Chapter Summaries

The Xi Emperor announced the Genius Competition’s prizes and rules, including the All-Heavens Monarch Pill, a king artifact, and a chance to become the Eternal Heavenly Lord’s disciple. As the competition began, Fang Yu’s Eclosion Sect disciples won their first battles, and Fang Yu ordered Sun Shihua to recruit promising Golden Immortal disciples from other sects.

• The Xi Emperor revealed the champion’s rewards, and Fang Yu resolved to meet the Eternal Heavenly Lord while dismissing the other Holy Sons’ plans to wear him down.
• The Xi Emperor explained the life-and-death duel rules, and the Heavenly Court opened the many battle realms for the competition.
• Fang Yu sent the Eclosion Sect’s Golden Immortal and Ancestral Immortal disciples into battle after helping strengthen them; all fifty-six returned alive, and Fang Yu healed the wounded.
• Fang Yu gave Sun Shihua a list of talented Golden Immortal disciples to recruit by any means, including offering the Primordial Secret Treasury.

Fang Yu defeated and killed a Hell Prison Enforcement Squad disciple in the Heaven and Earth Arena, then the Heavenly Court’s Emperors discussed how to seize the Hongmeng Secret Treasury and prevent Fang Yu and the Eclosion Sect disciples from escaping. The chapter left Xi Emperor and the others weighing their plans against the Heavenly Lords who might protect Fang Yu.

• Fang Yu gave his allies talismans that let them wield Saint-level strength and urged them to defeat their opponents without needless killing.
• Fang Yu entered the arena against a Hell Prison Enforcement Squad disciple who declared Thunder Emperor’s order to kill him.
• Fang Yu offered the disciple a chance to surrender, then flattened him with a slap and killed him after he begged for mercy.
• Thunder Sovereign sought Xi Emperor’s help against Fang Yu, while Xi Emperor said factions would try to capture Fang Yu and seize the Hongmeng Secret Treasury once he left the arena.
• Xi Emperor and Qi Emperor agreed that the Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Lords would ultimately claim the Hongmeng Secret Treasury, while Snow Sovereign warned that capturing Fang Yu would require coordinated action and depend on how far his allies would protect him.

The Heavenly Court’s sovereigns decided to use the genius tournament to kill Fang Yu, while Xi Emperor privately wondered whether to seek Fang Yu’s help with the Great Destiny Art. Fang Yu defeated another Heavenly Lord’s disciple and used his powers of deduction and cultivation knowledge to strengthen Eclosion Sect’s competitors.

• The Heavenly Court’s sovereigns agreed to kill Fang Yu during the tournament, believing his death there would shield them from retaliation by his powerful allies.
• Fang Yu faced a Child of Slaughter, warned him to surrender, then shattered his sword and killed him when he attacked.
• Fang Yu returned to the Eclosion Sect disciples, urged them to obey his advice, and used his deductions to assess their chances of victory.
• Fang Yu shared cultivation insights with the disciples, helping some reach higher realms and impressing the watching factions.
• Xi Emperor recognized Fang Yu’s Great Destiny Art and began weighing whether to submit to him for help changing his fate.

Fang Yu comprehended reincarnation’s true meaning, spoke with Reincarnation Daoist, and learned that the ancient figure had vanished beyond recovery. As the competition continued, Jun Cangsheng killed Muye Zhen and challenged Fang Yu, who publicly mocked him and prepared to face him.

• Fang Yu met Reincarnation Daoist, who explained that he had chosen Fang Yu because Fang Yu understood reincarnation’s true meaning, then vanished into endless reincarnation.
• Fang Yu told Xi Emperor to choose whether to submit to him after the genius competition, while Xi Emperor silently developed killing intent toward him.
• Fang Yu identified Jun Cangsheng as a Heavenly Lord reincarnation empowered by Heavenly Court Emperors, but assured Xu Muyun that he could defeat him.
• Jun Cangsheng killed Muye Zhen, prompting spectators to debate whether he could defeat Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu loudly insulted Jun Cangsheng and warned him to admit defeat, while Jun Cangsheng challenged Fang Yu and vowed to take the Hongmeng Secret Treasury.

