Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu asked Minor Ultimate Palace to let him cultivate with its Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Jade Vein, offering ice-attribute divine abilities in exchange. After meeting Grand Elder Han Li, whose real name was Shi Xiang, Fang Yu discovered that Han Li’s hall held a cauldron resembling the Void Heaven Cauldron, and Han Li recognized Fang Yu’s artifact as a relic of Minor Ultimate Palace’s patriarch.

• Fang Yu requested access to Minor Ultimate Palace’s Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Jade Vein and offered several ice-attribute divine abilities in return; the Minor Ultimate Palace Master agreed to consult Grand Elder Han Li.
• Fang Yu gave the palace the divine abilities, then spent time with Bai Yaoyi and Bai Mengxin; Bai Yaoyi arranged for a woman in white to attend to him.
• Han Li contacted Fang Yu and sent a pair of Golden Wind Civets to guide him to a restricted hall beneath the palace.
• Fang Yu met Han Li, who revealed that his true name was Shi Xiang, and saw the Dry Blue Ice Flame attached to a cauldron resembling the Void Heaven Cauldron.
• Han Li recognized the Void Heaven Cauldron in Fang Yu’s possession as a relic left by Minor Ultimate Palace’s patriarch and asked where Fang Yu had found the Void Heaven Hall.

Fang Yu agreed to help Hanli Superior attempt a dangerous breakthrough in exchange for a secret technique and a future favor. As Hanli gathered four other cold-flame cultivators and allies for the ritual, Fang Yu accompanied the group into an underground hall beneath Minor Ultimate Palace, where the Council of Elders began opening Void Heaven Hall.

• Hanli Superior asked Fang Yu to help him break through to the Divine Transformation stage using five cold flames, and Fang Yu agreed in exchange for the technique and a favor owed.
• After Fang Yu left, Hanli told Bai Mengxin and a fellow elder that he had only a few years left to live and could not postpone the breakthrough, despite signs that demon beasts were gathering near Northern Nether Island.
• A month later, Fang Yu arrived with Bai Mengxin to join Hanli, a green-robed elder, Long Madam, and Master Mojiu for the breakthrough attempt.
• Hanli shrank the Void Heaven Cauldron, revealed an ice staircase beneath it, and led the group through an underground passage to an ancient jade hall.
• With Fang Yu present, the Council of Elders did not object and began helping open Void Heaven Hall.

Fang Yu joined Reverend Han Li in Dark Jade Cave to help her attempt a breakthrough while Minor Ultimate Palace prepared for a massive demon assault. The battle began across Northern Nether Island, and the ten-thousand-year Ice Phoenix gathered with other high-level demons outside Ice City, waiting for a chance to attack.

• Fang Yu and the others entered Dark Jade Cave, where Reverend Han Li prepared to break through to Divine Transformation with their help.
• The Palace Master, Bai Yaoyi, and the supervising elder planned Minor Ultimate Palace's defenses after learning that the Ice Phoenix and Myriad Demons Valley were leading a powerful assault.
• Reverend Han Li and the other cultivators established formations in Dark Jade Cave and began using a secret technique to strengthen their cold flames.
• Demon armies from Myriad Demons Valley and the Ice Sea attacked Northern Nether Island, while Minor Ultimate Palace activated its restrictions and fought them across the island.
• The Palace Master ordered the use of the Sea-Calming Bell against the Ice Sea demons, and the ten-thousand-year Ice Phoenix assembled with other high-level demons outside Ice City.

Xiang Zhili and White Old Monster traveled to the Minor Ultimate Palace after learning Che Old Monster was searching for a spatial node there. As the demons attacked the palace, Han Li broke through to the Deity Transformation stage inside a protected cave, while Fang Yu stayed with Bai Mengxin and the two arriving cultivators sought him out.

