Chapter Summaries

Fang Han defeated Ye Nantian in the Mountains and Rivers Ranking match, seized the Luosheng Gate with Fang Yu’s help, and won the competition’s rewards. Later, Fang Qingxue asked Fang Yu whether he had heard of the Small Fate Technique, leaving him uneasy about what she knew.

• Ling Xiao worried when Fang Han broke through to the Divine Ability Realm, while Ye Nantian produced the Luosheng Gate and the Eight Desolations Divine Sword to protect himself.
• Fang Han used his mana to seize Ye Nantian’s sword, then turned the Luosheng Gate’s attempt to absorb his mana against Ye Nantian and knocked him from the arena.
• Fang Yu stopped Wanluo from taking the Luosheng Gate, and Elder Heavenly Punishment ruled that it belonged to Fang Han under the sect’s rules.
• Fang Han won the Mountains and Rivers Ranking competition and received the Yin-Yang Longevity Pill and a pure-yang treasure artifact.
• In the Purple Lightning Palace, Fang Qingxue asked Fang Yu about the Small Fate Technique, and Fang Yu admitted he had heard of it but was unsure whether it was real.

Fang Qingxue arranged for Fang Han to cultivate the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art at Jialan Peak and began drawing Jialan closer as an ally. Fang Yu then went to Elder Tian Gong with a storage bag to ask for something, leaving his purpose unrevealed.

• Hua Tiandu gave Wan Luo the Nine Palaces Golden Pagoda and ordered him to keep watch on Fang Han.
• Fang Yu told Fang Qingxue about the incomplete Ancient Martial Great Strength Divine Ability, and Fang Qingxue summoned Fang Han to discuss his new cultivation path.
• Fang Han said the Elder of Transmissions had taught him the Spring Breeze Wood Spirit Art and required him to refine Wood Spirit Pills for a year before learning the Heavenly Wood Divine Art.
• Fang Qingxue gave Fang Han a Thunder Bone Sarira and sent him to cultivate in Jialan's Purple Bamboo Forest, hoping to win Jialan's support.
• Fang Yu left Fang Han with Jialan's disciples and visited Elder Tian Gong, handing him a storage bag to request something.

Fang Yu negotiated with Elder Tian Gong to sell the Eclosion Sect as many Earth Emperor Mountain River Bags as it wanted in exchange for a share of the proceeds, then visited Fang Han at Jialan Peak. Feng Baiyu ruled that Fang Yu could not be expelled from the sect because his Mountain River Bags and Yellow Springs Diagram might link him to the Earth Emperor.

• Elder Tian Gong recognized Fang Yu’s storage pouch as an imitation of the Earth Emperor’s Mountain River Bag and discussed buying up to a hundred thousand from him.
• Fang Yu rejected Elder Tian Gong’s proposed profit splits and said the sect could obtain as many Mountain River Bags as it wanted; Elder Tian Gong agreed to report the deal to Feng Baiyu and the Grand Elders.
• At Jialan Palace, Fang Yu learned that Jialan had exchanged Fang Han’s Thunder Bone Sarira for a Yin-Yang Longevity Pill for Long Xuan, then went with Long Xuan to find Fang Han.
• Fang Yu advised Fang Han to use the Yama Golden Body to counter the wood spirit true qi and told Yan to teach him the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art.
• Ruyi Zi urged Feng Baiyu and the Grand Elders to seize Fang Yu’s treasures and expel him, but Feng Baiyu ruled that Fang Yu must remain in the sect because he might be connected to the Earth Emperor.

Fang Yu and Nangong Wan traveled to the Heavenly South First Trade Fair to gather storage bags, then encountered Han Li and Marquis Nanlong near Tiantian City. Fang Yu concealed himself with Nangong Wan to watch their meeting as Marquis Nanlong questioned Han Li.

• Feng Baiyu settled the storage-bag deal, giving Fang Yu seventy percent and the Eclosion Sect thirty percent.
• Nangong Wan proposed using the Heavenly South First Trade Fair to gather storage bags, and Fang Yu agreed to attend with her.
• Fang Yu spent a month in his cave abode helping Xin Ruyin, Yuan Yao, Yan Li, and the other women connected to him break through their cultivation bottlenecks.
• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan flew toward Tiantian City and hid when they noticed Lu Luo and Han Li approaching.
• Marquis Nanlong arrived in a grand procession, and Fang Yu and Nangong Wan watched as he questioned Lu Luo and asked who Han Li was.

