Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu forced the Heavenly Lan Sacred Temple to let him take the Heavenly Lan Sacred Beast and invited Lin Yinping to travel with him, while Grand Immortal Master Xu asked her to go to Great Jin for a chance to advance. In Great Jin, Fang Yu and Nangong Wan reached the Ginseng King Gathering, where Fang Yu acquired a Heavenly Secrets Manor as a Corpse King watched from hiding.

• Fang Yu threatened the Heavenly Lan Sacred Temple, and Grand Immortal Master Xu ordered everyone to stand aside and asked Lin Yinping to accompany Fang Yu to Great Jin.
• Lin Yinping agreed to Fang Yu’s arrangement, which sealed her cultivation, gave her a new cultivation art, and set her ten tasks, beginning with helping Cao Mengrong.
• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan arrived at Snow Ridge Mountain for the Ginseng King Gathering, while a jade-crowned Corpse King sensed possible surveillance and searched the estate.
• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan entered the gathering, where Fang Yu bought a Heavenly Secrets Manor and expanded it into a private chamber.

Fang Yu and Nangong Wan killed Jin Yuan after discovering that his supposed rare treasure was a sarira, then watched Soul-Crying enter it and swallow a trapped green light. They attended an auction, where Fang Yu bought Fire-Melt Crystals, and Nangong Wan proposed that he visit the Feng Family Secret Grotto alone while she dealt with the sentient Corpse King.

• Fang Yu invited Jin Yuan into the Heavenly Secrets Manor, where Jin Yuan offered a golden bubble that Fang Yu recognized as a treasure made from a sentient Corpse King's sarira.
• Nangong Wan burned Jin Yuan to ashes, and Fang Yu explained the sarira's powers before Soul-Crying entered the bubble and swallowed a fleeing green light.
• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan went to the auction instead of immediately seeking King Xuan Ye, and two young women beside them became fascinated with Soul-Crying.
• Fang Yu won three Fire-Melt Crystals for eight hundred spirit stones and told Nangong Wan they were crystallized demon cores.
• Nangong Wan suggested Fang Yu visit the Feng Family Secret Grotto alone to meet the sarira's owner while she stayed to deal with the sentient Corpse King.

Fang Yu headed to the Feng Family’s hidden cave while King Xuanye sent refined corpses after him and left his burial chamber to join a scheme against rival families. Nangong Wan intercepted King Xuanye near the Ginseng King Assembly, and he tried to withdraw after realizing she was hostile.

• Nangong Wan analyzed the sentient corpse king’s links to the Feng Family’s destruction and missing cultivators, then urged Fang Yu to investigate the strange treasure’s master.
• Fang Yu left for the Snow Ridge Mountains while King Xuanye ordered two refined corpses to kill the man carrying the Vajra Shield and seize the treasure.
• King Xuanye left his burial chamber to aid General Ge, while Reverend Tianfeng and his allies prepared to ambush him and divide his treasures and corpse soldiers.
• Fang Yu entered the Feng Family’s hidden cave, evaded the refined corpses, and used a teleportation array to reach a hall where he collected its artifacts and jade slips.
• Nangong Wan sensed King Xuanye approaching and confronted him; after she questioned him about the Ginseng King Assembly, he admitted his role and attempted to leave.

Nangong Wan killed King Xuanye with the Great Sun Fire Calamity, while Soul Wailer destroyed the sentient corpse king, and she secured the three great families’ promise to stop hunting the Feng Family. Fang Yu and Nangong Wan headed toward Jin Capital after Fang Yu’s attack on Yueyang Palace weakened its standing, while the Ye Family prepared to recruit him.

• Nangong Wan questioned King Xuanye about the missing cultivators in the Snow Ridge Mountains, then killed him with the Great Sun Fire Calamity when he attacked.
• Soul Wailer absorbed the sentient corpse king’s corpse qi and destroyed it beneath the Ginseng King Gathering plaza.
• Nangong Wan told the three great families to stop hunting the Feng Family, and their leading Nascent Soul cultivator agreed.
• Fang Yu met Nangong Wan, discussed the Feng Family Secret Grotto and his other gains, and said they would go to Yueyang Palace.
• Fang Yu destroyed Yueyang Palace’s thirteen layers of restrictions, took its two Haoyang Birds, and demanded several fire-attribute spirit stone mines before leaving with Nangong Wan for Jin Capital.
• Lin Yinping learned of Yueyang Palace’s defeat, while the Ye Family’s First Elder ordered his clan to locate and recruit Fang Yu.

