Chapter Summaries

Fa Wutian secured Hai Bodong’s agreement to serve him for two and a half years, then rescued Zi Yan from a Sixth-Rank Magical Beast with a single attack. Hai Bodong, shaken by Fa Wutian’s power, urged him to return to Nine Heavens Pavilion, and Fa Wutian agreed.

• Hai Bodong accepted Fa Wutian’s offer to serve for two and a half years, provided Fa Wutian let him leave afterward.
• Fa Wutian discovered Zi Yan was missing and learned from Hai Bodong that she had gone off to play.
• Zi Yan, carrying the Ten-Thousand-Souls Anise Grass, led a pursuing Sixth-Rank Magical Beast toward Mocheng, but it intercepted her.
• Fa Wutian struck the beast with a Soul-Piercing Awl and killed it in one blow, then scolded Zi Yan for wandering off.
• Hai Bodong grew fearful after witnessing Fa Wutian’s strength and urged him to return to Nine Heavens Pavilion, so Fa Wutian abandoned his plan to visit Shimo City.

Hai Bodong returned to the Mittel Family and discussed Fa Wutian’s strength and the future of the Nine Heavens Pavilion with Teng Shan. After realizing his two-and-a-half-year guard agreement might be a poor bargain, Hai Bodong sought Fa Wutian’s preferences from Ouyang Feng, who angrily warned him not to address the Pavilion Master by name.

• Hai Bodong left Fa Wutian and flew to the Mittel Family, where the family celebrated his return.
• Hai Bodong learned from Teng Shan that Fa Wutian had killed Jia Xing Tian and was a Sixth-Rank Alchemist with Heavenly Flames.
• Hai Bodong told Teng Shan that he had agreed to guard the Nine Heavens Pavilion for two and a half years, and Teng Shan suggested inviting Ouyang Feng to discuss the faction and Fa Wutian.
• Hai Bodong invited Ouyang Feng and asked what Fa Wutian liked.
• Ouyang Feng flew into a rage at Hai Bodong for casually using Fa Wutian’s name, but Teng Shan calmed him and Ouyang Feng let the matter go.

Hai Bodong and Teng Shan tried to learn Fa Wutian’s preferences so the Mittel Family could gain his favor. The chapter ended with Teng Shan going to speak with Ya Fei about a possible marriage alliance with Fa Wutian.

• Ouyang Feng told Hai Bodong that he did not know Fa Wutian’s preferences and suggested asking Zi Yan.
• Teng Shan revealed that Zi Yan liked medicinal ingredients after she had raided the Mittel Family’s treasure vault, and Hai Bodong used that knowledge to invite her over with a gift.
• Zi Yan accepted the high-grade ingredients, told Hai Bodong that Fa Wutian had no particular preferences, and left to have him refine pills.
• Teng Shan proposed Ya Fei as a marriage-alliance candidate, explaining that Fa Wutian had once intervened when Mu Zhan had pursued her.
• Hai Bodong urged Teng Shan to make sure Ya Fei was prepared, and Teng Shan said she seemed interested in Fa Wutian before leaving to speak with her.

Fa Wutian settled the Nine Heavens Pavilion’s affairs with Hai Bodong and rejected Hai Bodong’s attempt to match him with Ya Fei, explaining that he already loved someone. After preparing for his journey, he set off with Zi Yan for the Eastern Wasteland Continent, reaching it two months later through a spatial wormhole.

• Fa Wutian visited the Mittel Family and told Hai Bodong that Ouyang Feng would manage the Nine Heavens Pavilion while he was away.
• Hai Bodong offered Ya Fei as a marriage prospect, but Fa Wutian said he regarded her as a sister and already loved someone.
• Ya Fei ran out in tears, while Hai Bodong accepted Fa Wutian’s refusal and let the matter go.
• Fa Wutian prepared for the Eastern Wasteland, and Skyfire Venerable teased him about rejecting Ya Fei and his behavior toward Queen Medusa.
• Fa Wutian and Zi Yan traveled through a spatial wormhole and arrived in the Eastern Wasteland Continent after two months.

