Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing climbed the Heart Tower, defeating its guardians and reaching the seventh floor, where he faced five Monarch Grade Heart Beasts and a guardian fused with a Lava Giant. He summoned his Natal Heart Beast, an Erha, leaving the outcome of the Heavenly King trial uncertain.

• Fang Xing defeated the first five Heart Tower guardians with his Wind God Pterosaur and advanced to the sixth floor.
• Fang Xing used his Upper Monarch Grade Purgatory Hitting Willow alongside the Wind God Pterosaur to defeat the Sixth Floor Guardian, who conceded after his Natal Heart Beast was destroyed.
• Fang Xing reached the seventh floor, triggering a public broadcast that drew crowds and stunned the Tamers watching outside.
• The Seventh Floor Guardian summoned five Monarch Grade Heart Beasts and fused with the Lava Giant using Heart Technique · Fusion.
• Fang Xing summoned his Natal Heart Beast, an Erha, as Nangong Qiushui worried that it was outmatched by the Lava Monarch.

Fang Xing challenged the Seventh Floor Guardian in the Heart Tower’s Heavenly King Battle, revealing his fifth Heart Beast and turning the fight with Erha’s Destruction Domain. The Heart Tower announced that Fang Xing had passed the seventh floor and become a new Heavenly King.

• Fang Xing summoned the Titan Demon Ant, bringing his visible Monarch Grade Heart Beasts to four, and explained that his fifth Heart Beast, the Emperor Grade Ghost Shadow, was hidden in the Wind God Pterosaur’s shadow.
• Fang Xing’s Purgatory Hitting Willow held off the Seventh Floor Guardian’s Man-eating Flowers, Earth Rock Snake, and Flame Horse King while the Titan Demon Ant struck the Lava Giant.
• The Seventh Floor Guardian healed the Lava Giant with Earth Recovery, and Nangong Qiushui feared Fang Xing’s Heart Beasts would lose the battle.
• Fang Xing ordered Erha to fight, and Erha released its Destruction Domain, strengthening Fang Xing’s Heart Beasts and weakening the Seventh Floor Guardian’s team.
• The Heart Tower rumbled and released streams of radiance, announcing that someone had passed the seventh floor and won the Heavenly King Battle.

Fang Xing cleared the Heart Tower’s eighth floor after Ghost Shadow possessed the Previous Pope’s Darkness, though the battle cost him three Heart Beasts. He reached the ninth floor, where a Legend Grade Light Ying Dragon appeared as his opponent.

• Fang Xing faced the Previous Pope, whose Five Intent Cage trapped him in darkness and killed the Purgatory Hitting Willow, Titan Demon Ant, and Wind God Pterosaur.
• Ghost Shadow instinctively possessed the Previous Pope’s Darkness, killing the Previous Pope and his four Monarch Grade Mind Beasts.
• Fang Xing cleared the eighth floor, and the Heart Tower’s rainbow light signaled his success to observers, including Nangong Qiushui and the Heart Saint Hall Pope.
• Fang Xing arrived at the ninth floor with Erha, Ghost Shadow, and Darkness remaining, and a Legend Grade Light Ying Dragon with over one hundred thousand years of cultivation appeared.

Fang Xing cleared the Heart Tower’s ninth floor by defeating Light Ying Dragon with Erha’s Destruction Flame, then entered a hidden world and discovered that a drop of Transcender’s blood had created Heart Beasts and Heart Appearances. When ancient Tamer spirits attacked him as an outsider, he fused with Erha and destroyed them, reaching the blood at the heart of the hidden world.

• Fang Xing sent Erha, whose cultivation had reached Legend Grade, to battle Light Ying Dragon on the ninth floor.
• Erha’s Destruction Flame overcame Light Ying Dragon’s light and prevented its resurrection, allowing Fang Xing to clear the ninth floor.
• The Pope told Nangong Qiushui and the gathered Tamers that Fang Xing’s achievement might mean a god was about to be born.
• Fang Xing entered the Heart Tower’s tenth floor and witnessed how a drop of Transcender’s blood transformed the world and gave rise to Heart Beasts, Heart Appearances, and the Heart Sect.
• Ancient Tamer spirits declared Fang Xing an outsider and attacked, so he fused with Erha and used the Laws of Destruction to erase them.
• Fang Xing reached the pure white drop of Transcender’s blood, trembling as he stood before it.

