Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu reached the Stone Hall with Fairy Qing Ling and agreed to help Wan Tianming pursue the Void Heaven Cauldron in exchange for a Heaven-Mending Pill and an ancient treasure. Star Palace’s elders summoned him privately and asked whether he had a Dao companion, revealing their plan to match him with their Young Lord.

• Fang Yu passed safely through the Lava Path, met Fairy Qing Ling, and waited with her in the Stone Hall while other cultivators suffered heavy losses.
• Two Star Palace elders discussed secretly using the restrictions to weaken the righteous and demonic factions and considered recruiting Fang Yu by offering him spirit stones and a match with their Young Lord.
• Wan Tianming invited Fang Yu to help obtain the Void Heaven Cauldron, and Fang Yu accepted in exchange for a Heaven-Mending Pill and an ancient treasure.
• Yuan Yao and other powerful cultivators arrived at the Stone Hall, where the Star Palace elders dismissed accusations over the deadly restrictions without being challenged.
• The Star Palace elders took Fang Yu aside and asked if he had a Dao companion, prompting him to realize they intended to arrange a match for him.

Fang Yu rejected Star Palace’s attempt to recruit him and accepted Wan Tianming’s invitation to visit the Myriad Laws Sect. In Void Heaven Hall’s Treasure Light Pavilion, he bypassed its restrictions and took every ancient treasure, then encountered a mysterious figure identified as Ice Soul Fairy.

• Fang Yu refused the Star Palace elders’ proposal, and they agreed to offer him spirit stones rather than risk pushing him toward Wan Tianming.
• Wan Tianming invited Fang Yu to cultivate at the Myriad Laws Sect’s Spirit Eye Spring, and Fang Yu accepted after Wan Tianming made a heart demon oath.
• The trial passages opened, and Fang Yu entered one with Wan Tianming, Tian Wuzi, and the old farmer before they were separated.
• Fang Yu reached the Treasure Light Pavilion and ignored its first-floor weapons before finding ancient treasures on the second floor.
• Fang Yu used his physical strength and secret technique to smash the treasures’ barriers and take every item without being teleported away.
• A female figure of light appeared where the treasures had been, and Fang Yu recognized her as Ice Soul Fairy.

Fang Yu received the Heavenly Origin Vajra Art inheritance and crossed a corridor of illusions before entering a blood-dark hall, where he destroyed a false Fang Qingxue. The story then shifted to cultivators gathered before a towering green-stone structure, waiting for Fang Yu to arrive.

• Ice Soul Fairy’s image gave Fang Yu a jade slip containing the Heavenly Origin Vajra Art and told him he could use its token to become the Heavenly Origin Sacred Emperor’s disciple in the Spirit Realm.
• Fang Yu left the Treasure Light Pavilion and crossed a corridor filled with enchanting music and visions of beautiful women without being distracted.
• Fang Yu entered a blood-stained black hall and resisted its darkness and the sound of a woman sobbing.
• A false Fang Qingxue approached Fang Yu and tried to stab him, but he recognized the illusion and destroyed it with his strength.
• Wan Tianming, Tian Wuzi, the old devil, Man Huzi, Yuan Yao, and other cultivators waited before a vast green-stone tower while Fang Yu remained absent.
• Wu Chou mocked Fang Yu for not appearing, but Man Huzi’s killing intent frightened him into silence.

Man Huzi and Wan Tianming’s factions agreed to postpone their fight and entered the Inner Hall, while the Star Palace elders arrived later. Fang Yu secretly obtained the Void Heaven Cauldron, Dry Blue Ice Flame Bead, Soul-Nourishing Wood, and ten-thousand-year spirit milk, then encountered Yuan Yao while preparing to bathe.

• Extreme Yin Old Monster injured Wu Chou to keep Man Huzi from killing him, and Man Huzi accepted the apology after Wu Chou promised to obey him.
• After the Inner Hall opened, Man Huzi proposed a duel, but Wan Tianming refused and negotiated an agreement to take treasures in turns without fighting first.
• Man Huzi killed a fleeing male cultivator and attacked a red-light escapee, who revealed herself as a crimson strange bird and escaped into the passageway.
• The righteous and devilish cultivators entered the Inner Hall, then the two Star Palace elders used the teleportation formation and followed them inside.
• Fang Yu used Ice Soul Fairy’s token and the Blood Jade Spider to retrieve the Void Heaven Cauldron and Dry Blue Ice Flame Bead, then collected the Soul-Nourishing Wood and ten-thousand-year spirit milk.
• Fang Yu began undressing to bathe and was startled when Yuan Yao appeared and shrieked.