Fa Wutian and Zi Yan arrived in Radiant City and learned that the nearby Spiritless Forbidden Land lay within the territory of the powerful Holy Spear Sect. Hoping to reach the treasure without revealing his intentions, Fa Wutian planned to enter the sect and obtained a Myriad Illusions Mask through a system sign-in.

• Fa Wutian and Zi Yan reached Radiant City, where Fa Wutian noticed the gate guards were all Dou Ling experts.
• Fa Wutian asked a teahouse waiter about the Spiritless Forbidden Land and learned it was in Holy Spear Sect territory, where the sect's seniors had died.
• The waiter explained that the Holy Spear Sect ranked among the Eastern Wasteland's strongest sects and that its city guards were Outer Sect disciples.
• Fa Wutian learned the sect's entrance selection would take place the day after tomorrow and considered joining to gain access to the forbidden land.
• Fa Wutian searched Radiant City for a treasure that could conceal his identity but found none, so he used a system sign-in and received the Myriad Illusions Mask.

Fa Wutian used the Myriad Illusions Mask to conceal his identity and entered the Holy Spear Sect's entrance selection. He passed the chaotic battle and waited with the successful recruits for Lin Yan to take them to their residences.

• Fa Wutian learned that the Myriad Illusions Mask could change his appearance and conceal his aura and cultivation, then went to explain his plans to Zi Yan.
• Two days later, Fa Wutian arrived at the Holy Spear Sect, where Lin Yan announced that the final three hundred people standing in a melee would pass.
• Liu Feng invited Fa Wutian to join his team, but Fa Wutian declined and chose to fight alone.
• Fa Wutian defeated more than a hundred opponents with Profound-Rank Dou Skills while the other Dou Spirit teams avoided him.
• Lin Yan stopped the melee and announced that the survivors had joined the Holy Spear Sect, giving them an hour to treat their injuries.

Fa Wutian sought the Spiritless Forbidden Land but learned it lay in the Holy Spear Sect's Inner Sect, which Outer Sect disciples could not enter. After using a mission to obtain Liu Hai's identity token and disguise himself, he found the forbidden land's stone stele and planned to return after nightfall.

• Lin Yan explained how Outer Sect disciples could obtain extra resources, then left as they chose their rooms.
• Fa Wutian searched the Outer Sect for the Spiritless Forbidden Land and sensed someone watching him; sect master Li Tianyan revealed himself afterward and became interested in Fa Wutian.
• Fa Wutian accepted a mission to deliver three Azure Jade Flowers to Inner Sect disciple Liu Hai and exchanged them for a Fourth-Rank Pill.
• While Liu Hai inspected the flowers, Fa Wutian stole his identity token and memorized his appearance, then used the Myriad Illusions Mask to disguise himself.
• Fa Wutian found the Spiritless Forbidden Land's stone stele in a remote corner of the Inner Sect, but a young man warned him away, so he left and planned to return after nightfall.

Fa Wutian entered the Spiritless Forbidden Land seeking treasure and was confronted by a group of ancient soul bodies led by an Eight-Star Dou Saint. After the leader questioned his presence at Holy Spear Mountain, Fa Wutian panicked as he searched for a way to respond.

• Fa Wutian entered the Spiritless Forbidden Land through a vortex in the ancient stele and used his changed treasure map to fly toward Holy Spear Mountain.
• The golden soul body learned that an unknown person had entered the forbidden land and led the other soul bodies to intercept him.
• Fa Wutian discovered that the golden figure was an Eight-Star Dou Saint and that the other soul bodies were powerful Saints and Half-Saints.
• Skyfire Venerable sensed the soul bodies, retreated into Fa Wutian, and began absorbing a special energy that could raise his cultivation.
• Fa Wutian lied about Skyfire Venerable's origins, then claimed he had wandered into the forbidden land by accident.
• The golden figure rejected Fa Wutian's explanation and demanded to know who had sent him into the forbidden land.

