Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ying gathered the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty’s strength for a final Heaven-Slaying strike, but dozens of Upper Realm immortal gods descended in a suicidal attack. Dongfang Shi and the three great merchant associations intervened to protect the Heaven-Sacrificing Altar, and Xiao Ying began issuing his decree.

• Xiao Ying summoned the Great Huan Heavenly Seal and drew the strength and fortune of his dynasty’s subjects into the Nine Dragons Imperial Capital.
• Dozens of Upper Realm immortal gods broke through the sky and launched an all-out attack on the Heaven-Sacrificing Altar.
• Dongfang Shi arrived with the Penglai Immortal Realm and led the three great merchant associations in forming the Three Powers Four Symbols Formation to stop the attackers.
• Dongfang Shi told Xiao Ying that she had acted on her own because the Penglai Commerce Association had been abandoned by Heavenheart Island, and Xiao Ying understood her explanation.
• Xiao Ying connected with the Great Huan Heavenly Seal and began declaring that he would become heaven.

Xiao Ying used the Great Huan Heavenly Seal and national fortune to summon his subjects’ strength for Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment, causing his Pangu Dharma Form to grow beyond his control. After the Pangu World’s limit restrained him, he unleashed the excess power against the descended immortal gods, then continued to struggle as more state-and-society power poured in.

• Xiao Ying summoned the officials, soldiers, affiliated personnel, and common people of the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty to willingly contribute a sliver of their strength.
• The subjects’ power expanded Xiao Ying’s Pangu Dharma Form to nearly ten thousand zhang and injured him with its overwhelming force.
• The Pangu World’s heaven-earth limit restrained Xiao Ying’s power and prevented the Pangu Dharma Form from exceeding ten thousand zhang.
• Xiao Ying realized the Heaven-Sacrificing Altars in the cities of the three former empires were sending him even more state-and-society power, so he roared and unleashed Emperor of Myriad Emperors, Tianxin’s Wrath.
• Xiao Ying’s attack blasted the descended immortal gods apart, and the resulting feedback healed his injuries while further power continued to overwhelm him.
• Xiao Ying began unleashing Tianxin’s Sorrow, Nine Heavens Annihilation.

Xiao Ying’s strike destroyed tens of thousands of nodes in the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation, earning immense heaven-opening merit that strengthened the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty and helped him master the Nine Transformations of the Emperor. As he prepared another blow, the formation rapidly restored itself, and a voice from beyond the heavens mocked his attempt to achieve Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment.

• Xiao Ying unleashed the Great Huan State’s State-and-Society Power through the Godslaying Spear, destroying tens of thousands of nodes in the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation.
• Heaven-opening merit flooded the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty, healing its people, advancing its cultivators, and granting Xiao Ying a Merit Wheel.
• Xiao Ying comprehended the Nine Transformations of the Emperor and condensed Imperial Avatars to divide the overwhelming State-and-Society Power.
• Xiao Ying asked the Western King, the Sea Emperor, the Jianghu Alliance, the three great merchant associations, and the other reinforcements to attack the Undead Allied Army, and they agreed.
• As Xiao Ying gathered strength for another strike, the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation restored more than half its damaged network within a few breaths.
• A voice from beyond the heavens called Xiao Ying and mortals ignorant and ridiculed their hope of destroying the formation.

Xiao Ying resisted an Upper Realm being’s attempt to break his will and realized that Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment depended on destroying the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation in one strike. Divine General Ji Geng arrived with the Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards, whose power began to surge as they prepared to fulfill their long-awaited mission.

• An Upper Realm being mocked Xiao Ying and tried to make him abandon Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment, but the Merit Golden Wheel helped him recognize the manipulation.
• Xiao Ying concluded that the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty had enough power and that success depended on a method capable of shattering the formation in a single strike.
• Divine General Ji Geng appeared with fifty thousand Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards and explained that power sent beyond the heavens through ordinary means would be greatly diminished.
• Cracks spread across the Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards as their strength surged beyond the Pangu World's limits.
• Xiao Ying urged Ji Geng to stop, but Ji Geng said they had only one chance and that the guards' eternity of waiting had been for this moment.

