Chapter Summaries

Fang Xing displayed his swordsmanship after refining his Nine Orifices Golden Core, then spent a year gaining military merit by hunting Upper Servants in the Secret Realm Battlefield. A call with Gu Yun revealed that a cult leader Gu Jiantong had helped convict might soon be released after a follower recanted her testimony.

• Fang Xing demonstrated Refining Sword into Gale, Refining Sword into Silk, and Sword Light Separation on Gold Yuan Peak, discouraging Jade Sword Master from challenging him.
• Fang Xing concealed his False Core-level magical power and nascent Sword Intent, choosing not to attract the attention of Broken Sword True Person or Chu Kuangtu.
• Over the following year, Fang Xing completed monthly battlefield missions, killed Upper Servants, and earned military merit, including 80 merit for killing a Tyrant Evil Eye.
• Fang Xing exchanged military merit for secret medicines and called Gu Yun to ask about her internship at the Blue Star Prevention and Control General Bureau.
• Gu Yun told Fang Xing that a woman had recanted her testimony against a fraudster and that he might be released; Fang Xing recognized the case as one involving Gu Jiantong.

Fang Xing and other military-camp interns were deployed to a Mystic Realm after an R-7 emergency, where a Lower Family was believed to be hiding. While Fang Xing searched a Black Pyramid and uncovered signs of possible betrayal, a message reported that someone had found something, prompting him to rush outside.

• Wu Tie ordered the interns into the IV Metal Space Pod, and Xin Ruogui took command of the 157 students after they teleported to a desert with nine inverted Black Pyramids.
• Xin Ruogui assigned 130 students to form the Primal Chaos Martial Array and sent Fang Xing and other scouts to search the pyramids and surrounding desert.
• Fang Xing entered a pyramid, destroyed several Black Mummies, and continued deeper inside while the main unit established its formation outside.
• Xin Ruogui learned that all nine pyramids showed activity and recalled an important figure's instructions, while Fang Xing blocked his Martial Path Imprint and suspected Wei Shentong's lackeys were targeting him.
• After receiving a report that someone had found something, Fang Xing used an Earth Escape Talisman to conceal his clone and rushed out of the pyramid.

Fang Xing and the students fought a Puppet God Spider that controlled corpses and nearly destroyed their formation. After An Xing and Gu Jiantong badly wounded it, Xin Ruogui rushed to claim the kill, but a flash of Great Freedom Profound Gold Sword Qi cut off his head.

• Xin Ruogui refused to let the fleeing students enter the Primal Chaos Martial Array and ordered them to fight outside as the Servant Legion attacked.
• The Puppet God Spider emerged, used its Pollution Field and Spider Silk to overwhelm the students, and struck Fang Xing, who pretended to be badly injured and withdrew underground.
• Xin Ruogui’s Chaos Giant wounded the Puppet God Spider, but hidden Spider Silk tore apart the formation and the monster turned fallen students into puppets.
• Hu Yanqiushui called on An Xing and Gu Jiantong to attack; An Xing’s Meteor sword severely injured the Puppet God Spider, and Gu Jiantong pierced it with a radiant spear.
• Song Jingang shielded the injured An Xing while Xin Ruogui charged to steal the kill, but a platinum Sword Light severed Xin Ruogui’s head.

Fang Xing and Gu Jiantong killed the Puppet God Spider, ending the Mystic Realm battle, and Fang Xing returned to the military camp with the survivors. After reviewing the misleading mission report, Fang Xing decided to investigate who was targeting him and took the traumatized Song Jingang to Green Mountain Mental Hospital for treatment.

• Fang Xing and Gu Jiantong attacked and killed the Puppet God Spider while the remaining students fought Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone, which pretended to be a corpse before the realm collapsed.
• Fang Xing returned to the Metal Castle with the survivors, where Wu Tie announced that Battle Merits would be issued after review and granted everyone a month of leave.
• Fang Xing read the mission summary, saw that analysts had classified the hidden puppet as a Burning Spawn, and resolved to investigate the person targeting him, whom he suspected was Wei Shentong.
• Fang Xing found Song Jingang demoralized and planning to drop out, so he insisted on taking him to see a doctor.
• Fang Xing contacted Gu Yun, who picked him and Song Jingang up in a bureau hovercar, and they headed to Green Mountain Mental Hospital.