• White Old Monster told Xiang Zhili that Che Old Monster was searching for a spatial node in the Minor Ultimate Palace and that Fang Yu was cultivating there, so the two agreed to go watch.
• Ice Phoenix Fairy recognized the Sea-Calming Bell as Ice Soul Fairy’s lost clan treasure and learned it was being used to attack low-ranking Ice Sea Clan demon beasts; she ordered retaliation against Minor Ultimate Palace cultivators.
• Che Old Monster summoned the Myriad Demons Banner, and the demons joined Ice Phoenix Fairy’s forces in attacking the formation while cultivators inside defended it.
• Han Li shattered the bottleneck to the Deity Transformation stage in the Sun Essence Stone House, and Fang Yu led Bai Mengxin and the others out of Dark Jade Cave.
• Fang Yu revealed his identity to the old woman and sent her, the monk, and another Nascent Soul cultivator to help defend the palace, then stayed with Bai Mengxin.
• Xiang Zhili and White Old Monster arrived on Northern Nether Island and headed to meet Fang Yu.

Fang Yu met the powerful cultivators who had gathered at Minor Ultimate Palace and explained that its spatial rift was not a route to the Spirit Realm. After trading spatial-node information and resources, he gave Ice Phoenix Fairy two supreme divine abilities, settling her conflict with the palace, and turned the discussion to the real spatial nodes.

• Xiang Zhili and White Old Monster of Great Unity Sect appeared as Ice Phoenix Fairy and Che Old Monster of Myriad Demons Valley prepared to attack Minor Ultimate Palace, then warned them that Fang Yu was there.
• Che Old Monster explained that he and Ice Phoenix Fairy had come seeking the spatial node in Void Spirit Hall, and Xiang Zhili persuaded Palace Mistress Liu Yao to let them enter and meet Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu joined the gathering and told the cultivators that the rift in Void Spirit Hall could not lead to the Spirit Realm.
• White Old Monster gave Fang Yu a map of mineral veins and materials, while Fang Yu handed Xiang Zhili and White Old Monster a map of spatial-node coordinates.
• Ice Phoenix Fairy and Che Old Monster offered Fang Yu access to their mineral veins in exchange for the spatial-node map, and Xiang Zhili shared a copy with Ice Phoenix Fairy.
• Fang Yu gave Ice Phoenix Fairy the supreme divine abilities Ice and Snow Boundary and Phoenix Dance, prompting her to end the Ice Sea clan's enmity with Minor Ultimate Palace before he began discussing the spatial nodes.

Fang Yu cultivated the Five Emperors' Great Devil Divine Ability, then agreed to Wen Qing's request to kill Six Paths Ultimate Sage in exchange for resolving her cultivation troubles and accepting her as his woman. He confronted Six Paths Ultimate Sage on Saint Demon Island and challenged him to break the newly formed Five Emperors' Canopy.

• Fang Yu directed Xiang Zhili and the other cultivators to search for a spatial node in Five Dragons Sea, then revealed that Han Li had reached the Deity Transformation stage.
• Fang Yu cultivated the Black Emperor's Water Emperor Fist, the White Emperor Golden Slash, and the Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Way by consuming spirit stone veins and materials.
• Wen Qing and Ling Xiaofeng asked Fang Yu to kill Six Paths Ultimate Sage and Wan Sangu, offering Star Palace and their daughter; Fang Yu also demanded Wen Qing, who accepted on the condition that Six Paths Ultimate Sage be killed first.
• Fang Yu went to Saint Demon Island and forced Six Paths Ultimate Sage to face him, allowing him to strike first if he could break Fang Yu's Five Emperors' Canopy.
• Six Paths Ultimate Sage accepted Fang Yu's challenge as the five-colored canopy rose above him.

Fang Yu killed Six Paths Ultimate Sage, rescued Madam Wen’s Nascent Soul, and continued to Heavenly Star City to claim Wen Qing’s promised cooperation. Wen Qing and Ling Xiaofeng secretly planned to kill Fang Yu, but he saw through them and began cultivating with Wen Qing, leaving the fate of their arrangement unresolved.

