Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu cultivated the Great Development Art after confirming it was safe, hoping to improve his divine sense and strengthen himself for the future. He found the technique difficult but compatible with the Origin Spirit Art, and made cultivation his priority over repairing puppets.

• Fang Yu confirmed the Great Development Art was not a conflicting divine ability and began cultivating it.
• Fang Yu repaired damaged puppets and tested the giant tiger and giant wolf puppets, finding them useful but costly in spirit stones.
• Fang Yu considered how improved divine sense would let him control more magical treasures and support his plans to keep pace with Fang Han and Fang Qingxue.
• Fang Yu found the Great Development Art difficult to cultivate, though it also improved his mental power and shared useful similarities with the Origin Spirit Art.
• Fang Yu set aside puppet crafting and focused on cultivating the Great Development Art and increasing his strength.

Fang Yu spent a year cultivating, nearly reached the peak of the Spirit Communication Realm, and returned to the Fang Family to obtain ironwood for puppet-making. After meeting Fang Han and offering him a chance to enter the Eclosion Sect, Fang Yu left Fang Han wondering whether he knew about the Nine-Aperture Golden Pill.

• Fang Yu focused on cultivating the Origin Spirit Art, the Great Development Art, and his lightning-element technique while planning to pursue the Great Five-Elements Art after reaching the Supernatural Powers Realm.
• Over the following year, Fang Yu mastered the first level of the Great Development Art, neared the peak of the Spirit Communication Realm, and studied the Puppet True Explanation.
• Fang Yu asked Fang Lie to obtain century-old and millennium-old ironwood so he could refine puppets capable of withstanding brief attacks from Core Formation cultivators.
• Fang Yu asked Fang Lie about Fang Han and summoned him to the pavilion in his courtyard.
• Fang Yu praised Fang Han’s progress and promised to ask Fang Qingxue for an outer disciple examination quota if Fang Han reached the Divine Strength Realm before entering the Eclosion Sect.
• Fang Han suspected Fang Yu knew about his Nine-Aperture Golden Pill because Fang Yu spoke confidently about his chances of reaching the Divine Strength Realm soon.

Fang Han declined Fang Yu’s offer of private guidance and instead learned martial arts from him before leaving. Fang Yu received a delivery of hundred-year ironwood and learned the thousand-year ironwood would arrive within two days.

• Fang Qingwei entered Fang Yu’s courtyard, scorned Fang Han as a servant, and left intending to have Fang Family disciples at Myriad Phenomena Garden teach him a lesson.
• Fang Yu offered to keep Fang Han away from Myriad Phenomena Garden and arrange for Fang Tong to guide him, but Fang Han declined and said he was nearing the third level of the physical body.
• Fang Han asked Fang Yu questions about cultivation and martial arts, and Fang Yu answered them throughout the day.
• Fang Han ate medicinal dishes, said farewell to Fang Yu, and left the courtyard.
• Fang Lie delivered 121 pieces of hundred-year ironwood to Fang Yu and said the thousand-year ironwood would arrive within two days.

Fang Yu visited Fang Qingxue’s courtyard, declined an invitation to Fang Qingwei’s banquet, and gathered Nine Yang Sacred Water before going to Myriad Phenomena Garden. There, he tried to persuade Fang Qingwei to stop targeting Fang Han, but she insisted on taking a harsher role to tame him.

• Fang Yu asked Fang Lie to find seven or eight century-old ironwood pieces, then went to Fang Qingxue’s courtyard and learned she was in secluded cultivation.
• Fang Qiang invited Fang Yu to Fang Qingwei’s banquet aboard Splendid Tower, but he refused and returned to his courtyard.
• Fang Yu collected Nine Yang Sacred Water and decided to stay in the Fang Family world to study the Puppet True Explanation.
• Fang Yu visited Myriad Phenomena Garden, saw Fang Han enduring exclusion, and left without intervening.
• Fang Yu urged Fang Qingwei to befriend Fang Han, but she said she would play the villain and help tame him; Fang Yu said he trusted Fang Han.

Fang Yu advised Fang Qingwei to focus on cultivation, then asked Fang Zetao to gather rare materials and learned from his martial arts experience. After setting up a formation and receiving the materials, Fang Yu inspected the thousand-year ironwood and recognized the value of iron essence.