Fa Wutian’s treasure map led him to Gun Emperor Yang Nitian’s inheritance, where he received the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Breaking Spear and agreed to lead the Holy Spear Sect back to prosperity. Yang Nitian’s spiritual imprint gave him a sect-commanding token and the inheritance of the Nine Heaven-Destroying Spears before vanishing.

• Fa Wutian showed the treasure map to the Holy Spear Sect’s elders, who recognized it as Yang Nitian’s inheritance key and recalled a prophecy that its bearer would restore the sect.
• The golden figure led Fa Wutian to a palace and used the burned map’s revealed spear key to open its doors.
• Fa Wutian found the Nine-Dragon Heaven-Breaking Spear and learned from the murals that the palace belonged to Gun Emperor Yang Nitian, the Holy Spear Sect’s founding ancestor.
• Yang Nitian’s spiritual imprint appeared and offered Fa Wutian his inheritance in exchange for becoming sect master and restoring the Holy Spear Sect.
• Fa Wutian accepted, and Yang Nitian gave him a token that could command the sect and passed on the Nine Heaven-Destroying Spears.

Fa Wutian left the Spiritless Forbidden Land with the Gun Emperor’s token and the Holy Spear Sect elders’ support. He revealed his true appearance and explained his hidden identity and purpose to the stunned elders, who learned they had never seen through his disguise.

• Yang Nitian sensed that his measures had been triggered and wondered whether Fa Wutian would find him, while the Mad Blade Heavenly Demon Emperor woke and challenged him.
• Fa Wutian left the palace, and Chen Liang offered the elders’ support in restoring the Holy Spear Sect, though Fa Wutian refused to risk their souls.
• Chen Liang summoned Li Tianyan and Chen Fei, then told Li Tianyan that Fa Wutian was the sect’s future hope and must be helped.
• Fa Wutian showed Yang Nitian’s token, and Li Tianyan realized he had to obey its holder unconditionally.
• Fa Wutian removed the Myriad Illusions Mask and explained why he had hidden his identity, leaving Chen Liang and the others shocked.

Fa Wutian revealed his cultivation technique to Chen Liang and asked for Chen Fei to protect him, while Chen Liang agreed and offered him the Holy Spear Sect’s Heavenly Flames. After devouring two of them, Fa Wutian reached Four-Star Dou Zong and raised the Flame Mantra to Heaven Tier Low Grade.

• Fa Wutian told Chen Liang and Li Tianyan that he needed Chen Fei as his protector, and Chen Liang agreed to the request.
• Chen Liang discovered Fa Wutian had three Heavenly Flames and learned that his cultivation technique could advance by devouring them.
• Chen Liang brought Fa Wutian to the sect’s collection of Heavenly Flames and let him claim them as the Holy Spear Sect’s hope.
• Fa Wutian devoured the Myriad Beasts Spirit Fire and the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, but left the Netherworld Poison Flame untouched.
• Fa Wutian reached Four-Star Dou Zong, and the Flame Mantra advanced to Heaven Tier Low Grade.

Fa Wutian left the Holy Spear Sect with the Netherworld Poison Flame and returned to Radiant City with Chen Fei as his protector. After reuniting with Zi Yan and receiving the ingredients for a Soul Fusion Pill, he began refining it before their return journey.

• Fa Wutian declined to absorb the Netherworld Poison Flame but asked to take it with him, and Chen Liang agreed before sending him and his companions out of the Spiritless Forbidden Land.
• Fa Wutian returned to the inn with Chen Fei, the Holy Spear Sect's Supreme Elder, who agreed to protect him on the journey.
• Zi Yan met Chen Fei, learned he recognized her resemblance to the ancient Dragon Emperor, and Fa Wutian promised to help her seek answers about her family and the Void Ancient Dragons.
• Zi Yan gave Fa Wutian the Soul Fusion Pill ingredients she had gathered, including an extra set.
• Fa Wutian told Chen Fei he would refine a Soul Fusion Pill for Medusa before they departed, then went to a nearby room to begin refining it.

