tuoba admitted defeat and promised to pay tomorrow.
• Fang Yang collected the stone page and Divine Source and received 2,000 Fate Points for defeating Grandmaster Tuoba.

After Fang Yang defeated Grandmaster Tuoba, he returned to the Yao Guang Sacred Land and gave his master Li Daoming a Dragon Loach worth a fortune. Li Daoming and Li Daoqing brought it to the aging Wang Zheng, hoping its life-extending power would help preserve the Holy Lord Lineage.

• Fang Yang's defeat of Grandmaster Tuoba spread through the Holy City, attracting visitors to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, but he had already returned to the Yao Guang Sacred Land.
• Fang Yang visited Li Daoming, gave him a Dragon Loach, and accepted his master's advice to cultivate in seclusion.
• Li Daoming told Li Daoqing he wanted to give the Dragon Loach to Wang Zheng, whose remaining years were few and whose survival could help the declining Holy Lord Lineage.
• Li Daoqing and Li Daoming reached Wang Zheng's secluded stone hut and offered him the Dragon Loach.
• After Li Daoqing explained that Fang Yang had obtained the treasure, Wang Zheng accepted it with gratitude and remorse, while Li Daoming reassured him by joking that Fang Yang might find an Undying Divine Medicine someday.

Fang Yang drew a Supreme Bone containing the Yin Yang Tribulation Light Precious Technique, then broke through to the second level of the Four Extremities Realm by enduring three Heavenly Tribulations. As Fang Yang cultivated his many secret arts, the Yaoguang Holy Son grew wary of him and planned to defeat him and recruit him.

• Fang Yang drew a red Supreme Bone containing the Yin Yang Tribulation Light Precious Technique and decided to study it after his breakthrough.
• Fang Yang endured three rounds of Heavenly Tribulation with his physical body and entered the second level of the Four Extremities Realm.
• Disciples praised Fang Yang and called him Holy Son Fang, while he brushed them off and returned to cultivate in seclusion.
• Li Rui warned the Yaoguang Holy Son that Fang Yang's growing power threatened his position, and the Holy Son ordered Li Rui to leave.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son resolved to crush Fang Yang when he challenged him, then accept him as a subordinate for his Source Technique talents.
• Fang Yang cultivated his secret arts and recognized that Nine Secrets: Jie activated too rarely for him to rely on it in battle.

Fang Yang used Heavenly Dew to restore more of the Supreme Bone’s Yin Yang Tribulation Light, then advanced to the third heaven of the Four Extremities Realm after a long secluded cultivation. He decided to challenge fellow Candidate Holy Sons to gain Fate Points, and left Yao Xi with three challenge letters to deliver.

• Fang Yang nourished the Supreme Bone with all his Heavenly Dew and recorded dozens of newly restored Bone Script characters for the Yin Yang Tribulation Light.
• Fang Yang brewed Enlightenment Tea with Divine Spring Water and meditated in seclusion for two and a half months.
• Fang Yang tempered the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron through three stages of thunder tribulation and advanced to the third heaven of the Four Extremities Realm.
• Fang Yang emerged from seclusion and asked Yao Xi to list the Candidate Holy Sons in the Four Extremities Realm so he could challenge them.
• Yao Xi told Fang Yang about the candidates, and Fang Yang selected three suitable opponents and asked her to deliver his challenge letters.

Fang Yang challenged the three strongest Candidate Holy Sons and defeated each of them, displaying overwhelming strength and rare techniques. After Li Ning warned him that the Yaoguang Holy Son was hiding his true power, Fang Yang met the Holy Son’s gaze from across the grounds, leaving their confrontation ahead.

• Yao Xi delivered Fang Yang’s challenge letters to the three strongest Candidate Holy Sons, and they dismissed his chances.
• Fang Yang defeated the first Candidate Holy Son with his physical strength and Primordial Sacred Light, then defeated the second with a single attack.
• Li Ning revealed his Primordial Dharma Realm and fought Fang Yang, but Fang Yang broke through it with the Five Elements Divine Sword and won.
• Fang Yang revived Li Ning with the yang flame of the Yin Yang Twin Flames, and Li Ning warned him that the Yaoguang Holy Son was hiding his strength.
• Fang Yang looked toward the pavilion, where the Yaoguang Holy Son met his gaze.