After returning from Driver World, Fang Xing studied the Transcendent Blood he had brought back, then entered seclusion to digest his gains and advance the Pangu Wu Great Dao to Master Level. He emerged as a formidable Fourth-Stage Law Lord and noticed an intriguing email in the Great Void Universe.

• Fang Xing examined the Transcendent Blood contained by the Attribute Panel and resolved not to refine it into his bloodline, choosing to study it only after reaching a higher realm.
• Fang Xing spent more than twenty years in seclusion, then used the Mad Demon Vulture Feather to prepare a Law Secret Medicine that helped him fuse his Laws and master the Pangu Wu Great Dao.
• Fang Xing's breakthrough manifested a giant phantom over Blue Star, whose pressure forced Zhang Chu's mecha to its knees.
• Fang Xing assessed his new strength as a Fourth-Stage Law Lord, considered his potential to challenge stronger opponents, and saw that the Gate of Heavens was charging again.
• Fang Xing left seclusion to relax, connected to the Great Void Universe, and noticed an email that caught his interest.

Fang Xing assessed his three combat systems and began cultivating Heart Power, while Yin Kuis was ambushed by Zerg-controlled Law Lords inside an Eternal secret realm. Their pursuit ended when a mysterious Unknown Continent appeared before them.

• Fang Xing dismissed the leaked secret-realm report as a mix of true news and fabricated accusations against Yin Kuis, then returned to space outside New Blue Star.
• Fang Xing reviewed the Time-Space Indestructible Great Sun King Mantra, the Pan Wu Great Dao, and Heart Power, judging that Heart Power could threaten even Dao Lords.
• Fang Xing began cultivating Heart Power and considered replacing Blood Origin Mountain with a more powerful treasure.
• Yin Kuis traveled through the secret realm while fuming over rumors that he had concealed information and warning his team about the deadly Void Gold Annihilation Stream.
• A Man-eating Flower and the Zerg-controlled Giant Fist Lord and King Kun Xie ambushed Yin Kuis, but he resisted their soul attack and fled into the Void Gold Annihilation Stream.
• Yin Kuis and the pursuing Insectoid Law Lord shuddered as space broke open ahead of them and revealed a mysterious Unknown Continent.

Fang Xing advanced his Heart Power and learned that Transcender Jin had opened a legacy trial on Jin Continent, drawing Law Lords from across the universe into a contest for ten inheritance pillars. As the three peak civilizations prepared to send their champions, the Blood Hell God Emperor joined Starry Sky Civilization for a chance to enter, while Devourer agreed to help the Exotic Beast Civilization claim the legacy.

• Fang Xing reached Proficient Level Heart Power and received a vision of Jin Continent, where Transcender Jin summoned seekers to claim an inheritance stone pillar.
• Fang Xing and Kun Wu learned that Law Lords from the three peak civilizations could enter the Secret Realm, and Fang Xing agreed to go with Kun Wu.
• Starry Sky Civilization announced an optional mission to compete for Jin's Transcendence Legacy, offering each participant one resurrection and promising support to whoever obtained it.
• The Blood Hell God Emperor offered to merge his civilization into Starry Sky Civilization in exchange for entry, revealing that he had advanced to Fifth-Order Law Lord.
• Devourer swallowed the remaining life-bearing planets he was consuming and agreed to make one move for the Exotic Beast Civilization after Three-Headed Dao Lord reminded him of his oath to Primogenitor.

Fang Xing entered the Ash Secret Realm after hearing that the Starry Sky Civilization’s Law Lords were gathering to seek its inheritance. He reached Void Gold Mountain and sent his Blood Pattern Golden Beast Emperor into a trap set by the Zerg and their enslaved allies.