Fang Yu and Nangong Wan visited the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in Jin Capital to find rare materials and a high-grade Heavenly Secrets Manor. Elder Wang led them into a pocket space to inspect the pavilion’s preserved manor, leaving the exchange requirements and the manor itself still to be revealed.

• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan entered Jinxi Market and went to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, where a steward escorted them upstairs.
• The steward found none of the rare materials listed on Nangong Wan’s jade slip but said the pavilion had one exceptional Heavenly Secrets Manor reserved for exchange.
• Fang Yu agreed to meet Elder Wang, who explained that the manor could be inspected inside the pavilion’s pocket space.
• Elder Wang led Fang Yu and Nangong Wan through a teleportation formation into a barren pocket space and took out a jade box containing the Heavenly Secrets Manor.

Fang Yu and Nangong Wan parted so she could investigate a mysterious connection to her cultivation art, while Fang Yu prepared for the Jin Capital auction. At the auction market, Fang Yu reunited with Han Li and offered him a way to resolve his baleful aura in exchange for helping him eliminate the Yin Luo Sect cultivators after the trade fair.

• Fang Yu promised to refine Nangong Wan's Heavenly Secrets Manor with spatial power, and Nangong Wan revealed that she needed to investigate a strange sensation tied to her Plain Maiden Reincarnation Art in the Jin Capital.
• Nangong Wan left Fang Yu to pursue the possible opportunity, while Fang Yu and Silver Moon went to inquire about the trade fair; Lin Yinping also arrived in the Jin Capital.
• A Ye Family elder identified Fang Yu as a possible guest elder, while the Ye Family's leaders discussed hiding their auction purchases and using the Mountain-Calming Seal to distract rival sects from their plans.
• On the day of the auction, Han Li disguised himself and entered Jinxi Market, where Yin Luo Sect cultivators led by Ge Tianhao were watching the arrivals.
• Fang Yu stopped Han Li, offered him a cultivation art that could dissolve his baleful aura, and asked him to help wipe out the Yin Luo Sect cultivators after the trade fair.

Fang Yu promised to protect Han Li from the Yin Luo Sect and offered Great Development Divine Lord a chance to preserve his essence-soul in exchange for three future favors. At the Great Jin Grand Auction, Fang Yu bought earth-attributed materials while Han Li paid an inflated price for Ink Metal, and Fang Yu recognized that another bidder had a separate motive.

• Fang Yu agreed to stop or kill any late-Nascent Soul Yin Luo Sect cultivator who attacked Han Li, then offered Great Development Divine Lord a secret art in exchange for three future favors.
• Great Development Divine Lord accepted Fang Yu's terms, and Fang Yu transmitted part of the Ancient Martial Great Strength Divine Ability to him.
• Han Li and Fang Yu entered the Nine Heavens Hall for the Nascent Soul auction, where Fang Yu bought a Turmeric Crystal and other five-element materials.
• Han Li noticed three Buddhist monks at the auction, and the central old monk reacted with horror when he saw Fang Yu.
• Han Li outbid a mist-shrouded cultivator and paid one hundred twenty thousand spirit stones for Ink Metal, while Fang Yu said the rival bidder had another purpose unrelated to them.

Han Li returned after wiping out the Yin Luo Sect pursuers, and Fang Yu reassured him that he could handle the sect’s retaliation while giving him guidance on controlling his baleful aura. At the final trade fair, Fang Yu learned that the imperial Ye Family would offer an imitation Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure, which he intended to obtain.

• Han Li lured the Yin Luo Sect members out of Jinxi Market and Jin Capital, killed them, and returned to the teahouse where Fang Yu and Lin Yinping waited.
• Fang Yu dismissed the threat of the Yin Luo Sect’s grand elder, Gan Old Devil, and told Han Li he would pay for their tea with his spoils.
• Fang Yu gave Han Li the Wisdom King Formula and a relic, explaining how the Buddhist cultivation art could help refine baleful aura.
• Fang Yu, Han Li, and Lin Yinping attended the remaining trade fair days, where Fang Yu bought Five Elements materials and his reputation spread among the cultivators.
• Fang Yu’s group entered the concealed Nascent Soul exchange meeting, where its organizer announced a rare final treasure offered by the imperial Ye Family.
• Fang Yu told Han Li and Lin Yinping that the treasure was an imitation Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure he planned to obtain.

