Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing prepared for the Emperor’s expected death and went to the palace with most of the East Palace Guards after Eunuch Su summoned him to attend the ailing Emperor. Prince Tai and Mister Wu learned of the Crown Prince’s nighttime departure and debated how to respond, leaving the cause of the palace emergency uncertain.

• Li Ruzhang read a leaked rebuke of the Crown Prince and, on Mister Wu’s advice, chose not to spread it or involve himself in the succession struggle.
• Fang Xing anticipated the Emperor’s death and planned to raise troops if the palace failed to notify him by the third watch.
• Eunuch Su summoned Fang Xing to the palace on the Empress Dowager’s verbal order, saying the Emperor was unwell.
• Fang Xing assembled the East Palace Guards and led four teams toward the palace, leaving one team to guard his residence.
• Mister Wu told Li Ruzhang that the Crown Prince’s procession had headed for the locked palace gates and laid out possible strategies for Prince Tai.

After Emperor Da Qian died suddenly, Fang Xing secured the palace, accepted the officials’ homage, and prepared to succeed him. As dawn broke, Fang Xing considered the threats and political constraints awaiting his reign.

• King Tai chose to wait for news and ordered his men to gather intelligence rather than attack the palace.
• Fang Xing entered Divine Martial Gate after Kou Feng accepted the Empress Dowager’s decree, then posted Zhao Hu and two squads to guard it.
• Fang Xing reached the Emperor’s bedchamber, where the Empress Dowager announced that the Emperor had died, and he mourned before the assembled officials.
• With no imperial testament to contest the succession, Yuan Zhao urged Fang Xing to inherit the throne, and Fang Xing accepted the officials’ homage.
• Fang Xing set the mourning period at thirty-six days, named his father Grand Ancestor Martial Emperor, and chose Longchang as his reign title.
• As dawn arrived, Yuan Zhao and Gao Yang exchanged information about the Emperor’s death, while Fang Xing considered how to manage the realm’s factions and hidden dangers.

Fang Xing secured his succession after the emperor’s death, accepted the court’s homage, and began consolidating control without making sweeping changes. Zhao Hu’s guards purged palace spies and secured the defenses, leaving the Imperial Concubine’s plans weakened and the army orderly.

• Fang Xing spared Su Chengsheng and Ma Chengen from execution but ordered them to keep vigil for the late emperor.
• The Empress Dowager announced the emperor’s death, and the princes and ministers urged Fang Xing to ascend the throne.
• Fang Xing accepted the court’s homage, postponed appointments and dismissals of senior officials, and took up governing while prioritizing the funeral.
• Zhao Hu ordered palace informants beaten to death and had the Crown Prince’s Guards secure the palace defenses.
• The Duke of Ying Guo departed for the Imperial Guards’ camp, helping Fang Xing keep the army orderly and prevent further threats.

In the third year of Longchang, Emperor Fang Xing managed court and palace affairs while considering the dangers of imperial politics. He approved Yuan Zhao’s retirement, and Yuan Zhao left his family with a warning to keep away from the princes.

• Fang Xing heard the Bad People Commander’s report and allowed Prince Kang to request Jade Consort’s release from the palace.
• Zhang Gōnggong briefed Fang Xing on the upcoming selection of Imperial Concubine Candidates, and Fang Xing ordered him to prevent disorder in the harem.
• Fang Xing approved Yuan Zhao’s retirement and planned to honor him with an elevated rank and gold.
• Yuan Zhao told his son that Fang Xing had consolidated his authority through restraint and warned the family to limit contact with the Various Princes.

Fang Xing ruled Da Qian for decades, survived an attempted poisoning, and had Tai Prince Li Ruzhang executed after his rebellion. At age eighty-seven, he recognized a Dao Venerable in the dancer Han Yu, made her Consort Gouyu, and celebrated the birth of their son, Cheng Qian.

• Fang Xing discovered that Golden Wave Flowers and incense from Consort Mei's palace had combined into a slow poison, and ordered Zhang Gōnggong to investigate their sources.
• Tai Prince Li Ruzhang was ordered to commit suicide for plotting rebellion, and his mother, the Virtuous Consort, hanged herself afterward.
• By the sixtieth year of Longchang, Fang Xing had ruled for decades, and Da Qian's population and prosperity had grown despite the deaths of his empress and other family members.
• At Fang Xing's Longevity Festival, he recognized the dancer Han Yu as a Dao Venerable with sealed memories and cultivation, examined her gouyu pendant, and named her Consort Gouyu.
• Eleven months later, Consort Gouyu gave birth to a son, and Fang Xing named him Cheng Qian.