Xiao Ying and the Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards broke the Pangu World's ancient seal through Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment, but the Heaven-Earth Bell's power attracted terrifying beings from beyond. With danger closing in, Xiao Ying took the ascenders into the Upper Realm and left the liberated world behind.

• Xiao Ying agreed to Divine General Ji Geng's decision to sacrifice the fifty thousand Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards for Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment.
• Ji Geng and the Heaven-Piercing Divine Guards emerged from their clay shells, saluted Xiao Ying, and sacrificed themselves to open passages between worlds.
• Xiao Ying used the Heaven-Earth Bell's Sigh of the Heavens, and its Great Thousand Bell Chime shattered the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation and helped free the Pangu World.
• The Pangu World rewarded everyone who had taken part in Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment with merit, and many people broke through their cultivation realms.
• Xiao Ying sensed powerful beings searching for the Heaven-Earth Bell, gathered the chosen ascenders inside it, and bade farewell to the Pangu World.
• Xiao Ying departed for the Upper Realm as countless people ascended alongside him and the people of the Pangu World offered their blessings.

Xiao Ying survived a catastrophic spacetime storm in the Chaos Void and reached the Upper Realm, where he separated nearly one hundred people from the Heaven-Earth Bell before entering Heavenfall Sea. He then found himself falling toward a wilderness filled with enormous, ferocious beasts, unable to fly or slow his descent.

• Xiao Ying watched a massive spacetime storm destroy countless Heaven-Piercing Light Pillars and ascenders, then survived when the Heaven-Earth Bell rang and knocked him unconscious.
• Xiao Ying awoke near the Upper Realm, told the people inside the Heaven-Earth Bell about the dangerous journey, and released nearly one hundred of them before continuing onward alone.
• Xiao Ying entered Heavenfall Sea, a lawless and hostile region said to be the remnant of a battlefield where Immortal Venerables had fought.
• A dragon-headed black eagle seized a giant python above a mountain wilderness teeming with colossal beasts and birds.
• Xiao Ying discovered that he could not fly or hover despite retaining his cultivation and strength, and he began plummeting toward the wilderness and its dangerous creatures.

Chapter Summary: First Arrival in the Immortal Realm

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Ying awakens in the Immortal Realm after surviving the chaotic void, a spacetime storm, and a catastrophic fall from the heavens.
• He discovers that he is severely injured: most of his bones are broken, his meridians are damaged, and his body and soul are in terrible condition.
• His cultivation techniques still function, but those originating from Pangu World are drastically weakened by the Immortal Realm’s higher laws and spiritual-energy system. Even his Immortal Grade techniques operate inefficiently.
• Xiao Ying realizes that he is no longer an invincible existence. The Immortal Realm’s environment, creatures, and laws vastly surpass those of his former world.
• He notices a crude Four Symbols Demon-Sealing Formation and signs of battle, realizing that someone discovered and protected him.
• Shadow Tisha emerges from his body, revealing that she secretly followed him through ascension. She has guarded him while he was unconscious for what seemed like three unusually long days and nights.
• Xiao Ying learns that the surrounding area has become increasingly dangerous, with more powerful ferocious beasts appearing despite the concealment formation.
• He orders Tisha to retrieve previously obtained corpses rather than hunt, prioritizing secrecy and safety.
• Using the Great Wilderness Imperishable Body, Xiao Ying absorbs the essence from pieces of flesh to begin healing. The technique works better than his damaged cultivation methods but remains painfully slow by Immortal Realm standards.
• The chapter ends with Xiao Ying still gravely wounded and vulnerable, while aware that powerful enemies may already be searching for him.

Character Developments

• Xiao Ying: His confidence is tempered by fear and realism. He recognizes the immense gap between Pangu World and the Immortal Realm and understands that his former powers are no longer sufficient. Despite his weakness, he remains strategic, cautious, and protective of those connected to him. He also shows determination to recover and leave the dangerous area.
• Shadow Tisha: Her loyalty and devotion become especially clear. She secretly accompanies Xiao Ying through ascension, protects him while he is unconscious, hides her presence, and risks herself to obtain food and corpses. Though anxious and inexperienced in the new realm, she remains obedient and resourceful.
• Their relationship: Xiao Ying develops a renewed appreciation for Tisha, realizing how precious it is to have a trusted companion beside him in an unfamiliar and hostile world. Tisha’s entire focus remains on his survival and well-being.