• A crew-cut youth headed for the Extraterritorial Battlefield, while the White-Haired Wrinkled Elder gathered over a thousand Law Lords and led them toward the Ash Secret Realm.
• Fang Xing arrived at the Secret Realm entrance and heard Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord explain that the three Eternals had left marks there and that Law Lords from rival civilizations would compete inside.
• Blood Hell God Emperor entered the Secret Realm, and Fang Xing followed, discovered he had been randomly teleported, and set course for Ash Continent.
• Fang Xing calculated that his route crossed Void Gold Mountain and Empty Flow River, where he expected to face rival Law Lords and test his combat strength.
• At Void Gold Mountain, a Mantis Insectoid used Heavy Water Realm to prepare an ambush and enslave a Two-Headed Wind Cloud Leopard.
• Fang Xing sent his Blood Pattern Golden Beast Emperor into the heavy water, where the Mantis Insectoid and the gathered Law Lords attacked it.

Fang Xing defeated a Mantis Clan Law Lord and its enslaved allies, acquiring the top-grade Hunter King Bow. At Empty Flow River, he rescued Kun Wu from a lava Law Lord, then watched Kun Wu decide to leave the dangerous realm.

• Fang Xing entered the Heavy Water Realm, defeated the Law Lords there, and killed the fleeing Mantis Insectoid with a True Spirit Attack.
• Fang Xing collected the enemies’ treasures and found the Hunter King Bow, which could amplify soul attacks and unleash Will attacks.
• Fang Xing traveled toward Empty Flow River and spotted Kun Wu fleeing a lava Law Lord.
• Fang Xing used the Hunter King Bow’s Sun Extinguishing Arrow to kill the lava Law Lord and collect its spoils.
• Kun Wu thanked Fang Xing but chose to leave rather than continue through Empty Flow River.

Fang Xing reached the Ash Continent, demonstrated his newly enhanced strength against an Exotic Beast hunting squad, and headed toward the contested Inheritance Stone Pillars. At Pillar No. 8, Red Star’s forces fought the Zerg and Exotic Beasts as Law Lord Kun Yu joined the attack.

• Fang Xing arrived on the Ash Continent, learned about its powerful Law Lords and the contested Inheritance Stone Pillars, and flew toward Pillar No. 8.
• Thundercloud Star Beast led an Exotic Beast hunting squad against Fang Xing, but Fang Xing’s soul attack badly injured it and killed many of its followers before the survivors escaped.
• Red Star and the human army battled the Zerg and Exotic Beasts around Pillar No. 8 while Red Star struck at Fiona’s formation.
• Fiona warned Red Star that Law Lord Kun Yu would exploit his focus on the Zerg, and Kun Yu charged toward the human camp in the form of a giant manta ray.

Red Star and the Blood Hell God Emperor drove back Fiona and Kun Yu with help from a mysterious Crew-Cut Youth, while Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone ambushed Yin Kuis and his companions to test whether true-spirit destruction could prevent revival. After killing the three Law Lords, Fang Xing faced the rapidly approaching Calamity Ymir.

• Red Star resisted Fiona’s soul words and fought her as the Blood Hell God Emperor clashed with Kun Yu, while their forces gained the advantage over the Zerg and exotic beast armies.
• A Crew-Cut Youth appeared, injured Fiona and Kun Yu with a sword strike, and forced the Zerg and exotic beast forces to retreat from the Eighth Inheritance Stone Pillar.
• The Crew-Cut Youth challenged Red Star and the Blood Hell God Emperor to test his Great Dao of Saber against theirs, while Fang Xing headed toward the Third Inheritance Stone Pillar and his Immortal Cultivation Clone began exploring the Secret Realm.
• Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone trapped Yin Kuis, Ruide, and Green Tower in the Ten Thousand Immortals Sword Formation and used a Destruction Demon Wolf to annihilate their true spirits.
• Fang Xing collected the three corpses to test whether an Eternal could revive them, then noticed Calamity Ymir approaching through a cosmic Storm.

Fang Xing fought Ymir, a Fifth-Order Law Lord, and forced him to flee with his Destruction Wolf Heart Appearance. Fang Xing then reached the Third Legacy Stone Pillar, where the inheritance seemed close to beginning.

• Ymir sealed off teleportation and attacked Fang Xing, but Fang Xing's defenses and Past Self helped him withstand the assault.
• Ymir transformed into his Calamity True Body and shattered Fang Xing's Ten Thousand Immortals Sword Formation.
• Fang Xing's Destruction Wolf Heart Appearance destroyed a tenth of Ymir's soul origin, prompting Ymir to flee.
• Fang Xing arrived at the Third Legacy Stone Pillar, passed the guards, and took a position based on his Starry Sky Ranking.
• Law Lords discussed reports identifying Fang Xing as Sword Master, a Fourth Stage Law Lord with a powerful soul attack.
• Fang Xing sensed that the inheritance at the Third Legacy Stone Pillar was about to begin.

