Recaps

Fang Yu cultivated the Five Emperors' Great Devil Divine Ability, then agreed to Wen Qing's request to kill Six Paths Ultimate Sage in exchange for resolving her cultivation troubles and accepting her as his woman. He confronted Six Paths Ultimate Sage on Saint Demon Island and challenged him to break the newly formed Five Emperors' Canopy.

• Fang Yu directed Xiang Zhili and the other cultivators to search for a spatial node in Five Dragons Sea, then revealed that Han Li had reached the Deity Transformation stage.
• Fang Yu cultivated the Black Emperor's Water Emperor Fist, the White Emperor Golden Slash, and the Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Way by consuming spirit stone veins and materials.
• Wen Qing and Ling Xiaofeng asked Fang Yu to kill Six Paths Ultimate Sage and Wan Sangu, offering Star Palace and their daughter; Fang Yu also demanded Wen Qing, who accepted on the condition that Six Paths Ultimate Sage be killed first.
• Fang Yu went to Saint Demon Island and forced Six Paths Ultimate Sage to face him, allowing him to strike first if he could break Fang Yu's Five Emperors' Canopy.
• Six Paths Ultimate Sage accepted Fang Yu's challenge as the five-colored canopy rose above him.

Fang Yu killed Six Paths Ultimate Sage, rescued Madam Wen’s Nascent Soul, and continued to Heavenly Star City to claim Wen Qing’s promised cooperation. Wen Qing and Ling Xiaofeng secretly planned to kill Fang Yu, but he saw through them and began cultivating with Wen Qing, leaving the fate of their arrangement unresolved.

• Fang Yu killed Six Paths Ultimate Sage with one slap and took his storage pouch, then captured Madam Wen’s Nascent Soul from a jade-green bottle.
• Fang Yu met Ling Yuling near Heavenly Star City, rejected her in favor of Wen Qing, and entrusted her with finding Madam Wen a suitable body.
• Ling Yuling sent a message to Ling Xiaofeng, who learned that she was returning to Star Palace; Wen Qing insisted they use a secret technique to try to kill Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu arrived at Star Palace and confronted Wen Qing, revealing that he had anticipated her plan to kill him.
• Wen Qing admitted she had no choice, and Fang Yu embraced her, intending to help resolve her Magnetic Essence Divine Light drawback and advance her cultivation.

Fang Yu and Fang Han returned to the Fang Family before setting out for the Great Xuan Empire to find the Five Elements spiritual roots in the Wild Desolate Temple. At the Great Li Dynasty’s border, they encountered a massive battle, and Fang Yu let Fang Han gather its killing aura.

• Fang Yu collected fifty million White Sun Pills and sent five million Mountain River Bags to Elder Tian Gong before asking Fang Han to travel with him.
• Fang Yu told Fang Han and Yan that the Five Elements spiritual roots were in the Wild Desolate Temple, and Yan warned that the ruin was dangerous even to the Yellow Springs Emperor.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han returned to the Fang Family, then left for the Great Xuan Empire after declining Fang Qingwei’s offer to join them.
• Fang Han found Bai Haichan’s burial cave empty, and Fang Yu suggested that Bai Haichan might not have been dead.
• At the Great Li Dynasty’s border, Fang Yu told Fang Han to gather the killing aura from a battle between the Great De Dynasty and Great Li Dynasty, and Fang Han began collecting it as trouble approached.

Fang Yu and Fang Han disguised themselves as Linglong Paradise disciples to seize Spirit Young Master’s war and slaughter aura, then learned he had hired assassins to pursue them. They flew to the Great Xuan Empire to prepare for the fight and help Yan advance.

• Fang Yu concealed himself and Fang Han as women, and they confronted Spirit Young Master and his seven subordinates.
• Fang Yu trapped Spirit Young Master and the others with the Linglong Grand Firmament, claimed they were Linglong Paradise disciples, and demanded their war and slaughter aura as compensation.
• After escaping the trap, Spirit Young Master summoned three of the Forty Great Overseas Bandits and hired them to kill Fang Yu and Fang Han.
• Fang Yu chose not to use the seized aura yet and led Fang Han toward the Great Xuan Empire to prepare for the assassins and help Yan advance.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han entered a vast city in the Great Xuan Empire, where Fang Yu warned that their pursuers were likely Golden Core-level experts.

