Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing went to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to investigate its ties to demonic cultivators, then killed three False Core cultivators with one sword when they tried to detain him. The sect’s Golden Core elder emerged atop a fearsome serpent, ready to face Fang Xing.

• Fang Xing decided to gather demonic methods to provoke Wei Shentong into attacking him, then flew toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Purple Iris True Person and Yuan Wei discussed suspicious demonic activity and agreed to act if Fang Xing encountered Demon Cultivators.
• Fang Xing arrived at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and challenged its cultivators to answer for suspected collusion with the demonic path.
• Three False Core cultivators confronted Fang Xing, and he accused them of resisting an investigation when they tried to detain him.
• Fang Xing killed all three False Core cultivators with one strike, shocking Shi Wanwan and the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect disciples.
• A powerful serpent emerged from the sect with its Golden Core elder standing atop its head.

Fang Xing fought Lian Laogui, a Golden Core True Person of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, after killing three of the sect’s False Core cultivators. Lian Laogui’s beasts and artifacts initially put Fang Xing under pressure, but Fang Xing revealed a third-order puppet and broke through the attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Purple Iris True Person and Yuan Wei True Person realized Fang Xing had killed three False Core cultivators with one strike and feared Lian Laogui would turn the fight into a deadly confrontation.
• Lian Laogui recognized Fang Xing’s External Core and deployed his Ten Thousand Beasts Armor, two Demon King soul Talismans, and Black Claw artifact.
• Fang Xing’s sword threads cut through the beast souls but could not pierce Lian Laogui’s armor, while the Black Claw trapped his Rotten Iron Sword and the beast souls attacked with fire and wind.
• A third-order Humanoid Puppet appeared and shielded Fang Xing from the combined attack of the Blazing Sun Bird and Mountain-Sitting Wolf.
• Fang Xing freed his Rotten Iron Sword from the Black Claw’s chains, while the puppet trapped the Blazing Sun Bird in freezing wind and drove the Mountain-Sitting Wolf into retreat.

Fang Xing fought Lian Laogui and exposed the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s ties to demonic forces. He left the battle victorious as Fu Hongyi pursued the Blood River Hall Second Hall Lord.

• Fang Xing broke Lian Laogui’s Black Claw artifact, but the Giant Viper’s poison forced him to recall his sword.
• Lian Laogui fused the Horned Python’s Flood Dragon bloodline with the Giant Viper, creating an Azure Flood Dragon that killed Purple Iris True Person and Yuan Wei True Person.
• Fang Xing used Sword Intent Heavenly Heart to wound the Azure Flood Dragon and attack Lian Laogui, whose Ten Thousand Beasts Armor cracked and whose soul-protecting treasure saved him from the first strike.
• A Mid Core Formation Cultivator from Blood River Hall attacked Fang Xing, but Fang Xing split his Blood River Great Hand Seal and his puppet killed the weakened Giant Viper after the fusion technique failed.
• Fu Hongyi arrived, and the Blood River Hall Second Hall Lord fled; Fu Hongyi drew his sword and struck at him as he disappeared.

Fang Xing helped the Heaven Sword Sect seize the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and turn it into a stronghold for the coming war against the Myriad Forms Demon Sect. After refusing Shi Wanwan’s request to remain his maid, he exchanged his battle merits for a Six Desires Heart Demon Talisman.

• Fu Hongyi killed the Second Hall Lord of Blood River Hall, and Fang Xing handed him intelligence about the Myriad Forms Demon Sect’s infiltration of the Five Sects Ten Kingdoms.
• Fu Hongyi spared the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect cultivators by enslaving them and made the sect their military stronghold.
• Steward Xue brought Shi Wanwan to serve Fang Xing, but Fang Xing offered her freedom and refused to keep his master's killer at his side.
• Fang Xing inventoried the spoils from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s leaders and considered using battle merits to obtain a Heart Demon-triggering treasure.
• Fang Xing saw the rebuilt stronghold’s Quasi-Fourth Order Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin Array and exchanged his battle merits for a Six Desires Heart Demon Talisman.