Fang Xing staged a succession crisis and survived an assassination attempt, using the turmoil to prepare Li Chengqian for the throne. The chapter followed their future reigns, ending with Fang Xing’s death at 127 and later emperors searching for the Ruins of Emperor Wen.

• An imperial grandson raged over Fang Xing naming the Ninety-Ninth Prince Li Chengqian, fearing it signaled his rise to Crown Prince.
• Jing Jie, a hidden agent guarding the Cold Palace, waited for his chance to attack Fang Xing during the emperor’s procession.
• A eunuch collapsed and stabbed a guard, then Jing Jie killed another guard and hurled a weapon at Fang Xing, who evaded the attack and exposed a palace maid carrying a poisoned dagger.
• Fang Xing ordered an investigation and planned to live to 120 before passing the throne to Li Chengqian, whom he intended to train as a forceful ruler.
• Li Chengqian became Crown Prince at fifteen and emperor after Fang Xing abdicated; Consort Gouyu, as Empress Dowager, assisted him in governing.
• Fang Xing died at 127 as Emperor Wen, and later emperors sought the Ruins of Emperor Wen amid rumors that he had attained Longevity.

Fang Xing completed the Secret Realm trial and chose the Heaven Opening Axe, an Innate Spirit Treasure suited to his Pan Wu Great Dao. After learning how Dao Seeds developed through cultivation and Path Opening, he returned to the Azure Origin Great World to prepare against the Zerg of the Great Xia Universe.

• The Secret Realm Spirit ranked Ye Weixian first and Fang Xing second, then offered him a choice of rare rewards.
• Fang Xing chose the Heaven Opening Axe and learned that refining its origin could help him form an Innate Dao Seed as a Three-Step Dao Lord.
• The Secret Realm Spirit explained how Dao Lords formed Innate Dao Seeds and how those seeds could become Eternal Dao Seeds.
• Fang Xing left the Secret Realm, reunited his Immortal Cultivation Clone with his true body, and took the axe for himself to refine later.
• Fang Xing resolved to strengthen his position in the Azure Origin Great World against the Zerg of the Great Xia Universe and used the Gate of Heavens to enter the Spirit Treasure Palace.

Han Lin pursued the Longevity Art to prepare for a safer breakthrough, while Fang Xing refined the technique and prepared to return to the Great Xia Universe amid wartime. In the Deer Forest Secret Realm, Yiling Wanderer defeated a Celestial Origin Deer for its treasures, then survived an ambush by Leaf Emperor Daoist using Fang Xing’s powerful Emperor Weapons.

• Han Lin left the Heaven Reaching Platform after hearing disciples mock his low cultivation, determined to raise his breakthrough odds before pursuing the Qing Emperor Longevity Art.
• Fang Xing observed Han Lin’s cultivation, refined the Qing Emperor Longevity Art, and planned to return to guard the Ophiuchus Wormhole with resources from the Pangu Secret Realm.
• Yiling Wanderer fought the Celestial Origin Deer in the Deer Forest Secret Realm with his Emperor Weapon sword and escaped with valuable gains.
• Leaf Emperor Daoist ambushed Yiling Wanderer, but Yiling’s Emperor Weapon armor absorbed nearly all the spear strike.
• Yiling rebuked Leaf Emperor Daoist and revealed that Spirit Treasure Palace could equip its disciples with Emperor Weapons, while Fang Xing prepared to sell some weapons to hasten his cultivation.

Fang Xing reflected on his cultivation and prepared for the Zerg invasion while a Zerg army broke through the Ophiuchus Wormhole and attacked New Blue Star. He destroyed the invading forces and both Black Hole Singers with a single strike.

