Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing followed a trap to a swamp and faced Xie Songshan and four Blood Shadow Sect cultivators, including people from his past. He defeated them with his Superior Dao Foundation and a powerful Paper General, then agreed to let Tao Hong pursue revenge while he interrogated the surviving old man for scriptures and information about a traitor in Azure Wood Ridge.

• Fang Xing recognized Lin Xu as Xie Songshan's Refined Corpse and realized the trap might involve a traitor in Azure Wood Ridge.
• Xie Songshan and four Blood Shadow Sect cultivators surrounded Fang Xing, including Red Eyebrow Upper Person and two former residents of Paper Slave Valley.
• Fang Xing revealed his Dao Foundation Middle Stage cultivation and used Lush Verdant to kill Red Eyebrow Upper Person and separate the attackers.
• Fang Xing's Dao Foundation Late Stage Paper General crushed Lin Xu and killed Xie Songshan, while Tao Hong ambushed and immobilized her Dao companion.
• Tao Hong explained that the old man had used her as a cultivation furnace and asked Fang Xing to let her reclaim the lifespan he had stolen.
• Fang Xing agreed to interrogate the old man for the Blood Paper Secret Canon and details of the Azure Wood Ridge accomplice.

Fang Xing learned the Paper Figure Curse and used its deadly Seven Stars Blood Pricking method against the Azure Wood Ridge traitor, sacrificing lifespan to kill him. Several days later, after hearing the victim had been found dead, Fang Xing offered Meng Tiandong a chance to leave Azure Wood Ridge, but Meng chose to stay.

• Fang Xing interrogated the Paper Slave Valley Manager Disciple, learned the Blood Paper Secret Canon, and gave the old man to Tao Hong to restore her lifespan.
• Fang Xing discovered that a traitor at Azure Wood Ridge had sold him out and resolved to kill the man with the Paper Figure Curse.
• Fang Xing showed Fei Changnong the heads of Xie Songshan and Red Eyebrow Upper Person, and Fei agreed to credit him with their Battle Merits while suspecting someone in Shennong Hall had leaked information.
• Fang Xing returned to Azure Remainder Garden with a streak of white hair and used the Seven Stars Blood Pricking method to curse the traitor to death at the cost of lifespan.
• Several days later, Fang Xing heard that Qian Hui had been found dead in his cave dwelling and offered to help Meng Tiandong leave Azure Wood Ridge, but Meng chose to remain.

Fang Xing defended Azure Remainder Garden as the decisive battle between the Ten Righteous and Evil Factions erupted across Azure Wood Ridge. After the first attack was repelled, Fei Changnong sacrificed himself to protect Martial Aunt Hong while the sect’s powerful figures watched from above.

• Fang Xing completed a Paper House Grotto-Heaven and realized it could let a Yin God True Person preserve their soul and extend their life.
• A paper-money storm and Playful Pity True Person’s Theater Building appeared over Azure Wood Ridge as the invading forces launched their assault.
• Fang Xing sealed Azure Remainder Garden’s valley and fought off the first wave with his formation and Dao Foundation Late Stage Paper General, though many Medicine Garden Disciples died.
• Fei Yong fled toward Fang Xing with pursuers behind him, while Fei Changnong and Martial Aunt Hong were driven into battle near Shennong Hall.
• Fei Changnong swallowed a Mad Demon Life-Stealing Pill and used his burning divine power to hold back the pursuers so Martial Aunt Hong could live.
• Azure Wood Old Ghost accepted the terms of his agreement with the opposing Yang God True Monarch, who warned that the Life Slaughtering Sect might disregard the factions’ rules.

After Azure Wood Old Ancestor conceded defeat, Blood Shadow Sect withdrew from Azure Wood Ridge, leaving the sect battered and facing a future confrontation with Life Slaughtering Sect. Fang Xing advanced to the Dao Foundation Late Stage, then attended a sect gathering where the Ancestor punished deserters and opened the treasury for battle-merit rewards; Fang Xing coveted a Divine Power Pill Membrane but lacked the merits to obtain it.