Fang Xing used the Six Desires Heart Demon Talisman to inflame Wei Shentong’s resentment, driving him to plot an attack after arranging for Jess to block signals near Fang Xing’s home. Wei Shentong broke into Villa 69 to kill Fang Xing, but his strike met an unexpected turn.

• Fang Xing visited Pan Xiong, discussed his coming Golden Core breakthrough, and promised to avenge his teacher as Wei Shentong passed nearby.
• Fang Xing secretly used the Six Desires Heart Demon Talisman on Wei Shentong, intensifying his anger and desire to kill Fang Xing.
• Wei Shentong contacted Jess, invoked a favor owed from Purple Many Star, and asked him to block signals near Fang Xing’s residence and check for powerful weapons.
• Jess agreed to disable communications near Villa 69 for five minutes, and Wei Shentong went there disguised in black clothing.
• Fang Xing sensed Wei Shentong approaching and activated a recording device in his underground training ground.
• Wei Shentong entered the basement and attacked Fang Xing with the Mad Eagle Style, but something unexpected horrified him.

Fang Xing defeated and killed Wei Shentong, whose attempt to pass on the Moon God's Contamination failed against Fang Xing's crimson sun. After reporting the home invasion, Fang Xing declined Xu Sanyang's offer to join the military and chose to pursue graduate studies at Blue Star University.

• Fang Xing revealed Wei Shentong's identity and used his newly condensed Golden Core and martial arts to fight him.
• Wei Shentong unleashed the Great Vajra Wheel and wounded Fang Xing with the No Life Wheel, then tried to transfer his Contamination through an Empowerment.
• Fang Xing's crimson sun burned away the Moon God's Contamination, turning the Empowerment into a source of nourishment, and Fang Xing killed Wei Shentong.
• Fang Xing edited the recording to keep the section that favored him, reported the attempted murder to the Public Security Bureau, and gave his statement.
• Xu Sanyang told Fang Xing that the Federation had abandoned Wei Shentong and offered to guarantee Fang Xing's advancement if he joined the military.
• Fang Xing declined the military path and decided to complete graduate studies at Blue Star University.

After becoming a graduate student under Nie Ying, Fang Xing left Blue Star University and turned his attention to his Immortal Cultivation Clone. At the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, the Heaven Sword Sect prepared to invade the Five Sects Ten Kingdoms, with the Wood Fiend Sect as its main target.

• Fang Xing learned that Nie Ying was his advisor, and Nie Ying offered to introduce him to Research Groups that could provide Fiend Qi Crystals.
• Fang Xing judged the Research Groups’ resources inadequate, then left for his villa aboard his Private Spaceship.
• At the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Fu Hongyi declared that the Heaven Sword Sect would march into the Five Sects Ten Kingdoms and destroy its sects.
• Steward Xue explained that the Heaven Sword Sect planned to attack the Wood Fiend Sect’s fortified territory while launching flanking assaults on the Heaven Waterfall Sect and Five Elements Sect.
• Fu Hongyi announced that he would lead three thousand Golden Sword Dao Soldiers against the Wood Fiend Sect and asked for a volunteer to command an auxiliary force.

Fang Xing led a thousand-strong force toward the Five Elements Sect, hoping to seize its Five Elements Fiend Aperture while preparing for a dangerous battle. He secured the cooperation of Luyi True Person and Wu Xuan, then brought the scattered troops under control as they entered the Five Sects Ten Kingdoms region.

• Fang Xing volunteered to lead the attack on the Five Elements Sect, and Fu Hongyi assigned Luyi True Person to his command.
• Fang Xing set out with 1,027 cultivators aboard five Spirit Ships and left Luyi in charge of the Five Elements Sword Array.
• Luyi briefed Fang Xing on the Five Elements Sect, including its Core Formation cultivators and the Primal Chaos Bowl wielded by Huo Yu True Person.
• Fang Xing promised Luyi a magic treasure for earning Battle Merits and persuaded Wu Xuan to keep the Black Heaven Temple cultivators loyal by offering the prospect of a Core Formation Spiritual Object.
• Fang Xing used the Qingxuan Sect, the Black Heaven Temple, and Heaven Sword Sect disciples to bring the force under control.
• Several days later, Fang Xing's Flying Boats entered the Five Sects Ten Kingdoms region.