Han Li’s divine sense contest with Marquis Nanlong ended in a draw, and Fang Yu revealed himself, impressing Han Li with his overwhelming presence. Fang Yu joined Marquis Nanlong’s planned gathering and then entered Tiantian City with Nangong Wan, where they looked for lodgings.

• Nangong Wan praised Han Li’s Great Development Art as Fang Yu noted that the contest with Marquis Nanlong was ending.
• Han Li matched Marquis Nanlong’s divine sense, and Marquis Nanlong gave him a jade slip inviting him to a gathering on the fourth day of the trade fair.
• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan revealed themselves; Han Li felt his Nascent Soul and natal magic treasure tremble before Fang Yu, who accepted a jade slip from Marquis Nanlong.
• Marquis Nanlong left for Tiantian City, and Fang Yu and Nangong Wan followed after bidding farewell to Han Li and Lu Luo.
• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan concealed their cultivation and entered Tiantian City, then went to the guest towers reserved for Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Fang Yu suggested that he and Nangong Wan stay together, but she pushed him away and refused.

Fang Yu and Nangong Wan joined Patriarch Linghu at an exchange fair hosted by Heavenly Crystal Adept, where they encountered Han Li, Lu Luo, and other cultivators. Fang Yu traded two earth-attributed demon cores for a three-thousand-year Scarlet Essence Ganoderma and gave it to Nangong Wan.

• Fang Yu and Nangong Wan met Patriarch Linghu, who invited them to a masked exchange fair at Crystal Dragon Pavilion.
• Fang Yu exposed the pavilion's illusion, then entered its spatially expanded second floor with Nangong Wan and Patriarch Linghu.
• Fang Yu noticed Han Li and Lu Luo, while Nangong Wan identified the Acacia Sect's Fat and Enchanting Twin Devils and warned that Acacia Old Devil had been investigating him.
• Heavenly Crystal Adept began the exchange fair, and a brocade-robed cultivator offered a three-thousand-year Scarlet Essence Ganoderma for spirit stones or earth-attributed materials.
• Fang Yu exchanged two demon cores for the Scarlet Essence Ganoderma and gave it to Nangong Wan.

At a Nascent Soul cultivators’ exchange meeting, Fang Yu revealed his identity and offered ancient treasures in return for large quantities of storage pouches, while promising Han Li Geng Essence. The meeting continued with the Heavenly Crystal Adept offering ancient puppet beasts for Soul Stones, prompting Fang Yu to consider a place where he might find one.

• Fang Yu gave Nangong Wan the Scarlet Essence Ganoderma and held her close as the exchange meeting continued.
• Han Li offered level-six demon cores and Thousand Spirit Herbs for Geng Essence but left without making a trade.
• Fang Yu revealed his identity and offered one ancient treasure for at least ten thousand ordinary storage pouches, asking that they be gathered and sent to the Moon-Covering Sect.
• Fang Yu asked the Acacia Sect’s Twin Devils to tell their Grand Elder to meet him in Tiantian City, then promised Han Li he could help him obtain Geng Essence in exchange for storage pouches.
• The Heavenly Crystal Adept offered ancient puppet beasts in exchange for Soul Stones, and Fang Yu considered a place he might search for one after noticing Han Li recognized the puppets.

Fang Yu left Nangong Wan in Tiantian City to manage the Storage Bag trade and joined Marquis Nanlong’s gathering, where he confronted Wang Chan and demanded that Du Jiaoyue be sent to him. Marquis Nanlong then revealed that he was recruiting cultivators for a trip to the Mulan Grasslands to seek the ruins of Cang Kun Superior.

• Fang Yu’s plan to exchange ancient treasures for millions of Storage Bags spread through Heavenly South, and cultivators rushed to prepare them.
• Nangong Wan stayed in Tiantian City to handle the Storage Bag trade while Fang Yu went to meet Marquis Nanlong.
• Fang Yu encountered Wang Chan, Du Jiaoyue, and Wang Tiangu, refused to forgive Wang Chan, and demanded that Du Jiaoyue be sent to the Moon-Covering Sect.
• Marquis Nanlong gathered the cultivators and announced that he wanted them to travel to the border of the Mulan Grasslands.
• Marquis Nanlong explained that the group would seek the ruins of Cang Kun Superior, a legendary rogue cultivator who had once dominated Heavenly South.

