Recaps

Li Shun and Kong Zhao discovered that Fang Han’s Creation had been forcibly seized, leaving him close to death and his cultivation ruined. As Fang Han’s condition worsened, Li Shun chose to offer him survival as a puppet within the Square Inch, and Fang Han agreed.

• Li Shun examined Fang Han and learned from Kong Zhao that someone had likely seized Fang Han’s Creation through a secret art.
• Kong Zhao explained that some clans stole talented descendants’ Creation, while Li Shun suspected the Fan Clan because Fang Han’s essence blood had been taken at birth.
• Kong Zhao said Fang Han could not be treated and would remain weak even if he survived, so Li Shun and Li Qing delayed their departure to care for him.
• As Fang Han’s life faded, Li Shun decided to make him a puppet within the Square Inch to save him.
• Li Shun entered Fang Han’s mind, explained that his Creation had been seized, and asked whether he wanted to live and seek revenge; Fang Han answered yes.

Li Shun brought Kong Zhao to the Kong Family’s blessed sanctuary on Dai Mountain and began cultivating in seclusion. Meanwhile, Li Qing went to investigate the theft of Fang Han’s Creation Realm, and Fang Han disappeared from the Great Qian World into Square Inch Space.

• Fang Han began recovering, and Li Shun asked Li Qing to investigate whether the Fan Clan arranged the theft of Fang Han’s Creation Realm and to identify the thief.
• Li Shun traveled with Kong Zhao to the Kong Family’s sanctuary inside Dai Mountain, passing through Peach Blossom Valley and its hidden entrance.
• Kong Zhao offered Li Shun a cottage and permission to explore the sanctuary, and Li Shun began his seclusion.
• Li Qing set out for Qingyuan County while Fang Han shut his door to visitors to recuperate.
• Fang Han faded from the Great Qian World and floated toward the Gate of Myriad Mysteries inside Square Inch Space.

Fang Han entered a new world where martial artists relied on body refinement and learned about the secret art Reclaim the Divine Peak. At the Dongning City Martial Arts Association, he tried to take the Mystic Yellow Qi from Long Xuanji’s statue, but a grandmaster’s tribulation struck him and turned him to ash.

• Fang Han entered a new world and learned that its martial arts realms culminated in the Innate Realm, while the secret art Reclaim the Divine Peak could briefly restore a fighter to their prime at a terrible cost.
• Fang Han traveled to the Dongning City Martial Arts Association, believing its seven statues might hold Heaven-and-Earth Mystic Yellow Qi.
• Fang Han saw immense Mystic Yellow Qi around the statues and focused on Long Xuanji, the most powerful of the seven.
• Fang Han touched Long Xuanji’s statue to claim its Mystic Yellow Qi, but the energy did not move and tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• A lightning bolt struck Fang Han, turning him to ash.

Li Shun sent Fang Han into the Martial World, where Fang Han found that his Borrowing Longevity from Heaven technique could reach heaven but could not earn a response. After discovering his poor martial aptitude, Fang Han tried the Azure Wood Invocation, which stirred the world’s vitality.

• Li Shun reflected on the Outworld Heavenly Demons and concluded he would need to become an Innate Grandmaster to obtain Mystic Yellow Qi in the Martial World.
• Three days later, Fang Han arrived in Heavenly Eye City and learned that news of a grandmaster’s failed tribulation had spread from nearby Dongning City.
• Fang Han used Borrowing Longevity from Heaven to reach the heavens, but repeated requests to borrow lifespan went unanswered.
• Fang Han reasoned that the method worked but that he was too weak to negotiate with heaven, and he resolved to become the Martial World’s first lifespan borrower.
• Fang Han found that an afternoon of Body Refinement training brought no progress and concluded that his body lacked martial aptitude.
• Fang Han recalled the Azure Wood Invocation and began chanting it, causing the vitality of Heaven and Earth to surge.