Fa Wutian led Zi Yan and Chen Fei to the Black-Corner Region, where they raided the Black Emperor Sect and killed Mo Tianxing to obtain the Bodhisattva Transformation Saliva and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's dried corpse. After Fa Wutian killed a Hall of Souls Protector who asked about Han Feng, Elder Mu Gu decided to investigate in person.

• Fa Wutian chose to visit the Black-Corner Region to take the Black Emperor Sect's treasures and seek the third Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map from the Eight Gates.
• Fa Wutian, Zi Yan, and Chen Fei entered the Black Emperor Sect's treasure vault, where Zi Yan triggered its warning formation while collecting medicinal ingredients.
• Mo Tianxing and the elders confronted the intruders, but Fa Wutian's Spirit-Burning Annihilation burned them, and he found the items he sought among Mo Tianxing's ashes.
• A Hall of Souls Protector stopped Fa Wutian's group and asked whether they had seen Han Feng, so Fa Wutian killed him.
• Elder Mu Gu sensed his subordinate's death and decided to go to the Black-Corner Region himself.

Fa Wutian returned to Jia Nan Academy with Chen Fei, where Su Qian learned of Fa Wutian’s strength and alchemy rank and asked him to refine Sect-Breaking Pills. Zi Yan entered a mature stage after swallowing her pills, while Elder Mu Gu began hunting Fa Wutian’s group based on misleading information.

• Su Qian worried about Chen Fei until Fa Wutian revealed that he was an Advanced Half-Saint, then discovered Fa Wutian had reached Four-Star Dou Zong and become a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
• Su Qian gave Fa Wutian ten sets of ingredients and asked him to make five Sect-Breaking Pills for the academy’s elders, and Fa Wutian agreed.
• Fa Wutian and Su Qian rushed to a violent energy eruption and found Zi Yan inside a giant purple cocoon after she swallowed all the pills Fa Wutian had given her.
• Fa Wutian protected Zi Yan’s cocoon with a spatial barrier and asked Su Qian to keep others away before returning to refine the pills.
• Elder Mu Gu searched the Black Emperor Sect, learned about Fa Wutian’s group, and vowed revenge after mistaking Chen Fei for a Dou Zong.

Fa Wutian obtained Yao Chen’s Resurrection Method and used it to resurrect Skyfire Venerable in Elder Mu Gu’s corpse. Skyfire Venerable successfully fused with the corpse, leaving Fa Wutian’s resurrection experiment complete.

• Chen Fei told Fa Wutian that a Hall of Souls visitor was investigating the killing of its protector.
• Chen Fei captured Elder Mu Gu, and Fa Wutian had him killed after learning he possessed Yao Chen’s Resurrection Method.
• Fa Wutian found the Resurrection Method in Elder Mu Gu’s storage ring and chose it over the Flesh Pill Method for Skyfire Venerable.
• Fa Wutian refined a Bone-Melting Blood-Fusing Pill and gave it to Skyfire Venerable.
• Fa Wutian used five Heavenly Flames to roast Skyfire Venerable’s soul and Elder Mu Gu’s corpse, and Skyfire Venerable fused with the corpse three days later.

After resurrecting as a Five-Star Dou Venerable, Skyfire Venerable agreed to join Fa Wutian’s Nine Heavens Pavilion. Fa Wutian left Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan and his group for the Tanger Desert, while the Hall of Souls learned that Elder Mu Gu’s soul plaque had shattered.

• Fa Wutian congratulated Skyfire Venerable on his resurrection, and Skyfire Venerable credited him before asking to settle in the Nine Heavens Pavilion.
• Fa Wutian welcomed Skyfire Venerable into the pavilion, and Skyfire Venerable agreed to help when needed without following him everywhere.
• Fa Wutian gave Su Qian the Sect-Breaking Pill and reassured Zi Yan that advancing to the seventh tier would free her from the Form Transformation Grass’s effects.
• Su Qian urged Zi Yan to stay in the Inner Academy for safety, but Fa Wutian agreed to take her along after she insisted on going with him.
• Fa Wutian’s group left Jia Nan Academy for the Tanger Desert, and a Hall of Souls guardian discovered that Elder Mu Gu’s soul plaque had shattered and rushed to report it.