After defeating the top Candidate Holy Sons, Fang Yang used Heavenly Dew to strengthen the Yin Yang Tribulation Light and challenged the Yaoguang Holy Son. The battle for the Holy Son Position was set for three days later, and Fang Yang assured Li Daoming that he would win.

• Fang Yang spent his Fate Points on two card draws and obtained Shangqing War Fist, Vajra Seal, and a large amount of Heavenly Dew.
• Fang Yang submerged his Supreme Bone in the Heavenly Dew, strengthening the Yin Yang Tribulation Light gestating inside it.
• After three days of secluded cultivation, Fang Yang sent a Primordial Sacred Sword to the Yaoguang Holy Son with a challenge for the Battle Stage three days later.
• Yao Guang Sacred Land's disciples debated whether Fang Yang or the Yaoguang Holy Son would win their coming battle.
• Li Daoming asked Fang Yang if he would win, and Fang Yang reassured his master that he would take the Holy Son Position.

Fang Yang defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son in the succession battle and claimed the Holy Son Position. As the crowd hailed him, Fang Yang looked forward to another life-or-death duel with his defeated rival.

• Fang Yang repeatedly circulated Nine Secrets: Jie while waiting for the Yaoguang Holy Son to arrive, triggering its power seventeen times.
• Fang Yang ambushed the Yaoguang Holy Son with Primordial Sacred Light, then overwhelmed his defenses with Yin Yang Tribulation Light.
• Li Ning's master admired Fang Yang's unfamiliar technique and asked Li Daoming to introduce them, but Li Daoming refused to answer.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son used the Ruthless Person Secret Technique to recover from his injuries but admitted defeat rather than reveal the forbidden art.
• The crowd hailed Fang Yang as the new Holy Son, and he anticipated a future duel with the Yaoguang Holy Son.

Fang Yang became the Yaoguang Holy Son and received treasures and guidance from the elders. Meanwhile, the defeated former Holy Son learned that his mysterious master, Wuming, expected him to defeat Fang Yang within three years.

• Li Daoqing named Fang Yang the Yaoguang Holy Son and gave him a jade pendant and an imitation Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron.
• The Supreme Elders praised Fang Yang and gave him precious treasures, hoping to gain priority in future trades for life-extending medicines.
• Li Daoqing advised Fang Yang to make friends and test himself against prodigies from other major powers.
• Wuming berated the former Yaoguang Holy Son for losing to Fang Yang and gave him three years to prove his worth.
• The former Holy Son reflected on his lack of a name and murmured that he hoped Hua Yunfei would not disappoint him.

Fang Yang used Dao Tribulation Gold to forge a Yin Yang Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron that strengthened his Bitter Sea, then traveled to Holy City, where Ji Haoyue learned of his rise and wanted to fight him.

• Fang Yang drew Dao Tribulation Gold and decided to forge it into his Dao Proving Weapon.
• Fang Yang entered the Fire Domain and spent thirty days shaping the Dao Tribulation Gold into a cauldron, fusing it with divine patterns, and inscribing the Bone Script of Yin Yang Tribulation Light.
• The completed cauldron entered Fang Yang's Bitter Sea, where it divided yin and yang qi and strengthened his foundations.
• Fang Yang decided to go to Holy City, hoping to challenge Ji Haoyue and gain Fate Points.
• Word spread through Holy City that Fang Yang had defeated the previous Yaoguang Holy Son and taken his position.
• At the Ji Family Stone Workshop, Ji Haoyue expressed his desire to fight Fang Yang.

Fang Yang traveled to the Holy City to challenge Ji Haoyue, the Ji Family’s Eastern Wasteland Divine Body, and arrived at the Ji Family Stone Workshop to request a spar. The workshop staff sent word to Ji Haoyue while nervously trying to keep Fang Yang from gambling on their stones.