Significant Themes

• The overwhelming hierarchy of worlds: The Immortal Realm is portrayed as vastly superior to Pangu World, making even Xiao Ying’s powerful techniques and physical body seem inadequate.
• Vulnerability and adaptation: Xiao Ying must abandon assumptions based on his former supremacy and find new ways to survive while injured.
• The danger of ascension: Ascending is revealed to be extraordinarily perilous, with most beings unlikely to survive the chaotic void, spacetime storms, and fall into the Immortal Realm.
• Loyalty and companionship: Tisha’s secret presence provides Xiao Ying with emotional and practical support during his most vulnerable moment.
• Caution and concealment: Xiao Ying remains determined to hide his location from the powerful figures pursuing him, emphasizing survival through restraint rather than confrontation.
• Hope after catastrophe: Despite his condition, Xiao Ying encourages Tisha and himself with the belief that surviving such a calamity may lead to future blessings.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Ying and Tisha reunite emotionally after his awakening. Tisha expresses relief and excitement, while Xiao Ying calms her and reassures her.
• Xiao Ying questions Tisha about how long he was unconscious and learns about the strange passage of time in the Immortal Realm.
• Tisha initially misunderstands Xiao Ying’s request for corpses as hunger, revealing her concern and lack of understanding of his new recovery methods.
• Xiao Ying explains that he needs flesh essence for healing and orders her to retrieve corpses without engaging in dangerous hunting.
• Their exchange establishes a protective dynamic: Tisha wants to care for Xiao Ying directly, while Xiao Ying prioritizes her safety and insists on minimizing risk.

Chapter Summary: “The Fool Fang”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Ying awakens after being nearly destroyed, having survived because the Merit Golden Wheel protected his life force and soul. The chunks of flesh sustaining him have been consumed, and he begins recovering through the Heavenly Heart Secret Canon.
• During recovery, Xiao Ying discovers that his cultivation bottleneck has almost completely disappeared. His Heaven-Opening Merit has eroded the restraints preventing him from advancing from the False True Immortal Realm into the True Immortal Realm.
• Although he is excited by the easy breakthrough, Xiao Ying decides not to advance immediately. He worries that the boundary between mortal and immortal is crucial to his future path and wants to understand the Great Dao better before choosing a foundation technique.
• He considers four major cultivation methods:
  • Cosmic Star Tribulation and Cosmic Myriad Emperors Scripture, which have immense potential but lack later guidance.
  • Heavenly Heart Secret Canon, which may lead to the Immortal Venerable Realm and provides a clearer path.
  • Five Extremes Emperor Scripture, which points toward the Immortal Emperor Realm but is restricted to the five elements.
• Tisha returns carrying a severely injured young man whom she found near the foot of a cliff. Xiao Ying initially scolds her for bringing someone back, but realizes that the youth may provide valuable information about their unfamiliar surroundings.
• The youth, whose injuries are even worse than Xiao Ying’s, is barely alive but strangely remains curious and emotionally unresponsive. Xiao Ying uses the Nine Nether Soul-Refining Palm to extract his memories.
• The youth is revealed to be mentally simple and has very few memories. His name is Fang, and he comes from the Black Tower Tribe, located roughly a thousand li away. His sister is named Silver Wing, and the tribe’s powerful leader is the Heavenly Shaman known as the Soul Devourer King.
• Fang was betrayed by companions who lured him away from the village and pushed him off a cliff. His name came from killing a Fang Beast during his coming-of-age ceremony; Xiao Ying realizes that a Fang Beast is merely a pig, suggesting Fang is exceptionally foolish but physically strong.
• Xiao Ying uses Fang’s blood essence and the Cosmic Illusory God Record to transform himself into Fang, perfectly copying his appearance, body, aura, and temperament.
• He plans to impersonate Fang, return to the tribe, gather information about the Immortal Realm, and use the tribe as a safe place to recover. Tisha is ordered to change him into Fang’s clothes, erase their traces, and move him back to the cliff area.
• Xiao Ying solemnly declares that from then on, he is “Fang.”