Fa Wutian returned to the Snake-People Tribe with the Soul Fusion Pill, allowing Medusa to regain control of her body and reunite with him. He revealed that he had reached the Five-Star Battle Ancestor realm and gave the four great elders Sect-Breaking Pills, leaving them hopeful of breaking through to Dou Zong.

• Fa Wutian arrived at the Snake-People Tribe with Zi Yan and Chen Fei, then entered Medusa's palace alone.
• Fa Wutian gave the First Elder the Soul Fusion Pill, and Medusa regained primary control of her body and returned to human form.
• Medusa asked about Fa Wutian's cultivation, and he told her he had reached the Five-Star Battle Ancestor realm.
• Fa Wutian credited Senior Chen Liang of the Holy Spear Sect for helping him progress, then stopped the four great elders from leaving.
• Fa Wutian gave each of the four great elders a Sect-Breaking Pill, which could help them break through to the Dou Zong realm.

Fa Wutian gave the Great Elder and the other Snake-People elders four Sect-Breaking Pills, then reunited with Medusa and gave her the name Yi Yan. He told her he planned to restore the Holy Spear Sect by resurrecting its fallen experts, leaving the Ninth-Rank pills needed for the plan as a challenge to overcome.

• Fa Wutian offered the Great Elder and the other elders four Sect-Breaking Pills as thanks for caring for Medusa, and they accepted after learning he was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
• After the elders left, Fa Wutian reunited with Medusa, and the two spent two days together.
• Fa Wutian suggested that Medusa choose a personal name, and she accepted his choice of Yi Yan.
• Fa Wutian told Yi Yan about his year with the Holy Spear Sect and promised to help restore it to its former glory.
• Fa Wutian explained that he planned to resurrect the sect's fallen Dou Saint experts with Ninth-Rank pills, while Yi Yan trusted him to find a way.

Fa Wutian and Yi Yan reunited with the Snake-People Tribe, where he introduced her to his powerful allies and declared her his fiancée. Chen Fei gave Yi Yan a Nine-Colored Primal Stone that could help her evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

• The First Elder and the others met Chen Fei, Yao Tianhuo, and Zi Yan, then returned to the Elder Hall and used their Sect-Breaking Pills to attempt breakthroughs.
• Yi Yan learned that the First Elder and the others had gone into seclusion, then met Chen Fei and Yao Tianhuo as Fa Wutian introduced them.
• When Yi Yan hesitated to define her relationship with Fa Wutian, he called her his chosen wife and essentially his fiancée.
• Chen Fei recognized Yi Yan as a member of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python clan and offered her a Nine-Colored Primal Stone.
• Fa Wutian explained the stone's significance, and Yi Yan accepted Chen Fei's gift.

Yi Yan accompanied Fa Wutian to the imperial capital to meet his grandfather, Fama, while Fa Wutian learned that Naran Yanran had broken off her engagement. After Fama accepted Yi Yan as his granddaughter-in-law, Fa Wutian arranged for Yao Tianhuo to capture the emperor of the Chuanyun Empire so he could avenge his parents.

• Yi Yan gave Yao Tianhuo an Earth-Rank Battle Skill before she and Fa Wutian left for the imperial capital.
• Fa Wutian heard that Naran Yanran had broken off her engagement, and Yi Yan dragged him to a market to buy gifts before meeting Fama.
• Fama recognized Yi Yan as Queen Medusa and worried that her marriage to Fa Wutian would provoke resistance from the Jia Ma Empire.
• Fa Wutian revealed his strength and powerful allies, convincing Fama to accept Yi Yan as his granddaughter-in-law.
• Fa Wutian agreed to avenge his parents and sent Yao Tianhuo to bring back the emperor of the Chuanyun Empire.