• Ji Ziyue persuaded Ji Haoyue to abandon his plan to visit Fang Yang, and he agreed to keep a low profile after his father’s punishment.
• Fang Yang collected a million jin of Pure Source from Li Cheng at the Yaoguang Stone Workshop and asked where he could find Ji Haoyue.
• Li Cheng told Fang Yang that Ji Haoyue had recently been seen at the Ji Family Stone Workshop and warned him about Ji Haoyue’s Void Emperor inheritance.
• Fang Yang entered the Ji Family Stone Workshop and asked its staff to summon Ji Haoyue for a friendly spar.
• The Ji Family staff split up to notify Ji Haoyue and keep Fang Yang occupied, while onlookers gathered around the Holy Son of Yao Guang.

Fang Yang visited the Ji Family Stone Workshop and fought Ji Haoyue, testing himself against the Ji Family Divine Body without relying on his strongest trump cards. Their manifestations collided in a destructive clash that left both of them wounded.

• Fang Yang met Ji Haoyue and Ji Ziyue, then accepted Ji Haoyue's invitation to spar in the workshop's hidden grounds.
• Fang Yang opened with the Yellow Mud Hand, but Ji Haoyue countered it with the Void Great Handprint.
• Fang Yang cleaved through Ji Haoyue's attack with Five Elements Divine Light, prompting Ji Haoyue to summon Bright Moon Rising Over the Sea.
• Fang Yang answered with Purple Qi Coming from the East and suppressed Ji Haoyue's moon and sea manifestation.
• The manifestations clashed and exploded, leaving Ji Haoyue bleeding and Fang Yang wounded at the fingertip.

Fang Yang defeated Ji Haoyue in a fierce battle, then agreed to keep the outcome private in exchange for learning the Sky-Stepping Step. He left the Ji Family Stone Workshop after quickly mastering the technique.

• Ji Haoyue used Void Severing Two Worlds against Fang Yang, but Fang Yang countered with Yin Yang Tribulation Light and left him badly wounded.
• Ji Ziyue's eyes were injured by the clash, and she healed them before finding Ji Haoyue defeated; Ji Yanzhi confirmed that his son was safe after he fainted.
• Ji Yanzhi asked Fang Yang to keep the battle and its outcome secret because the Ji Family was fighting alongside Yao Guang Sacred Land against their enemies.
• After Ji Ziyue left, Ji Yanzhi taught Fang Yang the Sky-Stepping Step in exchange for his silence.
• Fang Yang memorized the technique, crossed dozens of zhang with a single step, and departed the Ji Family Stone Workshop.

After defeating Ji Haoyue, Fang Yang gained Fate Points and drew the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens and the complete Void Scripture. He studied the Void Scripture’s secret arts, perfected the Sky-Stepping Step, and headed to a banquet at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion as rumors claimed Ji Haoyue had badly injured him.

• Fang Yang checked his reward for defeating Ji Haoyue and received 3,000 Fate Points.
• Fang Yang drew the gold Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens, studied its teachings, and decided not to cultivate its Human Immortal Martial Dao for now.
• Fang Yang drew the gold Void Scripture and manifested its six Eternal Blue Gold pages, then dismissed a Byakugan card and fed a drop of Heavenly Dew to his Supreme Bone.
• Fang Yang studied the Void Scripture’s first three scrolls and used the Great Void Art to perfect Ji Yanzhi’s Sky-Stepping Step.
• Fang Yang left for a banquet at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion while hearing rumors that Ji Haoyue had gravely wounded him.

Fang Yang attended a winter gathering at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where the Yaochi Saintess sought to befriend him for his Source Technique expertise. She offered him obscure sentences connected to the legendary Six Seals of Forbidden Immortals in exchange for future help sealing an unusual stone, and Fang Yang agreed.

• Fang Yang arrived at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and joined Yao Yuekong, Xia Yiming, Xia Yilin, and the Yaochi Saintess for wine beneath the plum trees.
• The Yaochi Saintess explained that she had arranged the gathering to build a connection with Fang Yang, whose Source Technique expertise might help Yaochi seal unusual stones in the future.
• Yao Yuekong asked whether Fang Yang had inherited a Source Heaven Master's legacy, and Fang Yang denied it before asking about Yaochi's connection to Source Technique.
• The Yaochi Saintess offered Fang Yang several obscure sentences associated with the legendary Six Seals of Forbidden Immortals.
• The Yaochi Saintess asked Fang Yang to help Yaochi seal an unusual stone once in the future, and Fang Yang accepted.

