Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing completed his Dragon Elephant Vajra Indestructible Divine Power and tested it against a mecha in the virtual battlefield before attending Stone Taoist’s exchange gathering to seek Thousand Year Stone Marrow. He acquired enough to advance toward Peak Foundation Establishment, but Woman Nie demanded Righteous Qi Child’s head in exchange for her treasures, drawing Fang Xing’s attention to the Orthodox Path Five Sons.

• Fang Xing traded with Stone Taoist for a Vajra Fruit and Thousand Year Stone Marrow, then accepted an invitation to a private exchange gathering.
• Fang Xing ate the Vajra Fruit, raised his Dragon Elephant Vajra Indestructible Divine Power to Grandmaster Perfection, and defeated a mecha pilot in the virtual battlefield.
• Seven days later, Fang Xing attended Stone Taoist’s gathering, where cultivators offered rare materials and treasures for trade.
• Fang Xing exchanged magic artifacts and Spirit Stones for small amounts of Thousand Year Stone Marrow until Woman Nie offered him a larger supply.
• Woman Nie said she would give her treasures and marry whoever brought her Righteous Qi Child’s head; Fang Xing recognized him as one of the Orthodox Path Five Sons and recalled that Fu Hongyi was another.

Fang Xing declined Woman Nie’s offer to help kill Righteous Qi Child and left Mo Yun Immortal City to gather cultivation materials elsewhere. Stone Taoist, Woman Nie, and Wood Taoist pursued him to rob him, but Fang Xing revealed his strength and killed them as the encounter unfolded.

• Fang Xing rejected Woman Nie’s proposal to join an attack on Righteous Qi Child, then left the trading meeting to seek Thousand Year Stone Marrow in another city.
• After the meeting, Woman Nie and Wood Taoist saw through Stone Taoist’s disguise and exposed Fang Xing as a righteous Foundation Establishment cultivator; the three decided to rob him.
• Fang Xing left Mo Yun Immortal City on his Blood Cloud Pouch, expecting pursuers, and was followed by Stone Taoist, Woman Nie, and Wood Taoist.
• Fang Xing’s Rotten Iron Sword pierced Wood Taoist’s defenses and beheaded him with one strike.
• Woman Nie began preparing a formation, but a young man who appeared beside Fang Xing pinned and killed her with five-elements qi.
• Stone Taoist asked Fang Xing for mercy after seeing his companions killed.

Fang Xing and Stone Taoist fought while the Immortal Cultivation Clone dismantled the Golden Armor Corpse, but Stone Taoist unleashed a second transformation of his battle array. The chapter ended as an Ancient Fossil Demon Beast’s Divine Sense charged into Fang Xing’s Sea of Consciousness.

• Fang Xing battled Stone Taoist after killing Woman Nie, while the Immortal Cultivation Clone faced Stone Taoist’s Golden Armor Corpse.
• Stone Taoist used his Mind Guarding Seal to withstand Fang Xing’s Divine Sense attack, then traded punches with Fang Xing and was driven back.
• Stone Taoist summoned stone Demon Beasts and formed a battle array that fired a petrifying beam, but Fang Xing dodged and destroyed several beasts.
• The Immortal Cultivation Clone discovered the Golden Armor Corpse’s armor was the key to its strength, dismantled it, and beheaded the Refined Corpse.
• Stone Taoist transformed the damaged battle array into a sacrificial formation and summoned an Ancient Fossil Demon Beast’s Divine Sense, which charged into Fang Xing’s Sea of Consciousness.

Fang Xing burned away the Stone Lan Demon Beast’s projection, killed Stone Taoist, and escaped with the spoils. The Nine Infants Sect discovered the loss and ordered an investigation, while Fang Xing examined his loot and considered making a refined corpse.

• Fang Xing’s Great Sun Tathagata Mantra destroyed the Stone Lan Demon Beast’s projection in his Sea of Consciousness, triggering backlash that cracked Stone Taoist’s Stone Bowl.
• Fang Xing crushed the Stone Bowl, and the returned Stone Demon Beasts and human-headed bats overwhelmed Stone Taoist before Fang Xing retrieved his Stone Seal and Storage Bag.
• The Nine Infants Sect’s Stone Lan Tablet shattered, and the Green-Robed Ancestor learned that Shi Qi had died and the sect had lost the demon beast’s favor.
• The Green-Robed Ancestor ordered an investigation and sent Huo Moqing to Mo Yun Immortal City, prompting the sect’s Core Formation factions to maneuver around the offer of entry to the Nine Infants Blood Pool.
• Fang Xing fled tens of thousands of li, inspected Wood Taoist’s, Woman Nie’s, and Stone Taoist’s Storage Bags, and gave the Immortal Cultivation Clone the Mind Guard Seal.
• Fang Xing found Stone Taoist’s methods for refining corpses and considered using a demon corpse with the Dead Man’s Armor.