Yuan Yao told Fang Yu how she planned to use the Soul-Return Technique to revive her senior sister Yan Li, and Fang Yu agreed to give her Soul-Nourishing Wood and stand guard. Meanwhile, Wan Tianming and the righteous cultivators discovered the Void Heaven Cauldron was missing and suspected Fang Yu had taken it.

• Yuan Yao explained that Yan Li’s primordial spirit was fading, and she had come to the Void Heaven Hall seeking Soul-Nourishing Wood to revive her.
• Yuan Yao offered Fang Yu herself and her treasures in exchange for his help, and Fang Yu gave her Soul-Nourishing Wood and accepted the bargain.
• Wan Tianming, Tian Wuzi, and the old farmer entered the stone platform’s barrier to search for the Void Heaven Cauldron.
• Wan Tianming and Tian Wuzi found the Cauldron missing, and Tian Wuzi suggested Fang Yu had taken it.
• Wan Tianming agreed Fang Yu was the likeliest culprit and decided they should leave the Void Heaven Hall and wait for him to appear when he formed a Nascent Soul.

Wan Tianming and the demonic cultivators clashed outside the Cold Li Platform over the missing Void Heaven Cauldron, and Man Huzi revealed his mutated Three-Eyed Leopard before the factions began fighting. Meanwhile, Fang Yu and Yuan Yao finished their two-hour exchange at the Spirit Eye Spring and prepared to leave, with the spring still impossible to take.

• Wan Tianming denied obtaining the Void Heaven Cauldron, but Man Huzi and the others blocked his group and demanded to inspect the Cold Li Platform.
• Wan Tianming and Tian Wuzi summoned the Ice Flood Dragon and Li Tortoise, while Man Huzi, Extreme Yin Old Monster, and Azure Change Lay Buddhist released their spirit beasts and helpers.
• Man Huzi's Three-Eyed Leopard turned Wan Tianming's magic artifact into stone, revealing its rare transformation art and giving the demonic faction confidence.
• Man Huzi offered to divide the Void Heaven Cauldron if Wan Tianming handed it over, but Wan Tianming ordered his group to attack, starting the battle outside the platform.
• Fang Yu and Yuan Yao finished their exchange after more than two hours, and Fang Yu noted that the Spirit Eye Spring could not be removed from the Void Heaven Hall.

Fang Yu and Yuan Yao left the Void Heaven Hall as rival factions discovered the Void Heaven Cauldron was missing and Star Palace prepared to confront the rising Anti-Star Alliance. They reached a secluded island near Heavenly Star City, where Fang Yu reunited Yuan Yao with Xin Ruyin and introduced her as his younger sister.

• Azure Change Lay Buddhist found traces of fifth- or sixth-grade Blood Jade Spiders, and the cultivators suspected either Star Palace or Wan Tianming had taken the Void Heaven Cauldron.
• Man Huzi, Extreme Yin Old Monster, and Azure Change Lay Buddhist parted ways, while Star Palace's elders blamed Nangong and ordered the teleportation arrays to the Outer Star Seas guarded.
• Yuan Yao told Fang Yu that the Heavenly Star Twin Saints had summoned factions with Heavenly Star Tokens and that the righteous and demonic factions had formed the Anti-Star Alliance under Wan Sangu and Six Paths Ultimate Sage.
• Fang Yu explained that the Magnetic Essence Divine Light required all Five Elements Spiritual Roots, then assured Yuan Yao he could help find a mortal body for Yan Li in the Outer Star Seas.
• Fang Yu and Yuan Yao arrived at Xin Ruyin's island, where he introduced Yuan Yao as his younger sister; Xin Ruyin then asked whether Yuan Yao had visited Heavenly Capital Street on Scholar Star Island.

Fang Yu brought Xin Ruyin, Yuan Yao, and Xiao Mei to Blackstone City, where Xin Ruyin agreed to study formations that could help Yuan Yao revive Yan Li. After finding a clue leading toward Jade Spirit Island, Fang Yu prepared to leave the women in the city and seek the island himself.

• Yuan Yao told Xin Ruyin she intended to use the Reanimation Technique to revive Yan Li, and Xin Ruyin offered to study the necessary formations.
• Fang Yu explained Blackstone City and left Xin Ruyin, Yuan Yao, and Xiao Mei to settle there while he pursued a clue about Jade Spirit Island.
• Fang Yu guided the women through Radiant Elegance Pavilion and explained how Blackstone City's auction and trading establishments operated.
• Fang Yu asked Xin Ruyin and Yuan Yao to buy five-element materials for him, promising to provide demon beast materials and cores in return.
• Fang Yu introduced the women to Madam Mingxuan, who agreed to help them and invited them to become guest elders of Radiant Elegance Pavilion.

