Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing inspected the Federation’s mechas and chose the Wings of the Sun God, a rare mecha designed by Grandmaster Apollo, as a tool for studying Martial Will Secret Marks. After receiving its control authority, he flew into space and discovered the abilities unlocked by its three layers of Secret Marks.

• Fang Xing toured the mecha warehouse with Davis, who showed him Standard Mechas and rarer models modified with Glyphs of Will.
• Fang Xing examined the Bloody Greatsword and Snake God mechas but rejected them as poor matches for his fighting style.
• Davis recommended the Wings of the Sun God, and Fang Xing tried on the golden winged armor and sensed its three layers of Secret Marks.
• Davis transferred control authority to Fang Xing, and Xiao Lan reported the mecha’s modules, energy level, and sealed Secret Mark Module.
• Fang Xing flew above White Bird Star, reviewed the Wings of the Sun God’s records, and learned how the Starry Sky Chart and Exotic Beast Diagram could unlock its Secret Mark abilities.

Fang Xing tested his new mecha, caught up with Ouyang Qianqian and Ji Weiwei on White Bird Star, then rushed to respond when a dangerous Dream Cocoon attacked the city. Jiang Yu'er fought contaminated Mothmen and called for reinforcements as the cocoon threatened to hatch.

• Fang Xing tested the Wings of the Sun God by falling from space and settled into life on Star River Island.
• Fang Xing invited Ouyang Qianqian and Ji Weiwei to Thousand Flavors Restaurant, where they caught up and discussed Liu Wei and their lives.
• Jiang Yu'er responded to an attack in the city and discovered an invisible Dream Cocoon surrounded by contaminated security officers transformed into Mothmen.
• Jiang Yu'er fought the Mothmen, was affected by their contaminating Moth Sword, and requested reinforcements.
• Fang Xing left the restaurant and activated the Wings of the Sun God to fly toward the emergency.

Fang Xing rescued Jiang Yu'er and destroyed a Dream Cocoon before an emerging Evil God Spawn could be born. Afterward, he established the first coordinate of the Starry Sky Chart, awakening a Secret Mark that greatly enhanced his control and the power of the Wings of the Sun God.

• Fang Xing arrived over Dading City, used a Sun Arrow to destroy many Mothmen, and fought through the contamination to reach Jiang Yu'er.
• Fang Xing hurled Jiang Yu'er’s white mecha away from the Dream Cocoon, then attacked the cocoon and exposed the giant moth gestating inside.
• Fang Xing wounded the moth with the Extreme Emotion Sword and destroyed it with a golden punch before it could finish gestating.
• Ouyang Qianqian and Ji Weiwei watched news reports confirming that the Dading City Mass Sleep Incident had been resolved and crediting Fang Xing and Jiang Yu'er.
• Fang Xing went to Star River Island, ate a Mystic Aperture Jujube, and established the first coordinate of the Starry Sky Chart.
• Fang Xing’s Martial Will activated the Secret Mark Module, increasing the Wings of the Sun God’s performance by 50% and letting him control the mecha directly.

Fang Xing established a decoy farm on Star River Island, gathered Federation intelligence through a game, and suspected the Gods of Dreams were connected to the Creator. In the Cultivation World, he smoothly advanced to the Mid Core Formation Stage, completed the fusion of two demonic fires, and received a message that amused him.

• Fang Xing ordered Xiao Lan to guard the Star River Island farm and treated it as a smokescreen for his research.
• Fang Xing found coded intelligence from Gate School disciples in the game Ancient Ape Chronicles and learned that Imaginary Space attacks had increased.
• Fang Xing connected the Gods of Dreams to the Creator and decided to seek Nine Swords Academy's attention through his doctoral research project.
• Fang Xing broke through to the Mid Core Formation Stage, strengthening his Golden Core True Essence, Divine Sense, and Rotten Iron Sword.
• Fang Xing completed the fusion of the Azure Yang Demonic Fire and Soul Extinguishing Demonic Flame into Soul Devouring Demonic Fire, then received a Sound Transmission Talisman that amused him.

Fang Xing, disguised as Mu Wanlong, avoided joining the Mu Family’s dangerous land reclamation expedition while learning that the Righteous and Demonic Sides sought demon-beast Essence Souls for Nascent Soul Pills. Days later, a hidden Mu relative gave White Crane Hermit the Mu Family’s array diagram and expedition route, setting up an ambush against Mu Wanlu’s group.