Fang Xing’s forces besieged the Five Elements Sect but held back, while the Five Elements Old Ancestor secretly arranged an ambush with Huo Yu True Person and Lei Jingmeng. When the three Core Formation cultivators attacked Fang Xing’s camp, he killed Wu Xuan for trying to surrender and flew out to face them.

• Fang Xing ordered Luyi True Person and five hundred cultivators to test the Five Elements Return to Origin Array while Wu Xuan’s airships bombarded it.
• The Five Elements Old Ancestor secretly returned to the sect and recruited Lei Jingmeng of the Myriad Manifestations Sect to help kill Fang Xing.
• Fang Xing halted the bombardment and threatened military punishment when Luyi True Person and Wu Xuan reported the cultivators’ complaints.
• The Five Elements Old Ancestor, Huo Yu True Person, and Lei Jingmeng attacked the camp and demanded Fang Xing come out.
• Wu Xuan tried to surrender, but Fang Xing killed him with a Sword Light, then flew up to face the three Core Formation cultivators and ordered Luyi to prepare the Dao Soldiers.

Fang Xing fought three Golden Core True Persons while the Five Elements Sect’s forces pressed his allies below. As the battle turned against him, Fang Xing’s true body appeared and killed Huo Yu True Person, leaving the clash with the remaining enemies unresolved.

• Fang Xing attacked Five Elements Old Ancestor, Lei Jingmeng, and Huo Yu True Person, but their defenses stopped his first sword strikes.
• Fang Xing nearly killed Huo Yu True Person by breaking the Primal Chaos Bowl and striking his Sea of Consciousness, but Lei Jingmeng intervened and Huo Yu escaped.
• Lei Jingmeng and Five Elements Old Ancestor trapped Fang Xing in the Five Elements Illusory Array and attacked him together with their lightning and magic treasures.
• Fang Xing countered their attacks with Five Elements Sword Art and damaged Lei Jingmeng’s Purple Lightning Cone, but he struggled to overcome the three Core Formation Cultivators before his forces below were defeated.
• Fang Xing’s true body appeared inside the array, used Martial Will and a Divine Sense attack to stun Huo Yu True Person, then split him in two with the Ghost Head Blade.

Fang Xing killed the Five Elements Old Ancestor and Lei Jingmeng, allowing the Heaven Sword Sect to defeat and occupy the Five Elements Sect. After inspecting the spoils, he found the sect’s Core Formation resources had been moved elsewhere and was dissatisfied with the small stock of Five Elements Fiend Qi in its Treasure Vault.

• Fang Xing used his Ten Thousand Beasts Armor to withstand the Five Elements Old Ancestor’s attacks, then broke through his defenses and killed him with a strike to the forehead.
• Fang Xing and his Immortal Cultivation Clone pursued Lei Jingmeng, blocked his Yin Thunder Needles, and killed him after Fang Xing shattered his Golden Core True Essence.
• Fang Xing’s forces killed the fleeing False Core cultivators, and the Five Elements Sect Leader surrendered with the Qi Training Disciples.
• Fang Xing ordered his disciples to secure Five Finger Peak and its key locations before entering, while Luyi True Person reported on the sect’s resources and prisoners.
• Fang Xing learned that the Five Elements Sect’s Core Formation seeds had escaped with its accumulated Core Formation resources, then entered the Treasure Vault with the Five Elements Sect Leader.
• Fang Xing found twenty-seven Fiend Qi Crystals in the vault and frowned when the Five Elements Sect Leader explained that the sect had accumulated only a few strands of Five Elements Fiend Qi over several years.

Fang Xing looted the Five Elements Sect and planned to use its resources to condense his fiend apertures, while Fu Hongyi’s forces stalled before the Wood Fiend Sect’s defenses. The enemy planned to delay the Heaven Sword Sect for four years until something in the Ten Thousand Arts Secret Realm ripened.