• Azure Wood Old Ghost admitted defeat, and Blood Shadow Sect and the other attackers withdrew from Azure Wood Ridge.
• Fang Xing told Fei Yong that the retreat was not a true victory, then condensed the Flesh Tai Sui Pseudo Divine Power and advanced to the Dao Foundation Late Stage.
• Fang Xing received a summons to the Ancestral Hall, where he saw the wounded survivors and learned that Fei Changnong had used a Mad Demon Life-Stealing Pill and lost his black hair.
• Azure Wood Old Ancestor exposed two Dao Foundation Cultivators who had feigned death to escape and punished them with the Medicine Person Technique.
• Azure Wood Old Ancestor promised generous rewards and claimed he had a foolproof plan against Life Slaughtering Sect, while Azure Jade Child presented the Battle Merits register and exchange list.
• Fang Xing spotted a Divine Power Pill Membrane that could help him become a Yin God True Person, but realized he lacked enough Battle Merits to exchange for it.

Fang Xing stayed in Azure Remainder Garden after Azure Wood Ridge’s devastating battle, tending Evergreen Trees and helping the surviving garden disciples. As the Life Slaughtering Sect remained occupied elsewhere, he cultivated toward the Yin God True Person realm and pondered the limits of the mortal world.

• Fang Xing declined a new sect position, chose to keep farming, and promised the Medicine Garden Disciples a Dao Foundation Pill to reward their efforts.
• Fang Xing inspected the graves of fallen disciples, including Dong Meier, then entrusted Meng Tiandong with a Dao Foundation Pill to distribute as he saw fit.
• Fei Changnong warned Fang Xing that the garden’s spiritual medicines would earn few Merit Points, while Fang Xing and Meng Tiandong accepted the reduced quota without resentment.
• After years passed without an attack, Fang Xing formed a Divine Power Talisman from compatible Pseudo Divine Powers and began refining it into a Divine Power Seed.
• Fang Xing considered the realms beyond Yang God True Monarchs and the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Heavenly Court as he stood before Meng Tiandong’s grave.

Fang Xing broke through to the Initial Yin God Realm, gaining the Flesh Derivation Divine Power and a new Druid healing talent. A year later, Yu Hua failed to establish his Dao Foundation, and Fang Xing discovered he could heal him enough to attempt it again.

• Yu Santian brought his descendant Yu Hua to meet Fang Xing, explaining that Yu Hua had been chosen to inherit Meng Tiandong's Dao Foundation opportunity.
• Fang Xing stabilized his Divine Power Golden Core seed and broke through to the Yin God True Person realm, gaining a perfected body and the Flesh Derivation Divine Power.
• The breakthrough raised Fang Xing's Druid class to Level 17 and granted him Advanced Natural Healing, while his lifespan grew by more than a thousand years.
• Fang Xing assessed his chances against a Yang God True Monarch and concluded that Azure Remainder Garden could give him a strong chance to defeat one.
• A year later, Yu Hua's attempt to establish his Dao Foundation failed, and Fang Xing used Advanced Natural Healing to repair his injuries and realized he could help Yu Hua try again.

After Yu Hua failed to advance to Dao Foundation, Fang Xing discovered that Fei Changnong had become a Lifespan Fiend by stealing his Dao companion's lifespan. Fang Xing secretly followed Fei Changnong and found him gathering blood-tainted resources and preparing a demonic altar, where he muttered about Fang Xing still being alive.

• Yu Hua failed to break through to Dao Foundation, and Yu Santian thanked Fang Xing for helping him.
• Fei Changnong arrived to collect spirit herbs and claimed that Martial Aunt Hong had died while seeking a Lifespan Extending Spirit Pill.
• Fang Xing sensed that Fei Changnong had stolen lifespan from his Dao companion and become a Lifespan Fiend.
• Fang Xing used his Illusory Paper House Grotto-Heaven to trap his treehouse, then transformed into a concealed beetle and followed Fei Changnong's disciple into his cave abode.
• Fei Changnong collected bloody pouches from several disciples, promised them rewards, and arranged a demonic altar with blood-tainted objects.
• Fei Changnong muttered, "Junior Brother Fang... why aren't you dead yet?" as he placed a tattered piece of beast hide on the altar.

Fang Xing watched Fei Changnong’s Blood Soul Curse rebound and kill him, then took a few items from his estate. At Fei Changnong’s funeral, the sect exposed his crimes, confiscated his cave abode, and promoted Fang Xing to Deputy Hall Master of Shennong Hall.

• Fang Xing recognized Fei Changnong’s ritual as a flawed Blood Soul Curse and realized Fei intended to claim his estate.
• Fei Changnong’s curse rebounded, draining his lifespan until he died of old age; Fang Xing took some books and the beast hide from his cave abode.
• Fei Changnong’s disciples argued over his inheritance at the mourning hall, where Fang Xing posed as a grieving friend.
• Senior Brother Min and the Law Enforcement Cultivators exposed Fei Changnong’s atrocities, including his disciples’ role in them, and ordered the cave abode sealed and the disciples taken for trial.
• Senior Brother Min offered Fang Xing the post of Deputy Hall Master of Shennong Hall, and Fang Xing accepted, seeing a chance to expand Azure Remainder Garden.

