Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing returned to Poison Dragon Slope after the Fei Family’s catastrophe and chose to spare the spiritual Dragon King Ginseng, prioritizing his Druid Path over an immediate breakthrough. When the Fei and Yin Families sought his help, he discovered that the weakened Fei Family was offering major concessions to secure Poison Dragon Slope’s support.

• Fang Xing told the cultivators at Poison Dragon Slope that the Fei Family Ancestor had fallen and warned them to stay in as the region grew dangerous.
• Fang Xing let the Dragon King Ginseng live in his Bamboo Grove, deciding not to eat it for a Dao Foundation breakthrough because doing so could harm his Nature Affinity.
• After receiving a Paper Crane, Fang Xing pretended to have newly reached Qi Sensing Seventh Level and went to meet envoys from the Fei and Yin Families.
• Yin Shou urged Fang Xing to send experts to defend the Fei Family, while Fang Xing withheld his agreement and left to consult Poison Dragon Slope’s leaders.
• Song Yunyun told Fang Xing and Song Yunqian that the Fei Family could barely defend its main residence and offered to waive tribute and cede Green Water Pool in return for aid.

Fang Xing gathered Poison Dragon Slope’s leaders to decide whether to intervene in the Fei-Yin conflict, while Fei Shentong prepared to secure their support and strike at the Yin Family. The chapter left Poison Dragon Slope weighing competing offers as Fei Shentong readied himself to kill Yin Shou.

• Fang Xing revealed his Qi Sensing Seventh Level strength to Song Yunyun and said Poison Dragon Slope would discuss its involvement with the other families.
• Fang Xing heard his followers argue over whether to support the Fei Family or destroy it, then decided to contact both sides and accept the highest bidder within two days.
• Fei Wu discovered Fei Shentong was using the Paper Folding Art to create powerful Paper Figurine puppets at the cost of his lifespan.
• Fei Shentong planned to offer Fang Xing Dao Foundation breakthrough experiences and an Azure Wood Ridge recommendation quota in exchange for Poison Dragon Slope’s help.
• Fei Shentong ordered that Yin Shou be killed and resolved to attack the Yin Family himself.

Fang Xing accepted the Fei Family’s offer and led Poison Dragon Slope in destroying the Song Clan at Green Water Pool. After reading the Fei Family’s notes on Dao Foundation cultivation, he considered his own path while Fei Wu privately worried that Fang Xing’s growing power would threaten the Fei Family.

• Fang Xing decided to ally with the Fei Family, betray the Xu and Yin families, and use the Song Clan’s destruction as proof of his allegiance.
• Fang Xing and Poison Dragon Slope infiltrated Green Water Pool with help from Fei Family insiders and launched a one-sided assault on the Song Clan.
• Fang Xing killed Song cultivators while Black Serpent, Iron Net Rogue, and the others slaughtered the remaining defenders; Fei Wu then paid him with a booklet and offered a share of the spoils from future attacks on the Xu and Yin families.
• Fang Xing read the booklet’s account of Dao Foundation grades, Pseudo Divine Powers, and Divine Power Seeds, then decided to study his options before committing to Azure Wood Ridge.
• After Poison Dragon Slope returned with spoils and little loss, Fei Wu privately feared Fang Xing’s potential and hoped the Fei Family’s promised secret techniques would distract him and cost him lifespan.

Fang Xing received the Fei Family’s advanced Paper Folding Secret Techniques and spent more than a decade developing his paper arts while Poison Dragon Slope’s Lu Family grew powerful. After Iron Net Rogue died, Fang Xing attended the funeral, where Hu Liuniang openly challenged the Lu Family’s growing control of the slope.

• Fang Xing studied the Fei Family’s advanced Paper Folding Secret Techniques and considered how their paper people and other methods could conserve his lifespan.
• The Fei Family stabilized its position in Azure Dawn Marsh with the Pan Family’s support, while the Xie Clan stopped its attacks and the Fei Family recovered its strength.
• More than a decade later, Lu Feng broke through to Qi Sensing Seventh Level, and the Lu Family elders celebrated their growing dominance over East Peak and Green Water Pool.
• Fang Xing used paper people and a Paper Sedan to travel to East Peak after learning that Iron Net Rogue had died.
• Fang Xing paid his respects to Iron Net Rogue and comforted Song Yunqian and Hu Liuniang, while Song Yunqian praised her grandson Fei Yong and Hu Liuniang accused the Lu Family of taking over Poison Dragon Slope.

