Chapter Summaries

The Yin Luo Sect Master's wife tried to uncover the secret of Le Xi's advancement, but Fang Yu caught and restrained her, then sent her back without revealing what happened. As the Mulan People and Heavenly South prepared for war, their leaders planned a wager and a raid on the Mulan resource warehouse, while Fang Yu remained absent.

• The Yin Luo Sect Master's wife used the Netherworld Veil to enter Le Xi's Goddess Palace, but Fang Yu detected her and trapped her in his Heavenly Human Domain.
• Fang Yu revealed that he was the number one cultivator of Heavenly South and immobilized the Yin Luo Sect Master's wife; she later returned to the Yin Luo Sect and concealed what had happened.
• Le Xi told Fang Yu that the Mulan People planned a ten-man wager to trap Heavenly South mid-Nascent Soul cultivators, and Fang Yu agreed not to interfere.
• Han Li was selected for Heavenly South's wager as both sides gathered armies and built defenses along the border between Yu Kingdom and Northern Liang Kingdom.
• Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya, Acacia Old Devil, Long Han, and the Heaven-Hate Old Monster planned to infiltrate Tiantian City and seize the Mulan resource warehouse with help from an informant.
• Wei Wuya learned that Fang Yu and the Moon-Covering Sect's beauties were still missing, and the leaders concluded that Fang Yu would not join the conflict.

Fang Yu watched as the Heavenly South cultivators and Mulan spellcasters assembled for their decisive battle and began the wager matches, while he and Silver Moon waited to gather the aura of war and slaughter afterward. He spotted Le Xi among the Mulan forces and anticipated that Han Li might be beaten if he tried to extinguish her Origin Bright Lamp.

• Wei Wuya, Acacia Old Devil, and Master Zhiyang discussed their forces' preparations while Fang Yu told Silver Moon he planned to cultivate a divine ability using the aura of war and slaughter.
• The Heavenly South cultivators and Mulan spellcasters gathered in overwhelming numbers at the border and formed up for battle.
• Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya, and Acacia Old Devil met the Mulan clan's two Great Divine Sages and a Yin Luo Sect member, then demanded the promised prisoners before the wager matches began.
• The Mulan side brought out more than a thousand captured cultivators, and both sides prepared array platforms and sent ten contestants each into the wager matches.
• Fang Yu told Silver Moon that the ten Mulan contestants were refined corpses bearing a wisp of the Yin Luo Sect Master's primordial spirit, then decided to wait until after the battle to gather the aura.
• Fang Yu watched Le Xi, now a late-stage Nascent Soul grand cultivator, and wondered whether Han Li would try to extinguish her Origin Bright Lamp and get beaten.

The Mulan Sacred Bird’s overwhelming strength turned the battle against Heavenly South, while Fang Yu watched without intervening. After the Yin-Yang Twin Devils died and the Yin Luo Sect unleashed its corpse army, Heavenly South faced an almost certain defeat.

• The Yin Luo Sect’s corpse puppet trapped ten Heavenly South Nascent Soul cultivators, and the Mulan Sacred Bird’s transformation gave the Mulan forces a major advantage.
• Wei Wuya appealed to Fang Yu for help, but Fang Yu chose to wait, while Han Li escaped the Blood Rakshasa Shield and fled from Le Xi’s flames.
• The Yin-Yang Twin Devils joined the Seven Grand Truth Cultivators against the Mulan Sacred Bird, then tried to destroy the Origin Bright Lamp and were burned to ashes.
• The Yin Luo Sect’s wife released a black banner and summoned an army of corpse puppets, including three powerful corpse kings.
• The Mulan Sacred Bird and the corpse army overwhelmed Heavenly South’s forces, leaving its leaders struggling and its morale collapsing as Silver Moon warned Fang Yu that defeat was near.

After Long Han died in the battle between Heavenly South and the Mulan Tribe, the Tuo Wu intervened and forced both sides to stop fighting. Fang Yu helped negotiate the Mulan Tribe’s demand for five nations, then secluded himself and opened his second sea of consciousness two years later.

• Long Han was killed by the Mulan Sacred Bird, but news of a Tuo Wu attack in the Mulan rear made the Mulan Divine Masters halt the battle.
• Wei Wuya and Master Zhiyang discussed ceding territory and resources to the Mulan Tribe while preparing to confirm the threat from the Tuo Wu.
• Le Xi asked Fang Yu to persuade Heavenly South to cede five nations, and Fang Yu agreed to try.
• Fang Yu told the gathered Heavenly South cultivators that five nations were the Mulan Tribe’s bottom line, then left to open his second sea of consciousness.
• Fang Yu set up arrays and had Silver Moon guard him; after two years, he successfully opened his second sea of consciousness.