Fang Xing took Gu Yun and Song Jingang to Green Mountain Mental Hospital, where Xu Sanyang exposed Gu Yun’s Evil God contamination and warned that the Prevention and Control Bureau might be compromised. Fang Xing chose to investigate further and headed to Federation Third Prison to make one final confirmation.

• Fang Xing brought Song Jingang and Gu Yun to visit Xu Sanyang, whose aura revealed that he was stronger than a Martial Path Golden Core.
• Xu Sanyang examined Gu Yun and prescribed a foul medicine that made her expel Black Water, insect eggs, and worm-like creatures, revealing her Evil God contamination.
• Xu Sanyang warned that either the Prevention and Control Bureau’s detection methods or the bureau itself had a serious problem, and he gave Song Jingang black pills for his illness.
• Fang Xing told Gu Yun and Song Jingang to avoid the Prevention and Control Bureau and consider Green Mountain Mental Hospital relatively safe while they investigated.
• Fang Xing left for Federation Third Prison to make one final confirmation.

Fang Xing realized that the Gate School Master and Gu Jiantong’s advancement signaled an imminent upheaval, while Liu Wei uncovered the Rebel Army’s alliance with Evil God Cultists and secretly helped the Federation intercept their Mystic Realm. The Gate School Master began a ritual that disrupted the Prevention and Control Bureau as Gu Jiantong recognized his path in the Bixia True Form.

• Fang Xing suspected that the prisoner was a high-ranking Gate School member and returned to Blue Star University to prepare for the coming upheaval.
• Liu Wei completed a dangerous Divine Martial trial aboard a ship and discovered that it was secretly parked in the Mystic Realm.
• Liu Wei learned that the Rebel Army had allied with Evil God Cultists and that Divine Martial could turn its practitioners into vessels for an Evil God.
• Liu Wei attacked his companion and revealed that he had secretly given the Federation the Mystic Realm’s coordinates, allowing Federation forces to intercept it.
• The Gate School Master left the Federation Third Prison after completing a Deception Ritual, and a mysterious Gate sealed the Prevention and Control Bureau as alarms sounded across Blue Star.
• Gu Jiantong studied the Bixia True Form inside the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Manual and declared the Great Ming Emperor Divine Fist his path.

Gu Jiantong was overwhelmed by Evil God Contamination as the Gate School Master took control of his body and attacked Old Meng in Bixia Space. A coordinated assault by the Moon Worship Cult and other Evil God cults began across Blue Star, leaving Fang Xing cut off from communications as cultists appeared over Blue Star University.

• Gu Jiantong realized the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Manual and the Immovable Wisdom King Mantra had contaminated him, and the Gate School Master’s consciousness took control of his body.
• Students and a supervising teacher suffered the effects of the Outer God Projection, while Old Meng revealed himself as a Martial Saint and tried to stop Gu Jiantong.
• The Gate School Master told Old Meng that cults had joined forces and that a Gate was drawing power from the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Manual; Old Meng recognized the attack was meant to make him destroy the stele.
• A rift opened above Blue Star University as Fang Xing noticed the sky had turned dark and discovered that communications and the Virtual Network were down.
• Fang Xing saw Moon Worship Cult members emerge from void rifts carrying Eyes of the Moon, while the Federation and its fortresses came under widespread attack.

Chaos erupted across the Federation as the Evil God Believers and other enemies launched coordinated attacks. At Blue Star University, Fang Xing helped defend the campus until the Bixia Stone Stele emerged from the ruins and unleashed a terrifying mental force.

• Zhong Yuxiu watched Saint Armor University transform into a planet-sized mecha and depart for the universe's main battlefield.
• Sword Qiu cleaved through a Blood Sea surrounding Nine Swords Academy and confronted an Evil God Spawn while the Crew-Cut Youth left to support Blue Star.
• Fang Xing's Immortal Cultivation Clone arrived at Blue Star University as Ouyang Qiang and Pan Xiong fought Evil God Believers on campus.
• Fang Xing rescued students and helped suppress the attackers while the university's teachers regained control of the campus.
• The Library collapsed, the Bixia Stone Stele rose from the ruins, and its terrifying mental force nearly made Yin Huanzhen collapse.