Fang Yu and Fang Han entered the Heavenly Dao Pavilion to buy resources and prepare for the three assassins pursuing them. After Fang Yu displayed his wealth, Thirteenth Lady offered to help locate weapons capable of killing Golden Core experts and mentioned the pavilion’s escort service.

• Fang Han realized Fang Yu intended to lure powerful pursuers so they could seize their Golden Cores and divine abilities.
• Star Annihilator, Moon Piercer, and Immortal Slayer followed the brothers into the Great Xuan Empire to fulfill Spirit Young Master's contract.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han reached the Heavenly Dao Pavilion, where Fang Han demonstrated his Celestial Being Realm cultivation to gain entry to the auction.
• Fang Yu showed Greenbrow a crystal card holding fifty million White Sun Pills, then asked Thirteenth Lady to find treasures that could kill seventh-level Divine Ability Realm experts.
• Thirteenth Lady offered to arrange the purchase and explained that the pavilion could provide protection but would not kill Fang Yu's opponents.

Fang Yu and Fang Han attended an auction at Heavenly Dao Pavilion, where Fang Yu secured a World Tree Fragment that could help him advance toward the Nascent Soul stage. They left with the fragment for Fang Yu and the Mountain God Pearl and Taiyi True Gold for Fang Han.

• Fang Yu declined Thirteenth Lady’s offer of guards, and Fang Han bought a block of Taiyi True Gold at the auction.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han ignored most of the auction until Fang Han bid against a veiled Linglong Paradise woman for the Mountain God Pearl, which Fang Yu won for three million White Sun Pills.
• Yan recognized the person-tall piece of unnamed divine wood as a World Tree Fragment, and Fang Yu bid aggressively to secure it.
• Fang Yu outbid the Linglong Paradise woman, an elder of the Sun-Moon Sword Sect, and a Great Heavenly Demon King, winning the fragment for three million White Sun Pills.
• Fang Yu paid Thirteenth Lady, placed the World Tree Fragment in the Yellow Springs Diagram for Yan to cleanse, and gave the Mountain God Pearl and Taiyi True Gold to Fang Han.

Fang Yu broke through to the Spirit Transformation realm and prepared for a major treasure sale, where he planned to secure a Kunpeng Egg before Meng Shaobai could claim it. Linglong Paradise's Piaoyun and Lianyun considered whether Fang Yu and Fang Han were the benefactors foretold by Linglong Immortal Venerable, while Fang Yu arranged a huge loan to fund his purchases.

• Fang Yu absorbed the World Tree debris and broke through to the Spirit Transformation realm, then learned that a larger treasure sale would take place in ten days.
• Piaoyun invited Fang Yu and Fang Han to Linglong Tower, asked about Fang Yu's mysterious divine wood, and offered them guest elder positions with generous support.
• After Fang Yu and Fang Han left, Lianyun and Piaoyun discussed whether they were the benefactors mentioned by Linglong Immortal Venerable and worried about the sect's coming calamity.
• Fang Yu spent ten days cultivating and refining two hundred thousand Nascent Soul Pills while Fang Han refined the Mountain God Pearl and Taiyi True Gold.
• At the Heavenly Dao Pavilion, Fang Yu offered Lianyun Nascent Soul Pills in exchange for five hundred million White Sun Pills, and Linglong Paradise accepted the deal.
• When the auction's first item was revealed to be a Kunpeng Egg, Fang Yu told Fang Han they had to obtain it before Meng Shaobai could.

Fang Yu and Fang Han attended the Heavenly Dao Pavilion’s treasure auction, where Fang Yu outbid Meng Shaobai for the Kunpeng giant egg and purchased numerous rare treasures. The auction’s final item was a pure yang tower ship that Fang Yu recognized as a Buddhist treasure.

• Fang Yu told Fang Han that Meng Shaobai had inherited the Lifeless Sword Sect’s legacy and planned to stop him from obtaining the Kunpeng giant egg.
• The Red-Hand Immortal revealed the Kunpeng giant egg, and Fang Yu outbid Meng Shaobai with a bid of one hundred and fifty million White Sun Pills.
• Fang Yu tricked Meng Shaobai into bidding thirty million for the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil Crystal, then bought the Bingfire Thunder Marsh Sand and many other auction treasures.
• Fang Yu’s purchases totaled hundreds of millions of White Sun Pills, prompting Drifting Cloud Fairy to wonder whether he could pay for them.
• The final item, an antique tower ship filled with pure yang aura, appeared, and Fang Yu identified it as a Buddhist pure yang treasure.