• Mu Wanlu told the Mu Family elders that the family had to send at least three Golden Core True Persons on Qiankun Dao’s land reclamation expedition, and Fang Xing explained that the campaign was meant to hunt shapeshifting Demon Kings for Nascent Soul Pill ingredients.
• Fang Xing claimed that his injuries prevented him from joining the expedition, so Mu Wanlu assigned himself, Mu Wandao, and Mu Qingfeng to lead it and left Mu Wanqing to watch over Fang Xing.
• Mu Wanlu and Mu Wanqing discussed Mu Wanlong’s apparent fear of death, and Mu Wanlu decided that his weakened former rival posed little threat.
• A hidden figure met White Crane Hermit and handed him the Myriad Flowers Thousand Illusions Array diagram, Mu Wanlu’s route, and the expedition date.
• The hidden figure offered to help disable the array from within while White Crane Hermit ambushed Mu Wanlu, and White Crane Hermit revealed that Qiankun Dao had tacitly approved his plans.

Fang Xing intervened when Mu Wanlan betrayed the Mu Family and opened Hundred Flowers Mountain to an invading force. After revealing his Late Core Formation Stage power, Fang Xing killed Mu Wanlan and restored the family’s protective formation, trapping Crane Lord as enemy cultivators gathered outside.

• Mu Wanlu left Hundred Flowers Mountain in the White Jade Palace and entrusted the family to Mu Wanqing, while Mu Wanqing accepted Mu Wanlan’s invitation to a gathering.
• Fang Xing discovered the Myriad Flowers Thousand Illusions Array failing and saw Mu Wanlan aid a Third-Grade Upper Quality Variant Spirit Crane against the Mu Family.
• Mu Wanlan revealed that he had ambushed and killed Mu Wanqing, stolen the formation Command Token, and opened the mountain to the White Crane Sect, Zhang Family, Wang Family, and Sea Sand Gang.
• Fang Xing displayed Late Core Formation Stage power, fought Crane Lord with a Fire Dragon Staff, and killed Mu Wanlan with a Hundred Refinements Golden Blade Talisman.
• Fang Xing used the Command Token to reactivate the Myriad Flowers Thousand Illusions Array, trapping Crane Lord and alarming the Core Formation Cultivators outside Hundred Flowers Mountain.

Fang Xing drove the White Crane Sect forces away by revealing Mu Wanlong’s apparent strength and ordered the Mu Family to report the attack and seal Hundred Flowers Mountain. Days later, with the expeditionary force missing and Qiankun Dao accepting the White Crane Sect’s excuse, Mu Wanzhang ordered the family to seal the mountain for a hundred years.

• Fang Xing revealed Crane Lord’s corpse and accused the White Crane Sect of secretly sending the spirit crane to murder a Mu Family elder, prompting Flying Crane True Person and the other Golden Core cultivators to retreat.
• Fang Xing told Mu Wanzhang to notify the family head, report the attack to the Upper Sect, and temporarily seal the mountain while activating the Mountain Protecting Array.
• Fang Xing returned to his cave mansion, took Crane Lord’s inner core, and secretly tormented the unconscious real Mu Wanlong to worsen his injuries.
• Several days later, Mu Wanzhang learned that the Long Family had found remnants of White Jade Palace near Sky Cloud Mountain but had no news of the family head or the expeditionary force.
• Mu Wanzhang received Qiankun Dao’s claim that the Crane Control Token had been stolen, cursed the sect’s favoritism, and ordered the Mu Family to seal the mountain for a hundred years.

Fang Xing arranged to expose the Creator Sect and deliver the Creation Stone Tablet to Hearts 3, while keeping his true body occupied with laboratory work to establish an alibi. Hearts 3 retrieved the tablet and triggered a chaotic multi-agency arrest operation at Tianhai Mall, as Gu Yun learned the Gate School was still active.

• Fang Xing bought unregistered communicators, entered the Virtual World, and used coded conversations to arrange for Hearts 3 to receive the Creation Stone Tablet.
• Fang Xing posted a coded notice in an ancient martial arts game, and a Fat Otaku disciple reported the Gate School Master to the Prevention and Control Bureau in exchange for merit.
• Fang Xing's true body continued laboratory experiments on White Bird Star to establish an alibi while Hearts 3 learned the tablet's significance and retrieved it from a Tianhai Mall locker.
• Field agents sealed Tianhai Mall, while the Prevention and Control Bureau and Public Security Bureau scrambled to claim the arrest and bring Hearts 3 in.
• Gu Yun prepared an interrogation room and heard that other departments were fighting to seize the suspect, renewing her hostility toward the still-active Gate School.