Fang Yu used Lin Yinping’s sale of White Sun Pills to obtain a large haul of five-element materials at the underground trade fair. When the Ye Family presented its Mountain-Calming Seal for auction, Fang Yu secretly threatened to expose its connection to Mount Kunwu unless they handed over the treasure and one million spirit stones.

• Lin Yinping sold five million White Sun Pills to Nascent Soul cultivators in exchange for five-element materials and spirit stones.
• Han Li named the items he wanted and successfully completed his trades.
• The Ye Family’s black-crowned elder and a square-faced man presented the Mountain-Calming Seal, an imitation of the Heaven-Palm Seal, as the gathering’s final auction treasure.
• Fang Yu privately warned the Ye Family men that he would reveal their connection to Mount Kunwu unless they gave him the Mountain-Calming Seal.
• Fang Yu demanded the seal and one million mid-grade five-element spirit stones or materials, threatening to tell the Great Jin if the Ye Family refused.

Fang Yu acquired the Ye Family’s Mountain-Calming Seal by agreeing to help them break free of the ten great sects’ control. After Xiang Zhili confronted him over the Nascent Soul cultivators’ agreement, Fang Yu trapped him inside the Linglong Grand Firmament formation, leaving Han Li and Lin Yinping stunned.

• The Ye Family agreed to cooperate with Fang Yu, offering him a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure, half the treasures in Mount Kunwu, and help gathering five-element materials in return for three future favors.
• The Ye Family gave Fang Yu the Mountain-Calming Seal, and Fang Yu left the trade fair with Han Li and Lin Yinping as the other cultivators speculated about the alliance.
• Fang Yu sensed Xiang Zhili waiting outside the hall, and Han Li recognized him as the senior who had once invited him into the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land.
• Xiang Zhili warned Fang Yu to obey the agreement among Nascent Soul cultivators, but Fang Yu challenged him to escape a divine ability and formation.
• Fang Yu transformed the space around Xiang Zhili into the chessboard-like Linglong Grand Firmament, trapping him as a piece while Han Li and Lin Yinping struggled against its pull.

Fang Yu met with the imperial Ye Family and warned them that opening Mount Kunwu could unleash a danger they did not understand. As he began telling them about the sealed ancient demon, the story shifted to Wind Old Freak seeking help from a Great Unity Sect cultivator after Xiang Zhili sent a distress message.

• Fang Yu sent Han Li away to refine the late-Nascent Soul puppet and instructed Lin Yinping to finish collecting materials before heading to the Southern Border.
• Fang Yu traveled to the Jin Capital and met the Ye Family cultivators, including the supposedly dead elder Ye Yuesheng.
• Fang Yu warned the Ye Family that opening Mount Kunwu could bring about their destruction because of the powerful being sealed beneath it.
• Fang Yu began telling the Ye Family a story, while Wind Old Freak went to Ice Soul Valley to ask a Great Unity Sect cultivator for help after Xiang Zhili sent a distress message.
• The Great Unity Sect cultivator refused to accompany Wind Old Freak.

Wind Old Freak persuaded White Old Monster to help rescue Xiang Zhili, and the two recruited Old Demon Hu after agreeing to pay him Blood Qi Pills. Fang Yu sensed their arrival and appeared at the Linglong Grand Firmament, where Xiang Zhili remained trapped.

• Wind Old Freak asked White Old Monster to help Xiang Zhili, but White Old Monster initially refused because he feared Fang Yu and needed to preserve his strength for a breakthrough.
• White Old Monster revealed that he planned to consume a Fire Essence Jujube raw and agreed to join the rescue only if Wind Old Freak brought Old Demon Hu and paid him Blood Qi Pills.
• Wind Old Freak and White Old Monster traveled to Demon Tuo Mountain and persuaded Old Demon Hu to join them for two Blood Qi Pills.
• Old Demon Hu, Wind Old Freak, and White Old Monster set out together to reach Xiang Zhili.
• After finishing his account of the ancient demon at Mount Kunwu for the Ye Family, Fang Yu sensed the three cultivators' arrival and appeared where the Linglong Grand Firmament trapped Xiang Zhili.

Fang Yu enlisted Xiang Zhili, Wind Old Freak, White Old Monster, and Hu Old Devil to help the Ye Family enter Mount Kunwu and rescue a Spirit Realm consort. After the entrance formation exposed their location, Fang Yu prepared to enter with some of the cultivators while the others stayed behind to guard it.