Character Developments

• Xiao Ying: Demonstrates resilience, caution, strategic thinking, and moral restraint. Although he could break through immediately, he chooses to delay until he better understands the consequences. He also shifts from simply surviving in hiding to actively infiltrating the local society through impersonation.
• Tisha: Shows intelligence, initiative, and loyalty. She quietly investigates the area and brings Fang back without attracting attention. Her blunt comments about Fang’s foolishness provide humor, while her careful treatment of Xiao Ying reveals her concern for him.
• Fang: Though physically powerful and extraordinarily durable, Fang is mentally simple, socially naïve, and easily deceived. His death becomes the means by which Xiao Ying gains his identity and access to the Black Tower Tribe.
• Silver Wing and the Soul Devourer King: They do not appear directly but are introduced as important figures connected to Fang’s background and potential future plot developments.

Significant Themes

• The value and danger of power: Xiao Ying’s Heaven-Opening Merit gives him an extraordinary advantage, but he recognizes that an effortless breakthrough may conceal dangers for his future cultivation path.
• Survival through adaptability: Rather than relying solely on strength, Xiao Ying uses disguise, intelligence, and local information to survive in an unknown and hostile world.
• Identity and transformation: Xiao Ying literally assumes Fang’s body and identity, beginning a new stage of his life under a false name.
• Fate, merit, and consequences: Xiao Ying’s past achievements in Heaven-Slaying Enlightenment continue to shape his present power and opportunities.
• The contrast between appearance and intelligence: Fang looks like a powerful barbarian warrior but is intellectually simple, while Xiao Ying uses his knowledge and cultivation to imitate him.
• Humor amid crisis: Tisha’s reactions to Fang’s “coming-of-age” name and Xiao Ying’s disbelief lighten an otherwise bleak chapter centered on injury, death, and deception.

Important Character Interactions

• Xiao Ying and Tisha begin with a brief misunderstanding when he assumes she has caused trouble by bringing Fang back. He quickly apologizes and praises her judgment.
• Tisha carefully supports Xiao Ying as he regains mobility, showing both loyalty and fear that his fragile condition might worsen.
• Xiao Ying examines Fang and explains the severity of his injuries to Tisha, emphasizing that Fang’s survival is nearly miraculous.
• Before extracting Fang’s memories, Xiao Ying apologizes and offers to fulfill any final wishes, reflecting his natural compassion despite his practical motives.
• Tisha initially suspects Fang may be abnormal because of his lack of fear or pain, and Xiao Ying confirms that he is indeed mentally simple.
• After learning Fang’s background, Tisha and Xiao Ying discuss the tribe and the absurdity of Fang’s name, combining tactical analysis with comic disbelief.
• Xiao Ying then takes Fang’s identity and gives Tisha precise instructions to help establish the disguise and eliminate evidence of their presence.

Chapter Summary: “Genius Silver Wing”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Tisha transports Xiao Ying to the site where the Barbarian Tribe youth Fang supposedly fell from a thousand-zhang cliff. Xiao Ying disguises himself as Fang using the Cosmic Illusory God Record and arranges the scene so his injuries and clothing match Fang’s.
• Xiao Ying chooses to impersonate Fang because Fang was considered a fool. This allows him to behave simply, recover slowly, and avoid suspicion while secretly entering the Immortal Realm.
• He waits beneath the cliff for rescue, relying on Fang’s memories—especially his knowledge that Fang’s sister, Silver Wing, deeply cares for him and will certainly search for him.
• On the second day, Silver Wing arrives with more than thirty powerful members of the tribe. She is revealed to be a renowned Spirit Shaman and one of the tribe’s strongest young experts.
• Silver Wing initially reacts strangely when she examines Fang, causing Xiao Ying to fear that his disguise has been exposed. He quickly acts like the foolish, dependent Fang and eventually pretends to faint from his injuries.
• Silver Wing confirms that Fang’s bones and meridians are severely damaged but that he is alive. She angrily warns the gathered tribespeople that anyone who plotted against Fang—including an elder—will be killed.
• Silver Wing carries the unconscious Xiao Ying back to the tribe.
• The incident immediately creates suspicion among the tribe members. Six Tails, who was responsible for Fang’s care and is also his arranged fiancée, is confronted and blamed for failing to protect him.
• A handsome young man reminds Six Tails that the betrothal was approved by the High Priest and that harming or neglecting Fang violates tribal rules. Six Tails denies involvement, while the remaining tribespeople insist they are innocent, terrified of Silver Wing’s retaliation.