Fang Han used Azure Wood Invocation to strengthen his body, learned that Martial Dao advancement required martial will, and discovered the legends of Long Xuanji and martial divine abilities. He then fought Duan Rui for an hour, healing through repeated injuries until Duan Rui conceded.

• Fang Han used Azure Wood Invocation to nourish and repair his body, bringing it to the apparent limit of the Body Tempering Realm.
• Fang Han studied Martial Dao and learned that battle-tempered martial will was needed to advance, then read about Long Xuanji and the divine abilities awakened by some Innate Grandmasters.
• Fang Han entered a sparring room and faced Duan Rui, a fellow Body Tempering Realm martial artist.
• Fang Han repeatedly healed from Duan Rui's blows with Azure Wood Invocation and kept fighting until Duan Rui exhausted himself and conceded.

Fang Han tempered his martial will by fighting thirteen matches and then taking assassination missions under the alias Li Shun, eventually killing Wang Feng. A Grandmaster named Luo Jinghai confronted and killed him, after which the story shifted to Li Shun in the Kong Family Grotto-Heaven seeking close-combat techniques.

• Fang Han won thirteen consecutive Body Tempering matches before abandoning open competition because it no longer challenged him.
• Fang Han joined the Black River Society as Li Shun and chose Wang Feng as his assassination target.
• Fang Han killed Wang Feng using his lifespan-burning technique, claimed his reward, and continued taking deadly missions to temper his martial will.
• Luo Jinghai found Fang Han and explained that Wang Quan had hired him after Fang Han's suspicious move and house purchase drew attention.
• Fang Han burned his lifespan and attacked Luo Jinghai with Foundation Fist Technique, then the scene shifted to Li Shun requesting close-combat manuals in the Kong Family Grotto-Heaven.

Fang Han descended into Heavenly Eye City in the body of the Fang Family's eldest young master, mastered the Emperor Fist, and used it to kill the Inner Force martial artist Luo Yu. After advancing to the Qi and Blood realm, he planned to challenge the True Qi realm guards protecting the Wang Family's heirs.

• Fang Han entered the Martial World again as the Body Tempering realm eldest young master of the Fang Family in Heavenly Eye City, whose fortunes depended on his grandfather Fang Dian and younger brother Fang Lie.
• Fang Han used Azure Wood Invocation to strengthen his body, then practiced the Emperor Fist until he mastered it during half a month of secluded cultivation.
• Fang Han scouted the Wang Family and learned that each of its six named heirs had a True Qi realm martial artist guarding him, so he abandoned his plan to attack them directly.
• Fang Han went to kill Luo Yu, an Inner Force martial artist from the Black River Society's target list, and endured Luo Yu's opening attack before striking with the Emperor Fist.
• Fang Han killed Luo Yu, healed his wounds with Azure Wood Invocation, and reached the Qi and Blood realm as he prepared to test himself against the Wang Family's guards.

After Wang Quan fled and Fang Dian died, Fang Han secretly protected the Fang Family before turning to ancient texts about the Ten Witches. His research led him to an isolated southern village, where the villagers recognized his Azure Wood Invocation and worshipped him.

• Fang Han learned that the Wang Family had abandoned Heavenly Eye City, then searched their empty residence and suspected Wang Quan could foresee the future.
• After Fang Dian died, Fang Lie drove off attackers and urged the Fang Family to consolidate its strength, while Fang Han secretly intimidated the factions threatening them.
• Fang Han found an ancient account of the Ten Witches and discovered that belief in them persisted in remote mountain villages.
• Fang Han broke through to the Inner Force realm, left a note, and traveled to an isolated village deep in the southern mountains.
• The villagers fell to their knees when Fang Han activated Azure Wood Invocation, and he stayed to learn their language, the witch tongue.

Fang Han learned the Witch Clan’s fragmented history, left the village with Ying, and returned to Heavenly Eye City, where he severed his ties with the Fang Family. He then returned to the Great Qian World after sensing Li Qing had arrived with the results of his investigation.