Fang Yu traveled to Jade Spirit Island to cultivate and advance his Divine Ability Secret Realm, briefly rescuing Purple Spirit Fairy and her companions along the way. After reaching the island and tapping its high-grade wood-attributed spirit stone vein, he broke through to the True Essence Realm and began advancing toward the Gangyuan Realm.

• Fang Yu traveled by spirit boat toward Thunder Sky Island, carefully crossing demon beast waters while cultivating with wood-attributed spirit stones.
• Fang Yu killed the Level Six Infant Carp Beast that was pursuing Purple Spirit Fairy, Fan Jingmei, and Zhuo Ruting, then continued on without waiting for their thanks.
• A year later, Fang Yu found Jade Spirit Island, prepared it with formations, and had his spirit beasts and puppets excavate a cave abode and locate its high-grade spirit stone vein.
• Fang Yu cultivated with the vein's wood-element spiritual energy and naturally broke through to the True Essence Realm.
• Fang Yu continued refining his true essence and mana, transforming his true qi into Daoist true gang qi as he advanced toward the Gangyuan Realm.

After breaking through to the Gangyuan Realm, Fang Yu returned to Mistbound Island to prepare for the Mystic Heaven Immortal Vine, only to encounter a demon beast’s transformation tribulation. He watched as a Poison Flood Dragon transformed, then saw Golden Radiance Daoist and the Huo Brothers attack it and discover their weapon was ineffective.

• Fang Yu broke through to the Gangyuan Realm and planned to revive the Mystic Heaven Immortal Vine before eventually bringing it to the Eclosion Sect.
• Fang Yu repaired his formations, traveled by teleportation formation to his secret base on Mistbound Island, and found the island shaken by a demon beast’s transformation tribulation.
• Fang Yu followed the disturbance and saw a giant turtle enduring heavenly lightning while a Poison Flood Dragon completed its tribulation and transformed into humanoid form.
• Golden Radiance Daoist and the Huo Brothers arrived, and Fang Yu recognized them and judged that they were no match for the newly transformed Poison Flood Dragon.
• The Huo Brothers and Golden Radiance Daoist attacked with the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sand, but it failed to harm the Poison Flood Dragon, prompting them to flee.

Fang Yu confronted the Poison Flood Dragon after it killed the Huo Brothers and drove off the Golden Radiance Daoist. He revealed the power of the Gang Yuan Realm, killed the level-eight flood dragon with one strike, and left the terrified Mystic Turtle at his feet.

• The Poison Flood Dragon smashed the Huo Brothers' Heaven-Breaking Divine Sand, killed them, and swallowed them whole.
• The Golden Radiance Daoist detonated his body and escaped by teleporting his Nascent Soul a thousand li away.
• Fang Yu appeared atop the transformed giant turtle, and the Poison Flood Dragon discovered that Fang Yu was only at the great perfection of late Core Formation.
• The Poison Flood Dragon offered the three human cultivators' treasures and threatened a beast tide, but Fang Yu demanded its scales and the Mystic Turtle shell as well.
• The Poison Flood Dragon attacked Fang Yu with poisonous fire and waves, while Fang Yu blocked its assaults with the Dry Blue Ice Flame and ice peaks.
• Fang Yu unleashed a Gang Yuan blade that cleaved the Poison Flood Dragon in two, then collected its demon core, storage bag, and corpse as the Mystic Turtle trembled beneath him.

Fang Yu made the Black Tortoise conceal his killing of the Venom Flood Dragon, but the resulting beast tide threatened Mystic Abyss Island. In Blackstone City, he reunited with Yuan Yao and Xin Ruyin, warned them of the danger, and met Zhou Yuan, who recognized him from the Void Heaven Hall.

• Fang Yu forced the Black Tortoise to report the Venom Flood Dragon's death as a failed tribulation, then bound it with a master-servant contract and learned that a beast tide had been ordered.
• Zhou Yuan learned from Wen Siyue that the Huo Brothers' soul tablets had shattered and decided to recruit more Core Formation cultivators to protect the Wonderful Sound Sect.
• Fang Yu reunited with Yuan Yao and Xin Ruyin, learned they had fled Radiant Elegance Pavilion to avoid the Azure Sun Sect, and told them he could now defeat it.
• Fang Yu explained that his killing of the Venom Flood Dragon had triggered the coming beast tide and agreed to warn Mystic Abyss Island's major forces.
• Zhou Yuan visited Fang Yu and the two women, sensed his strength, and recognized him as Fellow Daoist Nangong from the Void Heaven Hall.