The Transcendence Legacy selection began as the civilizations fought over the Inheritance Stone Pillars. At Pillar No. 9, Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone seized a Shattered Inheritance while Heavenly Blade escaped the Devourer.

• Jin announced that the ten Inheritance Stone Pillars were open for comprehension and that a Shattered Inheritance would appear at each summit.
• Fang Xing studied the emerald-lit carvings on his pillar, recognizing the Paths of Life and Nature before returning to cultivation.
• At Pillar No. 9, the Zerg and Exotic Beast Civilization battled for control until the white-furred Four-Hooved Beast froze Zerg forces and led a charge toward the summit.
• Heavenly Blade confronted the contenders with his Dao Soldier-grade War Blade, then attacked the Devourer when it tried to stop him from taking a half-formed Black Horn.
• Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone seized the Black Horn and Teleported away, drawing the Devourer’s wrath onto the pursuing warriors.
• Heavenly Blade escaped from the Devourer’s Flesh Planet, while the Devourer devoured many of the pursuers.

Fang Xing’s clone seized a Shattered Inheritance, killed Zerg Matriarch Ling Jun, and escaped the Sixth-Order Law Lord Devourer before studying the inheritance in the True Immortal Realm. After more than sixty years in seclusion, he met Azure Cloud Fairy, who revealed that the Carefree Dao Lord would accept an appointment from the Dao Venerable, signaling upheaval ahead.

• Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone killed Zerg Matriarch Ling Jun and escaped the Devourer after seizing the Shattered Inheritance at Pillar No. 9.
• Fang Xing learned that Lord Ymir had taken the Shattered Inheritance from another stone pillar and reflected on how his clone’s strength compared with other Law Lords.
• Fang Xing tried to study the Black Gold-Patterned Broken Horn in his cave abode but could not gain any insight from it.
• Fang Xing cultivated for more than sixty years before a child attendant summoned him to meet Azure Cloud Fairy at the Drunken Moon Pavilion.
• Azure Cloud Fairy told Fang Xing that the Carefree Dao Lord had agreed to accept an appointment from the Dao Venerable.

Fang Xing served as a guard at the Dao Venerable’s succession ceremony while the Dao Venerable prepared to transcend. As the ceremony began, the Demon Venerable intervened, and Fang Xing witnessed Azure Cloud Fairy suffer a catastrophic Celestial Demon Transformation.

• Fang Xing learned that Carefree Dao Lord had ordered the guards to attend the ceremony, and he reluctantly accepted that he had to go.
• In the Ash Secret Realm, Fang Xing listened to Catherine lecture on the Path of Balance, then decided to leave with the others because the inheritance did not suit his path.
• Fang Xing arrived at the Dao Court with Azure Cloud Fairy and Lo Yun True Immortal, where he saw Autumn Water Dao Lord arrive for the ceremony.
• Forty-nine days later, the Dao Venerable’s Purple Qi surged toward one hundred thousand li as the succession ceremony began and Fang Xing felt his True Immortal body grow purer.
• The Demon Venerable announced his arrival, suppressing Fang Xing’s mana and Space-Time Laws as Azure Cloud Fairy transformed into a half-human, half-demon form and began to dissipate.

Fang Xing’s broken horn revealed a Transcendence Legacy, disrupting the Dao Venerable’s attempt to transcend and drawing the Demon Venerable and Devil Venerable’s attacks. Fang Xing’s true body and primordial spirit escaped through the Gate of Heavens, leaving the Dao Court’s searchers unable to find him.