• Fang Han learned that the Ten Witches had vanished after an ancient calamity and that the Witch Clan’s written language had been lost.
• Fang Han failed to draw Mystic Yellow Qi through the villagers’ worship and continued cultivating while hunting dangerous beasts around the village.
• The villagers sent Ying to accompany Fang Han, and they traveled together back to Heavenly Eye City.
• Fang Han found the Fang Family occupying his villa, gave up the house, and rented a small courtyard with Ying.
• Fang Han sensed someone had triggered his ward, returned to the Great Qian World, and found Li Qing back from investigating the theft of his fortune.

After learning that Fan Cheng and Shao Lingxu were involved in the theft of his Creation, Fang Han chose to postpone revenge and focus on cultivation. He broke through to the True Qi Realm, then discovered that Heaven and Earth's Primordial Qi was concentrated in a few places before one concentration struck back at him.

• Li Qing told Fang Han that Fan Cheng had become Shao Lingxu's disciple soon after Fang Han's Creation was stolen, and Fang Han vowed to settle the debt later.
• Fang Han decided not to join the Confucian School and chose to focus on strengthening his body while considering which school to join.
• Li Qing left and quietly spread word of Fang Xun's heroic deeds, while Fang Han returned to the Martial World and found Ying still kneeling.
• A little over half a month later, Fang Han entered the True Qi Realm and realized his cultivation would slow without Primordial Qi of Heaven and Earth.
• Fang Han used the Twelve Longevity Method to examine the world and found Primordial Qi concentrated in a few places, but one concentration attacked him with killing intent and made him spit blood.

Fang Han investigated the source of the immense energy and eerie attacks at Emerald Plume Lake, enduring the lake’s assaults and mind-bending influence. After two days of searching, he found a Turtle Shell covered in writing, but an unseen force stopped him from reaching it and visions showed his body being cut in half.

• Fang Han discovered a black beast-shaped mark on his forehead and traced the nearest energy node to Emerald Plume Lake.
• Fang Han traveled to the lake, sensed its extraordinary energy, and plunged into its freezing, hostile waters.
• Fang Han endured the lake’s attacks with Azure Wood Invocation and reached the lakebed, where he found strange waterweeds with eyeball-like growths.
• Fang Han escaped repeated mental illusions by returning to Square Inch Space, then searched the lakebed for two days and nights.
• Fang Han found a cracked Turtle Shell covered in strange writing, but a tremendous force blocked him and visions showed his body severed at the waist.

Fang Han risked repeated attacks to take the mysterious Turtle Shell into Square Inch Space, triggering a surge of elemental energy from Heaven and Earth across Emerald Plume Lake. After absorbing some of it and rapidly strengthening his true qi, he turned his attention to the Turtle Shell inside his space.

• Fang Han used Azure Wood Invocation and his life force to recover after the Turtle Shell's invisible strike severed him at the waist.
• Fang Han repeatedly rushed toward the Turtle Shell, retreating into Square Inch Space to rebuild his body after each strike.
• Fang Han rested in Square Inch Space, then used all his strength to pull the Turtle Shell inside despite its resistance.
• The Turtle Shell's removal ended the eerie pressure on the lakebed and unleashed a torrent of elemental energy that made Emerald Plume Lake boil.
• Fang Han absorbed some of the energy, rapidly increased his true qi, and surfaced to survey the area as creatures gathered near the lake.
• Fang Han turned his attention to the Turtle Shell inside Square Inch Space.

Li Shun discovered that the tortoiseshell carried an unknown aura that resisted Mystic Yellow Qi and could not be brought into either world. As Fang Han pursued another primordial qi gathering point, he encountered a Grandmaster who invited him to talk.