Fang Xing returned to the Cultivation World after exposing the Creator’s existence on Blue Star, then surveyed his cave mansion and considered his plans for reaching Nascent Soul. He realized that his continued survival kept the Mu Family safe from the White Crane Sect, and sent Mu Wanzhang a talisman to confirm he was still alive.

• Fang Xing concluded that his mission on Blue Star had succeeded and returned to the Cultivation World.
• Fang Xing inspected his alchemy room and Treasure Seeking Rat, then considered gathering resources in the Barren Land after forming a Nascent Soul.
• Fang Xing found messages from Mu Wanzhang and learned that the Mu Family had sealed its mountain after Qiankun Dao withheld support.
• Fang Xing reasoned that the White Crane Sect could not attack the Mu Family while he remained alive as its Golden Core protector.
• Fang Xing sent Mu Wanzhang a Sound Transmission Talisman to show that he was still alive and able to protect the Mu Family.

Years later, Fang Xing oversaw a successful test of an Inhibitor that limited contamination from a Bio Mecha, then arranged to publish research that could draw Nine Swords Academy’s interest. At Nine Swords Academy, Duan Hai learned that his Mecha would be redesigned around the Moon God’s entire body, while he remained determined to forge his own path to greater martial power.

• Fang Xing watched a chimpanzee use a crimson Bio Mecha to defeat combat robots, and the researchers confirmed that the new Inhibitor kept its erosion below the safety threshold.
• Fang Xing rewarded Doctor Wang’s team and proposed publishing selected results in Nine Swords Academy’s Godslayer journal to attract the academy’s attention.
• Fang Xing identified the Rising Sun Flower and Nine Hearts Iron Mine as the Inhibitor’s key ingredients and concluded that controlling those materials would make the formula difficult to reproduce.
• Ouyang Qianqian told Fang Xing she had retired and invited him to meet her and Ji Weiwei, but he declined because he was busy.
• Sword God Qiu told Duan Hai that the academy would redesign his Mecha to use the Moon God’s entire body, and Duan Hai declared that he would pursue the tenth level of his Void Severing Blade Heterodox Martial Art himself.

Sword God Qiu discussed the Moon God’s regenerative vitality, the mecha’s construction, and Nine Swords Academy’s research into the Creation Stone Tablet with Han Chunfeng. After Han Chunfeng reviewed Fang Xing’s paper on a new Inhibitor, he met Fang Xing and discovered his expertise in Evil God Studies, while Fang Xing raised a question about how sleeping Dominators might become new Evil Gods.

• Han Chunfeng told Sword God Qiu that the Moon God’s increased vitality had made the mecha’s suppressive armor inadequate, and he reported that the Creation Stone Tablet belonged to a Lower Ruler and described clues about Creators and the Three Pillars.
• Han Chunfeng read Fang Xing’s paper on developing a new Inhibitor and concluded that its approach could work, potentially providing a useful Inhibitor for the Moon God Fortress mecha.
• Han Chunfeng contacted Fang Xing and visited his virtual laboratory to verify the paper’s experiments, where Wang Cha revealed that the team had already produced a finished product.
• Han Chunfeng invited Fang Xing to transfer to or teach at Nine Swords Academy, then realized during their discussion that Fang Xing had exceptional knowledge of Evil God Studies.
• Fang Xing asked Han Chunfeng whether a Dominator that slept while its subconscious remained active could become animated and turn into a new Evil God.

Fang Xing deduced that the Creator Sect might be plotting to awaken the Creator by having the Federation destroy the Gods of Dreams, then exchanged an Inhibitor sample for Nine Swords Academy’s help designing his Martial Saint Mecha. On the journey to the Academy, he advanced his Martial Will and used the Wings of the Sun God to unleash the Eighth-Order move Void Lockdown.