Fang Yu won the Great Brahma Light Ship at auction and agreed to help Nebula Baby obtain Nascent Soul Pills, but Meng Shaobai ambushed them afterward. Fang Yu defeated Meng Shaobai’s Lifeless Sword Art with a high-grade Dao artifact, leaving their conflict with the Eclosion Sect unresolved.

• Fang Yu outbid Meng Shaobai and bought the Great Brahma Light Ship for 230 million White Sun Pills.
• Nebula Baby traded three hundred million White Sun Pills for Nascent Soul Pills and told Fang Yu about his father’s plans for him and the Starry Gate succession.
• Fang Yu arranged to meet Fairy Lianyun for help against the bandits Immortal Slayer, Star Annihilator, and Moon Piercer.
• Meng Shaobai confronted Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Nebula Baby, demanding the Kunpeng giant egg and Great Brahma Light Ship.
• Meng Shaobai attacked Fang Han and Nebula Baby with Chaotic Slaughter, but Fang Yu rescued them and countered his Absolute Killing Sword with the White Emperor Golden Slash.
• Fang Yu crippled Meng Shaobai’s arm with a high-grade Dao artifact, and Meng Shaobai fled while vowing revenge.

Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Nebula Baby rested at the Linglong Tower while Yan absorbed the Great Brahma Light Ship’s pure yang energy and summoned the Bridge of Helplessness. After a month, Fang Yu went with his companions and Immortal Lianyun to confront the Immortal Slayer Bandits in the Wild Desolate Jungle, where he faced the Immortal Slayer Bandit and the Ghost Emperor.

• Fang Yu gave Immortal Lianyun and Drifting Cloud Fairy a gourd of Yellow Springs Sacred Water and promised to deliver their Nascent Soul Pills within a month.
• Fang Han refined the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil Crystal, while Yan absorbed the Great Brahma Light Ship’s pure yang energy and summoned the Bridge of Helplessness.
• Fang Yu spent a month refining Nascent Soul Pills and discussing cultivation with Immortal Lianyun and Drifting Cloud Fairy before setting out with Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and Immortal Lianyun for the Wild Desolate Temple.
• The Immortal Slayer Bandit confronted Fang Yu in the Wild Desolate Jungle and demanded that he hand over the Great Brahma Light Ship; Fang Yu mocked her and called for her companions to appear.
• The Ghost Emperor appeared to help the Immortal Slayer Bandit and attacked Fang Yu with Netherworld Ghostfire, but Fang Yu revealed that he had cultivated the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi.

Fang Yu and his allies fought the Ghost Emperor and the Immortal Slayer bandits, using their dao artifacts and Yan’s Abyssal qi to overcome them. The Ghost Emperor was killed, and Fang Yu rewarded Immortal Lianyun with pills and the bandits’ treasure pouches.

• Fang Yu refined the Ghost Emperor’s Netherworld Ghostfire and summoned Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and Immortal Lianyun as both sides called for allies.
• Fang Yu offered the Immortal Slayer bandits a chance to join forces against the Ghost Emperor, but they refused and attacked alongside him.
• Fang Yu damaged the Ghost Emperor’s Heaven-Shrouding Demon Hand, while Yan’s Abyssal qi severed the bandits’ connections to their Golden Cores.
• The Ghost Emperor trapped the group with the Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul-Locking Formation and unleashed his Nine-Ghost Primordial Spirit, but Yan’s Abyssal qi weakened it.
• Fang Yu, Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and Immortal Lianyun attacked together, and Yan pulled the Ghost Emperor’s weakened Nine-Ghost Primordial Spirit into the Yellow Springs Diagram before the Ghost Emperor’s body exploded.
• Fang Yu gave Immortal Lianyun one million Nascent Soul Pills and the treasure pouches of Star Annihilator and Moon Piercer.