• Fang Yu warned Fang Qingwei not to provoke Fang Han and urged her to prepare for the outer sect disciple examination; he realized she had already reached the Breath Realm.
• Fang Yu asked Fang Zetao to obtain thousand-year ironwood, medicinal herbs, and other rare materials, then discussed martial arts and physical cultivation with him.
• Fang Zetao recognized that Fang Yu had reached the Divine Courage Realm and agreed to help him, while Fang Yu declined his invitation to a banquet.
• Fang Yu set up formations in his courtyard using arrays from the Mortal World and spent two days cultivating there.
• Fang Lie delivered the thousand-year ironwood and other materials, and Fang Yu inspected them before identifying a black chunk in his storage pouch as iron essence.

Fang Yu went to Yellow Maple Valley’s Sacred Peak Foothill Hall to use its earth fire to forge Millennium Ironwood puppets, but Li Huayuan’s repeated furnace explosions had devastated the best chamber. Fang Yu decided to use the chamber’s lava for body tempering instead, though he lacked a sufficiently large furnace.

• Fang Yu realized Sacred Peak Foothill Hall’s earth fire could refine Millennium Ironwood and traveled there to borrow a chamber.
• The guards let Fang Yu enter, and he learned that Li Huayuan’s pill furnace had exploded several times, disrupting the earth-fire chambers.
• Li Huayuan warned Fang Yu that the earth fire was unstable, then left to continue refining with his own pill fire.
• The chamber attendant led Fang Yu to the damaged chamber Li Huayuan had used, and Fang Yu sent him away to inspect the lava.
• Fang Yu considered tempering his body in the earth-fire lava to reach the Divine Transformation Realm but noted that he lacked a large enough furnace.

After spending over a year in the Earthfire Chamber, Fang Yu emerged having reached the Divine Transformation Realm and the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. Needing more pills to sustain his growth, he visited Lei Wanhe, where Nie Ying and the Murong brothers welcomed him and said their master would soon meet him.

• The ugly man worried about Fang Yu's year-long stay in the Earthfire Chamber, but Fang Yu emerged unharmed and said he had made a small breakthrough.
• Fang Yu returned to his cave abode and reflected on reaching the Divine Transformation Realm, advancing to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and refining more than a dozen puppets.
• Fang Yu realized that his new strength required far more pills than he had, so he decided to seek pill formulas and supplies from Lei Wanhe.
• Fang Yu went to Thundercloud Valley and met Nie Ying and the Murong brothers, who had all come out to greet him.
• Nie Ying told Fang Yu that Lei Wanhe had recently finished refining pills and was preparing to cultivate, then led him into the cave abode and offered him spirit tea while they waited.

Fang Yu visited Lei Wanhe to request ancient pill formulas, but Lei Wanhe required him to escort Nie Ying to the Treasure-Seizing Tournament at Yan Family Fort and place in the top ten. Fang Yu accepted, and Lei Wanhe sent him and Nie Ying to travel there the next morning.

• Fang Yu praised Nie Ying's spirit tea, and Lei Wanhe arrived and revealed that Fang Yu had reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Lei Wanhe urged Fang Yu to attend the Treasure-Seizing Tournament with Nie Ying, but Fang Yu initially declined because he feared the event was a trap for Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Fang Yu asked Lei Wanhe for pill formulas to advance his cultivation, and Lei Wanhe said he could not give him the Nie Family formula unless he married into the family.
• Lei Wanhe offered Fang Yu his ancient pill formulas if he accompanied Nie Ying to Yan Family Fort and placed in the tournament's top ten, and Fang Yu agreed.
• Lei Wanhe told Fang Yu and Nie Ying to leave for Yan Family Fort the next morning, then asked Nie Ying whether she approved of his plan and reminded her to watch over the Murong brothers.

Fang Yu and Nie Ying traveled to Swallow Feather Mountain for the Yan Family Fort's Treasure-Seizing Tournament, where they met Han Li and Dong Xuan'er. Dong Xuan'er became infatuated with Fang Yu and offered to help him obtain herbs for his pill formula, while Han Li envied Fang Yu and noticed the formula.