Character Developments

• Xiao Ying: Demonstrates considerable preparation, restraint, and psychological insight. Rather than exposing Iron Claw and Lihuo or attempting to fight, he commits fully to impersonating Fang, using foolish behavior and a calculated fainting spell to survive the initial investigation.
• Silver Wing: Is established as both extraordinarily powerful and fiercely protective of her younger brother. Her tenderness toward Fang contrasts sharply with her threatening, ruthless response to anyone who may have harmed him. Her cultivation has also recently advanced.
• Six Tails: Becomes the central suspect despite denying involvement. Her fear and distress suggest that she is vulnerable to Silver Wing’s authority and the tribe’s judgment.
• Iron Claw and Lihuo: Their presence confirms that they were involved in Fang’s fall, but Xiao Ying deliberately refuses to expose them. Their guilt remains hidden for the moment.
• The tribal youths and elders: Their reactions reveal how influential and feared Silver Wing is. Even without evidence, the possibility of her anger causes widespread panic.

Significant Themes

• Identity and deception: Xiao Ying’s survival depends on perfectly adopting another person’s identity and personality.
• Power and intimidation: Silver Wing’s strength gives her enormous authority, while the tribe’s fear of her shapes everyone’s behavior.
• Family loyalty and protection: Silver Wing’s devotion to Fang motivates both her rescue mission and her threat of revenge.
• Suspicion and political danger: The apparent accident exposes possible internal conflict within the tribe, especially surrounding Fang’s betrothal and Six Tails’s responsibilities.
• Patience and strategic survival: Xiao Ying avoids direct confrontation, choosing concealment and careful acting while he learns about the Immortal Realm.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Ying and Tisha: Xiao Ying orders Tisha to remain hidden inside the Heaven-Earth Bell until they understand the Barbarian Tribe better.
• Xiao Ying and Silver Wing: Xiao Ying impersonates Fang while Silver Wing alternates between concern, anger, tenderness, and fierce protectiveness.
• Silver Wing and the gathered tribe members: She threatens everyone with lethal consequences if Fang was deliberately harmed.
• Six Tails and the handsome young man: He accuses her of neglecting her fiancé and warns that tribal law and Silver Wing may condemn her, while Six Tails protests her innocence.
• Six Tails and the remaining tribespeople: She demands to know who attacked Fang, but they all deny responsibility to avoid becoming targets of Silver Wing’s wrath.

After Fang survived grievous injuries and recovered at an extraordinary rate, the High Priest suspected he could break through and practice the Sky-Supporting Emperor Scripture. Silver Wing comforted the anxious tribe and watched over Fang, who woke while secretly assessing whether his disguise had held.

• The High Priest examined Fang and said his wounds should have killed him, but tremendous merit and fortune appeared to be aiding his recovery.
• The High Priest predicted Fang might naturally break through once he healed and told Silver Wing to notify him when Fang woke, since Fang might be able to practice the Sky-Supporting Emperor Scripture.
• Chief Cloudsplitter and Azure Wind tried to reassure Silver Wing, while she considered how Fang's breakthrough could protect him and how difficult it was to investigate the apparent attempted murder.
• Six Tails swore by the totem and Primordial Spirit Tower that she had not harmed Fang, and Silver Wing apologized for suspecting her.
• After the others left, Silver Wing stayed beside Fang; Fang woke, called her sister, and secretly checked whether he had concealed his true nature from the tribe.