Fang Yu traded five ancient treasures for half a million storage pouches and warned the Nine Nations Alliance that the Mulan People might invade. While traveling with Marquis Nanlong toward Cang Kun Superior’s ruins, Fang Yu and the others encountered a vast Mulan wind-and-sand technique backed by seven or eight powerful spellcasters.

• Fang Yu told Nangong Wan about Marquis Nanlong’s plan to explore Cang Kun Superior’s ruins, but she declined to join him and said she had personal matters to handle.
• Madam Qi delivered five hundred thousand storage pouches from the Nine Nations Alliance, and Fang Yu exchanged them for five ancient treasures.
• Fang Yu told Madam Qi that he ultimately needed ten million storage pouches and warned her that the Mulan People might invade, prompting her to leave and alert the alliance.
• Fang Yu traveled with Marquis Nanlong and the others across the wasteland between the Nine Nations Alliance and the Mulan Grasslands.
• Fang Yu and his companions detected a gigantic Mulan wind-and-sand technique, and Fang Yu revealed that seven or eight powerful spellcasters were hidden within it.

Madam Qi gathered the Nine Nations Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators after Fang Yu warned that the Mulan People would invade, and Wu Peng organized preparations when confirmation arrived. Fang Yu then pursued a Mulan Wind-Chasing Chariot and faced a Grand Spellcaster alone, easily defeating his first two attacks before the spellcaster prepared his final move.

• Madam Qi told the council hall that Fang Yu had warned of an imminent Mulan invasion, and fiery transmissions soon confirmed the news.
• Wu Peng assigned the Nine Nations Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators their preparations for the invasion.
• Three powerful figures aboard a demon insect discussed Fang Yu’s strength and regretted that the Tianfeng Tribe planned to test him.
• Fang Yu stopped the pursuing Wind-Chasing Chariot, ordered its occupants to leave it behind, and chased after them when they fled.
• Fang Yu allowed a Mulan Grand Spellcaster three moves; he destroyed the man’s ice spirit art and caught and hurled away his giant mountain treasure.
• The Mulan Grand Spellcaster announced he still had one final move, and Fang Yu prepared to face it.

Fang Yu left Tiantian City and joined Marquis Nanlong's expedition to uncover an underground treasure site, while the city’s cultivators struggled to prepare for the Mulan invasion. The group reached a mysterious hall sealed by an ancient restriction, where Fang Yu demanded an additional share of the treasures before allowing anyone to attempt to break it.

• Old Freak Linghu asked Nangong Wan to find Fang Yu and help gather Tiantian City's Nascent Soul cultivators, but she said Fang Yu had left and she planned to return to the Moon-Covering Sect for reinforcements.
• Madam Qi told Wu Peng that Fang Yu was gone and that the arrival of other Grand Cultivators could not be guaranteed.
• Fang Yu showed Silver Moon the Wind-Chasing Chariot and Thousand-Layer Peak, then brought her to join Marquis Nanlong and the others.
• Marquis Nanlong and the white-robed Ghost Spirit Sect elder used small flags to split open a barren stone mountain, revealing stairs leading underground.
• Fang Yu told Silver Moon that an ancient devil's soul fragment was beneath the mountain, then led the group into a crystalline hall whose walls repelled spiritual sense.
• Fang Yu demanded an additional one-tenth of the treasures for breaking the hall's restriction, and the old woman began an attempt with a fiery red awl.

Fang Yu used formations to break the Grand Profound Divine Restriction, allowing the cultivators to enter the cave estate’s inner hall. He took a mysterious scroll bearing a portrait of Cang Kun Superior, while the group stood before the Jade Ridge Pavilion.

• Grand Immortal Master Zhong learned that Fang Yu had entered Mulan territory and decided to contact the Yin Luo Sect’s Sect Master for help.
• Fang Yu arranged formations on the crystalline walls and secretly gave Silver Moon time to enter the restriction.
• Fang Yu activated his formation plate and broke the Grand Profound Divine Restriction, revealing a stone door.
• The cultivators entered a larger hall and found the Jade Ridge Pavilion, an offering table, and a silver-white scroll.
• Fang Yu opened the scroll, saw a portrait of a sword-bearing scholar, and put it away as the others hesitated to object.

Fang Yu and the others explored Elder Qiong Kun’s relic while the Mulan People and Yin Luo Sect prepared to confront him. After escaping with the relic’s hidden treasures, Fang Yu revealed that he intended to let the coming war continue so he could gather its aura and examined the items he had taken.