Fang Xing studied corpse-refinement techniques, crossed the battlefield into Qingzhou, and searched for a secluded place to cultivate. After learning that his White Jade Token granted entry to the Jade Forest Secret Realm, he ignored the opportunity and chose Three Serpent Mountain as a place to pursue Peak Foundation Establishment and Sword Core formation.

• Fang Xing read the Corpse Refinement Secret Canon and considered several refined corpses, but found their materials and cultivation requirements impractical.
• Fang Xing decided to seek secluded cultivation in righteous territory and secretly crossed the Return to Ruins Mountain battlefield into Qingzhou.
• Fang Xing bought books about spiritual objects and strange tales at a marketplace, then learned that Three Serpent Mountain had a Third-Grade Spirit Vein and rentable cave dwellings.
• Fang Xing identified the White Jade Token as an entry token for the Jade Forest Secret Realm, which would open after more than four hundred years, and put it away.
• Fang Xing learned of the Yun Clan's decline and chose Three Serpent Mountain, where he planned to cultivate toward Peak Foundation Establishment and form his Sword Core.

Fang Xing rented a cave mansion on Serpent Tail Peak and began cultivating with abundant resources while the Yun Clan elders worried over the Great Luo Alliance’s growing influence. On Blue Star, Fang Xing’s tournament videos drew his mentor Gu Duan’s attention, and his next match brought him face-to-face with an old martial arts expert who recognized his formidable Dragon Elephant cultivation.

• Yun Clan elders argued over branch disputes and discussed the Great Luo Alliance’s threat while planning to develop Serpent Tail Peak and seek allies.
• Fang Xing rented the finest Third-Grade Cave Mansion on Serpent Tail Peak, set up protective arrays, and began cultivating toward Peak Foundation Establishment with Thousand Year Stone Marrow and Supreme-Grade Pills.
• After reaching the top one hundred thousand in the Interstellar Martial Arts Competition, Fang Xing learned that Gu Duan had found his Meteor battle videos and asked him to study and recruit the contestant, offering a Sky-Aligned Stone as a reward.
• Fang Xing decided to fight one more match before leaving the competition, then faced an elderly opponent at an ancient dojo in the Virtual Universe.
• The old man used Blood Point Vein Severing on Fang Xing, but Fang Xing’s Dragon Elephant Vajra Indestructible Divine Power let him withstand the strike and knock the old man into a wall.
• The old man recovered, complained that Fang Xing had caught him off guard, and recognized him as a promising martial arts talent with Dragon Elephant cultivation at grand completion.

Fang Xing reached Peak Foundation Establishment and began Core Formation, overcoming the physical and mana barriers to create an Immortal Golden Core. He then fused it with his Rotten Iron Sword into a Sword Core, but the Divine Sense Heart Demon tribulation began before the chapter ended.

• Fang Xing fought the Turtle-backed Crane-haired Old Man in the Virtual Universe, gained insight from the battle, and chose to forfeit his next match.
• Fang Xing reached Peak Foundation Establishment and prepared to form a core with a Supreme-Grade Core Forming Pill and the Mind Guarding Seal.
• Fang Xing’s Core Formation produced an Immortal Golden Core phenomenon, alarming cultivators across Three Serpent Mountain and disrupting Luo Tian’s plan to destroy the Yun Clan.
• Fang Xing fused his Immortal Golden Core with the Rotten Iron Sword, using the Nine Orifices Golden Core’s power to form a Sword Core.
• Fang Xing’s Divine Sense expanded to three li and thirty-five zhang, and he faced the Divine Sense Heart Demon tribulation.

Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone passed the Heart Demon Tribulation with ease and joined his main body to refine the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant. While they worked, the Yun Clan considered using the Great Luo Alliance to probe the newly formed Golden Core, but Luo Tian exposed a spy and ordered the alliance to attack the Yun Clan instead.