• The Demon Venerable arrived during the Dao Venerable’s transcendence attempt, and Carefree Dao Lord activated the Thirty-Three Heavens Creation Grand Formation before taking on the karmic consequence of the Demon Venerable’s bow.
• Fang Xing’s broken horn emerged from his Storage Bag, releasing a Transcendence aura that drew the attention of the Dao Venerable, Demon Venerable, and Devil Venerable.
• The Devil Venerable seized the horn, but its power destroyed his giant hand and disrupted the Dao Venerable’s attempt, causing the Dao Venerable to fall.
• Fang Xing’s true body used the Gate of Heavens to escape as the Transcendence Legacy began locating him, while the horn’s legacy entered his forehead.
• The Demon Venerable and Devil Venerable attacked Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone, which perished after sending its primordial spirit and the legacy through a mysterious Gate.
• Carefree Dao Lord and Autumn Water Dao Lord agreed to search for Fang Xing’s primordial spirit, but it had vanished beyond their reach.

Fang Xing awoke in the body of a dying paper slave in the Beyond-Region Land, where the Blood Shadow Sect forced slaves to make Blood Paper. After discovering his true body was asleep and that he needed power to survive, he unlocked a Druid profession through the Transcendence Legacy.

• Fang Xing awakened after being whipped for falling short of his Blood Paper quota and learned that his frail body belonged to a Blood Shadow Sect slave.
• Tao Hong treated Fang Xing's wounds and demanded that he repay her with two sheets of Blood Paper.
• Fang Xing reviewed the body's memories, realized his true body was asleep somewhere in the world, and feared his clone would die before he could awaken it.
• Fang Xing went to the river to catch food and speared a Black-Backed Carp after his first attempt failed.
• The Transcendence Legacy appeared as a profession prompt, and Fang Xing chose to begin the Druid profession.

Fang Xing gained the Level 1 Druid profession and its Nature Affinity talent, then worked a full day making Blood Paper while assessing his dwindling lifespan and the valley’s defenses. He resolved to use his Druid abilities to escape before his remaining life ran out.

• Fang Xing acquired the Druid profession, gained Nature Affinity, and discovered it improved his senses and concealed him in nature.
• Fang Xing noticed approaching footsteps and left with the Carp to avoid being discovered by another Paper Slave.
• Fang Xing returned to the Paper Mill, made a sheet of Blood Paper, and realized the work cost him nearly a year of lifespan.
• Fang Xing fed Sparrows and asked them to keep watch, learning that paper birds patrolled the sky and paper figures guarded the valley entrance.
• Fang Xing concluded that he needed to advance as a Druid and escape the Blood Shadow Sect before his remaining lifespan ran out.

Fang Xing visited the valley market to buy cultivation manuals, then discovered that his Druid nature affinity let him sense and absorb Flora Essence Qi through the Azure Wood Art. He began cultivating it and gained Nature Baptism and Nature Knowledge, bringing him closer to a possible escape from the valley.

• Fang Xing finished his blood-paper quota early and went to the market, where Tao Hong warned him that Xing San's group robbed paper slaves and supplied the Manager Disciples.
• Fang Xing entered the market and bought the Azure Wood Art and Paper Folding Secret Technique for five sheets of blood paper after bargaining with a vendor.
• Fang Xing used his Druid senses to identify Flora Essence Qi as the qi most compatible with him.
• Fang Xing absorbed Flora Essence Qi and received Nature Baptism and some Nature Knowledge.

Fang Xing cultivated the Azure Wood Art and studied the life-consuming Paper Folding Secret Technique, deciding to work toward making Paper Soldiers. After a gang led by Xing San tried to rob him, Fang Xing continued improving his hand-training skill and made better-quality blood paper at the Paper Mill.

• Fang Xing discovered that absorbing Flora Essence Qi increased both his cultivation and Druid experience, then studied the Paper Folding Secret Technique and its costs and limitations.
• Fang Xing judged Paper Soldiers the most useful of the technique’s beginner methods and learned that success depended on training the All-Round Hand or sacrificing lifespan and Quintessential Blood.
• A sparrow warned Fang Xing of an intruder, and he sent a rat to startle the man, drawing the paper slaves outside and disrupting Xing San’s attempted robbery.
• Xing San discussed stealing Fang Xing’s blood paper with his underlings, believing their failed attempt had been an accident and hoping robbery would extend their lives.
• Several days later, Fang Xing saw that his All-Round Hand had reached beginner level and that Qi Sensing had increased his lifespan, then went to the Paper Mill to make blood paper.
• Fang Xing found the pulp less painful to handle and produced a sheet of blood paper better than his previous work.