After Old Lu Tou’s funeral, Fang Xing arranged for Fei Yong to use the Fei family’s Azure Wood Ridge disciple slot, then gained the Enlightenment Art talent and transformed Dragon King Ginseng into Little Green. Little Green produced a crimson ginseng seed that Fang Xing recognized as a Dao Foundation Spiritual Object, leaving him wondering what he might have missed if he had eaten the ginseng before it awakened.

• Lu Feng raised the Azure Wood Ridge disciple slot with Fang Xing, who proposed sending Fei Yong instead of using it himself.
• Fang Xing persuaded Song Yunqian that Azure Wood Ridge could help Fei Yong secure the Fei family leadership and arranged to send him.
• Fang Xing reached Druid Level 13 through Nature Baptism and gained the Enlightenment Art talent.
• Fang Xing used Enlightenment Art on Dragon King Ginseng, transforming it into a human-shaped spirit named Little Green.
• Little Green revealed a crimson ginseng seed, and Fang Xing realized it was a Dao Foundation Spiritual Object compatible with his own.

Fang Xing established a Superior Lush Verdant Dao Foundation and spent the following year seeking a path to advance further. When Qiao Wuyong visited, Fang Xing learned that Dao Foundation cultivation arts and spiritual objects were difficult to obtain, while the Fei Family faced a change of patriarch.

• Fang Xing swallowed a Scarlet Ginseng Seed and smoothly established his Lush Verdant Dao Foundation, which accelerated plant growth and raised his lifespan to 520 years.
• Fang Xing concluded that he needed an Azure Wood Art cultivation method and a co-cultivation art to progress beyond the Dao Foundation Initial Stage.
• After another year, Fang Xing sent Fei Yong to Azure Wood Ridge with gifts and instructions to investigate patiently.
• Qiao Wuyong arrived and was surprised to see Fang Xing's cultivation and the Black Serpent's advancement; Fang Xing traded with him and asked about Dao Foundation cultivation arts and spiritual objects.
• Qiao Wuyong explained that Dao Foundation arts were scarce and revealed that Fei Shentong might soon die, leaving Fei Wu with strong support to become the Fei Family's next patriarch.

Fei Shentong planned to assassinate Fang Xing and seize a Dao Foundation Spiritual Object for the Fei Family, while Fang Xing learned that the Qiao Family Merchant Group had been wiped out. He suspected the attack was deliberate but chose not to investigate or avenge Qiao Wuyong, and continued cultivating Little Black.

• Fei Wu found Fei Shentong using sinister Paper Folding techniques and learned that the Fei Family lacked the Dragon King Ginseng needed to secure a future Dao Foundation Spiritual Object.
• Fei Shentong resolved to assassinate Fang Xing and take the blame if the Fei Family's actions were exposed.
• Fei Wu learned that the Qiao Family Merchant Association had acquired a Dao Foundation Spiritual Object for Qiao Wuyong, who was nearing foundation establishment.
• Fang Xing received Fei Yong's letter and learned from Lu Feng that Robber Cultivators had killed Qiao Wuyong and everyone in the Qiao Family Merchant Group, collecting their souls and erasing the evidence.
• Fang Xing urged Lu Feng to form Poison Dragon Slope's own merchant group, but Lu Feng proposed selling the accumulated goods at Cloud Arrive Market instead.
• Fang Xing honored Qiao Wuyong with a cup of tea, declined to pursue the killers, and used the Enlightenment Art on Little Black, expecting it to reach Qi Sensing Ninth Level after its molt.

Fei Shentong attacked Poison Dragon Slope, but Fang Xing revealed his Dao Foundation strength and killed him with help from his Mountain Python form. After discovering evidence that Fei Shentong had stolen Qiao Wuyong’s Dao Foundation opportunity, Fang Xing flew toward the Fei Family estate, where he confronted the new head, Fei Wu.

• Fei Shentong sent an army of paper figures into Poison Dragon Slope, but the Black Serpent fought back until Fang Xing arrived and healed it.
• Fang Xing froze Fei Shentong’s paper weapons with Frigid White Ants, then pierced a Paper Substitute with a wooden thorn and revealed his Dao Foundation strength.
• Fei Shentong fled, but Fang Xing’s Mountain Python form caught him and killed him after the Living Soul Paper Figures revealed Qiao Wuyong among their tormented souls.
• Fang Xing collected the ordinary paper figures and concluded that Fei Wu likely possessed the stolen Dao Foundation Spiritual Object.
• Fang Xing flew to the Fei Family estate and surprised Fei Wu, who sensed the presence of a Dao Foundation Cultivator.

