Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing advanced the Cross Breathing Method and concluded that the world’s transcendent paths were tied to the Pale Mother and Evil God contamination, while resolving to pursue the method on his own terms. After reaching Golden City with Sophia, he learned of the sealed Dragon Spirit beneath the nearby mountains, and the Tulip Duke’s Seer prophesied that a dragon would threaten the city but that its destined solver had arrived.

• Fang Xing reached the Proficient rank of the Cross Breathing Method, saw a vision of the Pale Mother’s corpse and Saint Longinus feeding on it, and suffered backlash.
• Fang Xing reasoned that transcendent paths drew power from the Pale Mother and decided the Cross Breathing Method’s true Blazing Sun realm might let him create a new source under his own control.
• Wall brought Fang Xing and Sophia to Golden City, where he explained that a Greater Spirit called the Dragon Spirit was sealed beneath the Gelong Mountain Range and foretold to burn the city.
• Sophia described the Church’s witch burnings and gladiatorial games as sacrifices, while Wall explained that such rituals were used to seal evil spirits.
• The Tulip Duke learned that Sinbad had won his eighth Arena championship after killing twenty-seven opponents and said he wanted to prevent his duchy from descending into chaos.
• The Tulip Duke’s Seer prophesied that dragon wings would shroud Golden City, but that the person who could resolve the Dragon Spirit had already arrived.

After returning from the other world, Fang Xing joined a research project arranged by Nie Ying and learned that the Federation planned an interstellar martial arts competition with valuable rewards. He considered entering anonymously, while imagining how far Blue Star’s virtual technology might advance.

• Wall left Sophia at the Duke's Mansion, then drank with Fang Xing and explained how Church knights used spirits sealed in weapons to fight other spirits.
• Fang Xing returned to Blue Star, entered the Virtual Cabin, and contacted Nie Ying after Xiao Lan flagged his mentor’s message.
• Nie Ying directed Fang Xing to join Gu Duan’s Research Group, which was simplifying the peerless Tathagata Palm for martial artists of lower realms.
• Fang Xing contacted Gu Duan, who told him to come to the Research Group and earn rewards by completing assigned tasks.
• Fang Xing read that a Federation interstellar martial arts competition would offer Nether Qi Crystals, Sky-Aligned Stones, and other rewards, and considered competing anonymously.

Fang Xing registered for the First Interstellar Martial Arts Competition, reflected on the strength of Extraterrestrial Evil Gods, and returned to the Evil God World focused on uncovering the Radiant Church’s secrets. He told Wall to call him Starr and rejected joining the Church when he learned its forbidden scriptures would remain out of reach.

• Fang Xing reviewed the competition rules, registered from home, and considered how Federation combat ranks compared with the strengths of Extraterrestrial Evil Gods.
• Fang Xing recalled the threat posed by powerful Evil Gods and the possible existence of Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Realm beings, information he knew was likely true from the Gate School Master's memories.
• Fang Xing returned to the Evil God World and decided that investigating the Radiant Church and its research on the Pale Mother was his main priority.
• Wall emerged after spending the night with a dancer, and Fang Xing told him to call him Starr.
• Wall offered to introduce Starr to a Regional Bishop and recruit him into the Radiant Church, but Starr lost interest when Wall said the Church's forbidden scriptures were guarded and inaccessible.

The Tulip Duke made the Candidate Saintesses compete to appease or seal the Greater Spirit beneath the Gelong Mountain Range, forcing Fang Xing and Wall to consider helping Sophia. Meanwhile, Elder Priscilla’s inability to control the Cat-Eating Spirit unleashed a deadly mist over Golden City as the Sadu Sect began its plan to sacrifice the city and target Fang Xing.

• At the Saintess selection ceremony, Bishop Bermers blessed the Candidate Saintesses, and the Tulip Duke announced that the winner would appease or seal the Dragon Spirit beneath the Gelong Mountain Range.
• Fang Xing proposed joining forces with Sophia for intelligence and support, while Wall refused to abandon the city; Sophia looked to them for help.
• A merchant caravan entered Golden City carrying Elder Priscilla, who ordered the Sadu Sect to bring plague and death to the city in service of the Great Master.
• Priscilla lost control of the Cat-Eating Spirit after consuming his offerings, and a bluish-black mist filled Golden City as Shadows spread through its streets.
• A Sadu Sect wizard on the Gelong Mountain Range revealed that Priscilla had become a tool for transporting the Greater Spirit and that the city was being sacrificed to target Fang Xing.