• Fang Xing refined a Chaos Crystal, ate a Deer Cry Fruit, and considered his path toward becoming Eternal and opening a new world through the Gate of Heavens.
• Little Grey urged Li Ying to flee the approaching Zerg, but Li Ying stayed after hearing that Human Civilization might have reserves to protect it.
• A Zerg song broke the Ophiuchus Wormhole lockdown, destroyed Li Ying's patrol ship, and sent an Origin Heavy Divine Hall toward New Blue Star as the Zerg army advanced.
• Fang Xing stopped the Zerg's sound-wave attack long enough for the Origin Heavy Divine Hall to reach New Blue Star.
• Fang Xing fired the Hunter King Bow, killing the Zerg army and annihilating both Black Hole Singers while Li Ying and Little Grey watched.

Fang Xing revealed that he had reached the Dao Lord Realm when a Zerg Great Overlord Mother attacked at the Ophiuchus Wormhole. He killed her and her forces, then returned to New Blue Star, leaving Little Grey and Li Ying stunned.

• Little Grey told Li Ying that Fang Xing had likely become the Starry Sky Civilization’s only Fifth-Order Law Lord, while mocking Li Ying’s lack of talent.
• Fang Xing received Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord’s warning that a Zerg Dao Lord had appeared at the Ophiuchus Wormhole and was likely a Two Step Dao Lord.
• The Zerg Great Overlord Mother tried to enslave Fang Xing with an illusion, but Fang Xing revealed his Dao Lord Realm power and destroyed her planet and its forces with the Great Sun Tathagata Palm.
• Fang Xing stunned the Great Overlord Mother with a Destruction Demon Wolf, transformed into a Chaos Giant, and killed her with the Heaven Opening Axe.
• Fang Xing returned to New Blue Star, where Little Grey and Li Ying recoiled in shock at his strength.

After killing a Zerg Dao Lord, Fang Xing fled the Ophiuchus Wormhole and used his new status to claim knowledge and resources from the Starry Sky Civilization. The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord recruited him for a desperate plan to hold back the Zerg’s Civilization Dirge Singer, while Fang Xing learned the alliance had no true Eternal-level defender.

• The Civilization Dirge Singer learned of the Zerg defeat at the Ophiuchus Wormhole and set its sights on Fang Xing and the civilizations under his protection.
• Fang Xing abandoned the Ophiuchus Wormhole, escaped with New Blue Star and his subordinates, and redeemed Dao Lord and Eternal-level techniques using his military merit.
• Fang Xing studied the Three Aspects Theory and other knowledge, then accepted a meeting request from the Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord offered Fang Xing an Eternal inheritance and three Eternal Crystals to recruit him into the Starry Sky Civilization’s defense.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord explained that the Starry Sky Civilization and Exotic Beast Civilization planned to strike the Zerg while using technology and Forbidden Weapons to hold off the Civilization Dirge Singer.

Fang Xing advanced to the Third Step of the Dao Lord Realm and began refining the Heaven Opening Axe in hopes of reaching the Fourth Step before the war. Meanwhile, the Starry Sky Civilization and Exotic Beast Civilization launched their counteroffensive, and the chapter ended as their forces confronted the Civilization Dirge Singer and prepared another operation.

• Fang Xing took refuge in the Great Xia Universe, cultivated with a Deer Cry Fruit, and broke through from the Second Step to the Third Step of the Dao Lord Realm.
• Fang Xing placed the Heaven Opening Axe between his brows and began refining its source to transform his Dao Seed and reach the Fourth Step.
• Kai Lan rescued Xiao from a Fourth Stage Zerg Law Lord, and the two joined forces as their civilizations sent squads to sabotage Zerg territory.
• Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord led the Time-Space Fleet to the Ophiuchus Civilization and launched an attack after locating the Civilization Dirge Singer, who countered by plucking the universe's Cosmic Strings.
• Han Sen and the Exotic Beast Ancestor prepared to use their damaged formation diagram for a single attempt at their objective.

Fang Xing completed his breakthrough to Four-Step Dao Lord and gained combat strength on the Eternal level, but he emerged from seclusion after the Starry Sky Civilization had suffered a disastrous defeat. As the Zerg prepared to dominate the weakened civilizations, Fang Xing rejected surrender and insisted that Human Civilization could still resist.