• Fang Yu killed Six Paths Ultimate Sage with one slap and took his storage pouch, then captured Madam Wen’s Nascent Soul from a jade-green bottle.
• Fang Yu met Ling Yuling near Heavenly Star City, rejected her in favor of Wen Qing, and entrusted her with finding Madam Wen a suitable body.
• Ling Yuling sent a message to Ling Xiaofeng, who learned that she was returning to Star Palace; Wen Qing insisted they use a secret technique to try to kill Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu arrived at Star Palace and confronted Wen Qing, revealing that he had anticipated her plan to kill him.
• Wen Qing admitted she had no choice, and Fang Yu embraced her, intending to help resolve her Magnetic Essence Divine Light drawback and advance her cultivation.

Fang Yu and Fang Han returned to the Fang Family before setting out for the Great Xuan Empire to find the Five Elements spiritual roots in the Wild Desolate Temple. At the Great Li Dynasty’s border, they encountered a massive battle, and Fang Yu let Fang Han gather its killing aura.

• Fang Yu collected fifty million White Sun Pills and sent five million Mountain River Bags to Elder Tian Gong before asking Fang Han to travel with him.
• Fang Yu told Fang Han and Yan that the Five Elements spiritual roots were in the Wild Desolate Temple, and Yan warned that the ruin was dangerous even to the Yellow Springs Emperor.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han returned to the Fang Family, then left for the Great Xuan Empire after declining Fang Qingwei’s offer to join them.
• Fang Han found Bai Haichan’s burial cave empty, and Fang Yu suggested that Bai Haichan might not have been dead.
• At the Great Li Dynasty’s border, Fang Yu told Fang Han to gather the killing aura from a battle between the Great De Dynasty and Great Li Dynasty, and Fang Han began collecting it as trouble approached.

Fang Yu and Fang Han disguised themselves as Linglong Paradise disciples to seize Spirit Young Master’s war and slaughter aura, then learned he had hired assassins to pursue them. They flew to the Great Xuan Empire to prepare for the fight and help Yan advance.

• Fang Yu concealed himself and Fang Han as women, and they confronted Spirit Young Master and his seven subordinates.
• Fang Yu trapped Spirit Young Master and the others with the Linglong Grand Firmament, claimed they were Linglong Paradise disciples, and demanded their war and slaughter aura as compensation.
• After escaping the trap, Spirit Young Master summoned three of the Forty Great Overseas Bandits and hired them to kill Fang Yu and Fang Han.
• Fang Yu chose not to use the seized aura yet and led Fang Han toward the Great Xuan Empire to prepare for the assassins and help Yan advance.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han entered a vast city in the Great Xuan Empire, where Fang Yu warned that their pursuers were likely Golden Core-level experts.

Fang Yu and Fang Han entered the Heavenly Dao Pavilion to buy resources and prepare for the three assassins pursuing them. After Fang Yu displayed his wealth, Thirteenth Lady offered to help locate weapons capable of killing Golden Core experts and mentioned the pavilion’s escort service.

• Fang Han realized Fang Yu intended to lure powerful pursuers so they could seize their Golden Cores and divine abilities.
• Star Annihilator, Moon Piercer, and Immortal Slayer followed the brothers into the Great Xuan Empire to fulfill Spirit Young Master's contract.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han reached the Heavenly Dao Pavilion, where Fang Han demonstrated his Celestial Being Realm cultivation to gain entry to the auction.
• Fang Yu showed Greenbrow a crystal card holding fifty million White Sun Pills, then asked Thirteenth Lady to find treasures that could kill seventh-level Divine Ability Realm experts.
• Thirteenth Lady offered to arrange the purchase and explained that the pavilion could provide protection but would not kill Fang Yu's opponents.

Fang Yu and Fang Han attended an auction at Heavenly Dao Pavilion, where Fang Yu secured a World Tree Fragment that could help him advance toward the Nascent Soul stage. They left with the fragment for Fang Yu and the Mountain God Pearl and Taiyi True Gold for Fang Han.