Fang Yu arranged an early final battle with Jun Cangsheng in the Heaven-Earth Battle Arena, intending to kill and refine the reincarnation of a Heavenly Lord. After Jun Cangsheng attacked and Fang Yu effortlessly caught his sword strike, Fang Yu unleashed his Way of All Beings, leaving Jun Cangsheng facing a seemingly unavoidable death.

• Fang Yu taunted Jun Cangsheng and asked the Xi Emperor to allow their final battle to begin early, and the Xi Emperor agreed.
• Fang Yu entered Jun Cangsheng’s arena realm and offered to spare him if he conceded, but Jun Cangsheng refused.
• Jun Cangsheng struck with his sword and Fang Yu caught the attack in his palm, using his own Dao to overcome Jun Cangsheng’s.
• Fang Yu dismissed Jun Cangsheng’s claims of invincibility and brought down his Way of All Beings, leaving Jun Cangsheng with nowhere to evade.

Fang Yu killed Jun Cangsheng with the Palm of All Life and began refining what remained of the reincarnated Heavenly Lord to break through to the sovereign realm. The Eclosion Sect disciples waited for him to secure their escape, while Xi Emperor held back the Heavenly Court’s sovereigns so they could pursue the Hongmeng Secret Treasury later.

• Fang Yu killed Jun Cangsheng with one slap, destroying the reincarnated Heavenly Lord before the Heavenly Court could seize his memories.
• Fang Yu refined Jun Cangsheng’s remains in the Heaven-Earth Battle Arena, seeking a breakthrough to the sovereign realm so he could protect the Eclosion Sect and take its disciples home.
• Sun Shihua and the Eclosion Sect disciples agreed to wait and put their hopes in Fang Yu’s breakthrough rather than interfere.
• A Heavenly Court sovereign urged Xi Emperor to capture Fang Yu and obtain Jun Cangsheng’s memories, but Xi Emperor ordered the others not to act until Fang Yu revealed the Hongmeng Secret Treasury’s location.
• Xi Emperor said Fang Yu might reach the sovereign realm by refining Jun Cangsheng, but would need to refine more than ten experts of equal longevity with heaven and earth to advance further.

After breaking through to the Monarch realm, Fang Yu demanded the Heavenly Court immediately deliver his championship prizes and confronted the Spear of Judgment when it tried to summon him to meet Eternal Heavenly Lord. The Spear of Judgment backed down and said Eternal Heavenly Lord wanted to see him, but Fang Yu refused the meeting and insisted the Heavenly Court either give him the prizes or stop pressuring him.

• Fang Yu thanked the Heavenly Court Monarchs after surviving his tribulation, while Huangfu Fei and Huangfu Guo discussed waiting for a chance to seize his treasures and secrets.
• Fang Yu refined the Heavenly Vein origin energy and Sacred-grade spirit vein within Jun Cangsheng, then chose to claim his championship rewards before leaving the Heavenly Court.
• Fang Yu demanded that Xi Emperor immediately give him a king-grade immortal artifact and a Sacred-grade medicinal pill, but Xi Emperor told him to come along because Eternal Heavenly Lord wished to see him.
• Fang Yu addressed Eternal Heavenly Lord directly and asked for an avatar to deliver the prizes, prompting the Spear of Judgment to appear and accuse him of a capital offense.
• Fang Yu challenged the Spear of Judgment to attack and threatened to kill him once he grew stronger, then prepared to leave when the prizes were still withheld.
• The Spear of Judgment stopped Fang Yu and said Eternal Heavenly Lord wanted to meet him, but Fang Yu refused and demanded that the Heavenly Court either give him the prizes or stop seeking information he did not possess.

Fang Yu demanded Creation Immortal King's blood from the Heavenly Court, then vanished with the Eclosion Sect's disciples and holy sons before its emperors could stop him. Back at the Eclosion Sect, he told Feather Emperor he intended to leave and asked for help obtaining the blood, which he believed would let him advance to the realm of sharing the lifespan of heaven and earth.