After two years in seclusion, Fang Yu returned to the Moon-Covering Sect, prepared to enter Fallen Devil Valley and claim its useful treasures. He headed for the valley with Silver Moon, carrying a scroll containing an Ancient Devil avatar, while the Ghost Spirit Sect worried that his arrival would disrupt its plans.

• Fang Yu emerged from seclusion, heard Silver Moon's report, and returned to the Moon-Covering Sect, where the women told him the storage pouches would be ready within half a year.
• Fang Yu refused to take the women into Fallen Devil Valley and revealed that the scholar in a scroll was an Ancient Devil avatar, whom he intended to reunite with its sealed body and refine into a puppet.
• Fang Yu set out for Fallen Devil Valley with Silver Moon as the Ghost Spirit Sect Master and Elder Zhong discussed how to deal with his arrival, including asking Wei Wuya for help.
• On the way to Fallen Devil Valley, Fang Yu stopped a fight between Chen Qiaotian and two Spirit-Controlling Sect cultivators, identified himself, and let the Spirit-Controlling Sect pair flee.

Fang Yu forced Wang Tiansheng to reveal the Ghost Spirit Sect’s Spirit Candle Fruit location and surrender part of his primordial spirit, then took Wang Chan’s Dao companion as his concubine. After the miasma cleared, Fang Yu reached Fallen Devil Valley’s dangerous entrance and noticed Wang Chan watching him resentfully.

• Fang Yu went to Radiant Leaf City and summoned Wang Tiansheng to ask where the Ghost Spirit Sect had found the Spirit Candle Fruit.
• Wang Tiansheng handed Fang Yu a jade slip but surrendered part of his primordial spirit after Fang Yu threatened to search his soul.
• Fang Yu demanded Wang Chan’s Dao companion, and Wang Tiansheng agreed to deliver her rather than risk the Ghost Spirit Sect’s destruction.
• Wang Chan protested the demand, but Wang Tiansheng warned that resistance could bring disaster upon him and the sect.
• Wang Tiangu delivered Wang Chan’s Dao companion to Fang Yu, and Wang Chan accepted the humiliation while vowing to avenge himself someday.
• After the miasma cleared, Fang Yu arrived near Fallen Devil Valley’s entrance with Wang Chan’s Dao companion and saw Wang Chan watching them resentfully.

Fang Yu waited for Fallen Devil Valley to open as the Mulan sorcerers and Wei Wuya arrived, while the Ghost Spirit Sect prepared its entrance formation. Feng Bing asked Fang Yu to cooperate with her to obtain the Spirit Candle Fruit, and he agreed.

• Wang Tiansheng rebuked Wang Chan for glaring at Fang Yu, and Han Li discussed Fang Yu's power with Great Development Divine Lord.
• The Mulan sorcerers, led by Le Xi and a gaunt old man, arrived at the valley, and Fang Yu stopped Feng Bing from attacking them.
• Wang Tiansheng's Ghost Spirit Sect gathered at the entrance, and Wei Wuya arrived to honor his agreement with the sect master.
• Wang Tiangu revealed a rare high-grade spirit stone as the Ghost Spirit Sect completed its formation.
• Feng Bing told Fang Yu that Wang Tiansheng had revealed his interest in the Spirit Candle Fruit and asked him to cooperate in obtaining it; Fang Yu agreed.

Fang Yu entered Fallen Devil Valley and reunited with Feng Bing while searching for the Spirit Candle Fruit. He and Feng Bing defeated the beast guarding the fruit, leaving them ready to collect it and refine a Creation Pill to help Feng Bing break through.

• Fang Yu entered Fallen Devil Valley with Feng Bing, but random teleportation separated them among dangerous spatial rifts.
• Fang Yu headed toward the Spirit Candle Fruit, while Elder Zhong and the other Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators also hurried there hoping to secure some for him.
• Fang Yu encountered Feng Bing and confirmed that she still intended to exchange cultivation with him for a Creation Pill and help advancing to the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Fang Yu and Feng Bing reached the oasis concealing the Spirit Candle Fruit, where Fang Yu warned that an ancient beast guarded it.
• Fang Yu froze the lake and forced the ancient beast into the open, and Feng Bing killed it with her Sword Transformation into Thread technique.
• Fang Yu collected the beast's demon core and told Feng Bing to gather the Spirit Candle Fruits so they could find a safer place to refine a Creation Pill.