• Fang Yu declined Thirteenth Lady’s offer of guards, and Fang Han bought a block of Taiyi True Gold at the auction.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han ignored most of the auction until Fang Han bid against a veiled Linglong Paradise woman for the Mountain God Pearl, which Fang Yu won for three million White Sun Pills.
• Yan recognized the person-tall piece of unnamed divine wood as a World Tree Fragment, and Fang Yu bid aggressively to secure it.
• Fang Yu outbid the Linglong Paradise woman, an elder of the Sun-Moon Sword Sect, and a Great Heavenly Demon King, winning the fragment for three million White Sun Pills.
• Fang Yu paid Thirteenth Lady, placed the World Tree Fragment in the Yellow Springs Diagram for Yan to cleanse, and gave the Mountain God Pearl and Taiyi True Gold to Fang Han.

Fang Yu broke through to the Spirit Transformation realm and prepared for a major treasure sale, where he planned to secure a Kunpeng Egg before Meng Shaobai could claim it. Linglong Paradise's Piaoyun and Lianyun considered whether Fang Yu and Fang Han were the benefactors foretold by Linglong Immortal Venerable, while Fang Yu arranged a huge loan to fund his purchases.

• Fang Yu absorbed the World Tree debris and broke through to the Spirit Transformation realm, then learned that a larger treasure sale would take place in ten days.
• Piaoyun invited Fang Yu and Fang Han to Linglong Tower, asked about Fang Yu's mysterious divine wood, and offered them guest elder positions with generous support.
• After Fang Yu and Fang Han left, Lianyun and Piaoyun discussed whether they were the benefactors mentioned by Linglong Immortal Venerable and worried about the sect's coming calamity.
• Fang Yu spent ten days cultivating and refining two hundred thousand Nascent Soul Pills while Fang Han refined the Mountain God Pearl and Taiyi True Gold.
• At the Heavenly Dao Pavilion, Fang Yu offered Lianyun Nascent Soul Pills in exchange for five hundred million White Sun Pills, and Linglong Paradise accepted the deal.
• When the auction's first item was revealed to be a Kunpeng Egg, Fang Yu told Fang Han they had to obtain it before Meng Shaobai could.

Fang Yu and Fang Han attended the Heavenly Dao Pavilion’s treasure auction, where Fang Yu outbid Meng Shaobai for the Kunpeng giant egg and purchased numerous rare treasures. The auction’s final item was a pure yang tower ship that Fang Yu recognized as a Buddhist treasure.

• Fang Yu told Fang Han that Meng Shaobai had inherited the Lifeless Sword Sect’s legacy and planned to stop him from obtaining the Kunpeng giant egg.
• The Red-Hand Immortal revealed the Kunpeng giant egg, and Fang Yu outbid Meng Shaobai with a bid of one hundred and fifty million White Sun Pills.
• Fang Yu tricked Meng Shaobai into bidding thirty million for the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil Crystal, then bought the Bingfire Thunder Marsh Sand and many other auction treasures.
• Fang Yu’s purchases totaled hundreds of millions of White Sun Pills, prompting Drifting Cloud Fairy to wonder whether he could pay for them.
• The final item, an antique tower ship filled with pure yang aura, appeared, and Fang Yu identified it as a Buddhist pure yang treasure.

Fang Yu won the Great Brahma Light Ship at auction and agreed to help Nebula Baby obtain Nascent Soul Pills, but Meng Shaobai ambushed them afterward. Fang Yu defeated Meng Shaobai’s Lifeless Sword Art with a high-grade Dao artifact, leaving their conflict with the Eclosion Sect unresolved.