• Fang Yu demanded either the Heavenly Court's cooperation on his earlier conditions or Creation Immortal King's blood, then disappeared with the Eclosion Sect's disciples and holy sons.
• Spear of Judgment and Xi Emperor discussed Fang Yu's unexplained escape and his ability to return undetected, then decided to go to the Eclosion Sect.
• Fang Yu returned to the Eclosion Sect through the mortal world and told its disciples to cultivate while they waited for Feather Emperor.
• Feather Emperor arrived, warned Fang Yu about the sects and clans he had offended, and asked what he planned to do next.
• Fang Yu said he would leave the sect and seek Creation Immortal King's blood, then asked Feather Emperor to help him obtain it.

Fang Yu rejected the Heavenly Court’s offer to earn the Creation Immortal King’s blood by fighting the Barbarian Tribe, accusing the emperors of trying to use him as a pawn. He announced he would leave to seek the Hongmeng Secret Treasury, and his claims about the blood stirred others to covet it.

• Fang Yu told the Feather Emperor that he would seek the Creation Immortal King’s blood and pursue the Heavenly Lord realm, the Hongmeng Secret Treasury, and his missing elder sister.
• Xi Emperor offered Fang Yu the blood in exchange for using the Totem Jar to kill enough members of the Barbarian Tribe and earn military merit.
• Fang Yu refused the offer and accused the Heavenly Court of hoping the Barbarian Tribe’s Heavenly Lords would kill him and let the emperors seize his treasures.
• Fang Yu pointed out the Heavenly Court’s other crises, including attacks by the God Clan and its allies and the danger posed by the Saint King of Termination.
• Fang Yu announced he would leave the Heavenly Court to search for the Hongmeng Secret Treasury and warned the emperors that they could not claim it.
• Fang Yu’s words led emperors and Saints present to suspect that refining the Creation Immortal King’s blood could reveal a way to obtain the Hongmeng Secret Treasury.

After Fang Yu drove the Heavenly Court emperors and other onlookers away from the Eclosion Sect, he told Feather Emperor he was leaving to pursue the Heavenly Monarch realm in another world. He entrusted the sect and the Totem Jar to Feather Emperor, who accepted that Fang Yu had to depart despite the dangers surrounding him.

• Fang Yu warned the emperors gathered outside the Eclosion Sect to leave, and they fled after he abruptly counted down from ten to one.
• Fang Yu explained to Feather Emperor that the Heavenly Court and other factions would continue plotting against the sect and that he planned to visit other worlds to pursue his cultivation.
• Fang Yu handed Feather Emperor the Totem Jar and entrusted him with protecting the sect while Fang Yu was away.
• Feather Emperor worried about Fang Yu leaving while powerful groups coveted the Hongmeng Secret Treasury, but he recognized Fang Yu believed he had to go.
• Fang Yu departed from the Eclosion Sect, and Feather Emperor examined the Totem Jar as Earth Saint questioned the decision.
• Feather Emperor told Earth Saint that Fang Yu faced pressure from those seeking the Hongmeng Secret Treasury and that the sect would be endangered if Fang Yu stayed.

Fang Yu entered the Coffin of Reincarnation to escape his pursuers and master reincarnation, causing his existence and others’ memories of him to be erased. The Heavenly Court and Eclosion Sect were left confused by the disappearance of Fang Yu and the Hua Family, while the Calamity Heavenly Lord ordered the emperors not to investigate.

• Fang Yu entered the Coffin of Reincarnation with the Reincarnation Daoist’s help, intending to journey through reincarnation and gain the power to overcome his troubles.
• After Fang Yu vanished, an invisible force erased his traces and the memories of those who knew him.
• The Feather Emperor and the Sword of the Holy Hall realized they had forgotten a former friend, and the Feather Emperor discovered that the Hua Family had disappeared.
• The Heavenly Court’s emperors forgot their discussion about Fang Yu and the Genius Tournament champion, prompting the Calamity Heavenly Lord to explain that their memories of him had been erased.
• The Calamity Heavenly Lord forbade further questions, named Jun Cangsheng as the tournament champion, and ordered the emperors to reinforce the seal on the Saint King of Termination.
• The Spear of Judgment told the other emperors to follow the Calamity Heavenly Lord’s orders and wait for the forgotten person’s return.

Fang Yu reincarnated into the Dou Qi Continent as a low-ranking Xiao Family clansman and sought a way to earn money and rebuild his strength. After entering Wutan City's market, he encountered Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, whose attention turned to him before he hurried away.