Summary: Spirit Awakening Ritual

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Ying awakens in Black Tower Tribe, a settlement of roughly 4,500 Barbarian clansmen living in crude stone houses.
• While maintaining Fang’s foolish persona, he observes the tribe and discovers that even its children possess immense physical strength. Adults are naturally as strong and durable as Fang—and therefore comparable to Xiao Ying himself.
• Xiao Ying realizes that the Barbarian Tribe’s supposed status as the “abandoned child of the Heavenly Dao” is misleading: their bodies and bloodlines are extraordinarily gifted, though their harsh living conditions and low social standing make their lives difficult.
• He meets Fang’s adoptive mother, a massive and warmhearted Barbarian woman, and observes the tribe’s rough but affectionate family interactions.
• Xiao Ying begins to admire the tribe’s straightforward, united, and vigorous way of life. For the first time, he considers genuinely becoming Fang and integrating into the community.
• Silver Wing returns with news that the High Priest, chieftain, and Council of Elders have approved a Spirit Awakening Ritual for Fang. The ritual is intended to cure or transform Fang’s foolish condition and has likely been secured through Silver Wing’s persistent efforts.
• The ritual is scheduled immediately after Fang recovers, since the High Priest believes Fang may naturally break through once his injuries heal.
• On the morning of the ritual, Silver Wing carefully bathes Fang, dresses him, feeds him, and repeatedly instructs him to endure whatever pain follows. Xiao Ying secretly ponders whether the ritual may awaken Fang’s intelligence—and whether he should stop pretending to be a fool.

Character Developments

• Xiao Ying/Fang: Xiao Ying shifts from detached observation to emotional involvement. He is impressed by the Barbarians’ innate strength and increasingly moved by their familial warmth. He also begins considering the tribe as a possible foundation for building power in the Immortal Realm. At the same time, he struggles with whether to reveal his intelligence through the ritual.
• Silver Wing: Her devotion to Fang becomes clear. She has likely fought for a long time to obtain the Spirit Awakening Ritual and treats Fang with patience, tenderness, and unwavering protectiveness. She acts as his sister, caretaker, and almost parental guardian.
• Fang’s family and fellow tribesmen: The tribe is shown to be physically formidable but emotionally direct, affectionate, and communal. Fang’s mother and neighbors treat him with genuine concern despite his apparent foolishness.
• Six Tails: She shares Silver Wing’s excitement and relief, suggesting strong emotional ties to both Silver Wing and Fang. The chapter also reveals that she is Fang’s wife, though Fang’s memories of her are limited.

Significant Themes

• Innate strength versus cultivated power: The Barbarians’ natural physical gifts challenge Xiao Ying’s previous assumptions about superiority and reveal the influence of bloodlines and environment.
• Family affection and belonging: Silver Wing’s care gives Xiao Ying an unfamiliar experience of unconditional familial love, causing him to question his previous detachment.
• Appearances and hidden identities: Xiao Ying is intelligent while pretending to be a fool, and the tribe’s “abandoned” status conceals their extraordinary abilities.
• Poverty amid power: Despite their immense strength, the Barbarians live in crude homes with limited knowledge, food, and resources, highlighting the difference between physical power and social status.
• Ambition and adaptation: Xiao Ying begins considering whether to establish himself within the Barbarian Tribe and use it as a base for future influence in the Immortal Realm.

Character Interactions

• Silver Wing escorts Xiao Ying outside, summons the High Priest, and later lovingly prepares him for the ritual.
• Fang’s adoptive mother shows concern by offering him snake soup, while casually disciplining her son for eating without sharing.
• The tribe’s children play dangerously rough games with enormous logs, millstones, and stone spheres, emphasizing their shared physical culture.
• Silver Wing embraces Fang after announcing the ritual’s approval, while Six Tails joins them in excitement and support.
• Throughout these interactions, Xiao Ying responds with Fang’s foolish grin but internally analyzes everyone’s motives and gradually becomes emotionally attached to them.

During a sacrificial ritual, Xiao Ying received the Black Tower Tribe’s Sky-Supporting Emperor Scripture and endured a dangerous transformation. The chapter ended with his new Sky-Supporting Witch Body merging into a pagoda and the tribe believing he had become a true witch.

• Silver Wing guided Fang into the blood pool during the Black Tower Tribe’s ritual as High Priest Soul Devourer King began the inheritance ceremony.
• The tribe’s totem manifested as a black pagoda, passed the Sky-Supporting Emperor Scripture into Xiao Ying’s consciousness, and caused the blood pool to boil.
• Fang’s body grew to a hundred meters and burst into blood mist, while the Merit Golden Wheel and Black Tower fortune protected his remaining spiritual awareness.
• Xiao Ying invoked the Great Wilderness Imperishable Body, and the High Priest confirmed to Cloudsplitter that he had forced the scripture’s inheritance upon Fang.
• Silver Wing confronted the High Priest, who assured her Fang would survive if he had survived his earlier injuries.
• A three-headed, six-armed, eight-winged Sky-Supporting Witch Body appeared, became a single-tier pagoda, and merged into Fang’s blood cocoon as the tribe celebrated his apparent transformation into a true witch.