Fang Yu warned Zhou Yuan that a devastating Flood Dragon Clan beast tide was approaching Mystic Abyss Island and agreed to escort her daughter Purple Spirit to the Inner Star Sea. As Blackstone City's factions prepared for the disaster, Zhou Yuan could offer them no further details about when or where it would strike.

• Zhou Yuan thanked Fang Yu for saving her daughter and her two senior disciples, then explained she had come to recruit Xin Ruyin and Yuan Yao as guest elders.
• Fang Yu warned Zhou Yuan about the coming beast tide and urged her to alert Mystic Abyss Island's factions and prepare to leave.
• Zhou Yuan asked Fang Yu to take Purple Spirit to the Inner Star Sea, and he agreed to meet her alone in three days.
• Zhou Yuan told Purple Spirit about the danger and gave her travel supplies, while Purple Spirit showed interest in Fang Yu as a potential Dao companion.
• Zhou Yuan spread the warning across Mystic Abyss Island and convened Blackstone City's factions, claiming the deceased Huo Brothers had sent the news.
• The Blackstone City Lord and rival factions ended their grudges with Zhou Yuan, but she said she knew nothing about the beast tide's timing or point of attack.

Fang Yu and Purple Spirit Fairy witnessed Madam Wen rescue Ling Yuling from Black Blood Daoist and learned that Ling Yuling was her niece. After Madam Wen discovered Fang Yu, he asked about her ties to Wen Qing and the Heavenly Star Twin Saints, and she began explaining their family connection.

• Purple Spirit Fairy reached the agreed island, where Fang Yu met her after returning to the Inner Star Sea.
• The Anti-Star Alliance exposed Azure Cloud Sect as a Star Palace spy and defeated its defenders, scattering the survivors.
• Madam Wen stopped Black Blood Daoist from capturing Ling Yuling, and Ling Yuling addressed her as Aunt before returning to Heavenly Star City.
• Madam Wen sensed Fang Yu with her three-tailed snow fox and warned him that others might target him over the Void Heaven Cauldron.
• Fang Yu asked about Madam Wen's relationship with Wen Qing and the Heavenly Star Twin Saints, and Madam Wen said they came from the Wen Family and she had served Wen Qing since childhood.

Fang Yu learned about the Inner Star Sea’s conflicts, then set out with Yuan Yao, Xin Ruyin, and Xiao Mei to find a place where they could revive Yan Li. Along the way, they encountered Han Li fleeing an Anti-Star Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator, and Fang Yu prepared to fight the pursuer.

• Madam Wen gave Fang Yu a jade slip detailing the Inner Star Sea’s situation, and they both swore heart demon oaths to keep their meeting secret.
• Fang Yu gave Purple Spirit Fairy a copy of the jade slip, then left with Yuan Yao, Xin Ruyin, and Xiao Mei to find a safe place to perform the Reanimation Technique for Yan Li.
• Han Li, an abandoned disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, fled an Anti-Star Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator who wanted his ancient treasure boots and pursued him on a blood-colored roc.
• Han Li approached Fang Yu’s spirit boat, hoping to use Fang Yu’s help to escape, and the pursuer also recognized Yuan Yao as a wanted demoness.
• Fang Yu dismissed the pursuer’s threats and destroyed his blood-colored python with a giant azure hand, then sent the hand into a fist and launched it at him.

Fang Yu saved Han Li from an Anti-Star Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator, then helped Yuan Yao and Xin Ruyin prepare a ritual to restore Yan Li to a body. Yuan Yao began the Soul-Return Technique on an isolated island as a storm of yin qi gathered, leaving Fang Yu and Xin Ruyin guarding the valley against any intruders.

• Fang Yu accepted a grade-six demon core from Han Li, heard how Han Li had become a discarded disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, and let him leave after asking about dense yin qi.
• Fang Yu, Xin Ruyin, and Yuan Yao traveled to Kui Wood Island and learned of several islands where yin qi gathered heavily.
• Fang Yu brought the group to a remote island once known as a demon beast graveyard, where Xin Ruyin and Yuan Yao prepared a formation around the cold jade coffin holding Yan Li's body.
• Yuan Yao chose to shatter her core if necessary to restore Yan Li, explaining that Yan Li had once saved her life.
• Yuan Yao activated the Soul-Return Technique as black yin qi and ghostly winds engulfed the valley, while Xin Ruyin joined Fang Yu outside to watch for trouble.