After the Yaochi Saintess passed Fang Yang the key to the Six Seals of Forbidden Immortals, Yao Yuekong revealed who had spread rumors about Fang Yang’s defeat. Fang Yang left with revenge in mind, while Ji Haoyue regained his fighting spirit after Ji Yanzhi urged him to rise above his loss.

• The Yaochi Saintess secretly taught Fang Yang forty-nine key characters of the Six Seals of Forbidden Immortals, and he recognized their value.
• After the gathering, Yao Yuekong told Fang Yang that Sun Tianyun had started rumors about his defeat and that Jiang Yixuan had fanned them; he also reported signs of the Ji Family’s involvement.
• Ji Yanzhi told Ji Haoyue not to despair over losing to Fang Yang, reminding him that the Langu Great Emperor had become an emperor after a hundred defeats.
• Ji Haoyue reflected on his father’s words and recovered his desire to contend on the Emperor Road.
• Fang Yang decided to postpone confronting the Ji Family, but resolved to punish Jiang Yixuan and destroy much of Sun Tianyun’s bloodline.

Fang Yang killed Jiang Yixuan and left traces of the Ji Family’s Void Great Handprint, prompting the Jiang Family to blame the Ji Family. The Jiang Family’s Holy Lord faced a difficult choice over whether to seek justice or avoid a conflict.

• Jiang Yixuan drunkenly complained about Fang Yang before passing out in the Jiang Family Stone Workshop.
• Fang Yang bypassed the workshop’s defenses and killed Jiang Yixuan with the Void Great Handprint, leaving evidence of its aura behind.
• Jiang Yixuan’s maid discovered his body, and his family began searching for the killer.
• Jiang Yixuan’s second uncle identified the Void Great Handprint and accused the Ji Family of killing him.
• The Jiang Family’s Holy Lord confirmed the technique’s aura and weighed the risks of confronting the Ji Family.

Fang Yang disguised himself as a Ji Family cultivator and attacked a bandit fortress to capture Sun Gan, while also killing Xu Yuan, grandson of the Third Great Bandit. After defeating Xu Yuan and his guards, Fang Yang gained 1,000 Fate Points and wondered whether the reward included Xu Tianxiong’s shattered divine sense.

• Fang Yang tracked down Sun Tianyun’s grandson, Sun Gan, at the last surviving bandit fortress in An Prefecture.
• Fang Yang destroyed the fortress gate and killed its guards, then scattered two Four Extremities cultivators’ attacks with Innate Void Qi.
• Fang Yang found Sun Gan with Xu Yuan and two Four Extremities cultivators, and Xu Yuan tried to leave once he learned Fang Yang had come for Sun Gan.
• Fang Yang killed the two Four Extremities cultivators and defeated Xu Tianxiong’s divine sense and Xu Yuan with his Void Secret Techniques.
• Fang Yang received 1,000 Fate Points for defeating Xu Yuan and his forces, and wondered whether the reward included Xu Tianxiong’s divine sense.

Fang Yang used a ten-pull to obtain dragon tooth rice, then endured a heavenly tribulation to break through to the final layer of the Four Extremities Secret Realm while harvesting lightning for treasure liquid. After reaching grand completion, he released Sun Gan, who begged him for mercy.

• Fang Yang hid in a cave, merged a mortal body origin into himself, and obtained ten grains of dragon tooth rice from a ten-pull.
• Fang Yang endured two waves of lightning tribulation and collected their power in the Dao Tribulation Gold Cauldron.
• Fang Yang withstood the four manifestations' tribulation, which tempered his primordial spirit and filled the cauldron with lightning tribulation treasure liquid.
• Fang Yang opened his four extremities and reached grand completion in the Four Extremities Secret Realm.
• Fang Yang packed his belongings and released Sun Gan from the Mysterious Yellow Cauldron, and Sun Gan begged him to spare his life.