Fang Yu recruited the Immortal Slayer Bandit and led Fang Han, Immortal Lianyun, and Nebula Baby to the Wild Desolate Temple in search of the Five Elements Spiritual Root. After reaching the Five Elements Land in the outer-domain starry sky, the group encountered a suicidal Heavenly Demon King, and Fang Yu revealed that an ancient Devil Venerable had let them enter because he needed their help.

• Fang Yu divided the defeated enemies’ treasures, assigning Fang Han the Ghost Emperor’s weapons and Moon Piercer’s golden core, while promising Nebula Baby the Star Annihilator Bandit’s golden core.
• Fang Yu persuaded the Immortal Slayer Bandit to serve him, returned her golden core under restrictions made with Yellow Springs Sacred Water, and learned that Fan Qingying had mysterious followers.
• Fang Yu and his companions traveled to the Wild Desolate Temple and entered its spatial passage to the Five Elements Land, while Nebula Baby and the Immortal Slayer Bandit stayed inside the Dao artifact.
• The group found warnings about an ancient devil and learned the Five Elements Land was inhabited by hundreds of millions of heavenly demons.
• Fang Han attacked a Heavenly Demon King with the Heaven-Shrouding Demon Hand, but it used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art without fear of death.
• Fang Yu said the Heavenly Demon King had been brainwashed by an ancient Devil Venerable, who had allowed them to enter because he needed their help.

Fang Yu led Fang Han and their companions through the Five Elements Land, defeating waves of origin-energy beasts and using their essence to strengthen their abilities while advancing toward the ancient Demon Venerable. After slaying a Wood King and pushing deeper into the realm, Fang Yu and Fang Han’s Five Emperors’ Great Devil Divine Ability neared a critical threshold.

• Fang Yu explained that killing the Five Elements beasts would let the group absorb their origin energy, and Immortal Slayer killed a Teng Snake whose earth essence strengthened Fang Yu.
• Immortal Slayer destroyed a flock of fire crows with World-Purifying Lotus, then Fang Yu and Fang Han helped the group absorb fire and metal origin energy from fire crows and divine bees.
• Fang Han crushed swarms of water spirits while Nebula Baby’s bracelet protected the group, greatly strengthening Fang Han’s water ability.
• Fang Yu revealed that the ancient Demon Venerable needed someone to obtain the treasure sealing him, and warned that the group had to keep it from Great Unity Sect.
• The group slaughtered tens of thousands of Wood Giants, and Fang Han killed their Wood King before they continued deeper into the Five Elements Land.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han fought through increasingly powerful monsters until their Five Emperors’ Great Devil Divine Ability approached a critical threshold.

Fang Yu obtained the Five Elements Talisman before the Great Unity Sect arrived and challenged its leaders for it. Wang Tianyi demanded a fight, then proposed that five Golden Core experts face Fang Yu at once.

• The ancient Demon Venerable sent Fang Yu alone to the central mountain to claim the talisman and ordered Fang Han, Immortal Lianyun, Immortal Slayer, and Nebula Baby to delay the Great Unity Sect.
• The Great Unity Sect slaughtered demons with the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, learned that the talisman controlled passage out of the Five Elements Land, and hurried toward the central mountain with the three great sword sects following.
• Fang Yu reached the mountain first, removed the Five Elements Talisman, and refined it immediately.
• The Great Unity Sect and the others arrived, and Fang Yu refused to surrender the talisman, offering instead to fight Song Weiyi or Zhao Xuanyi in a battle to the death.
• Wang Tianyi rejected a one-on-one match and demanded that five Golden Core seed experts fight Fang Yu together, suggesting Fang Han lend him the Yellow Springs Diagram or join the fight.

After Fang Yu killed five Great Unity Sect Golden Core disciples, the sect’s survivors demanded their cores and tried to retaliate, while Elder Sword Maniac and the three sword sects intervened. Fang Yu offered a one-on-one duel and secured the sword sects’ support with a promise to share the Five Elements Talisman and a gift of pills, leaving the Great Unity Sect increasingly isolated.