• Fang Xing took Nether Qi Crystals from the Five Elements Sect’s vault, ordered Foundation Establishment Pills distributed, and examined the Five Elements Fiend Aperture.
• Fang Xing searched the looted Storage Bags, found a Qi Returning Pill and refined Five Elements True Fiend, and calculated that he could soon gather enough fiend qi to condense the Seventy-Two Fiend Apertures.
• Fu Hongyi failed to break through the Wood Fiend Sect’s Quasi-Fourth-Grade Array and withdrew after learning from a Flying Sword Letter that Fang Xing’s campaign was proceeding well.
• The Wood Fiend Sect Grand Elder and the Blood River Hall Great Hall Master welcomed Master Long, the Myriad Manifestations Sect’s Quasi-Fourth-Order Array Master.
• A woman ordered Master Long to delay the Heaven Sword Sect for four years, explaining that something in the Ten Thousand Arts Secret Realm would then be ripe.

After more than two years of cultivation, Fang Xing condensed all seventy-two Fiend Apertures and considered how to obtain Skyforce Qi while guarding Five Finger Peak. Meanwhile, Han Qingyun defeated a group of Blood River Hall pursuers and was invited onto Uncle Zhang’s flying boat, where Zhang revealed a scheme involving Battle Merits and his nephew’s Foundation Establishment.

• Fang Xing completed the condensation of seventy-two Fiend Apertures, while his Immortal Cultivation Clone reached Mid Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Xing reviewed battlefield reports, decided to keep accumulating Battle Merits for Skyforce Qi, and received a message from a jade talisman.
• Han Qingyun used concealed talismans and a Talisman Array to kill pursuing Blood River Hall disciples and took an Inner Sect Disciple Command Token for Battle Merits.
• Uncle Zhang arrived with Law Enforcement Cultivators, invited Han Qingyun onto his Flying Boat, and said he worried about his nephew needing five thousand more Battle Merits to apply for Foundation Establishment.

Han Qingyun tried to protect himself from Uncle Zhang’s pressure by seeking enough Battle Merits to apply for Foundation Establishment, while Fang Xing ordered Luyi True Person to purge corruption in Reward Good Punish Evil Hall. Luyi punished the Qingxuan Sect officials, gave Han a Foundation Establishment Pill and a path to office, leaving him uneasy about becoming part of the system he had once resisted.

• Uncle Zhang offered Han Qingyun three Spirit Stones per Battle Merit and threatened him indirectly, but Han refused and cited his debt to Uncle Su.
• Han Qingyun learned Uncle Su had already exchanged her merits for a pill, then asked Meng Zijing to lend him merits so he could reach ten thousand and apply for Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Xing confronted Luyi True Person over Qingxuan Sect’s abuses in Reward Good Punish Evil Hall, ordered her to purge its officials, and forbade retaliation against Han Qingyun.
• Luyi True Person publicly killed several corrupt Foundation Establishment Cultivators and replaced them with outsiders, while Han Qingyun watched anxiously.
• Luyi True Person granted Han Qingyun a Foundation Establishment Pill and offered him a Third-Grade Cave Mansion and a treasury post if he succeeded, prompting Han to reflect bitterly on becoming an evil dragon himself.

Fang Xing entered a new world through the Gate of Heavens and found a village dominated by Evil God Contamination and the Sadu Sect. After defeating the village enforcer and the Sadu Witch, he discovered that the witch’s guardian spirit could reform after being struck and began searching the witch’s soul for answers.

• Fang Xing used his Immortal Cultivation Clone to check the newly opened world, then entered it himself and found a man impaled on a black Ancient Tree.
• Fang Xing followed tracks to a poor village where the people showed partial vassalization, and he learned from their memories about the village and its customs.
• A village enforcer demanded a Blood Tax for Lord Baiye, so Fang Xing broke his dagger, wounded him, and learned that the Sadu Witch had taken over the church after killing its Divine Servant.
• Fang Xing confronted the Sadu Witch in the church and used his Martial Will to dispel the witch’s curses and knock him unconscious.
• The guardian spirit re-formed after Fang Xing struck it, fed on the witch’s offering, and returned to the witch’s back, so Fang Xing began using the God Extinguishing Soul Search Art on the witch.

Fang Xing learned about the Sadu Sect’s spirit-based witchcraft and discovered that the witch’s Back Spirit could be destroyed by his Great Sun Relic, which grew stronger by consuming it. After accepting Lord Baiye’s hospitality, Fang Xing heard about a dangerous Deer Head Spirit and the witch’s master, Menbasar, then received a late-night visitor.