• Li Shun tried to read the tortoiseshell’s writing with Mystic Yellow Qi, but the Qi shattered and the writing changed into another unreadable line.
• Li Shun realized the tortoiseshell’s unknown aura made it incompatible with the Great Qian and Martial Dao worlds, so he left it in Square Inch.
• Fang Han returned to the courtyard, where Ying showed him a drawing of the powerful enemy that had traced him from a primordial qi gathering point.
• Fang Han asked Ying about the tortoiseshell’s writing, then practiced [Emperor Fist] for three days before heading to the smallest gathering point near Vast Marsh City.
• Fang Han waited outside the villa district for ten days, then encountered an old Grandmaster who invited him inside for a talk.

Fang Han met Wen Ye to learn how Grandmasters gathered and used spiritual energy. Wen Ye demonstrated the power of the Grandmaster Realm, but Fang Han only frowned, leaving Wen Ye puzzled.

• Fang Han followed Wen Ye into his villa and learned that the old man had stored spiritual energy within his body for more than fifty years.
• Wen Ye explained that spiritual energy gathered in rare treasures and places, and that the Abyss-Nascent Method let Grandmasters retain it.
• Wen Ye revealed that Grandmasters wielded spiritual energy directly instead of converting it into true qi or astral qi.
• Wen Ye rose into the air and formed a lifelike three-headed beast from spiritual energy, but Fang Han frowned instead of showing awe.

Fang Han questioned Wen Ye about the spiritual energy stored in his body and suspected that someone was using grandmasters to preserve or increase the world’s dwindling energy. After Wen Ye asked him to protect his chosen successors, Fang Han agreed to save them once and gave Wen Ye a leaf of Cold Mountain Grass.

• Fang Han challenged Wen Ye’s method of gathering spiritual energy and learned that Wen Ye believed it could not be fully transformed into personal power.
• Wen Ye explained that he had gained his spiritual energy from an exotic beast in an ancient ruin and had spent decades tempering it within his body.
• Fang Han suspected that the world’s spiritual energy was depleted and that Long Xuanji might be using grandmasters to nurture what remained.
• Wen Ye told Fang Han that he planned to pass his spiritual energy to his successors and feared his enemies would attack them after his death.
• Wen Ye asked Fang Han to protect his successors if they were in danger, and Fang Han agreed to save them once before giving Wen Ye a leaf of Cold Mountain Grass.

Fang Han investigated the disappearance of deceased grandmasters’ bodies and confirmed that their graves were empty, strengthening his suspicion of a hidden force exploiting them. He then explored sites where Heaven-and-Earth energy gathered, but discovered that the world’s energy was being drained by an unknown source.

• Wen Ye told Fang Han that roughly 133 grandmasters were alive, and Fang Han asked what happened to grandmasters’ bodies after death.
• Fang Han secretly opened Qiu Du’s grave and found the coffin empty, then uncovered the same absence of remains in six other grandmasters’ graves.
• Fang Han concluded that someone was exploiting grandmasters both alive and dead, and he concealed his appearance while investigating further.
• Over the next month, Fang Han visited more than a dozen energy-gathering sites, challenged grandmasters, claimed strange beasts and spirit plants, and absorbed Heaven-and-Earth energy without practicing the Abyss-Nascent Method.
• Fang Han returned to Emerald Plume Lake and found its energy gone, realizing that an unknown force was draining energy throughout the Martial World.

Fang Han advanced to the Astral Qi Realm but was hunted by a group of Grandmasters and repeatedly ambushed when he returned to the Martial World. Li Shun paid ten strands of Mystic Yellow Qi to change Fang Han’s arrival point, returning him safely to Heavenly Eye City and suspecting the Heavenly Dao was behind the pursuit.