• Fang Xing sublimated his Pan Wu Dao Seed into an Innate Pan Wu Dao Seed, advanced to Four-Step Dao Lord, and realized that he could fight ordinary Eternal Existences.
• Fang Xing entered the Great Void Universe and learned that the Ophiuchus Battle had ended in disaster and the Starry Sky Civilization had declared bankruptcy.
• Fang Xing reviewed the battle report: the Civilization Dirge Singer turned the tide, the Zerg's two Eternal Existences were gravely wounded, Han Sen was forced into a long slumber, and the Exotic Beast Ancestor died.
• Fang Xing saw that Calamity Star Lord Ymir, Absolute Blade Red Star, and Ice Emperor Catherine were among the dead, while the Blood Hell God Emperor had survived as a Dao Lord.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord told Fang Xing that the Starry Sky Civilization was finished, and Fang Xing answered that Human Civilization had not yet lost and should not surrender its territory to the Zerg.

Fang Xing rejected the Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord’s despair and went to Blood Hell Continent as Blue Star Civilization’s representative, where the Blood Hell God Emperor was preparing to bind humanity’s weaker civilizations to the Zerg. Fang Xing’s arrival disrupted the meeting, while Xiao watched and saw that someone still intended to resist.

• The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord told Fang Xing that the Blood Hell God Emperor planned to surrender to the Zerg and that he would disconnect from the Great Void Universe until Han Sen awoke.
• Fang Xing argued that humanity could still be saved by dealing with the Civilization Dirge Singer and urged the Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord to watch Blood Hell Continent’s celebration.
• Xiao and Kui Lan secretly attended the celebration, where Xiao said he wanted to see whether anyone would resist humanity’s final defeat.
• The Blood Hell God Emperor proposed the Blood Hell Alliance to representatives of several human civilizations, including the Deep Sea Civilization, and presented terms that would send gifted humans to serve the Zerg.
• Fang Xing appeared outside Blood Hell Continent, revealed himself as Blue Star Civilization’s representative, and challenged the Blood Hell God Emperor for excluding him from the meeting.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord saw Fang Xing’s appearance on the network and worried that he could not withstand the Zerg army, while Xiao smiled at the sight of someone acting against surrender.

Fang Xing crushed the Blood Hell God Emperor despite his blood sacrifice of the Blood Hell Continent’s inhabitants. The Civilization Dirge Singer arrived and recognized Fang Xing as a Four Step Dao Lord with an Innate Dao Seed, leaving Xiao and Kui Lan caught near the confrontation.

• Fang Xing overwhelmed the Blood Hell God Emperor with his Pan Wu Great Dao and Chaotic Millstone, while the emperor’s ritual began sacrificing the Blood Hell Continent’s inhabitants for power.
• Kui Lan and Xiao took refuge in Origin Devil Palace as the Blood Sea corroded it and the continent’s people were slaughtered.
• Fang Xing recognized the emperor’s blood-sacrifice boost, then used Innate Pan Wu Power to destroy him and his hidden avatars, blood embryos, and Dao Seed.
• Xiao and Kui Lan escaped the devastated continent, but Civilization Dirge Singer arrived and confronted Fang Xing as a Four Step Dao Lord with an Innate Dao Seed.
• In the Great Void Universe, Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord learned Fang Xing had reached the Four Step Dao Lord Realm and regretted not realizing it sooner.

Fang Xing confronted the Zerg Civilization Dirge Singer and discovered that its true form was a History Worm anchored to civilizations it had destroyed. He overcame its history-based defenses with his time-space powers and destroyed it, though its final roar hinted at another danger.

• Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord realized Fang Xing had become a Four Step Dao Lord and regretted not making him the center of their strategy earlier.
• The Civilization Dirge Singer attacked Fang Xing with its Cosmic String, but Fang Xing countered by summoning the Pangu Demon God and splitting its apparent body with an axe strike.
• Fang Xing identified the Civilization Dirge Singer’s true form as a History Worm connected to the tombstones of destroyed civilizations, and used the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra to break its historical restraints.
• Fang Xing used the Great Sun Indestructible Time Wheel Pan Wu Form and its Great Sun Extinguishing Pan to locate and severely burn the History Worm’s true body.
• When the wounded History Worm tried to reverse its time and unleashed a dangerous aura, Fang Xing struck its True Spirit with the Destruction Demon Wolf and burned its cocoon to ashes.