• Fang Xing learned that the Sadu Sect worshiped spirits and that the witch’s Back Spirit had survived its host’s death.
• Fang Xing used his Great Sun Relic to consume and destroy the Back Spirit, increasing his Great Sun Tathagata Mantra’s proficiency.
• Lord Baiye offered Fang Xing bread and honey as a guest pact, then invited him to stay at his residence.
• At dinner, Fang Xing asked Lord Baiye about the Deer Head Spirit and Menbasar, but Baiye said the villagers had never heard of Menbasar.
• Fang Xing meditated in the guest room, and someone knocked on his door in the middle of the night.

Fang Xing rejected Maya’s advances, then followed Lord Baiye after discovering Bai had taken his hair to the Great Shaman Menbasar. Menbasar’s curse backfired, turning Bai into a Voodoo Corpse and sending him after Fang Xing.

• Maya offered herself to Fang Xing, but he refused her.
• Maya reported her failure to Lord Baiye, who ordered her to search Fang Xing’s bedroom for hair.
• Fang Xing used his Spiritual Force to see Maya take his hair to Bai, then left the household and followed him.
• Bai brought the hair to Menbasar, who prepared a voodoo curse against Fang Xing.
• The curse caused Bai to vomit blood, and Menbasar realized the hair had been swapped.
• Menbasar transformed Bai into a Voodoo Corpse, which vanished into the darkness to find its enemy.

Menbasar summoned the Deer Head Spirit to hunt his enemies, while Fang Xing encountered Wall and Sophia on the road. After Wall destroyed Bai’s Voodoo Corpse, the Deer Head Spirit appeared, and Wall chose to face it so the others could escape.

• Menbasar replaced the altar’s pig’s head with a deer head and summoned the Deer Head Spirit to kill his enemies.
• Fang Xing noticed that the spiritual imprint he had placed on Bai had vanished and decided to investigate.
• Fang Xing came upon Wall rescuing Sophia from bandits, then asked Wall to teach him knightly techniques, but Wall refused.
• A Voodoo Corpse resembling Bai emerged from the darkness, and Wall cut it in half with his Radiant Cross Slash.
• The Deer Head Spirit appeared and pierced Sophia’s matron with its antlers, so Wall applied Holy Oil to his Cross Sword and charged to hold it off.

Fang Xing and Wall faced the Deer Head Spirit on the road, and Fang Xing traced its connection to Menbasar and killed the Great Shaman. The spirit inside Menbasar escaped its restraints and began killing people in the manor.

• Wall drove the Deer Head Spirit back with a blood-red Cross Sword strike, then invited Fang Xing to ride with him and Sophia toward Dunken City.
• Fang Xing questioned Wall and Sophia about the Radiant Church, its god, and the Sadu Sect as the carriage passed the bodies of the bandits.
• Menbasar ordered the gatekeeper to prepare sacrifices and performed a ritual to strengthen his control over the Deer Head Spirit.
• Fang Xing dispelled the mist around the Deer Head Spirit and used its connection to reach Menbasar, killing him with a strike of Martial Will.
• Menbasar seized the gatekeeper's body, but Fang Xing's attack killed him again; afterward, an unrestrained spirit emerged and began killing indiscriminately in the manor.

Fang Xing learned that the Saint Longinus Breathing Method drew on Evil God Contamination and used power from the Great Sun Relic to cultivate it safely. He left the chapter having advanced from Glimmer to First Light by burning the captured Deer Head Spirit as fuel.

• Fang Xing captured the Deer Head Spirit in the Great Sun Relic, and Wall and Sophia agreed to travel directly to Golden City.
• Wall taught Fang Xing the Saint Longinus Breathing Method and explained its four stages and his own path to the First Light realm.
• Fang Xing realized that the Breathing Method required Evil God Contamination, then used a trace from the Great Sun Relic to form a Battle Qi Seed and enter the method.
• Fang Xing's Cross Breathing Method became a subordinate entry under the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra, shocking Wall when Fang Xing quickly manifested Battle Qi.
• At the campsite, Fang Xing burned the Deer Head Spirit for fuel, raised the Cross Breathing Method to Proficient, and broke through to First Light.