A Greater Spirit's Black Death Plague trapped the Golden City, and Fang Xing joined Wall and Bermers in seeking to awaken the dragon as a countermeasure. They forced their way into the Tulip Duke's treasury to obtain the inherited information needed to do so.

• Cyan-black mist spread over the Golden City, trapping the residents as the Black Death Plague and Red-Eyed Black-Furred Rats killed people across the city.
• Bermers used Radiance Descends to shield the square, while Wall and Bermers identified the attacker as a Greater Spirit associated with the God of Eating Cats.
• Wall proposed awakening the dragon in the Gelong Mountain Range, and Fang Xing realized the attack might be aimed at the Golden City and the Radiance Church as well as himself.
• Fang Xing transported Sophia, Wall, and Bermers to the Duke's Mansion, where he defeated the guards and located the Tulip Duke.
• Fang Xing demanded the Duke's dragon-related records, and Bermers explained that awakening the dragon could pit two Greater Spirits against each other.
• The Tulip Duke agreed to help them, saying the city's people were his subjects.

Fang Xing awakened the Dragon Spirit, which burned away the deadly mist and rat tide in Golden City before confronting the Greater Spirit behind them. After finding and killing the Sadu Witch, Fang Xing learned the Great Master could project power into the mortal world and questioned why the Radiant Church’s Saints had not done the same; the dragon was still fighting the rat spirit.

• Abel explained that his new prophecy foretold the crisis would be resolved, while Grand Duke Tulip revealed that a dragon bone fragment held the key to the sealed Dragon Spirit.
• Bishop Bermers sensed the sleeping Dragon Spirit beneath the Gelong Mountain Range but could not awaken it, so Fang Xing took the bone fragment and used the Great Sun Relic to stir the spirit.
• The Dragon Spirit awakened as a crimson dragon, swept away the Cyan-Black Mist Spirit Domain, and used its flames to cure the afflicted while burning the mist and rats.
• A rat-faced Greater Spirit transformed into a Bone Monster and trapped the dragon, while the Sadu Witch prepared a ritual to summon the Great Master’s power against Golden City.
• Fang Xing found the Sadu Witch, killed two Sadu Acolytes, and used God-Slaying Soul Search to learn the cult’s plans and that an Origin Spirit could project power into the mortal world.
• Fang Xing wondered why the Radiant Church’s Saints had not projected their power, then turned his attention back to defeating the rat spirit.

Fang Xing defeated the God of Eating Cats' Greater Spirit, sealed the Red Dragon Spirit inside Wall, and helped Sophia become the Saintess. He planned to travel with her to the Holy Mountain to investigate the Creation Stone Tablet, then returned to Blue Star and entered the Interstellar Martial Arts Competition.

• Fang Xing suppressed the God of Eating Cats' Greater Spirit, resisted a vision sent by the Great Master of the Sadu Sect, and learned secrets about the Radiant Lord and the Creation Stone Tablet.
• Fang Xing sealed the Red Dragon Spirit inside Wall, who gained the power to wield its strength.
• The Tulip Duke named Sophia of the Soren Family the rightful Saintess, and Fang Xing asked to accompany her to the Holy Mountain.
• Fang Xing returned to Blue Star, sent Gu Duan his Tathagata Palm research, and entered the Virtual Cabin for his first Interstellar Martial Arts Competition match.

Fang Xing won a virtual tournament match and used the break before his next bout to temper his martial arts. Meanwhile, Myriad Laws Forefather emerged from the Ten Thousand Arts Secret Realm but was trapped and defeated by the Wind Division Master, who refined his remains into a Ghost Infant.

• Fang Xing defeated a young martial artist in the Virtual Space and received one Point.
• Fang Xing learned that his next match was three days away and planned to practice during the break.
• Myriad Laws Forefather emerged from the Ten Thousand Arts Secret Realm in Old Taoist Wu's body and revealed his altered half-human, half-ghost state.
• The Wind Division Master attacked Myriad Laws Forefather with a Blood Contract and triggered the Curse Ghost hidden in the Soul Union Inkstone.
• Myriad Laws Forefather broke through the Core Formation peak during the fight, but the Wind Division Master trapped him in a formation and destroyed his body with Purple Heavenly Thunder.
• The Wind Division Master captured Myriad Laws Forefather's Divine Soul and refined it into a Ghost Infant to gain False Infant combat power.