• Fang Yu stored the five golden cores and the disciples’ pouches, while Wang Tianyi demanded revenge and the return of the cores.
• Elder Sword Maniac stepped between the Great Unity Sect and Fang Yu, and rejected Wang Tianyi’s threat to the Sun-Moon Sword Sect.
• Fang Yu refused to surrender the cores, mocked Zhu Yangyi’s claim that they could revive the dead disciples, and offered a duel under the original wager.
• Fang Yu promised the three sword sects access to the Five Elements Talisman and gave their elders one million Nascent Soul Pills to share.
• Fang Han reminded the sword sects that Fang Yu could escort them out of Five Elements Land, and they moved away from the Great Unity Sect.

After revealing Taihuangtian’s attack and proposing a six-sect law enforcement squad, Fang Yu returned to the Eclosion Sect and resolved to kill Meng Shaobai. The chapter left him preparing to condense a natal talisman with ninety-nine divine abilities before challenging Meng Shaobai on the Punishment Platform.

• Fang Yu told the elders that Taihuangtian had tried to kill them and proposed a six-sect law enforcement squad, which the elders agreed to discuss with their sect leaders.
• Lianyun warned Fang Yu that killing five Great Unity Sect disciples would cause an uproar and reminded him to attend the sect leader’s birthday; Fang Yu said he planned to eliminate Meng Shaobai.
• Fang Yu, Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and the Immortal Slayer Bandit returned to the Eclosion Sect and saw signs that Meng Shaobai had obtained another Kunpeng Egg.
• Fang Yu told Fang Han and Yan that he would fuse ninety-nine divine abilities into his natal talisman to ensure he could kill Meng Shaobai, despite the danger to his future wind-fire tribulation.
• Fang Yu asked Fang Qingxue for Thunder Bone Sariras, help for Nebula Baby, and the Undying Lightning Talisman, then declared he would kill Meng Shaobai on the Punishment Platform after learning Meng Shaobai had fought Fang Qingxue.

Eclosion Sect elders debated whether to expel Fang Yu and Fang Han after Fang Yu killed five Great Unity Sect disciples, while Feng Baiyu revealed that powerful allies were ready to protect them. Their argument was interrupted when Fang Yu’s natal talisman appeared with ninety-nine divine abilities, leaving the elders stunned and raising the danger of his coming Wind-Fire Tribulation.

• Ruyi Zi urged the Eclosion Sect to hand Fang Yu over to the Great Unity Sect and take the Yellow Springs Diagram from Fang Han for Hua Tiandu, but Tian Gong and Medicine King opposed him.
• Feng Baiyu explained that an ancient Five Elements Demon Venerable had stopped Taihuangtian from attacking Fang Yu and his allies, while Jiang Rourou warned that Fang Yu’s departure would cost the sect powerful allies and resources.
• Feng Baiyu presented talisman edicts from the three great sword sects, Starry Gate, and Linglong Immortal Venerable, all pledging support for Fang Yu and Fang Han.
• Ruyi Zi proposed negotiating a price with the Great Unity Sect to expel Fang Yu and Fang Han, but Heavenly Punishment rejected the idea as selling the sect’s disciples.
• A tremendous disturbance revealed Fang Yu’s multicolored natal talisman above Flying Feather Peak, and the elders discovered that it contained ninety-nine divine abilities.
• Jiang Rourou worried that Fang Yu might not survive the Wind-Fire Tribulation, while Ruyi Zi’s gloom gave way to relief.

Fang Yu challenged Meng Shaobai to a life-and-death duel after he attacked Fang Qingxue, but Feng Baiyu refused and postponed the confrontation. Fang Qingxue visited Fang Yu, discussed the upcoming competition and his dual cultivation with Immortal Lianyun, and left him to continue cultivating.

• Elder Tianxing revealed that Meng Shaobai had attacked Fang Qingxue, so Fang Yu demanded a life-and-death battle on the Punishment Platform.
• Meng Shaobai accepted the duel, but Feng Baiyu forbade it and offered Fang Qingxue a chance to cultivate in the Minor Immortal World instead.
• Fang Yu withdrew his challenge after Feng Baiyu privately reminded him of the sect’s upcoming obligations, disappointing Hundred Battles Perfected Person, who had hoped the rivals would eliminate each other.
• Fang Qingxue warned Fang Yu about challenging Meng Shaobai, then discussed her upcoming seclusion and the Mountains and Rivers Ranking competition with him.
• Fang Qingxue teased Fang Yu about dual cultivating with Immortal Lianyun, then departed after saying she would handle other matters for him.
• Fang Yu asked the Immortal Slayer Bandit whether she could assassinate Meng Shaobai, but she said she had no chance, so Fang Yu gave up on the plan and turned to helping her cultivate.