Fang Xing killed Fei Wu and preserved the Fei Family so Fei Yong could take over. When the Pan Family’s Dao Foundation cultivators tried to pressure the family, Fang Xing revealed his strength and asserted Fei Yong’s claim to the headship.

• Fang Xing crippled Fei Wu, took the Qiao Family’s Dao Foundation Pill from him, and killed him after deciding to spare the rest of the Fei Family.
• Lu Feng told Fang Xing that Fei Wu had died, and Fang Xing urged him to inform Song Yunqian and bring Fei Yong back while watching out for the Pan Family.
• Pan Hu and Pan Yu traveled to Azure Dawn Marsh, planning to use a marriage alliance to influence who became the Fei Family head.
• At Fei Wu’s funeral, Lu Feng publicly supported Fei Yong as the next head while Fei Family members and guests debated the succession.
• Fang Xing confronted Pan Hu and Pan Yu with his Frigid White Ants, forcing them to acknowledge their breach of etiquette and return to approach on foot.
• Fang Xing revealed his Dao Foundation power at the mourning hall and declared Fei Yong the new Fei Family head, demanding to know who objected.

Fang Xing made a deal with Fei Yong to protect Poison Dragon Slope and use the Fei Family’s Azure Wood Ridge connections in exchange for a Dao Foundation Pill. He then joined Azure Wood Ridge and began arranging a quiet, spacious cultivation assignment in Shennong Hall.

• Fang Xing offered Fei Yong a Dao Foundation Pill in exchange for guarding Poison Dragon Slope and arranging a stable medicinal-garden post through the Fei Family’s connections.
• Fang Xing traveled to Azure Wood Ridge and completed the sect’s admission ceremony under Qing Yanzi, accepting its rules and receiving robes and a Command Token.
• Fang Xing met Fei Changnong, the Vice Hall Master of Shennong Hall, who explained that farming assignments earned fewer Contribution Points than combat or garrison duty.
• Fang Xing told Fei Changnong he wanted a large cultivation site where he could plant trees, and Fei Changnong opened a golden account book to find a suitable assignment.

Fang Xing became the manager of Azure Remainder Garden, a remote medicine garden centered on a Ten Thousand Year Evergreen Wood. He settled there, set rules for the three resident disciples, and began transforming the valley into a forest.

• Fang Xing bribed Fei Changnong and chose the long-term Azure Remainder Garden assignment, becoming its manager.
• Fei Changnong discussed Fang Xing with a woman in red and decided to observe whether he had hidden schemes.
• Fang Xing entered Azure Remainder Garden, sensed the Ten Thousand Year Evergreen Wood’s affinity and connection to Azure Wood Ridge’s Grand Formation, and met Meng Tiandong, Yu Santian, and Hua Qing.
• Fang Xing let the three disciples keep using the wooden houses beneath the Evergreen Wood and warned them not to cut down saplings.
• Fang Xing chose a site for his own woodland cabin, planted Evergreen Wood seeds, and used his Druid talents and Lush Verdant Dao Foundation to grow a forest around it.

After ten years managing Azure Remainder Garden, Fang Xing collected his reward, dealt with trouble at Poison Dragon Slope, and visited old acquaintances before returning to cultivation. He aimed to advance to the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and obtain a Divine Power Fundamental Chart, while wondering whether the Great Zhou Dynasty’s “gods” had created the first one.

• Fang Xing gave Fei Changnong top-grade medicinal herbs harvested over ten years and received 1,300 Merit Points before taking leave to visit Poison Dragon Slope.
• Fang Xing confronted Lu Feng for encroaching on his interests and warned him not to try again.
• Fang Xing visited Hu Liuniang, who said that she and Sister Song might not live until his next visit in ten years.
• Fang Xing gave Fei Yong a Dao Foundation Pill and advised him on forging a Dao Foundation.
• Fang Xing returned to Azure Remainder Garden and resumed secluded cultivation, planning to advance and exchange Merit Points for a Divine Power Fundamental Chart.

After reaching the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and gaining the Regeneration talent, Fang Xing expanded Azure Remainder Garden’s medicine fields while avoiding dangerous combat missions. Fei Changnong and Martial Aunt Hong warned that the Life Slaughtering Sect might enter the Beyond-Region Land, leaving Fang Xing’s secure long-term assignment especially valuable.