Gu Jiantong destroyed the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Manual to attack the Myriad Spirits Martial Path in the Moon God Fortress, while Fang Xing absorbed the stele’s Martial Wills and advanced his Great Sun Tathagata Mantra. The Moon God began to break free, and Fang Xing discovered that the mantra’s Grandmaster level granted him a Great Sun Divinity.

• Gu Jiantong used Bixia to shatter the black stele and invoked the Gate’s power to make the destruction threaten the Myriad Spirits Martial Path in the Moon God Fortress.
• The Moon God Fortress broke apart as the Moon God began to emerge, and the Crew-Cut Youth split the sky with his sword to contain its fragments and Evil God Contamination.
• Fang Xing shielded Yin Huanzhen from falling stele fragments and absorbed the Martial Wills within one, forming the Great Sun Tathagata Palm as his mantra’s progress reached 100.
• Fang Xing stole a black crystal from the ruins and escaped Wei Shentong’s attack with a damaged Talisman while the Cultists resumed their assault on Wei Shentong.
• Gu Jiantong summoned the Eye of the Moon God, whose darkness grievously wounded Wei Shentong and threatened Fang Xing.
• Fang Xing’s Great Sun Tathagata Mantra reached Grandmaster level, and he realized that its new property was the ability to condense Great Sun Divinity.

Fang Xing survived Moon God's attack and gained Great Sun Divinity, while the assault devastated Blue Star University and killed Yin Huanzhen. At Green Mountain Mental Hospital, Xu Sanyang revealed his plan to settle old scores and advanced to Martial Saint amid the Federation’s apparent campaign against Moon God.

• Fang Xing absorbed the Great Sun Divinity, strengthened his martial arts, and awakened the Great Sun Tathagata Palm.
• Fang Xing found Yin Huanzhen dead, then disguised himself and fled toward a shelter while deciding to postpone his revenge on Wei Shentong.
• Xu Sanyang told Song Jingang and Gu Yun that the Federation was using the apparent crisis to purge hidden Cultists and try to kill Moon God.
• Xu Sanyang announced that he would settle old scores and manifested his Three Suns Dharma Image as he advanced to Martial Saint.

Xu Sanyang took revenge on those who had wronged him, while Ye Liuyun rescued Blue Star University and defeated the Gate School Master’s possessed host. The Gate School Master escaped into space with one God Seed, but Xu Sanyang caught up with him and demanded to know which Federation official had helped him.

• Xu Sanyang killed a wealthy young man and defeated the pilot of a dragon-patterned mecha using the Yangtian Battleship.
• Ye Liuyun captured Bixia and defeated Gu Jiantong, who had been possessed by the Gate School Master, then ordered Blue Star University sealed and its wounded treated.
• The Omniscient Brain resumed operating as orbital cannons and Federation forces suppressed the unrest on Blue Star.
• The wounded Gate School Master hid in an asteroid, reflected on the failed alliance, and prepared to escape with one God Seed.
• Xu Sanyang destroyed the asteroid and confronted the Gate School Master, asking who in the Federation had cooperated with him.

Xu Sanyang killed the Gate School Master in outer space, while the Master’s soul fragment was burned by Fang Xing’s Great Sun Tathagata Mantra and revealed hidden knowledge. After the disaster, Fang Xing visited the injured Pan Xiong and saw the ruined Wei Shentong at the hospital, leaving with his hatred still intact.

• Xu Sanyang used the Two Aspects Sword to defeat the Gate School Master and believed the Master had been killed.
• The Gate School Master’s soul fragment emerged inside Fang Xing’s Sea of Consciousness, but the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra burned it and gave Fang Xing its memories; the Gate of Heavens began locating.
• Fang Xing used the Master’s hidden shelter and altered its records so it appeared he had entered before the darkness descended.
• Fang Xing visited Pan Xiong, whose injuries and Evil God Contamination could not be treated, and learned that Blue Star University had suffered heavy losses.
• Fang Xing saw Wei Shentong crippled and contaminated, then provoked him with a look of pity while doctors restrained him.
• Fang Xing left the hospital feeling better but remained determined to kill Wei Shentong someday.

Fang Xing was ordered by the Heaven Sword Sect to investigate the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect in Zheng Country and retrieve Solar True Yang for his true body's breakthrough. As he approached Northern Li Immortal City, his Sword Heart warned him of danger, and Heaven Universe True Person and the Black Robe pursued him after he turned away.