Fang Xing learned that a Myriad Forms Demon Sect surprise attack had cut off the Heaven Sword Sect army’s retreat, so he ordered his scattered forces to break out separately. After the cultivators fled and the demonic army arrived, Fang Xing killed the Blood River Hall Third Hall Master and escaped into the sky.

• Han Qingyun reported that the former Five Elements Sect territory had been subdued, and Fang Xing questioned why the enemy had defended the Wood Fiend Sect so stubbornly.
• A Flying Sword Letter revealed that a Myriad Forms Demon Sect force had breached the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s main camp, cutting off the Heaven Sword Sect’s retreat.
• Fang Xing told the Foundation Establishment Cultivators that they faced encirclement and ordered them to break out separately.
• Fang Xing watched Luyi True Person and the other cultivators abandon Five Finger Peak and scatter as the demonic army approached.
• The Blood River Hall Third Hall Master killed Rogue Cultivators who offered to surrender, and Fang Xing ambushed and killed him before fleeing with his Storage Bag.

Fang Xing learned that a False Infant cultivator had helped the demonic forces rout Heaven Sword Sect’s armies, and agreed to join a seven-person sword formation against the threat. Meanwhile, Fu Hongyi remained trapped at Wood Fiend Sect to protect Heaven Sword Sect’s forces as the Blood River Hall Great Hall Master warned him that his delay would bring death.

• Fang Xing met Uncle Feng and learned that a False Infant cultivator had led the demonic assault while Myriad Manifestations Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivator kept Chu Kuangtu occupied.
• Elder Zhang explained that outside help from the righteous path was unlikely, so Uncle Feng planned to gather seven Core Formation-level fighters for the True Martial Seven Stars Sword Formation.
• Uncle Feng offered Fang Xing a Core Forming Pill for joining the fight, and Fang Xing agreed to take part.
• Fang Xing studied the sword formation beside the spirit spring while the other cultivators admired his composure.
• At Wood Fiend Sect, Fu Hongyi fought the Grand Elder of Wood Fiend Sect and destroyed the Divine Wood Fiend Dragon Puppet, but a blood shield blocked his strike.
• The Blood River Hall Great Hall Master confronted Fu Hongyi and warned that staying to protect Heaven Sword Sect’s forces would bring him a death-bringing specter.

Fu Hongyi’s Heaven Sword Sect camp was overwhelmed by the Wind Division Master, a False Infant cultivator, who broke its Golden Platform Array and pursued him after he escaped. The Wind Division Master loosed an arrow at the fleeing Fu Hongyi, but a sudden mutation interrupted the attack.

• Fu Hongyi received a Flying Sword Letter and was heartened by its message as he retreated into the Heaven Sword Sect camp.
• The Wind Division Master arrived at the Wood Fiend Sect and ordered the forces to attack the Heaven Sword Sect camp, claiming she could break its Golden Platform Array.
• Fu Hongyi and the Golden Sword Dao Soldiers used the array to counter the Wind Division Master’s attacks, but her artifacts eventually shattered the formation.
• The Heaven Sword Sect cultivators fled, while Fu Hongyi fought the Wind Division Master with a final sword strike before escaping with a fourth-tier Escape Talisman.
• The Wind Division Master pursued Fu Hongyi with Wind Escape and prepared to shoot him with an azure bow, but a sudden mutation occurred as she released the arrow.

Fang Xing and the Heaven Sword Sect cultivators ambushed the Wind Division Master with the True Martial Seven Stars Sword Formation, but her Spiritual Treasure let her survive and counterattack. She pursued Fang Xing, who revealed his Great Sun Tathagata Palm and brought a vast golden palm down on her.

• Uncle Feng and six Core Formation Sword Cultivators joined Fu Hongyi and Fang Xing to trap the Wind Division Master in the True Martial Seven Stars Sword Formation.
• The Wind Division Master used a Fourth-Order Restriction Breaking Talisman to shake the formation, but Uncle Feng stabilized it with a small white sword and fourth-order Sword Intent.
• The seven Sword Cultivators struck the Wind Division Master with their converged sword, but she survived behind the Azure Yang Demon Lamp and its Spiritual Treasure protection.
• Fu Hongyi escaped with a Fourth-Grade Escape Talisman as the Wind Division Master killed two fleeing Core Formation Sword Cultivators with Azure Yang Demonic Fire and pursued Fang Xing.
• Fang Xing stopped and summoned Fang Yun with a Void Attribute Talisman, then unleashed the Great Sun Tathagata Palm as the Wind Division Master begged him to spare her life.