• The Yin Luo Sect Master and the Mulan Grand Immortal Masters agreed to confront Fang Yu after learning he was an early Nascent Soul cultivator reputed to be Heavenly South’s foremost figure.
• Marquis Nanlong divided the first floor’s treasures, and the group discovered a shrine to a Devil Realm Sacred Ancestor and an empty cold jade bed on the second floor.
• Fang Yu took the cold jade bed, warned that the Mulan People were near, and broke the restriction around the stone mountain as the group hurried out of the relic.
• Silver Moon returned the jade boxes she had taken from the bed, and Fang Yu said four late Nascent Soul Grand Cultivators and a large force were approaching.
• Fang Yu found Elder Qiong Kun’s cultivation art for Ru Yin, a ring connected to Fallen Devil Valley, and the Purple Cheng Net, which he gave to Silver Moon.

Fang Yu remained detached from the war between Heavenly South and the Mulan army until Silver Moon reported that the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder was heading to reinforce Yellow Dragon Mountain. As the Grand Elder and two companions arrived, Fang Yu watched unseen from a distant mountaintop.

• The Yin Luo Sect Master and three Mulan Grand Sorcerers surrounded the cultivators leaving Cang Kun Superior's ruins, and Marquis Nanlong, Han Li, and the others fled in different directions.
• The Yin Luo Sect Master pursued Marquis Nanlong for his escape technique while the Mulan sorcerers hunted the other survivors.
• The Mulan army drove the Nine Nations Alliance into a series of defeats, while Fang Yu continued gathering war-and-slaughter baleful aura and ignored the fighting.
• Silver Moon told Fang Yu that the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder was going to reinforce Yellow Dragon Mountain, and Fang Yu agreed to go with her.
• At Yellow Dragon Mountain, Senior Lu received word that the Mulan forces had broken through and that the Grand Elder and two other Nascent Soul cultivators had arrived as reinforcements.
• The Grand Elder and her companions examined Yellow Dragon Mountain's formation while Fang Yu and Silver Moon watched from a distant mountaintop.

Fang Yu watched the Mulan army approach Yellow Dragon Mountain but chose to let the Heavenly South cultivators face them without his help. As the first duel ended with both fighters wounded and the Grand Profound Eight-Trigrams Diagram badly damaged, Fang Yu considered Ku Yao’s fire power useful for cultivating the Red Emperor’s Fire Emperor Qi.

• Silver Moon urged Fang Yu to greet the Moon-Covering Sect elders, but he explained that intervening could draw other enemies to Yellow Dragon Mountain and that he would help only if needed.
• Fang Yu said the Mulan clan and Yin Luo Sect were eager for a final battle, and promised Silver Moon he would teach the Yin Luo Sect cultivators a lesson for collecting battlefield souls.
• The Mulan army arrived at Yellow Dragon Mountain, and the Yin Luo Sect’s black-robed cultivator Tian Ku advised the Mulan sorcerers to let the defenders come out first.
• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder and the other Heavenly South cultivators emerged from the formation, and Ku Yao challenged them to a one-on-one fight.
• Old man Ma fought Ku Yao using the Grand Profound Eight-Trigrams Diagram, but the diagram was shattered as both combatants emerged wounded.
• Silver Moon lamented the damaged treasure, and Fang Yu promised to obtain and repair it for her while considering Ku Yao as possible nourishment for his fire cultivation.

Fang Yu’s improved Great Development Art and hidden intervention helped the Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder defeat the Yin Luo Sect cultivator Tian Ku and repel the Mulan People at Yellow Dragon Mountain. After the army withdrew, Gu Shuangpu revealed himself as a traitor and attacked the Grand Elder, who destroyed his possessed snake monster with Fang Yu’s divine lightning.

• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder fought Tian Ku with her Yin-Yang Ice-Fire Swords and Condensing Light Treasure Mirror while Fang Yu watched from afar.
• Fang Yu secretly killed Tian Ku with a net of golden lightning, and the Mulan People withdrew after receiving a mysterious command.
• The cultivators returned to the palace at Yellow Dragon Mountain, where Gu Shuangpu exposed himself and attacked the Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder as a possessed snake monster.
• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder froze the monster and destroyed its Nascent Soul with golden lightning, then credited her divine ability to Brother Fang.
• The Moon-Covering Sect Grand Elder entered her palace, turned toward Fang Yu’s hidden position, and thanked him respectfully.

Fang Yu explained why he had avoided leading the Heavenly South conflict and agreed to hold off a powerful enemy if one came to Yellow Dragon Mountain. The Mulan army arrived to find the mountain apparently abandoned, but Master Le remained wary as spell warriors searched the ruins; Fang Yu and Silver Moon watched, waiting for a major enemy to appear.