• Fang Xing assessed the black crystal from the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Manual as a source of divine power and recognized that his true body needed Solar True Yang to condense a Martial Path Golden Core.
• Broken Sword True Person told Fang Xing that the sect had located Solar True Yang in Zheng Country and ordered him to investigate the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's suspected ties to the demonic path.
• Heaven Universe True Person and the Black Robe learned that Fang Xing was the True Inheritor Sword Child heading to Zheng Country and planned to use him to lure out Fang Yun.
• Fang Xing approached Northern Li Immortal City, sensed danger through his partially condensed Sword Heart, and turned away from the city.
• Heaven Universe True Person and the Black Robe recognized Fang Xing's warning as an intuitive premonition and left the city on a White Jade Falcon puppet to chase him.

Fang Xing revealed his False Core cultivation and killed Heaven Universe True Person with a single sword strike, then faced the surviving Core Formation Demon Cultivator. After identifying the man as a member of the Myriad Forms Demon Sect, Fang Xing launched an attack.

• Heaven Universe True Person trapped Fang Xing inside a White Jade Soldier Puppet battle array and tried to exhaust his sword power.
• Fang Xing activated his Nine Orifices Golden Core, revealed his False Core cultivation, and destroyed the puppets and killed Heaven Universe True Person with one sword strike.
• The black-robed man survived by using the Wind Fiend Demon Art to re-form his body as a Core Formation Demon Cultivator.
• Fang Xing recognized the demon cultivator as belonging to the southern Myriad Forms Demon Sect and challenged him over a possible war with the righteous path.
• Fang Xing joined man and sword and charged at the Core Formation Demon Cultivator.

Fang Xing killed a Core Formation Demon Cultivator who had tried to ambush him, then collected the demon’s and Heaven Universe True Person’s treasures and uncovered the Myriad Forms Demon Sect’s plans for its Heaven Flipping Golden Corpses. After organizing his spoils, he reached Qingyan Market City to retrieve something from the Heaven Sword Sect’s Hidden Agent, prioritizing Solar True Yang for his true self’s Martial Path Golden Core.

• Fang Xing used Sword Intent to destroy the Core Formation Demon Cultivator’s Demon Body and True Core, then took the Demon Banner and searched the remains.
• Fang Xing opened the demon cultivator’s storage treasure and deciphered records revealing that the Myriad Forms Demon Sect sought Third-Tier Body Cultivator corpses for its Heaven Flipping Golden Corpses.
• Fang Xing found the Soul Sear Method, the Jade Universe Art, and Heaven Universe True Person’s Third-Tier puppet inheritance among the spoils.
• Fang Xing traveled to Qingyan Market City and entered a shop, where he gave the Old Shopkeeper a Sword-Shaped Token to retrieve his stored item.

Fang Xing obtained the Solar True Yang and sealed Qingyan Market City while investigating suspected ties between Zheng Country's three great sects and the demonic path. The inspection found wanted Robber Cultivators but no confirmed Demon Cultivators, and Sang Luliu began looking for a way to use the situation to build ties with the Heaven Sword Sect.

• Fang Xing opened the wooden box with a Same-Source Talisman and claimed the Solar True Yang for his Martial Path Golden Core.
• Fang Xing rewarded the Old Shopkeeper with a High-Grade Spirit Stone and sent him and Xiao'er out of Qingyan Market City.
• Fang Xing sealed the market city for three hours and identified himself to Sang Luliu as a True Inheritor Sword Child of the Heaven Sword Sect.
• Fang Xing announced that he was investigating whether Zheng Country's three great sects had colluded with the demonic path, and Sang Luliu verified his identity with his command token.
• Sang Luliu's Law Enforcement Team cleared the market city, killing thirteen cultivators and detaining twenty-seven whose identities were uncertain.
• Fang Xing gave Sang Luliu a Demon Revealing Mirror to inspect the detainees, while Sang Luliu considered using the opportunity to connect with the Heaven Sword Sect.

Fang Xing crushed a Demon Cultivator’s assault at Qingyan Market City and used his Heaven Sword Sect status to pressure local sects before heading to Qingxuan Sect. There, Han Qingyun and Meng Zijing heard his challenge to the sect’s False Core and wondered whether he shared a name with people they knew.