• Fang Yu reassured the Murong brothers that he would stop pursuing Nie Ying, then considered ways to obtain pill formulas and hunt demon beasts in the Mortal World.
• Nie Ying questioned the Murong brothers about what Fang Yu had said and ordered them to stay in the cave abode while she and Lei Wanhe were away.
• Fang Yu and Nie Ying arrived at Swallow Feather Mountain for the Yan Family Fort's Treasure-Seizing Tournament and met Han Li and Dong Xuan'er.
• Fang Yu and Nie Ying discussed Han Li's Azure Origin Sword Art, and Dong Xuan'er grew jealous as Nie Ying moved closer to Fang Yu.
• Dong Xuan'er linked her arm through Fang Yu's and offered to help him find herbs for the ancient pill formulas Lei Wanhe had given him.
• Han Li envied Fang Yu's attention from Nie Ying and Dong Xuan'er, then recognized the pill formula as Fang Yu examined it.

Fang Yu and the others were escorted by Yan Yu and Yan Ling into Swallow Feather Fort, where they discovered a confrontation between the Yan Family and cultivators from the Ghost Spirit Sect. At the arena, Fang Yu’s intimate display with Dong Xuan'er provoked a Feng Family cultivator, who grew wary after learning Fang Yu was Lei Wanhe’s disciple.

• After several days of waiting, Han Li spotted Yan Yu and Yan Ling approaching on two-headed eagles, and Fang Yu introduced his companions.
• Yan Yu checked their invitations and revealed Swallow Feather Fort by using a command token to open its concealment.
• Fang Yu noticed a fight at the fortress arena, and Nie Ying identified the visitors as cultivators from the Ghost Spirit Sect and shared information about the six demonic sects.
• Yan Ling explained that the Yan Family had been short-handed because of the arriving guests and the troublemakers, then Yan Yu led the group toward the arena.
• A handsome Feng Family cultivator recognized Dong Xuan'er, and Fang Yu embraced her before identifying himself as Lei Wanhe’s disciple, making the man wary.

Fang Yu watched the Ghost Spirit Sect defeat the Yan Family cultivator, then chose a secluded inn while Nie Ying warned him of danger. Meanwhile, Han Li met Mo Caihuan, and Fang Yu secretly left her cultivation manuals and Foundation Establishment Pills to test whether someone without spiritual roots could cultivate.

• Fang Yu predicted the Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator would win, and the green-robed man defeated Yan Yu's cousin with his skulls and black beams.
• Wang Chan ended the matches until the Yan Family's Life-and-Death Hall disciples arrived, and Fang Yu considered capturing the Ghost Spirit Sect's young sect master.
• Han Li gave Fang Yu, Nie Ying, and Dong Xuan'er copies of the fort's information, then Fang Yu led the women to a remote inn.
• Nie Ying told Fang Yu through voice transmission that her Nether Spirit Art had warned her of danger from the Ghost Spirit Sect.
• Han Li met Mo Caihuan and gave her a Face-Fixing Pill and spirit stones after she asked whether she could cultivate without spiritual roots.
• Fang Yu secretly left Mo Caihuan martial arts manuals, three Foundation Establishment Pills, and a letter, hoping to learn whether she could cultivate without spiritual roots.

Fang Yu met Dong Xuan'er and Tian Buque in Yan Family Fort, where they uncovered Dong Xuan'er's connection to the Acacia Sect's Yunlu Old Devil. Fang Yu began sounding out Tian Buque about the Ghost Spirit Sect's purpose, leaving their potential cooperation unresolved.

• Fang Yu encountered Dong Xuan'er in the market streets and warned her not to use her charm technique carelessly.
• Fang Yu told Dong Xuan'er about Yunlu Old Devil, prompting her to question why he had brought him up.
• Fang Yu noticed Tian Buque following Dong Xuan'er and invited him to speak privately with them in a teahouse.
• Tian Buque identified himself as an Acacia Sect cultivator and revealed that Dong Xuan'er was Yunlu Old Devil's direct descendant, inviting her to meet the patriarch.
• Dong Xuan'er looked to Fang Yu for advice, and Fang Yu asked Tian Buque whether he knew why the Ghost Spirit Sect had come to Yan Family Fort.

Fang Yu learned that Yan Family Fort planned to hand the Seven Sects’ disciples over to the Ghost Spirit Sect and arranged for Tian Buque to take Dong Xuan’er to the Acacia Sect under strict safeguards. As the treasure-seizing tournament began, the Ghost Spirit Sect prepared a trap on the western peak, and Fang Yu entrusted Nie Ying with a plan to help the Seven Sects’ disciples escape.