After becoming Deputy Hall Master of Shennong Hall, Fang Xing focused on planting Evergreen Trees across Azure Wood Ridge to expand his Forest Sanctuary, while avoiding conflict with Hall Master Min. His efforts raised his Druid level and gave him Group Nature Summoning, just as Lu Feng arrived with Lu Tian to seek his help for the Lu Family.

• Fang Xing appointed Yu Hua acting manager of Azure Remainder Garden and went to take up his post at Shennong Hall.
• Fang Xing introduced a plan to plant Evergreen Trees in neglected areas, and Hall Master Min approved it because it did not challenge his authority.
• Fang Xing planted Evergreen Trees across Azure Wood Ridge, eventually expanding his Forest Sanctuary and raising his Druid level to 18.
• Fang Xing gained the Group Nature Summoning talent, which allowed him to summon multiple natural allies at once.
• Lu Feng arrived with Lu Tian and brought a letter of introduction from Fei Yong to request an audience with Fang Xing.
• Fang Xing recognized Lu Feng's declining health, and Lu Feng introduced Lu Tian as a talented young clansman whose family could not afford a Dao Foundation Spiritual Object for him.

Fang Xing rejected Lu Feng and Lu Tian’s appeal, then let the Fei Family act against the Lu Family after making clear he would no longer protect them. Years later, Min Zinong sought the Shennong Hall Deputy Hall Master position, and Hall Master Min decided to persuade Fang Xing to resign in exchange for substantial compensation.

• Fang Xing dismissed Lu Feng and Lu Tian after Lu Tian said he wanted to remain with the Lu Family, leaving Lu Feng to realize his clan’s younger generation believed fabricated stories about its history.
• Fang Xing sent Fei Yong a Paper Crane to clarify that he would no longer lend the Lu Family his prestige, and Fei Yong replied humbly while preparing to move against them.
• Years later, the Fei Family paid the Lu Family’s debts in exchange for Green Water Pool and the Pearl-Raising Secret Art, while Lu Tian died in an ambush and the Fei Family prospered.
• Min Zinong, newly advanced to the Dao Foundation Middle Stage, complained to Hall Master Min that Fang Xing still occupied the Deputy Hall Master position.
• Hall Master Min agreed to offer Fang Xing substantial compensation to make him resign voluntarily, clearing the way for Min Zinong.

Fang Xing secured the Shennong Hall Deputy Hall Master position by revealing his Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivation, while the Life Slaughtering Sect began its return to Beyond-Region Land. Black Law Lord and White Law Lord ambushed Azure Wood Old Ancestor, killed him, and captured his Yang God.

• Fang Xing showed Hall Master Min his Dao Foundation Late Stage cultivation and Flesh Tai Sui divine power, leaving the Deputy Hall Master position secure.
• Hall Master Min told Min Zinong that he would arrange another position for him, and Min Zinong realized his uncle had yielded to Fang Xing.
• Azure Wood Old Ancestor learned from Black Law Lord that the Life Slaughtering Sect planned to establish a force in Beyond-Region Land and attack Azure Wood Ridge.
• Azure Wood Old Ancestor offered to surrender himself and his sect to the Life Slaughtering Sect, but Black Law Lord attacked him with a heaven-spanning Go board.
• Black Law Lord and White Law Lord joined forces to trap Azure Wood Old Ancestor's Yang God and extinguish it.

Fang Xing learned that the Life Slaughtering Sect had invaded the Beyond-Region Land, prompting the Ten Righteous and Evil Factions to unite against it. As the fighting intensified, the Life Slaughtering Sect’s Left Envoy prepared a Divine Artifact and a vast ritual to destroy the region and please their True God.

• The Azure Wood Old Ancestor announced that the Life Slaughtering Sect planned to destroy the Ten Outer Sects, and Azure Wood Ridge began contacting the other factions to form an alliance.
• Fang Xing suspected the Azure Wood Old Ancestor had revived after being killed and chose not to challenge him, instead organizing people to keep planting trees.
• Months later, Fei Yong told Fang Xing that the Life Slaughtering Sect had declared war and badly battered the Flying Sword Sect; Fang Xing speculated that their True God might be in trouble.
• Outside Three Severance Pass, the Black Law Lord and White Law Lord joined the Left Envoy, who revealed that the sect had brought a Divine Artifact and arranged a ritual to destroy the Beyond-Region Land as an offering to their lord.