• Fang Yu broke free from the four Deity Transformation cultivators’ Linglong Grand Firmament Fang and persuaded them that he could help them reach the Spirit Realm if they assisted him.
• Fang Yu told Xiang Zhili and the others that he planned to enter Mount Kunwu, rescue a Spirit Realm consort, and deal with a Devil Realm Sacred Ancestor’s avatar.
• The four Deity Transformation cultivators agreed to help the imperial Ye Family, and the Ye Family’s Great Elder explained how his clan had prepared formations to open Mount Kunwu.
• Fang Yu and the group entered the lakebed at Mount Kunwu’s entrance, but several days later their formation produced seven visible pillars of light.
• Fang Yu proposed that White Old Monster and Hu Old Devil guard the entrance while he and the others entered Mount Kunwu.

Fang Yu and the three old cultivators reached Mount Kunwu, where they encountered the trapped Long Meng and learned of her connection to Silver Moon. Meanwhile, White Old Monster gathered arriving cultivators by the lake and kept them from leaving.

• Fang Yu agreed to enter Mount Kunwu with Xiang Zhili, Hu Old Devil, and Wind Old Freak, while White Old Monster stayed with the Ye Family and ordered them to deal with arriving cultivators.
• Wind Old Freak reported that the Gate of Myriad Cultivators was sealed, and Fang Yu revealed that a fragment of Long Meng’s divine sense was waiting to ensnare them.
• Fang Yu summoned Silver Moon, and Long Meng recognized her as Xue Ling before explaining that they were two split primordial spirits of Linglong.
• White Old Monster held more than a thousand cultivators by the lake, including Hua Tianqi and the Poison Saint Sect elders, and Gan Old Devil arrived to face him.

Fang Yu and the others reached Mount Kunwu while White Old Monster of Great Unity Sect kept the gathered cultivators outside occupied and blocked Che Old Monster of Myriad Demons Valley from entering. Fang Yu headed for the Spirit Forging Hall to obtain the Lunar True Fire and cultivate the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi.

• White Old Monster explained that Xiang Zhili, Hu Old Devil, Wind Old Freak, and Fang Yu had entered Mount Kunwu, then exposed Che Old Monster's role in helping the Ye Family open it.
• Che Old Monster demanded entry, but White Old Monster refused until the cultivators inside sent word and hinted that he would share the method of ascending to the Spirit Realm in exchange for something.
• Fang Yu persuaded the woman to agree to merge with Silver Moon again after he rescued half of her primordial spirit, then set off with Silver Moon and the others toward the Mist Sea.
• White Old Monster stalled the arriving cultivators by inviting Che Old Monster and Gan Old Devil to give cultivation lectures.
• Fang Yu and his companions reached the white jade plaza and split up to explore its halls, with Fang Yu choosing the Spirit Forging Hall for its Lunar True Fire.

Fang Yu refined the Lunar True Fire, subdued Mount Kunwu’s four spirit-beast inhabitants, and continued with Xiang Zhili’s group toward the Demon Suppression Pagoda to confront Holy Ancestor Yuan Cha’s divine-sense fragment. Meanwhile, Madam Mu delivered two treasures to White Old Freak, and Silver Moon waited for the group to reach her sealed true body.

• Fang Yu met the Silver-Winged Yaksha, Lion-Falcon Beast, the turtle woman, and Mu Kui, and secured their submission in exchange for recovering their life-bound command tokens.
• Madam Mu delivered the Dragon Transformation Seal and Four Symbols Ruler to Great Unity Sect's White Old Freak, who sent the Silver-Winged Yaksha and Lion-Falcon Beast to retrieve them.
• Silver Moon’s other half of divine sense waited in a palace near her sealed true body, hoping the group would arrive soon.
• Xiang Zhili’s trio returned to the white jade plaza, and Fang Yu explained that he had subdued four beasts, making the others more wary of his growing strength.
• Fang Yu, Xiang Zhili, Old Devil Hu, Wind Old Freak, and two beasts set out for the Demon Suppression Pagoda, while the three cultivators pushed onward through the restrictions and Fang Yu took the lead in overcoming obstacles.
• White Old Freak reassured Madam Mu as more cultivators gathered outside Mount Kunwu, while he worried that the situation could become difficult to control.