Fang Yu refused to have Fan Qingying assassinate Meng Shaobai, then distributed resources and built support while preparing for the Mountains and Rivers Ranking competition. Fang Qingxue arrived with Nebula Baby and Crane Immortal, whose resemblance to her prompted her to warn Fang Yu to keep his distance.

• Fang Yu rejected Immortal Slayer Bandit's suggestion that Fan Qingying kill Meng Shaobai, fearing the Eclosion Sect and demonic sects would punish him.
• Fang Yu visited Jialan Peak, gave Jialan pills and a golden core for her and Long Xuan, and stayed with her until visiting disciples and elders interrupted them.
• Fang Yu accepted the support of Jialan and other disciples and elders as he pursued the Eclosion Sect headmaster position, while sharing Yellow Springs Sacred Water with powerful elders.
• Fang Qingxue visited Fang Yu before the Mountains and Rivers Ranking competition and brought Nebula Baby and Crane Immortal, insisting Nebula Baby reach the Heaven-Human Realm within three months.
• Fang Yu gave Crane Immortal an identity jade token for the competition, but Fang Qingxue warned her to stay away from him because she looked like a younger version of her.

After nearly comprehending the Small Fate Technique, Fang Yu focused on preparing to condense Golden Core Seeds for his ninety-nine Mystical Abilities and learned that Fang Han had also shown immortal potential. He welcomed leaders from other sects, agreed to form a law enforcement squad, and confirmed that Linglong Immortal Venerable would review his urgent letter.

• Fang Yu gained new but incomplete insights into the Small Fate Technique after Fang Qingxue repeated it, then spent thirty-six days in secluded cultivation.
• Immortal Slayer Bandit reported that Fang Han had condensed fifty-six natal talismans and that the Great Li Dynasty had been handed to the Fang Family.
• Fang Yu welcomed Elder Sword Maniac, Danxiaozi, Feng Feitian, and Immortal Lianyun, then sat in Feng Baiyu’s headmaster seat and hosted them in the Eclosion Heavenly Palace.
• Fang Yu and the visiting leaders agreed to establish a law enforcement squad at the Assembly of Immortals, with Fang Yu offering each of them one million Nascent Soul Pills per year.
• Immortal Lianyun told Fang Yu that Linglong Immortal Venerable had received his letter and would investigate its claims about Tianfei Wumo and Su Xiuyi.

Fang Yu cultivated his divine abilities and traveled to Demon-Sealing Ridge, where he met Linglong Immortal Venerable and the Human Emperor's Brush. They agreed to help him reclaim the Earth Emperor's Book from Su Xiuyi if Fang Yu won first place at Linglong Immortal Venerable's four-thousandth birthday competition.

• Fang Yu gave the Great Calamity Art cultivation method to the elders of the three great sword sects and then returned to Flying Feather Peak to cultivate.
• Fang Yu refined the Six-Eyed God-Sealing Stele into his body and discovered that it strengthened his organs and improved his prospects for surviving the wind-fire tribulation.
• After two months, Fang Yu set out with Fang Han and Nebula Baby to deliver a message to the Starry Gate and visit Demon-Sealing Ridge.
• Fang Yu met Linglong Immortal Venerable at Demon-Sealing Ridge and asked her to help reclaim the Earth Emperor's Book from Su Xiuyi.
• The Human Emperor's Brush emerged and agreed that the Earth Emperor's Book should not remain with the demonic path, while Linglong Immortal Venerable agreed to help on the condition that Fang Yu win first place at her birthday competition.

Fang Yu lent Linglong Immortal Venerable the World Tree in exchange for a vast source of Pure Yang power and discussed plans for the Earth Emperor's Book with Fang Han and Yan. After reaching Xuanhuang City to look for Hua Tiandu, Fang Yu and Fang Han encountered Prince Yi at Nine Cauldrons Pavilion.