Xiao Ying emerged from his breakthrough as a True Witch, gaining a Primordial Spirit Tower and the Eye of the Three Realms. As the Black Tower Tribe celebrated his transformation, the eye revealed something about High Priest Soul Devourer Heaven that shocked Xiao Ying.

• Xiao Ying learned how the Witch Clan’s witch bodies and Primordial Spirit Towers enabled barbarians to advance, and why witches were rare.
• Xiao Ying assimilated the Sky-Supporting Witch Body and Primordial Spirit Tower, changed his appearance, and shattered his blood cocoon.
• The Black Tower Tribe’s onlookers admired Xiao Ying’s transformed appearance and celebrated Fang’s advancement into the Witch Clan.
• High Priest Soul Devourer Heaven asked about Xiao Ying’s forehead eye, and Xiao Ying identified it as the Eye of the Three Realms, a Heaven-Gifted Divine Ability.
• The Eye of the Three Realms flashed, and Xiao Ying stared at High Priest Soul Devourer Heaven in shock.

Xiao Ying revealed that he possessed the Eye of the Three Realms, prompting High Priest Soul Devourer King to conceal the secret and declare Fang the tribe’s next High Priest. The High Priest then privately revealed that he knew Xiao Ying’s identity and offered to use his Heaven-Gifted Divine Ability to make Xiao Ying the real Fang, leaving Xiao Ying tempted but suspicious.

• Xiao Ying identified his ability as the Eye of the Three Realms, and High Priest Soul Devourer King reacted with astonished joy.
• The High Priest ordered Chief Cloudsplitter and the elders to swear secrecy before the Totem Pillar.
• The High Priest publicly appointed True Witch Fang as a priest and his successor as High Priest, strengthening the Heaven-Supporting Pagoda.
• The High Priest told Xiao Ying telepathically that he knew Xiao Ying was Great Huan Celestial Lord and had hidden him from those searching for him.
• The High Priest offered to use Heaven-Stealing, Sun-Swapping to turn Xiao Ying into the real Fang, and Xiao Ying weighed the offer while suspecting the old man was concealing something.

Xiao Ying accepted the dying High Priest’s offer to inherit the Black Tower Tribe’s priesthood and undergo Heaven-Stealing, Sun-Swapping to conceal his bloodline. The High Priest sacrificed his body and soul to perform the rite, leaving Xiao Ying grieving as the Totem Pillar’s power surged around them.

• Xiao Ying weighed the High Priest’s motives and agreed to become the Black Tower Tribe’s High Priest after learning the tribe had no other ready successor.
• The High Priest warned Xiao Ying that Heaven-Stealing, Sun-Swapping would replace his bloodline painfully, and Xiao Ying agreed to endure it.
• The High Priest proclaimed Fang his successor and commanded the tribespeople to obey him, though Fang had not yet received recognition from the Totem Pillar.
• The High Priest released his blood essence and detonated his Primordial Spirit Tower, sacrificing his essence, qi, and spirit for Xiao Ying.
• The Sky-Bearing Tower Totem Pillar blazed as black mist and blood mist surged toward Xiao Ying, and the High Priest’s body crumbled to ash.
• Xiao Ying bowed to the Totem Pillar and murmured a farewell to the High Priest as the drifting ash covered the altar and tribe.

Xiao Ying absorbed Soul Devourer Heaven’s power, inherited the High Priest position, and gained the Black Tower Totem Pillar’s recognition as his Witch Dao cultivation reached the perfected true shaman realm. Two hostile auras then approached the Black Tower Tribe from the east and north.

• As the High Priest crumbled into ashes, his Heaven-Supporting Pagoda flew to Xiao Ying, who realized it was the core of the Black Tower Tribe’s Totem Pillar.
• Xiao Ying endured Soul Devourer Heaven’s power as it transformed his body and advanced his Witch Dao cultivation.
• Xiao Ying used his experience with the Great Huan national fortune to gain the Totem Pillar’s recognition and draw on its Totem Power.
• The Heaven-Earth Bell and Merit Golden Wheel helped Xiao Ying stabilize and assimilate the High Priest’s power, bringing him to the perfected true shaman realm.
• Xiao Ying sensed two hostile, powerful auras approaching the Black Tower Tribe from the east and north.