Fang Yu and Xiang Zhili’s group reached the eighth-floor prison, where Silver Moon’s fused soul prepared to reclaim the body of a wolf consort possessed by Sacred Ancestor Yuan Cha’s split soul. Silver Moon entered the woman, and the chapter ended as a ball of light flew toward the imprisoned giant wolf, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• The Silver-Winged Yaksha collected the Dragon Transformation Seal and Four Symbols Ruler from White Old Monster of Great Unity Sect and returned toward Mount Kunwu with the Lion-Falcon Beast.
• Fang Yu, Wind Old Freak, and Hu Old Devil used the black teleportation formation and found a giant, two-headed silver wolf bound beneath powerful restrictions.
• Fang Yu explained that the wolf held a split soul of Sacred Ancestor Yuan Cha and that the group had to wait for Xiang Zhili and Silver Moon before attempting to reclaim the body.
• Xiang Zhili arrived with the woman, who revealed that her soul and Silver Moon’s had fused and stabilized after more than ten thousand years.
• Fang Yu ordered Silver Moon to fuse with the woman and reclaim the wolf’s body, and Silver Moon’s spirit entered her before a silver light shot toward the giant wolf.
• Xiang Zhili left to retrieve the two treasures, while Fang Yu, Hu Old Devil, and Wind Old Freak waited anxiously to see whether the possession would succeed.

Silver Moon reclaimed her two-headed wolf body and revealed that Xiang Zhili, Wind Old Freak, and Hu Old Devil could not return to the Spirit Realm through the Reverse Spirit Passage. After they agreed to provide Fang Yu with Five Elements resources, she taught them about dangerous spatial nodes as another possible route, then gave Fang Yu additional information and asked him to remove her restraints.

• Xiang Zhili returned with the Dragon Transformation Seal and Four Symbols Ruler, and Silver Moon spent three days merging the two wolf heads and defeating the divine sense inside her body.
• Silver Moon told Xiang Zhili, Wind Old Freak, and Hu Old Devil that the Reverse Spirit Passage no longer existed and that her own imprint was the only reason she could summon a small passage back to the Spirit Realm.
• Silver Moon explained that dangerous spatial nodes might connect the realms, and Xiang Zhili, Wind Old Freak, and Hu Old Devil agreed to give Fang Yu Five Elements resources in exchange for her guidance.
• Silver Moon gave the three men jade slips describing spatial nodes and sent them away, then copied additional information about the nodes and the Reverse Spirit Passage for Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu used the Great Cutting Technique to remove the restrictions and chains binding Silver Moon.

After returning from Mount Kunwu, Fang Yu collected the Eight-Spirit Ruler, handed it to the Ye Family, and traveled to Fire Prison to cultivate the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi. As he hunted Fire Fiend Spirits, Xiang Zhili and the other Deity Transformation cultivators began gathering Five Elements materials for him across Great Jin.

• Silver Moon returned to the Spirit Realm, and Xiang Zhili handed Fang Yu the Eight-Spirit Ruler in exchange for his help with Mount Kunwu.
• Fang Yu ordered Xiang Zhili, Wind Old Freak, and Hu Old Devil to resolve Mount Kunwu and gather Five Elements spirit stone mines and materials.
• Fang Yu gave the Eight-Spirit Ruler to the Ye Family's grand elder, who accepted Fang Yu as the Ye Family's master.
• Fang Yu entered Fire Prison, killed a demon bird, and began searching the Mist Sea for a place to cultivate.
• Fang Yu hunted Fire Fiend Spirits to strengthen the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi, while the ten great sects began collecting Five Elements materials at Xiang Zhili's group's order.

After completing the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi in Fire Prison, Fang Yu traveled to Northern Nether Island to seek Minor Ultimate Palace and cultivate the Black Emperor's Water Emperor Fist. He met the palace’s leaders and began discussing his purpose, leaving them wary of what he would ask.

• Xiang Zhili and the other Deity Transformation cultivators arranged for the Great Jin sects to exchange their Five Elements spiritual items, which were stored with the Ye Family for Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu killed a powerful fire spirit in Fire Prison and spent more than a decade cultivating the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi, nearly exhausting the forbidden land.
• Fang Yu traveled to Northern Nether Island because Minor Ultimate Palace's location and Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Jade vein suited his plans to cultivate the Black Emperor's Water Emperor Fist.
• Ren Bi met Fang Yu outside Minor Ultimate Palace and, despite his misgivings, escorted him into the sect.
• The Palace Master and Minor Ultimate Palace's Nascent Soul leaders received Fang Yu in their reception hall and asked why he had come.