Fang Xing killed the Wind Division Master with the Great Sun Tathagata Palm, then captured the blue-black False Infant that emerged from his body. He left with the Azure Yang Demon Lamp and the sealed infant, resolving to focus his Immortal Cultivation Clone on forming a Sword Core.

• Fang Xing replenished his Great Sun Divinity from the Baxia Crystal and waited for the Wind Division Master to emerge from the crater.
• A blue-black Ghost Infant resembling Myriad Laws Forefather appeared beside the damaged Azure Yang Demon Lamp and tried to teleport away.
• Fang Xing used the sixth form of the Great Sun Tathagata Palm, World in Palm, to seal and capture the injured Ghost Infant.
• Fang Xing sealed the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant in a Jade Box, while his Immortal Cultivation Clone recovered the Azure Yang Demon Lamp and found the Wind Division Master's body and Storage Bag destroyed.
• Fang Xing assessed how martial arts realms compared with Cultivation World ranks and decided his Immortal Cultivation Clone should cultivate toward a Sword Core.
• The Blood River Hall Great Hall Master and the Wood Fiend Sect's Grand Elder arrived at the crater and were horrified by its size.

Fang Xing returned to the Heaven Sword Sect after the Wind Division Master’s death, keeping his role in the battle secret. Sect Leader Kong rewarded him with a Core Forming Pill and access to the Sect Secret Vault as the war neared its end.

• Fang Xing killed the Flower Plucking Hermit when he found the False Core cultivator threatening Shi Wanwan, then left before she could offer to repay him.
• Fang Xing traveled through Qi Kingdom and returned to Swordpeak Mountain, where he found that Fu Hongyi and Uncle Feng had also made it back safely.
• Fang Xing told Sect Leader Kong that a mysterious Nascent Soul cultivator had intervened and that he had escaped after the sword formation broke, concealing his role in killing the Wind Division Master.
• Sect Leader Kong confirmed that the Myriad Manifestations Sect’s False Infant was dead and said the Heaven Sword Sect could not continue the war after its losses.
• Sect Leader Kong gave Fang Xing a token to choose three treasures from the Sect Secret Vault and granted him a Core Forming Pill, which Fang Xing accepted before heading to the vault.

Fang Xing used rare resources to advance his cultivation in both the Cultivation World and on Blue Star, while the Heaven Sword Sect and Myriad Manifestations Sect agreed to avoid major battles after a mysterious powerful cultivator intervened. On Blue Star, he began forming the twelve Qi Meridians needed for Golden Core perfection and considered when to break through to the Vajra Realm.

• Fang Xing spent his Battle Merits and exchange opportunities on Qian Heaven Clear Dipper, mana-enhancing pills, and Thousand Year Stone Marrow, then used the stone marrow and a Supreme-Grade Pill to cultivate and condense another drop of liquid mana.
• Fang Xing decided that he would need to seek more Thousand Year Stone Marrow in the Da Jing Cultivation World after using up his current supply.
• Chu Kuangtu told Kong Fengge that the righteous and demonic sects would avoid major battles while privately dividing territory, because a mysterious cultivator had destroyed the body and soul of a Myriad Manifestations Sect cultivator.
• Kong Fengge asked Chu Kuangtu to consider Fang Xing as a disciple, but Chu Kuangtu said he would assess him after he formed a core.
• Fang Xing's true body on Blue Star swallowed Qian Heaven Clear Dipper and began carving twelve Qi Meridians through his Seventy-Two Fiend Apertures, reaching six linked Sha Points in his arm.
• Fang Xing concluded that fully refining the twelve Qi Meridians would bring him to Golden Core perfection, and he considered whether to delay entering the Vajra Realm because Vajra cultivators could no longer compete.

Fang Xing defeated Zhan Liehu in a virtual tournament, reviewed his cultivation, and prepared to enter seclusion before his next match. In the Evil God World, Sophia reached the Holy Mountain as Wall stayed behind, while Fang Xing secretly marked her and she was brought to the Primordial Church for her first night as Saintess.

• Fang Xing defeated Zhan Liehu with his newly devised Sky Covering Hand and Five Finger Mountain, then refused to reveal his identity.
• Fang Xing reviewed his completed Golden Core and cultivation progress, noted his next match was thirteen days away, and decided to cultivate in seclusion.
• Sophia arrived near the Holy Mountain with Wall, but Andrew recognized Wall as an exile and escorted Sophia onward without him.
• Fang Xing rejoined Wall and asked how to meet the Black-Robed Archbishop, while secretly placing a Spiritual Force mark on Sophia.
• Andrew led Sophia through the Holy Mountain and told her she had to spend her first night in the Primordial Church.