• Fang Xing celebrated his sixtieth birthday alone, then broke through to the Dao Foundation Middle Stage and advanced to Level 14 Druid, gaining Regeneration.
• Fang Xing decided to earn Merit Points by cultivating more hundred-year spirit herbs rather than risking combat or drawing attention with thousand-year herbs.
• Fang Xing ordered Meng Tiandong, Yu Santian, and Hua Qing to open another hundred mu of medicine fields and plant additional spirit herbs.
• Fei Changnong and Martial Aunt Hong visited the garden and asked Fang Xing to take in several disciples to shield them from combat and garrison missions.
• Fei Changnong explained that sect leaders had frozen new long-term assignments, while Martial Aunt Hong warned that the Life Slaughtering Sect might be driven into the Beyond-Region Land and trigger struggles among its factions.

Fang Xing kept to his secluded life in Azure Remainder Garden as rumors of war spread, declining Martial Aunt Hong’s invitation to explore a secluded mystery. Fei Yong arrived after establishing his Dao Foundation, and Fang Xing warned him that the coming war might be real while offering to shelter one of his family’s juniors.

• Fang Xing enforced fieldwork for the new medicine garden disciples while privately reasoning that Fei Changnong had likely arranged his assignment because he expected trouble.
• Fang Xing declined Martial Aunt Hong’s invitation, and Fei Changnong and Hong concluded that he preferred cultivation and would remain in the garden despite rumors of war.
• Fang Xing watched material prices and grew more convinced that the sect was preparing for war, so he kept an even lower profile.
• Fei Yong arrived at Azure Remainder Garden after establishing his Dao Foundation and told Fang Xing that his grandmother had died after seeing his success.
• Fang Xing warned Fei Yong that the rumored war with the Blood Shadow Sect might be real, and Fei Yong realized he might be conscripted.
• Fang Xing offered Fei Yong a place in the garden for one Qi Perception member of the Fei Family, and Fei Yong accepted his advice.

As Azure Wood Ridge prepared for war, Fang Xing secured his position by delivering an abundant harvest and tightened security at Azure Remainder Garden after the Blood Shadow Sect declared war. Months later, the garden remained orderly, but Fang Xing sensed something was wrong with one of its people.

• Fei Changnong rewarded Fang Xing and the Qi-Sensing disciples for Azure Remainder Garden's greatly increased herb production as war preparations began.
• Playful Pity True Person sent Blood Shadow Sect disciples to infiltrate Azure Wood Ridge, destroy Evergreen Trees, and exploit the coming war to gather Leather Shadows and living souls.
• Fang Xing accepted Fei Changqing as a new disciple and assigned Dong Meier to teach him the herb-field precautions.
• A sect warning announced war with the Blood Shadow Sect, and Fang Xing canceled leave and ordered the garden disciples to keep watch.
• Fang Xing continued planting Evergreen Trees while reports of fighting spread, and Azure Remainder Garden stayed orderly for several months.
• Fang Xing's Druid senses alerted him that something was wrong with someone in the garden.

Fang Xing witnessed the secret behind Fei Changqing, who was actually the reincarnated Profound Wood True Person and needed the Ten Thousand Year Evergreen Tree to cultivate. After a spy tried to poison the tree, Fang Xing chose to keep Fei Changqing’s identity secret while investigating him, and he later questioned what the sect histories revealed about Azure Wood Ridge and the Life Slaughtering Sect.

• Hua Qing tried to destroy the Ten Thousand Year Evergreen Tree with Fire Poison Liquid, but Fei Changqing trapped and killed her after exposing her as a Blood Shadow Sect spy.
• The dying spy recognized Fei Changqing as Profound Wood True Person, a Yin God who had seized a new body, and Fei Changqing denied the identity after cleaning up the scene.
• Fang Xing used his hummingbird and Nature Affinity to learn that Fei Changqing was cultivating with the tree’s time-related qi to form a Years Wood Autumn Dao Foundation.
• Months later, Fei Changnong warned Fang Xing about Blood Shadow Sect spies, while Fang Xing kept Fei Changqing’s secrets to himself and continued watching him.
• Fang Xing read about Profound Wood True Person and the sects of the Beyond-Region Land, concluding that the Life Slaughtering Sect was stronger than the Flying Sword Sect and that Azure Wood Ridge had relocated early.