• Fang Yu offered Linglong Immortal Venerable the World Tree to help restrain the Earth Emperor's Book and negotiated for one hundred million Pure Yang Pills.
• Linglong Immortal Venerable gave Fang Yu a Pure Yang Heavenly Dragon instead of pills, and Yan declined to refine it because he could not handle its power.
• Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Yan agreed that Yan might become the Earth Emperor's Book's artifact spirit if the book were restored, while Fang Yu promised Fang Han a valuable gift in return for losing the Yellow Springs Diagram.
• Fang Yu and his group traveled to Xuanhuang City and entered Nine Cauldrons Pavilion, where they spotted Hua Tiandu surrounded by Great Unity Sect experts.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han used the Reincarnation Technique to disguise themselves, then met Prince Yi in the Sword Pavilion after he bought the Thousand Yin Black Sand Sword Formation.

Fang Yu and Fang Han enlisted Prince Yi’s support in exchange for a Nirvana Pill and Nine Yang Sacred Water, while Fang Yu revealed his plan to outbid Hua Tiandu for the Life-Creation Pill. After Prince Yi delivered the sacred water and a Cosmic Gourd, Yan consumed the water and Fang Han used the gourd’s spatial power to advance his Great Cutting Technique.

• Fang Han overwhelmed Prince Yi’s recruited cultivators, then revived them and stopped Xiaoyue from leaving after Prince Yi warned them to remain.
• Fang Yu revealed that he and Fang Han were Eclosion Sect disciples seeking a Nirvana Pill and Nine Yang Sacred Water, and Prince Yi agreed to help them pursue the throne.
• Fang Yu disclosed that Hua Tiandu was targeting the Life-Creation Pill, and he and Yan discussed keeping it from Hua Tiandu before deciding Fang Yu would save it rather than use it to condense a golden core.
• Prince Yi returned with 1.3 million jin of Nine Yang Sacred Water and a Cosmic Gourd, which Fang Han persuaded him to give up in exchange for a favor.
• Yan swallowed the Nine Yang Sacred Water, while Fang Han crushed the gourd and absorbed its spatial power to strengthen his Great Cutting Technique.

Fang Yu and Fang Han attended an auction at Nine Cauldrons Pavilion, where Fang Yu outbid Hua Tiandu for a Nirvana Pill and gave it to Nebula Baby. When the Life-Creation Pill came up for auction, Fang Yu made clear he intended to claim it, provoking Hua Tiandu and attracting the attention of other powerful bidders.

• Prince Yi brought Fang Yu and Fang Han to Nine Cauldrons Pavilion, where Fang Han effortlessly seized a Golden Core from a rival prince's retainer.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han examined the Longevity Candidate Ranking, which placed Fang Yu fourth, Hua Tiandu third, Fang Qingxue fifth, and Fang Han beyond one hundredth.
• Fang Yu had Prince Yi bid on a Nirvana Pill, and Fang Han raised the price until Fang Yu's one-billion-pill bid made Hua Tiandu withdraw.
• Fang Yu paid for the Nirvana Pill with Pure Yang Pills, then gave it to Nebula Baby, who swallowed it while Fang Han refined a Golden Core inside the Yellow Springs Diagram.
• Fang Yu repeatedly matched Hua Tiandu's bids on later items, costing Prince Feng three hundred million White Sun Pills before they stopped competing.
• When Yujizi announced the Life-Creation Pill's one-billion-pill starting price, Fang Yu bid three billion, and Hua Tiandu responded with a bid of two billion one hundred million.

Fang Yu outbid Hua Tiandu for the Life-Creation Pill, drawing attention to his wealth and exposing his connection to Fang Han. Prince Yi then invited them to explore an ancient ruin beyond this world, where they expected Hua Tiandu to be a rival.

• Fang Yu raised the auction price to five billion White Sun Pills, forcing Hua Tiandu to give up, and paid for the Life-Creation Pill with five hundred thousand Pure Yang Pills.
• Fang Yu’s spending made him the talk of Xuanhuang City and increased Prince Yi’s standing, while Hua Tiandu investigated Fang Yu and Fang Han and resolved to kill them.
• Prince Yi told Fang Yu and Fang Han that the princes would explore an ancient ruin on a distant star in seven days, and warned them that their identities might have been exposed.
• Fang Yu accepted Prince Yi’s invitation and said they should focus on preventing Hua Tiandu from gaining the ruin’s opportunities rather than trying to kill him.