Feng Bing broke through to the late-Nascent Soul stage with Fang Yu’s help and reconsidered her desire to avenge Long Han, while Fang Yu’s relationship with the Mulan Divine Maiden became clear. Meanwhile, Wei Wuya and the Ghost Spirit Sect entered Fallen Devil Valley in search of an ancient cultivator’s ruin, where they encountered a dangerous demon mist and killed a spy.

• Feng Bing asked Fang Yu about his relationship with the Mulan Divine Maiden, and he admitted they had the same relationship as he and Feng Bing.
• Fang Yu warned Feng Bing that the Mulan Divine Maiden could defeat her, and Feng Bing agreed not to seek revenge until she was certain she could win.
• Feng Bing and Fang Yu spent several days together, stabilizing her new cultivation.
• Wang Tiansheng used a jade pendant to reveal the concealed entrance to a passage, where a Yin Crow was swallowed by a giant python lurking in gray mist.
• Wei Wuya exposed Huang Tianming as a spy, and Wang Tiangu killed him when he tried to flee.
• Wei Wuya urged the group onward, fearing Fang Yu would soon grow powerful enough to threaten the Nine Nations Alliance.

Fang Yu considered how the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s growing resources could unite the Mulan Tribe with Heavenly South and eventually help him refine the Human Realm. Meanwhile, Wei Wuya and his companions entered a dangerous passage in Fallen Devil Valley, Heavenly Crystal Daoist agreed to work with Dongmen Tu, and Feng Bing chose to accompany Fang Yu into the inner valley.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance grew stronger by trading demon beast materials and cores from the Chaotic Star Sea, while Fang Yu planned to use resources and territory to integrate the Mulan Tribe into Heavenly South.
• Fang Yu hoped to refine the Human Realm after reaching the seventh level of the Longevity Secret Realm and believed he could advance by following Fang Han.
• Wei Wuya, Ghost Spirit Sect Master Wang Tiansheng, and Wang Tiangu crossed the Arctic Primordial Light passage aboard Wei Wuya’s protective bowl.
• Heavenly Crystal Daoist agreed to join forces with Dongmen Tu and the Spirit-Controlling Sect cultivators to break the restrictions leading into Fallen Devil Valley’s inner valley.
• Fang Yu questioned why Feng Bing wanted to enter the inner valley, but agreed to take her and promised to protect her if danger arose.

Fang Yu and Feng Bing entered the North Pole Primordial Light Passage after Fang Yu spared Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators and sent his Gold Devouring Beetles to mine a Gang Silver Sand vein. As Wei Wuya and the Ghost Spirit Sect brothers confronted the Fire Toad Beast, Fang Yu killed the Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpions and collected their venom, while Han Li continued toward a mysterious destination with doubts about what lay ahead.

• Fang Yu discovered that Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators had found a Gang Silver Sand vein, let them leave, and sent Gold Devouring Beetles to refine it before entering the passage with Feng Bing.
• Wei Wuya, Wang Tiansheng, and Wang Tiangu reached the Fire Toad Beast's lair, prepared a water-attributed formation, and provoked the beast after Wei Wuya's poisonous gas python failed to harm it.
• The Fire Toad Beast rushed out of its cave toward Wei Wuya, Wang Tiansheng, and Wang Tiangu as they prepared to fight.
• Fang Yu warned Feng Bing about the Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpions, then slaughtered them and collected their venom.
• Han Li followed a map to a black-rock mountain under flight-restricting restrictions and voiced his unease about continuing onward.

Fang Yu took the ancient cultivator’s remains and the Seven-Flame Fan materials from Wei Wuya and the Wang brothers, then led Feng Bing to the Blood Curse Gate. He destroyed the ancient devil’s seal and appeared to annihilate the devil’s soul with a single palm strike.

• Fang Yu demanded the ancient cultivator’s remains and Seven-Flame Fan materials, and Wei Wuya handed them over after Fang Yu offered Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpion venom.
• Wei Wuya told the Wang brothers that Feng Bing had reached the late Nascent Soul stage, and the three departed without challenging Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu and Feng Bing found the hidden Blood Curse Gate beneath a jade-green pool, and Fang Yu used the ancient cultivator’s remains to dissolve its defenses.
• Fang Yu and Feng Bing entered an underground hall, where Feng Bing identified a Lesser Sumeru Vajra Formation and Fang Yu dismissed its apparent treasures as illusions.
• Fang Yu struck the formation and offering table with an enormous azure palm, destroying them and apparently killing the ancient devil’s soul.

