Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu brought Xin Ruyin and Xiao Mei through the restored ancient teleportation formation to the Chaotic Star Sea, where they reached Scholar Star Island. He registered at Ascension Pavilion and began searching for a spiritual land near Lesser Ring Island so he could investigate the Gold Devouring Beetles.

• Fang Yu bought the materials he needed from Madam Lan and prepared to leave Heavenly South with Xin Ruyin and Xiao Mei.
• Fang Yu, Xin Ruyin, and Xiao Mei restored the ancient teleportation formation, traveled through it, and reached a sea cliff in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Fang Yu found a merchant vessel and brought Xin Ruyin and Xiao Mei aboard, where they learned the local language during the voyage.
• The three arrived at Scholar Star Island and completed the island's entry procedures with the merchant manager's help.
• Fang Yu registered at Ascension Pavilion and examined its album for a vacant spiritual land near Lesser Ring Island.

Fang Yu traveled from Scholar Star Island to the Outer Star Seas, where he hunted demon beasts for cores and gathered materials for pills. After returning, he prepared to depart for the Eclosion Sect with Fang Qingxue, who was astonished by his rapid cultivation progress.

• Fang Yu bought Nixia Grass and demon core pill formulas on Heavenly Capital Street, then told Xin Ruyin and Xiao Mei he planned to hunt demon beasts in the Outer Star Seas.
• Fang Yu traveled to Heavenly Star City, joined six other cultivators at the Starry Sky Hall, and teleported to the Outer Star Seas before buying a sea chart.
• Fang Yu reached Coral Island, set up formations and puppets, and waited for demon beasts to arrive.
• Fang Yu killed several high-level demon beasts on Coral Island and left two months later with twenty-three demon cores of level five or higher.
• Fang Yu and Fang Qingxue prepared to leave the Fang Family residence for the Eclosion Sect after Fang Yu reached the tenth level of the Body Realm.
• Fang Qingxue suspected Fang Yu had obtained the Yellow Springs Diagram and Nine-Aperture Golden Pill, but Fang Yu denied it and said he had encountered another opportunity.

Fang Yu and Fang Qingxue reached Eclosion Sect, where they clashed with Jin Shitai and his disciples before settling at Purple Lightning Peak. Fang Qingxue recognized Fang Yu’s gift as the legendary Demon-Slaying Divine Bamboo and warned that demonic forces would seek it, leaving Fang Yu alarmed by its danger.

• Fang Yu traveled with Fang Qingxue and the Fang Family convoy to Eclosion Immortal Mountain, where he revealed that he had refined a powerful flying sword.
• Jin Shitai’s disciples tried to inspect the Fang Family convoy, and Fang Yu attacked them after they assaulted him.
• Fang Qingxue killed the remaining seven disciples and their cranes with her Purple Lightning Yin Thunder Blade, then challenged Jin Shitai to face her at the Punishment Platform.
• Fang Qingxue brought Fang Yu to Purple Lightning Peak, where he showed her three stalks of Golden Lightning Bamboo.
• Fang Qingxue identified the bamboo as the ancient Demon-Slaying Divine Bamboo and warned that demonic forces would pursue it, though the sapling had limited power against Longevity Realm fiends.

Fang Qingxue explained how Fang Yu’s Golden Lightning Bamboo could be advanced and set him a path toward becoming an inner sect disciple. Fang Yu reached the Immortal Treading Courtyard for the entrance examination, where Fang Qingwei told him he had already become famous.

• Fang Qingxue told Fang Yu that the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art could cultivate Demon-Slaying Divine Bamboo beyond ten thousand years and offered to teach him a supreme divine ability in exchange for his three stalks.
• Fang Qingxue gave Fang Yu one month to become an inner sect disciple and instructed him to break through to the Divine Ability Secret Realm; Fang Yu promised to help her become Supreme Sect Master.
• Fang Qingxue gave Fang Yu the Myriad Beasts Token, and he refined it with his blood before asking Crane Immortal to carry him to the entrance examination.
• Crane Immortal flew Fang Yu to the Eclosion Sect’s great plain, then left him on the road leading into the city of the true disciples.
• Fang Yu reached the Immortal Treading Courtyard and reunited with Fang Qingwei, who said his examination would begin within half an hour and that he had already become famous because of what happened at Blue Flame Peak.