• Fang Xing discovered that his Martial Will had suppressed the Heart Demon Tribulation, then assessed his Immortal Sword Core and its transformed flying sword.
• Fang Xing and his main body began using the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra to cleanse the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant’s restrictions and refine it anew.
• The Yun Clan elders feared the Core Formation senior had died and discussed using a planted agent to make the Great Luo Alliance test the senior’s strength.
• Luo Tian exposed Elder Shui as a spy, trapped him beneath the Celestial Dipper Shroud, and ordered the Great Luo Alliance to destroy the Yun Clan.

Huo Moqing learned that a rogue cultivator had formed an Immortal Golden Core on Three Serpent Mountain and set out to kill him. Fang Xing concealed his true identity by claiming the cultivator was his nephew, leaving the local powers to wonder what the newcomer would do next.

• Huo Moqing confirmed reports of a rogue cultivator’s Immortal Golden Core, killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators who had told him about it, and flew toward Three Serpent Mountain.
• Fang Xing finished transforming the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant with his Great Sun Tathagata Mantra and sent his clone to continue refining it.
• Fang Xing emerged from his cave and claimed he was guarding a junior who was attempting Core Formation, shocking the cultivators gathered outside.
• Fang Xing summoned the leaders of Serpent Walk Peak, and Luo Tian, Ancestor Guo, and Ancestor Li arrived with congratulatory gifts.
• Fang Xing said his nephew would leave after stabilizing his realm and declined to wait for the Profound Heaven Sect’s emissary because they were at war.

Huo Moqing killed a Profound Heaven Sect elder, assumed his identity, and used the sect’s authority to accuse Fang Xing of being a demonic-path spy. Fang Xing’s clone refined the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant while Fang Xing faced the assembled cultivators, then unleashed the Sky Covering Hand and began killing them.

• Huo Moqing killed Jin Liu, devoured his soul with the Nine Infants Pearl, drained his blood, and copied his identity and aura.
• Huo Moqing posed as Jin Liu, arrived at Three Serpent Mountain, and ordered the Yun Clan and Great Luo Alliance cultivators to help capture Fang Xing as a supposed demonic-path spy.
• Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone refined the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant, reached False Infant-level mana, and began refining the Azure Yang Demon Lamp.
• Huo Moqing activated a grand array over Three Serpent Mountain and publicly accused Fang Xing of being a demonic cultivator.
• Fang Xing released overwhelming Martial Will and struck with the Sky Covering Hand, killing Luo Tian and attacking Ancestor Guo and Ancestor Li.

Fang Xing battled Huo Moqing as the cultivator activated a blood-powered demonic array that slaughtered those trapped at Three Serpent Mountain. Huo Moqing struck Fang Xing with the Nine Infants Pearl, but Fang Xing rose from the impact as the pearl roared for another attack.

• Fang Xing killed three attackers, while Yun Qingmiao and the Twelfth Elder survived and the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators fled.
• Huo Moqing activated the death gate of his Ten Thousand Souls Blood Transformation Array, draining the array guards and engulfing Three Serpent Mountain in scarlet mist.
• Yun Qingmiao realized the array was the death gate and died in the mist, which swallowed cultivators across the mountain.
• Huo Moqing summoned his Ten Thousand Souls Banner and fought Fang Xing, who learned that Huo Moqing had come from Mo Yun Immortal City and was seeking revenge for his junior brother.
• Huo Moqing unleashed the Nine Infants Pearl, blasting Fang Xing into a mountain, but Fang Xing stood up and prepared to continue fighting.

Fang Xing defeated Huo Moqing and escaped Three Serpent Mountain after revealing his Nascent Soul-level swordsmanship. He examined Huo Moqing’s spoils and found a top-grade Spirit Stone and most of the ingredients for an Infant Condensation Pill, leaving him intent on obtaining the missing Divine Infant Fruit.

• Huo Moqing summoned the Nine Infants Phantom, but Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone cut it apart and revealed a Nascent Soul-level power fluctuation.
• Huo Moqing unleashed Netherworld Divine Lightning, raised defensive treasures, and tried to flee, but Fang Xing’s Azure Yang Demon Lamp protected him from the blast.
• Fang Xing’s sword strike shattered the formation and struck Huo Moqing before he could use his Void Escape Talisman, killing him and claiming his treasures.
• Fang Xing left the ruined Three Serpent Mountain, and an unidentified figure arrived there hours later.
• Fang Xing examined Huo Moqing’s Storage Bag and found a water-attribute Top-Grade Spirit Stone, valuable treasures, and a Nascent Soul Pill formula.
• Fang Xing identified the Dragon Locust Vine and other Infant Condensation Pill ingredients, and realized he needed a Divine Infant Fruit to attempt refining the pill.