• Fang Han advanced to the Astral Qi Realm and was attacked by a hollow-eyed Grandmaster whose strike nearly killed him.
• Fang Han sensed several more Grandmasters closing in and escaped into Square Inch.
• After waiting three days, Fang Han returned to the Martial World but was ambushed by Grandmasters using a strange drumbeat, and his body was torn apart before he escaped again.
• Li Shun tried returning after seven days, but Grandmasters immediately converged on Fang Han, forcing him to withdraw once more.
• Li Shun paid ten strands of Mystic Yellow Qi to change Fang Han’s arrival point, and Fang Han reappeared safely at his home in Heavenly Eye City.
• Li Shun wondered whether the Heavenly Dao had controlled the Grandmasters hunting Fang Han.

Fang Han spent a year challenging Astral Qi martial artists to hone his Martial Dao, bringing him close to the grandmaster realm. After returning to Heavenly Eye City to rest, he learned that Lu Feng’s people had come to hunt down the Fang Family and saw the confrontation as his chance to advance.

• Fang Han concluded that martial divine abilities grew through life-and-death battles and began challenging martial artists from the Martial Arts Association’s list.
• Fang Han disguised himself under three identities and fought nearly every Astral Qi martial artist under heaven, sharpening his combat skills over the course of a year.
• Fang Han realized he was close to the grandmaster realm, returned to Heavenly Eye City, and rested at home with Ying.
• Lu Feng’s followers arrived at the courtyard seeking Fang Lie’s elder brother and blaming Fang Lie for offending Lu Feng’s son.
• Fang Han recognized the arrival of Lu Feng’s people as the opportunity he needed to advance.

Fang Han defeated the Lu Family’s attempt to intimidate him and went to the Lu Family to confront Lu Feng over Fang Lie’s abuse. After Lu Feng apologized and compensated the Fang Family, Fang Han asked Lu Feng and Luo You to fight him so he could take the final step into the Innate realm.

• Fang Han incapacitated the martial artists who attacked him and sent a message challenging Lu Feng to meet him in seven days.
• At the Lu Family, Fang Lie was brought before Lu Feng and Luo You, and Fang Han suddenly appeared in the hall.
• Fang Han declared that the dispute should be settled by victory and defeat, while Lu Feng presented his beaten son Lu Chuan and offered compensation and a public apology.
• Fang Han accepted Lu Feng’s settlement but revealed that he had come chiefly to challenge both Grandmasters and advance into the Innate realm.
• Lu Feng agreed to fight Fang Han alongside Luo You.

Fang Han challenged Lu Feng and Luo You to help him break through to the Grandmaster Realm, then fought both at once in the Lu Family martial arena. After they shattered his body, the Azure Wood Invocation rapidly healed him, and he demanded another round.

• Fang Han introduced himself and asked Lu Feng and Luo You to fight without holding back so he could reach the Grandmaster Realm.
• Lu Feng and Luo You unleashed their grandmaster pressure, but Fang Han broke through it and attacked them with two Emperor Fist techniques.
• Lu Feng suppressed Fang Han’s attack while Luo You and Lu Feng struck from opposite sides, forcing Fang Han to counter with Die for the State.
• The grandmasters’ blows shattered Fang Han’s bones and injured his organs as they blasted him through the air.
• The Azure Wood Invocation absorbed vitality through a vast vortex and healed Fang Han’s injuries while Lu Feng and Luo You watched.
• Fang Han recovered completely, smiled at the two grandmasters, and asked them to attack him again.

Fang Han recognized the Azure Wood Invocation’s power over ancient beasts and transformed into a giant shaman after Lu Feng and Luo You unleashed their divine abilities. As he prepared to devour their beastly phantoms, a vast face formed in the storm clouds above him.

• Lu Feng and Luo You summoned the ancient beast phantoms Hundun and Feitai, whose power overwhelmed the spectators and threatened Fang Han.
• Fang Han realized that the Azure Wood Invocation made him regard the beasts as prey, and his fear turned to excitement and greed.
• Hundun and Feitai attacked Fang Han with terrifying force, but their phantoms slipped beyond the grandmasters’ control.
• Fang Han chanted, drew in vastly greater vitality from heaven and earth, and grew into a ten-zhang giant as his body was rebuilt.
• Fang Han restrained the two beasts’ spiritual energy and reached to seize them, but a giant face appeared in the dark clouds above the Martial World.