Fang Yu and Fang Qingwei faced the Eclosion Sect’s outer disciple assessment, where Fang Qingwei passed by defeating a strength puppet. After the other candidates suffered injuries and many withdrew, Fang Yu was told he must survive for a quarter of an hour against an asura puppet to pass and earn a spirit artifact flying sword.

• Fang Qingwei warned Fang Yu that the examiners might make his assessment harder because he had injured an outer disciple, and he reassured her that he could handle it.
• The examiners agreed to use an asura puppet against Fang Yu, following Jin Rilie’s order and hoping to earn a spirit artifact flying sword.
• Fang Qingwei defeated a strength puppet with her whip and passed the assessment as an outer disciple.
• Several noble scions failed or withdrew after strength puppets injured them, while only two of the Fang Family disciples passed.
• The examiners told Fang Yu that he had to endure an asura puppet for a quarter of an hour to pass and receive a spirit artifact flying sword.

Fang Yu defeated an underground asura puppet and became an outer disciple of the Eclosion Sect, then settled into his new residence with Fang Qingwei. At the Jade Culinary Hall, several princes and princesses asked him to join them for the inner disciple examination.

• Fang Yu dodged the asura puppet's attack, broke its arm, and knocked it out of the ring, earning his place as an outer disciple.
• The examiners praised Fang Yu's strength and speculated that the Flood Dragon Subduing Yellow Springs Diagram and Nine-Aperture Golden Pill explained his rapid progress.
• Fang Yu received the Clearwind Sword and outer disciple supplies, then showed Fang Qingwei his spacious courtyard and offered her the sword and pills.
• Fang Qingwei declined to keep the Clearwind Sword, and she and Fang Yu went to the Jade Culinary Hall for a meal.
• Several princes and princesses of the Great Li Dynasty approached Fang Yu and asked him to take the inner disciple examination alongside them.

Fang Yu refused the Great Li Dynasty royals’ request to team up, received his assessment token, and entered the Extraterritorial Demon Battlefield to face the heavenly demons. While he prepared, Jin Rilie tried to have him branded a demon sect remnant, but the Eclosion Sect’s supreme headmaster and Elder Heavenly Punishment protected him.

• Fang Yu declined to cooperate with the Great Li Dynasty princes and princesses after Fang Qingwei warned that they would burden him during the assessment.
• Fang Yu received his jade token at the Inner Immortal Courtyard and learned that he would enter the Extraterritorial Demon Battlefield in three days.
• Jin Rilie accused Fang Yu of possessing the Yellow Springs Diagram and urged Elder Heavenly Punishment to seize it, but the supreme headmaster’s voice stopped him and defended Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu entered the battlefield through the ancient stone gate and found himself on a vast, desolate plain beneath a hazy sky.
• Fang Yu formed Evil-Repelling Thunder Armor around himself and prepared to face the extraterrestrial heavenly demons.

Fang Yu entered the Extraterritorial Demon Battlefield, captured thousands of extraterrestrial heavenly demons with the Soul-Swallowing Bowl, and became an inner sect disciple. In his new quarters, he prepared to break through to the Divine Ability Realm and become a true disciple.

• Fang Yu dispelled an illusion of Nangong Wan with the Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning and used the Soul-Swallowing Bowl to collect heavenly demons.
• Fang Yu faced a heavenly demon storm and swallowed its 360 demons with the Soul-Swallowing Bowl.
• Half-elders monitoring the battlefield noticed the demons disappearing and suspected Fang Yu, then reported the matter to Elder Tianxing.
• Fang Yu left the battlefield, received an inner sect identity jade token, and moved into the Inner Immortal Courtyard.
• Fang Yu prepared to break through to the Divine Ability Realm, deciding he could no longer suppress his cultivation.

Fang Yu broke through to the Divine Ability Realm, passed Elder Heavenly Punishment’s inspection, and received the Eclosion Sect’s Heavenly Wood Divine Art. His breakthrough spread throughout the sect, while Xu Yue'er claimed the Pine-Wave Qin she had won from Long Xuan in their wager.