• Fang Yu revealed the Ghost Spirit Sect’s purpose at Yan Family Fort and secured Tian Buque’s agreement to take Dong Xuan’er back under a heart demon oath and mutual death restrictions.
• Dong Xuan’er agreed to join the Acacia Sect, and Fang Yu explained that Yan Family Fort had pledged the Seven Sects’ disciples to the Ghost Spirit Sect.
• The Yan Family Fort patriarch went to meet the masked Ghost Spirit Sect young master after learning that his Core Formation guards had subdued the fort’s guards.
• Fang Yu decided against warning the Seven Sects’ disciples openly and told Dong Xuan’er to return with Tian Buque after the tournament.
• Yan Family Fort announced that cultivators from the Yue Kingdom and other countries would compete on separate peaks, while Wang Chan’s men planted a temporary Yin Fire Formation on the western peak.
• Fang Yu gave Nie Ying a storage pouch and tasked her with helping the Seven Sects’ disciples escape if the Ghost Spirit Sect’s trap was sprung.

Fang Yu warned Han Li away from the treasure-seizing convention, then fought Wang Chan and killed the two Core Formation Li brothers when they intervened. The chapter ended with a powerful cultivator possessing Wang Chan offering Fang Yu a place in the Ghost Spirit Sect, which Fang Yu declined.

• Fang Yu warned Han Li that Yan Family Fort might be dangerous, and Han Li chose to leave instead of attending the convention.
• Fang Yu watched the convention site as Tian Buque and Dong Xuan'er discussed disrupting the Ghost Spirit Sect's plans.
• Wang Chan ordered the Yin Fire Formation activated and confronted Fang Yu outside its boundary, while the formation trapped cultivators from the seven sects.
• Fang Yu overwhelmed Wang Chan and bound him, then killed the Li brothers when Wang Chan broke free and ordered them to attack.
• A high-level cultivator possessing Wang Chan praised Fang Yu and offered to make him a disciple and future vice sect master, but Fang Yu refused to join the Ghost Spirit Sect.

Fang Yu escaped Yan Family Fort after killing two Ghost Spirit Sect Core Formation cultivators, leaving the Ghost Spirit Sect and Yan Family to plot against him. Back at the Fang residence, he sorted his spoils and received a jade box sent by Fang Qingxue.

• Tian Buque reassured Dong Xuan'er that Fang Yu might survive the Ghost Spirit Sect sect master's possession of Wang Chan, while worrying about the danger to the seven sects.
• Fang Yu exposed the Yan Family ancestor's plan to trap him with the clan-protecting formation and escaped with the Li Brothers' corpses using a jade talisman.
• The Ghost Spirit Sect sect master ordered the Yan Family to return with him and decided to spread word of Fang Yu's supposed ancient inheritance.
• Tian Buque and Dong Xuan'er watched Yan Family Fort empty out, and Tian Buque worried that Yellow Maple Valley might not be able to protect Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu returned to the Fang residence, sorted the spoils and pill formulas, and decided to seek the Great Shift Token rather than return to Yellow Maple Valley.
• Fang Qiang arrived with a jade box from Fang Qingxue, and Fang Yu eagerly asked what it contained.

Yellow Maple Valley and the Moon-Covering Sect discussed Fang Yu’s rumored strength and sought to secure his allegiance through marriage alliances. Meanwhile, Fang Yu read the Eclosion Sect’s All Worlds and found information that convinced him he needed to return somewhere once more.

• Old Freak Linghu confirmed Fang Yu had killed the Li Brothers, warned Yellow Maple Valley not to covet any inheritance he might have, and promised him exceptional status and support.
• Lei Wanhe, Hong Fu, the Chen Family Patriarch, and other cultivators proposed female disciples and relatives as potential Dao companions for Fang Yu.
• The Moon-Covering Sect’s Grand Elder accepted the report that Fang Yu had killed the Li Brothers and considered a marriage alliance, prompting its cultivators to offer candidates as well.
• Fang Yu received All Worlds from Fang Qiang, opened the Eclosion Sect’s vast reference book, and searched it for information he needed.
• After reading a useful entry, Fang Yu concluded that he needed to go back once more.