Fang Xing refined the damaged Nine Infants Pearl and sensed that a Nascent Soul True Lord was pursuing him, so he left an ambush before fleeing. Back on Blue Star, he planned to use his Immortal Cultivation Clone to investigate the Gate School and watched martial arts competition footage, where he recognized a masked fighter.

• Fang Xing discovered the Nine Infants Pearl could store souls and Quintessential Blood to conceal his identity, then used its power to disguise himself as a dead Profound Heaven Sect Elder.
• Fang Xing's Sword Heart warned him of danger, and he suspected the Profound Heaven Sect had sent a Nascent Soul True Lord after the cultivator who killed its Late Core Formation Stage elder.
• Fang Xing planted sword shadows as an ambush and fled; an Azure-Robed Female True Lord survived the attack, failed to divine his location, and headed for the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Fang Xing settled his Immortal Cultivation Clone at his Blue Star villa, reviewed his cultivation plans, and bought immersive martial arts competition videos.
• Fang Xing considered using his unregistered Immortal Cultivation Clone to obtain a legal identity, access the Gate School Master's hidden funds, and investigate Gate School believers.
• Fang Xing recognized the Dragon Elephant Vajra Indestructible Divine Power in video 3961 and wondered why the masked Outer Scene fighter using Magnetic Field Martial Arts seemed familiar.

Sunny, a hidden Sixth Realm Spellcaster and member of the Gate School, was summoned by Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone and recognized him as the school’s new Faction Master. Fang Xing obtained the school’s hidden scriptures and sacrificial vessels, including a Golden Candelabra that responded to him.

• Sunny returned to his cramped Blue Star apartment and used a spatial spell to expand its interior.
• A glowing Gate rune summoned Sunny into a dream, where Fang Xing used the previous Faction Master’s hand seal and incantation to claim leadership of the Gate School.
• Fang Xing promoted Sunny to one of the school’s ten Disciples and ordered him to retrieve the secret scriptures and sacrificial vessels.
• Fang Xing appeared in Sunny’s apartment, secretly searched his soul, and monitored him as he retrieved the cache.
• Sunny presented Fang Xing with the Key of Gate, Constructing Gate of Flesh and Bone, Forest Gate, and several sacrificial vessels; Fang Xing picked up the Golden Candelabra, whose radiance brightened.

Fang Xing investigated the Gate School’s remaining Blue Star cultists and met Hearts 3, who recognized that he was not the Gate School Master and hinted that she served another Great Existence. The chapter ended as Hearts 3 revealed that the failed operation had still laid a foundation.

• Fang Xing gave Sunny an operating budget and ordered him to rebuild the cult’s network.
• Fang Xing discovered that most of his supposed disciples were spies or agents, then went to an underground bar to meet Hearts 3.
• Fang Xing secured a private room and questioned Hearts 3, who suspected that the Gate School Master’s Body Seizing plan had failed.
• Hearts 3 identified a connection between Fang Xing and the Sun Worship Sect, whose extinct faith had worshipped a Dominator associated with the sun.
• Hearts 3 said she worshipped the Gate of Emptiness and another Great Existence, then claimed their failed operation had already laid a fine foundation.

Fang Xing defeated Hearts 3’s test of his strength as Gate School Master and absorbed the Creator Contamination, learning more about the universe’s origins. He returned to the Cultivation World intending to lie low and focus on his cultivation, but a change in his Command Token drew his attention.

• Fang Xing accepted Hearts 3 as the Gate School’s liaison, then cut down her mechanical spider legs and absorbed her dreamlike Contamination with the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant.
• Hearts 3 acknowledged Fang Xing as Faction Master, and he tipped her before leaving the private room.
• Fang Xing used the Great Sun Furnace to burn away the Creator Contamination, gaining fragments of information about the Creator and advancing the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra.
• Fang Xing sent the Ten Thousand Arts Ghost Infant into the void and decided to keep a low profile on Blue Star while the Creator Sect grew active.
• Fang Xing returned to the Cultivation World and planned to gather cultivation pills and the Divine Infant Fruit, then noticed seven-colored light shining from his Command Token.