Fang Yu and Xin Ruyin guarded Yuan Yao’s Reanimation Technique as outsiders gathered around the island, and Xin Ruyin’s formation killed an intruding Core Formation cultivator. A powerful late-stage Core Formation man appeared before Xin Ruyin and urged her to follow him, leaving her facing a dangerous new threat.

• Xin Ruyin asked Fang Yu about his bond with Yuan Yao, and Fang Yu promised not to let Yuan Yao down.
• Several cultivators approached the island, but a barrier drove three intruders back, and a white-cloaked Core Formation cultivator stopped the group from leaving while it investigated.
• Fang Yu told Xin Ruyin to kill anyone who entered the island as he watched yin energy reach its extreme around Yuan Yao’s body.
• Xin Ruyin’s formation killed the white-cloaked cultivator with a five-colored flying sword.
• A late-stage Core Formation man named Wen appeared before Xin Ruyin and asked her to follow him, while she warned him that Fang Yu would defeat him.

Xin Ruyin confronted Wen Tianren while Fang Yu and Yuan Yao were occupied, but Fang Yu returned and defeated Wen Tianren after enduring his powerful treasures and demonic techniques. As Rahu Black Mist engulfed the island, Fang Yu shielded Xin Ruyin and tested whether his Gang Yuan barrier could withstand it.

• Xin Ruyin warned Wen Tianren to leave, but he attacked with a blue awl and purple cloud before unleashing golden needles that pierced the Gold Devouring Beetles.
• Fang Yu returned, told Xin Ruyin that Yuan Yao had succeeded, and shattered Wen Tianren's golden flying-needle treasure with his bare hand.
• Wen Tianren used the Six Extremes True Demon Technique, a golden horn, and eight replica Eight-Gate Golden Light Mirrors, but Fang Yu's Gang Yuan wall blocked their combined attack.
• Fang Yu transformed the jade-green wall into a giant hand that killed Wen Tianren.
• Rahu Black Mist swept across the island, disabling the cultivators' abilities, while Fang Yu enclosed himself and Xin Ruyin in a Gang Yuan barrier and formed another barrier in the valley to test the mist.

Fang Yu survived Rahu’s attack and witnessed Rahu drive off the Sky-Soaring Kunpeng, which dropped a valuable feather. Meanwhile, Fang Qingxue sensed that the protection she had left Fang Yu had vanished and tried to leave seclusion, but Feng Baiyu assured her that Fang Yu was safe and no longer in the Great Primordial World.

• Rahu’s black mist attacked Fang Yu and Xin Ruyin, but Fang Yu’s astral essence barrier held against its black lightning.
• A Sky-Soaring Kunpeng reached through a spatial rift and attacked Rahu, which broke its pillars of light and struck back, forcing it to retreat and dropping a feather.
• Fang Yu regained his senses through the power in his left index finger, secured Xin Ruyin, and went to search for the Kunpeng feather.
• Fang Qingxue sensed that the blue silk hair she had left Fang Yu had lost its power and decided to leave the Minor Immortal World to save him.
• Feng Baiyu stopped Fang Qingxue and told her that Fang Yu was outside the Great Primordial World, safe and surrounded by great opportunities, so she returned to cultivation.

Fang Yu captured three Sky-Soaring Kunpeng feathers and planned a dangerous return to Mystic Abyss Island to pursue materials for refining Wind-Thunder Wings. After reuniting with Xin Ruyin, he prepared to leave again, while Star Palace began investigating who had killed Wen Tianren.

• Xin Ruyin woke and searched for Fang Yu after learning that Yuan Yao and Yan Li had recovered, though both women needed time to recuperate.
• Fang Yu trapped a teleporting Sky-Soaring Kunpeng feather with a golden electric net, sealed it with talismans, and found two more feathers nearby.
• Fang Yu decided to seek Feng Xi's Wind-Thunder Wings and demon-beast materials at Mystic Abyss Island, hoping to strengthen his body with Kunpeng blood essence.
• Fang Yu reunited with Xin Ruyin, told her he intended to return to Mystic Abyss Island, and asked her to help set up a teleportation formation.
• Star Palace's Grand Elder learned that Wen Tianren had died and ordered an investigation into the powerful cultivator responsible.