During the war between Yue Kingdom's seven sects and Heavenly Luo Kingdom's six demonic sects, Zhao Shuang struggled to obtain scarce medicinal ingredients and spirit herbs for the Moon-Covering Sect. Fang Yu arranged a meeting with Nangong Wan, who recognized him as an old friend, and waited to see whether she would come.

• The Moon-Covering Sect faced shortages of medicinal ingredients and spirit herbs as the war intensified, and Zhao Shuang feared losing his medicine hall position after secretly keeping two five-hundred-year spirit herbs.
• Zhao Yue'er and her sister told Zhao Shuang they had found a seller who wanted his remaining Earthsoul Mystic Magnetite, and they arranged an exchange at Prosperity Teahouse for the next day.
• The Moon-Covering Twin Beauties delivered a jade slip from Fang Yu to Nangong Wan, who recognized him as an old friend and dismissed the sisters.
• Nangong Wan complained that Fang Yu had finally returned, while Fang Yu waited at Prosperity Teahouse and wondered whether she would come.

Fang Yu asked Nangong Wan to arrange a hidden identity so he could fight on the front lines and collect the aura of war and slaughter. After two months at Golden Drum Plain, Nangong Wan warned him that the decisive battle was near and arranged a mission that would let him leave the battlefield.

• Fang Yu told Nangong Wan he wanted to kill cultivators from the six devilish sects, and she agreed to arrange an identity for him after he demonstrated his ability to disguise himself.
• Five days later, Fang Yu entered the Moon-Covering Sect under the name Nangong Han, presented as Nangong Wan's junior.
• Over the next two months at Golden Drum Plain, Fang Yu killed Foundation Establishment enemies, mostly Ghost Spirit Sect disciples, and collected the aura of war and slaughter.
• Fang Yu noticed that Heavenly Fiend Sect disciples were also gathering battlefield baleful aura, making it harder for him to collect.
• Nangong Wan visited Fang Yu and told him the decisive battle could begin within half a year, so she had found him a mission to leave the battlefield.
• Nangong Wan directed Fang Yu to search for a sect traitor last seen in Yue Capital, where he could stay for a few months before deciding his next move.

Fang Yu warned Nangong Wan that Spirit Beast Mountain might be colluding with the six demonic sects, then traveled to Yue Capital to investigate the Black Fiend Sect. After Xin Ruyin revealed that the sect had abducted Qi Yunxiao, Fang Yu agreed to help her, while the Black Fiend Sect leader sensed danger and ordered his subordinates to stay put.

• Fang Yu warned Nangong Wan to keep Spirit Beast Mountain from controlling most of the defensive lines, and she agreed to try.
• Fang Yu entered Yue Capital to investigate the Black Fiend Sect and spotted Xin Ruyin and Xiao Mei watching Prince Xin's Residence.
• Xin Ruyin told Fang Yu that a demonic force had taken Qi Yunxiao and pleaded for help; Fang Yu said he would take them to kill someone.
• Tie Luo returned to the Black Fiend Sect, where the Sect Leader asked about dangerous figures and ordered his subordinates not to leave for several days.
• The Black Fiend Sect leader asked about the artifact refiner Tie Luo had brought back, and Tie Luo reported that the man had died.

Fang Yu and Xin Ruyin raided the Black Fiend Sect’s imperial palace, where Fang Yu killed its protectors and the Sect Leader’s incarnation. Back in Yuanwu Kingdom, Xin Ruyin agreed to repair an ancient teleportation formation, and the three settled into a quiet life while she worked.

• The Black Fiend Sect Leader ordered Tie Luo to strengthen the palace guard after learning that a captive artifact refiner had died.
• Fang Yu and Xin Ruyin entered the imperial city, fought through the guards, and broke the Four Fiends Formation after Xin Ruyin identified its flaw.
• Fang Yu killed the Ice Demon, defeated Tie Luo, and killed the Black Fiend Sect Leader’s incarnation before the surviving disciples fled.
• Fang Yu collected five-element fiend pills and other treasures, then took Xin Ruyin to the Cold Palace before they left the imperial city.
• At the Four Directions Teahouse, Xin Ruyin examined Fang Yu’s ancient teleportation formation diagram and estimated that she could repair it within half a year.
• Fang Yu, Xin Ruyin, and Xiao Mei returned to Yuanwu Kingdom, where Xin Ruyin studied the formation, Fang Yu practiced secret arts, and Xiao Mei cared for them.