Fang Xing completed the Forest Sanctuary as Azure Wood Ridge learned that the front line had been crushed by the Life Slaughtering Sect. He accepted the Sect Master's Command Token and stayed behind, but revealed to Fei Yong that he had already protected himself by sending his quintessential blood away.

• Fang Xing finished planting the Evergreen Trees at key nodes across Azure Wood Ridge and prepared to wait until he reached level 20 as a Druid.
• Azure Wood Old Ancestor announced that the front line had fallen and ordered the disciples to break out separately after the Life Slaughtering Sect's Yang God Late Stage envoy devastated the allied forces.
• Azure Jade Child revealed that the Life Slaughtering Sect's ritual had killed Azure Wood Ridge's two Yin Gods and many disciples, while Min Zinong worried about his uncle on the front line.
• Fang Xing volunteered to defend Azure Wood Ridge, and Azure Jade Child passed him the Sect Master's Command Token and named him the thirty-sixth Sect Master.
• After most disciples fled, Fang Xing explained to Fei Yong that the Azure Wood Token concealed a sacrificial formation meant to consume those left behind, then revealed that he had already sent his quintessential blood away and cultivated a Yin God.

Fang Xing raised his Druid profession to Level 19 and replaced Azure Wood Ridge’s sealed formation with a Forest Sanctuary, freeing the cultivators trapped inside. As news arrived that the Life Slaughtering Sect’s vanguard was approaching, he used an Azure Jade Beetle to scout the battles outside.

• Fang Xing cultivated Azure Wood Ridge until his Druid profession reached Level 19 and he gained Nature’s Wrath.
• Fang Xing’s Yin God cultivation advanced to the Middle Stage, and he questioned whether the orthodox cultivation paths ultimately served the Great Zhou Dynasty’s divine appointments.
• Fang Xing empowered the Evergreen Trees, destroyed the Every Plant a Soldier Grand Array, and established a Forest Sanctuary with a natural barrier and other effects.
• Fei Yong and the others received messages that the Corpse Driving Sect had fallen and the Life Slaughtering Sect’s vanguard was nearing Cloud Arriving Market; Fang Xing let the cultivators leave if they wished.
• Fang Xing possessed an Azure Jade Beetle and saw the Life Slaughtering Sect’s squads fighting the cultivators who had departed Azure Wood Ridge.

Fang Xing ambushed a Life Slaughtering Sect squad with swarms of insects, captured its leader, and learned about the sect’s destructive advancement rituals and demigod-level power. When White Law Lord attacked Azure Wood Ridge, the formation suppressed her magic, and Fang Xing transformed into a White Jade Horned Dragon and knocked her from the sky.

• Fang Xing sent the Azure Jade Beetle back to Azure Wood Ridge after spotting Life Slaughtering Sect squads intercepting fleeing cultivators.
• A Life Slaughtering Sect squad refused Azure Wood Ridge’s offer to surrender and attacked, so Fang Xing’s Azure Jade Beetles broke its barrier and his Frigid White Ants froze the squad.
• Fang Xing questioned the squad leader, Hei Yuan, and learned that the sect was sending forces and a Divine Artifact to the Beyond-Region Land, and that Hei Yuan had advanced to Destruction Warrior by sacrificing an eye.
• White Law Lord arrived and threatened to burn Azure Wood Ridge to ashes, then entered Fang Xing’s formation and found her power suppressed.
• White Law Lord tried to capture Fang Xing, but he transformed into a White Jade Horned Dragon and struck her into the earth with his tail before Treants stomped her.

Fang Xing defeated and captured the White Law Lord, then used soul-bewitching and Soul Dissolving Powder to extract secrets about the Life Slaughtering Sect. He learned that its god had stopped answering believers and that a powerful God Envoy led the threat, leaving him weighing the danger to Azure Wood Ridge.

• Fang Xing shattered the White Law Lord’s Thousand Hands Bodhisattva Yang God with lightning and natural disasters, then sealed her inside a ball of draining vines.
• Fang Xing appointed Fei Yong as an emissary to negotiate with the Life Slaughtering Sect, but Fei Yong was seized when he reached Cloud Arriving Market.
• Fang Xing healed the battle-scarred land, continued planting Evergreen Trees, and used soul-bewitching arts and Soul Dissolving Powder to question the White Law Lord.
• Fang Xing learned that the Life Slaughtering Sect’s Deity had stopped responding to believers, prompting the sect to shift its attention to Beyond-Region Land.
• Fang Xing discovered that the Left Envoy, Poison Hand Scholar, was a late-stage Yang God cultivator and God Envoy who wielded the Destruction Hammer, and he reconsidered whether defending Azure Wood Ridge was wise.