Xiao Ying inherited the Black Tower Tribe's High Priest position and learned about Heavenfall Sea and the forces threatening his tribe. As the Lifen Tribe's High Priest announced his arrival, Xiao Ying and the tribe faced an uncertain encounter.

• Xiao Ying used the Totem Pillar to warn the approaching forces to withdraw, and the Black Tower Tribe recognized him as its new High Priest.
• Xiao Ying asked Chief Cloudsplitter and the elders to explain the Lifen Tribe, the Sky Bow Tribe, Heavenfall Sea, and the Black Tower Tribe's precarious position.
• Chief Cloudsplitter and the elders explained the region's alliances, the tribes' origins and strengths, and the customs and poverty of the barbarians.
• Xiao Ying organized what he had learned and considered the Black Tower Tribe's situation as the Lifen Tribe's High Priest King Lihuo Fen Zi announced that he had come to congratulate the tribe.

Xiao Ying received two hostile High Priests at the Black Tower Ritual Altar and confronted them after a young barbarian insulted him. When King Lihuo challenged him, Xiao Ying declared that the Black Tower Tribe would fight and launched a powerful palm strike.

• Xiao Ying learned that tribal custom required the Black Tower Tribe to honor the visiting High Priests Tianlei and King Lihuo, so he ordered the tribe to prepare for battle and received the visitors at the Ritual Altar.
• Xiao Ying secretly readied the Totem Pillar and Heaven-Supporting Pagoda as King Lihuo and the Sky Bow and Lifen delegations arrived.
• A young barbarian in red beast hide recognized Xiao Ying and called him an idiot, prompting Xiao Ying to strike him down with High Priest pressure.
• Xiao Ying defended the dignity of the Black Tower High Priest and told King Lihuo that the tribe would meet war with war.
• King Lihuo challenged Xiao Ying, who answered fearlessly and launched Heaven-Supporting Palm.

Xiao Ying used the Heaven-Supporting Palm and a show of force to establish his authority as Black Tower's new High Priest, then bluffed the hostile tribes into backing down. He left the visiting High Priests with a warning supposedly passed on by the former priest and claimed he would remain at the Ritual Altar to consolidate his cultivation.

• Xiao Ying met King Lihuo's palm strike with the Heaven-Supporting Palm, forcing King Lihuo to retreat half a step despite their cultivation gap.
• Xiao Ying ordered the Black Tower warriors to assemble and rallied them to defend their tribe and its rites without fear of death.
• High Priest Tianlei calmed the confrontation by praising Xiao Ying's succession, and Xiao Ying said the former priest had sacrificed himself to pass on the position.
• Xiao Ying claimed the former priest had warned that the Lifen Tribe and Sky Bow Tribe would pay dearly if they tried to swallow Black Tower.
• Xiao Ying said the former priest had ordered him to defend a High Priest's dignity and remain at the Ritual Altar until he had consolidated his cultivation.

Xiao Ying learned how impoverished and constrained the Black Tower Tribe was, then used food reserves and the old priest’s authority to steady the tribe and begin a plan for its future. He announced that the tribe would spread word of a possible relocation and offer its territory for sale, leaving its next move uncertain.

• After the Lifen Tribe and Sky Bow Tribe withdrew, Xiao Ying spent half a month at the Ritual Altar cultivating and learning about the barbarians and the Immortal Realm from Chief Cloudsplitter and Silver Wing.
• Xiao Ying concluded that the Black Tower Tribe struggled because it earned little, spent heavily on supplies, and could not afford the resources needed for cultivation and development.
• On the eighteenth day after Fang inherited the high priest position, the Black Tower tribespeople gathered in the ritual square and formally saluted him.
• Xiao Ying had Silver Wing reveal food reserves from the mundane world and told the tribe they could sustain it for years, attributing the stores to the old priest.
• Xiao Ying invoked the old priest’s hundred-year plan, ordering Elder Purple Crown to spread news of a possible relocation and Chief Cloudsplitter to contact factions about selling the tribe’s territory.