• Han Chunfeng explained that Evil God Spawn could arise from an Extraterrestrial Evil God's active subconscious, leading Fang Xing to suspect the Gods of Dreams were manifestations of the Creator's subconscious and that their deaths could awaken it.
• Fang Xing offered Nine Swords Academy a sample of the Inhibitor, allowing development of his Martial Saint Mecha to begin.
• Months later, Han Chunfeng visited Fang Xing on White Bird Star and invited him to Nine Swords Academy to design his mecha in exchange for the Inhibitor.
• Davis and Jiang Yu'er recognized that Han Chunfeng had arrived aboard the Federation's Kun Peng Battleship and speculated that Fang Xing was receiving an exclusive mecha design.
• Aboard the ship, Fang Xing raised his Martial Will Secret Mark to Proficient and activated Void Lockdown with the Wings of the Sun God, then wondered whether it could counter Nascent Soul teleportation.

Fang Xing arrived at Nine Swords Academy, where Han Chunfeng offered to design him a Martial Saint Mecha and invited him to use the academy’s Obelisk. After exploring the library and learning about the Obelisk’s ominous origins, Fang Xing met doctoral student Nangong Xue, who offered to accompany him there.

• Han Chunfeng recognized Fang Xing’s mastery of Blue Star’s Glyph of Will and explained how the Obelisk could strengthen his Golden Body.
• Han Chunfeng brought Fang Xing to Nine Swords Academy, arranged his access and lodging, and introduced him to Gu Zhen.
• Fang Xing told Gu Zhen that he planned to study at the library and Obelisk while Han Chunfeng designed his Martial Saint Mecha.
• Fang Xing explored the Great Library and learned that the Obelisk was an extraterrestrial relic connected to the Kua Yi Tribe and Evil Gods, with restricted laboratories beneath it.
• Nangong Xue introduced herself as a doctoral student researching Extraterrestrial Evil Gods and offered to accompany Fang Xing to the Obelisk.

Fang Xing visited Nine Swords Academy’s Obelisk with Nangong Xue and discovered that its Cultivation Rooms used controlled Evil God Contamination to temper martial artists. After testing the first-floor room, he realized it was too weak to challenge him and decided to seek stronger refinement on the ninth floor.

• Fang Xing approached the massive Obelisk with Nangong Xue and sensed that the Gate of Heavens rune reacted to its living, scaled surface.
• Fang Xing called Han Chunfeng for Credits, and Gu Zhen arrived with a Temporary Black Card that allowed him to enter the Obelisk’s Cultivation Rooms.
• Fang Xing entered the Obelisk with Nangong Xue and saw its suppressive power briefly activate her Evil God bloodline.
• Fang Xing used his card to enter a first-floor Cultivation Room, where living darkness attacked him like weakened Evil God Contamination.
• Fang Xing resisted the darkness with his Golden Body and concluded that the Obelisk refined martial artists by eroding their bodies, but the first floor was too weak for him.

Fang Xing endured the Obelisk’s fifth-floor darkness and began absorbing its origin power, while the sealed Mu Family’s hopes rested on Mu Qingshi’s Core Formation attempt. The attempt collapsed, leaving the family with only a False Core and deepening its crisis.

• Fang Xing entered the fifth-floor Cultivation Room, endured the darkness with his Martial Path Golden Body, and absorbed a small amount of the Obelisk’s origin power.
• Nangong Xue watched Fang Xing’s unusually long cultivation session and praised her judgment of him.
• Ten years after the Mu Family sealed off its mountain, Mu Wanzhang visited Mu Wanlong’s fading Soul Lamp and hoped the Grand Elder would survive until the family could recover.
• Mu Qingshi attempted Core Formation using the family’s last Core Forming Pill and other accumulated resources, and the phenomenon initially suggested he might form an Upper True Core or better.
• The Core Formation phenomenon collapsed before reaching nine li, leaving Mu Qingshi with only a False Core, and an elderly Foundation Establishment steward died after witnessing the failure.

Fang Xing advanced his preparations to form a Nascent Soul while secretly posing as the dying Mu Wanlong. After Mu Qingshi’s failed core formation destabilized the Mu Family, Fang Xing invented a secret technique as bait to expose whoever had sabotaged him.

• Fang Xing reached the Late Golden Core Stage, reviewed his Nascent Soul preparations, and began studying the Infant Condensation Pill formula.
• Fang Xing sensed Mu Qingshi’s core formation collapse from an Upper True Core to a False Core after Qingshi fell into a Heart Demon illusion while attempting Half-Step Golden Core.
• Fang Xing disguised himself as Mu Wanlong and told Mu Qingshi and Mu Wanzhang that the Heavenly Demon Transformation Core Great Art could let Qingshi form a core again.
• Fang Xing later admitted to Mu Wanzhang that the secret technique was a lie and explained that he had used the claim to lure out whoever had sabotaged Qingshi’s core formation.