• Fang Yu opened his heavenly gate, transformed his spiritual force into magical power, and gained the strength of three thousand Xuanhuang Horses.
• Fang Yu visited the True Disciple Palace, where Elder Heavenly Punishment inspected him and the Elder of Transmission gave him the Heavenly Wood Divine Art.
• After Fang Yu left, the two elders discussed his Three Sovereigns Era cultivation art, his future prospects, and why they should not press Fang Qingxue about her opportunities.
• News of Fang Yu's breakthrough raced through the Eclosion Sect and began drawing attention from the other great immortal sects.
• Xu Yue'er collected the Pine-Wave Qin from Long Xuan after winning their bet on how quickly Fang Yu would reach the Divine Ability Realm.

After Fang Yu became a True Disciple, he discovered that Fang Han possessed the Nine-Aperture Golden Pill and the Flood Dragon Subduing Yellow Springs Diagram. Fang Yu helped Fang Han awaken the diagram’s artifact spirit, Yan, and arranged to learn the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art in exchange for Nine Yang Sacred Water.

• Fang Han broke through to the Breath Realm by practicing Qi Sifting at a cliff, and Fang Yu approached him afterward.
• Fang Yu deduced that Fang Han had received the Nine-Aperture Golden Pill and the Yellow Springs Diagram from Bai Haichan, then asked to examine the diagram without taking it from him.
• Fang Han blood-refined the Yellow Springs Diagram, and Fang Yu poured Nine Yang Sacred Water onto it to awaken its artifact spirit.
• Yan revealed that Fang Han was the Yellow Springs Emperor’s successor and said more pure yang substances could restore his strength.
• Fang Yu asked Yan to teach him the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art, and Yan agreed in exchange for more Nine Yang Sacred Water once Fang Yu reached the Heaven-Human Realm.

Fang Yu rode Crane Immortal beyond Eclosion Immortal Mountain, discovered a conspiracy between Jin Shitai and Wang Molin to kill him, and attacked them after overhearing their plans. He destroyed their first attacks and sent Gold Devouring Beetles and beast-shaped puppets after the fleeing Jin Shitai.

• Yan gave Fang Yu a jade booklet containing the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art and reminded him to find a proper cultivation ground.
• Fang Yu gave Fang Han an authorization token to take the outer sect disciple examination after stabilizing his breakthrough.
• Fang Yu and Crane Immortal saw the Demon God Sect's Heavenly Wolf Seven Fiends Smoke rise beyond Eclosion Immortal Mountain, and Fang Yu sent Crane Immortal away before turning invisible to investigate.
• Wang Molin and Jin Shitai discussed killing Fang Yu to seize the Nine-Aperture Golden Pill and the Flood Dragon Subduing Yellow Springs Diagram, and Jin Shitai threatened to subdue Fang Qingxue.
• Fang Yu appeared before the conspirators, destroyed the Seven-Fiend Gourd's smoke and Jin Shitai's Azure Flame attack with Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning, and sent his Gold Devouring Beetles after Jin Shitai as he fled.
• Jin Shitai's azure flames burned many of the beetles, so Fang Yu unleashed more than ten beast-shaped puppets to stop his escape.

Fang Yu brought Jin Shitai and Wang Molin to the Eclosion Sect’s Punishment Platform, where a soul search confirmed their plot against him and Fang Qingxue. After Jin Rilie was punished and the two conspirators were imprisoned, Fang Yu received a rare pill and spiritual wood as rewards and asked the Elder of Heavenly Punishment to refine the Seven-Fiend Gourd.

• Fang Yu captured Jin Shitai and Wang Molin after they plotted against him, then took them to the Punishment Platform.
• Jin Rilie arrived and denied that his son had colluded with Wang Molin, but the Elder of Transmission proposed a soul search to establish the truth.
• The Elder of Heavenly Punishment searched both men’s souls, confirmed their guilt, and ordered them imprisoned in the Immortal Prison pending the Supreme Headmaster’s judgment.
• The Elder of Heavenly Punishment stripped Jin Rilie of his pill hall position and ordered him into closed-door reflection.
• The Elder of Heavenly Punishment rewarded Fang Yu with a Yin-Yang Myriad Longevity Pill and ten-thousand-year Azure Dragon Bodhi Mulberry Wood.
• Fang Yu presented the Seven-Fiend Gourd and asked the Elder of Heavenly Punishment to refine it into a treasure of the immortal sect.

After Fang Yu received a Yin-Yang Longevity Pill for capturing Jin Shitai and Wang Molin, Fang Qingwei asked for his help preparing for a mission in Blue Moon Kingdom. Fang Yu gave her weapons and supplies, then entered seclusion to take the pill and increase his lifespan.