Poison Hand Scholar spared Azure Wood Ridge after divining that a calamity there could destroy him, and Fei Yong helped Fang Xing establish the Nature Sect. Years later, as the war continued and the sect grew, Fang Xing decided to lure out and kill the hostile Azure Wood Old Ancestor after gaining the Ageless Immortality talent.

• Poison Hand Scholar explained that sparing Azure Wood Ridge would divide the enemy and revealed that his divination warned of a calamity there.
• Fei Yong returned to Fang Xing with news of the war, then asked him to establish a new sect; Fang Xing renamed Azure Wood Ridge the Nature Sect.
• Several years later, Fei Yong managed the prosperous Nature Sect while Fang Xing devoted himself to planting trees.
• Fei Yong suspected that Lin Kun had come to spy for Azure Wood Old Ancestor, but Fang Xing ordered him to find a chance to lure the old ancestor out and kill him.
• Fang Xing gained the Ageless Immortality talent when his Druid class reached level 20.

Fang Xing reached level 20, entered the Legendary Domain, and advanced his Yin Spirit to the Late Stage. When Azure Wood Old Ancestor and Azure Jade Child attacked his Bamboo Sea to draw him out, Fang Xing arrived and revealed that his strength went beyond what they expected.

• Fang Xing gained the Flood Dragon form, Ageless Longevity, and a breakthrough to the Yin Spirit Late Stage, then ordered Fei Yong to deal with Lin Kun.
• Azure Wood Old Ancestor and Azure Jade Child planned to attack Fang Xing's suspected weakness at Poison Dragon Slope and burn the West Slope.
• Azure Jade Child slaughtered the Lu Family estate, killing Lu Feng and everyone else there.
• Azure Jade Child attacked the Bamboo Sea's Poison Horn Python, ginseng spirit, Three Heads Treant, and Paper Generals, while Azure Wood Old Ancestor waited for Fang Xing to appear.
• Fang Xing arrived and extinguished the flames, then empowered the Treant into a Legendary Burning Treant Guardian.

Fang Xing killed Azure Wood Old Ancestor, learned the secrets of Yang God breakthroughs, and returned to the Nature Sect. Later, he intercepted Tao Hong at Azure Wood Ridge and realized a hidden emissary was concealed within her.

• Fang Xing transformed into a White Jade Flood Dragon and defeated Azure Wood Old Ancestor, capturing his weakened Yang God.
• Fang Xing interrogated Azure Wood Old Ancestor, learned the location of his Quintessential Blood, then destroyed his true spirit and confirmed that it prevented revival.
• Fang Xing learned that Divine Grace and divinity could aid a Yang God breakthrough, and considered seeking Nature Divinity rather than the destructive divinity of the Life Slaughtering Sect.
• Fang Xing returned to the Nature Sect, where Fei Yong reported that Lin Kun and several spies had been executed; Fang Xing ordered their corpses buried as tree fertilizer.
• News spread that Fang Xing had killed Azure Wood Old Ancestor, and cultivators began regarding him as a hidden and formidable Yang God True Monarch.
• Fang Xing trapped Tao Hong in the Paper House Grotto-Heaven and suspected that she was concealing the real emissary inside her.

Fang Xing turned Azure Wood Ridge into a vast forest, gained Nature Divinity, and advanced to Yang God Initial Stage. His breakthrough awakened his true self in the Heavenly Court, where he realized he had taken the place of the sleeping God of Destruction and Ruin, Astar.

• Fang Xing refused the Blood Shadow Sect Ancestor’s recruitment and offered Tao Hong the choice to return to the Blood Shadow Sect or stay in the Nature Sect.
• Tao Hong chose to remain in the Nature Sect, while Fang Xing transformed Azure Wood Ridge into a sprawling Barbaric Jungle.
• Fang Xing reached Druid Level 21, gained the God's Eye Cannot Reach talent, and received a point of Nature Divinity that removed his lifespan limit.
• Fang Xing used the Nature Divinity to advance from Yin Spirit Late Stage to Yang God Initial Stage and sensed his true self through their shared consciousness.
• Fang Xing’s true self awakened in a ruined divine kingdom and realized that he had replaced Astar, the God of Destruction and Ruin, while Astar slept.