Fang Han fought the enormous storm-cloud face that appeared over the Martial World and used Heavenly Dao Severed Qi from Great Qian to devour its manifestation. After swallowing the still-hungry black qi, he followed the direction it pulled him toward and sped away.

• Fang Han saw the giant face curse him with the word “die,” which drained his vitality and prevented him from replenishing it normally.
• Fang Han crushed the two illusory beasts, absorbed their scattered spiritual energy with Wu Peng's true body, and flew toward the face.
• Fang Han released Heavenly Dao Severed Qi, which devoured the storm clouds and destroyed the face's manifestation.
• Fang Han swallowed the enlarged Heavenly Dao Severed Qi, relying on his resistance and rapid healing to survive its attack from within.
• Fang Han sensed the qi's chosen direction and rode the wind away.

Fang Han tracked the source of the Heavenly Dao Severed Qi to an underground boundary between the Martial World and a thriving beast world, then lured out the hidden creature that had been watching him. He recognized it as Fei and beat it into submission, demanding to know whether it could speak human language.

• Fang Han followed the Heavenly Dao Severed Qi through the snow-covered mountains and found an underground boundary leading to a world inhabited by beasts.
• Fang Han sensed powerful beasts beyond the boundary and concluded that the beast world might be feeding on the Martial World.
• Fang Han pretended to cross into the beast world, then changed course and struck a hidden presence with Emperor Fist: Plowing the Courtyard.
• Fang Han forced the creature to reveal itself and recognized it as Fei, a one-eyed beast with an oxlike body and a serpentine tail.
• Fang Han overwhelmed Fei with punches, and the beast begged him to stop.
• Fang Han asked Fei whether it could speak human language and struck it again.

Fang Han forced Fei to reveal that the Martial World was Pasture Thirteen, a Demon Realm dependency where Martial Grandmasters unknowingly nurtured demonic infants. Fei identified Fang Han as a witch and explained that Long Xuanji had resisted the parasites before Bai Ze took him away; Fang Han then questioned Fei about the world's Heavenly Dao.

• Fang Han subdued Fei and learned that the Martial World was Pasture Thirteen, one of the Demon Realm's worlds for raising its offspring.
• Fei explained that Bai Ze's divine ability made demons parasitize Martial Grandmasters, eventually devouring them and taking their bodies.
• Fei revealed that Long Xuanji had resisted cultivating a divine ability, prompting Bai Ze to personally take him away.
• Fei told Fang Han that the Demon Race was afflicted by a severed lineage curse and that he recognized Fang Han as a witch.
• Fang Han asked Fei what had happened during the Severing Heaven and Earth, and Fei said the truth was unknown and the pasture had developed an independent Heavenly Dao.
• Fang Han began asking Fei how to control the world's Heavenly Dao will.

Fang Han questioned Fei about the Heavenly Dao Severed Qi and agreed to spare Fei’s homeland for a hundred years if Fei helped him control the Martial World. Fei led Fang Han into its carefully crafted grotto-heaven and began showing him how it could reveal the Heavenly Dao’s circulation.

• Fang Han asked whether Fei’s world had Heavenly Dao Severed Qi, and Fei warned that its fragile world could not withstand such a force.
• Fei feared Fang Han would devastate the Demon Race World, so Fang Han promised not to enter it for a hundred years if Fei cooperated with him in controlling the Martial World.
• Fang Han rode Fei out of the abyss and entered the grotto-heaven Fei had carved from the world using its innate divine ability.
• Fei enthusiastically described the grassland’s carefully chosen grass and contours, until Fang Han interrupted it with a blow to the head.
• Fei called out across the grassland, making the grotto-heaven’s sky and boundaries transparent and revealing traces of the Heavenly Dao’s circulation to Fang Han.