• Fang Yu outbid Meng Shaobai and bought the Great Brahma Light Ship for 230 million White Sun Pills.
• Nebula Baby traded three hundred million White Sun Pills for Nascent Soul Pills and told Fang Yu about his father’s plans for him and the Starry Gate succession.
• Fang Yu arranged to meet Fairy Lianyun for help against the bandits Immortal Slayer, Star Annihilator, and Moon Piercer.
• Meng Shaobai confronted Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Nebula Baby, demanding the Kunpeng giant egg and Great Brahma Light Ship.
• Meng Shaobai attacked Fang Han and Nebula Baby with Chaotic Slaughter, but Fang Yu rescued them and countered his Absolute Killing Sword with the White Emperor Golden Slash.
• Fang Yu crippled Meng Shaobai’s arm with a high-grade Dao artifact, and Meng Shaobai fled while vowing revenge.

Fang Yu, Fang Han, and Nebula Baby rested at the Linglong Tower while Yan absorbed the Great Brahma Light Ship’s pure yang energy and summoned the Bridge of Helplessness. After a month, Fang Yu went with his companions and Immortal Lianyun to confront the Immortal Slayer Bandits in the Wild Desolate Jungle, where he faced the Immortal Slayer Bandit and the Ghost Emperor.

• Fang Yu gave Immortal Lianyun and Drifting Cloud Fairy a gourd of Yellow Springs Sacred Water and promised to deliver their Nascent Soul Pills within a month.
• Fang Han refined the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil Crystal, while Yan absorbed the Great Brahma Light Ship’s pure yang energy and summoned the Bridge of Helplessness.
• Fang Yu spent a month refining Nascent Soul Pills and discussing cultivation with Immortal Lianyun and Drifting Cloud Fairy before setting out with Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and Immortal Lianyun for the Wild Desolate Temple.
• The Immortal Slayer Bandit confronted Fang Yu in the Wild Desolate Jungle and demanded that he hand over the Great Brahma Light Ship; Fang Yu mocked her and called for her companions to appear.
• The Ghost Emperor appeared to help the Immortal Slayer Bandit and attacked Fang Yu with Netherworld Ghostfire, but Fang Yu revealed that he had cultivated the Red Emperor's Fire Emperor Qi.

Fang Yu and his allies fought the Ghost Emperor and the Immortal Slayer bandits, using their dao artifacts and Yan’s Abyssal qi to overcome them. The Ghost Emperor was killed, and Fang Yu rewarded Immortal Lianyun with pills and the bandits’ treasure pouches.

• Fang Yu refined the Ghost Emperor’s Netherworld Ghostfire and summoned Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and Immortal Lianyun as both sides called for allies.
• Fang Yu offered the Immortal Slayer bandits a chance to join forces against the Ghost Emperor, but they refused and attacked alongside him.
• Fang Yu damaged the Ghost Emperor’s Heaven-Shrouding Demon Hand, while Yan’s Abyssal qi severed the bandits’ connections to their Golden Cores.
• The Ghost Emperor trapped the group with the Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul-Locking Formation and unleashed his Nine-Ghost Primordial Spirit, but Yan’s Abyssal qi weakened it.
• Fang Yu, Fang Han, Nebula Baby, and Immortal Lianyun attacked together, and Yan pulled the Ghost Emperor’s weakened Nine-Ghost Primordial Spirit into the Yellow Springs Diagram before the Ghost Emperor’s body exploded.
• Fang Yu gave Immortal Lianyun one million Nascent Soul Pills and the treasure pouches of Star Annihilator and Moon Piercer.

Fang Yu recruited the Immortal Slayer Bandit and led Fang Han, Immortal Lianyun, and Nebula Baby to the Wild Desolate Temple in search of the Five Elements Spiritual Root. After reaching the Five Elements Land in the outer-domain starry sky, the group encountered a suicidal Heavenly Demon King, and Fang Yu revealed that an ancient Devil Venerable had let them enter because he needed their help.