• Fang Yu assessed his weak body and limited resources, then decided to create a high-grade Yellow-tier Dou technique to sell for gold coins.
• Fang Yu returned to his bare courtyard, changed into Xiao Family disciple attire, and went to the market to find a buyer.
• Fang Yu spotted Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er in the market and tried to slip away without drawing their notice.
• Xiao Xun'er called Fang Yu her cousin and asked him to wait, but Fang Yu declined and quickly fled.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Fang Yu seemed strange, and Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao what he had noticed.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao noticed Fang Yu’s unusually powerful soul force, while Fang Yu sold a combat technique to Xiao Xun'er and bought a mysterious iron plate. The chapter left Fang Yu preparing to strengthen himself and leave the Xiao Family, unaware that his actions had caused Xiao Yan to miss a wood-attribute magical core.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Fang Yu’s soul force surpassed his own and came from Fang Yu himself, but urged Xiao Yan to focus on finding a magical core.
• Fang Yu offered the high-grade Yellow-tier Pine-Crane Longevity Fist for sale, rebuffed a market guard captain, and sold it to Xiao Xun'er for fifteen thousand gold coins.
• Xiao Xun'er doubted Fang Yu’s explanation for the technique and planned to investigate him while returning to help Xiao Yan find a magical core.
• Fang Yu bought medicinal ingredients and noticed Xiao Yan confronting Galeo before spotting a black iron plate at a nearby stall.
• Fang Yu took the iron plate for one gold coin after frightening its owner, who fled with the wood-attribute magical core Xiao Yan had wanted.
• Fang Yu planned to raise his strength, leave the Xiao Family, and find a place of refuge.

Fang Yu chose to cultivate Dou Qi first and prepared medicines to improve his strength, but a summons from the Xiao Family interrupted him. He traded the clan a Mystic-tier Dou Technique for a larger courtyard and medicinal supplies, then moved into his new home while the clan quietly planned to investigate his secrets.

• Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao that Fang Yu had bought a valuable item cheaply, and the two continued searching for a wood-attributed magical core.
• Fang Yu prepared internal and external spiritual medicines and decided to cultivate Dou Qi before pursuing the path of divine abilities.
• Fang Yu calmly followed the guard captain to meet Xiao Zhan and the three elders, then offered them a black iron sheet containing the Absorption Palm, a low-grade Mystic-tier Dou Technique.
• Xiao Zhan accepted the technique and promised Fang Yu medicinal materials and a better courtyard, while asking the First Elder to investigate him secretly.
• Three days later, Fang Yu moved into a courtyard among the Xiao Family's finest, though the clan had not gathered all the herbs and materials he had requested.

Fang Yu asked Xiao Xun'er to remove the old man guarding his courtyard and obtain at least ten high-rank beast cores, offering three Earth-tier cultivation methods in exchange. Xiao Xun'er agreed to both requests and promised to keep their deal secret.

• Fang Yu reached the seventh stage of Dou Qi and went to Xiao Xun'er's courtyard to ask her to remove the old gatekeeper.
• Xiao Ning confronted Fang Yu outside Xiao Xun'er's gate, but she invited Fang Yu in and told Xiao Ning not to visit again.
• Fang Yu asked Xiao Xun'er for fifth-rank or higher beast cores, especially wood-attributed ones, and offered three cultivation methods as payment.
• Xiao Xun'er inspected the scrolls and found that they contained two Earth-tier methods and one high-grade Earth-tier method.
• Xiao Xun'er agreed to gather the beast cores, remove the gatekeeper, and keep the deal between them; Fang Yu left, and she instructed the gatekeeper to help with his request.

Fang Yu went to the Mittel Auction House to sell a pill formula and met its second-tier alchemist, Master Gu Ni. After Gu Ni doubted the formula’s origin, Fang Yu offered to create another one on the spot.

• Fang Yu left the Xiao Family and headed to the Mittel Auction House to obtain resources for his cultivation.
• Fang Yu told the auction house’s appraiser that he wanted to sell a pill formula, prompting the man to summon Master Gu Ni.
• Master Gu Ni examined the formula and suspected Fang Yu might have stolen it from another alchemist.
• Fang Yu insisted he had created the formula himself and offered to make another one immediately, leaving Gu Ni stunned.