Fang Yu and Feng Bing parted ways after collecting astral silver sand, while Fang Yu planned how to claim the Arctic Essence Light ore vein. Han Li reached the altar and tried to open the route to the Ethereal Garden, but a massive spatial rift appeared in his path.

• Fang Yu told Feng Bing that he had killed the ancient devil's soul, then cultivated with her before they returned to the Arctic Essence Light site.
• Le Xi and the Great Divine Master discussed a faint sensation they had detected, Le Xi's connection to Fang Yu, and the dangers of Fallen Devil Valley.
• Han Li used Gold Devouring Beetles and divided consciousnesses to probe the area around the altar while avoiding spatial rifts and restrictions.
• Fang Yu said he hoped to collect the Arctic Essence Light ore vein after advancing further, and Feng Bing left Fallen Devil Valley without him.
• Han Li activated the altar's four qilin pillars, but the ritual created a gigantic spatial rift that blocked his way.
• Great Development Divine Lord urged Han Li to keep channeling spiritual power into the altar to deal with the rift.

Han Li entered a devil-filled space through a passage he thought might lead to the Ethereal Garden, where an ancient devil fragment soul tried to persuade him to break the seal on an ancient devil. Fang Yu destroyed the released devil body in front of the gathered cultivators, then had Han Li explain what had happened before dismissing everyone.

• Han Li stabilized a passage with help from Great Development Divine Lord, entered a gray space, and found an ancient devil sealed in fiery red crystal after searching for something valuable.
• An ancient devil fragment soul emerged from Han Li’s storage pouch and offered him power in exchange for breaking the seal, but Great Development Divine Lord warned him against the deal.
• Han Li attacked the fragment soul with Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning, causing it to summon grayish-white qi and pursue him.
• Fang Yu encountered the devil’s phenomenon, saw Han Li battling the released devil body, and bound and destroyed it with azure chains, vines, pythons, and flood dragons.
• Wei Wuya and other cultivators arrived, and Fang Yu directed them to ask Han Li about the devil; Han Li recounted what had happened while the cultivators witnessed Fang Yu’s strength.
• Fang Yu dismissed the cultivators, who departed after seeing him destroy the ancient devil body.

Fang Yu asked Fang Qingxue for another Dao artifact, then went to Jialan Peak to meet Fang Han as he cultivated the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art. Fang Han broke through to the True Essence Realm and formed Wood Sovereign True Qi, and Fang Yu prepared to take him exploring the Return Ruins.

• Fang Yu embraced Fang Qingxue and asked whether she had obtained any Dao artifacts besides the Undying Lightning Talisman, but she said she had none to spare.
• Fang Yu declined to cultivate in the Minor Immortal World and asked Fang Qingxue to travel with him, but she refused and suggested he take Fang Han instead.
• Fang Qingxue told Fang Qiang that Fang Yu should focus on cultivating and that a Dao companion bond would restrain him.
• Fang Yu visited Jialan Peak, where Fang Han's cultivation drew wood spiritual energy from the medicinal fields and began transforming his body into wood.
• Fang Yu offered Jialan Nine Yang Sacred Water and promised Long Xuan Yellow Springs Sacred Water as they watched Fang Han break through and form Wood Sovereign True Qi.
• Jialan suggested Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Long Xuan explore the Return Ruins, and Fang Han joined them after completing his breakthrough.

Fang Han accepted Fang Yu’s invitation to visit the Return Ruins, while Fang Yu arranged for Fang Qingwei to remain in the sect and promised to help her reach the Mystical Ability Realm within a year. After discovering that the Mystic Heaven Immortal Vine had borne a strange fruit, Fang Yu set out for the sea with Fang Han, Long Xuan, and the demoness, leaving their journey toward the Return Ruins underway.

• Fang Han gave Jialan and Long Xuan two gourds of Yellow Springs Sacred Water, then agreed to travel with Fang Yu to the Return Ruins after seeing Reincarnation Peak.
• Fang Qingwei asked to join the journey, but Fang Yu refused because of the danger and promised to help her break through to the Mystical Ability Realm within a year; Fang Qingxue tasked him with killing the weakened Water Gu Demon King.
• Fang Yu invited the demoness to the Return Ruins, and she told him the Mystic Heaven Immortal Vine had changed and helped her comprehend the Gang Yuan Realm.
• Fang Yu found a jade-like fruit growing on the Mystic Heaven Immortal Vine and believed it would mature soon.
• Fang Yu, the demoness, Long Xuan, and Fang Han traveled toward the sea aboard the Wind-Chasing Chariot, then switched to the Heavenly Moon Divine Vessel when they arrived.