Fang Xing stayed out of the widening war while cultivating his Bewitching Soul Art and tending Azure Remainder Garden. After reaching Level 15 Druid and gaining Ageless Body, he decided he was ready to make a move against someone.

• Fang Xing studied the Life Slaughtering Sect and trained the Bewitching Soul Art while the war continued around Azure Wood Ridge.
• Fei Yong returned injured from Theater Stage Mountain and reported that Hua Qing had died, the Blood Shadow Sect was turning the theater stage into a Theater Building, and demon cultivators were ravaging the region.
• Fei Yong gave Fang Xing Lu Feng’s letter describing the Lu Family’s losses, and Fang Xing learned that Hu Liuniang had also died protecting her juniors.
• Fang Xing harvested 6,700 Merit Points from his spirit herbs, bringing him closer to studying a Divine Power Fundamental Chart.
• Fang Xing reached Level 15 Druid, gained Ageless Body, and saw that his Bewitching Soul Art had reached Grandmaster level.
• Fang Xing concluded that he could now make a move against the person he had been watching.

Fang Xing advanced his Druid abilities, crafted six powerful Paper Generals by spending 180 years of lifespan, and transformed into a White Jade Horned Dragon. He sent the generals to capture Fei Changqing, whose formation was broken, leaving him to flee with a talisman.

• Fang Xing reached Druid Level 15, comprehended Horned Dragon Transformation, and used five years of lifespan to raise a paper figure to the Dao Foundation Realm.
• Fang Xing spent 180 years of lifespan to create six Dao Foundation Late Stage Paper Generals and ordered them to capture Fei Changqing.
• Fang Xing transformed into a White Jade Horned Dragon and followed the Paper Generals into a space shaped by their use of the Illusory Realm.
• The Paper Generals attacked Fei Changqing's formation, broke it, and revealed that the figure inside was a Bean Puppet.
• Fei Changqing reappeared nearby and took out a Talisman from his Flying Squirrel Pouch.

Fang Xing killed the reincarnated Profound Wood True Person Ye Xuanqing after learning of his plans to steal Dao Foundations, then considered cultivating the Flesh Derivation divine power through the Flesh Tai Sui chart. After Fei Changqing’s disappearance was reported, Fang Xing asked Fei Changnong how he could obtain the chart, learning it was normally restricted to Azure Wood Ridge’s direct line.

• Fang Xing froze Fei Changqing’s talisman and body, then used the Bewitching Soul Art to learn that he was the reincarnated Profound Wood True Person Ye Xuanqing.
• Fang Xing learned Ye Xuanqing had planned to form a Water Wood Prime Pill and use the Dao Seizing Foundation Devouring Art to steal another cultivator’s Dao Foundation.
• Fang Xing weighed the Flesh Tai Sui chart’s Flesh Derivation divine power against Grass Head Deity and considered how to obtain the chart.
• Meng Tiandong and Dong Meier reported that Fei Changqing had vanished and his wooden house was damaged, prompting Fang Xing to notify Shennong Hall.
• Fang Xing asked Fei Changnong about exchanging for the Flesh Tai Sui Divine Power Fundamental Chart, and Fei Changnong explained that it was usually reserved for sect members of the direct line, though Battle Merits could allow exceptions.

Fang Xing strengthened Poison Dragon Slope by awakening a powerful Treant and then encountered a Dao Foundation figure who appeared to be Lin Xu. He recognized that the figure was likely Lin Xu’s corpse, refined by the Corpse Driving Sect, and pursued it.

• Fang Xing studied the Flesh Tai Sui Divine Power Fundamental Chart, which he expected to help him condense a defensive and restorative Pseudo Divine Power.
• Fang Xing visited Poison Dragon Slope, gathered acorns from ten-thousand-year Three Saint Oak trees, and assessed the strength of his Poison Horn Python and other guardians.
• Fang Xing spent three hundred years of lifespan to awaken the oldest Three Saint Oak as a Treant named Three Heads, then ordered it to guard the Bamboo Sea in concealment.
• Fang Xing met the injured Lu Feng, who had returned from the battlefield with a damaged foundation, and agreed to visit Hu Liuniang’s grave.
• At the graves, Fang Xing and Lu Feng encountered a figure who looked like Lin Xu; the figure fled, and Fang Xing pursued it, suspecting it was Lin Xu’s corpse refined by the Corpse Driving Sect.