• Elder Tianxing took the Seven-Fiend Gourd and promised to have Elder Tian Gong deliver it once Fang Yu's true disciple peak was built, while declaring that Wang Molin would be slain.
• Fang Qingwei told Fang Yu that desert bandits and demonic forces were attacking Blue Moon Kingdom, and asked to borrow the Clearwind Sword so she could join the mission and earn an inner disciple assessment slot.
• Fang Yu gave Fang Qingwei the Clearwind Sword, pills, and a storage pouch, warned her that the Demon God Sect might target her, and urged her to cultivate before the mission began.
• Fang Qingwei told Fang Yu that Fang Han planned to cooperate with the Great De Dynasty, and Fang Yu advised her to consider setting aside their past grievances and working with him.
• Fang Yu entered seclusion, opened the Two Forms Jade box, and prepared to consume the Yin-Yang Longevity Pill, which could add six hundred years to his lifespan.

Fang Yu refined the Yin-Yang Longevity Pill, greatly increased his lifespan and cultivation, and worried that reaching the Nascent Soul stage might conflict with his cultivation in another world. He returned to the Mortal World, where a new Core Formation cultivator appeared on Scholar Star Island as its leaders considered recruiting them for the approaching Star-Picking Conference.

• Fang Han visited Purple Lightning Peak seeking Fang Yu, learned Fang Qiang had reached the Divine Transformation Realm, and agreed to train in the underground world for a month.
• Fang Yu refined the Yin-Yang Longevity Pill, gained six hundred years of lifespan, increased his magical power, and advanced to the great perfection of late-stage Core Formation.
• Fang Yu worried that forming a Nascent Soul might conflict with his cultivation in the Mortal World, then planned to search for Jade Spirit Island and visit Xin Ruyin and Xiao Mei.
• A dramatic spiritual-energy phenomenon appeared over a mountain on Scholar Star Island, and nearby cultivators believed someone had formed a core.
• Island Master Mu hoped to recruit the new Core Formation cultivator for the Star-Picking Conference, while True Person Yuan Jun questioned whether the newcomer would be useful.

After Xin Ruyin formed her core, Fang Yu learned from Scholar Star Island’s masters that the Chaotic Star Sea was growing unstable and decided to travel to Heavenly Star City. He reached Void Heaven Hall just as it opened, entered with the Incomplete Void-Heaven Map, and met two Nascent Soul cultivators inside.

• Fang Yu revealed himself to Scholar Star Island’s chief and deputy island masters, invited them for tea, and asked about events in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Island Master Mu and Yuan Jun described rebellions, stolen treasures, and rumors that the Heavenly Star Twin Saints had lost their cultivation and control of Star Palace.
• Fang Yu decided to leave for Heavenly Star City with Xin Ruyin, then visited her cave abode and learned from Xiao Mei that Xin Ruyin was stabilizing her newly formed core.
• Fang Yu arrived at Void Heaven Hall shortly after it opened and used the Incomplete Void-Heaven Map to pass through its barrier.
• Fang Yu entered the main hall, recognized Azure Change Lay Buddhist and Madam Wen as Nascent Soul cultivators, and introduced himself to Madam Wen as Nangong Han.

Fang Yu watched the major Nascent Soul cultivators gather in Void Heaven Hall while Zhou Yuan and Purple Spirit Fairy faced pressure from Extreme Yin Old Monster and Wu Chou. Man Huzi arrived and unexpectedly asked Fang Yu to become his disciple after sensing his powerful blood and qi.

• Fang Yu introduced himself to Azure Change Lay Buddhist as Nangong Han and avoided acknowledging Zhou Yuan and Purple Spirit Fairy when they sought his help.
• Extreme Yin Old Monster proposed that Wu Chou become Purple Spirit Fairy's Dao companion, but Zhou Yuan refused despite fearing the consequences.
• Tian Wuzi and a farmer-like elder arrived, followed by Wan Tianming and Man Huzi, intensifying the hostility between the righteous and demonic cultivators.
• Man Huzi approached Fang Yu on his jade pillar and asked to take him as a disciple because of his exceptional physical vitality.
• Fang Yu said that a thousand-year Dragon Blood Fruit had strengthened his blood and qi.