After Fang Xing killed the Civilization Dirge Singer, he founded the Blue Star Alliance and led humanity’s counteroffensive against the Zerg, while the surviving Zerg hid and waited for their Eternal Existences to recover. Tens of thousands of years later, Han Lin emerged from seclusion at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, his longevity secured by the Qing Emperor Longevity Art and his natal Spiritual Plant.

• Fang Xing summoned the civilizations and announced the Blue Star Alliance, then called for a counteroffensive against Zerg Territory.
• The allied forces pushed the Zerg back and seized territory, while Fang Xing defeated a Zerg Great Matriarch’s assassination attempt and drove Zerg cultivators into hiding.
• The Zerg planned to wait for their two wounded Eternal Existences to recover, unaware of Fang Xing’s extraordinary cultivation speed.
• Tens of thousands of years later, Han Lin left seclusion in Spirit Treasure Palace after reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Han Lin’s fellow disciples explained that his longevity had attracted powerful visitors, but Spirit Treasure Ancestor had turned them away.

Fang Xing used the Gate of Heavens to create a world as a trial for advancing to Eternity, setting the Pan Wu Great Dao against his nascent True Martial Great Dao. He left his main consciousness dormant as the world’s origin and preserved a thread of awareness in a True Martial Talisman.

• Fang Xing concluded that he needed to develop the True Martial Great Dao beyond Pan Wu, though countless years of meditation had yielded only a beginning.
• After the Gate of Heavens finished charging, Fang Xing learned it could help him create a world where Pan Wu and True Martial would contend, with victory determining whether he opened a path to Eternity.
• Fang Xing recalled his clones, instructed the Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord and others, and entered the Gate of Heavens to begin the trial.
• The Gate of Heavens carried Fang Xing to a remote region of the Great Void, where he became a Pangu Demon God and split the chaos to create heaven and earth.
• Fang Xing’s body became the world, and his main consciousness sank into slumber as its origin while the Pan Wu Great Dao spread through the world.
• Fang Xing kept a strand of consciousness alive in an ordinary stone, transformed it into a True Martial Talisman, and named himself its bearer.

Fang Xing settled into the True Martial Talisman and considered how to guide a host without empowering the Pan Wu Great Dao. Ages later, the talisman reached Mang, a young primitive hunter, whom Fang Xing summoned into his gray domain.

• Fang Xing explored his abilities inside the True Martial Talisman and decided to offer a host only a time-dilated training space and natural breakthroughs while he studied the True Martial Great Dao.
• After ages passed, Mang and his fellow hunters lost their Wild Boar prey to a Three-Headed Strange Bird, so Qing led them to hunt a Bone-Spike Fish instead.
• Qing fatally wounded the Bone-Spike Fish but died beneath it, and Mang found a blue-green Stone Talisman while placing stones over Qing's body.
• Mang returned to his tribe with the fish, went to sleep, and unknowingly carried the glowing Stone Talisman with him.
• Mang awoke in Fang Xing's gray domain, mistook him for a god, and asked where Qing's heroic spirit was; Fang Xing denied being a god and asked what year it was outside.

Fang Xing taught Mang ways to strengthen the Xia Mang Tribe and guided him as he developed Original Martial Arts. After the tribe killed a Two-Headed Black Bird, Mang gained Fierce Beast traits from its meat, and Fang Xing asked him to bring samples of unusual Fierce Beasts into the True Martial Talisman Space.

• Fang Xing taught Mang that humans could survive by learning, using tools, and developing their own techniques.
• Over several years, Mang became chief of the Xia Mang Tribe, expanded it through farming and animal husbandry, and improved its weapons.
• Mang led the tribe in killing a Two-Headed Black Bird with a trap, a spear, and iron-tipped arrows, then divided its meat among the tribespeople and hunters.
• While training in the True Martial Talisman Space, Mang broke through and discovered that eating the bird had given him black feathers, sharper claws, and harder bones.
• Fang Xing explained that Fierce Beast meat could nourish martial cultivation but also pass on beast traits, and named Mang's fighting system Original Martial Arts.
• Mang vowed to teach Original Martial Arts to the tribe, and Fang Xing asked him to bring pieces of any unusual Fierce Beasts into the talisman space.