• Fang Yu told the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder that the slain Nascent Soul cultivator belonged to the Yin Luo Sect and that he had stayed out of the war because he was not from Heavenly South.
• The Grand Elder asked about traveling to the Great Jin Cultivation World and whether Yellow Dragon Mountain could be defended, and Fang Yu agreed to hold off the Yin Luo Sect Master or a Mulan Grand Immortal Master if either arrived.
• Fang Yu and the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder cultivated together that night, then the Mulan army approached Yellow Dragon Mountain the next day under Master Le, Ku Yao, and the tall, thin spell warrior.
• The Mulan army found the mist gone and the mountain apparently deserted, but Master Le warned that the scene might conceal a trap and sent about a hundred spell warriors to investigate.
• The spell warriors found valuables among the burned buildings, while Fang Yu told Silver Moon he would keep waiting unless the Mulan Grand Immortal Master or Yin Luo Sect Master appeared.

Fang Yu watched as the Mulan army attacked the Mist Sea, while the defenders prepared to hold their formation. The battle began with Ku Yao’s fire spirit art formation and the Giant Rhinoceros Beast breaking through the restrictions, and Fang Yu waited to gather the aura of war and slaughter before intervening.

• Ku Yao vowed to destroy the defenders after sorcerers were killed in the trap, and Yue Shangshi warned him not to underestimate Fang Yu.
• The Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder joined the old man surnamed Ma and the thick-browed man to prepare for the Mulan attack, while Fang Yu stayed hidden nearby.
• Ku Yao led the sorcerers in forming a spirit art grand formation and sent enormous fireballs into the Mist Sea, blasting open the restrictions.
• Yue Shangshi put a golden ring on the Giant Rhinoceros Beast’s horn, driving it into the Mist Sea as the Mulan sorcerers followed.
• Silver Moon asked when Fang Yu would steal Yue Shangshi, but Fang Yu chose to wait and gather the aura of war and slaughter first.

The Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder fought Yue Shangshi of the Mulan Tribe, but Yue Shangshi's Origin Bright Lamp threatened to overwhelm her. Fang Yu intervened, saved the Grand Elder, and pursued Yue Shangshi, leaving her alarmed by his power and warning that a Great Divine Sage was approaching.

• Yue Shangshi attacked the Moon-Covering Sect's Grand Elder with a ribbon that transformed into a snow eagle, but the Grand Elder countered with the Condensing Light Treasure Mirror.
• Yue Shangshi used a white lotus and wind escape technique to evade the Grand Elder's Ice-Flame Twin Swords and Thousand-Layer Peak.
• Yue Shangshi unleashed the Origin Bright Lamp's green devil flames against the Condensing Light Treasure Mirror, and Fang Yu appeared to disperse the flames and return the mirror to the Grand Elder.
• Yue Shangshi recognized Fang Yu as the number one cultivator of the Heavenly South cultivation world and tried to flee, but Fang Yu quickly caught up with her.
• Fang Yu told Yue Shangshi that a Great Divine Sage would arrive shortly, frightening her.

Fang Yu killed Grand Sorcerer Zhong at Yellow Dragon Mountain and compelled Master Le to help him cultivate, after which she advanced to the late-Nascent Soul stage. As the Mulan and Heavenly South forces prepared for a decisive war, Fang Yu remained in Tiantian City to gather war and slaughter qi, while the Yin Luo Sect questioned Goddess Le’s rapid rise and secret activities.

• Fang Yu shattered Master Le’s attack, then killed Grand Sorcerer Zhong with a single punch and extracted his Nascent Soul.
• Fang Yu offered to spare Master Le if she helped him cultivate, and she agreed; he took her away from Yellow Dragon Mountain.
• The Mulan forces captured Tiantian City, but the four great powers of Heavenly South later united and halted their advance as both sides prepared for a decisive battle.
• Master Le became Goddess Le and advanced to the late-Nascent Soul stage, while Grand Sorcerer Zhong possessed another body and began recovering.
• Fang Yu reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage and the fifth level of the Divine Ability Realm, then stayed in Tiantian City to collect war and slaughter qi while refusing Goddess Le’s plan to expand Mulan territory.
• The Yin Luo Sect Master and his wife suspected Goddess Le’s rapid breakthrough and wondered what she was having the Mulan Sorcerers collect.