Fang Yu and his companions captured a Blackwater King Serpent as it transformed into a flood dragon, and Fang Han grafted its mana onto himself. After following the dead Desperate Island Lord’s memories to his island, Fang Yu killed a Great Unity Sect disciple who insulted Fang Qingxue, leaving the other disciples facing him.

• Fang Qingxue worried about finding a Dao artifact for Fang Yu and decided to seek one out.
• Fang Yu sent the witch and Long Xuan to capture the Desperate Island Lord while Fang Han subdued the transforming Blackwater King Serpent.
• The witch and Long Xuan ambushed the Desperate Island Lord, and Fang Yu searched his soul before killing him.
• Fang Han used Yan’s Borrowing Flowers to Graft Trees secret art to absorb the Blackwater King Serpent’s mana.
• Fang Yu took the group to the Desperate Island Lord’s island, where Great Unity Sect disciples arrived seeking merit by killing the bandit.
• Senior Brother Zhang insulted Fang Qingxue, and Fang Yu killed him with a bolt of lightning.

Fang Qingxue left the Eclosion Sect to seek Five-Element Spiritual Roots for Fang Yu in the Wild Desolate Temple, while Fang Yu and his companions claimed the Desperate Island Lord’s treasure. The chapter ended as independent cultivators arrived at the Doom Divine Palace and asked Fang Yu about a Great Unity Sect disciple.

• Fang Qingxue told Fang Qiang that she planned to search the Wild Desolate Temple for Five-Element Spiritual Roots and ordered her not to tell Fang Yu; she then left the Eclosion Sect.
• Elder Tian Gong told Elder Heavenly Punishment and the Elder of Transmission that Fang Yu had brought the sect ten billion White Sun Pills, prompting the elders to discuss how to distribute them.
• Fang Yu defended killing the Great Unity Sect disciples who had insulted Fang Qingxue, and Fang Han helped erase the traces before they went to search the Desperate Island Lord’s palace.
• Fang Han broke the concealment around the Doom Divine Palace, where Fang Yu found the Five Prison King Cauldron and told Fang Han to store it in the Yellow Springs Diagram.
• Ye Nantian, Cang Baizi, Yinjian Kong, and other independent cultivators arrived; Cang Baizi asked Fang Yu whether he had seen their Great Unity Sect ally, Fellow Daoist Zhang.

Fang Yu drove off three Great Unity Sect true disciples who demanded the Desperate Island Lord’s demonic treasure, then continued to Myriad Return Sea Market with his companions. He arrived at Black Tortoise Pavilion to claim the reward for killing the Desperate Island Lord.

• Cang Baizi and Ye Nantian left Evil Ghost Gorge and planned to incite Great Unity Sect against Fang Yu by reporting his demonic treasure.
• Fang Yu and his companions boarded the Heavenly Moon Divine Vessel and headed for Myriad Return Sea Market.
• Yao Dian, Xia You, and Yu Fen confronted Fang Yu and demanded the demonic treasure in the name of protecting him from corruption.
• Fang Yu mocked Great Unity Sect, ordered its disciples to leave, and threatened to kill them if they attacked; Xia You led the group away.
• Fang Yu reassured Long Xuan that they would continue to Myriad Return Sea Market, where he intended to claim his reward and pursue an opportunity connected to Fang Qingxue and the World Tree.
• Fang Yu and his companions arrived at Black Tortoise Pavilion, where he announced that he had killed the Desperate Island Lord and had come to claim the reward.

Fang Yu visited the Myriad Return Sea Market, traded spirit artifacts for rare materials, and met Hai Shan, who offered him an enigmatic piece of divine wood. Fang Yu recognized its importance but concealed his knowledge, leaving with a deal to exchange ten flying swords for it.

• Fang Yu entered the Black Tortoise Pavilion with Fang Han, Long Xuan, and the demoness, and denied having any connection to Ying Tianqing.
• Fang Yu offered ten spirit artifact robes for medicinal materials and arranged to use a secluded chamber for cultivation and pill refining.
• Hai Shan warned Fang Yu that Song Weiyi had been told of his conflict with Great Unity Sect disciples.
• Hai Shan showed Fang Yu a strange, indestructible piece of wood that could not be refined or cut.
• Fang Yu negotiated with Hai Shan and agreed to trade ten flying swords for the mysterious wood.