Fang Xing and Mu Wanzhang exposed Mu Qingbai as a traitor who had sabotaged Mu Qingshi’s Core Formation for White Crane Sect. After Mu Qingshi executed him, Fang Xing collected compensation from the Mu Family treasury and planned to cultivate in seclusion.

• Mu Qingbai used an Azure Bird Talisman to tell the White Crane Sect Grand Elder that Mu Qingshi had condensed a False Core and that Mu Wanlong was still alive.
• Mu Qingbai revealed Mu Wanlong’s plan to use the Heavenly Demon Core Transformation Art on Mu Qingshi, prompting the White Crane Sect Grand Elder to realize the conversation might be a trap.
• Mu Wanzhang bound Mu Qingbai with a Five Elements Aurora while Fang Xing revealed himself and confronted the White Crane Sect Grand Elder through the Mystic Light Mirror.
• Mu Wanzhang declared Mu Qingbai guilty of betraying the family, and Mu Qingshi killed him with a spell.
• Fang Xing took three Fourth-Order Pill Formulas and medicinal ingredients from the Mu Family treasury, then planned to cultivate until he could refine an Infant Condensation Pill.

After ten years of training at Nine Swords Academy, Fang Xing reached the Great Vajra Realm and received Han Chunfeng’s completed Bio Mecha blueprint and Seed. He left for home, where Nangong Xue sent his spaceship hurtling into deep space after he teased her about saying goodbye.

• Fang Xing perfected his golden body during a spar with Nangong Xue, reaching the Great Vajra Realm and overpowering her.
• Fang Xing reviewed his progress, then visited Han Chunfeng, who confirmed his advancement and examined him.
• Han Chunfeng gave Fang Xing the Bio Mecha blueprint and a Seed, explaining that Fang Xing would need to gather its other components himself.
• Fang Xing boarded his Private Spaceship and departed Nine Swords Academy after telling himself he had obtained everything he could there.
• Nangong Xue confronted Fang Xing in space, and after he joked with her, she struck his Azure Spaceship with her Black Giant Serpent and sent it into deep space.

Fang Xing joined a Federation operation to contain a Ninth Realm Spawn of Chaos aboard an immigrant transport ship and rescue its passengers. After Martial Saint Zhou Yehua engaged the spawn, Fang Xing led the boarding team into the damaged ship.

• Fang Xing told Nie Ying that he had reached the Great Vajra Realm, was studying mech construction, and planned to settle on White Bird Star.
• Xiao Lan detected a Federation distress signal reporting a Mystic Realm descent and a suspected Evil God Spawn aboard transport ship Davis 19012, carrying about 340,000 immigrants.
• Martial Saint Zhou Yehua assembled the response teams, assigned Fang Xing to lead a rescue squad, and headed to the ship in the Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Beast Mecha.
• Zhou Yehua's mech seized the transport ship, and the Spawn of Chaos emerged amid black liquid and infant cries before Zhou Yehua dragged it away to fight in Imaginary Space.
• Fang Xing warned the squad about mental contamination, blasted an opening through the ship's deck, and led the Professionals inside to begin the rescue.

Fang Xing led his team through the Chaos-corrupted immigrant spaceship, fought its evil creatures, and stopped Xi Ling after a Mind Shadow possessed her. The Federation fleet attacked the Spawn of Chaos, and Zhou Yehua declared the mission complete as the teams prepared to return.

• Fang Xing entered the Breeding Factory and discovered that the Spawn of Chaos had warped the ship’s space and creatures.
• Fang Xing killed attacking Upper Family worms and blasted open a cabin filled with grotesquely deformed human corpses.
• Xi Ling succumbed to a Mind Shadow and attacked the team, but Fang Xing crushed her sword domain and destroyed the shadow with his Sky Covering Hand.
• Fang Xing led the team out of the ship as other teams reported heavy casualties and retreats.
• A Federation fleet entered Imaginary Space and bombarded the Spawn of Chaos while Fang Xing’s team withdrew to the asteroid belt.
• Martial Saint Zhou Yehua returned in a damaged Eight-Armed Evil Dragon Beast and announced that the mission was complete.