Fang Yu obtained pill formulas, a storage ring, and a large supply of materials from the Mittel Auction House, compensating the house with a combat technique scroll. He asked to meet Mittel Ya Fei and revealed that he knew why she had come to Wutan City.

• Fang Yu sold two pill formulas to the Mittel Auction House for gold coins and a storage ring, then asked Master Gu Ni to gather the materials on his list.
• Mittel Ya Fei prepared the available materials, which were worth five hundred and sixty thousand gold coins, and gave them to Master Gu Ni to deliver to Fang Yu.
• Fang Yu inspected the materials and gave Master Gu Ni a high-grade Profound-class combat technique scroll to cover their value beyond the agreed amount.
• Fang Yu asked to meet Mittel Ya Fei, and she went to his room despite her anxiety about his status as a fourth-tier alchemist.
• Fang Yu told Mittel Ya Fei that he knew she had come from the imperial capital to avoid harassment by the Mu Family's young master, and she confirmed it.

Fang Yu left the Mittel Auction House after promising to help Mittel Ya Fei complete her family’s task, then hid in Wutan City to cultivate. After failing to break through to the Dou Practitioner realm even after half a month, Xiao Yu left his rented courtyard to wander the market district and look for trouble.

• Fang Yu refused to reveal his identity to Mittel Ya Fei, promised to help her earn merit with the Mittel Family, and left the auction house.
• Mittel Ya Fei and her uncle wondered whether Fang Yu was a fifth-tier alchemist and warned her to prepare for the difficult task ahead.
• Fang Yu rented a house in Wutan City, prompting Xiao Zhan to order a search when the Xiao Family lost track of him.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Zhan to stop the search, reasoning that Xiao Yu was safe and would return for her magic cores.
• Fang Yu learned that Xiao Yu had reached the ninth stage of Dou Qi but still could not break through, and he left for the market district in a foul mood.

Fang Yu killed Galeo in the marketplace and escaped the Jia Lie Family patriarch’s attack, prompting the Jia Lie and Oba Families to threaten war against the Xiao Family. As Xiao Zhan prepared for the conflict and searched for Fang Yu, Yao Lao assured Xiao Yan that Fang Yu or Xiao Xun'er would resolve the crisis.

• Fang Yu provoked Galeo in the marketplace, then killed him with two blows when Galeo attacked.
• Pain and the Xiao Family guards fought off Galeo’s servants while the Jia Lie Family patriarch attacked Fang Yu, who evaded him with an afterimage and disappeared.
• The Jia Lie Family patriarch demanded that the Xiao Family hand over Fang Yu within three days or face war, then persuaded the Oba Family to join the attack.
• Xiao Zhan ordered the Xiao Family to prepare for war and consider moving some of its bloodline out of Wutan City because Fang Yu remained missing.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to help defend the Xiao Family, and Yao Lao said Fang Yu or Xiao Xun'er would handle the crisis; he refused to explain Xun'er's identity.

Fang Yu arranged for the Mittel Family to destroy the Jia Lie Family and the Oba Family in exchange for pills and Dou Techniques, then returned to Xiao Xun'er’s courtyard. He reassured her that he would keep the Xiao Family out of the conflict, while refusing to reveal his identity.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao about Xiao Xun'er’s identity, but Yao Lao told him to focus on cultivation ahead of the coming-of-age ceremony.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family elders debated whether to hand Fang Yu over to the Jia Lie Family, and Xiao Zhan argued that Xiao Yu and Xiao Xun'er could protect the clan.
• Fang Yu asked Mittel Ya Fei to eliminate the Jia Lie Family and the Oba Family, offering four fourth-tier pills and two high-grade Xuan-tier Dou Techniques in return.
• Mittel Ya Fei agreed to have the Mittel Auction House's guest elders destroy both families the following night, and she and the old man concluded Fang Yu was Xiao Yu’s master.
• Fang Yu collected five fifth-tier magical beast cores from Xiao Xun'er and asked her to gather more, then refused to disclose who he was.
• Xiao Xun'er warned Fang Yu not to harm the Xiao Family, and Fang Yu insisted he would not implicate them.