Sophia discovered that the Radiant Church’s Saints were monsters who fed on Saintesses, while Wall fought his way up Holy Mountain and Fang Xing entered the sealed depths of the Forbidden Book Library. Fang Xing reached the Creation Stone Tablet as the Church’s forces gathered against Wall.

• Sophia entered the underground church beneath the Primordial Church and found torture devices, monstrous Saints, and the bloodstained robes of other Saintesses.
• Wall returned to Holy Mountain despite the Cardinals’ orders and defeated Andrew and a squad of Holy Knights.
• Wall’s Dragon Spirit unleashed Dragon Cough on the Church’s forces until the Radiance from the summit suppressed it, and Wall declared his intent to uphold his knightly path.
• Fang Xing sensed the turmoil below and struck down the Forbidden Book Area’s Cardinal Archbishop with Five Finger Mountain.
• Fang Xing entered the sealed depths of the Forbidden Book Area and found a gray-white stone stele marked with bloodstained forbidden writing.

Fang Xing discovered God Blood and information about the Dominators in the Primordial Church, then destroyed its forces with a powerful palm strike before returning to Blue Star. After relaxing on Entertainment Planet, he entered a holographic match against a Sixth Realm ability user and began testing his opponent’s powers.

• Fang Xing identified the bloodstains on the Creation Stone Tablet as likely God Blood, learned that the Dominators might originate from a Creator associated with dreams, and took the tablet and forbidden books.
• Fang Xing rescued Sophia and confronted Pope Henry III, whose Church Origin Spirits and severed black finger unleashed powerful Contamination.
• Fang Xing used Great Sun Illumination to annihilate the Church forces on the Holy Mountain, while Wall escaped with Sophia and later recognized Fang Xing’s attack as the Sun God’s favor.
• Fang Xing returned to Blue Star with the Creation Stone Tablet and forbidden books, then visited Entertainment Planet to relax.
• Fang Xing entered a holographic match against Storm, a Sixth Realm storm-type ability user, and used his Golden Core Domain and Five Finger Mountain to counter the opponent’s lightning and energization.

Fang Xing broke through to Late Foundation Establishment and decided to leave Heaven Sword Sect for the Da Jing Cultivation World to seek resources and sell demonic spoils. He headed east toward Nine Infants Sect territory, preparing to disguise himself as a Demon Cultivator.

• Xu Sanyang's younger sister complained that an anonymous opponent had slapped her in a virtual battle, while Xu Sanyang refused to investigate and ended the call.
• Fang Xing consumed the Thousand Year Stone Marrow and Supreme-Grade Pills to break through to Late Foundation Establishment, then concealed his aura as Mid Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Xing learned that Steward Xue and Steward Huang had died in battle and asked Zhao Yingying about routes and caravans to Dajing.
• Zhao Yingying told Fang Xing that the trade route through Nine Infants Sect territory had been cut off during the war and mentioned small caravans that bypassed it.
• Fang Xing obtained maps and intelligence, left Heaven Sword Sect, and traveled east toward Nine Infants Sect territory to sell his demonic spoils and seek spiritual resources.
• Fang Xing took out the Blood Cloud Pouch near the Qi Kingdom border and considered how to disguise his aura as a Demon Cultivator.

Fang Xing traveled to Mo Yun Immortal City to trade demonic materials for Spirit Stones and seek high-level cultivation resources. At Stone Taoist’s Secret Shop, he offered a Yin Date and Blood Essence in exchange for Thousand Year Stone Marrow and Vajra Fruit, and Stone Taoist produced the goods.

• Fang Xing arrived at Mo Yun Immortal City, hired Mo Yue as his guide, and learned about the city’s rules and upcoming Auction.
• Fang Xing sold low-level demonic materials at several major shops and collected a mountain of Spirit Stones.
• Fang Xing asked Mo Yue to take him to Stone Taoist’s Secret Shop, where he sought Thousand Year Stone Marrow and Third-Grade body refinement items.
• Stone Taoist offered a dozen drops of Thousand Year Stone Marrow and said he had Vajra Fruit, but required a special trade instead of Spirit Stones.
• Fang Xing presented a high-quality Yin Date and Blood Essence that matched Stone Taoist’s request, and Stone Taoist brought out a Jade Casket and Jade Bottle for the exchange.