Fang Xing learned that the Righteous-Demonic War was nearing a ceasefire, with the Jade Forest Blessed Land to open early for one final contest over its spoils. He traveled to Return to Ruins Mountain and joined the Rogue Cultivators gathering for the expedition, where a White-Haired Ruddy-Faced Elder warned them of the danger.

• Fang Xing disguised himself in Black Marsh Immortal City and learned that Huo Moqing's death had helped prompt the Nascent Soul Sects to arrange an early opening of the Jade Forest Blessed Land.
• The woman in green explained that the Righteous and Demonic Sides planned a centuries-long peace treaty, but would first settle remaining benefits through a deadly contest inside the blessed land.
• Fang Xing considered using his Jade Forest Token to enter and planned to replace a Rogue Cultivator's identity if necessary.
• Fang Xing reached Return to Ruins Mountain and sensed Blood Sword Child Fu Hongyi flying toward the front line, but chose not to approach him.
• Fang Xing went to Perilla Frutescens Market, where Rogue Cultivators gathered, and the White-Haired Ruddy-Faced Elder warned them that the expedition would be extremely dangerous.

Fang Xing observed the Jade Forest Blessed Land gathering, then killed Wind Hermit and took his identity and Jade Forest Token. He joined Meng Xingtong and Meng Xingyu’s group, while the sisters planned to use Butterfly Pistil Mistress to secure another entry spot.

• Core Formation Rogue Cultivators argued over cooperation and scarce Jade Forest Tokens as factions gathered near Perilla Frutescens Market.
• Meng Xingtong told Meng Xingyu that the Qiao Family had broken its promise and that they needed a token to enter the blessed land for the Nine Flames Dragon Capture Grass.
• Fang Xing killed Wind Hermit, absorbed his soul and Quintessential Blood with the Nine Infants Pearl, and took his appearance, token, and identity.
• Fang Xing visited the Meng sisters, acted as Wind Hermit, and agreed to let Meng Xingtong’s younger sister compete for one of his remaining entry spots.
• After Fang Xing left, Meng Xingtong and Meng Xingyu decided to summon Butterfly Pistil Mistress and secretly support her bid for a spot.

Fang Xing auctioned two Jade Forest Blessed Land spots to Song Ningjing and Butterfly Pistil Mistress, then refused Heartless Child’s offer and faced his threat. Back on Blue Star, Fang Xing prepared to enter the Blessed Land and began breaking through into the Vajra Realm.

• Fang Xing accepted Song Ningjing’s detailed Blessed Land map and Butterfly Pistil Mistress’s offer, then awarded them the two spots.
• Heartless Child arrived late and offered a Lethal Barrier-Breaking Pill, but Fang Xing refused because he had already promised the spots.
• Heartless Child threatened Fang Xing and left, while Meng Xingtong proposed that the group use the Five Cycle Battle Formation to protect themselves.
• Fang Xing left with Butterfly Pistil Mistress to collect her deposit, angering Meng Xingyu and leaving Song Ningjing uncertain about cooperating with him.
• Fang Xing’s true body on Blue Star planned to use the Jade Forest Token and his clone to exploit the Blessed Land’s opportunities, then decided he needed to enter the Vajra Realm first.
• Fang Xing completed the Seventy-Two Fiend Apertures and twelve Qi Meridians and began his breakthrough into the Vajra Realm.

After reaching the Vajra Realm, Fang Xing forged a Seventh Revolution Golden Body and developed a powerful ranged technique, the Immortal Martial Unified Great Handprint. He then joined his allies at Return to Ruins Mountain for the Jade Forest Blessed Land, where rival factions and Heartless Child had gathered.

• Fang Xing broke through to the Vajra Realm and reached the Seventh Revolution, gaining a formidable Golden Body.
• Fang Xing practiced the simplified Tathagata Palm and created the Immortal Martial Unified Great Handprint by merging mana with Golden Core Yuan Power.
• Fang Xing left seclusion and joined Meng Xingtong, Meng Xingyu, and Song Ningjing as they traveled to Return to Ruins Mountain.
• At the mountain, Fang Xing saw Old Taoist Tianchen leading the Rogue Cultivators and the Mu Family displaying its Spiritual Treasure, the Burnt Tail Zither.
• Meng Xingtong explained that the Qiao Family had taken in Heartless Child after the family had nearly caused the Meng sisters to miss the Blessed Land opening.