• Fang Xing killed a Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator and his corpse puppets with a single strike of sword qi after the Demon Cultivator tried to escape Qingyan Market City.
• Shi Wanwan told the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect Grand Elder that Lian Fengqi’s Life Tablet had shattered and that a Heaven Sword Sect True Inheritance Disciple was investigating the Zheng Country sects.
• Fang Xing read reports about the local sects, decided to demand an accounting from Qingxuan Sect, and flew there alone.
• At Qingxuan Sect, Han Qingyun told Meng Zijing that Elder Su’s injuries prevented visitors and that the Barren Land reclamation expedition had been disastrous.
• Fang Xing announced himself as a Heaven Sword Sect True Disciple and called for Qingxuan Sect’s False Core to come see him, while Han Qingyun and Meng Zijing wondered if he had the same name as people they knew.

Fang Xing forced Qingxuan Sect to submit to an inspection, exposed and captured two suspected demonic infiltrators, then learned through soul-searching that the demonic path was preparing a major war and had plans involving the Ten Thousand Arts Secret Realm. Back in the Main Universe, he prepared to use Cosmic Yin-Yang Aura to break through to the Martial Path Golden Core.

• Fang Xing defeated Luyi True Person with one sword strike and ordered Qingxuan Sect to inspect its disciples and elders for demonic influence.
• The Demon Revealing Mirror exposed Zeng Xuanzhi, who tried to flee and was killed by Fang Xing.
• Fang Xing identified a white-haired Foundation Establishment Elder as a spy through Sword Heart, disabled him, and took him away for interrogation.
• Fang Xing soul-searched the elder and learned of the demonic path's gathering, Blood River Hall's involvement, and a plan connected to the Ten Thousand Arts Secret Realm.
• Fang Xing returned to the Main Universe, settled into a Blue Sea District villa with a Private Spaceship, and prepared to break through to the Martial Path Golden Core using Cosmic Yin-Yang Aura.

Fang Xing used Cosmic Yin-Yang Aura and his Immortal Cultivation Clone’s mana to forge a Purple Veined Longevity Golden Core, breaking through to the Sixth Realm and becoming an Immortal Martial Artist. He learned that his next step was to open seventy-two Fiend Apertures and form twelve Qi Meridians before advancing toward Vajra.

• Fang Xing and his Immortal Cultivation Clone prepared a private array with High-Grade Spirit Stones and brought out a flawless Transcending Calamity Pill.
• Fang Xing completed the Dragon-Tiger Stance and condensed an orthodox Dragon-Tiger Golden Core from his Black Dragon and White Tiger manifestations.
• Fang Xing absorbed the Cosmic Yin-Yang Aura and refined the dragon and tiger into his Golden Core, strengthening it into a Yin-Yang Golden Core.
• Fang Xing’s Immortal Cultivation Clone lent the Golden Core Core Formation mana, nearly causing it to shatter, and used the Transcending Calamity Pill to stabilize it.
• Fang Xing drew in spiritual energy until his Golden Core accepted mana and developed purple veins, changing his profession to Immortal Martial Artist.
• Fang Xing checked his Attribute Panel and learned that Golden Core cultivation required opening seventy-two Fiend Apertures and forming twelve Qi Meridians.

After forming a Martial Path Golden Core, Fang Xing discovered that Immortal Martial Convergence let him convert between martial energy and mana, opening the Immortal Martial path even in the Main Universe. He sought advice from Xu Sanyang about confronting Wei Shentong and left with a plan to use the Federation’s strong self-defense laws.

• Fang Xing assessed his Golden Core’s power and realized the Gate of Heavens would take roughly three years to open another world.
• Fang Xing used Immortal Martial Convergence to produce Cultivation World mana, cast the Immortal Fireball Art, and then convert the mana back into Qi-Blood.
• Fang Xing considered entering graduate school through Direct Admission and decided to consult Xu Sanyang while planning how to deal with Wei Shentong.
• Xu Sanyang invited Fang Xing to Green Mountain Mental Hospital after completing his discharge, and Fang Xing picked him up in his Private Spaceship.
• Xu Sanyang noticed Fang Xing’s breakthrough and explained how recorded evidence of an intruder attacking him at home could support an open-and-shut self-defense claim.
• Xu Sanyang promised to back Fang Xing, and Fang Xing thanked him and raised a glass.