Fang Yu rejected Man Huzi’s offer and learned that the powerful Nascent Soul cultivators feared his strength and killing aura. As the cultivators entered Void Heaven Hall, Zhou Yuan tried to enlist Fang Yu’s help by offering a chance to obtain the Nine-Twist Ginseng, but he revealed that he already knew about it.

• Fang Yu declined Man Huzi’s offer to cooperate, and Man Huzi warned the other Devil Dao cultivators that Fang Yu’s body-tempering technique and baleful aura made him dangerous.
• Two Star Palace enforcement elders announced the expedition’s rules and warned that they would not intervene in dangers inside Void Heaven Hall.
• After the hall sealed and a teleportation formation appeared, cultivators began entering it, and Zhou Yuan asked Fang Yu to accompany her and Purple Spirit Fairy.
• Zhou Yuan offered Purple Spirit Fairy as Fang Yu’s Dao companion, along with the Wonderful Sound Sect as her dowry, but Fang Yu refused because he already admired someone.
• Zhou Yuan offered to share information about a primordial spiritual herb that could increase the chance of forming a Nascent Soul, and Fang Yu identified it as the Nine-Twist Ginseng.

Fang Yu crossed the Ghost Grievance Land unharmed and reunited with Zhou Yuan, Purple Spirit Fairy, and Yuan Yao before the cultivators entered the Ice-Fire Path. There, he fought Man Huzi with a single punch, wounded him, and left under the assumed name Nangong Han, drawing the Nascent Soul cultivators’ interest in his body-tempering technique.

• Zhou Yuan told Purple Spirit Fairy they would race Fang Yu for the Nine-Twist Ginseng, and the two headed to the teleportation array.
• Fang Yu used Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning to cross the ghost mist unharmed and reached a garden where Nascent Soul cultivators, including Man Huzi, were waiting.
• Zhou Yuan, Purple Spirit Fairy, and Yuan Yao emerged together, and the Star Palace elders explained the one-day limit for gathering spiritual medicines before the cultivators entered the Ice-Fire Path.
• Man Huzi attacked Fang Yu, but Fang Yu’s punch shattered the scales on Man Huzi’s arm and forced him to retreat.
• Fang Yu introduced himself to Wan Tianming as Nangong Han, an independent cultivator from the Outer Star Seas, then flew away as the Nascent Soul cultivators coveted his technique.

Fang Yu used the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art to lure the Nine-Twist Ginseng and considered Star Palace's offer to hire him. After reaching Void Heaven Hall, he encountered Wan Tianming, who offered him the deputy sect master position of the Myriad Laws Sect.

• Fang Yu confronted two Star Palace elders, rejected their offer to make him a guest elder, and said he would consider being hired for one hundred thousand wood-element spiritual stones per request after Void Heaven Hall.
• The Star Palace elders decided to watch Fang Yu and protect him if the righteous and devilish paths attacked, while Wan Tianming and Tian Wuzi agreed to recruit him before Star Palace could.
• Fang Yu used the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art to awaken a barren hill and lure the Nine-Twist Ginseng, which appeared as a white rabbit and led him toward its original body.
• Fang Yu arrived at the entrance to the canyon beneath the divided mountain, where cultivators had gathered, and searched unsuccessfully for Yuan Yao.
• Wan Tianming greeted Fang Yu and asked whether he would become the deputy sect master of the Myriad Laws Sect.

Fang Yu accepted Wan Tianming’s offer of the Myriad Laws Sect’s vice sect master position for later consideration, then entered the Lava Path in the Void Heaven Hall. He saved a stranded cultivator and discovered Scarlet Fire Star Sand, a rare treasure that could help him cultivate the Red Emperor’s Fire Emperor Qi.

• Wan Tianming offered Fang Yu the vice sect master position, and Fang Yu postponed his decision until after the Void Heaven Hall expedition.
• Extreme Yin Old Monster and Azure Change Lay Buddhist discussed killing Fang Yu after the expedition, while Madam Wen refused to help them.
• Man Huzi arrived with a Snow-Ice Toad’s inner core, and the cultivators entered the newly opened Lava Path and Mystic Crystal Path passages.
• Fang Yu entered the Lava Path, found himself in a scorching gorge, and began crossing it alone.
• Fang Yu rescued a glamorous female cultivator from a gale dragon and lava fire dragon, then revealed that he had found Scarlet Fire Star Sand in the riverbed.