• Fang Yu divided the defeated enemies’ treasures, assigning Fang Han the Ghost Emperor’s weapons and Moon Piercer’s golden core, while promising Nebula Baby the Star Annihilator Bandit’s golden core.
• Fang Yu persuaded the Immortal Slayer Bandit to serve him, returned her golden core under restrictions made with Yellow Springs Sacred Water, and learned that Fan Qingying had mysterious followers.
• Fang Yu and his companions traveled to the Wild Desolate Temple and entered its spatial passage to the Five Elements Land, while Nebula Baby and the Immortal Slayer Bandit stayed inside the Dao artifact.
• The group found warnings about an ancient devil and learned the Five Elements Land was inhabited by hundreds of millions of heavenly demons.
• Fang Han attacked a Heavenly Demon King with the Heaven-Shrouding Demon Hand, but it used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art without fear of death.
• Fang Yu said the Heavenly Demon King had been brainwashed by an ancient Devil Venerable, who had allowed them to enter because he needed their help.

Fang Yu led Fang Han and their companions through the Five Elements Land, defeating waves of origin-energy beasts and using their essence to strengthen their abilities while advancing toward the ancient Demon Venerable. After slaying a Wood King and pushing deeper into the realm, Fang Yu and Fang Han’s Five Emperors’ Great Devil Divine Ability neared a critical threshold.

• Fang Yu explained that killing the Five Elements beasts would let the group absorb their origin energy, and Immortal Slayer killed a Teng Snake whose earth essence strengthened Fang Yu.
• Immortal Slayer destroyed a flock of fire crows with World-Purifying Lotus, then Fang Yu and Fang Han helped the group absorb fire and metal origin energy from fire crows and divine bees.
• Fang Han crushed swarms of water spirits while Nebula Baby’s bracelet protected the group, greatly strengthening Fang Han’s water ability.
• Fang Yu revealed that the ancient Demon Venerable needed someone to obtain the treasure sealing him, and warned that the group had to keep it from Great Unity Sect.
• The group slaughtered tens of thousands of Wood Giants, and Fang Han killed their Wood King before they continued deeper into the Five Elements Land.
• Fang Yu and Fang Han fought through increasingly powerful monsters until their Five Emperors’ Great Devil Divine Ability approached a critical threshold.

Fang Yu obtained the Five Elements Talisman before the Great Unity Sect arrived and challenged its leaders for it. Wang Tianyi demanded a fight, then proposed that five Golden Core experts face Fang Yu at once.

• The ancient Demon Venerable sent Fang Yu alone to the central mountain to claim the talisman and ordered Fang Han, Immortal Lianyun, Immortal Slayer, and Nebula Baby to delay the Great Unity Sect.
• The Great Unity Sect slaughtered demons with the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, learned that the talisman controlled passage out of the Five Elements Land, and hurried toward the central mountain with the three great sword sects following.
• Fang Yu reached the mountain first, removed the Five Elements Talisman, and refined it immediately.
• The Great Unity Sect and the others arrived, and Fang Yu refused to surrender the talisman, offering instead to fight Song Weiyi or Zhao Xuanyi in a battle to the death.
• Wang Tianyi rejected a one-on-one match and demanded that five Golden Core seed experts fight Fang Yu together, suggesting Fang Han lend him the Yellow Springs Diagram or join the fight.

After Fang Yu killed five Great Unity Sect Golden Core disciples, the sect’s survivors demanded their cores and tried to retaliate, while Elder Sword Maniac and the three sword sects intervened. Fang Yu offered a one-on-one duel and secured the sword sects’ support with a promise to share the Five Elements Talisman and a gift of pills, leaving the Great Unity Sect increasingly isolated.

• Fang Yu stored the five golden cores and the disciples’ pouches, while Wang Tianyi demanded revenge and the return of the cores.
• Elder Sword Maniac stepped between the Great Unity Sect and Fang Yu, and rejected Wang Tianyi’s threat to the Sun-Moon Sword Sect.
• Fang Yu refused to surrender the cores, mocked Zhu Yangyi’s claim that they could revive the dead disciples, and offered a duel under the original wager.
• Fang Yu promised the three sword sects access to the Five Elements Talisman and gave their elders one million Nascent Soul Pills to share.
• Fang Han reminded the sword sects that Fang Yu could escort them out of Five Elements Land, and they moved away from the Great Unity Sect.